InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Alirah ❯ A Strange Country? ( Chapter 3 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Midnightsilver 
Kagome wakes up but runs into trouble...where are the others?
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Horror / Fantasy / Drama / Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.26.2007 | Updated On: 11.17.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 147 | Status: Work In Progress
Kagome wakes up but runs into trouble...where are the others?
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Horror / Fantasy / Drama / Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.26.2007 | Updated On: 11.17.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 147 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don’t own Diablo or InuYasha. Credit also goes to the author of lord of the rings for making up such a beautiful elvish language.
Chapter 3
Cold air...
That was the first element she felt upon becoming conscious. It was strangely cold and yet it was summer,
Kagome slowly opened her eyes as she tried to remember what happened last night.
A woman hooded and cloaked, with wings and a unique voice... and a bright light...
An angel?
Kagome sat up, only that her surroundings didn’t feel Feudal Japan like. It felt more Old English...in fact it looked Old English. The view was breathtaking but strange to Kagome.
It was cloudy, only white clouds and not a trace of blue sky in sight. It was a little dark; it must have been close to dusk now. It was winter as there were no leaves on the trees and bushes. The dead leaves carpeted in between the cracks of the stone walls and the roots of the foliage. But everything else was stark.
The landscape was all hilly, very British looking. It has stony walls that you’d find in Yorkshire that mark farmlands and roads in between them, and forests that nestled in the faraway valleys and some of the hills were covered in them.
Kagome remembered the light from the woman; did she send them to Britain?
Speaking of them, InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara were nowhere to be seen. Neither was her bow... the bow she obtained from Mt Azusa in order to save Kikyo. But her powers were not enough to help her.
Kikyo was a beautiful miko, and was InuYasha’s first love. She suffered a heartbreaking death and was forcefully brought back to life in an undead body. But now she was at peace and avenged as she died in the arms of InuYasha, the last face she saw... and the first time she saw him cry.
Though Kagome saw him shed tears before when she and the others were poisoned, expect for Shippo and Kirara.
But back to the situation at hand...
Kagome saw the bow and her quiver a few metres away, and her bag was still on her back, which was way she woke up in a rather odd position.
Kagome grabbed her weapon and looked around her surroundings to suss out where she should start looking for her friends.
She walked down the hill that led to a dirt path in the middle of a field that was surrounded by a stonewall. It was getting dark and Kagome didn’t feel like camping out without InuYasha or the others.
Suddenly she heard a strange female voice in her head. It wasn’t familiar to the one last night. This one sounded more rough, evil and demonic. Kagome grasped her head with her hands whilst fighting the persuasiveness the voice had.
Mathon dín gurum (A/N: This is actually out of the elvish language from Lord of the Rings. Good thing there is a glossary. I’ll explain more about it later on. What these separate words mean ‘I can feel your darkness’ or ‘I can feel your dark side’)
Huh? What is this...? Who are you?
The voice said something that sounded like a curse or a spell.
Gú kíbum kelkum-ishi, burzum-ishi. Akha – Gúm-ishi ashi burzum- ishi...(There-is-no-life-in-the-cold. Here- in-the-void- only-Darkness)
Kagome grasped her head harder as her head began to split in pain. She let out a few small screams, but then all of a sudden, the voice disappeared, as if her mind was erected into a barrier. She gasped for air as she regained her awareness.
What was that? It was in a language I never heard before. Is it old English? No... It sounds demonic.
While Kagome ponders this, she was brought out of her thoughts as she heard a moan. Odd, a moan?
It sounds like if it’s in pain...
She felt a presence behind her and realised the moan came from there. She twirled around but the sight she saw made her stomach turn and her blood flow in her veins like ice splinters.
Right behind her stood a man who had his right arm severed off, his blood coating his shoulder and his upper body. His face was no different either, but it looked like his left eye was about to pop out and his mouth was the worst sort of treatment Kagome ever seen.
Kagome wondered how he could still be standing; that much of injury would have been fatal to a human.
But not InuYasha though...
Kagome stepped forward slightly as the man continued to moan in pain.
“Umm...hi” she greeted nervously.
The man shifted his attention to her which made Kagome flinch. But none the less she pushed on to try to help him.
“Umm...what’s your name? Let me help” she said with more bravery then before. It hadn’t occurred to her that was speaking Japanese and he looked English. Kagome tried to speak a few words of English she learned at school, but aside from maths, English was her second hardest subject.
All of a sudden, the man raised his arm towards her, as if reaching out for her. He stumbled towards her in a limping walk. It was then that Kagome sensed no life aura around him.
She gasped in realisation.
This man was already dead.
“Z-Z- Zombie!!” She screamed and made a distance between the undead and herself and aimed her bow towards the zombie. It was a good thing the Zombie was slow at walking, unlike the ones on the film Dawn of the dead when the undead literally run after you. She was shocked to see a real zombie even though she sort of handled with undead before hand.
Kagome raised her arrow and readied her arrow. She concentrated her spiritual powers and released her arrow in a blinding pink light.
The arrow struck the man in the shoulder, but it didn’t halt the Zombie at all. The skin and bone humanoid continued to walk slowly towards its prey.
Kagome fired another arrow that struck the zombie in the neck, but still to no avail to end its slow walk of decay.
Urgh....how do I kill something that is already dead?
Before she knew what happened next, a strong female voice came from the trees.
“Vainz! Atiskwá mene gari!” (A/N: Irish and Celtic. This means ‘Vines! Answer my call!’ You’ll see why vines in a min ^^).
All of a sudden, vines erupted from the ground beneath the feet of the zombie and wrapped around its undead body. The voice came again.
“Dibagsage him!” (Destroy him)
The vines edges pointed towards the back of the zombies head and in a blink of an eye, they struck through the brain, some tiny pieces of it as well as blood coming from the holes prised by the vines on his forehead.
Kagome had to momentarily look away before finding the courage to open her eyes again after hearing a thud. The zombie was dead, or killed again in a way, the blood surrounding its head and coating the grass around it. The vines seemed to have returned to the earth.
“Always aim for the head when coming across an undead”. The voice from before came but it sounded closer, and yet it spoke Japanese.
Kagome turned around to find a very beautiful woman standing behind her. The woman wasn’t Japanese. She looked English and Kagome could tell she has a Celtic heritage.
Some of the woman’s waist length auburn hair was tied up in braids that were held in ivy made hair bands, thus it explains the few plants that hang in her head. Her blue eyes seemed to have a hint of a silver glow of moonlight. Her face was small and cute looking.
She was cloven in armour that was made out of leather, plants and feathers. Her shoulder pads were made of dusky blue feathers as they stuck out of the leather pad. Some of the feathers adorned her chest armour. Her chest armour barely covered any skin, the leather covered her breasts and up to her collarbone and under her shoulders. The ivy hung from the leather just under her armpits.
There were pockets in her chest armour as well. The strings from them were sworn with small feathers. Ivy hung from her belt as well that went just below her hips. Her leg armour only covered her ‘area’ as well as her upper leg but the rest was all revealing. Though only one leg was more revealing than the other. There was a long skirt like cloth that was tied on one side of her belt and it fell over her left side, just covering her right leg and the rest falling behind her. (Like Yuna’s clothing I think on Final Fantasy 10-2) Some of the dead leaves found their home on the bage coloured cloth.
Behind her were two wolves. One was a small white one that grew to her knees or above her hip. The other was a grey and white wolf that was just as big as Kirara’s demonic cat form. Kagome assumed the woman rode on the big wolf. Above their heads were two black ravens that also belonged to the woman.
Kagome was awe struck on how beautiful she was until she came back to reality by the woman’s voice.
“Your clothes are strange looking...” noting Kagome’s school uniform.
The woman gave a warm smile to Kagome before asking:
“What is your name, young one?”
Kagome smiled before answering. “My name is Kagome”
“I am Alana, a druid of the rogue monastery”.
Kagome smiled. “Thank you for saving me from the zombie”
“It was not a problem, but you should be thanking the trees” They both glanced at the foliage around them. “I asked for their help, and their vines and roots destroyed the threat of life”
Kagome looked confused. She half understood and half didn’t. Before she could ask, Alana spoke again.
“Come. I’ll take you to the rogue encampment. It’s not safe at night”.
She turned to her big wolf.
“Climb on Lunar. She’ll carry you”
Kagome was confused. Should she trust this woman she just met? Then again she didn’t want to remain in the fields. “But what about you?”
Alana smiled. She helped Kagome on Lunar, the giant wolf and then stepped back. Kagome watched as Alana glowed a light silver and she transformed before Kagome’s very eyes.
POOF!
Alana took the form of a cheetah. Even in this form, Alana spoke.
“Don’t pull out his hair hard ‘cause he won’t thank you for that. Hold on tight!”
And Alana sped off with the white wolf and raven on toe. Lunar sped in such speed Kagome almost fell. She gripped on to Lunar’s hair around her neck but not pulling, taking Alana’s warning, as the group made their way to the Rogue encampment.
----------------------------------------Elsewhere---------- ---------------------------------------------
“Sango, you okay?”
Sango and Miroku both woke up together in a rather odd position that Sango thought Mirkou was taking advantage of her.
Upon awakening on an unfamiliar land, Miroku and Sango have come across zombies as well. They, of course, have noticed of their different nationality.
“Yes Houshi-sama”
Sango and Miroku woke up in front of an abandoned cottage with a straw roof and stony walls. Mirkou believed the woman from last night must have sent them to another country. What he doesn’t understand was why an immortal being was lingering in the mortal realm. It was apparently, rare.
The pair also found a familiar kitsune. Sango almost tripped over a Japanese looking stature which was Shippo in disguise.
“Where do you think InuYasha and Kagome are?” Shippo asked.
“Hopefully they are both together and not on their own against the undead”
“Houshi-sama? I was wondering, he people here or are alive, would they see us as a threat?”
Miroku stared at Sango was a puzzled look. “What do you mean?”
“Well, we are...different to the people from the look of the zombies”.
“Ah...I don’t know. Hopefully they will see we are not hostile”. Miroku stops as he looks on down the hill.
“Hey you two, look down there”. He pointed to where he could see smoke rising and a large wooden wall which protects the tents within it.
“”A camp?”
“Looks like it. Let’s find out if they can help us find our friends” Shippo said, eager to find Kagome and InuYasha.
Miroku couldn’t agree more to go towards the camp, as well as Sango. What they were both worried about is what the people would see them as.
That was the first element she felt upon becoming conscious. It was strangely cold and yet it was summer,
Kagome slowly opened her eyes as she tried to remember what happened last night.
A woman hooded and cloaked, with wings and a unique voice... and a bright light...
An angel?
Kagome sat up, only that her surroundings didn’t feel Feudal Japan like. It felt more Old English...in fact it looked Old English. The view was breathtaking but strange to Kagome.
It was cloudy, only white clouds and not a trace of blue sky in sight. It was a little dark; it must have been close to dusk now. It was winter as there were no leaves on the trees and bushes. The dead leaves carpeted in between the cracks of the stone walls and the roots of the foliage. But everything else was stark.
The landscape was all hilly, very British looking. It has stony walls that you’d find in Yorkshire that mark farmlands and roads in between them, and forests that nestled in the faraway valleys and some of the hills were covered in them.
Kagome remembered the light from the woman; did she send them to Britain?
Speaking of them, InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara were nowhere to be seen. Neither was her bow... the bow she obtained from Mt Azusa in order to save Kikyo. But her powers were not enough to help her.
Kikyo was a beautiful miko, and was InuYasha’s first love. She suffered a heartbreaking death and was forcefully brought back to life in an undead body. But now she was at peace and avenged as she died in the arms of InuYasha, the last face she saw... and the first time she saw him cry.
Though Kagome saw him shed tears before when she and the others were poisoned, expect for Shippo and Kirara.
But back to the situation at hand...
Kagome saw the bow and her quiver a few metres away, and her bag was still on her back, which was way she woke up in a rather odd position.
Kagome grabbed her weapon and looked around her surroundings to suss out where she should start looking for her friends.
She walked down the hill that led to a dirt path in the middle of a field that was surrounded by a stonewall. It was getting dark and Kagome didn’t feel like camping out without InuYasha or the others.
Suddenly she heard a strange female voice in her head. It wasn’t familiar to the one last night. This one sounded more rough, evil and demonic. Kagome grasped her head with her hands whilst fighting the persuasiveness the voice had.
Mathon dín gurum (A/N: This is actually out of the elvish language from Lord of the Rings. Good thing there is a glossary. I’ll explain more about it later on. What these separate words mean ‘I can feel your darkness’ or ‘I can feel your dark side’)
Huh? What is this...? Who are you?
The voice said something that sounded like a curse or a spell.
Gú kíbum kelkum-ishi, burzum-ishi. Akha – Gúm-ishi ashi burzum- ishi...(There-is-no-life-in-the-cold. Here- in-the-void- only-Darkness)
Kagome grasped her head harder as her head began to split in pain. She let out a few small screams, but then all of a sudden, the voice disappeared, as if her mind was erected into a barrier. She gasped for air as she regained her awareness.
What was that? It was in a language I never heard before. Is it old English? No... It sounds demonic.
While Kagome ponders this, she was brought out of her thoughts as she heard a moan. Odd, a moan?
It sounds like if it’s in pain...
She felt a presence behind her and realised the moan came from there. She twirled around but the sight she saw made her stomach turn and her blood flow in her veins like ice splinters.
Right behind her stood a man who had his right arm severed off, his blood coating his shoulder and his upper body. His face was no different either, but it looked like his left eye was about to pop out and his mouth was the worst sort of treatment Kagome ever seen.
Kagome wondered how he could still be standing; that much of injury would have been fatal to a human.
But not InuYasha though...
Kagome stepped forward slightly as the man continued to moan in pain.
“Umm...hi” she greeted nervously.
The man shifted his attention to her which made Kagome flinch. But none the less she pushed on to try to help him.
“Umm...what’s your name? Let me help” she said with more bravery then before. It hadn’t occurred to her that was speaking Japanese and he looked English. Kagome tried to speak a few words of English she learned at school, but aside from maths, English was her second hardest subject.
All of a sudden, the man raised his arm towards her, as if reaching out for her. He stumbled towards her in a limping walk. It was then that Kagome sensed no life aura around him.
She gasped in realisation.
This man was already dead.
“Z-Z- Zombie!!” She screamed and made a distance between the undead and herself and aimed her bow towards the zombie. It was a good thing the Zombie was slow at walking, unlike the ones on the film Dawn of the dead when the undead literally run after you. She was shocked to see a real zombie even though she sort of handled with undead before hand.
Kagome raised her arrow and readied her arrow. She concentrated her spiritual powers and released her arrow in a blinding pink light.
The arrow struck the man in the shoulder, but it didn’t halt the Zombie at all. The skin and bone humanoid continued to walk slowly towards its prey.
Kagome fired another arrow that struck the zombie in the neck, but still to no avail to end its slow walk of decay.
Urgh....how do I kill something that is already dead?
Before she knew what happened next, a strong female voice came from the trees.
“Vainz! Atiskwá mene gari!” (A/N: Irish and Celtic. This means ‘Vines! Answer my call!’ You’ll see why vines in a min ^^).
All of a sudden, vines erupted from the ground beneath the feet of the zombie and wrapped around its undead body. The voice came again.
“Dibagsage him!” (Destroy him)
The vines edges pointed towards the back of the zombies head and in a blink of an eye, they struck through the brain, some tiny pieces of it as well as blood coming from the holes prised by the vines on his forehead.
Kagome had to momentarily look away before finding the courage to open her eyes again after hearing a thud. The zombie was dead, or killed again in a way, the blood surrounding its head and coating the grass around it. The vines seemed to have returned to the earth.
“Always aim for the head when coming across an undead”. The voice from before came but it sounded closer, and yet it spoke Japanese.
Kagome turned around to find a very beautiful woman standing behind her. The woman wasn’t Japanese. She looked English and Kagome could tell she has a Celtic heritage.
Some of the woman’s waist length auburn hair was tied up in braids that were held in ivy made hair bands, thus it explains the few plants that hang in her head. Her blue eyes seemed to have a hint of a silver glow of moonlight. Her face was small and cute looking.
She was cloven in armour that was made out of leather, plants and feathers. Her shoulder pads were made of dusky blue feathers as they stuck out of the leather pad. Some of the feathers adorned her chest armour. Her chest armour barely covered any skin, the leather covered her breasts and up to her collarbone and under her shoulders. The ivy hung from the leather just under her armpits.
There were pockets in her chest armour as well. The strings from them were sworn with small feathers. Ivy hung from her belt as well that went just below her hips. Her leg armour only covered her ‘area’ as well as her upper leg but the rest was all revealing. Though only one leg was more revealing than the other. There was a long skirt like cloth that was tied on one side of her belt and it fell over her left side, just covering her right leg and the rest falling behind her. (Like Yuna’s clothing I think on Final Fantasy 10-2) Some of the dead leaves found their home on the bage coloured cloth.
Behind her were two wolves. One was a small white one that grew to her knees or above her hip. The other was a grey and white wolf that was just as big as Kirara’s demonic cat form. Kagome assumed the woman rode on the big wolf. Above their heads were two black ravens that also belonged to the woman.
Kagome was awe struck on how beautiful she was until she came back to reality by the woman’s voice.
“Your clothes are strange looking...” noting Kagome’s school uniform.
The woman gave a warm smile to Kagome before asking:
“What is your name, young one?”
Kagome smiled before answering. “My name is Kagome”
“I am Alana, a druid of the rogue monastery”.
Kagome smiled. “Thank you for saving me from the zombie”
“It was not a problem, but you should be thanking the trees” They both glanced at the foliage around them. “I asked for their help, and their vines and roots destroyed the threat of life”
Kagome looked confused. She half understood and half didn’t. Before she could ask, Alana spoke again.
“Come. I’ll take you to the rogue encampment. It’s not safe at night”.
She turned to her big wolf.
“Climb on Lunar. She’ll carry you”
Kagome was confused. Should she trust this woman she just met? Then again she didn’t want to remain in the fields. “But what about you?”
Alana smiled. She helped Kagome on Lunar, the giant wolf and then stepped back. Kagome watched as Alana glowed a light silver and she transformed before Kagome’s very eyes.
POOF!
Alana took the form of a cheetah. Even in this form, Alana spoke.
“Don’t pull out his hair hard ‘cause he won’t thank you for that. Hold on tight!”
And Alana sped off with the white wolf and raven on toe. Lunar sped in such speed Kagome almost fell. She gripped on to Lunar’s hair around her neck but not pulling, taking Alana’s warning, as the group made their way to the Rogue encampment.
----------------------------------------Elsewhere---------- ---------------------------------------------
“Sango, you okay?”
Sango and Miroku both woke up together in a rather odd position that Sango thought Mirkou was taking advantage of her.
Upon awakening on an unfamiliar land, Miroku and Sango have come across zombies as well. They, of course, have noticed of their different nationality.
“Yes Houshi-sama”
Sango and Miroku woke up in front of an abandoned cottage with a straw roof and stony walls. Mirkou believed the woman from last night must have sent them to another country. What he doesn’t understand was why an immortal being was lingering in the mortal realm. It was apparently, rare.
The pair also found a familiar kitsune. Sango almost tripped over a Japanese looking stature which was Shippo in disguise.
“Where do you think InuYasha and Kagome are?” Shippo asked.
“Hopefully they are both together and not on their own against the undead”
“Houshi-sama? I was wondering, he people here or are alive, would they see us as a threat?”
Miroku stared at Sango was a puzzled look. “What do you mean?”
“Well, we are...different to the people from the look of the zombies”.
“Ah...I don’t know. Hopefully they will see we are not hostile”. Miroku stops as he looks on down the hill.
“Hey you two, look down there”. He pointed to where he could see smoke rising and a large wooden wall which protects the tents within it.
“”A camp?”
“Looks like it. Let’s find out if they can help us find our friends” Shippo said, eager to find Kagome and InuYasha.
Miroku couldn’t agree more to go towards the camp, as well as Sango. What they were both worried about is what the people would see them as.
To be continued
A/N: Ok this chapter was longer then I thought it would be.
Ok the elvish language: I love the elvish language on lord of the rings and I find a glossary on the internet about the language. So I thought, why not use some of it? There is also abit of Celtic and Irish language used here too.
Ok the characters are not exactly in character to the manga, but this is only fanfic, a person’s imagination. And plus this is a made up story after the events of the manga. I sort of made them what I want them to be, but writing InuYasha and Kagome is tough. Doing your own characters is easier ^^.
Druids in stories are magical or natural with the elements but not like a shaman. Druids actually still exist today. There are special events held at Stonehenge. And there is quite a few Celtic things in this fic too.
Hope you enjoyed or liked this chapter
Till next time
Midnightsilver
P.S Also look out for some fanart I might do for this fic.
Alana- Peaceful, Serene
Ok the elvish language: I love the elvish language on lord of the rings and I find a glossary on the internet about the language. So I thought, why not use some of it? There is also abit of Celtic and Irish language used here too.
Ok the characters are not exactly in character to the manga, but this is only fanfic, a person’s imagination. And plus this is a made up story after the events of the manga. I sort of made them what I want them to be, but writing InuYasha and Kagome is tough. Doing your own characters is easier ^^.
Druids in stories are magical or natural with the elements but not like a shaman. Druids actually still exist today. There are special events held at Stonehenge. And there is quite a few Celtic things in this fic too.
Hope you enjoyed or liked this chapter
Till next time
Midnightsilver
P.S Also look out for some fanart I might do for this fic.
Alana- Peaceful, Serene