Ranma approached a large castle made of old fashion brick. He wiped the sweat off his brow and cracked his neck. Elegantly, he jumped the high wall and began searching through the whole castle for Akane. He ran through damp corridors and destroyed rooms, checking every room and every thing five times. He came up short on his find, there had been no trace of life in that whole entire castle. He stood on the highest tower and tried to search with his keen eyes but came to find nothing. A feeling of guilt and loss tugged at his heart. He climbed down the stairs and walked to what used to have been a ballroom.

"I saw you at the tower." An old man said and Ranma spun around quickly to see him.

"Where's Akane?" He asked grabbing his shirt.

"Akane, what an odd name."

"She has short black hair to here." Ranma pointed to his ears. "And a mean temper to reckon with."

"Your Akane hasn't been here in well over a few thousand years." His cane tapped lightly on the floor.

"That can't be." Ranma denied his statement.

"Oh yes, it can. Follow me." Ranma nodded and followed the old man down a spiral staircase.

"I've been here before and found nothing." The old man stopped at the second to last step and tapped on the last step with his cane five times. A door opened to the right of them.

"We keep nothing valuable out in fear that young ones might steal it." He grinned and walked down the corridor. It led to a large room with a huge painting on the wall. "Is that your

Akane?" He asked. Ranma gulped and nodded.

"But how?" Was all he muttered. The old man chuckled.

"That's a question I might be able to answer."

Ukyo heard the door opened and let her head hang on her chest. The giant snorted with satisfaction and unlocked her chains for another beating to her. Ukyo opened her eyes when her right hand was free and grabbed her chest binding. In one swift motion, she wrapped it around the giant's neck and pulled as hard as she could. The giant struggled, throwing his

body back into hers but soon he stopped. Ukyo held on for a few moments longer and dropped the cloth. She examined him and the cloth and realized that if he struggled longer, he would have ripped it completely. Ukyo grabbed the key with her right hand and unlocked her left hand. She hobbled to the door and tried running as fast as she could down the twisting corridors. She stopped to catch her breath, it was painful but she continued on, the adrenaline fully pumping in her system. She thought she reached an exit but found it was a room. The door closed as she turned around to leave it. She heard a pair of hands clapping and she turned back around.

"Bravo." The man with gold eyes and white hair came out from behind the curtains. "It is remarkable you had enough stamina to live through such beatings and kill my servant."

"Please let me go." She felt tears fall down her cheeks. She wiped them away quickly.

"You cannot beg me for that. You are much to strong to beg."

"W-why do you want me dead?" He chuckled and ran his white hands through his white hair.

"I don't want you dead, at least not yet. Pearla used to hate the way I toyed with my food but she understood me in a way no one could."

"F-food?" Ukyo stuttered in fear.

"It's such a shame that your life will end here with no one to love you." He walked up to her and ran a white finger down her swollen cheek. "And you were the cute one too." Ukyo sniffled. "Well, were the cute one, until now."

"Why are you doing this to me?" She asked.

"You really don't know but I hardly expect you to know." He extended his arm. "Please, sit. At least you should have the right to know what you will pay for at your family's expense."

"A long time ago, Japan was overrun with a large vampire population. They killed nightly, feeding off the flesh of the people in small towns. There was no hope for the people, nothing could stop this horrible beasts. Until three men came and stood up against them and successful killed most of them. Only seven escaped them but they managed to track down

two of them and kill them. The two they killed were the last of the female vampires which posed a big problem for the vampire race. See, only male vampires can turn a man into a

vampire and when this happens, a female vampire must be there to convert a woman into a vampire before the next full moon or the poor human will just die. It also works in reverse, when you kill a vampire, you must kill a vampire of the opposite sex before the next new moon or that 'dead' vampire will come back to being undead but stronger than before. So they managed to kill two male vampires and two female vampires, leaving three male vampires to hide in the darkness. Those three vampires are not your ordinary vampires, in fact, they are the strongest of their kind. They can bend time but not change it, like a ghost in the past. They can walk among the daylight and create strong servants to do their bidding. For a long time they have hid in past but now they come back. Isn't it peculiar that you Akane is on that wall and now is kidnapped?"

"Peculiar ain't the word. How can someone go to their time?"

"I'm afraid that only those three vampires can go about to the past. I will look in my books for answers to why they must want your Akane."

"Not only was Akane kidnapped but two other girls." Ranma explained. The man adjusted his glasses.

"Oh. Well, there is nothing you can do for now until I find more information." He opened a dusty old book and began reading.

"How do you know so much?"

"It's written in a language that no one knows except my family. We are the holders of this information to protect against history from repeating itself. I think those vampires placed a cursed on our family. I am the last sane person left."

"What's your name?"

"Kuno is what I like to be called." There was a long pause.

"Listen, I have two other friends looking for the girls and I think I should find them and bring them here."

"Yes, that is wise." The old man nodded and Ranma left the castle and searched for Mousse and Ryoga.

A/N: Thanks for you comments and the story will unfold as it goes along. I added some explanation as to not leave you all in the dark. I'm glad that you all are enjoying it. I might write some R-rated chapters but I'll keep it off ff.net and put my e-mail for those interested but that isn't until later.

The title is a little cut off but it's called Ranma Saotome and the Chamber of History