I own only Kelsey/Iya and Bearskie/Zip. Inomay owns Maya and Negra/WindDancer. We DO NOT OWN INUYASHA!
Also sorry about the bouncing around between past and present tense X)
Enjoy and review! XD
~~~M~~~
I groaned as I started to realize I was awake. 'Shit.' I rolled over, saw the clock. 'Shit. *sigh* mind as well get up.'
With another groan I got out of bed and bumbled around my room for something to where.
Finally dressed I decided to go mess with Negra and headed for the bus stop. 'Hurry up bus,' I growled. I started singing to myself to pass the time.
Once on the bus I zoned out for an hour until my stop came up. After another half mile of walking I made it to Fred's Livery and the routine began. Tack room, grooming kit, tack, back of the barn.
"Negra," I called into the stall and the 14.2 seal brown, big attitude mare whinnied a greeting.
I tied the rope halter on her head, led her out and tied her to the hitching post. I frowned as I came down her back left leg with the body brush. I glared at the scar on it as though that would make it disappear. 'Damn thing don't you give us any problems today,' I thought finishing up the grooming process, by slipping on her Easy boots.
I tacked her up. "I know you don't like," I said to the mare as I tightened the girth on the western saddle and adding the breast collar, "But if you do one of them crazy turns or yours I'll be in the dirt." I mounted and we were off for meeting Jon in the Wash.
After a bit I pulled out my Nook from the saddle bag and continued reading an Inuyasha fanfic trusting Negra to take us in the right direction.
'Page 10. Woot,' I thought. 'What the hell?' I frowned at my Nook as it began to glow with a bluish light.
Negra squealed and her back end went up in a buck.
'Shit!' I made a grab for the reins but they were no longer there, instead I was falling. 'Sky?' "Shit!" I yelped as I realized I was falling through the air.
There was a flash blue and purple and instead of going splat on the ground I was safe.
"Is she ok Miroku?" asked an oddly familiar voice.
'No. Just no. I have LOST my mind! I hit my head and now I have a concussion! It CANT be who I think it is!'
Looking up I saw my savior and nearly passed out. I probably would have if I did not hear a familiar voice screaming bloody murder.
"Inuyasha!"
"Keh! I'm going," a flash of red robes went flying after a dot that was very high in the air, was falling very quickly, and screaming like a banshee.
~~~K~~~
'Wish I could go riding,' I thought looking out the window at the trees bending in the fricken 40 mile an hour wind that we'd had now for a week. So instead I was stuck inside watching a crazy ass anime that my friend Maya had turned me to, InuYasha. Of course it was better than doing homework. 'Oh crap!' I quick hit pause and back tracked the show back to where I had started daydreaming. Something about Inuy's sword . . . I think . . . *sigh* too bad the whole episode was pretty much about Tessaiga. 'Where did I leave off?' I wondered to myself.
"Ha! There it is," I said and hit play. Blah blah blah jewel shards blah blah blah demons. WAIT A MINUTE! I straightened in my chair and hit pause.
"No way," I said squinting and leaning closer to my little laptops screen. "That looks like, no way. Holy shit it looks like Miroku is holding Maya bridal style! Hey mom look at this!" I was just moving my laptop in my lap when it looked like an anime or bad syfy movie style portal opened up in my computers screen.
"yyyyyAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I was falling through thin air! And from what I glimpsed of the ground I was a long ways up. With a thump I stopped my free fall, arms catching me. I clung to the red mass.
"Holy shit!" I squeaked my own arms tightening. I looked up at what/who had saved me. "HOLY SHIT!" I snapped my arms back and I began tipping away, only to see the ground still quite a ways away. "Shit!" I squeaked again and flung my arms around his neck again, burying my face in the red, whimpering.
"Are you done!" shouted a now all too familiar, cranky, but impossible voice.
"Shit shit shit." was my only answer.
We stopped.
"You're on the ground."
"I am?" I looked down to see blessed ground. "Oh my god," I rolled out, away, and down onto the ground landing with a bit of a thump. I sat hugging my knees and pretty much hyperventilating. I heard another impossible voice laughing like mad but that voice was nowhere near as impossible as that cranky voice that saved me.
"What, you afraid of heights?"
I froze and with as dark a look as I could muster I looked up at the dog eared silver haired half demon Inuyasha. "Nooo not at allll what could possibly have given you that idea!" I said with all the sarcasm I had.
~~~M~~~
I stared in shock. "Kelsey?" Feeling a hand gently grab my shoulder I turned to face the monk who I undoubtedly know was Miroku.
"Why my fair lady, Would you do me the honor of bearing my children?" an innocent expression crossing his face as he asked.
*Smack* *Thump* The demon slayer and I hit the poor monk on his head at the same time sending him into unconsciousness.
*thud* Turning I got a glimpse of poor Kelsey seemingly passed out on the ground.
Rushing over to her I gently pushed Inuyasha out of the way. "Oi you ok?" I said leaning over her.
~~~K~~~
I fell backward onto my back and lay there with my eyes closed still panting with my heart going at least 4 times faster than it should have been. Hearing Maya I opened my eyes and got yet another shock of a life time.
"Holy - !" I shouted, springing to a sitting position but then fell back once more clutching my forehead. "Oooohhwwoooowwwwwwooooowwwwww," I said rubbing my forehead and blinking the lights from my eyes. "Damn it woman!" I shouted at the disappeared Maya.
"Me!" came Maya's voice. "It's your own damn fault! What did you do that for?"
"Don't stand over me like that then!"
~~~M~~~
"Well," I said getting back to my feet and glaring slightly at Kelsey, "If we didn't look like idiots before, we sure as hell do now." I glanced around at the now mostly confused group.
"Well this is great, now there are more girls from the future falling from the sky. And they're idiots to."
I spun around and glared at the red clad hanyou. "I'm not the idiot here, and I'd appreciate it if you would shut up and tell me where we are," I snapped.
"I DO NOT have to answer to the likes of YOU!" he yelled back.
"Inuyasha shut up or ill say 'it'" The miko warned. Kagome turned to me and said, "Hi my name is Kagome, and these are my friends Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kirara and Inuyasha."
They all nodded in turn and smiled, except the pouting silver haired hanyou who just said "keh".
Before I could respond I saw something grazing not too far away.
~~~K~~~
I finally stumbled to my feet, still rubbing my sore head, and looked around. A sight behind Inuyasha made me freeze.
"Bearskie?"
"What the hell you going on about?"
I pulled a face and waved a dismissive hand at Inuy. "Not you. My horsey Bearskie," and I pointed behind the hanyou at the dark buckskin horse that was looking around for food.
Finding nothing Bear started moving off.
"Eh! No! Bad Bear whoa, stand, damn it," I jogged off after the run away horse, pushing Inuy out of the way. "Get back here Bear!"
~~~M~~~
I face palmed as I watched Kelsey try to catch the gelding. Then I saw a familiar mare looking rather confused.
"Negra!" I called to the mare and she whinnied in response. Tossing her head she galloped over to me and stopped a foot in front of my face.
"I hate you!" came Kelsey's voice and I had a feeling it was aimed at me with my horse coming when called while hers did everything to avoid capture.
Grabbing Negra's rains I removed the halter and turned to Inuyasha. "Would you be willing to chase the other horse and get the rope around his neck? Once hes caught my friend should be able to do the rest," I said curtly.
He opened his mouth as if he was going to argue, but one look from Kagome sent him off to chase the horse.
"Im sorry about that. My name is Maya and this", nodding to the Arab mare, "is my horse La Negra, and over there is my friend Kelsey and her horse Bearski."
~~~K~~~
"Bear you fuzzy pain in my ass," I complained stopping to glare at my black buckskin, short enough to be called pony, horse. I saw Inuy going after him and gave up. 'To bad there wasnt any grass around here then he wouldnt move much.'
Turning I froze, "What the - " laying there was my bridle, pad and saddle.'Well, add another tally to the weird and unexplained,' I thought grabbing up the bridle. I turned to Maya as she spoke, "What the hell you asking them where we are for? We both, unfortunately, know where we are, as well as their names. The real question to ask is how we get back home?" I said. Hearing a horsey sigh from behind me I saw Inyu coming back with Bear trailing behind him with a dejected look on his face.
"Hehehehehe," I laughed. "Bear, it was worth coming here just to see you as an anime. Hehehehe." I stepped forward to meet them and put the bridle on, looking to Inuy, "Thanks for catching him and a thousand thanks for catching me," on that last part I smiled. I turned with a frown to Bear who was now calling hellos to Negra. "Could you hold onto him Maya cuz i dont trust him about staying put or keeping his head up."
While Maya held Bears reins I began to saddle him up with our old, silver plated show saddle that had randomly turned up. "Good thing this showed up rather than the English," I said as I tightened the girth as much as I could. I took the reins back from Maya, walked him forward a few steps and tightened the girth another three notches. "Knew you were holding your breath," I muttered at him. He just snorted. Finished I turned to Maya, my eyes widened and I started laughing again.
"What's so funny?" Maya demanded.
"Y-you," I laughed. "You should see yourself."
"Heh, I'm not the only one."
That made me pause. I looked down and started. "I've been animed!"
"No shit woman," Maya said.
~~~M~~~
Sango frowned slightly "I have never seen such tack or horses... what breeding do they have and what kind of saddles are those?" asked the slayer.
"And where are you two from. You stated you already know where you are and who we are. HAVE YOU BEEN SPYING! Are you working for Naraku?" half hollered and irate Inu.
"To answer Sango the saddles are from where we are from and are called western saddles. Cowboys and cowgirls use them. Negra is an Arabian originating from a place called Yeman. Bearski is a Quarter Horse. And as for where we're from and how we know you-" I said as I hoped onto my horse who was stilled tacked "I'm going to let my friend try to explain that to you." I quickly had Negra trot away from Kelsey to escape her angered look.
~~~K~~~
My mouth snapped open and my eyes brows contracted. Before I could glare Maya trotted off. "Oi! You don't know which way were going!" I shouted after her. I shifted uncomfortably as all eyes went on me. Damn being shy around new people. I had no problem talking and at least keeping some of my mind when Maya was around because she was a friend and I know her well. But with her trotting away and me knowing this lot only through the anime show...
My head fell forward in defeat as I stood there like an idiot holding onto my fuzzy quarter horse that kept trying to lower his head to eat. With a deep breath I looked up at them all. "Nk I have teh say I have no idea how to explain this to yeh so that you can all understand it. The only one of you that will likely understand half of what I'm going say is Kagome," I scratched my head and tried to think. "I don't know what or how it happened...On my end...Ah damn...See, to us, me and Maya, you're all characters, fictional people that we watch on an anime show called, amazingly enough, InuYasha," I motioned my hand at the half demon. "I don't know what happened with Maya but I was just sitting at home watching the show when I saw someone that looked like Maya in it. I went to show my mom and all of a sudden this...portal like thing opened in my computers screen and I . . . . was pulled in," I finished shrugging and looking down at my shoes, knowing they were all thinking I was nuts. 'Wait a minute I'm not wearing the same cloths as I was at home when I was pulled in,' I realized.
~~~M~~~
"I have no idea what you're talking about but if Kagome trusts you then you are more than welcome to travel with us" the monk said smiling.
"That's weird! To think that all we are is just tv charecters..." Kagome trailed off.
"Maybe in our world you are but I believe that you are real people. So don't dwell too much on it." I said walking my horse back avoiding Bear who seemed to remember that he used to be a stud.
"Well they're real now," Kelsey muttered real softly, head down and hair hiding her face.
"Well now that we are here I guess we're stuck. So what are we going to do now?" I leaned down to rub Negra's neck. The Arab mare was far from being calm, but she trusted me, so she decided to let me decide if we needed to run.
~~~K~~~
"Oh no we can't be stuck," I said, eyes wide shaking my head. "I've got a speech to give in class and I doubt my teacher will believe that I missed it because I was sucked into a freakin' Japanese anime! . . . Heh what teacher would?" I rolled my eyes and jerked on Bears reins as the pain began to spas out because he had just realized my mom's mare Gracie wasn't there. "All we got to do is go through the well right? . . . Wait a minute . . . we've been animed . . . that means . . . " I groaned covered my face with a hand and leaned against Bears shoulder. "Crap and a half," I muttered. "Well we can still try can't we?" I grumbled.
~~~M~~~
"You go try. My horse wont fit through and I'm not about to leave her."
At this point Inuyasha was losing what little patience he had. "Hey, let's get going, we are wasting daylight!"
"We could head for the well!" Kelsey said brightly, boucing slightly.
"But it's a full days walk from here to Kaede's village." piped in Shippo.
"Well we can ride our horses and you guys can ride on Kirara and Kagome on Inuyasha." I offered.
Inuyasha just 'kehed' in response and knelt down so Kagome could hop on.
Negra knew by my slight shortening of the reins and my body language that we were going to run. She wasn't dancing around but she was a spring winding herself up, awaiting my signal. I waited until Kelsey was firmly seated on her horse before I let Negra go. Like a shot she took off down the road at a steady gallop. I all but dropped the reins, letting her fully open up and enjoy herself.
~~~K~~~
I hadn't thought about the horses not fitting through the well. I jumped slightly as I realized we were actually going and quickly hopped onto Bear, tied my reins so there was no chance of me dropping them, and prayed that my old, out of shape boy could keep up with everyone. And they were off!
"All right boy let's see what you can do," I said and kicked him off. "Jesus!" I squeaked, rocking back in my saddle glad I wasn't wearing a hat. 'Wow Bear who knew!' I thought, leaning over the saddle horn and giving him his head. 'Wonder how long he can keep this up without passing out or having a heart attack.' I had never ridden a horse going faster than a fast lope...save that time I tried taking Bear out riding without Grace...that had been a bad idea.
~~~M~~~
From the corner of my eye I saw Bear come alongside Negra and had to start fighting to hold her back as she decided it was a race. 'I know you can go all day girl, but I'm not so sure about Bear' I thought.
The sun slowly sank and just as it was touching the horizon the village came into view. By the end of our jaunt Bear was covered in sweat but didn't look to worse for wear. He sighed as Kelsey allowed him to slow down which didn't take too much coaxing. 'Damn mare where do you get all of this energy?' I thought frowning at Negra who was pulling at the bit to keep going.
Once outside Kaeda's hut I looked for a tree to tie my horse too. I found one not too far away from the hut and closer to the main village. I removed her bridle and double tied her rope halter to ensure that it would not go anywhere. 'Just in case,' I thought as I took the other end of the lead line and tied it to the tree. I removed her saddle and rubbed her down with my hand hoping that would be enough.
I looked two trees over to see Kelsey tying Bear by the reins.
"Kagome do you have any rope?"
The miko slowly turned to me "Um yeah why?"
"I need it to tie a halter for Bearski." I stated.
She nodded and gave me the rope.
'Let's see here,' I measured the rope by arm lengths. 'Enough for halter and 14ft lead,' I thought nodding my head in satisfaction. I sat on the ground and set to work. 'This here, around, through here and….' "Ha!". I handed the completed halter off to Kelsey.
"Thanks," she said.
I just smiled and started for the hut.
~~~K~~~
"We need to get them some water sooner or later," I said as Maya headed for the hut.
I took off Bear's bridle, who actually spat out the bit, slipped the halter on, tied him two trees over from Negra and loosened his girth allowing the poor guy to breath.
"Good boy," I said scratching his head. I grabbed a hunk of drying grass and rubbed him down as best I could. 'Incredible that he kept up, kept going, AND didnt keel over.' "I don't give yeh enough credit do I boy?" I asked him, of course he ignored me and kept eating. Done I dropped the grass, pulled an 'ick' face, wiped my hand on the ground and followed Maya and the rest into the hut.
~~~M~~~
I nodded and went inside. I wanted to be positive the horses were cooled off before I gave them water.
As I entered the hut all eyes turned to me.
"Umm?" 'Is there something one me?' I did a quick look at myself. 'Nothing that I can see.' Then Kaede walked in the room.
"I see ye found more visitors from Kagome's time. What is ye name child?" the elderly miko asked in her kind yet no nonsense voice.
"My name is Maya. My friend, Kelsey, is tending to her horse Bear," I answered with a small smile.
"Odd names ye have, child, do you not hail from the same place as Kagome?"
Shaking my head I replied, "No my friend and I hail from a country on the other side of the world from Japan." 'Well not exactly on the other side but close enough,' I though. "We come from a country named the United States of America."
She thought about it for a moment then sent me for my 3rd shock of the day. "Do they speak Japanese in your country?"
I nearly fell over. Why hadn't I realized that? 'They're speaking English for us, so we must be speaking Japanese to them!...Just when I thought this couldn't get any weirder.'
~~~K~~~
I looked worriedly at Bear again. He wasnt used to so much fresh green grass, if he ate too much he could very well get colic. With that thought came another thought. I had an answer to Maya's thing about the horses not fitting through the well. With this new and seldom felt smartness I followed Maya into the hut just in time to hear eye patch ladies question.
"Wow," I said, looking to Maya. "With all the other craziness that didn't even cross my mind. You?" Before she answered I turned to the old lady who I could never remember the name of, "Actually the US speaks English, a Latin based language," I paused right there. Did they even know about the Latin language? 'Oh they have to Latin is such an old language,' I thought. My worry about Bear came to mind again. I turned to Maya. "Bear shouldnt eat too much fresh grass and such he's too used to hay, I'm afraid he'll get sick. Also I figured out a solution to the problem of the horses not fitting through the well." Right then my stomach growled like mad. I winced and rubbed my stomach. I wasn't used to not eating for such a long period of time. 'Drat fast metabolism, my evil double edged sword you.'
~~~M~~~
We ate in silence for a while.
"The Villagers would be more than willing to part with some hay for ye horse child" Kaede said.
I looked over at Kelsey and she looked like she wanted to say something but was holding back. *sigh* "Alright out with it," I said to her.
~~~K~~~
I smiled at eye patch lady. "Thanks."
With a frown I took up my bowl and offered chopsticks. Putting the bowl back down I tried maneuvering the sticks for a moment up in the air as though that would help with my tongue sticking out. "Umm, chopstick lessons needed," I said. I turned to Maya with a slight glare then went back to trying to use the damn sticks. "I was nowhere near Bear when the portal opened in my computer. He was in the lean to and I was in the house yet he's here. I think he's here because I was wishing I could go out and ride when I was pulled in. So my theory is if we think about being with Bear and Negra when we go through the well they'll follow us." My tongue stuck back out as I tried to figure out the chopsticks. As I was about to give up Miroku came over to give me lessons. "Ooohhhhhh" I said as he showed me how to work the blasted things. I tried myself. "Ha! Thanks Miroku," I picked up my bowl and looked at it with a frown wondering what was in it me being a picky eater.
~~~M~~~
"It makes sense. But if they don't? And how the HELL do we explain why we're in Japan?" I said locking eyes with Kelsey. "And how the hell are we going to afford plain tickets and fly the horses home?
Kelsey sighed. "We're not going to be able to get home that way there's no way cuz as we settled before we've been animed….That would be hard one to explain to our parents though wouldn't it?"
I sighed two, slowly stood up and headed outside. "Miroku, wanna help me get hay?" I called back inside.
"Why I would be delighted" I heard him say and I could just picture him saying it with a slightly too big of a smile.
'I'll have to keep an eye on him,' I thought.
The moment I felt the hand *slap!* "Touch me again and I'll kill you!" I screamed at him.
~~~K~~~
As soon as Miroku left the hut -
"3, 2, 1," Shippo counted down shaking his head.
At the slap and shout I barked out a laugh choking on the actually really good dinner.
Once I was done choking I stood as well and went to check on the horses, putting a hand on their necks to see if they had cooled down. I untied first Bear and dragged him away from the grass to the river for a drink. After letting him drink a few minutes I dragged him away to re tie him to the tree and repeated the process with Negra, with noticeably less dragging and pulling on the line.
I was starting back to the hut when I heard the horses neighing and two resounding SNAPs. I spun around to see both horses running full pelt for the trees/forest. "Shit! Maya the horses!" I shouted and sprinted after them trying to keep them in sight but it was no use they, disappeared into the trees.
"Why – the - hell - " I panted clutching my side and bending over gasping for breath, "would they - come here?" My brows furrowed as I realized where we were. "Aint this the tree Inuy was stuck to?" I asked Maya, walking toward the tree. "Yeah, it is." My brain seemed to be moving real slow, like time itself was slowing down and I could see nothing but the tree. My face was slack my mind moving even more slowly, I just wanted to get closer to the tree. With heavy, sluggish steps I climbed up the vine or root or whatever it was to where Inuy had been hanging for 50 years. The scar from the arrow was still there. My hand reached out of its own accord and finger tips touched the mark.
A strong shock of static electricity shot into my fingers making me gasp and jerk back. My foot missed the vine and I fell, everything was fog and dull swirls of color. I was caught by blue purple swirls. My stomach twisted and contracted but I swallowed and my supper stayed down. I blinked rapidly and swallowed a few more times. I could see. I could hear too and there was a lot of noise.
"Hoi," I muttered wincing and rubbing my forehead. Suddenly I realized who had caught me. Slowly I looked up to see monk dude. My brain was starting to come back to life. Well he wasnt doing anything kinky so I said nothing but "What happened?" I pulled a face and ran my tongue across the roof of my mouth and in and out of my mouth. It tasted like I had been sucking on a penny.
"We heard you yelling about the horses and saw you and Maya running into the forest so we followed," said Sango. "We followed but when we got here you were falling and Maya, well," she motioned toward the base of the tree where I saw Negra nosing...a heap of yellow fur? . . . . . . . .I wiggled to get down but Miroku didn't put me down, slowly I looked up with a frown. "Put me down monk. I might not be able to hit real hard but I know a pressure point that will drop you like a sack of potatoes."
After a bit of a pout face he put me down and I staggered over to the yellow heap. I froze as I noticed a change in temperature around my legs and feel of cloths. I looked down, "A dress? Why the hell am I in a dress?" 'I hate dresses what the -' I caught sight of my hair hanging down in my face and grabbed hold of it. "How the hell did I get blond!" I scurried over to Negra and my mouth hung open eyes bugging. "Holy shit," I breathed. My hands snapped up to feel my face and find out what else had changed besides wardrobe and hair. My eyes were slightly larger and more angled, and my cheekbones were higher, sharper. Hands flashed to ears and I sighed when I felt they were still rounded. "Hey Maya," I said nudging the yellow fur with a foot which i noted was now in black slippers with jewels on the toes. "Maya you gotta see this."
~~~M~~~
I wanted to scream. Everything was so loud, and I could smell EVERYTHING.
"Maya you gotta see this" said Kelsey. She was not screaming but it sure as hell sounded like it.
'Mom?' Negra snorted and nudged me again 'MOM?' I nearly jumped up when I realized it was Negra speaking to me.
When I opened my eyes I realized I could see….a lot better. I angled my eyes down and yipped. A snout! I had a snout. I pinned my ears as I saw my claws. Ears? I touched the top of my head, and perched proudly at the top of my head were two wolf ears. I looked behind me and there was a wolf tail. I looked more closely at my arms and saw they were covered in fur.
'Holy shit, I'm an Anthro!' I thought to myself as a slowly stood up and looked down. 'I look almost like a werewolf, but more agile. And where the fuck did these cloths come from,' I thought looking at the blue sports bra type thing and blue loincloth.
Looking up I saw not too far away my staff from home as well as my purple cloak.
Negra snorted at me getting my attention. She looked mostly the same though her mane and tail were a little longer. She also had two feathers in her hair, one that looked like fire and another that looked like ice.
I leaned slightly against her neck. "I - I can understand what she's saying.." I slowly stammered, wagging my tail slightly.
"OI!" I flinched. Everything was still too loud and I was getting a head ach. And the smells... I wobbled on my feet but Inuyasha caught me.
"Keh Bitch can't seem to handle her new senses. Concentrate on Negra's sent, listen to her breathing and her heart beat."
I did as I was told as he placed me on my mare's back. Slowly I was starting to adjust to my new form.
~~~K~~~
My nose crinkled and un crinkled as I got used to my new enhanced senses, which I was apparently handling much better than Maya was, eyes wide as I realized what had happened.
"We're our chrrys," I stated, still in shock. My mind was swirling with scents, sounds, sights and feelings and my numb brain was trying to sort through them.
The slight air flow that I hadn't noticed before now felt like a light breeze. The birds I hadn't been able to hear now sounded like they were perched on my shoulders. And now there were musical notes that I more felt then heard that I couldn't pinpoint the origin of.
"The tree changed us, into our charrys from Blackwolf," I stated in awe looking up at the tree. I frowned and rubbed the curve in my nose noticing that my glasses were gone. 'I sure as hell don't need them now though,' I thought. 'I can see the veins in that leaf up there for crying out loud!' "Where'd Bear go?" I suddenly said looking around as I noticed I hadn't seen him since we had gotten to the tree.
*snort*
"Oh there you is."
"Where else would I be?"
I froze, eyes wide and mouth hanging open.
"Mmph, you should feed us this more often it's delicious."
"You're talking," my voice was flat.
Bear lifted his head and looked at me still chewing. "Of course I'm talking," the voice was muffled and slurred with the mouthful of grass he was chewing on, and was coming from my horse. "What kind of Witches bond wouldn't be able to talk?" *snort* "You most of all should know that seeing as you're the one that invented the whole system...sort of."
His voice kinda sounded like my dad's, only not as loud which I was thankful for with my new elven enhanced hearing and all.
Something clicked in my head and I stood pole strait. 'Im Iya! Im a WITCH!' "I wonder." With tongue between teeth and eyebrows in a deep furrow I held up my right arm and twitched my hand upward. A red wood highly polished stick with carvings of vines flowers and birds appeared in my hand. With a huge grin I twirled the wand and mini red blue purple and gold fireworks went off about 6 feet in front of me. I did a fan girl squeal and did a little happy dance. "I can do magic! Omg this is gonna be fun." Bear was munching on the grass again. I marched over and pulled on his halter until he lifted his head. "There's a reason why we don't give you so much fresh grass you know."
Bear grumbled with a pouty look on his face, licking his lips.
~~~M~~~
"Can you take us back to the hut girly?" I quietly asked Negra once Iya/Kelsey was done fan girling. '
mom can you hold on? I feel... I feel like I have to try something...'
…... "Ok" I sat up and locked my legs around her barrel, and buried my hands in her mane. "Let's go," I and she took off faster then we had ever gone before.
My ears twitched. 'I can't hear her hooves anymore...' *O.O!*
"Holly shit!" I laughed, looking around but careful not to look down.
Negra whinnied happily, tossing her head. 'She's loving this even more then me.'
We flew high above the village for a while till she angled downward and landed outside of Kaeda's hut. None to gracefully. 'Though Negra and grace don't typically go into the same sentence.'
I slipped off and walked up to her head. "You going to be ok out here?"
She nodded. 'I'll be ok. And I'll keep an eye on Bear. If he eats to much and gets a belly ache I'll keep him walking, and walk him to the river if I have to.'
I hugged her and kissed her neck. I turned, walked into the hut, found the darkest, quietest corner of the hut and curled up under my cloak to sleep of the headache.
~~~K~~~
"Hooolllyyyy crap on a cracker," I said watching Anthro Maya and Negra fly off. Bear shook all over. I looked back down and flashed everyone a smile.
"What the hell! You better do some explaining b-"
I pointed my wand at him with an eyebrow raised. "You wanna finish that sentence?" I asked Inuy who glared at my wand and smirked.
"If you think I'm scared of a stick -!"
"I'm a newly transformed witch with absolutely no training and not sure how to properly do spells, do you really want to be my test guinea pig?"
Inuy glared at me but kept his mouth shut.
"I thought so." I tucked my wand behind my ear and looked at Bear. "Since you can talk and Negra can fly like Zip and WindDancer can you transform like Zip?"
Bear looked at me for a moment still licking his lips. "Don't know. Ill give it a try." His eyes narrowed and fuzzy ears pined. His features changed and the halter fell to the ground. Where my dark buckskin fuzzy gelding once stood was now a dwarf hamster.
"Cool!" I bent down and picked him up. "Hmmm."
"Hmmm what?" Bear questioned a little wearily.
"I wanta try something. You wanta hitch a ride with me or you wanna try being a bird and flying?"
"I've carried you around for 16 years I think it's my turn."
"All right," I laughed. I took my wand from behind my ear and tried to make a pocket in my black dress/robe problem was Iya used Latin to direct her magic and I didn't have much Latin memorized. 'Maybe if I just really concentrate and think about it?' I closed my eyes and imagined a pocket forming. I opened my eyes. "Rats," I muttered. I narrowed my eyes and tried to think but I was coming up blank. The notes that were continuously fluttering across my consciousness (a little too loudly) contracted and a word formed in the feeling. "Sinus," I whispered. Blinking in confusion I felt...something. Looking down I saw a pocket had formed above my right hip. "Wow," I breathed, tipping Bear into the pocket. I'd think more on what had just happened after I had a little fun.
"What are you going to try?" Kagome asked.
I smiled at her. "My new elvish abilities thats what!" I took off at least 80 times faster than I normally could. "See yeh!" i shouted at the others laughing. Log! I jumped twice if not three times higher than I needed to too get over the log. "Whooooohoooooooo!" I hoped over a tree root came to the hut and kept on going turning to go around the village then zipped back into the trees. A low limb caught my attention and on impulse I reached up one handed and swung up onto the limb. I crouched there not even breathing hard smiling ear from ear.
"Blurg." I looked down at my pocket where a little nose poked out. "Did you have to do that?"
"What?" With a *ungreuf* sound Bear ducked back down into the pocket.
I shrugged and looked up and around, trying to figure out where those musical notes were coming from. There were hundreds and they were all different, and they had helped me with my newly received magic. "Bear? Do hear that?"
"It's the trees," came the muffled reply.
"Huh?"
His head poked up so little black eyes were looking at the crown of the tree I was perched in. "That's the trees talking to one another. Each tone is a different tree. The notes are the trees voices."
"Amazing," I breathed, looking up into the crown. "Maya needs to hear this." A sour cord caught my attention and I turned frowning but it was too late to go investigate so I hoped down from the limb and took off for the hut. When I got to the tree I had had Bear tied to I lifted him out of my pocket and lifted him so we were nose to nose. "Can I trust you to stay around here?"
With a sound something like a tiny hamster sneeze Bear glared at me. "I'm your familiar now, I can't go all that far from you."
"Good," I nodded and put him down on the ground where he turned back to his fuzzy horsey form. I turned to head into the hut when I passed Negra. I stopped, turned back to see Bear of course eating and turned to Negra. "You keep an eye on him for me eh?"
Negra nodded her head at me and i smiled. "Night you two." I headed in to see Maya already asleep in a corner. "Hmm." I lifted my right arm and twitched my hand. A curved highly polished silver knife with engravings like the wand in the blade and a horses head perched on the end of the handle appeared in my hand. With a huge grin I lifted it and slowly drew it down through the air. A dark tear appeared, the entrance to my 'witches pocket'. I stepped in and gasped. 'This place is bigger then I imagined. Oh my god! Iyas sword and bow are here!' I ran a hand over the swords sheath and the un-strung bow that hung on the wall. With a yawn I collapsed onto the twin sized bed and daydreamed.