Chapter 6: Someone's in Trouble
Satan sits on the couch in his human disguise with his she devil Alley by his side watching through the mirror at the events, he is happy that his creation is getting to know ranma's life and his friends but not happy at how she keep's defying his power. Just thinking about it makes him quite angry as he slams his fist down on the table. "How dare she defy my power.. I made her and I can easily unmake her…" He digs his claws into the couch making large holes in the material. Alley tries to comfort him by rubbing his shoulders, but is pushed away by her master and this greatly hurts her feelings. "Master do not be so hasty to remove her existence, your plan will work out remember you can step in anytime and control her actions with that lovely necklace you created."
Satan strokes his chin thoughtfully, and allows alley to rub his shoulders once again, and gives her a kiss on the cheek for reminding him of this before his anger took place and ruined the whole plan. "Yes my dear you are correct, I'll just punish her greatly when she returns.. and let her know her father is displeased…it is time I take over this free spirit of hers.. she will be my puppet.." he pours himself a glass of wine and stirs it with his claw chuckling to himself and at onna through his mirror.
Nabiki takes one last picture and notes she's run out of film and has used all her camera's, this pleases her greatly now all she had to do was get the film developed and she could start business. She gathers up all the camera's, which are a good amount and opens one of her drawers and lays them inside and closes the drawer for the time being. "There that wasn't so bad, now was it?" she plops back down on her bed again crossing her legs.
Onna blinks a bunch of times trying to overcome all the colorful dots she's seeing from taking so many pictures, in such little time with so many bright flashes and changing into so many different outfits and posing and the different hair styles. She had enough and was ready to tell nabiki, but to her relief it was over for now. "What besides changing so many damn times, and having to follow all the orders you barked out at me.. and now I'll be blind for a good time.." rubs at her eyes, and yawns.
"You said you needed to get back to ranma before he was done fighting with his father, as I see it I did you big favor by not taking a break. Now my fingers really hurt from pushing all those buttons." Nabiki rubs at her sore fingers. Onna is ready to start mouthing off at the girl for her rude words. Here she went and left ranma again because of this girl's nagging and her demands, it was making her very angry and she was loosing her cool very fast. "Now listen here nabiki, you didn't have to change outfits every two minutes, and hair styles every other two minutes.. oh big whoop you pushed buttons, you wouldn't have to push so many damn buttons if you had one camera instead of twenty! As I see it, I'm the one who did you a favor, and your lucky I did." She changes back into the chinese outfit and starts braiding her hair back into a pigtail as she walks out of nabiki's room.
Ranma is still attacking his father, and has made a circle around the house leading his father around. He wondered where onna had run off to, that maybe she had left and was only joking about helping him out. He really needed a break he had been fighting back and forth with his father for a good half and hour, and was starting to get tired. Genma took the chance and tossed ranma head first into the koi pond, and started to walk off. Just as ranma was ready to give up he spotted onna and let her take his place.
Ranma then made his way to the bathroom to take a nice relaxing soak in the tub and rest for awhile.
Genma was almost to the porch when he felt ranma's hands gripping around his furry neck, and he growled at his son letting him know he had enough. Onna smirked at the panda and did a side sweep kick, knocking the large animal down onto the ground and then proceeds to slamming his face into the ground over and over again. Genma makes pathetic panda noises, and looks around for a sign to tell ranma to stop.
Akane has just come home from school, and spots ranma slamming her father's face into the ground out near the koi pond. This alarms her because usually ranma and his father don't spar like that, and she is afraid for mister saotome and runs out onto the porch to break it up. "Ranma stop it! Your father's had enough!" tries to pull ranma off from genma, and gets mad after ranma shoves her down to the ground with one foot, while still slamming genma's head into the ground. Akane gets back up very upset and slaps ranma across the face. "I said STOP!"
Onna glares daggers at the girl, yes she remembered this girl she had started with her back at the school. She glared at the short haired girl, and gave genma's head one last slam into the ground and let go of the panda's neck. Just to assert that she wasn't really listening to the girl, she gave the panda one last sharp kick to the panda's gut making it grunt.
Akane glowers at ranma in anger, she had not seen him for most of the day, and now she comes home to see him brutally beating on his father. But what surprised her the most is the sudden glare ranma was giving her, it made her feel uneasy. She then thought it had to be that girl's fault, he had been talking to her and she must've hypnotized him to do this.
"What is your problem ranma! Just look at what you've done to your poor father.." she kneels down to the panda looking quite upset. "What if you had killed him!"
"So what if I did Akane, you have no right to preach to me about my own father. Besides he can take more then this if he's such a great martial artist's, I mean he brags about it all the time." Onna smirks at her, greatly enjoying how upset the girl looks.
"You've gone too far Ranma! And it's all that girl's fault, she's put some kind of spell on you like before, it wouldn't have happened if you had listened to me in the first place you jerk!" Akane storms off into the kitchen with tears in her eyes and to the sink turning the hot water on, her hand shaking she filled a mug with hot water trying not to burst out crying. Ranma had shoved her and acted so mean to her, how dare he! There was a chance though, if she turned him back to a boy maybe the spell would wear off and he'd be himself again.
Kasumi eyed her sister somewhat, wondering what she was mad at but she was always mad so it wasn't a big deal. Besides she was in her own world as she was happily cooking, and chopping up vegetables. She thought she should ask her little sister to help her cook, even though akane wasn't that good at cooking she thought it would cheer her up.
"Akane would you mind helping me chop up some vegetables for tonight's dinner?" smiles at her sister.
Akane doesn't seem to hear her sister at all, she's too focused on the matter at hand. Her hand still shaking she turns off the facet and grabs the mug ignoring how hot it is, and runs off past her sister to the back porch holding the mug tightly. It just had to work, if it didn't she didn't know what to do. She ran up to ranma and flung the hot water on her. She backed away in fear as she saw there was no change, ranma remained a girl..a very mad girl at the moment.
Onna is extremely pissed at the girl, her red gem necklace glowing very brightly beneath the red shirt, she grabs some cool water from the koi pond and splashes herself quickly to stop the burning feeling. Then she turns her full attention to the shaking girl, and is ready to attack her full on without any mercy when a hand touches her shoulder.
"Now ranma I think that's enough.. I think you should stay away from akane for awhile.." Soun gives the girl a stern look, and then releases his hand from her shoulder and walks off with his arm around his daughter leading her into the house.
Onna grumbles to herself and decides she's had enough of this insanity, and goes back through the house not looking at anyone and goes to where ranma's pack is and takes her things out. Gathering up her belongings, and putting on the borrowed chinese shoe's she walks out of the house and stops as she see's ranma looking out the doorway.
"Hey if you wanted to go home, you should've said something."
Onna suddenly remembers that she has no idea how to get back to her house, from where ever she is and just nods. Ranma notes she looks quite upset and puts on his shoes and goes outside to where she is.
"Come on I'll take you home like I said I would." Ranma stop's remembering he has no idea where she lives. "Um you'll need to tell me where you live, so I can figure out a route."
Onna tells him her address and the town, ranma nods and tells her he knows a short route to that area and they both start walking out of the tendou's. Ranma asks her how the plan went, and listens in interest as she tells him.
"It was all going quite well, until that ugly tomboy butted in, oh and then her father butted in as well, oh and before that nabiki butted in.." Onna grumbles to herself quite annoyed, but keeps walking eager to get back home.
"Well thanks for helping me out, and I'm sorry about nabiki and akane bothering you. But if it's not too much to ask I'd like to do something like this again, well that is if it's alright with you.."
"I'll think about it, right now I just want to go home.." she keeps walking, not looking at ranma or paying attention to much.
Ranma stops walking as they come up to a side street and looks at the numbers. He realized that onna's house wasn't really all that far from his mother's house and got abit nervous at this. Onna notes how nervous ranma is getting as they near her house, and wonders what brought this on. Perhaps he was scared that her parents would be mad at him or something.
Alley peeks out the window and spots onna and a boy talking together near the driveway. She becomes very excited and tells her master of what she see's. Satan smirks evilly as he peers out the window and see's that his creation is indeed with ranma saotome.
"Alley I think it's time that we greet ranma." Satan chuckles to himself quite happily.
"Yes we shall my husband." she smirks and opens up the front door and puts on a smile as she calls out to onna.
Onna smiles as alley opens up the door and calls for her, she turns her attention back to ranma who is still looking very nervous. She giggled abit thinking he was nervous because of alley, and tried to tell him not to be so nervous. "Ranma calm down she's harmless really, she's just over friendly and over happy." slight smile.
"Ooh um yeah no problem, I guess meeting your mom couldn't hurt.. but lets make it really fast…"
Onna smiles at him and nods, and leads him up the driveway towards the front door where alley is. She stops short when a man comes outside and calls to her as well, for a minute she feels very nervous, like ranma shouldn't meet him. She can't exactly tell why, and this bothers her. She decides that she should follow this feeling, since it is very strong.
"Um maybe another time.. we'll we know where each other lives so.. if you need me or I need you for something, but you also know which school I go to so that's a better way of contacting me.. you should go home now. But thanks for walking me back here." She runs off up the driveway and past alley and satan into the house really fast.
Ranma is quite surprised as the two parents suddenly stare at him for a second and then the front door slams shut, he didn't even really get to say goodbye to her. He then thought as he started walking off at how weird she had been acting when she saw the man, oh well it was none of his business. Now he just wanted to get away from this area, it held too many memories and he wanted to go see his mother but he knew it wasn't a good idea. The longer he stayed in the area, the more tempting the idea became and he couldn't have that. He leapt up onto the fence and started running at full speed to get away.
Alley tried to talk to onna, but the girl just ran past her off to her room closing the door. This annoyed her at how close they had been to having ranma in there grasp and she had ruined it for them. Satan put his hand on her shoulder and looked at her, telling her that he was happy and he would handle the girl's discipline. Alley calmed down and smiled and went off to the kitchen to cook something up for the occasion.
Onna flopped on her bed and just laid there for awhile starring at the ceiling in a daze. She thought to herself the same thing over and over, why did she feel like that when she saw that man.. that she felt that something would happen if ranma came into her house. Why did she feel this way, she keep thinking about it constantly as she drifted off to sleep.
As she slept images flooded her mind, horrible images.. First she saw herself coming out from a cauldron and her eyes opened as red sprints of light pierced themselves into her skin, she felt the pain as each individual light went into her. Then she looked around somewhat out of it and saw a red creature with ivory horns taking his hand out of another creature and the bright red liquid that spilled from the other creature. Then the red creature took one of his claws and sliced his arm with it spilling some of his own blood, then he rubbed his blood in with the other creature's blood and a bright flash appeared and took the form of a red gem.
Satan entered Onna's bedroom in his true form and watched her toss and turn, and make painful noises. A sinister smile crept across his face as he watched her for a moment, then decided that he would wake her for her punishment. He walked over to the bed and leaned in close enough to her ear and whispered her name.
Onna's eyes suddenly snapped open full of tears, and she wiped them away looking around the room half awake for whoever had woken her up. Then her eyes get very wide as she see's the red creature from her dream smiling at her wickedly. She tried to get up and run, but her red gem on her necklace glowed brightly, so brightly that it burned her skin and she was unable to move as the red creature grabbed her by the neck and slammed her up against the wall. Onna tried to call out alley's name, but she found she could barely speak having the gigantic red hands grasped around her tiny neck. She felt all alone but then she saw alley come in, and she smiled somewhat and tried to call to her again. Then the most horrifying thing possible happened right before her eyes, Alley peeled off her skin and dropped it to the floor and there in her place was another red creature smirking at her just like the other one.
Alley walked up to where Satan was holding onna by her neck up against the wall, and leaned on Satan's shoulder letting the girl see another wickedly evil smile creep across her face. "So should we tell our sweet girl the truth?"
Satan gave alley a satisfied smirk, "Yes I believe we shall my servant."
Authors note's: Hopefully this chapter will answer some of your questions, and as for the next chapter will it's not going to be very pretty is all I can say.
Maybe later I'll draw up some Devil's Child fanart if I feel like it.
Ah yes all Ranma ½ characters are copyrighted © Rumiko Takahashi, Kitty, and Shogukan, Viz video and any others I have forgotten, man how I wish ranma was mine..