Authors corner: Hello! I'm starting a new story right now and I am really proud of the first chapter! I think it is very good and I hope you all enjoy it. Don't worry I will continue to update "crazy humans and freaky mermaids".

Here it is!

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or the characters! If only, if only.

Warning: I do like men and everything, but this story starts off with a little bit of an edge to hating men. And the way the story begins is it is being told by women and they have forgotten all the good things about men so it is biased to them. So if any of my readers out there are boys. Sorry but just how the story starts…

Cast:

Kagome

InuYasha

Sango

Miroku-

Sesshomaru

Rin

Lady Misa

Tristan

(And that's just the beginning…)

Prologue-

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

Anne Lamott

Was it myth? Did it really happen? Was this world really what Grandmothers told us? How could it be, it was preposterous to say the least. How could this magnificent world have been ruled by the thugs?

But Old Mothers are the wisest, they lived through the change. They lived through the curse's beginning. Just as we would see the end of it.

This is the story…

In the year 2010 our First Mother (the one that brought us here) began her destiny. The elimination of the animal we knew as man.

This animal was said to resemble us, the women, in many aspects. He would usually have shorter hair then us putting it up in spikes, rather then letting it flow about in splendor. He would have no breasts and his sexual system was very different as well. He was actually quite like the old women.

But what made him vile, wrong, and completely evil was his emotion and behavior.

In the older times they could hit the women and stuff them in closets. They would blame them for the children being girls. In later years a law came to pass that you may not hurt a woman or child, but that didn't stop the vile beasts. No, they just continued to 'abuse' the women and children. We would be made to work. To slave away for the men. We would be made to clean up their messes. These men were cruel, nasty, things, they may have looked like us but in spirit they were monsters.

Well, our First Mother had, had a terrible childhood, full of abuse from her father and brothers. But, tragically enough, she began to trust men when one dashing lad began to court her (that was a heathen ritual of 'making out' and hugging then the man would take her to wed, a mating of some sort).

His name was William.

He seemed wonderful in everyway, everything that was wanted back in those times. At least he seemed to be, he told her he loved her and she stupidly believed him. But her dear sister saw through his masquerade. He just wanted her for money and mating with.

The first Mother was furious and saddened; she had hoped that she would have a wonderful life. Didn't she deserve it after what had happened to her?

The anger turned into a madness that burned with an inner fire, finally bringing her destiny to play. Her ancestors magiq was let out in her. The hate for men allowed the women in her family to place on curse on mankind. If she chose the correct one then the world would shift. All of the men's glory would fade into nothingness. No more records of man at all, only the memories of the women would remain. The women themselves would rise, all gaining titles of wealth and having their damnable clothes torn from them to become dresses of the finest silk.

And you may ask what would happen to the men?

They would be changed. Their appearance altered to fit their monstrous spirit. They would be demons for the rest of time and what women did with them would be up to them. Make them slaves, kill them all, anything. No man would remain to ever hurt women again.

The First Mother came to William and acted sweetly even though inside she was feeling like her heart was being gouged out of her very being.

She took him to their small spot. The spot they first kissed at and she showed him her true intent. She said the curse with tears streaming down her face. She said the curse with fire burning inside her. She said the curse whilst her own heart began to fail her.

After the curse was said the First Mother, the Great Mother, our Goddess, fell down with pain filled eyes looking up at her love. His whole appearance had changed; she had chosen the true curse! She had chosen her destiny. But the tale does not end happily at all, no.

While the First Mother lay there on the cold, hard ground of her death bed, the demon that had been the man she loved paced back and forth. His screams and cries of torment hurting her soul more then her own dieing heart ever could.

She uttered his name quietly and he was there, she cried silently as he shushed her. Brushing her hair back, begging for her to stay, that he hadn't wanted any of those things that she said he had. He had wanted her for her love, nothing else. He lay beside her cradling her body in his now muscled arms. As she left the world he uttered one thing to her:

"I will love you forever, always. Remember that."

But nothing could keep her here on this plane, she left and in the shadows of a tree the First Mother's younger sister watched and waited. Her sister's soul left her body and as the soul left William and the younger sister could hear only one thing:

"I love you…"

No one knows what happened to William, named as the First Demon. Many say he fled when the women began to put the demons in chains to enslave them for wickedness. Romantics say that he killed himself after the First Mother died. But no one truly knows what happened…

"…And that is how we came to have this world named Triqan and this woman nation." Lady Misa finished the myth to her first child, Kagome.

Glancing behind her chair, Lady Misa saw her Master Demon Tristan standing stiffly behind it. His emerald eyes sparking fiercely at the story of choice yet when they landed on Misa they softened to a beautiful gaze. He came forward and leaned his head down near hers to see their child.

Misa's golden red hair mixed with his black hair and her hand was dwarfed when he covered it with his own clawed one. She quickly glanced around the room looking for Sau, Nit, and Svac (her three other demon guards that she had to have by law of the queen) but they had retired for the evening.

Together, Tristan and Misa looked down at the child they had made on the midsummer night's eve festival three years ago. Not many women and their master demons could conceive on this day. It was said that if a child was conceived on this day then the child would be one of the most powerful ever.

Most of the children conceived were in the spring, when the mating urged the demons to mate. Yet even though it was strange enough that their daughter had been conceived on that day, their situation got only more deadly.

Misa looked up at the tall demon slave that she had come to fall in love with over the years since her mother had trained him and given him to Misa. But women and demons were not supposed to fall in love, since the queen decreed it so, yet Misa and Tristan could not stop the attraction between them. It only grew stronger every passing year.

"We could be sentenced to death for falling in love Tristan. They would kill us all for this, even little Kagome, I couldn't live with that. What will we do!" And tears filled her eyes.

Tristan brought her head up and kissed her gently on the brow. "We will be careful my fiery one. We will live and have another child in the mating festival. Like everyone else! No one will know. No one!"

At the time they did not know that the small child with them would be the one that would change the way the world was. And that would begin when young Kagome was 20…