Gold Digger Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Smoke and Wind ❯ Aftermath ( Chapter 8 )

The Disclaimer is in the Prolouge.

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Brianna pulled Seance to the side while Strype sat next to Brit with Tiffany waiting for his wife to wake up. "Look can you go to Jade and tell mom and dad that Britanny gave birth?"

"I want to but. ."

Brianna held up a hand, "Look I know you want to stay here and look at Tiffany, and see if Britanny is all right, but think how mom and dad feels, they didn't even get to see their granddaughter get born. They should at least know."

Seance sighed, 'Looks like I'm always playing messenger boy around this place.' "I'll do it." He was surprised when Brianna hugged him, no glomp, but a friendly hug.

Letting go of the hug, Brianna smiled, "Thanks, though if you can, see why mom and dad had to leave in the first place."

Seance nodded, "Sure." He pulled out a gate scroll that he always carried around, he spoke a few words and in a flash he was gone.

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Meanwhile Julia was speaking with the Saotomes.

"I'm pretty sure that very few people will be able to stop her, if any." Julia mused mostly to herself, while thinking, 'The only people who could do it are probably in this room.' Sure Gar, Brianna and Sheila had 'beaten' G'Nolga before, but that was because she had underestimated them, and didn't fight to her full abilities. That boy, Ranma, could beat G'Nolga, if he caught her off guard. It wasn't that Julia didn't think he could fight, after all, he fought her to a draw, even if she could beat him if they fought again, but rather that she didn't think that he could if G'Nolga went all out.

Just then there was a flash of light in the middle of the room, Ranma tensed and started charging a Ki blast in his right arm while his left arm was holding onto his wife and moving her slightly behind him for her protection. Sure Ranma knew that Tanya could protect herself, but he didn't want her to fight, lest she be put back into Sanctuary. Julia was wondering who was teleporting to her position. Though she put a hand on her rapier, just in case it wasn't someone friendly.

Seance appeared in the room, with his back to them. "Hmm, I thought that spell would take me right to where Julia was?"

Julia blinked a bit, "Seance? What are you doing here?" Hearing that Ranma dissipated the Ki blast he was charging, seeing that it was someone friendly.

Seance turned around, "Oh there you are Mrs. Diggers." Blinking he saw Tanya and a pigtailed man that he had met in passing a couple of times. "As for your question, I've come to let you know that your granddaughter was just born."

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After much silence and blinking on everyone's part, Julia finally pulled her senses together. "What do you mean? Britanny wasn't due for another month."

Seance sighed, "Apparently because of all the stress of hearing that Tanya was free the baby came early." Seance didn't know it, but Tanya winced and wanted to go back to Sanctuary because of that.

Ranma narrowed his eyes a bit, a little bit angry at the guy, but he quickly calmed down. He knew that Seance wasn't to blame, no one and nothing was, except past history. Tanya whispered something in his ear and he nodded. "Um, Seance? Can you give Britanny a message from my wife?"

Seance and Julia looked at him, both wondering what Tanya wanted to say. "Sure, but it depends on what it is."

Ranma nodded, "Tell her that Tanya won't bother her again, unless she wants to talk, and that she hopes that her daughter is healthy."

Seance nodded, "That sounds reasonable."

Julia shook her head and sighed, 'I missed the birth of my granddaughter because of you G'Nolga. When I get done with you, I am definitely having Ranma use that Moxibustion Point on you. I don't want to miss anything else in my families' life.' Out load she spoke to Seance, "Thanks for telling me. You can find Theo with the rest of the Council."

"Thanks." With that Seance pulled a gate-scroll out and spoke a few words and was gone.

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"We could just bring her to the council", the first "voice" suggested as he noticed Nabiki awakening. "The pool will show her actions and motivations."

"Well, let's just ask her a few questions ourselves first," the third, unnamed voice said. "The council is a little busy at the moment." He turned to Nabiki and started questioning her.

"So, how are you feeling?

"I'm fine, but may I ask, how is it that you're speaking without moving your lips?"

The voice seemed to chuckle. "Yes, I suppose that's a good question. Years ago I had gotten into a conflict with a pack of wolves and they shredded my throat, making normal speech impossible for me, so now I use telepathy to 'speak' with people. Any other questions?"

"Um, yeah, who are you two?" Nabiki asked while looking at the man in the ninja garb and the tubby man with the coconuts nuts in his hands.

"I am Tsunami, one of the ten Weaponsmasters of Jade, Leader of the Ninja Clans, and father to the Armsmaster Julia Brigand-Diggers." He said the last part with a bit of pride.

The fat man spoke up next. "I am Sabbo, the Hidden Emperor of Jade age 49."

Nabiki's eyes widened, "Oh no, a Kuno-baby, Principle Kuno, and Genma mix."

Sabbo looked a bit put off. "Do not compare me to that Macadamian nut, his whelp or that fat bastard."

"Great, he's also got daddy's 'noble samurai' pride. Wait a minute, you know of those Nerimain nutcases?"

Sabbo smirked, "I didn't even pay attention to Nerima until word had gotten to me about a young man that had defeated a partial dragon, a hydra-dragon, and a phoenix, the last one by the way, was one of the only creatures that never migrated to Jade during the great crossing over period. So it was then that I took an interest in Nerima."

"Any other questions?"

"Um, nope I don't think so."

"Good, because we have some questions of our own."

Nabiki gulped, this is what she was dreading.

"First off, why were you at Twisted Peak?"

"I'm a student of Master Gneiss."

Tsunami and Sabbo nodded their heads, at least she wasn't a thief. "Second question: How did the Twisted Peak blow up this time?"

"Um, I was fixing up Master Gneiss's War Golem for a plan of mine and it went out of control." Nabiki hated this, she couldn't lie, and those two looked a lot more competent than the idiots back home.

"And what plan was this?" Tsunami narrowed his eyes a bit, he was wondering why there were no ruby shards or a giant sentinel around in the rubble.

"I don't want to say it, but to get revenge on someone who slighted myself and my family."

"Who did you want to hurt?" Sabbo asked, though he had a pretty good idea.

Nabiki winced, she really wished she could hold back information or lie right now, hey wait a minute. She smirked a bit. "Someone who lives on the other continent."

"Where do they live?"

"In Seer's Hamlet."

"Who is it?"

Nabiki just wanted to disappear. "Ranma. Ranma Saotome."

"Why?"

Nabiki snapped her eyes up, hate practically glowing in them. "He turned my family's world upside down, he caused so much pain to my family. If he never came, none of that chaos would've happened. I want him to suffer as much as my family did. God, I hope Ryoga hurts him so that he can't fight anymore."

"Now I don't believe that."

"What?"

Sabbo nodded, "Sure, he turned your orderly world upside down, but think of all the good that he did. He saved you from that Chardain marriage, he kept Happosai in check, warded off Taro when he came by, saved you and your sisters from that Toma fellow, as well as saved Akane from Kirin, your half-sisters, and Saffron."

"I don't care, I hate him, I want him to suffer. DO YOU HEAR ME? HE SHOULD SUFFER!!" She would've kept ranting but Tsunami pushed her instant unconsciousness point.

"Well, that settles that. After this business with G'Nolga is finished, we'll hand her over to the Council and let them decide."

"Oh well, I had hoped that she just didn't think things through."

"Who said she wasn't?

Sabbo shook his head. "Say Tsunami, how long will that last?"

"I hit a few more points on her body, it should put her in a coma-like sleep until I release her."

Sabbo nodded, "Good, I'll go and tell the healer to not move her until we or a council member comes to pick her up. Say Tsunami, want to go to the tavern and get a few drinks?"

"No, we should be heading for Seer's Hamlet. I want to help my daughter out after all."

"What about that Ranma kid? You trained him for a month didn't you?"

Tsunami smirked a bit, "Yeah I did. He's got great potential. I'll pick up his training after his honeymoon is over and this mess with G'Nolga is finished."

Sabbo nodded and left.

Meanwhile at the Diggers. . .

Darkness. It was the only thing that Britanny could 'feel' as she came back to conscious thought. She felt cold and her vision was totally black. "Oh crap... Don't tell me I died..." Britanny thought bitterly.

Opening her eyes, Britanny closed her eyes again. Ye gods, was it bright! It hurt her eyes to try and see. Her head was spinning, her sense of smell was out of whack, as all she couldn't smell a thing. She had literally been put through a tizzy. "Oh man... What truck hit me?"

"No truck, though I do not doubt that is how you feel." Came a voice that was familiar to Britanny. Her loving husband, Strype.

Forcing her eyes open a bit, Britanny's vision was slightly hazy, though she concentrated on the orange and blue blur close to her. After a few moments, her eyes finally began to focus. Yes, it was her husband... And he was holding a bundle covered in a blue blanket in his arms. "Is that..."

A huge smile on his face, Strype nodded his head. "May I present to you, our daughter. Tiffany Target'Gia Diggers." He leaned forward, holding the blue bundle in his arms closer to Britanny.

Britanny tentatively reached out and took the small bundle from Strype's arms. Holding the baby to her chest, she got to see her daughter for the first time. A smile started to spread on her lips as she saw how adorable her child was. She already had a cheetah-pattern coat of fur. A definite mixture of traits of her Kryn and Werecheetah heritages.

Tears started to gather at the corners of Britanny's eyes. She sniffled slightly "Oh, Muffin... She's beautiful..."

Placing a comforting hand on his wife's shoulder, Strype asked, "Are you okay, Britanny?"

Sniffling again, Britanny said, "I am... I'm just so happy. Oh, Muffin, our daughter is beautiful." Britanny then held Tiffany close to her, excited by the fact that she was now a mother and that she had such a beautiful daughter.

Wrapping his arms around Britanny and his daughter, Strype gave his family a comforting hug. "We're parents, Britanny." He gave his wife a quick kiss on the cheek.

Britanny purred and nuzzled her cheek against her husband. "I love you Muffin."

Smiling, Strype nuzzled his wife back. "I love you too."

Britanny, for once, was feeling incredibly calmed for the first time in days. This had been the week from hell for her. She was glad that she could just sit back and relax.

She smirked for a moment as a thought came to her. Looking down at her daughter, and when she looked back at Strype, Britanny said, "We're not doing this again, you know."

Strype blinked. "You sure? I think we could have a nice family and-"

Strype was stopped as his wife placed a finger over his lips. "I'm only teasing." Britanny said. Taking her hand away from her husband's lips, she looked back down at her child, and nuzzled Tiffany lightly. "Our little girl..."

Strype just smiled and hugged his wife. He kissed her on the cheek again. He was very content with life. His wife was all right and he now had a beautiful daughter. At the moment, Strype felt like he was on top of the world.

While Brit and Strype were reveling in the fact that they were parents someone else was not very happy at this moment. "WHERE AM I NOW?!?" Three guesses who that was and the first two don't count. R-Sentinel continued his trek through Jade in search of his arch-nemesis Ranma to protect the girls from his dastardly ways. When Nabiki reprogrammed the War Golem and then blasted its head to activate it, things had happened that went beyond the norm. Instead of just Ryoga controlling the thing or the thing moving with Ryoga empowering it, the two were more or less merged into one being. It had Ryoga's sense of direction, his quick temper, and his views on Ranma, but it also had its original programming to protect a girl, who happened to be the last of the Werecheetahs. And since Ryoga tried to 'protect' the girls from Ranma all the time, the two had one agreement: Kill Ranma and save the girls.

The War Golem continued to tear apart the land in search of his rival, unfortunately it was looking at its feet and only looked up when it saw water by its feet. Looking up and around, R-Sentinel saw that both of its feet were on small rocks and it was standing in the middle of the ocean. "DAMN YOOOOUUU RAAAAAANNNNNNMMMMMAAA!!" Growling at the injustice of it all R-Sentinel jumped off the rocks and into the water heading for Seer's Hamlet. It was a good thing that Golems don't need to breath air.

A few minutes later R-Sentinel reached the shore, unfortunately it was the same shore that it left in the first place. R-Sentinel got up and ran in a zigzag course, of course R-Sentinel was trying to run straight forward. Yes it would be awhile before R-Sentinel caught up with Ranma. Who knows when?

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Meanwhile Theo was speaking to Gneiss and Bugie about what to do. "So she's been defeating everyone she's come across?"

Bugie nodded, "Yep, and the worst part is, is that most have been hurt pretty badly, some have even died from their injuries."

"I see. Gneiss what about that rumor about your War Golem?"

Gneiss looked his former student in the eyes and sighed, "There have been numerous sightings, but no one seems to be able to catch up with it."

All conversation stopped as a noise, which was tell-tale of a teleport, echoed around the room. Theo, Gneiss, and Bugie watched as someone materialized in front of them. "Seance? What are you doing here?"

Seance smiled a bit nervously, "Sorry to interrupt Master Diggers, but I have a message for you."

Theo nodded, "Go on."

"Congradulations, your now a grandfather."

Theo's eyes widened, "How? Britanny wasn't due for another month."

"Apparently all the stress she was under caused the baby to come early. Jetta was there to play mid-wife."

Theo nodded, sighed and sat down. "I can't believe it, I'm a grandfather, and I didn't even get to see it."

Seance smiled a bit, "Don't worry Dr. Diggers, Brianna recorded it for you. Though personally I think she's going to use that to embarrass Britanny."

Theo nodded, "Thanks Seance, you can go." Seance nodded and took out a gate-scroll and muttered a few words and was gone. 'G'Nolga, you had better hope that my wife never catches up with you, because you'll be sorry.'

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G'Nolga sneezed, then she sneered at what was in front of her, she was only two days away from Seer's Hamlet and the 'resistance' had gotten harder, harder for normal people that is, for her it was nothing. But the person in front of her wasn't someone to take lightly, no matter who you were. "What do you want Leep?"

Leep narrowed his eyes. "G'Nolga, you have caused so many problems, when this is over you will no longer be a Weaponsmaster, nor have a chance to be Armsmaster."

G'Nolga got pissed at that, she was the best Weaponsmaster in all of Jade, and this little freak was telling her what to do? Oh no, she was not going to stand for it. 'Besides,' she thought to herself, 'Who'd be able to take my place?' Out load she addressed Leep, "All right you perverted little shrimp, I'm going to take you apart right here and right now."

Leep smirked, "Bring it on."

And thus the battle was joined.

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Tsunami and Sabbo materialized just outside of the Saotome household. "I thought you said that this will take us straight to him?"

"It did, this is his house."

"Oh, in that case I apologize." With that Tsunami knocked on the door.

Tanya blinked as she heard the door being knocked on. Truth be told, she didn't want to be around Julia. The tension in the air every time they were in the same room was down right unbearable. "I'll get it."

Ranma looked at his wife and nodded, and glued his eyes to her rear-end when she was going to answer the door.

Julia shook her head and sighed, 'Young love.' Speaking out load to Ranma she asked, "So besides sparring against me and some training, how's your life with Tanya treating you?"

Ranma looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "You actually have to ask? You saw how we were acting when you came in."

Julia blushed a bit and nodded. "Yeah, but why did you marry her?" She was genuinely curious. During the time that she was there and talking to them, she had only gotten down to business. By all accounts G'Nolga should take at least two more days.

Ranma shrugged, "I went to a tavern to meet people, she was lonely, she went to the same tavern to get laid, and the two of us just kept meeting each other off and on and eventually fell in love."

Julia raised an eyebrow in respect. 'He obviously doesn't care about Tanya's past, and he wants to help her get over it.'

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Tanya blinked as she opened the door and saw a man in ninja garb wearing a scarf around his neck as well as a portly man in a Hawaiian shirt that was wearing a wooden face mask. "May I help you?"

Tsunami nodded, "Yes, are you Mrs. Saotome?"

Tanya frowned, she hoped that these two weren't rivals of her husband's. "Yes I am why?"

"Is your husband home?"

Tanya nodded. Sabbo spoke up then, "Well, we were wondering if we could see him. We'd like to inform him on some developments concerning G'Nolga and some characters from his past."

Tanya nodded and let them into the house. As she was walking she asked a question that was on her mind. "Excuse me. But, who are you two?"

Tsunami almost smiled with the question. "I am Tsunami, one of the ten Weaponsmasters of Jade, leader of the ninja clans, and father of the Armsmaster. I've heard you've had troubles with her family in the past."

Tanya sighed, slumping her shoulders a bit, there was no help for it. "Yes, I tried to kill you great-granddaughter, granddaughter, and grandson-in-law on the Astral plane five months ago. By the way, your great-granddaughter was just born."

Tsunami blinked, "Hmm, looks like I'll have go to the Earth Realm when this is over."

Tanya turned to Sabbo. "And you are?"

Sabbo smirked, though you couldn't tell from underneath his mask. "I am Sabbo, the Hidden Emperor of Jade, age 49." Tanya sweat-dropped at the fat fool.

Tanya shook her head as she came into the kitchen/meeting room. Ranma blinked when he saw Tsunami. "Hello sensei."

Tsunami bowed his head, "Hello Ranma."

Now Tanya and Julia were blinking, "You know him dad?"

Nodding Tsunami answered, "Yes, I met him around six months ago. He was looking for a friend of his. He moved like a fighter, so I asked if I could test him. Long and short, he gave me a really good fight and managed to hurt me." Tsunami didn't mention that he had nearly beaten Ranma to a pulp. "Anyway, I've been training him a bit and teaching him a trick or two. When he got married, I agreed to wait until his honeymoon was over before having a full-out fight."

Julia blinked, she didn't think that the kid that gave her such a good fight was trained by her father. "Well, he's a good fighter, he can give me or G'Nolga a run for our money."

Tsunami nodded. Ranma looked at Sabbo. "Principle Kuno?"

Sabbo face-faulted, "How dare you compare me to him? And what made you say that?"

Ranma sweat-dropped, "I was going for the best-case situation here. You look like Principle Kuno, just with a few pounds, and wearing a mask. If you were pops, I'd have to kick your ass from here to Seer's Hamlet and back."

Sabbo sweat-dropped, "I guess having a father that sells you out at every turn would make you angry at him."

Ranma nodded, "Yep, multiple fiancees though he never cared to uphold those promises, tying me to the back of a train that ran from Tokyo to Kyoto and forcing me to run, lion's cub training." Ranma stopped as he noticed everyone, except Tanya, staring at him incredulously. "What? I'm telling the truth, and that's the easy stuff."

Julia sweat-dropped, "How old were you for those training?"

Ranma frowned and shrugged, "Between the ages of four to ten." Everyone sweat-dropped. Tanya just walked over to her husband's side and hugged him from behind. Ranma put his hands on her arms.

"Your father is a complete idiot who doesn't know the first thing of life."

"So, he may be a complete and total ass hole, but he's a good martial arts trainer, that is, whenever he's not doing something stupid. By the way, who are you?" Ranma finished looking at Sabbo.

"I am SABBO! The Hidden Emperor of Jade! Age 49. By the way, it is surprising to see that you married Tanya here."

Narrowing his eyes Ranma asked, "Oh, why?" If this guy insulted his wife, he would make him pay. No one insulted his wife and got away with it, Ranma didn't care if the guy was Kami-sama himself.

Sabbo shrugged, "It's just that she looks a bit like a cat, and you've got that fear of cats you know."

Ranma shook his head, "As long as it's not a full cat, I'm all right."

Julia tuned out that conversation. "Hey dad. I was wondering?"

"Yes, I'll go and see my great-granddaughter."

Julia blinked, "How'd you know?"

"Tanya told me."

"Oh."

Sabbo nodded at Ranma's answer, he figured as much. He blinked as he remembered something, "By the way, that girl, Nabiki fixed up Gneiss's War Golem Sentinel and it's heading this way."

Julia blinked as she heard that and turned to Sabbo, "I thought I told him not to work with that damned thing anymore, and who's Nabiki?"

"Gneiss's new student."

Ranma blinked, "Why would she fix up a War Golem?"

Sabbo shrugged, "To get back at you for some reason."

"Oh." Ranma nodded.

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A figure stood at the shore. In only one to three days, it would reach Seer's Hamlet. But not before causing a path of destruction that would make an Amazon jealous. Yes R-Sentinel had arrived. And apparently, it's direction sense was getting better.