Tsuki no Tragedy - Chapter 3
By: Ryoko-chan
Disclaimer: The Tenchi Muyo! series and characters belong to Pioneer Entertainment, AIC, TV Tokyo, and a bunch of other people who never get mentioned in disclaimers. I don't own them or claim to.
~ Chapter 3 ~
Ryoko opened her eyes slowly, it was the only part of her she could move. She was in a white room; standing upright, or at least she was being held upright by the heavy restraints on her arms, legs, neck and across her stomach. She couldn't teleport and she could barely see. All her strength was gone.
"I see you've finally awakened." A deep voice said in her ear.
She tried to turn her head to see who was keeping her there, but she either couldn't, or she didn't have the energy. She couldn't tell which.
"What do you want? Who are you? What did you do with Tenchi?" She asked, her mind and vision clearing more as she spoke.
A tall man stepped into her vision. A man taller than she had ever seen. He had his long silver hair tied back and he stared at her with eyes so pale they looked white. He had an amused expression on his face.
"The crown prince of Jurai is with the others. As for who I am, I am Jiro. I think that's all you really need to know right now." He said, smiling politely.
"You're the one who took Washu and the others! What do you want with them?" She asked, now being able to function normally, at least orally.
"I don't want anything with them, Ryoko. You're the one I want." He said, stepping toward her.
It was only then that she noticed her lack of clothing. She rolled her eyes. This seemed to happen every time she was taken prisoner. It was rather annoying.
"Why do you want me?" She asked, testing the restraints.
"You won't be able to get out of those. I know your capabilities. I'm not about to make it so easy for you to get away from me. Not after two thousand years." Jiro said, walking out of Ryoko's vision again.
"Answer my question!" She screamed at him.
Quickly he stepped in front of her again.
"Who are you to ask questions of me?"
"Who are you to keep me here?" She countered. "What do you want?!"
"Don't concern yourself with that right now, Ryoko. Just go back to sleep, there will be plenty of time to explain later." He said.
Ryoko suddenly felt a sharp prick in her shoulder and things started to become hazy again. Her energy, what little of it she had gathered while she was conscious, drained faster than it had come to her and everything went black.
******
"Tenchi! Tenchi wake up!" Sasami shook the young man's shoulder. "C'mon Tenchi..."
Slowly Tenchi opened his eyes and found Washu, Aeka, Sasami, his father, and grandfather gazing down at him.
"Thank goodness! We were starting to wonder if you'd ever wake up." Aeka said.
"Where am I?" He asked, sitting up slowly.
"We are somewhere in subspace. I couldn't tell you where." Washu said, leaning back against the invisible wall.
"We're so glad to see you Tenchi. Its been so long. We were wondering if you'd even realize we were gone." Aeka said.
"Where's Ryoko?" Tenchi asked, suddenly realizing that she wasn't there.
Aeka glanced at Washu, leaving it to the small genius to explain.
"Jiro has her right now, Tenchi."
"Jiro? That's the name the thing that attacked us said. Why does he have Ryoko? Is she all right?"
"He has Ryoko because he wants her power. He wants her gems." Washu said.
"All four of the gems." Aeka interrupted.
"Four? I thought she only had three gems. 'Three gems for power,' that was the legend." Tenchi said, remembering the stories he had been told about the demon in the cave and its source of power. If he had only known what freeing Ryoko would bring...
"The three gems give her power, Tenchi. You've seen it. The fourth gem sustains her life. I believe that's why she had a reaction the way she did when she had all of the gems together again after such a long time."
"Why would he want these gems?"
"Because of their power, Tenchi. They can be controlled easily. Its a manipulative power Jiro is after. Unfortunately he knows so much about Ryoko's power, he knows every way to prevent her from using it."
"What is he going to do, Washu? You sound like you know what he has planned."
"He plans to use Ryoko to have his own creation. A warrior he plans to conquer the universe with. He is going to try to take all of Ryoko's gems and then copy her genetic make-up."
"All of her gems? But she doesn't have all of her gems." Tenchi said, holding up the Master Key with two of Ryoko's gems embedded in the handle. "She never wanted the other two back."
"Good...that should buy us sometime then. Although I'm pretty sure that Jiro knows about the Master Key. Otherwise he wouldn't have drawn you in along with her."
"Unless he was using Tenchi from the beginning to get her here by taking us. He knew she would follow him." Sasami chimed in suddenly.
Washu smiled at the girl's input.
"That actually seems more likely, and more hopeful for us." She said.
"Either way, we can't get out of here, Washu." Aeka said.
"Now that we have Tenchi here, we might actually be able to leave." Washu said, reaching into her shirt and withdrawing six gems identical to Ryoko's gems.
"What are those, Washu?" Sasami asked. "They look like Ryoko's gems."
"They are, essentially. They're exactly the same. They hold the same power. There are ten gems total. Ryoko has two, Tenchi has two, and I have the other six. These were from Kagato's ship, Souja and Ryo-Ohki. When these combine they have the ability of generating power beyond explanation."
"What is this power, Washu?" Tenchi asked.
"The Ten Wings of the Light Hawk." Katsuhito, Tenchi's grandfather, spoke up.
They all looked from Washu to Katsuhito and back to Washu again.
"The Light Hawk Wings? How is that possible? I thought only Tsunami could generate all ten." Aeka said.
"There are three powers in the Universe that can create the Light Hawk Wings, Aeka. Tsunami is only one of them. The other is Tokimi. The third is the possessor of these gems which are already assimilated in the others. These gems were once mine." Washu said, looking at the six gems she held in the palm of her hand.
"What?" Everyone asked in unison, astonished.
"Twenty-thousand years ago, after I lost my husband and baby, I discovered a way to remove the ability to generate the Wings from my body. I thought that taking away this power would kill me. That I would no longer be immortal as I had been all my millennia of existence. I can't tell you when I was born, and I don't know if I will ever die.
"Once I realized that removing these from my body didn't make me mortal, I started to create carriers for these gems. Each drawing the power from the gems for their own reasons. I created the Souja with four, Ryoko with four, and Ryo-Ohki with two. None of Ryo-Ohki's gems were life sustaining as Ryoko's are.
"I didn't know it at the time, but removing the gems from me completely destroyed my memory from before that time. After Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki were created, I was locked away for so long. I had no exposure to the gems except for the gems on Souja, and while in the mirror dimension, there was no effect on me.
"Once Mihoshi released me and Tenchi defeated Kagato, I started to recall my past. All of the gems were in one place. Over time I remembered my husband and my baby. I slowly started to remember my past...all of it. I know what I am, I know what Tokimi and Tsunami are. They are my sisters, destined to rule over all corners of the Multiverse. The many dimensions."
Everyone sat quietly at Washu explained the origin of these ten gems. Nobody knew what to say.
"Miao, miao, miao." They heard suddenly.
"Ryo-Ohki!" Sasami said happily.
"Miao!" Ryo-Ohki mewed.
"Is there anyway Ryo-Ohki can help get us out of here?" Sasami asked.
Washu sat quietly for a moment.
"Maybe there is. Ryo-Ohki, try to phase through the outer barrier of this cell."
After two or three attempts, Ryo-Ohki finally made it through the barrier.
"Perfect!" Washu said.
Everyone else just stared at her.
"Now what do we do? Ryo-Ohki is stuck in here with us now." Nobuyuki spoke up.
"No, she isn't. She got through the barrier once, she can do it again and, like Ryoko, if she is phasing through an object when someone is touching her, they phase through the object as well."
"So Ryo-Ohki can get us out of here."
"Yep!"
"Miao!"
*****
"Ryoko, if you only knew what you were contributing to, you would be so glad. You will be part of my conquest of the universe."
"I don't want to be a part of it. I want to take my friends and go back to my life." She said, still resisting against the restraints.
"I'm sorry, Ryoko. This is too important to me. And it is a shame that I will have to destroy such a lovely...figure as yourself." He said, his eyes moving slowly over Ryoko's body.
"Get a life, you pervert." She said, disgusted.
Jiro tugged his silver ponytail out of his collar and sighed.
"You're so difficult. You're as brash as Washu. It's a shame she transferred her attitude into you. You'd be likable otherwise."
"Shut up, you bastard and let me go!" She screamed.
"Ryoko, stop it." He said calmly, slapping her across the face.
She stopped and glared at him.
Suddenly the table she was restrained to started to move backward until Ryoko was in a prone position, now staring at the ceiling.
"I have to locate these gems of yours, Ryoko. Stay still." He said, flipping a switch on a large machine.
A large arm moved away from the machine and settled itself on Ryoko's forehead and slowly moved down her body, scanning for the source of her power. Once it was finished, the table and Ryoko were moved back to the vertical position they were in first.
"Dammit. Where are your other two gems?"
"What are you talking about? I only have three. I told you this before." She said.
"You have four gems, you idiot! How else would you be able to function without the other three?! My god, you know nothing about yourself. This is pathetic! Tell me where those other two gems are now!"
"I don't know!" She shouted back.
Jiro suddenly grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her face closer to his.
"You better remember or you *and* your friends die."
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*End Chapter 3*
By: Ryoko-chan
Disclaimer: The Tenchi Muyo! series and characters belong to Pioneer Entertainment, AIC, TV Tokyo, and a bunch of other people who never get mentioned in disclaimers. I don't own them or claim to.
~ Chapter 3 ~
Ryoko opened her eyes slowly, it was the only part of her she could move. She was in a white room; standing upright, or at least she was being held upright by the heavy restraints on her arms, legs, neck and across her stomach. She couldn't teleport and she could barely see. All her strength was gone.
"I see you've finally awakened." A deep voice said in her ear.
She tried to turn her head to see who was keeping her there, but she either couldn't, or she didn't have the energy. She couldn't tell which.
"What do you want? Who are you? What did you do with Tenchi?" She asked, her mind and vision clearing more as she spoke.
A tall man stepped into her vision. A man taller than she had ever seen. He had his long silver hair tied back and he stared at her with eyes so pale they looked white. He had an amused expression on his face.
"The crown prince of Jurai is with the others. As for who I am, I am Jiro. I think that's all you really need to know right now." He said, smiling politely.
"You're the one who took Washu and the others! What do you want with them?" She asked, now being able to function normally, at least orally.
"I don't want anything with them, Ryoko. You're the one I want." He said, stepping toward her.
It was only then that she noticed her lack of clothing. She rolled her eyes. This seemed to happen every time she was taken prisoner. It was rather annoying.
"Why do you want me?" She asked, testing the restraints.
"You won't be able to get out of those. I know your capabilities. I'm not about to make it so easy for you to get away from me. Not after two thousand years." Jiro said, walking out of Ryoko's vision again.
"Answer my question!" She screamed at him.
Quickly he stepped in front of her again.
"Who are you to ask questions of me?"
"Who are you to keep me here?" She countered. "What do you want?!"
"Don't concern yourself with that right now, Ryoko. Just go back to sleep, there will be plenty of time to explain later." He said.
Ryoko suddenly felt a sharp prick in her shoulder and things started to become hazy again. Her energy, what little of it she had gathered while she was conscious, drained faster than it had come to her and everything went black.
******
"Tenchi! Tenchi wake up!" Sasami shook the young man's shoulder. "C'mon Tenchi..."
Slowly Tenchi opened his eyes and found Washu, Aeka, Sasami, his father, and grandfather gazing down at him.
"Thank goodness! We were starting to wonder if you'd ever wake up." Aeka said.
"Where am I?" He asked, sitting up slowly.
"We are somewhere in subspace. I couldn't tell you where." Washu said, leaning back against the invisible wall.
"We're so glad to see you Tenchi. Its been so long. We were wondering if you'd even realize we were gone." Aeka said.
"Where's Ryoko?" Tenchi asked, suddenly realizing that she wasn't there.
Aeka glanced at Washu, leaving it to the small genius to explain.
"Jiro has her right now, Tenchi."
"Jiro? That's the name the thing that attacked us said. Why does he have Ryoko? Is she all right?"
"He has Ryoko because he wants her power. He wants her gems." Washu said.
"All four of the gems." Aeka interrupted.
"Four? I thought she only had three gems. 'Three gems for power,' that was the legend." Tenchi said, remembering the stories he had been told about the demon in the cave and its source of power. If he had only known what freeing Ryoko would bring...
"The three gems give her power, Tenchi. You've seen it. The fourth gem sustains her life. I believe that's why she had a reaction the way she did when she had all of the gems together again after such a long time."
"Why would he want these gems?"
"Because of their power, Tenchi. They can be controlled easily. Its a manipulative power Jiro is after. Unfortunately he knows so much about Ryoko's power, he knows every way to prevent her from using it."
"What is he going to do, Washu? You sound like you know what he has planned."
"He plans to use Ryoko to have his own creation. A warrior he plans to conquer the universe with. He is going to try to take all of Ryoko's gems and then copy her genetic make-up."
"All of her gems? But she doesn't have all of her gems." Tenchi said, holding up the Master Key with two of Ryoko's gems embedded in the handle. "She never wanted the other two back."
"Good...that should buy us sometime then. Although I'm pretty sure that Jiro knows about the Master Key. Otherwise he wouldn't have drawn you in along with her."
"Unless he was using Tenchi from the beginning to get her here by taking us. He knew she would follow him." Sasami chimed in suddenly.
Washu smiled at the girl's input.
"That actually seems more likely, and more hopeful for us." She said.
"Either way, we can't get out of here, Washu." Aeka said.
"Now that we have Tenchi here, we might actually be able to leave." Washu said, reaching into her shirt and withdrawing six gems identical to Ryoko's gems.
"What are those, Washu?" Sasami asked. "They look like Ryoko's gems."
"They are, essentially. They're exactly the same. They hold the same power. There are ten gems total. Ryoko has two, Tenchi has two, and I have the other six. These were from Kagato's ship, Souja and Ryo-Ohki. When these combine they have the ability of generating power beyond explanation."
"What is this power, Washu?" Tenchi asked.
"The Ten Wings of the Light Hawk." Katsuhito, Tenchi's grandfather, spoke up.
They all looked from Washu to Katsuhito and back to Washu again.
"The Light Hawk Wings? How is that possible? I thought only Tsunami could generate all ten." Aeka said.
"There are three powers in the Universe that can create the Light Hawk Wings, Aeka. Tsunami is only one of them. The other is Tokimi. The third is the possessor of these gems which are already assimilated in the others. These gems were once mine." Washu said, looking at the six gems she held in the palm of her hand.
"What?" Everyone asked in unison, astonished.
"Twenty-thousand years ago, after I lost my husband and baby, I discovered a way to remove the ability to generate the Wings from my body. I thought that taking away this power would kill me. That I would no longer be immortal as I had been all my millennia of existence. I can't tell you when I was born, and I don't know if I will ever die.
"Once I realized that removing these from my body didn't make me mortal, I started to create carriers for these gems. Each drawing the power from the gems for their own reasons. I created the Souja with four, Ryoko with four, and Ryo-Ohki with two. None of Ryo-Ohki's gems were life sustaining as Ryoko's are.
"I didn't know it at the time, but removing the gems from me completely destroyed my memory from before that time. After Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki were created, I was locked away for so long. I had no exposure to the gems except for the gems on Souja, and while in the mirror dimension, there was no effect on me.
"Once Mihoshi released me and Tenchi defeated Kagato, I started to recall my past. All of the gems were in one place. Over time I remembered my husband and my baby. I slowly started to remember my past...all of it. I know what I am, I know what Tokimi and Tsunami are. They are my sisters, destined to rule over all corners of the Multiverse. The many dimensions."
Everyone sat quietly at Washu explained the origin of these ten gems. Nobody knew what to say.
"Miao, miao, miao." They heard suddenly.
"Ryo-Ohki!" Sasami said happily.
"Miao!" Ryo-Ohki mewed.
"Is there anyway Ryo-Ohki can help get us out of here?" Sasami asked.
Washu sat quietly for a moment.
"Maybe there is. Ryo-Ohki, try to phase through the outer barrier of this cell."
After two or three attempts, Ryo-Ohki finally made it through the barrier.
"Perfect!" Washu said.
Everyone else just stared at her.
"Now what do we do? Ryo-Ohki is stuck in here with us now." Nobuyuki spoke up.
"No, she isn't. She got through the barrier once, she can do it again and, like Ryoko, if she is phasing through an object when someone is touching her, they phase through the object as well."
"So Ryo-Ohki can get us out of here."
"Yep!"
"Miao!"
*****
"Ryoko, if you only knew what you were contributing to, you would be so glad. You will be part of my conquest of the universe."
"I don't want to be a part of it. I want to take my friends and go back to my life." She said, still resisting against the restraints.
"I'm sorry, Ryoko. This is too important to me. And it is a shame that I will have to destroy such a lovely...figure as yourself." He said, his eyes moving slowly over Ryoko's body.
"Get a life, you pervert." She said, disgusted.
Jiro tugged his silver ponytail out of his collar and sighed.
"You're so difficult. You're as brash as Washu. It's a shame she transferred her attitude into you. You'd be likable otherwise."
"Shut up, you bastard and let me go!" She screamed.
"Ryoko, stop it." He said calmly, slapping her across the face.
She stopped and glared at him.
Suddenly the table she was restrained to started to move backward until Ryoko was in a prone position, now staring at the ceiling.
"I have to locate these gems of yours, Ryoko. Stay still." He said, flipping a switch on a large machine.
A large arm moved away from the machine and settled itself on Ryoko's forehead and slowly moved down her body, scanning for the source of her power. Once it was finished, the table and Ryoko were moved back to the vertical position they were in first.
"Dammit. Where are your other two gems?"
"What are you talking about? I only have three. I told you this before." She said.
"You have four gems, you idiot! How else would you be able to function without the other three?! My god, you know nothing about yourself. This is pathetic! Tell me where those other two gems are now!"
"I don't know!" She shouted back.
Jiro suddenly grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her face closer to his.
"You better remember or you *and* your friends die."
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*End Chapter 3*