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Ranko's Journey

Chapter 2

As soon as she got outside she ran down the side ally and jumped to the roof. Peaking out over the edge she waited. She waited fifteen minutes and the green haired sorceress came out. She still followed the code of the martial artist, the code that said that she must protect the weak and fight evil, and the code would not allow her to leave a demon summoner alone.

Following along the roof tops she watched the woman walk at an unhurried pace to an unknown direction.

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Setsuna walked calmly down the street but inside she was cursing.

She wanted to transform and transport away but she could sense someone following her and she did not want to show off her secret identity.

'Who the hell was that girl' as far as she knew the only Saotome that was supposed to be that good was a boy called Ranma. 'And who the hell summoned a chaos demon.'

The truth was she was more worried about the fact that there must be a chaos cult, a fairly powerful one considering the power of that demon, and that she knew nothing about it. She was supposed to be protecting the world from that sort of thing.

That was when a figure stepped out in front of her.

"Hello Pluto" said an inhuman voice. "it's been awhile."

Looking at his face she saw that a human face. An obviously possessed human.

"Sorry don't recognize you, I've killed so many demons their faces all blur together." she said flippantly.

Laughing it smiled, it was not a pretty sight.

"Come now don't you remember me, I'm Bel'kor."

Setsuna's breath caught. Bel'kor was the most powerful Demon Lord. Favoured champion of the Chaos gods and one hell of a jerk.

"What do you want," Her mouth suddenly very dry.

Two more figures came out behind her.

"I know that the other sailors have been reborn I want to know their identities."

"You don't actually expect me to tell you so they can be killed do you!"

"We don't want to kill them my dear. We want to let them live."

"WHAT!"

"Yes we want to teach them about the glories of Chaos Gods and help spread their word."

"Your insane if you believe that I would help you."

Each of the figures behind her put a clawed hand on her shoulder. "No I didn't think that you would cooperate with me so we are going to take you with us and re-educate you to our way of thinking."

'Nooo', with the clawed hands holding her arms she couldn't reach for her transformation pen. She couldn't let these…these…things take her she needed to get away so she could transform.

Just as she thought that there was a hiss of air behind her followed buy a small explosion and the hands holding her burst into black flames. She quickly dived to the side ripping the claws off at the same time.

Looking back to were she was just standing she saw two demons whose arms ended at their elbows. That was when a distortion of air with the same hiss that she heard before came down from the rooftop hitting one of the demons in the neck and the other in the chest. Passing right threw them it exploded against the ground.

Following the blast was Ranko landing with the black hell fire burning bodies between her and Bel'kor. Her hands she saw with surprise were glowing yellow.

"Hello demon, hope your done sightseeing 'cause I'm sending you back to Hell"

Before he could say any thing she yelled "MOKO TAKABISHA" and let fly a huge blast of golden energy at him. The blast burst right through his chest leaving a hole that spilled no blood.

The body fell but did not die, it was she knew already dead. "It look like you have a protector Pluto. I'll be back for you." With that the body burst into flames but this time the fire was natural and soon turned the body to ash.

That was when Ranko turned towards her and asked, "are you alright."

Her mouth still a little dry she just nodded.

"Then come on, it looks like you need a little help."

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Two o'clock in the morning found the two in a all night coffee shop sitting in the corner. They were the only customers.

Sipping her tea Ranko asked "Who are these sailors that he was after?"

Looking into her coffee Setsuna was debating on how much she could tell the girl. She knew that the legendary Ranma Saotome's word was good as gold but she had never heard of Ranko Saotome.

"I can see you don't trust me so how about I tell you a little about myself." she said. "First off have you ever heard of Jusenkyo?"

"The cursed spring?" she said in surprise. At ' Ranko's nod, "yes I have."

"Well that makes this easier, you see I was born as Ranma Saotome and about a year and a half ago my father took me to the grounds for training. We ignored the warnings of the guide and started sparing across the bamboo polls. I got a lucky shot in and hit him into one of the springs. That is when out popped a Giant Panda. Needless to say I was shocked, to shocked to dodge the attack that the panda threw at me and I flew threw the air right into the spring of drowned girl."

She then proceeded to tell her about the event that led up to her separation from Ranma and how she is still the same person as Ranma at least until they were separated. Ranko said it because she knew what Ranma's reputation with his honour was like and that was her reputation was should be to.

Setsuna didn't know if she was still in shock or she just craved a sympathetic ear after so many lonely years but she told him every thing. About the Silver Millennium, the war with Beryl how the Scouts were sent into the future and that they were recently reborn. Then she told her about herself, that she was the only survivor, and that she was the guardian of the time gates.

"Who was it that tried to capture you and what does he want with these Scouts?"

"That was Bel'kor, He is the favoured champion of the Chaos gods. He wants to corrupt their minds so that they use their power to do his bidding"

"Chaos gods?"

"They are evil gods from another dimension, Chaos. There are countless minor deities but they are all controlled buy four beings of great power.

"Korne is the God of Blood and War, his followers collect skulls for his throne and spill as much blood as they can in his honour. They hate magic with a passion.

"Nurgle is the God of Disease and rot, his followers are so riddled with infection and sickness that they feel no pain.

"Slanesh is the God of Dark Pleasure, His followers believe that if it feels good then do it and nothing is wrong except to go against their god.

"and finally Tzeench, the god of Change, of all the factions Tzeench has the greatest power over magic."

"And witch one does Bel'kor follow?"

"All of them, he is the favoured champion of all of them."

"Well that sucks, what did he mean by the fact that he will be back? I mean I killed him right?"

"No. What you saw was his mind controlling a dead body. He probably does not have the power yet to enter our dimension as the more powerful the demon, the more power it takes to bring them across. That black fire that burns their bodies is the release of the energy that keeps them here. It also burns what passes for their soul and prevents them from being brought across again for at least one thousand years."

"Well then, it looks like you need protection. At least until this cult is destroyed."

"I can't ask you to do this. You could be killed and it isn't your fight."

Ranko looked at her and gathered her thoughts. "Ever since I left home I have been looking for who I am. I am no longer Ranma as I had been for Seventeen years. Ranma is here and he has to live his own life. I am now Ranko. Your cause and responsibility is the welfare of this entire planet. You have told me that you have spent thousands of years guarding the human race. I can't even fathom the dedication it takes to do that. I can think no greater cause to take up. Up until this point in my short four months of existence I have been just wondering aimlessly. I mean look at me, I have been fighting in underground pit-fights just to make money. This is exactly what I have been looking for in my life. A cause that is right and that I can throw my entire being behind. Not only do I want to help you, I need to help you. The code that I live buy will allow nothing but for me to do every thing that I can to help. I have the power and skills, that makes it my duty to do all that I can."

Setsuna was silent. She had not heard such a impassioned speech that came strait from the heart in a long time. Not since her Queen all those millennia ago. She did the only thing that she could. She accepted.

TBC

A.N.

Well that pretty much sets up the story. So what do you think. Please review. If you don't I will just think you are my awesome writing skills and can't express in words how good the story is. I know that isn't true so tell me please. This is like the first story I have tried to write since Creative writing in School. Please review