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Last chapter: "Night Ranma." Kagome said before she fell asleep.
Ch 7: At the grounds of accursed springs
Kagome was the first one to wake up. She yawned and stretched her arms. Kagome looked over to Ranma who was still sleeping.
'He's so kawaii –[cute]- like that.' she smiled to herself. 'I think I better get some food ready.' She used the last of the firewood to make the fire. Looking through her backpack she pulled out some ingredients to make fried rice. (Kagome learned how to cook from home-ed, and her mom. This skill would come in handy later in the fic.)
At the delicious smell of Kagome's cooking Ranma awakened. He was still drowsy and his vision was a bit blurry, but hey it was the morning. The rays of sunlight hit his eyes hard and made them sting. He moved his arm so it covered his eyes.
"Food?" was the first thing he asked. Kagome beamed at him and nodded. Ranma rubbed his eyes and crawled over; he peered into the pan Kagome was cooking with. "Smells good. When will it be done?" he asked as he watch Kagome add some soy sauce.
"Should be done in couple more minutes. You should, I dunno get ready or somein," she said and she flipped the rice over. Ranma only shrugged. Since he had nothing to do, he might as well start the day off with some exorcise. He walked to an area few meters away from Kagome. He began practicing a kata he created when he was a child, when he was alone.
_*_*_*_*_*Ranma Kata*_*_*_*_*_ (*actions* ex: *sweat drop*; 'Ranma's thoughts')
*Punch, punch, kick, block, dodge. *
'What am I'm going to do? Hell what am I going to do.'
*Kick, duck, block, back flip. *
'Hey! Today maybe we'll luck out and find the damned shard before anything bad happen.' *smirks*
*round house kick, jump, jab, punch, upper cut. *
'Maybe. But if it doesn't work what will I do then? Nah!! Can't be. Kagome can sense the shard. So I'm sure we'll find it in no time.'
*Right hook, uppercut, dodge, punch, and high kick. *
'I'm sure!! We'll be outa hear before tomorrow comes!'
*Left hook. Jump, mid-air kick. Land. Spin kick. Block. *
'Hope she's finish with breakfast.'
*Punch, punch, duck, back flip 3 times.
Round house kick. Spin kick. Duck, dashed forward for a yard, punch, and kick vertically.
Jump, Mid-air spin kick. Land. Block, punch, block, kick, spin, snap kick, block, high kick.
Dodge, spin kick, duck, punch, jab. Right hook, left hook, upper cut, block. *
Ranma was just about to execute a karate chop when he heard Kagome's voice. She shouted that breakfast was ready. "Thank god! I'm starved!!!" he said to no one. He raced toward Kagome. He grabbed the bowl Kagome filled with her fried rice, and began to eat.
Kagome grinned at the sight before her. Seeing Ranma act that way reminded her of a child. She took another bowl, filled it with rice, and began to eat. Their breakfast only took about half an hour. After they finished packing the cooking gear they began their search for the shard.
The sun was fully up now. They blue sky was nearly covered with white puffy clouds. A chilly breeze swept across the grounds rippling the still waters in the ponds. The wind was a sign of the beginning of spring.
Ranma went to the place where he dug and began looking around. He searched the ground to see if the shard would shimmer in the sunlight, but no luck. So he dug around a bit. After an hour of digging, all the dirt where all over the place.
"Kagome!!! Where is the shard?" He yelled frustrated with the unsuccessful search. He shouted over to Kagome who was searching in another area of the ground.
Kagome stood up, and closed her eyes. She widened her senses to feel if the shard was near. Few seconds have paced until Kagome finally answered.
"It's around your area," she declared. She walked over to Ranma who had been looking around.
"Well, I can't find it!!" he said still annoyed. Kagome only smiled at him.
"Why won't we have lunch now?" she said sweetly. At the mention of food Ranma raced to their camp, leaving a trail of dust in his wake. Kagome shook her head, sighed, and went to Ranma.
She cooked another batch of fried rice, this time more tasty then the other. Kagome was adding the finishing touches when Ranma sneaked up behind her, tapped her on her shoulder. Kagome was startled; the wak and rice flew into the air. Ranma seeing this caught the wak first and began to catch the rice. It was amusing sight to see, Ranma running around catching food out of the air. Kagome giggled as Ranma finally caught the last group of rice. Ranma didn't miss a single piece of rice or meat.
"You should pay attention next time." Ranma said as Kagome took out two bowls.
"Sorry. I was well dazed a bit." said Kagome as she filled the bowls with delicious smelling fired rice. They ate and talked about random things.
After lunch the duo began to search for the shards again. The two searched for the whole day, literally. They dug, they looked, they did everything they could think of, but still no luck.
'Great! What now? Stupid luck!' Ranma thought depressingly.
'Told ya so.' his conscious said smugly.
'AH!! Shimekaru!' -[Shut up!]- He yelled to his conscious. Who shrank back and didn't bother him anymore.
Ranma and Kagome walked back to their little camp. Both disappointed that they didn't find the shard. Kagome made dinner, this time was ramen. She was to depress to really cook. They ate their dinner in silence. They couldn't think of anything to start a pleasant conversation with. After diner they crawled into their sleeping bags and slept.
_*_*_*_*_* Ranma's dream*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma was in the middle of the grounds. The springs rippled with every breath he took. It was twilight, and the sun barely showed in the sky.
"Wha? Where am I?" asked a confused Ranma. His voice carried into the nearly night air. It echoed around him, and slowly faded. "Freaky" Ranma said as he heard his voice faded. And again it echoed.
He sighed and closed his eyes. He just stood there waiting for something interesting to happen. After what seemed to be an hour Ranma spoke breaking the silence.
"Sorta getting bored with this." Ranma said dully looking into the sky.
Right on cue, the scene changed. Everything paused and was consumed in darkness. A new scene took place.
The scene was Ranma and Kagome sleeping in their sleeping bags.
Ranma stared wide-eyed, and his mouth was agape at the scene.
"Am I dead?" he shouted, alarmed. Looking frantically around, to see if 'Death' was near. And 'Death' wasn't around. He sighed, trying to relax his nerves. Finally, he got himself together.
"What da HELL is happening here?" he shouted in annoyance.
Again, right on cue, something really FREAKY happened. The night fast- forward literally. Ranma saw the clouds in the sky rushing in a direction. The stars blinking and slowly fade. The moon going down, and the sunrise hurrying to take the moon's place. He also saw himself and Kagome doing everything in a rush. Finally everything stopped. Now someone pressed the play button. He heard the birds, which was a good sign. The world was again in the right 'VCR' mode. The sun was high in the sky, it looked about noon now.
"DA HELL!!!!!!! What in hell's name happened?" Ranma shouted, wide -eyed. And again it echoed around. "This is getting old fast," he said with annoyance in his voice. And AGAIN it echoed. Ranma only scowled.
Just then he heard voices behind him. He swirled around to see him and Kagome. They were again looking for the shard.
Ranma and Kagome split up. They were looking for the shard in the ground. Ranma was digging in the dirt, deeper and deeper the hole got, but he seemed to not find what he was looking for. Kagome was searching the area, just like Ranma she had no luck in finding the shard that seemed to be hidden in the ground.
The Ranma who watched this tried to make out what they were saying to each other, but no luck. He watched the Ranma with Kagome a bit closer. He seemed happy and contempt. He shook his head and turned his attention to Kagome. She seemed happy, and bit frustrated for not finding the shard, but happy.
Finally, Ranma found the lost object. And Ranma shouted to Kagome to come over. Kagome was excited and quickly ran over to Ranma. She tripped on a loose earth, and fell into the pound Ranma was pointing to.
'OH!!! SHIMATTA!!!!' -[Damn it!!!!]-
Right at that point the scene paused. Like someone had pushed the pause button, and the film just stopped. And after a minute of wondering, the scene slowly faded.
A new scene took its place. Ranma was in...
"Water?" he said, the water consumed his voice. He gasped, trying not to breath underwater. But to his amazement he could breath under water.
"Whoa. Cool." Ranma said, while nodding his head.
He blinked. When Ranma opened his eyes, he saw a girl drowning. He gasped. He swam to her, trying to get hold of her body. But the body went through his hands.
'Nani? How?' he thought to himself. He shook his head. He made another attempt to save the girl. And again the body only went through his hands. Ranma could only watch helplessly as she died.
Finally the girl gave out her last breath. She was officially DEAD!!!!!!
Ranma was in shock, but snapped out of his trance. He swam to the dead body and, finally he could touch her.
Ranma looked into the dead face of the girl. She had silver hair, and very pale skin. Ranma couldn't see the eyes, because they were shut. Ranma looked sorrowfully at the limp body. After a moment of mourning, he noticed the horrible cuts on her skin. Obviously she had been in a battle, before she drowned.
_*_*_*_*_* End of Ranma's dream*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma woke abruptly from his dream. He gasped for air. He had been sweating in his sleep. He took deep breaths and calmed down.
Kagome woke beside him. She looked at Ranma with wide-eyes.
"Daijoubu des ka, Ranma-kun" –[Are you alright, Ranma-kun?]- Kagome asked frantically at Ranma.
"Hai. Daijoubu." -[Yes. I'm all right.]- Ranma answered
"Honto des ka?" -[Really]- Kagome asked. She was very concerned for Ranma.
"Hai." -[Yes]- Ranma said and bowed his head.
Kagome was still not convinced. But she decided to leave the matter alone. She leaned over and gave Ranma a hug. She looked up into Ranma's eyes; she gave him a huge smile. And Ranma smiled back.
After a little while, they parted. Kagome went over to the fire, which burned out last. Last night Ranma gathered some more firewood. So now she lit a fire and began to cook.
Ranma smiled. He grabbed a towel and began to dry off his sweat. Afterwards Ranma went over to Kagome to get some food. They ate their breakfast, while talking, joking, and laughing. Finally they began to search for the shard.
They decided to split up. Ranma was digging in the ground when a thought ht him like a truck.
'This is like my dream. .............. If I'm right then the shard should be in one of the springs. ........... When I find the spring and Kagome runs over then she'll trip and fall into the spring. I can't let that happen. But how................ I know!! I'll tell her were it is and when she runs over I'll catch her before she falls.' Ranma smiled when he thought this.
So now Ranma looked into the springs trying to see if anything in them sparkled.
It was noon when he finally found the right pond. He shouted to Kagome.
"Oi!!!! Kagome I've found the shard." Ranma cried.
Kagome turned around, and walked quickly to the pond Ranma was pointing to. "You did?" she asked and then began to run towards the pond. Kagome tripped over loose earth and fell. Ranma tried to catch her, but for some twist of fate he tripped himself. So Kagome fell into the pond.
She opened her eyes. It felt like the first time she went through the Bone Eaters Well. Blue and Pink lights surrounded her being. She felt this tingling sensation in her skin; it was very subtle. But it began to grow. She felt her whole being changing. It felt like her limbs were getting an inch longer, and her skin warm.
She shook off the feeling, and began to swim back up towards the surface.
_*_*_*_*_*From where Ranma was standing*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma quickly got up. He looked desperately into the spring, trying to find any sign of Kagome. What he saw was a lot of bubbles at the surface. Ranma began to panic.
'Oh!!!! Shimatta!!!!! Kuso!!!!!!!! Kuso!!!!!! Baka!!!!! Baka!!!! Teinousha' -[Damn it!!!!! Shit!!! Shit Stupid!!!! Stupid!!!! Moron!!!!!]- It went on like this. Ranma looked into the pond as he heard something.
Kagome popped her head out of the water.
What Ranma saw was a...
End of ch: 7
***
I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger!!!! I want to keep ur attention. If I put down what Kagome becomes then some of u guys would get bored and never read my fic again!!!!!!!!! I'm so sorry!!!!!!!!!!
Gomen Nasi for any spelling and grammar mistakes. I did my best to get this fic updated ASAP. And again Gomen Nasi!!!!! From now on, I am going to try to update this fic every week. I'll really try!!!!
I'm still holding the contest. U know pick the pairing for this fic. And no one who voted can vote again.
I'm going a contest for young authors, so I'm working with a new story. I was thinking of posting it. And I'm also working on a story with my friends. It's pretty good. Any ways......... see you next time!!!
Last chapter: "Night Ranma." Kagome said before she fell asleep.
Ch 7: At the grounds of accursed springs
Kagome was the first one to wake up. She yawned and stretched her arms. Kagome looked over to Ranma who was still sleeping.
'He's so kawaii –[cute]- like that.' she smiled to herself. 'I think I better get some food ready.' She used the last of the firewood to make the fire. Looking through her backpack she pulled out some ingredients to make fried rice. (Kagome learned how to cook from home-ed, and her mom. This skill would come in handy later in the fic.)
At the delicious smell of Kagome's cooking Ranma awakened. He was still drowsy and his vision was a bit blurry, but hey it was the morning. The rays of sunlight hit his eyes hard and made them sting. He moved his arm so it covered his eyes.
"Food?" was the first thing he asked. Kagome beamed at him and nodded. Ranma rubbed his eyes and crawled over; he peered into the pan Kagome was cooking with. "Smells good. When will it be done?" he asked as he watch Kagome add some soy sauce.
"Should be done in couple more minutes. You should, I dunno get ready or somein," she said and she flipped the rice over. Ranma only shrugged. Since he had nothing to do, he might as well start the day off with some exorcise. He walked to an area few meters away from Kagome. He began practicing a kata he created when he was a child, when he was alone.
_*_*_*_*_*Ranma Kata*_*_*_*_*_ (*actions* ex: *sweat drop*; 'Ranma's thoughts')
*Punch, punch, kick, block, dodge. *
'What am I'm going to do? Hell what am I going to do.'
*Kick, duck, block, back flip. *
'Hey! Today maybe we'll luck out and find the damned shard before anything bad happen.' *smirks*
*round house kick, jump, jab, punch, upper cut. *
'Maybe. But if it doesn't work what will I do then? Nah!! Can't be. Kagome can sense the shard. So I'm sure we'll find it in no time.'
*Right hook, uppercut, dodge, punch, and high kick. *
'I'm sure!! We'll be outa hear before tomorrow comes!'
*Left hook. Jump, mid-air kick. Land. Spin kick. Block. *
'Hope she's finish with breakfast.'
*Punch, punch, duck, back flip 3 times.
Round house kick. Spin kick. Duck, dashed forward for a yard, punch, and kick vertically.
Jump, Mid-air spin kick. Land. Block, punch, block, kick, spin, snap kick, block, high kick.
Dodge, spin kick, duck, punch, jab. Right hook, left hook, upper cut, block. *
Ranma was just about to execute a karate chop when he heard Kagome's voice. She shouted that breakfast was ready. "Thank god! I'm starved!!!" he said to no one. He raced toward Kagome. He grabbed the bowl Kagome filled with her fried rice, and began to eat.
Kagome grinned at the sight before her. Seeing Ranma act that way reminded her of a child. She took another bowl, filled it with rice, and began to eat. Their breakfast only took about half an hour. After they finished packing the cooking gear they began their search for the shard.
The sun was fully up now. They blue sky was nearly covered with white puffy clouds. A chilly breeze swept across the grounds rippling the still waters in the ponds. The wind was a sign of the beginning of spring.
Ranma went to the place where he dug and began looking around. He searched the ground to see if the shard would shimmer in the sunlight, but no luck. So he dug around a bit. After an hour of digging, all the dirt where all over the place.
"Kagome!!! Where is the shard?" He yelled frustrated with the unsuccessful search. He shouted over to Kagome who was searching in another area of the ground.
Kagome stood up, and closed her eyes. She widened her senses to feel if the shard was near. Few seconds have paced until Kagome finally answered.
"It's around your area," she declared. She walked over to Ranma who had been looking around.
"Well, I can't find it!!" he said still annoyed. Kagome only smiled at him.
"Why won't we have lunch now?" she said sweetly. At the mention of food Ranma raced to their camp, leaving a trail of dust in his wake. Kagome shook her head, sighed, and went to Ranma.
She cooked another batch of fried rice, this time more tasty then the other. Kagome was adding the finishing touches when Ranma sneaked up behind her, tapped her on her shoulder. Kagome was startled; the wak and rice flew into the air. Ranma seeing this caught the wak first and began to catch the rice. It was amusing sight to see, Ranma running around catching food out of the air. Kagome giggled as Ranma finally caught the last group of rice. Ranma didn't miss a single piece of rice or meat.
"You should pay attention next time." Ranma said as Kagome took out two bowls.
"Sorry. I was well dazed a bit." said Kagome as she filled the bowls with delicious smelling fired rice. They ate and talked about random things.
After lunch the duo began to search for the shards again. The two searched for the whole day, literally. They dug, they looked, they did everything they could think of, but still no luck.
'Great! What now? Stupid luck!' Ranma thought depressingly.
'Told ya so.' his conscious said smugly.
'AH!! Shimekaru!' -[Shut up!]- He yelled to his conscious. Who shrank back and didn't bother him anymore.
Ranma and Kagome walked back to their little camp. Both disappointed that they didn't find the shard. Kagome made dinner, this time was ramen. She was to depress to really cook. They ate their dinner in silence. They couldn't think of anything to start a pleasant conversation with. After diner they crawled into their sleeping bags and slept.
_*_*_*_*_* Ranma's dream*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma was in the middle of the grounds. The springs rippled with every breath he took. It was twilight, and the sun barely showed in the sky.
"Wha? Where am I?" asked a confused Ranma. His voice carried into the nearly night air. It echoed around him, and slowly faded. "Freaky" Ranma said as he heard his voice faded. And again it echoed.
He sighed and closed his eyes. He just stood there waiting for something interesting to happen. After what seemed to be an hour Ranma spoke breaking the silence.
"Sorta getting bored with this." Ranma said dully looking into the sky.
Right on cue, the scene changed. Everything paused and was consumed in darkness. A new scene took place.
The scene was Ranma and Kagome sleeping in their sleeping bags.
Ranma stared wide-eyed, and his mouth was agape at the scene.
"Am I dead?" he shouted, alarmed. Looking frantically around, to see if 'Death' was near. And 'Death' wasn't around. He sighed, trying to relax his nerves. Finally, he got himself together.
"What da HELL is happening here?" he shouted in annoyance.
Again, right on cue, something really FREAKY happened. The night fast- forward literally. Ranma saw the clouds in the sky rushing in a direction. The stars blinking and slowly fade. The moon going down, and the sunrise hurrying to take the moon's place. He also saw himself and Kagome doing everything in a rush. Finally everything stopped. Now someone pressed the play button. He heard the birds, which was a good sign. The world was again in the right 'VCR' mode. The sun was high in the sky, it looked about noon now.
"DA HELL!!!!!!! What in hell's name happened?" Ranma shouted, wide -eyed. And again it echoed around. "This is getting old fast," he said with annoyance in his voice. And AGAIN it echoed. Ranma only scowled.
Just then he heard voices behind him. He swirled around to see him and Kagome. They were again looking for the shard.
Ranma and Kagome split up. They were looking for the shard in the ground. Ranma was digging in the dirt, deeper and deeper the hole got, but he seemed to not find what he was looking for. Kagome was searching the area, just like Ranma she had no luck in finding the shard that seemed to be hidden in the ground.
The Ranma who watched this tried to make out what they were saying to each other, but no luck. He watched the Ranma with Kagome a bit closer. He seemed happy and contempt. He shook his head and turned his attention to Kagome. She seemed happy, and bit frustrated for not finding the shard, but happy.
Finally, Ranma found the lost object. And Ranma shouted to Kagome to come over. Kagome was excited and quickly ran over to Ranma. She tripped on a loose earth, and fell into the pound Ranma was pointing to.
'OH!!! SHIMATTA!!!!' -[Damn it!!!!]-
Right at that point the scene paused. Like someone had pushed the pause button, and the film just stopped. And after a minute of wondering, the scene slowly faded.
A new scene took its place. Ranma was in...
"Water?" he said, the water consumed his voice. He gasped, trying not to breath underwater. But to his amazement he could breath under water.
"Whoa. Cool." Ranma said, while nodding his head.
He blinked. When Ranma opened his eyes, he saw a girl drowning. He gasped. He swam to her, trying to get hold of her body. But the body went through his hands.
'Nani? How?' he thought to himself. He shook his head. He made another attempt to save the girl. And again the body only went through his hands. Ranma could only watch helplessly as she died.
Finally the girl gave out her last breath. She was officially DEAD!!!!!!
Ranma was in shock, but snapped out of his trance. He swam to the dead body and, finally he could touch her.
Ranma looked into the dead face of the girl. She had silver hair, and very pale skin. Ranma couldn't see the eyes, because they were shut. Ranma looked sorrowfully at the limp body. After a moment of mourning, he noticed the horrible cuts on her skin. Obviously she had been in a battle, before she drowned.
_*_*_*_*_* End of Ranma's dream*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma woke abruptly from his dream. He gasped for air. He had been sweating in his sleep. He took deep breaths and calmed down.
Kagome woke beside him. She looked at Ranma with wide-eyes.
"Daijoubu des ka, Ranma-kun" –[Are you alright, Ranma-kun?]- Kagome asked frantically at Ranma.
"Hai. Daijoubu." -[Yes. I'm all right.]- Ranma answered
"Honto des ka?" -[Really]- Kagome asked. She was very concerned for Ranma.
"Hai." -[Yes]- Ranma said and bowed his head.
Kagome was still not convinced. But she decided to leave the matter alone. She leaned over and gave Ranma a hug. She looked up into Ranma's eyes; she gave him a huge smile. And Ranma smiled back.
After a little while, they parted. Kagome went over to the fire, which burned out last. Last night Ranma gathered some more firewood. So now she lit a fire and began to cook.
Ranma smiled. He grabbed a towel and began to dry off his sweat. Afterwards Ranma went over to Kagome to get some food. They ate their breakfast, while talking, joking, and laughing. Finally they began to search for the shard.
They decided to split up. Ranma was digging in the ground when a thought ht him like a truck.
'This is like my dream. .............. If I'm right then the shard should be in one of the springs. ........... When I find the spring and Kagome runs over then she'll trip and fall into the spring. I can't let that happen. But how................ I know!! I'll tell her were it is and when she runs over I'll catch her before she falls.' Ranma smiled when he thought this.
So now Ranma looked into the springs trying to see if anything in them sparkled.
It was noon when he finally found the right pond. He shouted to Kagome.
"Oi!!!! Kagome I've found the shard." Ranma cried.
Kagome turned around, and walked quickly to the pond Ranma was pointing to. "You did?" she asked and then began to run towards the pond. Kagome tripped over loose earth and fell. Ranma tried to catch her, but for some twist of fate he tripped himself. So Kagome fell into the pond.
She opened her eyes. It felt like the first time she went through the Bone Eaters Well. Blue and Pink lights surrounded her being. She felt this tingling sensation in her skin; it was very subtle. But it began to grow. She felt her whole being changing. It felt like her limbs were getting an inch longer, and her skin warm.
She shook off the feeling, and began to swim back up towards the surface.
_*_*_*_*_*From where Ranma was standing*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma quickly got up. He looked desperately into the spring, trying to find any sign of Kagome. What he saw was a lot of bubbles at the surface. Ranma began to panic.
'Oh!!!! Shimatta!!!!! Kuso!!!!!!!! Kuso!!!!!! Baka!!!!! Baka!!!! Teinousha' -[Damn it!!!!! Shit!!! Shit Stupid!!!! Stupid!!!! Moron!!!!!]- It went on like this. Ranma looked into the pond as he heard something.
Kagome popped her head out of the water.
What Ranma saw was a...
End of ch: 7
***
I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger!!!! I want to keep ur attention. If I put down what Kagome becomes then some of u guys would get bored and never read my fic again!!!!!!!!! I'm so sorry!!!!!!!!!!
Gomen Nasi for any spelling and grammar mistakes. I did my best to get this fic updated ASAP. And again Gomen Nasi!!!!! From now on, I am going to try to update this fic every week. I'll really try!!!!
I'm still holding the contest. U know pick the pairing for this fic. And no one who voted can vote again.
I'm going a contest for young authors, so I'm working with a new story. I was thinking of posting it. And I'm also working on a story with my friends. It's pretty good. Any ways......... see you next time!!!
