Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, or Cardcaptor
Sakura, which is only making a brief appearance in this fic.
Author's Notes: I think I'll have the group split up a bit. This part will mainly focus on Ranma, Hikari, Ranko, Tenchi, Trista, Nodoka, and the kids. Well, they meet up anyways. Anyways, on with the fic!
Updated: 10/7/03
'Thought'
Soul's Destiny, Blood's Inheritance Chapter 7
Ranma awoke to cold water, and yelped his fury, while clinging to the ceiling. Looking down, he saw Ranko's smirking face as she turned to do the same to the other sleeping boy. Ranma, was about to call out to warn the sleeping prince, but soon he was drenched also. Tenchi's reaction was not as interesting as Ranma's as he only screamed while drenched and shot up in bed.
"Hush now, you don't want to wake the other occupants of the building do you?" Ranko asked sweetly.
Ranma got down from the ceiling and joined Tenchi in his glare at Ranko game. She, however, ignored the glares and turned to walk out the door. "Don't forget that we're going to the water park today. Mom offered to help Hikari and Trista with the kids today. We'll be leaving in half an hour, you think you can manage?"
Ranma glared at his sister once again. "Oh don't you worry we'll be ready and out there in twenty."
Ranko just smirked and sauntered out the door, flipping her pigtail over her shoulder. Ranma just sighed and shook his head, turning to his dresser to get ready. Tenchi followed suit and they were ready with everything they would need for the day in ten minutes.
Heading out to the lobby, Ranma looked around to see that Trista and a few of the children were there already, as well as Ranko. Ranko turned to Ranma and gave him a knowing grin as if there was a grand secret she was hiding. "I know something you don't know!!" Ranko almost sang to him.
Ranma raised an eyebrow as Trista gave him a wolfish grin and smirked like she knew the secret also. Ranma was about to ask what it was when the other three children came running around the corner, giggling their heads off. They were followed by a blushing Hikari, and a smug looking Nodoka.
'Suddenly, I don't want to know,' Ranma thought to himself, 'they're messing with my love life again I bet.'
Then he looked at Hikari, 'Or at least trying to.'
Ranma smiled at the kids, who were chatting excitedly about the upcoming adventure at the water park. "You kids ready to go?"
They nodded and cheered as the bus to the water park pulled up. Everyone piled on and the bus left, allowing everyone a nice quiet ride there.
The trip lasted close to forty minutes and all the children were getting rather rambunctious with their pent up energy. Being still for so long was wreaking havoc on the adults' minds, as the children started a chorus of ninety-nine bottles of beer. As the bus driver let them off, he looked relieved to see the kids take off and head to the sidewalk hurriedly. The babysitters got off at a more leisurely pace, which had the children glaring at them for taking so long.
"Geez, we're never gonna get there if you don't hurry up!" Ikari said angrily.
The rest of the children gave them disapproving looks as the adults chuckled. They finished getting off the bus with all their things, and headed to the ticket gates. The children could hardly hide their excitement as the tickets were purchased and they got in the park. Before they could take off, however, Ranma told them to wait until they had a locker for their towels and sunscreen. "We need a locker and you all need to put sunscreen on so you don't get burned."
The kids groaned and waited. Ranma and Tenchi had an easy time getting their stuff off and quickly got the lockers. They started with getting the boys nicely lotioned as the girls finished getting their own stuff off. They then finished with the girls and then started on themselves.
As they were finishing up, Hikari stepped over to Ranma and smiled at him. "I'll do your back if you do mine."
Ranma turned around to nod and his breath caught. She was wearing a deep blue two piece with a red, exotic flower pattern. It ended just above her stomach, and showed enough cleavage to be modest while looking sexy at the same time. The bottom matched the top and helped accent her long, toned legs.
He felt himself nod, and turned around as she squirted a small amount of suntan lotion on her hand. She started rubbing it on his back and Ranma shivered slightly at the touch. As she massaged the lotion on, Ranma's mind started to go blank at the pleasure he was receiving just by that innocent gesture. 'I'm really going to have to learn to control myself,' was the last thing Ranma thought as he gave into the sensation.
Ranko smirked at Ranma's look of bliss as she turned to Tenchi and offered the same. Tenchi grinned, and nodded, also watching the two. "You think they'll get together after this? We do have to return home after we finish with our little 'vacation.' Ranma will have to deal with his parents divorce and still keep up with his police work. What will you do?"
Ranko smiled. "I'll live with mother. Who knows, maybe she'll move to the section of Tokyo that's closer to you and we can visit each other. It would be great fun, with you, Ranma and me."
Tenchi smiled and as she finished, turned to smear lotion on her back as well. Watching Ranma out of the corner of his eye, he snickered at Ranma's sudden lost expression when Hikari stopped rubbing on the lotion. The expression quickly turned into a smile as he turned around and took the lotion from her, and he reciprocated the motions.
Ranko snuck a look over and smirked, saying, "Looks like she's enjoying herself as much as he was."
"Physical attraction is a good thing, especially since Ranma was never really attracted to many girls," Tenchi commented.
Ranko nodded. "Amazing that he can still think like that. But then, she does remind him of that dream he's been having for the past few weeks."
Tenchi raised an eyebrow, and finished up. Turning, they saw the children watching them impatiently as Nodoka and Trista finished lotioning each other.
"Well, looks like we're already. Should we divide into groups so that we aren't carting a huge one around? Or do you think we should stay together?" Ranko asked.
"Well with seven children and six adults, it shouldn't be too hard to do," Nodoka said, "Ikari, Hikaru, and Shinji will come with Ranko and me. I need some time to get to know my daughter. Sasha and Toya may go with Trista and Tenchi and the twins will go with Ranma and Hikari. Is this satisfactory?"
The teenagers thought a moment, and nodded, while the children went to their respective 'babysitters' for the day. They started off in different directions, as each of the children wanted to do something different first. Ranma and Hikari watched while the other groups left and then turned to the kids, "So what do you two want to do?"
The twins thought a moment and chorused an answer of, "Wave pool!"
Ranma grinned and nodded, and turned to Hikari, who was giggling. They then started off in the direction of the wave pool, making sure to get the children life vests just in case.
Arriving at the wave pool, Ann and Toby ran for the water and made it in as far as they could with their feet still touching the ground. They looked at the clock longingly, as it was counting down the time until the next batch of waves. Ranma and Hikari went in after the two and picked them up, eliciting squeals from the twins. Going further in the water, Ranma and Hikari allowed the children to float freely, warning them not to swim too far away from them.
Ann and Toby started a small water fight, laughing as they swam a bit towards the deeper section of the pool and back. While watching them, Ranma was suddenly startled by something brushing his leg, and looked down in the water to see nothing. Looking around, he saw Hikari a bit further off watching the twins as they played with three other girls and a boy around their age. They were accompanied by two other guys.
'That's odd,' he thought, 'I could have sworn that something brushed right by me. Oh well, I'll go see if Hikari noticed anything.' Ranma started over, and was slightly startled by a buzzer signifying the start of the waves. As the waves started, the children started to laugh harder as the waves pushed them back towards shore. As Ranma reached Hikari, he noticed a slight frown on her face as she watched the water. When he touched her shoulder though, the frown disappeared and a smile replaced it.
Suddenly, a group of people from the deeper end started to scream and started to paddle out of the water. Something like a dragon made of water rose out of a wave and collapsed, while launching some sort of water like breath at the people. Hikari grabbed the twins and started to high tail it out of the pool, while the rest started swimming to shore also, the life guard frantically blowing his whistle. One girl however, seemed stunned as she watched the thing rise out of the water and return. Ranma started to make his way towards her when she was pulled under, and he heard a watery voice say, "You're energy is mine, girl of magic."
Ranma plowed under to see energy flowing from her into a specific spot in the water as she drowned. Focusing a chi attack, Ranma launched it at the energy ball, dissipating it and making whatever it was lose its hold on the girl. Grabbing her, Ranma started making strong strokes to shore, and quickly got to where the water was knee deep. A young man his age came and grabbed the girl as she was coughing up water, calling her name.
"Are you her brother?" Ranma asked.
The guy nodded and held out his hand, "Toya, and this is my little sister, Sakura."
"Ranma," he said as he turned and muttered, "There's something in the water, that's trying to drag people down."
Toya looked at Ranma and then at the water. "Thanks for saving her," he said, walking to shore. Ranma just nodded and turned himself. Just as he was about to take a step, something grabbed his foot, and dragged him off his feet.
"What the.?" Ranma yelled as he was dragged under the water and deeper in. Holding his breath, he saw two glowing eyes, staring at him.
"You took my prey," it hissed, "Looks like I'll get you're energy instead for the Negaverse. You have plenty."
Ranma threw another chi attack that the thing avoided, ready for it. Ranma started to panic when he thought of something that was so ludicrous that it was sure to work. 'What about soul of ice, stupid? Maybe the thing will freeze.'
Ranma started to drop his body temperature, making the thing shriek in surprise. Like Ranma thought, the thing started to freeze slowly, and soon, its whole body was visible to him. Ranma broke the surface of the water with the iced body and started to swim to the nearest edge, he pulled himself up as one of the sailor scouts showed up and toasted the thing with a fire ball.
"Ha! That takes care of the negatrash!" screamed a triumphant Sailor Mars.
Ranma rolled his eyes, as he started coughing up the water he swallowed. Sailor Mars walked over to him and offered him a hand. "Sorry I'm late. I ran into a bit of trouble."
Ranma snorted and got off the ground. "You weren't the one that nearly drowned. It attacked and nearly killed a little girl. I suggest you start keeping your senses more open before an innocent life is actually taken by these things."
Turning he saw Usagi, who looked struck, and sheepish, by the words he chastised Sailor Mars with. Ami also looked a little down, which confused Ranma a bit. He shrugged, smiled and said hello, walking to meet Hikari and the twins half way as they were running to him.
"Are you alright?" were the first things out of Hikari's mouth. Ranma grinned a slightly sheepish grin and nodded. "I'm fine. It takes a lot to kill me."
He saw Sailor Mars disappear out of the corner of his eye, and then turned back to his group. "How about you guys? Are you alright?"
Hikari and the twins nodded, worried looks changing into slight smiles. Then Ranma noticed Toya, Sakura, and the rest of their group heading his way. He turned to greet them, seeing Sakura awake.
"Thanks for saving her once again," Toya said.
Ranma waved him off, "It's really not a problem. I'm sure anyone would have done the same."
"But only you did," said the younger boy. He looked slightly ashamed of himself, and Ranma raised an eyebrow.
Ranma sighed. There was no arguing with that comment.
"What was that thing anyway?" asked the white haired guy.
"That," came Usagi's voice from behind, "Was a youma from the negaverse. They usually only attack around Juuban. I don't know why they're here."
Ranma snorted, "They way they act, it's almost as if they try to follow those with power, so they can drain it."
Ami looked thoughtful for a moment, and nodded. Toya, Sakura, and their friends, just stayed silent.
Ranma shrugged once more, and turned to them with a smile. "Well, I'm not going to let this ruin my day. C'mon, there are still lots of rides to go on."
The twins cheered and picked a direction. Hikari and Ranma waved to the group behind them, and carried on with their day.
The rest of the morning was spent riding rides until the children got hungry. Amazingly, they all met at the same place to eat around the same time. Each group was within ten minutes of each other arriving.
Nodoka laughed at the situation, "Well what do you know? I suppose great minds think alike!"
Ranko giggled as Ranma's stomach growled, "Either that or bottomless pits do."
The whole group laughed at that, and soon everyone had their food. The children compared the rides they went on while the adults talked about menial things. The topic soon turned to the monster in the wave pool.
"I heard they closed the wave pool down for maintenance," Ranko said softly, "Does anyone know why?"
Ranma looked at Hikari, who nodded and then addressed the group. "There was some sort of youma in the wave pool that attacked, and nearly killed a girl. I managed to save her, and then the monster pulled me under again. As soon as that happened, I used the soul of ice technique to freeze it, and swam to the edge of the pool. Only then did one of the sailor scouts show up to destroy it."
Nodoka gasped and was about to scold Ranma when he held up a hand. "Mom, I'm alright, however, if I didn't do anything, that girl would have had her energy drained and drowned in the pool."
Nodoka sighed and nodded, relenting in her scolding. The look she gave him, however, told him to be more careful. Ranma just sighed and continued with his meal.
Hikari looked between them, but said nothing. 'She looks like she agrees with my mom. Yeesh.'
Ranko giggled, and turned the topic to the other rides at the water park. "Most of the slides are fun. There are a few that really shouldn't be gotten on though, unless you have the need for speed."
Ranma raised an eyebrow, but shook his head as Tenchi started to turn green. "I second that," he said.
Trista snickered, "Well, it's not our fault you couldn't handle it. You're the one who volunteered to go with her."
Tenchi shrugged, and got started on his food again. Soon everyone was finished, and the groups split up again, with a plan. "We'll meet by the park gates around three or so. That gives us at least two and a half hours to finish playing around and get the kids worn out," Hikari said.
"I wish each and every one of us good luck with this task and pray for your success," Trista said solemnly. The other adults chuckled slightly as they took off in different directions once more.
Throughout the rest of their day, the groups crossed each other, or would head to the same ride, only to split up later. All too soon, three o'clock rolled around and they all wandered over to the exit gates to get on the bus back to the hotel. The bus arrived soon after they did, and they boarded. The children, didn't sing this time, but had satisfied looks on their faces as they headed back for dinner.
At the hotel, Hikari and Trista gathered the children and headed off to the dining area, while Ranma, Ranko, Tenchi, and Nodoka headed towards their rooms to put their things away first. They agreed to meet in five minutes for dinner.
Coming back from their room, Ranma and Tenchi ran into the old gentleman that ran the hotel in the first place. "Hello! How are you doing?" called out Ranma.
The old man looked slightly startled at hearing Ranma's voice, but then smiled. "Hello boys. I'm fine. How are the two of you doing?"
Tenchi watched the old man a moment before answering. "We're doing fine elder. But you looked deep in thought for a while there. What were you thinking about?"
"Just the problems of an old man with no relatives, that's all," was the owner's reply.
"Why don't you adopt?" Ranma asked, wondering why the old man hadn't done anything before hand.
"I could only adopt an heir that knew the secrets of these springs and would not use them harmfully. Magic is too dangerous a tool for fools and evil to use."
Ranma and Tenchi exchanged looks, knowing how true that was. "Wish we could help grandfather, but we're not sure what we could do for your predicament."
The old man sighed, "I have a good candidate but he's too depressed after the loss of his wife and children," and with that waved them off to dinner. Saying goodbye, Ranma and Tenchi found Ranko and Nodoka waiting for them, almost impatiently. Ranma grinned a sheepish grin, while Tenchi adopted a slightly scared expression as the two women glowered at them. Going in the dining room, they ordered, and sat to eat, wanting to end their day with full stomachs.
Author's Notes: I think I'll have the group split up a bit. This part will mainly focus on Ranma, Hikari, Ranko, Tenchi, Trista, Nodoka, and the kids. Well, they meet up anyways. Anyways, on with the fic!
Updated: 10/7/03
'Thought'
Soul's Destiny, Blood's Inheritance Chapter 7
Ranma awoke to cold water, and yelped his fury, while clinging to the ceiling. Looking down, he saw Ranko's smirking face as she turned to do the same to the other sleeping boy. Ranma, was about to call out to warn the sleeping prince, but soon he was drenched also. Tenchi's reaction was not as interesting as Ranma's as he only screamed while drenched and shot up in bed.
"Hush now, you don't want to wake the other occupants of the building do you?" Ranko asked sweetly.
Ranma got down from the ceiling and joined Tenchi in his glare at Ranko game. She, however, ignored the glares and turned to walk out the door. "Don't forget that we're going to the water park today. Mom offered to help Hikari and Trista with the kids today. We'll be leaving in half an hour, you think you can manage?"
Ranma glared at his sister once again. "Oh don't you worry we'll be ready and out there in twenty."
Ranko just smirked and sauntered out the door, flipping her pigtail over her shoulder. Ranma just sighed and shook his head, turning to his dresser to get ready. Tenchi followed suit and they were ready with everything they would need for the day in ten minutes.
Heading out to the lobby, Ranma looked around to see that Trista and a few of the children were there already, as well as Ranko. Ranko turned to Ranma and gave him a knowing grin as if there was a grand secret she was hiding. "I know something you don't know!!" Ranko almost sang to him.
Ranma raised an eyebrow as Trista gave him a wolfish grin and smirked like she knew the secret also. Ranma was about to ask what it was when the other three children came running around the corner, giggling their heads off. They were followed by a blushing Hikari, and a smug looking Nodoka.
'Suddenly, I don't want to know,' Ranma thought to himself, 'they're messing with my love life again I bet.'
Then he looked at Hikari, 'Or at least trying to.'
Ranma smiled at the kids, who were chatting excitedly about the upcoming adventure at the water park. "You kids ready to go?"
They nodded and cheered as the bus to the water park pulled up. Everyone piled on and the bus left, allowing everyone a nice quiet ride there.
The trip lasted close to forty minutes and all the children were getting rather rambunctious with their pent up energy. Being still for so long was wreaking havoc on the adults' minds, as the children started a chorus of ninety-nine bottles of beer. As the bus driver let them off, he looked relieved to see the kids take off and head to the sidewalk hurriedly. The babysitters got off at a more leisurely pace, which had the children glaring at them for taking so long.
"Geez, we're never gonna get there if you don't hurry up!" Ikari said angrily.
The rest of the children gave them disapproving looks as the adults chuckled. They finished getting off the bus with all their things, and headed to the ticket gates. The children could hardly hide their excitement as the tickets were purchased and they got in the park. Before they could take off, however, Ranma told them to wait until they had a locker for their towels and sunscreen. "We need a locker and you all need to put sunscreen on so you don't get burned."
The kids groaned and waited. Ranma and Tenchi had an easy time getting their stuff off and quickly got the lockers. They started with getting the boys nicely lotioned as the girls finished getting their own stuff off. They then finished with the girls and then started on themselves.
As they were finishing up, Hikari stepped over to Ranma and smiled at him. "I'll do your back if you do mine."
Ranma turned around to nod and his breath caught. She was wearing a deep blue two piece with a red, exotic flower pattern. It ended just above her stomach, and showed enough cleavage to be modest while looking sexy at the same time. The bottom matched the top and helped accent her long, toned legs.
He felt himself nod, and turned around as she squirted a small amount of suntan lotion on her hand. She started rubbing it on his back and Ranma shivered slightly at the touch. As she massaged the lotion on, Ranma's mind started to go blank at the pleasure he was receiving just by that innocent gesture. 'I'm really going to have to learn to control myself,' was the last thing Ranma thought as he gave into the sensation.
Ranko smirked at Ranma's look of bliss as she turned to Tenchi and offered the same. Tenchi grinned, and nodded, also watching the two. "You think they'll get together after this? We do have to return home after we finish with our little 'vacation.' Ranma will have to deal with his parents divorce and still keep up with his police work. What will you do?"
Ranko smiled. "I'll live with mother. Who knows, maybe she'll move to the section of Tokyo that's closer to you and we can visit each other. It would be great fun, with you, Ranma and me."
Tenchi smiled and as she finished, turned to smear lotion on her back as well. Watching Ranma out of the corner of his eye, he snickered at Ranma's sudden lost expression when Hikari stopped rubbing on the lotion. The expression quickly turned into a smile as he turned around and took the lotion from her, and he reciprocated the motions.
Ranko snuck a look over and smirked, saying, "Looks like she's enjoying herself as much as he was."
"Physical attraction is a good thing, especially since Ranma was never really attracted to many girls," Tenchi commented.
Ranko nodded. "Amazing that he can still think like that. But then, she does remind him of that dream he's been having for the past few weeks."
Tenchi raised an eyebrow, and finished up. Turning, they saw the children watching them impatiently as Nodoka and Trista finished lotioning each other.
"Well, looks like we're already. Should we divide into groups so that we aren't carting a huge one around? Or do you think we should stay together?" Ranko asked.
"Well with seven children and six adults, it shouldn't be too hard to do," Nodoka said, "Ikari, Hikaru, and Shinji will come with Ranko and me. I need some time to get to know my daughter. Sasha and Toya may go with Trista and Tenchi and the twins will go with Ranma and Hikari. Is this satisfactory?"
The teenagers thought a moment, and nodded, while the children went to their respective 'babysitters' for the day. They started off in different directions, as each of the children wanted to do something different first. Ranma and Hikari watched while the other groups left and then turned to the kids, "So what do you two want to do?"
The twins thought a moment and chorused an answer of, "Wave pool!"
Ranma grinned and nodded, and turned to Hikari, who was giggling. They then started off in the direction of the wave pool, making sure to get the children life vests just in case.
Arriving at the wave pool, Ann and Toby ran for the water and made it in as far as they could with their feet still touching the ground. They looked at the clock longingly, as it was counting down the time until the next batch of waves. Ranma and Hikari went in after the two and picked them up, eliciting squeals from the twins. Going further in the water, Ranma and Hikari allowed the children to float freely, warning them not to swim too far away from them.
Ann and Toby started a small water fight, laughing as they swam a bit towards the deeper section of the pool and back. While watching them, Ranma was suddenly startled by something brushing his leg, and looked down in the water to see nothing. Looking around, he saw Hikari a bit further off watching the twins as they played with three other girls and a boy around their age. They were accompanied by two other guys.
'That's odd,' he thought, 'I could have sworn that something brushed right by me. Oh well, I'll go see if Hikari noticed anything.' Ranma started over, and was slightly startled by a buzzer signifying the start of the waves. As the waves started, the children started to laugh harder as the waves pushed them back towards shore. As Ranma reached Hikari, he noticed a slight frown on her face as she watched the water. When he touched her shoulder though, the frown disappeared and a smile replaced it.
Suddenly, a group of people from the deeper end started to scream and started to paddle out of the water. Something like a dragon made of water rose out of a wave and collapsed, while launching some sort of water like breath at the people. Hikari grabbed the twins and started to high tail it out of the pool, while the rest started swimming to shore also, the life guard frantically blowing his whistle. One girl however, seemed stunned as she watched the thing rise out of the water and return. Ranma started to make his way towards her when she was pulled under, and he heard a watery voice say, "You're energy is mine, girl of magic."
Ranma plowed under to see energy flowing from her into a specific spot in the water as she drowned. Focusing a chi attack, Ranma launched it at the energy ball, dissipating it and making whatever it was lose its hold on the girl. Grabbing her, Ranma started making strong strokes to shore, and quickly got to where the water was knee deep. A young man his age came and grabbed the girl as she was coughing up water, calling her name.
"Are you her brother?" Ranma asked.
The guy nodded and held out his hand, "Toya, and this is my little sister, Sakura."
"Ranma," he said as he turned and muttered, "There's something in the water, that's trying to drag people down."
Toya looked at Ranma and then at the water. "Thanks for saving her," he said, walking to shore. Ranma just nodded and turned himself. Just as he was about to take a step, something grabbed his foot, and dragged him off his feet.
"What the.?" Ranma yelled as he was dragged under the water and deeper in. Holding his breath, he saw two glowing eyes, staring at him.
"You took my prey," it hissed, "Looks like I'll get you're energy instead for the Negaverse. You have plenty."
Ranma threw another chi attack that the thing avoided, ready for it. Ranma started to panic when he thought of something that was so ludicrous that it was sure to work. 'What about soul of ice, stupid? Maybe the thing will freeze.'
Ranma started to drop his body temperature, making the thing shriek in surprise. Like Ranma thought, the thing started to freeze slowly, and soon, its whole body was visible to him. Ranma broke the surface of the water with the iced body and started to swim to the nearest edge, he pulled himself up as one of the sailor scouts showed up and toasted the thing with a fire ball.
"Ha! That takes care of the negatrash!" screamed a triumphant Sailor Mars.
Ranma rolled his eyes, as he started coughing up the water he swallowed. Sailor Mars walked over to him and offered him a hand. "Sorry I'm late. I ran into a bit of trouble."
Ranma snorted and got off the ground. "You weren't the one that nearly drowned. It attacked and nearly killed a little girl. I suggest you start keeping your senses more open before an innocent life is actually taken by these things."
Turning he saw Usagi, who looked struck, and sheepish, by the words he chastised Sailor Mars with. Ami also looked a little down, which confused Ranma a bit. He shrugged, smiled and said hello, walking to meet Hikari and the twins half way as they were running to him.
"Are you alright?" were the first things out of Hikari's mouth. Ranma grinned a slightly sheepish grin and nodded. "I'm fine. It takes a lot to kill me."
He saw Sailor Mars disappear out of the corner of his eye, and then turned back to his group. "How about you guys? Are you alright?"
Hikari and the twins nodded, worried looks changing into slight smiles. Then Ranma noticed Toya, Sakura, and the rest of their group heading his way. He turned to greet them, seeing Sakura awake.
"Thanks for saving her once again," Toya said.
Ranma waved him off, "It's really not a problem. I'm sure anyone would have done the same."
"But only you did," said the younger boy. He looked slightly ashamed of himself, and Ranma raised an eyebrow.
Ranma sighed. There was no arguing with that comment.
"What was that thing anyway?" asked the white haired guy.
"That," came Usagi's voice from behind, "Was a youma from the negaverse. They usually only attack around Juuban. I don't know why they're here."
Ranma snorted, "They way they act, it's almost as if they try to follow those with power, so they can drain it."
Ami looked thoughtful for a moment, and nodded. Toya, Sakura, and their friends, just stayed silent.
Ranma shrugged once more, and turned to them with a smile. "Well, I'm not going to let this ruin my day. C'mon, there are still lots of rides to go on."
The twins cheered and picked a direction. Hikari and Ranma waved to the group behind them, and carried on with their day.
The rest of the morning was spent riding rides until the children got hungry. Amazingly, they all met at the same place to eat around the same time. Each group was within ten minutes of each other arriving.
Nodoka laughed at the situation, "Well what do you know? I suppose great minds think alike!"
Ranko giggled as Ranma's stomach growled, "Either that or bottomless pits do."
The whole group laughed at that, and soon everyone had their food. The children compared the rides they went on while the adults talked about menial things. The topic soon turned to the monster in the wave pool.
"I heard they closed the wave pool down for maintenance," Ranko said softly, "Does anyone know why?"
Ranma looked at Hikari, who nodded and then addressed the group. "There was some sort of youma in the wave pool that attacked, and nearly killed a girl. I managed to save her, and then the monster pulled me under again. As soon as that happened, I used the soul of ice technique to freeze it, and swam to the edge of the pool. Only then did one of the sailor scouts show up to destroy it."
Nodoka gasped and was about to scold Ranma when he held up a hand. "Mom, I'm alright, however, if I didn't do anything, that girl would have had her energy drained and drowned in the pool."
Nodoka sighed and nodded, relenting in her scolding. The look she gave him, however, told him to be more careful. Ranma just sighed and continued with his meal.
Hikari looked between them, but said nothing. 'She looks like she agrees with my mom. Yeesh.'
Ranko giggled, and turned the topic to the other rides at the water park. "Most of the slides are fun. There are a few that really shouldn't be gotten on though, unless you have the need for speed."
Ranma raised an eyebrow, but shook his head as Tenchi started to turn green. "I second that," he said.
Trista snickered, "Well, it's not our fault you couldn't handle it. You're the one who volunteered to go with her."
Tenchi shrugged, and got started on his food again. Soon everyone was finished, and the groups split up again, with a plan. "We'll meet by the park gates around three or so. That gives us at least two and a half hours to finish playing around and get the kids worn out," Hikari said.
"I wish each and every one of us good luck with this task and pray for your success," Trista said solemnly. The other adults chuckled slightly as they took off in different directions once more.
Throughout the rest of their day, the groups crossed each other, or would head to the same ride, only to split up later. All too soon, three o'clock rolled around and they all wandered over to the exit gates to get on the bus back to the hotel. The bus arrived soon after they did, and they boarded. The children, didn't sing this time, but had satisfied looks on their faces as they headed back for dinner.
At the hotel, Hikari and Trista gathered the children and headed off to the dining area, while Ranma, Ranko, Tenchi, and Nodoka headed towards their rooms to put their things away first. They agreed to meet in five minutes for dinner.
Coming back from their room, Ranma and Tenchi ran into the old gentleman that ran the hotel in the first place. "Hello! How are you doing?" called out Ranma.
The old man looked slightly startled at hearing Ranma's voice, but then smiled. "Hello boys. I'm fine. How are the two of you doing?"
Tenchi watched the old man a moment before answering. "We're doing fine elder. But you looked deep in thought for a while there. What were you thinking about?"
"Just the problems of an old man with no relatives, that's all," was the owner's reply.
"Why don't you adopt?" Ranma asked, wondering why the old man hadn't done anything before hand.
"I could only adopt an heir that knew the secrets of these springs and would not use them harmfully. Magic is too dangerous a tool for fools and evil to use."
Ranma and Tenchi exchanged looks, knowing how true that was. "Wish we could help grandfather, but we're not sure what we could do for your predicament."
The old man sighed, "I have a good candidate but he's too depressed after the loss of his wife and children," and with that waved them off to dinner. Saying goodbye, Ranma and Tenchi found Ranko and Nodoka waiting for them, almost impatiently. Ranma grinned a sheepish grin, while Tenchi adopted a slightly scared expression as the two women glowered at them. Going in the dining room, they ordered, and sat to eat, wanting to end their day with full stomachs.