Night After the Carnival Chapter 12

Inside Washu's lab she sat.

Her long red hair just touching the ground behind her.

In front of her was a large transparent screen.

On it was the planet of Jurai, floating just above the planet was the Odyssey.

" We are here."

Ryoko was standing in the living room.

She had transformed her clothes into her red and black battle suit.

She reached up and took her one red earring out of her ear.

In a small shimmer of light it disappeared and reappeared on her other wrist.

Its power raced over her suit completing its design.

"Z are you ready?"

He was already in his old Jurain battle armor.

He slid his master key into his belt holder.

"Yes my Lady I Am ready."

On the couch Kiyone and Mihoshi where already in their Galaxy police assault suits.

Kiyone was putting extra power packs for her hand blaster in her suit.

Mihoshi was adjusting her cube to make sure she could get to some of the bigger things (as she put it).

"Ok Mihoshi lets do a good job ok?"

Mihoshi picked up her blaster and cocked it.

" We are going to kick their butt." Kiyone smiled at her.

She looked over at Z then back to Mihoshi.

The blonde watched her partner.

"What?" she blushed.

Outside of the house Sasami was hugging her sister close.

"Please be careful Ayeka ok."

The princess stroked the little girls powder blue hair.

"Don't worry Sasami everything is going to be fine."

" That is right." Ryoko said coming out of the front door with the others.

" They don't know what kind of hell we are going to bring down on them." She grinned.

" I wish I could help more." Sasami said letting go of her sister.

" Princess Sasami we are counting on you to do your part up here." Z reassured her.

" I don't know maybe I should stay here just in case." Ayeka looked at Sasami worriedly.

"Princess I am sure she will be ok Washu is going to be with her." Kiyone tried to comfort her.

" Huh I never thought I would hear you want to back out of a fight." Ryoko teased her.

" What?!" she shot a look at Ryoko.

" How dare you."

Ryoko only smiled " did I get your spirit up?"

Ayeka stopped mid sentence.

" They wont know what hit them." She raised her fist.

" That's what I want to hear." Ryoko took to the air " lets go."

" Where is Tenchi?" Mihoshi asked.

Ayeka and Ryoko both looked up to his room's window.

Inside Tenchi was sitting on his bed.

In his hand was the master key.

"This is it." He thought

" In a few minutes everyone he ever cared about was going to be fighting for his or her lives."

He squeezed the handle of his sword.

There had to be some way out of this.

His fears began to take hold of him.

What if all of us don't make it? I don't think. he could see the faces of each and everyone of his family.

" Tenchi?"

"Huh?" he looked around.

"Tenchi?"

"That voice." He stood up looking around.

There was no one in the room but him.

" Tenchi?"

The closet? He walked over and opened the door.

On the floor was the box he had put his clothes in for storage.

He backed away as it began to glow.

His eyes went wide as an image of a woman began to form in front of him.

"Look how you have grown."

The Tenchi-kin fell from his hand.

"Mother?"

" Yes my son." The tears came freely to him.

" Mother!"

" Tenchi you have become a man I am so proud of you."

She reached out to brush the tears from his face.

"Tenchi you must clear your mind and settle your heart."

" But mother I don't know." he stammered.

She pulled him to her "search your heart Tenchi.

You know what you must do."

She let him go the image began to fad

" Trust in your heart."

"No mother wait!" He tried to stop her but it was to late the image was already gone.

He looked down at the sword "trust in my heart."

The front door slid open.

All the girls looked up.

"Lord Tenchi?" Z puzzled.

"Tenchi?" Ryoko to looked at him curiously

" What is it lord Tenchi?" Ayeka asked seeing the same thing the others did.

" Come on everybody lets get grandpa we have got work to do."

Just under the great tree of Tsunami sat Yosho.

His hands where folded in front of him.

His head was bowed and his eyes where closed.

All around was the beauty of the great ship.

" I am coming mother."

Later that day everyone had gathered at the great tree.

"Don't worry Tenchi we will be ok."

Washu said putting her arm around Sasami.

" Thank you Washu." He smiled at her.

" You be careful ok Tenchi." Sasami said trying to be brave like the others.

"Don't worry Sasami everything will be fine you'll see."

He patted her on the head.

" Ok Ryo-oki lets go."

"Meow." The little cabbit took to the air.

She phased out of the hull of the ship.

Once she had formed a ship her self she brought the others onboard.
On the planet the captain of the Greek soldiers entered the palace.

" My Lord they are here." He said bowing.

" Lets make them welcome." D3 answered.

" Yes my lord." The officer left.

Ryo-oki made short work of the trip down to the planet.

The cabbit dropped off the gang and returned back to Tsunami.

"Where are we?" Kiyone looked around at the small group of buildings.

"This is a small part of the city." Z answered.

"That road over there will lead us straight to the palace."

Tenchi looked at the devastation the houses had suffered.

" They took the fight even here."

"Where are Ayeka and the old man?" Ryoko asked looking around for them.

The others started looking as well.

They were nowhere to be found.

"Lord Tenchi we cannot stay here." Z informed him.

"Right they will be ok."

They started down the road that leads to the palace.

Mihoshi was the first to clear the rows of houses.

"Oh my." She stopped,

Before her was a vast open field.

On the other end of the field was a sea of Greek soldiers.

"My god there must be thousands of them." Ryoko said her eyes narrowing.

Each soldier was holding a large shield in one hand and a broad sword in the other.

In the back of the formation was a line of movement.

"Quick get back to the buildings!" Kiyone shouted

" They are going to fire on us."

The air was filled with the sound of hundreds of bows.

They had just got under cover as the arrows rained down on them.

"Oh they are going to pay for this." Ryoko took to the air.

In the back of the army were two rows of archers.

She circled around them and fired a barrage of energy bolts down.

"See how you like it." She grinned.

Explosions erupted and bodies went flying.

She laughed Firing down another round.

But this time there was no explosions.

"Huh." She couldn't believe it.

Some of the soldiers had covered the archers with their shields and they had harmlessly absorbed the blast.

" Damn!"

On the ground the mass of soldiers began to charge across the field.

Kiyone and Mihoshi took up positions on either side of Tenchi and Z.

"Shall we wait till we see the whites of their eyes?" Z looked at Tenchi.

" Well you guys can wait if you want." Kiyone began to fire her blaster into the mass of soldiers.

Mihoshi took her cue from her partner and started to fire her blaster as well.

Greek troops where dropping like flies under the officers onslaught.

But the horde never slowed down.

As one would fall another would take its place.

They soon started putting the shields up in front of them as they ran.

Kiyone slowed her fire as she saw that the shields where harmlessly absorbing her shots.

"Kiyone what are we going to do it is not working anymore?" Mihoshi shouted over.

She took a few more tries with the same result.

Tenchi and Z called up the power of their swords.

Ryoko phased in-between the two her energy blade in hand.

" Save some of the fun for me." She winked at Tenchi.

She narrowed her eyes at the oncoming army, crouched down and prepared for the impact.

Z held out his sword giving the Jurain salute to battle.

Tenchi slid his foot back to steady himself.

His sword arched out in front of him.

Kiyone and Mihoshi dropped back

" Mihoshi try to shoot around their shields."

Kiyone leveled a line of fire around the three warriors.

Mihoshi backed up and brought up her blaster.

But as she tried to fire her foot slipped into a hole.

" whaaaaaawhooaaa." She stumbled into a nearly collapsed building.

She hit the front door crashing through it.

"Oh that was close." She huffed.

The floor started to crack.

"Ohhhhh." She tried to get up.

But it gave away slamming her onto the basement floor.

The force of the impacted knocked her out cold.

The army poured down on Tenchi, Z and Ryoko.

The shear force of the armies' momentum forced the three to make a hasty retreat backwards.

Swords clashed as one by one the soldiers of the Greeks fell to the skill of the three.

In spite of that the army kept forcing them to loose ground.

Kiyone was down to her last charged gun cartridge.

"Mihoshi!!! Where the hell are you."

She cried out just noticing that the blonde was not there.

Kiyone's back hit something solid.

She turned to see a huge rock wall.

" Tenchi we are trapped." He quickly shot a look around.

Kiyone braced her back against the wall and unloaded her last power clip into the Greeks.

" Back off." Ryoko glared at them swinging her sword into great arcs.

But the Greeks where relentless as again Z was forced back.

But he could go back no farther as his heel hit the base of the wall.

Tenchi and Ryoko too had been pushed back up to the wall.

" we have got to do something!" Tenchi called out to the other two.

" I can't kill them fast enough." Ryoko yelled back as she dropped four more of the soldiers.

Kiyone saved the last shot in the blaster. " Just in case."

"STOOOOOOPPPP!!!!"

On top of the wall stood Mihoshi on her shoulder was the galaxy police heavy cannon.

She leveled the cannon at the Greeks and fired.

The soldiers jumped back to keep from getting hit by the blast.

Mihoshi dropped the cannon and leaped from the wall.

She landed as gracefully as only Mihoshi could in front of Kiyone, Tenchi, Ryoko and Z.

" Leave my friends alone." She warned the still massive army in front of her.

" Or what?" one of them sneered.

Mihoshi turned just slightly towards them.

She lowered her head and closed her eyes.

She brought her left hand up and seductively ran it over her hip.

Z's heart beat like a trip hammer.

She took her right hand and slowly ran it over her breast.

Z's jaw dropped.

Her hand continued on up over her neck then to the back of her head.

Even Tenchi was wide eyed.

The Men of the Greek army where awe struck by this sexy blonde goddess in front of them.

She untied the red ribbon and let it fall.

She tossed her head back and let her golden tresses fall loose to her shoulders.

Not one man there dared to breath for fear of missing one second of her beauty.

She turned her face to the army and smiled.

She shot open her eyes, but instead of her normal baby blues.

They where glowing a blinding yellow.

That same power engulfed her hand as well.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" she screamed as she unleashed a god like power down on the Greeks.

It raced through their ranks devouring every solider in its path.

Mihoshi stumbled forward as the last of blast left her.

Now that it was gone her eyes returned to their brilliant deep blue.

She blinked once before dropping to the ground, her hands still smoldering from the release.

"Mihoshi?' Kiyone was in shock at the display of such power coming from her partner.

Z and Tenchi finally finding their legs ran to help her.

Ryoko just stared out across the field.

The whole entire Greek army lay in waste.

There was nothing left but burnt out husk of what use to be the once great army.

"Wow who would have thought that Mihoshi had that much power."

Z bent down and cradled her in his arms.

"Miss Mihoshi please be ok." He said softly to her.

Tenchi kneeled down next to them. " Do you think she will be alright?"

Z tried his best to wipe away the sweat from her face.

" I don't know Lord Tenchi."

Tenchi saw the ribbon still lying where Mihoshi had dropped it.

He picked it up "lets put this back on."

He tied the ribbon back around her hair.

"Come on Tenchi we have got to get to the palace." Ryoko urged him.

" But we can't leave Mihoshi like this." He protested.

" Z stay with her." She ordered.

" But lady Ryoko."

" That is a order." Z looked at her for a moment.

" As you wish."

Ryoko took to the air.

Tenchi stood up.

He still wasn't sure he wanted to leave anyone behind.

"It is ok Lord Tenchi, Miss Kiyone I will make sure she stays safe until you return."

" Thank you Z." Kiyone smiled at him.

"Well Tenchi I think we better catch Ryoko."

Tenchi nodded his agreement.

Z picked up Mihoshi.

He took her into one of the many buildings to try and find something soft to lay her down on.
Ayeka found herself inside the courtyard of the palace.

In her mind flashed images of the news reports about the planet of Jurai being completely over run by the Greeks.

Her heart pounded as she came upon the row of shattered statues.

Even thought she had heard about the attacks her mind still had refused to truly believe it.until now.

"Mother.Aunt Funaho?" She was suddenly very afraid.

" Halt!!"

Ayeka was startled out of her thought.

At the other end of the line hall stood three Greek guards.

She looked at them for just a second before her anger began to grow.

She slowly clenched her hands into fist.

Her eyes blazed purple as her headband began to glow with power.

The guards took out their swords.

"By the order of the Greek nation you are ordered to surrender"

They quickly lost their reserve as they saw Ayeka rising off the ground.

Her deep lavender hair dancing in the glow of her head bands pulsating power.

" I would never bow to the likes of you." She crossed her hands out in front of her.

Small logs began to appear all around the three now completely shaken guards.

They dropped their swords and turned to run.

Tendrils shot out from the logs, wrapping up all three men by the necks.

Ayeka started breathing harder as she kept building up her power.

Her anger was now built to a fever pitch.

"ahhhhhhhhhhhhh." She screamed.

Enormous serge of power raced down her arms and shot from her hands.

The guards couldn't even scream before their bodies where reduced to nothing but ashes.

D3 sat quietly on the throne of the now former king of Jurai.

He smiled to himself. " How easy it was to defeat the all powerful royals of Jurai."

He thought. Lady Tokime's plan had worked perfectly.

Sending in an assassin to kill the king had done what it had set out to do.

Without his leadership the army was easily destroyed.

Now there was just one more task ahead of him.

"Welcome hero of Jurai." D3 never moved.

Standing in the central archway was Yosho.

" I believe you are sitting on something that does not belong to you."

D3 looked up at the old man.

"What is this?" D3 looked closer at him.

He laughed. "Tell me hero why are you hiding behind a mask."

D3 stood up, stepping over the bodies of the two queens.

" If one of us is to die then let us die face to face."

He clinched his fist, sparking the lightening whip to life.

Yosho reached up and took off his glasses.

He let his long time disguise down.

The whip arced up over D3's head, its tip poised to strike.

Yosho shot his hand out.

Funaho's forgotten sword lay on the floor.

It shimmered then disappeared, reappearing in the grasp of the first crown prince.

The blade immediately answered his command.

The whip struck.

Yosho cut it clean in two with one swift stroke.

D3's eyes narrowed.

From his hands he fired six bolts of lightening.

Yosho leaped away from the onslaught Stone pillars erupted all around him as the bolts shattered them.

"You are strong." Yosho landed safely a few feet away.

" But weak for a god."

He stood up and faced D3. " If you where a true god I would be dead by now."

D3 gave him a half smile. " You are right. But now is not the time to show you my full power, first I wish to test you."

The lightening formed a massive blade in the gods' right hand.

"Come hero!" D3 charged.

Washu watched her screen as the flagship Odyssey came to bare on Tsunami.

" Pretty confident aren't we."

The sides of the ship opened and the barrels of the main cannons moved into position.

"Sasami get ready."

" Yes Washu." The princess closed her eyes and folded her hands out in front of her.

The symbols on her forehead began to glow.

Out in front of the ship six shimmering light hawk wings formed.

One ran along each side of the ship and the last two formed over the frame of the wings in back.
Aboard the Odyssey the high Priest watched his screen.

" I thought that flagship had ten wings?"

He had failed to notice the other four that had positioned themselves on other parts of the ship instead of in front with the others.

"Well so much the easier to destroy her."

The panel in front of him lit up.

The main cannons where ready to fire.

" When you are gone our victory will be complete."

He pressed the fire button.
Outside the ship small beams of light began to sweep into the four barrels of the guns as their power began to charge up.

The great ship shook as the cannons unleashed their fury on Tsunami.

The ships front wings folded outward creating a funnel to the center of the ship.

Instead of being tore apart the blast where channeled into the center of the ship.

They where then picked up by the two wings that ran along each side.

The blast ran along the flat side of the two wings.

This had shrunk the four powerful blasts into smaller and smaller beams.

When they hit the last two fanlike blades they had become nothing more then a dazzling show of colorful lights drifting off into space.

"Well father I am impressed." Washu smiled to herself.

The high priest sat on the command chair of the great Greek ship.

The smiled drained from his face.

He jumped up from his command chair.

On the screen in front of him Tsunami was still there.

"By Zeus! How can this be?" he shouted.

He stopped, his eyes grew wide.

The two wings along the side of Tsunami had fired forward and were racing toward his ship.

Outside of the Odyssey it's darkhawk wings came to life.

The two blades of Tsunami's where like golden daggers soaring thru space.

They impacted the darkhawk wings, shearing off two of them as they passed into the ship.

At first there was nothing, but suddenly small beams of light began to burst through the hull of the great ship.

The explosion that followed was nothing short of planet shaking.

D3 looked up at the bright flash in the sky.

He smiled "the Jurain flagship Tsunami is now nothing more then a memory."

He looked down at a now ragged Yosho.

" And soon so will its greatest hero." He struck at Yosho with his sword of lightening.

The blade cut deep into the stone where Yosho was standing just second earlier.

" You cannot run from me forever."

"STOP! Leave him alone!"

Standing in the central door stood Ayeka, her headband blazing with her power.

"I will not allow you to harm another member of the Royal family."

D3 turned to face this new threat.

Ayeka reached deep down inside herself, pulling up everything she had left.

All the horrors and fears she had brought forth her power into one massive blast from her hand.

D3 was ripped from the ground.

His chest was torn open from the impact and his body was smashed thru the back wall into the room beyond.

With all her power drained, Ayeka collapsed to the floor.

Yosho stumbled over to his sister.

"Ayeka?" He gently turned her over.

He had only just looked upon her when the sounds of rocks moving caught his attention.

He looked over thru the hole in the wall.

Just inside the rocks began to move.

D3 slowly rose from the rubble.

His chest was shredded and charred.

D3 looked down at his chest for the first time.

He reached out and grabbed a hold of each side of the hole.

Yosho tightened his grip on his mothers' sword.

D3 came back thru the broken wall.

"Foolish girl never use all of your power against an enemy unless you know you are going to kill him."

D3 charged full force at Yosho.

The prince braced himself for the impacted that never came.

A small Yo-Yo looking device had wrapped up D3 tight.

He looked around to find its source.

Holding the other end was the teal haired officer.

" By order of the Galaxy police you are to surrender at once."

D3 Laughed. " You can not be serious."

" You better believe it buster." She tightened her grip on the wire.

" The Galaxy police are nothing. They where destroyed."

He grinned knowingly at her.

"They ran like cowards"

She shot him a deadly stare.

In less then a blink the barrel of her blaster was pointing at his forehead.

"We............."

She cocked the gun.

" Are...........not"

She fired her last round.

" Cowards."

The demi-gods head snapped back from the blast.

Time seemed to slow to a crawl as the god sank to his knees.

Kiyone let go of the restraining wire letting the gods' body fall the rest of the way to the ground.

Yosho looked down at the now lifeless face of D3, a small hole burned into his head where his symbols of power once were.

"Ayeka!" Tenchi ran thru the door towards the still fallen princess.

Ryoko flew in right behind him.

"Who are you?" Ryoko demanded of the young man still kneeling by Ayeka.

She stopped in mid flight. "Yosho?"

The prince had forgotten the he no longer was under the guise of the old man.

Kiyone hopped down from the ledge she had been standing on. " Is every one ok?"

"Gran...pa?" Tenchi couldn't believe his eyes.

Yosho stood up; he looked first at Ryoko then at Tenchi.

" Thank you Kiyone."

He didn't look away from Tenchi.

" We need to get everyone someplace safer.

Then I will answer your Question Tenchi."

Yosho carried Funaho while Ryoko took Masaki and Tenchi had Ayeka.

The group left the Throne room leaving behind the smoldering body of D3.

tiny sparkles of light started to drift over the body.

When the lights vanished nothing was left of the former god but a fine dust.

As dusk settled over the palace a set of boots hovered just over the spot of the battle.

Slowly they settled to the ground.

Stirring up a small cloud of the dust of D3.

The figure bent down and brushed the dirt away from a darkened gem.

The gem was blackened and dull in his hand.

He closed his hand over the gem.

Beams of golden light escaped from around his fingers.

He opened his hand; the gem was glowing with a small light deep within.

Kagato smiled.
Oh my I bet you didn't see that one coming did you. So is the end of the 12th chapter. Only one more to go. Are you ready!!!!