Oh  my...Ranma
                               #7 epilogue
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me. So please don't sue me.

 "Urd you okay?" Belldandy said as she escorted Urd to her room.

 "Yeah, I'll be okay," Urd said, her face seemingly as disdainful as
usual but Belldandy could see the pain in her, the price for her
returned memories, but she knew better than to press her older sister on
this.

 "Well...okay, call me if you need me," Belldandy said, her concern
shining through.

 "Yeah," Urd said without much energy, dragging herself into the room
and shutting the door gently. She felt drained and emotionless, if only
the tears would flow but she had cried them all away a long time ago.

 "You okay," a voice popped out from above her, in the rafters. She
looked up in surprise to see two blue sapphire eyes peering down at her.

 "Yeah, why would you care anyway?"

 " You seemed to have something against the Amazons, why?" Ranma asked,
his tone carefully neutral.

 "You remember? How much do you remember?" Urd was slightly surprised at
this, but then she didn't have much first hand experience on people who
had gone berserk anyway. She had met only two people who had gone
berserk before.

 " I remember all," Ranma said, before going on in a softer voice to
himself, one he was sure that Urd could not hear, "God help me, I
remember all."

 "Sigh, I might as well tell you. What difference does it make?" Urd
said, shrugging her shoulders as if she didn't care. "It was around five
hundred years ago, then I was just a young goddess-"

 < Urd wandered around, taking in the sights before her. Mortals were so
interesting, the way they hurried about doing their business intrigued
her. She checked the information given to her again, if she was not
wrong she was in China. She had sneaked out of heaven just to go on this
little field-trip, learning about them wasn't enough, she wanted to
experience it first hand.

 "Hey look, there's a pretty girl," one coarse looking man said to his
friend, as he pointed to her.

 "Yeah, you're right," His friend said, leering at her. "Doesn't look
like she's from around here, let's say we introduce ourselves to her."

 Urd stared mistrustfully at the two men who sidled up to her, cornering
her between the two of them. *What do I do? Use my power but that'll
alert the others for sure and I'm not supposed to be here. If they find
out I'm going to be punished." So she decided to wait it out.

 " Hey there, you must be new around here. What say we show you around,"
one of the men said as he grabbed her arm.

 "No, let go of me!" Urd was very close to using her powers now even if
it meant she would be punished.

 "Why don't you listen to the girl?" Urd looked around to see who had
spoken. She saw that it was a young man in his early twenties who looked
like the people she had seen around here but somehow subtly different.

 "This is none of your business, go away!"

 "Well, I'm making it my business," the young man replied.

 "I warned you!" The first man charged at the young man, a knife
appearing out of nowhere into his hand, while the second held onto Urd
securely.

 Faster than the eye could see, the young man's leg flashed out in a
sweeping motion, knocking the first man on the side of his head, causing
him to fall unconscious to the floor.

 "Well what about you?" The young man regarded the person still holding
onto Urd with a casual eye, folding his arms behind his back.

 "Uh...no thanks," the man said as he let go of Urd as if she was death
to hold onto, running away into the opposite direction.

 "You're not from around here are you?" The young man asked in a rather
friendly tone, as he regarded Urd. "I've never seen anyone with brown
skin before."

 Urd now got a closer look at her 'saviour', staring at him. "No I'm
not, I'm from somewhere very far away," she replied truefully. *Wow,
he's handsome.*

 "Well neither am I. Nice to meet you, I'm Masurao.">

 "And that was the first time I met Masurao, he was from Japan and was
in China with his younger sister , who was about 17, to study the
martial arts. You look slightly like him, I guess thats why you seemed
familiar. He was a very nice guy who simply adored his little sister.
I'd think he would have given up his life to protect her..."

 < "Urd, I'd like you to meet my sister, Kikyo," Masurao said, smiling
as he introduced Urd.

 "Up to your old tricks again brother?" Kikyo teased, "you must be his
girlfriend although I'm surprised my brother's taste was good for once."

 "Kikyo, behave yourself!" Masurao sounded half scandalised but his easy
grin gave Urd the impression that the two of them had been through this
many times.

 "Che Oniisan , relax. I was just joking." >

 "And in time, I found myself visiting them more and more-"

 < "Here for you," Urd said proudly as she handed Masurao the simple
shirt she had sewn for him.

 "Uh...thanks," Masurao accepted the simple blue cloth shirt, on which
the centre was embroidered a simple, elegant rose. "What is it for? It's
not my birthday," he asked as he held it to his body, looking at it
curiously.

 "Can't I just give gifts without a reason?"

 "Watch out Oniisan, looks like you've got an admirer," Kikyo teased as
she looked over Masurao's shoulder to see the shirt.

 "Don't talk nonsense," Masurao said, not without blushing himself.">

 "Until that one day..."

 < Urd looked around the camp for Masurao and his sister, finding no
sign of them-which was pretty curious as one of them would usually stick
around the camp to make sure people did not make off their stuff.

 "Masurao? Kikyo? Where are you??" She called out, trying to attract
their attention. Finally after an hour she gave up, going to the nearby
village to search for any clues on where they were.

 All the people she met just gave her tight-lipped answers, refusing to
say anything at all, usually shaking their head sadly when she asked
them. Only one person in the whole village told her something, told her
to go the other nearby village.

 And she did, travelling straight towards the other village. She
wondered if Masurao and Kikyo were playing some sort of trick on her as
they were wont to do, but that didn't really matter as long as she found
them.

 *I wonder what they're doing at this village Joketsozu anyway?* She had
thought then, never guessing the truth until she came to the boundary of
the Joketsozu village.

 There fluttering in the breezes of the wind, on the skinny frame of a
broken skeleton tied to a pole was the tattered remains of a blue shirt,
and the once elegant rose on it's chest was now scruffed up and splotted
with coppery stains of blood.>

 "What happened?" Ranma sounded geniuinely shocked at the ending of her
tale.

 "It turned out that Kikyo had gone wandering and her brother had let
her. She had come across the Amazon village where she defeated one of
them, that single Amazon had chased her and killed her quite close to
the camp. Masurao saw this and went mad with anger, he got the reason
from the Amazon just before he killed her and then marched straight to
the village. He killed half of them before the elders were finally able
to stop him," she snuffled slightly at this point, flicking her hand
across her eyes," They hanged his skeleton out to warn others away from
the village. I couldn't do a single thing, Heaven forbade it. I never
saw him again, he never went to Heaven but he wasn't in hell either. I
don't know where he went. "

 Ranma stood speechless, he knew what would happen if a female won but
he had never ever considered it in this light before. Somehow hearing of
someone who had died because of the stupid law made him hate it even
more.

 " So now you know, so please just go and leave me alone," Urd said, not
looking up at him, trails of moisture working themselves down her cheek.

 "But..."

 "Please just go," Urd said quietly, waving her hand and shoo-ing him
away. She didn't want anyone to witness her crying, especially not him.

 Ranma didn't know what to do so he followed her advice as best he
could, leaving her alone in the darkness of the room, alone with her
grief, choosing instead to look out for her from outside.

 The end
 Author's Notes: Arrgghhh! Somehow this didn't come out the way I
envisioned it. Darn it, darn it darn it. Sigh, well back to the drawing
board for chapter 8.
 Thanks to my pre-readers.

Sining
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