Strange...
A Ranma ½ fanfic
I do not own Ranma ½ or any series that I may use characters from in the future; if I did then I wouldn't be writing this.
Chapter 4, in retrospect, Ryoga is kind of a horrible person.
The story so far
Ranma had just defeated Kuno in a duel to the death, without killing him. Also there was this other stuff about world concocting elaborate plans, and apparently the stories villains showed up two chapters ago. Yeah.
"Uhg, such light so early this morn is repulsive to mine eyes, dim it for me Sasuke." Kuno mumbled, why had that infernal servant of his not yet closed the blinds on a Sunday morning!
"Oi, I ain't Sasuke Kuno, and it's almost six pm." Ranma? What was his rival and kohai (underclassman/younger student) doing here? He opened his eyes, revealing the unfamiliar scenery of the Tendo family guest room.
"What on earth am I doing in the Tendo household?" he said surprised, then he suddenly he was in an immense amount of pain. He dropped back onto the futon where he had been lying.
He heard Ranma move; his host positioned himself above Kuno so he could see him without turning his head. "That would be my fault, or your own depending on how you look at it." He smirked as he said the second part, "you got possessed again Kuno, ya really have ta stop doing that. Though this time you really gave me a run for my money sempai (upperclassman/older student)." His face became slightly angrier at this thought, but the boy appeared to stop focusing on him as he said it.
Kuno was confused by this point, possessed? He had been the victim of a ghost before, according to his manservant at least, but what could have led to him being possessed this time, the last thing he remembered was finding a scroll lying in the middle of his dojo...
"Of course! It must have been that scroll! I found myself compelled to open it despite its clear antiquity!" Kuno exclaimed. His sudden realisation made him sit up a second time, an action that his body did not approve of. "But pray tell my friend, how did I end up in such a battered state?"
"Well, like I said..." Ranma looked back down at him, this time really focusing on him. "Did you just call me your friend?"
"Of course, I see no reason I should not." "You hate me," "no I do not," "you call me a sorcerer and a pervert," "I am aware, and I must apologize, it was improper for me to call you those things. I must admit, up until recently my mind was not in order."
Ranma continued to stare at him in shock.
One law of the universe broken
Moon glared at his creation, which seemed to be taking the most sonic route possible to nermia Japan. At least they were Japan, but at the speed he had created the lion man form to move they should have been there hours ago.
"This is taking too long moon" it was demon, speaking in his disturbing electronic sounding voice.
Moon turned to face his demon "well, you said we needed the strongest member of the wrecking crew, not the smartest or the fastest."
Devil glared at him. At least that was what Moon assumed that expression was, it was hard to tell with a creature that looked like a cross between a warthog and a blender.
"You can make all the smart aleck remarks you want moon, if we don't finish our part of the plan in time, the boss is going to be angry." Devil turned and began to walk away.
Moon raised an eyebrow "and just what are you planning to do? If we reveal ourselves to them directly then looking glass will be able to track us to this world, it took me quite some time to set up the dummy beacons in those other worlds you know."
Devil turned and contorted his metallic face into what moon assumed was a grin. "true, if we reveal ourselves directly while an agent of looking glass is here we will, but if through some tragic circumstance that agent were to perish their laws prohibit another direct deployment until his funeral is completed, that would certainly buy us some time for our plan, wouldn't it?" a moment later, he had disappeared into smog.
Moon blinked, he couldn't believe what devil had just said. Not because he was talking about killing his older brother world, or because he was suddenly resorting to violence, but because he was planning to attempt sudden unplanned violence in an attempt to kill world.
Was he trying to get killed?
World was sitting cross legged on the roof of Furinkan high, where he had taken up residence. His deck lay out in front of him, and dark of a clouded moonless night, he was able to see what he had missed earlier. The king of sword still emitted a dull flicker of light. That shouldn't still be there, no human should be able to sustain contact with the card after that that level of trauma. And yet Tatewaki Kuno seemed to have ki to spare after his defeat, which didn't make any sense, Ranma had beaten him by taking advantage of the stress the power put on the body and mind of the Kuno heir, but the card should have broken its connection when he passed out when he passed out and lost control of his ki, returning him to normal and confirming the implanted notion that he had been possessed by a ghost. What kind of man has that much ki at his disposal and no ability to command it? There would have been warning signs, a bizarre charisma, inhuman athletics with only average practice, and his ki would have leaked into other objects! World stopped himself, Kuno was an idiot and yet hundreds of people respected him, including his teacher, a bizarre charisma. He was the captain of the kendo club and never underwent special training routine to improve his skills for tournaments before Ranma came, and yet regularly trounced all of his competition, inhuman athletic ability. Finally Kuno could cut through solid steel with a dull wooden boken, a common side effect of ki infusion. He slapped himself, of course, Kuno is only average by wrecking crew standards, but by a regular persons standards he is nearly invincible. He has power that makes Ryogas perfect shi shi hoko dan look like a hairball, but he has never had need of its use outside of ambient usage. World suddenly grinned, no training means no resistance to my power; I could use a powerful pawn.
He glanced up; still grinning "speaking of pawns..." an enormous black shape hurtled through darkness landing before him, an ugly mass of steel and plastic twisting together to form long appendages.
"Devil! It has been to long since I've seen you little brother! How long has it been, two hundred years now?" he said walking up to the machine.
"Die! You shall not interfere without great masters plans any longer!" devil shouted as he lifted one of his bladed limbs into the air.
Worlds smile disappeared. "And here I thought that you had finally smartened up and decided to stay out of lookinglasses way, oh well guess that is a little much to ask of you." He easily sidestepped the clumsy sweep and produced two cards from his deck. "I call thee forth through the gate of the king of coins, ten of swords." Instantly the cards merged forming a Taoist coin sword, which he brought down on the mechanical limb slicing it through the limb he had just dodged, the portion severed busted into flames.
Devil twisted this mechanical face into an approximation of a grin "Such tricks will no longer work against me, for I hold the masters power! I summon the demon through the gate of death!" an enormous blast of energy shot from the cards, forming into an enormous burning skull with horn protruding.
World frowned, turning the sword back into the cards "still no finesse to your attacks, I see, I summon thee, valet of wands, through the gate of ten coins." The cards again merged together, this time forming a gold statue of an angel holding a mirror, the skull dissolved on contact with the mirror. "Now then, this is how you use a deck properly, I summon the demon through the holymans gate, I summon the priestess through the final gate, I summon the fool through the fools own gate!" the cards flew, the first spell formed a large metal cage decorated with screaming faces around devil, the second created a golden suit of armour in the shape of a woman, and the third summoned a bizarre silver skinned creature dressed like a jester, with enormous insect like eyes and tentacles flowing in all direction for hair. "I hath summoned thee, and as such I command thee, fool use the fools own power! Priestess activates the holymans power!" the golden figure disappeared into the cage, which suddenly began spewing electricity.
Devil began to shriek in pain, "You really think that this is enough to stop me! I summon the demon through the final gate!" the two cards rose into the air glowing, and then suddenly darted over into the fool's hands, along with the rest of devils deck. Devil just stared in horror at his deck in the hands of world summons.
World smirk returned "you look surprised, not that I blame you. Any fool knows that the main use of the fool is to negate magic attacks from non agents, but not many know that when summoned through his own gate he can steal the decks of other deck users, and even use them himself!"
The fool raised one cards into the air, I summon the ten swords through the swords own gate. The card transformed into ten well sharpened broad swords, floating just over the electrocuted cage.
"Now then, who was this great master you were talking about devil?" "Ill never tell you!" shink! "... On the other hand, you do make a very convincing point... "Shink shink shink! `` Alright! It`s bones! Bones is making us do this! "
World raised his eyebrow, "bones, the freaking chicken?" devil nodded, part of his face breaking off and exposing the wiring underneath in the process "yes, he got his hands on this weird deck somehow and promised that he take over looking glass once he found it s owner!" world cocked his head to the side, Bones was one of the non-tarot members of the looking glass community, his name a reference to how ancient civilizations would use the entrails and bones of chickens to tell the future. What could he possibly use a deck for, only the fool and tarot-named could use them? World sighed, what had he done to deserve such gullible siblings. "very well little brother, your free to go, but I'll be holding on to your deck, stay out of trouble" the cage and swords disappeared into smoke, the cards that had made them flew into worlds hand's, then the fool changed form into a silver cage surrounding devils deck, which then flew into worlds hand as well.
Devil was already running, his human like feet now visible with his various metal limbs cut away. They would grow back. Probably.
One idiot little brother down, one to go.