Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here even though I wish I did. Ranma ½ goes to Rumiko Takahashi and the game LunarSSSC goes to Working Designs. Do we really have to keep on writing this? I mean who reads this stuff anyway. Anyway on with the story.
In your dreams magical thoughts,
All things are real unless you dream they're not.
In your dreams love is the,
Carried on wings of hope.
Each of our souls intertwine when we do,
Instantly we see it, the time to grow and be it,
When everything is pinned on a hope.
Let rise the dreams of your heart,
That innocent youth, careless and kind,
Free to roam the breeze in love,
Only when two brilliantly shine as one!
Chapter 2
"Hey Alex! How far is this cave anyway? Are we even going in the right
direction? Man how far can this cave be? My legs are starting to cramp up. Can we rest a
bit? I'm hungry let's eat some food." Ramus complained nonstop as he trudged towards the direction of the cave.
"No chunko, the cave is not that far, yes we are gong in the right direction, it is
only a few miles, your leg is cramping because you are a chunko, we cannot rest for a bit
because we have been walking for only FIFTEEN GODDAMN MINUTE, AND NO WE
CANNOT EAT BECAUSE YOU ATE IT ALL ALREADY!!!" Ranma who had been
talking calmly before suddenly yelled.
"Ranma calm down man. Come on, it's not that bad." Alex said to try and placate
the angry boy. "Come on Ramus, just hang in there for a bit more. It's not that far and
Luna saved some food so we can eat when we reach the cave."
"Ranma, practice on your harp (1), that always calms you down." Luna said as
she saw that the pigtailed boy was still angry.
"Fine then, but if Mr. Chunky there says anything else that is annoying, I am
going to rip him a new asshole. You hear that chunky? One more squeak out of you…"
Ranma leaves the threat hanging. "Man how did I get stuck with this girl instrument? I
mean the ocarina wasn't bad but this? This is like one of those stupid cute little angel
flying around kind of thing."
"Ranma, we tried to teach you to play the ocarina, but man you were a lost cause.
I mean, Alex learned to play both the harp and the ocarina at the age of six." Nall said as
he smiled smugly at Ranma.
"Hey! Even you said that my playing was good when I played it without thinking
about it." Ranma said heatedly.
"Yeah Ranma, but that only happens when you aren't paying much attention, and
playing in your own head. I mean, you can't even hear yourself. At least with the harp,
you seem to have some moderate skill." Caine said matter of factly.
"Not you too Caine! I thought we stood up for each other?" Ranma says to Caine.
"Hey everyone we're here!" Luna called back excitedly.
"Man, Luna seems more excited then we are." Ranma whispers to the rest of the
male as he headed toward the entrance.
"Hey Luna, can we have some food now? Man I'm starved!" Ramus asks eagerly.
"I have to agree with Ramus this time. Plus, you make the best food Luna."
Ranma says to Luna salivating at the mouth.
"Yeah, Luna you're the best!" Caine said.
"Yay! I smell fish!" Nall shouted.
"I didn't make this food silly. Alex offered to make the food today." Luna says with a smile.
"Alex…"
"…made…"
"…the…"
"…food?"
A sudden silence followed this.
"Hehehehe look at the time. We should go through the cave so we can get home
before dark." Ranma said as he stood up and walked over to the cave entrance.
"Hey Luna, Alex! Sorry I just remembered, I'm supposed to be on a new diet. I
can't eat your food, sorry." Saying this Ramus scampered toward Ranma.
"I'm really sorry Alex, but now that I think about it, Caine and I already ate some
fish before we started off. If we eat too much we might get fat." Saying this, Nall and
Caine quickly flies toward where the rest of the guys were standing.
Luna watches this all silently with a large sweat drop growing on her head. Man,
how bad can his cooking be? She then sees the group motioning frantically to her to
come to them. As she sees this processing, she gets worried. "Ummm Alex? We really
should get started on the journey if we don't want to be late for home." With that said,
Luna hurries towards the group. When she reaches the group, she whispers to them,
"What's wrong?"
"Oh Luna you came in time. Alex never fed you his cooking, but it is toxic. I
mean , I saw a goblin eat his food once and it turned around and barfed up the food. And
those things eat everything, including poop!" Nall whispers to Luna.
"Oh come on Nall, it couldn't have been that bad!" Luna exclaims with a sweat
drop. Seeing the disbelieving look around her, she says to Alex, "Hey Alex, I think
they're right. We really should get started faster."
"But, but, guys, you guys said you were starving. Come on, just eat a bite." Alex
called out. Seeing the quickly retreating forms of his friend, he quickly packed all of his
foods and followed in after them.
As Alex reached where everyone were standing, he saw a huge pillar of ice
blocking the entrance. "Aww man, we just came here for nothing." All of a sudden, the
ring that Noah gave him started to glow. Then with a flash of heat, the pillar of ice
melted.
"Whoa Alex. Since when did you know how to do magic?" Caine asked.
"Yeah Alex, the last time I checked, we couldn't do any magic, just special
abilities, except for chunko over there." Ranma said.
"I didn't do anything, honest! I just stood here, then this ring that father gave me
got warm, and the next thing I know, the ice melted."
"Well let's get started." Ranma said.
As the group walked farther into the cave, a monster suddenly hopped towards
them. "Sheesh, Akane must have made some jello again." Ranma said.
"Akane? Who's Akane?" Luna asked.
"Umm inside joke." Ranma put his hand behind his head and laughed.
"Forget this Akane, it looks like one of Alex's cookings." Nall said.
"Well here it comes. Let's get ready to fight. Here Luna, you could use the darts."
Alex said as he jumped into battle.
"Can't let you have all the fun." Ranma said as he jump kicked the blob.
The battle started with Alex going up to the jello and slashing at it with his sword.
Ranma kicking at it with his feet, Luna throwing darts at it, and Ramus hiding behind
Luna.
"Man, this battle was easy. I thought this place might be more dangerous the way
most of the adults told us to never go inside that cave when we were little."
"Yeah I know Ranma, sheesh this place is easy. C'mon lets go in more you guys."
"Hey tubby, stop hiding behind Luna. It was your idea to come here in the first
place. Grow a back bone man." Caine called out. [We know he has been hangong out
with Ranma too long.]
"Hey there's a baboon or something running toward us!" Nall called out.
"Alright another easy battle!" Ranma shouted. As Ranma leaped into the battle
he took a hit on the shoulder."OW! Hey watch out guys this one actually fights!"
Ranma shouted, as he began to take this battle more seriously. "Hey Alex, watch out!"
Alex took a few hits from the Albino Baboon, "Damn, I'm actually getting hurt.
Okay here it goes! SWORD DANCE!" Alex shouted as his arms suddenly blurred and
hit his enemy with hundreds of sword strikes. The baboon howled in pain and collapsed.
"Man the monsters are getting tougher, but nothing we can't handle, right Alex!"
Ranma called out as he slapped Alex on the back and continued on. "Come on Luna,
Ramus, hurry up or you're going to miss all the fights."
"What's he so happy about?" Ramus grumbled as he trudged after his friends.
"Don't worry about it Ramus." Luna called out. "I'll protect you!"
"Nooo Luna not you too. When is the teasing going to stop!"
Giggling, Luna hurried up so they won't be left behind.
"Hey Ranma, these monsters are actually getting hard." Alex said seriously. "The
others might get hurt. We better beat the monsters fast."
"Yeah I know Alex. Hey! You're hurt. Come over here man. Don't just stand
there bleeding man. When I told you to take pain like a man when we were kids didn't
mean this way. Here I have some herb on me, that should cure it fast.'
"Sorry about that Ranma, I din't even know I was hurt."
Snorting Ranma finished treating the wound. Ramus and Luna caught up at
the same time. "Hey you guys, be careful, these monsters are starting to get dangerous.
Alex actually got hurt." Ranma warned them.
Hearing this, they sobered up instantly. As they continued on silently, they heard
Nall and Caine suddenly screeching.
"What's wrong?!" Alex shouted.
"There's some kind of a bug attacking us!" Nall shouted.
"What the? Here they come." Ranma finally taking the fight seriously hit one of
the mutant fly with all his streanght. ::SPLAT:: "Aww man, this is disgusting! Hey these
aren't strong! Relax guys."
"Alex, Ranma! There's a way into another room right there. As Ranma and the
rest of the gang fought to reach there, more and more enemies appeared.
"This might actually be the way! Look at how these freaks don't want us to enter
that place. Come on guys! It's not that far." As they fought, more and more baboons
started to appear. "Ughh!" Ranma shouted. As he took a hard hit.
"Ranma!" Seeing Ranma hurt, Luna began to sing softly. As she did so, a
soothing power seems to envelope Ranma and cure him.
"What the…" Ranma gasped as he found himself unhurt. Ranma and the rest
were finally able to make it to the doorway. When they entered, they found themselves in
a large room empty of enemies.
As they walked through the room, they gasped, finding the legendary White
Dragon of Althena.
"Whoa! What the heck is that?" Ranma yelped.
"That is the dragon that guards this place." Luna explained.
"Hey Luna, how did you do that healing thingy?" Ranma asked.
"I don't know it just seemed right at the moment." Luna answered..
All of a sudden, a voice rings out, "Who has awakened me from my deep
slumber?" Quark (the dragon) opens his eyes and yawns. "Hmmmm…" Quark bends
down his head to talk to them.
The crew can only look up in shock and wonder at the dragon. Unable to say
Anything. (so they can't answer the first question.)
"My friends, you are the first adventurers to visit me in a long time. I am Quark,
patriarch of the Dragon Tribe. You have journeyed far, and now you have arrived at my
lair. It is a journey few have survived. Your mission must be urgent."
"You got that right! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get through this
cave?" Ranma suddenly shouts. "I mean, you could have made it a bit easier to get
to this place. And urgent mission? Hah! We only came to have some fun and satisfy that
greedy little pig right there."
Ramus yelps and cowers behind Alex. "Ummm, Mr. Dragon sir? Can you give us
The, um, the Dragon's Diamond please?" Ramus asks in a pathetic whimpering voice."I
mean you don't have to give it if you don't want to."
"Sooooo you came for the Dragon's Diamond. You humans always like those, I don't know why. Don't you know that they are our :cough:" (those of you who plays this game knows what they are made of.) "I will give you the diamond on one condition."
"Yeah? What is it!" Ramus asks excitedly. The thought of getting his hands on one of the diamond was enough to make him drool. "We'll do anything!"
"What!! Hey pig-boy, I don't know about you but, I don't want to go rushing off for some diamond." (thank Althena that he didn't get greediness from his father.) "So Alex, what do ya think? Luna? How about you?"
"Welll….." Alex says thinking about it, then replies "Oh alright." After seeing Ramus make puppy eyes at him. (I know, that's gross)
"And you Luna?"
"I could keep up. Lets go!"
"Alright then. Lets go for it!"
"Yeah!" two voice chorused after them. (Nall and Caine)
"Then before you go, let me heal you." As Quark heals them, he whispers "may you have a safe journeys my friends."
-Outside the cave-
"Hey lets go guys!" Ramus shouts with only the thought of the diamond in his mind. "Hurry hurry hurrrrahhHHHHHH!"
"Good job Ramus, you found the monster. Now go and kill it. We'll wait for ya." Ranma smirks as he says this.
"Co-come on Ranma, guys, help me out here." Ramus stammers nervously, backing away from the fierce, scary, monstrous, five-inch jelly.
"Bwahahahaha. Come on Ramus, its just a itty bitty jelly. Is chunky-butty here scared. Hmmm? Hmmm? Hahahah you're pathetic." Saying this, Ranma goes up to hit the jelly, when suddenly it lashes out, and "Hey! What the hell? I can't move."
Giggling Luna remarks, "Ranma it seems that you have been paralyzed." Saying so, Luna throws a dart at it and kills it. The monster being destroyed releases Ranma from the paralyzing spell.
"Who's the widdle baby now Ranma? Huh? Huh?" Ramus taunts Ranma as he chases after him.
"Shut up porky. If you don't want the stuffing beaten out of you." Ranma waves his fist at him. "At least I didn't wet my pants."
"Huh? Wha?" Ramus exclaims, then looks down at his breeches (pants) and sees a yellow stain that's drying. He quickly hides the stain, behind his hand and flushes.
They all walk on quietly after that, battling occasional monsters along the way. Then they finally find a treasure box. Unfortunately it is behind huge pillars of ice.
"Aww man, how are we going to get through that?" Ramus asks with Alex nodding his head in agreement.
"Hey no prob." Saying this Ranma charges his fist with all his might and strikes out. A loud crack is heard ringing throughout the cave. Ranma steps back triumphantly and looks at the pillar.
"Ranma, didn't that hurt?" Luna asks tentatively.
"No way. Not at all." Ranma says with confidence.
"Really?" Caine asks. "Whoa you're stronger than I thought." And pokes him on his fist.
"AHRAGGRGHGRA!!!" Ranma screams out in pain.
"Ha! I thought so." Caine crowed as he flew around avoiding Ranma's fist.
"Come on, there must be some way to get past this."
"ALEX! Watch out!" Luna suddenly screams, as an enraged albino charged at him.
Alex managed to jump away in time, but the monkey couldn't stop its momentum and hit the pillar of ice with its head. The pillar shattered as the baboon shook his head.
"Hey, that's an idea!" Nall exclaimed, and they began to use the albino's head to crack through the remaining pillars. After hitting the tenth pillar in a row, the albino finally lost conciousness and slumped to the ground.
"Hey guys, we finally made it through." Saying this, Alex opened the chest and finds a ring made of the purest silver.
"Hey, cool, it's that what we're supposed to find?" Ranma asks.
"Yeah, Quark told me right before we left." Alex replies.
"Ranma! Alex! Come over here for a moment guys, look at what I found, another chest." Ramus exclaims, the light of greed shining in his eyes. As he reaches out and tries to open the chest, a sharp electrical shock jolts him away. "Whoa! The chest just shocked me!"
"What! No way. Here, let me try." Saying this, Ranma pushes Ramus out of the way and places his hand on the chest. There is a brief tingling sensation and becomes slightly warm, but otherwise doesn't do anything else. As he opens the chest, he finds a gauntlet inside.
The gauntlet is made out of a shimmering color that when the light hits it in a certain way, it shines a specific color. On top of the gauntlet are five spaces. On the first space, there is a diamond of the most perfect shape, and the rest of the spaces seems to indicate a space to be filled in.
"Hey, what the…." Ranma mutters, seemingly transfixed on the gauntlet.
"Ranma, try it on." Alex says.
I don't know if you should Ranma, I'm getting this weird feeling about it." Luna says.
Ranma tries on the gauntlet and it fits him as if it was made just for him. "Hey Ranma, let me try it on." Ramus says. As Ranma takes it off and hands it to Ramus. Ramus eagerly puts on the gauntlet, when all of a sudden, he screams with pain and rips the gauntlet off.
"Ramus! What's wrong?" Everyone asks.
"I…I don't know. I put it on and all of a sudden, my hand feels as if it is being crushed." Ramus says.
"Really? It felt just fine to me." Ranma says as he put the glove back on.
"Fine, you just keep it them." Ramus says as he walks away in a huff.
"Alright we got what we came for, let's go." Caine says as he flitters around. Everyone agreeing, walks away also, back to Quark.
-Back at Quark's Lair-
"Hey Quark! We found the ring!" Nall yelled out as he flew in.
"I am glad that you have returned safely my friends.' Quark rumbled as he talked to the group. "May I see the ring?"
Alex held up his hand and showed the ring to him. "It's this ring right?" Alex asks. Seeing Quark nod, Alex let out his breathe.
Quark looks at each of the group and sees their Lines of Destiny. An aura that rises to the sky. The brighter the light, the more important their destiny. Most Lines of Destinies are moderately bright, flowing into the sky, these allows other destinies go on unaffected. However, to a rare few who have extremely powerful aura, such as a dragon or a god, have an aura that shines blindingly, and pulls the auras/destinies toward them, intertwining together. These have the power to change the destiny of others.[Got the idea from the game Breath of Fire]
To Quark's vision, Alex had an aura such as this, intertwining other auras together. Alex's aura color was a bright vibrant green, showing his liveliness and ties with the nature around him. (He is the one. He has the eyes. )Luna had an aura like this also, a powerful aura. Hers however shined in a soft white hue, showing the purity of her heart. Ramus had a moderate aura, intertwined with Alex and Luna. His was that of orange, the color of green, tinged with light blue, showing loyalty. When Quark finally looked at Ranma, he almost fell in surprise. Ranma's aura did not pull in other auras surrounding his nor, was his pulled in to intertwine with theirs. His aura shot straight into the air, parts of it fragmenting and connecting with others. His aura created a web, various parts connected together, with his supporting all of them. Also the color of his aura seem to fluctuate wildly, black one second, white another, and so forth.
(He seems to be chaos incarnate.) Quark thought to himself. Then he noticed the gauntlet in the right hand of Ranma. "Boy, were did you find that?" Quark asked all of a sudden.
Ranma looks up in surprise. "This? It was in another part of the place were we found the ring." He holds up his hand to give Quark a better look. "Do you know what it is?"
"I do not know what it is child." Quark lied.
"Oh? Too bad. Hey, can we go now?" Ranma says.
"Yes, of course you may. Let me heal you again for your journey back." Quark watches as the group leaves. (The one called Alex has the eyes. However, this Ranma, worries me. His very essence seems to be chaos. He is also able to wield the Chaos Gauntlet. Could the legend have been true?)
-End of Chapter 3-
Author's Rambling: Finally finished the chapter. About time to. If any of you readers out there want to give me an idea, please do so. Also, send me some comments be it good or bad. Thank you for reading this story written humbly by me in order to entertain you.(Gawd I sound like a T.V spokesman.)