The alarm clock went off; it went beep, beep, beep, beep. Ryoko opened her eyes and smacked it off the table. It landed on the floor and stopped beeping. She sat up; she was sitting in a giant double bed all on her own. The bedroom she was in was white, the bed was white, the walls were white, practically everything was white. Quickly Ryoko looked at her right hand, there was a diamond ring on her finger, she was married.
She got up and quickly walked over to a bedroom table opposite the bed in a dressing gown. Apart from the mirror and jewellery boxes, there was a framed photo. It was her and Tenchi, on the day they were married. Ryoko was in a fine silky white gown while Tenchi was dressed like a normal groom. Everything she wished for was there. Ryoko then noticed an outside balcony from the end of the room. She walked outside, the sun shone on her face and she looked out to see a lush garden with trees and flowers all over the place. There was also a fountain spraying out water. It was clear to Ryoko that she was married to Tenchi, they were living a rich mansion with a lush garden and it seemed that they have an unbreakable love. Ryoko was ecstatic! She jumped up.
" YES!" she screamed. " And I thought the devil was joking."
Happily, she ran into her bedroom and got changed into the best clothes she could find in the wardrobe. She picked out the clothes that she would usually wear around Tenchi's house. Once dressed, she walked down a flight of stairs that were to the side of the table and down into a corridor.
The corridor had paintings on them, quite expensive ones. She stood in the centre of the corridor, now uncertain where to go. There was no clear sign where they lead to leaving Ryoko confused.
" Something wrong your highness?" asked a voice familiar to Ryoko. Ryoko turned to see what apparently was Washu in servant clothes.
" Highness?" asked Ryoko.
" You're forgetting that you are the crowned queen of Juria with Lord Tenchi," said Washu with a quick smile on her face. " I was coming to check if you were ready for some breakfast."
" I'm not actually hungry Washu. I was thinking of finding where Tenchi was, do you know where he is?"
" Your husband is carrying on his foreign language lessons with his tutor around the royal garden."
" Great, I'll go and greet him, you can tidy up the bedroom and then…."
"….However, you have visitors coming here this morning your highness. Miss Mishosi and Miss Ayeka are arriving at around half past ten, therefore we have an hour to get you ready and dressed."
" Dressed? Wait a minute, I'm already dressed!" claimed Ryoko. Washu chuckled and then grabbed Ryoko's arm and dragged her off.
" Your not running around the house with those clothes you wore before you met Tenchi, come on."
" Hey…let go of me!"
For the next 45 minutes, Ryoko was dumped in a bath and Washu washed her clean with a sponge and a scrubbing brush. What seemed like relaxing for Ryoko being washed with the sponge then turned to a load of pain when Washu scrubbed hard around her body with the brush. She was whining with every scrub. After the bath, Washu got her dressed in a Royal Jurai gown. It was white with little strips of Red, green and black going around the shoulders and arms. After getting dressed, Washu practically spoon fed Ryoko with cereal. It made Ryoko feel she was a baby, though she never had been a baby since actually being created by Washu in the first place.
Then the clock struck half past ten and Washu wheeled her out on the front patio and dumped her into a chair. Washu then ran off leaving Ryoko and then pushed what seemed to be Mishosi and Ayeka into two other chairs. Both seemed quite surprised.
" If you need anything, just ring the bell," said Washu placing a bell in front of Ryoko.
" AH! Oh…erm..morning Ryoko," said Ayeka realising how she was shoved into a chair. " Nice day today isn't it."
" Yeah it's swell," said Ryoko looking around herself. " Is Washu gone?"
" Looks like it," said Mishosi. " Besides, where's Tenchi today?"
" On his language lessons I was told," said Ryoko. Mishosi and Ayeka looked at each other and gulped. Ryoko raised an eyebrow. " What?"
" Nothing, nothing," said Ayeka. " How about some tea?"
" Yeah, I would like a drink that hasn't been shoved down my mouth." Said Ryoko. Ayeka poured some tea into some cups. She gave one to Ryoko and one to Mishosi. Ryoko gulped it down with in seconds. " My…someone's thirsty today."
" Yeah well, I'm waiting to see Tenchi," said Ryoko still looking around. She rang the bell and Washu ran up.
" Yes?" asked Washu.
" Why don't you sit here," said Ryoko getting out of her chair. " I have to use the girl's room."
" I'll come help."
" NO!" cried Ryoko. She put Washu in the chair. " I'll let the servant rest for the meantime, I'll be back in a minute."
Ryoko ran off into the garden while Washu was given some tea by Ayeka. The royal garden seemed quite large from the balcony Ryoko was on earlier. But it was completely huge when she came face to face with it. There were large pine trees around the edges of the gardens with small bushes with blooming flowers in the middle; still Ryoko couldn't see Tenchi. While she was looking around she accidentally bumped into the royal gardener who was trimming a rose bush.
" Hey! Watch it," said the gardener.
" Oh, I'm sorry," said Ryoko back to the gardener not looking at his face. " Did you see Tenchi?"
" You mean his highness?" asked the gardener pointing to a stone stairway leading downwards. " Oh, he's down at the pavilion with his tutor, I believe they were holding hands."
" WHAT?" shouted Ryoko running off down the stairs. The gardener looked a bit confused.
" And I thought you were happy with what I was doing?" muttered the gardener taking off his hat. It was the devil. " Now where's that nice rose bush I was cutting to pieces?"
Ryoko quickly made her way down the stairway and she arrived in yet more of the garden with rose bushes and large trees. But a few yards from her stood a large white wooden pavilion. It stood out from the rest of the garden because of its bright white coat of paint. However, it's beauty became ugly when he saw who was sitting inside it…..Tenchi….with….Kiyone! What was scarier was the fact that they were kissing.
" TENCHI!" screamed Ryoko. Tenchi spun around from Kiyone to see Ryoko looking murderous.
" Oh morning," said Tenchi. " I thought you had a tea party with Ayeka and Mishosi."
" They're busy drinking with Washu," said Ryoko. She turned to Kiyone. " What are you doing with my husband?"
" Teaching him how to speak German," said Kiyone trying to make up an alibi.
" Really? And it had to involve kissing Tenchi?"
" It's a German form of expressing their gladness of seeing someone."
" Really?" asked Ryoko with mad looking eyes aimed at Kiyone. " Tenchi…speak something in German."
" German? Oh ok….Ich Heiße Tenchi."
" After…. How long have you had these lessons?"
" Six months of lessons."
" Six months of lessons that you can say your own name!!!!!!"
" Ryoko, this can be explained in one simple sentence." Said Tenchi. " We'll talk later, come on Kiyone, I think I better pay your monthly wage."
Tenchi and Kiyone quickly ran as fast as they could out of Ryoko's sight. But Ryoko was more annoyed that the devil had not granted her wish right. She down sulky on the pavilion bench with a sad look.
" And he said that my wish had been granted. Tenchi's having an affair with…Kiyone! That doesn't feel right. Anyway, I better give him a call and find out what he's done." Said Ryoko searching herself quickly. " where did I put it?"
" You dropped this in the garden," said Washu appearing out of nowhere holding the red mobile phone that the devil gave her.
" AH!" screamed Ryoko. She swiped the phone off Washu and punched her away. " Give me that. Now…the number was 5555-Satan," she dialled the number. The tone on the other end rang for a few seconds and then someone picked it up.
" The Devil speaking, who the hell are you?" asked the devil on the other end.
" It's Ryoko! You said that you granted my wish correctly! IT ISN'T THOUGH! Tenchi is in love with Kiyone!"
" Oh no Ryoko," said the devil sadly. " Let's get you out of there and we'll talk."
" Out of where?" asked Ryoko.
" The bath of course!"
Ryoko looked around her. She was sitting in the hot springs taking a bath on her own. Somehow, she was pulled out of the wish. Very confused, Ryoko sat back and put the phone to the side of her out of the spring.
" Don't loose the phone please! I hate it when customers always loose their phone!" said a voice above her. The Devil Lemming was sitting on a rock above her looking down at her. Ryoko looked at herself and realised she wasn't wearing anything.
" AH!" screamed Ryoko covering her chest and crossing her legs. " You've got some nerve being here looking at me naked!"
" As I said before, I'm never interested in women." said the Lemming jumping off the rock and sitting down next to Ryoko on the side of the spring in a red business suit. " So, your first wish didn't go to plan eh?"
" Of course it didn't go to plan," said Ryoko. " You made Tenchi fall in love with Kiyone!"
" Well let's consider what you told me, rich, power, and married to Tenchi. You said nothing about him being in love with you," said the Lemming taking out a bottle of beer and drinking it. " Anyway, ever goes with the rich and powerful wish at first and it always gets buggered up because people aren't precise with their wish!"
" Ah…I see," said Ryoko looking down sad. The devil groaned and pat her shoulder.
" It never works out the first time, that's why you have seven wishes! Well…six now." Said the devil looked at his nails. " I should get a make over sooner or later, 6000 years of being a lemming is getting to be a drag. Anyway, you thought of your second wish."
" Well, after you said what you said about the first wish going wrong, I suppose I want to wish for something in which Tenchi loves me."
" You know what I'm thinking?" asked the devil. " Something a little more romantic than being the wife of the king of Jurai. Something like….."
"…..me and Tenchi doing something together."
" Yeah like….like….it's rolling off my tongue but I can't say it!" said the Devil.
" Playing some kind of sport?"
" Yes! Yes! I'm getting a brain wave Ryoko, you and Tenchi grand slam Tennis mixed double champions of the world!"
" That's it! We can defeat the whole world!" cried Ryoko jumping up in front of the devil. " I wish me and Tenchi were grand slam Tennis mixed double champions of the world!"
" Granted!" shouted the devil clapping his hands together. " Oh and by the way Ryoko."
" What?"
" Cover your breasts up, I'm feel like doing something naughty!" said the devil. Ryoko quickly covered her breasts up with her hands then everything went bright white.