Flashing Shadows

By Tenneko Kazeno

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½, Tekkaman blade, Nirvana, Tenchi Muyo, DBZ, SDF, OMG, and SM. The only thing I own is most of the plot and the PHOENIX.

A.N. this first chapter is going to seem a lot like Tekkadread's first, sorry. This story is based off of, in honor of, and inspired by: Tekkadread, Wild Magic, Path of Chaos, Wild Horse of the no life king black angel, and shadows rebirth. Without these stories this would not be possible.

"Speech"

Thoughts

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Prologue Recreation

It was pitch black at the valley of springs, joenkyo, and the guide was sound asleep in his cabin. Suddenly there was a ball of fire falling through the sky towards the springs.The guide was shocked awake as the ball slammed with a resounding #booom# into the depths of a springthat had yet to claim a victim. The guide, feeling the magic of the springs change, rushed out to get the poor thing out before the springs finished their grizzly work. Seeing no bubbles coming up, he thought. Hmm it seems the springs finished sooner then I thought, I wonder what poor creature was claimed. Not knowing what fell in, he was unable to put up a sign to warn against falling in. I havea feeling that some unlucky fools are coming and I'll end up finding out. Just a dayswalk away weresome very unlucky fools that were heading striate for the valley. These foolswere no other then Ranmaand Genma Saotome and they were purposely going to joenkyo totrain, what poor sad unlucky fools.

The very next day we see a fat and stupid looking man in a dirty white gi standing on one of the many bamboo poles sticking out of the cursed pools of sorrow. This man, who is Genma, is trying to gloat a young boy, also in a gi, into jumping onto another pole and fighting. "Come on boy, get up here and fight. Or are you a weak girl." That did it, you can do a lot of things to Ranma Saotome, but you can't insult or question his manhood. "That's it old man, here I come." And we have lift off. It seems Genma was successful in gloating Ranma into fighting because the next thing we see is Ranmablasting his father into one of the springs. " Ah come on pops you ain't done yet are you." As if to answer his question a panda came flying out of the spring, landing across from him. "Wah." Was all he got to say before the panda jump kicked him into the air before coming down with a gigantic #splash# through an unmarked pool. Genma attempted to say. "Get up boy and lets finish this." But it came out a loud and annoying #groolf#. He looked over himself in surprise before going into a dead faint. The guide came over after hearing a ruckus. What he see's is another poor fool that got himself cursed. Hmm I could have sworn I heard two people but no one else is here. Well I guess I got to take himand explain. And with that he pulled Genma away from the springs, the whole time not noticing the unmarked spring bubbling like something was fighting.

Inside of the spring while this was happening was Ranma. He was swimming up when out of nowhere a tentacle wrapped around his leg and pulled him back down. As he turned to see what the thing was, more tentacles wrapped around him, pulling him down even faster. When he is finally able to see what has a hold on him, he is shocked. It is a pod of some type, with an opening from were the tentacles that were pulling he came from. When it finally got him in, it began to relive every moment of the beings life. It felt fillings for the first time. It decided to see if the randum were still controlling it. What it found shocked it and made it very happy. You see what it found was that the randum had been completely destroyed except for a couple of pods like it's self. This pod was made by the randum and was called a tekkapod. When it landed in the pool it was stopped from fulfilling it's main objective by the magic of the pool. What is it's main objective you ask, well it was to spread the spores to grow more tekkapods all across this world. When it found it could not do that it decided to go with it's second objective, to create a Tekkaman. It did not have a long wait until a host fell into it's waiting arms, literally. So it decided that this being deserved to have more power after going through all he had. There was one problem, because it was trapped in the spring it could not get a lot of energy so it put it's new host into cryostatis while shutting down most systems to save energy. It knew that even with all this it would take thousands of years to finish it's modification to both it's host and it's programming.

Omaka

Ranma: so you had me fall in a pool and get captured by a pod thing.

Tenneko: yeah a guess you could say that.

Ranma: well that's not so bad

Tenneko: ooh, don't worry its going to get a lot worse. You'll be going to hell and back.

Ranma: damn you Tenneko

Tenneko: he'll be back

A.N. well I hope you all liked it and that it was deferent from Tekkadread. Please send reviews and your fillings on how it can be improved. If it fits in with my ideas I'll use it. Oh and I hope it wasn't too short for you. So see ye'll next time