the immortal
By Aeris
Chapter three: The Past and Present
Italics mean talking in Chinese or other languages.
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"Tanaka! No!" A girl cried tripping over her own feet. She had long dark blue hair and brown eyes. "Tanaka!" A boy with black hair stopped her.
"Shika." He put his hands and her shoulders. "It's all right Shika." He paused looking around. He shaded his eyes to keep the sun out. "I won't let him get us." A dark creature came up from behind-
Akane woke up with a bolt. She'd been having that dream all the time now. Looking down she saw that she was sweating. What did that dream mean? And why was she having it?
Sun looked over her son, who had fainted. Everyone else had left the two of them alone so they could talk. He must be having the dream. She though and looked down at her son. A small smile crossed her lips; it wouldn't be that easy to get him to understand. It was hard for her to except her fate at first. To understand the responsibilities of a goddess. Ranma had that far away look in his eyes. She knew that look all to well he was having the dream.
"Tanaka! No!" A girl cried tripping over her own feet. She had long dark blue hair and brown eyes. "Tanaka!" A boy with black hair stopped her.
"Shika." He put his hands and her shoulders. "It's all right Shika." He paused looking around. He shaded his eyes to keep the sun out. "I won't let him get us." A dark creature came up from behind Shika and Tanaka. He dived toward them. His eyes where dark and cold, "Tanaka! No! Don't do it! You'll kill yourself!" The girl was shaking in her own fury. The dark thing changed its course and lunged at her. It stopped and snarled.
"Stop! Don't hurt her!" Tanaka yelled bracing himself for the beating that would surly come. The thing paused and laughed and could and heartless laugh.
"Poor ignorant boy." It spoke in clear deep words. "Tanaka, or should I say Ranma?"
Tanaka stopped in mid step. "Why do you call me Ranma, Dark God of Chaos?"
It laughed again and it seemed to smile, or as much as a dark thing could smile. "You will know, one day. But this isn't important. Give us the girl! You talk with honor, you know my title so give us the girl!"
Tanaka's senses caught back up with him. He put his fists on his hips. "Never." He said through his teeth.
The dark god stopped. "That wasn't a option Tanaka! That was an order!" Tanaka's dark eyes turned lethal. He fell to his knees as he summonsed his power. Red magic of fury filled the air and then hit the dark god. The dark god fell but he wasn't dead, but the effect of the blow left him paralyzed. Tanaka's hands fell to the ground as to brace him. He got up with all of his strength.
"Tanaka!" Shika pleaded with him. "Let me help, don't kill yourself."
Tanaka nodded reluctantly. The dark god blew himself up; he didn't want to die in the hands of a lesser god. Shika and Tanaka hit the ground. Shika looked down, Tanaka was dead. She scremed, she didn't get to help she let him die, she scream again and then she fell to the floor of the ground. Dead.
"You sure Great-grandmother?" Shampoo asked sitting cross-legged next to her great-grandmother. She moved closer trying to see what Cologne had in her hand.
Cologne nodded and sighed. "I have no idea where son-in-law went child. If I did know, we'd already be there. We need time and patience child, two things of which we strongly lack." She sat thinking for a minute, going page through page of her book by memory. Thinking of what potion she could use to see where Ranma was. He was no longer at the Tendo house. She knew that all to well. Then it sprang to her. It was perfect, "Child hold this book." Shampoo took the book when Cologne hopped off into the kitchen.
"What you doing Great-grandmother?" Shampoo asked when Cologne flipped the sign to closed and started to sprinkle white powder around the Nekohaten.
"Silence child and don't move." She instructed and then got the book back from Shampoo. She hurriedly flipped to the end and smiled when she found what she was looking for. "When I say so child go to the back room." Shampoo nodded. Cologne cleared her thought and began.
"By the light of the day and the dark of the moon I call upon the ancestors of the Amazon. Help me to uncover one soon to be of our own." Shampoo's eyes widened when she heard Cologne speaking. She was dealing with ancient spirits.
"No Great-grandmother…" Shampoo whispered.
"Now child go!" Cologne started glowing with a white light and Shampoo ran to the back praying for her Great-grandmothers safety.
"Who dare calls us? Speak now or lose your tongue!" A spirit said coming from the roof.
"I do, honored ancestor." Cologne said loudly.
"What is that you wish Elder Cologne?" Another spirit said.
"I wish to find the one called Saotome Ranma, for he is rightfully bound to my Great-grandchild Shampoo." Cologne told them.
"Wish denied. You cannot medal with the chosen one any longer, for you must find a new husband for Shampoo, honored Elder." The first one said.
"No! I must find him! He is bound to Shampoo!" Cologne pealed with them.
"Do not dare go ageist the word of a spirit. You must learn respect Elder Cologne!" The new spirit told her. "You will be greatly punished! We remove all honor from you, do as we say or you'll never be one of us."
Cologne fell to her knees. "No! I beg of you! Not that!"
The spirits began to fade. "You will do as we say! Or you will striped of your title!" With that they where gone.
Cologne hopped back to her stick and called Shampoo back. "Shampoo we will return home now, we must find you a new husband."
Shampoo nodded. "Yes, Great-grandmother."
Ranma woke up with the cold sweat of fear. He looked around and sat up. He jumped to his feet and let out a sigh of relief when he saw he was still in the room. He looked up and saw Sun reading what appeared to be a paper of some sort. She put it down and smiled when she saw him up.
"What is that, er, um-" Ranma asked, not sure what to call her.
Sun smiled. "Just call me Sun, you can call me what you want. And that-" She pointed to the paper. "It is just a report. How do you feel? You had the dream, didn't you?"
Ranma blinked at her puzzled. "I feel fine I guess, that dream was weird. Where is everybody?"
"Don't worry it is topical. The dreams, I mean. Skywalker had some business to attend to and your father had to see the Wizard Zeak."
Ranma moved his hands to his head and stopped. He head was pounding, memories started flooding in, about his past, not his past exactly but Tanaka's. He saw everything so vividly, like he actually lived them. "What's happening?" He managed to get out through the pain and the mixed up visions he saw.
"It's happening so soon, maybe because we didn't have you before… Your life is merging with the past, Ranma."
Ranma fell to his knees. "Shika…" He whispered. "Akane…"
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End to chapter three! Review please!