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------No Questions Please------
"Crystal, why are you putting so much clothes in your backpack?" asked Shiva watching Crystal get ready for school, at least that's what he thought she was doing.
"I know the weather is unpredictable at Furinkan, but even rain doesn't require that much clothing Crystal!"
"Are you listening to me?!"
Crystal wasn't listening to Shiva. She was too busy packing her backpack. In fact, she had been doing that for the last half hour. She had gotten a phonecall and had instantly started packing stuff afterwards and she still hadn't told Shiva why.
She had put in what looked like several dozen sets of clothing, which consisted of lots of black pants and black tank-tops. She had put in an oddball assortment of snack foods. She had put in some cooking equipment along with some semi-normal food. She had put in a sleeping bag and a pillow. In fact she had put in a lot of things and none of it seemed to have anything to do with school.
It looked like Crystal was going on a camping trip.
"Crystal, where are you going?!" demanded Shiva.
Crystal zipped up the backpack. It was a remarkably small, navy-blue backpack that she had aquired from Washu and she had definately put it to good use with the way she was packing it today. She finally looked over at Shiva.
"Well, Kagome want to test the possibility that I can travel into the Feudal Era through the well at her house and well, if it works I might not be coming back for a few days," replied Crystal.
Shiva asked, "What about school?"
"This could prove to be more important," replied Crystal.
Shiva's eyes brigthened. Crystal flinched.
"Can I come with you?"
Crystal shrugged, "Why not? If we can both get through the well it might be interesting to do some training in the Feudal Era."
Shiva cheered. Crystal shuddered.
Shiva went into a similar packing frenzy, only it involved a sub-space picnic basket and about four times as much food.
*-*-*-*
Crystal and Shiva finally arrived at the Higurashi Shrine, which took a little while since Shiva insisted on stopping for breakfast twice, and then a third time for brunch. Kagome and Inuyasha were waiting for them near a smaller building that looked strangely familiar to Crystal.
*~*~*~* Flashback *~*~*~*
Crystal hadn't been on a regular day and night schedule for the last week, but she assumed it would be a good idea to find a safe place to spend the night. That was when she saw the strange building in the distance, nevermind the fact that there were obviously other buildings around it [which for the purposes of this flashback she didn't notice.] She found that the door was open and being who she is, slipped inside. This seemed like a nice safe place, if you ignored the fact that there was an obviously suspicious well in the middle of the room. Crystal's curiousity got the better of her and she walked over to it.
A strong gust of wind blew and Crystal was sent sprawling downward.
*~*~*~* Present *~*~*~*
"I have a strange feeling I've been here before," muttered Crystal.
Shiva asked, "What makes you say that?"
"I don't know, I just have a feeling," replied Crystal.
"A martial artist is not a kind of demon!" exclaimed Kagome for the third time.
Inuyasha said, "Well the two martial artists have arrived."
Crystal sweatdropped. Shiva's stomach growled.
Kagome waved the group into the building, "If you'll all step this way, we can get on with the experiment."
*-*-*-*
A few minutes later all four of them had managed to get to the Feudal Era. Crystal instantly recognized the tree she had fallen asleep in the last time she had been there. Kagome and Inuyasha headed off in one direction and just to be safe Crystal decided to follow.
"When do we eat lunch?" asked Shiva.
Crystal facevaulted.
*-*-*-*
"I'm afraid I was knocked out before I could get your answer the last time you were here," said Miroku who was clasping Crystal's hands, "but will you bear my child?"
A vein became visible on Crystal's forehead, followed by a phonebook appearing in the air above Miroku's head. Crystal was about to make the phonebook drop when Shiva shoved her out of the way and whipped out a notebook along with a pen. He was acting like this was some kind of interview.
"Does that ever work?" asked Shiva.
Miroku replied, "If I keep saying it, it might."
Crystal had forgotten about being shoved and ended up sitting on the ground. The phonebook she had summoned, disappeared.
"Well Shiva, it looks like you've made a new friend," said Crystal getting to her feet.
Sango was talking to Kagome.
"So, both of them were able to come through the well?"
"They didn't have any trouble with it."
*-*-*-*
A short time later the group was walking through the forest. Shiva's stomach growled, so the group stopped for lunch.
"I think he eats more than Inuyasha," noted Shippo.
Inuyasha growled, "And it would help if his hands would stay on his own food!"
Crystal was the only one who hadn't lost any food to Shiva, because she understood the training concept that Shiva was using and she was not going to fall for it when she could just as easily keep her food away from him.
Shiva made the ultimate mistake, he took Inuyasha's instant ramen.
The two of them ended up rolling around on the ground in dust cloud, fighting over the ramen while trying not to spill it.
The others took this chance to eat what they wanted without it being stolen away from them.
*-*-*-*
The group was walking through the forest again. Shiva's stomach was quiet so the group kept on walking through the forest.
"So, exactly what sort of demon IS a martial artist?" asked Inuyasha.
Crystal sighed, "Shiva and I are not demons, although it is questionable what kind of creature lives in Shiva's stomach. I for one am definately human."
"You don't smell like a human," said Inuyasha.
Shiva shrugged, "She smells like Crystal to me."
"Shiva on the other hand, could be anything," said Crystal with a sweatdrop forming.
This conversation might have gone on longer if not for the loud roar that suddenly echoed through the forest. Whatever the source of this roar was, it was ahead of them.
Inuyasha and Crystal rushed forward into the face of danger looking serious. Shiva rushed forward into the face of danger with an expression that indicated he thought this would be fun.
"That one is obviously crazy," said Sango.
Miroku said, "It isn't crazy to enjoy life."
*-*-*-*
The source of the roar was not a pleasant sight to behold. It looked something like Motaro from Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and even that was pushing it a bit. It was definately a Centaurian of some sort, it just had a reptilian, humanoid torso instead of being the typical half-man, half- horse. It had a dragonic face and it had spikes sticking out of its elbows. It had a scorpion-like tail with large curved blade at the end that made it even more dangerous looking. It was also covered in dragonic scales. Needless to say, this was no the sort of creature you wanted to meet in a dark alley way in the middle of the night. The twin-bladed axe it was holding in its large, scaley hands did not make the creepiness factor any less intense.
"What is it?" Shiva wondered aloud. He was obviously not fazed by the odd appearence of the monster before him.
Crystal gawked at the Centaurian creature, "......"
"Who cares what it is, it might have a Shikon Fragment!" exclaimed Inuyasha drawing the Tetsusaiga, causing it to transform.
Crystal snapped out of it and drew her sword [Dragon Blade] which was still strapped around her waist because of the backpack she was carrying around.
Shiva took up a fighting stance facing the Centaurian creature, "You can go first."
The Centaurian creature swung its massive battle axe at Shiva's head. The blade of the axe fell harmlessly to the ground as Crystal sliced it away from the wooden rod it had been attached to. Inuyasha attempted to slice the Centaurian creature's other arm off with the Tetsusaiga. This blow was deflected by the Centaurian creature's scaled skin.
Crystal decided that if the giant sword that Inuyasha was using couldn't hurt the Centaurian creature, the Dragon Blade probably wouldn't do much good either. She sheathed it and took up a fighting stance beside Shiva.
"What's the plan?"
"We're supposed to have a plan?"
The Centaurian creature seemed to chuckle a very reptilian chuckle. He threw a well aimed punch at Crystal with unreal speed, sending her flying several meters and then sliding across the ground for a short distance before stopping. The next punch was aimed at Shiva.
Shiva dodged the punch skillfully and jumped up onto the Centaurian creature's back. He threw a punch at the back of the creature's head and started shaking his hand violently as he realized just how bad an idea that had been.
"What the hell is your skin made of?!" demanded Shiva.
The creature roared again and drove its elbow into Shiva's gut, sending him flying in much the same way that it had already gotten rid of Crystal.
Inuyasha made another strike with the Tetsusaiga, which was deflected easily by the Centaurian creatures scaled flesh.
There was a flash of silver light near the Centaurian creature's arm as Crystal's voice shouted, "Tsume Gin!" The arm was suddenly sliced clean off from the shoulder down. It collapsed to the ground in a sizzling heap as Crystal landed in front of the Centaurian creature.
[Claws of Silver]
She was definately Crystal, aside from the fact that she now had pointed ears and razor sharp claws on each of her fingers.
"Swords might not hurt you, but apparently your scales were no match for my claws," stated Crystal. "Admittedly, I haven't a clue where they came from, but I've learned not to question good luck when I see it."
The Centaurian creature let out a strangled growl of rage and pain.
Inuyasha had gotten the message, put the Tetsusaiga away and quickly reduced the Centaurian creature to nothing with a quick slash of his claws and a shout of, "Sankon Tessou!"
[Soul Shattering Iron Claw, Exorcising Claws of Steel, Iron Reaver Soul Stealer]
Crystal returned to normal and retrieved Shiva. She was acting as though that little transformation hadn't happened.
*-*-*-*
"There definately wasn't a Shikon Fragment and the demon turned out to be a real weakling," concluded Inuyasha.
Crystal and Shiva shouted, "You never got hit by it!"
Miroku asked, "What I don't understand is why there were three sources of Youki coming from that battlefield."
[demonic energy]
Inuyasha replied, "That's an easy one for me to answer, the third source was the dragon-girl."
"We went over this last time, my name is Crystal and I am a human," stated Crystal. "That whole claws thing was just a lucky break on my part."
Sango asked, "She had claws?"
"Come to think of it, she had pointy ears too," said Shiva.
Crystal sweatdropped, "Don't tell me you're going along with Inuyasha's idea that I could be a demon..."
"You say it all the time yourself, anything is possible," replied Shiva.
Crystal shrugged, "Alright, so maybe even after the Dragon's Curse was removed from me I remained only half-human. That doesn't mean I am a demon."
"No, that would make you a Hanyou," said Shippo.
[half-demon]
Crystal sighed, "I think I'm going to have to go to Washu for a DNA test on this one..."
"What is a DNA test?" asked Shippo.
"What's wrong with that?" asked Shiva.
Crystal sighed, "I don't like blood tests..."
"What is a blood test?" asked Shippo.
"So there is something you're afraid of?" asked Shiva.
"That isn't what I said," replied Crystal.
Shiva shrugged, "I wouldn't mind getting back to our time anyway. I could do with a training trip...that fight with that monster proved that I've been taking it too easy."
"So I guess this means that the dragon-girl and Shiva are going back?" asked Inuyasha.
Crystal growled, "My name is Crystal! I am not a dragon!"
"No, you're The Dragon Tamer," said Shiva.
"You aren't helping!" exclaimed Crystal.
*-*-*-*
"Those two definately were interesting to have around," said Miroku.
Shippo said, "You're just glad that Shiva character never hit you or called you a pervert."
"Didn't he say he was a monk too?" asked Sango.
"I think he did," replied Kagome.
"I don't mind that he eats too much, but why does he have to eat other people's food?" asked Inuyasha.
Kagome said, "That's something you'll have to ask either him or Crystal."
"I doubt we've seen the last of them," said Inuyasha.
Miroku nodded, "I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to come back."
"Shiva better not touch my ramen again!" stated Inuyasha.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Crystal slipped into her apartment. It was late into the night and she was alone. Shiva had gone away on his training trip, taking his subspace picnic basket with him. She concluded that she had definately packed too much, considering the fact she hadn't even stayed in the Feudal Era for an entire day.
She unpacked her backpack and set it aside. She would put her school things back into it in the morning. She slipped down the hallway and into her room.
"I guess I'll visit Washu after school tomorrow," sighed Crystal. "I just wonder what I'll do if one of them was actually right."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
To Be Continued...
Spoiler Warning: This fanfiction will definately include spoilers of events and characters that appear later on in these Anime Titles. Technically these characters have already appeared, they just haven't appeared in the English version of the series.
------No Questions Please------
"Crystal, why are you putting so much clothes in your backpack?" asked Shiva watching Crystal get ready for school, at least that's what he thought she was doing.
"I know the weather is unpredictable at Furinkan, but even rain doesn't require that much clothing Crystal!"
"Are you listening to me?!"
Crystal wasn't listening to Shiva. She was too busy packing her backpack. In fact, she had been doing that for the last half hour. She had gotten a phonecall and had instantly started packing stuff afterwards and she still hadn't told Shiva why.
She had put in what looked like several dozen sets of clothing, which consisted of lots of black pants and black tank-tops. She had put in an oddball assortment of snack foods. She had put in some cooking equipment along with some semi-normal food. She had put in a sleeping bag and a pillow. In fact she had put in a lot of things and none of it seemed to have anything to do with school.
It looked like Crystal was going on a camping trip.
"Crystal, where are you going?!" demanded Shiva.
Crystal zipped up the backpack. It was a remarkably small, navy-blue backpack that she had aquired from Washu and she had definately put it to good use with the way she was packing it today. She finally looked over at Shiva.
"Well, Kagome want to test the possibility that I can travel into the Feudal Era through the well at her house and well, if it works I might not be coming back for a few days," replied Crystal.
Shiva asked, "What about school?"
"This could prove to be more important," replied Crystal.
Shiva's eyes brigthened. Crystal flinched.
"Can I come with you?"
Crystal shrugged, "Why not? If we can both get through the well it might be interesting to do some training in the Feudal Era."
Shiva cheered. Crystal shuddered.
Shiva went into a similar packing frenzy, only it involved a sub-space picnic basket and about four times as much food.
*-*-*-*
Crystal and Shiva finally arrived at the Higurashi Shrine, which took a little while since Shiva insisted on stopping for breakfast twice, and then a third time for brunch. Kagome and Inuyasha were waiting for them near a smaller building that looked strangely familiar to Crystal.
*~*~*~* Flashback *~*~*~*
Crystal hadn't been on a regular day and night schedule for the last week, but she assumed it would be a good idea to find a safe place to spend the night. That was when she saw the strange building in the distance, nevermind the fact that there were obviously other buildings around it [which for the purposes of this flashback she didn't notice.] She found that the door was open and being who she is, slipped inside. This seemed like a nice safe place, if you ignored the fact that there was an obviously suspicious well in the middle of the room. Crystal's curiousity got the better of her and she walked over to it.
A strong gust of wind blew and Crystal was sent sprawling downward.
*~*~*~* Present *~*~*~*
"I have a strange feeling I've been here before," muttered Crystal.
Shiva asked, "What makes you say that?"
"I don't know, I just have a feeling," replied Crystal.
"A martial artist is not a kind of demon!" exclaimed Kagome for the third time.
Inuyasha said, "Well the two martial artists have arrived."
Crystal sweatdropped. Shiva's stomach growled.
Kagome waved the group into the building, "If you'll all step this way, we can get on with the experiment."
*-*-*-*
A few minutes later all four of them had managed to get to the Feudal Era. Crystal instantly recognized the tree she had fallen asleep in the last time she had been there. Kagome and Inuyasha headed off in one direction and just to be safe Crystal decided to follow.
"When do we eat lunch?" asked Shiva.
Crystal facevaulted.
*-*-*-*
"I'm afraid I was knocked out before I could get your answer the last time you were here," said Miroku who was clasping Crystal's hands, "but will you bear my child?"
A vein became visible on Crystal's forehead, followed by a phonebook appearing in the air above Miroku's head. Crystal was about to make the phonebook drop when Shiva shoved her out of the way and whipped out a notebook along with a pen. He was acting like this was some kind of interview.
"Does that ever work?" asked Shiva.
Miroku replied, "If I keep saying it, it might."
Crystal had forgotten about being shoved and ended up sitting on the ground. The phonebook she had summoned, disappeared.
"Well Shiva, it looks like you've made a new friend," said Crystal getting to her feet.
Sango was talking to Kagome.
"So, both of them were able to come through the well?"
"They didn't have any trouble with it."
*-*-*-*
A short time later the group was walking through the forest. Shiva's stomach growled, so the group stopped for lunch.
"I think he eats more than Inuyasha," noted Shippo.
Inuyasha growled, "And it would help if his hands would stay on his own food!"
Crystal was the only one who hadn't lost any food to Shiva, because she understood the training concept that Shiva was using and she was not going to fall for it when she could just as easily keep her food away from him.
Shiva made the ultimate mistake, he took Inuyasha's instant ramen.
The two of them ended up rolling around on the ground in dust cloud, fighting over the ramen while trying not to spill it.
The others took this chance to eat what they wanted without it being stolen away from them.
*-*-*-*
The group was walking through the forest again. Shiva's stomach was quiet so the group kept on walking through the forest.
"So, exactly what sort of demon IS a martial artist?" asked Inuyasha.
Crystal sighed, "Shiva and I are not demons, although it is questionable what kind of creature lives in Shiva's stomach. I for one am definately human."
"You don't smell like a human," said Inuyasha.
Shiva shrugged, "She smells like Crystal to me."
"Shiva on the other hand, could be anything," said Crystal with a sweatdrop forming.
This conversation might have gone on longer if not for the loud roar that suddenly echoed through the forest. Whatever the source of this roar was, it was ahead of them.
Inuyasha and Crystal rushed forward into the face of danger looking serious. Shiva rushed forward into the face of danger with an expression that indicated he thought this would be fun.
"That one is obviously crazy," said Sango.
Miroku said, "It isn't crazy to enjoy life."
*-*-*-*
The source of the roar was not a pleasant sight to behold. It looked something like Motaro from Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and even that was pushing it a bit. It was definately a Centaurian of some sort, it just had a reptilian, humanoid torso instead of being the typical half-man, half- horse. It had a dragonic face and it had spikes sticking out of its elbows. It had a scorpion-like tail with large curved blade at the end that made it even more dangerous looking. It was also covered in dragonic scales. Needless to say, this was no the sort of creature you wanted to meet in a dark alley way in the middle of the night. The twin-bladed axe it was holding in its large, scaley hands did not make the creepiness factor any less intense.
"What is it?" Shiva wondered aloud. He was obviously not fazed by the odd appearence of the monster before him.
Crystal gawked at the Centaurian creature, "......"
"Who cares what it is, it might have a Shikon Fragment!" exclaimed Inuyasha drawing the Tetsusaiga, causing it to transform.
Crystal snapped out of it and drew her sword [Dragon Blade] which was still strapped around her waist because of the backpack she was carrying around.
Shiva took up a fighting stance facing the Centaurian creature, "You can go first."
The Centaurian creature swung its massive battle axe at Shiva's head. The blade of the axe fell harmlessly to the ground as Crystal sliced it away from the wooden rod it had been attached to. Inuyasha attempted to slice the Centaurian creature's other arm off with the Tetsusaiga. This blow was deflected by the Centaurian creature's scaled skin.
Crystal decided that if the giant sword that Inuyasha was using couldn't hurt the Centaurian creature, the Dragon Blade probably wouldn't do much good either. She sheathed it and took up a fighting stance beside Shiva.
"What's the plan?"
"We're supposed to have a plan?"
The Centaurian creature seemed to chuckle a very reptilian chuckle. He threw a well aimed punch at Crystal with unreal speed, sending her flying several meters and then sliding across the ground for a short distance before stopping. The next punch was aimed at Shiva.
Shiva dodged the punch skillfully and jumped up onto the Centaurian creature's back. He threw a punch at the back of the creature's head and started shaking his hand violently as he realized just how bad an idea that had been.
"What the hell is your skin made of?!" demanded Shiva.
The creature roared again and drove its elbow into Shiva's gut, sending him flying in much the same way that it had already gotten rid of Crystal.
Inuyasha made another strike with the Tetsusaiga, which was deflected easily by the Centaurian creatures scaled flesh.
There was a flash of silver light near the Centaurian creature's arm as Crystal's voice shouted, "Tsume Gin!" The arm was suddenly sliced clean off from the shoulder down. It collapsed to the ground in a sizzling heap as Crystal landed in front of the Centaurian creature.
[Claws of Silver]
She was definately Crystal, aside from the fact that she now had pointed ears and razor sharp claws on each of her fingers.
"Swords might not hurt you, but apparently your scales were no match for my claws," stated Crystal. "Admittedly, I haven't a clue where they came from, but I've learned not to question good luck when I see it."
The Centaurian creature let out a strangled growl of rage and pain.
Inuyasha had gotten the message, put the Tetsusaiga away and quickly reduced the Centaurian creature to nothing with a quick slash of his claws and a shout of, "Sankon Tessou!"
[Soul Shattering Iron Claw, Exorcising Claws of Steel, Iron Reaver Soul Stealer]
Crystal returned to normal and retrieved Shiva. She was acting as though that little transformation hadn't happened.
*-*-*-*
"There definately wasn't a Shikon Fragment and the demon turned out to be a real weakling," concluded Inuyasha.
Crystal and Shiva shouted, "You never got hit by it!"
Miroku asked, "What I don't understand is why there were three sources of Youki coming from that battlefield."
[demonic energy]
Inuyasha replied, "That's an easy one for me to answer, the third source was the dragon-girl."
"We went over this last time, my name is Crystal and I am a human," stated Crystal. "That whole claws thing was just a lucky break on my part."
Sango asked, "She had claws?"
"Come to think of it, she had pointy ears too," said Shiva.
Crystal sweatdropped, "Don't tell me you're going along with Inuyasha's idea that I could be a demon..."
"You say it all the time yourself, anything is possible," replied Shiva.
Crystal shrugged, "Alright, so maybe even after the Dragon's Curse was removed from me I remained only half-human. That doesn't mean I am a demon."
"No, that would make you a Hanyou," said Shippo.
[half-demon]
Crystal sighed, "I think I'm going to have to go to Washu for a DNA test on this one..."
"What is a DNA test?" asked Shippo.
"What's wrong with that?" asked Shiva.
Crystal sighed, "I don't like blood tests..."
"What is a blood test?" asked Shippo.
"So there is something you're afraid of?" asked Shiva.
"That isn't what I said," replied Crystal.
Shiva shrugged, "I wouldn't mind getting back to our time anyway. I could do with a training trip...that fight with that monster proved that I've been taking it too easy."
"So I guess this means that the dragon-girl and Shiva are going back?" asked Inuyasha.
Crystal growled, "My name is Crystal! I am not a dragon!"
"No, you're The Dragon Tamer," said Shiva.
"You aren't helping!" exclaimed Crystal.
*-*-*-*
"Those two definately were interesting to have around," said Miroku.
Shippo said, "You're just glad that Shiva character never hit you or called you a pervert."
"Didn't he say he was a monk too?" asked Sango.
"I think he did," replied Kagome.
"I don't mind that he eats too much, but why does he have to eat other people's food?" asked Inuyasha.
Kagome said, "That's something you'll have to ask either him or Crystal."
"I doubt we've seen the last of them," said Inuyasha.
Miroku nodded, "I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to come back."
"Shiva better not touch my ramen again!" stated Inuyasha.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Crystal slipped into her apartment. It was late into the night and she was alone. Shiva had gone away on his training trip, taking his subspace picnic basket with him. She concluded that she had definately packed too much, considering the fact she hadn't even stayed in the Feudal Era for an entire day.
She unpacked her backpack and set it aside. She would put her school things back into it in the morning. She slipped down the hallway and into her room.
"I guess I'll visit Washu after school tomorrow," sighed Crystal. "I just wonder what I'll do if one of them was actually right."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
To Be Continued...