Rescue
"Tell me Jaken, why does the Lord of the West allow a human child to travel with him…?" Kikyou asked as she followed the green demon named Jaken.
"That isn't any of your business Miko!" Jaken quickly replied
"I suppose it is not… However, I would like to know why Rin got kidnap… Where you not suppose to protect her?" Kikyou asked
Jaken stared at the miko with annoyance and said "That foolish girl followed Lord Sesshoumaru and she won't leave" He once again continued to lead ignoring the other question of the priestess
"But doesn't Sesshoumaru-"
"You will refer to milord as LORD Sesshoumaru! You got that Miko?" Jaken quickly yelled
Kikyou was slightly taken back but just nodded "Very well, doesn't this 'Lord' Sesshoumaru care for this girl well being…? After all, he entrusted you his loyal servant, to watch and protect her"
Jaken stopped frozen "She is right! If I don't get back Rin then- then I would greatly disappoint Lord Sesshoumaru!" He thought to himself
"Jaken you're lagging behind" Kikyou said silently smirking herself. Quickly Jaken ran ahead of Kikyou.
"You Miko should be honored that I, Jaken is accompany you! Show some respect!" Jaken shouted
"Very well, I'll humor you" Kikyou said "Tell me, how you, Jaken plan on rescuing young Rin…?"
"… With the staff of two heads of course" Jaken said proudly "It is a gift from Lord Sesshoumaru!"
"I see I trust you will use it well" Kikyou said with a smirk.
It suddenly became silent. As Jaken continued to lead wondering what got the Miko to finally stop asking questions.
Kikyou on the other hand felt the silence to be pleasing. Even though she is with this hideous demon, she was glad she wasn't alone. However, all she knew was that she has to get Rin back. Or she will never forgive herself…
"Come; allow me to lead you… Tragic souls of maidens…" Kikyou called out as her soul snatchers came and dropped to souls.
"Are you unable to cross over…?" The strange monk asked seriously approaching Kikyou "You are dead young priestess? You must now pass to the Netherworld"
"Would you not overlook my presence here…? I merely want to live in peace in the small village…" Kikyou replied as her soul snatchers flew away leaving behind the souls of maidens.
"If you wish to live in peace, why must you gather souls of the dead?" The monk questioned
"I have reasons…" Kikyou replied
"You require those souls in order to sustain that body of yours" The monk then takes out a sphere of dragons…
"What action will you take?" Kikyou asked indifferently "I take it you won't leave" The sphere glows brighter
"I will send you to where you belong… I shall do it for your sake" With that said the sphere glows, and a ray of light came forth. Zapping Kikyou's body, and in its place became a green scaly dragon around Kikyou.
"You cannot escape!" The monk said as the dragon held onto Kikyou's neck "This demon binding spell. I shall extinguish your light and save you"
"Save me..!" Kikyou asked in disbelief "A monk such as you will save me soul…!" Kikyou then used her power as the dragon turned bright, destroying it. The body became too many pieces and the hand landing to the neck of the monk. With the results of: canceling all the spells around them, as he fell on the floor.
"You would have been better of leaving me be with your life" Kikyou said with no emotion as she stares at the monk on the ground.
"Priestess… tell me… what your purpose is…" The monk said grabbing onto Kikyou's leg "Time is moving for the living… They carve their future for each passing moment... However, for the dead, such as yourself, time stands still. Thus the dead and the living cannot mix. And yet you insist on trying… How tragic…" And so the monk died soon afterwards.
"Tragic you say…? I'm tragic…?" Kikyou thought to herself staring at the dead monk with a blank expression. Upon hearing the noise of a bush Kikyou looks over "Who goes…!"
There Sayo sits frozen, her eyes filled with fear as she shivered. "Sayo…! Where you… watching…?" Kikyou ask "Did you witness that…?"
Kikyou walks over and as she placed her hand to Sayo's faced. The human child flinches in fear. "Forgive me… I had not meant for you to see me like this…" Kikyou said as she turned away then started walking
Sayo quickly stand up and called out "Wait Kikyou!"
"Farewell Sayo… Please forgive me…" Kikyou replied sadly as she and her soul snatchers walked away…
"Miko, we are here" Jaken called out snapping Kikyou out of her thoughts. "Will you be able to break this barrier?"
"… Yes, I should be able to…" Kikyou replied as she concentrated positioning her fingers. As the green demon stared, within a few seconds the barrier was destroyed.
"A-Amazing…! This human's power is truly amazing!" Jaken thought as he watched her enter the guarded area. "But her power is nothing compared to milord" He thought following the priestess…
"… Rin… If she knew the truth… then… will she think less of me? Like Sayo… Or will she try to replace me? Like Kaede…?" Kikyou thought as her senses sharpened. "Jaken, whatever you do… Stay close we are in the illusionist territory…" Kikyou said as Jaken went closer to her… Suddenly they heard a strong wind followed by foot prints. A small tornado came toward them as Kikyou readied her sacred arrow and Jaken with his staff.
The tornado turned out to be a girl that appeared fifteen. She had red pigtails and emerald eyes. She wore a white fur pelt and blue armor. Her skirt was also made out of white fur. She wore two purple irises on the side.
"Where is Rin" Kikyou demanded
"Rin…?" The wolf demoness repeated confused "I do not know any Rin around here… Now state your name"
"I am Kikyou a traveling priestess" Kikyou said
"I am Jaken, loyal servant of Lord Sesshoumaru" Jaken answered "And you are…?"
"I'm Ayame from the Northern wolf tribe" Ayame replied as she narrowed her eyes. "Tell me, why are you here! There was supposed to be a barrier!"
"Once again we are looking for a human girl name Rin. Return her at once, or I shall be force to purify you" Kikyou threatened
"I told you, I do not know where this Rin is!" Ayame replied annoyed
"I see, tell me where the illusionist demon is" Kikyou said still holding onto her arrow
"… There is no illusionist demon…" Ayame admitted
"What…?" Kikyou replied confused
"Don't toy with us! Where is the foolish girl!" Jaken demanded
"I told you! There is no such thing as an Illusionist demon!" Ayame argued than sighed as she explained "That sign was placed there to prevent any human and demon from coming here…"
"I see… Then where is Rin…?" Kikyou asked turning to Jaken
"… Wolf demons… Oh no! Rin is supper afraid of wolves!" Jaken panicked
"Jaken try to remember, what happen when she chased the butterfly!" Kikyou ordered
Jaken flinched surprised by the Kikyou's sudden raised in voice. "… She ran and ran. I told her to stay still… But, she kept going after that butterfly. I needed to rest… Before I knew it I no longer had sight of her… And I heard a scream…" Jaken explained "I remember the sign of the Illusionist Demon so I figured…"
"… Ayame, please I need your help" Kikyou said turning to Ayame "Please help us find Rin"
"I do not know her scent so I cannot be much help" Ayame said turning her back ready to run. "I wouldn't mind helping… If you teach me how to senses Jewel shards"
"Pardon…?" Kikyou asked confused "You want to sense jewel shards…?" She repeated very confused
"Yes, I will help you find this girl. I may have a clue to where she may be… But, I want to learn how to sense jewel shards" Ayame repeated "I know you can sense them"
"You are correct I am able to sense the shikon jewel shards. However, I do not think it is a skill you can learn" Kikyou said "May we find another deal…?"
"But I want to learn how to sense jewel shards!" Ayame shouted annoyed "And if I learn then Koga will finally remember the Lunar Rainbow promise!"
"It is highly impossible Ayame, please understand" Kikyou tried to reason
"Than I'll make it possible…! So do we have a deal…? Kikyou…?" Ayame asked facing the miko
"Very well Ayame" Kikyou sighed "I will try, I cannot guarantee you will succeed… But I'll try…"
"Hurray! Okay, I believe the demon that has the human child is Yukio. He is actually a spider demon" Ayame said as she walked further down north with Jaken and Kikyou following them.
"Yukio moved somewhere near the cave further down from here… No one has seen him. But every so often you can see those that died stuck on a spider web." Ayame said hoping down some rocks. "We must hurry…"
"Yes, lets" Kikyou agreed as she ran trying to catch up to Ayame and Jaken following.
"W-wait for me…!" He called out, but the girls just left him.
The Demon Lord of the West, Sesshoumaru landed gracefully on the ground near the flower field. He was greeted by Ah-Un who quickly approaches the demon lord. He stares at the northern part of the forest. "… Damn that Naraku…" Sesshoumaru growled as he walked down the trail as Ah-Un followed him. "He expected that I will follow his shadows… And during my absence, someone has taken Rin" Sesshoumaru thought following the sense of Rin.
"Let's see how well Jaken can handle this situation…"
"Many of my brothers and sisters were killed by that spider demon…" Ayame whispered as they passed many spider webs "We tried to kill Yukio… But he was to strong for our men"
"Is that another reason why you are helping us…?" Kikyou asked
"Correct, I believe your spiritual powers and my ability combined can kill this spider…" Ayame said
"So in the end we both gain from this" Kikyou thought as the trio stopped at their position.
"We are surrounded!" Jaken announced as many small spiders came out.
"Don't just stand there! Use your staff!" Ayame ordered as she released her leaves destroying a few. Kikyou released her spiritual arrows kills a handful
"… I thought so… She isn't Kagome" Ayame thought dodging the webs "Her spiritual powers are so much stronger… Yet her appearance…" Her thoughts were cut off as fire was near her
"Pay attention you fool!" Jaken shouted as he used the staff's fire power
"... This demoness is pretty quick… Yet she gets easily distracted" Kikyou thought as she continued to shoot her arrows, destroying dozens of spiders.
After a few minutes, the spider demons were no longer present. Ayame breathed in and out, steadying her heart beat. Jaken lay on the floor resting. Kikyou on the other hand was perfectly fine, however her arrows were now limited. "Shall we continue…?" She asked
"… Yeah, why not" Ayame said as she continued to go deeper to the cave.
"Hey, Kikyou… have you ever met Kagome…?" Ayame asked breaking the silence.
"…" Kikyou stared at Ayame but said nothing
"She looks kinda like you and can sense shikon jewel shards" Ayame said
"You don't say…" Kikyou replied blankly
"Yep, I thought I hated her. But, I guess I just dislike her for now…" Ayame blurted out
"And why is that…?" Kikyou asked
"She is my rival in love!" Ayame announced
"Oh...?" Kikyou said not knowing what else to say
"Demons don't love" Jaken hissed
"They do too!" Ayame argued
"Does not…!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
The wolf princess and the kappa demon argued glaring at each other. "Love is for fools" Jaken announced as both Kikyou and Ayame glared at Jaken
"That's not true…!" Ayame shouted
"Don't bother to argue with him Ayame" Kikyou said as they stared at her. Jaken smirked in victory.
"What…!"
"Jaken has never been in love. Leave the poor demon alone" Kikyou smirked
"Really…? That makes sooo much sense" Ayame agreed.
"Love is a useless thing. I am no fool. In the end it is just a waste of time. I mean chasing a female that will just play with your emotions and won't take you seriously. Or a female that can't chose between you and another lover of theirs" Jaken explained, the next thing he knew Ayame kicked him so hard that he flew, and Kikyou released an arrow making him fly away.
Once the kappa demon was no longer seen Ayame smiled at Kikyou. And Kikyou smiled back just as pleased. "Now that he's gone race ya" Ayame said running not as fast so that Kikyou may run with her. "I am starting to smell a human. We are almost there!"
"No time to waste!"
Rin eyes slowly opened… Still unaware of her surroundings, she quietly turned her head. Rin gasp as she saw her surroundings. There was blood everywhere and lots of spider webs. "M-Master Ja-Jaken…?" She whispered.
"Oh…? So you're finally awake?" A rusty voice asked.
Rin looked to where the voice came from. She saw a head of an old man and a body of a spider. "Where is Master Jaken…?" Rin asked as the spider trapped her body of spider webs.
"I no know who this master is…" The spider said "But, now that you are awake I guess I shall start my feeding". Rin's eyes grew widen as she tried to struggle free.
"Let me go…!" Rin shouted "Please let me go!"
"Hahaha, this is my favorite part!" Yukio announced "Having my victims begged!"
"Master Jaken where are you…?" Rin thought. A small spider crawled near Yukio's ear.
"What…? I see…" Yukio whispered as he turned to Rin. "It seems like you will survive much longer… We got company" Yukio licks his lips as he turned to the small spider "Let's greet them… Be on your best behavior"
"Incoming" Ayame announced as she released her leaves.
"Persistent are they…." Kikyou thought as she and Ayame fought the upcoming spider demons.
"Heyah…!" Ayame kicked the spiders with full force. "This is way too easy!"
"… It's easy yet I am running low on arrows…" Kikyou mumbled to herself
Ayame continues to kick and released her leaves. She occasionally uses her tornadoes at the spiders until to the point when most of the spiders have been destroyed.
Suddenly Kikyou felt a Shikon Jewel shard. "Ayame… there is a jewel shards coming. Your first lesson… you must first know how it looks like…" Kikyou said "Try to get it… I'll give you a hint… It is inside a spider's body"
"… Is that so…? This would explain how my brothers and sisters got slain… Yukio is here" Ayame said as the huge spider arrived. And Rin being dragged by the spider web
"Rin…!" Kikyou called out
"Lady Kikyou!" Rin replied happily seeing the priestess.
"A priestess and a wolf demon" Yukio said staring at the two girls "Wow, two beautiful virgin maidens… May I have you're names…?"
"I am Ayame from the northern wolf tribe. I am here to avenge my brethrens and sisters!" Ayame announced
"… I am the priestess Kikyou…" Kikyou said as she readied one of her very few arrows. "Now release the girl and hand over your jewel shards"
"Hoho, I will do no such things…" Yukio then threw Rin to the corner.
"Rin…! Are you okay?" Kikyou asked
"Yes, Lady Kikyou… Rin is fine" Rin replied
Yukio then with its demonic speed charged after Kikyou. Kikyou quickly readied her arrows and released it. Hitting it perfectly in the forehead however, it did no effect.
"He is using the shikon jewel to protect himself" Kikyou thought as she got out another arrow. Quickly Ayame released her sharpened leaves towards Yukio before it for any closer to Kikyou. "Using a sacred arrow will take a lot of energy…" Kikyou thought as she released it towards the spider. Once again it hit the forehead perfectly. A shock of purple light came through all over his body.
Ayame quickly rushed to use her tornado and leaves together. The demon yelled in pain.
"… Why you…!" Yukio then opened his mouth as threads of spider webs came out. Kikyou managed to reflect the webs back however; Ayame got hit and was stuck against the wall
"Ayame" Kikyou called to her companion
"It's okay… Though I hate being restricted" Ayame replied trying to break free.
"One down, another to go…!" Yukio announced as the spider than charged after Kikyou.
Kikyou went to get her another of her arrows. "A last arrow…?" Kikyou thought as she left that last arrow be "How could have I be so careless..?"
"Lady Kikyou!" Rin shouted
"Watch out!" Both Ayame and Rin shouted as the spider tackled Kikyou to the ground.
Kikyou concentrated as she touched the spider's leg and with her purification powers, zapped it.
"You go Kikyou!" Ayame cheered.
"Damn you…" Yukio hissed as he passed out. Kikyou weakly went to Ayame using her bow as support. And she released Ayame with her powers.
"You okay…?" Ayame asked as she helped support Kikyou to Rin.
"I'll be fine…" Kikyou replied "I need to my soul snatchers… But they cannot be anywhere near here…" She thought as she released Rin.
"Lady Kikyou!" Rin said happily hugging the tired priestess.
"This was to easy…" Ayame mumbled "To think many of my brethrens died by that Yukio…"
"It's not dead…" Kikyou replied "As long as he stills the jewel shards… He will keep coming back… Ayame… hurry"
"Okay…" Ayame said as she left Kikyou with Rin. She got out her swords and was about to slay it. But it was to late…
The spider Yukio's eyes flashed open. And he summons dozens of spider webs all over, trapping both Kikyou and Rin. Ayame uses her agility to avoid the spider webs.
"You will all die…!" Yukio shouted as he used his spider powers to roam freely around the cave. He started to chase Ayame trying to capture her with the spider web. But Ayame was able to dodged using lots of flips. Every so often she released her leaves to hit the spider but it was no use.
"If spiritual power is able to weaken him then…" Ayame took out one of her irises. "If I get close enough then I can use this Iris" Ayame thought as she ran even faster.
"L-Lady Kikyou…! The webs! It's burning!" Rin said
"Ayame hurry…! The webs are getting hotter! This may be what killed your brethrens!" Kikyou said loud enough for Ayame to hear
"You play dirty" Ayame said annoyed to Yukio as she ran and jump, throwing her iris in the center of the spider's body.
The iris was slowly burning the center of the spider. Meanwhile with Kikyou and Rin… Rin started to cough uncontrollably as Kikyou tried to cover her nose and mouth with her white ribbon.
Ayame quickly drew her sword as she was about to thrust it to the spider. Yet Yukio jumped up causing her to miss. "Stay still…!" Ayame whined as she jumped and kept missing her attacks.
"Rin… I am going to create a barrier… But I may pass out…" Kikyou warned as she concentrated "It will only last a few minutes…" And successfully a blue barrier appeared, as Rin finally was able to breathe in. Kikyou then closed her eyes as she lost all her stamina.
"L-lady Kikyou…!" Rin said "Please hurry Miss Ayame!"
Ayame got out her leaves as she destroyed some of the threads, causing the spider to fall… on top of Ayame…
"Miss Ayame…!" Rin shouted in concern "Please get up! Miss Ayame, please get up…!"
But no answer was heard… "Lady Kikyou… Miss Ayame…" Rin whispered as tears came out of her eyes.
"Release them…" The voiced of the mighty Sesshoumaru appeared. Rin quickly stopped her tears and smiled upon seeing her Lord.
"Who are you?" Yukio demanded
"I said released them…" Sesshoumaru said taking a step forward
"Never…! They are my meal! I will kill you as well if you interfere!" Yukio threatened. "You are in my territory! So I have the much quicker advantage!"
"… This is my final warning… Release them or I shall force you" Sesshoumaru said his voice getting louder for each word he spoke. His emotionless glare quickly struck fear to the Yukio's spine.
"I will do no such thing!" Yukio hissed as he crawled towards Sesshoumaru, leaving Ayame to finally breathe air. She quickly stood up, grabbing her sword.
"Fool… This shall be your grave" Sesshoumaru then summoned his whip of light. The whip of light destroyed the entire web it passed successfully as well as the weaken rocks above them. One by one the rocks started to fall.
"Lady Kikyou…! Please wake up…! The rocks will crush you!" Rin said violently shaking Kikyou awake. A huge boulder appeared to be falling on top of them "Eeek!" Rin quickly grabbed hold on Kikyou's head and hugged it trying to protect the weaken priestess.
Sesshoumaru quickly dashed towards them and managed to destroy the boulder, creating dozens of tiny rocks in its place. "Lord Sesshoumaru, you are safe" Rin smiled
"This cave is collapsing!" Yukio hissed as he quickly flee
"Oh no, you don't!" Ayame said as she was about to follow the spider but stopped. "Please take care of the Priestess kay…? Tell her I will catch up when I can… Bye~" Ayame smiled as she dashed after the spider.
"Rin, let's go" Sesshoumaru said as he turned his back. "Rin…?" Sesshoumaru repeated as he turned to face her.
"Lord Sesshoumaru… We must help Lady Kikyou!" Rin said
"…" Sesshoumaru stares at the girl then at the weakened priestess… He nodded as he carried the priestess over his shoulders. "Let's go… Get on Ah-Un"
Rin nodded as she ran outside with Sesshoumaru following her. They finally made it outside, with Ah-Un waiting for them. She then saw Jaken. "Master Jaken…! There you are!" Rin said as Jaken tiredly crawled to Ah-UN
"Jaken… Where have you been?" Sesshoumaru questioned "Where you not suppose to take care of Rin…?"
"F-Forgive me milord… But the Mik-" Jaken couldn't finished as his eyes saw the priestess in his lord's shoulder. "That miko…! And that demoness! They kicked me so far away that I just made it" Jaken said
"Hmph…" Sesshoumaru then walks away as his companions followed. "Priestess… you had this final arrow yet you refused to use it… I wonder why…" Sesshoumaru thought
Thanks for the review! I enjoyed reading it! How did you guys know I was going to have Sesshoumaru saved them…? Hahha jk jk! Forgive me once again… I have not yet written a story for sometime. So this does lack details… and grammar… The next chapter may take awhile… I got summer reading I need to do -.-''.
I was trying to see how well I could do writing in 3rd person… and right now it isn't really good… But I will keep practicing! Anyway thanks again! And don't forget to give me some feedbacks! ^-^ Please send me some suggestions! PM or review! I'll be gladly to hear about it :)
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