~ Bone Eater's Well ~
Grace is still sitting on the side of the Bone Eater's Well waiting for Inuyasha and Kagome. Then she gasps as the blue light comes over the Bone Eater's Well and she hears Inuyasha and Kagome.
"Watch out! There's hair all over the well too!" Kagome said. Inuyasha climb out of the well.
"Are you saying that is Yura with the combed hair is after us?" Inuyasha asked.
"Of course, she is. We are her best chances to getting the Jewel shards or that she wants our heads." Grace said.
"Well, Grace and I can see several glowing strands of hair there. There's the main strand that's been bewitching the others. That means if we follow the main strand, we'll find Yura." Kagome said before she points in a direction. "That way!"
"Alright!" Grace said as Inuyasha leaps across a pond, piggybacking Grace and Kagome. They come to a campfire site. Corpses of warriors struck down with arrows surround a campfire. "A bonfire..."
"Their heads are gone." Kagome said as Inuyasha let Grace and her off his back and examines the corpses.
"They're fallen warriors. They must've gotten tangled in the hair strands. Such bad luck." Inuyasha examined before he turns back to look at Kagome. "Stop looking so stressed! And don't starting whining about wanting to go home!"
"I... thought I'd borrow this!" Kagome said, picking up a bow and a quiver of arrows.
'We must destroy Yura quickly or many innocent people will die.' Grace thought. She looks around and then settles on the Main Strand of hair that was leading over a huge Hill and she quickly runs towards it as Inuyasha and Kagome follow her.
"The arrows you shoot Kagome won't hit their targets." Inuyasha said.
"How rude! If I practice, maybe...!" Kagome huffed.
"Practice? Did you practice?" Inuyasha questioned her after he leaps onto a tree trunk.
"I'm impressed, Kagome." Grace said.
"From now on, just watch me! I'm going to improve!" Kagome said, determined as she clenches her fist.
"Now, now, let's stop arguing. We have worked to do." Grace said.
"Humph!" Inuyasha huffed, looking away. Many strands of taut hair surround the trees in the forest. They tighten suddenly slicing off the trunk that they were standing on. They leap off. Bundles of hair surge towards them.
"They're here!" Grace gasped. "From the left!" She dodges the strands of hair.
"The right, too!" Kagome said as Inuyasha dodge the strands of hair from the right. "Too many! Use your instincts to evade them!"
"Whhaa-? What a useless woman! I thought you came to fight?" Inuyasha interrogated her.
"There! Before you!" Grace said as Inuyasha leaps onto a rock and another patch of hair comes at him. He leaps to another rock. Grace and Kagome fall off Inuyasha and lands face down on the slope. Inuyasha was grabbed by a handful of hair, and he was yanked in the air.
"Oh, no! Inuyasha!" Grace shouted.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. He was hoisted in the air among a web of hair which surrounds a giant sphere of hair.
"A Giant Sphere of hair...Yura's hiding place?" Grace muttered. Yura suddenly appears, leaping against the night sky. she lands on a few strands of hair which is similar to a tightrope. strands of hair are coiled around her fingers.]
"Hmm...such a fine prey." Yura smirked at Inuyasha as Inuyasha tries to free himself but can't. "You're Inuyasha, aren't you?"
"So you're Yura? How do you know me?" Inuyasha interrogated her.
"I heard the gossip in the wind. That a Half Demon named Inuyasha is serving the Reincarnation of Shrine Maiden and a fairy girl and helping them to Protect the Sacred Jewel." Yura smirked.
"What?! Me? Serving that brainless girl...? You've gotta be kidding me!" Inuyasha said.
"I would never have Inuyasha serve me! Inuyasha can choose for himself if he wants to join and help us or not!" Grace said as Inuyasha looked at her in awe.
"I see...well, both of you are brainless." Yura said as she takes out the Sacred Jewel fragment from a pouch. "Turning the Sacred Jewel into this." Inuyasha growls furiously at Yura.
"That Sacred Jewel shard came from Kagome?" Grace gasped.
"In any case, I'll deal with you three and go look for the other fragments." Yura said.
"Deal with me?" Inuyasha barked out a laughter, "You're the one who'll rue the day you appeared before my eyes!" He frees himself from the hair with brute strength before he swings towards Yura with the bundle of hair latching onto his right wrist, however, Yura jumps up to avoid him while fishing out a red comb and create more hair to tie Inuyasha from moving. "Damn it!" Yura appears behind him.
"Such pretty hair...but you haven't taken care of it, have you? So many split ends." Yura said.
"Shut up." Inuyasha snarled as he swings around to claw at Yura, but she falls backwards in anticipation and somersaults gracefully onto another tightrope hair further away. The tightrope sinks lower under her weight, then spring her back into the air, towards him, Yura in midflight takes out a sword and cuts him. Inuyasha winces in pain.
"Inuyasha!" Grace cried out in worry.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted. Yura giggles and lands on a strand of hair above Inuyasha as she licks the blood off her sword.
"I'm going to cut you into little pieces!" Yura smirked before she jumps down towards Inuyasha, preparing to kill him when an arrow suddenly flies in front of her, forcing Yura to fall back and glares at Kagome, who had her second arrow aimed at her.
"Get him down right now! Next time, I won't miss I promise!" Kagome demanded, glaring at her.
"Kagome!" Grace gaped at her in awe.
"The girl who fell in the well." Yura murmured.
"You heard me!" Kagome said, glaring at her.
"Kagome..." Grace murmured worriedly.
"Don't worry, Grace. We'll save Inuyasha." Kagome assured her.
"I think they want you back, Inuyasha. What a sweet little dog you must be. You three must be so close!" Yura smirked, mocking him.
"I told you two to hide! Not draw attention to yourselves!" Inuyasha said. Yura held up her sword.
"Of course, her hair isn't as pretty as yours or the other girl's gorgeous red hair, but then again… waste not, want not." Yura said.
"Not so pretty as theirs, huh? What do you know about it, anyway? You live in a world where they don't even have shampoo!" Kagome said and fired her arrow.
"Kagome!" Grace exclaimed in shock.
"Huh?" Kagome gasped in shock. Rather than shoot towards her though, the arrow flew at Inuyasha. He shouted and ducked.
"Would you watch where you're aiming that thing, please?!" Inuyasha shouted at Kagome. The arrow sailed and hit the ball of hair near the bottom, and a bright pink-white light spread outwards. It faded after a few seconds, and the hair itself began to unravel, causing the skulls to spill from it.
"Oh no! What you've done!?" Yura said, horrified. Grace and Kagome gasped in horror. Within the hair they could see numerous skulls, including ones with the face still attached.
"The guys we saw from the village." Inuyasha said.
"I'll be putting you in there too. Once I separate that pretty hair from your head." Yura said, looking at him. "It wasted on you, anyway. One thing first, those two women over there has to die then I'll get that pretty red hair from the brown-skin one!" She jumped up and swung her comb, and flames raced down them.
"Kagome, look out!" Grace shouted, pushing Kagome out of the way and the flames hit her.
"Grace!" Kagome shouted as Grace grunted and fell to the ground.
"Oh well. At least it got one. Hot enough for you? You'll feel the heat right down to your bones." Yura said softly. Grace began to feel weak from the fire. While the Yura and Inuyasha began talking and resumed fighting, Kagome ran towards Grace and kneeled before her, trying to figure out how to save her.
'I don't want to die. I want to help Inuyasha and Kagome. I want to be strong enough to fight and defend myself.' Grace thought. Just as it heard her wish, the Pure Sacred Jewel in her body glowed brightly, causing Grace to gasp. Yura and Inuyasha looked over to the bright light flashing onto Grace as Kagome covered her eyes from the light.
"What the!?" Yura exclaimed.
"Grace..." Inuyasha said, looking in awe. Grace spun around and flipped backwards towards the background before it shines brightly. Pure magic energy covered her chest and arms, forming her glittery magenta long sleeved shirt as light purple fabric attached themselves to her lower arms. The pure magic energy covers her waist, forming her magenta glittery skirt with the light purple on it. A tiara appeared on top of her head. Then, it crawled up on her legs, forming her light purple boots that almost her reach her knees. Finally, she extended her arms out and pure energy came together on her back and formed her wings as she sprouted them and fluttered them to life, ending her transformation. Grace's hair flew up as she felt powerful energy swelled up in her.
"Grace, what happened to you?" Kagome asked.
"I don't know. I believed I transform into what they called Winx." Grace said, looking all over herself.
"Winx? What's that?" Kagome asked.
"It's when a fairy is usually able to transform when she has a strong enough will and fully believes in her magical capabilities." Grace explained.
"Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha shouted as red bands of power flew at Yura, and she blocked them with a wall of hair while Yura's sliced hand flies towards Inuyasha from behind and stabs him in the shoulder just as the hair pins him to the ground. Yura's sliced hand returns to its owner as a bundle of hair envelops her wrist, reattaching her hand to where it belongs.
"You're just a half demon with half the power." Yura smirked.
"Why you-!" Inuyasha snarled.
"Inuyasha!" Grace gasped in worry.
"Disappointed?" Yura smirked as she brought out the Jewel Shard from her chest. "I'll bet you were hoping to use this to become all demon."
"The Jewel of Four Souls!" Inuyasha said as Yura stood next to him with her sword raised.
"Now stay still. If I don't get a clean cut, your blood will stain that pretty silver hair of yours." Yura instructed as she raised her sword and swung it down at him. He glared at her.
"Don't you wish!" Inuyasha said, standing and plunging his hand forward. His arm went through her chest and halfway out of her back, and when he pulled it back out not only was there a gaping hole in her torso, but he grabbed the bag containing the Jewel. "Hah, that'll teach you!" But then, she stepped on his hand.
"Well, I never. A half-demon I just met sticking his hand into my chest?" Yura huffed.
'What? Why isn't she dead?' Inuyasha thought. While she wasn't looking, Grace saw something glowing in the strands of hair.
"Kagome, there's something glowing in the wall of hair." Grace said as Kagome looked into the same direction as her and saw something glowing too.
"Plus, there's a fact you stole my Jewel." Yura said as she picked up the pouch. "Now, I have become cross."
'Her weak spot...where is it!?' Inuyasha thought. Yura giggled until the hairs attached to her comb tugged, and she looked to see Grace flying up the hairs while Kagome was climbing up the hairs, trying to reach the skull.
"Those girls…" Yura muttered, snarling and she waved her comb, causing the hair to move and Kagome fall off but Grace caught her and put her back on the hairs. Inuyasha grabbed her sword.
"You shouldn't have looked away!" Inuyasha called, slashing her across the back. Hair rushed over the wound and healed her.
"Alright. That does it!" Yura said, glaring and waving her hand. The hair pushed Inuyasha back and Inuyasha was slammed against a stone wall. Despite that Inuyasha chuckled.
"When I took your hand, it was like you broke a nail. But now you seem mad for real. What are you hiding that you're so worried about?" Inuyasha asked, smirking. Yura didn't say anything and glared at him. Grace looked and saw a tiny person trapped in the wall of hair.
"Oh, my!" Grace gasped as she flew up to them. When she got there, it was a tiny black-skinned female with rainbow long hair and tiny wings on her back. "Oh, dear! Hang on, I'll get you out, little one!" She used her powers and free the little woman. "Are you okay?"
"I think so." The female said, shaking her head. When she opened her eyes and saw Grace, it's like everything fade into the background and it was just these two. She felt peace and happiness when she made eye contact with her. "Oh, my! You're so pretty and pure!"
"And you're very cute!" Grace smiled in adoration.
"I'm Cherel, Pixie of Imagination." The tiny female, Cherel, introduced herself, smiling.
"And I'm Grace." Grace smiled.
"Also, Grace, there is a way to defeat Yura! It's that red skull up there!" Cherel said, pointing up the red colored skull above them.
"Kagome, look!" Grace called out to her as Kagome looked at her to see Grace pointing at the red skull.
"Inuyasha! It's that red skull up there!" Kagome shouted out to him.
"Concentrate on that!" Grace yelled.
"What red skull?" Inuyasha asked, but Yura had recognized it and spun around, leaping with her sword drawn. "Oh no you don't!" He ripped the hair off him and jumped after her.
"Stop pulling my hair!" Yura shouted as she directs a large mass of hair upward, forming a massive cage made of her hair to securely trap Kagome inside.
"Whoa! Whoa!" Inuyasha exclaimed when he was hold back when two bundles of hair attempted to attack him. Kagome tried to keep herself from falling.
"Inuyasha! Kagome!" Grace shouted.
"Grace, you can help them! Use your powers!" Cherel said.
"But...!" Grace said.
"You can do it! I know you can! Just believe in yourself!" Cherel said.
"You're tangling it all up!" Yura said and flung her sword at Kagome. "Got you!" However, it made absolutely no impact and Kagome fell down, screaming until she was caught by her arms.
"Kagome!" Grace shouted.
"What are you two? Why don't you bleed?!" Yura demanded then went towards her and Kagome.
'She's right. Why wasn't my arm cut off?' Kagome thought. 'And why wasn't Grace burned?'
"It must be that robe that she's wearing." Cherel said, floating beside Grace's head. "And it must be that pure power inside you, Grace." Grace gasped in realization.
~ Flashback ~
"It's made with hair of the fire rat. You'll have some protection, at least." Inuyasha said, looking at Kagome before he looked at Grace. "And I'm sure that Pure and Sacred Jewel in your body will not let you be harmed by something and protect you. However, you need to harness that hidden power inside you in order to defend yourself."
~ Flashback End ~
"Inuyasha." Grace and Kagome murmured.
"Even from here, you look mortal enough to me." Yura said. "Let's put you to a test!" She then waved hand and a string of hair wrapped around Kagome's neck, chocking her and causing Kagome to grunt and groaned in pain.
"Kagome!" Grace gasped. "Let her go! Purifying Ball!" She summons a ball of light pink-purplish ball of magic energy in her hands and fired it at Yura.
"Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha shouted and fired more bands of red forward. They hit Yura dead-on and she fell forward, the hairs attached to her hands cut from the attack.
"I-Inuyasha… Grace…" Kagome said weakly, near fainting from lack of oxygen. She started to fall along with the wall of hair.
"Don't you faint on me, you stupid girl!" Inuyasha warned her.
"Kagome!" Grace said before she flew down and caught her in her arms. They landed on the ground and Grace set her down. But then they heard a sound of something rushing through the air. "Inuyasha! Look out!" He turned his head and Yura's sword stabbed him straight through the chest, before pulling out and flying back towards Yura. She was unharmed at all by the attack and destruction of her hideout, standing on top of a pile of skulls.
"You again." Inuyasha growled, glaring at her.
"You forget I'm immortal!" Yura said, and her sword sailed towards Inuyasha. But then it stopped. Yura froze in shock and she and Inuyasha turned, seeing Grace stab an arrow into the red skull.
"It's here. This red skull. The hairs are connected to Yura's hand!" Grace said, trying to break it.
"That's right! If you destroy the red skull, Yura will be defeated." Cherel said as she used her powers of imagination to create an arrow and help Grace to try to break the red skull.
"Stop that! I'll kill you!" Yura screamed, and she moved her sword to where it flew at Grace. She gasped before Kagome ran over to her and grabbed the arrow in Grace's hand. Together, Grace, Kagome and Cherel plunged the two arrows down one more time. It broke through and all was still, until there was a burst of light, and the sword was sent away. The skull burst apart to reveal a red comb, which broke in half. Yura sighed and rose into the air, her body glowing blue and fading to dust. Her clothes fell to the ground. Grace picked up a red comb off the skull.
"So that's what Yura really was." Inuyasha said, walking forward.
"Yura was a comb?" Kagome asked in confusion.
"This red comb? It must have some demonic powers in it." Grace said.
"Sure. With all that you've seen since you and Grace been here are you surprised? It's probably got powers because it was once used to comb the hair of the dead." Inuyasha said. "Yura really didn't use 'it' as much as 'it' use her."
"It's not strange if there's evil powers here." Cherel said.
"And who are you?" Inuyasha asked, looking at Cherel.
"I'm Cherel, Pixie of Imagination." Cherel smiled.
"Aw, aren't you a cutie? And wait, pixie? What's that?" Kagome asked.
"Pixies are small creatures with heads that are larger in comparison to their baby-like body. The wings are varied and simple, like fairy's Winx wings. Baby Pixies are about 5 cm tall, young Pixies are about 8 cm tall, and adult Pixies are about 10 cm tall. Also, we are magical creatures." Cherel explained before she looked at Grace. "And Grace here is my bonded Fairy."
"Really?" Grace asked in surprise.
"Yes. Pixies are creatures that can bond with fairies and help them in their way of becoming real accomplished fairies." Cherel smiled.
"I see." Grace said, picking up the bag with the Jewel Shard. She handed it to Kagome, and she nodded her thanks. Then Inuyasha grabbed his kimono and flung it over his shoulder.
"Grace, Cherel, Kagome, let's go." Inuyasha said as Grace and Cherel nodded while Kagome blinked and looked at him in surprise.
"What?" Inuyasha questioned.
"You've never said my name before." Kagome said.
"Yeah? What of it?" Inuyasha asked.
"I just think that you like me more now is all." Kagome said and Inuyasha scoffed.
"Don't get excited. Grace and her pixie are useful, but I still think you're pretty useless." Inuyasha said rudely as Grace and Cherel looked at him in disbelief.
"Remind me next time not to save you!" Kagome said and pushed Inuyasha in the back. When she did however, he fell straight over, agony written all over his face.
"Oh, dear. Inuyasha!" Grace gasped, running over to Inuyasha and helped him up.
"It looks like he's still in pain." Cherel said.
"If it hurts so much then you should have said something!" Kagome told him.
"Le-Leave me alone!" Inuyasha replied, groaning and Grace covered my mouth with my hand to hide a smile.
"Oh...we better not forget Kaede." Grace said.
"Ah...right." Inuyasha said.
Back in the forest, Kaede was still in the ground.
"Inuyasha! Only by working together will ye triumph." Kaede called out before she spit the leaves out of her mouth. "Also, don't ye dare forget where ye have buried me."
Next Time:
"Aristocratic Assassin, Sesshomaru"
See You Soon!
