InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ An Inuyasha Crossover with ...Dinotopia? ❯ An Ecologically Conscientious Busline ( Chapter 2 )

Dinotopia, part 2

 

The young miko named Kagome had reached a painful yet indubitable conclusion. With an important jab at the rolling acres of flat grassland, she used her most convincing voice to announce what most certainly was true- they were not in the Sengoku Jidai anymore. The telltale, mystically blue light of their temporary portal was proof enough without the disappearance of all but a minute patch of forest.

“Inuyasha. Lord Sesshomaru. Everyone. I know it may sound difficult to accept but we just passed through… a time portal.” She flinched, waiting to see where the bomb she had dropped went. The chirp of crickets drilled mercilessly in her ear. At last, Sesshomaru stopped his glaring and spoke.

“What do you mean, miko?” Kagome bit her lip nervously.

“It means that we the light send us back into the past- or the future. Not only that, but I don't think we're even the same area anymore.”

“What do you mean?” Inuyasha growled.

“That, Inuyasha!” Kagome said jabbing her finger towards a twin ridge of mountains. Everyone gawped at the mountainous skyline.

“It seems, Kagome-sama,” Miroku said calmly, “that you are correct. What is it you think we should do in this situation?” Kagome considered it.

“Inuyasha,” Sesshomaru said ignoring those whom he saw as secondary status even to his worthless brother. “The miko seems familiar about this. Care to explain how she comes to this knowledge?” Inuyasha scowled and braced himself in front of Kagome protectively.

“None of your business,” Inuyasha hissed.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome tried to sooth him by laying a hand on his shoulder. “Please! Now is not the time for fighting!”

“Kagome-sama is right,” said Miroku stepping up for once. Normally, he chose not to speak with Sesshomaru directly as the Taiyoukai would naturally interpret it as a challenge. “If I may offer my opinion, I think we should wait here until the portal reactivates.” Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at him.

“Very well. Rin, Jakin. We will camp nearby.” Inuyasha took on a look of frustration at his brother's sudden departure.

“Sesshomaru, wait.” As usual, his pleadings went unanswered.

“Damn it all,” Inuyasha said turning back to his companions but his shoulders relaxing. His knot of friends all looked complacently at one another, as if to say that this strange turn of events was in no way an inconvience to them. Their home was a wandering campfire anyway. Who cares where it had led them?

That night, Inuyasha did no stray far from the campfire, even for scouting. He brought them no game and instead the all fell asleep early. Kagome was quite pleased of this fact, and snuggled into her pink sleeping bag with especial ecstasy as she fell into her romantic fantasies.

Then, in the depths of the night the ground shook. Even Kagome sat up right as a high shriek rent the air and the ashes of their fire scattered as an enormous creature ran right through them, cracking aside small trees as it lunged right for her.

“Kagome!” Inuyasha yelled before scooping her up into the air and staring down at it. To him, its form was discernible, reflected in his amber luminescent eyes. For Kagome, however, nothing could be seen but a shadow of black nearly as tall as the trees and staring at them with a predatory eye. Inuyasha paused only long enough to ensure that the rest of his companions had scattered before lifting his Tetsusiaga and calling out an attack.

“Windscar!” he yelled as four blades tore through the air and into the creature. It screamed in pain and collapsed. Satisfied, Inuyasha sheathed his sword and wrapped his arms around Kagome, holding her near to him.

“Are you all right?” he asked tenderly. In turn, Kagome's eyes shimmered with this feel of their secretive heaven.

“Yeah. I'm okay. What was it that attacked us?” Inuyasha dropped his arms away. It didn't bother him in the least that Kagome was being anticlimactic as usual. It wasn't like they were about to start something with their friends watching- or rampaging demons nearby.

“Some kind of lizard.” Inuyasha shrugged.

Satisified for now, Kagome's query waited until morning light. They moved their camp a short distance away.

In the morning however, not only they by Sesshomaru and his followers gathered around the site of the kill. The full morning light made its appearance easily discernible. Kagome brought a hand up to her mouth and gasped. Inuyasha's ear flicked.

“What is it Kagome?” he said looking at in concern. Kagome kept her eyes riveted on the creature.

“Inuyasha… that's a dinosaur!” The word went without comprehension.

“Inuyasha,” Kagome tried again. “That was a tyranasaurus you just killed! ”

“So? It wasn't especially strong or nothing. Just large.”

“No, Inuyasha! I mean that dinosaurs are supposed to be extinct! None of them have existed for millions of years, not just thousands! That would be a long time ago even to a youkai!”

“Okay,” said Inuyasha a little nonplussed.

“Inuyasha,” said Sesshomaru blandly. “Now is not the time for arguments. More of the same creature approaches.” Inuyasha lifted his nose and sniffed.

“Damn it. They're stalking us.” Kagome took one step closer to Inuyasha's side and he rolled at eye to look at her.

Kagome watched Rin huddle between Ah-Un's heads just before an enraged bugle sounded and a fully-grown tyranasaurus emerged over the top of a low hill abutting their small scrap of forest. It lashed its tail angrily, commanding two more of its kind to advance on either side of it. Inuyasha swore.

“Damn. There's gotta be a dozen of them.” More of the same emerged in a tightening circle around them. Inuyasha was momentarily distracted by the sight of Sesshomaru taking the first swipe at them with his acid whip.

Inuyasha's group burst out into full action. Inuyasha swung his Tetusiaga into one the creatures, cleaving it as he sailed past its head. Sango threw out her Hiraikatose, shattering vertebra as it went. Miroku, meanwhile, found to his dismay that his attacks were ineffective.

After three of the creatures had been downed, a clear pathway had been made. Several of the carnivorous dinosaurs moved to block this space, but seeing their leader felled by Sesshomaru caused them to reconsider. With an anguished roar, the survivors fled.

“They will be back,” the Taiyoukai suggested. “If they are anything like demons they will want their revenge.”

“There was still a large pack left.”

“Indeed,” Sesshomaru said with distaste. “Inuyasha. Allow my vassals to travel with yours for a short time. When this current danger has passed we will part company.” Inuyasha's face vaulted.

“Wha?!”

“You were not the only one to be attacked last night, little brother,” Sesshomaru announced with a cold sneer dripping from every syllable. “Rin was also a target for their attacks.” Inuyasha knashed his teeth together.

“Fine! Do what you want!” He waved a hand.

“Under the terms of this temporarily alliance, my pack will remain separate from yours and under my leadership. Do you understand?”

“Inuyasha, what is he talking about?” Kagome mused. Inuyasha woofed out a chest full of air.

“It's the way with most demons. Half of `em anyway. They form tribes or packs- what humans call clans. The leader's the alpha. The next in line's the beta, and so on.”

“Sesshomaru is a packleader? I thought he was a Taiyouaki?” Kagome nearly scratched her head in confusion.

“Taiyoukai means he's superior to other demons no matter what tribe they come from. Not just his own pack.” Inuyasha squirmed, clearly uncomfortable with the subject.

“All right, drop it! We need to start moving, all right?”

“But I thought you said we should stay here?”

“We need to move on a little, unless you want to camp admist a pile of corpses that is?”

“All right Inuyasha. You win.” Kagome sighed heavily. Right now she really wished she hadn't lost her geology textbook. There was a section on paleontology in there.

Their single night stay in their new camp site turned into a long week. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru avoided one another as much as possible, choosing instead to make indirect insults of each other. Meanwhile, the portal remained lifeless.

“Inuyasha,” Kagome said rummaging through her schoolbag in hopes of finding just one pack of ramen. “I've been skimping on our rations as it is and now we have no more ninja food. We have to do something.” Her own stomach growled in hunger.

“All right.”

They broke camp and went hunting together. Across the plains in a hollow made from large creatures, they found a smaller version of the tyranasaurus. It was a strange transformation amongst them. Even Kagome's eyes gleamed and Shippo pointed.

“Food!” the little kitsune cried lifting a hand of fire. The dinosaur lifted its head. Its pupils widened at the humanoid creatures bearing down on it.

 

 

After a day of feasting, Inuyasha's group, now happily dubbed a pack thanks to Sesshomaru's youkai culture lesson, returned to their aimless circling around the area of the portal. Yet, on that day, a guide out of their current predicament was found. A Brachepod topped over one of the shallow hills, wearing metal armor on its neck. Even more astonishing to Kagome were the humans riding it. A pterodactyl flew overhead and banked above them. Circling around, it landed by their side. A man wearing a skin-tight leotard descended from the back of the reptilian-like bird, startling all of them. He started speaking in a foreign language.

“Huh?” Inuyasha marveled at the peculiar words coming from the man's mouth. “What on earth is he saying?”

“I think,” Kagome said looking thoughtful again, “that he's speaking English. I don't now more than a couple words of it though, really. I've missed school too often,” she flushed.

“Anything you might do to aid communication would be appreciated by all of us,” Miroku said encouragingly. Kagome summoned her courage.

“Hello!” she said loudly with her horrendous Japanese accent. The man began an even longer stream of garbled syllables and Kagome shook her head in defeat.

“It's no use. I can't understand a thing he is saying.”

The Brachepod, meanwhile, was drawing closer. So close that during their discussion, it parked, if indeed one can park a dinosaur, alongside them. A ladder was thrown down and the man gestured for them to ascend.

“I believe,” Miroku said helpfully, “that they want to give us a ride.”

“Okay then,” Kagome said with some misgivings. Inuyasha releuctantly ascended after her, growling at the Rider to keep his hands away from Kagome even if it was only to steady the ladder. Sango schimmied up the ladder easily, followed by Miroku. Shippo and Kilala caught a ride with the monk and demonslayer.

“Lord Sesshomaru?” Rin asked in askance. The Taiyoukai shook his head.

“You will ride Ah-Un. We will follow after.” Unwittingly, they all headed toward the city of Dinotopia.

 

 

More Actor's Comments

 

Inudaughter- “So Miroku, my favorite monk, what did you think about this section of the revised movie of Dinotopia?

 

Miroku- <Frowns.> To be frank, it was rather troubling for me. There was a major action scene and I could not even participate.”

 

Inudaughter- “I'm so sorry Miroku! I know, I know, it's true! But I really didn't think that sutras would have any effect on creatures that aren't magical.”

 

Miroku- “There is no need to apologize, Inudaughter. You were doing your utmost best to remain in character and I respect that attempt.”

 

Inudaughter- “Oh, Miroku! <Slap!> Ha, caught you first! Don't think I didn't know what you were going to do with that hand, pervert!

 

Miroku- <Sighs.> Now I am indeed disappointed.

 

Inudaughter- <Pause> “How `bout a freebie then?”

 

Miroku- <Eyes sparkle.> “Really?”

 

Inudaughter- “Yes. I would if Sango weren't standing right behind you.”

 

Miroku- <Pause> “Oops.”