Dance With the Devil
Kyoto Chapter 5
Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, for if I did there would be a lot more sex.
Armiture: Huh, so that's how they drown? I had no idea.
Kaiya Azure: Trust me, when I saw Rossweisse's attack in canon I was like "Gate of Babylon?"
It was eight when Azazel had the members of Sona's peerage, Rias's peerage, Ranma and Serafall meet in Issei's room. "So this is what we know. In exactly two hours, a powerful Devil will be releasing dangerous creatures known as Soul Bees into Kyoto. Some of you already know how dangerous these things are, so I won't waste time explaining it. Just remember that if you see one, kill it immediately. The last thing we need is this infestation to get worse." Everyone nodded and he continued. "On top of that, Lady Yasaka is going to be the prize of this so-called game that's been set up. I don't think I need to explain how disturbing this is."
Ranma tuned out Azazel as he talked about the foundations of Kyoto and thought about what was going on.
"I've made a call to someone who's an expert at handling situations." When asked who, he just told them that they would know the person when they saw the person. "Anyway," he looked at Ranma, "you said you had a plan for dealing with the Hero Faction?"
"It's more like we planned on screwing up whatever they're planning." Ranma replied. "I noticed the Ki of the area was out of whack when I first showed up. Thankfully a couple of people are in town that can use this to our advantage."
"Care to fill us in on the details?" Azazel asked, getting a smirk from Ranma.
"If you compare the way Ki is set up in this city to a flowing river, I guess you could say that we're going to create a large drainage ditch to cut the flow from going downstream." Ranma shrugged at the looks he was getting. "It'll screw up what those bozos have planned. Anyway, the Youkai Association is having their best magic users help on this." He looked at the others. "And this is going to sound very weird, but if you come across large piles of laundry laying on the ground, don't touch them, no matter what. We need them for this plan to work." He shrugged at the looks he was getting. "Trust me, don't ask, you'll keep your sanity longer that way."
Azazel put his hand over his mouth and coughed softly. "Very well," putting his hand down, he looked at the others, "I'll only say this once. This trip isn't over until everyone gets home safely. As for taking care of the Soul Bees, I want the Sitri family to deal with them." He looked at Issei and the others, "Irina and the Gremory family will go to take on the Hero Faction."
"Right." Both groups said at the same time.
"I want Saji to join the Gremory family. Just in case." Azazel looked at Saji, who nodded. "Issei, you're responsible for him if something goes wrong, so make sure that he survives." Issei nodded, even if they were rivals in some things, he still considered Saji to be a friend of his. "Ranma," Azazel looked at him, "what do you and your group plan on doing?"
"We're going with Issei and the others to save Yasaka. Besides, there's a chance that Bikou and his group might show up again and that would really suck for everyone." Ranma replied, his tone serious.
"Very well." Azazel nodded. "Unfortunately, I'm going to be monitoring everything from here, so I won't be able to go with. On top of the Soul Bees, there's a good chance that some of the Hero Faction may try to escape in the chaos or cause more problems."
"Anything we should know about Soul Bees specifically?" Saji asked.
"Yeah, if they sting you, you're as good as dead." Ranma told them. "Not kidding, if they stick their stinger in you, they're going to inject themselves into you and then kill you from inside." Everyone listening in turned a bit green at the thought.
"Which is why I want you all to take extra care when out there." Azazel told them. "I do have some good news though." He reached into his coat and pulled out a couple of vials. "I managed to round up some Phoenix Tears for this. Sadly..." he trailed off and looked at the two he put on the table. "That's all I could get. Each group gets one."
"But that's not enough." Saji protested.
"Sorry, that's all I could get." Azazel shook his head. "Anyway, we've been here long enough. Prepare yourself and leave at nine." He looked at Issei. "Make sure that you don't enter the shrine until ten minutes to ten at the earliest. Any earlier and who knows what will happen."
Issei nodded at him. "Roger." As he picked up the Phoenix Tear bottle, he wondered if there was a way to mass produce the stuff.
(-)
Meanwhile...
Jedah grinned as he picked up another bottle of Phoenix Tears that popped out of Akane's cauldron. "Most impressive." Looking at Akane, he wondered just how far this cauldron could take things. "I wonder, can you fuse stuff with this cauldron?"
"Perhaps. But I do not know." Akane answered mechanically. "Is there something you wish to see fused together?"
Snapping his fingers, a screen popped into view. "You see this?" He pointed at the person on the screen. "This Sacred Gear is a very potent one, however, it lacks a physical form."
"Then how can..." Akane blinked and nodded as she saw where the Sacred Gear was stored. "Do you wish for this for yourself?"
"No." Jedah shook his head. "For a... Companion of mine." He chuckled and grinned. "Unlike Boosted Gear, this one doesn't need a powerful beast inside of it. For now, don't worry about it, but I will need it later."
"Of course." She nodded.
"Anyway, it's time for me to go. Go and rest or whatever." He bowed and disappeared in a flash.
Akane walked over to her bed and laid down to rest.
(-)
Meanwhile...
"Hey, Issei." Azazel spoke up, catching the attention of Issei and the others as they prepared to leave the hotel. "Come here for a sec."
"What's up?" Issei asked as he walked over.
"I was taking a walk outside when a pervert tried groping a woman just outside the hotel. Naturally I helped restrain him until the police arrived, however," Azazel reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a reddish gem the size of a baseball, "when I did, this fell out of him."
"I don't believe it." Ddrag was heard from Issei's left hand.
"What's wrong?" Issei asked as he took it from Azazel.
"Believe it or not, that's the thing that came out of the box Elsha gave you."
"...Wait, what?! THIS IS MY POTENTIAL?!" Issei yelled in dismay.
"Well, that makes sense," Azazel sighed. "When I grabbed it, I couldn't help but notice it felt like Issei."
"So on top of dealing with the Khaos Brigade, we'll have to deal with the fallout from this too, huh?" Rossweisse sighed in annoyance. "As if I didn't have enough, urk!" She put her hand to her mouth and ran off, looking for a bathroom.
"You'd think she would have puked everything out by now." Azazel muttered. "What's wrong?" He asked as he noticed Issei was looking rather glum.
"I was wondering... What does it mean to be a Hero?" Issei sighed heavily. "When I was a kid, I looked up to Heroes as awesome, but after everything here recently, I just wonder if they really are awesome."
"Issei," Ranma spoke up before Azazel could, "I don't consider myself a hero, but the truth is, a Hero is just someone who does something no one else can do. That's all."
"He's right." Azazel continued before Issei could say anything, "but that doesn't matter. What do you want to do with your life?"
"Duh!" Issei grinned, "I want to be a Harem King!" He then laughed and rubbed the back of his head, "but right now all I want is to be the best I can be for Rias and help my friends."
"There's nothing wrong with that." Azazel smiled at him. "Whether big or small, whatever goals you have in life, it's important to be true to yourself."
"And at this moment, I just want to beat the crap out of those Khaos Brigade douchebags." Issei grinned, getting a nod from both Azazel and Ranma.
(-)
A bit later...
Ranma groaned as he looked around. "I feel like Ryoga, but, where on Earth are we now?" Nearby he could see Lilith, Atsuko and Mittelt all looking around in confusion. "Okay, we were at a train station, then Kunou showed up and demanded to help save her mother, then a purple mist showed up after we agreed to let her join."
"Eh?! Where did you four come from?" A male voice spoke up. Turning around, Ranma saw a man with spiky blue hair and a muscular build in blue pants and a white shirt, looking at them in confusion. "I was, uh... How do you say, sitting here and then poof!"
"You're not from Japan, huh?" Ranma asked, getting a shake of the man's head.
"England, just traveling, you four appeared from nowhere."
"Lovely," Ranma sighed, "you wouldn't happen to know where Kyoto is, would you?"
The man blinked and pointed to the North. "About a hundred kilometers in that direction, I think."
"Lilith, can you teleport us back?" Ranma asked.
"I can..." Lilith frowned heavily. "Shit!"
"What?" Mittelt asked in confusion.
"I just tried to connect to Kyoto, but the barrier being used by Serafall and Azazel to prevent the Hero Faction from teleporting out is blocking me from teleporting in."
"Lovely." Ranma grumbled, even at top speed it would take twenty to thirty minutes to get back to Kyoto. "Alright, ladies, we're going."
"Can I fly finally?" Atsuko asked. When Ranma nodded as his wings spread out, she jumped in glee. "YAY!"
Watching the group all gain wings and take off into the air, the man known as Jon Talbain blinked, rubbed his eyes and shook his head. "What the hell is going on here? What kind of Darkstalkers are those four?"
In the air, Ranma pulled out his cellphone as it rang. "Issei, what's happening?"
"We all got split up, but we're all in Kyoto, where are you at?"
"About thirty minutes out of Kyoto. We tried teleporting in, but it seems that the barrier to block teleportation prevents anyone from warping in."
"Alright, fine, but don't whine when you get back here and the battle's already wrapped up."
Ranma smirked, he could live with that. "Fine, see ya." He hung up his phone and frowned. 'Yasaka, Kunou, Issei, be safe you guys.'
(-)
As he and Kunou got to Nijo Castle, Issei waved at Kiba, Xenovia, Asia and Irina. "Where's..." He trailed off as he saw Rossweisse on her knees puking the the grass with Saji helping her out. "Gross, anyway..." He looked at Xenovia and her new sword. "What's this?"
"It just arrived from the church a few moments ago." Xenovia smiled at him. "They combined the Excalibur fragments they had with Durandal and remade this so I can more easily control it." The blade was just as long as before, but it looked closer to a sawed off gun barrel attached to a sword hilt with a sword blade attached on top of that.
"Well, that's convienent timing." Issei grinned before blinking as the door to the castle opened up. He could feel the power resonating from inside.
"We best not keep them waiting then." Kiba said as they walked up the stairs and to the castle.
"Well, well, looks like you finally showed up, and exactly ten minutes early." Cao Cao said as he and three others stood on top of the castle. "You've met Siegfried from the bridge," he gestured to the dark-skinned, white haired man with a sword in each hand, "this is Jeanne," he pointed to the blonde haired woman in orange armor behind him, "and this is Heracles." He jerked a thumb to the big guy with tanned skin and silver hair who wore some sort of armor over a Japanese school outfit to his left.
"Where's mother?!" Kunou asked, glaring at him. When Cao Cao pointed to the side, she gasped as she saw her mother surrounded by a few people she had never seen before. "Mother! It's me! Kunou!"
When the blonde woman didn't respond, Kunou turned back to Cao Cao and snarled. "What did you do to her?!"
"Nothing much." Cao Cao shrugged. "Merely a hypnotic trance, it'll wear off soon, oh..." He snapped his fingers and grinned as the sounds of battle were heard across Kyoto. "Ah yes, the Soul Bees will be lots of fun."
"You bastards." Issei growled at Cao Cao. "You could have let her go, you gain nothing for doing this!"
"Yeah but it's more fun this way." Cao Cao grinned at him. "Now then..." He snapped his fingers again and Yasaka groaned as her body started to glow before she changed into a Dragon-sized fox. "Ah yes, the absolute pinnacle of Youkai, it'll be fun to have her rampage across Kyoto, won't it?"
"Enough!" Xenovia yelled as she held her sword up into the air, a pillar of yellow light erupting from it. "EAT THIS!" She screamed and slashed downwards, destroying the castle in an instant.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Issei screamed as Xenovia let out a sigh of contentment. "DON'T JUST ACT LIKE YOU DIDN'T DO MUCH! YOU DROPPED A FREAKING BLASTING ZONE ALL OVER THIS PLACE!" He couldn't believe it, that sword took out a chunk of Kyoto like a freaking asteroid had just crashed down on it.
Squirming while shaking her hips and blushing at her handiwork, Xenovia grinned. "When they fused the Excalibur fragments into Durandal, it gained all their abilities. I'm naming this new Durandal, Ex-Durandal. I just wish those guys had been tougher, I wanted more fun."
Just as she said that, Cao Cao, Seigfried, Jeanne, and Heracles all climbed out of the soft dirt. "Well, that happened." Cao Cao muttered partially in amazement and partially in amusement.
"Can we hurry it up?" Siegfried asked in annoyance. "As amusing as this is, we won't have much time as soon as we start."
"Fair point. Georg," Cao Cao looked to the side where a young man with brown hair, glasses and a red coat was standing, "could you please start us off?"
"Of course." Georg said as he walked up the stairs he was on and started casting a complex array of magic spells.
Rossweisse gulped as she watched him work. "Infernal Magic, Fallen Angel Magic, Holy Magic, Norse Magic, Fairy Magic, Light and Dark Magic all at the same time?" She couldn't believe it, the number of spellcasters in history that could use that many spells at once were limited to a small handful. She could probably count the amount of people who could do that on one hand and have fingers left over.
When the spell arrays disappeared, Georg fired a magic blast at the fox Youkai, causing it to start howling. "There." He said to the group. "It's done. In a few moments all the Ki of Kyoto will start to overwhelm her and she'll go berserk."
"NO!" Kunou yelled as she trembled.
"Saji!" Issei yelled at the blonde. "Can you and Vritra keep her from destroying Kyoto?"
"Not a problem." Saji grinned as he called up his Sacred Gear. "Alright, Vritra! PROMOTION!" A flash of powerful dark energy formed around him and his body was replaced by a large serpentine Dragon.
"So that's the Dragon King, Vritra, huh?" Cao Cao muttered in amazement. "It's almost a shame that he can't run free, I would have loved to fight him at his peak." Shaking his head to clear it as the dark serpentine Dragon moved to engage with Yasaka, he looked at the Devils in front of him. "Well then, let's get this over with." Cao Cao smirked. "Who do you want to fight, Siegfried?"
"Hmm... I think..." He pointed the Demonic Sword Gram at Kiba and then his other sword at Xenovia. "Those two should be most fun for me."
"Jeanne? Heracles?"
"I'll take that Angel cutie." Jeanne grinned at Irina.
"I guess I'll take the last one." Heracles pointed at Rossweisse, who held up a finger and turned to puke again. "...What's wrong?"
"She doesn't hold alcohol well." Issei muttered. "I guess that means you and me, huh, Cao Cao?"
"Indeed." He grinned at Issei. "Just so we're clear, I just want to test myself, but there isn't a lot of time before she goes insane, so..."
The others spread out to face off with their chosen opponents.
"WELSH DRAGON! BALANCE BREAKER!" Ddrag called out as Issei was engulfed in flames before his red scale mail covered him.
"Asia, Kunou, watch over each other." Issei said as he walked up to Cao Cao.
(-)
After exchanging a few blows with Xenovia and Kiba, Seigfried grinned as his Twice Critical Sub Species pulled out another Demonic Sword. "This is Balmung."
Xenovia reached up to one of the chambers of Ex-Durandal and a cylinder popped out, transforming into a sword. "A two sword job, huh?"
"I really should tell you," he grinned at them, "that I've got more than just one extra arm here. Twice Critical, Balance Break!"
Kiba and Xenovia watched as three more arms erupted from Siegfried's body, two off of his shoulders and one on his side, each of them reached into his coat and pulled out three more swords. "Six arms?" Kiba asked, wondering where the hell this came from.
"This is Nothung," Siegfried waved the sword above his left shoulder, "Tyrfing," the sword above his right shoulder waved, "and in my other hand is a Light Sword, perfect for you Devils. This is my Twice Critical Chaos Edge Asura Ravage."
(-)
Dodging out of the way of various Holy shots Irina was shooting at her, Jeanne grinned up at her. "Wow, look at you, Angel-chan! You're killing it." Twisting around, she swung her rapier to the side, sending a wave of Holy Swords at Irina, who gasped and flew back. "How do you like my Blade Blacksmith Sacred Gear, huh? It's basically the Holy version of that cute blonde's Sword Birth over there." Grinning, she swung her rapier backwards. "Now how about I show you? My Stake Victim Dragon Balance Break!"
Irina gasped as a dome of Holy swords were formed, before shattering and revealing a Dragon made up of Holy swords appeared. "Fighting the reincarnation of the Holy Maiden and a Dragon made up of Holy swords? Scary, but I have to do this, both because I'm Lord Michael's Ace and because I won't let my friends down!" With new determination, she flew at Jeanne.
(-)
Letting out a roar, Heracles grinned. "Variant Detonation - Mighty Comet, BALANCE BREAK!" He screamed as a yellow aura erupted around him before his body was covered in spiky armor parts around his shoulders, legs, knees and elbows. "Let's have some fun!" His hands were covered in what looked like missile heads before he punched at Rossweisse, the hands flying right at her as she took off to avoid them.
Grinning as they exploded, Heracles watched as a green aura surrounded Rossweisse. "Well then." He grinned and jumped after her, shooting her with more missiles.
(-)
Cao Cao shook his head as he watched the other three fight. "Well then, shall we begin in earnest?"
"Why not just whip your Balance Breaker out as well?"
"No thanks." Cao Cao grinned at Issei. "I don't need it to beat you."
Growling, Issei rushed forward as his Dragon Scale Armor ignited boosters on his back to increase his speed. Punching forward, he found his right hand parried by Cao Cao as he spun around and then thrust the tip of the spear at Issei's head. Using his right hand, he parried that to the side before rolling and cartwheeling over Cao Cao, who had used his momentum to get away from where Issei was going to land before thrusting the butt of his spear at Issei's face, hitting the side of his armor and causing him to stagger. With a grim look, Cao Cao thrust his spear upwards and stabbed Issei in the stomach before stepping back as a red mist erupted from Issei's armored body and forcing the armored Devil to his knees. "This round belongs to me." Seeing Issei get enveloped in a green aura, he stepped back. "Really, it's not your fault. You're not weak, you've just got a lot of openings."
Grabbing the lone bottle of Phoenix Tears that he had in his possession, Issei sprayed it on his wound, stopping the mist from erupting. "Holy crap, that hurt!"
Grinning at Issei, Cao Cao couldn't help but chuckle. "You were really close to dying, you know that? Just so you know, this spear isn't just a fancy spear, it's the True Longinus, the spear that pierced Christ's body, and that makes it one of the strongest Holy weapons in reality. So no matter how strong you get as a Devil, you can never overcome this power."
Grimacing, Issei stood up. "Screw you."
"Well, I'm impressed, I would have thought you would have ran away in fear."
Issei glared at him. "You think I'm not scared? I am, but if I can't land at least one blow on you, I don't deserve to be the Red Dragon Emperor."
Laughing, Cao Cao pointed his spear at Issei as he took a stance. "I see! I see now! This is why Vali likes you so much. You may not be that much of a threat, but you're entertaining enough."
"BOOST BOOST BOOST BOOST!"
A powerful red blast formed in front of Issei before he punched it at Cao Cao, who slashed upwards, disrupting the shot and causing it to scatter. Before he could fully recover, Issei was charging in, Ascalon extending from his left gauntlet and cutting Cao Cao's left arm off as the spear user slashed at him. "How's that!?"
Cao Cao jumped back and stuck the butt of his spear into the ground as he caught his dismembered arm. "Well, that happened."
"You're damn right, now I'll, HUH?!" Issei watched, perplexed as Cao Cao pulled out a vial of Phoenix Tears and poured several drops on the severed arm. "Oh come on! How'd YOU get those?!"
"Well, it wasn't exactly legal, I admit." Cao Cao put the severed arm onto his bloody stump and Issei could only stare as it reattached.
"Okay, time out! Why did the blood disappear and how the hell did your clothes fix themselves?"
Before Cao Cao could answer, several cracks appeared in Issei's armor and a huge hole appeared on his chest. "Huh?!" He couldn't believe it as he slumped down to one knee.
Rotating his arm to make sure that it worked properly, Cao Cao grinned. "While you were taking my arm, I was busy landing a few blows of my own on you."
"No fair!" Jeanne's voice was heard as she carried an unconscious Irina over to them. "You're still fighting?"
"Well, he is facing the Red Dragon Emperor." Siegfried replied as he carried Xenovia and Kiba with his four Balance Breaker arms.
"No fair! I wanted to fight him too!" Heracles sounded annoyed as he threw Rossweisse on the ground in front of him.
"You're not weak, really," Cao Cao said to Issei, "it's just that compared to us, you're not good enough. Georg, what's going on?"
"The Dragon King is really giving her a hard time, but since she's berserk, she doesn't care what happens to him or herself." Georg shrugged as he watched the giant fox stomp around on the ground over and over, spewing fire at the Imprisoning Dragon King. "However, I can feel her life force diminishing with each moment. Too bad, really."
As Irina, Xenovia, Kiba, Rossweisse and Issei were all covered in green healing energy, Cao Cao tapped the spear against his shoulder. "Well, that's unfortunate. I guess we win, huh? We'll just have to wait until she burns herself out or Vritra defeats her, whichever comes first."
Issei tuned him out as he tried to move. 'Dammit, what good is this power? Huh? What? Just good enough to hold my own for a little bit? I can't even... I can't win this fight, can I? I can't beat him.'
"HOLD IT!"
"Huh?" Cao Cao looked up as two figures dropped from the sky. "Who's this, the B-squad?"
"Hmm? Isn't that the boy who challenged the entire Khaos Brigade?" Siegfried asked. "I remember Vali and Bikou commenting on it."
"Oh yeah, now I remember their description." Cao Cao grinned. "Ranma Saotome, I assume? I hear you gave Vali a good fight."
Ranma ignored them and turned to Issei. "YOU IDIOT!" He screamed before rushing up and kicking Issei in his injured chest.
"GAH!" Issei screamed as he fell onto his back. "WHAT THE HELL, MAN?!"
Ignoring Issei for a moment, Ranma looked up at Mittelt and Lilith, who were floating in the sky. "You two, see that Vash the Stampede wannabe over there?"
"Yeah?"
"Kill him." Ranma said, his eyes narrowed. "And make it so that when he gets to the Land of the Dead, the Grim Reapers go and wonder who he is."
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU KICK ME?!" Issei yelled.
"You were going to give up, weren't you?" Ranma asked him, his eyes narrowed as he threw his hand to the side in anger. "Is that the kind of man you are? Is that the kind of man you taught Gasper to be? Is that the kind of man you want Rias to love?!"
Issei couldn't say anything to that.
"What kind of man just gives up like that, huh?" Ranma pointed at Cao Cao. "You really want to tell me that you gave up when facing this whiny bitch?"
"Who's a whiny bitch?" Cao Cao asked, annoyed that he'd be called that.
"Whaaa! I'm a weak human! Pity me!" Ranma said in an annoying, whiny voice.
"...Do I really sound like that?"
"Sometimes." Jeanne replied.
"Face it, Issei, you'll never beat Sairaorg if you can't punch through the wall in front of you." Ranma turned and scoffed. "Unless you're that pathetic. Go ahead, stay down, but if you give up now, Issei, you'll never be able to fight anyone better than you."
"I'm not like you! I can't just go "ignore reason and logic" and hope to win!" It hurt to yell right now, why couldn't Ranma just see this?
"YOU DUMBASS!" Ranma yelled and turned back to him. "You don't need to ignore reason and logic, you just need to keep trying! If you give up before you truly give your all, what's the point of even trying?!" He turned and scoffed again. "But go ahead, be a weak coward if that's all you can be. But I thought you were better than that, better than him, better than those who doubted you. I guess I was wrong."
"Ranma, I..."
"If you can't believe in yourself, then realize this, everyone else believes in you! Draw strength from that instead then!"
"Hey, Master!" Lilith called out. "I don't know why, but for some reason that purple mist he's using is blocking our attacks!"
"That's Dimension Lost, the third strongest Longinus." Cao Cao supplied for her. "It can teleport people away, trap them in a pocket dimension, oh, and it can completely block any and all attacks." He smirked. "Still, a couple of people coming this late? It's too bad, Lady Yasaka has about... I think one minute left."
"Hold that thought." Ranma said as he pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number. "Ah, big tittied perv, you picked up. I'm putting you on speaker for everyone."
"Who are you calling a big tittied perv?! Anyway, what took you so long?! I was thinking you were going to let poor Yasaka die!"
"Warped out of the city and the wards around the city Azazel put up were preventing us from warping back here right away. Lilith didn't know enough of the area around Kyoto to warp to any place safely. Anyway, activate the plan."
"Ranma!" Happosai's voice was heard. "You owe me big!"
"Yeah, yeah, just get on with it."
Before anyone could ask what was happening, five pillars of purple energy erupted to the South of their current position.
"What the hell is that?" Cao Cao asked and looked at Ranma, who grinned at him. "What are you planning on doing?"
"DO IT NOW!" Ranma yelled.
"Gladly!" Happosai's master cheered. "I'll drain all the Ki in Kyoto into myself with this! Hadou No Yen SATSU!"
Seeing Yasaka stop thrashing around and slow down, Cao Cao looked at Georg. "What's going on?!"
"I...I don't believe it. All the Ki in Kyoto is being drained into one spot!" The brown haired Longinus user gasped in shock as he watched Yasaka shrink and return to her human form, obviously drained. "HOW?!" He was so shocked his glasses almost fell off of his face.
Ranma just grinned at him before looking at Yasaka, who was on the ground, unconscious. "One more second." He rushed over to Yasaka, who was being held by a crying Kunou. "Hey." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a vial. "Good thing I still have this, huh?"
"What?" Kunou sniffled as Ranma opened the vial and poured the drops onto Yasaka, who groaned as the drops worked on her. "MOTHER!"
"Nnngh... Kunou?" She opened her eyes and smiled as her daughter hugged her. "I'm sorry." Yasaka's eyes widened as she saw who was behind her daughter. "Ranma? It's been... So long."
"Yeah, I know." He smiled at her before turning to face the Hero Faction. "Just stay and rest, I'll catch up with you later." He looked at Vritra, who turned back to Saji. "Hey, since you're still good, can you make sure to get her and everyone else out of the fight zone?" Saji nodded and helped Yasaka to her feet. "Thanks."
"How the hell did you have Phoneix Tears?" Issei asked as Ranma walked back over to them.
"Got them when I was in China from Ravel. Never used them though." Ranma shrugged at him. "Now then, how about we deal with these douchebags? Or are you too tired to keep fighting?"
"I..."
"As amusing as this is, there's no point to keep going." Cao Cao said and shrugged. "You won, you got Lady Yasaka back and she's alive, so there's nothing more for us to do here."
"Oh no..." Ranma snarled as he walked forward, energy crackling around his body. "You fuckers aren't going anywhere. I'm going to lay all four of you out by myself if I have to."
"Oh?" Cao Cao grinned at him. "And why is that?"
"Because," Ranma snarled, "Yasaka is MY WIFE!" He screamed, an eruption of green energy forming around him. "AND I'LL TEAR ALL OF YOU APART MYSELF IF I HAVE TO!"
Watching his power surge and listening to what he was saying, Yasaka felt her cheeks turning red. 'Well, I never did get that honeymoon.'
The sound of whirling blades filled the air and everyone looked as a helicopter hovered over the battlefield.
"Now what?" Cao Cao asked in annoyance.
"Yoo hoo! Atsuko! Honey!"
"Mama-san?" Atsuko blinked in shock. "What are you doing here?" Though she was certain that Akiko couldn't hear her.
"Raise your right arm! I got something for you!"
Pointing his spear at the helicopter, Cao Cao prepared to blast it. "These distractions are getting annoying." When an emerald green blast came his way, he quickly spun and cut the attack, shattering it.
"And so are you." Ranma snarled at him. "Issei, can you fight or are you done?"
"Give me a second and I'll get back up." Issei groaned in pain. "After that speech you gave me, it'd be pretty pathetic if I didn't get back up and fight."
Ranma grinned at hearing that. "Good, because if you gave up, I'd lose all respect for you." Issei looked at Ranma in shock. "Despite how I treat you, you are a friend, and maybe one day you'll be a good rival."
"Ranma..."
"Yo! Mama!" Atsuko waved her right arm in the air. "What did you want from..." The sound of something being fired broke through the air and she blinked as something latched onto her arm. "A watch?" Her eyes widened as she realized it was a lot more than just a watch, it was melding to her systems and enhancing them. "Hey, Issei..."
"Yeah?"
"What's that armor of yours called again? When you turn into it?"
"Um, my Balance Break?"
Atsuko grinned at hearing that. "Since everyone else has one, I think I'll join in too! NUKU NUKU BALANCE BREAK!"
Yeah, I know, I left the fights the same as canon because 1: People haven't seen it and 2: I thought they were well done.
And, yes, I've been planning THIS moment with Atsuko for awhile now.
And Innortal's being silly again!
"If we dress up as devils for Halloween," Issei asked, "is that racist?"
Lilith rolled her eyes. "I doubt anyone will care."
"You mean you don't care about how people dress up as succubi?" asked Asia.
"Not really," Lilith said. "Like I said, my race is pretty much a party race. So humans dressing up in scantily clad costumes doesn't offend us as much as it is just making a meal look better."
"WAAAA~AAAAAH!" cried Gasper as he ran past them.
"FYI, guys!" called out Ranma from the room Gasper fled from. "Gasper does not like dressing up as any vampire character from any Hellsing series."