JDHGamer: Here is the next Chapter, and I'd like to say to Dee-Chan, my one
reviewer, that yes, the Character's WILL be more involved later on in the
story, although not in the actual battle itself, they'll help out a little.
;)
Also, well…Sakuya is not exactly a fighting character, and Tenchi is a bit protective (wouldn't you be too if you came in with the purpose of saving someone?).
And as far as why didn't the other characters go into the universe? Well, Tenchi wanted to go in alone, because this was a personal matter.
Now on the subject of description…well, I try to be as descriptive as possible, mostly when I have a "visual effect", such as when Tenchi enters the universe. I describe what really needs describing, really. The idea is he saw various possibilities in little bubbles, now I could have been specific and have said what each of them contained, but I like to leave gaps such as these for the reader to fill in. Then the blur which "focuses" into the universe, if you have an imagination, it's kinda cool. And the inertia thing. Well, that's one of the moments I have a vision of what it looks like in my head, and I feel the need to describe it. Also, a lot of the characters and settings are very familiar if you know enough about the show.
Anyway, enough with my explaining everything, on with the story now:
Chapter 4
In the middle of the night, Mayuka suddenly woke up screaming:
"Daddy!"
It turns out that Ayeka was the only person not entirely deep asleep, because she was the only one to be woken up.
"What is it, Mayuka?" Ayeka said tiredly.
"I had a dream that Daddy got hurt. But I don't think it was just a dream. I think maybe it really happened, or will happen soon."
Washu happened to enter the room at that moment, turning on the lights, which was the only thing that could actually wake everyone up.
"Did this dream happen to involve Yugi?" Washu asked as everyone was just getting up.
"I couldn't tell?"
"Huh? What's going on now?" Ryoko asked, grumpy as she always is after being woken up in the middle of the night.
"Just a hunch that Tenchi has…it appears there's someone else in that void, and he thinks it's Yugi, and there's a good probably that it is."
"How is this possible?" Ayeka asked.
"Sakuya is Yugi's shadow, it seems they tend to follow each other everywhere, even after life?"
"Does this mean…"
"That Sakuya will disappear again if Tenchi somehow manages to defeat Yugi? No. There souls are bound until one is destroyed, then the worst you have to worry about it some metaphysical rubber band hitting her, which probably wont happen, anyway."
"How can a soul be destroyed, anyway?" Ryoko asked.
"Well, as always seems to be the case, Jurai energy is needed to counter Yugi's negative energy. It's like combining matter and antimatter, they cancel each other out. The problem is finding some…which is resolved because I've created software that is capable of locating all sources of Jurai energy on Earth. And I've found quite a few more than I thought actually existed! Ha ha! I'm such a genius!"
"Could we at least wait until morning?" Ryoko asked, yawning.
"But the clock's ticking, if we don't act soon, it may be too late!" Ayeka commented.
"Actually, time is much slower in the void universe, so we have plenty of time, at least I think we do. And with all the work I'm going to have you guys do, you'd better get some rest tonight, but don't sleep in too long."
"Right."
"Yugi! I know you're here! Show yourself!" Tenchi called out as he looked around.
"…Well, I'm not sure if you're planning something or not, but really, I think you shouldn't, I mean…you're dead, I defeated you fair and square. All that's left for me is to get the girl, heh heh." Tenchi laughed nervously.
"You know, this is a really nice place, I mean…It's Sakuya's memory but you've probably seen it too, so you can maintain it when she's gone…Maybe even give it your own little personal touch. All I'm really asked, is that you just leave us alo-ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Tenchi groaned in pain as he flew across the room, landing on the couch. Something had hit him, but he couldn't see what.
His eyes opened, he looked around, but could see nothing. "Oh, no one's here."
He tried to move, but appeared to be held down by something, maybe someone.
"What the he-ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
He was flipped over into the air and landed hard on the floor.
"Yugi!" He cried out weakly. He tried to get up, but was kicked in the face by the apparently invisible force.
He tried getting up once again and attacking, but missed only to be hit again from the other side.
He jumped up, taking a battle stance his grandfather had taught him. He opened up his senses, becoming aware of everything in his surroundings as he attempted to seek out his invisible foe.
Yugi, of course made the first blow, but Tenchi was more prepared for it, and quickly made a counter attack in its direction, this time making contact with something.
He was hit again, he blocked, and kicked, apparently sending Yugi crashing into some furniture because it moved around and broke in when she ran into it.
He heard rapid footsteps as she got up and when charging at him. He blocked it, and once again counter attacked. With expert grace and efficiency he continued to fight Yugi, but it ended with a draw, and Yugi finally decided to show herself.
"Well, I'll be! So you really are Yugi! Nice combat outfit by the way." Tenchi said, noticing her more movement-allowing, but no less elegant- looking attire.
"As much as I'd like to thank you for that complement…no, I don't think I will." Yugi said.
"What do you want, Yugi?"
"Well…I DO want you to die…but then I wouldn't have a way to get back to the real world…so I think I'll let you live for at least a while…maybe for a good amount of time."
"What? You're trying to make a bargain?"
"Isn't it obvious? Your life and Sakuya's for a new body to use in your universe. You get two things…that's quite an offer I'm making, you get to keep your life, and the girl, and all I get is to get on with my important business in your universe."
"And if I refuse?"
"Isn't it obvious, you and your precious Sakuya will die!"
"And how exactly are you going to kill me?"
"Well, there are several ways…for one, I could do this…"
Suddenly, a dagger materialized, and Tenchi jumped into a chair, instantly reclining it, the dagger stopping only a couple centimeters from his neck.
"One of the ideas I have." Yugi said, grinning evilly.
For a moment, Tenchi felt hopeless, but then it something popped into his mind…
"What exactly is the use of a dagger…" Tenchi said, getting up as the dagger passed through him without doing any damage, "…that isn't even real?"
Tenchi grabbed the dagger from the point it was hovering in mid-air and threw it at Yugi, and it also passed harmlessly through her.
"It's only real if I think it's real."
"You learn quickly…but I wonder…"
Bolts of lightning began to course through Tenchi's body and he cried out in pain.
"If you can be harmed by THIS!"
But his cries of pain soon became giggles of laughter.
"Stop it! That tickles! And you know why? Because I BELIEVE it tickles!"
"Very funny, Tenchi…I can see your sense of humor is still intact. But you wont be laughing now." Yugi said, "I may not be able to harm you…but there's someone here in this universe I CAN harm!"
She pulled out Sakuya from what seemed like nowhere.
"Tenchi!" Sakuya cried out.
"Sakuya!"
"Now can we negotiate? Hmmmm?"
To be continued in Chapter 5
JDHGamer: I managed to write a longer than usual chapter today, but I'm going out of town tomorrow, so I'll have to work on it over some more school days, plus some extracurricular stuff I'll be doing that week, and probably for a while after. But I hope I can get the rest of the story done by the end of next week. Since it's already written on paper, I don't have to worry too much about rushing it and making it a lower quality than it should be. Anyway, once again, I hope you've enjoyed this, and please Review, just provide some good constructive criticism.
Also, I'd like to make a bit of a point about rushing into the action, I think I did that because it seems a bit typical in Tenchi in Love stories, in the first one, almost right away he started disappearing, and in Tenchi in Love 2, he disappeared almost in the beginning. Plus, I should mention that the real action doesn't take place until this chapter.
Anyway, that's all…cya next chapter!
Also, well…Sakuya is not exactly a fighting character, and Tenchi is a bit protective (wouldn't you be too if you came in with the purpose of saving someone?).
And as far as why didn't the other characters go into the universe? Well, Tenchi wanted to go in alone, because this was a personal matter.
Now on the subject of description…well, I try to be as descriptive as possible, mostly when I have a "visual effect", such as when Tenchi enters the universe. I describe what really needs describing, really. The idea is he saw various possibilities in little bubbles, now I could have been specific and have said what each of them contained, but I like to leave gaps such as these for the reader to fill in. Then the blur which "focuses" into the universe, if you have an imagination, it's kinda cool. And the inertia thing. Well, that's one of the moments I have a vision of what it looks like in my head, and I feel the need to describe it. Also, a lot of the characters and settings are very familiar if you know enough about the show.
Anyway, enough with my explaining everything, on with the story now:
Chapter 4
In the middle of the night, Mayuka suddenly woke up screaming:
"Daddy!"
It turns out that Ayeka was the only person not entirely deep asleep, because she was the only one to be woken up.
"What is it, Mayuka?" Ayeka said tiredly.
"I had a dream that Daddy got hurt. But I don't think it was just a dream. I think maybe it really happened, or will happen soon."
Washu happened to enter the room at that moment, turning on the lights, which was the only thing that could actually wake everyone up.
"Did this dream happen to involve Yugi?" Washu asked as everyone was just getting up.
"I couldn't tell?"
"Huh? What's going on now?" Ryoko asked, grumpy as she always is after being woken up in the middle of the night.
"Just a hunch that Tenchi has…it appears there's someone else in that void, and he thinks it's Yugi, and there's a good probably that it is."
"How is this possible?" Ayeka asked.
"Sakuya is Yugi's shadow, it seems they tend to follow each other everywhere, even after life?"
"Does this mean…"
"That Sakuya will disappear again if Tenchi somehow manages to defeat Yugi? No. There souls are bound until one is destroyed, then the worst you have to worry about it some metaphysical rubber band hitting her, which probably wont happen, anyway."
"How can a soul be destroyed, anyway?" Ryoko asked.
"Well, as always seems to be the case, Jurai energy is needed to counter Yugi's negative energy. It's like combining matter and antimatter, they cancel each other out. The problem is finding some…which is resolved because I've created software that is capable of locating all sources of Jurai energy on Earth. And I've found quite a few more than I thought actually existed! Ha ha! I'm such a genius!"
"Could we at least wait until morning?" Ryoko asked, yawning.
"But the clock's ticking, if we don't act soon, it may be too late!" Ayeka commented.
"Actually, time is much slower in the void universe, so we have plenty of time, at least I think we do. And with all the work I'm going to have you guys do, you'd better get some rest tonight, but don't sleep in too long."
"Right."
"Yugi! I know you're here! Show yourself!" Tenchi called out as he looked around.
"…Well, I'm not sure if you're planning something or not, but really, I think you shouldn't, I mean…you're dead, I defeated you fair and square. All that's left for me is to get the girl, heh heh." Tenchi laughed nervously.
"You know, this is a really nice place, I mean…It's Sakuya's memory but you've probably seen it too, so you can maintain it when she's gone…Maybe even give it your own little personal touch. All I'm really asked, is that you just leave us alo-ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Tenchi groaned in pain as he flew across the room, landing on the couch. Something had hit him, but he couldn't see what.
His eyes opened, he looked around, but could see nothing. "Oh, no one's here."
He tried to move, but appeared to be held down by something, maybe someone.
"What the he-ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
He was flipped over into the air and landed hard on the floor.
"Yugi!" He cried out weakly. He tried to get up, but was kicked in the face by the apparently invisible force.
He tried getting up once again and attacking, but missed only to be hit again from the other side.
He jumped up, taking a battle stance his grandfather had taught him. He opened up his senses, becoming aware of everything in his surroundings as he attempted to seek out his invisible foe.
Yugi, of course made the first blow, but Tenchi was more prepared for it, and quickly made a counter attack in its direction, this time making contact with something.
He was hit again, he blocked, and kicked, apparently sending Yugi crashing into some furniture because it moved around and broke in when she ran into it.
He heard rapid footsteps as she got up and when charging at him. He blocked it, and once again counter attacked. With expert grace and efficiency he continued to fight Yugi, but it ended with a draw, and Yugi finally decided to show herself.
"Well, I'll be! So you really are Yugi! Nice combat outfit by the way." Tenchi said, noticing her more movement-allowing, but no less elegant- looking attire.
"As much as I'd like to thank you for that complement…no, I don't think I will." Yugi said.
"What do you want, Yugi?"
"Well…I DO want you to die…but then I wouldn't have a way to get back to the real world…so I think I'll let you live for at least a while…maybe for a good amount of time."
"What? You're trying to make a bargain?"
"Isn't it obvious? Your life and Sakuya's for a new body to use in your universe. You get two things…that's quite an offer I'm making, you get to keep your life, and the girl, and all I get is to get on with my important business in your universe."
"And if I refuse?"
"Isn't it obvious, you and your precious Sakuya will die!"
"And how exactly are you going to kill me?"
"Well, there are several ways…for one, I could do this…"
Suddenly, a dagger materialized, and Tenchi jumped into a chair, instantly reclining it, the dagger stopping only a couple centimeters from his neck.
"One of the ideas I have." Yugi said, grinning evilly.
For a moment, Tenchi felt hopeless, but then it something popped into his mind…
"What exactly is the use of a dagger…" Tenchi said, getting up as the dagger passed through him without doing any damage, "…that isn't even real?"
Tenchi grabbed the dagger from the point it was hovering in mid-air and threw it at Yugi, and it also passed harmlessly through her.
"It's only real if I think it's real."
"You learn quickly…but I wonder…"
Bolts of lightning began to course through Tenchi's body and he cried out in pain.
"If you can be harmed by THIS!"
But his cries of pain soon became giggles of laughter.
"Stop it! That tickles! And you know why? Because I BELIEVE it tickles!"
"Very funny, Tenchi…I can see your sense of humor is still intact. But you wont be laughing now." Yugi said, "I may not be able to harm you…but there's someone here in this universe I CAN harm!"
She pulled out Sakuya from what seemed like nowhere.
"Tenchi!" Sakuya cried out.
"Sakuya!"
"Now can we negotiate? Hmmmm?"
To be continued in Chapter 5
JDHGamer: I managed to write a longer than usual chapter today, but I'm going out of town tomorrow, so I'll have to work on it over some more school days, plus some extracurricular stuff I'll be doing that week, and probably for a while after. But I hope I can get the rest of the story done by the end of next week. Since it's already written on paper, I don't have to worry too much about rushing it and making it a lower quality than it should be. Anyway, once again, I hope you've enjoyed this, and please Review, just provide some good constructive criticism.
Also, I'd like to make a bit of a point about rushing into the action, I think I did that because it seems a bit typical in Tenchi in Love stories, in the first one, almost right away he started disappearing, and in Tenchi in Love 2, he disappeared almost in the beginning. Plus, I should mention that the real action doesn't take place until this chapter.
Anyway, that's all…cya next chapter!