Sorry to keep you all waiting!
Here's Chapter 8!
The Meddling Goddesses (#8)
A Tenchi & company short story by Gary Littlejohn
-------------------------------------------------
All Tenchi* characters and the like are trademarks of AIC/Pioneer.
I did not invent these characters, I simply thought up the situation
for them to be in.
--------------------
I normally write in a plain text editor and do not turn on word wrap, thus making it necessary for me to insert my own line breaks. However, I am writing this piece in Wordpad, so I will be writing relying on line breaks, so if you view this in a plain text editor, each paragraph will be on its own line. Again, this is fairly common among fanfiction these days, and since most editors feature a word wrap feature, it probably won't matter a whole lot to you as a reader. Just giving you fair warning.
I hope you don't think I am copping out on writing original stuff these past couple chapters by retelling the past... but I think it's a good thing to retell, especially in my own way, for readers who do not know the past of Tenchi Muyo as well as me and many oher megafans out there.
Also, in the last chapter, someone left a comment asking "Who were those people you randomly wrote about?"
Well, if you mean Kanemitsu and Seto, they are characters which first appeared in "True Tenchi Muyo" a series of novels written by Masaki Kajishima, which are basically a precursor to the Tenchi OVAs. Seto is one of Jurai's royal family, and in fact, is Aeka and Sasami's grandmother. Kanemitsu is a commanding officer in Jurai's military. He commands what is known as the 7th Royal Armada, one of Jurai's most famous fleets appearently. Both of these characters also appear in "Tenchi Muyo! GXP" which aired last year on TV in Japan, and at least Seto will probably be appearing in the new Tenchi Muyo OVA, which is sceduled to be released later this year.
Without further ado, here's chapter 8, told, once again, from Ryoko's perspective. Enjoy!
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This was a little too much for me to handle. Tsunami was trying to kill Sasami, Washu was acting funny, and nothing was making sense! All I knew was that my short lived romantic moment with Tenchi had ended and then this happened. I marched right up to Washu.
'WHAT THE HELL!" I screamed, confused as I could possibly be.
Washu looked at me, giving me a very typical look. She raised one eyebrow, breathed in, and screamed back "DON'T YELL AT YOUR MOM!", and then laughed as I flinced.
"Oh yes, that's your daughter, isn't it, Washu?" Tsunami asked, her voice stil sounded garbled and strange. I had the feeling all I could do was watch this play out, despite the fact that tht idea didn't sit well with me.
Tsunami continued "Do you expect her to take your place now that you've... heh... retired from your post, sister? She doesn't seem fit for the job at all!"
Washu, remaining completely calm, simply said "My plans for her are none of your concern. I know what you're doing. I could sense it ever since you were born. You've been plotting it for millenia. Don't think I'm not bright enough to miss something like that."
Tsunami laughed, walking towards Washu. "Oh sister, I had hoped you'd noticed! I had hoped you would agree with me!"
"Never!" yelled Washu, losing her calm for the first time.
"Oh, What a scary face!" Tsunami said, a sarcastic look of fear on her face, shortly followed by a sinister smile.
"Just know this..." Tsunami continued. "Our sister is weak because she has merged with the Juraian named Sasami. She's lost much of her power, and can't resist me, as you can plainly see. Furthermore, her inability to resist gives me a rather... oh, let's just say... interesting way to attack you. Be careful."
And then Tsunami dropped to the floor. Washu ran to her and shook her by the shoulders, her face now clouded with anger and disgust.
"Tokimi! Tokimi, you terrible bitch! Why do you do this? Why can't you just leave us alone!" Washu said angrily before falling to her knees, hear head dropping onto Tsunami's chest. I could see her body heaving, and tears running from her eyes. Her hands were balled up into fists, gripping at Tsunami's clothing.
Suddenly, I felt closer to my creator and mother than I had ever been in my life. I walked up to her, kneeled next to her, and took her into my arms. She openly returned the hug, pulling herself close to me and burying her face in my shoulder. I had never seen her like this before, and it shocked me. Whatever was going on must be the worst thing in the universe, that was my only explaination. No event had ever made Washu react this emotionally to anything before. Not only did it make me feel closer to my mom, but it scared me to no end.
A moment later, Tsunami came to, and looked around confusedly.
"Why..." she started, as if she wasn't sure where to start at all. "Why am I here? What's going on? Washu... Why are you crying?"
Washu sucked in her tears and turned to face Tsunami with a grave look on her face. She wiped away the tears from her face and said "Tokimi has begun her revolution. She's not content to sit on her throne anymore."
Tsunami, a frightened look on her face, said nothing in response. she simply nodded, as if there were nothing to say. Washu stood up and turned to face all of us.
"You all..." she said "need to be very careful from now on. This was an attack from someone named Tokimi. She is my sister, and also Tsunami's sister."
"Wait a second, Washu..." said Tenchi. "Are you saying that you and Tsunami are related somehow?"
"Yes, Tenchi. Tsunami is my younger sibling, and the middle sibling in our little family. I am eldest, and Tokimi is youngest. I had hoped I would never have to tell you this, but it's unavoidable now." said Washu.
"But wait a second, Washu. Tsunami is a Goddess. She gave the Juraians the space trees. How can she be your sister?" asked Aeka, completely confused.
Washu sighed. "You still don't get it? Do you all still not understand what I am? Didn't you all think it was a little strange that I am over 20,000 years old? Didn't you find it a tad odd that those three gems which contain god-like powers somehow belong to me? It's not like I found the gems one day! Do you honestly think that anyone would let those babies slip out of their grasp? Tht's why Kagato wanted them so badly!"
We all just sort of stared blankly towards Washu, not quite understanding what she was getting at. It seemed like she was trying to say that she was a Goddess as well, but I found that a little hard to swallow.
"Wait a second..." said Mihoshi, who was still standing in the doorway, as she was the last person to enter the room. "That must mean that Miss Washu is a Goddess, too! I mean, it's only logical to assume that since she is Tsunami's sister, that she's a Goddess too, don't you think?"
We all turned our heads slowly to look at Mihoshi, our blank expressions still firmly in place.
Washu just sighed. "And yet again, Mihoshi is somehow the only person in thr group that gets what I'm saying."
"Wait a minute!" I yelled. "You're a Goddess, Washu? You! A Goddess!"
Washu and Tsunami nodded in unison.
Well that just completely threw what I figured would be my life from this day forward right out the window. Mom was a Goddess, Go figure. Of all the nice things that could have happened to me, the most inconcievable one had to happen.
Washu decided to continue with her story, saying "We Goddesses didn't always exist though. We don't know how the universe came into existance. I was the first of us to come into being, though. It seems like one day I just suddenly appeared and started thinking. I didn't really seem to have direction in my life, and just sort of floated out there for a long time."
"Eventually, I decided to go out and see what else was out there. Maybe there were others like me in the universe. So in any case, I set out to find other forms of life, and I found them, that's for sure. Very primitive forms of life, not bearing any sort of intelligence at all. I watched them grow and evolve for a few millenia until they started showing signs of intelligence. Sometime during my time of observation, something clicked inside my mind, and I suddenly knew that I had a sister. She was suddenly by my side, watching these creatures, as if she had always been there. She called her self Tsunami, and I called myself Washu."
"Tsunami, even more than me, loved life. She wanted to really get involved in life and living things. We decided that it would be fun to become like those living things. Tsunami was especially fond of a race of beings known as Juraians. Throughout the centuries of observing life and walking among the living things of the universe, we had seen civilizations come and go, rise and fall. The ones which we loved dearly, we gave little pushes here and there so they would not die, but we never meddled so severely to alter the course of a race completely. However, Tsunami had become so attatched to the Juraian people."
"Tsunami loved the planet Jurai. It's people, it's customs, it's culture. Everything about it, she held close to her heart. When the Juraians emerged from their planet into space, she was overjoyed. However, the Juraians were a very proud race, and soon began to fight with other races in the universe. Their technology was inferior, so they would lose frequently. However, they would still fight back, eventually resorting to piracy."
"Tsunami shed many tears because of this. She did not like the way the Juraians had developed since their dawn in space. Unable to hold back any longer, Tsunami descended to planet Jurai and befriended the Juraian emporer. She revealed to him that she was, indeed, a Goddess, and that she could grant Jurai great power. She promised that the Juraians would have long lifespans, that they would be known as pinnacles of space society, and that they would be revered through time as great people. The emporer was, of course, interested in her offer. I watched with interest to see what her meddling would accomplish."
"Tsunami said that the emporer could have all of these things for the Juraian people if he would cease his warlike ways and live only to defend the reighteous and true in the universe, and turn Jurai into a pinnacle of good, peace, and knowledge. The emporer agreed to this and ordered that the battles cease, and that the Juraian fleets were only to defend themselves if attacked. He also ordered the stop of the pirate guild. Many pirates resisted and split away from the Juraian empire, forming the now famous pirate guild that would eventually split into many factions of pirates, all vying for superiority in the universe."
"In return for the Emporer's great act of bravery in trusting her, she gave to the Juraian people, trees which she created. The already lush vegetation of Jurai now boomed with giant special trees, which were sentient and psychic. The trees contained great power, and Tsunami explained to the emporer that they could be turned into space ships of great power."
"Thus the Juraian empire was born. It was around this time that I sensed that I had another sister, named Tokimi, who joined me in watching Tsunami. Tokimi, unlike Tsunami, seemed to dislike me, so I avoided her purposely. I decided to descend to the now well-formed galactic civilization and stop living as a Goddess. Tokimi did not follow me, even though she would be alone now. I was living on my own terms, and Tsunami was living with the Juraians."
"I sealed my powers as a goddess into three small red gems, and kept them on myself at all times. I then proceeded to learn as much as I could from the people of the universe about science, mathematics, nature, art, and anything else that tickled my fancy. In other words, I became a genius. Let me rephrase that, I always was a genius, but now I was actually using my intellect for my own means of self-betterment."
"However, having basically become a mortal, there were some very unexpected things to come my way. I experienced friendship, rivalry, hatred, sadness, love, childbirth, loss, betreyal, contempt, and a ton of other things.... but I don't wnat to bore you all with the measly little details" she said with a tear in here eye and a lump in her throat.
"Anyway" she continued "this bring sup up to speed. It seems my younger sister, Tokimi, is going to try to take over the universe. She could do it pretty easily if it weren't for Tsunami and myself. And that, I imagine, is her goal... she wants to kill us."
Washu stood up and brushed herself off, seeming to have regained her composure.
"Yep, that must be it. Since I've gotten rid of most of my powers and sealed them up into those gems, I am much weaker, and she could possibly kill me. As for Tsunami, she is very vulnerable right now, and will remain vulnerable until Sasami grows up and they can truly join into one body."
I blinked in awe at what I had been told. Washu had just told us, in simple terms, the history of the universe for the past few millions of years.
"What the hell..." I said in awe, shaking my head.
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To be continued
(C)January 2003 Gary Littlejohn
garylisk@yahoo.com - Comments welcome
Here's Chapter 8!
The Meddling Goddesses (#8)
A Tenchi & company short story by Gary Littlejohn
-------------------------------------------------
All Tenchi* characters and the like are trademarks of AIC/Pioneer.
I did not invent these characters, I simply thought up the situation
for them to be in.
--------------------
I normally write in a plain text editor and do not turn on word wrap, thus making it necessary for me to insert my own line breaks. However, I am writing this piece in Wordpad, so I will be writing relying on line breaks, so if you view this in a plain text editor, each paragraph will be on its own line. Again, this is fairly common among fanfiction these days, and since most editors feature a word wrap feature, it probably won't matter a whole lot to you as a reader. Just giving you fair warning.
I hope you don't think I am copping out on writing original stuff these past couple chapters by retelling the past... but I think it's a good thing to retell, especially in my own way, for readers who do not know the past of Tenchi Muyo as well as me and many oher megafans out there.
Also, in the last chapter, someone left a comment asking "Who were those people you randomly wrote about?"
Well, if you mean Kanemitsu and Seto, they are characters which first appeared in "True Tenchi Muyo" a series of novels written by Masaki Kajishima, which are basically a precursor to the Tenchi OVAs. Seto is one of Jurai's royal family, and in fact, is Aeka and Sasami's grandmother. Kanemitsu is a commanding officer in Jurai's military. He commands what is known as the 7th Royal Armada, one of Jurai's most famous fleets appearently. Both of these characters also appear in "Tenchi Muyo! GXP" which aired last year on TV in Japan, and at least Seto will probably be appearing in the new Tenchi Muyo OVA, which is sceduled to be released later this year.
Without further ado, here's chapter 8, told, once again, from Ryoko's perspective. Enjoy!
-----
This was a little too much for me to handle. Tsunami was trying to kill Sasami, Washu was acting funny, and nothing was making sense! All I knew was that my short lived romantic moment with Tenchi had ended and then this happened. I marched right up to Washu.
'WHAT THE HELL!" I screamed, confused as I could possibly be.
Washu looked at me, giving me a very typical look. She raised one eyebrow, breathed in, and screamed back "DON'T YELL AT YOUR MOM!", and then laughed as I flinced.
"Oh yes, that's your daughter, isn't it, Washu?" Tsunami asked, her voice stil sounded garbled and strange. I had the feeling all I could do was watch this play out, despite the fact that tht idea didn't sit well with me.
Tsunami continued "Do you expect her to take your place now that you've... heh... retired from your post, sister? She doesn't seem fit for the job at all!"
Washu, remaining completely calm, simply said "My plans for her are none of your concern. I know what you're doing. I could sense it ever since you were born. You've been plotting it for millenia. Don't think I'm not bright enough to miss something like that."
Tsunami laughed, walking towards Washu. "Oh sister, I had hoped you'd noticed! I had hoped you would agree with me!"
"Never!" yelled Washu, losing her calm for the first time.
"Oh, What a scary face!" Tsunami said, a sarcastic look of fear on her face, shortly followed by a sinister smile.
"Just know this..." Tsunami continued. "Our sister is weak because she has merged with the Juraian named Sasami. She's lost much of her power, and can't resist me, as you can plainly see. Furthermore, her inability to resist gives me a rather... oh, let's just say... interesting way to attack you. Be careful."
And then Tsunami dropped to the floor. Washu ran to her and shook her by the shoulders, her face now clouded with anger and disgust.
"Tokimi! Tokimi, you terrible bitch! Why do you do this? Why can't you just leave us alone!" Washu said angrily before falling to her knees, hear head dropping onto Tsunami's chest. I could see her body heaving, and tears running from her eyes. Her hands were balled up into fists, gripping at Tsunami's clothing.
Suddenly, I felt closer to my creator and mother than I had ever been in my life. I walked up to her, kneeled next to her, and took her into my arms. She openly returned the hug, pulling herself close to me and burying her face in my shoulder. I had never seen her like this before, and it shocked me. Whatever was going on must be the worst thing in the universe, that was my only explaination. No event had ever made Washu react this emotionally to anything before. Not only did it make me feel closer to my mom, but it scared me to no end.
A moment later, Tsunami came to, and looked around confusedly.
"Why..." she started, as if she wasn't sure where to start at all. "Why am I here? What's going on? Washu... Why are you crying?"
Washu sucked in her tears and turned to face Tsunami with a grave look on her face. She wiped away the tears from her face and said "Tokimi has begun her revolution. She's not content to sit on her throne anymore."
Tsunami, a frightened look on her face, said nothing in response. she simply nodded, as if there were nothing to say. Washu stood up and turned to face all of us.
"You all..." she said "need to be very careful from now on. This was an attack from someone named Tokimi. She is my sister, and also Tsunami's sister."
"Wait a second, Washu..." said Tenchi. "Are you saying that you and Tsunami are related somehow?"
"Yes, Tenchi. Tsunami is my younger sibling, and the middle sibling in our little family. I am eldest, and Tokimi is youngest. I had hoped I would never have to tell you this, but it's unavoidable now." said Washu.
"But wait a second, Washu. Tsunami is a Goddess. She gave the Juraians the space trees. How can she be your sister?" asked Aeka, completely confused.
Washu sighed. "You still don't get it? Do you all still not understand what I am? Didn't you all think it was a little strange that I am over 20,000 years old? Didn't you find it a tad odd that those three gems which contain god-like powers somehow belong to me? It's not like I found the gems one day! Do you honestly think that anyone would let those babies slip out of their grasp? Tht's why Kagato wanted them so badly!"
We all just sort of stared blankly towards Washu, not quite understanding what she was getting at. It seemed like she was trying to say that she was a Goddess as well, but I found that a little hard to swallow.
"Wait a second..." said Mihoshi, who was still standing in the doorway, as she was the last person to enter the room. "That must mean that Miss Washu is a Goddess, too! I mean, it's only logical to assume that since she is Tsunami's sister, that she's a Goddess too, don't you think?"
We all turned our heads slowly to look at Mihoshi, our blank expressions still firmly in place.
Washu just sighed. "And yet again, Mihoshi is somehow the only person in thr group that gets what I'm saying."
"Wait a minute!" I yelled. "You're a Goddess, Washu? You! A Goddess!"
Washu and Tsunami nodded in unison.
Well that just completely threw what I figured would be my life from this day forward right out the window. Mom was a Goddess, Go figure. Of all the nice things that could have happened to me, the most inconcievable one had to happen.
Washu decided to continue with her story, saying "We Goddesses didn't always exist though. We don't know how the universe came into existance. I was the first of us to come into being, though. It seems like one day I just suddenly appeared and started thinking. I didn't really seem to have direction in my life, and just sort of floated out there for a long time."
"Eventually, I decided to go out and see what else was out there. Maybe there were others like me in the universe. So in any case, I set out to find other forms of life, and I found them, that's for sure. Very primitive forms of life, not bearing any sort of intelligence at all. I watched them grow and evolve for a few millenia until they started showing signs of intelligence. Sometime during my time of observation, something clicked inside my mind, and I suddenly knew that I had a sister. She was suddenly by my side, watching these creatures, as if she had always been there. She called her self Tsunami, and I called myself Washu."
"Tsunami, even more than me, loved life. She wanted to really get involved in life and living things. We decided that it would be fun to become like those living things. Tsunami was especially fond of a race of beings known as Juraians. Throughout the centuries of observing life and walking among the living things of the universe, we had seen civilizations come and go, rise and fall. The ones which we loved dearly, we gave little pushes here and there so they would not die, but we never meddled so severely to alter the course of a race completely. However, Tsunami had become so attatched to the Juraian people."
"Tsunami loved the planet Jurai. It's people, it's customs, it's culture. Everything about it, she held close to her heart. When the Juraians emerged from their planet into space, she was overjoyed. However, the Juraians were a very proud race, and soon began to fight with other races in the universe. Their technology was inferior, so they would lose frequently. However, they would still fight back, eventually resorting to piracy."
"Tsunami shed many tears because of this. She did not like the way the Juraians had developed since their dawn in space. Unable to hold back any longer, Tsunami descended to planet Jurai and befriended the Juraian emporer. She revealed to him that she was, indeed, a Goddess, and that she could grant Jurai great power. She promised that the Juraians would have long lifespans, that they would be known as pinnacles of space society, and that they would be revered through time as great people. The emporer was, of course, interested in her offer. I watched with interest to see what her meddling would accomplish."
"Tsunami said that the emporer could have all of these things for the Juraian people if he would cease his warlike ways and live only to defend the reighteous and true in the universe, and turn Jurai into a pinnacle of good, peace, and knowledge. The emporer agreed to this and ordered that the battles cease, and that the Juraian fleets were only to defend themselves if attacked. He also ordered the stop of the pirate guild. Many pirates resisted and split away from the Juraian empire, forming the now famous pirate guild that would eventually split into many factions of pirates, all vying for superiority in the universe."
"In return for the Emporer's great act of bravery in trusting her, she gave to the Juraian people, trees which she created. The already lush vegetation of Jurai now boomed with giant special trees, which were sentient and psychic. The trees contained great power, and Tsunami explained to the emporer that they could be turned into space ships of great power."
"Thus the Juraian empire was born. It was around this time that I sensed that I had another sister, named Tokimi, who joined me in watching Tsunami. Tokimi, unlike Tsunami, seemed to dislike me, so I avoided her purposely. I decided to descend to the now well-formed galactic civilization and stop living as a Goddess. Tokimi did not follow me, even though she would be alone now. I was living on my own terms, and Tsunami was living with the Juraians."
"I sealed my powers as a goddess into three small red gems, and kept them on myself at all times. I then proceeded to learn as much as I could from the people of the universe about science, mathematics, nature, art, and anything else that tickled my fancy. In other words, I became a genius. Let me rephrase that, I always was a genius, but now I was actually using my intellect for my own means of self-betterment."
"However, having basically become a mortal, there were some very unexpected things to come my way. I experienced friendship, rivalry, hatred, sadness, love, childbirth, loss, betreyal, contempt, and a ton of other things.... but I don't wnat to bore you all with the measly little details" she said with a tear in here eye and a lump in her throat.
"Anyway" she continued "this bring sup up to speed. It seems my younger sister, Tokimi, is going to try to take over the universe. She could do it pretty easily if it weren't for Tsunami and myself. And that, I imagine, is her goal... she wants to kill us."
Washu stood up and brushed herself off, seeming to have regained her composure.
"Yep, that must be it. Since I've gotten rid of most of my powers and sealed them up into those gems, I am much weaker, and she could possibly kill me. As for Tsunami, she is very vulnerable right now, and will remain vulnerable until Sasami grows up and they can truly join into one body."
I blinked in awe at what I had been told. Washu had just told us, in simple terms, the history of the universe for the past few millions of years.
"What the hell..." I said in awe, shaking my head.
------
To be continued
(C)January 2003 Gary Littlejohn
garylisk@yahoo.com - Comments welcome
