Ranma ½ Divine Blood
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The warning was appreciated, but the background of the story was what was vomit smiley inducing. I mean come on Thrythlind, ANYONE being raped and then forced* to carry the children to term is sorta sick.
* = I am making a huge assumption on this and if I'm wrong I would like to profusely apologize to you. The assumption I'm making is those gods made Ranko carry the children to term and then raise them.
* = I am making a huge assumption on this and if I'm wrong I would like to profusely apologize to you. The assumption I'm making is those gods made Ranko carry the children to term and then raise them.
...
Sigh...
So knowing little on the story in question... despite the warning you and others have to post.
Shakes head at this.
To think... when I see a story thread I don't like or fails to catch my interest for whatever reason... I merely don't bother to post. Maybe a post on why first though.
It is crap like this that make me rethink my own willingness to bother coming here. If people have to dogpile a author in every thread that might not be liked.
Makes me wonder why some authors on this site bother to continue. Not that they should or should not, but that they get crap for it.
It should be noted... Thrythlind seems using it as the jumping off point for his story. He has not dwelled on that or even really mentioned it once since that episde where it occured, since it skips straight to the story.
If anything, it is that huge timeskip that has me on hold from liking the story. That and the lock, which I saw little need for once the children were born. As knowing is half the battle and plot as to how Ranma and kids got to this point.
Sigh...
So knowing little on the story in question... despite the warning you and others have to post.
Shakes head at this.
To think... when I see a story thread I don't like or fails to catch my interest for whatever reason... I merely don't bother to post. Maybe a post on why first though.
It is crap like this that make me rethink my own willingness to bother coming here. If people have to dogpile a author in every thread that might not be liked.
Makes me wonder why some authors on this site bother to continue. Not that they should or should not, but that they get crap for it.
It should be noted... Thrythlind seems using it as the jumping off point for his story. He has not dwelled on that or even really mentioned it once since that episde where it occured, since it skips straight to the story.
If anything, it is that huge timeskip that has me on hold from liking the story. That and the lock, which I saw little need for once the children were born. As knowing is half the battle and plot as to how Ranma and kids got to this point.
yeah, true, but I was going to say less, but decided to bring it to a more "believable" level, which is usually when I start underestimating capabilities again...
as for the training, left it mostly to the imagination, basically, Ranma has set up the area Eija was supposed to clean so that accidents will happen that make the area dirtier...avoidable accidents if Eija is paying close attention...
as for the training, left it mostly to the imagination, basically, Ranma has set up the area Eija was supposed to clean so that accidents will happen that make the area dirtier...avoidable accidents if Eija is paying close attention...
1) As I have posted before when that guy who was like, "A lot of people here sucks I'm leaving and going to start a problem before I leave", the idea of leaving isn't that great. Sure you get away from the community you had a problem with, but then everyone goes in there own little community. This is always a big problem for me as I do try to find the best fics available, and if the only thing that I can find is these crappy sites all the good authors have left... meh. This would also stop new people from joining fanfiction if the only big sites are full of spam/crap. The individual authors and the like would be in a slightly better place, but the fan fiction community suffers too much for me to like this idea. Soon the good places they do reach a number, well like TFF, they get filled with bad people and this cycle repeats again.
I do agree with this idea of leaving sites, but TFF isn't at that point. Then again you seem to agree with me as you are still here.
2) That is what I noticed. There is not a huge reason for locked Ramna with kids in this story. It is not like I am against this idea, I do read "Her War" and find it quite good even with what it talks about. Just what would change if the kids where not Ramna, just found or adopted or whatnot. What would change if Ramna could be a guy? Would his vengeance be more righteous? Not much of a need for the lock.
The timeskip itself, well I do want to know the history as Ramna knows Greek and the old cast doesn't know what happened to her. In fact, this almost reaches my biggest deals with crossovers. What would change if Ramna was replaced by... that girl in Slayers but in a modern setting? Bad example but it gets the point across.
For Ramna, well the biggest thing about the story that it has going for it is that Ramna acts like Ramna. Just because he is locked into a girl does not make him want men. Still seems like how I would expect a locked Ramna to be. That makes the locked part of the story easier to read and not as big as a deal of the idiots have made before.
THIS POST IS TOO LONG!!! I want to lurk...
I do agree with this idea of leaving sites, but TFF isn't at that point. Then again you seem to agree with me as you are still here.
2) That is what I noticed. There is not a huge reason for locked Ramna with kids in this story. It is not like I am against this idea, I do read "Her War" and find it quite good even with what it talks about. Just what would change if the kids where not Ramna, just found or adopted or whatnot. What would change if Ramna could be a guy? Would his vengeance be more righteous? Not much of a need for the lock.
The timeskip itself, well I do want to know the history as Ramna knows Greek and the old cast doesn't know what happened to her. In fact, this almost reaches my biggest deals with crossovers. What would change if Ramna was replaced by... that girl in Slayers but in a modern setting? Bad example but it gets the point across.
For Ramna, well the biggest thing about the story that it has going for it is that Ramna acts like Ramna. Just because he is locked into a girl does not make him want men. Still seems like how I would expect a locked Ramna to be. That makes the locked part of the story easier to read and not as big as a deal of the idiots have made before.
THIS POST IS TOO LONG!!! I want to lurk...
There should be a recording of it. High resolution too. They're cheap to maintain and record for hours nowadays once you have the right equipment.
Shouldn't that be "goth kids" since she had apparently grouped them together?
Somehow, I think that both genders would have similar imaginations in the bedroom, although one of the genders might feel threatened.
Excellent intrusion by the president of the student council! :lol: :rofl:
There is still one instance of this misspelling in the text above.
:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:
That went whooosh!! over my head. -_-
I assume it's along the lines of who or what happened to the father.
I hope Gauron and friends gets curb stomped and Naiki's genetic secrets are kept secret from everybody.
This is an awesome story despite the dark prelude. The comedy flows and has that FMP feeling. M04R! :wub: :yay:
Shouldn't that be "goth kids" since she had apparently grouped them together?
Somehow, I think that both genders would have similar imaginations in the bedroom, although one of the genders might feel threatened.
Excellent intrusion by the president of the student council! :lol: :rofl:
There is still one instance of this misspelling in the text above.
:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:
That went whooosh!! over my head. -_-
I assume it's along the lines of who or what happened to the father.
I hope Gauron and friends gets curb stomped and Naiki's genetic secrets are kept secret from everybody.
This is an awesome story despite the dark prelude. The comedy flows and has that FMP feeling. M04R! :wub: :yay:
My thoughts:
this is OMG setting, so after the gods sort of abandoned regional systems
My current thought is that Poseiden and Zeus are more or less not sidelined by the current organization due to their petty and arrogant natures. They are, essentially, on near permanent parole...unless they can show they're getting past themselves.
Hecate is in the system, probably the Yggdrassil security group, would give her enough computer access to keep most of Heaven unaware and to keep seperate files on Ranma Saotome and Satomi.
As for her reasons, Hecate is a plotter, and known to keep a grudge. She's making a power or revenge play using the elder gods and Ranma as pawns. I'm actually considering that she's somehow acquired her father's (yes, I know Hades isn't her father in myths) DNA (or divine equivalent) and basically magically inseminated Ranma with that rather than her own....makes the blame pass to her father. Of course, since she's doing so much herself, she vulnerable, but no risk, no gain.
Things Hecate needs to do: remove herself from Ranma's memory and keep Zeus and Poseiden from effectively pointing her out.
I vacilated between having Morrigan or Kali as the equivalent internal affairs officer on the situation (thinking of calling the group Eyes of Ra), and eventually decided Morrigan to emphasize that affairs aren't organized regionally. Morrigan and Kali strike me as goddesses that, assuming they became more modern, would find the acts of the other three as personally offensive.
The fact that Morrigan is involved means that it is accepted that Gods are involved, the assumption being some sidelined dieties with restricted licenses and old values. Morrigan, I've decided, suspects someone in the system is involved. But she's still looking at Japanese and Chinese pantheons, thinking it's someone with old-system-style interests.
I originally had a idea about the group that sends Ranma her job contacts getting the task from heaven (someone outside the system), but decided that was too early. The idea of Ranma being asked to investigate her own disappearance is amusing, but hard to have it happen without her being immediately identified.
Heaven is aware of Ranma being gone, not dead because his soul hasn't on, and have been looking for what happened to him. However, they're watching the areas Ranma's associated with and until now there hasn't been a tremor on their watch. So, Ranma's case is sort of cold.
Actually, Ranma meeting Nabiki probably is the first movement they'd get on the search. If he meets more of his old friends, it'll definitely attract attention and Morrigan will jump to re-open the case at that point.
As for Ranma, she's kept her own investigation side-lined and instead been taking care of her kids. Things are getting to the point, however, that she thinks she can start doing some looking.
this is OMG setting, so after the gods sort of abandoned regional systems
My current thought is that Poseiden and Zeus are more or less not sidelined by the current organization due to their petty and arrogant natures. They are, essentially, on near permanent parole...unless they can show they're getting past themselves.
Hecate is in the system, probably the Yggdrassil security group, would give her enough computer access to keep most of Heaven unaware and to keep seperate files on Ranma Saotome and Satomi.
As for her reasons, Hecate is a plotter, and known to keep a grudge. She's making a power or revenge play using the elder gods and Ranma as pawns. I'm actually considering that she's somehow acquired her father's (yes, I know Hades isn't her father in myths) DNA (or divine equivalent) and basically magically inseminated Ranma with that rather than her own....makes the blame pass to her father. Of course, since she's doing so much herself, she vulnerable, but no risk, no gain.
Things Hecate needs to do: remove herself from Ranma's memory and keep Zeus and Poseiden from effectively pointing her out.
I vacilated between having Morrigan or Kali as the equivalent internal affairs officer on the situation (thinking of calling the group Eyes of Ra), and eventually decided Morrigan to emphasize that affairs aren't organized regionally. Morrigan and Kali strike me as goddesses that, assuming they became more modern, would find the acts of the other three as personally offensive.
The fact that Morrigan is involved means that it is accepted that Gods are involved, the assumption being some sidelined dieties with restricted licenses and old values. Morrigan, I've decided, suspects someone in the system is involved. But she's still looking at Japanese and Chinese pantheons, thinking it's someone with old-system-style interests.
I originally had a idea about the group that sends Ranma her job contacts getting the task from heaven (someone outside the system), but decided that was too early. The idea of Ranma being asked to investigate her own disappearance is amusing, but hard to have it happen without her being immediately identified.
Heaven is aware of Ranma being gone, not dead because his soul hasn't on, and have been looking for what happened to him. However, they're watching the areas Ranma's associated with and until now there hasn't been a tremor on their watch. So, Ranma's case is sort of cold.
Actually, Ranma meeting Nabiki probably is the first movement they'd get on the search. If he meets more of his old friends, it'll definitely attract attention and Morrigan will jump to re-open the case at that point.
As for Ranma, she's kept her own investigation side-lined and instead been taking care of her kids. Things are getting to the point, however, that she thinks she can start doing some looking.
Quick bit of clarification: you're talking about the Morrigan, the carrion crow, from the Celtic myths, right? If so, are you going to be treating her as a single goddess or as part of a triumvirate (the Morrigan/Nemain, the Badb, and Macha)?
Either way, though, the Morrigan could be an absolutely EVIL bitch. I do NOT want to be the Greeks when she catches up to them. Or anything within, say, a planet's radius. :evil2:
Either way, though, the Morrigan could be an absolutely EVIL bitch. I do NOT want to be the Greeks when she catches up to them. Or anything within, say, a planet's radius. :evil2:
The teachers in Charlie Brown were always unintelligible. Here's a youtube clip of them talking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUyLwXhqlWU
"A further report from Urzu-2 on the freelancer, Ranma Satomi," Commander Kalinin said. "She's ruling it as most likely a red herring."
"So it's not the same person?" Captain Testarossa asked as she looked over the short transcript.
"No, she's confirmed it is the same woman," the bearded man said. "But feels the woman is honestly just establishing a home for herself and her children. There is an offer to give warnings if she notices anything out of the ordinary."
"Commander, can you play the audio from these lines here," Tessa asked.
"Of course, Captain," the Commander said, nodding as he brought up the audio file.
"Now I've got blue-haired tomboys giving me headaches...didn't they tell you why they're having you guard her?"
The pauses were the most interesting to Testarossa.
"Headaches," Kalinin repeated. "Could she be talking about Resonance?"
"I doubt it," Tessa said. "She's a lot older than all the Whispered we've identified. Besides, Resonance doesn't feel like a headache."
The girl walked to the file and opened it up. They had spotty information on the woman, which provided for an understandable paranoia.
"Mystic consultant," she read aloud. "She could have another type of ESP, something that the Whispered interferes with."
"Urzu-2 seems assured that there is no danger from her," Kalinin said. "And has said that she plans to keep an eye on the woman."
Tessa was quiet for a long minute before giving her answer.
"Note the possible presence of ESP or other talent in her file and pass it on, then," Tessa said after a minute's thought. "We'll trust the agents on the ground."
"Yes, ma'am," the Commander said, nodding. "Is there something wrong ma'am, you seem quite hesitant somehow."
"There's something we're missing," the Captain said. "And I'm afraid we won't see it until too late. How is the other end of the investigation going?"
"Intelligence reports that the search is narrowing," he said. "They should have a target for us soon. If we're lucky, this situation may be resolved before the Okinawa trip the objective is supposed to be taking coming up."
"Let's hope for that," Tessa said.
****
Elsewhere, a small party of warriors geared up and prepared for a journey.
"North, to Korea," the leader, a pink-haired youth said. "We'll find brides worthy of our Dynasty."
"Ehh, is that what we're going for?" the second, a large man with dark hair said.
"Didn't your father...outlaw kidnapping outsider girls," the third asked. He was a slender fellow with reddish hair.
"My father's curse makes him soft," the leader said. "But I am a true Musk and I will see new, strong blood brought back to our people. All will come true as the dream told me."
"So it's not the same person?" Captain Testarossa asked as she looked over the short transcript.
"No, she's confirmed it is the same woman," the bearded man said. "But feels the woman is honestly just establishing a home for herself and her children. There is an offer to give warnings if she notices anything out of the ordinary."
"Commander, can you play the audio from these lines here," Tessa asked.
"Of course, Captain," the Commander said, nodding as he brought up the audio file.
"Now I've got blue-haired tomboys giving me headaches...didn't they tell you why they're having you guard her?"
The pauses were the most interesting to Testarossa.
"Headaches," Kalinin repeated. "Could she be talking about Resonance?"
"I doubt it," Tessa said. "She's a lot older than all the Whispered we've identified. Besides, Resonance doesn't feel like a headache."
The girl walked to the file and opened it up. They had spotty information on the woman, which provided for an understandable paranoia.
"Mystic consultant," she read aloud. "She could have another type of ESP, something that the Whispered interferes with."
"Urzu-2 seems assured that there is no danger from her," Kalinin said. "And has said that she plans to keep an eye on the woman."
Tessa was quiet for a long minute before giving her answer.
"Note the possible presence of ESP or other talent in her file and pass it on, then," Tessa said after a minute's thought. "We'll trust the agents on the ground."
"Yes, ma'am," the Commander said, nodding. "Is there something wrong ma'am, you seem quite hesitant somehow."
"There's something we're missing," the Captain said. "And I'm afraid we won't see it until too late. How is the other end of the investigation going?"
"Intelligence reports that the search is narrowing," he said. "They should have a target for us soon. If we're lucky, this situation may be resolved before the Okinawa trip the objective is supposed to be taking coming up."
"Let's hope for that," Tessa said.
****
Elsewhere, a small party of warriors geared up and prepared for a journey.
"North, to Korea," the leader, a pink-haired youth said. "We'll find brides worthy of our Dynasty."
"Ehh, is that what we're going for?" the second, a large man with dark hair said.
"Didn't your father...outlaw kidnapping outsider girls," the third asked. He was a slender fellow with reddish hair.
"My father's curse makes him soft," the leader said. "But I am a true Musk and I will see new, strong blood brought back to our people. All will come true as the dream told me."
"Is it confirmed?" Captain Testarossa asked.
"Confirmed," Mardukas said. "Target is destroyed."
"Without the facility for their research," Kalinin said. "The KGB will have no reason to target Kaname Chidori."
"Then we can recall the guard on her," Tessa said, a relieved tone in her voice.
****
Kagome growled as Sousuke showed up in front of her. How dare that pervert show his face to her after last night. She didn't even bother listening to what he had to say, something about collecting garbage.
Collecting garbage was right. That's all his mind did was collect garbage and then spew it right back out at her.
Garbage about pipe bombs and letter bombs and assassins and what ever else his commando, paintball overdosed brain came up with.
"Get back in line and get on the plane, Sousuke!" Kaname yelled.
"But, Chidori..."
"Get!"
"I need..."
"NOW!"
"Yes, Ma'am," Sousuke declared, snapping to attention and saluting before turning about to get in line.
Kaname sighed expressively as the military nut walked back into line, and her eyes turned toward another situation.
Walking in line past her position was Eija Satomi, and she was the only person in class with about three feet between her and the people in front and behind her.
The sound of a camera click brought Kaname's eyes toward her side and saw Kyoko taking a picture of the oddity.
"You know, I've never seen so many people avoid such a cute girl before," Kyoko said.
"Yeah, well she's creepy," Kaname said. "What can you do?"
"Anyway, what's up with you, Kaname?" Kyoko asked. "Did you and Sousuke have a fight about something?"
"Stop saying stuff like that like he's my boyfriend," Kaname snapped in frustration, knowing that she wouldn't phase Kyoko at all.
"I'm not the one who keeps suggesting that," Kyoko teased as she looked around to find another shot to snap, catching a posing Naiki as she went into the plane with her class.
Kaname blinked as she noticed the girl, despite the cheerful pose, seemed to be sweating a lake going onto the plane.
"At least I'm not the only one out of sorts," Kaname said as she moved in behind the last group of kids.
"Naiki doesn't like flying," Deimosu Satomi said right in front of them with a cool sort of politeness. "Where's your bodyguard, Chidori?"
"Oh great, this day keeps getting better," Kaname said, eyes half-lidded.
"Don't worry," Kyoko said. "As soon as we're on the plane, everything will get better."
Behind the students came a tall, unshaven man with a rumpled black suit and dark spiky hair.
****
Kaname turned to look to the seat on her side, where the pale, dark-haired Satomi was looking out the window next to her.
"Yep," Kaname said, turning to look at Kyoko on her other side. "The day just keeps getting better."
"What's the matter with her?" Kyoko asked.
"Don't worry, lots of people are uncomfortable around me," Eija said looking back towards them, shrugging.
With that Kaname just felt worse. After all, Eija hadn't ever done anything...especially creepy...on purpose. She was actually a lot more normal than Sousuke in many ways. She just sort of generally was...creepy.
"Anyway, I love flying," Eija said as she looked out onto the ocean below. "The world is so serene from up here."
"What about your sister?" Kyoko asked, looking back to see Naiki clutching her chair and still sweating. "She should drink some water if she keeps sweating like that."
Click went the camera.
"Oh," Eija said, looking around cautiously. "She tried to pilot a helicopter once."
Kaname peeked over the back of her chair to watch Naiki, eyes twitching as she noticed the arms of the girl's seat cracking in her grip.
"I'm guessing it didn't go well," she said.
"She got about ten meters through the hangar," Eija said nervously.
Then her eyes focused straight ahead intently, widening worrisomely before she flinched, and the airplane jolted.
The airplane shook violently for a few seconds, punctuated by a high pitched scream from elsewhere in the plane.
"May I have your attention please," the voice on the intercom said. "We are currently experiencing..."
As the crew gave them reassurances, Kaname watched Eija take what looked like a scroll out of her purse and unroll a length of the thin parchment before quickly tearing a piece of it off and putting the rest in her purse.
"What are you doing?" Kaname asked as the girl took out a pen and started writing.
"Oh," Eija said hesitantly. "I'm just a little nervous, so...I'm doing a ritual for good luck."
"A good luck ritual?" Kaname asked. "Like a prayer to the gods or something?"
"To someone," Eija said, starting to the fold the piece of cloth several times until it resembled a butterfly.
That done, the girl took it up, cupped in her hands, to her mouth and breathed hard into the space she left between her fingers. In the same moment she spread her hands wide and the parchment was gone.
For a breath moment, as Eija breathed into her cupped hands, the world flashed into negative colors for Kaname, but the instance was too quick for her more than notice it.
"Just like with her sister before," Kaname muttered.
"Wow," Kyoko said. "You really can do magic."
"Oh, that was nothing," Eija said hesitantly. "Excuse me, I need to go calm down my sister before she damages something."
Kyoko and Kaname shifted momentarily to let her past.
"She's acting funny," Kaname said.
"Well, she's worried about her sister," Kyoko said, shrugging. "That's to be expected."
****
Sousuke watched as Eija Satomi moved from her seat and walked back toward her sister and start speaking in Greek.
"Uh, Naiki," Eija said, the green-haired girl whipped her head around towards the dark-haired one. "I need you to..."
"Are we all going to die?" Naiki asked.
"No, not yet," Eija said. "But, there's something important..."
"Because you'd know, right?" Naiki asked. "You'd know if we're going to die."
"You know what," Eija said hesitantly. "I think I'll talk to Deimosu first. Just...calm down, we'll be fine."
"Are you sure?" Naiki asked. "You don't feel us dying do you?"
"Nope, I'm not feeling anybody in the class dying," Eija assured her. "We're fine. Now, I'm going to go talk to Deimosu."
Sousuke arched an eyebrow and decided that now would be a good time for a restroom break. He was soon in the aisle walking slowly behind Eija.
He slowed down as he passed Eija and Deimosu talking to each other in undertones.
"Are you sure?" Deimosu asked.
"I felt it, violent sudden death," Eija said. "In the cabin just as the plane jolted."
Sousuke's eyes widened suddenly and he stopped.
"You didn't tell Naiki did you?" Deimosu asked.
"I started to until she started asking if we're all going to die," Eija said, sighing. "I already sent a message to Okaasan."
"You have a means of communication?" Sousuke asked outloud. "My cell phone isn't receiving here."
Deimosu turned toward him with narrowed eyes.
"You speak Greek," he said accusingly.
"If your sister's right, we're in a dangerous situation," Sousuke said. "And it is best to get information out as soon as possible. So, do you have a means of communication?"
"It's...complicated," Eija said uncertainly.
"Who do you want to contact?" Deimosu asked, drawing out a scroll.
****
Ranma sighed and shook her head as she saw a butterfly drifting into her home and landing on the counter.
"At least a job will give me something to do while..." Ranma stopped talking as she came to the message and recognized the handwriting.
"Pilot's murdered."
"Kuso," Ranma whispered.
A few minutes later a second butterfly landed in front of her and unfolded with a name and cell phone number along with a short message.
****
Melissa Mao blinked as a butterfly landed on the table in front of her and proceeded to unfold into a piece of paper with writing on it.
"The hell...?" she said as she reached down to pick up the paper as if trying to see if it was real.
A moment later, her cell phone started to ring off to her side.
Opening the cell phone and answering she heard a familiar voice on the other end.
"Did you just get a butterfly?" Ranma's voice asked.
"Confirmed," Mardukas said. "Target is destroyed."
"Without the facility for their research," Kalinin said. "The KGB will have no reason to target Kaname Chidori."
"Then we can recall the guard on her," Tessa said, a relieved tone in her voice.
****
Kagome growled as Sousuke showed up in front of her. How dare that pervert show his face to her after last night. She didn't even bother listening to what he had to say, something about collecting garbage.
Collecting garbage was right. That's all his mind did was collect garbage and then spew it right back out at her.
Garbage about pipe bombs and letter bombs and assassins and what ever else his commando, paintball overdosed brain came up with.
"Get back in line and get on the plane, Sousuke!" Kaname yelled.
"But, Chidori..."
"Get!"
"I need..."
"NOW!"
"Yes, Ma'am," Sousuke declared, snapping to attention and saluting before turning about to get in line.
Kaname sighed expressively as the military nut walked back into line, and her eyes turned toward another situation.
Walking in line past her position was Eija Satomi, and she was the only person in class with about three feet between her and the people in front and behind her.
The sound of a camera click brought Kaname's eyes toward her side and saw Kyoko taking a picture of the oddity.
"You know, I've never seen so many people avoid such a cute girl before," Kyoko said.
"Yeah, well she's creepy," Kaname said. "What can you do?"
"Anyway, what's up with you, Kaname?" Kyoko asked. "Did you and Sousuke have a fight about something?"
"Stop saying stuff like that like he's my boyfriend," Kaname snapped in frustration, knowing that she wouldn't phase Kyoko at all.
"I'm not the one who keeps suggesting that," Kyoko teased as she looked around to find another shot to snap, catching a posing Naiki as she went into the plane with her class.
Kaname blinked as she noticed the girl, despite the cheerful pose, seemed to be sweating a lake going onto the plane.
"At least I'm not the only one out of sorts," Kaname said as she moved in behind the last group of kids.
"Naiki doesn't like flying," Deimosu Satomi said right in front of them with a cool sort of politeness. "Where's your bodyguard, Chidori?"
"Oh great, this day keeps getting better," Kaname said, eyes half-lidded.
"Don't worry," Kyoko said. "As soon as we're on the plane, everything will get better."
Behind the students came a tall, unshaven man with a rumpled black suit and dark spiky hair.
****
Kaname turned to look to the seat on her side, where the pale, dark-haired Satomi was looking out the window next to her.
"Yep," Kaname said, turning to look at Kyoko on her other side. "The day just keeps getting better."
"What's the matter with her?" Kyoko asked.
"Don't worry, lots of people are uncomfortable around me," Eija said looking back towards them, shrugging.
With that Kaname just felt worse. After all, Eija hadn't ever done anything...especially creepy...on purpose. She was actually a lot more normal than Sousuke in many ways. She just sort of generally was...creepy.
"Anyway, I love flying," Eija said as she looked out onto the ocean below. "The world is so serene from up here."
"What about your sister?" Kyoko asked, looking back to see Naiki clutching her chair and still sweating. "She should drink some water if she keeps sweating like that."
Click went the camera.
"Oh," Eija said, looking around cautiously. "She tried to pilot a helicopter once."
Kaname peeked over the back of her chair to watch Naiki, eyes twitching as she noticed the arms of the girl's seat cracking in her grip.
"I'm guessing it didn't go well," she said.
"She got about ten meters through the hangar," Eija said nervously.
Then her eyes focused straight ahead intently, widening worrisomely before she flinched, and the airplane jolted.
The airplane shook violently for a few seconds, punctuated by a high pitched scream from elsewhere in the plane.
"May I have your attention please," the voice on the intercom said. "We are currently experiencing..."
As the crew gave them reassurances, Kaname watched Eija take what looked like a scroll out of her purse and unroll a length of the thin parchment before quickly tearing a piece of it off and putting the rest in her purse.
"What are you doing?" Kaname asked as the girl took out a pen and started writing.
"Oh," Eija said hesitantly. "I'm just a little nervous, so...I'm doing a ritual for good luck."
"A good luck ritual?" Kaname asked. "Like a prayer to the gods or something?"
"To someone," Eija said, starting to the fold the piece of cloth several times until it resembled a butterfly.
That done, the girl took it up, cupped in her hands, to her mouth and breathed hard into the space she left between her fingers. In the same moment she spread her hands wide and the parchment was gone.
For a breath moment, as Eija breathed into her cupped hands, the world flashed into negative colors for Kaname, but the instance was too quick for her more than notice it.
"Just like with her sister before," Kaname muttered.
"Wow," Kyoko said. "You really can do magic."
"Oh, that was nothing," Eija said hesitantly. "Excuse me, I need to go calm down my sister before she damages something."
Kyoko and Kaname shifted momentarily to let her past.
"She's acting funny," Kaname said.
"Well, she's worried about her sister," Kyoko said, shrugging. "That's to be expected."
****
Sousuke watched as Eija Satomi moved from her seat and walked back toward her sister and start speaking in Greek.
"Uh, Naiki," Eija said, the green-haired girl whipped her head around towards the dark-haired one. "I need you to..."
"Are we all going to die?" Naiki asked.
"No, not yet," Eija said. "But, there's something important..."
"Because you'd know, right?" Naiki asked. "You'd know if we're going to die."
"You know what," Eija said hesitantly. "I think I'll talk to Deimosu first. Just...calm down, we'll be fine."
"Are you sure?" Naiki asked. "You don't feel us dying do you?"
"Nope, I'm not feeling anybody in the class dying," Eija assured her. "We're fine. Now, I'm going to go talk to Deimosu."
Sousuke arched an eyebrow and decided that now would be a good time for a restroom break. He was soon in the aisle walking slowly behind Eija.
He slowed down as he passed Eija and Deimosu talking to each other in undertones.
"Are you sure?" Deimosu asked.
"I felt it, violent sudden death," Eija said. "In the cabin just as the plane jolted."
Sousuke's eyes widened suddenly and he stopped.
"You didn't tell Naiki did you?" Deimosu asked.
"I started to until she started asking if we're all going to die," Eija said, sighing. "I already sent a message to Okaasan."
"You have a means of communication?" Sousuke asked outloud. "My cell phone isn't receiving here."
Deimosu turned toward him with narrowed eyes.
"You speak Greek," he said accusingly.
"If your sister's right, we're in a dangerous situation," Sousuke said. "And it is best to get information out as soon as possible. So, do you have a means of communication?"
"It's...complicated," Eija said uncertainly.
"Who do you want to contact?" Deimosu asked, drawing out a scroll.
****
Ranma sighed and shook her head as she saw a butterfly drifting into her home and landing on the counter.
"At least a job will give me something to do while..." Ranma stopped talking as she came to the message and recognized the handwriting.
"Pilot's murdered."
"Kuso," Ranma whispered.
A few minutes later a second butterfly landed in front of her and unfolded with a name and cell phone number along with a short message.
****
Melissa Mao blinked as a butterfly landed on the table in front of her and proceeded to unfold into a piece of paper with writing on it.
"The hell...?" she said as she reached down to pick up the paper as if trying to see if it was real.
A moment later, her cell phone started to ring off to her side.
Opening the cell phone and answering she heard a familiar voice on the other end.
"Did you just get a butterfly?" Ranma's voice asked.
Hecate looked around the area, wondering if anybody was observing her just now. The risks were getting a bit more...to tell the truth...risky.
Zeus's dream-sending skirted the edges of the safety zone on the search pattern the Eyes of Ra had on looking for Ranma Saotome. Fortunately, she was on duty and it was a simple matter to delay the fact that someone was influencing mortals connected to the martial artist and muddle the identity.
Of course she could have just erased the record, but that wouldn't be useful.
The time was coming that she were going to need this little distraction she was preparing.
Which reminded her, certain files needed to be copied and sent.
She had her part in what was, coming, best to do it well.
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AN: I randomly decided on butterflies for the message bits a while back, didn't know at the time that Bleach used that same device...
butterflies are a common symbol of the soul, so it seemed appropriate...
by the way, what's KHR?
Zeus's dream-sending skirted the edges of the safety zone on the search pattern the Eyes of Ra had on looking for Ranma Saotome. Fortunately, she was on duty and it was a simple matter to delay the fact that someone was influencing mortals connected to the martial artist and muddle the identity.
Of course she could have just erased the record, but that wouldn't be useful.
The time was coming that she were going to need this little distraction she was preparing.
Which reminded her, certain files needed to be copied and sent.
She had her part in what was, coming, best to do it well.
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AN: I randomly decided on butterflies for the message bits a while back, didn't know at the time that Bleach used that same device...
butterflies are a common symbol of the soul, so it seemed appropriate...
by the way, what's KHR?