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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 27 2013, 10:05 PM (1,047 Views) | |
| Coengar2 | Apr 27 2013, 10:05 PM Post #1 |
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PART ONE Elder Cologne,matriarch of the Joketsuzoku amazons stood on top of the main gateway that led into the village looking intently into the dense forest that surrounded it. It had been five years since the disappearance of Ranma Saotome and four years since the amazon duo had been summoned back home by the council of elders. While Cologne was able to convince the council that Ranma's vanishing made it impossible for her greatgranddaughter Shampoo to fulfil the kiss of marriage,it had taken her a lot of political credit and favors to keep Shampoo for being branded a failure since she had already had two years to try to claim the young martial artist. Cologne was able to keep her title as matriarch but she had to forfeit much of her power and standing on the council and while Shampoo was no longer in danger of being punished or having her curse locked it was doubtful that she would be able to rise any higher in the tribe beyond that of a village champion and a warband leader. Sometimes the elderly amazon got the feeling that her great granddaughter didn't mind such a limitation too much as the girl had had no real aspirations to be a warmistress or council elder dispite Cologne's teachings and training. One of the conditions placed on Shampoo's pardon was that she had to marry within six months after her return home.To no one's amazement,she did not marry Mousse,instead chosing to marry a local blacksmith who was strong,fairly goodlooking and despite being an amazon male was more than willing to stand up to Shampoo at times. To Cologne it seemed as if Shampoo married a person as close to being like Ranma as she could find. To her surprise,the two newlyweds had fallen in love after thier marriage and now had two beautiful daughters and another child on the way. Mousse had not taken the news of Shampoo's choice of husband very well,especially since it was not him, so he launched a sneak attack on the new groom during the post wedding celebration. Being his usual vain self,Mousse had not worn his glasses and had flung knives with wild and random abandon wounding several innocent bystanders in the process. In the aftermath of the attack,the only thing that kept Mousse from being executed right on the spot was another amazon stepping forward and declaring her right to claim him as her husband do to the fact that she was one of the ones injured in the spree. After some debate,the council agreed on the condition that Mousse's new wife could keep him under a tight leash to prevent such an attack from happening again. She agreed and the two were married immediately as soon as the village healers had stitched up the wounded including the bride to be. Mousse's new wife was Dowel,the muscular warrior that Shampoo defeated in the finals of the tournament where she became village champion just minutes before Genma Saotome was caught eating the first place prize, and Dowel was very good at keeping Mousse under control. In fact,somehow she got him to fulfil his husbandly duties recently and was expecting the couple's first child in a few months. As Cologne's thoughts stopped drifting over the past a cold shiver ran down her spine,something was out there among the trees watching the village and it made the hairs on her neck stand up straight. "Perfume," Cologne turned to suddenly face a nearby warrior standing guard on the gateway "Double the guard and increase the patrols along the wall surrounding the village." While Cologne had very little political clout any more she was still a respected person in the village and she still carried some weight with the warriors. "Is something wrong,Matriarch?" the blond haired warrior asked. "Indeed there is Warrior,Death stalks the village tonight.we need to keep our eyes open." Cologne responded then nodded in approval as her orders were carried out. With the security increased Cologne hopped off the gateway and headed back towards the home she shared with Shampoo and her family,determined to keep at least an eye open,just in case. Beyond the treeline two sets of eyes watched as the elder hopped from the gate back into the village. "About bloody time,i was starting to think that the old ghoul was never going to leave." a soft feminine voice growled. "Looks like she gave them a warning,there's extra guards on the gate now." another feminine voice responded,with more than a hint of a latin american accent. "Wasn't planning on going through the front door anyway." the first voice replied with a grin "Come on,we'll go in from the side." Two shadows began to move through the trees along the right side of the village wall away from the main gate and twenty minutes later stood next to the wall,still blending in with the shadows. "Anyone nearby?" the first voice asked. Two pale orbs of lavender glowed briefly "No,the patrol just passed by and the next one is still a bit away." "Good,can you give me a boost?" "Sure," the second shadow reached out and touched the first shadow "Are you sure you want to go through with this?" a touch of concern in her voice. "Damn right i'm sure," the first voice snarled softly "Tessa,you know how my life went.Three people cost me everything i ever had and messed up my life way beyond anything i thought possible,if it wasn't for our Master..." "I know Raina,our Master saved me too remember." Tessa softly returned as she stroked Raina's cheek. "Yeah,i know.Look one of those people is behind this wall and tonight Master says that he is mine.I'll get the other two soon.Now please give me a lift Lover." "As you wish my Love." Tessa's eyes again glowed a soft lavender as she watched Raina slowly lift from the ground and over the top of the wall to land gently into the village beyond. Raina took a few brief seconds to get her bearings bofore reaching out with her ki senses,as she located her prey she gave a grim smile as she began to run towards it's location and slowly began to fade from sight as she made her way down the street. Mousse woke up with a start unsure what caused him to suddenly sit up in his bed now wide awake. Looking to his right he saw the still slumbering form of his wife lying beside him,the swell of her growing belly visable under the thin blanket she was covered with. Mousse didn't particularly hate his wife,she did save him from being executed afterall,but he didn't really love her either.She wasn't a bad wife as amazon women go,sure she was tall and very muscular and she expected him to behave as an amazon male was expected to behave but she didn't really beat on him like many others in the village had suggested. It's just that she wasn't Shampoo. That was what bothered Mousse the most about his life these days and for every day since his beloved Shampoo had been forced into that sham marriage by the council. It should have been him by her side over these years.He should be the father of her children he should be the one to grow old with her.Instead he got Dowel. She laughed too much and sang rowdy songs too loud and she was boistrous and social and she tried to keep him happy in a marriage that he didn't really want in the first place. What he wanted was Shampoo even if he had to go away from this village to have her he would do so in a heartbeat. Suddenly a cold draft blew through the bedroom window,a window he did not recall having left open that evening.After he went over an closed the window and had turned to return to his bed he felt a sharp sting in his neck followed by a burning sensation filling his veins. He wobbled on his feet for a moment before he started to fall over,only to be caught at the last moment by someone he had thought that he'd never see again. As he was being laid onto the floor of his bedroom,he saw by the light of the moon a figure fade into view. The red hair was familiar although it was no longer in a pigtail instead flowing down to midback in a cascading wave of bright red hair.The figure was still the same,perhaps a bit taller but the curves were still familiar as was the face,though no longer so round with childlike fullness. It was now slender and almost etherial in it's beauty.But it was the blue eyes that caught his attention.Still a deep ocean blue that caught you up in them and threatened to drown you in thier depths. He remembered those eyes,unchanged from the years now past. He hated those eyes. "Ranma"Mousse could barely whisper between gritted teeth as a cold sensation flowed through his limbs towards his core,he discovered that he couldn't even get his arms to move even an inch. "Hello Mousse,bet you never throught that you'd see me again." Ranma,now Raina,smirked down at Mousse "Especially considering that you splashed me with that water from the Musk locking ladle.I bet you thought that by locking me as a girl that i'd give up on Shampoo." "You'll....never...get..Shampoo."Mousse wheezed out. "Don't want Shampoo,in fact,if i never see her again i'll be very happy." Ranma replied "I bet you're wondering whats happening to you right now." Ranma held up an empty syringe "Just a cocktail of a few various rather potent venoms.Oh sure i could have used a couple of pressure points to do the job but i wanted to just make it hurt real bad for a while.If i left you alone right now,you'd be dead in about five minutes,drowned by the blood that's slowly filling your lungs and i bet those muscle cramps are going to be hitting you pretty soon. Don't worry Mousse,i wouldn't do that to you. I just wanted you to feel some of the pain and helplessness that you helped give to me." Ranma sat back on her haunches,her hand going up to a broad leather collar around her throat "In fact,you could say that your little stunt helped me meet my Master who helped me to be free of the old dead weight that being Ranma Saotome had become. So i've come to return the favor,to help free you from this life that's weighing you down." Ranma reached over and gathered Mousse's hair and began tying it into a ponytail "I mean i see it in your aura.you're not happy. You have a wife,a child on the way,you live a good life and yet you're not happy.Why is that?" "Not........Shampoo." Mousse managed to wheeze out as a few flecks of blood coated his lips. "Oh yes,Shampoo.You never did get the girl did you Mousse? Even with me out of the picture.You never got it that she just didn't want you.Tell me Mousse,you ever see Shampoo naked? Ever feel her naked breasts rub against your naked chest? Ever had her climb naked into your bed and ask you to make love to her?" Ranma smirked again "Of course you haven't. Funny thing is,i have and i didn't even want her in the first place." "It must suck to be such a failure in your life Mousse. Never able to get what you truly wanted while she offered herself to anyone but you.But like i said,don't worry Mousse,i've come to help you,to set you free." Ranma held something up,in the moonlight Mousse could see that it was a hacksaw "For old time's sake,i put in a new blade,much sharper than you probably deserve but what are friends for? Goodbye Mousse." With that Ranma began to saw away,humming a merry little tune,while Mousse's wife slept deeply nearby. In the morning she would awaken the village with her screams after she stumbled over Mousse's severed head. By then Raina and Tessa would be far far away. In an apartment far away sat a man at a large oak desk,typing away on a computer. The man was broadly built with defined muscles but not bulky like a weightlifter,with more the body of a swimmer. His long white hair hung down his back pulled into a pony tail. His eyes were an icy blue as he stared at the screen of his computer. Soon he turned to face the large empty spot in the center of the room just as a flash of blackness signaled the arrival of two women into the room. "Ah,Tessa,Raina,it went well i take it?"he said in a voice deep like the void. "Yes Master." the two girls bowed "Mousse has been collected and is ready to be sent off for Judgement." "Excellent." the man clapped "Good job my angels.Now off to bed with you both." "Yes Master,we'll see you tomorrow then." Tessa responded as the two turned to leave the room. "Oh Raina?" the Master spoke up causing the mentioned girl to stop and turn to the speaker "Why a hacksaw?" "A rusty spoon would have taken too long Master." Raina cheekily replied as she bowed then left the room the sound of her Master's chuckling drifting behind her. Edited by Coengar2, Apr 28 2013, 04:43 PM.
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| Dumbledork | Apr 28 2013, 03:22 AM Post #2 |
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Cool, a revenge fic. Is this a crossover? |
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| Wharpt | Apr 28 2013, 02:39 PM Post #3 |
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Kuno and Ryouga the other two? |
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| Ryune | May 6 2013, 10:55 AM Post #4 |
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Kuno never acknowledged Ranma's curse. Having him be in some way responsible would need some extra finagling I would think. |
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| Coengar2 | Feb 18 2014, 09:37 PM Post #5 |
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PART TWO Akira Ogawa was running as fast as he could, although, granted he was a bit out of shape and carrying around a few extra pounds that he didn't need so he wasn't breaking any speed records. But he was running as though the hounds of Hell were chasing after him and he wasn't that far off in that thought. The gun in his right hand weighed heavy in his grip. How many shots had he fired at his pursuers he couldn't exactly recall but he figured that he only had a few shots remaining before the gun was even more useless than it was currently. Akira was a midlevel member of a local yakuza gang, not a major player but still high enough that he didn't get his hands dirty with the day to day business. His claim to fame was that he had survived an assassination attempt by a rival gang that had left him lying in the street after being shot seven times in the chest and abdomen. His survival had earned him the street name "Cat" as in that he must of had nine lives to survive his attack. A girlfriend of his at the time told him that he was living on borrowed time and that the Grim Reaper didn't like being cheated. Akira dumped her soon afterwards and went on to enjoy his fifteen minutes of notoriety. Now he was wishing that he had listened to the crazy broad after all. Turning a quick corner into a nearby alley, Akira pressed his back against the chilled bricks of the wall and tried to catch his breath. Looking around he saw that the alley was filled with the usual trash bins and garbage heaps one often found in a dimly lit alleyway of a major city. He had just decided that there was no way that he was going to go dumpster diving while wearing and expensive designer suit when something caught his attention. "Ogawa." softly echoed in the air around him causing the already nervous yakuza to look around wildly, his pistol clutched tightly in a whiteknuckled fist and held out in front of him. "Who's there?" he demanded with a slight shakiness in his voice "Show yourself." Soft laughter seemed to surround him like a gentle breeze before the voice spoke again. "You've been a naughty boy Ogawa, you've been spending something that isn't yours to spend." "What? What have I been spending?" A sudden noise to his right caused Akira to swing his gun towards the sound and the loud explosion of a fired bullet bounced between the walls of the alley. Walls that now seemed just a bit too close together. Several rats ran out from under the dumpster that Akira had shot and made their way down the alley to safer hideaways. "Time,Ogawa." the phantom voice whispered seemingly from right behind the nervous man causing him to startle and turn to face the voice only to wind up looking at a brick wall. "You've been spending time that is not yours to spend." the voice said firmly. The sound of soft footsteps caused Akira to turn and see a figure entering the alley. It was a figure he knew well considering that he had fired several shots at it while it chased him through the city. The redhaired figure slowly formed into a beautiful woman as she approached him,unmindful of the gun being pointed at her. "No more games Akira Ogawa, No more running. It's time to pay back what you owe." BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! "Click,Click" Akira Ogawa felt his blood turn cold as he watched the three bullets he had just fired from his now empty gun float in the air some two feet in front of the girl. A grin, cold and mirthless grew upon the girl's face as she batted the floating bullets away, then she locked eyes with the stunned yakuza man and held up a hand showing the glowing claws that seemed to sprout from her fingers. "No hard feeling Akira." the girl smirked "It's just business." Akira Ogawa barely had time to blink as his life was snuffed out with a quick flash of claws. Footsteps heralded the arrival of another woman, one with dusky skin and long black hair. She knelt over the cooling body and held out a hand into which floated upwards a pale blue mist from Akira's body. The mist formed into a rough sphere shape and the woman then placed the sphere into a black cloth bag. "Not a bad job Raina my dear." the woman said as she stood up, a hint of Latin America in her voice "But you played with him too much." The redhead laughed "Well, it does make the job more fun Tessa love." Shaking her head at her companion, Tessa reached out and took Raina's hand. "Come let's get this soul back to Master and then I feel like dancing tonight. Let's go out to a club." "As you wish." In a flash of darkness the two women vanished leaving the alley to the rats once more. |
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| Dumbledork | Feb 20 2014, 02:36 AM Post #6 |
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WOW! It's been a while. Nice snippet, but I still have no real idea what's going on. I hope we'll learn more next time. I hope the other two responsible for locking Ranma are Ryoga and Nabiki. I always love it when they are killed. |
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| Tai Khan | Feb 20 2014, 07:16 AM Post #7 |
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Most likely it'll be Ryoga and Herb. |
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