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These are not my characters, for if they were, I would be rich...which is
not the case. I use them without permission, and most likely in a way the
original creators would not contemplate. OH WELL, such is the way of
fan-fiction :) this story is NOT used for profit, just for entertainment.
Knights Return
chapter 1A
On the top of Jusendo, a fierce battle of epic proportions was taking place,
involving a Neriman martial artist, and the Demi-god of the bird people
Saffron
Akane was a doll. Either of these alone would have been bad enough, but
there was also Saffron to take into account. That made it critical, for
Saffron was standing in the way of Ranma saotome^�s only hope of changing
Akane back.
"I^�ve got to use it!", Ranma thought to himself as he dodged another attack
by Saffron. "The Hyru-Shoten-Ha, It will kill Saffron and...and I^�ll be able
to save Akane!." but as he prepared to unleash his most powerful attack, a
single stray thought entered his mind. "Kill? do I really want to...kill?"
His hesitation almost cost his life, as Saffron took the moment of
distraction to fire hundreds of fireballs at him.
As Saffron recharged after the salvo, surprised that a mere human had been
able to avoid that much firepower, Ranma saw an opening, and jumped into the
stream of water coming from the dragons mouth, just before the dolls eyes
closed completely.
Ranma held the restored Akane in his arms, and smiled at her. And she smiled
a beautiful smile back. Then she kissed him.
But while the two were caught up in each other, Saffron smiled an evil smile
and released one small projectile. Unlike his previous ones, this was tiny,
and had comparatively little power. Just enough to pierce Akane^�s body and
destroy her heart.
Ranma finished the kiss, and held Akane closely, looking into her eyes. He
felt a slight jump, almost a twitch, and saw Akane^�s expression quickly turn
from relief to terror and pain. She opened her mouth to say something, but
instead of words, only a bit of blood came out.
He watched in slowly dawning horror as the light in her eyes slowly went
out.
Thoughts ran through his head, going a million miles a second;
Akane was dead.
It was his fault.
He wasn^�t fast enough.
He deserved to die.
He screamed, the wail of the lost, the cry of the dammed. He screamed the
sound of ultimate suffering.
Saffron smiled, as he watched the human suffer. Enough of this, he thought,
its time to put out of his misery. With those thoughts, and an evil smile he
readied his largest fireball.
He gazed at her one last time, one last time before he threw his life away
in a suicide attack to destroy himself and mark her grave forever. But Then
he saw it, the small charred hole in her back, and knew that this was not
his fault. His last coherent thought for a while was that Saffron must die.
Then he knew only rage.
He screamed again, but where the first was filled with loss and grief, this
contained hate and rage. As he screamed, his aura exploded, shinning like a
star on top of the mountain, destroying the pool he was standing in, and
leaving a crater thirty feet wide. The dust slowly cleared, revealing a
sight wondrous and terrible to behold.
Ranma^�s hair had gone from dark black to purest white, and his aura, while
diminished from "new star" level, was still almost painful to look at. His
body had also changed, from his normal toned physique, to a colossal
muscular form, destroying most of his clothing. As if this wasn^�t enough, he
was floating in mid-air, 30 feet above the ground, with and expression of
anger on his face.
Then A gigantic fireball slammed into him, obscuring Ranma from view once
again...
When the dust began to settle over the now 50 foot crater, it revealed a
scene similar to the first, but this time he looked...scary.
He had a smile just like Saffron^�s on his face.
end of Chapter1A
well that was a small revision, and I'm still working on chapter 1b.
if anyone tried to email me, please resend, my shady email server is kaput,
so nothing sent to tefloncat@telebot.com got to me...thanks!
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