Lunch time, Akane and Ranma sat down and had lunch together.
Akane looked around, 'there's no sing of P-Chan, and the Principle hasn't tried to shave Ranma yet today, and Tatewaki's being distracted by Mariko... '
Akane and Ranma looked at each other at the same time their words echoing each other perfectly, "Akane/Ranma, something very weird is going on around here."
Fifty Nine Hours and Fifty One Minutes to Nyx Advent:
A minute or later, the official unoffical couple was in the class room waiting from the resident fortune teller Miyo. The ghostly eyed girl looked over the cards again and again in total disbelief, then looked at Ranma, then the cards again. She spoke as if not believing the words coming out of her own mouth, "There's no denying it. Coyote has abandoned you."
Ranma blinked ignorantly, "Huh? What's a dog got to do with anything?"
"No no no, Coyote the Trickster of Native American theology. Also known as Loki, Chaos, the spirit of discord and confusion. It seems his spiritual presence had left you... but that's the strange thing." Miyo looked at her cards, and looked at them again as if staring at them would making their meaning clearer.
"What's strange?! ... You're saying', that-that-" Ranma head swam and did Akane's as they both struggled to put together precisely what Miyo was telling them, "You sayin' my life long bad luck streak is because I've been some god's plaything all this time?.... " Ranma blinked again this time in calm realization and said simply, "Ya know... actually, that isn't really that far off."
"His pawn is more like it, it seems the waves of chaos being channeled through you were being directed to directly subverted an organically occurring harmonious state the world was leading towards. But that's just the strange thing."
Ranma slapped his forehead, "WHAT'S the strange thing?! Say it already!!"
Miyu realized she had been mumbling and said, "The strange thing is that I can tell all this. There's no way I should be able to tell that Coyote has been toying with you. Coyote's presence by it's very nature masks itself! Even when it leaves I shouldn't be able to figure out his presence, and yet I am!"
"Maybe Coyote or whatever is losing his touch?"
"Gods don't lose their touch." Miyo said with finality, "The only logical way -which in of itself is warpped considering who we're talking about- that this could be happening, is if Coyote hadn't just abandoned Ranma, opposed to get getting bored with him, and I actually be able to tell Coyote's been around at all, is if Coyote had abandoned not only Ranma, but this entire world."
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Near the star, of Alpha Centauri.
"...aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhhh..."
Coyote ran past the component set of stars still running and still screaming.
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Akana thought about this before speaking, "I guess that's a good thing right? I mean, does this mean I don't get kidnapped every semester anymore?"
Miyu, "But that's the strange-" Ranma glared at her, ".... what is unusual here. A god -doesn't- just forsake a world they've become intrigued by, something beyond major must be in the works."
Ranma said his voice dripping with sarcasm (he never had forgiven Miyu for her part in that particularly -awful- home remedy Akane had put together that one time), "Why don't you ask the cards that too while you're at it?"
Miyu narrowed her eyes, "Maybe I will."
The teenage seer shuffled the deck and let her spirit senses guide her hands. She drew a card, looked at it, paled, shuffled again and this time placing three on the table. The Death, The Moon, and The World. She drew another card and got the lovers. Miyu shook her head, reshuffled the cards and drew again, getting another combination that only made her pale more. She repeated this multiple times, her face getting paler every time and her hands beginning to shake. Finally she tried to shuffle one more time and the cards fell out of her shaking hands, her calm ghostly eyes actually fully open for once.
"No..." She whispered.
"Miyu?" Akane asked rather worried, "What's wrong? You okay?"
Miyo slumped in her chair, her face nearly blank, "Akane, Ranma, I'm sorry, I'm just so sorry."
Akane implored, "Miyu what is it?"
Miyu looked at Akane her face finally showing emotion again, "Akane, you are going to die."
Akane looked like she didn't understand the answer.
Ranma balked, "You-you HAVE to be joking!"
"You're going to die too Ranma."
"WHAT?!" Akane yelped.
"And so am I." The pair wild taked. "And so is the entire world. All living things on Earth have less than three days to live."
Ranma slammed his hand down, "Come on you've gotta be jokin! I refuse to believe this garbage. I want a second opinion."
Local nutty voodoo boy Hikaru Gosunkugi ran through the courtyard at that very moment, screaming at the top of his lungs, "The spirits of death is upon us all! The spirit of death is upon us all!!!"
Ranma and Akane stared out the window in silence.
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"Come on move! Move!" So shouted Nel Tu, the defacto queen of Hueco Mundo following the deaths of the Espada and Lord Aizen and his coconspirators. "Do you want to die again? Come!"
As to who she was shouting at, she was of course shouting at the very large number of Non-menos level hollows, entering the gate into Hueco Mundo. the intelligent ones being intimidated enough by Esapada level Arrancar to know not to argue, while the ones who had been dead for so long they had gone lost their sentience having to be herded like animals by her two subordinates.
Nel Tu looked up at the sky, she could feel it, a spirit pressure so immense... it was like all of Hueco Mundo compressed into one place... and it coming this way ever so slowly. Nel Tu had always been an oddity among hollows, most notable for her ability to care for the sake of others including her fellow hollows. And she knew whatever was coming, would annilate the spirit presence of anything in it's path... hollows included.
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