Ranma let out a tired sigh; he currently lay on the roof of the Tendo residence, staring up at the clear blue sky.
'Thinking about the good old days?' asked a feminine voice within his mind.
'Things were so much simpler back then…never a dull moment, sure the same could be same about here but…it's just not the same' Ranma sighed in response.
'Well we could always go back' countered the voice.
'Sorry Ranko, I made mom a promise that I'd give pop another chance and I plan on keeping my word' Ranma replied.
'He's had his chance a hundred times over' Ranko snapped.
'You know the deal, until the little one arrives we will remain here…hiding our true selves and when the time comes we will make our final choice together and reveal what we are and your existence' Ranma replied.
'Some choice after everything that's happened as if I'd agree to remain here when it is so easy to return to our true family' Ranko replied.
'I still plan to keep my word' Ranma responded.
BOOM
Ranma's eyes became more focused; he sat up, his gaze moved across the view of Nerima until he saw the pillar of smoke, the smoke from the explosion.
'Strange, you're over here and yet the chaos is happening over there…looks like fun' Ranko stated, Ranma could practically hear the smirk in her voice. Ranma grew his trademark smirk; he leapt to his feet before heading in the direction of the explosion, hopping across rooftops.
A Couple Minutes Earlier…
A man with black spikey hair stood in a fighting stance opposite his target, a small gnome like man stood in a fighting stance of his own. The man went by the name Gajeel, he wore a devilish smirk, relishing in the battle that was to come.
"Ready squirt?" Gajeel questioned, not even glancing at his diminutive partners.
"Yeah" a little girl with blue hair tied in pigtails replied in a tone of determination.
'How the hell did Gajeel convince Wendy to come on this job with him…or was it the other way round' Carla mused.
"You Fairy Tail punks have no idea who you're dealing with" Happosai sneered.
"Wrong, you have no idea who you're dealing with" Gajeel replied before turning his arm into an iron pillar and sending it towards the freak with incredible speed, Happosai leapt over the attack, the beam struck the ground, tearing through it with little resistance. Happosai landed atop the beam.
He pulled out a small yellow ball from within his GI and lit the fuse.
"HAPPO FIRE BURST" Happosai declared, throwing the firecracker at the two Dragon Slayers, Gajeel retracted his harm and moved to protect Wendy and just as he thought the attack hit, combusting on contact, dealing minimal damage to the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"If that's all you got ya freak then this isn't going to be any fun" Gajeel sneered.
"Well, well what do we have here" declared a new voice, the small group turned to locate the source of the voice, their gazes were met with the sight a young adult with dark raven hair tied into a pigtail wearing a silk Chinese, red shirt with black baggy kung Fu pants looking down on them with a small smirk.
"Decided to join this little fight have you Ranma?" Happosai greeted, Ranma stared at the two wizards, paying the cat no mind, his gaze locked on the insignia of the Fairy Tail guild.
"What are you doing here?" Ranma questioned.
"Answering a job request, one requesting we bring this freak to justice" Gajeel growled.
'Just who is this guy, his scent…it's so strange' Gajeel mused.
'Judging by their scents we have a couple of Dragon Slayers on our hands…I haven't met another one since Natsu' Ranma mused.
'And from Fairy Tail…yep this is definitely your life' Ranko chuckled, admiring the new chaos.
"So you will leave if you catch the freak?" Ranma questioned.
"Yep" Wendy answered.
"Fine then I'll lend you my aid" Ranma replied, Happosai turned to glare at his supposed heir.
"Treacherous brat" Happosai sneered, Ranma opened his mouth and began to breathe, they all noticed a slight glow within him mouth, their eyes widened.
'Since when was Ranma a wizard?' Happosai gasped within his mind.
'A breath attack' Gajeel inwardly gasped.
"THUNDER DRAGON ROAR" Ranma roared, a tornado of thunder and lightning erupting from his mouth and charging towards Happosai, too stunned by this revelation to even move, was struck instantly. When the light show ended Happosai stood their charred, smoking for a few seconds before collapsing unconscious.
"Take him to the authorities and then you'll get your reward" Ranma stated, turning to leave.
"Hold on, you're a Dragon Slayer too" Wendy called after him.
"No, I'm something more, perhaps we will meet again soon" Ranma stated before running or rather leaping off into the distance.
'What are you doing? Go with them, we'd finally be free' Ranko stated.
'I've told you this once I've told you a thousand times I am not going to break my word' Ranma replied.
'I know and we pay for it every day' Ranko muttered.
That Night…
Ranma lay upon his futon, blocking out the sound of the giant panda snoring beside him, letting his mind wander back to the time before this, when he had some freedom.
Flashback…
"Now boy you're going to stay here for one month and become stronger, by taking what nature can dish out" Genma said proudly.
Both father and son stood upon a mountainous terrain, half way up a mountain in China, surrounded by trees, it was a clear day, barley any clouds were contained within the vast sky.
Genma left his eleven year old, cursed, currently male son on the mountain to train while he went to the nearest pub to drown his sorrows while considering how their new curses could possibly affect his plan to unite the schools.
Ranma stayed there for three weeks, enduring storms, landslides and the predators that had made the mountain their home. With each day Ranma progressed further up the mountain, taking on every threat he met with, seeing it as a form of training while hoping to get a better view to see where the nearest town was and where his father had gotten off to. However, what he found was no town but instead something that should have been impossible.
A creature of myth and legend even in a world where magic was common. A dragon, a dragon with three scaly heads, one red, one yellow and one black, each with their own set of sharp, deadly fangs. The dragon saw Ranma the minute he rounded the turn of the mountain, entering its territory, yet didn't attack him, just stared at him and Ranma stared right back.
Ranma met the gaze of the dragon's centre head, the one covered in scarlet scales. The dragon glared into Ranma's eyes, into his very soul and saw the tortured life he had led. Ranma's gaze moved to the head on the far left, the one with bright yellow scales. Unlike the previous head, this dragon head looked at Ranma with a mothers eyes, Ranma's eyes began to widen.
'Are you seeing what I'm seeing' asked the voice within his head, a voice that claimed to have been there since the beginning, that the cursed spring merely awoke her.
'She has mama's eyes' Ranma inwardly gasped.
"Mom" Ranma whispered, he could barely remember her but those eyes brought everything back, the only eyes that had ever shown him kindness and love, eyes he would never forget.
The yellow dragon head focused on Ranma, searching for the latent psychic link between them and strengthening it as much as she could, enough so she could speak with him telepathically.
'Ranma is that you? Can you hear me?' she called out, eyes glistening with hope.
'Yes that is me and we can hear you' Ranma replied.
'It is you…oh how I have missed you my child and yes I am your mother…I guess I should explain' she sighed within her son's mind, Ranma merely nodded in response.
'What you see now is my true form, these two, my other heads are my brothers, your uncles Shadow a Darkness Dragon and Shinya, a Fire Dragon. You see Ranma some dragons such as myself can take on a human form so can my brothers. We were curious of what a human life would be like to be human and live among them, learn what they are like when they don't fear us.
'We took on a human form, we decided to take turns in controlling the changing its appearance as we altered the driver so to speak, we did that less and less though when I fell in love with a human. Your father, my brothers warned me not to trust him but still allowed me more control over our body, until I was almost always in control and I didn't listen to their warnings.
'And when you reached the age of four Genma took you on your training journey, I waited for six years before I headed back into the jungle like areas and returned to our natural form and flew off in search of you having exhausted human means of locating you, we followed your scent to here and we waited for you, I could still smell you the entire time and I knew we couldn't confront you without scaring you off or you fighting us so we waited for you to come to us' Nodoka explained, she even had the same voice as her human form.
'You mean we're…half dragon?' Ranma gasped out.
'Yes…hold on, we?' Nodoka questioned.
'The boy speaks of something that occurred at Jusenkyo' Shinya stated allowing his siblings to access the memories he had gathered when he stared into his soul.
'He inherited more from us than we ever believed sister, another personality…another head' Shinya continued.
'Another head, but that would mean that Ranma is more than half dragon' Nodoka replied.
'Exactly, looks like he inherited DNA from all three of us, not just you Nodoka, three dragons acting as mother with a single human father, normally that would make him 50% Human and 50% Dragon with human science but his Dragon DNA has dominated him and the human is recessive and merely the form of his birth, Ranma is 80% Dragon, his humanity only spreads as far as his ability to take on a human form at a young age without draining his power whatsoever though when he does become of age he will become whole, 100% Dragon unless when the time comes he chooses humanity in which case he would become more human the Dragon' Shadow stated.
For four years Ranma trained with Nodoka and her brothers, learning to use magic, control their elements, fire, thunder and darkness, they taught Ranma to accept his curse as a part of him and to co-operate with his sibling and when the time came they took Ranma to the Fairy Tail guild. He was able to join the guild and made a few friends while he was there, even took up the habit of destroying things, he didn't go five minutes before he picked it up, however, the master eventually convinced Ranma to give his father a second chance, not wanting to let someone else lose a part of their family like he did with his son.
However, when Ranma returned to Genma, finding him drunk in a pub, realising he had never so much as noticed he had been gone, but before he could even say anything he was instantly taken back to japan and they headed for Nerima where Ranma was to be engaged.
Over time Nodoka did find him again, however, he had to play it safe and pretend to be scared of her so remained in female form, using his sister's name during the charade much to Ranko's amusement, however, she did manage to speak to his mother and uncles telepathically.
End flashback…
Ranma slowly allowed his eyes to close and for sleep to claim him, hoping that soon the time would come that he would be able to leave Genma without breaking his word, all he had to do was wait for the arrival.
A/N Okay mostly redone, got some idea of the plot, I'll probably make a poll for the pairing of this fic, if multi pairings are the final outcome I would appreciate some advice from you the readers on how to write it and what you want to happen and no I am not afraid to up the rating on this fic. Plz review and I am open to suggestions and requests.