Night After The
Carnival
Chapter 14
Yosho sat alone in the middle of a large oval room.
Surrounding either side of him sat the most powerful people of the planet Jurai.
They where the four ruling families, each one had several of its current head members sitting in.
Most of the faces he saw where still in his memories from when he lived at the palace.
They had barely even changed in all the years he was gone.
But some were new, a couple of faces he had not ever seen before.
: This war has taken a considerable toll on the Royal houses:
Each new face was a sign of a loss of a much older member.
Even though he had left this place to never return, he still felt the sorrow over the loss.
Sitting directly in front of him was an empty throne.
Normally the king..his father would be sitting there.
But his father would never again sit in that place.
Yosho refused to let this new surge of grief take him.
He held his shoulders firm and stared straight ahead.
To either side of the empty throne sat the queens.
Masaki sat to the right and Funaho to the left.
A lone figure rose to address the gathering.
It was Seto of the second crown family and next in line to rule.
" At long last you return to us first crown prince Yosho."
The sharpness of her words cut deep into him.
" You come back after 700 years to save us from the Greeks."
She paused for effect.
"But wait it was not you after all was it?"
She stared hard at him.
" It was a first class detective from the Galaxy police that killed this so called god Zeus wasn't it Yosho."
Funaho rose from her throne
"Seto."
Her anger feeding the power behind her word.
" You may be the devil princess but you will not talk to my son in this manner."
Seto smirked she knew that even with her power she was no match for the queens in a straight out fight.
But that was ok with her because she had another way to get what she wanted.
Seto turned her attention back to Yosho
"With your father slain then we are to assume you have come to uphold your claim to the throne?"
She smiled looking at him, if her spies where right she already knew the answer to this.
All eyes where on Yosho as they waited for his answer.
" I renounce my claim to the throne."
Seto smiled even bigger as the murmur from the rest of the houses echoed thru the room.
"Since Sasami is not of age for a suture and Ayeka has not chosen herself either and it seems your son has given up his claim.
Then your house must step down as first crown."
Masaki had heard enough
" Ayeka claims the right to morn her father before she chooses a suture."
Seto did not back down.
" Then if all houses agree she will have three months to choose or your house must surrender the right to first crown."
The other house nodded their agreement.
" Good then it is settled."
Seto finished driving her plan home.
Once she finished she vanished from her chair.
Soon others where doing the same thing until there were only Funaho and Yosho standing in the great room.
After several minutes Funaho sat back down on her throne.
" Yosho you could have told them."
" No mother I can not."
He turned his back to her.
" It is not over yet."
He walked quietly out of the room.
Tenchi sat quietly next to Ayeka's bed.
He had been fighting against sleep for quite some time now.
He looked over at the slumped form of Z.
A fight it seems his new friend had lost a long time ago.
His sight was pulled away from the sleeping former knight.
Could it be? He thought.
He watched closer, yes it was.
Ayeka's hand moved.
He could do nothing but watch in amazement as she slowly lifted her hand and covered her eyes.
A small murmur escaped from her lips.
"Ayeka?"
He whispered.
At the sound of his voice her mind cleared.
She shot straight up in her bed.
" Tenchi!!" she cried out.
Both men nearly jumped out of their skins.
" Tenchi what happened? Where are we? Where is my brother? Is the."
" Calm down Ayeka everything is ok now.
I will tell you everything."
Tenchi reassured her.
He spent the next several minutes telling Ayeka about the events that had happened up until now.
"Oh my Kiyone did that?" She asked.
" And poor Mihoshi how is she?"
Reluctantly he pointed across from her.
Ayeka followed his finger
" Oh."
She covered her mouth.
It was then she saw Z standing quietly by the blondes' side.
He bowed to her.
" It is good to see you are well princess."
She saw that his eyes were beyond tired the lines under them where thick and dark.
She turned and really looked at Tenchi.
His eyes mirrored Z's and she could see he was somewhat paler also.
They have both stayed here the whole time. She thought.
She felt her cheeks becoming warm.
Oh Tenchi her heart sang.
As if something completely new had just happened she swung her legs out and got up from the bed.
" Tenchi there will be so much to do I have to go and find my mother and aunt Funaho."
" But Ayeka you are not well yet you still need your rest." Tenchi tried to protest.
" It is ok Tenchi I am fine now really."
" Then at least let me come with you." She smiled warmly at him
"Ok."
Tenchi looked over at Z.
" I will be fine lord Tenchi."
Z sat back down in the chair he had been in for five days now.
The other two turned and left.
Z found himself once again alone with Mihoshi.
He reached up and took her hand into his.
" When I touch you I can feel the warmth of your life."
He rested her hand back down on the bed.
"Miss Mihoshi please I beg of you help me to know what I must do."
"Just show her the way back."
Z was startled by the answer.
He turned to find Washu standing at the end of the bed.
But this was not the little girl Washu he had grown to know this was a full-grown woman.
" Lady Washu?"
He stood and bowed
" I am sorry I did not hear you come in."
She smiled " that is because I did not come in."
He just looked puzzled at her.
" I will tell you later right now we need to get Mihoshi back."
She moved around the other side of the bed and looked down on the detective.
"Her body is fully recovered but her spirit is still lost."
" Can you do something Lady Washu?"
" No....but you can."
Z stood up straight " Tell me what must I do."
He was set in his resolve.
" When she released so much power at once in tore her spirit from her body now it is afraid to return."
He thought about this for a moment but no answer came to him.
" Again I ask you Lady Washu what do I do?"
"Z it is quite simple" she looked him deep in the eyes.
" Take away that fear."
Z stepped back.
" I can not fight a fear I don't know from which its source grows."
Washu smiled again at him.
" Just do what you do best." She replied as her form slowly faded into nothing.
Z just stood there not really sure what to do next.
He was alone in thought when an image came to him.
It was of the evening back on Tsunami when she had come to him.
She had asked him to play for her and he had offered only if she would sing.
The image was so vivid in his mind.
He could almost hear her voice.
In the end the family had spent a wonderful evening eating dinner under the shade of the great tree.
Without really thinking he took out his lute.
Resting the instrument against his lips he began to play that little tune.
But this time with so much more of him poured into the songs notes.
Ryoko had found herself sitting outside on the roof of one the smaller towers.
She had taken to going there when she could no longer stand watching Tenchi sit with Ayeka.
Hell even Z took to sitting by that dimwit Mihoshi
She puffed "hmmm men!"
They where really starting to piss her off.
" And he told me he loved me." She grumbled.
But as the words left her so did her anger.
" He told me he loved me."
She shook herself out that feeling.
"Damit!" She fumed.
"Tenchi is the only one for me and I am going to prove it."
no more she thought.
She was once and for all going to sit down and talk to Tenchi about it and she wasn't going to leave until she had an answer.
She lifted off of the roof and started down to where she knew he would be.
Out of the corner of her eyes she caught a small dot of light.
She stopped to get a better look.
There it was, a tiny sparkle of light.
She watched it as it drifted past her, floating lazily on the air but still moving downward into the palace.
"What is this?"
Then she saw another one.
Ryoko scanned the horizon, soon there where several small dots of light.
They where coming out of the trees and drifting their way into the palace.
Z watched as a single little flicker of light drifted its way under the door of the room.
The music coming from his lute seemed to make the little glimmer react to each note he played.
It drifted over the top of the still form of Mihoshi.
Then another of the tiny little lights drifted in followed by another then another.
In just a short time there were hundreds of these lights just floating over the fallen officer.
Z continued to play until no more of the lights drifted in.
The sounds of the music stopped as he lowered his lute from his lips.
The lights started to swirl around and then drop like rain onto the blonde.
Her body was incased in a warm yellow glow, Z started to move closer but stopped as one more light entered the room.
He reached his hand out, the tiny light floated over and rest gently in his palm.
Almost as soon as the light touched his skin he felt a feeling very familiar to him.
" Miss Mihoshi."
The light lifted away from his touch.
It took the air drifting until it settled on her forehead.
Z watched and hoped as the light melted into her skin.
He went to her side.
Ever so slowly her eyes fluttered open.
His heart almost stopped.
He was blessed once more to look into her ocean blue eyes.
" Z what happened?" her voice was soft and weak.
" Is every one ok?"
" Yes Miss Mihoshi. The war is over."
He bowed to her
" You saved us...I have never seen such power."
" Really?....what power is that?"
He looked at her surprised.
"Why your power my lady."
"My power?"
" Yes a thousand soldiers were laid waste by your hand."
He saw her look change to one of sorrow.
" Do not trouble yourself Miss Mihoshi because of you Lady Ryoko, lord Tenchi, miss Kiyone and myself still live."
He kneeled down next to her bed.
" I owe you my life."
Ryoko stood just outside the door.
She had followed the flow of lights to this spot.
She had phased thru the door and saw everything that Z and Mihoshi had done.
She put her hand on the door and lowered her head she could feel her heart pounding in her chest.
He is falling in love with Mihoshi.
She could feel her anger getting stronger, but her sorrow was even stronger
why do I even care?
"Because he is the first person in your life who was completely devoted to you."
Ryoko shot a look down the hallway.
Not far off was the small form of Washu.
"Some devotion." She said angrily.
"Ryoko he still loves you very much."
She turned now to face her mother.
" Then why in hell is he in there putting the moves on Mihoshi?"
"You already know the answer to that."
Ryoko just stared at her mother for a few moments.
"Because."
"Yes Ryoko because he knows your heart belongs to another and he will never know that kind of love from you."
Washu walked up to her
"Ryoko use the link, Z has always been open to you, see for yourself how he really feels."
Ryoko stood back in defiance.
" No way."
"Ryoko will you listen to your mother for once."
Ryoko glared down at her.
She hated when Washu used the mother routine on her.
" Ok fine if it will shut you up about it."
Ryoko closed her eyes and started to concentrate.
It did not take her long to find her way into Z's mind.
She searched thru his secrets.
a sudden fear creped into her heart.
What if he really does love me?
Suddenly here heart pounded loudly in her chest.
Tenchi
She did not move farther into his thoughts.
She knew she was close to her answer.
But now she didn't want to know
No!
She would not know how Z felt.
I love Tenchi.........I truly love him*
She smiled to herself
That is all that truly matters.
She left Z's thoughts and returned back to her own.
Washu smiled at the look on her daughters face.
"You found what you where looking for?"
Ryoko looked up to the stars in the night sky.
She took a deep breath " yes I have."
Washu just watched her for a moment.
"Ryoko get everyone together and bring them here."
Ryoko took her eyes from the starts to look at Washu.
"Why?"
" Because I know our true enemy."
Washu turned and walked into the room where Z and Mihoshi were.
It did not take everyone long to find there way into the room even Nobiyuki had made it.
Ryoko was last to phase into the room just behind Tenchi.
"What is this about Washu?"
Tenchi asked as he closed the door behind him.
" I am afraid it is not over yet Tenchi."
She replied to the looks of surprise from everyone else.
Only Yosho's face remained unchanged.
"There are still forces we have yet not seen."
Sasami looked over at the older Masaki
" Forces Grandpa?"
She start to look more worried at the old mans words.
" Yes Sasami.......Tokimi is behind this." Washu answered.
" Who is this Tokimi?" Kiyone asked sitting next to her partner.
Tokimi?
That name drifted thru Z'S thoughts
Why does that name sound so known to me?
He blinked and stood rigid as he realized that Washu was staring intently at him.
" Tokimi is a goddess in fact she is one of three sisters."
She answered Kiyone never taking her eyes from Z's.
Yosho slightly lowered his eyes, unnoticed by everyone except his Grandson Tenchi.
"Who are the other Sisters?" Ryoko Asked.
She watched as Washu looked long and hard at Z before moving on.
"Tsunami is one of them."
A gasp went up thru everyone.
" Washu are you sure about this?" Ayeka looked horrified.
" Yes I am very sure."
" I don't believe it!" Ayeka objected.
" This can not be true."
She put her hands to her face " NO I wont believe it!"
A warm shimmering light filled the room.
Materializing at the side of Washu was the angelic form of Tsunami.
"Twenty thousand years ago before the planet of Jurai became what it is you see today.
I was the youngest of the three."
Tsunami slightly lowered her head.
Her eyes looking to the floor
"Our mother died because of her love for us."
The room was deathly quiet
" Our father let his jealousy of our mothers love for us corrupt his mind until he was completely consumed by it.
One day in a rage his madness drove him to.....kill her."
Tears began to stream down Ayeka's cheeks
" We fled in fear of his wrath.
We gave up our powers to keep him from finding us.
But mine would not leave so I slept in the heart of this planet until my other sister could find a way to turn off my powers.
She sealed hers into three gems then hid her memory with me so that she could confine her work with out being found.
But Tokimi did not escape.
He has poisoned her mind with his madness."
For several moments no could say anything.
"Who is the other sister?" Tenchi was almost afraid to ask.
Washu turned to him and grinned
"Me."
Later that night Tenchi found himself alone out in the royal garden.
You could still see some signs of the battles here.
His mind was on one of the things Washu had said to them earlier.
He had asked how they could find this Tokimi person.
The power of my gems will lead us to her
Tenchi looked down at the sword in his hand the gems catching the light of the flickering stars.
" I will not let my friends be hurt any more."
He thought about each one.
But his thoughts lingered longest on Ryoko.
Up beside him hopped Ryo-oki
" Merow." The cabbit greeted him.
He smiled when he saw the little creature.
He reached out and patted her on the head.
" Ryo-oki I need your help can I count on you?"
The cabbit looked at him for I second
" Merow merow." She answered happily
Ryoko flew into the main meeting room of the palace.
She had looked everywhere but could not find Tenchi.
"Where is he?" she asked herself.
She noticed Sasami sitting with her mother Masaki
"Sasami have you seen Tenchi anywhere."
The little princess looked up.
" Oh hi Ryoko. No I haven't seen him at all."
Ryoko floated still in the air.
She didn't like this.
Out into space Ryo-oki flew farther away from the planet Jurai with her sole passenger..........Tenchi.
Well we have come to the end of another chapter and as always I would love to know what you think. So all emails send to animal20200@hotmail.com
Chapter 14
Yosho sat alone in the middle of a large oval room.
Surrounding either side of him sat the most powerful people of the planet Jurai.
They where the four ruling families, each one had several of its current head members sitting in.
Most of the faces he saw where still in his memories from when he lived at the palace.
They had barely even changed in all the years he was gone.
But some were new, a couple of faces he had not ever seen before.
: This war has taken a considerable toll on the Royal houses:
Each new face was a sign of a loss of a much older member.
Even though he had left this place to never return, he still felt the sorrow over the loss.
Sitting directly in front of him was an empty throne.
Normally the king..his father would be sitting there.
But his father would never again sit in that place.
Yosho refused to let this new surge of grief take him.
He held his shoulders firm and stared straight ahead.
To either side of the empty throne sat the queens.
Masaki sat to the right and Funaho to the left.
A lone figure rose to address the gathering.
It was Seto of the second crown family and next in line to rule.
" At long last you return to us first crown prince Yosho."
The sharpness of her words cut deep into him.
" You come back after 700 years to save us from the Greeks."
She paused for effect.
"But wait it was not you after all was it?"
She stared hard at him.
" It was a first class detective from the Galaxy police that killed this so called god Zeus wasn't it Yosho."
Funaho rose from her throne
"Seto."
Her anger feeding the power behind her word.
" You may be the devil princess but you will not talk to my son in this manner."
Seto smirked she knew that even with her power she was no match for the queens in a straight out fight.
But that was ok with her because she had another way to get what she wanted.
Seto turned her attention back to Yosho
"With your father slain then we are to assume you have come to uphold your claim to the throne?"
She smiled looking at him, if her spies where right she already knew the answer to this.
All eyes where on Yosho as they waited for his answer.
" I renounce my claim to the throne."
Seto smiled even bigger as the murmur from the rest of the houses echoed thru the room.
"Since Sasami is not of age for a suture and Ayeka has not chosen herself either and it seems your son has given up his claim.
Then your house must step down as first crown."
Masaki had heard enough
" Ayeka claims the right to morn her father before she chooses a suture."
Seto did not back down.
" Then if all houses agree she will have three months to choose or your house must surrender the right to first crown."
The other house nodded their agreement.
" Good then it is settled."
Seto finished driving her plan home.
Once she finished she vanished from her chair.
Soon others where doing the same thing until there were only Funaho and Yosho standing in the great room.
After several minutes Funaho sat back down on her throne.
" Yosho you could have told them."
" No mother I can not."
He turned his back to her.
" It is not over yet."
He walked quietly out of the room.
Tenchi sat quietly next to Ayeka's bed.
He had been fighting against sleep for quite some time now.
He looked over at the slumped form of Z.
A fight it seems his new friend had lost a long time ago.
His sight was pulled away from the sleeping former knight.
Could it be? He thought.
He watched closer, yes it was.
Ayeka's hand moved.
He could do nothing but watch in amazement as she slowly lifted her hand and covered her eyes.
A small murmur escaped from her lips.
"Ayeka?"
He whispered.
At the sound of his voice her mind cleared.
She shot straight up in her bed.
" Tenchi!!" she cried out.
Both men nearly jumped out of their skins.
" Tenchi what happened? Where are we? Where is my brother? Is the."
" Calm down Ayeka everything is ok now.
I will tell you everything."
Tenchi reassured her.
He spent the next several minutes telling Ayeka about the events that had happened up until now.
"Oh my Kiyone did that?" She asked.
" And poor Mihoshi how is she?"
Reluctantly he pointed across from her.
Ayeka followed his finger
" Oh."
She covered her mouth.
It was then she saw Z standing quietly by the blondes' side.
He bowed to her.
" It is good to see you are well princess."
She saw that his eyes were beyond tired the lines under them where thick and dark.
She turned and really looked at Tenchi.
His eyes mirrored Z's and she could see he was somewhat paler also.
They have both stayed here the whole time. She thought.
She felt her cheeks becoming warm.
Oh Tenchi her heart sang.
As if something completely new had just happened she swung her legs out and got up from the bed.
" Tenchi there will be so much to do I have to go and find my mother and aunt Funaho."
" But Ayeka you are not well yet you still need your rest." Tenchi tried to protest.
" It is ok Tenchi I am fine now really."
" Then at least let me come with you." She smiled warmly at him
"Ok."
Tenchi looked over at Z.
" I will be fine lord Tenchi."
Z sat back down in the chair he had been in for five days now.
The other two turned and left.
Z found himself once again alone with Mihoshi.
He reached up and took her hand into his.
" When I touch you I can feel the warmth of your life."
He rested her hand back down on the bed.
"Miss Mihoshi please I beg of you help me to know what I must do."
"Just show her the way back."
Z was startled by the answer.
He turned to find Washu standing at the end of the bed.
But this was not the little girl Washu he had grown to know this was a full-grown woman.
" Lady Washu?"
He stood and bowed
" I am sorry I did not hear you come in."
She smiled " that is because I did not come in."
He just looked puzzled at her.
" I will tell you later right now we need to get Mihoshi back."
She moved around the other side of the bed and looked down on the detective.
"Her body is fully recovered but her spirit is still lost."
" Can you do something Lady Washu?"
" No....but you can."
Z stood up straight " Tell me what must I do."
He was set in his resolve.
" When she released so much power at once in tore her spirit from her body now it is afraid to return."
He thought about this for a moment but no answer came to him.
" Again I ask you Lady Washu what do I do?"
"Z it is quite simple" she looked him deep in the eyes.
" Take away that fear."
Z stepped back.
" I can not fight a fear I don't know from which its source grows."
Washu smiled again at him.
" Just do what you do best." She replied as her form slowly faded into nothing.
Z just stood there not really sure what to do next.
He was alone in thought when an image came to him.
It was of the evening back on Tsunami when she had come to him.
She had asked him to play for her and he had offered only if she would sing.
The image was so vivid in his mind.
He could almost hear her voice.
In the end the family had spent a wonderful evening eating dinner under the shade of the great tree.
Without really thinking he took out his lute.
Resting the instrument against his lips he began to play that little tune.
But this time with so much more of him poured into the songs notes.
Ryoko had found herself sitting outside on the roof of one the smaller towers.
She had taken to going there when she could no longer stand watching Tenchi sit with Ayeka.
Hell even Z took to sitting by that dimwit Mihoshi
She puffed "hmmm men!"
They where really starting to piss her off.
" And he told me he loved me." She grumbled.
But as the words left her so did her anger.
" He told me he loved me."
She shook herself out that feeling.
"Damit!" She fumed.
"Tenchi is the only one for me and I am going to prove it."
no more she thought.
She was once and for all going to sit down and talk to Tenchi about it and she wasn't going to leave until she had an answer.
She lifted off of the roof and started down to where she knew he would be.
Out of the corner of her eyes she caught a small dot of light.
She stopped to get a better look.
There it was, a tiny sparkle of light.
She watched it as it drifted past her, floating lazily on the air but still moving downward into the palace.
"What is this?"
Then she saw another one.
Ryoko scanned the horizon, soon there where several small dots of light.
They where coming out of the trees and drifting their way into the palace.
Z watched as a single little flicker of light drifted its way under the door of the room.
The music coming from his lute seemed to make the little glimmer react to each note he played.
It drifted over the top of the still form of Mihoshi.
Then another of the tiny little lights drifted in followed by another then another.
In just a short time there were hundreds of these lights just floating over the fallen officer.
Z continued to play until no more of the lights drifted in.
The sounds of the music stopped as he lowered his lute from his lips.
The lights started to swirl around and then drop like rain onto the blonde.
Her body was incased in a warm yellow glow, Z started to move closer but stopped as one more light entered the room.
He reached his hand out, the tiny light floated over and rest gently in his palm.
Almost as soon as the light touched his skin he felt a feeling very familiar to him.
" Miss Mihoshi."
The light lifted away from his touch.
It took the air drifting until it settled on her forehead.
Z watched and hoped as the light melted into her skin.
He went to her side.
Ever so slowly her eyes fluttered open.
His heart almost stopped.
He was blessed once more to look into her ocean blue eyes.
" Z what happened?" her voice was soft and weak.
" Is every one ok?"
" Yes Miss Mihoshi. The war is over."
He bowed to her
" You saved us...I have never seen such power."
" Really?....what power is that?"
He looked at her surprised.
"Why your power my lady."
"My power?"
" Yes a thousand soldiers were laid waste by your hand."
He saw her look change to one of sorrow.
" Do not trouble yourself Miss Mihoshi because of you Lady Ryoko, lord Tenchi, miss Kiyone and myself still live."
He kneeled down next to her bed.
" I owe you my life."
Ryoko stood just outside the door.
She had followed the flow of lights to this spot.
She had phased thru the door and saw everything that Z and Mihoshi had done.
She put her hand on the door and lowered her head she could feel her heart pounding in her chest.
He is falling in love with Mihoshi.
She could feel her anger getting stronger, but her sorrow was even stronger
why do I even care?
"Because he is the first person in your life who was completely devoted to you."
Ryoko shot a look down the hallway.
Not far off was the small form of Washu.
"Some devotion." She said angrily.
"Ryoko he still loves you very much."
She turned now to face her mother.
" Then why in hell is he in there putting the moves on Mihoshi?"
"You already know the answer to that."
Ryoko just stared at her mother for a few moments.
"Because."
"Yes Ryoko because he knows your heart belongs to another and he will never know that kind of love from you."
Washu walked up to her
"Ryoko use the link, Z has always been open to you, see for yourself how he really feels."
Ryoko stood back in defiance.
" No way."
"Ryoko will you listen to your mother for once."
Ryoko glared down at her.
She hated when Washu used the mother routine on her.
" Ok fine if it will shut you up about it."
Ryoko closed her eyes and started to concentrate.
It did not take her long to find her way into Z's mind.
She searched thru his secrets.
a sudden fear creped into her heart.
What if he really does love me?
Suddenly here heart pounded loudly in her chest.
Tenchi
She did not move farther into his thoughts.
She knew she was close to her answer.
But now she didn't want to know
No!
She would not know how Z felt.
I love Tenchi.........I truly love him*
She smiled to herself
That is all that truly matters.
She left Z's thoughts and returned back to her own.
Washu smiled at the look on her daughters face.
"You found what you where looking for?"
Ryoko looked up to the stars in the night sky.
She took a deep breath " yes I have."
Washu just watched her for a moment.
"Ryoko get everyone together and bring them here."
Ryoko took her eyes from the starts to look at Washu.
"Why?"
" Because I know our true enemy."
Washu turned and walked into the room where Z and Mihoshi were.
It did not take everyone long to find there way into the room even Nobiyuki had made it.
Ryoko was last to phase into the room just behind Tenchi.
"What is this about Washu?"
Tenchi asked as he closed the door behind him.
" I am afraid it is not over yet Tenchi."
She replied to the looks of surprise from everyone else.
Only Yosho's face remained unchanged.
"There are still forces we have yet not seen."
Sasami looked over at the older Masaki
" Forces Grandpa?"
She start to look more worried at the old mans words.
" Yes Sasami.......Tokimi is behind this." Washu answered.
" Who is this Tokimi?" Kiyone asked sitting next to her partner.
Tokimi?
That name drifted thru Z'S thoughts
Why does that name sound so known to me?
He blinked and stood rigid as he realized that Washu was staring intently at him.
" Tokimi is a goddess in fact she is one of three sisters."
She answered Kiyone never taking her eyes from Z's.
Yosho slightly lowered his eyes, unnoticed by everyone except his Grandson Tenchi.
"Who are the other Sisters?" Ryoko Asked.
She watched as Washu looked long and hard at Z before moving on.
"Tsunami is one of them."
A gasp went up thru everyone.
" Washu are you sure about this?" Ayeka looked horrified.
" Yes I am very sure."
" I don't believe it!" Ayeka objected.
" This can not be true."
She put her hands to her face " NO I wont believe it!"
A warm shimmering light filled the room.
Materializing at the side of Washu was the angelic form of Tsunami.
"Twenty thousand years ago before the planet of Jurai became what it is you see today.
I was the youngest of the three."
Tsunami slightly lowered her head.
Her eyes looking to the floor
"Our mother died because of her love for us."
The room was deathly quiet
" Our father let his jealousy of our mothers love for us corrupt his mind until he was completely consumed by it.
One day in a rage his madness drove him to.....kill her."
Tears began to stream down Ayeka's cheeks
" We fled in fear of his wrath.
We gave up our powers to keep him from finding us.
But mine would not leave so I slept in the heart of this planet until my other sister could find a way to turn off my powers.
She sealed hers into three gems then hid her memory with me so that she could confine her work with out being found.
But Tokimi did not escape.
He has poisoned her mind with his madness."
For several moments no could say anything.
"Who is the other sister?" Tenchi was almost afraid to ask.
Washu turned to him and grinned
"Me."
Later that night Tenchi found himself alone out in the royal garden.
You could still see some signs of the battles here.
His mind was on one of the things Washu had said to them earlier.
He had asked how they could find this Tokimi person.
The power of my gems will lead us to her
Tenchi looked down at the sword in his hand the gems catching the light of the flickering stars.
" I will not let my friends be hurt any more."
He thought about each one.
But his thoughts lingered longest on Ryoko.
Up beside him hopped Ryo-oki
" Merow." The cabbit greeted him.
He smiled when he saw the little creature.
He reached out and patted her on the head.
" Ryo-oki I need your help can I count on you?"
The cabbit looked at him for I second
" Merow merow." She answered happily
Ryoko flew into the main meeting room of the palace.
She had looked everywhere but could not find Tenchi.
"Where is he?" she asked herself.
She noticed Sasami sitting with her mother Masaki
"Sasami have you seen Tenchi anywhere."
The little princess looked up.
" Oh hi Ryoko. No I haven't seen him at all."
Ryoko floated still in the air.
She didn't like this.
Out into space Ryo-oki flew farther away from the planet Jurai with her sole passenger..........Tenchi.
Well we have come to the end of another chapter and as always I would love to know what you think. So all emails send to animal20200@hotmail.com
