bAkane no Densetsu: Toki no Saidzuchib
A Ranma Nibun no Ichi/Zelda no Densetsu/Pokémon crossover by Chesu.
Disclaimer: I don't own ANY of the characters in this story. Except for the guy with the pigtail. Yeah, you know the one. No, no, the other one. Yeah. That one.
bChapter One: Of Trees and Womens Underwearb
bPart V: Fate in a Nutshellb
Inside of Deku Tree-
Ranma looked around the circular room, waiting for his eyes to adjust. He wasn't sure what he had expected so see, but it certainly wasn't a room of hollowed wood. Which was what he iwas/i seeing.
"So, uh, what now?"
Nabiki pointed at a section of wall, which was covered in vines. "We go up?"
Ranma shrugged and approached the vines, but then stopped in mid-step. "Hey! Ya smell that?"
"Smell what?" Nabiki sniffed at the air, but all she got was a earthy, musty smell.
"Cookies! I smell cookies!"
"...Cookies. You're inside a giant, five thousand-year-old tree, on a mission to relieve a curse, and you smell cookies?"
"Yeah! Smells great!" Ranma sniffed his was to the center of the room, the floor of which was white and glossy. "It's..comin' from under us!"
Nabiki leaned forward for a better view. "You're saying that we're standing on a big white cookie?"
"Dunno." Ranma bent over and cleared away dried leaves and dirt that covered the white section of floor, revealing it to be about the size of a Jacuzzi. "How'd all these leaves get in here?"
"Don't look at m-"
"TREE!"
"Don't look at tree?" Ranma craned his neck to look at Nabiki without making her fall off.
"Tree Shiftree!"
Ranma spun on his heels and fell into a defensive stance, but almost tripped as he saw that had been coming up on him.
It was about four feet tall, with a long ears and a pointed nose. It had a long mane of white hair, which not only dragged behind it, but seemed to cover it's face. The strange part was that it seemed to have trecking sandals for feet, and tree branches for arms. It growled and took another step towards them.
"It's a Shiftry! And it doesn't look very happy!" She smacked Ranma's ear. "Let's MOVE!"
Ranma complied by mumbling incoherently and stumbling backwards.
"Ranma...Ranma, look! This white stuff..it's Shiftry hair! This thing's building a nest!"
Ranma glanced between the nest and the Shiftry, which seemed to be flexing it's muscles beneath it's wooden skin. As the Shiftrty continued to advence, he continued to back away.
"Ranma! The vines! Climb up the vines!"
Ranma looked over his shoulder and saw that he was backing towards a section of wall covered in vines. These didn't look quite as thick as the ones on the other side of the room, past the Shiftry, but he didn't have any other choice.
"On three" Ranma backed up to the wall and got a hold on the vines with his right hand.
"THREE!" Nabiki fluttered to a high-up vine, knowing that she couldn't help Ranma from his own shoulder. She couldn't really help him from her current position, either, but at least she was safer.
Ranma turned around and scrambled up the vines, the Shiftry becoming enraged and charging him as he climbed.
"HAH! How d'ya like that, tree-monster?" Ranma let go with one hand to pull down on the skin beneath his eye and stick his tongue out at the Shiftry.
Nabiki closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. "Ranma..." Nabiki's eyes popped open as she heard a tiny snapping sound. "What the.."
The Shiftry's long ears twitched, and it raised it's head. Then, abruptly, it took off in the opposite direction.
"..huh. Wonder what that's about."
"RANMA!" Nabiki practically screamed, a groan rising from the wall behind them. With a few tiny snapping sounds and a low groan, the vines in Ranma's left hand, which had been supporting his full weight, gave way. Nabiki watched helplessly as he fell into the Shiftry's nest, then through it.
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Nerima District-
"Comatose? What do you mean, Comatose?"
Dr. Tofu cleaned his glasses, shifting uncomfortably. Everyone at the Tendo Dojo had rushed down to the corner clinic immediately after his phone call. Everyone, that is, but Akane.
"I'm not quite sure what happened. I was on my way home from a colleagues when I found Ranma, half buried. He apparently got hit pretty hard, and the trauma from it has... Has put him in a coma."
------
Inside of Deku Tree-
"Ranma? Are you okay?" Nabiki drifted down the hole Ranma had fallen through, squinting in the darkness. "Ranma?"
"I'm good! But it's dark in here, need a light."
Nabiki paused, scanning the dark hole. That voice didn't sound like Ranma's. It didn't even sound male. "Ranma? What happened?"
"Not much, just fell in some water! Come on, it's dark down here!"
Nabiki frowned and continued her descent. The voice was definately female, but had the same voice qualities as Ranma. She really didn't know what was going on down there, but she knew that she didn't like it.
"Okay, I'm going to give you some light!" Nabiki concentrated, willing the energy she had been holding back to flow out. She registered a warm feeling in her chest, and suddenly felt herself enveloped in the glow of fairy light.
Ranma continued to stare in the direction that Nabiki's voice had come from. After almost a minute, a glowing ball was lowered through the vertical tunnel, casting light about the room.
"Nabiki? What's this thing?"
"You asked for light, didn't you?"
Ranma jumped back, staring at her as if a star had fallen from the sky and wanted to be friends. "Na..Nabiki? That you?"
Nakibi rolled her eyes, flying over and landing on her shoulder. "No, it's the king of Hyrule. You'd think that the kid had never seen a fairy before. Now, tell me, why are you a little girl?"
"...huh? Oh, you mean the curse." Ranma considered for a few seconds. The people of this world apparently didn't know about his curse. Since he was leaving after he got rid of the Deku Tree's own curse, it wouldn't hurt to tell her. "Well, y'see, when I get splashed with cold water, I turn into..well, you're lookin' at it. And when I get splashed with hot water, I turn back to a guy."
Nabiki thought about this as Ranma continued to explore the room. If she hadn't been planning on getting as far away from him as possible once they cured the Great Deku Tree, she could have turned a huge profit putting him on display.
"Hey! It's a door!"
Nabiki looked down Ranma's arm to the her hand, which was pressed against what was unmistakably a wooden door. "Well, are you just going to stand there, or are you going to open it?"
"Open it, I guess..." Ranma turned the brass doorknob, which was what had caught her attention to begin with.
Sasuke looked up from the magazine he was reading and stared. After a beat, he jumped up and hid the magazine behind his back. "You may not pass!"
Ranma blinked a few times. "Sasuke? Is that you?"
Now it was Sasuke's turn to blink. "Eh..do I know you?"
"It's me, Ra-"
Nabiki elbowed her neck and hissed in her ear. "Ranma, he doesn't recognize you! You're a girl!"
"Oh...eh heh.... No, you don't know me. I'm a mighty martial artist who's here to get rid of a curse!"
"Oh, you're here to challenge the Queen, are you? Very well, but you must get past me first!"
"Okay! Let's do this!" Ranma cracked her knuckles.
Sasuke pulled out three halves of some sort of nut and set them on a low table. "It is very simple! I will put this-" He held up a what looked like a golden seed. "-under one of the nut shells. I will then move them around very quickly, and once I've stopped, you must quess which shell it is under!"
Ranma stared, dumbfounded. "Uh..you're putting all this on one shell game?"
"Indeed!" Sasuke wiped a bit of saliva from his mouse-like bucked teeth.
"What if I lose?"
"Then I will attack you with my Skitty!"
"Sk-kitty? Uh, uh..yeah, let's do this!"
Sasuke set the Deku Seed on the table, then placed one of the nut shell halves on it. After lining them up, he began to move them as if he was braiding, going faster every few seconds. Ranma's eye twitched, annoyed with trying to follow the nut that hid the seed. Unable to take it anymore, Ranma squeezed her eyes closed.When she opened them, the three nut shell halves were lined up, and she had no idea which was which.
Nabiki tightened her grip on her forehead. Ranma had closed her eyes, and Nabiki had lost track. There was no way Ranma would make the right choice now.
Ranma held her hand over the shell on the right, doubt in her eyes. "Um...I choose..." Her hand twitched, then moved to the one on the left. "It's under this one!" She confidently picked up the nut shell, revealing the shining seed.
Sasuke jaw dropped. "I don't believe it, you picked the right one. Oh my...Well, I did my best, the door is over there." He gestured behind him before hurriedly walking for the door Ranma had come through minutes before.
"Uh.. hey, where're you going?"
"I've been locked in this room for over a week! Master Kuno is bound to be furious!"
Ranma scratched her head as she watched Sasuke's awkward exit. "Oooookay.... Hey, Sasuke, forgot his hat!" She picked up the floppy green hat, and tucked it into her belt.
"Well? Are we going through the door or not?"
"Yeah, let's go. The sooner we end this curse the sooner we're out of here." Ranma strode to the door, but before she could touch it, it opened on it's own. There was an uncertain pause, then Ranma walked slowly through the door, which snapped shut behind her.
Nabiki jumped off of Ranma's shoulder and hovered in the air. "What was that?"
Ranma hand suddenly lashed out, snatching something out of the air. She raised her fist for Nabiki to see. "A ribbon. And where there's ribbons, there's..."
Bright spotlights flashed on, blinding both Ranma and Nabiki. "Oh-ho-ho-ho- ho-ho! Welcome, darling, to my lair!" She half-turned from where she was hanging on the ceiling, her eyes shining.
"I am..." Kodachi swung from her perch, did a somersault in mid-air, and gracefully landed with a whirl of black rose petals. "Kodachi, the Black Rose of Hyrule."
"Figures. So, Kodachi, what're ya doin' to the Deku tree?"
"I am doing as I was told, you little hussy. Now, do you want to battle, you are you too afraid?" As the bright spotlights turned off, Kodachi held up her hand, two Poké Balls between her fingers.
"Uh..Right!" Ranma pulled the single ball from her belt. "Tyrogue!"
"Hahahaha! Is that what you've chosen? Very well. I will not even have to use Midorikame, my prized Feraligatr." She tucked one of the balls into some hidden part of her black leotard. "Gekidoku! I choose you!"
'Gekidoku' appeared from within the light, flapping it's large wings. It was nearly four feet long, with a purple body and green wings. Yellow antennae quivered as it landed before Tyrogue, wings barely moving as it hovered.
"A Dustox?" Nabiki scratched her cheek, watching it move up and down. "Wait a minute, those can learn Psychic techniques! Ranma, be careful!"
"If you are quite ready, prepare to eat my dust!"
"Tyrogue, Double Kick!" Tyrogue looked uncertain, but kicked out anyway.
"Doku! Poison Powder!" Doku spread her wings and flapped hard, sending a misting of purple powder at Tyrogue. Tyrogue, who was unsteadily kicking out, tripped into the cloud and began to cough.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! I seems that your Pokémon doesn't know how to properly use Double Kick!"
"Tyrogue! Get out of there!"
Tyrogue stumbled out of the fading purple cloud, coughing and gasping for air. He looked a bit off-color, but after a few seconds straitened up.
"Tyrogue, Tackle her!" Tyrogue cracked the knuckles of it's oddly-shaped hands, then leapt forward, throwing his body at Doku, who hovered a foot higher and avoided the attack.
"Doku, use Sleep Powder!" Doku brought her wings together, then spread them apart, launching the powder to cover a large area.
Everyone squinted into the cloud of powder, covering their faces so that it wouldn't effect them. There was a bit of a swirling from somewhere near the center, when suddenly Tyrogue shot up from behind Doku, landing on it's back and driving it to the ground.
"Gekidoku! Get up this instant and use Psybeam!" Doku shook itself, struggling to knock off Tyrogue. As it moved, Tyrogue rolled off and landed on the spongy floor, curling into a ball.
"Tyrogue, Tackle again!" Tyrogue shook feverishly, trying to climb to his feet.
"Ranma! The poison is taking effect, and if she uses Psybeam, he's done for!"
Ranma rubbed her eyes, concentrating. Gekidoku was some kind of huge moth, so she would need...bug spray? No, Nabiki had told her that her Pokémon had to win the battle. He would have to distract the thing somehow. What did moths like? Ranma pictured a moth eating a piece of cloth, a dead moth lying next to a box of moth balls, a group of moths slamming themselves into a lightbulb, a cat batting at moths as they flew around, just out of reach....
Ranma shuddered, her eyes snapping open. Then it hit her. "Light!"
Nabiki watched the Dustox take careful aim at her struggling victim knowing that the battlet was lost. "Yeah, light. That's great, Ranma"
"No, light! Nabiki, light up! It'll come at us, and Tyrogue'll have time to get up!"
Nabiki blinked, amazed. Just when she thought Ranma couldn't get any denser, a breakthrough! "Right!"
Doku turned to the right, antennae quivering. A glow was slowly building as Nabiki allowed her energy to flow freely. Doku flew blindly at the light, wings beating rapidly.
"Tyrogue! Come on, you can do it!" Tyrogue blearily looked at Ranma, who was radiating confidence from the brilliant idea of using light as a distraction. He nodded, and painfully climbed into a kneeling position, then to his feet.
"Gekidoku! This is no time for games! Use Psybeam RIGHT NOW!" If the moth- like Pokémon was ignoring orders or simply couldn't hear was unknown, as it continued it's attack on Ranma's hand, which was blocking access to Nabiki while still letting the light seep through.
"Tyrogue! Double Kick!" Tyrogue braced himself, then lashed out at Doku, two consecutive blow landing on it's back while Ranma side-stepped. Doku hung in the air for a moment before collapsing, unconscious.
"Doku! My baby!" Kodachi flung herself across the room and onto the KOed Pokémon. "Doku...you need to rest now... Return to your Poké Ball...."
"So, I guess we lifted the curse, then?" Nabiki cut off the energy flowing through her, and the glow quickly diminished.
Kodachi put the ball away somewhere in her leotard, standing up and turning to the pair. "Yes, you have won. For now, anyway. I iwill/i exact my revenge on you, wait and see. I bid you adieu. WA HAHAAHAHAHA!" She disappeared into the darkness, an unexplained gust of wind blowing black rose petals back to them.
"Well...that was fun....in a creepy, insane kind of way."
bEnd Chapter One/b
=Author's notes= Woo! I'm out of breath from that one... Huff.. Okay then! Why was Part Five so much longer than any of the others? Well, I don't know, really. Who cares? It took me about three hours to write this, with small interruptions every ten minutes or so. Just so that you all know, Gekidoku is a Japanese word meaning 'deadly poison'. Kodachi is known for using Sleep/Paralysis Powder on people and animals, and is always experimenting with poisons. She also has a pet crocodile named Midorikame. Now that FF.N is actually cooperating, I'm going to adjust the HTML in the first four parts. R&R, C&C, BSB, all that stuff. (Chesu- October 31, 03) bHAPPY HALLOWEEN!b
A Ranma Nibun no Ichi/Zelda no Densetsu/Pokémon crossover by Chesu.
Disclaimer: I don't own ANY of the characters in this story. Except for the guy with the pigtail. Yeah, you know the one. No, no, the other one. Yeah. That one.
bChapter One: Of Trees and Womens Underwearb
bPart V: Fate in a Nutshellb
Inside of Deku Tree-
Ranma looked around the circular room, waiting for his eyes to adjust. He wasn't sure what he had expected so see, but it certainly wasn't a room of hollowed wood. Which was what he iwas/i seeing.
"So, uh, what now?"
Nabiki pointed at a section of wall, which was covered in vines. "We go up?"
Ranma shrugged and approached the vines, but then stopped in mid-step. "Hey! Ya smell that?"
"Smell what?" Nabiki sniffed at the air, but all she got was a earthy, musty smell.
"Cookies! I smell cookies!"
"...Cookies. You're inside a giant, five thousand-year-old tree, on a mission to relieve a curse, and you smell cookies?"
"Yeah! Smells great!" Ranma sniffed his was to the center of the room, the floor of which was white and glossy. "It's..comin' from under us!"
Nabiki leaned forward for a better view. "You're saying that we're standing on a big white cookie?"
"Dunno." Ranma bent over and cleared away dried leaves and dirt that covered the white section of floor, revealing it to be about the size of a Jacuzzi. "How'd all these leaves get in here?"
"Don't look at m-"
"TREE!"
"Don't look at tree?" Ranma craned his neck to look at Nabiki without making her fall off.
"Tree Shiftree!"
Ranma spun on his heels and fell into a defensive stance, but almost tripped as he saw that had been coming up on him.
It was about four feet tall, with a long ears and a pointed nose. It had a long mane of white hair, which not only dragged behind it, but seemed to cover it's face. The strange part was that it seemed to have trecking sandals for feet, and tree branches for arms. It growled and took another step towards them.
"It's a Shiftry! And it doesn't look very happy!" She smacked Ranma's ear. "Let's MOVE!"
Ranma complied by mumbling incoherently and stumbling backwards.
"Ranma...Ranma, look! This white stuff..it's Shiftry hair! This thing's building a nest!"
Ranma glanced between the nest and the Shiftry, which seemed to be flexing it's muscles beneath it's wooden skin. As the Shiftrty continued to advence, he continued to back away.
"Ranma! The vines! Climb up the vines!"
Ranma looked over his shoulder and saw that he was backing towards a section of wall covered in vines. These didn't look quite as thick as the ones on the other side of the room, past the Shiftry, but he didn't have any other choice.
"On three" Ranma backed up to the wall and got a hold on the vines with his right hand.
"THREE!" Nabiki fluttered to a high-up vine, knowing that she couldn't help Ranma from his own shoulder. She couldn't really help him from her current position, either, but at least she was safer.
Ranma turned around and scrambled up the vines, the Shiftry becoming enraged and charging him as he climbed.
"HAH! How d'ya like that, tree-monster?" Ranma let go with one hand to pull down on the skin beneath his eye and stick his tongue out at the Shiftry.
Nabiki closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. "Ranma..." Nabiki's eyes popped open as she heard a tiny snapping sound. "What the.."
The Shiftry's long ears twitched, and it raised it's head. Then, abruptly, it took off in the opposite direction.
"..huh. Wonder what that's about."
"RANMA!" Nabiki practically screamed, a groan rising from the wall behind them. With a few tiny snapping sounds and a low groan, the vines in Ranma's left hand, which had been supporting his full weight, gave way. Nabiki watched helplessly as he fell into the Shiftry's nest, then through it.
------
Nerima District-
"Comatose? What do you mean, Comatose?"
Dr. Tofu cleaned his glasses, shifting uncomfortably. Everyone at the Tendo Dojo had rushed down to the corner clinic immediately after his phone call. Everyone, that is, but Akane.
"I'm not quite sure what happened. I was on my way home from a colleagues when I found Ranma, half buried. He apparently got hit pretty hard, and the trauma from it has... Has put him in a coma."
------
Inside of Deku Tree-
"Ranma? Are you okay?" Nabiki drifted down the hole Ranma had fallen through, squinting in the darkness. "Ranma?"
"I'm good! But it's dark in here, need a light."
Nabiki paused, scanning the dark hole. That voice didn't sound like Ranma's. It didn't even sound male. "Ranma? What happened?"
"Not much, just fell in some water! Come on, it's dark down here!"
Nabiki frowned and continued her descent. The voice was definately female, but had the same voice qualities as Ranma. She really didn't know what was going on down there, but she knew that she didn't like it.
"Okay, I'm going to give you some light!" Nabiki concentrated, willing the energy she had been holding back to flow out. She registered a warm feeling in her chest, and suddenly felt herself enveloped in the glow of fairy light.
Ranma continued to stare in the direction that Nabiki's voice had come from. After almost a minute, a glowing ball was lowered through the vertical tunnel, casting light about the room.
"Nabiki? What's this thing?"
"You asked for light, didn't you?"
Ranma jumped back, staring at her as if a star had fallen from the sky and wanted to be friends. "Na..Nabiki? That you?"
Nakibi rolled her eyes, flying over and landing on her shoulder. "No, it's the king of Hyrule. You'd think that the kid had never seen a fairy before. Now, tell me, why are you a little girl?"
"...huh? Oh, you mean the curse." Ranma considered for a few seconds. The people of this world apparently didn't know about his curse. Since he was leaving after he got rid of the Deku Tree's own curse, it wouldn't hurt to tell her. "Well, y'see, when I get splashed with cold water, I turn into..well, you're lookin' at it. And when I get splashed with hot water, I turn back to a guy."
Nabiki thought about this as Ranma continued to explore the room. If she hadn't been planning on getting as far away from him as possible once they cured the Great Deku Tree, she could have turned a huge profit putting him on display.
"Hey! It's a door!"
Nabiki looked down Ranma's arm to the her hand, which was pressed against what was unmistakably a wooden door. "Well, are you just going to stand there, or are you going to open it?"
"Open it, I guess..." Ranma turned the brass doorknob, which was what had caught her attention to begin with.
Sasuke looked up from the magazine he was reading and stared. After a beat, he jumped up and hid the magazine behind his back. "You may not pass!"
Ranma blinked a few times. "Sasuke? Is that you?"
Now it was Sasuke's turn to blink. "Eh..do I know you?"
"It's me, Ra-"
Nabiki elbowed her neck and hissed in her ear. "Ranma, he doesn't recognize you! You're a girl!"
"Oh...eh heh.... No, you don't know me. I'm a mighty martial artist who's here to get rid of a curse!"
"Oh, you're here to challenge the Queen, are you? Very well, but you must get past me first!"
"Okay! Let's do this!" Ranma cracked her knuckles.
Sasuke pulled out three halves of some sort of nut and set them on a low table. "It is very simple! I will put this-" He held up a what looked like a golden seed. "-under one of the nut shells. I will then move them around very quickly, and once I've stopped, you must quess which shell it is under!"
Ranma stared, dumbfounded. "Uh..you're putting all this on one shell game?"
"Indeed!" Sasuke wiped a bit of saliva from his mouse-like bucked teeth.
"What if I lose?"
"Then I will attack you with my Skitty!"
"Sk-kitty? Uh, uh..yeah, let's do this!"
Sasuke set the Deku Seed on the table, then placed one of the nut shell halves on it. After lining them up, he began to move them as if he was braiding, going faster every few seconds. Ranma's eye twitched, annoyed with trying to follow the nut that hid the seed. Unable to take it anymore, Ranma squeezed her eyes closed.When she opened them, the three nut shell halves were lined up, and she had no idea which was which.
Nabiki tightened her grip on her forehead. Ranma had closed her eyes, and Nabiki had lost track. There was no way Ranma would make the right choice now.
Ranma held her hand over the shell on the right, doubt in her eyes. "Um...I choose..." Her hand twitched, then moved to the one on the left. "It's under this one!" She confidently picked up the nut shell, revealing the shining seed.
Sasuke jaw dropped. "I don't believe it, you picked the right one. Oh my...Well, I did my best, the door is over there." He gestured behind him before hurriedly walking for the door Ranma had come through minutes before.
"Uh.. hey, where're you going?"
"I've been locked in this room for over a week! Master Kuno is bound to be furious!"
Ranma scratched her head as she watched Sasuke's awkward exit. "Oooookay.... Hey, Sasuke, forgot his hat!" She picked up the floppy green hat, and tucked it into her belt.
"Well? Are we going through the door or not?"
"Yeah, let's go. The sooner we end this curse the sooner we're out of here." Ranma strode to the door, but before she could touch it, it opened on it's own. There was an uncertain pause, then Ranma walked slowly through the door, which snapped shut behind her.
Nabiki jumped off of Ranma's shoulder and hovered in the air. "What was that?"
Ranma hand suddenly lashed out, snatching something out of the air. She raised her fist for Nabiki to see. "A ribbon. And where there's ribbons, there's..."
Bright spotlights flashed on, blinding both Ranma and Nabiki. "Oh-ho-ho-ho- ho-ho! Welcome, darling, to my lair!" She half-turned from where she was hanging on the ceiling, her eyes shining.
"I am..." Kodachi swung from her perch, did a somersault in mid-air, and gracefully landed with a whirl of black rose petals. "Kodachi, the Black Rose of Hyrule."
"Figures. So, Kodachi, what're ya doin' to the Deku tree?"
"I am doing as I was told, you little hussy. Now, do you want to battle, you are you too afraid?" As the bright spotlights turned off, Kodachi held up her hand, two Poké Balls between her fingers.
"Uh..Right!" Ranma pulled the single ball from her belt. "Tyrogue!"
"Hahahaha! Is that what you've chosen? Very well. I will not even have to use Midorikame, my prized Feraligatr." She tucked one of the balls into some hidden part of her black leotard. "Gekidoku! I choose you!"
'Gekidoku' appeared from within the light, flapping it's large wings. It was nearly four feet long, with a purple body and green wings. Yellow antennae quivered as it landed before Tyrogue, wings barely moving as it hovered.
"A Dustox?" Nabiki scratched her cheek, watching it move up and down. "Wait a minute, those can learn Psychic techniques! Ranma, be careful!"
"If you are quite ready, prepare to eat my dust!"
"Tyrogue, Double Kick!" Tyrogue looked uncertain, but kicked out anyway.
"Doku! Poison Powder!" Doku spread her wings and flapped hard, sending a misting of purple powder at Tyrogue. Tyrogue, who was unsteadily kicking out, tripped into the cloud and began to cough.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! I seems that your Pokémon doesn't know how to properly use Double Kick!"
"Tyrogue! Get out of there!"
Tyrogue stumbled out of the fading purple cloud, coughing and gasping for air. He looked a bit off-color, but after a few seconds straitened up.
"Tyrogue, Tackle her!" Tyrogue cracked the knuckles of it's oddly-shaped hands, then leapt forward, throwing his body at Doku, who hovered a foot higher and avoided the attack.
"Doku, use Sleep Powder!" Doku brought her wings together, then spread them apart, launching the powder to cover a large area.
Everyone squinted into the cloud of powder, covering their faces so that it wouldn't effect them. There was a bit of a swirling from somewhere near the center, when suddenly Tyrogue shot up from behind Doku, landing on it's back and driving it to the ground.
"Gekidoku! Get up this instant and use Psybeam!" Doku shook itself, struggling to knock off Tyrogue. As it moved, Tyrogue rolled off and landed on the spongy floor, curling into a ball.
"Tyrogue, Tackle again!" Tyrogue shook feverishly, trying to climb to his feet.
"Ranma! The poison is taking effect, and if she uses Psybeam, he's done for!"
Ranma rubbed her eyes, concentrating. Gekidoku was some kind of huge moth, so she would need...bug spray? No, Nabiki had told her that her Pokémon had to win the battle. He would have to distract the thing somehow. What did moths like? Ranma pictured a moth eating a piece of cloth, a dead moth lying next to a box of moth balls, a group of moths slamming themselves into a lightbulb, a cat batting at moths as they flew around, just out of reach....
Ranma shuddered, her eyes snapping open. Then it hit her. "Light!"
Nabiki watched the Dustox take careful aim at her struggling victim knowing that the battlet was lost. "Yeah, light. That's great, Ranma"
"No, light! Nabiki, light up! It'll come at us, and Tyrogue'll have time to get up!"
Nabiki blinked, amazed. Just when she thought Ranma couldn't get any denser, a breakthrough! "Right!"
Doku turned to the right, antennae quivering. A glow was slowly building as Nabiki allowed her energy to flow freely. Doku flew blindly at the light, wings beating rapidly.
"Tyrogue! Come on, you can do it!" Tyrogue blearily looked at Ranma, who was radiating confidence from the brilliant idea of using light as a distraction. He nodded, and painfully climbed into a kneeling position, then to his feet.
"Gekidoku! This is no time for games! Use Psybeam RIGHT NOW!" If the moth- like Pokémon was ignoring orders or simply couldn't hear was unknown, as it continued it's attack on Ranma's hand, which was blocking access to Nabiki while still letting the light seep through.
"Tyrogue! Double Kick!" Tyrogue braced himself, then lashed out at Doku, two consecutive blow landing on it's back while Ranma side-stepped. Doku hung in the air for a moment before collapsing, unconscious.
"Doku! My baby!" Kodachi flung herself across the room and onto the KOed Pokémon. "Doku...you need to rest now... Return to your Poké Ball...."
"So, I guess we lifted the curse, then?" Nabiki cut off the energy flowing through her, and the glow quickly diminished.
Kodachi put the ball away somewhere in her leotard, standing up and turning to the pair. "Yes, you have won. For now, anyway. I iwill/i exact my revenge on you, wait and see. I bid you adieu. WA HAHAAHAHAHA!" She disappeared into the darkness, an unexplained gust of wind blowing black rose petals back to them.
"Well...that was fun....in a creepy, insane kind of way."
bEnd Chapter One/b
=Author's notes= Woo! I'm out of breath from that one... Huff.. Okay then! Why was Part Five so much longer than any of the others? Well, I don't know, really. Who cares? It took me about three hours to write this, with small interruptions every ten minutes or so. Just so that you all know, Gekidoku is a Japanese word meaning 'deadly poison'. Kodachi is known for using Sleep/Paralysis Powder on people and animals, and is always experimenting with poisons. She also has a pet crocodile named Midorikame. Now that FF.N is actually cooperating, I'm going to adjust the HTML in the first four parts. R&R, C&C, BSB, all that stuff. (Chesu- October 31, 03) bHAPPY HALLOWEEN!b