“I’m back!” Tenchi called as he entered the kitchen.
“Hey, Tenchi!” came the reply from the blue-haired girl at the stove.
“Miyah!” Ryo-oh-ki greeted, although she seemed more interested in the bushel of carrots Tenchi was carrying than in Tenchi himself.
“Dinner will be ready shortly.” Sasami finished stirring the contents of the pot in front of her and turned her attention to cutting vegetables.
“Thanks, Sasami. I’ll just go wash up.” Tenchi move to go then stopped. Something didn’t seem right. Frowning, he considered the teenaged princess before him. Why did he feel that Sasami should be younger? He knew that Sasami’s fourteenth birthday was tomorrow, they had been planning it for weeks. Where did he get this idea that she should be eleven?
He shook his head and laughed at himself. It must have been a dream. Last night Ayeka had told them how her first attempt to leave in search of Yosho had been thwarted by her father taking the family on an unexpected tour of the principle worlds of the Jurian Empire. It had been three years before she had been able to make a second attempt. Tenchi had wondered what it would have been like if the first attempt had worked. Ayeka probably would have been the same (Jurian aging slowed to a crawl once they hit their mid to late teens), but Sasami would have only been a child of ten, and not the thirteen-year-old near-woman he had first met. He had fallen asleep trying to picture what it would have been like and figured he must have dreamt about.
Smiling at the thought, Tenchi hurried to the bathroom. He didn’t want to be late for dinner!
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With these changes the power of the “Sleeping Beauty” wish faded out.
Its work was done. The three were near enough in age to each other, and all curses, health problems, and (in Ranma’s case) previous engagements were taken care of. If any of them managed to acquire any more of these from here on out, well, that was their problem.
True, the three weren’t married yet, but the ‘happily ever after’ clause prevented the wish from doing more than this. Given the power of the three, it was inevitable that they would eventually discover what it had done. If it forced their marriage, then their relationship might suffer permanent damage when that was revealed.
So the power of the wish merely set the stage. It was up to the three involved to decide if they would get married.
Unfortunately the power of the wish failed to anticipate one that would oppose this budding relationship and take steps to prevent its fruition.
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