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Chapter 6

"What do you mean?" Hayate asked Signum as the two ate breakfast. "We've only been here two weeks.

"We're going to have to head back." Signum told her. "I got a call from Testarossa last night. She's going to be going on a mission to hopefull track down a target she's been trying to get for the past couple of years and we have to report in on Crannagan to our superiors for some debriefing and meetings."

Hayate sighed and hung her head. "I suppose if we have to, we have to." Despite the training that her big brother had subjected her to, and Hayate had no clue that he could be so evil, she had been having fun.

After all, she didn't need clearance to unleash all her magical attacks, and the other members of the peerage she was a part of were lots of fun, even if they were a bit crazy.

"Most of us are going to be gone for awhile." Lilith said as she walked in. "I wanted to go see Arf, so I'll come with you." She rolled her eyes at the look that Signum gave her. "What? I like her."

"You do realize that she's in the form of a small girl, yes?" Signum asked and Lilith sighed as she realized what Signum was getting at.

"First of all, I can control my urges around little children," she paused as she remembered some of the things she had done around kids she had thought were cute and sweat-dropped, "most of the time at least. Secondly, my desires are mostly muted and I just like to tease people."

"...I find that hard to believe." Signum muttered and looked at Hayate, who was grinning and then back at Lilith, "considering what you tried to do to Hayate when she was younger and how you didn't ensure she couldn't watch, you're just lucky that I consider it bad form to strike down a pregnant woman."

Lilith groaned and walked in a circle. "For crying out loud! I wasn't pregnant yet when Hayate spied on Master and I! And when I tried to have a threesome with her when she was eleven, I didn't have the perspectives I do right now, okay? I really do just want to meet Arf and since you have to go to Uminari City anyway before heading to that alien world, why not have me come with? Master set up a teleportation array at Hayate's home, so we can all go there when you're ready."

"You said everyone's going to be gone for awhile?" Hayate asked Lilith in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Master has to check on his wife in Kyoto, since he hasn't seen her in a few weeks, plus he wants to see his daughters," Lilith looked up as she thought about what was going on, "there's a volcano that's causing trouble over on one of the islands, so Mittelt and Yohko are going to go see if it's a natural thing or if it's a Demon causing problems. Atsuko and Bulleta are going to deal with a forest that's going out of control, so they're just going to go find out what's going on and deal with it. Arisa's going to go with us, since she wants to see her parents, Ravel and Cologne often spend time cleaning this place up, and I don't know what Nabiki's doing."

"Probably sleeping." Hayate giggled, knowing how the older girl had weird sleeping patterns. Even though she had only known her for a couple of weeks, she knew that Nabiki kept a weird sleeping schedule.

"Probably." Lilith admitted, though she realized that she had no clue where Leonardo or Lillie were. 'I'm sure it's fine, those two are pretty close.'

"Alright, fine, we'll go after Shamal, Zafira and Vita get here." Signum conceded the point.

"Where's..." Lilith began but trailed off as she saw Reinforce Zwei sitting on a counter eating a grape that was bigger than her mouth. "Oh, there you are."

Reinforce Zwei smiled cutely, opened her mouth really wide and took a large bite out of the grape in her hands.

(-)

Meanwhile...

Nabiki, Leonardo and Lillie were all sitting in a large room in another wing in the castle. "Alright, you both know what I need to do." They nodded and she sighed softly. "I'm going to turn off the inhibitor chip in my brain and use my Sacred Gear and try NOT to go completely crazy because of all the information flooding my head. It's the only way to master this thing."

Leonardo tilted his head. "...Why?" He asked and she blinked at him. "...You could... Hurt yourself. You're family."

Nabiki smiled at him. "Thanks, little brother." It was odd, to think of the dark-skinned boy as her brother, but he was really sweet and mostly kept to himself, though he had started to join in on the group training sessions, as did Lillie, for some reason. When asked, the Dragon thought it was fun.

Nabiki thought that the ponytailed loli just wanted to have something to do since no one knew how to really handle her. It wasn't like the training did her any good. "Anyway..." She motioned to a remote that Leonardo was holding. "Just press that button when I activate my Balance Break. I'm going to try and master this." She knew it wasn't going to be easy or quick, but she had to try.

Leonardo frowned slightly and looked at the remote in his hands before getting up and walking over to Nabiki and hugging her, much to her surprise. "Careful."

Nabiki smiled and hugged him back. "Just remember to push that button if I start complaining or speaking in gibberish." He nodded and let go before pushing the button. "You have my message for when this goes stupid?" She asked Lillie, who nodded and held up a sign that explained what Nabiki was planning. "Good." Nabiki nodded and closed her eyes before taking a deep breath. "Okay, now then... Balance Break..."

Nabiki closed her eyes as her mind was bombarded with information. "Okay, so far, so potatoes." She groaned as she realized that she was being quickly overwhelmed. "Dammit, I so did not need to see Bastet's horse harem... Eww..."

Both Leonardo and Lillie grimaced as they looked at each other.

"I'm still somewhat okay." Nabiki told them as she opened her eyes. "It's getting potato pancakes." She grimaced and closed her eyes, grimacing and putting her hands to her head. "Why in the world is there Hades in a tutu while..." She cut herself off and looked at Leonardo, nodding to him as he pressed the button and she shut off her Balance Break. "Oh thank merciful alien warships that are powered by loli clones." She flopped onto her back and grimaced as her head was still hurting. "Pizza is a fruit snack!"

Both Leonardo and Lillie looked at each other in concern before crawling over to Nabiki and laid down on either side of her. She hugged them both to her and twitched as her brain tried to filter the information she had in her head out. Even with the inhibitor chip being back on and helping, there was a lot of information that had slammed into her all at once.

(-)

Standing in his room, Ranma looked at Asmodeus and sighed softly. "Okay, I have to say, fusing like that led to some amazing sex, but I don't want to do it too often."

"Afraid of getting addicted like I did?" The miniature girl asked and Ranma nodded. "Fair enough. Now, to answer your question, I've never heard of sex being used to give someone a power up to overcome weaknesses before. At least, not like what you're describing."

"I figured as much." Ranma muttered and sighed. "Well, in that case..." He pulled out a thin dagger that had jewels on it. "This allows me to contact the guy who taught Lilith and myself magic, so..." He focused on it and suddenly it glowed. After a few moments, Ranma let out a breath and the glowing stopped. "Alright, I contacted him, but who knows..." A sudden bright tearing in the fabric of reality formed in front of him. "...You came fast, old man."

Zelretch snorted at him. "What are you talking about? It's been three weeks for me, or did you forget the time difference between our realities?"

"...I did forget that, actually." Ranma chuckled. "No wonder you were able to train Lilith and myself so easily then."

"Bah, so why'd you call me?" The old man asked and Ranma explained the situation to him. "Huh, you're asking about a Tantric Sex Ritual?" Both Asmodeus and Ranma gawked in surprise at him and he smirked. "Yeah, some horny bastards in the past figured out how to increase their magic power by having sex. It's not exactly easy to do and quite messy, plus the effects are temporary at best." He gave Ranma a contemplative look. "Then again, no one who ever did that had an artifact given to them by Yahweh that could do what yours does."

Ranma pointed to Asmodeus. "Actually, it's part of her soul that was turned into a Sacred Gear due to some sort of hiccup in the system."

"Makes sense." Zelretch nodded and pulled out a thin book. "Anyway, everything you need to know about it is right here."

"...You carry that around with you?" Ranma asked as Zelretch tossed it to him.

"Eh, sometimes I give it to people who need to loosen up, just to watch their reactions, it's hilarious." The old man grinned at Ranma, who laughed at the thought of another version of himself that was uptight and getting this book. "Anyway, like I said, if you're trying to help any of your women get stronger, I can't guarantee anything would be permanent, though with this kind of ritual, you could set up a contract so that they could draw on your power, basically turning them into a pseudo-familiar."

"Interesting," Ranma mused, "if that's needed, I'll keep that in mind." He flipped through the book and paused as he came across some information, "Oh, this is how you do the contract, huh?"

Asmodeus looked at Zelretch and frowned in confusion. "You feel like a Vampire."

The old man grinned and the miniature girl was surprised to see rather long fangs form in his mouth. "Been a vampire for centuries. I impressed the moon enough that he turned me into one."

"...The moon?" Asmodeus asked and shook her head. "Whatever, don't care. I just don't sense the typical bloodlust of Vampires from you, that's what's confusing me."

Zelretch suddenly smirked as he pulled out his Jeweled Sword. "Hope you don't mind me, brat, I had a bout of inspiration."

Ranma sweat-dropped. "Don't do something that will get you killed."

"That only happened once." Zelretch said as he disappeared.

"...How is he still alive if he died?" Asmodeus asked Ranma after Zelretch disappeared.

"The guy can manipulate parallel realities." Ranma told her. "He's near impossible to kill fully, since there's always another version of him that exists, even in the same dimension, at all times."

"...That's ludicrious."

"I know." Ranma deadpanned. "Anyway," he put the book away, "ready to go meet my wife and daughters in Kyoto?"

"Always." Asmodeus grinned and Ranma narrowed his eyes at her. "...What?"

"You WILL behave around Yasaka and my daughters, understand." Ranma pointed a finger at her. "And I'm not saying this as a father, but because if you don't, my wife WILL make you suffer."

"...She's a Youkai, I'm a Devil." Asmodeus pointed out. "I don't..."

"Yasaka is on par with the five Dragon Kings." Ranma told her and Asmodeus stared and went pale. "Unless you think you're stronger than one of them as you are..."

"Okay, okay! I get it!" Asmodeus yelled and held up her hands. "I'll behave and I won't do anything lewd."

Ranma smiled and put a hand on her head, rubbing it gently. "See? Good girl. If you keep that promise and Yasaka's up for it, I'll let you fuse with me when I'm banging her."

The bronze-skinned girl grinned at the thought. "Well, we both know that sex is a lot better when we're fused."

Ranma nodded. "Right, so let's go." The two disappeared in a flash of light.

(-)

On top of the castle, Raven smiled as he sensed that Ranma and Asmodeus had left. He had seen Yohko, Bulleta, Atsuko and Mittelt all leave earlier. He turned and looked at his companion, who was looking more and more excited by the moment. "I told you, if you just wait, you'll be able to get your revenge." The person next to him grinned and Raven put a hand on their shoulder. "Let's wait a couple of more hours, to ensure that no one will be coming back because they forgot something. Then you can get your revenge."

A growling purr came from the person's throat. "I can't wait."

End Chapter 6

Next chapter the plot kicks back in.