The next afternoon finds Andy making her way up the steps leading to the Higurashi shrine where Kagome will be waiting for her. Her backpack is a heavy weight on her shoulders but Andy ignores the discomfort it causes because whining about it won't do her any good at this point. Besides, she's got other things to think about, like the conversation she'd had with her aunt about her continued absences from school. She's not entirely sure how her aunt is going to pull it off but the plan is to have her aunt, or maybe even another person close to her aunt, disguise herself as Andy so that she can still attend school while phoebe goes about her typical day. It would allow Andy educational opportunities later on so long as she kept up with her studies during her travels and also makes it possible for her to attend classes when she's home. Originally, they'd thought to tell people that Andy had gone to live with Phoebe's parents in Methoni but the idea was quickly scrapped when Andy pointed out that frequent visits wouldn't be reasonably explained, and would put Andy in a situation where she would probably have to stay in the past for longer periods of time before coming back home to visit her aunt Phoebe. And frankly, that's unacceptable.

Being unable to see her aunt Phoebe for longer than strictly necessary isn't an idea that inspires joy, if anything, it makes her skin crawl. Andy's positive that over the years the two of them haven't spent every moment of their time in the other's company but they probably had a special way of keeping in contact with one another. With Andy traveling back to the past there's no way for her to keep in touch with her aunt on a regular basis and Andy refuses to go dark. Not on Phoebe, never on Phoebe.

Andy adjusts the strap of her bag as she walks over to the wellhouse. A quick peak inside tells her that Kagome hasn't come yet so she trots down the stairs, puts her bag at the base of the well, and turns to make her way out again. Something about the wellhouse freaks her out. Surprisingly, it has nothing to with the fact that it's dark and kinda creepy. The feeling of unease stems from something else, something that causes the base of her skull to prickle. It almost feels like she's being watched which isn't all that ridiculous considering everything that's happened in this wellhouse. Beating a hasty retreat, Andy takes the stairs two at a time and almost stumbles backward when she finds Kagome standing just steps from the wellhouse.

She's wearing a dark blue sweater paired with a pale blue skirt, a pair of loose fitting socks that look like they go with their school uniform, and the uniform shoes. It all goes rather prettily with the pink backpack hanging from her shoulders. Andy raises an eyebrow at Kagome's lack of foresight, because who just goes hunting for jewel shards in hazardous situations in a skirt, but keeps her mouth shut in favor of pointing at Kagome's brilliantly pink bike.

"What's the bike for?" She asks and Kagome smiles.

"I figured that we could take turns riding it while Inuyasha carries one of us around." Her friend eagerly replies.

"Smart."

Dark hair goes flying as Kagome flicks it over her shoulder in a play at haughty, mock arrogance. The joke continues as she sweeps one hand along the bike as if to draw attention to it and says, "I certainly try."

Laughing, Andy shakes her head moves to grab the back end of the bike so that Kagome doesn't have to struggle with it as much. It's slow going getting the bike down the stairs as neither one of them wants to accidentally take a tumble but they get the bike propped up on the lip of the well in no time at all.

"You ready?" Kagome asks as she sits on the lip and swings her legs over.

"I have so much to tell you and Inuyasha that it's not even funny." Andy says as she does the same.

Kagome offers a soft smile before pushing off the lip, Andy follows closely and their combined weight drags the bike into the well alongside them. Andy keeps a tight grip on the bike as the space around them fills with color and power and flashes of distant starlight. No matter how many times she sees it Andy doubts she'll ever get tired of going through the well simply because the trip is so visually pleasing... The initial landing on the other hand? Not so much, it leaves Andy feeling a little off balance.

Now back on the other side of the well Andy faces the problem of getting the bike out of the well. Carrying it is going to be more hassle than the bike is probably worth so it's probably best if they go and get Inuyasha so that he can just jump it out of the well. Work smarter not harder and all that. Andy turns to tell Kagome to leave the bike only to find the other girl has already started climbing the well and is dragging the damned bike along behind her. Humming her annoyance Andy decides to let this one go in the hopes that the struggle will make Kagome rethink hauling it up on her own later. Andy begins climbing not seconds later, she makes sure to stay far enough away from Kagome so that if she ends up dropping the bike it won't crack her in the face but close enough that should Kagome need it Andy won't have much trouble helping. Thankfully Kagome only needs her help with the bike a couple of times. When they finally manage to crawl out of the well Andy helps Kagome haul the bike over the lip so she can set it on the grass while Kagome catches her breath.

After a few minutes Kagome turns on Andy with a megawatt smile and pats the space on the bike between the handlebars, just above the basket. She looks expectant, Andy just stares at her.

"Well? Hop on!" Kagome says with a soft laugh.

"Uh, you do know that I'll probably crush your basket right? Best case scenario." Andy says, crossing her arms over her chest while simultaneously raising an eyebrow at Kagome's over eager expression.

"It'll be fine! Sota and I practiced this morning before you got to the house! I made him drive." She says in it a conspiratorial whisper, like Andy is just going to hop on the handlebars of death because Kagome wants her to.

"I don't like this." Andy says to which Kagome gasps loudly, feigning hurt.

"You don't trust me? After all we've been through together?"

And that is how Andy ends up perched on the handlebars of Kagome's bike, trying to make herself as small as possible, and wondering how she lets the younger girl talk her into these situations as they ride down the road leading to Kaede's village. People stare as they pass, wide eyes following them until Kagome has pedaled them out of sight. Behind her Kagome happily dings her bell which ends up drawing even more attention from the villagers. Andy thinks she's doing it because deep, deep down Kagome likes messing with people, and by people she means Andy. Kagome slows for a second after hitting a rock causing Andy to look over her shoulder at the younger girl who offers a half shrug.

"Thought I hit something," Kagome explains, "must have imagined it."

Once they reach the village Andy makes Kagome pull to a stop so she can hop off the bike and walk alongside it as they search for Inuyasha. It's not a long search as some of the villagers claim to have seen Inuyasha hanging out in a tree not far from Kaede's place. Kagome seems especially determined to find Inuyasha and Andy realizes why when her friend eventually spots Inuyasha's red hakama and calls for the half-demon to come down so they can give him some first aid treatment. It causes a brief flare of annoyance in Andy as she'd already seen to his wounds but she pushes that aside in favor of watching her two friends bicker.

"First Aird treatment?" Inuyasha asks, looking skeptical, once Kagome nods and ushers him down again he scoffs and says, "Don't need it. Go away!"

"You do, too! I was there, remember? Come down here!" Kagome calls.

Andy has to look away from Inuyasha to keep from laughing as he pointedly ignores Kagome, which reasonably annoys the other girl.

"I said come here!" Kagome snaps, grip tightening on her bike.

When Inuyasha remains in the tree Kagome turns to Andy, presses her lips together, raises both eyebrows, and finally spits out a clipped, "Sit, boy!"

Andy steps out of the way and to the side just in time to avoid getting crushed by Inuyasha's body as he's ripped out of the tree. Dust flies as he lands in the dirt, twitching and grunting while trying to get his bearings. After a moment Inuyasha turns to Kagome with a pained looking glare while the girl in blue simply digs a small first aid kit out of her bag.

"What'd ya do that for?" Inuyasha groans from where he's still sprawled out on the ground.

Kagome settles on the ground beside Inuyasha and says, "I'll just take a look, ok? When you're hurt that bad you need to have medical treatment, you know."

"I said go away! You act like I'm the one who lost!"

"Stop, Kagome, he's fine." Andy snaps, already tired of the pointless bickering between the two.

"I just want to make sure nothing reopened!" Kagome says before she springs across the small space, straddling Inuyasha's prone form, and begins tugging at his haori while Inuyasha attempts to bat her hands away. A choked sort of giggle manages to make it past her teeth and not seconds later Andy finds herself laughing hysterically at her two friends currently struggling in the dirt.

"Take it off, Inuyasha!" Kagome yells, "I need to look at it!"

"No!" his hands wrap around her wrists so that he can try and pry her off but it's pretty obvious to Andy that he's not putting much effort into it, probably because he's worried about hurting her.

"I said take it off!" Kagome screams over Andy's laughter and Inuyasha's griping.

"What if I don't feel like it?"

"Undress!"

Shuffling behind them has Andy turning to see Kaede shooing off a small group of children. Their appearance and Kaede's clear misunderstanding of the situation sends Andy into another fit of laughter, only this time she's quickly rendered mute under the hilarity of the situation. The presence of the children, or maybe Kaede's stern voice, is what gets Kagome and Inuyasha to stop struggling but Andy can't bring herself to stop laughing just yet. So she laughs and laughs until her stomach hurts and even then she still giggles a bit as she steps closer to her friends and their newfound mentor.

"Mayhap ye like each other more than I first thought." Kaede says to the pair which earns her a disgusted sounding groan from Inuyasha.

The silver haired half-demon shoves Kagome off of him and adjusts his rumpled clothing, but he doesn't cover himself. Oh no, instead he slips his haori down so that Kagome can get a good view of his totally unblemished skin. Kagome goes a bit wide eyed and Inuyasha points to Andy who sobers up pretty quickly with everyone's attention on her.

"I would've healed even without her help." He says, standing tall and proud and probably showing more skin than is considered appropriate by anyone's standpoint.

"So great a wound to heal so quickly and not leave a scar." Kaede turns to Andy and observes her though a narrowed eye. "Ye have a gift child, one most beneficial."

"Yeah, speaking about how gifted I am... Do you mind if we talk somewhere a bit more private? I have a lot to tell everyone." Andy says in a tone low enough that the small group can hear but not anyone further away.

Inuyasha seems to be the one most willing to switch the topic of their conversation and goes to cover up his exposed chest only to stop with a low grunt that has everyone following his gaze, which has dropped to a point on his chest where something small is latched onto his flesh. Andy steps closer to get a better look and cries out when she realizes what's currently attached to Inuyasha.

"Tick!" her cry is followed by a quick slap that smashes the flee between her palm and Inuyasha's chest.

He gives her a completely unimpressed look before flicking her wrist away from him.

"Greetings and salutations, Lord Inuyasha" the tick greets in a groggy sort of voice after he manages to pull away from Inuyasha.

"Well, if it ain't Myoga the Flea." Inuyasha says more to himself than anyone else.

Andy has to step back and away from Inuyasha and Myoga before she looses it completely. His designation as a half-dog demon really isn't helping him in this situation and now Andy is more determined than ever to make as many dog jokes as possible, and not even because she thinks she needs to. It'll be hilarious of course, but Andy's really just doing it to see how far she can get before Inuyasha tries to kill her.

"So," she hears Inuyasha saying, "what'd you come to tell me about?"

Turning, because there's no way Andy is going to miss this golden opportunity, she find Inuyasha crouched down next to where the flea is sprawled out in the dirt. She's quick to move closer, observing the smartly dressed flea as it rises and addressed Inuyasha.

"Lord Inuyasha, I've come to, uh..." he trails off as Kagome sprays him with bug repellent, "I've come to tell you that-"

As the flea's little body drops once more Inuyasha turns to Kagome with an inquisitive look and asks, "What's that do?"

"Kills insects and bugs." Andy says as she reaches out to poke the flea.

"Uh, whoops?"

When the flea shows no signs of waking soon Andy gathers him into her palm and turns to the others. After discussing what would be best they all decide to head over to Kaede's so that they can talk and wait for the flea to wake up in the comfort of a home, not in the middle of the road. As they walk Andy tells them a bit about what her aunt told her; she tells them that she's definitely not human, she's got a lot of freaky weird powers that she's still growing into, and does not tell them about being a primordial bird lady. Because not only does she think it would be overkill but she's also not sure it's a good idea to tell them that right now when she barely understands how to use her powers herself. Also, their out in the middle of the street. She's not disclosing that kind of personal information out in the open where anyone can hear them so she just kind of rambles on until they make it to Kaede's, but by then the flea has woken up.

He took a bite out of Andy too, and then hummed about how wonderful her blood tasted and murmured about it's interesting bouquet of flavors before bounding off to find Inuyasha. She's not sure how she feels about that but thinks it's best to just let it be.

"So why are you here, Myoga?" Inuyasha asks once they've all settled around the hearth.

"I believe someone is searching for your great father's tomb." The flea says, expression somber.

"What do you mean someone's trying to find my father's tomb?"

"As guardian of his final resting place, I can bear it no longer."

"So you took off and came here instead?"

Andy frowns at the duo but keeps her silence for the time being.

"But it's the remains that are important, and they are no longer there." Myoga says.

"Oh, so where are the remains then?" Inuyasha asks, seeming only kind of surprised.

Does he not visit his father's resting place? Andy thinks he's a little too calm about hearing that his dad's remains aren't where they should be. If their positions were switched Andy thinks she would probably be loosing her mind right about now.

"Regrettably sire, no one knows." Myoga shakes his head and holds out his hands as if in surrender.

Across from him Inuyasha sighs and mutters, "Some guardian you are."

"Inuyasha," Kaede's tone is reprimanding but soft, "they say your father was a phantom beast, that the Western Lands were his domain."

"Can't say as I remember it that well." Inuyasha sounds bored, like he doesn't care, or maybe like he's just so tired of hearing how impressive his father is that he's grown disinterested.

Andy assumes that he's probably had to live with people comparing him to his father, maybe even his mother, but especially his father because out of Inuyasha's parents his mother was the human of the two. Inuyasha was probably told how amazing, how wonderful, how skilled and accomplished and powerful his father was and then questioned on why he wasn't any of those things. Andy thinks that if someone compare her to a dead parent every moment of her life she'd be pretty disinterested by a certain point too.

"Your father was a demon among demons, great and powerful." Myoga says reverently. "His blood was especially delicious, and you, Lord Inuyasha, have inherited that from him."

"Wow! And what about his mom?" Kagome asks, seemingly all too excited to learn more about Inuyasha's parentage.

The red head nudges Kagome with her elbow and shakes her head when the other girl turns to look at her.

"She was a beauty beyond compare, a true-" He makes a low squelching noise as Inuyasha uses his heel to press the flea into the floor.

"Hey!" Kagome cries, "That wasn't very nice!"

"Just drop it ok!" Inuyasha snaps before pushing aside the tatami mat hanging in the door, it swings back into place with an angry rustle.

Slowly, Andy rises and makes to follow Inuyasha while the others linger behind. She can't imagine what Inuyasha went through growing up, Andy didn't have parents that people could compare her too and her aunt had always been so waveringly supportive of her that Andy hadn't felt pressured to live up to unrealistic expectations. Andy trots up to Inuyasha and slips her arm through and around his own before dropping her head to rest her cheek against his shoulder.

"Hey." She greets.

"What do you want?" He asks, tense but not angry.

"Wanna go look at stars? I can point out my constellation."

"Your constellation?"

"The group of stars I was named after."

Inuyasha turns his head to stare down at her for a long moment before nodding slowly. He maneuvers her around so that he's got her cradled in his arms before he takes off through the village, back to the tree they'd found him in earlier. They end up pretty high up with Inuyasha further out on the branch while Andy remains close to the trunk. There are quite a few clouds in the sky so Andy can't really see all of the constellations, which is disappointing, but she does points out the ones she knows and tells Inuyasha the story behind them. He doesn't say much in return but his silence isn't cold in any way, just thoughtful.

Eventually some of the tension bleeds out of Inuyasha's frame. It's like watching water drip out of a damp sponge, the excess leaves but most of the water remains. Andy shifts so that she can press her shoulder against Inuyasha's.

"Inuyasha?" She asks, making sure to keep her tone soft and low so that it doesn't break the tentative peace that's settled in the air around them.

"Yeah?"

"I just want you to know that you're my friend, ok? I'm here for you. Whatever you need from me, whether it's a shoulder to cry on or an ear to listen too, hell, I'll even fight a bear for you." she smiles as Inuyasha turns to look at her with mournful golden eyes, "maybe not a black bear, or a polar bear, or a grizzly bear, but like, maybe a care bear... I'd fight grumpy bear for you."

He clearly doesn't know what a care bear is but Inuyasha does clearly understand what Andy's trying to convey to him because he offers a soft, sad little smile and nods before turning to stare back at the moon hovering in the sky above them. Whether or not he hears Kagome's approach or not he doesn't let on so Andy doesn't move to acknowledge her either. She loves Kagome dearly, the sister-of-her-soul will always be precious to her, but Inuyasha is quickly becoming something precious too with his rough edges and sharp words that spill out of his mouth like broken glass. Andy won't undermine his experiences and whatever struggles he's overcome by saying he's broken or that he's damaged, but he is hurting and he doesn't deserve this hurt. And that's when Andy decides that Inuyasha is her family not too, right there alongside Kagome and Phoebe. He's managed to worm his way under her skin and settle in the space just behind her ribs and it doesn't feel like he's going anywhere soon.

"You're family now." Andy informs the man she's currently using as a pillow.

"What?"

"Yep, I claimed you. You're mine. We're family. Get used to it."

"We met four days ago." Inuyasha says, whether he's pointing that out to point it out or pointing it out to deter her Andy doesn't care.

"I bond quick."

Inuyasha, clearly stunned, rocks to the side a bit to get a better look at Andy and utters a simple, "Oh."

Andy opens her mouth to say something reassuring, because clearly Inuyasha needs the reassurance, but she doesn't get the chance as a powerful wind nearly sends her toppling out of the tree. If it weren't for Inuyasha making a grab for her Andy probably would have ended up a pancake... or, you know, as much of a pancake as a cosmic bird lady can be pancaked. Inuyasha sniffs at the air, growls, and suddenly Andy is standing beside Kagome's bike while Inuyasha takes a protective stance in front of them. Slowly, Andy puts herself between the oncoming threat and Kagome, acting as a second layer of protection for the girl who clearly doesn't have any weapons.

"Something's coming," Inuyasha whispers back to them, "can you feel it?"

Squinting in confusion Andy glances around before catching sight of something in the sky. Whatever it is has a weird feeling to it, like oil and loneliness and sorrow. Andy's blood heats a bit in response, the veins in her hands lighting up like gold gleaming in the daylight. Andy clings to the feeling of power so that it doesn't fade away before the threat is revealed. The last thing they need is Andy flaking out on them.

"Is that a carriage?" Kagome asks.

Andy has to agree that it does look like a carriage but normal carriages don't have weird little green dudes hanging off the back of them. Whatever is in that carriage isn't human. Andy doesn't like the situation at all and steps closer to Inuyasha to tell him so, but just as she's reaching him the tatami mat in the back of the carriage catches the wind and flies back to reveal a truly beautiful young woman. Beside her Inuyasha's entire body goes taut and Andy knows that whatever this is, whatever they're seeing, is far worse than she originally thought.

Inuyasha takes a stumbling step forward to which Andy response is to grab him by the wrist.

"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Kagome asks as Inuyasha tugs experimentally at Andy's hand, but her hold is an iron shackle and there's no way she's going to let him go after that woman.

"M-Mother." He says it so quietly that Andy almost doesn't catch it, which is funny because the thing in the sky clearly does.

"It is you!" She calls only just loudly enough for her voice to carry, "Inuyasha!"

Then the chains holding the woman-who-totally-can't-be-Inuyasha's-mother tightens until she cries out. Andy only just barely manages to keep Inuyasha from rushing off after the woman by digger her heels into the dirt and whipping the boy around so that he'll look her int he eye.

"It is a trap!" Andy hisses while her body trembles with unspoken rage, "Your mother is dead! That thing up there is only here to mess with your head!"

Inuyasha struggles against her hold, managing to pull Andy through the dirt just enough so that he can watch as the carriage containing her is crushed to smithereens by a truly enormous clawed hand that appears in the sky through a swirl of clouds. Red eyes appear soon after, glowing maliciously in the darkness, and then the body appears. It looks like a man; bipedal, muscled and built like a human, but he's got three clawed fingers on each hand, fangs, and horns on his head. If his size weren't enough those things alone tell Andy that the thing bellowing into the air in front of them is a demon. It holds the look alike of Inuyasha's mother in it's hand, careful not to pierce her tender flesh with the tips of his claws.

"Oh no! He's going to hurt your mom!" Kagome cries, the horror in her voice matching the horror in Inuyasha's eyes.

"Oh no he's not!" Inuyasha yells, breaking Andy's grasp on his wrist and leaping into the air.

Somehow Andy manages to strike out, wrap her fingers around his ankle, and jerk him back to the ground with a snarled, "Inuyasha, whatever that thing is it is not your mother! There is nothing human about it!"

Inuyasha glares at her, eyes wild and full of panic. Andy can't imagine that seeing this is easy for him, the creature does resemble his mother after all, but something in Andy is telling her that the thing in the demon's grasp isn't human. Maybe it was, once, but those days are long gone. Andy quickly puts herself between Inuyasha and the demon in front of them. Acting on instinct alone Andy reaches inward and pull on her power, pushing it out in a wave of energy that seems to scream danger and rage and a promise of fiery retribution. Trees quiver around her, the stench of burning ozone fills the air, and Andy glares at a point on the demon's arm where a smudge of white seems to be the focus of her unbridled temper.

Rage, it would seem, is an emotion Andy is become quite familiar with.

"It is you." Andy looks over her shoulder at Inuyasha and finds him glaring at the demon as well. Clearly he knows something Andy doesn't. She's going to blame that on the fact that right now she's flying blind with this whole cosmic power thing. "Sesshomaru!"

Something, someone, moves on the demon's arm. A being bathed in moonlight that stands out like a beacon against the dark hue of the larger demon's flesh. Andy can't see the being well enough from where she's standing but she can tell it's a male, can tell he's a demon, and knows that he's not here for a friendly little chat.

"Indeed." The being says, voice carrying, and it's definitely a man, "I've quite missed you as well... Little brother."

Kagome come running up behind them, pressing against both Inuyasha and Andy to get a better look at the demon in white. How she can see any better than Andy is a total mystery but one that'll have to wait to be solved until tomorrow when they aren't about to throw down with a prissy asshole who has no concept of socially respectable behavior.

"He called you his brother. Does that mean he's-" "-Kagome back off, now."

Blue eyes go a bit wide before Kagome stumbles back a few steps. It's not enough for Andy's liking but the extra distance between Kagome and the one called Sesshomaru puts something at ease in Andy's chest that had flared savagely when he'd turned golden eyes on the smaller, dark haired girl.

"A mortal, how interesting." Inuyasha's brother says, his tone bored.

"Yeah, what of it?" Kagome demands, foolish and brave and all too willing to defend her people.

"Others would be shamed. But with you, little brother, the girl quite suits you."

The larger demon flexes his fingers a bit, causing the chains around the look alike of Inuyasha's mother to tighten and pull until the illusion cries out. Agony pours from the woman's lips and Andy's rage burns hotter when she sees Inuyasha shift forward, unable to stop himself from instinctively responding to his mother's pain. A good son, that's what Inuyasha is, and the fact that his brother is using that to manipulate him has Andy seeing red.

"These human creatures, I should think you've had enough of them... Or is it a taste from father?"

Inuyasha growls lowly before flexing his claws at his brother and calling, "That's not all, is it? You couldn't have come all this way just to tell me that!"

"Be not a fool, I have no such time to waste. The tomb of our father- where must I seek it?" Inuyasha's brother asks, the tone of his voice threatening unspoken violence should Inuyasha not comply.

"Our father's tomb?" Inuyasha frowns. "Why are me?"

Prickling at the base of Andy's skull as the taller girl shifting her weight. Something's about to happen. If it comes down to a fight Andy isn't sure she can beat Sesshomaru, she's not sure Inuyasha would be able to either, and Kagome's left her arrows behind so that puts them at a disadvantage as well. Andy purses her lips and tightens her hold on the feeling of rage that's been building over the last few minutes and narrows her eyes at Inuyasha's brother who has begun speaking and doesn't seem to care that he's got two, maybe even three if Kagome counts, severely pissed off people glaring at him.

"Seeing yet never seen, protected yet never known to its protector. No other clues are known." Sesshomaru says, eyes never straying from Inuyasha who snarls and growls and snaps like an angry dog.

If the situation weren't so dire Andy might have laughed.

"I got no idea what you're talking about! Besides, even if I did there's no way I'd tell you!" Inuyasha jabs a finger at his brother, his arm brushing the top of Andy's shoulder and his wrist hanging a little too close to the side of Andy's face.

"I see," his brother says, "then you leave me no choice but to let your mother's suffering convince you."

Light fizzles at the other demon's finger tips, moving like a whip as he swings his arm backward at the demon who groans when the beam hits him and tightens his grip on Inuyasha's mother. She reaches back to press the palm of her hand against Inuyasha's side, eyes never leaving the demon who is either staring at her or the snarling half-demon behind her. Beneath her hand Inuyasha's body trembles, muscles and bones quaking under the rage and fear rolling through his body. Andy wants to give him some comfort, wants to promise that none of this is real, but she's afraid that when she turns her back to the demon Sesshomaru she'll be unable to stop him from attacking.

"Nice try, jerk! She's been dead for years, and we both know it!" the tone of Inuyasha's voice turns mocking, "Like it'd really fall for some stupid trick like that!"

"A trick, is it?"

Finally, there seems to be some inflection in Sesshomaru's voice; a cold sort of anger that pierces through the air like newly forced steel. Andy's at least comforted by the fact that the demon in front of them feels something as it would be worse if he didn't. At least this way Andy knows she's about to brawl with someone who can feel something other than disinterest.

"You're who's stupid," a small demon Andy hadn't realized was with Sesshomaru says, "recalling spirits from the netherworld is a simple task, if you are Lord Sesshomaru. He was even so kind as to give her flesh, and yet her own son would deny it... How sad to be the mother of one such as you."

Trembling, Andy turns her full attention to the woman who looks like Inuyasha's mother and steps in front of the shaking half-demon fully so as to lock eyes with the non-human entity. She's not sure what's she's hoping to accomplish but Andy finds herself thinking of her aunt Phoebe; how her hair shone like spun gold, how she always smiles a bit too widely, how her laughter would spill from her in gentle pops of breathless sound. Dead, she thinks at the demon, my mother is dead and I miss her. She pushes as much agony and heartbreak into the thought as she can, which is surprisingly easy as the thought of her aunt dying is not one Andy finds comfort in. Her rage falters, pushed back by the waves of hurt, hurt, pain, I miss her that Andy is trying to emote, the shift in her that follows is staggering. Because her rage is a hot thing, wild and reckless, but her sorrow is something chillier, something like the emptiness of space that's supposedly so very, very cold.

Seconds pass before Kagome's horrified cry pulls Andy's attention away from thoughts of mourning and back to the woman who looked like Inuyasha's mother. She still does, in a way, but as she twitches as writhes in the larger demon's three fingered grasp the woman's hair begins to bleed from black to gold, her features soften, and her body fills out to resemble aunt Phoebe's instead of Inuyasha's mother. With a smirk Andy turns to face the demon in white, uncaring of anything but him.

"Oh yes, the mighty Lord Sesshomaru is so powerful that instead of resurrecting a dead woman he uses another, lesser being in her stead," raising her hands slightly Andy resists the urge to give three slow claps as she spits out a heated, "Congratulations, Lord Sesshomaru, you've proven just how magnificent you are."

High pitched squawking meets Andy's statement, as well as a low hiss of warning from both Inuyasha and Kagome, but Andy doesn't bother to respond to any of them as she's too busy glaring daggers at the silver haired demon who seems to glare down at her form his perch on the larger demon's shoulder. That prickling at the base of her spine intensifies and Andy only barely manages to throw her power out around her to defend against the sudden wave of fire that rushes down upon them. Andy grits her teeth against the onslaught of demonic energy, mostly because the feel of it pressing against her own energy isn't... unpleasant, so to speak, it's just strange.

As the fire dies Andy is shocked to find that the shield she's somehow erected between herself, her companions, and the trio of demons across the clearing appears as fire. It burns like fire, with varying hues of color that swirl in mesmerizing patterns around them, and the energy that radiates off of it is sharp. Andy allows her hands to unfurl from their curled position and as her tension fades so to does her shield, until there's nothing left behind but a patch where the fire that had meant to harm them scorched the grass. With as much flippancy as she can manage Andy turns her attention away from the charred stretch and back to the demon in white. They stare at one another for a long moment and Andy wonders if perhaps she's done something rather foolish indeed.