Hild's son
Chapter 25: The first major battle
Disclaimer: you all know the drill.
Mara watched the Phoenix and Musk warriors rushing around grabbing their weapons and Mara knew what was going to happen and went to find Ranma, she found him talking to Saffron and Herb about battle plans.
"Well, let's do this then." Ranma said before they went their separate ways.
"What's going on?" Mara asked.
"Battle." Ranma simply replied.
"What, have we got a plan?" Mara asked.
"No, but it's not like going up against Urd, Bell and Skuld, Setsuna's life is on the line here." Ranma replied as he and Mara made their way to he frontlines of the upcoming battle against the amazons. When they make it to the frontlines they look over the field that would be the final resting ground of many Amazon, Musk and Phoenix warriors during the battle, when the battle lines were made Ranma and Mara stood at the frontline.
"You scared?" Mara asked.
"You have no idea how scared I am right now." Ranma replied.
"How far do you think the battlefield is?" Mara asked.
"About one, maybe two half miles long." Ranma replied.
"Well, good luck." Mara told him.
"Same to you." Ranma replied to Mara as he drew Hadafang from its scabbard and waited, on the Amazons side of the battlefield they looked at the Phoenix and Musk's combined army ready for battle, Shampoo stood on the frontlines of the Amazon army along with Mousse, Ryoga and Akane all wearing battle gear waiting for the first move in which the Amazons made by launching a volley of arrows.
"SHIELDS UP!" Herb shouted and watched as everyone bent down and picked up their shields and raised them over their heads interlocking them and soon the volley of arrows hit the shields and pierced them before the shields were dropped and the Phoenix and Musk archers returned the favor by firing a volley of arrows, trouble is the Amazons didn't have shields and some were killed.
"Here we go Mara." Ranma said before they got the order to charge and both armies clashed halfway, Mara quickly lost track of Ranma in the battle.
"If anything happens to Ranma, I don't know what Hild-Sama will do to me." She said to herself as people around her were killing each other or getting killed when she found Ranma he was in the middle of killing an Amazon, Hadafang had Amazonian blood literally dripping off it when he saw Ryoga and made his way towards the lost boy and quickly dispatching any Amazons that got in his way.
"This ends now Ryoga." Ranma told the lost boy.
"Prepare to die." Ryoga replied and used the bakusai tenketsu, which tore, up the ground sending shrapnel everywhere injuring people and it didn't affect Ranma who walked through ground zero of the bakusai tenketsu, which made Ryoga back up when Akane saw Ranma walking towards Ryoga.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Akane shouted and grabbed her mallet and swung for Ranma who had his arm out stretched in Akane's direction and fired off a fireball towards her just like Majin Vegeta during the Buu saga.
"Pick up a weapon boy, I don't want this fight to end so soon." Ranma said as Ryoga charged at him and kissed the ground when he passed straight through Ranma.
"Coward." Ryoga shouted at Ranma.
"Then pick up a weapon, fight me and I'll end your life right here." Ranma said before sending another Amazon to meet her ancestors and looked at Ryoga as he picked up the nearest weapon and stood up before attacking Ranma.
"I'll be the one ending your life." Ryoga spat back as he swung wildly with the weapon, which Ranma simply blocked with Hadafang.
"Pitiful." Ranma said as he pressed on the attack tormenting Ryoga who was crudely blocking Ranma's attacks and swings wildly with the weapon in his hands when Ranma switched to holding Hadafang in one hand and pulled out a knife "let's up the pace a little bit." Ranma said and brought the knife into the fight.
"Curse you Saotome!" Ryoga shouted.
"I am not a Saotome, I am one of the heirs to Nifelheim." Ranma said as the battle raged around them.
"Hey, they're retreating!" Mara shouted when all the major players in the battle looked at Ranma and Ryoga fighting as the Amazons retreated.
"You do realize that I'm toying with you? If I wanted I could have killed you straight away." Ranma said as he pierced Ryoga's right side of the rib cage with the knife and pushed it even deeper before he broke the blade off leaving it inside of Ryoga, causing Ryoga to die a slow painful death.
"You have no honor." Ryoga spat at Ranma as he walked away.
"Says you, using your cursed form to sleep with Akane." Ranma replied as he dropped the handle of the knife to the floor and Ryoga charged at him and didn't see Ranma turn round and cut him in half. In his dying moments all he saw was Ranma walking away from the battlefield.
Back at the Phoenix and Musk camp
Ranma sat on the floor talking to Herb, Saffron and Mara about the battle.
"How many do you think we lost?" Ranma asked.
"Not as many as they did though.' Herb replied.
"People expect things." Mara added to the conversation.
"Like what?" Ranma asked.
"How should I know?" Mara replied.
"They won't commit themselves to another battle for a few days, time to retrieve the dead." Saffron said.
"So that gives me and Mara some time to attempt a rescue mission." Ranma said before he went to turn in for the night and Mara quickly followed him leaving Saffron and Herb alone.
"You get the feeling that he's going to do something severe?" Herb asked.
"You want an honest answer?" Saffron replied.
"Not really." Herb said.
Ranma and Mara walk back to their quarters.
"What do we do now?" Mara asked.
"We try to get Setsuna out of there tomorrow." Ranma replied.
"And how do you propose to do that?" Mara asked.
"Simple, mini forms and I have this." Ranma said as he pulled out a CD form somewhere on his person.
Authors note: R&R!