Pigtailled Tamer
By Godai
Disclaimer : see chapter 1
AN : I use a mix of Japanese and english names and attacks, Ruki Makino was the real name.
Chapter 4: Evolution.
Takato had a lot of problems that morning, first he was late for training, then Guilmon followed him to the dojo. Ranma had Veemon keep an eye on the dinosaur but it was a lost cause. Now his digimon was on a rampage in the school cafeteria along with Veemon and a Terriermon.
"What are you doing Terriermon?" A boy about Takato's age asked the rookie.
"Well, you see this big fella decided to raid place while Veemon here was keeping an eye on him while scarfing down the goods so I decided that if you can't beat'em, join'em! Moumentaï!" Terriermon explained. The boy sighed in defeat at his partner.
"Terriermon, no computer for a week and be thankful I don't lend you to Suichon." He scolded his partner who started to grovel and panick at the mention of that name.
"Ok, not another word then!" The rookie shut it's mouth and jumped on his partner's head.
"I'm very sorry for Terriermon's behaviour, I'm Li Jenrya." He bowed towards Takato who waved his hand in dismissal.
"No, I'm the one who's sorry, I'm Matsuda Takato and the red dino is Guilmon my partner." He answered with a bow of his own. Guilmon tried to imitate him but he lost his balance and fell flat on his face. The group laughed as he rubbed the back of his head. Takato and Jenrya left for class just as Veemon and Terriermon dragged Guilmon to the shadows of a tree.
"What took you so long?" A shadow asked the trio.
"Guilmon can't be that hard to control." Salamon interjected as Renamon appeared next to her.
Guilmon's stomach then started to rumble as though it intended to make a point
"Red's stomach is right! nothing can stop it!" Terriermon replied as he waved his ears in the air.
"What are you two doing here anyway? Don't your tamers go to another school?" Veemon asked
"Not anymore, Skuld-chan blew it up." Salamon stated.
Back in class, Ruki's left eye was twitching. She was now in a normal school but somethings were definitely wrong. The first this was her attire: A skirt. The second was the leering eyes of the boys forherself and Skuld and finally there was the worst thing ever in her new class (other than the teacher) known to her as 'The Gogglehead'.
"We have two new students in our class due to the explosion of the Shinjukui all girls school. Please welcome Makino Ruki and Skuld" Skuld bowed while Ruki glared. Most people winced at the look but it couldn't stop Hirokazu and Kenta.
"Makino. . ." Kenta started
"Ruki. . ." Hirokazu finished
The said preteen got out of his seat and kneeled on the floor to bow.
"Makino-sama! Please teach me!" He pleaded suddenly, his detention and bucket duty wasn't much of a surprise then.
"Ruki-san, please sit behind Mori and Skuld-san next to her." The teacher instructed as Mori lifted her hand. Both nodded and went to their seat. Skuld smiled as she sat at Ranma's left and Ruki glared at her left side neighbour who just happened to be the gogglehead. Takato was oblivious to the glare as he smiled widely at her.
"Ultimate force?" Ranma asked Skuld silently as she nodded.
Does this still work? He opened a thelepathic link to her.
It does Ranma, at least we won't need to bound again. Skuld answered. As class progressed they exchanged stories of their life until the wish. Ranma told her about his training and just as the bell rang for recess, Skuld disturbed everyone.
"GENMA SAOTOME! YOU WILL DIE!" She screamed in ancient norse. Her rage was almost enough to make her shift to her battle outfitand all three of her sisters felt her sudden rage.
'Why did I even mention the Neko-ken?' Ranma thought as Skuld swore in her mind in at least 30 different languages both forgotten and quite poetic in their curses.
"What's the Matter sis? And who are you mad at anyway?" Ruki asked her.
"That doesn't matter, he WILL die!" Skuld was mad enough to act like Ruki or even Urd at the moment. "He hurt my Ranma and for that he will go directly to Nifelheim where Hild will eviscerate him at least twice a day after his daily pinaple rape!" Skuld grumbled but the thing she had said about Ranma didn't go unnoticed.
"Hello, I'm saotome Ranko and I'm Ranma's fiancée so so stay away from my Ran-chan, she said rather sweetly. While lifting a fist which Skuld seized before she developed a demo head.
"You're a Saotome? You're taking me to genme after school then, he deserves a fitting end for hurting my Ranma!" She ordered, Ranko was rendered speechless by the attack and simply nodded.
'Fried panda tonight.' Ranma thought.
"Since when do you know this guy Skuld-chan?" Ruki asked her sister.
"Forever and a day, isn't that right Ranma?" She said with a wink directed at him.
"Since before the beginning of time really, I never really counted." He answered.
Some girls in the background sighed at the romantic display.
"You never talked about her before bro." Takato said with a raised eyebrow.
"And you never even mentioned him Skuld." Ruki stated with the same expression. Both tamers saw that and while Takato blushed a bit, Ruki frowned deeply.
"The nerve! Trying to take possession of Ranma after she just met him!" Ranko huffed and turned to her desk.
"I'll explained someday." Both said in stereo as the recess ended and Ms Asashi entered the room.
"The rest of the day was passed with Ranma trying to convince Skuold not to kill Genma.
sorry Ranma but he's going down. The bell rang and she followed Ranko out the door. Ranma jumped out of the window and took to the roofs to follow them.
"You're coming with me goggles." Ruki seized Takato's arm just as he was talking to Juri's sock puppet.
"Is she trying to take Takato from us? Ruff!" The puppet asked the girl.
"It looks like it!" And she was off after the presumed couple.
'Why does it seem like Furrikan all over again?' Ranma asked himself as he looked over the street. Ranko was followed by Skuld, followed by Ruki dragging Takato who were followed by Juri.
"I suppose I'm still in the middle of it all." Ranma stated as he jumped to meet his destiny.
Skuld barged into the building after Ranko who had to jump out of the way.
"Saotome Genma, for what you did to Ranma, you will DIE!" The scream of feminine outrage roused instincts born from training under Happousai in Genma who jumped into the koi pound and started to play with a tire next to a sign saying 'I'm just a cute Panda, not Genma Saotome.'
"What did you do this time dearest?" Nodoka asked her husband before she turned to the young lady. "Please state your business with my husband and I'll try to find reparation."
She was beyond resoning as she wound back to throw a bolt of lightning at Genma who was now in his stance of the crouching tiger.
"Skuld! Stop now!" Ranma appeared next to her as he held her wrist back from throwing the bolt of lethal lightning at Genma.
"What are you doing Ranma? He deserves it for all he did to you! The engagements, the training trips, the neko-ken. . ." She let the power go and cried on his shoulder. Nodoka's eyes went wide while Genma had fallen unconscious from fear. Ranko had walked to stand next to her mother and looked at the scene in incomprehension.
"Ranma? Is that you son?" She asked the young incarnated god.
"I'm only his next incarnation Saotome-san. Skuld here is my fiancée. Our meeting was merely due to a chance occurance." He bowed and turned away. Ranko was left with her sobbing mother.
"What. . .what just happened mother?" Ranko asked.
"Have I ever told you about your brother Ranko-chan?" Nodoka answered as she started his life story.
At the window, Ruki and Takato had eared everything.
"Fiancées. . ." Both said at the same time. A noise behind them made Takato go into automatic, he seized Ruki into his arms and jumped to the roof.
"Takato!" Guilmon screamed as Ranamon phased into view behind him.
"Oh, it's just Guilmon." Takato stated with Ruki still in his arms.
"Goggles, put me down so you can die." Ruki said in a deadly calm voice which sent chills down Takato's spine.
He swallowed a lump that materialised in his throat and jumped to the ground to rejoin his digimon and he let her down receiving a slap for his efforts.
"If you ever do that again goggles, I'll turn you into a human living Meramon!" she menaced.
"I'm not promising anything, I'df rather save you then let you die. See you tomorrow Ruki-chan. You look cute in a skirt by the way!" He called as he left. The roar of feminine anger and the following ball of fire made it quite clear it had been the wrong thing to say.
The blushing Ruki left the scene in a hurry, unaware of the small smile that adorned her features.
'The nerve of that gogglehead! First he takes me in his arms and then he. . .he calls me cute in that SKIRT of all things! Why didn't he mention that while I was wearing my other clothes. . . WHAT AM I THINKING? At least it felt kind of good. . .ARRRRRRRG!' Ruki thought.
"Are you alright Ruki?" Renamon asked her distraught tamer.
"Just peachy Renamon, let's go home." She continued walking and the kitsune disappeared into a nearby shadow.
'I think she likes me!' Takato thought as he passed the park along with Guilmon.
"Takatomon, why did Rukimon slap you?" the rookie asked his tamer.
"First I'm not a mon and neither is Ruki Guilmon. I think it's because she was embarrassed and that she just bottles it up" He tried to explain to his saurian friend.
In the shadow of a tree, Juri could only see Takato talking to someone and it could only be about her from her point of view.
'Takato knows I like him. . .yay!' She laughed as she danced towards her home, completely missing the point of Takato's explanation as any fiancée wannabe in Ranma's world.
"I smell a digimon!" Guilmon said in a growl to Takato before he dashed in the opposite direction Juri had taken a second before and in the same direction Ruki had taken with Takato in hot pursuit of his feral digimon.
Somewhere else, Ranma still held Skuld in his arms. She stopped crying and looked around. They were in a room bathed in a golden light yet immersed in darkness. It was out of fashion by a few millenias but it screamed 'Ranma' to her.
"Where are we Ranma?" She asked.
"My old flat in the sea of chaos, the one next to Lina's" He answered cheerfully, 'next to' wasn't really accurate, Lina Inverse was the only other person to be able to access this part of the multiverse at any time of her choosing so it wasn't as though he had any other neighbours. "You needed the time off the mortal realm"
"I just. . .I almost. . ." She hugged him harder as she almost sobbed again.
"Ranma calmed her once again and let her fall asleep on his shoulder.
It was right then that the phone rang, Ranma answered from his mobilehopi9ng it hadn't woken Skuld.
"Hello, Ranma here, I suppose it's you father?" It was a fair assumption since he was one of the only two beings that could have reached him in the sea on Chaos by phone and the other one was sleeping on his shoulder right now and he also was god after all so he HAD to know.
"Yes my son, I wanted to ask you and Skuld to bring over my two lates children. Their powersw are coming to them and they need to be warned." Kami-sama said on the other side of the line.
"Already? And here I thought I had at least a week to ease them off into the idea of being linked to the whole planet. I'll wake Skuld up and get them to you then." Ranma answered the Almighty.
"I look forward to seeing you as well Ranma, I've missed you." Kami answered before he hung up.
Ranma turned to his fiancée.
'How to wake her? Maybe this.' He thought as he moved his face near her ear and whispered. "Wakey wakey Skuldey!"
She moaned something unintelligible as her answered and settled deeper into his arms to ignore the annoying sound.
"I'll use the ultimate waking technique if you don't wake up." He was met with the same answer and Ranma was forced to attack.
"Ultimate technique! Ticckle attack!" He put his hands on her sides and acted. Skuld immediately jerked awake and tried to escape his grasp.
"EEEEEEK! Ran-RanmaaaaAAAH ah stop-stop it!" She managed to say between fits of laughter.
He relented and she used the pause in the attack to launch her own counter-attack and tackled him to the ground just before he switched positions with her and froze as he held himself over her. He realised their compromising position a little too late. Skuld encircled his neck and pulled him in for a short kiss.
"That's how you wake your fiancée baka." Skuld let him go and he got up, pulling her to her feet.
"I considered it but remember the last time I tried that?" He asked her as he suddered at the memory of her reaction.
"It was at the beginning of our relationship, I was a little freaked after we were engaged all of a sudden you know and getting woken up like that was unexpected back then." She had the decency to blush as she remembered the first test of her neo-Skuld bombs.
"We have to get back anyway. Father wants us to bring our respective siblings. I'll bet your other sisters will want to meet your twin as well." Ranma stated. He opened the door giving to the sea of chaos and seized Skuld's arm before he warped them back to earth through his medium. (not saying but it should be quite evident.)
Meanwhile, there was a battle raging on back on earth. Guilmon was fighting Renamon, they had easily defeated the wild one, a Shadowtoyagumon and Ruki had taken that as an offence worth a beating of Guilmon until he was on the brink of deletion.
Jen had seen the 'friendly confrontation' and tried to stop it in a peaceful way. In another corner Calumon was looking at this friendly game of tag while Terriermon was looking at something near some barrels.
"Fox Leaf Arrowheads!" Renamon called her attack and a hail of icicles fell towards guilmon who reacted instinctively.
"Fire Ball!" He countered. The attacks collided and caused an explosion which started a chain reaction. What Terriermon had been looking at was an oil leak which was long enough to reach the heat from the explosion and caught fire, the fire quickly reached the barrels which in turn exploded.
TERRIERMON! NO!" Jen screamed over the noises of things blowing up all around.
With all those explosions, calumon determined the place was dangerous and his frontal sign glowed. At the same time, Jenrya's digivice started glowing and a single word on it.
EVOLUTION
TERRIERMON SHINKA! . . . GALGOMON!
The dog digimon with gattling guns equipped turned aggressive on Guilmon and Renamon to Jen's horror.
"No. . .not again. . .you promised. . ." he mumbled as he stood there, a powerless observer of his digimon going berserk.
"The champion level had no problem dispatching the two rookies and turned towards the neares target : Ruki.
"Ruki! Run!" Renamon called from her position imbedded in the wall. She struggled to get up but she knew even she wasn't fast enough without a modify card and Ruki was frozen in place at the moment.
"Guilmon!" Takato ordered his digimon with this single word and moved to protect Ruki.
"Galgolazer!" the dog digimon called. Takato jumped to take Ruki out of harms way as Guilmon tackled the champion but the dinosaur was a second too late and one of the bullets clipped Takako on the shoulder. The force of the impact sent hin spiralling further back with Ruki in his arms. He twisted enough to have her under his body to protect her.
"Are you alright Ruki-chan?" He asked from over her as the wound bled over her shirt ruining it, but she didn't care about that at the moment.
"You're the one who's hurt!" She exclaimed as she prepared a healing spell. Takato stopped her before she could finish.
"The bullet's still in, if you heal it now it'll be even worst later. Let me take care of this first." He got up shakily, the rush of adrenaline was numbing the pain of his wound and giving him some energy but it remained a struggle not to fall unconscious from the burning sensation in his shoulder. He raised his hands together and bit his lip to the blood to distract himself from his first wound. He gathered his chi, all his power really. It was all or nothing now.
"Try this on Galgomon! KARYU DAN!" He released his chi attack in the for of a crimsom dragon head. It sped off and knocked the dog digimon to the wall.
"Woah, that sets a mind in the right track!" Galgomon, obviously back to his old self, stated. "Hey Jen. . .when did you get so small? Woah! I'm Galgomon again!"
"Terriermon no baka!" You. . .promised me. . . "He told his partner with tears in his eyes.
"Moumentaï Jen, no one was. . .OH MY GOD!" He was wide eyed when he saw Takato being carried by Ruki and Renamon. "I'm so. . .sorry."
"You better be rabbit!" Ruki's eyes glowed for a second as Guilmon got in front of Takato to carry him on his back.
"No biggy Terriermon, you weren't in control anyway." Takato answered between gritted teeth.
"Are you alright Takato?" Jen asked.
"Of course he isn't brainiac! He was just shot in the shoulder! We have to take him to a doctor right away!" Ruki said as she loaded him on the back of the crimsom dinosaur.
"You know Tofu-senseï? He won't say a word. . ." Takato whispered from the back of his partner. They were off with Ruki's nod of approval. It was rather eerie how people couldn't see what was right in front of them except for one person as they ran throught the streets.
'Children. . .playing whith what they don't understand' Yamaki said as he played with his lighter. 'Soon it won't matter anyway.'
The trip to the clinic was uneventful and they were lucky enough to find it empty of patients.
"Hello. . .Oh! Takato-kun! Not again ? What kind of training did you and Ranma try this time? Sometimes he's even crasier then Saotome-san." The doctor said as he examined the wound.
"It wasn't bro this time doc, just a giant dog wearing jeans and a bandolier of ammo wielding two gattling guns instead of hands." Takato stated through the pain.
Tofu blinked at that statement. Takato, much like Ranma, was incapacitated in the lying department.and the giant bunny DID have guns instead of hands.
"Well then, next time don't hurt anyone, those things are illegal in japan anyway." He scolded Terriermon as he disinfected the wound.
"Is he going to be alright." Ruki asked in a rather worried tone for her.
"Yes but he needs to get to an hospital. He lost too much blood and it would be dangerous to. . ." He stopped talking and gawked at Ruki who was now glowing white. He almost fell to his knees when he felt her aura.
"He saved my life back there. I owe him one."Ruki stated as her clothes changed before the group. Her facial markings elongated until it was a set of three lines, one going straight down and the two others were going at a 45 degree angle downward from the same point. Two lines appeared under her eyes which were horizontal. She was dressed in the ceremonial way. She had a white blouse with long and frilly with a black vest over it closed like a corset at the front. The fact that she was wearing a long flowing skirt didn't register immediately but it felt kind of right compared to what her mother wanted her to wear. It had black in between the folds and red borders. Her violet eyes shone with power as she worked her magic. The bullet was pulled out of Takato's shoulder and his wound was starting to heal just as Ranma and Skuld teleported in.
"Hey there! WOAH!! Kami-sama was right about their powers coming to them!" Ranma exclaimed at the light show while Skuld hit his head.
"Why hello there Ranma-kun. It figures you'd be privy with the kami, sorcerors as well as priestesses and demons." Tofu was looking at Ruki as she finished her healing spell.
"Stuff happens Senseï." Ranma stated plainly.
"Yeah, Ranma is the embodiment of Chaos itself." Skuld affirmed.
"Who are you people?" Jen asked as Galgomon prepared for a fight.
"You'd categorise us as weirdoes or something." Ranma dismissed the question. "Just remember we're not exactly the average human being."
"I'm not exactly the most normal one in the world either." Jen answered as he lowered his guard. (I'm not about to power up everyone except poor Jen.)
Just as Takato recovered his strength. Ruki, spent of her power, collapsed on top of him.
"Hey Ruki-chan, are you alright." He asked the girl.
"Yeah! What were you thinking gogglehead?" Sher shot back. If I wanted saving I would have asked you!" She almost screamed.
"I knew you were too prideful for that. Sleep, you need the energy." He said as he followed his own advice and fell asleep.
"Gogglehead no baka. . ." Even as she said that she was falling asleep right on top of him. Renamon moved to get her tamer but Skuld stopped the vulpine Digimon.
"Let them be Renamon, we'll take care of them." She told the digimon as Ranma talked to Guilmon.
"Okey dokey Ranmamon, I'll find Veemon and Salamon." He sniffed the air and dashed through the streets towards the general direction of shinjuku park.
"We're ready Skuld-chan, take your sister and we're leaving." Ranma said as he produced a bowl of water for her to use as transportation. She touched Ruki and the water with her other hand before she disappeared. Ranma touched Takato and turned to Tofu.
"Thanks for taking care of my brother sensei, see you tomorrow Jen, Terriermon!" He disappeared without a sound leaving Jen and Tofu alone.
End of this here chapter.
I'm so sorry! I had this written down along with half another chapter but my job in a summer camp turned to hell 14 days of work and 24 hours of break, it's not a life T_T
I started some other fictions and got sidetracked all the time, real life didn't help either with it's claws upon my poor body I was stuck working in class like a slave. I am sorry but things should pick up as I finished writing the second chapter in philosophy class. Expect it before the end of the next month with some luck.
C&C as always are welcomed, flames are fed top my pet Megidramon who uses them to power up his medigo flare attack which he uses to burn my opposition to cinders so you flame at your own risk or if you're tired of living.
By Godai
Disclaimer : see chapter 1
AN : I use a mix of Japanese and english names and attacks, Ruki Makino was the real name.
Chapter 4: Evolution.
Takato had a lot of problems that morning, first he was late for training, then Guilmon followed him to the dojo. Ranma had Veemon keep an eye on the dinosaur but it was a lost cause. Now his digimon was on a rampage in the school cafeteria along with Veemon and a Terriermon.
"What are you doing Terriermon?" A boy about Takato's age asked the rookie.
"Well, you see this big fella decided to raid place while Veemon here was keeping an eye on him while scarfing down the goods so I decided that if you can't beat'em, join'em! Moumentaï!" Terriermon explained. The boy sighed in defeat at his partner.
"Terriermon, no computer for a week and be thankful I don't lend you to Suichon." He scolded his partner who started to grovel and panick at the mention of that name.
"Ok, not another word then!" The rookie shut it's mouth and jumped on his partner's head.
"I'm very sorry for Terriermon's behaviour, I'm Li Jenrya." He bowed towards Takato who waved his hand in dismissal.
"No, I'm the one who's sorry, I'm Matsuda Takato and the red dino is Guilmon my partner." He answered with a bow of his own. Guilmon tried to imitate him but he lost his balance and fell flat on his face. The group laughed as he rubbed the back of his head. Takato and Jenrya left for class just as Veemon and Terriermon dragged Guilmon to the shadows of a tree.
"What took you so long?" A shadow asked the trio.
"Guilmon can't be that hard to control." Salamon interjected as Renamon appeared next to her.
Guilmon's stomach then started to rumble as though it intended to make a point
"Red's stomach is right! nothing can stop it!" Terriermon replied as he waved his ears in the air.
"What are you two doing here anyway? Don't your tamers go to another school?" Veemon asked
"Not anymore, Skuld-chan blew it up." Salamon stated.
Back in class, Ruki's left eye was twitching. She was now in a normal school but somethings were definitely wrong. The first this was her attire: A skirt. The second was the leering eyes of the boys forherself and Skuld and finally there was the worst thing ever in her new class (other than the teacher) known to her as 'The Gogglehead'.
"We have two new students in our class due to the explosion of the Shinjukui all girls school. Please welcome Makino Ruki and Skuld" Skuld bowed while Ruki glared. Most people winced at the look but it couldn't stop Hirokazu and Kenta.
"Makino. . ." Kenta started
"Ruki. . ." Hirokazu finished
The said preteen got out of his seat and kneeled on the floor to bow.
"Makino-sama! Please teach me!" He pleaded suddenly, his detention and bucket duty wasn't much of a surprise then.
"Ruki-san, please sit behind Mori and Skuld-san next to her." The teacher instructed as Mori lifted her hand. Both nodded and went to their seat. Skuld smiled as she sat at Ranma's left and Ruki glared at her left side neighbour who just happened to be the gogglehead. Takato was oblivious to the glare as he smiled widely at her.
"Ultimate force?" Ranma asked Skuld silently as she nodded.
Does this still work? He opened a thelepathic link to her.
It does Ranma, at least we won't need to bound again. Skuld answered. As class progressed they exchanged stories of their life until the wish. Ranma told her about his training and just as the bell rang for recess, Skuld disturbed everyone.
"GENMA SAOTOME! YOU WILL DIE!" She screamed in ancient norse. Her rage was almost enough to make her shift to her battle outfitand all three of her sisters felt her sudden rage.
'Why did I even mention the Neko-ken?' Ranma thought as Skuld swore in her mind in at least 30 different languages both forgotten and quite poetic in their curses.
"What's the Matter sis? And who are you mad at anyway?" Ruki asked her.
"That doesn't matter, he WILL die!" Skuld was mad enough to act like Ruki or even Urd at the moment. "He hurt my Ranma and for that he will go directly to Nifelheim where Hild will eviscerate him at least twice a day after his daily pinaple rape!" Skuld grumbled but the thing she had said about Ranma didn't go unnoticed.
"Hello, I'm saotome Ranko and I'm Ranma's fiancée so so stay away from my Ran-chan, she said rather sweetly. While lifting a fist which Skuld seized before she developed a demo head.
"You're a Saotome? You're taking me to genme after school then, he deserves a fitting end for hurting my Ranma!" She ordered, Ranko was rendered speechless by the attack and simply nodded.
'Fried panda tonight.' Ranma thought.
"Since when do you know this guy Skuld-chan?" Ruki asked her sister.
"Forever and a day, isn't that right Ranma?" She said with a wink directed at him.
"Since before the beginning of time really, I never really counted." He answered.
Some girls in the background sighed at the romantic display.
"You never talked about her before bro." Takato said with a raised eyebrow.
"And you never even mentioned him Skuld." Ruki stated with the same expression. Both tamers saw that and while Takato blushed a bit, Ruki frowned deeply.
"The nerve! Trying to take possession of Ranma after she just met him!" Ranko huffed and turned to her desk.
"I'll explained someday." Both said in stereo as the recess ended and Ms Asashi entered the room.
"The rest of the day was passed with Ranma trying to convince Skuold not to kill Genma.
sorry Ranma but he's going down. The bell rang and she followed Ranko out the door. Ranma jumped out of the window and took to the roofs to follow them.
"You're coming with me goggles." Ruki seized Takato's arm just as he was talking to Juri's sock puppet.
"Is she trying to take Takato from us? Ruff!" The puppet asked the girl.
"It looks like it!" And she was off after the presumed couple.
'Why does it seem like Furrikan all over again?' Ranma asked himself as he looked over the street. Ranko was followed by Skuld, followed by Ruki dragging Takato who were followed by Juri.
"I suppose I'm still in the middle of it all." Ranma stated as he jumped to meet his destiny.
Skuld barged into the building after Ranko who had to jump out of the way.
"Saotome Genma, for what you did to Ranma, you will DIE!" The scream of feminine outrage roused instincts born from training under Happousai in Genma who jumped into the koi pound and started to play with a tire next to a sign saying 'I'm just a cute Panda, not Genma Saotome.'
"What did you do this time dearest?" Nodoka asked her husband before she turned to the young lady. "Please state your business with my husband and I'll try to find reparation."
She was beyond resoning as she wound back to throw a bolt of lightning at Genma who was now in his stance of the crouching tiger.
"Skuld! Stop now!" Ranma appeared next to her as he held her wrist back from throwing the bolt of lethal lightning at Genma.
"What are you doing Ranma? He deserves it for all he did to you! The engagements, the training trips, the neko-ken. . ." She let the power go and cried on his shoulder. Nodoka's eyes went wide while Genma had fallen unconscious from fear. Ranko had walked to stand next to her mother and looked at the scene in incomprehension.
"Ranma? Is that you son?" She asked the young incarnated god.
"I'm only his next incarnation Saotome-san. Skuld here is my fiancée. Our meeting was merely due to a chance occurance." He bowed and turned away. Ranko was left with her sobbing mother.
"What. . .what just happened mother?" Ranko asked.
"Have I ever told you about your brother Ranko-chan?" Nodoka answered as she started his life story.
At the window, Ruki and Takato had eared everything.
"Fiancées. . ." Both said at the same time. A noise behind them made Takato go into automatic, he seized Ruki into his arms and jumped to the roof.
"Takato!" Guilmon screamed as Ranamon phased into view behind him.
"Oh, it's just Guilmon." Takato stated with Ruki still in his arms.
"Goggles, put me down so you can die." Ruki said in a deadly calm voice which sent chills down Takato's spine.
He swallowed a lump that materialised in his throat and jumped to the ground to rejoin his digimon and he let her down receiving a slap for his efforts.
"If you ever do that again goggles, I'll turn you into a human living Meramon!" she menaced.
"I'm not promising anything, I'df rather save you then let you die. See you tomorrow Ruki-chan. You look cute in a skirt by the way!" He called as he left. The roar of feminine anger and the following ball of fire made it quite clear it had been the wrong thing to say.
The blushing Ruki left the scene in a hurry, unaware of the small smile that adorned her features.
'The nerve of that gogglehead! First he takes me in his arms and then he. . .he calls me cute in that SKIRT of all things! Why didn't he mention that while I was wearing my other clothes. . . WHAT AM I THINKING? At least it felt kind of good. . .ARRRRRRRG!' Ruki thought.
"Are you alright Ruki?" Renamon asked her distraught tamer.
"Just peachy Renamon, let's go home." She continued walking and the kitsune disappeared into a nearby shadow.
'I think she likes me!' Takato thought as he passed the park along with Guilmon.
"Takatomon, why did Rukimon slap you?" the rookie asked his tamer.
"First I'm not a mon and neither is Ruki Guilmon. I think it's because she was embarrassed and that she just bottles it up" He tried to explain to his saurian friend.
In the shadow of a tree, Juri could only see Takato talking to someone and it could only be about her from her point of view.
'Takato knows I like him. . .yay!' She laughed as she danced towards her home, completely missing the point of Takato's explanation as any fiancée wannabe in Ranma's world.
"I smell a digimon!" Guilmon said in a growl to Takato before he dashed in the opposite direction Juri had taken a second before and in the same direction Ruki had taken with Takato in hot pursuit of his feral digimon.
Somewhere else, Ranma still held Skuld in his arms. She stopped crying and looked around. They were in a room bathed in a golden light yet immersed in darkness. It was out of fashion by a few millenias but it screamed 'Ranma' to her.
"Where are we Ranma?" She asked.
"My old flat in the sea of chaos, the one next to Lina's" He answered cheerfully, 'next to' wasn't really accurate, Lina Inverse was the only other person to be able to access this part of the multiverse at any time of her choosing so it wasn't as though he had any other neighbours. "You needed the time off the mortal realm"
"I just. . .I almost. . ." She hugged him harder as she almost sobbed again.
"Ranma calmed her once again and let her fall asleep on his shoulder.
It was right then that the phone rang, Ranma answered from his mobilehopi9ng it hadn't woken Skuld.
"Hello, Ranma here, I suppose it's you father?" It was a fair assumption since he was one of the only two beings that could have reached him in the sea on Chaos by phone and the other one was sleeping on his shoulder right now and he also was god after all so he HAD to know.
"Yes my son, I wanted to ask you and Skuld to bring over my two lates children. Their powersw are coming to them and they need to be warned." Kami-sama said on the other side of the line.
"Already? And here I thought I had at least a week to ease them off into the idea of being linked to the whole planet. I'll wake Skuld up and get them to you then." Ranma answered the Almighty.
"I look forward to seeing you as well Ranma, I've missed you." Kami answered before he hung up.
Ranma turned to his fiancée.
'How to wake her? Maybe this.' He thought as he moved his face near her ear and whispered. "Wakey wakey Skuldey!"
She moaned something unintelligible as her answered and settled deeper into his arms to ignore the annoying sound.
"I'll use the ultimate waking technique if you don't wake up." He was met with the same answer and Ranma was forced to attack.
"Ultimate technique! Ticckle attack!" He put his hands on her sides and acted. Skuld immediately jerked awake and tried to escape his grasp.
"EEEEEEK! Ran-RanmaaaaAAAH ah stop-stop it!" She managed to say between fits of laughter.
He relented and she used the pause in the attack to launch her own counter-attack and tackled him to the ground just before he switched positions with her and froze as he held himself over her. He realised their compromising position a little too late. Skuld encircled his neck and pulled him in for a short kiss.
"That's how you wake your fiancée baka." Skuld let him go and he got up, pulling her to her feet.
"I considered it but remember the last time I tried that?" He asked her as he suddered at the memory of her reaction.
"It was at the beginning of our relationship, I was a little freaked after we were engaged all of a sudden you know and getting woken up like that was unexpected back then." She had the decency to blush as she remembered the first test of her neo-Skuld bombs.
"We have to get back anyway. Father wants us to bring our respective siblings. I'll bet your other sisters will want to meet your twin as well." Ranma stated. He opened the door giving to the sea of chaos and seized Skuld's arm before he warped them back to earth through his medium. (not saying but it should be quite evident.)
Meanwhile, there was a battle raging on back on earth. Guilmon was fighting Renamon, they had easily defeated the wild one, a Shadowtoyagumon and Ruki had taken that as an offence worth a beating of Guilmon until he was on the brink of deletion.
Jen had seen the 'friendly confrontation' and tried to stop it in a peaceful way. In another corner Calumon was looking at this friendly game of tag while Terriermon was looking at something near some barrels.
"Fox Leaf Arrowheads!" Renamon called her attack and a hail of icicles fell towards guilmon who reacted instinctively.
"Fire Ball!" He countered. The attacks collided and caused an explosion which started a chain reaction. What Terriermon had been looking at was an oil leak which was long enough to reach the heat from the explosion and caught fire, the fire quickly reached the barrels which in turn exploded.
TERRIERMON! NO!" Jen screamed over the noises of things blowing up all around.
With all those explosions, calumon determined the place was dangerous and his frontal sign glowed. At the same time, Jenrya's digivice started glowing and a single word on it.
EVOLUTION
TERRIERMON SHINKA! . . . GALGOMON!
The dog digimon with gattling guns equipped turned aggressive on Guilmon and Renamon to Jen's horror.
"No. . .not again. . .you promised. . ." he mumbled as he stood there, a powerless observer of his digimon going berserk.
"The champion level had no problem dispatching the two rookies and turned towards the neares target : Ruki.
"Ruki! Run!" Renamon called from her position imbedded in the wall. She struggled to get up but she knew even she wasn't fast enough without a modify card and Ruki was frozen in place at the moment.
"Guilmon!" Takato ordered his digimon with this single word and moved to protect Ruki.
"Galgolazer!" the dog digimon called. Takato jumped to take Ruki out of harms way as Guilmon tackled the champion but the dinosaur was a second too late and one of the bullets clipped Takako on the shoulder. The force of the impact sent hin spiralling further back with Ruki in his arms. He twisted enough to have her under his body to protect her.
"Are you alright Ruki-chan?" He asked from over her as the wound bled over her shirt ruining it, but she didn't care about that at the moment.
"You're the one who's hurt!" She exclaimed as she prepared a healing spell. Takato stopped her before she could finish.
"The bullet's still in, if you heal it now it'll be even worst later. Let me take care of this first." He got up shakily, the rush of adrenaline was numbing the pain of his wound and giving him some energy but it remained a struggle not to fall unconscious from the burning sensation in his shoulder. He raised his hands together and bit his lip to the blood to distract himself from his first wound. He gathered his chi, all his power really. It was all or nothing now.
"Try this on Galgomon! KARYU DAN!" He released his chi attack in the for of a crimsom dragon head. It sped off and knocked the dog digimon to the wall.
"Woah, that sets a mind in the right track!" Galgomon, obviously back to his old self, stated. "Hey Jen. . .when did you get so small? Woah! I'm Galgomon again!"
"Terriermon no baka!" You. . .promised me. . . "He told his partner with tears in his eyes.
"Moumentaï Jen, no one was. . .OH MY GOD!" He was wide eyed when he saw Takato being carried by Ruki and Renamon. "I'm so. . .sorry."
"You better be rabbit!" Ruki's eyes glowed for a second as Guilmon got in front of Takato to carry him on his back.
"No biggy Terriermon, you weren't in control anyway." Takato answered between gritted teeth.
"Are you alright Takato?" Jen asked.
"Of course he isn't brainiac! He was just shot in the shoulder! We have to take him to a doctor right away!" Ruki said as she loaded him on the back of the crimsom dinosaur.
"You know Tofu-senseï? He won't say a word. . ." Takato whispered from the back of his partner. They were off with Ruki's nod of approval. It was rather eerie how people couldn't see what was right in front of them except for one person as they ran throught the streets.
'Children. . .playing whith what they don't understand' Yamaki said as he played with his lighter. 'Soon it won't matter anyway.'
The trip to the clinic was uneventful and they were lucky enough to find it empty of patients.
"Hello. . .Oh! Takato-kun! Not again ? What kind of training did you and Ranma try this time? Sometimes he's even crasier then Saotome-san." The doctor said as he examined the wound.
"It wasn't bro this time doc, just a giant dog wearing jeans and a bandolier of ammo wielding two gattling guns instead of hands." Takato stated through the pain.
Tofu blinked at that statement. Takato, much like Ranma, was incapacitated in the lying department.and the giant bunny DID have guns instead of hands.
"Well then, next time don't hurt anyone, those things are illegal in japan anyway." He scolded Terriermon as he disinfected the wound.
"Is he going to be alright." Ruki asked in a rather worried tone for her.
"Yes but he needs to get to an hospital. He lost too much blood and it would be dangerous to. . ." He stopped talking and gawked at Ruki who was now glowing white. He almost fell to his knees when he felt her aura.
"He saved my life back there. I owe him one."Ruki stated as her clothes changed before the group. Her facial markings elongated until it was a set of three lines, one going straight down and the two others were going at a 45 degree angle downward from the same point. Two lines appeared under her eyes which were horizontal. She was dressed in the ceremonial way. She had a white blouse with long and frilly with a black vest over it closed like a corset at the front. The fact that she was wearing a long flowing skirt didn't register immediately but it felt kind of right compared to what her mother wanted her to wear. It had black in between the folds and red borders. Her violet eyes shone with power as she worked her magic. The bullet was pulled out of Takato's shoulder and his wound was starting to heal just as Ranma and Skuld teleported in.
"Hey there! WOAH!! Kami-sama was right about their powers coming to them!" Ranma exclaimed at the light show while Skuld hit his head.
"Why hello there Ranma-kun. It figures you'd be privy with the kami, sorcerors as well as priestesses and demons." Tofu was looking at Ruki as she finished her healing spell.
"Stuff happens Senseï." Ranma stated plainly.
"Yeah, Ranma is the embodiment of Chaos itself." Skuld affirmed.
"Who are you people?" Jen asked as Galgomon prepared for a fight.
"You'd categorise us as weirdoes or something." Ranma dismissed the question. "Just remember we're not exactly the average human being."
"I'm not exactly the most normal one in the world either." Jen answered as he lowered his guard. (I'm not about to power up everyone except poor Jen.)
Just as Takato recovered his strength. Ruki, spent of her power, collapsed on top of him.
"Hey Ruki-chan, are you alright." He asked the girl.
"Yeah! What were you thinking gogglehead?" Sher shot back. If I wanted saving I would have asked you!" She almost screamed.
"I knew you were too prideful for that. Sleep, you need the energy." He said as he followed his own advice and fell asleep.
"Gogglehead no baka. . ." Even as she said that she was falling asleep right on top of him. Renamon moved to get her tamer but Skuld stopped the vulpine Digimon.
"Let them be Renamon, we'll take care of them." She told the digimon as Ranma talked to Guilmon.
"Okey dokey Ranmamon, I'll find Veemon and Salamon." He sniffed the air and dashed through the streets towards the general direction of shinjuku park.
"We're ready Skuld-chan, take your sister and we're leaving." Ranma said as he produced a bowl of water for her to use as transportation. She touched Ruki and the water with her other hand before she disappeared. Ranma touched Takato and turned to Tofu.
"Thanks for taking care of my brother sensei, see you tomorrow Jen, Terriermon!" He disappeared without a sound leaving Jen and Tofu alone.
End of this here chapter.
I'm so sorry! I had this written down along with half another chapter but my job in a summer camp turned to hell 14 days of work and 24 hours of break, it's not a life T_T
I started some other fictions and got sidetracked all the time, real life didn't help either with it's claws upon my poor body I was stuck working in class like a slave. I am sorry but things should pick up as I finished writing the second chapter in philosophy class. Expect it before the end of the next month with some luck.
C&C as always are welcomed, flames are fed top my pet Megidramon who uses them to power up his medigo flare attack which he uses to burn my opposition to cinders so you flame at your own risk or if you're tired of living.
