Tenchi
Muyo! : Episode 1- No Need a Beginning!
Disclaimer-I do not own Tenchi Muyo or any other anime
series I put in here.
It was
a nice calm morning at the Misaki shrine deep in the mountains of Japan. An old
man named Kashuhito Masaki walked up the many steps to the shrine grounds
enjoying the feeling. He wore traditional white robes tied with a gray sash.
His hair was one long gray ponytail that went down his back. His brown eyes
showed much wisdom and his figure shown pride. His sandals made little sound as
he approached the shrine itself. Looking around it seemed that he saw something
was wrong. "Tenchi! Patrick! Where are you?" He yelled looking
around. Then his eyes settled on a small building near to the shrine.
"Hmm...."
While
outside it was peaceful inside the shrine office was much clutter as two
teenagers ransacked the place. One was desperately searching a desk while the
other was underneath the floorboards. "Arg... Where did he put them?"
The boy searching the desk said giving up. He had brown hair with a small
pigtail. He had brown eyes and a gray training gi with a white undershirt. He
was about 5'7" and while he wasn't wimpy didn't quite look very strong.
"Patrick did you find anything under there?" the boy said sighing.
The other boy was quite similar to the other except his hair was black and was
and was slightly out of control (spiky but not too spiky). And looked to be
slightly taller because of it. "Well let's see... I found a pot... a some
money... and an angry muskrat," Patrick said sitting up showing that also
unlike the other boy he had green eyes.
"An angry muskrat? What would it be doing here?" the other boy
said bewildered. "I don't know why don't you go down there and ask it over
a cup of tea Tenchi!" Patrick said raising his hand showing that he had
several cuts along it. "Ouch... so no keys?" Just then the door
suddenly opened. Both boys turned around suddenly guilt written on their faces
to only see a small black cat. "Um... maybe it was the wind?" Patrick
said just as a voice behide them spoke up "You know its curiosity that
killed the cat." "WAH!" Both boys jumped back startled looking
at Kashuhito who was currently sitting on the desk. "Grandpa don't do
that!" Patrick yelled trying to calm himself down even though he should
have seen it coming. Tenchi was slightly winded but not so freaked out.
"You were always easily startled Patrick but I believe you two were
looking for these hmm?" Kashuhito said holding out a pair of keys in front
of them. "So that's where they were!" Tenchi said before Patrick hit
him outside the head. "Great cover story remind me never to go undercover
with you." Kashuhito held the keys out tauntingly "You weren't
thinking about going in there were you two?" Both boys looked slightly
guilty. "Alright then if you can take these from me then you can have
them... lets see how much you're training has progressed!" Kashuhito said
tucking the keys in his robes. Tenchi suddenly ran forward before Patrick could
stop him and attempted to go for a knockout. His fist was blocked as well as
his feet knocked out from under him as he was thrown into a wall. It was just
way too quick and caught Tenchi unprepared"Tenchi keep training and
remember your chores are part of it... now Patrick are you going to try anything?"
Kashuhito said raising an eyebrow at the boy in question. "Well someone
has to save Tenchi's dignity." Patrick said shrugging. "I thought you
were with me!" Came an angry voice from the wall. "Oh well then it's
time to use a technique that I have just created..." Patrick took a ready
stance and Kashuhito did also after hearing the seriousness in his voice. Then
Patrick ran forward... rolled... and then quickly reached down into the hole he
made earlier before yelling "Fist of the Angry Muskrat!" Now old
Grandpa Masaki had seen a lot of things in his day... It was to be guessed a
flying angry muskrat wasn't one of those things. "AHH!" Kashuhito
yelled as the muskrat hit his face distracting him long enough for Patrick to
grab the keys in his robe. "HAH! I win!" Patrick yelled holding the
keys up. Unfortunately he didn't see Kashuhito's special technique 'Flying
bokken of death, destruction, and other mean nasty not so nice things' aimed at
his head. WHAM! Patrick got hit square in the forehead and went down hard.
Thankfully Tenchi, freed of the wall, was able to grab both Patrick and the
keys before Kashuhito could do anything, and ran for it. "Hmm that boy is
fast…"
(Few
minutes later) "Ha curiosity killed the cat… well lucky for me I'm no cat!"
Tenchi said happily running along a forest path. "Yeah OW but I think OUCH
you should WHAM LET ME GO!" Patrick yelled from behide Tenchi. "Oops…
sorry kinda forgot you were there… you know we just got the keys…" Tenchi said
rubbing the back of his head and letting go of Patrick. "Thanks… and what do
you mean 'we' I got them." Patrick said dusting himself off. "Yeah well
if it wasn't for me we wouldn't have them anyway." Tenchi said holding the keys
up. "That's true… oh well lets check out this cave of yours!" Patrick said
running up the rocky hill towards an opening. "By the way 'Fist of the Angry
Muskrat'? Tenchi said raising his eyebrow. "Hey I needed to distract him
somehow… hey Tenchi what is with this cave anyway you're always spending time
here." Patrick said as they approached the gate. "Well I just wanted to know if
the old legend is true." Tenchi said unlocking the gate. "You mean the one
where that ancestor of ours Yosho beat up those two demons with a magical sword
you're named after?" Patrick said looking at Tenchi out of the corner of his
eye. "Um… yeah I guess you pay attention too…" Tenchi said clearly annoyed that
he didn't show his brother up. "No I don't… you talk in you're sleep." Patrick
said as they walked into a large chamber with a shrine box off to one side.
There was enough light from a hole in the ceiling to see around. "Creepy just
the place that an ancient demon would sleep" Patrick said walking around
looking for anything out of the ordinary. Tenchi just walked over to the shrine
box and took a sword out of it. After several attempts to remove it from the
sheath… "Patrick can you come over here a second?" Tenchi asked holding out the
sheathed sword. "Yeah just a minute… I think there's something behide here…"
Patrick said knocking on a rock that was sticking out slightly from the wall.
"Forget that just help me here!" Tenchi said trying again to unsheath the
sword. "Alright fine…fine" Patrick said walking over to hi and taking hold of
the hilt surprisingly the hilt suddenly glowed and then TZAAP! "OW!"
Patrick yelled jerking his smoking hand away "Whoa Patrick are you okay?"
Tenchi said taking Patrick's hand and examining it. "Looks okay you might have
a burn though… I wonder what that was?" Tenchi said picking up the sword again.
"It doesn't do that to me… hey maybe you can grab it from the other side."
Tenchi suggested. "Okay…I guess" Patrick said grabbing the sheath and pulling
hard. SHICK! The sword suddenly came loose sending both boys to the floor.
After getting back up Tenchi examined the sword. "What!? It's just a rusty
sword!" Tenchi said looking at the relic. The whole thing was rusted except for
the ornate wooden hilt that had 3 red gems on the bottom. "Then how did it
shock me?" Patrick asked prodding it for a response. "I don't know and this is
supposed to be the sword that can cut through rock!" Tenchi said swing the
rusty sword around and then bringing it down on a nearby rock. The sword was
shattered but the hilt was apparently still intact. "Uh-oh" both boys said
looking at the hilt. Just then the rock they had cracked it on split in half.
"Well it did cut through the rock…" Patrick said looking bewildered as
something else began to happen. The 'hollow' rock on the side of the room
opened to reveal a passage. "Well who would of expected that to happen…"
Patrick said looking into the passage. It could fit them but it was very dark
and vision was cut off about a few feet in someone's face. " Hmm well we got
this far let's go…" Tenchi said moving Patrick out of the way and moving down the
passage, sword hilt still in hand. "Hey wait a minute we should get flashlights
or something!" Patrick yelled going after Tenchi. "What? There's nothing to be
afraid OW my head… WAH!" Tenchi yelled out as he fell down a slanted hole
grabbing Patrick as he went. "WAH!" Both yelled as they were pulled down the
hole. Halfway down they were able to stop. "Whoa that was some ride now let's
go and get ropes or something." Patrick said carefully trying to climb back up
the slippery rocks. "Hold on I dropped the hilt…" Tenchi said as he reached for
the hilt lying next to him. Unfortunately he lost his hold and slid down the
rest of the way. "WAH…OW!" There was a dull thud as Tenchi landed at the
bottom. "Oh well someone has to help him…" Patrick muttered before sliding down
and landing on Tenchi who was just getting up. "OOF HEY!" Tenchi yelled
throwing Patrick off him. "How rude." Patrick muttered from his place on a
nearby wall. "Sshh!" Tenchi said urgently pointing to the center of the room.
Patrick after extracting himself from the wall looked around. The room was
about as big as a normal house with a domed top. The floor was stone with small
canals running in it moving water towards the center. The center itself was
just a round hole in the floor, but the thing with this hole was it was water
filled and glowing a dull green-yellow light. "Okay I would like to be beamed
out of the twilight zone now" Patrick said staring at the light. Tenchi seemed
to be more interested in it than him saying "Wow I wonder what's in there…"
Patrick walked up behide him and gave him a little shove. "Then go find out
I'll be 2 ½ steps behide you." Patrick said smirking. "Why don't you go
first!?" Tenchi said angrily. "I don't know I just get a really bad feeling
looking at that light, like maybe I shouldn't go near it." Patrick said
shivering. "Enough of this lets just go look in it so we can get out of here."
He added looking over Tenchi's shoulder. "Okay…" Tenchi said moving towards the
center. "Oh it's just a ball of glowing light…uh… ah wh… what is that!?" Tenchi
exclaimed pointing towards the pool. Inside was what looked to be a shriveled
up mummy with some sort of ceremonial mask on. "That must be the demon…"
Patrick said as both boys simply stared at the mummy until… CLANG! Patrick and
Tenchi jumped back at the sudden noise before looking around for what caused
it. Patrick saw it first "Tenchi you dropped the hilt!" he said laughing.
Tenchi also chuckled weakly walking over to the pool where he dropped it. "I'll
just take this and…" He trailed off as a withered hand shot out of the pool
grabbing his arm. Both Tenchi and Patrick stood dumbfounded as the mummy rose
out of the water. It moaned and moved closer to Tenchi. That's when Tenchi and
Patrick recovered. Tenchi started struggling and then Patrick tried to pull him
away. After a few moments of struggle Tenchi broke free. Unfortunately the
sword hilt went flying. "Patrick look out!" Tenchi yelled quickly. Patrick
reacting out of instinct grabbed the hilt. "Uh oh" Patrick said as it started
powering up. TZAAP! "AAH!" Patrick yelled dropping the sword, as he was shocked
a second time. Tenchi picked up the hilt and brandished it at the demon. "Stay
back! Go away!" Tenchi said trying to ward it off with the hilt. The demon
stopped and seemed to be looking at Patrick whose hand was still smoking.
"Forget it lets go!" Patrick yelled grabbing Tenchi with his good hand and
pulling him back up the hole with surprising speed. Patrick looked back at the
demon to see it's glowing yellow eyes before running even faster. After getting
outside the passage they began to try to move the rocks. Their strength
combined started to move the rocks back into place as a scream of rage was
heard below. Finally after what seemed an eternity they fixed the rocks back in
place. "I don't know about you Patrick but I'm going to listen to grandpa and
do everything he says from now on." Tenchi said breathing heavily. "I'm going
to just take a bath and forget this happened." Patrick replied as they both
quickly ran out of the cave.
(Week
later at school) "You really didn't need to punch that idiot you know…" Patrick
said as Tenchi and him walked up to the roof to eat lunch. "Yeah… but jeez that
comment was just wrong." Tenchi replied as they sat down to eat. After a few
minutes Tenchi laid down muttering to himself about mummies. Patrick simply
laid down. "Thinking about the demon?" Tenchi asked staring at the sky. "Trying
not to…" Patrick mumbled. "Yeah wonder where it went…" Tenchi said yawning
loudly. Tenchi waited a few moments before saying "Hey… Patrick you… okay?"
"Zzzzzzzz" was the only response he got. "Hey don't… fall… asleep…zzzzzz"
(Later
that night) Patrick sat up rubbing his eyes. "Huh what… oh man I must of fell
asleep missed all my classes." Patrick picked himself up noticing Tenchi was
also asleep. Patrick smiled walking up to Tenchi then… "BOO!" "WAH!" Tenchi
jumped up breathing heavily. "What did you do that… great just great I fell
asleep… I'll never hear the end of this." Tenchi said holding his head in his
hands. But Patrick had found something far more interesting. "Kitty!" Patrick
exclaimed running over to a small black kitten with a bell tied around it's
neck. When Patrick got to it though the kitty disappeared. "Huh? Where did
kitty go?" Patrick said looking around for it. "Are you sure you didn't imagin
it? I mean you are obsessed with the things." Tenchi said looking around. "But
they're so cute and fuzzy how can you not like them!" Patrick said annoyed.
Then they heard a bell ringing. "Kitty?" Patrick said looking towards the
noise. Instead of the kitty there was a woman dressed in a long sleeved form
fitting light green dress with a dark purple-red shirt of some sort underneath.
She had light blue-gray hair that was even spikier than Patrick's. She also
looked about 5'8" and had yellow eyes that resembled a cat's. "Um… when did she
get here?" The lady didn't seem to hear him or didn't care. "Ryoko" she said
simply. "Huh… what?" Tenchi said looking at her. "Ryoko… that's my name…" Then
her eyes started glowing an strange yellow.
Important Plot Point
"I like cats!"
Not so Important Plot Point
"The name Tenchi means Heaven and Earth!"
Not important… but interesting
"Those eyes… you… you're the demon from the cave!" Patrick
yelled backing away. "Do you know what it was like in there? It was cold… I
didn't like it, I didn't like it at all!" She yelled as small glowing orage
spheres appeared around them. "And now… I'll have my revenge!" Ryoko yelled as
the sphere's convereged to form an energy sword in her hand. "Hey we didn't do
anything!" Tenchi yelled getting angry "It was some guy named Yosho!" Ryoko
looked like she could care less. "I don't care." Then she lauched herself at
Tenchi who jumped out of the way as she blasted away part of the roof. "WHOA!"
Patrick yelled before picking up a loose piece of metal and threw it. BONK! The
rod hit Ryoko right in the back of the head. "Hey you don't…um… heh heh nice
night, moons out, heh heh" Patrick said as Ryoko turned to directly stare at
him. "You're dead." She said dead pan. Tenchi then decided to use his ulitimite
technique Run for the Hills! "Let's GO!" he said running around Ryoko grabbing
Patrick and bolting down the stairs. "ARG!" they heard behide them as the top
of the stairwell exploded. "WAH!" Both boys were flung down the rest of the
way. "OOF! Patrick get off me!" Tenchi yelled trying to get up. Patrick quickly
complied jumping off of him before grabbing Tenchi and pulling him into a
nearby classroom. "That was close… good job Tenchi…" Patrick said catching his
breath. " Hey what's that smell… oh it's gas… GAS!" Tenchi yelled. "Must've
ruptured when she blew through the roof." Patrick said quietly as if talking
loudly would start a fire. "We've got to get out of here!" Tenchi whispered
urgently. "Tenchi…" Both boys jumped at the now-familiar voice. They both
looked across the room to see Ryoko's head sticking through the wall. "Hmm"
Ryoko said as she phased the rest of the way through the wall. "Time for your
lesson… schoolboys." She said calmly before summoning her sword. "Don't light
that here there's gas!" Tenchi yelled quickly. Ryoko looked bewildered. "Gas…
what's gas?" Tenchi suddenly held his head in his hands saying "I can just see
the headlines brillent student blown to pieces…" Patrick laughed "You?
Brillent? That's an oxymoron!" Tenchi seemed to not care "AAH! RUN!" he yelled
going for the door. "HEY!" Ryoko yelled. She formed a energy bolt and threw an
energy bolt. It missed and headed for the opposite wall. Patrick and Tenchi
decided that was enough and ran out of the room. Patrick stopped for a second
at the door as the bolt impacted. "I hate my morals!" He yelled turning around
grabbing Ryoko and jumping out the window as the room decided to explode.
FWOOSH! The inferno blew them about a couple more meters than they cared to go.
"OUCH!" Patrick hit the ground head first. "You… helped me?" Ryoko said
hovering above Patrick as he began to get up. "Well I couldn't just let you get
blown up…or something…" Patrick said looking around for a easy escape. "Hmm
well okay you're off my list but I think I'll go find Tenchi now buh-bye!" She
said teleporting somewhere. Patrick stood there for a moment before reacting
"Hey she didn't kill me… but she's still after Tenchi!" Patrick said running to
the front. The run actually was quite dangerous as since the explosion more gas
leaks kept popping up causing more fires and explosions. It took a full five
minutes before he could get to the front. Just in time to see Ryoko charging Tenchi sword ready. "NO!"
Patrick yelled holding out his hand as if to stop her. How surprising it did.
Two things happened then Tenchi's bag started glowing and then creating a
shield stopping Ryoko's sword. And then a silver blast hit Ryoko in the side
blowing off her whole arm and burning away skin. "AAH! You idiot that hurt!"
Ryoko yelled holding the stump of her left arm. "I'm sorry I didn't mean… I
mean… how did I do that… how did you do that Tenchi… how… doesn't that hurt?"
Patrick said running up to Ryoko and Tenchi. "The hilt did that shield thing."
Ryoko said checking herself over for any other injureys. " Ah…uh… sorry for um…
blowing you're arm off…" Patrick said as Tenchi rubbed the back of his head.
Surpisingly she giggled. "Oh that don't worry." She said as she placed her hand
on her shoulder pulling it out as a new arm began to grow out until it became a
full new arm. "Wow…" Both boys said and began clapping. "Goodbye…" She said
phasing into the floor. Then some more of the school decided to blow up. Some
sirens were heard in the distance as the two boys decided to get lost. "Bye
Tenchi I'm taking a shortcut!" Patrick yelled running down an alley. "Hey wait…
oh well." Tenchi said looking up at the sky. "I wonder what we started?"
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