Some things may surprise people. . . . .not just about this. . . .
She bowed before them and then regained her normal posture. "Well?" one rasped. "The girl is heading to the taiji and monk." "So she has yet to try and master her powers?" She shook her head. "Hmm I see." He dismissed her with a wave of his claw.
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"Sire! Sire! Sire!" shrieked a smaller mermaids when rushing the throne. "What is it?" he bellowed. "I have just been informed that Aussie and Ki have, well, passed away," he said softly.
"WHAT!"
"N-no, you d-don't understand. I-it's not what y-you think. S-see well, um, they were k-killed by a m-miko. T-the one y-you wanted them to change into a m-mermaid," he stuttered in fear and shrunk down. He put his arms over his head, waiting to be struck.
The king relaxed his muscles once again and leaned back into his chair. "What of Tye, she was one of the trio, correct?" he said calmly. "Yes Sire, but, um, she has decided that her interests lie in other, er, areas," he said softly. "Which means?"
"She works for the others now."
"WHAT!"
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"Come on Inuyasha I can see the island!" Kagome shouted happily, zooming a head. She took in another deep breath, reporting the scents once again. "It's them!" she shrieked merrily.
Inuyasha swam slowly along, a strange feeling bugging him. He sighed softly, only to be surprised when he coughed. "Kag-" but he was cut off when water entered his lungs.
Inuyasha's eyes shot open, to find that nothing was blurry like before. To see under water mermaids had thin lens over their eyes. "I didn't have enough power to make you a mermaid, but I tried my best to be able to let you breath and swim faster. It's only temporary though. Sorry if the webbing scared you," she said meekly.
Inuyasha looked down at his hands and yelped in surprise when he saw the webbing gone. My times up! Suddenly his vision grew blurry. Inuyasha's heart raced. He looked up, he was to deep. He would never make it to the surface in time. His face flushed.
Inuyasha kicked his legs and pulled with his arms. Slowly he made his way to the surface. He could almost see the top, but his vision faded, everything around him turning black. The last thing he remembered was Kagome's cry.
Inuyasha's eyes flickered open and then shut again to avoid the blinding sun. He moaned and rolled over. "Inuyasha are you ok?" Kagome whispered and pulled him over to face her again. He opened his eyes again.
Kagome, still in her mermaid form, was leaning over him with concern in her eyes. Sango and Miroku were on both sides of him, waiting for him to respond. His sat up and put his hand on his head. "What happened?" he groaned. "Remember how I told you your transformation was temporary?" she said meekly. "I'm so sorry!" she cried. "This is all my fault! I should have known it wouldn't last all the way to the island!"
"I'm glad to see your finally awake Inuyasha, I was afraid we'd have to throw you back into the ocean," Miroku snickered. Sango knocked her fist against the back of his head. "Houshi!" she hissed. "I'm glad you're ok," Sango said to him, regaining her smile. "Heh," Miroku smiled guiltily.
Inuyasha stretched his arms out. "Yeah, well I'm fine. I ain't no pathetic human or nothin'," he snorted. Kagome rolled her eyes. "I see the curse has not broken," Miroku said, now with a serious tone. Kagome nodded and sat folded over her flipper, while Inuyasha crossed his legs with the usual "feh". "We need some answers. We have already gotten rid of Aussie, she's the one who put the curse on me in the first place," Kagome sighed, hating to talk about this again.
"What kind of answers?" asked Sango. "Obviously killing the person who cast the spell did not work." Sango nodded, understanding. "We," she said motioning to herself and Inuyasha, "have decided as long as I can change back to a human that it doesn't matter if the curse is here or not."
"You can change back into a human!" exclaimed Sango and Miroku at the same time. "Yeah," Kagome smiled. "But I still don't have that much power, that is where the problem lies. I got Inuyasha and myself here, but I will not be able to get all of us back to the shore where all of this first started. I need to know everything you know about mermaids so that I can find some, hoping they can teach me something."
Sango nodded. "I see. . . ." Miroku thought aloud. "First tell us what you know about them," Sango started. "That sounds like a wise idea," Miroku agreed. "Well all I know is that they live in clans," Kagome sighed. "Correct," Sango said. "I haven't fought mermaids before, but some of my fellow slayers have. I've heard lots about them. They are fearsome enemies, and extraordinary allies, though mermaids don't tend to be allies often."
Kagome was silent, this would be harder than she thought. "Mermaid magic is one of the most powerful sources of, well, power. To learn to master it you would need to learn it from someone who already knows it, you were right to want to learn from another mermaid," Sango continued. "But they won't trust you at first, don't expect them to. They can smell very well, as you know. They will smell the scent that you have no clan, that will make them untrustworthy. Once you find a clan, you must not find another, no matter how terrible or cruel they are. Finding another one would just be worse, since you would have already smelled like the other."
Terrible? Cruel? Are mermaids that mean? "Yes, but I still need to know how to find one," Kagome said. "Deep in the ocean, most likely near the center. It will be a long trip." Kagome sighed, again. "That is all I know," Sango ended. "Miroku?" Sango asked. "I know little. The only thing I can say is that some mermaids like to enchance fishermen, putting them under cruel spells. My guess is that they will not hesitate to do the same to you."
Inuyasha growled. "These mermaids sound like nothing but pure evil, Kagome you can't go finding some! You'll never make it back alive!" he winced from his own thoughts. "I have to," she said softly. Kagome pulled off the necklace that held the shikon shards and handed it to Sango. "In case anything happens, you should have the shards. That way I can also sense my way back. I'll never get lost," she smiled faintly at the last part. Sango nodded and smiled at her logic.
"I should go now. The sooner I leave, the sooner I get back, right?" There was a pause. "Of course," Miroku said. Kagome smiled and hugged Sango good-bye. A large wave rushed in, pulling Kagome back into the ocean, her mermaid magic no less. "Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled. Kagome stopped. He lept out into the ocean where she was. "I'm coming with you," he said softly.
"Inuyasha you know I can't do that. You remember what happened last time." "I don't care!" he growled. "I'm not letting you go out there all by yourself." He grabbed onto her hand and pulled her close to him, afraid if he let go he would never see her again. "Fine, I'll try," she sighed in her arms.
A whirl pool formed quickly around the pair, getting higher and higher, until the ocean bottom was exposed. The roaring sounds hurt Inuyasha's ears, flattening them against his head. Then the water rushed down at both of them, knocking them into deeper waters. Inuyasha looked down at his hands: webbed.
It had worked.
That's all for now guys! Hey I won't be able to write more till next Sunday, not the coming one, the next one. I'm being kicked out of my house because we're getting new flooring. I'm also going out of town, so this will be it until next Sunday. Pleeeaz review cuz I can still check my e-mails after this!