Since most gods and goddesses work with Yggdrasil, the super computer that controlled the universe, on a daily basis, they could easily manipulate the complicated interfaces to make whatever changes they felt necessary. However, several deities used the programs rarely, preferring their own inherent abilities instead. Bast was one of these types of gods, and at this moment she was wishing that she had practiced beforehand.
Not that she was slow, or anything. In fact, her speed at manipulating the Yggdrasil system was several times faster than the best programmers of Earth. Unfortunately, she had a small frame of time to input the necessary changes, and the rate of success was very low.
Her eyebrows furrowed as she redirected the magic flows within Ranma's body. Being his "mother", so to speak, she had a spiritual line to him at all times, and could manipulate his life energies and magicks when necessary. Therefore, she could actually pass the death spell's aura out of his body, leaving him alive, if not a bit sore. Her slitted eyes widened in shock as a red warning screen appeared next to the hologram. He wasn't going to survive; there was just too much power in the lich's spell! Frantically, she looked for an alternate solution.
Miraculously, she found it. In his magical makeup, she spotted a strange code for a curse, which was restrained by several divine strings of data. Upon a quick examination of the chaotic code, she discovered that it was, indeed, Ranma's old curse, the Nyanniichuan curse. The divine coding was her own, which was designed to prevent the curse from resurfacing, and was indeed very strong. At the time of instating Ranma as her avatar, she could not destroy the Jusenkyo curse, for it was tied in too deeply with his soul; as an alternative solution, she had merely covered it up, preventing it from activating.
Thinking quickly, she came to a decision. She once again began to manipulate the flows of the spell. This time, she directed it towards the coding. Bast's plan was quite simple. She would destroy her OWN coding with the spell, as trying to destroy the curse would only kill Ranma. The divine spells should be strong enough to stop the spell, though most likely would end up being destroyed, causing the curse to reactivate again.
'Still,' Bast mused as she quickly entered in commands that would redirect the magical force, 'it's much better than a dead cat.'
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Remember when it was mentioned that Bast was faster than all of the Earth computer geeks? This was proven correct, for all of this took place in three Earth seconds.
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Theo hissed as he raised his arms to block the sudden burst of light. 'Damn, what's happening to Ranma?' he wondered as he listened to his housemate/annoyance/friend scream in pain, somehow managing to do it in two separate voices. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Gina huddling in a ball while crying, and Brittany standing at the doorway, temporarily blinded by the aura of light. 'Poor girl,' the mage mused, 'possibly seeing her mother, and now her father, die in front of her very eyes.'
He shook his head, trying to shake off that final thought as the light receded. At Julia's gasp, he brought himself to look. He had actually expected a bloody, mangled corpse of a black werecat in his bedroom. He wasn't entirely disappointed, much to his chagrin; the body was bloody, and it was a werecat. Thankfully, it wasn't a corpse.
However, of what evidence he could see, physically and through his aura, he could tell one thing:
Whatever spell that monster had cooked up, he was glad he hadn't got hit by it. Theo definitely did NOT want to become a woman, after all.
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