Yikes! Sorry everyone for taking so long! -_-'

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Chapter 9: Through the dessert and Kagome's nature

Then the beast showed itself. It was a large purple 8 tailed scorpion. When it landed, it created a cloud of dust. The sand settled to show a girl-child trying to get away. Kagome's instincts went wild as her pupils dilated.

Everything slowed in her perspective. Kagome shifted to her adaptation, rolled-raced towards the girl-child. The scorpion leaped into the air. Kagome opened her shell to grab the child. The crowd gasped. The scorpion descended. Kagome went past and behind Zebra. Zebra sliced the scorpion with Voice Cutter before it could land. Kagome unrolled and inspected the child for injuries. Kagome sighed in relief and hugged the girl.

The girl had tears flowing down her face when Kagome let go of her. The girl faced both Zebra and Kagome.

"Thank you"

Kagome smiled, reverted back, and rubbed cheeks with the girl. She then stood when people came running over to thank them. Kagome was spazzing until Zebra told them coolly to adapt to him. Kagome grinned at Zebra.

Soon all the children came and surrounded Kagome, dragging her away from Zebra to play with her. Though, at first she was reluctant, but looking into their excited faces, she gave in and went with them. They had some time before they set out.

She shifted into her adaption for the desert at the request of some of the children. She rolled into a ball and enlarged herself so that an extra plate could slide over the others that roll. That plate helps her to move with a load bigger than her. The other adults then placed the children on with rope to secure them on. One of them knocked on the shell and Kagome started to move. The children squealed to go faster and laughed when she did, but not too fast to make them loose grip.

Toriko looked to see her and the children. He smiled, but he needed her to finish playing with the children so they could move on. He yelled that he got the camels ready. He watched as Kagome came back with happy, winded children. They climbed down and said their thanks as Kagome uncurled. She kneeled to ruffle their hair and turbans. She then accepted the scorpion meat from the adults. She ate as she climbed on the Wine Camel behind Zebra.

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Kagome chewed on scorpion meat while she drank some wine. When she finished she leaned on the camel's hump, wrapped a rope around her waist and the camel's, she curled in a ball to take a light nap. She felt the camel stop. She heard a knock on her shell and uncurled a bit to see the water bottle Toriko is giving her, with a smile. She looked at him and snatched the bottle before closing the gap. Her thanks were muffled by her curled form. Toriko shook his head and moved over to see if Komatsu had dank enough water.

Toriko barely caught the empty water bottle that Kagome threw at him. Zebra chuckled at him. Toriko looked back to see her mischievous eyes glinting in the shadow of her shell before she closed it again. Toriko sweat-dropped before refilling the canister and storing it away for later.

I bit later the wine camel stopped because Zebra could hear something coming. Zebra looked in a direction where the noise was coming from. Suddenly, Kagome uncurled and rolled off behind a large sand dune, attracting whatever was coming. Toriko stopped to see what was happening. Then the party waited 10 minutes until Kagome came rolling back and they continued on. Unknown to Toriko and Komatsu, Kagome just ate a pack of Desert Shark. Zebra heard clearly the useless struggle the dessert fish were making when they were attacked and eaten by Kagome.

Later, Kagome would feel the sand and wind blow violently against her shell, letting her know they were in a sand storm. That night, Kagome hunted alone for her own meat, while the confused Toriko got his own for Zebra and Komatsu. The next day, they made it to the sight of the Desert Labyrinth. Kagome uncurled to face the survival challenge.

Thought, at once they entered the red desert, the heat was strongly related to dry cracked earth desert in the Gourmet World. Kagome was fine along with Zebra, but Toriko needed to adapt.

That was when Kagome saw that Komatsu went missing. Toriko looked around frantically for the small chief. Kagome's demeanor went cold as quicksand started to turn under the camels, bucking them off of them. Kagome started to move before Zebra and Toriko could act in escaping the sand beneath them.

While Toriko and Zebra were busy, Kagome continued on, walking the unseen path before her. She defeated the beasts and ate them all the same, not leaving one alive. Toriko and Zebra followed behind her. Toriko was getting an uneasy feeling from Kagome; he had to follow Zebra because of his echo location sonar.

Zebra was surprised that Kagome was following the path so accurately. They had to hurry to catch up to Kagome since she gotten a fare distance ahead of them. Then suddenly, they caught the sand Kagome kidded up. She curled into a ball and sped away. Toriko was confused while Zebra just got frustrated.

With Kagome

She started to roll past a flower in the middle of the sand, but paid it no mind so that the men behind her could survive, if they were to. She then came to an odd shaped pyramid when she rolled up to the wall, bouncing off of it, uncurled in the air and started to leap up the wall until she went through the doorway inside. She sifted through her memories to see if one of her past lives traveled in this building. When she did, she got a mental map of the enormous place. She traveled down to the lower floor. She went past the larger animals to go down deeper to find Komatsu.

Something called to her to stay with the small male. She didn't know the reason, but she followed the feeling anyway. Kagome ate some of the smaller creatures. She found that if she kills them in a certain way, they would be tender instead of tough.

Then she heard a sound. Just then she got an ear full of Zebra's ranting, by the time he stopped talking, she only heard him saying to find Komatsu. She grunted an agreement and saw the static-y Zebra face glare at her before disappearing. She continued on her way down. She was traveling on a suspended bridge when she heard a yell below her. She saw Komatsu on the ledge very far below her, he looked more tiny than before. She silently giggled.

Then she stepped off the bridge without hesitation. The back of Melk the second borrowed clothing ripped as Kagome changed adaptations. She sprouted off-white feathered wings and her boots were torn beyond recondition for her talon-ed feet as well as her hands turning scaly, off yellow and sharp claws that curved to talons. She glided down to where Komatsu was when he disappeared running to the side. Kagome grinned as she pulled in her wings to skydive the creature Komatsu hid from. The frog beast thing tasted oddly like chicken that Komatsu served at that one time in his restraint.

Komatsu was too afraid to open is eyes when he heard the screams of the beast and the silence after it. He nearly died of a heart attack when Kagome placed her hand on his shoulder, but he did faint after seeing he was now with Kagome. Kagome chuckled and shifted back to her earlier adaptation. She carried Komatsu bridal style his head happened to lay on her chest as a pillow while he slept. Kagome moved to the direction she knew the way out was in, but then a memory reminded her of an ancient cook book.

Kagome changed directions to go to the supposedly proper room the book is in by Kagome's memory map.

Kagome did eat the hermits and mollusks along the way, but she had to fight carefully with Komatsu in her grasp. When she was fighting this one mollusk, he woke up and fell out of her grasp. Before she could pick him back up, he used his new Melk kitchen knife. It scared the mollusk away, along with making a large clean crevice in the room which made the floor below them collapse.

Kagome maneuvered to where she can grasp Komatsu. She had to move in tight spaces between the falling rocks, so she hugged him to her. Komatsu blushed bright red when he found his face buried between Kagome's breasts. When they landed safely, Komatsu collapsed face down on the ground in embarrassment. He yelped in surprise when he noticed that he was in a puddle of water.

He watched as Kagome kneelt down to drink it. He also did the same and filled his canister. Kagome got up and waved her hand for him to follow her. Komatsu blushed a bit when he remembered earlier, but followed none the less. He followed Kagome's sure steps until they got to a fork leading two ways. He then remembered to use his charm to look for the blue light to signal the right way. Kagome then studied it afterwards. They came to another fork and went to the right, but there was a beast. Komatsu ran while Kagome knocked it, not feeling like it to eat it at the moment. She sniffed him out and passed the sleeping rooms for the Nitoro. Kagome stared blankly before moving on to find Komatsu, again. She had a bad feeling about those dehydrated humanoids.

She found him in the Hall of Recipes. (I don't really know what that room or hall is called, but please go with the flow) Kagome smiled as she walked up behind them. Then a chill went down her spine.

She spun as she punched a very hungry, just animated, Nitoro away from her and Komastu. It sped at her. She tried to punch it, but it's mouth closed around her fist and ripped her arm off her shoulder and began to eat it. Kagome, for the first time in a while, screamed in pain as she grabbed the empty socket of her arm, blood flowing through her fingers. Kagome's eyes narrowed and searched the room.

Then she saw the beast from earlier. Kagome ignored the pain and grabbed Komatsu, which he held onto the ancient cookbook in shock and dread, and ran under the beast and away from the Nitoro.

She ran until she couldn't see, hear, nor feel anymore and collapsed on the floor, still bleeding. Komatsu panicked when he saw this and the Salamander Sphinx in front of him. He tried to wake Kagome up but to no avail, until….

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Me is evil! Me is giving cliffy until I get the next chapter up! Then u'll find out what happens next! Please review! XD