Chapter 9:

On the edge of the out-cropping sat a old dusty white wolf. The great elder…

(Great Elder's POV)

The great elder sat still as stone as his niece and granddaughter approached behind him. He was still in shock. Akemi, the young and beautiful half wolf demon, was still alive. After 60 years his brother had never given up hope that his daughter was still alive, but he himself had begun to think that she was dead. Yet here she stood, alive and well.

He could not see her and didn't know what to expect. She was much older now and that was sure to be true. He didn't turn to see, both of them standing in shock.

Finally the silence was broken by her running forward to hug him. "Uncle!"

(Back to Akemi's POV like usual)

I ran forward wrapping my arms around his neck. "Uncle!" I yelled, tears coming to my eyes. My uncle sprang to life under my grasp, laughing happily and saying that he was happy to see that I'm ok.

I sat back after a few moments and we simply smiled. Or as best as we could, me perfectly and him in a wolf form.

Last time I'd seen him he'd been in his normal form, a humanoid form, not as a wolf. I knew the truth about how wolf-demons are. Once they transform into they're true forms, they're stuck like that. To join the elders one must leave one's human skin and become a wolf. Just like how my uncle had.

"Ayame, why don't you go back down? Akemi knows her way around here." My uncle turned back to his granddaughter. "Thank you for showing me my way up here, Ayame." I said. Ayame left with a smile.

"Where have you been young one?" He asked me.

"Long story. I'm just glad that I'm finally back here." I told him. "Thank the gods that you're safe. We've been searching for you ever since you disappeared. Sixty years and your father never gave up. Your parents were still hopefully searching in till the day they died. They would be very happy to see that your safe and happy. Why did you run, Akemi?" The great elder rambled.

"I didn't want the life they had planned for me and my words of disapproval fell on deaf ears. So I left. Later on, I had planned on returning though." I told him, laying my head on his bony old shoulder. I missed him.

"Akemi… why didn't you?" he laid his wolfy head on top of mine softly. "I tried, I really did." I sniffled before continuing. "I thinking about coming back. I think I probably would have come back here, rather then where I'd last seen my parents at Inutaisho's castle. I was about to leave when I was attacked by demons. They were mostly minor demon's, easy to deal with but I didn't realize that they only wanted to push me into a trap not fight with me. I fell for it. They pushed me back to an area not far from where I had been before. It was a field, surrounded by forest. No to far there was a human village that I remember seeing a few days back from when this happened… They left me there. Just left like nothing had ever happened. Then… another demon came up behind me. He was so quiet, I didn't hear him. I'd been taking a look down a dried up well in the middle of the field. I knew I was in the area of the Bone eater's well, and I was worried that it was the same well. I'd heard rumors. Rumors saying that when someone in the area slayed a demon they dumped the remains in the well. Rumor had it that sometimes the demons at the bottom of the well that had been killed would come back fifty years after they were killed to haunt the ones who killed them… I looked down it and at the bottom was a pile a demon bones. I was scared for some reason. That's when I noticed the demon behind me… He didn't give me long to see his face and when I did… he didn't look pleased. It was a dragon demon… I think. He didn't look like any dragon demon I'd ever seen. He had eight legs and a spider shaped mark on his forehead. It was strange… He only gave me a second before he backed me up against the well and pushed me in…" I gulped the memories replaying in my mind.

Something about that demon was different from any other's I'd met. Something terrifying.

"Shhh… It's ok…" My uncle rubbed his head against my arm to calm me. I was scared. I wasn't seeing the wolf demon mountains anymore I was only seeing my memories.

I gulped again as I continued.

"Last thing I remembered was this pale blue light, and then I passed out. I remember waking in darkness. I felt as if I had been asleep for a very long time. There was dust on my body, my muscles were sore. I could barely move. It felt like most of my powers were gone. The well was covered when I woke up… and when I got up to uncover it… I took the cover off and I was inside a hut… I didn't know where I was… I'd heard rumors that the Bone eater's well had special powers… but I would have never guessed that it could bring me to another world and rob me of my powers… I was reduced to the strength of a half-demon. I could only attain my normal and human forms… I lived in that world for six years… I didn't mind it there really. I had to hide in my human form but I had friends and my own place to live… It wasn't to bad, but I missed it here." I stuttered to a finish. Both the bad and the good memories were still clashing in my head as I stared blankly forward.

"How did you get back?" The elderly wolf-demon asked me.

"I became good friends with the priestess who owned the shrine that, in that world, was right beside the well. I didn't know it but she'd been traveling between the worlds. She brought us three friends over to the shrine to tell us something important… She told us that she was leaving town. She told us that she'd been moving between the worlds. With her was Inuyasha, the half-demon son of InuTaisho. He knew who I was, and the two of them brought me back through the well. I got here yesterday. I came here as fast as I could." I said sadly.