AN1: You know, someone had once said something to the effect of 'Stealing from one person is called plagiarism. Stealing from multiple people is called research!' And while I don't really know if I got that quote exactly accurate, that saying does somehow fit how this fic came to be. For I was taking a break from writing A Black Heart Still Beats and I then started thinking about working on a few of my other fics. I knew I wanted to do something with the Tenchi cast in it, so, at first I had thought about working on What Was Once Forgotten, but then I had decided that I really didn't feel much like doing that fic. Ok, so then I had thought about rewriting Tokimi's Savoir instead. Again, I had decided that I really didn't feel like working on that fic as well. So then I had finally come to the utterly brilliant conclusion that 'I must not be in the mood to write right now, I think I'll just read some instead.' Nodding to myself on just what an utterly brilliant idea I had just come up with, I had then read a lot of fics over the past few days. I blame my own two previously mentioned Ranma/Tenchi fics, plus a few other fics such as 'Child of the Goddess', 'Juraian Stallion' and any other fic that has Ranma as a child of or somehow being related to Tsunami, Washu or Tokimi in any way shape or form for this fic's idea ever even being conceived, for, after reading a lot of fics like that, and having written one of them as well for that matter, they somehow all got mixed up together in my mind and then this idea was born. And may God have mercy upon us all for that.
AN2: There is a lot of OCCNESS at times in this fic. A lot. No, it's more like a hell of a lot. Well, let us just be honest with ourselves and say that almost everyone and everything is and will be OOC in this fic. This is just a fair warning to those of you whom do not care for that sort of thing. Remember people, I write these things for my fun and entertainment, as well as for yours.
AN3: I always play fast and loose with the Tenchi Universe, seeing as there is like, what, thirteen incarnations of the said universe? And I am only familiar enough with about four of them to write successfully on them, and one of those four I absolutely hate. (Tenchi in Tokyo. Ugh. Absolutely, positively, ugh.) So consider the Tenchi part of this story to just be a massive alternate universe, and for a variety of reasons. The same thing can be said for the Ah My Goddess content, but for a variety of totally different reasons, such as I needed it to be an alternate universe so that it would mesh well with the other two series as I am writing them. As for the Ranma One Half content, well it is both a continuation and an alternate universe. So just take what I'm doing in this story with a grain of salt. Ok, ok, so it's more like a bucket of salt. Or perhaps it's more like a cargo container of salt? Heh.
AN4: Warning! This is neither a very serious story nor a very cannonal story as well for that matter. This is a, well…, personally I'd just call this a very silly story, for I will only write on it when I wish to be, well, less then serious. So, do not expect a sweepingly vast and epic drama or a very deeply moving and sweepingly epic plot line for that matter. But, if you want some downright hilarious situational comedy, well now, you certainly have come to the right place for that. Not to say that there is no and will be no seriousness nor any drama in this story, for there both will be and is, really, there truly is, it's just that those particular aspects of this story will be taking a very distant backseat to my extremely demented sense of humor in this here fic. Much like some of the cannons I'm taking this from. Heh.
AN5: Version 2.0. Just because I felt like it. Well, that and because it was a very much needed thing in my mind's eye.
AN6: Version 3.0. In the vain hopes of fixing some of my formatting issues, IE the damn bold problem.
Disclaimer: I do not own the intellectual property that is Ranma One Half or any of its associated characters, locations, items, ideas, or anything else that may be associated with it. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own the intellectual property that is Tenchi Muyo or any of its associated characters, locations, items, ideas, or anything else that may be associated with it. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own the intellectual property that is Ah, My Goddess or any of its associated characters, locations, items, ideas, or anything else that may be associated with it. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own any of the intellectual properties that are any other fictional persons, places or things. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own any real person, place or thing. Those belong to either themselves, in the case of a person, or their real life current true owners in case of a place or object. What I do own is any and every original person, place or thing used in here as well as the story its self. Those very few things are mine. And that's all that will ever be mine.
TOKIMI'S CHILD
CHAPTER ONE
HEALING THE MADNESS
At the entrance to a sub-dimensional prison: eons upon eons ago
"You bitch!" Tokimi hissed out in an almost feral rage that was directed, as of this moment, solely towards her youngest sister Tsunami. "I can't believe that you would do this to me!"
As Tsunami led the escort for her oldest sister to her soon to be eternal prison, Tsunami quickly and venomously spat back at the now Ex-Supreme Elder Goddess of the Universe "And I can't believe that you would start a war that would end up killing over ninety percent of all Deities and Demons! Even our own sister was a casualty in this fiasco of yours, and we never could discover what exactly had happened to her!"
"They killed her Tsunami! They killed my baby!" Tokimi then screamed out in her anguish as a way of reply.
"Yes, yes they did. But that doesn't mean you have the right to unleash an Armageddon War upon the multiverse!" Tsunami then furiously yelled back.
"They deserved to die Tsunami! They invaded this universe for the sole purpose of killing her, and I made damn sure that they regretted it!" Tokimi then yelled back at her sister in a state of righteous fury.
"And to do so you not only utterly annihilated their home dimension, but you did the same thing to several other dimensions as well, and one of them was almost our own! Tokimi, your grief has driven you utterly insane! And, as the only surviving or sane Elder Goddess left, I shall, as my first act as the new head Deity of this universe, banish you into a sub-dimensional prison for the rest of eternity! You may be my sister Tokimi, but if I ever see you again, I swear it will be too soon!" Tsunami yelled out in her own anger as she then suddenly and violently pushed her sister through the sub-dimensional doorway that led into Tokimi's new prison. And as she slammed the door shut, Tsunami shouted out in parting "So you can just wallow here in your own hate while I clean up all of your messes."
And then Tokimi was engulfed in darkness.
Tokimi's prison: eons ago
Tokimi had spent her time in her prison wisely. Well, after she had a rather long, extremely nasty and rather destructive temper tantrum that is. But, after she had gotten all of that childish fury out of her system and she had managed to calm herself down enough so that she could think straight, she had then immediately started to think upon how to transform her prison into a place in which she could stand to spend all of eternity in if need be. And then she had done so. Not that she really was planning to spend the rest of her eternity in here, for she had a plan. A plan on how she both could and would get her revenge on her little sister, and all of the others whom had conspired against her and had then helped lock her away, while at the same time freeing herself. So she had then, after she had created a suitable living area for herself out of the void of this sub-dimensional prison that she now found herself trapped in of course, she had started to create some help, help which could leave this prison that she could not. Help that both could and most certainly would carry out her vengeance upon her little sister and all of her pathetic allies.
And, as she looked upon her newest creation, D3, Tokimi laughed a manic laugh and exclaimed in a voice that was laced with utter madness "She will pay. They will all pay"
Tokimi's prison: ages ago
Tokimi was currently laughing herself sick over her little sister's current plight, for her sister had somehow managed to trap herself in one of her so called 'Trees of Jurai', and all because of the fact that she was too depressed to pay attention to what she was doing. She was depressed because the people which she had recently adopted as her own had just recently had a massive outbreak of an extremely deadly disease, and it was one which she was not allowed to cure as it was a much needed thing in the long run for the development of her chosen people. Over half the planet's population had died due to it, and the best thing was, Tokimi had not had any part in any of this. The disease was a perfectly natural and a truly needful one, and Tsunami's current entrapment was her own damn fault due to her depression caused lack of awareness.
She was still laughing herself sick at her little sister's current plight while she whispered through her pearls of laughter "Now, now you shall know what I'm going through my dear little sister."
Tokimi's prison: seven hundred years ago
"That bitch! That utter bitch! How dare she get free while I never can! Tsunami, I swear, I shall have my vengeance yet!" Tokimi screamed out in her utter fury after she found out that to escape her prison, Tsunami had merged with a dying little girl.
"Well, you won't be fully merged for many years to come, and I shall have my vengeance on you long before you do so, this I so swear!" Tokimi roared out in her current rage.
Tokimi's prison: one year ago
"Washu?" Was all Tokimi could breathe out with true disbelief extremely evident in her voice while she was staring at her not dead sister through her viewing monitor. "What has happened to you? Why do you think you're some sort of mortal? Why can't you remember anything beyond twenty thousand years ago? And why do you take the form of a child?" Tokimi slowly breathed out in her questions in her disbelief as to what she was currently seeing.
Seeing that her younger sister Washu was alive had stunned Tokimi, so much so in fact that all of the hate and fury which had ruled her life for time beyond measure had finally begun to slightly lose its hold on her. So, she then had decided to do something that she had not done in an extremely long time, and that was to just sit back and impartially observe what was going on without any interference at all on her part in it.
"Washu, what would you think of me now? What would you think of Tsunami if you could truly remember? We are not worthy of you. Not as we are now" Tokimi whispered aloud in her sorrow while remembering how her favorite little sister used to be.
Tokimi's prison: six months ago
"My lady Tokimi." D3 called out to its mistress as she was watching both of her sisters and their sudo-family.
"Yes D3?" Tokimi replied with indifference while she noticed with some interest that Washu's laptop was lighting up with a warning of some sort.
"I sincerely regret to inform you that I have just detected a power signature on Earth that I had originally mistaken for being that of yourself." D3 told Tokimi while sounding very embarrassed.
"What?" Tokimi then yelled out while turning to face D3. "How could you ever mistake any signature of power for my own?" She then yelled.
"I am extremely sorry Mam, but it is identical to yours within a ninety seven point three six five percent area of identification. The very few differences between you and this mysterious power signature are so small that they did not let me see any discrepancies at first. I truly am sorry Mam." D3 said and then humbly apologized to its mistress.
"Well then, let me see this imposter!" Tokimi shouted out in her rage. But, after she had done so, and then as she saw just who had made D3 make a mistake like that, she had then suddenly screamed out "Feng!" at the top of her lungs before she fainted. D3 paused and then blinked in shock before going to awaken its mistress. It did take quite a bit of time to succeed in doing that though.
The Masaki house: Okayama, Japan: six months ago: at about the same time
"Whoa!" Washu breathed out after she saw and then realized exactly what was being shown on her computer's screen. "I never would have believed that there was a power that could be so similar to Juraian Energy, yet alone one that would be so much more powerful then it!" Washu breathed out in true and utter disbelief. "And if I'm not mistaken, that's a few Kami's and a Demon of this planet that it's currently in combat with." She then said in some slight and evident awe.
Katsuhito then spoke up before any of the others could "What's this Little Washu?" He asked in curiosity.
"There's an energy signature nearby that is very similar to Juraian Energy, but it totally outclasses any form of it I've previously recorded! It even out classes Tenchi! And it seems to be in a battle with a few Kami's and a Demon of this planet, and it is more than holding its own with them! I must find this being and study it! Where are you my new little guinea pig!?!" Washu asked while she was cackling madly.
While all the others were staring at Washu with and in some slight shock as to what she had just said, Tsunami suddenly fully manifested and felt out for Washu's mystery power source, for the only ones that could use a form of power that would seem similar to Juraian Energy and yet totally out class it at the same time were Washu herself, if and when she ever became a Goddess again and "Tokimi!" Tsunami screamed out in her sudden horror, which caused all of the others present to now notice her now current and total manifestation "NOOO!!!! How did you ever free yourself!" and then, her sudden and forced manifestation of herself had caught up with her and she fainted, reverting herself back into Sasami, whom was now also unconscious. All present then rushed to her aid while at the same time they were wondering just who this 'Tokimi' was.
Furinkan Koukou: Nerima, Japan: six months ago: at about the same time
Marller was NOT having a good day. No, not at all. First of all, she had been sent to grant someone a wish. Well, that was all fine and dandy, except the fact that it was an utter moron whom was receiving the wish. He had actually mistaken her for being an Angel, and he just would not listen to her when she had told him otherwise!
"Nay, for one of your angelic beauty could be nothing less than an angel descended from yon heaven!" He had loudly proclaimed. She still couldn't see just how this moron was ever deemed worthy of a Demonic wish. If she even lived through this fiasco, she just might inquire upon that particular fact.
The second thing was the damn wish he wanted. "I wish that you would strike down the foul Sorcerer Saotome and end his wicked ways in the most humiliating way possible my fair angelic maiden!" He had wished upon her. And just her luck, the Nidheg had actually decided to grant this moron's wish. So, now she had to go and kill this guy that her client wanted dead.
And, while she would normally have no hesitations at all about killing a mortal to complete a wish, for a lot of Demonic wishes were for the deaths of others, but this was Ranma Saotome for crying out loud! He had a real reputation in both Asgard and Niflheim for his defeats of minor summoned Demons on an almost semi-regular basis, and for his defeat of that upstart Demi-God Saffron. Now, while it was true that none of his previous opponents had been anywhere even near her league as a Demoness First Class Unlimited, she was still just a tad apprehensive about doing this, for who knew what bullshit Ranma both could and would pull out of his ass to fight her with.
Oh, and what utter bullshit it had turned out to be.
She had thought long and hard upon how to do this in an most humiliating way as possible, in order to perform it in accordance with how she must fulfill the wish, and then she had it, for it would not only humiliate Ranma, but it would also make her job a hell of a lot easier, which was always a plus in her book.
So as school started for one Ranma Saotome on that particular day, Marller had approached him in the school's yard. "Ranma Saotome?" She had asked of him, while knowing full well just who he was.
He was immediately on guard as soon as he saw her, probably knowing exactly what she was, and just about how powerful she was.
"Yes?" He asked warily.
"I am Marller, a Demoness First Class Unlimited. I was sent here to grant one Tatewaki Kuno a wish, and he has wished that you die by my hands in the most humiliating way possible. So, sorry about this kid, but I've got my orders." She had told him while shrugging, and then she had proceeded to split Ranma into two beings, one male and one female. The male side was created dead upon the separation, just as she had planned, but she had also planed that almost all Ranma's strength, power, skill and Ki abilities would die along with the male side, thus leaving a weak and helpless little human girl for her to torment and then kill.
This action had lead to the third and final thing that had led to Marller's currently very bad day, which was things did not happen like that. No not at all, for somehow she had fucked up royally. Ranma's female side had not only resisted having all of its power and skill taken away like that, but it had then suddenly seemed to start powering up, while gathering a power of the likes of she had never seen before, and she truly hoped never to see again, to begin to fill her.
And all of this had lead to now. Ranma Saotome was currently in a honest to Kami-Sama berserker rage that made the Neko-Ken pale in caparison, and she was trying her damn hardest to kill her, and what with the fact that she currently now had more power available to her then any single first class unlimited Demoness or Goddess she had ever even heard of thanks to this mysterious new power that Ranma had somehow accessed and was now currently using in her quest to destroy her, well, she was utterly screwed unless her call for back-up was approved, which wasn't looking to be the case at the moment. She would need at least three more first class unlimited Demons with her to even hope of taking on Ranma as she was right now.
As it was, she was fighting for her life in a retreating battle, a battle that she was losing mind you, and then her day suddenly had gotten even worse if that was remotely possible. The Norns had just shown up. And while she was cursing a stream of profanities at her fate, Urd suddenly shouted out
"Hey Marller, what'cha you doing?"
"WHAT THE HELL DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M DOING URD!?! I'M TRYING NOT TO DIE HERE!!!" She yelled back at Urd while she simultaneously was cursing her as being an utterly moronic idiot.
As the three Norns then suddenly realized that Marller was right and that this unknown girl was really, and successfully, trying to kill Marller, they then nodded to each other as they had very unwisely decided to help her out. And may Kami-Sama have mercy upon their souls.
Niflheim: Hild-Sama's office: as all of this was going on
"Urgent Report Mam!" A tiny messenger Demon exclaimed while dropping a note on her desk. Curious, she took a look at it, only to pale and scream "OH SHIT!"
Asgard: Kami-Sama's office: as all of this was going on
"Urgent Report Sir!" A tiny messenger Angel exclaimed while dropping a note on his desk. Curious, he took a look at it, only to pale and scream "OH NO!"
The Tendo house: Nerima, Japan: later on that day
It had taken a squad of Valkyries combined with a squad of Niflheim's finest, but together they had managed to both subdue Ranma and save Marller, Urd, Skuld, and Belldandy's lives. And now they were all gathered at the Tendo's, and they were currently trying to explain things to an extremely pissed off Ranma and some almost equally pissed off family members and friends.
Nabiki, whom had not surprisingly managed to stay the calmest out of all of them, asked "So you're a Demoness, right Marller?"
Wincing as she spoke due to a bruised jaw, she replied with a "Yes."
"And you Demons and Gods are currently in a contest in regards to granting wishes for mortals, right?" Nabiki had then asked.
"While that is not entirely correct, it is close enough to the truth." Belldandy interjected with pain as she was currently having her leg splint.
"Ok," Nabiki acknowledged "And you were sent to grant that moron Kuno a wish, and, after proclaiming you an angel," To which Urd chuckled while she was getting some stitches in her abdomen, causing her medic to frown and then have to start stitching her wound up all over again "he had wished for Ranma here to die in the most humiliating way possible."
"Correct." Marller hissed out as the fingers on her left hand were being put back into their joints so that they could then splint them.
"And you had then decided that the most humiliating way possible was to split Ranma into both of his male and female halves, and you had also tried to make it so all of his strength, power, skill and Ki abilities were stuck inside his male form, which you had made sure was created DOA, but then something had gone wrong?" Nabiki asked
"Yeah." Marller gasped out in pain as they reset her right knee
"So, what went wrong?" Nabiki then asked of Marller.
"I really don't know." Marller replied as they then had started to bind her right knee
"Maybe I can answer that." A Valkyrie suddenly volunteered.
"And you are?" Nabiki asked with a raised eyebrow.
"My name is Rind." The Valkyrie stiffly replied.
"So, enlighten us Rind. Just what went wrong?" Nabiki asked with a small smirk
"I do not know all the details, but Ranma here has managed to keep all of her strength, power, skill and Ki abilities while at the same time gathering yet even more power, by tapping into a very ancient and powerful source of power. I do not know how, or even why, but she has accessed the power source of a Deity that has been stricken from the records of this universe so long ago that it was before I was even born. I don't even know what that Deities name was or even who it really was, only that this Deity was one of the Elder Deities. Sadly, all of the Elder Deities are now either dead or missing in action. This one is one of the MIA's. The Deity in question was banished from this reality for almost destroying it by starting an inter-reality war eons ago. One that had almost led to the destruction of this reality, and that war did lead to the destruction of many other realities. I don't know much else about this, for the history from that time is very sketchy, and all of the history I have read on it was woefully incomplete. I would never have even connected any of these things if I hadn't overheard a few things Kami-Sama himself had been muttering." Rind then told them with a shake of her head.
"So what happens now? Does she heal up and try again?" Nabiki then asked while she was pointing at Marller
"Thankfully no." Marller gasped out in pain as they started to examine her jaw again. "This is the first, and probably the only, time that The System Force has, after having decided to grant a wish, has decided to revoke it due to it being an impossible wish to grant."
"So you're not going to be trying to kill Ranma here again?" Nabiki then asked with a smirk.
"Oh hell no." Marller exclaimed with feeling
As Nabiki chuckled at that, Ranma suddenly asked "So then, can you fix what you did to me?"
Blinking, for these were the first words spoken by Ranma since this whole mess had started, other than 'I'll kill you', 'DIE!' or something else along those lines, Marller asked/said "If you mean turning you back into a half guy half girl…"
"That's exactly what I mean!" Ranma then shouted back.
"Then, no. For I already have truly killed your male side, and the only way to restore you to the way you were would be to resurrect your male side, and then to somehow rejoin it with you. But for any sort of resurrection, you need a soul, a dead soul that is, and since your soul is still among the living, well no dice." Marller said with a shrug, and then she winced due to the pain caused by that simple action.
As Ranma just stood still and steamed at this news, the leader of the Niflheim forces said "Well I'd better give Marller her new orders, and then get going."
"New Orders?!?! What new orders!?! Have you seen the shape I'm in!?!" Marller then screamed out in outrage.
"They're directly from Hild-Sama Marller." The Demoness then told Marller with an evil smirk.
"Oh great, that's just great. Well then, what are my new orders?" Marller then asked in defeat.
"Well they're orders on regards to your new post." The Demoness then nervously began.
"New post? What new post?" Marller all but screamed at the now stammering Demoness.
"Well, I'm thinking that Hild-Sama doesn't want someone that's accessing an Elder Deities power, and someone that just may even become as powerful as one someday mad at her, so…, she's giving you to Ranma." The Demoness quickly replied.
After making a very deliberate and very obvious show of cleaning her ears, Marller replied, while starting in an extremely sickeningly sweet tone of voice "I'm sorry, but there just must have been something in my ears, for I thought you said that Hild was GIVING ME TO RANMA!!!" She then ended her statement in a bellow.
"Um, that's exactly what I said. Bye!" The Demoness quickly told Marller and then she even more quickly disappeared with all of her troops.
"HILD!!!" Marller then yelled out in outrage while shaking her good right hand in a fist.
"Well then," Rind then said with a chuckle, "I guess I now get to give them their new orders and then leave as well." She said while gesturing towards the Norns.
"Oh please, please tell me the Kami-Sama isn't going to be doing the same thing with us." Urd then moaned out
"Nah." Rind said, causing relief to show on the Norns faces. "It's even worse." She said with a sly grin as the three Norns' faces fell "He wants you three to stick around here and keep an eye on Ranma to make sure that she doesn't get into any more trouble." Rind said with her grin getting wider as the three Norns' faces fell as they contemplated the utter impossibility of their new job. "Good luck girls, because you're really going to need it." She said as she and her host of Valkyries suddenly disappeared as well.
"I need a drink." Urd suddenly exclaimed.
"I need some ice-cream." Skuld then cried out.
"ZZZZZ" Belldandy snored, as she had immediately fallen asleep.
"I think I'll join you for that drink." Marller told Urd in a very depressed tone of voice
Ranma then suddenly stood up and exclaimed "I'm going outside to practice. And I don't want nobody coming out there until dinners ready." She growled out and then she stormed outside.
And thus that had broken up that little gathering
In the Tendo's back yard: Nerima Japan: a little later on that day
Ranma was practicing to calm herself down and to think, for Ranma had always thought best while practicing the art.
'What the heck's going on here? I mean one minute, I'm just minding my own business, and the next minute a damn Demoness comes along and tells me that I'm going to have to die just because Kuno had wished it to be so. But what happened then? My male side was ripped from me, I know that, and at the same time I felt all my Ki and my strength and my skill having the same thing done to them. But then what happened?" Ranma lost track of her thoughts as she continued on with her kata, thinking upon what had truly happened by not thinking about anything at all. Then it came to her, the suppressed memory she was looking for. "I needed to keep all of my Ki, strength and skill if I wanted to stand a chance against that Demoness, and I knew that, so I fought, I fought to keep them. I was looking for a way to keep all of my power that she was trying to rip from me, when I started to break through some barriers in my very soul its self, and then I was suddenly being filled with an unbelievable amount of power. But it wasn't Ki or any other type of power I've ever encountered before. In fact, it's totally different then the powers of those Goddesses and that Demoness I fought. That Valkyrie, Rind was that what she said her name was? She said I was taping into the power source of a very old and exiled Elder Deity. But wouldn't, if it truly was, a Deities power that I was taping into in some way it be at least similar enough in origin to be recognizable as a similar source of power as that of those Goddesses? I mean I really can't see much if any similarities in the two power types at all. Damn, my head hurts.' Ranma then thought.
She then cleared her mind of everything as she started another kata, and when that one was done, she went on to a third, while now trying to remember just what happened in the fight. 'I don't remember a thing until I woke up in the house. It was almost like the Neko-Ken, but I have been getting some flashes of the fight, so let's see if I can remember anything.' And with that Ranma struggled to remember. The pressure kept building up in her head, until like a dam, it burst, showering her with a flood of the memories that she had forgotten.
'Whoa, I did all of that? How the fuck did I even do any of that? It was like I was running on instinct. And not my own instincts for that matter. Damn I was cleaning the floor with that Demoness until those three Goddess decided to interfere. And even then I was more than holding my own! I would of probably won if it had stayed only those four, no guaranties, but it was certainly probable. But then those two squads came in and I lost horribly. Well I was then outnumbered twenty six to one. But God Damn, how the hell was I even doing any of that stuff? Now I know I can do stuff like that, but how can I actually do it? I have no clue. But now that I know I can, I'll be training to be able to do it again!'
And as Ranma thought that, Kasumi came out and told her "Dinner time Ranma."
The Masaki house, Okayama, Japan: present day
Neither Washu nor anyone else could get anything out of either Tsunami or even Sasami about just whom this Tokimi was, other than that they needed to find her and stop to her before she did something truly horrible. So Washu was now currently searching for someone without truly knowing why, and it was mildly upsetting her. Ok, ok, to tell the truth about the matter she was utterly pissed off about it.
But what was even more upsetting to her was the fact that this Tokimi seemed to just stick around the Nerima district of Tokyo for the most part, but yet she bounced all over all of the Tokyo sub-wards with such a chaotic frequency that Washu had just given up on ever trying to track her, and instead was just trying to find her home base. It was fairly obvious that it was somewhere in Nerima, but for the life of her she just couldn't pinpoint exactly where fir some reason. Washu was just about at the point of saying 'To hell with it!' and then telling the others that they'd have to explore all of Nerima on foot until they found her. And then, as Tokimi's signal went bouncing all across Tokyo and even a little beyond yet again, Washu had suddenly hit her absolute breaking point and then went to inform the others of her decision.
Tokimi's Prison: present day: at about the same time
"Tut, tut little sister." Tokimi muttered while chiding Tsunami "You fear me greatly, and with good reason might I add, but you should have realized by now that this is not me you are feeling." Turing her attention away from the monitor that was tuned into her sisters' residence, she then looked into the one that was locked onto Ranma.
"I truly don't know how this has happened." Tokimi mused while looking at Ranma while she hid atop Tokyo Tower while trying to get away from her so called family and friends. "I mean Deities are not supposed to be reincarnated. Ever. Let alone one's whose souls were effectively destroyed. But somehow my daughter Feng was reborn. I guess I truly did name her correctly." Tokimi then said with a small chuckle.
Turning to her servant D3, she asked "Is the device ready?"
"Yes my lady. As Ranma sleeps this night, you shall be able to communicate with her via her dreams." D3 reported to its mistress.
"Good, good. After all this time, I will be able to speak to my baby again." Tokimi then exclaimed while laughing and crying tears of joy.
The Tendo house: present day: that night
As Ranma got ready for bed that night she was supremely frustrated. She just could not do anything she had done in that fight six months ago. Sure, she could now find and access this new power source that she had, but that was about it as far as her progress went. Sure using it to power up all of her abilities and her normal techniques was great and all, but she knew that sooner or later some serious shit would hit the fan again and she'd need to be able to do what she had done on that day. She couldn't even fly! And that was the one thing she had wanted to do the most out of what she had done that day, and it was seemly denied to her due to her own utter incompetence.
Ranma was, needless to say, very pissed off at herself for this.
Also there were the others reactions to all of these happenings. The Amazons now wanted her in the tribe as a warrior. Huh, fat chance of that happening. Uyko was a becoming good point though for she was now being a truly supporting friend, and one of her only sources of support at that. Nabiki was a total surprise in being another source of support along with Kasumi whom was not a surprise at all. Akane was just being very puzzling, for she seemed to shift from being ultra supportive to attacking her on sight for being perverted. It was giving Ranma a headache trying to guess which way the Akane winds were blowing from moment to moment. Ryoga, now there was a great surprise. The lost boy was Ranma's best source to vent upon verbally, and he now actually seemed to listen to her, and he had tried to help her get over everything, while she was doing the same thing for him. It was like there was a mutual therapy session going on between the two of them, and they had ended up so much happier as a result of things. Then there was her mother Nodoka, whom, now that she was now a full time girl, was currently trying to get her to date some guys. She especially was trying to get her to date Ryoga. Ranma shivered at that thought. So, as a result, she was now spending a lot of time avoiding her mother. Her father and Soun however now spent every waking moment, and a lot of non waking moments, in the bars around town bemoaning the loss of the joining of the schools. Ranma was just glad that her father was doing that instead of engaging her to some guys. And the less said about school and the Kuno's, the better.
Then Ranma finally managed to get to sleep after thinking upon these things, and she then had a very long and rather informative dream.
In Ranma's dreamscape: that night
Ranma was strolling through the halls of an opulent palace, and she was currently trying to figure out just what the hell was currently going on here. "This has just gotta be a dream, but I don't dream about things like this, so what's going on here?" Ranma wondered aloud as she wandered along the halls of the magnificent castle.
Eventually she came to a lavishly gorgeous set of double doors and they opened by themselves while she stood in front of them and stared. And as they were opening, a sensual and cruel woman's voice commanded "Enter Ranma Saotome."
Gulping, Ranma did just that. And as she entered, she saw that this was the palace's throne room, and that there was a beautiful, if cold and cruel looking, woman seated upon the throne of the room.
"Do not be nervous Ranma, I only wish to meet with you." The dark haired woman said in a reinsuring tone that sounded anything but.
Steeling herself, Ranma approached the woman on the throne until she was directly in front of her. Looking defiantly at her, Ranma noticed a look of, concern, care, and was that love, in the woman's eyes? Puzzled as to just what this meant, she held her tongue for the moment while trying to puzzle through the things that she was seeing in the other woman's expression, thus leading to the strange woman speaking first.
"Ranma, my name is Tokimi." The woman began "It is not truly my power that you are now accessing, but I can see how others that weren't around at the time may think so. It is your own power that you are accessing." She finished.
"Wait a moment, you, you're that Goddess that was banished after starting a war!" Ranma yelled in some slight shock after she processed some things. Then just what else that had just been said by Tokimi hit her, and Ranma asked "And what you mean by that? 'I'm not accessing your power, but my own.' Why the hell would my power ever be mistaken for yours anyways?" Ranma suspiciously asked of Tokimi.
"Take a seat Ranma, for I fear this will take quite some time to explain." Tokimi said while a lavishly comfortable floating chair appeared behind Ranma out of nothingness. Raising an eyebrow at this, Ranma then sat down.
"Simply put Ranma, you are the reincarnation of my dead daughter." Tokimi began. When it looked like Ranma was about to protest this fact, Tokimi said "No Ranma, do not protest this. Search your soul, and you shall know it to be true."
Ranma stared at Tokimi in angry defiance, but then she did as she had asked. She searched her own soul, and she found within it a deep sense of kinship with this woman. Looking up at her, Ranma now identified what it was on Tokimi's face that had been so puzzling her. It was the look of unconditional love that a mother had for her child. Ranma just didn't get that at first because her own mother Nodoka had very rarely if ever shown that sort of face to her, for she was more into conditional love it seemed at times. Ranma knew that her mother loved her, but Ranma also knew that she was so off in her own little fantasy world at most times that ever getting that sort of love was next to impossible. But this woman, she showed it freely. And she didn't even truly know her.
'Wait, that's not true.' Ranma then thought to herself 'I don't know her in this life, but in my past life I obviously did, I just wish I could remember those times.' And then, as she thought that, she felt a slight crack in her mind, and a few images trickled in, but nothing more.
"What, how, how is this possible?" Ranma asked in her shock as she accepted the facts that her instincts were telling her.
"I honestly do not know my dear." Tokimi began. "You had died. And a Deity who dies, and especially one that is murdered and whom has its soul destroyed, should never be reborn."
"Wait, what do you mean, murdered?" Ranma asked in shock.
"In a time so long ago that all but I and one other have forgotten about it, I was the Supreme Elder Goddess of this Universe. But I had many enemies, both within this universe and without it. And my enemies had conspired against me and a group of assassins from a pantheon of Deities from another dimension were smuggled into this one by a group of traitorous Deities under my command. And then they killed you and utterly destroyed your soul." Tokimi then shook her head in sadness and despair. "I went insane after that. I can see that now. I went utterly mad in my grief, and I had then started a war that had not only led to the utter annihilation of the Deities that killed you home reality but to many other realities as well. It even had almost cost us our own reality as well." Tokimi sadly told Ranma.
"Finally though, I was stopped by my youngest sister. She then trapped me in here" Tokimi said waving her arms around herself, "and then she took over as the Supreme Elder Goddess of the Universe after that, for she was the only one left who could." Tokimi then slowly shook her head and continued on with her story
"Sadly, a very long time ago, my little sister had an accident. She was in a lot of grief due to the suffering that her chosen people were going through, and due to some divine rules, she could not interfere with it and make it all better for them. So she wasn't paying enough attention to what she was doing, and she had somehow managed to trap herself in a prison of her own making. Then seven hundred years ago, a little girl on that planet was fatally wounded near her prison, but before she could die, my little sister Tsunami merged with her. When that little girl is ready, the merger will be complete, but that won't be for a while yet, both due to the fact that the little girl's race has a very long lifespan, and also due to the fact that the little girl has until very recently been in suspended animation for the past seven hundred years."
Tokimi then shook her head again and said "One of the reasons I pulled you here in your dreams is because she is currently on this planet with several other very powerful beings, and she's felt you. And she has also mistaken your power signature for being that of my own and she will soon be coming with her allies to find you."
"Great. More misinformed people after my head." Ranma darkly muttered.
Tokimi then laughed in response to that statement and told her "Do not worry Ranma, for as soon a she sees you, she'll know exactly who you are, or should I say who you were, my daughter Feng."
"Really?" Ranma asked with hope evident in her voice. She really didn't want to fight this fight if it was avoidable.
"Yes really. Oh the look of shock on her face will be priceless, priceless I tell you. I'm going to have to record it for posterity!" Tokimi had then laughed out. "As for the others that live with her that may be coming after you, let me tell you a little bit about them."
"Ok." Ranma replied, eager to have some advanced knowledge on some potential foes.
"Well fist up is Tsunami's and my other sister Washu. She was the middle sister, and she had somehow disappeared in a battle during the war. She thinks she's a mortal now, and she can't remember anything past twenty thousand years ago. And the war was much, much farther in the past then that. I do not know what she was doing until twenty thousand years ago, but if I had to make a guess, I'd say she just appeared then through a time vortex with amnesia or something similar to that. Tsunami refuses to tell Washu who she really is, and I would ask if you would tell her for me, and not only for her sake, but for her daughter's as well." Tokimi asked of Ranma.
"Her daughter?" Ranma asked in some shock
"Yes, her daughter. Washu had wanted a child, but yet for some reason unbeknownst to her she could not have one in the normal way. So using her own egg and some various other species DNA, she had made one via genetic engineering." Tokimi said, while Ranma exclaimed
"Wow."
"Yes, wow. Anyway the main reason I ask you to inform my sister of her divine status is, while her powers as an Elder Goddess seems to be largely sealed at this point in time for some unknown reasons, Ryoko, that's Washu's daughter, does not have any of those seals. She is like you. The only thing stopping her, and you, from fully accessing your Divine powers is the fact that you just don't know how to. In fact you are a little farther along than her in that regard, but even without accessing any of her Divine powers, Ryoko is still quite powerful. Ryoko truly must be made aware of her powers before something terrible happens." Tokimi said sternly
"Yes she does." Ranma agreed. "And can you teach me how to use my powers? I don't want to have an accident and end up hurting a bunch of people." Ranma asked and then said.
"I'm glad you asked Ranma, I would be delighted to. I was even going to suggest that a bit later on." Tokimi said with a small smile. "Now onto the others. There is Yosho, a warrior prince of Jurai, who crash landed on this planet seven hundred years ago and defeated and then sealed Ryoko in a cave." Ranma then interrupted with
"Why'd he do that?"
Sighing, Tokimi said "I'll tell you that in a bit. Although I will say this at the moment, Yosho was doing the right thing at the time."
"Ok." Ranma replied, while being a little confused.
"Then there is Ayeka. She is the First Princess of Jurai, and she is Yosho and Sasami's sister. Sasami is the little girl that Tsunami bonded with." Ranma nodded her head in understanding. "Ayeka is a master at using the energy of Jurai for both defense and offence, but in battle she is a long range attacker."
"Sucks in close combat, eh?" Ranma then asked with a smirk
"Quite." Tokimi responded. "Then there are two Galaxy Police Officers, Kiyone and Mihoshi. Kiyone is a tactical genius, being able to come up with battle plans on the fly, and she is very good at combat, both armed and unarmed. Mihoshi on the other hand, is one of the best space fighter pilots I've ever even heard of, she is lucky as all hell, and she is also a complete and utter ditz." Ranma raised an eyebrow at this "But she somehow manages to turn her natural ditzyness into one of the most potent forms of luck based combat I've ever seen." Tokimi then said while she was shaking her head and laughing. "She is utterly hilarious to watch in combat, just because of the way she manages to take everyone down."
Gathering herself back together, Tokimi finished with "And the last one you'll need to worry about is the main one you should worry about. His name is Tenchi and he is Yosho's grandson. He also is Tsunami's chosen champion. He has access to a source of power granted by Tsunami named "The Wings of the Light Hawk'. And he can summon three of them. The most anyone can summon, which would be only Tsunami herself when she's fully manifested, is ten. But even with only a third of the possible power level available to him he is still a force to be reckoned with, and you are not leaving here until you've finished mastering being able to access and use all ten of your 'Wings of the Dark Raptor' ." Tokimi then told Ranma with a feral grin.
Ranma just groaned in response to that as Tokimi smiled wider.
The Tendo House: Nerima, Japan: the next day
It was the morning after Ranma went to sleep and had that dream, but yet to her, it felt like it had been a hell of a lot longer, for after she had mastered the use of 'The Wings of the Dark Raptor' she had then spent some more time learning some other useful things from Tokimi, and she had also just spent some time getting to truly know Tokimi as a person. And after promising Tokimi that it would be just fine to take her back every night to that place while she slept, Ranma had finally left Tokimi's prison. She was still sad to hear that only Tsunami could free Tokimi from her prison and until she had merged with Sasami, she wouldn't have the power to do so if she even wanted to. Ranma then made a metal note to really chew Tsunami out about that little fact.
Anyways, Ranma got off of her futon and then she got dressed. She then marched downstairs, while finding down there the usual site of nowadays. Urd and Marller were both sitting on the couch while drinking some sake and or beer while watching some early morning television, while Belldandy was in the kitchen helping Kasumi with breakfast. All three of these otherworldly beings just mentioned now looked to be about sixteen years of age. And let us just say that whenever Keiichi came over he was always now slightly embarrassed about this fact. Skuld on the other hand managed to keep her current apparent age, and was doing something with an electronic box of some sort at the table. Just what she was doing, Ranma really didn't even want to know. Nabiki was currently sitting down at the table while nursing an entire pot of coffee, while Akane was currently off in the Dojo and breaking bricks from the sounds of things, and it seemed that her father and Soun had never even come home last night and thus were either still out drinking or they were currently in the poky on a drunken disorderly conduct charge yet again.
"How did you sleep last night Ranma?" Kasumi called from the kitchen when she noticed her.
"Oh, very well Kasumi. And I had a most interesting and informative dream last night as well." Ranma replied with a smirk.
"Oh really? And what sort of dream would that be?" Nabiki asked, sensing some profit, or some form of entertainment at the very least.
"Oh, nothing much, I just found out where all this new power I accessed came from." Ranma said straight faced as she sat down.
Now she had everyone's attention as all eyes were glued to her.
"What?" Ranma asked in a seemingly clueless tone of voice.
"What do you mean what? Are you going to tell us or what?" Marller all but shouted at Ranma
"Oh, sure, if you really want me to that is." Ranma said without care. After most of the beings there got control over their tempers, Kasumi sweetly told Ranma
"I think we'd love to hear it Ranma."
"Ok then, I went to meet my past life's mother." Ranma started off with.
"Huh?" Came from various beings around the room.
"It seems that in my past life I was the daughter of the Supreme Elder Goddess of this Universe, Tokimi, and when a bunch of assassins from another dimension came here and killed me, she went insane and started an inter-dimensional war that ended a lot of realties existences, and it almost did the same to this one. She was then overthrown and imprisoned by her youngest sister for doing this. She just can't understand how I was reborn though. She said Deities just don't do that, and besides, my soul was supposedly utterly destroyed. Oh and thanks for the wonderful breakfast Kasumi, Belldandy." Ranma then said.
"You're welcome Ranma." They then replied in stereo.
"Is that all?" Nabiki asked in shock.
"Nah, I learned some neat things about how to use my power from her, and she also told me that my aunt has felt me out and thinks I'm my mother and that she is going to be here soon with some friends to stop me from doing anything I shouldn't be doing, like being out of prison." Ranma told them while digging into her food.
"Oh well that's just great." Nabiki drawled out sarcastically."So when do you think they'll get here?"
"Who knows? They may even come here today." Ranma replied while still eating
"So you're going to get in a massive fight with even more Deities." Nabiki asked a little fearfully. That last fight had been intense, too intense for her tastes.
"Only if I can't avoid it." Ranma said with a shrug, and then she continued on with her quest to fill her stomach
"Ok, so it's guaranteed then." Nabiki said with a sigh.
"Hey!" Ranma shouted out as everyone else giggled
"Well if it comes down to it, we've got your back Ranma." Urd said while cracking her knuckles
"Yeah." Skuld agreed and then she softly mumbled "Not like we have any choice in the matter."
Furinkan Koukou: Nerima, Japan: later that morning
As Ranma entered the school with Akane, Nabiki, Marller, Urd, Skuld and Belldandy, Kuno was waiting for them. And as he spouted off "Ah, my pigtailed Goddess, by blond angel, my fierce tigress…" Marller begged of Ranma
"Please, can I please kill him now?"
"No. I have not yet begun to torture the moron for what he did." Ranma said while shaking her head. Seeing the crest fallen look on Marller face, Ranma then said "Well when I'm done making his life a living hell, you can then take over the job for me, but don't kill the jerk! It would be far to kind. Just make his life utterly miserable." Ranma ordered.
"Can do." Marller replied while smirking evilly. Something that as a Demoness she was quite good at.
"Yeah, well I'm nowhere near done with him so just wait your turn." Ranma said, now going back to pay attention to the drivel Kuno was spouting.
It was just bad luck for Kuno that Ranma decided to pay attention at that particular point, for Kuno was at that moment debasing Ranma's male side's death. Needless to say, she got very upset about that.
"Foul Sorcerer this Kuno!" Ranma yelled and then she let loose with one of the lower level techniques she had learned from Tokimi, a low grade continual electrical attack
While Ranma was grinning as she pumped Kuno full of some black lightning, a woman's voice sounded out over the school yard "Tokimi! What do you think you're doing to that poor boy?!?"
As Ranma stopped juicing up Kuno, he fell to the ground with his ever familiar cry of "I fight on!" Before he finally fainted.
Then Ranma turned around with a smirk on her face and stated "Kuno? A poor boy? I don't think so." She said while addressing Tsunami and her group. They were all there, and they looked exactly like the images Tokimi had shown her of them.
Tsunami gasped and said to the obvious confusion of her party members "Feng? FENG!?! But, but you're dead!"
Ranma just smirked even wider at that and replied with "I got better. Hello aunt Tsunami, Hello aunt Washu. And you must be my cousin Ryoko, am I right?" Ranma said to a now flabbergasted group of beings. 'Oh yeah.' Ranma then thought to herself 'This will be a lot of fun. Just like mom said it would be.'
EAN: I said there would be a lot of OCCNESS in this, now didn't I? dethgeonous thinks, and then he looks back upon his work and nods. Yes, yes it appears that I did. And did I make Ranma uber? Probably. Hell, most definitely. But she'll need that power to face the shit that going to be coming after her now. And to be even more truthful, she hasn't even scratched the surface of what she now can truly do, because after that first fight, Ranma forgot how to do everything related to her new powers, and she will now have to relearn them all from Tokimi in her nightly dreams. And that will take a long time. And no, Tokimi will not getting out of her prison for quite some time.
Well, next time we'll see the Masaki household's reaction to this turn of events. Will there be a peaceful solution, or will they have a rumble first? Check in next time to see that and more!