Last time: Michelle acted smart for once and realized that Enzeru was going to bring all of their crew together and kill them. And Charlie realized something else. He realized that he was in love with Kay.

Chapter 11: Kikyo's Proposition

Charlie practically flew through the forest after Sesshomaru left. Kay asked if he could slow down a bit, but he just laughed and shook his head. About an hour before nightfall Charlie quickly went to a stop, almost sending Kay flying over him and into a snow bank.

"What the hell was that for?" Kay yelled at Charlie, looking rather strange with her hair swinging all over the place and snow falling on her.

"I'm sorry, but there is a demon around here," Charlie explained.

"What? A demon?" Kay asked, looking around. Sure enough she sensed the demon... wait... She sensed the demons! "There's more than one!" Kay said, looking around. She slid off of Charlie's back and took a few steps forward and took out her sword and stuck the blanket that she had in her backpack that was nicely put on her back. She dropped the bag and looked around, and Charlie came up next to her, holding his sword.

"Oh look! It's a wimpy girl and her stupid dog!" yelled another disembodied voice.

"I know that voice," Kay said.

"Isn't that Katakoutai or Koubakoutai?" Charlie asked.

"It's both!" Koubakoutai yelled appearing in front of them. Kay used her sword to swipe at her, but missed, barely. The flames on her sword seemed to burn her tan tunic, but nothing really happened. Charlie growled and ran towards Koubakoutai, trying to hit her as she blocked the attacks with her claws, her green eyes gleaming with malice.

Kay turned around and saw Katakoutai, her slutty dress and all. "Aren't you cold with that thing?" Kay asked, running at her, trying to hit her with her sword.

"You get used to it after a while," Katakoutai said, blocking Kay's attacks with her claws also.

Charlie, finally getting fed up with trying to hit Koubakoutai, and just brought his sword down to the ground in one heavy strike, yelling, "Fukahi!" How he knew the words to say with it, he didn't even know. But whatever. It looked a lot like the wind scar, except it was black and seemed to have fire burning where it had been.

Koubakoutai got hit full blast with the attack and was sent flying to the ground. She slowly got up and growled, and jumped over to Kay to help her sister.

Suddenly, before Kay could do anything, the two sisters sent their claws in a furious attack at Kay, swiping at her repeatedly with fists and claws, and once they were finished she was sent flying towards the ground, landing in a pile of snow, unconscious.

"Kay!" Charlie yelled before running towards her and stopping by her side, kneeling down. She looked over her and gasped. She looked pretty bad, bruises and cuts all over her body. The blood started to stain the white snow red and Charlie growled, his bangs covering his eyes. He turned to look at Katakoubai and Koutakoutai, growling like he had to be heard over a crowd at a Green Day concert.

The twins gasped as he looked at him, and for good reason, too. Charlie's claws had elongated and his fangs had grown sharper and longer. On his forehead was a marking like Sesshomaru's, and it was a black sun. Coming from his left eye was a black triangular marking that went down to the same height as the bottom of his nose. Though, the most fearsome part were his eyes. The irises were red and the whites of his eyes had become black.

"I think the dog learned a new trick," Katakoutai said, backing up and holding her hands out in front of her. Her sister did the same, but they both started running as Charlie ran towards them, growling and holding out his claws. He jumped in front of them and started slashing away with his claws, making blood splatter all over on the ground.

Charlie used his claws once more and stopped, standing in the snow. The twins stood there and then fell to the ground, blood flying all over the place. Charlie blinked and he went back to normal and looked at his hands.

"They're covered in blood..." Charlie said to himself, looking at the bloody hands that dripped on the ground. Charlie suddenly jolted and looked over to Kay. "Kay!"

Charlie looked her over and went to get her backpack and put that on, and then went over to Kay and picked her up bridal style. He ran through the forest, speeding past the trees so fast that someone who would happen to be looking at him as he passed, he would hardly be a blur.

He slowed down when he reached a village and he stopped in front of a person who gasped at the unconscious girl in the demon's arms.

"Where's a priestess?" Charlie yelled at the person.

The man pointed a shaky finger to a hut in the middle of the town and Charlie ran to it quickly. He ran in the building and looked around to see a priestess taking care of a man sitting on the floor, holding out his arm.

"Please, help!" Charlie yelled, making the priestess look up quickly.

"Oh! Put her on the cot. I'll be there in just a second," the priestess said as she finished tying up the man's wound.

Charlie went over to the cot and laid Kay on there and scooted back. The priestess came over to Kay and started working on her wounds. The priestess was very pretty, but much shorter than Kay. About a head shorter than her. The priestess had black hair that was very straight and the priestess kept it down, and her eyes were brown. She looked like any other person, except pretty. She also wore the normal priestess attire and sandals.

"You might want to turn around, demon," the priestess said.

Charlie blushed and nodded. "Yeah! Sure. And my name is Charlie," said the demon.

"I am Suki," the priestess said as she undressed Kay to dress her wounds. That's sort of ironic... "Hm... Strange..."

"What?" Charlie asked, not turning around.

"She has strange clothing on over her breasts," the priestess commented.

"Oh... We're not from around here. She might be wearing things that aren't familiar to you," Charlie said, blushing at what the priestess said.

"I see," said the priestess as she finished dressing the wounds. "Oh, I don't have a spare blanket."

"I have one," Charlie said, taking off the backpack and digging through it. He pulled out the blanket that Kay wrapped around herself to keep herself warm and gave it to the priestess.

"Thank you, Charlie," she said, smiling. "You may turn around now."

Charlie turned around and looked at Kay. Her hair was undone and the ribbon was laying next to her head on the cot. Charlie scooted forward and sat next to Kay, watching her as she slept.

Suki watched Charlie as he watched Kay and she smiled. "You love her, don't you?" Suki asked.

Charlie jolted and turned around, blushing.

Suki laughed and smiled brightly. "I'll take that as a yes." Suki walked over to Charlie and knelt down next to him, looking at Kay.

"She's very pretty. She has a very exotic look about her," Suki said, crossing her legs to get comfortable.

"Yeah, she is," Charlie said, leaning on his hand as his arm rested on his leg.

"How long have you known her?" Suki asked.

"A long time... About half of a year after I was born. Though, I had a spell cast on me recently, and that's why I'm like this," Charlie explained.

"You were a human before?" Suki asked.

"No. I was a dog."

"A dog?" Suki exclaimed, looking at him carefully.

"Yup."

"So, that means that she was the one who fed you and took care of you?" Suki asked.

"Well, actually, her mom did most of that, but yeah."

"Wow." Suki watched Kay for a while and then stood up. "This weather... It's so weird. I've been getting many people coming here to have me help them with their illnesses."

"I bet. Kay thinks that it is a demon doing that," Charlie said.

"Who?" Suki asked. Charlie pointed to Kay. "Ah. Well, she might be right."

Suki walked outside and left Charlie to stay with Kay, and soon she came in with a whole family, they were coughing and sneezing, and a child didn't look very good at all.

"I'm not going to stay in here with a demon!" a man, probably the father, said.

"It's all right, sir. He's perfectly harmless. I spoke to him for a while before you came here. He brought in that girl to get her help," Suki said.

"He probably attacked her!" the woman exclaimed.

"If I attacked her, why would I bring her in here to get help?" Charlie asked, raising an eyebrow.

The family thought for a moment and shrugged. He sighed and turned back to Kay, watching her sleep soundly. She breathed in deeply and exhaled, groaning a little bit. Suddenly she went into a coughing fit and Charlie became very worried, but she stopped after a while and opened her eyes.

"Kay! You're awake!" Charlie exclaimed, startling the priestess in the other side of the room. The priestess smiled and walked over to Kay, picking up something from the fire on the way.

"You should drink this," Suki said, handing Kay a cup of green looking crap.

"This is Suki," Charlie said, introducing the priestess to Kay.

"I don't care who she is, I want to know i what /i this is!" Kay said, pointing to the bowl of green goo in it.

"That is a special mixture of herbs that will help your wounds heal," Suki explained, bowing to Kay before going over to the family of people.

Kay took a sip of the stuff and then spit it out, sending it all over the room. "Drink it all, please," Suki said, not even turning to see what had happened. Kay looked at Suki like she was crazy, but didn't say anything and started to drink the nasty stuff. Charlie just watched her, amazed that she could drink something so horrible.

- - -

Over the next few days Kay had gotten the flu, and even though it only lasted 36 hours, it was bad. Kay was sweating like crazy and puking out anything she ate outside the priestess' hut, happy that she put up her hair before. Kay soon got better, and so did her wounds, and soon enough they were well enough to leave. They thanked Suki for the hospitality and left, traveling by foot through the village.

Not wanting to be carried, Kay walked on foot as they went through the forest, and amazingly a path was cleared, and if some snow had piled up, Kay would use her new fire power to clear whatever snow was in their way. She also used the fire to keep herself sort of warm, and wondered why she hadn't thought of that earlier.

Soon, through the thick snow Kay saw a figure, and Charlie could smell 'bones and graveyard soil'.

"That must be Kikyo," Kay said, stopping in her place. Charlie stopped also and watched as the dead priestess neared them.

Soon the priestess was only a few feet away and she finally stopped.

"In your hands is fire," the priestess said.

No way, Kay thought sarcasticly before saying, "Yes... it was a gift of power from a demon."

"I see," said the priestess.

"Kikyo, I--" Kay started before she was interrupted.

"How do you know my name?" Kikyo asked.

"I just do," Kay said. Kikyo obviously didn't remember much of the encounter after eating those morels.

"I have seen you before. Tell me, what are the names of you both," Kikyo demanded.

"I am Charlie, and this is Kay," Charlie said, pointing to each of them.

Kikyo looked sort of surprised. "I've heard rumors about you. Are you the strange demon who was a dog before a curse was set apron you?" Charlie nodded. "I know a way I can help you."

"Help me for what?" Charlie asked.

"I can return your former body to you," Kikyo said bluntly.

Charlie was stunned. He was silent for a minute and then said, "Really?"

Kikyo nodded. "You do not have to answer now. If you want to become what you once were, come and find me." Kikyo started to leave by walking past them.

Kay stopped her by saying, "Do you know where InuYasha and the others are? They were kidnapped by a demon. It was one of Naraku's incarnations... Can you sense a demon?"

Kikyo stopped and stayed facing where she was, not looking at the young girl. "Yes. Continue going the way you are. Keep going straight. You will find them," Kikyo said before she started walking again, leaving the two behind.

"Thank you, Kikyo," Kay said before turning around and accepting Charlie's offer of riding on his back. They set off into the blizzard.

Kikyo let out a sigh and looked ahead at nothing in particular. "InuYasha, I hope that girl can save you... You might be in trouble..."

- - -

"Enzeru! What are you doing here?" InuYasha yelled at the demon as she entered the room.

"I have all the right to be here. I am holding you hostage," Enzeru said.

"Shut up!" Michelle yelled at the demoness.

Enzeru put her hands close together, holding them in a circle shape. Her wings flew open as wind began to go around in the room, making everyone's hair fly.

Soon, the demon had a small ball of white energy, and it soon became large and blinding light filled the room, making all of them close their eyes.

Next Chapter: Kay and Charlie seem to have finally found the group, but something is wrong. What did Enzeru do to them?

Kay: This story is slowly getting darker!

Michelle: Yay!

Kay: Yay!

Michelle: Yay!

Kay: Yay!

Michelle: Kay is a moron. You know what? I'm going to call you Gay now.

Kay: You do and you die.

Michelle: Hey, Gay!

Kay: All right, Bitchelle.

Michelle: Never mind then.

InuYasha: I forgot the next chapter name...

Kay: It's Death of an Angel...