The Witch- Sticks and Bridges

I don't own Inu Yasha or an of the characters but I do own the character I put in the story but I don't own her powers the people that invented Charmed do seeing as it theirs powers.

Hey everyone!

I hope ur new went well!

Lol would u believe that im sick AGAIN? I must have like the worst immune system ever. Lol

Inu Yasha: u should have that checked out

Yean im going to the doctor in a few days. Gah im so tired

Inu Yasha: ur sick wat do u expec- OMFG UR SICK AGAIN! – hides-

Y r u hiding?

Inu Yasha: cuz u freaking infected me last time! I didn't like being sick, bleh!

Well that's wat u get for being mean to me last time I was sick!

Inu Yasha: I WASN'T MEAN U WENCH!

-coughs on him- hmph!

Inu Yasha: EWWWWW NOT AGAIN! – starts coughing- damn u…- though it comes out like "damb ub"-

HAHAHHAHA- coughing fit- bleh…

Anywho on with the story, please be sure to read the authors note at the end!

RECAP

Suddenly, a red spark of light surged towards me from where the men were supposedly standing. Or crouching. I couldn't see them.

I dodged the spark with a shriek and before I could orb or run a second came at me. And a third and a fourth. I amazingly dodged them all and hightailed it out of there. I was screaming my friends names at the top of my lungs, which is hard to do when you're running through a forest.

When I finally reached the end of the forest, I literally threw myself out of it. As soon as I got out, something grabbed me into a hug. I realized it was Inu Yasha, with Kagome next to him.

"What happened? Selena, are you okay?" Kagome asked,

"I-i…" I stuttered. I suddenly found that I couldn't speak. I was too winded to try. I felt my knees give out beneath me. Inu Yasha slowly guided me down and kneeled next to me. Kagome sat behind me as he leaned me against her chest.

"I'll go see what scared her so bad. If I don't find anything, I'll come straight back." He said right before he jumped in the canopy of the trees. Sango and Miroku came jogging up, with Kirara, Shippo, and Kohaku behind them.

"What happened?" Sango asked.

Kagome shook her head.

Then, I realized something. I was scared shitless. And I had no idea why.

END RECAP

INU POV

I raced through the tree branches, looking down on the forest floor. What the hell had happened here?

I sniffed the air gingerly and smirked when I picked up the scent of men. But they smelled a bit different. I picked up my speed until I heard them running through the forest. I could hear them panting and slicing at the branches in front of them. I passed them up and then dropped down from the treetops in front of them. They stopped running and stared at me.

"What the hell did you do to my friend?" I snarled at them. One of them, a man with auburn colored hair and gold and red armor, held up a stick at me. I smirked.

"What the hell is that going to do? Poke me?" I asked, almost laughing. Then, he murmured something and fire shot out of the tip of the stick.

"Shit!" I shouted as the fire came out towards me. I jumped up onto a tree branch. I heard a loud crack and looked down. The men had disappeared. I blinked down and then growled. Something was not right. I started back to the others at top speed. I was going to figure out what happened here.

SEL POV

Miroku picked me up, brought me over to the base of a tree, and set me down. I had calmed down a bit and was breathing regularly. I was talking in incoherent sentences that I couldn't even understand, trying to tell them what happened. Then, Kagome came over with a bottle of water and I sipped it quietly. My throat finally felt normal, having the water wash over it and moisten it up.

I looked up at them, their faces etched with confusion and worry.

"I'm… fine." I breathed.

"Tell us what happened." Sango said, sitting next to me and rubbing my back.

"I think we should wait for Inu Yasha to get back. So she won't have to tell it again." Miroku said, staring out towards the forest.

Just then, Inu Yasha leaped out of the forest and landed a few feet away. We all looked at him with expectant faces.

"Well?" Kagome asked as he sat down across from me.

"Well what?" He answered, looking up at her.

"What did you find?" Sango asked, finishing Kagome's thoughts.

"Well, I saw these four men. One had auburn colored hair, a little darker than Shippo's and red and gold armor. Another had greasy black hair that went past his shoulders and was wearing silver and green armor. Then, a blond in orange and blue armor and another person with black hair in yellow and black armor. Those were both reasonably younger than the other two. The redhead held up a stick it was probably a wand though because it shot fire. What the hell is going on here?"

"Why are you asking us? We know about as much as you do." Shippo said.

"Shut up runt." Inu Yasha growled. Then, he turned to me.

"Who are they?" He asked.

"I don't know. What makes you think I do?" I asked defensively.

"Well, we still don't know much about you. Like how you were even able to go through the well in the first place. Or whatever the hell else is in that damn book of yours."

After hearing him say that I was no longer scared. I was pissed.

"Well, I don't know how I got through either and it's not really any of your business." I snapped at him. He blinked and then glared at me.

"Guys! Be rational, there's no need to fight." Kagome said in that peacemaking voice of hers. I crossed my arms and looked at her. Then, I sighed and stood up. I looked at the forest with a frown on my face. The wind blew fiercely and my hair blew back.

"Look, I know just as much as you do. Maybe even less. I'm obviously not your enemy or I would have tried to kill you by now. I don't think, however, that those men had anything to do with Naraku." I finished my statement and turned back to them.

"Why not?" Inu Yasha asked bluntly.

"I don't know, they just had a completely different feel. Also, I know I was scared at the time but I don't think the men wanted to hurt me. I felt anticipation and apprehension before the first spark shot at me. Not disdain or anything like that."

"So what do you think they were doing, Miss Genius?" Inu Yasha asked.

"How do you think I know? I'm an empath not a mind reader and stop thinking like that."

"Like what?"

"Like I'm stupid! I can feel it!"

"Keh," He said, looking down at the ground and crossing his arms.

Silence filled the air.

"Looks like its going to rain." Sango said, breaking the formidable silence by looking up.

We all looked up and saw, in fact that the sky had turned from a happy blue to the grim gray of the clouds.

"We should head for cover." Miroku resolved, standing up and brushing himself off.

"You're right. And we better do it fast, it looks like it's about to burst." Kagome said, also standing up.

We grabbed our things and started walking along the path. It was quiet again and it made us feel all uncomfortable. It started drizzling lightly and by the time we reached a bridge, it was pouring.

"Great, my hair is messed up."

The water was choppy and higher than I suspected was usual for this particular river. The water was sloshing over the planks of the small bridge, making it seem like the river was pulling at it. I eyed the shaky bridge warily.

Inu Yasha was the first to start walking towards it. I started after him in disbelief as he turned back to us and made a "follow me" motion.

"There is no way in heaven or hell I am crossing that bridge!" I shouted over the rain, crossing my arms for at least the second time that day.

"Would you rather stay in the rain?" He bellowed back at me, his eyes challenging me again. I scowled and watched as the others walked over to the bridge and slowly over it. As they reached the other side, they turned back to me.

"Come on, its fine!" Inu Yasha yelled from the other side.

"Fine!" I stomped over to the bridge and stepped on it. It squeaked and I gripped the railing for dear life. I took another step and slowly made my way across it.

As I reached the middle of the bridge, a particularly large swell of water toppled over the bridge and me. I lost my balance and landed with a muffled thump on my butt. I shut my eyes tightly. My hands gripped the railing to hard that my knuckles turned white. I felt the bridge move a little and a hand went around my waist and pulled me up. I opened my eyes to see that Inu Yasha was pulling me off the bridge. I cleared the bridge with Inu Yasha's help and turned just in time to see a major wave hit it and collapse.

"Come on, we have to find shelter!" Miroku shouted over the pouring rain. We all nodded and started running, making splashing noises in the mud.

"Wouldn't it just be convenient if there was a cave or a hut?" I asked loudly over the pounding rain.

"That happens all the time." Kagome said form next to me. We were both running in even strides and I, at least was trying to breathe through my nose. I looked at her.

"We should be on the track team." I joked, sending a wet smile her way. She laughed and shook her head, tiny droplets of water joining the huge, fat ones that were falling around us and on us.

We were all looking around for anything that might ensure cover. The land around us was flat with a few fig trees and shrubs. The angle of the path went a little up hill though. There was a river to our right and that's how we saw it. A tall bridge with a steep under slope that the river sloshed through. It looked like an overpass on the high way. Miroku, who was in front of the group with Inu Yasha veered towards it and we all followed suit. We skidded down the slope and under the bridge. The earth underneath was dry and cool and the bridge itself had an underlining, meaning that it had sort of an upper fence on the bottom sides.

(bridge top)

(------------------)

( -----------------Underlining)

( /slope)

( going the other way this thing doesnt show back slash)

Taking my bag off, I sat down on a rock and wrung out the hem of my skirt. I could have filled a pond with what came out. Then, looking cautiously at Miroku, who was helping Sango dry off when he wasn't needed, I quickly wrung out the bottom of my shirt. I took my shoes off and then my socks and wrung those out too. I casted a glance around to find Inu Yasha and Kagome in a corner, talking quietly with his arms around her, keeping her warm, Sango, Miroku and Kohaku were sitting in another corner and Shippo and Kirara were drying off and looking at the rain falling. I wrung out my hair and tossed it over my shoulder. I turned around on the rock to face the others. They were looking at me expectantly.

"What?"

"Don't you have some sort of spell to dry things off?" Inu Yasha asked.

"I'm a witch, not a house maid!" I said, "But let me think here… Ah I know."

I stood up and breathed in.

"Brittle winter, gives to flowers are spring. Our belongings are dried." With a flourish of white light, our clothes and our belongings were dried.

"You call that a spell?" Inu Yasha asked.

"What? It was a haiku! I was improvising!"

"We noticed," They all said. I perched my lips sourly and sat back down on my rock. The water was just a few feet below me. My feet were being splashed with little droplets from where the water crashed against the sides of the steep embankment. I sighed, got off my rock and turned around. I walked over to where the others were and sat down in the space provided between Kagome and Sango. Kirara jumped onto my lap from Sango's and curled up there.

It was quiet for a while. Kagome and I fell asleep with Shippo and Kirara in our arms and I don't know what happened during that short period of time we were asleep. What I do know is that when we did wake up, Miroku had a very red cheek and Sango was sitting on the other side of Inu Yasha. Who had conveniently moved next to Miroku.

But, that's not what woke us up. The sound of footsteps on the bridge did. That meant that:

A: The rain had stopped

And

B: Either someone was just passing by or they were looking for us.

And of course, just my luck, it had to be the latter of the two. Of option B, I mean.

"Do you know where they went?" A female voice asked.

"No, we lost them when we apparated back to camp."

"Yeah, after one of them came after us."

"What about the two boy recruits, did they track them?" Another female voice asked.

"No, they lost them at the last location, at that other bridge over there."

"Rowena, what are we going to do? The proph-"

"Helga hush! At least they were smart enough to go undercover during that awful rain storm. Maybe they'll slip up sometime and we'll find them. Until then, let's go back to camp."

Four loud cracking sounds filled the air above us and then, there was silence.

We all got up and moved under the underlining. We walked up the slope and onto the bridge.

"So there's more than those men." Inu Yasha said, sniffing the air lightly.

"Maybe they each bought a guard with them. Inu Yasha, the men u saw dressed the same?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"What do you think that Helga woman was going to say?" Shippo asked.

"Proph?... Professor? No, that cant be it… "Kagome said, putting her finger on her chin in thought.

"Prophecy?" Sango said uncertainly.

"I bet you anything that's it." I said sulkily.

"So we're some part of an ancient prophecy?" Miroku asked.

"I guess so." Inu Yasha said with a shrug.

"Oh joy." I said dully.

"So what do we do?" Kagome asked.

"I think we should deal with Naraku and then figure out what the hell is going on here!" Inu Yasha said loudly, getting his point across.

"Well, first I think we should find a place to camp and then we should try to find Naraku." I said, turning to go get my stuff from under the bridge.

"Why can't we just stay under the bridge?" Inu Yasha asked.

"Because it does not have walls! And the floor is slanting! And there is WATER to fall into if we fall down the slope because we moved because we shivered because we we're cold BECAUSE THERE ARE NO WALLS!" I said, getting irritated.

"That's a lot of becauses…." I heard Miroku whisper.

SORRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I noe its short. I noe it took FOREVER To get posted. And im soo sorry! Its just that my teachers are being mean and giving WAY TOO MUCH HW for me to write and do hw at the same time. I'll try to update more often.

BuNNy

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also I have come up with the name of the sequel to the witch.

The Witch 2: Reunion.

Sounds cheesy huh? Lol

Short synopsis:

500 hundred years have passed, and it time to wake up. But, they seem to be waiting for something. Selena and the Inu gang cannot leave the 'dreamer's plane' until something happens. And when it does, what are they at Hogwarts to do?

Okay, I noe its not written yet and im not very good at summaries but I have a small preview that I want to share cuz I can't get it out of my head!

PREVIEW:

"What's going on?" Kagome asked.

"I-i-I don't know, I just feel li-AGH!" Selena screamed as the floor beneath her opened. She fell through and it closed.

"What the hell is going on?" Inu Yasha yelled. Suddenly, the floor of their chamber opened with 6 holes. They fell through into darkness.

"AGH!" Selena screamed as she sat up jerkily on the stiff bed she was laying on. She heard a door close in the distance but ignored it for now. She clasped her head as it was starting to hurt from the sitting up she had just done. Her bones felt stiff and she felt as hungry as ever. She looked around. She was in a dimly lit, but large room. It was the chamber from the Dreamer's Plane.

Around her were 6 other bed with the others in them. They hadn't woken up yet. She stretched and moved her legs off the bed. She stood up shakily and walked over to the large mirror on the wall next her bed. She looked into it and gasped.

"I look so pale… and my hair… its straight? And darker? What the HELL? It looks okay…" She said, moving her hand over her face and her hair.

"It's... longer…" She said, turning around, realizing that it had grown at least 8 inches longer and was now past her butt. It was then that she noticed what she was wearing. A robe the color of golden yellow with red flowers on it. It was silk and felt light and soft. She turned to see if the others were dressed like that as well and indeed, they were. Same color and everything. She sighed to herself and walked back over to her bed. She sat down on it and looked at her friends, lying on their beds. Slowly, Kagome began to stir. After her, Inu Yasha and Sango. Shippo began to move next along with Kirara and Miroku. Selena got up and rushed over to the bed closest to hers, Kagome's. But something on the table in between their beds caught her eye. She walked over to it and picked it up.

"Ugh…" Kagome uttered and sat up slowly. She turned her head to look around.

"Selena? What are you looking at?"

"A note… from 500 hundreds years ago. Dear, young ones…"

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW! R & R PLEASEE!

BuNNy