Chapter Three


Inuyasha sat down and felt a tear roll down his face. It dropped into a golden water pitcher and suddenly a bubble rose from the pitcher and popped on his nose. Inuyasha looked at his nose and saw a little gray-haired flea with wings and magic wand.

"Who are you?" Inuyasha asked.

"I am the fairy-god-flea that helped your father." The flea answered.

"You mean my step-father?" Inuyasha asked.

"No, silly boy, your real father, the one that your mother married first before she met your step-father." The flea explained.

"Oh." Inuyasha replied. "So what's your name and why aren't you serving my step-father?"

The flea bowed his head gravely. "My name is Myoga and the reason I am not serving your step-father is that he was the one who ordered me locked up in the first place I guess I was too afraid of him."

"So, why are you here?" Inuyasha asked.

"To help you! I saw a teardrop fall down into my prison, so I went up in a bubble to investigate where that tear had come from and I found you!" Myoga explained. "So what's your problem?"

Inuyasha replied, "I was doing my chores to make my step-father pleased so I could go to the ball, then all of a sudden, Hiten came in and started teasing me, Koga too. Father came in moments later and asked me if I was done with all my chores and I said "yes" He ordered me to go up to the attic and choose a kimono for the ball. I did as I was told and went up to the attic and chose this kimono. Suddenly, I heard the door lock. I cried out for help but no one came or answered. I looked out the window and saw Father, Hiten and Koga climb into the carriage. I realized that they had left me!"

"Your step-father is as cruel to you as he was to me." Myoga said. "But I have something to help!"

He pulled out his wand and waved it. Inuyasha saw sparks fly all around him and his kimono started to turn black with white and gold swirls. He looked at his feet and saw that they had boots with a diamond on the buckle. His hair wasn't messy but instead it was neat and unruffled. He looked at his face in a mirror in the corner and saw a blue crescent moon on his forehead like his step-father and red, straight demon stripes on the sides of his face. His dog ears shrunk back into his head and reappeared on the side of it except smaller.

Inuyasha looked at the window reflection and saw that it was already night. He also noticed something else- he didn't have a carriage! How was he ever going to get to the ball without a carriage?!

Myoga looked at the troubled pup and asked, "Do you have garden?"

"No." Inuyasha answered, "Father doesn't like gardens that much."

But then he remembered something. In the barn he had planted a garden when he was young and had hidden it from his father and step-brothers. He showed Myoga the barn from the window. Myoga went and squeezed through the little crack in the sill. Inuyasha watched him hop off. Five minutes later, he saw a flash of light. Then he saw Myoga hop back on the windowsill.

Then he looked again through the window and saw a carriage that was round with golden stem-like rods growing from the top. It was on of the radishes!

"What are you going to use for horses?" he asked.

Myoga looked down at the grounds and thought for a little while. Finally he saw a little hole with ants in it. He waved his wand on the ant-hole and all of the ants turned into white horses with antennas, huge compound eyes, and mouthparts. A sweat-drop formed on Myoga's head as he looked nervously at the mutated animals.

"Oops! Sorry!" he apologized.

He waved his wand at all the horse he didn't want and turned them back into regular ants. As for the other horses, he turned the mouthparts into regular horse nostrils, antennas into ears, and changed the eyes into regular horse eyes.

Then Myoga turned the fly on the string into the coach driver and a cockroach into the footman.

"Now you are all set for the ball!" Myoga said as Inuyasha got into the carriage. "Oh, I almost forgot! You have to be home at twelve o' clock because that's when the spell will wear off and you will be a normal half-breed again. Make sure your step-father and your brothers don't find out."

"I'll remember." Inuyasha said,

Then, with a word of goodbye to Myoga, the carriage carrying Inuyasha, and the horses pulling it, galloped into the night along the path that led from the castle.


That was Chapter Three!! Next time, the ball awaits! Bye!