Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Destiny of the Magi ❯ What the HECK is THAT! ( Chapter 11 )

"I guess we'll be seeing you another time Elder." Kikori said respectfully. The sun has already set and the moon shines brightly illuminating Kikori's dyed hair. Cologne came to the airport with only her great grand daughter, Ranma, and Kikori mostly because Zandia doesn't like good byes. The Tendos don't know her too well and of course Ukiko can't go anywhere without her sensei.

"Yes, I have a feeling that we will see very soon." Cologne said confidently, "I sense lots of distress from the people of the world. That is usually a sign something big is going to happen soon."

Ranma nodded, "All the spirits tells me the same thing, so does Artricia as a matter of fact."

Shampoo blinked, "Spirits tells you of the future?"

Ranma shook his head, "Nope, they just tell me the feeling they get from the ethereal realm, usually their right, but they are wrong a lot of times too."

"I don't think I can talk any longer, plane isn't going to wait for me after all." Cologne said, "Don't let my heir free load of you, make her work for her living."

"Great grand mother!" Shampoo whined, "I won't do no such thing!"

"Naw, Shampoo's cool, she can work if she likes." Ranma said casually, "Your flight should be leaving soon, you should get going old ghoul."

WHAP!

"Insolent child." Cologne smirked, "Keep training young talent, don't want this old lady to find you slacking off now do you?"

The pigtailed boy smirked in reply, "Yeah right, like I'd slack off."

"Yes, Ranma is quite obsessive about certain things." Kikori said seriously, "Unfortunately, when it comes to training, he goes BEYOND obsessive."

Cologne cackled, "I really must go."

"Good bye great grand mother."

"Good bye Elder."

"See ya Ghoul!"

Cologne shook her head, "I'll let you say that once without getting hit, don't expect me to give you anymore freebies."

Ranma grinned, "I know."

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Act 1: Chapter 11

What the HECK is THAT!

"My lord," A dark gurgled voice spoke. Its voice echoed through the dark and empty hall, "The Long Sen Dao has been located, it's power used."

"Good." A red haired man smiled in anticipation, "So the Mage tower finally forgot about the Sword. Tell me, where is it?"

"Tendo Dojo, Nerima." The voice replied.

"This will become the tower's downfall." The man smirked and stood up. He is wearing a gray shirt with a pair of faded jeans, "We depart for Nerima now."

"Yessss Mi'lord." The voice hissed, three pairs of golden eyes glowed in the shadow, "He is there too."

"Would he help us?"

"No, his loyalty is still with the tower." The gurgled voice replied with absolute certainty.

"Then it would be an honor to fight him." The man chuckled, "Yes, a great honor."

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Ranma sighed dejectedly as he sat on the couch staring at nothing, "This can't be happening."

Kikori rolled her eyes, "Oh come on, it's just another mission."

Zandia and her student watched as Ranma and Kikori both sighed.

"See, even YOU'RE sighing!" Ranma said pointingly.

"Well, I was getting comfortable here you know." Kikori retorted, "So what is this mission anyway?"

Ranma licked his lips, "I think it's better to show you yourself."

Ranma reached into his shirt pocket and brought out a scroll and placed it on the table opened. The air above the scroll winked as if a screen has been turned on. A face of an old man appeared, his head is still filled with hair despite his apparent old age.

"Spirit mage Saotome, Priestess Sekihara. By order of the council, you have a new assignment." The face spoke with a commanding voice, "We have reason to believe that the heir of an old foe of the Mage tower has came out of hiding and is headed towards Nerima and we want you to prevent this person from reaching his goal and to report to us."

Kikori nodded to herself.

< Just like all our other missions. >

"However, if you are to fail in this mission, you will report to us and the tower will send you help to put a stop to this man's plan. The Chinese mage tower has also agreed to help us in this endeavor so the Mind mage Shampoo shall also help you in this mission along with a imbuer that would be joining you shortly."

Shampoo, who has been quiet for the whole time gasped, "No, not him."

"Best of luck, may the goddess and spirits watch over the two of you."

The image winked out leaving a pale Amazon and a thoughtful Priestess, "Well Gramps hasn't changed one bit." Ranma said with another sigh.

"I should hit you for calling the council member of the spirit mage with such disrespect Ranma." Zandia scrawled, "But since he DID take you in, he IS your relative in a sense."

"Aww, Angel sensei, are you jealous that I don't call you my beautiful older and more mature sister?" Ranma said sarcastically.

"Quit asking for trouble Ranma." Kikori said disapprovingly, "Looks like we're going to do patrol again."

Shampoo continues to look pale and mumbles over and over again, "Not him, not him, not him."

"What's with her?" Ranma asked pointing to the Amazon.

The other girls shrugged.

"Is it that time of month?"

Shampoo snaps out of her stupor and pulls out a bon bori out of no where and hits Ranma on the head, "Stupid male."

Ranma clutched his head, "Well it's a legit question!"

WHAM!

"No is not!" Shampoo growled before returning to her mantra.

Kikori shook her head, "When will you learn?"

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"So tell me again why we need to pick this guy up?" Ranma asked, annoyed.

"If this imbuer is who I think he is, then we'll need to BE here to make sure he actually made it." Shampoo said confidently, "I guess it can be thought to be a blessing that he doesn't make it."

Ranma blinked, "So he's like Ryoga? REALLY bad sense of direction?"

Kikori shook her head, "Only the Hibiki family can have THAT sense of direction. I doubt it's another of Ryoga's family."

Shampoo nodded, "You'll see when he gets here."

The three mages watched as people poured out of the exit of the airport. Shampoo grimaced as a boy wearing a white robe walks out of the exit and continuously pumping into people.

"Sorry ma'am... Sorry sir... Sorry."

"Oh brother." Shampoo muttered dejectedly, "He made it."

Kikori blinked, "Why is he saying sorry sir to that women over there?"

"And that guy doesn't look ANYTHING like a women." Ranma said bewildered.

"That's Mousse, for you." Shampoo sighed sadly, "I just hope he's over that crush."

Ranma's eyebrows shot up, "Crush?"

"SHAMPOO! YOU'VE COME FOR ME!" `Mousse' shouted and leaped into the air right towards Kikori.

"I call upon the weapon of nature." Ranma called as his left eyebrow twitched and shot his spell towards Mousse `guiding' him back to the path he intends to take, "That's the girl your suppose to lunge for."

Shampoo shot Ranma a nasty look, pulled out her bon bori, and smashed Mousse to the pavement, "Stupid Mousse."

Kikori blinked, "So what is wrong with him?"

"He has vision problems." Shampoo said wiry, "He can't read a sign even if his life depended on it."

"Why doesn't he just get laser surgery?" Ranma said shaking his head.

"Too prideful." The mind mage replied.

"I thought men in your village were not." Ranma said.

Shampoo blinked, "Is a misconception of Amazons. Many of our males are very talented mages or martial artists, sometimes both. They just don't hold important political roles. But without them our village won't be able to survive since all of our merchants, doctors, and teachers are mostly male. So many males are very proud of themselves."

Ranma and Kikori nodded understandingly, "Still, you REALLY shouldn't hit him so hard."

Mousse groaned and shook his head, "OH SHAMPOO!"

Ranma twitched as Mousse latched on to him.

"When did you get so flat-chested?"

Shampoo smirked, "You were saying Ranma?"

"I'm going to tear him a new one!" Ranma growled, "Powers of uninhibited winds, thy powers are at my call. Come to me oh winds of destruction, SHOW THE UNWORTHY OUR POWER!"

Kikori sighed and conjured up a shield spell in front of herself and Shampoo.

Ranma's eyes glows green as a spell circle appeared below him. Wind blows violently towards the circle and rushing upwards creating a funnel of wind. Within the funnel green lines of magic streaks upwards, hitting anything that gets in its way: namely Mousse.

"That is overkill." Kikori said shaking her head while protecting innocent bystanders while they stare at the show of power.

"What spell is that?" Shampoo asked bewildered, "It's so powerful!"

Ranma ended the spell with a happy sigh, "MAN I need to do this more often!" The pig-tailed mage turned to see a VERY battered Mousse, "You lucky I didn't use full power, or it'll literally rip your ass apart."

"You didn't have to use your big four on him you know." Kikori said, "So what if he hugged you? It's not like he did it when you're a girl."

Ranma growled, "It's a matter of ethics! I can't let a guy hug me like that without beating him up badly! It's like you can't let a guy get away with nothing when they grope you."

Shampoo continues to stare at Ranma, "I'm glad you didn't use THAT when we fought."

Ranma grinned, "I always have something up my sleeves. This happens to be the one I use a lot of times."

"Especially when he's annoyed" The priestess noted, "You messed him up, you pick him up."

Ranma grumbled, "Yeah yeah, I know."

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"Let's set some ground rules here." Kikori said with a commanding voice, "No proclaiming love while we're working or inside this house."

Ranma snickered and pretended to get love struck, "Oh Kikori, I love you!"

The priestess glared at Ranma, "Rule number two, no unprovoked hugging."

Ranma snickered again before leaping into the air and placed a hug on his partner.

Kikori blushed before bopping Ranma on the head, "Don't fool around! I'm serious here!"

"How come he gets to proclaim love and hug his partner!" Mousse complained.

"He CAN'T!" Kikori said with surpressed anger, "He isn't even serious!"

"Oh chill you two." Ranma said, "Our target isn't even NEAR Nerima yet."

Kikori moaned and clutched her head as she felt a wave of dark power, "You were saying?"

Shampoo closed her eyes, "I feel excitement from our target, like he is about to get something."

"Corruption, dark spirits are gathering here." Ranma said darkly, "The tower didn't say our target was a CSM."

"CSM?" Shampoo frowned.

"Corrupted Spirit mage," Kikori answered, "They wield the corrupted version of spirit mage's spells. Their powers usually cancel out spirit mages, but if they are hit with normal spirit mage's spells then they get drained badly vice versa."

"They are headed towards the high school." Ranma said standing up, "Lets go."

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Ranma lead the four of them to Furinkin high school to find their target already standing in the middle of the school yard waiting for them, "I've been expecting you Saotome."

"Huh?"

"Wow, that sounded really bad, but I really wanted to say that once." The red headed man said with a smirk, "But really, your late."

Ranma growled, "Feh, so eager to be beaten?"

"Nah, but I KNOW your partner knows where the Long Sen Dao is." The man grinned, "So would that priestess please kindly tell me so I can get this over with?"

Kikori narrowed her eyes, "I'll tell you in the next Century."

"Touchy."

The pig-tailed mage glared openly at their target, "Who are you."

"That would be telling now wouldn't it." The man smirked, "So I'm guessing you won't be telling me where the sword is?"

"Shampoo, Mousse, go back to the shop." Ranma said, "Me and Kikori will hold him back."

"The shop huh?" The man shook his head, "I was hoping you'd be smarter than that."

Ranma continue to glare at the man, "Well, you won't be able to go there since I'll be stopping you."

"Just admit it, either of us can really beat each other," The man said, "Too bad your not the only one to have help. COME!"

Ranma gasped tackled Kikori to the ground just in time to save her from a dark blur the sped towards her.

"Your as good as they say Saotome." The man grinned before running out of the yard, "Enjoy your fight."

Ranma cursed but cheered himself for leading the man to the wrong place.

"We meet again."

Time froze for Ranma as he heard the gurgled voice. His whole body starts to shake. His fist clenched so tightly, blood was having a hard time getting to it.

"I see you remember me young mage."

Kikori stood up and turned to her attacker, "My goddess."

A red aura burst from Ranma's body as he turned around, "Kalda."

Kikori continue to gap at the sight in front of her.

< A three headed dog! No... not dog, more like a lizard with three wolf heads! >

"Kalda." The pig-tailed mage screamed in rage.

Kikori turned to her partner to see him surround by a red aura, "You've seen this thing before Ranma?"

Ranma ignored his partner, "POWERS OF WIND, I WIELD THEE! SHOW ME THY STRENGHT! LEND ME THY WEAPON!"

Ranma's whole hand glows an eerie gold color. Slowly, the glow extends into a long wide blade.

"New trick mage?" all three heads of Kalda spoke calmly in unison, "It doesn't matter, I've done my job."

Ranma snarled and charged the creature, "DIE!"

The left head snorted and made the ground in front of him to explode knocking Ranma back, "Still as reckless as ever mage. I'll fight you another day."

Ranma picked himself up just in time to see Kalda teleports away, "DAMNIT! KALDA, COME BACK AND FIGHT!"

Kikori stared at her partner as he continues to scream in frustration.

< What is going on? >

Ranma hits the ground in anger as his red aura fades slowly, tears rolled down his eyes, "Damnit... come back..."

Kikori wrapped her hands around the crying Ranma, "Come on, we need to make sure Shampoo and Mousse is all right."

Ranma nodded mechanically and stood up, following Kikori's lead towards their little magic shop.

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"Mousse stop!" Shampoo ordered, "Our target is following us."

"Ah, you stopped," The man said cheerfully, "So are we near the Long Sen Dao yet?"

Shampoo smirked, "I doubt it."

"It doesn't matter, I know where it is anyways." The man shrugged, "Just want to mess you mages."

All expression from the Amazon fades away with a few calming breathes, "Then I guess we'll have to stop you ourselves."

Mousse nodded in agreement as he withdrew his hands into his sleeves, "And I assure you that the two of us are more than a challenge for the likes of you."

The man laughed, "You two? I doubt that. Winds of darkness, awaken from thy long slumber."

Mousse wastes no time and threw a volley of rocks at the Dark mage who deftly dodges all the throws. The rocks exploded as the landed on the ground leaving scorch marks on the cement road.

"All light is at an end. All breezes turn to storms!"

Shampoo's eyes glows as she tries to send `psychic hits' towards the man only to find out that his clothes are enchanted to withstand any form of mind magic.

"Rise dark wind, show all no mercy!"

Wind rushed from the sky on to the ground, ripping it apart. The chunks of cement floats in mid-air surrounded by an aura of magic.

The two amazons cursed themselves for letting the mage finish his spell, "Great, now we're in for it." Mousse commented casually and threw another volley of enchanted rocks towards the float chunks of cement.

The dark mage smiled, "So predictable."

The enchanted rocks hit the cement, but unlike the other time, the rocks slowed down and float in the air with the cement.

"And I thank you for your magic." The man waved his hands forward disintegrating everything that was floating leaving a massive ball of magic.

"Enjoy the pain." The mage smirked and the ball of magic shot forward and slammed into the two amazons. The ball of magic didn't disappear like the other spells as it continue to slam into the two amazons, "This is a personal favorite of mine, I was hoping to try it on Saotome, but I wanted to test the spell out first. Hope you don't mind being my test subjects."

Shampoo manages to roll away from the relentless attack of the magical ball and jumped towards the dark mage armed with her bon bori, "I wouldn't celebrate just yet."

The mage raised his hand and summoned a wave of wind and knocks Shampoo towards the ball of magic that has been trailing her, "You should listen to yourself. Despite the entertainment here, I must be going to get the sword. Tell Saotome I said hello and ask for me if he liked my present to him."

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Kikori gasp and rushed towards the two fallen Amazons, "Shampoo! Mousse!"

Ranma stood passively to the side and watched as Kikori tend to the two fallen mages.

"Ugh, stupid Mousse." Shampoo groaned and stood up, "He knows where the sword is already. He's taken it."

Kikori bit her lip, "I'll contact the Mage tower."

Shampoo shook Mousse violently and slaps him a few times, "Mousse is out cold, won't wake up."

Ranma nodded and picks him up, "Lets go, we'll go to the Tendo house after we leave him at our place."

Shampoo nodded, "Maybe I should go check on the Tendo family as you put him back?"

"No, ya don't know how they work, they lie, they trick." Ranma said with disgust in his voice, "He might be hiding right now hoping we will go to the Tendo residences and lead him right to the sword."

"So we have better chance of stopping him if we are together." Shampoo said understandingly, "I see..."

"Actually, I'm certain he has the sword already," Ranma commented, "But just in case."

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Ranma walked into the Tendo Residence with Shampoo to find Kasumi laying on the couch unconscious and Soun beaten to unconsciousness.

"I was right... unfortunately." Ranma said, "Lets go, we have a sword thief to track."

"What about-"

"They'll wake up and find us. They need the rest after that." Ranma said calmly, "We need to find Kikori and give her an update."

The pig-tailed mage takes up his cell phone and punch in some numbers, "Hey Kikori, Tendo place is raided, he has the sword."

Shampoo watched Ranma from beside him as they walked slowly back to the shop. "Is Kikori back at the shop?"

Ranma blinked, "Yo Kikori, ya back the shop?"

The Amazon was given a nod, "Is Mousse awake yet?"

Ranma nodded again before speaking into his cell phone again, "Who's our back up on this mission?"

Shampoo sighed as they continue to walk back to the shop. < So powerful, are Mind mages really as they said, too inflexible in their abilities? Are we really so predictable? >

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Night fell upon Nerima. Stars twinkled cheerfully in the night sky as Ranma and Kikori sat side by side on the rooftop staring at them. The moon was blocked by some clouds making it seem more mysterious than usual.

"Who is Kalda?" Kikori asked suddenly, breaking the calm mood.

Ranma closed his eyes, "Some dog."

Kikori wanted to snort at the reply, "Some DOG? That was a THING!"

"It is a murderer, that is all I need to know." Ranma said sadly, "I will kill it no matter what you say. And I will kill whoever kills it before I do."

"Would you kill me if I killed it?" Kikori said softly.

Ranma turned to his partner and chuckled, "I dun think so. You're my partner, you're, to an extent, me."

Kikori smiled softly, "But why?"

Ranma gave a bitter smile, "I swore to myself that I would avenge my sister, Saiko. Kalda was her killer."

Kikori suddenly felt a cold chill in the air as if something was trying to speak.

Ranma chuckled bitterly, "I'm sorry Saiko, I know your listening, but I won't change my mind. I already killed before. Maybe this would be my last time."

The priestess stared at Ranma, "Rammie..."

"Ki-chan, I have to do this. I promised myself I would."

Kikori was about to say something but rain suddenly drizzled down from the sky changing Ranma into a girl.

"This is why I have to do this," Ranma said smiling at Kikori, "I won't be able to live with myself if I didn't."

Kikori sighed and brought Ranma into a hug, "I still don't know why you're doing this, but I'll help you."

Ranma smiled and kissed Kikori on her forehead, "I know I shouldn't do that, but I really don't know what else to do to."

Kikori blushed, "It's all right. It's not like you have cooties or anything."

Ranma laughed out loud, "That's my line!"

< Maybe after this, Ranma would be happy. Maybe after this, he will lose that sad glimmer in his eyes. Maybe after this, Ranma would always laugh like this without the sadness. > Kikori thought as she laughed with Ranma in the rain. < I always thought that I would be the one to make him forget his sadness being his best friend. I guess I was wrong. >

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< My past is catching up to me. Have I really been running from it? Why am I running from it? Is it because of her? Or is it because of my father's influence? Maybe it's just because I know that if I follow the route that my past paves out, I would die. This is the beginning. My childhood, the mage tower, Zandia, Kikori. Is everything I know just tools to bring me towards my death? It's not my time yet. The spirits told me so. >

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Wow, dark ending... Damn dark ending for Christmas? I suck! Oh well I guess I'll have to make it up to you guys... here's something to make up for it

OMAKE! Rooftop scene! OMAKE!

Kikori sighed and brought Ranma into a hug, "I still don't know why you're doing this, but I'll help you."

Ranma smiled and drew Kikori's face towards her own, "I know I shouldn't do this."

"Ra-ranma?" Kikori stuttered.

"But I don't know how else to..."

"Ranma STOP!?!?!"

"CUT!"

Ranma blinked, "What? The scrip says to kiss Kikori right?"

"OH THE FOREHEAD YOU IDIOT!"

"Ohhh." Ranma slaps her forehead and reads her script that she pulls out of nowhere, "But it says here that I'm suppose to kiss Kikori on the lip specifically! And what is this about a lemon scene after this?"

On the side, a male Ranma laughed uncontrollably as he held the REAL script, "oh man! C-Can't believe Saiko fell for that!"

"RANMA!"

"Whoops." The REAL Ranma stops laughing and ran out of the set.

"DIE!" Saiko screamed wielding a mallet.

Kikori blinked, "Hey Akane, you lend Saiko your hammer again?"

Akane shrugged, "It's her own, I brought her to that mallet shop I shop in."

OMAKE! Fin~ OMAKE!

I got that idea from Black Dragon's fic, Directors cut. Really an insane fic that I have no idea what the hell it was talking about. But funny though. Sorry I used the idea without telling you!

Oh yeah, on a side note. This fic isn't going to go dark from here on in, trust me. I dun like dark fics. I like some of them, dark endings are sometimes nice depending on how dark it is. But really.

Not much stuff to say this time around except mappy X-mas. ^^

Merry Christmas to all and hope you got a better present than me.