Blinded Stars
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ or Sailor Moon. They belong to their respected creator/ owners and I not making a cent of this. So keep the layers in their cages. We all know the rest….
Sorry for the long wait but my comp crashed 5 times in a row (no joke) so had to get back ups and fix comp bug. Plus rewrite this chapter over. There were several other things but they don't need mentioning. Ok here is the next part of the story.
Chapter 4: More HEADACHES!
-Previous ending-
Kira's facial expression was similar to Ranma's in that it read the universal slightly stunned, slightly confused, and mostly worry. 'How did I do that, it felt so natural… everything just seemed to happen so fast. I just acted and followed Ranma's lead.' Kira thought to her self as she stood behind Ranma. Some how balancing on the branch. "Ranma…" Kira whispered loud enough for Ranma to hear as she grabbing hold of Ranma's left hand. She was slightly comforted by the return squeeze she received.
"This might actually be fun!" Ry said dropping the blades in his hands to pull out a white mask from out of no where.
-Previous ending, end-
Ry slid the mask over his face and took a stance that Ranma had never seen before, but was a very aggressive by the look. The mask the boy had on was mostly white with black trim around every part. It made him look like a pale monster, as he grabbed a completely new set of longer knives about two feet long. Dark purple began to outline his form. it swirled around his body and sliced the air causing a vacuum, half an inch thick.
Ranma's couldn't sense the boy anymore since the vacuum around Ry appeared. Tacking stock of her surroundings, Ranma found that most of the energy in the air was being drawn to the bubble that was holding the scouts.
"I'll leave this in your hands Ry," Sen said as a dark aura appeared around him and then faded away, leaving nothing.
"Ha; that's the way I like it. I will enjoy this; ripping you all to shreds is my specialty," Ry said in a sinister tone.
"Now don't take to long Ry. This bubble will only last several days," Marlyn said sarcastically before disappearing in the same fashion as Sen.
"Now you're all mine to kill princess. So let's begin right now!" Ry said charging forward at the tree. Ranma realized that attacking hand to hand would be out of the question and if this guy was any thing like those monsters, then her ki blasts would be rendered useless. Grabbing hold of Kira, Ranma jumped out of the tree and did a flip and tumble to avoid getting hit by Ry's long blades. The tree was in pieces across the ground as Ranma turned to see their personal assassin charging at them again. Ranma quickly forced all the remaining ki into her legs and jumped as high as she could to avoid being catch by Ry's strikes.
"Deep Submerge!" every one heard as a bright blue ball of energy collided into the sphere that held the scouts causing it to fade instantly.
"Finally!" the girls said as she looked up from the ground where they had landed to see Uranus and Neptune standing next to one the trees at the other end of the school.
"Having trouble?" Neptune asked before looking at the small child with long knives in hand-slash at the pair of girls; but missing because of them going air born.
"I don't care what she thinks! I'm going to kick the kid's butt! And then I'm going to teach her some respect for us!" Mar's yelled out as she got to her feet and got ready to cast her spell.
"Okay... we know he's fast and we don't want him to get near us so we need to set are attacks in such a way that if he did get close he would be hit for sure and disabled by the attacks that we get at him," Mercury said pulling out her computer again.
Ranma reach the climax of her jump and desperately trying to think of a way to fight her opponent below. Because of the vacuum around him, physical contact was not a good idea, and now her ki was close to nothing, didn't even let the option of a ki attack; not that it would be useful if he was like the other monsters.
"Kira... call you weapon to your hand, dear," a voice said inside of Kira's head.
"Ranma... the power you have is within you; just summon it," Ranma heard as she felt gravity begin to pull on them again. Ranma immediately knew whose voice it belonged to. It was Tatsuki's voice and it sounded slightly distressed, but yet was held a great deal of hope. Ranma felt her remaining ki; or what was left of it, be pulled deep into her chest as they started to fall back down.
Kira was feeling a moment of shock as she felt her heart start to pound in her head as they began their descent. Closing her eyes tight, she forced her focus from everything that she could see as threatening. The result was that her thoughts were pushed to the pounding of her heart. In her mind's eye, she could feel and see every vibration as multi-color waves pulsing from it. She found her body being washed throughout by these waves and mentally could see a bright light coming from her chest. bringing her arms around so she could cover it with both of her hands. She felt her heart start to slow and relax letting the glow become brighter them. Suddenly several shocks ran through her body and around her head. Many scenes quickly played out in her head. One was of her 'mother' Tatsuki teaching her how to draw upon her powers and others were of her previous life and others yet were life with her spiritual relatives. Kira opened her eye to find that they were almost in range of Ry.
Ranma was also focusing on retrieving some of her ki so she would be able to avoid being struck when they landed. She could feel the power that Tatsuki said the she had... or rather lending her, but couldn't get it to come forth like before. It was like someone hanging a piece of food on a stick and putting it just out of reach. She only excepted help when she truly needed it in a desperate situation; and this was beginning to qualify. She was out of ki and falling into enemy's strike range. Which looked like it would be a blow that could kill and would if connected. She heard the girls in strange outfits yell several things and felt several blasts of energy headed there way. Ranma looked at Kira and took note that she just opened her eyes and then the symbol on her head became visible. She then said, "Just ask it."
Kira shifted as Ry came bearing on them and stuck out her arms, causing a bright flash to consume them and weightlessness to hit.
Ranma had been forced to close her eyes from the flash of light; but when she reopened them, they were both afloat within an orange circular field. Kira hovered in the middle with a look of minor concentration on her face as the energy poured out of her. The energy swirled around Ranma as if not to get in her way as she regained her balance while being suspended within the field.
Ry was on his back a few feet away and was getting up and looked like he wasn't at all pleased. Feeling the mystical power that Tatsuki had lent her before still held out of reach only gave her three options. Let the weird girls handle Ry while Kira held the barrier, Kira shows some more of her power and show everyone up, or she figure out a way to retrieve some kind of power to fight be it ki or the mystical power that Kira was displaying. Ranma didn't like the first two so naturally she opted for the last one. 'Tatsuki said basically that all I needed to do was find 'my' power and Kira said that I have to 'ask it', but how do I do either of them,' Ranma thought before closing her eyes and picturing a mental landscape. But as she did this her mindscape quickly grew dark around her and every thing became distant and distorted. She had also taken notice that she was still in the dress from earlier when Tatsuki had her attained meal at the dance.
All around her small boxes appeared with reflexive surfaces. The boxes seamed to stretch out endlessly in every direction. Deep down inside herself, she knew that those boxes contain part of her. Parts that she didn't even know she had. Focusing on the feeling she got from Tatsuki's power she moved amongst the boxes. As she drew closer the feeling got became stronger. Soon she was in a dead sprint in that direction. She stopped suddenly several seconds later as she stood in front of several large boxes. Her reflection from box to box became brighter as she looked between them. She knew each one contained massive amounts of energy. The one on her right shown her reflection in a bright blue. The one in the center was reflected a bright red. And left was her refection in as close to white as one can get with out the image becoming one unified mass. The way her reflection looked in all three was if she was like fame.
She reached out to touch the center one. Her hand never hit its surface, but passed right through it. She quickly drew it back in surprise before sticking her hand out again; this time to go through its surface and maybe find out by feeling what was on the other side.
She felt intense fire engulf her hand and her arm that was extended into the box. The scene of her male form being stolen from her flashed within her mind. She then knew that the bock before her held the power that Tatsuki was taking about and entered it fully.
Inside was bright as flames came from every direction. She walked to the center of the box as the flames continued to jet from every where. She took note that even though the blaze was hot and all around her, she didn't catch fire. Taking the final step into the middle, she stepped on something hot and sharp. Causing her yep and jump back. Glancing at the floor which was barely visible she saw a red shard about an inch in length and half as thick. She stared at it for several moments before deciding to pick it up. Immediately she felt the need to hold it to her chest and did so accordingly. As she held it to her chest she could feel her muscles relax and warm energy pour into her from the shard. The dress she was wearing gained a light tint of red
Ranma opened her eyes to see the waves of energy that the weird girls were firing off miss Ry and hit Kira's barrier; sending ripples across its surface.
Seconds later Kira collapsed as she released the field and cool air rushed around them. Landing soundly on the ground, Ranma began to check on Kira condition. She was okay, but slightly worn out. Ranma quickly helped her up to her feet. She could hear the 'weird' girls pushing their attacks on Ry.
Kira put her hands around the brooch that hung from her chest and it began to glow slightly. The gemmed brooch on Ranma's chest began to shine as well.
Then Ranma felt something that she couldn't feel before. Ranma felt the burning desire of Kira's will clashing with her own. Instantly they looked each other in the eye and knew something painful was about to happen to them as the mental pressure building began to go sky high. Both of their worlds went white as pain began to rack their heads.
"MARS! Fire right there in five seconds!" Mercury shouted as she pointed to a spot that was currently vacant. Mars was about to reply with the question why when Ry began to dash that way to get away from Neptune's blast. So she quickly charged her attack and fired.
"Flaming Sniper!" Mars yelled lunching her attack.
"Venus Tie him up!" Mercury shouted as Mar's attack shot forward.
"Venus love-me Chain!" Venus shouted sending her attack in the same direction. Ry hadn't expected the several things to happen. Everything was going his way a couple seconds ago and now he was dodging energy blasts from the girls he had thought were held tight in the bubble. Plus, there were now even more of them firing off charges of energy at him. He was able to dodge them all so far, but every time he would start to close in on any of them he was met with a minefield of blasts.
Leaping out of the way of another handful of blasts, he was unprepared for one of the girls to predict his vector of flight. Seeing the one in red fire off her shot at his destination and then others fallow suit caused him to start reevaluating the treat potential of the group. As the blasts closed in on him he shouted "Dark Barrier" and was surrounded by a bark purple shield. As he touched down the blasts came bearing upon him. The shield absorbed the first two attacks but fell as others pounded at it. The scouts poured on the attack when they saw the several of their blasts hit.
"Arg..." Ry grunted as the blasts pounded on him. When the explosions faded around him the scouts had closed the distance and where standing in a 'U' formation around him. They were powering up their attacks again as staggered to his feet and thought about what his next course of action should be. Looking beyond the scouts, he saw the two red head collapsed on the floor and then jumped high into the air as the scouts fired off their attacks. At the pinnacle of his jump a black portal opened and he flew into in.
"Damn! He got away!" Mars said as the portal closed up after Ry's entrance.
"So who was that guy?" Neptune asked looking to the other scouts.
"I guess he's one of are new enemies," Jupiter replied. "You missed the one in charge. He said some crazy stuff to those two over there," she continued pointing towards the two red heads on the ground of to their right.
"Okay, who are they?" Uranus asked beginning to walk towards the two.
"One of them is a girl named Kira from school and the other is well... we really don't know," Mercury replied as she began to scan the area.
"Well judging by how close they look they would have to be closely related," Uranus said giving them a long look-over.
"What I would like to know is why they are dressed like that," Venus asked as she and the rest of the scouts gathered around the two.
"I heard that kid; Ry, call them princesses, and their sudden change of clothing does mean that they do have powers," Mercury stated.
"We saw 'Ranma's powers' earlier and now she is out like a light," Mars said as she gave the girl the evil eye.
"But I thought the youma had killed her... didn't it?" Moon asked her eyes beginning to tear at the thought of what had happened.
"Ya, I thought we had failed..." Jupiter replied hanging her head.
"That must be one of her powers. She can bring herself back to life, and doing so drains a lot of her energy, so she passed out," Venus said adding her theory of what happened.
"But then way would Kira pass out too?" Jupiter asked.
"May I can also add to that?" Mercury asked as she began to scan the two again. "I think that they are drawing from the same source of power and it seems that there are several magical fields on them. To be more accurate three on Ranma and one on Kira."
"So what do we do with them?" Uranus asked. "We can't leave them here."
"Let's take them back to the shrine. When they wake up, they can explain what happened," Mars said picking up one of them while Jupiter picked up the other.
"Right, let's go," Jupiter replied.
The group made to the shrine in no time and transformed back into the civilian selves; making sure that no one was around as they did so. As they all came into the room where they hold there meetings, they found both Luna and Artemis asleep on top of the table. They scouts just ignored them, as they set the two red heads down next to each other on the floor and got some pillows for them.
"Hey Rei, did the one you carry seem light?" Makoto asked.
"No. Why the weird question?" Rei replied with a look of confusion written on it.
"Well, lift her a little and tell me what you think,." Makoto said gesturing towards Ranma.
"Okay..." Rei replied as she went over to do the odd request. "Wow, she light!"
"She's too light for it to be natural. Do you think she starved herself?" Makoto asked in wonder.
"If she's this light, then she might be anorexic or something. She could be starving herself," Minako said with a shrug. "Trying to keep her figure for the boys?"
"We have to ask her later. Right now they both are deep asleep, and won't wake for a little bit. So in the meantime I say we figure out what just happened at the school, maybe who these two really are," Ami said trying to get everyone on a subject that need answers first and not on a girl's eating habits.
"So what do we know?" Michiru asked.
"Well let's start by remembering what are new opponents said and what those two said," Ami replied pointing to the two reds on the floor.
Both Ranma and Kira were not in what they called happy land. They felt like they were falling through the air, but neither of them could open their eyes to find out for sure. Their heads pounded with pain, and it continued to increase as they continued their descent into the unknown.
Ranma could feel energy leap between them and caused them even more pain. The pain felt similar to the pain given by the dark flames Ranma felt when Sen stole her male form's body. As that thought passed through Ranma's head, every thing stopped. All the pain and all the sensations of touch melted away and nothing was left.
"Ow!" Ranma yelled jumping up to find that she was back in Tatsuki's bed room and this time with Kira laying next to her asleep. The both of them were dressed in nightgowns for sleeping. The gowns were the light and were made of the silk like material from before.
Ranma looked over to the right of the bed and out the window. The sky was blue and only had several clouds flouting by. The place was quiet and had a fresh sent of some kind of incense in the air. She began to feel feint so she laid back down and closed her eyes. Her head still hurt but not like before. It only throbbed now and it lessened as she laid it upon the pillows again. She felt for her ki reserves and found that they were still very much empty.
Kira stirred next to her and brought her arms up from her sides and pulled the covers tight around her. Within several minutes Ranma was also back to sleep with the covers wrapped around her as well.
Down by the pond; three figures were having a discussion, each was wearing clothing that symbolized royalty. The three sat by the waters edge with a large cloth under each of them. In between them was a large tray of verity of fruit.
"So you're going to have them meet each other," Zeb said as he popped several grapes into his mouth.
"They have already met each other. They will be a tab surprised by what the other one knows, but they will be just fine," Tatsuki replied taking a deep breath.
"I still don't get why you are even helping that girl out. I mean, she may be her look-a-like, but she isn't like us. She has no control over any powers," Zeb shot back. "What do you think, Yasu?"
"I think that you should open your eyes every so often! You have no idea who that girl really is do you?" Yasu shouted back as Zeb. "Since last time we talked about the girl, I would have thought that you would have at least learned something! See, as both Tatsuki and I are in agreement on what the proper action should be at the moment."
"Zeb, why don't you go and feel what her soul really holds. You will be very surprised by what you fill find. I'm have not changed or affected her soul with my powers either. She has gained something that you haven't seen, because you overlook everything that is not letting off a force level that exceeds that of rank 5," Tatsuki shot at Zeb with a bit of a sneer.
"Ya, brother of ours; why don't you go take a look into her soul? It still very much damaged but it has slowly been repairing it's self. I had to help sis out with fixing the power surge that flooded their spiritual bond. They could have been vaporized. Ranma has only used her power with Tatsuki's help before, so she really would be killed if she channeled it by herself," Yasu replied also getting a bit angry at Zeb.
"Then why are you lending her your power to use? If she can't handle it, what's the point?" Zeb said in his defense.
"The point is that I did lend him power the first time, but he has since discovered how to draw upon his own power. He over-channeled his own power when he summoned it. That's is why they are here and not spending their time back in their world," Tatsuki answered not letting her anger control her.
"What? How did she gain to power and why did you refer to her as he? You're not telling me several important facts."
"You can find them yourself by searching her soul or asking one of the other spirits that have agreed to help us," Yasu replied.
"Others?" Zeb asked. His voice then became study and low-pitched. "What is she?"
"She's Family!" Yasu said in response before Tatsuki could open her mouth to say anything.
"What does that mean? She can't be related and adoption is not it," Zeb shot at Yasu. "What is a special about a look-a-like?"
"That's the thing. She isn't just her look-a-like. She is her and Ranma is Kira," Tatsuki replied to his question. "I realize that you have hard feeling towards your own children and that you have issues with dealing with them; but Both Kira and Ranma are part of me and that makes them part of our family."
"Brother… you need to understand that all of our spirits have been connected, and therefore we will share the same fate. We have no choice in the fact that we must support her and help when we can without 'Them' being aroused from their sleep," Yasu continued after her sister.
"So you're saying that she can wield a power stronger then 'Them'? Not likely, and I will not watch one of are family fight and be killed. They will then come after us," Zeb replied shifting his tone to a hypothetical one.
"Brother; by all standards, the 'Judges' should have been awakened at her fight with a demi-god."
"aA demi-god? She can take on a physical-planed demi-god?" Zeb said raising an eyebrow. "She doesn't let of enough energy for her to reach that rank."
"She has the ability but lacks the energy reserves that she would need to keep up at the level for the duration of the battle," Tatsuki replied standing up. "Now I should go check on my daughters and help them with their problem."
"I'll come to! I'm sure Kira wants to see me!" Yasu said jumping up after her. Zeb just mumbled something and picked up a hand full of grapes. He continued to sit as both his sisters left. He had a lot to think about.
Back at the bedroom where Ranma and Kira slept soundly, they had shifted a few times and were now facing each other. Their arms held the other at about the waist. The covers had since been pushed off a bit so that only their legs were covered. Both Tatsuki and Yasu slowly opened the door and pecked inside. Finding that the two were both still a sleep the fully opened the door and walked in.
"Should we wake them?" Yasu asked approaching the bed.
"We will, but let's first make sure that the bath and a change of clothing are ready," Tatsuki replied sitting at the end of the bed.
"Okay, I'll make sure it's not in use," Yasu said lightly skipping out of the room.
Tatsuki walked over to the dresser and closets and began to open them. She pulled out two different sets of clothing and set them on top of a small table to the right of the dresser. She smiled as she knew what Kira was going to say and do when she woke up with Ranma in this place. A few minutes later, Yasu came back into the room and gave her the 'all clear' sign.
Tatsuki came over to the bed and began to lightly shake Kira's shoulder. Kira's eyebrows twitched and she let out a light moan and shifted a little. Tatsuki continued but a little harder this time. Kira groaned and slowly opened her eyes. Kira slowly blinked several time and began to sit up. She then rubbed her eyes to help remove her grogginess.
"Well, you haven't been here for a while. Did you sleep well?" Tatsuki asked brushing the hair from Kira's eyes.
"Umm…. Ya, I guess it has," Kira replied taking in her surroundings.
"Ya, it's too bad that you don't get to remember anything when you are on the physical world," Yasu said from behind Tatsuki.
"Aunt Yasu!" Kira said as Yasu came into view.
"Now, I should wake Ranma up, but I think that you should," Tatsuki said gesturing to Ranma next to her.
"What? Ranma's here! How?" Kira replied as she turned to see Ranma asleep next to her.
"Several of things have happened to Ranma that I think you should know about," Tatsuki said recapturing Kira's attention.
"Ya; and Ranma is going to have to get use to them as well," Yasu added sitting down at the corner of the bed.
"What are they?" Kira replied then a thought came to mind. "Did I get killed again!"
"No; both you and Ranma are still alive. Ranma just caused massive damage to the link between you two and that is why you are here," Tatsuki replied taking on her motherly tone and sat next to her.
"Will she be alright?" Kira asked with worry evident in her voice.
"Ya, she'll be fine. The male Ranma that everyone once knew has gone back to his old form," Yasu said adding in information at the end.
"What do you mean?" Kira asked slightly confused.
"Well; remember when you died the second time in the pool of water?" Tatsuki asked warping her arms around Kira and bringing her close.
"Ya…. That hurt…. A lot," Kira replied remembering drowning.
"Well; Ranma fell in that spring and got the curse. This gave him two forms to be in," Yasu said.
"Ya, Ranma explained that to us the first night he... I mean she came to visit.
"I didn't know it was the same one I fell in though," Kira replied switching her gaze from Tatsuki to Ranma.
"Ya, it was; because of you falling into the spring in the first place that set the curse of the spring as it is now. If the spring hadn't been cursed by you then, the chances that Ranma would be here are a lot less," Yasu said looking between the two girls.
"So you're saying that because of my death, Ranma is the way she is?" Kira asked focusing intently on Ranma.
"Yes; and she is here because she is your sister, in spirit and now for your physical form as well. They are identically matching," Tatsuki replied.
"So we are really twins now."
"Go wake Ranma. The bath is ready for you two and I've set a change of clothing for you two over there," Tatsuki said pointing to the two sets she pulled out.
"Okay, but if I see something better then I'm going to wear it. Same goes with Ranma," Kira said shifting over to Ranma and began to lightly shake her.
Ranma for her part just continued to slumber on. For Ranma, shaking of the body didn't qualify for any kind of threat, so she continued in the sleeping process.
Kira tried shaking her harder, but that didn't work. She then looked over for some help and was handed a bucket of water. Taking a few seconds to think about it, she then took hold of what to do and emptied it on Ranma.
"Ack! What was that for?" Ranma yelled jumping up; her top half now soaking wet, revealing that she didn't have on a bra under the top she was wearing.
"Hey, that worked!" Yasu said with amusement written on her face.
"Ranma!" Kira yelled at she began to hug her tightly.
"Ow… can't breathe…." Ranma wheezed out and tried to squirm out of the hold but couldn't.
"Now let go her dear; she can't breathe," Tatsuki said placing her hand on Ranma's shoulder.
Kira reluctantly let go but kept a smile on her face.
"You two should hurry over to the bath before someone else gets in," Yasu said, standing up and looking out the door.
"Okay. Come on Ranma, let's get there quickly. I hope Alchem isn't anywhere near by," Kira said with a shiver of distaste.
"Umm… okay I guess," Ranma replied, wondering several things, but figured that she could ask them later.
Kira grabbed Ranma's hand and pulled her out of the bed and out the door. She was nearly skipping as she hurriedly moved through the halls with Ranma in toe.
When they passed the hall that lead to the main banquet area they heard several people say, "The Princesses are awake!", and then a load clamor erupted behind them. They turned down several more halls before they entered the bath.
Ranma noticed again the fruity sent in the air. The noise that was now echoing through the halls hurt Ranma's head. She put her free hand to her head, attempting to ease the pounding, and gain some more focus.
Kira continued to pull on Ranma's hand and dragged her to the corner where all the bottles where shelved with a pink sheet laying around it.
Ranma watched as Kira grabbed two bottles; one from the top shelf and the other one from the far bottom right of the collection. She took a quick glance at them, but still couldn't read the label.
"Don't worry. Once you get in the water, your head will get better," Kira said to Ranma as she took note that she was holding her head as if it was in pain.
"That's good to hear, but how will getting into water help my head?" Ranma asked beginning to remove the clothing she was wearing, not even noticing what it was.
Kira pulled a few towels and a sponge from out of nowhere and handed them to Ranma with the bottles when she got done undressing. She quickly stripped and led them to the water.
Ranma casually placed the stuff at the edge of the water and slowly got in, remembering what happened last time. Ranma felt the warmth of the waters embrace her, and hoped that she would feel the shifting of her curse ... but it never came.
"Well it's mystical water. It has been enchanted to heal about almost every mortal wound given time. Plus there is a water spirit that lives in the bath as well," Kira replied to Ranma's question from a little earlier.
"Water spirit?" Ranma asked sinking to her shoulders with Kira, forgetting about the missing change.
"Oh ya; you wouldn't know… Her names Fai. Her body is composed of water and she can control all the water within this room if she wants to," Kira replied coming up to Ranma. "Hey Fai, would you show yourself for Ranma?"
"I didn't want to scare the child my princess," a soft voice replied as the fog with in the room grew very thick.
In the middle of the bath, the water rushed up into the form of a woman that started to move towards them. The mist around them cleared so they could clearly see each other.
Ranma used her ki senses to search the area for any trace of negative energy or anything threatening, but failed to find anything of such.
"So how have things been since my last visit?" Kira asked the watery being.
"Well, it's been very dull up till her visit not too long ago," Fai replied, pointing to Ranma.
"What do you mean…? Ranma's been here before?" Kira asked Fai with a question look on her face.
"Yes. The first time she was here; her injuries were very bad. So I added a healing potion into the water to help," Fai replied to Kira. "Though it did have an unexpected reaction as well, my princess."
"So that is why 'it' happened…." Ranma said in a low whisper that was almost missed by the other two. Ranma's face also turned bright red as her gaze fell off to the side.
"When did she come here and what happened?"
"She would have come about fifteen minute's difference in the physical realm's time, princess," Fai said moving closer to the two.
"Oh! By the way Ranma is really my sister!"
"Well I did have a bit of trouble figuring out that she wasn't you. Your mother had to tell me what was going on and how to tell between the two of you," Fai said taking on a smile.
"I guess that would be hard for everyone here since we look the same," Kira said before turning to Ranma and asking. "So what did happen?"
"Nothing!" Ranma replied quickly as her face grew even redder as she was brought into the spotlight of the attention.
"What potion did you use on her the last time?" Kira asked Fai with a mischievous look on her face.
"I'll give you it, but you two should get clean before I do so. They might need you two ready for a ball or something. I'll give you both a sample of it, mainly to help the healing process along for Ranma," Fai replied before she sank back into the surface of the water. "I'll just close the door for you two."
Seconds later, both Kira and Ranma heard a heavy door close at the entrance. They couldn't see beyond a foot from the waters edge, as the fog got extremely thick after that. Kira rushed over to where the two bottles and towels were left and grabbed one of the bottles. She then moved back to Ranma and removed the cap. She poured some of its green with red speckled contains into her hand and popped the cap back on.
"Ranma can you undo your pigtail so I can get your hair?"
-Back at the bed room-
"So do you think we should ask them to rush so we can get this over sooner?" Yasu asked helping with changing the bedding.
"No; let them take their time. They will be swamped with a Q&A by the others either way, so let's hold that off for a while. Besides, they need to sort a few things out and Ranma needs to heal more before she should attempt to summon her powers," Tatsuki said standing next to the closet, gathering a new set of bedding while Yasu waved her hand over the wet part of the bed instantly drying it.
"Ya, but the healing that Ranma needs to have done is still a lot, and there is no way that a few baths in that water will fix her up. If you had her stay in the water for about a month, then it would work, and we don't know or trust any of the others for that kind of healing," Yasu replied.
"But that is the thing. I have Fai working on it right now."
"How so?"
"Well… she'll use a rare potion that I gave her. She has several so she can't run out. Plus with Kira with her, the two's mental and spiritual connections can be properly fixed," Tatsuki said bringing over the new sheet.
"What's the strength?"
"Triple S."
"How did you get several bottles of stuff that are triple S?" Yasu asked pausing before taking one of the sheets from Tatsuki.
"Oh… I know a very nice brother who will help, even if he is against the entire thing."
"Zeb gave you them!"
"You should have seen his face when he did. It was priceless!"
"What did he say? I'm sure he had some kind of lame excuse to go along with it."
"Well; he said that he was doing it for some Ideal. But I knew that was a load of shit. So I told him to get to the real reason, and he began stumble on his tong. Then he shoved them into my hands and ran away."
"Just got to love him some times," Yasu replied and they began to place the sheets and pillows back to their appropriate spots.
"Ya. He can be a darling at time. So let's give Zeb a break and take care of my two children," Tatsuki replied taking hold of one of the sheets and folding it to make it look nice.
"I'll get two night gowns set out. They'll be here for at least a few nights," Yasu said sliding over to the dresser.
-Back to the bath-
Ranma and Kira were scrubbing their hair which was now completely engulfed in suds. Ranma was amazed by how many suds were being formed, and if it wasn't for the fact that this soap felt so good in her hair, she would've rinsed it out a little bit ago.
Kira was also scrubbing and enjoining it, but not as much as Ranma was.
After a few more minutes of scrubbing, the two had the general area covered in the suds.
Then Fai pulled the water up around the two and with great care rinsed them.
Both of them let out a surprised yelp when it happened.
"At this rat,e you to will spend all day and not be finished," Fai commented controlling the water to scoop the two up and brought them into the middle of the large bath. "Your Aunt told me to not let you two take all day; so I'll clean you both."
The water converged between the two and formed a dome over them before they could utter a word of protest. Then dome was instantly flooded and inside the two held their breaths as they felt the water swirl and rush around them. Ranma felt something else other then the water incase her and when she looked she found one of the bottles from before being poured out onto her. Turning her head to Kira she found the same thing happening. Within second after that millions of subs erupted from both of their bodies and took away all vision. Then every movement in the water stopped and they surfaced.
"Okay; next time give us at least a warning so we can get some air…." Ranma said getting her balance.
"Umm… ya; I'm not use to the water attacking me any more…." Kira added.
"Hold on; I'll remove the soapy water, my princesses," Fai said, ignoring the comments of the two. The water rushed around them once more. The cloudy water was replaced by perfectly clear clean water.
"So I take it that Aunt Yasu has something planed for us then?" Kira asked Fai.
"I wouldn't know. But I would presume so by the fact she would like you to done within in reasonable amount of time," Fai replied.
"I'm such a water magnet, even when I stuck as a girl," Ranma said low tone at no one in particular.
"So how do feel about trying out the potion now; Ranma?" Kira asked with a grin.
"Well; if it made what happened last time happen, then I'll pass," Ranma replied as a blush crept across her face.
"Well; I can always use another one if that would be your preference. I don't know if you will have a different reaction this time; but we can see," Fai replied, pulling the water up to make her form present.
"Why do I need to use a potion anyway? I feel fine right now," Ranma asked taking not that her head didn't hurt any more.
"Well; you may feel fine right now; but even I can see that you're very hurt still, and you being hurt will eventually hurt your sister," Fai replied pulling the two closer together.
"Fine then; use it. But I don't see how I can be so hurt if I feel fine," Ranma said, trying to control the expression on her face as she realized that she just agreed to have the potion used again and this time with Kira present. Ranma cursed inwardly as the famous 'foot in mouth' came into effect once again.
A bottle suddenly appeared next to Fai's watery form, allowing the water spirit to grab it. Popping over the cap; she turned the bottle over and emptied its contents into the waters holding the two redheads. Dark blue liquid poured forth from it and when it hit the water it mover like a snake; darting around both Ranma and Kira. The two felt their entire nerve endings became very active.
Then a soothing pleasure hit as they could feel every slight movement of the water. Fai was keeping the potions contents contained around them by causing several small currents to flow between them; adding to the effect. The potion-filled water began to glow and both Ranma and Kira gasped as the felling jumped and continued to race up ward. They found one of the other's hands and grasped it tightly. At this point Kira realized what had happened to Ranma before. Several second later both let out a cry as their bodies could no longer take it, and they passed out. The water was glowing even more brightly before both found themselves warped in warm towels on the floor of bath leaning on each other next to the water.
"So, do you feel a tad annoyed by what happened?" Kira asked standing up and securing the towels around her.
Ranma also got to her feet and made sure that the area was clear; finding no one around, she let off a sigh of relief. "Ya… a bit embarrassed…" Ranma replied, her face red and looking away.
"Ya… me too…." Kira said her face also red.
"Well you two were only out for about five minutes. Last time Ranma was out for half the day; I heard," Fai voice said from all around them.
"I'm so not having you use any more potions on me!" Ranma shouted at the water.
Fai let off a light laugh in response. "Go and get changed into something, you two. Your Mother is waiting on you. So hurry along now," Fai said opening the door. This was a little noisy; but let in fresh air that began to clear the fog in the room.
Ranma didn't like the idea of staying in a towel. So she began to walk back from the bath as quickly as she was able without the towel coming undone.
Kira chased after her while gripping her ties for the same reason. On the way back, they had to take several detours to avoid running into others that were awaiting their arrival; Kira telling Ranma where to turn and where not to go.
Once they finally made it to the door to the room both were slightly out of breath and leaned against the wall. Both Tatsuki and Yasu sat talking in the room when they felt both Ranma's and Kira's presence approach the door then stop. Tatsuki got up from where she was sitting and walked up to the door. Taking great care she slowly opened it to reveal the two beyond it.
"Come now. Don't stand in the hall," Tatsuki said gesturing them inside the room.
"Ya. I can't wait to help get you two all dressed up!" Yasu said from inside the room.
"Ummm. So what is going on? There are a lot of people in the castle looking and waiting for us," Kira asked as she and Ranma entered.
"Ya, when I start to get this much attention it means that something bad is going to happen," Ranma added taking on a gloomy look.
"Oh, nothing bad is going to happen while you're here, Ranma. Just relax and everything will be fine," Yasu replied, going over and putting her hand on Ranma's shoulder.
"Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better," Ranma replied to Yasu.
"Well I think getting all dressed up will be fun. I can't wait to see what I'm going to put Ranma in!" Kira said looking at the clothing set out for them and smiled. "This is okay for me but I think that Ranma is going to need something a little more to her liking."
"If you're talking about putting me into another dress, then forget it!" Ranma said crossing her arms.
"What would you like to wear them?" Yasu asked going over to the dresser and closet.
"Shirt and pants would be a good starting place."
"I got it! I know what I can put Ranma in!" Kira said grabbing several articles from the preset piles of clothing set out for them and then rushed over to the closet to grab a few more things.
"Well; first I think you should put on some under garments and remove the towels," Tatsuki said, handing a pair to Ranma.
"Tatsuki… I can take care of them from here. You can tend to our guests and keep them from deciding to find them. Since they are nude right now, it would really be disapproving for them to be seen like this," Yasu said, grabbing the clothing from Kira and letting her remove the towels to change.
"That's true. Fine, I will see you three in a little bit then," Tatsuki replied taking a look at the outfits in Yasu arms before turning to Ranma. "Now I know that this my be a bit new for you Ranma, but your going to have to eat at a lot slower and try not to show off either."
"Don't worry, Mom. I'll make sure Ranma's an angel," Kira said, running over to Ranma and warping her arm around her shoulder.
"Of course," Tatsuki replied and then left the room.
I've decided to leave the character list at the bottom of this chapter so you can see all the many of them there are. Some have yet to make any appearance. If any one has an idea that they would like to give me send it via e-mail or through review. I'm starting to come up with ideas that would be good for a second after this one is done. But not to get ahead of my self and make this one end quick; I will take my time on it.
Tatsuki (spirit)
Zeb (Tatsuki's brother)
Yasu (Tatsuki's sister)
Fai (water spirit in the bath)
Sylow
Sen
Ry
Marlyn
Youma
Happosai (grand master)
Nodoka Saotome
Setsuna Meioh (Pluto)
Mizuno Ami (mercury)
Tsukino Usagi (moon)
Hino Rei (mars)
Kino Makoto (Jupiter)
Aino Minako (Venus)
Chibi-Usa (chibi moon)
Tenoh Haruka (Uranus)
Kaioh Michiru (Neptune)
Tomoe Hotaru (Saturn)
Luna, Artemis, and Diana (cats)
Mamoru (tuxedo Kamen)
Osaka Naru (Usagi's friend)
Tsukino Kenji (Usagi's father)
Tsukino Ikuko (Usagi's mother)
Tsukino Shingo (Usagi's little brother)
Shampoo
Mousse
Cologne
Ukyo
Hinako
Kodachi, Kuno
Mr. Kuno (principal)
Nerima
Nabiki
Kasumi
Akane
Mr. Tendo, Soun
Genma Saotome
Ryoga Hibiki
Tatewaki, Kuno
Furinkan High
Juuban
Saffron
Akari