John-Martin wrote:
All Relative Part 5, A SM/Ranma 1/2 crossover
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Makato hurried up to the park wearing her exercise
clothes. "I'm sure that Ranma must have been
someone in the Moon Kingdom. Maybe my old boyfriend."
"Let's see, Ranma said that he saw a nice looking place
on the other side of the hill from the pond." She
looked around and stopped, as open mouthed as the crowd
of kids watching Ranma soar his way through an incredibly
complex Kata.
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On the other side of the same crowd
Soun also sat, watching as the dark haired boy went though
a series of moves the likes of which he hadn't seen since
his training days. "Genma?"
The dark haired boy paused mid move to land next to a sick
looking little girl. He went to one knee and applauded.
"Great moves, Hotaru. Now try it again, lifting your left
forearm higher and bending your knees more."
"Soun, it's your move. If you are going to insist on coming
over to Juuban every day to play shogi, can we play already?"
"Okay, Yoma-kun. I hadn't realized that that was there." he
looked at the Silver Queen attacking his Bishop.
"What were you looking at just now?"
"Nothing really, I just thought that I saw something that looked
familiar, but I must have been wrong. No master of 'Anything
Goes' would ever teach a woman, let alone a girl. The Master
would never allow it."
His opponent snorted, "And here I thought that were constantly
bragging about Akane and how good she is."
"I trained her in Kempo, she picked up a few move on her own,
moves
but I never taught her the whole system." His eyes widened,
as he looked over Yoma-kun's head, "Look, the Tokyo Giant's blimp."
"What? Where?"
The shogi game continued.
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Haruka growled as she studies the greater Tokyo phone
directories, Satome Nodaka, nope not here. She wiped
Nodoka. Tense confusion.
her hands across her eyes, "I'm an idiot, Ami, of course>"
She reached for the phone
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On a grassy knoll a short distance away
"Tinker, are you sure that your gadget works?" The
shorter women peered at the complex blend of electronics,
machinery, and crystalline lattice that the older bespectacled
man held in his hand
"Yes, Steward. I am quite sure you were there when I showed
the Lady how well the 'gadget' picked up Silver Millennium
energy. I know you were around when I showed Seneschal, Uranus
reborn."
"Somewhere down there, is at least one of the Senshi." He pointed
at the crowd.
"Is it the boy?"
"No," the reply was firm, allowing for no contradiction. "I scanned
him when he grabbed Squire. He is fully human. I did detect some
magic upon him, but compared to the magic of a Senshi it is
trifling."
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China
"Pant . . . Pant . . . Pant." Shampoo stood, hurt but
alive amid a pile of Musk, who were to her satisfaction
hurt and dead.
Clap, Clap, Clap.
#Damn, why did he have to show up?#
"I will give you a part of the win, Shampoo," Herb called out to
her, "I'll let you have the fat furry one, I get the other."
She considered the odds, half of her party, including herself,
were wounded. The surviving Musk warriors were slightly outnumbered,
but Herb was unhurt. Also, they were already heading off in
a ground eating pace.
"Hold, let them go. We have something we have to bring Elder Cologne."
She gestured to her companions to lift the heaver of the two burdens
that the Musk had died protected.
"A wise move, Amazon." The King of the Musk lift the burden away
from his followers and hefted it on to one shoulder. As he
did so, a part of the cloth that warped it, fell away and a shock of
black hair and a male arm appeared. It seemed to move slightly then
Herb turned and disappeared.
"Mousse, run ahead to the village and tell the elders that we are
returning.
"Yes, my love."
"And quit calling me that." As the master of Chinese Hidden Weapons
Do not capitalise Randomly. He is not limited to Chinese weapons.
ran off, Shampoo thought to herself. #At times, I almost wish that
he had been able to defeat me. Certainly no else has even come
as close as he has.#
Of course if he was willing to fight her, that might help.
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Back in the park
Hotaru blew back a strand of sweaty hair, #The way I feel right now,
I'm tired but the others. Wow!!!!#
Ranma had run each one of them through a set of exercises, standing
there, arms folded across his chest as he watched. Then he started each
on a different set of exercises. She could sense each one stressed the
user almost to the limit but not to or beyond it.
She focused back as Sensei clapped his hands, "Okay, that's it. Lets cool
down and then we'll go back to the house."
Soun looked at the sundial that decorated one end of the park, "Yoma,
I'll have to be going now. I promised to escort Kasumi to her Kyudo.
Day after tomorrow, same time?"
"Right."
As Soun walked off, he detoured to talk to the little girl who was
standing off to one side watching the crowd surrounding the
black haired boy.
"Hello, I was watching you practice. Your sensei is good. Where
does he teach?"
"Onisan? Oh, he teaches here. Us."
"Your brother? No school?" Soun frowned, #I know that Nermia is
Nerima
a bit off but if the Dojo could get an instructor of his caliber.
I've mourned my wife long enough. If only Genma would return with
his son so the boy could marry one of his daughters. If indeed they were
still alive after disappearing for ten years.#
Suddenly aware that he had forgotten the heir's name, he frowned #Ataru,
Tenchi or something?# He shrugged, it would come to him.
Remembering her manners she bowed. "I'm Hotaru Tomoe."
Soun bowed back, "Soun Tendo."
"Hotaru,"we're heading back now, come on." One of the other girls yelled
Stray quote. Missing exclamation point.
her
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Back at the Amazon Village, late that evening
Shampoo sat staring at the fire. Apparently Genma had somehow
survived a stabbing and burial. Cologne believed that somehow
the force of the burden he carried as well as Genma's human
and panda from alternating had somehow kept him alive.
She shuddered.
If what had happened was living. Genma's mind was gone.
All that he could say was. "Son Ranma Heir to Anything
Goes no heir . . .Not marry Soun's . . . Child. . . .
Ten'ou raise heir of my blood not heir of my school. . .
Not a coward . . . Best solution . . . The scrolls gone."
Shampoo had her knife out ready to cut he throat of the
poor insane person when Cologne struck the knife
with her staff, "You heard, Child?"
"I heard, Babblings of crazy person."
do Not Capitalise randomly
"Anything Goes, Anything Goes. Happosi, revenge is sweet." The
Happosai
wizened old matriarch of the Amazons grinned a feral grin
"Come girl, there is much we have to think about."
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Next day at the temple
Steward, bowed politely to Cherry, and carrying the ofuda he placed
into her hand, walked back to the car.
"The old man says that his daughter Rei made these. He claims that
same type of these proved themselves against the Youma of the Dark
Kingdom." She laughed. "I sounded duly impressed."
They laughed as Tinker studied the scroll, "Humph, it tickles." He held
his hands around it, closed his eyes and concentrated for an instant.
A black aura appeared between his hands. As the letters on the ofuda
blazed, the aura changed to black flames then the ofuda vanished.
"That was fun."
As the ofuda disappeared, both heads swiveled, "Tinker, can you feel it?"
"Yes, Steward." Tinker pulled on a crystalline monocle, "A Youma, of
Dark kingdom vintage, unless I miss my guess."
She raised one eyebrow, "In some sort of stasis, poor thing. Even
I can detect the moon magic from the temple. I think I even sense
chiba-Serenity there. You know as well as I that she will have to
chibi
be set aside before we can achieve our vengeance."
"And if it slays her?"
"Then she is too weak for us to pledge ourselves to . . . afterwards."
"Do you think we will be able to?"
"The queen stood for Justice. After we have ours I'm sure she'll agree
that we were in the right."
She raised one hand and was rewarded with a slight growl.
Luna who had been laying in in sun, sleeping, heard the same
in the sun
growl as she came suddenly awake. "A Youma? No, Beryl and
her lot are long gone." she rolled over and went back to sleep,
The raised her head and blanched as much as a black furred cat could,
They
then quickly jumped to one side a the clawed feet of a Youma
as
smashed down where she was.
As the girls changed into exercise clothes, Rei poked her head
into the room, "That was Ami. She is running late and will be
here in about a half an hour. "Darn, and Minako and her folks
took off to the beach for the day, I was hoping that all of the
Senshi could get together and do this."
There was a sudden growl in the courtyard followed by a screech.
"Luna," Usagi gasped.
"Ranma," the rest gasped as the went through the unfortunate line
they
of thought that their "hobby" lead toward. "One or more Senshi
plus mysterious happens equals trouble." The girls grabbed their
Huhn?
henshin pens and bolted toward the courtyard
Saying, "Get away Ranma, We can deal with it", Usagi reached for
her henshin pen. Then, like the rest stopped, gasping with
astonishment at the scene before her. Ranma was walking on all fours
circling the Youma. Who was not acting like a typical monster,
that is to say attempting to either rip Ranma limb form limb and
from
steal his soul gem or steal the soul gem first, then rip Ranma
to pieces.
Instead, it stood there looking nervous. as the growling boy circled it
Stray period.
Ranma, who was several meters away, raised a hand and swung downward.
The Youma reeled back, a row of parallel gashes ripped into it's
side.
"Boy, if Devil Hunter Yukio were real and saw this, she'd
freak." Rei muttered.
"To say nothing of her manager." This was from Hotura.
Hotaru
Usagi called out, "We've got to do something."
Rei settled back to watch. "We are. We are watching a Youma
get it's tail kicked."
"And we're at a safe distance, and nothing hurts." Makato sat
down to watch as well."
Makoto. Stray quote.
"GUUUYYYSSS!!!!!" Usagi stomped her feet. "We've got to save Ranma."
"It's too late."
Usagi turned back to the fight. Sure enough, the head of the Youma
slid one way as its body slid the other."
"Right, way to go Ranma-kun." Makato jumped up and down in her
excitement.
Makoto
"Ranma. Uh, Ranma." Hotaru waved her hand in front of Ranma
"Help." She eeeppped in a very small voice as Ranma-neko
looked at her.