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Hitzusen, Chapter 2

While Ranma and Jack were sitting around trying to work out details, Ranma heard a bell. Ranma was startled and raised from her sitting position, looking around for the sound. Jack looked up at the startled girl and raised an eyebrow, Ranma was able to recomposed herself and sat back down before he asked any weird questions.

Jack turned to her. "What's wrong Ranma? Something startle you?"

Ranma shook her head. "No, not really, but..." She heard that bell again. Ranma had proceeded to leap up and rush into the forest; Jack was about to, but he knew some people had to be left alone. Maybe it was something that happened to her before.

Ranma rushed into the forest and kept following the echo of the bell; she couldn't place it, but it sounded vaguely familiar, maybe from something that was lost to her, she couldn't place it.

Ranma started to walk slower when the bell sound proceeded to get loud; now she could see a clearing and a small person sitting there. Man or boy she didn't know.

The figure sitting there was dressing in dirty white robes, parts were torn at the end as it looked very old, but still valuable. A dirty white cap was tied by one wrap of the same color; in between the wrap were parts of the cloak that stood straight up.

The figure turned around and she could make out more of his features. A shadow always seemed to be cast over one of his eyes as he walked towards her; he also had a faded purple scarf. On his hands were purple fingerless gloves.

He also held a staff on his shoulder. The staff, had the decoration of an eye for the head; the top part of the brow wrapped around clockwise and formed the pupil, the other lash connected to it.

Now, she could see something hanging from his neck; it was a purple stone slab tied to a string with the same eye decoration as the staff head, except the bottom eyelash wasn't connected to the top one. Three purple cords hung from either side and a brown fur in the shape of a tear from the end; the eye was also yellow as was the head.

The eye changed for a second; now it was a purple eye with a big black pupil and a red outline, red and white vanes extended from the end to the pupil. The eye now changed back to what it was before.

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The strange man's shadow shifted from his right eye down to both of them, she now saw why.
There were 4 decapitated heads, each with part of the spine protruding out from the neck,
still fresh with blood and flesh. The heads, all the eyes were gouged out and now lifeless holes started back at her. The scalps were cut off, revealing the skull and parts cracked, showing the brains, fresh with blood. The vanes could be clearly outlined.

Three of the four heads had slips of paper on them, all had an insignia of an eye clearly designed on them. The man walked over to the fourth head and pulled out a slip of paper. He threw the paper and it floated down and landed in the middle of the head; the man pulled a small bell out of his robes, this bell was made out of the same flesh as the human brain and was clearly outlined by the vanes.

He rung the bell once. "To the next world, We commit thee."

He adjusted his staff on his back and walked past Ranma, Ranma was about 5'6, but this man was only about 3 feet.

He turned his head and the shadow was now on his left eye.

"Forget what you saw here. It not concern you."

Ranma would be glad, this scene disturbed her greatly, she might be a martial artist, but things like this would creep anyone out. She walked slowly back towards where Jack and Mokona were, she started to reflect on the event.

'Who the hell was that guy...'

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Meanwhile in another time and space...

A shadow appeared out of the dark, no features could be seen. They wore a definite black cloak.

"How goes the plan?" Said the cloaked figure in a definite male voice.

Another shadow stepped out and only nodded, this time they wore a white robe.

"It all goes according to the plan." Said the definite female voice.

The black robed one removed his hood and smiled at the white one. No features could be seen except the outline of his smile.

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How do you like the second chapter? Comments are welcome, except for flames.