Nabiki Reborn

Book 1 : Nemira - Chapter 2

Staumkinar 'Puck' Silverbreeze

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20020413

Disclaimer: Don't sue me. I got Nada. This is a work of Fanfiction, I own nothing but my interpretation of the story.

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-- Dawn Sunday --

Ranma has been projecting a aura for over twenty four hours none stop. And his reserves have dropped so low that he has subconsciously searched for a new power source. Deep within himself he found a rolling pulsing energy. Slowly he tried to let it out and found that while Ki needs to be pushed forward this energy is all to eager to leave the body and be used, he in fact has to hold it back by force now that he has tapped it. He tries removing the tap and finds that the Power slumbers again. Ranma finally decided that he would use this power and so tapped into it. He used his ki to shape and guide it. His aura gained a golden white sheen. Slowly the new energy followed the ki links between Ranma and Nabiki.

--Moouse's Flashback/Dream --

Moouse had gone to bed planning to get up Monday and see what exactly is going on with Saotome. He had a bit of strange luck as that night would be the night of the DREAM:

A young Moouse sits with his father in a huge forest. The older man looked down at the young six year old boy, who has no glasses and pointed ears, "My son, my prince. Tonight is our last night together. The time as come for you to be with your mother, to cross the void of worlds and lead our hidden brothers. Until the time comes when He will come. The Dragon Born who is not of the Musk. You will know him from the signs." Moouse looked up at his father, "Father, What are the signs that will guide me?" The older man, by his own admittance a Tribal Chief or King, or at the very most, the Holy Man himself, leaded back and began to speak with the drawn out voice of one repeating from memory

==

One will come

In his veins shall be the blood of the KiTatsu

Not like the Musk who have been rejected

But a willing joining of the bloodlines of Immortal and Mortal

These are the Signs.

From the Mother, His KiTatsu blood, She shall be a DragonWoman even if she doesn't know it. Family and Honor her driving force. Even the Eldest of Elders will respect her word.

From the Father, Of his true father little will be known. But his blood shall be the blood of Atlantean Royals.

From the Fool, this shall be the mortal man who raises the Great One. A fool who will be thought the Great One's father and who is believe himself thus. He will cause more trouble then he is worth, train his so called son in ways that even the dragons find distasteful. Cause the One to be chased by men and women alike. Cause dishonor that will force the One not to be able to decide the fate of his heart.

Of the One it is said. He will bear the soul of Cat. He shall eat of the Fires of Phoenix. And he will defeat the Dragon Pretender in battle, The Amazons of Terra will chase him. An Amazon Elder shall fear him. A Prince of the Elninga shall find him. He will take the most cunning daughter of the blood of Atlantis as his friend. She all the others fear, he will trust. On Terra our people the people from Acardia will be almost the only ones to master the energy called Mana. But on Terra, there will be many great ones of the legendary force called Ki. The one will sit supreme for in his hands Ki and Mana will live and blend together.

==

The man looked down at Moouse, "When he comes my son it will be time for you to change your alliance for the Terra Amazon people of your mother." The man sighs, "We rest much on your young shoulders my firstborn son, if you feel that you can not do this, tell me now." Moouse looked up at the older regal man, "I will do what I must for my people. Promise me that when the One comes he will be able to open the gate back again." The older man nodded, "If nothing else my son, he will be able to bring our peoples home again." Young Moouse nodded, "Then I am ready."

When the dream continued as young Moouse walked through a portal into the Hut of Elders in the Chinese wilderness and is ambushed, a potion is poured over her head and face. Which leaves his eyesight bad and plays havoc with his memories."

--Moouse's Dream End--

Mousse woke in a cold sweat, "You thought the formula would work on me you old bat, but all it did is leave me almost blind. The Mana in my blood countered the memory points by the time I was eight." Mousse got out of bed just in time to hear Cologne yell up, "Time to get up Mr. Part time. You need to get going and check up on Son-in-Law." Mousse sighed, "Already gone". As Mousse jumped out the window he thought to himself, "I pray Ranma is the one. It seems possible."

Mousse jumped from roof to roof trying to find Ranma's Ki. And try he did. Yet he could not find it. It was as if Ranma had disappeared from the face of Terra. So Mousse tried tracking Nabiki only to find the elder Tendo sister also missing. Suddenly he stopped and smacked his forehead, "The old bat says, Ryoga tried to sexually assault Nabiki. Oh course Ranma would be hiding her as well as himself. I am an idiot." Mousse still shakes his head, "Still I am not as much a fool as Ryoga. Everyone in town knows Ranma can beat any martial artist that comes here, yet the lost boy attacks the one girl we should all fear in her own right."

Mousse almost lost his footing when he realized that he had just said, " ' She all the others fear, he will trust' , indeed father." Mousse blinked as he neared the Saotome-ke and almost gets knocked over by the huge amount of Mana saturated into the property. Mousse blinks and moved around to come at the property from behind. He looked down to see Ranma practicing his art. For once it wasn't Ki the flowed through Ranma, but even as Mousse watched Mana flowed through Ranma making him faster and stronger but there was a strange pattern to the boys movments. Mousse looked around and found whom he seeked, laying on her belly near the house side door was Nabiki with some of her notebooks. "I see he is staying close to Nabiki", thought Mousse to himself. Ranma stopped moving and sits down next to Nabiki, without really being aware of what she is doing Nabiki moved to actually lean against Ranma.

Ranma closed his eyes and smiled placing an arm around Nabiki's waist , pulled the girl closer still, which both made the girl aware of how she was sitting and made Nabiki blush. Ranma turned his head toward where Mousse was hidden behind a wall of Mana which kept all the Martial Arts Masters from sensing him, "It isn't nice to spy on people Mousse, What does the old ghoul want now?" Mousse blinked shocked that Ranma could sense him then fell over in shock as the blur he knew was Nabiki blended with the Ranma blur and he just knew that she was now sitting in Ranma's lap. Mousse could hear Ranma speaking to Nabiki softly as he stood up, "Mousse won't hurt you, relax he values his life too much." Mousse sat up and nodded toward the pair, "I wouldn't try to hurt you Lady Tendo, and if I am right about Ranma, I wouldn't have a chance to try." Nabiki blinked at the title but nodded and relaxed a little. Ranma looked at Mousse, "Whatcha need duck boy?" Mousse flinched, "I just came to see you. Partly for the old bat but mostly to see if I was right about you Ranma. I think I will be going. Oh and Nabiki-san, I will edit my report since I don't feel like having Ranma kill the old bat until she pays for what she did to me." Mousse hopped off leaving Ranma and Nabiki wondering what he meant.

--Arcadia : DrowHeld ~ --

Ryoga had crawled out of Nabiki's room and for the first time he was happy for what others called his directional curse. As a portal opened for him and swallowed the boy up. T'Pol, Princess of the Drow, Arch-Magess and one whose family line is destined to be the worse and strongest foes of the Feared One, the one who will turn the war to favor the Elves and Warriors of the Light. She the great Magess, she who is the Mate of the Immortal Troll, Si'girth looked up as she felt the return of her son's magical aura, every sense seemed to scream to her that her one worth while boychild the one who proved the value of males, was hurt to a point where even his half troll healing was taxed to the maximum. T'Pol walks quickly toward the feeling of the quickly bleeding off Mana, for it would be uncouth for the people to see their princess run. She found the shadowy room her son had appeared in and quickly found her Ryoga. Ryoga felt the hands on him, and opened his eyes whispering, "I failed Mother.", in drowish. T'Pol looked over her son and watched his trollish healing fighting the power within the claw marks, "What happened my son, I thought you said you had Akane under control." Ryoga nodded, "I do, and Kasumi is not interested in Ranma that way. She likes that human doctor." Ryoga sighed and continued in drowish, "But I underestemed Ranma's power to charm women. The one Atlantan who was most like the Drow. The sister I was sure hated him. He took her and somehow turned her into a friend." T'Pol nodded, "And what did you do my son?" Ryoga tried to sit up, and fell to the ground gasping, "I tried to break her mother, to rape her in her own bed, prove to her she was worthless." T'Pol nodded, "That is one way to break a strong will, What happened my son?" Ryoga switches to japanese and says one word, "Nekoken." T'Pol blinked and asked in Drowish, "What was that, my son?" Ryoga switches back to Drowish, "I felt her Ki crash and scream mother, I almost had her, and then I felt cat claws, huge and hooked, they tore into me and I can not heal the wounds." Ryoga gasped in pain and arched up, "Niether Ki or Mana seems to help. My Troll blood burns mother. What is he. What did he do to me." T'Pol cast her spells of detection, "My son I feel the presence of Mana and there is that glow of the power you alone have the training to control. It has merged to tear into the magic of your blood, only time can heal these wounds my beloved boychild. Rest here in the land of your people. And let yourself heal." T'Pol cast a deep sleep spell on Ryoga and sighed crying silent tears, "You are the one, he who will rival the LightBringer.. The Storm of the day. May the Dark One give you strength enough to go where we can not and heal with we could not."

-- Earth : Dawn Sunday ~A week after the attack~ --

Nabiki woke slightly as the quality of the aura changed enough for her untrained senses to pick up the change, half asleep she moved from resting her head on Ranma's left shoulder to moving her head across his chest and leaving it over his heart. In the process she had moved to lay mostly on top of him under the covers, one leg resting between his, without realizing it a hand moved up to rest against his throat. Ranma's instincts have grown used to having Nabiki against him, so by the time they woke one of Ranma's arms was on the small of Nabiki's back the other was resting over her hip on one of her butt cheeks. Nabiki woke first and tensed sharply until she moved and realized that the hands on her were Ranma's. Slowly she relaxed and waited. Ranma woke slowly, his hand squeezed reflexively. Nabiki makes a soft sound of pleasure and pressed herself to Ranma. Ranma blinked and gasped softly, he almost moved his hand but Nabiki reached back and covered his hand with hers, "I like it when you touch me. It proves I am worthy of being with someone others consider a catch." Nabiki lifted her head and looked into Ranma's eyes, "I trust you Ranma." She puts her head back on his heart, "You are the only man I can trust. I hope one day this trust turns into love." Nabiki shifts her body to lay on top of Ranma fully, "You deserve someone's love, Ranma, I may not be worthy of trying to be the one but, you are worthy of love." Ranma blinked in suprise and tightened his grip on Nabiki without thinking, which caused her to shiver slightly as he body registers a caress. Ranma moved his head to whisper into Nabiki's ear, "Don't undersell yourself, you have the best chance to prove to me that I am loved. I just don't want to take advantage of you." Nabiki smiled to herself, "I have spent my life taking advantage of others and here I am in the arms of the one man who would not do the same to me. I don't deserve your respect, but thank you Ranma." Ranma glanced at the clock and saw that he had five more hours before he needs to get up began slowly to hum rocking the girl in his arms slowly. Nabiki soon falls back to sleep her body moved to rest her head higher on Ranma's chest, her head fitting under his chin.

-- Later that Sunday --

Nabiki woke again to find herself still curled up on top of Ranma her head resting just under his chin, his hands rest just above and below her waist. At first she freaked out as Ranma's glow was invisible now but then she realized she could still feel it. With a smile she began to lightly kiss Ranma's face, she smiled as his eyes opened and licked his nose, "Sunday, we need to go see Kasumi and Tofu at the temple, Ranma." The two got up bathed and came downstairs in matching kimonos, only to find Nodoka waiting in her own Sunday kimono. Nodoka smiled, "Are you both going to the service with Kasumi and Tofu too?" Ranma nodded, "Yeah mom" Nodoka looked at the two teens and noticed the lack of a visible glow through Nabiki stayed within a hand span of Ranma, "My son, where's your aura?" Nabiki smiled softly, "It's still there Auntie, I can feel him and that is all I need now." Nodoka nodded, "Ah I see, shall we go?"

-- The Temple --

The Saotomes and one Tendo walked slowly for they were early and the Taoist sermon did not start for over an hour. Nodoka watched her son and the young woman who walked beside him almost touching. They spoke softly among themselves, small whispers on conversion. Every so often the pair would end up walking close enough to touch arms, every time it happened the two almost reached out to embrace the other with one arm. As soon as Nabiki walked into the temple, she stepped away slightly from Ranma's side to put her arms around her eldest sister and give Kasumi a happy hug, "Hello Oneechan, It is good to see you." Kasumi smiled and nodded, "It is good to see you little sister, I missed you." Nabiki smiled and letting go of her sister, Nabiki stepped back to Ranma's side just as Ranma finished his greetings with Tofu. As the couple moved together, a elderly sage walked out and setting the energies around Nabiki and lack of Ki around Ranma , grabbed some spell components and and tried to cast a shielding spell around Ranma. As the spell snapped up Nabiki for the first time in over a week was without Ranma's emotional energy support, she dove toward Ranma with a cry of "Ranma-sama". Kasumi, Tofu and Nodoka watch in shock and Ranma cuddles the girl and jumps out of the way of a mystic staff strike from the sage, ,"I shall distory you Gaki", yelled the sage as he attacked. "You caused this old man, undo what you did or I will do it for you!", hissed Ranma as his need summoned his Mana and the Mana summoned the Advanced student stage of the Nekoken. Ranma landed his aura glowing in the form of a man cat beast around him as it warred with the shielding and was winning. Ranma turned slitted eyes on the sage and hissed, "Be gone from my sight, servant of the Unloving and Unloved." Ranma swiped his hand in the air toward the empowered staff and there was a flash of energy as his neko claws shredded the staff, "Nabichan is not a demon , nor am I. Before you attack someone know what you are facing, baka." Ranma backed away from the Taoist sage. He turned slightly and bowed to his mother and Kasumi which looked strange then since mostly it looked like a Chi Werecat bowing, "We apologize to our family for disrupting the service. We will see you all at home later." Ranma grabbed his Mana and wove it around him like he has done hundred times with his ki. Suddenly he was simply no longer there, and appeared in his own room in the house in which he was born. Soon after Ranma left a High Priest come out and attacked the sage for causing a protector of Shamballa to leave after feeling the mix of Ki and Mana energy floating in the air.