"Elements"
Ranma Saotome had been sleeping rather soundly, but his father had a
nasty habit of sleepwalking. Tonight was no exception, as he sleptwalked right
into Ranma's room, kicked him out of the second story window and right into the
pond. Then the panda fell over and slept soundly for the rest of the night.
Ranma woke up to the feel of cold water, and he saw himself as
herself, a girl. He looked up to see a panda-like shape snoring upstairs where
the window used to be. That would explain the minor cuts he had. Ranma grumbled
and stepped out of the koi pond. Then he saw the three Tendou girls floating in
the air and radiating a colorful hue.
"Uh oh," Ranma said to himself. "This does not look good."
The girls heard Ranma's voice and whispered back to her, saying,
"Come...come...come."
"Must be something in that tea Akane made," Ranma muttered. But, she
came out of the pond and sloshed her way to the girls. She carefully looked at
the girls and noticed a couple of things. First of all, each of them were
exhibiting a different shade of aura. Kasumi had a whitish aura, Nabiki had a
gold shade, and Akane's was firery red, and the "flames" shot out from her body
much like a typical hellish scene.
The other thing was that they were floating in the air at different
heights. Nabiki hovered barely off the ground while Akane and Kasumi were both
at higher levels.
Ranma didn't know what to think, which was very common for Ranma.
Finally, the girls opened their eyes, and smiled. Ranma felt her spine
shiver. It was one thing for Kasumi smile, and another thing for Akane, but for
Nabiki to be smiling as if it was the best day of her life really disturbed
Ranma.
"A long time ago, the Greeks determined there were four basic elements:
Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. Many other ancient civilizations determined the
very same thing, and thus the elements were born. Even today, modern science has
divided the world into four components: Weak and Strong Forces, Electromagnetism
and Gravity. They still are in the four ancient elements of earth, wind, water,
and fire."
Ranma blinked as Nabiki spoke this words, and would have said something
if Kasumi hadn't pipped up.
"I have the power of wind, which existed even before the Earth existed
as the Sun brushed its solar wind on the collection of gasses that combined
itself into the planets and astroids that we know. But, it took the efforts of
my other sisters to create the Earth as we know it."
"And thus," Akane continued, "is how I was born. I was the child of the
Sun, who came to the Earth to help heat and then cool it down."
"And then I arrived," Nabiki said. "I am the Earth, who has some of the
powers of fire, and of wind, and of wather. From the three of us, water existed,
and it is water we have been missing for some time."
"I am the wind, proper and true. I am gentle most times, but even a
little anger from me does great damage," Kasumi chanted.
Nabiki nodded to Kasumi and continued, "I am the earth, grounded in
reality. I know what does and does not exist. I know the from where Man came and
where he will go. I am indifferent when happy, and I shake those whom I am
displeased with."
Akane smiled as she took up the chant. "And I am fire, a proud servant,
but a cruel master. I radiate when I am happy, but I am quick to anger and slow
to burn."
"And that leave you, dear Ranma, water, always active, always stirring.
Things always happen around you. Your moods vary and are both quick and slow to
anger. You have the power of water, and with that the circle is complete. We are
one again, and together, nothing can defeat us."
Akane and Kasumi reached out and held the girl's hands. Ranma felt her
spine tingle, and she then saw a faint blue aura igniting around her. Suddenly,
she remember who her cursed side was, and why she was here. It was time. She
closed her eyes, and if anyone saw them, they would see four girls reaching with
their auras towards the center of the circle, and causing it to swirl.
Suddenly the swirls extended up and down, the auras started to form the
shadow marks of a person. Within a moment, a young man appeared, holding a man,
and muttering all the while about where the fuck was Japan. He looked, saw the
four girls and blinked.
"Akane! Ranma! What are you two doing in Taiwan?" Ryouga Hibiki asked.