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On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:18:33 -0800 Christopher Olsen
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"Tell me you have something useful." The demoness demanded, sounding
annoyed. "Then I might not take out my frustrations on your
worthless hide."
That should be a no-brainer for Gosenkugi. "I have something useful."
Mara's scowl got even deeper, making the pale young man turn an even pastier
shade of white. "A soon to be extinct species of panda decided
it would be fun to cut me in half." She raised an eyebrow {treateningly : threateningly}.
"Would you like to know what that feels like?"
Mara stalked into Happosai's room with a furious scowl. "What could possibly
be more important than...." She stopped, raising an eyebrow.
"Ah, {cataloguing : cataloging} your underwear collection I see. I should have known.
Where's your new toy?"
Skuld held up a printout from her computer. "Mara tried to cover up where
she had Ami-chan sent. She erased all the zoo's computer files on
where they might of sent Ami, but she didn't go far enough. I checked all
the {Airports : airports} in the area for shipments going out from the Tokyo Zoo, and
found only three matches in the last two days. There are shipments going out
to zoos in Beijing, Copenhagen, and San Francisco."
{Keichi : Keiichi} knew something was wrong almost immediately as the cat on his lap sat
up abruptly, eyes suddenly wide in shock. He felt her claws
come out and froze. A moment later she retracted her claws, glancing up at
him apologetically, then jumped off his lap, heading for the kitchen. {Keichi : Keiichi}
followed close behind Bell-cat, and nearly walked into two other Belldandys
as they came into the kitchen from other parts of the house.
The kitchen was packed near to bursting as six Belldandys, a fox, a hawk a
cat and {Keichi : Keiichi} all tried to jam into it at once. It was eerily silent at
first. All the Belldandys knew what the others had felt, and they simply
shared a concerned glance until the Belldandy nearest {Keichi : Keiichi} turned to him
to explain.
"{Keichi : Keiichi}-san�" She began hesitantly. "I'm afraid that we've lost contact with
Bell-one. She was going to Copenhagen to help find Mercury-san,
along with Urd, and several of the other Senshi� but when they teleported�
we lost contact with her."
{Keichi : Keiichi} stiffened up with worry. "Lost contact? Couldn't she� just be out of
range or something?"
{Keichi : Keiichi} shook his head. "She's fine. I�d know if� if something bad happened
to her. I know I would."
Belldandy looked at him with a genuine smile. "You're right, {Keichi : Keiichi}. I'm
sure she must simply be cut off somehow." She frowned. "I'm afraid
Mara must have set a trap of some kind� and none of us has the power to
investigate."
{Keichi : Keiichi} looked confused. "But� isn't there a whole lot of you right here?
Couldn't you� combine your powers or something?"
{Keichi : Keiichi} blinked. "You mean all of you are human right now?"
The Belldandys all glanced at each other, and the one closest to him turned
back to him and nodded. "Essentially yes, {Keichi : Keiichi}. Before Jusenkyo, Yggdrasil
maintained our physical structure, but the springs gave each of us, in
essence, a life of our own, especially those of us doubly cursed. Actually
we do have more energy now then we did before the springs, because the
natural energy of all our new forms was added to the total, although it's
not normally possible for us to access that energy in any large way�."
{Keichi : Keiichi} blinked, trying to take in the large explanation. "So� you all only
have the energy that a normal human would have� or cat, or hawk, or
whatever, right?"
{Keichi : Keiichi} scratched his chin. "What about if I make you some more of those moon
rock bracelets? Wouldn't that give you more power?"
{Keichi : Keiichi} looked determined. "All we can do is try."
"I've got to come up there myself. There has to be some way we can find them
through Yggdrasil." Skuld blinked. "OK." She turned to the
others. "Makoto, Belldandy wants to speak to you again." She spoke into the
phone once more. "I'm coming right up, Big {sister : Sister}."
Makoto shook her head, frustrated. "Belldandy doesn't know. She {say's : says} she'll
contact us if she finds anything out. She told me that she can
simply call whatever phone we happen to be closest to at the time, and that
she shouldn't have any trouble reaching us from where she is.... It kind of
sounded like some sort of command post or something... there were lots of
other voices in the background. I think she's in... heaven or something."
Akane spoke up. "Let's stop by Dr. Tofu's clinic on the way home. I bet
Shampoo can get a message to her Great{ : -}Grandmother for us."
They broke into two groups, Ranma, Ranko, Akane, Ukyo, Johnathon and Kasumi
all headed for {Nermia : Nerima}, and Sailor Venus and Jupiter going
towards Rei's shrine. As they got outside Makoto and Minako ran off at high
speed, taking to the rooftops almost immediately. Sailor Venus
wore her costume, while Jupiter was in her regular clothes, having changed
earlier.
It looks like your spel cheker didn't like Nerima.
Mara laughed out loud. "I should have guessed! That's why she was willing to
let that little dwarf anywhere near her. She's in heat. She
probably started it last night. She'd want a male... any male, and our lucky
little ancient pervert got his chance." She shook her head. "Still, I'm
impressed. I'm surprised that any one man could have satisfied her... of
course, Happosai's art allows him to gain power when any other man would
exhaust {themselves : himself}."
Mara shrugged. "We'll just link them to her. Their Jusenkyo curse will make
a good transference point. They'll be {to : too} busy dealing with their cat problem
to try and find us."
Makoto laughed, pulling her shirt over her head and stuffing her bra in her
shorts left pocket. "Now I know you're just pulling my leg. Most
guys think I'm too tall. I haven't been asked on a date in... well not since
my old {Sempai : sempai}, really. Youma don't count."
True, but nobody ever said youma were smart.