Hild's son
Chapter 23: Kidnapped
Disclaimer: You all know the drill
Hotaru woke up and came out of her bedroom and saw Aya sleeping on the sofa and jumped to conclusions and transformed into Sailor Saturn and summoned the silence glaive and pointed it at Aya who woke up.
"What the…' Aya said looking up at Hotaru.
"Who are you?" Hotaru asked.
"Names Aya, I'm a friend of Ranma's." Aya told Hotaru whilst sitting up.
"What's going on?" Setsuna asked as she left the bedroom and wondered what was going on and found Hotaru as Sailor Saturn pointing the silence glaive at Aya.
"She is a friend of mine." Ranma said from the futon.
Mara walked through the wall and saw Aya "long time no see Aya." Mara said and Aya nodded back in response when Ranma sat up and looked around.
"If you're all wondering about Aya being here, I bumped into her last night and she didn't have a place to stay, so I said she could crash here for the night." Ranma told them as Hotaru de-transformed from Sailor Saturn back into Hotaru.
"How do you know Ranma?" Hotaru asked.
"Don't worry I'm not going to steal him from any of you, he's a couple of hundred years my senior, you see his mom's my aunt which makes him my cousin." Aya told them making Hotaru and Setsuna look at Ranma.
"Well it's partially true, after the death of her parents my mom adopted Aya." Ranma told them.
"So you're Ranma's cousin?" Setsuna asked.
"Adopted cousin actually." Ranma reminded them.
"It's a long story." Aya told them.
Aya explains to Setsuna and Hotaru why she's Ranma's adopted cousin and why she was on Midgard.
"You got some time off from desk duty?" Ranma asked.
"Yep." Aya replied.
"Desk duty?" Hotaru asked.
"You wouldn't believe the amount of paperwork for the DGO." Ranma replied.
"DGO?" Hotaru asked.
"Demon Grief Office, the opposite of the Goddess Relief Office." Ranma replied.
"You have paperwork?" Setsuna asked and Ranma sighed.
"Mom tried to get me to do a desk job, but I didn't want a desk job." Ranma told them meanwhile the NWC got an interesting piece of information following an anonymous tip off about Ranma and company, epically about Setsuna.
"So, the plan is kidnap this Setsuna person and Ranma should come quietly." Akane said.
"Should is not an option… HE will come quietly." Cologne said while Shampoo gathered some smoke bombs ready for kidnapping Setsuna, Tatewaki Kuno was dressed in samurai armour whilst the others had their own various weapons.
"I shall finally smite the foul demon Saotome." The male Kuno said making everyone else sigh.
"Let's get this straight… I am the one that gets to finish Ranma off." Ryoga said thus setting off an argument that lasted for ten minutes before they decided to ship out and headed towards Juuban via rooftops that didn't take them long because of their training and now all they had to do was find Ranma's apartment, they couldn't trust Ryoga to lead them to it because of his directional problem so that left them with only one option left.
"What we do now great-grandmother?" Shampoo asked.
"What we came here to do child." Cologne replied.
Elsewhere Ranma and company were sitting down to breakfast whilst chatting about the past when Ranma stood up and left the lounge and returned with the long bow and it's quiver of arrows and passed them to Mara before he picked up Hadafang.
"It's time." Ranma said as he drew Hadafang from its sheath and dropped the sheath on the floor as a smoke bomb smashed a window and released its smoke into the room as Mara let loose an arrow which killed one of the amazons.
"Did I get one?" Mara asked.
"I think so." Ranma replied as Aya wondered what was going on.
"What's going on?" Aya asked.
"Aya, get Setsuna and Hotaru…" Ranma never completed what he was going to say when the wall exploded and all Ranma could see apart from debris flying everywhere was a flash of silver heading in his direction.
"Prepare to die foul demon." Tatewaki Kuno said.
"Hang on a moment, I know that weapon from anywhere… that's Amaretsu's!" Ranma shouted as he blocked the katana whilst trying to dodge a certain nut job's ribbon whilst Mara let loose another arrow just as Ryoga entered the fray and quickly found his target while Shampoo's mission was to kidnap Setsuna, Ranma saw Ryoga heading in his direction before he kicked Kuno away from him then quickly turned towards Ryoga and raised Hadafang up over his head and brought it down beside Ryoga's head and cut off Ryoga's right ear. While Ryoga clutched where his right ear used to be Kuno got a strike in, Ranma turned round and sliced Tatewaki clean in half.
"That'll teach you." Ranma said before he turned towards Ryoga "I did say if I saw you near my family or friends I will kill you." Ranma added as he prepared to finish off Ryoga when he made a run for it and thus the cycle of getting lost was complete. Once the smoke cleared the attacking people had bugged out leaving Kuno cut clean in half and an ear on the floor.
"Everyone okay?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah." They all reply before Ranma realized that something was wrong.
"Ranma, you're bleeding." Hotaru said.
"Higher beings don't bleed and Setsuna's been kidnapped." Ranma said making Mara, Hotaru and Aya look around to find Setsuna missing as Ranma bent down and picked up Amaretsu's katana before he turned to look at his adopted cousin.
"When do we leave?" Mara asked.
"As soon as I get this cut healed, Aya I need you to take this to my sisters place and tell them this belongs to Amaretsu, if Urd asks who you are just tell her to get in touch with me and I'll explain it to her." Ranma said as he picked up the sheath and slid the katana back into it and threw it to her before she left.
"I can heal you." Hotaru said.
"No you can't Hotaru." Ranma told her as he picked up his sheath for Hadafang.
"We go home first to get you healed?" Mara asked.
"Yeah, then we go to China to end this." Ranma replied.
"What about me?" Hotaru asked.
"I want you to go with Aya to my sisters place." Ranma said as he went to find a window to go home whilst Mara used a CD to go home as Aya grabbed Hotaru and used her mode of transport to get to Ranma's sisters place in Nekomi.
Authors note: R&R!