AN: This is a Ranma ½ Tenchi Muyo crossover, set after the Ranma manga
ends, and well, since there are so damn many Tenchi realities to choose from, last I heard it was twelve, I've just decided to make own. Well the plot is a little complicated, but it's pretty much given a good start in expiation of it in this chapter. I think the main pairing will eventually be Ranma and Tokimi. And I know that I changed what they are the Goddesses of. It's for story purposes.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2, I do not own Tenchi Muyo. I do not own any fictional person, place or thing used in this story. I do not own any real person place or thing used in this story. The story it's self is mine though.
TOKIMI'S SAVIOR
CHAPTER ONE
SPLIT AND TRAPPED
Ranma was walking down the street when a man came over to him. "Hello Ranma." The man said.
"Who the heck are you?" Ranma asked him. The man was giving off some seriously weird vibes. It was almost as if… the thoughts were interrupted by the man's next words.
"My name is not important, just what I can do. I can free you of your curse." The man said evenly.
That got Ranma's attention, but he was still weirded out. "How, and why, and what will it cost?" Ranma asked.
"How is unimportant, you probably wouldn't understand, it would cost you very little, monetary wise, as to why I picked you, well I'm giving this to you for free, and then when the others with Jusenkyö curses find out about your cure, well I'll rake in the dough from them." He laughed.
Ranma could tell he was lying through his teeth, and the man gave off some seriously weird vibes. Ranma just wanted to get away from this strange man, he was afraid, as he never had been before. "No thanks Mr." he said and slowly backed away.
The man frowned and said "Saw through me did you, well to late!" and a beam of black fire hit Ranma splitting him in two. As the male half of Ranma saw the female half of Ranma, it was the last thing he saw, before he kneeled over dead. The female half gasped in shock, and then was sucked into a vortex of some kind, losing consciousness as she went.
She awoke in a black marble room, with a woman on what looked to be a throne, in it.
"Where am I? What happened? Who are you?" Ranma asked.
"Well Ranma…" The woman began when Ranma interrupted with
"How'd you know my name?"
"Just listen. I am Tokimi, a Goddess. I guess you could name my domain evil, that's what everyone else has named it." She spat out the last bit. "You are in my, prison, I guess you could call it. I've been in here a very, very long time. Seems the other gods and my youngest sister, Tsunami, blamed me for the disappearance of my middle sister Washu. Even after she was found, she's been hiding as a mortal for so long she's forgotten she even was a Goddess, and that bitch Tsunami isn't even telling her differently, even though she lives with her now. She's just letting her think of herself as a stupid mortal! Well even after she was found, and my innocence proven, they all keep me in here, because I'm the 'evil Goddess'. Hypocrites, all of them." She fumed.
Looking at Ranma she said, softening "As to what happened to you, well, you didn't make many friends in the ranks of the Gods when you killed Saffron. You killed a very minor deity, but that should be impossible, a mortal killing one of us. They were afraid, and decided to punish you. You see what those cowards did was split you in two, an unequal two, halves. One half was male, and the other was female, as you could plainly see. But what you probably didn't get was the fact that all your skill power and even life force was transferred in to you, your female self, effectively killing your male self. Then you were sent here, to either share my prison or be killed by me, whichever they thought I'd do. I think they wanted me to kill you, and as one of the original three Goddesses of this universe, and the so called 'Goddess of evil' they must have thought I'd just kill you the second you popped in here. Hypocritical bastards."
Ranma said back "So some Gods got pissed at me for killing a God, killed my male self, and sent my female self to die at your hands? This sucks!" Ranma shouted. "And they don't seem to be a good judge of character, cause you don't seem very evil to me." She said looking at Tokimi.
"I'm not. Is it my fault that that's my domain? Washu got neutrality and Tsunami got good. And she became a stuck up bitch till she combined herself with a mortal. Now she's just as nice as can be, although she hasn't got me free. She wants me out, but everyone else who put me in here wants me to stay, so she's out voted. But why won't she just wake up Washu? She could get me out of here with out any of them!" Tokimi screamed.
"Maybe those other Gods are stopping her from doing it?" Ranma said without thinking.
Tokimi stopped mid step. "Of course! Why didn't I see that! Those bastards! When I get out of here I'll… who am I kidding, I'll never get out of here. And now neither will you." She said sorrowfully.
"Um, how long have yow been in here?" Ranma asked.
"Um, going on fifty thousand years now." Tokimi said.
"Fifty thousand years!" Ranma shouted. "And you've never escaped?"
"No, the most I could ever do was set up scrying magic. I can see all that happens in the universe, yet never be part of it." She said sadly.
"That's it, we're getting out of here! Keeping you in here for that long for no good reason, killing me and sending me here as a girl, those stupid Gods will pay! I'll show them what happens when some one finally pisses off Ranma Saotomne!" Ranma yelled stomping around. "Trapping you, keeping your sister from telling your other sister the truth, other then you and maybe your sisters, it sounds like all Gods are assholes!"
"Not all," Tokimi said calmly, interrupting Ranma's rant "Just the ones that trapped me in here and did this to you, which are the same six Gods. And yes they are assholes"
"Then we have to get out of here and kick their asses!" Ranma shouted.
"How? I tried for the first few thousand years, and couldn't do it. This isn't even part of the universe were from, it's a sub universe the size of, well it's this room." Tokimi said.
"There's no kitchen." Ranma said softly looking around. "Ok, that's it! I'm not staying in a place with no damn food! We are getting out of here NOW!" Ranma shouted.
"Again, how?" Tokimi asked with a sigh.
"You can't open the door or what ever from this side, but could someone, a mortal who knew what they were doing, do it from Earth?" Ranma asked, getting the idea of a plan.
"Maybe, if they were truly powerful in the mystic arts, and had no need to draw on a God for the power to do it, then maybe." Tokimi said slowly.
"You said you could see the things that happen outside of here, right?' Ranma asked. Tokimi nodded "Well, could you send a message to talk to some one, or more precisely, let me talk to someone?" Ranma asked eagerly.
"Maybe….yes I think I could. I've never tried, seeing as no one would want to talk to me, except maybe Tsunami, and I was too pissed at her to think of it till recently. But yes, I probably could. Who do you have in mind?" Tokimi asked.
"Cologne. I bet if any one I know could get us out of here, she could." Ranma said.
"Ok, I'll try to contact this Cologne. If this works, lets work together to get our vengeance. I'll need time to regain my edge after all this captivity, and you, well you might have the potential Ranma, but you don't have the skill or power to defeat these Gods just yet." Tokimi said going over to a black mirror, while Ranma followed her.
"Oh trust me, I'll get there, faster then you can imagine. I've never been this motivated before." Ranma said darkly. "Kill me, turn me into a girl and try to kill me or at least trap me forever, will they? I'll show them!" she snarled.
Tokimi shook her head, trying to keep her thoughts of vengeance at bay, so she could do this. Concentrating, she, after about ten minutes, found this Cologne person. Waiting for the right moment, when she was in the bathroom and looking in to a mirror, she opened a two way viewing portal.
Cologne was having a hard day. They had found Ranma dead on the street and Nerima was about to tear it's self apart. Then this happened. Her mirror wasn't showing her reflection, but that of a Goddess. Cologne knew one when she saw one.
"What may I do for you, your Divinity?" Cologne asked with no trace of emotion.
"I have someone here who would like to ask a favor of you." The Goddess said to Cologne, then she was shoved out of the way and, Ranma's girl side! Took over the view!
"Cologne! Get me the hell out of here!" The female Ranma shouted.
Cologne was shaken to her very core and it showed. "Son in law? But you're dead!"
"Only my male half died." The female Ranma shot out with venom in her voice, "The Gods that did this thought Tokimi here would finish the job." She all but spat out.
"What is going on here?" Cologne asked confused. Taking a deep breath, Ranma slowly explained what had happened, with help from Tokimi when needed.
After the explanation was finished Cologne let out a low whistle. "So these Gods made the male half of Ranma so weak, that he died with out what was given to his female half? They've stopped your sister from not only letting you out, but probably waking your other sister up? If you three are the original Goddesses of our universe, the ones who started everything, then is it possible, that these six are trying to, um, up spur your power?" Cologne asked.
"Are they trying to take over? Quite possibly." Tokimi said.
"I shall try to get you out. And I will help you with this threat to you and yours, if you'll let me." Cologne said.
"Thank you, but why would you help us in our revenge?" Tokimi asked.
"For Ranma. They denied me of my son in law, and when word of his death hit Nerima, it was ready to tear it's self apart. I will have to tell the others, and then get to work on getting you out. How long can you keep this viewing portal open?" Cologne asked.
"Indefinitely. As long as I use another mirror to scry elsewhere, I can keep this portal open forever." Tokimi said.
"Good, Good. One more thing, you said your sisters were here, on Earth? Where exactly? In case I need their help." Cologne asked.
"The Masaki temple in Okayama Japan." Tokimi said. "I would appreciate it if you only contacted them as a last resort. I don't know how they would react."
"Ok then. They are a last resort. I've got to tell the others that Ranma's alive. Then I'll get to work." Cologne said, skipping out of the room.
Not three seconds had past before Shampoo burst in to the bathroom shouting "Arien!" And then she stopped cold and started crying. "It true. You girl only now."
"Shampoo, I'm sorry." Ranma said.
"Why be sorry? Not your fault. Mean Gods fault. You must be Tokimi. Hello Divinity, I Shampoo." Shampoo said.
Tokimi whispered to Ranma "Is she an idiot or something?"
Ranma looked at Tokimi, scowled and said. "No, she's just bad at Japanese. If we could speak her langue, she'd sound fine. Unfortunately, I don't speak Mandarin." Ranma said.
"Oh is that all. Shampoo," Tokimi said aloud, "I'm sorry about this, but your Japanese is giving me a problem, so I'm casting a translator spell on this portal, so Ranma will understand you speaking in Mandarin. She won't if and when we get out of here, just through this portal." She said, casting the spell. "Try talking in Mandarin now Shampoo."
"Ok, hello, can you understand me now Ranma?" Shampoo asked.
"Yes Shampoo." Ranma said.
"That's great. I hate how I sound when I talk in Japanese. I sound like a stupid bimbo or something equally dumb. It's so aggravating." Shampoo said.
"Um, yeah." Ranma said intelligently. "So how are things out there really? Cologne said something about Nerima being ready to tear it's self apart? What did she mean by that?"
"It's bad here. When we found your male sides body, everyone thought you were dead. And that you must have been murdered. And accusations were flying left and right, trying to pin the blame on someone. Ryoga and Tatewaki were the top choices, and while we couldn't find Ryoga, it didn't help that the Kuno boy kept saying that Heaven must have struck down the foul sorcerer." Shampoo said. Ranma started giggling. "What's so funny Ranma?" she asked puzzled.
"It's just that he's right for once. Heaven, or at least a crooked part of it, did strike me down." Ranma said still giggling.
"Aii! That's true! And your right, it is sort of humorous." Shampoo said giggling. "But enough about that. Grandma really didn't tell me much, other then that your male side was killed and your female side stuck with a prisoner Goddess, and that we had to free the both of you, and help you get revenge on some bad Gods. So what's really happening?" Shampoo asked.
"Can you wait a minute? Till the others come? I mean I know their coming, and twice is all I want to explain this." Ranma said.
"Ok. I can do that. Tokimi, may I ask you something? What are you the Divinity of? And why are you trapped in there too?" Shampoo asked.
"Its part of the story we'll tell everyone, so I'd rather not go over it again and again, but if you must know now, I'm the Goddess of evil." Tokimi said sighing.
"That's a bad domain for you. You seem too nice." Shampoo said.
"Yah, well I was the first Goddess ever in this universe, so I got stuck with it. My younger sister got neutrality, and my youngest sister got good." Tokimi sighed. "If you ask me, we all qualified, personality wise for good, even if Tsunami acted like a stuck up bitch for millennia, she was a good Deity. Washu was good too, so good she couldn't stand trying to separate good and evil any more, and ran away to the mortal realm. And me, well I'm way too nice to be the incarnation of evil. We all got shafted, in my opinion." Tokimi said.
"If you were the first Goddess in this universe, why did you have to take evil? Couldn't you pick your domain? How were you forced to take evil?" Shampoo asked confused.
"I was forced by the universe it's self. All Gods and Goddesses are born strait from the universe it's self, not from other Gods and Goddesses. In fact we can't have offspring. Washu is the only one I know of that has had a kid, and that was by cheating." Tokimi said.
"That's very interesting to know." Cologne said from the doorway. She had the Tendos, Ranma's parents, Ukyo and Ryoga with her. "How did she cheat?" Cologne asked.
"It's complicated. I even don't understand much of it. When you meet her ask her." Tokimi said.
As the others squeezed into the small bathroom, Nabiki said "Ok Ranma, spill it. What happened this time?"
"I think I'll go get my books and start studing up on how to get you out of there." Cologne said squeezing herself out of the room. "Call me if you need me." She said once she was out of the room.
"Ranma, talk." Nabiki said.
"Um ok." And Ranma again told them what happened, with Tokimi throwing in her thoughts and reminders. As Genma whined about his manly son becoming a weak worthless girl, and Soun whining that the schools would now never be joined, they were pushed out by everyone else. As the silence rained after they were gone, Ryoga asked, "How can we help you get these bastards Ranma?"
"Yeah, sugar, how can we help?" Ukyo asked.
"I'm in." Nabiki said surprising everyone. "What?" she said seeing their looks. "Just because I'm not a martial artist, doesn't mean I can't help." Nabiki said.
"Me too." Kasumi said shocking everybody. "How dare anyone, even a God do this to poor Ranma,"
Akane then started "Ranma, I know we didn't get along very well, but that was because, well I really didn't want to marry you. I'm sorry. I always saw you more as a brother, and an annoying one at that, then a husband. But you're family, and no one hurts my family. I'm in, and you better not stop me you moron." She said with steel in her voice.
Then Nodoka spoke. "No one be they man, woman, Demon or even God shall hurt my child and escape my vengeance." She said in an icy voice. Everyone in the bathroom could swear that the rooms temperature just lowered by thirty degrees.
"You're all nuts." Tokimi said. "You do realize that the Gods you want to go against make Saffron look like a wimp. They're almost as powerful as me. Even if I get my sisters to help, it's three on six, that might be even in power right there, but I know they'll get help. We'll be out numbered and out powered. And even Ranma isn't ready for them."
"Yet." Ranma interrupted "I'm not ready for them yet. But I will be. And the others will be too. When the chips are down, we've always come together." Ranma stated.
"That's right honey. We'll train our asses off to get ready. Nobody can do something like this and get away with it. And if these Gods really want to take over you and your sister's positions, then we've got to stop them. I don't want Gods like that in charge of the universe." Ukyo said.
"'It's a martial artist's duty to protect the weak', as Ranma always says, but in this case I think it's our duty to assist the strong in defense of the universe." Ryoga said.
"I was right. You're all nuts." Was all Tokimi said.
The next day the Neko Hanten had a sign out that said 'Closed for a Private Party.'
Everyone had spent the night. Uyko, Kasumi and Nodoka were making lunch in the restaurant kitchen, While Nabiki, Akane and Shampoo helped with Cologne's research. Soun and Genma were sleeping off their drinking. That left Ryoga. He stayed in the bathroom to relay information to Ranma and Tokimi, when there was information to relay.
This was how things went for several days, other then them kicking Soun and Genma out for not helping on the second day, until Cologne talked to Tokimi about a week later.
"Tokimi," Cologne started.
"Yes Cologne?" Tokimi asked.
"I have very good news, and some slightly bad news." Cologne said.
"What is it?" Tokimi asked.
"Well I know a spell to get you and Ranma out of your prison, and don't need to invoke prayers to a Deity to do it, but I need to find your sub dimension first. And that could take a long, long time. Or I could just ask your sister Tsunami, if she'll tell me. If she doesn't, I'm afraid I'll never find your sub dimension that you've been trapped in." Cologne told Tokimi.
"So you're asking for my permission to speak to my sister?" Tokimi asked, rubbing her nose.
"Yes, you were quite adamant that it being done only as a last resort. Well this is my last resort without searching every sub dimension in existence and hope to get lucky." Cologne said evenly.
"Fine, call her. I assume you found the Masaki's phone number?" Tokimi asked.
"Yes, it was unlisted, but Nabiki got it." Cologne said.
"Call her." Was all Tokimi said.
"I have the phone right here." She said holding a portable phone. "I'll put it on speaker so you can hear, and maybe even talk to her." Cologne said smiling.
Cologne pulled out a slip of paper with the number on it, and started to dial.
The phone was picked up by what sounded like a young boy, about Ranma's age. "Hello?" the boy asked.
"Hello. My name is Cologne and I need to speak to Tsunami." Cologne said.
"There isn't any one here by that name. Goo…" The boy was saying, when Cologne interrupted him with
"Young man, don't insult my intelligence. I need to speak to Tsunami about her sisters, especially Tokimi. If you don't put her on this phone, I promise, I'll be down there to talk to her in person by this evening at the latest. This is a matter of the utmost urgency, and I must speak with her." Cologne said forcefully.
"Sisters? Hold on a moment." The boy said. They then heard him say, "I didn't know Tsunami had any sisters."
A few minutes later, they heard a woman's voice on the phone. "What is this about my sisters? And you mentioned Tokimi? Who are you and how do you know that name?" Tsunami asked.
"Still a stuck up little bitch, eh Tsunami?" Tokimi asked snidely.
"Tokimi? How did you get free?" Tsunami asked shocked.
"I'm not. I'm just speaking over a speaker phone through a viewing portal. Ranma said Cologne could help, and she was right." Tokimi said.
"Ranma, who's that? The name sounds familiar." Tsunami asked.
"That's me, Ranma Saotome, the mortal who killed that jerk Saffron. Seems the Gods that helped you trap your sister didn't like that, so the killed my male side and sent my female side to be trapped with you're sister here." Ranma shot out hotly.
"They did what?" Tsunami half screamed. "I can't take this any more! The next thing you know…" She shouted, when she was interrupted by Cologne
"They'll be after you, right? They won't let you free one sister from a prison she never should have been put in, and won't let you wake up your other sister to her true self. You're out numbered and all alone." Cologne told her.
"Yes." Tsunami said.
"How are they stopping you from waking Washu or freeing Tokimi?" Ranma asked. That was what was puzzling her.
"Well in Tokimi's case, everyone who locked her in, must unlock the lock on her prison. And the others won't do that. In Washu's case, I need Tokimi's help to wake her. Only Tokimi is strong enough to wake Washu alone, I just can't, I tried, but I can't. It would take an older and more powerful Goddess then Washu to do it, and that means only Tokimi qualifies." Tsunami said sighing.
"Well if you can tell us the location of the sub dimension that she's trapped in, I think I can free her." Cologne said.
"How?" Tsunami asked shocked.
"An old woman's got to have some secrets, neh? Just tell me, and I'll try to do it." Cologne said.
There was silence on the phone for a moment, then Tsunami said "I'll be down there tomorrow with everyone. Especially Washu. Can you give me your address there?" Tsunami asked.
"Sure." Cologne said giving it.
"Ok I'll be down there tomorrow morning with everyone. I look forward to seeing you again Tokimi. I hope you can bring back Washu too. And, I'm sorry." Tsunami said hanging up.
"Well looks like tomorrow you get free." Cologne said.
"I've waited over fifty thousand years. What's one day more?" Tokimi asked.
"One day too long to me." Ranma grumbled.
"Patience is not one of her Virtues." Cologne cackled.
Ranma just pouted.