New Beginnings

I promised Kodiaqkitten a few new pics for her story. I'm please this one came out, because the other 2 I was working on didn't. The is from chapter 35 of her fic Darkness Fades To Dawn. [link]

Quick synope. After helping Kagome defeat the Jewel, in spirt form, Misery is brought back by Tensaiga. With the Jewel defeated, the crushing youkai sucking hold on the Inu brothers is released and they start to recover. Then the evil bastard, Cernonnus, was sent to hell by Misery after he tried to 'off' Kagome.

About the pic. Sessh is a bit banged up, dirty, and bloody from his fight with Cernonnus and his minions. Yes, his youkai markings are seeping blood. The Jewel did that and Kodiaqkitten wrote it that way. It was a nice touch to add to the pain they were going through. In the fic, Misery made her wings disappear after she defeated Cernonnus, and I drew her with her wings visable. This is one of my artistic liberties I'm taking. I like her wings and don't get to draw anything or anyone with them at all.

This is the excerpt from her fic that I derived the pic from:

When the heat of the burning corpse dissipated she let her wings vanish; feathers drifted on the breeze the only indication of what had been before. Opening her tear swollen eyes she saw the destruction that had rained down upon the isolated mountain valley. The fortress' broken walls still stood impressively amidst the blackened earth that stretched out before it. Her thoughts drifted to a time long ago, a time of death and destruction in a mountain glen far from where they stood. A life lost to a maniacal beast and a life altered by that occasion. She could let it go now. Move on. The realization in that moment was empowering. The first drops of a healing rain pattered lightly down on her. A soft smile stretched on her lips as she turned her head up. The clear night sky had been shrouded in soft clouds that banked over the mountain summit settling above them. Rebirth was everywhere. A second chance was always provided by nature. Why not for them as well?

“Kagome?” Inuyasha's concerned voice caught her attention. She smiled at her brother in law as he looked hesitantly at her before gathering his mate in his arms.

Standing she watched as Inuyasha carried Kagome away from the others towards a clearing. She could hear the approach of one of their helicopters and understood that they would soon be taken from this nightmarish place. Safely escorted back to the base.

A gentle touch on her shoulder made her turn. Sesshoumaru's disbelieving face scrutinized her own. Lost in his golden eyes she stood unmoving as a clawed finger carefully traced the same path her tears had taken. Her heart skipped a beat when a single tear fell from his eye. Her reaction was silenced when he pulled her into a hard embrace. Body shaking with pent up emotion, he soundlessly held her. When the helicopter landed he cradled her in his arms and wordlessly brushed passed a confused and overwhelmed kitsune ushering them to the far side of the hold. Locked in his lap she listened to his heart beat and was slowly sent to sleep with his hand methodically sweeping through her loose hair.

End excerpt.


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