AN: Been sick for the past few days. Well, once again I'm writing and I hope this will keep you somewhat entertained for a bit. In this chapter Mara involves Urd in her rather Machiavellian plot to get Skuld out of their Mother's hair, by getting her her own boyfriend! Don't feel too sorry for either of them, as they both deserve it I'll have you know.
HELL'S ONE TRUE LOVE
CHAPTER FIVE
PLANS WITH IN PLANS?
WHEELS WITH IN WHEELS?
MORE LIKE SPHERES WITH IN SPHERES!
Tendo House and Dojo: Nerima Japan: early the next morning
Kasumi Tendo was not at all pleased with her family at this moment. Nope, not one bit. Ranma had called last night from a place he told her not to tell any of his family or fiancées where it was, some far away temple, and all hell broke lose.
Akane, after screaming a fit and breaking a lot of furniture and other hard to replace things, stormed off to her room and has not been seen since. Although you could probably hear her on Alpha Centari, so loud were her screams of rage.
Her father and Genma had gone out to 'Drink away their sorrows' and had not yet returned. She expected to hear from the police any time now, saying they had picked up their unconscious drunk selves, and had them in the cell at the station sleeping off their binge.
Auntie Nodoka was infuriating, to say the least, seeing as she was alternating between jumping for joy screaming "Grandbabies! Grandbabies are coming!" and then crying "Why, why did Ranma choose the Queen of Demons to be the Mother of my Grandchildren?" and then she was raging, while slicing up the house "GENMA!!! Come back here so I may kill you!!! How DARE you sell my child's soul!!! You are DEAD Genma! DEAD!!! You hear me D-E-A-D-DEAD!!!!!!!!!" And then she was back to screaming with joy about her coming Grandchildren. The woman was quite obviously unhinged at this point and time.
Kasumi need a break, before she was driven to take her fathers example and start drinking the pain away. So she decided to see how Ranma was actually doing. She had no plans about trying to stay at that temple, to get away from this utter mad house, nope none at all. This huge overnight bag with a months worth of cloths was on her shoulder for no reason, she didn't even realize it was there.
Yeah right.
As she was running away from home, Nabiki caught up to her with her own bag. "You've gotta get out of this mad house too?" she asked, obviously running away as well.
Kasumi hung her head down and nodded in shame.
"Good for you!" Nabiki softly cheered. "I was afraid to leave you here, but I didn't think you'd actually leave. So where you headed? I was going to go to a motel for a few days, but if you've got a better place in mind…" Nabiki asked hopefully.
Kasumi thought. 'Ranma's instructions on who not to tell did not include Nabiki.' so Kasumi thought it would be ok to tell her. 'Besides,' Kasumi continued to think 'she'll be hiding out there too, so she probably wouldn't sell the information on where Ranma was staying, because they'd find her as well. Besides, Nabiki would just follow me any ways so…'
"I'm going to stay with some weird horse ranchers." Kasumi whispered. Nabiki got the obvious hint and nodded.
"Yeah, a horse ranch sounds far enough away from this mess." Nabiki replied, and then they left quietly.
As they did not speak the magic word, no one came running after them, determined to find the horse ranch. And so, the two were able to leave Nerima unbothered by anyone, for the magic word that would bring down all sorts of trouble and chaos, was never spoken aloud.
A temple on a hill in Japan: early the next morning
Mara was worried about Skuld's continued well being. Not for Skuld's own sake of course, as far as Mara was concerned the prissy little bitch would deserve anything that her Mother did to her, but that would make her Sister Urd sad, so she had come up with a plan worthy of being one of her greatest schemes ever. 'The little Goddess was against all relationships it seems, so let's get her into one!' Mara, after thinking that, started to cackle madly.
Mara then sought out the perfect partner for her little plan. Her Sister Urd. 'With all those love potions she loves to cook up, she must have something that'll help in this endeavor.' Mara thought as she searched out her big Sister.
She found Urd in her room, sleeping off last nights sake. "Urd. URD! UUURRRDD!!!" She finally ended up yelling. Urd came to slowly, grumbling
"Ugh, what is it Mara? I'm kinda asleep here, ya know?"
"Well then WAKE UP!!!" Mara screamed, shoving some coffee summoned form the either into Urd's face. "We've got important things to discuss here!"
Urd smelled the coffee, and her brain cells started to ping. This was a seriously strong Colombian brew. This stuff wasn't caffeine, it was personal rocket fuel, dosed with nitrogen, and with a chaser of uranium thrown in for good measure. Needless to say, it was a guaranteed wake-up call in a cup, assuming your heart didn't explode after your first sip. As Urd was immortal, she downed the entire mug in a gulp with no worse effects then a mild and very brief brain spasm as her mental capacities came on line.
"WHOA!!!" Urd exclaimed. This stuff is GREAT!!! What's the brand's name!?! I've gotta start taking this every morning!" Urd yelled in her excitement, as she was now utterly wired.
"It's called Midnight's Awaking, and it goes for about one thousand yen a bean." Mara told her Sister.
"NOOOO!!!!!" Urd yelled, breaking down into tears. "I'll never be able afford that!"
As Urd was crying in the loss of the ultimate coffee, Mara sighed and said "How's about I get you a years worth every birthday for you? I'll even get you enough to last up to your next birthday, seeing as I've missed so many of them. So will you PLEASE stop crying so we can talk about more important things?" Mara asked in exasperation.
"OH THANK YOU!!! Urd screamed, hugging Mara in a death hug.
After a little while, Urd was calm enough to discuss what it was Mara decided to wake her for, before Mara had made the mistake of addicting Urd to the ultimate coffee.
"Ok Urd," Mara started, now that Urd wasn't jumping off the walls with happiness at getting the perfect coffee. "I can just feel the hate coming off Skuld and directed towards Mother, and if I can feel it, you better believe Mom can too. So if you don't want to be visiting a Skuld that's wearing a full life support system for the next eternity, I suggest you help me with my plan to keep her to occupied to even dream of causing Mom any grief for a while." Mara told her older Sister.
"And just what is this plan?" Urd said sipping some more of that coffee that even Heaven could not improve on.
"We get her a boyfriend. If she's too in love to think of anything beyond her new beau, then she'll not be able to bother Mom anymore." Mara said with a shark toothed smile.
"And that'll keep her out of Belldandy's hair as well." Urd said smiling, as she thought off all the problems Skuld having a boyfriend would solve, like keeping her from building those robots that just keep attacking her.
"So, have you got some poor sap in mind already?" Urd asked her Sister, knowing she must have already picked the perfect other victim for this.
"Oh, yes, him." Mara said, pulling out a photograph.
"Geeze, why him?" Urd asked in shock. "I mean that guy has a hell of a lot of problems already!"
"Yeah, he does have his share of problems, and he can be a real jerk most of the time, but underneath it all, he's a pretty decent guy, and remember, were doing this as a semi punishment to your Sister, so we're not going to be giving her prince charming here. But he is pretty nice, once you get through to his core of self, so it's not like I'm suggesting we give your Sister to an utter bestial bastard." Mara explained.
"True. And they both kinda deserve this. Well come on Sis, let's get to my lab and whip up a Super Love Potion!" Urd exclaimed as she stood up and started to cackle madly. She finished her second cup of the beyond divine coffee, and setting the mug down on her bedside table, began to navigate her way through her utter disaster area she jokingly called a room, to the back wall which held the door to her privet lab, while cackling so insanely, that even Mara was freaked out by it.
"Oh by all that is unholy, what have I unleashed into the universe?" Mara whispered in great fear, as she started to follow her Sister with the utmost caution, it wouldn't to fall and break something do to this mess now would it, into Urd's domain, her lab.
AN: Well sorry, It's probably going to be the next chapter that starts focusing in on Ranma and Hild again. Although for the next few chapters Ranma and Hild are going to have some competition for word space. Well see you next time, and hopefully sooner then it took me this time. Bye for now.