Each ring had a function and element, each engraved with a symbol.
Venus - Metal. The Lover.
Moon - White Magic. The Healer.
Mars - Fire. The Priestess.
Jupiter - Lightning. The Warrior.
Saturn - Death. The Slayer.
Uranus - Earth. The Guardian.
Neptune - Water. The Artist.
Pluto - Time. The Sentinel.
Serenity - the tenth and final genie.
Beryl had two Rings, one on each hand. She raised one hand and pointed. "I will kill you slowly and at my leisure. Deep Submerge!"
"No!" Ranma wasn't sure if Saturn was dead or not. She had faded away after hitting the ground. That could be checked later. What Ranma knew for an absolute fact was that Saturn was his friend and his friend had just gotten hurt trying to protect him.
Your typical ten year old faced with an adult woman wouldn't stand much of a chance. Against one that was an actual honest-to-Buddha evil witch - none at all. Against an evil witch drawing on the powers of genies Uranus and Neptune, less than no chance.
Ranma might have been a little 10 year old boy but he was hardly typical. He also was not handicapped by the problems he might have developed later in life where he couldn't strike a girl nor fight at his full potential.
So Ranma was hitting a girl and fighting at his full potential. This was already declared a fight to the death. HIS death. His friend might have been dead already. So he was doing something that would be completely out of character were this a more typical 16 year old Ranma. He was taking the fight seriously.
Anything Goes meant just that. You used any technique from any school to win the fight. Not quite as prone to short and brutal fights as the Cotton Fist for example, but Ranma had studied some kempo and added "improvisational weapon" manuevers to his portfolio.
Ranma's thrown backpack slammed into Beryl's face with enough force to rattle her teeth. Ranma dodged the relatively slow ball of water and leapt onto a bookshelf.
Beryl blinked stars out of her eyes just before the bookshelf fell over onto her.
Ranma leapt, knowing he only had a second before the woman recovered.
"You little brat, I..." Beryl looked at the grinning boy. Why was he holding up his hands like that? Whatever. As soon as she got those three Rings from him, she'd...
Beryl checked her hands. Nope. Ringless. "How did you..."
Ranma snickered. "Saturn done told me. Ya gotta have a good soul to keep 'em."
Beryl winced. When the bookshelf had hit, the girl she'd possessed had been knocked out. She'd completed her possession of the girl without thinking. Except that had severed the link between wearer and Rings. With time she could corrupt and bind these genies.
Ranma lifted a hand up. Now how did that go? Oh yeah. "World Shaking!"
(Posted Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:31)
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