Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Tenchi Muyo or any Tenchi related series and plots. All I own that deals with Tenchi Muyo are a few lovely mangas, some Ryoko pics, and this fanfic which is the result of my imagination. I am not making any money from this. I do this only to entertain. I also do this for those of the Ryoko+Hotsuma legion.
A/N: Why didn't anyone tell me I was spelling Ryo-ohki wrong!!!
Chapter Two Remembrance.
Ryoko, ridden with pain from the attack hissed through her teeth as she finally lost consciousness.
"Lil' Washu." Hotsuma looked towards Washu after Ryoko had gone still in his arms.
"Bring her into the lab. I'll put up a security field to assure no farther attacks tonight." Washu said typing on her transparent computer.
Hotsuma was lost to what had just happened. All he knew Ryoko's maternal instinct told her that her children were in danger and even then it was too late to save them. His mind riddled him with who the floating woman was. With the way she moved and spoke he could have sworn that she was a ghost of some sort. But what connection did she have to Ryoko? What could Ryoko have done to her in the past that she would seek vengeance by kidnapping their children just for a fight?
Hotsuma shook his head reaching no other conclusion then that whoever that woman was she wanted Ryoko to suffer for what had happened to her.
Ryoko stirred in her sleep. "Yosho, Akira, my little oni." she mumbled wincing in pain.
Hotsuma laid Ryoko down on the couch, knowing it was better than the lab. "Ryoko." He whispered smoothing back her hair to kiss her forehead.
Sasami walked over the Hotsuma holding the healing Ryo-ohki. "Hotsuma what are you going to do?" Sasami asked worried about Ryoko's health.
"I don't know." Hotsuma said worrying about his children and wife. Someone was who knows where with his children threatening their lives unless their mother found them and fought them.
"First we find out who this woman is. And the only person who knows is Ryoko." Washu said pointing at the healing Ryoko.
"Mihoshi and I will report to Galaxy police headquarters about the kidnapping." Kiyone said heading towards Washu's lab.
"No," Ryoko grunted trying to sit up. "Galaxy Police won't be of much help. Suzuka won't be taken down that easily."
Hotsuma forced Ryoko to lay back down on the cushions. "You need to rest." Hotsuma said firmly.
"Ryoko what do you mean GXP won't be of any help?" Kiyone asked.
"Suzuka...Suzuka can't be caught." Ryoko said.
"No Ryoko needs to get her rest. We'll ask questions once she wakes up." Hotsuma said pulling Ryoko into his arms. "Lil' Washu, is my room still in the lab?" Hotsuma asked.
Washu only nodded as she tried to figure out what to do. With no other words said Hotsuma walked Ryoko into the lab.
***
Katsuhito had been told the news of the twins' kidnapping from Tenchi and a distraught Ayeka. He had been wondering around the house when he heard something from one of the upstairs rooms. Careful not to wake anyone he made his way up the stairs. Upstairs he could see a small ray of artificial light seeping through the cracked door of the twins' bedroom. With ease he silently opened the door to see Ryoko sitting on the floor with her head resting against the wall. Beside her sat a bottle of saki.
"I should have known this would happen." Ryoko said taking a drink directly from the bottle.
Katsuhito was at first unsure if the statement had been directed towards him, but then he remembered who he was looking at. "You nor I could have prevented this." Katsuhito said sitting down beside her.
"Don't give me that old man." Ryoko said narrowing her eyes on him.
"So you know." Katsuhito said in a youthful voice.
"It's my gems that is keeping you young. Besides you've got to have some sort of intellect when your the daughter of the universe's greatest genius." Ryoko said bitterly. "Don't worry no one else knows, not even Washu." Ryoko said.
"I thank you for not telling." He said with sincerity.
"Why would I? It'll be good for a few laughs but that's it." Ryoko said taking another drink.
"Ryoko what are you going to do now?" Katsuhito asked changing his voice back.
"I'm going to find my children and get them home where they're safe." Ryoko said plain and simple.
"She intends to kill you." Katsuhito said.
Ryoko smiled and closed her eyes. "I know. But I'll do anything for my children." Held up the bottle to her eyelevel. "Do you know this is the first time I had a drink since I've had the twins? I mean drinking just for drinking, not to celebrate. Having a family of your own really changes you."
"Ryoko if you need any help you have a houseful of people waiting for you to ask." Katsuhito said standing.
Ryoko did not move, she only recapped the bottle and sighed. "Thank you for the offer." She said aloud. Knowing Suzuka's power I'm going to need it. She thought to herself.
***
The sun had not even risen when everyone began to gather at the table.
"I'm sorry guys I'm not in the mood to cook." Sasami said as she seated herself beside the depressed Yugi..
"I understand Sasami." Ayeka said.
"We all do." Tenchi said looking down at the bare table.
Hotsuma and Washu walked from the lab with worried looks on their faces. "Has anyone seen Ryoko?" Washu asked. Everyone shook their heads 'no'.
"Don't worry mom I'm here." Ryoko's voice said just before she phased into sight.
Everyone watched in silence as Ryoko walked into the kitchen and made herself a cup of tea. "Does any body else want some?" She asked holding up the pot of hot water. Everyone nodded realizing that they needed it.
Everyone sipped their tea in silence until Mihoshi looked around and asked. "Ryoko where are the twins?"
Kiyone was ready to pound Mihoshi when Ryoko answered. "Waiting for us to rescue them."
Ryoko's reply had sparked the conversation everyone was holding back in hopes of sparing Ryoko's feelings.
"Who is Suzuka, Ryoko?" Tenchi asked.
Ryoko did not answer, she only took a slow sip of her tea then sat her cup down. "Suzuka, I hadn't been expecting her at all." She said with a look in her eyes that was almost gentle. "I met her a long time ago when I was under Kagato's control..."
***long flashback***
Ryoko was bent on one knee before in Kagato her battle suit awaiting his newest orders. Aboard the Soja it was cold in a way that one could be drenched with sweat yet they still felt as if they were in the midst of winter. Kagato was in the conclusion of another one of his organ recitations and didn't give Ryoko one hint of notice. Ryoko had heard the music before, she knew when it would rise and fall, where Kagato had modified it from the last time and she knew exactly when it would end.
Kagato moved away from his organ the last note still rumbling throughout the room. "Ryoko." Kagato said approaching her. "Be a good machine and retrieve a special sphere called the Heaven's Tear, from planet Amil in the sol Mordoc." Kagato said showing Ryoko an image of a small crystal like orb. It wasn't Ryoko's place to ask what the sphere did but she knew that the ancient orb must do something that would give Kagato more power of some sort; that or it was just another thing he was adding to his collection.
Ryoko committed to memory the Heaven's Tear and the place where it was.
With a nod and a bow she walked to Ryo-ohki. "Ready Ryo-ohki?" She asked standing at the controls.
Ready. Ryo-ohki replied flying away from space. It pained Ryoko to know that this was the only way she could get away from Kagato but what was worse was that she always returned.
The journey took two standard solar days until Ryo-ohki hovered beside the planet's second moon. Wait Ryo-ohki. We must wait. Ryoko said to Ryo-ohki as she stood on Ryo-ohki's bridge with her arms folded over her chest, a plan of attack had already formed in her mind.
***
Ryoko had tired of the direct approach of flying into a place firing at anything that moved. She had a little more fun doing things slowly, letting the people gradually realize that they were in the presents of the most feared pirate in the universe. The native people gave Ryoko side ways glances when she suddenly appeared in her teal and pink kimono. Ryoko looked around and first noticed that all of the people were quite pale as if they had been lacking in sunlight. But at least they had different hair colors, all of which were deep and bold. Different eye colors stared as Ryoko made her way towards a large temple.
Inside the temple Ryoko found it to look quite picturesque, the walls painted with a scene of a group of people finding the Heaven's Tear. Around each corner was a fire lamp burning openly and full without anyone caring to watch over it. The floors were smooth as if it had been made of glass. And the walls that weren't painted where made of something made like gray marble.
"Can I help you my child?" A young man said walking towards Ryoko.
"I'm older than you are so cut the 'my child' crap." Ryoko said. "I'm interested in the Heaven's Tear."
"Ah yes come with me." He said leading Ryoko down a long bright hallway.
Ryoko listened as the only sound she could hear were their footsteps. "Why is it so quiet here?" Ryoko asked.
"To tell you the truth I think everyone is silent because of you. You aren't from this world are you?" The young man asked.
"No." Ryoko said as young woman physically older than Ryoko with long blue hair and ice blue eyes walked by her.
The man stopped before a large curved opening. "It's right down that hall." He said bowing. Ryoko walked ahead.
They came into a oval shaped room with six black marble pillars connecting the ceiling to the floor. The room was unusually bright considering that their were no windows, then Ryoko figured that the light wasn't coming from outside but from something within. In the center of the room was a podium with a florescent white orb floating in the center. Ryoko was too stunned by the magnificence of the Heaven's Tear to speak.
"May I ask, what interest do you have in the Heaven's Tear?" He asked.
Ryoko snapped back into reality. She had almost forgotten the reason why she had come in the first place. "I intend to steal it." Ryoko said swinging her elbow into the man's chest. With a grunt he stumbled backwards. Ryoko kicked out her leg knocking him onto his back and into unconsciousness.
Ryo-ohki, do it now. Ryoko sent her thoughts to her fellow space pirate.
The temple shook as Ryo-ohki fired down around the temple chasing everyone out screaming.
Ryoko reached out for the orb but stopped when it emitted a strange glow. "What's this?" She asked no one. All the color of the stone room changed. Everything else seemed to have changed along with the color. Everything seemed to have slowed down to a near stop. Everything was already quiet but now there was total silence. She could hear the breaths she took and her blood rushing with adrenaline. But the sound that worried her was the sound of her heartbeat growing farther and farther apart. It felt as if she were in some sort of lazy dream, floating. Floating in vast stillness.
"Ryoko." A sexless voice echoing with different pitches said. "I am the Heaven's Tear, I will grant power to any who assimilate me. But my power can never be ill used. Those who use my power for unjust deeds will be consumed by their own darkness, so says my divinations."
"If I hand your power over to Kagato..." Ryoko let the words hang.
"His evil shall grow until it kills him." The Heaven's Tear said.
"You mentioned something about divination, you can predict the future." Ryoko said.
"The each path we chose constantly changes the future." The Heaven's Tear replied. The room suddenly returned to normal, forcing Ryoko to blink so that her eyes could readjust. Slowly Ryoko pulled her hand away from the stone. I could tell Kagato that the orb was a sham. But it will take a lot of work to shut down these memories and replace them with false ones within two days. Ryoko puzzled over the situation careful not to think too loudly or Kagato will pick them up over the gems.
Unknown to Ryoko a young woman was hiding behind one of the large marble pillars. She quickly ran from her hiding place and slammed her shoulder into the space pirate's back.
"Ah!" Ryoko cried out as she fell face first onto the floor.
The girl quickly ran over to the Heaven's Tear and held it in her hands. "You're never getting your hands on this. You should have took it when you had the chance." She spat at Ryoko.
"Of all the dirty...hitting me while my back was turned." Ryoko mumbled standing up. She looked onto her attacker to see it was the blue haired woman she had seen in the hall.
"You destroyed my village, my family for this." She said shaking the orb in her hands. "I don't see any better fitting punishment then for you to be destroyed by the very power you sought." She said bringing the orb to her chest.
"No you can't! You can't use the Tear like that." Ryoko tried to warn the vengeful woman but too late, the sphere was already seeping into the woman's chest.
But not before it spoke. "Suzuka. Suzuka you wish to use my power for malevolence. Darkness shall one day consume you." It said once again in it's echoic voice as it disappeared into Suzuka.
As soon as the Heaven's Tear had disappeared with Suzuka her body began to quiver and glow as the orb had been glowing. She wrapped her arms around herself as she slowly sank to her knees groaning in pain. "What's happening to me?" She asked watching as her already pale skin became whiter. "You've done this to me Ryoko! Destroying my family and village wasn't enough you had to do this to me as well!" Suzuka yelled her ice blue eyes staring accusingly at Ryoko.
Ryoko gasped in surprise as the blue in Suzuka's eyes were changing red. It was like blood had fell into her eyes, but it only took over her iris.
Suzuka slowly stood to her feet once the pain had ebbed. There was something about her that worried Ryoko about the woman. Something that promised trouble. Suzuka laughed in her throat at the look on Ryoko's face. "The Heaven's Tear and I are now one." She smiled approaching Ryoko.
Ryoko created her energy saber and held it near Suzuka's throat. "Hold about I cut you in half? Then there'll be two of you again."
Ryoko Galaxy Police are on their way. Ryo-ohki announced to Ryoko.
Ryoko quickly turned her attention from Suzuka and quickly blasted a hole into the wall. "I'd love to stay and play silly little games with you but I have to go now." Ryoko said flying out the door she had made.
Ryoko was almost into the sky when something grabbed her ankle and flung her downwards. Quickly Ryoko found her balance and flew back into the air. "Hey!" Ryoko yelled when she noticed it was Suzuka who had grabbed her. "What do you think you're doing?" Realizing Suzuka had gained the ability of flight.
"You will fight me Ryoko!" Suzuka said.
"You aren't fully attuned with the Heaven's Tear yet. You don't even know the full potential of your new powers yet." Ryoko said. "But if you insist!" Ryoko's hands glowed as her prepared to fire.
As hard as she tried Suzuka was barely able to strike back at Ryoko though she was able to dodge her blows.
"If you want to beat me you'll have to do better." Suzuka said.
Ryoko smiled. "If you wish." She said swinging back her arm then punching Suzuka in her ribs then face. "But the funny thing is I don't want to fight you." Ryoko said summoning her sword.
Ryoko swung the sword over her head as she charged for Suzuka. Suzuka moved back and over to the side as Ryoko brought down the sword.
Ryoko let down her sword. "Why did you move into that blow?" She asked Suzuka.
Suzuka wiped the orange blood from her cheek with the back of her hand. "Because that will be the only mark you will ever leave on me."
Ryoko chuckled in her throat then her eyes snapped wide open as she fired at Suzuka. Launching her onto the ground.
"You're pride will be the end of you one day." Ryoko said flying towards the sky. With one last look at Suzuka she teleported herself aboard Ryo-ohki.
"I'll make you pay Ryoko! You hear me? One day I will make you suffer for what you have done to me!" Suzuka yelled into the air.
**Back to the present***
"From time to time I heard of Suzuka's progress in the universe and her promise to one day make a dreaded space pirate suffer as she had caused her to suffer. And last night was just the beginning of Suzuka's vengeance on me." Ryoko said.
"Ryoko why didn't you tell us about her before?" Hotsuma asked.
"I had forgot about her. I thought that by now she would have long since forgotten about me." Ryoko said looking down on her now cold cup of tea. "Guys I'm going to need each and everyone's help in getting my children back home." Ryoko said thus beginning a new adventure for the Misaki family.
End chapter 2
Everyone's doing what they can to find the twins, legally and illegally. Find out what happens time on Most dangerous creature...