Chapter 4

A Strange Transformation

"Serena? Serena!"

Her body felt heavier then usual but she was grateful that the pain had stopped. Serena tried to move but the surge of pain came back. Serena slowly opened her eyes and her vision was blurry. She saw what looked like a large red blob with golden yellow dots for eyes and had something silvery on top. The red blob was behind someone who was in front of her. The voice was the only thing that was recognizable

"Ka..go..me?" It hurt for her to talk but she tried to speak anyway. "What happened to me? Why do I feel so heavy?"

"Serena! You're alive!" Kagome hugged her sister. But her gentle hold felt like she was being crushed.

"Kagome stop it!" Kagome got off her sister immediately, looking slightly shocked. After blinking a few times, Serena realized the red blob was Inuyasha. He was looking at her in a way that she couldn't read what he was feeling. "I'm sorry sis. It's just that it felt like you were crushing me."

"Oh." Kagome looked at her the same he was looking at her.

"Can you help me up please?"

"Sure." Inuyasha went over to her and carefully pick her up. He was stronger then she thought he was. He had her right arm around his neck and lifted her off the floor. It wasn't until she was off the floor that she realized that something was poking her in the chest. Inuyasha put an arm around her waist and held her up.

"Thanks." She tried to lift her arm but had great difficulty. It felt as if her arm was numb. As she struggled to lift her arm, she realized she was wearing the red fire rat kimono and a long red sash was securely tied around her waist. Her arm couldn't take it anymore. She gave up and her arm fell beside her.

"What the hell is wrong with me?" She felt exhausted. "Why do I feel so weak?"

"Maybe your body is still getting used to your new form." Inuyasha said as he dragged her to the bed.

As he sat her down on the soft bed, she asked, "What do you mean 'new form'?"

Kagome went down the stairs and into her room. She got a small hand mirror out of her desk and ran back to her room. When she came back, Inuyasha had propped Serena against the wall on her bed. She put the mirror in front of Serena's face.

Serena took a good long look at an unfamiliar reflection. The reflection showed her face but her eyes were different and so was her hair. Normally, her eyes were a light green color but now they were golden yellow like InuYasha's eyes. Her raven hair had faded until it was silvery white. And, on her head were little dog ears. She raised her hand and quickly grabbed the mirror from Kagome's hand.

"Oh my god!" she stared at her reflection even more. Her fingers were over the mirror and she saw her fingernails had grown out and became claws. "What in the world did that box do to me!"

Something pulsed underneath her cloths as she spoke. She dropped the mirror and grabbed at the spot were it pulsed. The pulsing was painful as it pulsed yet again. She fell forward, still holding whatever it was that was pulsing.

"Serena! What's wrong? What's happening!" Kagome sounded scared. Serena had her face buried in her bedsheets, she couldn't see anything.

"Help me." She breathed out slowly. "Someone please help me."

Inuyasha quickly turned her over on the bed and pulled her arms away from her chest. "Kagome! See what's under her clothes!"

"Okay." Kagome had a hard time pulling away the kimono from her chest. Serena was thrusting on bed. Inuyasha was pinning her down by sitting on her stomach and holding her arms beside her body. When Kagome finally got the robes off her chest, both she and Inuyasha saw something truly amazing.

It looked like the Shikon jewel but it was a soft purplish-blue color. It was on a necklace the looked InuYasha's Beads of Subjugation only there were four fanglike beads on it and the small beads were black. The jewel glowed and pulsed again and Serena stopped thrashing. She was just laying there on the bed motionless, her eyes was blank and staring at the ceiling

As InuYasha got off of her, Kagome said, "I've got an idea!"

She turned around and saw Serena's Tetsusaiga on the floor. She quickly picked it up and placed it in Serena's right hand. Inuyasha wasn't sitting on her anymore, but still had her arms pinned down and was ready it sit on her again if she started thrashing. Slowly, the pulsing of jewel subsided and the color in Serena's eye came back. Her fingers slowly wrapped around the handle of the sword as the pulsing stopped.

"Inu…Yasha?" She sounded tired and out of breath. "What are you doing on my body?"

"Making sure you didn't hurt yourself when you were thrashing about!"

"You don't have to yell InuYasha!" Kagome said as she looked at her sister's sad eyes. She looked really tired but at least she wasn't thrashing anymore.

Inuyasha got off Serena completely and Serena sat up on the bed. Her body didn't feel heavy anymore. She then heard a scraping sound of metal on metal. She looked at her right hand and saw her sword half way out of its sheath. "My sword? I thought I left it on the floor?"

"I had an idea that the Tetsusaiga you had would stop the pulsing of the jewel around your neck." Serena looked at the jewel Kagome was talking about as she continued. "InuYasha can't live without his sword otherwise his full demon blood will take over and he'll start killing everything in sight. Not to mention his own life would be in danger if he stayed a full demon for too long. So I thought that you sword would help you."

"Oh sure. Tell her everything about me Kagome." InuYasha mumble softly. Serena was the only one who heard him because of her new dog ears.

"I think you should rest now Serena. You've been through a lot."

Serena re-sheathed the Tetsusaiga and placed it next to her bed. "I think so too."

Kagome and Inuyasha left the attic and let Serena sleep.