These are not my characters, for if they were, I would be rich...which is not the case. I
use them without permission, and most likely in a way the original creators would not
contemplate. OH WELL, such is the way of fan-fiction :) this story is NOT used for
profit, just for entertainment.
Knights Return
Chapter 1A
On the top of Jusendo, a fierce battle of epic proportions was taking place,
involving a Neriman martial artist, and the Demi-god of the bird people, Saffron. Saffron
was standing in the way of Ranma saotome's only hope of changing Akane back from the
doll like state she had been changed to.
"I've got to use it!", Ranma thought to himself as he dodged another attack by
Saffron. "The new Hyru-Shoten-Ha I made will kill Saffron and...and I'll be able to save
Akane!." but as he prepared to unleash this powerful attack, a single stray thought
entered his mind. "Kill? do I really want to...kill?"
His hesitation almost cost his life, as Saffron took the moment of distraction to fire
hundreds of fireballs at him.
As Saffron recharged after the salvo, surprised that a mere human had been able to
avoid that much firepower, Ranma saw an opening, and jumped into the stream of water
coming from the dragons mouth, just before the dolls eyes closed completely.
Ranma held the restored Akane in his arms, and smiled at her. And she smiled a
beautiful smile back. Then she kissed him.
But while the two were caught up in each other, Saffron smiled an evil smile and
released one small projectile. Unlike his previous ones, this was tiny, and had
comparatively little power. Just enough to pierce Akane's body and destroy her heart.
Ranma finished the kiss, and held Akane closely, looking into her eyes. He felt a
slight jump, almost a twitch, and saw Akane's expression quickly turn from relief to terror
and pain. She opened her mouth to say something, but instead of words, only a bit of
blood came out.
He watched in slowly dawning horror as the light in her eyes slowly went out.
Thoughts ran through his head, going a million miles a second;
Akane was dead.
It was his fault.
He wasn't fast enough.
He deserved to die.
He screamed, the wail of the lost, the cry of the dammed. He screamed the sound
of ultimate suffering.
Saffron smiled, as he watched the human suffer. Enough of this, he thought, its
time to put out of his misery. With those thoughts, and an evil smile he readied his largest
fireball.
He gazed at her one last time, one last time before he threw his life away in a
suicide attack to destroy himself and mark her grave forever. But Then he saw it, the
small charred hole in her back, and knew that this was not his fault. He had just one last
coherent thought; Saffron must die. Then all thoughts fled, and he knew only rage.
He screamed again, but where the first was filled with loss and grief, this
contained hate and rage. As he screamed, his aura exploded, shinning like a star on top of
the mountain, destroying the pool he was standing in, and leaving a crater thirty feet wide.
The dust slowly cleared, revealing a sight wondrous and terrible to behold.
Ranma's hair had gone from dark black to purest white, and his aura, while
diminished from "new star" level, was still almost painful to look at. His body had also
changed, from his normal toned physique, to a colossal muscular form, destroying most of
his clothing. As if this wasn't enough, he was floating in mid-air, 30 feet above the
ground, with and expression of anger on his face.
Then A gigantic fireball slammed into him, obscuring Ranma from view once
again...
When the dust began to settle over the now 50 foot crater, it revealed a scene
similar to the first, but this time he looked...scary.
He had a smile just like Saffron's on his face.
------
Many miles away in Japan...
------
Cologne was in her restaurant, doing the dishes herself for a change, when she felt
it, a sudden, almost painful spike of power in the west. "What is this?," she muttered to
herself, suddenly she dropped the plate she had been drying and stared off into the
distance. "No...it can not be...son in law??" She shook her head, and tried to deny what
she knew to be true, then sat down and began to make plans. If ranma was able to
produce that much power, something terrible had happened...something terrible indeed!
Happosai too felt Ranmas power surge, but unlike Cologne he knew what had
happened. And it scared him. It scared him enough to almost run back to the cave he had
been sealed in for all those years, to seal himself back up and try to forget that the world
existed...almost, but not quite. He had one final task to accomplish before he could leave
this world behind. He just hoped that he was wrong. He knew he wasn't.
--------------
China
--------------
"So much power!" Ryoga cried, his nose and ears bleeding from being so close to
that much power being released. How can he do this!? He thought, slowly falling to his
knees, his mind overloading. In the moments he had before he passed out he yelled
"Ranma! Kill that thing!! For Akane!!" Then darkness overtook him, and he collapsed to
the ground.
Ranma hovered over the crater, glaring at Saffron for a few moments, then
suddenly vanished from view, only to appear behind Saffron an instant later. Before the
king of phoenix mountain could react, he was hit with four thousand punches, and nearly
as many kicks, then blasted towards the ground.
Any mortal would have been incapacitated by this, or even outright killed. But
Saffron was most decidedly not a normal being. He winced at the pain for a moment, then
dragged himself out of the new crater, and fired off into the sky, intending to pummel the
insolent human who had dared injure him.
His first mistake was closing with ranma again. He was instantly pounded from all
sides, only escaping the onslaught when he used his powers to heat the air surrounding
him to incredible heat.
His second mistake was not throwing all that he could from a distance at Ranma.
Not that it would have saved him, but it might have hurt Ranma enough to kill him
afterwards.
He didn't live long enough to make a third mistake. As he let the heat field
diminish so he could begin his attack, Ranma was there again, pummeling him, and then
dashing him into the ground once again.
In the newly formed crater, Saffron barely held on to consciousness. His body was
screaming in pain, driving everything else from his mind. Ranma slowly touched down
beside him, the cruel smile never leaving his face.
"It's time for him to die now", Ranma thought darkly, "and HIS death is not going
to be as...pleasant...as Akane's!" He searched his mind for a technique that would cause
the most suffering before obliterating its victim. Suddenly one came to mind, but it wasn't
so much a memory as an...echo, a shadow of something he had once knew. He grasped at
it and struggled to remember it completely. with a wrenching it came into focus, and he
knew what it was and recoiled at brutality and power of it. He briefly considered simply
using something lesser to do Saffron in, but the memory of the horror he was in Akane's
eyes as her life faded steeled his resolve.
No, he thought to himself, it was not brutal, simply a fitting punishment.
With that he picked the weakly struggling Saffron up by the neck, and threw him
into the air. Then he, for lack of a better word, took hold of a new power and drew it to
him. It was like coming home, and being torn away from everything he had ever known.
The power was as an intense silence, but also as million voices screaming out in terror.
He almost lost himself in the sensations, but pulled himself back to the task at hand.
raising his hands above his head, he gathered an enormous sphere of the energy,
shuddering with the strain. The sphere was ebon, streaked with red the color of old blood.
Then he brought it slowly in front of him, aiming at the form of saffron, who had begun
his descent back to the earth. With a backlash which destroyed even more of the
mountaintop, he released it. The entire attack early happened in complete and utter
silence.
The orb flew at Saffron, impacted, and slowly began disintegrating him as it
traveled upwards at an incredible rate. It cleared the atmosphere and detonated, shining
like the sun for a moment, then it faded, with nothing remaining to mark the grave of the
defeated king.
Ranma smiled, knowing that Akane had been avenged, then slowly collapsed.
-Authors note
Well here it is, my first real story, keep in mind that it's just a draft, and I welcome
any C&C or help I may be offered. This is NOT a dragonball crossover, but you'll see
what it is soon enough. this fic was inspired by dragonball Z, and by Wing.0 Dont ask
how, I'mm not sure myself.
till next time,
_tc_
WWW.ANGELFIRE.COM/WEIRD/TEFLONCAT/TCSCAVE.HTM
neko-oni at angelfire dot com - for c&c/honest help/etc.
tefloncat at angelfire dot com - for anything else
(there, that should keep the robots away...)
use them without permission, and most likely in a way the original creators would not
contemplate. OH WELL, such is the way of fan-fiction :) this story is NOT used for
profit, just for entertainment.
Knights Return
Chapter 1A
On the top of Jusendo, a fierce battle of epic proportions was taking place,
involving a Neriman martial artist, and the Demi-god of the bird people, Saffron. Saffron
was standing in the way of Ranma saotome's only hope of changing Akane back from the
doll like state she had been changed to.
"I've got to use it!", Ranma thought to himself as he dodged another attack by
Saffron. "The new Hyru-Shoten-Ha I made will kill Saffron and...and I'll be able to save
Akane!." but as he prepared to unleash this powerful attack, a single stray thought
entered his mind. "Kill? do I really want to...kill?"
His hesitation almost cost his life, as Saffron took the moment of distraction to fire
hundreds of fireballs at him.
As Saffron recharged after the salvo, surprised that a mere human had been able to
avoid that much firepower, Ranma saw an opening, and jumped into the stream of water
coming from the dragons mouth, just before the dolls eyes closed completely.
Ranma held the restored Akane in his arms, and smiled at her. And she smiled a
beautiful smile back. Then she kissed him.
But while the two were caught up in each other, Saffron smiled an evil smile and
released one small projectile. Unlike his previous ones, this was tiny, and had
comparatively little power. Just enough to pierce Akane's body and destroy her heart.
Ranma finished the kiss, and held Akane closely, looking into her eyes. He felt a
slight jump, almost a twitch, and saw Akane's expression quickly turn from relief to terror
and pain. She opened her mouth to say something, but instead of words, only a bit of
blood came out.
He watched in slowly dawning horror as the light in her eyes slowly went out.
Thoughts ran through his head, going a million miles a second;
Akane was dead.
It was his fault.
He wasn't fast enough.
He deserved to die.
He screamed, the wail of the lost, the cry of the dammed. He screamed the sound
of ultimate suffering.
Saffron smiled, as he watched the human suffer. Enough of this, he thought, its
time to put out of his misery. With those thoughts, and an evil smile he readied his largest
fireball.
He gazed at her one last time, one last time before he threw his life away in a
suicide attack to destroy himself and mark her grave forever. But Then he saw it, the
small charred hole in her back, and knew that this was not his fault. He had just one last
coherent thought; Saffron must die. Then all thoughts fled, and he knew only rage.
He screamed again, but where the first was filled with loss and grief, this
contained hate and rage. As he screamed, his aura exploded, shinning like a star on top of
the mountain, destroying the pool he was standing in, and leaving a crater thirty feet wide.
The dust slowly cleared, revealing a sight wondrous and terrible to behold.
Ranma's hair had gone from dark black to purest white, and his aura, while
diminished from "new star" level, was still almost painful to look at. His body had also
changed, from his normal toned physique, to a colossal muscular form, destroying most of
his clothing. As if this wasn't enough, he was floating in mid-air, 30 feet above the
ground, with and expression of anger on his face.
Then A gigantic fireball slammed into him, obscuring Ranma from view once
again...
When the dust began to settle over the now 50 foot crater, it revealed a scene
similar to the first, but this time he looked...scary.
He had a smile just like Saffron's on his face.
------
Many miles away in Japan...
------
Cologne was in her restaurant, doing the dishes herself for a change, when she felt
it, a sudden, almost painful spike of power in the west. "What is this?," she muttered to
herself, suddenly she dropped the plate she had been drying and stared off into the
distance. "No...it can not be...son in law??" She shook her head, and tried to deny what
she knew to be true, then sat down and began to make plans. If ranma was able to
produce that much power, something terrible had happened...something terrible indeed!
Happosai too felt Ranmas power surge, but unlike Cologne he knew what had
happened. And it scared him. It scared him enough to almost run back to the cave he had
been sealed in for all those years, to seal himself back up and try to forget that the world
existed...almost, but not quite. He had one final task to accomplish before he could leave
this world behind. He just hoped that he was wrong. He knew he wasn't.
--------------
China
--------------
"So much power!" Ryoga cried, his nose and ears bleeding from being so close to
that much power being released. How can he do this!? He thought, slowly falling to his
knees, his mind overloading. In the moments he had before he passed out he yelled
"Ranma! Kill that thing!! For Akane!!" Then darkness overtook him, and he collapsed to
the ground.
Ranma hovered over the crater, glaring at Saffron for a few moments, then
suddenly vanished from view, only to appear behind Saffron an instant later. Before the
king of phoenix mountain could react, he was hit with four thousand punches, and nearly
as many kicks, then blasted towards the ground.
Any mortal would have been incapacitated by this, or even outright killed. But
Saffron was most decidedly not a normal being. He winced at the pain for a moment, then
dragged himself out of the new crater, and fired off into the sky, intending to pummel the
insolent human who had dared injure him.
His first mistake was closing with ranma again. He was instantly pounded from all
sides, only escaping the onslaught when he used his powers to heat the air surrounding
him to incredible heat.
His second mistake was not throwing all that he could from a distance at Ranma.
Not that it would have saved him, but it might have hurt Ranma enough to kill him
afterwards.
He didn't live long enough to make a third mistake. As he let the heat field
diminish so he could begin his attack, Ranma was there again, pummeling him, and then
dashing him into the ground once again.
In the newly formed crater, Saffron barely held on to consciousness. His body was
screaming in pain, driving everything else from his mind. Ranma slowly touched down
beside him, the cruel smile never leaving his face.
"It's time for him to die now", Ranma thought darkly, "and HIS death is not going
to be as...pleasant...as Akane's!" He searched his mind for a technique that would cause
the most suffering before obliterating its victim. Suddenly one came to mind, but it wasn't
so much a memory as an...echo, a shadow of something he had once knew. He grasped at
it and struggled to remember it completely. with a wrenching it came into focus, and he
knew what it was and recoiled at brutality and power of it. He briefly considered simply
using something lesser to do Saffron in, but the memory of the horror he was in Akane's
eyes as her life faded steeled his resolve.
No, he thought to himself, it was not brutal, simply a fitting punishment.
With that he picked the weakly struggling Saffron up by the neck, and threw him
into the air. Then he, for lack of a better word, took hold of a new power and drew it to
him. It was like coming home, and being torn away from everything he had ever known.
The power was as an intense silence, but also as million voices screaming out in terror.
He almost lost himself in the sensations, but pulled himself back to the task at hand.
raising his hands above his head, he gathered an enormous sphere of the energy,
shuddering with the strain. The sphere was ebon, streaked with red the color of old blood.
Then he brought it slowly in front of him, aiming at the form of saffron, who had begun
his descent back to the earth. With a backlash which destroyed even more of the
mountaintop, he released it. The entire attack early happened in complete and utter
silence.
The orb flew at Saffron, impacted, and slowly began disintegrating him as it
traveled upwards at an incredible rate. It cleared the atmosphere and detonated, shining
like the sun for a moment, then it faded, with nothing remaining to mark the grave of the
defeated king.
Ranma smiled, knowing that Akane had been avenged, then slowly collapsed.
-Authors note
Well here it is, my first real story, keep in mind that it's just a draft, and I welcome
any C&C or help I may be offered. This is NOT a dragonball crossover, but you'll see
what it is soon enough. this fic was inspired by dragonball Z, and by Wing.0 Dont ask
how, I'mm not sure myself.
till next time,
_tc_
WWW.ANGELFIRE.COM/WEIRD/TEFLONCAT/TCSCAVE.HTM
neko-oni at angelfire dot com - for c&c/honest help/etc.
tefloncat at angelfire dot com - for anything else
(there, that should keep the robots away...)