Sweet Revenge [C]

[Birdie]

She sighed, moving slightl in the hot springs in order to get more comfortable. Her bones hurt. Ah, the first day of the full moon was hell. Her bones were brittle for a few hours because of the sudden tallness. Well, taller-ness. Rather than her normal 4'9" she became 5'2". She was skinny now, because of the least amount of time spent in this form and also because of the sudden growth. Her slim, pale fingers ran through her slick, wet black as night hair. Charcoal, emotionless eyes stared out across the steaming springs. This hot water comforted her poor bones.

This was, amazingly, Brigantia. As a half breed she would change at full moon. Technically full moon lasts three nights. That would be the night before, the night of, and the night after. She would spend three days in this form. She smirked, for a mere moment. She rarely smiled.

She brought herself out of the pool, water dripping and streaming from her body. She exited the natrual hot springs and stepped out onto the cool earth. She stood naked, wringing out her hair for a long moment. She pulled on her kimono. It was extremely short for the human girl. She tucked the ends up, into the obi sto allow better leg movement. The front of the kimono hung loose. She strapped on the sword she had stolen, earlier, from a poor, currently deceased, samurai.

She walked carelessly away from the pools in order to meet her party. It was just turning night, the time had begun, later than normal. This made the alter human ego unhappy to be delayed from her rightful time in this body. She plopped down in front of the fire with a face so emotionless it revialed Sesshomaru's. She did not speak and seemed to dare someone to say something.

[Lord Sesshomaru]

Truly, this was the first time that Jaken had seen Brigantia in her human form. In fact, he didn't even know she had human form. So, when a suddenly unfamiliar (and yet familiar) human walked into their camp and sat at the fire, Jaken was perplexed. He glanced toward his lord, wondering on his reaction to suddenly have a strange human woman join their camp.

Sesshomaru barely even spared the woman a glance. What the hell? Jaken stared at his lord, waiting, hoping, that he would do something about the woman's presence. He did nothing! He couldn't stand this, accepting that the complete stranger was welcomed at their camp.

Finally, he just decided to take things into his own hands. "Who the hell are you!?"

[Birdie]

The annoying high pitched tone of the toad thing reached her ears. She turned her head slowly and glared in his direction. "You dare speak to you mistress in such a way?" she demanded of the toad. Her voice was even and cool, the only emotion that could be seen was the complete rage in her eyes. "You dare even look upon me? You annoying... what ever the hell you are... You can't even stand my scent when I am in my hanyou form and yet you have the guts to say such thigns to me whilst I am at my second strongest?" she demanded and stood up. She walked slowly towards the toad, leaneing forward so that they could see eye to eye. "Dispicable. To think She likes you." She sniffed, disgust showing on her pale, pretty face.

She raised a foot and stood on the toads head. "And why aren't you bowing you horrible thing? Eh?" she gave him a swift kick. "You should be thanking me for even touching you. I need to kill something." She drew her sword and marched off, slicing anything that got in her way. Her annoyance and anger could easily be smelled in the air. She could be heard murmuring things along the liens of "Damn moon, who do you come late? Wasting my prcious time." She ahd not gone too far in order to kill something. A poor defenseless rabbit had come onto her path. She swiftly choped it's head off. She then picked it up buy the back leg and brought it back to camp. She threw it at Jaken.

"You, thing, skin it, I need somethign to eat. I'm hungery. Damn Brigantia doesn't eat enough as it is. Worry about his Highness over their, thinking she slow him down. How damn long does it take to pick a flower? Huh?" She threw her hands in the air, lookign the part of an overly emotional human.

((gawd this is fun))

[Lord Sesshomaru]

Sesshomaru smirked as soon as Jaken opened his mouth. He knew, he knew it was going to happen. This was going to be the best night in a long time. He might not have known how the human Brigantia would react, but he knew it would be interesting.

"You dare speak to you mistress in such a way?" Jaken looked at the woman, confused. Did she just call her his mistress? He gawked at her, as he finally realized why she looked so familiar. This was Brigantia! Why was she human? And why was she talking in a way that the normal Brigantia, in which he could yell and insult, was acting all high and mighty?

Jaken glanced toward his lord, hoping that his lord would help him in the situation he found himself in. He paled when he saw the smirk on his lord's face. Oh no...that wasn't good. Not good at all. He turned his frightful eyes toward Brigantia as she continued her rant and stood up and walked towards him, speaking again before she raised her foot. He knew what was coming, and tried to escape, but the weight pressed on his head stopped him.

Jaken let out a grunt as she kicked him and left, talking about killing something. Thank god it wasn't him she was going to kill. He was so confused, and so frightened at the moment. He knew his lord would not help him, he was still smirking!

Suddenly she was back, throwing a headless rabbit at him, which, too scared him half to death when it seemed to have come out of nowhere. With her demand, he quickly went to work, not risking his head being chopped off just like the rabbits.

And Sesshomaru had been right. This was the best! He was laughing in his mind, and he couldn't stop smirking outwardly. Oh Jaken, finally getting what he deserves for treating Brigantia as he did.

[Birdie]

He looked so helpless. It made her smirk. "You're taking too long thing, haven't you ever skinned a damn rabbit before?" she demanded of him, picking up a rock and throwing it at his head. She took the rabbit from his, pulled out a small dagger from inn between her breasts, unsheathed it and easily cut though the stomach of the rabbit, holding the back legs in between ehr feet she expertly pulled the kin off in one moved ment. She then removed all the insides. Shestared at the inside for a moment. "You, clean that up." She pointed at Jaken and then at the entrails.

Brigantia grabbed a stick and shoved the rabbit onto it, she set it carefully over the fire. She then began to work on the skin. With a small tool that aslo came from some where between her bosom she pulled out a small kit. She began to scrape the fat off of te poor innocent fur. "Don't touch the braisn, or I'll have to use your's in order to tan this leather." she growled, barely looking up from her work.

In less than ten minutes she had the fat removed. She went through some packs somewhere near Ah-Un and came out with a pot. She went to the hot springs and came back with a small pot of water. She began to mush the brains in between her fingers until it became numerous amounts of string squishy things in the warm water. She set it over the fire. She left again to wash her hands in the hot springs.

She came back in a little better mood. Her bones did not hurt so much. She sat cross legged and watched her meal cook. "You quit lookin so happy. I think very lowly of your allowing that child to live with out a decent pair of shoes. Did you know that earlier in the day She, as in Brigantia, me... I had to pull a stone out of her poor foot. Don't look so happy. Nothing is excluding you from my temper." The way she spoke to him was mor elike a housewife upset with how her husband had cleaned the house, not at all with the anger and warth she reserved for Jaken. In fact she gave a little, slightly playful grin to Sesshomaru to prove she wasn't really mad at him, but in a bad temper all around.

Her food was soon finished. She pulled it off the fire and allowed it to cool. "Quite cowering, thing. You make me disgusted. You are a man, ar eyou not? So start acting like one! Take your punishment instead of acting like a small child. The only person here allowed to do that is Rin-chan and that's because she is a small child." She threw another stone at him, missing him by an inch. "Damn... missed." She yawned then took a huge bite from the rabbit, chewing thoughtfully and in an oddly lady like manner that did not quite seem to fit the masculine and barbaric attutide she was showing.

[Lord Sesshomaru]

How dare she! How dare she think she had the right to treat him this way! Sadly, he knew she did have the right, since his lord did nothing. Oh, woe was him, always being tortured and threatened. He squawked in surprise and pain when he was hit with the rock, and was releived of the job that had been given to him. He glared at her, only when he knew she wasn't looking. He knew how to skin a rabbit! He was only being slow because...because...ugh, he couldn't think of an excuse.

Jaken muttered to himself, complaining as usual as he was told to clean up the entrails. Gross...but he did as he was told. Stupid woman, if Sesshomaru wasn't on her side, he would have burnt her butt to a crisp with his jintojo! He sulked the rest of the time as she went and used the brains of the rabbit for the skin, and left again to clean her hands.

Only when she left did he allow himself to complain out loud, in which he was ignored by the others in the area. His bad mood was forgotten as he was shocked by the way she talked to his lord. He looked toward him, wondering on how he would react. Sesshomaru did nothing but shrug. "She refuses to wear them." was his amusing reply. All the while, his smirk did not leave. Jaken thought he was going to cry. Why could his lord be so cruel and allow her to treat him this way? Why could he joke around, and talk to her, when he barely spoke one word to his own ward.

Oh, life was so cruel, so so cruel indeed. That was one of the reasons he hated Brigantia.

Jaken continued to sulk, and did nothing but glare at Brigantia when she spoke of him being a child. Oh, if only he could tell her off!! He would, he really would! But then she, and his lord would be on him in a second. His eyes widened, and he covered his face as she threw the rock, and was so relieved when she missed.

Jaken glared at her again, crossing his arms and continuing to sulk silently and complain in his head. This wasn't fair, just not fair at all!!

[Birdie]

"Nnn, looking at the disgusting face is making me sick." She had just finished the rabbit. She began to widdle the bones into something pointy. When they were sharp emough to draw blood from her fingers she pulled yet another pouch from between her breasts. This one held other pointy bones and a bamboo pipe. She tucked her new bone spines in the pouch and then tucked it back in it's safe place. She stood and stretched. "Mmm." She took the boiling brain stew mixture off of the fire. She pulled yet another pouch from it's safe place between her breasts. This one held a number of bottles herbs. She sprinkled a few in, stirred it with a stick, then shoved the skin into it.

She settled against Ah-Un, her feet stretched out in front of her. Her long, milky white legs were uncovered until they reached a spot only one man had ever seen. Her kimono cvered that part. She put her hands behind her head. "Thing, quit looking so sulky or I'll use you for target practice with my bamboo pipe. I'll make sure the tips are poisoned." Her tone was moody. "Come give me a foot massage if you have enough time to sit about sulking. You act like an old grandma with aching bones or a toddler who lost it's favorite toys. It's depressing that you should enjoy my torture. I'll make sure these next three days are pure hell for you. Now, come, my feet need pampering." She laughed lightly, a large smirk on her face. She made sure Jaken would fear her smirk just as much as he feared Sesshomaru's.

[Lord Sesshomaru]

That was the last straw! He could not handle this any longer! How dare she treat him this way. The only problem is that he couldn't do anything about it unless he wanted to suffer the concequences. But he was starting to believe the concequences would be just fine, because he could not have her just tell him what to do like that.

"That's it!" he yelled, getting up from the floor and stomping his foot. "I will not go anywhere near your feet!" he pointed at her as he yelled. "You have no right to command me! Only Lord Sesshomaru has such a right!" he was having a fit, and at the moment he didn't care what she did to him. But something told him he would later. He liked it when Sesshomaru was the one that told him what to do. Sure, somethings he would rather not do, but it was never something so rediculous! Of course, if his lord would want him to massage his feet, his lowly servant would willingly do it.

But not when it was 1. A woman 2. A hanyou 3. The one that gets all his lord's attention. Only his lord had the right to tell him what to do. And he would stand up for his right to do so!!

Of course, he didn't really have that right. For she was the lord's mate, and had rule over him as his lord did. He just didn't like the idea, and would do as much as he could to go against it.

[Birdie]

She sat, unblinking, staring at Jaken for a full minute. She seemed unable to move. Her beautiful pale as moonlight face was emotionless. Her lips did not move, her eyes held no spark of anything. She seemed to be a doll. Then, suddenly, amusment seeped into that lovely and dangerous face. Her full lips quirked up into a sickly sweet smile. She moved to a kneeling position then put her hands on the ground in front of her, palms down. In an extremely feral way she began to move cat like across the space that divided her from Jaken. In doing this her kimono slid open, slightly. Her long legs uncovered from the hip down and ehr torso could mostly be seen. The arms of the kimono fell down enough to keep her hands out of the dirt.

She reached out her fingers and gently touched the face of the toad in front of her. "Oh, it must be so hard. It must hurt so much. To have a human... or rather, a half-breed higher up in the pecking order than thee. Tsk. It is such a shame, some one so wonderful should be forced to do such things by such a cruel mistress." Her soft voice crooned out the words as she gently massaged Jaken's cheek. Her smile was still in place though, the horrid amusment still in her eyes. She lowered her head, in mock defeat.

Suddenly her slim hand puleld away from his face, and with an astonishing accuracy, hit him cuasing her fingers to cut into his green flesh. "Do you think I gave a damn. Do you think I was given a fucking choice? Hmm?" Her voice became a cold his. Her smile faltered before growing stronger. "Stupid thing... poor, stupid thing... You do not seem to udnerstand you place. Such a sad thing when a servant no longer seems to know his duties. tsk. shame." Her hand went back to gently messagin his cheek. "Pity..." she clicked her tongue, shaking her head. "And I am so tired of the general predjudice agaisnt my kind. It is as if it is our fault." Again he smiled faultered. Again it returned, stronger than before.

She set back on her heels, not seemingt o care that a lto of her body was exposed now. She reahced out her hand again, but instead of touchign Jaken, Brigantia plucked a flower from behind him. Her face was dangerously close to his in the process. She held up the flower between them. "Little thing, I shall as a question of thee. Dost thou know who shares a bed with thy Master? Of course thou do." She chuckled. She reached up and touched the mark on her neck. "In doing such you become my property, little pitiful thing. And I will do to my property as i see fit." She inhaled deeply from the flower. She placed it in the toad's hat. "Thou is not a man. A man doth not cower from a woman. A man doth not cower before his master."

She piched a petal from the flower. She rolled it between her fingers, making a thin paste. "Wreched thing, I give thee thine punishment. This flower gives off a pelasent oder, but, if put into the blood stream it will cause waking dreams. Horrible nightmares, visions of the things that scare thee most." She licked it. "To humans and half breeds it is completely harmless because we already fear so much, already day dream about the horrid. But to demons, who rarely think on such things, it is extremely potent. Are thy not a proud demon?" she reache dout and took another petal. She crushed this one between her fingers, the thing paste looked mosre slimey. "The saliva from a human makes it's juice so much more potent. You may die from fear..." With a movement almost too quick for it to be human, she smeared the slime into Jaken's wound.

"I wish thee horrible dreams, disgusting thing." She crawled away from Jaken, over to Seesshomaru, and bowed. "I must ask forgiveness. My temper is a worse than a man's. but I hope this punishment will suffice. Do with me as you will." She sat up and licked her fingers, still looking earily like a cat. Once finished washing her fingers of the material that would cause such night mares she touched Sesshomaru's sleeves. "May I rest in your arms?" she asked softly, her face a deep crimson from asking such a question. She was supposed to be a proud woman.