Chapter 7: No Escape
Onna's eyes go wide as one of the gigantic red hands grabs her face harshly and the finger's tighten their hold around her chin while the other hand, is still gripping her throat tightly. She hung her head low and turned her gaze away from the demonic looking creatures and down to the floor waiting to die. Her one and only guardian who she had trusted and loved was nothing, she was deceiving her all this time.. there was no alley. She felt her existence in this world was worth nothing, as she remembered the flashbacks from her dream. Then it finally hit her why she looked just like ranma as a girl, and she felt like dying even more now.
Satan tightened his hold around her chin, and made her bring her face up and look at him. Alley stood by Satan and watched with glee as he punished the girl, by taking the glowing red gem and pushing it into her skin burning her all the while, by still gripping her against the wall with one arm. Alley decided to rip apart whatever feelings if any were left and came forward.
"You see child this is what you get for not listening to your orders." she looks over to Satan up into his eyes as if to ask permission, and smiled as Satan nodded his head. She had her answer and flexed her gigantic steel like claws and sliced her claws into the girls arm, while laughing and then teased her by running her claw down and up her arm and then digging deep down into the open wound making her scream out.
Satan decided that for now this was enough punishment, and called alley off and then tossed the girl back onto the bed with one hand. He kneeled down besides the bed where the girl was in shock, and didn't move she just starred off into nothingness. "Now my child, you will do my bidding whether you like it or not.. but to be fair I will let you keep your free will, but as soon as you leave this house your free will disappears and I have control. Now if you would like to keep what little free will you have, then I suggest you follow my orders." He notes she's still shaking and looking off into nothingness. "Forgive my rudeness I should at least explain to you my plan, your reason for being here. As you may have figured out you were made to look just like Ranma Saotome's cursed form, I used his DNA to make you exactly like him so you my dear can frame him." Again he notes she's still shaking and starring off still and becomes a bit irritated by this. "Simply put you have no choice in the matter, tomorrow you will not be going to school, we have bigger plans." With what he wanted said he gets up and walks out of the room with alley closing the door behind him, leaving the girl to cry in misery.
Ranma enters the house taking off his shoes, only to have soun give him a dissatisfied look. Then he see's his father getting bandaged up by kasumi, who is also giving ranma a rather weird look. Ranma expects akane to come running over and bash him for anything and everything under the sun, but she hasn't she doesn't seem to be around at the moment. Then he finally decides to break the silence that is all around him. "Mr Tendou why are you looking at me like that? I always give my pop's a run for his money, when were training."
"I think you went abit far with that.. and as for what you did to akane, there is no excuse for shoving her when she was only concerned about you." Soun starts wailing on and on about his poor little girl.
Ranma is quite confused by the turn of events, he tried to picture what exactly had happened while he was taking a break and let Onna continue the fight for him. He finally figured out what happened, that akane must've come home and seen who she thought to be ranma beating on his father and tried to break it up. He wasn't terribly upset about it since Onna had only shoved her, and probably because she was barging in where she shouldn't have been. Anyway's it worked out for him, now he had peace for awhile no akane constantly bugging him, and his dad couldn't do too much at the moment either. He deserved to have time to himself without being bothered, and so he went off to his room.
Satan sat at the kitchen table drumming his fingers against the table impatiently, while sipping his coffee and watching the clock on the wall. The girl had cried herself to sleep last night and had still not moved from the spot she was all curled up in, it was now the next morning the day that he would put his plans into effect. He had enough of this behavior, and got up out of the chair and kicked the door open and grabbed her arm and jerked her off the bed onto the floor. "It's time to get up whether you like it or not.. you have five minutes to get ready and be in the kitchen." and with that he walked out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
Onna managed to pull herself up off the floor and sit herself on the edge of her bed, still starring down at the floor she slammed her fist as hard as she could into the wall making her hand bleed and then she felt it as the pain from her wound on her arm shot up her arm from the impact. She really didn't care about that as she fixed her hair and started to tie it into a pigtail just like her twins. She felt she had no control over anything, she was indeed just a toy robot. She got up off the bed wiping the remaining tears from her eyes and put on the chinese shoes, and walked out of her room towards the kitchen her head down as she passed by the she devil.
Satan looked up from the newspaper he was reading while he had been waiting for the girl, he noticed she was not happy at all but he didn't really care as long as she listened to him. He smirked in satisfaction at how much she looked like ranma, now being in the same clothes ranma wore.
"Please sit have some breakfast before we start today's mission."
Onna sits down faraway from him not looking at him or the other one, and starts to eat her breakfast quietly. Satan puts his newspaper down, at seeing this and gets up out of his seat and walks over to the girl putting his hand on her shoulder. "I'll tell you what my child, since you did listen to me somewhat I'll restore your free will abit more, and you can keep it, as long as you obey me. Is that clear?" Onna nodded her head, but still wouldn't look at Satan or Alley.
Ranma gets up and see's his father sleeping soundly on the other futon. He got up and started to get dressed into his regular chinese outfit, and fixed his hair somewhat and left the room only to bump into akane. Akane doesn't look at ranma and runs off downstairs in a huff to the table. Ranma decides to ignore her, otherwise she'd probably start yelling at him if he tried to help her. He also decided he'd go to U-chan's for breakfast to get away from everyones wrath, and with that he went downstairs and put his shoes on and left the house heading for u-chans.
Ukyou had invited ryouga over the day before, and she was always alone so she had asked him to stay over her place for the night. Of course she made up another futon for ryouga and when they had gone to the public baths, she went to the girls side and he went to the guys side. She yawned and looked over to where ryouga was still sleeping and smiled at how cute he looked sleeping, oh well she had to get up and get ready for school. She got up and changed into her boys uniform, deciding that today she'd wear the usual, she got less attention when she wore this one. She was a girl though, so she would also wear the girl uniform, but every now and then she needed a break from all the attention it gave her. Ukyou made her way downstairs to the shop area and decided to make herself a quick breakfast, when she heard a knock on the door. Who would be here so early she thought to herself as she opened the door.
Ranma stood there in the doorway rubbing his head nervously, he didn't realize that ukyou's shop wasn't always opened. But he forgot that as he saw the cute smile spread across ukyou's face as she set her eyes on him.
"Ranma Huney what brings you here so early?"
"Sorry U-chan I forgot that your shop isn't open this early, but I really wanted some of your cooking."
Ukyou blushed at what he said. "That's alright I was just going to make myself some breakfast, so why don't you join me."
"Thanks a lot U-chan, your the best." Ranma walks in after Ukyou and sits down in one of seats next to the grill, and watches ukyou prepare everything, and start cooking. Ranma sits and smells the aroma of the food as it cooks, with a smile on his face the whole time.
Satan explains to onna what he wants her to do, and shows her who to go after. He also make's sure that she understands her position and rank, and tells her that from now on she will call him master, unless she has an outsider in the house then she will call him dad. He also points out that he will be controlling her actions somewhat, till he see's that she can do things on her own, and if she does things wrong there will be consequences. She nods as he tells her everything she needs to know, and gets up from the table and walks to the front door and leaves the house.
She shielded her eyes at the sun, and started walking in the direction of the nekohanten café, remembering the map and directions that Satan had told her. She still had her head down as she walked towards her first destination, she wondered how her friend Ivory back at school was doing since they had been separated yesterday. She wondered if she'd ever be allowed to go back to school, oh he'd let her go back to school but probably not Asadaiba since Ranma didn't go there. It was all about ranma now wasn't it, that's why she had to do such low things. As she walked she grew angry thinking about how alley had given her the hideous wound on her right arm, she had shared her feelings and everything with that thing she called a guardian. She wasn't going to let that creature get away with what she had done to her, if her heart had to be broken then she'd have to break the creature's as well.
Shampoo started to get things ready in the restaurant, since preparing for the day took a long time she always started early. She started by taking the clean dishes out and laying them out where they could get at them easily when they needed to. Then she went outside and started to clean the door frame, when she saw her airen in girl form walking up towards her. Shampoo was so happy that ranma had come to see her.
"Aiyah Airen come to see Shampoo, it makes me so very happy." runs towards ranma and glomps onto her.
Onna eyes the girl for a second and remember the images Satan had showed her, and ranma's stories he had been telling her. Then her red gem lit up brightly and her mind was flooded with images and memories, these must be ranma's memories she thought to herself. Her attention goes back to shampoo who is clinging to her all happy.
"Well why wouldn't I Shampoo, you know I love you the most."
"Aiyaaa Ranma really means it! Shampoo knew you liked me the most." cuddles and snuggles against Onna affectionately.
Mousse peered through the doorway and his hair bristled at what he heard and saw. There was his shampoo and Ranma professing each other's love to one another, how dare he pull something like this. He would not just sit back and watch his beloved shampoo be taken away from him.
"Ranma Saotome how dare you take my woman!"
Onna eyes the boy with glasses and long black hair and chinese outfit as well, and the memories flood through her head again, memories of mousse. She then grabs the bucket near the door and flings the contents on mousse laughing evily. Shampoo has another bucket ready in her hands, but puts it down as she realizes ranma beat her to it.
"Ranma protect shampoo from Mousse? I thought you try to defend him.."
Onna smirks at the purple haired girl known as Shampoo. "Why would I, he wants to take you away from me."
Shampoo blushed and glomped back onto Onna snuggling up against her all happy. "We tell great grandmother yes?"
Onna smiles at her. "Of course you can tell her, I have to be going now Shampoo but I'll be back." Give's shampoo a wink and then leaps up onto the fence and starts running off to her next destination.
Nabiki gathered her developed film together, and the copies putting them carefully into her backpack and then heads off to school thinking of all the money she'll make today. She notices akane walking far behind her looking quite angry, and since she's in a good mood she decides to try to be nice.
"Akane you seem upset, is everything ok with you?"
Akane is interrupted from her thoughts as her older sister talks to her. "No did you hear the way ranma was acting yesterday? She shoved me! Ranma would never do that!"
"Actually Akane ranma always shoves you out of the way, usually when he feel's your in trouble. So he probably didn't want you getting in the middle of the fight that's all."
"But she shoved me with her foot! Ranma has never done that before.. even as a girl.."
"Maybe you just put ranma in a bad mood, you know how girls get." Keeps walking towards the school very happy at seeing kuno, which she usually isn't unless she has business to do with him.
Akane thinks about what her sister had just said, it did make sense after all. She was very surprised that she hadn't been charged yet, she waited for nabiki to say she owed her for her time but she didn't say anything. She was abit worried about it but decided not to say anything, if she did she would surely be charged for reminding her sister about it.
"Well Akane it's been fun but I have things to do." Nabiki walks off rather fast towards the kendo club, leaving akane far behind. She knocks on the door to the kendo club and waits unpatiently tapping her foot. Finally the door is opened and she goes inside. Kuno is sitting on some sitting pillows with his eyes closed in the direction of his large posters of the pigtailed girl and Akane Tendou. "What is it you want Nabiki Tendou.. can't you see that I'm busy.."
"Oh I guess you don't want pictures of the pigtailed girl then." She starts to head for the door smirking to herself, knowing kuno will want them no matter what.
"Pictures! Hah I already have those so called pictures.." he crosses his arms and looks at the posters on the wall.
"Oh I don't think you've seen these pictures yet." Pulls one of the sexy ones out from her pocket and flashes in front of kuno's face really fast.
Kuno face faults into the ground, and gets back up really fast.
"She is so radiant more then usual, I must have that picture nabiki tendou.. name your price.."
Authors notes: There we go, now things are really heating up abit and will continue to in the next chapter.
Ranma ½ belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Kitty, Shogukan, Viz video and any others I have forgotten, man how I wish ranma was mine..