Only his son had a different idea, and dashed in to snatch it away.
"What do you think you're doing boy?!" the elder Saotome barked.
Even as he was grinning up at his father, Ranma kept looking towards the cube. "I wanna keep this."
"Oh you do, do you?"
"Yup!"
"It's piece of junk and you should get rid of it!"
"But I like it. It's all rough, and it's real neat!" the boy commented as he gazed at the red gem inside.
"Well, if you're going to keep it, then you'll have to carry it. What do you think about that?"
"That's fine. Thanks Pop!"
"Wha..?" Genma started and stared at his son for a moment. "That's not what I meant. Come back here!"
Sailor Pluto usually had a lot of dignity.
None of that was showing as she was digging through piles and piles of junk.
"Where is it?!" she screeched as she strained to pull a hood out of her way. Sweat smeared the dirt and blood covering her, and her body was trembling with not only a physical strain, but a mental one. It was obvious that she should rest, yet panic had its grips into her and she was bent over, and yanking all sorts of things out of her way.
However, as dusk fell, it became clear that she wasn't going to find her Time Staff that easily. Shaking fingers covered her face before running through her hair in a nervous gesture. A deep and black pit of shock was taking root in her belly, and she found herself half falling to sit in the dirt.
"I lost it. I lost my Time Staff," she quietly babbled, "How could this have happened? I only tried to help keep the timeline straight, and this is what comes of it? If only he would stay dead, then everything would be alright. If that damned boy was taken care of, then everything would be the way it should be. But even if I do my best, he refuses to do what he should, and mucks everything up. I should be waiting for the purity and complete unity of Crystal Tokyo, not digging through junkyards...
"It's all his fault. None of this would have happened if not for him. None of it."
Growling under her breath, Pluto tried to get herself under control while she decided to:
(Posted Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:58)
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