Lightning Strikes Twice 3
Yuffie Valentine
'I can't believe it, first Lita with lightning and then her friend with Moonbeams.' Ranma thought to himself. She looked at Lita.
"Ah, Lita, can we go, I am not feeling so good." Ranma said as she put her hand to her forehead as if to faint. Lita helped Ranma up.
"Oh, you aren't looking so good. I think we should stop by my house and fix you some warm herbal tea. That'll make you feel better." Lita said. She helped Ranma as they walked down the street to her apartment.
Meanwhile, across town…
"RANMA!" Akane yelled out. It was almost dinnertime and he was missing. She hadn't seen since this morning, he wasn't in class all day. She sat down on a bench; she heard a voice calling out.
"LITA! WHERE ARE YOU!?" Ukyo came up with a worried look on her face.
"Ukyo? Is your sister missing too?" Akane asked. Ukyo nodded. "Ranma is missing. You don't think he started a fight with Lita? She did beat him and he gets defensive about that."
"I don't know, Lita would have come home if it were just a fight and so would Ranma." Ukyo said. Just then a very pissed Shampoo came charging up.
"Shampoo want to know where Ranma went with his new girl?" Shampoo growled and stomped her foot down.
"New girl?" Akane and Ukyo said at the same time.
"She tall looks like spatula girl. Great Grand-Mother say them running away hand in hand." Shampoo said, tears building up.
"Lita?" Ukyo said, "She wouldn't do that to me, she's my sister. She wouldn't steal my man."
"She not stealing boy-Ranma, she was running hand in hand with girl-Ranma!" Shampoo sobbed out. "Ranma is trying out his girl side!"
"What?" Akane said, "You don't think that Ranma in girl form and Lita are?"
"…"
"Wow, Lita this tea is really good!" Ranma said. Lita smiled. A blush came to Ranma's face; Lita was getting cuter by the minute.
"Thanks, it means a lot when my friend's like my food." Lita said and put the teakettle down on the table and took her tea bag and began to soak it.
"Friend?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah, we are friends right?" Lita asked. "I mean, I only have a few, but I think you are one of them now."
"Lita….I…." Ranma said. He knew that he would have to tell her sooner or later. If later, it would crush her trust in friends. Lita seemed like a sweet girl. "Lita there is something I need to tell you. Friends are supposed to tell each other everything right? Even if they have a secret side?"
"Yeah?" Lita said. She couldn't believe. Ranko some how knew she was Sailor Jupiter. "Oh Ranko, don't be mad, I can't tell all my friends, or it wouldn't be a secret. It would be dangerous, it's for your own good I didn't tell you."
"Huh?" Ranma said.
"Well, just keep the whole Sailor Jupiter thing between you and me, okay?" Lita said.
"What? Sailor Jupiter? You are Sailor Jupiter?" Ranma sputtered out. Lita pulled back.
"You mean that isn't what you were talking about?" Lita gasped.
"No, but now that explains the lightning aura!' Ranma said. Lita looked at her funny.
"You can see battle auras?" Lita asked. Ranma stood up.
"Lita, I am not Ranko. This is my secret form." Ranma said. He lifted the teakettle from the table.
"What? What is going on?" Lita asked. As the water poured over Ranma and he changed, Lita recognized who he really was. "You're..you're..that boy…ohhh" Lita's eyes rolled up and she fainted. Ranma caught her before she hit the floor.
"Oh boy!" Ranma said, "That didn't go like I expected." Ranma looked down at Lita's sleeping form in his arms. She was very beautiful. He took his hand and brushed a few strands of her hair away from her face.
Just as Ranma was admiring Lita's beauty, Ukyo and Akane were walking up the steps to Lita's apartment.
"This is the address Lita had listed as hers." Ukyo said looking at the piece of paper she had wrote the information on. Just then a voice came from behind them.
"Ukyo, right?"
"Huh?" Ukyo turned around to face Lita's friend Serena. Along with her were three other girls, two who were carrying cats. "Oh yeah, hi Serena."
"What are you doing here, I thought Lita was staying with you." Mina asked.
"Well she was. But she never showed up for school and she ran off with a friend of mine. I can't find either of them so I was checking her place." Ukyo said.
"Well we saw her hanging out with a girl at the Arcade and thought maybe she was home sick." Serena said.
"Well, looks like the light is on. She must be home." Amy said. She turned the doorknob to find it was open. "Hello, Lita?"
The door opened to reveal Lita passed out in a boy's arms. Serena, Mina, Raye, and Amy gasped at the sight. Ukyo and Akane's battle auras started to flare up.
"RANMA!" Akane growled out.
"It's not what it looks like! She fainted!" Ranma said.
"Lita fainting with a boy in the room? That doesn't sound right." Mina said with a sarcastic snicker.
Luna gave a growl towards Mina. Ranma looked up to see two cats.
"Ca…ca..CATS!!!!" Ranma yelled and then fainted himself. Lita falling on top of him as he passed out.
"Oh my!" Amy said and turned away. Mina and Serena let out a giggle. Raye just shook her head.
"Looks like Lita doesn't even have to be awake to be able to get up on a guy." Mina said with a chuckle.
"Oh, my head." Lita said as she woke up. She looked down to see an unconscious Ranma under her. She let out a small gasp and began to blush before removing herself from him. "What happened to him?"
"He passed out cause he is afraid of cats." Akane said in a low tone. She was very upset at Ranma. Not because he was with another girl, she had gotten use to that, it was the look he was giving Lita that she didn't like.
"Afraid of cats? Looks like Luna and Artemis have to go in Lita's room for the time." Raye said. The cats pounced to the floor and walked into Lita's room.
"Lita, what is going on?" Ukyo asked.
"HE CHANGED! JUST LIKE THAT WITH HOT WATER!" Lita said. Akane and Ukyo looked at each other. Why would Ranma reveal himself to a girl who hated him and he hated back? And why was he even being her friend?
"Ranma, wake up!" Akane growled and kicked Ranma in the head.
"Ouch, what did ya do that for?" Ranma asked. Ranma saw Ukyo and Akane were not happy with him at the moment.
"It's not what it looks like!" Ranma yelled. "I had to tell her and I felt bad. I did the right thing." Ranma backed up from Akane And Ukyo.
"Lita what is going on here?" Serena asked. "Why are you back in this part of town with this odd boy all of a sudden?"
"Oh can't you see Serena?! Lita and this boy are in love!" Mina cried out.
"What!?" everyone in the room yelled out. Mina stood up on the table.
"It's so obvious, you see, Lita told us her friend that she was going to live on the other side of town, that way we wouldn't come by here. Then she ran away with this boy to this love nest. They only wanted to be alone, and we trespassed on love!" Mina yelled out.
"What?" Lita and Ranma cried out, "It's not like that at all!"
"RANMA!" Akane yelled and brought out her mallet.
"Stop right there!" Mina yelled and jumped in front of Lita and Ranma. "Can't you see these two are in love, and I will not allow anyone to ruin a beautiful thing like this."
"Uhhhhh!" Akane said in confusion, no one had ever tried to stop her from beating Ranma.
"Out of the way blondie, I am getting my fiancé back!" Ukyo yelled and pushed pass Mina. Raye and Amy stepped in Ukyo's way.
"Mina is right, you can't disturb love." Raye yelled.
"It is something fragile and most be protected." Amy said. Ukyo gave them both a glare.
"Hey Lita, I think we need to get out of here before they start to brawl." Ranma whispered over to Lita. She nodded and they made an escape while everyone else was fighting, no one noticed.
Luna looked out the window to see Lita and that boy running away. A certain feeling came over Luna, evil was in the air. She could feel Jupiter was in trouble.
"Artimis, I am going to follow Lita, I am getting a strange feeling." Luna said.
"Right, you watch over her from a distance so that boy won't freak out. I'll try to do some checking up on her twin sister, she was giving off weird vibes." He said. They nodded in agreement and we went their separate ways.
Artimis walked into the next room and jumped up on Mina shoulder. "Watch out Mina. That Alpha Sailor Jupiter is giving out vibes."
"What do you mean? Does that mean Lita is in trouble?" Mina said, she looked to where Lita should have been, nothing. She took a quick look around the room. They were gone. Lita and her new guy were gone! "Oh no, they ran off!" Mina yelled out.
"What?" Ukyo said and looked around the room to see Ranma and Lita nowhere in sight. "Arrghh, what does she thinks she is doing?"
Meanwhile, Ranma and Lita had stopped running and rested outside of the Tendo Dojo.
"Ranma, how do you change like that?" Lita asked as she took a seat against the wall. Ranma sat down next to her.
"It's a curse I have. Cold water turns me to a girl, warm water back into a boy." Ranma said. Lita got a weird look on her face.
"Which one are you really?" Lita asked.
"I am a boy normally, I'll be back to normal when I find the cure." Ramna said. He turned to Lita. "How did you become Sailor Jupiter?"
"It's my destiny to be Sailor Jupiter and protect the world and the princess." Lita said with a proud look on her face.
"Is Ukyo part Sailor Jupiter? She had a lightning battle aura like you." Ranma asked. Lita thought for a second.
"I have a feeling she has something special to her, but I am not sure." Lita said. Ranma took Lita's hands.
"Lita, it's your destiny to save the world without asking for anything for in return. Will you please save the Dojo, you are the only one who can do it." Ranma said. Lita looked him in the eye.
"Of course I'll do it, I would never asking anything from anyone. I am a Sailor Scout." Lita said. "Why would you think I would want something in return for saving your Dojo?"
"Cause you are Ukyo's sister, and she might try to trick me into marrying her." Ranma said.
"Why are you engaged at such a young age? I mean, was this something set up by your parents?" Lita asked. Ranma growled.
"No just one of them. My father sold me out to tons of girls for odd reasons, mostly food. I never asked for any of them, but I get blamed for having all of them." Ranma said. Lita frowned.
"Ranma, you shouldn't marry someone no matter what your father promised. Love isn't something you can give away in trade; it's something that grows. You shouldn't marry anyone you don't love." Lita said.
"Lita, I…..I….lo.." Ranma tried to get the words out. Ranma leaned over and kissed her on the lips. Her eyes opened wide in surprise then closed.
Luna watched on, 'Hmmm, I am not sure what Lita thinks she is doing, but that bad omen feeling I am getting is growing stronger. Hmmm what's that?'
A large black cloud grew over the Tendo Dojo. Ranma and Lita broke their kiss and looked up.
"What the heck is that?" Ranam yelled out.
"I am not sure but it is giving off major bad vibes." Lita said. "I think I have to transform!"
The black cloud sent down a sheet of rain, Ranma turned into a girl.
"What the? Oh man, this isn't good!" Ranma said.
It finally formed into a structure. A huge dragon made of silver loomed overhead. Lita threw her pen up.
"Jupiter star power!" She cried out and went into the sparkling transformation. After she changed she took battle stance.
"I have slept from the Silver millennium to return to defeat my captor." The dragon yelled out. It looked down at Jupiter. "Ahhhh, Princess Jupiter, you shall not defeat me again!"
Review please! To be continued………
