Ranger24: As I promised I give thus the manga adaption.
Code 1: Ranger
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
"Ranger, Ranger, Ranger, Ranger, WAKE UP DANG IT!" Lilo shouted startling Ranger out of his sleep. He crashed to the ground with his chair in Fanfiction May Cry and groaned sitting up.
"Good damnit Lilo, I thought I was rid of you?" Ranger growled.
"Blame SonofSparda, you do use is abridged series as a refrence in the majority of FMC," Lilo replied.
Ranger sighed and stood up.
"What'd you want?" He growled.
"Tell me a story," Lilo said.
"You're kidding," Ranger dead panned.
"Well we need some back story in this series and AnimatedFord is already getting tired of waiting for FMC 3. You have to do something before fans get violent." Lilo replied.
"Hello? FMC 4," Ranger shot back fixing the chair.
"Yes but everyone's really getting tired of waiting besides, it is the linear timeline start of the series," Lilo replied.
"Damn you and your Vulcan logic," Ranger muttered.
"Well that and there's been a serious drop in updates for decent fanfics. If someone doesn't do something soon, we'll be stuck reading another American idol parody!" Lilo said.
"Alright fine! God," Ranger said exasperated. "It all start years ago..."
"Can you tell this like the Young Sherlock Holmes?" Lilo asked.
"Fine!" Ranger said rolling his eyes. "It all started a really long time ago..."
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Thousands of years ago the relams of the light and dark were seperate, unconnected. Then they were made one. The ruler of the darkness said 'If these lands are now one, why not rule them as one?'
Thus he made war upon the light and humans were powerless against his wrath. The light turned just as violent and just as fanatical and the destruction reached a terrifying level.
Then one of the dark and one of the light conceived a child, born between the darkness and the light. in the Twilight. The child became known as Jeremaih.
Jeremaih weilded a great power known as Twilight and with it he brought peace by the power of his sword. Using his own dark blood he sealed away the evils of the light and the dark and brought peace.
His descendants and others like him became known as Twilight warriors. Keepers of the peace between the darkness and the Light.
As the centuries went by however the blood of the Twilight disapated and was hounded until the Twilight Warriors became but a legend.
The scene suddenly shifted to a graveyard. Amdist the dozens of graves was one before which stood a young man in a green coat. Dark hair thrown over his face he stared down at the name on the tomb stone, Meilena Namoni.
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"Nice set up," Lilo commented.
"Thank you, now be queit." Ranger replied as Stitch sat down on the couch cugging coffee.
"Well I'm sure you had a decent enough start before reaching this point of utter debt and sucky living." Lilo commented.
Ranger glared at her. "Well aren't you little miss bitch. This is actually and improvement."
"Being deep in debt and nearly dead broke is an improvement?" Lilo said raising an eyebrow.
"Shut up and listen to the damn story," Ranger growled.
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The phone rang shriely in the run down shop. The beat up furniture looked as though it had been only just brought in and crates and boxes rested by the stairs and the door. The phone rang again and finally someone stepped out of the bathroom behind the cluttered desk. Young man stepped forth, a white towel over his head. He was dripping wet with water but he still made his way over to the desk and slammed a fist down on it. The phone leapt into the air and the man caught it.
"'Ello?" He asked. He listened to the speaker on the other end and smirked.
"Undertaker eh? Sorry I only dispose of the living." He said before throwing the phone back on the receiver. He sighed and threw off the towel, which landed on the stair rail. His messy dark brown hair was still soaking wet but he huffed in annoyance.
"Third call this week and it's only tuesday. Gotta have Double D change the number for me," He muttered strolling over to jukebox in the corner. He pressed one of the song buttons but it failed to start playing.
"Feeling particularly cranky today huh?" He muttered before smacking his fist into the machine. It groaned and the heavy beats of metal began to spew forth from the aged machine.
'Stepping forth to cure the souls demise,
reap the tears of the victims cries.'
He strood over to his desk and threw him into the desk chair before takeing a chunk out of the pizza on the desk.
'Hear the cries of,
another demon as I put it under...'
At that moment the jukebox died again and the young man muttered another curse.
At that moment however there came a hard wrapping on the door.
"Hey Ranger! Wake up you ungrateful bastard!" A young man's voice called.
"Eddy, he's our friend you should be more...." Said another voice but it was cut off.
"Ed. Door." The first voice ordered.
Half a second later the door was flung open with the lock breaking apart to admit three boys. The first was short with three long hairs sticking out of his head. Second was tall with a black hat on his head and wearing ared shirt. The third was tall and wearing a dark green jacket.
"Hey Ranger?! You up yet!?" The short one called.
"No, of course I'm not asleep. Who could when you break my fucking door!" Ranger snarled. "So what do you want Eddy?"
"Yeah well we got a job for ya Ranger," Eddy replied.
"No," Ranger said flatly.
Eddy blinked in suprise. "What?"
"No," Ranger repeated. "All of the jobs you give me either suck or I don't get any money out of them. Honestly I'd probably do better with a vampire as my liason than you three."
"But vampires will suck out your soul and sacrifice it to the fans of twilight!" Ed shouted.
"You be queit," Ranger growled.
"Look Ranger, no tricks this time! I swear this job is genuine!" Eddy assured.
"This all your here for? You're interupting my dinner." Ranger growled.
Eddy glared at him. "Fine you want the job come meet me at the usual place."
Eddy stormed out followed by Ed. Double D glanced at the door.
"Terribly sorry," he said motioning to the door.
"Eh, I'll fix it later." Ranger dismissed.
Double D swept out and Ranger sat there for a few minutes munching his pizza. Finally as he swallowed the last bite he rose from his chair. He set the doors back in their proper places before he pulled on a brown shirt. Then he flung on a dark green coat and slipped two different designed and colored pistols into the holisters hang on his back.
He flung open the doors and made his way out into the dark night. The buzz of the city wasn't much quieter at night than during the day. In the distance a police siren whined away but Ranger ignored it making his way through the dark streets. The troubles of the world weren't his concern, only his own well being and objectives mattered.
After about ten minutes of walking he arrived outside a pleasure palace called 'Love Planet'. He pushed open the doors and entered the main bar to see several hookers sitting at the bar, sharing a drink and a smoke.
"So I told him," one with blonde pony tail who was smoking. "I don' care if you are giving me ten grand I ain't going full without..."
It was then they noticed him strolling up to the bar.
"Damn..." One with brown hair in two buns.
"Welcome," one with brown hair in a pony tail said winking at him she was wearing a bunny suit.
Ranger smirked. "Hello laides... You seen a short stupid guy and his dumbass friends?"
"You mean Eddy? He's up with one of the others. Thinking of joining in?" The whore asked.
"If only we was hunting wabbits," Ranger replied climbing up the stairs.
The one with buns snuffed out her cigarrette. "Don't even think about it girl. He likes it with the Iron Balls."
"Doesn't matter to me, turns me on." The pony tailed burnette said with smirk on her face.
"Best to keep an eye of those guns of his, Sol & Luna." The Blonde noted as Ranger rounded a corner on the stairs breifly showing his pistols one of which was a silver blue M6C and a gold plated Desert Eagle. "Anyone packin' heat's trouble, and you don't need anymore big holes." The blonde finished.
Ranger reached the top of the stairs to find Double D and Ed sitting outside a room, Double D looking rather uncomfortable.
"So he in there?" Ranger asked.
Double D nodded.
"Well then," Ranger said setting a hand on the knob.
"Ranger!" Double said disapprovingly.
"Hey Eddy! Put your pants on ya shrimpy bastard! Straight people are here!" Ranger called opening the door.
What he found was an evcerated hooker at his feet and a large black figure weilding a saber standing over the body. In a flash Luna cleared it's holister and blasted the creature in the face! Ranger stepped over the bodies eyes flashing violently.
"Eddy what the hell!? I've heard of seeing pink elephants but this is ridiculous!" Ranger shouted as he spotted Eddy hiding under the covers as around a half dozen other of the creatures turned to face him.
"Funny!" Eddy squeked! "I'd be laughing my ass off if I wasn't scared shitless! Now stop the jokes and save me you bastard!"
The creatures growled menacingly at Ranger raising their sabers.
"What are these things?" Double D asked cowering in the door way.
"They are evil Tim's minions from the twisting Nether!" Ed proclaimed.
"Something tells me they aren't paying customers," Ranger said pull out Sol and flicking off the safety.
"I wish I was drunk," Eddy moaned. "But these guys showed up before I could even get started.
"Then we'll just bill the owner," Ranger said a sadistic smirk crossing his face before he leapt into the fight guns blazing! Sol and Luna bucked as round ripped from their barrels into the body's of his enemies! He weaved among them, ducking their attacks and cheap shoting them. The furious creatures doubled their efforts to take him down but they couldn't even scratch him.
Meanwhile in the bar the hookers glanced up at the ceiling.
"What's all the racket?" The burnette with the pony tail asked.
"Some like it rough," the Blonde replied with a shrug.
Back up stairs Ranger twirled Sol and Luna on his trigger fingers as he swept to face another target and blasted it down.
Suddenly he noticed a peice of paper with a paper clip attached to it, sticking out of Eddy's pants. He leaned down blasting another one of the attackers coming up behind him. He pulled out the paper and unfolded it, holistering Luna.
"Six million dollar reward to whoever brings back the person in the picture," Ranger read out loud making his way over to the bed as he blasted down the last enemy. The creatures then to the Ed's alarm burst into smoke.
"Shadow's?" Double D said caught off guard.
"What the hell?" Eddy muttered.
"I like chickens," Ed said stupidly.
"Shut up Ed," Ranger growled sitting down as Eddy got up and pulled on his pants. Ranger meanwhile contiuned looking over the job offer.
"So it's a bounty gig eh?" He muttered. "Pay's good, but nothing up front. Bring back the person in the picture and..."
He pulled out the picture attached by a paper clip and raised his eye brows in annoyance.
"No deal Eddy!" Ranger snapped turning the picture around to reveal a little blonde girl. The name at the bottom of the picture read Misa.
"What?!?" Eddy shouted thunderstruck. "It's Six million!"
"Do I look like the FBI?!!" Ranger snarled. "Get someone else on it."
"But Ranger I was counting on you man!" Eddy said desperatly.
"I'm not doing it," Ranger asserted.
Eddy glared at him. "Well then get your ass out of your place! You only got it so cheap because my brothers the land lord!"
Ranger looked up alarmed.
"What!?" He shouted. "You can't be serious man! I haven't even got my name over the frigin door!"
"Well then I suggest you start looking for some other dirt cheap place to stay," Eddy replied.
Ranger gritted his teeth in anger. Then he swore and rose to his feet. "Fine! I'll do it, Jackass."
Eddy smirked triumphantly.
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Meanwhile on the otherside of town in a library a single lone figure stood alone amongst the shelves. He had white hair but a young face. He had yellow eyes and wore a strange metal mesh armor over his chest and a rusty brown cloak about himself which looked more like dried blood. At his side in a jet black sheath was a sword. Despite his strange atire he was turning over a book with silent focus.
"So you come seeking the book of Anceint legends?" Asked a smooth voice that a certian serpent like air to it.
The man, if he could be called a man glanced at the speaker before returning to the book. The speaker was a man in a yellow and black shirt and pants. He had violet eye paint under his eyes and a gleaming yellow eyes. His face was pale white, contrasting his long jet black hair. Standing beside him was the elderly librarian who held a leather bound tome in her ragged hands.
"Perhaps you seek the anceint tale of the half breed Jerimaih?" The pale faced man suggested. "A darkside and a Balance fall in love and have a child who becomes the first Twilight warrior. Then to protect the corrupted Darkness and light from breaking free he seals them away with his fathers sword. A beautiful tale eh?"
"Nice story," the silver haired man growled. "Can't wait for the movie, it'll probably suck but I digress. Thats not what I'm here for."
"Then what are you here for?" The plae face man asked.
"Would this book of tales be more to your liking?" The librarin asked.
In a flash the sword in the sheath was swept out and sliced the librarin clean in two! Blood sprayed across the floor as her lifeless corpse struck the ground. The silver haired man sheathed his sword and closed his book.
"That's two strikes against you old man. One more and you're out," he said coldly.
The pale faced man smirked. "Humans are such wretched creatures aren't they? Mortal, corruptable, weak one would wonder why they are even permitted to exist."
"What are you getting at?" The silver haired man asked.
"Let's talk about Jeremaih." The pale faced man said smoothly.
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Hours later Ranger, Ed, Edd, and Eddy stood outside the gate of decrepate old mansion. All the windows were dark and silence filled the air. Ranger sighed.
"Christ, don't the bad guys ever yearn for a bungalow in Florida? Why is it always some creepy castle or an ancient temple or some haunted mansion?" He muttered.
"It's the trope Ranger," Ed said cheerily.
"True," Ranger muttered.
"Hey if your so up tight about it you can buy them one with the money you'll be gettin," Eddy said grinning.
"Get bent," Ranger growled before blasting off the lock on the gate and kicking it open. "And get lost, I'm going to this prom solo."
He strood forward, drawing Sol and Luna.
"I mean it! Scram!" He yelled over his shoulder.
Eddy jumped in fright and shoved his hands in his pockets. "I hear ya! I'm going! Come on guys!"
"And if you drink all the booze before I get back I'll shove the spiget in your beer belly and drink out from there!" Ranger called before jumping up onto one of the hanging ledges. He did this twice more before some of the statues began to stir. Ranger opened fire with Sol and Luna blasting apart the statues. They rose up and tried to attack him but Ranger cut them down with devestating gun fire. Then he came upon a window and smashed through it!
The little girl was there sitting in a chair holding a white rabbit. The rabbit suddenly began to twitch uncontrollably. Ranger slapped in a fresh set of clips and then blasted down the rabbit. The chair fell over the girl still in it. Ranger grinned.
"Jack pot!!" Ranger shouted happily.
He bent down to the girl.
"Okay Misa, time to come back through the looking glass," Ranger said giving her a shake.
Her eye's suddenly flashed open glowing blood red.
"Jackpot!" She said in a higher voice than was normal. Ranger took a step back suprised as the girl rose up her fingers becoming claws and her legs growing uncontrolably. Her face became drawn like a skull.
"Jackpot! Jackpot!" She chanted mockingly.
Ranger raised an eyebrow. "Christ I've heard of growth spurts but this takes it to a whole new level!
The girl took a swipe at him and he back stepped just in time. Without heistating his blasted her legs right in the knees. She fell to the ground howling in pain. Ranger smirked.
"Gives knee high by the Fourth of july a whole new meaning," he said before ducking her next blow! She vanished into the walls and Ranger search wildly for her.
Suddenly she shot out of the portait hanging over the fire place. She rammed right into the barrel of Luna going in her mouth. Ranger stood a top an armchair glaring.
"Bad girls go on time out. Big time." He growled menacingly.
The face suddenly changed back to that of a the little girl in the picture looking terrified.
BANG!!
The headless remains of the monster collapsed to the floor and Ranger bent over sticking his fingers into the liquid that poured from the corpse. He brought the liquid to his mouth and tatsed it before spitting it out. He frowned kicking the corpse over.
"Well it isn't blood," he muttered. "That's something of a good sign."
Then suddenly he noticed a small photograph that had been knocked out of it's frame during the fight. It showed a happy family with the eldest girl sitting in the exact same chair as...
Ranger yanked out the picture of Misa and compared the two. A dead match in the scenery.
"Well that's something," Ranger muttered sticking the picture in Luna's holister. "So who is she?"
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Meanwhile outside the rain had come and slowly poured down on the streets. People moved inside for shelter from the storm. One man however continued to make his way down the streets a midst the torrential down pour. The man in the brown cloak stepped down a dark alley and found himself confronted by a large group of local thugs.
The leader pulled his cigarette out of his mouth and threw it into the puddle in front of the new comer who stopped.
"Well lookey here boys," He said smirking. "Someone's dumb enough to pay us a visit."
The thugs laughed.
"This here's out street tough guy, you gotta pay the toll." The thug continued. Then he noticed the sword sheathed at the new comer's side and grinned. "Hey look! Dumbass thinks he's a real Samuria!"
The thugs grinned wickedly gazing upon the black sheathed weapon.
"Tell you what pal, we'll just take the sword and let you go," The thug started as the new comer's hand slowly slipped down to the sheath of his sword.
"We might cut you up a bit first though," the thug finished before the sword flashed out!
There were several more flashes before the sword returned to its sheath.
There was a breif pause before the lead thug's finger fell off. Then slice marks appeared all across his body and he fell apart into a heap of body parts and blood. The rest of the thugs also collapsed in similar states and blood pooled in the growing puddles turning them a ghastly red. The swordsmen frowned stepping over the corpses into the street beyond.
"Ranger..." A voice suddenly moaned causing the swordsmen to a stop.
He turned about to see Eddy leaning against a bar door, smashed as he could be. He razed a finger at him.
"Ranger..." He said confused and drunk.
Then the sword was thrust into the door right next to his head. His eyes widened in alarm. He clearly pissed himself before the swordsmen smirked and pulled the sword out. Eddy passed out and the swordsmen sheathed his blade.
"So, he's here." The swordsmen muttered before shaking his hair clean of water droplets. His yellow eyes flashed brillantly. "Ranger."
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Ranger kicked open the door to find himself high above a large open chamber. Several level of balconeis surrounded the centeral floor and each one was crawling with the sword weilding creatures.
"HOHO!" Ranger laughed jumping down guns blazing! "Looks like sombody called in the troops!"
He kicked off a pilar firing wildly, reloading rapidly, and dodging a shit load of sword strokes.
"Normally jobs like this require me to go in guns blazing!" Ranger cackled hammering off slug after slug. He back flipped in the air and reloaded before landing and hammered off a last few slugs downing the last of his enemies before reloading and panting heavily.
There was the creak of a door opening and Ranger yanked up Luna and fired through the door! The figure on the other side stumbled back but recovered. The light fell upon the doorway to reveal a gray rabbit in a suit wearing a top hat and a monicole. Add a bullet hole over the right side of his chest and the full picture was revealed.
Ranger frowned. "Not bad pal, most don't stay up after the first round."
He took aim but then suddenly Misa rushed in front of the rabbit looking terrifed.
"No! Don't hurt Herriman!" She cried out grabbing onto the bunny.
"You're Misa right? Your daddy wants you back home safe and sound." Ranger said.
"Not without Mr. Herriman," Misa shot back.
Ranger rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Yeah right! Like your old man wants a six foot rabbit crapping on the carpet!" Ranger snapped.
"I'll have you know, good sir, I am toliet trained," Herriman said catching Ranger off guard slightly.
'Something nasty must have possessed her doll. Now how do I get rid of it without her freaking out on me?' Ranger wondered. 'Echo... Now starting... Barry Bonds... Hopefully he's not really on steroids...'
At that moment however the grandfather clock chimed loudly. Misa's eyes glazed over.
"It's tea time," she whispered.
"What are we? British?" Ranger demanded.
Then suddenly the entire world turned over and went black!
"Holy shit!" Ranger shouted! "God save the queen! I swear I'll never insult British people again just put me down!"
Right below him, since he was now on the ceiling, appeared a small white round table laden with small dishes, cups, and jugs. Seated at the table where Herriman and a yellow skinned person in a jacket wearing a top hat and a packet red jacket. His hands were crossed and his purple hair stuck out from his forehead like a crossbar.
"Oh great, more nut jobs," Ranger muttered.
"Well what have we got up there Herriman?" The strange man asked.
"A decendant of Jeremaih my good Pockets," Herriman replied.
"Ah yes, the half bloods line still breds I see and it still has an utterly vile apperance." Pockets commented.
"Hey fuck you fat ass," Ranger snapped.
"Let us see, tea of blood, cake of meat, spoon of bone." Pockets said ticking off the items on his fingers.
"Sorry pal, I'm a Straight American. Call me when you've got a keg and a pizza," Ranger mocked. "Makes me glad we had a revolution."
"How so?" Herriman asked.
"I tried tea once. Let's just say boiled urine probably tastes better," Ranger replied.
"But he's a rather poor catch, not even worthy of a scone." Pockets said looking up with jet black eyes. "I'd rather have Misa, she's oh so sweet."
"Indeed," Herriman agreed.
Ranger pulled out Luna. "Hey screw ball! I get it your a nut! Hell one time I was so drunk I proposed to a mop. But if you don't hand over the girl then I'll bet you can't out crazy a bullet."
"Oh I'm not a screw ball! My ball is free of screws," Pockets assured him.
Ranger raised an eyebrow.
"Gee, glad I didn't call you a shit head then." He muttered
"But my dear boy," Pockets said reaching to a large dish in the center of the table. "If you want Misa she's right here." Then he pulled off the lid to reveal Misa's head.
To Ranger's suprise the head rolled up to look at him and transformed into a horrid skull!
"I smell it! The blood of traitor to the darkness and a forsaker of the light! Yes he's perfect!" The skull cackled.
"And here Pockets there said I wasn't worth a scone." Ranger said bemused.
"Ah he's right! Half bloods line! Your blood reeks with darkness and light raging within you!" The Skull replied.
Ranger frowned. "Well thats a let down so why don't you shut up ya little bastard?"
"I think we should probably use the other," Pockets suggested.
"Indeed, he's much more mealable," Herriman agreed.
"Other?" Ranger muttered.
Pockets cackled. "Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum, same face as yours, a mirrior image along the darker path."
Ranger raised an eyebrow thoughts racing.
"But first let's get rid of him! His stench is unbearable!" The Skull added.
"Look I just came to get the girl so unless you can hand her over right now," Ranger started.
"Never!!" The skull screeched!
"Then get the fuck out of my way!" Ranger snarled blasting the skull apart with Luna pistol!
The world suddenly righted itself but Pockets and Herriman's table flipped over to meet the change. Ranger was releived to no longer feel like his head was being ripped of but heard a sudden growl.
Out of the shadows arose a massive many eyed cat like creature. It roared at him and snarled, spittle flying from it's mouth.
Ranger smirked and bent down beckoning with his fingers.
"Here kitty kitty, come here. Just gonna put you down for a little nap." He said in soothing tones.
The cat monster roared and leapt at him furiously striking with its massive claws! Ranger back stepped and blasted it clean in the face. The cat beast howled in agony as blood sprayed from its face and now ruined eyes! It took another swip at Ranger who jumped over the claws and blasted it in the hand.
"You know theres a reason why I like dogs so much," Ranger commented.
As he did however the black hairs sprang to life and went flying at him! He opened fire as fast as he could trying to destroy as many of the quills as possible.
"You know I've heard of hair balls but this is ridiculus!" He shouted.
He spun in the air and land on the creatures face. He blasted at it's fangs as it tried to bite him and the massive teeth shattered. The he stepped on the thick black tounge. The Cat beast howled in rage and clawed at him. He leapt out of the way however and the cat beast slashed off its own tounge. It yoweled in agony blood spraying from its mouth as the massive muscle crashed to the floor.
"Gives cat got your tounge a whole new meaning," Ranger said laughing.
"Oh bravo," Pockets said golf clapping.
The Cat beast snarled and fired of a massive stream of quills just as Ranger fired off the last rounds in Sol and Luna's magazines. The bullets slammed into the creatures mouth and face riping into the creature. It howled in agony one more time before collapsing to the ground with a groan. Ranger however jumped back as far as he could but there was no way to dodge all of the quills and not enough time to reload Sol and Luna. He jumped into a window sill and braced for the impacts readying himself to feel dozens of sharp quils ripping into his flesh!
He heard the quils strike the walls around him and strike something else soft but felt no pain himself. He opened his eyes to find Herriman standing in front of him, the large black quills sticking out of his body. Pockets and the table were gone. Ranger frowned as Herriman stepped down and began plucking the quills out of himself.
"Thanks for the help but why?" Ranger asked.
"You dieing is not very good for business," Herriman replied.
Ranger reloaded Sol and Luna and pointed the pistols at Herriman.
"Your job here is done," Herriman replied.
Ranger raised an eyebrow. "The hell are you talking about? I haven't gotten Misa home."
"I am your employer," Herriman answered. "I merely wanted to see one of the famous Twilight warriors in action."
Herriman gave him a nod of respect. "You did not disappoint."
Ranger frowned. "So where's Misa?"
"She's right over there," Herriman replied nodding to a couch where Misa lay. "She's done her job as well and thus will be rewarded."
Herriman snapped his fingers and Misa suddenly began to rise from the bed. Her eyes opened terrified. Then her body began to elongate, she seemed to be rapidly moving through puberty!
"Humans are such vile creatures, they don't value what is truly worth something in life." Herriman continued. "Misa was cute but young, and longed to be older so she could live the life she wanted. The only thing she had was her innonece. That is something only we of the dark truly value anymore. Thus she offers it up to have herself a new life."
Misa's transformation ended and she came out a beautiful young woman in her early twenties. Ranger raised an eyebrow in suprise as she turned and smiled at him sweetly.
"Oh thank you so much," she said drapping her arms around him.
"Okay what the hell is this?" Ranger asked.
"I'm here to claim myself a prince," Misa said soothingly. "You're pretty shabby for a prince but you'll do."
"Hey look girly, I'm not into women who change ages at will," Ranger said as she tried to pull away.
"Hush now, it will all be fine." Misa replied.
"But with any gift comes a price..." Herriman added eyes glinting darkely.
Suddenly Misa's skin began to strech across her skin!
"NO!!" She screamed terrified.
"You're life force was forced to add many years, and it doesn't appear to know when to stop," Herriman said calmly. "You'll have to take life to continue it."
"See this is why botocks is a pointless endevour!" Ranger said annoyed.
Then Misa bit into Ranger's shoulder snarling.
"NO! I won't go back! Not when I'm so pretty!" Misa screamed her voice muffled by Ranger's shoulder.
Blood poured from Ranger's wound into Misa's mouth and Herriman smirked. Then Ranger's eyes flashed a violent silver. Herriman raised an eyebrow in alarm. Ranger's hands latched onto Misa suddenly glowing with wild crackling silver energy. Ranger's entire body was being obscured by the strange phenomeon! Misa screamed terrified, struggling to break free!
"What are you?! NO!!! NO! NOOOO!!!!"
Ranger rose up above Misa the aura losing any human like form becoming a strange winged beast with a pair of burning Emerald eyes. Tendrils of Twilight energy grappled onto Misa as she stopped struggling. With in mere seconds she was a little girl again. The lumbering creature rose off her and slowly half walked, half glided to a nearby couch. A trail of blood followed it and as it passed Herriman one of the Emeral eyes glared at him. Herriman stared back warily.
Then the aura began to shrink and grow smaller, the emerald eyes began to dim. By the time it reached the couch and slumped down on it panting heavily Ranger had returned. The wound on his shoulder was gone but beads of sweat ran down his face and his shirt hung loose and wet from his chest rising and falling with every heaving breath.
He sat there for a minute or two, then Ranger looked up eyes dark.
"I want... my money," he said panting.
"I've already had it wired to your laison," Herriman replied.
Ranger nodded and rose to his feet. He made for the door and was half way to it before Herriman spoke again.
"Ranger, I have another offer for you."
"Yeah," Ranger growled.
"I'd like to buy that amulet," Herriman said.
Ranger glanced down and saw the half orb pink amulet hanging around his neck had fallen to rest on his chest. He shot a glare at Herriman before speaking.
"And I'd like a smaller dick, but I guess we're both assed out eh?" He said without hiding the intense sarcasm.
He left the room slamming the door behind. He strood down the corridor to the exit eyes blury from exhaustion. He hardly noticed as the man in the rusty Brown cloak walked past him and entered the chamber. Just as he reached the door his brain started working again and he whirled about, a look of shock on his face.
"Shade?" He whispered.
Meanwhile inside the main chamber Shade confronted Herriman.
"So the key to Jeremaih's power?" Shade asked.
"Indeed," Herriman replied. "You hold but one half of the key. Your other half holds the other half. You two are like reflections in a mirrior."
Shade frowned looking down at the Amulet around his neck, it was a pink sphere.
"You have identical faces, opposing looks and powers. Your each a half of the key."
Shade's eyes flashed and his sword flashed from it's sheath. He made several swipes with it before returning it to its sheath.
"You saying I'm only half a person?" Shade growled as one of Herriman's ears fell off.
"Nonsense," Herriman replied as one of his legs fell of and his whole body began to fall apart. "I'm saying you and Ranger need eachother."
Then he was nothing put a pile of torn parts of a stuffed rabbit.
"Advice from a stuffed animal. Thats a new low," Shade growled as Misa stumbled over to the remains of Herriman. She picked up his head and clutched at it tears in her eyes.
"Mr. Herriman," She whipered voice choking up.
"Herriman?" Shade said raising an eyebrow.
His sword flashed out again and Herriman's head collapsed utterly. Misa screamed in terror and alarm choking back sobs as Shade sheathed his sword again.
"If all you can do is cry, then its better its gone." He growled before leaving Misa alone in the dark.
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"Drink up girls! The skies the limit!" Eddy shouted happily sitting on a couch in love planet. He was holding a half empty bottle of whiskey in one hand, the other arm wrapped around the shoulder of one of the three hookers sitting around him. Ed was pigging out on the food on the table while Double D shook his head in disbelief.
"Eddy, this kinda of drunken debotchery is what's tearing apart the fabric of modern soceity," Double D whined.
"Ah can shut it sock head! Tonights one hell of a party!" Eddy said chuckling.
"Really?" One of the hookers asked in a sweet voice.
"Hell yeah! We can drink this place dry and still come home with change!" Eddy replied. "Let it never be said Eddy doesn't know how to treat the ladies!"
At the same time one of the strippers noticed the side door open and a towering figure entered.
"Stock up on your proteins girls! We got along night ahead of us!" Eddy laughed raising his whiskey bottle.
Just then it exploded as a bullet ripped threw it and Eddy fell over in alarm. Double D gave a yell of fright while Ed hardly noticed.
Then Ranger kicked over the table and planted a foot on it before point Luna straight into Eddy's face.
"Eddy you rat bastard!" Ranger roared in fury! "If you've spent my cut I swear to god...!"
"Ranger chill!" Eddy yelped terrifed. "I couldn't even spend all of my cut even if I drank for the rest of my life!"
Ranger lowered Luna and kicked the table up right before strolling over to another side table laden with food.
"So where's Misa?" Eddy said relieved pulling himself to his feet.
"She decided to stay in Wonderland," Ranger growled.
Eddy blinked in horror. "What!? You didn't complete the job!?! But I already spent more than I could pay for in months!"
"Three months, two weeks, four days, and six hours to be exact," Double D confirmed.
"Relax I got the money," Ranger replied plucking up and apple and ripping a chunk out of it with his teeth.
"But how'd you ge the money without completing the job!?" Eddy demanded.
In response Luna was once more pointed squarely in his face, several of the hookers gasped in alarm as Eddy looked ready to shit himself with terror.
"Since when did the guy packing the heat have to answer questions?" He demanded. "How about you shut that fat yap of yours? Or maybe I'll just give a few new holes to breath through, yeah that'd relax my trigger finger."
"Ranger don't do this!" Eddy squeaked. "I get work for you don't I?!"
"Not anymore," Ranger hissed.
"Ranger please!" Double D pleaded terrified.
There was a silence and then Ranger shoved Luna back in its holister.
"Oh thank Crist," Eddy sighed in relief. But then Ranger jammed his finger in his face.
"Listen up fat ass!! I want more thurrow background checks on clients from now on! No more bullshit!" Ranger snapped before heading for the exit. Eddy galanced at the terrified hookers.
"Don't worry, he just had a bad day at the office thats all." He said reassuringly.
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'Andrew! Run!'
There was the sound of swords striking swords and of metal stabbing into flesh. Then the twang of a bow and a cry of pain. Then the body of a young woman floated into place, covered in blood.
'Master...'
Ranger shot up from his sleep with a start, cold sweat dripping down his back. He put a hand to his forehead and shook his head vigorously and stood up. It was getting late, he had worrk to do.
He pulled on his shirt and slipped on the amulet. He pulled on his coat and picked up Sol and Luna from his cluttered desk. He checked both guns and reloaded them before sliding them into their holsters. Then his eyes fell upon a third weapon. Lying against the wall next to the bathroom door was a sword in a black sheath.
The sword wasn't more than 3 feet long at least and had a strange design. It's blade was straight but the tip was slightly sharper on one side. The hilt was shaped like a silver dragon with a silver blue crescent moon at the junction between blade and grip. The grip was of fine undamaged leather that wrapped halfway down until it hit the pommel where another silver blue crescent moon was attached.
Ranger picked up the sword, his sword Ddraig s Caul. In Welsh it literally meant the Dragons maw. He slide the sword out of it sheath soundlessly and picked up one of the billard balls from the pool table. He threw the ball into the air and then swung the sword in a mighty stroke. The sword didn't even connect with the ball but there was a blast of energy which caused plaster from the ceiling to come crashing down and the ball to go flying across the room.
Ranger gazed up at the damage before he noticed what the ball had hit.
"Aw shit," he muttered.
He made his was over to the jukebox where a huge dent had been made in the machine and several twisted bits of metal lay on the hardwood floor.
"Mighty be broken for good this time," he muttered.
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"Wait wait wait!" Lilo said. "What the heck was that supposed to show?"
"That was when I actually started using a sword on jobs ding bat," Ranger growled propping his feet up on his desk.
"Well what happened next?" Lilo demanded.
"That will have to wait kid," Ranger replied.
"Why?" Lilo asked incredulous.
"Because it's the end of the chapter," Ranger answered.
Lilo groaned.
"Awww crap."
End of Code Ranger.
Ranger24: Next time folks, code Shade. A spin on the darkside. Read and review.