Last time: Kagome, Michelle, and Kay were kidnapped by Koubakoutai, the plant shape shifter, and sister to Katakoutai. They were brought to Naraku's castle, and he tried to get some answers out of them, but his attempts were in vain.

Chapter 17: The Battle

InuYasha smirked.

"The castle's right up ahead. I can smell Naraku..." InuYasha said, his voice filled with venom.

Even though the group was right on Kagura's tail when they started, now they were far behind, because Kagura can fly faster than all of them. Though, they weren't too far behind. Just a little bit.

"I hope Kagome, Michelle and Kay are all right," Sango said, looking out ahead of them, worried.

"Do not worry, my dear Sango. I'm sure they'll survive long enough for us to reach them," Miroku said, putting his hand on Sango's shoulder.

"I hope you're right, Miroku," Sango said, looking around.

For once, Miroku's hand didn't stray south of Sango's waist, and it remained on her shoulder.

Charlie sped up, making Shippo jump a little and topple off Charlie's head and onto InuYasha's lap. InuYasha growled and Shippo jumped back onto Charlie's head as they flew over the treetops and other physical features.

Charlie landed in front of a barrier and InuYasha got off him and broke it using his Tetsusaiga. The group ran ahead as fast as they could move. Soon the castle was in view, and the group sped to get inside.

Silently they traveled through the castle, using InuYasha's nose to try and find the girls. By InuYasha's judgment, they were almost all the way on the other side of the castle. Fun.

InuYasha threw aside the door to the dungeon and saw Kagome, Kay, and Michelle, sitting there, jumping up at the noise. Kay was surprised that she didn't know that they were here, but who could blame her? She was trapped in a dungeon.

All the girls brightened up immediately, smiling widely and watching the group come into the room.

"InuYasha, get my chains. They have a barrier around them. After they're broken I can destroy all of our chains," Kay said, watching InuYasha as he drew his Tetsusaiga and walked over to her. The Tetsusaiga turned red and he sliced through the chains, breaking the barrier and the chains in one swipe. Kay dug her nails in the chains and they disappeared, and she walked over to Michelle and Kagome and did the same. Kay went over to the wall and got their weapons, returning them to the right owners.

"Let's go!" Michelle said as she ran towards the exit. But something stopped her. The castle started to shake and the floor felt like it was going to fall out from under their feet. They could feel the castle floor rising, and they started to run towards the exit.

"There's the door!" Sango said as they reached the end of the maze of hallways. Shippo reached to open the door, but Kay stopped him.

"What's that for?" Shippo asked.

Kay pushed the door and they were all looking down to the ground, which was slowly getting farther and farther away.

"Kirara, Charlie, transform and get us out of here!" Sango said, looking at the two animals.

We can't, Charlie said telepathically to all of them. Something about the miasma won't let us transform.

"Damn!" InuYasha said.

"We can't all jump down. The only ones who wouldn't be killed by the landing is Shippo, whoever goes on him while he's transformed into that pink thing, and InuYasha. And maybe Kirara and Charlie" Kay said as she reached for the door and shut it, not wanting to look down that far anymore. It freaked her out. "There's only one thing we can do," Kay said.

"Find Naraku!" InuYasha barked, growling deeply.

They all nodded and set off, trying to keep their balance as the castle shook. It didn't help when support beams would collapse and the ceiling would break in places.

Soon enough they made it to the center of the castle, and Kay looked around. The room was dark, so dark that it was hard to see properly, even if you were a dog and had heightened senses. They all looked around, seeing nothing but darkness. "He should be here..."

Suddenly the ground convulsed and parts of the floor fell out.

"AIEEEEEEE!" screamed Kagome as she fell down the hole. InuYasha jumped down after her, all intentions on saving her. Kay pulled Michelle back against the wall right before the floor fell out right where they were standing a minute ago. Then Charlie fell through.

"CHARLIE!" Kay yelled as she looked down through the darkness. You couldn't see farther than a few feet, but you could tell that the hole went on for a long time.

Sango and Miroku's screams could be heard, and Kirara also fell down with Sango, mewing a couple times before her voice vanished. The young fox demon had been jumping around and around, avoiding the falling platforms, but soon miss-jumped and fell down. He was probably going to go help the others. He was almost the only one who could. Kay looked at Michelle and stood up, looking around for any more signs that the floor was going to move.

Kay pushed Michelle and once again the floor that they had just been standing on collapsed. Now all that was left was a long strip of floor that went from the door, where they were standing, to the end, which they could not see, but Kay assumed was a long ways away.

They both drew their swords, the fire surrounding them making the room glow in purple and blue hues. They walked forward, their swords out in front of them to protect them from anything that might attack them or cause them harm.

They saw a figure in the distance and recognized them immediately.

"Naraku!" Michelle barked out. Surprise there.

Kay ran towards Naraku, her sword up high, and she jumped, bringing her sword down right on top of him. He blocked her attack with a tentacle and she tried to strike again, being blocked for a second time. She jumped back and drew a circle with the tip of her sword, making a thin line in the tatami mat beneath her. She jumped out of the circle and stabbed the middle of it, causing flames to burst from the center. "Hell's Flame!" Kay yelled with a smirk. The flame circled her sword and made it strong enough to melt any metal, and she ran at Naraku with her sword high.

"You cannot kill me!" Naraku shouted, sending a tentacle at Kay.

She dodged it and asked, "Why not!"

"Because... I AM YOUR FATHER!"

"And I'm the queen of England!" Kay said, slicing through a tentacle in front of Naraku.

Meanwhile Michelle tried to figure out how to use Fire Snake by standing around dumbly and watching the battle halfheartedly. Draw a spiral with your sword and stab the center! Kay said with her mind.

We have to stab the ground a lot, don't we? Michelle asked.

Your point?

Michelle drew her spiral and then stabbed the center, yelling "FIRE SNAKE!" Michelle jumped up over Kay and then hit Naraku with her sword, causing the fire from her sword to slowly circle Naraku and squeeze him.

From Kay's sword burns and Michelle's Fire Snake, you'd think that Naraku would be ready to keel over. But you know Naraku and he doesn't die easy. Kay growled and backed up, pulling Michelle with her. She grasped onto Michelle's shoulder and asked her mentally, Do you have any bleeding wounds?

Yeah... Michelle answered, sounding suspicious.

Put your blood on your sword, then strike my sword in the air, all right? Then hit the ground. We're going to do Fire Storm, Kay finished, smirking.

Michelle put her sword over a wound on her arm and Kay got blood from her leg, and they hit the swords together high in the air. With Kay's sword on top, she pushed both of their swords down to the ground, both of them yelling, "FIRE STORM!"

It was amazing. Almost like a mix of the Backlash Wave and other attacks in one. The flames coming from the ground was sent toward Naraku in a whirlwind of fire, swirling and going straight towards him.

But suddenly the attack stopped and was heading back towards them.

"WHAT THE HELL!" yelled Michelle as Kay gulped down whatever got in her throat.

And then a flash of red and white landed in front of them. It was InuYasha! He smirked, bringing down his sword in the right spot, producing the Backlash Wave, which was even more impressive with two attacks already in the demonic energy. And then another surprise was given to them. A boomerang with sacred sutras went right behind the Backlash Wave, and an arrow managed to wedge itself right up to the front of the attack.

When the fire, dust and dirt cleared, the castle had stopped rising, and Naraku was nowhere to be seen. Slowly the miasma disappeared and a single thing was left where Naraku was standing. Kay walked over to it, and picked up whatever it was. She grinned.

"Well, I'm pretty sure Naraku's dead, because he wouldn't willingly leave his portion of the Jewel for us to take," Kay said, clasping her hand around the Jewel.

She turned around to look at Michelle and InuYasha, who were both grinning, which was very surprising. Behind them was Shippo, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Kirara, and Charlie, all looking very pleased with themselves.

"Let's go home," Shippo said, jumping up on Kagome's shoulder.

"Yeah, let's," Kay said, walking towards the group and giving Kagome the Jewel.

Next time: Now that Naraku is dead, will the group go their separate ways? What will become of Kay and Michelle?

Kay: I feel sad.

Michelle: Why?

Kay: I feel like this story is coming to an end.

Michelle: Shouldn't you know if it is or isn't?

Kay: Um... I guess. But I don't want it to end! -cry- -sob-

Michelle: Ew. Emotions.

Kay: -sob- Next chapter, is, sniff, Kay's Promise...

Michelle: all right... Anyway, you people reading this: REVIEW!