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The Advent of Darkness
Chapter I
By demon891 'Xerou'
A cold wind blew down the mountain path and the sky was painted
in scales of gray. All of the leaves on the trees have long since
fallen. A young child made his way up this path. The boys' eyes were
red as if he had been crying for hours. He walked slowly up the hill
he never increased or decreased his speed. As he reached a clearing
he saw a man standing near the middle. He suddenly began to run,
tears began to flow from his eyes as he raced towards the man. He
reached out him arms and grabbed hold of the man and began to cry
uncontrollably into his chest. All things were still, the sound of
birds or animals moving through the woods could not be heard. The man
pulled the small boy closer to him as he cried. A lone tear could be
seen racing down the mans face as he held the crying boy.
Tenchi slowly opened his eyes actually hoping to see Ryoko
watching over him. Over the past few night he had been having
terrible nightmares, well they weren't nightmares as much as they were
his past coming to haunt him. He had been relived of some of these
visions when a Ryoko had been there watching him sleep. Her caring
gaze had removed some of the burden that he was plagued with. He rose
from his futon and looked out the window. The sky was gray as in his
dream and was hinting of rain. Tenchi tried to shake the dream off
him but wasn't having much luck. He decided he might feel better
after taking a hot shower. He reached for a towel and then made his
was towards the shower. Once he got in he locked the door behind him.
He hadn't minded that Ryoko had been watching him sleep lately, but
decided he didn't need protection in the bathroom yet. When he turned
the water on the window and mirror had fogged up rather quickly. He
entered the shower stall and tried to cast the dream from his
concisions permanently. When he turned the water he was feeling much
better than he had before he had entered the shower. He dried himself
and wrapped the towel around his waste and then started for his room
again. He made it without any distractions and then began to get
ready to go for breakfast.
Just down the hall unknown to Tenchi somebody else was having a
similar dream. Ryoko sat at the entrance of her cave watching the
older man hold the young boy. She sat with sadness dominating her
face. She knew that there was nothing she could do to help this boy
whom she loved deeply. She began to cry, for the first time in
centuries Ryoko, one of the greatest pirates the galaxy had known was
crying. She did not know why she was crying, was it because of the
sorrow of the boy or was it because of her own sorrow. He placed her
face into her knees and no longer tried to hold anything back.
'Its ok my daughter,' she thought she had heard a voice whisper
in her mind. She waited to see if it would speak again, nothing. She
wiped the tears from her eyes and silently began to pray that she
could help him, the one person who had seen her, who had saved her
from insanity. She wanted to help him more than anything in the
universe. She would willingly give up her life in place of what was
lost to this boy.
Just then everything went black. She looked around for a while
trying to figure out what had happened. Out of the darkness a man
dressed in blue and white was walking towards her.
"Tenchi?" she whispered to herself. The man continued his walk
towards her. "Tenchi!" she yelled running at him. Then a dark shadow
engulfed Tenchi. She looked up to see if she could find the source of
the shadow but saw nothing. Then she heard an evil laughter the
pierced through the darkness like a needle. Something struck her at
this time, she went to scream but nothing came out. She collapsed to
the ground and looked up saw a dark figure moving towards her. It got
to a position right above her and formed a green energy sword. The
figure raised the sword above his head, then he brought it down to
meet her body. She felt it cut through her being and the pain cause
by it was overwhelming.
She shot up in her futon breathing heavily.
"It was only a dream," she said panting. "Only a dream…" She
rose from her futon and examined her body to make sure she was okay.
Her clothes and her bed were covered in sweat.
"Why must I be cursed with these!" she yelled. "Damn you
Kagato!! Damn you!!"
She decided she would probably feel better after a quick morning
bath. She quickly teleported herself to the onsen and removed her
sweat drenched clothes and walked slowly into the warm waters. She
leaned back against a wall and closed her eyes. She could feel the
water lifting the pain from her mind. She sighed as she relaxed
herself and let the water overtake her.
Washu sat in her lab and sighed. She could see the demons that
haunted her daughter while she slept. She wished that Ryoko would let
her help more. She cared about her daughter more than anything and
she knew how horrible of a mother she had been to her. She silently
cursed herself for her past actions. She knew she must be there for
Ryoko all the time, she was her first priority and it was past time
that she show it. She got up from her seat and made her way to the
door of her subspace lab.
Ever since Tenchi had entered her heart Ayeka had been cured of
her cursed nightmares. She had been sleeping soundly for the past
year, ever since they had been alone in that mountain cabin. Tenchi
had been one of the only people who had cared about her for who she
was. Every other person she had met a marriage meeting or people her
father had tried to make her marry where after her money and position,
they thought of her as an object not a person. Tenchi had not done
this to her, he had taken her in even after she had imprisoned him,
attacked him and slapped him. She loved him beyond what she had ever
imagined possible. She loved him as much as Sasami, Yosho, her
mother, father and aunt. But it was a different kind of love than she
has for them. It was more than she had ever hoped that she could
feel. She thought that she truly loved Yosho and could never love
anyone else, but now she realized that she loved him as her brother,
and that the love that she had for Tenchi was completely different
from the love that she thought she had attained for Yosho. When she
was told that she was to marry her brother she was happy. She thought
that she had found true love and that she could never find anyone
else. What she had was more like a childhood crush; she had never
experienced real love before and knew not what it felt like.
She arose with a yawn but then a smile crept onto her face. It
she was feeling better than she had ever felt before. She quickly
rose from her bed and got her things reading for her morning bath.
This was her custom nowadays; she and Ryoko would take their morning
baths together. When she had first arrived she could not stand to be
near Ryoko, but over the past year she and the pirate had become the
best friends either of them had ever had. She exited her room and
began the walk for the onsen. When she had got there she removed her
clothes and wrapped herself in a towel. She saw the space pirate and
walked over to sit next to her.
Ryoko sensed that she was coming.
"Good morning princess," she said with her eyes still closed.
"Good morning demon," Ayeka replied sitting down next to Ryoko.
After a few moments Ayeka noticed that Ryoko wasn't talking.
"Ryoko? Are you okay?"
Ryoko opened her eyes. "Yea I'm fine, guess I didn't get much
sleep last night."
"Oh, any reason?" Ayeka asked.
"Nah, maybe I had a little to much sake before I went to sleep,"
Ryoko said lying.
They both relaxed in the warm water a little bit before they
decided Sasami probably had breakfast ready for them. They each dried
themselves off before dressing in their clothes for the day and then
beginning their tip back to the house.
Tenchi had decided to try and get some more sleep before he had
to go down for breakfast. Only now he was having a hard time getting
up. He struggled to get to his feet before falling back into his bed
as sleep claimed victory over his body.
When Ryoko and Ayeka got back to the house they were attack by
the wonderful smell of breakfast coming from the kitchen. They made
their way to the kitchen and found Sasami putting the finishing
touches on breakfast, Washu and Noboyuki sitting at the table having a
discussion about why they couldn't install a missile sentry system in
the house.
"But it would keep the house safe from invaders!" Washu whined.
"Plus we could take out any annoying birds."
"No! We just can't go blowing up half of the valley to take out
an annoying pigeon," Noboyuki stated.
"Oh, good morning you two," Sasami said turning around for only a
second. "Breakfast will be ready in a few seconds, can somebody go
get Tenchi?"
"I'll get him," Ryoko said happily.
"I'm going with you Ryoko, I just can't let you go into Lord
Tenchi's room by yourself," Ayeka said sternly.
They both began on their quest to get Tenchi out of bed. They
had gotten to Tenchi's room and Ryoko had knocked on the door a few
times but with no reply. They looked at each other, shrugged and then
opened the door. They saw Tenchi still lying there in bed.
"Hey! Tenchi! Get up you lazy bum!" Ryoko yelled. All she got
from this was the sound of snoring. "Ummmmm."
"I guess he didn't get much sleep last night then," Ayeka said.
"We should probably let him sleep for now."
"Hmm I guess so," Ryoko sighed. They both left the room and
closed the door behind them. When they got back down to the kitchen
to make their report.
"Tenchi," Tenchi turned around in the pool of darkness to see his
mother.
"Mother!" Tenchi yelled. He then saw a man about his size come
from behind her with a energy sword like Ryoko's but it was green
instead of orange. "Mother! Look out!"
He was too late; the mysterious man had thrust the blade of pure
energy into her back.
"AHHHHHHH!!" she screamed in horror as she fell to the ground.
"NO!" he yelled with tears pouring from his eyes. "YOU
BASTARD!!" He pulled Tenchi-ken from his belt and felt the power
rushing into it forming the blue blade. He rushed at his enemy
reading to attack. But the man reached out his hand towards Tenchi
and suddenly Tenchi was unable to move.
"You bastard I'll kill you," a blue light enveloped Tenchi and
the Light Hawk Wings formed around him. He was able to move again so
he once again began his charge at the dark man. The man started to
fly at Tenchi with his energy sword crackling. They met and it was
over in an instant, the dark man fell to the ground just after the
Light Hawk Sword pass through his body. The wings departed Tenchi's
body as he sighed. Tears were running all down as his face as he made
his way to his mother. Just then he felt a great pain in his stomach.
Tenchi looked down to see a green blade protruding through his
stomach. He heard an evil laugh behind him; he turned around just in
time to see a fist fly at his face.
"AHHHHHH!!!" he screamed as he shot up from his bed sweat
covering his body looking around to see he was still in his room; he
looked down at his stomach to make sure he was okay. He sighed a
breath of relief. He decided that he would go talk to Katsuhito about
these dreams to see if he could make any sense of them. He then
realized how hungry he was, he looked over at his alarm clock and saw
it was near noon. He got up from his sweat soaked bed and changed his
clothes once again. Tenchi opened the door and made his was
downstairs to the kitchen. Looking down the stairs he saw Ryoko and
Ayeka sitting on the couch watching their favorite soaps.
Ryoko heard him coming down the stairs and dematerialized and
then appeared hanging on his neck. "They you are sleepy head," she
whispered into his ear.
"Ryoko! What do you think you are doing!?" Ayeka said as she
turned around.
"Just saying good morning to MY Tenchi," Ryoko replied with a
smile.
"What do you mean your Tenchi!" Ayeka yelled back.
"Girls not now! I'm not in the mood for this," Tenchi said
hoping they would listen. It seemed that something had registered in
their mind this time because Ayeka sat back down and Ryoko returned to
the couch. They each gave each other a long stare before returning to
watching TV. Tenchi made his way to the kitchen, the greeting he got
there was much better to wake up too.
"Good morning Tenchi," Sasami said turning from making lunch.
"Good morning Sasami, is there any breakfast left?" he asked.
"Yea sure, let me heat it up for you," she replied with a smile.
"Thank you," he said sitting down.
That's when it happened; Tenchi heard a huge explosion come from
the room next door. They thought that Ryoko and Ayeka had gone to far
this time. He got up from his seat and walked to the other room, but
when he got there he saw the entire wall was missing and Ryoko and
Ayeka were both in their battle gear looking at a pile or rubble
bellowing smoke.
"What happened here!?" Tenchi yelled.
"Look out!!" Ryoko screamed as she tackled Tenchi just before a
ball of green energy hit the wall behind them. Ayeka ran over to them
and formed a shield so they could regroup.
"Tenchi do you have Tenchi-ken on you?" Ryoko asked as another
ball hit Ayeka's Shield.
"Yes, its right here. But what's going on?" he replied.
"No time to explain, just attack the guy attacking us," she said
smiling at him.
"Are you done yet, I can't hold this up for ever you know!" Ayeka
yelled.
"Yea we're ready," Ryoko said.
Tenchi formed the blue blade and took up a fighter's stance as
Ayeka dropped her shield.
"What's going on out here?" Sasami said walking out of the
kitchen.
"Sasami! NO!" Ayeka yelled. It was to late a energy flew out of
the smoke and crashed into the wall next to Sasami causing a pile of
wood and plaster to fall on top of her. "SASAMI!!!"
"YOU BASTARD!!!!" Ayeka yelled running into the smoke.
"Ayeka no!" Ryoko and Tenchi yelled following her.
*Mom! Get out here Sasami is hurt! * Ryoko yelled to Washu over
the link.
*I'm coming! * Washu stepped out of her lab and saw a lock of
blue hair under a pile of debris. She carefully got Sasami out of the
rubble and carried her into the lab closing the door behind her.
In the cloud of smoke Ryoko and Tenchi could barley make out what
was Ayeka in close combat with somebody. Just then Ayeka got knocked
back at their feet.
"Ayeka! Are you okay!" Tenchi said kneeling next to her.
"Yes Tenchi, I'm fine," she said coughing up some dust.
"Tenchi, you stay and take care of Ayeka. I'll get this
bastard." Ryoko said grinning.
The smoke was starting to clear and they now saw whom they were
fighting. He was a boy who looked to be around Tenchi's age. He had
spiky red hair and a green energy sword in his right hand. His eyes
were glowing a bright green and there was a aura of the same color
around him.
"Who are you!" Ryoko barked.
He smiled and looked at her, "My name is Xerou."
"What do you want with us!" she yelled back. He only smiled but
said nothing. "Well fine then I'll have to kill you!"
He laughed to himself as she flew at him with her energy sword in
her hand. The two swords met with a flash of light. Ryoko slashed
out at him many times but he blocked every one of them. She made an
orange ball in her hand and flung it at him. It hit a shield that was
up around him and stopped. She flew in to attack again but this time
he attack first, punching her in the stomach and then kicking her to
the ground with a thud.
"Ryoko!" Tenchi yelled getting off the ground. He knew he
couldn't leave Ayeka here alone but he had to help Ryoko. He then
decided to go after the attacker. "You are going to pay for what you
have done!!" Tenchi yelled running towards their attacker. He jumped
up in the air and slashed down but the man easily moved out of the
way. As Tenchi was falling Xerou hit Tenchi's back causing him to
nail the ground with a thud.
"Tenchi!" Ayeka yelled trying to get up. Xerou noticed this and
launched a ball of green energy at her. She put up her shield but it
was to weak by now and she got knocked back to the ground by the force
of the blast.
The sight of it enraged Tenchi; he jumped up to attack again and
again was thrown to the ground.
"Hahaha, do you enjoy pain? Because if you do I can give you
much more." Xerou said with an evil laugh. Just then out of nowhere
Azaka and Kamadaki appeared around Xerou. He was unable to move and
was screaming with pain. Tenchi knew that they couldn't hold him for
long so he used this opportunity to make his attack. He jumped up
with the Tenchi-ken and rammed it through Xerou's throat. There was a
sudden flash of bright light and then he was gone.
'That was to easy…' he thought to himself.
Ryoko felt strong enough to get onto her feet. She could feel a
great pain in her back. She saw Tenchi running to help Ayeka, she
felt well enough to help too. But before she made her trip she
decided to see how Sasami was doing.
*Mom, how's Sasami? * She asked Washu over the link.
*She'll be fine *
Ryoko breathed a sigh of relief. Then she walked over to where
Tenchi was with Ayeka.
"How is she?" Ryoko asked.
"I think she'll be fine if we can get her to Washu's lab," he
responded quietly.
Just then they heard a noise from above and could see the Yagami
entering the atmosphere above. It descended slowly and then landed
itself about 100 yards from where Tenchi, Ryoko and Ayeka were. A
door opened and a ramp extended down and Kiyone came running down it
with Mihoshi trying to catch up behind her.
"Are you guys ok?" Kiyone yelled.
"We are, but I don't know about Sasami and Ayeka. Ryoko will you
help me get her to Washu's lab?" Tenchi asked.
Ryoko nodded, took Ayeka over her shoulder and then sped off
towards the house. Tenchi, Kiyone and Mihoshi started to make their
way to the house as well. Kiyone then saw the entire side of the
house was gone.
"Tenchi…do you know who that was?" Kiyone asked.
"No, I don't"
"His name is Xerou, he is the most wanted person in the galaxy
right now. We were chasing him down, but he got ahead of us at some
point. Then we got a transmission from somebody still unknown that he
was nearing the Solar System. So we got her as fast as we could, I'm
sorry we couldn't help…" Kiyone explained.
"Its ok, there was nothing you could have done here. He was
stronger than even Ryoko and I can't help but think that he isn't
dead," he said quietly.
"Ahhhhh!" Kiyone and Tenchi turned around quickly. "I can't get
my shoe on!"
Tenchi and Kiyone just stared and then began their trip to the
house again.
They got to the house and went to the dimensional door that
seemed to be floating. They opened the door and entered. They saw
Ayeka and Sasami both lying on different beds with Washu and Ryoko
walking around them.
Tenchi ran over.
"Washu, are they going to be ok?" he asked.
"Well they both got beat up pretty good, but its nothing the
greatest scientist in the universe can't handle!" he crackled.
Everyone started, but then the silence was broke.
"Hey, what does this thing do?" Mihoshi said ready to push a
button on a machine that was next to a green house.
"NO! Don't touch that!" Washu said running at her. It was too
late. A green gas shot down into the green house. All of the plants
inside began to grow quickly and then suddenly all died. "My plants…"
Washu said solemnly. "Well they'll both be fine so if everyone could
exit the lab," she said pointing at the door.
"Little Washu, do you think you can help us fix the house?"
Tenchi asked.
Washu pulled up her holotop and typed a few keys on it. A
subspace hole opened up and she pulled out a small remote control
looking thing and a small box.
"Go take this box, place it in the kitchen and then press this
red button," she said handing the things to him.
"Thank you Little Washu," he said with a smile. He then exited
the lab himself. He placed the box in the kitchen just like she had
instructed he then pressed the button. There was a flash and the box
was gone. He stood there and started. He started walking back
towards the lab with the intention of telling Washu that nothing
happened. He walked into the living room, but wait where'd that come
from. The entire room was here just like it was before. He looked
stunned, but decided it better not to ask Washu. Then he remembered
that he was going to talk to his grandfather and now it seemed even
more important. As he made his was to the path that led to the shrine
he began to think. This man Xerou was the same man that had been in
his dream, he was sure of it.
'Why would the most wanted criminal attack us?' he thought to
himself.
'Stupid, he is after the girls,' his mind responded.
'That doesn't make any sense, unless he hates Juri for some
reason why would he want the girls?'
'Maybe he is being paid…"
He got to the top of the steps and saw Katsuhitio sweeping
leaves.
"Grandfather," he said walking up to him. "Could I talk with you
about something?"
"Of course you can Tenchi," the old man responded. "Why don't we
go inside and discuss it over some tea."
Once they got inside and settled down they began to talk.
"So Tenchi, what is troubling you?" Katsuhito asked.
"We were attacked," Tenchi said sternly.
"Oh, and how did you do against your attacker?" he asked.
"We defeated him, but Ayeka and Sasami got injured and are with
Washu now," he replied.
"Well then they are in good hands aren't they." Katsuhito assured
him
Tenchi nodded.
"But there is something else bothering you, isn't there Tenchi?"
he asked.
"Yes there is. You see last night I had an odd dream," Tenchi
said.
He explained to Katsuhito about the dream he had had the night
before and how the man in the dream was almost identical to the man
who attacked them earlier today.
"Well Tenchi it seems that you had a premonition about what was
going to happen," Katsuhito said taking a sip from his tea.
"Have you ever had these before grandpa?" Tenchi asked.
"Yes I have," he said taking another sip. "The first one I ever
had was just before Ryoko attacked Juri. I saw it all happen but just
blew it off as a bad dream. Tenchi this is both a blessing and a
burden. You will have the ability to see certain events before they
happen and will give you a better chance of preventing them."
"Thank you for explaining this to me," Tenchi said getting ready
to leave.
"And where are you going?" Katsuhito said throwing him a broom.
"Once you are done there we will practice."
Tenchi bowed and walked out of the room.
Ayeka slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room.
"Ah, so your awake," Washu said walking over from her seat. "And
how are you feeling."
"I have a splitting head ache," Ayeka said rubbing her head. She
looked over and saw Sasami. "Sasami!" she yelled getting up to meet
her sister. "Will she be ok Washu?"
"Yes, she will be fine. I am expecting her to regain
consciousness in about 2 hours," Washu explained.
Ayeka gave a sigh of relief at hearing this. Then she remembered
about the battle and that man.
"Washu, were are Tenchi and Ryoko, what happened to Xerou?" Ayeka
asked.
"Tenchi and Ryoko are fine, it seems that Xerou was destroyed but
we can be sure yet," Washu told her.
"Washu, can I stay here with Sasami till she wakes?" Ayeka asked.
"Of course," Washu said pulling up a chair for Ayeka to sit on.
Ryoko saw Kiyone sitting outside by the lake and walked over to
talk to her.
"So Kiyone, who exactly was that guy?" Ryoko asked sitting down
next to her.
"His name is Xerou, he has broken so many laws and destroyed so
many things in the short period of time that he has been around. He
is considered almost as dangerous as Kagato was, so it seems odd to me
that he was defeated to easily," Kiyone explained.
"Where did he come from?"
"That's another thing about him, nothing is known about his
origins and his past," Kiyone said with a sigh.
"So you think that he will come back and attacking again don't
you," Ryoko said to her.
She sighed, "Yes I do. But I can have reinforcements placed here
on earth to defeat him when he does."
"You can't do that, they might destroy the entire planet in the
process," Ryoko said.
"Ryoko, do you think that you could beat him with all of your
gems?" Kiyone asked.
"I really don't know, I could easily destroy Kagato with all of
my gems, but I don't think I have enough information on him to really
tell," Ryoko said softly. "I think Washu would know better than I
would."
"Whoa! Jeeze grandpa you think you could fight any harder!"
Tenchi yelled as he fell to the ground.
"Now it is critical Tenchi! There is a threat, you must push
yourself harder than before!" Katsuhito yelled.
Tenchi got to his feet and into a fighting stance. The battle
begun, Tenchi slashed out at the old man, but he easily countered it.
Tenchi kept attacking but the priest seemed to block everything single
of his attacks. Tenchi began to loose control of his fighting; he
couldn't see his grandfather anymore all he could see now was Xerou.
Suddenly a brilliant blue light shone about Tenchi as the Light Hawk
Wings formed. Then as quickly as they had formed they had dissipated
with an amazing flash of light that enveloped the entire side of the
mountain. When the light had cleared from the air Tenchi was on his
hands and knee's panting.
"I'm sorry grandfather, I lost control. The Light Hawk Wings
took over." Tenchi said still gasping for air.
"You must learn to control them, they can be a valuable asset but
if you do not gain full control over them they might cause your
downfall," Katsuhito said.
"What was that!?" Kiyone yelled looking at the mountain.
"I don't know, lets go check on it. It looked like it was near
the shrine," Ryoko said getting up. She picked Kiyone up from her
belt.
"HEY!! What are you doing!!" Kiyone screamed trying to break
free.
"Quit squirming Kiyone or I might just have to drop you," Ryoko
said with a grin.
"You wouldn't…" Kiyone gulped.
"Wanna bet?" Ryoko laughed.
When they had gotten closer they landed to where they had thought
the explosion had come from. Ryoko placed Kiyone back onto the
ground.
"Thank you," Kiyone sighed. They heard a noise coming from the
bushes and quickly took up hiding. This was their chance, whoever it
was, wasn't looking their way. They both jumped out at the
unsuspecting victim.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!" Detective First Class Mihoshi yelled as Ryoko and
Kiyone piled on her.
"Mihoshi? What are you doing out here? Did you come to check on
the blast to?" Kiyone asked.
"What blast?" Mihoshi said. "I was out here picking flowers.
Kiyone and Ryoko face faulted.
Then they heard somebody else running down the pathway. Ryoko
and Kiyone jumped behind a tree to hide.
"Mihoshi, get over here!" Kiyone whispered.
"What was that Kiyone I couldn't hear you, I…" she was cut off as
Ryoko dragged her behind the tree with them.
"Hey Ryoko, why did you do that?" Mihoshi asked.
"SHHHH!" Kiyone and Ryoko shhhhhhed in unison. They waited
calmly for whomever it was to show their face. Whoever it was, they
were getting closer. The two of them waited in anticipation while
Mihoshi was petting a squirrel.
"Tenchi! Remember to see Washu tonight!" Katsuhito yelled from
the shrine.
"I will!" Tenchi yelled back.
Ryoko knew who it was now, and she fazed away from the tree and
right around Tenchi's neck.
"Tenchi," she whispered into his ear. "Where are you off to so
fast?"
"I'm ummmmm," he was sweating bullets. "I'm going to check on
Ayeka and Sasami."
"Oh, ok," she said letting go of him. "Well then, we can have fun
later."
He was a deep shade of red by the time he started back down to
the house. On his way down the long staircase he thought about what
had just happened.
'I could have killed him if the wings would have stayed up. I
need to gain more control of them, but I think I will need Washu's
help in doing so,' he thought to himself.
He had just gotten to the front door of the house and when he
opened it saw his father.
"Dad? What are you doing home so early?" he asked.
"I heard that you had been attacked, so I came home to make sure
that everyone was ok," he replied. "Are you ok son?"
"Yea dad I'm fine, thank you," Tenchi said smiling.
"That's a good thing, cause I don't have any grandchildren yet!"
he said laughing.
"Dad…." Tenchi turned red. "Well, I have to go see how Ayeka and
Sasami are doing."
"Ok, I'll get us some lunch, how's that sound?" Noboyuki asked.
"Sounds good," Tenchi said knocking on Washu's door.
"Come in."
Tenchi stepped into Washu's lab and saw Ayeka sitting next to
Sasami's bed and Washu sitting typing on her holotop. Tenchi walked
over behind Ayeka and put his hand on her shoulder. She then noticed
that he was here and turned her head around.
"Lord Tenchi…."
"How are you feeling Miss Ayeka?" Tenchi asked.
She stood up and faced him,
"I'm feeling better Tenchi, thank you," she said smiling.
"That's good," he said trying to hide the fact that he was
blushing.
"Ay…Ayeka?" they both looked down to see Sasami opening her eyes.
"Sasami!" Ayeka said smiling. "Your ok!"
Tenchi looked down at them both and smiled.
"Hmmmm," Tenchi heard Washu say from behind him.
He turned around,
"What is it Little Washu?" he asked.
"Five more reports of Xerou attacking people, but these people
are all the way across the galaxy," she said.
Ok, that's the first chapter of this fic done. They next few are
going to be coming out this week so don't worry. If you actually like
it you will not have to wait long. Email me if you hate it or if you
loved it or maybe your just bored demon_891@yahoo.com
and Pioneer, so please don't sue me.
The Advent of Darkness
Chapter I
By demon891 'Xerou'
A cold wind blew down the mountain path and the sky was painted
in scales of gray. All of the leaves on the trees have long since
fallen. A young child made his way up this path. The boys' eyes were
red as if he had been crying for hours. He walked slowly up the hill
he never increased or decreased his speed. As he reached a clearing
he saw a man standing near the middle. He suddenly began to run,
tears began to flow from his eyes as he raced towards the man. He
reached out him arms and grabbed hold of the man and began to cry
uncontrollably into his chest. All things were still, the sound of
birds or animals moving through the woods could not be heard. The man
pulled the small boy closer to him as he cried. A lone tear could be
seen racing down the mans face as he held the crying boy.
Tenchi slowly opened his eyes actually hoping to see Ryoko
watching over him. Over the past few night he had been having
terrible nightmares, well they weren't nightmares as much as they were
his past coming to haunt him. He had been relived of some of these
visions when a Ryoko had been there watching him sleep. Her caring
gaze had removed some of the burden that he was plagued with. He rose
from his futon and looked out the window. The sky was gray as in his
dream and was hinting of rain. Tenchi tried to shake the dream off
him but wasn't having much luck. He decided he might feel better
after taking a hot shower. He reached for a towel and then made his
was towards the shower. Once he got in he locked the door behind him.
He hadn't minded that Ryoko had been watching him sleep lately, but
decided he didn't need protection in the bathroom yet. When he turned
the water on the window and mirror had fogged up rather quickly. He
entered the shower stall and tried to cast the dream from his
concisions permanently. When he turned the water he was feeling much
better than he had before he had entered the shower. He dried himself
and wrapped the towel around his waste and then started for his room
again. He made it without any distractions and then began to get
ready to go for breakfast.
Just down the hall unknown to Tenchi somebody else was having a
similar dream. Ryoko sat at the entrance of her cave watching the
older man hold the young boy. She sat with sadness dominating her
face. She knew that there was nothing she could do to help this boy
whom she loved deeply. She began to cry, for the first time in
centuries Ryoko, one of the greatest pirates the galaxy had known was
crying. She did not know why she was crying, was it because of the
sorrow of the boy or was it because of her own sorrow. He placed her
face into her knees and no longer tried to hold anything back.
'Its ok my daughter,' she thought she had heard a voice whisper
in her mind. She waited to see if it would speak again, nothing. She
wiped the tears from her eyes and silently began to pray that she
could help him, the one person who had seen her, who had saved her
from insanity. She wanted to help him more than anything in the
universe. She would willingly give up her life in place of what was
lost to this boy.
Just then everything went black. She looked around for a while
trying to figure out what had happened. Out of the darkness a man
dressed in blue and white was walking towards her.
"Tenchi?" she whispered to herself. The man continued his walk
towards her. "Tenchi!" she yelled running at him. Then a dark shadow
engulfed Tenchi. She looked up to see if she could find the source of
the shadow but saw nothing. Then she heard an evil laughter the
pierced through the darkness like a needle. Something struck her at
this time, she went to scream but nothing came out. She collapsed to
the ground and looked up saw a dark figure moving towards her. It got
to a position right above her and formed a green energy sword. The
figure raised the sword above his head, then he brought it down to
meet her body. She felt it cut through her being and the pain cause
by it was overwhelming.
She shot up in her futon breathing heavily.
"It was only a dream," she said panting. "Only a dream…" She
rose from her futon and examined her body to make sure she was okay.
Her clothes and her bed were covered in sweat.
"Why must I be cursed with these!" she yelled. "Damn you
Kagato!! Damn you!!"
She decided she would probably feel better after a quick morning
bath. She quickly teleported herself to the onsen and removed her
sweat drenched clothes and walked slowly into the warm waters. She
leaned back against a wall and closed her eyes. She could feel the
water lifting the pain from her mind. She sighed as she relaxed
herself and let the water overtake her.
Washu sat in her lab and sighed. She could see the demons that
haunted her daughter while she slept. She wished that Ryoko would let
her help more. She cared about her daughter more than anything and
she knew how horrible of a mother she had been to her. She silently
cursed herself for her past actions. She knew she must be there for
Ryoko all the time, she was her first priority and it was past time
that she show it. She got up from her seat and made her way to the
door of her subspace lab.
Ever since Tenchi had entered her heart Ayeka had been cured of
her cursed nightmares. She had been sleeping soundly for the past
year, ever since they had been alone in that mountain cabin. Tenchi
had been one of the only people who had cared about her for who she
was. Every other person she had met a marriage meeting or people her
father had tried to make her marry where after her money and position,
they thought of her as an object not a person. Tenchi had not done
this to her, he had taken her in even after she had imprisoned him,
attacked him and slapped him. She loved him beyond what she had ever
imagined possible. She loved him as much as Sasami, Yosho, her
mother, father and aunt. But it was a different kind of love than she
has for them. It was more than she had ever hoped that she could
feel. She thought that she truly loved Yosho and could never love
anyone else, but now she realized that she loved him as her brother,
and that the love that she had for Tenchi was completely different
from the love that she thought she had attained for Yosho. When she
was told that she was to marry her brother she was happy. She thought
that she had found true love and that she could never find anyone
else. What she had was more like a childhood crush; she had never
experienced real love before and knew not what it felt like.
She arose with a yawn but then a smile crept onto her face. It
she was feeling better than she had ever felt before. She quickly
rose from her bed and got her things reading for her morning bath.
This was her custom nowadays; she and Ryoko would take their morning
baths together. When she had first arrived she could not stand to be
near Ryoko, but over the past year she and the pirate had become the
best friends either of them had ever had. She exited her room and
began the walk for the onsen. When she had got there she removed her
clothes and wrapped herself in a towel. She saw the space pirate and
walked over to sit next to her.
Ryoko sensed that she was coming.
"Good morning princess," she said with her eyes still closed.
"Good morning demon," Ayeka replied sitting down next to Ryoko.
After a few moments Ayeka noticed that Ryoko wasn't talking.
"Ryoko? Are you okay?"
Ryoko opened her eyes. "Yea I'm fine, guess I didn't get much
sleep last night."
"Oh, any reason?" Ayeka asked.
"Nah, maybe I had a little to much sake before I went to sleep,"
Ryoko said lying.
They both relaxed in the warm water a little bit before they
decided Sasami probably had breakfast ready for them. They each dried
themselves off before dressing in their clothes for the day and then
beginning their tip back to the house.
Tenchi had decided to try and get some more sleep before he had
to go down for breakfast. Only now he was having a hard time getting
up. He struggled to get to his feet before falling back into his bed
as sleep claimed victory over his body.
When Ryoko and Ayeka got back to the house they were attack by
the wonderful smell of breakfast coming from the kitchen. They made
their way to the kitchen and found Sasami putting the finishing
touches on breakfast, Washu and Noboyuki sitting at the table having a
discussion about why they couldn't install a missile sentry system in
the house.
"But it would keep the house safe from invaders!" Washu whined.
"Plus we could take out any annoying birds."
"No! We just can't go blowing up half of the valley to take out
an annoying pigeon," Noboyuki stated.
"Oh, good morning you two," Sasami said turning around for only a
second. "Breakfast will be ready in a few seconds, can somebody go
get Tenchi?"
"I'll get him," Ryoko said happily.
"I'm going with you Ryoko, I just can't let you go into Lord
Tenchi's room by yourself," Ayeka said sternly.
They both began on their quest to get Tenchi out of bed. They
had gotten to Tenchi's room and Ryoko had knocked on the door a few
times but with no reply. They looked at each other, shrugged and then
opened the door. They saw Tenchi still lying there in bed.
"Hey! Tenchi! Get up you lazy bum!" Ryoko yelled. All she got
from this was the sound of snoring. "Ummmmm."
"I guess he didn't get much sleep last night then," Ayeka said.
"We should probably let him sleep for now."
"Hmm I guess so," Ryoko sighed. They both left the room and
closed the door behind them. When they got back down to the kitchen
to make their report.
"Tenchi," Tenchi turned around in the pool of darkness to see his
mother.
"Mother!" Tenchi yelled. He then saw a man about his size come
from behind her with a energy sword like Ryoko's but it was green
instead of orange. "Mother! Look out!"
He was too late; the mysterious man had thrust the blade of pure
energy into her back.
"AHHHHHHH!!" she screamed in horror as she fell to the ground.
"NO!" he yelled with tears pouring from his eyes. "YOU
BASTARD!!" He pulled Tenchi-ken from his belt and felt the power
rushing into it forming the blue blade. He rushed at his enemy
reading to attack. But the man reached out his hand towards Tenchi
and suddenly Tenchi was unable to move.
"You bastard I'll kill you," a blue light enveloped Tenchi and
the Light Hawk Wings formed around him. He was able to move again so
he once again began his charge at the dark man. The man started to
fly at Tenchi with his energy sword crackling. They met and it was
over in an instant, the dark man fell to the ground just after the
Light Hawk Sword pass through his body. The wings departed Tenchi's
body as he sighed. Tears were running all down as his face as he made
his way to his mother. Just then he felt a great pain in his stomach.
Tenchi looked down to see a green blade protruding through his
stomach. He heard an evil laugh behind him; he turned around just in
time to see a fist fly at his face.
"AHHHHHH!!!" he screamed as he shot up from his bed sweat
covering his body looking around to see he was still in his room; he
looked down at his stomach to make sure he was okay. He sighed a
breath of relief. He decided that he would go talk to Katsuhito about
these dreams to see if he could make any sense of them. He then
realized how hungry he was, he looked over at his alarm clock and saw
it was near noon. He got up from his sweat soaked bed and changed his
clothes once again. Tenchi opened the door and made his was
downstairs to the kitchen. Looking down the stairs he saw Ryoko and
Ayeka sitting on the couch watching their favorite soaps.
Ryoko heard him coming down the stairs and dematerialized and
then appeared hanging on his neck. "They you are sleepy head," she
whispered into his ear.
"Ryoko! What do you think you are doing!?" Ayeka said as she
turned around.
"Just saying good morning to MY Tenchi," Ryoko replied with a
smile.
"What do you mean your Tenchi!" Ayeka yelled back.
"Girls not now! I'm not in the mood for this," Tenchi said
hoping they would listen. It seemed that something had registered in
their mind this time because Ayeka sat back down and Ryoko returned to
the couch. They each gave each other a long stare before returning to
watching TV. Tenchi made his way to the kitchen, the greeting he got
there was much better to wake up too.
"Good morning Tenchi," Sasami said turning from making lunch.
"Good morning Sasami, is there any breakfast left?" he asked.
"Yea sure, let me heat it up for you," she replied with a smile.
"Thank you," he said sitting down.
That's when it happened; Tenchi heard a huge explosion come from
the room next door. They thought that Ryoko and Ayeka had gone to far
this time. He got up from his seat and walked to the other room, but
when he got there he saw the entire wall was missing and Ryoko and
Ayeka were both in their battle gear looking at a pile or rubble
bellowing smoke.
"What happened here!?" Tenchi yelled.
"Look out!!" Ryoko screamed as she tackled Tenchi just before a
ball of green energy hit the wall behind them. Ayeka ran over to them
and formed a shield so they could regroup.
"Tenchi do you have Tenchi-ken on you?" Ryoko asked as another
ball hit Ayeka's Shield.
"Yes, its right here. But what's going on?" he replied.
"No time to explain, just attack the guy attacking us," she said
smiling at him.
"Are you done yet, I can't hold this up for ever you know!" Ayeka
yelled.
"Yea we're ready," Ryoko said.
Tenchi formed the blue blade and took up a fighter's stance as
Ayeka dropped her shield.
"What's going on out here?" Sasami said walking out of the
kitchen.
"Sasami! NO!" Ayeka yelled. It was to late a energy flew out of
the smoke and crashed into the wall next to Sasami causing a pile of
wood and plaster to fall on top of her. "SASAMI!!!"
"YOU BASTARD!!!!" Ayeka yelled running into the smoke.
"Ayeka no!" Ryoko and Tenchi yelled following her.
*Mom! Get out here Sasami is hurt! * Ryoko yelled to Washu over
the link.
*I'm coming! * Washu stepped out of her lab and saw a lock of
blue hair under a pile of debris. She carefully got Sasami out of the
rubble and carried her into the lab closing the door behind her.
In the cloud of smoke Ryoko and Tenchi could barley make out what
was Ayeka in close combat with somebody. Just then Ayeka got knocked
back at their feet.
"Ayeka! Are you okay!" Tenchi said kneeling next to her.
"Yes Tenchi, I'm fine," she said coughing up some dust.
"Tenchi, you stay and take care of Ayeka. I'll get this
bastard." Ryoko said grinning.
The smoke was starting to clear and they now saw whom they were
fighting. He was a boy who looked to be around Tenchi's age. He had
spiky red hair and a green energy sword in his right hand. His eyes
were glowing a bright green and there was a aura of the same color
around him.
"Who are you!" Ryoko barked.
He smiled and looked at her, "My name is Xerou."
"What do you want with us!" she yelled back. He only smiled but
said nothing. "Well fine then I'll have to kill you!"
He laughed to himself as she flew at him with her energy sword in
her hand. The two swords met with a flash of light. Ryoko slashed
out at him many times but he blocked every one of them. She made an
orange ball in her hand and flung it at him. It hit a shield that was
up around him and stopped. She flew in to attack again but this time
he attack first, punching her in the stomach and then kicking her to
the ground with a thud.
"Ryoko!" Tenchi yelled getting off the ground. He knew he
couldn't leave Ayeka here alone but he had to help Ryoko. He then
decided to go after the attacker. "You are going to pay for what you
have done!!" Tenchi yelled running towards their attacker. He jumped
up in the air and slashed down but the man easily moved out of the
way. As Tenchi was falling Xerou hit Tenchi's back causing him to
nail the ground with a thud.
"Tenchi!" Ayeka yelled trying to get up. Xerou noticed this and
launched a ball of green energy at her. She put up her shield but it
was to weak by now and she got knocked back to the ground by the force
of the blast.
The sight of it enraged Tenchi; he jumped up to attack again and
again was thrown to the ground.
"Hahaha, do you enjoy pain? Because if you do I can give you
much more." Xerou said with an evil laugh. Just then out of nowhere
Azaka and Kamadaki appeared around Xerou. He was unable to move and
was screaming with pain. Tenchi knew that they couldn't hold him for
long so he used this opportunity to make his attack. He jumped up
with the Tenchi-ken and rammed it through Xerou's throat. There was a
sudden flash of bright light and then he was gone.
'That was to easy…' he thought to himself.
Ryoko felt strong enough to get onto her feet. She could feel a
great pain in her back. She saw Tenchi running to help Ayeka, she
felt well enough to help too. But before she made her trip she
decided to see how Sasami was doing.
*Mom, how's Sasami? * She asked Washu over the link.
*She'll be fine *
Ryoko breathed a sigh of relief. Then she walked over to where
Tenchi was with Ayeka.
"How is she?" Ryoko asked.
"I think she'll be fine if we can get her to Washu's lab," he
responded quietly.
Just then they heard a noise from above and could see the Yagami
entering the atmosphere above. It descended slowly and then landed
itself about 100 yards from where Tenchi, Ryoko and Ayeka were. A
door opened and a ramp extended down and Kiyone came running down it
with Mihoshi trying to catch up behind her.
"Are you guys ok?" Kiyone yelled.
"We are, but I don't know about Sasami and Ayeka. Ryoko will you
help me get her to Washu's lab?" Tenchi asked.
Ryoko nodded, took Ayeka over her shoulder and then sped off
towards the house. Tenchi, Kiyone and Mihoshi started to make their
way to the house as well. Kiyone then saw the entire side of the
house was gone.
"Tenchi…do you know who that was?" Kiyone asked.
"No, I don't"
"His name is Xerou, he is the most wanted person in the galaxy
right now. We were chasing him down, but he got ahead of us at some
point. Then we got a transmission from somebody still unknown that he
was nearing the Solar System. So we got her as fast as we could, I'm
sorry we couldn't help…" Kiyone explained.
"Its ok, there was nothing you could have done here. He was
stronger than even Ryoko and I can't help but think that he isn't
dead," he said quietly.
"Ahhhhh!" Kiyone and Tenchi turned around quickly. "I can't get
my shoe on!"
Tenchi and Kiyone just stared and then began their trip to the
house again.
They got to the house and went to the dimensional door that
seemed to be floating. They opened the door and entered. They saw
Ayeka and Sasami both lying on different beds with Washu and Ryoko
walking around them.
Tenchi ran over.
"Washu, are they going to be ok?" he asked.
"Well they both got beat up pretty good, but its nothing the
greatest scientist in the universe can't handle!" he crackled.
Everyone started, but then the silence was broke.
"Hey, what does this thing do?" Mihoshi said ready to push a
button on a machine that was next to a green house.
"NO! Don't touch that!" Washu said running at her. It was too
late. A green gas shot down into the green house. All of the plants
inside began to grow quickly and then suddenly all died. "My plants…"
Washu said solemnly. "Well they'll both be fine so if everyone could
exit the lab," she said pointing at the door.
"Little Washu, do you think you can help us fix the house?"
Tenchi asked.
Washu pulled up her holotop and typed a few keys on it. A
subspace hole opened up and she pulled out a small remote control
looking thing and a small box.
"Go take this box, place it in the kitchen and then press this
red button," she said handing the things to him.
"Thank you Little Washu," he said with a smile. He then exited
the lab himself. He placed the box in the kitchen just like she had
instructed he then pressed the button. There was a flash and the box
was gone. He stood there and started. He started walking back
towards the lab with the intention of telling Washu that nothing
happened. He walked into the living room, but wait where'd that come
from. The entire room was here just like it was before. He looked
stunned, but decided it better not to ask Washu. Then he remembered
that he was going to talk to his grandfather and now it seemed even
more important. As he made his was to the path that led to the shrine
he began to think. This man Xerou was the same man that had been in
his dream, he was sure of it.
'Why would the most wanted criminal attack us?' he thought to
himself.
'Stupid, he is after the girls,' his mind responded.
'That doesn't make any sense, unless he hates Juri for some
reason why would he want the girls?'
'Maybe he is being paid…"
He got to the top of the steps and saw Katsuhitio sweeping
leaves.
"Grandfather," he said walking up to him. "Could I talk with you
about something?"
"Of course you can Tenchi," the old man responded. "Why don't we
go inside and discuss it over some tea."
Once they got inside and settled down they began to talk.
"So Tenchi, what is troubling you?" Katsuhito asked.
"We were attacked," Tenchi said sternly.
"Oh, and how did you do against your attacker?" he asked.
"We defeated him, but Ayeka and Sasami got injured and are with
Washu now," he replied.
"Well then they are in good hands aren't they." Katsuhito assured
him
Tenchi nodded.
"But there is something else bothering you, isn't there Tenchi?"
he asked.
"Yes there is. You see last night I had an odd dream," Tenchi
said.
He explained to Katsuhito about the dream he had had the night
before and how the man in the dream was almost identical to the man
who attacked them earlier today.
"Well Tenchi it seems that you had a premonition about what was
going to happen," Katsuhito said taking a sip from his tea.
"Have you ever had these before grandpa?" Tenchi asked.
"Yes I have," he said taking another sip. "The first one I ever
had was just before Ryoko attacked Juri. I saw it all happen but just
blew it off as a bad dream. Tenchi this is both a blessing and a
burden. You will have the ability to see certain events before they
happen and will give you a better chance of preventing them."
"Thank you for explaining this to me," Tenchi said getting ready
to leave.
"And where are you going?" Katsuhito said throwing him a broom.
"Once you are done there we will practice."
Tenchi bowed and walked out of the room.
Ayeka slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room.
"Ah, so your awake," Washu said walking over from her seat. "And
how are you feeling."
"I have a splitting head ache," Ayeka said rubbing her head. She
looked over and saw Sasami. "Sasami!" she yelled getting up to meet
her sister. "Will she be ok Washu?"
"Yes, she will be fine. I am expecting her to regain
consciousness in about 2 hours," Washu explained.
Ayeka gave a sigh of relief at hearing this. Then she remembered
about the battle and that man.
"Washu, were are Tenchi and Ryoko, what happened to Xerou?" Ayeka
asked.
"Tenchi and Ryoko are fine, it seems that Xerou was destroyed but
we can be sure yet," Washu told her.
"Washu, can I stay here with Sasami till she wakes?" Ayeka asked.
"Of course," Washu said pulling up a chair for Ayeka to sit on.
Ryoko saw Kiyone sitting outside by the lake and walked over to
talk to her.
"So Kiyone, who exactly was that guy?" Ryoko asked sitting down
next to her.
"His name is Xerou, he has broken so many laws and destroyed so
many things in the short period of time that he has been around. He
is considered almost as dangerous as Kagato was, so it seems odd to me
that he was defeated to easily," Kiyone explained.
"Where did he come from?"
"That's another thing about him, nothing is known about his
origins and his past," Kiyone said with a sigh.
"So you think that he will come back and attacking again don't
you," Ryoko said to her.
She sighed, "Yes I do. But I can have reinforcements placed here
on earth to defeat him when he does."
"You can't do that, they might destroy the entire planet in the
process," Ryoko said.
"Ryoko, do you think that you could beat him with all of your
gems?" Kiyone asked.
"I really don't know, I could easily destroy Kagato with all of
my gems, but I don't think I have enough information on him to really
tell," Ryoko said softly. "I think Washu would know better than I
would."
"Whoa! Jeeze grandpa you think you could fight any harder!"
Tenchi yelled as he fell to the ground.
"Now it is critical Tenchi! There is a threat, you must push
yourself harder than before!" Katsuhito yelled.
Tenchi got to his feet and into a fighting stance. The battle
begun, Tenchi slashed out at the old man, but he easily countered it.
Tenchi kept attacking but the priest seemed to block everything single
of his attacks. Tenchi began to loose control of his fighting; he
couldn't see his grandfather anymore all he could see now was Xerou.
Suddenly a brilliant blue light shone about Tenchi as the Light Hawk
Wings formed. Then as quickly as they had formed they had dissipated
with an amazing flash of light that enveloped the entire side of the
mountain. When the light had cleared from the air Tenchi was on his
hands and knee's panting.
"I'm sorry grandfather, I lost control. The Light Hawk Wings
took over." Tenchi said still gasping for air.
"You must learn to control them, they can be a valuable asset but
if you do not gain full control over them they might cause your
downfall," Katsuhito said.
"What was that!?" Kiyone yelled looking at the mountain.
"I don't know, lets go check on it. It looked like it was near
the shrine," Ryoko said getting up. She picked Kiyone up from her
belt.
"HEY!! What are you doing!!" Kiyone screamed trying to break
free.
"Quit squirming Kiyone or I might just have to drop you," Ryoko
said with a grin.
"You wouldn't…" Kiyone gulped.
"Wanna bet?" Ryoko laughed.
When they had gotten closer they landed to where they had thought
the explosion had come from. Ryoko placed Kiyone back onto the
ground.
"Thank you," Kiyone sighed. They heard a noise coming from the
bushes and quickly took up hiding. This was their chance, whoever it
was, wasn't looking their way. They both jumped out at the
unsuspecting victim.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!" Detective First Class Mihoshi yelled as Ryoko and
Kiyone piled on her.
"Mihoshi? What are you doing out here? Did you come to check on
the blast to?" Kiyone asked.
"What blast?" Mihoshi said. "I was out here picking flowers.
Kiyone and Ryoko face faulted.
Then they heard somebody else running down the pathway. Ryoko
and Kiyone jumped behind a tree to hide.
"Mihoshi, get over here!" Kiyone whispered.
"What was that Kiyone I couldn't hear you, I…" she was cut off as
Ryoko dragged her behind the tree with them.
"Hey Ryoko, why did you do that?" Mihoshi asked.
"SHHHH!" Kiyone and Ryoko shhhhhhed in unison. They waited
calmly for whomever it was to show their face. Whoever it was, they
were getting closer. The two of them waited in anticipation while
Mihoshi was petting a squirrel.
"Tenchi! Remember to see Washu tonight!" Katsuhito yelled from
the shrine.
"I will!" Tenchi yelled back.
Ryoko knew who it was now, and she fazed away from the tree and
right around Tenchi's neck.
"Tenchi," she whispered into his ear. "Where are you off to so
fast?"
"I'm ummmmm," he was sweating bullets. "I'm going to check on
Ayeka and Sasami."
"Oh, ok," she said letting go of him. "Well then, we can have fun
later."
He was a deep shade of red by the time he started back down to
the house. On his way down the long staircase he thought about what
had just happened.
'I could have killed him if the wings would have stayed up. I
need to gain more control of them, but I think I will need Washu's
help in doing so,' he thought to himself.
He had just gotten to the front door of the house and when he
opened it saw his father.
"Dad? What are you doing home so early?" he asked.
"I heard that you had been attacked, so I came home to make sure
that everyone was ok," he replied. "Are you ok son?"
"Yea dad I'm fine, thank you," Tenchi said smiling.
"That's a good thing, cause I don't have any grandchildren yet!"
he said laughing.
"Dad…." Tenchi turned red. "Well, I have to go see how Ayeka and
Sasami are doing."
"Ok, I'll get us some lunch, how's that sound?" Noboyuki asked.
"Sounds good," Tenchi said knocking on Washu's door.
"Come in."
Tenchi stepped into Washu's lab and saw Ayeka sitting next to
Sasami's bed and Washu sitting typing on her holotop. Tenchi walked
over behind Ayeka and put his hand on her shoulder. She then noticed
that he was here and turned her head around.
"Lord Tenchi…."
"How are you feeling Miss Ayeka?" Tenchi asked.
She stood up and faced him,
"I'm feeling better Tenchi, thank you," she said smiling.
"That's good," he said trying to hide the fact that he was
blushing.
"Ay…Ayeka?" they both looked down to see Sasami opening her eyes.
"Sasami!" Ayeka said smiling. "Your ok!"
Tenchi looked down at them both and smiled.
"Hmmmm," Tenchi heard Washu say from behind him.
He turned around,
"What is it Little Washu?" he asked.
"Five more reports of Xerou attacking people, but these people
are all the way across the galaxy," she said.
Ok, that's the first chapter of this fic done. They next few are
going to be coming out this week so don't worry. If you actually like
it you will not have to wait long. Email me if you hate it or if you
loved it or maybe your just bored demon_891@yahoo.com
