Outside Furinkan High School a pretty girl with purple hair and an old dwarf-like old woman on a staff where walking.
“Great-grandmother why are you following Shampoo? Shampoo can take care of the kiss of death by Shampoo’s self,” Shampoo asked crossly.
The old hag sighed and replied, “Because child, the elder council wants to make an offer to the girl. If she accepts the offer, it would negate your kiss without tarnishing your honor.”
“Offer?”
They stopped outside the gates of Furinkan, so Cologne could explain, “yes an offer, actually several incase she decides not to accept. The first offer will be in exchange for negating the kiss of death she will teach us how to do the technique the destroyed the support for the challenge log. Failing that we could make her an ally of the tribe so we could call on her when we need to. We have a few other backup scenarios if those two fail.”
“Great-grandmother, what if she refuses to cooperate?”
Cologne sighed, and replied, “I’ll decide then, and no I will not let you just kill her, except as a last resort. This is because people with powerful techniques like that often have powerful allies. We could lose many people if we act recklessly.”
Suddenly an explosion rang out from the school, and a good section of the school was blown sky high. Debris from the school rained down on the area. Cologne dodged or deflected the debris, but Shampoo was hit on the head by a section of the roof, and was promptly knocked out.”
“Shampoo!” Cologne cried out in shock
A girl with long black hair ran out of what remained of the school carrying a silver haired girl. Cologne stopped her, and asked, “Do you know where a healer is? My great-granddaughter was knocked out by debris from that explosion.” Meanwhile she thought, that girl in her arms looks like the one we were looking for. Was she knocked out in that explosion? What caused that explosion anyway?
Akane looked puzzled at the healer question, but replied, “I’m taking Ranma to the clinic now you can follow if you want.”
Cologne picked up Shampoo, and they both rushed toward Dr. Tofu’s clinic.
Akane called out as soon as she arrived, “Dr. Tofu, are you there?”
“Akane what is it?” He replied as he came into the reception area. Upon seeing the two unconscious girls he asked, “What happened?”
“Ranma just collapsed after blowing up half the school, and that girl was hit by some of the debris from the school,” Akane explained. Dr. Tofu was about to speak when he was cut off by Cologne, “That little girl did that!? How?”
Tofu interrupted Cologne by saying, “Let me treat these two while you two talk.” He then picked up Ranma and brought her to the back room. A few minutes later he returned and carried Shampoo back as well.
“Now how did that little girl do that much damage?” Cologne asked again.
“I’m not sure she said something in an odd musical language. I couldn’t understand it so it couldn’t have been English or Japanese. During this time I could feel her anger at those perverts. She started to sing and while she sang a ball of energy appeared over her head and grew larger three times. Finally she screamed ‘Primal Word’ and it went flying at a jerk named Kuno, hit him, blasted him through a few walls and finally it exploded taking out half the school with it. She collapsed shortly after.
“That sounds like magic, just not a type I have heard of,” Cologne commented.
“Now that you mention it Ranma made a ball of thunder that she said was a type of green magic.”
Cologne looked thoughtful at this, as she said to herself, “I will have to check this but it might solve a problem.”
“Problem?” Akane asked.
“I’m not allowed to say right now.”
“Okay.”
“Shurelia are you ok?” a concerned voice said.
“I think so Lyner, but I had two odd dreams.” This dream again? Ranma thought.
“Two?” Lyner asked
“Yes, one was the dream I told you about before. Oh, wait I did that in the second odd dream. In that dream I turned into a guy.” she looked at the expression at on Lyner’s face and asked, “What is it Lyner?”
“Umm Shurelia? That second dream wasn’t a dream.”
Shurelia stiffened as she now noticed her voice was deeper than normal. She slumped as she realized what this meant. “Noooo,” she moaned softly. She brightened slightly as she remembered something from her dreams. “Could you get me some hot water Lyner?”
“Hot water? Why?” Lyner asked confused.
“I think I may have acquired a curse like the one in the dream I told you about, but I need hot water to test that theory.” Shurelia explained.
“I’ll be right back Shurelia” Lyner said as he left the room. Shurelia looked at his new body in the mirror while waiting for Lyner. While examining it she thought, hmmm, muscular with black hair in my hair style. That’s odd it looks a lot like that guy from my dream. My outfit has changed too; it looks more like Lyner’s armor than what I was wearing.
Lyner came back with a cup of hot water, “Here you are Shurelia.”
Shurelia took the water and dumped it over herself while looking in the mirror. She changed back to her normal self, and her clothes changed as well. Odd, she thought, it’s the opposite situation but other than that it’s just like in my recent dreams. Shurelia turned toward Lyner and said, “thank you, but it’s odd that I obtained the same sort of curse that the guy in my dream has.”
Lyner thought for a second then replied, “Shurelia those might not be just dreams.”
“huh?” Shurelia asked.
Huh? Thought Ranma.
“Tell me Shurelia how many months passed in your original dream?”
“Around two, why?”
“That’s what I thought, because that around how long it took you to regain consciousness. I think you really are seeing images from somebody else’s life. Perhaps some sort of bond was established between you two due to that failed experiment and/or this Ranma’s curse.”
“Interesting theory, but how would we test it? It explains nicely how I have the opposite curse of Ranma, and why he becomes a Reyvateil when the guide said it was just the spring of drowned girl.”
It would also explain where all this knowledge I’m acquiring is coming from, Ranma thought.
“I have an idea of how to test it. I could dive into you; I think that a mind to mind connection should be detectable in your Cosmosphere. While you don’t have the same type of Cosmosphere as beta class and third generation Reyvateils have, it should still show the connection.” Lyner suggested.
Dive? Thought Ranma.
“Hmm, you could be right, and if there is nothing there we could start another game,” Shurelia said with a smile.
Game?
Lyner smiled at that and replied, “True, shall we head to the dive shop then?”
“Okay, but Lyner?”
“Yes?”
“If someone is connected to me by my Cosmosphere back off, so you don’t invade her Cosmosphere without permission.”
Lyner winced at that thought while he replied, “Crap I forgot about that. Don’t worry I will. By the way Shurelia?”
“Yes, Lyner?”
“What type of Reyvateil is Ranma?”
“Well, since she just used the red magic Primal Word I would have to say she is a Reyvateil origin.”
“ORIGIN?!” Lyner shouted in shock.
“Yes, but she might be more like a beta or third generation in respect to her Cosmosphere since she wasn’t created as one.”
“I see. Anyway let’s get going,” Lyner suggested.
As they left the hotel they ran into a muscular youth wearing a yellow shirt, brown pants, large backpack with an umbrella on top, and a yellow bandana around his head.
“Where the hell am I now?” the youth shouted.
“Platina,” Lyner responded in confusion. “And who are you?” he continued.
“Ryoga Hibiki,” the youth answered. Then he blinked and asked
“Platina? I have never heard of it what country is it in?”
Lyner looked at Ryoga in confusion, and asked, “Country?”
Shurelia explained “A long time ago, before the ground and the first two to four hundred floors of Ar tonelico became uninhabitable. The world was divided into many political units called countries.” Ryoga looked at Shurelia oddly and asked, “The ground is uninhabitable? Then where are we standing right now?”
Lyner raised an eybrow at that question before answering, “About eight hundred or so floors up the tower of Ar tonelico. Where have you been for the past two thousand or so years?”
“Two thousand years!? Just a couple months ago I was walking in a place called Jusenkyo in china. I’ve been in the wilderness ever since then.” Shurelia’s eyes narrowed at the words Jusenkyo and china. Ryoga didn’t notice as he continued, “and it was definitely on the ground.
Shurelia was looked a bit pail as she said “Jusenkyo?! China?! That was where the places where my dreams with Ranma started.”
“Ranma? Ranma Saotome?” Ryoga exclaimed. At Shurelia’s nod, Ryoga grabbed her and shook her while in a demanding voice said, “You’ve seen him? Where is he?”
Suddenly a blade appeared next to Ryoga’s neck, and Lyner said in a cold voice, “Let her go or else.”
Ryoga gulped, and let go. “Sorry about that it’s just that I have been chasing him for two years.
“Two years?! Why?” Shurelia asked in surprise.
“It’s because that coward ran out on a challenge, just because I was four days late, but that irrelevant he should have waited.” Ryoga shouted angrily.
Lyner looked at Ryoga with a bemused expression as he responded, “You expected him to wait for four days? How far away from your starting point was the fight supposed to take place?”
Ryoga looked at Lyner like he was being irrational as he responded, “Of course I expected him to wait he knows how bad my sense of direction is, and the fight was supposed to take place in an empty lot five hundred meters behind my house, why?”
“I would say he was right to have left. I personally would’ve waited only a couple of hours before leaving. You can’t honestly expect someone to wait for four days when you started out only five hundred meters away, so why are you chasing him?”
“Its because he was a coward and ran.”
Lyner sighed in frustration, and when he was about to yell at the youth he was interrupted by Shurelia, “we have something important to do. If you want to wait until we are don’t to finish this conversation then follow us. On second thought just follow us I have some more questions I need to ask you later.” As she said this she turned and walked toward the dive shop.
Lyner and Ryoga looked at each other and Ryoga said in awe, “Damn, she’s forceful for a fourteen year old. “
Lyner was caught between wanting to chuckle and wanting to glare at Ryoga. He settled for glaring at Ryoga and replied, “multiply that by about two hundred and you would be a lot closer.” After he said that followed Shurelia.
It took Ryoga a second to shake off the shock that the last comment created before he could follow.
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