Night After the
Carnival
Part 10
The Odyssey, the great Greek flagship loomed over the planet of Jurai.
The high priest watched over the monitor in front of him.
"Your greatness."
He turned and bowed.
"Your warriors are ready to serve."
D3 surveyed the screen before him.
" Shall I send them to the palace?"
"No."
D3 stood up.
"Send them to the city, seek out all who appose us and deal with them."
Power flowed around him.
Over his body formed the golden Greek armor of the god.
"I will deal with the Queens myself."
His body became transparent and soon disappeared.
Tenchi found himself being slowly drawn to Ayeka.
"Ut-umm."
Tenchi blinked twice.
His mind becoming aware of what he was about to do.
He sprang back from the Princess.
" I wasn't interrupting anything was I?"
Washu asked eyeing to two closely.
Tenchi's hand went straight to the back of his head.
"Ummm no you wasn't, we were just talking."
He said nervously.
"That didn't look like talking to me."
Washu remarked.
" Anyway come on you to I have heard some very disturbing news."
She finished.
She led them into the living room where the others had gathered.
The T.V. was on.
"There have been confirmed reports that the Greeks have attacked the planet of Jurai."
The newscaster was reporting.
"The Jurain Fleet was unsuccessful in stopping the power of the Greeks."
Sasami looked over pleadingly at her sister.
" Ayeka what about mom and auntie Funaho?"
Her Ruby eyes starting to water.
"I don't know Sasami"
She stared at the T.V.
"They can use the Jurai power but the Greeks have proven they are very strong."
" Our enemies are powerful indeed."
Commented Yosho.
"In other news the galaxy police was attacked by an unknown assailant."
The screen showed the massive amount of damage that the floating police station had taken.
" Washu look at that."
Kiyone said shocked.
Washu had caught exactly what Kiyone had seen.
"Those power signatures look awfully familiar."
"It is also known that this person has also captured the grand marshal."
The newsperson finished.
" His whereabouts are still not known at this time."
"OH NO!" Mihoshi jumped up from her chair.
"Grandfather."
She began to cry.
Z reached out.
Putting his hand on her shoulder trying to comfort the now bawling officer.
Mihoshi turned to the knight.
Throwing her arms around him she sobbed into his chest.
At first Z was completely off guard.
But he soon recovered. " It will be ok Miss Mihoshi."
He gently stroked her golden blonde hair.
" Really?"
she sobbed her voice muffled by his chest.
"The Marshal is a strong man I am sure that he will do what ever it takes to survive."
Mihoshi stood up letting Z go.
"You are right."
She sniffled.
" I must get ready I have to save him."
Yosho reached out stopping her.
" You will not have to."
He too was studying a form of power out there, one that was different then the one Kiyone had saw.
" He will come to us."
D3 found himself standing along the great hallway of the palace.
The sides where lined with statues of great hero's of the planet.
Great arcs of lightning shot from his hands.
The statues exploded before him.
The arcs going from one statue to the next until there was nothing left but shards of marble and dusting smoke.
When the smoke settled he was surprised to see that one statue still remained.
It was at the far end of the hall, it was the only one that was placed in the center instead of the side like the others.
He walked up closer to it.
At the base there was a plaque that read
: Jurai's greatest hero:
. He reached out putting his massive hand around the head of the statue.
" Not for much longer Yosho."
His eyes flared.
Shards of marble shot from around his hand as he crushed it.
Masaki and Funaho where standing side by side in the grand meeting room.
Against the best efforts of the council they had refused to leave.
Outside they could hear the explosions.
D3 pushed open the doors to the grand meeting room.
Inside he saw two women standing in front of him.
They both had their hands clasped in front of them.
Their heads down so that their faces where hidden from view.
" Queens of Jurai I am here to accept your complete surrender."
D3 commanded.
Both Queens shot their heads up the look of death in their eyes.
Masaki released her hands.
Around her wrist was the ornamentally carved wood of her Jurain tree.
The wood extended over the back of her hand stopping just at the end of her first knuckles.
Her power glowed around the wood as four lazer claws materialized from her right hand then from her left.
Behind D3 the meeting room door burst open and several of the gods soldiers rushed in.
They had barely enough time to get in when Masaki was upon them.
The sound of her power searing thru flesh as she torn thru their ranks.
One of the soldiers managed to get behind her.
He raised his broadsword over his head to strike the killing blow.
But the Queen was not fooled;
the soldier fell away his arm severed in four neat little pieces.
D3 knew that his men where no match for the power of the queens.
But they would serve as a good distraction.
He saw his chance,,
he fired a bolt of power at the now prone Queen .
There was a large explosion as the bolt of energy arched around her but never touching her.
D3 raised one eyebrow as he looked over at Funaho.
The Queen had not moved since the start of the fight.
In her right hand was a exact copy of the Tenchi-kin, around it glowed an aura of power.
She had not used this ancient blade since she had trained her son with it.
She remembered that she had come to him one evening after dinner.
She was going to tell him something very important about the twin keys.
But she never got to.
The Space pirate Ryoko had attacked the palace.
Her son, Yosho had left his home to drive off the demon.
She had known that he was not going to return.
She had seen his torment at the burden of being the son of an earthling.
A bastard prince.
"So then you will not surrender."
D3 said stepping over his now dead soldiers.
The ones that managed to stay alive closed in behind him.
" Then taste the pain of my lightening whip."
A massive length of power lashed out at Masaki.
She crossed her laser claws in front of her deflecting the blow.
But the force of the attack knocked her back.
A globe of power engulfed her, saving her from being smashed into the wall behind her.
The blade formed from Funaho's key.
She charged the god.
D3 lashed out again with the whip.
Funaho knocked it away easily with the power of her sword.
The blade burned thru his flesh.
D3 felt a deep burning across his chest.
Several of the surviving soldiers rushed her.
Two fell to her blade until her waist was wrapped up by D3's lightening whip.
Funaho screamed out as she dropped her master key.
Every nerve ending in her body was on fire.
Her body crashed to the floor, still smoldering from the attack.
Yosho her mind cried out as blackness over took her.
Again D3 felt that burning sensation.
He looked down at four laser claws were sticking out from his stomach.
Behind him Masaki stood, her fist against the lower back of the god.
" This is for my husband and my sister."
She said raising up her other claw to the middle of his back.
" And this is for Me." she drove the claws thru.
D3 through his head back to let out a scream, But instead laughed out.
"You have forgotten something Queen of Jurai."
He reached up and took a hold of the claws sticking out of his chest then the ones in his stomach.
" You can not kill a god."
Lengths of lightening Danced over his body.
The claws disappeared as the power flowed over Masaki.
Her scream echoed thru out the palace.
"You are awake."
Washu said seeing Nobiyuki's eyes slowly opening.
" How do you feel?"
She asked.
"Like I have drunk way to much sake."
He answered reaching up to try and stop the pounding going on inside his head.
"Washu what happened to me?"
She hopped off her floating pillow, coming to stand beside his bed.
" I was hoping you could tell me."
She replied.
Nobiyuki searched thru his slowly calming mind.
"I am not sure.
I was walking through the ship when I was hit by some kind of blackness."
He tried to sit up but the sickening feeling in his stomach wouldn't let him.
Washu saw his discomfort
" Don't try to do to much to so ok you still need your rest."
She gently but firmly pushed him back down on the bed.
"Finish." She instructed him.
He took a moment to catch his breath and let the feeling settle down some.
" At first I thought my head was going to explode then I began to see things."
He eyes began to stare off into the depths of her lab.
" Things I have never seen before."
" What kind of things?"
she pressed him.
" I don't know as soon as my work was finished they left me."
He stopped for a minute.
"My work!"
He jumped up putting the feeling in his stomach out of his mind.
Yosho was sitting alone under the great tree of Tsunami.
He had come here to clear his mind.
He knew that there was going to be very dark times to come for all of them.
Deep inside his soul he heard her cry out.
"..........Mother."
Inside the Masaki house Ayeka was sitting on the couch working on her needlepoint.
Ryoko was napping on her favorite spot above the living room.
Mihoshi, Z, and Sasami where sitting around the table listening to Mihoshi telling about one of her many cases.
Kiyone having heard them a million times had elected to loose herself into the T.V., Ryo-oki sitting next to her.
Upstairs in his room was Tenchi.
He was trying to keep his mind on his studies but found that it was nearly impossible with everything going on.
I am going to be so far behind when I get back to earth it won't be funny.
He thought.
But that didn't seem so important anymore.
It was becoming such a small thing when compared to what was going on now.
Then again as it had done so many times before his mind was on the girls.
What was he going to do his plan had not been able to happen and at the rate things kept coming up he didn't think now that it ever would.
" I have go tot talk to somebody about this."
He thought.
"But who."
Grandpa would just give him some kind of answer that he knew he wouldn't understand.
He was afraid of what his dad would say knowing it would surely be indecent.
Asking any of the girls was out of the question.
So that left only Z.
Well then with his mind made up when got up to go and find him.
Ayeka looked up from her work to see Tenchi coming down the stairs.
At that same second the front door slid open causing the others to look up from what they where doing.
And in that same second the door to the lab opened up and Washu stepped out.
"Tenchi."
Yosho said coming into the living room.
" Yes grandpa what is it?"
he answered coming the rest of the way down the stairs.
" Do you have the sword?"
Tenchi was surprised.
" Umm yes I have it."
He brought out the Tenchi-kin.
"Give it to me."
Yosho told him reaching out to take the sword.
Tenchi handed it over
"why grandpa?"
he asked.
The others where as curious as he was about this unexpected request. " We have to get to Jurai now."
He turned to face the rest of the group.
He carefully looked over each one of them.
He studied the concerned looks of each one.
"Sasami I will need your help please."
" Yes Grandpa."
She got up and followed him out of the front door, the others on their heels.
They soon found themselves standing in front of the central tree of Tsunami.
" Something bad has happened on Jurai hasn't it?"
Washu asked knowingly.
Yosho stopped in front of the tree.
" The fleet has failed."
He said not turning around.
"Jurai is lost."
"What!"
Ayeka said shocked.
" That can not be!
We are the most powerful family in the universe."
The silence hung thick in the air.
"What about our mothers."
Sasami asked her voice barely above a whisper.
Yosho hung his head.
"But if we rush in will we not also be destroyed?"
Z asked.
" Will Tsunami be powerful enough to take on the whole Greek fleet?
She is just one ship."
Kiyone put in.
"By herself no."
Washu answered.
"Then what do we do?"
Tenchi looked to her.
" Well."
She smiled.
"You can thank your father for that answer."
She drew blank looks from the others.
" Remember this."
She took out the drawing the Nobiyuki had been holding when they found him.
"But the fleet has no ship that looks like that one."
Ayeka said.
" That is right miss Ayeka.
That is because it hasn't been born yet."
" if that is so then how is it going to help us?"
Ayeka said growing impatient.
"How did dad do this?"
Tenchi cut in.
" I am glad you asked that Tenchi."
Washu beamed getting the chance to display her great knowledge.
" That day when we where attacked by that unknown power source.
It reacted to his human DNA.
He was able to look into the future for a short time.
What he saw scared him."
She looked down for a moment.
" We did not fare well."
"Fare well?"
Mihoshi asked not getting Washu's meaning.
"We where killed."
She said flatly.
Mihoshi's blue eyes went wide.
" But I don't want to die."
She said beginning to cry.
"It will be ok Miss Mihoshi as long as we are together everything will be fine."
Z said trying to comfort her.
" Really?"
she asked looking hopefully at him.
" Yes."
He answered smiling warmly at her.
"Z is right."
Washu added.
" Assuming that because of his training in drafting he came up with this.
She pointed to the picture.
" Can he still the future?"
Kiyone asked.
" No the power was to great for his human mind to handle for very long.
So to keep from completely being destroyed his mind shut down for a time."
" so then how do we get this ship?"
Ryoko cut in.
Washu looked directly at Sasami.
For several seconds Sasami and Washu stared at each other.
Sasami turned from the Genius and placed her hand gently on the sword in Yosho's hand.
He released it to her.
Sasami hugged the sword to her breast.
The symbol on her forehead began to glow.
The sword responded with a glow of it's own.
The little princess began to float up from the ground, her power glittering around her.
" By the royal seal and my true name.
From heaven to the ocean..
Ocean to the earth.
and earth back to heaven.
show me the path engraved by the light."
A blinding white light erupted from the trunk of the great tree. Sasami's body shimmered into nothingness and disappeared into the tree.
Inside the tree stood the goddess Tsunami.
Before her floated the image of the drawing.
She smiled, as she looked it over.
The image faded away as she closed her eyes.
The symbol on her forehead began to glow.
She raised her arms out over her head.
The tree behind her glowed, sending small beams of light down to the water below.
The beams hit the surface of the water and were reflected over the hull of the ship.
Back where the others stood, those trees to started to glow one after the other.
Each one sending its beams of light along the ship.
A calm came over the whole ship, the wooden structures began to give off a warming blue glow.
Inside the ship nothing could be seen as being much different.
" What is happening?"
Ayeka asked looking around for some sign of the change.
Washu stepped up bringing a holo screen to life.
It showed a view of the outside of the great ship.
The blue glow had totally encompassed the ship.
" Oh my how beautiful"
Mihoshi said in awe.
The outer hull of the ship was moving and flowing into another form.
" Metabolic transformation."
Washu replied her eyes dancing with excitement.
She took note of the two most profound changes.
One was the addition of two very long wooden shafts on the front of the ship.
The wood had twisted itself until it formed pointed ends.
And the other was the slender frame of what looked like wings to her.
Back deep inside of the ship Tsunami smiled, her work was done.
She lowered her hands bringing them to her chest.
She lowered her head and closed her eyes.
Soon her image shimmered into nothingness.
The central tree began to shimmer with a bright white light.
Inside the light was the small image of Sasami.
Tenchi stepped forwards as the small princess fell forward into his arms.
" Take her to her room Tenchi she needs to rest."
Yosho instructed him.
He nodded his understanding.
He lifted her up in his arms and headed back to the house.
" Everyone else get ready we will be at the planet Jurai in about two hours."
Yosho said turning away from the rest of the group and walking in the way Tenchi had gone.
Kiyone and Mihoshi soon followed with Ayeka close behind.
Ryoko lifted off the ground she too was going to go back to the house.
"Ryoko."
She heard in her mind.
She shot a look down to her mother.
" I want you to come to my lab in a little while I have something I need to talk to you about."
Washu finished.
At first Ryoko was irritated at this intrusion into her mind again by Washu but she over looked when she saw the look in Washu's eyes.
Ryoko phased out not answering her.
Washu to started to leave when she saw that Z was still standing there facing the Royal Tree.
She thought for a moment then walked over to stand beside him.
" What is it?"
She asked.
Z did not answer instead he just looked down and slightly away from her.
" It is nothing really."
He finally answered.
"Z."
she smiled.
" Do not lie. you are not good at it."
Z jumped he quickly looked over at her.
" Have you so easily forgotten?"
she tapped her forehead.
"Oh."
Was all he said remembering that he to was linked with her.
" It is ok to be afraid even for a former Jurain knight."
She saw his shoulders slump
" I am not afraid of what we are about to face."
He said his voice very solemn.
"What if I can't protect her?"
Washu had not expected that, she could feel his fear but she didn't know what had caused it until now.
"You have seen the same things that I have seen on the T.V. and through the transmissions that the galaxy police have sent to miss Mihoshi and Miss Kiyone.
There is a great evil power out there and we are heading straight for it.
The Queens are among the most powerful of the Royal Family.
Yet lord Yosho knows they have been defeated and are in great pain if not even dead by now.
So what hope do I have?
My power is nothing compared to theirs."
Washu looked down as small tears crashed on the ground in front of Z.
" I will fail and lady Ryoko will pay for my failure."
He dropped to his knees no longer able to stand any more.
Washu went to him.
She lowered herself wrapping her arms around him.
"Oh Z."
she whispered.
Well so we come to another ending chapter is it getting too much for you yet??? Stay in your seats folks cause it is about to explode secrets are about to be reviled and the Tenchi crew is about to face one of their biggest challenges yet. So till chapter 11 good reading and as always any comments will be well received. And promptly answered. All emails to be sent to animal20200@hotmail.com
Part 10
The Odyssey, the great Greek flagship loomed over the planet of Jurai.
The high priest watched over the monitor in front of him.
"Your greatness."
He turned and bowed.
"Your warriors are ready to serve."
D3 surveyed the screen before him.
" Shall I send them to the palace?"
"No."
D3 stood up.
"Send them to the city, seek out all who appose us and deal with them."
Power flowed around him.
Over his body formed the golden Greek armor of the god.
"I will deal with the Queens myself."
His body became transparent and soon disappeared.
Tenchi found himself being slowly drawn to Ayeka.
"Ut-umm."
Tenchi blinked twice.
His mind becoming aware of what he was about to do.
He sprang back from the Princess.
" I wasn't interrupting anything was I?"
Washu asked eyeing to two closely.
Tenchi's hand went straight to the back of his head.
"Ummm no you wasn't, we were just talking."
He said nervously.
"That didn't look like talking to me."
Washu remarked.
" Anyway come on you to I have heard some very disturbing news."
She finished.
She led them into the living room where the others had gathered.
The T.V. was on.
"There have been confirmed reports that the Greeks have attacked the planet of Jurai."
The newscaster was reporting.
"The Jurain Fleet was unsuccessful in stopping the power of the Greeks."
Sasami looked over pleadingly at her sister.
" Ayeka what about mom and auntie Funaho?"
Her Ruby eyes starting to water.
"I don't know Sasami"
She stared at the T.V.
"They can use the Jurai power but the Greeks have proven they are very strong."
" Our enemies are powerful indeed."
Commented Yosho.
"In other news the galaxy police was attacked by an unknown assailant."
The screen showed the massive amount of damage that the floating police station had taken.
" Washu look at that."
Kiyone said shocked.
Washu had caught exactly what Kiyone had seen.
"Those power signatures look awfully familiar."
"It is also known that this person has also captured the grand marshal."
The newsperson finished.
" His whereabouts are still not known at this time."
"OH NO!" Mihoshi jumped up from her chair.
"Grandfather."
She began to cry.
Z reached out.
Putting his hand on her shoulder trying to comfort the now bawling officer.
Mihoshi turned to the knight.
Throwing her arms around him she sobbed into his chest.
At first Z was completely off guard.
But he soon recovered. " It will be ok Miss Mihoshi."
He gently stroked her golden blonde hair.
" Really?"
she sobbed her voice muffled by his chest.
"The Marshal is a strong man I am sure that he will do what ever it takes to survive."
Mihoshi stood up letting Z go.
"You are right."
She sniffled.
" I must get ready I have to save him."
Yosho reached out stopping her.
" You will not have to."
He too was studying a form of power out there, one that was different then the one Kiyone had saw.
" He will come to us."
D3 found himself standing along the great hallway of the palace.
The sides where lined with statues of great hero's of the planet.
Great arcs of lightning shot from his hands.
The statues exploded before him.
The arcs going from one statue to the next until there was nothing left but shards of marble and dusting smoke.
When the smoke settled he was surprised to see that one statue still remained.
It was at the far end of the hall, it was the only one that was placed in the center instead of the side like the others.
He walked up closer to it.
At the base there was a plaque that read
: Jurai's greatest hero:
. He reached out putting his massive hand around the head of the statue.
" Not for much longer Yosho."
His eyes flared.
Shards of marble shot from around his hand as he crushed it.
Masaki and Funaho where standing side by side in the grand meeting room.
Against the best efforts of the council they had refused to leave.
Outside they could hear the explosions.
D3 pushed open the doors to the grand meeting room.
Inside he saw two women standing in front of him.
They both had their hands clasped in front of them.
Their heads down so that their faces where hidden from view.
" Queens of Jurai I am here to accept your complete surrender."
D3 commanded.
Both Queens shot their heads up the look of death in their eyes.
Masaki released her hands.
Around her wrist was the ornamentally carved wood of her Jurain tree.
The wood extended over the back of her hand stopping just at the end of her first knuckles.
Her power glowed around the wood as four lazer claws materialized from her right hand then from her left.
Behind D3 the meeting room door burst open and several of the gods soldiers rushed in.
They had barely enough time to get in when Masaki was upon them.
The sound of her power searing thru flesh as she torn thru their ranks.
One of the soldiers managed to get behind her.
He raised his broadsword over his head to strike the killing blow.
But the Queen was not fooled;
the soldier fell away his arm severed in four neat little pieces.
D3 knew that his men where no match for the power of the queens.
But they would serve as a good distraction.
He saw his chance,,
he fired a bolt of power at the now prone Queen .
There was a large explosion as the bolt of energy arched around her but never touching her.
D3 raised one eyebrow as he looked over at Funaho.
The Queen had not moved since the start of the fight.
In her right hand was a exact copy of the Tenchi-kin, around it glowed an aura of power.
She had not used this ancient blade since she had trained her son with it.
She remembered that she had come to him one evening after dinner.
She was going to tell him something very important about the twin keys.
But she never got to.
The Space pirate Ryoko had attacked the palace.
Her son, Yosho had left his home to drive off the demon.
She had known that he was not going to return.
She had seen his torment at the burden of being the son of an earthling.
A bastard prince.
"So then you will not surrender."
D3 said stepping over his now dead soldiers.
The ones that managed to stay alive closed in behind him.
" Then taste the pain of my lightening whip."
A massive length of power lashed out at Masaki.
She crossed her laser claws in front of her deflecting the blow.
But the force of the attack knocked her back.
A globe of power engulfed her, saving her from being smashed into the wall behind her.
The blade formed from Funaho's key.
She charged the god.
D3 lashed out again with the whip.
Funaho knocked it away easily with the power of her sword.
The blade burned thru his flesh.
D3 felt a deep burning across his chest.
Several of the surviving soldiers rushed her.
Two fell to her blade until her waist was wrapped up by D3's lightening whip.
Funaho screamed out as she dropped her master key.
Every nerve ending in her body was on fire.
Her body crashed to the floor, still smoldering from the attack.
Yosho her mind cried out as blackness over took her.
Again D3 felt that burning sensation.
He looked down at four laser claws were sticking out from his stomach.
Behind him Masaki stood, her fist against the lower back of the god.
" This is for my husband and my sister."
She said raising up her other claw to the middle of his back.
" And this is for Me." she drove the claws thru.
D3 through his head back to let out a scream, But instead laughed out.
"You have forgotten something Queen of Jurai."
He reached up and took a hold of the claws sticking out of his chest then the ones in his stomach.
" You can not kill a god."
Lengths of lightening Danced over his body.
The claws disappeared as the power flowed over Masaki.
Her scream echoed thru out the palace.
"You are awake."
Washu said seeing Nobiyuki's eyes slowly opening.
" How do you feel?"
She asked.
"Like I have drunk way to much sake."
He answered reaching up to try and stop the pounding going on inside his head.
"Washu what happened to me?"
She hopped off her floating pillow, coming to stand beside his bed.
" I was hoping you could tell me."
She replied.
Nobiyuki searched thru his slowly calming mind.
"I am not sure.
I was walking through the ship when I was hit by some kind of blackness."
He tried to sit up but the sickening feeling in his stomach wouldn't let him.
Washu saw his discomfort
" Don't try to do to much to so ok you still need your rest."
She gently but firmly pushed him back down on the bed.
"Finish." She instructed him.
He took a moment to catch his breath and let the feeling settle down some.
" At first I thought my head was going to explode then I began to see things."
He eyes began to stare off into the depths of her lab.
" Things I have never seen before."
" What kind of things?"
she pressed him.
" I don't know as soon as my work was finished they left me."
He stopped for a minute.
"My work!"
He jumped up putting the feeling in his stomach out of his mind.
Yosho was sitting alone under the great tree of Tsunami.
He had come here to clear his mind.
He knew that there was going to be very dark times to come for all of them.
Deep inside his soul he heard her cry out.
"..........Mother."
Inside the Masaki house Ayeka was sitting on the couch working on her needlepoint.
Ryoko was napping on her favorite spot above the living room.
Mihoshi, Z, and Sasami where sitting around the table listening to Mihoshi telling about one of her many cases.
Kiyone having heard them a million times had elected to loose herself into the T.V., Ryo-oki sitting next to her.
Upstairs in his room was Tenchi.
He was trying to keep his mind on his studies but found that it was nearly impossible with everything going on.
I am going to be so far behind when I get back to earth it won't be funny.
He thought.
But that didn't seem so important anymore.
It was becoming such a small thing when compared to what was going on now.
Then again as it had done so many times before his mind was on the girls.
What was he going to do his plan had not been able to happen and at the rate things kept coming up he didn't think now that it ever would.
" I have go tot talk to somebody about this."
He thought.
"But who."
Grandpa would just give him some kind of answer that he knew he wouldn't understand.
He was afraid of what his dad would say knowing it would surely be indecent.
Asking any of the girls was out of the question.
So that left only Z.
Well then with his mind made up when got up to go and find him.
Ayeka looked up from her work to see Tenchi coming down the stairs.
At that same second the front door slid open causing the others to look up from what they where doing.
And in that same second the door to the lab opened up and Washu stepped out.
"Tenchi."
Yosho said coming into the living room.
" Yes grandpa what is it?"
he answered coming the rest of the way down the stairs.
" Do you have the sword?"
Tenchi was surprised.
" Umm yes I have it."
He brought out the Tenchi-kin.
"Give it to me."
Yosho told him reaching out to take the sword.
Tenchi handed it over
"why grandpa?"
he asked.
The others where as curious as he was about this unexpected request. " We have to get to Jurai now."
He turned to face the rest of the group.
He carefully looked over each one of them.
He studied the concerned looks of each one.
"Sasami I will need your help please."
" Yes Grandpa."
She got up and followed him out of the front door, the others on their heels.
They soon found themselves standing in front of the central tree of Tsunami.
" Something bad has happened on Jurai hasn't it?"
Washu asked knowingly.
Yosho stopped in front of the tree.
" The fleet has failed."
He said not turning around.
"Jurai is lost."
"What!"
Ayeka said shocked.
" That can not be!
We are the most powerful family in the universe."
The silence hung thick in the air.
"What about our mothers."
Sasami asked her voice barely above a whisper.
Yosho hung his head.
"But if we rush in will we not also be destroyed?"
Z asked.
" Will Tsunami be powerful enough to take on the whole Greek fleet?
She is just one ship."
Kiyone put in.
"By herself no."
Washu answered.
"Then what do we do?"
Tenchi looked to her.
" Well."
She smiled.
"You can thank your father for that answer."
She drew blank looks from the others.
" Remember this."
She took out the drawing the Nobiyuki had been holding when they found him.
"But the fleet has no ship that looks like that one."
Ayeka said.
" That is right miss Ayeka.
That is because it hasn't been born yet."
" if that is so then how is it going to help us?"
Ayeka said growing impatient.
"How did dad do this?"
Tenchi cut in.
" I am glad you asked that Tenchi."
Washu beamed getting the chance to display her great knowledge.
" That day when we where attacked by that unknown power source.
It reacted to his human DNA.
He was able to look into the future for a short time.
What he saw scared him."
She looked down for a moment.
" We did not fare well."
"Fare well?"
Mihoshi asked not getting Washu's meaning.
"We where killed."
She said flatly.
Mihoshi's blue eyes went wide.
" But I don't want to die."
She said beginning to cry.
"It will be ok Miss Mihoshi as long as we are together everything will be fine."
Z said trying to comfort her.
" Really?"
she asked looking hopefully at him.
" Yes."
He answered smiling warmly at her.
"Z is right."
Washu added.
" Assuming that because of his training in drafting he came up with this.
She pointed to the picture.
" Can he still the future?"
Kiyone asked.
" No the power was to great for his human mind to handle for very long.
So to keep from completely being destroyed his mind shut down for a time."
" so then how do we get this ship?"
Ryoko cut in.
Washu looked directly at Sasami.
For several seconds Sasami and Washu stared at each other.
Sasami turned from the Genius and placed her hand gently on the sword in Yosho's hand.
He released it to her.
Sasami hugged the sword to her breast.
The symbol on her forehead began to glow.
The sword responded with a glow of it's own.
The little princess began to float up from the ground, her power glittering around her.
" By the royal seal and my true name.
From heaven to the ocean..
Ocean to the earth.
and earth back to heaven.
show me the path engraved by the light."
A blinding white light erupted from the trunk of the great tree. Sasami's body shimmered into nothingness and disappeared into the tree.
Inside the tree stood the goddess Tsunami.
Before her floated the image of the drawing.
She smiled, as she looked it over.
The image faded away as she closed her eyes.
The symbol on her forehead began to glow.
She raised her arms out over her head.
The tree behind her glowed, sending small beams of light down to the water below.
The beams hit the surface of the water and were reflected over the hull of the ship.
Back where the others stood, those trees to started to glow one after the other.
Each one sending its beams of light along the ship.
A calm came over the whole ship, the wooden structures began to give off a warming blue glow.
Inside the ship nothing could be seen as being much different.
" What is happening?"
Ayeka asked looking around for some sign of the change.
Washu stepped up bringing a holo screen to life.
It showed a view of the outside of the great ship.
The blue glow had totally encompassed the ship.
" Oh my how beautiful"
Mihoshi said in awe.
The outer hull of the ship was moving and flowing into another form.
" Metabolic transformation."
Washu replied her eyes dancing with excitement.
She took note of the two most profound changes.
One was the addition of two very long wooden shafts on the front of the ship.
The wood had twisted itself until it formed pointed ends.
And the other was the slender frame of what looked like wings to her.
Back deep inside of the ship Tsunami smiled, her work was done.
She lowered her hands bringing them to her chest.
She lowered her head and closed her eyes.
Soon her image shimmered into nothingness.
The central tree began to shimmer with a bright white light.
Inside the light was the small image of Sasami.
Tenchi stepped forwards as the small princess fell forward into his arms.
" Take her to her room Tenchi she needs to rest."
Yosho instructed him.
He nodded his understanding.
He lifted her up in his arms and headed back to the house.
" Everyone else get ready we will be at the planet Jurai in about two hours."
Yosho said turning away from the rest of the group and walking in the way Tenchi had gone.
Kiyone and Mihoshi soon followed with Ayeka close behind.
Ryoko lifted off the ground she too was going to go back to the house.
"Ryoko."
She heard in her mind.
She shot a look down to her mother.
" I want you to come to my lab in a little while I have something I need to talk to you about."
Washu finished.
At first Ryoko was irritated at this intrusion into her mind again by Washu but she over looked when she saw the look in Washu's eyes.
Ryoko phased out not answering her.
Washu to started to leave when she saw that Z was still standing there facing the Royal Tree.
She thought for a moment then walked over to stand beside him.
" What is it?"
She asked.
Z did not answer instead he just looked down and slightly away from her.
" It is nothing really."
He finally answered.
"Z."
she smiled.
" Do not lie. you are not good at it."
Z jumped he quickly looked over at her.
" Have you so easily forgotten?"
she tapped her forehead.
"Oh."
Was all he said remembering that he to was linked with her.
" It is ok to be afraid even for a former Jurain knight."
She saw his shoulders slump
" I am not afraid of what we are about to face."
He said his voice very solemn.
"What if I can't protect her?"
Washu had not expected that, she could feel his fear but she didn't know what had caused it until now.
"You have seen the same things that I have seen on the T.V. and through the transmissions that the galaxy police have sent to miss Mihoshi and Miss Kiyone.
There is a great evil power out there and we are heading straight for it.
The Queens are among the most powerful of the Royal Family.
Yet lord Yosho knows they have been defeated and are in great pain if not even dead by now.
So what hope do I have?
My power is nothing compared to theirs."
Washu looked down as small tears crashed on the ground in front of Z.
" I will fail and lady Ryoko will pay for my failure."
He dropped to his knees no longer able to stand any more.
Washu went to him.
She lowered herself wrapping her arms around him.
"Oh Z."
she whispered.
Well so we come to another ending chapter is it getting too much for you yet??? Stay in your seats folks cause it is about to explode secrets are about to be reviled and the Tenchi crew is about to face one of their biggest challenges yet. So till chapter 11 good reading and as always any comments will be well received. And promptly answered. All emails to be sent to animal20200@hotmail.com
