Chapter 2
Alyse woke up with a mouth full of dirt
It was late at night, judging from how dark it was. She could hear not only crickets, but the crackling of a fire. She turned her head to see the Kitsune she had met earlier playing with the flames, making little figures dance across her hands out of it.
Kaida looked at her and smiled, extinguishing the flames in her hands by simply closing her fists. "Hey rise and shine. You fainted." The smell of the camp fire made Alyse's stomach grumble with hunger. She pushed herself into a sitting position. "Fainted huh? I thought if you faint in a dream...you usually wake up." Kaida rolled her eyes. "Please, if this was a dream, I would be dating Sess- oh you don't know him never mind." She put her hand in the fire and rearranged the coals. Alyce could see something lying near them- what looked like a large chicken. "How can you do that with burning your hands?" Alyse asked, ignoring Kaida's previous statement about this not being a dream. It had to be, it just had to. Why else would there be a fox eared girl who could touch fire? "I just kinda bend the fire away." she said casually. "It doesn't hurt me ever. Unlike logs." she smiled mischievously. "I'm Kaida." "I'm Alyse," she said. Then she laughed. "Sorry about your head. Honestly, I didn't think I hit you that hard. I guess the ears kinda freaked me out." Kaida shrugged. "I never get lucky like Inu does... I always get hit, his ears get rubbed." She pouted a bit. "Inu? Who's Inu?" "A friend of mine." Kaida stretched. "He and a girl named Kagome went through the well. They should be back in the morning." "The...well?" Alyse thought about the old wooden thing she had fallen into. "The one I climbed out of?" "Yep." Kaida formed a ball of flames and started throwing it up and catching it. "It's a portal between now and modern Japan." "Japan? That's right!" Alyse bolted to her feet. "I have to get back! If this...if this really isn't a dream then I have to go back now!" Kaida shook her head. "Not right now, we are too far away from the well now. Its way too dangerous- I might be a demon myself, but there are really bad demons out here. Stay here for a while. "I can't! Ms. Rachel...she's going to kill me..." Alyse fell to her knees. "I have to get back...or the other kids will pay for it..." Kaida grabbed Alyse' wrist and tried to pull her back down. "Believe me, it is WAY too dangerous. It isn't worth it." Alyse pulled away. "You don't understand, Kaida. Even if it is dangerous, I have to get back. I don't care about any demons or monsters. The only one I'm afraid of is Ms. Rachel." Alyse got to her feet and ran into the forest. Kaida sighed and ran after her. "Alyse, wait! I'll take you there!" Alyse slowed down. "Are you being serious? or Are you just going to drag me back? "I promise on two conditions." Kaida grabbed Alyse' arm. "First, please come back, okay? You are so nice! Second, bring me more of that yummy stuff! Please? You promise?" "Yummy...oh! You mean the snickers? Yeah, sure, I promise." Kaida clapped and led Alyse through the forest, carrying the now cooked chicken in her hand. They had to eat dinner at some point, right?
The figure still watched from the shadows. She seems to have adjusted pretty well. She went from hitting the little fangirl to sharing a meal. How interesting. I shall have to keep watching her…
Soon the two friends were within sight of the well once more. As they walked up, Alyse threw aside the last chicken bone and looked at the old thing. "That's it? Huh, you'd think a portal between time periods was cooler looking..." Kaida snickered. "Its feudal Japan. This is cool. You still will come back right? I will send InuYasha after you if you don't." Alyse smiled a little. "InuYasha, huh? Weird name. Anyway, he doesn't know what I look like so I doubt he'd be able to find me. But, yeah, I'll come back. I just..." her voice trailed off. Alyse suddenly felt sick. "DO you...feel that? "No... What?" Kaida became very worried.
"I'm cold…"
"Alyse, maybe you should move..." "I...I can't. I can't move at all." Kaida grabbed Alyse' hand to pull her away, but dropped it and shrieked. "Your skin is icy..." "Kaida...I can't...I can't breathe..." Alyse let out a blood chilling scream and fell to the ground. Around her, the grass began to freeze over.
Kaida jumped away. "Alyse! I'll be right back! I'll get help."
Alyse got to her feet as soon as Kaida was out of sight and staggered in the opposite direction. Everything she touched turned to ice. Suddenly, she felt herself fall to the ground, and her eyes fogged over with white.* * * * *
Kaida soon found Miroku and Sango at a small campsite nearby. She ran into their camp quite literally.
As she recovered from hitting the tree they were under, she said: "Come help! Quickly!" Sango looked up from cleaning her weapons. "Kaida? What's wrong?" "My new friend is in trouble! Follow me!" The demon slayer got to her feet. "Alright. Show us where she is."* * * * * Kaida ran into the clearing with the well. "There!" She pointed to Alyse who sat crouched on the ground, covered in ice. Sango grabbed Kaida's arm to hold her back. "Stay here, alright? She has a demonic aura around her..." "But-"
Alyse laughed. "You should listen to her, Kaida." She looked over her shoulder. Her eyes were now completely white. Kaida shivered. "Alyse... What happened?" Miroku ran into the clearing, gasping for breath. "Sorry, I kind of lost my sandle back there, and- whoa." His eyes fell on Alyse. "Oh my, what a handsome monk." Alyse said in an almost flirty voice.
"Why, thank you." Miroku grinned. You're not that bad yourself."
Sango's eyes narrowed at him. "Miroku, there is a time and a place."
"Sorry Sango."
"Alyse?" Kaida started to approach her friend while the other two bickered.
The girl got to her feet shakily. "I am not Alyse! This body now belongs to me- Kimiko, the demon of ice!" Sango grabbed her boomerang. "She's been possessed." Kaida narrowed her eyes. "Hey! That's my friend's body you are inside!" She summoned flames and shot them towards Alyse/Kimiko. Kimiko yawned and put her hand out. As soon as the fire hit her palm it turned to ice and fell, shattering on the ground below. "Playing with fire can be dangerous, little fox. You should be more careful!" Kimiko charged at her. Miroku dodged in front of the Kitsune and made ready to uncover the wind tunnel, but she stopped him. "Wait, that's my friend. If you suck her in there...!" The monk hesitated, unsure of what to do.
"You shouldn't have stopped him." Kimiko grabbed his wrist. "You'll make a nice ice statue, don't you think?" Kaida squealed as Miroku was frozen solid. "No!" Sango pulled out her sword and ran towards Kimiko. But just as she reached her, the possesed girl reached out and froze Sango as well.
"Miroku! Sango!" The fox yelled, firing two flames at her possessed friend. Kimiko went flying back. "Where's your Inuyasha now? Some friend, he can't even protect you!" "Wanna bet? A voice said from the well. "What? Whose there?" Kimiko turned towards the voice just as Inuyasha came flying out.
"Looks like you guys have had some fun while we were gone." He said, studying the frozen statue of his friends. Then he turned and grinned at Kimiko. "Mind if I join in?" "Don't you dare hurt her, Kitten Ears! She is my friend and she is possessed!" Kaida told him, climbing up onto his shoulders. The Half Demon scoffed. "Whatever! All I know is she's a demon and I'll kill her if I have to!" Kimiko laughed, "Kill me, huh? You'd kill an innocent human girl? How awful." Kagome yelled from the well: "Don't kill the human she is possessing, InuYasha!" Inuyasha growled. "Fine! Whatever! But if she gets hurt, it's not my fault!' He pulled out Tetsaiga. "Now, are you going to leave peacefully, or do I have to force you out?" "So that's the Famous Tetsiga I've heard so much about. Great, because that's what I've come for." Kimiko charged InuYasha, reaching towards his throat. Kaida started trying to thaw Miroku out. "Come on..." she looked over at the fight, where she saw what the girl was about to do. "Watch out!" She threw a fireball at Kimiko, knocking her off balance. But she still managed to give InuYasha a nasty scratch. Kimiko growled. "Stupid fox." She sent a column of ice towards her. InuYasha raised the Tetsiga, deflecting Kimiko's attack away from the kitsune, and instead making the ice hit a tree. "Nice try." "How do you plan on winning? You can't kill me. You can't harm me! I will take tetsaiga from you!" Kaida growled and leapt at her. "Sorry Alyse!" she muttered as she grabbed the girl by the hair and pulled her down to the ground. Kimiko screamed. "Kaida! Stop! It hurts!" she said in Alyse's voice.
"Get out of my friend now." Kaida told her firmly.
"Kaida, its me! Your friend Alyse! Please let go!" "Don't be fooled, kaida!" Kaida only faltered for a moment, but that was long enough for Kimiko to grab her arm. She smiled evilly. "Big mistake, fox!" The kitsune tightened her hand as tight as she could just as she was frozen, trapping the hair in her hand. "Kaida!" Inuyasha growled. "You're going to pay for that!" Inuyasha swung Tetsiga, using his wind scar. The blast barely missed Alyse's body, but to power of it was enough to separate Kimiko from Alyse.
