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Evil rising, Litch Queen of the western continent	By : dragondeedee3 Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 16208 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or anything pertaining to Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi dose. I make no money from writing this story, it is for hobby only.

Chapter List
- 14
- 15
A/N Chapter 15 is finally done! It only took like half a year and it’s shorter than I wanted it to be but it’s done. Thank you so much to anyone who has stuck with me this whole time, I’m so sorry it takes me so long to post but I promise I won’t give up on writing, I’m going to finish this story no matter how long it takes, I hope you can bear with me until the end. Some of you have read the original chap. 14 and 15 that I had posted awhile back and some of you haven’t. I’m prone to changing things all around after I have posted, so it may be worth it for you to skim over chapter 14 because I chopped so much of the original ending off. Well with that said I hope you like it and it was worth the wait I tried really hard to make up for my last attempt at chapter 15 ^.^
Chapter 15. Close encounters
Inuyasha woke to the quiet sound of whimpering and a slight movement at his side. He cracked open his eyes and looked to the still sleeping form of Felix, who was huddled up against him in the bulky fluff of moko moko. The little neko's feet were moving like he was running from something in a dream. The brow knit expression that donned the young demon's face and unconscious whimpers that fell from his lips, said that it was probably more a nightmare than a dream.
Inuyasha turned onto his side and gave Felix a gentle nudge.
“Psst … Felix …. Hey, wake up. It's just a dream.”
Felix blinked open his eyes and looked around in a panic until his attention settled on Inuyasha, then he hugged tight to the hanyou's chest.
Inuyasha put an arm over the frightened neko.
“Relax, you're safe. What were you dreaming about?”
“A monster was chasing me.” Felix's voice was muffled by the front of Inuyasha's haori, where he had his face pressed to the soft material.
Inuyasha ran a hand through the little neko's hair, soothing him.
“Was it one of the zombies?”
Felix shook his head no, not entirely sure how to describe what it was. In the dream he couldn't really see the monster. It was just the creature's eyes, huge fiery red eyes, that glowed bright in the dark, as he ran from it.
“I don't know what it was.” He finally answered.
“Well, don't worry. It was just a dream and you're safe with us.” Inuyasha assured.
Felix slowly nodded in agreement and closed his eyes, but he couldn't help being a little worried. He didn't sleep well the rest of the night and was relieved when morning finally came. He quickly busied himself with preparations for breakfast and whatever else he could find to keep his mind occupied.
Camp was packed up shortly after the meal and everyone climbed back aboard the landstrider for yet another long boring day of travel.
Many days passed like this, too slow, too hot, too miserables and no closer to finding any answers. The landstrider could cover a lot of ground, but it was not nearly as fast as their first transport had been and a great deal less comfortable than it too. The small structure atop the creature's back jostled and jarred around as it ran.
After more than a week, of being knocked around the four canvas walls day after day, everyone was sore, tired and anxious.
Sesshoumaru wasn’t happy with the lack of progress they were making and for some reason his youkai had been on edge lately, restless and pacing with it's heckles raised. He couldn’t shake the feeling that they were being followed, yet there were no signs or scents to prove it. He called Lilly over to speak with her one night after camp was made.
“Summon a messenger spirit.” The demon lord's gaze shifted to the landstrider. “We are not progressing fast enough by land, I want Caspiana to meet us at the nearest port.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Lilly bowed, then quickly found a small scroll, some ink and a brush among her supplies. She filled out a short message then cast the spell to summon a tiny winged-spirit creature which took the scroll and disappeared in a flash of light and magic dust.
“All finished.” The healer happily announced, but Sesshoumaru had already gone off with Inuyasha to continue the hanyou's training.
                                                                   ~ xXx ~
Days of traveling passed as the group made their way to the nearest sea port. They continuously encountered more and more undead along the way. The creatures spilled from tree lines or rose from the very ground they were walking on, impeding their progress at every turn. They encountered more and more abandoned villages too. Empty of all life, the villagers had either been turned undead to join the Litch queen’s ever growing army or they had fled to avoid the earlier.
Seeing so many places crumbling and desolate made the group worry about their village back home. They wondered how Lady Kaede, Rin and Shippo were doing, and prayed they were safe. The sense of urgency to stop the Litch queen was growing with each passing day, supplies and clean water were getting harder to come by. The undead were like a plague, stripping the land of everything as they moved from place to place, leaving behind them nothing but death and destruction. The skies had become a dull and foreboding grey, blocking the suns light and land that was once lush and green had turned brown and was dying.
Regardless of the obstacles and the group's growing anxiety, each night camp was made and Inuyasha's training continued. Much to the hanyou's distress, Sesshoumaru was true to his word and did not allow his mate even the slightest bit of sexual relief. Each time the pup snuck off, attempting to sate himself, the demon lord would show up and stop him, usually by tying him up, then dragging him, kicking and cussing back to camp.
Sango, for the duration of their travel, had taken it upon herself to begin showing Felix a few things about combat. Speed was certainly his strong point, the little neko could easily rival Kouga back when the ookami had jewel shards in his legs. The problem was that he had no idea what to do with that speed.
Felix was thankful for what Sango was trying to do but the poor neko wasn't getting enough sleep to be able to focus on any kind of training. Each night that dream of the big red eyes chasing him, returned to haunt his slumber.
Lilly focused on improving her spells while they traveled. Chrono and Miroku spent their time sparring and training their own fighting skills. Jaken, as usual, didn't do anything useful and spent most of his time criticizing everyone else, while Kirara, of course helped out anyway she could.
It wasn't long before Inuyasha was so pent up with sexual frustration, that he was lashing out at his friends, for what seemed like no good reason. It continued to get worse until the poor pup was nothing but a giant ball of rage waiting to snap on anyone who got in his way.
It was about the second day of the third week, while traveling, when Inuyasha couldn't take it any more and pretty much snapped.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! That's fucking it! I've had it with this stupid, fucking, bull shit!” The irate hanyou stomped right up to Sesshoumaru and gabbed a demanding finger into the demon lord's breastplate. “You know this is fucking torture and I'm not moving from this spot until we settle this!”
Sesshoumaru stared down at the place where Inuyasha was touching his armor then leveled the pup with a menacing glare. Had Inuyasha’s finger been able to move of its own accord, being the smarter of the two, it would have run for it’s life. The aura pouring off Sesshoumaru was seething and malevolent enough to send hell itself scurrying off in fear.
“Then quit your incessant whining and do as I have asked, you ungrateful little half breed.” The demon lord growled.
Inuyasha was too dense to realize and too frustrated to care that, Sesshoumaru had also gone without release during these weeks of training and was now in no mood to deal with Inuyasha's attitude.
The rest of their group had come to a halt after hearing the hostile hanyou's outburst. The youkai radiating from the two inu, had been building up slowly since the first sessions after Sesshoumaru's declaration that Inuyasha would not be allowed to cum until his training was complete. Now that aura was turbulent enough to physically harm anyone that got too close. It had been a long time since the hanyou's companions had seen Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru this angry with each other.
As the two drew their swords and readied to fight, an electrostatic built between them and a demonic wind kicked up, flinging dirt and dust in all directions.
“Leave us.” Sesshoumaru ordered, then he and Inuyasha rushed forward.
Bakusaiga and Tessaiga clashed together hard enough to sending sparks flying.
Lilly, Chrono, Sango, Miroku and Felix all exchanged worried looks. They didn't know exactly what was going on, but wisely obeyed the angry demon lord. Chrono steered the landstrider and lashed its reins.
“We'll find a safe place to stop and wait for them to meet back up with us.” Chrono explained.
Sesshoumaru quickly overpowered Inuyasha, shoving tessaiga back. He followed with a flurry of strikes, each one the hanyou blocked but was pushed back by the force. Sesshoumaru then leaped up and unfurled his whip, lashing out four times before coming right back with another flurry of attacks.
There was no teasing or flirting about this fight, both inu were already at their limit. This fight was about the hanyou proving himself, proving that he had completed his training and that he could block anything Sesshoumaru threw at him no matter how distracted he was.
Inuyasha managed to counter every attack the demon lord made and dual out a few attacks of his own. The staggering force behind each swing sent more sparks flying. But Sesshoumaru was unyielding, and pushed forward to flip over the hanyou's head.
Upon landing Sesshoumaru dropped low, lashing his whip out to catch the hanyou’s leg, Inuyasha was forced to leap clear in order to avoid that poison thong. The pup didn't even land before Sesshoumaru was back on him attacking in a blur of speed.
The fight continued like this for a long time and still Inuyasha managed to block every attack. The hanyou's frustration level had reached a point to where his youkai was beginning to take over. His teeth and claws had lengthened already, his eyes were threatening to bleed scarlet, and faint traces of his demonic markings were starting to show through.
“I am satisfied with your progress, hanyou.” Sesshoumaru informed as their swords came together once more with a loud clang and they leaped apart to circle each other again.
“Good, cuz I'm done waiting.” Inuyasha growled.
“Agreed.”
Inuyasha threw tessaiga down and started stripping off his haori, but before he even got the first piece off, Sesshoumaru tackled him to the ground, pinning the pup beneath his foot.
“You cheap bastard, you just agreed that the fight was over!” Inuyasha snarled, his arms were still stuck in his sleeves, behind his back and the demon lord had a hold on the knotted up material so he couldn’t pull them free.
“Do you think, because the fight has ended, you can do whatever you please?”
Inuyasha froze, still trapped face down in the dirt with his arms pulled back at a painful angle and Sesshoumaru’s boot planted in the middle of his back. He whimpered in distress as his cock throbbed unbearably hard and neglected. It wasn’t fair, why wouldn’t the bastard just give him what he wanted for once. Inuyasha had never felt so aroused before in his life. Adrenalin was still singing through his veins, his whole body was pulsing with need and every nerve was burning with lust.
“Damn it, Shu, you're fucking killing me here. If you're not going to fuck me, at least untie me so I can do it myself.”
“No.”
Inuyasha stared, disbelieving up at the demon lord, his mouth partially gaping open. He had done everything the bastard asked, everything, and he was still going to say no?
Sesshoumaru used the tip of his sword under Inuyasha's chin to close the pup's mouth.
“You can kneel and show your appreciation for the time and patience I have given you, then perhaps I will feel inclined to grant you release.” As he spoke Sesshoumaru took his foot off of Inuyasha’s back and moved to stand in front of the hanyou.
Inuyasha glared hard up at the demon lord. He wanted to scream and cuss and howl, he wanted to spit in the bastard's face and start the fight all over again. But more than any of that he wanted to cum. That's why he swallowed the insults that were right at the tip of his tongue. With the demon lord's sword still resting under his chin and their eyes still locked, Inuyasha slowly pulled himself to his knees and tugged his arms free of his sleeves, letting the haori fall to the ground.
The petulant hanyou gave an annoyed huff before averting his eyes and reaching for the ties on Sesshoumaru's hakama. He had to grind his teeth when the demon lord used the flat of his sword to slap his hand away.
“With your mouth.”
Inuyasha growled, closed his eyes and counted to ten before he could will himself to lean forward and grasp one of the ties between his teeth.
Just shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up and he'll let me cum.
When he had loosened enough of the ties, Inuyasha pulled the silky hakama down with his teeth until the target of his desire was free. Just the sight of it made even more heat pool low in his groin and his insides tighten with anticipation. He looked up at the demon lord as he took the thick length into his mouth, using his eyes to tell the bastard how badly he wanted this inside, somewhere that wasn't his mouth.
Sesshoumaru was unaffected, he watched as Inuyasha enveloped him between the roof of his mouth and the hot slickness of his tongue, with the look of a cat, gazing down on a wounded animal, content to let it writhe. One hand slipped into the soft silky tresses of the pup’s hair as the demon lord pressed forward filling his mate's mouth until the hanyou was fighting not to gag.
Inuyasha moaned, squeezing his thighs together, shifting from side to side uncomfortably. His own cock was hot and throbbing between his legs, screaming for attention, feeling as if he didn’t do something to relieve the pressure, it might literally explode.
Inuyasha tried but he just couldn’t hold onto his anger, he closed his eyes and moaned again, eagerly taking the demon lord deeper into his mouth. He sucked hard, curling his tongue around smooth taut skin, reveling in the feel of firm heated flesh.
Inuyasha’s eyes, now completely demonic red, were glossy and pleading with lust when he opened them. As he moved up and down the thick length, he fidgeted and squirmed, desperate for any kind of touch, any kind of friction to his own sex. Everything from the head of his cock to his balls was painfully swollen with need, every nerve aching for stimulation. Pre-cum seeped generously from the tip as he continued to bob up and down his mate’s thick length.
For a long time the demon lord made Inuyasha suffer while he enjoyed the tight slickness of the pup’s tongue and throat. Inuyasha whimpered and moaned as Sesshoumaru thrust slow and smoothly in and out of his mouth, deep into his throat. Tauntingly slow. With one hand still wrapped in the hanyou’s silky hair Sesshoumaru lazily traced little patterns down the pup’s back with the tip of his sword.
Inuyasha arched his spine and moaned whenever the blade pressed just the tiniest bit too hard and sliced into his bare skin. The sharp sting of cool, razor-like metal, cutting into fevered flesh was welcome. Inuyasha was so aroused, the line between pleasure and pain blurred until he began to crave that sharp biting sting. He moaned and whimpered encouraging the demon lord to cut deeper even as blood trickled in streams down his back.
Without giving the act much thought, Sesshoumaru had begun connecting the lines of his little patterns until he had absently carved the characters for ‘pet’ into the hanyou’s back. Once finished he smirked contently at the bright crimson kanji, then slipped his blade between Inuyasha’s waist and the material of his hakama, slicing what was left of the pup’s clothing away. He then continued to enjoy the pleasure of his mate’s talented mouth, unconcerned with the younger inu’s growing state of need.
Every time Inuyasha’s hand would drift to his lap, attempting to bring relief to his own throbbing cock, Sesshoumaru would swat him on the ass with the flat of his sword. Inuyasha cried out and moaned with his mouth still wrapped around the demon lord’s cock. He moved from the kneeling position to more of a hands and knees position with his hands clinging to Sesshoumaru’s thighs, his legs spread and his back arched. He was so aroused he couldn’t stand it, he moaned and whimpered, wiggling his hips, submissively begging Sesshoumaru to sate him.
“What a shameless little slut. If I let go, will you roll over and spread your cheeks for me again?”
Inuyasha keened and moaned from hearing the command word, nearly cumming from the sound of those two little syllables alone and blushed furiously at being reminded of the disgraceful things he had done over the past few weeks. He had indeed, rolled onto his back and spread his cheeks for the bastard, wantonly begging him to enter. He had even stripped himself bare and crawled on hands and knees, begging to be taken, and still the cold bastard had refused.
All those thoughts shattered to pieces when Sesshoumaru withdrew from the pup’s mouth and moved to kneel behind him.
Inuyasha dropped his chest to the ground, baring his entrance to the demon lord, breath coming in shallow pants, he could only whimper pleadingly for his mate to fill him.
Sesshoumaru traced his thumb in slow circles around the tight little ring of pink, teasing and pressing against the muscles.
“Have you let your youkai enough control that you have forgotten your words?”
“Please! Please, please, please.” Inuyasha blurted the words out as if he truly had forgotten he could speak.
“Please what?”
“For fuck sake Sesshoumaru, please fuck me! I’ve waited weeks, I can’t stand it for another second, I need it! Please! I … I need you.” The pup whined in distress, pressing himself back against the demon lord’s cock in an effort to impale himself.
Sesshoumaru’s lips curled in a predatory grin, as he prevented the pup from achieving his goal. “Where is it you need me?”
Inuyasha was too desperate to feel embarrassed now, he would say or do whatever Sesshoumaru asked to get what he wanted. “I need you inside me! Please! Please put it in!” The hanyou reached back with both hands and gripped the smooth curve of his cheeks one in each hand, spreading them apart so there would be no mistaking where exactly he wanted Sesshoumaru inside.
“Hn, that’s a good little whore. Spread them nice and wide for me.”
“Please, please.” Inuyasha whimpered and hurried to comply, further baring himself to the demon lord.
Sesshoumaru gripped the pup’s waist with his claws as he thrust forward hard, thick shaft filling the hanyou, stretching him wide, painfully wide, as it sunk deep to the hilt, not pausing for the pup to adjust to the intrusion, not needing to, just pumping hard inside him.
Inuyasha howled in pleasure, rocking back in rhythm with the demon lord. “Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhhh!” It was exactly what he wanted, exactly what he needed. Head tipped back, he moaned and keened and panted, pressing himself back into every thrust.
“Greedy little slut.” Sesshoumaru intoned, watching himself get swallowed up inside that cute little pink hole, again and again.
The insults were like fire to the already unbearable heat of Inuyasha’s arousal, he moaned and squirmed not caring how loud or desperately.
“Ahhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh!”
Sesshoumaru moved a hand up Inuyasha's side, brushing his claws lightly over the soft skin until he came to the pup's chest. There he captured one perked, sensitive, nipple between his fingers, flicking and pinching it teasingly to make his mate writhe.
“Ahhhhhh!” Inuyasha bucked his hips urging the demon lord to go faster. Just a little faster and he could cum, he'd waited so long already and wanted it so, so fucking bad. He thrashed and whimpered desperate for Sesshoumaru to finish it.
The demon lord trailed his lips down to Inuyasha's neck, teasing him even further. He licked and nipped a path further down, while the pup whined and squirmed.
“Such an impatient little slut, ready to cum so quickly.”
“Please,” Inuyasha panted. “Please Shu, I-I did everything you said, please, please … just, ahh ... harder.”
“Hn.” Sesshoumaru continued his pace but moved a hand to toy with a quivering set of puppy ears. “Yes, you did well.” He leaned forward and traced the edge of one ear with his tongue. “You want to cum?”
“Nnng! Yes! Yes, please yes!”
The demon lord grabbed Inuyasha’s hips, buried fangs in his neck and slammed into the pup, unmercifully.
“Ahhhhhhh!” The hanyou screamed, elongated fangs slicing through his own lips.
The demon lord didn't wait for his mate to adjust to the new furious pace, he dug his claws in and continued harder.
“Ahhh ... ahhh ... ahhh …. Shu! I …. Ahhh I'm ….... AHHHHHHHH!!!” Inuyasha’s whole body tensed and quaked as the orgasm overwhelmed him. Pleasure, nothing but pure blissful, blinding pleasure burst through his senses. Weeks of frustration ebbed in a mind blowing rush of pleasure, that left him dizzy and trembling as Sesshoumaru continued thrusting into him.

The demon lord groaned as Inuyasha's insides clenched and gripped him. Raking his claws down the hanyou's back and thighs, he wrapped his arms around the pup, lifting him until that slender back was pressed to his chest. The demon lord held his mate by the thighs, spreading them wide as he pounded up into his flushed little body.
“Ahhhaaa, ahhhha, ahhhha.” Breathy, lustful cries sang out from the hanyou’s lips and he wrapped his arms behind Sesshoumaru's neck, riding and writhing against the demon lord. Rolling his hips back each time that thickly swollen length filled him.
The assault continued long after the sun had begun to set, and Inuyasha's voice had begun to crack, horse from his cries. The demon lord never ceased pumping into the slick, constricting heat of his mates body. He could feel his completion drawing closer and closer, the weeks of pent up aggression would soon come crashing to an end.
Without pausing he dropped Inuyasha back down onto his knees and shoved one hand between the pup's shoulder blades forcing his chest to the ground. The other hand latched onto the hanyou's waist and pulled him back into every thrust.
Inuyasha cried out breathlessly, feeling that thick cock swell inside him as it drove harder and faster. He writhed and moaned helpless against the force, digging his nails into the ground. Inuyasha was so intensely absorbed in the pleasure of the rough assault that he almost didn't even realize it should have been claws sinking into the earth, not nails barely scratching the surface.
'Oh no.' He whimpered in frustration. 'The new moon. Damn it, not now! Not now, why does it have to happen now?'
When Sesshoumaru suddenly detected the scent of Inuyasha's youkai fading and a human one taking its place, he was already past the point of no return. Now it was the demon lord's eyes that were clouded with crimson and his claws that were lengthening in anticipation of tearing into his mates flesh.
Inuyasha's change happened right as the elder inu came, tense and shuddering from pleasure, the orgasm rushed through him. He moaned, muscles going ridged, fangs and claws itching to sink into soft warm flesh. It took every ounce of the demon lord's will to force his hands away from the beautiful, breakable human form beneath him as he filled that body to overflowing with hot gushes of cum.
Inuyasha was overwhelmed, he'd gone from hanyou to full demon and now human, all with Sesshoumaru buried deep inside him. When the demon lord came, right in the middle of his transformation, Inuyasha could do nothing less, moaning and writhing beneath him.
Sesshoumaru fell forward raking those deadly claws into the ground instead of the hanyou's back, his mouth open and fangs bared just centimeters from a pale, vulnerable shoulder, left exposed from the curtain of black silky hair that hung over Inuyasha's other shoulder.
The jagged points of those fangs brushed against the hanyou's human skin, leaving thin red slits as Sesshoumaru fervently, struggled not to bite down. It sent shivers through Inuyasha's trembling body to literally have Sesshoumaru's youkai breathing down his neck.
Heat ghosted over little hairs at his nape, giving Inuyasha goosebumps when the demon lord sighed in sated relief. Gradually collecting himself, Sesshoumaru willed his youkai back down and slowly withdrew from the pup's abused bottom.
Inuyasha groaned and whimpered, feeling messy as cum dripped between his thighs and broken as he could feel so much more of the pain in his human form.
“Ohhhhh, I think you pulverized my insides.”
“Be thankful it was not your outsides that were pulverized.”
Inuyasha tried to stand but immediately collapsed back to the ground with another groan of pain.
“In the future we will have to keep better track of these nights. That was the second time you very nearly lost your life to careless desire.”
“Ya.” Inuyasha murmured just before everything went black and he flopped limply forward onto his face.
Sesshoumaru could see that all the claw and bite marks he had given his mate were nearly healed already and wouldn’t threaten the hanyou’s health while in his human form. The pup was becoming more and more immune to his poison at an impressive rate. Also being full demon for the majority of their activities had given his regenerative abilities a boost. However the bright crimson kanji he had carved into the pup’s back had been made with Bakusaiga, his blade that prevented flesh from regenerating, those would not heal for quite some time. Sesshoumaru had not anticipated his mate suddenly turning human, he wondered what the pup would do if permanent scars formed and he was stuck with the word pet written down his back for the rest of his life.

                                                                    ~ xXx ~
Chrono and the others, rode the landstrider far from where they had left their two inu companions. For a long time they could still hear the ear splitting sound of the two demonic blades clashing, then they had either gone out of range or the fighting had stopped. In any case they had traveled far, far away from the protection of their inu allies and as night descended so did the undead.
There was little warning without the demon lord's and hanyou's keen inu senses to alert them. By the time the group realized there was danger, the landstrider was already running head-long into an enormous hoard of undead that was spilling from the ground ahead of them. The beast was quickly engulfed by the ravenous swarm, it reared and bucked, trampling underfoot the smaller creatures but there were too many. The undead began ripping into the landstrider's legs and climbing onto it's back.
Kirara took Sango, Miroku and Jaken into the sky and Lilly used her staff to carry herself and Chrono up with them. Sango threw hiraikotsu, cutting down the few undead that had also taken to the air after them.
“Where is Felix!?” Lilly shouted to be heard over the noise of the monsters. “He was right there beside us!”
Felix had been thrown from the landstrider when it bucked and was now running for his life on the ground. Kirara spotted him and raced to catch up with the little neko, so did the undead. The group tried yelling to him but his heart was thundering in his ears and panic pumped adrenalin through his veins 'til Felix was a blur of speed fading into the night.
The frightened neko couldn't help looking back over his shoulder to see if the red eyes from his nightmares were behind him. They weren't, but his small group of friends was nowhere to be seen either and the undead were still chasing him. He could hear them tearing through the forest after him. When Felix looked back in the direction he was running, he screeched to a halt, feet going out from under him, the little neko landed on his butt in the dirt, staring up in horror at the cloaked sorceress in front of him.
“My, my …” Her voice slithered along his skin, damp and clammy as the fingers that closed around his throat. “All alone? … No little doggy friends to save you?”
Felix thrashed and clawed at the hand choking him but could do nothing to free himself.
“You and your friends have been a thorn in my side for long enough. I won't have you interfering with my plans any more.”

Kirara, her passengers, Lilly and Chrono were still in pursuit of Felix but couldn't see where he had gone.
“I'll get him.” Chrono said before he leaped off of Lilly's staff and stopped time to catch up with the velocious neko.
Chrono weaved through the creatures that were frozen in mid motion and ran ahead to where Felix was. When he found the little neko in the hands of the Litch queen, Chrono was furious. The cloaked figure had Felix dangling off the ground by his neck, claws poised to strike. If Chrono had been even one second later, Felix would probably be dead or worse, undead.
Chrono put himself between Felix and the sorceress. His powers allowed him to move freely while time was stopped, but his body took an ethereal form, that prevented him from interacting with anything while time was stopped. It was infuriating, but he couldn't do anything. Even trying to touch something was useless while using his powers, his hand would pass through it as if he were no more palpable than a wrathe. He wanted nothing more than to end the woman where she stood and knew he couldn’t. So with an angry glare at her still cloaked face Chrono broke his hold on the time flow and prepared to attack.
To Felix and the litch queen, Chrono seemed to just appear out of nowhere with his blades drawn.
“Time shifter!” The cloaked figure hissed, reeling back away from Chrono as the blades of his weapons narrowly missed her throat.
Chrono grabbed Felix and blipped his way through time, back to the group, who were huddled in the air above a swarm of undead that were leaping and piling on top of one another to try and reach them.
“It’s a trap, the litch queen is right behind us!” Chrono shouted to the others. “We need to move!” He leaped back into the place he had dismounted from, setting Felix between himself and Lilly on the healer’s staff and they took off, racing to get away.
“She must have been following, she was trying to kill Felix.”
“Are you ok?” Lilly asked with concern.
Felix didn't look ok. Red eyes were brimming with tears and he shook his head in frustration. “She was right there in front of me and I couldn't do anything to stop her. That horrible woman that killed my sister was right in front of me and I did nothing! You should have let her kill me, I'm useless!”
Lilly turned around and cuffed Felix upside the head.
“Don't you ever say something like that again.” The healer scolded.
Felix was wide eyed with shock at being slapped but fell silent, giving Lilly his attention.
“You think that just because you couldn't stop her we should have left you to die? What about Chrono? He couldn't stop her either, should we leave him to die?”
“N-no, of course not,” Felix sobbed. “I … I didn't mean- … I'm sorry.”
“It's all right, I know that's not what you meant. Just count yourself lucky that Lord Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha weren't here to hear you say that. The little slap I gave you is nothing compared to what they would do ... Whether you realize it or not, you mean something to them. How do you think they would feel if you let yourself get killed?”
Felix hung his head, realizing with shame how foolish and selfish he was being. But before he could reply the clearing suddenly erupted with malicious laughter.
“Oh, isn't this touching.” The litch queen emerged from the edge of the forest, hovering above an even larger army of undead. She swung her arms out and the creatures rushed forward, adding to the pile of animated corpses already in pursuit of the small group of friends, straining to reach them.
“Did you really think I would let you leave here … alive?”
As she spoke, she began casting her magic and an ear splitting roar suddenly shook the ground as it ripped through the clearing. Behind the litch queen, the forest filled with a thick black smoke and fire began licking up the trees. Through the smoldering black clouds, the group could make out the silhouette of a dragon pulling itself from deep within the ground. Roots ripped and snapped like twigs, as it’s enormous body pushed up the earth. Trees and boulders fell like small sticks and rocks as the beast climbed out to stand free of it’s grave, shaking mounds of unearthed soil from its back. Decaying flesh and scales knit themselves back together as magic flowed through the dragon. When the spell came to its completion the enormous beast reared up and roared, blasting the forest around it with a tremendous breath of scorching flames.
The dragon then turned and started after the seven imperiled friends.
Sango gave Kirara’s fur a gentle tug. “Kirara let’s go!”
The fire neko didn’t hesitate, her muscles coiled and stretched like pistons as she bolted through the sky, racing faster and faster. Lilly followed using her staff and magic to keep up.
Chrono glanced over his shoulder as they flew, the dragon was nearly to the edge of the forest, he could see that it towered over the treetops and flames proceeded it's every step like a blazing inferno.
“Uh, we need to move faster!”
Miroku did his best to shield everyone with a holy barrier but they could still feel a blast of heat wash over them with each new wave of flames from the dragon. “If anyone has any ideas on how we're getting out of this one, I'd love to hear them.” Miroku said, straining to keep his barrier up.
Chrono looked to Lilly. “Do you remember that spell Lord Sesshoumaru told you never to use unless it was an emergency?”
Lilly thought about it and remembered a teleportation spell she had used once that had gone wrong. She had transported herself, Chrono and Lord Sesshoumaru half way across the country. Their demon lord had not been very happy with her that day. He forbid her from ever using that spell in his presence, and warned that if she used it in his absence, it had better be for a damned good reason.
With a nod she replied, “I do.”
“I think now would be a good time to use it!” Chrono urged in a slight panic as a wall of flames came crashing towards them.
The seven companions flew as fast as Kirara and Lilly's over-encumbered staff could carry them, just barely avoiding incineration. They didn't stop to look back as Lilly began casting her spell, they continued racing to get away from the walking volcano that was now charging after them.
“You will not escape.” The litch queen used her own magic to get in front of the group to cut off their retreat but just as she got there, Lilly's spell was complete. With a whoosh of wind and burst of magic, the company of seven vanished, leaving a furious litch queen in their wake.
“Noooo!” The sorceress shrieked.
Something unexpected had happened when Lilly cast her spell, the gust of wind that had swept them into the magic, had also blown hard enough to sweep the hood of the cloak right off of the litch queens head. In the fractions of a second that she was exposed before Lilly and the others vanished, Lilly was able to clearly see the womans face, and the litch queen could see the look of shocked recognition that fell over the healer. Then they were gone and the litch queen was left alone to rage over what had transpired.
                                                                    ~ xXx ~
When Sesshoumaru had collected his and Inuyasha’s belongings, Inuyasha was still human and still unconscious. Without bandages there was little he could do for the pup’s back, so he dressed his mate and took him into his arms, then started in the direction Chrono and the rest of their pack had gone.
When Sesshoumaru arrived at the place where the seven had last been, he was not happy to discover that their scent trail simply vanished and the only thing left in the chard clearing was the smoldering, half eaten, now undead, remains of the landstrider. The creature struggled pathetically to drag itself, with only two working legs, towards the demon lord.
Sesshoumaru took in the scene but there was nothing to indicate where his pack had gone. So with a barely audible, frustrated growl he cleaved the landstrider's head in a single stroke then transformed and took to the sky with Inuyasha, still out cold but laying safely on his back.
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