Ranma ½ / Legend of Zelda crossover
God-born.
Chapter 5: Ranch Massacre.
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The sight that awaited them at the ranch was nothing less than terrifying to the four. The buildings and stables where burnt to the ground leaving nothing but ash and crumbled remains of bones where there had once been people and horses. Kasumi was pale and refused to enter the ranch, Link found himself agreeing and stayed with her as Ranma and Serephina ventured further on their own. The destruction was almost heart wrenching. Ranma watched as Serephina bent low over one of the bodies. It was a young woman. What little of her hair remained was red and charred. Her cold body was bruised and beaten and her clothes lay singed beside her on the ground. Serephina sniffed in disgust and pulled a layer of rags over her head in order to lay it over the body.
"It's shameful how such a beautiful race of people can go down the tubes all because of one corrupted outsider." Ranma nodded his agreement silently, but looked up when he heard a noise beyond the surrounding black remains. An evil little wheeze of a laugh sounded from the direction of the still intact horse coral. A weak looking, hunched man was standing before the coral, his eye's burnt with the light of a sinister power that didn't belong to him, it seemed more like he was being consumed.
"Oh you are to late to save anyone little hero's." The small man cackled. "They're all dead and now no one will stop me from taking over the ranch for my great master Ganondorf, no one!" Serephina stood and scanned the ground around them before she began to run for clear ground.
"Ranma get to clear ground now!" he obeyed the order without a second thought and not a moment to soon as the ground began to explode. Bones and dust gathered together and became whole skeletons again. Levering themselves out of the ground they made wild lunges for Ranma and Serephina's feet. Intending to drag them back into the earth with them. Ranma kicked a few away and stood on the clear ground with Serephina to watch. The reanimated skeletons limped toward them. Serephina looked at the hunched man.
"Ingo." The name flowed into her mind and she could suddenly see into the mans mind. It was dark and clouded, burning with a power it wasn't ready for and couldn't control. Not a thought ran through the black wasteland, instead there was a single driving command set there by his master not to long ago. 'Kill the hero of time and destroy all he touches.' Her fists clenched and she found herself moving toward Ingo. The former farm hand never noticed her advancing as he stood by the horse coral, chuckling morbidly. A hand shot out of the ground by her right foot. Serephina kicked it away with surprising strength and moved on. More body's blocked her path but she didn't let up. Ranma soon joined her fighting the hordes of bone's, scattering them to the wind.
They waded through the mindless slaves and crashed out of their midst to find that Ingo had retreated to the coral. No corpses raised on the other side of the fence. Ranma looked at Serephina who nodded back as she began to climb the bars. Ranma waited until she'd reached the top before he followed her over with a single leap. On the other side though they found a surprise waiting for them. People that resembled bandit's surrounded them, each directing a bow right at their hearts. Ranma slid into a defensive stance as Serephina eyed the men carefully.
"Oh what do we have here?" A dirty human separated from the rest of the group and walked right up to the red headed girl. Serephina glared at him briefly before her eyes flicked away, not once letting up on her scanning. "I do believe that she's a human, or maybe she's one of those Gerudo ladies that live in the valley." He grinned lecherously. Ranma growled, he didn't like these men, they reminded him of the thugs that lurked in alleys and lived off the weak.
"Leave her alone, baka!" He practically spat at the man that had been leering at his sister. The human's suddenly had their eyes on him. Ranma tried not to shift around as the man moved closer.
"Oh and why do you insist on being a pain when you to are a human. You know, you will be shunned in this world unless you join with the king Ganondorf." Ranma's glare matched the one that had been on Serephina's face.
"Unlike you lot I belong here." Ranma said coolly. "I don't need to follow an evil king to be accepted in Hyrule. Besides, what you are doing is wrong. I find no honor in joining with a bunch of no good creatures like you." Bowstrings tensed as their apparent leader growled and made to punch Ranma, but the blow never found its target. The moment he saw the man draw back is arm Ranma had disappeared, displaying speed unrivaled by anything that the men had ever seen. He appeared behind the man who tried to punch him and elbowed him hard in the back, making him double over forward in shock and pain. The bowmen began to fire at the two within the half circle they formed.
"KATCHU TENSHIN AMAGURIKEN! REVISED!" Ranma yelled out the modified amazon technique and his hands blurred as he caught the arrows by the shafts only inches from his face. Serephina had ducked at the last second and charged into the nearest lot of men, easily taking a bow and quiver before she returned to Ranma's side, firing arrow's in rapid succession as Ranma prepared a ki blast and released it on the humans. The men finally found the sense to back off and let up their attack. In the short break Serephina had the time to count her shots. Six of the bandits had been killed by her arrows, while another three had been partially disintegrated by the force of Ranma's 'Mako Takabisha' blast.
"Why are you in Hyrule?" Serephina demanded as she found her voice. Her steal like gaze zeroed in on the leader of the rag tag bunch. He shook almost imperceptibly and glanced away over her shoulder to where the dead beyond the fence now gathered in their attempt to scale the iron spikes. He shuddered visibly and averted his eyes to the ground.
"Hey, look lady," he started roughly, lacking his former harshness. "We do what we do to survive. Since we got here we haven't been treated very well and according to the big cheese we need to get this sword or something to get back to earth." The siblings looked at him with mistrust as they weighed the possibilities of the brigand's words having some truth.
"Does the sword have a name?" Serephina asked after a moment. The bandit human nodded.
"Yes, Ganondork called it the master sword, or something like that." Serephina's eyes went wide very suddenly as he spoke and tears surfaced as she bit her lip to repress the laughter that threatened to burst from her throat. The bow in her hands shook and clattered to the ground as she soon followed her weapon as she began to cackle uncontrollably. Everyone else, including Ranma, just stared as she laughed, unable to think of anything they could do to snap her out of it. Eventually she calmed down enough to breathe again and got to her feet. Her breath hitching as the last few giggles escaped.
"I can tell you right now that it would be a mistake to take the Master Sword from its current owner and give it to Ganondork." She chuckled again briefly. "First of all, he doesn't know how to send you back and secondly the gate to earth closed barely an hour ago and won't reopen for a few month's at least." The men's reaction ranged from shock to numb acceptance. They looked lost and the siblings felt a twinge of sympathy for them, but the fragile cease-fire was interrupted when a dark voice came from the center of the compound.
"Oh, someone is trying to take away Ingo's power, naughty, naughty." The hunched over man radiated shadows as he twisted his hands together. Power burst from his body, flowing around the humans and sinking through the bars of the fence to combine with the dead piling on the other side. "Naughty girls and boys must be punished for trying to take away Ingo's power..." Ingo fell flat on his face and began to rot at an accelerated rate. Not that anyone noticed. They where to busy looking at the single giant monster of bone that had taken the place of the masses of the dead.
"Holy shit!" one of the men swore violently as he brought up his bow, and tried to fire but his hands would not steady and the arrows fell from his fingers. The bone giant turned its empty eyes toward the human's as its master's last command echoed through its artificial consciousness.
'Destroy the humans'
It took a lumbering step toward the small figures that stood transfixed, smashing the fence of the coral without so much as a glance to see what the tug on its foot had been. The sound of screaming metal brought the off- worlders to their senses. They scattered in all directions to escape the monster, but Serephina and Ranma remained to stand their ground.
"What the hell is that thing Sere?" Ranma asked, thumbing in the direction of the skeletal monster. Serephina looked it up and down but didn't say a word as she searched for a weak point. She took up her bow carefully and notched an arrow before she shot right at the thing's head. The arrow lodged in an eye socket and she grabbed Ranma, dragging him away to the other side of the coral, sidestepping Ingo's dead body.
"Sere! What are you doing?" Ranma all but shouted and Serephina turned to him with a feral grin, her iron grip never budging from the martial artist's wrist. She forced him to leap the fence and put her back to it before there was an incredible explosion barely a few seconds later. Ranma peered around to look as a rain of fine dust carpeted the brown grass. There was no sign of the giant skeleton had been there. He looked back at Serephina, an eyebrow raised.
"What?" she asked indignantly, fiddling absently with her braid. "I just attached a bomb to the arrow, that was all." Ranma sighed and shook his head sadly. There goes his hope's of things remaining relatively normal...
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So there ya go, chapter 5 all over and done with. Just a note though, Serephina was a street rat in her world, but she was very resourceful. The small bombs in her arsenal where developed while she was looking for Ranma after she'd witnessed the Happo Dakarin technique Happosai uses. (ya know...the little firecrackers) The major difference being that these little babies pack one hell of a punch.
Well don't forget to review.
Cya ^__^\/
God-born.
Chapter 5: Ranch Massacre.
~~~~~
The sight that awaited them at the ranch was nothing less than terrifying to the four. The buildings and stables where burnt to the ground leaving nothing but ash and crumbled remains of bones where there had once been people and horses. Kasumi was pale and refused to enter the ranch, Link found himself agreeing and stayed with her as Ranma and Serephina ventured further on their own. The destruction was almost heart wrenching. Ranma watched as Serephina bent low over one of the bodies. It was a young woman. What little of her hair remained was red and charred. Her cold body was bruised and beaten and her clothes lay singed beside her on the ground. Serephina sniffed in disgust and pulled a layer of rags over her head in order to lay it over the body.
"It's shameful how such a beautiful race of people can go down the tubes all because of one corrupted outsider." Ranma nodded his agreement silently, but looked up when he heard a noise beyond the surrounding black remains. An evil little wheeze of a laugh sounded from the direction of the still intact horse coral. A weak looking, hunched man was standing before the coral, his eye's burnt with the light of a sinister power that didn't belong to him, it seemed more like he was being consumed.
"Oh you are to late to save anyone little hero's." The small man cackled. "They're all dead and now no one will stop me from taking over the ranch for my great master Ganondorf, no one!" Serephina stood and scanned the ground around them before she began to run for clear ground.
"Ranma get to clear ground now!" he obeyed the order without a second thought and not a moment to soon as the ground began to explode. Bones and dust gathered together and became whole skeletons again. Levering themselves out of the ground they made wild lunges for Ranma and Serephina's feet. Intending to drag them back into the earth with them. Ranma kicked a few away and stood on the clear ground with Serephina to watch. The reanimated skeletons limped toward them. Serephina looked at the hunched man.
"Ingo." The name flowed into her mind and she could suddenly see into the mans mind. It was dark and clouded, burning with a power it wasn't ready for and couldn't control. Not a thought ran through the black wasteland, instead there was a single driving command set there by his master not to long ago. 'Kill the hero of time and destroy all he touches.' Her fists clenched and she found herself moving toward Ingo. The former farm hand never noticed her advancing as he stood by the horse coral, chuckling morbidly. A hand shot out of the ground by her right foot. Serephina kicked it away with surprising strength and moved on. More body's blocked her path but she didn't let up. Ranma soon joined her fighting the hordes of bone's, scattering them to the wind.
They waded through the mindless slaves and crashed out of their midst to find that Ingo had retreated to the coral. No corpses raised on the other side of the fence. Ranma looked at Serephina who nodded back as she began to climb the bars. Ranma waited until she'd reached the top before he followed her over with a single leap. On the other side though they found a surprise waiting for them. People that resembled bandit's surrounded them, each directing a bow right at their hearts. Ranma slid into a defensive stance as Serephina eyed the men carefully.
"Oh what do we have here?" A dirty human separated from the rest of the group and walked right up to the red headed girl. Serephina glared at him briefly before her eyes flicked away, not once letting up on her scanning. "I do believe that she's a human, or maybe she's one of those Gerudo ladies that live in the valley." He grinned lecherously. Ranma growled, he didn't like these men, they reminded him of the thugs that lurked in alleys and lived off the weak.
"Leave her alone, baka!" He practically spat at the man that had been leering at his sister. The human's suddenly had their eyes on him. Ranma tried not to shift around as the man moved closer.
"Oh and why do you insist on being a pain when you to are a human. You know, you will be shunned in this world unless you join with the king Ganondorf." Ranma's glare matched the one that had been on Serephina's face.
"Unlike you lot I belong here." Ranma said coolly. "I don't need to follow an evil king to be accepted in Hyrule. Besides, what you are doing is wrong. I find no honor in joining with a bunch of no good creatures like you." Bowstrings tensed as their apparent leader growled and made to punch Ranma, but the blow never found its target. The moment he saw the man draw back is arm Ranma had disappeared, displaying speed unrivaled by anything that the men had ever seen. He appeared behind the man who tried to punch him and elbowed him hard in the back, making him double over forward in shock and pain. The bowmen began to fire at the two within the half circle they formed.
"KATCHU TENSHIN AMAGURIKEN! REVISED!" Ranma yelled out the modified amazon technique and his hands blurred as he caught the arrows by the shafts only inches from his face. Serephina had ducked at the last second and charged into the nearest lot of men, easily taking a bow and quiver before she returned to Ranma's side, firing arrow's in rapid succession as Ranma prepared a ki blast and released it on the humans. The men finally found the sense to back off and let up their attack. In the short break Serephina had the time to count her shots. Six of the bandits had been killed by her arrows, while another three had been partially disintegrated by the force of Ranma's 'Mako Takabisha' blast.
"Why are you in Hyrule?" Serephina demanded as she found her voice. Her steal like gaze zeroed in on the leader of the rag tag bunch. He shook almost imperceptibly and glanced away over her shoulder to where the dead beyond the fence now gathered in their attempt to scale the iron spikes. He shuddered visibly and averted his eyes to the ground.
"Hey, look lady," he started roughly, lacking his former harshness. "We do what we do to survive. Since we got here we haven't been treated very well and according to the big cheese we need to get this sword or something to get back to earth." The siblings looked at him with mistrust as they weighed the possibilities of the brigand's words having some truth.
"Does the sword have a name?" Serephina asked after a moment. The bandit human nodded.
"Yes, Ganondork called it the master sword, or something like that." Serephina's eyes went wide very suddenly as he spoke and tears surfaced as she bit her lip to repress the laughter that threatened to burst from her throat. The bow in her hands shook and clattered to the ground as she soon followed her weapon as she began to cackle uncontrollably. Everyone else, including Ranma, just stared as she laughed, unable to think of anything they could do to snap her out of it. Eventually she calmed down enough to breathe again and got to her feet. Her breath hitching as the last few giggles escaped.
"I can tell you right now that it would be a mistake to take the Master Sword from its current owner and give it to Ganondork." She chuckled again briefly. "First of all, he doesn't know how to send you back and secondly the gate to earth closed barely an hour ago and won't reopen for a few month's at least." The men's reaction ranged from shock to numb acceptance. They looked lost and the siblings felt a twinge of sympathy for them, but the fragile cease-fire was interrupted when a dark voice came from the center of the compound.
"Oh, someone is trying to take away Ingo's power, naughty, naughty." The hunched over man radiated shadows as he twisted his hands together. Power burst from his body, flowing around the humans and sinking through the bars of the fence to combine with the dead piling on the other side. "Naughty girls and boys must be punished for trying to take away Ingo's power..." Ingo fell flat on his face and began to rot at an accelerated rate. Not that anyone noticed. They where to busy looking at the single giant monster of bone that had taken the place of the masses of the dead.
"Holy shit!" one of the men swore violently as he brought up his bow, and tried to fire but his hands would not steady and the arrows fell from his fingers. The bone giant turned its empty eyes toward the human's as its master's last command echoed through its artificial consciousness.
'Destroy the humans'
It took a lumbering step toward the small figures that stood transfixed, smashing the fence of the coral without so much as a glance to see what the tug on its foot had been. The sound of screaming metal brought the off- worlders to their senses. They scattered in all directions to escape the monster, but Serephina and Ranma remained to stand their ground.
"What the hell is that thing Sere?" Ranma asked, thumbing in the direction of the skeletal monster. Serephina looked it up and down but didn't say a word as she searched for a weak point. She took up her bow carefully and notched an arrow before she shot right at the thing's head. The arrow lodged in an eye socket and she grabbed Ranma, dragging him away to the other side of the coral, sidestepping Ingo's dead body.
"Sere! What are you doing?" Ranma all but shouted and Serephina turned to him with a feral grin, her iron grip never budging from the martial artist's wrist. She forced him to leap the fence and put her back to it before there was an incredible explosion barely a few seconds later. Ranma peered around to look as a rain of fine dust carpeted the brown grass. There was no sign of the giant skeleton had been there. He looked back at Serephina, an eyebrow raised.
"What?" she asked indignantly, fiddling absently with her braid. "I just attached a bomb to the arrow, that was all." Ranma sighed and shook his head sadly. There goes his hope's of things remaining relatively normal...
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So there ya go, chapter 5 all over and done with. Just a note though, Serephina was a street rat in her world, but she was very resourceful. The small bombs in her arsenal where developed while she was looking for Ranma after she'd witnessed the Happo Dakarin technique Happosai uses. (ya know...the little firecrackers) The major difference being that these little babies pack one hell of a punch.
Well don't forget to review.
Cya ^__^\/