Cora, pale and scared suddenly shrieked "YOU HAVE MY FACE!"
Jazel glared back at her "YOUR Face?! I am sorry butit was MY FACE FIRST!!" Io 
rolled his eyes. This was getting to be too much for the small dragon.  Gordon 
glanced quickly back and forth between the two women, trying to figure things 
out, and failing quickly. 

Cora paled, "Argue. later!" She grabbed the girlshand. "RUN!" 
Gordon's senses tingled, and he slowly drew Gorn Nova.  Cora pushed herself up 
and dragged the girl with her. "Introduce later. RUN!"
Jazel confused more then ever snatched the dragon offher shoulder and sprinted 
after her.
Ishtar winked in beside Cora panting. "They aren't far behind us...
"Taurus?" Gordon asked, itching to finish the fight they had begun
Cora paled. She felt them all. "Gordon! No!! It's all of them!"
Gordon paled at that thought. Taurus was enough of a challenge by himself. He'd 
be hard pressed to handle twelve of them.

Jazel was confused "Taurus? Who is not far behind us? Why are we RUNNING?!" 
Jazel just about stopped running when Io bit her hand to 
keep her going.
~My child. You run like the rest of them. That is the only way you will survive~ 
Io silently told her. Jazel quietly fumed in anger at being 
totally lost. 

Ishtar winked out and appeared before Gordon.  "They are out to take you back to 
Beryl! You must get Serenity out of here! If they catch her it means the dealth 
of the coming Millenium!"
"Alright." Gordon nodded, his knightly insticts kicking in. "BUt who's the other 
Cora?"
"I do not know Draco.. she appeared like us out of no where.. but there must be 
reason.. now RUN!" Ishtar roared at the confused man.

Gordon cursed himself for abandoning his bike again, but he didn't have time to 
retrieve it. Fortunately, it was hidden in the bushes, and the spells on it 
would prevent it from being stumbled onto.

"Draco.. RUN!" Ishtar ordered, "There isn't much time we must find a place to 
keep her safe!"

"That's it!" Jazel stopped short and turned around facing whatever danger was 
coming. She put her hands together and silently sumond 
forth the fire from Mars. "Fire wall!" Jazel called as flames burst from her 
hands forming a firewall. ~This should hold them, I hope~ Jazel thought as she 
turned around to face the others. 
Ishtar growled in distaste. "That was wonderful!" Cora said gasping for breath 
before preparing to move on again.
Ishtar however was a different story. "Are you a fool?!!?" he roared. "They now 
know exactly where we are!"
Jazel glared at the tiger and slowly walked towards it. Io hit his 
hand to his forehead, ~The tiger should not have done that.~ he thought.
Cora sighed. "Ishtar. please.. now is not the time..."
Jazel glared daggers at the tiger," WELL excuse me for trying to help! It wasn't 
like they didn't already know where we were cause if they didn't then why the 
HELL were we running? HMM??? And it bought us some time so I can be filled in on 
to WHY I was dragged into this whole mess!" Jazel practiacally screamed.

"Sphrite Frang!" Gordon yelled out. A heavy mist rose from the grounds, filling 
the wood with a thick blanket of fog.
Cora waved her hand in front of her face. "Lovely lovely Gordon! I can't see my 
hand in front of my face!"
"Well neither can they now!" Gordon said defensively 

Cora felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. She spun around. "Who's 
there!"
Jazel threw her anger aside and took the defensive. Something was not right and 
she could feel it. 
"Show yourself!" Gordon growled, holding his sword high.
Color drained from Cora's face as a gloved hand closed over her mouth and 
nose... "Scream and he dies..." He hissed into her ear.
~Ishtar.. Taurus..~
"Now lady I know telepathy counts too..." He hissed.
Cora frooze, her eyes wide with fear.
"Aquarius!" Ishtar roared.
Io scurried silently from Jazel's shoulder to get a better glance at who the 
stranger was. Seeing that Cora was in danger, he scurried quickly up the back of 
the stranger and bit down hard on the back of his neck. "Run Cora!" Io yelled.
Cora felt a final burst of energy and sprinted foward. 
~Please just keep running..~ She begged herself.
~Have to keep running.. don't stop running..~

Taurus screamed and pulled the snake from him and hurled it into the darkness.
"You will not get away Serenity I know where you are YOU CAN'T HIDE!"
Gordon spun to face the foggy silhouete of Cora's assailant.
"Gemini! Libra! Aries! AFTER her!"
"I will never allow you to touch her!" Gordon cried.
Taurus laughed. "I won't have too..." His voice was low and sadistic. 
Jazel took Io's bite as a cue to run. She ran forward and grabbed Cora by the 
hand and took off towards the trees. "Gordon run!!" She called after her.

"Fireball!" Gordon cried, hurling the explosive orb of flame at Taurus, before 
following Cora and Jazel

Cora now being dragged by the girl with her face pushed her legs to keep up.
"Well .. well well.. if it ain't the little Aquarius wanna be.. you don't have 
the right to wear Lady's colors..."
Cora's legs were suddenly made of lead. Taurus' laughter echoed in her mind.
"Ray Wing!" Gordon called out, and took off into the air.
"Gemini!" A girl called out.
Flying low to the floor, Gordon sped to catch up with the two women.
The twin Gemini pulled Cora and Jazel apart.
Cora reached around to claw out the girls eyes but found herself thrown towards 
Libra.
"Pisces... Look.. another one.. there are three of them on this world now!"
Pisces, confused, turned to face Taurus who was approaching them. "Well Pisces 
you got something right for once. Bind their hands!"
Cursing his own fog, Gordon turned towards the last sound he heard, and flew in 
Jazel's general direction.
Laughing each Gemini went about their task. With a smile on their faces, 
completeing their tasks they both pushed the girls to the ground.
"Cora! Jazel!" Gordon cried as he closed in on the sound.
Cora whimpered as she hit the ground and Taurus appeared over her. "Lady will be 
pleased. Prepare to teleport..."

Jazel layed out on the ground and glared at her assailent. "No one pushes me and 
gets away with it!" Jazel jumped to her feet and sprinted at one of the twins 
tackling her to the ground. "Bitch don't mess with a Dragon Warrior" 
Jazel growled after she knocked the girl in the face causing her to pass out. 
She turned her head and glared at the guy named Taurus.
Taurus smiled, until he got knocked to the ground, as Gordon barreled into him. 
The two of them went tumbling to the ground.
Jazel climbed to her feet and spat at the unconcious girl beneath her and ran 
towards Cora.
Jazel rushed up to Cora " Are you ok? What is this guy?" 
Cora pushed herself to her feet. With a silent prayer to the moon she called 
into the night.. "MICROBURST!"
Cora felt the energy leave her as Jazel came to her side, a purple light burst 
in the sky as water began to fall in such torents that it knocked her down. 
"Zodiac.. " Cora whispered, her voice not heard above the roar of the storm she 
had called.  As though it knew what to do, the warm rains 
separated the Zodiac from Cora and Jazel, and Gordon as well.

Jazel watched the rains and welcomed their warmth.
~Io where are you?~ Jazel thought as she silently wished for her dragon 
companion.
"LIGHTING!" Gordon called out. An orb of light burned away the fogs. He 
slowly moved it behind him and grinned, as his shadow fell toward the Zodiac. 
"SHADOW WEB!"
His shadow expanded, and flew past all of the Zodiac, binding them to their own 
shadows.

Cora paled. "Not now...." She said louder than she had hoped she had.
Jazel watched with amazement, wishing that the other warriors where here to 
witness this feat of great power.
She suddenly shivered and lost control of the rains she had and they dissapated.
"Hurry, we must move. At my current strength, the spell won't last long." Gordon 
yelled out.
Her head spun and she looked up at gordon who had appeared magiclly above her. 
She reached up "draco.." as her transformation began to faulter. Her fuku once 
solid becoming ribbons.

Ishtar appeared with IO on his back beside them. 
"I take it now is a good time to run..." Ishtar spoke.
"As I said, the spell will last only a short while, so yes."
Jazel, thankful to see Io once more, readied to flee. "Where 
to?" 
Cora concentrated hard and her fuku became solid again. She pushed herself up 
and nodded. "I don't kno whow much longer I can do this.."
"Anywhere's better than here." Gordon shrugged.  "We'll try to make it back to 
Nerima. I have some friends there."
"Just point me in the direction" Jazel said as she picked up her dragon and 
placed him once more on her shoulder. 
"Gordon.. I can't maintain my transformation.." She whispered, turning red with 
embarassment.
"Huh? What happens if you can't maintain it?"
"Well then I'm just a normal human.. but theres a problem... "
"What's that?"
"Uhmm I was kinda not clothed when I made the transfer.. which means when it 
comes undone..I uhmm.. well..."
Now it was Gordon's turn to turn a bright shade of red.
"Um, ah, well..." Gordon said as he wracked his head for a way out of this.  
"Take my jacket. It should cover you up. I hope."
Cora blushed as she once again took his jacket and set off back the way they 
came. 
"Thank you..." she said, putting it on and zipping it up.. it covered her 
sufficiently, but she mentally refused to sit down til she had some real 
clothes. 

"Now will someone tell me where I am and what the heck is going on and why does 
she have my face" Jazel snapped rudely. Io pulled her pony tail ~Easy child~ 
~Hush lizard~Jazel snapped back mentally at the dragon. "Well just for that 
missy!" Io yanked once more on her pony tail, smiling as Jazel let out a small 
yelp.

Gordon scanned around. They had reached the edge of the forest, and he was 
desperately trying to remember his way back to the restaurant, or to that Tendo 
dojo that Scimitar told him about.
"Where now?" Cora asked, sounding nervous as her transformation slipped away 
leaving her in nothing but gordon's coat.
"Um, I'm trying to figure that one out." Gordon said as he mentally reviewed his 
trip with Scimitar.
Io smiled. ~Humans, always getting lost~ 

Jazel smiled slightly and dug around in her bag pulling out a pair of shorts and 
a tshirt. "Here" She said as she thrust out her hand and the 
clothes in Cora's direction.
Cora smiled. "Thankyou..." 
Jazel snapped her hand back to her side and muttered softly "Sure" her new found 
"friends" making her somewhat nervious.
Cora slipped back into the forrest and dressed in the girls clothes. To cora's 
surprise they were a perfect fit.
She emerged again with a tired smile on her face. 
"How am I supposed to find my way to a place I've never been." Gordon 
muttered.  Excuse me, sir!" Gordon pulled a man to the side. "Where can I find 
the Tendo Dojo?"
Cora laughed softly and covered her eyes with her hands.
"That's what I want to know!" Ryoga snapped. "Ranma! I will destroy you!" He 
cried as he ran off.
Cora burst out lughing. "Oh my.."
Gordon sweatdropped as he tried to figure out what to do next.
Jazel couldn't help but smile a little. Whoever this guy really was, he was a 
hoot! 

"Can someone please tell me where I am?" Jazel asked impatiently nerviously 
playing with her hair.
"i still don't know so don't feel left out. My name is Cora.. I'm Sailor 
Aquarius..."
"I'm Gordon Gabriev. And I know less than her."
Ishtar spoke. "You know more about this world than we do.. like you it appears 
we fell from the sky."
"I may know more about this world, but Japan is a little ways out of my familiar 
teritory.  I'm gonna fly up and try to get a bearing. LEVITATION!"

Gordon floated through the air.  It wasn't easy.  His mind was getting
foggy from the massive spell casting, and he had problems paying enough 
attention to both his spell casting AND looking where he was going.
But soon he spotted the Tendo Dojo.  Gesturing to the ladies below, he
slowly guided them towards the Dojo.
But when they were a few blocks away, a dark feeling crept over Gordon
again.  He glanced over, and sure enough, three black shapes, silhouetted by the 
moon, soared towards him.
The Akuma!
In no position to fight, Gordon turned to flee.  But the Akuma glided
on silent wings, dove towards him.
The leader shot past the others, and slammed into Gordon.  The pain was enough 
to break Gordon's spell, and he began to plummet, only to be caught by the other 
two.
"Alkanphel will be pleased.  Let us return before others come."
The Akuma nodded and quickly flew off, over the Dojo and towards the mountains.
As Gordon was carried over the dojo, he loosened his pack, and let the
book that Cora left him drop out.  THe Lead AKuma dove to retrieve it,
but upon seeing Scimitar in the courtyard, quickly thought the better of it.  It 
would not do to have Scimitar follow them.  And it wasn't as if he dropped his 
sword.
All this took a matter of seconds, and Cora and Jazel could only watch
as the Akuma quickly flew away.