"Oh my!"
This utterance halted Cologne's charge, due to the fact that it wasn't Kasumi who said it.
Several yards away, a young girl with long, dark brown hair flushed deep red, making the blue spot on her forehead and blue stripes in front of her ears stand out. For some reason, she wore an outfit that looked similar to a Japanese Seifuku.
She palmed her face, shaking her head as she did so, "'Oh my?' What was I thinking?!? Maybe Megumi is right, and I am hanging around Bell-onee-chan too much..."
The party from Nerima couldn't help but sweat drop as the odd girl continued into a dull rant. Finally, Cologne gave her patented 'little old lady' smile, and asked, "Excuse me, dearie, but could you help us out?"
It was a tactic that usually worked in Nerima, but the odd girl was not impressed, "You guys aren't from around here, are you?"
Cologne blinked at this, "Excuse me?"
The girl smiled, "My name is Skuld. I'm a Megami."
Kasumi gasped, "You mean you're a Goddess?!?" The others just gaped at this.
Skuld just smirked, "You are definitely Outworlders, that's for sure." She then frowned as Kasumi staggered back, pale-faced, "Now that's not nice."
The Chinese hag gasped as her directed killing intent was suffocated under a feeling of . . . disappointment that was directed right at her, "H-how . . ."
"That . . . is a secret!" The girl's smirk seemed to grow wider, "So, how'd you guys get here, anyways? Normally Outworlders accidentally stagger through a portal or get caught in some arcane phenomenon, and it's usually one Outworlder at a time. Not a group of seven."
"I'm assuming this happens often?" Nabiki asked, hoping that the girl would stick around for a bit and keep Cologne under control.
The Megami shrugged, "Not really, but we've been . . . lucky enough, so to speak, to run into a few."
"Would one of these 'Outworlders," Cologne asked, a slight hitch in her voice betraying her wariness, "be a young man with black hair, a pigtail, and a gender shifting curse, by chance? Goes by the name of Saotome Ranma?"
Skuld narrowed her eyes in thought, "I don't recall meeting a human by that name . . . I have heard of a tamer though, but he was born here; runs a fighting Pokegirl gym over in the Edo League." Noticing the old woman's eyes fill with triumph, she added, "He was apparently born about seventy five years ago to a Ronin Pokewoman who had been captured and raped by a moderately high level Team Rocket thug. When the bastard got himself caught by WAPL officials, the girl was returned to her tamer halfway through her pregnancy. He decided to let her keep the child and raised the boy as his own. Lived a pretty normal life up until his late teens, when he put his father back in jail after he tried to escape. He's also one of the few tamers who can boast of taming leaders of both the Ice Maiden and Amazonchan Preserves."
Cologne nearly stumbled off of her staff at hearing this, while Ukyo asked the expected questions, "Pokegirls? Team Rocket? Taming?!? What the Hell are you talking about?!?
Skuld winced, "I think I'll let Megumi take care of that; it's kind of complicated, to be honest..."
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