Sonic: Yo every body, Sonic here again, along with Knuckles and Shadow.
Knuckles:Hey.
Shadow:Whatever.
Sonic: Well everyone, here we are at the second chapter, I'd like to thank everyone for sticking with us.
Shadow: Congratulations, you have the ability to read through crap.
Sonic:Hey! It's not crap, personally I think it would be awesome if it got a really cool intro like that one thing does.
Shadow:Hmm… well I have to admit they do good intros.
Knuckles:Well lets get this over with. Disclaimer The Author does not own any of these properties, they belong to their respective owners, and I'd like to thank you guys for joining me in this torture, well anyway lets get this over with.
Shadow:And hopefully there will be some humor in this.
Chapter 2: Wha?
"Un huuh… Yeah sure… you're me…" humph "Well, I always thought I'd developed an immunity to insanity, or that the tomboy's cooking would be the kick starter for me imagining things and hearing voices." Ranma said.
Sigh"While your current level of sanity and intelligence is debatable, I can tell you one thing …I…AM…REAL!!" The voice said ending in a shout.
"Ok, ok, you're real, I get it." 'Note to self do not piss off imaginary voices.' was Ranma's response.
"I Heard that!!" The voice said angrily.
"What the ?!? How the heck could you hear that I didn't even say anything, and you're just a fake voice." Ranma said in shock.
"Ugh…How many times do I have to say this, First I am not Fake! And secondly I'm you!" The voice said angrily.
"Yeah sure you are. That mind reading trick was nice but it doesn't prove anything ya fake!" Ranma yelled out.
"Oh so you want proof, fine then I show you proof." The voice yelled back.
Ranma saw a stone wall erupt from the ground.
"Oh so all your going to do is just pull a stone wall out of the ground, real impressive-omf!" Was all that Ranma could say as he ran into the wall.
"Oook… that was weird." Ranma said dazed. "But it still doesn't prove anything!"
"Ok, fine then, how about this." The voice said evilly.
Ranma saw his hand rise of its own accord. "Huh… is this your best… this is so-ugh!"
Ranma said as his fist plunged it self into his stomach. "What th-Ahh" Ranma's other fist proceeded to sock him right in the face. "Ok this is- Ugh-Ahh-Gack-Umf-Oof- Why- Can't-I-Stop-Hitting- My - Self- Graah."
"Hah, hah, hah, hah, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, hah, hah, hah, hah." The voice laughed as Ranma continued to hit himself.
"All right that's enough!!" Ranma yelled. "If your so powerful and aren't an illusion then how about you get down here and prove it!"
"Sure, just one thing first." The voice said smugly.
Hmf "What ?!" Ranma said angrily.
"This." The voice said as Ranma hit himself once more.
"Oh… tha…that's just… low." Ranma said, as he fell down.
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Akane soaked in the warm waters of the furo her mind still going over what her mother had told them.
--------Earlier------
"So mom what did you want to tell us ?" Nabiki asked.
"Well what I'm about to tell you is very important, it's something that Kasumi knows about." She said.
'Hunh, Kasumi's known about it all this time and hasn't told us. Hmm… now this is something I gotta know, heh… maybe I'll be able to make some money off this little secret.' Nabiki thought as Akane simply sat there in wonder.
Taking a deep breath their mother opened her mouth and spoke. "You aren't human."
"Wha?" Nabiki and Akane said at the same time completely taken aback.
"Umm… could you run that by me again, I'm not sure I heard that right" Nabiki said incredulously.
"Yeah, Umm… is this a joke ?" Akane asked in disbelief.
"I a sure you two, this is not a joke." Kasumi said calmly.
"Ok… lets say we believe, if were not human, what are we then, aliens, mutants, monsters, what ?" Nabiki asked.
"You aren't any of those things, you're … well your…" Their Mother paused.
"Come on, say it mom, it's okay." Akane said.
"Well … umm…" Their mother continued to pause.
"Mother it is okay, they are old enough." Kasumi encouraged her.
Looking at Kasumi, their mother gained strength and said to them. "Your Kami."
"What ?!?" Both Akane and Kasumi said.
"Well not exactly Gods but, but you are god like beings." Their mother said, but noticed that neither of them were listening anymore.
"Hey mom why don't you spend the night with us, and we'll talk about this tomorrow." Kasumi said.
"Yeah, I'll meet you there ok." She said.
"Ok see you soon." Kasumi said.
-----Present-------
'Goddess.' The word ran through Akane's mind as she soaked in the furo's warm waters.
'I'm a freaking Goddess, I… I can't believe it, I'm a Goddess. Heh, I can't wait to rub it in Ranma's and the others faces. This is so awesome.' Akane thought excitedly. 'Ooh I wonder what I'll be able to do' Images of her self flying pulling off complex martial arts techniques, fighting off strong opponents while Ranma looked on in jealousy. She stood up and stepped out of the furo. "Yeah it'll be awesome" She said out loud, as she imagined fighting an imaginary opponent. Akane launched a couple of punches as the imaginary opponent forgetting where she was.
Splash
Akane promptly slipped on a bar of soap and fell back into the furo.
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Ranma woke. "God damn cheap shot, can't believe that stupid spirit would actually sink that low."
"So your finally awake."
Ranma got up immediately and looked around. "Ok you stupid voice, get down here so we can settle this." Ranma yelled out in anger. The feeling of two taps on his shoulder immediately made him turn around. "Ok are ya ready to settl-" He stopped mid-sentence as he looked at the spirit that claimed it was him. "Ok… now I'm sure you're a spirit cause that sure as hell ain't me, hell you don't even look like my girl side." Looking at her it was quite clear that she didn't look anything like his curse. "I mean you're to tall, hair color's completely wrong, and I thought a persons eyes were supposed to have the same color." Ranma said as he listed off the differences between the so called spirit and his curse form.
"Ugh… is that all ?" She said quickly getting sick of Ranma listing the ways she was not his curse. "And there is no way those things are real." He said, once again saying the wrong thing.
WHAM
"OWW! What the heck was that for ?" Ranma yelled at her.
"That was for being an jerk, and seriously do you ever think before you talk, jeez, I can't believe I turned into such a giant idiot." She said exasperatedly.
"And what's wrong with what I said ?" Ranma asked rubbing his cheek, 'Jeez she's more of a violent tomboy than Akane, and she punches harder.'
"Ok first of all." She said as she walked strait up to him and looked him straight in the eyes.
WHAM
"What the heck did you do that for, didn't you already hit me, you stupid tomboy."
Sigh. "I guess insulting people like that is the only way you can really make yourself feel better about your lack of intelligence and tact." She said rolling her eyes.
"Wait, did … you … just … call me an… idiot ?" Ranma asked, not sure as to how to respond to what he felt was an insult.
"No, I called you a martial artist whose father decided not to work a little harder so that along with excellent martial arts skills, his student could have decent intellect and some social skills." She said rolling her eyes.
"And that means what ?" Ranma asked still not sure if he was insulted, but pretty sure he had been.
"Yes Ranma I did call you an idiot." She said, completely annoyed by the fact that Ranma, was this slow, when it came to things other than martial arts. While Ranma had immediately began to glare, after she had confirmed she had called him an idiot.
"Ok so if you're through insulting me with how stupid you think I am, then could you kindly, get the heck out!!" Ranma said, completely fed up with her.
"Sorry but I'm not leaving, just because you want me to." She said, a smug smile on her face.
"Humph, why not, it is my mind after all." Ranma said angrily.
"Heh… That's where your wrong, it's my mind, and you are a part of me, not me being a part of you." She replied smirking.
Tch "Like I'm going to believe that." Ranma said.
"It doesn't matter if you believe it, it still doesn't change the fact that it's the truth." She said, her arms crossed and eyes closed, with a smirk on her face.
"Yeah, well…" Grrr. " Well, just get the heck out!" Ranma yelled, he had nothing to come back at her with so he was hoping that would get her out of his mind.
"Heh, I guess your mind must be tired out, I think I'll let you have some rest now, I'll wake you up when I feel like it, nighty night." She said, smirking.
"Hey! If you think I'm going to-" Ranma began to say as he fell down to the floor, completely asleep.
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Around a burned out camp fire, a figure began to stir.
"Mmm… It feels so good to be in control of my body again." She said as she got up and stretched her arms and legs. Looking around she took in the sight of the forest. 'Hmm… what to do, what to do?' She wondered as she began to walk around. 'Hmm… maybe I should go somewhere, get something to eat, let's see Akane hit me from over that direction so a city should be in that direction.' Hopping up into a tree she began to jump from branch to branch. 'Heh… while he may not have done much for me, I do have to admit he certainly kept my body in shape.' Speeding up her jumps, the figure soon disappeared into the forest.
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Akane yawned as she began to wake up. Groggily she got up, and got dressed in her jogging clothes and was soon doing her daily routine, allowing her mind to process the information she had received. Yesterday her mother had come back from the dead, her mother who had been dead for over ten years had come back from the dead, and had told her that she and her sisters were not human, they were goddesses.
'Man I'm glad Ranma isn't here right now, the last thing I need to deal with is him and his fiancées, or his rivals, although maybe I was a little bit hard on Ryoga, he ran away the moment I let him out, hmm… no. Still this whole thing about being goddess is still kinda unreal, I mean sure weird stuff does happen here but me being a goddess is sorta out there. I wonder what Ranma will say about this, heh he'd probably say something like … 'So you're a tomboy goddess now?' jeez I really wish I could talk about this. Oh I'm home.'
Stepping inside Akane called out. "Hey everyone I'm back." She got no reply. 'Huh… where is everyone' She wondered, her question was soon answered as she heard three voices chatting excitedly.
Walking to the foyer Akane stopped in the doorway as she saw her sisters and her mother talking. Looking at their faces she caught sight of Nabiki's face, on it though was some thing she thought she would never have seen, a look of pure surprise and shock, not the mock shock or surprise she saw on her sisters face when someone confronted her about one of her money making schemes, but pure true surprise and shock.
Immediately knowing that this was something she had to find out about Akane spoke up. "Hey I'm back." She said gaining the attention of everyone.
"Oh, Akane your back." Her mother said, a feeling of uneasiness to wrap around Akane. She couldn't put her finger on it but her mother sounded as though she was sad at her return, and her greeting sounded as though it was being forced. However this feeling was lost as Kasumi spoke to her.
"Akane it's good that you're here, we were just discussing some important things from yesterday." Kasumi said calmly.
"You mean when you told us that we were goddess, right ?" Akane asked.
"Yes Akane it's about that, you see, as we were telling Nabiki, since you are goddess you need to meet with a certain person, so that he can evaluate you." Kasumi said.
"What who would we have to meet ? I mean who could be more powerful than a goddess ?" Akane asked incredulously.
"Simple the almighty, also known as Kami-Sama, Akane." Kasumi said.
"K-K-K…K-Kami-Sama, you're not talking about the Kami-sama, right, the Ruler of the universe, right ? " Akane asked. 'This is way to much, I mean I just found out yesterday that I was a goddess, and now I'm going to meet the almighty, the most powerful person in the universe, th-this is just way to much.' Akane thought as her head began to spin.
"Yes, Akane, you and Nabiki have a meeting with Kami-Sama, at five in the afternoon today." Kasumi said, as though it happened everyday.
Akane now new why Nabiki was so shocked and surprised, going to meet Kami-sama was a very big event in a persons life, it could easily cause a person to go into shock or faint. 'Huh why is everything going dark ?' Was Akane's last thought as she fainted.
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YAWN
Stretching a figure took in the sights around her. She was here in the city now, and Ranma was still asleep in her mind, unfortunately one of the setbacks of having that part of her be asleep in her mind was that she had no one to talk to. She looked around. 'Hmm… I wonder where I am, Ranma's never been to this ward before. Man I need a place to think.'
Walking around She spotted a ramen shop. She immediately felt a shiver and a desire to get as far away from that place as possible, as she remembered all the trouble that had happened to a part of her because of three obsessed amazons. Calming herself down she looked at the sign and read it.
Leviathan's Cafe: quick hot food at affordable prices.
Sighing in relief the figure walked into the café, and found an empty table. Looking at the menu, she decided to order the soup of the day. Reclining in her seat, She let out a breath of relief. 'Hmm… what am I gonna do, I have enough money for the food but I don't have money for a place to stay, jeez what am I gonna do. Hmm… I guess I could always go back to the tendo dojo but… do I really want to live with those lunatics anymore ? They do have their good sides, but if I do that I'm gonna have to explain so much crap, and with the way they understand crap, they'll think I'm just an evil spirit that's possessed their precious Ranma, heh… that would be funny, me possessing myself. Although I guess I could solve that problem just by telling the truth, when Ranma is absorbed back into me, although, there might be another way. However that still doesn't change the fact that I need a place to stay, hmm… lets see, my choices are either, the dojo, a campsite, or I could try that temple that I saw on my way here, hmm… the temple is probably my best bet, besides, I might find something I want to learn. Oh, my soups here.' Taking her chopsticks the figure soon devoured her meal, and took off, quickly dashing through the streets, the figure soon left the city heading towards the forest she had just come from.
Dashing through the trees quickly the figure's trained eyes soon spotted the temple, and made her way to it. 'Yeah, this is the place, heh, wonder what's in here, well whatever it is maybe it'll be fun.' Walking into the temple the figure let her eye's wander. She took in the walls and the floor, noticing that they were kept up very well. There wasn't a single hole in the walls, although there were some papers on the wall, while the floor was nearly spotless. 'Hmm… someone's definitely living here, heh maybe they'll give me a good fight.' Continuing to walk around the temple the figures danger sense immediately went off.
Jumping backwards immediately she narrowly managed to avoid the attack. Quickly shifting into a battle stance the figure stared at her opponent. "Wow, I'm surprised an old man like you is the only person staying here, I thought there would have been more people here, especially to keep this place so clean." She said smirking.
"What makes, you so sure I'm alone ?" The old man asked, standing up.
"Oh simple, your aurora is the only one active, and then there were the sensing tags that you left on the wall, you probably wouldn't have needed so many of them if there had been more people around here." She said smirking.
"Hmm…oh well, guess I'll just have to make sure to hide the tags in better places next time, now young lady, tell me why you're here." The old man said, calmly dropping his battle stance.
"Huh, well I'm here to see if there were some things that might be interesting for me to learn." The figure said.
"Hmm… is that all." The old man said, staring intently at her, saying nothing following her moments. His staring soon unnerved the figure.
"Umm… Ok, could you stop staring, it's kind of creepy." She said.
"Oh, sorry, I was just trying to decide if I should let you stay here." He said, cupping his chin.
"Hmph, well if your going to try and eject me, you better be ready for a fight, now that I've looked around, I've seen a lot of things that I like, so I plan on staying." She said, cracking her knuckles.
"Hey, calm down, calm down, ok. It's fine for you to stay here…heh… I also know that you noticed the scrolls in the other rooms, it's fine for you to look at them, after all this temple was created to pass on knowledge, so yeah any I gotta get going, I'm currently in an auction." The old man said starting to walk down the hall.
"Huh, where the hell can you have an auction in this temple." She asked, dumbfounded.
"Internet." The old man yelled back to her. "Oh, and by the way, my names Geo."
"Wow, who would have thought." She said. Turning around she spotted a door, opening it she smiled at her luck. 'First door I try leads to the scroll room, perfect.' Walking up to a cache of scrolls, she took one out and quickly began reading.
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Akane ran for her life. An explosion narrowly missing her told her that she needed to run faster. 'Crap, crap, crap, crap!' Ran through her head as she continued running. 'Damnit, Ranma, where are you, I need you!' She screamed in her head. An explosion barely missed her and launched her up into the air.
WHAM
Akane felt the impact of the wall as she slammed into it. Managing to pull herself off of the wall she fell down to the ground and landed on her back with a hard thud. Pushing herself up Akane looked at the her pursuer, hovering in the air.
"Call me a pervert, huh! Well I'll show you, I was even ready to apologize. Do you know how often I apologize. Only once every ten century's, do you know how lucky you were, but your just a stupid b!tch so get ready, your about to find out why I'm called Alexander the thunder god!"
His words reminded her of how she got into this predicament in the first place.
--------A little bit earlier---------
"AAAAH! UHF!"
Akane felt nothing but pain as she fell to the ground. Getting up she slowly looked around. The landscape around her was nothing like she had expected it to be. Where she thought that there would be nothing but light blue skies, with soft sloping hills, covered with beautiful flowers and trees, there was nothing but a dusty bronze red sky. There were jagged mountains, and dead grass, the only thing she could take solace in was that the trees at least looked normal.
"Nabiki!!!" Akane shouted. Looking around she saw no sign of her sister. The jagged landscape and the echo of her voice were her only company.
"Crap, what do I do?" Akane asked herself. She was stuck in a new location, without any explanation, there wasn't any time for relaxation. 'Dammit, what the hell am I supposed to do?' continued to wonder about. 'Geez, Ranma where the hell are you when I need you?' She wondered, looking up into the sky. "Crap, it's gotten late so much faster." Looking into the distance, she saw a soft glow. 'Well guess that's where I need to go.' She thought, and started walking.
DING
The bell on top of the door rang as Akane entered the diner. Looking around her eyes widened in shock at what she saw. The diner was full of patrons but not the kind she was expecting. The diner was filled with zombies, monsters, succubus, along with a with normal people. Akane was as nervous as she had ever been as she looked all around her, she began to walk up to the counter. Walking towards the counter Akane bumped into a young man. Akane in her nervousness easily lost her footing sending both of them down with a crash.
As she laid there on top of the young man, who was beginning to get up and had to touch certain parts of her, her eyes went wide, however the fear and nervousness had disappeared, they had been quickly replaced with anger. 'How dare her do this her.' Ran through her thoughts as she quickly got up. She was bristling with anger as he got up. 'How dare this pervert touch her she was going to teach him a lesson.' "Hey! Listen I know that your probably pissing your pants in fear of me, but today I'm in a good mood so I guess I'll-" He wasn't able to finish that sentence however, as Akane deciding this lesson should be personal, forwent summoning her mallet, and in one fluid motion fueled by anger cocked back her arm, punched him straight in the jaw.
A wave of self-righteousness washed over Akane, as she was content with the punishment she had exacted on the pervert.
WHAM
Akane felt the wind rush out of her as she was blasted out of the diner by the man she had just exacted punishment on. Landing on her back, she painfully stood back up. Looking in front of her she felt the color drain from her face. Standing in front of her was the person she had just punched through a wall, and the etched on his face was a look of unbridled anger.
"What do you think you're do-" Akane was never able to get the rest of her question as she was blasted again by the man. Slamming into the wall, she stood up painfully and looked at her assailant once more. The pain from being hit twice by him easily told Akane that she was not anywhere close to his league. Looking around she saw that a number of the patrons had filed out to watch the fight that they were sure was going to happen. Looking back up at the man that was going to make sure she died, Akane looked around in desperation she cried out. "Hey, isn't somebody going to help me?!?!"
All of the patrons looked at each other, then to Akane's shock they all burst into laughter.
'Oh god, I am so screwed.' The thought ran through her head as she saw everyone laughing, anger filling her as she looked upward she saw him preparing a massive blast.
BOOM
Akane was running before she even knew what she was doing, her anger was completely gone replaced by a desire to continue to live. Blast after blast followed her as she ran, barely missing her each time. 'Dammit Ranma where are you?!?' She screamed inside her head as she ran darting a glace behind her she slowed down for a fraction of a second, however that fraction of a second was all that was needed as she was hit dead on by her pursuer's blast of fury.
---------Present---------
Akane watched as he raised his arm up above him as sphere of electricity formed. Bolts of electric energy arced out from its massive size destroying any thing they hit. Barely managing to stand up Akane looked at the sphere and what was surely to be her death.
As he launched the sphere at her time seemed to slow down as her mind ran through important events in her life in reverse. She soon came to a memory that she was not sure was her own. In it she saw three little girls, all of them seemed to have a carefree air about them. However two of them she felt closer to than the other. One had a bit of a cocky grin on her face that she had seen somewhere before but could not put her finger on it. The other one she felt even closer to than the one with that cocky grin, had a bit of an confidant smirk on her face, a little anger could be seen in her face, but it seemed to be there just for facial purpose rather than any actual anger. The third one had a curious smile on her face, but seemed to have very little idea of what was going on.
"Come on let's use that trick we learned." Cocky said
"Why?" Curious said.
"Because it's fun." Confidant said.
"Oh so where are we going?" Curious asked.
"Where ever we want." Cocky said.
"So are we ready?" Confidant asked.
"Yeah, but how do we do it again?" Curious asked.
"Easy, just say your safety word, when we get more control of our powers we won't need a safety word." Cocky answered.
"So are you to ready?" Confidant asked.
"Ready." Cocky said.
"Ready." Curious said
And as Confidant spoke those words Akane found herself speaking them as well.
"Twilight Transmission!"
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"Wakey, wakey."
"Ugrh" Ranma groaned as he began to wake up. 'Man what the hell happened?' He asked no one in particular, unfortunately for him someone decided to answer.
"Oh, nothing I just got bored learning so many new techniques."
"Huh!" Ranma turned around and saw the girl from earlier looking right at him.
"YOU!" Ranma yelled, and immediately jumped at her his fist ready to attack. However before he could land a punch on his opponent he found himself sprawled out on the ground his opponent sitting calmly on top of his back giving him a cocky smirk.
"Good morning to you to sunshine." She said to him.
"What the hell do you want !?!" Ranma asked vehemently, a look of anger on his face.
"Oh nothing, just wanted to talk to you." She said smugly.
"Oh well that's just fine, now get the hell out!!" Ranma replied viciously.
"Ugh… do we have to go through this again, I mean I can't be this thick headed can I ?"
She said curiously.
"Grrrr." Was the only response that Ranma could reply with.
"Hmm… Well if you won't attack me again I let you up, ok ?" She asked Ranma, she did not get an answer.
"You know I can just as easily do one of two things, do you wanna know ?" She asked Ranma once again didn't respond to her.
"Well the first one is…" She said with a cocky smirk on her face " I put you back to sleep, while the second one is… well lets just say you don't want to know what the second one is, but lets just say it's way worse than the first so which one do you want ?"
'Great, this stupid… thing is gonna do something to me again, hmm… I need to trick her, first things first I need to get out from under her.' Ranma thought.
" Wow it's a great thing I can read you like a book isn't it." She said a knowing smile on her face.
'Dammit, I forgot this thing can read thoughts, well if you can read thoughts then read this I won't attack you.' Ranma thought.
"Okay good." She said getting off of him.
Standing up Ranma looked at her for a few moments, wringing his hands. As soon as he stopped wringing them Ranma launched into another attack, smirking at his intelligence, 'I never said how long I wouldn't attack her.'
In one quick fluid motion, she took a step backwards as he flung his fist forward, bent backwards a little, and grabbed his out stretched fist, bringing it downward she flipped him over causing him to land on his back. With a knowing smirk on her face she looked down at him. "You didn't actually think I was stupid enough to fall for something like that now, did you."
"Well I could always hope, especially since I really don't want you in my head." Ranma said angrily.
"Ugh… do we have to go through this again, I already told you your apart of me, and this is my mind not yours." She said exasperatedly.
"Oh yeah then why do I look like me instead of you, you stupid spirit ?" Ranma said.
"Simple, because I like you that way, but if you want me change your appearance well…."
"See you can't do it can you." Ranma said, standing up. 'Huh, what was that jiggle.'
Looking downward Ranma saw that he had been changed into his cursed form.
"What the ?!?" Ranma jumped back. "But… but… but I didn't even think about it, and there… there… there wasn't even any water, besides this all in my mind."
"Umm… maybe that's because this is my mind, you stupid idiot." She said. However as she looked at him she saw that Ranma was not paying attention to her as, Ranma-chan currently had her eyes closed and continuously said "I'm male, I'm uncursed…"
Quickly becoming fed up with Ranma-chan's actions she decided to stop them. "You know, I could have made you look much different."
Ranma-chan's attention immediately snapped towards her. "Ugh will you shut up!! This is all your fault." Ranma-chan said, but then noticed that she wasn't as short, looking down at herself Ranma found that she was now her opponent's twin.
"Argh… quit doing that!" Ranma screamed at her twin.
Her twin sighed tiredly. "You know what, I'm tired, I'm going to get some sleep."
And with that disappeared.
"Hey, get back-"
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"Here!" Ranma said as his arm lunged out to grab her, however no one was there. Looking around he saw that he was now in room with a large amount of scrolls.
"Dammit! I missed her." Ranma cursed. 'Hey wait a minute, I'm not in that weird place anymore, yes!' Ranma jumped up 'Hunh, wait that… that didn't feel right, oh please no…' Looking downward at … his… body Ranma found proof that his fears were grounded. "Crap… crap… crap… I need to find a mirror." Running out of the room Ranma looked at the hallway with multiple doors on each side. "Crap, where the hell is a mirror!" He shouted, and surprisingly got an answer.
"There's one in the bathroom second door on your left now be quiet."
Deciding not to question his good luck, Ranma quickly took the advice and ran to the bathroom. Closing his eyes as he stopped in front of the mirror, turning to face the mirror his eyes still closed Ranma prepared himself for what he was sure he was going to find. Slowly opening one eye, both of Ranma eyes shot open, the image in the mirror was not his normal one, or the cursed one that he had grudgingly come to accept, no it was the image of something that had quickly jumped up his list of people to dislike, not as high as the old freak, but not that low either.
"Dammit" Ranma cursed. 'Ok, clam down, there has to be a way to beat this, after all there's a way to beat that damned curse.' Gently grabbing … his head, Ranma leaned back against the sink, his brow furrowed in concentration. After a few moments he sighed in exasperation, he could come up with no ideas except one. "Well hopefully this will act just like the damn curse."
Turning on the hot water facet Ranma grabbed a cup from the side of the sink, letting it fill up to an acceptable amount. Once through he took the cup and took a deep breath, dumping it over himself, Ranma looked downward at himself, there was no change. 'Dammit, maybe… maybe it wasn't hot enough, or… or… or maybe I need more.' Looking behind himself Ranma quickly found the furo, and filled it with hot water. After fifteen minutes he decided that the water was hot enough. Jumping in he stayed under water for a full three minutes before coming up for air.
He knew that the water was boiling hot but thanks to the phoenix pill all he felt was nice warm slightly higher than body temperature water.
'Dammit, it didn't work…' was the thought that ran through Ranma's head as he contemplated the failure of his best shot, 'Now what was he going to do ?' was the question that planted it's self in his mind. 'Let's see I could go back to the dojo, the old ghoul might have an idea of how to cure me, but… I don't even know where to go? And then there's the problem of that stupid spirit taking over me again and… dammit, she seems a lot like Nabiki, she'll probably have a way to screw me over and come out on top. Then there's my luck, if I go back right now something will happen to make thing even worse.'
WHAM
"DAMMIT!!!" Ranma shouted as he ran over the available options in his head. "I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. Ugh. Why is my life always like this!"
WHAM "IT'S" WHAM "NOT" WHAM "FAIR!!!!" Ranma shouted, punching into the wall again and again, with enough force to shake the walls.
"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing, I don't mind you training here, but don't destroy the Temple!!" Geo said.
"Well excuse me, but you probably wouldn't be to happy if you were taken over by an evil spirit, that's probably going to make your crappy life even crappier, now would you." Ranma said angrily.
"Hunh, when did that happen, I didn't sense any evil spirits in your body when I talked to you before." Geo said.
"Crap she can hide herself that well, great now she's definitely dangerous." Ranma said to himself.
Geo looked at the teenager that had just gotten through putting three wholes in his wall with her fist. When she had first came he thought of her an ok person, who wouldn't' cause him to much trouble, now though he was thinking that maybe he had been to quick to accept her, after all he could sense no evil spirits with in her, and her sudden switch in personality is a bit disconcerting but… then again even he had to admit that there were spirits which were very good at concealing themselves, and looking at her, he could tell that if she was possessed by an evil spirit he better do something, after all those techniques could really cause some trouble.
Geo's mind considered all of that and came up with one solution, taking a deep breath he spoke.
"Listen kid. While I doubt you actually have an evil spirit, there is a way we can check and get rid of it if there is one."
"What you have a way of getting rid of this stupid spirit ?!?" Ranma said quickly grabbing him by the collar and lifting him up.
"Yeah, after all this is a temple, just give me a few minutes to get things together." 'Holy crap, she's strong, jeez it's a good thing that I didn't fight her before, I wouldn't have been able to take her.'
"Well you see…" Geo began as he explained to a very interested Ranma about how he could remove foreign spirits, or things close to them form a person.
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"Haaaah" Nabiki sighed relaxed on her bed. She had gotten back from her meeting with… the big guy. "Why in the world did he ask me to think of him like that, maybe it's his sense of humor." Nabiki shuddered as she contemplated what could possibly make him smile like that. "Jeez, his smile really creeped me out, dammit, why couldn't he just say something like, stop being so greedy, give to charity, stop black mailing people. Nooo he had to say keep an eye on those two. The only two he could be mentioning are Ranma and Akane. I really don't want to think about who else he could mean. And of course Ranma would be a part of this to, hmm, sometimes it's kind of funny, things don't really seem to happen with out those two somehow being involved. Hmmm, keep an eye on those two huh, jeez this is giving me a really bad feeling, after all with those two, anything's possible. Well hopefully I'll be able to get some laughs out of this.'
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH" WHAM!
'Hmm sounds like my dear little sister is back. I wonder what she was told.' Getting up she headed down the stairs and soon found her little sister sitting down breathing hard.
"Heh… what happened, did you get into a real fight." Nabiki said jokingly.
"Ya know something Nabiki, I've nearly been killed today, and had no help, so excuse me if I'm not in a good mood!" Akane said angrily, and quickly headed towards her room.
"Jeez, is she angry, heh she must not have liked what the big guy told her huh, sis." Nabiki said.
"Oh my, I hope not." Kasumi said.
Flap.
"Huh, hey girls, what's this?" Their mother asked as she walked into the room a piece of paper that was on the table.
"Oh, hey mom, what's what? " Nabiki asked.
"This piece of… hey this has Kami-sama's seal on it!" Their mother said.
"What !?" They both asked in shock.
"Yeah." She answered.
"Let me see it." Nabiki said taking the paper out of her mother's hands.
Reading it quickly Nabiki's eye's widened.
"What does it say Nabiki ?" Kasumi asked.
"Well according to this, Akane has been assigned to be an omni-detective, and she's to be trained, her trainer's going to be here in one week." Nabiki said.
"Wow, that's good for her then, isn't it." Kasumi said with a smile on her face.
"Yeah sis, it means that Akane is getting a really important assignment, heh, I'm even jealous." Nabiki said quickly. I'm gonna go take a bath right now." She said leaving the room. As she started up the stairs however her face began to darken. 'Great, just great Akane, you just had to be assigned to the most dangerous and suicidal job ever." Her face continued to darken as she thought about how often the supernatural included Ranma. "Then there's fact that Ranma's inevitably going to be involved, and with our luck Ranma will probably turn out to be a demon or something just as dangerous." Suddenly it clicked for her, why he was smiling. "Great, I'm supposed keep an eye on them, that mean's I'm supposed to follow them… crap I hate to say it but if my guess is correct I might be better off taking some lessons from whoever's going to train Akane. Thanks a lot big guy." She said exasperatedly knowing that a very bumpy, and probably profitless time was coming.
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Ranma looked around, the room was large and had a very intricate design on the floor, in the center was a circle with a symbol in it.
"Ok, you'll need to stand in the center on the symbol ok." Geo said.
"Ok, why?" Ranma asked him back, something in the back of his head was bothering him, and making him feel edgy. 'Jeez why am I so worried, this is going to get rid of that stupid spirit and bring me back to normal.' As he thought of what normal meant for him his face began to darken. 'Well that normal is better than what's going to happen if I go back to the dojo right now, there's no telling when that thing will wake up or how far away I am from the dojo right now, and when every one else finds out I'm going to be in so much trouble. Besides this is the first bit of good-' Ranma stopped cold as he thought about it this was good luck, and good luck with him usually meant that there was some bad things ahead for him. 'Crap why didn't I see this… calm down Ranma you're getting paranoid again, nothing to bad will happen, at best which isn't going to happen, I'll be free of this spirit and nothing will go wrong. At worst, which probably will happen, this won't work, or this spirit will be given a separate body, and with my luck, it will either become a rival, or pops will probably find a way to get it engaged to me. Oh well with my karma it'll happen whether I want it to or not, hmm maybe going along with it will give me some good karma.'
"Umm… were you listening ?" Geo asked.
"Uhhhh… yeah." Ranma answered having been brought back to reality by the question.
"No, you weren't, ok here's the run down, you need to go stand on the symbol. The symbol stands for release, it will allow me to channel my spiritual mana around you in a vortex to cause the foreign spirit or whatever is close to one to release its hold on you ok." Geo explained.
"Ok, but just incase what's gonna happen to the thing that's going to leave me ?" Ranma asked.
"Why do you wanna know, do you like the spirit ?" Geo said, a smirk growing on his face.
"What, of course not, I just want to make sure it gets it's just desserts." Ranma answered feeling stupid about his answer to the question.
"Well if it's a spirit then it will be sent to the great beyond or whatever happens when you die…" Geo said trailing off.
"And if it isn't a spirit ?" Ranma asked.
"Well…it'll just cease to exist." Geo said solemnly.
"Well are you ready ?" Ranma asked standing in the center of the design on top of the symbol.
"Yeah." Geo answered.
"Ok, then lets do this." Ranma told him.
Clasping his hands together Geo began to chant.
"Spirits of light, spirits of darkness in all things they exist. Spirits please hear my plea. Release the spirit bound to a body not of its own. Free the spirit, let it run once more. Spirits of light, spirits of darkness, I implore release the spirit from its foreign vessel, let it be born again, anew to the world. Spirits I beseech you let this spirit be freed unto.. The.. COSMOS!!!"
Slamming his hands down onto the floor, the diagram shined with light. The air in the room began to swirl around whipping Ranma's hair around him. Faster and faster the air swirled soon creating a barrier around him. He could see nothing through the barrier as it spun wildly, it was so loud that he could barely hear any thing. Looking downward he saw that he was now looking like himself, but what caught his eye was the fact that the floor had changed it now showed the spirit, its arms crossed over its eyes closed, with its face an image of peace and rest.
Looking upwards back at the barrier the wind had created Ranma's mouth opened in shock. In front of him up on the barrier were images, they were fuzzy at first and hard to see but they became clearer and clearer. The images they projected were of his life. They showed him fighting, training, becoming stronger and better, developing techniques, and skills that would save his life. They showed him his fights, against the dragon prince Herb, against the Phoenix king Saffron, against Taro, his fights against Kirin and his cronies. These images and more appear in front of him and shattered into glowing dust as they were swept up into the whirlwind.
New images now appeared, one of him getting his jusenko curse, coming to the Tendo dojo, meeting and beating Xain pu for the first time, his engagement to Akane, meeting kuno when he first went to furikan, meeting Ryoga at the boys junior high, meeting kodachi when she first tried to attack Akane, meeting Ukyou at furikan, meeting the old ghoul, then meeting the old freak for the first time, of Genma preparing the pit for the cat-fist training. These images shattered into dust just like the images before and were swept up into the whirlwind.
A third set of images soon appeared on the whirlwind. They only showed the people Ranma had met, they showed everyone standing. Looking at them he knew something was wrong he couldn't recall the names of any of them, even the man he just met today one by one each image shattered into sparkling dust and was swept up by the whirlwind. Looking at the whirlwind he saw the dust that sparkled. The dust of his adventures, of the people he had met, of his memories, of the things that made him, him. The dust began to dull, to sparkle less and less as it was whirled around. Suddenly it hit him, it was something that he had never considered, but it was the only explanation. She was right about him, and now that he had tried to remove her from her body he was being wiped out. Everything about him was disappearing, his skills, his mind, everything that was him was disappearing. Looking at the dust, the dust that was his memories, his mind, his life, his mind labored to come up with an idea to survive.
"shit… Shit… SHIT!! This wasn't supposed to happen! I wasn't supposed to be the spirit she was!" He screamed.
His head whipping back and forth frantically, Ranma struggled to come up with a way to survive.
'Wait, the dust, all the images were of my life, maybe if I can get them back I can survive this.' Ranma thought. It didn't really have any basis, and he wasn't sure if it would make things worse, but it was the only shot at survival he had and he would be damned if he didn't take it. Looking up he searched for the dust that was his life, his eyes darted about frantically searching for the glow, and sparkle of his memories. He could see nothing becoming more and more desperate he looked around more and more.
"Dammit, where the hell is it, I could see them fine just a minu- wait there!" Ranma said, as his eyes spotted the faint glow of what he was sure to be his chance at life. Running forward Ranma jumped at it stretching his arm in an attempt to grab it.
Ranma's eyes widened as he saw his hand pass right through the dust. Ranma brought both hands up to his face his fear growing. His hands had just become faint outlines, he could see through them with ease looking downward his fear grew exponentially his lower body was just a faint outline and the entire floor had become one dark mass, looking up once more he saw a faint glow even weaker than before.
Ranma jumped towards the faint glow, but fell flat on the ground. He pulled himself up and was met with another shock, he was sinking, the black mass was pulling him in. He tried to raise his hands but the black mass had attached itself to him and he was sinking even faster. With a great effort he managed to stand up, but he was continuing to sink. He tried once more to grab the near dead sparkle of light and was shocked as his hand had disappeared. He had now sunk up to his neck. Making his face look straight up Ranma saw the last bit of dust lose its glow as he made one last reach to grab it.
"no… nooo… No…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…"
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Sonic: Whoa.
Knuckles: Dude.
Shadow: Jeez.
Sliver: Umm… I know I'm new here but isn't this supposed to be funny.
Sonic: Yeah, it is, but that…
Knuckles: That was just dark.
Shadow: Jeez, that was… I don't maybe a fate worse than death, I mean being wiped out of existence.
Sonic: Oh come on shadow, it's not like this is the end of the fic, I mean there's still another chapter on the way.
Sliver: Well lets get off this dark side and look at one of the other fics the author is writing or planning on writing.
Knuckles: Yeah… Sonic!
Sonic: It says here that it's going to be a crossover the code is lh/amg.
Sliver: Well then get it out here.
Shadow: Oh and to all the people who read this the author says Thank You.
Shadow, Sliver, Knuckles, Sonic: Thank you and good night everyone.