Well this is chapter 6. sheesh, took me long enough to get this chapter done and im still not completely happy with the fight scenes. Well I have decided that when shadow Ranma is in control she will simply be referred to as shadow. This chapter sets what I hope is the intro into the beginning of the larger fights, meaning Medusa and Myara will be targets of the alliance next, now that's gonna be a big fight, probably have to set aside a large chunk of a chapter just for what I have thought up for the fight with Myara. Also as a slight bit of info about the next chapter, Ryoga finally manages to return, with a few tricks up his sleeves, and his direction problem will finally get fixed.
As usual I own nothing of Ranma 1/2
OLOEOPIA: Shadow Ranma is somewhat strange, she is capable, capable of course doesnt mean for sure,of showing herself when Ranma falls too deeply into any dark emotion, rage, hatred, fear, etc, also she seems to show when ranma is close to dieing with no one there to save him. Unlike Ranma who doesnt remember anything the shadow does while shes awake, shadow knows everything that ranma knows and has a fairly quick temper when ranma is in danger.
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It was a dream. She was sure of that, knowing that she had gone to bed as a guy but waking in a strange hallway as a girl was a reason too believe that this was all a dream and had nothing to do with real life. But if that was true then why did she have the weird feeling that something big was happening and she just hadn't found out what it was? The hallway's walls looked to be made of dark obsidian stone that were covered in deep gouges that looked to have been made by large claws.
Things got weirder when she found a door that opened into a giant library stretching off into the distance and a seemingly younger version of herself, this one male, that was reading a scroll that Ranma recognized as being one she had found in pop's pack several weeks before. It was some kind of ki attack made by a man named Happosai but Ranma had only managed to blast herself across the room every time she tried to use it. The boy at the table didn't look up and Ranma retreated out into the hallway.
The trip through what Ranma was now supposing was a very weird dream was getting on her nerves until she came to another section of hallway that looked to be in the worst shape of them all. The stone walls were torn to shreds and near the end of the hallway there was a set of double doors made from steel, only the doors were in shreds on the floor. Sliding along the wall Ranma entered the room slowly to find that there was only a small light hanging in the center that left most of the room dark. The loud clanking of chains drew Ranma's attention to what she believed was the left wall.
Sitting at the edge of the darkness was a massive humanoid cat that was bound wrist, ankle, neck, and waist with massive chains that led back into the darkness. Shuddering in fear Ranma retreated from the cat towards the far side of the room only to bump into something else causing her to spin around hoping she wasn't about to see another cat creature. What she saw was the strangest thing she had seen since she had entered into this strange place that she was starting to think was starting to feel more and more real.
Her head was down and the slight rise and fall of her chest told Ranma that she was probably in some kind of deep sleep. She was taller than Ranma was coming in at five foot seven inches compared to Ranma's five foot three inches and seemed to be proportioned a little better overall than Ranma herself was. Her hair was a dark blood red with black highlights and she wore it free instead of binding it like Ranma liked to tie hers. The strange girl had claws longer than Ranma's and though, like Ranma, she didn't look muscled the martial artist had a feeling that this girl was stronger than her by quite a ways.
Ranma hesitated to touch the sleeping girl due to the manner of her restraint, like the cat she was bound in chains though several broken chains lay at her feet. Unlike the cat though the girl was almost covered in chains that seemed to drape her form to hold her in place even two small ones wrapped around a white furred wolf tail that the girl was sporting. Slowly though Ranma reached up and forward and placed her hand on the dark-skinned girls cheek hoping to learn something at least. Ranma gave a startled cry as the girls head jerked up and black eyes snapped open "NOW!" And Ranma's world fell away underneath her.
Waking with a start the pigtailed boy jumped to his feet and dashed for the nearest balcony that gave him a view out over the valley and allowed him to see in the direction Jusenkyo was. It didn't take more than a moment for him to understand why he had woken feeling like something big was happening due to the brilliant light that flared down in the valley. A large sphere of red energy rushed up into the sky and began to spin until it was a disk that let of streamers of energy that cascaded down to the ground and began to spin with the disk until a dome of red energy created a massive shield around Jusenkyo.
"Myara is fortifying her position due to the heightened demon attacks, it also gives her the chance to search in peace for a way to seal the breach created by the demon king." Saffron strode forward to glare out at the dome of energy.
"Can it be penetrated?" Ranma could feel the power output all the way from Jusenkyo and wondered how the dragon was capable of putting that much energy out on a constant basis.
"It's not her energy, its Jusenkyo's power so it would be vulnerable to other magic. Even though Jusenkyo formed from her innate powers flowing into the springs, the springs themselves gained their own kind of power over the years and would not give it up willingly." Saffron turned to look at the boy "It's been two weeks since the last major attack on the mountain due mainly to the demon kings forces being split trying to fight everyone at once. But the demon king has a bonus that we don't have, an unending supply of fighters because of his ability to mirror the grunts of his forces."
Both martial artists turned to look towards the exit of the valley as they heard the distant boom's and saw the flashes of battle. "They are fools to fight that way; it is a battle they cannot win."
EDGE OF TRIBES LAND AND BEGINNING OF CHINESE TERRITORY
2 HOURS AFTER DAWN
The roar of heavy caliber machine guns echoed from rocks and the rushing demon advance stumbled as the lesser numbers dropped making way for the larger version that also fell after sustained fire from the heavy fifty cal machine guns. A group of red armored demons broke the cover of the trees and charged the front lines only to be intercepted by a tank round that shattered the ground and threw their broken bodies in different directions.
"We need more support!" The commanding general stumbled as the ground shook from an explosion off to his left. "Air support if it is feasible!"
The soldiers let out a cheer as more and more of the demons were blasted apart due to the increasingly higher number of tanks that were rolling in to aid in the fighting. The demons may have been giving the soldiers trouble up to now but the soldiers now had tanks to back them up. The next wave of demons disappeared in a set of large explosions that tore up the demons and the ground they were rushing across.
The cheers and heightened morale were short lived as a beam of yellow energy rushed its way from the shadows of the forest edge and impacted a tank vaporizing the armor plating in the direct beam and turning the metal in a five foot radius around the hole into a molten state the tank exploded a second later. The loud clicking was the first sign that they had a new enemy and the exposure of that enemy a second later dropped the soldier's morale significantly. This enemy seemed to be flesh from the waist up with light orange skin and two arms ending in a single hooked claw instead of a hand, their head was just as strange as it looked to be human sized with a mop of dark greasy hair but the face, while human form, was nothing but a featureless mask of orange flesh. From the waist down the demon was metal, a type of red steel that had four jointed spider like legs with needle-sharp tips that allowed it to dig into rock and help it along as it moved towards the tanks. Set directly into the center of its chest was a yellow jewel; the reason for it being there became abundantly clear seconds later.
The jewel in the chest of the demon began to glow gaining brilliant light then let that light fly in a beam of energy that detonated another tank in a single shot. Fifty cal and heavier guns turned and opened up on the creature only to have a glowing shield appear flaring around it and protecting it from all the incoming fire from the soldiers. The shield showed no problems handling the firepower until the tanks turned on it and began to unload their payloads onto it. The first three rounds barely rocked the demon back and allowed the creature to blast another tank, but by the fifth the shield was growing duller and duller in its flares of light until the seventh round blasted through and tore the creature into small chunks.
The soldiers let out a cheer as they saw the other demons falter when the creature was destroyed and they renewed their assault until they began to hear clicks coming from all along the front lines. In one brilliant flash twelve tanks vanished from sight and the tank killers rushed from the forest to engage the enemies of their king.
PHOENIX MOUNTAIN
NEAR NOON
"We have little choice in the matter now." Saffron paced through the room then turned to look at the map covered table. "Myara has made her move and with the shield in place she doesn't need to worry about enemy movements within her staging ground. This will allow her to raise a force unimpeded by demons or Elgass's spiders."
"The release of Medusa will be dealt with by the musk, she is our problem." Herb stated glaring at the map and wondering if summoning more fighters from his father's kingdom would be prudent before attacking the witch.
"Don't be foolish boy! The snake witch is most probably allying with one of the major players which would give her a powerful advantage if you attacked her." Lotion glared at the dragon prince for a moment then turned back to the map "We should leave the dragon alone for now and concentrate our efforts on either closing the breach or defeating the demon king himself."
"Closing the breach is not possible." The phoenix god tapped the place in the amazon village that bore the portal. "The breach was created by the demon kings power therefore it's a part of his energy the only way to close it is to destroy the demon king himself. And that is impossible at our current power, to even the scores more I would need the Gekkaja. With the twin staff's of ascension, the staff of ice, and the staff of fire, the Kinjakan, my power would be greatly increased upon the astral plane where we would have to fight the demon king."
"Unfortunately the Gekkaja was stolen from Jusendo almost four thousand years ago and no one has ever found it." Kiima said frowning "The Phoenix Guard has spent many years searching for it but finding nothing, we believe that the thief may have hidden it somewhere in Jusenkyo or the nearby mountains…" Anything else that she would have stated was cut off as the entire mountain shook and a strange whistling cry echoed through the room.
The people in the room rushed to a wall that magically melted back to reveal a balcony with which they could look out over the valley and what they saw left them speechless. Striding free of the crimson dome of energy was a skeleton thirty feet tall wearing black rune engraved armor, and it was striding straight towards Phoenix mountain.
"So Myara decides that it's truly time to strike at us, that armor looks demonic in origin, most probably it was summoned into existence by the snake witch. Kiima rally the guard!" Saffron leapt from the balcony flying towards the monster with the Kinjakan in one hand, behind him the mountain came to life as people bolted for the exits and rushed towards the creature to try and save the mountain.
20 MINUTES LATER
Stone shattered as Ranma slammed through a boulder followed by Saffron as the massive skeleton tossed the two through the air. Herb cracked one of the leg bones of the massive skeleton only to have it heal immediately and launch a kick that was so fast the dragon prince couldn't dodge it.
"Why the heck is that thing so damn fast!" Ranma snarled as he pulled himself from a stream running from a crack in the mountain.
Turning Ranma saw the massive monster close its mouth again with a loud crunch letting twin streams of blood flow down its lower jaw. The thing had been eating warriors ever since it had arrived and not only Ranma had noticed that every time it did it's healing from injury seemed to increase as if it was using the life essences of the warriors to fuel its own power.
"THUNDERBOLT CUT!"
The slash of the Zanbatou ricocheted off of the shoulder guard of the armor and the skeleton managed to get in a strike that sent the girl flying. The large bone creature opened its mouth and blasted out a beam of red energy that threw the god-king through several trees and left him impaled on an ancient rock spike. Herb took to the air and flew over the creature to launch attacks at it from above giving Ranma his only sixth view of the dragon prince's flight technique. While Ranma knew he couldn't fly the technique finally gave him the insight he needed to finish what his subconscious had been working on for quite a while.
Ranma had known the abilities of ki for some time and though he had tried to master a ki technique that Genma had nearly killed himself trying to master at one time during their training he had always failed. He had found the technique when his father had left his pack lying around in the bunk room shared by several warriors, Ranma included, and Ranma had been trying for weeks to master it. The only problem was that Ranma had never really had someone to watch use their ki in an attack that Ranma really had the time to watch and Herb wouldn't teach Ranma how to use a ki attack. With his subconscious working overtime trying to figure it out and finally getting to see Herb's use of ki Ranma finally had something to go on.
Ranma did understand one thing though, the ki abilities he used seemed to be based on his emotions, something Herb didn't seem dependant on, which made his current emotion something important. The young martial artist brought both hands up in front of him, fingers spread and one hand set behind the other, he pushed his aura to its maximum and then shoved the energy into his hands. This time he made sure to leave himself some aura and keep the energy connected to his own aura so as to make sure it wouldn't detonate prematurely.
"Happo Star Blast!"
The star of crimson energy flashed upwards and impacted into the center of the creature's armor sending out a shockwave that nearly blew Herb from the air and caused Ranma to collapse after the use of almost all his energy. The Skeleton didn't wait for anyone to recover and snagged Ranma from were he lay on the ground believing that it could get rid of a powerful opponent quickly. Saffron had finally gotten himself free of the rock and fired a blast of flame that dispersed harmlessly across the armor plating of the creature, even the Kinjakan's ring had failed to do more than cut deep gashes in the armor.
The martial artist was tired and thus he was unable to break free of the skeletons grip as he was raised towards the things mouth and tossed inside. He could hear the shouts of others outside as they tried to damage the skeleton more and he realized he was going to die here unable to get free as the massive mouth started to sweep shut. Blood from already eaten warriors ran across the solid bone of the lower jaw, unlike a normal skull the lower jaw had a solid plate of bone where it would normally be open and the upper jaw was covered in needle sharp teeth.
To many emotions, rage at the death of people Ranma considered friends, hatred of the dragon that had summoned this creature, fear at his impending death, the emotions charged out of control. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna DIE! Ranma felt something cold splash him and looked down to see some of the blood had rushed to the side of the mouth he was in…it was just cold enough. "Not today." She spoke the words coldly as she swept a fist covered in black energy up and brought it down on the bottom of the skull with enough force to shatter bone and drop her from the skull. She kicked off of the armor and landed on a shoulder guard before leaping upwards.
The large skeleton swatted several fighters away and struck Kiima from the air turning its attention on the three fighters currently in the air.
"Flying Sword of the Dragon!"
The ki blade carved a trench near the temple of the skeleton causing it to roar in rage and strike at the dragon prince who was only saved by Saffron catching him before he could hit the mountain. Shadow peaked out her jump and began to fall slowly as she gathered energy sweeping her arm back and gathering a swirling mass of dark energy around it. She had to hand it to those amazons to invent a tornado attack capable of being used by any martial arts fighter of a certain caliber, the lucky thing for her was a perfect understanding of every attack Ranma had ever learned plus the few fuzzy indistinct memories of her own. This was a fusion of one of Ranma's attacks and something else she was sure she had seen somewhere.
"Shadow Dragon Dance!"
She gave a simple straight punch angled at the skeleton and six swirling masses of black energy burst from her arm arching outwards slightly they swept in and hammered the black armor, four against its chest and two against its knees the dragon headed tornados of black energy tore through the armor and shredded bone blasting the shattered wreck back against the mountain to fall into dust and bone shards. All except for the skull which slowly began to shift its form into a smaller version of the skeleton, at least until shadow landed and walked up to it raising her hand.
"Shadow Buster Shot!"
The black energy tore through the skull and reduced it to ash leaving everyone watching the demoness warily as she turned to watch everyone around her for a moment before the black eyes faded to yellow and Ranma collapsed unconscious.
Descriptions.
Happo Star Blast: The upgraded version of Happosai's firecracker attack, and the true attack that Happosai used on a training trip with Genma and Soun. Genma found the scroll for it buried in some of the masters old things and tried to master the technique only to almost blow himself up. The attack creates a star-like crimson energy bomb that detonates on contact with anything, even the ki user who threw it, thusly the technique has to be anchored to the wielders ki aura to stabilize the attack until the user wants to throw it.
Shadow Dragon Dance: Shadow Ranma's variation of a Hiryu Shoten Ha. She creates up to a maximum of six four foot wide tornados with dragon heads that can hit her opponent from any angle she wish's, even from behind them. The attack is energy intensive but because shadow Ranma's power rises as Ranma's does she gains the ability to last longer in fights and through out more powerful attacks. The dragons dance is a armor breaking attack meant to shatter armor and utterly destroy the flesh underneath, in this case it powdered the bones of the skeleton.
Gigas: Created in the first war of the gods over twelve billion years ago when the universe was still young these creatures were made in the trillions and outfitted with enchanted armor to be used as cannon fodder against the other godly creations. The skeletons were incapable of feeling pain and could be extremely powerful dependant upon their power level or the type of armor. The secret of their creation was lost but Myara was able to find six of the creatures hidden away in a stasis chamber and found a way to secret them away into a small pocket dimension. With the right armor the creatures would be invincible in the current day to the martial artists of the musk and phoenix mountain, fortunately for them said armor was all destroyed long ago and is impossible to recreate without a god-forge, of which the only remaining one is constantly guarded by a army fire giants imbued with the powers of the gods. Meaning Myara has a better chance of flying to moon as a normal dragon than getting her claws on the forge, essentially that means she doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell.