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"Ki!" Kagome shrieked and darted over to her.
Ki was chained down to the ocean floor. Both of her wrists had chains, along with the end of her flipper. Her breathing was slow and shallow. Tears welled up in Kagome's eyes and threatened to fall. "Ki," she whispered and held her body up in her arms. Ki's eyes flickered open. "Ka. . .gom. . .e," she smiled weakly. She let out a small moan of pain and her body went limp.
"Ki!" Kagome cried. "I'm not dead kagome," she whispered, her long brown hair brushing over her face. Kagome pushed it away from her face. "Let me go Kagome, please," Ki said softly. Kagome nodded and slowly placed her on the sandy bottom. "Don't touch the chains," she said with as much energy as she could. "What do you mean?" Kagome asked, keeping her voice low.
"They're life sucking chains, they are sucking my soul out of my body slowly and painfully. It won't be long until. . ." she trailed off in unhappy thoughts. "No! There's got to be something I can do," Kagome said, with tears streaming down her face. Normally under water tears would float up, but since she was a mermaid, they dripped off her chin and onto the floor.
Ki was silent for a long time, Kagome could tell she was using the last of her energy. I'm too late. If only I could have come sooner. Why? Why does it have to end like this? No, it doesn't, there has to be something I can do. Kagome refused to believe this was the end of Ki.
Ki ment so much to her now. Sure, before, she hadn't liked her much at all. Ki even knew it, but was still kind to her. She helped her find Inuyasha and would help to find the rest of her friends, if she could. She went against her own family to do what was right, she was good. Ki should not have to suffer.
"Kagome," she whispered. "I know how to reverse the spell. We used your human soul to be a mermaid, now you need a mermaid soul to be a human." "No!" Kagome yelled and held Ki close to her again, knowing what she was going to say. "Kagome you were the nicest person I ever met," Ki said, tears fell out of her eyes. "It's my fault you're like this, I'm going to change you back," she said, her voice getting weaker as moments passed.
"Please no, we can save you. I can save you. It doesn't have to end," Kagome cried and squeezed her tighter. Suddenly a small glowing white orb came out of Ki's body and flew into Kagome's, right where her heart was. "No!" Kagome yelled, but Ki's body was already limp.
Kagome's body glowed a bright, blinding white. Her flipper shined more than the rest of her body, and then the lights faded. Kagome looked down to find that she, indeed, had legs were her tail was. What normally would have been embarrassing but not now, was that, besides her blue bikini top, she was nude. It made sense, since, her flipper wasn't really clothing, just part of her. Kagome had hoped that she would have gotten her clothes back, but that didn't matter anymore.
Kagome still held tightly to Ki. "Ki," she whispered. Her eyes widened when she realized that she could no longer breath under water. She coughed, but it was no use. Kagome held onto Ki with one arm and used the other to swim to the surface, along with kicking her legs.
She surfaced, gasping for air with her tear stained face. Kagome gently placed Ki's body on the set of flat rocks that were close to the shore. She climbed up on them next to her and cried over her body. "Ki," she sobbed and continued to hold onto Ki's body. Since ki had not been filled with hate or evil her body had not turned into a powder like Aussie's. That could have been a bad thing, since the sight made Kagome weep even more.
"No!" she wailed. "It should have been me. . . .you didn't deserve this. . . .it wasn't your fault. . ." Kagome continued sobbing out lines relating to how everything wasn't Ki's fault.
Inuyasha was stunned. At first he was happy to see Kagome surface again, even more when he smelt that she was human again. But his ears dropped when he saw her tear stained face and Ki. His face dusted with blush when he noticed that she wasn't wearing her old skirt.
"No, please. . . ." she cried. "Ki wake up, you've got to wake up," she sobbed and held onto her tighter. Suddenly Kagome felt a hand rest on her shoulder. At first she thought it was Inuyasha, but when she looked up she saw that it wasn't.
It was a girl, her whole body was glowing a bright white color. She had long brown hair and had a short flowing red skirt that fluttered in the breeze. Her shirt was blue and only came down to her mid stomach. "Ki?" Kagome questioned softly. The glowing figure nodded and smiled. "But you have legs," she whispered. Ki knelt down next to Kagome.
"Please stop crying Kagome, I don't want you to be sad," said Ki, but her voice came from inside of Kagome's mind. "There are other things that you still must do." "But what?" she asked, but Ki was already gone, along with her old body. "She's gone," Kagome sniffled.
Kagome looked around, almost forgetting where she was. I'm not even on shore yet. She sighed. Then kagome felt arms wrap around her waist and pick her up. "Wench I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever turn back," Inuyasha smirked and lept back onto shore, placing her down. Kagome smiled faintly and looked down at her legs. Her face turned bright red and she cried out. "Waa, where is my skirt!" she shirked. She went to stand up, but she hadn't used her legs in a while. Her legs wobbled and then Kagome fell back to the ground.
Inuyasha tossed her his shirt. "Keh clumsy wench," he scoffed and picked her back up again. Kagome held onto his arm tightly, still not steady on her feet. With one arm she tied his shirt around her waist, as a make-shift skirt. "Thanks," she mumbled. Damn I can't even stand, let alone walk! Kagome let go of Inuyasha's arm and took another step, stumbled, but kept her balance.
"Gee who would have thought I'd forget how to walk," she giggled softly. "You cease to amaze me," he said sarcastically. Kagome held out her arms to balance herself and took a few more steps, wobbling, but standing. "I think I have the hang of this!" she smiled. "'Bout time," he muttered. "I heard that," she said. With a sigh she sat back down in the warm sand.
"But what I don't understand is why we're still on this island. The spell was broken, right?" Kagome asked, sorrow filling her eyes when remembering Ki. Inuyasha sat down next to her. "I don't think it was," he said softly. "What do you mean?" her gaze focused on him. "How did you turn back?" he asked. "Um. . .well. . .Ki gave me part of her soul," she said, sadness thick in her tone. "Exactly, she didn't break the curse, she just turned you back. There's a difference."
"But we killed Aussie, she gave me the curse, so it should be gone," Kagome said, hoping it would be true. "Sometimes," he said. "Sometimes?" she echoed back in question. "Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't," he said calmly, knowing that she would snap any second. "No! That's not right! The spell should be gone!" she yelled and stood up, turning to leave. Kagome took a step and fell back down. "Damn it!" she growled to herself.
Tears welled up in her eyes. "So the curse is still here?" she asked softly, his hanyou ears almost not hearing it. Inuyasha nodded silently.
Such a sad ending for Ki! But she's in a better place now, somewhere that she'll be happy forever and doesn't have to deal with her sisters. If you guys are wondering, then yes, Tye is still alive. How will the spell break? Find out in chapters to come!
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