Chapter 8




The next day came fast and with it new adventures for the household.  Everyone was busy with his or her daily activities.  Tenchi and Meachi were at school.  Aeka, Kiyone, and even Mihoshi were cleaning up the house. Washu was in her lab working Yosho and Watura had begun their daily routine as priest.  Sasami went to the field to get some fresh vegetables for dinner.  
	Ryoko on the other hand was not fast at work.  As usual, she was off to her self.  Today she was venturing to the local market.  Her supply of saki had run out.  Something as important as that couldn't remain the same way for too long.  
	As she was making her way to the market, she noticed that something was not right. It was a feeling that she remembered but she didn't know where from.   She couldn't place it, so she pre-cautiously continued on her way.  After traveling a little longer, the feeling grow stronger.  She looked around to see what could be causing it.  Nothing seemed to be out of order.  As she surveyed the land she noticed two figures barely in eyeshot.  Her curiosity had sparked.  To discretely get a better look, she teleported highly above the two and stared downward.  They turned out to be two females.  One was a small girl; she appeared to be no older than Sasami.  The other looked to be a lady in her early twenties.  
	There was something about her that seemed very familiar.  Ryoko couldn't place her face anywhere, but the feeling that she knew her would not leave from the bewildered watcher's eyes.  Her mind was racing as she came to the conclusion that the only way to find out who she is; was to go up and ask her.  Ryoko teleported back down to the ground.  She quietly came up behind the young lady.  With no intent of rudeness intended, she reached out and softly grabbed the taller girl's shoulder.  Both girls stopped symatamiously.

	"Hey, hold on.  I wanna ask you something."

	What Ryoko could not see was the eyes and the forearms of the girl had quickly changed.  The smaller child mysteriously disappeared.  Just as she did the girl, that Ryoko had a hold of, swung around and cut off Ryoko's hand.  
	Ryoko screamed in agony.  The enraged pirate gripped her blood-drenched stub, and then looked forward to see that the young lady was now in a complete metallic battle suit.  Just above both of her wrist were blades that extended from what appeared to be metallic forearm protectors.  
	Ryoko composed herself as her battle suit formed on her body.  Every bit of built up anger could be seen upon her face.  She glared at her attacker and delivered a response, "Do you have any idea how much that hurts?  Don't worry, I'll be more than too happy to show you!"  Ryoko's bleeding stopped and another hand began to form. While it did, a glowing sphere hovered before her.  Just as her hand became complete she grabbed the sphere, and it changed into an energy sword.  
	Ryoko's threat had seemed to have no affect on the lady.  Instead she only prepared for her first move. Ryoko charged in at full speed and attacked.  The lady sidestepped and attacked back.  She made to two swings. The first was a vertical slice down, followed by a horizontal backswing from the second blade.  Ryoko rolled away from the first swing and backflipped over the second.  She was even more infuriated now.  The air began to tingle as energy began to form around her hands.  She took aim and fired off several blasts.  The lady dodged each shot.  On the last one, she rocketed into the sky and practically evaporated into nothingness.  Ryoko's eyes frantically searched to find where she had gone.  Each of her senses went into overdrive as she tried to pick up anything that would give the location of her attacker away, but nothing could be heard or saw.  An eerie calm swept pass.  
	Ryoko heard something move to the right of her. She instinctively turned and delivered an energy blast.  A second or two passed, as she waited for the smoke to clear.  To her amazement, she didn't hit anything.  Her eyes were fixed down the line-of-fire see just created. She barely noticed it at first, but it looked almost as if the smoke was moving incorrectly.  It appeared like something was there and not there at the same time.  The scenery seemed to be distorted.  
	Before Ryoko could stop it, the distortion came toward her and materialized into the lady.  She plunged her left arm blade through Ryoko's torso.  The metallic shine of her arm piece was now a dulled, due to the red liquid that gushed upon it.  The impacted forced Ryoko into the wall, which was 10 yards behind her.  The lady's right blade sunk into Ryoko's flesh just below her collarbone.  In so, pinning her to the wall.  The other blade was then raised in preparation to relieve Ryoko's head from the rest of her body.  She didn't try to fight her off, because at that moment she remembered where she had seen her.  The lady's then swung with the force of a guillotine.

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If you've read this far, I'd like to say thank you.  I've been working on this off and on again for a while now.  There's more to this than just one big fight scene, but I was hoping to see if the begining of this was interesting to the reader or not.  I welcome any CC.  And thanks again for your time.

Meachy



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