A Ranma 1/2 multiverse crossover fanfiction By Dmitri 'Ranshin' Antonov The Guardians of earth Chapter 3: The journey begins Have you ever had one of those days? You wake up in a strange place. Your head is like swissed cheese and your mind is all foggy like. You try to focus your senses but you can't. Your eyes are a blur, your ears are a constant buzz, you smell a deep smoke, the ground that you sit on is like jelly and your mouth feels like you swallowed a whole bucket of tar. In other words your senses are all messed up. This is exactly what one Ranma Saotome and one Ryoga Hibiki were feeling when they woke up. They are in a dark room. A place they do not recognize. They stand up in this unfamiliar place, trying to get back their balance. They open their eyes, and are greeted by the sight of a silver wall. Gaining their senses back they notice each other, and decide to voice their thoughts. "Where the hell is this place?" Came out of the mouth of the eternally lost boy. The pigtailed aquatransexual didn't answer. He was just as clueless as the other. Then a strong male voice behind them let itself known. "Maybe we can answer that question." The boys quickly turned around and were greeted by the sight of two figures, one darker than any shadow and the other bathed in a white light brighter than the sun. Both boys instantly recognized the two persons. They were the ones from their dreams. The two persons were wearing long robes that even covered their feet. They were both wielding staffs with circles at the top. In the circles were carved pictures. The dark figure had a crescent moon carved in his circle while the light figure had a sun carved in his. The two boys shocked faces turned into those of serenity when the figure bathed in light adressed them. "We welcome you Ranma Saotome and Ryoga Hibiki. You must have many questions as to why you you are here. I promise you, these will be answered in time. Until then please let us speak." the figure of light had a very beautiful and feminine voice. When the two boys looked close they could tell that the figure in black was a male while the one in white was female. Before the white clothed woman could continue Ranma quickly interrupted her. "Wait a minute! You drag us here, I don't even know how you did it, but you expect us to trust you just like that?! Who the hell are you poeple?!" Ranma said this in a loud and rather obviously irritated voice. The dark figure frowned yet it was very hard to notice under the cape of his robe. The light figure however seemed to be thoughtful about this, then smiled and spoke. "Very well, I apologize for being so rude. To answer your question. I am Larelind the mistress of Light and this is my brother.." "Darcyn the master of Darkness" the male figure interrupted, finishing for her. "Now that we know each other would you please listen to what we have to tell you?" he continued mimicking Ranma irritated voice. This for some reason quickly silenced Ranma and his protests. He wasn't really scared of these two people, neither was Ryoga, but they decided to be quiet and hear what they had to say. "Uh, sure go ahead. Sorry about that." Ranma quickly said apologizing for earlier actions. He knew that he blew his top, and he didn't like getting angry. Ryoga the whole while just kept his mouth shut. "Now, as I was saying. You two probably have many questions and I assure you, all of them will be answered in time. First of all you have been brought here because you two are each one of the seven chosen ones. One of the seven Guardians of the earth. The marks that you currently have are the symbols and proof of that." Ranma and Ryoga take a quick look at their marks and see that they are visible. They are not glowing but you can see them like they were a part of their skin. "There are a total of seven guardians. Each guardian controls one element. The elements are Fire, Water, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Metal and Wood. The reason that the guardians are chosen is because right this moment the thirteen generals of the nether world or Hell as you know it, are awakening. The same thing happened 2500 years ago. That is when the first guardians were born. You may not know this but the blood of those legends are flowing through your veins." now she had no more words to say. Ranma and Ryoga were rather shocked at this. Who wouldn't be. After stuttering for about a full minute Ranma was again the one who spoke. "So your telling me that we're some kind of legendary guardians that are supposed to save the world from some kind of demons? I can live with that, I guess. What about you man?" he finished by glancing at Ryoga. "I'm shocked, that's for sure. But if we're supposed to protect the world from some kind of hell risen bastards then I guess we gotta do what we've gotta do." "Heh, that's exactly what I was thinking. But I have a few questions. Like, how did we get transported here?" Ranma asked with curiosity. Surprisingly Darcyn was the one to answer. "First of all you should know something about your marks. All the guardians are drawn to each other by their marks. If there are guardians on the same planet they will be magically drawn close to each other. So if two guardians are in the same town or area for that matter the magic becomes insanely strong. So you two were drawn together." "As for your question. When a guardian who has not been awakened touches the symbol on another guardians forehead, he gets transported here. Both of you were not fully awoken yet. So when you touched each others symbol, you got transported here." Darcyn said all this in a calm and collected voice. Like he was in control but didn't want to be too rough. "Okay, we can swallow that. Next question. Who exactly are you guys? And what is your role in this?" Ranma was again the one who asked the questions. Ryoga for his part, kept his mouth shut and listened. This time Larelind answered. "As we have told you we are the masters of Light and Darkness, the two parts of humanities soul. Before you ask no, I am not good and my brother is not evil. We merely represent different parts of the human souls. I represent the light while my brother represents the darkness. People cannot live without the light nor can they live without the darkness. As for our part in this. We are the ones who will teach you what you need to know, and also train you in the ways of magic and your respective elements. We will tutor you until you are ready." "So when does the training start?" asked Ranma, he was rather excited about learning new techniques. Ryoga was also anxious to find new ways to fight, and using those teachings to beat Ranma in their upcoming fight wouldn't be bad. "Unfortunately we cannot start teaching you yet, before training all of the guardians must be found. In other words, you must find the other guardians. As you know guardians are drawn to each other. So you shouldn't have too much trouble finding them. We know that two guardians are currently in Tokyo or at least very close. One guardian is in an alternate past, but seems to have contact to this time. Yet another guardian is in an alternate future, and the last one is in another universe." This was all stated rather clearly by Darcyn. Ranma and Ryoga stood there with their mouth open. *We have to go to other universes?!* They both thought at the same time. "So where do we look first?" Ryoga was the one who asked this time. Probably because Ranma had already asked too much and got too much shocking info as answers. "We would suggest going to Juban first. There is a strong signal in that area. After that just look around the Tokyo area. You should do fine." Larelind said. "This may be a big shock on all of you but believe us when we say that the guardians must be found. If that does not happen there will be no hope for humanity, there will be no hope for any life to tell the truth. We are sorry to drag you into this." Ranma got out of his mouth gaping shock and shook off her apology. "There's no reason to apologize. I'm actually pretty surprised at myself to tell you the truth. Normally I would never agree to such a thing. But an opportunity like this is too good to let it slip out of my grasp. By what I understand the techniques you're gonna teach us are pretty strong. I never pass away a chance to become a better martial artist. I think I've changed a lot in these past weeks. Even more in the past days. So, I'm not just doing this for you or the people, I'm doing this for myself as well. *Whoa I used a lot of new words* *Whoa he used a lot of new words* Though Ryoga as Ranma finished his speech. "You know what, I agree with Ranma. I'm going to do this for myself as well. I've changed a lot in the past weeks and these last days were a big shock but that's okay. I think the biggest change happened after Ranma's failed wedding attempt, I finally saw the pain in his eyes and the realised that all this time I've been blaming the wrong person for my problems. So, I'm gonna do this and when those demons are dead, I'll continue on. We all have lives to live." Ranma watched Ryoga say this, and was proud to call him a friend. He agreed with Ryoga, they would do this for themselves and then continue on. "I've got one more question though. When we find the other guardians, are we just supposed to touch their foreheads. Then they'll touch ours, and we'll be transported here?" "Yes, exactly. When you find another guardian, your hands will touch the other guardians forehead and he or she will touch yours. When that happens then you and the other one will be transported here. I must warn you though, there is a possibility that the ones from the nether world will send some lesser demons to assassinate any of the guardians. You two included. So please be careful, wherever you are. Alright?" "Yeah sure Dark, we'll be fine. So where are you going to send us now?" Ranma quickly said. He wanted to find the other guardians already, so he could learn and study from these two. "I would ask you to please call me Darcyn, and call my sister Larelind. Anyway, guardian of Lightning and guardian of Earth. Your journey has just begun. May the gods bless you both. We will be in mostly constant telepathic conversation. So if you need help or advise, don't hesitate to think about it. If you do we will answer you through your minds. Now go, and come back safely, both of you." That said both fighters disappeared in a quick light. "Do you think that they will be able to accomplish this task?" Larelind asked her brother once the boys had dissapeasred. "Of course, we are talking about the only two human individuals that have accomplished many miracles without the help of magic or anything of the sort. They only use their bodies strength, and they have done so much with only that. They will accomplish this. I have faith in them." --------------------- Back in Ryogas room the two martial artists appeared again. After looking at each other for a minute in silent shock for a minute Ranma voices his opinion of the situation. "You know what Ryoga? I think we just willingly walked into a nightmare. Ryoga looked back at Ranma and answered. "For once Ranma, you're right." Then the two boys started packing for their long and of course, crazy journey. Authors notes: Well there goes chapter 3. I hope it wasn't too OOC. If it was then I'm sorry. But this story will become more OOC later. Because of the characters changing their attitudes. Anyway, I'm gonna start writing the next one tomorrow or the day after that. I dunno yet. I'm gonna go watch 'The Two Towers' while it's in theatre here in Iceland. As my final notice I would like to thank my pre-reader DarkKnight2050. Thanks a bunch buddy!