The disclaimer, practically every character here is NOT mine.  They all belong to their respective company.  I am using a lot of them, so I can't list them all.  Beside, I am gonna add more series to the story later on.  Don't sue me.  You won't get a penny out of me.  Trust me, you won't.  For others, there are SOME characters I made up, but who cares?  I don't.


Ranma Crossover fanfic

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Ah heck, read at your own risk.





STALLION

Chapter 3.

< The girls said, aaah!  Who are you?  Then they screamed, aaah!  Who's that hunk? >


Part 3.





The mysterious man in the uniform was watching the actions on the grounds.  At first he was pleased to see that his minions had found some preys.  However his pleasure soon turned into anger when the preys turned out to be the one who was actually doing the hunting.  The monsters outnumbered their opponents, but they were the one who was being slaughtered in the end.  Those two girls in weird costume destroyed more than a hundred now.  Those women with face markings were doing as well as them, if not better.

Out of irritation, he continued to summon more creatures.  That evened the odds a little, but what he wanted was some sacrifices, not prisoners.  In order to kill those persistent dogs, it seemed that more powerful allies were needed.

'I wasn't expecting to do this so early in my mission, but I guess it'll have to do...'



"Hmm?"

The figure in the robe was still standing on the top of the tree.  He observed the man down below when the man took out another orb from his jacket.  This time, however, instead of dropping it he threw it up and the orb was suspended in the air.  Then all of sudden dark flame exploded, surrounding the orb.  The man began his chanting, and the flame began to spit out some small pieces, which then turned into some winged creatures.

"Oho!  This looks interesting..."




Ranma Saotome was NOT a coward.  Living with Happosai also gave him lots of experiences with the kinds of demons.  So those monsters didn't scare him a bit.

But he was with a girl right now.

The heir of the Anything Goes was currently doing something he wasn't proud of.  The Saotome Secret Technique.  It was necessary to do this at the moment, in order to make sure that the girl in his arms at wouldn't get hurt.  His manner wasn't that of the gentlemen, but his honor was that of the chivalry.  No matter what happened, he wouldn't get an innocent get hurt.

Beside, there was something about this girl that made him especially protective...



Tomoe Hotaru didn't like flying.  It scared her, even when she was in her Senshi form.

So it was natural for her to scream when the stranger whom she just met picked her up, and began to jump between tree to tree.  But she liked the prospect of facing those monsters even less, so she kept her silence after some time later.

While she was one of the Sailor Scouts, she was also a regular girl.  Hotaru herself didn't like fighting much either, although she would do it if she had to.  But at the moment fighting was not an option.  After all, she couldn't transform in front of this stranger, could she?

Hotaru was also surprised to find herself rather comfortable in this stranger's arms.  It wasn't something physical, but there was something spiritual from him that kept her mind at ease.  She felt secure and happy there.

Herself didn't realize it, but the young Senshi was beginning to lean towards the man's chest...



Ranma blinked in the midst of his flight.  Did this girl just leaned on him? He looked down briefly and saw that he wasn't mistaken.  The girl didn't seem to realize what she did though, so Ranma just shrugged off.  He had a bigger problem on his hand, like those demons chasing him behind his back.

The problem just got bigger, however, when some more creatures appeared in front of him.  They were different from the ones he was running away from.  First of all, they had wings and flew in the air.  But somehow Ranma felt that they were not very friendly ones.  His instinct kicked in when he jumped sideway, just in time to avoid one of the winged creatures rushing towards him.

The creature barely missed Ranma and Hotaru.  The surprise came after, though, when it collided with one of the demons coming up behind him and exploded.  The gush of wind changed the course of Ranma's flight and he had to twist in mid-air to avoid an awkward landing.

When they landed Ranma and Hotaru gasped at the sight in front of them.  Almost half of the demons were also hit by the blast.  A large crater was all that was left of the flying attacker and its target.  The rest of the demons to hesitated for a moment when they saw the explosion, but soon resumed their chase.  Ranma stopped being amazed at this turn of the event and began to run faster.

While on the run, Ranma started talking.  It was a hard task to speak when he was running with someone in his arms, but he figured it might help loosening the tension.  The girl was now holding onto him so tightly that it was getting hard for him to breathe.

"By the way, my name is Ranma."

But being Saotome, he didn't have much to talk about.  This was only thing he could think of sayig.

"Huh?"

"My name.  Call me Ranma.  What's yours, kid?"

"Um, Hotaru.  Tomoe Hotaru."

"Hotaru, huh?  Cute name."

Ranma smirked when Hotaru blushed at his compliment.  Sure, her name WAS a cute one.  But he said that to almost every girl he had met, and it always brought out a blush.

'Well, there was Ukyou but I didn't know she was a girl until 10 years later.  Wait, I didn't say that to Shampoo either... but she was trying to kill me that day.  Kodachi?  Nah.  I was too paralyzed to speak.  Um, Akane either... but she smacked a table on my head!!'

Ranma was thinking too much that he almost didn't feel the incoming threat.  Fortunately he saw it before it reached him.  Unfortunately it was one of those kamikaze flying thingies.

'Uh-oh.'

The pigtailed martial artist kicked the ground to take a side-step.  But the creature came too close, and landed on the ground only inches away from the two.  It exploded.  Almost out of instinct, Ranma turned his back towards the blast to shield the girl.  Why he did that, he couldn't think of a reason, even when the shock of wave hit his back.




'Man, they are fast!'

Tenchi thought as he tried to control his breath.  Not to brag, but he was very healthy and very fit.  The fact that he hadn't tired himself out yet although he had been running for quite a while was the proof.  He was even carrying already exhausted Sasami on his back.

However his own stamina seemed to be nothing much compared to the runners in front of him.  Saotomes and Tendos hadn't break a sweat since they started to run.  What puzzled Tenchi the most was that they weren't even scared despite being chased by horde of monsters.  Mr. Tendo even casually offered to carry Sasami if Tenchi was too tired.  Tenchi politely declined, not wanting to show any weakness.  But he couldn't help but ask.

"Um, your family seems to be in quite a shape.  Do you guys work out often?"

The girl in short hair, whose name he heard was Nabiki, answered instead of her father.

"You COULD say that."

Tenchi saw the little smirk on the middle Tendo sister's lips.  He blinked, and asked another one.

"Um, aren't you upset or anything?  I mean, we are being chased by, um, whatever those are.  But you guys don't even look scared."

This time, the long-haired one, Kasumi, spoke.

"Oh, things like this happens all the time at home."

Now both Tenchi and Sasami blinked as they saw the nervous smiles of the others.  They had to conclude the story in their own mind.

'I thought WE were weird...'



"Um, are you sure about this?

"Sure!  I AM the greatest genius..."

"...in the universe.  Yes, I know, I know.  But are you SURE about this?"

Minagi asked, eyeing fearfully at the glowing test tube she was currently standing in.  She and Washu were in the subdimension lab.  To help Tenchi in time, Washu insisted on teleporting Minagi with her special invention.  Minagi accepted the offer in half-curiosity and half-suspicion.  Now she was having doubts.

But it was too late now.

"Oh, I am sure!  This is a perfect chance to test my new creation!"

"WHAT?!  You mean you are TESTING this thing with ME?!?"

"Of course!  That was your question, wasn't it?"

"NO IT WAS NOT!!"

"Really?  Oh well.  No time now.  I'll just teleport you to the place using the location I have calculated.  Sit tight.  It's gonna get rough~."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN ROUGH!?!  STOP!!  I HAVE CHANGED MY..."

Minagi's sentence was cut off as she disappeared in a bright light.  When the light finally died out, there was nothing inside the tube.

"Hehe.  Perfect as the last time."

The greatest, and the meanest scientist in the universe snickered as she turned the power off.  Normal person would have just tried to calm down the subject.  True, she could do that too.  But it wouldn't be as fun as this.



"...MIND!!  Eh?"

In the blink of eyes, Minagi found herself in totally different environment. It was the place on TV, where Tenchi and Sasami were shown.  In fact, there they came, with the monsters coming behind them.

"Tenchi-san!  Sasami-chan!"

Tenchi stopped in the middle of the road when he heard someone calling him.

"Eh?!  Ryoko?"

Minagi hung her head at hearing Tenchi.  It was true her counterpart looked exactly like her, but could he really not see the difference?

Joy to her ears, Sasami did.

"No!  That's Minagi!"

"Huh?  Minagi?  Really?  What are you doing here?"

"I just came to visit when I saw you guys on TV.  So Washu sent me to help you."

Tenchi sighed in relief.  But something didn't add up in his mind.

"Um, where is Ryoko and others?  I am surprised that she didn't come with you."

His mind was confused even more when Minagi sweatdropped at his question.  She fidgeted a little before she answered.

"Hehe.  I'll... tell you later."

"Oh, okay..."

It was then when Nabiki interfered.

"I am sorry to break up the heart-warming reunion, but we have company."

She was right, as Tenchi discovered themselves surrounded by the weird creatures.  He blinked for a while.  Then he scratched his head nervously under Nabiki's glare.

"Ehehe...  Sorry?"

"Oh you'll be sorry.  I'll make sure of that when we get out of here."

Something in her eyes scared Tenchi.  Something that he couldn't see even from Kagato's eyes.

"Don't worry.  Let ME take care of them."

Minagi said while cracking her knuckles.  She stopped in the middle of a step, however, when Tenchi shouted.

"S, stop, Minagi!!"

"Huh?  Why not?"

"Yes, Masaki-kun.  Why not?"

Tenchi cringed at another glare of short-haired Ice Queen of Furinkan.  He didn't like to reveal Minagi's identity.  But something told him that he REALLY wouldn't like it if he went up against Tendo Nabiki.

'Damn...'

"Not, nothing..."

Minagi was confused, but soon snapped out of it as the monsters started to advance towards them.

'Time to test my new skills.'




"Ah......"

Tomoe Hotaru slowly opened her eyes.  First thing she realized was that she was alive.  Second thing that came to her mind was how much her entire body was sore.  But the third one was the one that really shook her out of her trance.

"Saotome-san!"

She sat right up and frantically looked for him.  Horrifying, she found him lying unconsicous behind her.  When she crawled towards him, she noted something else.

'A crater...'

On the ground a little further from them, there was a fairly large crater.  Slowly her mind cleared up as she remembered what happened just seconds ago.

'That's right...  He was trying to protect me...'

Ranma was stil breathing, but his breath was irregular.  Half his clothes was burnt up in the back area, and she could see his now bare back bleeding. Tears formed on her eyes and she reached out her hands slowly.  Suddenly a ray of light came out of her hands and the wound on his back began to disappear.  When Hotaru saw Ranma's breath started to ease, she sighed in relief.

Grrrrr!

Then she heard the grunt.  Hotaru turned to see the youmas slowly walking towards her.  But she wasn't afraid any more.  Ranma had been trying to protect her when it was her who had power to protect him.  This was her fault and she knew it.

However, instead of agonizing guilt, something in her heart urged her to stand up and fight.

Just like the time when she faced the Paraoh Ninety, She listened.




Things weren't much different for the goddesses either.  Even the addition of the winged creatures didn't help the demons much.  Those flying monsters were helpless against Holy Bell's wind barrier, which Belldadny got it up again as soon as she got some strength back.  The ground creatures were literally being fried by Urd's lightening attacks.

However the goddesses also weren't the ones on the advantage.  The creatures kept on coming against the goddesses.  They had been doing this fight for long time but the number didn't decrease at all.  If it was anything, the number actually increased.  The goddesses' stamina, on the other hand, was beginning to see the bottom.

'This can't go on.  I can hold a bit longer, but Bell might fall down any minute now.'

Urd cast a worried glance at her sister who was clearly showing the sign of exhaustion.  Belldandy had been protecting Skuld long before Urd even got here, so it was natural for her to feel tired.  The problem was that without Belldandy's wind spell, things would get MUCH more difficult.  The attack spells of Urd wouldn't do much good against those things in the air.  Beside, the oldest goddess already had her hands full with the ones on the ground.  Her youngest sister was still out of it.  Skuld's bomb might help a little, but that would be only temporary.  What they needed was something definite.

'But what more can we do?'

Her frustration grew as she show more enemies coming up from behind the ones that had fallen.  Things weren't getting easier, only tougher.  At this rate, going back home would be the last thing in their mind.

'How did this happen?'

Urd sighed momentarily and cast another spell.  Today was supposed to end with short scouting of something that MIGHT have been a problem.  Instead, they were having the fight of their lives.

'Wait.  These monsters...  Does this mean they are the ones we detected two months ago?!?'

But Urd soon shook her heads.  It couldn't be.  While they were giving them a hard time right now, their power was not as nearly strong as the one she had felt.  Even the one who was summmoning these couldn't be that strong.  If that was to be true she and her sisters would have been goners long time ago.



Another thunder woke up Belldandy from falling asleep, again.  She had been trying to hide it, but using her angel's power was finally having its toll.  She could no longer stand, because her legs gave up soon after the new creatures showed up.  Her power had been already near its limit when Urd showed up.

'Another 5 minutes or so.  That's all I have left.'

Belldandy groomly thought of her circumstances.  After that 5 minutes only thing she could do would be using the sealed power.  She made up her mind about it already, but didn't want to do so until the absolute last minute.  Now she was having doubts about her decision as she was slowly losing control.  What good would unsealing her power do if herself was not strong enough to use it?

'I have to stay awake.  No matter what...'



Urd almost wanted to pluck out her entire hair when she saw another lines of monsters stepping right up after a bunch had burnt away.  They were ugly, smelly, and persistent.  The combination she DESPISED.  They were really getting on her nerve, which was already tense enough to chew.

Not being able to hold the anger any more, Urd yelled her lungs out at the reasons of her current stress.

"Go away, you ******* bastards!!!"

BOOM!

All of sudden, a huge lightening fell from the sky and struck the monsters.  The explosion was even larger and the smoke cloaked the scene.

"*cough, cough* What the?"

When the air cleared, all that remained of their opponents were the big letters on the ground.  Urd carefully stepped up and read the words.

" 'Stop swearing, Urd.  YOUR FATHER...' "

Belldandy's face brightened at this.  Her father's help came through.  They were safe now for the moment.  It might not be long, but it would be enough to charge up their power.

Urd, however, didn't look all that happy.  She looked up to the sky with a scowl on her face.  Then she shook her fist at the heaven and screamed.

"EASY FOR YOU TO SAY!!!!!"

BOOM!

Another stike hit the ground again.  This time it didn't leave any letters.  But it did leave a very scorched goddess.




Darkness...

Void...

Those were all that surrounded him.

From that dark void, a voice reached out to him.

- RELEASE ME. -

'Who are you?'

He asked, but the voice didn't answer it.  It just kept demanding.

- RELEASE ME. -

He now could see that the voice was coming from inside of him.  It spooked him a little, but he asked again.

'What are you?  How do I release you?  What do you want?'

- RELEASE ME! -

'Tell me!!  What do you want from me?!'

All of sudden, another voice rang in his ears.  This time, however, it was coming from outside.

"Shut up already, would'ya?"

He felt sudden jolt of electricity running through his body, so strong that he lost the very thin thread that he desparately held on to keep him conscious.  He fought to stay awake, but the fight was futile.  Before he finally fell asleep, he heard the voice speaking again.

"Took you long enough.  Geez."

'How rude...'

With that as his last thought, he went into the bliss of unconsciousness.


Chapter 3 ends.



(1) For those of you who doesn't know, Minagi comes out in Tenchi Muyo Manga.  She was a copy of Ryoko made by former assistant of Washu, who tried to create a sword equal of Tenchi-ken.  Her master died in the duel with Tenchi but there was no hard feeling between Minagi and the Masaki's, as it was the master's wish to die in a glorious battle.  She became a friend of the Masaki's after that.

(2) There is our favourite cabbit!  This is its first appearance in Stallion, so let's give a warm welcome!

The guy from before :  Are you sure you just didn't just forget to mention it before?

BOOM!!!

Don't pay attention to that mushroom cloud over there.  Really.

(3) In their house lived 4 people, um, I mean 3 goddesses and 1 guy.  While the goddesses didn't eat as much as normal people and Keiichi wasn't a glutton, they still bought the kitchenwares fit for four.  Those were cheaper, more efficient, and definitely bigger.

(4) At first Katsuhito was upset at the fact that she married Genma 'without his knowledge.'  Soon the priest became MAD at just the fact she married 'Genma.'


Finally!  Chapter 3 is done.

That guy again : What about the Chapter 4?  When can we expect it?

Dragon Slave!!

KABOOM!!

Finally, some peace and quiet.
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