In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight...

I couldn't resist.

In The Mighty Jungle

The last two ingredients could be found in one location. The Amazon. But the rainforest was vast and still much of it unexplored. Finding the last two items could prove difficult. But fueled by their success, all twelve of them remained hopeful. The dense forest was perfect terrain for ODM gear so, for once, Levi, Eren and Armin could move about freely with the others beside them. They all raced across the forest to the spot they were told they could find the fruit.

Eren: "So what does a soursop fruit look like?!"

Gohan: "Long, green and prickly!"

Eren: "How big is it?!"

Gohan: "About 7.9 to 11.8 inches! About the size of your average foot!"

Eren: "Long, green, prickly and as big as an average foot! Thank god! I was worried it'd be small!"

Krillin: "Don't get overconfident, Eren! Out here a green prickly foot can be hard to find! Heh-heh!"

Levi: "Bad joke! Really bad joke!"

Shunsui: "I'm incline to agree!"

Piccolo: "We're here!"

And just like that, everyone stopped at the spot. They were deep in the jungle with many animal sounds echoing around them.

Gohan: "Ok... Soursop trees don't grow very tall so we fortunately don't have to fight our way up anything. We should be able to just reach up and pick them once we find them. When we find one, we'll need gloves as the fruit IS prickly enough to hurt."

Armin: "And what about the cobra?"

Gohan: "The cobra's gonna require some teamwork as it is deadly. But we'll cross that road when we come to it."

Krillin: "Hey where are Trunks and Goten? I swear, you can't take your eyes off them for one minute."

Everyone looked around. The boys were nowhere to be seen!

Toushiro: "Seriously?! Why NOW of ALL TIMES?!"

Then a faint cry.

Goten: "Gohan!"

Gohan: "Goten?! Where are you?!"

Goten: "I'm over here!"

Trunks: "We found it!"

Gohan: "Stay where you are!"

The group ran in the direction the boy's voices were coming from. Behind a dense patch of bush, they found the half saiyan boys.

Gohan: "Goten! Don't disappear like that again, Mom'll KILL me if anything happened to you!"

Goten: "I'm sorry, Gohan."

Toushiro: "Same thing with you, Trunks! I promised your mom I'd watch you, so don't DO that AGIAN!"

Trunks: "Geez, sorry. But look! We found the fruit!"

Right over the boys' heads was the long green prickly fruit they were looking for.

Gohan: "Well alright then. Who's got the gloves?"

Krillin: "I do. Here, let me."

Despite being shorter than Levi and only a few feet taller than Trunks and Goten, Krillin was able to just reach up and pick the fruit from the tree. He examined it to make such that it was an intact specimen.

Krillin: "Looks good! No holes or anything."

Piccolo: "Excellent. Just one more."

Eren: "So how are we gonna find the cobra?"

Toushiro: "THAT is gonna be the hard part."

Krillin: "Guess we just need to look for a cobra, find a cobra, and see if we bow down to it, heh-heh-heh!"

A lot of them just groaned and moaned.

Eren: "Ugh... Krillin..."

Levi: "Again... bad joke..."

Krillin: "Yeah, that one was bad, I admit it."

Seeing as how they just couldn't go out and search for a cobra, the gang headed back to the port city at the mouth of the great river that ran through the immense forest. Belem was a busy city with many locals who knew the forest and her creatures well. This is where they got the info of where to find the soursop fruit, so they headed back to ask around about king cobras. Some said that there was this guy who had some for sale in town. But when they found him, they discovered that the cobra's fangs had been removed for safety. Since they needed a cobra with fangs still attached, they moved on. Eventually Ukitake found a guide who had seen a very big king cobra just recently. The guide gave them the location where he often saw the snake and the gang headed there. Problem was it was a full days travel into the jungle. But they didn't have much of a choice as no one else has seen a cobra in the neighboring forest for a while now, or they wanted paid for their info. They followed the river up to the point given and headed into the jungle. They searched all day but couldn't find the snake. Near the end, they were all starting to give up.

Krillin: "We're never gonna find this snake. I mean it could be ANYWHERE!"

Armin: "We're so close..."

Levi: "Let's just keep looking."

Toushiro followed behind the others when he heard Trunks and Goten fooling around behind them.

Goten: "That wasn't fair, Trunks!"

Trunks: "Too bad!"

Finally, all his patience snapped.

Toushiro: "Knock it OFF!"

Trunks: "Knock what off?"

Toushiro: "THIS! You two are fooling around and you don't even seem to care that both of your dads are sick and could die if we don't return with the remedy by TOMORROW, and incase you haven't noticed, we can't FIND that last ingredient!"

Trunks: "Geez, don't blow a gasket, Toushiro! If our dads do die we can just wish 'em back with the dragon balls."

Toushiro: "NO! Trunks, you don't get it- that's not the POINT! The point is to try and save them so we DON'T have to use the dragon balls! The dragon balls can't be the answer every single time! And both of your dads have been wished back before so we'd have to go to Planet Namek and use theirs!"

Goten looked apologetic, but Trunks did not.

Trunks: "I know that!"

Toushiro: "Then be SERIOUS, Trunks! My god, you two are the sons of the greatest warriors in the universe and here you are acting like spoiled bra-..."

Toushiro froze, his eyes only just now finding the hidden danger by the boys.

Toushiro: "*Gasps slowly* ... Trunks... Goten... Don't move..."

Trunks: "Why-"

Toushiro: "DON'T!... Move..."

Goten and Trunks saw the young captain looking down at their feet. Both boys gazed down to see a huge snake standing up into a defensive posture and spreading its trademark cobra hood. It was the king cobra they were looking for and it was dangerously close to the boys!

Goten: "T-Toushiro!"

Toushiro: "Don't move!... Don't move... Don't make any sudden movements..."

Both Trunks and Goten kept their eyes on the snake as it hissed at them threateningly.

Toushiro: "Guys!... Guys, com'er, quick!"

The rest of the gang returned to find the situation the boys were in.

Goten: "Gohan!-"

Gohan: "Don't move, Goten! Toushiro's right, just stay where you are!"

Krillin: "So has anyone ever handled a snake before?! Please tell me someone has!"

Levi: "I have."

The whole group just looked at Levi.

Levi: "Don't ask."

As he approached, Levi pulled out the capsule with the stuff needed to collect the venom and handed it to Gohan.

Levi: "You know how to get the venom?"

Gohan: "Yeah."

Levi: "Ok, I'll grab its tail and hold it for you so you can get it."

Gohan: "Be careful, Levi. It's a long way to the nearest hospital that can treat a cobra bite."

Slowly Levi drew a blade and carefully positioned it just a little to the left of the snake. The snake's reflection could be seen easily on the steel blade and the cobra bought the distraction, thinking its own reflection was another snake. Trunks and Goten were very eager to get out of there.

Gohan: "Hold on, boys... Wait 'til Levi gets a hold of it."

The snake kept hissing and striking at the blade, believing it was defending itself or its territory from another. As slowly and silently as he could, Levi began to reach down. He kept waving the blade back and forth to make the reflection appear as if it was striking back thus keeping the real cobra distracted enough for him to try and grab its tail. He was inches away from the tail and waited for the perfect moment. The cobra struck out at the blade, the moment Levi was waiting for! Unable to reload itself in time, the cobra was helpless as the soldier picked it up by the tail and held it up off the ground. But holding it off the ground was no easy feat either as the snake was just as long as Levi is tall. With the cobra occupied with Levi, Trunks and Goten hurried back to the adults. With the cobra in one hand, Levi took out one of his blades from his scabbard and turned it around so the end the blades attached to the grip were facing down at the snake. Carefully Levi worked the end down around the snake's head to pin it to the dirt. Once the snake's head was secured by the blade clip, the soldier let go of the tail and picked up the snake again only by holding it at the base of the head. With a firm hold on the snake, not hard enough to hurt it by hard enough so it could't slip out and bite him, Levi put his blade away and just picked up the king cobra. The snake was secured and everyone clapped at the soldier's efforts.

Shunsui: "Nicely done."

Eren: "I KNEW Captain Levi could do it!"

Levi: "Phew... Haven't had to do that in a while. (Looks up at Gohan) Now what?"

Gohan: "Just hold it and I'll do the rest."

Gohan dug out the vile designed for extracting venom from a snake. The vile had a thin cover on it to mimic something the snake would have to bite through to persuade it into using its venom. Carefully Gohan worked the vile up to the snake's mouth and started agitating it to make it bite.

Gohan: "Keep a firm hold of it, Levi."

Levi: "I am, don't worry."

Finally the snake opened up and sank its long fangs into the vile. They could see clearly the snake pumping the milky, slightly yellowish colored, venom into the vile. After a few seconds, the snake gave all it was going to. The vile, no bigger than the length of a finger, was a quarter of the way full.

Gohan: "That's plenty..."

With the cobra's job done Levi released the snake back into the jungle, heading away from them of course.

Gohan: "Alright, we're done!"

Trunks: "Yes!"

Goten: "Wahoo!"

Toushiro: "Let's get a move on and get these back to Goku and Vegeta, pronto!"