The rain was falling again; it never used to rain as often, not until a
certain pig tailed martial artist came to town. When he came everything
changed, even the weather. When he left it got worse, it rained everyday
now. She stood at her bedroom window staring at the Koi pond, where she
used to watch him and his father spar every morning. Not anymore though,
shortly after he left his father went back home to his wife.
"Akane it's time to go dear."
Akane turned from the window brushing a tear from her eyes and she smiled for her sister. "Ok Auntie I'll be right down." She pulled her scarf around her neck and she opened her door and she hugged Mrs. Saotome tightly.
"The cab is waiting dear, you better go." Nodoka hugged the girl who would have been her sons wife if he hadn't have left that night.
Akane smiled a tight smile and she made her way out the house and the yard to the Cab that waited outside. Climbing into the back she closed the door and she nodded to the cab driver who slowly pulled away from the house, he didn't bother asking where they were going every one in Nerima remembered today's date and he knew exactly where Akane Tendo wanted to go.
After about twenty minutes the cab pulled to a halt and Akane paid the driver smiling gently at him. "Thank you." Climbing out she slowly and made her way to a certain spot then knelt gently on the wet grass and read what the headstone said.
Ranma Saotome 1982 - 2002 Beloved son Martial Artist & Fiancé
"Hey Baka." Akane fought the tears that threatened to spill and laid a yellow rose on the grass before the headstone
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The Crow
Red blood and Black feathers
By Kai Lun Mau **********************
People once believed that when a person died a crow carried their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to set the wrong things right
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The rain was still falling as a dark speck circled overhead. As it slowly descended it took on the form of a crow. It continued it's slow decent until it rested on the Gravestone of Ranma Saotome. It croaked and started to peck at the marble, somehow slowly chipping away at it, the sound of the strikes of its small beak striking the stone filled Graveyard, it was loud enough to wake the dead.
His eyes snapped open as he desperately sucked air into his lungs. It was dark he could feels the sides of his prison his fingers scrabbling against the silk lining. `Oh god, he was in a coffin, he'd been buried. Sweet Kami- sama they buried him alive.' Panic, fear, anger, filled him and he cupped his hands in front of him and screamed in terror "SHI SHI HOKUDAN!"
The depression blast exploded in the confines of the coffin burning Ranma's skin; but he didn't care, he just wanted out. The ground exploded, the blast burning high into the air, sending the coffin lid into LEO. Slowly he crawled from the open hole almost falling back in as he stood unsteadily, his balance failing him. He fell, his arms wrapped around the marble stone as he gasped for breath.
The crow turned its head fixing a black eye on him and cawed *It will pass*
Ranma flinched his eyes meeting with the crow's. "What...what happened to me?"
*You died a painful death filled with such betrayal and pain you were brought back to right the wrong done to you.*
Ranma eyed the Crow sceptically. "Dead, yeah right." He tried to stand once again using the gravestone to help him. "Wai....wait it's raining, I'm still a guy???"
The crow leapt from the gravestone and landed on the Martial artists shoulder. *You are no longer bound by the laws of this world Ranma Saotome when you died you left that life behind you. You are no longer Ranma Saotome, you are The Crow.*
Ranma tried to swipe the bird from his shoulder as he staggered towards the gate of the cemetery. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Slowly the once martial artist made his way through the streets of Nerima. Ranma couldn't believe the changes; gone were some of the older stores replaced with cheap junk, liquor stores Prostitutes standing at the corners. "What...what happened to this place?"
The crow circled above it's cry filling the streets * The people became afraid when you were murdered they lost hope, for if the great Ranma Saotome could fall then what chance would they have, slowly the criminals took over the streets and the decent people started to leave*
"This was my home..." He looked down at his clothes the silk shirt ruined from his escape from the grave. "I n...need to go home, need to find Akane, need to find out what happened to me."
He turned to look at the crow. "W...Why can't I remember?"
*You will remember in time, it will be painful. Your mind has changed, you will feel and see what you have lost, living those moments again in your mind*
Slowly he made his way down the streets heading towards the only place he ever thought of as home, The Tendo Dojo.
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AN: Yes its short I apologize but for those who are reading my story Return of the Phoenix you'll understand. For those who haven't go read it and you'll learn why my chapters are short at the moment
"Akane it's time to go dear."
Akane turned from the window brushing a tear from her eyes and she smiled for her sister. "Ok Auntie I'll be right down." She pulled her scarf around her neck and she opened her door and she hugged Mrs. Saotome tightly.
"The cab is waiting dear, you better go." Nodoka hugged the girl who would have been her sons wife if he hadn't have left that night.
Akane smiled a tight smile and she made her way out the house and the yard to the Cab that waited outside. Climbing into the back she closed the door and she nodded to the cab driver who slowly pulled away from the house, he didn't bother asking where they were going every one in Nerima remembered today's date and he knew exactly where Akane Tendo wanted to go.
After about twenty minutes the cab pulled to a halt and Akane paid the driver smiling gently at him. "Thank you." Climbing out she slowly and made her way to a certain spot then knelt gently on the wet grass and read what the headstone said.
Ranma Saotome 1982 - 2002 Beloved son Martial Artist & Fiancé
"Hey Baka." Akane fought the tears that threatened to spill and laid a yellow rose on the grass before the headstone
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The Crow
Red blood and Black feathers
By Kai Lun Mau **********************
People once believed that when a person died a crow carried their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to set the wrong things right
**********************
The rain was still falling as a dark speck circled overhead. As it slowly descended it took on the form of a crow. It continued it's slow decent until it rested on the Gravestone of Ranma Saotome. It croaked and started to peck at the marble, somehow slowly chipping away at it, the sound of the strikes of its small beak striking the stone filled Graveyard, it was loud enough to wake the dead.
His eyes snapped open as he desperately sucked air into his lungs. It was dark he could feels the sides of his prison his fingers scrabbling against the silk lining. `Oh god, he was in a coffin, he'd been buried. Sweet Kami- sama they buried him alive.' Panic, fear, anger, filled him and he cupped his hands in front of him and screamed in terror "SHI SHI HOKUDAN!"
The depression blast exploded in the confines of the coffin burning Ranma's skin; but he didn't care, he just wanted out. The ground exploded, the blast burning high into the air, sending the coffin lid into LEO. Slowly he crawled from the open hole almost falling back in as he stood unsteadily, his balance failing him. He fell, his arms wrapped around the marble stone as he gasped for breath.
The crow turned its head fixing a black eye on him and cawed *It will pass*
Ranma flinched his eyes meeting with the crow's. "What...what happened to me?"
*You died a painful death filled with such betrayal and pain you were brought back to right the wrong done to you.*
Ranma eyed the Crow sceptically. "Dead, yeah right." He tried to stand once again using the gravestone to help him. "Wai....wait it's raining, I'm still a guy???"
The crow leapt from the gravestone and landed on the Martial artists shoulder. *You are no longer bound by the laws of this world Ranma Saotome when you died you left that life behind you. You are no longer Ranma Saotome, you are The Crow.*
Ranma tried to swipe the bird from his shoulder as he staggered towards the gate of the cemetery. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Slowly the once martial artist made his way through the streets of Nerima. Ranma couldn't believe the changes; gone were some of the older stores replaced with cheap junk, liquor stores Prostitutes standing at the corners. "What...what happened to this place?"
The crow circled above it's cry filling the streets * The people became afraid when you were murdered they lost hope, for if the great Ranma Saotome could fall then what chance would they have, slowly the criminals took over the streets and the decent people started to leave*
"This was my home..." He looked down at his clothes the silk shirt ruined from his escape from the grave. "I n...need to go home, need to find Akane, need to find out what happened to me."
He turned to look at the crow. "W...Why can't I remember?"
*You will remember in time, it will be painful. Your mind has changed, you will feel and see what you have lost, living those moments again in your mind*
Slowly he made his way down the streets heading towards the only place he ever thought of as home, The Tendo Dojo.
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AN: Yes its short I apologize but for those who are reading my story Return of the Phoenix you'll understand. For those who haven't go read it and you'll learn why my chapters are short at the moment