A/N This is Chapter 10! I can't believe it's gone by so fast! Unfortunately, this story is coming to an end and although the actual story would be finished, I would like to add a few bonus chapters! So stay tuned!

Thanks to Ms. Sucker for romance and Bleedingrose13 for favouriting/ story alerting my story!

Chapter 10

Kagome's POV

Darkness, it's all darkness, but then I open my eyes and there they are, my sisters, fighting each other. It was horrible! They were both so bruised and cuts covered them. Ayame had tears in her eyes as she gazed at an unconcious Kouga. Then her doe eyes fill with fire and she turns to Naraku, her childhood friend. The floor was stained with a deep red liquid. Blood. But from who? This is all so confusing! What's going on? As I turn around, my mind goes blank and I'm surrounded by darkness again.

I woke with a start. It was that dream again. The very dream that had haunted her ever since Kouga and Ayame had returned. It was all so... so horrifying! This was just a nightmare that would not reveal all it's secrets. I have prophetic dreams sometimes, when something big was going to happen. Like the time my parents had decided to move back to Japan from America, taking us with them. It was a heartbreaking sight. My friends were sniffing and tears were leaking out of their eyes. I just hope this nightmare won't come true.

Normal POV

Everyone had woken up and they were treading through the jungle. They had had certain leads that the way to get into the special field of the wise dragon was to find a cave with a barely notice-able scorch mark. Soon, with Kirara helping the humans travel as fast as the demons did, they had reached a cave that had a dragon shaped scorch mark the size of Kagome's thumb on the rim of the cave mouth. They followed the instruction that had been given to them earlier and walked into the cave blind. It was so dark in there that they did not need to close their eyes to feel like they were blind. They could not even see their hands if they held it in front of their faces! And so they reached the back of the cave. They were blanketed in a silence so thick and so big, you could have used it as a winter duvet for 20 people, had it been solid.

There was suddenly flashes of colour so vivid they had to screw their eyes shut. The cave seemed to be speeding away from them and a flash of multicoloured light seemed to rush around them. Once they had opened their eyes again, they found they were in a field of vivid green grass and scattered with the beautiful flowers of the world, united in one large, peaceful field.

And looming above them was a massive dragon. It was an aged one but still extremely scary. The wings were folded at it's shoulders and it's tips reached to the ground. It was a large deep blue, almost navy, dragon but it's eyes were a startling silver. On closer observation, his scales were chipped, the tips of many his spikes were broken, as were his claws. But the dragon still seemed very powerful.

The dragon flexed it's wings and the powerful muscles in his body tensed. And a deep resounding voice emerged from the beast and boomed:

"You need the mystic root of knowledge but to obtain it, riddle me this,

An old dragon wanted to leave all of his gold and gems to one of his three sons, but he didn't know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first son bought straw, but there was not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third son bought two things that filled the room, so he obtained his father's fortune. What were the two things that the son bought?"

The natives to this universe were puzzled. They had never heard such a problem before and were, of course, baffled with the predicament in the question but Kagome, Sango and Kikyou were Riddle Masters. There was an extremely easy answer to give.

"My companions, the answer is simple:

The wise son bought a candle and a box of matches. After lighting the candle, the light filled the entire room." Sango answered confidently. She had figured it out a couple of years ago, when the riddle was posed to her by a close friend. The dragon clapped.

"It is not often that a small being such as yourself is able to answer me correctly. You are indeed worthy of this root. I presume you are making a Staff of Peace. Am I correct?"

"Thank you. You are, of course correct. We need it to stop this battle between mortals and demons, permanately."

"Ah, the legendary Staff of Peace, such a pain getting but well worth it."

"Mighty Dragon, if I may ask, can we fuse the pieces together here. We are ready for we have all three pieces now that you have given us permission to take a root from the knowledge plant."

"Of course! You may need to use it sooner than you wish, there is one who does not want peace in this world."

"Thank you but... Who would not want peace?"

"Eris, the Godess of Chaos. She may be returning to power. she was the cause of the last mortal-demon war."

"So we must defeat her permanently to return peace to this world."

"That is correct, now you may create the Staff."

And so the gang set about doing the ritual. They placed the three components together in a circle of brilliant snow white stones. White to symbolise peace and the round, sphere shape symbolised circle of unity and the parallel Earth. There was a chanting from a miko and a billowing of multicoloured smoke, courtesy of the dragon, named Cobalt. The items floated up into the air and with a flash of brilliant white light, the three items were welded together and transformed.

The jewel was still coloured in swirls of pinks, purples and reds but, the colours seemed to be pastel colours. There was a gasp as little bubbles floated through the middle of the stone and formed a perfect heart with wings and a small, smiling face. The jewel seemed to harden and return to it's original colourings but the bubbles kept the pastel colourings.

The branch of co-operation was the same beautiful white as the stone circle and perfectly round and straight instead of the gnarled and twisted branch it had just been. Near the top of the Staff base, there was a dove of peace, in it's beak, it was holding an olive tree branch. The branch was coloured in an emerald green and the eye of the dove was a diamond.

The root that held it together was now the colour of an autumn leaf, a deep red colouring and seemed to be attatched with a small book that only a sprite would be small enough to read. There seemed to be white pages that fluttered in the wind, held in place by a miniature golden yellow binding.

All in all, the Staff was breathtakingly beautiful. Even Cobalt thought so. They said thank you to their new friend and bid him farewells. With light hearts, they practically skipped out of the cave. Even the males, although they were trying not to, they squeezed in a couple of glee filled bounds. The girls, however, were shamelessly dancing around and trying to twirl the males around with them. Caught in the moment, Kagome grabbed Inuyasha's hand and twirled him around.

By the time Kagome had realised what she was doing, she saw that he was tomato red and began her transformation into a red tomato. It was quite funny to the others and embarrassing to the two they were laughing at. It was quite funny, actually. Though not to Kagome and Inuyasha. Soon, they turned against the laughers. They were weakened by thewir boughts of laughter and could hardly run.

This was too easy.

By the end of about 5 minutes, Ayame and Kouga were strung up in trees and knotted to the trunks upside down, Miroku was being totured by a mechanism that made him slap his own face, Kikyou and Sango were tied to rocks by vines upside down too and Naraku wasn't having much luck either, he was upright and his arms were tied to his side and he was hanging from a tree, swinging and smacking into a rock and the tree trunk.

Ouch.

Kagome and Inuyasha dusted their hands off and walked back to have tea and scones with Cobalt. By the time they got up to leisurely walk over to the rest of their posse, it was time to go back to camp and reluctantly, they set them free.

But on one condition, they must never laugh at them again or face The Punishment. DundunDUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!

After the agreement was made, and written on paper that Cobalt had kindly given them, they set back home. Since it was dark when they had reached about 1/4 of the way back, they pitched up a temporary camp. It was a humid night so Kagome, Sango and Kikyou made hammocks out of vines for everyone, even a little one for Kirara. After Kagome had set up spells to protect and shield them from predators and anything that might be dangerous, they all went to bed, content and unaware of the danger that lay ahead of them the next day.

Daybreak. A beautiful thing. The peacefulness of it all did not reveal anything of the day. The group woke up, refreshed and relaxed from the bed of vines. They took down the hammocks carefully and folded them up. They may need them again, depending how long it would take the on the way back. It turns out that they didn't. After 5 hours of walking, including breaks, they reached their camp. They settled back into their own separate cabins. They had settled in and had breakfast when Kikyou and Naraku suddenly got up and walked off into the forest.

Everyone was baffled. Why did they just do that? Whilst everyone was still questioning why they had just walked off, the two came back with a blood-red and black ball in between them.

This made the rest even more confused. What the fuck was that? And then they got confused evn more.

The orb was twisting and morphing into a woman. She was beautiful with dark hair flowing down her back. Her eyes were a peircing blood red. And her gown was a black silk sleeve-less Cheongsam(1) with red hems and red chinese embroidery. She had red and black silk and net gloves on her hands. The gloves went to just above her wrists and were a black silk with red netting over the top. They were tight fitting over her hands but fell loose when the material reaches her wrists. They didn't slip off because of bit of red ribbon tied at the wrist.

Then they noticed that the light had disappeared from their friends' eyes. There was a collective gasp as the mysterious woman commanded them to guard her and surprise was evident in everyone's faces as their supposed friends complied. It could not be true. Naraku and Kikyou had turned against them. Betrayal. Except it wasn't. Kikyou and Naraku were brainwashed. Hypnotised. They did not know what they were doing.

"Who the fuck are you!?" Kagome screamed at the stranger, tears streaming out of her eyes.

A/N: Longest chapter yet! WOOHOO! OVER 2000 WORDS!!

(1) A cheongsam is a traditional chinese dress. To see what I described, go to this URL:

www. ewis.no /fashion / images /cheongsam /cheongsam 7 b.jpg

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Well that's all for this chappie. See you next time! I will probably be back really soon!