"What kind of pose is that?" Koga laughed.
"Martial arts my friend... Now, you going to attack, or not?"
He growled and ran after me, yelling the whole way. I sighed and stepped to the side but my foot remained, tripping the charging youkai and sending him head into a tree.
"You know, you should really yell when you charge, the element of surprise works much better." I laughed.
He growled and got up, not even bothering to wipe the bark off his face before springing at me again.
I did a back hand spring and clipped him in the jaw with my heal, sending him tumbling through the air. Before he hit the ground, I tapped into my flying ability and met him, slamming joined fists into his back and sending him into a twenty foot crater. While he lay in the crater, I stood on its edge, looking down at the already beaten wolf.
"Is that challenging enough for ye?" I taunted.
He picked himself up, snickering. "I'm just getting started."
"Well, this should be interesting." I resumed my fighting stance as he bolted out of the pit and into the air; his shard enhanced legs gave his a huge advantage. But I was mostly cat, giving me a better advantage. I twisted backwards, bending into a hand stand with my chubby legs splitting to the front and back of me.
He tried for a flying kick, but my agile legs caught his ankle, stopping him in midair. And with a swift movement, I sprung forwards, flinging him into the ground. Following my momentum, I did another handspring and round off to meet him.
"Had enough?" I asked, putting my hand on my violet hips.
"Not at all." Koga wiped some blood from his chin and smirked, springing into the air again.
"It's the same thing with you anime characters, not a unique thought in your head." I shook my head pitifully.
He roared, coming down on my like a meteor with a glowing fist. I had seen that before, and it was dangerous.
I stepped aside and with a sidewise kick, nailed him in the ribs. I swore I heard the cracking of bone when my feline foot connected.
Koga rolled on the ground, laying on his stomach sprawled in the dirt and coughing up blood.
"Oops, I think I was too much of a challenge." I stood there, tail swaying slowly behind me, large black ears perked.
"Koga!" Kagome rushed to his side.
"Aw come on! You're not going to tell me you still have sympathy for wolf turd!" InuYasha cried.
I floated over, "Is he alright? I think I might've broken some ribs when I kicked him."
"I'm fine!" Koga growled, attempting to get up. He hollered in pain and fell again, not being able to use his left arm.
"I believe he broke his arm... Sorry dude." I shrugged and sat down, crossing my arms and legs. "You started it." I snorted.
Kagome shot me a look.
"What! He did start it." I pouted.
"Go get the first aid kit." She ordered.
"Fine, fine, I'll go get it." I muttered as I floated away, rummaging through her large yellow back and retrieving the large white box. "Here." I gave it to her. "So what's the damage?"
"Well, it seems that most of your assumptions're right. But his head is bleeding badly, must've been when you slammed him into the ground."
"Which time?" I snickered.
She shot me another dirty look.
"Alright, geese, I'll go sit down." I walked back over to InuYasha and sat down, mumbling something about it being all Koga's fault.
"That was quite a display of skill there, Master Krizpie." Mioga had jumped onto my shoulder.
"Ahh! Flea!" I smashed him. "I hate fleas..."
"That was Mioga you just squished." InuYasha pointed out.
"I know. I just don't like fleas."
He gave me a weird look.
Mioga cleared his throat. "As I was saying, that was quite some display of skill. Where'd you learn the moves?"
"T.V." I smirked, "And me own head." Nods.
"T.V.?" He was confused.
"Something from Kagome's time, don't worry about it."
"And you came up with them?"
"Sure did, you see, anime characters seem to be dumb, not stupid, just dumb. I know how to strategize, I use my head." I poked myself in the temple.
"What about your strength? I heard you cracked Koga's ribs with a single kick. Is it the shard helping you?"
"I don't believe so; I honestly don't know what the shard's there fer."
"That's strange, usually a shard piece enhances you natural abilities."
"I wish I had a calendar." I randomly states.
"A calendar! What does that have anything to do with the shard?" InuYasha yelled in my ear.
"Absolutely nothing, I just want to know what today is and when there's a new moon."
"New moon? Why's that?" InuYasha seemed worried.
I got up in his face with a wry smile. "Because I know things..."
"Why kind of things?" He asked the worried tone still in his voice.
"Just things, my friends, just things." I backed away and climbed a tree, nestling comfortably on a low hanging limb.
"Hey! What's that suppose to mean!" He yelled up at me.
"I know something you don't!" I taunted in a singsong voice.
He growled, "What is it!"
"Shh! It's a secret!" And I looked around real paranoid like.
"What secret?" He demanded.
"Yooooouuuurrrrr Secreeeet!!" I sang.
"My secret?"
"Hai! You're secret!" I yawned. "Now drop it, it ain't important enough." And leaned again the tree's rough bark and looked at the stars. InuYasha sat at the base of my tree and did the same. A peaceful feeling came over me, I stopped thinking and smiled. It was just me and the stars. A cool wind blew my spiky hair and ruffled what fur was exposed. My tail flicked idly as I blinked slowly.
At the far end of the Earth, the moon poked its shiny head over the tree line. And excitement came over me, and filled me with an intense energy. My tail started to wag furiously and my tongue lolled from my mouth. The obi Kagome had made me started to fit weird, my head feeling more angular and streamline. The fur on my body thickened and my overall form shrunk.
The obi fell from my body and I leaped from the tree branch and onto the ground, landing gracefully on slick, blackish-blue forepaws. I looked at the group, I was full canine now, wolf mostly, so Koga gave me a certain interest but I ignored it.
The moon was large, its face a perfect sphere. Leaping onto a large rock I sat and howled into the night sky. There was a total feeling of freedom this night as my wolven form came out in full. Looking at the others, my eyes still the same colors; I jumped away and into the forest, ignoring the sense of helplessness. I dodged the thick trees and burst out on the other side of the thin forest, stopping at the cliff that surrounded it and overlooked Kaede's small village.
I howled in to the night again, the pure sense of freedom filling my body. The little village was peaceful, and small, it looked helpless as well. I jumped off the cliff, enabling my flying ability and floating down to the village. I didn't know what it was, but it felt like there was danger coming.
Back at the camp, the others were confused and shocked. I had just turned into a wolf and ran away and without warning.
"What the hell just happened?" InuYasha looked to the others.
"I don't know, but it sure was unexpected." Miroku was sitting against a log sipping sake.
"That was Master Krizpie, was it not?" Mioga hopped onto Shippo's shoulder.
"Yes, it was, she turned into a wolf and ran away." Shippo answered the flea.
"Well then, did she not say she was part wolf, part fox, and part feline?" He inquired.
"Yeah, so?" InuYasha scratched his cheek.
"Well, you turn into a human during your time, maybe during the full moon, she turns into a wolf."
"Yeah! I see, since she's only part wolf, then she must turn into a wolf. Do you think there's other days when she's a fox and a cat?" Shippo asked.
"I'm not sure; this demoness is new to me." Mioga shook his head.
Koga was resting next to Kagome against a tree. He was listening, but not intently. "I bet she does." He grunted. "You never know, she might turn into a fox in the morning, or a cat during the new moon."
"I don't think that's likely, how weird would it be if she turned into a cat while I was human?" The Hanyou snorted.
"Hey, it's possible." The wolf youkai shrugged.
Kaede was surprised when I padded into her hut, purple tongue lolling from my angular muzzle; bushy tail wagging behind me.
"Who're ye? Did ye come here from the forest?"
I barked and whimpered, sitting down next to the hearth burning in the center of the room.
"Ye look familiar, do I know ye?"
I growled and crawled over to her, gazing intently at her.
She spotted my mismatched eyes and gasped. "Krizpie? Is that ye?"
I barked.
"How did ye get that way?"
I ran outside and howled, sitting, facing the moon.
She followed and looked up then nodded. "Ah, I see the moon. Ye must only part demon. And during this stage of the moon, ye turn into a wolf."
I shook my head, it looked as if I was wet and trying to get the water off me.
"No? But that must be it. Unless was a spell or something to that effect."
I shook my head again and barked.
"What is it?"
The scent was close, the rumbling chattering my bones. I could feel it; it was evil, and not friendly. I howled into the night, loud, low, and mournful.
Koga turned his head towards Kaede's village in his sitting position.
"What is it Koga?" Kagome looked around.
"I heard a howl, it sounded urgent."
"I don't know what you're talking about, sit down and shut up." InuYasha snorted from across the campfire.
"No, it could be one of my wolves. But didn't sound like my clan. I've got to go check it out." He stood up and winced, coughing some.
"You can't, you're in terrible shape." Kagome tried to coax him out of it.
"It's my duty as pack leader, I must go." With his shard enhanced speed, he left in his signature cyclone.
"Shouldn't we follow him?" Sango stood up.
"I think we should, I feel and evil aura coming this way." Miroku was quick to follow.
Shippo jumped to Kagome's shoulder who in turn jumped onto InuYasha's back. The trio took off.