[FFML] Ranma Neko 4 [teaser]

"History is what the winners make of it," a voice
said.

Lydia turned about and almost felt herself
frightened into her human form as she saw the tawny
figure walking toward her.

The emotional response at seeing the lion-woman
stride forward seemed to just hit a brick wall and
stop. It was as if her there was something beside
herself telling her to be afraid. Lydia appeared
confused at the sensation and prepared for the woman
to approach her.

"No spells shall reach here," the lion-woman said.
"You won't have a problem with fearing cats any more
than you would normally."

"What %$^$# spells?" Lydia asked suspiciously. She
watched a stone circle form underneath her and the
woman. It was an old circle engraved with
heiroglyphics. "You mean the spells Iceron cast upon
you #$%@ cats to scare us."

"Iceron yes," the woman said as she started to
stretch. Her tufted tail whipped in a manner that
appeared to be slow and lazy, but actually involved a
great deal of control and endurance. "The cats no.
No this particular spell was cast on you
specifically."

"What do you mean on me specifically?" Lydia asked.
"It's not like Iceron is still around to cast
spells."

"Iceron is around," the woman said. "Drastically
reduced in power since he underestimated a young
human, but still dangerous."

The woman stood up and stretched, suddenly Lydia
noted that she was dressed in something like the
Egyptian warrior chicks in the Mummy Returns had worn.
Lydia herself was dressed in her own full battle
armor, instinctively she could feel all her standard
weapons in place.

"What the #@$%'s going on?" Lydia asked getting
into stance.

"I'm going to give you a test," the woman said.
Lydia tensed at the way the woman phrased test. Zero
often talked like that.

"What's your name?" Lydia demanded getting ready
for battle.

"I'm called Sehkmet," the woman said, a staff
appearing in her hand. "Let's begin."

********

"Oh my...." Ranma gasped quietly. Everyone turned
around to stare at him as they appeared at the sight
of the demon's death. He seemed pale even through the
fur, and just the look at how his fur was sticking on
end set Akane's teeth on edge.

"What's wrong, Ranma," Akane asked. Julia and
Nodoka were likewise confused, but Theo's face turned
equally pale as he looked at Ranma's aura.

"It's a spirit," he said, impressed.

********

"I...i..i..it's t...t.this way," Ranko said with a
shiver. Brianna and Sheila both looked at her
curiously and looked down the cold, seemingly fireless

tunnel she had just pointed out.

"Are you sure?" Brianna asked.

"How can you possibly know?" Sheila asked.

"T...t...the Ne..kk...ko..ken...told me," she said
shivering almost uncontrolably.

********

Nabiki snapped awake with a headache. She'd been
in contact with enough magic to know an attempt to
rearrange her mind when she felt one. Maybe she had
fought this one off by instinct, but the next time.
She wasn't really trained for this, and the physical
threat wasn't helping her concentration.

She shivered as she realized that she would fall
eventually.

"I guess there's just the Mandarin approach then,"
she whispered to herself. At least when she got out
of here they now knew some magicians who should be
able to remove whatever her captors did to her.

=====
"Caffeinated Kender? What's that, a berserk spell?" -
Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
"God has to have a sense of humor, it's the only explanation for sex." - my father
"I have to write a how-to paper for class, so I'm writing a paper on how to be psuedo-evil." - my brother

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