Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Wormhole lift ❯ Awakening ( Chapter 8 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

eight: Awakening

woke up with a start. All the events of the previous day hit her and she almost broke in tears. Then she remembered what her sister had told her in the night. She jumped out of her bed, throwing Ryo-Oki, who was quietly sleeping on the blanket, in the air. She ran downstairs, opened the closet door and slammed it powerfully behind her. She never slowed until she erupted in the healing room, startling Ayeka. "Sasami! A juraian princess shouldn't run like that!" despite her words, the first princess was smiling fondly at her little sister, seeing her on her feet was a real relief.
just ignored the comment, her eyes locked on Ryoko. "That was true! She's ok! I was so afraid that what you told me was just a dream..."
kneeled and embraced the little girl who hugged her back tightly. 'Hunghh! she's becoming as strong as mother!' Ayeka wriggled to free herself.

"You see? Ryoko's going to be fine. Miss Washu told us she should wake up tomorrow afternoon..."
cheered up considerably. "Oh! In that case I'll make her her favourite dishes!!!"
purple-haired girl smiled again. "I'm sure she'll appreciate a lot."


entered the Manta crusader with his first-aid kit. When Mihoshi and Kiyone had exited the dock subspace, they had asked him to send someone to heal the prisoner. Though, they didn't precised to him how she had been hurt, in the first place. Then they told him they were going back to their flat and left him all alone to handle this. He had first tried to wake the cat woman up as it was one of her'friends'. But she was having a very vivid nightmare and after seeing what her claws were doing to the couch, decided he had better to ask someone else. Tenchi was comating in his bed, Gavel had disappeard with all he could have found about Earth traditions and customs. It was certainly better not to bring any of the princesses around the new arrivants. And finally, Washu had warned everybody that the one who'd dare to disturb her would suffer hell.

"...'Got to go by myself..." Not that the task really bothered him. He was curious about the new girl.Well, okay, scratch that, he was curious about every girl, and this one couldn't electrocute, slash or explode him at the moment. And it was pure courtesy to be introduced to each other, wasn't it?
was already drooling...

"Now, where's that room?" He lost himself in the coursives and finally ended up in the holds.There were a lot of crates there, some closed, others opened. Food and drinks, medical supplies, weapons and... A huge smile spreaded on his face.
in the habitable quarters....

"K.A.02, the human being we are looking for stopped his wandering in the holds."
had just finished cleaning Broke's quarters when Stampton had warned it about Noboyuki's entrance. The human being had managed, by sheer luck, to avoid every encounter with the growing flustered droïd during two hours. "Finally! Thank you, Stampton. I'm going to get this intruder and teach him the meaning of private property!"
K.A. stepped in the holds, its sonic detectors were assaulted by a maniacal laughter. After a quick research, it found the man crouched before a pocket holoprojector. He was giggling and, arrrgh! drooling in profusion.

"Hey, you! Stop making a mess of the floor! The ship was finally clean"
jumped like a startled cat and backpedaled until his course was stopped by a crate. In front of him, a fridge-like thing, with four arms and two legs was already moping the floor and grumbling something about organic beings. When it finished, it came in his direction, obviously quite irate. Noboyuki panicked. No one had told him about this thing. His eyes ran everywhere, looking for an escape, but there wasn't any. The fridge grabbed him by the collar and hauled him about one meter high.

"Hoy! Let me down! I didn't do anything!"

"Wrong! You came in without invitation. Who are you, anyway? And what are you doing here?"

"Oh! My name's Noboyuki Masaki, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too! I'm K.A.02, butcher of this vessel. Are you one of our hosts?"

"Exactly!"
looked at each other, embarrased.

"Hum... Could you put me down, please?"

"Err, yes, of course..." K.A.02 lowered gently the man and dusted him. "So, you didn't answer me. what are you doing here?"

"I was sent to take care of a girl named Yuva... And... I got lost" He showed the first-aid kit, praying that the robot wasn't refering about what he was doing a few seconds ago.

"A first-aid kit? Oh, I see! It's because of the two women that mistress Tiffany allowed in to interrogate miss Yuva... She won't need it, I think mistress Sloane has already healed her..."
droïd turned and dragged the slightly disappointed man behind him. It then stopped dead-pan when the two of them were in Broke's room. Yuva was perfectly healthy, though still hold in her restraints. And there was adhesive on her mouth. K.A.02 was radiating disapproval when it looked at Broke, who had drifted back to sleep long ago.Noboyuki stepped closer to the spy master. All of a sudden, she raised her head and bore her gaze in his. He was so surprised that he tripped and almost fell backwards. He blushed a little and quickly regained his composure before K.A. could notice. He coughed a little and asked the droïd. "Do you think we can take the adhesive off?"
turned to look at him. "Certainly." It delicately pulled on the sticky tape. "Miss Yuva, I apologise about this. I'm afraid mistress Sloane hasn't any sense of hospitality..."
spy master coughed too before she could speak. "- kof-, -kof-... That is something that I already know..." She said with a little smile.
voice was like velvet and sent chills down Noboyuki's spine.

"Good morning, I'm Noboyuki... Masaki Noboyuki. Pleased to meet you..."
threw him her most seductive smile. "Oh no... The pleasure is all mine... By the way, my name's Yuva. But I think you already know it, don't you?"
gulped and scratched the back of his head. "He, he, he... They talked about you, that's right!"

"Mmmh, a lot of awful things, I guess..." She laughed in her most lovely way, making her cleavage bounce, which immediatly drew his gaze on her generous curves.

'Wow! What a beautiful mama!!!'
's voice snapped him out of his little world.

"Mr. Masaki, we'd better go. Mistress Sloane is terribly crabby when she's awaken..."
glanced worriedly at the blob under the blanket. "Really? How much crabby?"
silence that followed was more eloquent than any words. After a long minute, Yuva spoke again. "Pleeaase, don't let me here all alone with her. You've seen what she did to me!"
perfume filled Noboyuki's nostrils. 'So pleasant and... stimulating...' His vision blurred. Deep inside him, he felt the need to help her begin to rise. Such a nice and beautiful young woman couldn't be possibly abandoned to such a threat...
the metallic voice of the droïd kicked him out of his trance. "Miss Yuva, I know mistress Sloane is sometimes rough. Well... often. But she never hurt an harmless person since she got free from Moroïk. Err... almost never. But I'm sure she wouldn't do anything to you. After all, she healed you, didn't she? She even heard you and apologised to me before. I have to thank you again for that." It turned towards Noboyuki. "Now I really think we should go..." And it pushed a very reluctant man out of the room.
face was the perfect face of disbelief. This goddamn can had blown her plan out. She wondered if the artificial butcher knew what she had tried to do with the older Masaki. No, it couldn't be. K.A.02 wasn't unable to analize chemical substances. The pheromones she just used on the man couldn't be detected by the droïd. She sighed in relief. Right, her mind powers were temporary blocked, but there still were her other skills. And Noboyuki was an easy prey. Maybe she could use him later...

day after, early in the morning...

had replaced the juraian sisters at Ryoko's bedside the evening before. Of course, all the while, her machines analized the new arrivants's DNA. Which allowed her to focuse her mind on her daughter. She really was proud of her. The capricious and wild child had recently grown to become a caring and trustful woman... sort of. Ok, that wasn't something she would ever admit. She would probably pretend that she saved Ayeka for Tenchi or Sasami. But because of the link she shared with her daughter, Washu knew that Ryoko had grown to like her rival. A twisted friendship, but a friendship nonethe'less. And she suspected it was the same for the princess. To live in a normal family had been beneficial for the two girls. One had learnt to respect the others's wishes and the other had come down her pedestal. Hum! At least, a little.
diminutive scientist smiled sadly. Hopefully, one day Ryoko would open up to her too. One day they would be mother and daughter again. One day Ryoko would remember...
That bastard!
cealed her in a parallel dimension. Then he enslaved her little Ryoko, brainwashing her to bend her will to his.
bastard!!!
evil gleam flared in her green eyes. If he had been still alive, she would have taken care personnaly of this stincking result of the bad digestion of a cow. had lost so much time! Two times her children had been taken away from her. The first one was lost forever. The second denied her, and she'd almost lost her too. She never showed it, but it hurt everytime she didn't drawn herself in her work. What she had said to lady Funaho when the royal family had visited them was true, there would never be another child. It hurt too much!
about the first queen of Jurai drove her gaze over the comscreen she 'd built to allow the princesses to communicate with their parents. For the first time she noticed that the on-calling light was on. She activated the engine.
minutes later, she was shaking feverly the former space pirate to wake her up. Meanwhile, she had switched the emergency alarms that she'd hidden in the house on. No need to say there were a lot of heart attacks this morning...

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hope you enjoyed that. If you did, then don't worry, it's not the true end. I know I'm a jerk to let it at that, but a suite will come up in "Everything's got a price". It might be darker. But you'll have to give me some time, I'm afraid. "Wormhole lift" took me long enough and I'm just beginning to write it. Sorry. ^_^want to thank Dja-chan for proof-reading it and correcting my poor english, although, I'm sure that I still managed to forget some of my mystakes.