Dance With the Devil

Betrayal Chapter 6

Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, for if I did there would be a lot more sex.

I do like reviews guys, RL's just been a pain in the ass with grandma being hospitalized, my own health getting funky, my mom's cat might need to get put down, and I was dealing with other drama, so I wasn't in a good mood when I answered reviews last time. Plus I was nervous about looking, okay?

Review Answer time:

Yes, Bishamon's defeat was anti-climatic. Not my best work, I admit.

"So this is where you're staying?" Kuroka asked the next morning as she sat up on the couch she had crashed on. "Seems a little... Barren." She yawned as she stretched with her arm over her head.

"No." Ranma told her and looked at Bulleta, who was wearing a translucent shirt and a pair of white panties, rubbing her eyes sleepily. "Anyway," he looked back at the Nekoshou, "we need to talk."

"Don't tell me that you're going to be leaving me behind because what you said last night was a lie?" She gave him an annoyed look as she sat on the couch like a cat. "You do that and I'll kill you, nya."

"No, I said what I said and I'll do it for ya when this stuff's done, okay?" Provided he didn't die, but he had other things to do before that. "Anyway, Bulleta and I are heading to meet up with Jedah and..." Ranma stopped when she held up a hand.

"I'm going with, you think I'm going to let you out of my sight?" Kuroka gave him a cat-like grin and prepared to pounce, but stopped when Bulleta, who was still rubbing the sleep out of her eyes pulled a gun out of her underwear and pointed it at her. "...HOW?!"

"I always have a gun on me." Bulleta shook her head to clear it completely, "now, I don't mind your agreement with Ranma, but you need to calm your titties."

Ranma sweat-dropped heavily, the fact that Bulleta was telling anyone to calm their tits just felt wrong. "Anyway, she can come with us."

"Fine, you still haven't told me when we're hunting Vampires." Bulleta slid her gun into the waistband of her panties and huffed.

"Soon enough, but I need to get some other stuff done first." Ranma answered her, 'namely confirm if Jedah's mystery girl is who I think she is, if so, why is she working for him?'

"Anyway, if we're working for Jedah, I'm going to have to put up with Cao Cao again, aren't I?" Kuroka groaned, she hated that bastard, his blasted Sacred Gear was too much for almost anyone in the Moonlight World to deal with, heck, even the Gods had to tread lightly around that thing after all.

"The whiny bitch?" Ranma smirked at her. "Trust me, he's not going to be a problem for a good long time." He chuckled at her confused look. "Oh, he wants me dead, I'm sure, but right now, he's got other things to worry about."

"Mraw?"

"Well, something like..."

(-)

"RANMA SAOTOME, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Cao Cao screamed as he ran from the hoard of fuzzy animals.

"Kill my frog husband will you?! DIE!" One of them, a pink pig in a dress, yelled. "HIIIYAH!" She jumped forward, smacking Cao Cao into the sky.

"DAAAAAMN YOU!"

(-)

Both Bulleta and Kuroka sweat-dropped at that. "Why did you bring the Muppets up?"

Ranma shrugged at them. "It was the only thing I could think of off the top of my head. Anyway," Ranma continued, "shall we go?"

"No!" Bulleta sniped at him, causing him to blink at her in surprise. "In case you haven't noticed, I'm still in my panties, I'm not going to go to Makai in my underwear, sheesh!"

Ranma laughed and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, I guess I get a little impatient at times."

"Gee, ya think?" The blonde snorted and walked back to her room. "If you're not here when I get dressed, I'll hunt you down and castrate you."

After Bulleta left, Kuroka sweat-dropped. "You can put up with that maniac?"

Ranma shrugged at her. "Bulleta's not that bad once you get past the whole scary exterior she puts up." Looking to the side of the room, he blinked as the butler walked into the room. "Jenkins? What are you doing here?"

"I wish to thank you, young Ranma, for helping my mistress." The old man said and reached into his pocket. "I had that mech that she got from Mishima Heavy Industries upgraded with some contacts that I have." He pulled out a familiar-looking wrist-strap.

"You have contacts?"

The man chuckled and tossed it to Ranma. "Please make sure that Miss Bulleta gets that. And again, thank you for helping her, she hasn't been this happy in a long time. So please, take good care of her. And yes, I used to be a Devil Hunter, just like Miss Bulleta, but I retired to watch and raise her."

"Pretty big of you." Kuroka said, getting a laugh from the old man.

"Unlike every other species, humans only live a short time, I was already planning on retiring when Miss Bulleta was young. I worry about her. So, please, take care of her."

"...You're acting like you're her father or something."

"Or something." Jenkins nodded to Ranma. "I've raised Miss Bulleta her whole life and, sadly, I don't think that I'm long for this world anymore. A decade if I'm lucky." He held up a hand. "I also know about Devil Reincarnation, I don't wish to become a Devil. After hunting them for decades, I doubt I would be welcome in your world." He smiled at Ranma. "Just take care of the young miss for me, that's all I want."

"...Sure." Ranma nodded, smiling at him.

Around the corner, Bulleta, who was still in her panties, bit her lip and bowed her head lightly. "...thank you, Jenkins." Bulleta whispered and ran to her room.

(-)

It was nearly a half an hour later when Bulleta, dressed in her typical dress and red hood, walked into the room, a basket full of stuff in her left arm. "So, we going to do this or what?"

"Finally!" Kuroka growled as she sat upside down on the couch. "I was beginning to get bored."

"Could have done what I was doing." Ranma muttered from where he was doing hand-stand push-ups.

"My boobs would have flopped out everywhere." She grumbled at him.

"I know." Ranma smirked at her. "I would have enjoyed the view." He pushed up and did a flip in mid-air, laughing at Kuroka's expression.

"Almost as perverted as the Red Dragon Emperor." Kuroka muttered, getting a laugh from Ranma. "What?"

"I'm not openly perverted, but I guarantee you that I make up for it in other ways." Ranma winked at her as she and Bulleta got close to him. "Oh, here." He gave Bulleta the wrist-strap Jenkins had given him.

"Thanks." She nodded and put it on before hiding it under her sleeve. "Well?"

"Right, right." Ranma nodded and snapped his fingers as a black sigil appeared over his head and washed over the three of them, causing them to disappear.

Jenkins looked at where they were a moment before and sighed. "Good luck, Miss Bulleta, I think you'll need it."

(-)

"So, where are we?" Kuroka asked as they materialized in a place with steel and stone all around them.

"Makai." Bulleta answered her. "Not sure where, but the air has that same putrid, nasty, rancid, decaying stench from the last time I was here."

"Huh, now that you mention it, the air does feel like that." Ranma muttered and looked at Kuroka, who blanched. "You okay?"

"Just not used to this, even the worst parts of Hell were better than this."

"You get used to it." Bulleta answered and yelped as Ranma walked off. "Hey! Where are you going?"

"I have to talk to someone, in private." He turned to look at her. "I'm not going to be leaving for awhile, but I need this."

"Fine." Bulleta huffed, "but where can we find rooms?"

Ranma motioned for them to follow him. After getting half-way down the hallway, he opened a door and inside they saw a room with a few bed slabs sticking out of the wall. "This is my room, you two can crash here."

"Sweet! Top bunk is mine!" Kuroka jumped onto the top bunk, grinning.

Ranma laughed as Bulleta claimed one of the other top bunks and walked off. "Hey, CC," he nodded to the tall man, who had a content look on his face, "so..."

"The merfolk were a fun fight," the man grinned at Ranma. "Especially deep in the water, they actually hurt me a few times."

"You didn't..." Ranma raised an eyebrow.

"No, I didn't go all out, that wouldn't have been as much fun." He chuckled softly. "I hope you can find me more fights that are fun like that."

"I was more worried that you killed them, but if you held back I'm sure they're alive." Though horribly injured, well, that couldn't be helped, could it? "I have a question, how come you never tried to become the Master?"

"No need." CC replied and walked off, causing Ranma to blink a few times.

"I keep forgetting that quirk of his." Ranma shook his head and walked off.

(-)

Nabiki looked up as the door to her room opened up and Ranma walked in, followed by someone she didn't expect. "What's this? You want a three-way or something?" Nabiki smirked as the door closed behind the third person.

"First, is Jedah spying on us?" Ranma asked, ignoring Nabiki's question.

Sighing, Nabiki's eyes went blue for a few moments. "No, he's... Well, shit, looks like he really did it. He's putting the portion of Ophis's soul he cut off into that new body. It'll take him awhile though." Her eyes returned to normal. "So, why'd you ask?"

"Good, now then..." He looked at the masked person. "I need to know."

The masked person looked at Nabiki before looking back at Ranma. "You could have asked her if she can see everything."

"Yeah, but it's more fun to not be spoiled." Ranma smirked, causing the masked person to sigh before pushing the hood off of her head, revealing long brown hair that was pinned up against the back of her head, she then pulled off the mask, revealing a pretty face and brown eyes. "I thought it was you."

"Of course you would." She rolled her eyes at him. "Dammit, Ranma, why are you here?!"

Nabiki blinked a couple of times. "When did you two meet?"

"We met a few times over the years before going on a date the day before I left for China." Ranma answered her, those early meetings had been fun times between the two of them, even if most people wouldn't think that. "There were no boats and pops wasn't in the mood to swim the Sea of Japan, probably a good idea, too many jellyfish in that area."

"...You pushed him in the water, didn't you?" Nabiki asked.

Ranma smiled. "He said it wasn't manly to fear them... until they started stinging his ass." He almost felt pity for the doctors that had to treat those stings.

He then looked at the other girl. "How about you? Why are you here?" The girl looked away in shame and Ranma sighed. "Just tell me already."

"Fine." She sighed, no point in hiding this. "A Youkai that was a servant of my clan's biggest enemy attacked when my cousin and aunt were visiting."

"...Seriously?" Ranma raised an eyebrow. "Last I heard your grandmother was still alive, so that's three generations of Devil Hunters in one spot, how the hell did it not run away screaming?"

"It showed up, saying it would avenge its master and then..." She sighed. "My cousin pushed me out of the way when it self-destructed and I could only stare as my mom, aunt, grandmother, cousin and my best friend were all turned to stone."

"Ouch." Nabiki said as a small screen was in the middle of the air in front of her. "Looks similar to Medusa's curse, but amplified, it's self-sustaining and won't wear out until the magic in the area fades away, but since it was where your family's home is at..."

The girl groaned and hung her head. "Dammit! I knew Jedah was lying to me, but I let him talk me into working for him."

"He's not completely lying." Nabiki said as she canceled her Balance Break. "About Rizevim, I mean."

"Lucifer's son?" Ranma asked, getting a nod from Nabiki.

"Yeah, him, he's someone who would do something like that for the hell of it, just to see the results and laugh at everyone who got hurt by his decision."

"So he needs to die then?" The girl asked, getting a nod from Nabiki. "Tell me, was he the one who powered that Youkai to go after my family?"

"Yes." Nabiki said to her. "Even if he wasn't, he's too dangerous to let run around freely."

"Thank you." She nodded and put her mask back on before putting the hood back on. "Anything I should know?"

"You'll get your chance soon enough." Nabiki smirked at her. "Anyway, you should get going." The other girl nodded and left the room.

Ranma watched her walk down the hallway before opening a door and leaving the corridor before stepping back in and closing the door behind him and looking at Nabiki. "You lied to her, didn't you?"

"Of course I did!" Nabiki snapped at him. "If I told her that Jedah was the one who did that, she would have gone after him. Sure, if she got lucky she would have killed him, but Rizevim would be free to run around, and trust me, if he got his hands on what Jedah wants we'd all be dead."

"...So we have to let the guy who's manipulating everyone live because he's a better option than the Devil's son, huh?" Ranma sighed. "This won't be fun."

"If it helps, our friends are training their asses off right now." Nabiki sighed.

"Yeah," Ranma snorted. "Training to try and beat my ass."

"Power of will to their desire to increase their skill," Nabiki countered.

Ranma nodded, rubbing his head. "This will get more difficult before it ever gets easier."

Nabiki nodded, deciding now was probably not the time to mention her own personal stake in this. Aside from rescuing her sister, at some point, Jedah would get curious to discover what-if any-Irregular Sacred Gear Kasumi herself might possess. Something had given their mother power over cursed armor, even as only a spirit, and two sisters already had it.

But even if Kasumi had no gear-and Nabiki hadn't checked simply because she couldn't leak by accident or torture what she didn't know, she would do all she could to keep Jedah's grubby little blue paws from her.

"I want to take a shower." Nabiki groused.

"...Does this place..?"

"No, I checked, only places that do aren't near here. Stupid Jedah." Nabiki grumbled. "And don't take me out of here without permission, I don't want him frying my mind with that Sacred Gear he's got."

"...I'll go talk to him." Ranma left the room.

(-)

"You want me to what?" Jedah looked at Ranma in surprise.

"Showers, there's none in this place, in case you forgot, there are humans and former humans here, they tend to stink after a few days due to sweat and grime. Showers are used to clean our bodies."

Jedah tapped his chin and thought about it. "...Are you serious? I always thought that everyone who showered just did it to waste water."

Ranma face-faulted when he heard that. "Really?"

"Yes, I'll have to have some made, or something." Jedah grumbled as he thought about it. "Now that I think about it, even succubi and other Demons like to shower and bathe. Am I the weird one? I've never showered in three thousand years."

"...Ewww." Ranma shuddered and took a step back.

"Oh stop that," Jedah sighed. "At least I installed toilets so you didn't have to use chamber pots."

"And you did tell the others where to find those, right?" Ranma asked. "Because I've seen most of the guys just pissing out the windows."

"...And now the dead plants make much more sense," Jedah muttered. So much for his sin garden.

Ranma sighed and looked at him expectantly.

"Fine, fine, I'll figure something out." Jedah muttered, wondering how he could get that arranged.

"Good, now, onto more pressing matters." Ranma turned around. "Are you going to uphold your end of the deal?"

"Hmm? Oh yes! I do recall our deal, very well." He snapped his fingers and the two disappeared in a black flash of light.

(-)

"This is..?" Ranma blinked as he looked at the room as Jedah led him inside. "Nothing here but..." He trailed off as he saw the naked being that was hanging to the ceiling, head slumped and trembling slightly.

"You can do to her what you wish." Jedah smirked and turned to leave. "Just make sure to clean up when you're done." He laughed and disappeared in a flash.

"Freaky pervert." Ranma muttered and walked up to the being in the middle of the room. "Ophis, is that you?" He asked before slapping her cheeks a couple of times to get the small girl to groan and open her eyes. "Hey."

"Help." She whispered, her eyes pleading with him to do something, anything, if it stopped her torment.

"What did he do to you?"

"Candy, blocking, can't, help," her voice was hoarse and sore.

Looking around, Ranma noticed the gems in the wall. "...Those things in the wall are hurting you, aren't they?" She nodded at him. Sighing, he walked up to her and carressed her cheek before leaning in and whispering something to her.

Ophis's eyes widened before she nodded and closed her eyes.

(-)

Several minutes later, Ranma walked out of the cell in just his pants and blinked at CC, who was standing there looking at him. "...What?"

"Nothing."

"She was cold, I gave her my shirt, nothing more." More like he put it over her body and then used his Artificial Sacred Gear to cut it so that it would cover Ophis's body. He had never seen anyone look at him as gratefully as Ophis did at that moment. "Still..."

CC wondered what he was thinking as he walked off. Oh well, it didn't matter to him in the slightest.

(-)

"Oh ho?" Jedah smirked as Ranma walked into his throne room. "Had fun with Ophis, huh?" Considering that Ranma was walking without a shirt on, it was a safe bet.

"She was needy, nothing more." Ranma shrugged. "Anyway, Nabiki probably hasn't appreciated her cell, so..."

"You know that she's in there as part of her protection, right?" Jedah asked, smirking at Ranma's look. "Please, this is Makai, even if she's a Devil, she's a target for Demons and..."

"Exactly." Ranma answered him, causing Jedah to blink in surprise. "She's a Devil, even if she was a normal girl, she needs to start working out, I've got less than a month before the big event, what better way to have a Devil train than with a bunch of Demons?" He smirked at the tall Devil. "Besides, it'll be amusing for you, won't it?"

Jedah started laughing and nodded. "Very well, I can agree to it. Have fun with her, but if she escapes..."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll deal with her if she escapes." Ranma said and left the room.

(-)

A few minutes later...

Nabiki raised an eyebrow as Ranma walked into her room. "...Right now I want you to pin me to the bed and fuck me until I can't feel my legs." Ranma blinked in surprise. "Blame Lilith, the fact you're good looking and the fact that I haven't gotten laid in weeks." She grumbled at him.

"...So this is conjugal visit then?" Ranma asked before getting hit in the face with Nabiki's shirt. Removing it, he saw her removing her bra and letting her breasts bounce free.

"Shut up, strip and fuck me already, we can talk after." Nabiki groused as she slipped her pants and panties off.

"Well, okay."

(-)

Meanwhile, in Nerima...

Lilith twitched, she swore she was feeling Ranma getting laid at that very moment. "I swear, I've felt this before. MASTER YOU JERK! HOW COME YOU GET TO GET LAID AND I DON'T?!"

"Mommy, why is the weird lady standing on the telephone pole and screaming?"

"Hush, son, we need to ignore her and maybe she'll go away."

"Okay!"

Lilith blushed softly and jumped from one pole to the next to get out of there. 'GAH! I need to get laid!'

(-)

Meanwhile...

Grumbling at Morrigan, Tarou sat on a rock near a cliff that looked at some decrepit castle. "So why are you so hellbent on fighting and fusing with that Lilith girl anyway? You're strong enough as it is."

She turned to give him a nasty look. "One, the Vampire that took over my family's home is too strong for me to simply defeat. Well, no, that's not quite true, I should be able to win, but he's pretty close to my level of strength and if he wins he'll wish to enslave me and turn me into breeding stock. Two, I dislike Jedah and wish to kill him."

Tarou sweat-dropped, but didn't comment, after all, he had someone he wanted to kill more than anyone else as well.

"And three," she stretched her arms over her head and groaned as she felt the tension in her back muscles, "I'm over three hundred years old, I don't know how much longer I have to live, since succubi don't live past three hundred very often."

"So basically you're an old hag and you want one good fling before you die?" Tarou jumped away from the large Youkai blast that blew up the area he was in a moment ago. "Touchy, aren't you?"

"Watch what you say, Pantyhose or I may vent my frustration out on you." She smirked as he took a martial arts stance and shook her head. "Oh no, not like that... I'll have you pinned to the bed and crying for me to stop as I drain everything out of you."

"...Why do I work with you again?"

"Because I promised you that as soon as I got what I wanted, I would help you get what you want." She smirked at him. Turning, she looked at the castle in the distance. "...He's about to break free, you know? The strongest Vampire since Dracula... Demitri Maximoff."

"Feh, where do you think he'll head if he gets free?" Tarou wasn't the best at sensing energy, but even he could tell the barrier surrounding that castle was almost spent.

"If we're lucky, he'll head back to Earth and recover with the other Vampires there." Morrigan huffed and walked away. "Come on, we need to go and see Jedah."

"You know, I wonder, how come you didn't beat your other half when you fought all those months ago?"

"I couldn't," Morrigan answered, her voice soft, "I was actually going all out against her and she kept pace with me easily. Hate to say it, but she might be able to win the next time we fight."

"...Don't you have that..."

Morrigan gave Tarou such a fierce look that he froze in place. "As I am now, I could only use "that" as a last ditch effort and only if I'm sure I can win. If I had used "that" against her and failed to win, I'm sure that I would have died."

"...Oh." Tarou didn't really understand it, but he figured Morrigan knew her body better than anyone else.

Morrigan said nothing as they left for Jedah's castle. There was another reason she didn't use what Tarou was suggesting on Lilith back then...

...Morrigan was sure that Lilith could do the same thing she could.

This was the last chapter that I was able to churn out at my normal speeds. The ones after this took much longer to write out. Ironically, they were also the ones I actually had planned out. This is why I had to delay the fic at times.