Chapter 7

The eight dragons landed in front of the group. Pauru changed from dragon to human.

"Tetsu, what are you doing here?"

"Pauru, I can't let you destroy them."

"You have no say in the matter."

"Let's just get this over with.", Inuyasha said, irritated, and readying his sword.

"Fine, it's your funeral.", Pauru said, as she changed back into her dragon form, "FIRE ATTACK!", she screamed out.

Inuyasha stepped in front of his sons and placed Tessaiga in front of himself, to withstand the attack. The fire whipped around them, though, without hitting the Tessaiga. That's when Inuyasha realized that Tetsu had placed a barrier around all of them. Inuyasha attacked, yelling out,

"WIND SCAR!"

Not being a magic spell, Pauru was unable to block the attack and one dragon succumbed to the attack.

"DAMN YOU, HALF-DEMON! YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!"

"DRAGON STRIKE!", she yelled out her next attack, as waves of fire came towards them.

"I'm not strong enough to block that attack.", Tetsu yelled to Inuyasha and the others, so Inuyasha again placed his sword infront of everybody. Straining to hold his sword in place, Inuyasha successfully held off the attack. Yasha and Hiroshi prepared their attacks as the fire came towards them,

"TORNADO STRIKE!", Yelled Yasha.

"FIRE WAVE", Yelled Hiroshi.

Combining their attacks sent a fire tornado swirling towards the dragons. Without them knowing it, Kaori and Kohana combined forces and added magic elements to the attack. The force of the four attacks took down another 2 dragons.

"That attack won't work again, mother.", Kohana said, knowing that the dragons would block another attack from their magic.

"I know,", Kagome said, "Kaori, come with me."

"Where are we going?", Kaori said.

"To the dragons lair."

"WHERE? You're not serious?"

"Yes I am. I want to discover where the oracle is and the mirror. If we can get it before the dragons do we can prevent them from doing any harm."

"But mother, they don't want it for harm, according to Tetsu,", Kohana started to say

"Something as powerful as that mirror, I don't trust it in the hands of the dragons, I'm sorry, Kohana."

Saying that, she and Kaori got on a horse and rode out across the pasture. Banking on the dragon's limited eyesight, Kagome directed the horse around where she figured a dragon could see. Then she took off, towards the lair.

Inuyasha witnessed Kagome's leaving and worried immediately about her. 'Where is she going?', he thought. But, he knew he had to keep the dragons' occupied to avoid them noticing Kagome and Kaori's escape.

"ADAMANT BARRAGE!", He sent out another attack that the dragons weren't expecting. The diamond shards took down another 3 dragons. Only 2 remained. Pauru and another dragon. But the dragons decided to count their losses. Pauru wasn't expecting the half-demons to be this strong to be able to withstand her fire attacks.

'Damn that half-demon, he's stronger than I knew. Where does he get that demonic power?', she wondered, "RETREAT!", she called to the other dragon, "I'll deal with you later, half-demon.", she said as she started to fly away. She was gone before he had a chance to attack again.

"Bitch! I have to go after her.", Inuyasha said.

"Why? She retreated. You should be glad.", said Tetsu.

"Kagome took off with Kaori. I have a feeling they're on their way to the den."

"But, why would they do that?", asked Yasha, now worried about his mother.

"I sensed the aura of the jewel. C'mon Yasha, let's go."

Kagome and Kaori arrived at the den. With Kaori using her sense of smell, they avoided ather dragons. Kagome used the jewel's senses to discover the room with the pedestal in it. The jewel shined brightly as they entered the room.

"What do we do now?", asked Kaori.

Kagome searched and saw a book on a table beside the pedestal. Thumbing through it, she realized it was a magic book. Unfortunately, she couldn't understand the language.

"This must be in Dragon Youkai language."

"Great. So what do we do now?", asked Kaori again.

"I don't know."

"You give me the jewel and watch.", came a voice from behind them. They both turned and were face to face with Pauru.

"Thank you for bringing the jewel to me."

Kagome and Kaori looked for a place to escape, but the only way out was blocked by dragons.

'Damn.', though Kagome. Pauru looked at Kagome,

"Your mate killed 6 of my best dragons. Now you will pay for that."

A couple of human looking dragons grabbed Kagome and Kaori. Searching Kaori, they found the jewel. Pauru took the jewel and placed it on the pedestal. Chanting in Dragon Youkai language, she began the magic spell.

"Rwughy Krawf Noprater Onitolik Harwugh.", she chanted as the pearl began to glow a bright purple color. Pauru continued to chant. The jewel turned bright red.

"AhAh. The oracle is in the fire mountains. The oracle will lead me to the mirror. And when I have the mirror I will rule all the world."

Masai looked at her, "I thought you wanted it for Tadashi, to change him into a dragon so you can be together."

"Do you think Tadashi wants to be a simple dragon? NO! He wants power! We will rule together. Take care of these two. They will be my servants!"

Masai stared at Kagome and Kaori and then back to Pauru, "Certainly, you don't want us to use the ...

"Yes, I do. Use them. And they will be my servants forever!"