Prov 43- Dialogue only
Title: Campfire stories
Author: Nicluv1787
Rating: T
CU/AU: AU
Prompt: Dialogue only
Characters: Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku & Sango
Words: 735
Summary: A camping trip gone bad.
Warnings: Inu’s potty mouth.
A/N: The Ghost story Kagome tells is my own adaptation of this folk tale: http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ny6.html
“This is it?”
“Don’t turn your nose up at it, this is the best I could do since you lost our only food. “
“Keh, you weren’t saying that when I saved you from that bear.”
“As I remember it, it was a bear cub.”
“Like you’re one to talk Hioshi, you’re the one who ran away screaming throwing down the backpack with our tent.”
“Ha! Sango told you.”
“You weren’t any braver.”
“Shut up wench, I caught us dinner.”
“If you can call a sardine for four: dinner.”
“Keh.”
“I thought camping was supposed to be fun.”
“It is when you’re not with Miroku and Inuyasha.”
“I second that motion.”
“The women don’t know how much they need us. Let’s see how they would do on their own.”
“Let’s see how much sex you’d get on your own.”
“Ouch, that hurts me Sango.”
“Yeah, yeah, so what are we supposed to do out here, now that we’re foodless and shelterless?”
“We could tell stories?”
“I’ve got a great one! There once was a man from Nantucket…”
“NO!”
“Okay so no on the stories, how about we share jokes?”
“I’ve got another one!”
“Is it perverted?”
“…”
“So that’s a no on the jokes.”
“Well what the hell are we supposed to do?”
“I have a few ideas, Sango.”
“…”
“Ouch, that sounded painful.”
“Yeah.”
“What about a campfire classic: ghost stories?”
“Didn’t we already axe stories?”
“Well since Miroku is… incapacitated…we should be fine.”
“Alright, I have a good ghost story I learned back during summer camp.”
“Well get on with it then. “
“I heard this story… it’s about this lake that’s not far from where were camping. Have you ever heard of the White Lady?”
“No.”
“Keh, course not.”
“Well, a long time ago there was a little cottage up in these hills where a mother and daughter lived. The daughter was very beautiful and all the men in the village wanted to take her as their wife.”
“W-will you bear my sons!”
“Damn it Miroku.”
“What’s going on?”
“Kagome’s telling us a ghost story, now shut up.”
“Every day the daughter walked along the forest path to visit the lake and look for mushrooms and wild berries. A fisherman that lived along the lake knew about her daily routine, and desiring her greatly. He decided he would make her his bride. But things didn’t go as planned and he drowned her on accident.
“How’d he go from wanting to marry her to drowning her?”
“Stop asking questions and just listen to the story. Anyway, the fisherman didn’t want to be tried for murder so he tied rocks around her ankles and let her sink to the bottom of the lake. Later that day the girl’s mother realized her daughter hadn’t come home…”
“Cause she’s dead.”
“SHH.”
“Anyway, the mother went down to the lake shore and she noticed the fisherman coming back a little later than usual. When she asked him if he’d seen her daughter he wouldn’t look her in the eye, and then hurried away. Confused, the mother spent long hours searching for her daughter with no success. She reported the missing daughter to the authorities but it was too late. The fisherman had beaten her to it. He’d gone to the local pub and spread a rumor her daughter had run away with a young beau.”
“That’s a fast thinking fisherman.”
“Inuyasha.”
“Fine, I’m shutting up.”
“Thank you. Knowing her daughter wouldn’t run off without telling her the mother was convinced something awful had happened to her daughter. She spend days, then weeks, and finally years looking for her daughter; circling the lake calling out her name. After years of searching it became too much for her, her grief was too great and she killed herself by throwing herself off a cliff.”
“Stupid wench.”
“…”
“Alright just don’t look at me like that anymore.”
“Now some people say, that on cold nights like this you can hear her calling out for her daughter, wanting revenge she attacks unsuspecting males tormenting them to take the revenge for her daughters unjust death.”
“Yooouuuu killlledddd hhhheerrrrrr.”
“Holly shit its real! Let’s get the fuck out of here Miroku.”
“Right behind you!”
“HAHAHA.”
“Oh man that was too easy. Thanks for coming in with that creepy voice Sango that was priceless.”
“That wasn’t me…”
“yoouuuu killllleddd heeerrrrrr.”
“Inuyasha, Miroku wait for us!”