Bleh, I forgot to put the author's notes on the version sent to Lady
Cosmos. Oh well. Doesn't really matter, I guess. Not many people are
emailing me anymore. I'm so sad...
Or not. In anycase, I've proclaimed myself the pre-reader for
Firehedgehog. Well, I did correct a few spelling mistakes in To Be A
Pegasus (chapter three), which, if you like Yu-Gi-Oh & yaoi, you
should probably check out. It's not yaoi yet, but hey... it's gunna
get there. *smiles evilly* And I know who the couples are going to
be. Mwahahahahahaha!!
Uh, right...
Yes, Farfie and Ranma make a cute couple, don't they? Heh, they make
an even cuter couple in chapter nine... whoops, didn't mean to say
that. *walks away whistling cheerfully*
True Identity
Chapter Seven - Dreaming
Li Xiang
The sound of ceramics breaking echoed loudly, as the tea cup Nyu Tao
Pei had been drinking from shattered across the floor. The lavender
haired sorceress snapped her jaw shut after a moment of shocked
silence.
"The... Knighting Ceremony?!"
"Yes," Nabiki smiled, "Shampoo, here, has been helping me learn the
dark magicks, but to go further, I must have a knight."
"I take it..." Tao Pei still looked shaken, "That you have your Knight
choosen and breifed on what to expect?"
"I've been told," Omi confirmed, and Tao Pei nodded hesitantly. She'd
only ever performed the Ceremony once, and that was two years before
Xian Phu had been born. Even then, she'd performed it on herself, and
accidentally corrupted the spell. It was, afterall, meant to be cast by
a sorceress onto an apprentice who had gained sufficent power.
The long-tressed sorceress stood abruptly, ignoring the glass shards on
the floor, "Very well. Follow me."
She could still cast the spell on these children, though. The pulse and
ebb of Tendou Nabiki's magic was almost over powering.
---
"...And best friends become strangers.
Damn."
The music faded out into the hoots and cheers of the gathered fans. Nyu
Xue Shi grinned and waved to said fans, before stepping off the stage.
Oz, Nobuyuki and Fei Li followed a moment later, wiping sweat off their
brows from the heat under the stage lights. Nobuyuki stretched, popping
his back, and sighing with bliss.
After swallowing several gallons of water, Xue Shi turned to her
bandmate, "You really need a chiropractor, Nobuyuki."
"Huh? Why?"
"That's not healthy," the redheaded singer frowned, "You do that after
every performance, and I bet you hurt like hell later, don't you?"
Nobuyki declined to answer that question, knowing full well that, yes,
his shoulders and neck got really sore a few hours after each "concert.
Instead he grumbled, "My back's fine, Xue--" despite knowing that her
real name was Ranma, Nobuyki and Fei Li still called her "Xue Shi"--
"No problems at all!"
"That's not what my ears tell me," Oz mumbled around the cookies he'd
popped into his mouth. Nobuyuki blinked, confused for a moment until
compreshension dawned. The band had been told eons ago about Oz's
"condition" when he'd first been convinced into moving into their small
apartment. That was prior to Xue Shi's replacement of their original
singer.
Oz had probably heard him grumbling after the performances.
"Oh all right," the drummer grumbled, glaring first at the cat, then at
the wolf, "I'll get an appointment with a chiropractor."
"Here," Xue Shi handed voer a business card, "this guy's pretty good--
you should go see Tofuu-sensai."
"Xue, this is in Kansai."
"So?"
---
He stood in the shadows, silently waiting for the perfect moment to
strike. This time his target would not escape. There was no way out...
... the target entered, and the assassin pounced.
"Jei-sama!" Ranma had suddenly found himself in one of Farfello's
Squeeze-them-till-they-die bear hugs. Ranma, having been beaten by
Aklane, had various landing points of concrete, asphault, and water
from said beatins, and having been punched by Ryouga a few times,
didn't even feel the force behind the rib-shattering strength of the
hug. Jei let the hug go after a moment, and the dark haired teenager
smirked at his pale haired master.
"Glad your back," Jei half mumbled, still having his arms loosely
around his Kitty, and having decided to nip at Ranma's neck.
A throat cleared behind them, and Ranma turned his head to find Fei Li
wiggling his fingers in a version of hello. Ranma shifted just enough
to get out of the doorway-- and therefore, taking Jei with him--
letting the chinese youth and the rest of Xue Shi's bandmates past,
while Jei ignored everything but lapping up the blood from the fairly
deep wound on Ranma's shoulder.
As he passed them, Nobuyuki made a face, "Couldn't you do that
somewhere else? Or at least in female form?"
Obviously, Nobuyuki wasn't all that fond of public displays of
homosexual sadomasochistic love. Actually, Nobuyuki hated all forms of
public affection. He hadn't gotten any in nearly two years.
Xue Shi wouldn't let groupies backstage, and no one really recognised
him "out of costume". Sometimes, being part of a jrock idol group
sucked.
Jei growled low in his throat at that comment. He really, _Really_
wanted to kill Nobuyuki right them. Fortunately, he decided gropping
Ranma would be more fun and ignored the idiot.
---
Naru shivered as she stared at the black crystal... thing hanging in
the sky. She had the sinking sensation that _that_ thing, had something
to do with Usagi-chan.
For some reason, everytime something went wrong, Usagi was in the thick
of it. Considering that a year ago she would have run in the opposite
direc... hey, wasn't that Usagi?
The brownish-red haired fourteen year old ran forwards, "Usagi-chan!
Usagi-chan!"
"Naru-chan?"
It was indeed Tsukino Usagi. Naru came to a halt in fornt of her blonde
friend, "Usagi-chan, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," she hardly looked "fine", however. Naru could see the bags
under Usagi's baby-blue eyes, and her friend seemed to sag under some
inifinite sadness. But the redhead refrained from questioning her
friend.
Naru trusted Usagi to tell her when she would.
So Naru merely set her hand on Usagi's shoulder, "Be careful, my
friend."
And Usagi smiled, and allt he tiredness and the sadness faded. Naru's
expression was stillt roubled, although she let Usagi hug her, then run
off.
Naru still didn't know what was going on, or why there was a crystal
spaceship in the sky, but she knew everything would be alright, with
Usagi, and the world.
If not with their swiftly fading friendship.
---
End Chapter
Cosmos. Oh well. Doesn't really matter, I guess. Not many people are
emailing me anymore. I'm so sad...
Or not. In anycase, I've proclaimed myself the pre-reader for
Firehedgehog. Well, I did correct a few spelling mistakes in To Be A
Pegasus (chapter three), which, if you like Yu-Gi-Oh & yaoi, you
should probably check out. It's not yaoi yet, but hey... it's gunna
get there. *smiles evilly* And I know who the couples are going to
be. Mwahahahahahaha!!
Uh, right...
Yes, Farfie and Ranma make a cute couple, don't they? Heh, they make
an even cuter couple in chapter nine... whoops, didn't mean to say
that. *walks away whistling cheerfully*
True Identity
Chapter Seven - Dreaming
Li Xiang
The sound of ceramics breaking echoed loudly, as the tea cup Nyu Tao
Pei had been drinking from shattered across the floor. The lavender
haired sorceress snapped her jaw shut after a moment of shocked
silence.
"The... Knighting Ceremony?!"
"Yes," Nabiki smiled, "Shampoo, here, has been helping me learn the
dark magicks, but to go further, I must have a knight."
"I take it..." Tao Pei still looked shaken, "That you have your Knight
choosen and breifed on what to expect?"
"I've been told," Omi confirmed, and Tao Pei nodded hesitantly. She'd
only ever performed the Ceremony once, and that was two years before
Xian Phu had been born. Even then, she'd performed it on herself, and
accidentally corrupted the spell. It was, afterall, meant to be cast by
a sorceress onto an apprentice who had gained sufficent power.
The long-tressed sorceress stood abruptly, ignoring the glass shards on
the floor, "Very well. Follow me."
She could still cast the spell on these children, though. The pulse and
ebb of Tendou Nabiki's magic was almost over powering.
---
"...And best friends become strangers.
Damn."
The music faded out into the hoots and cheers of the gathered fans. Nyu
Xue Shi grinned and waved to said fans, before stepping off the stage.
Oz, Nobuyuki and Fei Li followed a moment later, wiping sweat off their
brows from the heat under the stage lights. Nobuyuki stretched, popping
his back, and sighing with bliss.
After swallowing several gallons of water, Xue Shi turned to her
bandmate, "You really need a chiropractor, Nobuyuki."
"Huh? Why?"
"That's not healthy," the redheaded singer frowned, "You do that after
every performance, and I bet you hurt like hell later, don't you?"
Nobuyki declined to answer that question, knowing full well that, yes,
his shoulders and neck got really sore a few hours after each "concert.
Instead he grumbled, "My back's fine, Xue--" despite knowing that her
real name was Ranma, Nobuyki and Fei Li still called her "Xue Shi"--
"No problems at all!"
"That's not what my ears tell me," Oz mumbled around the cookies he'd
popped into his mouth. Nobuyuki blinked, confused for a moment until
compreshension dawned. The band had been told eons ago about Oz's
"condition" when he'd first been convinced into moving into their small
apartment. That was prior to Xue Shi's replacement of their original
singer.
Oz had probably heard him grumbling after the performances.
"Oh all right," the drummer grumbled, glaring first at the cat, then at
the wolf, "I'll get an appointment with a chiropractor."
"Here," Xue Shi handed voer a business card, "this guy's pretty good--
you should go see Tofuu-sensai."
"Xue, this is in Kansai."
"So?"
---
He stood in the shadows, silently waiting for the perfect moment to
strike. This time his target would not escape. There was no way out...
... the target entered, and the assassin pounced.
"Jei-sama!" Ranma had suddenly found himself in one of Farfello's
Squeeze-them-till-they-die bear hugs. Ranma, having been beaten by
Aklane, had various landing points of concrete, asphault, and water
from said beatins, and having been punched by Ryouga a few times,
didn't even feel the force behind the rib-shattering strength of the
hug. Jei let the hug go after a moment, and the dark haired teenager
smirked at his pale haired master.
"Glad your back," Jei half mumbled, still having his arms loosely
around his Kitty, and having decided to nip at Ranma's neck.
A throat cleared behind them, and Ranma turned his head to find Fei Li
wiggling his fingers in a version of hello. Ranma shifted just enough
to get out of the doorway-- and therefore, taking Jei with him--
letting the chinese youth and the rest of Xue Shi's bandmates past,
while Jei ignored everything but lapping up the blood from the fairly
deep wound on Ranma's shoulder.
As he passed them, Nobuyuki made a face, "Couldn't you do that
somewhere else? Or at least in female form?"
Obviously, Nobuyuki wasn't all that fond of public displays of
homosexual sadomasochistic love. Actually, Nobuyuki hated all forms of
public affection. He hadn't gotten any in nearly two years.
Xue Shi wouldn't let groupies backstage, and no one really recognised
him "out of costume". Sometimes, being part of a jrock idol group
sucked.
Jei growled low in his throat at that comment. He really, _Really_
wanted to kill Nobuyuki right them. Fortunately, he decided gropping
Ranma would be more fun and ignored the idiot.
---
Naru shivered as she stared at the black crystal... thing hanging in
the sky. She had the sinking sensation that _that_ thing, had something
to do with Usagi-chan.
For some reason, everytime something went wrong, Usagi was in the thick
of it. Considering that a year ago she would have run in the opposite
direc... hey, wasn't that Usagi?
The brownish-red haired fourteen year old ran forwards, "Usagi-chan!
Usagi-chan!"
"Naru-chan?"
It was indeed Tsukino Usagi. Naru came to a halt in fornt of her blonde
friend, "Usagi-chan, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," she hardly looked "fine", however. Naru could see the bags
under Usagi's baby-blue eyes, and her friend seemed to sag under some
inifinite sadness. But the redhead refrained from questioning her
friend.
Naru trusted Usagi to tell her when she would.
So Naru merely set her hand on Usagi's shoulder, "Be careful, my
friend."
And Usagi smiled, and allt he tiredness and the sadness faded. Naru's
expression was stillt roubled, although she let Usagi hug her, then run
off.
Naru still didn't know what was going on, or why there was a crystal
spaceship in the sky, but she knew everything would be alright, with
Usagi, and the world.
If not with their swiftly fading friendship.
---
End Chapter