Gone Wild
By AlantisB
A/n: And here is the first chapter of Gone Wild! I hope everyone likes this chapter. Its in present time and its what's going on and stuff. This takes place during the end of the Saffron battle and after Galaxia in Sailor Moon. Okay? Good! Here's the fic!
"..talking.."
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Mt. Phoenix
China
Jusenkyo Valley
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Ranma gritted his teeth as he slid across the rough, mountainside ground. He jumped up into the air, barely missing getting smashed into the mountainside by a fiery arm of the phoenix king, Saffron. He flipped in the air and landed gracefully on one foot. He spun around on the leg and with the amazon speed technique, he kicked the winged man one hundred times in the back before having to dodge again by ducking under the fierce punch of the god-king.
Things were not looking good, Ranma thought as he tried to defeat Saffron. Akane was slowly dying and if he didn't get her to the water tap soon, she would die. But no matter how many tricks he tried to pull onto the phoenix king, the guy would just dodge or counter it in some way. Although he would never admit it outloud, he knew he was outclassed. He had tried everything but the Saotome Forbidden Techniques he hadn't exactly learned yet and he was getting to the point where he might have to use them incorrectly.
He saw it but wasn't fast enough to dodge it in time and he felt himself being smacked into the sharp, rocky mountain. He groaned quietly, feeling that some of his ribs were cracked and maybe a few broken. But he couldn't give up, he had to save Akane. He heard the mocking laughter of the phoenix king as he gloated to Ranma that he was a god and that a mortal and a land-ling like him could never defeat the phoenix king.
Ranma knew he was in trouble when he realized he was in his own little man-made hole in the mountain. If he made any sudden movement, he could be crushed under an avalanche and it would be the end for him and then Akane would die and go to her ancestors without her being saved. But if he went back out of the hole, he knew that Saffron would defeat him and that he couldn't lose.
Everyone was counting on him but he had used everything he knew! He needed something more to defeat Saffron. He had nothing like that, no wild cards or aces up his sleeve. He was going to lose for the first time in his life, and when it really mattered to win, he wouldn't be able to.
His ears perked up like a cat when he heard something in the man-made cave. He could feel something was with him, that he wasn't alone. He opened his eyes to look around but he saw no one in the little cave. He heard it again and he strained his hearing to figure out what it was. His eyes widened when it felt the ground beneath him warm up, and he struggled to sit up as carefully as possible without making too much sudden movement.
He turned his head to look around when he heard it again. He could feel a breeze but it wasn't coming from outside. Then, he felt the gentlest whisper in his ear. "Earth can help you." The voice was sounded like a thousand voices at once, male and female. It sounded like millions of souls speaking at once in all different pitches, tones, and languages.
His eyes narrowed and he opened his mouth to respond when he felt something resembling a touch to his lips, like the fingers of the wind. "Listen, wild horse. Earth can give you what you need; the power to defeat the god-king. But you must trust in the Earth." The whisper said soothingly.
Ranma opened his mouth to respond again when the voice spoke again. "If you trust in Earth, close your eyes." Uneasy, the martial artist closed his eyes. It wasn't like he didn't trust in Earth because Earth was nature and stuff (he still hated nature when it rained though, it seemed to have a crude sense of humor in Neirma), but he didn't trust the voice too much. The way it spoke unease him in a way, it sounded like father figure he should follow, but he listened. He felt the breeze pick up in the small cave and the ground beneath him warming up to an almost uncomfortable heat.
"Relax your mind and stretch your senses into the ground and the air." said the voice. "Don't just listen to what you sense, feel it."
Ranma stretched his senses out into the ground and air, picking up on different things. He could feel worms and moles in the ground beneath him, going about their business. He could feel the insects and birds in the sky, flying in the wind. His senses stretched further and he could 'see' a river. But it wasn't any river he had 'seen' before. It was all the colors of the rainbow and more. Power rolled off the river in waves and he could feel the ki and chi in the river.
"Yes. You feel it don't you, wild horse? That is one of the many lines of magic chi Earth has. It gives life to everything around it, feeding power into every living creature and plant." The breeze picked up in speed and he could feel his hair blowing in the wind and the ground beneath him getting hotter. "Earth gives you it's power. With your soul grab onto that power, feed off the line of magic chi."
Hesitantly, the martial artist grabbed onto the river with his ki - which to him - was his soul.
He gasped and his fingers dug into the hot earth as power overloaded his senses. He could feel his body being healed, feel himself becoming refreshed and powerful. The power from the river flowed into him in waves. His battle aura erupted around him when his body couldn't keep all the power in himself anymore. He could feel the mountain starting to shake like an earthquake. His eyes snapped open and for a second something glowed on his forehead in a soft golden-blue color, and then the glow on his forehead was gone.
The presence started to go away, he could feel it going back into the earth. The breeze died down and the ground beneath him became cool again before it started to break up into chunks from his power. His internal clock told him that what had felt like ten minutes had been only a minute of time and then he yelled.
The mountainside he was under exploded into the air as his battle aura flared higher around him.
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Ryoga watched as he rival and sometimes his best friend, try to defeat the god-king Saffron. He had just gotten here but he had no idea where Akane was. He wanted to save her so that when she woke up she would see that he was a true man and that Saotome was not worth it. He drifted off to his own fantasy where Akane would hug him and smile at him sweetly. "Oh, Ryoga. Thank you for saving me! I love you!" The dream Akane said as he started to smile.
"Airen! Watch out!" The cry from Shampoo brought him back out of his fantasy. He watched as Ranma was knocked into the mountainside, making a large hole.
The god-king laughed and started to gloat. "Foolish Land-lings! I am the immortal phoenix king, Saffron! No mortal can ever hope to defeat me! Hahaha! That girl will die soon and there is nothing you all can do about it! Hahaha--"
Suddenly the ground started to rumble in a tremor. "Earthquake!" Mousse cried as everyone tried to stay balanced. Ryoga's eyes widened when he started to feel a huge ki inside the mountain. No, he thought. That can't be its bigger then Saffron's! And, it feels familiar..
A yell sounded from inside the mountain and then the mountainside exploded in a bright flash of light as everyone ducked for cover so not to get hit by flying bolders. Ryoga let the little rocks hit him, he didn't really feel a thing having gone through the Bakusai Tenketsu training. As the dust started to settle and the rocks stopped falling, everyone watched as a figure walked out of the mountain side with a huge blue battle aura.
When the dust settled completely, the familiar figure in a red silk shirt glared up at Saffron. Shampoo gasped as she got a good look at the figure. "Airen!" She cried out in shock.
Ranma clenched his hands into fists feeling the power coursing through his veins, running his blood hot. It felt so good, he thought. It was the biggest rush he had ever gotten from just calling up his battle aura! He could feel his blood singing for battle as he tensed. He jumped into action while the god-king was still shocked. He attacked with a fierceness he never used before. Ranma used the Kaschu Tenchu Amaguriken speed as he kicked and punched at the god-king in the air. He realized with some detachment that he hadn't fallen out of the air yet but he didn't really think about it. He needed to save Akane while he could still channel all of this power.
Saffron was shocked, how could the land-ling be fighting him in the air like this? Sure he had attacked him in the air before but he would fall down after a few seconds. But he was just staying up here like he was flying with out wings! He glimpsed at the face of the mortal boy and he was shocked again at the amount of anger those eyes held. The eyes were no longer ocean blue, but an ice blue that promised pain. He soon figured out that if he didn't kill the boy now, he would become tired out and then the mortal would beat him.
He snarled and flapped his wings at the boy and his fire-wing attack headed straight for the boy at point-blank. But his eyes widened when his attack didn't hit the boy but his after image! The Ranma he saw faded and then he felt a sharp pain in his back as his wings were ripped off. He knew he could just grow that back in a second but when he was about to, the boy let loose a devastating attack.
"FINAL," the boy's voice rung with power as he gathered the energy in his hands were spread wide while his arms were stretched out to their fullest extent. Everything seemed to be going in slow motion to the god-king. He could feel the amount of power the boy was gathering in his hands and he was totally shocked. It was more then he could gather to counter it!
Ranma's face was full of determination as he stared Saffron down. His hair blew in the wind gathering around him from his attack. His clothes were moving from the breeze his ki was causing and he looked like the perfect final justice for the god-king.
"DUCK!" Ryoga yelled as he jumped and covered his head with his arms. Everyone followed his example quickly just as Ranma called out the last word.
"FLASH!" Ranma cried as he brought his hands together, open palmed and facing Saffron. His ki erupted out of his palms in a huge ki beam that looked like two feet in diameter.
The ki blast hit Saffron in the chest and knocked him into the top of the water tap causing water to fall onto the Akane-doll sitting under it. The Akane-doll turned into the full size Akane.
Saffron was burned up in the blast and what was left of his body landed about ten feet away. It glowed and exploded into fire and when the fire died down, a big egg was laying in a crater.
Ranma dropped to the ground, exhausted from channeling the magic chi from the river. He managed to walk to Akane's body and kneel next to her. He felt for her pulse and his eyes widened when he couldn't feel anything. Tears gathered in his eyes but they refused to fall. He grabbed her body and held her close.
Akane was gone. Akane was gone and it was all his fault! Ranma felt his depression building in him, causing him to have a green-ish aura. If only he had gone faster, defeated Saffron instead of playing with him when the fight started then maybe she would be alive. But, it was all his fault! He would give anything just to hear her call him baka again and hit him.
When his depression reached its peak, he did something he had never done before. "AKANE!!!" He ki shouted. His shout went over the bounds of the bounds of this demention to the next. He held her tighter to him as he whispered sadly. "Akane." Then he felt it.
A heartbeat!
He gasped and pulled away from her body to see her face. Her eyes fluttered open and murmured. "Shut up baka."
He sighed in relief.
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Jubban
Tokyo, Japan
Setsuna's Mansion
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Setsuna sipped her tea quietly as she listened to the two moon cats as they explained the weird dreams they were having.
It was quite amusing to her when she first met them, they didn't even remember their own godchild! But that was to be expected of course. It was only about a week after the princess told them that the kingdom was destroyed. She knew even now that the child of the princess was alive and well but she couldn't let the princess to meet the child yet when Setsuna had first seen her. No, that would be very disturbing to meet a child you had in the life before although meeting one from the future could be disturbing too, she thought with some amusement. Her princess had needed to grow up before she had them meet and soon it would be time for the two to meet. She realized she had tuned out the moon cats so she started to pay attention again.
"..and then the princess walked in and told us she was pregnant." Luna said in a shaky voice at the thought.
Setsuna put the tea cup in the saucer and looked at the two calmly. "Don't worry, Luna and Artemis. All will be explained in time."
She smiled secretly to herself at the frustrated faces of the cats. It was fun to be so mysterious and all-knowing when you didn't really know everything. Oh, she knew who the child was but it would be a shame to tell them now, no fun at all really.
Time warned her that the day of power was today so she knew it would only be a matter of days before the first meeting between him and Usagi-hime. Today, the prince was going to finally meet Earth and then he would except the power and destroy a god.
Her senses snapped to attention when she felt a huge rush of power off towards the west in China. She nodded to herself and picked up her tea cup to sip some more. It was going well, she noted. Everything was turning out the way it was suppose to.
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Well, this chapter is finish! ^.^ I hope you all enjoyed this, I know its not much but until I get to the part I want, it won't be too exciting yet. Let me warn you all this is NOT a Ranma/senshi pairing fic and it is NOT a Ranma/Akane fic.
Just to warn you all, I have no idea who I'm pairing Ranma with yet but I'll figure it out soon! ^.^
-AlantisB