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Shadow's Rebirth.

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Chapter.2: Past and Present

"Ranma, What did you just say?" I heard Amy say. Before I can say

something, my vision changes and I'm somewhere else, it looks like a mini island

in a giant forest. I find myself staring at a humanoid thing that resembles a

hedgehog. It was blue and had razor sharp spikes and wore white metal gloves

and red shoes that looked familiar. The thing_no Sonic charges at me with a

blinding speed, but I realize that I'm moving at the same speed. I kick Sonic

and he goes flying to the edge of the island. I speak in my voice only deeper,

"You will never stop me Sonic the Hedgehog" Sonic gets up and says my name, but

I can't hear it.

The vision faded and I'm again staring into Amy's concerned red eyes, "Ranma,

are you okay?" I shake my head, "I just saw something too real to be a daydream,

but rather a memory that was forgotten and shouldn't have been." I shiver at

the speed I can remember, I want it back. Then it comes to me, "Amy, I know all

of you_the new students, don't I?" She nods so I ask the question that plagues

me, "Tell me then, who am I?" She shakes her head sadly, "I can't tell you,

and you'll have to remember. I'm sorry" I nod disappointed, "At least I

remember Sonic. We were rivals who started out as enemies who became allys, but

I can't remember why we didn't became friends"

I get a foreboding feeling and feel a tremor of intense heat, but it

fades. Amy's face sadden, "Just_just keep remembering." The bell then rang and

the class walks out. The instantly surround me and Amy, trying to get info to

feed those damn rumor lines. Amy just stays by my side ignoring them all as we

waited. Then the person I want to talk to came out. I raise my voice and yell,

"Yo' Sonic!!" The class falls silent and looks in confusion as to who I'm

talking about, but the new students weren't. They were surprised and overjoyed.

Recca is looking right at me, his eyes showing determination. "You remember me"

It wasn't a question but a statement. I grin at the blue haired boy. "Sort of,

I was talking to Amy when I remember our first fight."

Sonic grins, "We have gym next" I blink in confusion but then it

comes to me, with a big grin on my face, "You, me on the track" Sonic smirks

back at me. "You haven't remembered yet, so you are still slow, but hey, why

not?" My peers go silent because I'm the fastest fighter here, but I know Sonic

is right; I am slow. I nod and Sonic walks off, soon afterwards the gossip

started up again. Nabiki walked to me and tried to intermediate me with that

glare of hers, "Okay Saotome, how do you know about the new people and what do

you know about them?" I paused. Should I act like the dumb jock? No. I am

sick of wearing my mask. So I glared back at her and she actually backed away

and I answered coldly, "None of your business and none of your business." Then

I walked away

I walked out the gym actually wearing the gym uniform for once,

rather then sleep in a tree all period. I can feel all the gazes of the girls

on my backside; let them. I'm only looking at Sonic, who is wearing the same

thing, but at another glance her was wearing red metal looking shoes. A phrase

comes into my head, Light Speed Dash. Where it came from I don't know, but it is

important. Amy and the other new students are around Sonic and she catches my

gaze, wearing girls gym clothes, she made me think many, many impure thoughts.

I clear my head and walk to Sonic, "Four times around the track," He says, I can

deal with that. We walk over to where the track is, the couch there with a

whistle amazed that I'm participating., "Okay boys, make it good! On the count

of three! ONE-TWO-THREE!" And we are both off.

We are both moving so fast that we are blurring, but I'm losing.

Sonic is at least twice as fast as me_wait a moment he is holding back. I get

that damn feeling, I AM TOO SLOW!!! I should be faster, in no time; we were

both on the last lap. I never thought I would lose so badly. Then I see it. It

is a giant golden ring, like I have seen earlier. Again it is radiating my aura.

Sonic passes it and we both are in the final seconds of the race. This time I

don't hesitate. I latch onto the ring as I pass it and power floods my whole

body and my speed boosted as if I moved up a gear. With a sonic boom, I pass

Sonic and finish the race in first place I heard many windows exploding in the

distance

I try to stop, but my feet skidded on the cement and I left two

flaming trials. Sonic finishes the race microseconds faster, but I know, he was

holding back, some victory. I look down and I notice that on my feet were two

new sneakers. They looked like Sonics, except mine were black and red. Also the

power boost never went down. I feel that I can run at that new speed again, it

feels me with joy and irritation. Joy that I can go faster; irritation that I

should be going faster. I turn around and that was the moment that everyone was

staring at me.

The coach nervously walked up to me, "Saotome, you just broke the

world record!" The new kids had big knowing grins on their faces while Akane,

Ukyo and the rest of my classmates where dumbfounded_perfect. I scratched the

back of my head and chuckled nervously, "Opps! Sorry about that" I was treated

to a massive face fault. That must of hurt because the cement had numerous face

imprints in it. Sonic took the distraction to walk up to me, "You really

surprised me with that stunt. Next time I won't hold back" I nodded and turned

to Amy who was staring at my new shoes, "Where did you get those shoes? I am

sure that you were wearing something different?" I shrugged, "Well I was about

to be beaten when I saw a huge golden ring appear out of nowhere, so I grabbed

it and zoom!"

Amy give me a big smile, "You saw the rings, that's great! How long have you

been seeing them?" I cracked my back, "After I met you, I been seeing them

everywhere when I was in the middle of something and every time I reached to

grab it, something would distract me and it would vanish seconds later" Sonic

turned to Amy and smirked, "I told, you I'm not the only one to see them

naturally!"

That surprised me. I turned to Sonic "You can see them too?" I was beginning to

think that I was going crazy. Sonic nodded/ "It's a special ability we share.

The rings you see are power boosters. The smaller ones just add to your

reserves_but the bigger rings_" I shake my head. "Tell me, don't trail off like

that!" Amy spoke instead, "The bigger ones unseal abilities" Unseal? "What do

you mean by unseal?" Amy shakes her head. "I can't tell you all of it, but we

all have certain powers, yourself included, and because of a certain thing,

they've been sealed. They only become unsealed due to certain circumstances."

This has gotten really weird. "Do you mean to tell me that I'm not using all my

natural abilities?" The both of them nod. I grin; I start to mentally drool in

the aspects of what they say. I haven't achieved my potential. Many would

consider that bad, but it isn't. After the Saffron incident, I found myself

over everyone in terms of ability. Cologne and Happosai couldn't give me a real

challenge and Ryouga couldn't hurt me with one of his strongest punches. I

thought that I have reached my limit, when I no longer felt that I was

improving. With what they said, that means there are stronger challenges out

there, to improve myself. With not even reaching the standard, I have a long

way to go.

"What are you so happy, you look like you won the lottery" Amy said confused, "I

mean Sonic was so upset when he found out he wasn't even using a fraction of his

true power" A fraction!! My smile goes from ear to ear. So much to improve! I

have limits to break again! The bell rang for the class and I skipped off to

the locker room, ignoring the strange looks I was getting. It never mattered

then; it doesn't more so now. "Ranma!" I stop and see Amy waving her hand.

"Sit with us at lunch!" I nod and she blows a kiss. I had good enough sense not

to catch it.

Time went by quickly, not many more incidents happened, except destroying ten

more of Akane's mallets. She doesn't have a clue. The final bell for lunch

finally rings, and that is when I remember that Akane made my lunch. I'm

beginning to seriously hate her. I skip the door and simple jump out the window,

an easy four stories. I hit the ground and proceed to bury my lunch. I give a

quick prayer for the worms to have better reincarnations for their next life. I

doubt it because I think a person had to have seriously f**ked up to end up as

Akane's food. Enough of talks on religion. All it does is make me hungrier.

I walk out to the lunch area and see that Akane, Ukyo and Nabiki are waiting at

my spot where I usually eat. They notice me and wave, a signal to come and sit

with them. The expressions on their faces say that it is a demand, not a

request. I look around and see at the previously empty spot of the lunch area,

Amy, Sonic and the rest of the new kids sitting around chatting. Amy looks at

me and smiles cheerfully. I glance back at Akane, Ukyo and Nabiki and they are

now glaring at me. What to do? What to do? Sit with Amy and her friends and

have a good time or sit with `them' and be abused, molested and interrogated.

Choices. With pleasure, I give the bird to my fiancés and possible in-law and

walk over to Amy.

"Hey Ranma. Glad you can make it" Amy says, patting the ground next to her. I

sit and turn to the others. Celes greets me first. "Hello Ranma. Recca and

Yoko have told us so much about you" I shook her hand noticing that her nails

weren't black but a very dark purple. Also the fact that they felt as hard as

diamonds didn't escape my notice. I was about to respond when my stomach betrays

me and grumbles. I felt my cheeks warm, "Sorry. I don't have a lunch" I rather

not have a lunch then commit suicide. Celes laughs and waves it off. "That is

okay you can have some of mine. Cooked it myself"

I don't know why, but that phrase scared the shit out of me. I watched as she

handed me her food. I get another pang of fear. This isn't Akane I remind

myself. I was about to take a bite when the fear increase ten fold. I listen

to my instincts, and stop "Ha ha ha" She blinks and the others are watching.

"What?" She asks innocently. I smirk "I know you Rouge, you can't cook, you

poisoned yourself the last time you tried"

The area goes silent and everyone is staring at me, "What do I have something on

my face?" I say wiping my face. Amy shakes her head, "You just called Celes

`Rouge'" I blink, "oh_OH!" I turn back to Celes who was blushing and my vision

changes again. This time I was in a space station type kitchen looking at a

humanoid she-bat with white fur and what appeared to be black and purple tights.

She was attempting to cook Ramen. "Rouge are you sure you should put that

ingredient in?" She glares at me and then turns to try and ignore me. Then she

adds the ingredient against my warning. When it is finish, she smirks, "You see

------, it is easy to cook" Again I couldn't here my name. Rouge takes a bite,

"Oh what was it that you wanted to tell me" Then her white furry face turns

green and she passes out. I sigh, "That the main ingredient you used was thirty

years old." She twitches in her self-induced coma, I sigh and drag her to the

med-lab.

My vision clears and I am staring at Rouge, "You were in bed for a week" Rouge

smiled, "I guess you caught me, Amy cooked this" I grin and start devouring the

food, Saotome style. It is more delicious the Kasumi's cooking. They watch in

amusement and Miles says in amusement, "You see Sonic, he eats just like you do"

I pause in mid bite, "Shut up Tails" and continue eating. I finished and that

was when it came to me. "Your last name is Powers" Miles nodded, "What do you

remember?"

I look inward and speak my thoughts, "You were a mechanical genius" Tails nodded

and my vision shifts just a bit, I see a two tailed fox-boy in a robot beating

the crap out of a fat guy in a robot" I turn to Amy, "How do I know all of you.

I have been alone for most of my life, I am pretty sure that I remember you if

we had met," Everything goes silent again. I hate silence. I was about to

repeat my question when it hits me like a sack of bricks. My dreams. It was so

obvious, "I died didn't I" They nod, "We all did, you were the first. You died

saving the planet"

I was right. My dream wasn't a dream, but rather memories of my final moments.

"I had dreams since I can remember. In them is always the same thing. I'm

falling from space into the atmosphere, above me is a space station that has

stopped falling." Sonic nodded sadly, "We saw you fall, and couldn't do a damn

thing to save you" The ground trembles and I see, Rick has pounded his fist into

the ground. There was a giant crater and numerous cracks ran under us across

the whole field, "It was horrid, mon. Just watc'ing and not do a `hing do

`elp" The mood has gotten dark, and everyone was depressed.

I blink, and again speak without thinking, "Knuckles get rid of the fake accent,

It makes you sound dumber then Sonic!" Sonic grins, "Rig_HEY!" The dark mood

broke and everyone started to laugh. My vision shifts, and I am looking at a

reddish brown humanoid mole like thing. In it's powerful looking clawed hands

was a giant red emerald that gave off a presence of power. The vision fades,

"You were always obsessed about the master emerald, and even broke it when Rouge

tried to steal it" Knuckles mocked glared at Rouge and spoke without the accent,

"It was a real bitch collecting those pieces, I have you know" Rouge just

laughs, "It would have been easier if you had just gave me the thing."

Soon it turned into a playful argument, everyone else groaned, "You should know

better then to bring up the master emerald again." She says slapping the back of

my head

"Is it still that bad?" She shakes her head, "No it's just a flirting game,

makes me sick." That came from Kay, the last person in the group. I haven't

noticed her. I concentrate trying to remember from where I know her. She waves

her hand in dismissal, her face still resembling a fox, "Don't bother, we never

encountered each other." She said cheerfully.

The others nodded in agreement, "She's right Ranma, you never met

her" Amy says. I nod, but I still think I know her. Kay Hos. The name rings a

bell. Kay Hos. It is at the tip of my tongue. In my minds eye, I can see a

screen and on it, I see Sonic fighting a blue gell type thing. It looks like I

am seeing this on a recording. What does Kay Hos have to do_wait a minute! Kay

Hos! I start to laugh! "Chaos" I say. The others pause and Kay has both eyes

fullen open. "What did you just say?" I grin, "I know OF you. Chaos. The

guardian of the special emeralds, Chaos Emeralds; they are a huge unknown energy

source that can do many things. That was until Dr. Eggman corrupted you. You and

Sonic fought many times before he defeated you and you were purified. I

remember seeing clips of you. I thought you were a man!"

Kay laughed and her face went back to looking like a fox face. "So

you do know me. As for your question, I was genderless before, so I chose to be

a woman. Girl power you know. At least I'm glad you're not stupid like Sonic,"

Sonic nods. "Ye_ HEY! Will you all stop that!" We all have another good laugh

at Sonic's expense. I turn to Amy, "Let me get all the facts. One, you can't

tell me my name, because it has been sealed away" They nodded, "Two, I died,

but somehow I was able to come back, and you can't tell me how" They nodded

again. "Three, I knew you, so that means you all died too" They nodded,

"Finally, the more I remember, the more my natural abilities come out." They

nodded. I then remember what has been bugging me, "Okay. One more question."

I pause to make sure they can hear me, "What is the Light Speed Dash?"

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