A Ranma ½ / Grandia crossover
Notes: the story happens after the manga ends, all copywritten material belongs to their respected owners, the only profit i make in writing this fanfiction is for my own enjoyment.
Warning
Contains spoilers to those who have not completed Grandia
And somewhat AU in places.
place
"speech"
thinking
"mysterious voices"
(Authors note)
Icarian Wings
Prologue
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"Time Gate"
"Tree of Life"
"End Of The World"
Three voices spoke into the mind of Ranma Saotome, he was standing in a wide open area with flowers in bloom and the odd occasional tree positioned around him.
"Time Gate"
He was awed by such a peaceful place that he wished that his life could be as peaceful as this place was. Granted he was baffled as to why he can hear voices in his head besides his own but right now he didn't care, he banished the voices to the back of his mind for a second as he bent down to look at the flowers, he was however treated to the sight of the flowers, grass and trees suddenly turn to stone.
"Tree of Life"
With a startled expression he looked up and around him to see the sky suddenly turn black and the place where he's standing being occupied by huge tentacles that were gradually moving forwards past him to an unknown location, looking past the tentacles towards the source showed him a huge larver like creature positioned (or fused however you look at it) on a building a few miles away.
"End of the World"
The pigtailed boy was too shocked by the scene around him to notice the creature's eye look towards him, the tentacles that were moving past him rapidly changed course for a collision with the boy.
"Time Gate"
Ranma snapped out of his Stupor as he sensed something come from behind him, he jumped as high as he could and made it just in time to see the tentacles collide with each other, landing on one of the downed tentacles the pigtailed Martial Artist blew a sigh of relief but that didn't last for long since the ground started to tremble and the tentacles stared to move again.
"Tree of Life"
Running as fast as he can down the length of the thing he was on, he made his way towards the larver occasionally dodging and flipping over tentacles that were trying to either knock him off or spear him.
"End of the World"
As he reached the laver he felt a deep cold feeling enter his body, the pigtailed martial artist tried to shake it off but that feeling came back twice as strong as before, a sickening crack was heard from above him as he looked up to see what was going on.
"Time Gate"
Four greenish wings sprouted from the back of the Larver, what looked odd to Ranma was the fact that the wings looked about 10 sizes smaller than the creature that bore them.
"Tree of Life"
A couple of seconds later a body shot out from where the wings were, upon a closer inspection the pigtailed martial artist could see that the wings that were on the Larver are now on the back of the person.
"End of the World"
The figure floated down to the space in front of Ranma, when he got a good look at the person in front of him the pigtailed teen could have died from shock, right there in front of him was an identical image of himself right down to the pigtail.
"Time Gate"
The only difference's between the two that Ranma could see was that the other Ranma had Reddish eyes in opposite to his clear blue ones, instead of a Chinese shirt and black slacks the other wore nothing but a pair of blue slacks, a long scar could be seen on the right hand side of his body, the other obvious dead giveaway that this Ranma was different were the Greenish glowing wings sticking out of his back.
"Tree of Life"
The other Ranma extended a hand out towards him in a "take my hand" gesture, as the real ranma looked into the other's eyes he saw sadness in them; his suspicions were confirmed when the identical Ranma spoke.
"End of the World"
"Help me, the end is coming soon, you need to help me"
The voices at the back of Ranma's mind started to graduly become louder.
"Time Gate"
Confusion took control of Ranma's face, why did he want his help? "Why? Why do you need my hel.."
"Tree of Life"
The young Saotome never got to finish his sentence as a searing pain spread throughout his back and head, with his knees on the floor and his hands clutching his head Ranma let off a huge high pitched scream.
"End of the World"
The tentacles around him froze where they were as a green glow started to brighten from his back, still screaming his back spasmed violently as he fell towards an unconscious state, he managed to hear his copy speak through the loud voices once more before he lost consciousness
"Please hurry Brother"
guest room in Tendo house
Ranma woke up screaming.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Only to be smacked in the face by a sign saying 'be quiet'
Slowly getting back up while holding a hand to his face Ranma recalled what happened in his dream, hands quickly darted to his back to feel for something, he stopped after a while still breathing heavily.
"Brother! How is that possible? Unless!"
Ranma reached for the bottom of his tank top that he usually goes to sleep in and lifted it up, there was a long scar line which ran from the bottom left hand side of his upper hip up to just under his armpit.
"The old man says that I got that during the neko-ken training, but I don't believe a word what he says, that scar looks too precised and professionaly for the old idiot to patch it up, it's as if it were done by a doctor"
During the 10 year training trip the young Saotome had to tend to his own wounds and injuries that he'd get as a result of Genma's training regime.
He took time to study medical book while his father was sleeping to learn how to attend to his wounds when he got pretty banged up.
It was during one of those nights when the wind flipped a couple of the pages to a section of the book that was well worn more than any of the other pages, on it was a detailed discussion of how to separate joined twins, the operation would leave a pernament scar of where the Twins had been joined.
This left Ranma intrigued even more so with the combined knowledge that he might possibly have a brother.
"But where is he and why didn't he come with us on the training trip?"
Memories drifted back to his dream, a scar just like his own was on the oposite side of the other Ranma's body.
He turned to look at the currently sleeping panda with a frown
'what secrets are you hiding old man?'
outside Dr Tofu's Clinic - next day
'If anyone knows about injuries and types of scars, why not ask a doctor himself?'
The young Saotome stood in front of Dr Tofu's clinic, the decision to see the doc was made the night previous as he went back to sleep, he made sure that he'd get up as early around the same time Kasumi did when she started the choirs for the day, he dressed up quickly and sneaked quietly out of the house as the morning sun started rising, all the while dashing towards Tofu's clinic.
he hesitated for a while before knocking on the front door, the pigtailed boy only had to wait for a while before the door opened to reveal Ono Tofu
"why hello there Ranma, what brings you here this early in the morning?" he said with a smile and a slightly puzzled look
"Hiya doc, i came here for you to take a look at something i'm not quite sure about"
The young doctor chucled and opened the door wider to allow Ranma to go in
"why of course, just come in and tell me what's been bothering you"
A few minutes later after both the doctor and the pigtailed martial artist had settled down Ranma spoke up
"Doc i know that you've been in the medical gig for a few years, i was hoping that you would know the differences in types of scars"
This caught Doctor Tofu off guard, why would the young Saotome be asking these type of questions, he decided to humor him and replied
"well it depends what kind of scars you're talking about, there are many that can be aquired through serious cuts, burns or medical operations, why do you ask?"
Ranma said nothing as he proceeded to take off his sleeveless white chinese silk shirt
"i know that this aint one of the first two scars doc, i'm just wonderin what you think this is?"
He lifted his left arm up to show Tofu the near foot scar that marked his body, the reaction that he saw off of Tofu was all the needed.
Tofu looked at the scar with a facsination of worry and surprise
"Ranma! where did you get that one from? that doesn't look like one of the normal scars that you have"
'I'm sure that i've seen a scar like that before but where?'
"To tell you the truth Doc i wish that i knew, pops told be that i got it from the N-N-neko-ken training and i've forgotten bout it, but i recon that i got this from before the training."
he couldn't argue against that, besides the other scars which looked as if they were self healed, the scar that Ranma had on his left hand side was clearly done under a surgeons knife.
"i'll be back in a couple of minutes Ranma, i've got to check up on something, if its what I think that scar is then i think that your father may have some explaining to do"
Ranma watched as Tofu disappeared into the back part of the clinic, he still remembered the look of Tofu's face and that made his mind glad that he went to Dr Tofu about this, he kept his mind occupied for a couple of minutes before Dr Tofu coming back into the room in a hurry.
The doc looked like death had crawled, in his now shaking hand he held three certificates in which he silently passed onto the young saotome, he studied the first one which was a birth certificate belonging to himself which included place date and time of birth.
The next one made his eyes widened slightly as he saw another birth certificate under the name Saotome, only this time it was for a person that was born at the same hospital, the same date and whats more scary, the same time as he was born, Another certificate droped from his hand to the table before he could read the name of the person that shared his birthdate.
Ranma looked towards the fallen certificate and for the first time in his life ever since going on that traing trip with Genma he shed tears, for the information on the certificate wasn't a birth certificate, but a death certificate.
Name: Saotome Ranryu
Born: October 20th 1980 10:45am
Died: October 20th 1980 13:45pm
Denial began to sweep through Ranma, maybe this was a death certificate from another family whos name is Saotome, the denial stopped as he read further down the page.
Parents: Saotome Nodoka, Saotome Genma
Siblings: Saotome Ranma
Cause of Death: died during second surgery to remove foreign anomoly 3 hours after separation from conjoined twin Saotome Ranma.
(AN: so sue me, i don't know what a death certificate looks like :p)
'what the? durning SECOND surgery! FOREIGN ANOMALY! what does this mean!'
Before he knew what was happening, Ranma jumped out of the nearest open window in Tofu's office and made a dash while still clutching all three certificates in his hand, his destination, the Saotome house.
Back at Dr Dofu's clinic stood the good doctor himself looking out of the window that Ranma jumped out of, he had a sad look on his face as he watched Ranma disappear out of his eye sight.
Poor Ranma, kami-sama only knows what's going on in that mind of his now, but then again, i would think the same as he is if i found out that i had a twin brother that died after birth.
Dr Tofu looked out of the window towards the now blackening sky with traces of lightning flickering
'sigh it looks like a storm's coming, one that will change everyones lives, i hope that Ranma doesn't get caught the full brunt of it.'
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End prologue
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hi i'm back again, this is one of my earlier works that i started around the same time as Ranma the Devil Hunter, not much of Grandia elements in at the moment i know but hopefully now that i've finnished college for the year i can concentrate on fanfic writing.
Edit: i've renamed amnar with Ranryu (i think wild dragon sounds right dont you think?)
please R+R, awaiting your responces