Darkness Calls

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Down the Dark Path

He was literally boiling with hatred as he saw the two bumps on his chest. How could the old fool not know what horrible transformations there were in the pools? He didn't know Chinese but that could easily be corrected once Ranma got to a decent school. He had learned so much under his Master Ranko Sitharian that he was able to manipulate the weather with a thought. He knew of no other force users in the vicinity but wanted no attention from them either. It wouldn't do for him to get murdered before even reaching the level of a Sith Lord.

Ranma stared at the bumps hoping that they would go away whenever he wished them to but it was futile. She jumped form the pool and looked at the old panda with murder in her eyes;

"I trust you have a good explanation for this old man or else I am going to take one of these poles and shove it up your ass."

Genma-panda paled dramatically and produced a sign which plead for mercy. Then Genma backpawed Ranma near another pool and Ranma nearly fell in. He looked at the pool and noticed it was a pool which turned you into a piglet. Ranma gave a sigh and said:

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU OLD MAN!"

Ranma noticed the panda had gotten away and gave chase. His Master was inside his head cheering him on. She had been training him in the use of the Dark Side for ten years now and Ranma had grown fond of the woman inside his mind. He thanked her for the cheers and with a motion of his hand the fast panda gripped his neck as if some invisible hand was choking him. Ranma grinned as he let the choking go for another few seconds and then released the fat moron. Then he gave Genma a beating soon they were out of the area after having heard that there was no cure from the guide.

Ranma was dreaming again and his Master was talking about how he would have to earn the black robe she wore. They dressed in the robes in his dreams but he would have to wear them in the real world too. So when they were near the sea they came at a village which was a quiet and peaceful village with fishermen fishing and women happily chatting with each other. Ranma felt disgusted and a white robe appeared in front of him and he heard the voice of his Master say inside his mind:

"Tonight you will go to this village and stain these robes crimson with the lifeblood of these people. Only then you shall be permitted to wear the robes of a Sith Lord."

Ranma grinned as he prepared for the first of many massacres he would commit. He clothed himself in the white robe and walked to the village square which was deserted during night time. With a dark laugh he let a sword float over to him and soon as he had studied the sword he went into one of the houses and grabbed the man of the house and slit his throat and let the blood spill over his robe. Ranma heard a scream and he saw the man's wife scream as she saw her husband being killed by someone clothed in white. Ranma grinned and the screaming ceased as the woman's head exploded silently. Then he roamed through the house and came upon a crib which housed two small children Ranma grabbed one child by the neck and broke it with an audible snap. Then he lifted the remaining child and carried it outside towards a fire. With a cold laugh he threw it in. he sensed people near and turned around to stare at men armed with sticks and various other implements of killing. Swords were common between the men. They charged at Ranma who just grinned insanely and felt the world slowing down as he immersed himself in the Force. He saw one of the men approach at a snail's pace and cut the man's head off. Then he watched as the body hit the floor and he used the force to choke one of the men still approaching him. The man took hold of his throat and gasped for air. Ranma held the Force long enough to kill the man before flinging away the body into the people behind him with a small application of the Force.

Then Ranma was upon them. Their blood stained his robes colouring them a ruby red. Blood was dripping from his hands as he had lost his weapon some time ago when he had thrust it into one of the men. He had started ripping the men apart with his bare hands and he could hear the master laugh in his head as he slaughtered another one. When there were no people alive on the square to fight against him Ranma looked around and noticed that the force registered several people still alive in the buildings.

Ranma grabbed a torch and set it alight and then threw it into one of the houses and delighted in the screams that came out of the house. He heard a woman scream and watched as the woman jumped through one of the windows. Fire was spread all over her body and Ranma laughed as she writhed in agony as the fire burned her skin away. Blood was starting to dry over his body so he looked for another house to try out his power. He went inside and looked for anyone. Then suddenly he heard someone take a shaky breath and he evaded a fist that came at him. He saw a woman standing there clothed in a villager outfit looking at him she said:

"You killed my husband and my brother. For that you die you stupid foreigner!"

then a gun was raised and Ranma saw a bullet sped forth from the gun and with a devilish smirk still in place he froze it in the air and said at a tone which eerily reminded the woman of Death:

"Well I was ordered by my Master to paint these clothes red with the blood of this village. It is a rite of passage for us Sith. No one shall stand against the Sith!"

Then Ranma made the bullet sped backwards lodging itself within the woman's forehead instantly killing her as it penetrated the brains. Blood splattered to the wall the woman was stranding close to and Ranma watched as some of the blood coated his robe.

Ranma had massacred the entire village within an hour and it was with great pride in her voice that Ranko said in his mind:

"Well done my young Sith. You have been found worthy of wearing the black robes. The final test will commence within a few days."

Ranma nodded and went back to his father who was fast asleep. Ranma fell down on his sleeping bag and was asleep instantly. Ranko appeared in his dreams and she started training him in the use of a Lightsaber. Well the only thing she did was show him more advanced techniques and he would learn them instantly. Ranma slashed through the air with his crimson Lightsaber and watched as his Master dodged. She smiled at him and said:

"Not yet Ranma. You have much to learn before you can beat me."

Then she lashed out with a kick and the Lightsaber followed behind it and struck Ranma's Lightsaber. There were some faint energy discharges along the blade and Ranma smirked as he pulled away the blade and with a fast strike held it close to his Master's neck:

"Well Master you seem to have forgotten that I can improvise on whatever problem I face. It seems I beat you."

Ranko just grinned and said:

"That means that you are ready for the final test. Now let's battle with no restraints on. That would make a large difference. If you win then you will be the lord of the Sith. If I win then your body will be mine."

Ranma grinned and said:

"Bring it on."

They started circling each other and Ranma found out that he had to time his steps well so that there would be no failure in his attacks. A failure could lead to his death after all he was still bound to his own soul and if he was defeated here that would mean losing his soul and body to his Master. It wasn't a thing he was looking out for because then he would never have his revenge upon his lazy father. Ranma felt the anger coursing through his body and he looked at his opponent and a red haze came into his eyes and he attacked with dazzling speed. He watched as she dodged and he followed his strike up with a slash which ripped some clothing.

She retaliated by sending a shockwave of Force energy at his and Ranma was blasted backwards. Ranma felt himself loosing his cool and felt the mind numbing anger overtake his senses. In his fury he attacked her and managed to hit her in the torso once causing a mild burn. Ranma smirked at her and said:

"I'll win this. Ranma Saotome doesn't lodes. I will have my vengeance on the old fool!"

Then a strike delivered to Ranko her torso was deflected by her Lightsaber and Ranma looked at her again:

"You and I are equals Master. None of us can overpower the other. We are one being together since this body that I have gained due to the cursed waters of Jusenkyo seems to have your energy attached to it."

Ranko smiled at her student and said:

"Yes indeed you have finally seen the truth. If I were to have your female body then I might be able to influence the outer world instead of staying in your mind. And it even looks like me when I was sixteen. Well Ranma I deem you worthy of bearing the title of Sith Lord. Let it be known that henceforth Ranma Saotome is reborn as Darth Kaos. Let his deeds be remembered for ages."

Ranma smiled at her and said:

"Ranko let's train some more. I want to use my Lightsaber on the old man. I want to beat and slash him up so badly that his blood will drip from his carcass until he dies of it. I want him to die in his own pool of blood."

Ranko grinned at him with an evil smile on her face and she said:

"Well Ranma there are several things you could do to get your own Lightsaber. You could try to summon my old one but it wouldn't work for you. You could try to craft one but you would need a focus stone. A precious gem would do well as a focus stone."

Ranma looked around and saw that his previous master was smirking as she advanced upon him and then swung her fist at her in an attempt to hit him. Ranma just twisted away from the punch and then followed it up with a quick jab to the ribs. He felt the soft tissue of her breasts be smacked by his fist and he saw her being flung backwards into a large rock.

Ranma watched as the rock cracked and Ranko fell to the floor and Ranma said:

"There shall be only one Lord of the Sith strong enough to rule. That will be me. Yu have aught me well Ranko and I will take my place as the Sith Lord."

Then the dream realm faded and Ranma was awakened by a kick o the ribs. When Ranma opened his eyes he saw that it was still dark and that Genma had kicked him in his sleep. He went to a nearby stream and washed away the blood on his hands and clothes. The robe he had worn since it had been given to him had turned a midnight black colour and Ranma grinned as he saw his reflection in the stream. He looked like a normal handsome sixteen year old guy who wore dark robes and seemed to emanate an aura of royalty.

Ranko chuckled in his mind and said:

"You are female again Ranma. Let me take over and I'll show you how to use a Lightsaber. Eventually I think I will split apart from you in some time because I think the Force might be able o remove the curse from you by giving me the body to inhabit. Then we could rule together and we would be uncontested except for that lady who placed that binding spell on you. Let's remove that spell too because Genma might use it again. I have blocked your mind from the influences of he spell but I am not sure how your mind would be able to resist it since you have been away from my mental defences I bestowed upon you while you were my student. It seems that you would have to rebuild them from scratch."

Ranma nodded and destroyed the bounds that kept him in line. He began to glow with an unearthly light as he drew in the Force and let it flow through him. Then he sent all the hatred and anger at the bounds that held him trapped. They broke like wet paper being ripped apart and he felt himself beginning to change. He force flowed through him at an alarming rate and he found himself gaining some length. The cold blue eyes looked at his reflection and saw a tall Asian man dressed in black robes standing there. Together with the man there was a faint female figure to be seen and Ranma realised that the curse was now visible t him. The height was an added bonus since Genma had the height advantage for a long time. Now he towered over his father at least ten centimetres.

Ranma had enough of this. He walked over to Genma and grabbed the fat man's foot. Then he immersed himself in the Force and dragging Genma through shrubbery and other pointy obstacles at insane high speeds made his anger subside a little bit. Soon they reached the sea and Ranma had no intention of stopped. At the same neck breaking speed he darted over the water leaving behind a trail of water spurting in the air. Genma screamed at the high speeds they were travelling at and Ranma looked at the fat man an rammed straight through a fishing ship which sunk soon after Ranma had disappeared behind the horizon.

Genma gave Ranma a hit on the head which made him slow down a little and get wet enough to turn into his female form. He looked at the man who strared at him defiantly and soon hey had touched down on the shore of Japan. Genma looked at his son and said:

"Son how did you d that? No martial artist has ever done that before. Teach your father how to do it."

Ranma stared at his father and said:

"No pops. I won't teach it to you. You wouldn't be able to use it anyway."

Genma flushed and shouted:

"BOY YOU WLL TEACH ME THAT TECHNIQUE R IT IS NO DINNER FOR YOU TONIGHT!"

Ranma just shrugged and said:

"I have been through worse old man. I won't teach you how to do it. Only a woman can do it."

Genma huffed and just attacked his son for no good reason. Ranma found his anger swelling again and he retaliated by giving Genma the beating of a lifetime.

A few days later they were in Nerima at the insistence of Genma. They arrived at a house which ahd an aura of sadness and anger around it. Ranma perked up when they entered it and as rain fell h knocked on a door.

The door was opened by a cheerful woman whose age was around nineteen. Ranma immediately disliked her as she asked them to come inside. Ranma accepted a towel being handed to him and he dried himself off. Then a man came from the living room and hugged Ranma not noticing that he was currently a female and started talking:

"Ranma how good of you to come. Where is your father?"

Rnam just glared as his father came into the room with a hot kettle in his hands. Rnama scowled atteh amna and said:

"There is my father."

Soun hugged Genma's impressive bulk and tears streamed from his eyes. Ranma took notice of three girls sitting in the living room and introduced himself to them. They were surprised that he was a female and he saw Akane give a sigh of relief hat she wasn't going to marry some stupid boy. Ranma gave her a cold glare and said:

"You don't like boys? Then maybe you do like girls Akane."

Akane coloured and slammed the table on top of Ranma and Ranma looked at the descending able and smashed it apart with his hand. He looked at the stunned girl and said at a tone so cold that they would swear the tea had chilled at the voice:

"If you ever try something like that again Akane Tendo I will personally make sure you will be obliterated."

Then Ranma sat down in his black robes and poured some tea over him. Ranma looked at the looks of astonishment on the girls faces and he grinned and grabbed a cup of tea and sipped from it. Learning under Ranko had taught him some manners and he knew when to use them. When the two grown men had cried their eyes out and sat down the old thin one said:

"It's so good of you to have come here Ranma. Pick one of them and she will be your fiancé."

Ranma looked at the obviously insane old man and said:

"Why the hell would I pick one of your daughters? None of them possess the qualities that I want. I'd rather marry myself if that were possible."

Then spooky laughter echoed through his mind and Ranko said:

"Well then why don't you marry me? If I get free then we ever could have a nice wedding set up with the Sith customs."

Ranma replied back to the redheaded sexbomb:

"With the bloody carcasses of our foes or just with their entrails coating the room? And would a Sith priest be present or would we just have to convince some normal person to marry us?"

Ranko replied at a lovely tone:

"Well the entrails sounds good. The bloody carcasses are nice. But let's say that I would like you to finally meet my family. I think some of them are in the Holocron you carry in teat pocket of Force energy."

Ranma grinned at the thought of meeting his Master's family and he took out the holocron and set it on the table which fixed itself as to hold the sacred object of the Sith.

Nabiki looked at the strange item that was set to the table which Ranma had fished out of somewhere. She watched as he pressed several buttons and a ghostly hooded figure appeared and spoke to Ranma in a strange language. Ranma just grinned a little wider which made him look more crazed then she had ever seen on him and then about ten people joined the figure. Nabiki immediately thought about how much money this would give her if she sold the orb. Just for the designs she would get rich.

Ranma looked at the figures as Ranko introduced them to him. Ranma looked at them impassively and then asked several questions which were answered rapidly by them and Ranma knew that this would attract some attention from the people around him. He noticed Nabiki taking an interest in the Holocron and he savagely tripped into her mind giving her an intense fear of the Holocron. He watched as she screamed and crawled as far away from the Holocron as she could.

Ranma noticed Ranko looking at something and heard her say something about guardians of the moon or something. Ranma stood to his feet and felt the Force being savagely ripped at a place a few blocks away. He walked away with the vague promise to be back in a while.

When he was out of sight he jumped to a roof and ran towards the disturbance in the force. There he noticed nine women battling something that seemed like a fish crossed with a leopard. It wielded claws and had a scaly skin. Ranma looked on as the girls defeated the monster. One of them was clothed in a familiar attire which he recognised from long ago. The anger resurfaced as the face became familiar to him again. Ranma felt the force being disturbed around her and he noticed that the fishlike creature was almost beaten. He felt a strange feeling in his stomach and he looked at the clothes that the women wore. One of them had a bright crystal glowing on it but it seemed to pulse with light and happiness instead of Darkness which he searched.

One of them seemed to be the youngest but Ranma could also sense the massive potential for wielding the Force. She seemed to be wielding a giant Naginata and focused her attacks through it. Ranko spoke up in his head her voice having a dangerous edge to it:

"Kill the green haired one. She has messed with the Sith for far too long. She had us wiped out so long ago. I was the last of them to die because of her. I hid my shade in the Holocron for twenty-thousand years so that the bitch would forget of my existence. It seems she has forgotten all about the Sith. Now let me control your body."

Ranma did so and he felt a strange sense of being out of his body before e looked at his female form screaming in a strange language which seemed to trigger something within him:

"DIE YOU BITCH!"

Then a Lightsaber appeared in Ranko's hands and the redhead currently possessing Ranma's female form swung it at the green haired woman who teleported away. Ranko looked at her and said:

"DIE YOU BITCH FOR ERADICATING ALL OF MY BRETHREN!"

Setsune Meioh looked at the redhead who had swung a weapon not seen in twenty-thousand years at her. She recognised her immediately . it was the last of the Sith Lords who had dared to try and defy Queen Serenity. They came from another Galaxy and had established themselves on Earth. Now if she could only get her tiem key to activate its final banishment spell then all would be okay for her. Then she could send the irritating girl into the time stream where she would be lost for eternity. I she failed she would have to reawaken prince Serenity from his mortal shell. He had fought valiantly against the Sith from day one and she had a premonition that he would grow into a powerful warrior. She had given the father a controlling device so he would be easier to manipulate.

Ranko felt Ranma take over again and jumped back into the shadows. Ranma took over and appeared behind the young Sailor Senshi and grabbed the crystal on her uniform. Then he pulled it off and smirked cruelly at the young girl and said:

"Anger is what drives you to grow and flourish. Use the anger within and you shall know true power."

Hotaru stood there shocked that someone managed to get the decorative gem from her uniform. It was easily replaced but she felt like she had lost something valuable to her. Ranma grinned at her before jumping back in the shadows. The Force had cloaked him from the time stream and now nothing of his encounter with the young woman would be known. Ranma grinned as he looked at the gem and then raced back to the Tendo house where he was stared at by the people there. Ranma just gave as an excuse that he had fought with some girls clad in ridiculous outfits and Akane started on a rant about how he shouldn't hurt the Sailor Senshi

Ranma tuned her out and sat down on the floor. He looked as Akane's face grew red and watched as the girl cocked her hand back and uppercutted him over the city. Ranma could only smirk as he saw a lonely purple haired girl being pestered by boys. Calling up on some of the force power he had accumulated within his body he was clothed in the robes as black as night. His normal black robes had gained the dark tint after the Dark Side had run through it.

He landed behind the bullies and grinned as they turned to face him. Suddenly a cylinder appeared in Ranma's hands and he looked at it. Then he grinned as Ranko explained to him that he had just summoned the empty case where the crystal must be inserted in to make a Lightsdaber. She also told him that the Lightsaber would cut through anything like hot butter. Ranma's creepy smile got even creepier as he inserted the crystal and a single blade appeared in thin air. It hummed with energy as the red blade pulsated with the Dark force being pumped in it by its master.

The bullies looked scared at the sight of the glowing blade in Ranma's hands and screamed in fright as Ranma darted forwards and brought down his lightsaber on one of them slicing the boy apart and making a smell of burned meat hang in the air. Then Ranma dislodged the lightsaber from its target and slashed at another bully. He fell in two pieces to the ground. Ranma saw two of the bullies push the purple-haired girl to the ground and Ranma jumped and landed in front of them and switching his lightsaber off he ran up to one of the bullies and grabbed the boy in the ribs and with a fierce crack the entire chest of the boy was ripped open.

The last boy squeaked in fright and Ranma grinned and then ripped off the arms and heard the screams increase in volume. Then Ranma ripped off the boy's head before turning to Hotaru and helping her up.

She was looked at Ranma and noticed the maniacal look in his eyes as he cleaned off some blood that had gotten on her. His black robes just cleaned themselves of any blood that got on them and Ranma grinned. Then he looked at her and said:

"I helped you, child. I took something from you and I have repaid it. Fell the anger at what those bullies did to you flow through you. Feel the anger turning into hatred. Let the hatred flow through you and embrace it. Let it go in an attack and you'll feel stronger. Do not believe in the foolish Light side. The Dark Side loves everything unconditionally. No person who is Light shall ever understand the Dark Side and brand it evil and that it must be destroyed. People who bask in the Light Side shall weaken the force by saving people. The Dark Side allows killing to renew the Force within people. With every death there is a renewal in the force. Ultimate power can be yours if you wish."

Hotaru thought about what she had done in all the time she had been a member of the Sailor Senshi. She thought back to the time she didn't know that she was Sailor Saturn and the two people she looked up to as parents tried to kill her guided by the green headed woman known to them as Setsuna Meioh. Something was said about ultimate destructive power within her and she boiled at the thought that they might have killed her if she had embraced Mistress 9. She felt anger at the thought that those women might have disrupted her growth by forcing her to take a younger form. You wouldn't know it if you looked at her but she was actually around eighteen years old and being forced into the body of a thirteen year old didn't make her happy. She disliked being so small and weak and always felt that something was blocked unconsciously she started to clench her fist and Ranma smiled as he felt her manipulating the force. He forced it to help her and he watched some of her memories of being alone and the battles that took place during her life.

Ranma looked at her and said:

"Yes I have also been manipulated by the keeper of time. She had me train in the Neko-ken and thus bestowed upon my father a control device. Now will you accept training from me?"

She opened her mouth and said…

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