InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Thunder, Lightening: The Quiet Resolution of a Fire Maiden ❯ Dawn In Darkness ( Chapter 8 )

Dawn In Darkness

 

“Life is not meant to be perfect”

 

-Carlos Gershenson

 

Kagome recited in her head what she knew would seal the well off at least from people who intended to use it maliciously.

 

"Creature of cloth thou art,

Creature of flesh and blood you be.

I name you, Naraku.

No more shall you do me harm.

No more shall you repeat false tales.

No more shall you interfere in my life, nor in the lives of my loved ones.

By the power of the Gods and by my will, So mote it be!"

 

Draw an invoking pentagram over the poppet.

Now take the ribbon and begin to wrap the poppet like a mummy,

leaving no space unwrapped.

 

"I bind your feet from bringing harm to me.

I bind your hands from reaching out to harm me.

I bind your mouth from spreading false tales to harm me.

I bind your mind from sending energy to harm me.

If you do so continue, let all negative energy be cast and reflected directly at you!"

 

Tie off the ribbon and hold the poppet in front of the mirror while you visualize all negative energy this person has sent to you being reflected back at them.

Wrap the poppet in the black cloth and tie with another length of ribbon.

 

"Great Mother, I have bound this person

from harming me and my loved ones.

By the powers of three times three

By Earth and Fire, Air and Sea

I fix this spell, then set it free

Twill give no harm to return to me

As I will, So mote it be!"

 

Let the candle burn out while the poppet sits at its base, then take the poppet and the remains of the candle far from your home and bury it deep in the ground or toss it in the ocean and walk away without looking back.

 

BANISHING OIL

-1/2 oz olive oil 7 drops pepper oil (add cayenne pepper to olive oil if you wish)

-10 drops peppermint oil - or peppermint essence from icing part of a grocers plus olive oil.

-12 drops of rue or rosemary oil. You can add rue or rosemary to olive oil and put in a warm place for 3 days and strain or buy the essential oil.

-Some crushed black peppercorns

-15 drops of pine oil or some pine needles stepped in olive oil for 3 days in warm place and strained.

Or pine essential oil. One obsidian or black onyx stone or a small black pebble.

Blend together in an eggcup and put in a clean brown or dark medicine bottle.

Some of these oils are volatile. Do not anoint yourself with Banishing oil. You could burn yourself.

Wash your hands after using. Charge the stone or stones used after adding it and focus on the person and your intent pouring in energy and emotion. As you dress the candles you make them your magical tools. Charge again as you massage away from you massaging in banishing oil from middle to the ends of the candle.

 

 

Okay check, I know this… hopefully well enough. I wonder if I could just buy the damn thing from an occult shop. I need a mirror too, well that's easy at least.

 

Kagome was so deeply in thought she did not noticed herself being hoisted up into the air by a pair of strong arms that is until the mouth that belonged to the arms spoke to her and it said:

 

“Kagome, are you prepared to leave?”

 

She was shocked out of her reverie.

 

“Huh? Oh, yes.”

 

Sesshoumaru looked down at her face and wondered just what the hell was going on in her tiny little head. Women, he figured, were always someplace else. Kagome seemed to be in her own little world, not a care about what was going on around her. He knew otherwise, at least he thought he knew otherwise. He took hold of her wrist and dragged her out of his library, where she had been religiously chanting to herself the appropriate way to remove evil entities. Deosil, widdershins, deosil, widdershins, she walked in circles stopped abruptly squeaked and would run back to the tomb that lay not ten feet from where she first began. Sesshoumaru began to worry about her mental integrity. Maybe with all the youkai she has killed off in the last few years she lost a bit of her brain in the process. She was powerful even before she was changed and now afterwards all that power bestowed on her might have sent her off the edge. It could very well have been the case. In many cases where people have too much power they begin to lose their minds, power can be very dangerous if not well cared for. She could very well lose it completely in the next couple of days because of it. Kagome might as well be donning a Messianic complex. She did think, rightfully so, that the world would crumble without her intervention, that is why after years of verbal abuse she stuck around anyways, she knew she was the world's last hope.

But why was it that the world's only possible willing saviour had to suffer so much? Kagome was not well informed on the role of being the saviour. She did not realize that with great power came great responsibility, she did not want to see that because of her unbidden talent she was forced to have it tough. What better way to be prepared for the worse than to be put through it? Why would you want to save thousands of people if you have never suffered an ounce of pain? Why would you go through the fires of hell for peace if you have never encountered war? How would you appreciate a bird song filled morning if you did not have a shitty blood filled night?

 

It is not possible, even if unfair. Evil would not exist if it were not for good. No one would be able to tell the difference. She would not be considered a pure creature with her healing capabilities if Sesshoumaru, the killing perfection, did not exist. The people of Feudal Japan needed to experience the blood thirsty Naraku to appreciate and comprehend her and her group of allies. That even as diverse as they are, still aiming for what would best benefit Japan even if meant losing their lives. If they did not have Naraku then how else would they prove to the masses that not all youkai are evil, that women were not useless? It would not be impossible but it would be difficult. Peace would not exist without war. One is needed for the other.

 

Good and evil though are perceived differently through one's own eyes. For even though Inu Yasha, Kagome, Sesshoumaru, Sango, Miroku, Kikyou, Rin, Shippou, Jakken, Kanna, Kouga, and the rest of Japan thought that Naraku's actions were in fact evil, Naraku himself believes otherwise. He honestly believes that his actions are not evil, that he is doing a recherché thing.

 

Decisions, implications, beginnings, and endings, the path to evil and the path to good are the same it all depends on which door you open. The left or the right, the one in front or the one in back, in the end we all meet the same fate. Who are we to dictate the sleight difference between the actions of one and the actions of another and deem which goes to heaven and which goes to hell? Have we not all committed sin? Have we all not fallen prey to temptation? Yes we have. Kagome knows this. She knows that no matter what decision she takes someone will end up with the back fire. The laws of Karma, what you put out there in the world, will eventually come back to you in some shape, way, or form. That is why she does not judge people the way others do. That is why she shows compassion to even the lowliest demon, in hope that one day that demon will remember that it was a human girl who saved her or his life and not slaughter the human child in front of her or him. Although the human part of Kagome at least physically has passed, she continues to feel an unyielding compassion for the world around her. This is her weapon of mass destruction. This is her unbreakable sword of justice. This is her zantetsuken. Her ultimate defense, all of this lays within a simple ten lettered word.

 

 

.To Be Continued

 

 

Kurai's Korner:

Okay the spell above is real, yes it can work no you shouldn't use it frivolously. Zantetsuken, if you haven't figured it out already it's from Final Fantasy VIII well the others have it as well, VI and VII and probably the others I don't remember, but more specifically VIII when Odin comes and kills the enemy in one move. He slices them in half and boom no more monster and woo hoo experience points!