Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ranma

Disclaimer:Ya only get one! I don't own Ranma, or any of the characters introduced until chapter 6. Viz video , and Rumiko Takahashi. Any of the characters who don't belong to her up to chapter 5, belong to Ryo-Wolf. He started this story, and i'm picking it up where left off with his blessing. There are some minor edits that I've made, and some other slight changes, but its basicly the same.

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Some differences between canon and non canon - The curses are locked normally, and the "locking ladle" instead unlocks them. As you will see later, while you can fall into two different springs, and they do mix, there appears to be a certain amount of control you can have between forms, even if its not always consious, although this only applies to the cursed forms you end up with. So if Mousse fell into the spring of drowned duck, and then the spring of drowned monkey (come on, he has no eyesight. he's the most likely for it to happen to at random. I'm not picking on him!), he could turn into a duck, monkey, or a hybrid of the two. Cold water will normally put them in the form they aquired last from the cursed pools.

Characters may not be quite the same as they are in canon, due to the changes in the timeline. Enough said.

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Prolog: Jusenkyo

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"Welcome, honored guests, to the legendary training grounds of Jusenkyo." A fat, chinese man stood before a fat, japanese man with a young boy beside him, the two were carrying large packs and the small child seemed to protest this as often as possible.

"Well, this doesn't look to be all that dangerous." Damn! The boy has been getting way too soft in his training, he needs the harder training sooner to toughen up! I knew we should have gone to that training ground in the middle of that active volcano first... Genma Saotome was not happy. The appearently horrible training grounds of acursed springs was nothing more than a joke, just some simple balance and endurance training, what's so dangerous about a bunch of springs anyway, what could happen, you get wet?

"We might as well, give it a shot! Come on boy!" Genma dropped his pack and vaulted to a nearby pole, while the young boy dropped his pack and jumped aswell, he didn't make

it to the top of the pole so instead clung to the side and climbed on top of it.

"Come on, pop! This is too hard.." The 9 year old boy was having some trouble with the idea of fighting his father on top of these poles, he seriously

doubted he'd be able to leap from pole to pole, let alone fight at the same time.

"Quit whining like a little girl and fight!" Genma launched himself at his son while the guide was screaming at them for some reason, the small child lept in an attempt to escape the blow from his father only to meet his fist head on. The small child was sent hurling through the air like a bullet from the barrel of a gun right into a spring about 10 yards away.

"You'll have to do better than that, boy. You jumped right into that blow!" Genma raced across the tops of the pole to the pool his son landed in and waited on top of a pole while the guide ran up to him.

"Oh no! Young sir fall in spring of drowned beast! Tragic tale of a strange creature that fall in spring 8,000 year ago. Now whoever fall in spring take body of beast!" Genma looked at the guide in shock, Shape shifting magical springs?! No wonder this place is dangerous...Wait a minute, why'd he say "beast" and not "Boar" or "Lion" or something? Just then, a creature that could only be described as what you'd get if you shoved a tiger and force bred it with a dragon erupted from the pool, wreathed in flames.

"What the hell is that thing?!" The fat martial artist could only stare in shock at the small creature, it had the basic build of a tiger, but had a head, paws, and skin that seemed to be a combination of a cat and lizard, its front paws seemed to be built for both walking and grasping.

"Sir! We should run! young customer doesn't seem pleased!!" The Saotome man didn't need to be told twice as he burst off at a speed he didn't even realize he was capable of, his son-turned-demon looked like he was having trouble walking on all fours while the fat martial artist and the guide went running for the guide's shack.

"What happened to my son? Is there any way to reverse it?!" The guide was breathing heavily while putting various objects in the way of the door.

"I afraid not, Jusenkyo permenent. Only way to undo curse require ancient Musk artifact, but even with it cold water change customer back to creature." The guide had just put his bookshelf infront of the door when it burst open in an explotion of flames, Ranma had finally figured out how to walk and even how to project the flames from his body, he may be a cub but he was still dangerous.

"N..Now boy, don't do anything hastey!" Genma was sweating, and not just because of the heat his son was producing, The Saotome man was backed up into the corner of the hut had was currently being stared down by his son, if he could even call him that.

"I hate you pop! I'm a freak! You'll pay..." If Ranma had ever realised he was a cat that line of thought would have been completely different as he shot a

fireball from his mouth at the cowering man.

"Yow!!!" Genma dodged out of the way as a hole was blown in the back wall of the hut, He knocked over a pot of water the guide was going to make tea with and splashed the cold liquid onto Ranma, who instantly howled in pain. Genma took that opportunetly to bash the fiery cat over the head with a chair and run like hell, vanishing into the forest.