Brothers of Old
I'm back with another action packed chapter so enjoy!)
Chapter 17: Fight on!
Tsumi's fist made contact with Ku Longs staff which sent her several meters into the air. Tsumi looked at the girls who understood what to do and ran in to the forest. Behind trees, the girls found their henshin pens and transformed. Back in the field, Kyo, a.k.a Tsumi, was kicking Ku Long like a rag doll.
"Ha ha ha ha, so is this all the big bad Joketsuzoku warrior and their 3000 old martial arts techniques has to give? Your so called traditions are worth shit you ancient artifact!" Tsumi taunted. Suddenly, he felt his danger sense go off and rolled to the side in time to dodge an enraged Xian Pu's attack.
"Stupid male no insult great tradition of Joketsuzoku! Xian Pu put insolent male in rightful place!" Xian Pu declared as she charged in with blinding rage.
"No child! Don't attack with your judgment clouded!" Ku Long shouted on to deaf ear as the enraged Amazon continued her attack on Tsumi.
"Xian Pu here to collect husband! Great-grandmother, go get airen while I punish insolent male." She said again as her bonbori smashed into a tree where Tsumi was previously standing in front of. Of course, Ku Long just didn't stand around. She knew her great granddaughter didn't stand a chance against this mysterious creature. She was pretty much torn between helping her great granddaughter and kidnapping Ranma. She decided Xian Pu was smart enough to run after she "retrieved" her husband. So the matriarch decided to go after Ranma. She was about to reach him when a scythe came swinging toward her. She dodged it by a few centimeters.
"You're not taking big brother away from us you mean old lady!" Ku Long looked to see her worst nightmare come true. Her ancient ancestor's charges, the warriors of the moon. But this wasn't her worry, it was the fact that the warrior that represents the star of destruction was alive and reincarnated.
"For using lowly methods and trying to force someone to do something against their will, I sailor Mars."
"Jupiter"
"Saturn"
"Venus"
"Uranus"
"Neptune"
"Mercury"
"And Pluto, in the name of the moon, will punish you!"
Ku Long stared at the girls then started to laugh, "I've read in our old scriptures that our ancestor's charges had a weird battle cry, but this is most absurd!"
"Say whatever you want but Ranma is under our protection so your laws on the kiss of marriage and death are now void on him!" Pluto stated.
"I'm sorry impudent child but he is too valuable to the tribe that I must go against our laws in this case. Now hand son-in-law over." Ku Long said with authority in her voice.
"Over my dead body! Eat this! Silence Glaive surprise!" Saturn shouted as she lunged at her opponent.
Mean while, over with Mu Tse (as others have corrected me on.)
"Oh, Shampoo! I finally found you!" Mu Tse said as he cried a waterfall and hugged what he thought was her… in actuality, he was holding on to a wild raccoon with what seemed to be rabies.
Back to the open field
Tsumi was now getting tired of this insolent girls antics. Seriously, he could read her moves almost as if the already happened and was on yesterday's news report.
"I'm getting tired of this weakling." Tsumi said angering Xian Pu more.
"Insolent male! Learn your place!" she continued her barrage of attacks.
"Okay, let me make this clear," Tsumi punched Xian in the gut, "First, this isn't your backwater toilet of a village so your rules don't apply," Next he grabbed her face, "Second, Your in Japan now where males are priority and women are getting their rightful laces as equals here," then he slammed her head into the ground, "Third, you and everyone else has used, abused, and manipulated my brother for a long while and I'm sick and tired of you stupid women chasing after him and demanding he do things like a slave! Finally, in this country, it is YOU who needs to learn your place in society you insolent female!" Tsumi grabbed her by her hair and lifted her up. He then continued on to kick her into the air, where he soon followed by performing a ki-jump. Once he was at the same height, he started to open a barrage of punches and kicks with so much momentum he was pretty much using her an a platform to keep himself from falling faster and her slower. As they were about to reach the ground, Tsumi put his back and her upside down in the same position. He reached over his back and grabbed her by the ankles. He started to spin ad continued until they looked like a full circle. The landing was soon upon them. As they were a few feet off the ground Tsumi, with the enormous amount of momentum behind it, threw Xian Pu in Contact with the ground leaving a good sized crater where she landed.
"Your lucky your great grandmother taught you at least to use your ki to protect against most of those blows," Tsumi said as he stood up and jumped out of the crater, "But you still will need to get serious medical attention, because those blows were meant to kill you out right."
Tsumi soon rushed to help the others who seemed to have drifted off to another part of the area.
With the others
"Mercury, Pass!" Mars said as she tossed the still paralyzed Ranma to Mercury.
"Stop this foolishness and hand over the boy!" Ku Long commanded as she knocked Mars in the chest with her staff.
'Damn, this old hags fast!' thought the sailor senshi as they ran as fast as they could whilst they fought the ancient warrior of the Joketsuzoku.
This continued on for a while until most of the senshi were out of commission.
"Now, impudent child, hand over soon-in-law to me right now." Ku Long said as she pointed the end of the staff at Saturn who was standing in front of Ranma.
"I won't give him to you!" she said courageously as she charged at Ku Long.
"Hn. How foolish." Ku Long dodged as struck Saturn… or at least she thought. Her staff went through Saturn.
"An after image." The matriarch looked around her. She then looked up to see Ranma carrying Saturn bridal style up on a high branch of a tree.
"Long time no see ya old ghoul! Thanks to them giving me some time to recover, I'm back in action," Ranma looked at Saturn worriedly then scanned the area to see the others bruised and battered from trying to keep him safe.
"Old ghoul, did you do this?" Ranma asked through gritted teeth.
"They were in the way, obstacles if you will, and obstacles are for destroying." Ku Long replied.
"I told you once before that I won't marry Xian Pu or join your fucked up tribe. I didn't do anything before because I didn't think yiou would go as far as injuring anyone horribly," Ranma said looking up, his eyes filled with anger and primal power, "But you have just gone past that line and hurt my true friends? I'll tear you apart like I did with Saffron!"
Ranma set Saturn down on the branch and jumped off. Ranma landed like a cat and cracked his fist.
"I'll show you the true power of the neko-ken." Ranma said as his fist glowed with ambient ki before it morphed itself into three distinct claws and his pupils became slits.
Ku Long's eyes widened as Ranma's ki spiked exponentially and it now felt more feral.
That was when Tsumi came back.
"Well now, don't start the festivities without me bro." he cracked his knuckles.
Ranma looked at him, "where the hell were you?"
"I was handling another nuisance that wanted me to know my place."
"So you were handling Xian Pu, how'd it go?"
"I put her in pretty bad condition, she needs medical attention fast if you catch my drift," Tsumi said, "So what are you going to do old lady?"
Ku Long knew she was trapped, sh couldn't handle these two at once or leave without taking Ranma with them but her Great Granddaughter needed help.
She decided her parental instincts came first, "You haven't seen the last of us. We get what we desire in the end." With that said she pogo-ed off to find Xian Pu
as he looked up at the sky, "well, this sucks but my time limit is up. Kyo says he's ready to fight. I'll be back to kill in a couple of weeks so see ya till then."
Tsumi started to collapse in on himself but in actuality, his body was being brought back into the Kyo's body through the chest. After a gruesome minute, Kyo was completely back in control.
"So… what did I miss?" Ranma pointed towards the fallen senshi. Kyo's expression went on to a whole nother spectrum of anger as he saw each of the beaten and bruised sight of the senshi. But what got to him the most was when he saw Mercury. Now he was pissed to the max.
"Ranma, help me take them back to the house," Ranma just nodded and helped, "Next time, I'll do the honor of destroying every last joketsuzoku on this earth. I promise this on my honor."
Ranma faintly heard that and actually agreed with him. So they trotted on carrying the injured senshi while Saturn/ Hotaru walked in between them with a solemn look on her face.
To be continued….