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Summary: Ranma gets attack by a mysterious creature shortly after the attempted wedding. As he fights on, he shall be encountering against the forces of darkness, as well as the forces of light. Multi Crossover
Warrior of the Key
Chapter 2: Encounters
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Five minutes have passed since Ranma left the Tendo Dojo and is now traveling along towards Juuban. Right after he left, a new figure in a black cloak appeared from within the Tendo Dojo. "Looks like I was too late to be of any help. All I can say for now is may their souls rest in peace." The figure said in a calm tone. The figure sensed something right after and saw that there was another figure wearing the exact same outfit.
"Yeshua, I didn't expect to see you here. Right now, the keyblade has chosen its owner in the form of Ranma Saotome. He is currently heading towards Juuban and has forgotten that his mother was killed during the attack earlier on." The other figure replied.
"Were you the one who gave the keyblade to the chosen one?" Yeshua asked.
"No. It was someone else. How that person got possession of the keyblade is something I currently don't know. I'm going to head out now to investigate."
"I see. Good luck." Yeshua replied.
The second figure vanished and Yeshua was now alone inside the dojo. As he started to look around, he noticed that there was a pot in the kitchen which seemed to be sealed. He lifted his right hand and muttered a word quietly and the seal was lifted. "This is a surprise. I wonder if I can use this as a weapon later on against the heartless."
Yeshua mutter several words and summoned his strongest containment spell. He placed the contents of the pot into six round spheres and ended the spell after making sure that not a single drop landed on the floor. "This should give Ranma a small chance."
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Ranma just barely arrived in Juuban when he saw that there were three monsters attacking innocent civilians. He noticed that while none of them were killed as of yet, they were drained of most of their energy. If they didn't get something to replenish the energy that they've lost, they'll be dead in a matter of minutes. Ranma looked at the three monsters and felt a small presence call out to him. "Don't use the keyblade."
"Huh?" Ranma replied out loud.
Ranma decided to listen and wondered how to make the keyblade vanish. He willed the weapon to vanish and it did. He willed it to come back it appeared into his hands. He vanished the weapon one last time before unleashing his first attack against the three monsters. "Mōko Takabisha." (1)
The attack collided with the first monster and the monster was vaporized instantly. Ranma looked at the other two and sensed that they were definitely not as weak as the one that was just destroyed. He studied the two monsters that were remaining. One monster looked similar to Pantyhose Taro's cursed form except that it didn't have the tentacles on its back and that this monster was red instead of black. The other monster was a humanoid based creature and had the appearance of both a cat and a bat. Ranma decided to call the one that looked like Taro's cursed form as "Pantyhose Jr." and the other one "Catbat."
"Yo Pantyhose Jr! Catbat!" Ranma yelled out.
The two monsters looked at Ranma with absolute hatred. The monsters don't know why, but the name brought about absolute hatred towards the human.
"Kill this one we shall." Catbat replied.
"Kill we shall to this one." Pantyhose Jr. replied.
'Great. Just what I need, dumb and dumber,' Ranma thought as the two monster spoke. 'I should finish this fast.'
As Ranma moved, he sensed a third presence and looked towards the presence. Up on top of a building nearby, Ranma noticed a girl wearing a variant of the female school uniform and was thinking of how she was out of her mind to be wearing something like that at this time seeing that there's a slight breeze out.
Pantyhose Jr. and Catbat took advantage of Ranma being distracted and started to run towards their enemy.
Ranma kept looking at the female up top when he heard dumb and dumber charging towards him. 'Oh crap.'
"Dead Scream," the female called out in a whisper.
A purple ball of light appeared from a staff that she summoned and the ball was aimed right at Ranma. Ranma managed to dodge the attack in time and sighed. 'Why is it that the entire world is out to get me?'
Ranma looked at the female and then cursed as he was struck from behind by pantyhose Jr. He was sent flying a few feet and crashed in front of the building the female was on top of.
"I'll kill you human." Pantyhose Jr. replied as it readied itself for another attack.
Ranma stood up from the ground and tried to sense where Catbat was at. He noticed a few seconds later that it was airborne. Catbat looked down at Ranma and slowly opened its mouth. A beam of energy bursted forth quickly after and was heading towards Ranma's location. Ranma dodged that attack and luckily avoided another purple ball of light that was also aimed for his head. 'This isn't good. I'm low on energy right now since I've been fighting against the heartless and it's freaking three on one. If only I had time to recover.'
"Dead-"
"Hold it right there Pluto."
A figure appeared from out of nowhere and stood in front of Ranma. Ranma also noticed that it was wearing the same clothing as the one who entrusted him with the keyblade.
"Another human to kill." Catbat screeched before diving towards the new figure.
"Weak." The figure said as it revealed a sword from under its cloak.The figure slashed Catbat as it dove and swung the sword at the direction of Pantyhose Jr. The two creatures were cut in half in an instant and transformed into cards before burning up into ash. The figure then pointed it's sword towards the female known as Pluto.
"Who are you?" Pluto asked in a cold tone.
"Can't predict me can you?" the figure asked. "I will not give out my name to those who are my enemy."
"I see. Then you give me no choice but to destroy you then." Pluto replied. "Chronos-"
"A Chronos Typhoon won't do a lick of damage to me at all. You're Dead Scream is also pointless and I'm immune to your Jikan yo Tomare, your ability to stop time. I'm the worst type of opponent that you can face. Leave now and settle you're score with Ranma some other day." The figure replied.
Pluto looked at the figure with absolute hatred. "Dead Scream!" she cried out with all her might.
"Pathetic. I already told you that the Dead Scream is useless against me!" the figure yelled as it cut Pluto's attack into several pieces with its sword before absorbing the energy from Pluto's attack.
"Damn." Pluto swore before teleporting away from the battlefield.
The figure placed its sword back under its cloak and looked at Ranma. Ranma was in a defensive stance ready to fight.
"That's enough fighting for now. Your destination is not far from here. Head towards that destination and get some rest. You'll need if for the upcoming battles." The figure said before walking away.
"Wait a sec!" Ranma yelled. "Who are you? How do you know where I'm going? Are you the one who gave me this keyblade?"
The figure paused for a sec. "Arthur Pendragon." Arthur replied before teleporting away.
"Where have heard that name before?" Ranma said quietly to himself.
Ranma decided that he had enough to deal with right now and headed out towards his moms house. Ranma arrived ten minutes later and knock on the door. After hearing silence, he opened the door and entered.
"Mom, are you here?" Ranma yelled out.
Ranma entered the kitchen and saw a note that was sitting on top of the counter.
Ranma, gone to the Tendo's for dinner. Thought I'd leave this here if you were malleted away by Akane. Mom
"Wait a sec. Didn't…" Ranma's voice trailed off as he remembered what his father said before he was killed.
"GET OUT OF HERE! ALL THE SHADOWS ARE GOING TO GATHER HERE SINCE WE'RE AMONG THE LAST ONES LEFT IN THE WARD." Genma yelled looking directly into his son's eyes. "Son, they've killed all of the Tendo's as well as your mother. The future of Anything Goes is at its end with you. Ranma, you must survive and carry on our legacy."
"Damn it!" Ranma yelled. "How could I forget?" Ranma asked as he struggled to fight off against the tears that were building up.
"Hello?" a female voice called out at the front door. "Auntie, are you here? I was over at the dojo where you were supposed to be at and found it empty. Did you return early?"
'Why does this voice sound familiar?' Ranma thought. He remembered instantly a couple seconds later. It was the voice of that girl he encountered yesterday before arriving at Gramps. Remembering that they encountered each other when Ranma was a girl, Ranma quickly turned on the cold water at the sink and poured it over himself transforming him instantly. Afterwards, she thought about using the Umisenken (2) but didn't have the time since the girl just arrived in the kitchen.
"Who are you?" the girl asked, her hands reaching for some unknown weapon hidden from behind her body.
'Damn' Ranma thought. 'What should I do? Umisenken might help hide my presence but I need to grab my stuff at the same time.'
"Ranko Tendo." Ranma answered.
"Akane's cousin?" the girl asked, a curious expression plastered on her face.
"You know Akane?" Ranma questioned, thinking that he might be able to get out of the unscathed.
"Auntie mentioned a little bit about her. She was to be Ranma's fiancé." The girl said with a sad tone. "Sorry," she said, her face brightening up a little, "I'm Kei Dartz, pleasure to meet you."
Ranma didn't respond immediately. She wasn't used to being in such close proximity with a girl his own age and not get the crap beaten out of her. As she thought, she decided that she'll do what her father did the first time they encountered her mother for the first time in ten years, hide her identity.
"What are you doing here?" the girl asked, seeing that the silence was become unbearable. "Auntie didn't mention having any guests over and she definitely didn't mention anything about knowing a person of your description."
'Got to think, got to think. Ranma Saotome never loses and I won't lose here. I got it.'
"Saotome School of Anything Goes Secret Technique: Fast Break" Ranma ran out of the kitchen at breakneck speed and managed to grab his bag in the living room as he ran. After grabbing the bag, he ran towards the front door only to see a strange cat-like creature blocking the door.
"C-c-c-cat!!!" Ranma screamed loudly. She ran straight through the wall on the other side of living room and managed to get out of the apartment.
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'Damn I hate doing this but I can't risk anymore problems at this point. She's probably another person that pops somehow screwed over and was found my mother.' Ranma sighed as she wondered what to do next. There wasn't much chance in staying at her mother's place seeing that her old friend was there and that she honestly didn't have a repeat of Ukyo where a girl would try to take advantage of the fact that they were friends and try to go for more when all she wanted was to be friends.
Ranma took a look around and saw that she had made it to the park. She smiled slightly and thought of some of the old times where she was camping out with her father and then frowned when she noticed that there were Shadows and a newer type of Heartless that was similar to a Shadow but was wearing full body armor instead.
'Soldier' Ranma instinctively thought. 'At least, I believe they're called Soldier.'
Ranma summoned her keyblade and got into a comfortable defensive position and waited for the enemy to make the first move. They didn't wait long as the Shadows made the first move and all jumped towards Ranma with the intent of taking the heart of the keyblade weilder.
Ranma swung the keyblade as she spun her body. After turning a full three-sixty, she saw that she wiped out the first wave of Shadows only to have the second wave of Soldiers attack. She ducked as a Soldier tried to punch her head and kicked said Soldier with a side thrust. Immediately afterwards, Ranma jumped as high as she could and threw her Keyblade downwards, calling out an attack.
"Strike Raid!"
The keyblade struck down many a Soldier. After landing on the ground, Ranma picked up the keyblade and saw that there were more Shadows and Soldiers emerging. 'This is getting ridiculous.'
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Ranma continued fighting for the better part of the hour. After using another Strike Raid to finish off what appeared to be the final Soldier, She slumped down and leaned against the nearest tree and tried to catch her breath. Her efforts were poorly noticed when she saw that there were now monsters that were moving towards her and not Heartless.
'This is not good' were Ranma's thoughts as she tried to figure out a way out of this situation. She knew that she couldn't use the keyblade against this type of enemy for reasons unknown.
She banished the keyblade and got up, ready to fight off against the monsters that were slowly approaching his position.
The monsters weren't anything special or had any real noticeable features that really stood out other than the fact that they were humanoid in shape and that they had scales for skin. There were five total and each appeared to be on a weaker level than Pantyhose Jr. and Catbat.
'Let's see, starting off from the left, we have Scaly Number One, Scaly Number Two, Scaly Number Three, Scaly Number Four, and Scaly Number Five.'
Scaly Number Three was the first of five to launch an attack and fired off a blast of dark energy from its mouth. Ranma easily dodged the attack and saw the Scaly Number Two and Scaly Number Four fired off their own elemental attacks in the forms of water and Ice. Ranma had little trouble dodge the two attacks and frowned when Scaly Number One and Scaly Number Five each fired off a stronger variant of their comrade's attack in the form of fire and lightning immediately after the previous two attacked. Ranma jumped to avoid the fire but the lightning attack managed to nick her in the leg and she felt her leg go numb.
'Damn, got careless after fighting off the horde of Heartless. Move, come on move'
Ranma used all her strength to jump with her one good leg. She grabbed the branch of a tree and swung towards the entrance of the park. After clumsily landing on her good leg, she looked back and saw that Scaly One through Five launched each of their techniques in unison. The five elements, earth, fire, lightning, water, and ice all fused into a single black beam of energy and was coming at Ranma at a fast speed than what she could dodge at the moment.
Ranma closed her eyes and placed her arms imbued with the protection of the Soul of Ice and awaited to be hit.
Several seconds had passed and Ranma noticed that the attack never struck. Moving her arms away so that she could see what happened, Ranma saw that there was girl dressed similar to the one called Sailor Pluto except that she was wearing a purple variation instead of the green one that Pluto had.
Ranma saw that the Senshi finished off the monsters with ease with a pole arm and was definitely glad that she didn't use the keyblade. The monsters all turned into cards and burned into ash.
'Why is it that I'm always saved. Am I because I'm weak?' Ranma thought. Ranma's thoughts were then interrupted as she noticed that her savior was trying to get her attention.
"Are you alright?" the girl asked.
"You're not trying to kill me like the other one are you?" Ranma asked.
The other girl had a look on her face which expressed confusion.
"There was another one of you, Pluto I think that tried to kill me for no reason." Ranma answered.
"I'm Ranma Saotome by the way. Sorry 'bout this." Ranma said as she stood on her one good foot. She bowed slightly and placed her right hand over her head.
'Wild Horse?' the girl thought.