Tenchi Muyo fanfic
Written by Marc "Eucep" Tuijtelaers, started 15th of June
2001
This is a fanfic revolving around the Tenchi-Muyo OAV story-
line. I must say that I do not know the complete story of TM
and the follow up stories and all the alternate realities,
there is a Tenchi Universe crossover in the form of Nagi. And
as it is only fan fiction this is no claim to the ownership
of the TM crew. Tough I do ask that any new characters I
create are not used for other stories, as most of them are
partly or completely real life people.
Garou, Children of Gaia are created and probably owned by
White Wolf. And no, this is not in the World of Darkness
setting. I believe in happy endings.
This was originally a lemon, but if you want to read the cut
out scenes look for the lemon side-story, which will follow
later.
Conventions:
thoughts.
* ... * Quick action/emphasis/sounds.
In short: This story resolves around a masaki family-member
from a non-Japanese branch who shows up one day. Marcus gets
involved with Mihoshi and comes up with the solution for the
'who gets Tenchi' problem. Now he has changed the crews life
even more by noting that Nagi could be Ryoko's sister. Washu
confirmed his guess.
Oh yeah, I assume that over the course of his stay that
Marcus learns Japanese (with or without Washu's help) but I
do not find that an interesting story point. – Continue to
send those comments. -
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No need for relatives
Chapter two.
Tenchi and the rest were staring at Mihoshi. Ryo-Ohki and
Ken-Ohki sat in her lap mewing worried. Washu, Aoko and Nagi
had come in too, still speechless and trying to work through
their revelation of kinship.
Mihoshi looked down and teary eyed, not like the usual 'wail-
mode', but a deep hurt look. The look alone started to tear
at the hearts of those around her.
"Marcus makes me forget things, things I have in my mind
normally. Even with the friendship I get from you guys I
couldn't forget it, but he.. When I was very young I was
similar to how I act now, but when needed I could focus
myself and be 'intelligent' whenever I wanted to be like
that. Then, when I was in my first year as an acting officer
on patrol without my partner Kiyone." She takes a pause to
wipe some tears away. "Kiyone was sick after a meal that I
had prepared.. I had to go after a speeding violation." She
looks really upset now. "When I caught them, I didn't keep my
mind on that I was alone and I got overpowered by them.
They.. they.. r" Washu quickly shut her off from saying it,
knowing way to well what she was about to say. The scientist
just had to hug her as did most others. As the crying died
down a bit Mihoshi quickly escaped from Washu's motherly
embrace and fled upstairs to her room.
"How could we not have noticed this?" Washu spoke. "How could
I not have known?" For once the greatest scientist in the
universe had been in the complete dark.
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Two days later at the shrine Marcus was practicing against
Katsuhiro and Nagi. The man had come out of his room a day
before with Mihoshi in tow, Mihoshi slightly red-eyed, but
calmed down. Nagi had been there for a while too, but she
didn't want to let her emotions so out of control. She loved
it tough that even while giving Mihoshi comfort he managed to
listen to Nagi as well. Taking in the dark life of Nagi and
allowing her to get some peace of mind. Ryoko's sister her
heart knew it longed for love and she knew she had found it
or at least a strong love that she could use to learn how to
love. It had started out with several rude remarks and
obvious shows of anger towards Marcus, but he remained calm
and tried to get her to calm down too.
The bounty hunter quickly accepted her new status. Her heart
had lightened up considerably since she learned who her
mother was, her goal achieved. And that she had been safe
from the torture her sister had gone through. A new turning
point in her life had been reached and she was glad for it.
A day after the revelation Washu offered Nagi something to
teach her something more about Ryoko's and Washu's past. She
had her mind-link activated with Washu, Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki
like the one she already shared with Ken-Ohki. Aoko had
allowed her access to the time Ryoko spend under Kagato's
control.
Nagi had been completely blown away by it. Now she was
enjoying the tranquility of mind she got from fighting. Even
if it wasn't to kill someone. It was to train Marcus in his
sword skills. He still had to get used to using an energy
weapon. Tough she rather would wrap her arms around him and
do whatever she can imagine with him as she was as horny as
is possible. (Psychic link with Aoko, Aoko is alone with
Tenchi, go figure.)
"Ahh, I simply can't use any of my skills with this
weightless blade. If I want to use it I have to completely
relearn everything." Marcus growled as he stood in a stance.
Then he had an idea. He walked over to his own armory chest,
which he now had places behind the shrine. He came back with
Ra-Klev, his two handed great sword, a No-Dashi as Tenchi
calls it. Marcus insists that it is a Polish Two-hander. Nagi
and Katsuhiro looked a bit confused when he returned.
"What's the idea?" Nagi asked.
"I have this slight idea and I hope it works." He held the
sword, but at the same time activated his Gaia-blade. Instead
of the metal blade melting away it became enveloped with the
purple aura of energy the Gaia-blade produced. "Oh yes, this
is the way I like it." He swung the sword and it was like
swinging Ra-Klev normally.
Returning to his training he let Nagi feel the effect of
using really large weapons. She never had seen anyone use
those size of physical melee weapons effectively before. In
the entire galaxy speed was favored over stopping power
especially in the underworld where she had roamed. Now she
felt the heavy blows against her own energy blade. It was
hard to recover from the blows. She saw in her peripheral
that the old man stood back and smiled. She saw him making
quick sideways motions.
Indeed she thought So said, so done. After about half an hour of testing
and getting used to his style she used her fastest move to
dodge past him and use a foot seep to knock him to the
ground.
"Got me. I surrender." He smiled with a very tired face. He
looked over at Katsuhiro who was now giving Tenchi a run for
his money, again.
"So you surrender, what should I do to you then?" Nagi smiled
while sitting on his chest to keep him pinned to the ground.
"I still have to thank you. I've been looking everywhere for
my parents, even without me knowing who they were. Now I know
why I didn't know how they looked, I never saw them. Thank
you." She gave him a kiss on the mouth.
"Hey won't Mihoshi get angry if you continue that?" Aoko said
from the shrine.
"Nope, she won't and I won't if she gets close to someone
else, at least I'll try not to get jealous." Aoko looked
confused at Marcus, but Nagi didn't.
"Sis, Mihoshi is a Guarth, do you even know about her race?"
Nagi smiled at the dumbfounded fusion.
"To be honest, nope."
She started the explanation, all the while sending images
from her visit to Guarth. "Well, for starters, Guarths are
nearly always bisexual, they have a form of polygamy as the
basic marriage system, they consider friendship and
especially intimate friendship the highest value in life, sex
is a very open and encouraged subject and they learn about it
at a far younger age than for example humans or Juraians.
Actually their bodies develop the possibility to enjoy sex
earlier, but become reproductive later than humans." Marcus
smiles, having heard this a short while ago, but Aoko's mouth
seemed to open more and more.
"Didn't you notice that Mihoshi was very eager to hug both
Marcus and me when we emerged from Mihoshi's room after she
calmed down. Never noticed how affectionate she is even
towards other girls?"
"..." Aoko simply is speechless.
"In other terms, she won't mind me rewarding Marcus if I
involve her as well." Nagi grins.
"HENTAIS!" A duo of voices can be heard. Everyone looks at a
black and blue Tenchi and a smiling Katsuhiro.
Inside the house Mihoshi is trying to beat the hell out of
Sasami, with Tekken Tag that is. While Sasami normally wins
with ease in every game, now she has a bit more competition,
barely. "So he knows about your race a bit more now?" Sasami
asks then giggles. "Especially about how important sex is to
you."
"Why yes, how do you know? And how do you know about the
latter?"
"Well, Marcus was nearly completely red this morning at
breakfast." She stifles a laugh. "And the latter. Well, a few
months before I left Jurai I had a talk with princess Ymal
from your planet. We were playing in my room when she just
asked me if I wanted to have sex with her." Mihoshi looked
sheepish at that. While young Guarths were learned about sex,
they weren't really thought that other races did not share
their culture or biology. "I said that I didn't know what
'sex' was and she proceeded to tell me in all flying colors
and I listened intensely. It sounded like fun to me so I
agreed, but mother Misaki stepped in, apparently she had been
over listening our entire conversation about sex. She told me
about the development of Guarths and that I wasn't physically
ready for it yet. Ymal looked very embarrassed, she didn't
know that Juraians developed differently from Guarths."
"Oh my, and now?"
"Well, I'll wait for a few years until I know I'm ready for
it." Sasami smiles.
Outside on the field one yellow toddler humanoid cabbit was
busy digging up carrots and dragging them in bouquets to the
other brown toddler humanoid cabbit. Who happily accepted
them. Both munched them down. (Wolfing would be a better
word.)
Luckily Misaki wasn't around, otherwise she would truly go
banana's with the Kawaii meter at 11 out of 10.
This all thanks to Washu who, for a very nagging cabbit who
has a mind link with her, fused the other cabbit with a
couple of MASSes as well.
While Sasami and Mihoshi continued playing they heard a bang.
Before they knew what happened they were teleported outside
the house and saw a visible blue force field being erected
around the house. Next to them stood adult Washu. Both were
confused and looked up at the 'mother' of the household.
"What happened?" Sasami said in a slightly scared voice.
"Screwed up experiment, the house is radiated. I've placed a
force field to keep it at bay and the cleaners are working
full time to remove it, but it will take a day or two to
clean up. Until then none of us can enter the house safely."
Washu simply stated.
In the last two days she had decided to permanently get rid
of her teenager form and to 'grow-up', mentally as well. She
knew she would hurt Ryoko and Nagi to much if she stayed in
her younger form. Besides it felt good to get the respect she
gained as a mother figure.
"But, but, the food, our beds... THE TV! Where, how...?"
Mihoshi started to gibber.
"We can still order take out with my mobile computer and we
can either sleep in the shrine, which is too small or in the
onsen." She padded Mihoshi on the shoulder. "No real
problem."
A few others were heading down the stairs towards them.
A few minutes later everyone else knew, even the Ohki's.
"I agree with Washu, you 'youngsters' can sleep in the onsen
and Nobiyuki and I will sleep in the shrine." Katsuhiro
states.
Nagi nudges Marcus. "Seems like I will have to keep you to
our agreement later."
Mihoshi padded Nagi on the shoulder. "Agreement?" She looked
at their smiles. "That agreement." Mihoshi smiled. "Great."
I wonder how she tastes, I never before tasted an android
before.
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Later that evening everyone in the onsen had gotten a futon
from Washu and were deep asleep. Tenchi was hugging Aoko in
his sleep. Next to them Marcus was being used as a pillow by
Mihoshi and Nagi. On the other side of Tenchi and Aoko was
Sasami and Washu who were in their own futons with each a
cabbit on their bellies.
Nobody saw as the triangles on Sasami's head started to shed
light, like she did while having prophetic nightmares. This
time the light shot out in arcs towards the temples of all
the other sleepers in the subspace room.
Like usual in her dreams she was alone and outside. Unlike
usual the sky was clear and the grass was very green. Around
her she saw a stone circle, like Stonehenge, but 'whole'. The
stones which supported the lying stones were engraved with
symbols from many languages. Earthly, Juraian, Guarth,
Megamian, Kazan and even more exotic ones. On the lying
stones she saw half-buried glass globes. All were empty
except for one, it had a electric blue and deep pink swirls
of energy in it. Just under it she saw two green dots. She
looked at herself and saw that she had Tsunami's body (or
better said her own adult body) and was utterly naked, not
even her usual hair wraps.
"Where am I?" She heard a female voice behind her. Sasami
turned and saw Aoko sitting on the ground, naked like her.
There was something unusual though, as a kind of ghosts she
saw the images of Ryoko and Aeka slightly out of phase with
Aoko. Besides Aoko she saw some light flashes and one by one
the other sleepers in the onsen appeared there naked. All had
a confused look on their face.
"Where are we?" Aoko asked.
"In my dream I think." Sasami answered.
"Tsunami?" Washu asked her.
"No, Sasami."
"We're naked, ehh, does anyone here got some clothing?"
Tenchi asked, then looked at Aoko who had this big grin while
staring at his groin.
"Weird temple, what's up with all those colored globes. Hey,
that one has Tsunami's symbol, the one with the hair and eye
color of Tsunami and Sasami." Tenchi looked around. A few
days ago he would have had a heart attack due to blood loss,
but now he simply enjoyed all the naked females around him.
At least that was what he tried to fool himself with, while
trying to not look at them.
"Yeah, now that you say. The others also correspond to each
of us." Nagi points out to the other globes. Underneath them
there were symbols as well.
Purple and red: Aeka. A single dot like Funaho.
Blonde and red: Ken-Ohki. Rectangle.
Golden brown and grayish-green: Marcus. A halve moon.
Sun yellow and sky blue: Mihoshi. Five point star.
Blue and brown: Nagi. Three dots in a vertical row.
Bluish Black and Black: Nobiyuki. A single triangle.
Cyan and yellow: Ryoko. Three dots in a horizontal row.
Brown and yellow: Ryo-Ohki. Oval.
Brown and Black: Tenchi. Three triangles as in his battle
armor.
Red and emerald: Washu. Three dots in a downward triangle.
Darkblue and Black: Yosho. Two sideway trapezoids with the
shorter line next to each other.
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Still quite a few were empty. All looked curious at what
apparently represented them on the circle. Except for Aoko,
but she had two to represent her. They noted that both the
Ohki's were in an adult humanoid body and standing upright,
not even wobbly (The reason Ryo-Ohki became a toddler after
she gained her adult humanoid form was because she couldn't
even walk, so she decided to learn it from the start on. Thus
the toddler form). They looked remarkably happy with the
situation. As far as it meant that maybe both could use their
adult form as well now without crashing to the ground
continually.
Then a new globe filled, brown and blue, and two small ovals
underneath the globe. A new person came into view, the woman
had brown hair in a style halfway that of Tsunami and Washu.
Her eyes were predominantly dark blue, but with a red aura
around them. She too didn't wear anything, very unlike her
usual elaborate attire: Tokemi.
"So you finally are this close." She grins. "In time I will
tell you all everything you need to know, but for now.
Welcome all to the soul nexus in the dream world. A place
where spirits can gather like ours have done now." She
slightly bowed to Sasami and Washu. "Sisters, I welcome you
two especially. Even if you don't have your memory back
completely Washu." She walked over to Tenchi and Aoko. "I
welcome the bearers of the light hawk wings." Then she walked
over to Mihoshi, Marcus and Nagi. "I salute the savant of
Gaia and the representatives of law through chaos and chaos
through law." Then to the Ohki's. "And I'm glad to finally
meet two of the cutest fuzzballs in the universe." She
smiled.
The rest looked as confused as they ever would. The last
thing some of they remembered about Tokemi was that she
worked against the work of Tsunami and nearly killed them in
the process during the Dr. Clay situation according to Washu
and Mihoshi's findings.
"This is certainly a surprise sister." Sasami sounded with
the echo of Tsunami in her voice. "Why the sudden kindness?"
"The testing is over for most of you." Tokemi sat down next
to Sasami. "The rest of the testing is not in my hands." She
looked down and sad, but quickly her face cleared. "Only a
short time and our rule as the supreme powers in this
universe will be over. I do not know whether what we have
created will be allowed to continue to exist." She looked at
the scared faces of the rest. "If everything goes as I have
planned we do not have to fear for it too much. I saw what my
sisters were creating and took the liberty of involving your
work in my own plans. My plans to show him the truth." She
smiled and put an arm around Sasami and Washu and continued
with her enigma. "The last part is up to others." She let go
of them and walked over to Marcus. "Before I send you all
back I want to see what my niece Gaia created." She touched
Marcus on his temple. "This way you won't be cursed with the
rage of others of your kind."
The rest looked as he started to grow to nearly one and a
half times his normal size while his hair started to grow
quickly. He just stood there with a scared face until the
transformation was complete. In a matter of milliseconds he
stood there as a slightly hunchbacked werewolf with very long
fur, a tail that subconsciously wagged and the face of a wolf
with his normal human eyes. Then Tokemi started to giggle.
His fur wasn't one colors, but a hotchpotch of colors with
some of them being unnatural colors for humans. The idea of a
tabby-cat came pretty close. Marcus looked slightly annoyed.
Then everyone saw the area blurring and becoming black.
The next thing they saw was the onsen. One after the other
they sat up with a confused look. They noted that the Ohki's
were still in their adult humanoid bodies. Sasami had
reverted back to her normal age. The look on each others face
told them enough, they all had the same 'dream'. Mihoshi and
Nagi found themselves leaning against a werewolf. A werewolf
with a slightly overstretched pj's on him.
"Aaaaghh, how do I change back, how do I change back?" He
yelped while he stared at him own hands which were now hairy,
but lacked claws. His voice was lower and sounded more like
gruffs. He looked at his feet who were in the same furry
condition.
"Hi hi hi, it's really soft." He felt a slight pull on his
tail as Mihoshi tried to tickle Nagi with it.
Washu walked over to him. As she looked at him better she had
to stifle a laugh, he looked utterly ridiculous with his
multi-colored fur. "Ahem, I think that it's like with Ryo-
Ohki to change back, just imagine being in the other form and
you probably change back." She ran a hand through his fur
behind his ears. Nearly instinctive his leg started to
tremble. He looked down at it.
"You gotta be kidding me." He quickly thought about his human
form and found himself in that form again, with a shredded pj
all over him.
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The next morning most had slept well, compared to the short
ruckus which followed on the dream. Even Washu decided to get
some sleep in stead of trying to figure out some experiments
to do with the rest, Marcus topping the possibilities for new
experiments.
Sasami was one of the first to get up. She looked around to
see both Tenchi and Marcus in unintentional indecent
situations. Aoko lay completely on Tenchi with her head on
his chest (that together with the lack of clothing, only
undergarment). Mihoshi still lay next to Marcus, but Nagi lay
with her face next to his crotch.
Washu woke up soon after Sasami and saw the same. She went
over to Sasami and pulled her along to prepare some breakfast
in the shrine. She decided that when they woke up it would
give enough ruckus anyway. She wanted to talk to Katsuhiro
about the 'dream' of last night.
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About an hour later the rest woke up, well Nagi did and her
yelp woke up the rest. The rest saw her blushing tomato red
then they focused on Aoko and Tenchi who were very
comfortable (Aoko at least).
"Busy again, even with spectators?" Marcus quipped after
giving Mihoshi a big good morning hug.
Nagi just gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. She didn't
really feel that comfortable yet. In her mind things were
changing a bit too fast. Her psyche had been devastated by
finding her family. Then the overwhelming kindness and
acceptance of the rest. Then there was this knight who had
this magnetism that she had never before seen in any man else
than Tenchi (who was occupied with her sister). In the past
she had to adjust quickly before, but now it was being pushed
to the limit. For now she would try to accept her new 'fate'
on her own pace. In two days Aoko would be split up into Aeka
and Ryoko again, then she would challenge Ryoko one last
time. Not to the death, but to see who was the better
combatant. That would probably would be the end of her old
life as a bounty hunter, Ryoko was her ultimate challenge,
the rest didn't appeal anymore to her, the hardship, violence
and solitarism. She wanted family.
She looked over at the Ohki's who had reverted back to cabbit
form, they would probably need some decent clothing for their
humanoid form anyway. Washu probably had to find out what
happened to them anyway, as far as Nagi knew Ken-Ohki
couldn't transform into any humanoid form. Then again she
didn't know that Washu had already fused him with a MASS
body.
Breakfast was a simple attire, mostly consisting of
vegetables from the garden. Before the rest had come to the
shrine Washu had told Nobiyuki about the weird communal dream
they had. Unfortunately the old man and his son in law didn't
have a clue either about it's meaning or the message from
Tokemi. Some had passed tests, but who and what tests was
another question unanswered by the dream. As usual time would
tell. Katsuhiro couldn't even tell why he had his own orb
there.
For once Sasami found herself without anything to do, now
that nobody could enter the house (except for Aoko who is
immune to radiation anyway). She asked Tenchi if she could go
into town to get some clothing for the Ohki's. Nagi decided
to go along as she had no earth clothing either. They could
have asked Washu, but they didn't want clothing with hundreds
of built in gadgets.
"So we can get some clothing in the town here? Then we should
take some measurements for the Ohki's, they can't come along
themselves." Nagi looked at the beings in question who were
outside the shrine. Ken-Ohki was trying to impress Ryo-Ohki
by rapidly harvesting carrots.
Tenchi too looked at this
Mihoshi got this gleam in her eyes. "We could go into town
here, but there isn't so much choice out there, we should go
to Tokyo. Then we could make a day out of it." She walked
over to Nagi. "Besides, last time I was there I saw something
I found really interesting."
"Well, sounds like fun. We'll go to Tokyo." Sasami smiled.
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Three hours later, after taking measurements of the Ohki's
and a quick trip the three arrived in Tokyo and went on their
shopping spree.
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Even later at the end of the day, the shoppers had returned
and were unpacking their materials. All of them were carrying
big loads of goodies (not only clothing of course).
Tenchi was at work in the fields, there had to be done some
more work now that there were two Ohki's to feed. He really
started to hope that Washu would come up with faster growing
or bigger carrots, anything that would decrease the work.
"Ahem." He heard an strangely familiar female voice. "Is this
the Masaki residence?"
Tenchi looked around and was very startled. The woman he saw
standing there was about forty years old, wore casual
clothing –jeans and blouse- and had a short mushroom style
hairdo. The scary part was her face, she looked like Achika
as she would have if she hadn't died prematurely.
"Yes, I'm Masaki Tenchi. May I ask who you are?" His face was
really confused.
"I'm Akare Yolei. I'm here so see a man named Marcus. I know
he should be around here." Her voice was very clear and like
Tsunami's soul piercing.
"I'm here indeed. I'm Marcus van Gestel. May I ask why you
need me? I've never seen you before." Marcus walked onto the
field with a shovel. "Tenchi, do you see who she resembles?
Uncanny."
"My looks are like this because I choose to look like this.
My reason to seek you out? To teach you how to be a garou.
Gaia's orders." She smiled.
"Excuse me, did you say garou?" Marcus walked over to her,
scrutinizing her appearance.
"Garou. Like in you are a garou and you know absolutely
nothing about what it means to you." She grins. "And I do
know it. Well, mostly." She blurred before their eyes. In
about a blink she changed from a human to a fox hybrid, her
clothing still fitting snugly (werefoxes don't increase in
size). "I'm not a garou, nor a member of the Children of Gaia
clan. I'm a Hengeyokai, a Kitsune."
Of course both Tenchi and Marcus were without words.
"Silent types aren't you?" She walked over to Marcus. "Now
why don't you change? The lady of life said you would be a
very interesting werewolf."
"Ehrm, please, just, just don't laugh." As he drops his shirt
and changes into his hybrid form. And of course the Kitsune
can't believe her eyes and ROFL. (Rolls over the flour
laughing.) "Oh, for crying out loud, quit that, please."
Yolei looks at his sad face and quickly jumps back up. "I'm
sorry, but now I know why the Garou elder called you Rainbow
Dancer." She smiles at him, then the ruffles his mane a bit.
"It's nearly fluffy, very unusual for a warrior type shape
shifter. Well, I think I should be honest with you Philodox.
I want you to train to be a Child of Gaia, but to do that you
have to leave here for a week or two."
Marcus looked into her eyes. "I think you are truthful to me,
I'll say goodbye to the rest and I'll then go with you." As
he changes back to human form. As he now wears very wide,
stretchy pants he doesn't have to run around but naked
anymore.
Yolei yells after him. "Oh yeah, I'll teach you how to make
blessed clothing that won't tear when you transform."
A few minutes later Yolei sees Marcus, Mihoshi and Nagi
walking to her. She notes that the females are utterly
latched onto his arms and probably asking him to stay.
"So, you two are his mates? Two mates. His clan members would
be proud on him." She smiles.
"Hmph, what are you talking about." Nagi snarls, then she
recognizes the resemblance to Tenchi and looks slightly
confused. "I'm not his mate.."
"Oh, I'm sorry, it's something that werewolves tend to brag
about, but it rarely is true. You see among the Garou and
most other shape shifters it's very important to gain respect
and renown. One sure way with werewolves is by mating, don't
ask me why for it even goes for us females. And of course
having two mates apparently demands respect. Actually it is
extremely rare as garou tend to be very uncaring beings. He
seems to be an exception." She puts her hand on Nagi's
shoulder. "Most of his kind would have gone with me the
moment I asked them, but he went to say goodbye to you."
Yolei frowned and uttered inward about the other garou.
"Honorable bastards."
"I don't want him to go, why do you have to take him away
from us?" Mihoshi looks at her with teary eyes.
"First of all, it's orders from Gaia, secondly." She pauses.
"I have to make sure he learns to control his rage, otherwise
he might hurt those he loves due to his kind's legendary
blind fury." Then she smiles. "But as he is from the Children
of Gaia clan, it shouldn't take too long. Their kin has a
natural resistance to this anger. They are the only clan to
which the Hengeyokai want to talk when dealing with Garou."
She grabs the hand of Marcus and drags him along to the lake.
There she chants and mist arises from the lake in which a
doorway opens.
"See you all soon." Marcus yells before he is dragged in.
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Back in the house Nagi sits there with her arm around a very
down Mihoshi. "He'll be back soon Hoshi." Nagi wears a more
earthly costume, short skirt, tank top and elaborate jewelry.
(Somewhere in the amount that Belldandy wears.)
Looking at Nagi and then at Aoko who sat at her other side.
"But I couldn't even show him what I did for him. It really
hurt, but it looks so pretty. I think he will like it, I like
it."
This made Aoko frown. "Hurt.. What did you do?"
Mihoshi proceeded to pull up her pink blouse to reveal her
newest jewelry. Each dark nipple having been pierced with a
silver ring, with the added side effect of them being
permanently erect. Of course Aoko looked shocked, but also
interested. Indeed it looked pretty and sexy.
"Well, I think Marcus is in for a nice surprise when he gets
back." Sasami smiles. "Oh, Mihoshi, you can clothe yourself
again. Then I can show you all something." Mihoshi blushes as
she realizes that Sasami was in the room.
Outside the group saw the two cabbits standing. Ken-Ohki in
black trousers, with formal black shoes. More up he wore a
cream-white blouse underneath a black simple body warmer.
Ryo-Ohki wore a long brown skirted summer dress with a pair
of white sneakers barely coming from underneath the dress.
Out of style tough was that both wore backwards worn baseball
caps with the inscription 'Tokyo' on them.
In short they looked silly. That until Washu made them take
off those caps later that day.
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The two weeks passed quickly. Mihoshi took the time to let
her 'wounds' heal and got into her paperwork for the GP. Nagi
took quick lessons in earth customs, well make that a
complete course of etiquette needed after all her years alone
in space. Sasami had finally asked her older brother to start
training her in the Juraian sword fighting art like her
sister had done a long time ago, even if it was only on a
beginners level. Tenchi continued to train as well, but also
started to get lessons in Jurai traditions and courtesy by
Katsuhiro and Aeka.
Yes Aeka, for the most important event had been when Aoko was
unfused. Most were worried that the intended effect would
have failed, that they didn't keep their memories from the
fusion. As it turned out they did, as both passed out the
moment they exited the fusion machine. Their individual minds
had to process the memories of two people, which temporarily
overloaded them, at least that is what Washu told the rest.
In a few hours they had regained consciousness and the entire
gang (minus Marcus, Katsuhiro and Nobiyuki) had assembled in
the living room. The first thing Tenchi and the rest saw was
how Aeka lunged towards Ryoko with a bewildered look in her
eyes. They feared she would attack Ryoko, but she didn't. She
hugged Ryoko tightly and started to cry out loud, shedding
tears that Ryoko couldn't shed when she was younger and under
control of Kagato. Ryoko cuddled her back and they sat there
a few minutes until Tenchi hugged them both. Washu and Sasami
pulled along Nagi, Mihoshi and the Ohki's and left the trio
to their own devices.
"Ryoko?" Aeka looked into the yellow eyes of her former
enemy. "How do you deal with these memories, these horrors
that Kagato put you through?"
(See the fanfic Ningyo by Gregory W. Matteson for a good idea
of Ryoko's past, also on the TMFFA.)
"I don't. They simply hurt every day, every day that I act
like I do as I was trained to do by Kagato." She closed her
eyes and sighed. "But now I don't have to suffer alone
anymore, I'm no longer alone." Ryoko smiled at Aeka and
Tenchi.
"We'll never let you be alone anymore and I hope you will
never ever let us be 'alone'." Aeka sighs with a dreamy look.
"And as for the memories, I hope I can learn to deal with
them."
"Me too princess, I also have to learn to deal with the other
end now, the terror I caused with my attack on Jurai." Tenchi
hugged both tightly to him.
"Tenchi, do you still accept us to be both your wife?" Aeka
pleaded him, finally her sobs had stopped.
"Yes, with all my heart." He smiled at them, he loved the
cozy feeling he had now that there was no threat. Yet at the
same time he was together with both the women he loved. "I'll
never let any of you two be alone. My proposal still stands,
will you two become my empresses?"
Ryoko cheered. "Yes, I'll not let you ask that twice." She
gave him a quick and passionate kiss. "And I'll try not to
hurt Aeka ever again."
Aeka smiled at him. "It would be my honor to be your Empress,
my prince." She hugged him tightly. "And I accept Ryoko as my
sister-wife."
Ryoko took her time now to look at the princess, to oversee
what she had been verbally abusing for months on end. It
still was difficult, but she had to admit that Aeka really is
one of the most beautiful girls in the universe. She looked
up and down at her until she noticed something. Slowly she
took one of Aeka's hands into her own and pulled back the
sleeve of Aeka's kimono a bit.
"What the?" Ryoko had this really confused look on her face.
Then she did the same to the other arm. Aeka all the while
looked on, not understanding what Ryoko was trying to do
until Ryoko placed her wrist next to Aeka's.
"Tenchi, look at her wrist and probably her neck." As they
did they saw what Ryoko meant. Where Ryoko had her gems, Aeka
had small 'tattoos' the size of the gems, but greenish like
the marks of royalty of Jurai. "We got to talk to Washu about
this. Aeka do you notice anything about those marks?"
"No, they don't feel different from the rest of my skin."
A few small tests later revealed them to be harmless side
effects of the fusion and that they were very likely to fade
in time. Everyone took their time to get used to the new
lifestyle of two girls who finally had stopped wrecking the
place. To be honest, it left the entire gang with a lot more
time on their hands that they tended to spend on repairs,
etc. Some of the spare time was slowly being filled by for
example stories from Katsuhiro, Ryoko, Nagi and Mihoshi about
their adventures in space, to which the rest listened with
big interest (even if they couldn't follow Mihoshi's at all).
Tenchi also had to manage with a big, yet pleasurable,
problem.
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About a day later Mihoshi and Nagi were getting this idea of
having a party when Marcus would return. Mihoshi voted for
Karaoke, Nagi for going to a gothic metal concert (type-o-
negative), Aeka and Ryoko wanted to go to an open concert
(Jpop), Tenchi went along with Mihoshi's vote, Sasami didn't
really care about where to go as long as it was fun, Washu
had some trouble choosing so she voted for having a party at
home, Katsuhiro and Nobiyuki went along with the Karaoke as
well.
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Tenchi was working in the field as he saw that there was
something going on at the lake. At the edge he saw water
moving as if it was boiling. Quickly he headed out there,
Tenchi-ken ready, to see what was going on.
He saw how eventually a hairy hand reached out of the water
and clamped itself on the edge of the lake, pulling along a
multicolored werewolf.
"Whoa, watch out where you are waving that thing at Tenchi."
He replied the moment he saw the light sword in front of his
snout.
"Oh, sorry Marcus, I didn't expect you to return in such a
show off way."
"No problem Tenchi, now that you are here, could you please
call Washu to this place, it's very important. Maybe I have
some VERY good news for you."
Tenchi ran off and came back a few minutes later with Washu
on his trail, Katsuhiro on his trail as well.
"Ohayo Marcus, it's good to see you back, but what's the fuss
about?" Washu looked up and down at Marcus, he seemed bigger
now even so slightly and had an increase in his aura of
confidence.
"Please, all take my hand and I'll show you all something."
Most had this 'what's going on here look', but complied
nonetheless. As he touched the water the world around them
rippled and gained a weird glow, everything seemed brighter
and flashier. Most had a few minutes of disorientation until
it stopped and they saw that the house was nearly twice as
large and seemed more like a temple.
"Hello Tenchi, father, Washu and Marcus." They heard a
whispering voice. "I'm so glad to see you all."
Washu's eyes simply widened to their max, but Tenchi and
Katsuhiro dropped to their knees. Tenchi spoke in a broken
weeping voice. "Mom?"
He looked up and down at the slightly see through image of
Achika. Achika as she was when she died, a little older than
when they saw her in the past. [In this universe the entire
adventure occurred without Kiyone, oh yeah. Daughter of
Darkness has not occurred in this storyline, nor Tenchi
Forever. Only Tenchi Muyo! In love 1.].
"Yes darling, I'm here." She moved over to him and tried to
hug him, but passed through him. Yet the gesture was enough.
"How, what is this kind of a trick Marcus?" Katsuhiro
scolded.
"No trick sensei, this truly is Achika. Apparently she has
been around here all this time, looking over all of you. When
I returned here yesterday I found her here and we talked for
some time. This is why I brought Washu here."
Washu looked confused. "What do I have to do with lady
Achika?"
"You can create a viable body for her spirit to inhibit, to
bring her back to life. She died because her previous one had
been completely drained, but with a new body she can be
brought back to life." Marcus said with a very serious tone.
Achika's face brightened at this prospect.
"I know that the smartest scientist in the universe should be
capable of restoring me." Achika smiled.
"Could you do that Washu?" Tenchi had this plead in his eyes.
Washu contemplated the idea for some time.
"I think I could clone a new body, but I'll need a few
things, some genetic material from a few sources. To be
specific, her old body, Tenchi, Katsuhiro and Nobiyuki. The
last for cross-reference to the human part of Tenchi. That
could do it. But I won't promise anything this time, this is
way above my normal repertoire. Maybe I could ask Tsunami to
help here too."
"Maybe I'll be able to be finally be there for you when you
need me, like on your wedding."
Tenchi rubbed his head. "Yeah, that would be great, hey, how
do you know about that?"
"It isn't like I couldn't see what was happening around
here." To emphasize the point the ghostly image of Ryoko
passed bye calling out. 'Tenchi, Katsuhiro, Washu, where are
you, dinner is ready.' Behind her flowed white pieces of
energy as if she had angelic wings, around her wrists and
neck hung a strong bluish glow.
"Wow. Was that Ryoko?" He asked Achika.
"Yes. And for your next question. I approve of your marriage
with Aeka and Ryoko." Then she flickered a bit.
"Oh drat, she's starting to pass on already. Lady Achika, you
know what I told you to do."
"Yes, see you later Tenchi and the rest of you. Oh yeah,
don't raise any hope with Nobiyuki yet." As she walked over
to Marcus and vanished in him. The rest looked at him with
amazement.
"What just happened?" Tenchi looked at the wolfman. "Where
did mom go."
"She's inside of my body so she is kept safe there until her
new body is ready, otherwise she would pass on to the real
afterlife." He grinned. "She can hear you and see you, but
can't reply anymore." He stands up. "Now I'll return you all
to the real world and wait here until you are finished." He
walks back to the edge of the lake. "Oh and say to Mihoshi
and the rest that I'm sorry that I can't return just yet."
And the group was send back to the real world through another
portal.
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Only three days later did Tenchi walk out to the lake. Washu
had worked day and night to finish the body, using
specialized cloning and DNA extraction techniques along with
her knowledge gained when she created Ryoko and Nagi together
with time acceleration and deceleration techniques. To make
sure she would be truly the same she had asked Tsunami, via
Sasami, to keep an eye on it. In the end the body was a
perfect duplicate, aged to a slightly older age then when she
died.
Not really knowing what to do he guessed and openly said that
the body was ready. On the water he saw the text appearing of
'bring it to the lake, can't move far from here'.
So said, so done. The affair wasn't that spectacular at all.
While all were gathered around the Achika clone, hooked up to
various medical devices normally used for someone in coma,
the body shortly trembled and came to life. It took some time
before she could move for real or speak (imagine the average
'awaking from coma after nearly a year' type of recovery).
It didn't take long before the many hugs were nearly killing
Achika again. Nobiyuki especially was nearly going bananas,
he had been kept in the dark until he saw the body outside at
the lake. The amount of tears didn't lie, Washu estimated a
loss of at least 15 liters from all the people.
It took some time before Marcus emerged from the lake,
looking rather battered.
Result, a wet wolf, as he was tackle pounced by Mihoshi and
shortly after that by Nagi.
Within the soul nexus a new orb started to glow.
Bluish-black and reddish-brown: Achika. Two long triangles
with the sharpest points facing each other (like her Juraian
battle markers on her cheeks).
D3 smiled at this while he was cleaning up a few remains of
his former masters 'home'.
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With the help of Washu the recovery of Achika was cut very
short to only two weeks (actually they were two months, but
she had slowed down time in a part of her lab). Most of the
time in between practicing did Achika talk with her son,
husband and father about the time in between her death and
now as she only had the perspective of the house.
Aeka and Ryoko took their time to get to know their future
mother-in-law a bit better and to learn about some of the
things Tenchi liked when he was little (the dreaded 'look at
the baby pictures' time). Sasami managed to get one of the
toddler pictures for Misaki.
As for Marcus, he passed out for a day after his
reappearance, mostly due to malnutrition and dehydration
during his time in the spirit world. When he was back up
again he made clear that his training wasn't that
interesting, mostly lessons in etiquette among the garou and
a few pieces of knowledge he needed to know.
He had left the rest for about ten minutes before Mihoshi and
Nagi wanted to make up for lost time. Dragging him off to
somewhere. The rest could swear that they had heard his yelps
later on. He returned with several burn marks on his hands
uttering something about, 'bloody silver'. Mihoshi looked
upset until Washu apparently helped out. Neither wanted to
say what it was about.
A few hours later Marcus had to make up, again, this time for
real.
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In the few days after Achika's and Marcus' return and
recovery Tenchi noted a few differences, firstly he noticed
that his father seemed to become 'younger', less worried and
far less interested in work (for obvious reasons). One thing
was a mystery tough, how the heck did he get rid of all his
porn so easily. Probably Washu's doing Tenchi figured.
Sasami seemed to cheer up even more than usual and acted more
like a little kid than the matriarch of the household, now
that Achika and Washu took up that role now.
His grandfather became more involved with the house and less
with the shrine, the fact that he had more students to teach
made him even happier: Tenchi, Marcus, Ryoko, Aeka, Nagi,
Sasami and occasionally Achika and Mihoshi.
Aeka got duped into training along with Ryoko or Katsuhiro
would have asked Misaki to continue Aeka's training when back
on Jurai. The rest joined mostly out of free will.
Actually Tenchi's pondering was while observing the training.
At the moment Marcus was being chased by Ryoko and Nagi, both
equipped with no-dashi sized bokken. The result of two super
strong women with very big weapons was quickly clear, as
Marcus was eventually launched into the lake.
Tenchi considered that somehow the lake had become a 'time-
out' zone, as not only Marcus, but the rest ended up in the
lake on a regular basis. Well except Katsuhiro that is.
By the time Marcus returned to shore there was another couple
being instructed by Katsuhiro; Achika and Sasami. The sight
was rather weird, to see little Sasami with a bokken. Sasami
had insisted on trying a baton for some reason, but Katsuhiro
overruled her. As the youngest princess was new at the art of
sword fighting she had to go slow and mostly had to practice
how to hold the bokken. Achika who had been out of practice
for a long time had decided to start from the beginning as
well. Also Achika wanted to get to know her aunt a bit
better.
Nobiyuki looked on and smiled. He had taken long needed leave
for a while so he could be with his wife. He still had to
figure out a way to explain the return of his wife to the
law.
After Katsuhiro finished his instructions to Sasami and his
daughter he went to Aeka, Tenchi and Mihoshi who were
prepping their weapons. The two Juraian blooded were in a
slightly confused state due to the weapon of choice of
Mihoshi, two cat claws. The old man was humored that Mihoshi
used the ancient weapon of the Guarth, a metal version of the
natural weapons their race had lost. Of the few knowledgeable
he knew that Guarth are feline in origin in stead of simian
(see large fangs, pointy ears) and that the Guarth favored
the long triple claws that were attached to the lower arms
and also provided a good form of shielding.
The problem for Tenchi and his future wife was that Mihoshi
didn't have practice versions of those claws and Tenchi was
sure that the bokken would be ruined after a few whacks.
Washu eventually offered a solution by giving Mihoshi a pair
of rubber-like practice claws.
Just before Katsuhiro could finally start instructing his
grandson he was interrupted by a big splash sound, Marcus had
been sent careening into the lake again. Individually Marcus
was strong enough to win a no-special-power match against one
of the two, but not when the sisters teamed up against him
(or if they used their gem powers which they shared).
To Tenchi the training seemed far more exiting now that he
had the companionship of most of his friends. The funny part
was that some of his friends occasionally could teach his
grandfather some new techniques, originating in the fighting
styles they had learned themselves. Marcus had said that
later on today he would give Tenchi a run for his money with
a new technique. Tenchi felt curious.
Tenchi's first task was to defend himself from both Aeka and
Mihoshi. In the earlier days, Aeka wouldn't have even
considered this, but with the slight touch of Ryoko in her
she found it almost thrilling to try to defeat her lover. As
thus she was very passionate in trying to beat the crap out
of Tenchi. In Mihoshi's case, well, she hadn't made it to
detective officer first class without proper training. In
other words they were rather pressing as a team against
Tenchi. But after ten minutes Katsuhiro ended the sparring
match. The two girls were getting a bit to eager in their
blows.
Now he had to face off against Katsuhiro. During the practice
he noticed that some of the blows were rather weak compared
to the usual pummeling he received, but as soon as Tenchi
went for the kill his grandfather retaliated with a force he
hadn't used before.
This went on until a blast send both of them into the lake. A
snickering Nagi was seen with a grinning Ryoko next to her.
"Sorry I'm still not used to using energy blasts." And she
continued to laugh.
As the two came out of the lake and sat down next to Marcus
who was still wringing out water from his shirt. The three
looked at each other and smirked. The trio quickly dashed at
Nagi and Ryoko ganging up on them. After nearly an hour of
chasing and getting chased the gang called it quits. Nobody
was getting anywhere or hitting anyone for that matter.
Yet Marcus seemed adamant to demonstrate the new technique.
While the rest had left for the Onsen except for Katsuhiro
and Tenchi. He allowed Tenchi to rest for a while before he
took a stance against Tenchi. He threw away his wooden two
hander and simply said that Tenchi should attack him. As
Tenchi didn't go into attack, not wanting to attack someone
who wasn't armed, Marcus jumped at him. In mid jump Tenchi
brought up his bokken and sidestepped, batting away the
human. As Tenchi turned Marcus was already back on his feet
once again charging balling a fist for Tenchi's face. Once
again Tenchi had to bring up his weapon, but was surprised as
he suddenly didn't see Marcus anymore, then felt a big kick
in his back sending him to eat dust.
Katsuhiro did see what he did. As Tenchi brought up his
bokken Marcus had changed into a wolf and quickly sprinted
underneath Tenchi who had his legs spread for balance. Then
as he was just at the back of Tenchi he morphed back into his
wolfman form and gave a kick for Tenchi's shoulders.
"Gotcha." He smirked. "Next time you'll surprise me, OK?"
Marcus then called it quits himself after helping Tenchi back
up. All went for the onsen.
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In the men's onsen.
"So you are starting to learn a technique of fighting
incorporating shape shifting?" Katsuhiro asked while
relaxing.
"Yes, it's a garou martial arts they call kai-lindo and it
fully revolves around the usage of natural weapons and shape
shifting." He ducked under the water, resurfacing as a wolf.
"Growlworf waruf."
This did scare the heck out of Nobiyuki.
"Will you quit that, it's bad enough to see you do that from
a big distance, but up close it's really creepy." Before his
eyes Marcus shifted back to man form.
"Sorry, I forgot that you are pure human."
Tenchi looked at him confused. "What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, well, normal humans have a genetic, at least I think
it's genetic, fear of garou." He smiled at Nobiyuki. "But
your dad is special tough, normal humans in general not only
are fearful, they run away in total terror. He is only upset.
It's really bad when I go into wolfman or crinos form."
"So it doesn't affect the 'aliens' in any way?" Tenchi
thought about it shortly. "Then why is this part of human
genetics?"
"It's a punishment for atrocities committed by the garou as a
whole in the past." He sinks back in the water. "I rather not
talk about it, I'm really not proud of it."
"The few days with the other shape shifters have been rather
revealing to me, by the way did you know that on your school
alone there are at least two active garou and three cubs who
will become garou in only a few years, maybe only a few
months."
Tenchi looks bewildered. "Th. That many? Who if I may ask.?"
"Sorry, not allowed to tell. But seeing that the erupted
garou know me now they might show themselves to you, I told
them about you. Wasn't needed tough to tell, they already
knew, everything." Grabbing a washcloth and started to rub
his skin slightly raw.
Tenchi considered the umptheenth revelation of the last year.
"They know, why am I not surprised. Say, now that I know that
werewolves exist, do other supernaturals exist as well. You
know, like Frankenstein or something like that?"
Marcus pauses in mid scrub, thinks for a moment and continues
to scrub down. "He didn't exist, but he was based on the
Golem, which does exist. The Golem is currently stashed away
safely tough somewhere in Prague. As for others, well some
you rather not know, but I think you should know they exist,
considering what you might have to deal with in the future."
He pauses and looks sternly at Tenchi, Katsuhiro and
Nobiyuki. "Vampires are found everywhere on the world, even
in this land, but here they act more humane and use willing
donators most of the time. Do not aggravate these Asian
vampires, even with the power of Jurai to back you up. But
the European kind are open season." He sees Tenchi and
Nobiyuki pale slightly. "Ghost and mummies exist, but they
are very different from what you might think. A mummy could
sit next to you and you wouldn't even know it Tenchi, but
they are extremely rare here, they are found in America and
southern Europe. Gargoyles exist, two types, one kind is
actually a sort of demon, the other a kind of guardians. I
saw one of those guardian gargoyles where I trained, rather
impressing these guys, or girl in this matter. She dead
lifted a one ton boulder with ease."
He looks at the rest who are eager for him to continue. "Then
there are the fair folk, most of those things in children's
books, fairies, elves, leprechauns, even unicorns do exist,
but most of them have traveled to the 'world' of Arcadia.
More fun to know is that beings like 'Nessie', the monster
from loch ness are indeed survivors from ages past and there
are several more around the world, once the people manage to
explore the deep sees better they are in for a lot of
surprises. Similar in the deep African rain forests there are
still real dinosaurs roaming around, but they are new
species, evolved from the originals. The crème de la crème of
this list are Dragons, those mythical serpents from eastern
culture and the European wyrms. Yup they exist all right."
"Wow. Hey, you said fairies, aren't those trouble makers by
nature. Like could beings like that be involved in the mayhem
around here?" Nobiyuki thought about some of his old books of
an old game he once played as a student called Dungeons and
Dragons, one book covering the antics of pixies.
"Wouldn't know, if there are any here they aren't showing
themselves. And unless they are willing you can't find them."
The wolfman stops scrubbing and takes some body lotion.
"Whoa, Dragons, do you think we'll ever meet one?" Tenchi was
thinking in the line of dragon slayer, with the damsels in
distress, the damsels Aeka and Ryoko.
"Me, probably never, you might on the other hand, with your
probable life span you have a better chance than me." The
words came ruefully.
"Hey, what is that supposed to mean, my lifespan? And you
seem to be upset, what's wrong?"
A big sigh. "Tenchi, as a Juraian you will live for maybe
thousands of years and with Washu and Tsunami around maybe
even into near immortality, but me, I'm cut short. You know a
human male has an average lifespan of 73 and has about a
maximum somewhere in the 120 years, as a garou I'll be
considered very old when at 65. And this bugs me more than
anything, you know with Mihoshi. I like her very much and
probably want to spend the rest of my life with her. But
Mihoshi will live up to 2500 years. Similar my other possible
choice for a mate, Nagi, is like Ryoko immune to time. I
don't want them to suffer because I'll die so early."
Nobiyuki and Tenchi looked very pale. "I didn't know. I'm
sorry kid."
"Yeah, I never thought about the aging thing, but hey can't
Washu do something about your aging then?" Tenchi tried to
lighten the mood.
Marcus looked dreamily. "That idea is the only reason I
haven't yet broken up and left. Very maybe. But I will not
ask her until I'm totally sure that I want to spend my life
with her for sure." He turns around and picks up another
towel then heads for the changing booth.
Within the deeper part of the interdimensional lab sits a
very interested scientist. "Only sixty-five years, my boot,
Gaia has meddled a bit to much with him to only live so
short. According to these measurements I estimate his
lifespan to be like Mihoshi's."
Her daughter, currently in a scanner to check upon the slow
changes due to her new gem, listens too. "So he does care
about me too, not just pity, how sweet." She has a short
cackling laugh. "You know mom, I like him too, but not like
that." Washu only nodded.
"Maybe he figures himself a Tenchi version 2."
Katsuhiro noted that Nobiyuki stayed pale and became even
more pale. "Something wrong son?"
Nobiyuki nodded. "Yeah, with what Marcus just said, what
about Achika and me, does she age like me or like a Juraian?"
"We'll have to ask Washu, the body isn't exactly the same as
the previous one. Her previous one had a human lifespan as
she didn't have a tree bounded to her, but the one Washu
created, I do not know." Katsuhiro replied but not took a
steady gaze at a downward staring Tenchi. "You better spill
what's wrong too Tenchi."
Sighs. "Consider this grandfather. Mom died once on me, now I
know she will die again in the future. It feels horrible.
Same goes for dad, knowing that I'll outlive him by such a
long time."
"Then consider this, you have seen what is beyond this life.
When we go you at least know we'll be happy and out there
somewhere. Achika told me about what she saw of the
afterlife, I no longer fear it. But I'm sorry that I will
have to leave you once." Nobiyuki hugs his son. "You
shouldn't worry about those things anyway. You should be
happy with Aeka and Ryoko."
He looked up at his dad, slightly remembering his own short
visit to the afterlife months ago when the Souja hit him and
when he walked the borderline in the spiritworld just a few
weeks ago. "Yeah, I am happy with them. Even if they give me
a bigger work-out than even grandfather could manage."
Katsuhiro grins. "I noticed, you are becoming more durable
during the trainings. I have to hit you harder and harder to
slow you down and that isn't something I can keep up with
forever."
This incited a round of laughter.
"But now it's time to be serious Tenchi. I and your
grandfather have something for you." Nobiyuki grabs something
behind him and hauls over a small box and gives it to Tenchi.
Tenchi opens it and sees two very different, yet simple and
elegant rings. "They are the engagement rings I and father
used. Achika wanted you to have it too."
"Thanks." Tenchi beamed and knew it was right. "I think they
will make the engagement official."
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That evening as the evening was still warm all sat outside,
near the lake, enjoying the relative peace and silence.
Nobiyuki, Achika, Katsuhiro and Washu were playing a board
game. Sasami was busy with Ryo- and Ken–Ohki, teaching them
how to read, write and speak. Ryoko and Aeka were making sure
that everyone got something to drink, at least when they
weren't flirting with Tenchi. Nagi and Mihoshi were dozing,
using a 8 foot long and very colorful dire wolf as a pillow.
As on queue, around eight, Tenchi requested the attention of
everyone there.
"Everyone, may I have your attention?" Most stop what they
are doing, except Marcus who is prodded to wake up. "This
evening is special, most of you all do not realize it yet,
but this day it is one year since the release of Ryoko. For
me this is a special day, the day I turned from an ordinary
schoolboy into something more than plain human. The last year
has been fast and incredibly rewarding. New friends came and
are here, I thank you all for being at my side when we were
in the tougher times. I thank you for the unconditional love
shown by all of you.
As my grandfather once said, this is no longer just a family,
but a clan; Masaki, Jurai, Hakubi, Karamitsu, Gestel, all as
one." Takes a small pause in his speech. "This evening I want
to strengthen this clan even more. Aeka, Ryoko, would you two
please step forward?"
"Yes Tenchi?" Aeka steps forward, followed by Ryoko.
Holding out his closed hands. "I have already asked you this,
but now I want to make it official in front of the rest of
our families. Aeka and Ryoko, will you two marry me?" He
opens his hands and offers the engagement rings to them.
Ryoko takes the small golden ring with a single sapphire and
Aeka takes the bigger ring with a leaf pattern in bronze and
gold.
"I do." Aeka hugs him.
"What do you think, that I'm going to say 'no' after all this
time chasing you?" Then Ryoko hugs him too. Then as if
disturbed by something she looks back at the Ohki's. "You are
what!" Washu and Nagi look at the Ohki's as well with an
astonished look.
"I thought that Ryoko would be the first." Washu quips.
Sasami who sits next to Ryo-Ohki. "What is going on Ryo-
Chan?"
"Ahem, well, you see Sasami. Ryo-Ohki, she, she is..
pregnant." Ryoko stammers but then slowly her face becomes
one and all smile.
"Ah double reasons for this." Nobiyuki starts filling some
glasses with sake.
Sasami hugs the brown Ohki. "That's great." Then she looks at
Washu. "But isn't she too young?"
The redhead shakes her head. "No, even with her 'rebirth' she
still is just as old and adult as Ryoko. That she still has
to learn a lot is simply Kagato's fault for keeping her at
animal level education. As for Ken-Ohki, he didn't know that
he could learn humanoid things like he is doing now. But now
he has to learn fast, luckily he is designed to do just
that."
"Well, I think she will not be the only one for long. At
least with how busy the future emperor of Jurai is." Marcus
grins, now in human form. "On Tenchi and his brides and on
Ryo-Ohki's kid. Congratulations."
"Oh, my son is getting married. I feel so happy." Achika
walks over to Tenchi and gives him a long big hug. "So when
are you going to tell grandfather Azusa?"
"Well, if it's alright with Sasami and Aeka I want to go to
Jurai myself. Not straight ahead tough, I first want to
finish school, that will take a few months." He pauses. "And
you are all invited of course."
"Wow, outer space, sure count me in." Marcus beams.
"I think that all of us will want to go with you Tenchi."
Washu smiles, her head already filled with idea's for baby
gear.
Tenchi sees that everyone is approving. "So it is decided."
In the soul nexus comes another sphere into existence and
activates.
Golden brown with red and dark brown: .....-Ohki. A splash
resembling a dolphin.
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Finished 20 January 2002.
See you all in the next chapter.
You can mail me at Eucep@yahoo.com, for any comments, flames
and praise. For those with AOL, remember that there is a to
big to be ignored chance that I will not receive your mail or
that it will appear as a completely empty mail without even
the senders email address. (So using a public mail like yahoo
or hotmail is advisable or send multiple times, I don't
mind.)
Also if anyone feels like down trotting my work as which has
been done before I will not take it serious without any
constructive reasoning as to why my work isn't good in stead
of just proclaiming it to be a 'screenplay script' like one
of my previous flames which really didn't help one bit.
Otherwise my writing will never truly improve.
As for the future chapters and new characters to be included,
for those who are fan of the 'Teal tressed goddess', Kiyone
will be in the next one. =^.^= But in a way not seen before.
As for the new Ohki, don't bother with names, I already have
one. See the cabbit-patch to find out which.
cabbit.animecafe.net
Oh yeah, something I really like, even if this screws up my
writing TOTALLY, ahem, a bit. I've been checking for
information on TM! GPX. I had seen some pictures of this new
series, two of them displaying what looked like a mature
Mihoshi. Either this would be an older Mihoshi, or Mihoshi's
mother. Now I know that it is in deed Mihoshi's mother. –Ah
well, there goes my story plot of Mihoshi's parents having
killed themselves, yada yada. I had to rewrite that part.-
(I'm still curious how much OAV 3 will screw up my
storyline.)
Update to this, I now know she is called Mitoto and that GPX
is TV based and as NNFR is OAV based it doesn't bother me.
Update to this once again, Darn it's OAV based.. GROWL.
Eucep: "Where there is chaos, creativity thrives. Likewise,
where Mihoshi is, chaos thrives. It's just an unwritten law
of physics."
Washu: "As if I hadn't figured that one out yet?" Pushes a
button and a giant statue of an angel falls on the head of
the dragon-half. "Wise-ass."
Eucep: "Gurgle." Goes KO.
Marc: "Consider this: if Aeka marries Tenchi, then Achika,
her niece, becomes her mother-in-law. WEIRD. On the same
hand, Tenchi's great-grandfather becomes his father-in-law."
Written by Marc "Eucep" Tuijtelaers, started 15th of June
2001
This is a fanfic revolving around the Tenchi-Muyo OAV story-
line. I must say that I do not know the complete story of TM
and the follow up stories and all the alternate realities,
there is a Tenchi Universe crossover in the form of Nagi. And
as it is only fan fiction this is no claim to the ownership
of the TM crew. Tough I do ask that any new characters I
create are not used for other stories, as most of them are
partly or completely real life people.
Garou, Children of Gaia are created and probably owned by
White Wolf. And no, this is not in the World of Darkness
setting. I believe in happy endings.
This was originally a lemon, but if you want to read the cut
out scenes look for the lemon side-story, which will follow
later.
Conventions:
thoughts.
* ... * Quick action/emphasis/sounds.
In short: This story resolves around a masaki family-member
from a non-Japanese branch who shows up one day. Marcus gets
involved with Mihoshi and comes up with the solution for the
'who gets Tenchi' problem. Now he has changed the crews life
even more by noting that Nagi could be Ryoko's sister. Washu
confirmed his guess.
Oh yeah, I assume that over the course of his stay that
Marcus learns Japanese (with or without Washu's help) but I
do not find that an interesting story point. – Continue to
send those comments. -
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No need for relatives
Chapter two.
Tenchi and the rest were staring at Mihoshi. Ryo-Ohki and
Ken-Ohki sat in her lap mewing worried. Washu, Aoko and Nagi
had come in too, still speechless and trying to work through
their revelation of kinship.
Mihoshi looked down and teary eyed, not like the usual 'wail-
mode', but a deep hurt look. The look alone started to tear
at the hearts of those around her.
"Marcus makes me forget things, things I have in my mind
normally. Even with the friendship I get from you guys I
couldn't forget it, but he.. When I was very young I was
similar to how I act now, but when needed I could focus
myself and be 'intelligent' whenever I wanted to be like
that. Then, when I was in my first year as an acting officer
on patrol without my partner Kiyone." She takes a pause to
wipe some tears away. "Kiyone was sick after a meal that I
had prepared.. I had to go after a speeding violation." She
looks really upset now. "When I caught them, I didn't keep my
mind on that I was alone and I got overpowered by them.
They.. they.. r" Washu quickly shut her off from saying it,
knowing way to well what she was about to say. The scientist
just had to hug her as did most others. As the crying died
down a bit Mihoshi quickly escaped from Washu's motherly
embrace and fled upstairs to her room.
"How could we not have noticed this?" Washu spoke. "How could
I not have known?" For once the greatest scientist in the
universe had been in the complete dark.
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Two days later at the shrine Marcus was practicing against
Katsuhiro and Nagi. The man had come out of his room a day
before with Mihoshi in tow, Mihoshi slightly red-eyed, but
calmed down. Nagi had been there for a while too, but she
didn't want to let her emotions so out of control. She loved
it tough that even while giving Mihoshi comfort he managed to
listen to Nagi as well. Taking in the dark life of Nagi and
allowing her to get some peace of mind. Ryoko's sister her
heart knew it longed for love and she knew she had found it
or at least a strong love that she could use to learn how to
love. It had started out with several rude remarks and
obvious shows of anger towards Marcus, but he remained calm
and tried to get her to calm down too.
The bounty hunter quickly accepted her new status. Her heart
had lightened up considerably since she learned who her
mother was, her goal achieved. And that she had been safe
from the torture her sister had gone through. A new turning
point in her life had been reached and she was glad for it.
A day after the revelation Washu offered Nagi something to
teach her something more about Ryoko's and Washu's past. She
had her mind-link activated with Washu, Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki
like the one she already shared with Ken-Ohki. Aoko had
allowed her access to the time Ryoko spend under Kagato's
control.
Nagi had been completely blown away by it. Now she was
enjoying the tranquility of mind she got from fighting. Even
if it wasn't to kill someone. It was to train Marcus in his
sword skills. He still had to get used to using an energy
weapon. Tough she rather would wrap her arms around him and
do whatever she can imagine with him as she was as horny as
is possible. (Psychic link with Aoko, Aoko is alone with
Tenchi, go figure.)
"Ahh, I simply can't use any of my skills with this
weightless blade. If I want to use it I have to completely
relearn everything." Marcus growled as he stood in a stance.
Then he had an idea. He walked over to his own armory chest,
which he now had places behind the shrine. He came back with
Ra-Klev, his two handed great sword, a No-Dashi as Tenchi
calls it. Marcus insists that it is a Polish Two-hander. Nagi
and Katsuhiro looked a bit confused when he returned.
"What's the idea?" Nagi asked.
"I have this slight idea and I hope it works." He held the
sword, but at the same time activated his Gaia-blade. Instead
of the metal blade melting away it became enveloped with the
purple aura of energy the Gaia-blade produced. "Oh yes, this
is the way I like it." He swung the sword and it was like
swinging Ra-Klev normally.
Returning to his training he let Nagi feel the effect of
using really large weapons. She never had seen anyone use
those size of physical melee weapons effectively before. In
the entire galaxy speed was favored over stopping power
especially in the underworld where she had roamed. Now she
felt the heavy blows against her own energy blade. It was
hard to recover from the blows. She saw in her peripheral
that the old man stood back and smiled. She saw him making
quick sideways motions.
Indeed she thought So said, so done. After about half an hour of testing
and getting used to his style she used her fastest move to
dodge past him and use a foot seep to knock him to the
ground.
"Got me. I surrender." He smiled with a very tired face. He
looked over at Katsuhiro who was now giving Tenchi a run for
his money, again.
"So you surrender, what should I do to you then?" Nagi smiled
while sitting on his chest to keep him pinned to the ground.
"I still have to thank you. I've been looking everywhere for
my parents, even without me knowing who they were. Now I know
why I didn't know how they looked, I never saw them. Thank
you." She gave him a kiss on the mouth.
"Hey won't Mihoshi get angry if you continue that?" Aoko said
from the shrine.
"Nope, she won't and I won't if she gets close to someone
else, at least I'll try not to get jealous." Aoko looked
confused at Marcus, but Nagi didn't.
"Sis, Mihoshi is a Guarth, do you even know about her race?"
Nagi smiled at the dumbfounded fusion.
"To be honest, nope."
She started the explanation, all the while sending images
from her visit to Guarth. "Well, for starters, Guarths are
nearly always bisexual, they have a form of polygamy as the
basic marriage system, they consider friendship and
especially intimate friendship the highest value in life, sex
is a very open and encouraged subject and they learn about it
at a far younger age than for example humans or Juraians.
Actually their bodies develop the possibility to enjoy sex
earlier, but become reproductive later than humans." Marcus
smiles, having heard this a short while ago, but Aoko's mouth
seemed to open more and more.
"Didn't you notice that Mihoshi was very eager to hug both
Marcus and me when we emerged from Mihoshi's room after she
calmed down. Never noticed how affectionate she is even
towards other girls?"
"..." Aoko simply is speechless.
"In other terms, she won't mind me rewarding Marcus if I
involve her as well." Nagi grins.
"HENTAIS!" A duo of voices can be heard. Everyone looks at a
black and blue Tenchi and a smiling Katsuhiro.
Inside the house Mihoshi is trying to beat the hell out of
Sasami, with Tekken Tag that is. While Sasami normally wins
with ease in every game, now she has a bit more competition,
barely. "So he knows about your race a bit more now?" Sasami
asks then giggles. "Especially about how important sex is to
you."
"Why yes, how do you know? And how do you know about the
latter?"
"Well, Marcus was nearly completely red this morning at
breakfast." She stifles a laugh. "And the latter. Well, a few
months before I left Jurai I had a talk with princess Ymal
from your planet. We were playing in my room when she just
asked me if I wanted to have sex with her." Mihoshi looked
sheepish at that. While young Guarths were learned about sex,
they weren't really thought that other races did not share
their culture or biology. "I said that I didn't know what
'sex' was and she proceeded to tell me in all flying colors
and I listened intensely. It sounded like fun to me so I
agreed, but mother Misaki stepped in, apparently she had been
over listening our entire conversation about sex. She told me
about the development of Guarths and that I wasn't physically
ready for it yet. Ymal looked very embarrassed, she didn't
know that Juraians developed differently from Guarths."
"Oh my, and now?"
"Well, I'll wait for a few years until I know I'm ready for
it." Sasami smiles.
Outside on the field one yellow toddler humanoid cabbit was
busy digging up carrots and dragging them in bouquets to the
other brown toddler humanoid cabbit. Who happily accepted
them. Both munched them down. (Wolfing would be a better
word.)
Luckily Misaki wasn't around, otherwise she would truly go
banana's with the Kawaii meter at 11 out of 10.
This all thanks to Washu who, for a very nagging cabbit who
has a mind link with her, fused the other cabbit with a
couple of MASSes as well.
While Sasami and Mihoshi continued playing they heard a bang.
Before they knew what happened they were teleported outside
the house and saw a visible blue force field being erected
around the house. Next to them stood adult Washu. Both were
confused and looked up at the 'mother' of the household.
"What happened?" Sasami said in a slightly scared voice.
"Screwed up experiment, the house is radiated. I've placed a
force field to keep it at bay and the cleaners are working
full time to remove it, but it will take a day or two to
clean up. Until then none of us can enter the house safely."
Washu simply stated.
In the last two days she had decided to permanently get rid
of her teenager form and to 'grow-up', mentally as well. She
knew she would hurt Ryoko and Nagi to much if she stayed in
her younger form. Besides it felt good to get the respect she
gained as a mother figure.
"But, but, the food, our beds... THE TV! Where, how...?"
Mihoshi started to gibber.
"We can still order take out with my mobile computer and we
can either sleep in the shrine, which is too small or in the
onsen." She padded Mihoshi on the shoulder. "No real
problem."
A few others were heading down the stairs towards them.
A few minutes later everyone else knew, even the Ohki's.
"I agree with Washu, you 'youngsters' can sleep in the onsen
and Nobiyuki and I will sleep in the shrine." Katsuhiro
states.
Nagi nudges Marcus. "Seems like I will have to keep you to
our agreement later."
Mihoshi padded Nagi on the shoulder. "Agreement?" She looked
at their smiles. "That agreement." Mihoshi smiled. "Great."
I wonder how she tastes, I never before tasted an android
before.
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Later that evening everyone in the onsen had gotten a futon
from Washu and were deep asleep. Tenchi was hugging Aoko in
his sleep. Next to them Marcus was being used as a pillow by
Mihoshi and Nagi. On the other side of Tenchi and Aoko was
Sasami and Washu who were in their own futons with each a
cabbit on their bellies.
Nobody saw as the triangles on Sasami's head started to shed
light, like she did while having prophetic nightmares. This
time the light shot out in arcs towards the temples of all
the other sleepers in the subspace room.
Like usual in her dreams she was alone and outside. Unlike
usual the sky was clear and the grass was very green. Around
her she saw a stone circle, like Stonehenge, but 'whole'. The
stones which supported the lying stones were engraved with
symbols from many languages. Earthly, Juraian, Guarth,
Megamian, Kazan and even more exotic ones. On the lying
stones she saw half-buried glass globes. All were empty
except for one, it had a electric blue and deep pink swirls
of energy in it. Just under it she saw two green dots. She
looked at herself and saw that she had Tsunami's body (or
better said her own adult body) and was utterly naked, not
even her usual hair wraps.
"Where am I?" She heard a female voice behind her. Sasami
turned and saw Aoko sitting on the ground, naked like her.
There was something unusual though, as a kind of ghosts she
saw the images of Ryoko and Aeka slightly out of phase with
Aoko. Besides Aoko she saw some light flashes and one by one
the other sleepers in the onsen appeared there naked. All had
a confused look on their face.
"Where are we?" Aoko asked.
"In my dream I think." Sasami answered.
"Tsunami?" Washu asked her.
"No, Sasami."
"We're naked, ehh, does anyone here got some clothing?"
Tenchi asked, then looked at Aoko who had this big grin while
staring at his groin.
"Weird temple, what's up with all those colored globes. Hey,
that one has Tsunami's symbol, the one with the hair and eye
color of Tsunami and Sasami." Tenchi looked around. A few
days ago he would have had a heart attack due to blood loss,
but now he simply enjoyed all the naked females around him.
At least that was what he tried to fool himself with, while
trying to not look at them.
"Yeah, now that you say. The others also correspond to each
of us." Nagi points out to the other globes. Underneath them
there were symbols as well.
Purple and red: Aeka. A single dot like Funaho.
Blonde and red: Ken-Ohki. Rectangle.
Golden brown and grayish-green: Marcus. A halve moon.
Sun yellow and sky blue: Mihoshi. Five point star.
Blue and brown: Nagi. Three dots in a vertical row.
Bluish Black and Black: Nobiyuki. A single triangle.
Cyan and yellow: Ryoko. Three dots in a horizontal row.
Brown and yellow: Ryo-Ohki. Oval.
Brown and Black: Tenchi. Three triangles as in his battle
armor.
Red and emerald: Washu. Three dots in a downward triangle.
Darkblue and Black: Yosho. Two sideway trapezoids with the
shorter line next to each other.
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Still quite a few were empty. All looked curious at what
apparently represented them on the circle. Except for Aoko,
but she had two to represent her. They noted that both the
Ohki's were in an adult humanoid body and standing upright,
not even wobbly (The reason Ryo-Ohki became a toddler after
she gained her adult humanoid form was because she couldn't
even walk, so she decided to learn it from the start on. Thus
the toddler form). They looked remarkably happy with the
situation. As far as it meant that maybe both could use their
adult form as well now without crashing to the ground
continually.
Then a new globe filled, brown and blue, and two small ovals
underneath the globe. A new person came into view, the woman
had brown hair in a style halfway that of Tsunami and Washu.
Her eyes were predominantly dark blue, but with a red aura
around them. She too didn't wear anything, very unlike her
usual elaborate attire: Tokemi.
"So you finally are this close." She grins. "In time I will
tell you all everything you need to know, but for now.
Welcome all to the soul nexus in the dream world. A place
where spirits can gather like ours have done now." She
slightly bowed to Sasami and Washu. "Sisters, I welcome you
two especially. Even if you don't have your memory back
completely Washu." She walked over to Tenchi and Aoko. "I
welcome the bearers of the light hawk wings." Then she walked
over to Mihoshi, Marcus and Nagi. "I salute the savant of
Gaia and the representatives of law through chaos and chaos
through law." Then to the Ohki's. "And I'm glad to finally
meet two of the cutest fuzzballs in the universe." She
smiled.
The rest looked as confused as they ever would. The last
thing some of they remembered about Tokemi was that she
worked against the work of Tsunami and nearly killed them in
the process during the Dr. Clay situation according to Washu
and Mihoshi's findings.
"This is certainly a surprise sister." Sasami sounded with
the echo of Tsunami in her voice. "Why the sudden kindness?"
"The testing is over for most of you." Tokemi sat down next
to Sasami. "The rest of the testing is not in my hands." She
looked down and sad, but quickly her face cleared. "Only a
short time and our rule as the supreme powers in this
universe will be over. I do not know whether what we have
created will be allowed to continue to exist." She looked at
the scared faces of the rest. "If everything goes as I have
planned we do not have to fear for it too much. I saw what my
sisters were creating and took the liberty of involving your
work in my own plans. My plans to show him the truth." She
smiled and put an arm around Sasami and Washu and continued
with her enigma. "The last part is up to others." She let go
of them and walked over to Marcus. "Before I send you all
back I want to see what my niece Gaia created." She touched
Marcus on his temple. "This way you won't be cursed with the
rage of others of your kind."
The rest looked as he started to grow to nearly one and a
half times his normal size while his hair started to grow
quickly. He just stood there with a scared face until the
transformation was complete. In a matter of milliseconds he
stood there as a slightly hunchbacked werewolf with very long
fur, a tail that subconsciously wagged and the face of a wolf
with his normal human eyes. Then Tokemi started to giggle.
His fur wasn't one colors, but a hotchpotch of colors with
some of them being unnatural colors for humans. The idea of a
tabby-cat came pretty close. Marcus looked slightly annoyed.
Then everyone saw the area blurring and becoming black.
The next thing they saw was the onsen. One after the other
they sat up with a confused look. They noted that the Ohki's
were still in their adult humanoid bodies. Sasami had
reverted back to her normal age. The look on each others face
told them enough, they all had the same 'dream'. Mihoshi and
Nagi found themselves leaning against a werewolf. A werewolf
with a slightly overstretched pj's on him.
"Aaaaghh, how do I change back, how do I change back?" He
yelped while he stared at him own hands which were now hairy,
but lacked claws. His voice was lower and sounded more like
gruffs. He looked at his feet who were in the same furry
condition.
"Hi hi hi, it's really soft." He felt a slight pull on his
tail as Mihoshi tried to tickle Nagi with it.
Washu walked over to him. As she looked at him better she had
to stifle a laugh, he looked utterly ridiculous with his
multi-colored fur. "Ahem, I think that it's like with Ryo-
Ohki to change back, just imagine being in the other form and
you probably change back." She ran a hand through his fur
behind his ears. Nearly instinctive his leg started to
tremble. He looked down at it.
"You gotta be kidding me." He quickly thought about his human
form and found himself in that form again, with a shredded pj
all over him.
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The next morning most had slept well, compared to the short
ruckus which followed on the dream. Even Washu decided to get
some sleep in stead of trying to figure out some experiments
to do with the rest, Marcus topping the possibilities for new
experiments.
Sasami was one of the first to get up. She looked around to
see both Tenchi and Marcus in unintentional indecent
situations. Aoko lay completely on Tenchi with her head on
his chest (that together with the lack of clothing, only
undergarment). Mihoshi still lay next to Marcus, but Nagi lay
with her face next to his crotch.
Washu woke up soon after Sasami and saw the same. She went
over to Sasami and pulled her along to prepare some breakfast
in the shrine. She decided that when they woke up it would
give enough ruckus anyway. She wanted to talk to Katsuhiro
about the 'dream' of last night.
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About an hour later the rest woke up, well Nagi did and her
yelp woke up the rest. The rest saw her blushing tomato red
then they focused on Aoko and Tenchi who were very
comfortable (Aoko at least).
"Busy again, even with spectators?" Marcus quipped after
giving Mihoshi a big good morning hug.
Nagi just gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. She didn't
really feel that comfortable yet. In her mind things were
changing a bit too fast. Her psyche had been devastated by
finding her family. Then the overwhelming kindness and
acceptance of the rest. Then there was this knight who had
this magnetism that she had never before seen in any man else
than Tenchi (who was occupied with her sister). In the past
she had to adjust quickly before, but now it was being pushed
to the limit. For now she would try to accept her new 'fate'
on her own pace. In two days Aoko would be split up into Aeka
and Ryoko again, then she would challenge Ryoko one last
time. Not to the death, but to see who was the better
combatant. That would probably would be the end of her old
life as a bounty hunter, Ryoko was her ultimate challenge,
the rest didn't appeal anymore to her, the hardship, violence
and solitarism. She wanted family.
She looked over at the Ohki's who had reverted back to cabbit
form, they would probably need some decent clothing for their
humanoid form anyway. Washu probably had to find out what
happened to them anyway, as far as Nagi knew Ken-Ohki
couldn't transform into any humanoid form. Then again she
didn't know that Washu had already fused him with a MASS
body.
Breakfast was a simple attire, mostly consisting of
vegetables from the garden. Before the rest had come to the
shrine Washu had told Nobiyuki about the weird communal dream
they had. Unfortunately the old man and his son in law didn't
have a clue either about it's meaning or the message from
Tokemi. Some had passed tests, but who and what tests was
another question unanswered by the dream. As usual time would
tell. Katsuhiro couldn't even tell why he had his own orb
there.
For once Sasami found herself without anything to do, now
that nobody could enter the house (except for Aoko who is
immune to radiation anyway). She asked Tenchi if she could go
into town to get some clothing for the Ohki's. Nagi decided
to go along as she had no earth clothing either. They could
have asked Washu, but they didn't want clothing with hundreds
of built in gadgets.
"So we can get some clothing in the town here? Then we should
take some measurements for the Ohki's, they can't come along
themselves." Nagi looked at the beings in question who were
outside the shrine. Ken-Ohki was trying to impress Ryo-Ohki
by rapidly harvesting carrots.
Tenchi too looked at this
Mihoshi got this gleam in her eyes. "We could go into town
here, but there isn't so much choice out there, we should go
to Tokyo. Then we could make a day out of it." She walked
over to Nagi. "Besides, last time I was there I saw something
I found really interesting."
"Well, sounds like fun. We'll go to Tokyo." Sasami smiled.
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Three hours later, after taking measurements of the Ohki's
and a quick trip the three arrived in Tokyo and went on their
shopping spree.
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Even later at the end of the day, the shoppers had returned
and were unpacking their materials. All of them were carrying
big loads of goodies (not only clothing of course).
Tenchi was at work in the fields, there had to be done some
more work now that there were two Ohki's to feed. He really
started to hope that Washu would come up with faster growing
or bigger carrots, anything that would decrease the work.
"Ahem." He heard an strangely familiar female voice. "Is this
the Masaki residence?"
Tenchi looked around and was very startled. The woman he saw
standing there was about forty years old, wore casual
clothing –jeans and blouse- and had a short mushroom style
hairdo. The scary part was her face, she looked like Achika
as she would have if she hadn't died prematurely.
"Yes, I'm Masaki Tenchi. May I ask who you are?" His face was
really confused.
"I'm Akare Yolei. I'm here so see a man named Marcus. I know
he should be around here." Her voice was very clear and like
Tsunami's soul piercing.
"I'm here indeed. I'm Marcus van Gestel. May I ask why you
need me? I've never seen you before." Marcus walked onto the
field with a shovel. "Tenchi, do you see who she resembles?
Uncanny."
"My looks are like this because I choose to look like this.
My reason to seek you out? To teach you how to be a garou.
Gaia's orders." She smiled.
"Excuse me, did you say garou?" Marcus walked over to her,
scrutinizing her appearance.
"Garou. Like in you are a garou and you know absolutely
nothing about what it means to you." She grins. "And I do
know it. Well, mostly." She blurred before their eyes. In
about a blink she changed from a human to a fox hybrid, her
clothing still fitting snugly (werefoxes don't increase in
size). "I'm not a garou, nor a member of the Children of Gaia
clan. I'm a Hengeyokai, a Kitsune."
Of course both Tenchi and Marcus were without words.
"Silent types aren't you?" She walked over to Marcus. "Now
why don't you change? The lady of life said you would be a
very interesting werewolf."
"Ehrm, please, just, just don't laugh." As he drops his shirt
and changes into his hybrid form. And of course the Kitsune
can't believe her eyes and ROFL. (Rolls over the flour
laughing.) "Oh, for crying out loud, quit that, please."
Yolei looks at his sad face and quickly jumps back up. "I'm
sorry, but now I know why the Garou elder called you Rainbow
Dancer." She smiles at him, then the ruffles his mane a bit.
"It's nearly fluffy, very unusual for a warrior type shape
shifter. Well, I think I should be honest with you Philodox.
I want you to train to be a Child of Gaia, but to do that you
have to leave here for a week or two."
Marcus looked into her eyes. "I think you are truthful to me,
I'll say goodbye to the rest and I'll then go with you." As
he changes back to human form. As he now wears very wide,
stretchy pants he doesn't have to run around but naked
anymore.
Yolei yells after him. "Oh yeah, I'll teach you how to make
blessed clothing that won't tear when you transform."
A few minutes later Yolei sees Marcus, Mihoshi and Nagi
walking to her. She notes that the females are utterly
latched onto his arms and probably asking him to stay.
"So, you two are his mates? Two mates. His clan members would
be proud on him." She smiles.
"Hmph, what are you talking about." Nagi snarls, then she
recognizes the resemblance to Tenchi and looks slightly
confused. "I'm not his mate.."
"Oh, I'm sorry, it's something that werewolves tend to brag
about, but it rarely is true. You see among the Garou and
most other shape shifters it's very important to gain respect
and renown. One sure way with werewolves is by mating, don't
ask me why for it even goes for us females. And of course
having two mates apparently demands respect. Actually it is
extremely rare as garou tend to be very uncaring beings. He
seems to be an exception." She puts her hand on Nagi's
shoulder. "Most of his kind would have gone with me the
moment I asked them, but he went to say goodbye to you."
Yolei frowned and uttered inward about the other garou.
"Honorable bastards."
"I don't want him to go, why do you have to take him away
from us?" Mihoshi looks at her with teary eyes.
"First of all, it's orders from Gaia, secondly." She pauses.
"I have to make sure he learns to control his rage, otherwise
he might hurt those he loves due to his kind's legendary
blind fury." Then she smiles. "But as he is from the Children
of Gaia clan, it shouldn't take too long. Their kin has a
natural resistance to this anger. They are the only clan to
which the Hengeyokai want to talk when dealing with Garou."
She grabs the hand of Marcus and drags him along to the lake.
There she chants and mist arises from the lake in which a
doorway opens.
"See you all soon." Marcus yells before he is dragged in.
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Back in the house Nagi sits there with her arm around a very
down Mihoshi. "He'll be back soon Hoshi." Nagi wears a more
earthly costume, short skirt, tank top and elaborate jewelry.
(Somewhere in the amount that Belldandy wears.)
Looking at Nagi and then at Aoko who sat at her other side.
"But I couldn't even show him what I did for him. It really
hurt, but it looks so pretty. I think he will like it, I like
it."
This made Aoko frown. "Hurt.. What did you do?"
Mihoshi proceeded to pull up her pink blouse to reveal her
newest jewelry. Each dark nipple having been pierced with a
silver ring, with the added side effect of them being
permanently erect. Of course Aoko looked shocked, but also
interested. Indeed it looked pretty and sexy.
"Well, I think Marcus is in for a nice surprise when he gets
back." Sasami smiles. "Oh, Mihoshi, you can clothe yourself
again. Then I can show you all something." Mihoshi blushes as
she realizes that Sasami was in the room.
Outside the group saw the two cabbits standing. Ken-Ohki in
black trousers, with formal black shoes. More up he wore a
cream-white blouse underneath a black simple body warmer.
Ryo-Ohki wore a long brown skirted summer dress with a pair
of white sneakers barely coming from underneath the dress.
Out of style tough was that both wore backwards worn baseball
caps with the inscription 'Tokyo' on them.
In short they looked silly. That until Washu made them take
off those caps later that day.
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The two weeks passed quickly. Mihoshi took the time to let
her 'wounds' heal and got into her paperwork for the GP. Nagi
took quick lessons in earth customs, well make that a
complete course of etiquette needed after all her years alone
in space. Sasami had finally asked her older brother to start
training her in the Juraian sword fighting art like her
sister had done a long time ago, even if it was only on a
beginners level. Tenchi continued to train as well, but also
started to get lessons in Jurai traditions and courtesy by
Katsuhiro and Aeka.
Yes Aeka, for the most important event had been when Aoko was
unfused. Most were worried that the intended effect would
have failed, that they didn't keep their memories from the
fusion. As it turned out they did, as both passed out the
moment they exited the fusion machine. Their individual minds
had to process the memories of two people, which temporarily
overloaded them, at least that is what Washu told the rest.
In a few hours they had regained consciousness and the entire
gang (minus Marcus, Katsuhiro and Nobiyuki) had assembled in
the living room. The first thing Tenchi and the rest saw was
how Aeka lunged towards Ryoko with a bewildered look in her
eyes. They feared she would attack Ryoko, but she didn't. She
hugged Ryoko tightly and started to cry out loud, shedding
tears that Ryoko couldn't shed when she was younger and under
control of Kagato. Ryoko cuddled her back and they sat there
a few minutes until Tenchi hugged them both. Washu and Sasami
pulled along Nagi, Mihoshi and the Ohki's and left the trio
to their own devices.
"Ryoko?" Aeka looked into the yellow eyes of her former
enemy. "How do you deal with these memories, these horrors
that Kagato put you through?"
(See the fanfic Ningyo by Gregory W. Matteson for a good idea
of Ryoko's past, also on the TMFFA.)
"I don't. They simply hurt every day, every day that I act
like I do as I was trained to do by Kagato." She closed her
eyes and sighed. "But now I don't have to suffer alone
anymore, I'm no longer alone." Ryoko smiled at Aeka and
Tenchi.
"We'll never let you be alone anymore and I hope you will
never ever let us be 'alone'." Aeka sighs with a dreamy look.
"And as for the memories, I hope I can learn to deal with
them."
"Me too princess, I also have to learn to deal with the other
end now, the terror I caused with my attack on Jurai." Tenchi
hugged both tightly to him.
"Tenchi, do you still accept us to be both your wife?" Aeka
pleaded him, finally her sobs had stopped.
"Yes, with all my heart." He smiled at them, he loved the
cozy feeling he had now that there was no threat. Yet at the
same time he was together with both the women he loved. "I'll
never let any of you two be alone. My proposal still stands,
will you two become my empresses?"
Ryoko cheered. "Yes, I'll not let you ask that twice." She
gave him a quick and passionate kiss. "And I'll try not to
hurt Aeka ever again."
Aeka smiled at him. "It would be my honor to be your Empress,
my prince." She hugged him tightly. "And I accept Ryoko as my
sister-wife."
Ryoko took her time now to look at the princess, to oversee
what she had been verbally abusing for months on end. It
still was difficult, but she had to admit that Aeka really is
one of the most beautiful girls in the universe. She looked
up and down at her until she noticed something. Slowly she
took one of Aeka's hands into her own and pulled back the
sleeve of Aeka's kimono a bit.
"What the?" Ryoko had this really confused look on her face.
Then she did the same to the other arm. Aeka all the while
looked on, not understanding what Ryoko was trying to do
until Ryoko placed her wrist next to Aeka's.
"Tenchi, look at her wrist and probably her neck." As they
did they saw what Ryoko meant. Where Ryoko had her gems, Aeka
had small 'tattoos' the size of the gems, but greenish like
the marks of royalty of Jurai. "We got to talk to Washu about
this. Aeka do you notice anything about those marks?"
"No, they don't feel different from the rest of my skin."
A few small tests later revealed them to be harmless side
effects of the fusion and that they were very likely to fade
in time. Everyone took their time to get used to the new
lifestyle of two girls who finally had stopped wrecking the
place. To be honest, it left the entire gang with a lot more
time on their hands that they tended to spend on repairs,
etc. Some of the spare time was slowly being filled by for
example stories from Katsuhiro, Ryoko, Nagi and Mihoshi about
their adventures in space, to which the rest listened with
big interest (even if they couldn't follow Mihoshi's at all).
Tenchi also had to manage with a big, yet pleasurable,
problem.
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About a day later Mihoshi and Nagi were getting this idea of
having a party when Marcus would return. Mihoshi voted for
Karaoke, Nagi for going to a gothic metal concert (type-o-
negative), Aeka and Ryoko wanted to go to an open concert
(Jpop), Tenchi went along with Mihoshi's vote, Sasami didn't
really care about where to go as long as it was fun, Washu
had some trouble choosing so she voted for having a party at
home, Katsuhiro and Nobiyuki went along with the Karaoke as
well.
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Tenchi was working in the field as he saw that there was
something going on at the lake. At the edge he saw water
moving as if it was boiling. Quickly he headed out there,
Tenchi-ken ready, to see what was going on.
He saw how eventually a hairy hand reached out of the water
and clamped itself on the edge of the lake, pulling along a
multicolored werewolf.
"Whoa, watch out where you are waving that thing at Tenchi."
He replied the moment he saw the light sword in front of his
snout.
"Oh, sorry Marcus, I didn't expect you to return in such a
show off way."
"No problem Tenchi, now that you are here, could you please
call Washu to this place, it's very important. Maybe I have
some VERY good news for you."
Tenchi ran off and came back a few minutes later with Washu
on his trail, Katsuhiro on his trail as well.
"Ohayo Marcus, it's good to see you back, but what's the fuss
about?" Washu looked up and down at Marcus, he seemed bigger
now even so slightly and had an increase in his aura of
confidence.
"Please, all take my hand and I'll show you all something."
Most had this 'what's going on here look', but complied
nonetheless. As he touched the water the world around them
rippled and gained a weird glow, everything seemed brighter
and flashier. Most had a few minutes of disorientation until
it stopped and they saw that the house was nearly twice as
large and seemed more like a temple.
"Hello Tenchi, father, Washu and Marcus." They heard a
whispering voice. "I'm so glad to see you all."
Washu's eyes simply widened to their max, but Tenchi and
Katsuhiro dropped to their knees. Tenchi spoke in a broken
weeping voice. "Mom?"
He looked up and down at the slightly see through image of
Achika. Achika as she was when she died, a little older than
when they saw her in the past. [In this universe the entire
adventure occurred without Kiyone, oh yeah. Daughter of
Darkness has not occurred in this storyline, nor Tenchi
Forever. Only Tenchi Muyo! In love 1.].
"Yes darling, I'm here." She moved over to him and tried to
hug him, but passed through him. Yet the gesture was enough.
"How, what is this kind of a trick Marcus?" Katsuhiro
scolded.
"No trick sensei, this truly is Achika. Apparently she has
been around here all this time, looking over all of you. When
I returned here yesterday I found her here and we talked for
some time. This is why I brought Washu here."
Washu looked confused. "What do I have to do with lady
Achika?"
"You can create a viable body for her spirit to inhibit, to
bring her back to life. She died because her previous one had
been completely drained, but with a new body she can be
brought back to life." Marcus said with a very serious tone.
Achika's face brightened at this prospect.
"I know that the smartest scientist in the universe should be
capable of restoring me." Achika smiled.
"Could you do that Washu?" Tenchi had this plead in his eyes.
Washu contemplated the idea for some time.
"I think I could clone a new body, but I'll need a few
things, some genetic material from a few sources. To be
specific, her old body, Tenchi, Katsuhiro and Nobiyuki. The
last for cross-reference to the human part of Tenchi. That
could do it. But I won't promise anything this time, this is
way above my normal repertoire. Maybe I could ask Tsunami to
help here too."
"Maybe I'll be able to be finally be there for you when you
need me, like on your wedding."
Tenchi rubbed his head. "Yeah, that would be great, hey, how
do you know about that?"
"It isn't like I couldn't see what was happening around
here." To emphasize the point the ghostly image of Ryoko
passed bye calling out. 'Tenchi, Katsuhiro, Washu, where are
you, dinner is ready.' Behind her flowed white pieces of
energy as if she had angelic wings, around her wrists and
neck hung a strong bluish glow.
"Wow. Was that Ryoko?" He asked Achika.
"Yes. And for your next question. I approve of your marriage
with Aeka and Ryoko." Then she flickered a bit.
"Oh drat, she's starting to pass on already. Lady Achika, you
know what I told you to do."
"Yes, see you later Tenchi and the rest of you. Oh yeah,
don't raise any hope with Nobiyuki yet." As she walked over
to Marcus and vanished in him. The rest looked at him with
amazement.
"What just happened?" Tenchi looked at the wolfman. "Where
did mom go."
"She's inside of my body so she is kept safe there until her
new body is ready, otherwise she would pass on to the real
afterlife." He grinned. "She can hear you and see you, but
can't reply anymore." He stands up. "Now I'll return you all
to the real world and wait here until you are finished." He
walks back to the edge of the lake. "Oh and say to Mihoshi
and the rest that I'm sorry that I can't return just yet."
And the group was send back to the real world through another
portal.
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Only three days later did Tenchi walk out to the lake. Washu
had worked day and night to finish the body, using
specialized cloning and DNA extraction techniques along with
her knowledge gained when she created Ryoko and Nagi together
with time acceleration and deceleration techniques. To make
sure she would be truly the same she had asked Tsunami, via
Sasami, to keep an eye on it. In the end the body was a
perfect duplicate, aged to a slightly older age then when she
died.
Not really knowing what to do he guessed and openly said that
the body was ready. On the water he saw the text appearing of
'bring it to the lake, can't move far from here'.
So said, so done. The affair wasn't that spectacular at all.
While all were gathered around the Achika clone, hooked up to
various medical devices normally used for someone in coma,
the body shortly trembled and came to life. It took some time
before she could move for real or speak (imagine the average
'awaking from coma after nearly a year' type of recovery).
It didn't take long before the many hugs were nearly killing
Achika again. Nobiyuki especially was nearly going bananas,
he had been kept in the dark until he saw the body outside at
the lake. The amount of tears didn't lie, Washu estimated a
loss of at least 15 liters from all the people.
It took some time before Marcus emerged from the lake,
looking rather battered.
Result, a wet wolf, as he was tackle pounced by Mihoshi and
shortly after that by Nagi.
Within the soul nexus a new orb started to glow.
Bluish-black and reddish-brown: Achika. Two long triangles
with the sharpest points facing each other (like her Juraian
battle markers on her cheeks).
D3 smiled at this while he was cleaning up a few remains of
his former masters 'home'.
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With the help of Washu the recovery of Achika was cut very
short to only two weeks (actually they were two months, but
she had slowed down time in a part of her lab). Most of the
time in between practicing did Achika talk with her son,
husband and father about the time in between her death and
now as she only had the perspective of the house.
Aeka and Ryoko took their time to get to know their future
mother-in-law a bit better and to learn about some of the
things Tenchi liked when he was little (the dreaded 'look at
the baby pictures' time). Sasami managed to get one of the
toddler pictures for Misaki.
As for Marcus, he passed out for a day after his
reappearance, mostly due to malnutrition and dehydration
during his time in the spirit world. When he was back up
again he made clear that his training wasn't that
interesting, mostly lessons in etiquette among the garou and
a few pieces of knowledge he needed to know.
He had left the rest for about ten minutes before Mihoshi and
Nagi wanted to make up for lost time. Dragging him off to
somewhere. The rest could swear that they had heard his yelps
later on. He returned with several burn marks on his hands
uttering something about, 'bloody silver'. Mihoshi looked
upset until Washu apparently helped out. Neither wanted to
say what it was about.
A few hours later Marcus had to make up, again, this time for
real.
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In the few days after Achika's and Marcus' return and
recovery Tenchi noted a few differences, firstly he noticed
that his father seemed to become 'younger', less worried and
far less interested in work (for obvious reasons). One thing
was a mystery tough, how the heck did he get rid of all his
porn so easily. Probably Washu's doing Tenchi figured.
Sasami seemed to cheer up even more than usual and acted more
like a little kid than the matriarch of the household, now
that Achika and Washu took up that role now.
His grandfather became more involved with the house and less
with the shrine, the fact that he had more students to teach
made him even happier: Tenchi, Marcus, Ryoko, Aeka, Nagi,
Sasami and occasionally Achika and Mihoshi.
Aeka got duped into training along with Ryoko or Katsuhiro
would have asked Misaki to continue Aeka's training when back
on Jurai. The rest joined mostly out of free will.
Actually Tenchi's pondering was while observing the training.
At the moment Marcus was being chased by Ryoko and Nagi, both
equipped with no-dashi sized bokken. The result of two super
strong women with very big weapons was quickly clear, as
Marcus was eventually launched into the lake.
Tenchi considered that somehow the lake had become a 'time-
out' zone, as not only Marcus, but the rest ended up in the
lake on a regular basis. Well except Katsuhiro that is.
By the time Marcus returned to shore there was another couple
being instructed by Katsuhiro; Achika and Sasami. The sight
was rather weird, to see little Sasami with a bokken. Sasami
had insisted on trying a baton for some reason, but Katsuhiro
overruled her. As the youngest princess was new at the art of
sword fighting she had to go slow and mostly had to practice
how to hold the bokken. Achika who had been out of practice
for a long time had decided to start from the beginning as
well. Also Achika wanted to get to know her aunt a bit
better.
Nobiyuki looked on and smiled. He had taken long needed leave
for a while so he could be with his wife. He still had to
figure out a way to explain the return of his wife to the
law.
After Katsuhiro finished his instructions to Sasami and his
daughter he went to Aeka, Tenchi and Mihoshi who were
prepping their weapons. The two Juraian blooded were in a
slightly confused state due to the weapon of choice of
Mihoshi, two cat claws. The old man was humored that Mihoshi
used the ancient weapon of the Guarth, a metal version of the
natural weapons their race had lost. Of the few knowledgeable
he knew that Guarth are feline in origin in stead of simian
(see large fangs, pointy ears) and that the Guarth favored
the long triple claws that were attached to the lower arms
and also provided a good form of shielding.
The problem for Tenchi and his future wife was that Mihoshi
didn't have practice versions of those claws and Tenchi was
sure that the bokken would be ruined after a few whacks.
Washu eventually offered a solution by giving Mihoshi a pair
of rubber-like practice claws.
Just before Katsuhiro could finally start instructing his
grandson he was interrupted by a big splash sound, Marcus had
been sent careening into the lake again. Individually Marcus
was strong enough to win a no-special-power match against one
of the two, but not when the sisters teamed up against him
(or if they used their gem powers which they shared).
To Tenchi the training seemed far more exiting now that he
had the companionship of most of his friends. The funny part
was that some of his friends occasionally could teach his
grandfather some new techniques, originating in the fighting
styles they had learned themselves. Marcus had said that
later on today he would give Tenchi a run for his money with
a new technique. Tenchi felt curious.
Tenchi's first task was to defend himself from both Aeka and
Mihoshi. In the earlier days, Aeka wouldn't have even
considered this, but with the slight touch of Ryoko in her
she found it almost thrilling to try to defeat her lover. As
thus she was very passionate in trying to beat the crap out
of Tenchi. In Mihoshi's case, well, she hadn't made it to
detective officer first class without proper training. In
other words they were rather pressing as a team against
Tenchi. But after ten minutes Katsuhiro ended the sparring
match. The two girls were getting a bit to eager in their
blows.
Now he had to face off against Katsuhiro. During the practice
he noticed that some of the blows were rather weak compared
to the usual pummeling he received, but as soon as Tenchi
went for the kill his grandfather retaliated with a force he
hadn't used before.
This went on until a blast send both of them into the lake. A
snickering Nagi was seen with a grinning Ryoko next to her.
"Sorry I'm still not used to using energy blasts." And she
continued to laugh.
As the two came out of the lake and sat down next to Marcus
who was still wringing out water from his shirt. The three
looked at each other and smirked. The trio quickly dashed at
Nagi and Ryoko ganging up on them. After nearly an hour of
chasing and getting chased the gang called it quits. Nobody
was getting anywhere or hitting anyone for that matter.
Yet Marcus seemed adamant to demonstrate the new technique.
While the rest had left for the Onsen except for Katsuhiro
and Tenchi. He allowed Tenchi to rest for a while before he
took a stance against Tenchi. He threw away his wooden two
hander and simply said that Tenchi should attack him. As
Tenchi didn't go into attack, not wanting to attack someone
who wasn't armed, Marcus jumped at him. In mid jump Tenchi
brought up his bokken and sidestepped, batting away the
human. As Tenchi turned Marcus was already back on his feet
once again charging balling a fist for Tenchi's face. Once
again Tenchi had to bring up his weapon, but was surprised as
he suddenly didn't see Marcus anymore, then felt a big kick
in his back sending him to eat dust.
Katsuhiro did see what he did. As Tenchi brought up his
bokken Marcus had changed into a wolf and quickly sprinted
underneath Tenchi who had his legs spread for balance. Then
as he was just at the back of Tenchi he morphed back into his
wolfman form and gave a kick for Tenchi's shoulders.
"Gotcha." He smirked. "Next time you'll surprise me, OK?"
Marcus then called it quits himself after helping Tenchi back
up. All went for the onsen.
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In the men's onsen.
"So you are starting to learn a technique of fighting
incorporating shape shifting?" Katsuhiro asked while
relaxing.
"Yes, it's a garou martial arts they call kai-lindo and it
fully revolves around the usage of natural weapons and shape
shifting." He ducked under the water, resurfacing as a wolf.
"Growlworf waruf."
This did scare the heck out of Nobiyuki.
"Will you quit that, it's bad enough to see you do that from
a big distance, but up close it's really creepy." Before his
eyes Marcus shifted back to man form.
"Sorry, I forgot that you are pure human."
Tenchi looked at him confused. "What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, well, normal humans have a genetic, at least I think
it's genetic, fear of garou." He smiled at Nobiyuki. "But
your dad is special tough, normal humans in general not only
are fearful, they run away in total terror. He is only upset.
It's really bad when I go into wolfman or crinos form."
"So it doesn't affect the 'aliens' in any way?" Tenchi
thought about it shortly. "Then why is this part of human
genetics?"
"It's a punishment for atrocities committed by the garou as a
whole in the past." He sinks back in the water. "I rather not
talk about it, I'm really not proud of it."
"The few days with the other shape shifters have been rather
revealing to me, by the way did you know that on your school
alone there are at least two active garou and three cubs who
will become garou in only a few years, maybe only a few
months."
Tenchi looks bewildered. "Th. That many? Who if I may ask.?"
"Sorry, not allowed to tell. But seeing that the erupted
garou know me now they might show themselves to you, I told
them about you. Wasn't needed tough to tell, they already
knew, everything." Grabbing a washcloth and started to rub
his skin slightly raw.
Tenchi considered the umptheenth revelation of the last year.
"They know, why am I not surprised. Say, now that I know that
werewolves exist, do other supernaturals exist as well. You
know, like Frankenstein or something like that?"
Marcus pauses in mid scrub, thinks for a moment and continues
to scrub down. "He didn't exist, but he was based on the
Golem, which does exist. The Golem is currently stashed away
safely tough somewhere in Prague. As for others, well some
you rather not know, but I think you should know they exist,
considering what you might have to deal with in the future."
He pauses and looks sternly at Tenchi, Katsuhiro and
Nobiyuki. "Vampires are found everywhere on the world, even
in this land, but here they act more humane and use willing
donators most of the time. Do not aggravate these Asian
vampires, even with the power of Jurai to back you up. But
the European kind are open season." He sees Tenchi and
Nobiyuki pale slightly. "Ghost and mummies exist, but they
are very different from what you might think. A mummy could
sit next to you and you wouldn't even know it Tenchi, but
they are extremely rare here, they are found in America and
southern Europe. Gargoyles exist, two types, one kind is
actually a sort of demon, the other a kind of guardians. I
saw one of those guardian gargoyles where I trained, rather
impressing these guys, or girl in this matter. She dead
lifted a one ton boulder with ease."
He looks at the rest who are eager for him to continue. "Then
there are the fair folk, most of those things in children's
books, fairies, elves, leprechauns, even unicorns do exist,
but most of them have traveled to the 'world' of Arcadia.
More fun to know is that beings like 'Nessie', the monster
from loch ness are indeed survivors from ages past and there
are several more around the world, once the people manage to
explore the deep sees better they are in for a lot of
surprises. Similar in the deep African rain forests there are
still real dinosaurs roaming around, but they are new
species, evolved from the originals. The crème de la crème of
this list are Dragons, those mythical serpents from eastern
culture and the European wyrms. Yup they exist all right."
"Wow. Hey, you said fairies, aren't those trouble makers by
nature. Like could beings like that be involved in the mayhem
around here?" Nobiyuki thought about some of his old books of
an old game he once played as a student called Dungeons and
Dragons, one book covering the antics of pixies.
"Wouldn't know, if there are any here they aren't showing
themselves. And unless they are willing you can't find them."
The wolfman stops scrubbing and takes some body lotion.
"Whoa, Dragons, do you think we'll ever meet one?" Tenchi was
thinking in the line of dragon slayer, with the damsels in
distress, the damsels Aeka and Ryoko.
"Me, probably never, you might on the other hand, with your
probable life span you have a better chance than me." The
words came ruefully.
"Hey, what is that supposed to mean, my lifespan? And you
seem to be upset, what's wrong?"
A big sigh. "Tenchi, as a Juraian you will live for maybe
thousands of years and with Washu and Tsunami around maybe
even into near immortality, but me, I'm cut short. You know a
human male has an average lifespan of 73 and has about a
maximum somewhere in the 120 years, as a garou I'll be
considered very old when at 65. And this bugs me more than
anything, you know with Mihoshi. I like her very much and
probably want to spend the rest of my life with her. But
Mihoshi will live up to 2500 years. Similar my other possible
choice for a mate, Nagi, is like Ryoko immune to time. I
don't want them to suffer because I'll die so early."
Nobiyuki and Tenchi looked very pale. "I didn't know. I'm
sorry kid."
"Yeah, I never thought about the aging thing, but hey can't
Washu do something about your aging then?" Tenchi tried to
lighten the mood.
Marcus looked dreamily. "That idea is the only reason I
haven't yet broken up and left. Very maybe. But I will not
ask her until I'm totally sure that I want to spend my life
with her for sure." He turns around and picks up another
towel then heads for the changing booth.
Within the deeper part of the interdimensional lab sits a
very interested scientist. "Only sixty-five years, my boot,
Gaia has meddled a bit to much with him to only live so
short. According to these measurements I estimate his
lifespan to be like Mihoshi's."
Her daughter, currently in a scanner to check upon the slow
changes due to her new gem, listens too. "So he does care
about me too, not just pity, how sweet." She has a short
cackling laugh. "You know mom, I like him too, but not like
that." Washu only nodded.
"Maybe he figures himself a Tenchi version 2."
Katsuhiro noted that Nobiyuki stayed pale and became even
more pale. "Something wrong son?"
Nobiyuki nodded. "Yeah, with what Marcus just said, what
about Achika and me, does she age like me or like a Juraian?"
"We'll have to ask Washu, the body isn't exactly the same as
the previous one. Her previous one had a human lifespan as
she didn't have a tree bounded to her, but the one Washu
created, I do not know." Katsuhiro replied but not took a
steady gaze at a downward staring Tenchi. "You better spill
what's wrong too Tenchi."
Sighs. "Consider this grandfather. Mom died once on me, now I
know she will die again in the future. It feels horrible.
Same goes for dad, knowing that I'll outlive him by such a
long time."
"Then consider this, you have seen what is beyond this life.
When we go you at least know we'll be happy and out there
somewhere. Achika told me about what she saw of the
afterlife, I no longer fear it. But I'm sorry that I will
have to leave you once." Nobiyuki hugs his son. "You
shouldn't worry about those things anyway. You should be
happy with Aeka and Ryoko."
He looked up at his dad, slightly remembering his own short
visit to the afterlife months ago when the Souja hit him and
when he walked the borderline in the spiritworld just a few
weeks ago. "Yeah, I am happy with them. Even if they give me
a bigger work-out than even grandfather could manage."
Katsuhiro grins. "I noticed, you are becoming more durable
during the trainings. I have to hit you harder and harder to
slow you down and that isn't something I can keep up with
forever."
This incited a round of laughter.
"But now it's time to be serious Tenchi. I and your
grandfather have something for you." Nobiyuki grabs something
behind him and hauls over a small box and gives it to Tenchi.
Tenchi opens it and sees two very different, yet simple and
elegant rings. "They are the engagement rings I and father
used. Achika wanted you to have it too."
"Thanks." Tenchi beamed and knew it was right. "I think they
will make the engagement official."
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That evening as the evening was still warm all sat outside,
near the lake, enjoying the relative peace and silence.
Nobiyuki, Achika, Katsuhiro and Washu were playing a board
game. Sasami was busy with Ryo- and Ken–Ohki, teaching them
how to read, write and speak. Ryoko and Aeka were making sure
that everyone got something to drink, at least when they
weren't flirting with Tenchi. Nagi and Mihoshi were dozing,
using a 8 foot long and very colorful dire wolf as a pillow.
As on queue, around eight, Tenchi requested the attention of
everyone there.
"Everyone, may I have your attention?" Most stop what they
are doing, except Marcus who is prodded to wake up. "This
evening is special, most of you all do not realize it yet,
but this day it is one year since the release of Ryoko. For
me this is a special day, the day I turned from an ordinary
schoolboy into something more than plain human. The last year
has been fast and incredibly rewarding. New friends came and
are here, I thank you all for being at my side when we were
in the tougher times. I thank you for the unconditional love
shown by all of you.
As my grandfather once said, this is no longer just a family,
but a clan; Masaki, Jurai, Hakubi, Karamitsu, Gestel, all as
one." Takes a small pause in his speech. "This evening I want
to strengthen this clan even more. Aeka, Ryoko, would you two
please step forward?"
"Yes Tenchi?" Aeka steps forward, followed by Ryoko.
Holding out his closed hands. "I have already asked you this,
but now I want to make it official in front of the rest of
our families. Aeka and Ryoko, will you two marry me?" He
opens his hands and offers the engagement rings to them.
Ryoko takes the small golden ring with a single sapphire and
Aeka takes the bigger ring with a leaf pattern in bronze and
gold.
"I do." Aeka hugs him.
"What do you think, that I'm going to say 'no' after all this
time chasing you?" Then Ryoko hugs him too. Then as if
disturbed by something she looks back at the Ohki's. "You are
what!" Washu and Nagi look at the Ohki's as well with an
astonished look.
"I thought that Ryoko would be the first." Washu quips.
Sasami who sits next to Ryo-Ohki. "What is going on Ryo-
Chan?"
"Ahem, well, you see Sasami. Ryo-Ohki, she, she is..
pregnant." Ryoko stammers but then slowly her face becomes
one and all smile.
"Ah double reasons for this." Nobiyuki starts filling some
glasses with sake.
Sasami hugs the brown Ohki. "That's great." Then she looks at
Washu. "But isn't she too young?"
The redhead shakes her head. "No, even with her 'rebirth' she
still is just as old and adult as Ryoko. That she still has
to learn a lot is simply Kagato's fault for keeping her at
animal level education. As for Ken-Ohki, he didn't know that
he could learn humanoid things like he is doing now. But now
he has to learn fast, luckily he is designed to do just
that."
"Well, I think she will not be the only one for long. At
least with how busy the future emperor of Jurai is." Marcus
grins, now in human form. "On Tenchi and his brides and on
Ryo-Ohki's kid. Congratulations."
"Oh, my son is getting married. I feel so happy." Achika
walks over to Tenchi and gives him a long big hug. "So when
are you going to tell grandfather Azusa?"
"Well, if it's alright with Sasami and Aeka I want to go to
Jurai myself. Not straight ahead tough, I first want to
finish school, that will take a few months." He pauses. "And
you are all invited of course."
"Wow, outer space, sure count me in." Marcus beams.
"I think that all of us will want to go with you Tenchi."
Washu smiles, her head already filled with idea's for baby
gear.
Tenchi sees that everyone is approving. "So it is decided."
In the soul nexus comes another sphere into existence and
activates.
Golden brown with red and dark brown: .....-Ohki. A splash
resembling a dolphin.
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Finished 20 January 2002.
See you all in the next chapter.
You can mail me at Eucep@yahoo.com, for any comments, flames
and praise. For those with AOL, remember that there is a to
big to be ignored chance that I will not receive your mail or
that it will appear as a completely empty mail without even
the senders email address. (So using a public mail like yahoo
or hotmail is advisable or send multiple times, I don't
mind.)
Also if anyone feels like down trotting my work as which has
been done before I will not take it serious without any
constructive reasoning as to why my work isn't good in stead
of just proclaiming it to be a 'screenplay script' like one
of my previous flames which really didn't help one bit.
Otherwise my writing will never truly improve.
As for the future chapters and new characters to be included,
for those who are fan of the 'Teal tressed goddess', Kiyone
will be in the next one. =^.^= But in a way not seen before.
As for the new Ohki, don't bother with names, I already have
one. See the cabbit-patch to find out which.
cabbit.animecafe.net
Oh yeah, something I really like, even if this screws up my
writing TOTALLY, ahem, a bit. I've been checking for
information on TM! GPX. I had seen some pictures of this new
series, two of them displaying what looked like a mature
Mihoshi. Either this would be an older Mihoshi, or Mihoshi's
mother. Now I know that it is in deed Mihoshi's mother. –Ah
well, there goes my story plot of Mihoshi's parents having
killed themselves, yada yada. I had to rewrite that part.-
(I'm still curious how much OAV 3 will screw up my
storyline.)
Update to this, I now know she is called Mitoto and that GPX
is TV based and as NNFR is OAV based it doesn't bother me.
Update to this once again, Darn it's OAV based.. GROWL.
Eucep: "Where there is chaos, creativity thrives. Likewise,
where Mihoshi is, chaos thrives. It's just an unwritten law
of physics."
Washu: "As if I hadn't figured that one out yet?" Pushes a
button and a giant statue of an angel falls on the head of
the dragon-half. "Wise-ass."
Eucep: "Gurgle." Goes KO.
Marc: "Consider this: if Aeka marries Tenchi, then Achika,
her niece, becomes her mother-in-law. WEIRD. On the same
hand, Tenchi's great-grandfather becomes his father-in-law."