"SHUN-EN!"
"MOKO TAKABISHA!"
The pigtailed warrior barely dodged the attack as his arm was grazed by white hot flames. Amaterasu's form simply blurred as she gracefully dodged Ranma's ki blast. The exchange of energy blasts lasted for another five minutes. Neither made any clean hits as Ranma was bouncing around like a mad man, while the goddess simply blurred or flew away.
Amaterasu frowned at her mortal opponent who sported a few burns, but was relatively unharmed. She herself had a ki burn from a blast she blocked and her garments were singed.
"This is getting us nowhere. It is time to take this on another level mortal. Prepare yourself!" she declared as a sword as white and hot as her flames materialized in her hands.
Ranma himself grinned and drew more power as he armed himself with ki claws and began hissing. "Bring it!"
The two opponents launched towards each other and mortal clashed against god. Ranma dodged a downward thrust with speed exceeding his amaguriken speed and countered with a sweep which was dodged as Amaterasu briefly lifted her form to hover for a few seconds only to retaliate with a horizontal slash towards her adversary's neck. Ranma crouched down to avoid the slash and rocketed upwards with a rising slash from his hand. The goddess blurred again, appearing behind him. The Pigtailed warrior was barely saved by his abilities in mid air combat from her lightning fast backslash. Ranma landed a few feet away and flung off his shirt as it began to disintegrate from the heat from that attack.
Ranma scowled. This was taking too long. He only had seven more minutes until he was blasted into oblivion. He was more skilled then her. Way more skilled but she was SO DAMNED FAST! And her cheap sword burned like hell even if it didn't hit. 'Damn, my defense is getting weaker. I can't believe I'm worried about getting fried. WE'RE ON THE DAMN MOON! How can she-'
SLASH!
"You lost focus" Amaterasu whispered in his ear.
Ranma had a hard time understanding this as his jugular was gushing out blood. It was actually kinda interesting to watch your own blood instantly evaporate as one tries to ignore the agonizing pain of burns from a goddess on ones neck. It was ironic that he was still alive only because of the weakening of his defense allowed the heat from the blast to burn the flesh over.
"Heh...I'm still alive...Got to admit, you were pretty fast...but...THIS IS NOT OVER!"
Ki started pouring out of Ranma as the energy formed a large image that started flickering over his form. The ki took shape and in place of the warrior was a gigantic ferocious white tiger.
The ki induced roar quaked the moon and Amaterasu could only stare in surprise. The ferocious beast wasted no time on taking advantage of its prey's lack of motion and launched its massive form towards the dazed goddess with tooth and claw ready to strike.
The goddess noticed it's intent and could only mutter, "Oh shi-"
People on Earth were confused by a bright flash of light engulfing the moon and were even more confused when seconds later a large visible crater appeared on the moon staring at them like an evil eye, when obviously it wasn't there before. Many Astronomers were foaming at the mouth while magical girls thought it to be a sign of a new evil force.
Back at the moon, The so called source of evil laid panting in the crater that he created. His ki was low, his eye sight was dimming, and it was definitely getting harder to breath but he had won. He had finally gotten his vengeance. Now he had to somehow get up before he floated out into-
"That was a very impressive move."
Ranma looked up and to his horror, there was Amaterasu in all of her glory. She was bleeding. She was definitely hurt. Yet he knew she was still just as powerful as white flames danced across her form.
"It has been a while since a mortal could create ki manifestations on skill alone, and even longer since a mortal has actually wounded me. Your attack would flatter Byakko. You have three more minutes now. Use it wisely."
It was over. Ranma knew he had lost. His ki was rapidly dwindling and Amaterasu's was slowly rising as the light from the sun got closer and closer. There was only one thing left to do.
A final stand.
'What can I do? She's taken everything I've thrown at her and then some! I can't use Hiryuu Shoten Ha because there is no wind. Aarggh! How is she even making flame. There's no freaking air! Wait! There is no air! Maybe this could work...'
"Umisenken...Goshin Ryuusei Fu"
Amaterasu looked amused as Ranma faded into invisibility. "Using your father's technique are you? Don't worry, I don't need to see you to cleanse you!" She finished as she flung several large fireball in random directions. As the smoke cleared she became surprised when she was assaulted by a multitude of vacuum blades, cutting her in many places. 'Ingenious. Inverting his ki erases him from my senses and allows him to take advantage of the low gravity by boosting his speed. He isn't affected by the cold because of my fire blasts and I can't hear him anymore because no ki sounds are being made. He would have made great avatar, but it is time to end this.'
"Your time is up. You have put up a valiant effort mortal. Even as misguided as you are, you have gained my respect. Goodbye."
The sunbeams engulfed her being and her wounds and clothes started to instantly repair itself. Her power radiated as a single fireball formed in hand, growing bigger and bigger with each passing second.
"METSU!"
The fireball was launched and Ranma could not dodge it, for it would engulf the moon. Despite the assurance of death, the tired martial artist could only give a tired grin. He couldn't help it. It was unbelievable that his life had ended up here. He has seen and experience many things people did not even know existed. And thinking back to all of his experiences, he could not help, but feel a little happiness.
"I may die now, but it seems you've missed a detail. You've been so focused on crushing me, you haven't noticed I've benn moving in a spiral. And if your flames work here, then so should this."
The ice forming around his body from soul of ice technique and the coldness of the moon was slowing evaporating as the fireball descended.
"Here is the final stand of Ranma Saotome. Hiryuu Shoten Ha Revised: HIRYUU HYO ARASHI!!!"
On Planet Earth, Susano O was enjoying some sake and women in Shinjuku when people started panicking and running in the streets as the image of a large dragon was partially blocking out the sun, shadowing down on Earth. He watched as magical girls started transforming right in the streets preparing to face off against the dragon, causing men nosebleeds and such. Priests and priestesses everywhere began desperately preying. Hell, there were even demons crying for their mommies. The god could not help, but laugh. "BWAHAHAHAHAHA! That kid is really something to pull that off. A real warrior's death! That punk causes chaos even when he's not on Earth!"
Back on the moon, the attack finally died down after several minutes. When the debris cleared up one could see a single figure, barely distinguishable as Amaterasu. Her clothes were shredded and tattered. Her hair was perfectly frazzled. And gashes, cuts, bruises, and shards of ice were embedded all over her body. On top of that her right eye was twitching and her serene face was replaced with one of anger.
"That-that stupid mortal! How dare he do this to me! How dare he humiliate me! I offer him power! I try to make him my servant! I go easy on him! And this is what I get! He's lucky he is just a pile of ash now! I have half a mind to revive him just so I can incinerate him again! I'm going to be ridiculed by my brother for the rest of my life! Oh I want to go home! Now all I have to do is fix the moon."
Looking a little happier, she turned around to finish her task when the happiness she had regained drained right out of her along with any color left in her face. The cause of this was the amount of damage there was to the moon.
Or what was left of it.
She could not leave it as it was or Tsukiyomi would never speak to her again and would most likely ally himself with Susano O against her. Grinding her teeth she did the only thing she could think of at the moment.
Said pile of ash found himself in a very dark place. It wasn't dark as in absence of light, but dark as in absence of everything. He had no body. He had no mind. He had no emotion. There was only his essence, trying to hang on. Trying to prove he still existed. Trying to prove that Ranma Saotome didn't lose.
Deep within that void, there was another being who was only essence. He had been there for as long as he could remember, since the beginning of time. And in the first time in history something had changed. Something felt different.
He was feeling warmth.
It was a feeling he remembered. HE REMEMBERED. The warmth of light. The warmth of fire. He could almost feel his own starting to build. He drew closer and closer to the odd feeling until he touched it. And all of anti-existence exploded.
He was flame! The flame of creation! The flame of destruction! The flame which begins and ends! He was eternal!
And he was in existence once again.
The serene look of wise all knowing goddess returned to Amaterasu's face as she finished repairing the moon. Now she could just go-
Amaterasu froze as she felt a familiar presence.
"It-it couldn't be! No one can live from my divine might!"
A single spark came into existence, but the spark slowly grew into an ember, and then a raging fire, and then grew until it became an inferno.
"I am the eternal flame."
The flame stopped growing and started taking form. That did not stop it from getting brighter and brighter.
"I was once the fallen sire of Izanagi."
The brightness faded and a nude man emerged from the flame. With a muscular body over six feet tall and long crimson the being seemed to radiate more power by the second. But what convinced Amaterasu the identity of this being was his piercing blue eyes shining with the light of a blazing soul.
"I AM KAGUTSUCHI! I AM RANMA SAOTOME!"
Amaterasu looked on at horror. It was the first time a mortal had ever scared her. It was impossible. It was unforgivable. She started flinging attack after attack, drawing on all her divine powers, making sure he was reduced to ashes this time. The resulting explosions were strong enough to wipe out the earth. Smoke rose from where she attacked and the goddess began to sigh in relief.
"THAT WAS UNWISE DAUGHTER OF MY FATHER. I AM FIRE INCARNATE SO FIRE DOES NO HARM TO MY PERSON."
Indeed, to Amaterasu's horror, her target was standing unharmed.
"I NO LONGER HAVE QUARREL WITH YOU FOR I HAVE WON. I AM NOW ONE OF THE GODS YET NOT BOUND TO GODHOOD, EFFECTIVELY EARNING MY FREEDOM FROM MANIPULATIONS OF FATE AND DESTINY. LEAVE NOW BEFORE I CHOOSE TO STRIKE YOU"
And that is what Amaterasu exactly did. She disappeared in a ray of light, forsaking all dignity.
Ranma powered down and landed on the moon and gazed down on Earth.
"I have finally won but, what is my new purpose. What do I do with my awesome power?"
Meanwhile in the throne of heaven, Izanagi's hands clenched as he felt his son reborn through a mortal. He was a threat like his mother and he knew what to do.
"CALL A COUNCIL OF THE GODS."
Deep in the realm of Yomi, Izanami started shrieking in rage as she felt his presence. Her son, the one that killed her in the first place was back! She would obliterate him even if it took all of time.
Ranma decided what he would do.
He decided to...
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