Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Fairen Destiny ❯ Chapter 4

"Kaoru get up, come on get up." Misao sighed and stood up. She had been trying to wake her up now for about 15 minutes straight and Kaoru hadn't even budged! `Why did I ever let her sleep first?!'

Misao's patience gave in and found a medium sized rock and backed up so she was hovering about ten feet from Kaoru and threw the rock at her fairly hard. She immediately jumped up but lost her balance and so came face to face with the ground, squashing her poor nose into the dirt.

"What on earth was that for?!"

"You wouldn't wake up. But know that you've finally decided to join the land of the living, it's your turn to keep watch." Kaoru merely growled and glared at Misao, rubbing her nose.

. "Yes, your highness."

Kenshin watched the whole thing with amusement. Misao had to be a very close friend to Kaoru to be able to do that without Kaoru attempting to kill her. Right now he was trying not to laugh at how Kaoru was acting, she obviously didn't like being disturbed from her sleep judging at how grumpy she was. She would surely try to rip his head off if he even opened his mouth. But it was too funny not to remark and he just couldn't help what slipped from his mouth.

"Good thing she did wake though Kaoru. I don't think I've ever heard anyone snore as loud as you." He must have had a death wish. Too bad for him.

"WHAT?! I do NOT snore you STUPID JERK! If anyone snores it would be you. I think I heard you even when I was asleep!"

"That's an exaggeration and you know it. I DON'T snore. If I did then how the hell did you fall asleep?"

"You just can't shut up for one moment can you?! I'm so sick of you! I hope whatever Lady Tomoe needs you for is VERY PAINFUL!"

Misao rubbed her temples in frustration, feeling a headache coming on. `Honestly would it kill them to keep quiet for just five minutes?!'

"KENSHIN LEAVE HER ALONE! YOU TOO KAORU! BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP BEFORE I BOLT YOU MOUTHS SHUT! NOW!"

Kenshin stared at Misao for a moment, mouths wide open, before quickly doing as he was told and making a mental note never to get Misao angry again. Kaoru however, just turned her equally bad temper to Misao.

"Why should I?! He started it! I don't snore and it's rude to say I that do!"

"I don't care! He said it to make you angry and you fell for it so it's your own fault!"

Kenshin just shied away from the two as they continued shouting at one another. He wasn't that loud when he argued with Kaoru was he? No wonder Misao got so mad at them.

He covered his ears in attempt to shun out the noise but quickly uncovered them again. He could have sworn he heard some sort of growl. It was distant and he could barely hear it. But still he froze and listened for it again. Normally he would have ignored it, taking it to be a wolf or something but he somehow didn't think any wolves lived in here. A branch cracked and there was another growl which was closer then before but still very quite almost inaudible.

Kaoru and Misao didn't seem to have noticed. Kenshin slowly stood up, looking all around her for any sign of some sort of animal. He slowly reached his sword when Kaoru and Misao finally seemed to notice him and shut up. They looked around wondering what was wrong. Misao readied her bow and arrow. "Kenshin what's-"

"Shut up! Something's here"

There was that growl again and he could have sworn he just heard another. Kenshin was holding perfectly still, sword drawn and ready to strike. Misao and Kaoru slowly stood up having just heard the growling themselves. Whatever it was-both Kaoru and Misao praying it wasn't what they thought- hadn't attacked yet. They were all slowly backing away from the clearing into the forest opposite where the growling was coming from. They nearly made it and would have…..if Kaoru hadn't tripped over a rock and fall down yelling.

Misao shot into the air and started shooting arrows or small daggers-whatever she grabbed from her quiver-at their attackers. What looked to be two overgrown lizards suddenly raced into the clearing, charging and roaring towards them.

They stood about twenty feet tall with long thick necks giving them at least half their height and small razor sharp teeth and fangs protruding from their mouths accompanied by oozing saliva. Considering their size they were very fast. Kenshin dashed over to Kaoru and yanked her up, and started sprinting from the giant reptiles. Misao was shooting arrows engulfed in lighting at them like mad but it didn't seem to bother them and continued after Kenshin and Kaoru. Misao ran out of arrows and daggers and formed her own glowing blue-green ones again and again as hurled them at the giant monsters. She was trying to draw their attention away from Kenshin and Kaoru and to her so the two could reach safety.

Well that worked at least. The giant lizards had now stopped there chase and were biting, lashing and spitting fire out at Misao who was darting over and shooting magic at them.

Kenshin and Kaoru were at a safe distance watching what was happening to Misao. After a moment Kaoru was no longer able to just stand and watch.

"I've got to do something! Quick give me your sword!"

"You can't fight those things!"

"We can't just leave her to those things she'll be killed! She can't fight dracins on her own! I'm going to help her!"

"What can you do? She would never let you help. You can't do magic. I'll help her!"

"You can't either! She's my friend and I have to do something!"

"Do something by staying where it's safe! I'll go!" Kenshin started to run off but was held back by Kaoru.

"You know what you're really ticking me off! Give me your blasted sword and back off!"

Kenshin was going to shout back but was interrupted by a loud scream coming from Misao. She was knocked to the ground by one of the dracin's tails and her left wings were both bent at odd angels and couldn't be used to fly. A dracin spat fire at her which she narrowly dodged by rolling and quickly getting to her feet.

"MISAO!!!!!" Before Kenshin could react, Kaoru grabbed his sword and sprinted towards Misao and the dracins. Kenshin quickly followed and drew out the other sword he had stolen a few days before.

The dracins were closing in on Misao. Her armor, covered in both the dracins' blood and hers, was just barely holding up against their attacks. She was fighting back but was beginning to tire and her injuries, which consisted of burns and bleeding cuts and scrapes, weren't helping. One of the dracins clawed at her making her fall to the ground. She gasped in pain trying to fight them off.

Suddenly one of the dracins roared in pain and both twisted around to see Kaoru stabbing the sword into a dracin's hind leg and twisting it out. "Misao run!"

"What are you doing? Get out of here! You can't fight!"

"Yes I can!" she stabbed the other dracin's leg, both of which were momentarily stunned by the new attacker and shouting but quickly regained themselves and attacked Kaoru, roaring and growling and forgetting Misao.

A dracin lunged at Kaoru but missed as Kenshin came running at lightning speed and stabbed it quickly in its eye. The dracin reared its head, spraying blood from its bloody eye socket. Kenshin circled around the now one-eyed dracin, continually stabbing and thrusting his sword wherever he could manage. He paused to see what damage had been done. He was stunned. Everywhere he had sliced with his sword was only a scratch! There was no blood on his sword yet he should have taken a limb off or something by now but only slightly bleeding scratches! What was this thing made out of?! Steel?!

Kaoru too began fighting off the dracin, though not quite as fluidly as Kenshin. But not being protected by armor or able to use magic, both were beginning to be over powered. The two now resorted to only dodging, blocking, and running to avoid being killed.

Kaoru was struck by a dracin's front claw and threw backwards to the ground landing painfully on her back. Misao shot magic-formed daggers at the dracins so they wouldn't go after Kaoru.

Kenshin ran towards a dracin, too distracted by Misao to notice him, from behind and managed to climb on its back. He crawled towards the neck clinging to the scales so as not to be thrown off and thrust his sword into its neck, pushing it in as fare in as he could, twisting and severing bones and ligaments and muscle in the creature's neck.

He quickly let go of the sword as if it had burned him and looking at his hands saw it really had. The sword had also turned jet black, the same color as the dracin's blood, and smoldered. He jumped off the beast as the dracin howled in pain, black blood pouring from its neck wound. Misao then cast a lightning bolt at the dracin's neck wound, shocking it from the inside-out. It fell to the ground dead with one last earth trembling roar.

Kenshin and Misao both sighed in relief but then heard another roar and just realized. `Where's the other dracin!?!' Another loud roar and burst of flame showed them that the other dracin was attacking something else while they fought it's now dead colleague. Whatever it was attacking-their view of it was blocked by the dracin-was holding off surprisingly well. The dracin spewed fire from its mouth once again, and a loud scream was then heard. That scream didn't come from the dracin but a person-a girl-Kaoru! They only just realized she wasn't with them!

They sprinted to her aid just as she fell to the ground, partially burned and dropping Kenshin's sword making her defenseless against the looming dracin. Kaoru struggled to get up and only just managed it. Kenshin picked up his sword and immediately, with Misao's help, began fending off the creature.

Thank God! She wouldn't have been able to hold it off much longer; how she did in the first place she'd never know. She was just getting her breath when its tail came thrashing towards all three of them.

Misao jumped into the air attempting to use her two good wings but it wasn't enough and she only managed to hover shortly twenty feet in the air. But that was all it took as the dracin's fire pelted towards her. And, had not been for quick reflexes, she would have been entirely engulfed in flame as she came crashing down with a resounding thud and quickly blacking out.

While this happened the dracin also swung its tail at Kenshin and Kaoru. Kaoru managed to duck just in time but Kenshin, who was still slashing at the creature, wasn't so lucky and was hit full force by the tail. His sword fell from his burned hands and he soared high into the air and landed twenty feet away with a loud bone-breaking thud. The dracin was now fast approaching Kenshin with intent of having him as its next meal.

Misao stirred, only momentarily forgetting was going on before painfully jumping to her feet, glowing green and burns partially disappearing. She saw the dracin and it approaching Kenshin and as quickly as she could, rushing to help.

Kaoru, now relying on adrenaline alone to keep her from falling to the ground, stood a little a ways from Kenshin and was shouting and flailing her arms so as to attempt to lead the beast away from him but it ignored her preferring something that wasn't going to fight back. It was about to bite into Kenshin, who struggled to get up but to no avail, when Kaoru stabbed the dracin in its side spilling blood as she twisted the blade out, readying to give another blow.

The monstrous beast roared, twisting its long snake-like neck to face Kaoru and quickly heading for her with deep hatred and hunger in its eyes. Kaoru fell to her knees and watched wide eyed as its massive head came towards her, mouth wide showing its rows of razor like teeth and fangs, and-

.

Time seemed to freeze for Kenshin and Misao, eyes widened in terror and both with looks of horror and disbelief on their faces, but quickly speeding up again.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

"KAORUUUUUUUUUUU!!!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The dracin had caught Kaoru up into its jaws.

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CLIFFIE! ^^ I my first battle scene thing and it sucked lol well I tried. Can't think of anything else to say so tell me what you think! That means REVIEW!!!! :D by for now

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