InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Green-clothed Warrior ❯ Strange Village of Children and a Devastated City ( Chapter 2 )

The Green-clothed Warrior

An InuYasha/Legend of Zelda Crossover Fanfiction

By: Patriot1776

Chapter One: Strange Village of Children And a Devastated City

"Aahh!" InuYasha shouted as he and the Tetsusaiga were ejected from the other side of the log. No sooner had he landed on his back and in the grass, than the others were ejected from the log as well.

"Oh shit!" InuYasha shouted as he put up his arms just in time to shield himself as the others landed on top of him! He groaned. "Damn that hurt. Would you guys get off of me now, please!"

"Sorry, `bout that." Kagome said as her and the others got up off of him.

"Feh, it's okay." he replied as he got up. He then retrieved and resheathed Tetsusaiga. Kagome, meanwhile, stood her bike back up and checked it for damage, the others checking to make sure they still had their belongings.

"Hey, where are we?" Shippo then asked, noticing their strange surroundings for the first time.

"Huh?" said InuYasha.

"What is this place?" Sango asked, looking around. They were standing at the top of a fenced ledge, overlooking a strange looking village. The village's huts looked as if they had been built out of huge, hollowed out trees. Forest was all around the village. After looking over their surroundings, InuYasha looked back at the log they had come through.

"Where the hell did that lo-" He never finished the sentence as a huge, venus-flytrap looking plant shot up out of the ground to his side and bit at him. "What the hell? Oh no you don't!" Tetsusaiga was back out in an instant and InuYasha quickly cleaved the plant monster in two.

"What was that thing?" Sango asked, before being hit in the back by a strange wooden nut. "Oof!" She spun around and noticed a strange, yellow, leafy creature shoot another nut at her. She instinctively used her boomerang to block it, then threw it at the creature. It was effortlessly reduced to a pile of leaves.

"I don't know about you guys, but I think it's time we bugged out of here!" InuYasha growled. He then tried to jump back into the log, but an invisible magic force field stopped him and bounced him back! "Ouch! What in the..." he looked at the log again. He then tried to attack whatever had knocked him back, but only got sent backwards again. "Great, just great! We're stuck in this freakin' village! There must be another way out!"

"I think I see one. There's another log-tunnel down there, at the far end of the village." Sango pointed. "But I've got the impression we're going to have to fight our way to it." She could see more of the same creatures her and InuYasha had just destroyed.

"I'm on it." said InuYasha. He jumped down from the ledge, and fought more of the plant monsters and leaf-creatures. Eventually, he had the entire village cleared of them, and then rejoined his friends. "Done, now let's blow this place."

"Wait. Shouldn't we ask the villagers for info about where we are and what this place is?" said Kagome.

"No, we should just get out of here." InuYasha growled.

"Kagome's right. We still don't know where we've wound up. We need to learn more about whatever this place or dimension is before we just go bounding off into it." Miroku stated.

"Feh, alright then!" InuYasha said in an aggravated voice. He picked up Kagome's bike and Kiara grew to her huge size so the others could climb on her. They then descended the ledge into the now safe village. When they walked into one of the huts, a confused look came across their faces.

Inside the hut they had chosen were what looked like four children! Two boys and two girls with pointed ears and dressed in green clothing stared back at them with bewildered looks.

"Where do you come from?" one of the boys asked.

"We came out of the log up on the ledge." Kagome replied.

"You come from the Lost Woods? How? Usually when non-Kokiri enter the Lost Woods, they never return. You all strange. You first enter Kokiri Forest from Hyrule Field?" a girl asked.

"What are the Kokiri, the Lost Woods, and Hyrule Field? We've never heard of those names." Shippo then asked.

"We, and everybody else in this village are Kokiri. The Lost Woods is where log on the ledge leads into. Hyrule Field is where the other log leads. We Kokiri can't enter that log and enter Hyrule Field, otherwise we'll die. This village, Kokiri Forest, is the only place where we can live." the other Kokiri girl replied.

"Where are your parents?" Sango then asked.

"Kokiri have no parents. Only parent Kokiri know is the Great Deku Tree. But alas, the Great Deku Tree died seven years ago." a Kokiri boy replied. It was then when one of the girls noticed InuYasha's dog-like ears.

"Ooh, pretty ears! Lemme touch!" she said. She then jumped onto InuYasha's shoulders and began to play with his ears. InuYasha started to growl, his face welling up with anger.

"Get off of me, you wretch!" he shouted, using his arm to bat her off. She landed on her feet, behind him, and started giggling. InuYasha wheeled around to face her, looking like he was ready to explode.

"InuYasha, SIT!" Kagome ordered. WHAM! InuYasha did a faceplant into the floor, and then all of the Kokiri in the hut bursted out laughing raucously.

"What the hell did you do that for?!" he shouted, looking up at her.

"It looked like you were about to either claw her to pieces or hack her in two." Kagome said with a stern look on her face. InuYasha got back up grumbling. Then Miroku spoke.

"What is the name of this whole land? You mentioned that the field outside of this village is named Hyrule Field. Is Hyrule the name of this land we are in?" he asked the Kokiri.

"Yes, this land is named Hyrule, but things have not been peaceful here for the last seven years." one of them replied.

"Why is that?" InuYasha then asked, forgetting about the incident with his ears.

"Well, according to Saria, the one among us who talks to the forest spirits, seven years ago, a man by the name of Ganondorf attacked Hyrule Castle, where the Hylian Royal Family and King lived. He took over, and shortly thereafter, monsters started appearing all over Hyrule, including Kokiri Forest. The monsters weren't that bad at first, but things have steadily gone downhill since that time, up to today."

Miroku thought about what he had just heard, and sighed when the puzzle came together in his mind.

"Well, I think I now know why we're here." He then said, dejectedly.

"Why?" InuYasha impatiently asked.

"I think we've been sent here by some force to be this land's deliverers. I think we may have been sent to help get rid of this Ganondorf fellow somehow."

"Great, just great. We have to save this stupid world while Naraku is free to do whatever the hell he wants in our own!" InuYasha threw his arms up in disgust. "What makes you think that, Miroku?"

"The key clue is that we aren't able to go back through the log we came here through. That, and also, there's a dark presence in the air emanating not from within this village, but seemingly from the log that supposedly leads to Hyrule Field."

"That's it! That's what I was sensing! I must have been sensing this place's dark energy coming through when we first found the log!" Kagome suddenly realized.

"Well, whatever. C'mon, let's go and find this Hyrule Castle and Ganondorf, and get this over with." InuYasha then said.

"Yeah, I want to get back to fighting Naraku." Sango then said.

"Agreed, let's get moving then." Miroku gave in. They thanked the Kokiri for their hospitality and left Kokiri Forest through the log tunnel leading into Hyrule Field.

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The trek across Hyrule Field had been surprisingly easy. The field was composed of mostly rolling hills and plain, with a tree here and there occasionally. InuYasha was walking, Kagome and Shippo were on the bike, and Miroku and Sango were riding Kiara. They had been travelling in one direction, the direction that Kagome believed was the source of the powerful magic she was sensing.

"Kagome, can you sense anything in particular about this magic?" Miroku asked down at her.

"All I can say is that it is very strong, and not of shards of the Sacred Jewel. That much I can tell, other than that, I'm just as much in the dark as you are."

"Whatever it is, it better be leading us to wherever this Ganondorf is so I can cleave him in two and we can get outta here." InuYasha said bluntly. Just then a strange apparition faded into existence about fifty or so yards ahead of them. They all stopped, wondering what it was.

"What is that?" Shippo asked confusedly. The apparition appeared to be a strange ghost, with a solid black face and yellow slits for eyes, and apparently carrying a lantern. It began to advance toward them menacingly.

"I got this one." Kagome said, getting off her bike and readying a sacred arrow. She centered her arrow up, and fired. The glowing arrow hit home, disintegrating the ghost and leaving a small, blue looking spirit behind. InuYasha walked up to it carefully and looked at it, but after a few moments, the evil looking spirit disappeared.

"Hmph, didn't seem like much. Nice shot Kagome, though I doubt you needed to waste an arrow on something so weak." he said back at her.

"Well, at least I got some practice in." she replied. They then noticed the sun was starting to set, so they decided to stop and pitch camp for the night. After they all had their dinner of instant noodles and sauce cooked on the propane stove Kagome always kept in her duffel bag, they took turns sleeping and keeping watch during the night.

They got off to an early start the next morning and Kagome said the magical presence was getting stronger and that she believed they were getting closer. They continued on for sometime, when InuYasha suddenly stopped and started sniffing the air.

"The stench of death and decay." he stated.

"W-Which direction?" Shippo asked in a slightly scared voice.

"Straight ahead, in the direction we're going. I've got a bad feeling about this."

Also at that time, Sango happened to look off to her left, and also noticed something ominous.

"Guys, look out that way." she pointed. Way off in the distance, they all saw a large mountain, but not just an ordinary mountain. This one appeared to have a ring of fire circling around its peak, and the ring was slowly rotating too.

"What the hell is that?" InuYasha asked.

"I don't know, but I've got the feeling that that's not natural, or how it's supposed to look." Miroku said. They continued a little bit further, the stench of death and decay growing stronger and stronger until they approached a large white gatehouse and walls. Also, the sky had started to turn ominously dark. Kagome then spoke up.

"It's in there, that's where the magic is emanating." She pointed through the gate.

"It's also where the stench is coming from." InuYasha quipped in. Strangely, they found the remains of the gate in the moat. They went on in through the gatehouse, and gasped.

Before them were the ruins of a great town. Frames of what were once buildings were everywhere. An evil wind howled through the ruins, and the sun did not shine through the now dark brown sky. Up ahead, they saw the city square, utterly devastated.

"What happened here? Could demons have done this?" Sango asked out loud. Upon further inspection of some of the ruins, Miroku spoke up.

"Huh-uh. Ordinary demons couldn't have done this. The burn marks on these ruins tell me an army looted and burned this place." he said. InuYasha joined him in inspecting some of the ruins then added:

"There's a little bit of a metallic smell on these marks too. Demons definitely didn`t do this. I don`t smell any traces of them."

"Hey, look over there!" Kagome pointed. A little distance away from the square of the ruins, appeared to be the only structure in normal condition. The structure was a large, cathedral-like building, the fire ringed mountain being visible off in the distance behind it. Walking over to it, they noticed that the building looked rather odd, with a symbol of three golden triangles forming a larger triangle over the door.

"What a strange building." Shippo said.

"Very strange looking." Miroku observed. He wanted to go inside, but the others stopped him, wanting instead to investigate the town more. As they returned to the square, they failed to notice a new presence.

Several zombie-like creatures had appeared in the square. As they reentered the square, the zombies gazed at them and they were all suddenly paralyzed and unable to move!

"What the devil? I can't move!" InuYasha shouted.

"We all can't!" Miroku shouted.

"What are we going to do?" Shippo then said in a very scared voice.

InuYasha tried to reach for the Tetsusaiga, but his arms wouldn't move an inch. The zombies were getting closer, and closer, until one got to Kagome and grabbed her and started choking her!

"Kagome!" InuYasha screamed in distress as one grabbed him. Sango was next to be grabbed.

"Sango!" Miroku shouted, then one grabbed him.