I still don't know if this will ever get to be much.

But only when things have sorted themselves out will I be writing seriously 
again.

This is, really, just relaxation mid-exam-time.

And I wish to apologise to all about '25,000 years on'. That was one of 
those things that was the product of a bad day, and virtually no sleep.

Still, on we go.

Nobuyuki Muyo!- more!

Ryoko walked alongside the lake, slow, deliberate paces. every so often 
she'd throw a stone into the water and see how much of a splash she could 
make... frequently massive ones.

'Nearly seven hundred years... I hope that this world has changed a bit from 
what it was.'

She sat down, and flopped back, head on her arms, looking up at the sky. It 
was, she reflected, just her luck to be awoken by a courting couple. Indeed, 
the first cute guy and he turns out to be attatched.

There would be other fish.

Fish...

What the hell was she thinking of? She ought to wake Ryoohki, before 
anything else.

Where the hell had she left her?

Sitting up, she rolled up her sleeves, and strode into the water, looking 
carefully around for the remains of the ship.

*****

"You're WHAT!?"

"Achika, I hoped it would be a while before I told you this. I am actually 
the same person who sealed that demon away."

Nobuyuki was shocked even more than Achika. Mad, he thought. They're mad. My 
girlfriend's an alien. Her dad... her dad now looks twenty and has purple 
hair?

"Yes, daughter, I am the great samurai Yosho. I sealed her away, and now, 
due to your... attempted indiscretion- which we will discuss later- I may 
have to deal with a terrible threat. I don't feel like trying to defeat that 
woman again, but I may have to."

Achika stayed sitting and silent. She could see that there had to have been 
a better way of telling her, but this had kinda pushed the issue.

Nobuyuki was sitting and shaking. He didn't want to think about what his 
probable father-in-law would do to him. Transport him to Mars?  Yuggoth? 
Halcedama?

"Did you retrieve the sword?"

"What?"

"The sword, daughter, the sword. It is the only weapon that can defeat that 
monstrosity."

"Sorry, father. I didn't see it."

"Let us go, then." Yosho sighed. Things would never be simple again.

Then, things got worse.

A massive shadow blotted out the sun over the house.

A woman, with long, purple hair strode in the door, flanked by two   flying 
Logs.

"Greetings. We were in the vicinity, and detected the signature of the dread 
Pirate Ryoko. I mean no trouble, but I will be here until her..." She 
trailed off, staring at the group.

"Yosho?"

Yosho put his head in his hands, as he realised exactly who this was who had 
arrived.

"And it's good to see you, Aeka-chan."

And the fates laughed, seeing the tangle of threads in the future.


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