TK was still overly obsessed with his new craze to get back at the Dark Zone, and coupled with his hate of evil, or anything that even seemed evil or destructive; his thinking had become way worse.

He lay awake in bed all night, outraged that none of the others shared his theory and suggested he let it be, not even his own girlfriend!

He couldn’t believe what he was about to think next but he actually took a chapter from Davis’ old methods, “If they won’t help me, then I guess I’ll just go at it alone. Somehow, I’ll find a way to prove that Erebus is up to no good, and who knows, maybe I can even convince those Dark Angels to stop being such whiners and man-up for once.”

The only problem he faced was how to actually pull this off. He couldn’t see Dark Angels when they were about.

Then, suddenly, he remembered: Dark Angels were drawn to levels of darkness like insects were attracted to sweet scents, and he remembered that Ken’s D3 probably still had some energy from the Dark Ocean still in it, but he knew that only Ken could unleash it.

“Somehow, I’ve got to convince Ken to unleash that energy.” he thought “Yeah! Then maybe Davis will appear, and he’ll most-likely act like a jerk to everyone again. Then everyone can get a double dose of proof he’s being manipulated.”

Kari lay wide awake in bed too. Tai had spoken to Matt, and he revealed TK’s obsession and his new hope to punish the Dark Angels.

Kari hated it when TK got overly obsessed with his hate for evil beings, and she didn’t want to begin to think what would happen if TK went over the line and actually tried to attack a Dark Angel.

Then again, she knew TK couldn’t see the Dark Angels like she could, and he certainly had no powers or abilities to even make physical contact with them. She didn’t even want to begin to think the horrors that would happen if TK suddenly became able of assaulting the Dark Angels. From what she had seen from her visit to the Dark Zone, those angels had to be capable of powers unimaginable, despite their holding it back.

The Dark Angels themselves also seemed angry enough as it were for when the Dark was disrupted by the dimensional distortions, but especially Davis and the others when they were forces to relive their past times of darkness and betrayal that lead to their deaths.

“Davis…” she said to herself, and she pictured him standing in the darkness, and glaring angrily at her. “If only I could at least talk to him, try to warn him about what’s going on.”

Her talking awoke Gatomon, “Try talking yourself to sleep!” she groaned, and she rolled over at the end of the bed.

Kari lay back down and thought it over. “I HAVE to talk to Davis.” she decided “But how am I going to get his attention?”

Then she thought of Ken, and happened upon the same idea TK had.

The next morning at school…

“No!” snapped Ken “I won’t do it, and that’s final!”

“But Ken…” protested Kari.

“No buts!” sneered Ken “Even if I do have enough energy from the Dark Ocean, I’m not going to unleash it to call Davis. Apart from it already being dangerous enough to even think of using, like I said to TK last night: I’m not putting Davis or any the others through this anymore!”

He slammed his locker shut and walked off to class, leaving Kari upset and more concerned than ever.

As Ken walked along, TK came up to him and gave him the same idea as Kari did, but for his own vendetta. Again, Ken refused, “I told you to let it go. We’ve caused enough trouble as it is.”

“Ken, I can’t believe you!” snapped TK “You’re just going sit by and let those Dark Angels set us all up for a big evil plot.”

Ken decided not to respond seeing as TK was not even listening to himself, and that they already had this conversation the other night, so he just walked off, but Ken put his hand on his shoulder, “Ken… you listen to me…!” but before he could continue, Yolei came in and slapped his hand off. “Back off, TK!” she griped at him “I’m getting a little fed up with this Dark Angels stuff.”

“But I…”

“No buts.” snapped Yolei “We’re all trying to put it behind us, and so should you.”

She and Ken walked off to class, leaving TK outraged, but he really wasn’t willing to give up. Somehow there had to be a way for him to make that confrontation and expose the Dark Angels as the monsters he felt they were.

In the Feudal Era, it was nighttime, and Inuyasha and friends had done a lot of traveling, and collected only a few shards of the jewel. Now they were settled in small blacksmiths hut about to sleep, but none of them seemed really tired.

Inuyasha had long since told the others of what Kikyo had warned him; about a great disaster pending.

“Do you really think the Dark Angels would do something serious?” asked Shippo.

“It is possible, Shippo.” replied Miroku “Though most people and creatures can neither see nor make contact with the Dark Angels, from what we have seen anything is possible with them.”

Kagome agreed and recounted when the ponies came to the Feudal Era, “They’re coming here was only an accident, but when I passed through the well, the dimensional warps crossed, which lead to the Dark Zone being distorted.”

Sango recounted Princess Luna when she used her magic to make Nobunaga visible to others, “Any creature that uses dark power can affect the Dark Angels, which they also do not seem to take a liking too.”

Inuyasha contemplated, “So the best thing would be the Dark Angels not disturbed by Dark aura, or dimension distortions.”

The team was most concerned of this, as there was no telling when and where such things would strike, and if could even be in the presence of a Dark Angel.

Soon, they were all sound-asleep round the fire, unaware that they had been spied on by one of the Saimyōshō insects.

The bug flew along many miles, rendezvousing with Naraku in a field far away. The bug was able to tell him what was going on. Now he, too, knew about the Dark Angels, and he pondered deeply, “I doubt very much they are of any concern or practical use to me, but if they do have such powers, perhaps it couldn’t hurt to… experiment with this.”

He decided to enlist a little outside help with his plot rather than take the risk himself, “And I know just the demon that can help me… maybe even lure Inuyasha out.”

He held out a single sacred jewel shard in his hand, and tainted it with dark aura, “This single shard, tainted with my dark demonic aura is the first step of my plan.” he then passed the tainted shard to the bug “…You know what to do.”

The bug grabbed the shared and fluttered off.

A while later, Koga was resting by his own campfire, next to him was a pile of bones from a wild boar he had hunted and cooked.

He was sickly dreaming of being back at the Wolf Demon Tribe, with Kagome as his woman. She was even dressed in wolf skins and attire like his. “Oh, Koga…” she cooed “You’re so handsome and strong. Better than that mutt faced Inuyasha could ever be.”

“I know I am…” he gloated.

Suddenly, something dropped onto his forehead waking him up. “Hey!” he groaned, but then he noticed, “Is that…?” he gazed at the shard, unbeknownst to him that it was tainted.

Koga, being power hungry, he couldn’t resist and immediately jammed the shard into his right arm, exactly where he used to have an original shard before it was stolen from him. All at once his arm felt much stronger, and he demonstrated this by picking up a burning log from the fire and crushing it in his bare hand barely feeling the seething of the flames.

“Nice.” he hissed “Strange though; even when I had that other shard in my arm before, I never felt strong like this.”

He suddenly began to feel a little woozy in his head. “What’s… going on?!” he groaned, and he collapsed flat on the ground just a few feet away from the fire.

His arm began to pulse with a dark aura from the tainted shard. Naraku’s voice then seemed to hiss in Koga’s mind. “You are in my power now, little wolf. You are my puppet, and you will do as I need you to.

When you wake, there will be much to be done.”

Koga didn’t even flinch. He just lay there as the darkness continued to taint him.

In the Titans’ world, it had already gotten dark, and the Titans were just about thinking of heading to bed, especially Terra.

“Come on, you need your rest.” Robin said.

Terra agreed, but she stopped a moment to look outside at the moonlight shining over the ocean, and the citylights far away. It all looked so beautiful and peaceful. “I wonder if Beast Boy’s out there.” She wondered to herself, but the Titans could easily tell she was thinking that.

Just as they were about to escort her to bed, the alarms went off.

“What now?” snapped Cyborg.

Robin hurried to the computer, and the monitors showed a huge fire that broke out at an apartment building, and the firemen were having a hard time getting it under control, and many people were trapped inside.

“Oh, my!” cried Starfire

Raven looked out the window, “I can see the smoke from here!”

It was agreed the Titans wanted to go out there and help however they could, and for once, Terra was willing to stay on her own. “Go on.” she said “I’ll be okay by myself. Those people need all the help they can get.”

Robin found no argument there and told her “Keep in touch with us. If you start feeling sick, just call us.”

She agreed, and the Titans were off.

Terra sat herself down at the computers and watched the whole thing.

Soon the Titans arrived on the scene, and the building was still ablaze. The flames had reached the roof.

“What happened?” Robin asked the fire chief.

“It’s an electrical fire. It just broke out so suddenly, but we can’t seem to get it under control. Worse of all there are still people inside, but they’re trapped by the fire. I don’t think my men can get them all out in time.”

Cyborg had brought along special oxygnen masks and visors for the Titans to keep them safe from the smoke. “Titans, Go!” shouted Robin.

Starfire and Cyborg could take the heat better, so they rushed inside and searched for as many people as they could and got them out.

Robin headed straight up to the roof where there was a huge water tank. He busted that huge thing wide open with his explosives which made water flood down the top floors dousing the flames a little.

Raven, she wasn’t as immune to the heat as Starfire and Cyborg, but she did stay inside and used her powers to weaken the flames even more with her own dark flames, which actually helped put the fire out.

This made it easier for her to rescues victims and teleport them to safety as best she could.

At the tower, Terra watched everything, and changed angles of the view. She was very relieved that people were being saved from the fire, but suddenly, she noticed the fire was getting strong again, and worse: she ran an infared scan on the buildings interriors, the roof was about to collapse, which would cause a big mess!

“Shit!” she cried, and she quickly called Robin warning him about that.

“Right… Thanks, Terra!” Robin replied.

Suddenly, Terra noticed something unsuaul on the street! She roated the angle, and zoomed in, “…Beast Boy!” Despite that spirits couldn’t appear on screens, she was still able to see him!

Beast Boy had been gathering dark aura, when he spoted the fire. He even saw the Titans when they arrived on the scene and helped the people get out.

Now he was just sitting on a rooftop across the street watching the action, since there was nothing he could actually do to assit, and it actually pained him a little.

Robin quickly called the other Titans warning them to get out out of the building before the roof collapsed. The firemen had received the same orders from the chief below.

The Titans gasped, “I think we got everyone out now.” said Cyborg.

“We must hurry!” cried Starfire, and she and the other Titans escaped the building. They and the firemen were soon safely out, and the fire chief ordered everyone to get back, “It’s gonna blow!”

The people backed as far away as they could as the flames got brighter and higher.

Suddenly, a woman shouted, “My baby! My baby’s still in there!”

She was right! Everyone could hear the sounds of a baby screaming from inside the building. The mother fretted and paniacked as she tried to get through to save her child, but the firemen held her back insisting she not!

“MY BABY’S IN THERE!!”

“I can’t you go! The roof’s about to collapse!” shouted the chief.

“Oh! The poor child!” cried Starfire “I must save it!”

“Starfire!!” shouted Robin, but she had already flown back towards the burning building, even leaving her mask behind!

“STAR, DON’T!!” Cyborg called, but Starfire already flew in through a window.

The heat was far more intense now, a little more than her alien body could handle. Without her mask, the smoke made her choke and it was hard to see, as well as the brightness of the flames, but she couldn’t give up and followed the sound of the baby cries.

Terra watched the whole thing on the monitors and was very concenred about Starfire, but she also sae Beast Boy just sitting on that roof across the street, just watching it all happen!

“Why isn’t he doing anything?!” she wondered, completely forgetting the facts surrounding him!

Beast Boy still continued to watch, almost with horrors.

The fire was getting so bright the people backaway even more, some covered their eyes.

When Raven turned to look away from the flames, she saw on the roof across the street, “…Beast Boy!”

“What?” snapped Robin.

“Where?” asked Cyborg, and before Raven could answer… there was a loud explosion in the burning building as the roof collapsed.

“NOOOOOO!!!” the mother screamed.

“STARFIRE!!!” cried Robin.

Terra gasped hard in her seat, and then grasped her stomach, trying to keep calm.

Beast Boy… he clenched his fists in emotional pain. It amazed him how much he could still feel such emmotions, but he felt upset anyway. There was no way that baby survived.

The mother began to weep hysterically, “My baby!!”

The Titans and the people were heartbroken for her, and also, the fact that Starfire hadn’t emerged from the building suggested she didn’t make it either… until…!

“Wait! Look…!” Cyborg cried as he pointed at the base of the building. Sure enough there was Starfire, just having emrged, coughing, wheezing and with bad burns all over her body. In her arms she carried the infant, but it was very dead, having already choked on the smoke and overcome from the heat.

“I… have failed!” cried Starfire. She was so weak and nearly overcome by the smoke and her injuried she nearly fell down, but Raven used her powers to grab her from afar and bring her over to the group.

The poor mother was given the corpse of her child, which made her weep even more. The paramedics tried all they could, but it was no use!

As for Starfire, she was starting to feel very sick from her injuries and all the smoke. The paramedics examined her, which they found difficult due to her being an alien. She was very lucky, had she been hurt anymore she could have died!

“Starfire…” Robin said softly as he loomed over her on the stretcher.

“I will be the okay.” she said weakly to him. Then she was taken away into an ambulance, much to the Titans sadness.

Raven clenched her fists angrily and looked back at the roof across the street. Then she scurried off intot he air.

“Raven…!” Cyborg called.

“Come back! We need to survey the area!” shouted Robin, but Raven was too infurated to hear him.

In almost no time she landed on the roof. “Beast Boy…!” she snarled snapping him out of his trance. “What do you want?”

Terra could see the whole thing on the screen and tried to contact her, to try and talk to Beast Boy herself, but Raven ignored her communicator and angrily threw it aside.

“Oh, no…!” Terra groaned “This won’t end well. I’ve got to contact Robin.”

Raven and Beast Boy continued to glare at one another, and Raven broke the silence, “You just sat here all this time and watched that fire burn! You knew there was a kid trapped in there and you did NOTHING to help get it out?!”

Beast Boy rolled his eyes under his mask, “Raven, you are truly pathetic!”

“And you’re a (Bleeping) coward and an asshole!” growled Raven.

Beast Boy felt very offended.

“You just sat up here, let Starfire go into that building, and now she’s really hurt!”

Beast Boy already felt back enough, but Raven was really irtating him with her stupidity! “Like I said, you are truly pathetic!” he growled at her.

“I’m just a SHADOW!

I CANNOT touch things!

Even if I had entered that building, there’s no way I could’ve helped that kid. My hands would just pass right through, and even still… I’m not allowed to interfere! Lord Erebus said so!”

Raven finally remembered all that.

“Why am I even arguing with you?” sneered Beast Boy “…You never listen anyway, you just proved it, AGAIN!

I’m outta here!”

Her formed a portal to leave

“Wait…!” Raven snapped, and she used her magic to try and grab him and hold him back, “I’m not done with you yet!”

Suddenly, Robin and Cyborg came up onto the roof, and though they couldn’t see Beast Boy, they knew what she was doing.

“Raven, stop!” shouted Robin.

Cyborg then grabbed her, making her cease.

Beast Boy looked back furiously at Raven, “I’m warning you, Bitch! Don’t try that again!” he snarled “You’re lucky Erebus says “no interfering” and that we Dark Angels live in peace… or so help me… I would blast you into oblivan!

…Like maybe I should’ve done a long time ago!”

Raven felt most hurt by what he had just said, Robin and Cyborg hadn’t heard. Then Beast Boy vanished through the portal and was gone.

“…ASSHOLE!!” Raven shouted. She was so infurated, her eyes were glowing red with demonic aura, and her body was enveloped with dark aura. The building they all stood on began to rumble as Raven’s powers began to go wild!

“Raven, calm down!” said Robin.

Cyborg could barely hold her, but maintained his girp, “Come on, girl! Stop it!”

Raven could barely calm herself. Never had she felt so outraged, so violent; she really felt like taking someone’s head off.

Suddenly, she fired a small blast of dark aura, which forms what appeared to be a tiny portal, the same kind that Beast Boy had formed which lead to the Dark Zone. It vanished almost instantly.

Raven finally calmed down and was astonished by what she had just done. “How did I do that?”

The guys were astounded. Cyborg scanned the area were there the portal was, “I got nothing.” he said “But can you try that again.”

Raven tried and tried all she could but wasn’t able to do what she did a second time.

“Maybe it only worked while you were freaking out.” suggested Robin “But how did that happen at all.”

Raven thought deeply, and it all added to one thing; “When I used my powers to grab Beast Boy, he was standing near the warp to the Dark Zone. Somehow, a few particles of the darkness must’ve been absorbed into me.”

“I better get you back to the tower.” said Cyborg.

“I’ll catch up with you later.” said Robin “I’m going to the hospital to check on Star. If she’s well enough I’ll bring her back.”

Meanwhile, Terra saw the whole thing. She didn’t rightly what to feel-- angry for Beast boy’s attitude; then again understand that she and the others had forgotten he couldn’t help even if he wanted to. Upset that a baby got killed and Starfire was hurt.

“Why… Why is all this happening?” she asked herself “It’s been one disaster after another; each one more horrible than the last!”

She stroked her belly, now feeling worried about the baby, but she couldn’t blame it for her troubles, just herself knowing her actions and bad decisions lead to a lot of the darkness that was happening in so many lives now, and running away wouldn’t help matters; it was already tried several times and failed every one.

All she could do now was try to settle and make the best of things… if that were possible. “I really hope things really don’t get any worse.”

In Equestria…

It was well after dark, and Spike was on his bout collecting dark aura, when he hovered over Friendship Castle, and noticed as if for the first time, the glow coming from the west section of the palace. “A forcefield?” he wondered. He never noticed it before as he was busy in other areas of Equestria where there were plenty of dark auras to catch.

Despite his fallouts with Twilight and the rest of the gang, Spike couldn’t resist in looking; Twilight couldn’t see him anyway, nor could the force-field block him out.

He landed on the window of the library, and what he saw would have churned his blood-- had he any.

Twilight was still overly working on her project. She had strengthened the barrier around the entire room and wouldn’t let anyone in, not even to bring her any food, she merely teleported dry foods from the castle pantry to herself, which made her habits even more unhealthy, then again her looks would be enough to tell anyone she wasn’t well.

Her mane and her taile were not only tangled and messy, but her lilac colored coat looked a tad paler from her lack of sunlight and proper eating for all that time.

“Yes…! Yes!!” she cackled like a mad scientist. “I think it’s going to work!

Energy of the light of full moon!

Religining the tras-dimensional wirings!

And most important…” she held up a flash of sparkling dark powder, which seemed almost frightening to look at, “…Powdered darkness, exctracted from bits of dark aura, combined with energies of light, and fine to be infused with the mirror.”

The fact she was talking and cackling to herself, as well as actually created such a dangerous mixture further proved her obvious insanity, and Spike already didn’t like the looks of things from the start.

“I’ll dispel the, Dark Zone…!” Twilight said, which made Spike gasp.

“I’ll free the Dark Angels!”

“What?!” snapped Spike.

“And everything will be happy again… happy… Happy… HAPPY!!”

Spike was horrified, not just by Twilight’s insanity, but he knew fully-well what she was doing was dangerous and imporbable, but there was no way he could communicate with her, nor his any of his blocked powers to try and stop her.

Suddenly, there was a huge glow of light shrouding the barrier around the room, as bright as daylight. “What’s going on?” Spike asked, even though he couldn’t be heard.

Suddenly, the barrier just ceased, much to Twilight’s shock, and the Princesses, Celestia and Luna appeared in the chamber, and they looked pretty cross.

With the barrier gone, Twilight’s other friends, and Discord burst in through the doors.

“What are you all doing here?” asked Twilight.

“Twilight Sparkle…” scolded Celestia “We’ve been told what you are up to, and we have come to stop you. Your little project ends here and now!”

Twilight seemed shocked, but all her friends gawked at her with deep concern.

“I’m sorry, Twilight.” said Discord “I had to tell her.”

“There is no need to apologize, Discord.” said Luna “You have done the right thing.”

Starlight stepped forward, “Give us the powder, Twilight.”

“No!” snapped Twilight “Can’t you understand what I’m trying to do here?!”

Celestia wouldn’t hear of it, and grabbed the jar of unstable powder with her magic, levitating it right before her face, “Amazing!” she said having never actually seen such a mixture “Nontheless, this stuff is highly dangerous and we will not let you use it.”

“But…”

“There will be no argument!” ordered Luna “What you are doing is highly dangerous, unsuitable, and highly improbable.

…And just look at yourself, you are a complete wreck!”

She pointed at the mirror gate and Twilight saw herself as if for the first time in a while. She gasped at what an ugly sight she saw.

“Twilight, we’re worried about you.” said Fluttershy

Applejack agreed “You’ve all cooped up here for so long like an old jar of appel jam. You need to stop this project!”

“I can’t cried, Twilight. I want to help the Dark Angels, and I think I finally have means of getting into the Dark Zone again.”

Spike had heard enough, and then he spotted Rarity, and remembered he could at least communicate with her.

So he dropped down right in front of her, “Rarity!”

She gasped, “Spike!”

The entire room echoed with gasps and leaps of anxiety.

“Spike?!” cried Rainbow “He’s here?”

“Where is he? I wanna see him!” wailed Pinkie.

“Wait…!” said Luna. She could see Spike as well, and remembering a trick she tried before, she cast a little of her own dark magic on him, making him temporarily visible to all.

Everyone gawked in awe.

“Wow! That is freaky.” muttered Discord.

Normally Spike was against being seen and didn’t like it when his magical body was compromised by other forces, but this was a full emergency and he felt he was acting in the right.

Spike ignored the others and marched right up to Twilight. He practically would’ve struck her across the face with the back of his claw… if it weren’t for the fact he couldn’t touch her outside the darkness.

“Twilight, we made it perfectly clear to you that we Dark Angels wish to be left in peace! We don’t want your help!

…SO STOP TRYING!!”

All the others felt struck at what he had just demanded.

“Spike, you don’t really mean that.” said Starlight, but Spike glared furiously at her. “Eeyup, he means it.” said Applejack. None of the others had to be her to realize the honesty and hostility in Spike’s glare.

“We want to be left alone, and that’s final! You have no right to interfere with us again!”

“Spike,” Rarity said as she softly approached him. She tried to place her hoof on him only to go right through him. She still spoke to him softly, hoping to convince him…

“You can’t possibly wish to be like… like… that… forever. It’s a rather boring style.”

“Humph!” Spike scoffed “You’re the largest responsible for sending me there to begin with. So who are you to tell me how to spend my eternity? Then again, who are you to tell others what to do with their lives, are they not good enough for you?”

Rarity felt lived at his tone, but not wanting to make things worse she brushed it off. “Spike, we we’re only trying to help you.”

“Exactly!” sneered Twilight “Spike, can’t you get it. I’ve been working all this time, and now I have what I need. It should work!”

“No, it WON’T WORK!!” snarled Spike “The Dark Zone isn’t some kind of magic spell you can despell. It’s a dimensional afterlife, and it’s already suffered enough thanks to all the distortions in dimensions as it is.

If you try whatever little stunt you have planned on the Dark Zone, while it’s already still distorted, you will TERMINALLY dececrate it!

You’ll shift the darkness way out of balance!

Every Dark Angel will be attacked!

And Lord Erebus… oh, my-- he’ll be so furious-- you’re lucky he hasn’t allowed me to attack all of you for even THINKING of doing this!”

A long silence filled the room as all the others were shocked and horrified at such a thought.

Before anyone could say anything else, a portal appeared below Spike’s feet, which he did not conjure himself. “Uh-oh…!” he cried, and he fell right through. “Spike!” cried Rarity. She tried to jump through the portal with him, but it vanished quickly casuing her to fall flat on the hard floor.

“Oooh… that look like it hurt.” muttered Pinkie.

Rarity wasn’t really hurt, but very upset, but none were as upset as Twilight. “See what I mean?” she protested “I HAVE to do this! I have to save Spike, and all the rest of them from the darkness.”

“And that’s out of the question!” snapped Celestia. Still in possession of the dark powder, “I am taking this and placing it somewhere safe until I can figure out what to do with it.”

She then turned and cast a magical barrier over the mirror itself to block it off from being used or even touched, the chemistry sets and anything else related. They were all blocked off until Twilight could come to her senses and abandon her project.

Twilight was most upset, but the sisters wouldn’t give in.

Luna commissioned all the others “You are charged with keeping watch over her, and try to snap her to her senses.” to which the others all agreed, especially Discord.

Then the two sisters vanished, taking the dark powder with them.

Twilight moved towards the mirror. She was able to touch the barrier harmlessly, but it was like trying to get through and extremely tough rubbery surface and her own magic couldn’t despell it.

She flopped down onto her tail and hung her head low.

“Twilight…?” said Starlight.

Twilight hardly moved, and didn’t make a sound.

Applejack sighed, and walked over to her, “Come on, you…” she said as she helped her up onto her feet. Twilight didn’t seem to put up much of a fight, and came quietly out of the room.

Everyone promised to keep close watches on her, in shifts if necessary.

Discord changed instantly into a nigthwatchmen’s uniform. “No one’s gonna get past me.” he said in a gangster-like voice.

The others shrugged him off, but agreed to the watch.

Rarity also looked and felt deeply upset, but for an entirely different reason. “Are you going to be okay, Rarity?” asked Fluttershy.

“Yes,” she replied softly “Perfectly fine. You needn’t worry about me.”

Everyone felt it was really going to be a long and difficult night…

…but one thing no one had noticed; even Celestia hadn’t noticed… when she blocked off the mirror gateway, and all it’s mechanical funtions, the solar panels were still absorbing power from the moonlight as it shone through the open windows!

In the Dark Zone, Spike landed on the dark sands by Lord Erebus and his sentries. The sentries were asked to bring Spike back when they had discovered he had allowed himself to be struck by magic and seen by those who could not naturally see him before.

“You have much explaining to do.” hissed one sentry.

“You know fully-well you are to remain in hiding at all times.” added the other, but Erebus suddenly hushed them. “There is no need for hostility.” then he looked down at Spike, “I trust he has a justified explination for his recklessness.”

Spike told his story, of Twilight’s atteampt to infect the Dark Zone with her magic hoping to despell it and supposedly cure the Dark Angels of their darkness.

The sentries could hardly believe it, and Erebus, though he didn’t show it much, he was shocked and appalled, “I see…” he hissed softly.

Before he could question any further, Beast Boy returned from the Titans’ world, looking rather peeved. “Raven tried to stop me from leaving. I told her off.”

Erebus sighed, not at Beast Boy for obviously not staying out of sight like he was supposed to, but the fact that more mortals were out there questioning the Dark Angels’ privacy, as well as their existence.

“Ah…!” Erebus suddenly gasped, and other Dark Angels felt it too, all across the Dark Zone, especially. “The Darkness… it is shifting once more!” cried Erebus. Then suddenly, Nobunaga, whom was meditiated before, awoke in shock, “No…!” he cried “Oh, no… no, please!

“Dude, what’s wrong?” asked Beast Boy. He and Spike raced over to him. Davis was still out on one of his bouts.

Nobunaga was panting heavily in stress, and clutching his chest, almost as if he were in physical pain, which of course was not possible.

“My memories of long ago have been altered once more.”

“Why? What happened?” asked Spike.

Nobunaga dug deep into his memories and explained it all as he saw it, and played out the possibilities from outside his point of view.

Five-Hundred Years Ago, in the Feudal Era…

Princess Tsuyu and Lord Kimo were visiting their home villiage, donating bits of gold to the poor. The Princess even handed out flower baskets she had made for all the children, and even let some of the children play a little with Hiyoshimaru.

The playful little monkey did flips and handstands, and the way he danced about while scratching his behind made the children laugh.

The Princess felt her heart melt with love and joy, which melted her husband’s heart too.

“You enjoy what you see, My Princess?” Kimo asked.

“Yes, my lord. I feel… I feel that I have much love to give to others as well.” She turned to her husband, looked deeply into his eyes, “Oh, my lord… my husband… I feel it is time; time that we conceived to have a child of our own.”

Her husband’s heart leapt with joy. “Yes. Yes, I believe we should-- nay… we must. It would be most wonderful to have and raise a child.”

Suddenly, someone screamed and came running in panic, “WOLVES!!” he cried “WOLVES HEADED FOR THE VILLIAGE!!”

His cry of Wolf was easily believed, especially when the people could hear the faint yet distinctive sounds of wolves howling in the distance.

The people panicked and grabbed all their children rushing for cover, while the villiage wariors jumped into arms to defend the villiage perimeters form the oncoming mongrels.

The wolves put up a vicious fight, but the warriors managed to slay them easily, but the remaining wolves then howled in a signaling manner.

Inuyasha and friends were close by on their way through the fields, when they heard the wolves.

“Listen!” cried Inuyasha “I’d recognize that sound; those are Koga’s wolves!”

Suddenly, Sango felt a twitch on her cheek-- pesky old Myoga, sucking her blood again.

WHAPP! She swatted him. “Oof!” he groaned “Why can I never enjoy a precious meal without sucmbing to injury?”

“Myoga…? What are you doing here?” asked Kagome.

The poor little flea straightned himself out and hopped up onto Kirara, “I was passing through the fields when I noticed a pack of reavnous wolves headed straight for the nearby villiage of Princess Tsuyu and her Lord Kimo.”

Everyone gasped, and Inuyasha’s features hardened.

“The Wolf Demons raid and hound on helpless villiages and victims.” said Sango.

Something inside Inuyasha snapped, and he dashed off.

“Inuyasha!” called Kagome.

“There’s no point, Kagome.” said Miroku “If Koga’s wolves are involved, then surely Koga will be there as well, and you know how Inuyasha feels about that.”

With that in mind, the team dashed off.

“Protect the Lord and the Princess!” cried the Captain, and the gaurds formed a human barracaide around the royal couple, ready to take on the snarling wolves.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” hissed an unpleasant voice. The royal couple looked up and saw Koga standing on a thatched roof, and he looked pretty mad. He didn’t even look like himself either. His eyes were black as night. He had dark scratchmarks across his face, and hie right arm was shourded in dark aura.

Tsuyu was overwhelmed with fear at the sight of him. Her husband held her tightly and doing his best to be brave for her. “Who are you?” he sneered at Koga “What is it you want here?”

Koga just stood where he was hissng and sneering, while Naraku’s voice echoed in his mind, “Destroy them all, and lure out the dark ones.”

Koga couldn’t seem to resist the force at all, and he growled vicilusly and leapt from the roof to the ground, and began to brutally attack the gaurds.

“Stop him!” shouted the captain. The gaurds all rushed Koga with a valliant effort in mind, but they of course were no match aginast the power of the sacred jewel shards.

Koga slaughtered those poor men and shattered their weapons as if they were all made of paper! Their blood gushed and their corpses lay about, much to the horrors of the princess.

The remaining gaurds were starting to fret, and worse, the wolves were still glaring and growling.

“Stay back!” Koga sneered at them “You have what’s left!”

He then glared at the royal couple near the last of their honor guard, and he rushed forth to take them all on…!

“STOP!!!” thundered Inuyasha, and he leapt right in at Koga and gave him a hard bash to the face with his fist.

“Lord Inuyasha!” cried Tsuyu.

The rest of the team rushed up, and the wolves growled at them, frightening Shippo. “They sure look angry!” he whimpered.

Kagome then saw Koga, but she also could see that he didn’t seem like himself. “Ah…!” she gasped as she looked straight through him, “Inuyasha, he has another sacred jewel shard, in his right arm again!”

“Huh!” scoffed Inuyasha “So you swiped yourself another one. That’s no excuse for your slaughtering these innocent people with your pack of mongrels.”

Rather than be his usual insulting, snarling self when faced with such insults, Koga mere growled at him, and his eyes went from black to red!

“Whoa! What the hell is up with you?” asked Inuyasha.

Miroku gripped his staff, “I am sensing there is something off about Koga; something incredibly powerful and wicked!”

Kagome confirmed this when she began to sense something wrong with the shard in Koga’s arm, “The shard… it’s… it’s tainted!”

“What? Tainted?” called Inuyasha. He turned to fac Koga again and saw the dark aura glowing on his arm, which explained Koga’s unusual and more violent behaviour. “Where did you get that shard, Koga?”

Koga did not answer. Instead he roared and charged forth at great speed, Inuyasha barely leapt away in time as Koga punched the ground, making a huge hole.

Myoga leapt up up on Sango’s head “He is under the influence of a demonic power. It will be useless to try and reason with him I fear.”

Inuyasha then grabbed for his sword, “Fine! If you won’t back off, I’ll just have to kill you.”

“Inuyasha, don’t! Don’t kill him!” shouted Kagome.

He stopped.

“I know you have your differences with Koga, but you can’t just kill him like this!”

“Don’t you be getting all sentimential with him now,” Inuyasha sneered “He’s already killed these gaurds. What’s to say he won’t kill us next?”

“He has a point.” said Sango “We must at least defend ourselves, as well as the villiagers.”

The others all agreed.

The Wolves charged forth, but Sango threw a demon repellent bomb at the ground while Kirara breathed a little fire their way.

“WIND TUNNEL” Miroku amied his hand right up at the sky, not directly at the wolves. The powerful vortex frightened the wolves, and the entire heard ran away.

Still, Koga was as violent as ever; attacking Inuyasha like crazy, but Inuyasha still made no attempt to draw his sword out, or make any lethal moves, but he did throw a few punches and kicks to at least defend himself and maybe tire Koga out, which wasn’t easy due to the shards in his body.

“Come on, Koga! Snap out of it!” snapped Inuyasha, but Koga only growled, and he leapt over and booted him hard in the gut, sendning him skidding along the ground.

Tsuyu screamed, and her husband held her tightly.

“We’ve got to get them to safety!” cried Kagome. The others agreed, and began to escort the royal couple back to the palace.

Koga didn’t seem to care at all. He was far too preoccupied with his current opponent. “Had enough yet, Mutt?”

Inuyasha crushed the dirt in his hands as he stood, “Well, well, maybe there’s still some of you in there after all.”

The two demons glared furiously at each other, but Koga’s growling got louder and more ferice, which made the aura on his arm glow brighter.

“INUYASHA, GET OUT OF THERE!!” shouted Miroku.

Inuyasha quickly leapt away just as Koga thrust his fist forth, unleashing a dark shockwave in a burning stream to the spot.

KAPOW…A huge explosion of darkness that shook the village

At the same time, Nobunaga was on his bout when he saw the erupting darkness. “What…?” he snapped softly, and he saw the force from coming from the nearby villiage, “Princess Tsuyu!!” he cried, and he dashed off to investigate.

“Oh, my!” cried Tsuyu.

“Steady, Princess! We’re almost out of danger!” said Kimo.

The others were all shocked out of their mind. “I can’t believe he’s THAT strong!” cried Shippo.

“Who’d have thought one tainted jewel shard could produce such a shockwave!” added Sango.

Miroku suddenly began to feel he knew where Koga got the shard from. “There is but one demon I know that can produce such wicked aura…!”

Everyone caught on, and figured it was Naraku who was behind all this. “He must be controlling Koga like a puppet to do his bidding.” said Kagome “But why?”

That didn’t seem to matter too much at the moment, and just then Sango had an idea “If he is being manipulated by the tainted shard, removing it may purify him.”

Inuyasha heard that from afar, “That’s all I needed to know.” He cracked his knuckles with glee at the thought of slashing Koga’s arm.

He had the wolf demon in his sights, and he rushed forth to get him, but strangely… Koga zoomed right past him.

“Hey!” Inuyasha called.

“Where’s he going now?” asked Shippo.

Suddenly, Tsuyu gasped when she saw “…Nobunaga!”

“What?” cried Kimo.

“Where is he?” asked Miroku.

Tsuyu pointed at the villiage entrance. Only she could see Nobunaga, hovering above the villiage gate.

The first thing he saw was the corpses of all the gaurds that Koga slaughtered.

“You…!!” Koga suddenly shouted at him.

“What? He is able see me?” cried Nobunaga, and then he realized the darkness emitting from Koga’s arm “He is using dark power!”

Koga snickered hard “So, there are dark spirits around.” then he could feel Naraku influencing him. “Whatever it takes, you must capture this creature and bring it to me. I must learn more of it.”

Before Koga could even try anything, Inuyasha tackled him hard, shoving him hard along the ground. “Oh, no you don’t!” he thundered “You leave the Dark Angels out of this!”

The two two engaged in a struggle; Inuyasha trying to pin Koga down to get good shot at his arm.

“Inuyasha!” called Kagome.

Inuyasha called back to her “JUST GET THOSE TWO OUT OF HERE!” he refered to the royal couple.

“He’s right.” said Miroku “Hurry!”

Just as the royal couple were being escorted to the palace, Tsuyu looked over her shoulder and saw “…Hiyoshimaru!” She had forgotten to take him with her, and he was no stuck under a few bits of rubble from the battle.

Nobunaga saw his old friend too, but there was nothing he could do to help him. For that matter, he should have left already; knowing what affects dark power would do to him…!

…But he was too worried about the Princess.

“I must help him!” cried Tsuyu, and she tried to break free from the group, but the others wouldn’t let her through.

“Princess, it’s too dangerous!” cried Kagome.

“Kiara!” said Sango “Go and fetch the monkey.”

Kirara rushed forth and scooped Hiyoshimaru up, but before she could bring him over to the group…

…Koga overpowered Inuyasha and kicked him off of him super hard, sending him crashing hard right into Kirara.

Hiyoshimaru went soaring up high in the air, and landing on Koga’s head, much to everyone’s super horror!

The naughty little monkey began to punch and bash at Koga’s head, that Koga grabbed him hard in his right hand, glared at him with such furry, and then just SLAMMED the little creature hard on the ground, making it burst like a boil!

“NO!!!!!” screamed Tsuyu!

“HIYOSHIMARU!!!” cried Nobunaga.

The others were devastating, Kagome, and Shippo were practically in tears.

“You sick, bastard!!” snarled Inuyasha, and he didn’t care about objections; he drew the Tetsusaiga!

“Is that supposed to scare me?” growled Koga.

Inuyasha didn’t answer and just rushed forth roaring angrily, andhe brought his arm down to slice Koga in half, but susprisingly Koga blocked the the force with his right arm, and spring him off!

“Damn it!” shouted Inuyasha “That shard’s making him even stronger!”

“You don’t know the half of it!” hissed Koga, and he held his arm up high, and the dark aura began to gather in his hand in a huge glowing ball of darkness.

“What’s he doing?” cried Shippo.

Miroku fretted, “He is gathering all the demonic aura into one concentracted blast! It’ll be strong enough to wipeout half the village; even if Inuyasha uses the Backlash Wave!”

This worried everyone, whether Inuyasha attacked or dodged the villiage would get badly leveled…

…Except, the energy was suddenly starting to die out, much to Koga’s shock. “What’s happening?!” then he noticed that Nobunaga was absorbing the aura to weaken the blast.

“You killed my friend! The Princess’ pet!! I will not let you hurt any one else!!”

“Nobunaga!” cried Tsuyu.

Koga growled as his aura got weaker, but he wouldn’t let it go to waste. “I can use what I’ve got!” and he leapt up really high and picthed that ball of power straight at Inuyasha.

“This is my chance!” said Inuyasha, and the blade of his sword was enveloped in the aura of the Backlash wave.

“Inuyasha, don’t!” called Kagome.

“Trust me!” shouted Inuyasha “BACKLASH WAVE” With a big slash of his sword, the backlash wave deflected the aura, but rather than shooting it back at his opponent, Inuyasha had aimed it so the blast when straight up at the sky where it exploded brightly, much to Koga’s anger.

“Why you… I’ll!! GAAAAAAAAAH…!!” While he was distracted and ranting, Inuyasha leapt right over and slash at his arm with his claws, popping the tainted shard out in a stream of blood!

Koga then lay flat on the ground, unconscious but not dead, and the tainted shard lay on the ground several feet away from him.

The dark aura then levitated the shard up high in the air, and it began to fly away, back to Naraku, but his evil voice echoed. “You may have saved the wolf demon, but I already have all the information I need.

I know now of the Dark Angels and in time I will learn much more.”

Everyone was infuriated with Naraku’s voice. Nevertheless, it was over, and he was gone.

Though the villiage was safe, Princess Tsuyu was devastated at the death of Hiyoshimaru. She walked miserably over to the corpse of her pet, and trembled as she wept so softly.

As for Nobunaga, he couldn’t possibly have felt any angrier, any more heartbroken. Even as a spirit, he could still have such emotions.

“Hiyoshimaru.” he muttered softly, while quivering.

The others all huddled around the princess to comfort her, and she finally looked across at Nobunaga, and watched him disappear softly into a portal, “Nobunaga…!” she called, but he was already gone, which hurt her heart even more.

“I’m so sorry, Princess.” sobbed Kagome. She felt just as heartbroken; Hiyoshimaru was so cure and cuddly in life.

“I lost my friend…!” cried Tusyu, “Now I have lost more gaurds, and now… I have lost my sweet pet that I cared for!

Why is it that everyone I seem to care for meets with doom?”

No one said a thing, there wasn’t much to say.

Koga suddenly began to come to. “Oh…! What happened? What am I doing here in this pitiful villiage?” he groaned as he sat upright holding his aching head, and he notice the streaks of blood on his arm. His arm didn’t hurt too much due to his strength, “Whoa! That must’ve been some fight I had.”

Then he noticed Inuyasha and the gang ahead of him, all mourning the loss of the little monkey, as well as the gaurds, but he also noticed Inuyasha’s bloody hand, and he put two and two together.

“…Why that flea-bitten, no good…!” he bolted upright and thundered “…INUYASHA!!”

Everyone turned.

“Koga!” cried Kagome.

“So he finally got up.” grumbled Inuyasha.

See the cold glare n Koga’s eyes, everyone knew there would be trouble, but Miroku stepped forth, “Koga! All will be explained, but we are currently in the midst of a mourning eulogy of fallen soldiers and this animal.

I’d advise you remain calm.”

Koga was usually not one to care about, what he regarded as, such trivial things, “Fine, but only for Kagome’s sake.”

Kagome smiled at hime, which made him smile at her, much to Inuyasha’s annoyance.

In the Dark Zone in the present day, Nobunaga clenched his fists, “My poor little, Hiyoshimaru, destroyed before my eyes, and that Dark Aura-- had I absorbed much more I don’t know what could have happened.”

The others felt very sorry for him, and Erebus especially felt worried. Even though Nobunaga made himself seen back then, he was absorbing Dark Aura to try and prevent trouble, exactly what the Dark Angels priority, but the fact that other creatures in the Feudal Era were relearning of the Dark Angels’ existence…

There would most likely mean more trouble-- more shifts in darkness and alterations in time and history.

“Man! What next?” groaned Beast Boy “Everyone’s out there to get us! What are we going to do?”

Spike was especially worried what Twilight would try with her project, even though it looked like she had been stopped. “They just don’t listen!” he groaned “We warned them. We ordered them. Even threatened them-- well, maybe we haven’t threatened them.”

“I understand your worry.” said Erebus “We have tried to reason with the mortals, and continue our peaceful ways, but I fear now that times will have to change.”

Every Dark Angel in the entire real heard him, and many of them were inclined to agree. All of them had held deep dark thoughts of the mortal worlds, and how the actions of those living there sent them to exist in the Dark Zone for eons and ages.

“It is settled…” said Erebus “At the moment we shall do nothing, but if the mortals we have faced make any further attempts to dececrate us…

…We shall have to do the unthinkable.”

Author's Notes:

This is fic is on Hiatus for a spell

I'm so exhausted with it (Been at it since June) And there's still a long way to go. I need a break from it