The
Oracles
Chosen: The Elementals
By The Dark Necromancer
NOTE this is the sequel to: The oracles Chosen: vampires found at also!
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'Bold' thought
Chapter One: A New beginning
He glowered at the judge his hard brown eyes glaring if looks could kill the judge would not only be dead but cremated and his ashes scattered to all the four winds.
"What have you to say for your defence?" The judge said shying away from his accusers eyes there were stories about those eyes how they could pierce your mind and capture your soul.
"I say as I always have, this court has no validation to me you are the ones who caused me to be what I am" The figure added "I will personally destroy every last one of you I will never stop! You haven't stopped me sentencing me to where ever won't help I will be back and when I am I shall hunt you down and kill you slowly. You are lucky my nation decided to give me to you like this but even they will pay" The person with brown eyes said with a cruel smile and showed his hands showing the special hand cuffs that dented his power.
It was now the judges turn to get angry
"Your crimes are horrific the murder of no less then 4million citizens of 6 cities! Of inciting hatred! Of Genocide!" The judge took a breathe and continued more calmer
"I sentence you to the death dimension you shall stay there and never be allowed to return!"
The figure seemed to smile his dark eyes showing the hint of madness that
lurked there and spoke back
"Remember my words old man I shall be back"
The judge waved to the guards for him to be taken away then stopped and spoke
"Sit him down over there let him see his brothers trial!" The judge roared
Another figure almost exactly the same as the one who just was sentenced came and was sat down there was no madness in this ones eyes just an abiding sadness
"You are charged with aiding your brother in all his crimes and indeed doing all of the crimes how do you plead?"
This man looked at the judge his eyes the same dark brown no madness but no less intense of his dislike and hatred of this court
"I cannot say I am innocent of those crimes but my brother was right on what he said you made us you caused this I changed and stopped my brother and for that I still stand trial to be sentenced to death!"
The judge brushed his statement aside
"Doesn't matter you stated not innocent so your guilty I sentence you to share the same fate as your brother! You shall go to the death dimension and stay there for the rest of your life no matter how short that may be! Sentence to start immediately for both of you!"
This mans eyes glared and as he was moved to stand by his brother he spoke
"You risk much human!"
"Shut up! Gag them and take them away!" The judge yelled to the guards nodding they went to get tape and sealed the prisoners mouths
The mans brother turned to him and spoke through his mind
Traitor see how these humans treat us? They never change, never will
The other man just spoke back
We were wrong that hasn't changed now I guess we just have to take our punishment
The twin seemed to smile at him through the tape and lastly spoke
You may but I am not going to
The other looked at him sharply
What do you mean?
You will see he whispered silently in his mind and didn't speak again
Tendo Dojo
Ranma looked at himself naked in the mirror it had been now a full 3 months since he had been changed back into a human from a vampire and things had appeared as though they had gotten back to normal he teased Akane still but he still felt something wrong with him, he stared at his body. It mostly felt strange to him …all of it did! He wanted it so much to be a bad dream but it never was. He opened his mouth and he saw the small fangs there Serin had said they would be there always as a legacy of his vampiric transformation, he had other things that were left with him from when he was a vampire. His speed always good was now unnaturally good, his strength had doubled and his night vision was also much more acute as were his other senses.
Ranma hated all those things he wished he could just go back to normal or what ever passed for normal before he was a vampire. He could still feel what it was like as if the stain of his vampiric nature will never leave him.
Serin himself was like Ranma he had been a vampire for a lot longer and was now somehow immortal due to it he told Ranma once in a phone call how he had to battle everyday for the first few years to stop himself sliding back into what was his nature, now Ranma had to do the same.
Not only that but Ranma had to deal with Akane…He remembered clearly how she brought him back from the edge of killing her. His knuckles turned white as he made a fist and hissed…how he almost did kill her! He had tasted her blood on his lips sweet, virgin fresh and full of life. He stopped himself thinking of that the guilt was nearly unbearable, for the first week he hardly could look at her and had wanted to kill himself on more then one occasion he had even thought to run away from the Dojo.
But every time he thought about it he just couldn't leave her, not unprotected he would imagine the vampires coming back to find him but after 3 months there was no sign that they even knew he existed anymore, but still he had to stay to make sure, he swore to protect her with his life and he would no matter what.
Sighing deeply and full of regret he moved from the mirror and threw the cold water over him turning into a girl, how he loathed this curse! Washing he moved into the bath and relaxed letting its hot water soothe his troubles away.
Akane moved through her Kata with ease it was a simple for that was designed to help clear the mind of all distractions
It wasn't working
'Ranma…' No matter how many times she explained to him she had forgiven him he just wouldn't forgive himself! It was annoying!
She herself had a talk with Serin and she knew it was going to take time for things to go back but it had been 3months!
There was another thing…The kiss that had saved Ranma
Neither of them brought it up but both of them thought of it a lot…they both could tell they had feelings for each other but if they showed them they may as well get married right now because of their parents
Akane mused 'It wouldn't be bad to get married to Ranma' her thoughts hardened though 'But not until I say so!' her kata turned more violent as she kicked at the air and kept thinking about Ranma.
The men were dragged by the guards who sneered and mocked at them both, one guard in front had personally spat onto the leading brothers face, the madness in his eyes showed again but only for a moment before it was hidden once more.
"You think you're so tough not going to be so tough in the death dimension!" The big guard said laughing and kicking them through the door
In the door was a big machine and two scientists in white coats stood there with clipboards
"Are these them?" One asked looking over his glasses at the prisoners
"That's them" The guard nodded "The butchers of Calist and Heltorro, the scourge of the human race or as I call them pieces of shit that should be floating in swear water."
The brothers looked at the machine unafraid but hostile
It had been given as part of an accord between their father and the humans dimensional travel was forbidden they all agreed except to this one dimension the death dimension. It was forbidden because it was not only dangerous but very difficult and this dimension made it more so and now this machine would send them to that dreaded dimension.
Nothing survived there; it had been charted and termed the death dimension because all was in a state of continual chaos, life was sucked out of you the moment you stepped foot in there. It was the very nature of anti life, the home land of death.
The scientist made some calculations and turned a few dials on his control deck
"Very well just setting the co-ordinates…"
As he said this, the leading brother's face took a look of intense concentration closing his eyes, the guards looked and laughed
"Praying ain't gonna help you!" One sneered
There was no change of expression and all of a sudden there was a massive burst of energy from the leading man as if he became pure energy, lightning crackled around him the handcuffs designed to hold his power faltered under the immense strain of power flowing through it and began to melt.
Suddenly the leading man was free his powers no longer held in check by the handcuffs he went into action. The guard ran and hit the alarm just as a bolt of white lightning arced into him throwing him from his feet and into the wall. The scientists began to run but they couldn't escape him. The madness in his eyes grew flaring a fiery red in his pupils. The scientists screamed as they felt there bones snap and contort with wet sounds as the bones hit tissue, the scientists fell dead to the floor.
The other guards all drew their weapons determined to let loose on the man but with a wave of his hand the guns all locked electricity arced into them electrocuting and stopping the hearts of all the guards.
The man turned to his brother and grinned
"You betrayed me but I have no time to kill you brother those guards hit the alarm I have no wish to be captured again in this hell hole" the man spoke
Running to the controls the man spun the dial not caring where it landed and grabbed a piece of the machine he then concentrated and tossed a ball of white energy to the floor of the machine where it began to fluctuate widely
"See ya around brother!" He said and a white portal appeared in front of him and he leapt into it.
The brother had seen and felt his brother charging his energy so had knew what was going to occur quickly as his brother left this dimension he flared his energy similar white light shone out and the handcuffs fell to the floor melted hearing the shouts of the guards he saw the white energy ball start to expand
"Shit!" He muttered and ran into the portal just as the energy ball exploded
Tendo Dojo
Ranma woke up to the rhythmic snoring of his old man it was just about to turn light outside and today was another damn school day he wished it was over already, stretching he went over to the window allowing the fresh light to wash over him.
It was like a ritual he wanted to feel the sun on his skin telling him he was back to normal Ryouga and the others all admitted that they felt the same way as he did.
Stepping over to his old man he kicked him in the ribs
"Wake up old man! Let's spar!" Ranma yelled at him
Genma woke abruptly
"I was having this great dream!" He said whining to Ranma and proceeded to throw a punch at the one who had awoken him
"What about? Food?" Ranma said grinning
With a growl Genma grabbed Ranma and threw him through the open window Ranma allowed him to he hadn't told Genma how strong he had actually gotten.
Ranma landed lightly on his feet and grinned at Genma from the grass
"Well are you coming old man!" he yelled!
With a grunt of effort Genma leapt out of the window and attacked Ranma
Ranma was going to enjoy this immensely
Akane for her part heard Ranma and Genma fighting and smiled in bed, when Ranma acted like that it seemed things really would get back to normal. Stretching she got out of bed and began her stretching exercises she wondered where her poor
chan was. She hadn't seen him for a long time but Ranma kept assuring her he was fine
Ryouga flipped the okonomiyaki and stifled a yawn
He was making breakfast for Ukyo as he had religiously for the last three months her ribs were healing nicely but he still hadn't let her strain herself even though he did get lost on the way from the guest room to the kitchen he made sure he left plenty of time to make her breakfast.
He had tied a rope between her bedroom door and the kitchen so he held the rope and walked without getting lost. He did this because he had one point gotten lost holding a tray of steaming okonomiyaki and ended up as luck would have it near the Tendo dojo.
By the time he had gotten back to ucchans thanks to Ranma the okonomiyaki was icy cold but amazingly Ukyo wasn't even mad
She had actually been worried something had happened to him! To him! He found it all rather touching...very few people ever felt worried or concerned about him.
He didn't like the sly looks Ranma kept giving him though and he would fight any one who said he and Ukyo were doing anything they shouldn't have.
'Or' he amended silently 'things that other people thought they shouldn't have'
It had taken a while for him to learn how to manage Ucchans but after the first month he was doing rather well he was a decent enough cook for people to not complain and by his presence, looking at all the customers in a strange way all customers left a tip.
Ryouga also like Ranma felt the vampiric urges, still when he saw people eating he remembered how it was like when he was eating them…
He was also like Ranma stronger and his endurance was now more the double what it was previously but he felt these were more of a curse then anything…they showed he was no longer a normal human, he was something else
Ranma felt it more then the others Ryouga knew, while Ryouga still had little pangs of wanting to drink Ucchans customers blood Ranma had full blown urges to do it, Ryouga worried slightly that Ranma might not control them but Serin had told him the urges would go or at least lessen over time.
Flipping a last okonomiyaki onto a plate and adding lots of sauce he followed the rope to Ukyos room
Ukyo heard Ryouga go down stairs to make breakfast
'Honestly he treats me like an invalid!' She thought angrily and moved in her bed shifting slightly brought a small stab of pain from her ribs
She was now almost totally healed but a small bit of pain remained in the first few days when she came out of the hospital it was unbearable the drugs they gave her to lessen the pain worked but only to a degree and she couldn't move lest the pain increase.
She had once cried when she had woken up and shifted her body like she was now and the pain had over whelmed her pride. Unfortunately Ryouga heard her, his hearing was sharp nowadays and ran into the room thinking something the matter.
Seeing her crying had almost broken his will to live and he laid her down against the bed and injected her with her morphine reducing her crying and the pain.
He however also had tears in his eyes he had caused her all of this pain green ki emanated from him and he was about to kill himself when she spoke to him telling him that she didn't want that, that she wanted him to be her friend and if he took his life who was going to protect her or help her?
Ryouga seemed to accept that logic and now he spent every day taking care of her like a baby which sometimes was fine but now was getting annoying if she wanted breakfast she could make it herself!
Sighing she sat in bed
'Ranma…Akane…' she hadn't been able to see them for a while she knew something was going on with Ranma and Akane she knew of course how Akane had taken Ranma back from the brink but she should of done that! After all he was her ranchan!
Her Ranchan…Was he anymore? What did she want anymore? She no longer knew, before all this she would have said in a heart beat she wanted Ranma but that was before Akane had kissed him
She was losing her Ranchan and she didn't even seem to mind! Why!
She had no answers
With a knock at the door she sighed
"Its open sugar just come on in I am decent you should know that by now!" She said irritably her line of thought broken
Ryouga walked in with a small smile on his face
'He's so cute when he smiles...' she thought
"I brought you breakfast Ukyo I hope you like it I tried out a source my father once told me he had found on his travels" Ryouga said sitting at the edge of her bed and placing the tray on her lap
Ukyo nibbled the okonomiyaki dubiously but was rewarded with a good flavour
"Hey! This ain't bad! Where did he get the recipe from?" She asked eating the food
Ryougas eyes looked far away as he answered
" Italy? France? Spain? Not sure somewhere in Europe" he replied
"Ohhh…well whatever it is it sure tastes good!" She said and took a sip of her orange juice
Smiling Ryouga took the plates and went downstairs to do the dishes leaving Ukyo to her thoughts
'I wonder how he would look in a pigtail…' sighing at the thought and more confused then ever she went to change into her uniform she was now going to go back to furinkin high school.
Shampoo cleaned the tables it gnawed at her the fact that Akane and Ranma were getting closer together. Each day she felt that Ranma was being more and more lost to her
Mousse knew it also but then mousse when he first returned was a lot more withdrawn then he was before.
He stayed in his room coming out only to help serve and then go back to think and so that was how they had been ever since he had been changed back.
Shampoo knew he was different it wasn't just his behaviour it was also his eyes before he couldn't see now he saw a lot of things much more clearly.
All his senses seemed to have increased she tested him one day by throwing a bonbori at his back he whirled around faster then she had seen him do before but instead of catching the bonbori he simple punched it smashing it to pieces.
That she hadn't expected nor what he said next
"Do not test me Shampoo" he said in mandarin low and warningly to her then proceeded to pick up all the bits of the bonbori and toss them away
Shampoo was quite shaken and sought her grandmothers advice
"It was foolish to do that Shampoo Mousse is not the one he was his experience has changed him and he struggles to understand what he did and why he did it, he not only feels guilty but scared he could change back" Cologne had said to her
"Are you scared he might change back?" Shampoo asked her
Cologne chuckled
"Worried? No, even if he did he is still not a match for me but he could kill you Shampoo that is why I ask you do not test him again like that, it has only been 3 weeks since he was changed he needs to come to terms with what he's done"
And so Shampoo had not tested him or fought him she had even held her sharp tongue from lashing out to him for the past 2months
It was galling
He was a pathetic blind fool and now she had to be nice in case he turned bad while Akane took Ranma away from her thinking angrily she went to challenge Mousse to a fight to get rid of her frustrations and to show him he was still the same fool he was before
Mousse for his part was struggling daily as was the others he felt lessened by his new gifts and more.
He had reacted by sheer instinct when shampoo threw that bonbori and he was disturbed by what he did what if it wasn't a bonbori the next time he reacted on instinct but some human?
That thought disturbed him
He talked about it a lot with Ranma, Ryouga and Kuno when they met up together he even talked about it when Serin called which was infrequent to say the least.
Slowly though he felt himself becoming more or less what he was before not a vampire but a Chinese Amazon warrior but he felt it was a façade all that he was, was taken.
He had more problems though he still wanted Shampoo and wanted to protect her but to protect her would be like an insult and to want her he would have to challenge her
He would win he knew but then he could of won before he was turned into a vampire he simply couldn't hurt his Shampoo he had done that enough
It was so troubling more was the fact he felt he didn't deserve her not anymore he had no honour or pride anymore
And still to win this woman he would have to beat her! But if he fought her it might unleash what he kept closed inside him!
No he couldn't let that loose not again it was all he had left
Sighing at the thoughts he kept thinking about what to do if he should leave here or not…he was still thinking about this when Shampoo attacked him with a flying kick to his chest
Dodging he yelled at her
"What do you think your doing!"
"I board and miss my favourite punching bag!" Shampoo retorted and got into a fighting stance
Mousse rolled his eyes at her and replied
"Shampoo don't you understand I don't want to hurt you?"
This was evidently the wrong thing to say as Shampoo shrieked and attacked him
Mousse didn't realise how much in him had changed his speed he knew was good but he didn't realise it was this good
All her attacks went by him as he dodged her easily, he grinned and spoke
"What's the matter? Can't touch this!" he said tapping his chest and moving close to shampoo
Being over confident he didn't see the kick that sent him flying through the air
Crashing into a table he shook off the debris and glowered at Shampoo
"Why do you want me to fight you! I've hurt you enough as it is!" he yelled
"I an Amazon just like you Mousse I train for battle everyday! I not some little flower! You been moping around for almost 3 months! It time to live again!" she said and attacked him again
This time Mousse didn't dodge he simply moved fast and gripped both her hands and hoisting her threw her against a wall sending cracks along it, moving close he grabbed her arms and forced her up the wall till their faces inches apart
"You have no idea shampoo what it was like! To have all your morals taken! Your pride! Your honour! To kill! To glory in destruction! All that I have left is the knowledge that I didn't mean any of it! But I was weak enough to let them take me!" He yelled at her staring into her un-frightened eyes
"Then live with the pain Mousse and learn! Do not keep it hidden lest it fester" Cologne said behind him
Mousse let Shampoo fall to the floor and looking into her understanding eyes he fell too and cried for all the people he killed and for all he had lost however in each of his tears he felt the truth behind Colognes words
He was going to reclaim all that he lost starting today
Kuno walked through the halls of his house
He had come to terms a lot earlier then the others had about what had occurred to him
He couldn't even blame it all on Ranma, Kodatchi was always near him for the first 2 months making sure he was ok and leaving him to meditate on the stain the evil had caused him.
He had always believed he was invincible a warrior with no greater skill existing in the world
Being turned into a vampire changed all that
He had been turned into a blood drinking maniac obsessed with his next meal
It was like a shock of cold water on a man waking from a deep sleep
He wasn't the most powerful warrior and his mind was weak he was tempted by his internal demons into being a killer
That thought burned him
So after the first month he had meditated daily and tried to come to terms with it all, his guilt especially
And he had recovered! He no longer chased Akane or Ranmas girl side though, he couldn't bring himself to do it when he was joined to the vampire mind he saw Ranmas cursed form and he had almost vomited.
A man! He had been chasing a man all this time! When he had gotten back to the mansion the first thing he had done was burn all the pictures Kodatchi thought it odd but he didn't tell her why he did it.
The combination of this shock had almost pushed him into despair but again he recovered to face the world
'Tatewaki Kuno shall not be tempted and beaten again like that ever!' he swore to himself and exited the mansion to go to school walking proudly once more
Standing on top of a forested mountain the man looked down and saw the city in front of him
"Humans! They are everywhere! Like vermin! Damn them all Damn them!" The man said shouting and felt his brother also appear in this dimension
"heh so you followed me brother? Well we are going to have some fun here…"
So saying the man began to laugh insanely
Hi everyone! Thanks for the reviews and e-mails about The Oracles Chosen: vampires
This is the new saga to the story I am not totally sure where I am going with it and it is liable to change this chapter is just to set the scene I am sure you will all like it!
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