When Night Falls
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha
Summer is finally here, which means I have time to work on my full-length story! This one is both better worked out and written than my last story (Trivial Matters). Well, this is just the prologue, but I'd expect an update every week, and I'm trying to make all my chapters (excluding this prologue) 1500+ words. I hope that this story goes over better than my last one. This prologue focuss's mainly on Koga, who plays a large part in this story, but this story will me mainly Miroku and Sango. I will include Inuyasha/Kagome also.
Prologue
A slight breeze blew over the cloud-capped mountains and onto the green plains beneath, where it gently played with the long, rich grass. The day seemed peaceful enough for Koga, the young leader of the wolf-demon tribe. It was a cloudy day, not cold or hot, a perfect equilibrium with a refreshing gust of cool air every now and then. Not a ray of sun shone through the thick clouds, but this was the way Koga liked it. It made the color of all the trees and flowers look so much richer, and being a wolf-demon he had learned to enjoy and respect nature.
As he lay sprawled out on his back he took a big sniff of the fresh air. But wait… something wasn't right. Slowly he sat up and looked around. Taking another sniff he tried to identify the foreign scent. No, it wasn't Naraku… nor was it that mutt Inuyasha. Just what the hell was it? As a wolf, Koga relied heavily upon his sense of smell, and when he couldn't identify something it drove him crazy.
Another layer of clouds passed above him, darkening the fields deeply. Something was coming. Don't let it bother you, Koga, he mentally told himself, whatever it is, you can take it on. He settled a bit upon thinking this. What was there to worry about? After all, he was the esteemed leader of the wolf demons, and he didn't reach that point by being weak.
"Koga!"
"Lord Koga!"
Koga's ears perked upon hearing two familiar voices coming towards him. "Ginta! Hakkakku! Just what the hell are you two doing here?"
"Somethin' ain't right with the wind today, Lord Koga," said Ginta, slowing to a stop in front of him.
"Don't you think I know that?" he spat.
Ginta chuckled nervously, "Of course! You of all demons would know… being who you are, that is. But we also got word from Lady Ayame's tribe in the north that they've been completely enveloped by darkness! They're calling it the 'endless night'."
"Hmm…" Koga looked up at the darkening sky. "Maybe… there's more to this than I thought. Hakkakku, go back and watch over the tribe. If anything happens, just howl. Ginta, come with me."
"Uh, but Lord Koga, where are we going?"
"We're going to pay a little visit to Ayame." With that, Koga took of in a whirl of wind, leaving Ginta to trail behind.
Koga noted the gradual change in darkness as he darted forward across the plains and mountains that make up Japan. Yes, something definitely was not right. He remembered a brief experience a while back where the full moon had shown for many nights in a row (remember, that's in the 2nd movie?), but this did not feel like that. This was ominous to him, that had just been weird. And either way, it had been easier for him to hunt at night.
Taking a long sniff of the air he directed his course more eastward.
"It looks like it's going to storm," said Kagome, looking upwards. The sky had continuously darkened throughout their last two hours of travel. Miroku muttered something from behind and put his hand to his head.
"Are you all right, Houshi-sama?" asked Sango, who was walking beside him.
"Fine," he muttered, "just a headache."
"Okay… anyway, we should be stopping soon. We don't want to be caught up in a storm."
Kagome nodded, Inuyasha "feh"'d but made no argument against it. Miroku did not answer.
After another half an hour or so of running, Koga managed to come across Ayame. She was followed by many wolves and was helping an older wolf along the path.
"Oy, Ayame!" he said, coming to a stop.
"Koga!" she grinned.
"Where are you going?"
"The Elder doesn't like the feeling he's getting from this darkness so we're fleeing the north. We've learned to follow what the Elder says… he's not often wrong."
Koga knelt down until he was face to face with the old wolf Ayame had been helping. "What's going on old geezer?" he questioned.
The other wolves seemed taken aback by Koga's rudeness, but the Elder answered, "There is a legend from long ago that has been past down for generations among the wolves of the north. It says that one day, an enormous beast rose out of the western sea, blocking out the sun all over our land. The Lord of the Northern Lands was not happy, for he saw his empire crumbling under the darkness. He waged war on the giant beast. For a century his battle continued. The Northern lord caused great gusts of wind and thunder bolts to light up the sky. The beast caused floods, rain, and tsunamis that destroyed the land. They say that the Northern Lord defeated the beast, and that its blood became the great eastern ocean. But when the Lord returned to his lands, they were completely destroyed by the floods."
"So if the beast was killed, why do you fear it?" asked Koga.
"Because, we have learned to respect the past. Time runs in a cycle, young wolf, of destruction, recreation, and eventually destruction again. I fear that the next great destruction is upon us, but for the time being, I will do everything I can to avoid it."
"I see…"
"For now, you best go back to your tribe. I do not know what the future will bring to them, but it would be best that you are there to lead them."
"Right. Ayame, I'll see you around!" he said as he ran off in the opposite direction he came from.
Ayame sighed and shook her head. He was so brash sometimes…
"Ayame!"
She looked up to se Ginta dashing towards her.
"Ginta?"
"Yeah, hey, have you seen Koga?"
"Uh… yeah, he just left…" she said pointing in the opposite direction.
"Ah… DAMMIT! HEY KOGA! WAIT FOR MEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee……!" He yelled as he ran off Koga as he had so many times before.
End Prologue
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