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SURVIVE	By : ajj77sunhawk Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 26393 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Hiii all. Not too long a gap this time, but damn hard to write battle scenes. Many many thanks to those who still are supporting in spite of my tardiness. Love your reviews sooo much, hugs!!!

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Chapter : Strike and Counterstrike

Energy spat and crackled, explosions and smoke made the air itself oppressive. Power surged as the DaiYoukai cloaked in pure energy, a figure of terrifying power and beauty moved through the battle field. Explosions rocked around him, the natural energy expanded by Sesshoumaru’s Youki was a force field around him, none of the attacks from weaker beings even disturbed a hair on his immaculate head. His eyes scanned the battlefield, his energy whip obliterating all in his way.

Lord Sesshoumaru was a terrifying force, those that fell to his power stayed dead.

The plan was to weaken to Shikon, the plan was to take down the forces of the Shikon, drain its energy and then take the battle to the enemy when it was weakened. That was the plan, and sometimes even the plans of the Demon Lords went in the way of mice and men.

He saw nothing, he sensed nothing, but his personal sense of preservation suddenly had the Demon Lord spinning around, just in time to raise his hands in defense as a missile of power, smashed into him. Power exploded and the Demon army was stunned into stillness as the Demon Lord was blown off his feet.

:O >x< ;P :C

Priestess Kagome leaned heavily against Inuyasha as they moved slowly towards the door. Inuyasha’s senses were tingling, he had been away from the battle for too long, they needed to get out fast. It would have been faster for Inuyasha to carry the woman, but as generous as his heart was, the very thought of actually picking her up, was literally beyond his strength. So to the great door they limped.

Inuyasha suddenly tensed, he was about to push the priestess behind him, when he recognized the Youkai of the other. It was not the one that he had been sub-consciously waiting for, a tiny frown crossed his brow, his muscles tensed further, something was not right.

“Bakusen-O!” Inuyasha said in way of acknowledgement as the Demon Tree Demon, emerged at the shattered door.

“Inuyasha, you have found the girl. Your business is done.” It was a statement, not a question. Inuyasha blinked silently. “Come we have to leave now, Lord Sesshoumaru has order your withdrawal from the battlefield.” The words and commanding tone had an immediate effect. Inuyasha nodded sharply, he instinctually agreed to comply with his Alpha’s orders.

Unquestioning Inuyasha began to move In the direction indicated by Bakusen-O, he almost tripped when the almost hereto limp and passive priestess suddenly raised her head. Her eyes were wide and filled with a strange kind of panic. “Mongrel, its happening Lady Kikyo, her power, it happening.” The Priestess voice was high, edging on hysterical.

Inuyasha paused, his brows drawing down in confusion.

“Inuyasha we have to go, now!” Bakusen-O ordered, a alien sense of urgency and concern seemed to radiate from the old general.

“What is happening?” Inuyasha asked, he wanted to follow orders, but his legs suddenly refused to move.
“Apprentice, this is an order, we are to retreat now!” Bakusen-O snapped the order, his tone sharp.

Inuyasha snapped to attention, he hoisted Lady Kagome up to obey.

“No,” The Priestess said, it was her voice her tone that stopped the two, not the words. No longer hysterical, no longer emotional and high, the one word uttered by the Priestess was out different, out worldly even. Kagome seemed to gather her strength and she straightened away from Inuyasha. “No, Mongral, if you retreat nothing can stop her.”

“Lady, you know nothing of Demons, our leaders on the battlefield are for more powerful the Inuyasha, and they have ordered his retreat.” As firm as his words were, Bakusen-O made no move to force them on their way.

“Than those that are fighting now will die.” Kagome snapped back, in spite of the situation, the priestess did not like being questioned. The actually challenge to her authority seemed to fortify her strength and she stood taller. “Please.” The word was alien on the Priestess lips, it was rarely uttered, but still it was power in its sincerity. “Please, I know.. I know.. Lady Kikyo, what she has become… they are not the High Kings, no matter how powerful they are they are going to die.”

Bakusen-O lowed his eyes for a second, he ground his back teeth, silent.

‘What does she mean? The plan..” Inuyasha whispered his voice soft.

Bakusen-O sighed, he squared his shoulders and faced the Hanyou with the truth they had been ordered to suppress. “The plan, Inuyasha was always flawed. It was always reliant on the Shikon not taking a aggressive stance, on draining its powers before we faced it. The Shikon is far from drained, it has engaged us directly. We will do our best, and the High Kings will be here soon to finish it off. It is all we can do. Your Lord has ordered you to be safe, you will be an unneeded distraction to your Alpha on the battlefield. Unless you see yourself as more powerful than Lord Sesshoumaru, you will heed his wishes. Unless you have no respect for his orders, you will live.” Bakuseon-O finished sharply, it was a prepared speech, planned to force the Inu-Hanyou to action.

Inuyasha’s eyes went wide. Bakusen-O’s words hit him like bullets. He was in no way even close to Sesshoumaru’s power, but to live without his Alpha was unbearable, he honestly could not imagine it, but to disobey to save his own heart, was unthinkable. Inuyasha’s whole world seemed to drain of color, he stood frozen.

Bakusen-O saw the utter blankness in the young one’s eyes, grief and relief mixed together. Inuyasha would obey, and the old tree doubted that the Inu-Hanyou would ever forgive himself for that obedience.

The tree took a step and mechanically Inuyasha mimicked it.

“No! Mongrel you cannot retreat!” Kagome insisted clutching at the Hanyou’s sleeve.

“Alpha has ordered my safety.” He replied woodenly.

“Listen to me! Lady Kikyo, she wants to break me now or to kill me. Why? All of a sudden why?”
Inuyasha blinked and looked at Kagome, her words seemed far away distant, but..

“I know, two days ago I saw it I know! I thought I was so damn clever, I thought I hid it well, had something on her, but I was a fool she must have..” Kagome paced rambling a little incoherently.

“Enough!” Bakuseon-O snapped, the Hanyou was simply not paying attention to the girls behavior, but the tree had enough. “Girl, you will speak or I will shut your mouth permanently.”

“Ummm.. Lady Kikyo, she is afraid of one thing, she is afraid of Mongrel.”

“Me? Impossible.” Inuyahsa replied flatly.

“No, it’s true two days ago, it was late, I passed by her room. She was standing infront of a crystal in almost a trance, there was a strange light and she jerked violently, coming out of the trance. She was angry, she stated yelling a name, Inu-something and then said “She should have killed the Hanyou, drowned him as a pup.” So I knew she meant you. She was so angry, but her eyes, Mongrel I swear on the light she was afraid, and I know she is afraid of you.” Kagome nodded her eyes sincere, if Lady Kikyo was afraid of her pet, it was only logical that Mongrel could perhaps weaken her. Kagome knew that if Lady Kikyo won this battle, her death was assured, she could not afford the Hanyou retreating.

“That is vague My Lady, we have to go.” Inuyasha’s words were stilted hard, the Lady’s statements were too vague, but he wanted to believe her so badly. He could not use a false pretense to betray his Alpha just because his heart wanted him to.

“Inuyasha, when I think of it, the Shikon entered the battle a second after your Youki was obscured by this temple. She may be telling the truth or it may be a trap.” Bakusen-O gazed at the Hanyou, the blank eyes were slowly coming back to life. Inuyahsa started at him, still unmoving. The young one was too well trained, keeping his word to protect the girl had been one thing, blatantly disobey because that was what Inuyasha wanted to do was totally different. The Hanyou literary could not disobey his Alpha twice in a day.

Bakusen-O inhaled deeply, “As your General on the field, as is my authority, Inuyasha I order you to go to battle, face the Shikon. I know not what you can do but go! I will get this baggage to safety and join you. Go!”

Even before the last word was said Inuyasha’s countenance shifted, a determined looked snapped in place, and he was off like a shot. Heading to the heart of the battle.

Kagome suddenly alone with a demon, felt stripped of the safety the Hanyou’s presence had offered her. The fear and panic started to creep back, “Should I have stayed silent? Have I sent Mongrel to his doom?” She whispered in a dry and break voice, all the earlier determination vanishing as if it had never been there.

Bakusen-O raised a brow, and the bi-polar switch in the child’s personality. “Inuyahsa obeyed me, not you. But if you do not want to meet death in a much more personal sense, refer to out Inuyasha as Mongrel in front of other Demons of the court, in fact if you utter that word one more time in my presence, and you will regret it.” Bakusen-O’s smile was demonic, his grandfatherly face hard and threatening.
“B..b.. but You promised Mo- umm ahh I-I..Inuyasswha you would take me to safety.”

“Oh I promised not to kill you, I don’t not promise I would not rip out your sorry tongue, dip it in Sake and have it as a snack, while you watched.” Bakusen-O said in a rather pleasant voice. Gratified by the girls suddenly pasty and sick look, he wrapped a hand around her waist, hoisted her on his shoulder like a sack of old potatoes and sped towards the Demon Lands. He would do this task and return as soon as he possibility could. The aged tree-demon sent a silent prayer to the ancients that he would not return to be tasked with taking the bodies of his loved ones homes.

:C :O :X :P

Sweat rolled down Kouga’s brow, the barrier he set up to protect Sesshoumaru and Kaede buckled under the strain of the Shikon’s attack. The Seraphim had never in his long life experienced such a battering. His boast was that none, not even the greatest attack of the Demon armies had been able to break his barrier.

That was a boast Lord Kouga would never be able to repeat again.

The barrier buckled and shattered. Kouga’s wings instantly folded around him, protectively. The force hit him first, he was blown into a shattered wall. His wings half shredded from taking the blast. He coughed blood, pain radiated everywhere. A grim smile spread across his pained face, if he felt pain he was alive. If he was alive, he could fight.

With the barrier shattered the blast of power aimed straight at Sesshoumaru and Lady Kaede, they both calmly faced the Shikon. Sesshoumaru’s lifted his great sword and met the bulk of the attack. His great sword collecting the energy of the Shikon into it. His eyes bled red under the strain and the power was too much. He could not absorb the pure power of the Shikon.

His legs were about to buckle, just before he was overwhelmed Lady Kaede touched her staff to Sesshoumaru’s shoulder. Her Miko cleansing power tightly controlled wrapped around Sesshoumaru’s arms and merged with the sword. Sesshoumaru’s power doubled, power surged around the DaiYoukai. He was focusing, channeling, one more ingredient was needed.

Kouga gathered his strength and flashed next to Sesshoumaru, his tattered wings trembled in pain. Ignoring everything but the task that had to be done, he gathered his power and sent pure Seraphic energy into Sesshoumaru. The Great Dog Lord roared his body half transforming as he took on his baser form to manage the pure force. With his half transformed hands, with a burst of movement he sent the power of the Shiko right back at the source.

The blast tore through the very earth scaring it for many, many ages to come.

The Shikon, clothed in Lady Kikyo’s body scowled and braced itself at the blast. The force hit the shikon, it was a direct hit. The power engulfed the Shikon, and it blasted back. The impact of the power hitting the Shikon, was too much, the very air seemed to catch fire, and the area exploded. The combined army were knocked off their feet by the blast’s shockwave.

The dust slowly settled. The combined army slowly got to the feet, the body of the Shikon was still, and the army held their breathe.
More the half of the Shikon’s army as it their strings had been severed army, fell to the ground. Then the bodies began to twitch, black miasma seeped out of each of the body.

“No! Torch the bodies NOW!” General Bankutsu yelled as he unleashed a pillar of flame at the rising bodies around him. But it was too late, the Black Misama flashed back to its source. The miasma swirled, and a dry mocking laugh reverberated in the air.

Lady Kikyo rose from the hard earth, her smile was the picture of evil. “Fools, is that all you have got? You are not the overkings, such empty arrogance. None of you are strong, you have to leech off each other’s strengths like the weak worms that you are. Pathetic. One race should be superior, one of you should rise and rule, instead you feed on your own weakness. Under the guise of ‘unity’ you weaken yourselves. You imagine such crawling worms like you will be able to destroy me? You think you have a hope to win?” Her laugh was arrogant and triumphant. “You are no way strong enough, I will destroy you and destroy all that you in your ignorance harbor.”

Power surged in the Shikon, the electricity built up, and the Shikon seemed to absorb power from the air and the earth itself. All the damage done by the combined attack healed. The Shikon stood whole and strong before them. “Think you have enough power to do that again? Let us try shall we?”

Sesshoumaru, Kouga and Lady Kaede all growled, their power surging, but sadly in reality they were limping. That had been their best strike, with their current levels of power, they could not possibly match the earlier stand. Their plan it seemed had failed, the three knew the consequence of the failure, they would fight and they would die. Their main hope was the High Kings would be able to turn up and use their sacrifice to destroy the Shikon. They hoped it was enough to not require the sacrifice of half the peoples of the land to destroy the Shikon this time.

Bankotsu and the other members tried to enter the battle, but the force barrier that had been put up by the Shikon was still standing. The force barrier allowed the shrapnel and force to attack those around but did not allow those outside to interfere with the battle unless they were powerful enough to overcome the barrier. And none of them were. Not even combined, were their power enough to get them inside the barrier. In their frustration they turned their wrath on the those of the Shikon army outside the barrier. The Shikon hardly spared them a glance as they combined army began to incinerate the rest of its followers.

It cared not.

There was always more bodies where those came from.

Energy crackled around it, it raised one hand to strike. “Well this is fun. The young Seraphim, yes it is my guess that it its the young Seraphim, tut.. tut.. already so tattered and bleeding. Fear not, I will be merciful, I will swiftly free you from your pain, and I truly hope in death you will see what you were blind to in life. You could have been powerful, but you choose weakness. You could have led your people to strength but YOU.. you conspired with that dog to end that beautiful war. Fools. Die now!”

The Shikon sent a blast directly at the three, as powerful as its earlier strike it hurtled towards them... and exploded.

It was rare that Sesshoumaru was surprised, in the near present it was only his Hanyou that surprise him. Today the explosion two inches from his nose, that somehow did not stir a single hair on his majestic head definitely surprised him. Feeling rather like Yasha in that moment he blinked, then shook it off as he glanced upwards.

Shri Kaguya made for a rather spectacular sight. Her four wings flapping against the sunlight. Lady Kaede, who was more used to dealing with the antics of the Seraphic Princes, felt her breath catch, for perhaps the first time she understood why some of her fellow humans insisted on seeing the Seraphim as decedents of the Angels of Light.

“It seems my timing is just right, heh! One more point for me, Suijin is so paying for my wine.” The Shri said with a rather smug grin dispersing thoroughly the “Angelic” aura. She glanced at Kouga and nodded solemnly, “Forgive me my Prince, you are so powerful, Suijin and I, both overlooked the fact that you are yet to earn the title of Shri. Will you forgive me if I assist you in this fight?”

Kouga shook his head in wonder, the Shri had flown through the barrier as if it was not there and defended them from the blow. This was not the time to give in to petty ego, and like the excellent leader the winged one was he gave a brilliant smile, “Forgive you? I think I'll buy you that drink instead.” The Shri landed gracefully just beside Kouga. She had to be careful, only three beings one from each race could unify their energies. No matter what they had tried, only three beings – one from each race could unify smoothly.

Prince Kouga resonated much more easily with Lord Sesshoumaru, she was too old and too set in her ways to merge with the DaiYoukai. Before they merged she would have to channel her energy into Kouga, and she would have to sever her contact with Kouga just at the moment he merged with the other two. The moment of severing would leave her wide open to attack. They would have to ignore her and focus on attacking the Shikon. It was not an efficient way to fight, it was another stall tactic, a tactic to drain the Shikon. At this point it was all they had.

The Shikon did not bother with words, it sneered. Fools. They were not worth its time. Fools, to come all this way to die. Fools! Power surged as it prepared to strike.

-TBC---

Opps cliff hanger... hehehe guesses to what happens next??? See you soon, and please do review, starving author here. :D
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