InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Twilight ❯ Preperations ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1




Twilight spread across the horizon letting darkness fall on the pair in a small clearing. Silver hair hung down over the stretched out arms.
Settling across the sculpted plains of muscled chest like moonlight. Sweat gleamed off the golden skin giving the being an unearthly glow.
His head hung not in defeat but only in weariness regrouping for the upcoming battle. Golden eyes raised to look at the only other figure in
the wide spread meadow. She stood playing with the hilt of a golden dagger. Her raven hair falling perfectly downs her back settling sharp
contrast against the white of shirt. On emotion graced the hard plains of her face. Eyes as empty as the moonless night stared back at him
. . . waiting . . . watching . . . devouring.
The full moon had almost reached its peak when yet another women emerged from the forest. As of yet that made eleven to appear in the murky mist.
Twelve women sat in the clearing meditating, chanting, and praying save one who stood in the shadows watching the meadow in silence. Finally thew
last woman had emerged from the forest, signified by the standing of the other eleven.
“ Now my brethren our destiny can be fulfilled. Come let us begin.” The whisper came from the shadows and set the women in to a flurry of motion.
Four stone bowls were placed at each corner of the platform in the center of the meadow. This platform was made of midnight marble,
carved in to an X, it stood about three to three and a half feet high. “ Now, my brethren, bring him, bring the hanyou.”
The whisper hovered in the air. Eight of the twelve women walked over to the sagging form hanging from between two trees.
They reached up four on each side grasping and wrenching his arms up and between his shoulder blades. A slight hiss of pain was all that was offered
from the other wise silent being. With much pushing, pulling, and dragging the eight women brought the struggling hanyou over to the marble alter.
They quickly secured him to each limb of the cold stone. Once secured four backed away leaving the other four to finish what they all had started.
The remaining women each garbed a stone bowl and offered it to a fifth women that had walked up to join them. The bowls each contained a different
blend of herbs. Two of the women who had been standing at the hanyous head reached to the ground and come up with foot long strips of battered
leather each. They tossed one end to the remaining two on the other side of his head, and then they sprung quickly forcing the battered leather between
the snarling lips and bared fangs. Once completed they then begin pulling the clinched jaws in opposite directions forcing them to open.
When they had his mouth open reveling the vulnerable red inside, the fifth reached for one of the stone bowls mixing the herbs with the liquid
from a pitcher placed at the alters base. Once it had formed a runny paste she began pouring it in to the hanyous mouth.
When she had emptied the bowl filling his mouth to brimming, she gave the others the signal causing them to release their hold on the leather straps.
As soon as they were removed the fifth quickly placed her bowl on he ground and forcing hanyous lips to close over the over stuffed mouth.
Next she pinched his slightly aristocratic nose closed as she leaned down to his head where his dog like ears were pressed flat
against his head in anger to whisper “ Swallow hanyou, swallow or suffocate! You know that eventually you will swallow . . .
the need for air will get the better of you . . . yes, you can already feel it can't you, the pressure in your chest,
the burning in your lungs, your throat tightening up . . . Ah yess Now Swallow!” finally it ended up as she
said and the need for air was his downfall.
When he had consumed the herbs and lay gasping for air she turned to the one woman still hidden in the shadows.
“ He shall be ready in a few moments My Lady.”