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Characters thoughts go here
This might get a little confusing because the scenes switch around a lot.

That night without Tenchi: Ch.1

"Ryo-Ohki."
"Meow?" answered the cabbit
"Ryo-Ohki, it's been so lonely since we left earth, hasn't it?
"Meow."
"Sometimes I wonder if we made a mistake, you know, leaving it all behind..."
Ryo-Ohki just stared up at her owner.
"Well, Ryo-Ohki, I'm sure Nagi will be on our tail soon, we better go, huh?"
"Meow!"Ryo-Ohki nodded, although she really longed to see Ken-Ohki one more time.
"Ryo-Ohki, I know you do," Ryoko was reading her thoughts, "But I've grown so weak and don't have enough left to fight her...now I can only run..." Ryoko shook her head as if that could make her thoughts disappear. "Lets go, Ryo-Ohki!"
"Meow!" Off into the stars they flew, without a plan, and almost without hope.

"Are you alright, my love?"
"Yes, I am alright." Her staggered voice was nearly muffled by the sounds of coughing and wheezing.
"Just stay her and rest a while, you'll be fine, I promise..."
"Tenchi..."
"We'll be there soon, just hang on, a little longer, please..."
"I will, Tenchi, for you...I'll try..."
Everyday her voice grows more faint, and her body weaker, what can I do? Oh, grandfather, I wish you were here! You would know what to do...

The space pirate steeped out, not with her usual dignity, but with a weakened heart, body, and mind. Even her soul grew thinner every minute. "Nice, Ryo-Ohki, isn't it? It looks as if no one is around. How about we call it a day?" Ryoko forced a faint smile onto her face.
"Meow."
"Lets start a fire, shall we? I'm cold. Ryo-Ohki, lets gather some wood!" Ryoko looked around.
"Meow?"
There was nothing for miles but a vast, dry plain with no life at all. "It reminds me of my heart, Ryo-Ohki. The only thing left I had to live for left me." She chuckled. "I wonder why I still stand here, why I just don't kill myself now..."
"Meow?" In her voice stood a ring of sadness, she didn't want her owner to leave her, not even for a second. Ryo-Ohki loved her owner with all her life, and would give it up to save her.
"I know why Ryo-Ohki. But you must promise not to tell, all right? I think its because I still have one last drop of hope left in my heart, one last drop." Ryoko's Eyes were tearing now, "But Ryo-Ohki, I wonder when this drop will be gone..."
"Meow..." Ryo-Ohki was crying now, too. Ryo-Ohki was hoping she was Ryoko's last drop of hope.
"Come here, my little Ohki." Ryoko cradled her pet in her arms. Ryo-Ohki was part of Ryoko's last desparate chance of survival. "Never leave me alright, Ryo-Ohki? And if I do die, go and tell him that I hate him, okay? Will you do that for me?"
Ryo-Ohki looked puzzled. "Meow?"
"Good, it's settled then. Come, let's get some sleep."
Ryo-Ohki nodded and they prepared their beds out of sand.

"Mihoshi, please hang on! Please, we can turn around and go back to earth, if you want! Please, just hang on, for me!"
"Tenchi..."Her voice was almost a whisper.
"I love you, Mihoshi, and were almost to Jurai."
"Tenchi..."
"Please, I love you!"
"I...love...you...too...my...Tenchi...never forget me..." With that, her life was taken out of her.
"NO MIHOSHI NO!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!" Tenchi's eyes were red and his sobs echoed throughout Yagami. Someone's hand was suddenly placed on his shoulder. "Kiyone?"
"Tenchi, she loved you very much." She hugged him in a tight embrace. "And now she's looking down upon you from heaven, right?" She gave him a warm smile, even though tears were streaming down her rosy cheeks.
"Why?! Why am I cursed the same as grandpa?"
"What do you mean, Tenchi?" Kiyone abruptly had a chime of seriousness in her speech.
"Don't you remember?!" Tenchi was almost going wild in rage, "When grandpa and Haruna ran from Jurai?? And Haruna died on the journey to earth? Now I flee with Mihoshi and she dies on the way to Jurai!"
"Oh, Tenchi..." Kiyone grabbed him in a tight hug again. "Tenchi, I love you like a brother, and hate to see you mourn for someone I loved as a sister...I feel just as much pain as you do. We must be brave."
"We, we were just like a family, the three of us..."
"I know Tenchi, I know."
"How could this happen?"
"Its all fate, Tenchi...decided by the gods already..."
"You mean Washu and Tsunami may have caused this?"
"No, everyone's fate is already laid out, but what you do causes what happens, does this make sense?
"No."
"Our paths are laid out, but, depending on what we choose to do changes what happens later. Perhaps they knew this was going to happen, but weren't able to tell us."
"So that is why Sasami and Washu were not around the day we left?"
"I suppose."

Ryoko gazed up into the heavens. The bright stars seemed to smile down upon her, but she was too weak to return the cheerful greeting. "Hmm, what is that?" An object was coming closer and closer... "Ryo-Ohki!"
"Meow?" Ryo-Ohki was blurry-eyed as she was shaken out of a deep sleep.
"Lets go, Ryo-Ohki!" The brown cabbit realized what was coming and quickly transformed.
"Meow!"
"Damn that Nagi!"
"Ah, Ryoko such language." Nagi appeared on Ryo-Ohki's screen.
"Shut the hell up, Nagi!"
"Surrender and I will, come on, you have nothing to live for anyway! Your boyfriends gone and is never coming back to you!! Never!"
"I don't give up hope that easily! Faster, Ryo-Ohki, Faster!" Ryoko fell back into her chair. She had used up almost all of her energy screaming at Nagi. "Why cant she just leave me alone?" I wish anyone was here with me now, even Ayeka...gee I haven't seen her in forever! "Ryo-Ohki, remember Ayeka?"
"Meow!" Ryo-Ohki answered.
"Do you remember when she left? Wasn't it about half a year before I left? I remember...Grrr...then that Mihoshi and Tenchi....err....then I left, and we've been here ever since. I think that's about a year since we've been up here, running." She laughed lightly. "I wonder what Tenchi's doing on earth right now...I wonder if he's even on earth...maybe he ran away with that Mihoshi...who knows, huh, Ryo-Ohki?" Ryoko couldn't talk anymore, she was so faint. Her eyes began to close and her body felt so weak it was almost lifeless.