Solaris by Aviel

Gambit

Disclaimer: Though it saddens me to say it, I don’t own anything relating to Takahashi-sensei’s Inuyasha. However, the plot and/or ideas of this drabble series do belong to me, and a nod of recognition goes to the creator of this challenge.

A/N: None. :) Update 1 of 5.

Chapter 246: Gambit

None made a sound. Not even the crickets with their merry songs, the wind, or the dumbstruck humans that remained like scattered statues, frozen as their minds struggled to process and comprehend.

Glittering ash fell from the sky where Mistress Centipede’s body once towered over them, still charged with the electric purity from Kagome’s arrow.

“It… worked?” she breathed, her voice trembling with the chord of hopeful disbelief.

Though she was infinitely pleased by the outcome, it seemed a bit anticlimactic. She didn’t even have the chance to celebrate, however, before her side burned, and she was thrown into darkness.

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Original Posting Date: April 10, 2015

Prompt: For Stella’s “Soundtrack” Challenge, Infection

Soundtrack: High School of the Dead / Theme: Life & Death

Words: 100