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Sorry guys somewhat faster. Kindda hesitated when I saw where my muse was going. Thanks for the reviews, and do tell me at the end – have I managed to carve a new realm of pure evil with this?
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Chapter 34 : Battle

“Grandsire!” The word reverberated through the battlefield, all movement stopped as every eye stared, switching their gaze from the Hanyou to the feminine form of the Shikon, unable to comprehend the words.

“You are my Grandnephew!” Kouga said with a strong sense of possessiveness in his words.

“Yes” Inuyasha said quietly, his eyes focused on his enemy. The Hanyou had nothing to add.

“Inu. ” Sesshoumaru’s voice carried the order. Of all the aspects Sesshoumaru knew that the human aspect would be the most likely aspect to articulate comprehensively what was occurring.

“My Lord, our grandfather Miroku mated with the rebellious daughter of the Seraphim's Dark One. My Shiro-Inu Grandmother Lady Miyaka that ran away to marry the Seraphim Prince Tamahome, was the Grandniece of Demonic Dark one. Finally, my mother Mother Tohru and her whole village were there direct descendents of the Human Dark one. All..all of their dark blood runs in my v-v-veins.” The last sentence was said slowly, the weight of the realization settling on the Hanyou. He was the result of the darkest blood to ever contaminate their world. Tainted.

All the aspects never dropped their battle-readiness, but all the aspects shrank into themselves. Pup especially disliking the idea of dark ugly blood inside him, whimpered and pressed close to Inuyasha. Their own words had hurt them, deeply. Minutely, they all leaned towards the Hanyou, relying on strength of their dominant aspect to pull them through.

“Like a lotus in muddy water, each of your Grandparents rose above the prejudice and hate of their environment and reached for love. Inuyasha, born in darkness, each of your closer ancestors fought for the light. Do not shrink back young one, stand tall. To this one, your history makes you all the more special.” Kaede’s voice rang out, cutting through the darkness of that seemed to want to attach itself to the young Hanyou.

“I would not claim to be related to such an abomination.” The Shikon snapped out, “Lotus, yes a weak pathetic flower. That is exactly what the abomination is, the combination of all the weakness that I have strived to dispel from this world. It needs to be destroyed, its blood burned and its ashes buried in salt, so that such an abomination may never walk this earth again.” Venom dripped from each word as the Shikon’s eyes blazed with hatred. The hatred aimed at the Hanyou was far higher than the hatred that had previously burned it the diamond hard eyes.

The Hanyou was a being that in the Shikon’s view not only should not exist, it was anti-thesis to all the Shikon stood for. The abomination was a living, breathing example of everything the Shikon sought to destroy, the harmonious unity of all three races.

The Shikon’s awareness had awakened in the cold waters of the ocean on the birth of the abomination. As the babe had been born in the seas, the Shikon had been able to track the exact location of the babe. Its dying parents had floated the baby on a piece of drift wood; they had combined their last energy to send the child to Demon Inu city where it would have been safe. Well should have been safe, the fools had used their energy and died, the Shikon sneered at their weakness. It had laughed at their pathetic assumption, weak sacrificing for the weaker.

The abomination would not be safe, the Shikon attempted to have the sea swallow the babe, but it was newly awakened and too weak to directly impact nature. It would have to deal with the abomination in a different manner, and perhaps a quick, clean death was not something an abomination should have.

The newly awakened Shikon then focused on interfering with the trajectory that its parents had sent the babe on. Instead of the safe city, the Shikon had redirected the babe to a city on the edge of darkness, where its leader’s hunger for power would be easily influenced and corrupted. Where its leaders were cold and unwelcoming to other races. Once the babe had been on its way, the Shikon sent its influence to human fishermen, and drew them to it. The fishermen who ‘found’ the Jewel fought among themselves for ownership of the gem, the winner of the bloody match took the Jewel to his home. The Jewel then influenced a visitor from the City of the West to start a fight with the fisherman, and claim the jewel for himself. Once in the City the jewel influenced its new owner to present it as a gift to the Temple of light, as an act of atonement for the cold blooded murder of the fisherman and his small family. The man had been so overcome with guilt that once he had surrendered the Shikon, he ended his own life at the end of the pier. The Shikon had been pleased with the how magnificently its plan had worked, each blood sacrifice to it, had fed its power.

Once the Shikon had been presented to the temple, the Shikon had attempted to find the abomination. But for some strange reason, the mixed aura of the babe had disappeared. Hidden by the cacophony of energies that made up the slums of the city. The Shikon knew the babe was there, in the slums amongst the filth and garbage where it belonged. The Shikon secure in its own power was content to allow the babe to develop into more tasty a dish to destroy. Its focus thus turned to what it did best, sowing hate and unrest.

It was presented to Lady Kikyo, and the Shikon had begun the long and difficult task of seducing and utterly corrupting the once idealist priestess. Her weakness had been her arrogance that her view was the only right view, that her way was far better then any others. The Shikon had used that belief, feeding it, nurturing it as it slowly groomed the Priestess in to its puppet. When her apprentice had found the abomination, the Shikon would have happily killed the abomination, but the young priestess had pleased with her mistress. The Shikon's influence at the time had just not been enough to overcome Lady Kikyo's affection for her charges. But as the collar was placed on the abomination and its level reduced to a slave, the Shikon had been appeased.

It used individual reactions to the Hanyou slave as a gauge of weakness. Any that should pity were influenced, expelled or in some cases even killed by those whose heart the Shikon owned. The first time the abomination had gone on a rampage, provided the opportunity for the Shikon to claim Lady Kikyo in one quick action, but that blast fat, old priestess had intervened, making Kikyo promise to not kill the abomination for an act that was not its fault. No matter what the Shikon tried after that, it had never been able to make Kikyo break that promise to her sister Priestess Kaede outright. It had sparked the human demon war, had Lady Kikyo act as a key instigator in a war, but the Lady would not break her promise.

As long as the Hanyou had been in the City of Light, Kikyo's determination to wait for the Hanyou to do something evil on its own before killing it, had prevented the Shikon from fully claiming her soul. The Hanyou had never done anything remotely evil on its own, it irritated the Shikon greatly, but other then ensure its punishment, there was nothing else it could do. The abomination unknowingly had prevented the full claiming of Lady Kikyo for many, many years. Then the Hanyou had vanished, been taken by demons, and the human's defeat and embarrassment in the Demon hands had tipped the scale. With no promise to protect her, Lady Kikyo had succumbed to the lust for power and the Shikon had been reborn.

Finally the abomination would be wiped from the face of the earth.

Without warning the ground beneath Inuyasha's feet erupted, burning magma bursting upward. Inuyasha and Yasha both propelled themselves forward, seeking to engage the Shikon directly. Inu gracefully dodged, Pup took to the air or at least tried to, but Pup was pup and unseasoned in direct combat, as fast as he was, the exploding rocks hampered the child and he faltered. He would have fallen, but Inu had been quick to act, catching Pup and in an almost impossible leap, the human aspect took them both to relative safety.

Chaos ensure as the Shikon seemed to replicate itself and attack from many different directions. Forced to break out of formation, Sesshoumaru and Kouga flashed in, destroying the shadows of the Shikon. Lady Kagura and Kaede kept to the periphery sending ranged attacks at the enemy.

The Shikon's barrier around the attack area, was dispersed as the Shikon not only attacked the main warriors it sought to destroy their followers as well. Bankotsu sounded the retreat for the lower levels of the army, how had no chance against the Shikon's aspects. Sub-Lieutenants and corporals led the withdrawal of the more vulnerable forces out of the area. The Majors and Lieutenants worked in pairs to take on the aspects of the Shikon, while the rest attacked individually. It was a commendation of the discipline of the combined forces that none broke rank, all followed orders, understanding that 'help' at the wrong place and the wrong time could be a hindrance.

Inu carefully dropped Pup off at what seemed to be a more protected area, behind their own forces lines. Pup nodded in understanding and ducked behind a small boulder. He was not to engage the Shikon directly. He masked hims presence and began to emit a muted glow as he sent his energy and support to his other aspects. In truth Pup did not like being in the battle, he just wanted to go back to the Sanctuary, but his Inuyasha needed him, so Pup tried to bear with the dirty, dark energy that seemed to want to eat him away and just focused on staying out of the way and supporting the warring aspects. Non-could sense Pup, but unfortunately as he had to send his energy, a careful visual search of the edges of the battlefield would have revealed a rather cute sight or the small Seraphim sneaking a peek as he sent his energy to the aspects that needed it the most at any given moment.

Yasha being hard pressed by three aspects of the Shikon, suddenly flared with power, shattering the aspects with an attack almost double in strength of his earlier ones. Inu dancing around the edges with a sword that Sesshoumaru’s eyes narrowed upon for a split second, when attacks were launched at him would suddenly double in speed, and just not be at the location of the attack. His sword glowing with spiritual power sliced through the shades of the Shikon cleansing them.

At one point when Sesshoumaru destroyed shades that had sought to attack the human from the back, allowed himself the rare moment of distraction as he wondered at his amazing Beta. “Only human” hardly, Sesshoumaru suspected that his self loathing human Beta, did not recognize the sheer Spiritual energy that it had within. As the human priests had been his enemy, it was logical that the human aspect would try to distance itself from its abilities on a conscious level. However unconsciously in times of battle, his amazing Inu naturally and instinctively used the powers. Weak hah! Sesshoumaru was going to have so much fun later. Golden eyes hardened as Bakunsaiga ripped though a dozen or more shades, death was no longer an option. Defeat and allowing the over-kings to finish was no longer an option.

His Beta was in the battlefield and Sesshoumaru would not allow his Inuyasha to fall. The DaiYoukai's will coalesced, the purity of it seemed to boost his power to a higher level, and in that instant Sesshoumaru’s power grew. In power and knowledge both, the DaiYoukai felt himself mature.

He scanned the battlefield as he attacked new shades, and realization hit him. He watched two of Inuyasha's attacks one bolstered by Pup, and the next with the addition of Pup's energy. He was now powerful enough to see the trace energies of the Shikon, and while the shades destroyed by Inuyasha and at least of of his aspects in a combined attack disappeared, all other shades were just scattered by the attacks. The energies reformed moments after they were destroyed.

Sesshoumaru could not afford to shout of the command in battle, the Shikon itself had pressed in many attacks may not have seen the danger to itself. Sesshoumaru gritting his teeth had to cease direct attacks for the moment as he flashed to Inu, and in a low whisper conveyed the new attack plan to the human. “Use your speed and shield, combine your attack with Inuyasha's. Do not leave his side. That is destroying the Shikon.” Inu his face a mask of determination, nodded sharply, from the sidelines he flashed to Inuyasha, the semi ethereal form attack itself to its dominant aspect and their attacks became one. Seeing that Pup, focused more of his energy on Yasha, Sesshoumaru noted that while without the dominant aspect as part of the attack it did not destroy the Shikon's shades, the Shikon seemed to feel it more when Yasha and Pup attacked it.

Sesshoumaru flashed to Kouga, his new battle strategy in plan. “Don't kill the shades attacking you, funnel the shades to Inuyasha's strike range. Let the Hanyou destroy most of the shades.” Kouga unquestioning changed his attack strategy, and did just that. It was much harder and challenging to move the shades in the direction he wanted rather then simply destroying them, but the Seraphim was up to the challenge. His own power flashing with his will, he put aside his rather prodigious ego and focused on winning the battle. In that he too lost some of his inner barriers and his Seraphic powers grew.

Sesshoumaru flashed to the other side of the field, between him and Kouga, using attacks and shileds, they both herded the shades towards Inuyasha. The Hanyou focused on battle, just did what he had to do, destroying all the shades in his strike range. Kaede and Kaguya both noting the change in the war-leaders attack formation, focused on protecting the Hanyou's back.

It was hardly noticeable at first, but slowly almost impeccably the Shikon began to weaken. As each shade it created was utterly destroyed by Inuyasha's attack the Shikon was being chipped away from the inside. So arrogant was the Jewel, so comfortable in its false belief that while it could be weakened and sent to a dormant state, it could not be destroyed; the Shikon at first did not even realize what was happening. The Hanyou was doing to it what it had done to so many in the past, it was chipping away at the core of the Shikon, eating into the very soul of the Jewel, cleansing rather than corrupting.

Sesshoumaru's plan worked brilliantly. The Shikon was being destroyed, they were slowly and steadily winning.

Sesshoumaru's plan worked brilliantly, too brilliantly perhaps.

As arrogant as it was, even those highly steeped in denial had a sense of self preservation. The Shikon suddenly sensed something was very, very wrong. All the shades disappeared from the battlefield and were pulled back into the reformed body of Lady Kikyo. It blazed with rage, its core strength was half of what it had been, parts of it were no longer there, not dormant – gone. For the first time it was being killed, and the Shikon was not stupid, it knew the attacks that were killing it was those from the Hanyou.

Its energy combined once again, the Shikon had a clear understanding of what was occurring. The combined army however had made one fatal mistake.

Unprepared for the sudden disappearance of the of all the shades, the warriors actually stumbled as their attacks hit nothing. For a moment they were thrown off, scattered. That moment was all the Shikon needed.

The four aspects of the Hanyou were not together, there were not unity.

In that moment, fueled by rage the attack that blasted towards the Hanyou was focused and greater in intensity than the earlier one. The changed bullet headed straight for Inuyasha's heart, time slowed for the Hanyou.

Combined with Inu he could see two of the streams of energy, he could separate and disperse two of the streams, not all. Even as the two began to counter the attack they braced for impact.

The impact never came. Inuyasha till his dying day, would wish that the impact had come, rather then the horror that they all bore witness to.

Only one being on the battlefield had not been engaged in active combat. Only one being watched and responded intently to all that was going on. Only one being had not stumbled in surprise when the shades had vanished. And only that one being had noticed the flaw in their plan the instant the Shikon had. To their eternal regret that one being had acted.

He flashed between Inuyasha and the Shikon's bullet, that was already unraveling under Inuyasha's counterattack. But the bullet still had a great deal of killing energy. In spite of the strongest barriers placed on him, the bullet was still too powerful.

It ripped through his barriers and hit him straight in the chest. He absorbed and dispersed the energy as much as he could, before the absolute pain hit him. He knew he had saved Inuyasha, but he screamed in pain as his world seemed to go black.

Feathers filled the air, instead of the bullet, a body hit Inuyasha. In a reflexive move the Hanyou caught the limp form.

For this first time ever, tears rolled down Inuyasha's cheeks.

Twin screams from Inu and Yasha filled the air. “Noooo!! Pup!”

-tbc-
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