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Land on Manten and his Shippo's-dad's-fur wrap?

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Manten is, apparently, a lot squishier than he looks.

This is not to say that the landing doesn't hurt, because it still hurts quite a lot, but she's not dead, and at the moment she's really very willing to take "not dead" as an outcome.

Phew.

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Manten is also not dead, and is now attempting to get to his feet!

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Oh. Well that's not good. 

She tries to stand up and run, and she mostly succeeds, but she's not exactly moving at top speed -

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"TAKE THIS!" yells Shippo, who's mostly been cowering on the sidelines and hoping that everyone's forgotten about him. He throws a very ordinary-looking toy top, which grows to enormous proportions as soon as it lands on Manten's head.

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"GAHHHH!"

And Manten is now far too distracted grabbing at his head to chase Kagome.

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"Kagome! Over here! Hurry!"

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Kagome doesn't need to be told twice! Or even once, actually, she's already scrambling up the side of the crater. 

"Thanks, Shippo," she says at the top, and spares about a second to catch her breath and see if she can figure out where Inuyasha and Hiten have gotten to.

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Inuyasha and Hiten are over there trading blows! Hiten is throwing more lightning bolts, Inuyasha is trying to survive them. 

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"You mustn't let your guard down yet, Kagome," says Myoga, leaping over to her. "Fox sorcery is, after all, only deception."

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"Deception - ?"

She turns back and looks at Manten, before she can consider whether actually she should be running further away.

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... And Manten is now noticing that the top is, uh, not actually that large? And is, in fact, just a child's toy top.

A child's toy top that just - 

"MY HAIR!!!!"

And, as the strands drift slowly to the ground, Manten absolutely unleashes his breath weapon - at the walls of the crater he is still at the bottom of, at random rocks, at the few stunted trees that grow in the storm-scarred lands, and sorta kinda in Kagome's general direction, if not Kagome's general direction with any aim.

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Wow, okay, Kagome is running! Moving out! Leaving the scene, with Shippo in tow!

She's not very sure where to go, though. Her usual heuristic is that the safest place to be is probably near Inuyasha, but she's pretty sure this stops being true when he's locked in combat with a powerful adversary. She needs to hold out for long enough for Inuyasha to kill Hiten. Of course, if he has to fight Hiten and Manten both, when both of them can fire off lightning attacks at long range, his odds of winning the fight go way down. On the other hand, if Manten is angry enough, he might go after her and Shippo and ignore Inuyasha, which makes running away and hiding sort of almost like contributing. 

There aren't that many places to run away and hide, though. She ducks behind a random boulder and tries to catch her breath as silently as possible, hoping that'll at least give her enough time to think of something better.

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The positive side is that Manten hasn't located her precisely. The negative side is that he's igniting, blowing up or blasting to smithereens everything in a vaguely her-near area whether or not she is presently hiding behind it; neither the arrow still in his nose, nor the crash, seems to be slowing his desire to BLOW EVERYTHING UP down in the slightest.

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Well that's just terrible.

She can't hide back here for more than a minute before he blows up the boulder just because it's there. She can't fight him. She can't really outrun lightning.

 

Inuyasha brought her bicycle. So somewhere around here, there's a bicycle, and maybe it has her bow and arrows, or maybe it's just a bicycle and she can ride it away, which feels kind of like abandoning Inuyasha except that the whole reason that he's in danger is because he has to come save her, and probably if she's not in immediate danger everything will be better somehow.

"C'mon, Shippo," she whispers, and then grabs him again and breaks for the bicycle.

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She can do that! However, the bicycle is, alas, probably best described as an ex-bicycle. It got struck by lightning. "Surviving getting struck by lightning" is not a bicycle skill. Here and there intact wheels (some with smoking rubber still stuck to them) and bits of frame continue to exist, spread across a not tremendously large area. Some of them are even connected to each other, if you wanted to be optimistic, and the fabric of her backpack was not all consumed by fire. Scraps of paper, hither and yon, have miraculously escaped burning, and her Gameboy, though slightly smoking, appears to still be one intact, roughly Gameboy-shaped lump.

The bow and arrows aren't there, though, since Inuyasha didn't think to search for them where she fell.

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Well, that thing isn't riding away.

It's deeply unstrategic to stare in horror at the sight of her ruined stuff, but that's what she does. It's her stuff. Her textbooks, her homework, her clothes, her camping gear, the Gameboy she got for her birthday, the mask that she spent the last of her spending money on. She doesn't know how much of it she can afford to replace. She looks for anything that might still be a weapon, but there's nothing obvious.

She doesn't think of any plans in the next five seconds.

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Which is, unfortunately, enough time for the bald and pissed off Manten to locate her, stare at her, howl in wrath and charge. "You're mine!"

And he will then inhale as he readies his breath-weapon to use on Kagome, Shippo, and anything else in the blast radius of the two of them.

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Between the head injury and the shock of losing her stuff and her obvious imminent death, Kagome is not really firing on all thrusters.

She throws a metal piece of her ruined bicycle at Manten, not even really realizing that that's what she's doing until the piece leaves her hand, at which point she's distantly confused about how she expects this to help.

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The piece whacks him! He turns red with rage and switches from blasting her to bits to just charging. It's unstoppable, and he'll bat Shippo aside with one hand, and, with the other, grab Kagome by the throat and just start strangling her.

"I should've done this a long time ago..."

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"Inu-"

And then her throat closes up and she can't even exhale. The pressure on her throat feels impossible. She's distantly worried that he'll close his hand further and simply break her neck.

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"KAGOME!"

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What an EXCELLENT opportunity to tear open Inuyasha's chest with his spear.

"Distracted, lad?"

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"Gah -" And Inuyasha is sent flying backwards by the thunderclap, bleeding from the blow, Tetsusaiga flying from his hand to clatter to the rocks, a normal sword out of his reach -

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"Truly, I hoped for better. You talked like a warrior -" he spins his spear, points it at Inuyasha's throat - "and fought like a fool."

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