InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Woodin Cylinders And Red Herrings ❯ Pixie Shit ( Chapter 3 )

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Pixie Shit

They arrived at their destination town as the sun set. They actually had to actually pay for rooms at an inn this time. But it allowed Miroku inquired about the traveler his friend had told him about.

"Whadya wanna talk ta him fer?" the innkeeper asked "Tha guys' crazy, always talkin' ta flowers n' such. Says there's some kinda foreign youkia what keeps trying ta spike the towns water supply r' sumtin'."

"Do you know where he is or not?" Miroku was losing his considerable patients with this man, he never seemed to answer a question unless to cast doubt on your intelligence, intentions, or sanity.

"Yeah, Jus' look fer the house on the east side with a whole garden of headless flowers, crazy bastard." He mumbled that last bit to himself and wandered away.

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Midmorning the next day the group stood in front of a lone house on the edge of the village. A large patch of flowers, all without heads, stretched out around the front and sides of the house. A sign on the door read "Out gathering, back soon".

"Now what?" InuYasha crossed his arms, haughtily.

"We wait." Kagome said flatly. She was getting scared with parts of her body turning off for no reason. If this guy could help her get control back she would sit on his porch for a week.

And so they sat. Well, the humans sat on the porch, InuYasha disappeared into the trees by the road while Kirara and Shippo chased the disappointed butterflies in the strange garden.

InuYasha watched as Sango helped Kagome to drink some water. He hated this. Kagome's body was under attack and all he could do was watch. He couldn't even… kill the thing that was doing this to her. He couldn't comfort her like he wanted to.

Kagome sat on the porch feeling very sorry for herself; she had come to the conclusion that this was acceptable. Stuff was happening to her and she didn't know what it was! So, at least until the traveler arrived she was going to wallow in this rare state. Anyway it beats being scared all the time.

Finally, a strong and straight and very old man came walking up from the woods to the north of the village. In his arms a bundle of flower stems.

He stopped under the tree that InuYasha was currently lounging in. and looked at the group siting on his porch. "Are you looking for me?" he asked.

"Yes," Miroku stood, "we require a scroll be to translated and were told that you could help us."

"Maybe, maybe," the man walked to the porch "Come in, come in. I'm guessing the dog boy in the tree and the fire cat and fox cub in my garden are with you lot?"

"…Yes," Miroku answered, "That is InuYasha, Kirara and Shippo, I am Miroku and the ladies are Kagome and Sango."

"Kallum." Kallum added, "Best all of you come in then, won't do to have strange hanyou and youkia hanging around outside, not with my neighbors."

"Excuse me Kallum," Kagome asked him, "but why do you collect flower stems?"

Kallum blinked down at the headless stems he held, "Fuck!… I mean, darn…. She did it to me again." Dropping the bundle immediately he led the group inside.

"So what did you want from me?" He asked as they sat.

Miroku pulled out the wooden cylinder handed it to the Kallum, "We believe that this scroll could explain some unusual things that have been happening to a friend of ours."

"So Kagome is cursed and this thing had something to do with it, right?" Kallum took the cylinder and looked it over.

"Uh, right."

"Do not open until spell is in place." Kallum read off the bottom plug. "The words were etched in the wax on the bottom."

"You missed it monk." InuYasha smirked.

"I didn't recognize the language, InuYasha," Miroku defended himself, "If it wasn't on the scroll I would have dismissed it as scratches."

"No," Kallum popped the un-waxed plug out and considered the dark interior, "that was one was ours."

InuYasha's smirk gained in strength.

Kallum tipped the cylinder and the scroll fell into his hand. He untied the ribbon and unrolled it. "Hmmm." He nodded.

"What does it say?" Kagome asked anxiously.

"I don't know."

"This was all a waste of time." InuYasha jumped up.

"But it does look familiar, I have this friend…" Kallum continued.

"Let me guess, another few days journey right?" InuYasha crossed his arms and scowled.

"No…"Kallum blinked, "calm down dog boy, we'll figure out what's going on with your girlfriend."

InuYasha sputtered for a second and sat back down, shocked, he and Kagome blushed.

"How did you know-" Miroku started.

"Shut up monk!" InuYasha yelled.

"I notice things," Kallum shrugged, "your group isn't too hard to pair up. So this friend of mine, she should be close." He looked up at the ceiling, "Dusty, please grace us with your presence."

Nothing.

"Dusty I need your help…."

The others were beginning to think the innkeeper was right about him.

"HEY, PIXIE SHIT! GET YOUR ELVEN ASS DOWN HERE!"

Th-pop!

And there she was, looking every bit like fourteen-year-old girl. Except she was hovering three feet off the ground, had shimmering transparent wings, very pointy ears and was wearing a short dress made of pink flower petals, really big ones. She was curled up with her arms crossed over her chest and her ankles crossed, she wore a pretty pout and her impossibly blue eyes glared at the space directly in front of her.

"If you weren't an OLD MAN, I'd turn you into a … toad!" she spat.

"You cut your hair." Kallum said, clearly unconcerned.

She unfolded her arms to run her hands through her sandy bobbed hair, "I lost a bet, stupid potions with stupid ingredients…. If that dragon fly had been just a little bit faster I … this had better be good old man Kallum, I was on my way to a party in Ireland, wanna come?" She was instantly bright and cheery.

"To a fairy party in Ireland? Would I even be able to communicate with them?"

Dusty waved her arms in the air, "Who needs to talk! It's a Party! Come on, you could go to fairy and live forever." She slowly drifted to the floor next to Kallum.

"Or just think they took me to fairy and die a slow death by starvation."

"Oh, you would die of thirst long before you starved, and you wouldn't even know till after you died!" dusty almost sounded serious. "I'd take care of you old friend."

"I'm happy here Dusty." Kallum held the scroll up to her. "Translate this."

"Oh joy." She took the scroll and looked it over. "So, who's this for?"

"Them, didn't you notice them when you got here?" He motioned to the group.

Dusty looked at them blankly for a minute, "It didn't seem important…. A HALF-BREED!" she squealed and was suddenly kneeling next to InuYasha, "I'm Pixie Dusty, half pixie and half…something else" she laughed brightly, "we can't remember, pixie memory you know. Well, I guess you wouldn't. So, your half human and half …what?" she could talk fast. InuYasha was in shock so Kallum answered for him.

"Dog youkia, I thought you'd like that." He smiled.

"I love dogs," she cooed, "never met a dog based thing I didn't like. Ooh ears!" suddenly her hands were at his ears, gently caressing and stroking them.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" Kallum yelled.

Dusty pulled her hands back as if burned. "Oh, oops."

InuYasha had been recovering from his shock when she grabbed his ears, then he started to feel wonderful and didn't care what was going on at all.

The others watched fascinated as InuYasha smiled in a drunken fashion and leaned back against the wall, completely relaxed.

"What just happened?" Sango asked.

"Pixie dust" Kallum answered. "See how she shimmers in the light? That's pixie dust in its original form. The stuff on her palms has a euphoric effect."

"Will InuYasha be alright?" Kagome asked.

"Um, yeah," Dusty looked from InuYasha to Kagome, back to InuYasha as she spoke, "he's just going to be really happy for a while." Then it struck her, "His name is InuYasha? That's worse than mine!"

"What's wrong with your name?" Kagome asked.

"Oh, besides seeming to be named after a substance that comes out of my skin? Well," Dusty turned to face Kagome properly, "in a certain region, back home, the people have a slight misunderstanding as to how pixie dust comes into being. Making my name loosely translate as Pixie Shit, call me that and I'll turn you into something horrible."

"Does that always happen when you touch someone?" Miroku glanced at the still doped up hanyou.

"No, only certain creatures of powerful bloodlines," now she turned to Miroku, "most animal based peoples are somewhat immune to me, but sometimes that immunity doesn't make it to all the offspring. I guess InuYasha being half-human his chances were greater. See, the potency is proportional to the power that the creature holds. The more powerful they are the harder my dust hits them." She looked at InuYasha again, "He must be quiet a guy. I only touched him on a small area." She returned to the scroll.

"Can you read it?" Kallum asked.

"Yes."

"What does it say." Miroku asked somewhat anxiously.

"I don't know."

"What?!" everyone in the hut asked at once, except InuYasha. Everyone was glad InuYasha wasn't coherent at the moment. Someone probably would have died.

"Well, I can read part of it," Dusty looked up pouting, "but the important stuff is in legal. Really twisted up stuff to. There are no less five "parties of the" and no names at all. And that's just the beginning of this web. The spells are even harder. Tell me what happened so that I can try to tell you what's happening."

They explained the about the incident with the ogre. Dusty kneeled between InuYasha and Kagome watching Kagome with interest. Suddenly, Kagome gasped and lifted her hands in front of her face.

"My arms! Their back!" Kagome laughed, flexing her hands.

"Interesting" Dusty said. Looking Kagome up and down.

"So, what did the scroll say?" InuYasha asked. He was still kind of … happy, but he was more aware now.

"Ah, well." Dusty wiggled into what she thought to be a more professional position, "Some of the actual text is still rather confusing, however I do now know that the ogre is the forth party, Kagome is the fifth, the third is the caster of the spells and the first and second are still complete mysteries."

"Spells?" Miroku asked, "There is more than one?"

"Yeah, actually it's pretty complex but Kagome will probably have to strip before I can see the extent, like I said, the spell is in code or something."

"Strip?" Miroku asked again.

"Well, all spells require a physical manifestation Like InuYasha's rosary." She did a double take, "A lot like his rosary. Anyway, I'm guessing that Kagome has a bruise, that bruise is likely to `hold' the spell. In order to get a feel for the spells I would have to either figure out the text, or see the mark."

"So that's it?" InuYasha was really trying to get annoyed; he just couldn't quite make it. "That's all you can do?"

"No, I figured out what happened." Dusty sighed, "but I have to start at the beginning. The party of the first part asked something of the party of the second part who enlisted the help of the caster the spells. The caster of the spells agreed to cast a spell on and for the ogre if he would strike the short-skirted miko on the stomach with the enchanted cylinder. At which time he would come into ownership of the spells and the one on him would activate. The first spell, the one on Kagome, seems to put her somewhat under the power of the owner. It's word activated, like the rosary, I'll have to study the actual spell to find out what it does. But the ogre was killed. So, what happened to the spell on the ogre and who owns the spells now?"

Dusty paused dramatically, "The spell that was placed on Kagome was supposed to be transferred to the party of the first part after the spell on the ogre was complete, according to the contract anyway. If the ogre was killed before this happened, the spells ownership would be temporarily moved to … the killer of the ogre!" Dusty said happily.

"So InuYasha owns the spell on Kagome." Sango said, "What does that mean?"

"Well, Kagome's spell isn't related to whatever is going on with her body. It was made for her and so that should be fine. You just haven't stumbled on that word yet. However, the ogre was killed before his spell was manifested on himself. I'm guessing that the spell coming to him followed the energy trail to Kagome and nested with the other one rather than just dissipate."

"What was the ogres spell?" Kagome asked.

"He wanted to be perfect," Dusty answered, "but this part of the scroll has a sarcastic sound to it. Meaning I don't think it was going to do what he thought it was going to do. He was just a convenient way to get the first spell to Kagome. Never trust a vengeance demon unless you're getting vengeance."

"Vengeance demon?" Everyone asked.

"Oh yeah I forgot the ribbon and the text go together as well as the over use of legal type writing. It's a vengeance demon. Someone wanted revenge on Kagome. And it isn't corporal, or else it wouldn't have used a bruise as a physical manifestation of the spell."

"What is going to happen to Kagome now?" Sango asked.

"She will experience whatever fun the vengeance demon was going to have with the ogre, except that there is no way of knowing how the spell will react with the other spell, or being in a human female instead of a male ogre. Once it has run its course, the first spell will transfer from InuYasha to the party of the first part. Assuming Kagome survives."

"Dusty! Have a heart." Kallum reprimanded.

"What?" Dusty looked at him with a confused innocent expression.

"So, assuming Kagome isn't killed by the ogres curse," InuYasha leaned towards Dusty, "then she ends up controlled by this first party?"

"Yup."

"What can we do?" Kagome asked.

"Well the only one who could remove the spells is the owner, and the only one who knows who that is, is the vengeance demon. The caster could remove it but won't without a request from the client."

"Dusty," Kallum asked patiently, "do you have any idea how to locate this demon?"

"Well," Dusty turned sheepishly to InuYasha, "I have this friend…"

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A/N: Any guesses yet?