Ranma ½ - Ichigo(Strawberry)
Prologue – Hikari(Light)
Rating: Teen
Standard Disclaimers Apply.
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The wind blew fiercely, interrupting the rains flight down to the earth below. Within the Bayankala Mountain Range, that is located in the Qinghai Province of China, a valley of freshwater springs was disturbed in its slumber. The intruder was a young woman around her twenties scrambling up a small cliff desperately. Her stomach was swollen with a soon to be born child.
She had been running from something and still felt its presence within range.
"Nodoka!" Bellowed a rasped rugged voice of a man who had tumbled out of the darkness, his eyes mad. "The child is both of ours! I will take it on the training trip!"
"I won't allow it!" The women, Nodoka, cried out, tears of desperation now streaming from her eyes. "You can't take our baby, Genma!"
Genma, deafened by his determination, continued to scramble after her. He had been taken on the same trip by his father. It was a family tradition and he'll be damned if any women would stand in his way.
Nodoka carried on up desperately. She had roamed all of Asia in the past few months to protect her baby after Genma declared he would take the baby on a ten year training trip at the age of six. She had to get away.
Nodoka soon reached the top of the small cliff and looked bellow as the bellowing wind snatched at her clothing and pinched her skin. She was peering into a valley of sorrow, of springs, of the Springs of Sorrow, Jusenkyo. She gasped as she was tugged roughly backwards as Genma finally reached her. He grinned widely.
"You can't stop fifty years of tradition women and you will certainly not stop me from taking this child on that trip!" He cried out, determinedly.
Nodoka's eyes widened.
"NO!" She cried and tore out of his grasped and toppled over the ledge.
Nodoka plummeted to the earth below, her soaking wet clothes flapping in the high wind. She began to see her destination coming closer and closer. She closed shut her eyes as she plummeted into one of the springs.
Genma looked below him as his wife fell into the darkness bellow, realization hitting him like a brick wall.
"NO! My heir! What have I've done?" Genma asked to no one in particular.
He slowly trudged into the darkness of the mountains, making himself lost in his confused sorrow.
Her skin stung as she hit the cold water. Then a strange sensation of warmth enveloped her as she began to surface. She gasped as she reached the surface and broke for the ledge of the spring climbing up onto it. She gasped for air as she lie face up at the sky, eyes closed. The clouds, seemingly unsatisfied, poured on, and the wind, hateful, snapped at her skin and cloths. She gasped. A contraction.
The baby was coming and at the wrong moment. She gasped again. She prepared herself for the baby.
Several hours later she held a child with hair an unusual shade of red. She had remembered when she was young having a somewhat similar shade of red for hair color, it had ran through her family genes. The child cried into the night as Nodoka panted wearily. She smiled warmly at her child as she panted.
"You have quite the wrong timing, don't you my little strawberry? What's your name?" She asked the baby girl.[1
The clouds began to give way to the sun as it raised, lights streaming from the clouds. Nodoka looked on in wonderment for a few moments before looking down at the girl.
"Hikari." She dubbed the girl and began to giggle.
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Author's Note
Well I hope you loved my introductory to my new and first fanfiction. I can't wait to get this one on the road. I know it's somewhat short, but I'm hoping future chapters won't be the same length. Remember, it's only the prologue. Cheers.
Alminac
[1 – Remember when Nodoka fell into the spring? Uh huh. Let's see what's gonna' happen in the next chapter.