"I fight like crap today!" he said as Akane slapped him around like a rag doll.
Mind you, she did this all the time, but usually Ranma just put up with it out of misguided chivalry. But this time he really couldn't stop her, even if he tried.
"RANMA NO BA -!" Akane stopped mid-catch phrase. "Screw it, for some reason I'm just not feeling it today."
Taking pity on her punching bag, Akane took her leave.
"Just what the hell happened back there?" said an irritated Ranma. He decided to put off further sparring, in favor of some solitary practice.
But things were worse than he'd feared.
"OH NO IT CAN'T BE!"
"What is it, said Ranma's father, Genma.
"I FORGOT MY MARTIAL ARTS!" cried a sad Ranma.
"You what? And you dare call yourself my son?" Genma jumped into the pond and became a panda. "I have no son! And from this moment I'm a panda forever!" He walked away from the dojo, and out of everyone's lives.
Later, Ranma broke the news to the Tendo family.
"In that case," said Soun, "the engagement is off."
"YAAAY!" said Ranma and Akane. But then Ranma realized something.
"Then that means...?" said Ranma.
"Yes," said Soun, "it means you no longer have a home here."
Ranma soon found himself on the streets. Without his ability to defend himself, his former rivals took this chance to be mean to him at every occasion.
"AAAAAARGGH STOP IT!" he said as Mousse and Ryoga took turns splashing hot and cold water on him just to see how many times they could make him change sexes in a minute."
"Cut it out you two!" said an unfamiliar voice.
The two tormenters left, their fun spoiled.
"Who are you?" said Ranma.
"My name is Alexia Janice Crystallis," said Ranma's new friend.
That night, Ranma moved in with Alexia's family.
"This is your bedroom," said Alexia. Actually, it was the attic, but that was better than nothing.
After a lifetime as a martial artist, Ranma found himself facing a new beginning, one without anything familiar to him. Still, he hoped his Anything Goes philosophy would continue to serve him in his new, non-fighting life.
Little did Ranma and Alexia know of the tragedy that awaited them.
[A/N: This'll be a two- or three-shot. Oh, and please feel totally free to "steal" my OC. After all, we "steal" canon characters everytime we write fanfiction, amirite?]
