Well, people here is the next installment of Lost Souls. Sorry it took me awhile, but I do work. I don't just sit around and write these fics all the time. Sorry, I am feeling a little sick, not myself. I know there are people out there that are really fidgety about reading the rest of the story. Well, it is almost done, and when it is it will be the first story that I have ever actually ever finished. Well enjoy the story, please review, I don't even care if you don't like the story and you think it is bad. I would like to know what you think.

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Tenchi Muyo! Lost Souls Chapter 12

As she opened her eyes, she was welcomed with the sight of Tokimi's fortress walls. Now there was no time to waste, they would soon follow her in, wanting to save their precious princess. It was easy enough to run through the halls with the added help of Tokimi's memories. In now time, thanks to the youthful and athletic body of the princess, he was in the main hallway of Grand Reception Room. With a few simple words, he was in the room.

She waited patiently as the platform was transported to the highest height. With each of the amulets softly glowing, Andromeda's body was lifted to float in the center of the opening to the fifth dimension. "Now I will have all the power and no one will be able to stop me."

"Don't do it. You have no idea what you are doing. You will cause great damage. It will destroy all which you desire to conquer," a voice said from within Andromeda's mind.

"I know exactly what I am doing, Tokimi. You do not wish me to have what you could not have; but I will...I will gain all that you tried for and could not get. You are only saying that it will be dangerous because you are jealous," Andromeda answered back.

"No you are wrong."

'You can not stop me," he said then pushed Tokimi into the depths of Aeka's mind. She tried to warn him again as she sank, but he would not listen. Then he began the Calling of the Powers, "Powers of the three goddesses, I call upon you. Open the gate; let me enter. Here my words, I command, for I hold the Power Gems. So mote it be."

Soon a power surrounded her; it passed through the colors of the gods and then become a black aura. The gems strained under the force. Andromeda's face soon became twisted in a sadistic smile. She had won.

The doors were through open as the Emperor and his companions, and Iris and the crew of the Olympus entered. Andromeda's gaze fell onto them; she smiled and shivers ran through the entire group. "I have won, and you can not stop me."

Then she began to laugh, a horrific laugh that echoed throughout the entire fortress. A mist began to rise out of her body. Slowly, it began to turn into a form of something familiar. As it rose, it carried the disturbing laugh with it. Following the laugh and bright golden light rose towards the forming mist. With the loss of the laugh and power from the body of Aeka, another sound soon took over. It began to echo in the ears of all that were present and terrified them.

"Ahhhh," screamed Aeka as she lost her power and essence. Then it stopped and her body fell to the platform below, still holding the amulets, which had become dull with no more power.


The pain finally had began to die down. She had been resting in the back of her mind, with not a care for anything. For awhile, she had not heard the baneful cries of that other person; she had had quiet. Then, she returned and this time they had seemed louder than before. She was concentrating on muting the voice when the pain had come.

She tried not to cry out, but the pain had been too much. She could not help herself, she screamed with the only will she had left. Then it stopped hurting and she stopped crying out. A realization formed: she was now in a very peaceful and quiet place. Had she finally found the peace that she had searched for? It was dark and she slowly closed her eyes. However, something nagged her.

Something was wrong; she felt as if nothing was right with the universe, something was out of sync. "That's correct," a familiar voice said, "The universe has been split open. All dimensions are now joining, and when it is complete, it will be the end."

Aeka opened her eyes and she noticed she was no longer in that dark place. "I could not allow you to stay there. It is not the place that you seek, not the place we seek."

She turned and that was when she saw her, it was… "Tokimi."

"That is correct," Tokimi voiced. Aeka looked around and was surprised to find herself on the surface of Earth, but that could not be. She had left Earth a long time ago.

"It is not Earth that we are on," Tokimi replied.

"Where are we then," Aeka asked.

"We are in your mind. Here because this is the place in which is the most peaceful for you," Tokimi explained. Before Aeka could refute that, Tokimi continued, "When you arrived on Earth you found peace not because of the place, but because of who was in that place."

"I do not understand what you mean," Aeka said.

"Yes, you do," Tokimi announced as she moved aside. When Aeka had in sight what Tokimi had blocked she saw something she never thought she would see again. It was…

"Tenchi…" Aeka gasped. Then she scanned the terrain and saw, "Ryoko…Sasami…Washu…Mihoshi…Yosho."

"You have searched for the place in which you could gain peaceful, but the one place that you did not search was in your heart," Tokimi revealed. Tears began to fall from Aeka's eyes as the sudden realization hit her. Her peace was with her family. Memories began to flash through her head.

Sasami laying in a restful sleep. Aeka had been calm as she sat beside her beloved sister. Then, anger had overthrown that feeling as she saw her brother. Then the memory faded.

As she gazed out the window of her hotel room towards the castle where her family resided. She had also had a comforted feeling as she watched the castle where she knew her family was. Once again, however, an ill feeling overcame her; she felt cold and jealous just looking out.

Tenchi calling out to her. There was some flitting memory in which Tenchi had called out to her. Oh, how she had wished for that to happen, and it did. She had wanted to return but she did not know how. She had called out to him, for his help. Then it was there again, these bad feelings: jealousy…anger…hatred.

She did not know where they came from, but they seemed to get more powerful every time. Then she had no more. She could not feel a thing, she had found quiet. Her head shot up to meet Tokimi's gaze with another realization. She might have had quiet, but she did not have…

"Peace," Tokimi finished. "We did not have peace."

"We," Aeka questioned.

"When you fought me, I was searching for it. I thought that by gaining power that I would gain that peace, but I was wrong. I went in search of that power and sent out a piece of myself to search. I could not go myself, I did not want to alert the people that I set out to find," Tokimi began her story.

"Who…" Aeka began to ask.

"My sisters," Tokimi answered simply, then continued, "At one time I had found my sister Washu, but it was broken suddenly. Then, I thought I had found my sister Tsunami, and the piece of the essence interconnected with a piece of hers. It had been small and there was no way really to know if it was truly the path I wanted, but I went forward anyway.

"As time went, the information that was sent to me through my connection was not useful. It could not find my sisters at all. Then there had been a flux of both Washu and Tsunami's powers, but it soon died. It was at that time that the flow of information also stopped. It seemed as if it had been put into a sleep. So I broke the link, completely. I looked for another way in order to find my sisters.

"No to long ago, I felt it again, that flux of Tsunami's and Washu's powers. It was odd though, for I felt it in two different locations. Each, however, was not far from the other. When I was about to send for confirmation, it stopped again. Tsunami's power seemed to recede fully, but Washu's had not gone out completely. I sent searchers to seek out Washu.

"It was through Dr. Clay's battle that I was able to find both Washu and Tsunami. I set plans into motion. Then when I did get them, I found they no longer had any powers. It was during the battle with you that I realized that they gave their powers away to their descendants. The strongest concentration was in Tenchi and Ryoko, that could be clearly seen, but it was not the same power as that of the goddesses Washu and Tsunami. Therefore, both of their powers equaled mine.

"I had the advantage, though, they were mortal and only had a limited source of power, mine were limitless. I thought that I was going to win, then I saw you. It seemed that you also had some powers, but yours were familiar. When you began to glow with the green aura, I recognized who you were," Tokimi paused.

"I was the essence that you had sent out," Aeka finished.

"You were more than that, you were my child. The power that you gained from Tsunami and the power that you gained from me merged. It was obvious to me. I thought that you would help me, but once again I was wrong. You connected to the other two; you added the extra power that they needed to stall me.

"In that split second that you were connected, I saw something in your eyes, all of you. I saw peace; the type that I had had before when my sisters and I were together, the kind that I realized I was looking for. It had not been power that I searched for; it had been the peacefulness that one gets with family. And I wanted that so very badly.

"Since you contained a piece of my essence, I was able to assimilate with you…" Tokimi disclosed.

"But he interfered." Aeka finished.

"He kept me from interlocking with you completely. I had been too weak to fight it, and he was able to lock me from you. You gained all of my powers, but none of my being. You had fought back a little, but he was still stronger than you were. He returned your body to your control, but locked away most of your will. When the time was right, he would take over your body and powers."

"Why, why would he do that," Aeka asked desperately.

"Because you are the key," Tokimi answered.

"The key to what," Aeka queried.

"The key to becoming a god." Aeka stared at Tokimi in disbelief. "And now that he has gained that, he will take the powers of Washu and Tokimi also."

"When he does that, what will happen to Tenchi and Ryoko?"

"They will die. You see, their powers are connected to their life force. With the striping of their powers, their life force will also go. But that will not matter, the universe will be destroyed." As the information sunk in, Aeka's eyes grew wide. No, she could not let that happen. They needed each other, she needed them. She loved them, even if they could not love her.

"You silly girl, they do love you," Tokimi disputed her thoughts. "Tenchi loves you, as does Ryoko. Without you, there cannot be any them." Aeka eyes silently asked if that was true, and Tokimi nodded slightly to confirm. Tears of joy began to fall from Aeka's eyes, they loved her.

"Can we stop him," Aeka refered to the maniac that was out to destroy her family.

"Yes," Tokimi answered.

"How?"

"We must completed our assimilation, and then use the gems to fight back."

"Then let us do it. What must I do," Aeka said with bravado.

"Nothing, just accept me," Tokimi said. Aeka nodded her head then slid her eyes shut. Soon she felt a bright energy surrounding her and a moment later she felt another being's presence. In her head she heard the whisper of Tokimi, accept me and we shall become one. You shall be me and I shall be you. Together we shall be Tokimi and Aeka, Aeka and Tokimi. Once again she silently nodded, and streams of information began to flood her mind, linking information and events and emotions and thoughts.

Soon, she stopped thinking as those things were somebody else's, but as her own. As she opened her eyes, she realized all the things she had doubted were wrong. Around her she felt a new energy that was old. She also knew what was that needed to be done. With her new powers, she disappeared in a flash of bright golden light.

She was going to help her loved ones, and then she was going to go home.