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Strange Days
Chapter 03
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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"Akane don't, she defeated Shampoo even quicker than I could..." Ranma yelled. You could see his pride and emotions warring with each other on his face.
"I accept!" Akane yelled, completely ignoring Ranma as he tried to stop her.
Akane jumped to her feet and made her way to the center of the Dojo and began doing a few stretches. Amy just stepped out on to the floor and calmly watched as Akane got ready for the match, she had always wondered just how good Akane was. This should be interesting, she thought, Akane should take this fight seriously if I hit her a few times and that'll make her fight all that much harder.
"Ranma, stay out of this fight, it is a challenge and I will not have you interfering." Amy said. She saw him nod out of the corner of her eye as he seemed to figure out what she was doing. After a couple of minutes Akane stopped stretching and took up her place across from Amy. "Call it!" Amy yelled.
"Fight!" Ranma yelled.
Akane shot forward, leading with a forward punch that was strong enough to shatter stone, Amy just stood there and waited for it to hit. When the punch connected, the look of surprise on Akane's face was all the opening Amy needed as she pivoted with the force of the blow, her legs bent and she used the opening that was so confidently provided as she grabbed Akane's arm and shoulder threw her to the floor behind her.
Amy appeared not to have even felt the blow to her face as she hopped back out of range, but she did notice the panicked expression on Ranma's face. He was on his feet and half a step toward them as if he was going to try and stop the fight, shaking her head made him stop and give her a panicked look of despair.
"Get up Akane, I barely used any force with that, are you so out of shape that a simple throw could cause you to be taken out of this fight already?"
"Not yet!" Akane snarled and sprang to her feet, and launched at Amy again a move that was almost exactly what she had just done.
"Quit leaving yourself open Akane, you're a trained fighter you should know better! There are more holes in that attack than I can count!" Amy barely pivoted as she tagged 7 vital spots on Akane's body in less than a second, this was followed by an uppercut that sent the girl flying into the wall. Amy snapped back into position and leveled a glare at Akane. She had thought Akane would be better than this even after she called the girl a perfect victim. It looked like she was closer to the mark than she had thought.
"Amy, stop it! You've proved your point!" Ranma yelled, unable to physically stop a challenge match.
Amy ignored him and waited as Akane dragged herself to her feet and took her stance once again. Amy smiled and decided to see just how far she could push the girl, but made a note not to go to far. Akane did not have the kind of training that she and Ranma had endured over the years. "Very good Akane, but you are barely tapping your full potential. Use the knowledge of your school, I've seen Ranma fight and you are of the same school, focus beyond your rage and the pain fight me like you were trained to!"
Akane snarled jumped backwards in a move she had been practicing lately when Ranma wasn't around, and launched off the wall behind her like Ranma did when he rebounded off things, her unfocused aura of rage lending her strength and speed. Amy stood her ground and blocked everything Akane sent at her, every few seconds she would lash out and tag Akane along her body, her face, legs, and back. As the minutes passed and Akane slowed down considerably, she just did not have the endurance she needed for this fight. Amy would then taunt her until her rage came back and it would start all over again. 5 minutes turned into half an hour and by this time Akane was covered in bruises, but she was starting to smile as she realized what Amy was doing to her.
I will not give in, I will win this, Akane chanted in her head as she was tossed around the dojo. Then she did a spinning foot sweep and watched in slow motion as Amy lashed out and hit a number of pressure points along her back, spun over her, landed in a crouch and back handed her across the jaw hard enough to rattle her brains. Akane flew back like a rocket, but instead of panicking like she would usually have done, she watched dispassionately as she thrust her bruised and bleeding arms out and used her Ki to bounce off the floor, to the wall and rebounded back off the ceiling and launched herself toward Amy, both of them glowing with red Ki.
To Ranma they looked like a pair of rage possessed angels trying to kill each other, he glanced to the side and saw that the entire household was there watching the fight. Ranma winced as he realized that he hadn't even known they were there and hoped his old man hadn't noticed. He saw a large mix of emotions on their faces too, in Soun he saw fear and pride as his daughter battled with all her heart, in Nabiki her couldn't see any emotion at all...then he saw a flicker of absolute terror...then it vanished, in Kasumi he saw concern and awe and...envy? Then there was his Oyaji...heh...stealing a snack out of the refrigerator in the kitchen, Ranma made a note to smack the crap out of him later.
"Move Akane, you can do better than this, you aren't even breathing hard! Let your training run your body, don't fight it or force it to respond, your training has already taught your body how to fight. Flow like water, stride like a dragon sure and proud of your strength." Amy did another minor pivot and stabbed Akane a dozen times along her chest, neck, and along her arms, while at the same time Amy had her eyes locked onto Akane's. "Focus beyond the rage Akane! You are not a berserker, you are human and can control yourself, use your rage don't let it control you!" Amy reached out and grabbed Akane's wrists in a flash of speed and delivered a savage kick to her stomach and sent her flying.
Akane growled as she stood back up and glared at her enemy, her hated...enemy. She knew she was past rational thought on the outside, but she could see everything happening seconds before it happened, like she was seeing into the future as she fought. She struggled to get her control back, she would win this, she would survive this beating, the worst one she had taken in years. Her aura was lighting up the entire Dojo with its power and she watched the shadows for a second as she contemplated the next attack. Behind her she could hear her father crying as he watched her berserker fury at full force, she would win.
Amy finally saw what she was looking for in the girl's eyes, her mind was beginning to learn how to focus the massive power of her rage. Of all the emotions to use as a Ki focus, the darker emotions were the ones that caused the most damage, to both sides. The only way that one could use it effectively and stay in control was to learn at the feet of one that could control the rage, shape it, focus it and when that was accomplished they would be reborn from the fires of battle and Amy was one of those people. It wouldn't happen during this battle, or the next, but it would happen and Akane was a quick learner when she put her rage to a proper use. Akane screamed and used her aura to launch herself forward, a ball of pure Rage Ki formed in her hands and she instinctively fired it right at Amy.
To everyone's surprise, Amy stopped and dropped her guard and let the Ki hit her, it exploded and sent Amy flying through the front wall of the Dojo and out into the yard. Everyone watched in surprise as she climbed out of the crater her body had made and calmly walked back into the hall and up to Akane. Akane was frozen in shock, she had tried to kill, to destroy her enemy and had failed. What was she, a god, how could anyone survive a blast like that and survive? Her berserker rage screamed, she growled and charged her enemy with her hands out and curled into claws.
Amy stood there calmly facing Akane as her aura flared up for a few seconds before the blue bracer on her left forearm flared up and a blue aura formed around her in a halo of power, a feeling of peace filled the hall as Amy's new aura expanded out to touch everyone in the hall. Akane slid to a stop and gasped as she felt her emotions being attacked from all sides by the calming influence of the aura, she slid to her knees and didn't react as Amy walked forward and ran her finger along Akane's jaw. Akane's rage vanished completely, she collapsed and then started to glow blue as Amy surrounded the both of them in her new aura. The silence of the hall was shattered as Kasumi gasped and pointed at Akane's bruises and cuts. They were sealing over and fading at a fantastic rate.
Soun gasped. "The Healing Aura, to think that I would live to see such a thing!" He said and burst into happy tears.
Nabiki was just happy her little sister was going to be alright, but was still glaring at the red head she had initially thought was Ranma because of they had the same color hair.
Kasumi was in the kitchen smiling at the panda on the ground in front of the empty refrigerator. The panda belched and groaned as its stomach grumbled at the abuse, well grumbled in satisfaction anyway.
Amy turned to Ranma and scowled at him, "That is how you train a fighter Ranma, you don't dodge everything, by holding back you make the fighter week and sloppy. You have trained for over 10 years now by going all out in your battles, what makes your sparring fights with Akane any different? She is not at your skill level, so you take her on at just beyond what she can take.
You hit her with just enough force to bruise and enough power to knock sense onto one's head. Do you understand? Because of this fight, the pressure points that I touched, and the healing I just did, Akane will be a little sore for a couple of days, but otherwise fine. After that she will have recovered completely, gotten better access to her Ki, and will be able to withstand more damage." Amy lectured.
Ranma hung his head.
"In six months I could have Akane holding her own against you Ranma, she has that much potential. Your 'I won't hit girls attitude' is a weakness Ranma. You do know that don't you?"
"I am not weak!"
"How many times has Akane been kidnapped because she couldn't protect herself from harm Ranma?"
"..."
"That's what I thought. Being unable to protect herself against enemies that give you a challenge is a weakness in you. Now, enough with the pansy crap." Amy stood up with a sigh.
"Ow! Did you have to do that?" Akane growled from the floor, her entire body hurt, clear to the bone.
"Yep, get up and bow so that we can finish our challenge. We will continue with this fight until one of us is can knock the other out, and don't forget what we are fighting for." Amy grinned lecherously.
Akane stood up painfully, but she managed to bow and end the match. "You can already do that..."
"True, but I will train you like this until you can give me a real fight."
With that Amy walked over to her pack and looked over at the one girl she hadn't met yet. "Are you Tendo Nabiki?"
She glared at the tall red head and nodded. "I am."
"Since I'm going to be train Akane for the next little while, do you have a room that I can rent for a couple of weeks."
"We do...but..."
"I said rent and I meant it, here, is this enough for the first week?" Amy tossed the girl a large wad of bills. "That is for the room, any food that I may eat, and the use of the furo."
Nabiki slowly counted the money and realized that she was holding 50,000. She looked at her father and he nodded. "Deal, this much again in a week and it covers room, board, and comforts." With that she turned and left, everyone but Kasumi, who had returned from the kitchen, and Ranma filed out of the room. Amy called out to Akane before she left.
"Akane, we both use our rage to focus our Ki, I am doing this because you are on the verge of going into a killing rage and that must be prevented at all costs. You could kill someone you care about while in that state and I don't want you to go through what I did. I hope you will forgive me for what you will go through over the next few days. Do you agree to my training?"
"Yes...I suppose."
"It is going to be very hard..."
"I don't care."
"Then go and change into your jogging outfit and run your usual rout, you will be doing this 3 times a day for the next few weeks. Your physical strength is on par with Ryoga now a days, but you don't have the endurance to last that long and you need that before our fights go to the next level, then we are going to get more and more brutal until you can control your rage."
"Hai Sensei." Akane bowed and limped out of the Dojo.
"Yes Kasumi-san?"
"Did you have to go so hard on her?"
"Yes I did. I don't know if anyone of you saw, but I was pressing certain pressure points on Akane as we fought. Most of them were the points needed to free up the flow of Ki inside one's own body, others were to dull pain, another set to calm her anger and make her focus even more. You all saw that aura, it was huge and very dangerous, I am skilled enough to be able to negate or lessen the damage done by her Ki blasts, as I demonstrated earlier.
What she let off was actually strong enough to have leveled most of this house, the Dojo, and a good portion of the block. She needs control or she will fall into her berserker state whenever someone makes her even the littlest bit angry." Amy smiles innocently at a shocked Ranma, she bats her eye lids and smirks at him, she knew where to place the blame.
"Alright, so this is partially my fault for pushing her?"
"Actually I would blame who ever has been pushing her buttons for years. Whoever has been making her so angry needs to be stopped or she will lash out at them in ever harder and hard engagements."
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Akane soon left the house and went for a jog. Amy tagged along to see just how far she went and if there was anything along the rout that needed to be changed or increased. Along the way she had Akane jumping up on the walls, vaulting over trash cans, and throwing punches and kicks while she was in the air. This would have been fine normally, but she had just taken the worst beating of her life and was in more than a little pain. Amy just grinned and continued to push her, this was getting fun too. She wondered if there was chance of ever training the girl to defeat Ranma at least once.
A couple miles into the run Amy bounced off a wall, followed by Akane as she panted for air, and landed on the side walk. From there they moved into a fast walk as they turned the corner for the last mile of the jog and used it for a cool down period. "Akane, tell me, what are you looking for in the future?"
"In the future?"
"Yeah, I'm kind of curious."
"I haven't put to much thought into it, go to collage, make friends, learn to cook, and finally learn how to fight." Akane gasped out as she stumbled along, she was on the verge of passing out.
"That's all?"
"Yep, I guess, why?"
"I just thought it would include more I guess."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, one of the things I have always wanted is something that I can not have anymore. A family, a husband or a wife, kids, maybe even be able to be fully happy one day."
A husband or a...Wife!? What is she a Pervert? Akane felt something a little strange and edged away from the girl that was going to be training her in Martial Arts. Was she gay? She really didn't want to deal with another pervert, Ranma was more than enough. These thoughts and several others along those lines occupied Akane's mind as they walked. The several little scenes that flashed in her mind had Akane blushing by the time they finally reached the house.
Luckily Akane was so flushed from running and training that it wasn't as noticeable as it would have been. Amy told Akane to go and soak in the furo for a half hour before supper was ready and to use the muscle relaxing oils that Kasumi had available. As Akane leapt to it, Amy just shook her head and wondered if the girl could be any more unobservant. All that strength and power and the girl had more fatal flaws than a shattered piece of glass, one little hit and she would be taken out.
Amy stepped into the kitchen and smiled at Kasumi as she prepared supper, or what would have been supper if the Panda hadn't eaten everything in the refrigerator. From the looks of things it was going to cheese and crackers for supper, Amy kicked the panda as it lay before the refrigerator. Amy waved "hi" to the moron even as Kasumi turned around in surprise. Genma held up a sign that said *Ignore the cute panda on the floor*
This made Amy just shake her head as she stepped over him and opened up the door that lead to the side of the house, she could just make out a large bush and a part of the wall that ran around the property. "Don't try to move Panda. I kicked a shiatsu point that paralyzed you for a few minutes. Your greedy stomach has caused enough problems for the rest of the family don't you think, you need to go for a walk to get rid off all that stuff you ate. I mean look at the mess you left behind." Amy said as she grinned down at the paralyzed panda.
"Well your in luck Panda, you just earned yourself a one way trip via Amy Lee Airways. Now unlike Akane I don't use a Mallet to do my launching. No, nothing so crude as that. Instead I use this." Amy ran a few steps forward kicked the hairy brute through the door, over the wall, and into the distance. She smiled as he became a small spot on the horizon and disappeared.
"Oh My!" Kasumi said, for once smiling happily. "That wasn't very nice Amy."
"Maybe, but it wasn't why are you smiling like that?" Amy said back with a smirk as Kasumi busied herself with trying to get dinner ready. "Lets see, Cheese and crackers, huh?"
"I'm afraid that is all we have left, Mr. Saotome ate everything else."
"Well you set that out as a snake and call in some take out."
"I'm afraid we don't have the money."
"Sure you do, I just gave Nabiki 50,000 yen for a weeks rent and food. That should be more than enough to order dinner."
"Your right Amy, thank you!" Kasumi said and went to find Nabiki, who was in her room drooling over the aforementioned money.
Amy looked up when she heard Akane and Ranma getting into another fight, down near the bathroom. Had Ranma walked in on her again or something? She wondered to herself as the image of Akane screaming "RANMA NO BAKA!!" and the impact of a body going through a wall filled the air. It took a second to find the bathroom because Amy didn't know the lay out of the Tendo home just yet, but she was just in time to see a female Ranma sliding out of a hole in the wall as Akane stood over her with a large glowing mallet in her hands. Akane had a reddish black aura swirling around her making her hair shift around under its intensity. It was a perfect example of Akane's lack of control.
Kasumi wandered back down stairs with a bit of money in her hands. Amy would have sworn she could hear Nabiki crying as her door closed, but shrugged it off as impossible for the Ice Queen of Furinkan High. Kasumi looked around the corner and noticed the destruction and the prone Ranma. She looked a little sad as the red head groaned and tried to stand up, Akane just raised her mallet again and prepared to pound the 'pervert' back down before he could do anything to her.
"I'm going to go and check on that." Amy said.
"Thank you, I don't have time to go and see how much damage they did this time, but with your training I expect them to happen more often."
"Does that girl really have so little control of herself, how in the world did she survive this long without anyone making an example of her?"
"She has always had a very bad temper, but it has gotten so much worse since Ranma and his father showed up. Ranma just can't seem to help himself and Akane can not forgive him for anything."
"That's to bad, hopefully she is able to learn quickly enough to be able to control that mega temper of hers. My training should help with that, but if she doesn't make an effort on her end of things no amount of training is going to help her."
Amy moved forward just as Ranma stood up and was on the receiving end of another blow with the mallet, this time Ranma gasped as she went flying through a wall and right into the pond. Moving through the path of destruction, Amy wading into the water and grabbed the red head's arm and pulled her out of the pond. A quick blow to the back and Ranma was coughing up the water she had swallowed. She looked to be in pretty bad shape too, but Amy could see the girl's aura flaring around the wounds and healing her body as fast as it could. If anything, at least Ranma had some incredible control of her aura.
This was the aspect of Ranma's life she had never cared for, the constant beatings for something the boy had never done, or the strange conclusions that Akane seemed to jump too because she was incapable of trusting Ranma. Akane did this constantly, and though the beatings did for Ranma, what the Breaking Point did for Ryoga, Amy found it just a little bit hard to believe that anyone who beat another human being like this could feel any love for that person.
Ranma groaned and opened her eyes. They were a little blood shot and dilated. She nearly fainted again as a wave of dizziness washed over her, but controlled the feeling as she saw that Amy Lee was holding her. Ranma blushed as she noticed that her head was in Amy's lap. "Huh?"
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, this happens all the time."
"Why do you let it?"
"What do you mean?"
"As I said earlier, you need to get past your fear of hurting Akane, but that doesn't mean you can't try and dodge her hammer blows or block them."
"You just don't understand..."
"Your right, I don't understand why anyone would put up with her doing that. Its cruel and dangerous behavior, and from what I've seen and heard so far, Akane isn't going to stop hitting you. The beatings are going to just get worse and worse until she finally manages to learn some control over that temper or does something the will actually hurt or cripple you."
"Sheesh...yeah right."
"I can't just make you two be friends Ranma, but I do believe you need to make her confront her rage. Think of her as a loose cannon ready to go off at a moments notice."
"But..."
"I am immortal Ranma, which has given me a lot of experience in certain areas of life. I have watched and participated in more than one relationship over the years Ranma and I can tell that yours is a powder keg just waiting to go off."
"I know, but there is nothing I can do about it."
"There are always decisions to make Ranma. It is just a matter of being man enough to do what is right for all those involved. A little pain here is a lot better than what could happen if Akane manages to kill someone." Amy's looked down and stared Ranma in the eyes, she smiled. "I still think your cute Ranma, but to get involved in your fiancée problems would hurt you and all of your friends. I can give you advice as I would any friend, but it is up to you to use it as you see fit. These choices are yours to make, not for everyone else to make for you, but the longer you wait the worse they will become."
"Ah...well...you see..."
"You don't need to answer them immediately, but some time in the next few months. Now get up and go and apologies to Akane."
"But I didn't do anything wrong..."
"Of that I am agreement, but it doesn't matter, I want her in a good mood tonight. Not pounding you to a pulp a the dinner table."
"Humph."
Amy giggled and pulled Ranma to her feet. "You are just so cute when you do that!"
"Ah...well..." Ranma said with a blush.
Giggle
"C-can I ask you something?"
"Sure, go ahead."
"Did you mean it when you said that my curse didn't bother you?"
"Yes I did, why?"
"I just don't get it, everyone I talk to about it tells me the same thing, and yet they tend to shy away from me when ever I change or might change. You on the other hand, seem to prefer me as a girl and I just don't get it."
Amy blushed and felt herself falling into Ranma's blue eyes, she wasn't sure what to say. "..."
"You are also only the second girl I have ever met who asked to be my friend without trying to become my wife or take me as a trophy."
"I would never take you as a trophy! Maybe something else though..." Amy giggled and punched him in the ribs.
"Everyone, super is here!" Kasumi yelled to everyone in the house as she sat out the take out orders for everyone.
Ranma and Amy made their way inside as Kasumi met them and poured hot water on Ranma and handed him a towel as he changed back into a man. As the rest of the family trickled in, Amy noted that Ranma took Akane aside and quietly apologized to her. Akane smiled and nearly blinded everyone in the room, and then proceeded to pound the crap out of him, screaming curses.
Amy watched horrified and found herself in motion before she could decide on a course of action. Even as Ranma's head was slammed through the floor boards, Amy's fist was slamming into Akane's jaw and knocking her cold. As Akane collapsed, Amy looked around and noticed that no one seemed to even be paying attention.
"Are you alright Amy?" Kasumi asked as she knelt down beside her with a wet wash cloth."
"Kasumi, what is wrong with Akane? I asked Ranma to apologies to her for making her angry and she does this? Doesn't she care about him at all?"
"Yes she does, but she doesn't know how to express her feelings with out admitting she is less than she is. I think she also has a mind disease called 'Rage Disorder', but the only way to prove it would be to take her to a doctor and she is too prideful to admit she has a problem." Kasumi whispered.
Amy sighed. There were countless dimensions where Akane killed Ranma, either with her cooking or the Mallet. She had been here maybe 2 days and already she had to deal with a situation like this. She wasn't very good at them either, she was a warrior and proud of it, not a relation ship expert. She had no experience with resolving matters of the heart. Sure she could talk a good story, but she had failed more times than she cared to admit when it came to the real thing. Now Ranma needed her, somebody and she was at a loss for what to do. How could Akane pound him for following her advice?
Oh yeah, if Ranma even has the vaguest hint of another girl chasing after him Akane was known to go ballistic, could this be because she had helped Ranma out of the pond so he wouldn't drown? Everything was his fault according to Akane's way of thinking and that meant that Ranma would get pounded almost daily. Amy remembered that Akane's way of thinking was almost identical to Ryoga's except that the girl was supposed to actually care for Ranma. So far Amy hadn't seen any sign of that.
"What should I do Kasumi? I'm out of my element here. I was trying to help out and this is the result?"
"Don't take it too hard, both Nabiki and I have tried to help Akane out, but nothing has ever worked."
Amy shook her head and stood up with Ranma's limp body in her arms and dragged him back to the dinner table. She figured that if anything would wake him up it would be food. The rest of the family ignored them as Amy slowly got Ranma to wake up, there was a bit of blood dripping off his lip a rather large bruise forming on the side of his head. The only person that noticed was Nabiki and she was giving her little sister a weird look. Kasumi smiled as Ranma came to and handed him and ice pack for his head as she began to distribute the food.
Still, it was pretty obvious to both Amy and Kasumi that Ranma was running on autopilot, his eyes were slightly out of focus and the fact that she was gnawing on a dish rag, again, showed just how out of it she really was. Amy had to suppress a giggle as she watched the glazed look on his face as he tried to figure out why he couldn't bite through the dish rag. Amy wondered if she should bother to call Dr. Tofu for this kind of thing. She knew that Ranma had easily survived things like this before so wasn't' all that worried, but the amount of damage he had suffered was pretty extensive.
After supper Amy had helped Ranma up the stairs to his bedroom and lay him out on his futon. The oddest thing about the situation was that both Genma and Soun seemed completely oblivious to her even when she was in the same room as Ranma. Even after Amy had decked Akane into unconsciousness they had barely noticed, she thought his was a bit odd but didn't think about it to much until she remembered that Akane's father was known to break into tears at the slightest hint of danger to his daughter. At the very least Amy had expected to witness the fabled Demon Head technique that was reputed to be able to freeze one's Ki and make them completely immobile.
Instead Amy had experienced nothing, nothing of any kind whatsoever, not even a glare or a worried glance. This worried Amy more than anything else because it meant that Soun had something on his mind that was more important than his own children, at least in Amy's opinion. After getting Ranma settled in for the night and resisting the urge to feel the boy up, Amy headed downstairs to see what was going on.
"Kasumi?"
"Yes, Amy?"
"I'm going to go for a walk."
"OK."
A preoccupied Amy waved goodbye to her friend and headed out the front door, she had a lot of things to think about. There was something wrong, she could feel it in the air around her and her senses were trying to warn her of something. She was only gone for a few minutes when Ranma came stumbling downstairs still holding her head and headed directly for the furo. Kasumi decided to not tell anyone so that Ranma could get some time to relax and calm down, his day had been quite hectic. More so than normal.
Amy returned about 20 minutes later and found Ranma sitting on the couch with Akane's head in her lap. Even after all this time the girl still hadn't woken up and Amy wondered if she had hit the girl harder than she thought. Akane has a rather large bruise on the side of her face to match the one on Ranma. He was currently giving her a weird look as she made her way across the front room.
"Amy?"
"What's up Ranma?"
"Kasumi said as they you punched Akane after she hit me with her mallet?"
Amy sighed, sadly. "Yes I did, she deserved it for what she did to you."
"I can handle my own problems Amy."
"Ranma, she used a weapon to slam your head through the floor boards. I've have never seen anything as cruel as that perpetrated against someone, someone that actually seems to care about them and I had to do something to stop her or you would have been seriously hurt."
"Still..."
"My reaction was almost instinctual, Ranma. I didn't even think about before I did it, my training has sometimes made me react before I even have time to think about it. You were in danger and I didn't even think about it, you were hit and the next thing I know is that Akane is on the ground. I do apologize for my actions though"
"You hurt Akane..."
Amy smiled sadly and shook her head, "I'm sorry Ranma, but, I do not mean I'm sorry for hitting Akane, she deserved that. I am sorry for asking you to apologize to her in the first place, I was trying to help you out and only made it worse. I would never have asked that of you if I had known what her reaction would be, I still can't believe she pounded you for doing that. It was completely uncalled for."
Ranma nodded, him and Akane may have called off the engagement with each other, but he wasn't about to let such a thing go unpunished either. He stood up and looked at Akane sadly for several seconds before motioning for her to head outside. Amy was a bit amazed that
Ranma would do such a thing, this was side of Ranma she had never seen or heard of from anybody. Even though he was no longer engaged to the girl he was still protecting her honor, something Amy thought the youngest Tendo had none of.
Ranma took up a stance and motioned for Amy to do the same, he didn't want to do this, but Akane hadn't deserved what Amy did. At least in his opinion, she hit him all the time and never had to pay for it, why should she start now? Soon the sounds of the battle filled the air as the two warriors tore into each other. As young as Ranma was, he still understood when he had to protect his ex-fiancée's honor. The rest of the family watched in mild surprise and happily placed bets on who would win and how fast, Nabiki always knew how to turn the situation to her advantage, no matter how small it was.
It was several minutes into the fight when Akane finally regained consciousness and sat up to see what was going on. Kasumi came out of the kitchen and handed her little sister the same ice pack Ranma had used earlier, smiled, and quickly disappeared. Akane's memory of what happened was a bit fuzzy, but it quickly returned and she felt a series of conflict he emotions.
She felt the usual anger as always towards Ranma that had become the norm for her life, but she felt nothing but a mixture of confusion and blind rage at Amy for what she had done. Of course that tiny little voice in the back of her mind that tried to remind her that she may have deserved what she got, but it was quickly ground out of existence and the proper perception of reality was reinstated. It was Ranma's fault, the pervert.
Akane knew that she could not beat Amy and a fair fight, but the girl was also willing to train her to be an even better fighter than what she is now. Yet the girl was willing to train her for some reason, Akane just didn't understand what the red head was thinking. Standing up she staggered out the back door onto the porch and watched as Ranma and Amy fought each other. They were bouncing all over the back yard, every few seconds they would connect with each other the hands and feet would fly.
"Baka's, the two of them!" Akane snarled.
"Calm down Akane, she hit you because you put Ranma's head through the floor boards." Nabiki said and pointed the hole in the floor.
"Buzz off Nabiki, she hit me!"
"Grow up Akane, for once I think the punishment was justified. You treat Ranma worse than you do your own enemies."
"How can you say that?"
Nabiki doesn't say anything, but spends several seconds pointing out all the places in the room that had been repaired for one reason or another, most of which was when Akane had decided to punish Ranma. Akane had the decency to look a little embarrassed for what she had done, but quickly forgot about it and placed the blame on Ranma. If he wouldn't insult her and make her made she wouldn't have to punish him. So Akane just folded her arms and pouted, refusing to anything else about the problem.
Nabiki and Kasumi were a bit disappointed in her, but not really surprised. Her past actions were telling enough. Then Akane stood up and summoned her mallet and ran out into the fight, her aura blazing bright.
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Sailor Mercury was hiding in the shadows across from the Tendo Dojo, she had tracked that red haired girl to this house after she had flown off from the mall incident. She was confused about this girl that Mars and Mask were saying needed to be killed, and it was beginning to show among her team mates. She still got a laugh when she remembered finding Mask tied up on the room in his underwear, he had been almost frothing at the mouth mad too.
On two occasions now the girl had been at the scene of a Youma attack and helped out with the fight or killed the Youma outright while protecting innocents. These were not the actions of a killer and Sailor Moon agreed with her findings as well. The red head had saved Moon's life after all, and yet Mars seemed so adamant about the girl's guilt. Mercury didn't know who to believe really, they both had good reasons for thinking they way they did.
Mars had explained that she had watched as the great fire showed her as this girl killed each and everyone of them in a slow and gruesome manner. The descriptions had been very... graphic, to say the least. Mercury's frustrations were growing too, she wanted to lash out and break something because the clues were just not adding up! Other than that threat she
had issued to them a few days ago in the alley, Mercury was pretty sure that they had only seen the barest fraction of this girl's true power.
Currently she was watching her target and some boy (perhaps a relative?) in the back yard fighting each other. It looked like they were trying to kill each other too. She had never seen anything like it before. They were moving faster than normal eyes could see, jumping 20 to 30ft straight up and fighting at the same time. He computer said they were not using magic in anyway, instead it was picking up gigantic amounts of life force energy being used in the most efficient manner she had ever seen. Even weirder was that they were being watched by several girls, an older man with long hair, and a...Panda? of all things. Every now and then she would say something to the panda and it would hold up a sign with...words written on it.
Mercury had also noticed that on more than one occasion in the last half hour either of the fighters would slam the other into the ground hard enough to throw up a small cloud of dust, only to walk out and yell at the other one and tell them what they did wrong and critique whatever it was they did when they tried to kill each other. She was glad that her Mercury computer was recording this, it would give them something to watch and study. Mercury was also glad that the Dark Kingdom had been defeated a few years ago, the energy being used was a pure form of what they had been collecting.
The red head rebounded of the room and did a spin in mid air to hit the boy, sending him flying back. He used his hands to bounce off the ground and toss some dirt into the girl's face and kick he in the stomach. Mercury could tell there was some power behind the kick, but not enough to really hurt the girl though. The red head landed for a sec and waited for the boy to land, then launched herself at him to exchange a few blows and kicks. Mercury had heard of martial arts, Haruka and Makoto used it, but she had never seen it used on this level before. It was an absolutely fascinating thing to watch, almost like a ballet in some ways.
Beep...beep...beep...
Mercury tapped her earlobe and activated her visor, she had hooked it up to her wrist communicator so that she could talk while transformed and didn't have to depend on the inefficient watch device. "Mercury here."
"Mercury, have you found her?" Asked Venus.
"Yes I have, in Nerima, at a training Dojo run my the Tendo family."
"What about the girl?"
"She is currently sparring with some guy. They are the finest Martial Artist I have ever seen. My readings say they are using their own life force energy to increase their speed, strength, and probably several other things as well."
"What are our chances of taking her?"
"Very slim, if not impossible, as she is now proving to be a better fighter than all of scouts put together, even Haruka wouldn't be able to stop her in a straight out fight."
"That's impossible...what she did..."
"When she killed the first Youma she was using her life force energy and a mix of magical energy she gathered out of the air, the stuff left over from out own magic blasts. The Youma in the mall was taken out with only her life force energy and no magic. Who ever she is she seems to be able to call on several forms of energy."
"What's your opinion on her?"
"Most of our enemies seem to use one dominate form of energy or magic and consider it all powerful enough to handle anything. This girl is beyond my understanding I'm afraid, I do know one thing though. She is not evil."
"B-b-b-b-but s-she threatened us!"
"If I had just saved someone and then got shot in the back for it, I would be a little peeved myself." Mercury stated.
Mercury glanced over at the yard again and winced, one of the other girls had jumped into the fight. She had short hair and the other two seed to be showing her how to do some martial arts moves that were being used earlier, it was being demonstrated by the other two fighters. This third girl wasn't as good as the other two, but her computer was showing that she too possessed allot of power, much of it unfocused.
"What's wrong?" Sailor Moon asked as she entered the conversation.
"There is another girl in the yard being, I think, trained how to fight like the other two. She is at, according to the computer, a little over half as strong as our non super Sailor forms and with her martial arts training she would be able to hold her own against us if she wanted to."
"Mercury, Luna wants to know if you think any of these girls will be coming after us."
"I don't know, the one we attacked is a wild card and I think we should keep our eyes open. Luckily she doesn't know us in our civilian identities and we will be able to stay safe that way."
"Do you think you could contact her Mercury? I want to apologies to her and see if we can settle this."
"I'm not to sure Sailor Moon, she seems to be calm one minute and in a barely controlled rage the next, she is so hard to read. She scares the hell out of me and I know I wouldn't stand a chance against her if she attacked me."
"Please try and contact her Mercury, please, I think she will at least listen to you."
"Hai."
"We should have a meeting over this according to Luna, so let's meet at the temple tomorrow."
"Hai."
Mercury waits until everyone signs off before she turns off her communicator and turns off her visor before she looks back at the Tendo yard. She immediately notices that the dark haired boy and the third girl are still sparing lightly, but her target is missing. She looks around and starts to get a very bad feeling, where in the world could she be? Has she gone into the house for some reason? Standing slowly Mercury turns around and looks right into the eyes of Amy Lee, who is standing less than a foot away from her. Mercury lets out an...Eeep!... and falls on her ass in shock.
Amy smirks and kneels down and blatantly lets her eyes roam over every inch of the girl's body, from her blue pumps to the tips of her blue hair. She was in her Scout Fuku so was currently looking very good to Amy. She especially noticed her great legs and white body suit that made up her panties. "Nice panties, cute stuff." Amy drawled.
Mercury turned a solid red and tried to pull her skirt down, but Amy's eyes continued to bore through her soul. Mercury, whose real name she couldn't remember. Quickly stands up looking like an embarrassed little girl trying to pull her skirt down. Amy grins and waits until she composes herself before standing up as well.
She pays close attention to the girl's face and marvels at the magical field that surrounds the Scouts and protects their identities, she can see the girl's features perfectly, and yet recognition seems to be brushed aside as if she wasn't there. She smiles and mentally undresses the poor girl as she waits.
"Um...ah...I'm Sailor Mercury...a-and..." Sailor Mercury stammers out.
"Ah, one of the girls that tried to kill me." Amy gracefully cocks her head to the side, she had been thinking about what to do to the other scouts for trying to kill her like they did. This little display was giving her some really nasty ideas to play with, it would be the perfect revenge and no one would get hurt. Lets play this to the hilt, maybe one of them will even respond and I won't have to control my natural tendencies any more.
Stepping forward Amy raised her hand and used her fingers to run a finger up Mercury's stomach, between her breasts and around the bow, up her neck and under her chin and to her face so that they could look at each other. Mercury was trembling in her hands and Amy nearly stopped as she realized it was with terror, instead of lust like she was feeling. Leaning in close, Amy brought her face with in millimeters of Mercury's and gazed into her eyes lustfully. The two pools of sapphire blue eyes tripled in size as Amy's intention became clear.
"You and the Scouts tried to kill me the other day Sailor Mercury, that made me very angry, and yet as I calmed down I did some thinking and I have decided to punish you in a non violent way." Amy whispered lustfully, saying the word punish as if it was the most perverted idea
in history.
Mercury was frozen, her entire body had been readying itself for a fight, then this red head had touched her and her body had responded in a way she hadn't anticipated, she had nearly collapsed as her terror of this girl had done a complete 180. She had leaned in close and stared right into her eyes and she saw something that made her blood boil, she had never felt like this! About anyone!
Then she had whispered those words to her and knees went weak as the warm air caressed cheek. Then the most amazing thing happened, she was kissed by another girl and her body responded, her knees buckled and she was caught and held in the girls arms so that she could continue the kiss. Her fingers moved around her body and caressed her back, her thighs (SIGH!), her breasts and ass in the most loving manner she had ever experienced, she moaned loudly and fainted as a surge of ecstasy engulfed her entire being...
Amy continued the kiss as Mercury's body rushed through her pressure point induced orgasm, she had used them to make her body do it to herself and the girl didn't have a clue. Her own arousal was hard to ignore as it mixed with the thrill of what she had done to the most innocent Sailor Scout of the team. She wanted to continue, but decided that it would not be a good idea right now, she would get her in time. Amy smiled as she laid the girl out on the sidewalk, reached into her subspace pocket and pulled out a note pad. She scribbled a quick note and bounded off, quickly disappearing back into the Tendo Dojo.
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To Be Continued...
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Strange Days
Chapter 03
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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"Akane don't, she defeated Shampoo even quicker than I could..." Ranma yelled. You could see his pride and emotions warring with each other on his face.
"I accept!" Akane yelled, completely ignoring Ranma as he tried to stop her.
Akane jumped to her feet and made her way to the center of the Dojo and began doing a few stretches. Amy just stepped out on to the floor and calmly watched as Akane got ready for the match, she had always wondered just how good Akane was. This should be interesting, she thought, Akane should take this fight seriously if I hit her a few times and that'll make her fight all that much harder.
"Ranma, stay out of this fight, it is a challenge and I will not have you interfering." Amy said. She saw him nod out of the corner of her eye as he seemed to figure out what she was doing. After a couple of minutes Akane stopped stretching and took up her place across from Amy. "Call it!" Amy yelled.
"Fight!" Ranma yelled.
Akane shot forward, leading with a forward punch that was strong enough to shatter stone, Amy just stood there and waited for it to hit. When the punch connected, the look of surprise on Akane's face was all the opening Amy needed as she pivoted with the force of the blow, her legs bent and she used the opening that was so confidently provided as she grabbed Akane's arm and shoulder threw her to the floor behind her.
Amy appeared not to have even felt the blow to her face as she hopped back out of range, but she did notice the panicked expression on Ranma's face. He was on his feet and half a step toward them as if he was going to try and stop the fight, shaking her head made him stop and give her a panicked look of despair.
"Get up Akane, I barely used any force with that, are you so out of shape that a simple throw could cause you to be taken out of this fight already?"
"Not yet!" Akane snarled and sprang to her feet, and launched at Amy again a move that was almost exactly what she had just done.
"Quit leaving yourself open Akane, you're a trained fighter you should know better! There are more holes in that attack than I can count!" Amy barely pivoted as she tagged 7 vital spots on Akane's body in less than a second, this was followed by an uppercut that sent the girl flying into the wall. Amy snapped back into position and leveled a glare at Akane. She had thought Akane would be better than this even after she called the girl a perfect victim. It looked like she was closer to the mark than she had thought.
"Amy, stop it! You've proved your point!" Ranma yelled, unable to physically stop a challenge match.
Amy ignored him and waited as Akane dragged herself to her feet and took her stance once again. Amy smiled and decided to see just how far she could push the girl, but made a note not to go to far. Akane did not have the kind of training that she and Ranma had endured over the years. "Very good Akane, but you are barely tapping your full potential. Use the knowledge of your school, I've seen Ranma fight and you are of the same school, focus beyond your rage and the pain fight me like you were trained to!"
Akane snarled jumped backwards in a move she had been practicing lately when Ranma wasn't around, and launched off the wall behind her like Ranma did when he rebounded off things, her unfocused aura of rage lending her strength and speed. Amy stood her ground and blocked everything Akane sent at her, every few seconds she would lash out and tag Akane along her body, her face, legs, and back. As the minutes passed and Akane slowed down considerably, she just did not have the endurance she needed for this fight. Amy would then taunt her until her rage came back and it would start all over again. 5 minutes turned into half an hour and by this time Akane was covered in bruises, but she was starting to smile as she realized what Amy was doing to her.
I will not give in, I will win this, Akane chanted in her head as she was tossed around the dojo. Then she did a spinning foot sweep and watched in slow motion as Amy lashed out and hit a number of pressure points along her back, spun over her, landed in a crouch and back handed her across the jaw hard enough to rattle her brains. Akane flew back like a rocket, but instead of panicking like she would usually have done, she watched dispassionately as she thrust her bruised and bleeding arms out and used her Ki to bounce off the floor, to the wall and rebounded back off the ceiling and launched herself toward Amy, both of them glowing with red Ki.
To Ranma they looked like a pair of rage possessed angels trying to kill each other, he glanced to the side and saw that the entire household was there watching the fight. Ranma winced as he realized that he hadn't even known they were there and hoped his old man hadn't noticed. He saw a large mix of emotions on their faces too, in Soun he saw fear and pride as his daughter battled with all her heart, in Nabiki her couldn't see any emotion at all...then he saw a flicker of absolute terror...then it vanished, in Kasumi he saw concern and awe and...envy? Then there was his Oyaji...heh...stealing a snack out of the refrigerator in the kitchen, Ranma made a note to smack the crap out of him later.
"Move Akane, you can do better than this, you aren't even breathing hard! Let your training run your body, don't fight it or force it to respond, your training has already taught your body how to fight. Flow like water, stride like a dragon sure and proud of your strength." Amy did another minor pivot and stabbed Akane a dozen times along her chest, neck, and along her arms, while at the same time Amy had her eyes locked onto Akane's. "Focus beyond the rage Akane! You are not a berserker, you are human and can control yourself, use your rage don't let it control you!" Amy reached out and grabbed Akane's wrists in a flash of speed and delivered a savage kick to her stomach and sent her flying.
Akane growled as she stood back up and glared at her enemy, her hated...enemy. She knew she was past rational thought on the outside, but she could see everything happening seconds before it happened, like she was seeing into the future as she fought. She struggled to get her control back, she would win this, she would survive this beating, the worst one she had taken in years. Her aura was lighting up the entire Dojo with its power and she watched the shadows for a second as she contemplated the next attack. Behind her she could hear her father crying as he watched her berserker fury at full force, she would win.
Amy finally saw what she was looking for in the girl's eyes, her mind was beginning to learn how to focus the massive power of her rage. Of all the emotions to use as a Ki focus, the darker emotions were the ones that caused the most damage, to both sides. The only way that one could use it effectively and stay in control was to learn at the feet of one that could control the rage, shape it, focus it and when that was accomplished they would be reborn from the fires of battle and Amy was one of those people. It wouldn't happen during this battle, or the next, but it would happen and Akane was a quick learner when she put her rage to a proper use. Akane screamed and used her aura to launch herself forward, a ball of pure Rage Ki formed in her hands and she instinctively fired it right at Amy.
To everyone's surprise, Amy stopped and dropped her guard and let the Ki hit her, it exploded and sent Amy flying through the front wall of the Dojo and out into the yard. Everyone watched in surprise as she climbed out of the crater her body had made and calmly walked back into the hall and up to Akane. Akane was frozen in shock, she had tried to kill, to destroy her enemy and had failed. What was she, a god, how could anyone survive a blast like that and survive? Her berserker rage screamed, she growled and charged her enemy with her hands out and curled into claws.
Amy stood there calmly facing Akane as her aura flared up for a few seconds before the blue bracer on her left forearm flared up and a blue aura formed around her in a halo of power, a feeling of peace filled the hall as Amy's new aura expanded out to touch everyone in the hall. Akane slid to a stop and gasped as she felt her emotions being attacked from all sides by the calming influence of the aura, she slid to her knees and didn't react as Amy walked forward and ran her finger along Akane's jaw. Akane's rage vanished completely, she collapsed and then started to glow blue as Amy surrounded the both of them in her new aura. The silence of the hall was shattered as Kasumi gasped and pointed at Akane's bruises and cuts. They were sealing over and fading at a fantastic rate.
Soun gasped. "The Healing Aura, to think that I would live to see such a thing!" He said and burst into happy tears.
Nabiki was just happy her little sister was going to be alright, but was still glaring at the red head she had initially thought was Ranma because of they had the same color hair.
Kasumi was in the kitchen smiling at the panda on the ground in front of the empty refrigerator. The panda belched and groaned as its stomach grumbled at the abuse, well grumbled in satisfaction anyway.
Amy turned to Ranma and scowled at him, "That is how you train a fighter Ranma, you don't dodge everything, by holding back you make the fighter week and sloppy. You have trained for over 10 years now by going all out in your battles, what makes your sparring fights with Akane any different? She is not at your skill level, so you take her on at just beyond what she can take.
You hit her with just enough force to bruise and enough power to knock sense onto one's head. Do you understand? Because of this fight, the pressure points that I touched, and the healing I just did, Akane will be a little sore for a couple of days, but otherwise fine. After that she will have recovered completely, gotten better access to her Ki, and will be able to withstand more damage." Amy lectured.
Ranma hung his head.
"In six months I could have Akane holding her own against you Ranma, she has that much potential. Your 'I won't hit girls attitude' is a weakness Ranma. You do know that don't you?"
"I am not weak!"
"How many times has Akane been kidnapped because she couldn't protect herself from harm Ranma?"
"..."
"That's what I thought. Being unable to protect herself against enemies that give you a challenge is a weakness in you. Now, enough with the pansy crap." Amy stood up with a sigh.
"Ow! Did you have to do that?" Akane growled from the floor, her entire body hurt, clear to the bone.
"Yep, get up and bow so that we can finish our challenge. We will continue with this fight until one of us is can knock the other out, and don't forget what we are fighting for." Amy grinned lecherously.
Akane stood up painfully, but she managed to bow and end the match. "You can already do that..."
"True, but I will train you like this until you can give me a real fight."
With that Amy walked over to her pack and looked over at the one girl she hadn't met yet. "Are you Tendo Nabiki?"
She glared at the tall red head and nodded. "I am."
"Since I'm going to be train Akane for the next little while, do you have a room that I can rent for a couple of weeks."
"We do...but..."
"I said rent and I meant it, here, is this enough for the first week?" Amy tossed the girl a large wad of bills. "That is for the room, any food that I may eat, and the use of the furo."
Nabiki slowly counted the money and realized that she was holding 50,000. She looked at her father and he nodded. "Deal, this much again in a week and it covers room, board, and comforts." With that she turned and left, everyone but Kasumi, who had returned from the kitchen, and Ranma filed out of the room. Amy called out to Akane before she left.
"Akane, we both use our rage to focus our Ki, I am doing this because you are on the verge of going into a killing rage and that must be prevented at all costs. You could kill someone you care about while in that state and I don't want you to go through what I did. I hope you will forgive me for what you will go through over the next few days. Do you agree to my training?"
"Yes...I suppose."
"It is going to be very hard..."
"I don't care."
"Then go and change into your jogging outfit and run your usual rout, you will be doing this 3 times a day for the next few weeks. Your physical strength is on par with Ryoga now a days, but you don't have the endurance to last that long and you need that before our fights go to the next level, then we are going to get more and more brutal until you can control your rage."
"Hai Sensei." Akane bowed and limped out of the Dojo.
"Yes Kasumi-san?"
"Did you have to go so hard on her?"
"Yes I did. I don't know if anyone of you saw, but I was pressing certain pressure points on Akane as we fought. Most of them were the points needed to free up the flow of Ki inside one's own body, others were to dull pain, another set to calm her anger and make her focus even more. You all saw that aura, it was huge and very dangerous, I am skilled enough to be able to negate or lessen the damage done by her Ki blasts, as I demonstrated earlier.
What she let off was actually strong enough to have leveled most of this house, the Dojo, and a good portion of the block. She needs control or she will fall into her berserker state whenever someone makes her even the littlest bit angry." Amy smiles innocently at a shocked Ranma, she bats her eye lids and smirks at him, she knew where to place the blame.
"Alright, so this is partially my fault for pushing her?"
"Actually I would blame who ever has been pushing her buttons for years. Whoever has been making her so angry needs to be stopped or she will lash out at them in ever harder and hard engagements."
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Akane soon left the house and went for a jog. Amy tagged along to see just how far she went and if there was anything along the rout that needed to be changed or increased. Along the way she had Akane jumping up on the walls, vaulting over trash cans, and throwing punches and kicks while she was in the air. This would have been fine normally, but she had just taken the worst beating of her life and was in more than a little pain. Amy just grinned and continued to push her, this was getting fun too. She wondered if there was chance of ever training the girl to defeat Ranma at least once.
A couple miles into the run Amy bounced off a wall, followed by Akane as she panted for air, and landed on the side walk. From there they moved into a fast walk as they turned the corner for the last mile of the jog and used it for a cool down period. "Akane, tell me, what are you looking for in the future?"
"In the future?"
"Yeah, I'm kind of curious."
"I haven't put to much thought into it, go to collage, make friends, learn to cook, and finally learn how to fight." Akane gasped out as she stumbled along, she was on the verge of passing out.
"That's all?"
"Yep, I guess, why?"
"I just thought it would include more I guess."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, one of the things I have always wanted is something that I can not have anymore. A family, a husband or a wife, kids, maybe even be able to be fully happy one day."
A husband or a...Wife!? What is she a Pervert? Akane felt something a little strange and edged away from the girl that was going to be training her in Martial Arts. Was she gay? She really didn't want to deal with another pervert, Ranma was more than enough. These thoughts and several others along those lines occupied Akane's mind as they walked. The several little scenes that flashed in her mind had Akane blushing by the time they finally reached the house.
Luckily Akane was so flushed from running and training that it wasn't as noticeable as it would have been. Amy told Akane to go and soak in the furo for a half hour before supper was ready and to use the muscle relaxing oils that Kasumi had available. As Akane leapt to it, Amy just shook her head and wondered if the girl could be any more unobservant. All that strength and power and the girl had more fatal flaws than a shattered piece of glass, one little hit and she would be taken out.
Amy stepped into the kitchen and smiled at Kasumi as she prepared supper, or what would have been supper if the Panda hadn't eaten everything in the refrigerator. From the looks of things it was going to cheese and crackers for supper, Amy kicked the panda as it lay before the refrigerator. Amy waved "hi" to the moron even as Kasumi turned around in surprise. Genma held up a sign that said *Ignore the cute panda on the floor*
This made Amy just shake her head as she stepped over him and opened up the door that lead to the side of the house, she could just make out a large bush and a part of the wall that ran around the property. "Don't try to move Panda. I kicked a shiatsu point that paralyzed you for a few minutes. Your greedy stomach has caused enough problems for the rest of the family don't you think, you need to go for a walk to get rid off all that stuff you ate. I mean look at the mess you left behind." Amy said as she grinned down at the paralyzed panda.
"Well your in luck Panda, you just earned yourself a one way trip via Amy Lee Airways. Now unlike Akane I don't use a Mallet to do my launching. No, nothing so crude as that. Instead I use this." Amy ran a few steps forward kicked the hairy brute through the door, over the wall, and into the distance. She smiled as he became a small spot on the horizon and disappeared.
"Oh My!" Kasumi said, for once smiling happily. "That wasn't very nice Amy."
"Maybe, but it wasn't why are you smiling like that?" Amy said back with a smirk as Kasumi busied herself with trying to get dinner ready. "Lets see, Cheese and crackers, huh?"
"I'm afraid that is all we have left, Mr. Saotome ate everything else."
"Well you set that out as a snake and call in some take out."
"I'm afraid we don't have the money."
"Sure you do, I just gave Nabiki 50,000 yen for a weeks rent and food. That should be more than enough to order dinner."
"Your right Amy, thank you!" Kasumi said and went to find Nabiki, who was in her room drooling over the aforementioned money.
Amy looked up when she heard Akane and Ranma getting into another fight, down near the bathroom. Had Ranma walked in on her again or something? She wondered to herself as the image of Akane screaming "RANMA NO BAKA!!" and the impact of a body going through a wall filled the air. It took a second to find the bathroom because Amy didn't know the lay out of the Tendo home just yet, but she was just in time to see a female Ranma sliding out of a hole in the wall as Akane stood over her with a large glowing mallet in her hands. Akane had a reddish black aura swirling around her making her hair shift around under its intensity. It was a perfect example of Akane's lack of control.
Kasumi wandered back down stairs with a bit of money in her hands. Amy would have sworn she could hear Nabiki crying as her door closed, but shrugged it off as impossible for the Ice Queen of Furinkan High. Kasumi looked around the corner and noticed the destruction and the prone Ranma. She looked a little sad as the red head groaned and tried to stand up, Akane just raised her mallet again and prepared to pound the 'pervert' back down before he could do anything to her.
"I'm going to go and check on that." Amy said.
"Thank you, I don't have time to go and see how much damage they did this time, but with your training I expect them to happen more often."
"Does that girl really have so little control of herself, how in the world did she survive this long without anyone making an example of her?"
"She has always had a very bad temper, but it has gotten so much worse since Ranma and his father showed up. Ranma just can't seem to help himself and Akane can not forgive him for anything."
"That's to bad, hopefully she is able to learn quickly enough to be able to control that mega temper of hers. My training should help with that, but if she doesn't make an effort on her end of things no amount of training is going to help her."
Amy moved forward just as Ranma stood up and was on the receiving end of another blow with the mallet, this time Ranma gasped as she went flying through a wall and right into the pond. Moving through the path of destruction, Amy wading into the water and grabbed the red head's arm and pulled her out of the pond. A quick blow to the back and Ranma was coughing up the water she had swallowed. She looked to be in pretty bad shape too, but Amy could see the girl's aura flaring around the wounds and healing her body as fast as it could. If anything, at least Ranma had some incredible control of her aura.
This was the aspect of Ranma's life she had never cared for, the constant beatings for something the boy had never done, or the strange conclusions that Akane seemed to jump too because she was incapable of trusting Ranma. Akane did this constantly, and though the beatings did for Ranma, what the Breaking Point did for Ryoga, Amy found it just a little bit hard to believe that anyone who beat another human being like this could feel any love for that person.
Ranma groaned and opened her eyes. They were a little blood shot and dilated. She nearly fainted again as a wave of dizziness washed over her, but controlled the feeling as she saw that Amy Lee was holding her. Ranma blushed as she noticed that her head was in Amy's lap. "Huh?"
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, this happens all the time."
"Why do you let it?"
"What do you mean?"
"As I said earlier, you need to get past your fear of hurting Akane, but that doesn't mean you can't try and dodge her hammer blows or block them."
"You just don't understand..."
"Your right, I don't understand why anyone would put up with her doing that. Its cruel and dangerous behavior, and from what I've seen and heard so far, Akane isn't going to stop hitting you. The beatings are going to just get worse and worse until she finally manages to learn some control over that temper or does something the will actually hurt or cripple you."
"Sheesh...yeah right."
"I can't just make you two be friends Ranma, but I do believe you need to make her confront her rage. Think of her as a loose cannon ready to go off at a moments notice."
"But..."
"I am immortal Ranma, which has given me a lot of experience in certain areas of life. I have watched and participated in more than one relationship over the years Ranma and I can tell that yours is a powder keg just waiting to go off."
"I know, but there is nothing I can do about it."
"There are always decisions to make Ranma. It is just a matter of being man enough to do what is right for all those involved. A little pain here is a lot better than what could happen if Akane manages to kill someone." Amy's looked down and stared Ranma in the eyes, she smiled. "I still think your cute Ranma, but to get involved in your fiancée problems would hurt you and all of your friends. I can give you advice as I would any friend, but it is up to you to use it as you see fit. These choices are yours to make, not for everyone else to make for you, but the longer you wait the worse they will become."
"Ah...well...you see..."
"You don't need to answer them immediately, but some time in the next few months. Now get up and go and apologies to Akane."
"But I didn't do anything wrong..."
"Of that I am agreement, but it doesn't matter, I want her in a good mood tonight. Not pounding you to a pulp a the dinner table."
"Humph."
Amy giggled and pulled Ranma to her feet. "You are just so cute when you do that!"
"Ah...well..." Ranma said with a blush.
Giggle
"C-can I ask you something?"
"Sure, go ahead."
"Did you mean it when you said that my curse didn't bother you?"
"Yes I did, why?"
"I just don't get it, everyone I talk to about it tells me the same thing, and yet they tend to shy away from me when ever I change or might change. You on the other hand, seem to prefer me as a girl and I just don't get it."
Amy blushed and felt herself falling into Ranma's blue eyes, she wasn't sure what to say. "..."
"You are also only the second girl I have ever met who asked to be my friend without trying to become my wife or take me as a trophy."
"I would never take you as a trophy! Maybe something else though..." Amy giggled and punched him in the ribs.
"Everyone, super is here!" Kasumi yelled to everyone in the house as she sat out the take out orders for everyone.
Ranma and Amy made their way inside as Kasumi met them and poured hot water on Ranma and handed him a towel as he changed back into a man. As the rest of the family trickled in, Amy noted that Ranma took Akane aside and quietly apologized to her. Akane smiled and nearly blinded everyone in the room, and then proceeded to pound the crap out of him, screaming curses.
Amy watched horrified and found herself in motion before she could decide on a course of action. Even as Ranma's head was slammed through the floor boards, Amy's fist was slamming into Akane's jaw and knocking her cold. As Akane collapsed, Amy looked around and noticed that no one seemed to even be paying attention.
"Are you alright Amy?" Kasumi asked as she knelt down beside her with a wet wash cloth."
"Kasumi, what is wrong with Akane? I asked Ranma to apologies to her for making her angry and she does this? Doesn't she care about him at all?"
"Yes she does, but she doesn't know how to express her feelings with out admitting she is less than she is. I think she also has a mind disease called 'Rage Disorder', but the only way to prove it would be to take her to a doctor and she is too prideful to admit she has a problem." Kasumi whispered.
Amy sighed. There were countless dimensions where Akane killed Ranma, either with her cooking or the Mallet. She had been here maybe 2 days and already she had to deal with a situation like this. She wasn't very good at them either, she was a warrior and proud of it, not a relation ship expert. She had no experience with resolving matters of the heart. Sure she could talk a good story, but she had failed more times than she cared to admit when it came to the real thing. Now Ranma needed her, somebody and she was at a loss for what to do. How could Akane pound him for following her advice?
Oh yeah, if Ranma even has the vaguest hint of another girl chasing after him Akane was known to go ballistic, could this be because she had helped Ranma out of the pond so he wouldn't drown? Everything was his fault according to Akane's way of thinking and that meant that Ranma would get pounded almost daily. Amy remembered that Akane's way of thinking was almost identical to Ryoga's except that the girl was supposed to actually care for Ranma. So far Amy hadn't seen any sign of that.
"What should I do Kasumi? I'm out of my element here. I was trying to help out and this is the result?"
"Don't take it too hard, both Nabiki and I have tried to help Akane out, but nothing has ever worked."
Amy shook her head and stood up with Ranma's limp body in her arms and dragged him back to the dinner table. She figured that if anything would wake him up it would be food. The rest of the family ignored them as Amy slowly got Ranma to wake up, there was a bit of blood dripping off his lip a rather large bruise forming on the side of his head. The only person that noticed was Nabiki and she was giving her little sister a weird look. Kasumi smiled as Ranma came to and handed him and ice pack for his head as she began to distribute the food.
Still, it was pretty obvious to both Amy and Kasumi that Ranma was running on autopilot, his eyes were slightly out of focus and the fact that she was gnawing on a dish rag, again, showed just how out of it she really was. Amy had to suppress a giggle as she watched the glazed look on his face as he tried to figure out why he couldn't bite through the dish rag. Amy wondered if she should bother to call Dr. Tofu for this kind of thing. She knew that Ranma had easily survived things like this before so wasn't' all that worried, but the amount of damage he had suffered was pretty extensive.
After supper Amy had helped Ranma up the stairs to his bedroom and lay him out on his futon. The oddest thing about the situation was that both Genma and Soun seemed completely oblivious to her even when she was in the same room as Ranma. Even after Amy had decked Akane into unconsciousness they had barely noticed, she thought his was a bit odd but didn't think about it to much until she remembered that Akane's father was known to break into tears at the slightest hint of danger to his daughter. At the very least Amy had expected to witness the fabled Demon Head technique that was reputed to be able to freeze one's Ki and make them completely immobile.
Instead Amy had experienced nothing, nothing of any kind whatsoever, not even a glare or a worried glance. This worried Amy more than anything else because it meant that Soun had something on his mind that was more important than his own children, at least in Amy's opinion. After getting Ranma settled in for the night and resisting the urge to feel the boy up, Amy headed downstairs to see what was going on.
"Kasumi?"
"Yes, Amy?"
"I'm going to go for a walk."
"OK."
A preoccupied Amy waved goodbye to her friend and headed out the front door, she had a lot of things to think about. There was something wrong, she could feel it in the air around her and her senses were trying to warn her of something. She was only gone for a few minutes when Ranma came stumbling downstairs still holding her head and headed directly for the furo. Kasumi decided to not tell anyone so that Ranma could get some time to relax and calm down, his day had been quite hectic. More so than normal.
Amy returned about 20 minutes later and found Ranma sitting on the couch with Akane's head in her lap. Even after all this time the girl still hadn't woken up and Amy wondered if she had hit the girl harder than she thought. Akane has a rather large bruise on the side of her face to match the one on Ranma. He was currently giving her a weird look as she made her way across the front room.
"Amy?"
"What's up Ranma?"
"Kasumi said as they you punched Akane after she hit me with her mallet?"
Amy sighed, sadly. "Yes I did, she deserved it for what she did to you."
"I can handle my own problems Amy."
"Ranma, she used a weapon to slam your head through the floor boards. I've have never seen anything as cruel as that perpetrated against someone, someone that actually seems to care about them and I had to do something to stop her or you would have been seriously hurt."
"Still..."
"My reaction was almost instinctual, Ranma. I didn't even think about before I did it, my training has sometimes made me react before I even have time to think about it. You were in danger and I didn't even think about it, you were hit and the next thing I know is that Akane is on the ground. I do apologize for my actions though"
"You hurt Akane..."
Amy smiled sadly and shook her head, "I'm sorry Ranma, but, I do not mean I'm sorry for hitting Akane, she deserved that. I am sorry for asking you to apologize to her in the first place, I was trying to help you out and only made it worse. I would never have asked that of you if I had known what her reaction would be, I still can't believe she pounded you for doing that. It was completely uncalled for."
Ranma nodded, him and Akane may have called off the engagement with each other, but he wasn't about to let such a thing go unpunished either. He stood up and looked at Akane sadly for several seconds before motioning for her to head outside. Amy was a bit amazed that
Ranma would do such a thing, this was side of Ranma she had never seen or heard of from anybody. Even though he was no longer engaged to the girl he was still protecting her honor, something Amy thought the youngest Tendo had none of.
Ranma took up a stance and motioned for Amy to do the same, he didn't want to do this, but Akane hadn't deserved what Amy did. At least in his opinion, she hit him all the time and never had to pay for it, why should she start now? Soon the sounds of the battle filled the air as the two warriors tore into each other. As young as Ranma was, he still understood when he had to protect his ex-fiancée's honor. The rest of the family watched in mild surprise and happily placed bets on who would win and how fast, Nabiki always knew how to turn the situation to her advantage, no matter how small it was.
It was several minutes into the fight when Akane finally regained consciousness and sat up to see what was going on. Kasumi came out of the kitchen and handed her little sister the same ice pack Ranma had used earlier, smiled, and quickly disappeared. Akane's memory of what happened was a bit fuzzy, but it quickly returned and she felt a series of conflict he emotions.
She felt the usual anger as always towards Ranma that had become the norm for her life, but she felt nothing but a mixture of confusion and blind rage at Amy for what she had done. Of course that tiny little voice in the back of her mind that tried to remind her that she may have deserved what she got, but it was quickly ground out of existence and the proper perception of reality was reinstated. It was Ranma's fault, the pervert.
Akane knew that she could not beat Amy and a fair fight, but the girl was also willing to train her to be an even better fighter than what she is now. Yet the girl was willing to train her for some reason, Akane just didn't understand what the red head was thinking. Standing up she staggered out the back door onto the porch and watched as Ranma and Amy fought each other. They were bouncing all over the back yard, every few seconds they would connect with each other the hands and feet would fly.
"Baka's, the two of them!" Akane snarled.
"Calm down Akane, she hit you because you put Ranma's head through the floor boards." Nabiki said and pointed the hole in the floor.
"Buzz off Nabiki, she hit me!"
"Grow up Akane, for once I think the punishment was justified. You treat Ranma worse than you do your own enemies."
"How can you say that?"
Nabiki doesn't say anything, but spends several seconds pointing out all the places in the room that had been repaired for one reason or another, most of which was when Akane had decided to punish Ranma. Akane had the decency to look a little embarrassed for what she had done, but quickly forgot about it and placed the blame on Ranma. If he wouldn't insult her and make her made she wouldn't have to punish him. So Akane just folded her arms and pouted, refusing to anything else about the problem.
Nabiki and Kasumi were a bit disappointed in her, but not really surprised. Her past actions were telling enough. Then Akane stood up and summoned her mallet and ran out into the fight, her aura blazing bright.
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Sailor Mercury was hiding in the shadows across from the Tendo Dojo, she had tracked that red haired girl to this house after she had flown off from the mall incident. She was confused about this girl that Mars and Mask were saying needed to be killed, and it was beginning to show among her team mates. She still got a laugh when she remembered finding Mask tied up on the room in his underwear, he had been almost frothing at the mouth mad too.
On two occasions now the girl had been at the scene of a Youma attack and helped out with the fight or killed the Youma outright while protecting innocents. These were not the actions of a killer and Sailor Moon agreed with her findings as well. The red head had saved Moon's life after all, and yet Mars seemed so adamant about the girl's guilt. Mercury didn't know who to believe really, they both had good reasons for thinking they way they did.
Mars had explained that she had watched as the great fire showed her as this girl killed each and everyone of them in a slow and gruesome manner. The descriptions had been very... graphic, to say the least. Mercury's frustrations were growing too, she wanted to lash out and break something because the clues were just not adding up! Other than that threat she
had issued to them a few days ago in the alley, Mercury was pretty sure that they had only seen the barest fraction of this girl's true power.
Currently she was watching her target and some boy (perhaps a relative?) in the back yard fighting each other. It looked like they were trying to kill each other too. She had never seen anything like it before. They were moving faster than normal eyes could see, jumping 20 to 30ft straight up and fighting at the same time. He computer said they were not using magic in anyway, instead it was picking up gigantic amounts of life force energy being used in the most efficient manner she had ever seen. Even weirder was that they were being watched by several girls, an older man with long hair, and a...Panda? of all things. Every now and then she would say something to the panda and it would hold up a sign with...words written on it.
Mercury had also noticed that on more than one occasion in the last half hour either of the fighters would slam the other into the ground hard enough to throw up a small cloud of dust, only to walk out and yell at the other one and tell them what they did wrong and critique whatever it was they did when they tried to kill each other. She was glad that her Mercury computer was recording this, it would give them something to watch and study. Mercury was also glad that the Dark Kingdom had been defeated a few years ago, the energy being used was a pure form of what they had been collecting.
The red head rebounded of the room and did a spin in mid air to hit the boy, sending him flying back. He used his hands to bounce off the ground and toss some dirt into the girl's face and kick he in the stomach. Mercury could tell there was some power behind the kick, but not enough to really hurt the girl though. The red head landed for a sec and waited for the boy to land, then launched herself at him to exchange a few blows and kicks. Mercury had heard of martial arts, Haruka and Makoto used it, but she had never seen it used on this level before. It was an absolutely fascinating thing to watch, almost like a ballet in some ways.
Beep...beep...beep...
Mercury tapped her earlobe and activated her visor, she had hooked it up to her wrist communicator so that she could talk while transformed and didn't have to depend on the inefficient watch device. "Mercury here."
"Mercury, have you found her?" Asked Venus.
"Yes I have, in Nerima, at a training Dojo run my the Tendo family."
"What about the girl?"
"She is currently sparring with some guy. They are the finest Martial Artist I have ever seen. My readings say they are using their own life force energy to increase their speed, strength, and probably several other things as well."
"What are our chances of taking her?"
"Very slim, if not impossible, as she is now proving to be a better fighter than all of scouts put together, even Haruka wouldn't be able to stop her in a straight out fight."
"That's impossible...what she did..."
"When she killed the first Youma she was using her life force energy and a mix of magical energy she gathered out of the air, the stuff left over from out own magic blasts. The Youma in the mall was taken out with only her life force energy and no magic. Who ever she is she seems to be able to call on several forms of energy."
"What's your opinion on her?"
"Most of our enemies seem to use one dominate form of energy or magic and consider it all powerful enough to handle anything. This girl is beyond my understanding I'm afraid, I do know one thing though. She is not evil."
"B-b-b-b-but s-she threatened us!"
"If I had just saved someone and then got shot in the back for it, I would be a little peeved myself." Mercury stated.
Mercury glanced over at the yard again and winced, one of the other girls had jumped into the fight. She had short hair and the other two seed to be showing her how to do some martial arts moves that were being used earlier, it was being demonstrated by the other two fighters. This third girl wasn't as good as the other two, but her computer was showing that she too possessed allot of power, much of it unfocused.
"What's wrong?" Sailor Moon asked as she entered the conversation.
"There is another girl in the yard being, I think, trained how to fight like the other two. She is at, according to the computer, a little over half as strong as our non super Sailor forms and with her martial arts training she would be able to hold her own against us if she wanted to."
"Mercury, Luna wants to know if you think any of these girls will be coming after us."
"I don't know, the one we attacked is a wild card and I think we should keep our eyes open. Luckily she doesn't know us in our civilian identities and we will be able to stay safe that way."
"Do you think you could contact her Mercury? I want to apologies to her and see if we can settle this."
"I'm not to sure Sailor Moon, she seems to be calm one minute and in a barely controlled rage the next, she is so hard to read. She scares the hell out of me and I know I wouldn't stand a chance against her if she attacked me."
"Please try and contact her Mercury, please, I think she will at least listen to you."
"Hai."
"We should have a meeting over this according to Luna, so let's meet at the temple tomorrow."
"Hai."
Mercury waits until everyone signs off before she turns off her communicator and turns off her visor before she looks back at the Tendo yard. She immediately notices that the dark haired boy and the third girl are still sparing lightly, but her target is missing. She looks around and starts to get a very bad feeling, where in the world could she be? Has she gone into the house for some reason? Standing slowly Mercury turns around and looks right into the eyes of Amy Lee, who is standing less than a foot away from her. Mercury lets out an...Eeep!... and falls on her ass in shock.
Amy smirks and kneels down and blatantly lets her eyes roam over every inch of the girl's body, from her blue pumps to the tips of her blue hair. She was in her Scout Fuku so was currently looking very good to Amy. She especially noticed her great legs and white body suit that made up her panties. "Nice panties, cute stuff." Amy drawled.
Mercury turned a solid red and tried to pull her skirt down, but Amy's eyes continued to bore through her soul. Mercury, whose real name she couldn't remember. Quickly stands up looking like an embarrassed little girl trying to pull her skirt down. Amy grins and waits until she composes herself before standing up as well.
She pays close attention to the girl's face and marvels at the magical field that surrounds the Scouts and protects their identities, she can see the girl's features perfectly, and yet recognition seems to be brushed aside as if she wasn't there. She smiles and mentally undresses the poor girl as she waits.
"Um...ah...I'm Sailor Mercury...a-and..." Sailor Mercury stammers out.
"Ah, one of the girls that tried to kill me." Amy gracefully cocks her head to the side, she had been thinking about what to do to the other scouts for trying to kill her like they did. This little display was giving her some really nasty ideas to play with, it would be the perfect revenge and no one would get hurt. Lets play this to the hilt, maybe one of them will even respond and I won't have to control my natural tendencies any more.
Stepping forward Amy raised her hand and used her fingers to run a finger up Mercury's stomach, between her breasts and around the bow, up her neck and under her chin and to her face so that they could look at each other. Mercury was trembling in her hands and Amy nearly stopped as she realized it was with terror, instead of lust like she was feeling. Leaning in close, Amy brought her face with in millimeters of Mercury's and gazed into her eyes lustfully. The two pools of sapphire blue eyes tripled in size as Amy's intention became clear.
"You and the Scouts tried to kill me the other day Sailor Mercury, that made me very angry, and yet as I calmed down I did some thinking and I have decided to punish you in a non violent way." Amy whispered lustfully, saying the word punish as if it was the most perverted idea
in history.
Mercury was frozen, her entire body had been readying itself for a fight, then this red head had touched her and her body had responded in a way she hadn't anticipated, she had nearly collapsed as her terror of this girl had done a complete 180. She had leaned in close and stared right into her eyes and she saw something that made her blood boil, she had never felt like this! About anyone!
Then she had whispered those words to her and knees went weak as the warm air caressed cheek. Then the most amazing thing happened, she was kissed by another girl and her body responded, her knees buckled and she was caught and held in the girls arms so that she could continue the kiss. Her fingers moved around her body and caressed her back, her thighs (SIGH!), her breasts and ass in the most loving manner she had ever experienced, she moaned loudly and fainted as a surge of ecstasy engulfed her entire being...
Amy continued the kiss as Mercury's body rushed through her pressure point induced orgasm, she had used them to make her body do it to herself and the girl didn't have a clue. Her own arousal was hard to ignore as it mixed with the thrill of what she had done to the most innocent Sailor Scout of the team. She wanted to continue, but decided that it would not be a good idea right now, she would get her in time. Amy smiled as she laid the girl out on the sidewalk, reached into her subspace pocket and pulled out a note pad. She scribbled a quick note and bounded off, quickly disappearing back into the Tendo Dojo.
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To Be Continued...