Well now, the time is coming. Tenchi finds out the secret to his wishes. The climax comes full circle. The story continues!
Tenchi found himself sitting at a bar, his head pounding from his mistakes. Ryoko approached him from behind the bar and asked, "So, what can I get you?"
"How can you expect me to drink? It won't help me get Ayeka to stop hating me. It won't cure my pain. I made a mistake. I thought being everything Ayeka wanted would be different, but I ended up married! Why? Ryoko, tell me why you keep doing this to me!" Tenchi raged.
"Look, I can't stop what happens. You make the wishes and I grant them. Maybe you should have read the contact better. Do you know how you get those wishes?" Ryoko asked pulling up the multi-page stacked up contract.
"I know. I gave you my soul and I get seven wishes. So why are you using me by making all these conditions?" Tenchi asked frustrated, but not worrying about his headache
"You don't understand. I do exactly what you wish for. Here on page six, article 4, paragraph three, it states:
Any wishes made by the selected party have recurring effects that use facets of other party(s).
That basically means that you use other people's souls in your wishes." Ryoko replied.
"Wha...what! But, how does that work. I mean…" Tenchi asked confused.
"It's simple. When you wanted to be famous, you used Takanori's soul. When you were on TV, you used Kiyone's soul because she wanted a big case on her list. When you were smart, you used Washu's soul. And Sakuya and Sasami just wanted to be loved and you just ran from them all! But don't worry, because the contract says that when you make your last wish and I get your soul, all memory of the happenings disappears and the world forgets that you were ever alive. You drop off the face o the earth and onto the face of hell. Now, stop running and make your last two wishes." Ryoko replied.
"Well, in that case, I won't use those wishes. I need to get Ayeka to not be mad at me. I'll have to do it on my terms without wishes." Tenchi replied getting up shaking his headache completely. He began walking away as Ryoko yelled back at him, "I like you Tenchi. If you're going to be in hell anyway, you might want to have a friend like me." Tenchi just kept walking and didn't reply.
As he left the bar, he began running. He knew that he had to get Ayeka without using his wishes that he knew now only hurt people. He ran until he found himself at the door to Ayeka's apartment. He knocked frantically, catching his breath. "Ayeka…please…let me…explain…" he huffed.
Ayeka was inside, with a sour look on her face, but she was really almost in tears. "Tenchi, I told you, I never want to see you again." She yelled.
"But, I need to tell you that…" Tenchi began saying as Ayeka yelled as loud as she could.
She yelled, "Go to hell for all I care, Tenchi Masaki!" Tenchi was shocked and heartbroken. He could hardly breath as reality hit him. Ayeka hated him now.
He went an entire week without making a wish or seeing signs of Ryoko. Tenchi didn't go to work; he barely ate, and slept barely. He was filled with misery. All he could do was walk the streets and see other people have fun with there life. He even went to a confessional and the priest couldn't help him. Tenchi had discovered now that his life felt so empty. He felt so alone.
"And this was the scene where two weeks ago, a drug peddler smashed into this building. The building has been painstakingly rebuilt after only two weeks." A reporter said at the scene of the crash from Tenchi's first wish. Tenchi walked from behind the camera, not knowing that he had made a crucial mistake.
Kiyone was sitting at her desk in the police department. She was eating ramen and bored ever since she was sent down to deskwork. She turned on her TV and saw Tenchi. She spat up her ramen in shock and wiped her mouth. "That's him! That's the drug peddler! Wait, calm down Kiyone. Okay, who is the closest to him right now?" she yelled recalling the schedule for patrol that day. "Oh, she's closest to him!" she picked up her radio. "Car 17, repeat, car 17. Nagi, answer."
Nagi picked up the radio. "This is Nagi. What do you need?" she asked.
"Nagi, the man from the drug scene is back near the scene. He is heading north towards 8th street." Kiyone replied as she went on explaining his features. Nagi started up her car and drove as fast as she could going toward Tenchi.
Tenchi was walking, sulking in his misery. The road was lonely until he heard a cop with sirens on. It zoomed down the road as Tenchi barreled away onto the sidewalk, but it didn't keep going. It went down and spun completely. Nagi jumped out from the car and pulled her gun and aimed for Tenchi. "Tenchi Masaki, you're under arrest for drug peddling and property damage!" Nagi yelled.
This is bad! Wait, I can hit 666 on my phone. I can get Ryoko and get a wish. Tenchi thought as he quickly turned halfway and pulled for his phone. Nagi, thinking he was going for a weapon, shot him in his back left leg. Tenchi fell to the ground in pain. His phone fell from his pocket and onto the ground. Tenchi continued to yelp and scream in pain. Nagi's partner had come out of the car and asked, "Nagi, is it allowed for you to do that to a…" she said but Nagi retorted, "He might have been going for a weapon! And speaking of which…" Nagi replied as she shot the phone and destroyed it.
My…my phone. Now I'm as good as dead. Tenchi thought as Nagi handcuffed his hands behind his back and got him up. Tenchi wailed in more pain. "Nagi, maybe we should remove the…" her partner said.
"Shut up! We'll remove the bullet later!" Nagi yelled putting Tenchi on her back and threw him into the back of the car.
As Nagi got in, she picked up the radio and Kiyone said, "I just found out new information. This is the same guy who impostered and almost scandalized Takanori Nishikawa. His name is Tenchi Masaki. Have you apprehended the criminal?"
"Yes. I am taking him to the station now." Nagi said as she hung it up.
"Shouldn't we tell her that he's been shot?" Nagi's partner asked.
"We can't worry about that now." Nagi said as she closed her door and drove to the station.
After ten unbearable minutes of pain, the car stopped and Nagi pulled Tenchi out of the back. She brought him in and held him by his collar. She continued walking past people who would look and stare until she reached a locked hall. She unlocked it with one hand and opened the door. Inside were four cells. The cells were two on each side and a wall separated the cells next to each other. The only light came from one light bulb from each cell and barred windows in the cells. Nagi unlocked one cell and threw Tenchi in on the ground. "Stay here. Well, you don't have much choice." Nagi said as she closed the barred door and locked it.
Tenchi noticed that there was someone else in his cell. It was a very large black man who approached Tenchi. "Hey, I know who you are, and do you have any idea what I'm going to do to you?" he said as he grabbed the scared Tenchi.
"No. Please, I have no clue who you are and I don't want to be enemies." Tenchi said backing up.
"Oh, you know who I am and what I want. Now…" the man said as he pulled off his silver ring on his right hand. The illusion fell and the large black man revealed himself to be Washu!
"Now, for the experiment, my lab rat! But first…" Washu said pulling out a scalpel as Tenchi tried running, but only tripped.
"Please, I don't want to die. Please don't…" Tenchi said as pain shot through him. His leg started to feel better. "Huh?" He looked at his leg and saw that it was bandaged where he was shot. Washu held the bullet in her hand.
"Thank you. But why are you here Washu?" Tenchi asked.
"You have to ask that? When I tried to attack with mecha-kani, you disappeared and it crashed into the wall. The building collapsed and destroyed my mecha-kani. When I tried to leave, that cop that threw you in here saw me and almost shot me as well. I was arrested for property damage." Washu replied.
"Well, I really messed up. Washu, you wont believe me if I tell you this, but I sold my soul to the devil. I got seven wishes and I tried to use them to win over a woman. I used 5 of those wishes, one of which was how I appeared, and now my contact with her…the devil is lost. I always found there was a catch and that was what always made me give up. Now, because of one mistake, this girl hates me and I'm in prison. So what am I supposed to do?" Tenchi asked paranoid.
"Well, I don't think you can really sell your soul. The way I see it, it never belongs to you in the first place. God makes you and keeps your soul on a fishhook and pulls it back when you die. You can do what you want, but it still belongs to Him." Washu replied. Tenchi discovered his mistake, but it was all too late.
"By the way, who is this girl you wanted to win over?" Washu asked.
"Oh, her name is Ayeka. She has wonderful…" Tenchi began saying.
"Ayeka? You are talking about Ayeka Jurai? Her father is Yosho Jurai. His net worth is over 450 million dollars!" Washu exclaimed.
"Uh, the more I hear about her fame, the more I think of how hopeless I was. But now my soul belongs to Satan." Tenchi sighed.
"Well, just remember what I told you. You can't sell your soul; it's not yours to begin with." Washu replied.
"But your body is at your disposal. So let's have some experiments!" Washu said pulling out a needle.
"How did you sneak that in?" Tenchi yelled as he ran from her in what little space he had.
Night came quickly. Tenchi was lying on the top of a prison bunk with Washu fast asleep (or so he thought. She could hear if he did anything). He couldn't sleep after all that had happened. "Tenchi…Tenchi…" he heard a faint, familiar voice. He looked out the barred window and saw Ryoko floating in the air. "Since when can you do that?" Tenchi asked. "And how are you here? The phone was destroyed."
"Exactly. That's why I'm here. You should have read the contract. If the messaging device is destroyed, it sends me a signal 6 hours later. It was destroyed around 8 and its 2 am now. So, do you have a wish? I suggest you use it to get out of this place. Do you know how long you go to prison for drug peddling?" Ryoko said.
"Well, there isn't much choice that I have, but first…" Tenchi said as he turned toward Washu. "I know you can hear me. You aren't as bad as I thought you were, but you won't remember me once my wishes are up. Goodbye." He spoke to Ryoko next. "I wish that I was outside of this cell in the place where you stand now." He said as he passed through the wall to where Ryoko was.
Ryoko handed him a card with an address on it. "Here, since your phone was destroyed, meet me here when you want to use your seventh wish." She said as she floated away and disappeared.
This is it, my final wish. What comes next?" Tenchi thought as he ran from the station.
Well, that wasn't that climactic? Who knows what will happen next? And just a side note, Alison in the movie Bedazzled was not famous or rich, but I wanted the adjustment.