"Kyaaaa!"
"Hold on Kagome!"
"We must stop those two!"
The only way to convey their thoughts was to shout, as the surroundings were bombarded by shockwaves for every passing second and despite the barrier they managed to erect at the time, it was barely keeping them safe.
"I don't think they will listen to you, your excellency. They seem to be lost in their own world!"
"Sango is right Miroku. My instincts can sense the change in Asahiko and they are not just in outward appearance."
Inuyasha is right, about Asahiko's appearance being the highlight of the whole thing. Basically Asahiko looks like a sun thanks to being bathed in its flames, while his once peaceful fire now burns everything it touches.
If the above sounded like danger, the real problem is Asahiko's actual atmosphere. It is always akin to a warm cloud for humans and a dangerously unstable one for demons, but now it has danger and warmth totally united, giving a highly contradictory feeling.
"Elder Saya, are you sure you can't stop it?"
"Look at that, do you really think they will heed words? We can only let them continue fighting."
Responding naturally to Miroku, the spirit called Saya only shrugs and says what everyone is obviously thinking.
"Will it be a battle to the death then?"
"Not at all miss, they will most likely stop when they feel that none of them have lost in this fight."
"The pride of the demons."
"Yes, yes. They've always had it pretty inflated, if we must be honest."
As Totosai and Myoga nod from behind as if it were normal behavior, while adding a few words, the group's barrier shakes again as the next wave of negative energy arrives.
Christopher/Asahiko pov.
"You're shaking."
"Heh. Maybe you won't be feeling your own hand?"
Exchanging a few mocking words with Sesshōmaru, I took a few steps backwards so as to avoid falling into a power shock again and quickly created multiple illusions heading towards him.
Easily Sesshōmaru dispatched them all with fine movements of his sword, but that was the plan, since one of them was literally a camouflaged fire bomb and the instant it is cut I head back into the fray.
*Booom!
The flames completely covered both of us, but both he and I seem to have almost total resistance to the flames. Mainly the flames were to block his sight, but I still felt again what I felt from the previous fight? All albinos are immune to fire!
"A totally useless move!"
"Smart enough for you to fall for it."
The brief clash between Tokijin and Clouded Fang causes flames to shoot out sideways, that certainly was dangerous, but what's really important are the energy gashes that emerge from the brief clash.
Wanting to put even more strength into Misty Fang, I am surprised when Sesshōmaru reduces his strength and then places his sword diagonally. My sword is guided by Tokijin's blade to the ground, but I react quickly and try to fix my stance and return to the attack, though Sesshōmaru follows up his strategy with a kick to my side.
"Ha ha ha ha..."
"Tired."
"Not at all, I've never felt better than today, then let's continue!"
Making more energy flow towards Clouded Fang, reaching the point where the gem in its hilt begins to glow and from it begins to emanate a sinister aura. I stop as I hear a voice and it has to be said that it's not Clouded Fang's, that one I've already silenced since the middle of the fight.
"St"
"Sto"
"Stop it at once!
Looking towards the bold one who has thought himself worthy of interrupting my battle, I notice that they are Inuyasha's group and that they are isolated in a barrier so as not to get hurt. They were still around, are they fools? My heart has been touched.
"What's going on? We're onto something important here."
Pointing to Sesshōmaru who had also stopped, I speak to Miroku and as a whole to Inuyasha's group.
"Look around you, this has already gotten out of hand Asahiko."
"Miroku is right, enough of this fight."
What an exaggeration, it's not as bad as they paint it..... Oh, it's gotten out of hand for both of us. The forest has simply disappeared and all that's left are coal black trees, huge cracks up to 40 meters, a thick amount of negative energy and bones of yokais that had been attracted by the fighting.
"Tsk, well I've got it."
I could continue to fight Sesshōmaru, but we've both already measured up during this fight and while it's true that we didn't try our best, we both have more or less an approximation of each other's power.
Accepting in my heart that the battle is over, I stop the flames that have been emanating from my body due to my lack of control and send Misty Fang to his sheath, though he resists much more than the previous times.
*Booom*
At some point during my thoughts, a green beam falls right next to Sesshōmaru and out of it comes that two-headed dragon he uses as a mount. Without releasing any words, Sesshōmaru stops the energy emanating from Tokijin and in one motion climbs onto his mount, before epically departing.
"I want one too..."
"What Asahiko?"
"A pet dragon Miroku, tell me if it's not cool."
"It's certainly cool, but even cooler must be the idea you're going to come up with to clean up this mess."
Because I must, you guys always run from all the trouble you cause and now I must take care of this, it seems to me it won't be. With such reasons in mind, he looked at Miroku like the con man he is and delivered a masterful move.
"I'm a demon Miroku, how do you think a monster of pure destruction is going to be able to fix anything? Instead of a monk of your level and renown, I'm sure you'll be able to do something."
"Hahaha, everyone here knows I'm a con man, how do you think I could do anything against all this negative energy?"
Damn monk, did he just self-flagellate himself just so he wouldn't have to work... What level of chutzpah is that! Yeah, I'm going to forget that I just did the same thing.
"Which of the two is more shameless, they only think of escaping the problem."
"Calm down Sango, Elder Saya has promised us that Asahiko has a way to deal with this."
Stop, stop, stop, what did I just hear? Saya has sold me out again without even consulting me, what kind of traveling companion is this... Damn traitor, I'm sure he's gone soft because of the resemblance between Kagome and Kikyo.