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The Soul Instilled - Chapter 4
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"I have a GIRL'S soul inside of me?! How can that BE?! I don't wanna be no weakling!"

Ranma recieved a stinging slap to his cheek.

"Hey!"

The girl hmphed, "How rude!"

Sighing, the girl continued, "Well, because of this wish or whatever, i'm going to be with you for all or most of the rest of your life. I'm Kyoko Omiwara."

Still semi-paranoid, Ranma mumbled to himself, "no....never gonna like guys, never....."

Kyoko snorted in disgust, "Oh, quit your worrying, didn't I already explain this with the letter? I'm a lesbian, I like women."


~Back to reality~

Genma was frantic. What had happened to his boy, and why wouldn't he just wake up?!

He growled in frustration, "Dammit, boy! What the hell am I gonna tell Tendo if you don't wake......."


~Mu Tsu~

Mu Tsu awoke in the clearing alone and disoriented.
He grumbled a bit, "what happened......my head feels like Xian Pu whacked me with her bonborri......"

A voice came from within his mind, Jing, "This happened......we're stuck together now."

A third made itself known, "Well, now that we're done with the introduction, can we move on to my abilities?"

Mu Tsu and Jing panicked in unison, "AH! IT SPOKE!"

'It' scoffed, "Of course I did, this set of magically woven items is an entity. It's been so long since I've last been used, and unless she managed to pass on her knowledge directly, which I doubt, you'll likely need an introduction to my powers......"


~Ranma~

"uhnnn......"

"Boy! You're ALIVE!"

Ranma was still relatively weak from the shock, "yeah, pop, can ya keep it down? I feel like hell........"

Heedless of this plea, Genma continued, "This is great, GREAT! Now I can go to Tendo anytime and get you to marry his daughter, and start my glorious retirement!"

Ranma whacked Genma over the head with the nearest object he could find: a small, dead tree branch.

"just shut up already......."

"Insolent boy! Hmph. Come on, we best be continuing on our journey. Our next destination is China, a land of vast martial arts secrets......"



~Ukyo: Nightfall~

Said female(currently attired as a male) was winding her way through the rapidly darkening streets of Ranma's last sighting, and getting worried, she had left her combat spatula back at the hotel.

A rough voice from her back caused her to turn suddenly, "Well, well.....those look like some fine clothes you have......and that means you have cash.......care to hand it out before we have to beat it out?"

A group of three hoodlums were to her back and openly brandishing knives. Ukyo knew some unarmed self defense, but knew that the odds weren't in her favor against three opponenets.

She ran. They followed. Turning the corner, she found herself backed into an alley.

"Kuso!"

The three thugs quickly contained her within the alley's confines.
"Now why don't you just hand over your wallet before we have to hurt you."

Ukyo hesitated. She didn't know what to do. Unarmed and alone, she was worried.

"Not gonna hand it over will ya? Then I guess that we'll just have to take it from you!"

The lead thug lunged at her, closely followed by the other two.

"Dammit, I have to get away from them, I can't dodge three people forever," she thought internally.

After being forced back further into the alley, the thugs closed in.

"Heh, now we got ya."

Ukyo felt a short burst of energy flow down her arm.

A radiant burst blinded all in the alley.

When the brightness faded, the thugs were on the ground having suffered several slashes and were now unconscious.

Ukyo quickly fled the scene, back to her hotel room. Later, she found the sword tattoo imprinted on her arm to be glowing warmly.


~Jing~

".....and those are my abilities and that is my story."

The figure of Mu Tsu was lying against a nearby tree while the personalities talked amongst themselves.

Mu Tsu was rather quiet, waiting for the next thing to be said.

Jing spoke, "Interesting......anyway, we have another thing to consider. Do we or do we not return to the Chinese Amazons?"

Mu Tsu hesitated a moment, before answering, "I say we don't.....you know how they treat us guys...Mei Hua can supply us with knowledge and stuff, so we won't have problems in that department."

At the mention of Mei Hua, Jing re-entered the conversation, "That reminds me.....how did I recognize your voice when we were dreaming?"

It vaguely felt like she smirked, "Destiny calls to you.....precognition happenes every so often."

"Sooo.....now where do we go?"

"Japan, Mu Tsu, I think I know a little of what destiny has in store for us....."

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Not bad, not bad at all.....This chapter turned out
pretty good, I think.
-Azrael Maestus