SMST5B: Journey to Adventure! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, ST and other genres belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Part 16
Meanwhile…
Ranma and the strange girl stopped near a canal. As the girl panted while trying to get her bearings straight, Ranma wondered why refugees of team "Sailor Starlights" were chasing her…
"Um, you okay?" Ranma asked.
The girl slowly turns to face Ranma.
"We…should be safe," the girl says. "But…I shouldn't have gotten you involved."
"Uh, yeah," Ranma replied.
"Where are my manners?" the girl says, as she and Ranma get up off the bench. She then turns to face Ranma, and bows slightly.
"My name is 'Musubi'. What's yours?"
'I got to remember that I'm undercover,' Ranma thought to himself…
"I'm…'Minato Sahashi'," Ranma bows likewise.
"Well, Minato, I am glad that you had saved my life," the girl says with a smile.
BLOOP!
Ranma notices how 'gifted' Musubi was. Due to his Jusenkyo curse, he was unfazed.
"Actually, I didn't…"
"Oh, but you have," Musubi says. "Had you not been there, those girls wouldn't have hesitated."
"Well, glad to help I guess-"
"Ohhhhhhh," Musubi says, as the girl collapse.
"Musubi!" Ranma says, as he caught the girl. "You okay, girl?"
"I'm so…HUNGRY…"
"Well, if you can hold off for a moment, we can go and get something to eat," Ranma offered.
"Really?"
"Really. Come; let's get out of here…"
Meanwhile…
"It looks like there is an assembly going on, Tsukune," Usagi says, as she and Tsukune stop in front of a gathering of students.
"This place certainly has changed since last year," Tsukune says, as he looks at the newly rebuilt school. And then-
"Ai-yaaaa!" screamed a bunch of girls in jubilation. They all seemed to gravitate to two of the students: one was a rather buxom, blue-haired girl, while the other was a petite girl with a witchling hat on her head.
"Oh!" cheered one girl. "You have 'grown' since last year!"
The buxom girl seems to take the compliments in strides…
"Oh, you are cuter than ever!" says another girl, as she hugged the witchling.
"Thank you!" the witchling replied.
"What the heck is going on?" Tsukune yells.
'These girls at the center of attention must be friends of his,' Usagi thought.
The girls in question turn to see Tsukune.
"TSUKUNE!" the girls say, as they dislodged themselves from their fans.
"Tsukune, you're back-!" the witchling says, before being bowled over by the buxom girl.
BAM!
"Tsukune, you're here!" the buxom girl says. She then leaps into air to wrap her body around Tsukune's head, but-
"Hey!" the girl says, as she notices Usagi standing next to Tsukune.
"Who are you-?"
WHAM!
The girl manages to hit a tree in her failed trajectory.
"THAT was hilarious," says a purple-haired girl, as she spoke from behind a tree.
"Oh, my," Usagi says. She then turns to Tsukune.
"Friend of yours, Tsukune?" Usagi asked.
Before Tsukune could respond, the witchling intervened.
"She's everybody's friend…if you know what I mean," the witchling says.
"I wouldn't put it like THAT," Tsukune says.
"But…who are you anyway?" the witchling asked suspiciously, as she took out her wand.
"Yes, who are you, dumpling?" says the buxom girl, as she rounded on Usagi. Her claws were bared.
"Are you here for Tsukune, too?" says the purple-haired girl, as ice formed around her hands to form ice claws.
Before Usagi could reply-
"Please, no fighting on the first day!" says a pink-haired girl.
Tsukune turns towards the new girl.
"Ah, Moka!" Tsukune says. "You're here, too…"
Usagi turns to look at Tsukune friend…
'What?' Usagi thinks to herself. 'How can SHE be here…?'
"Moka, I want you to meet our school's new teacher," Tsukune says. "This is Miss Rantsu."
"Hello," Moka says with a bow, as she smiled pleasantly.
"Um, hello," Usagi says, as she bowed.
And then, the jewel in Moka's cross began to glow.
'I better get out here, before that THING breaks through the seal,' Usagi thinks.
"Would you like to be shown around the school-?" Moka began to say, before-
"YAY!" says a crowd of girls. "Upperclassman Moka is here!"
The collection of girls picks up Moka, and carried her off.
"Help-!" Moka cried, before being carried off.
"Will she…be okay?" Tsukune says.
"Yeah, she has a lot of fans," the witchling says.
"I see…"
Usagi thinks for a moment. She will have to be careful around Moka. Otherwise, the other Moka will come back. And if she does, the school might end up a battlefield.
Meanwhile…
CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP-!
'Healthy appetite,' Ranma thinks, as Musubi eats yet another hamburger.
"Oh, thank you," Musubi says between mouthfuls. "You don't know how hungry I was…"
"I can…imagine," Ranma says. Upon learning that his guest had no home, he had suggested that Musubi go to his rented studio for the time being, until Musubi was comfortable enough to go out on her own.
Once Musubi finishes eating her burgers, she turns to face Ranma.
"If only you were my 'Ashikubi'," Musubi says gently. "I would want to be winged with a noble soul like yours."
'That word again,' Ranma thinks. And then, Musubi takes Ranma's hand.
"Eh?"
"We are born to find are perfect partner," Musubi says, as she directs Ranma's hand unto her chest.
"W-wait-" Ranma says.
Upon placing Ranma's hand on her own chest, Musubi felt a powerful connection between herself and Ranma.
ZAP!
"Ohhh…"
And with that, Musubi fell into a state of unconsciousness.
"Um," Ranma says, as he looks at his hand, wondering why he felt a spark between the two of them.
"I'm going to find out what the heck is going on," Ranma says, as he goes over to his book-bag for his pocket computer. "I'm going to see if this 'Ashikubi' business have anything to do with MBI…"
Meanwhile…
"I wonder who our teacher will be for this term?" Tsukune asked.
"As long as it isn't 'Miss Meatballhead', I don't care," says the blue-haired girl.
"But at least we're together," Moka says.
"Yes, and in the same class, too!" says the witchling. "But, I don't see Gin here."
"Probably peeping on the freshmen girls," the blue-haired girl says with a smirk.
CLICK!
"Wait, I think that's our new teacher coming," says the purple-haired girl.
KRREEEEEEEK-!
Usagi steps in.
"Huh," Usagi says, as she scans the room. "I guess this is my homeroom."
"WHAT?" say the girls around Tsukune.
"Miss Rantsu, hello!" Tsukune says.
"Hello, Tsukune," Usagi says with a pleasant smile.
"What are YOU doing here?" asked the witchling.
"I am here on a teacher exchange program with your sister school, Hogwarts Academy."
"Really?" the witchling says with excitement.
"Yes. Your previous instructor, Miss Nekonome, will be taking my place for the term."
"So, you know magic?"
Usagi smiles.
"I know a few tricks or two."
"Oh, yeah?" says the blue-haired buxom girl. "PROVE it."
"Okay," Usagi says, as she sets her book bag down. "I will look into your souls, and tell you your names."
"This, I got to see," says the purple-haired girl.
"Okay," Usagi says, as she stares at the purple-haired girl. "YOU are a snow-girl named 'Mizore Shirayuki'."
"…"
Usagi then turns her attention at the witchling.
"You are a talented witchling named 'Yukari Sendou', and is perhaps the smartest student in school."
"That's right," Yukari says.
Usagi turns to look at the buxom girl.
"You are a young succubus named 'Kurumu Kurono'…and lack talent other than your 'personality'."
"Hey!" Kurunmu yells, realizing the implication of Usagi's statement.
"Are you all satisfied?" Usagi asked.
"I am," Yukari says. "But…what spell did you use?"
"The school roster," Usagi says, as she pulls out a role book.
Everyone's jaw drop to the floor.
"The point is that I hope that I can get you students to at least trust me to be a good teacher to you all during this term. Okay?"
"Don't worry Miss Rantsu," Tsukune says. "We'll give you a chance."
"Good. Now, let's do a proper introduction…"
Meanwhile, an aspect within Moka, called "Moka-sama", sneers.
"She thinks she can fool people with her charms," Moka-sama says. "First chance I get, I will deal with her!"
Meanwhile…
Musubi wakes up. She sees Ranma shutting down a mini-computer.
"Minato?" Musubi asked.
"Nothing," Ranma says. He was frustrated that the firewalls within the MBI were proving more problematic than they were worth. Still, hacking into a high-security databank wasn't so suppose to be easy.
"I was just surfing the web."
"Oh-"
KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK!
Ranma and Musubi turn towards the door of his room.
"Hey!" says a gruff voice. "I KNOW you are in there, Minato!"
"What the blaze is the Landlord doing here?" Ranma says.
"Is there a problem?" Musubi says.
"Um, I'm not suppose to have females in my place."
"Oh. Well, perhaps I can explain my situation-"
"No, I'll handle it."
"Okay…"
Ranma straightens himself, as exits his room-
DOOM!
Ranma has seen many horrific things in his life, but the face of the Landlord was enough to terrorize even HIM.
"Ah!"
"Very funny," the Landlord says.
"Sorry about that," Ranma says. "What's up?"
"I want to let you know that you last rent check bounced."
"BOUNCED?"
"Bounced. You have tonight to give me the rent—cash—or you're out of here."
"No problem," Ranma says, thinking that the bounced check could be a sign that someone caught onto his hacking activities in the MBI mainframe. He'll have to tap into his 'unmarked' accounts to pull himself through…
"Humph. And, to remind you, I better not catch you with a girl in that room of yours!"
"Landlord, you don't need to be jealous of my potential to get quality 'tail', you know," Ranma says with a smirk, as he folds his arms.
"Grrr! Just have my money tonight, or else!"
And with that, the Landlord turns and walks away.
"Jerk," Ranma says, as he turns back into the room.
SLAM!
"Minato, what are we going to do?" Musubi asked.
"Ah, don't worry about it," Ranma says. "Landlord is a jerk-"
"MINATO!" Musubi says suddenly.
"What is it?" Ranma says with concern.
"I…I…I…"
"What?"
"I'm SO hungry!"
"…"
"Minato?"
"Let's go get something to eat."
"YAY!"
"…"
Meanwhile…
"I got the device," Trevor says, as he took the microchip from within the seismic reader. "With this, I can prove that there are irregularities within the Earth…"
Usagi turns to Ranma.
"Um, shouldn't we tell Trevor that there is a reason for the irregularities?" Usagi asked.
"Only if necessary," Ranma says. "The last thing I want to advertise is the fact that the world is not exactly one solid mass-"
BOOM!
Everyone looks up.
"It's looks like it's thundering!" Hannah yells.
"No kidding!" Brittany says.
"Alright, let's get out here-" Trevor says, as he begins to come down from the ledge.
BOOM!
A lightning bolt nearly struck Trevor's nephew Sean.
"We may not make it!" Hannah says.
Gina looks around. She spots an old mining cave…
"We better take shelter in there!" Gina yells.
"Fine, come on!" Hannah says.
"I think we can redirect the bolts," Usagi says.
"With this intensity?" Ranma replied. "And we can exactly be open about what we can do, now, can we?"
"Good point…"
Soon, everyone was huddled within the mouth of the cave.
"Let me take that," Ranma says, as he takes Brianna's pack.
"Thanks," Brianna says. She then turns to look outside.
"It certainly is raining cats and dogs-"
Suddenly, Ranma's danger senses spiked.
"Everyone, back!" Ranma yells.
"But-" Hannah begins to say.
BOOM!
The mouth of the cave is struck, causing the entrance to collapse.
WHOOOOOOOM!
When it was calm again, Trevor takes an assessment of the situation.
"Great, just great…"
Ranma takes an assessment of the situation as well. A simple 'earth bending' technique would do the trick-
"Ranma, I just got a premonition," Usagi says.
"What is it?" Ranma asked.
"A life…is in danger."
"Where?"
Usagi looks downward…
"You got to be kidding me."
"What's going on?" Trevor asked.
"Ranma, we might have to explain the truth about this mountain," Usagi says. "But we have to hurry, if we save a life."
"Great."
"What's going on?" Sean asked.
Ranma looks about the group.
"Those who want to leave immediately, I will get you out of here. However, Usagi and myself-"
"And US," Brianna says.
"Why do you have to volunteer me?" Brittany complained.
"Shhhh!" Gina says.
"Trevor, you said that you wanted to find your brother, right?" Usagi asked.
"Well, yes. I was hoping that coming here would provide a clue to what happened, especially since he still had a working sensor here."
Ranma looks at Usagi, who nods her head. He then turns his attention back to Trevor.
"How would you like to take a trip to the center of the Earth?"
"!"
Tbc.