Earth Unleashed by Jade R. Rayne

Prologue//Unexpected Visitor

~ Well hello!  This is a SCI FI fanfiction… I will try to keep the characters as “in character” as possible!  So I guess don’t expect our two leads to smooch until much later.   You can skip the Prologue-History and go to the bottom to start Chapter 1… But I don’t recommend it!  You’ll be lost!!!

~ Chapters will usually be around 500 words and will be alternating between Kagome and Sesshoumaru’s first person perspective mixed with a little bit of narrative paragraphs.  It’s a new thing I’m trying so please be patient!  Sometimes it may be Kag then Sess, or maybe Kag Kag then Sess Sessh… you know.   I will put their names under the chapter title to let readers know who you’re reading about.

Please enjoy!

P.S.-  I do not own Inuyasha or the characters in Inuyasha, I am merely writing for fun and this little plot is my own!  Please do not plagiarize!

Earth Unleashed

Prologue - History

                Mankind’s journey to supremacy was hard earned.  War, famine, poverty, death was all around.  Master Death had no preferences for the souls he wanted.  The young and old succumb to diseases, others died from a brutal death.  

                Long ago, Earth had been a place where all creatures, species of all shapes and sizes had a home.  Mother Nature embraced all of her offspring, mourned for her children when they died, cheered for her children when they succeeded.  Never in her wildest dream did she ever think that her one species of her children will cause genocide of all the others.

                Mother Nature’s once weakest child now reined supremacy.  They didn’t stop there.  Mankind obliterated animals and forests, littered the land and waters.  What once was beautiful now lay in ruins.  Resources grew scarce, man killed man, man killed youkai and the youkai population retaliated when the animals did not.

                The Youkai was one of Mother Nature’s earlier children, the predecessors of Man.  Born with animal spirits, they were able to morph into their predestined animal forms and become one with her.  But now they are on the borderline of extinction because of mankind.  The Youkai, born with gentle disposition turned deadly and hateful towards Man when they began their genocide.

                Mankind was afraid.  They lived in fear knowing Youkai’s were physically and mentally superior, but they were kindhearted.  Man took advantage of their kindness, on the night of the first of the twelve Lunar full moon, when all Youkai morphed into their animal forms, Man took the first step towards supremacy.

                Man developed a serum, Mercutinium, they called it.  It inhibited the Youkai’s ability to use their strength, speed or other animal like senses that made them superior to man.  On the night of the first Lunar Full Moon, Man injected this serum into the Youkai they had rounded up.  Slowly, the Youkai were rendered defenseless, some morphed back into humanoid forms and some stayed as their animal spirits.  The Youkai then, were mercilessly killed.

                Superior Youkai, of pure blood were able to dodge the serum and escape from the genocide.  As the victims screamed and cried, the Superiors knew that their small number of purebloods will not be able to kill tens of thousands of humans.  Vowing to avenge their friends and loved ones, they fought their way away from Earth, stealing one of Man’s largest Space Station, the Amara.  The Amara has a max capacity hold of seven thousand, but it currently houses no more than two thousand.

                The Youkai numbers in the Amara began to dwindle, resources became scarce—they could not avoid the humans any longer.  They gathered together the strongest of purebloods, trained them mercilessly in gunfire and the art of the sword.  Combined, they were lethal.  The special unit, called the Alphas traveled between Earth and the Amara, looting resources from Earth and killing any human in their path.

                The Youkai numbers continued to dwindle, despite the abundant amount of resources they procured.  The females were only able to conceive once their young had reached a certain age.  Needless to say, the females were rare and only produced heir once every three years.  The Council, or the Elders of the Youkai then suggested in order to continue their blood, they must find Human females and force them to bear their young.  With the order, the Alphas began kidnapping human females along with their plundered goods back to the Amara

                The human females were able to bear young once every year, the numbers of Hanyou, or half-bloods soared.  Soon, the Amara’s barely two thousand inhabitants grew to an outstanding five thousand within a century. 

                As the Youkai flourished in their haven in space, the humans began facing environmental troubles.  Mother Nature was sick.  She rarely produced rain—slowly she grew barren.  In 2043 A.D. Mankind depleted the last of their resources and built another Space Station, one larger than the Amara

               The Salus, built as four different sectors were launched into space.  Each sector housed two thousand humans, specialized in different fields.  Medicine, education for the young, engineering—professions that will be needed were on board the Salus.   Once in space, the four sectors latched together, one on top of the other.  The Salus, is now complete—a four tier space station, in a dreidel shape, designed to ensure the future of her eight thousand inhabitants, her max capacity—twenty thousand.   With the completed space station the size of Hawaii’s island Kauai, Man could sustain life on the Salus.

               Man couldn’t save everyone.   Fifty years after the Salus leaders depleted the last of Earth’s resources, Earth fell into ruins.  Her habitants died of starvation, dehydration and exposure to extreme heat.   By 2197 A.D., Earth had grown dry—rain had stopped falling completely with the last record of rain dated the Spring of the year before.  Greenery began to wilt, animals began to go extinct.  This caused a major problem with the Youkai population—their main source for resources is now gone.

               For the next millennia, Man and Youkai battled in Space.  Man fought to keep their lives sustainable and to keep their females, while Youkai fought to rob and obliterate Man from existence.   A never ending battle with heavy casualties.  As the Alpha unit grew fiercer, and the human’s special unit of Priestesses and Monks with special powers grew stronger as well.

               3142 A.D., Earth’s first rainfall in millennia’s past.  Man’s effort in revitalizing Earth has succeeded.   After the Earth had gone barren in 2197 A.D., the vital gas, oxygen nearly disappeared—making life unsustainable for humans, youkai or any animal but plants.  Over the millennia’s past Man made countless trips to Earth, specifically to the center of North America, what used to be one of the most fertile places on Earth. 

               Previously, in 2199 A.D., three years after the last rainfall Man took on the responsibility of revitalizing Earth.  They gathered a variety of rare crop, plant, flower and tree seeds they had stored to sustain the growing population on the Salus, sprouted them in the space station and transported them to Earth.  Special units, trained and greatly educated in agriculture traveled with the sprouts, in hopes Earth can be brought back to life. 

               Grove One, the unit was called, had small successes and great obstacles.   They had successfully planted the sprouts in what used to be Southeastern Oklahoma—the sprouts grew and grew, but they slowly died despite the great efforts of Grove One.  After hundreds of trips later, Grove One gave way to Grove Two, then Three, the Four.  Grass was able to grow, but crops failed to germinate.  Grove Three and Four transported small amounts of livestock and fish into the oceans and land.  All groups met with failures.  With limited fuel and seeds left to use, Grove Five made a last ditch effort and scattered thousands of seeds of all types and varieties into what used to be the most fertile places on Earth on different continents.   By 2351 A.D., Grove Five disbanded, and the thought of revitalizing Earth was abandoned.

               Over the next eight hundred years, Youkai and Man continued to battle.  Both sabotaged each other’s missions in effort of finding a sustainable planet to live on.  Both took prisoners of war and kept them as slaves.  The Great Battle of Tircain, one of the sons of the Purebloods and a Pureblood himself, was captured and detained while the rest of the unit perished.  The Youkai, enraged, sent siege ships to the humans, determined to rescue the youkai.  Man retaliated with sending siege ships of their own, determined to put an end to this senseless battling. 

               In the heat of the battle, both space stations were heavily damaged, with resources nearly depleted from plundering and being lost in battle or space, the fate of both races looked grim.

               Alas, the first rainfall of millennia’s past had awoken diplomatic sides of the Youkai and Man.   Although the peace was begrudgingly made, diplomatic leaders of both races agreed to work together—for the sake of living.  Prisoners of War will not be returned until the mission of exploring Earth is complete.  Both sides wished the mission will finish quickly, they had hope—hope to see their long lost friends and family that were captured, hope that there will be a future again on planet Earth.  In the eight hundred years of their heated, intense battle, both sides overlooked the greenery that had crept across the planet.

               Man, superior in the knowledge of agriculture sent Grove Six in conjunction with the Youkai’s Delta One unit, Hanyou who specialized in tracking and direction.  After the storm weather had cleared, Grove Six and Delta One landed on a small clearing of lush green grass on a large island of what used to be Greenland.

               What they found on the living planet blew their minds.  The livestock, domestic animals and other species of animals survived the ordeal of being left to their own devices.  However, the plants were different—they looked almost foreign.   Reports were sent back to both space stations for the next five years.  The plants had evolved animals as well.  In such a short amount of time, the greenery adapted to the little amounts of water available by growing their roots fifteen times longer than their processors to tap into the water from underground rivers.  Some domestic animals were able survive on the ocean’s salt water—it was certainly unheard of.  Earth was barren no more; the life around them was foreign and new.

               Please with the great news, Youkai and Man sent Grove Seven and Delta Two to continue to study and map out the land.  Reports grew in great numbers—but suddenly they stopped. 

               The last transmission they received from Delta One and Two, Grove Six and Seven was a recording of their brutal death from an unseen force.  Angered by this assault, both sides blamed one another for murdering their people.  Man’s scientists argued there was another predator on Earth that had not shown itself and requested the diplomatic leaders to send in armed units to find out.

               Beta One was killed twenty minutes after they landed.  Beta Two, ten minutes after landing.

               They were not alone, Earth has a new ruler and they are merciless.

               The humans refused to let their hard efforts go to waste and vowed to capture Earth and rid her of the vile creatures.  In their unsteady peace, the Youkai agreed to help.

               This is their story…

/

/Unexpected Visitor/

Sesshoumaru

               Vile creatures.  Vile, senseless beings they are.  How long do they intend to keep me in this damned prison?  When I get out of here… when I do…

               His fists clenched shut at the mere thought of ripping their throats and limbs.  At the mere sound of the chains that bound his arms, legs and torso jingling, human guards swooped into the room and pointed a dart gun at him.

               “Don’t move.”  He heard one of them say.

               “Don’t move?  Watch your words human or I’ll rip your heart out,” he heard himself say—his voice cold and stoic.  He fought the urge to laugh and spit at their faces.

               The human laughed, his partner joined in and the dart gun was positioned back at ease.  “You can’t do anything to me, youkai.  Each of your limbs are bound to metal chain links three times your weight.  At the end of those chain links are boulders that weigh four times of the chain’s weight.  I don’t think you’re going anywhere.  Just stand here and await your death, filthy creature.”  The human crackled sadistically and slammed the metal door of his dungeon shut.

               Damn you, abominable creatures.  Damn that serum that renders us weak.  It’s not if I get out of here, filthy humans.  It’s when, and when I do, you are the first to die.

               That human and his partner are the only two that were allowed to interact with him.  At first, the dreadful human with a poor attitude delivered his meal of white rice and a few pieces of cooked daikon.  He would spit in it and force him to eat the food.  Naturally he refused, but one can only go so long without air.  The vile thing would shove the food into his mouth and cover his nose and mouth, denying him of air until he swallowed the food. 

               When I get out of here… you are the first to die.  I swear it.

               He made every effort to vomit up the food, and he did so successfully.  After three months of being captured and imprisoned by the humans and refusing the food the human spat on—he grew weak.   Out of spite, he let himself starve.  On the brink of death, the humans deemed him as a trophy to keep alive and inserted an IV in him to sustain him even if he refused to eat.  It had been forever since they inserted the IV, he had lost track of time.

               Damn them.  I have brought shame upon my blood… to be captured by these bastards… Father I have failed you…

               With no window to the outside world, he was kept in the dark.  For how long he knew not for hours melded together like days and days into weeks.  Perhaps he had only been there for a month.  Maybe more, or maybe less but he knew not.  Every day, it was the same two humans that begrudgingly kept his company, taunting him.

               Today, or night—whichever it is, there is a change.  Although injected with the Mercutinium serum, he still had superior senses than the average human, he was an Inu Pureblood.  The metal door to his prison nosily cracked open, the light from the hallway nearly blinded his sensitive eyes. 

               The prison suddenly smelt of jasmine and lavenders, a silhouette of a human walked towards him.  The dark blind spots in his vision began to fade away as his eyes began to adjust to the blinding light. 

               “Come any closer and I’ll kill you,” he heard himself hiss, his voice hoarse from the rare use.

               The figure of the human stopped momentarily—he assumed that the person was fearful.

               Good, they should be afraid of me.  I’ll obliterate every single one of them.  One by one, limb by limb.  No one shall be given any mercy.

               He snapped out of his thoughts when the figure took a step closer to him, then another and then another.  The human stepped close enough to him to block some of the light from outside the prison, allowing him to see his new visitor.

               A woman?

               He saw her petty frown, her bright sapphire eyes glaring at him as if unsatisfied.  He watched, intrigued, as she put her hands on her hips and huffed.

               “Now, is that how you greet your new partner?”

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End Chapter 1

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