Tenchi Muyo! : Episode 3- No Need for Everyday Life!
Patrick woke up rather early one day he had to take a minute to remember what had happened a week ago. "Urg" Patrick got up and walked out to go to the bathroom. On the way he saw Nobuyuki "Urg" he said not quite awake. "Eg" Patrick replied lazily changing course to the living room. A moment later Tenchi walked out of the bathroom "erg" he said before walking back to his room. Patrick sat rather heavily on the couch and waited for his turn to use the bathroom. He looked out the sliding glass door which overlooked the lake outback. He noticed that Ryoko was hovering above the water before sliding underneath easily. "Wonder what she's up to?" He said lazily not putting much thought into it. "Hey, hey rise and shine cat-man!" Out of absolutely nowhere a small noisy bat appeared who was simply too happy for the time of day. Patrick groaned and attempted to swat Demonta away. "Hey stop that, when is breakfast?" Demonta asked avoiding Patrick's half-hearted attempts to hit him. "Urg" Patrick said too tired to speak correctly. "Ah... okay later!" Demonta said flying up towards his spot in the rafters. Ryoko suddenly appeared next to Patrick on the couch "Tenchi how ar...Wait you're Patrick sorry." she said disappearing again. Patrick was not very surprised at this since Ryoko mistook the Tenchi and him on two times since they came to the house. But he thought he saw something black and round in her arms. "Urg" Patrick said lying down on the couch. "Come on Ayeka come downstairs" came a voice from the top of the stairs. "Too... early... to be host" Patrick uttered through a pillow. Sasami and Ayeka came down the stairs shortly after that. "Patrick, Patrick are you awake?" Sasami asked poking the back of his head. "Yes what is it?" he said lifting his head up slightly. "Do you know where Tenchi is?" Sasami asked. "Hmm how about don't know, don't care now I need to get some coffee to wake up." Patrick said getting up and walking to the kitchen. "How rude I wonder if he's always like that" Ayeka retorted under her breath. Patrick was in the kitchen for a few minutes before coming back out with a cup of coffee. "Now will you be a little nicer now that you have your coffee?" Ayeka asked. "Hmm yes where is Tenchi, since I don't have a camera system around the house I'll have to use my ESP to locate him...hmm...hmm.... he is in his room getting dressed and will be down shortly" Patrick said sipping his coffee. "Wow you can tell all that using ESP?" Sasami asked astonished. "No from living with him." Patrick said realizing that sometime during the conversation Ryoko had taken his spot on the couch. "Ryoko you're on the couch" Patrick said. "So what?" Ryoko said still holding the black ball. "You're on the couch, you're on my spot on the couch" Patrick said ignoring her. "So you got..." "You're on the couch" "but I..." "You're on the couch" "Fine I'll get up… you're starting to freak me out anyway" Ryoko said teleporting to next to the stairs as Patrick reclaimed his spot. "Hey Ryoko what's that you got there?" Sasami asked looking at the black orb intently. "It's an egg it was just born this morning… isn't it adorable!" Ryoko said hugging the egg. "Wow did you lay it?" Sasami asked incredously. At that moment Tenchi walked into the room. "Huh, Lady Ayeka?" He said considering she hadn't left her room for a week. "Oh my um thank you for your…hospitality for…. Jurai Royal Family um…anyway thank you very much." She said very quickly bowing at the end of it. "Wow it's warm" Sasami said now holding the egg. "Don't touch it you'll get germs from that!" Ayeka yelled. "But Ryoko's baby is going to be born and that something that I really want to see, so who's the father Ryoko are you married or something?" Sasami asked. "Yeah who's the father Ryoko" Demonta said from the rafters. "Well now…." Ryoko started to whisper in Sasami's ear. Suddenly her eyes went wide "Tenchi's the father!?" she blurted out. "What!!" Ayeka screamed. "Well Tenchi you sly devil and to do it right under my nose you little sneak" Patrick said now fully awake. "Wha what's everyone talking about?" Tenchi asked not understanding the situation. "That is certainly none of my business why don't you go over there and hold that egg with your monster woman!" Ayeka yelled pointing at Ryoko. "Egg what egg, Patrick what's going on?" Patrick shrugged "Don't know don't care this is you're party Tenchi." "Oh Tenchi I'm so happy, happy to bear a child with the man I love" Ryoko said teleporting next to him and handing him the egg "hold it now it won't be long" Tenchi was completely confounded by this and looked around for an reason. "Child wha… what… what is this some kind of joke?" Tenchi asked staring at the egg. Patrick got up and walked over. "Well looks like I'm an uncle now, brings a tear to my eye." Patrick said wiping off an imaginary tear. Suddenly the egg began to wobble and shake before cracking open with a hiss. "Ah wha AH!" Tenchi yelled dropping the egg. Fortunately Patrick had a little better reaction to it and grabbed the hatching egg before the contents were damaged. "Be proud Tenchi it's… um… it's… uh what is it?" Patrick asked looking at the strange furry creature that was emerging from the broken eggshell. "Meow, Meeeoowww" Everyone looked at the fuzzy rabbit-like creature that was now out of it's shell. It looked like a rabbit but had whiskers but meowed like a cat. It had chocolate brown fur with had a red gem on its forehead. Its ears were large like a rabbit's but had a catlike look to them. Its eyes were completely golden-brown with a black pupil. Ryoko walked over to Patrick and took the creature out of his hands. "Oh you're such a good little Ryo-Oki aren't you aren't you!" she said in a light baby-talk voice. Tenchi seemed to of just realized something important "Hey isn't that the name of you're spaceship… then that's the child of…" Ryoko suddenly burst into laughter. "Well I've seen weirder demons before" Demonta said flapping down and taking a look at Ryo-Oki. "This thing was that huge spaceship? Before I heard of this sort of thing from some smarter demons but this would just blow their minds all over hell and back." Demonta said examining the cabbit. "Can a spaceship have babies?" Sasami asked also looking at Ryo-Oki. "Yeah my spaceship was totaled so it reproduced itself, you must be crazy to think it's Tenchi's child." Ryoko said chuckeling. "Yeah I thought that was kinda strange." Sasami agreed. "Does this mean I'm not an uncle?" Patrick said looking hurt. "Yeah you can be its uncle just do this!" Demonta said taking off Patrick's bandana. With a small flask Patrick turned into his other form. "Hey you get back here with that!" "Come and get me!" Demonta said before flying into the rafters, which would of happened if Patrick hadn't jumped him and pinned him to the wall. "Now give back," Patrick said growling. "Okay" Demonta said holding out the bandana before him. "Hee hee" Demonta said before slipping out of Patrick's grasp and flying out an open window. "Arg it's to early to chase him." Patrick sighed sitting down on his spot on the couch. "This is so typical you're all making fun of me!" Ayeka fumed. "We're not making fun of you at least I'm not" Tenchi said putting his hand on the Princess's shoulder. "Don't touch me!" Ayeka yelled slapping Tenchi across the face. "Oooooohhhhh" Patrick said from the couch where he had curled up on a cushion. Ryo-Oki was imitating the motion in Ryoko's arms. Ayeka then ran out of the living room into the entry hall. Tenchi was looking at the door for a while before turning around into the face of Patrick. "WHA!" Tenchi said stumbling back. "You made her cry! The number one rule about woman is you don't make them cry!" Patrick yelled. "Sorry, sorry! Wait what do you care?" Tenchi asked looking at Patrick. "I don't really just have to do something." Patrick said before jumping back to his place on the couch and curling back up. "Hah that woman is so funny she really kills me." Ryoko said putting Ryo-Oki down on the couch. "Jeez, Ryoko don't you have any conscience at all I mean really." Tenchi said in a parental voice. "Oh Tenchi you're just so sweet, I mean caring about me like that really!" Ryoko said rubbing his chest. "Tenchi dear where's the sword?" Ryoko asked. "I gave it back to Ayeka, why?" Ryoko suddenly grabbed Tenchi by the shirt "YOU WHAT!! Tenchi that sword holds the source of all my powers, oh how could you Tenchi? " Ryoko started moaning while backing up... right... into... Kashuhito who had just came out of the entryway. "My my the second young lady to run into me today I must be lucky." He said holding Ryoko. "Grandpa I'm shocked," Tenchi said in an annoyed voice. "RRRAAARRRGGG" Ryoko yelled breaking free and then tried to punch Kashuhito who blocked it with the flat of his hand. "Hmm that's a spry young lady you got their Tenchi." He said with a smile. Kashuhito walked over to Ryo-Oki and Sasami who were playing together on the other side of the couch leaving a bewildered Ryoko looking at her fist. "So this is Tenchi's child or so I hear?" he said rubbing Ryo-Oki's chin. "That's not my child grandpa." Tenchi said angrily. "Now now Tenchi one must take responsibility for their offspring." Kashuhito said wagging his finger. "But it's… oh forget it!" Tenchi said walking out the door to the entryway. "Don't forget practice this afternoon Tenchi." Kashuhito yelled after him. "Hmm?" Kashuhito looked at the sleeping, curled up form of Patrick. A smile formed on the old man's face. He lowered his face down to one of Patrick's ears and… "BOO!!" "WHA!" Patrick woke up rather quickly and ran wildly around before calming down and falling of the wall that he had latched onto. "What was that for grandpa?!" he yelled still breathing heavily. "For being a slouch around your niece." Kashuhito said guesturing at Ryo-Oki. "Grr I'm going to go catch Demonta you crazy old man." Patrick muttered before bounding out of the room though the sliding glass door. "You also remember practice this afternoon." Kashuhito yelled after him. BOOM!! Everyone in the room turned around to see that Ryoko had punched out the stairs and was now looking at her fist again. "Well look what you're meddling did this time old man." Patrick said running out towards the lake. Ryo-Oki watched for a moment before running after him. Patrick got over to the lake when he suddenly decided that he was still tired and curled up near to the shore on a rock. Shortly later Ayeka walked over to the shore looking out towards the sunken shattered remains of her ship the Ryo-Oh. "Hmm" Ayeka mumbled downcast. Unknown to her she had stopped just next to Patrick's sleeping postion. Also unknown to her Ryo-Oki has coming up behide her and rubbed against her leg to try to cheer her up. "AHHHH!" "WAH!" Unfortunately Patrick had always been a light sleeper. The next few minutes consisted of Ayeka jumping around and Patrick trying to detach himself from a nearby tree. "Jeez can't a guy get some sleep!?" Patrick yelled from his perch. "You all just leave me alone!" Ayeka yelled stomping away towards the forest mumbling something about cats. "Meow Meow?" Ryo-Oki said looking at Patrick. "Don't know lets follow!" Patrick said before looking at Ryo-Oki strangely. "Um... did I just understand you?" Patrick said wide-eyed. "Meow!" Ryo-Oki replied happily. "Um, yeah, whatever lets go!" Patrick and Ryo-Oki followed Ayeka deep into the woods before finally catching up to her. Then Patrick looked up at the sky. "Uh oh it's almost noon I'd better get to training with grandpa!" Patrick said racing off towards the temple making sure that he couldn't see Demonta anywhere. Arriving a little ahead of time he appeared to of decided to take another nap, curling up on a rock. Before....." BOO!" "WWWAAAHHH!" Patrick jumped up and into a tree before looking at what disturbed him. "Huh?" Patrick said bewildered, as there was noone there. "You know the night is for sleep Patrick." a voice from behide him said. "WAH!" Patrick yelped jumping out of the tree and away from his grandfather. "Jeez couldn't you just wake me up normally?!" Patrick said irritably. "No, and now that your awake and early HAH!" Kashuhito yelled jumping at Patrick with a bokken in hand. "Hey I'm not armed yet AHH!" Patrick yelled dodging the blows. "Whats wrong Patrick your movements are off" Kaskuhito said stopping his assault. "My back just doesn't feel right" Patrick said rubbing his lower back. "Your back eh?" Kashuhito said jumping behide Patrick and slashing downward with the bokken. RRIIPP! "AH! What the?" Patrick said jumping away "What was that about !!??" Patrick yelled holding the ripped seat of his pants. "Um Patrick when did you get a tail?" Tenchi said coming up behide them. "Tail? Huh? What?" Patrick said looking behide him. Sure enough there was a puffy black tail coming out of the tear. "Well you could of told me before you went and did that!" Patrick said looking at Kashuhito. "Yes but where would the fun in that be?" He said with a simle."Grrr." "Well then now that we're all here and Patrick's back trouble is solved lets get going." Kashuhito said smirking at the two boys expressions.
(2 tiring hour later) Patrick had shown that he did have superior speed in his cat form but had a low stamina and got tired out very quickly. Currently Tenchi and Grandpa were training sword-fighting tactics and Patrick was (of course) sleeping on a rock. The sword fighting routine went on till... "Um excuse me sir I...WAH, AHHHHH!" whoever it was had lost there footing and fallen down the hill. "OUCH!" Tenchi yelled when Kashuhito hit him on the head while he was distracted. "Was that part of the training?" Tenchi yelled accusingly at Kashuhito. "Hmm…no" he replied simply. Tenchi sighed and went over to where he heard the noise. Looking down revealed Ayeka trying to pick herself off the ground with an injured ankle. Kashuhito followed shortly after. "Hmm looks bad, Tenchi carry Ayeka home on your back and Patrick you go too." Kashuhito said refering to the cat-human currently attached to the top of a tree. "Yeah, sure, okay" a not quite awake Patrick replied slowly sliding down the tree that he had latched onto. Tenchi then was delegated the task of carrying Ayeka and Patrick was delegated the task of carrying everything else. "At least it's lighter than the Princess" Patrick grumbled carrying the bokkens and lunches for them. It seemed that Ayeka had very good hearing. "WHAT!? Are you saying I'm overweight?" Ayeka yelled turning her head around. "Um....well..I...uh" any other conversation was cut short by Demonta flying right into Patrick's face. "AH! Uh oh." Demonta said before flying off in another direction. "Yeah, uh oh is right!!" Patrick yelled dropping all the stuff and giving chase to the rapidly disappearing demon. "Oh well" Tenchi sighed picking up all the dropped equipment and starting back again.
(15 minutes later) "*Huff* You get *Puff* back here you *wheeze* thing." Patrick said still running after Demonta. After 15 minutes Patrick had gained considerable distance but it had started to rain and Patrick was getting very tired. "Hah hah hah!" Demonta said turning around to fly backwards. "You couldn't catch a toad you weakling!" Unfortunately Demonta, flying backwards, wasn't looking where he was going and hit the window of a shed with a dull THUD! Patrick too tired to care jumped at the window and then went though the window. Right into... "OUCH, JEEZ!" Tenchi. "Patrick what are you doing?" Tenchi asked getting up from under Patrick. His question, though, fell on deaf ears as Patrick had fallen on the floor clutching his black bandana in one hand, and an unconscious Demonta in the other. "I don't belive it he's asleep again." Tenchi said looking down at Patrick. "Well I must say I wasn't expecting that to happen." Ayeka said from her seat on a table. The shed was a normal wooden shack with many farming tools, wood and some vegetables. Tenchi had started a small fire in the middle of the shed and moved Patrick closer to it. "So Ayeka what are you going to do now?" Tenchi asked trying to start conversation. "Well I originally came here to search for my half-brother Yosho." Ayeka said warming her hands on the fire. "But like I said the legend says that Yosho died a long time ago." Tenchi added in. "Yes I know." Ayeka said sadly. "I...I was engaged to marry him, on Earth you might think it strange to marry your half-brother or sister but on Jurai it is a accepted practice." Ayeka said tears beginning to form in her eyes. " Our parents may have arranged the marriage but I was happy with it and....and now...I just don't know what to do anymore!" Ayeka said bursting into tears. Sometime during this Patrick had woken up and after putting the bandana on, transforming to his original self, and locking Demonta in a box. He got up and said "Well we are his ancestors so maybe grandpa knows something more about him, I mean being an old slave driver does have it's advantages." Patrick said with a grin. Tenchi punched Patrick in the arm and then added his own comment. " What Patrick meant to say was that it's kinda our fault, if we didn't release Ryoko then none of this would of happened." Tenchi said looking right at Ayeka. "Yeah it's all our.... wait one second you were the one that talked me into going with you." Patrick said looking at Tenchi accusingly. "Um yeah well who's the bigger fool the fool or the one who follows the fool?" Tenchi shot back. "The original fool because the other guy knows that the fool will get himself in so much trouble without him." Patrick said with a grin. "Yeah... well... uh... your hair's a mess!" Tenchi said quickly. "No more than you're room!" Patrick retorted. The next minute was degenerated into meaningless insults. Ayeka looked at the two and giggled at their antics. "How about you to say something nice to each other for a change?" Ayeka suggested. Both brothers stopped and looked at Ayeka then at each other. "Fine, Patrick your hair is actually kinda cool." Tenchi said extending his hand. Patrick shook Tenchi's hand saying, "Yeah well I always admired your brother" with a grin. "Yeah well..... HEY!" Tenchi said finally realizing what he said. The impending argument was cut short by a "Meow?" as Ryo-Oki trotted into the center of the shack. "Meow meow!" she said running over to a box on the other side of the shed. "Meow!" she said poking it with a paw. "Now what's in there?" Tenchi asked opening it. "Carrots? So you like carrots?" Tenchi asked holding up the orange vegetable. "Meow!" Ryo-Oki replied standing on her hind legs trying to reach it. "Okay...go get it!" Tenchi said tossing the carrot across the shed. "Meow! Meow!" Ryo-Oki said running over to it and then eating the whole thing rather quickly. "Well we found her favorite." Patrick said looking out the window. "Hey it stopped raining I'm going back to the house see ya!" Patrick said before running out the door.
(5 minutes later) Patrick arrived back at the house nearly running into Sasami and Ryoko who were just leaving. "Hey whoa where are you to going?" Patrick asked stopping just infront of them. To find Ayeka and Tenchi and now that your here I don't have to baby-sit anymore" Ryoko said before disappearing. "Oh... um Patrick do you mind going to help me find them?" Sasami pleaded. Patrick looked thoughtful for a moment "Yeah sure they should be coming back so lets just go and catch them halfway?" Patrick said turning around and walking back into the forest. Sasami caught up to him and kept pace. "Thanks Patrick." she said smiling at him. " Your welcome." Patrick replied. "You know you're not the same rude, disrespectful person I thought you out to be." Sasami said trying to make conversation. "Yeah it's only in the mornings and when we run out of coffee." Patrick said half-heartedly. "Really and why is it that you, Tenchi, and Nobuyuki only grunt at each other in the mornings?" Sasami asked. "That is one of the only male secrets you woman haven't figured out." Patrick said with a laugh. "Oh... well... hey isn't that Ryo-Oki?" Sasami said running ahead to meet the cabbit. "Huh maybe I scared her, oh well." Patrick sighed running after her. "Meow meow meow!" Ryo-Oki said pointing towards a large tree in the distance. "Huh so they're at the Holy Tree of the Masaki shrine eh?" Patrick said looking off in the distance. "You can understand her?" Sasami asked. "Sort of… oh well let's go." Patrick said starting his walk towards the tree. The sun was still high in the sky and it was a clear day. From on top of the hill that they were walking down they had a clear view of the forest. There were trees everywhere and one could rarely see a gap between them save for the path they walked on. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the scenery was breathtaking. "Wow Earth is so beautiful!" Sasami exclaimed looking around. All around them they could hear birds of one sort or another chirping away. "Yeah I guess when you get used to it you just don't really notice it." Patrick said looking around. Sasami looked at Patrick for a little after he said that before returning her gaze to the trees.
(A short while later) When they had gotten there they had just seen a rather impressive light show with rainbow-like beam shooting out from the base of the tree. It stopped only seconds after they got there. The tree itself was huge in both height and width. Its braches were like a normal tree except the drooped at the ends. The tree was at the center of a small pond that had a line of stepping-stones leading to it. A small island had formed in the center where the tree stood. That was where Tenchi and Ayeka stood. "Ayeka!" Sasami said running across the stones to her sister. "Sasami! Did you come all this way yourself?" Ayeka asked protectively. "No Patrick came with me, and Ryo-Oki met us half-way." Sasami replied. "Thank you Lord Patrick" Ayeka said bowing. "Ah quit it with the lord stuff it might go to my head." Patrick said sheepishly. "What doesn't?" Tenchi asked smiling. "Hey you!" Patrick said jumping over and looking Tenchi in the eyes. "What's that supposed to mean?" Patrick asked menacingly. "Actually I have no idea I just felt like saying it" Tenchi said uneasily. "Oh well then you're fine!" Patrick said giving Tenchi a hearty slap on the back. "WAH!" Tenchi yelled as he fell into the pond. "BWA HA HA HA HA HA!" Patrick broke into a fit of laughter while Tenchi pulled himself out. Soon though the laugh spread around the group as Ayeka, Sasami and even Tenchi joined in. "Alright already enough with all the hysterics." Ryoko said hovering just above the water then She then teleported next to Tenchi. "Hah! So Tenchi what are you doing with this unworthy girl anyway hmm?" Ryoko said leaning on Tenchi's shoulder. Ryoko then saw that Tenchi had the sword hilt. "Ah Tenchi you got the sword back! Well done my boy!" Ryoko exclaimed patting Tenchi's shoulder approvingly. "Actually I gave it to him for your information." Ayeka said teasingly. "Huh?" Ryoko said looking at Tenchi and then back at Ayeka. "Okay so your pissed we got it back and there's no use lying to me." "But it's true Ryoko." Tenchi said. "Lord Tenchi and I are related by blood and anyway it's none of you're business really." Ayeka said haughtily. "Well actually she said that that sword had her power source so technically..." Patrick began. "Now finally someone who sees things my way!"Ryoko said patting Patrick on the shoulder. "Wait since when is it a sword?" Patrick said confused. "It's a Jurian light sword called "Tenchi" it belonged to my half-brother, Yosho." Ayeka explained. "Oh... okay anyway let's go back and have dinner!" They all agreed and made their way back to the house together.
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"Oh how am I going to get out of here, PATRICK!!!!" yelled a voice from inside a small, locked, box in a shed. ;)