"HIRYU SHOTEN HA!" Ranma raised his hand that held his sword Muramasa and unleashed his cold aura around the place. The cold energy mixed with Ryouga's hot energy and created a spiral that was supposed to raise up the hot energy source, sweep away it's energy to retain balance, but at the last moment, Ryouga let out an attack of his own.
"SHABON SHIELD!" Ryouga shouted, and his inhuman demon body was suddenly incased in ice, dropping his temperature to the point that the two auras were now equal, canceling out Ranma's attack.
Ryouga then used Ranma's long momentum to slash his Revolver Gunblade towards him, and pulled the trigger. The explosion took place near Ranma's chest area, shocking the Wild Horse, and making him fly towards the wall.
"How...?" Ranma looked at Ryouga with disbelief. "How did you do a Mercurian spell?"
-| Omega X Presents |-
-| Project III: The Legend of the Wild Horse |-
-| Chapter 10: Demon Eyes Ranma; Fact or Fiction? |-
You felt it, didn't you? The wind... – Demon Eyes Kyo, Samurai Deeper Kyo.
Shinji Ikari was calmly walking down the streets of Juuban, not particularly well alive in his activity. He was currently thinking about a sexy girl who opened his innocent eyes, and showed him what he was truly capable off. He didn't feel stronger than usual, and he doesn't seem to think he's the best, but he was a young pathetic boy who got laid at the age of 14. What other boy experienced what he experienced?
His thoughts were not perverted. He actually was taking it quite well for a young one. He heard his classmates bragging about their sexual encounters, but after experiencing it, he knew they all were lying.
"THERE YOU ARE!" shouted a voice behind him. Shinji froze and straightened up. He felt his mind trying to work, trying to remember the familiar voice. He turned around, and saw a very fiery red head, glaring daggers at him. Shinji felt himself go back by the power of her glare. She looked intent to kill him, slowly and painfully... not that he minded now.
"As... Asuka... Hey..." Shinji laughed nervously, scratching his head.
Asuka made a sniffing sound with her nose showing her discontent with Shinji. That made the boy even more nervous. "Hey Asuka?" she said, shaking her closed fist in her face. "Is that you have to say, after avoiding me ever since this morning?" POW!
"Ite..." Shinji rubbed his head where Asuka slapped her fist on.
"HOW DARE YOU! Is this how you treat your childhood friend? A friend who always was by your side, always there to defend you? There to wake you up when your late for school?" Asuka demanded.
"Some friend I have, trying to get sneak peeks at my mighty oak by pulling the blankets off," Shinji countered.
"Mighty oak?" Asuka sneered. "Shinji, when were you so proud of that wienie stick of yours?"
"Just this morning..." Shinji said absently, his thoughts went back to Kiima. Asuka was not impressed.
"Baka!" Asuka shouted. "You abandon me for other girls? And here I was warning you..."
"Warning?"
"Yeah, there is some fight going on the street. Some new demon came up," Asuka said shrugging his shoulders. "It's pretty nasty. Three blocks were already devastated by its magic. It threw green energy balls, some people say. I wanted to find you so we can out of here safely... SO COME ON!" And Asuka took Shinji's head, placed it on a headlock, and ran away, dragging away the poor boy...
(Poor?) Shinji thought as his head rested on Asuka's bosom. (Nah... I'm lucky actually.)
=Juuban Streets=
"MWAHAHAHAHA!" Ryouga laughed out loud, roaring his ass off. He finally did it! He beat Ranma! He beat him! He was going to celebrate! He was going to Akane! He was... going to kill him...
(Huh?) Ryouga thought. (Where did that come from?)
KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!
(NO!) Ryouga thought, clutching his head. (It's finished! I don't have to kill! I have to kill... NO! NO! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!) "AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!"
Up in the rooftops, Kiima smiled as she watched her first soldier beginning to lose control of his body and mind. "That is what the side effects of your powering up is, Ryouga. Your body starts to feed on your rage, anger, and depression that it would go to the brink of destruction. You now are a killing machine!"
"NO!" Ryouga felt his control on his body fade, and he could only see what his body was doing. It was walking towards Ranma, Gunblade out. (RANMA! GET OUT! I CAN'T CONTROL IT!)
The monster walked over where Ranma landed. It looked at the fallen boy and roared in laughter. It raised its hand, the Gunblade shining through the sunlight, and the monster smiled. It began to slash down... CLANG!
And something blocked the slash, and the monster backed away as he looked at his new adversary. She had short purple hair, short purple skirt, and was glaring at the mosnter with purple eyes. It was Sailor Saturn.
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"Whoa!" the first cameraman said. "It's a Senshi!"
"Cool! Are the others coming?" asked the second one.
"I hope so! Senshi fights are all showy and destructive! Boys, we are sitting in the front seat of the show of our lifetime!" the third added smugly.
"Anyone got popcorn?" asked the fourth one.
"Damn, look at the Senshi! She's damn much sexier than the girls we were taping earlier!" the fifth said dreamily.
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"Leave him alone..." Saturn said seriously, glaring like death to the monster. The monster looked at the Senshi and raised his weapon towards Saturn.
Saturn grit her teeth as her glaive made contact with the Gunblade. Her transformation naturally boosted her powers and speed, but the sheer strength of the monster made her shiver. He didn't seem to exert much effort as she was, yet he was easily surpassing her strength.
Finally, the hold Saturn had finally broke, and she shouted in surprise as Ryounster [Ryouga + Monster] used his weapon to drag her weapon to the floor. Sailor Saturn looked up, and saw that the Ryounster was not finished with her. He had his weapon raised again, and was about to strike her. Saturn moved quickly, and barely dodged the slash, and she grabbed her glaive while she was rolling on the ground. "SILENT GLAIVE SURPRISE!" she shouted.
Her magical beam from her Silence Glaive went out fast and quick towards its target. The monster raised its eye in surprise, and a big explosion took place when the beam hit him. Saturn closed her eyes for the moment as the cloud of dust went up, and opened it a little as the dust was clearing. She saw it.
The monster supported a large hole in its chest, and just stood there, its eyes were closed. Then, when the wind blew, the monster just fell down on its back flat, creating a big dent on the sidewalk. Saturn sighed in relief, and looked behind her. Ranma was still there, unconscious, and wounded. His blood was all over the floor, so she ran towards him.
Kiima was still in the rooftops, her face was expressionless. (Saturn...) she thought heatedly. The Senshi who was in the way of the heart of Xander. She pondered if she was going to kill her, but shook her head. (Don't let emotions control you... I can't allow myself to be seen yet...) she scolded herself. Kiima continued to watch as Saturn began healing the fallen young man's wounds. She smiled. (And once I revive 'her', I can capture Saturn, revive Xander, and make her watch me do her loved one... that would be more painful than death!) she thought evilly.
Then, Kiima's attention went to Ryounster's fallen form. She shook her head. (Stupid Senshi. They should check if their enemies are really dead.)
On the ground, Ryounster's wounds suddenly began closing in an astounding rate as its chest turned liquid again and began surrounding the hole.
(If the source of all emotions is not disconnected to the body, it will keep coming back alive) Kiima thought.
Ryounster's eyes opened suddenly, and began rising from the crater very slowly. Its chest was whole once again, with no sign that it was ever injured. It straightened its body looked towards its left and spotted its weapon. Its mouth formed a smile.
Saturn had her hand on Ranma's chest, letting her powers through her to heal her lover. She concentrated hard to make sure nothing was wrong with him. (Come on Ranma) she thought hard. With her powers, Ranma's body began to heal quickly and nicely and Saturn broke to s smile as she saw the effect of her powers. (Thank God,) she thought. Ranma's chest wounds were closing now, making Saturn feel relieved. She closed her eyes thinking, (You'll be okay... Ranma.)
A shadow began covering the light, and Saturn could only hear a heavy breath behind her. Her eyes widened in surprise, and turned around. It was the monster, it had its weapon high up in the air, and it looked at her evilly. Saturn moved forward to cover Ranma with her body.
"How nice..." Ryounster growled. "Two for one. I'll make sure you and that bastard die together!"
Saturn closed her eyes as the weapon came down fast, and she waited for the slash came down. It never came, and as she opened her eyes, she found out why. The blade of the Gunblade was a few centimeters away from her face, and a glowing chain stopped it.
"Sorry I'm late," said a blonde Senshi holding a chain. "I hope you don't mind."
"Your timing still sucks, Venus," Saturn said, relieved. "But I'm glad you're still here."
"Yeah, and for that, you should share Ranma with me in bed," Saturn glared at the smirking Venus.
"HMPH! I am not going to die today. If I do, who knows what this slut would do to my love," Saturn said. "And Venus, aren't your hands full with Ryouga? Look what happened to him! That's the type of people you are attracted to!"
"You little brat! I should tell you that a lot of mature and handsome men have gladly rode my chariot of love and sex, and were panting for more... It's too bad about Ryouga though... he was cute," and she sighed sadly. Then, she turned serious, and began saying, "I'm the Senshi of Love and Sex! I'm the owner of 75% of all the love motels in Venus, and my beauty surpasses anyone on the Solar System! I'm Sailor Venus!"
Saturn could have face-faulted, but she resisted the urge. She settled instead with a shaking fist in the air, and said, "Still about your image huh? No wonder Xander didn't do you."
"And what was that supposed to mean?" Venus demanded.
"You might be pretty, sexy, and a wanton slut," Venus began shaking with anger while Saturn continued, "but having the same attitude like that guy in Hollywood would make Xander avoid you."
"Huh? The guy in Hollywood?" Venus asked, confused.
"You know... The Irish, playboy, handsome, and wanting to sleep with as much women as possible? I think he was in The Recruit, Daredevil, and Phone Booth... What was his name?" Saturn put a finger in her head. After a pause, she snapped her fingers. "Ah! Collin Farrell!"
"I don't know him..." Venus replied, frowning, "what does he look like?"
"Well, he has that rouge look..."
"Excuse me," Ryounster disturbed Saturn. He stared at Saturn and Venus. "We were in a middle of a fight, so could you cut off the banter until later?"
"How rude!" Venus admonished.
"I don't care," Ryounster said. "I will kill Ranma, and kill anyone who gets in my way! HAYA!" Ryounster shouted, and jerked the chain, and grabbed it, pulling it to the ground. Venus shouted in surprise as she flew through the air going towards Ryounster. He had his Gunblade out, and was about to slash the incoming Senshi.He slashed through air, and his eyes narrowed as he looked up. Venus was swinging in her chain towards Saturn.
Venus landed neatly in the ground, leaving a few prints in the ground with her heels. She turned around with a very serious face. "You were about to cut through my beautiful face," she said to the Ryounster. "You seem to be pissing me off."
"You escaped by letting go of your initial chain which was wrapped around my weapon, and unleashing another one with your other hand towards the light post, and swinging towards your ally," Ryounster growled. "What makes you think you'll still live after fighting me? I will kill Ranma, and you or your little ally wont stop me."
"I will live," Venus said seriously. Saturn looked at Venus with a wide starry eye. It was the first time Venus spoke so seriously. "I will live because I still have an appointment with my manicurist, have a face-lift, and a Brazilian bikini wax to make Ranma enjoy oral sex with m..."
POW! Venus found Saturn's fist in the back of her head.
"You stupid bimbo! That is my fiancé you're wet-dreaming about!" Saturn admonished, head very big and her fangs were out.
Venus recovered, and her head was the same condition as Saturn. "SO?! I WILL HAVE RANMA ONE OF THESE DAYS AND YOU WONT STOP ME!"
"NO YOU WONT!" "I WILL!" "YOU WONT!" "I WILL!" "YOU WON'T!"
"What makes you think I won't?" Venus demanded.
"Don't make me laugh! No sane man would want to be with you!" Saturn said smugly.
"Oh yeah?" Venus asked. Her face reverted into a pretty one, and turned her head towards the cameramen, and waved and moved her booty a bit. "Hey boys!"
"Hey...!" they all waved back dreamily.
"See?" Venus said arrogantly to Saturn.
Up in the rooftops, Kiima wanted to hit her head again to the concrete. "Saturn and now that bimbo! Jeez, what's next? How long will I have to wait?"
"YOU'RE JUST A NYMPHO!" "OH YEAH! YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS OF ME HAVING A GREAT BOD!" "So what? I have Ranma to take home, while you will never have him because you're too cheap!" "WHY YOU...!" Both began to strangle each other, their heads twice as big again, and their teeth were all fangs. They began to fight, rolling on the ground, making dust fly.
Ryounster couldn't take it anymore. The girls were getting too noisy for him, and they were annoying him big time. Slamming his fist to the ground, and shouted, "SHUT UP!" towards the two fighting girls. The two Senshis' face reverted back to normal as they looked towards Ryounster. He pointed towards Saturn too, and shouted, "YOU ARE HIS FIANCE TOO?! THE HONORLESS SAOTOME HAS ONCE AGAIN CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF INNOCENTS! HE MUST BE KILLED!"
Saturn took out her glaive and whirled it around, pointing it towards Ryounster. "You have to get pass through me first!"
"That we can agree on!" Venus said, taking her chains out. "I will have Ranma, but I don't want him dead. I will protect him with my life!"
Ryounster growled quietly. "FOOLS! YOU SHALL JOIN HIM IN HELL!"
Venus didn't smile, and narrowed her eyes. She whispered towards Saturn. "Saturn, it's going to charge towards us again... I'll try to block its first strike, and you will grab Ranma and get the hell out of here!" and she turned towards Saturn, her face brimming with maturity. "YOU MUST DO THIS!" she raised her voice. "YOU MUST TAKE RANMA, LIVE A HAPPY LIFE, AND I'LL JUST SACRIFICE MYSELF."
"Why will you do this?" Saturn whispered, shocked.
"Because you love him, and he loves you. We are the soldiers of love and justice! It is a duty of mine!" Venus said seriously.
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"Wow... this is turning so romantic!" the third cameraman said. "Sacrificing herself to save her friend and her friend's lover! So beautiful!"
"Is this guy for real?" the fourth cameraman asked the second one.
"Well, he does watch Meteor Garden*..." the second one replied.
"Oh..." the fourth said, understanding completely.
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"You don't have to do this..." Saturn said quietly.
"So you'll trade places with me?" Venus asked eagerly, her airhead and cute face coming back at full force. Saturn face-faulted and her eyes were twitching.
"Airhead. You'll never change..." Saturn said, standing up.
Ryounster wanted to tear his hair off [if he had any]. "WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS?! ARE YOU IGNORING ME? DIE! SHI SHI HOKOUDAN!"
Ryounster blasted another one of those big ass ki projectiles of his towards the two Senshis. Venus leapt to action. "SATURN! TAKE RANMA AND GET OUT OF HERE! I'LL STOP IT!"
Saturn moved quickly, grabbing on to Ranma, and tried to carry him. She stumbled first, not expecting Ranma's dead weight, but she simply continued trying, and was able to carry him up a bit.
Venus also didn't waste time. As Saturn began to move, she suddenly used one of her attacks. "VENUS CRESCENT BEAM!"
The attack was like a sperm hitting an asteroid. It had utterly no effect and the green ball continued it's way towards her. (Oh shit...) Venus thought as the projectile was still coming towards her. (Oh well. It's been a pretty nice life. Sure, I didn't get Xander yet... I didn't get Xander yet... Oh Kami-sama, I don't want to die! I don't want to die!)
Her prayers were answered, as five shadows appeared to her side, all of them with miniskirts, and all of them had different hair colors.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" "JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!" "SHABON SPRAY!" "DEEP SUBMERGE!"
Each attack came out with surprising ease, and combined together to cancel out the big Shi Shi Hokoudan coming towards them. As the projectiles hit, the dust flew and explosion took place.
When the dust finally settled, the pretty poetic Sailor Moon flew to action herself. Settling down her hands, she moved them in a graceful manner and began twisting them in the most bizarre fashion. "Taking lives of our fellow Senshis is the worst crime anyone can ever commit! I, the pretty soldier Sailor Moon, shall punish you! In the name of the..."
"Oh just shut up," Ryounster growled and launched another Shi Shi Hokoudan.
The Senshis jumped towards their sides. Mercury was all cold and calculating now, while Mars still had her fire around her. Jupiter made a stance when she landed, and Neptune had a neutral face. Sailor Moon was the only one who seems to look mad.
"First, you attack my friends, and then you cut my speech short!" Moon began to seethe. "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE MONSTER!"
Ryounster shrugged his shoulders, then suddenly sidestepped as a sword came down upon him. Sailor Uranus thought it would have been a good time to make a surprise attack, but unfortunately, Ryounster sensed the feeble attack, and dodged accordingly. Uranus rightly thought that the monster's skin was hard, so she put a lot of strain in her arms. Her momentum was long, and Ryounster took advantage of that. He took out his fist and punched Uranus dead in the face.
Uranus was almost knocked out, but she just grits her teeth and bared it, and took out her sword and slashed towards Ryounster again. The monster easily blocked it with his Gunblade, and parried with her. The two seem to dance around each other, but Ryounster was found to be much faster than Uranus and stronger too. The last slash he did was a powerful overhead slash that Uranus barely blocked, and he pulled the trigger. The explosion took place, and Uranus found her sword swiped away by the impact. Last thing she saw before she lost consciousness was a fist coming towards her face.
"URANUS!" Neptune shouted as she watched her lover fly away. She was about to charge towards the battle scene when Mercury stopped her.
"Don't!" Mercury said, punching a few things in her computer. "The monster has a Gunblade, special high velocity blade with explosive bullets. Mercurian weapon. I don't know how it got its hands on it, but taking it head-on will be stupid. All we can do is use range attacks and dodge his big projectile. We can worry about the wounded later."
"How can you be so cold Mercury?" Neptune said.
"She's right," Mars said calmly. She stared at the monster. "The others won't be helped if we are dead. Keep a cool head, and take the monster out."
"It seems we don't have to worry about range attacks," Jupiter said.
"Why?" Venus asked.
"Look at Sailor Moon," Jupiter replied. Everyone looked at their leader.
Sailor Moon was shivering... No, she was shaking with anger. The monster went too far! It attacked her friends, it disturbed her speech, and it had the nerve to attack her! "You're going to pay!" and she raised her staff. "For my friends, my speech, and for me, TAKE THIS! HYPER SPIRAL HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CARDIAC ARREST!"
Hearts emerged with electricity going through them began to spiral out of the staff, and began to group and combine into a very large heart. Electricity crackled in the large heart as it went towards Ryounster. What seemed like eternity, the attack finally exploded on impact and the explosion rocked the place like it was hit by a mini-atom bomb.
The six Senshis coughed as the dust covered the whole area. "Damn... [cough]. Next time, get Sailor Moon out of the science books. Her heart attack was fine enough, but she concentrated more power just by technalizing the damn name into cardiac arrest," Jupiter complained. "It was overkill."
"Well, it gets the job done," Mars said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Are you sure it's dead?" Venus asked.
Mercury began typing, and said, "Well, I'm getting no energy signitures, so I think..."
The dust settled, and they found no traces of the monster. Mercury narrowed her eyes, and her computer suddenly began to beep. "OH NO! It's...!"
"GOT YOU!" roared Ryounster as he appeared behind them, and slashed them all with his Gunblade. If it wasn't for Mercury's warning, they would have probably been cut in half. Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus and Neptune all shouted in pain as they felt a deep slash in their backs. Moon was the only one not hurt because she 'accidentally' tripped and avoided the slash completely. What she didn't avoid though was the next attack.
"BREAKING POINT!" Ryounster shouted as he put his finger to the ground. It exploded violently, sending rocks and other things towards Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon was hit many times, and slumped on the floor, clutching her stomach.
Up in the rooftops, Kiima saw the whole thing and laughed. She didn't need to recruit any more soldiers! One was already perfect, and he just wasted the Senshis with minimal effort! No one can stop her now!
=Omega X's world=
Buds looked at his computer screen and put his own MP3 CD inside. Taking a few quick glances, he finally found his file. He put his mouse cursor on the file 'Lord of the Boards-Guano Apes.mp3' and double clicked.
As the music began, Buds continued typing. "Oh Kiima, have you forgotten out hero, Ranma?"
=Juuban Streets=
"Ranma! Ranma!" Saturn began, shaking him awake. Ranma didn't seem to respond and Saturn continued to shake him. "Damn it... They are losing out there, and out only hope is still sleeping..." and Saturn turned her head to see the situation.
Ranma opened one of his eyes and smirked.
"Damn it," Saturn lost her temper. "WAKE UP RANMA!" and she once again began to shake the boy.
Ranma began to stir. Saturn looked at him, anticipating... "Pluto... please, my body is still aching from the workout you gave me last night..." Ranma said sleepily.
Saturn narrowed her eyes, and raised her hand. SLAP!
Ranma immediately stood up. "Hey! Pluto, quiet! What if the chambermaids knew I was in your room... Wha?" Ranma looked around him. "Where the heck am I?"
"Oh please," Saturn said angrily. "If you are going to wet-dream, wet dream about me okay?"
"I was just kidding," Ranma frowned. He scratched his head nervously. "Hey, Sat-chan, you are my best wet dream, okay? I was just joking about the room of Pluto..."
"Later," Saturn said seriously. "The monster is beating the crap out of the others. My Silent Glaive Surprise didn't work, and even Sailor Moon's attack didn't work! How the hell are we supposed to stop this?"
Ranma looked at the monster, and to the wounded Senshis. He looked towards his left and saw the cameramen taping the whole thing. "Are they still taping?"
Saturn looked at Ranma and the cameramen. "Why? You have something in mind?"
Ranma smiled. "Yeah... Listen..."
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Ryounster looked around him, and saw the seven girls with miniskirts. They were helpless now, with two of their numbers knocked out and the five of them seriously wounded. The Ryounster raised its head up and roared with laughter.
"No one can stop me! Not Ranma, not the girls... NO ONE!" Ryounster growled.
"Think again, monster!" Sailor Saturn stood up deftly in Ryouga's side, besides her fallen Senshis, and her glaive in her hand. "No matter how many odds are against me, I'll stop you!" and she twirled her weapon around again, pointing the blade towards the monster and shouted, "SILENT GLAIVE SURPRISE!"
"I've already seen that move!" Ryounster growled, and disappeared from view before the beam of energy hit him. He reappeared a few meters from the left of Saturn, and with his weapon high up in the air. He slashed towards Saturn.
Sailor Saturn moved by instinct, using her left hand to straighten her glaive, making it vertical, and blocked the incoming slash. Ryounster growled softly, admonishing like, and pulled the trigger. Sailor Saturn shouted in surprise as she lost her grip with her glaive, and lost her balance. Her eyes widened in surprise, and Ryounster smiled evilly.
"You will die, like the rest of you fools," he growled, and raised his weapon. "Don't worry. I'll make sure Ranma will join you after a few minutes..." and with this, he drove his weapon down towards her. Saturn closed her eyes.
CLANG!
Ryounster's eyes narrowed as he saw Ranma, his head down, hair covering his eyes, blocking his own weapon with the long katana. Ranma's clothes changed too. His sleeveless vest was now different. It covered his whole arms, and his hands were covered with gloves. The material seems to change as well. It looked tougher, and stiffer than Ranma's kung-fu outfit. The 'X' design though in the chest didn't make sense to Ryounster.
"Ranma... How good of you to awaken," Ryounster growled softly. "It looks like I'll be enjoying killing you even more!"
"Ryouga... No, you are not Ryouga... You are consumed by the hunger for revenge and power," Ranma said coldly, his eyes still hidden from view. "The Ryouga I know holds honor above all else. He might go for underhanded tactics, but not to this extent. The Ryouga I know is dead." He raised his head, and his eyes finally came to view, but Ryounster backed up a bit as he was receiving the coldest stare in his life. Ranma now had two red irises instead of his normal blue-gray and blue combination.
Ranma easily whipped up his sword around him, dragging Ryounster's Gunblade in the air, and slashed towards Ryounster's midsection. Ryounster back stepped, barely avoiding the slash. Landing a bit clumsily to the ground, Ryounster raised his weapon and positioned it vertically in case Ranma was about to follow up. The follow up didn't come, and Ryounster recovered after a few seconds, and just saw Ranma standing there, his sword horizontal supported by his shoulders. Ranma was smiling at him coldly. "You should not have involved Saturn. You just signed your death warrant."
Ryounster growled. "I don't know how you changed your eyes, but it doesn't matter Saotome. You will die by my hands."
"Really?" Ranma asked. His body suddenly disappeared from view and reappeared suddenly in front of Ryounster, his katana up in the sky, and the time seem to slow down as Ryounster's eyes widened in surprise. The blade was coming down towards him, and he almost felt helpless. Raising his arm, he tried to block the incoming strike. CLANG!
He did it! He successfully and clumsily avoided being impaled, but with the nature of Ranma's overhead strike, Ryounster found himself hard-pressed as Ranma continued to do strikes as the two antagonists parried with each other's weapon.
"You should have never attacked Saturn," Ranma said coldly, pinning Ryounster's weapon on the ground.
The four wounded Senshis watched the battle in awe, but at the same time, fear. What happened to Ranma?
"What happened to Ranma-sempai?" Jupiter asked.
"He has finally awoken..." Saturn replied. The other four Senshis stared at her. "The embodiment of his skills, savagery, and instinct. A side of him that lives for battles only. Demon Eyes Ranma."
"Whoa..." the five cameramen said.
Ranma drove Ryouga into a defensive, pushing him to the limits. Each parried with each other's strikes, and it seemed like both were in a stalemate until finally, after a sun cut [250 degree angle cut, from overhead, towards the ground, and to the target. For a image description, watch Samurai X the Movie, last part, where Kenshin fought Shigure for the second time. It was Shigure's first attack], Ranma had the advantage as he drove for the killing blow.
Ryounster felt fear, for the first time, as his Gunblade blocked the sun cut. The attack drove his weapon upward, which left his chest open for attack. Ranma adjusted his blade and pointed it towards Ryounster, and pushed to impale him. CLANG!
Ryounster blocked the incoming strike, and Ranma narrowed his red eyes. He looked at Ryouga, who didn't seem to move at all. "You blocked it. You're much better skilled than I thought."
Ryounster didn't talk, but his eyes and narrowed forehead told that he was concentrating real hard. Ranma stared at him for a moment, and raised his weapon again. He slashed towards Ryounster. CLANG!
Ranma frowned, as his strike didn't connect to Ryounster. Something was wrong...
"What's wrong?" Venus asked. The five Senshis watched as Ranma tried to slash again, but some unknown force was blocking his sword.
"I don't know..." Saturn replied, worried.
"How is your situation now, Saotome?" Ryousnter said, smiling. "Do you give up?"
Ranma smiled coldly as he rested his sword to the ground. "Swinging your arm at fast speeds around you're whole body with your Gunblade moving around through the air. It blocks anything out that I can dish out. Impressive, but not good enough, monster."
"You cant kill what you cant touch, Saotome!" Ryounster shouted gleefully. "And it seems your sword is broken as well!"
"Really?" Ranma said, his smile fading from view, but his red eyes still staring coldly. He looked at the sword. It had a crack. "You should not really think the Muramasa is an ordinary sword..." and holding it in front of him horizontally, he put his index and middle finger into the base of the blade, just above the hilt, and touched it. The blade suddenly began to glowred, and as Ranma followed the outline with his fingers, the glow began to extend towards the whole sword. When it was done, Ranma held the glowing blade high up in the air, the blade going downwards in an angle, his two hands were in the hilt. "Muyou Jinpuu Ryuu Satsujin Ken..." Ranma began.
The five Senshis were backing away, their hands in their chests. The cameramen were still taping, and ogling at the spectacular scene. Up in the rooftops, the scene also attracted Kiima.
(That move!) Kiima thought. (Impossible! Is that...) She looked at Ranma. (Is that Xander?!)
Ranma was still glaring at Ryouga. "Nizuchi!" Ranma said the last part of his attack, and drove his blade downward. The energy in the sword extended towards Ryounster, and covered the whole area in red. The Senshis, the cameramen, Kiima, and Ryounster were blinded by the sheer brightness of the energy, and had to close their eyes for a moment. When they opened it though, they saw no difference, as Ryounster was still standing there, apparently fine.
Ranma smiled coldly and turned his back to Ryounster. Ryounster looked at his hands, and began roaring with laughter. "Is that all you can do? Slice me with a sword that can't cut? DIE!" and Ryounster charged at Ranma's back, hoping for a quick kill. As he was about a few meters away from Ranma though, his head suddenly came off.
"You heard it too, didn't you?" Ranma asked. "The wind..."
(How...?) and Ryousnter's thoughts were cut off as both his arms suddenly came off. Suddenly, his knees gave way, as legs too seem to come off. Ryounster lied there helplessly to the ground, and he didn't have the head to scream as his whole middle torso suddenly split open.
Ranma looked towards the fallen monster, and saw the insides of it. Ryouga was inside, positioned like a fetus inside the monster's stomach area. He knelt towards the ground and put a finger to Ryouga's neck. A pulse. He was alive, and that was good.
"Whoa..." the cameramen said in sync. "That was so cool!"
Ranma took his sword, put it in his shoulders, and smiled at them coldly. "Well, I don't like people filming my moves. Get out of here before I decide that you five should share the fate of this youma," and he pointed towards the Ryounstrer's head. The five cameramen gulped loudly, and scrammed out of there before Ranma could blink.
Ranma smiled a bit, and turned his attention towards the five Senshis. He began to walk towards them, his cold smile still in view. The four wounded Senshis began to back away as Ranma approached them. Quite frankly, Demon Eye Ranma was scaring the best out of them.
"How was my performance?" Ranma asked.
Before anyone could respond, Saturn smiled at him. "Fantastic! You fooled almost all of us!"
Ranma smiled warmly at her. "Well, told ya I could make it work," and he moved his finger towards his eye. With a quick movement, Ranma removed the red contact lens he put. The Senshis were all frozen in shock as Ranma began removing his other contact lens.
Venus recovered from shock, and looked at Ranma. He was smiling at them. "YOU BASTARD!" she shouted. "YOU PLAYED US AGAIN?!"
"Huh?" Neptune asked, looking at Venus. "What do you mean?"
"It was all an act!" Venus shouted angrily. "The Demon Eye Ranma does not exist! He just acted like that to look good in the camera!"
Mercury looked confused for a minute, but then, slammed her fist into her open palm. "Oh yeah... Everything that he did was caught on camera!"
Jupiter began laughing. "You got us there, Ranma-sempai. Good one."
Ranma waved his hand. "Ah, nothing to it. If you remember my acting during Pluto's play from before, you should have known that I was acting from the beginning."
Venus was about to retort, when she saw something. Her eyes narrowed and her jaw hardened. Ranma noticed it, and turned around.
"Xander..." Kiima said as she approached them. "Is that really you?"
To Be Continued...
NEXT: Kiima and Ranma finally face again, but with new revelations! Kiima's plan begins to unfold, and Ranma decides to take his 'How to Train Martial Arts for Dummies' book as he decides to teach the Senshis, with Akane as an assistant! And what happens to Ryouga? Soon!
Weird Notes:
(*) Meteor Garden = It's a Chinese soap opera famous in the Philippines, where the cast is from a music band called F4.
Author's notes:
Well, all comes and goes. This one was by far the largest one in Project III. I don't know if the next would be as long, but only time will tell, ne, Pluto?
Anyway, until next time! Ja ne!