Hexes and Hanyous

Chapter 8: Manticore Cubes

By: Dead83

Disclaimer: I don't own a damn thing from Inuyasha and Harry Potter. Enjoy.

It was nearing the end of October in Hogwarts. During this time, many students were waiting for the big Halloween feast, while the jocks of the school knew it would be just a few short weeks before the start of the school's Quidditch season. Shippo was now having fun teaching the Care of Magical Creatures course even though Hagrid was still M.I.A. The fox demon decided he'd surprise his class of fifth years with a something big. The next morning, the fifth years of Slytherin and Gryffindor were outside in fron of Hagrid's hut while a huge tarp-covered cage was off to the side of the class.

"So how are you all today class?" Smiled Shippo.

"We're fine you mangy fox." Laughed Draco along with his Slytherin group.

"Fox demon Mr. Malfoy and for that remark come up here."

"No."

"It'll be thirty-seven points from Slytherin house and detention for your entire year."

"Fine then."

"Good. Now class what I'm about to show you goes against every rule in the Hogwarts rulebook."

"What is it, a horde of sexy vela?" Asked Ron.

"Ron!" Reprimanded Hermione.

"What, I was just asking a simple question."

"Men."

"I hear you sister." Sighed Kagome.

"No Ron, and stop drooling at the prospect of it. What I'm about to show you is a monster from Southern China. Boys and girls I give you a living, breathing, and smelly manticore!" Announced Shippo as the tarp vanished to show a bronze colored lion with large lack bat wings extending from between its shoulder blades, and where a normal lion's tail would be a red scorpion stinger rested.

"Bloody hell!" Shouted Ron and Harry.

"Ahh don't let it eat me!" Squealed Draco.

"You really sound like a girl Mr. Malfoy." Said Shippo.

"No I don't!"

"Yes you do, Hermione has a manlier scream than you."

"Shut up Weasel." Glared Draco as he heard said person laughing at him.

"Anyways class, let's move on with the lesson."

Elsewhere in the forest surrounding the school and, a man covered from head to toe in silver baboon hair and mask was sitting down while playing with some glowing purple fragments. These weren't your normal fragments, these were the fragments of the Shikon Jewel and the man was no ordinary man but a demon. The demon Naraku. Naruka continued with his activity when he heard something move behind him, turning around he saw a large black snake move towards him.

"Ahh Nagini how is your master doing?" Said Naraku as he turned his attention to the snake.

"Hee isssss fiiinnee." Spoke the snake, Nagini, as it stopped besides Naraku.

"Good, what does he wish to know?"

"Howww areee yoouu going tooo deallll wiiiitthhhh Pottterrrr?"

"Easy, I'm going to have their little lesson go on a rampage."

"Hooowww ssoooo?"

"Just a tiny shard will do it. Speaking of which, did you master retreave the family of demon slayers I asked for?"

"Ittt tooook sooommeee straaiiiin onn himm buuttt hee hasss donnee ittt."

"Great, tell him I'll be back later."

"Yesssss Narrrakkuuu."

"Heh-heh, time for the fun to begin." Smiled Naraku evilly as he took two shards and flicked them towards the mantiocre.

Back at Shippo's lesson, the class was listining intently to Shippo as he taught them everything about manticores, their dietary habits, mating, grooming and social structure. What nobody realised were two purple lights imbed themselves into the skull of the manticore, all except for Kagome.

"You alright Kagome?" Asked Harry as he noticed the younf woman freeze up in fear.

"I..I think I felt some jewel shards." Said Kagome.

"Where did you sense them?"

"Right there." Muttered Kagome dismally as she pointed towards the manticore.

"Oh great." Sighed Miroku.

"Mr. Shippo is a manticore supposed to get all big and start drooling green foam?" Questioned Dean as he started to back up while watching the changing manticore.

"No." Said Shippo.

"Okay then, just thought you'd like to know that it's doing that right now."

"What...I don't believe it, the thing has Shikon Jewel shards!"

"This very bad." Said Hermione as the manticore freed itself from its cage.

"Hermione that was an understatement!" Said Ron.

"A very big understatement!" Added Neville.

"Everyone get out of here now!" Ordered Shippo.

"No need to tell us that." Said Draco.

"Hmph...so you're still here Kagome, Harry, and Miroku?"

"Yes." Said Miroku as he took up a tense battle stance alonside Shippo.

"But I told you all to leave."

"We had to help you in any way that we could." Said Kagome.

"Figures, just try not to get killed!"

"Got ya Shippo." Said Miroku as he swung his staff upwards and cut a gash along the middle of the manticore's tail causing said moster to scream in pain.

"Harry do you know anything that could help us out here?" Asked Kagome as she cast a quick deflection spell to protect herself and Harry from the beast's now corrosive body fluids.

"Probably...STUPIFY!" Said Harry as he cast a spell at the monster only to irritate it.

"Well that just made it angry."

"No kidding...wait hey Harry read this scroll!" Said Shippo as he doged a bite from the manticore while taking a scroll from inside his robe and tossing it to the young wizard.

"...It's all in Japanese!" Said Harry.

"Here I'll help you out Harry." Said Kagome.

"Good...oh great it can regenerate." Said Miroku as he noticed the manticore's head reattach itself to the body after it was decapitated by Shippo.

"Duh you stupid priest." Snorted the fox demon.

"Any ideas?"

"IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!" Shouted Inuyasha as he slashed the manticore with his claws.

"Well that works."

"Inuyasha about time you got here." Grinned Shippo.

"Feh, the hag was holding me up." Said Inuyasha as he drew his blade.

"Ready?"

"Is Miroku a pervert?"

"Shut up Inuyasha and focus on the task at hand." Said Miroku as he glared at Inuyasha.

"Right, just a few more moments before I can add it's shards to the collection."

"Get it!" Yelled Shippo as he, Inuyasha, and Miroku hacked the manticore into pieces.

"Crap it's just reforming itself!"

"LOKI'S FRAGMENT!" Yelled Harry and Kagome as a yellowish-white light shot out of the tip of theri wands and impacted with the flesh of the monster, causing it turn into cubes.

"What just happened?" Asked Inuyasha.

"I had those two learn a spell which was designed stop anything from being reformed together again through any magical means." Explained Shippo.

"Wow, that was pretty cool." Said Kagome.

"Yeah, and just one more thing to do." Said Inuyasha as he dug into the manticore's skull and ripped out the jewel fragments, thus causing the cubed sections of the monsters flesh to dissolve into steaming brown puddles.

"I think I'm going to skip lunch today." Said Harry as he swallowed his rising bile.

"I'm with you all the way." Grimaced Kagome.

"Hmph, these shards stink." Growled Inuyasha as he sniffed the jewel shards.

"Well you did pull them from the skull of a mystical creature."

"Not in that way.....it smells like someone we have a score to settle with." Said Shippo as he sniffed the shards also.

"You don't mean..."

"Naraku."

A.N.-Sorry for the long update time folks.