"You know, I mean like who are you and stuff like…" Ranma trailed off as he saw a glint of steel through the slightly open door.
"Get down!" he exclaimed as he pushed the naked girl to the floor.
That second, there was the thus of a crossbow firing, and a bolt flew through the air towards Ranma. Twisting out of the way, he dodged the bolt, and began to charge towards the door.
Behind him, Melfina scrambled for her discarded dress, covering herself. At the same time, Rei stood passively seemingly mumbling something under her breath, while Milly reached for a large bejeweled scepter that looked like it might make an effective club.
Seeing this out of the corner of his eye, Ranma exclaimed, "Just take cover. Don't get yourself killed!"
Melfina, being one to take the hint, scrambled behind the chair Ranma'd been sitting in, while Milly reluctantly slipped behind a pillar still clutching her makeshift club. The odd one was Rei who stood in place for another second, before finishing what ever she was doing and dodging behind the nearest chest of gold.
As he ran forward, the door all but exploded open as a massive Orc stormed towards him holding a weapon that looked like it would be as suited to cleaving large chunks of meat as it would in combat. This orc though, was not like the one he'd seen outside. Despite his generous bulk he was moving with surprising silence. Ranma's eyes narrowed as he fell into his fighting stance. These things were out to kill him, and they were serious in a way that Kuno and Ryouga, and just about everyone but Saffron had never been. He had to take this serious, if not for his own sake, then for the three girls behind him that probably would be the ones who suffered it he failed.
He smirked. It was a good thing that Saotome Ranma never loosed.
Even with his above average abilities, the large Orc was still more than twice Ranma's size and thus was much slower. As the gigantic pig-creature attempted to land his killing blow, Ranma slid to the side and kicked him behind the knee. This blow to a pressure point, force the Orc to stumble and fall face first onto the ground. Ranma then exploited his moment of weakness by slamming him in the temple with an Amaguriken.
The ball of pudge went out like a light.
Twisting back towards the door, Ranma had to jump to the side as another bolt sailed through the air, imbedding itself in the door behind him.
"Okay, that’s getting annoying," Ranma began.
As he began to storm towards the would be sniper, Ranma back exploded in pain. Behind him, there was a bright flash of blue light and a masked man welding a sword that looking kind of like a katana flashed into view. The man had a look of surprise in his eyes. Ranma on the other hand was starting to get seriously piss off.
With a growl, Ranma decked him hard enough to send him sailing through the air and into a pillar with a dull thud.
There was another tell tail 'ker-thunk' sound as the sniper released another bolt. Ranma deftly snatched it out before glaring at the man with the crossbow. With a sneer, he clenched his fist, snapping the bolt in twane.
Seeing this, the sniper just turned tail and ran.
With a frown, Ranma glared at the running figure and prepared to run him down. It was in that moment though, that some inspiration hit him. He didn't know where the idea was from, but it came to him like an instinct. Drawing some mana from his Dungeon Heart, he lazily raised his hand towards his fleeing enemy, and a bolt of lighting streamed forth, in an effect not too unlike Force Lighting from Star Wars.
Ranma couldn't suppress a thin smile as his attacker squealed like a little girl as tens of thousands of volts of electricity coursed through his system. Ranma even held it on target for a moment, watching him twitch, before letting him drop.
Slowly, the man crawled up into a ball, and much to Ranma's disgust, he soiled himself. As the figure lay in a ball on the floor, his cowl pulled back, showing him to be a Dark Elf.
Sneering in disgust Ranma grabbed his crossbow in one hand, and the elfs's leg in the other, and drug him back to the dragon's lair.
"Master!" Milly exclaimed as he walked in, with a sour look on his face. "You're injured!"
"I've had worse," he responded, " Doesn't matter as long as you three are okay."
The girls paused for a moment, not quite sure how to react. It was a rare master who gave half a damn about his slaves, and even a rarer one who gave a damn beyond protecting his investment.
"We're fine," Milly responded nervously.
"You saved my life," Melfina whispered clutching her dress to her naked breast. "He might have hit me shooting at you, but you pushed me out of the way before protecting yourself..."
"Hey, I didn't buy ya to keep you away from those other three psychos just ta let some jerk kill ya."
"To protect us?" Melfina repeated.
"Yeah, those three were real sickos." he paused. "And how am I still alive? I mean, that guy with the sword had me dead to rights but all I got was a nasty cut."
"I cast a spell of protection, master," Rei stated.
Ranma blinked "You know magic?"
"Yes. I can cast protection spells," she stated.
"Thanks, Rei. I owe ya one."
Rei blinked in confusion. How could a master owe his slave when he in fact owned her? "You are... welcome, master."
Behind Ranma, the door burst open as the enraged form of Devistus entered the room, followed by the Mentor.
"What in the depths is going on in here?"
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