SMST: Journey to Adventure! By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: "Sailor Moon", "Ranma ½", "Star Trek", and other properties belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Part 9
Meanwhile, back in the future, Ranma continues to recall what happens during the attack on Chikyuu by the entity known as "Majin Buu"…
"Get me out of here, you little troll!" Usagi screamed, as banged against the forcefield erected by the alien mystic Babidi.
"Gah, just shut up!" the diminutive wizard says, as he prepared his spell for "transfiguration". Thanks to Usagi's presence, Babidi will have the means to release his father's creation…
"No! I want Ranma, dang it!"
"Grrr! In a few minutes, it won't matter! You'll be a part of my little band, and you will release Majin Buu! HEEHEEHEEHEEHHEE-HO!"
Meanwhile, a pitch battle between Debura and Ranma wages above.
"GAAAH!" Debura roared, as he released a blast of energy from his mouth.
Ranma could have dodged the blast. However, he wanted to make a point.
CHOOM!
FWAK!
Ranma took the direct hit, but still continued forward in the face of the assault. The martial artist reconfigured his aura to form a "slip stream" that did virtually no damage to him. With Ranma now up and close, he attempted to use a haymaker on the Demon Lord.
FWOOSH!
But seemingly missed.
"Damn," Ranma thought to himself, as he realized that Debura created a duplicate in order to-
"Looking for me, Izanagi?" Debura smirked, as he unleashed a power energy blast.
"Hell FIRE!"
BLAST!
"Oh, boy," Ranma says as he sees the energy attack coming. Then he remembered something.
"Hump," Ranma said, as he crossed his arms across his chest. He performed hand mudra gestures on both hands, before falling backwards.
CHOOM!
"Huh?" Debura says, as he sees Ranma effortlessly phased into the Earth it self.
"Grrr, that trick of yours will not work, Izanagi!" Debura yelled, as he jumped into the air. "I will FORCE you out into the open!"
And with that, Debura began blasting into Earth.
Meanwhile, while using a modified form of "earth bending" to literally swim through the ground, Ranma recalls how he had come to know the demon lord…
FLASHBACK!
Izanagi paced back and forth, as he waited on the emissary of the Jade Emperor, ruler of the so-called "Court of Heaven". Ever since his wife, Izanami, was kidnapped, the Onogoronokami ("gods of Onogoro") were distressed. Izanagi's son Susanoo wanted to wage war to get his mother back, but his younger brother Tsukiyomi counseled caution. Izanagi, the father of several gods, had decided to wait for the emissary to arrive with the expectant summons that was bound to come. Once there, Izanagi will issue a challenge as a means of getting Izanami back, and proceed from there. Still, if the rumors of what he has learned about Izanami's unwilling stay in the Land of the Yama Kings are true, Izanagi will need ALL of his abilities to get his wife back-
"Papa?"
Izanagi turns to face his daughter Amaterasu.
"Yes?"
"Will Mommy be okay?"
Izanagi moves to hug his daughter.
"I promise you that she will be fine-"
"Hey, Pops," says Susanoo, as he sticks his head through the door. "There's this weird lady wanting to see you."
Izanagi raises an eyebrow.
"Greetings, Lord Izanagi," says Lady Hild, as she bows her head. She had been waiting in the great gardens of Ido, while waiting for an audience…
"Mmmm," Izanagi says, as he sees the woman. "You must be Hild."
Hild raise her head.
"Then you know of me."
"I hang out with the Norse now and then. I AM surprised to see the Lord of Asgard's 'underworld' on my footsteps."
"I heard about your…situation, and sought to lend my services as it pertains to the Jade Emperor and the Yama King that kidnapped your wife."
Izanagi folds his hands.
"No offense, but I seriously doubt that you can help me-"
Hild brings up a vile of ichor. Ichor was a blood-based poison that can anyone, mortal, immortal, demon or god. So afraid is this stuff that the source, the fabled Hind (half dear, half human), was rendered extinct because of the poison within Hind's blood.
"Is that-?"
"Yes it is, my lord. This is the only thing that can successfully kill a god…and the Yama Kings are no exception. And I so happen have one of the few samples in existence."
Izanagi knew that if he were to face a Yama King as a means of freeing his wife, then he'd need as much help as possible. A god or a demon is typically 100 times stronger on their "home turf". Izanami had to be tricked by Sojobo the Tengu god (who was ironically Izanami's ancestor as "Ranma Saotome"), in order to get her to leave her home. However, Ranma knew that dark gods typically had a motive in anything that they do, so…
"Fine, so what do you want?"
"In the future, I would want access to these lands. I will not influence your domain in anyway, unless someone from my pantheon gets involved."
"Why would I want someone like YOU have anything to do with Yamato?"
"Yamato", which means "source of the Sun", was the earliest names of what will be known as "Nippon" (or "Japan"…as that country is known in the West).
"Because the longer you hesitate, the less chance you have in retrieving your wife, that's why."
Izanagi closes his eyes…
"Fine. However, you and your kind are to respect 'the laws of the balance' in these lands when visiting. Is that clear?"
"Those are acceptable terms," Hild says, as he gave the flask of ichor to Izanagi. "I do want to make another request."
"You may ask."
"I have heard that the Lord of Yamato was a lover of great renown," Hild says. "I wish to experience this, if I may."
"With all due respect, I AM a grieving husband."
"I know that, which is why I wish to comfort you. And besides, I can tell what you need to know to save your beloved wife…between acts of love-making."
"…"
Years later, King Ranmassen was riding through the woods of Denmark, with his constant companion Lady Usagiude. It had been a few months sense the previous king, Beowulf, had died slaying a dragon that turned out to be his son by way of the so-called "Mother-of-All-Monsters" Echidna. Unfortunately, Echidna now wants to mate with Ranmassen, since he is the new king. Still, the bonus for Echidna was that she already knew Ranmassen from their days in ancient Greece, and he was handsome to boot.
At the moment, two were out riding for a lark, dressed in the clothes of the day.
"…I'm telling you, Ranma," Usagi says, as she trotted on horseback. "Why don't you just go have relations with her already?"
Ranma turns to look at his companion.
"I'm NOT going to make love to a monster-woman…even if she's attractive in her human form," Ranma smirked.
"Ranma, you haven't been discriminating BEFORE now, so why care?"
"Because I like to think that I am a human being…that's what."
"Oh, really? What about the time you seduced those bird-women in order to get Odysseus' ship to safety, after we left Troy?"
"Hey, that's not fair. The Sirens were STILL humanoid…even if they had wings."
"If you want to defend those cannibals…"
"Whatever. Hey, at least I didn't have relations with a horse!"
"Adrastos was NOT a horse…he was a centaur. And at the time THAT happened, that witch Circe turned me into a centaur as payback for tricking her into turning YOU and the others back into a human being."
"Big difference."
"And whose female form got turned into a nymph, and almost had relations with Pan?"
"Ha, I wasn't the only one who got turned into a nymph. In fact, had it not been for me, all of us would still be circling trees as mindless bimbos."
"Well, it was BECAUSE of you that we got turned into the mermaids. I mean, honestly…why did you have to insult Poseidon like that?"
"Hey, after throwing that hissy fit that resulted in us being lost at sea for ten years, and being stuck on Calypso's island for another ten years, I got NO respect for the guy-"
POOF!
A young, tanned skinned girl with white hair tied in twin braids suddenly appears in the middle of the path. Ranma and Usagi's respective horses brayed at the appearance, though it could also be the fact that the girl had a negative aura about her.
"Help, please…"
CLUMP!
The girl falls on the side of the road.
"Marler?" Ranma says, as he steps down from his horse. He had recognized the girl based upon the markings on her head.
Marler slowly opens her eyes.
"F-father?"
"I'm here, kiddo," Ranma says. "What's going on?"
"It's Mother…she's in danger-"
And with that, falls unconscious.
"Ranma?" Usagi asked.
"We better make sure that Marler is tended to first," Ranma says, as he picks up the girl. He was about to place her on his horse, when they began braying incessantly.
"Damn, I forgot about that," Ranma says. "My little girl…is a demon."
Ranma then looks at Usagi.
"Usagi, can I ask you for a wee favor…?"
A few moments later, Usagi was in her centaur form…with Marler on her back.
"This is SO embarrassing," Usagi says, as she trots to a safe house near home.
"I'm just glad that I remembered that we can still transform into those mythic forms of ours," Ranma says, as he led Usagi's horse…that was trying to get randy with her.
"Hey, lay off buster!" Usagi yelled. She then turns towards Ranma. "Next time, I'm going to get a FEMALE horse! And don't think for a second that I'll forget this!"
Ranma could only laugh in reply.
Tbc.