Here's my Friday post! Enjoy!

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It was the day after InuYasha and Kagome had returned to the village from her time, as well as Kaede's return from her training. It was in the late morning hours and the group of now, seven, had been traveling for a couple of hours now.

"How long until the next village?" Shippo whined.

"Well that old priest did say that there was a village in the mountains of the direction that we were heading. But he told us to stay away from it because of the demonic aura's that have appeared there recently," Kagome wondered aloud.

"I wonder if the demonic aura's that he spoke of have anything to do with the jewel shards?" Miroku asked.

InuYasha scoffed and said, "Well we should probably at least take a look around there then, just to make sure we don't miss out on any shards."

Kagome looked back to Kaede who had been rather quiet since they had awoken that morning.

"Is something wrong Kaede?" she asked worried.

Kaede looked up at her and then away and said, "No, everything's fine..."

"Look there!" Sango pointed out suddenly, "A mountain village there!"

It was still across a wide, open field and a large, fast paced stream. But after those obstacles was just a short walk up a steep mountainside to a large, gated village.

"Well, I don't sense any evil aura's... Do any of you?" Miroku asked.

Everyone shook their heads.

"Well what about you two? Do you sense any jewel shards?" InuYasha asked Kaede and Kagome.

"No, not at all, "Kagome replied.

Kaede just shook her head in reply.

"Perhaps the old priest was wrong then?" Miroku thought aloud.

"I don't know, maybe we should just check it out. I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling when I just look at that place." Sango thought aloud.

"Yeah, let's go," InuYasha agreed.

The group walked across the wide field and as they neared the river Miroku and Sango stopped.

"There seems to be a strange fog around the village! Why didn't we notice this before?" Sango asked.

"I'm beginning to sense an ominous force!" Miroku said loudly.

"Yeah! I can also sense a small jewel fragment!" Kagome suddenly realized.

"Well then it's a good thing we decided to stop in then!" InuYasha said with a grin.

The group began a faster pace towards the town, InuYasha was carrying Kagome on his back running, Kaede was running on her own, and the other three were riding on Kirara. They easily ran the rest of the way across the field and up the side of the mountain until they reached the gate of the village. The gate were tall, solid oak doors, and they were cracked open just enough for people to get in and out of.

"I smell blood!" Kaede shouted as she landed in front of the gates.

"Yeah, me too... Human blood..." InuYasha replied.

InuYasha let Kagome off of his back and then stepped into the village just as the others landed and jumped off of Kirara. As soon as InuYasha walked through the door he saw a thick fog and nothing but random droplets of blood... but no one was there...

"That's weird..." Kagome said as she walked in through the door, Kaede following.

"I can smell human blood, but no humans..." Kaede said quietly, as though she thought that she might wake the dead.

"Yeah... Where are all the bodies? Humans just don't disappear after they die!" InuYasha said sarcastically.

"Perhaps they were taken somewhere else after they were killed," Miroku suggested.

Kaede walked over to a nearby hut and opened the blanket that covered the entrance.

"Nothing in here either!" she yelled to the group.

"Something definitely took the bodies of these poor people..." Sango said sadly as she checked in another hut.

"It's strange... It's almost like the demonic aura is right on top of us, but I can't sense anything beyond that," Miroku said firmly.

"It's the same with the jewel shard, I can't sense exactly where it's at, but it's like it's all around us," Kagome added.

Kaede's eyes widened as soon as she realized what was going on.

"We've got to get out of this village, NOW!" she yelled frantically.

The group turned to her as if they weren't sure what it was that she was trying to say.

Before Kaede could get the group to get out of the village a high pitched voice sounded through the village.

"Look what we have here! More humans! And even some demons! What a feast this will be!" The voice sounded as if it was all around them.

"Damn!" Kaede yelled.

"Everyone into a hut! Hurry!" the girl motioned for everyone to go inside a hut which they did quickly.

"What's going on Kaede?!" InuYasha asked.

"It's a rare demon! It uses the water in the air as it's mode of transportation so it can make itself turn into a watery fog, it's one of the most dangerous demons that I had ever faced but... it was only a demon that I had known in my own era, not here..." Kaede explained.

"Well whatever it is, we've got to destroy it, and NOW!" InuYasha said as he put his hand on the hilt of his Tetsusaiga and ran out of the hut.

"You fool!" Kaede said as she ran after him, Miroku and Sango following.

"Whoever you are, demon, show yourself!" InuYasha shouted as he unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and looked around the courtyards of the village.

"Stop! Don't you get it?!" Kaede yelled at the boy as she approached with Miroku and Sango in tow.

InuYasha turned to Kaede with a confused look on his face but the fog began to swirl around them. It moved in all directions around them until it flew up into the air and twirled around in circles until the fog transformed into a human form. The demon had bright silver eyes and black hair, wearing a large kimono robe around it.

"What do you plan to do with that sword boy? Run me through?!" The demon cast an evil stare onto the group.

"Are you the one that killed everyone in this village?!" InuYasha asked angrily.

"Well what did you expect me to do? I have to live too!" The demon chuckled.

"What?!" InuYasha was even more confused than he was a moment ago and he looked to Kaede for answers.

"This demon uses the remnants of bodies, any kind of moisture, and grinds their leftovers into it's own body, thereby increasing it's mass in fog form!" Kaede explained while keeping a sharp eye on the fog demon.

"It uses human bodies to absorb into it's own being?" Miroku asked frantically.

InuYasha turned to the demon as it smiled evilly at them.

"Yes, and now, I'll absorb all of you into me as well!" The demon yelled as it lunged forward at the group.

InuYasha lunged forward at the demon as well and swung the Tetsusaiga using the wind scar.

"Damn! He won't listen will he?!" Kaede was upset at InuYasha's attempt to kill the demon without listening to her.

"WIND SCAR!" InuYasha yelled as the Tetsusaiga let out a crashing wave of wind and went through the fog demon as though it had destroyed it.

InuYasha landed on the ground and scoffed saying, "What were you saying about being foolish?!"

"Idiot! The demon is made out of moisture! Do you think that the sword actually cut through him?!" Kaede lashed back.

InuYasha then realized that his victory was short-lived as he saw the fog reform not far from him.

"Fool! Did you believe that you had actually killed me?! You have only prolonged your, soon to come to an end, life!" The demon spat at InuYasha as he once again lunged forward towards the boy.

InuYasha didn't have time to react and was knocked down to the ground, the Tetsusaiga knocked out of his hands. The demon used it's force to lift InuYasha off of the ground, the demon boy trying to fight against it the best he could. Kaede leapt forward and the fog demon noticed her sword as well.

"Let's see what you can do without this!" The demon said as it managed to throw Kaede's sword away from her.

"This is bad... I can feel it already taking over me, and if it does... then that means..." Kaede thought to herself.

Miroku and Sango rode on Kirara, Sango swung her Hiraikotsu, and Miroku threw sutras at the demon. Unfortunately it was able to deflect the sutras and stop the Hiraikotsu in it's place. As it did this, it also grabbed the three and held them in place in the air too.

"No!" Kagome shouted as she exited the hut and saw the sight.

Shippo stood behind Kagome's leg, looking around her scared stiff.

"What do we do?!" Shippo asked.

Kagome ran back a few feet where she had dropped her bow and quiver of arrows and picked them up.

"We do everything we can!" Kagome yelled as she shot an arrow at the demon.

"You wretch!" The demon shouted in anger as the arrow pierced through it's chest, causing it some minor damage.

"It didn't work!" Shippo shouted even more scared than before.

"Kagome! Go back to the shelter and stay away!" Kaede yelled.

Kagome didn't want to leave the scene, but she saw InuYasha's face looking down at her from the demon's grip. She knew that he wanted her away from the battle as well.

"Right! Be careful!" Kagome yelled as she picked up Shippo and hid in the small hut.

Kaede turned back towards the demon and her amber eyes flashed brightly.

"Put them down, and you and I will battle!" She growled.

"Ha! Do you think that a mere dog demon would scare me away?! You fool! You and the other two should be glad that I haven't killed you yet and run for your lives!"

Kaede's growl became more forceful and she stepped forward into the fog.

"Let them go... I'll only tell you this last time..." Kaede said lowering her head.

"Fool! I will not obey you!" The demon shouted in anger.

Miroku looked down at Kaede and felt her energy begin to pulse.

"What's going on?!" Miroku asked aloud.

"What is it Miroku?" Sango asked fighting against the hold on her.

"Kaede's spiritual power and demonic power has increased!... Wait a minute... I know this change... InuYasha! The Tetsusaiga has been removed from Kaede! She's transforming!" He shouted.

"What?!" InuYasha looked down at Kaede.

A spark of spiritual energy generated around Kaede and it increased like bolts of lightning.

"What is this?!" The demon yelled as it realized what she was doing.

The spiritual energy shot into the demon and it had no choice but to release it's hold on the four in it's grasp. The group fell to the ground and scattered away from the demon. The pulsing around Kaede began to pick up pace.

"Miroku, what's happening?!" Kagome shouted as she ran out of the hut and joined the others.

"Kaede's spiritual power has increased exponentially... And I'm afraid that since this has happened, and she's not holding the Tetsusaiga, that she may also have her demon powers increased as well." Miroku answered.

The group looked to Kaede as she began to change.

"Her hair!" Shippo shouted.

The girl's hair began to change to a natural silver, and her claws and fangs grew as well. She looked up to the demon and her eyes were blood red with tiny blue pupils, as well as two purple streaks across her right cheek.

"She's transformed just like InuYasha!" Sango pointed out.

The newly transformed Kaede quickly jumped at the demon and it was unable to move in time, the girl used her claws as spiritual extensions and the purple light grew around her hand and she struck through the demon with no problem.

"This can't be... POSSIBLE!" The demon shouted as the moisture around it fell to the ground like drops of rain.

Kaede landed on the ground behind the demon and turned to look at what she had done with a grin.

The demon fell to it's knees and it almost seemed as though it had half melted, but it was still able to control some of the moisture around it.

"Miroku, Sango, protect Kagome!" InuYasha ordered.

"Right, let's go!" Sango said as she led the other two back towards the hut where they watched from inside.

"This is bad guys... It would be easy if it were InuYasha transforming because all I would have to do is use the charm of the beads to transform him back to normal, but we don't have a way of controlling Kaede!" Kagome said sadly

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For the Next Chapter!

"Kill...me..." Kaede squeaked out.

"What?!" The group said together.

Kaede fell to her knees. She didn't know how much longer she could hold on to her human side's mind.

"Kill...me..." She hissed again.

"What the hell are you talking about?! I'm not going to kill you! Forget it! No, you have to take the pain of fighting this! You have to be stronger than that!" InuYasha scolded her.

Kaede was starting to lose her human side and she stood back up. Looking up at InuYasha, her eyes started shifting back and forth from her amber colored eyes to her red and blue demon eyes. One tear shed from her eyes as they shifted to the amber color. The amber eyes didn't last long, as they shifted over to the demon red eyes. Her demon self lunged forward at InuYasha.

"Then this is what it will be, huh?" InuYasha said silently.

As the girl approached InuYasha and began to swing her claws, InuYasha saw an opportunity to attack and took it.