AN1: And in this Chapter, we have a date and Shadow meets Ranma!

AN2: I am still sick, and to top it off, my new doctor can’t get my old records for some of the tests he wants to put me through that I’ve already gone through so he can do a comparison between the two results from my old doctors. Thus stalling all my tests and pissing me and him off. I just want to get better damn it!

THE SENSHI OF CHAOS RETURNS

CHAPTER EIGHT

A DATE, A BATTLE AND AN ALLIANCE

Yami Network Broadcasting Headquarters: President Kira Yami’s office: moments later

Kira Yami, AKA Shadow, was in his office when he was buzzed by his secretary. “Mr. Yami, they need you in viewing room one.”

Shadow raised an eyebrow, for that was the room which held the personal that he had assigned to watch over Ranma Saotome, AKA the new Sailor Chaos, and he said “I’ll be there shortly Kei.”

He then got up and went over to the viewing room.

Yami Network Broadcasting Headquarters: viewing room one: seconds later

“Hmm,” Shadow mused as he saw the play back of Ranma getting ready to go on her date. “Well you were right my dears,” He said addressing the two Youma in charge of watching Ranma “This would be an excellent time to approach her.” Going to the room’s phone he pressed a button after picking up the receiver and said into it “Kei my dear?”

“Yes Mr. Yami?” Kei replied.

“Can you send both Chieko and Kira to my office? Tell them to be there in about fifteen minutes if you please?” Shadow asked.

“Yes Mr. Yami.” Kei replied.

“Thank you Kei my dear.” Then getting off phone, he striated and addressed the two Youma in the room with him and he said “Good job my dears. Keep up the good work.”

As Shadow walked back to his office he mused on some things. The most prominent item on his musings were just how well you could train Youma and just how smart they could become, if you would just nurture them a little. They were like children in a way, and he scowled at the thought of all his previous employers using them like untrained useless fodder. If they had just cared and nurtured them a bit, they could have been quite a successful force to use against the Senshi.

Chieko and Kira were two of his first attempts to prove this. He had been raising them like his own daughters ever since he had been working for Beryl, and while they were no huge geniuses, about four years of constant attention had brought them up to about a normal human in terms of intelligence. Quite the feat he thought, and it proved to him at the least that the Youma were worth fighting for. They really were just like children. Full grown, energy draining, killer children, true, but you could always work around that. Or at least he always could, he though as he sat down in his chair.

Then Chieko and Kira came into his office moments later and asked, as he had told them to, for they did play the part of his daughters in public, “Hey dad, you wanted to see us?” they asked in stereo.

Shadow smirked and said “Yes. I think tonight will be a good night to approach Ranma on the subject of trying to align ourselves with the Senshi. And I was wondering if the two of you would join me in this endeavor?”

Even though it was formed as a request, both Chieko and Kira knew it wasn’t one. Kira then asked “So you want us there as an example of what the Youma race can possibly achieve with some help? Sure thing dad.” She then said.

“Same here.” Chieko said. Then she told Shadow “I really have wanted to meet this Ranma person ever since I heard she made the Senshi rethink the idea of Crystal Tokyo. She must be something else, huh dad?” Chieko then asked.

“That she is Chieko, that she is. Well, if you two will get yourselves ready, we need to be at the circus by five. We’ll be approaching her after her date’s dinner.”

“Ohh, who’s the date with?” Chieko asked.

“Hotaru Tomoe, otherwise known as Sailor Saturn.” Shadow said with a strait face.

“Makes sense to me.” Kira said with a shrug. “Well come on Chieko, we’ve gotta get dressed and stuff. Plus we still have to finish that paper work before we can do so.”

Chieko just groaned and asked “Why did you remind me of that?”

“Oh come on, it will take just another half an hour at the most, and then we’ll finally be done with it.” Kira said while leaving the room.

“Ugh. Fine.” Chieko said following after Kira with slumped shoulders.

Shadow just chuckled at his two adopted daughters’ antics.

At the Russian Circus: a little later

Ranma was slightly board with the acrobatics currently performing for the audience she was a part of, so she was taking the time to look over a Hotaru and think a little.

‘I wonder just why Hotaru asked me out on this date?’ Ranma wondered. ‘Well, I know better then to just ask, well at least right now that is, so I’ll just try to enjoy it. Besides I like her, and I guess she really likes me. I mean I knew she liked me, but not this much.

Hotaru then turned to Ranma with a blush and asked “Is the circus that boring to your Ranma?”

Ranma blinked and stuttered for a bit and then said “Nah, just the acrobats. I mean I could do most if not all of what they’re doing. I’m waiting for the animals to come out again. Or maybe the clowns. Wait, do they even have a clown act?” Ranma asked seriously.

“I think so Ranma.” Hotaru said, not quite sure on that herself. She had never been to a Russian circus before, so she wasn’t quite sure, but she thought that they must at least have a few clown acts.

“Oh, ok.” Ranma said, looking back down to the act, now coming to a close, and the three bears, five tigers and two lions coming out in their place with four trainers to control the animals.

Ranma shivered at the sight of the cats, while silently thanking any listening Kami that Setsuna had helped her get a lot more control over the Neko-Ken with the help off Luna and Artemis. While she was not the master of her fear and the technique, yet anyways, cats, even big ones such as lions and tigers did no more then sender into shuttering now.

Hotaru noticed Ranma’s shutter and griped her hand. Ranma then smiled at Hotaru, and they watched the animal act hand in hand

On the way to The Crimson Blossom: after the circus was over

The Crimson Blossom was just barely with in walking distance from the site of the circus. Well for a normal person that it. It was just a hop skip and a jump away to Ranma. To Hotaru however, it was quite the hike. Her training with Ranma had truly upped her normal form’s endurance, enough so she would just be slightly tired when they finally got there.

Following a discreet distance away from the pair were Shadow, Kira and Chieko. They had gone to the circus as well, to not only watch the two on their date, but to see when the best time to approach Ranma would be. They were thinking it would be best to approach her after she had eaten dinner, but before she was picked up by her ride, but then fate, or should we say chaos, intervened.

For a group of Youma that were NOT under Shadow’s control suddenly warped into the park they were passing and indiscriminately started attacking and draining people.

As people started to run for their lives from the nearby park, and as Hotaru silently cursed fate, Ranma asked Hotaru, “Hey, those those Youma you girls always go on about?”

“Yes.” Hotaru hissed out, pissed that her date was being interrupted.

“Well, shouldn’t we do something about it then?” Ranma asked quite seriously.

Hotaru sighed and said “Yes. Yes we should.” And she ran off to a near by alleyway, with Ranma running after her, wondering just where she was going. After catching up to her and asking, she got the explanation that it was to hide the transformation of them into their Senshi forms. Ranma just nodded, not quite getting it, but willing to go along with it.

While all this was going on, Shadow was cursing up a storm. “Just where the hell did those Youma come from! Heads are going to roll!!!” He screamed as he then considered his options.

Then he made his choice after a few minutes into the battle a second squad of Youma came bursting in through a dimensional gateway. Cursing his fate, he yelled out to Kira and Chieko, “Well girls, let’s help them out!”

In the thick of the battle: moments prior

Ranma, well now she was Sailor Chaos, was following Sailor Saturn out to the battle field. Saturn called back to her “There are way too many people still out here to do any big attacks! Stick to hand to hand if possible!” While at the same time she summoned a giant glaive out of thin air.

Chaos, seeing the truth of that, for the park was still full of panicked people trying to avoid being a Youma snack, and willing to listen to a voice of experience on fighting these things, called back “Sure thing!”

While Saturn was carving up Youma left right and center with her wicked polearm, Chaos was marveling on just how powerful her basic hand to hand techniques were while in her Senshi form. The number and power of the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken she could do alone was mind boggling to her. She thought they easily had this fight in the bag, when the enemy got reinforcements. A lot of reinforcements. Chaos suddenly knew that they either needed reinforcements of their own, or to start whipping out the area effect attacks. But since there were still civilians in the park to get in the way of such things… “Aw crap.” Chaos said with feeling.

Saturn nodded in her agreement, and prepared to join with Chaos on doing as small an area effect attack as she could, she had been working on such an attack, the Silence Glaive Surprise was just too big an attack to work in most cases in Saturn’s opinion, and in this case that was defiantly true. Taking out a few square city blocks with one attack would get a lot of the civilians dead by her hands right now, when two women and a man suddenly came up on the Youma from the rear, and started tearing into them.

Chaos looked at Saturn, who nodded, and Chaos then went to join in on their attack on the larger group of Youma by getting them in a pincer maneuver, while Saturn cleaned up the rest of the Youma over where she was.

It did take a few small area effect attacks, like Saturn’s new Silence Thrust, in which she thrust out her glaive in a stabbing motion and she could annihilate about ten square feet of space, and the Youma in it, before all the Youma were gone.

Then the two groups looked at each other, wondering just who should speak first.

EAN: Well, what a way for Shadow to meet Ranma, eh? See what happens next time. Should be good I hope.