InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In the Dark of Night ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha and co. nor do I own the rights to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm only taking aspects of both and playing with them for a few weeks.

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In the Dark of Night: Chapter 1

In every generation a slayer is born...

One who is destined to rid the world of demons, vampires and other creatures of the night that want to decimate humanity. That is the prophecy of the chosen one, the slayer that is.

A slayer's duty is to protect the world. A slayer's destiny is to eventually die serving their duty.

That's fine, but I wasn't supposed to be a slayer.

The things that most people don't know is that most all slayers don't live past the age of 20.

But one defied that and did, she even had a family.

She was my mother.

She learned of her calling when she was seven I think. At least that's what I remember her saying. My grandparents were descendants of Japanese demon exterminators in the late 1400's. The prophecy stated that the strongest slayer in the know world would be born into out family.

They figured it to be my mother.

She trained everyday while still managing to go to school and attempt to have a normal life. Well, as normal as one's life can get considering you go out every night hunting demon.

Her quest for normalcy is how she met my father.

That's when she fell in love.

And that's when fate decided that something should go terribly wrong. But I'm getting a head of myself here.

My parents married right out of high school, much to the disapproval of my grandparents. They argued that there would be no way for mom to fulfill her duties as the chosen one and lead a life with her new husband.

She chose that moment to tell them that she was pregnant with me.

Needless to say that didn't go as well as expected.

When it came down to the choice between her new family and her duty, my mother chose to put her family first and being the slayer second.

I lived with my grandparents the first few years of my life. It was the only way Mom and Dad could keep me safe.

Did I mention that my mother trained my father in the ways of demon exterminating? Well, she did. He refused to let her go out by herself after I was born and rather than let him get killed by some bastard demon, Mom taught him the techniques that out ancestors used in Feudal Japan.

Mom never once lied about what she and dad did at night. I knew from the age I could talk that my mother was special. I just never fully understood why though.

That is until my sixth birthday. It was supposed to be a quiet family celebration.

The quiet lasted for all of ten minutes.

The temple that my grandparents lived on was supposed to be cloaked, hidden if you will from all demonic energy. Along with my family's exterminator heritage, there also a long line of priestesses and monks who were supposed to have very strong spiritual powers.

That's why it was safe for me to be there.

Was being the key word.

The demons attacked us that day. They somehow found a way around the barrier and sought to seek revenge on the slayer.

They tried to destroy our save haven. Our home...mom wasn't happy about that.

Until that day I had never seen my mother and my father fight. She moved with the grace of a swan, yet at the same time was as deadly as a cobra.

I can see why father loved her so much As gentle as Mom seemed to be to the rest of the world there was a fire in her heart and soul that you could see in her eyes. It was a fire that no one could extinguish. One of the demons tried to attack me, and all hell literally broke loose. Mom in one fell swoop managed to decimate all the demons that were left to save me, her precious little boy.

I was told later by my grandmother that she somehow fused her slayer powers and the latent spiritual powers together to wipe them all out.

Because of that her energies were drained and her powers were gone.

Just like that the slayer was no more.

Demons never showed up again, Mom and Dad didn't stay out all night for patrols anymore. We finally had a normal, quiet family life. Or so we thought.

Eight months later we moved to the United States, California to be specific, because my father's job was transferred. We left because there wasn't the lingering threat of chaos breaking lose in Tokyo because Mom was no longer the slayer.

That sense of safety and calmness would only last a few years though.

By the time I was thirteen our family had gained a new member, my parents were happy, and life was good for us.

All that changed in one night.

That night there was a terrible thunderstorm, very unnatural when I think abuot it now. We were sitting in front of the fireplace; the storm knocked out the power so Dad built us a fire because it was too early for anyone to go to bed. I was sitting on the floor playing with my five year old brother. We were all there just enjoying the comfort of our family.

Then we heard the noises.

Then they attacked us. Some of the same demons that attacked us in Japan seven years ago. They remembered my mother was the slayer and didn't really care that she didn't have her powers now, they just wanted her dead.

My mother was thirty-two when she died, no when she was murdered. My father died that night as well, trying to protect my mother who was trying to protect me and my brother.

They took him that night, why I may never know. They also tried to take me as well, but they couldn't lay a finger or claw on me.

I finally know what happened to my mother's powers.

I wasn't supposed to be a slayer.

This wasn't my destiny or my duty to take, but now this is my life.

I moved back to Tokyo to live with my grandparents. They trained me and showed me how to use my powers because I'm to continue my mother's legacy.

There was no other slayer called after my mother, people that knew just assumed that the role of the slayer was no longer needed. So now I'm the first non-female slayer in the history of the world.

But none of that mattered to me. I only want what is mine and that's my revenge for my parents deaths and the kidnapping of my brother.

I'm not out to save the world, just the remainder of my broken family.

And when I find that bastard in the baboon suit, Naraku I'm gonna make sure he pays dearly for all he's taken from me.

To be continued....

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