InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty and the Beast, Inuyasha Style!! ❯ The Trap in the Forest ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

(Inside the forest it's fairly dark, however there are some places where the leaves have fallen off the trees and light shines down in large shafts. It gives the place a strange, almost magical look, but not really scary. The four of them walk along in a line, Miroku in front, then Kouga, Kagome, and Sango bringing up the rear. She's dressed in her usual battle armor.)

Kouga: See! What'd I tell you? Nothing to be afraid of.

Miroku (looking back): Shhhh!

Miroku (quietly): Even if we can't see them, I sense the presence of several Youkai in the area. It's best if we stay quiet.

Miroku: Even so, this forest is...strange...

*KYAAAAAAA*

(Everyone jumps as Kagome shrieks and starts batting at her face.)

Kouga: Kagome, what's wrong!

Kagome (bat, bat): Eweee! I walked into a spider's web. Ick!

(Everyone looks on with smallish sweat drops. After a moment Kagome stops and looks at everyone, Sango has an especially perturbed face.)

Kagome: Oh, sorry everyone...

(She suddenly looks down and realizes something.)

Kagome: Ah! My ring!

Kagome (looking around paniced): It must have slipped off, where...

(She spots it on the ground under a log, and gets on all fours to reach for it.)

Kagome: Ah, there it is!...Eh?

(She stops as she sees something move on the other side of the log. There is a glimmer of something small with two white tails dashing off.)

Kagome: W...what was that, just now?

Kouga (from some ways away): Kagome, hurry up!

Kagome: Ah! Coming!

*~*~*~*~*

(Later on they are eating lunch in a large sunny patch. Kouga seems angry.)

Kouga: I don't see why we have to go back so soon. We still have half a day left!

Sango: That's why we have to be going. If it took us half a day to walk here, it will take us the same to walk back. We can't be in this forest after dark.

Miroku: So you feel it too, Sango.

Sango (nods): There's an immense evil presence in this forest. Something far too large for us to deal with.

Kouga: What? You're chickening out? Humf! What am I paying you for then?

Sango (calmly eating): There's no point in getting paid if you don't live to enjoy it. Don't you agree, Houshi-sama.

Miroku (nods)

Kouga: Why you....

Kagome: I think we should listen to them, Kouga.

Kouga: huh?

Kagome: You hired them because they're best at what they do, so you should take their advice. Besides...this place gives me the creeps.

Kouga (Get up, Sigh): Alright Kagome, if you're tired , we'll go back for today.

Kagome: Eh? That's not what I said!

(Suddenly Miroku stands up, sticking his staff into the ground. Sango does the same, grabbing hold of her Boomerang.)

Kagome: Huh?

Miroku: Stay back Kagome...

(She freezes as something moves in the bushes in front of them. Miroku grasps the rosary around his arm.)

Miroku: Air Void!

(He un-seals his arm and several bushes, sticks, and a tree get sucked in. Kagome and Kouga stare on in shock as he re-seals it. Exposed before them are two centipede monsters.)

Sango: Hiraigotsu!

(She throws her boomerang and slices them neatly in half.)

Kagome and Kouga (Stare!!!)

(Suddenly the bushes behind Kagome start to move a bit as well.)

Kagome: Ah!

Miroku: Shit, we're surrounded!

(He jumps in front of Kagome, his staff ready.)

Miroku: Kagome, stay between Sango and I.

Miroku (smirks and grasps his hand): We're going to have to break through. AIR VOID!

(Several things get sucked up, clearing a path, and revealing several more demons. Miroku seals his arm and they all dash forward.)

Miroku: Let's go!

(They start running through the forest at top speed. Demons jump out of the bushes at them. Miroku and Sango push them off to the side and keep running.)

Kouga: What're you doing! Aren't you supposed to kill them?

(No one answers as they are all staring up ahead in disbelief. A giant swarm of demons is heading straight for them, literally hundreds of them. Miroku grits his teeth.)

Miroku: Damn bastards. AIR VOID!!

Kagome: Eek!! There's so many of them!!

(Behind her, Sango is bashing demons with her boomerang, looking worried.)

Sango (Muttering and bashing): Damn, I knew this forest was weird. The feel of the Youkai's presence is subdued here.

Miroku: (running again): Shit! They've been letting pass all along, meanwhile they were cutting off our exit!

(He smashes some more demons with his staff and runs on. Behind him Kagome and Kouga are trying to keep up, with Sango in the rear.)

(Suddenly something swoops down and attacks Sango from above. Sango dives to avoid it, and falls to the ground with a thud, letting go of her boomerang.)

Miroku (Looking back while fighting demons): Sango!

Kagome (Stop): Sango-chan!

(Kagome runs back to her)

Kagome (kneel beside Sango) You okay?

Sango: Shit!

Kouga: Kagome! Look out!

(Kagome looks up again just in time to see the flying demon coming at her. She ducks down and screams.)

Kagome: Kyaaa!

*RAOWRR!*

(Suddenly Kirara jumps out from the opposite side of Kagome and grabs the bird monster's neck in her mouth.. There is a massive snap as bird the hits the ground, breaking it's neck.)

Kagome: !!....It saved us?

Sango (grabs Kagome's arm): Come on!

(They run ahead, some distance behind Miroku and Kouga. Sango has to stop every five seconds though to fight the monsters coming at them from behind. At one point while she struggles with a few demons she yells to Kagome.)

Sango: Go on and catch up Kagome, I'll be fine!

(Kagome nods and runs on. Up ahead Miroku and Kouga are still fighting demons.)

Kouga: Hey! What about Kagome? We can't leave her here.

Miroku: Don't worry, she's with Sango. If we stop now, we'll be attacked from all sides.

(Meanwhile, Kagome trips and falls to the ground with a thud.)

Kagome (get up slowly): Owowowowow.....

(Suddenly something moves in the bushes beside her.)

Kagome: Eh?

(The bushes part to reveal a giant spider monster. Kagome screams and runs in the opposite direction, the spider in hot pursuit.)

Kagome (Running): Eeaaahhh! Help me!!!

*ROAR*

(Suddenly the monster gets pitched to the side as Kirara strikes it down. Kagome looks back for a brief second before running on ahead in full panic. Suddenly the ground pitches sideways and Kagome slips on the leaves. She goes somersaulting down a steep embankment, and off a small, five foot cliff. Then she crashes through a false floor in the forest (basically a hole in the earth that's been covered by dead wood and leaves so as to look like it's not there) and lands another five feet down, below the floor of the forest. A pile of dead leaves and sticks slides down off the embankment after her, thoroughly covering her and hiding her from view. Kagome lays still, unconscious.)

*~*~*~*~*

(A few hours later, outside of the forest, Kouga and Miroku are lying, collapsed on the ground and propped against a tree, breathing heavily.)

Kouga (Breathe, breath): D-Damnit!

(He beats the ground with his fist.)

Kouga: Where are they....Kagome...and that other chick....they should be here by now...

Miroku: P...Probably came out...somewhere else...urk...

(He stands up slowly, grabbing his left arm where something has cut him. They each have several other scratches and bruises on them as well. Suddenly, something moves in the bushes in front of them.)

Kouga and Miroku: !!

(They get ready to fight again, and then look relieved as Sango comes out of the forest.)

Miroku: Sango!!

(He runs up to her as she collapses on all fours, breathing hard.)

Miroku: Sango, are you okay?

Sango (Breathe, breathe): Y...Yeah...*huff*....

Kouga: Huh? Hey! Where's Kagome?

Sango: Wh...what do you...mean?...Isn't she...with you?

Kouga: No, she was with you stupid! Remember when you fell!!

Sango (Shaking head): No, I couldn't hold them off...so I sent her ahead, to be with you...

(Miroku and Kouga stare at her with a shocked expression.)

Miroku: You mean...she's still in there...

(Sango looks up abruptly and Kouga looks horrified.)

Kouga: N...No!

(Runs of towards the woods.)

Kouga: Kagome...KAGOMEEE!!!!

*~*~*~*~*

At the bottom of the sink hold, Kagome, covered in leaves and sticks, slowly opens her eyes.

Kagome: Huh? Where am I?

(She slowly moves to sit up, pushing the leaves off her and putting a hand to her head.)

Kagome: Ouch! That's right...I fell down...

(She stops as she hears voices.)

Voice1: Hey Kirara, are you sure it was around here?

voice 2: Weow...

Voice 1: Hmmmm, Inuyasha, are you sure you don't smell anything?

Voice 3: shut up, I just heard something....

(In the hole, Kagome puts a hand to her mouth in shock as her eyes go wide.)

Kagome (Scared shock): I...Inu...Yasha??!

*~*~*~*~*

Notes:

In the anime, Sango usually refers to Miroku as "Houshi-sama." The English translation (Mr.Monk) however, sounds rather corny, so I'll just use the Japanese. For those of you that don't know, Hiraigotsu is the name for Sango's giant boomerang, so I won't translate it. Also, I've seen Miroku's "Air Void" also translated as "Air Rip." I don't know much Japanese so I can't say which is right, however I'm more familiar with the anime where they say "Air Void" so I'll stick with that. Finally, Inu and Yasha are two words that mean "Dog Demon." In the case of the name of the character, I'll probably condense it into one word, however, most other times I'll write it as two.