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Prompt: Hungry Ghost
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In her single minded exuberance Kagome didn’t stop to question why she was actually able to approach the light this time, the only thing she was focused on was reaching what, or rather who she knew had to be at its source.
She was right; she knew she was, ‘Oh please let me be right!’ she prayed. When she at last reached her destination she was greeted by the rust colored hair, fur vest, and tiny fox feet of a small figure standing with his back to her in the center of the turquoise flame.
Her eyes feverishly studied his form, starved for the sight after so long apart. It was really him, her kit, her Shippo!
Despite having suspected as much, until this moment she hadn’t truly believed it would be him. Years of disappointment had taught her never to get her hopes up, but her patience had finally paid off because there was Shippo; somehow, someway her little fox had found her!
With an exultant cry of, ‘Shippo,’ Kagome launched herself toward the ball of fox fire eager to reunite with its master.
However her forward momentum was abruptly and violently halted as she was repelled by an unseen force.
“You left us all alone, Kagome.”
The sweet childish voice was tinged with roughness as if he’d been crying, causing tears to well up in her eyes. Heart breaking, she desperately tried to make him understand, “No it wasn’t like that Shippo, please believe me I had no choice! I tried to come back to you, sweetie, I tried so hard!”
“It was so cold and dark and I yelled and yelled but no one came for me. I was all alone Kagome, why didn’t you come for me?”
“Shippo,”
“I was hungry so hungry, but there was nothing to eat. It’s been so long and I’m still so hungry! It hurts Kagome, make it stop.”
With dawning horror Kagome reached a shaking hand out to the figure of her little kit; she vaguely registered that no barrier blocked her way this time.
When her hand hovered just an inch above the small shoulder, her wrist was seized in vice like grip, and she cried in out in both surprise and pain as needle sharp claws dug into her skin.
Her eyes widened and her mouth opened in a silent scream as the small head crowned with sienna hair snapped straight back on the thin juvenile neck with a sickening crack, the grotesque visage hanging limply upside down.
Nausea consumed her as she stared at this gruesome parody of the beloved face of her fox. The unnatural angle of his head revealed sunken grey skin clasped closely to the small skull, every bone clearly delineated; eyes consisting of nothing but empty sockets, and most disturbing of all a nearly nonexistent mouth roughly the size of the head of a push pin.
Unable to contain herself Kagome surrenders to the building hysteria. Her no longer silent screams echo into the darkness.
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