Chapter Two-Games from the future and spells don't mix.

Ayami giggled, separating the two decks. Kagome kept snickering behind her hair as she shuffled the three Munchkin decks together. Ayami took one look at the fire and scoffed. She banished it with a wave of her hand.

"We won't need that. I can provide light enough to see by."

Everyone looked at her curiously, but Sesshoumaru just smiled, shook his head, and seated himself on a conveniently placed fallen log. Ayami smirked and stood, having just finished with the dice. She motioned for everyone to gather round and lit a magic light over the center.

"We, Kagome-chan and I, that is, have decided to use a magical spell in concert with this game. Consequently, everything that happens in this game, and what appears, will appear in this clearing. Don't worry, though. It can't go outside this clearing and is merely an illusion."

With that said Ayami sat on another log and passed the dice around to each person. She told them to set the die on one and started to explain the rules. Kagome looked at her a little weirdly, wondering how this demoness knew about the rules of the game. She asked Ayami. The latter looked at her and smiled.

"Not everyone needs a well to travel through time."

The entire group, minus Sesshoumaru, looked at her in shock. Inu-yasha was more puzzled than anything else. There was a soft rustle, which brought everyone's attention to it. Kirara jumped out of the bushes to pad over to Sango while everyone else looked relieved. Ayami chuckled lightly and motioned for everyone to gather around the game set, including Kirara.

"Everyone must role the die to see who goes first. The person with the highest goes first and chooses which way we will go for the rest of the game. Remember, the spell will take affect the moment the first player kicks down the door to the dungeon. That said, let's get started!"

After everyone had rolled, Miroku was the one with the highest roll. They sat, from Ayami's right, in this order counterclockwise: Miroku, Inu-yasha, Kagome, Sesshoumaru, Sango, and Kirara. Ayami had been seated between Miroku and Kirara. Miroku, being the first person to go, "kicked down the door," as it was called in Munchkins. The first and foremost shocking thing to occur happened to Kirara. She was no longer there in the form they knew her. In her place was a female human with the same markings and coloring in her hair and the same eye color. Her skin was a flawless pale peach color. They could all see it quite well since the very most shocking thing about her appearance was she was completely and totally naked. She looked down at her body while the others were staring in shock, still trying to process it, and tried saying something.

"Oyo?"

She blinked a few times and moved around a bit, then looked at all the others with their clothes.

"Why do I look like the rest of you?"

Darkness fell on the group as the magic lights went out. There were some protests until they all heard mutterings and the rustling of cloth. The lights came back on and the now human Kirara was dressed in a loose flowing robe, much like what Ayami was wearing, only slightly modified. They all went back to the game, while Kirara got some looks from the other players, who were wondering about her sudden transformation into a human. Inu-yasha looked confused and disturbed a little. He reached up to feel for his ears. A few moments later the game was interrupted by an outburst. Inu-yasha's voice echoed around the clearing.

"Ahhhhh!!! They're gone!!!"

Kagome looked at him in confusion, and then noticed his fuzzy dog ears were no longer on top of his head, or anywhere else on his body, for that matter. He had human ears, as did all other nonhuman participants. Ayami shook her head lightly.

"Remember, Inu-yasha. I said that the spell would change things. Don't worry, the change isn't permanent. It's only an illusion to work with the game. I told you all this before we even started the game, remember?"

Inu-yasha looked scared and all upset, with big puppy dog eyes that pleaded with her to say it would all be alright. He nodded and they all went back to the game with snickers and giggles. Miroku had gotten the Thief class card and The Horny Helmet equip card. It was then Inu-yasha's turn. His kick down the door card was a Sex Change curse card. He was horrified at being turned into a girl.

(Fast forward here. Author doesn't want to type entire game out. She's lazy.)

They went on with the game, each person getting items and defeating monsters. It ended up with Miroku as a female thief with the horny helmet at level 15, Kagome as a warrior at level 24, Inu-yasha as a female wizard, human elf half-breed with The Duck of Doom curse at level 24, Sesshoumaru as a female dwarf cleric with a Chicken on the head curse at level 12, Sango as a cleric with the Boots of Butt-kicking at level 18, Kirara as an elf with the badass bandana at level 29, and Ayami as an elf super munchkin thief/cleric also at level 29.

It was Ayami's turn and, at the end, instead of looting the room, she went looking for trouble. In the center of the group a small, cute rodent appeared. The corresponding card was "A cute and fuzzy squirrel" and the description "Too cute to live. Your duty is clear." It was level one. She looked around at them.

"Anyone have anything to add to it? Otherwise, I win."

They looked around at each other. Played were a Wandering Monster with Plutonium Dragon, level twenty, plus who knows how much adds and an "And it's mate" card. To the cute and fuzzy thing that must die were several bonus cards with the "And it's clone ..." to double it. Played next was a card to make Ayami loose the card that gave her the biggest bonus. She shrugged and put it away.

"Is that all?"

The others looked around and then nodded. She smiled and played a fusion laser that gave her a huge bonus. With the laser-that-the-author-is-to-lazy- to-ask-a-friend-who-owns-the-game-what-the-entire-name-is-but-can-type-all- this-with-hyphens she could beat both monsters respectably strong hind ends. She smiled sweetly and looked around at them to speak.

"I win."

There was a collective groan and the illusion ended as the game was over. The entire group grinned as they looked around it had been a good game. Inu- yasha, Miroku, and Sesshoumaru frowned. Something didn't feel right to them. The three boys looked around, Kirara was back to her normal self and Shippou was curled up asleep; the others were looking at them kind of funny, one by one. They looked at each other. The resulting screams were enough to drive sleeping birds from their roosts in sheer terror and night prowling youkai far away from fright.

"WHY ARE WE STILL GIRLS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

Apparently, while everything else went back to the way it was before, the sex-change cards had a lasting effect with the illusion. Ayami frowned and admitted as much to everybody else. She didn't know how that had happened, either. Inu-yasha looked at her in horror while Miroku thought for a moment, then spoke.

"Why don't you know? Where did you get such a spell?"

Ayami looked down and then back up to smile at them sheepishly.

"YOU WHAT?!?! HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?"

Inu-yasha glared at her, breathing heavily from his-er-her yelling exertions. Miroku looked at the older woman in puzzlement.

"How could you take and use a spell of unknown origin if you didn't know the effect it would have on things?"

She shrugged lightly, silver hair falling in delicate strand across her face to shade her blue eyes.

"It's how I am, Ms. Miroku. Don't question things like that. Let's go to sleep, it's late. We can figure out something in the morning."

It seemed as though Inu-yasha would continue on, but at that moment Ayami had walked away and was looking for a good place to sleep, quite obviously ending the conversation. Miroku gave the look to Inu-yasha that said "Drop it" and everyone got settled in for the night. About an hour later everyone in the clearing was asleep, or so it seemed.

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