Deadly Intentions
Chapter two
"Ranma we have the time now. I would like to tell you a story."
"Time? I thought that you were going to take me to Akane. She's in trouble, we have to find her!"
"Dream is going to get her. It's all right, this is just as important."
"I don't know what is first on your itinerary, but Akane is the number one thing on mine. Are you going to help me or not?"
"Ranma, calm down, you are in my world now. You don't know its ways. There is time, Water does not work at a fast pace."
"I don't care, I can't just stand here and listen to you talk while I know that Akane is in danger! I just can't!"
"I understand. But as I said, she is not in danger, and this is something that you must hear now that you have chosen to fight this battle."
Ranma slumped his shoulders in defeat. After all, how could he have possibly refused the command of a god?
"Ranma, when man was created, by the Kami, we lesser ones were created to be at their service, not the other way around. We lesser Kami, though, fell in love with you humans, and only wanted to make you all happy. You took our gifts, and thought that in return all you could do was worship us kami. Give us praise all of the time, is what humans started to do, and after all of these millennia, you have forgotten the balances that used to exist."
"So, what does this have to do with the present predicament?"
"Everything. You see, it wasn't just the fact that you forgot the balance, but the fact that some of the gods have forgotten that balance as well. All of us for many years, have known that someday, Water, would pull something like this. It was just a matter of time. Ranma, he is the cause of so many problems. But he is the most important god to you humans, and without him, you all will die."
"What are you trying to get at? Do you think that I plan on killing him or something?"
"Ranma I am trying to be serious here. Water is the key to your worlds' survival, if it was not for this fact, then we would have disposed of him long ago."
"Then why didn't you?"
"It is not that simple. You cannot just kill a god, and replace him with someone out of the blue."
"So what, find someone that is capable of doing the job better then him, it can't be that hard."
"Well, it is that hard. I have to warn you though, that you cannot kill him. He might be a horrible god, but he has his good points. He just has this grudge against humans, particularly the ones that are the strongest, such as yourself."
"Why?"
"That isn't exactly part of that story. I'm getting off track. Back to the part of the gods serving humans. Well, a few gods came to earth and took on human forms. They fell in love with humans, although it isn't the love that you as a human know. Gods don't have a heart as your own. To the ones that came, it was all just a game of sorts, although at first, it might have seemed as something else, it soon turned bad. The gods never aged, and watched each of their toys grow old and die, their children were different, and they too grew old, though not as fast. Some were powerful, others like humans. The gods soon lost interest in humans. They lost interest to the point that they didn't want to serve these lowly creatures, lesser then they themselves. But here in the heavens we others saw all of this and knew all about it. We sent out messengers to these gods down on earth to return. They did, and there we killed them. They were causing a rebellion in the heavens. We also killed their children, because we were afraid that other future gods would remember, and want to rebel and not do the duty that we were meant to do. Ranma, Water was one of the gods that rebelled, but unlike the others, we could not kill him. So in return we locked him here in this world. He rarely can ever escape to your world. But for oppressing him here in the heavens, he decides to make the life for humans that much harder."
"I still don't understand. Why do I need to know all of this?"
"Ranma, it is just a little background. You will see. Between many domains, there is hostile warfare here in the heavens. Water has chosen now of all time to do this because he is trying to destroy you all. Ranma, we have fought with him for millennia, he has never used humans in his plan. He wants control of this world, so that he will forever be able to cause suffering in all worlds."
"So this Water dude, wants not only to kill me and Akane, but to control the heavens, and cause suffering to all worlds? Wow, you have to admire him for his ambition."
Wind almost laughed, but this was not a laughing matter.
"Ranma, you seem to be taking this too lightly still, after all that I have told you?"
"The way I see it, I am gonna pound this guy's ass, then I am gonna tell him to straighten up his sorry self, then I am gonna tell Akane that I was scared and that I am glad that she is alright. Then after all of that happens, I am gonna thank all you nice gods, and ask you to transport me home. That all might sound a little crazy, but no matter what situation I am in, it always happens this way."
"Maybe, if just this once, things will surprise you."
"I doubt it, but there is always that chance. Right now I just want to find Akane."
"Very well, I will teleport you there."
"How will I get back?"
"Well I can't answer that. I guess you will know when the time comes."
"What kind of answer is that supposed to be?"
But Wind had disappeared. It front of him was a mirror. Inscripted on the frame were these words,
To thy heart's bids.
Ok, Ranma thought,
Well, let's go get her.
He stood in front of the mirror and stared into it. He knew that it would take him where his heart led him, but where was that. He thought about the water kingdom and tried to picture it in his head. He thought that if he did this then the mirror would take him to where he thought he wanted to go. So he touched the mirror at that thought. . .
(Author note: I do not always put *thought* marks around thoughts but for this scene, I think I will make an exception. Just thought I would let you know)
The place was exactly as he had pictured.
There were waterfalls all over, and the water was crystal clear. There were statues of nymphs in the water.
The floor was sand and lush green sea grass, and the smell was of fresh seaweed.
He roamed around the room, it seemed never ending, as the sea itself.
The walls around him were crystal, they sparkled, even though there was little light. The sky above him was the purest blue, it was undescribable in color and beauty.
*But where was Water, and where was Akane?
How was he supposed to find her in this endless crystal blue palace?*
His thoughts switched to search mode.
All of a sudden the sky turned pitch black.
The walls opened and there was a pathway just as he had imagined. Just as he had feared.
*What in the Gods names is happening?*
A god appeared at the end of the tunnel, his brilliance was magnificent. He shimmered like a beam of sun passing through a rain droplet. The light that came from him like a rainbow. He was beautiful.
His skin was a pale ocean blue. He had a tail like a fish, a mermaid tail, it was aqua, but it was like a gemstone, because it eschewed all light.
In these gods' hands was Akane, she was screaming for him. Screaming for him to help her, for HIM to save her.
"Let her go, you bastard!"
"Her? No, she has a date with death."
Water, just as he had feared, took his crystal scepter and plunged it into her gut. She died instantly, Ranma's name slurred into her last dying breath.
*NO!*
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Yes, be angry, kill me, that is what you want, KILL ME BOY! That is what they ALL want!"
*NO! AKANE!! WHY!! I couldn't save you! I loved YOU! WHY! I can't kill him!*
"YOU!"
*You can't kill him, he is the key to all survival!*
*He killed Akane!*
*He is stronger than you!*
*Death doesn't matter anymore!*
Chi started to gather into his hands. He started to feel it course through his very being. The power was full of grief and anger, it was hot and it felt disgusting. It was almost eating him from the inside. It was hate.
He let the blast go.
It all went black.
The black shattered into a million pieces.
He now stood on a hill, under a tree. At the bottom of the hill a women and a child lounged. A little boy. The woman was in a sun dress and a white hat with a purple flower.
The little boy was a mere baby. He was dressed in Chinese silk pants and a shirt, complete, with frog ties and all. He was trying to crawl away from his mother.
The woman saw him, and picked him up and placed him on her lap and started to play a game with him. He cooed. She then stood up and started to walk towards him.
"Ranma, are you ok? I thought you said you were going to at least try my sandwiches this time. I told you I tried one, and it was ok. We can always go home if you don't like them."
*Akane? She died, how can she be here with me?*
"Ranma, are you all right?" She looked at him with deep concern.
"Akane?"
He reached his hand and stroked her cheek. It was so soft.
"Ranma?"
"You are OK?"
"Of course, I have you silly."
*No this can't be right, I saw you die! Where am I? This isn't right! Get me out of this nightmare!*
The baby cooed and reached out to him, grabbing his shirt.
*What I can't feel that?*
He touched the baby. It was there, it felt just as soft as Akane. But he couldn't feel them touching him.
"This isn't real."
"Ranma, what are you talking about?"
He held his head, at least that was what he thought. He couldn't feel himself, it was as if he didn't exist.
"This isn't real!"
It all went black again.
**Ranma . . .**
*Akane?*
**Ranma . . . **
*Where are you Akane?*
**Ranma I am right here . . ."
"RANMA! WAKE UP!"
"Hu?"
"Ranma you jerk! WE ARE GONNA BE LATE!"
"Akane what are you talking about? It's a Saturday!"
"Ranma, it is Friday, which planet is your humble abode?"
"Oh."
"Jerk."
She slams the door.
*Man what a freaked out dream. Gods and Akane dying. Gosh.*
He looks at the calender as he pulls on his black silk pants. It was May.
*Wow this is really strange, I could have sworn that it was August.*
(Break to later)
It was a typical day. But Akane hadn't talked to him as much and she seemed really mad at him. He didn't remember why. He almost fell off the fence as he thought.
"Akane, why are you so mad?"
"Ranma, you really are dumb."
"Enlighten me."
"I am mad at you, jerk. Don't you even remember what happened last week? Remember what you said?"
"Last week, what happened last week?"
Her anger increased a notch, but she didn't stop, or glare at him as usual.
"Ranma, I hope that this is all just a joke. Ranma, last week you saved me from Saffron, and well, you, said . . ."
She stopped.
"Saffron, yes, I remember."
"You do, then you remember what you said."
*Wait, what did I say. Wasn't that the time I said I loved her? Well I thought that she hated me, that must be why she is angry, because I told her I loved her, she hates me.*
"I well, I know that you don't love me, so what does it matter what I did or said."
She stopped dead in her tracks.
She looked up at him, tears were streaming down her face.
"Ranma you idiot!"
"What did I do now??!"
"Ranma, do you, I mean, do you really think that I hate, you? You really believe that I could ever hate you!"
"Akane . . ."
"Ranma no BAKA! I love you! You dolt! How many times do I have to say it? How many times, I have waited, thinking that you hated me. Then at Saffron, I heard it, all that I have ever wanted to hear, and I believed it, and that was what brought me back. I love you, I told you, and you turned it around, and denied all that you have said. You broke my heart. You ask me now why I am mad, and you didn't even remember and now all of this!"
"Akane . . ."
"Ranma Saotome, what do I have to do to get the truth? Do you even remember what you feel from one moment to the next? What do I have to do? Ranma, tell me? Because I don't want another broken heart! I . . . not with you."
She fell to her knees, no longer able to support her own weight.
He kneeled down beside her.
"Akane, I am so sorry, I didn't . . . I don't know where I have been, I don't know . . . what to say."
"Say? Ranma, say you love me."
"I . . . I love you. I can't deny it, I can't lie to you, but I also can't hurt my friends."
"I know you don't want to hurt them, but you need to be happy too."
*This is all so odd, haven't I done all of this before? I mean, wasn't there a wedding? I feel like I am not supposed to even be saying any of this.*
"Ranma you know they have already planned the wedding, but if we tell them now, that we want to get married on our own at another time, then I am sure that they will have no objections."
"Akane, this is all so fast."
"Yeah."
*No not that fast, it is all wrong, it is moving too fast, too fast. Wedding. I knew it. This isn't right, I have already done this at some time, I remember . . . just like I thought it was August*
"This isn't right! Get me out of here. I know that this isn't real either, I remember now."
"Ranma what are you talking about. Of course this is real."
She punched him.
It all went black . . .
End chapter two
(Author notes: Did you really think that he would just run and rescue Akane? Come on. Well if you don't get it, sorry, I will explain it soon. Some of you however, might already know what I am thinking, and know what will happen and where Ranma beamed himself too. If you do, then good for you, the others are still just as smart as you, they are just not psychotics like you and me.
They write neat little organized fics and they have neat little organized minds. Sorry, babbling.
I hope that you liked it. I wanted to finish another chapter, so I typed it fast, there are a few parts missing. I'd hoped that they would fit into this chapter, but I guess you will just have to wait for chapter three.)
Chapter two
"Ranma we have the time now. I would like to tell you a story."
"Time? I thought that you were going to take me to Akane. She's in trouble, we have to find her!"
"Dream is going to get her. It's all right, this is just as important."
"I don't know what is first on your itinerary, but Akane is the number one thing on mine. Are you going to help me or not?"
"Ranma, calm down, you are in my world now. You don't know its ways. There is time, Water does not work at a fast pace."
"I don't care, I can't just stand here and listen to you talk while I know that Akane is in danger! I just can't!"
"I understand. But as I said, she is not in danger, and this is something that you must hear now that you have chosen to fight this battle."
Ranma slumped his shoulders in defeat. After all, how could he have possibly refused the command of a god?
"Ranma, when man was created, by the Kami, we lesser ones were created to be at their service, not the other way around. We lesser Kami, though, fell in love with you humans, and only wanted to make you all happy. You took our gifts, and thought that in return all you could do was worship us kami. Give us praise all of the time, is what humans started to do, and after all of these millennia, you have forgotten the balances that used to exist."
"So, what does this have to do with the present predicament?"
"Everything. You see, it wasn't just the fact that you forgot the balance, but the fact that some of the gods have forgotten that balance as well. All of us for many years, have known that someday, Water, would pull something like this. It was just a matter of time. Ranma, he is the cause of so many problems. But he is the most important god to you humans, and without him, you all will die."
"What are you trying to get at? Do you think that I plan on killing him or something?"
"Ranma I am trying to be serious here. Water is the key to your worlds' survival, if it was not for this fact, then we would have disposed of him long ago."
"Then why didn't you?"
"It is not that simple. You cannot just kill a god, and replace him with someone out of the blue."
"So what, find someone that is capable of doing the job better then him, it can't be that hard."
"Well, it is that hard. I have to warn you though, that you cannot kill him. He might be a horrible god, but he has his good points. He just has this grudge against humans, particularly the ones that are the strongest, such as yourself."
"Why?"
"That isn't exactly part of that story. I'm getting off track. Back to the part of the gods serving humans. Well, a few gods came to earth and took on human forms. They fell in love with humans, although it isn't the love that you as a human know. Gods don't have a heart as your own. To the ones that came, it was all just a game of sorts, although at first, it might have seemed as something else, it soon turned bad. The gods never aged, and watched each of their toys grow old and die, their children were different, and they too grew old, though not as fast. Some were powerful, others like humans. The gods soon lost interest in humans. They lost interest to the point that they didn't want to serve these lowly creatures, lesser then they themselves. But here in the heavens we others saw all of this and knew all about it. We sent out messengers to these gods down on earth to return. They did, and there we killed them. They were causing a rebellion in the heavens. We also killed their children, because we were afraid that other future gods would remember, and want to rebel and not do the duty that we were meant to do. Ranma, Water was one of the gods that rebelled, but unlike the others, we could not kill him. So in return we locked him here in this world. He rarely can ever escape to your world. But for oppressing him here in the heavens, he decides to make the life for humans that much harder."
"I still don't understand. Why do I need to know all of this?"
"Ranma, it is just a little background. You will see. Between many domains, there is hostile warfare here in the heavens. Water has chosen now of all time to do this because he is trying to destroy you all. Ranma, we have fought with him for millennia, he has never used humans in his plan. He wants control of this world, so that he will forever be able to cause suffering in all worlds."
"So this Water dude, wants not only to kill me and Akane, but to control the heavens, and cause suffering to all worlds? Wow, you have to admire him for his ambition."
Wind almost laughed, but this was not a laughing matter.
"Ranma, you seem to be taking this too lightly still, after all that I have told you?"
"The way I see it, I am gonna pound this guy's ass, then I am gonna tell him to straighten up his sorry self, then I am gonna tell Akane that I was scared and that I am glad that she is alright. Then after all of that happens, I am gonna thank all you nice gods, and ask you to transport me home. That all might sound a little crazy, but no matter what situation I am in, it always happens this way."
"Maybe, if just this once, things will surprise you."
"I doubt it, but there is always that chance. Right now I just want to find Akane."
"Very well, I will teleport you there."
"How will I get back?"
"Well I can't answer that. I guess you will know when the time comes."
"What kind of answer is that supposed to be?"
But Wind had disappeared. It front of him was a mirror. Inscripted on the frame were these words,
To thy heart's bids.
Ok, Ranma thought,
Well, let's go get her.
He stood in front of the mirror and stared into it. He knew that it would take him where his heart led him, but where was that. He thought about the water kingdom and tried to picture it in his head. He thought that if he did this then the mirror would take him to where he thought he wanted to go. So he touched the mirror at that thought. . .
(Author note: I do not always put *thought* marks around thoughts but for this scene, I think I will make an exception. Just thought I would let you know)
The place was exactly as he had pictured.
There were waterfalls all over, and the water was crystal clear. There were statues of nymphs in the water.
The floor was sand and lush green sea grass, and the smell was of fresh seaweed.
He roamed around the room, it seemed never ending, as the sea itself.
The walls around him were crystal, they sparkled, even though there was little light. The sky above him was the purest blue, it was undescribable in color and beauty.
*But where was Water, and where was Akane?
How was he supposed to find her in this endless crystal blue palace?*
His thoughts switched to search mode.
All of a sudden the sky turned pitch black.
The walls opened and there was a pathway just as he had imagined. Just as he had feared.
*What in the Gods names is happening?*
A god appeared at the end of the tunnel, his brilliance was magnificent. He shimmered like a beam of sun passing through a rain droplet. The light that came from him like a rainbow. He was beautiful.
His skin was a pale ocean blue. He had a tail like a fish, a mermaid tail, it was aqua, but it was like a gemstone, because it eschewed all light.
In these gods' hands was Akane, she was screaming for him. Screaming for him to help her, for HIM to save her.
"Let her go, you bastard!"
"Her? No, she has a date with death."
Water, just as he had feared, took his crystal scepter and plunged it into her gut. She died instantly, Ranma's name slurred into her last dying breath.
*NO!*
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Yes, be angry, kill me, that is what you want, KILL ME BOY! That is what they ALL want!"
*NO! AKANE!! WHY!! I couldn't save you! I loved YOU! WHY! I can't kill him!*
"YOU!"
*You can't kill him, he is the key to all survival!*
*He killed Akane!*
*He is stronger than you!*
*Death doesn't matter anymore!*
Chi started to gather into his hands. He started to feel it course through his very being. The power was full of grief and anger, it was hot and it felt disgusting. It was almost eating him from the inside. It was hate.
He let the blast go.
It all went black.
The black shattered into a million pieces.
He now stood on a hill, under a tree. At the bottom of the hill a women and a child lounged. A little boy. The woman was in a sun dress and a white hat with a purple flower.
The little boy was a mere baby. He was dressed in Chinese silk pants and a shirt, complete, with frog ties and all. He was trying to crawl away from his mother.
The woman saw him, and picked him up and placed him on her lap and started to play a game with him. He cooed. She then stood up and started to walk towards him.
"Ranma, are you ok? I thought you said you were going to at least try my sandwiches this time. I told you I tried one, and it was ok. We can always go home if you don't like them."
*Akane? She died, how can she be here with me?*
"Ranma, are you all right?" She looked at him with deep concern.
"Akane?"
He reached his hand and stroked her cheek. It was so soft.
"Ranma?"
"You are OK?"
"Of course, I have you silly."
*No this can't be right, I saw you die! Where am I? This isn't right! Get me out of this nightmare!*
The baby cooed and reached out to him, grabbing his shirt.
*What I can't feel that?*
He touched the baby. It was there, it felt just as soft as Akane. But he couldn't feel them touching him.
"This isn't real."
"Ranma, what are you talking about?"
He held his head, at least that was what he thought. He couldn't feel himself, it was as if he didn't exist.
"This isn't real!"
It all went black again.
**Ranma . . .**
*Akane?*
**Ranma . . . **
*Where are you Akane?*
**Ranma I am right here . . ."
"RANMA! WAKE UP!"
"Hu?"
"Ranma you jerk! WE ARE GONNA BE LATE!"
"Akane what are you talking about? It's a Saturday!"
"Ranma, it is Friday, which planet is your humble abode?"
"Oh."
"Jerk."
She slams the door.
*Man what a freaked out dream. Gods and Akane dying. Gosh.*
He looks at the calender as he pulls on his black silk pants. It was May.
*Wow this is really strange, I could have sworn that it was August.*
(Break to later)
It was a typical day. But Akane hadn't talked to him as much and she seemed really mad at him. He didn't remember why. He almost fell off the fence as he thought.
"Akane, why are you so mad?"
"Ranma, you really are dumb."
"Enlighten me."
"I am mad at you, jerk. Don't you even remember what happened last week? Remember what you said?"
"Last week, what happened last week?"
Her anger increased a notch, but she didn't stop, or glare at him as usual.
"Ranma, I hope that this is all just a joke. Ranma, last week you saved me from Saffron, and well, you, said . . ."
She stopped.
"Saffron, yes, I remember."
"You do, then you remember what you said."
*Wait, what did I say. Wasn't that the time I said I loved her? Well I thought that she hated me, that must be why she is angry, because I told her I loved her, she hates me.*
"I well, I know that you don't love me, so what does it matter what I did or said."
She stopped dead in her tracks.
She looked up at him, tears were streaming down her face.
"Ranma you idiot!"
"What did I do now??!"
"Ranma, do you, I mean, do you really think that I hate, you? You really believe that I could ever hate you!"
"Akane . . ."
"Ranma no BAKA! I love you! You dolt! How many times do I have to say it? How many times, I have waited, thinking that you hated me. Then at Saffron, I heard it, all that I have ever wanted to hear, and I believed it, and that was what brought me back. I love you, I told you, and you turned it around, and denied all that you have said. You broke my heart. You ask me now why I am mad, and you didn't even remember and now all of this!"
"Akane . . ."
"Ranma Saotome, what do I have to do to get the truth? Do you even remember what you feel from one moment to the next? What do I have to do? Ranma, tell me? Because I don't want another broken heart! I . . . not with you."
She fell to her knees, no longer able to support her own weight.
He kneeled down beside her.
"Akane, I am so sorry, I didn't . . . I don't know where I have been, I don't know . . . what to say."
"Say? Ranma, say you love me."
"I . . . I love you. I can't deny it, I can't lie to you, but I also can't hurt my friends."
"I know you don't want to hurt them, but you need to be happy too."
*This is all so odd, haven't I done all of this before? I mean, wasn't there a wedding? I feel like I am not supposed to even be saying any of this.*
"Ranma you know they have already planned the wedding, but if we tell them now, that we want to get married on our own at another time, then I am sure that they will have no objections."
"Akane, this is all so fast."
"Yeah."
*No not that fast, it is all wrong, it is moving too fast, too fast. Wedding. I knew it. This isn't right, I have already done this at some time, I remember . . . just like I thought it was August*
"This isn't right! Get me out of here. I know that this isn't real either, I remember now."
"Ranma what are you talking about. Of course this is real."
She punched him.
It all went black . . .
End chapter two
(Author notes: Did you really think that he would just run and rescue Akane? Come on. Well if you don't get it, sorry, I will explain it soon. Some of you however, might already know what I am thinking, and know what will happen and where Ranma beamed himself too. If you do, then good for you, the others are still just as smart as you, they are just not psychotics like you and me.
They write neat little organized fics and they have neat little organized minds. Sorry, babbling.
I hope that you liked it. I wanted to finish another chapter, so I typed it fast, there are a few parts missing. I'd hoped that they would fit into this chapter, but I guess you will just have to wait for chapter three.)