InuYasha Fan Fiction / Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Fan Fiction ❯ Kali's Revenge ❯ Down With Her Soul ( Chapter 2 )

Kali hummed softly to herself as she crushed and ground tea leaves together. A light smile graced her lips as she did so.

 

It was calming, crushing the tea leaves. The motion soothed her, cleared her mind. She could focus on what she needed to do. Granted, it wasn't going to be pretty. Each of the men being held captive by her was going to die by her hand. Who, though, was what she was having a hard time deciding. The tea leaves were going to help her.

 

'A little red wine, some honey, and a bit of magic dust . . . soon . . . soon all will be in readiness.'

 

She couldn't help but laugh as she continued to grind away at the tea leaves, the rest of the ingredients going into the bowl.

 

It was a slow death. Each male that she killed would kill a part of her. She'd already lost her love. All that remained was the rest.

 

`Such a shame, really. They're so delicious looking. However, it has to be done. He needs to pay for what he's done. This is the way to do it.'

 

Kali laughed once more, the sound loud . . . and merry.

 

* * *

 

“I don't like the sound of that,” Goku murmured. “I don't like the sound of that at all.”

 

Though he didn't say anything, Sanzo couldn't help but agree with the monkey youkai. The sound of that laugh had him on edge. It sent a strange, chilled feeling to the pit of his stomach and it scared him.

 

'How do we get out of this, though?' he wondered. 'We can't get Hakkai's and Goku's inhibitors off of them. She's somehow got youki under control.'

 

Sanzo knew that to be a fact. There were eight of them. Only he and one other man there were human. Out of his group, Goku and Hakkai were full demon, Goyjo half. From the other group, there were two other youkai and another hanyou as well as the human. There were no inhibitors on the other two youkai. He had felt their power the moment he'd come to. They were just as stuck as they were.

 

“What do you think she's going to do?” Goyjo inquired softly, in almost a dreamlike state.

 

“Whatever it is, it can't be good,” stated the other human, a rather odd Buddhist monk by the name of Miroku. They'd not been idle when their captor had been gone.

 

“Yeah . . . she is rather hot, though.”

 

“Yes, she is,” Miroku agreed with a happy sigh.

 

“Perverts,” came the soft growl.

 

To that, neither Goyjo or Miroku had anything to say. The room fell silent, each man left to his own thoughts.

 

'We have got to get out of here,' Sanzo told himself, his gaze focused on the ceiling. 'There has to be a way. There just has to.'

 

Out of everyone there, Sanzo had half-expected the strange hanyou and the two strange youkai to have broken free by now. They possessed strength.

 

'So why aren't they able to break free? What has she done to them to render them so helpless?'

 

The more he thought about their plight, the more he started to realize that their captor, Kali, was not an ordinary woman. She radiated a great amount of power. It had outmatched all of them and there were more of them.

 

'Maybe we should find a way to combing our strength,' he mused.

 

His thoughts, however, were cut short. Kali, the strange woman with the goddess-like powers, entered the room. He knew by the heavy scent of flowers that permeated the air every time she came into the room.

 

“Hello once again, my sweet ones,” she purred, moving to the center of the circle. Sanzo knew this by the sound of her feet hitting the stone floor. “I have returned. Everything has now been decided.”

 

“And what's that supposed to mean?” Sanzo found himself growling. He didn't like her. Hadn't from the moment she'd taken them captive and introduced herself to them.

 

“It means what it means. It is time for you to die.”

 

“You will find that we are not so easy to kill,” one of the other youkai intoned coldly. Sesshomaru, Sanzo believed. The guy, like Kali, gave the priest the creeps.

 

“Oh, I'm sure I won't have too much of a problem,” she replied cheerfully, walking over to each one of them and writing something on their foreheads with some strange concoction. Growls and curses came from nearly all of them as she wrote upon their foreheads, the concoction cold and searing at the same time. “After all, I know everything there is to know about you. Your strengths, your weaknesses . . . your hopes and your fears . . . everything. I know this because you are everything to him. And if you are everything to him then you must die. There is no escaping your fate.”

 

Once she had finished, she chanted something strange. A death cry sounded throughout the chamber . . .

 

* * *

 

He paused in what he was doing, his eyes wide. One of his favourite creations had just died. He'd felt and it shook him to his very core. A thousand questions went through his mind, flooding over everything he'd been thinking about, but only one name came to mind as to who could have killed this powerful wolf youkai.

 

Kali.

 

'She'll pay for this.'