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Hitzusen, Chapter 3
Ranma finally reached back to Jack and sighed, she started to go through a kata, while Mokona was still sleeping with a sleep bubble and Jack was busy doing something near the forest of bamboo.
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Jack looked around diligently; he was looking for just the right pieces of bamboo for his training exercises. He looked back momentarily to see Ranma arrive and go through a kata, he figured if she wasn't sleeping, relaxing or eating, she liked to practice the art.
He had finally found what he was looking for; he unsheathed his katana with precision then slashed a few times and resheathed it. Two trees feel in the forest and the birds scattered;
Jack walked to where the trees had fallen and picked up the two bamboo staffs, 40 inches in length, about the size of a standard katana.
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When Ranma finished her kata, she noticed Jack standing there holding two sticks of bamboo under his arm and clapping at her.
"That was good." She started to laugh and Jack continued. "Would you like a real partner? I could also teach you how to defend against a sword, it seems that a lot of people in this world use the art of the katana." He threw one of the sticks to Ranma and then took his favorite stance.
Ranma didn't know what to do, so she took the same stance.
"Come on then!" Yelled Ranma.
Unbeknownst to them, a figure was watching them from the darkness of the forest. His eyes glowed red and a smirk was planted on his face, he just had to wait for the right time to attack.
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Several hours later...
Ranma and Jack both sat on the ground, exhausted, Jack was the first to break there silence.
"Whew...you seem to handle the katana well..." Ranma started to laugh, but Jack silenced her.
"No...there here."
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The figure jumped out and landed between Jack and Ranma, 4 others also landed near that one.
They all looked exactly alike. Black frame, black hands, wooden long brim hat, black katana's and a wooden chest plate.
"Them...I thought I destroyed them already..." Jack said with venom in his voice. Ranma tilted her head to the right.
"What the HELL are these?" Inquired Ranma. Jack started at the ground for a moment then talked again.
"Them..." He pointed towards the 5 machines. "They are assassins specifically designed to kill me for Aku's benefit." Jack said, now staring at them.
Ranma was about to ask what was going on, but she was interrupted when two of them headed for her and three headed for Jack.
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Jack started off by throwing his bamboo staff at one of them attacking him then unsheathing his katana; he didn't expect it to be hit it, but distract it for a moment, but that still didn't work as one of the others covered for him by slashing it into little pieces, harmlessly falling to the ground.
The three assaulted Jack head on.
(These aren't the ones from the TV show. There special weapons will be my own design, plus I haven't seen that episode in months, some of the abilities might be from the show)
The middle one's left arm tore off and was replaced by a sword-arm, still black as ever. He assaulted Jack head on. The one to the right was able to make machine guns out of his arms and fire at Jack from long range. The one to the left had a grappling hook.
While Jack was busy parrying and countering the middle ones attacks, the one to the right was firing machine guns, Jack was able to reflect the bullets with his sword back at the middle one,
causing him to be caught off guard. Jack was about to slash, but the left one intervened and grabbed Jack's sword with his grappling hook; this gave Jack another idea.
While Jack was grappled, he ran towards the left one, reaching him in seconds. Jack's sword was still grappled, the machine couldn't get out of range. Jack grabbed the arm with the machines sword and slowly pushed it towards his other arm. The robot, not wanting to get his armed chopped off, threw Jack back with a kick to the ribs and released his katana; bad idea.
Jack regained his balance and did a series of slashes which reduced the left half of the machine to scrap metal, the right side started to squirm on the ground, but Jack quickly stabbed it through the chest, causing it to blow up and send pieces of shrapnel through Jack's arms and chest, making him bleed profusely.
'I hope Ranma's doing better...' Now he had two more to go...
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Ranma wasn't doing much better; she was fighting two machines, but they had more dangerous abilities.
The one to Ranma's left had the ability to spew flames from his mouth, the one to the right had the ability to throw a lot of shurikens are fast speeds. Ranma was able to charge her ki and knock back the stars using air pressure. While she was attacking the one with stars, she didn't notice the one to the left coming closer to her with tremendous speed.
Ranma was able to defeat the one with stars by catching all the stars he threw at her then throwing them back at him with Amaguriken speed, deftly paralyzing him and allowing Ranma to charge her ki and blast him away into rubble, leaving no remains. She noticed the other one too late; it spewed flames at Ranma and caught her off guard.
While she was trying to dodge the flames, the machine came up behind her and kicked her down to the ground. He pulled out his sword and proceeded to slash at her back, ripping her shirt and tearing to shreds, which also tore her sport bra strap, which was black. She figured she wasn't going to be changing back, so she bought herself a few sports bras (after all, it probably easier to fight without her chest bouncing around) and a few pairs of panties (I guess it would be easier to move in those too, since the shape of her body)(1).
Blood spewed out from her back and onto the dark metal of machine, the machines slashes were too deep, as the spine could now vaguely been seen as well as the shoulder blades.
Ranma turned over, her blouse feel off, but that wasn't her concern right know. She was about to fire ki balls at Amaguriken speed, when the machine came down on Ranma's arm between the elbow and wrist. Ranma was silent for a minute, but then she let out a blood curdling scream;
The sword pierced through her skin and down through the bone, cleanly cutting it. Blood gushed out of her arm and onto the dark metal once again, the cracking and twisting of bones could also be heard, this could make anyone cover there ears immediately, the sound was so horrible...
The flesh started to burn away and rot off; the sword was made out of pure darkness. Ranma was flinching around, the twisting sound and the fountain of blood gushing from the wound could be heard.
What could Ranma do?
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A/N: How did you like that chapter? I know some people will be disappointed by the cliffhanger,
but it helps set up the next chapter, which will be fairly short.
(1). Ranma had learned the 'Hidden Weapon' technique from Mousse while she spent her time in the Amazon village with Cologne and Shampoo.