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Sister School
Chapter 08: Chapter 8

By: boomwarrior13

 
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Sister School

Disclaimer: "Oh my god! This is the greatest disclaimer I've ever read in my life!" -Chester A. Bum

Chapter 8: Nihao! My Concubine Part 2

Akane was being dragged through a hallway by guards. She wondered if the others were still alive at this point. The guard stopped at a door and opened it. Inside was a large room that was barely lit. On the floor was a group of hundreds of young girls. "These are where the future brides await judgment by Prince Toma." the guard said.

"All these girls are candidates?" Akane said. She was then pushed into the room by the monkey man. "Enjoy your stay miss!"

"Akane?" came a voice from the crowd. "Ukyo?" Ukyo came from behind a small cluster of girls. "I see they got you too, huh?" "Yeah, so all these girls...?" "Yep, all these girls were taken from nearby islands and forced to come here." "Don't worry, Ranma and the others will save us." "Ranchan! I knew she would come!" "Are you...?" "No! No of course not! At least, I don't think so."

Meanwhile, the group outside was climbing up to where the main palace gates were. They all hid behind bushes and trees to see the guards patrolling the door. "Alright, let's go!" Ranma yelled as she charged at the door. "Hold on Ranma!" Cologne said as she yanked the girl back with her cane. "You'd think being a girl now would give you some brains. Remember that Shampoo and the others are being held hostage. It's best to use discretion in this situation." "That's a good point. You're wise beyond your years Ms. Cologne." Nodoka said.

"I might have an idea." Eve said. "What is it?" Ryoga asked.

"There are two options to this. One, we create some distraction to lure the guards away, but that would mean at least one of us would have to stay behind to cause the distraction. Two, me and Ranma get in pretending to be those bridal candidates, and we break everyone out from the inside."

"I ain't gonna be no one's bride!"

"Ranma-chan, language."

"Sorry mother."

"I'll make the distraction." Mousse said. He pulled out, I'm not kidding here, a stick of dynamite. He used his ki to light the fuse. "Mousse, you idiot! Not that way!" Ranma said. She tried to grab the stick and blow the fuse out. "No, Ranma drop it!" Eve said. She grabbed the stick from Ranma and threw it. It got far away enough to explode without killing the two sisters, but it did knock them out. The two guards ran over to where the explosion was.

"There's two people at the blast site."

"They're both female."

"If the prince finds out we let one of his concubines escape we'll never get promoted." The two guards picked the two unconscious girls up and carried them inside. Everyone else got out of their hiding spots. "Well, that didn't go as planned." Mousse said.

"Where did you get live explosives anyway?" Ryoga said.

"I'm prepared for any situation."

"Well, now we have inside agents." Cologne said.

"I just hope they're alright." Nodoka said.

Inside the palace, Eve and Ranma were forced into a room filled with dresses, hair products, and makeup. "Use anything here to make yourselves presentable in front of Prince Toma." The guard closed the door, leaving the two sisters alone.

Eve whistled, "Damn, where did he get this stuff?"

"Stolen perhaps, like the maidens from the other islands." came a voice from behind them.

They turned to see Cologne and Nodoka standing there. "Wow Cologne. Every time I think your done surprising us." Eve said. "Mom? What are you doing here?" Ranma asked.

"What? You think I wouldn't be here for my daughters. Especially when they'll be judged on how good a bride they'll be."

"Not for long. I'm only doing this to get at that water."

When they left the dressing room, both had their hair down. Ranma was wearing a bright blue dress while Eve wore red. They both had on makeup which Nodoka helped them with.

Side note: I know in the movie Ranma has her hair all the way down her back. But I assume this is because he removed the Dragon Whisker for a few seconds. Since Ranma's permanently a girl in this, she can't use the whisker to make her hair grow longer. Back to the story.

They were escorted to a sitting room that was filled with similarly dressed girls. They looked around for any sign of their friends. "Ranma!" they heard, and Ranma was immediately greeted by Shampoo. "Hey! Where are the others?" Eve asked. "They over here." Shampoo took them to a nearby couch where Akane, Ukyo, and Kasumi were sitting. "Hey Ranchan!" "Hey, what are you doing here? I thought that Toma brat would have you waiting on him hand and foot."

Kasumi spoke up, "Well, we were brought here to be concubines, but it turns out they treat us like we're princesses." "Seriously?" Eve asked. "Just look how Nabiki is milking it." Akane said pointing over to her sister. The middle Tendo was lying on a lounge chair hoisted by half a dozen guards and drinking tea. "Gold digger. Like a hooker, but smarter." Eve said.

The lights suddenly went off and the monkey man came on speaker. "May I present, the Grand Master of Illusions himself! Prince Toma!" The pint sized prince materialized on his throne in front of everyone. "Let the Martial Arts Marriage Contest begin!" he said. "Martial Arts Marriage Contest? This is making Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics look normal." Eve said.

"Your first challenge begins now! The bride of Toma must have dexterity and patience. And what better way to prove that then moving rice from one plate to another." All the girls looked positively annoyed. "Really?" Akane asked. "This is stupid." Shampoo said. One of the guarsd announced that if they didn't compete they would have to pay the bill for the dress and accommodations. When the challenge began, every girl tried to pick at rice with chopsticks as fast as they could. Ranma was going to win with the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken training, but Eve just dumped the contents on her plate to the other one. Every girl who saw this looked very angry. "What? He didn't say how we move the rice." Eve said.

The next match was flower arranging. This turned into an epic battle with a giant man-eating plant. Eve unsheathed her hidden swords and slashed at the vines that tried to grab her. Ranma managed to wrap the monster with its own vine and throw it into a fountain.

Next was the endurance round. A door opened up and a large group of mice ran through the room. All the girls ran away except for Ranma and Eve. Ranma was chuckling to herself, "Stupid girls. Scared of a few lousy mice. It's not like they're a bunch of...CATS!" Ranma screamed and ran away from the crowd of felines that just came through the door. "I told dad not to try that training. It was retarded." Eve said as she watched her sister run in panic.

Meanwhile, the others were creeping through the palace. They had to take down a few guards silently, but otherwise they didn't find anything. Ryoga's sense of direction and Mousse's poor eyesight certainly did not work in their favor.

Back in the competition, Ranma screamed and ran straight into a wall. "That's gotta hurt." Ukyo said. "Ranma! Your fighting for all of us too, you know!" Nabiki called out.

"It's time for the final round!" the monkey man called out. It was just a cooking contest. Ranma frantically mixed ingredients together, when suddenly everyone heard a huge rumble. The rest of the NWC showed up with several guards chasing after them. Toma looked from his throne, "Well, it looks like we have unwanted guests. Guards take them!" The crowd of soldiers formed a circle around the group. "Everyone ready?" Ryoga said. The rest nodded and they all charged in separate directions.

Ryoga threw out several bandanas that spun like shurikens. Mousse lashed out his chains and struck a large amount of guards. Nodoka and Eve were both slashing their swords respectively. And Ranma was...cooking.

As Ranma finished her concoction she ran towards Toma to present it, but Eve threw one of her swords at the plate. "Are you insane, Ranma! Come over here and help us!" While all this commotion was going on, Toma was watching and laughing hysterically. Akane noticed this and felt a surge of rage. She ran up to the prince's throne and slapped him across the face. "What is your problem! You think it's funny to watch people risk their lives like that? You should be ashamed!" Toma rubbed his cheek in shock. "What's your name?" "Akane Tendo!" Toma stood up and turned to the monkey man. "Sautoru, I've made my decision, I want Akane Tendo to be my bride." "What!" Akane, Eve, and Ranma all called out.

"Sir? What should we do with the other concubines?" the monkey asked. "I don't care. Do what you want with them." "I can't thank you enough sir. Listen everyone! It's a free for all! Go for it!"

Suddenly the whole room erupted into chaos. Guards everywhere were snatching up girls left and right. Ranma could see that the monkey man had gotten away with Ukyo, a bird man took Shampoo, and some huge dog man took Nabiki. Eve fought off every guard that tried to snatch her. Toma quietly took Akane by the hand and pulled her away.

After everyone was gone except for the guys, and the Saotome women, Soun fell on all floors and started crying...again. Eve stabbed the ground with her sword in anger, "Damn it! Not only did we not get the water, but they took our friends again! Those Fuckers!" "Language daughter!" Nodoka said angrily. Eve sighed, "Sorry mom. Do you have our clothes, I don't think we can fight like this." "What are we gonna do?" Ranma asked. "I'll tell you what we do, we go after them!" Ryoga yelled.

The group was now running down the main hallway looking for any signs of missing girls. They stopped at a circular intersection that branched off into different smaller hallways. "I sense their chi, but it's from no definite area." Cologne said. "We should split up." Mousse said. Everyone ran down a respective tunnel except for Nodoka and Cologne. The Amazon matriarch pointed her staff down another hallway. "Let's go this way."

Kuno stumbled upon Nabiki who was sitting in front of the dog man. "Oh, hey Kuno baby. Can you take care of this guy?" Nabiki asked halfheartedly. "Certainly my fair Nabiki Tendo. Have at you!" Kuno struck out with his wooden training sword, but the dog man just ducked around his attacks and punched him. "Curse you, dog man! I'll teach you to touch the fair Tatewaki Kuno!" This continued until Nabiki threw a bone out the window that the dog stupidly followed.

In another room, Shampoo was being hit on by the bird man. "Shampoo no marry you. You wait, Shampoo have friends, strong friends who beat even Shampoo!" "I'd like to see them try." "Shampoo!" she turned to see Mousse standing in the doorway. "Let us fight then. The victor shall claim the girl." the bird man said as he jumped onto the branches that ascended the room. "A challenge is it? I accept!" Mousse drew out a pair of Wolverine like claws. I think Marvel/Disney is gonna sue someone.

The bird man drew out a sword and slashed at Mousse who blocked it with his claws. The bird man jumped up and flapped his wings, "Feather Blizzard!" Mousse was now shrouded by a bunch of feathers blowing across his face. He took a shot in the dark and punched the bird man. At this point Shampoo was on the same branch as them. "No Mousse, you no have to do this!" "I'm doing this for you Shampoo!" "I'll show you, neither of you are leaving here alive!" the bird threw several feathers like darts. Half of them nailed Shampoo to the wall behind her, while the other half pierced Mousse's body. "What's the matter, can't you move? Those feathers are like acupuncture needles." he turned to Shampoo, "Now my dear-" "Stop!" the bird turned to see Mousse struggling to keep his balance. "Keep your filthy hand off her!" he growled. "Inconceivable! Die Stupid!" the bird shot more needles at Mousse, but the Amazon man kept trudging forth. "Are you human! Don't you feel pain!" with one motion, the feathers shot out of Mousse's body and he punched the bird in the face, knocking him out. "Shampoo! I beat him!" Mousse said before passing out.

Ryoga stumbled into another room. "Akane!" he called out, but instead found Ukyo and the monkey. "Ryoga?" "Oh, hey Ukyo. Sorry I gotta go. Akane needs me." "I need you to, in case you haven't noticed. Lord knows what this creature has done to me!" "Um, can I interject?" the monkey asked. "Alright." "If you want the girl, you'll have to defeat me!" "Fine then!" Ryoga got into a battle stance. "Saotoru Special Attack! Shadow Fall!" A shadow appeared out of the ground and crept up onto Ryoga's body. His eyes suddenly became blank and lifeless. "Now your own nightmares are turned against you!" the monkey laughed. Inside Ryoga's mind he was having a different nightmare.

"Akane!" he ran into the same room and found a horrible sight. All his friends were lying there dead. Either impaled on swords or their heads beaten open, they all were just still in a pool of blood. "No. I failed them." Outside of Ryoga's head, Ukyo heard everything he was saying. "Darkness, no hope. I'll show you! It was a mistake to make me unhappy! Take this! SHISHI HOKODAN!" A wave of energy erupted from Ryoga's hands and blasted the monkey. This left Ryoga completely drained and he passed out. When he woke up Ukyo was carrying him down the hall. "Come on sugar. We'll find them together. You don't have a sense of direction remember?"

Akane was in Toma's quarters. He was telling her his life story about how his mother died when he was younger and he was looking for a wife ever since. Suddenly the door opened and Ranma and Eve burst in. "Akane!" Ranma yelled. Eve held her swords up, "Hands off the girl, half pint!" "You come into my home uninvited and you try to take my fiance away from me! Take this!" Toma brought out his glowing katana again, "Mystical Chaos Illusion Strike!" flames erupted around the two girls. "You really think we'll fall for the same trick twice!" Ranma said. "You're nothing but smoke and mirrors, you little twerp!" "You saw through my illusion? Now I really will kill you!" "Ranma! Please don't do this! I like you just the way you are!"

"Ranma, can you handle the dork while I get Akane somewhere safe?" "Sure" Eve was about to grab Akane's arm, but she stopped her. "Wait, there's something you need to see." She grabbed a stone off the floor and placed it in a panel on a pedestal. The wall in front of them opened up to reveal a massive circular room that spiraled down several stories with mine cart tracks. At the very bottom was a pool of water. "We found it!" Ranma yelled. Toma had taken Akane while they were distracted and shoved her into a mine cart. Ranma and Eve nodded at each other and took off after it.

Ranma hopped in another mine cart while Eve used her swords to hook into the rock wall and slide down. Ranma jumped to Toma's cart and started punching him, but Toma ducked around them. Eve tried to grab Akane and pull her to safety, but the mine cart got unhooked before she could reach her. Toma was about to jump to Akane's cart when he was caught off guard by Ranma's fist. Toma punched back and thought he had knocked Ranma off, but sh was just hanging on to end. "That takes care of her. Now-" "Oh no you don't! Akane ain't going nowhere she doesn't want to!" Ranma pulled the end of the cart down, tearing apart the track behind her. The cart flipped over and she and Akane were falling down towards the bottom. "Ranma, the water!" "I know! I gotta blow it up!" "No! You can't! You'll never be a man again!" "Hey! Didn't you just say you like me how I am! This is it, all my energy into one blast!" Ranma started to glow and then a giant ball of energy shot out of her hands. The blast hit the pool and a hole formed at the bottom that drained all the water. A geyser of water shot back out and launched everyone in the cave out through the top of the tree.

Ranma got up and looked around. Her sister was about ten feet from her. "Eve! Are you okay?" the girl opened her eyes, "You destroyed the water didn't you?" Ranma hung her head and nodded. "Well, I guess we can still get free ice cream." she joked.

Everyone was gathered outside the main palace gate. "I'm sorry for kidnapping all of you." Toma said." "No biggie, this stuff isn't that out of the ordinary for us." Eve said. "Hey wait, how are we supposed to get back? Our boat's still destroyed." Akane said. "This island follows ocean currents. We should be at Japan in about two weeks." "Well, I guess we still get to be princesses for a little longer." Ukyo said.

"Hey sis." Ranma said. "Yeah?" "You're not mad about the cure are you?" Eve sighed, "You did it to save Akane, and for that I'm not mad. Maybe this was never meant to be a curse. Maybe it was a blessing. You really think we would have this many people in our lives if we hadn't went to Jusenkyo?" "No, you might be right. Thanks bro." "I'm your sister, and I wouldn't have it any other way." Eve said as she hugged the redhead.

End of Chapter 8

 
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