[Spamfic] An unbalanced trio.
By Henry J. Cobb
Yeah, I didn't create any of these four series. So sue me.
Lina slid her sword back into its scabbard. Once again the other two
girls had dispatched the monster before she could react. In this Forest
of Silence her spells did not work and she was simply an expert
swordswoman.
Normally she'd count no human her better in armed or unarmed combat, but
compared to Eiko's amazing speed and strength and Ranma's phenomenal
agility she had to admit that she was merely second rate. "Just you wait
until we get somewhere I can use my spells and then you'll see real
power."
"Hey Lina," Ranma looked back at her from a perch high in a tree, "I
think I see it up ahead," The martial artist jumped to the next tree and
vanished into the forest.
"Why is it that even girls who claim to be guys have better curves than I
do?" Lina hurried and caught up with the other two red haired girls at a
clearing in the forest where bare rocks surrounded a line floating at eye
level, "This is it?"
"I think so, let me check." Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Eiko
looked down the two paths of destruction she had just created to ensure
that they were about at a right angle from each other, "Yeah, this is the
center of the forest. I counted my footsteps."
"So where is this Spring of Eterna?" Lina wondered.
"Here it is," Ranma beckoned from on top of a rock overlooking the line.
"Let me see," Eiko grabbed Lina and jumped up next to Ranma.
As the three girls looked down at the line they saw a pool of water with
small ripples from the breeze.
"Some strange spring this is. Oh well, let's get this over with so I can
get back to school," Eiko grabbed Ranma as well and jumped to the center
of the spring.
After they splashed into the water the girls found themselves separated
from each other in dark areas. These didn't seem to be shadowed areas, as
each girl could see herself plainly, it was just as if there was nothing
else for the ambient light to reflect from as far as the eye could see.
In the distance each girl could see one figure approaching and as these
figures came closer each girl was surprised at who she saw. "Akane?"
"Biko?" "Me?"
The three figures each launched an attack. Akane swung a two handed wood
chopper's axe at Ranma's head, Biko launched a wave of missiles at Eiko
and Lina and her doppelganger drew their swords.
"Girls from another world," The voice of the Princess who had summoned
them to Cephiro came from all around them.
"I ain't no girl."
The princess ignored Ranma's objection and continued, "Think, would your
loved ones treat you like this?"
"Of course she would!" The three girls shouted in unison as Ranma rolled
away from Akane's axe swing, Eiko out ran Biko's missile salvo and Lina
parried her double's thrust, "She's a violent maniac!"
A moment later it dawned on each girl what she had agreed to, "Wait, what
did you just say?"