FROM THE AUTHOR OF DEVIL GAMES

DEAR READERS,

I HAVE BEEN TRING TO WRITE THIS STORY FOR A WHILE NOW AND I LIKE WRITING IT. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW PEOPLE REALLY FEAL. PLEASE TELL ME IF I SHOULD CONTINUE OR IF I SHOULD QUIT WHILE I'M AHEAD. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE UP TO FIVE OR MORE GOOD REVIEWS MORE BEFORE I CONTINUE.

ON ANOTHER NOTE, I HAVE BEEN THINKING ON MAKING A NEW FIC. SHOULD IT BE FINAL FANTASY 7 OR RANMA ½. AND SHOULD I MIX IT WITH RESIDENT EVIL OR DINO CRISIS? I LEAVE THIS CHOICE TO YOU BECAUSE YOU'LL BE THE ONES READING IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

P.S. I FOUND A WAY AROUND THE LEMON PART. IT WILL STAY PG13.

FROM TOXICDRAGON

NOW ON WITH THE STORY

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Devil Games Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Nothing, nada, zero, zilch, zip. I wish I did though but who wouldn't.

Ranma found himself inside a room that looked familiar. "The Tendo house. I wonder if." Ranma ran out of the room he was presently in, never noticing the sleeping body on the bed or the suitcase he was standing next to.

Ranma ran down stairs to find Kasumi cooking breakfast. He walked up to her slowly and spoke softly. "Kasumi?"

Kasumi recognized the voice and slowly turned around. When she saw Ranma she knew to do only one thing: scream. Every one was up and running towards the source of the noise.

Soun was first to make it to the kitchen. "What is it Ka." Soun looked in wide eyes at Ranma. "Ranma." Everyone else piled in. Genma reacted the fastest.

"My son. Your back!" Genma grabbed on to his son and cried into his shirt. "You had us all worried sick."

Kasumi was confused and relieved. "I thought he was a ghost."

Cologne walked up to Ranma and poked him in the head with her staff.

"Hey!" Ranma turned preparing to beat the crap out of whoever just poked him.

Cologne dodged out of the way as Ranma body met contact with Shampoo.

"Ranma!" Shampoo grabbed Ranma in a tight grasp.

"He seems real." Cologne laughed as Akane's mallet and a Mousse's projectiles headed at Ranma.

Ranma seemed to disappear from Shampoo's grasp and reappear in front of Akane behind her mallet. Ranma looked at his hands.

"Were the bullets that fast?" Ranma looked up at Akane.

"What bullets?" Akane made her mallet seem to disappear in thin air as she usually did.

"Maybe later I'll tell you all the whole story."

"Why don't you tell us now, cross dresser?" A voice came from behind Ranma.

"Who the.?" Ranma turned around and saw Pantyhose Tarou. "Pantyhose Tarou?"

"Don't call me that." Tarou went to kick Ranma but his kick was dodged just as Ranma dodged the mallet and chained weapons. "How the hell?"

Ranma once again looked at his hands. "Yeah. How the hell?" Ranma noticed a gold shackle on his right wrist. "What's this?"

"I believe there is an explanation in order." Soun sat at the table as Kasumi brought breakfast.

"I do agree with Mr. Tendo." Mousse nodded in agreement.

Everyone sat at the table as Kasumi served breakfast. Ranma kept examining the gold shackle on his wrist. It had two jewels on it. A red one and a blue one. "Wonder what these are for." He also noticed four blank sockets.

"So where have you been Ranma? What was it like being dead?" Akane looked at Ranma from across the table.

"Do you want the whole story or the shortened version?" Ranma looked around the table.

Everyone looked at each other and looked back at Ranma. They all seemed to speak in unison, "Whole story."

"Ok then." Ranma put his chopsticks down. "After I died I was taken to a place called the Mid-realm by a man dressed in the matter of the grim reaper." He was cut off.

"Was he as scary as they say he's supposed to be?" Nabiki butted in.

"Not really. He really was a guy in mid-evil clothes under the cloak. His name was Magus. Anyway, Magus took me to the Mid-realm where I met a man named Cloud. He was creepy looking at first but he's a real cool person. On his back he had one demon wing behind his left shoulder. And he used a sword that I could swear was about five feet long."

"Dang. I sure wouldn't want to fight him." Mousse replyed to hearing this part of the story and sipped at his tea.

"That the same thing that ran through my mind at the time. He introduced me to some more people, and then he told me that I was to fight a bunch of demonic beasts that were to try to destroy the world. He also told me that I would be doing some serious training while I am there. In fact I am only here for my third training mission. I'm working on my ki blasts right now."

"Really? Have you learned any knew ones?" Cologne looked up towards Ranma with a surprised look.

"Not yet, but that's what I am hear for. I am to feel one of the other two emotions while am here." Ranma answered.

"How many are there total?" Ryoga seemed to appear out of know where and ask the question.

"Four, HEY! When did you get here Ryoga?"

Ryoga blushed in pure hatred for his lack of sense of direction but had to admit that how he got there was quite funny. "I got lost in the towel closet here and fell asleep. I've been here for about all night."

"Oh." Ranma started to laugh but held it in pretty good.

"Earlier you said something about bullets. What was that about?" Akane looked at Ranma curiously.

"Bullet? Oh yeah. In my first training mission I had to evade two marksman named Vincent and Irvine. I had to move very fast and push my limit pretty damn hard to evade those bullets. Those guys were no novices. These guys were pros at handling guns. After dodging their bullets one of them turned into a man that looked like the devil himself and the other called upon a giant black dragon. These things were fast. They must have flown at a nearly 100 kph easy. You could see the streams of air going over their wings. Since they were using heat like techniques I use the Heaven Blast of the Dragon to defeat them. Then I was given a necklace to give to Akane. I was also given a suit case to keep all of the trinkets I get in."

"A suitcase?" Akane stood and ran up to her room.

"Wonder what she left for?" Ranma shrugged and continued to tell his story. "Next I had to fight a woman in Cat Fist. It ended up as a draw seeing a seeing as both ended in the hospital. She gave me a ring for Shampoo and." Ranma was cut off again.

"Is it a wedding ring for Shampoo?" Shampoo was yet again glomping onto Ranma.

Ranma thought to himself for a moment. I can dodge bullets, fireballs, projectiles, and mallets but somehow I can't get away in time when she goes to grab me.

Mousse went to hit Ranma in the face but he was quickly evaded.

Ranma waved his finger signaling 'no'. "No touching." Ranma pried Shampoo off as Akane reentered the room.

"What do you have there Akane." Soun watched as Akane reentered the room with a large black suitcase.

"Was this it?" Akane asked Ranma.

"Yeah." Ranma took the case from her and opened it to make sure the trinkets were there. He lifted the necklace and the ring and handed them to their rightful owners. "Try'em on."

Akane and Shampoo did as they were told and their bodies burst into flames. Everyone shielded his or her eyes from the harsh light. When the flames disappeared. Ranma, Akane, and Shampoo were gone.

"Where is we?" Shampoo looked around the room they were now presently in. It was looked much like the room Ranma had his fight with Ayla in. Dark with green lights.

"Yeah. Where are we Ranma?" Akane looked over to Ranma to see if he knew what going on.

"This. This is the Mid-Realm. Where I have been training." Ranma answered pretty quickly.

Suddenly a voice came over a intercom on the wall. "Ranma. Please enter the door to your right. Shampoo and Akane. Stay put."

Ranma recognized the voice as Cloud's and did as told. "I'll be back."

Ranma left through the door and met up with Cloud.

"Hey, Cloud."

"Hello Ranma. Did you like your new speed?"

"Yeah, but how come I wasn't that fast before?"

"That's an easy question. Did you know that while you were in the training room your speed was increasing just standing there?"

"Wha?"

"Yeah. Just being in that room you were increasing your speed. Because of that you were able to run up to 150-some-odd KPH."

"Really?" Ranma looked like he was about to go into shock.

"Yeah." Cloud turned away from Ranma and picked up a remote on the table that was presently in front of him. "Now your friends train." He hit a button and two black doors opened in the room Akane and Shampoo were in.

Akane noticed the doors first and went into a defensive pose. Shampoo followed her lead. Zombies poured from the two doors heading towards them.

Ranma looked up at Cloud from the one way glass that they were watching the girls from. "What's going on?"

"They are training." Cloud pushed a button on the remote and spoke into it. A loudspeaker came on. "Fight for your lives."

"If they die in there is it the same thing that happens with me? Will Aeris help them?" Ranma looked at Cloud in horror.

"No." Cloud crossed his arms and watched the fight.

Akane started pounding away at each of the zombies trying to hold them off. Shampoo whipped out her bonboris and swung at anything that walked. Their efforts were great but they were starting to slow down after time. Nearly an hour passed and the two fighters were near fainting. Suddenly the zombies stopped and fell dead. A loud roar was heard clear as siren.

"What the hell?" Akane managed to stand up strait and look at the beast that roared.

"Whoa." Shampoo saw it first.

It was ten feet tall and had a large eye for a right shoulder. Its right hand was nothing more then a large clawed mess. Each claw about three feet long. Its head looked like a bloody, skinless skull. On its chest was what looked like the remains of a human. Shampoo screamed and passed out from the sight. Akane watched in horror as the beast ran at her digging its claws into her torso. She screamed as Ranma ran into the room catching her as she was thrown.

"AKANE! AKANE GET UP!" Ranma held her body in his arms looking at her in disbelief. She was dead.

He felt raw hatred take over as the beast ran towards him. Tears ran down his face as a red ball of Ki appeared in his hands. He closed his eyes and yelled, launching a red beam of anger at the bloody beast.

When Ranma opened his eyes his hands fell to his sides when he saw Magus with his barrier up reading the blast's strength.

"Damn kid. Nice job. 384. No one ever did that good with anger." Magus lowered the barrier.

Ranma dropped to his knees and thought to himself for a bit, trying to understand what just happened. Did it really happen?

"Yes." Magus walked up to him. "Sorry kid."

Ranma looked up at him. "Wha.?"

"All the portal did was send you home for a temporary time. You managed to get Akane and Shampoo here on your own. You did manage to receive a ki move. But Akane's in the clinic."

"But Cloud told me that-"

"Cloud was lying. It was all an act to make you learn a new move. Akane's fine."

Ranma stood and headed for the clinic.

Akane laid there unmoving in the bed that was used for healing patients. Ranma kept thinking that maybe he should have never given her the necklace. Her eyes opened and Ranma looked down at her as she rolled over and saw him. Aeris walked into the room with a clipboard. Akane's eyes focused and she saw Ranma. He was to close for comfort. She screamed and slapped him across the face.

Aeris spoke up. "Vital signs are normal and strong."

Ranma looked over to Aeris rubbing his cheek. "Nah, really?"

Suddenly the monster that attacked Akane before walked into the room. Instinctively Akane jumped out of the bed and her and Ranma got into defensive poses.

"Wait. Wait. Don't hurt me." The monster held it arms up in its defense. He spoke in the matter of a homosexual.

"What the hell?" Ranma dropped his pose looking at the beast in disbelief.

"My name is Birkin. William Birkin. Aeris created me to use to train the newcomers. I'm a Bio-weapon." William held out his unspiked hand for a handshake.

"Er. Right." Akane reached out and shook the monster's hand. Ranma did the same.

"Magus told me to tell you that your next test is ready in the ki room. Akane should come go with you and Shampoo is training with Zell and Tifa. Okay?"

"Uh, sure." With this said Ranma and Akane headed toward the room where Ranma started his ki training wear Magus was to be waiting for them.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Toxic Dragon: Chapter 4 is complete. I won't continue until I have some good reviews. Please look at the letter at the top that I wrote you all. I need to know those answers. Bt I won't be able to write for a bit because I am grounded. Please get used to it. It happens often.

Until next time this is Toxic Dragon signing offline.