A/N: I hate carpel tunnel, and for those of you who think of bad things and texting as a cause they are not. The reason for my carpel tunnel in both wrists is from years (since I was 6) of writing, so thank you. Ok then, well I hope you all have enjoyed the story thus far. Please continue to review; it makes me feel good about my writing. As always I welcome criticism as long as it's constructive. I will see you all next Friday.

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There is slight cussing in this chapter please don't get offended and I am sorry to those who do.

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Disclaimer: I do not own anything except for the few characters that I have invented to make my story possible. If there are any questions about the story refer to the end of chapter 15 or leave a signed review and I will answer it.

Ch. 18 The Final Task

Jaken smiled as they cleared the end of the trench to find a huge tropical forest in front of them.

"This is it! I was so worried we had gone the wrong way!" He exclaimed as he turned to look back down the long path they had taken to get where they currently stood.

"Ka-cheep!" The Dragon exclaimed with him.

Jaken turned to the dragon and patted him on the head, "Now we just need to find the bird of paradise and capture it."

The dragon's tongue hung out its mouth as it turned to look around the expansive forest.

Jaken then looked at the paper, "The bird, according to Bokusenou, is rare so we won't see many of them and they have a bright red bill, golden rings around their eyes, their feather are green and blue, and they have a beard of feathers that look like fire on their chin."

The dragon continued to look around but then sweet music filled the air and he and Jaken stopped to listen. The sound wrapped around them like a warm blanket and filled their ears with musical honey.

They stayed like that until the sound got closer and the little birds emitting it flew by, 'What beautiful birds that create such music those are.' Jaken thought as he looked upon the couple then realizing that they were the very birds he was looking for.

"There they are!" He yelled then jumping at the birds but they continued to fly from him. He was followed by the dragon that seemed as eager as he to capture the things, and was quickly passed by him.

They followed the birds through the forest until they disappeared high up into darker trees. The dragon then took off to the sky to follow them, leaving Jaken standing at the base of the tree.

"You can catch them. Keep going!" He yelled up to the dragon as he disappeared.

Jaken waited and waited and continued to wait as the birds nor the dragon came back down from the tree. He soon gave up waiting and decided it would be best if he began to climb up the tree after them.

'Damned stupid dragon has better not to have eaten the birds.' He thought venomously as he climbed up the trunk. When he reached one of the branches he sat and decided he would call up after the dragon instead of continuing, "You better not eat them! We need them for the potion!"

He then decided that maybe he should continue and started to climb up more but stopped immediately when he heard a sound.

"Dragon?" He asked cautiously.

Then squawking was heard. He dropped back down to the branch he had originally stopped at.

"Dragon, don't kill it just bring it here!" He yelled up thinking that the squawking sound had come from one of the captured birds.

Then more squawking was heard and Jaken knew that that was not just one or even two birds as he turned and asked half hopeful, "Dragon?"

He looked up into the tree and soon a flock of demon crows came diving down towards him.

"Ahhh!!!!" He yelled as he jumped from the tree and ran away, the demon crows right behind him squawking away and snapping at his heels.

~*~ Gladiator-The Battle Music Plays (BF insisted) ~*~

Sesshomaru turned again after killing another group of human samurai that decided they stood a chance against him, "Pitiful."

He looked around at the carnage surrounding him and then his eyes locked on his target, "Yukio."

The snake demon stood on the field across from him with an evil smile marring his face, "Sesshomaru, it looks as if I will get to watch you die again after all."

"You didn't succeed the first time and shall not now." He then charged the demon with his claws extended.

Yukio spun out the way his hair whipping Sesshomaru as he passed.

Sesshomaru felt something cut his cheek as he passed the snake, "Still resorting to that blade in your hair snake?"

"Only when fools charge at me as you have."

Sesshomaru then let his acid whip form at his fingers, "You are not the only one who can resort to whipping snake."

"And here I thought we could discuss how I would kill you Sesshomaru." Yukio said with a false pout before smiling again.

Sesshomaru then attempted to dismember the snake with his whip but he managed to evade it.

"I will kill her as we did that little girl."

He spun again and missed.

"Kagome isn't it? Yes, that's it. I see it in your stance."

Sesshomaru let the whip elongate and he spun around cutting down all those who were close except for the snake, "The human means nothing to me, and even if she did you would never get near her."

Yukio laughed, "Your right, I won't have the pleasure of watching her writhe in pain and squirming away from my sword nor will I get to hear her screaming your name as I kill her like your other human did."

Sesshomaru growled red bleeding into his vision as he pulled out tokijin, "You will pay for Rin's death you bastard." He then used Dragon Strike at the snake destroying a good portion of the nearby forest.

Yukio then pulled out his daggers, "Come Sesshomaru, give me one last good fight before I kill you."

He then tried to bring the sword down on him and but he parried the blow with his daggers, "Is this your best?" Yukio said as he pushed him off.

Yukio then charged in a zigzag towards him. Sesshomaru then tried to hit the snake but he side stepped the attack at the last moment and lunged at Sesshomaru's exposed side.

Sesshomaru quickly countered the strike hitting the blade away from its target, "And is it your best to strike at someone's exposed area?"

Yukio then shrank back from Sesshomaru, "How did you know?"

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Kagome stood at the bed side of a soldier, that seemed to be in a coma after sever head trauma, re-wrapping his wounds. There was only he in the tent and there seemed to not be any new patient and she half worried that perhaps the majority were dying on the field before being brought to her and Kumiko.

Suddenly a soldier came stumbling into the tent and fell to the floor. She stopped her task and ran to his side, "Here let me help. Where are you hurt?"

The soldier only groaned in response grabbing at his side.

Kagome then began to lift the armor from his shoulders and as she did she felt a sudden stabbing pain in her abdomen followed by a warm burning. She looked down and saw the dagger and the hand that held it following it up to the soldier.

She stood up and backed away, "Why?" She said knowing already that he had tricked her and must be from the other side.

"Because your death will cause Lord Sesshomaru's death."

Kagome then pulled out the dagger and tossed it aside feeling more blood gush from her wound, "I won't die that easily."

She then took a fighting stance. The soldier pulled out another dagger, "I doubt that wench."

She then ran at him and he parried her strike, "Any wench can run at someone with a knife."

She then smiled and brought her knee up into his crouch, "Yes but I rather enjoyed doing that."

She then pushed him away and then ran at him pulling out her other dagger. He blocked the first thrust but didn't manage to block the other and her blade got him on the thigh.

He stumbled back as she did the same blood now dripping onto the dirt floor.

He laughed at her, "You are going to die wench and I will live despite this flesh wound."

He then ran at her with his dagger going for the kill. But at that moment Kumiko walked into the tent at Kagome's side and tried to push her out of the way. She managed to do so but the dagger pierced her through her arm. Kumiko rolled pulling the dagger out her arm and running at the demon. He managed to trip her and sapped her as she fell. He then turned back to Kagome as she rose to her feet. She now held her sword that had been leaning against the post near the door, "If I die I am sure as hell taking you the fuck with me."

He smiled, "Oh so you are a feisty wench."

Kagome then moved with such a speed that he was caught off guard as she ran her blade through him, "Yes I am and now you will die." She then twisted the sword and lifted it spilling his insides.

"But...how… I'm a demon and you're…" He managed to gurgle out before falling to the floor dead.

"And I'm one wench you shouldn't have fucked with." She said as her world went black.

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Sesshomaru swung tokijin again but his sword was met by Yukio's dagger before they pushed away from one another.

"You are lucky Sesshomaru that I didn't allow Naraku or the others to dirty themselves by raping the child. But I can't promise they won't restrain themselves when it comes to that miko. She is untouched after all and fully developed on top of that." Yukio said as he dodged Sesshomaru's following blow.

Sesshomaru quickly turned running at him with his demonic speed and crashed with the snake into a tree, "Your filthy worms will not lay one hand on her!" He began to squeeze his neck.

Yukio then gasped laughing, "She will die even if you kill me and there is nothing you can do about it. Someone is with her at this very moment and they will kill her and do as they did with that little filthy human you kept with you before."

Yukio then stabbed Sesshomaru's hand releasing it from his throat as Sesshomaru grabbed his tongue ripping it out, "You will not say one more word of this filth."

Sesshomaru's eyes fully turned blood red and his stripes turned jagged as then he ripped off the snakes head as blood gushed from his mouth and he screamed in pain. Sesshomaru then tossed the head aside before quickly going to where Kagome was.

~*~*~*~

Jaken finally stopped after escaping the crows with minor injuries. He then looked around and fell to his knees in defeat, "I have lost the bird, the dragon, myself, and any possibility to get back to Bokusenou in time to complete the potion." He then let his fists hit the ground in front of him and let the tears roll down his cheeks.

A very sad and disheartened "Ka-cheep." Was then heard from his side. Jaken looked up to see the baby dragon, he then jumped to it hugging it.

"It is alright little one. It seems I didn't lose you at least after all."

The dragon nodded understanding the comforting tone in the frog demons voice. The dragon then coughed and Jaken let go. It continued to cough and hack before it managed to spit out several blue and green feathers.

Jaken then stared amazed at the sticky wet feathers, "We did it…You did it! Oh now we can go back and make the potion t time!!!"

The dragon tilted its head clearly confused.

Jaken then picked up the feathers despite their state, "You see we only needed to capture it for its feathers."

The dragon continued to tilt its head.

Jaken then smiled and patted the dragon, "You did it little one. I'm am very happy and proud of you!"

The dragon then understood and began to gleefully jump around.

Jaken then looked around and back at the dragon, "You don't think you're able to fly us out of here do you?"

The dragon gave a loud and confident, "Ka-cheep!" before scooping Jaken onto its back with his head and taking to the sky.

A/N: Just so you know I got into the writing after a bit of a combating more writers block and then noticed the time. So that is no excuse but is the only one I have. And I am not at all happy with the length of the chapter despite the sudden inspiration rush I got as I wrote. So please forgive me being late. Now that I feel I have gotten over half of the action, which I am very bad at, I will be able to write more. Sorry again.