Devil Games Chapter 2

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Irvine glanced over to Vincent. He knew time was almost up and that Vincent was already itching to shoot something or in this case someone. The stopwatch's buzzer went off and they began to hunt Ranma down.

They started off by searching the dunes and ravines. There was no sign of Ranma for hours on end. Vincent was getting thoroughly pissed off. Irvine suddenly noticed some movement by some dunes. They ran over to see Ranma running towards the mountain caves. Vincent popped a warning shot over Ranma's head. Ranma jumped and picked up speed some more.

Irvine looked over to Vincent. "Now the fun begins."

Ranma walked around the caves for a few minutes before being shot at by Vincent and Irvine. Ranma dodged as they two marksmen fired round after round. Ranma was doing flips, somersaults, and what looked like gymnastics moves to dodge every bullet possible. After about and hour of doing so the firing stopped. Ranma looked over to the marksmen who nodded at each other. They dropped their present shotguns and pulled new ones from out of know where. Irvine's looked to be futuristic and was made of silver and titanium. Vincent's looked like a standard rifle but with two little angel wings sticking out of the sides of the end of the barrel. Irvine and Vincent loaded a blue colored shell into their guns. Just one. Ranma got into a ready stance that said 'bring it on'.

Vincent pointed the gun at Ranma and the wings on the end spread like a stretching bird. Ranma gulped out loud and barely dodged the bullet that flew at him doing 300 miles per hour easy. Irvine looked at Ranma in disbelief.

"That was amazing, kid. No one has ever dodged one of my home made canister bullets." Irvine smirked and fired his only shot at Ranma only to have it dodged and miss by a mile. Irvine looked at Vincent and held out his hand. "Give me the red one."

Vincent did as told and handed a red orb to Irvine. He then reached behind into his cape and grabbed a fairly large canteen and took a swig. He tossed it to Ranma. "Drink up. We don't you to die from dehydration." Ranma drank a decent amount. Then looked at the two hunters and smirked.

Ranma thought about how he is faster in his girl form. Irvine looked at Ranma. "You have one half hour to run. We have a secret weapon for you to dodge and I will not be there to hunt you. Just Vincent and a friend. Now run."

Ranma took one more sip. This time making sure to 'accidentally' spill some on his shirt. The cool water seeped through the shirt triggering his curse. He was now a female redhead on the run from two hunters.

After the half hour past Ranma watched in disbelief as the mountain he had ran from exploded and a giant black dragon was in its place. Suddenly the dragon flew after Ranma launching large balls of fire at her. She ran as fast as possible only to run into a man. The man had large demonic wings, red eyes, pitch-black skin, and an evil grin. He looked like the son of the devil. Ranma ran in the other direction while devil man started to throw flaming skulls at her. She ran being chased by the dragon and the demonic being. Ranma knew since it was dessert the water had to be pretty warm. Thoughts whizzed through Ranma's brain. Suddenly she got an idea and found a lake. She jumped in. Sure enough the water was warm from the dessert heat. Ranma knew their objective was to kill him and it was not necessarily on his agenda to die again.

Ranma climbed out of the water and began to run in a big spiral. As soon as Ranma got half way through the spiral the two monsters shot their attacks at where he was heading. They hit Ranma at the center and regretted it, as a tornado appeared and sucked up the demon and the dragon. The last words they heard were from Ranma.

"HIRYU SHOTEN HA!!!" Ranma watched as the tornado dropped the two monsters. The Dragon slowly dissolved into the red orb that Vincent gave Irvine. The demon Faded away into nothingness as Vincent took its place. Ranma knew he had won and head towards the exit.

Waiting at the exit was Irvine. He had a grin on his face. He walked over to Ranma and handed him a gold necklace with a red orb similar to the one the dragon came out of on the end. "When you are resurrected, this is for Akane. It will tell her how to use it automatically. So don't worry about instructions."

Ranma took the necklace and looked at it for a few seconds, and then he looked back to Irvine. "Thanks."

"No thanks needed. You passed the evasion in one day. Cloud took three." Irvine snickered at the last comment he made and gave Ranma a key. "There are five more. You need these keys to stop the evil that is coming to Earth. Good luck."

Ranma walked out of the room and back to the room that he saw Aeris in the night before. When he got there two new people immediately greeted him. Both were female. One had brown, strait hair while the other had blonde, curly, puffy hair. Both were very busty. The brunette had a white tank top with a short brown leather skirt. On her hands were fighting gloves. The blonde had on only enough fur cloth to cover her breasts and lower areas. And it was tied in the back to look like a cattail. The brunette grabbed Ranma's hand shook it franticly. "Are you Ranma?"

"Yeah." Ranma tried to remove the brunette's hand from his. "Um. Who are you?"

"Oh. I forgot. I'm Tifa Lockheart. (Final Fantasy 7)." Tifa released her grip and let the blonde hold out her hand.

"I Ayla." (Chrono Trigger). Ranma jumped at the similarity of her voice and Shampoo's. He shook her hand. Ayla pushed Ranma's arm into a flex. She examined his muscle.

Ranma was confused. "What are you doing?" Tifa shrugged.

Ayla looked up at Ranma from his arm. "You strong. Much fight experience. Make good opponent."

Ranma shook his head. "Sorry. I don't hit girls."

Tifa began to laugh a bit. "That's what I am here for. Ayla will teach you how to master the cat fist. In Ayla's training I will act as an interpreter."

"No need. A girl I knew back home talked the same exact way. Same voice too. So I'm used to it."

"Oh." Tifa looked down at Ayla who was about up to her neck in height. Tifa was Ranma's height. "Let's go for dinner. We gotta get ready for tomorrow."

Ranma was confused. "Dinner?" He looked over to Aeris at her desk as Tifa and Ayla walked away. Aeris pointed to the clock on the wall behind her. Ranma examined it. "Wow. It's already 7:00. That training was longer then I thought. Six months should pass easily." Ranma left towards his room.

Back on Earth.

Akane watched over Ranma's body every day with the help of Ukyo, her family, Ryoga, Shampoo, Cologne, and even Mousse. Akane was going through harsh times between guarding Ranma's body and doing schoolwork. One month had already passed and Ranma was gaining more consciousness by the day. He was now able to show happiness and pain on his expressions. His expressions were almost the same as they were before he died; very cocky grins. Akane would fall asleep next to Ranma's body trying to protect it from anyone who would even ponder hurting him. Good luck Akane.

Back in the Mid-Realm.

Cloud met Ranma at the dinner table. "How did training go?"

"Pretty good. Hey I was wondering, is there any type of time difference hear like in those sci-fi movies?"

Cloud continued to put food on his plate and without stopping answered without a care in the world. "Sure is."

Ranma looked over to him with a dumbfounded look. "And why are you so calm? I only have six months. What is the difference?"

Sephiroth walked in. "Heard your fit down the hall. Calm down. When you start a training plan, time on Earth stops until your training is mastered. When you finish our time stops and waits for Earth to catch up for a month. We never feel the stopping, and neither does them on Earth. Understand?"

"Sort of. So what do I have to do when I am resurrected?"

Cloud handed Ranma a bowl of rice and a plate of chicken. "When you get back you will have to defeat five generals and collect five more keys. You must get all six keys. Each key consists of a mold and a gem. You have the blue gem key. By mastering all the next five training sessions you will get the rest of the molds. The generals have the gems. We just happened to have a full key."

Sephiroth felt the urge to interrupt Cloud. "By mastering the training sessions you also receive a trinket. Each has a special power and a master. There is case next to you bed to keep the trinkets. You will go for girl fighting tomorrow. One of the generals is a girl, pretty cute at that. But don't underestimate her. She will kill you. You will also train in the cat fist technique tomorrow. But you won't have to master it. We are just sick of your cat phobia being the key to use it. We want you to be able to use it any time."

Ranma finished his food and listened as Sephiroth finished. After Sephiroth was done Ranma stood and walked towards his bed. "Thanks for the food. I'm headin' to sleep, 'cause I am exhausted." Ranma hit the bed and right before falling asleep he asked himself out loud, "I wonder what Akane did this month."

Cloud heard Ranma and placed a set of sunglasses and headphones on Ranma's head. Then Sephiroth and Cloud too went to bed.

That night Ranma dreamt about what Akane went through that month, in surround sound. Mousse, Shampoo, and Cologne returned and were all stunned at Ranma's sudden recovery. They explained about Cologne's vision and why they returned. Ukyo explained on how she had a similar dream. Soun offered the female Amazons a place in the other guest room. Mousse was to stay with Genma. Ranma mainly watched as Akane was constantly exhausted from staying up so late. She knew as well as every one that there was a danger coming to Earth and that Ranma had to many rivals that would put this opportunity to good use. Ranma watched as the picture he viewed faded away at the sound of and alarm clock.

Ranma woke up the next morning with the glasses on his face, along with the headphones. He took them off wondering why they were on him to begin with. He turned off the alarm clock, got dressed, ate, and walked into the hall Aeris was in.

"Hey Aeris, what room." He was cut off.

"Room One." Tifa walked up behind Ranma startling him. "Let's go. Ayla is waiting." Ranma and Tifa walked to the training room together. Tifa opened the door and greeted Ayla. Ranma followed. The room was much like the main hall: dark with green lighting. As soon as Ranma walked in Tifa looked at him. "Hit me."

"I can't." Ranma stated.

Ayla snickered. "Is you afraid?"

"No. It's just not right."

Tifa stared at Ranma. "How?"

Ranma shrugged. "I was trained not to."

Tifa punched Ranma across the face causing an instant-busted lip. "Still won't?"

"Nope."

Ayla kicked him in the stomach. "Still no?"

"Nope."

Tifa placed her hand on Ranma's forehead and closed her eyes. "Well that was easy."

"What was?" Ayla asked. Tifa opened her eyes and walked over to Ayla and whispered into her ear.

"psst He really seems to care about people close to him. It hurts his honer to see them mocked or made fun of." Tifa moved away from Ayla's ear.

Ayla's eyes went wide. "Oh."

Tifa walked up to Ranma and put her mouth next to his ear and whispered three words. "Nodoka's a slut."

Tifa moved away as Ranma's aura flared. He looked at Tifa. "Don't ever say that." Ranma seemed to fly at Tifa punching her sending her into a wall. Ayla looked over to Tifa then back to Ranma with enough time to guard his next blow. Ayla blocked and poked a point on the back of Ranma's neck. He passed out from the pressure point. Tifa regained her posture. "He hits hard. When he recovers I'll need to talk to him." Ayla dragged Ranma to Aeris's clinic.

Ranma woke up about an hour later. "Damn. I hate those pressure points."

"Serves you right." Tifa was sitting next to his bed. "You seem to have no problem hitting anyone if they try to disgrace some one close to you."

"Yeah I kinda noticed that. Sorry."

"It's ok. I've had worse. Like this one time, a machine picked me a good two stories off the ground and dropped me headfirst. I nearly broke my neck."

"Where's Ayla."

"She's in the training room waiting for you. Go there now for training in cat fist. That's how you will get the second mold. But try keeping that type of anger in mind. It seems that it could fuel you in a fight."

"Ok. Well see ya." Ranma stood and proceeded towards the training halls.

He walked into the one Ayla was waiting in. Ayla threw something at Ranma. Ranma caught it instinctively. Suddenly Ranma started to twitch in fear. He looked down at the furry object. He threw it back and coward to a corner. "Keep that away from me."

"No. You must beat Ayla in cat fist." Ayla caught the kitty and placed it down. She pointed at Ranma. From behind Ayla a swarm of cats flew at Ranma they piled on him covering every inch of his body. "You loose."

"REOW!!!" Ranma busted from the kitty-barrage and launched himself at Ayla catching her off guard. She was pinned.

Ayla smiled. "Now this what Ayla talk about." Ayla's pupils disappeared and she pushed Ranma off of her. Ayla and Ranma went into cat like poses. Ayla lunged at Ranma with her nails. Ranma jumped over the attack and went into ki-claw fury attack. Ayla took every punishing blow. After Ranma was done Ayla delivered her own ki-claw haymaker. Ranma tried to block with his ki- paws but failed miserably as Ayla ducked under his defense. Cat-Ranma knew he was in trouble.

Toxic Dragon - Chapter 2 down. 3 coming soon but only if good reviews come in so please say it's good. I like writing this probably as much as you like reading this.

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