“Oh fuck.” Ranma swore racing forwards towards the five greater scarecrows he had forgotten about. Apparently in the fight against the demons they had slipped through to the other side in the chaos. Four of them were simply spinning idly in a circle for some bizarre reason and one was about to stab down on a student. Ranma charged, Ranma jumped, Ranma mule kicked the ugly thing a good fifty metres and landed on the balls of his feet.
“Get out of here Gos, these things are so far out of your league it’s not even funny.” He said to the skinny boy who nodded and dashed away.
“How noble.” A guttural yet slightly reedy voice sang out and Ranma raised an eyebrow then smacked his forehead.
“So you’re the devil that’s controlling these scarecrows! What’s the matter? Show yourself!” Ranma demanded and there was laughter.
“I already have half breed.” It hissed and the five scarecrows collided and all their insects started to form a spiral as billions more rushed out the hellgate to join them.
“Oh this is gonna suck.” Ranma noted as a burlap skin covered the now giant swarm and blades shot out forming a ten metre tall scarecrow that instead of the bladearms typical of a normal greater scarecrow it instead had ‘hands’ formed of three blades. It also had a head which was like a bloated balloon with a gaping mouth that had six blades total acting like freaking mandibles. “A leader scarecrow. I didn’t think your kind could get that powerful.”
“I am a devil lord you impertinent half breed brat. I am Phere (Pronounced Fear roll the R) and you will pay for destroying my underlings.” Phere promised and started walked towards Ranma. It moved like an ape with its rear blades acting as bent backwards legs forcing it to use its hands to march forwards. It left some rather deep holes in the ground behind it. It walked like a gorilla more than anything, but Ranma wasn’t fooled this thing was a million times more deadly than any Uncute Gorilla (Akane).
“Well you know how it is. They were in the way and… I was bored. It’s just the way it works in hell.” He said without much care and Phere roared at him the millions of insects thrashing around inside his mandible covered mouth and he curled up and spun at Ranma. He dodged easily but then saw Phere turn rapidly as he moved like a ball instead of a wheel.
“Sonova!” he shouted diving to the side then did some fast thinking before grinning. As Phere was getting close he punched the ground and a huge skeletal arm complete with hand and little hunks of rotting meat and cloth erupted from the ground and caught the bladed orb while being ground up to pieces. The sound was horrific to anyone’s ears let alone the now half cat Ranma’s but he brushed aside the pain and caught one of the blades and flung the huge monster back. He jumped onto its stomach shifting into his Were-Nekomanta form as he did so and started tearing into the burlap freak before being thrown off.
“Insolent Pest!” Phere screamed before impaling the ground with his claws and roaring causing massive scythelike blades to shoot through the ground like shark fins but reversed and much more deadly. Ranma sidestepped the first and second volley and cleanly jumped over the third then bum rushed the monster into the side of the school stunning it before he started to go wild on its stomach again.
“How dare you Maggot!? I am the lord of all Scarecrows!” Phere screamed going back into the ball and Ranma rolled his eyes as he dodged. He waited until Phere was about to make another pass when he tried the giant arm trick again.
“Crap!” he swore as the bladed ball JUMPED over the freaking arm and Ranma was run over brutally. “Sonova bitch that hurts.” He groaned before kicking himself off the ground and cracking his neck as the massive gashes over his frame and the huge bruise that was beginning to form faded away. He dived out of the way and rolled away from the ball of death. He shifted into his full Nekomanta form and made sure it was about twelve metres long without counting the split tail and three metres high at the shoulder.
The Nekomanta and Scarecrow Lord charged each other as they drew close Ranma started to rear back then beat the bladed ball from one side to another with his claws unsheathed. This had caused Phere’s momentum to transfer into a spinning force like a top. This caused all the bugs inside to be disoriented and caused him to fall apart exposing the stomach again.
Ranma was on him in a flash tearing into the sides with his claws and biting at and ripping open the burlap bag then quickly stomping on the bugs inside crushing their numbers in the thousands with every stomp. The flailing limbs quickly fell limp.
“Enough. I yield. I am not too proud to admit defeat to an obviously greater foe. Take my soul and wield it well. Master.” Phere said as the bugs faded into nothingness and the burlap and blades dissolved leaving a spark of brownish yellow light behind. Ranma took his human form again and grabbed the light.
Ranma grinned as a large scythe formed in his hands. It was an ugly thing with a dirty brown handle and a grey, shifting blade that looked like it had trillions of bugs crawling in and out of the serrated edge. It had a stone like counterweight and looked like it weighed a good two hundred pounds with the size of the blade and counterweight.
His smile turned into his classic ‘pisses everyone off’ smirk and he charged the hellgate slashing it at the base leaving a jagged cut then swung the counterweight around launching it into the air and he jumped up to follow it. He slashed it in two lengthways then sideways, he spun it behind himself and slowly turned in the air then his arms and the scythe blurred before he reduced the rest to rubble in a blindingly fast movement. He landed with the rubble crashing in front of him and he snapped his right hand and pointed at the rubble while using his left hand to hold the scythe behind himself.
A huge swarm of hellbugs flew out of the scythe and towards the rubble, destroying it, consuming it and returning the energy lacing it to Ranma. Behind him his scythe collapsed into light and entered his form. His cocky grin firmly in place, you’d have a hard time removing it with a crowbar at this point. “Alright then, first things first…
New Weapon: Phere, Scarecrow King
Form: Serrated Scythe with a stone counterweight.
Abilities: Eternally sharp, Counterweight has a knockback effect that hurls opponents away and the wielder can summon hellbugs to do their bidding.
Read the comments on this episode
See other episodes by Foster the Imposter
(Posted Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:36)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.