Taro ignored him. "I think I know how
to wake her up." He took out the staff from
his back and pointed the gem toward the
girl. Before he touched the cylinder with
the staff, he and Kyoto exchanged a glance.

	"I know, I know. Don't worry, I got
your back, but I don't think she'll try
to kill you right away. First, she'll
probably try to sucker you into doing what
she wants with fake promises, and then after you
do what she wants she'll kill you."

	"How...reassuring," Taro said glaring
at Kyoto.

	The college student grinned. "Well?
What are you waiting for? Wake her up
already!"

	Taro turned his attention back toward
the girl and pressed the staff gem against
the cylinder. At first, the cylinder
appeared solid, but after a few moments, the
gem glowed white and the surface of the
cylinder wavered like water. He pulled back
the staff.

	"Where are you going?" Taro asked.

	Kyoto shrugged. "Look around. I'll
see if I can find anything that you could
use. I'll be back." He jumped off the platform.

	"Whatever. But don't come back to me
with a hole in your body because you weren't
looking. I still need your knowledge of the
demon-gods."

	"Yeah, yeah."

	Taro observed the girl one more time,
looking around her body. "Got it." The cursed
man put the end of the staff in the cylinder
and targeted a small hole above the girl's
bosom. "Time to wake up, Kalia." He forced
the point into the hole of Kalia. A second
later, the cylinder turned into gel and fell
to the ground. The lights above the cannons
turned off. Kalia fell to the ground,
standing, with her head slumped. Her head
slowly rose.

	She stared straight into Taro's and
asked, "Are you my new master?"

	For a moment, Taro was taken in back
from the innocent demeanor of Kalia. He
quickly regained his composer. (Hmph, got to
hand it to the girl, that's a pretty
convincing act.) Taro did his Evil Grin(R) and
answered her question. "Yes. Call me Taro,
but...are you sure you're some kind of ultimate
weapon?"

	"Ultimate weapon? No, I don't have
weapons at all!" She scratched her head.

	His grin grew wider. (Geez, I can
just imagine her suckering every single one
of her masters into doing whatever she wanted.)
"Oh, dear! Do you at least know how to
fight?!" He said covering his mouth.

	"Nope!"

	(Figures.)

	"Hey, Taro! The laser cannons shut off!"
Kyoto yelled from off the platform. He quickly
jumped back on with a new sword in his hand.
"Look what I found! It's some kind of Ancient
sword!" The sword was thin, like a katana, but
the blade was straight and about four feet long.
The handle was fancy with Ancient symbols and
carvings which wove around the sword for half
a foot from the handle.

	"That's...pretty big," Taro stated.
He noticed Kalia eyeing the sword.

	"Yeah. The Ancients called it
'Orochi' or something like that."

	Both, Taro and Kyoto, noticed Kalia
momentary frown. Kalia stepped up toward
Kyoto. "Who are you? Do you threaten my master?!"
She asked threateningly.

	Kyoto glanced at Taro who nodded.
Kyoto held up his hands in protest. "No, no,
of course not! I'm his partner, Kyoto!"

	"But what would you do if he did
threaten me? I thought you didn't know how to
fight?

	Kalia fidged for a moment. "I don't
but I'd...find the real ultimate weapon
and help you!"

	"Oh."

	"So does that mean you're not the
ultimate weapon my partner was looking
for?" Kyoto said, while sheathing his
sword and wrapping it around his back.

	"Yep!"

	"Oh." He looked back to Taro.
"So what are going to do now?

	Taro shook his head. "I don't
know."

	"...but I do know of three other
ultimate weapons!"

	"Three?!" Taro and Kyoto said
in disbelief.

	"Yup! I know the way! Follow
me, Taro-chan(3)! Baka-Kyoto(4)!"

	Kyoto and Taro both flinched
at their new names. Exchanging glances
again, they following her.

3) Meaning something like a cute
nickname for close friend or lover.

4) Meaning jerk, stupid, idiot, etc.

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	 They were at the edge of the
pillars when they started to notice the
oasis.

	"Hey, look! Is that it, Alielle?"
Makoto asked.

	"Yep! That's where they hold their
sacred ceremony!"

	They walked closer toward the
oasis. Being only a few feet away from
entering the oasis, the travellers
suddenly heard a womans scream.

	"What was that!?" Mr. Fujisawa
exclaimed. He threw off his pack and
ran toward the noise, into the oasis.

	"Hey! Wait up!" Ranma said running
after Mr. Fujisawa. Alielle followed him.

	Makoto was also about to follow
when he noticed a member of the small
expidition team gone. "Ryoga? Ryoga!"
He yelled out while looking around the
plain desert. "Great. Oh well. He's bound
to show up sometime." Makoto ran back
toward the oasis.

	Mr. Fujisawa arrived at the sight
of the scream. He looked at a young woman,
completely naked except for a towel, and
a seven foot tall hairy thing being
battered on by her. Naturally, his instinct
took over.

	"Hiya!" The teacher slammed his foot
into the monster. "Take that you evil
monster!" The monster cowered back. "How
dare you attack an innocent lady!" He
pointed his figure accusingly at it.

	"Oh, no. It wasn't really..." The
woman began.

	Mr. Fujisawa turned to face the
woman and smiled, pink little blubbles
formed behind him. The woman started to
blush and held up her hands against her
cheeks. She ran over to Mr. Fujisawa
adoringly. "Oh, my! Thank you very much
for saving me from that evil monster!
May I ask what you name is, kind sir?"

	"Why, of course! My name is
Masamichi Fujisawa and I am a teacher at
a high school."

	(Ohhh, he's strong, handsome,
and has a steady income!) She thought
adoringly as her eyes grew starry eyed.

	"Sensei!" Makoto said from behind
Ranma and Alielle. Ranma mistakenly
tripped over the cold water.

	She quickly remembered her place and
regained her composure. "Oh my! I haven't
even told you my name yet! I'm Miz Mishtal,
a priestess of Mt. Muldoon."

	"Ehh! You're one of the priestess'
of Mt. Muldoon?!" Makoto exclaimed.

	"Aww, I thought they were suppost
to be young and beautiful! Not middle-aged
women!" Alielle said regretfully.

	Miz flinched at the remark. "Oh, why don't
you three go over there, while I talk to
this little girl." They left wordlessly.
She suddenly got ten times as big with
several huge veins. "WHAT DID YOU SAY
ABOUT MIDDLE-AGED!!!?"

	Alielle cringed and got small.
"I-I m-meant to say young beautiful
teenager..." She said in a small voice.

	Miz turned back to normal. "Oh,
really! No isn't that cute of you! Run
along now, and go catch up to the others."

------------------------------------------

	Ryoga pushed past the bushes and
trees of the oasis. "Great! Where am
no-aahhh!" Ryoga tripped on some the
same cold water that Ranma slipped in.
(Perfect! Just what I need! Now I have
to find some hot water!) Some hands
grabbed him from behind. (Huh? Who's
that?!)

	The pig turned its head to a young
woman with brown hair. (Lita? Is that
Lita!?) The black pig squealed in delight.

	"Oh, how cute!" Lita squeezed it
to her breasts. She completely ignored the
clothes at her feet.

	The pig suddenly realized three
things. One: Although she's heard of his
curse, she's never seen it. Two: She's
completely naked and is against her
breast. And three: Pig's noses don't
bleed as well as human do. The pig thought
only one thing before he passed out, since
he couldn't relief himself by blood.
(Wow. Lot bigger than Akane's, that's for
sure...)

------------------------------------------


	Miz caught up with the others and
introduced themselves. Makoto told Miz
part of their story.

	Ranma-chan looked around. "Wow,
a hot springs for priestess. Should be
hard to change while I'm here."

	"Hey, Miz!" Shayla waved from
afar, accompained by Afura holding
numerous bags like Shayla.

	"Hm? Oh, Afura Mann and Shayla
Shayla!" They walked up to each other
and exchanged hellos. "You late! Where
were you two, anyway?!"

	Shayla and Afura gave of a little
laugh. "We past by store that 50% of all
merchandise and we just couldn't help
ourselves."

	Afura noticed Mr. Fujisawa, Alielle,
Ranma, and Makoto. "You?!"

	"Oh, yes. These are our guests,"
Miz said, motioning toward the others.
"They have something to say, but first
lets get settled down."

	They went over to one of the hot
steaming springs. Miz took out a blindfold
and wrapped it around Mr. Fujisawa. "I'm
sorry I have to do this, but rules are
rules."

	"What about us?" Ranma-chan asked
pointed to Makoto and him.

	"What about you? Your a girl," Shayla
pointed out.

	Ranma and Makoto froze as they
realized their situation. They accutely
noticed that both, Shayla, Afura, and
Alielle-who doesn't really care, since
she was so "occupied" with Shayla- were
all naked and dipping themselves into the
pool of warm water. They looked to
Mr. Fujisawa for help, but he was
blindfolded and was in a conversation with
Miz who had a towel on.

	Ranma and Makoto looked at each
other, then back at the girls. Then backed
away quickly from the spring. "N-never
mind!" Ranma replied and Makoto nodded.

	"Hey, guys!"

	Everybody turned to Lita who was
holding an unconcious pig.

	"Lita!" Miz, Shayla, and Afura
greeted her. "Wow! What a cute little
pig!" They exclaimed.

	"Yeah, I know! I found back there,
but when I picked him up, he fell
unconcious!" She looked at Shayla and
grinned. "I see you've met Alielle..." The
priestess' snickered.

	"Ohh, Sister Shayla!"

	Shayla blushed. "Cut that out!
Don't get so close to me!" She put her
hand on Alielle's head and pushed her
away.

	Ranma-chan jumped behind Makoto.
{H-hey!} Makoto whispered at him.

	Ranma-chan padded Makoto on the back.
{Don't worry! You'll come out with arm
and a leg! Be a man Makoto!}

	{B-but she's bound to find out
when I'm caught!}

	{Argh! You're right! Don't worry!
I got an idea!}

	{It better not be the stupid Secret
Technique of yours! Because then they'll
really be mad!}

	{It not........}

	Lita walked over to Mr. Fujisawa.
"Hi, Mr. Fujisawa!"

	"Oh, hi, Lita!"

	She looked to Ranma-chan and
Makoto. "Eeekkk!" Lita slapped both
Makoto and Ranma-chan. "Perverts! Put
on some blindfolds!" She said grabbing
a towel to cover herself.

	"Why?" Afura asked curiosly.
"They're both girls, aren't they?"

	"Yeah," Shayla agreed.

	"No their not!" She said,
pointing at Makoto and Ranma-chan.
"They're both boys!"

	Makoto and Ranma started to
sweat nervously. "N-no we're not!"
Makoto dissagreed.

	"Yeah! She is just probably a
little stressed out!" Ranma agreed.
Both of them were turned around
because they were blushing too
deeply.

	"Nanami's Special Lunches here!
Lunches! Lunches anyone?" The woman,
Nanami, asked.

	"I'll have one!" Afura replied
to Nanami.

	"Sure!" She walked over to
the group and noticed Mr. Fujisawa.
"Sensei? Is that you?!" Putting down
her basket of lunches, she him and
grabbed him by the shoulders.

	"Wha? Nanami?" He lifted his
blindfolds a little bit to look at her.
"Nanami! Nice to ya!

	Nanami looked over Mr. Fujisawa's
shoulder and saw Makoto in the dress and
wig. "Makoto?" She ran over to Makoto.
"Makoto?" Nanami repeated as she look
him over.

	"No, you must be mistaken!" The
wanna-be-princess started edging away.

	"Makoto! It is you! Why are you
dressed like that? And why are you
pretending to not know me?"

	He laughed nervously. "I don't
know what your talking about!"

	Lita, still holding P-chan, spoke
up. "You see! I told you I wasn't
stressed! They are boys!"

	The pig chose that moment to
wake up. He looked around and started
to try to get out of Lita's arms.

	"Hey! What's wrong little piggy?
Do you want a bath? Yeah, I think you
need a warm..."

	The pigs eyes got wide.

	"...hot..."

	And wider.

	"...bath, just like Ranma and
Makoto!" Lita grinned evilly.

	The pig, Makoto, and Ranma
exchanged glances and gulped.

	Shayla got partially out of the
spring and grabbed Makoto and Ranma's
wrist. "Yeah, why don't you come in
the water? There's no need to stay out
there."

	The black pig squeezed out of
Lita's arms by pushing off them, but
caused Lita to drop her towel and fall
in the water. The pig was also
proportioned at full speed toward Ranma.
The pig hit Ranma and Ranma fell over
Makoto. All of them flew in the water
with a big smash. Everyone looked toward
the splash point and waited to see the
results. A wig floated up, along with
Makoto. The wig appeared on his head
backwards. Ranma and Ryoga also floated
up. Ranma tried to walk foward, but
tripped on Ryoga and Ryoga hit Makoto.
Makoto flew forward and fell between
Shayla's breast. Meanwhile that was
happening: Ranma had tripped and
fell over backwards against Lita's body
and Ryoga fell foward and accidently
pressed lips with Afura. The three
priestess in the water stared dumb
struck at the likewise cross-dressers.

	"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!"

*BOOM!!!*

	Ranma, Makoto, and Ryoga- who was
wearing his headbands for underwear-
ran from the full fury of Wind, Fire,
Earth, AND Lightning.

	Ranma turned his head to Makoto.
"I told ya we should of did my Secret
Technique in the first place! But nooo,
you had to talk it out first!" He
glanced at Ryoga and smirked. "Nice
undies P-chan."

	"Shut up, Ranma!" Both Makoto and
Ryoga said, while glaring at him. They
turned to look at each other and nodded.
Both of them put a foot in front of
Ranma and tripped him.

	"Ouch! H-hey! Guys! This isn't fair!"
He looked behind him at the three furious
priestess' and gulped. "Hehe, d-don't get
careless now! W-wait! What are you doing!
L-Lita! I'm your friend right?" He screamed
in agony as rocks pummeled him, lightning
zapped him, wind cut him, and fire burned
him.

	"You think we should go up there
and defend him?" Makoto asked Ryoga from
behind the bushes.

	After a moment of another scream,
"Nah," they both said.

	"Ahhhh!!! W-wait!!!"

	"What!?" All three of them asked.

	"What about Makoto and Ryoga! Your
not gonna let em' get away with seeing
the goods, are ya?" Ranma croaked.

	"Hey, he's right! Let's get 'em!"
Lita answered. Afura and Shayla nodded.

	Makoto and Ryoga froze in terror.
{Let's run!!!} Ryoga whispered hoarsly.

	But when they turned, they found
three huge furious priestess' that were
nearly three times as big as them.
They world seemed to go big as they
shrunk in horror. Big sweat beads appeared
behind their head. They huddled together
and shivered, right before they faced
the full fury of the forces of nature.

	After a while, the priestess'
finally got tired and stopped. The dust
cleared, Ranma, Ryoga, and Makoto-or what
looked like them-were left burnt black
things with their hands in the typical
falling out of the air sign.

--------------------------------------------

	The priestess' and the men had,
for more or less, decided to settle their
diffences for the moment. The women in
the hot springs were wearing bathing
suits, compliments of the hostess of the
hot springs, to aviod further conflict.
The men luckily had some extra pair of
clothes since their others were burnt
to a crisp.

	"So you want us to unlock the Eye
of God?" Miz asked Makoto.

	Makoto nodded. Miz looked at Mr.
Fujisawa adoringly before answering.
"I'll do it! But all four priestess' have
to agree to."

	Shayla 'hmphed!' and turned her head
away. Afura just crossed her arms. Lita
spoke up. "I don't see why we should help
after what you guys got to see AND almost
FEEL!"

	"Yeah!" Shayla and Afura said
agreeingly.

	"Hmph, I don't really care if the
things unlocked or not," Ranma stated.
"I just care about gettin' the hell outta
here!...And besides, we didn't get to see
much anyways! Mine are twice the size of
those small, flat..." Again, Ranma felt
the force of Fire and Lightning.

	Ryoga and Makoto looked on at the
spectacle. "He deserved that." Ryoga
pointed out. Makoto agreeded. The lost
boy looked toward Lita. "By the way,
what did happen to you back at
Mt. Muldoon? And how did you get-"

	Alielle joined in on the conversation.
"-Yeah, you just disappeared with out a
trace!" She smiled, and began to put her
arms around Lita. "I was sooo worried
about you, Sister Lita! Why don't we make
up and get out of these silly clothes!"

	Lita put her hand out in front of
Alielle, while she still tried to embrace
Lita. "Not to close, kid. I'm NOT in the
mood for cuddling. Why don't you go bother
your other 'sisters'."

	"O.K.!" Alielle ran over to Nanami
and hugged her happily.

	"Thanks, I really appreciate this,
Lita," Nanami said, grimaced.

	The girls chuckled, having been around
Alielle before. "No problem."

	Ranma dusted off his hair and clothes
before clearing his throat. "Anyways, what
did happen to you? How did you get those
weird Earth powers?"

	Lita thought for a moment. "Oh, well
it's kind of a long story[I'll probably
make a side-story on this some day], but
I'll just give you the short version.
Right after I used the Earth Crag, I was
transported back 14 years in the past.
My body had somehow turned back into four
years old. I went into a tantrum and
that's when I discovered I had some vague
power over the Earth. I tiny lightning
bolts everywhere, raised small pillars of
Earth, and rumbled the ground. I did this
outside of town, by a waterfall. Of course,
all of this was consideribly small
because of my size and strength. But it
was still noticeable. A young women and
a small girl my age, both with red hair,
noticed my tantrum and were amazed at such
power for such a small body. The young
women in red clothes came up to me and
smiled. I looked at her curiously.

	"She showed me that she had the
power Fire, conjuring a spectacle of
Fire far miracules than mine. The young
girl and I were amazed at such power.
The red-haired woman said that she'd
like to have me come to the Priestess
School to control the power I had.
The young girl, who was Shayla, asked
if she could come too. The young
woman said, 'Sure'. The next day I
was welcomed into the Priestess School
warmly while *giggle* Shayla actually
knocked on the door. She *giggle* slept
outside of the door for more than two
days!" Lita and Afura burst out laughing.

	Afura tried to contain her laughter.
"So you the one who, the only one in
priestess history, knocked on the door?!
Hahahaha!!! Didn't you know that you were
supposed to take ceremony and-"

	"Shut up! It's supposed to be a
SHORT story, not the long one. This is
no time to write a whole side-story right
now! Just tell us what happened and SKIP
the details!"

	"Okay, ok. Basically, I met up
with Afura and Shayla and became best
friends with them. We then went into
the priestess schools of Fire, Wind, and
Earth. I considered my lightning skill
to be secondary. After we graduated we
took over the rolls of the full-fledged
Priestess' of Fire, Wind, and Earth.
Miz didn't retire along with the others
and so she was still the Priestess of
Water. I had lived 14 years in El Hazard
until that day. Then, one day, another
portal appeared, and, well, here I am
now."

	"Wow. Are you stronger too? I
feel your chi a lot higher than before!"
Ranma asked.

	"Yup!"

	"So does this mean that you going
to help us........" Makoto's attention,
as well all of the other males, shifted.

	"Hmm, well I don't know-hey! What
are you guys staring at!" Lita yelled
at men.

	A beautiful woman with long blonde
hair and wearing a sexy, suductive bikini
walked up to the hot spring where everybody
was. All of the males, even 30-some-year-old
Fujisawa who was blushing, were mesmerized
by the appearance of woman.

	"Fujisawa!" Miz slapped Mr. Fujisawa
out of the trance. Miz glared at him.

	"I don't know what happened, hehe..."
Mr. Fujisawa scratched the back of his
head nervously.

	Meanwhile, Lita snapped his fingers
in front of Ranma, but he just kept on
staring. Lita Shayla and Afura who both
shrugged their shoulders and pointed to
Ryoga who was similar.

	"Beautiful..." Makoto murmured as
the woman held out her hand toward him.

	"Hey!" Nanami pushed the seemingly
hand out of the way. "What are you doing?"

	The woman stepped back. "Is he
your boyfriend?" The woman asked.

	"Well, no," she fidged. Nanami looked
at the womans beautiful skin curiously. "My,
I don't see many people with such beautiful
skin. So smooth and blue..."

	"WHAT!?" The priestess' blurted out,
unbelievingly.

	The illusion that covered the blonde-
haired woman vanished, revealing a woman
with dark-brown hair and a cloak around her.
Alielle ran and hid behind Nanami.

	"Phantom Tribe!" Shayla hissed.

	Her reaching hand turned into a hand
holding a knive. The woman screamed foward and
stabbing her knife toward Makoto.

	"Makoto!" Said a tiny voice. Ura
came dashing out of Alielle's pack and
swirled around Makoto.

	The knife bounced off Ura's skin like
it was metal. The woman jumped back and
was prepared to retreat. The priestess of
Earth manipulated the ground to form a
huge hand. The hand grabbed the Phantom Tribe
woman and held her hard in its grasp.
She groaned in pain. The pain turned into
a growl toward the Priestess' and especially
Nanami.

	Ranma, Makoto, and Ryoga shook their
heads back to reality. "What happened?"
Ryoga asked.

	"Why don't we ask her," Makoto
suggested. He walked up to the Phantom
Tribe woman. "Who sent you? And why did
you try to killme?!" The woman was about to
answer but suddenly hesistated. She looked
to her left and grinned. She didn't
answer. "Come closer and I'll tell you,"
the challenged him.

	"Fine!" Makoto stepped foward.

	"Makoto! Look out!" Nanami ran
foward and shove him aside. A Phantom
Tribe boy appeared out of nowhere and
was about to stab Nanami with a knife.

	Ryoga grabbed for his umbrella and
threw at the boy. The umbrella hit the
knife out of his hand. Ranma jumped
at the boy and punched him.

	The boy flew backwards but not
before at least letting the knife fall
toward Lita. Lita dodged the knife but
lost concentration of the rock hand that
was holding the Phantom Tribe woman. The
woman escaped the hands grasp and backed
up beside the boy. The boy wiped his lip
of blood. He looked at the woman beside
him. "Were not going empty handed!"

	Both of them disappeared to the
naked eye. Miz ran up to Nanami. "Nanami!
Can you see them?!"

	"Yeah! Makoto! Duck!" Nanami yelled.

	Makoto ducked just in time to miss
an arrow fly past him. "Over there!"
Nanami yelled, as she pointed behind
Ryoga.

	Ryoga turned around quickly and
jabbed his finger into the ground.
"Baksu-tenketsu!" The ground split apart,
spraying rocks everywhere. The woman
fell to ground. She tried to get up
quickly and retreat, but was smashed
by a ton of water from Miz. She flew against
the wall.  The Phantom Tribe woman tried
to reach for her crossbow from the ground.

	She grabbed it and tried to bring
it to aim, but found a large foot pressed
on it. "Oh, no you don't! Shi Shi Hokodan!!!"
The blue beam hit her like an anvil. She
disengrated when the beam destroyed the
molecules inside of her body.

	"Where are you, damn you!" Ranma
yelled. He had a several cut around his
body. (Damn! I can't see OR hear him! And
his chi just barely brushes up against me!)
The other turned their attention to Ranma.

	Ranma caught a glimpse of water
lifting up from a puddle. "Take this!
Mouko Takibisha!!!" The emotional beam of
confidence just barely skimmed him. An
arm wrapped Ranma.

	"There he is!" Nanami pointed out.

	The boy commanded his illusionary
strength toward his arm. The energy surged
through his arm to Ranma like poison. Ranma
struggled for a second until the energy
finally overwhelmed him. Ranma began to
disappear with the Phantom Tribe boy.

	"Ranma!" Some of the group members yelled
at the fading Ranma and his captor.

	Shayla raised her hand and quickly
summoned fire energy around her hand.
She threw the fireball at the boy, but it
was too late. Both, Ranma and the boy,
disappeared without a trace.

	"Damn!" Shayla swore to herself.

	"Are you okay, Makoto?" Nanami
asked Makoto.

	"Yeah, but Ranma..."

	"I know," Lita said quietly. "We'll
get him from those Phantom Tribe bastards
some how..." Lita looked over to Ryoga,
who was quietly looking at the pool of
hot water. "Do you think Ranma is going
to be all right?"

	Ryoga grinned gravely. (Hmph, stupid
Ranma. Making everyboy else worry for the
arrogant jerk.) Ryoga looked up at Lita.
"Of course! He'll probably escape before
we even get a chance to rescue! I know
Ranma...no matter how hard I tried to kill
him for his evil deeds, he always somehow
found a way to survive. For almost every
bad guy, Ranma somehow defeated them, no
matter how strong they were."

	"Almost?" Lita asked.

	"Well, there were some exceptions,
like Cologne, Taro,..."

	"Taro?! I thought they were friends!"

	"Friends? Yeah, right! But anyways,
it always seems Ranma has the luck of the
gods, or something."

	"Priestess Miz!" A servant girl ran
over to the water.

	"Hmm? What is it?" Miz asked.

	"It's the bugrom! There are some people
who claim that they have found the Forbidden
Island!" The servant girl exasperated.

	"What?!" The four priestess' exclaimed.

	"We have to set off immediately! There's
no telling what they could do if the actually
found the Forbidden Island!" Miz yelled.

	"Yeah! Though I don't see how they
could have found it..." Afura pondered.

	"Hey! What's going on? What are you
guys so afraid of?" Mr. Fujisawa asked.

	"We'll explain later! Come on!"
Lita told him and the others. She paused
before she added, "I'm sure Ranma's all right.
He will have to fend for himself until we
can find where he is." And with that, they left.

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	Kyoto sighed. "How long is this going
to take?" He asked Kalia.

	"We're almost there," Kalia replied
irratably. (That sword...how could he have it!
The one weapon that defeated me and the
Trigger of Destruction...Demonbane.)

	Taro sat quietly aside, watching Kalia's
silent frustrations.

	They were sailing on a ship to the
Forbidden Island where Ifurita rests.

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	Ranma was strapped into some sort of
machine next to girl, who was like wise strapped
down [Imagine Tenchi being strapped down by
Washu]. All around them were surround by darkness.
No light at all except for the spotlights on the
machinery.

	Ranma looked over to his femal companion.
(She looks just like Makoto, except with long
hair! They said she was kidnapped...she must be
Princess Fatora!) "Hey, you! Wake up! Are you
okay?" He asked Fatora, but to no avail. She
was seemingly unconcious, like she'd been drained
of all of her energy. Ranma didn't like the sight.
"Don't worry, I'll get us out of here," he
assured her quietly. "HEY! LET US OUT OFF HERE!
SOMEBODY!" Ranma sensed a slight change in the
ki level around him. He peered out into the
darkness cautiously. "Where are you!? Show yourselfs,
cowards!"

	Princess Rune's fiance' stepped walked up
to him, accompainied by two blue-skinned scientists.
"Well, well, well! You've finally woken up."

	"Princess Rune's fiance', Sir What's His Name!
I knew I sensed evil from you!" Ranma said with
narrow eyes. "What do you want?!"

	"That's Sir Gallus to you." He grinned before
saying, "I need a new lab rat to play with. I
feel that your not exactly normal and my tests
confirm that. It's like you have two people inside
of you. I want to see who the second person is
from the INSIDE."

	Ranma looked agahst. "What!?"

	Gallus took a cold glass of water from one
of the scientists. "My tests show that you're
sensitive to cold water. I'm just going to see
in what way."

	Ranma thought for a moment, contemplating
his situation. (This is bad! I hate tests! No,
wait...this is good! When he splashes the cold
water on me,) -he looks at his bonds- ,(I'll be
able to get free and get outta here. But girl...
ahh, I'll just figure something out a long the
way. Ranma looked at Fatora, then fidged.

	Gallus doused him with the water. His
-now hers- hands slipped through the restraints.
Immediately, Ranma-chan broke free of the bonds
and jumped in front of Gallus. She held up his
hand. "Mouko Takibisha!" A beam of confidence
burst out of her hand and toward Gallus and
his lackies.

	The scientists scream in pain
before they disinegrated. Gallus flew back
several meters. By the time he recovers, Ranma
and Princess Fatora are gone. He swore harshly
to himself. "Gaurds! Gaurds! Get them! Don't
let them escape!"

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