Chapter 5: Taming The Wolf~
Ranma was very quick to love his new form as Sheik.
The wolf had risen up on shaking knees, quaking with wrath at Farore's chains, and turned on him with eyes that shone like lightning, and began to foam at the mouth ready to do so much more than kill him.
Ryoga immediately struck a fighting pose to help Ranma take this monster, but Sheik was a few strides ahead of him.
For as Sheik , Ranma was indeed truly whole. He had all of the skills that he did in his boy form, with two fold the strength as his forms were combined, with two-fold grace as the the girl-form's natural gracefulness was merged with his boy form's greater strength, into something supernatural. He did a swan dive straight through the air before he even began to ponder how to fight the wolf. He was spinning doing semi-circle flips in the air, like a master acrobat when he lets go of his trapeze handle.
He landed on the back of the wolf like one would a horse's back, and took two fistfuls of mane. The beast roared. The wrangling had begun.
Ryoga stopped and stared, totally dumbstruck for a moment. But very quickly he realized he could be of help in bringing down the monster in another way. He might not actually need to try and also fight it. But it was trying to carry Ranma off into the Lost Wood like a wild bronco does a foolish wrangler, and he couldn't get away if Ryoga completely blocked the path.
Ryoga leaped into the air, and did a high kick against a tree. Causing said tree to collide with another tree, which caused that tree to fall into a huge pile of rocks, creating a mini landslide. The wolf slave screamed, as he hit the rocks full on his nose. He tossed his head like a wild bull steer, but like dogs do he began to dig, letting a keening, blood-bubbling howl.
As Sheik, Ranma felt another energy flowing through him that he couldn't quite express...It wasn't exactly the same as when he let "Moko Takabisha" flow through him. This was something like sunlight streaming through his blood, golden virtue. Zelda's virtue. Not really knowing why he did so...(it wouldn't have been something Ranma One Half would have done) he began to hum softly, almost like a low singing chant, ominous and all at once encouraging. The wolf beneath him began to act drugged, like bees do when the keeper billows smoke into the hive. Then he thrust his palm down into its skull making a deep throated "Hup!" sound.
He felt"Moko Takabisha" and the "Golden Power" flow through him in one entwined colum. So strongly that it blasted him backwards, and out of the Sheik form, where Ranma One Half went sailing through the air, and collided back against the chest of Ryoga, who was in the middle of blindly, ferociously rapid-punching a tree so that it would crack in half and break, not even blinking at all the splinters that were flying up at him.
Ranma, Ryoga, and the tree went "timber",all the way to the floor of the Lost Woods, not knowing what had hit them.
Ranma slowly sat up, feeling his pigtail swing in the air, and his boy version arms aching as if he'd been swimming against an impossible current. One eye was swelled shut, bruised by Ryoga's fist for once accidentally colliding with it. Ryoga sat up with him, and spat leaves and tree and bolder pieces out, gaping at the scene before them.
The angelic phantom of Zelda floated out of the air, like soap suds roosting, and came to hover over the body of the boy with the white yew bow, who lay in the midst of a wolf's smoking bones, charred from thousands of heedless wars, blistered by unseen flames, comatose and barely breathing.
"He needs...a healer." Zelda breathed.
"Dr. Tofu!" Ranma cried, and ran forward, and reached and scooped the boy up onto his shoulders.
" Yeah! We'll take him to Dojo Tendo!" Ryoga gasped..." Now...how do we get there from the Amazon?"
Ranma face palmed. "Toldya'ready! We're in the Lost Wood! Speaking a which, Zelda, can you lead us outta here?"
Zelda closed her eyes, and folded her hands as if in prayer,
"Hiyaah...!" she gasped, and swung her arms out like wings, "Hut!" she gasped, slapping her hands together.
A heat wave of golden light rolled over the destroyed forest floor, cutting a path for them that blended right with the path that lead to Tendo Soun's doorstep.
Tendo Kasumi stood in her father's garden, watering vegetables. She turned about, a look of surprise on her face, as the portal closed, and Ryoga, a beautiful angel-elven princess ghost, and Ranma with a sick boy draped over his shoulders were left standing there.
"Oh my!" Kasumi gasped, and then smiled brightly, setting her water jar aside. "Here ,let me help. "