took out her photo equipment.



Akane pulled out of Ranma's arms with a red tinge around the tip of his nose. "You have to go .." Ranma nodded and took the stone out of his trouser pocket and stepped further out into the garden.The small cloud that had moved in front of the full moon now released it again. The greenish light in the star-shaped stone now seemed to shine more intensely. Ranma turned back to the others. “I'll be back in a few weeks ... with my sister.” With these words, he turned around again and held the stone open in front of him with his arm outstretched. > I beg you, key to the gates of space and time, open the way for me to the world where my sister is! ... And don't you break your promise, do you hear, Ranma?! ... << br />


When Ranma opened his eyes he found himself on a hill from which one could see a huge city. Somehow he felt weird, he couldn't describe it, but somehow his body seemed to have changed. ((Note: He's no longer a drawn manga / anime figure ...)) It was night and the colorful lights of the various shops were shining everywhere.But his mother was right, he clearly felt an energy that did not belong here, that was clearly different from all the others and attracted him like a beacon attracts a mosquito on a dark night. And something else struck him - it was a new moon, and not a full moon, as he had actually expected. But that shouldn't bother him, because that would mean he could return two weeks earlier ...

He took his backpack and made his way down to town to find the person who was radiating that energy .....





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/... he will come to get you ... you have to make up your mind ..... make up your mind !!! ..... /



The young girl woke up bathed in sweat. > That dream again! That was the seventh time ... and always the same sentence at the end ..... `you have to decide ...` .... but for what? What does that mean ????? What does this dream mean? Who will come? I don't understand any of this !! ... Not until 5:30 am, well, what the heck. I can't sleep now anyway. And I still have to make breakfast for my aunt and my cousin ... Oh dear, get out of here before Aunt Juri wakes up. She crept quietly through the hall to the front door ... "Tara!"> Oh no, why me of all people ??!? ... Oh man, why did you have to send me here, mom? After your death, little uncle took good care of me, but since he's been working abroad, Aunt Yuri thinks I would be her housemaid for everything ... ... I don't understand, why do I dream the same thing every night? Who is supposed to come to get me? ....


... In the night she had the same dream as in the evenings before.

/....° he will come to get you .... ° ..... ° who will come ?? Please tell me who wants to get me and where to ?? .... ° .... ° ... he will come ... your brother will come to take you home .... °. .... /



She woke up, drenched in sweat and totally confused, like the nights before. Only one thing had been different that night, she had seen a woman she had never seen before, but who looked very much like her in an almost ghostly way ... and she had a warm, familiar glow in her eyes .. .> My brother ????Take me home ??? What does all this mean????? I just don't understand ... ... What does that mean, mom? Why do not you help me? What does this dream mean to me ??? ....
/.... Always listen to the wind, my little angel. Sometimes it lays down as quickly as it came, you don't understand a single one of his words and then it pauses for a whole week, can't stop talking about the world. But no matter how long he stays, at some point you will understand his words and his feelings. Because these will never go away as long as the wind blows .... /

Why did these words occur to her now? But she tried, she closed her eyes, held her breath and listened ... listened to the wind ... but she couldn't understand his words, couldn't understand what he was telling her ... could no longer herself understand ... why did she wish it was true?... she didn't know ... no, that was wrong; she knew it, deep in her heart she knew the reason ... but she had stopped believing in it .... had everything deeply, very deeply hidden and locked up ... because it hurt her ... she wanted to protect herself ... didn't want to cry anymore, didn't want to be sad anymore ... but deep in her heart she felt it ... but she didn't want to believe it, didn't want to be hurt again ... so she closed these thoughts deep in her heart ... put on a mask and lived the day .... believed in being happy .....



... The next morning was like the previous one, and like the one before and the mornings of the past few months ... Tara got ready for school, prepared breakfast and then snuck out of the house. Unsuspecting that this day could be the beginning of a new life ....



.... at school everything was as always, she laughed with her friend, annoyed the history teacher and solved her tasks ... as always ....


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... for six days he had slowly approached the energy, last night the moon had already revealed almost half of his face. Now he was sure ... he was standing in front of a large school building and felt the energy very clearly. She had to go to this school, there was no doubt for him ... he would wait, wait and then follow her .....



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.... Finally the school bell rang the last lesson. All the students stormed out of the classrooms into the weekend.

Tara and Sayuri strolled slowly across the school yard. “What are you still doing today, Tara?” “I don't know, why are you asking?” Sayuri just shrugged. "Oh, before I forget ..." She rummaged briefly in her school bag and finally pulled out a video cassette. "... here, your two favorite episodes are also on it ..." "Thank you, you are really great !! I'll watch them three times tonight !!"Sayuri smiled." If it makes you happy ... "

The two girls strolled through the relatively quiet streets. Sayuri noticed that Tara was slightly nervous and kept squinting backwards. "What's happening?" she asked softly. "Someone's been sneaking up after us all the time," she said back, just as quietly. "What???!!!" Sayuri shouted loudly. "Psst! Not so loud! Yes, it's true. I can feel it very clearly, someone is watching us and I keep seeing a shadow scurrying behind us." Sayuri knew that Tara wasn't kidding about things like that, and she knew that Tara, as a fighter, had a keen sixth sense for something like that. "What do we do now?" "Nothing. I'll take you home and then I'll see." "But what if he continues to pursue you or ... what if he attacks you?" Worry, you know me. Nobody will kill me so quickly. "She winked at her friend, whereupon she only nodded.

A short time later, the two arrived at Sayuri's house. "I don't know, Tara. I have a bad feeling about leaving