InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sigma ❯ Exile ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1: Exile

Four hours later, 100 miles south , Isla Exsilium


InuYasha, having spending hours sitting at the back of the ‘flying train’ (as he has come to call it for now) approached the woman who saved his life. The moment they got away, InuYasha thought about what he saw: was that all a nightmare? He spent nearly four hours regaining his composure and calming himself down.

The woman, who hadn’t spoken to him since they escaped, veered towards another island that was in her sights. She had shoulder length black hair and slightly tanned skin. Her eyes however were as blue as the icy landscape in front of them.

InuYasha finally decided to break the silence.

‘I don’t know what was happening back there but thanks’

The woman gave him a small smile before speaking.

‘I’m Dr. Kagome Higurashi, a friend and colleague of your father’.

That statement widened InuYasha’s eyes slightly.

‘You know my father? Where is he? What happened to his lab?’

‘Yes about that I-‘

Kagome was cut off as a sudden jolt from one of the propellers jerked her hold and sent InuYasha falling on his back.

‘What was that?’ he asked as he stood up and held onto the wall to balance himself.

‘Oh great! The fans have overheated! I must have pushed them past their limits’

InuYasha, who at least wanted to return the favour for saving him asked

‘What can I do?’

‘Just hold on’

It was a good thing they reached the island way before the propeller went bust. She drove her train towards the shore but without the propellers, they were in for a few bruises. The train crashed rather roughly in the ground.

InuYasha and Kagome stood outside to survey the damage.

‘Do you always land like that?’ InuYasha sarcastically asked. That received a glare from Kagome.

‘Don’t start with me Mr. Toga’. She then turned to her machine and sighed. ‘My lab...this is going to take a while to get this damage fixed’

InuYasha’s impatience finally kicked in. He was eager to know what happened back at his father’s lab. (Honestly who wouldn’t?)

‘Look, I apologize for being a nuisance but I really need to know what is going on here’.

He groaned as Kagome ran into the lab but came back out with tools. She gave him an apologetic look.

‘I’ll explain everything but first I’m gonna need your help if we’re going to survive’.

‘You saved my life. I’ll do what I can to help as thanks’

‘Good, Naraku’s goons are sure to look for us. There is a village north of here that have no love for Naraku and his men. They might help us.’

‘Ok I’ll go see for some backup’

‘Wait! Before you go...’ Kagome dashed back in the lab. InuYasha heard a few objects thrown about before she came back out with a rifle and a bag that he assumed was ammo.

‘Take this. It’s a DNA gatherer. Use it to gather DNA of surrounding animals. Simply fire and take the dart out before the animal runs away. We’ll use them to create creatures to defend ourselves. Take this radio as well.’ She handed them the items before returning to her toolbox.

‘Did I just hear that right? We’re going to combine creatures, like the monsters that attacked me?!’

Kagome looked offended at the term of ‘monsters’ but that was gone in a second.

‘Combined creatures are a scientific marvel. Monsters? Hardly’

InuYasha decided now was not the time to chit chat and headed north towards the hill.

On the way he came across a small, spiked animal. He took aim, confident of his shooting skills and fired. It struck the animal on the back. InuYasha dashed towards the stunned beast to gather the dart that slowly sucked a small amount of blood from the now recognizable porcupine. Its spikes could come in handy...

Next was a huge cat, a mountain lion. Its claws can make a useful melee attack and it had powerful muscles in its legs which can give it a strong leap. InuYasha gathered the mountain lions DNA as well.

The last animal he saw before he reached the village was a skunk. Obviously the horrible liquid he spurts out of its backside could be effective...and amusing.

The village certainly made the young man feel like going back in time. The homes were not made off sticks and stones but Igloos. Even with the fur he noticed the villagers were wearing, it still must be freezing cold for them.

He made his way towards a middle aged man who saw and walked up to him with an annoyed look on his face.

‘Hello!’ InuYasha called.

The villager stared at him.

‘Great another one of those scientists... What do you want?’ he asked rudely. InuYasha shrugged it off; too surprised to know the people speak his language.

‘You speak English? Great! Umm...me *points to himself* friend. Me need help, and my friend’.

The villager rolled his eyes.

‘You don’t say.’

InuYasha, not sure if they about technology decided to describe the lab he would to a toddler.

‘Our magical flying machine has...umm...trashed and broken.’

All of the sudden the villager perked his head up in earnest.

‘Oh do you mean the black haired woman with that flying train? Well ever since she showed up, it’s caused us nothing but grief. Two men are looking for her. They send these big beasts that destroy our homes and eat our sled dogs. We’ve run out on sled dogs and we fear it’ll be human flesh next. See that smoke?’

The villager pointed towards a pathway between two icy cliffs. A few village men have lit fires and what InuYasha could see, three big creatures held back behind the flames.

‘We had to build fires just to keep them back but we’re running out of wood. There is a polar bear or something with a polar bear’s body that has made our temple its lair. It has developed a real taste for sled dogs’.

The villager then turned back to his grumpy state.

‘So do us all a favour and leave!’

InuYasha was struggling to control his temper.

‘We’re trying. Look, how about this? If I get rid of the creatures on this island, will you tell about these men?’

The villager, whom InuYasha has agreed that he was the headman, thought for a moment before sighing and nodding.

‘I guess so. Hurry. We don’t have much time till the fires die out’.

Grabbing the radio Kagome lent to him, he contacted her. InuYasha was more than confused. Was Naraku after Kagome before he came here?

‘Kagome, the villagers say you’ve been here for a while and those men are out there looking for you. What’s going on? What have I gotten myself into?’

He heard Kagome sigh before she spoke.

‘Well, Naraku showed up about a week ago and took your father. I was on a survey mission and avoided capture. He’s been trying to capture me ever since.’

‘That doesn’t make sense, Kagome. Why?’

‘Honestly, I don’t know. This whole ordeal started just after you father sent that letter to you. That’s how I knew you were coming here. I was hoping you could help me find him. He means a lot to me’.
For a second, InuYasha felt a pang of jealously considering she knows more about his father while he spent half of his life believing he was dead. But that vanished when he realised there was nothing to be jealous about.

‘To me as well...but how do we create our own creatures?’

‘Come back to the lab and I’ll show you the chamber that I just reinstalled’. And the signal was gone.

Reinstalled huh? Well it was quite obvious she would have a chamber that would create creatures. This was starting to get exciting for InuYasha...combining two animals together?! This is going to be interesting.

When he got back to the lab, Kagome was waiting for him just outside the lab door. From the looks of it she has managed to repair the fires that burst from the propellers when they crashed. She also set out an awning over the lab door entrance, which reminded InuYasha of the tents the army used as bases.

‘Come in. I’ll show you the creature chamber, and pass me the DNA samples.’

Now the creature chamber was a blank screen at the moment with a very large keyboard but there were two spiralled bars that climbed up the walls and rested on the roof of the ‘train’ outside with matching pairs of metal that was pointing towards the ground. Kagome turned the machine and showed InuYasha how to install the DNA samples into the machine. A menu of the animals he gathered came up on the screen.

‘Now select one animal. The machine will pick up its attributes and any special abilities it can have depending on the animal parts you want. Abilities are all created or modified by Sigma. Say the skunk which produces that strong foul odour, Sigma entrances that ability to make an attack known as ‘Stink cloud’, which is useful for protection for our weaker creatures. Same thing is said for the porcupine’s ‘Quill throw’. Hey are effective as javelins’.

InuYasha nodded as he looked through the states. So far a mountain lion’s claws and a porcupine’s Quill throw look promising. And the coyote’s keen sense could make a useful scout. As he selected two animals, two separate images of the animals were set in their own boxes. A menu dropping from both animals were highlight animal bodies, which by using the mouse to click on him gave him the choice on which animal parts he wanted on his creature. In the centre of the screen was a moving image of the combined animal. This was so cool he thought.

‘Don’t make heavy creatures. We haven’t got enough coal to run the machine. We may be able to create at least seven to ten animals unless I can get more coal in the supply deposit. There’s a pile in front of the lab so I’m going to mine some’.

With that she grabbed a pick and two buckets and went outside. InuYasha’s first creature in the chamber army, which holds up to nine blueprints at the moment, was a mountain lion and a porcupine combined. The animal had the legs of the lion, which gave it a good chance to leap, but the rest of the body was that of the porcupine: the head gave it the Quill throw ability while it’s back gave it the Quill Burst, which sends spikes flying in all directions. The only problem with that ability is that it harms both friend and foe. But ranged is good however. He created four of them.

The blueprint was saved to the ‘army combiner’ and the machine began to work its magic. White power surges shot up the white bars and hovered at the tip of the bars on the roof. The machine gathered the DNA and blueprint samples and then like in a fantasy book, the creature (Mountain Porcupine) emerged from the burst of electricity from the bars.

‘Oh yeah, don’t touch the chamber while it’s creating. You’ll get shocked’ came Kagome’s voice around the corner as she restocked the deposit before going in the lab. InuYasha glared at her the moment she came in.

‘You could have said so earlier’ he growled as he rubbed his abused (and jolted) hand. Kagome just put away her tools, acting like it never happened.

‘How do we order them?’ He asked a few minutes later once his hand was better. Kagome almost laughed.

‘How’d you think you order them? Order them like you would to a soldier to the army.’

‘What if they turn against us?’

‘They won’t. The controller in the chamber prevents that’.

The second blueprint created was a coyote and a skunk: basically the whole animal was a coyote expect its tail which gave it the ‘Stink cloud’ ability. It was fast but its defence was low so the Stink cloud was handy for this animal. InuYasha only produced three of them. The last animal he made was a combination of a coyote and a mountain lion: body of the lion and head of the coyote, a good animal for melee combat. He created four of them.

InuYasha came out and watched in wonder as the creatures looked around sniffing the air, two of the Mountain coyotes came up to him and stood next to the stunned man. Kagome came by his side and looked at him with a face that said ‘Amazing huh?’

‘This...is a scientific marvel, Kagome. It’s amazing’. She nodded.

‘I told ya so. Combined creatures are all products of the Sigma technology, something your father and I have worked on for several years. He-‘

She was cut off as a villager ran to them shouting ‘The fires are dying out! The creatures are coming!’

InuYasha ran after the villager, ordering his army to follow suit. When he reached the village, the fires were indeed evaporating and the enemy creatures, which were mostly combinations of coyotes and lemmings and wolves and skunks, leaped over the dying embers and dashed after InuYasha’s army, despite the fact they were outnumbered three to ten.

‘Attack!’ And his creatures leapt to battle. Because the ‘Cotunks’ (coyote and skunk) were so weak in defence, they didn’t have a chance to use their stink cloud. One of the mountain coyotes went down but they defeated the lemming coyotes with a few cuts and bruises. InuYasha had never seen such a savage sight: the animals tearing into each other’s flesh with their fangs and claws...might as well get used to it he thought. He ordered the remaining creatures to follow him through the pass and towards the temple.

There weren’t many enemy beasts there, but most of them had the wolf’s head which is well known to have a powerful bite. Thanks to the Mountain porcupines’ Quill throws they went down rather quickly but the real challenge was the beast at the temple entrance: a combination of a polar bear and a musk ox. Because of its huge claws and big body of both animals, this animal had a high defence and sharp attack strength. As the creatures charged towards it (expect the Mountain porcupines which went up a hill for better range) InuYasha yelled at them.

‘Surround it! Aim for its head and legs!’

Aiming for the legs was hard as the bear was using its claws and slashing them around. Its back legs however (which was the musk ox side) was easier. InuYasha looked towards one of the closet ranged creature to hi m and called to it.

‘You there! Aim for its back legs!’

The creature obeyed and fired a ‘javelin’ which pierced the bear’s legs, which brought it to the ground. The Mt coyotes backed away as the Mt Porcupine’s finished the animal off with their Quill’s. InuYasha breathed out a sigh as he approached his remaining animals.

‘Great work fellows’



Later that day



When InuYasha returned to the lab, Kagome was mining coal again. She just deposited another load when she saw him and the creatures come back.

‘They look banged up a bit. Did you take care of the creatures?’

‘Yeah. We should be ok at the moment’

‘You there! Weird guy!’

The creatures moved aside and licked their wounds as the village leader ran up to them, panting.

‘You talking to me?’ InuYasha asked.

‘Well yes considering you’re the only guy here he’d talk to’. Kagome muttered. InuYasha ignored her as the village leader stopped to catch his breath before speaking.

‘Our temple has been cleansed! Thank you’

‘Err anytime. Now that those creatures are dealt with, tell me what you know of those men’

The villager sighed but agreed.

‘They are on the island next over. At night the water freezes forming an ice path between the two islands. That’s how they send their creatures. You can be sure to expect company in the morning’

‘Kagome can we get the repairs on the lab done?’

She nodded but added ‘But there isn’t enough fuel in the engine to get the lab off the ground’

The villager propped up his head.

‘Fuel? They have plenty of fuel on the next island’.

InuYasha smiled at the man.

‘Thanks’

The villager nodded. ‘Ok bye bye now’ He walked away before muttering to himself, ‘...anything to get rid of you and your creatures’. He sighed as he returned to his igloo.







A/n: Well first chapter done. Don’t expect many updates as college comes first. The character’s nationality...well that’s up to you, I see them as English at the moment.

The disclaimer I won’t put in chapters, rather right at the beginning of the story, so if you don’t see the disclaimer, well then look harder :P