The young priest interjected. "No she's not! She may be out of our control, but she does not yet have her powers back! She would need the Jewel of the-…"
"Demons," she finished for him. "And the only way to find it is in this sheath." She held it up. Strangely, an inner light began to glow from it. From the smooth, curving surface of wood and steel shone the outline of two dragons, facing one another. Between them was the image of a blazing pearl-shaped gem!
With a laugh, Tetsusaia dropped the sheath to the tree branch and plunged the point of the Tetsusaiga into the center of the image of the pearl. A great light shot from the point where the two met, and Tetsusaia's grinning face could be seen through the blinding shine. Suddenly, a wind sprang up, and out of the sky dropped a furiously spinning tornado of fire!
The blazing cyclone twisted and contorted, finally shrinking and shaping to form a small ball. The ball shone like fury and glowed like a thousand facets covered its smooth surface, reflecting the light of a thousand suns.
The ball fell to Tetsusaia's waiting hand. She gripped it with a determined look and beamed maliciously upon the onlookers: Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Shippou, and the three priests.
"And so, with this unseen yet foretold Jewel, I shall regain my lost soul and roam the earth once more." Tetsusaia grasped the gem as a whirlwind of light, color and sound spun about her. If one looked closely, one could possibly see a whitish, cloud-shaped thing being sucked out of her, and another being blown in. The exchange of souls was complete, and she dropped the Jewel of the Demons.
Her true form began to reveal itself. No more was she the temple girl of the brown hair and eyes and the blue, crane-decorated kimono. She was a startling, long, black-haired maiden with an outfit resembling Kaede's, with a blood-red shirt and black pants.
Her eyes blazed the red color demons often took on when enraged, and she lifted off the branch, hovering in the air. Her bare feet looked like they were on fire with purple flames dancing in the wind. But they had seen that before, in regards to Hiten of the Thunder Brothers and his spinning, flaming wheels that helped him fly.
Finally, her eyes softened to their true color, a royal purple, as she looked on the scene. "I see you are all dumbfounded. No matter. You three are now useless to me, I shall return you to your precious Inuyasha as thanks for your kindness, if not helpfulness, to me."
She lifted her hand and their bonds and gags fell to earth. Kagome, Shippou, and Miroku hopped down, though it was a pretty steep fall.
"Where did she go?" Shippou asked when they touched ground.
All looked up.
"Oh, she's off somewhere. Saw her chance and took it," Inuyasha explained.
"What about the Tetsusaiga?" Kagome inquired. Inuyasha looked around.
"Damn! She took the sheath! All she left was the sword!" he yelled.
"Isn't that the important part?" Miroku commented.
The priests were looking crestfallen. "I foreshadow that there is not much left of our village, now that she had been loose for this long." The young priest said, sadly.
"This long?! She's only been gone a few minutes!" Kagome pointed out.
"That is all it takes for a demon of her stature to reduce a small village such as ours to rubble," one priest commented.
"Well, let's take a look at the damage done," Inuyasha goaded.
They went back to the village. What they were expecting to see what peanuts compared to what the looked on at.