Monster Rancher Fan Fiction ❯ Demon Rancher ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: Mitka13

Demon Rancher chapter 5

Strange Occurrences

Vickie yawns, and then sits up in her bed, being careful not to knock over her blue stuffed teddy bear, B.J. Time to start another day! She thinks to herself as she changes her clothes and heads down the stairs. The bath could come later, after she knows that Sesshomaru has done his work correctly. As she heads for the door, she grabs her clipboard and pencil. Vickie then walks out the door to see her puppy.

What she finds outside sitting by the barn, however, was not her puppy. Instead, a young boy who looked to be around four years old is sitting where Sesshomaru would sit. The silver haired boy looks up at Vickie and smiles, little fangs gleaming in the morning sunlight. Vickie looks horrified. Where could her puppy have gotten to? And who was that boy? How did he even get in? “SESSHOMARU!!!” Vickie screams for her dog as she runs around to the side door of the barn. She opens the door and slams it shut behind her.

Outside, the little boy tilts his head. Why did she scream his name then run into the barn? Didn't she realize he was right here? Sesshomaru sighs “She's so weird…” he says, not realizing that he said it out loud, as he gets up and walks toward the barn. “I've gotten bigger…” he mumbles to himself, just now noticing how close he is to the handle on the door.

Vickie hears movement outside and pokes her head out. Maybe her dumb dog had actually listened! She `Eeps' when she sees the silver haired boy with the gold eyes again. Sesshomaru raises an eyebrow at Vickie. “W-who are you?” Vickie stammers. Sesshomaru tilts his head in confusion. Had he changed color overnight? “It's me.” He tells Vickie. Now its Vickie's turn to raise an eyebrow. “And who is me?” she asks him. The boy grins at her. “It's me, Sesshomaru!”

Vickie gapes at him, her mouth wide open. Sesshomaru snickers “Don't let the flies in.” Vickie glares at him and closes her mouth. She walks over to him and stares him in the eyes. Sesshomaru stares back at her and tilts his head. “What was that white thing you were wearing last week?” he asks her innocently. Vickie's eyes widen as she remembers changing her clothes in front of her puppy. Her eyes narrow as she growls at him, then, slaps him in the face. “You were in my room?! I thought you were sick!” she shouts.

Sesshomaru stands there in shock, his mouth slightly open. “Don't let the flies get in.” Vickie growls at him. Sesshomaru's eyebrows draw together as he closes his mouth. She could hear him? How, when before, she couldn't? “I don't understand. I thought you loved me. You said it yourself!” he exclaims. Vickie puts her hands on her hips. “And I thought you were a dog!” she shouts back at him. Sesshomaru frowns “But I am a dog. See?” he says while holding out his right front paw. He gasps and pulls it back when he sees that it's a clawed hand. “What happened to me?!” he shouts while looking at the hand in horror.

Vickie frowns at the now scared little boy. Now that she wasn't scared, she could really take a good look at him. The boy has a pale complection and bright golden eyes. His hair was the same color as her pup's fur, silvery white and he has two pinkish colored stripes on his face, one on each cheek. His outfit looked a bit outdated, like it belonged in feudal Japan. It was white with a blue circle in the middle, and the top was tied shut with a navy blue string. It was hard to tell in the light of the barn, but Vickie thought she could see a white undershirt. He also had a matching white pair of pants on.

Sesshomaru had finally calmed down about the hand and looks at Vickie with curious eyes. Vickie steps closer to him and slowly circles around him. Sesshomaru follows her with his eyes until he can't see her, then he starts to turn in her direction. “Don't move.” Vickie orders and he goes still. Vickie is finally behind him. There was a lump on his butt. Slowly, carefully, she lifts up his long hakama and reaches for his butt. She grabs onto something that was not fleshy! Sesshomaru jumps as Vickie reaches into his pants and pulls out a two foot long fluffy thing.

“What the heck is this thing?” she asks him. Sesshomaru tries to turn around, but fails. “LET GO OF MY TAIL!” Sesshomaru howls. Vickie tugs a little on the `tail'. “What, this ol' thing?” she gives it another tug, not realizing that she tugged harder. “Yes!” he yelps. Vickie smiles and starts patting his tail. Sesshomaru lets out a little growl, but slowly starts to relax into Vickie's touch. “You know, now that you look like a human, you're going to need a nick name.” Vickie tells him. Sesshomaru sighs “What are you gonna call me?” Vickie frowns, and stops mid-pat. “How's about I shorten your name to Sessho?”

“Fine with me.” He replies as Vickie turns her patting into longer strokes. Sessho rests his chin on his chest with a sigh. What she was doing felt really good, but he wasn't going to tell her that. Then she would never stop. Or worse, she'll hardly ever do it like she does with his meat on a stick! He loves it so much, yet she hardly ever gives it to him. Vickie finally stops stroking his tail and lets it fall. “Can I move now?” Sessho asks his Mistress.

“Oh, yeah, go ahead!” she says while stepping back out of the barn. “I hope you're ready to travel, cause I gotta see Sheila.” Sessho turns his head to look at Vickie. “What for?” Vickie looks away and heads for the house while Sessho follows her, “Something…”

Twenty minutes later…

Vickie walks onto Sheila's Ranch and call for her twin. The dark blur that races towards them was not Sheila! Sessho leaps in front of Vickie, baring his fangs at the dusty blur. A loud growl comes from the dusty whirlwind and all of a sudden, Sessho is on his back snapping at a little boy with long black hair dressed in brown furs! “Oh Shit!” Vickie yells as she aims a kick at the furred boy (Who also has a tail) it hits him square in the ribs and the boy yelps and rolls onto his side, off of Sesshomaru. Sessho gets on all fours and is about to leap on the downed wolf thing, but Vickie grabs him by the collar of his hakama and pulls him away.

“Don't hurt a guy when he's down.” She says to him. Sesshomaru looks up at his Mistress in confusion. “But what if he gets back up?” he asks as they walk away from the now recovering boy. “If he gets up and attacks us, then you can go all out on him.” The boy's blue eyes widen as he gets up, then he slowly starts to follow the two.

As Vickie goes up the stairs and knocks on the door, Sesshomaru turns to look at the boy, who is standing about four feet away from him. “So it happened to you too?...” he mumbles, knowing with ears the same as his own, Koga could hear him. Koga glares at him and gives him a curt nod, not trusting his voice to be as low as Sesshomaru's. Sheila answers the door and hugs Vickie with a smile. “Do ya know what happened to Koga?!” she shouts/asks her sister. “The same thing happened to Sessho!” Vickie shouts back while bouncing up and down with Sheila.

Both demons turn around to look at their Mistresses in confusion. “Does she always do that?” Koga whispers to Sessho. Sesshomaru sighs, “Sometimes.” Koga winces, “How do you deal with that?” Sessho looks at him blankly. “I'm used to it.” Koga backs up a bit. “Don't look at me like that!” both girls turn to look at their demons to see Sesshomaru staring at Koga with an expressionless mask of a face, The only thing giving away his amusement was the glitter in his eyes.

“Is he always like that?” Sheila asks Vickie. Vickie tilts her head, “Like what?” she replies. Sheila rolls her eyes, “Whatever, Koga!” Koga looks up at Sheila and grins at her. “Yeah?” he asks her. Sheila narrows her eyes at him, “Get over here!” Koga pushes past Sesshomaru and runs up the steps to Sheila, only to pause when a blur of white jumps over him to land in front of Vickie. Koga backs up when he sees the mask again, only this time Sessho's eyes were glittering with warning.

Koga's eyes lower from Sesshomaru's as he walks up the stairs towards his Mistress. He raises his eyes to look up at Sheila “What's up?” he asks her. WHACK! “OW!” Sheila had just hit him upside the head. “Were you the one who was doing all the growling outside?” she asks him. Koga shakes his head, “No, it was him!” he exclaims while pointing at Sesshomaru. Sheila looks at Sesshomaru and he turns his head her way, his cool mask still in place. She's just about to whack him upside the head, but Vickie's hand grabs her by the wrist. “You train your pup, I'll train mine, okay?” she half growls at her sister.

Sheila glares at Vickie, sees that she's glaring back, and nods her head. “Sounds fair enough, but if he,” she nods her head at Koga, “gets out of line, don't be afraid to discipline him.” Vickie looks over at Koga, then at Sesshomaru. “Same goes for my sweeties.” Sheila raises an eyebrow, “Sweeties? You mean there's MORE of them?” Vickie just laughs, “No, but there will be!”

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