Disclaimer: Ranma ½ and Lunar Silver Star Story Complete does not belong to me. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Working Designs respectively.
In your dreams, magical thoughts,
All things are real, unless you dream they're not.
In your dreams, love is the plot,
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 you, careless and kind,
Free to roam the breeze in love,
Only when two brightly shine as one.
***Chapter 4***
Alex, Nall, Caine, Ramus, Luna, and the stranger sat around the campfire with Ranma sleeping nearby. Everyone looks as if deep in thought, probably thinking of what happened a few short hours ago. Caine then looks up and faces the stranger. "Hey old man, just who are you?"
The stranger looks up in surprise then bursts out laughing. "I'm who I am." The stranger replies.
"That's not an answer old man." Caine growls. "Now who are you really?"
"What a hapless bunch you are! You're lucky I happened to come along when I did! Didn't you know that these woods are ridiculously dangerous for ordinary travelers? Are you lost? Or out on a picnic?" The stranger says, avoiding the question.
"WHAT!? You didn't do anything! Ranma was the only one who fought to the end. You just stood by and did nothing! And you're avoiding our questions." Nall exclaims as he looks at the man incredulously. Then he mumbles under his breath, "Picnic? Lost? Ha! As if we would ever get lost. Goin' on an adventure…"
"What! An adventure!" saying this, the man starts laughing again. "What a grand idea. An adventure. Well nice to meet you adventurers. I am Laike. And for your information cat, I happen to have helped a lot. Did you think to wonder why the monsters aren't attacking?"
"Now that I think about it, why aren't the monsters attacking. I don't even see one near here." Luna remarks as she looks around.
"The reason is because of the herbs that I'm burning in the fire. The smell repels the monsters for a while. It should last till dawn tomorrow." Laike says as he proceeds to throw a few more leaves of a strange plant into the fire.
"Alex, you should watch and learn. You're fighting certainly needed more practice. I should tell Ranma to train you harder from now on." Luna said to Alex in a half serious and half mocking tone. However saying this, brought back the memory of the battle that took place a few moments ago and everyone becomes sober.
Ranma who was sleeping nearby starts to move and then wakes up. He sits up quickly and looks around alarmingly. After noting that no creatures seems to be nearby and all the rest of the crew are safe, he calms down and looks at the group watching him with a curious expression. "Do you guys have any food? Man, I'm starving!" Everyone makes a massive facefault. "What? Did I say something wrong?"
"Ranma! You're alright!" Luna shouts and rushes to him and gives him a bone crushing hug. (She's the first one to recover) Then everyone else recovers from their stupor and rushes to him also. They then start launching questions at him simultaneously.
""Hold up!" Laike shouts as he raises his hand and quiets the group. "Let the boy rest. All of your questions are just confusing him. Okay, now lets ask him one question at a time."
"What happened?" Ranma asks as he looks around to find a large clearing with splinters of woods everywhere. "All I remember is using the shiryu shoten ha."
"Ranma, you were fighting all the goblins by yourself. Then, it seemed as if you were getting cornered by those creatures. You then threw up your arm and missed the goblins. We all thought that you would die." Saying this, tears starts to drop from Luna's eyes. "You then shouted hiryu shoten ha. A HUGE tornado then appeared and drew in all the goblins around you. The tornado started getting larger as it went on, pulling trees outs by it's roots. Finally it drew you in also."
"So… That's what happened." Ranma murmurs to himself. "After all this years, I guess I still didn't lose my touch."
"Ranma? What did you do? That tornado… I didn't know you could do that." Alex says morosely. "Since when do you control magic? I thought that you were like us guys, magicless."
"Hmmm? Oh! The hiryu shoten ha. That isn't magic Alex. It's a special use of ki. I taught you about it when I was trying to teach you the katchu tenshin amaguriken, but you ended up learning the Sword Dance instead right?" Seeing Alex nod, Ranma goes on saying, "Well, the Hiryu Shoten Ha also uses ki, but in a different way. You have to get rid of your emotions so that when you do call up a battle aura, it'll be cold. The opponent who should be creating hot aura is then led around in a spiral. The heat and cold mixes, so that when I throw my arm up into the sky, it creates a tornado."
"AHHH." Was more or less the general sound that came out of everyone's mouth. (Well except for Ramus' huh? Sound. But we'll ignore it this time.)
Laike then turns to Alex and asks him about his life, and tales are told and emotions relieved of its trouble went up. They all talked late into the night before they went to sleep. As each soon fell asleep, Laike murmurs "He has the green eyes…" Then he too lay down for a little snooze.
"The green eyes?" Ranma mutters. He was actually alert, pretending to sleep. Then he closes his eyes again to think about this new development.
***
Alex stirs and wakes up as the sun hits his eyes. "What the… Is it morning already? Hey guys, it's time to wake up." Saying so, he stands up to stretch and watches everyone else wake up. He then looks to the sky and smiles, after all, he is finally going on his grand adventure. As he was feeling refreshed, a thought strikes him. "Hey, where is Laike?"
"Laike…?" Nall yawns out. "Maybe he went to the nearby bush to conduct some business. Hehehehe."
"Nope. He left early in the morning today." Ranma says, filling in the information gap.
"What? Why?" Alex says, disappointed because he wanted to talk to Laike a bit. Ask him about the mans adventures and such. Then he brightens as he turns to Ranma. "Hey Ranma, I think that I was in a shock yesterday, but I still have some questions to ask you about that move you did. Where did you learn it?"
Caught in a trap, Ranma quickly searches his mind for a quick excuse. "Ummm, I uhhh, forgot. Yeah that's it, I forgot. Must have hit my head yesterday." Saying this, he starts laughing hysterically with his hand behind his head.
"I didn't see any wounds on your head yesterday Ranma." Luna says as she approaches them.
"You didn't?"
"Nope. Not a single bump."
"Uhhhh…" Ranma then suddenly points behind Alex and shouts, "Hey a five piece silver!" Everyone swivels around. ( more because of the fact that someone pointed at something and shouted look rather than the fact that they actually wanted the silver. Well… may be except for Ramus.) Ranma then dashes like a maniac towards the exit.
"Hey Ranma! Come back here!" And the chase begins.
"Hey I don't see any…" Ramus FINALLY figures out that he was left behind and then he starts running after them. (More of a walking pace really.)
Author's note: Well this story was more of a story written when I was stumped. Then there is the fact that there is no action in this. I'm sorry to all those that have tried to support me in the past.
A good news for those of you who likes my fics, but don't like the fact that it comes out so damn late. I lost my internet access. Translation: Since I lost the connection, I'll probably write more at home now, rather than surfing the net.