Disclaimer: My play on the title "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" by no means says that I own the rights to that movie. Neither do I own the rights to "The Giant Gila Monster".

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Chapter Fifteen - Crouching Poodle Hidden Gila Monster

Surprising as it was, everyone was welcomed without much question other than "Oh, so who might you be?" by Kagome's mother. Kouga, naturally giving off a sense of "grrr" wasn't welcome as warmly as AJ, Jessica, and Dianna were, but he was still welcomed. Dianna and AJ had showered, and were given new clothing. Jessica was in the shower at present.

"The next time we have money, we'll be sure to pay you for these," said AJ, pulling slightly on her shirt. Dianna was sitting in a corner, an angry expression on her face. She was whispering to Romeo in tones only she and her poodle heard. It paid to have poodle-like hearing when you wanted privacy. "I can't believe he did that," whispered the hanyou hotly, "that bloody damned pervert." "I don't think that's what he was after," Romeo replied, though there was a slight lack of confidence in his suggestion, he continued, "I think he just wanted to make her sure nothing happened to you." Dianna shot a glare at Romeo, "Weren't you supposed to be outside the door, being a nice little guard poodle?" Romeo's voice was defensive as he answered, "Well, hey! I just wanted to talk to Diamond and Wednesday! I didn't think the guy would just walk in!" Dianna looked over at "the guy", giving him a glare worth of the title "You will die. Trust me." The thing was, no matter what Romeo thought, Kouga had just walked in. Resulting in an ear-piercing scream, and him getting assulted by Dianna's clawed fists untill he was forced out the door, where he was greeted by looks of "Why the hell did yo do that?" by everyone in the room. He was now sitting in the opposite corner of Dianna, crosslegged and cross armed. He starred at her from his corner. Every so often his tail would twitch, and Dianna had to resist smiling (she thought the tail was cute). She turned her attention back to Romeo and said "Well, what would happen to me? Was he afraid I'd drown, or be attacked by a sewer octopus!" "Well... there was the time when you were little when you slipped and fell and it was a miracle you didn't break your back." answered Romeo, a small ammount of amusement crept into his voice. "That's not the point," she retorted.

"I wonder how long they're gonna stare eachother down like that," said AJ to Kagome. "Well," said Kagome, "I almost killed Inuyasha by yelled 'sit boy' the first time he walked in on me." "He did that?" inquired AJ. "Yeah," said Kagome, "I screamed because there was this little monkey that surprised me, and he came running." ((if that isn't the first time, please tell me, because that's the first time I remember)) It was at that moment when everyone heard a surprised cry of "WAHHHH!" comming from the bathroom. Dianna was disqualified from her starring contest when a worried AJ came and drug her off to check on Jessica with her. AJ burst through the door, dragging Dianna, then imidiatly shut it again. Jessica had a towel on, and the most insanely happy expression on her face. "Jessica, what's wro-" began AJ, then she shut up when she took a look at Jessica's hair. It was mottled with black spots, as if Jessica's hair was trying to hide itself in the mottled shade of a tree. Without warning, Jessica spun around and showed them her back (she kept the bottom part of the towel shut with her hands). Dianna meeped in surprise, AJ gasped. Her back was covered with black bands, which arranged themselves in random formations to give the appearance of spots within and around the bands. They continued up her heck, and gave her two stripes up each cheek ((sort of like Sesshoumaru, except they began at the bottom instead of the side, and they were black)). It extended up her shoulders, and down her arms. Her wrists and hands were almost completely covered by the black spots. According to Jessica, who had turned back around, her chest and stomache didn't have the markings, nor did her face other than the stripes. Her ankles and feet resembled her hands. Her claws had gotten slightly longer, and now curved to make talons rather than nails. Her feet had the talons too, so now wearing tennis shoes was not an option. Out of no where, Dianna asked "Are your teeth poisonous?" AJ looked at her like she was insane. Jessica just became even happier and said "YEAH!" She then opened her mouth to reveal that her K-9's were longer, and had a hollow in them for injecting poison. Jessica almost started jumping up and down, but AJ and Dianna reminded her that she was only in a towel. Then Jessica looked at Dianna, who looked back at her, and they both yelled at the same time "GILA MONSTER!" AJ looked at them for a moment, so very confused. Then she said, "What are you talking about! Jessica might have freakin' leprosy!" Dianna and Jessica differentiated in AJ in that they were both animal buffs. They both wanted to be veterinarians, so they both watched animal and nature shows and the like. So they recognized the markings right away to be that of a gila monster. "No," said Jessica, "haven't you ever seen a gila monster before!" AJ thought for a moment, then said, "I once watched this dorky old black and white horror movie called 'The Giant Gila Monster'." Then a thought struck her, "Why are you part lizard! Dianna turned into a poodle Hanyou. You own a dog too, why are you a gila monster!" Dianna replied, "Who knows? But maybe it has to do with the fact that most of all the gila monsters are found in the uninhabited regions of the Arizona desert. That and the fact that the movie 'The Giant Gila Monster' was set in Texas, both of which she has lived. Though I don't know what the movie has to do with anything." After a bit, Jessica shoo'd them away so she could actually take her shower.

When AJ and Dianna went back into the living room, they were bombarded by questions from everyone except Kouga and Inuyasha ((Feh, who cares?" :3)). "Jessica turned into a Hanyou, too!" yelled Dianna. That got Kouga's and Inuyasha's attention. "I thought I smelled change throughout her body," said Diamond, though nobody could hear. Finally, Kagome asked, "What type is she?" Dianna answered "Gila monster." Then she had to explain it to everybody because nobody in the house had ever heard of one ((they are in Japan, you know)). Then Dianna heard Kouga say "Humph. Another hanyou. I feel I'm being invaded." "Hey," she yelled at him (she was still mad at him), "at least she can defend herself an whole damn of a lot better than before! So you won't ever have to stop me from saving her, seeing as you never let me out of your sight anyway! EVEN WHEN I'M DOING SOMETHING AS PERSONAL AS SHOWERING! YOU PERVERT!" At that point, Kouga shot up and said "I'M NOT A PERVERT, YOU HALF BITCH!" "Then what were you doing!" the poodle girl yelled. "Making sure nothing happened!" he retorted, almost snarling. "MAKING SURE WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN! ME GETTING ATTACKED BY RADIOACTIVE SEWER GATORS?"

It went on like that for a while. At one point, AJ turned to the rest of them (who were watching from the sidelines) and said "Man, it's like they're married or somethin'." Kagome's grandfather laughed and said, "No. Not really." "Why not, grampa?" asked Sota. Sota and Shippou had come inside when the yelling started. "Well, if they were married, the girl would've ended their argument with 'See how much action you're going to get now, buddy!'." "Grampa!" Kagome said, shocked. Shippou and Sota looked at eachother, then Sota looked at his mom and said "What action won't he get?" The woman shot a glare at her father and said "I'm sure you'll figure that out on your own, when you get married. Not before." AJ considered what the old man said, and thought it to be true. Instead of the grandfather's ending, Kouga ended his half of the argument by "BITCH!" while Dianna ended hers with "PERVERT!" It was at that moment that Jessica came back out. She was wearing a japanese style clothing instead of her rather smelly clothing from America that she arrived in. Dianna and AJ were wearing the same type of outfit. It was a silky, flowy shirt with siky, flowing pants. Dianna's was white based, but had pink and orange flowers all over. AJ's was black based, and had red, pink, and white flowers all over. Jessica's was a smoky grey/almost silver based, with vines and small white flowers going up and down. It matched rather well with her new markings. All three girls had a belt that matched the outfit to tie the shirt down to their bodies so they wouldn't get in the way during fight. All together, they looked pretty darn good. Dianna's hair was up in a japanese bun (the type with the two spikes holding the bun in place), because Kagome's mother had found the two hair spikes and decided Dianna's long hair was perfect to play with. AJ had two "meatballs" for her hair style. Jessica had put her hair in a half pony tail while it was still wet.

After a bit of goodbyes, growls (from Dianna and Kouga), and thank you's for the food and clothing, everyone retreated back to the well to meet with Miroku, Sango, and Kilala.