"Ahh, what a gentle breeze" Azaka said, turning to Kamedake as the wooden logs stood stationary by the lake.
"Yeah" Kamedake replied "Its been rather busy this week hasn't it"
"Yes, it makes me glad that we are not human"
"Um, what where we supposed to be doing here again"
"I don't know, I'd just be glad if we got to see a little more action ourselves" Azaka stated, turning back to look over the lake.

"Ryoko! Give that back!" Ayeka could be heard shouting out from in the onsen. Kamedake sighed, turning to face Azaka.
"Just another typical day on planet earth, right Azaka?" Kamedake asked.
"Yes, just another day" Azaka replied.


"So, Nagi" Mihoshi asked as she sat down in the onsen, so she the bounty hunter was between her and Kiyone. "What have you been up to since the last time we met"
"Mihoshi, we never actually met Nagi, she used to chase us around before, back when we were helping the others out. Do you remember?" Kiyone stated, glad that she didn't have to worry about the bounty hunter for now.
"Oh yeah, I remember. Your ship looks a lot like Ryo-Ohki, doesn't it"
"Yes, I guess he does look a little similar" Nagi remarked, taking a sip of sake. "I haven't been doing a lot since the last time I saw you, just collecting a few bounties really. Although I did hope Ryoko would fly by one day, so I could try to capturer her"

Ryoko looked at Nagi from her spot next to Minagi, speaking up loud enough for the bounty hunter to hear her.
"Heh, try and fail she means, she could never catch me in a thousand years, even if I took it easy" she exclaimed, downing a small bottle of sake in one go.
"Um, should you really be drinking so quickly Ryoko?" Minagi asked, a little worried as Ryoko tossed the empty container into a small pile of twenty other bottles.
"Don't worry about Ryoko" Washu said happily "She has the perfect immune system. So, thanks to my genius skills, she can never get drunk!" Grinning at her own intellect, Washu took a small sip from her bottle, savouring the taste.

"You know, I am rather glad that miss Nagi has decided to stay with us for a while" Ayeka announced as Sasami got in the onsen, after getting Ryo-ohki, who bounded on top of Sasami's head.
"Really princess?" Nagi asked turning her head to look at the woman.
"Yes, with any luck you could keep that beast Ryoko under control!" Ayeka laughed as Ryoko quickly got to her feet, not bothering to cover up her naked body.
"What was that princess? Who are youcalling a beast miss high and mighty?" she shouted out, glaring at Ayeka.
"Easy there Ryoko" Minagi said , standing up and placing a hand on her sisters shoulder.
Ayeka grinned, taking a sip of sake. Her glee was short-lived, as a few seconds later, Ryoko tossed one of the empty bottles hard into the princess' forehead.
"Ryoko! You'll pay for that!" Ayake shouted as she got up, giving chase as Ryoko floated off, throwing more of the empty bottles as laughed at the princess.

"Is this, normal?" Nagi asked, watching in disbelief as the others sighed.
"Yep, this is just a typical day here" Sasami said, before getting up. "Well, I'm going to make dinner now"
"I'll give you a hand" Minagi said, following Sasami out of the bath-house.
"Hard to think that someone who used to be the universes greatest space pirate would turn out to be some loud-mouth" Nagi stated. "But Ayeka isn't much better herself"
"Your right there, its like two explosive peas in a pod, you should see the amount of damage they do to the house when they fight" Washu agreed.

Kiyone yawned, looking up at the sky.
"You get used to it over time, this is just like eating together or coming in here to relax" She stated, stretching her arms as she tried to get comfortable.
"So, tell me about the new boy that Mihoshi was dragging out of the closet. I don't remember seeing him with you girls before" Nagi said, getting away from talk about Ryoko.

The other girls were all silent, not really sure how to explain Matthews presence at the house in full themselves.
"We don't really know much about him" Mihoshi spoke up "But he's from an alternate reality, which sounds really cool"
"And with some odd twist of fate, it happens to be that Matthew has the same gems that Ryoko uses to fight with" Washu added.
"More gems? I'm surprised Ryoko hasn't tried to nab them for more power" Nagi said, imagining how vicious Ryoko could be.
"Well, my research show that when those gems are used at the same time as Ryoko's gems, she would be able to amplify her powers exponentially. Either way, she could be dangerous if she had the gems here"
"Well" Kiyone said, getting into the conversation "I don't think that Ryoko has been after the gems in a long time Washu"
"Well, I guess your right, but you can never be too careful"


"You ok Matthew?" Tenchi asked as he saw the only other man in the house, laying down on a sofa.
"Ugh… I think Washu may be insane" Matt replied in discomfort.
"Oh, was she experimenting on you? That's Washu alright"
"Anything else I should know about these people"
"Not really, except that Ayeka and Sasami are princess' from Jurai"
"God help me, this is a really weird place"
"Don't worry about it, you get past all the facts, and see the girls for what they are"

Matt shrugged his shoulders, turning over onto his stomach, still a little tired. Tenchi just grinned, knowing he'd get used to it sooner or later.

"Oh, hi Tenchi!" Sasami said cheerfully as she opened up the door, Minagi following behind with a basket of carrots, Ryo-ohki laying on-top of them.
"Hey Sasami" Tenchi replied, walking by them to put his shoes on.
"Oh, could you get some more carrots from the fields? Were getting low in the storage room"
"Yeah, no problem"

Tenchi waved before heading out, closing the door behind him. Sasami and Minagi made their way through to the kitchen as Ryo-Ohki jumped off the basket, with a couple of carrots in tow.
Spotting Ken-Ohki sitting by the window, Ryo-Ohki hopped over to the other cabbit, mewing softly to get his attention.

Hearing a collective group of mews, Matt sat up, noticing the pair of cabbits conversing as they munched away on a carrot each. A moment later, Ryo-Ohki hopped away, before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

"What the?" Matt said, rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
The smoke cleared as quickly as it appeared, leaving a small girl in Ryo-Ohki's place. Ken-Ohki looked at her as well, mewing erratically at her before they both ran towards Washu's lab.

"I need a drink" Matt said to himself, getting up and heading into the kitchen.


"Hmm, how can that woman do so much damage, you'd think that the greatest genius in the universe could keep a galaxy police officer of her lab" Washu muttered to herself, watching some of her inventions moving around the lab, cleaning up the mess from earlier. "Mihoshi will always be one of life's greatest mysteries"

Sighing, she walked through the lab, a small monitor floating beside her.

"Well, at least all my data survived, now lets see what we've got here; seems to be normal, no dives in the metaphysical levels, if it wasn't for those gems, I'd swear he was just an average boy" Washu spoke out as she walked by vast tubes filled with her collection of creatures "Wait a moment" she stopped, looking at a certain part of the charts.
"A relapse in the visual membrane, but its not following his brainwaves; very interesting"

Washu sat down just as her seat phased in behind her, along with her computer. She typed away quickly, matching the data in a few moments.
"Interesting, it has the same pattern as an old piece of visual data, lets have a look"

Bringing up the file, the screen was filled with a black void, the wind could be heard blowing in the background. Someone walked through the darkness, their footsteps being heard on the hard road.

"Where are you going?" Washu spoke out, trying to figure out the location.

The image started to clear as a familiar site came into view, Ryoko's cave could be seen as the person moved forward, heading inside, the screen flickered, loosing the image again as someone could be heard in the background.
"Why do I keep coming here?"

"Well, this is odd, the visual memory is a part of Ryoko's data banks; what is it doing in Matthews memory files? Something else to do with those gems?" Washu wondered, before she began typing up some data, unaware of the two Cabbits making their way over to her.


"Tenchi?" Katsuhito called out as he entered the Masaki house, he thought it was odd that the house had been pretty quiet today, he hadn't heard any explosions, yet, and the house was still in one piece.

"He's working in the fields" Matthew said, back in his position on the sofa, attempting to understand the writing in the Japanese magazines that had been left on the table.
"Oh, I see" the old man replied "So, you are our new guest then? The one that can use Ryoko's gems"
"Yeah, that's right, but I can only use the power that's in my own gems"
"I see, that is interesting" Yosho turned around, making his way back out of the house, deciding to pay Tenchi a visit later.

Matt sighed, putting the magazine down before getting up and heading outside himself.


"So this is what you have as the regulation spacecraft in the galaxy police?" Nagi asked as she walked around Yagami's interior, currently looking at the star drive.
"That's right, they took the original B-class transports from planet Nirkoli and gave them an upgrade for us" Kiyone replied, as she quickly checked the energy levels for the engines.

Mihoshi walked along with Nagi as she continued to walk about the ship, she was enjoying the new company around the house.
"Do you think you'll be staying long Nagi?" Mihoshi asked with a smile on her face.
"Well, I guess I could stay for a few days, I don't have any real goals now that Ryoko isn't on the bounty list anymore" Nagi replied, stopping to look at one of the computers mainframes.
"Oh that's great, I'm sure you'll have lots of fun while you're here"

Kiyone sighed as she walked over to the other girls, listening to Mihoshi as she went on about what they could do while Nagi's here.
"Kiyone?" Nagi spoke up, interrupting Mihoshi.
"Yes"
"Is there anyone after that new guy"
"W-what do you mean?" Kiyone asked, blushing a little at the question.
"Well, Tenchi seems to be the centre of attention to all the girls"
"Except for Kiyone, she doesn't seem to be interested in Tenchi at all" Mihoshi butted in, grinning as Kiyone frowned a little.
"I don't think anyone does, although Minagi may be interested in him, to find out about the alternate version of her" Kiyone said, quickly pushing Mihoshi forward. "Anyway, I'll show you the bridge now"
"But Kiyone!" Mihoshi pleaded, wanting to continue the conversation.
"Later Mihoshi, later"

Nagi grinned, before following the detectives.
"This going to be interesting"


"So, are you sure you want me to do this? I may take a lot of energy from you Ryo-Ohki" Washu asked, looking at the pair of Cabbits as they sat in front of her, a small device above each of them.
"Mreow, Mya!" Ryo-Ohki piped up cheerfully.
"Alright, just sit still"

Washu walked over to one of the terminals, tapping in a few commands before watching Ryo and Ken-Ohki, a little intrigued with how this would turn out herself.
The machines above the Cabbits buzzed to life, glowing with energy before a small beam of light shone down on Ryo-Ohki, drawing out various structure codes and transferring them into Ken-Ohki.

"Mya?" KenOhki mewed to Washu, watching the machine turn off.
"Well, everything seems fine, you'll just have to test it for yourself" Washu replied, pressing a button to make the machine disappear into the floor. "Now, if you excuse me, I have an experiment to perform"


"Where did Ken-Ohki get off to?" Nagi asked, looking around the lounge as Kiyone and Mihoshi followed her inside.
"He was in here a few minutes ago with Ryo-Ohki" Sasami replied from her spot in front of the T.V "I haven't seen either of them since then"
"Alright then, I suppose he wont get lost if he's with Ryo-Ohki"

Nagi sat down on one of the sofa's, relaxing a little before hearing a familiar cry.
"Mya!" a little boy shouted out, jumping onto Nagi's lap, hugging her happily.
"W-wha? Who's this?" Nagi asked, picking the child up off her lap and looking at him.
"Mya!" the boy replied, before pointing to the gem on his forehead.
"K-Ken-Ohki"
"Mroew!" Ken-Ohki nodded, his long grey hair bouncing up and down. He looked just like Ryo-Ohki did, only with grey fur instead of brown, he wore a small pair of shorts and a t-shirt with a carrot on it.
"How did you"
"That would be thanks to me" Washu said.

She walked out from her lab, surveying the room before looking at Nagi.
"It was Ryo-Ohki's idea, she wanted him to have a humanoid form, so I transferred a small portion of her D.N.A into Ken-Ohki" Washu paused as Ryo-Ohki ran over in her humanoid, hopping onto the sofa, next to Nagi. "I think it went quite well"
"Aww, he looks so cute" Mihoshi cooed, picking up Ken-Ohki and hugging him.
"Oh. Let me hold him!" Sasami said, joing the crowd as they surrounded Ken-Ohki.

Washu grinned, before getting down to business.
"Anyway, where's Matthew and my girls?" she asked, seeing how none of them were present.
"I'm just in here Washu" Minagi called out from the kitchen "Matthew went out a little while before Nagi got in"
"Ryoko's probably still in still the onsen, fighting with Ayeka" Kiyone said bluntly, sitting down and watching the T.V.
"Alright, guess I'll look for Matt first, I think I know where he'll be" Washu said, before leaving the house.


Matt stood outside Ryoko's cave, not really sure why he was there.
"I thought this place was just in my dreams; but, how did I know where to find it?" He said to himself, slowly entering the cave. "Don't know why I'm drawn to this place, everything looks ancient"
"There is a reason for everything, you'll find an answer soon enough Matt" Washu said from behind Matt, scaring him a little as he quickly turned around.
"W-where did you come from?" Matt shouted out, pointing at her erratically.
"You'll find that out soon enough, but right now, its getting late, you should get some rest"
"Alright, I suppose I could do with a nap"

Washu grinned, taking Matt's hand and taking him back to the house.
"By the way; have you ever had any visions when you've been wearing those gloves?" Washu asked as they made their way along the forest path.
"No, not really, why do you ask"
"Oh nothing, just thinking about something" Washu said, remembering back to the vision of Tsunami and two other women.


"Hey everyone" Matthew said as he and Washu walked into the living room, seeing everyone else watching T.V.
"Where were you?" Sasami asked, getting up to greet them.
"Nowhere, just looking around"
"Ok, you want anything to eat"
"No thanks, I'm going to call it a night anyway"

Washu walked towards her lab, opening the door quietly.
"I'm going to bed myself, goodnight" She said closing the door behind her.
"Yeah, I guess we should all get some sleep now" Tenchi said, getting up from his spot between Ryoko and Ayeka.
"Um, where am I going to sleep?" Nagi asked, before all the other members of the house looked at each other, knowing they were short on space.


Meanwhile, in the far reaches of space, in her own part of the galaxy, Tokimi watched over the events of the house.
"Well, it seems that my dear sister is becoming aware of her past, I wonder why it came so suddenly?"

She studied the memories of Washu carefully, stopping at one particular point in time.
"Those gems, they must be a key to her past; then perhaps I should make sure that she is drawn to the gems again"
"Should I send 'him' my lady?" D3 said as he appeared, looking at the image of a large man.
"Yes, once he comes in contact with the gems, he should bring Washu into using them herself"


Nagi lay down on one of the sofas, Matt on the couch opposite her.
"Matt? You still awake?" she asked quietly.
"No, get some sleep" he replied, keeping his eyes closed as she looked at him.

She turned onto her side, resting her head on her hand "Do you mind if I ask you a question"
"Shh, sleeping" Matt replied, still laying still.
"Do you think it's a little strange here?"

Matt opened his eyes, glancing at her for a moment, before looking at the ceiling.
"Little may be an understatement" He said bluntly, closing his eyes again "Some of the people here are a little over the top, or mad in some way"
"Yes, I though Ryoko might be nice when you get past the Space-Pirate side of her, but I guess she's just short-tempered no matter what"
"Is that all for now"
"Yes, goodnight Matt"
"Goodnight Nagi"


Authors corner - My lord, these past 2 months were tough, writers block, work, training courses and lack of computer use.
Damns his brother and his love of Ragnorok

Expect to see our first real enemy in the next update, whenever that is at the moment.

Couple of reviews this week.
Laughing - Glad your enjoying it so far, its nice to get a complement on my attempts at having a laugh.
Hagancameron - Again, glad you like the story, I am trying to make the chapters longer, but I cant say anything on relationships just yet.

Well, till next time peeps! Keep on watching for an update in the, hopefully, near-future!