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own this fic! So relax, have a pickle..
A/N: Chapter Two is up! Please read/review, I hardly ever do holiday fics and I really need some reviews! Arigato!
Ryoko shot up in bed, "N-no, this isn't happening." She summoned her energy sword and held it at Kagato's neck, "Your dead! Tenchi killed you some time ago!" In fear she grasped her sword and cut it clean across Kagato's neck, he just smiled and grabbed her hand, his touch was cold and his expression was menacing. "Ah! If it isn't Ryoko whom I was sent to warn, you are selfish aren't you, but that's mostly my fault."
Ryoko was scared now, she turned her sword to another angle and whisked it across his hand, the limb came off but he just smiled maliciously and blinked, it re-attached itself! "You see my dear Ryoko, I am dead, but my punishment for being evil is to wear this chain and warn those whom I cast my evilness upon." Ryoko shook her head, afraid, but Kagato blinked and her energy sword disappeared! "No need for such useless things, I'm already dead." He sighed and sat down on her bed, Ryoko made a mental note to ask Sasami to wash those sheets. Seeing that Kagato could do nothing to her she sat down, but a VERY reasonable distance away from him.
"Ryoko," He said, "Do you see this chain I wear? I forged it during life, subconsciously making it link by link, wire by wire." Ryoko looked down, it was made of some machinery that was used to control her in the past, this reminded Ryoko of whom she was speaking to and she went back onto her guard. "Kagato, why are you here? I've hated you every minute of every day, and now you return to re-ignite that hatred!" She cried, but Kagato simply rolled his eyes. "Ryoko, silence yourself." Ryoko shut her mouth, it seemed even in death Kagato still had that power over her, the power to maneuver fear. Kagato went on, "I am here to warn you, no matter how much I detest it, that if you do not change your ways your fate shall be like mine. You shall wear the chain you forged in life, and bear it while traveling the Earth trying to right your wrongs but having no luck." Ryoko grimaced at him, "You were far more malicious than I ever was, leave me NOW." Kagato rolled his eyes once more and sighed, "Very well, but heed this, you will be visited by three beings this night, listen to their word or perish a destructible fate." At that Kagato blinked and disappeared.
Ryoko was terrified, she collapsed into a chair and started trembling, "Why me?" She cried, she had far much more dignity than to sob over her past, "Why now?" She had an even more fretful sleep after Kagato's visit, the dreams were now justified, what he did to her was now imprinted in her mind. She was twitching uncontrollably in that soft velvet chair when the Old Grandfather Clock chimed. One, two, three, four. Ryoko counted the rings silently.. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve! It was midnight! Ryoko was sitting up in the chair when the curtains of her room were drawn back and light flashed through the room! There beside the drawn curtains stood Little Washu, dressed in her Goddess Garb.
"Little Washu?" She asked, Washu was shining with a pink light that almost blinded Ryoko. "Little Washu? What is wrong with you?" Washu sighed and began growing out of her child form, there the real Washu stood smirking at Ryoko, "Ha! It's Washu the Goddess now, but for you small- minded Ryoko, you can call me the Goddess of Christmas Past." Ryoko blinked, "Huh?"
Washu ignored her and the pink light shined even brighter, "Ryoko I am here for your reclamation," Washu was growing in and out of her child form, it was odd watching her. (If you read the REAL Christmas Carol, The Ghost of Christmas Past does change physically very often.) "Ryoko, just take my hand, I'll show you your long past, the one you never remembered, past the monstrous Kagato." Ryoko stood up uncertainly and grasped Washu's hand, "Washu, I don't trust you but I'm curious, I had nothing past the time Kagato made me!" Washu groaned angrily, "THAT MONSTER! I MADE YOU! I'M YOU MOTHER!" Ryoko was about to retort but Washu grabbed her hand and dragged her across the room, soon they were in a lab much like Washu's but the machinery was different...
"Where are we?" Ryoko asked, Washu just smiled, "The place of your creation." She led Ryoko to an area full of test tubes, the pink aura was shining brighter than ever and Ryoko begged her to rid herself of it, Washu just shook her head. In the test tube area there was a ton of machinery, Ryoko looked at Washu questionably and Washu just smiled, pointing at one of the test tubes. Inside a small cyan baby was curled up, Ryoko looked at it, the baby was sucking it's thumb and reaching for Past Washu, it obviously knew that she was it's mother. Past Washu walked over and cooed at the baby, "I'm sorry little Ryoko, but it's not time to come out yet, when you do we'll have a big happy family! Just you and me!" The baby giggled and Ryoko looked at the Goddess Washu, "Is that me?" She asked, Washu simply nodded, then grinned. "You know, I really tried to be like a mother to you, I even made you look like me!" Washu reached out and touched Ryoko's nose, Ryoko wanted to pull away but Washu was so gentle, "I gave you my cute little nose," Then Washu pointed at her hair, "And my useful spiky hair, I too can use it as a weapon." She grinned and looked down at the floor, "But I decided to make yours cyan because the color was beautiful, and you wouldn't believe how much ridicule pink-haired geniuses go through." Ryoko was about to say something but Washu silenced her., "It's time for your next memory."
Ryoko sighed and grasped her hand, soon they were in a room where a certain spiky-haired toddler was giggling about her mother's classroom. (I don't know what I'm saying.) "Now when mixing neophyte and hieroglyphic plastics, you end up with the formula 'a/b 89(OC)' And therefore.." Past Washu's voice boomed from the podium, oblivious to the fact her child was storming around the lab. The students were smiling at the toddler and one gave her a lolly-pop, Ryoko giggled in delight and hugged the man's hand. "Is that really me?" Ryoko asked staring at the joyful toddler, Washu merely nodded, "Yes, you were quite a happy one in your baby years." She sighed wistfully and continued viewing the memory before them. Little Ryoko flounced about until she came upon a set of test tubes full of sizzling chemicals. "Eeee!" She giggled and picked up a tong, accidentally clamping it onto her nose. "W-waa!" Ryoko cried trying to get the tool off of her, she flailed her arms while she screamed causing the whole classroom to turn and watch her. "WAAA!!!!" Ryoko cried louder, she was beginning to turn blue with lack of oxygen, she flailed her arms more and Past Washu ran down from her podium, "Little Ryoko!" She cried then Ryoko kicked over a test tube and it melded into another one, Past Washu gasped in shock and dove for her child. The whole class hid under their desks while Past Washu rolled with her child until they hit a table, soon after the test tubes exploded causing the whole room to go black. Washu un-clamped her nose and sighed, "Class Dismissed." As the students bustled out Washu began scolding her Little Ryoko, but not before giving her a hug with tears brimming her eyes, she said she didn't know what she'd do if she lost her Little Ryoko.
Ryoko sighed longingly and looked at the Goddess beside her, a single tear formed in her eye, she wiped it away afraid of her dignity, and about what she was fixing to say. "Washu.. You really loved me, and I didn't even return the emotions..." Washu just sighed, the expression she had was longing and she grasped Ryoko's wrist with maternal instinct. "Come, there are more memories that you must see." After taking her hand they were in a new time and place, an older Ryoko, around twelve was at Junior High, she was leaning on her locker and her eyes were full of tears that she tried to maintain. A girl with blonde hair and a sneering expression walked up to her and held her collar, "Ha! If it isn't Ryoko! It seems that Little Miss I'm-So-Sure-Of-Myself has just been shot down! You know, the next time you try to ask a boy out consult with her girlfriend first!" The blonde girl laughed and threw Ryoko into her locker, she was about three years older than Ryoko so this was not really fair. The girl lifted Ryoko up again and sighed, "Ah well, you didn't have a chance with him in the first place, you are a MACHINE after all." This hit Ryoko square in the heart, she was never called a 'machine' before and she didn't know how to respond. "I'm not a machine," She straightened herself her voice shaky, "And I have every right to find love, without listening to this." The girl scoffed her, "Believe what you wish, but you'll never be able to ensnare a boy, especially the way you can't handle yourself." Ryoko clenched her fists and pulled away from her. "I can handle myself! Just not my temper!" At that Ryoko punched the girl in the nose, as blood poured from her Ryoko vanished, she had been teleported away. "Ha! Serves her right!" Ryoko cheered from the sidelines, as the scene changed abruptly, there Washu was disciplining her child for hitting a girl. "Violence is not the way out you know," The lecture had gone on for an hour now, after Washu had teleported her home and Ryoko sighed looking at the floor, "I understand, Washu-san. But she called me a machine! She said I had no right to find love." Washu listened intently and her eyes filled with maternal instinct. "Ryoko, my child, you are not a 'machine' and you have every right to live and love, don't let people tear your emotions away." Ryoko cried into her mothers collar, "I know but." Washu held her tighter, "Don't ever, for you will always be my child."
From across the room the other Ryoko and Washu watched, Ryoko was trembling, "After all I was put through, after all I did, you still loved me.." Ryoko whispered and Washu sighed, "I'm sorry for overloading your memories in one day, but there is still one more you must see, this the most disturbing of all." Washu grasped her hand and her aura shined so brightly it was blinding. They were soon in another memory, Ryoko and Washu were crammed up in a closet, Ryoko was trembling and Past Washu was holding her tightly. "Ryoko, don't let him take you from me, you are my child, and I will always love you." Washu sighed and stood up, a voice boomed over the system, "RYOKO! WASHU! I know you're here! Show yourselves!" The voice cried it was Kagato's, Washu turned to Ryoko. "Run far away, I will try to salvage what I can, he is not after me he is after you." Ryoko's lip shuddered, "But." Washu wasn't going to hear this, "Now is not the time my brave Ryoko! Go!" Ryoko nodded and bolted out of the closet running to the docking ports insistent on finding Ryo-ohki. Washu then ran to her lab, she was going to destroy all of Ryoko's memory files before it was too late! She ran to her computer and began hacking into the main files, deleting everything important to Ryoko's system, "Ryoko. I'm sorry but for now I must cut off the link we have, you must think on your own." Before Washu deleted the final, most important file she felt a sudden bolt in her back, she stood paralyzed, Kagato's voice penetrated her. "So it's Washu.. Trying to save your daughter? Well you are a little late I am afraid." She didn't believe his words, using all her energy she turned to face Kagato with Ryoko beside him, he was controlling her and she was young, too young to fight back. Kagato nodded, "Hmm. My dear, dear Ryoko I created you, I am your father. This is the monster who is trying to destroy you! See she was deleting your files!" He gestured to the computer and Ryoko's strangely blank eyes followed his gesture, she glared at Washu, "Father says that you are a betrayal to me, that you must be banished." Her eyes glittered with malice, and she reached out to Washu, slowly encasing her in a crystal force field. Washu gaped in horror, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" Washu screamed pain going through each limb, "BASTARD!" She cried and she was encased then disappeared, "Come my child," Kagato said, Ryoko followed dutifully, "She is on our ship, our little prisoner." His voice dripped with forced sweetness, but Ryoko was being controlled and was too brainwashed to fight. She followed him..
The Ryoko that was watching from the side gazed in horror, "He. I followed him.." For once, her eyes filled with tears and she let them flow freely, "I followed him." Ryoko grabbed Washu and sobbed, "Take me home! Please!" Washu sighed and blinked, soon they were in her bedroom and Ryoko collapsed in her chair, "I followed him." The words were still one her lips as she gazed at Washu, "WHY? WHY DID YOU PUT ME THROUGH THAT?!" Washu just cried, as the tears left her eyes the aura grew brighter, Ryoko grabbed a blanket and tried to shut it out but it just grew brighter she was soon blinded. The Goddesses' voice boomed, "You will soon be visited by the Goddess of Christmas Present, farewell my child." At that Washu vanished and Ryoko fell asleep in her chair, exhausted.
A/N: Like it? Well I promise to have it done before Christmas, but some good reviews would help! Ja!
A/N: Chapter Two is up! Please read/review, I hardly ever do holiday fics and I really need some reviews! Arigato!
Ryoko shot up in bed, "N-no, this isn't happening." She summoned her energy sword and held it at Kagato's neck, "Your dead! Tenchi killed you some time ago!" In fear she grasped her sword and cut it clean across Kagato's neck, he just smiled and grabbed her hand, his touch was cold and his expression was menacing. "Ah! If it isn't Ryoko whom I was sent to warn, you are selfish aren't you, but that's mostly my fault."
Ryoko was scared now, she turned her sword to another angle and whisked it across his hand, the limb came off but he just smiled maliciously and blinked, it re-attached itself! "You see my dear Ryoko, I am dead, but my punishment for being evil is to wear this chain and warn those whom I cast my evilness upon." Ryoko shook her head, afraid, but Kagato blinked and her energy sword disappeared! "No need for such useless things, I'm already dead." He sighed and sat down on her bed, Ryoko made a mental note to ask Sasami to wash those sheets. Seeing that Kagato could do nothing to her she sat down, but a VERY reasonable distance away from him.
"Ryoko," He said, "Do you see this chain I wear? I forged it during life, subconsciously making it link by link, wire by wire." Ryoko looked down, it was made of some machinery that was used to control her in the past, this reminded Ryoko of whom she was speaking to and she went back onto her guard. "Kagato, why are you here? I've hated you every minute of every day, and now you return to re-ignite that hatred!" She cried, but Kagato simply rolled his eyes. "Ryoko, silence yourself." Ryoko shut her mouth, it seemed even in death Kagato still had that power over her, the power to maneuver fear. Kagato went on, "I am here to warn you, no matter how much I detest it, that if you do not change your ways your fate shall be like mine. You shall wear the chain you forged in life, and bear it while traveling the Earth trying to right your wrongs but having no luck." Ryoko grimaced at him, "You were far more malicious than I ever was, leave me NOW." Kagato rolled his eyes once more and sighed, "Very well, but heed this, you will be visited by three beings this night, listen to their word or perish a destructible fate." At that Kagato blinked and disappeared.
Ryoko was terrified, she collapsed into a chair and started trembling, "Why me?" She cried, she had far much more dignity than to sob over her past, "Why now?" She had an even more fretful sleep after Kagato's visit, the dreams were now justified, what he did to her was now imprinted in her mind. She was twitching uncontrollably in that soft velvet chair when the Old Grandfather Clock chimed. One, two, three, four. Ryoko counted the rings silently.. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve! It was midnight! Ryoko was sitting up in the chair when the curtains of her room were drawn back and light flashed through the room! There beside the drawn curtains stood Little Washu, dressed in her Goddess Garb.
"Little Washu?" She asked, Washu was shining with a pink light that almost blinded Ryoko. "Little Washu? What is wrong with you?" Washu sighed and began growing out of her child form, there the real Washu stood smirking at Ryoko, "Ha! It's Washu the Goddess now, but for you small- minded Ryoko, you can call me the Goddess of Christmas Past." Ryoko blinked, "Huh?"
Washu ignored her and the pink light shined even brighter, "Ryoko I am here for your reclamation," Washu was growing in and out of her child form, it was odd watching her. (If you read the REAL Christmas Carol, The Ghost of Christmas Past does change physically very often.) "Ryoko, just take my hand, I'll show you your long past, the one you never remembered, past the monstrous Kagato." Ryoko stood up uncertainly and grasped Washu's hand, "Washu, I don't trust you but I'm curious, I had nothing past the time Kagato made me!" Washu groaned angrily, "THAT MONSTER! I MADE YOU! I'M YOU MOTHER!" Ryoko was about to retort but Washu grabbed her hand and dragged her across the room, soon they were in a lab much like Washu's but the machinery was different...
"Where are we?" Ryoko asked, Washu just smiled, "The place of your creation." She led Ryoko to an area full of test tubes, the pink aura was shining brighter than ever and Ryoko begged her to rid herself of it, Washu just shook her head. In the test tube area there was a ton of machinery, Ryoko looked at Washu questionably and Washu just smiled, pointing at one of the test tubes. Inside a small cyan baby was curled up, Ryoko looked at it, the baby was sucking it's thumb and reaching for Past Washu, it obviously knew that she was it's mother. Past Washu walked over and cooed at the baby, "I'm sorry little Ryoko, but it's not time to come out yet, when you do we'll have a big happy family! Just you and me!" The baby giggled and Ryoko looked at the Goddess Washu, "Is that me?" She asked, Washu simply nodded, then grinned. "You know, I really tried to be like a mother to you, I even made you look like me!" Washu reached out and touched Ryoko's nose, Ryoko wanted to pull away but Washu was so gentle, "I gave you my cute little nose," Then Washu pointed at her hair, "And my useful spiky hair, I too can use it as a weapon." She grinned and looked down at the floor, "But I decided to make yours cyan because the color was beautiful, and you wouldn't believe how much ridicule pink-haired geniuses go through." Ryoko was about to say something but Washu silenced her., "It's time for your next memory."
Ryoko sighed and grasped her hand, soon they were in a room where a certain spiky-haired toddler was giggling about her mother's classroom. (I don't know what I'm saying.) "Now when mixing neophyte and hieroglyphic plastics, you end up with the formula 'a/b 89(OC)' And therefore.." Past Washu's voice boomed from the podium, oblivious to the fact her child was storming around the lab. The students were smiling at the toddler and one gave her a lolly-pop, Ryoko giggled in delight and hugged the man's hand. "Is that really me?" Ryoko asked staring at the joyful toddler, Washu merely nodded, "Yes, you were quite a happy one in your baby years." She sighed wistfully and continued viewing the memory before them. Little Ryoko flounced about until she came upon a set of test tubes full of sizzling chemicals. "Eeee!" She giggled and picked up a tong, accidentally clamping it onto her nose. "W-waa!" Ryoko cried trying to get the tool off of her, she flailed her arms while she screamed causing the whole classroom to turn and watch her. "WAAA!!!!" Ryoko cried louder, she was beginning to turn blue with lack of oxygen, she flailed her arms more and Past Washu ran down from her podium, "Little Ryoko!" She cried then Ryoko kicked over a test tube and it melded into another one, Past Washu gasped in shock and dove for her child. The whole class hid under their desks while Past Washu rolled with her child until they hit a table, soon after the test tubes exploded causing the whole room to go black. Washu un-clamped her nose and sighed, "Class Dismissed." As the students bustled out Washu began scolding her Little Ryoko, but not before giving her a hug with tears brimming her eyes, she said she didn't know what she'd do if she lost her Little Ryoko.
Ryoko sighed longingly and looked at the Goddess beside her, a single tear formed in her eye, she wiped it away afraid of her dignity, and about what she was fixing to say. "Washu.. You really loved me, and I didn't even return the emotions..." Washu just sighed, the expression she had was longing and she grasped Ryoko's wrist with maternal instinct. "Come, there are more memories that you must see." After taking her hand they were in a new time and place, an older Ryoko, around twelve was at Junior High, she was leaning on her locker and her eyes were full of tears that she tried to maintain. A girl with blonde hair and a sneering expression walked up to her and held her collar, "Ha! If it isn't Ryoko! It seems that Little Miss I'm-So-Sure-Of-Myself has just been shot down! You know, the next time you try to ask a boy out consult with her girlfriend first!" The blonde girl laughed and threw Ryoko into her locker, she was about three years older than Ryoko so this was not really fair. The girl lifted Ryoko up again and sighed, "Ah well, you didn't have a chance with him in the first place, you are a MACHINE after all." This hit Ryoko square in the heart, she was never called a 'machine' before and she didn't know how to respond. "I'm not a machine," She straightened herself her voice shaky, "And I have every right to find love, without listening to this." The girl scoffed her, "Believe what you wish, but you'll never be able to ensnare a boy, especially the way you can't handle yourself." Ryoko clenched her fists and pulled away from her. "I can handle myself! Just not my temper!" At that Ryoko punched the girl in the nose, as blood poured from her Ryoko vanished, she had been teleported away. "Ha! Serves her right!" Ryoko cheered from the sidelines, as the scene changed abruptly, there Washu was disciplining her child for hitting a girl. "Violence is not the way out you know," The lecture had gone on for an hour now, after Washu had teleported her home and Ryoko sighed looking at the floor, "I understand, Washu-san. But she called me a machine! She said I had no right to find love." Washu listened intently and her eyes filled with maternal instinct. "Ryoko, my child, you are not a 'machine' and you have every right to live and love, don't let people tear your emotions away." Ryoko cried into her mothers collar, "I know but." Washu held her tighter, "Don't ever, for you will always be my child."
From across the room the other Ryoko and Washu watched, Ryoko was trembling, "After all I was put through, after all I did, you still loved me.." Ryoko whispered and Washu sighed, "I'm sorry for overloading your memories in one day, but there is still one more you must see, this the most disturbing of all." Washu grasped her hand and her aura shined so brightly it was blinding. They were soon in another memory, Ryoko and Washu were crammed up in a closet, Ryoko was trembling and Past Washu was holding her tightly. "Ryoko, don't let him take you from me, you are my child, and I will always love you." Washu sighed and stood up, a voice boomed over the system, "RYOKO! WASHU! I know you're here! Show yourselves!" The voice cried it was Kagato's, Washu turned to Ryoko. "Run far away, I will try to salvage what I can, he is not after me he is after you." Ryoko's lip shuddered, "But." Washu wasn't going to hear this, "Now is not the time my brave Ryoko! Go!" Ryoko nodded and bolted out of the closet running to the docking ports insistent on finding Ryo-ohki. Washu then ran to her lab, she was going to destroy all of Ryoko's memory files before it was too late! She ran to her computer and began hacking into the main files, deleting everything important to Ryoko's system, "Ryoko. I'm sorry but for now I must cut off the link we have, you must think on your own." Before Washu deleted the final, most important file she felt a sudden bolt in her back, she stood paralyzed, Kagato's voice penetrated her. "So it's Washu.. Trying to save your daughter? Well you are a little late I am afraid." She didn't believe his words, using all her energy she turned to face Kagato with Ryoko beside him, he was controlling her and she was young, too young to fight back. Kagato nodded, "Hmm. My dear, dear Ryoko I created you, I am your father. This is the monster who is trying to destroy you! See she was deleting your files!" He gestured to the computer and Ryoko's strangely blank eyes followed his gesture, she glared at Washu, "Father says that you are a betrayal to me, that you must be banished." Her eyes glittered with malice, and she reached out to Washu, slowly encasing her in a crystal force field. Washu gaped in horror, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" Washu screamed pain going through each limb, "BASTARD!" She cried and she was encased then disappeared, "Come my child," Kagato said, Ryoko followed dutifully, "She is on our ship, our little prisoner." His voice dripped with forced sweetness, but Ryoko was being controlled and was too brainwashed to fight. She followed him..
The Ryoko that was watching from the side gazed in horror, "He. I followed him.." For once, her eyes filled with tears and she let them flow freely, "I followed him." Ryoko grabbed Washu and sobbed, "Take me home! Please!" Washu sighed and blinked, soon they were in her bedroom and Ryoko collapsed in her chair, "I followed him." The words were still one her lips as she gazed at Washu, "WHY? WHY DID YOU PUT ME THROUGH THAT?!" Washu just cried, as the tears left her eyes the aura grew brighter, Ryoko grabbed a blanket and tried to shut it out but it just grew brighter she was soon blinded. The Goddesses' voice boomed, "You will soon be visited by the Goddess of Christmas Present, farewell my child." At that Washu vanished and Ryoko fell asleep in her chair, exhausted.
A/N: Like it? Well I promise to have it done before Christmas, but some good reviews would help! Ja!
