The Circles of Destiny
nieht rain
might be under-developed and choppy
Disclaimer: The Ranma 1/2 cast is property of Rumiko Takahashi.
Prologue
The whirl of light was spinning faster and faster as it enclosed the 5 people inside. The Darkness around the light was wild and untamed. It was slowly consuming the little light that remained. The world was desolate and barren. Nothing was left. Nothing but the darkness. The evil conjured up by foolish, lustful mortals. An evil so much more powerful than its summoners. Nothing but the darkness was left. No hope. No life. Except for the single pillar of light, still holding out against the night. But even that lone light was slowly dimming.
"My Lord! What are we to do?" the woman cried out as the darkness reached inside the spiral of light- reaching for the lives of her three babes- only to be kept out by the spinning spiral of light.
"The only thing we can do Kimiko. We must use our ultimate technique.." her husband replied solemnly.
"But.. how can we.. our children.. how are we.."
"We have put our life into this technique, into these 3 rings we painstakingly crafted with our flesh and blood. This world may end, we may perish. But our children cannot. They are special. They are part of something greater. One will be used for evil and in that destroyed by the other two. You know the legend. It is their fate and their destiny. We cannot let them perish. We CANNOT let the darkness defeat us in this. We must." The glow of light was dimming. The spinning growing faster and faster. Kimiko nodded. The couple stood together, back to back with their 3 infant daughters lifted into the air by an unseen force.
"SAN QUAN KUAN SHA!" they cried as one. Their cries changing into screams of torment.. The space around them exploding in a globe of light. Then the screaming ended. The darkness was consumed and with it, the light and the world altogether.
The 3 babes were carried out of the spiral, out of the darkness that surrounded them, out of the turmoil their parents were going through- and with them 3 circles of light and magic. 3 gifts given to them by their former parents. They landed safely in another world. In another realm. In the hands of a king of the middle kingdom- Soun Tendo. He took them in, and taught them the ways of the world. The ways of good. Teaching them all he could, preparing them for that which was to come.- knowing they were special. Knowing they were different. And knowing they were children of light.