When the Lich King was summoned at the Tendo dojo by Happosai, Cologne felt it. A sense of utter wrongness. Evil, true Evil had come to Nerima and once again, it was somehow connected to Son-in-Law. She wondered if his abrupt change in demeanor since he was cured of his Jusenkyo curse had anything to do with it. Had Ranma made a pact with demonic forces to get a cure ? His past willingness to do anything for it unfortunately made this hypothesis a likely one.
She had closed the restaurant and ordered her great-granddaughter and Mousse to stand ready for war. They had gone to the Tendo dojo to investigate but it was too late. The energy traces the amazon elder picked up there and the pentagram in the dojo allowed her to deduce that Happi had gone over the edge this time. His past summonings had been laughable but to call on the powers of the Undead Plane ? Either he went insane or botched his ritual (she was willing to bet on the latter).
Son-in-Law wasn't there. Two possibilities : he was already dead or he had escaped and would soon be on this Evil's trail. They had to find him and help him. Ranma was one of the best martial artists of his generation but THIS was out of his league.
Cologne sent Shampoo and Mousse back to the Nakohanten to bring back certain... things they would need in a fight against undeads. She, on the other hand, went to visit Ranma's other 'associates', hoping to recruit more help.
The Kunos had been easy to convince. A careful choice of words and insistance on the danger threatening Ranma, Akane and the so-called 'pig-tailed girl' had them ready to rush out. Fortunately, she made them understand (i.e. she had nearly broken her cane in two bashing them on the head) that only an alliance of all the Nerima martial artists could hope defeat this latest menace. Kuno had retrieved his family sword and donned the ancestral armor of his clan, Kodachi was in her gymnastics leotard and both siblings didn't realize the seriousness of the situation. *Oh well, we could need cannon fodder anyway...*
Ukyo Kuonji and Konatsu Kenzan joined as well. Her ran-chan was in trouble and Konatsu would follow his mistress everywhere.
They had found Genma Saotome, cowering in a dark corner. After a little convincing, he spilled his guts on what happened and bemoaned that his cowardly son didn't come to save his father and fiancee. A harsher convincing had to be done to make him join the group.
Suddenly, Cologne's senses spotted two points of high energy flares reeking of battle ki and powerful magic, no doubt they could find Ranma in one of these battles. The problem was which one ? They were too few in numbers to separate and hope getting out of it unscathed if the power levels she felt were any indication. She had to choose one and trust her luck...
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(Posted Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:56)
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