Some were easier than others. The girl throwing heavily salted french fries with enough force to imbed them in a wooden plank could easily have handled your average mugger, and because zombies had trouble with salt - could have easily defended herself from the zombie bikers. The air shimmered in his palm a moment before she was blasted across the yard, the weakest of his current attackers and therefore one less annoyance.
The air shimmered around Heart and he directed the blast outward around himself, knocking away several of the others.
There was only one he was after - only one he sought the death of. The rest he might kill, but that would just be his hobby - first to business.
Heart was unnaturally big and strong. Three meters (nine feet tall) and extremely heavyset, pressure point manuevers were useless against him due to the layers of fat on his body. When he'd been recruited by the Mistress though, he had learned several Dark Chi manuevers that changed him from dangerous to the level that would have made him a challenge to many Western superheroes.
Shockwave- his concussive attack.
Like A Mountain- anchoring himself so that he couldn't be moved.
Fear Of The Dark- focussing his darkness so that it stood out, causing victims to see their worst fears projected in him.
Glare- Heart had the second version of this attack, such that he could paralyze the victim's lungs so that they suffocated.
Taint- creating a poisonous thread of dark chi that would cause victims to sicken or die - their lifeforce corrupted. There were also variants to cause them to be overwhelmed by their fears or driven mad or merely weakened temporarily.
Heart used Glare to deal with the weaker fighters and noted that several of them were already fighting it off. Most impressive. They would have to be killed or recruited. Of course, the Mistress being a Dark Chi Master - could use a variant of Taint called Seduction, turning them dark and evil through torture and carnal pleasures - Heart almost envied them.
Heart sent a quick Shockwave towards the distracted White Chi wizard.
Who batted it away?
Heart settled down into the fight in earnest.
Ranma was still a Journeymage. He only had a handful of techniques mastered. These were also White Chi techniques, and therefore the emphasis was not on destroying your enemies or dominating your environment the way Dark Chi techniques did.
A Light In The Darkness
To Stand Like A Mountain
The Breath Of The Second Wind
Skin Like Unto Iron
To Pass As A Ghost
Nirvana Massage
As A Distant Thunder
To See The Unseen
To Be A Feather In The Wind
Seven League Boots
Divine White Wind
and though he didn't know it yet Angel's Kiss had just inexpertly been performed on one Makoto Kino.
However, this was still Ranma Saotome. He had not replaced his skills with these new ones, he had supplemented the old.
To one who had studied the Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken, Heart was moving in slow motion. Oh sure, if the big guy connected it would hurt worse than if Ryouga did. In many ways Heart was like Ryouga to an exponent. Strong and tough and hard to hurt - definitely an "Earth" element opponent.
Ami stared and made sure her computer was recording this. At times the cute potential ally of hers the Senshi was moving at acceleration rates that were flatly impossible. She'd studied anatomy. Accelerating from a dead stop to that kind of speed would be bruising internal organs, he'd have given himself a concussion from that kind of acceleration and deceleration. It was flatly impossible. Of course, Ami's worldview also included reincarnated princesses and household appliances stealing heart crystals so instead of denying any of this she started trying to work out the mechanics.
Minako began urging Ranma to use more kicks because she could get a clear look at his butt like that. "Yowza!"
Makoto really really really wished she could get involved. Her new sempai was not only a major hunk but she had to learn how to do that!
Cologne nodded. Ranma's speed had increased, and he was instinctively using his newly heightened chi reserves to defend himself and increase manuevers he had known before. At one point he used a Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken to throw over five hundred punches a second at his larger opponent. Still, he couldn't keep this up for long, he hadn't had sufficient recovery time since the fight with Akuma earlier to replenish his reservoir.
Shampoo, Akane, Ukyo, a number of martial artist girls, and two Tendo sisters all watched with slackened jaws as Ranma's usual grace and power became a thing of almost supernatural beauty. They winced as Heart managed to connect, then stared anew as Ranma slid to a stop with his feet leaving furrows in the ground - apparently unharmed by the blow.
Ryoga saw this last and felt a moment of despair. How was he going to beat Ranma when a blow like that could shake the earth from the force of impact, and now Ranma was laughing it off like a mosquito bite?!
The stalemate had to end, and it did when:
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