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Reincarnations
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Chapter 1
First day at school
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The sleep was disrupted. The dreams were hunted by visions from the past.
All was turning. Lost. Totally lost in this ocean of memories. Bit by but,
all was disappearing to be replaced by a void... but the void was fated to
be filled.
So this spirit was flooded, more by concepts than by pictures this time...
Hot Cold
Fire Water
Light Darkness
Good Evil
Life Death
Yin Yang
A tissue of simple concepts, but opposite... All these forms and ideas were
assembling with each other, moving, turning in an infinite whirlwind.
Again and again, seeming to fail to ever stop, the tissue whirled, whirled,
whirled...
"Ha!" Her disturbed mind finished to wake up from this strange sleep, but
the dream didn't fade... "What the hell was that?" She asked herself, while
looking where she was.
Near her, illuminated by the feeble light from the rising sun, were sleeping
a young man and another much older.
<Ranma!> she thought, recognizing the boy. The events from the day before
immediately came back to her. <Good. I know at least where I am. No new
change then. Hmm...> She thought for a little while.
<Well, the memory still doesn't want to return... and the sun'll soon be up.
Too late to go back to sleep. I might as well go train a little...> she
decided while she dressed.
Once the clothes on, a red chinese shirt and a black trouser, she silently
exited the room, then the house and went to dojo.
Follow then a few series of complex katas. For any other martial artist, to
perfect them would be a dream come true, but for someone like her, it was
more like a warm up.
While she went through the katas, she saw the dream again, sorting the
pictures and analyzing them. It was only when her mental work was successful
that she allowed herself to stop the katas.
When she finally opened her eyes, she noticed her twin at the dojo entrance,
looking at her with interest.
"You seemed a little preoccupied with something while working out." Ranma
said her.
"Yup. I had a very strange dream, it waked me up." Ranko answered him.
"Let me guess... a big whirlwind?" he asked her.
"Correct, I see that it waked you up too. I was thinking about it while
training."
"I did some thinking too, after I saw that you were already up. Didn't get
anything useful though."
"I've no great result myself, but I know one thing for sure. The opposite
concepts separated themselves on two groups before they started to whirl one
around the other." She told him.
"That's all? I had a vague feeling that each of the two 'groups', like you
said, were each linked to one of us."
"hmm... if that's the case, what could be the first group, when all the
concepts "
"hmm... if that's the case, what could be the first group, before all the
concepts separated themselves on these two groups?" Ranko asked.
"I dunno. We don't even know how you got on my girl body."
"Our two bodies were one and the same before the curse... like the two
concept groups! Is it possible that the curse had separated the concepts in
two groups and rejected the unwanted group in the cursed body?"
"It would explain the separation, but where you spirit could come from?"
asked Ranma.
"The girl body was the one rejected. What if my spirit came from the same
method. If the concepts that stayed behind are yours, then maybe my mind was
made by the rejected concepts, with your own mind as a model."
"It'd mean that without this accident yesterday, you'd never even existed?"
"the more I think about it and the more it seems to be the truth. If it's
really the case, then, I'm just a reflection of your mind."
"It doesn't seem to move you that much." Ranma retorted.
"As long as we don't know for sure, I prefer to act like nothing happened.
It could explain how I got all your memories and no one from myself, though.
I'm really your twin sister, eh, eh, eh!"
"Stop that, it's not funny."
"I never said it was. We don't even know if my group was male or female..."
she noticed absently.
"If you are my reflect, you must be a girl inside too." Ranma said her.
"You seem pretty sure of yourself, bro. And if it was you that had a girl
spirit inside?"
"Impossible. I'm a guy!"
"Maybe I'm one too, in a girl body... In any case, even if you are a cute
guy, I'm not the least aroused by you." She teased him.
"Pff... if we are really twin, we can't be attracted by each other."
"You don't think I'm cute? I sure thought I were. If we were two girls, I'd
have asked you on a date."
The twin's chatting was interrupted by the soft voice of Kasumi.
"Oh, it's you. You were training? The bath is ready... go take it while I'm
cooking breakfast."
"good morning Kasumi." Ranma greeted her.
"You are getting up pretty early... you are working hard." Ranko said to
Kasumi, smiling.
"Yes." Kasumi answer, returning the smile before going back to the kitchen.
"Ranma, shall we go? We are not giving Pop a good reason to steal our
breakfast, aren't we?" Ranko asked her twin.
"Yup, he is taking enough advantages like that without... Hey! How that
'shall we go' ?"
"You afraid I bite you, bro?" Ranko tease her twin again, while dragging him
to the bathroom.
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End for now.
Next part : arrival at school... and Kuno.
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author's notes :
Argh... I seem to not be able to translate the already written chapters as
fast as I can write new ones in english directely... the proof is that I
took more time to translate this small part (less than 1/3) of
Reincarnations chapter 1 than I did to write Gaia's Awakening chapter 2 ...
(previous chapters can be found on my homepage, see the link below)
well... I saw on the ffml mini archive that Reincarnation prologue part 2
had 330 hits already... I'm pretty amazed myself, I didn't think my fic
would attract that much readers... and the 330 number doesn't count the ones
who read it directly on the FFML rather than on the mini archive...
well... I'll try to finish chapter 1's translation so that I can work on
next chapters woth more ease...
I'm still with only 1 prereader for Reincarnations and not a single one for
Gaia's Awakening... so if some of you actually like the stories and want to
help me to write a little faster, I'm awaiting for volunteers. :)
for those interested, the URL of the FFML mini archive is :
(http://miniarchive.dyndns.org:8080/cgi-bin/MiniArchive.exe)
Vampyr666
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homepage : www.chez.com/vampyr666
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