Tenchi FanFic
Episode 10
By: Simfreak
Episode 10:
The Wolf Emerges
Tenchi and ryoko walk in through the front door of the Masaki house, Ryoko was holding Tenchi's hand and had her head rested on his shoulder. Both had a large smile across their face as Sasami walks out in front of them.
"There you two are, I thought you two weren't ever gonna come home"
"You know better then that Sasami" Replied Tenchi.
Ryoko takes her head off of Tenchi's shoulder "Hey what are you doing with the bowl of popcorn?"
"Oh this?" she asks "Were having a slumber party for just us girls! Wanna come Ryoko?"
"A slumber party? What's that?"
Tenchi looks at ryoko puzzled before Sasami starts to explain "Its when we stay up all night talking about girl things and having fun!"
"Sounds like fun, I will be up in a minute ok?"
"Sure, no problem, we have to find Ayeka anyway"
"Is she gone?" asked Tenchi.
"Well, she left this evening on a walk with out telling anyone. Aeris said that she looked kind of up set."
"Really maybe I should go look for her," Tenchi says as he starts heading towards the door.
"I'll go with you tenchi!"
"No that's ok," he says with a big smile "You go enjoy yourself with every one else ok?"
"Are you sure?" she says with a seductive grin. "It's pretty dark out there you know"
"Yes, very sure" he says with little beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
"Well, don't be to long ok" she says still grinning.
"Alright" and walks out the door.
"Get your things ryoko and follow me" said Sasami.
Ryoko flies up to the rafters and grabs her pillow and blanket and notices Aeris sitting across from her.
"Hey aren't you going to?"
"Why should I bother with such things"?
"Aww, common, it might be fun"
"I really don-"
Ryoko appears behind Aeris and grabs her ear "Your coming weather you like it or not"
"Hey, ouch, let go!"
Ryoko pulls Aeris up through the ceiling and into the room where every one had settled down. There was another big bowl of popcorn in the middle of them all with some girly video tapes.
"Aeris" Washu said shocked "You decided to come?"
"Well, its not like I had much choice" she says as she frowns at ryoko.
"Where's Ayeka?" Mihoshi asked.
"Who cares" Both Ryoko and Aeris say at the same time, they pause and then look at each other and start to laugh.
Sasami makes her way up the stairs and walks in through the door with the other bowl of popcorn.
"Ok every one, dig in!"
"Wait, no sake! We can't have a party with out sake!"
"Oohhhh, that's what we need, some sake!"
Ryoko looks at Aeris "I thought you didn't like it"
"Well, after yesterday in the Onsen, I have been hooked on it, good thing you had that stash in the wood shed"
"YOU DRANK MY STASH!"
"Well I didn't know that it was yours"
"How can you not know? I had my name written all over the box and even has a hologram warning message when you opened it!"
"Oh so that's what that was" she says innocently.
"Grrrrrrrrr."
"Now, now ladies, lets not fight ok?" replied Washu.
Ryoko takes a deep breath "Well, at least I know of one bottle that you didn't get your hands on" Ryoko stands up "I'll be right back, don't start with out me, ok?"
Ryoko floats through the floor down into the kitchen and takes the bottle of sake that tenchi gave her out of a cabinet that she locked. "Hmm, what's this" she says as she looks over on the kitchen table. "A note? To me?" she unfolds the letter and starts reading it, her eyes open wide.
Dear Mummy Women: "Already she is mocking me," Ryoko says to herself with a grin.
You'll be happy to know that you will no
longer have the privilege of my presence in the Masaki house, have returned
back home to Jurai. Please tell Sasami and the rest of the household that I am
sorry that I was unable to say good by in person, I think that it is just
better this way, and to tenchi, tell
him, that, he will always hold a deep place in my heart and that, that, it was
never ment to be.
Ryoko could see that Ayeka must have been very upset at the end of the letter, her very regale hand writing turned into chicken scratches, and there were drops of dried up tears on the bottom.
"Ayeka? She's gone?" Ryoko ponders to herself; she's not sure weather to be overwhelmed with joy or morning a loss of someone that deep in side she considered to be her friend. "What am I going to tell the others?"
"Ryoko" a voice called from the stair way
"Yes Sasami?"
"Common, hurry up, were about to start a game"
"Ok, coming" Ryoko looks down at the letter, crumples it up and throws it in the garbage "It can wait" she says. As she heads for the stairs the front door opens and tenchi walks in with a depressed look on his face.
"Hi tenchi, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I couldn't find her, that's all"
"Well, she'll come home when she is ready"
"I'm just worried, Aeris said she was upset, I just can't help but to believe"
"Tenchi, stop, it was bound to happen"
"What was going to happen?"
"Uhhh,"
"You know something don't you!"
"Sigh I cant lie to you anymore, isn't that funny?" She says with a calm smile "Come with me" Ryoko leads tenchi into the kitchen and pulls the crumpled ball of paper out of the garbage and hands it to tenchi. "Here, read this" Tenchi takes the piece of paper out of her hands, unfolds it and starts to read.
"She's gone?" he says after reading it.
"It appears that way"
"Well, we have to go after her! Try to explain things to her"
Ryoko starts shaking her head no "When it comes to madders of the heart, sometimes its better to leave things alone for a while.
"But?"
Ryoko wraps her arms around Tenchi's shocked face and holds him tight. "Let her be, its better this way don't you think?"
"Ryoko!"
"Come on tenchi, admit it, its better that she's not here. Now we can be together with no interruptions."
"That's very selfish of you ryoko, how would you feel if you were in Ayeka's place?"
"I, I, But ten-chi" The two of them pause as tenchi looks at ryoko sternly "Sigh well, can we at least wait until morning. I don't think that Ryo-Ohki will be awake enough to catch up with Ayeka's ship"
"I knew you would come to your senses" tenchi turns away and starts heading up the stairs "We'll leave first thing in the morning, so don't stay up to late now ok?"
"Sure thing"
He looks down at the bottle of Sake in her hands
"And no drinking"
"Awwwwww but ten-chi!"
"No drinking!"
"Fine" she says all upset.
"There you are ryoko what took you so long," asked Sasami.
"Yeah, and where is the Sake!" asked Aeris
"Sorry guys, no Sake"
"Awwww, well then there's no point in sticking around here" Aeries says as she begins to stand up.
"You there, sit down! You're joining the rest of the family for once!" yelled Washu. Aeris plops back down on her sleeping bag with an upset face. "Good, now what are we gonna play Sasami?"
"It's a earth game called truth or dare"
"Truth or dare? Sounds fun!" Mihoshi yells. "Uhh, how do you play?"
"Well, one of us asks a question and we have to either answer it honestly or we
have to do what ever the person says, no madder how funny"
"Ok Sasami, you start," says Washu.
"Ok, umm" she thinks to herself for a second "What guy do you like the most!"
"Tenchi" replies Ryoko "To easy yawn"
"How about you Aeris?"
Aeris thinks for a minute "I, uh, don't know"
"No fare she's cheating!" yells Ryoko.
"No, its just I don't know, there's just so may of them, give me a minute"
"Ok, we can come back to you" Sasami says. "How about you Washu?"
"Hehe, Tenchi" she says with a devilish grin.
Ryoko rolls her eyes.
"Bob!"
Every one looks at Mihoshi who is all red from blushing. "BOB?!?" they all yell.
"Hehehe, this is so embarrassing"
"Who the heck is bob?" asked ryoko.
"He's a new recruit at the galaxy police. Just the other day he said hi to me"
"Is he cute?" asked Washu.
"Yea, he has the bluest eyes, they are so pretty. And he is just so nice! One time I didn't have enough change to get a cup of coffee and not only did he give me the change, but he also gave me enough for lunch too! And then when I fell down running to my meeting, he was there to help me back up."
"He sounds nice. So are you going to ask him out Mihoshi?"
Her face turns red again and starts pushing her fingers together nervously "I
don't know giggles"
"I think you should"
"Yea go for it Mihoshi" Ryoko says and thinks to herself. "Any thing to keep you away from tenchi."
Aeris looks over at Ryoko after picking up what Ryoko thought to herself "I know who I like now!" Every one looks in her direction "Out of all the guys in the galaxy he is the best!"
"Well who is it"
"TENCHI!"
"WHAT!" Ryoko Screams
"He is just so nice and sooo perfect!"
"GRRRRRR" Ryoko takes a deep breath "Well, I hate to break this to you, but tenchi likes me."
"Oh yea, then why did he hug me?"
"WHAT!"
"And not one of those, oh I hope you feel better hugs. It was a, what are you doing later hug"
Ryoko takes her pillow and "SMACK" Right across Aeris face. Aeris eyes were spinning in circles forcing her to shake her head to regain herself. Once she does she grabs her pillow and "SMACK!" Right back at Ryoko.
"PILLOW FIGHT!" Mihoshi yells as she takes her pillow and smacks ryoko.
"Hey, stop picking on me" Ryoko replies and hits Mihoshi right back.
All out mayhem broke loose as all of the girls started pummeling each other with their pillows. From down the hall tenchi hears the commotion, walks over the their room and opens the door.
"What is going on in here?" he asks
All of the girls freeze where they are, feathers are slowly floating down to the ground.
Ryoko gets a devilish grin on her face "GET HIM!" She yells.
All of them get up and start running after tenchi
"YIKES!" he yells as he turns tail and starts running.
He didn't get far before Washu appeared in front of him with her pillow ready to strike. He slides to a stop and turns to go the other way where Mihoshi was running towards him.
"Whoops" she screams as she trips over a wrinkle in the carpet and falls to the ground. All the others running behind her trip and fall over on top of her creating a pile of people in the middle of the hall.
"Now's my chance!" He jumps over the pile and down the stairs and ducks into the downstairs hall closet and closes the door "They wont find me in here" he says out of breath. The door begins to open "spoke to soon" he says depressed. He crouches down using his arms to protect himself.
"Tenchi? What are you doing down there son?"
Tenchi looks up to see Nobuyuki standing in front of him taking his trench coat off.
"Quick close the door! I don't want them to find me!" Tenchi grabs the handle to the door and slams it closed.
"I wonder what all that was about?"
All of the girls rush down the stairs, pillows in hand.
"Where is he!" they all ask.
Nobuyuki looks at them shocked and confused and slowly points to the closet door.
"Shhh" Ryoko says quietly to all of the others and slowly floats over to the door. Nobuyuki steps back wondering what is going on. Slowly ryoko puts her ear to the door, and then signals for all the others to come over.
When they all get into place she slowly turns the handle and the in one quick move throws the door open "A- ha?" they all say.
"Where's tenchi?" Sasami asks Nobuyuki.
"I don't understand he was just there a second ago"
"Yea right the old man is lying! Get him!" Yells Washu. All of the girls pounce on Nobuyuki and start hitting him with their pillows.
Tenchi's head peaks out from the top of the doorway. He had jumped up and held himself in place at the top of the ceiling. Seeing that they were all occupied hitting Nobuyuki, he slowly slides down and starts tiptoeing away.
"Stop please, I'm telling the truth" Whap, whap. "no more" whap, whap "Why me?"
Tenchi looks at his dad is being pummeled and laughs, Ryoko hears him and turns around.
"There he is!"
"Gulp"
"After him!" she yells.
Tenchi takes off running, but trips on a baseball that had rolled out of the closet. CRASH! He hits the ground and all of the girls pounce on him. Smack, Smack, Whap Whap.
"Ouch" whap "ouch" smack "Stop!" Tenchi nabs Ryoko's pillow out of her hand and starts blocking their hits. In one move he jumps up over them and lands behind Ryoko. Her eyes shift behind her and sweat beads on her forehead. Slowly she turns around.
"Now tenchi" she says laughing a little with a little smile "Don't do anything rash now"
Tenchi makes a smiling grin and SMACK! All the other girls join in and once again all out mayhem breaks loose. Pillows were flying everywhere and every one and every thing was getting hit.
Again the front door opens and the old Yosho walks in the door. He turns his head to the side and sees the mess that is being created and is shocked.
"TENCHI!" Every one pauses "What is the meaning of this. And you Nobuyuki, how could you allow such behavior.
"Lighten up father, they are just having some fun"
"Yea grandpa"
"No not that!"
"Huh?"
"I mean having a pillow fight with out me!" he says with a funny grin and from behind him he pulls out his pillow and throws it at tenchi, SMACK in the face knocking him down to the ground.
The pillow fight went on for another half hour before every one collapses on the ground tired, breathing heavy from all of the activity.
"Well that was enough fun for one night" Yosho grabs his pillows that was half empty from all the feathers that had leaked out. "I'm going back to the shrine, next time don't for get your grandpa ok tenchi"
"Uh, huh" he says exhausted.
"Oh, and don't forget to clean this mess up"
-Every one moans-
"Well, I'm going to bed, do as your grandfather says tenchi and clean up"
"Ok dad"
Slowly tenchi stands up and looks around at the mess. "Oh man, this place is a disaster area" Tenchi turns around to address everyone else but grins at the sight of seeing everyone asleep on top of one another. "Well, I guess it will have to wait until morning" Tenchi walks over to each one of them and places their pillow beneath their heads and straitening each other out so that they were no longer on top of each other. "Sleep tight" he says as he flicks off the lights heading up to his room.
It's the middle of the night and they have all been a sleep for hours. Aeris is tossing and turning, sweating in her sleep. Slowly we enter her dream.
A flash back from the past, Aeris is standing in a translucent form watching over the battle between Hiroto and Tenchi.
"Hiroto, No!" she yells "he's to powerful, stay back" she tries to say. But they can't hear her.
"I will defeat you! AHHHH" Hiroto screams as he races towards tenchi.
"I will not let you defeat me!" Tenchi screams.
The two of them meet swords, but Tenchi's is too powerful and cuts through Hiroto's and into him.
"NO!!!!" Aeries screams, tears running down her face. She rushes over to him as he hits the ground. Tenchi steps back out of the way as she cradles him in her arms, blood streaming from the wound that tenchi inflicted. "No" she says again crying, "Please don't leave me" The body in her arms bursts into flames disintegrating into dust that blows away.
The scenery once again changes. Aeris is kneeling in the middle of a black void. An unfamiliar voice calls to her.
"Don't you have a mission you have to accomplish"?
"Who, Who's there! Come out and face me!"
A black figure emerges from the darkness"
"Who are you!"
"Don't you have a mission to accomplish" the voice says again.
"What are you talking about, what mission!"
The figure lifts his hand and points at her. The gems on her wrists begin to glow releasing bolts of energy that wrap around her shocking her, causing unbelievable pain.
"STTTOPPPP!!!! PLLEAASEEE" the punishment stops and she collapses to the ground "no more" she says silently from the pain.
The shadowy figures moves into the light, it's wearing a dark cloak and hood. No distinguishing features can be made out.
"Is your memory not intact Aeris?"
"No, I was damaged in a battle with the former goddess ryoko. I have very little memory from before that"
"I see" Again the figure lifts his hand and a small bolt of energy flies from his figure into her eye. "Understand now?"
"Yes, master" she says very depressed.
"Very well, I shall be expecting you shortly"
The figure once again steps backwards into the darkness leaving Aeris alone.
"Wait" she yells, "don't leave me here, alone" her eyes begin to tear "so, alone"
In a cold sweat Aeris sits up from her dream "no!" she screams breathing heavily. Her heart was beating a mile a minute and she could barely keep her composure. Slowly she began to breath normally and looks around at everyone else still sleeping. Slowly she stands up and transforms into her battle suit. "I have a mission to accomplish" she says and walks out of the room.
She arrives at Tenchi's door. Seeing the barrier alarm, she holds up her hand and releases an energy pulse that destroys it. The door unlocks and she slides it open walking into Tenchi's room. She stops in front of his bed and looks at him. "I, I am sorry. I have to do this" She looks away, holds up her hand and fires.
End Part 10
If this isn't a good cliffhanger I don't know what is =)