"When Worlds Collide -chapter 11- No Need for a Victor" Hello. I would like to say that I don’t own any of the Tenchi Muyo characters. Also I’m not making money in anyway from writing this. So please don’t sue me, I don’t have much money as it is. Now that I got that out of the way, I would like say that if you haven’t read any of the other chapters stop here and go read the first ten chapters. If you already have, then please read on. When Worlds Collide –Chapter 10- No Need for A Victor The winds blew heavily, the sky was clouded black, the landscape bore that of a storm approaching. But it was a different type of storm on the horizon, one that wasn’t natural for the earth. This storm was one of pure destruction, one that when it’s full furry was released the earth would be completely destroyed. The center of this storm was located one hundred and fifty feet above the Masaki residence. The being generating all of this power was surrounded in a field of white energy around him. The earth’s only hope against this storm was a high school student by the name of Tenchi Masaki. Tenchi watched Damen continue his attack. Unsure if he’d be able to stop such a force from destroying the earth. Damen, feeling that the time was finally right, thrust his hands before him. “GATA GUN. . .FIRE!!” A blinding beam of white energy that was twice the size of Damen shot forth toward the earth. However, Tenchi was standing in the path of the beam, hoping to be able to stop it. Ayeka, Washu, even Azaka and Kamidake looked on in fear of what was steadily approaching the earth. Tenchi raised the Light Hawk sword above his head and yelled as loud as his lungs would allow. A field of energy surrounded Tenchi and a similar beam of energy shot back towards Damen’s beam. The two powers connected with each other, sending an immense shockwave across the countryside. Ayeka and the still unconscious Ryoko were barely being shielded by the shockwave of the two energies. Washu however, was unable to continue watching what was going on due to the high winds that were hitting her body. Turning her back to the wind she opened the subspace portal and seeing that she would be of no help to Tenchi or the others, she retreated back into her lab to help Brian. Damen was amazed at the power the young boy had concealed inside of him, his power seemed to be as strong as his. Perhaps maybe more powerful. * How can this be? He’s just a boy still, and yet he has such a high power. Where did he get such energy? * Damen was stumped on how he was able to counter his attack like this. Damen could keep pressing the attack for a couple of minutes, so he was going to wait for Tenchi to tire down first. Tenchi was feeling calm during his high-powered standoff with the sinister sayajin. He was almost surprised at how calm and relaxed he felt. Although he knew that he wasn’t invincible, at least he didn’t think that he was, he knew in his mind that he and the others could all die. Damen increased his energy output into his beam, intensifying it, intending on overpowering the young boys blast. He was determined in destroying the planet, no matter what the costs. The surrounding environment was feeling the force of the two fighters. The clouds were racing across the sky, energy was raging around in the air in the form of lightning. To any normal human on earth, one would begin to think that the world was coming to an end. Ironically they would be right, but Tenchi Masaki was the hope for millions of lives. “Princess you should seek shelter elsewhere.” Kamidake advised. “Yes, it is not safe here, we are using almost all of our energy to keep you from being blown away by these powerful winds.” Azaka added. “There is no place for me to be safe.” She quietly answered. “Besides I won’t leave lord Tenchi here alone.” She turns her head down to the still unconscious Ryoko. “I know that if miss Ryoko were awake she would be fighting along side lord Tenchi. I also understand that like me, she would not wish to leave lord Tenchi alone. We stay here.” She commanded her guardians. “Very well then princess Ayeka.” Kamidake confirmed. Back at the Masaki house. . . “Hurry up Sasami, I don’t know if this house can take all of this. I sure hope Tenchi and the others are ok.” He stated reaching Washu’s lab door. “I’m coming honorable father. They’ll be ok. Tenchi’s with them, they’ll be fine.” She reassured Noboyuki. * I thought the parent was supposted to be the one reassuring the young child, not the other way around. * Noboyuki pondered to himself as they opened the door and stepped through. Outside of Washu’s lab, the high powered standoff continued to cause havoc. Damen’s attack seemed to be gaining the upper hand; his beam slowly started pushing Tenchi’s beam back. Tenchi started feeling tired from standing off with Damen in this catastrophic showdown. * Oh man, I didn’t think that it could end like this. I have to. . .keep this up.* Damen saw that he was gaining the upper hand and his confidence of victory was returning to him. It appeared that after all his hard efforts he was finally going to defeat these people who caused him so much trouble. “EHAHAHAHAHA!! I WIN! YOU ALL DIE!!!!” Damen yelled, seeming to be completely obsessed with destroying everyone. Ayeka was watching the fight when Ryoko suddenly started moving. She appeared to be dreaming and Ayeka hoped that she could now wake up. “Ryoko wake up, lord Tenchi needs your help now!” “Tenchi. . .” Ryoko softly spoke. “Ryoko get up! Tenchi will die if you don’t wake up NOW!!” Ryoko’s hand came up and pushed Ayeka off of Ryoko’s body. “Darn it Ayeka, I was just dreaming of me and my Tenchi.” She informed sitting up. “And I was this close, THIS close to. . .” She paused to look around seeing the darkened sky and the lightning shooting about. “What’s going on?” The pirate questioned. Ayeka almost face-vaulted. “You mean you’ve forgotten what’s been going on?!” Ryoko looked around and saw Tenchi and Damen in their standoff with one another. “Oh yeah, that’s right. The planets in danger and we’re fighting an unstoppable evil, right?” Ayeka face-vaults. “Wow, for a minute there I though I dreamt the whole thing.” “Well it’s not a dream, HELP TENCHI!!!” Ryoko took another look at Tenchi and noticed the situation more. “Tenchi.” She said phasing out. * His beams nearly on top of me, I’ve got to end this now. * Tenchi had hoped that Damen would give up, so that he would not have to kill him. He could have overpowered the sayajin anytime he wanted too; unfortunately Damen has left him with no choice but to kill him. Damen felt that he couldn’t last for much longer. Soon he would be pouring the last of his energy into the attack and would die in the process. He saw that his beam was nearly touching the boy; at last he would achieve victory from such overwhelming odds. He couldn’t conceive of a more glorious death, taking out a whole planet with him. The thought of this brought a smile to his face. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of movement to his left. He turned his head to see what it was. His eyes widened in shock, he saw a red energy sword heading toward him. The carrier of this sword was a beautiful woman with cyan hair, and a look of fury written upon her face in which Damen only saw in people who fought him to their last breath. * Eeegghh, just my luck, if I do something to smack her away I’ll loose my foothold in this fight. If I don’t do something she’ll be able to easily kill me. Alright then little girl, come racing to your death. * Ryoko sped toward the sayajin, sword burning a brilliant red, highlighting the right side of her body, casting an eerie shadow onto the left. She appeared to be the demon from the legend that Katsuhito told Tenchi numerous times. She didn’t care if he was more powerful than she was, she didn’t care if he easily kills her in her attack onto him. She cared for Tenchi, she told him once that she would be willing to die for him and she was willing to prove it now. Damen extended his left hand out toward Ryoko, the right feeding power into the blast that he was fighting Tenchi with. He was lined up in the shot to take out Ryoko; he took notice that she didn’t show any fear in seeing this. He fired a white blast toward her, Ryoko still racing toward Damen, heading straight toward his blast. Her form was no longer highlighted by the energy from her sword; her entire form was now visible from Damen’s energy beam. At the last possible second, Ryoko teleports to the left of the beams path. The beam passes by her by mere inches. She brings her sword back, awaiting the moment in which she can strike. Damen sees that she dodged his attack, brings his hand back toward his body, fist clenched hard waiting for her to come within range. Ryoko flies at an angle to him, she swings her sword as hard as her arm is able to. Damen kicks Ryoko hard in the stomach, causing her body to turn about, he pulls his arm back to strike her back down into the earth. Ryoko spins around and swings her sword, as Damen’s hand connects with her face. Ryoko falls down most of the way and flips herself back over in time for her feet to become imbedded into the ground. A smile is on her face when she lands back onto the earth. She heard what she wanted when she was falling back from Damen’s punch. A scream of pain. Damen clenched his arm, Ryoko managed to slice most of his left arm off. All that was left was a bloody stub where his arm used to be. Suddenly time seemed to pause for Damen, a second seemed to pass for a minute. *Aaaaahhhh, my arm, that slut took my arm!! Ohh no, I’m clenching my arm, which means. . . . * Damen suddenly realized that he was no longer in the standoff with his energy blast to destroy the planet. He looked back down toward the young man and saw that his energy beam was headed for him. At the end of the beam he saw something that evil who has messed with the inhabitants of this house before have rarely seen. He saw the wings of the light hawk spinning inside of the beam headed toward him. “NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Damen no longer had any energy to attack him with and he had no way of moving out of the way from the beam. All he could do was watch it come to him. The white energy engulfed him, he felt the intense burning of the light. All he could do was scream from the pain that shot from all parts of his body to his brain. Everyone else could barley see Damen’s form inside of the beam. Then the out line of his form vanished inside of the blinding energy from Tenchi’s assault upon him. The remainder of Tenchi’s attack shot off into the blackness of space, causing no harm to anything else. With Tenchi’s attack dispersed, the sky slowly turned back to late afternoon. The lightning had ceased and Damen was nowhere to be seen. The light hawk battle suit disappeared from Tenchi, revealing the normal earth clothing that he wore before the battle started. Ryoko appeared behind him and bear hugs him from behind. “Ohh Tenchi you did it. Way to go. Yeah!” She releases her hold on him and turns him around and looks at him face to face. A slight grin curls up on her left cheek. “And you saved the damsel in distress, I think that calls for a thank you kiss.” She said in her seductive voice. “Uuhh, Ryoko.” “Sssssshhhh now Tenchi, you deserve it.” She gently, but firmly holds his head in her hands and lines him up for a kiss. A rock hits the back of Ryoko’s head. “Oooww.” She responded. “Get you hands off of lord Tenchi, he and I are meant to be together.” “Says you. Tenchi saved my life and I was going to give myself to him in order to thank him and show my love for him.” She finished sticking her tongue at Ayeka. Ayeka clenches her fists at her side and visibly shakes with anger. “Hhmmmmm, common Tenchi show me that you feel the same for me.” Ryoko said, going for the kiss again. “oowww, ow ow ow ow ow.” Ryoko cries due to Ayeka’s tugging at the bangs of her hair. “I said let go of him.” “Alright that’s it Ayeka.” Ryoko responded by grabbing and pulling Ayeka’s hair. “OW.” “OW.” “OW.” “OW.” Both girls had the other in a hair pulling tug of war. “Hey common you too, cut it out.” Tenchi asked trying to break up their skirmish with each other. “Common, we have to check up back at the house to see if the others are alright.” Hearing Tenchi’s suggestion snapped Ayeka’s memory back to the well being of her little sister. “Oh my goodness, I nearly forgot about Sasami.” “Hey, I’m sure she’s ok, the house didn’t take any damage, unfortunately I can’t say the same for the rest of the scenery.” Ryoko pointed out. Ryoko made a good point, in the fight a lot of forest was taken out by Ryoko’s attack. A couple of branches were still burning or smoking from the battle. A lot of it was a charred wasteland. There were also a couple of craters in the mountains, due to missed energy shots. It was a miracle that the house remained unscathed. Tenchi, Ayeka, and Ryoko quickly made their way back down to the house to insure that the others were alright. They stumbled into the front door looking around to see if they could spot Sasami or Noboyuki. They saw neither one. “Sasami, Dad!” Tenchi yelled out. “Maybe their in the lab with Washu.” Ayeka suggested. Ayeka opens the door leading to Washu’s lab and all three enter the lab. Entering the lab, they spot Noboyuki and Sasami sitting together near a curtained area. The trio rush over to the others to make sure that they are alright. Within a couple of feet the trio stand waiting for the other two’s reaction. Sasami looked at her sister, her eyes appearing like they were going to burst from so much water in them, rushes over to her sister. “Uuuuuhuhuhu, Ayeka. . .” Sasami murmurs out running to her sister, tears streaming down her face. She plants her face down into Ayeka’s kimono to shed more tears. Ayeka instinctively raps her arms around her little sister and tries to calm her down. “It’s alright Sasami, I’m fine, it’s over now.” Sasami just cries louder, muffled by her sisters kimono. “That’s not why she’s upset.” Noboyuki spoke, staring off almost in a trance. Tenchi was about to inquire on what was wrong, when he noticed Washu come out from behind the small curtained area. She was in her child form; her head was slightly down cast, her arms holding herself, as if someone larger than the child form was comforting her. “Washu. . .?” Tenchi asked. Washu didn’t reply, she cast her head down and closed her eyes, a tear slid down each of her cheeks. As if she had communicated with each of the three telepathically, they each understood the sour mood the others were in. Another one of their colleges has past on from the fight. Ayeka rested her head on top of Sasami’s head, gently rocking her back and forth to comfort the little one. She shed a tear for the one that had helped their large family. * This is my fault, I should have done more to help Brian out. I should have seen Damen’s sneaky attack a mile away. * Ryoko thought to herself. Ryoko started making her way to the curtain to pay her respects to such a valiant warrior. She stopped when she was beside Washu and she saw the pain that Washu was trying to hide from everyone else. She could see that Washu was hurt from Brian’s passing. She thought that she was always playing tricks on Brian just to be mischievous, but now she saw that she actually had some feelings for him. She felt she had to say something to Washu, before paying her respects to Brian. “Mom . . .are you going to be ok?” Ryoko spoke softly to her creator. Washu’s eyes widened in surprise at Ryoko’s words. She had always wanted Ryoko to acknowledge her as her mother. The others were surprised at Ryoko’s choice of words as well. Washu’s eyes teared up more, she felt she couldn’t decide whether to keep the tears from coming or let them flow. Until finally she just let it all go. Washu cups her hands over her nose and mouth and lets the tears run freely down her face. Ryoko kneels down to Washu’s height and hugs her creator. “Oh Ryoko. . .<Sniff>. . .I’ve always wanted to hear you call me mom.” The scientist told her while attempting to dry her tear soaked face. “I’m so sorry about Brian. I feel that I let this happen, I should have seen Damen’s attack coming.” “Ryoko. .It’s not your fault; he knew he was risking his life. In fact he was expecting that he would be killed in the fight.” “Warriors like him know to expect to die in a battle. Even I know that I could be killed in a battle, but I have to expect that.” “<Sniff> No Ryoko” She pauses to wipe the tears from her face. “I’m saying that he was hoping that only he would be killed in the battle.” Ryoko showed surprise in her expressions. “You mean he wanted to die in the fight?” Washu nods her head. “Well he was wanting that to be as bad as it got. But Katsuhito seemed to believe that Brian’s plan wasn’t going to work, so that’s why he gave you all three of the gems back.” Noboyuki’s head snapped up. “Hey speaking of your grandfather Tenchi, where is he?” Tenchi looks at his father, he then casts his head down slightly. Noboyuki was able to read Tenchi’s body language and walked over to Tenchi and put his arm around his son. “Well son, it looks like today is a very dark day.” “I should have stopped him from doing that dad.” “You didn’t know Tenchi, I tried to talk him out of it, but he wouldn’t have anything to do with it.” Ryoko informed. Washu gazed about the room and saw the sad faces of the remainder of the household. Sasami, who had stopped crying as hard, was being rocked by Ayeka in their hug. She continued to look at everyone and notice that they all seemed to be on the verge of crying their hearts out. Then, like a bolt of lightning, an important memory came back to Washu. “Hu.. Huhu Huhuhu Ehahahahahahahahaha.” Everyone was focusing on the source of the laughter and saw that it was Washu. Upon seeing her laughter the first thought that came to everyone’s mind was the sorrow was too much for her. “Uh. . .Washu. . .are you. . . . .alright?” Her daughter asked nervously. “hehehehehe. . . . .I’m such an idiot.” “Huh?” Everyone gasps simultaneously. “I can’t believe I forgot about that, me the greatest scientific genius of the universe, forgot.” “Forgot what miss Washu?” “Ha, look at us, were all on the verge of crying our hearts out. Brian’s really going to be embarrassed about this, Oohh I can see his face turning red right now. Hahahaha.” Ryoko leans over to Tenchi. “I’m afraid it looks like she’s snapped.” An iron anvil materializes on top of Ryoko’s head, causing her to grit her teeth to straighten herself back to a standing position. “You should show some more respect to your mother Ryoko. I’m still quite sane, thank you for having so much faith in me.” Washu finishes looking at her daughter. “I’m sure a lot of you are confused as to what it is exactly that I’m talking about. So I’ll explain it to you.” School seats appear from the floor and a podium rises up and Washu is dressed in her professors’ outfit. “Now in your seats.” She orders clapping her hands together. Everyone walks over to a seat, Ryoko staggers around, attempting to balance the anvil on her head and make it to the seat. When everyone is seated a screen appears behind Washu. “Now, during the battle, Brian was seriously wounded on the battlefield, as shown here.” A picture of Damen hurting Brian appears on the large screen behind her. “Where did you get that picture from?” Ayeka questions. Three big books materialize on top of Ayeka’s head. “Please raise your hand if you have a question.” Ayeka carefully raises her hand, trying to balance the books on her head. “Yes Ayeka.” Ayeka rises from her seat. “Professor, may I ask where you acquired that picture from?” She managed to ask, balancing the books atop her head. “Certainly, I have security cameras installed everywhere, which are recording constantly.” Noboyuki raises his hand. “Yes Noboyuki.” “Excuse me but I was wondering, do you have any security cameras installed in the women’s bath?” Ayeka, Ryoko, and Washu all gave him a stern look. “What, it was just a question?” “Well since you did raise your hand and not just blurted it out disturbing my class, then I’ll tell you. Yes, there is a security camera in the bath.” Ayeka and Ryoko’s eyes widened a bit, they wouldn’t be able to feel that relaxed in the onsen again. “Alright, now where was I. . .?” “I believe you were talking about how Brian was injured.” Noboyuki helped. A bucket of water materialized on his head. “Thank you Noboyuki, but next time RAISE your hand.” She growled. “Y. . yes. .mam.” “When Brian was injured and everyone else distracted onto the battle I proceeded to help him back to my lab where I would be able to help him. But, he broke free from my hold and placed his hands on my head.” The screen flashed to when Brian placed his hands on her head. “Suddenly I felt this surge of images flashing in my head, at first I didn’t know what to make of what he was trying to tell me. He could barely breathe, so he downloaded some memory into my head. Are you with me so far?” Everyone nods, but Ryoko shakes her head no. “Well, that’s good enough.” “Anyway, would you all follow me please.” She concluded and the screen vanishes and the desks disappear as fast as they appeared. Washu changed her clothing back to her usual outfit and started typing on her holotop computer. “Tenchi, Ryoko I’m going to need some muscles in order to take Brian with us.” “You want us to carry him, where?” Ryoko asks. “We’re heading back up to the shrine.” Washu announces finishing her work on the holotop. A portal opens up beside the genius. “Ok everyone through the portal.” Everyone steps through the portal and walk out next to the shrine office. Tenchi and Ryoko come through last, Brian’s body slouched over both their shoulders. The portal closes and everyone looks at Washu, waiting for her to explain more. “Miss Washu, what exactly are we doing?” “Were going to help Brian and Katsuhito.” Everyone looks more confused. “But Washu. . .their. . .their. . .gone.” Ayeka finishes trying to keep from crying more. “Well, remember how I told you Brian planned on being the only one to be killed, but Katsuhito had a plan to give us an edge.” “How?” Tenchi asked. “Remember me mentioning that Brian downloaded a memory into my mind. Well it was a memory of when Brian first arrived, he came up to the shrine and talked with Katsuhito alone. He told Katsuhito why he came here and that he was planning on fighting them alone, but Katsuhito showed him something. You see, Katsuhito’s been here on earth for 700 years and that gives someone time to learn of the history of the planet. There was a myth from a long time ago, this myth is about seven magical balls spread out over the whole planet. The myth says that when all seven of these balls are brought together, the person who brings them together has the ability to summon forth the eternal dragon. Which gives the balls their unique name, Dragon Balls.” “Dragon Balls? I’ve never heard of them?” Noboyuki adds. “Well as from what I gathered from his memory, Katsuhito told him that it was nearly lost to time around 300 years ago. So he eventually found all seven.” “So he found them, but what does this eternal dragon do?” “Well in the legend the dragon is capable to granting one wish.” Washu explains holding up one finger. “A wish.” Ryoko spurs out, catching her full attention. “Yes, it was said that the dragons power is capable of bringing someone back to live, but only one year after their death.” “Well where are they?” Tenchi asked. “Were else, his shrine office.” Washu said pointing to the office. “So what are we waiting for, let’s get the dragon balls.” “I’ll go and get them Ryoko.” Washu tells her daughter. Washu goes into the office and surveys the setting. *Hmm, now let’s see, where was the spot where Katsuhito hide the balls. * She walks over to a spot in the corner of the office and kneels down beside a rug. She reaches over and rolls the rug up revealing the floorboards underneath. She grabs a board and picks it up and lays it to the side. Glancing in she sees a glimmer of gold from down inside the hidden area. A smile comes to her face. “There you are.” “Well, it looks like I might need some help getting all of these out. Their bigger than I thought.” Speaking to herself. She picks up a dragon ball and heads out the door. Sliding the door open everyone looks to see if Washu had one of the magical balls. She stands in the doorway allowing everyone to get a clear view of the dragon ball. Sasami runs over to Washu to see the Dragon Ball better. “Wow, so that’s a Dragon Ball?” Washu nods her head. “Yes, they’re bigger than what I thought they’d be, so I’m going to need some help bringing them out.” “I’ll help you get them out little Washu.” Tenchi volunteered. “Alright, then we set them up over here, away from anything else.” Washu lays the Dragon Ball down a few yards away from the shrine office in a small clearing. Within a couple of trips all seven of the Dragon Balls are together. After he sets them down, Tenchi takes a couple of steps back to look at all seven of the balls. “Oohh look Tenchi their glowing.” Sasami points out. “So little Washu, how are we supposed to summon the dragon now.” “Hmm, that’s a good question Tenchi, Katsuhito really didn’t explain that to Brian, but I have an idea of how to do so. However, before we summon the dragon and wish the others back, we need to place a gem or two of Ryoko’s back into the master key.” “So Katsuhito can come back and not die again from old age.” Ryoko concluded for her mother. “Exactly.” “So how do we place the gems back into the key?” “That’s simple Tenchi, we just pray that the gems return to the master key.” “That’s all? I thought it’d be a little more difficult than that.” “It’s that easy Tenchi, now you just pray that you receive two gems back to the Tenchi-ken.” “We only need to take back one gem Ryoko, so you can have two.” “Hey, I can make due with one gem, besides one gem makes me about even with a certain princess that I’m going to be kicking around again.” “Ahahahaha, I would very much like to see you try Ryoko. I must admit, I have been wanting to punish you for some time for some things you’ve been doing around the house or shall I say lack thereof.” Ayeka scoffed. * It’s amazing. Those two are friends only in fighting each other. * Washu thought to herself. Tenchi raises the key up and bows his head down to pray. Ryoko raises her hands extended out from her body and begins to pray as well. Two gems from Ryoko’s neck and right hand disappear and reappear in the hilt of the Tenchi-ken. Ryoko opens her eyes and sees that she’s back to possessing one gem. “Now there should be energy being feed into Funaho. So now we can wish the others back.” The red-haired dynamo explained. “Alright everyone stand back.” Everyone took several steps back like Washu requested, they all watched, waiting to see if their plan would work. Washu threw her hands out in front of her. “I call upon the eternal dragon, come and grant my wish!” The balls continued to glow the way they were when they brought them together, they flashed like Christmas lights. Tenchi had seen a Christmas tree from a family originally from America, he remembered that it was a few years ago, the balls glow recalled that memory. Then when everyone expected Washu to turn around and say something, the balls glow grew brighter and no longer flashed. Yellow lightning shot up from the balls and raced into the sky. At the tip of the yellow lightning appeared to have the shape of a dragon’s head. The lightning seemed to be filling the sky with twists and turns. Finally the lightning head stopped and a dragon’s body appeared where the lightning was. The dragon was enormous; everyone noticed that the sky was black. It was black as night, only there weren’t any stars, just blackness. Everyone was captivated at the magnificent sight of the eternal dragon; the head was facing down toward them. “You have awakened me from my sleep. Think hard now and I will grant you two wishes.” “Whaaa…Did he say two?” Washu asked surprised. “Yes, I believe he did.” Noboyuki said. “Uh, miss Washu, what are we supposed to ask it?” “Hmm. . .I think I have an idea on how to word the wish.” Washu steps forward and looks up to the face of the dragon. It possessed a very intimidating face and the shear size of it was almost unbelievable. A thought came to the scientists mind. * Boy, would I love to just do some experimenting on this guy. All the possibilities for experimenting would be almost as vast as the universe. * The thought of this brought a grin on her face. “Eternal Dragon, I wish that all the people that the two sayajins killed were alive again!” The dragon’s red eyes squinted. “Your wish shall be granted.” The dragon lifts it’s head toward the sky, it’s eyes glowing bright red. Several awes escape some of the families mouth’s. Continuing to watch the dragon proceed to grant their wish, Tenchi hoped it would help his grandfather. “Woah, there’s something you don’t see everyday!” * That sounds like. . .* Sasami thought. The younger princess turned around and saw Brian looking up at the dragon. Brian’s eyes connect with the young princesses and she runs toward him. “Brian your alright!” Everyone hears Sasami’s yell and turns around in time to see Sasami cling herself onto Brian. * Wow, that dragon works pretty fast. * Ryoko thought to herself. Everyone looks at Brian in wonder, his wounds were gone, it just looked like someone ripped up his shirt. Brian noticed everyone looking at him weirdly. * What’s with them? * Brian thought to himself. “What?” He asked. “Do you not remember?” Sasami asked, looking up to the resurrected sayajin. “What happened, did I get knocked out or something?” Brian feels a sharp pain on his forehead when a rock hits it. “Oww. .what was that all about?” He looked to see that Washu was the one who threw the rock. She looked angry for some reason, he became nervous seeing that she was angry at him for some reason. “You big oaf you died on my medical table!” She yelled. “Well if I did, it’s not like I just said, “Hey let’s see what the next dimension looks like.”.” “AAGGHH! What bothers me most is you don’t seem to even know how much I looooo….” Washu froze, placing her hands over her mouth, she couldn’t believe what she was about to just yell out at him. * What am I doing? I’m about to just scream out how much I care for him. * She was beginning to feel the stares from everyone else, especially Brian. She noticed he had an almost oblivious look on his face. She couldn’t tell if he was in shock from what she was going to say, or if he was that clueless about how she felt. She began to try to think of something to change the conversation quickly. “Hey, look it’s Katsuhito!” Washu exclaimed pointing her hand the direction off to the side. Everyone turns their heads and sees the priest walking over toward them. His spectacles reflecting the golden light of the dragon, adding the effect of his mysteriousness he clouds around himself. * Wew, that was close. * Washu thought. “Grandpa, your alright!” “Hhmm, yes it appears the legend of the Dragon Balls was true after all.” Katsuhito spoke while rubbing his chin with his right hand. “So isn’t the dragon supposed to disappear or something now?” Brian asked Katsuhito. “The dragon is still here, because it grants two wishes.” Washu informed. “Hmm, in the legend it said that it grants one wish, perhaps someone forgot that it grants two wishes.” Katsuhito implied. “The first wish was that everyone the two sayajins killed would come back to life. So everyone they’ve killed are being brought back to life.” “And the dragon appears to be granting the first wish still, those two must have killed more people before coming here.” Katsuhito concluded. “Exactly.” Off in the universe on several planets, who’s civilizations where destroyed, found themselves coming back to life in one piece. People looked themselves over and found that they had survived, although they would have to rebuild their cities, they somehow knew they would be alright. Back on earth a couple other people were being brought back. Including a well known Martial Arts master, known as Hurcule. Some debris shifts and a small man raises his upper body up off the ground. “W. . What happened? For a minute there I thought we were all dead.” Hurcule removes some debris off of himself. “Well you would have been dead, but I was here to protect you. I had to use one of my secret techniques in order to save you.” “Wow, a secret technique, what may I ask is this technique called.” “Eeehh, well if I told you, then it wouldn’t be a secret now would it?” Hurcule quickly thought up. “Haha, well then I guess not. Hurcule, this reporter owes you his life.” “Hey, it’s all in a days work for the greatest martial arts champion of the world. YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!” A hand rises out of some debris. “Hey, can someone help me out from under this?” The camera man asks. Back at the shrine the dragon’s eyes dim down, it’s head casts down facing the group of people who summoned it there. “Your first wish has been granted, now please make your second wish, so I can return to my slumber.” “Ok everyone, we need to come up with a second wish, any ideas?” Washu asked turning toward the group. Everyone visually begins to start thinking hard to come up with another wish, no one expected the surprise of the dragon granting two wishes. * Hmm.. .maybe I can ask the dragon to make it to where me and Tenchi are together forever, that would be a great wish. * The ex-pirate though to herself. * Maybe I could wish that Lord Tenchi and I are together, and then Ryoko would leave. Leaving me and lord Tenchi together * Ayeka thought to herself Both rivals looked at each other and smiled weirdly at the other. “How about we wish to make the landscape look like it did before the fight?” “Hey that’s a great idea Sasami.” Tenchi agreed. “Alright then.” Washu turned to the dragon. “Eternal Dragon I wish that the landscape would go back to the way it was before the battle!” “Very well, it shall be granted.” The dragon’s eyes glowed a fiery red as it proceeded to grant the wish. Tenchi looked around him and saw the tree’s reappearing like they were before the day began. The grass replaced the dirt and dust that covered the ground from the fight. Tenchi felt completely astonished at the wonderful sight of the beautiful countryside that was healing itself up before him. “Your wish has been granted. Now I must bid thee farewell.” The dragon’s body turned back into the golden lightning that it shone when it first appeared. The form of the dragon shrunk down to the shape of the seven dragon balls, floating in the middle of the sky. Then in an instant the balls shot off into distant directions, heading back to another resting place to be found again one day. Slowly the day came back to normal, it was evening now, the battle had lasted for what felt like days to the residents of the Masaki household. Finally after a month of worry about the worst happening, they could all relax and get back into their normal routine. “Oh by the way, I would like to see everyone one at a time in my lab. I’ll have to run some tests to see if everyone is alright.” “Uurgh.” Was the reply from the group as they were walking their way back toward the house. That’s it for this chapter. Thank you for reading this far into the story. I hope your enjoying it. *** Also I would like to ask for people to send me an e-mail to tell me what they think. We authors get lonely and would like to see a new message in our inbox. My e-mail address is deathgiver2000@yahoo.com. ***