HA! Neko, that first chapter was 7!!! Paragraphs! Not three! So Moo Moo, Bunny Foo Foo!!
Sesshomaru looked around in frustration. He had been following the trail of Rin's scent until he had lost his demon powers. He had found that all his senses had dulled, and he felt much weaker. He squinted hard in the fading light, trying to look for foot prints or anything that would give him a clue as to where Rin was. As he walked through the darkness, he stepped on something about the size of a young child.
"RIN!" he shouted. As the something stirred beneath him, he crouched down to see Rin smiling back at him.
But it wasn't.
Instead, he saw Jaken struggling beneath his foot. Sesshomaru lifted up his foot from his servant's head. Jaken struggled to pull his face out of the mud, only to get his hands stuck. Sesshomaru plucked the pitiful creature out of the muck, and Jaken wiped the mud off his face. He took a deep breath after being trapped in the mud. After that, he made his best attempt to glare at Sesshomaru, but decided not to after remembering that it was, after all, his own fault Rin had been kidnapped, and so his own fault that they were tromping through this bog.
"Just when the mud was starting to fall off me…" he sighed. Sesshomaru would have laughed at the little frog, looking like an idiot covered in mud, but he never showed his emotions, especially not joy or happiness. Instead, he plopped him back into the mud on his rear and kept walking. Jaken waddled after him through the thickening mud. He was carrying the Staff of Heads, a staff that was bigger then him and had the head of and old man and a young woman on it. It had been used to find Sesshomaru's father's grave, before his humiliating defeat by his scrawny half breed brother Inu Yasha. While Jaken wondered how such a mutt of a creature had defeated Sesshomaru, the rain that had been falling so heavily was replaced with a light, cold mist. Jaken shivered. He hated being cold-blooded.
The moon hovered in the sky, and Sesshomaru noted, it was nearly full. The large orb smiled down on the earth, giving Sesshomaru enough light so that he could see. Jaken kept well behind him to prevent being stepped on, and his mouth shut about his master's tail to avoid being kicked.
"L-Lord Ssssesshomaru?" he shivered. "Aren't you c-cold?" Sesshomaru ignored him, but he admitted to himself that he WAS cold with out his big tail to keep him warm. Jaken tried again to get his message across. "Maybe we can make a fire… and stop and rest or-"
"Do you want a fire, Jaken?" Sesshomaru hissed. He was now thoroughly annoyed not only at Jaken, but at the rest of the damn world. Jaken nodded sheepishly. "Well, how about you find some dry wood for us to start a fire with?" Jaken shut up. He looked down at the ground dejectedly as they kept walking. Sesshomaru would make a fire if Rin asked…
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Sesshomaru didn't answer. "I was wondering… well…" Jaken looked up "What would happen if a demon attacked us while you were still human?"
Sesshomaru stopped walking. In all his frustration and anger, he hadn't thought of that. Jaken stepped closer to Sesshomaru's leg, as if some giant demon was right around the corner.
"Come Jaken" he said as he looked up a large tall tree. He knew that he would be safe up there, from some things at least. He leaped gracefully up to a branch about 10 feet up in the air, only to get a rude reminder that he was no longer a demon. He landed on his feet in the squishy earth. He glared at the tree branch. He looked back to see whether or not Jaken was laughing, because at the moment he needed someone to pummel, but his vassal was waiting patiently, which, in a way, made Sesshomaru even more annoyed. He looked for a way to climb up the tree, and saw a knot hole. He stuck his foot into it and clawed at the tree, trying to insert his non-existent talons into the tree. His foot slipped out of the knot hole, and he landed on the ground again. Now he was pissed. It was bad enough to be humiliated by any one in front of any thing, even Jaken. But to be humiliated by a tree? "Damn sapling…" he muttered.
He took a slash at the tree, "POISON TALONS!" he shouted. Jaken watched, not showing his amusement as Sesshomaru's hand hit the tree. He groaned in pain looking at his hand. He glared at the tree, as though it were his worst rival. He snarled, backed up a few steps and charged the tree. Jaken followed the motion with his head as Sesshomaru rammed into the tree and came crashing backwards.
'Maybe I should tell him about that lower branch on the other side of the tree…' Jaken thought. Sesshomaru looked at him and said, "Jaken, don't say a word" Jaken decided it was a good time to shut up. Sesshomaru snatched the staff of heads away from Jaken. He watched as Sesshomaru spun the head of the staff in a circle three times. The mouth of the old man on the staff opened into a toothless grin, and flames erupted from its mouth. The flames engulfed the tree, and for a moment, Sesshomaru held a look of triumph, a look of ha ha you stupid tree-now you'll burn in hell. He held the look until the flames died down off the tree and then his look of vengeance faded into a stupid blink. The tree stood there, unharmed, not even charred.
"Lord Sesshomaru…" Jaken said nervously. Sesshomaru turned to Jaken with a look of disgust on his face. He threw the staff back to Jaken, and Jaken caught it. "The tree… was wet M'lord…" Jaken winced as the aggravated human threw a tree branch at Jaken, hitting him in the head. He tried to maintain his balance, spinning his arms in frantic circles. He didn't want to end up in the mud again, at any cost. As he swung his arms, the Staff of Heads spun three times in his flailing arms. The mouth of the old man opened, sending a shower of flames off just to the right of where the tree Sesshomaru had had a fight to the death with and hit another tree. If Sesshomaru hadn't leaped aside, the fire would have scorched him. He was about to shout profound words at Jaken, who had recovered from his near fall, looking dizzy, when he heard a buzzing sound from behind him. It started as a low hum, then began to grow louder. Jaken had recovered from his dizzy spell, and looked around.
"Lord Sesshomaru, what's that noise?"
"It sounds like an earthquake"
"or a lawnmower"
"a chainsaw?"
"hairdryer?"
"truck?"
"stampeding horses?
Sesshomaru turned around. "IT'S A NEST OF GIANT DEMON BEES!"
He took a slash at one of them, before remembering his predicament. Though he hated it, his only choice was to run. He grabbed Jaken and bolted gracefully off. At least it would have been graceful…
"LORD SESSHOMARU! You cheated! When you play a guessing game, your not allowed to look at what you're guessing!" Jaken shouted. Sesshomaru looked down in disbelief at Jaken. The would-be-graceful human crashed into a tree as he did so. The bee's swarmed around them, huge, about 9 or 10 feet. They had red bands around their body and huge, red eyes like those on fly's.
The bees quickly surrounded them, cutting off all their escape routes. Sesshomaru stood up and Jaken hid behind him.
"I think their mad, m'lord… maybe it would be a good time to think of something to do…" Sesshomaru glared at him as he grabbed the staff from his hands. The old man's mouth opened, and a barrage of flames flew from it, showering the wasps with hot embers. The cloak of ash around the bee's dissipated. Sesshomaru panted and looked up, knowing that the insects were burned to a crisp. They had to be.
"L-lord Sesshomaru…" Jaken clutched his pant's leg "Why weren't they burned?" Sesshomaru looked on in disbelief as the wasps buzzed angrily. All at once, they charged at them, stingers first. Sesshomaru dodged the first wasp as it lunged at him. He felt one of the barbed stingers slice into his side. He felt the stinging pain as soon as the wasp hit him, but their was no time to think about it now. He darted between two of the wasps, with Jaken clinging to his bunny-rabbit tail. The wasps followed, buzzing loudly behind them like a train on a rampage. One of the quicker wasps caught up and took a stab at Jaken, hitting him in the back. Jaken shouted and let go of Sesshomaru's tail. He crashed onto the ground and rolled a few feet before coming face to face with one of the venomous wasps. It was only a few inches from his face, making it look even more formidable. Jaken could see his face reflecting in each little segment of those huge eyes. The wasp buzzed and backed up several feet before lunging back at him. Jaken closed his eyes and felt the stinger smack into his stomach, and then he felt a hand on his shoulder pulling him back. He opened his eyes and saw Sesshomaru, stabbed in several places from the stinger's, trying to fight off the wasps as they lunged at him again and again, successfully stabbing him each time. Sesshomaru threw a wild punch at one of them, but it was deflected from the insect's hard carapace.
"Damn…" he swore under his breath. One of the wasps slammed into his side, knocking him backwards several feet. Sesshomaru looked behind him and saw the edge of a cliff, lava boiling beneath it.
Jaken could feel Sesshomaru's hot blood dripping onto him mixed with the poison from the wasps, which he could feel setting in as his vision blurred. He was so dizzy that he didn't feel Sesshomaru wrap something around his waist. "Jaken, I want you to run off that cliff when I say 'now' " Jaken's eyes widened.
"YOU WANT ME TO WHAT!!??" he shouted.
"Just do it Jaken" Sesshomaru said as the wasps closed in. He put Jaken on the ground and sped off in the other direction. The wasps flew after him in a flurry of wings and stingers. Jaken sat on the ground and inched closer to the pool of magma.
'I only hope Lord Sesshomaru has a good plan… one that won't kill me…'
Sesshomaru ran through the swamp, he could feel his energy draining. He looked back to make sure the wasps were following him. They were so fast. Too fast for their own good. Sesshomaru suddenly skidded to a stop and ran straight into the onslaught of wasps. They seemed slightly taken aback, but they turned around and followed him. They started to pick up speed, just as Sesshomaru knew they would. What he didn't know was how the poison was seeping through him as he ran, making him slower. He could feel his limbs going numb as he tried to run faster. He saw Jaken looking into the pool of molten earth. He hoped this would work. He grabbed something laying on the ground and ducked.
"NOW JAKEN!" Jaken looked back uncertainly, but he obeyed and threw himself off the cliff.
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Um… sorry did I kill any one in this chapter…?
Heh
And to BS007, can I use your 'Jaken lantern' pun? That was funny ^-^
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