Chapter 2 – Meet Waverly

A Woman swam up next to Azalea "Honey, who are your friends?" she asked

Azalea turned around to face the group of her new friends "Everyone, this is my mom Waverly."

Waverly had long curly strawberry blonde hair with big blue eyes. Her skin was fair with a soft glow shining from her. Her top was made of two white sea shells and she had layers of pearls strewn around neck and arms. She had small twisted sea shells for earrings and a teal tail.

As Azalea introduced her to everyone InuYasha narrowed his eyes looking for the jewel shard, it did not take him long to see it dangling from her necklace. "Had over the jewel shard and no one gets hurt." He said bluntly standing up. This took everyone by surprise, even the mermaids.

"The what?" she asked looking scared and taking her daughter in her arms.

"InuYasha, hang on. You can't just go demanding things from people!" Kagome said waving for him to sit down.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand" Waverly said with her hand on her chest.

"The gem on your necklace is a shard from a jewel we've been looking for, where did you find it?" Kagome asked calmly.

"Oh this?" Waverly said picking it up "Azalea found it one day, she made it into a necklace for me" She slid it off her neck "But if it is important to you, you may have it." She handed the necklace over "Azalea makes me lots of things."

Kagome took it and put the shard in her jar. "Thank you."

"Hey Kagome, you think there might be more in the ocean?" Sango asked. The group looked out at the wide ocean.

"I guess it's a possibility but how could we find all those?" Kagome looked down at her jar, was there a way?

"What's so important about these jewels?" The mermaid asked.

"Wait, you really don't know?" Miroku asked.

Sango looked over at him "well, I suppose the jewel is for demons so, it probably doesn't affect mermaids. Right?" She turned to Waverly.

Waverly shrugged "I don't know but if you guys really need to look, I can help."

"Thanks but we can't ask you to search the whole ocean" Kagome said

"Unless you want to" InuYasha finished while Kagome nudged him for the comment.

"Oh I wasn't suggesting that, I can turn you call into mer-people for the time being." She said smiling.

The group looked at her confused

"You can do that?" Sango asked knowing that's what everyone was thinking.

"Yes, mermaids have an incredible gift of magic. However, this transformation will not be permanent and it could be a little painful." Waverly said explaining.

"Painful?" Kagome repeated worried.

"Well, yeah. Your bones are literally transforming from legs to fins." She explained.

"How long will it last?" Sango asked

"I'm not entirely sure, it depends on how your body adapts to the magic and how well the mermaid is at magic. For example, my spell would last longer than Azaleas because I'm more advanced, but a demon might hold onto the spell longer than a human. Or a human with a strong connection to spirituality would last longer than a human who does not." She explained

"Okay, so let's do this." InuYasha said standing up "If there's jewel shards down there we need to get going."

Everyone looked at each other and nodded, this had to be done.

"Okay who's first?" Waverly asked pulling herself on a rock sitting with just the tip of her tail in the water.

Kagome went to step forward and InuYasha stepped in front of her "Let me and Miroku go first, she said this would be painful."

"Okay, stand here and when I say go jump into the air" Waverly said pointing to a rock that looked like a perfect place to dive. "There is a deep hole under it, you need to swim until you feel comfortable. It will hurt."

InuYasha nodded and walked up to the rock and got ready to jump, kneeling down with his eyebrows narrowed.

Waverly raised her arms "NOW!"

As InuYasha jumped into the air Waverly extended her arms out in his direction and a yellow glow flowed from her arms to surround him. She had her eyes focus in concentration watching him fall into the water. He emerged screaming, but began to swim and went under again. He emerged a second time "Hey, it's not so bad. It just hurts for like a second!" He jumped into the air showing his new red tail, he swam up to the group.

"You still have your white hair and dog ears" Sango inquired, "I just it doesn't take away your demon abilities."

"Alright Miroku you're next!" InuYasha yelled.

Miroku nodded and got into position, "ready when you are Waverly."

Waverly raised her arms "NOW!" the same glow extended from her arms again. But this time Miroku screamed immediately and landed into the water.

As Miroku sat under the water he could feel his bones breaking and moving, what was InuYasha talking about this, this is unbelievably painful! He then remembered what Waverly said to do and started to swim, as his body began to swim he felt better. The cold ocean water was helping with the pain. It didn't hurt so bad, he did a few turns, it didn't hurt at all! He popped his head up "InuYasha was right, it hurts really bad at first but once you swim its better!" Miroku went under again and jumped up showing off his new purple tail.

Waverly smiled and turned to the girls "who's next?"

Sango and Kagome looked at each other.

"I'll go first" Kagome said

"Are you sure?" Sango asked worried about her friend getting hurt.

"I'm sure" Kagome nodded, "Besides InuYasha is right there" she handed Shippo to Sango and walked up to the rock "I'm ready"

Waverly raised her hands "NOW!"

Kagome jumped and as soon as the light hit her she screamed in pain and fell into the water. The pain was overwhelming, she just sank lower.

"Kagome!" Sango yelled standing.

InuYasha panicked "I'll get her!"

"NO!" Waverly yelled "she has to swim on her own, if you pull her or even touch her, you could really hurt her! She has to do it herself"

InuYasha looked over at Kagome with worried anger. 'Come on Kagome, swim!' he thought to himself over and over.

Finally, the group saw Kagome's head appear she was still swimming and went under again. She popped up again and smiled at them "just like you guys said" She then went under and did a jump showing her new green tail and swam over beside InuYasha and Miroku. "ready Sango?"

Sango put down Shippo and pet Kirara on the head. She went over to the rock and nodded "ready"

Waverly raised her arms again "NOW!"

Sango leaped into the air and screamed in pain as the light hit her. She crashed into the water and was down for a few seconds before emerging, she waved and went back under. When she jumped into the air everyone saw her pink tail and she swam to the rest of the group. " Okay Shippo, you're turn" InuYasha said.

Shippo looked at the group in fear "but…but…I'm just a kid…"

"Shippo I promise it only hurts for a second, just remember to swim" Kagome said looking into his eyes.

Shippo nodded and went to the rock

Waverly raised her arms "ready?"

Shippo nodded thinking to himself 'no'

"NOW!" She yelled raising her arms

Shippo jumped and balled up, as he was hit with the light he flinched. As he fell into the water he felt the pain around his legs. He started swimming as he felt his tail form. He did circles until he didn't feel any more pain and jumped into the air showing his new small orange tail.

Kirara walked up to Sango and tilted her head in confusion.

"What about Kirara?" Sango asked Waverly "I can't leave her"

"I can turn her into a fish, but it will still hurt and she will still have to swim."

Sango nodded and looked at Kirara "go to the rock and jump when she saw to, okay?"

Kirara nodded

"It's gonna hurt and you're gonna have to swim, okay?" Sango continued

Kirara nodded again and turned to walk to the rock.

Waverly raised her arms one last time "NOW!"

Kirara jumped into the air

The light wrapped around her and she fell into the water. When she emerged everyone saw a beautiful white and black fish with yellow eyes.

"Kirara?" Sango said smiling at her.

The new fish swam up and circled around Sango as she laughed.

"Alright, like I said I'm not sure how long this will last, so let's get started." Waverly said sliding back into the water.

"How did you find the shard before Azalea?" Shippo asked

"Well, I just saw something pink shinning from the sand and when I picked it up it looked like a pretty gem" She explained.

"Good thing Kagome can sense the shards too, that'll help us a lot" Miroku said.

"Should we split up? We can meet back here at sun down" Waverly said

"I think that'll help but how will we be able keep from getting lost?" Kagome asked

"I'll go with one group and my Azalea will go with the other." Waverly said looking at her daughter.

Azalea smiled and nodded "I know this place inside and out, and I can show you where I found the other one!"

"okay, who is gonna go with who?" Waverly asked looking at the group.

"Sango, Shippo and myself will go with Azalea. InuYasha, why don't you and Kagome go with Waverly." Miroku suggested.

"Sounds good to me" InuYasha said.