The Revenge of Kagato chapter 2

Tenchi stepped out of the doorway into a glowing sphere of energy. He was temporarily stunned by the multitude of stars all around. It took him a few moments to get used to the vastness of being surrounded by nothingness.

"Washu, where's Jurai?" he asked when he finally was facing in what felt like an "up" direction.

"I don't understand it. It should be here. These are the coordinates for Jurai. We should be right in front of the palace gates."

"Miss Washu, I cannot maintain this shield forever. Please tell us what happened so that we may go back to Earth." Ayeka's voice was already showing strain.

"Weeell, there are two possibilities. The coordinates were wrong, or…" Everyone waited for what seemed like forever. "Jurai has been destroyed."

"Miss Washu, that is impossible. Jurai cannot be defeated. The royal family would not allow it. Your coordinates must be wrong."(That means… that means that I am the queen of Jurai. But how? Tsunami should have protected them. I must be strong. Grieving must wait for vengeance.)

"Listen, those coordinates are from the science academy database. They're right. Someone has destroyed Jurai."

"Nooooo!!" Sasami started crying. "I knew something bad happened, but not Jurai! Momyyyy."

"What do you mean you knew something bad would happen? How could you?"

"I just did. I don't know how." Sasami said through muffled sobs. "I just get a feeling about what's going on."

"We must get back to earth at once. Yosho will know what to do."(It must be Tsunami. She sensed what Tsunami knew. Does that mean she will leave us to join her? I must be strong. I can't let Sasami worry.)

Just then, Tenchi realized that now that Jurai was destroyed, either Yosho would have to be the new king, or he would. And if he was king, what would Ayeka be? Tenchi suddenly found himself wishing that any royal family member had survived.{Note to Ayeka fans:This is not because he's thinking of marrying Ayeka in particular, just having to get married.}

Washu reopened the door and they floated through to earth.

If Yosho was surprised by the news, he didn't show it. "So. Jurai has been defeated. I guess that makes me an emperor." He said jokingly. He suddenly became serious an instant later, "We will be in danger. Whomever did this will probably come here to erase the last of the royal bloodline. We must prepare. Tenchi, come with me."

*********Two days later**********

Everyone was calmly eating breakfast, when there was a rather large splash in the lake.

"Well, it looks like Mihoshi's back." Commented Washu dryly.

At that moment, the door opened and Mihoshi stumbled in.

"My home Galaxy Police Headquarters has been destroyed. It was really awful. I heard it over the radio while I was patrolling, a full SOS from headquarters. They told all ships to return at once to defend it. By the time I got there it was all gone, the attackers, the police cruisers, the headquarters, all of it. With it gone I just didn't know where to go!!" She spoke so fast that it took several cups of sake and a few retellings for everyone to understand.

"Someone very powerful is trying to take over the universe. They know exactly how and where to attack. We must continue our preparations; Tenchi, back to training." Yosho had been training Tenchi all of the time that they were not eating or sleeping.

"Excuse me, brother, but why are you only training Tenchi? I too am of the Jurai royal family and have the responsibilities and abilities that come from it. You will need my help if we are attacked."(I normally do not like to fight, but to protect Lord Tenchi, I will do anything.)

"Sister, Tenchi has been trained since he was a child, you could not improve enough in the short time we have to be any help. If Tenchi is in trouble I will help him, but you must not attempt to interfere. I know you want to help, but you will only get in the way."(and get hurt… You must trust in him, or we will not survive)

"Hey, why are you people acting like Tenchi is the only one who can fight, I could beat him any time." Ryoko's pride simply couldn't allow her to stand by and let people ignore her. "I am the space pirate Ryoko, and I am more powerful than all of you."

"Really?" Washu said skeptically. "I could have sworn that you only had one gem. How do you expect to do anything with just that?"

"It's not my fault that I can't touch that sword." Ryoko said indignantly.

"Come here, Ryoko." Tenchi called. She flew over and hung on his shoulders.

"You wanted me?" She asked innocently with a smirk at Ayeka. Tenchi slipped out of Ryoko's embrace.

"Yes, here. Take the gems. You can use them better than I can." He said as he held the Tenchi toward her and concentrated.

"Ahhhhh." Ryoko sighed as the gems returned to her. "I had forgotten how good this much power felt. Tenchi, if there's and way I could thank you…."

"Well Tenchi, it's time to accept consequences for your actions. Ryoko will be your sparring partner for today's training." Yosho was convinced that Tenchi must fight harder opponents to improve. It had gotten increasingly harder to beat him and it would be a good challenge for Tenchi to fight Ryoko. He just hoped that no one would get hurt.

This is a second draft of the second chapter. All of you people bugging me about Sasami, are you satisfied? They don't explain how connected they are, so I can do pretty much what I want there. I am not having Washu connected to Tsunami, yet. I still need CONSTRUCTIVE critiscism. Tell me what's wrong, and I'll see about fixing it. Go ahead and flame if you want. If you think that the characters aren't realistic, tell me how and what part, not just the problem. Please review. I want your comments, questions, flames(not want really, but they help).

Tomu-kun