Pigtailled Tamer
By Godai
Disclaimer : see first chapter.
Chapter 5 : Revelations
Takato woke up to unknown surroundings. It wasn't his home and it sure wasn't Tofu's clinic. He did like the look of the place but it wasn't really familiar. Another feeling crept up his senses. An unknown weight was spread across his chest.
'I have a bad feeling about this. . .' Takato chanced a glance at the burben and went as white as a sheet. His brother had warned him something like this could happen and what the consequences were most likely to be. The fact that every anime except Digimon had at least one of those scenes and that the results were more then likely the same didn't help his opinion. As such, Takato waited for his slow and painful death. It was oddly enjoyable to hold Ruki in his arms yet uncomfortable, it's hard to settle when one's impending doom is looming over them.
'Ruki will find ways to kill me painfully, restore me to life and then kill me again! I'mgonnadieI'mgonnadieI'mgonnadie!' Just his thoughts of his own gory death almost woke the sleeping goddess, he immediately froze and went as rigid as a rock.
He relaxed after a while and finally and settled for his upcoming death. His left arm, full of numbness, moved to rest around her waist. Ruki moaned a bit but didn't squirm until Takato, taken by panic, tried to move it away. Ruki almost woke up at that moment but Takato was fast enough to return his limb to it's resting place.
Ruki settled instinctively deeper into his arms, using him as a human blanket.
'Oh well, I might as well die an happy death even if it will be olng and painful.' He thought. He settled himself more comfortably, careful not to rouse the sleeping ruki and awaited the reaper.
Ruki woke up inside a nice warm blanket, or rather she was hugging one to herself. It was a moving blanket. . . a living and breathing blanket. . . Ruki opened her eyes, bracing them to support the incoming light and saw the bloodstained. 'Oh no. . . not that. . .' Ruki looked up until she met Takato's eyes. 'Yep, I slept with the gogglehead while I was wearing a freaking dress. . .A DRESS!'
"When did i put that dress on?" She half stated half asked.
"While you were healing me with all those flashy lights." Takato dumbly answered, he looked rather calm considering he was about to get slaughtered. Ruki glared at him now, reminded by his voice that she was on the warpath.
What are you doing anyway gogglehead? Get your hands off me!" She exclaimed.
Takato almost jumped away but he forgot about his arm stuck under the red headed tamer and took her with him. She ended up right over him with their lips locked together, Takato's arms around her waist trying to protect her from the impact. (Otaku, you own me a chappie ;) just kidding!) The five first seconds were spent trying to get over the shock, once that was settled, Ruki's mind screamed for bloody murderous revenge but a small part of it, the less rational one, was singing another tune. The feeling of turning into a mess of sentimental jell-o was quite pleasant and the multitude of fire works around her mind was even better. That part of Ruki saved Takato's life but when he felt her melt into his arms his survival instincts kicked in. He tried to talk himself out of his upcoming demise but it only initiated a deeper kiss. At that moment, Ruki's mind lost all killing intent it might have had. Just as long as Takato kept on kissing her. Just as he tried to retreat for oxygen, Ruki's forceful nature came to the front. She grabbed the back of his head and pulled him for another kiss which was interrupted by a whistle.
Both Takato and Ruki jumped to sit at the same time. They looked towards the sound to see a tan skinned woman still making wolfcalls.
"I don,t know who you are lady but you're interrupting a private discussion." Ruki growled with an healthy blush. Takato was still disoriented, he had been expecting his execution and he had been given the most earth shattering experience of his short life. He was still mumbling as another woman with brown hair and Ruki came in.
"I could see that kiddo! Just don't go any further for a while, I don't want to be an aunt just yet." Urd winked at her direction as she said that. While Ruki was angered by the 'kiddo' comment she was feeling more puzzled then violent.
"Sorry lady but mom ain't that old." She retorted while looking at Skuld for support.
"The old maid's right Ruki-cha." Ranma said as he entered the room.
"Why hello Ranma-kun!" Belldandy greeted. Both Ruki and Takato immediately took a liking to Belldandy just by earing her voice.
"Errrr. . . Ranma, how can she be right? I mean she looks old enough to be Ruki's mother." Takato asked.
"We have to see someone and you'll know all of it then Takato. Just follow me you two." He turned to the door as Ruki and Takato got to their feet helped by Belldandy and Skuld.
They looked in awe as Asgrd came into their view, angels and Valkyries were flying here and there while some gods were walking on the sidewalks.
"We're going to be late if we don't hurry and you can't be late when you go and meet father." Ranma instructed as they hurried the pace. The Valkyrie acting as secretary motioned for them to pass. And Ranma made his way to the massive white doors.
"Here goes nothing." He said as he pushed them open and motioned to the wide eyed tamers to follow him.
The room was quite baren, there was only need for a desk and a computer for Kami-sama. And the only decoration was the plants on each of the four corners of the room even if you couldn't see the walls or a roof, it didn't look like it had a floor in that matter, the plants were delimiting the virtual space the room took.
"Welcome Ranma, I see you brought Ruki and Takato with you." The booming but still gentle voice spoke. The three bowed just as Skuld, whom had talked a bit with her sisters, entered. "Running a little late Skuld." He said a bit amused.
"Sorry father, I was just catching up a bit." Skuld blushed as she bowed as well.
"Why are we here sir-er-Kami-sama sir. . ." Takato stumbled on his own words.
"For you to understand. Long ago, eons really, Ranma died in battle protecting Skuld." God started the story. "You see, they were engaged at birth since their domains were so close. Ranma is the god of Chaos while Ruki is the goddess of the future."
"Good story but Skuld was born seconds after me." Ruki stated, a bit unbelieving.
"Let me finish the story Ruki, or do you wish for me to call Thor?" He said with a small smile, Ruki shut her opened mouth and listened.
"When he died, a promise he and Skuld made affected the return of his soul to the powers of the Yggdrasil the tree of life that along with his chaotic nature made sure he was incarnated within a human vessel eons later." He paused for them to ask questions.
"But why would Skuld be incarnated as well, she didn't die." Takato asked.
"His first incarnation wasn't your brother but another Ranma of the Saotome clan." Takato and Ruki suddenly understood the little crisis at the dojo.
"May I take over father, it'll be easier for me now." Ranma asked Kami who nodded.
"I was calling pizza when I suddenly learned I had the right to get a wish." He said. "Skuld answered and appeared at my house to grant me that wish. Since my powers were out of my control; I had quite a chaotic life and I had experience with wish granting artefacts and the likes so I just wished to be reborn with the memories of my previous life so that I could be useful somewhere and Skuld was pulled in by the ultimate force." Ranma nodded to Kami who took back the reins of the story.
"The ultimate force is the ultimate form of power, if you wish to be with someone all your life it'll make sure it happens all the time and the more force there is against it, the more it'll counter." Kami explained. He then restarted the story. "As a god, Ranma couldn't get a wish but with his incarnation could and it messed up the programs in our matrix. Their promise and his wish mixed together and it tried to find the two nearest possible vessels, your parents were both supposed to give birth to twins one of which would die so we didn't take away anyone already living and introduced them in the mortal realm with their powers unlocked. The fact that they were with you in the womb altered your DNA just a bit and you find yourselves with the powers of gods. Normally this wouldn't be a problem until your death but circumstances make it awkward not to limit your powers." Kami explained the situation.
"Alright, I can understand that but how do we know it's true?" Ruki asked as she gathered her courage. Kami smiled as he produced two unknown fruits.
"Eat those and you'll know." The fruits floated to the two young gods who took a small bit and immediately they were connected to the Yggdrasil system and to it's databanks as gods third class limited. Ruki had a new earing on her left ear while Takato had a bracer on his left wrist as limiters.
"Why didn't we do that first?" Ruki asked as the knowledge she needed about Ranma came to her.
"Would you have eaten the fruit daughter?" God asked. Ruki shook her head embarrassed.
"How about we go see our sisters now?" Skuld asked.
"Just a second Skuld. I was meaning to give you a promotion as well." Kami said to his daughter who turned to him.
"But-but I haven't done anything for. . ." She was stammering, maybe it was the rank of second unlimited, she didn't dare hope for higher.
"Skuld, I hereby award you with the title of goddess 1st class limited license, are you ready to accept it?" He asked. She was wide eyed as she stammered, it was just a rank bellow Belldandy and higher then Urd. "You have practiced your magic quite enough to earn the rank daughter." He said as Skuld bowed deeply. She felt her powers adjusting to the change in rank and the familiar weight of her scealing earing on her ear.
"Thank you father." She had tears in her eyes from happiness alone.
"Ranma, I'm sorry to say I have nothing for you." He said.
"I'm already 1st class unlimited, I just want to take my gear back and maybe get some for Takato, he's a war god after all." He said sure of his statement. God nodded as they all bowed, leaving his office.
"So, how did it go?" Urd asked.
"I made first class limited baa-san!" Skuld said cheerfully as Belldandy came into view.
"Congradulations Skuld-chan!" She exclaimed happy for her younger sister.
"I'm first unlimited brat, so there." Urd grumbled. It was still evident she was proud of her little sister.
"Let's do the presentations then!" Belldandy said turning to Ruki. "I'm Belldandy, goddess of the present, this is Urd, the goddess of the past, we're your sisters Ruki-chan." She presented them.
"Another brat, just my luck." Urd muttered.
"I'm not a brat you old hag!" Ruki answered to the now shocked Urd, she had been expecdting another Belldandy wannabe, not a copy of her own self (minus the drinking and flirting).
"You've got the spirits girl, I'll give you that." Urd said as she reevaluated the girl.
"Let's leave the girls to themselves, we have stuff to do." Ranma said as he dragged Takato.
"I'm coming with you two!" Ruki said as she tried to leave the circle of the sisters but was stopped by urd holding her by the collar of her robe.
"You're not a war goddess so you can't follow, it's a ruthless place out there and Ranma can't protect both of you." Urd said "We have some talking to do anyway about your own gear and equipment. I'm the system administrator of the Yggdrasil and you're going to be working for me in a couple of decades as debugger or something else. You have to be outfitted with your own debugging gear so we can start when we get there!" She said rather excitedly."
They left chatting about lots of things like what had happened at the temple.
Takato and Ranma were walking through the part of Asgard reserved for the practice halls of the warrior gods. Ranma turned in front of a particular one with the sign of an unbalanced ying and yang favorising the darkness.
"Here we are, my practice hall." He said as he entered the place. He went inside and immediately went to a back room. He pulled out a broadsword and a silvery armor that looked kind of familiar to Takato.
"Now comes the dangerous part, we have to find a good smith to forge your own equipment." He said as he motioned for Takato to follow him.
They moved further and Ranma motioned for Takato to be silent, you could see the occasional brawl here and there along with some challenges thrown around. Weapons of all sort were clashing and some bodies were on the ground seemingly lifeless but still obviously trying to rearrange themselves.
"This is Valhalah, people are training for the Armageddon here and they simply regenerate at dawn before the daily feast. It's the place to find the best smiths and my personal master." Ranma said quietly to his sneaking brother. They arrived at their destination to meet a man with a large build and wearing only pants and a smithing apron. The man turned to them and smiled as he saw Ranma.
"So ya runt! You finally made your way back from hell to show your face? What can I do for ya?" He asked gruffly as he turned back top his work.
"Good to see you too Vulcan, I need you to make my little bro here a full gear with your finest metals." He asked the smith.
"L-sama and Kami had another kid? That's got to be the last thing i was expecting!" He exclaimed.
"Not exactly but it's a long story and I do have a fiancée to meet." He said. "And a lot to explain Takato here so would you hurry it up."
"Hey, it's no big deal bro, we'll just come back later." Takato said, the man looked at him as though he was evaluating the boy.
"Needs a little boost of confidence doesn't he?" He said as he turned to his working shop. "I'll just take his measures and make him a set, what is he the god of anyway?" He asked. Ranma simply smiled and pulled out a folder from his pocket dimension.
"Takato Matsuki, Wargod of the Digital world." He announced. Takato looked estonished.
"How is that possible?" He asked.
"It's the only place where we would be needed since they have demon lords unaffected by the duet system." Ranma explained.
"I'll see what I can do, maybe some escudo type metal." He said as he thought about his next creation. He started to hammer the metals he needed with precision into his furnace as Ranma showed the various weapons on display to his brother. Takato looked at a lance intently, it was one of those lances knights had used in medieval Europe. He then saw a shield he recognised, he had the modify card for it, it was called the Aegis. When Vulcan reentered the room he saw Takato looking at his creation.
"My finest work there in the shields department. It doesn't have an owner yet but if you want to try. . ." He didn't finish as Takato was already taking the shield off the wall and strapping it on (It's significantly smaller then the one Gallantmon uses.).
"Perfect fit!" It was true, the shield had adjusted to his smaller size and it weighed nothing.
"The shield found it's owner, you can keep it kid." Vulcan said with a smile, it was getting interesting. "I have your weapons, since you're a god for the digital world, whatever that is, I thought you might need something that could evolve as you do." He said as he took out a matching bracer to his limiter. "Depending on what you are able to handle it will transform when you will it to."
"Thank you, I owe MMMMBLBL!" Ranma stopped Takato from saying he owed Vulcan anything.
"He just got his 3rd class licence today so he's not used to the workings of the favour system." Ranma told Vulcan who nodded.
"No problem Ranma, but now I need to get paid." He said good naturely, Ranma groaned, knowing it would be quite an hard task to satisfy the roman god.
"What is it you want this time?" He asked.
"Just a look at your Ragna Blade, I want to see how it ticks!" Ranma looked at him as tough he had said something stupid.
"You do know that drawing that here could cause the ragnarok?" He asked, Vulcan shook his head and sighed.
"Too bad then, I'll come by someday when you're on earth and come to observe it." He sighed in defeat, he wasn't much of a social man.
"Alright, let's go Takato." Ranma said as he dragged his brother out the door. They were met by three warriors bearing no weapons but obviously going where they had just been. One of them saw Ranma and moved out of the way while the others took a second to recognise him.
Ranma took Takato by thye arm and dashed out at near sonic speed, where those three goons were.
"Ranma-sama!" Venus was sure to be nearby, why of all days did she have to visit her husband?
Meanwhile, somewhere else, less violent.
"Alright, I can understand the angel we're going to get for me but why the get-up?" She asked, she was still in the ceremonial robes and she wanted to change to the battle outfit. She thought she looked quite cool with the leather pants and the high heels. The fact that she had a battle staff helped the mood, it looked better then Skuld's hammer in her opinion.
"It's a serious affair to get your angel, and we're meeting Ranma and Takato there." Urd explained. "You can't hatch your egg yet but you have to get it now."
"Yes and it fits you rather well Ruki-chan!" Belldandy added.
They met Ranma and Takato who were running away from something, well Ranma was, and they stopped right next to them. Ranma let Takato go and quickly explained.
"GottagoVenusaftermeBye!" He disappeared to parts unknown with that.
"I gotta hand it to em, he's really a trouble magnet." Urd said as they continued walking towards the place they could get the eggs and explained to the disoriented Takato. Skuld was fuming, That bimbo of a goddess was still. . .
"Skuld, where is Ranma?" Venus asked from her position next to her. She had the same medium as Belldandy who always kept a compact ready just in case and the love goddess knew that quite well.
"Sea of Chaos I'd wager, he kinda likes it there, you know, isolated, far from would be suitors and prospects, peaceful and all that." She said as she goaded the woman just a little.
"He ran from you I suppose, oh well, just don't scare him next time." The blonde laughed as she left the premices.
"Why do I have the weirdest urge to rip something apart?" Ruki asked her sister as they entered the building.
"Because things get. . ." She never finished her sentence as an almost exact copy of Venus latched itself at Takato.
"He's so cute! What's your name handsome? Are you single?" Aphrodite asked as Takato mumbled.
". . .Out of hands when you talk about Chaos." She finished as Ruki calmed herself with the mantra that she didn't like the gogglehead so why should she care that this bimbo was hugging him.
"Let the boy go, we have somewhere to get to." Urd asked the goddess who relented but not without giving him a kiss on the left cheek.
"Boys!" Ruki muttered as she shot a death glare openly now, who cares if she cares or not about him, the gogglehead was HERS and his look of stupidity wasn't helping her mood.
"Don't worry girl, it's just the perfume she's wearing that does that." Urd muttered to her. She liked her latest sister. Belldandy was too serious most of the time and Skuld was more prone on ressembling the middle sister, Ruki was more like her in appearance. The fact that she was a sucker for romance helped a lot too. They eventually dragged Takato to the room where the eggs were and Belldandy took one.
"Here you go Ruki-chan, you just have to keep it warm and it will eventually hatch into an angel, Skuld will teach you how to summon her." She said as she took one from another rack.
"This is for you Takato, just do the same thing and you'll have to learn with Ruki when it happens." She said sweetly.
"Why can't I learn with Ranma?" He asked as Skuld looked downcast a bit.
"It fused with his weapon and armor to save me just before he died that first time.We don't know what happened but we never could make contact with it. I tried everything but it just couldn't work.
"I souldn't have asked, sorry" Takato said as he put the egg into his front kangaroo pocket.
"You should go back home now it's getting late and your parents will worry." Belldandy said. Both nodded and after a second looked atr one another.
"How do we do that?" Ruki asked.
"I'll take you back sis, I'll teach you how to teleport when we find your medium." She took her hand Motionned for Ruki to take Takato's. The then said her goodbyes to her other two sisters and sunk through the floor to a puddle of water near the Makino house.
Ranma was brooding in his little piece of heaven, he was back for a mere two hours and he just had to bump into Venus or another of those love goddesses. It was then he dicided to return home (to earth) and teleported in Takato's general vincinity.
The second they made it to earth, Skuld knew something was off. It wasn't a spirit, that she knew, but there was something definitely off.
It started with the explosion on a nearby roof, there surely was a battle and only digimons would be in a fog that thick. They had appeared in a digital field Skuld realised. She was too late as an energy attack went her way. Salamon was just fast enough to push her out of the way and vee-mon took a ready stance.
"Get ready to rumble!" The blue dragon digimon said as he charged in with his V-headbutt. Ranma chose that time to appear and saw Skuld collapsed on the ground. Ruki was casting a minor healing spell while Takato was getting ready to fight until Guilmon got there.
"Skuld!" He exclaimed before he turned towards the shadow of the digimon, hidden by the digital field. He gripped his hands into fists and screamed in rage. His aura exploded and energy poured through Vee-mon. It was enough for the rookie to start glowing
(start playing the song Evo)
Vee-mon shinka!. . . Vee-dramon zero!
The dragon knight digimon stood his ground and took a battle stance, ready to square off against his enemy.
"Vee-dramon zero, champion level digimon of the vaccine type. This phantom dragon digimon's V-breath goes through anything, and if it doesn't his magnum punch will shatter it." Takato read on his Digivice.
"Infrared ray!" The digimon screamed as it launched it's attack, V-dramon was able to jump out of the way and get a good look at it.
"Owlmon, armoured digimon, virus type. This night bird is quite a sniper with it's infrared ray and the night clutch attack." Ranma read from his digivice. He took out a card and slashed it through the reader.
"Card slash! Power plug in e activate!" Ranma called, power rushed to v- dramon who took to the air just as Owlmon did. He shot his V breath right at the flying digimon and rushed right after his attack. Once he was close enough, he used his magnum punch to plow right through the offending digimon.
"Skuld! Skuld-chan are you alright?" Ranma asked the unconscious girl.
"Just bring her home, she'll be alright tomorrow." Ruki said as Renamon came into view. Ruki shot her a glare and the fox looked down.
"I'm sorry Ruki, I was trying to control Guilmon." Renamon explained. Her glare softened a bit at least.
"Save it Renamon, there are more important things to do." Guilmon rushed in right after that and jumped on Takato.
"Where's the digimon?" He asked.
"Gone." Takato said just as V-dramon loaded the data.
"Let's get her home, you guys should hide though." Ranma said as he took her in his arms carefully.
End of chapter
2 chapters in 48 hours! I'm on a roll here! Thanks to Spaceman for the reviews and his information on V-dramon zero amongst other things.
I wouldn't hope too much for the next one though, I'm only human and I had most of it written down already. As always R&R are welcomed
This comes from Terriermon to Wolfen man : Why me T_T
At least it wasn't the Suichon treatment!
"Flame me please!"
Flames as always are either used on Megidramon to strengthen him or on Terriermon to make rabbit stew! I'm off, see ya!
By Godai
Disclaimer : see first chapter.
Chapter 5 : Revelations
Takato woke up to unknown surroundings. It wasn't his home and it sure wasn't Tofu's clinic. He did like the look of the place but it wasn't really familiar. Another feeling crept up his senses. An unknown weight was spread across his chest.
'I have a bad feeling about this. . .' Takato chanced a glance at the burben and went as white as a sheet. His brother had warned him something like this could happen and what the consequences were most likely to be. The fact that every anime except Digimon had at least one of those scenes and that the results were more then likely the same didn't help his opinion. As such, Takato waited for his slow and painful death. It was oddly enjoyable to hold Ruki in his arms yet uncomfortable, it's hard to settle when one's impending doom is looming over them.
'Ruki will find ways to kill me painfully, restore me to life and then kill me again! I'mgonnadieI'mgonnadieI'mgonnadie!' Just his thoughts of his own gory death almost woke the sleeping goddess, he immediately froze and went as rigid as a rock.
He relaxed after a while and finally and settled for his upcoming death. His left arm, full of numbness, moved to rest around her waist. Ruki moaned a bit but didn't squirm until Takato, taken by panic, tried to move it away. Ruki almost woke up at that moment but Takato was fast enough to return his limb to it's resting place.
Ruki settled instinctively deeper into his arms, using him as a human blanket.
'Oh well, I might as well die an happy death even if it will be olng and painful.' He thought. He settled himself more comfortably, careful not to rouse the sleeping ruki and awaited the reaper.
Ruki woke up inside a nice warm blanket, or rather she was hugging one to herself. It was a moving blanket. . . a living and breathing blanket. . . Ruki opened her eyes, bracing them to support the incoming light and saw the bloodstained. 'Oh no. . . not that. . .' Ruki looked up until she met Takato's eyes. 'Yep, I slept with the gogglehead while I was wearing a freaking dress. . .A DRESS!'
"When did i put that dress on?" She half stated half asked.
"While you were healing me with all those flashy lights." Takato dumbly answered, he looked rather calm considering he was about to get slaughtered. Ruki glared at him now, reminded by his voice that she was on the warpath.
What are you doing anyway gogglehead? Get your hands off me!" She exclaimed.
Takato almost jumped away but he forgot about his arm stuck under the red headed tamer and took her with him. She ended up right over him with their lips locked together, Takato's arms around her waist trying to protect her from the impact. (Otaku, you own me a chappie ;) just kidding!) The five first seconds were spent trying to get over the shock, once that was settled, Ruki's mind screamed for bloody murderous revenge but a small part of it, the less rational one, was singing another tune. The feeling of turning into a mess of sentimental jell-o was quite pleasant and the multitude of fire works around her mind was even better. That part of Ruki saved Takato's life but when he felt her melt into his arms his survival instincts kicked in. He tried to talk himself out of his upcoming demise but it only initiated a deeper kiss. At that moment, Ruki's mind lost all killing intent it might have had. Just as long as Takato kept on kissing her. Just as he tried to retreat for oxygen, Ruki's forceful nature came to the front. She grabbed the back of his head and pulled him for another kiss which was interrupted by a whistle.
Both Takato and Ruki jumped to sit at the same time. They looked towards the sound to see a tan skinned woman still making wolfcalls.
"I don,t know who you are lady but you're interrupting a private discussion." Ruki growled with an healthy blush. Takato was still disoriented, he had been expecting his execution and he had been given the most earth shattering experience of his short life. He was still mumbling as another woman with brown hair and Ruki came in.
"I could see that kiddo! Just don't go any further for a while, I don't want to be an aunt just yet." Urd winked at her direction as she said that. While Ruki was angered by the 'kiddo' comment she was feeling more puzzled then violent.
"Sorry lady but mom ain't that old." She retorted while looking at Skuld for support.
"The old maid's right Ruki-cha." Ranma said as he entered the room.
"Why hello Ranma-kun!" Belldandy greeted. Both Ruki and Takato immediately took a liking to Belldandy just by earing her voice.
"Errrr. . . Ranma, how can she be right? I mean she looks old enough to be Ruki's mother." Takato asked.
"We have to see someone and you'll know all of it then Takato. Just follow me you two." He turned to the door as Ruki and Takato got to their feet helped by Belldandy and Skuld.
They looked in awe as Asgrd came into their view, angels and Valkyries were flying here and there while some gods were walking on the sidewalks.
"We're going to be late if we don't hurry and you can't be late when you go and meet father." Ranma instructed as they hurried the pace. The Valkyrie acting as secretary motioned for them to pass. And Ranma made his way to the massive white doors.
"Here goes nothing." He said as he pushed them open and motioned to the wide eyed tamers to follow him.
The room was quite baren, there was only need for a desk and a computer for Kami-sama. And the only decoration was the plants on each of the four corners of the room even if you couldn't see the walls or a roof, it didn't look like it had a floor in that matter, the plants were delimiting the virtual space the room took.
"Welcome Ranma, I see you brought Ruki and Takato with you." The booming but still gentle voice spoke. The three bowed just as Skuld, whom had talked a bit with her sisters, entered. "Running a little late Skuld." He said a bit amused.
"Sorry father, I was just catching up a bit." Skuld blushed as she bowed as well.
"Why are we here sir-er-Kami-sama sir. . ." Takato stumbled on his own words.
"For you to understand. Long ago, eons really, Ranma died in battle protecting Skuld." God started the story. "You see, they were engaged at birth since their domains were so close. Ranma is the god of Chaos while Ruki is the goddess of the future."
"Good story but Skuld was born seconds after me." Ruki stated, a bit unbelieving.
"Let me finish the story Ruki, or do you wish for me to call Thor?" He said with a small smile, Ruki shut her opened mouth and listened.
"When he died, a promise he and Skuld made affected the return of his soul to the powers of the Yggdrasil the tree of life that along with his chaotic nature made sure he was incarnated within a human vessel eons later." He paused for them to ask questions.
"But why would Skuld be incarnated as well, she didn't die." Takato asked.
"His first incarnation wasn't your brother but another Ranma of the Saotome clan." Takato and Ruki suddenly understood the little crisis at the dojo.
"May I take over father, it'll be easier for me now." Ranma asked Kami who nodded.
"I was calling pizza when I suddenly learned I had the right to get a wish." He said. "Skuld answered and appeared at my house to grant me that wish. Since my powers were out of my control; I had quite a chaotic life and I had experience with wish granting artefacts and the likes so I just wished to be reborn with the memories of my previous life so that I could be useful somewhere and Skuld was pulled in by the ultimate force." Ranma nodded to Kami who took back the reins of the story.
"The ultimate force is the ultimate form of power, if you wish to be with someone all your life it'll make sure it happens all the time and the more force there is against it, the more it'll counter." Kami explained. He then restarted the story. "As a god, Ranma couldn't get a wish but with his incarnation could and it messed up the programs in our matrix. Their promise and his wish mixed together and it tried to find the two nearest possible vessels, your parents were both supposed to give birth to twins one of which would die so we didn't take away anyone already living and introduced them in the mortal realm with their powers unlocked. The fact that they were with you in the womb altered your DNA just a bit and you find yourselves with the powers of gods. Normally this wouldn't be a problem until your death but circumstances make it awkward not to limit your powers." Kami explained the situation.
"Alright, I can understand that but how do we know it's true?" Ruki asked as she gathered her courage. Kami smiled as he produced two unknown fruits.
"Eat those and you'll know." The fruits floated to the two young gods who took a small bit and immediately they were connected to the Yggdrasil system and to it's databanks as gods third class limited. Ruki had a new earing on her left ear while Takato had a bracer on his left wrist as limiters.
"Why didn't we do that first?" Ruki asked as the knowledge she needed about Ranma came to her.
"Would you have eaten the fruit daughter?" God asked. Ruki shook her head embarrassed.
"How about we go see our sisters now?" Skuld asked.
"Just a second Skuld. I was meaning to give you a promotion as well." Kami said to his daughter who turned to him.
"But-but I haven't done anything for. . ." She was stammering, maybe it was the rank of second unlimited, she didn't dare hope for higher.
"Skuld, I hereby award you with the title of goddess 1st class limited license, are you ready to accept it?" He asked. She was wide eyed as she stammered, it was just a rank bellow Belldandy and higher then Urd. "You have practiced your magic quite enough to earn the rank daughter." He said as Skuld bowed deeply. She felt her powers adjusting to the change in rank and the familiar weight of her scealing earing on her ear.
"Thank you father." She had tears in her eyes from happiness alone.
"Ranma, I'm sorry to say I have nothing for you." He said.
"I'm already 1st class unlimited, I just want to take my gear back and maybe get some for Takato, he's a war god after all." He said sure of his statement. God nodded as they all bowed, leaving his office.
"So, how did it go?" Urd asked.
"I made first class limited baa-san!" Skuld said cheerfully as Belldandy came into view.
"Congradulations Skuld-chan!" She exclaimed happy for her younger sister.
"I'm first unlimited brat, so there." Urd grumbled. It was still evident she was proud of her little sister.
"Let's do the presentations then!" Belldandy said turning to Ruki. "I'm Belldandy, goddess of the present, this is Urd, the goddess of the past, we're your sisters Ruki-chan." She presented them.
"Another brat, just my luck." Urd muttered.
"I'm not a brat you old hag!" Ruki answered to the now shocked Urd, she had been expecdting another Belldandy wannabe, not a copy of her own self (minus the drinking and flirting).
"You've got the spirits girl, I'll give you that." Urd said as she reevaluated the girl.
"Let's leave the girls to themselves, we have stuff to do." Ranma said as he dragged Takato.
"I'm coming with you two!" Ruki said as she tried to leave the circle of the sisters but was stopped by urd holding her by the collar of her robe.
"You're not a war goddess so you can't follow, it's a ruthless place out there and Ranma can't protect both of you." Urd said "We have some talking to do anyway about your own gear and equipment. I'm the system administrator of the Yggdrasil and you're going to be working for me in a couple of decades as debugger or something else. You have to be outfitted with your own debugging gear so we can start when we get there!" She said rather excitedly."
They left chatting about lots of things like what had happened at the temple.
Takato and Ranma were walking through the part of Asgard reserved for the practice halls of the warrior gods. Ranma turned in front of a particular one with the sign of an unbalanced ying and yang favorising the darkness.
"Here we are, my practice hall." He said as he entered the place. He went inside and immediately went to a back room. He pulled out a broadsword and a silvery armor that looked kind of familiar to Takato.
"Now comes the dangerous part, we have to find a good smith to forge your own equipment." He said as he motioned for Takato to follow him.
They moved further and Ranma motioned for Takato to be silent, you could see the occasional brawl here and there along with some challenges thrown around. Weapons of all sort were clashing and some bodies were on the ground seemingly lifeless but still obviously trying to rearrange themselves.
"This is Valhalah, people are training for the Armageddon here and they simply regenerate at dawn before the daily feast. It's the place to find the best smiths and my personal master." Ranma said quietly to his sneaking brother. They arrived at their destination to meet a man with a large build and wearing only pants and a smithing apron. The man turned to them and smiled as he saw Ranma.
"So ya runt! You finally made your way back from hell to show your face? What can I do for ya?" He asked gruffly as he turned back top his work.
"Good to see you too Vulcan, I need you to make my little bro here a full gear with your finest metals." He asked the smith.
"L-sama and Kami had another kid? That's got to be the last thing i was expecting!" He exclaimed.
"Not exactly but it's a long story and I do have a fiancée to meet." He said. "And a lot to explain Takato here so would you hurry it up."
"Hey, it's no big deal bro, we'll just come back later." Takato said, the man looked at him as though he was evaluating the boy.
"Needs a little boost of confidence doesn't he?" He said as he turned to his working shop. "I'll just take his measures and make him a set, what is he the god of anyway?" He asked. Ranma simply smiled and pulled out a folder from his pocket dimension.
"Takato Matsuki, Wargod of the Digital world." He announced. Takato looked estonished.
"How is that possible?" He asked.
"It's the only place where we would be needed since they have demon lords unaffected by the duet system." Ranma explained.
"I'll see what I can do, maybe some escudo type metal." He said as he thought about his next creation. He started to hammer the metals he needed with precision into his furnace as Ranma showed the various weapons on display to his brother. Takato looked at a lance intently, it was one of those lances knights had used in medieval Europe. He then saw a shield he recognised, he had the modify card for it, it was called the Aegis. When Vulcan reentered the room he saw Takato looking at his creation.
"My finest work there in the shields department. It doesn't have an owner yet but if you want to try. . ." He didn't finish as Takato was already taking the shield off the wall and strapping it on (It's significantly smaller then the one Gallantmon uses.).
"Perfect fit!" It was true, the shield had adjusted to his smaller size and it weighed nothing.
"The shield found it's owner, you can keep it kid." Vulcan said with a smile, it was getting interesting. "I have your weapons, since you're a god for the digital world, whatever that is, I thought you might need something that could evolve as you do." He said as he took out a matching bracer to his limiter. "Depending on what you are able to handle it will transform when you will it to."
"Thank you, I owe MMMMBLBL!" Ranma stopped Takato from saying he owed Vulcan anything.
"He just got his 3rd class licence today so he's not used to the workings of the favour system." Ranma told Vulcan who nodded.
"No problem Ranma, but now I need to get paid." He said good naturely, Ranma groaned, knowing it would be quite an hard task to satisfy the roman god.
"What is it you want this time?" He asked.
"Just a look at your Ragna Blade, I want to see how it ticks!" Ranma looked at him as tough he had said something stupid.
"You do know that drawing that here could cause the ragnarok?" He asked, Vulcan shook his head and sighed.
"Too bad then, I'll come by someday when you're on earth and come to observe it." He sighed in defeat, he wasn't much of a social man.
"Alright, let's go Takato." Ranma said as he dragged his brother out the door. They were met by three warriors bearing no weapons but obviously going where they had just been. One of them saw Ranma and moved out of the way while the others took a second to recognise him.
Ranma took Takato by thye arm and dashed out at near sonic speed, where those three goons were.
"Ranma-sama!" Venus was sure to be nearby, why of all days did she have to visit her husband?
Meanwhile, somewhere else, less violent.
"Alright, I can understand the angel we're going to get for me but why the get-up?" She asked, she was still in the ceremonial robes and she wanted to change to the battle outfit. She thought she looked quite cool with the leather pants and the high heels. The fact that she had a battle staff helped the mood, it looked better then Skuld's hammer in her opinion.
"It's a serious affair to get your angel, and we're meeting Ranma and Takato there." Urd explained. "You can't hatch your egg yet but you have to get it now."
"Yes and it fits you rather well Ruki-chan!" Belldandy added.
They met Ranma and Takato who were running away from something, well Ranma was, and they stopped right next to them. Ranma let Takato go and quickly explained.
"GottagoVenusaftermeBye!" He disappeared to parts unknown with that.
"I gotta hand it to em, he's really a trouble magnet." Urd said as they continued walking towards the place they could get the eggs and explained to the disoriented Takato. Skuld was fuming, That bimbo of a goddess was still. . .
"Skuld, where is Ranma?" Venus asked from her position next to her. She had the same medium as Belldandy who always kept a compact ready just in case and the love goddess knew that quite well.
"Sea of Chaos I'd wager, he kinda likes it there, you know, isolated, far from would be suitors and prospects, peaceful and all that." She said as she goaded the woman just a little.
"He ran from you I suppose, oh well, just don't scare him next time." The blonde laughed as she left the premices.
"Why do I have the weirdest urge to rip something apart?" Ruki asked her sister as they entered the building.
"Because things get. . ." She never finished her sentence as an almost exact copy of Venus latched itself at Takato.
"He's so cute! What's your name handsome? Are you single?" Aphrodite asked as Takato mumbled.
". . .Out of hands when you talk about Chaos." She finished as Ruki calmed herself with the mantra that she didn't like the gogglehead so why should she care that this bimbo was hugging him.
"Let the boy go, we have somewhere to get to." Urd asked the goddess who relented but not without giving him a kiss on the left cheek.
"Boys!" Ruki muttered as she shot a death glare openly now, who cares if she cares or not about him, the gogglehead was HERS and his look of stupidity wasn't helping her mood.
"Don't worry girl, it's just the perfume she's wearing that does that." Urd muttered to her. She liked her latest sister. Belldandy was too serious most of the time and Skuld was more prone on ressembling the middle sister, Ruki was more like her in appearance. The fact that she was a sucker for romance helped a lot too. They eventually dragged Takato to the room where the eggs were and Belldandy took one.
"Here you go Ruki-chan, you just have to keep it warm and it will eventually hatch into an angel, Skuld will teach you how to summon her." She said as she took one from another rack.
"This is for you Takato, just do the same thing and you'll have to learn with Ruki when it happens." She said sweetly.
"Why can't I learn with Ranma?" He asked as Skuld looked downcast a bit.
"It fused with his weapon and armor to save me just before he died that first time.We don't know what happened but we never could make contact with it. I tried everything but it just couldn't work.
"I souldn't have asked, sorry" Takato said as he put the egg into his front kangaroo pocket.
"You should go back home now it's getting late and your parents will worry." Belldandy said. Both nodded and after a second looked atr one another.
"How do we do that?" Ruki asked.
"I'll take you back sis, I'll teach you how to teleport when we find your medium." She took her hand Motionned for Ruki to take Takato's. The then said her goodbyes to her other two sisters and sunk through the floor to a puddle of water near the Makino house.
Ranma was brooding in his little piece of heaven, he was back for a mere two hours and he just had to bump into Venus or another of those love goddesses. It was then he dicided to return home (to earth) and teleported in Takato's general vincinity.
The second they made it to earth, Skuld knew something was off. It wasn't a spirit, that she knew, but there was something definitely off.
It started with the explosion on a nearby roof, there surely was a battle and only digimons would be in a fog that thick. They had appeared in a digital field Skuld realised. She was too late as an energy attack went her way. Salamon was just fast enough to push her out of the way and vee-mon took a ready stance.
"Get ready to rumble!" The blue dragon digimon said as he charged in with his V-headbutt. Ranma chose that time to appear and saw Skuld collapsed on the ground. Ruki was casting a minor healing spell while Takato was getting ready to fight until Guilmon got there.
"Skuld!" He exclaimed before he turned towards the shadow of the digimon, hidden by the digital field. He gripped his hands into fists and screamed in rage. His aura exploded and energy poured through Vee-mon. It was enough for the rookie to start glowing
(start playing the song Evo)
Vee-mon shinka!. . . Vee-dramon zero!
The dragon knight digimon stood his ground and took a battle stance, ready to square off against his enemy.
"Vee-dramon zero, champion level digimon of the vaccine type. This phantom dragon digimon's V-breath goes through anything, and if it doesn't his magnum punch will shatter it." Takato read on his Digivice.
"Infrared ray!" The digimon screamed as it launched it's attack, V-dramon was able to jump out of the way and get a good look at it.
"Owlmon, armoured digimon, virus type. This night bird is quite a sniper with it's infrared ray and the night clutch attack." Ranma read from his digivice. He took out a card and slashed it through the reader.
"Card slash! Power plug in e activate!" Ranma called, power rushed to v- dramon who took to the air just as Owlmon did. He shot his V breath right at the flying digimon and rushed right after his attack. Once he was close enough, he used his magnum punch to plow right through the offending digimon.
"Skuld! Skuld-chan are you alright?" Ranma asked the unconscious girl.
"Just bring her home, she'll be alright tomorrow." Ruki said as Renamon came into view. Ruki shot her a glare and the fox looked down.
"I'm sorry Ruki, I was trying to control Guilmon." Renamon explained. Her glare softened a bit at least.
"Save it Renamon, there are more important things to do." Guilmon rushed in right after that and jumped on Takato.
"Where's the digimon?" He asked.
"Gone." Takato said just as V-dramon loaded the data.
"Let's get her home, you guys should hide though." Ranma said as he took her in his arms carefully.
End of chapter
2 chapters in 48 hours! I'm on a roll here! Thanks to Spaceman for the reviews and his information on V-dramon zero amongst other things.
I wouldn't hope too much for the next one though, I'm only human and I had most of it written down already. As always R&R are welcomed
This comes from Terriermon to Wolfen man : Why me T_T
At least it wasn't the Suichon treatment!
"Flame me please!"
Flames as always are either used on Megidramon to strengthen him or on Terriermon to make rabbit stew! I'm off, see ya!
