A/N: Wow, it's the end! Enjoy it guys, I know I enjoyed writing it. BTW, there will be an epilogue...
When Jiro finished, he gave Ukyo a cold glare.

"Stay here with her." He shut the door and Akane heard him lock the door.

"Anyway to get out of here?" Ukyo asked.

"The window but it's a long drop." Akane replied. "How are we going to escape?"

"Escape, I was wondering how to kill them. Listen, if we don't kill them now Akane then they'll only come after our family. I'm not letting this evil live." Ukyo spoke firmly but it did not give Akane any more courage nor strength.

"Ukyo, they are undead! That means they've already died. We don't know how to kill them for good!" Ukyo say down and sighed, she regretted doing because a sharp pain shot through her chest.

"We just have to think. Jiro told me some things about what happened." Ukyo thought for a long time while Akane prepared the bed. A cat came up and rubbed against Ukyo's legs which annoyed her. She finally shooed it off.

"Leave!" Ukyo said harshly and the cat hissed at her.

"Ukyo, that's Shampoo!" Akane exclaimed.

"Shampoo?" Ukyo stood up.

"Although she escaped, I think they know she's here." Akane poured a warm cup of water on her.

"Ukyo!" Shampoo gave her a hug.

"Hello Shampoo, I see you were also taken too." Ukyo said and rubbed her eyes.

"Yes. I am sad but I live now. All will be good." Shampoo put on some clothes and gave them all a warm smile.

"It's well, not good." Ukyo corrected and thought for a moment. "Good, I think that's how will defeat them. I mean holy stuff right? We need holy water."

"Holy water?" Shampoo asked.

"How are we going to get a priest to a castle that we're trapped in?" Akane asked.

"We'll leave, Shampoo and I will climb down the walls and find some." Ukyo replied.

"I don't think you'll get far." Akane opened the window and pointed to guards.

"At least I'm trying!" Ukyo cried. "I can't die here, not like this!"

"I'm trying too, Ukyo. We'll make it out alive." Akane took her hand.

"Yes, all fine soon." Shampoo took her other hand.

"We have to get back to Nerima anyway." Akane said.

"Yes, I need tell Mousse I no hate him." Shampoo looked at the girls and giggled at their shock.

"I also got to tell Ranma he's a jackass for stringing me along." Ukyo said.

"I need to tell him I love him." Akane had tears in her eyes.

"Your wedding is in a few days Akane."

"Don't remind me."

"What we do?"

"I don't know."

"We have some day to think." Shampoo reminded the girls.

"Right."
Ranma, Mousse, and Ryoga watched both the diary and the painting for any sign of anything. Nothing new was written in the diary and the painting still was there. Ranma impatiently opening and closing the diary annoyed both Mousse and Ryoga. Though they sat and spoke nothing, a million things flew through their head. Kuno went further into reading ignoring the boys.
Akane had been fitted for wedding dresses, Ukyo and neko-Shampoo watched as she tried on many different dresses.

"I don't see why you care." Ukyo commented picking at some flowers.

"If I have to be married, I want to be married in something I like." Akane replied looking at herself in the mirror. Ukyo tried her hardest not to show any weakness to her friends, she didn't want to alarm them, but there were times that the pain took over her body. It left her mind blank and her body in a cold sweat. At night, she couldn't sleep and during the day, she was irritable and made up for the lost sleep in naps. Akane and Shampoo noticed but said nothing.

"How's this?" She turned around. Ukyo didn't even look.

"Great."

"Ugh! I swear, you're just like a man!" Akane sighed and slid out of the dress and into a robe. She then headed over to her lunch, a bleeding steak with boiled potatoes and rise. "This Western food is going to make me fat!" Akane complained.

"Becoming fat is the least of your worries." Ukyo had a dark look in her eyes. Akane shifted in her seat.

"Listen, I don't know what's wrong Ukyo but we're all going to be ok." Akane looked down at her silverware and picked up a steak knife. She glanced around to see if anyone saw her hold it up but the servants had their eyes on Ukyo or tending to the dress. Akane slipped the knife in her sleeve. She held up her plate to one of the servants. "I'm not hungry, I want a kettle of hot tea, two tea cups, and tea bags." She ordered.

"My, we are getting smug." Jiro spoke, leaning on the doorway. Akane straightened up in alarm. "Don't worry, I came to check up on the two little wenches. Where is that cat?" Akane turned to Ukyo with a nervous look on her face. "Don't act that way, we knew all along. It was simple, thought we could appease your stupid hope. Too much energy you simple-minded mortals waste on hope." He walked up to Ukyo, grabbing a handful of hair he pulled her head back and smelled her neck. "Still sweet, Pearla will love it."

"Jiro, someone needs to tell you to stop playing with your food." Saburo stood in the room with his arms folded. He sounded almost disgusted.

"It's none of your business what I do with my food, Saburo." Jiro turned around, still holding Ukyo's hair. Ukyo glared at both of them with venom in her eyes.

"You're right. Ichiro and I want to see you now." Jiro released Ukyo's hair and followed Saburo out of the room.

"So they know about Shampoo." Akane rested her head in her hands. "That rules out element of surprise." Akane sighed. "We have two days left. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know. Maybe we're going to die." Ukyo had tears in her eyes.

"Don't say that." Ukyo bit her lip, the pain was too much lately. Parts of her wanted to end it all, maybe jumping out of the window could end the process for Jiro and it would end her suffering but the other parts wanted to hold on and make sure that Shampoo and Akane made it out ok that ultimately good will overcome evil and all will be right.

Shampoo woke up next to Akane. Ukyo wanted the couch so Shampoo shared the bed with Akane. They had been bonding over the last week, the fateful death forcing their weak friendship to become so strong. Shampoo sighed, tonight was to be Akane's wedding and Ukyo's death, and depending on Saburo's mood, it would be either her death or her transformation. She sat up in bed and heard sniffling from Akane, she placed a kind hand on her arm.

"It be okay, Akane." But she had no faith anymore. She hated feeling so powerless. They didn't speak from then on, and when the sun melted into the horizon, all hope left them.
Ryoga nearly squealed in excitement, it was his watch on the notebook and ink started to appear in it.

"Mousse! Ranma! Kuno!" He exclaimed. "Writing!"
Akane put on her wedding dress and the servant told her to wait, Jiro escort her to the ballroom where the ceremony would take place. Saburo came earlier for Ukyo and Shampoo, both wearing identical dresses but Shampoo's was purple and Ukyo's was pink. Akane opened a desk drawer and pulled out the steak knife. She slid it up the left side of her body and cut a little hole in her panties so that the knife would stay securely under her dress. Jiro opened the door and held out his arm and Akane took it. They would down a few halls and finally came to grand staircase. At the end of the ballroom, Ichiro stood at the altar, Saburo to the left. Ukyo and Shampoo stood to the far left, leaving room for Akane. Akane licked her dry lips and walked up to the altar.

"Dearly beloved..." Saburo began the ceremony.
"It can't end here!" Ranma exclaimed. "We don't know anything yet! How can he stop!"

"Shut up Ranma!" Ryoga yelled at him.

"Don't tell me to shut up, Pig-boy!"

"What did you call me?! Prepare to die!" Mousse rolled his eyes as the two began to fight.

"They act like bitter rivals more than friends." Kuno commented.

"You have no idea." Mousse sighed.
"Do you, Ichiro take Tendo Akane to be your wife for all eternity?" Ichiro nodded and Saburo turned to Akane. "Do you, Tendo Akane take Ichiro to be your husband for all eternity?" Akane bit her lip and jumped back.

"No! I love Ranma, I can't marry him!" She yelled. Saburo shrugged.

"It makes no difference what you say Akane, you should learn by now." Ichiro said this time, walking up to her. Akane took two steps back. She flipped up her dress and pulled out the knife. "What do you plan on doing with that knife? You don't think you can kill me a piece of steel?" Ichiro laughed.

"I didn't plan on killing you with just a piece of steel." She lifted the knife high and plunged it deep in her belly. Crying out in pain, she pulled it out but Ichiro stood before her.

"You missed your heart." Ichiro laughed again but Akane raised the knife again and stabbed it into Ichiro's heart. She gave a satisfied grin as he fell to the ground, blood pouring from his wound. Shampoo started to run out to her as she saw Jiro go after Akane but she was kicked back by Saburo. Akane saw Jiro approach her and raised the knife to stab him. With a sudden burst of skill, she stabbed him in the heart too. She lowered her arm and stepped over their bodies to Saburo. He saw Akane and grabbed Ukyo by the waist and moved quickly to the top of a tower. Once Akane came to them, she gasped as he held Ukyo out of the window by her neck. It was storming now and the rain drops reflected the full moon's light.

"Drop the knife or the girl will die." Saburo demanded, Ukyo's face was slowly turning blue as she clawed at his hands.

"Ukyo!" Akane cried.

"I said drop the knife!" Saburo yelled.

"D-d-do it." Ukyo whispered. Saburo turned his head to Ukyo.

"Shut up wench!" He snarled at her but when he turned back, Akane had her knife in his heart.

"H-how?" He asked as he dropped to the ground.

"I'm pure, like holy water. And my ancestors sent me a few dreams to help me figure it out." Akane smiled but it quickly left her face as his hold on Ukyo released. Akane threw herself at the window. "Ukyo!" She cried but watched as her friend's body flew helplessly to the ground.