Author's Note:
Please reply directly to me at evilpii@dorm4.org . Looking for response and C&C on this opening segment to the next act of Inheritance which is in production. Also looking for some prereaders or just general C&C of the entire fic and the home site that it occupies at http://evilpii.dorm4.org/ . For those curious as to how this all came to be, the rather long fic series is posted not only on my site, but http://www.tmffa.com/x-dark_energy_trilogy.html and http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=376323 . Questions and suggestions are welcome as well.
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Dark Energy Trilogy
By William Benjamin Grilliette (evilpii@juno.com) and Jeff Williams (angelbane@geocities.com)
All material of or relating to *Tenchi Muyo!* are copyrighted by Pioneer LD and AIC.
All material of or relating to *Men in Black* are copyrighted by Marvel/Malibu Comics and Columbia/Tristar Pictures.
All material of or relating to "Evil Pii" or "Nerti Ro" is property of William Benjamin Grilliette.
All material of or relating to "Angelbane duSoleil", "Cassandra duSoleil", or "Katiara duSoleil" is property of Jeffrey Williams.
More information about cast, plot, and story is available at http://evilpii.dorm4.org/.
Part 3: Tenchi Muyo! / Men in Black: Inheritance
By William Benjamin Grilliette (evilpii@juno.com) and Jeff Williams (angelbane@geocities.com)
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Act 9
Scene 1
{Rows of lights slide past in a hazy silence as strands of damp, soft violet hair float through the line of sight. Muffled voices echo in the elfin ears of Nagi Jurai as a drop of blood rolls down from the edge of her lips while her labored breath escapes her mouth. Shrouded in her red-trimmed white kimono singed from combat, she lays on a gurney being pushed through the infirmary corridor of MiB HQ by the medical staff of the organization. Her fist grips tightly around the hairband Key wrapped around her hand, both her skin and the Juraian device scorched from her epic feat of truly merging Light and Darkness. Her teeth clench together as her kimono vanishes, restoring her purple Ryoan fire uniform and black Juraian cape and cowl while her hair hardens though it cannot spike through the sweat covering it. Half of the Mark of Rage covering her face vanishes, leaving only the mark from her birth across her left cheek. Pain washes across her face as she gazes up to see the faces of the MiB personnel whom she can now hear speaking too fast for her to understand before her head turns to her left. Between the agents, she catches a short glimpse of fiery red hair and silent expression of the crimson knight Kamidake Juraiko, singed and splattered with red and black blood moreso than she. Nagi grimaces as she reaches with her hand and calls his name softly.}
Nagi: Kamidake...!
{His face is motionless in a dreamless sleep as he disappears among the MiB physicians when tears arise from Nagi's eyes and roll down her face before another wave of internal pain grips her. Within the pain, a soft pressure emerges around her hand that draws her attention to the gentle hand clothed in white around hers. The crimson, feline eyes follow the white garb to its wearer's tear-filled and sorrowful expression, Tsunami's calming pink gaze. The bounty hunter's lips grin slightly, hopefully, before she raises her hand bearing the Key to Tsunami's hands. The Key releases its owner's palm as she passes the device onto the goddess. The source of Jurai is confused until Nagi's weak words call to Tsunami, pleading with her voice and gaze.}
Nagi: Finish it... please...!!
{The azure tresses swing from side to side as her head shakes, denying the young woman's request in both her hurt expression and torn words.}
Tsunami: But... she is my sister...!!
{Nagi's hands hold Tsunami's tighter when the pain returns while her face tightens, fighting back the internal effects, pleading to the goddess of Jurai even more.}
Nagi: For my mother... my sister... and me... please...!!
{The eternal woman is struck hard by the words before the strength in the warrior's hands fades, allowing her to slip away into the distance. A cold silence surrounds the goddess of Jurai as she holds the hairband Key with both hands against her chest while her eyes gaze down the corridor through which its owner passed. Saline rolls from her eyes as she slowly closes her eyes and nods her head forward, grimacing in an attempt to contain her emotions before she quickly turns away and steps into a side room. She shuts the door behind her when her facade fails, drawing her hands and the Key to her face while sobs consume her. Her spirit calls out in this sadness to her sister Tokimi, pleading for a reason.}
Tsunami: Why, Sister...? None of this has been necessary...!
{She raises her eyes parallel to the floor and stares between her fingers intently towards the opposite wall as if Tokimi was there to hear her words.}
Tsunami: What changed you...? What happened to the kind sister who taught me of eternity...?
{Her answer is only silence while the pain in her heart only increases when her sad expression cringes behind the tears as she looks to the ceiling, alone.}
Tsunami: Why do you... ignore my tears...?
{She sighs deeply and closes her eyes, wincing as the sobs come while her tears fall upon the scorched Key in her hands. Each drop splashes and rolls down the organic device, washing away the blackened areas and restoring it to a prestine state. The goddess lowers her hands and looks upon the revitalized item in thought when her true voice is heard from her lips, speaking not as the goddess but as the Juraian princess who lived in the Masaki home, Sasami.}
Tsunami: They are my family, Sister... Nagi, Kamidake, Tenchi, Ryoko... Ayeka... all of them...
{Within Tsunami's memory, images flash of the people who cared for her in her life as Sasami Jurai. As the seven-year-old princess, Sasami stays close to Tenchi's side at the Masaki Shrine's festival, both dressed in the spirit of the occasion as he escorts her around the carnival. At the pier of the northern fishing village in Kiyone's ideal world, Sasami runs up to Kiyone as the woman gazes out into the distance contentedly before her attention turns cheerfully to the girl. In the modest home of Mihoshi's ideal world, the blonde GP officer hands Sasami, her daughter in this reality, her lunch before sending her off to school and calls out to her to watch out for traffic on the way. Looking out Yagami's external window at her uncle who helped them through Jurai's borders, Yosho's kind palm is placed on her shoulder supportively, understanding the past events. In the Sacred Place of Jurai, Kamidake's confident smile reassures the princess before he and Azaka both turn and face the Jurai destroyer which had defiled the santity of the location. After Ayeka was kidnapped, Nagi's compliments and smile within the Masaki home raises the young girl's spirits and hope soon before the bounty hunter joined their cause to rescue her sister. Onboard the crashed Yagami among the sounds of war outside in the battle with the Jurai Fleet during Kagato's coup, Washu holds Sasami close and protectively while the princess sobs in fear for their possible fates. After the battle was over, Azaka's battle spirit shines again as he confronts Sasami in a fighting game which she has mastered and is teaching him by defeating him soundly and repeatedly. In a train station in Tokyo 1979, Ryoko watches over young Sasami as the two of them board the same train to distribute Washu's collectors to capture Kain. In the Masaki home a week ago, ten-year-old Sasami lays in her bed split between her mortal and immortal personas while Ayeka is at her side holding her hand and reassuring her. Tsunami's eyes open with a solemn conviction, though the tear between her love for these people and her eternal sister can still be seen deep in her gaze.}
Tsunami: I cannot let them be murdered by you... no matter the reason...
{She takes Nagi's Key in her left hand as she extends her right while a familiar arc seems to crack open in spacetime and widen into a white shield of light.}
Tsunami: I used seven Light Hawk Wings to create the five Keys. The remaining three will join their kindred.
{The Light Hawk Wing (LHW) collapses upon itself into a small sphere hovering above Tsunami's hand as two other wings open and do likewise. From Tsunami's robes, the black tiara worn by Ayeka under Kain II's influence gravitates toward the three orbs, the dark power held within the headpiece sparking at Tsunami. The goddess of Jurai winces some in reaction but takes the pain without sound when the dark object reaches the small globes. Together, the spheres flash their color a blood crimson as the obsidian lightning from the dark tiara is gathered and summoned into them until the energy stops, and the crown of thorns created by Tokimi falls to the ground lifeless. Now shimmering with their absorbed ruby power, the two of the three spheres eminate a silvery white shroud of energy around themselves. Each coalesces into a silver structure around either, one an ornate ring and the other an intricate bracelet. The body of the ring is of flawless silver stands weaved into designs of bright stars and the flora given life by their light, a lady's ring of great beauty. The bracelet consists of three silver vines wrapping around one another, supporting each other, and blossoming into a trio of flowers which hold the orb itself. The third flies over to Nagi's Key and embeds itself within the violet crest of the Juraian device, creating a white cradle for itself and adding silver highlights to the existing floral design of the Key. The formations complete, all three ruby spheres fall silent as they dim to appear as three normal gems when the ring and bracelet come to rest in her right hand. Tsunami's fingers encircle the two new items while her other hand closes around the modified hairband Key. She then sighs as her regal form collapses to one knee while sweat beads upon her face, and her breath deepens. She shakes her head to clear her mind before she reminds herself of what is happening.}
Tsunami: Sasami's body... has not adjusted to the strain... She... I... am exhausted...
{The goddess's memory recalls the recent events that led to this collapse. In orbit around Jurai, a white female figure of light with body-length flowing hair floats amongst the debris of Liaens's vessel as the Jurai Fleet's ships slowly reactivate. Even then, she seems worn from the use of her abilities after saving Jurai from holocaust. Onboard Mirei's ghost ship in the Sargasso Sea, Ayeka takes the sleeping Sasami in her arms after her conversation via Mirei with the lost soul of Kagato. Standing atop the Masaki house, ten-year-old Sasami raises her arms as she is enveloped in a white light that becomes the same woman of light who saved Jurai during the Reunion. She outstretches her hands to the trees of Funaho and Ryu-Oh as the two rumble the ground and arise from the soil of Earth before their roots and bark begin to slowly surround them, reconstructing their ship forms once more. Tsunami softly reminds herself of the mortality to which she is now bound.}
Tsunami: Stopping Liaens... interrogating Kagato... resurrecting Funaho and Ryu-Oh... and maturing myself to stop Kain II... All this has been too much too quickly...
{The Juraian princess and goddess of light glances to the dark tiara on the ground before she glares at the device as she takes it from the ground and hides it within her kimono once more along with the Nagi's hairband.}
Tsunami: But, I cannot rest now... not until everyone is safe...
{The eternal woman summons an emerald aura around herself as she forces herself to her feet. She takes a deep breath while the light around her fades away, leaving her seemingly less worn before turns to the door gravely.}
Tsunami: Much remains to be done...
{As she opens the door, the scene fades to her entering an occupied infirmary suite, Tenchi and Ryoko's. Within, all is silent save the monitoring equipment that keeps pace with both heartbeats and vital signs of each. At Tenchi's side, Nobuyuki has fallen asleep in a lounge chair, waiting for his son to rouse himself from the death-like slumber. Between Tenchi and Ryoko's beds, a chair stands with Ryoko's fire uniform draped across the back, burned and stained with both her own blood and his as well. Tsunami closes the door behind her and goes to Ryoko's bedside and solemnly gazes on the young Ryoan's expressionless face surrounded by straight, cyan hair. Her soft words apologize...
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Light flows... As light flows through space
Therefore does the darkness... So does your soul through your work.
And, I flow with that darkness... You love all and hate no one
For I am...! Because you are loved by all.
Evil Pii & My Nerti Ro
Author of *Dark Energy Trilogy* and others at http://evilpii.dorm4.org/
Loyal Subject to Princess Ayeka and Her AFC Court
Rival to Lady Nagi and Her Hunter's Guild
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