The Saotome Blade

Disclaimer: I would never have thought of anything as amazing as Blade, or Ranma 1/2

* *: Thoughts

[" "]: Chinese Language

<" ">: Vampire language

Capital letters: Shouting or loud noises

{ }: Author's own thoughts

_ _: Stressed words

Chapter 3

Rough Seas And Broken Boats

Toru Asahata, leader of the house of Erebus Vampire council of Japan walked down a dark corridor. Two of his main subordinates walked with him at his sides. One of them looked up at the tall form of Toru after taking a long drag of a cigarette. "So you finally gonna get them to awaken the blood god huh? It’s about fucking time." He took another drag from his cigarette. "It took a hell of a lot to get the American council to agree with _me_. I thought it would take a helluva lot more for the Japanese, what with all the kung fu and every thing."

Toru looked down at his apprentice with distaste. "You have much to learn about Frost. You may have a fraction of the Blood God’s power but you are still mortal. Don’t let the power go to your head."

Deacon Frost remained calm even under Toru’s gaze. "Yeah well a half breed vampire almost got the best of me. I ever tell you about it? Anyway there was this guy Blade, right? And this guy he’s got like all these swords and everything. Man he gave me a run for my money."

Toru put his hand on Deacons shoulder to silence him. "There are still those that wish to end the Vampire race. We can not rush into the matter of the blood god. We must do so carefully." Deacon threw his finished butt onto the cool concrete floor.

"Yeah whatever. So how long we gotta wait till the blood god comes?" Toru and his lackeys stopped at a large metal door Where Toru produced a key card and opened it. "Soon."

The three vampires stepped into a large room filled with lots of high tech computer technology. In the middle of the room sat a man he was almost totally surrounded by computer monitors, wires, and keyboards. "You remember my translator, and technical advisor Ishita, don’t you Frost?" Asked Toru. Frost nodded his head towards the man in question.

"Yeah I remember. How you doin Shit’a?" {pronounced: Shit ah} Deacon said to the tall African American. Tetsuo Ishita wore a white muscle shirt and blue jeans. He was tall but lacked muscle. His clothes were baggy and his work station was scattered all over the room.

Tetsuo turned around in his chair and grabbed Deacons hand in a friendly hand shake. "Hey Deac long time no see!"

"Yeah man." said Deacon. "Notice anything different?" He said as he stepped back to let his friend get a better look.

Tetsuo looked him over once and then shook his head.

"Nope. Don’t see nothin there."

Deacon looked at Tetsuo with mock upset. "You can’t tell? Man I’m the first step of the coming of the blood god!" Tetsuo’s eyes widened at Deacons statement.

"You’ve got to be kidding me Deac I mean Toru’s got that in planning for years but it’s way to early to act now! What are you crazy?" Tetsuo said.

Toru chose that moment to cut in on their conversation. "Frost! Ishida! We don’t have time for pleasantries I have work to do and I don’t need this kind off interruption. Now Ishida bring up the La Magra file and let’s go through this to make sure we’ve got the plan straight.

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Donny was the first to wake up. He immediately noticed that he was shackled to the wall. He looked over to his right and sure enough there was Ranma Saotome shackled beside him. Ranma was thrashing wildly in his unconscious state. Donny, having just enough slack on his chains, moved over to Ranma’s side and began shaking him trying to get him to wake up.

"Ranma! Wake up buddy, we gotta get out of here."

Donny’s attempts at reviving his partner were apparently futile. Ranma began to thrash even harder and broke off the restraints. Donny was about to move out of the way but Ranma’s hands swung around with lightning speed to wrap around Donny’s throat.

Donny struggled against the pressure of Ranma’s grip. Ranma’s eyes opened and they were filled with hate and fear at the same time. Ranma took one solid look at Donny and his arms fell limp at his sides. "D-Donny?"

Donny sat back a few feet from Ranma. "Who’d you think I was? _cough_ _cough_ Jackie Chan?"He said with mild annoyance. "What were you all freakin out about?"

Ranma slumped against the wall behind him and sighed. "Donn man, I’ve been getting these dreams all the time. It usually starts off with me and my friend playing outside then it turns into Toru killing my father." Ranma paused and reluctantly continued. "But this time it was different. This time there was some kind of alter that Toru stood upon. He said that ‘My Blood is his’ and I have no clue what it meant."

"Yeah well, our first concern is getting out of this cell." Ranma looked around and they were indeed in a holding cell of some sort. Ranma walked over to the single window in the room it was barred. He looked over his shoulder at Donny. "

"They didn’t seem to take into consideration that I have vampire strength." Ranma said just before he grabbed the bars. As soon as his skin made contact with the bars about one thousand volts of electricity ran through his body. Ranma’s body was sent flying across the room where it impacted hard with a solid steel wall with a sickening CRUNCH!

Ranma sat up and shook his head to get rid of the ringing and the floating duckies. Donny laughed. "Hah I guess they did take it into consideration." Ranma’s hair was smoking and standing up on end.

Ranma frowned. "Well this could take a little more effort than I thought." He said as he rubbed his chin in a thoughtful expression.

Donny rattled his chains to get Ranma’s attention. "Yeah well I could help you better if you get these chains off of me. I don’t exactly got super strength like some people."

Ranma got up off of the floor, albeit painfully, and walked over to Donny who held out his shackles for Ranma to break. Ranma grabbed both of the chains one in each hand and pulled. He wasn’t completely a vampire so his vampire strength only goes so far. And Ranma was pretty exhausted after breaking his chains and then being electrocuted. The chains snapped after a few minutes of constant straining and Ranma collapsed on the floor.

Donny crouched over Ranma’s figure and gave him the one over. "Hey buddy you look pretty tired. Take a breather while I think of something to get us out of here."

The Dhampir nodded his agreement to his friend. "Yeah you do that." Ranma’s body chose that moment to recuperate and he passed out.

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(Somewhere in Japan)

an old man wearing heavily concealing clothes stood at the edge of the water on a beach. Looking out into the dark waters that lay before his ancient eyes. His gazed wandered to the left where far off down the beach he could see his deciples Alex and Joe sitting quietly. Although this was not normal especially since Joe was there it was pleasant and a welcome change to their hectic lives.

He stared back out into the water far beyond the horizon. Extending his magical senses he could feel chaotic forces approaching. He waited and he would continue to wait close by to avert this chaos. He felt a power arising in Japan. If he did not stop it then he did not know if there was another that could.

Although his mystical senses were clouded by darkness and chaos he could see a light. A power that could very well be the hope that people would need. Or maybe their saviour.

Ekimus turned and pulled the hood from his head displaying his features for all to see. Though there was nobody on the beach but his students. We can clearly see that he is not human but rather a vampire, and not just a vampire but a perfect vampire. "Alex, Joe! We must find rest for the day. The sun shall rise soon and we must prepare for what is ahead of us."

Ekimus walked off the beach and up a hill to an old abandoned shack at the top where they would rest until the sun sets again. Alex and Joe walked at a normal pace behind the old vampire. "Why are you so quiet today Joe?" asked Alex.

Joe stared off at sea and replied simply. "I... just don’t think it’s a good time to be goofing off." The two vampires continued their short trek in silence.

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Dowel sat at the end of the boat that she and her great grandmother Cologne were on. She hated boats. There was no room to practice martial arts, they were all slow, and it took a long time to get anywhere in a boat. That and she got sea sick very easily.

So here she was hanging over the rail throwing up every five to ten minutes. ["Oooh Great Grandmother do you have medicine yet?!"] She whined back to where Cologne was sitting and stirring up some sort of herbal concoction. The smell of the stuff alone made Dowel want to throw up some more.

Cologne ignored her and continued stirring the putrid healing gunk. Dowel groaned in defeat and annoyance. ["Fine!"] She then began to speak in extremely bad Japanese. "Cologne…You is…to be…done now… yes?" She asked.

Cologne understood what she said but decided to push her to do better after all in a few days time they would be in Japan and she would need to speak the language better that that. ["Better. But not good enough. Try again."] she said without emotion.

Dowel groaned again but even louder than before. ["Great Grandmother I can't do it! It's too hard!"] She complained as she slumped against the rail that she had previously been throwing up over.

Cologne pushed her on to try again and Dowel complied although somewhat reluctantly. "Great Grandmother is med…icine ready?"

Cologne nodded with satisfaction. ["Very good child you almost had it perfectly. And yes the medicine is just about ready."] Dowel sighed.

[*well at least I am getting better at this language. Saotome Blade and I will be married in no time.*]

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"Who are you!" Ranma demanded the stranger. The stranger closed the sound proof steel door behind him and then took off the hood. Ranma’s jaw dropped. "Donny?!"

Donny waved his hands around in a quieting gesture. "SSSHHH Keep it down will ya?!" Donny said with irritation. "There’s vampires all over this place. It was hard enough to get these keys here without being caught."

Ranma slapped Donny on the back. "Good job man! How’d you pull it off?" Donny smiled.

"Well I picked the lock, snuck through the shadows, killed a couple vampires, opened all of the right doors after traveling through mazes of corridors, and disarmed all of the alarm systems." Donny said with a proud smirk.

Ranma stood dumbfounded at Donny’s display of skill and intelligence. "Woah you really did all _that_?

Donny’s proud features twisted into a ‘what are you _kidding_’ type of looks that he was so fond of handing out. "_Hell_ no! I kicked the guard in the nuts when he came to give us our meal for the day and took his clothes and the keys on his belt. I killed him with a fork and hid him in a janitors closet, and all of the doors I needed to go through to get our stuff were all labeled. And have you even taken notice of what a hunk of crap this boat is? There couldn’t possibly be security systems!

Ranma felt like smacking Donny... again. "What do you mean our stuff?" The proud smile plastered Donnys face again as he took out a bundle of cloth from under the cloak he was wearing. He unwrapped it and sure enough there was an assortment of guns, blades, and other such objects hidden beneath it. "All right Donny!" Ranma picked up his trademark blade and looked at it like a long lost family member.

Donny took out a silver shurikan from a pouch that hung on his belt. "So what do you say we commandeer this rusty heap of shit and get out of here?"

Ranma took his bullet proof black vest from the pile. "You don’t gotta ask me twice."

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(Up top on the deck.)

Captain Stinky sat in a chair looking up at the stars it was a clear night and the air was warm. Stinky sighed as he smoked a cigar and drank fine wine from a crystal wineglass. "Aaaah." he sighed afer he took a long drag from his Cuban cigar but the coughing that came right after took away the blissful effect. One of the crew members walked over to Stinky.

"Hey Stinky shouldn't you be commanding this ship?! Or are you just going to sit on your ass and wait for Toru to come and pat you on the back?!" He said while baring teeth that showed off the fact that he was indeed a vampire.

Captain stinky looked back at the youth with an amused smirk on his rough features.

"I believe I'll take the second option young man." He said losing the raggedy sea captain accent that he had previously been using. "Oh and why don't you go check on the security cameras there _boy_. They haven't been looked at in a while." The Vampire youth who was in his teens. Growled a low menacing growl promising pain to the old man. "Oh and one more thing there." He said as the youth began to turn away.

"What's _that_ old man?!" He said with impatient irritation.

The old man took another drag form his cigar. "Respect your Elders. Punk!

The teenage vampire turned away in a huff and stalked off to go check on the single security camera monitor that was set up to view the cell where Ranma was being held. He muttered to himself angrily as he stomped through the door leading to his destination. "stupid old man!I could have pulled off this mission better anyway. Tell me what to do will he? Huh! Respect your Elders he says."

His mutterings stopped as he came to the single screen that was used to monitor the cell in witch the Saotome Blade was being held, the cell that was empty according to the image on screen. "_TROUBLE_!" He screamed out to all of the other vampires on the ship using a microphone that carried his voice throughout the entire ship.

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Ranma and Donny heard the Vampires distressed warning. They looked around the room they were in which seemed to be a dining room of some sort. "Sound like they finally realised that were not in our cell." Donny said as he and his half vampire friend stalked through the room in silence.

"Guess so." Ranma replied as he unsheathed his sword slow and quietly from his back. Donny noticed this action and pulled our four shurikans as well.

"You hear something buddy?" Donny asked in a hushed voice as they stood still in the middle of the room. Ranma nodded. He slowly and silently crouched into a fighting position. Donny followed suit.

"Yeah." He said cautiously as he used his heightened senses to locate where the enemies were located. "Coming down the hall about 12 metres. Six vampires. Three humans. All of them have weapons. "

Donny strained to hear what Ranma was hearing to but his senses and martial arts training were not near as advanced as the Dhampir beside him. "Why don't we wait for them to pass and then we could get some better fighting room?" Ranma smirked at his only friend.

"You know me. That's not my style." He said before dashing towards the door.

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Captain Stinky rushed into the room where he had just sent the young vampire to check on The Soatome Blade. "What the _hell_ is going on?! What do you mean trouble?! He bellowed at the youth.

"The Saotome Blade is out! H-he's not in his cell and neither is his human companion!"

Stinky pulled the teen by the front of his shirt so their faces mere inches from each other. "Well then you take some of you vampire friends and you put him _back_ there or we're all _dead_! do you understand me?!!!" He said in a low menacing voice.

The vampire shook his head not caring any more that he was taking orders from a human. He knew that he was right. He knew that if they didn't capture Ranma and put him and his friend back in his cell that he would kill every one on the ship and head for Japan.

Stinky threw the the young vampire away from him and he immediately ran out to get some more men to search for Ranma. He took the first few people he saw not caring if they were Vampires or familiars. To go hunt the enemy.

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Captain Stinky stayed behind and in the observations deck and he picked up a phone. He dialed in a number. He waited a few second. "Hello? Yes this is Dhampir cross prevention. Get me Toru. It's an Emergency."

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The small platoon of vampires and familiars stalked the corridors of the ship searching for the escaped prisoner. It was like trying to find a ghost. Ranma was nowhere to be seen or heard. The halls were deathly quiet. One of the vampires perked up as if he heard something. All of the others present looked to him for some sort of sign that he'd heard Ranma but he shook his head and the pack continued on searching.

One of the familiars took out his weapon, a gun, and loaded it with a fresh cartridge. All the others looked at him in irritation but they forgot about it and continued on. All of the others had weapons and were doing similar things shifting and fidgeting with the tools of battle in nervousness.

All of a sudden the door to one of the rooms that the group was about to pass burst open in a shower of wooden splinters. And a black blur rushed past and sliced the heads of two vampires at the front of the group off. All the others stepped back and stared in horror as Ranma Saotome The most well known vampire hunter in China. Stood with one double edged sword held above his head in a ready stance. He smiled at the group and before any of them could get a single word out he jumped high towards the group.

The group awaited the attack. But Ranma grabbed a hold of the rafters and stayed there. Two vampires raised their projectile weapons and aimed to fire but their attack was cut short by two silver throwing stars lodging themselves into their chests and they shrivelled up into vampiric piles of ash.

Immediately after the attack Ranma dropped down with his sword slashing. At one vampire cutting it from the base of his neck to the opposite side waist. Cutting also through the heart turning the vampire again into a lifeless pile of dust.

Donny walked out of the room that his Dhampir friend had previously smashed trough with two shurikans, one in each hand. Ranma finished up cutting the last Vampires head off.

Ranma sheathed his sword with lightning fast speed the sign of a true martial arts master. Then with same speed and precision pulled out a black, custom made, semi automatic hand gun and aimed it at the remaining humans. "Anyone else want to be a hero?" He said with a smirk on his handsome face. All of the familiars before the Dhampir dropped their weapons and put their arms in the air.

Donny put his shurikans back in his pouch and walked up to his friends side. "Nice moves ‘Slice’. And that last bit of dialogue there? _Whew_! I think we’ve got our selves a _catch phrase_ ladies and gentlemen." He said as he patted Ranma on the back.

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Toru sat at his desk in his large 48^th floor office staring at a speaker phone. "I see." He said with a cool calm that belied what he was feeling. In truth he was upset. No! He was furious! He had been planning the blood gods coming for years now and the Dhampirs of the world were the keys. Toru shut off the speaker phone. Once this small task was made he slammed his fist onto his desk with all of his force behind him, cracking the smooth black marble surface under the power of one of his blows. "_DAMN_!!!" He yelled.

Toru breathed in and out heavily from his not in displeasure. *Why can I not get one person to do a job right for me?* He thought as he plotted out what to do about this little _problem_. Toru sat in silence in the darkness then he pressed a button on the intercom on his desk.

"Joy?" He called into the machine.

"Yes mister Asahata?" Came a bubbly voice from the other end of the intercom.

"Joy, would you find and send a mister Kobejitsu into my office?" He asked in a strictly businessman type of voice.

"Sure thing Mr. A." She said in the same sweet and bubbly voice. Toru Asahata groaned. He hated listening to her voice it was nauseatingly cute and he hated that to no end. The only reason she still had her job was because of her fantastic body.

Toru shook his head to get rid of any unclean thoughts that might be trying to get into his head. He sat back and devised a little bit of a plan. *Well I guess I’ll just let Ranma come to Japan. I can replace him.* He thought. No sooner had he finished the thought there was a knock on the large Black double doors. "Come in!" Toru called.

A large man who looked to be around his forties walked into the room. He had a large goatee that twisted like a spiral, He was bald with tattooed markings and a dark gaze that made him look very menacing. He wore a black business suit that was nearly spotless. "You summoned me Lord?" The man asked in a deep voice that would make an ordinary man take a step back just in case.

"Yes Satoshi I have a job for you. Now since your in charge of all our military expenses I believe this would be just the job for you. Considering your military history." Toru said as he motioned for the man to have a seat. Kobejitsu did so seating himself across from Toru. "Thank you Sir."

Toru waved it off. "Please." Toru folded his hands in front of himself and leaned on his elbows. "Now you are familiar with the plans to awaken the blood god correct?" Kobejitsu nodded.

"Yes sir I am quite familiar with your plans and the history of La Magra." Satoshi said.

"Yes anyway I want you to keep a close eye on a one Ranma Saotome. He’s headed to Japan right now and I want to make sure he doesn’t interfere. I’ve also been informed of a little nuisance down in Thailand. There’s a group of Vampires called the blood pack. They are a troublesome group and I want them all taken out. Do you understand?" Toru said as he leaned back in his chair with his arms folded behind his head.

Kobejitsu nodded his affirmative. Toru stood up and offered his hand in a friendly parting shake. Satoshi stood, took his hand in a firm shake turned around and left the office. Toru sat back down and put his feet up on the desk in relaxation. "Yes. You can never be to careful with these sorts of things."

"Where Hitler failed I shall succeed. The perfect race will be created and I will rule over them. Heh heh heh heh ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!!" Toru’s insane laughter continued to trail on into the night.

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Ranma and Donny stalked down the hallway careful not to make any noise. Ranma looked left then right at the next intersection. "Hey Donn? How big is this boat any way? It seems to be three time the size on the _inside_ than the outside." Donny shrugged behind his friend not that he could see it with his back turned.

"I don’t know but it’s got to have some kind of magical properties to it. I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life." Donny replied in shushed voice careful not to attract any unwanted attention to their position.

Ranma motioned for Donny to follow him and they turned to the right in search of some place that would lead them to the controls to the ship. They soon got to the next intersection. Ranma looked to the left for any sign of danger. He looked to the right.

WHAM!!!!

Ranma was sent flying down the corridor from a blow from Rico. The vampire giant had waited at the intersection for them and had backhanded the Dhampir as soon as he had a good shot. Ranma rolled with the blow and got to his feet with his sword unsheathed and at the ready. He just saw the goliath of the undead give Donny a blow to the gut sending down another corridor.

Rico turned to Ranma and pointed one of his massive digits in his direction. "Your ass is mine Meat!" He said in a deep voice that suggested that he was more than a vampire. Ranma smiled a cocky confidant smile that he seemed to always have on his face when he was in the midst of battle.

"Well if it isn’t the Jolly Green Giant! How’s it going ugly? Why don’t I send you for a nap? You look like you could use a hell of a lot of beauty rest." Ranma said as he unsheathed his other sword and stood ready for the monster.

Rico screamed an earth shaking roar that shook the walls and threatened to take them down. Ranma knew he didn’t have a chance in the hallway. Rico nearly filled out the entire area. There was no room to fight with even half of his full potential. The taunt was Ranma’s way of getting Rico to follow him to a more spacious fighting ground.

Ranma ran away from the hulking brute. Who followed him in a blind idiotic rage. "Come BACK here puny MAN!! I will CRUSH your bones and use them to pick food from my TEETH!!" Ranma turned around to taunt the giant man some more as he ran. "Yeah only if you could catch me yah lumbering HUNK-o-CRAP!!"

This worked and it agitated Rico even more. The goliath that was Rico was completely blind with rage. His vampiric fangs were beared and he was smashing anything that got in his way. He was nothing more than an animal now.

Ranma ran and eventually found just what he was looking for. The label on the top of the door read "GYM". Ranma rushed in there slammed the doors and got some room between himself and the door. As soon as Ranma was across the room Rico slammed through the doors like a bulldozer possessed by a demon sending splinters and shards of wood flying all over the room. Ranma had his swords out and ready.

"GGRRAAAAAAAAAGGGHH!!!"

Rico charged the young Dhampi like a rampaging rhinoceros. Rico was upon him soon and just at the last second Ranma jumped flipping over the giant and landing behind him slashing to deep vertical gashes in the large Vampires back. Rico screamed out in pain and tried to backhand the vampire slayer but he ducked and then rolled under the second blow which smashed the floor where he had just been moments before.

Ranma slashed Rico once across the chest then again on his leg nearly severing the limb. The giant fell to the ground from the pain. Ranma was about to lob off the monsters head, when one of his monstrous fists slammed across his chest catching him off guard, and knocking him across the room where he slammed into barbell set back first. Both Ranma’s swords were sent flying in either directions.

"AAAAAAAGGGHH!!" Ranma screamed as he held his back in pain. HE tried to get up to finish Rico off. But the goliath was upon him like a ton of bricks. Pummeling him with massive fists that seemed to be made of solid steel. Ranma didn’t know how much more of a beating he could take. Rico was an unrelenting force. Ranma tought about his departed father, killed by a vampire, his long lost friend Ucchan *probably doesn’t even remember him.* his mother who he hadn’t seen since he was very young and all of the vampires he had met on his journey.

All vampires were evil. All vampires were full of hate. All vampires were evil. All vampires were murderers. As Ranma thought these word they slowly became a mantra that he eventually began chanting out loud not noticing the red aura that surrounded his body. Swirling in a spiral at his feet as the anger that he held towards vampires built up until all he could think about was the anger.

Rico stopped his barrage of deadly force. As his victim began to glow. This got through to him and he began to back away from the Dhampir who began chanting a mantra that seemed to build his power up even more. Ranma continued his mantra until the aura was almost to bright to stare at directly. The Dhampir cupped his palms together and the aura seemed to all flow into a single sphere of energy in his hands. Rico decided to attack his prey before he could finish whatever it was that he was trying to do.

Ranma looked up at the monster that loomed above him. He threw out his arms in Toru’s direction just as it seemed that the hul;k would succeed in stopping the half breed slayer. The ball of energy shot out in a steady stream of energy. It slammed into Rico’s chest like a cannon it lifted the monster into the air slamming it through the ceiling and the ceiling after that until the goliath was thrown into the vast night sky and off into the distance. Ranma collapsed onto the ground in a heap after expending so much energy at once.

"W-What the hell did I just do?" He asked to no one in particular. As he limped towards his weapon of choice he began thinking of the feeling of using that energy that he had just discovered. Ranma, the man able to pick up martial arts techniques from watching them only once, decided that he would experiment with that certain technique later.

*I have to figure out how to do that again he said to himself as he picked up his sword and sheathed it then started heading towards the other one.

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Donny woke up with a major head ache. When rico had knocked him across the hall he had smashed his head into a wall and was knocked unconscious. Donny slowly got to his feet and searched around his immediate surroundings for any danger. All he saw was a path of destruction leading down the hall in the opposite dirrection that he came from.

Donny couldn't hear any signs of battle in the distance though. Maybe Ranma finished that Rico guy off. He thought. Donny walked down the hallway following the trail of debris that had been caused by Rico's rampage. He made sure to pull out a few shurikans from his pouch just in case he ran into any unwanted _surprises_.

He thought about the size of Rico and the amount of destruction that surrounded him he was willing to bet that Ranma had quite the battle. The path turned into a large room full of exercise equipment. Aha. Just like Ranma to run away to get some fighting room. Donny did a quick scan of the totalled room and spotted his Dhampir friend limping on the other side of the room.

"Hey Ranma! Think your still up to killing vampires and taking over a ship?" Donny yelled across the room. Ranma looked up after retrieving his sword and sheathing it on his back to accompany the other one that already occupied it.

"I don't know. Is there any left that haven't fled in terror of my presence?" Donny put on a thoughtful expression as he rubbed his chin.

"Hmm. I think there might be a couple up topside. Want to go pay them a visit?" Donny asked in mock humour.

Ranma didn't reply he just cocked his semi-automatic and nodded.

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Captain Stinky loaded his harpoon gun and waited inside the control room on the top deck of the boat. He sat in the dark room looking in every which direction in paranoid fear. "That little punk better have caught Saotome by now. Toru won't be pleased." He mumbled. All of a sudden a burst of bright red energy shot forth from the hull of the ship with Rico in the midst of the blast.

The light illuminated the room that Stinky hid in and it continued on into the night sky until it fizzled out and died. Stinky decided that enough was enough. He didn't get paid enough to do this.

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Ranma and Donny ran up a flight of stairs that lead to the top deck. Donny's feet made steady thumps on the metal surface while Ranma's could barely be heard at all. When they came out into the fresh air the ship was silent not a sound was heard the only thing that was out of place was the giant gaping hole that sat in the centre of the ships metallic rusty surface.

Donny nodded in the direction of the hole. "That uh must have been one hell of an uppercut you gave Paul Bunyan there. Eh?" Ranma looked at his best friend in genuine confusion.

"_Who_?" Donny was about to explain to Ranma but decided against it. They had more important things to do at the moment. They took a few steps out on to the deck and…

SLAM!

Ranma was knocked back into the stairwell that they had just come from. Donny was taken by surprise as well as a vampire tackled him to the right of the door way. Donny knocked the vampire aside. He stood up pulling out four shurikans from his pouch looking around there seemed to be vampires pouring out of every single shadow of the FRH. "Ooooh SHIT!!" Donny cried as he looked back to Ranma was currently climbing back up the stairs after quickly dealing with his situation. "Looks like somebody called in the CAVALRY!"

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{Well that's chapter three and it was a pretty long one considering how slow I am at writing. And Ranma has just developed his Chi. Although it's based on his hatred for vampires rather than confidence. Anyway now taking over this ship and heading to Japan may not be quite as easy as these two vampire hunters might have expected. What exactly is Toru planning? Where does this perfect vampire Ekimus come in? Who is this mysterious group of vampire rebels known as the Blood Pack? All this and more next week as The Saotome Blade continues.!!!}

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