Title: Prologue
Author: Merrianna
Series: Pools of Reflection
Characters: Many of the Ranma cast and a few that were created by me.
Rating: Rating R
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Category: Adventure, Supernatural, and Romance
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Disclaimer: All Ranma 1/2 Characters are the property of Rumiko Takahashi and Viz Video.
Distribution: Please ask first?
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Prologue
Together At Last
Ranma: We always knew in our hearts.
We would be together.
Akane: We just had to wait for the day.
That someday the time would be right.
Together: We are a reflection.
Like the old stories say.
Man and woman soulmates, Ying and yang.
Always looking for their other half.
Ranma: I knew the moment you first smiled.
Akane: I knew it to when you looked so shy.
Ranma: It was as if the world had stopped.
Akane: The same for me, but you were there to start it again.
Together: We are a reflection.
Like the old stories say.
Man and woman soulmates, Ying and yang.
Always looking for their other half.
Together: I guess it was meant to be you and me together.
It must be that the time was finally right.
For us to say I love you.
Days after the fight with Saffron:
Under the over-flowed pools of Jusenkyo, an evil that had been sealed for 1,500 years had been awakened. It shook the ground making the water ripple. Its first thoughts after such a long slumber were of revenge and to resume its original conquest of the world. It began stretching out its weakened power to search out the ones who had imprisoned it in the first place.
It found that two had died in the pools. But their reincarnations had been there recently. It was too weak to move against them yet. It needed to build its power up and plot the best way to get revenge while also making sure they didn't interfere this time.
It gathered its strength, sucking the life out of the living things that had gotten too near. It drew energy, from those who had fallen into the cursed pools, after being trapped in the hell of perpetual sleep. It enjoyed being able to use the energies of the enemy to build its own.
After waiting four months, the water had receded and the evil perceived that the time was right to start with its plan. It had stored as much energy that the surroundings could provide without being able to move; getting more energy would require movement.
Dark clouds billowed over the watery graves that were the prisons of over one hundred souls, be it human or animal. Thunder shook the ground, with lightning streaking across the sky illuminating the eerie reflections of those trapped beneath the murky depths. Two sets of human eyes looked up from the normally frozen state that had been captured at the time of their deaths. Ripples appeared from the drops of rain falling out of the deep recess of the coming storm above the cursed springs of Jusenkyo.
'Crack'… followed by a 'Thoosh', and a tremendous bolt of blue lightning rent through bamboo and then a thin layer of ground that separated the human souls watching the enraged heavens. Mud and stone slid down within the dark mysterious pools. The waves from the rain and falling debris pushed at the last remaining barriers, finally breaking them down. A bright flash of light flared up, straight, and died as the cursed waters mingled and flowed together.
Animals and young children shivered and shrank away at the unheard giggling drifting from the newly formed spring. The soundless laughter wafted on the wet wind, following the red-yellow energy that left faint footprints leading away from its birthplace. Later, if anyone had noticed the path of singed trees, they would have seen a trail heading up to the foreboding cliff-tops of Mount Phoenix.