Nez: Today's chapter is taking off with tons of back story to it, just to warn you.

Fish: ...and she doesn't own Inu-Yasha, or any characters or character concepts from it.

Nez: -elbows Fish- SHHH! That was for the end!

Fish: Sorry!

Nez: -growls- Feh.

Part Twenty: A Demonic Discovery

"WAKE UP!" a harsh voice yelled. Nehszriah tried to open her eyes, but they were too heavy. Her wrists and ankles were in shackles. She heard the crack of a bullwhip and a searing pain erupted in her bare side that made her grimace.

"Come on, open your eyes. We know you're awake," another voice sounded. This one, unlike the one from before, was female and smooth. Nehszriah was able to get her left eye open enough to see through a blur. There, in front of her, were two Slytherin students from her Potions class, Rodolphus Lestrange and Bellatrix Black.

"What in all the hells do you two want?" Nehszriah growled. Her other eye opened and her muscles tensed, readying for a fistfight.

"Oh, nothing from you really," Rodolphus sneered, cracking the whip in the air, his dark hair gleaming in the faint light.

"Then why do you keep me here? I am of no value to you like this... unless you want target practice with those Unspeakable Curses of yours."

"Oh, why you are of value to us, my dear," Bellatrix laughed. "You are our bait for those idiot friends of yours."

"Don't you DARE lay a single finger or curse on any of them, you hear?!"

"Too bad," Rodolphus said.

"Yes, we want my cousin Sirius dead. He has defied us long enough."

"Then why take me?!"

"Easy, my idiot relative will come, wanting his pet's best friend back. He will have your egghead lover, the Potter boy, Evans, that scrawny thing you came in with, those odd girls..."

"...and your point?"

"You will speak when spoken to!" Rodolphus yelled, punching Nehszriah in the face. Her cheekbone shattered and she hacked up blood.

"Anyways, we shall kill, what? Ten birds with one stone? You all are a thorn in the Dark Lord's side that has to be pulled permanently. We so happened to volunteer to finish the job right here and now."

"Dark Lord?" Nehszriah spat. Blood flowed from her mouth, dripping down her near-bare front and the leg of her pants. "What idiot is that, who dares call himself the 'Dark Lord'? He is a fool."

Rodolphus punched her in the gut, sending more blood from her mouth, splattering onto the ground. "Do not belittle our Lord! He has powers beyond your wildest dreams! You could never hold a candle to his greatness!"

"That's enough, if you push her too hard, we will have nothing to lure the rest with," Bellatrix said calmly, putting her hand on her partner's shoulder.

"I don't care, push me! Just don't harm my friends!"

"Yours isn't going to be the only sacrifice tonight, girl."

Nehszriah started to laugh.

"Who ever said anything about the damn sacrifice being mine?" The moonlight from outside crept across the floor and eventually poured over Nehszriah, who took it all in. "Tonight's the night of the full moon and I doubt you want know what happens to me then."

Lestrange and Black stepped back, eyes wide.

"You aren't a werewolf, are you?"

"Even better, my good Rodolphus. A special type of demon, a very special dog demon," Nehszriah chuckled. She threw her head back and howled. When her face was once again visible to the young Deatheaters, her eyes had turned a fierce yellow, two purple stripes ran across both cheeks, more of the same appeared on her arms and a blue crescent moon lay upon her forehead. A ring of red surrounded each of her now animal eyes and her ears were pointed. Fangs protruded from her wretched smile that made it all the more fearsome to behold. She broke the weak shackles, sending metal shrapnel in every direction.

"What the...? Shit! We can't take her on!" Bellatrix yelled.

"What the hell are you?!?!"

"Like I said before, I'm a dog demon."

- - -

"I wonder where Nehszriah is," Tsuki said softly over the pages of her Rice novel. She, the Muffins and Maraurders were all in the common room relaxing after a hard day of school. Remus had disappeared to the Shrieking Shack and everyone was naturally tense.

"Where is she!?" Sirius yelled, smashing his fist into the table. "She better not have gone off to see that wolf or I'll..."

"You'll what? What would you do to me Padfoot?" Nehszriah growled, limping into the room. Caked in dried blood of herself and others, she carried her many shirts in her right arm while using the left to stand against the wall. She was still transformed into the demonic form, but with many cuts and bruises.

"Out having fun I see?" Fuf said calmly, not even looking up from her own book. "You really have to stop disappearing like that, it gets on our nerves."

"Blame Sirius's bitch cousin and that boyfriend of hers. They want us dead and thought using me as bait would work."

"Umm... why are you... so different?" Lily asked as she put her arm around Nehszriah to help her to a seat. All Nehszriah could do was laugh.

"She placed a curse on herself, so that every full moon, she turns into a dog demon," Fish-chan explained. "On my birthday, I turn into a fish-demon respectively."

"That's right, I'm a monster," Nehszriah laughed. She laughed until she passed out from fatigue and the others had to drag her upstairs before the first years found her. The Muffins, Lily and Fish-chan noticed though, that they were getting tired of dragging Nehszriah up to the dorm, but did it anyways, otherwise risk getting into trouble.

Adam: I always hated Sessho-maru.

Nez: Sitzen Junge. –Adam falls to floor- You are not to question my choice in anime bishies.

Fish: Still, you could have written that better.

Nez: -has demon moment- Grr...

Fish: Crap... -runs away-

Yes, I don't know why, but my AOL was going haywire the day I put up nineteen, so the reviews for eighteen, even Fuf's, were gone. I hate dial- up. It sucks. –wallows in self pity- Yeah, for all of you who don't know what went on earlier, I turned into a female version of Sessho-maru, a character from the Inu-Yasha anime/manga series. I did have some sort of shirt on too... for all of you that were curious. (You sick bastards.) As I am typing on this Sunday afternoon, hoping this will go up late tonight or tomorrow, ideas for the next chapters are brewing and cultivating (yes, like coffee and mold) in my head. This entire chapter above was typed during my [adultswim] Saturday anime lineup, so Inu-Yasha anime did have an influencing figure here. (As well as Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop and Trigun, but they had much more minor roles... for now... -grins-) Zan is coming, Zan is coming, HIDE! –ducks underneath computer desk in WWII fashion- -Dad walks by, shaking head in shame- -Nez pops up- That was close! -Dad is worried about daughter's sanity- . Umm... yeah. Muffins, once you return to this world of pixels and htmls, read and review, so I know you're alive... all reviews are being answered next chapter... I'm rambling. Wow. Bye!