It has now been about an hour since the girls separated from Ranma and Kurama. Kurama and Ranma since then have also split up to cover more ground when they found a fork in the hall ways. Nabiki meanwhile had found a way to light her path. She lowered the strength of her pack when she found a something that looked like a place where a torch would be place in order to light other torches along a path. And since then she has found out that there was some blank walls in the temple. She figured that was so that new nations could add their signatures to the contract over time.
Kurama had found a staircase to reach to the lower level where he had found out where Shampoo landed. He only knew this cause he found ripped pieces of her uniform and strands of her hair. He then decided to follow her steps so that he could find her. Ranma on the other hand had found a large multiple level room. And from the looks of it the room was the main chamber. And so he jumped down to the main level just in time to see a row of what looked like gunpowder light multiple lanterns along the wall and Nabiki following it. "Nabiki?"
"Ranma? Wow so I guess we are in the right place." Nabiki answers Ranma as she walks into the chamber from a narrow hallway. After that they heard a scream and saw Shampoo jump into the chamber followed by Kurama and a giant bolder that rolled into the main chamber and then down into the pit that was in the exact center of the room.
"Well it looks like everyone is here. And that the room is well lit as well." Kurama states as he turns off his goggles and looks around the chamber noticing that more lanterns were still being lit all over the temple.
"So what now?" Shampoo asks she gets up from her position on the ground from her bad landing.
"We try to get the head ghost of this place to show up so that way we can get the hell out of here." Ranma says as he looks around hoping for said ghost to show up.
"...Show up damn it!" Ranma shouts in frustration as he wanted to get out of the temple already.
Nabiki shook her head with a smile on her face at Ranma's antics. Sure she wanted to leave as well but pissing off a ghost wasn't a good idea. At least in her book and that usually means it's a bad idea in anyone's book.
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"Akane do you even know where you're going?" Ukyo asks as she steps up onto the platform that they finally reached so that she could sit down and rest her feet from the climb down the tunnel.
"Of course I do! I'm heading to where the ghost is!" Akane shouts as she starts walking down the tunnel just to have Yusuke yank her up and onto the platform. Now furious at Yusuke Akane starts to stomp towards him but Hiei stops her and says, "The ghost is down there. We still have to go deeper. The service stairway to the tunnel below us should be able to get us there."
"Arg damn it! I want to go home already! I have class tomorrow and a test to study for." Akane screeches in frustration.
"Yeah yeah, we heard you when we were above ground. Now lets get going." Yusuke says as he noticed that Ukyo was done resting her feet.
He opens the door to the service stairway and leads the group down the stairs wanting to get this job done and over with. Ukyo right behind him starts cursing the inventor of stairs and the person who decided that it could be better to put stairs there and not an elevator. Hiei didn't care and was making sure that Akane did jump down the flight of stairs. He didn't want to deal with an angry Ranma if Akane were to get hurt.
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"Ranma can you stop provoking the spirits of the temple?" asks Nabiki as Ranma has had just finished insulting the spirit in anyway that he could.
After a while he finally got a response from a ghost. An unusual ghost for them as it had lots of vines and flowers and ... a giant head?
"That looks like the thing from the movie "Little Shop of Horrors". Why does it look like that thing?" Nabiki asks no one in particular. Which got Kurama to snap his fingers as he was trying to remember the name of the movie he was thinking of when he saw the ghost. And well Nabiki just answered his unheard question for him.
"You pests are annoying. I think I'm going to enjoy eating you and your souls." The creature interrupts launching a vine at Shampoo.
Jumping away from the attack Shampoo shouts, "Aiya! Shampoo is no food for plants!" in annoyance and anger. How dare a plant think of her as food?
"Alright buddy. You had your fun. Now it's time for you to go away. And these unlicenced nuclear accelerators that will be temporarily known as your weed whacker for today." Ranma announces as he charges his pack along with Nabiki and Kurama.
The plant gulps and says, "Now just wait a minute..."
Shampoo then fired off a blast and stared to chase it towards the others so they could get it as well. They wanted to get this done and over with. And that meant not letting the creature do much at all. Now only if they were to remember that when the destroyed or captured the ghost that haunted an area that their affected territory would return to normal and in a place like the temple that could mean it going away if it was a creation of the super natural.
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"Akane calm down! It's not going anywhere. You somehow melded the damn thing to the train. Now we can trap it and get out of here." Yusuke says as he grabs Akane as she tried to blast the small creature that once resembled Slimer.
Ukyo scratches the top of her head and says, "Shouldn't of this thing be stronger? And don't we have to destroy it in order to get the tablet piece that we know it has?"
"Not this time. It dropped that when Akane started to make the thing apart of the train. So we'll just trap it and be gone." Yusuke answers as Hiei laid the trap down under the ghost and trapped it while they all on instinct looked away from the blinding light the trap produced when it opened.
"Good riddance. Now we can go home." Akane declares as she heads to the staircase they used to get to the lower tunnel.
"Should we worry that the transit system will come looking for us seeing as how their train now has a giant hole in it?" Ukyo as she was helped up onto the platform by Yusuke.
"I hope we don't have to. That would be an expensive collateral damages fee." Yusuke answers
"Fn. Let's just go already." Hiei interrupts walking past them with the trap in hand.
Yusuke and Ukyo just shrug their shoulders as the follow and head out to collect their pay.
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Ranma, Nabiki, Shampoo, Kurama and Briana were now standing in the middle of an island that no longer showed any signs of a temple being there except for the unusual shape of the area that had no signs of life. "Okay so that was something I wasn't expecting. The entire temple is gone and now we have a new piece to the tablet back home. A few pieces actually. And no shelter from the storm. Now that I remember that." says Ranma as he looked around them.
"Who says we go home and act like the temple was never hear? Who is going to believe us about it anyway besides those within our group?" Nabiki asks everyone.
"Shampoo agree. Shampoo will just act like this was a bad dream." Shampoo answers.
"I'll go along with that." Ranma answers for himself.
Kurama nods and says, "This would be very difficult to prove that the temple was even there. So I agree to this idea."
"Briana?" Nabiki asks as she looks to the one who was researching the site to begin with.
Briana began to cry and says, "My research is ruined. No one would believe me now. I have no choice but to agree."
"Good. Then lets get home before it rains again." Nabiki replies with everyone following her so that they could finally get off the accursed island they were on at the moment.
