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Dark Fires: part 2
by RJ

	The street was vacate as the sky grew darker over Nerima.  The back alleys
 were dark, quite and alone, with occasionally rustle from a stray dog or cat, nobody 
really walked them.  However, this night the back alleys were far from alone.  A figure 
wandered them, a young woman.  Her face seemed blank as she passed the brick walls, 
her eyes not her own.

"Why am I here?"  She asked herself. "Why am I doing this?"

"Because you deserve it."  A voice not her own answered her in her head.
"But?"  
"But nothing!  You know that if don’t do this you’ll always be worthless."
A tears began to form in her eyes as the voice insulted her.
"Not that I think your worthless, but you will always be second to Lee.  He has everything 
Cendia.  He is the heir to the throne of  Elemetria¹.  He married Kayko, who is the Queen 
of the Mustikos Kingdom.  Both are more powerful then you’ll ever be.  You will never be
 as important as Lee is by your father standards."
"I know, but dad always says he loves me and."
"Loves you!  Forcing you to marry someone you don’t love, just to have an alliance with 
another kingdom.  HA!  That is not love."
"Okay even so, but what does that have to do with killing Ranma?"
A wicked laugh echoed through Incendia head, "You have no idea what damage is 
done in the future if that sex changing freak lives."
Incendia released a sigh, "Did we have to hurt that Ryoga guy this afternoon, I mean he
 was nice to me last time I saw him. I liked him."
"Nice to you?  Nice to you!  HA!  You are blocking out what really happened.  You were 
flirting left and right, trying to get his attention and he did nothing.  Just looked at Akane, 
not you.  He loves Akane  Not to mention he was there the last time, he 
contributed to my defeat.  I told you, once you complete my little task then I will make 
whatever you wish come true."
"Promise?"
"Come on now, you can trust me.  Am I not the goddess of the moon? Would I lie to you?"
"No I guess not Hecate."
	Incendia continued to walk through the alleys, she stared into the night.  The 
moon goddess smirked within the mind of Incendia.  The opportunity that was handed to
her was once in a life time.  When she was able to escape the prison that Gaea inflicted
 on her, she was determined to get revenge.  Keeping a low profile by invading different 
bodies, taking them as host, she came across a legendary magical stone called the 
Travel Stone.  This magical stone enables the holder to travel anywhere and anytime.
How ironic was the TV set her sister gave her will served to her be her downfall.  The T.V
not only picked up 500 different signals, but one of which aloud her to view the ongoings
of that was happening on world below.  She was able to watch the wedding of Lee and Kayko.
  The birth of their daughter.  Where Sparka, Qué Beck, Benald and the three shape 
shifters ended up.  She also noticed potential in one little sister of Lee Quad.  During the 
fight between Vigor and Kayko, after he slit her throat and everyone was fighting, Hecate 
took note of Incendia’s power.  At one point she exploded and a little bit of dark aura 
could be seen.  Oh, of course it could of only been seen by a trained eye and there 
wasn’t much to it, but feed it and make it grow, it could definitely be used to her advantage.  

	Through the years she watched as the young fire controlling Extraordinary
 became quite good at her power.  She probably could defeat her bother in battle if she
 put her mind to it, but it never happened.  Hecate watched at age eighteen King Aeolus 
told his only daughter that she would have to marry a prince from another kingdom to 
bring the kingdoms together.  Incendia didn’t take it to well, ever since the war the 
prince pickings have been slim and few.   She hated being told that it is her responsibility
 to her kingdom and people.  She didn’t want to,  she just wanted to continue to train 
and become a great warrior.  Her parents had other plans, by twenty she was married to
 Prince Magus.  A somewhat handsome young man, who could discharge a powerful 
blast of kinetic energy.  He was no where as powerful as Incendia, but he got the job 
done.  Over the years they both came to love each other, even had a two sons.
Incendia was happy.  That did not serve Hecate’s plan.  She needed an angry Incendia 
who was pissed at everyone and everything.  That is why Hecate decided to go back 
to when Incendia just turned nineteen.  She was angry, rebellious and strong.  When 
she possessed her body, it was easier to convince Cendia to do the deed then originally 
thought.  Oh, of course her conscience would kick in and tell her otherwise, but Hecate 
put a stop to that.  Whenever Cendia doubted the mission, Hecate made sure she 
remember why she was doing it. "I will have my revenge.  All will pay."  Hecate thought
 as pictured the final blow to Ranma Saotome.  Without Ranma around to interfere, she
 can take her vengeance out on her sister. No more perfect Gaea, the world would 
worship her.  "Yes, soon, very soon."

~~~~~*~~~~~~
	Inside the Tendo home a group gathered and listened to the story Kit was telling.  
It was same day that Ranma found out that his future children have come to help him.  All the 
faces in the Tendo home were not happy.  According to Kitama, within the next two
 weeks Incendia would kill Ranma, burn Ukyou and blind Akane.  

"Umm, I know this is a stupid question, but do you know who the father of my future 
daughter is?"  Ukyou asked the time travelers.
Kit looked at her, "You know I can’t tell you that."  She said.
"Hey,  you never mention what happened to Shampoo?"  Shampoo asked with curious eyes.
Kit turned her eyes away not answering.
"Hey! You answer Shampoo!"  She yelled.
Kit watched as Kasumi started to clear the table of the tea cups and plates.  "Here let 
me do that."  Kit said.
"Oh that’s okay."  Kasumi replied.
"No let me."  Without moving from her spot Kit’s closed her eyes.  The items on the table 
then started to shake and levitate.  With a simple turn of her head, the cups and 
plates floated towards the kitchen and were placed in the sink.
"I love when she does that."  Yori commented.
"I see you inherited your mothers power."  Ranma said.
"Well almost a combination of both, here I’ll show you."  she said.  Kit closed her eyes 
and held up her hand, within a second a bag of potato chips appeared.
"What the?"  Ranma said.
"I can manifest things out of thin air to put in simple words.  Here I’ll show you again."
Again she held up her hand and a huge mallet appeared.
"Oh...hey Akane do have that power?"  Ranma asked.
"Oh shut up."  Akane replied.
"So can you make things like cars and stuff?"  Ranma asked.
"Well no, not yet.  To be able to do this it requires a get deal of concentration, so I can 
only manifest smaller objects. I’m not making the objects, but pulling them from other
 places.  However my telepathic powers are far greater.  Mom says that I’m better then 
she was at my age, which would make sense because she help train me."

"Aihya!  Why you no answer question?"  Shampoo yelled.
"Yeah!  You just changed the subject."  Mousse yelled backing up his beloved.

The others were now anxious to hear the answer.  Kit took a deep breath and sighed.
"If I was you I would not be around when Cendia attacks.  You too Mousse."
"Why?"  Both he and Shampoo yelled.
"Because…."
"Well?"  
"Because Ranma is not the only one who is killed."
"You mean both Shampoo and Mouse are killed?"  Akane asked.
"Well so to speak.  During the battle Shampoo attacked Incendia.  Needless to say she 
wasn’t to happy. As a result she killed Shampoo.  Mousse, who so upset, committed 
suicide three days later."
"Whoa." Ukyou said.
"You LIE!"  Shampoo yelled at Kit.
"I’m only telling you what my mother found out when she noticed to time change and 
visited this world in the future.  It’s not like…"  Kit faded off from her thought.
"Yes?"  Mousse asked.
Tears started to fall down Kitama’s eyes and started to inhale deep breaths.
"The what the hell is going on?"  Ranma  asked.
Kin got up and stood behind Kit.  "She is having a telepathic seizure, so to speak."
"What do you mean?"  Akane asked.
	Kin place his hand on Kitama’s neck and with his other hand he began hitting a 
pressure point on her back. "She is getting a rush of emotions from another source. 
 When she starts up like this, it usually means some sort of pain."  As he continued to 
press the point on her back.  Each time he did it, the sharp breaths Kit was taking was 
subsiding. Finally she stopped, looked at Kin graciously.
"Thank you."  She whispered.
"Does that happen often?"  Ukyo asked.
"No, not usually that extreme, but *Yawn* more recently within the last two years *Yawn.*" 
 Kit said.
"Come on you need to take a nap to get your strength up."  Kin said to Kitama.
"I do not."  She said with a yawn.
"Yes you do."  With that he bent down and picked Kit up with ease and looked at
 Akane.
"Where can she rest?"
"You can put her in my room, it’s the middle room on the left.  It says my name on it."
"Thank you."  Kin said with Kit in his arms falling asleep as he acceded upstairs.

"I can’t wait till they get married."  Yori said with a smile.
"You mean they are a couple?"  Ranma asked.
"Well, not really, half the time they fight about stupid stuff."
Akane and Ranma just looked at each other as she said that.
"But, sometimes they are so in love it’s sickening.  They don’t know it yet, but they’ll get 
together."

"I wonder what brought on that attack?"  Mousse said.
"Yea, I was just thinking that."  Akane stated.
	As Akane said that, outside someone was moaning and coughing.
"Huh?"  They all got up to see.  It was Ryoga hunched over and limping.  He clothes
 were burned and tattered and he was covered in soot.  
"Ryoga!"  Akane yelled running over to him.  "What happened to you."
"A….Akane…I …made…it…here."
"Yea Ryoga, but what happened."  Ranma asked going over to him.
"Some psycho chick attacked me!"  He yelled leaning on to Ranma for support.
"Did she happened to have flaming hair, sugar?"
"Yea….and some sort of flaming sword.  She seemed kind of familiar."
"Of course bacon-bits, we fought on the same side before."  Ranma said.
"Don’t call me that!  And what do you mean?"  He growled.
"He means that you met up with Incenida."  Yori added.
Ryoga looked at Yori, and then back at Ranma.  
"Ranma?"  he asked with much confusion
"No, she’s my sister, Yori."  Kin said meeting up with the group.
Again Ryoga looked confused, even more so.
"Ranma, are these your cousins or something?"
Kin placed his hand on his neck, so much like Ranma does, and laughed.
"I guess we have some explaining to do."
"WHAT’S GOING ON!"  Ryoga screamed.
"Calm down piggy-wiggy and we’ll explain."  Ranma said to the confused lost boy.
"RANMA….."

To be continued….
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Authors note:  Hello out there, just hope you like what’s going on.  If not, oh well.  You 
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