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	Phoenix Knight
		By Dark Knight

	Prologe

	*Jusendo*
     Ranma had just shattered Safffron causing the flames of his rebirth.  Ranma rode the spiral to the top where he released his own downward veriation of the Hiryo Shouten Ha which activated the Dragon Tap so that he could save Akane's life.  Carrying AKane's body into the waters, Akane returned to her normal size and then was brought back by the words spoken to her by Ranma.  Those words which echoed into her eyes and brought her back to life.
     "I love you Akane, don't go, please come back."
     Akane opened her eyes and looked at Ranma.  She smiles at him and it was then that she noticed that Saffron was still up and pointed a hand at Ranma's exposed back.  She couldn't even speak to warn him becuase she was so weak.
     "You will not live long enough to enjoy your shallow victory." screamed the dying Phoenix.  He released a massive fire ball into Ranma's back that seeped into him and started roasting him from the inside out as Saffron finally reverted back to his egg form.  
     The last thing Ranma did before he himself was burned from the inside out was toss Akane to Genma saying, "Tell her I loved her to the last."  Ranma then burst into flames.  The flames were so hot that not even ashes were left of Ranma's body when the flames finally died down.
     Those who were still at the site of the battle morned the loss of a hero as great as Ranma.  LIttle did they know that they would be seeing him again.  

	*Tendo Dojo*
     Tendo Nabiki was laying in her room, doing her usual book keeping when a strange glowing sprouted from the bottm drawer of her desk.  She knew exactly what the glow was.  It was the glow from the Amulet she recieved when she became a member of an order that predates most modern religions.  The order of the Phoenix.  The same order that was founded during the first days of Atlantis.  She had been chosen to become a member of the highest order of them because of her gift for gathering knowledge.  She went to the drawer and pulled out the Amulet.  When she put the amulet around her neck, she felt the call of Phoenix himself, which all Children of the Phoenix know from the moment they are taken into the order.
     <Tendo Nabiki, the young man thet lives with you has been killed recently.>
     <Phoenix, why tell me of this, if it is meant to be then nothing could have prevented this.  I will grieve for my sister's loss, but why tell me?"
     <Because, every Scholar must have a Guardian, and Ranma shall be the leader of your Guardians.  He will return to you in a few days after I have shown him the beginnings of what he will come to possess.  After that point, you shall instruct him on the ways and Arts you have learned.  That is the duty of a Scholar, thou you may not directly interfer with the events around you, you may teach others how to do so.  I have waited on telling you this until you were ready and your first Guardian could be prepared for his task.  You will have others joining him, but they will be taught by him.>
     <As you command Master Phoenix.  I shall do as you have instructed and will look forward to the return of Ranma.  I will not let anyone know of what has happened to him.>
     <Be well Tendo Nabiki, and gather knowledge to spread.>
     Nabiki took off the amulet and brought out her first book of knowledge, the book that contained the first of the spells she ever learned, and began to review them so that she could teach Ranma Ranma upon his return.

	*A place where time and space mean nothing*

     Ranma was floating in a vast nothingness taht he assumed was his death.  He wished he could have married Akane, he wished he had told her just once while she was alive what he really thought of her.  There were always so many regrets when life has ended.  
     As Ranma floated in the darkness, a ball of fire sprang into life a few feet ahead of him.  He could feel the heat of the fire, but it didn't hurt him.  AS the fire grew larger, Ranma noticed it was taking the shape of a bird.  When the fire stopped moving and changing, a bird of pure fire was floating before him.  Ranma's first thought was that Saffrom had come to torture his sould for the rest of enternity.
     "No Ranma, I am not the one you fought before.  Saffron was a Phoenix that had been corrupted by the power of ruling over others for to long.  He was at one time my most powerful Guardian, but he strayed from that path when others sought him for his protection and made him their King and Lord.  I am the one that gave Saffron his powers.  I am The Phoenix.  I have had a following of people throughout time that have followed my ways and my path.  You follow a similar path to that of mine, and since you died by the hand of my Guardian, after defeating him, then you may become one of my Guardians."
     "Wha'cha talkin' about?"
     "Years ago on the island of Atlantis, there was a group of people who sought my knowledge and power.  I freely gave it to them, as well as a task for those that could handle it.  As such, the Path of the Phoenix was born.  Those people who could gather information and had the power became my Scholars.  My scholars gathered the information of the ages, recorded events and learned everything capable to them.  Their only price was that they could interfer with nothing.  They could not even use the powers they had to defend themselves.  If it was their time to die, they accepted the fact, and recorded their last toughts into the amulet that each recieves when they become my scholars.  They impart the knowledge of where their library is so that what they gathered would not be lost.  I could not leave my scholars unprotected so I created the second path, that of the Guardians,  Their job would be to guard the scholars, the knowledge and defend the innocent.  You have already shown the true qualities of being a guardain and right now I have a scholar without one guradian and the time is coming where she will need her guardian.  You will be this guardian, if you so chose to accept this burden.  Mind you that this will be on of the hardest things you have had to do in your life, but in compensation, you will be given powers to control some of the chaos that you bring to those around you, and also be given the chance to live again.  I can wait all of eternity for your answer, but if you should wait to long, then it may be too late for the scholar and you will have to go where you are needed instead of where you woudl like to go."
     "You don't have to wait long.  All I want to know is, will I be with Akane when I go back?"
     "Yes, you could still live with her as long as your duties were carried out."
     "Then my answer is yes, I will do anything to be with the woman I love."
     "Very well then, I will begin your training in your new powers before you leave here.  When you return home, look for the woman who carries this amulet," Phoenix holds up a ruby amulet set in silver flames, "She is my scholar and will train you further in time.  You will also be chosing those who would help you in times of need.  For every scholar I have four guardians.  You will be the first, as well as their captain.  You will make the decisions as far as how the team uses their powers and when they use them. Both you and the scholar will be teaching them my ways.  Now for your first lesson.  Magic."

to be continued. . . 

Praise will be thanked and flames will be sent to the fires of Phoenix himslef to make him stronger.  dark_knight_ranma@yahoo.com Thanks for reading.
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