characters are copyrights and trademarks of AIC, Pioneer,
and whoever else may own the rights to it, so please don't sue
me (it's not like I have any money anyway :P). However, this
story is my original creation and is copyrighted by me.
Please don't copy it and claim it as your own. This story is
based on the Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-oki characters, so Mihoshi
isn't as ditzy, though much more clumsy! Thanks to Tex
James for his pre-reading help!
Uninhibited Consequences
( )= Mental thoughts
" "= Verbal dialogue
Chapter #7: Of Love ... and Death!
Well folks, it seems another madman has Tenchi and the gang
in his sights. Will he succeed, and what about Saturday's
events. Will they be affected as well? We'll see Next!!
Early Wednesday
Ayeka awoke to a comforting site. To her left was Ryoko with an arm
around her neck. To her right was Tenchi
holding her by her waist. Then she remembered the horrible dreams she
had.
She remembered Lord Garyu's threat, and she snuggled to her two companions
and closed her eyes.
(Oh, For Tsunami's sake, Please don't let them be hurt ...by me!)
She held both close to her as she went back to an uneasy sleep.
That morning
Sasami was the first awake and after she had started breakfast she was the first to Tenchi's room to wake the trio.
"Hey you guys, time to wake up! Breakfast will be ready in ten minutes."
"Thanks Sasami. We'll be down in time." said Tenchi, still groggy from the last nights happenings.
"Oh who was that, Tenchi dear?" asked an equally groggy Ryoko.
"It was Sasami telling us to get up and be at breakfast in ten minutes."
"Tenchi, should we wake Ayeka up?"
"No, Let her sleep. After what happened she needs her rest."
"Yeah, your right. She did go through allot last night. "(Then she thought of something)
"I'll talk to her to help her get through the trauma of being controlled by another."
"You're right, I'll remind you when I go to the fields OK?"
"Yeah, except I do need my morning kiss first". They then kissed warmly
as two lovers would,
then he went to the bathroom to shower and get dressed, while
Ryoko phased
into her blue and gold striped dress. They met up a few minutes later
and walked downstairs.
As this was taking place, A subspace portal opened in Tenchi's room
a few feet from the sleeping Princess.
A voice from inside the portal spoke "Come Ayeka! Come to me!"
The Princess awoke with a green glow in her eyes and stood up from
her futon.
She then turned to the man behind the voice who had by now stepped
out of the portal and held his
hand out to her. She looked at him expressionless and passively and
slowly walked toward him.
Downstairs Washu flew out of her lab and yelled for Ryoko
and Tenchi. Subspace portal, ... in ... your room ... Now! Without
hesitation Ryoko changed into her battle suit,
While Tenchi twisted the ring given to him by Ayeka to switch tohis
battle suit.
She then grabbed his hand and teleported to his room
The arrived just between a mind controlled Ayeka, and Lord Garyu.
"You dare to step in front of my Love your degenerate Jurian!"
bellowed the small but maniacal madman.
"Who are you to take someone against her will? She is my fiancé
as well, so I will not allow it!"
stated a now angry Tenchi.
"You Jurians, now satisfied with your slut here, you want to take such
pure loveliness as well.
NO I will not allow it!" stated a now furious Garyu.
"TAKE THAT BACK! YOU BASTARD!" Tenchi Yelled as he ignited Tenchi-ken.
"No, and to prove it, My dear kill them!" Said a now smug Garyu.
Without warning two shafts of light appeared through the
abdomens of Tenchi, and Ryoko! They both turned around in shock and
disbelief at Ayeka,
in battle gear was holding the two light swords that were going through
them.
"AAyekkaa, Why?" was all Tenchi said before he fell down,
followed seconds later by a now unconscious Ryoko. Reality suddenly
came to Ayeka as her loved one lay in front of her.
Garyu's control had broken in the realization to Ayeka of what she
was forced to do.
She remembered what Ryoko had told her of Kagato's control of her,
and the unspeakable acts she had to endure.
Now she herself had done the same, only now it was the man she loved
with all her heart, and her best friend
and sister to be! She collapsed and wailed as Garyu tried to regain
his hold on her.
Finally failing, he pulled out a weapon and pointed it as the distraught
Princess.
"Get up my Princess, I will take you away from all this filth!" Garyu
said.
This got the attention of Ayeka. She stopped wailing and crying.
She looked up and composed herself.
She bent down and kissed both Tenchi and Ryoko and slowly got up and
stepped over their bodies.
As she did this, Washu and Mihoshi whom had been alerted by her wrist
communicator had teleported
just as this happened, grabbed both Tenchi, and Ryoko and dragged them
down to
Washu's lab.
Sasami, who wanted to go up and confront Garyu and her sister, was
held back by a just arrived
Katsuhito (Yousho) who also sensed what was going on. When she saw
Ryoko and Tenchi
being dragged by Washu and Mihoshi, she screams loudly.
Garyu had a smile as he heard the scream from down stairs as he turned
to face Ayeka.
"Well, my dear ready to go?" asked a now smug Garyu As he looked in
her eyes,
a blue glow had replaced the Green that had signified his control over
her.
As he realized too late that he was over confidant, a wall of blue
enveloped the Princess.
It looked very familiar.
She kept her gaze on him as he realized that it was a light hawk wing,
which split into two.
One enveloped the Princess and as it went through her, her battle suit
changed into a
bright white Kimono with pink highlights.
(Ed note: similar to the one worn By Achika in the Tenchi Movie. "Tenchi
Muyo in Love".)
"You made me Kill the man I love, and my Best friend and sister to
be!
And you think you will tell me to do anything more now.
You will not LIVE TO SAY ANOTHER WORD!" She took the other wing,
made a light hawk staff and with a mighty scream she cleaved the stunned
madman
before he could do anything.
In the moments that followed, Ayeka had stayed in the same position
over the now dead Garyu.
Frozen in anger and loss. She moved for nothing and no one, until Sasami
and Yousho
made their way to the now ruined and bloody room.
They stared at Ayeka who was still in her light hawk suit and still
held the staff.
Sasami made her way in front of the frozen grief stricken and raging
sister.
She then tried to speak to her.
"Ayeka! Ayeka? Please Ayeka can you hear me, sister?" Sherepeated herself
several more times as she tried to reach her.
Finally, she lost that zoned out look and unclenched her handsaround
the staff.
The staff and the Kimono dissipated; leaving Ayeka in her blood splattered
clothes.
The blood of her loves. She finally focused on Sasami's face, she then
started to wail again,
grabbing her sister and sobbing in her arms. Sasami looked at Yousho
and understood.
He quietly went to his sisters, and gently picked up his sobbing sister
from
Sasami's grasp. He took her downstairs to Washu's lab.
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Washu's Lab
Washu and her lab robots were working in double time. Trying to save
her daughter and future son-in-law.
She had gotten them into stasis tubes before all life had expired in
the two.
Now she was desperately working to save their lives with all the means
at her disposal.
She had gotten Yousho toopen her lab from the entrance in their bedroom
at the shrine,
and with the help of a now distraught Mihoshi had dragged them to the
lab from the room
where Ayeka had run them through. Washu didn't think of that now, that
was something to be acted on later.
She now focused on the trying to save the ones she loved in the tubes.
As she worked to save Tenchi and Ryoko, Yousho carried Ayeka into the Lab.
"GET HER OUT OF HERE!" was all Washu could say, as she took a wrench laying nearby and headed for them.
"IT WASN'T HER FAULT, GARYU CONTROLLED HER!" Yousho who used his Jurai
power to grabbed the
wrench from Washu's hand before she had a chance to swing it at the
crying Princess.
"What do you mean, she was controlled?" yelled Washu.
"I saw it, she had the same green glow Ryoko had when she was controlled
by Kagato.
"Do you understand now Washu?" said Yousho as he laid the sobbing Ayeka
on a bed next to the stasis tubes.
She stared down to her feet trying to comprehend what Yousho had said
to her.
Then it slowly dawned on her how she almost did the same thing that
Ayeka, and before her Ryoko had done.
Killed an innocent while under another's control. Only she had control
... of herself.
She shook her head, and without a word went to the distraught Princess
and gave her a sedative
to make hersleep. Then before she went back to work, she walked to
face Yousho and lovingly kissed and hugged him.
"Thank you, Yousho, for making me see through the haze of rage and
anger, and see the reality of what happened."
He returned her hug, and replied; "I will always try to be your voice
of conscience, just as you will be mine, My love!"
They let each other go and with quiet instructions Yousho helped Washu
tend to the three stricken family members.
Sasami who had witnessed the whole thing slowly made her way to the
lab entrance to get Mihoshi to help her clean the
house up. She met the whimpering GP who then told her Nobuyuki was
heading home to help.
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Later that night:
As dinner time came Sasami was making a smaller than normal dinner.
Three members were either incapacitated or unconscious.
While two more were working on saving them.So, o
nly three were at the dinner table as Sasami served them.
As Sasami, Nobuyuki, and Mihoshi were eating, Washu and Yousho came
out of the lab looking haggard and tired.
Sasami raced into the kitchen to serve them dinner. Nobuyuki then asked
as they settled into their seats.
"Well Father, Miss Washu, how are they?" They looked at each other,
and Washu answered.
"Ryoko is going to be fine. She should be back to normal by Saturday."
"And Tenchi?" asked a hesitant Sasami.
"He's going to be in bed for at least 2 weeks as his internalorgans
heal and my nanobots help
rebuild his nervous system. He will probably need to rehabilitate physically
through the summer,
and should be back to 100 percent by the end of August.
Yousho will help him and for a much shorter time, Ryoko with rebuilding
their bodies and skills."
"And Ayeka, will she be all right?" asked an abnormally silent Mihoshi.
Washu sighed. "She will probably need several months ofpsychotherapy,
probably with a colleague I know
from the Science Academy. I will call in to help her. I will also need
Tenchi and Ryoko to be in the
sessions since they, as well as her were ...victims here. We all need
to help them now."
"Did it affect ...their babies?" Sasami finally asked.
"I ... don't know, Sasami, until the tests Saturday, it still too soon."
stated Washu.
With Ryoko it could be something that might affect development
since her injury was quite close to the uteral area, but with Ayeka,
the stress she went through might have affects immediately, or that
may not surface for years.
We'll have to see.
"So they might lose them?" Sasami asked again.
"Yes, it's a possibility."
Then Washu got up from the low dining room table, and made her way
to the sliding glass
door that looks out on to the lake. Yousho had also gotten up and came
to stand behind her.
Then Washu finally broke down. With all of the pressure and grief of
the day hitting her like a sledge hammer.
She fell to her knees and Yousho was there to hold and comfort her.
At the table, Mihoshi and Sasami were now crying in Nobuyuki's arms
as all that could be heard was the crying of the female members of
the household, and
the quiet reserve, and watering eyes of the 2 men who comforted
them.
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Back in the Lab Next Morning:
Ayeka groggily woke up and immediately knew where she was. She turned
her head and saw Tenchi and Ryoko floating
naked in the stasis tubes, seemingly sleeping. For a moment, Ayeka
was happy, as she knew that if they were in Washu's
lab, they would be OK.
Then she remembered what had put the two she loved there. She started
wailing again, and then she searched for something.
She finally found it. A laser scalpel. She opened her upper kimono
to expose her upper chest and
she slowly aimed the laser over her heart.
Just before she was to plunge the scalpel into her heart. It disappeared.
"Now, now, I can't allow my daughter-in-law to hurt herself, now can
I?" said Washu
with Yousho now standing beside her.
"I ...tried to ...kill them Washu! YOU SHOULD KILL ME!!" screamed a distraught and sobbing Ayeka.
"Just like I told Ryoko before, you did not kill them! They alive as
you can see, and yes they're hurt,
but you didn't to it. This Lord Garyu did, by controlling you, and
he tried to kill them, not you. Remember that!
"But, but, ... my hands ... were full of ... their blood!" said a crying Ayeka.
"As was Ryoko's when she attacked Jurai, and almost killed Sasami! Right!"
"That was different," said Ayeka
"How different? How Ayeka is that different. Kagato controlled my daughter
while Jurai burned under her hands.
She told you she could do nothing about it. Right?" Ayeka thought about
what Washu said. She slowly calmed down.
Shenow was in her brother's arms as Washu then summoned some tea for
them to sip.
It calmed her some more, where she then started asking about Tenchi
and Ryoko's condition.
Washu went into the same detail as she did during dinner on their physical,
and psychological therapy.
"So we all will have to go through this psychotherapy together?" asked Ayeka.
"Mainly you and Ryoko, since you both need to work through these similar
experiences.
Tenchi mainly will be the one who has the physical therapy since his
nervous system needs to rebuild itself."
"Can I stay here and wait for them to wake up Miss Washu?"
"Look, Ayeka, I forgive you. So please call me Mom, and I'm sure those
two will forgive you too.
Remember you told them of your premonitions, so they'll be much more
understanding. Plus they do love you."
"Even after what I.." Washu waggled her finger at her." What Garyu made me do?" Ayeka nodded a yes.
"Good, your progressing even now, excellent."
After a minute, Ayeka hesitantly asks; "Wa .... Mom, did the attack affect Ryoko's Baby?"
"I don't know Ayeka, We'll run the tests Saturday and see."
"I won't be able to forgive myself if her baby ..."
Ayeka was stopped when Yousho said; " You cannot be blamed here,
so don't think about it until then sister, please."
"All right brother, I'll do that." Then turning to Washu. "I'm tired, can I sleep on the bed there, please?"
"Not a problem, Get some sleep because I don't think they'll be up till morning."
"Then I'll sleep till then. Good night Mom, good night Brother."
"Good night My little Ayeka."
"Good night sister, and do not worry everything will be better."
"Thank you both". She then got under the covers and stared at the two
figures floating in the stasis tubes.
"Good night my loves, please forgive me!" She blew them both a kiss,
and said some prayers to Tsunami.
Wow a real change of pace huh folks! Well, we will see Ryoko and Tenchi
up next chapter and they and the rest of
the family will have to deal with the aftermath of the battle and get
ready as well for the coming events and the royals in
Chapter #8 Thank Goddess it's Friday!
P.S.-Thanks again to Tex James for his pre-reading help!