OK, here's part XI! All the previous parts and be found at my homepage.
Chinese Samurai
By Jack Ji
Part XI: Bai Bai, Nerima!
Author's Foreword: Yes, the crossover will begin!!! I know, most of
you thought this seemed more like a Ranma story only, but no, I didn't
forget that this is a crossover. Oh, if you are C&C-ing this before you
read the entire thing and the Author's Afterward, the out of character
actions will be explained later on, even though, it does have some clue
why it's happening.
WARING: Due to so many fight scenes in this part, I think I should
make a parental discretion is advised message. ^_^ This part will be
about 80% fight scenes. Also, this is the first time where I'll write in
third person for about 85% of the story, mainly because I write my fight
scenes in third person. Without further ado, here's part XI:
Shampoo walked out of the shower, grabbed a towel and
sighed. It was a sigh of relief and of regret. She was happy, no,
extremely happy that Jack expressed his love for her. For all those
weeks, she didn't know if she had impressed him enough to be
considered a reasonable wife.
As she dried herself off, she thought about what had
happened, and what that didn't happen. It was the perfect moment.
They were alone with no one to bother them. He said those three words
that meant so much to her, that confirmed her honorable future in the
eyes of Cologne and her village. Yet, she lost the guts to tell him what
she had planned to tell him.
She sat on a stool and sighed again. How would he react?
Would he still love her? After all, she was the major reason for the
cause of this. Shampoo looked at her belly button and rubbed it gently.
With Jack leaving in a few days, she would not have many chances left
to tell him.
A clicking noise came for outside the window startled
Shampoo. A second and third noise, very similar to the first, drew more
of her curiosity.
"What you doing?!" Shampoo opened the window and
exclaimed. A figure in the darkness was all she saw. It was backing
away from her when she pulled out a bonbori and threw it at the
perpetrator.
"Whoa, time to get out of here!" the shadowy figure ran off
into the darkness.
"And staying away!" Shampoo shouted.
******
Ukyou began undressing after a long day of work. It had been
a busy night for her. So busy, that she didn't have the energy to take a
shower or eat, just barely enough to change into something comfortable
for sleep.
From outside the window, she heard a series of clicks just as
she started to unbutton her blouse. Startled by this, Ukyou snatched out
a few of her throwing spatulas.
Ukyou opened the window and shouted, "What do you think
you are doing?"
"Uh, nothing! Just changing the batteries in my camera. See?"
the figure in the shadows flashed a small camera at Ukyou. Not liking
the sound of anger in her voice, the figure started backing away.
"Well, go away! I'm trying to get some sleep," she threw the
spatulas at the figure's feet, not really trying to hurt him. She just
wanted to scare him away.
"You got that right! I'm outta here!" the figure ran off into the
darkness of the night.
"And good riddance!" Ukyou shut the window.
******
Nabiki Tendo waited near a telephone booth, enjoying the late
night freshness. It was pleasing to breathe the cool, clean night air, but
not as good as making yen.
She impatiently tapped her finger with her arms crossed. He
was late, as always. She would have to deduct less from his debt
because of his tardiness and the fact that he had to rent her camera.
Finally, he arrived, panting, "He-here are the pictures you
wanted. D-do I get my debt wiped away now?"
Nabiki took the camera, "How many pictures are there?"
"Enough," he answered.
"HOW MANY ARE THERE?" she asked more sternly.
"Thirteen in all," he said. "The first girl was more distracted so
I got more of her."
"Very good," Nabiki grinned. "I'd say this clears almost half
your debt."
"But you said you'd clear all my debt!" he protested.
"Now, now, don't lose control," she shook her head. "You
were 10 minutes late and had to borrow my camera. You're lucky I
didn't clear only 1/4 of your debt. You should feel lucky."
"Fine then," he sighed. "Is there anything else I can do?"
"I'll summon you when I need more of your services," Nabiki
turned around and headed back home.
"OK, you have my number, right?" he asked.
She didn't answer. Nabiki was too ecstatic to notice his venial
questions. With these pictures, she would make an ample profit before
the Four Horsemen leave, at least, from two of them. She gave out an
avid laugh as she took the film out of the camera and put it in her
pocket.
******
The days passed quickly after the night of the poker game.
Work seemed more like tedious tasks than what fun it used to be. Every
day, Shampoo would ask me to have a private talk with her. It always
sounded like she wanted to tell me something serious, but we'd end up
just making out for an hour and telling each other that we loved each
other. Guess she didn't get over her "Shampoo show she good wife"
stage still.
As the days went on, everything seemed more irritating.
Everything from a telephone ring, to Mike's useless complaints of pain
to even Kasumi's cooking and Shampoo! I guess that I was getting
stressed out from having a boring job and that the fact that I was
leaving Nerima in a few days. The emotions caused me lost sleep,
which caused me to be grumpy.
We finally reached the day we'd leave Nerima for Nekomi
City. All our bags were packed in our rooms. My nanny was to pick us
up later that day to drive us to Nekomi City. I had given Shampoo the
address of the temple the day before so that she could visit sometime.
I was so excited and happy that I woke up at 6, before
everyone else except Kasumi, the ever-ready cook. She must run on
Energizer batteries over the night while in the kitchen. Heh, I wouldn't
have mind seeing her use some batteries for something else sometime.
As I finished my breakfast, Nabiki tapped me on the shoulder,
"Hey, Jack, I think I have something that you may be interested in."
"What is it?" I asked, a little annoyed. "Does it have to do with
martial arts?"
"Oh, you sound just like Ranma," Nabiki sighed. "Martial arts
this! Martial arts that! Come here and I'll show you what it is."
I didn't like how she said that, but I followed her. For the
entire time I lived in Tendo Training Hall, Nabiki avoided me, as well as
Mike, Dan and Hanny.
"I think you'll be interested in buying this," Nabiki handed me
a few photographs. I flipped through them. It was pictures of Shampoo
getting out of the shower! I was outraged! She took pictures of
Shampoo and now wants to sell them to me?!
"Why are you trying to sell me pictures of Shampoo half
naked?" I asked her askance.
"I'll sell them to you for 10,000 yen each," she smiled.
"Ten thousand yen?! That's a rip off!"
"Oh, well, if you're not interested, I'm sure there will be other
people that are."
"That's black mail!"
"That's business."
"Hey, what's going on here?" Mike walked in. Hanny and Dan
were behind them, eating a pastry treat that Kasumi made.
She snatched away Shampoo's pictures from my hand and
pulled out a few more from a pocket, "Ah, Michael, just the person I've
been wanting to talk to. I think I've got something that'll interest you."
"Really? Does it have to do with anime?" Mike's eyes glared
up.
"Why don't you take a look for yourself," Nabiki handed
Mike the photos. I walked over, curious at what was on them. It had
better not be more pictures of Shampoo.
"What is this all about?" Mike handed the pictures back. I had
a small glimpse. It was Ukyou! And she was undressing! My eyes
widened. I didn't know she had that great a chest. Guess Mike's eye's
are better than mine.
"Oh, don't you want to buy them?" Nabiki asked, almost
sarcastically. "Only 10,000 yen per picture. Better buy them before
someone else does."
"No, it's OK, I don't have that kind of money," Mike rejected.
"What? Neither of you want to buy?" Nabiki looked surprised.
"You wanna know why?" I walked up to her and got in her
face. "You've avoided us for the past 3 weeks. And that's because you
thought we were no use to you because we had no reason to give
money to you. Suddenly, you come up with a get-money-quick idea
and try to black mail two of us." I had backed her up all the way to the
wall.
"What are you getting at?" Nabiki didn't look amused.
"What I'm getting at is," I began to breathe hard with anger,
"that no one blackmails the Four Horsemen. WOOOOOO!" I flashed
her the Sign, which was all four fingers extended on one hand with the
thumb pulled in. Dan had made it up, just cause it "looked cool."
"You're going nuts," she moved away. "Get away from me!"
"Don't call me nuts! I'm not nuts! I'm perfectly sane!" I
exclaimed. I grabbed her wrists and spun her around, pressing her
stomach and wrists against the wall.
"Jack, I think you should calm down," Hanny said.
"Let him be," Dan told him. "This will show people not to
mess with the Four Horsemen."
"Ow, you're hurting my wrists," Nabiki whined.
"I know I am," I blew into her ear. "That's the idea. You ever
threaten a Horsemen again like that, and we'll make sure you'll never
be able to lift a camera up to your eye again."
"What do you think you're doing?!" someone shouted from
behind me.
"Jack! Look out!" Dan warned.
Without turning around, I pushed Nabiki one way and dived
the other way, barely avoiding the kick that made a hole in the wall.
Nabiki hit her head on the wall pretty hard and was out cold. I hopped
to my feet, only to see Akane removing her foot from the wall.
"What made you think you can go around, trying to break my
sister's wrists?" Akane asked, very upset. "We let you live here, we
even let eat here! And this is how you repay us!"
"Hey, she threatened a Horsemen," I replied in total aplomb.
"So, she had to be made an example of. It's time that someone be
made an example. WOOOO!" I flashed her the Sign, "And it might as
well be you instead of Nabiki!"
"Jack, I really don't think you should do thi-" Mike began to
protest.
Dan raised his arm, signaling him to shut up, "Mike,
Horsemen do not interfere with each other's matters unless one of us
needs our help. Remember your vow? Are you going to ruin your
honor, just like Ryouga did?"
Mike didn't protest, neither did Hanny. Dan's words were true
and they couldn't argue. They could only sit back and watch me kick
Akane's ass.
******
"Do you really think you can beat me?" Akane asked.
Jack arrogantly scratched his nose, "Hey, even if you do
somehow beat me, it'll be a fluke. Besides, you beat one Horsemen,
you gotta face another until all four are defeated."
"This time, I'm not going easy on you!"
Jack winked, "Heh, I like it rough. Anyway, you don't know
how well I've been training, nor do you know what I've learned. Ah, it
was a smart thing not to babble about my skills! Now, let's begin!" Jack
summoned his sword and unsheathed it.
Akane's eye's widened in shock, "Where did you get THAT
thing?" She pointed at the katana. Throughout Jack's training with
Cologne, he didn't tell a soul what he had learned except the other
Horsemen. No one knew other than them, Mousse, Shampoo and, of
course, Cologne.
"Oh, I got it from my ancestors," he answered. "Now, let's see
how good your dodging skills are! On guard!" Jack charged in and
stabbed Kuno-like at Akane. With the speed fueled with anger, rage and
hate, he cut Akane on each arm. She was still lucky that he didn't pierce
a vital organ while she dodged.
"This is not fair!" Akane exclaimed. "I don't have a weapon."
"Ha, that's your problem!" Jack paused and let his guard
down. Akane took this chance to sweep his feet. He fell down with a
big thud and hit the back of his head hard on the wooden dojo floor.
Once again, he saw that infamous, and ever annoying, ceiling shot from
the ground that he had known from the many months he trained at his
dojo in the USA.
Akane kicked Jack's sword out of his hand, which forced him
to make it disappear, while he was still disoriented. However, she didn't
notice his chi shield protecting his hand. This made everything a little
more even.
Akane backed away quickly, knowing never to attack an
opponent while they are on their back for a long time. Smart thing too,
because Jack spun around on his shoulder blades and hopped to his
feet as if he were a break dancer.
"Eh, I'm sick of your whining," Jack massaged his wrist. He
popped a few knuckles and went into a fighting stance. He gave her the
illusion that he was going to circle her and wait for her first move. After
circling around her about 35 degrees, Jack jumped in with a turning
thrust kick. Akane easily dodged and push his leg to the side.
Unfortunately, it only aided Jack's momentum and he ended it with a
spinning thrust jump kick right in Akane's sternum.
Akane backed away, gasping for air as her lungs inflated after
their sudden deflation. Ruthlessly, Jack followed up with his not fully
trained version of the amaguriken technique to give Akane about 80
punches, as well as two grabs to her breasts. If he was going to beat up
someone, he might as well make it as fun as possible.
The force of the blows separated the two. Akane was pushed
back into a wall, while Jack slid to the middle of the room. Still
recovering from the blows, she tried to make an effort to keep going,
but she couldn't. Something was zapping the strength right out of her.
She dropped to one knee, then both. Struggling like she had a
50 pound weight on her head, she looked up and saw Jack. His eyes
were closed in deep concentration. His wounds quickly healed with the
extra chi he drained out of Akane.
"Gotta... Keep... G-going..." Akane lifted her hand. She began
crawling towards Jack. Slowly, on all fours, she made it to his feet.
"Well, looks like you lose," Jack opened his eyes and laughed.
Akane opened her mouth to say something, but Jack swiftly kicked her
jaw shut, knocking her unconscious.
Suddenly, a tremendous amount of force in the small of his
back caused Jack to fall down on his face. He quickly shifted into a
hand stand and hopped from his hands to his feet. He turned around
and saw Ranma standing there, breathing hard and mad as ever.
"Just what the hell do you think you're doin'?" Ranma
pointed at Akane's unconscious body, who had somehow rolled into a
safe place in a corner. He pointed the finger at Hanny, Mike and Dan,
"And you guys just let this happen?"
"Hey, the Horsemen don't mess with each other," Dan replied.
"I have no idea what you guys always mean with this horse
crap," Ranma began, "but I've had it. You're gonna pay for what you
did to Akane!"
"That's fine," Jack grinned. "I heard you're good, so I've been
wondering when we'd do this. I must warn you, I took it easy on
Akane."
"That's just fine with me!" Ranma dropped into a fighting
stance. "Even if you go full out on me, I can still beat you and with a
bunch of injuries!"
"There you go again," Jack said calmly. "So arrogant and
cocky. Guess I'll just have to wear down that huge ego of yours."
"Enough talk!"
"Indeed, enough," Jack whipped out his sword. "Surprise,
surprise! Woooo!"
******
Mara looked at what was happening. Jack and Ranma were in
an intense argument. She didn't know what was going on. Something
went wrong. She was in her miniature form on the roof, spying on Jack.
She had been doing it for many days.
"Damn it," Mara pounded on a small electronic device. "This
shouldn't be happening right now. This damn thing is malfunctioning!"
The dials on the device were going haywire. The display was showing
random characters.
Mara slammed the device down on the ground in frustration.
The battery panel popped open. She picked it up again and took a good
look. The batteries were leaking and messing up the circuits.
Mara smacked her head, "So that's what's wrong! I knew I
shouldn't have left the batteries in there for so long! Argh! Now I gotta
go and get a new one." In a puff of smoke, Mara disappeared. The only
thing left in her place was a small, metal sphere on the roof.
******
Ranma didn't care where Jack got the sword. He didn't care
about anything, except making him pay for hurting Akane. He had
listened to him preach his martial arts philosophy for weeks and had
actually learned something. Now, this sudden outburst of violence
made him feel betrayed.
Jack ran in, swinging down, up, left, right, across Ranma's
body and thrusting his sword. Ranma carefully dodged the attacks with
ease, but couldn't get an attack in himself. His plan was to tire Jack
down, then finish him off. After all, he had been fighting Akane just a
little while ago and hadn't had much rest. Too bad he didn't know
about Jack's chi draining technique.
Ranma backed into a wall. He saw the blade heading right for
his head. Quickly, he moved the his right as the sword made a whole in
the wall. He dropped down on his side and kicked Jack from his groin
up to his neck. The force pushed him back, right in front of Genma and
Soun, who were busy cheating each other out of a game of Go.
Something didn't feel right. Everything felt the same
hardness. There was no contrast in the surface roughness.
"Ha, how you gonna hurt me through my chi shield!" Jack
taunted. Ranma looked at the places he kicked. Nothing, there was no
sign of any of his kicks. He was sure he had hit, but he couldn't see it.
Out of nowhere, Mousse jumped in, "I shall defeat you while
you are distracted, Jack!"
Dan pushed Mike, "You handle him."
"Me? I don't want to," Mike protested.
"It's not about what you want," Dan argued, "it's all about
your oath. Now go and stop him from interfering with Jack!"
"Why me? How come not Hanny?" Mike asked.
"Don't ask, just do it," Dan said. He had a reason, but he
didn't know why yet. He just had a feeling.
"Alright, I'll do it," Mike sighed. He pulled out his metal staff
from his pocket and entered the battlefield.
******
Jack glanced at Mousse out of the corner of his left eye, while
keeping his guard up against Ranma. Mousse hurled a number of
chains at Jack. He tossed the sword to his left hand to deflect the
projectiles.
Mousse blinked and rubbed his glasses. The projectiles
stopped half way and dropped to the ground. He looked at his hand, he
hadn't used up the full length of his chains yet. He took a better look by
squinting his eyes. Something had tangled up the chains. It was a
yellow stick. A very long yellow stick. At the end of it was a hand, and
at the end of the arm attached to the hand was Mike.
"You will not prevent me from my goal!" Mousse shouted at
him. The staff contracted to his default length.
"You mess with one Horseman, you mess with all four," Mike
said insignificantly. He didn't feel too proud saying that. In fact, he felt
very dorky.
Mousse ground his teeth and gave Mike a look of scorn. He
ran towards him with a naginata to battle against his metal staff.
******
Ranma stepped close into Jack while he was distracted with
Mousse's clamor. He used his amaguriken technique to give him about
357 punches over his body, taking out Jack's shield. Unfortunately, all
Ranma got was 100% chi shield and a bruised fist.
Ranma paid more attention to what happened to his hand
more than what Jack was doing. He attempted a side thrust kick but
took too long, mainly from the nausea from the loss of his chi shield.
Ranma caught the leg and pushed away, forcing him to fall on his back.
As he fell, Jack got one good push kick right in Ranma's gut.
The kick made Ranma hop out the back door to take the fight
into the yard. Jack hopped to his feet and pursued him, sword pointing
first.
When Jack stepped out, Ranma kicked the sword out of his
hand and into the air. He then jumped in the air to try to catch the
weapon and take it for his use. Right before he could reach for it, it
disappeared.
"Ha! You fool, only I can use that sword," Jack laughed. Using
the Air Drill, he made an uppercut right below Ranma. Thinking that he
executed his attack too early, Ranma shifted his body position in the air
to avoid a punch to the groin. Instead of finishing his shift, Ranma fell
down right next to the small pond because of the air punch.
"Saaaoootooomeee!" Kuno dropped from the sky. He looked
ay Mousse, Mike and Jack, "How dare you have the arrogance to fight
so many opponents at once? Very well, I shall rid of these peasants and
then finish you off myself."
Hanny looked at Dan and sighed, "I have to get him, right?"
"You guessed it," Dan patted him.
Hanny hopped in front of Kuno, his magical swords already
activated, "I'm sorry, but you can't go on."
"What sorcery is this?" Kuno asked, pointing at the glowing
blue beams with his bokken. "Very well, the great Tatewake Kuno shall
rid of you!"
"Yeah, whatever," Hanny stepped into a fighting stance for a
clean sword fight with Kuno.
******
This was too much. First the sword, then the shield and now
an attack that Jack doesn't even need to touch him to hurt him. What
other surprises were in store for Ranma?
Ranma sat up and rubbed his back. Jack was still by the door.
He had some time before Jack would come close enough to him. Jack
carefully aimed a kick right into the pond, making a big splash.
Suddenly, the cold water in the pond engulfed Ranma, turning him into
a girl. Ranma saw the small waves moving out of the center of the
pond. He could only assume Jack used his Air Drill technique.
Ranma look back at the backdoor. She didn't see Jack. Then,
two hands covered her eyes.
"Peek a-boo!" Jack laughed. "Guess who this is?"
"A pompous jerk!" Ranma-chan answered. She was about to
chuck him across the yard but she started feeling weak. Jack had started
draining her chi.
Jack stood up, "And now, my Highlander imitation!" He
swung his sword high.
"You shall not have the honor of beating Ranma before me,
Jack!" A group of yellow and black bandannas flew towards Jack. He
backed away and disconnected his chi draining link. He pulled out the
sheathe to block the projectiles.
However, he didn't need to. All the bandannas were cut in half
by a group of dark blue disks. Ryouga stood next to the shredded
bandannas and disks with a grim look on his face.
"I've been waiting for his day," Dan pointed at Ryouga.
"So have I," Ryouga responded. "Your Japanese is
improving."
"You still have no honor."
Ryouga didn't respond. There was only silence between the
two. They both broke the long silence with a battle cry, "DIE!!!"
Once again, Dan's tonfa and Ryouga's umbrella clashed in the
final battle before Dan left Nerima. He fought for the honor of the
Horsemen, to prevent Ryouga from interfering and because he really
hated him. This fight would be to the death.
Dan tried to sweep Ryouga with his tonfa. Ryouga jumped up
to avoid it. Dan quickly rotated his hand position and swung it upward.
Ryouga kicked Dan in the head before the tonfa connected.
Dan stood back and shook off the pain in his head. Ryouga
came in with a series thrust kicks to his stomach. Dan deflected the last
kick, giving himself some time to jump away. Ryouga threw a few
bandannas at him. Dan sensed his inanimate pursuers and dropped a
few disks behind him, like they were mines.
Dan barely dodged the flying umbrella as he landed. Seeing
that Ryouga was unarmed, he charged in for an attack. If he had known
that the umbrella would come back like a boomerang, Dan wouldn't
have come near him.
Just before Dan came in tonfa range, Ryouga's umbrella came
back to him. Ryouga quickly struck down at the surprised Dan but he
got his tonfa up in time to block it. Once again, they were in a grid lock.
"You think can win, porky?" Dan taunted. "Even if you beat
me, you'd have to get past Mike and Hanny. Either way, do you think
Akane could ever love a freak like you?"
"Freak... Like... Me?" Ryouga repeated. It rang in his head
repeatedly. He let go of his grip on his umbrella and stepped back. He
was right, what kind of girl would go for a half-pig, half-man like him.
"Quitter!" Dan laughed. That was a big mistake by him.
"Akane... Never loving... Me..." Ryouga mumbled. "You fight
with a good demeanor but making me depressed was a mistake.
SHISHI HOKODAN!"
"Oh, shit," Dan stood there, paralyzed with fear. The ki blast
hit him full force and knocked him into a wall. His unconscious body
dropped lifelessly to the ground.
******
Mousse and Mike stared at each other. Neither one wanted to
make the first move. Mike didn't want to because of his last fight, the
one against Kodachi. Mousse didn't want to because he could barely
tell the staff apart from Mike. They were both so thin!
One of Dan's disks flew nearly hit Mousse, "Yikes! What was
that!" He jumped up and looked behind himself.
"An opening!" Mike yelled. He stuck his staff out at the air
born Mousse. He easily patted the metal staff away with his naginata
and thrust in with the blade part. Mike swung the other end of his staff
over and swatted it out of harm's way.
Mousse landed and dropped into a very stable stance. Then he
threw out many hooks and wrapped them around Mike's staff. It
became a tug of war. Mousse tried to pull, but the staff wouldn't leave
its master's grip. Mike resisted and, even though he wasn't as strong as
his opponent, pulled the chains right out of his hand like a fishing rod.
"Yah, mule! Yah!" Mike used the chains like a whip. Mousse
dodged the attacks one by one. Carefully, he stuck out his naginata and
caught one the chains.
Mousse pulled with all his might again, trying to disarm Mike
with a slightly different technique this time. He pulled and tugged and
fell on his butt. Mike had shrunk the diameter of the staff, thus
preventing loss of it.
"Fight me fairly, no more tricks!" Mouse demanded.
"I don't think you're fighting very fairly," Mike argued.
"I don't care about what you think! After I'm done with you,
I'm going to finish off Jack!"
Mike glanced at Dan and sighed, "No, you're not."
"Then die!!!" Mouse charged, blade first. He threw out all of
his projectiles. Chain, knives, yo-yo's, rocks, hooks, gumballs and even
an urn at Mike.
Mike waited for the right moment. He waited, and waited.
Then he did it. Extending his staff, he used his pole vault skills to shoot
himself up in the air, way above Mousse's head.
While in the air, Mike extended the pole and aimed at
Mousse's head while he was busy wrapping all the projectiles around a
tree that he thought was Mike.
*THUMP* The butt of the pole hit the tree, not Mousse. Not
seeing this, he ran right into it and clothes-lined himself. He blinked,
and looked up at the blurry stars.
Mike sighed as he landed and moved quickly to finish off the
kill. Towering over Mousse, Mike heaved another heavy sigh. He raised
his staff high above his head. He stomped all over Mousse's body.
>From head, to chest, to groin, to toe, making sure that he wouldn't get
up. With each thump, Mousse moaned, "Shampoo."
Mike heaved a heavier sigh. He didn't want to do it, but he
knew that Dan would have been on his case if he didn't and Mousse
messed thing up for Jack.
Mike looked at Jack. He was still busy with Ranma. He
wondered why he had a sudden out-burst like that. He knew he was
under some stress, but it wasn't enough to make him go this far.
Mike glanced at Dan. He had just received a ki blast from
Ryouga. He sighed again, and slowly walked over to Ryouga, knowing
what he had to do.
******
Ryouga breathed heavily from his ki blast. He looked at Jack,
who still fought Ranma, and started going towards them. Suddenly, he
felt a smacking pain in the square of his back. Like someone stapled a
quarter to his spine.
He turned around after stumbling forward, "You, do I have to
go through all your friends before I get to Jack?"
He glanced at Hanny, who was holding his own against Kuno,
"Yes, you do." Held the staff forward.
"Very well, then," Ryouga cracked his knuckles. "I'll finish
you off faster than I didn't Dan."
Ryouga immediately pulled off a few bandannas and chucked
them at Mike. With a few quick swings, Mike sent them crashing down.
Ryouga's face faulted, "H-how? You're staff should be
completely cut by now!"
Mike grinned to himself. He didn't get to keep such unique
things a secret from people. It made him feel important, which he didn't
feel often.
Ryouga made another move, wanting to reach Jack quickly.
He still didn't forgive him for trying to cut him up as P-Chan and all the
other things he did to him.
Mike continuously tried to dodge and parry the butt of the
umbrella but couldn't. Slowly, Ryouga forced him backwards. Mike
was all defense and Ryouga was all offense. He was fighting like a mad
man, not caring about his body or his opponents. He just needed to get
to Jack and finish him off.
Ryouga felt something sweep his legs from under him. Just as
he was about to back Mike into a corner, he fell down. He had no idea
what caused him to trip and fall back.
Mike shook off the pain that flowed throughout his body. He
stepped up to Ryouga as he stood up and began swatting away. Each
impact was like a stinging electric rod on his body. Pain ran on every
part of his body but Ryouga was tough, he had felt such pain many
times before and was not new to it.
In a sudden burst of energy, Ryouga mustarded enough
strength to grab the staff, holding it in place. Mike struggled, but he
wouldn't let go. His knuckles were white from the tightness of his
grasp. Just as Mike was about to shrink and pull the staff away, Ryouga
poked his finger into the ground and shouted, "BAKUSAI
TENKETSU!"
The rocks pounded Mike like a hurricane. The force blasted
him across the dojo and into a wall. Slowly, his battered body slumped
to the ground, holding on to his dear possession.
******
Kuno stood silently still, staring into Hanny's eyes. If he had
known Ranma had turned into a girl, he'd be staring at Ranma instead.
Both of them, concentrating deeply on each other, ignored what went
on around them in the yard.
Hanny wiggled his fingers around. He switched the setting
from cut to hack to barrier repeatedly. Kuno spotted this easily as a bad
habit most inexperienced swordsmen do.
"TA TA TA TA TA TA" Kuno ran in like the maniac that he is.
With each "ta" he thrust in.
"What the..." Hanny raised his eyebrow. Fortunately for him,
he accidentally left the setting of his gems on barrier, thus preventing
injury from the air pressure from Kuno's bokken. Each thrust bounced
off the magical blue shield generated by the gems.
Kuno stopped to catch his breath. All that work and not even a
scratch. Hanny switched the settings to cut and sliced his bokken at the
hilt to end the fight quickly.
Kuno didn't care, he spotted Ranma-chan and ran to her, "My
pigtailed goddess!"
Hanny grinned to himself and stuck out his foot, tripping
Kuno as he ran by him. With a swift little stomping kick to the head, he
helped him take a little nap in the grass.
Hanny looked around, trying to see how Mike was doing
against Mousse. He saw Mousse lying on the ground next to a tree. He
turned around and saw Mike, still holding on to his staff, unconscious
across the yard. A little ways from him, Dan laid lifeless in front of the
scorched wall.
Ryouga pointed at Hanny, "You... I suppose I'll have to go
through you before I get to Jack."
"That's right," Hanny smiled. This would be easy for him.
Ryouga already fought twice and Hanny hardly had to do a thing to rid
of Kuno. He was still fresh, but Ryouga wasn't.
******
Ryouga moved closer to Hanny. Behind him, he could see
Jack and Ranma still fighting. He wondered why they were fighting.
Could it be that Ranma cheated Jack out of something? Or was it the
other way around. He didn't care, just as long as he gets Jack, or
whoever survives the altercation.
Ryouga had had enough of this crap. He was just plain sick of
it. "No more," he shook his head. He threw out everything he had:
umbrella, bandannas, and his belt. The only thing he didn't throw out
was another ki blast because he was still recovering from the first one.
"Oh, shit!" Hanny tried to dodge as best as he could. He
wasn't fast or agile enough to avoid injury but he did block a few with
his magical barrier.
When all the projectiles had passed, Hanny saw Ryouga
nearing him. He panicked from what he saw in Ryouga's eyes. He was
paralyzed with fear and all the cuts on his body didn't help. He was so
overwhelmed with fear that he let turned off his magical weapons, like
he wanted to get it over with in a hurry.
Ryouga stepped up face to face with the frozen Hanny. He
popped his knuckles and chuckled. He hadn't seen anyone so craven in
a long, long time.
In a few seconds, Ryouga just totally pounded Hanny into the
ground with no resistance. He utterly annihilated him, then chucked
him across the yard, next to the same wall where Dan and Mike were
also unconscious.
He turned to Jack, "This is it, Jack. I'm calling you out!"
******
Ranma-chan and Jack were both bruised and battered. She had
a small cut on her left shoulder from Jack's katana. A mere lucky slash
when she was distracted by Kuno's holler.
Why did it always have to be some weirdo from China? First
Shampoo, then Cologne, then Mousse, then Kirin and now Jack! She
was getting very tired of China. It was starting to become her bane.
Jack had his own distractions and worries. He had helped Mike
a little while ago by throw the sheath to the katana at Ryouga's legs,
pushing his feet from under him.
Each had given almost his or her all. Jack would have been
totally wasted except for the fact that his chi shield, his sword and
mostly the Air Drill technique helped make him a suitable challenge.
"This is it, Jack. I'm calling you out!" Ryouga shouted.
"Just a second," Jack grinned. He turned to Ranma-chan, who
was also paying attention to Ryouga, and grabbed her right breast with
his left hand and squeezed as hard has he could, taking the same
amount of pleasure while doing so.
"AHH!!! Hentai!" Ranma-chan pulled back her right hand to
slap him, a reflex she gained from being a girl so long. As soon as her
hand moved forward, it stopped. Her whole body went limp from
paralysis pressure point Jack learned from Happosai.
"You, stay here," Jack twitched his eye-brows. "I'll be back
to... finish you later."
"Alright, Ryouga," he turned to him. "You've gone through
the rest, now you'll be stopped by the best. WOOOO!" He flashed him
the Sign.
******
They looked back at each other with hatred. Each wanted to
get rid of the other and then finish Ranma-chan. Ryouga was just a pest
in Jack's eyes, a pest that he would exterminate. Ryouga still felt
insulted and mad at him for trying to ruin his life, even though it was
inadvertent.
Ryouga ran in, umbrella pointed ahead. He wanted to finish
this faster than he did Hanny. He swung and thrust his umbrella at Jack
like a raging bull. Arrogantly, he dodged or parried every strike, then
yawned as Ryouga paused to catch his breath.
"Now, lets see how well you move!" Jack returned Ryouga's
strikes with his own. They weren't as fast as his, because, even though
Ryouga had fought 3 opponents, he wasn't as injured as Jack.
Jack swung across his body. Ryouga caught it and pushed the
arm away. Before he could recover, Ryouga gave Jack a punch in the
abdomen that drove him backwards.
With the wind knocked out of him, Jack slowly continued to
move backwards, away from his opponent. He held his stomach, trying
to fool him by exaggerating the pain.
Ryouga inched forward. He raised an eyebrow as he saw Jack
throw a punch. At that distance, Ryouga thought he must have been
more disoriented than he thought.
He was wrong. Jack had sent a punch straight into Ryouga's
gut using the Air Drill. Quickly, Jack stood up straight and jumped on a
wall. He knew that the only way to defeat Ryouga was to keep his
distance because of his fatigue.
He ran the perimeter of the wall while literally throwing
punches at Ryouga with the Air Drill. Back and forth he went. Ryouga
would attempt to tackle him or move closer to the wall, but Jack would
only push him back with multiple punches.
Suddenly, an idea popped in Ryouga's head. He grabbed two
handfuls of bandannas, twirled them a little and threw them all in front
of Jack's path.
He easily dodged most of the projectiles while scanning to the
first wall but on the second wall, he lost his balance while jumping over
a bandanna and fell down to the ground with many cuts all over his
body.
Jack began to panic. He slowly sat up and saw Ryouga
coming. He could see the anger in his battle aura. He couldn't think of
what to do. Not one thing came to mind to help him defend himself. He
glanced at Ryouga again, he was getting closer. Slowly, Jack stood up.
Wobbly, he dropped into a fighting stance. He couldn't drain
Ryouga' chi because there wasn't any time nor did he have the energy
to do it. He couldn't pull off a chi blast for the same reason.
There was only one thing left to do that he could think of. He
had to do it out of desperation. It would hurt him a lot, but hopefully
Ryouga more.
Jack took a deep breath, extended his index finger and
shouted, "KACHUU-TENSHIN-AMAGURIKEN-BAKUSAI-
TENKETSU-FUNG-TWEI!"
He used three skills, only one that he learned correctly and
used them all together. Using the Air Drill with the breaking point, he
was able to blast away the ground at a small distance. However, his
amaguriken technique was never learned correctly and he only was able
to pull off 20 or so in just a second.
"Huh?" Ryouga looked at his feet. The ground rumbled below
him. It was like an earthquake and a volcano eruption at the same time.
Tons of rocks and dirt pounded him in just a few seconds. Not even he
could withstand the impact.
The rocks flew everywhere. Small pebbles fell on the playing
board of Genma and Soun. They were in so deep concentration in their
game that they hadn't noticed what happened outside.
Kasumi peeked out the kitchen window, "Oh, my! How nice,
Jack is helping us make a swimming pool!"
Jack saw the rocks coming closer. He didn't dodge them. He
knew he couldn't. He just took a deep breath, shut his eyes and braced
for impact.
The rocks pounded him harder than Ryouga. Even though he
was at a distance, he just didn't have the impact resistance of him. Both
of them collapsed to the ground from all the force and let the rocks half
bury them.
******
Jack pushed the rocks off himself. Somehow, he survived and
awoke before Ryouga. He took a look at him. He buried from the waist
down.
"That'll... Teach ya not to... Mess with the Horsemen...
Wooooo..." Jack said quietly to himself. He then turned to Ranma-
chan, who was still on her back and not moving. Somehow, she was
spared from the pile of rocks.
He hovered over her and grinned deviously. He could see the
madness in her eyes, but best yet, he could see a bit of terror. How
helpless she was.
Jack dropped down on top of Ranma-chan, "You know,
Ranma-baby, I've been wanting to tell you something. You are such a
lucious babe. So, what if you're a guy, I still like your girl form. Maybe
I'll help you find out how pleasurable it can be to be a girl." He cut off
one button with his katana and gave her a small kiss on her cheek.
******
The small sphere that Mara left gave a tiny beep. A small panel
popped off and divulged a liquid crystal display, the same kind that are
on calculators now.
A small antenna extended itself out of the top. The display
showed a small character in Demonese. It changed every second to
another character, counting down to how much longer until it was to
execute its program.
******
Jack ripped off Ranma-chan's top, "How nice, almost like
Shampoo's." He looked into her eyes again. They were filled with anger
and terror. He loved it.
Suddenly, a bright flash of light burst out from the top of the
roof. It took Jack's attention away what he was doing. He was blinded
by the bright flash.
Kasumi stopped cooking and peeked at the flash outside the
window. It was so bright, it hurt her eyes, "Oh my!"
Genma and Soun both stopped playing because of the flash.
They looked outside and covered their eyes to protect them from the
bright flash.
Just as quickly as the flash began, a fraction of a second, the
flash ended. Everyone and everything were gone. The rocks were back
in the ground and the yard was all patched up. Everyone's wounds
were healed and clothes were patched.
Mousse, Ryouga and Kuno were sent back to their homes. The
Tendo's and the Saotome's were tucked nicely in their beds, all asleep.
The luggage in Jack, Hanny, Mike and Dan's rooms were set
neatly outside.The Four Horsemen were outside the dojo, sitting against
the wall, all asleep, waiting for Jack's nanny to pick them up.
Back on the roof, the small, metal sphere dissipated itself. All
the parts fell apart and disappeared into nothingness, as if it never
existed.
******
I woke up and yawned. I rubbed my eyes and stretched my
arms out. I hit something, something hard.
"Hey, that's my head," Hanny whined.
I looked to my right. Sure enough, Hanny was sitting next to
me. We were in my nanny's car. Mike sat to my left, sleeping quietly.
Dan sat in the passenger seat up front.
"Oh, you're awake," my nanny said. "I found you all asleep
when I drove up. I couldn't wake you so I just put you all in and left.
We're about 15 minutes away from Nekomi City."
<Man, I had the strangest dream,> I said in English so that my
nanny wouldn't understand what I was saying.
<Yeah, me too,> Dan replied. I didn't know he was awake.
<Hey, I don't remember waiting outside and falling asleep,> I
rubbed my head.
<Neither do I,> Hanny blinked.
<Well, I dreamed that you got into a fight with Akane, then
Ranma,> Dan began. <Then Mousse came and I sent Mike to stop him
from interfering with you; then Kuno came and I sent Hanny; then I
had a fight with that dishonorable Ryouga and lost.>
<Strange, I had the same dream,> I rubbed my chin.
<Yeah, me too,> Hanny nodded. <Maybe it wasn't a dream.>
<I don't know, but do I ever have a headache,> I rubbed my
head.
<Hey, what am I doing in a car?> Mike woke up finally.
This was all too strange. Was it a dream, or did it really
happen? If it was a dream, how did we end up outside the dojo and
asleep? How did our wounds heal up? There were so many questions
and the only place to find answers was back in Nerima.
"Here we are," my nanny said. We drove into a very large
temple. It had a nice garden and a very friendly feeling that seemed to
end outside the gate. "We better start unpacking the stuff. Belldandy
and Keiichi are probably waiting for us inside."
I got out of the car with my three friends. We unlocked the
trunk and pulled out our luggage. I took a deep breath and smiled. This
was such a nice place. I knew I was going to love it here.
End Part XI
Finished 8-22
Author's Afterward: Yes, this part was probably very confusing and
nauseating. I know there are a lot of out of character actions, especially
on the part of Jack, that added to this.
Well, all I can say and want to say is that it'll all be explain around part
12 or 13. Hopefully, 12, but most likely 13 because I need to build up
on life in the temple. I can bet that you all know that Mara has
something to do with Jack's actions in this part.
OK, I need some help. Who do you think Urd would like most: Dan,
Mike or Jack. I'm not including Hanny in this because I have other
plans for him.
So, what did you all think of my fight scenes? I found them a little bit
boring and lacking some emotion. This part was mostly fight scenes
and I tried to keep them short. I was going to put in a Nodoka and Jack
sword fight scene but I didn't want to drag the story too long.
Just some info for ya. I went on the net and checked out who the Four
Horsemen really are. I sorta knew they were in the bible but I wasn't
too sure. Well, I found out that they are in the bible, Revelations 6:10 I
think. How did I find myself using this name, you ask. Well, I get a lot
of my idea from watching professional wrestling. You'll see that a lot in
the next few parts of you watch WCW or WWF.
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