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Soulless Knight	By : DragonSorceress42 Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 1607 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N:
Okay, I realized there were a few holes in my story, so I'm writing
this prologue to fill those holes. It takes place in the future,
about a decade after Kagome's first trip through the well, I hope you
like it.

Disclaimer:
Don't own, never will, that should be enough for y'all.

Soulless
Knight

Prologue:
The War

“Dammit,
Angel! Duck!”

Angela
did so, barely avoiding a blast of pure black energy their enemy had
thrown at them. At the edge of the field, Cliodna was both trying to
keep Rei-an from getting hurt as well as fighting Captain Amagai.
The man looked a little annoyed.

And
Angel ducked again.

“Fuck;
trade!” she shouted. She slammed her foot down into the ground
and vines shot up, surrounding both the evil soul sorceress –
their enemy – as well as her lackeys and Captain Amagai,
distracting them long enough for Cliodna to lunge at the bitch and
Angela to scurry over and place herself between Rei-an and Amagai.

The
Japanese man batted away a thick swath of vines, muttered a
complicated spell under his breath – in the span of about two
seconds; Angel was jealous – and turned her vines to dust. She
gritted her teeth, pushing aside the sudden nauseous feeling in her
stomach that always told her that her plants had been harmed, not
that she hadn't already known. It made her want to puke, but she bit
the bile back and snarled viciously instead.

“Jerk,”
she growled, mindful of the child clinging to the tree just behind
her; she must be getting soft, watching her language like that. When
did that happen?

His
smirked made her want to punch him. “My, I see you've been
somewhat domesticated, dear Angela,” he crooned.

Her
eyes narrowed, even as she called up a few old particles of some
centuries-old carnivorous plant deep under the surface of the Earth.
The particles morphed to that of their former glory and when a giant,
tentacled tree came above ground, she grinned. “Say
hello to *Ya-te-veo, Captain. It's been a while since it's had
company.”

The
Captain gulped, eyes widening as the tentacle-like branches of the
tree shot at him.

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Cliodna
grunted, dodging a blast of energy even as she lunged at the bitch,
her one remaining sai digging into the flesh of her side and causing
thick, copper-scented blood to flow. The sorceress grunted and
backhanded her, sending her stumbling backward, though she managed to
keep her balance. Barely.

Which
was just as well, since the evil bitch was suddenly upon her, nails
digging into her arms and dagger at her throat.

"What
the hell?" she demanded with a grunt as she bucked and jerked
them into a roll, trying to dislodge the sorceress as well as keep
her sword from her throat. She finally threw the woman away from
her, only to realize her mistake a moment too soon. The bitch had
attacked her as a diversion while Amagai entrapped Angel - and... was
that a tentacled tree? - in a magical cage long enough to begin
preparations for some sort of spell. There was a brilliant flash of
light...

...
and Angel turned around, swearing she'd heard someone following them.
"Oi, did you hear that, Cli?"

"Hear
what?" Cliodna asked with a sigh, giving the sidewalk behind
them a cursory glance.

"I
think someone's following us..."

"Is
it a clown this time?"

Angel
glared at her sister, only for Rei-an to tug on her shirt, looking
seriously confused. "What, squirt?" she demanded,
frowning.

"Um...
What just happened?" the child asked curiously. "Weren't
we just fighting the sorceress?"

Angel
and Cliodna exchanged worried looks before they knelt on either side
of her. "What are you talking about, baby?" Cliodna asked,
frowning. "The sorceress? You mean the queen, right? Why
would we fight with her?"

"Um...
Maybe because she's the worst thing to ever happen to humanity?"
Rei-an suggested in caustic tones, rolling her eyes. She was
slightly surprised when both women covered her mouth and looked
around nervously.

Satisfied
that they were completely alone, Angel hissed in a whisper, "What
the hell are you talking about? That's treason, squirt."

"I'm
only six," Rei-an retorted smartly.

Cliodna
shook her head. "That doesn't matter. Now, Rei-an, what are
you talking about? We've never fought against the queen-"

"Yes!
You have! I remember! Like, she had General Amagai do some sort of
spell or something, and there was this brilliant flash of light-"

"Time
travel?" Angel murmured to herself, then shook her head. "No.
If that was true, Rei-an wouldn't remember it, right Cli?"

Cliodna
would have answered, really she would have, but the guilty look on
her daughter's face right then stopped her in her tracks. "Rei-an...
You wouldn't remember, right?" she demanded softly, in a tone
only a mother could have.

"Um...
Have you considered that I might just be special?" the
six-year-old asked hopefully.

"Rei-an,"
her mother and aunt chorused, frowning down at her.

Rei-an
sighed. "Oh, alright, alright. I'm a time sorceress," she
muttered. In the silence that followed, you could have heard a pin
drop, but as it was,
Rei-an was counting down the seconds until-

“You're
what?”
Cliodna asked, fisting her hands.

“Generally,
time sorceresses transcend time,” Angel deadpanned. She smiled
innocently at Cliodna's glare. “You know, those people who-”

Her
sister growled softly and listened in satisfaction as Angel shut her
mouth with an audible snap. “Now... when were you planning on
telling us this, Rei-an?” she asked almost sweetly.

The
child laughed nervously. “Oh, you know-”

“Never?”
Angel inserted.

“P-pretty
much,” Rei-an admitted. “But now you know and-”

“Uncertified
sorceress. Illegal. Please go to your nearest certification office
to amend this,” a voice ordered in metallic, machine tones. “A
fine will now be issued. Please go to your nearest financial office
to pay it.”

The
three turned to see an android standing there. Rei-an swallowed and
stepped back from it. Angel snarled. “What? We've gotta pay
a fine? Damn...”

Cliodna's
eyes narrowed to slits at the metallic man standing before her,
suddenly the android's blue metal body started to turn orange, then
it slowly turned to a bright red that gave off an almost eerie glow.
Angel barely had enough time to grab Rei-an and duck behind Cliodna
before, “Warning; internal temperatures rising beyond safe
operational parameters,
overload and meltdown immanent.” The android suddenly burst
into flames, “Error; connection to terminal lost, unable to
report.” The android then melted to the ground, in a puddle of
liquid metal.

Cliodna took a deep,
calming breath and turned around to see a big toothy grin from
Rei-an, and an immense scowl from Angel. “WHAT THE HELL?”
Angel yelled at the top of her lungs, Rei-an cringed at the volume
and turned, cocking her head at her aunt. “You do realize
we'll be hunted now!? If it could issue a fine, then it knew our
identities.”

“It would have
happened either way, I won't let them harm my daughter!”
Cliodna stated with a very deep scowl of her own.

“What are you
talking about?” Angel looked confused now, “It's just a
registration process, we both went through it and we're fine, nothing
will happen to Rei-an.”

Cliodna sighed in
frustration, “Did you not read that new book I got you last
month?”

“You got me a
book?, hmm...” Angel seemed deep in thought.

Cliodna was getting
aggravated, “Yes, it's that thick stack of papers sitting on
your writing desk in your room, I saw it there just yesterday.”

“Oh,”
Angel perked up, looking back at her sister. “You mean the new
paper weight I suddenly found on my pillow one night? You know that
really hurt, you should warn people before they just plop down on
things like that.”

Cliodna rolled her eyes
and Rei-an tried fruitlessly to hold back a fit of giggles, “Anyway,”
Cliodna started again, looking back at her sister. “That was
the newest addendum to the world laws, you were supposed to read it.”

“Oops, hehe.”
Angel chuckled nervously, grinning like a Cheshire cat. “I
knew I was forgetting something, sorry.”

“Chapter 3, page
3-6, paragraph 2.” Cliodna continued as if Angel hadn't just
said something stupid, “Time travel is illegal!”

“Duh, I knew
that, that is not a new law.” Angel retorted.

Cliodna glared at
Angel, “Severe punishment will be administered. Any sorceress
found with time travel gifts will be put to death immediately.”

“Oh, I guess
that's a problem...” Angel muttered.

“But you forgot
the best part about that law.” A deep male voice said from
behind them, startling them. He continued while the trio spun to
face him. “The part where I get to arrest and charge any
associated with the Time Sorceress.”

Angel's eyes narrowed.
“Oh, General Takashi! Nice of you to drop by!” she
gushed while waving erratically. “You still owe me fifty Euros
for last month!”

He scoffed, crossing
tanned and toned arms. “Not my fault you're a whore.”

Angel scowled at him
darkly. “I was talking about the Poker- the POKER! Not your
inadequacies in bed!” she shouted. “Keep your panties
on, jack-”

“Child,”
Cliodna said.

“-o-lantern,”
Angel finished lamely.

Takashi grinned at
Angel's mild tongue and was about to snap off another witty retort
when he heard someone behind him clear their throat, that's when he
remembered the contingent of 50 men he brought with him. He sighed,
“Not that this witty banter hasn't been fun, but in accordance
with the law, you are all under arrest.”

It was Cliodna's turn
to scoff, “As if,” she raised her hand and let a blast of
fire come forth, it grew and surrounded Takashi and his men. Rei-an
covered her ears as the screams of agony reached her, she let her
tears fall freely, but held back the sobs. When the fire died and
the smoke cleared, only Takashi was left standing, surrounded by the
charred remains of his men.

“Well then,”
Angel stated, trying not to show her shock, “I guess he didn't
over exaggerate everything, he really is immortal.”

The look of rage on
Takashi's face grew as he looked around at his now dead men, “You
little BITCH!” He yelled as he snapped his gaze up to
Cliodna's stoic expression, she showed no grief over the lives she
just took. “You'll pay for that.”

“Angel, keep the
general busy.” Cliodna said, “ I have a plan, but we'll
need some time.”

“We?”
Angel looked at her with a puzzled expression.

“Rei-an and I are
going to take a little trip, if all goes according to plan, I shall
be able to explain when we get back.” Cliodna responded.
Angel nodded at her as Cliodna turned and took Rei-an's hand, leading
her away from the scene before her.

“Get back here,
who said you could leave!?” Takashi spat, he removed a baton
like object from a clip on his belt and flipped the switch near one
end. A red beam, that smelled of acid, snaked loosely out of the end
and hissed as it hit the grass. He snapped it forward, aiming for
Cliodna's head, but was suddenly blocked by a woven mass of vines
that hadn't been there a moment before.

“Tisk tisk,
General,” Angel turned her head back towards him. “You
really must learn to be more patient, it is a virtue after all.”
She smiled as she sent another wave of her deadly vines racing after
him, he dodged and lashed at them with his acrid whip.

Cliodna led Rei-an over
to a tree that was far enough away from the general for her comfort,
she knelt down in front of her and wiped some of the tears off her
cheeks. “I'm sorry you had to see that, precious, but I had no
time to shield the horrid sight from your eyes.” Rei-an nodded
to her mother, but said nothing, so Cliodna continued. “I need
to know, can you take us back in time, to where ever the Qu- Soul
Sorceress messed up the time line?”

Rei-an nodded slowly,
“Of course,” She sniffled slightly. “It wasn't
that long ago, the fracture should still be evident enough to find.”

Cliodna smiled at her
daughter, “Good, I need you to find it then, and take us far
enough before it happened to stop what ever she did. Can you do
that, and quickly?”

Rei-an smiled slightly
and nodded, “No trouble at all; though, I will have to go with
you, I can't just open a portal and send someone through.”

It was Cliodna's turn
to nod, as she gave her daughter another encouraging smile. “I
expected as much, lets go.” Rei-an nodded again, turned away
from her mother, and closed her eyes. She raised both her hands in
front of her and started chanting in... Druidic? Where had she
learned that? Cliodna filed that question away as something she
would ask later, druidic spells were complicated enough, without
having someone constantly bugging you.

The wind started to
pick up as a glow formed around Rei-an, she stopped chanting, but did
not open her eyes, “I found the rift, but it's almost healed;
if we're going to go, it must be now. Place your hand on my
shoulder, you must be touching me for this to work.”

Cliodna nodded and did
so; Rei-an immediately started chanting again. The glow around
Rei-an stated to grow brighter; Cliodna was suddenly blinded by a
very bright flash of light, and cringed at a pull in the pit of her
stomach that felt like someone just snagged her intestines with a
fishing hook and was trying to pull them out through her navel.

As suddenly as it had
started, the pull and the bright light ended, and they both fell
forward. It was pitch black, night time; Cliodna lifted her head and
saw Rei-an passed out beside her, but obviously breathing. She
looked around the moon lit landscape and barley made out a beach in
the distance before her, turning her head she saw an dense forest
behind her.

She felt weak and
exhausted, but she forced herself to stand on her wobbly legs anyway.
When she felt stable enough, she tried to take a step forward, but
she stepped on a rock and started to fall forward instead. She
didn't even have time to scream, before a pair of muscled arms were
wrapped around her waist. She tried to put her hands up, but she
face planted into a well built bare chest instead.

“Easy lass, I got
ya!” His voice was deep and soothing, he spoke in an older
form of Gaelic, but she could still understand it. “Are you
ok, lass? My brother and I saw you two appear while we were flying,
you looked a but unsteady,” He righted her, but did not
release his hold.

She tried to nod, but
the landscape before her started to spin, the world teetering on it's
axis. The male tightened his grip as black smudged the edges of her
vision. “R-rei-an... Preciou...”

And he watched in mixed
amusement and consternation as she slumped, passing out. “Lass?
Lass, ya alive?” He felt an intense urge to poke her, but
ignored it. “Maybe we should get back...”

Glacialis snorted.
“Maybe you're right.” And then, under his breath
(earning an annoyed glare for the trouble), he muttered, “Idiot.”

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A/N: I think my beta ran away screaming,
something about commas and periods.

Anyway, sorry this took so long, it was way
harder then I thought. This is the mighty prologue that shall
explain all, at least I hope so, hehe. Chapter 4 is half finished,
it has a nice surprise for you all, because you're all so patient
with my hectic life and suicidal muse. See you soon, please R&R.
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