InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Flaming Passion ❯ The Lord of Wyverns ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 7

The Lord of Wyverns

 

Chaos had erupted. The populace was in a panic. Screams filled the entire village as walls came crumbling down. The battered guard from before had raced to the inn to the frightened and bewildered group.

“Milord, please escape now it is the lord of the north Otomar...ugh,” the guard had been stopped short for he was shot through the heart with an arrow. He crumpled over by the doorway in a heap. Rin buried her face in Kia's kimono.

“It shall be okay child. I shall help you flee from this madness,” Kia comforted.

“Get the innocent out!” Inuyasha shouted. They raced through the corridors of the rest house. When they exited the site was horrific.

 

Humans were dead or dying. Screams were heard as a creature pounced and ripped at a soldier's back. The beast eyed Sesshomaru with an eerie gaze.

“Milord, milord!” it chanted. “The wretched one is here!” It hopped around and flailed around thick wings.

“A wyvern,” Sesshomaru whispered. A wall nearby came crumbling down in a storm of rubble. A wingless wyvern had charged on all-fours through the barricade, and it bucked and bayed. The monster flailed a long horn on its snout and continued to thrash its thick legs. Thick plates covered its entire body and it bared blood-soaked fangs. Through the dust and debris, a being was standing on top of it.

“It had been a long time,” the demon growled. Sesshomaru motioned Kia, Jaken, and Rin to escape. The demon looked as though it could have been related to Sesshomaru. It had long black hair, down to his knees. Eyes of red he had with thick armor and a black and red kimono. He was definitely from aristocracy with a firm face with a long black mark that crawled from his right eye to his pointed ear. He flexed his claws and scowled with fangs showing. Mahogany wings sprouted from his back and he flapped them angrily. “A human. I thought you were better than that. No matter, you were always feeble compared to me. I'll just let my pet, Tama, finish you. Otomaru doesn't like human opponents.”

“So you are the lord of the north and the king of wyverns,” Sesshomaru mumbled. Otomaru flipped his hand back.

“Finally that thick head of yours remembers something,” Otomaru chided. “Eradicate all of them, Tama!”

 

Otomaru and everyone, else except the flightless wyvern, had taken off.

“Every demon has a weakness.” Miroku cast several sacred sutras at the best. They stuck and the holy energy sapped at the creatures aura. It howled and roared whilst smashing the ground and thrashing. It grew so angry it forced the sutras off him. It still had his eye on Sesshomaru. It rammed its rock head against buildings to trap everyone either under or inside its own arena. Kia and Rin couldn't escape as rock narrowly crushed them. Kagome shot an arrow at Tama's face and it was pierced in the eye. It yowled from its agony and fury. A howl that felt as though it came from hell itself. With the one eye blind it charged at Kagome. Miroku used the Wind Tunnel and Tama veered away, but went careening his way. It slashed at Miroku's hand and he instinctively closed the void.

 

No weapon could penetrate Tama's shell, the demons were humans, and they were trapped in the town square.

“Try to get away and don't attract its attention,” Kia commanded Rin. Rin nodded meekly as she huddled away. Tama was at temporary rest as it panted and glared at Sesshomaru. Inuyasha with the untransformed Tensusaiga slashed futilely at the creature's hide. Tama began his assault again stampeding toward Sesshomaru. Though he was a human he still had his cunning. He gripped the wyvern by its shoulders and flipped over it effortlessly. This charade continued with Sesshomaru appearing to have the upper hand. He knew he could defend himself from his sluggish assassin, but not attack him.

 

Suddenly when Sesshomaru somersaulted over the wyvern it kicked upward knocking the wind out of the lord. He laid there with no defense as the creature was breathing down his neck.

“I wonder if he'll impale me or crush me to death,” Sesshomaru thought as the beast's breath crawled down his spine. Sesshomaru could hear his name by the others as he waited for his long prolonged death. Tama bayed again, but not from triumph. Kia was on top of his back hanging on while tugging at the arrow in his left eye. It squealed madly as she pulled the bloody arrow out and tried to stab his other eye. He thrashed his head as he clung to his thick neck. Her arm got loose and he crunched into her arm. He whirled around trying to separate her shoulder from her body and swung Kia like a rag doll. He released his grip and flung her into the dirt several yards away. “Kia!” Sesshomaru called. She was barely conscience and could barely see the lumbering wyvern.

“Death waits,” she murmured.

 

Tama charged for the fatal back blow. He lumbered with his column legs with his long horn at the ready. Sesshomaru dashed with every ounce of his dying strength toward the fading dragon. He outran the tank of a monstrosity and embraced Kia to his chest.

“I will die with you!” he pledged. Burning tears trickled down his face. “You'll never have to be alone again!”

“To vow to die with prophecy is to embrace true power,” a disembodied voice said. The dragon blood within became one and no trace of human remained. And thus he was now a full-demon.

 

His body surged as he absorbed the demonic aura again. His hair was now silver as the once full moon. Markings relived upon his silky face with the eyes, ears, fangs, and claws of a demon. He shot up and grabbed the wyvern by the face and burned his hide clean of where he gripped. Tama roared again, but weaker and desperate. Sesshomaru ripped the horn off his face.

“Damn wyvern! Burn in hell with your lord!” he bellowed. He launched the horn and it shattered his armor and stabbed Tama through his evil heart. It reared on its legs for a final time with blood bursting from his eye, his hide melting with a hiss, and flesh pulsing till his final, violent breath where he curled up and screeched a fading cry.

 

Sesshomaru aided Kia immediately looming over her like her own silver-haired angel. He picked her up effortlessly in his arms. His hair spilled passed his shoulder onto her face. Her face twitched as her eyes opened. Sesshomaru held her like a glass object and as tenderly as he would embrace his own child. Rin and Jaken tentatively moved out of their hideaway.

“Spectacular master!” Jaken squealed. His cries were ignored as Sesshomaru placed her upon smooth ground. He comforted her with his pelt and propped her up.

“I am okay, really. I am not a child,” she objected weakly. Inuyasha looked away from his brother's tender moment.

“Just relax, Inuyasha,” Kagome spoke. “The night is almost over.”

 

To be continued...