Soul of Light Part 5

Standard disclaimer applies....you know, it’s getting
awfully monotimus writing this same thing over and
over again...still....

Soul of Light Part 5
Twilight to Dawn
Sequel to Etched in Stone


Third Impact Aftermath....

    “Its all gone.”
    Words spoken by the Princess of the Moon. Her
court and everyone needed in the future were standing
where Toyko used to be. A day ago, the Third Impact
had ended and very few people in all the world were
able to withstand the mistake human kind had made.
    Setsuna, the Guardian of Time was typically silent,
waiting for the next step in the timeline. Toyko would
undergo many changes such as the time of the Knight
Sabers in Megatokyo and other such noted events.
But now was the time to start rebuilding the world
from Toyko and up.
    Tears were welling in three known martial artists 
eyes. Never had they cried at any physical blows
they had taken, nor anything else they had suffered.
But the loss of Akane, Ukyou, Akari and Shampoo were
too much to bear. Their families were killed instantly
in the Second Impact. Ranma soon afterwards heard
that his other cousins had surivived for some wierd
coincidence. The Masaki’s, the Mishima’s, the
Moroboshi’s, Miss Shiranui, Keiichi, (although
he was living with Goddesses could explain his
survial) and his other family on both sides. Ryoga
and Mousse on the other hand had lost their
loved ones. Mousse with Shampoo who had
rejected him until her death in the Second Impact,
Ryoga who lost Akari in the Third. Ranma lost
Akane and Ukyou, Ukyou being his best friend
until she was killed in the Third Impact.
    To the other side of the Senshi stood a girl and
a younger man. Asuka and Shinji. They were the
last remaining children on the planet. Nothing had
much importance to them save for the pain of
loosing their families.
    Serenity looked around, tears welling up in her
crystal blue eyes. “I can’t believe this happened,
even after we were told about it,” she said quietly.
    Edmyion wrapped a arm around her shoulder.
“True,” he said, “but it was meant to happen. If
only humankind were not too stubborn, then this
would never have happened.”
    A shout came from Venus who was scouting the
terrain. “Minna! There’s a child in the wreckage!
He’s alive!”
    Soon after a gang effort to clear the rubble, a
young child, barely scathed was standing amongst
them. His crystal blue eyes shone in the sunlight
with a shock of short black hair and slightly
elvin ears. He remained silent as the damage was
surveyed in his young eyes.
    Serenity knelt down and looked at his saddened
face. “How did you survive little one?” she asked
gently.
    He did not reply as he nudged past the Princess
and went over to a wall, placing his hands on its
scarred surface.
    Mars snorted, “rude little kid, ne?”
    “Be nice.” Serenity chided.
    The child took a deep breath and concentrated.
White light poured from his body, drawing startled
gasps from everyone present. Rocks started to
move, clicking into place on the wall on all four
sides. Soon, a towering skyscraper of glass and
stone rose into the air. The child smiled and turned
around, purposely striding towards Hotaru.
    Hotaru felt the small hands touch her own equally
small hands. Her purple eyes locked with his blue
ones. The child blinked, and in an instant, his eyes
changed to brown. Hotaru started slightly. Then
he blinked again, Hotaru’s sigil flaring up with purple
light, a beam of purple light flaring into the sky.
Everyone stepped back as one, waiting for an
ineditable explosion of power.
    The child blinked again and smiled as a similar
sigil flared on his forehead. His was the sigil of
Saturn but with a crystal moon under it. The purple
light from his forehead changed to a bright white
light.
    Ranma nudged his cousin in the side, “Usagi-chan,
don’t you remember that light from a long time ago?”
    Usagi’s brow furrowed in thought. Long forgotten
memories poured into her mind as a young girl, who
amazingly looked like Tenchi’s mother Atchika, used
a spell of briliant light on some things called Beast
Drones. “I remember,” she whispered.
    The child released Hotaru’s hands and stepped
back, his body starting to change. His body stretched
into an teenagers body. His hair lengthed to a silver
ponytail and his eyes turned blue, to green, then to
purple and back to green. His clothing, ripped and
torn changed to white gleaming clothes, crystal bracers
forming as well as a belt and a chest plate with the
crystal moon and saturn sigil on the breastplate.
His back sprang gleaming white wings which he used
to hover in the air. When he settled down, he smiled
and spoke in a familiar baritone voice. “Hello
everyone, my name is Sarrryn Excalibur.”
    Yaten gasped. “You...you look like me!”    Sarryn laughed, “It’s something called Vanity
of the Gods. Every mortal is blessed with some
charecteristics of a specific god. You just look
like me.”
    Usagi blinked, “Atchika-chan? Is that you?”
    Sarryn turned to her and smiled. In a burst of
feathers, he changed to the familiar female all
present could remember, including Tenchi who
had not forgotten the adventure in Guardia.
    “Atchika!” everyone chorused.
    “What can I say? I survived, didn’t I?”
    “But what are you doing here?” Mars asked,
“you gained all the weapons.”
    “True, but you must prepare. In 3524, I will
return and restore the sword to a full whole.
You must prepare for that time. But for now,
I must go.”
    “Waitasecond!” Venus protested, “what about
all this? What will happen now?”
    Atchika stopped and turned around. “The
rebuilding is yours to do. But now, I can do
something about the lost souls. But all the 
senshi will have to let me have access to their
powers for this.”
    Silence came over the place until the Princess
spoke, “we will.”
    “Thank you. Now, stand back, this will take a 
lot of power.”
    They all backed off while Atchika rose into the air.
In a loud voice she cried out, “Star power! Power
flow combine!!”
    Power streamed into her hands and she raised
it above her head. “Now is the time of recogning!
Mercury Ultima Power!!!”
    Aqua power flowed from the jewel on Mercury’s
uniform to be added.
    “Venus Ultima Power!!!!”
    Light streamed into her hands.
    “Terra Ultima Power!!!”
    A swirl of red energy entered her spell.
    “Mars Ultima Power!!!!”
    The flame burst from Mars’ chest like a firebird.
    “Jupiter Ultima Power!!!!”
    Lightning crackled and struck the ball of power.
    “Saturn Ultima Power!!!!”
    A blast of purple energy struck the ball from the
Silence Glave.
    “Uranus Ultima Power!!!”
    Wind streams entered the flow and encircled the
massive power.
    “Neptune Ultima Power!!!”
    Water encircled Atchika from view.
    “Pluto Ultima Power!!!”
    The reddish ball of a Dead Scream flew into
the mix.
    “Power beyond the twilight, flowing light
in the souls of mankind, life in the earth, and
the power of the dragon king! I call you forth!
Power work as one!”
    “ULTIMAAAA!!!!”

    Ranma cried tears of joy as Akane lay beside
him after their lovemaking. He was finally reunited
with the girl he loved.

    Shinji was reunited with the children and his
father who were totally different save for Rei’s
dry wit.

    Atchika, the real Atchika had a wonderous
reunion with Tenchi and his family, while finding
out her alien heritage and what happened to
Toyko Tower back when she visited it with
Nobiyuki a long time ago.

    Yaten had a family reunion with his newly
alive family. They didn’t stop crying for a long
time.

    Akane laughed it off that Ryoga was always
P-Chan and demanded a new pet pig for herself.
Akari lent a baby black piglet who she named
Ryoga.

    Lum was finally able to visit Ataru after the
Oni scandal a few years back, only to mallet
him for one last time and marry.

    Mai Shirinui was reunited with Andy and
Terry Bogard after five long years.

    Shampoo decided on Mousse and chose
him out of love, not duty.

    Ukyou married a totally different Konatsu,
save for the quiet demeanior.

Epilogue

    “Akane, are you sure you want to do this?”
    The woman in question, still youthful but
aged farther than Cologne, nodded. “I have
to. Its not a divorce but I need to go and train
around the world.”
    Ranma smiled sadly. “I guess so. I trained
most of my life and look where it got me.”
    “Baka,” she said playfully and cuffed
him on the shoulder. “Go on. Besides I
only have a few more years left. If I die,
then you will know.”
    Ranma moved down and kissed his wife
for over seven thousand years. Ukyou had
died of old age since she had stopped the
Art a long time ago. Mousse and Shampoo
had restarted the new Amazon Village with
new rules under their government. Shampoo
had died a few years after that of a freak
youma attack. Mousse married the elusive
Senshi Pluto and had become more 
mysterious than before.

    Ranma broke the kiss and waved goodbye
to his wife as she left though the rooftops
of the crystal city known as Crystal Tokyo.

    Akane Saotome died fifty years later while
protecting a town from space mercanaries.
The town was renaimed to honor her and the
Saotome/Tendo Anything Goes Martial Arts
dojo prospered under Ranma’s teaching until
he married Senshi Saturn. The teaching was
turned to the wisest and best teacher until
Ranma came back from political duites and
his long training trips. The teachers name
was Nabiki Saotome, a decendant of the
original Nabiki and Ranma’s great 
grandaughter.

    Akari never had the training to prolonge
her life so she died at an age of 90 years old.
Ryoga mourned her loss but soon married
Senshi Venus. He still has a hard time trying
to cope with her scatterbrain attitude and
her frequent misquotes.