Reyvateil Ranma

Chapter One: Not the Usual Curse

Authors Note: I haven't found a beta reader yet, so this was edited by me. If you think this is worth it, and want the job contact me. Constructive criticism is welcome. This is also up on I used a different pen name there. I will post a comment about Reyvateils for those that have not played the games.

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A few minutes before, Ranma and Genma had arrived at Jusenkyo.

"This place isn't so bad," Ranma remarked, while he scanned the training grounds, taking note of the poles sticking up from the springs.

"Sirs, you are strange ones. No one comes here, because there are more than one hundred springs here. Each spring has their own tragic story," the guide declared in broken Japanese.

The two ignored the guide, and each jumped onto a pole.

"Hey, sirs, don't go there, I haven't finished my story." the guide said in a panicky voice.

Ranma and Genma had several midair bouts before Ranma landed a hit. This sent Genma into the spring of drowned panda.


In another universe…

In the tower of Ar Tonelico, Lyner and Shurelia were conducting an experiment. Their purpose was to reverse engineer the Hymn Crystal Purger, so they could create a copy to use if the first one was ever lost or destroyed. They couldn't just copy it because the technology that had created it originally had been lost over a thousand years ago.

"Ready Lyner?" Shurelia asked from her position, near a statue of a singing woman standing near a man with a sword.

Looking at the Hymn Crystal doubtfully, Lyner tried to confirm: "are you sure about installing the copy in you, Shurelia? You know--we're not even certain we have this made right."

"Just do it."

"If your sure," Lyner said, as he started the installation of the Hymn Crystal. Everything seemed to be going well until Shurelia screamed in pain and fainted. Lyner aborted the installation immediately, and rushed to her side. Frantic he called her name and shook her, hoping to revive her, then he gathered her into his arms and fled to the Inn. He then left her in a room to rest so he could fetch a doctor. Unnoticed by the anguished Lyner; a small sliver of Shurelia's essence, was lost in the experiment.


Back in the Ranmaverse...

"Growf," growled the panda as it sprang out of the pool and landed on a pole.

"What the hell is that?" Ranma demanded to the guide.

"That, Sir, is The Spring of Drowned Panda, very tragic story of panda that fall in spring and drowned two thousand years ago. Now whoever falls in spring takes the body of panda."

Ranma's attention to the guide proved to be his undoing as his father decked him into a spring.

The spring Ranma fell into should have been The Spring of Drowned Girl. However, in the instant before Ranma fell in the spring the missing sliver of Shurelia's essence contaminated the pool.

If things had gone without Lyner's and Shurelia's mishap he would have become a short busty redhead faster but weaker, instead he became a Reyvateil Origin, as the sliver of Shurelia's essence merged with his essence.

"Young sir fall into the Spring of Drowned Girl, very tragic tale of young girl who drown one thousand five hundred years ago."

Ranma looked at his chest and after he steadied his nerves he opened his Gi and sees two small girlish mounds. After he climbed out he looked at his reflection in the spring. Instead of seeing a young man's face with black hair done in a pigtail he saw a young girl's face. He took a good look at the body he now possessed, he estimated the age to be fourteen or fifteen years old. His formally black hair looked silver. As his observations sink in, he goes into silent shock. He recovered a few seconds later, and his scream of denial echoed through the training ground. The distraction of the scream proved sufficient, so that no one noticed the spring undergo some subtle changes.

"That's odd, most customers who fall in that spring have a better body than that, oh well," the guide remarked then he looked closer. "Another oddity, customer, you look younger, this pool is not supposed to effect age," he waited until Ranma calmed down then he continued his explanation, "Hot water will change you back--that is until you hit cold water again." The guide decided to heat up a kettle for a demonstration. Then he doused the two with the hot water. "See now you both human and male."

On the way to the Chinese Amazon Village… they got hit by rain.

"Geeze, Pop, want to try sparring like this? We need to get used to these bodies," Ranma asked as she suddenly staggered under her pack.

"Fine but do you really think you can win as a girl?" Genma put up on a sign after he dropped his pack. He went into his fighting stance and put up another sign with a clipped, "Ready, Boy?"

"Sure thing, Pops," the silver haired girl boasted confidently.

Genma dashed forward, and Ranma immediately realized that she couldn't keep up.

"Wait!" Ranma shouted right before the Panda knocked Ranma into a tree, knocking her out cold.


A few hours later Ranma regained consciousness, her head throbbed with a pounding headache.

"Ow, it feels like a truck hit me."

"What's the matter with you boy?" Genma complained, "That shouldn't have knocked you out so quickly, or for so long."

"I don't know I can't seem to move as fast in this form, or take a hit as well," Ranma admitted as she got up and tried to lift her pack only to find out she could barely lift it. "*What. The. Hell*? I have almost no strength!"

"That's it boy you need to work on that form's endurance--put that pack on we will jog to start."

Ranma made it a quarter mile, until she collapsed under the weight of her exhaustion and her pack. "I can't go on"

"Boy, why have you stopped? You only went a quarter mile."

"I can't help it. This body has no endurance, " she replied panting, "it took everything I had to get this far."

Genma looked at the silver haired girl and sighed in resignation. "Fine until your endurance and strength allows you to keep up with me, I'll carry the packs. Try to keep up." He mumble while walking away, "What else can you expect from a weak girl?"


Next episode of Reyvateil Ranma: Some Things are Inevitable...

We meet the Amazons