she turned to him questioningly. “Fuck him!” She nodded to him and placed an arrow on the bowstring. But the arrow ricocheted off before it reached its target. "Damn" Kinako cursed, "He has put up a protective shield" Suddenly something shot forward, which the banned caught in his hand. It was the ax that belonged to him and was taken when he was banished. Satisfied, he looked down at his weapon. "Now that I have all my strength again, I will destroy you. What you didn't manage back then," he laughed again. "Keh! I'm not so easily impressed by that" After this sentence he immediately raced towards him to attack him with Tessaiga. But one swing with his ax and Inuyasha was hurled against the next rock. This time it was more intense than recently. He wasn't paying any attention to the others, but despite that he noticed that Kagome was shooting an arrow at him.He held him tight before he could hurt him. "You can't do anything against me now," joked the banned man. He held up his weapon and it started to glow red. And before Inuyasha or the others could know it, he swung them to them and the ax threw red, glowing blades from itself. Inuyasha and Kinako quickly jumped aside, and Kagome. "Kagome" both called after her when they realized that she was not to be found. Both were shocked and just stared at where she was before. Now there was only one crater left from the attack. Just then they noticed that their enemy started another attack on them but their thoughts were still with Kagome. "Since she has now lost her life you are no longer an opponent for me. She was really useless." Now Inuyasha rushed towards him and at such a speed that he could not stop him. Before long he had a long scar on his face which he owed to Tessaiga.In his anger he could hurt him. "Don't you dare to portray it badly!" Inuyasha growled at him. The banished man seemed surprised by his sudden speed, but the wound did not bother him. He felt no pain from this attack. "Now it's your turn to die. Then you'll see her again" He wanted to attack her and raised his arm with the ax. He hurled her at Kinako and Inuyasha, but something crossed his path. There was a glowing arrow in his arm. Immediately everyone turned their gaze in the direction from which the arrow was being shot. In fact, there was Kagome who had suffered a few wounds from the attack, but otherwise she was unharmed. "Kagome" called Kinako and Inuyasha happily in unison. Both were relieved that she didn't perish. While they were so happy, the banned man was pissed off that she was still alive and then dared to attack him. "Now I will slowly put an end to you," he announced and struck out again.He just missed her. Now they were standing close together again. "What do we do now?" asked Kagome. Their silence said they had no answer to that. "Now he's got even stronger. Our attacks don't harm him anymore. If we continue like this, we'll be dead soon." Kinako was absolutely right. Inuyasha now only knew one way that could help. "The only way to destroy him is probably the amalgamation" Kagome looked at him in disbelief. "But Inuyasha, 1. we don't have it completely and 2. we don't have time to do it because he could kill us otherwise and 3. we need concentration and we don't have that" What Kagome said was plausible. But what else could they have done. Kinako intervened. "If you do something like that you should also be able to build up a protective shield. Let's try that first because we don't have another chance" "Are you sure that it will work?" Inuyasha asked."Not quite, but it should work. Both then agreed. Even if it was difficult for them, they sat down on the battlefield and concentrated. Their friends watched with amazement because they didn't understand what they were doing. Now they could watch how a blue energy field formed around them. Their enemy built up threateningly in front of the small troop. "That won't do you any good either. You will now look death in the eye "He swung his ax against her but it ricocheted off. The blue protective shield held up even though he had lost some of its energy during the attack. The inmates felt the shock but they tried to keep their concentration It just depended too much on each other. The fate of the earth was now in their hands and whether they could make it was uncertain. But one thought shot through the minds of all three at that moment: ° We just have to make it ° All of them three opened their eyes in amazement and realized that they could read each other's thoughts.Like it was on their last attempt where they almost succeeded. They felt their thoughts come together and meanwhile they thought of the same thing as the others. They felt how their forces and their soul became united and how their body contours ran into one another and now formed one body.



Her friends and her enemy watched in amazement. As the protective shield became stronger and stronger, the banned did not attack them any more. He couldn't stop it now.