An Amazon Princess: Chapter 5
A clap of thunder shook the room. Usagi sat up in bed, her eyes
wide with fright. No matter how she changed or what she had gone
through, that sound still scared her to death. She sat there for a few
moments, forcing herself to calm down, when she felt a small, warm body
against her. She looked down, startled at first, then smiling when she
saw the piglet's eyes look at her in what almost seemed like worry.
"It's alright. I'm just a bit afraid of the storm." She laid
back down, scratching the piglet behind his ears. The small black body
curled up next to her head and nestled in with her, reassuring her.
"Ranma?" Ranma turned over, hearing his name. His eyes tried to
squint shut to keep out the light from the hallway.
"What is it, Akane?"
"Could you go look for P-chan?" She sounded worried, her voice
soft as she asked him. Ranma turned back over, away from the opened
door.
"Akane, it's the middle of the night. Wherever he is, P-chan is
perfectly fine." The light from the hallway still made shadows on the
far wall and the door remained open. "That pig has been lost before,
Akane. He'll show up sooner or later." There was no response but the
soft swoosh of the closing door. Ranma turned over in his bed and
watched his fiancée's shadow through the paper wall as she walked
slowly back to her room. For several seconds, he wanted to jump up and
say he'd go looking for the damn pig, only to shake his head and drift
back to sleep.
"Usagi?" Shampoo's whispered voice woke up the former heroine.
She opened her eyes to see her false sister leaning over her. "Usagi,
get up. Something going on outside!" Usagi sat up, rubbing the sleep
out of her eyes. A flash of lightening lit up the room, startling Usa,
but no thunder followed. She frowned, and looked towards the window.
"Yoma!" she shouted, jumping from bed. A small black piglet
fell to the floor, protesting with soft grunts for the sudden movement,
until he too looked out the window. A tall woman with a short, tight
green dress, purple skin, and glowing yellow eyes stood outside in the
middle of the street. Emerald green hair fell down to her thigh and was
interlaced with leaves and twigs. All around her, the pavement was
destroyed, roots pushing through and grabbing hold of anything near. As
they watched, a car was thrown through the window of the ramen shop
below by one of the roots, which then went on to do damage elsewhere.
"This what Japan afraid of?!" Shampoo asked, surprise showing
clearly on her face. "Woman in tight dress??" Usagi looked over at her
and, seeing the confusion Shampoo felt, laughed quietly and nodded.
"Her and others like her are dangerous though."
"Then Shampoo and Usagi fight!" She pushed open the window and,
grabbing Usagi's arm, jumped down to the ground below.
The black piglet sat on the floor, looking out the window in
horror. His tenshi was going to go fight, and he couldn't do a thing to
help! He was so consumed in worry, he didn't notice for several seconds
the sudden splash of warm water over him, and he only noticed then when
a shirt fell over his eyes.
"I thought as much. Get dressed and go help them, or I'll make
sure Usagi finds out exactly what she was sleeping with." The now human
Ryoga turned to see Shampoo's great-grandmother laughing, with a kettle
in one hand. Realizing he was naked, he quickly grabbed the clothes as
Cologne turned and left the room, still chuckling.
An alarm woke Ami from her sleep. Her computer was on, a light
blinking on the map of Japan. Eyes still squinted, she leaned over and
zoomed in on the light. Sighing, she picked up her communicator.
"Right on time, guys," she mumbled once she saw the faces of
the other four. "Park, two minutes."
Shampoo winced as she was thrown against a wall, but stood back
up quickly and raced at the woman. Usagi was trying to figure out how
to get close enough to her, but the yoma had taken a position up in the
air once she realized the power behind the amazon girls' moves.
"We can't get close enough to her," Usagi muttered as Shampoo
rejoined her.
"Well, princess, you decided to ignore our warning." Usagi
looked up at the woman in shock. She was about to respond when a yellow
and black boomerang cut across the yoma's cheek. "Arghh!" The yoma
turned to see where the boomerang returned just in time to see the
bottom of a bare foot slam into her cheek.
Ryoga finished pulling on the pants and looked outside to see
the woman that was attacking begin to levitate. Usagi and Shampoo were
on the ground though, and the woman was so high up already that even he
would have a hard time attacking from the ground. But he wasn't on the
ground, he was in a second story window.
He ripped his bandana off his head, only for it to be replaced
with another identical bandana, and threw the first at the unsuspecting
yoma. He was already out the window, his foot moments from making
contact with her cheek when she screamed out, and the scream was cut
short when he knocked into her. She fell to the ground with the sound
of bones breaking. A green liquid that he assumed had to be blood
trickled from her nose.
"Hmmph. To think I fought these guys for years using magic, and
a simple blow to the head killed one." Ryoga looked up when he heard
Usagi mutter to herself, probably thinking no one could hear her. She
was standing over the yoma, kicking it to make sure it was dead. He
turned, wondering where the other was.
"Why you come from Usagi and Shampoo's room?" a suspicious
voice asked. Ryoga turned, startled, to find Shampoo standing directly
behind him. Her arms were crossed in front of her and her eyes were
narrowed as she tried to think if she knew him.
"Um, guys, I don't think it's quite dead." Ryoga and Shampoo
turned to see Usagi trying to stamp a root down that had come through
the pavement. They moved forward to help her, but the root moved more
quickly. It wrapped around her ankle, lifting her into the air.
"Usagi!" Shampoo shouted, running forward. Ryoga turned to the
fallen woman, but there was no sign of life coming from her. The root
was still growing though, and Ryoga couldn't think of what to do, short
of cutting the root down. Quickly deciding, he lift his foot off the
ground and, closing his eyes, stomped onto her head. He expected
something that resembled a brain to ooze out, not the green tinted
liquid that was even more like water then the green blood. And among
the liquid and skull fragments, a small black orb, almost like a
marble, was found. But that did not seem to stop the root.
The senshi met in the park, still seeming sleepy as they
gathered in a circle.
"We've got to find a way to stop this," Makato said, yawning as
she finished.
"We need to find Usagi, but there is no time when we have to
constantly stop these attacks." Ami grabbed hands with Rei and Minako
as they began to concentrate. "But Nerima now. We'll talk after school
tomorrow." The four vanished from the park, reappearing on a street in
Nerima.
"I don't see why all of us have to go. We already know they'll
leave if just one of us show up," Rei said, taking in the situation.
"Because it takes all four of us to do a sailor telaport," Ami
replied. "Now common. The sooner we deal with this, the sooner we can
go back to bed."
"Alright. Lets go." Mina jumped onto the top of one of the few
cars still in one piece. "Stop right there! For disturbing the sleep of
innocents and abusing the powers of nature, we will punish you! I am
Sailor Venus!"
"Sailor Mars!"
"Sailor Mercury!"
"Sailor Jupiter!"
"We'll send you back to where you came from, yoma!" Mina
finished. It was only then they noticed that the only one around that
looked at all like a yoma was the destroyed body on the ground.
"Weird."
"Usagi!" The four girls suddenly woke up completely.
"Usagi? Did that girl just say Usagi?!" Makato asked,
surprised.
A root about the thickness of a car had grown up out of the
street and was holding someone with white blond hair in a braid so far
above the ground that it was difficult for any of them to identify who
it could be. The other two people, a girl and a boy about their age,
paid them no attention at all.
"Why did she fail?" an angry voice asked over the tiny
computer.
"She came up against some unknown difficulties. It seems the
rumors of this town are true. It possesses some of the strongest mortal
fighters in the world. One of them appears to have been living with the
princess. Another must have been nearby."
"Do you have any GOOD news for me, Rayak?"
"Yes. When our yoma died, I took over what she had left behind.
The princess is now in our possession."
"Excellent."
"I thought you would approve, Winnowill."
*LOL* Okay, for all of you out there who know who Rayak and Winnowill
are, sorry! I just thought they would be good bad guys. *chuckle* I
just figured it out as I was writing it too. I know, I know, Rayak
isn't completely bad, but I decided to make him completely bad for
this. They aren't elves though! And Rayak is normal human height, and I
think his skin is a bit lighter. If I bring any other ElfQuest
characters into this, it will be Two-Edge, and that's it. I'll stop
there, if I bring him in at ALL. For all of you who don't know what the
hell I'm talking about, don't worry. You won't miss anything in the
story.
Chapter 4 of Son Usagi is next! For you at The Portal (I've
gotten one or two e-mails asking what on earth I am talking about when
I mention Son Usagi) look me up at www.fanfiction.net (same author
name).
Guys, I still love to get reviews and e-mails. It keeps me
happy, and a happy Jade Nova will produce chapters more quickly.
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com
A clap of thunder shook the room. Usagi sat up in bed, her eyes
wide with fright. No matter how she changed or what she had gone
through, that sound still scared her to death. She sat there for a few
moments, forcing herself to calm down, when she felt a small, warm body
against her. She looked down, startled at first, then smiling when she
saw the piglet's eyes look at her in what almost seemed like worry.
"It's alright. I'm just a bit afraid of the storm." She laid
back down, scratching the piglet behind his ears. The small black body
curled up next to her head and nestled in with her, reassuring her.
"Ranma?" Ranma turned over, hearing his name. His eyes tried to
squint shut to keep out the light from the hallway.
"What is it, Akane?"
"Could you go look for P-chan?" She sounded worried, her voice
soft as she asked him. Ranma turned back over, away from the opened
door.
"Akane, it's the middle of the night. Wherever he is, P-chan is
perfectly fine." The light from the hallway still made shadows on the
far wall and the door remained open. "That pig has been lost before,
Akane. He'll show up sooner or later." There was no response but the
soft swoosh of the closing door. Ranma turned over in his bed and
watched his fiancée's shadow through the paper wall as she walked
slowly back to her room. For several seconds, he wanted to jump up and
say he'd go looking for the damn pig, only to shake his head and drift
back to sleep.
"Usagi?" Shampoo's whispered voice woke up the former heroine.
She opened her eyes to see her false sister leaning over her. "Usagi,
get up. Something going on outside!" Usagi sat up, rubbing the sleep
out of her eyes. A flash of lightening lit up the room, startling Usa,
but no thunder followed. She frowned, and looked towards the window.
"Yoma!" she shouted, jumping from bed. A small black piglet
fell to the floor, protesting with soft grunts for the sudden movement,
until he too looked out the window. A tall woman with a short, tight
green dress, purple skin, and glowing yellow eyes stood outside in the
middle of the street. Emerald green hair fell down to her thigh and was
interlaced with leaves and twigs. All around her, the pavement was
destroyed, roots pushing through and grabbing hold of anything near. As
they watched, a car was thrown through the window of the ramen shop
below by one of the roots, which then went on to do damage elsewhere.
"This what Japan afraid of?!" Shampoo asked, surprise showing
clearly on her face. "Woman in tight dress??" Usagi looked over at her
and, seeing the confusion Shampoo felt, laughed quietly and nodded.
"Her and others like her are dangerous though."
"Then Shampoo and Usagi fight!" She pushed open the window and,
grabbing Usagi's arm, jumped down to the ground below.
The black piglet sat on the floor, looking out the window in
horror. His tenshi was going to go fight, and he couldn't do a thing to
help! He was so consumed in worry, he didn't notice for several seconds
the sudden splash of warm water over him, and he only noticed then when
a shirt fell over his eyes.
"I thought as much. Get dressed and go help them, or I'll make
sure Usagi finds out exactly what she was sleeping with." The now human
Ryoga turned to see Shampoo's great-grandmother laughing, with a kettle
in one hand. Realizing he was naked, he quickly grabbed the clothes as
Cologne turned and left the room, still chuckling.
An alarm woke Ami from her sleep. Her computer was on, a light
blinking on the map of Japan. Eyes still squinted, she leaned over and
zoomed in on the light. Sighing, she picked up her communicator.
"Right on time, guys," she mumbled once she saw the faces of
the other four. "Park, two minutes."
Shampoo winced as she was thrown against a wall, but stood back
up quickly and raced at the woman. Usagi was trying to figure out how
to get close enough to her, but the yoma had taken a position up in the
air once she realized the power behind the amazon girls' moves.
"We can't get close enough to her," Usagi muttered as Shampoo
rejoined her.
"Well, princess, you decided to ignore our warning." Usagi
looked up at the woman in shock. She was about to respond when a yellow
and black boomerang cut across the yoma's cheek. "Arghh!" The yoma
turned to see where the boomerang returned just in time to see the
bottom of a bare foot slam into her cheek.
Ryoga finished pulling on the pants and looked outside to see
the woman that was attacking begin to levitate. Usagi and Shampoo were
on the ground though, and the woman was so high up already that even he
would have a hard time attacking from the ground. But he wasn't on the
ground, he was in a second story window.
He ripped his bandana off his head, only for it to be replaced
with another identical bandana, and threw the first at the unsuspecting
yoma. He was already out the window, his foot moments from making
contact with her cheek when she screamed out, and the scream was cut
short when he knocked into her. She fell to the ground with the sound
of bones breaking. A green liquid that he assumed had to be blood
trickled from her nose.
"Hmmph. To think I fought these guys for years using magic, and
a simple blow to the head killed one." Ryoga looked up when he heard
Usagi mutter to herself, probably thinking no one could hear her. She
was standing over the yoma, kicking it to make sure it was dead. He
turned, wondering where the other was.
"Why you come from Usagi and Shampoo's room?" a suspicious
voice asked. Ryoga turned, startled, to find Shampoo standing directly
behind him. Her arms were crossed in front of her and her eyes were
narrowed as she tried to think if she knew him.
"Um, guys, I don't think it's quite dead." Ryoga and Shampoo
turned to see Usagi trying to stamp a root down that had come through
the pavement. They moved forward to help her, but the root moved more
quickly. It wrapped around her ankle, lifting her into the air.
"Usagi!" Shampoo shouted, running forward. Ryoga turned to the
fallen woman, but there was no sign of life coming from her. The root
was still growing though, and Ryoga couldn't think of what to do, short
of cutting the root down. Quickly deciding, he lift his foot off the
ground and, closing his eyes, stomped onto her head. He expected
something that resembled a brain to ooze out, not the green tinted
liquid that was even more like water then the green blood. And among
the liquid and skull fragments, a small black orb, almost like a
marble, was found. But that did not seem to stop the root.
The senshi met in the park, still seeming sleepy as they
gathered in a circle.
"We've got to find a way to stop this," Makato said, yawning as
she finished.
"We need to find Usagi, but there is no time when we have to
constantly stop these attacks." Ami grabbed hands with Rei and Minako
as they began to concentrate. "But Nerima now. We'll talk after school
tomorrow." The four vanished from the park, reappearing on a street in
Nerima.
"I don't see why all of us have to go. We already know they'll
leave if just one of us show up," Rei said, taking in the situation.
"Because it takes all four of us to do a sailor telaport," Ami
replied. "Now common. The sooner we deal with this, the sooner we can
go back to bed."
"Alright. Lets go." Mina jumped onto the top of one of the few
cars still in one piece. "Stop right there! For disturbing the sleep of
innocents and abusing the powers of nature, we will punish you! I am
Sailor Venus!"
"Sailor Mars!"
"Sailor Mercury!"
"Sailor Jupiter!"
"We'll send you back to where you came from, yoma!" Mina
finished. It was only then they noticed that the only one around that
looked at all like a yoma was the destroyed body on the ground.
"Weird."
"Usagi!" The four girls suddenly woke up completely.
"Usagi? Did that girl just say Usagi?!" Makato asked,
surprised.
A root about the thickness of a car had grown up out of the
street and was holding someone with white blond hair in a braid so far
above the ground that it was difficult for any of them to identify who
it could be. The other two people, a girl and a boy about their age,
paid them no attention at all.
"Why did she fail?" an angry voice asked over the tiny
computer.
"She came up against some unknown difficulties. It seems the
rumors of this town are true. It possesses some of the strongest mortal
fighters in the world. One of them appears to have been living with the
princess. Another must have been nearby."
"Do you have any GOOD news for me, Rayak?"
"Yes. When our yoma died, I took over what she had left behind.
The princess is now in our possession."
"Excellent."
"I thought you would approve, Winnowill."
*LOL* Okay, for all of you out there who know who Rayak and Winnowill
are, sorry! I just thought they would be good bad guys. *chuckle* I
just figured it out as I was writing it too. I know, I know, Rayak
isn't completely bad, but I decided to make him completely bad for
this. They aren't elves though! And Rayak is normal human height, and I
think his skin is a bit lighter. If I bring any other ElfQuest
characters into this, it will be Two-Edge, and that's it. I'll stop
there, if I bring him in at ALL. For all of you who don't know what the
hell I'm talking about, don't worry. You won't miss anything in the
story.
Chapter 4 of Son Usagi is next! For you at The Portal (I've
gotten one or two e-mails asking what on earth I am talking about when
I mention Son Usagi) look me up at www.fanfiction.net (same author
name).
Guys, I still love to get reviews and e-mails. It keeps me
happy, and a happy Jade Nova will produce chapters more quickly.
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com