BING!! IDEA! Allright this came from another fic sortof. I read this fic... and it gave me so many Idea's that I couldn't keep em all in. (I let one slip..) Anyway still workin' on the blessing. Chaps comin' slower but there comin. I've sorta been working backwords. The last chapters are gonna come out real quick so be expecting that 10 or 15 chapters down the road. The fic this Idea sprang from was called The Sorrow of the Trees. It was a great fic by NorikoHorano. It was by far the greatest one shot I have ever read. This fic is being written with the idea from it. Allright here it goes. Remember most of the credit goes to her. Your should really read this fic. The author is in my favorites. Ok on with the show. (You don't need to read that fic to know this one but i recomend it because that fic is probly gonna be so much better than this one)
At the northern end of Japan was an old mountain. It was once a Volcano but is now just a dormant rock. People don't go to this mountain. It's not because its scary to go. Nor is it too far. It's not even very hard to climb. A path that has been there for centuries could lead a traveler easily up it. No, none of these things keep people away from it. It is the prensence there. When anyone walks to that mountain they feel, immense saddness. It makes them want to turn around or go around the mountian. No one ever knew why. For 1,000 years it turned out travelers. The entire world had been turned into one great city. Wherever there was not an ocean there was a city or a park. And, also the world had finally met other life out there in space and had joined in galactic trade to keep their planet running. It worked very well. But this mountain remained untouched. It was not even a park like the rest of the forests. It was just that no one ever wanted to go there. But one day a man swore he would make it to the top of this mountain.
When he reached the mountain he felt no saddness like others did. Something about him was different. He left his friends and climbed the mountain alone. He was not truly different than any of his friends. The only abnormal things about him were his practice in martial arts and his uncanny ability to summon a hammer whenever angry, which he was often. When he reached about the middle he found a small cave. It looked as if it were about to begin to rain so he went in. There he met her... again. At first she was untalkative. She almost shunned him. Somehow she could throw him into walls without lifting a finger. He fell in love with her over a course of three days. He told her his name. It was Yumana Hibiki. But when she didn't return the love he became angry and summoned his mallet. He slammed it into her before he even realized what he was doing.
When she stood back up, which was immediatly, he apologized again and again. He had no idea why he had done such a thing. What surprised him the most was the fact that she walked up to him and kissed him as a response to his apology. "My name is Ranma Soatome, your fiancee once upon a time," Ranma said.
She told him her story. About her age. About how she had been locked in her cursed form as her male form died. As was the same for her friends Ryoga, Shampoo and Mousse, who had lived on the mountain with her for nearly the past thousand years as a piglet, cat, and duck. She told him how her father had died all those years ago from sickness and she had wished she could die from sickness as he did too to be with Akane. How she had come to this mountain and named it herself. She had called it, The Lonely Mountain. How she had found the diamonds within it and carved them into a crystalline pallace underground. She showed him her library... It had well over five hundred thousand books on everything one could possibly want... and how she had read them all. How she had become untouchable in her martial arts. And how she had lived keeping the other side of the mountain the most beautiful garden in all the world. It was Eden.
He had told her about his story. It was much shorter than hers. He told how once upon a time an ancestor of his name Rania had cured their family line of a curse to be lost for all eternity. Ranma and Ryoga laughed at this. Rania had been Ryoga's great granddaughter. He told her how the world had become a technological world based on the democracy created by the founding fathers 1400 years before, but how it had been corrupted.
How happy she and the three pets became. They had grown to love Ranma over the years. She had learned their languages and could understand them perfectly. But they had all hated the thousand years while Ranma was patiently waiting for death. Ranma and Ryoga were both like this. Mousse and Shampoo at least had each other... but Ryoga and Ranma were truly alone for all those years. They clung to each other through them as they always would.
Yumana never left that mountain. There was no reason to. All his family was dead anyway. He also prefered this mountain to the corrupt and evil outside world where the rich were kings and the poor were nothing more than mud. Ranma and Yumana were married, however Ranma never took on the Hibiki name and never bore children. (To Ryoga's sadness)
Seventy years of happiness and harmony later Yumana died.
One month later when Ranma had finally finished her greiving and had set him inside a dimond tomb above the ground and made it so he would never decay, she sat in silence. The mountain, once lively, had become, The Lonely Mountain again.
"So, what will you do now?" Ryoga said as he comforted Ranma as best a pig could do(which was abnormally good).
"I'll wait... I know... If I wait long enough... Akane will return. Yumana... will return to me," she said.
Then she giggled in a fake sort of way and said, "Maybe you'll meet the reincarnation of Akari as a pig some day huh Ryo-chan?"
Ryoga growled. But laughed all the same.
Three hundred years later.
"Heh, wow Ryoga... I hit 700,000 books," Ranma said looking at her library. Most anyone who cared for knowledge would drool at the sight of these anicient texts in perfect condition.
"Hmph, Ranma you wrote five thousand yourself! And three thousand of those were autobiographies!!!" Ryoga returned to her.
"Hum, do I really have that many stories to tell?" Ranma asked no one in particular.
"Yes," Ryoga said.
Silence reigned for a while.
I'm going to the garden.
Ok.
Ranma walked out to the garden and sat down amoung the flowers.
She pulled the thin green sprouts of weeds from among the flowers with a practiced graceful hand. "what if this garden were my life?" she thought. "I would be this flower, but these weeds would be my family." A soft tear rolls down her cheek . After all these years, she still cried over her losses. "No, I hate thinking of them as weeds. Perhaps they are the flowers, beautiful and brief as summer's warmth, while we are the trees, tough and living through the winters as well, crying with our leaves as the flowers die." She looked up at the surrounding trees, for her home is deep in the wooded mountains, and frowns in wonder at the trees. "Yes, we are like trees.
"I must stop this," She thought. "I have to move on. I can't do this anymore. I'm going back. I'm done here. My time on The Lonely Mountian is done. I can't wait any longer here. I will go somewhere else. I won't just wait in this solitude anymore. Sure I love to be with Ryoga and Mousse and Shampoo but.... It's just not the same,"
She walked back inside her palace and up the dimond stairway back to the library and Ryoga.
"Ryoga, I've decided... I'm leaving the mountian," Ranma said as she walked in.
Ryoga's eyes widened.
"Your, your not serious are you!!!!" he exclaimed in his pig language.
"Yes, I am. I'm smart enough to get along out there. Who wouldn't be after 1300 years of learning everything I could? I... I just can't take this anymore," She said.
"Well, your not going without me!!!" Ryoga said.
"...You can come if you can convice Shampoo and Mousse to stay," Ranma said.
"Hey you can't order me ar...well... heh I guess you can.. heh," Ryoga said.
Ryoga trotted off. Ranma began to pack. She hoped girls still wore things like what she wore but she guessed not. But they never wore things like Chineese button up shirts anyway. Luckily it turned out Mousse and Shampoo were horror struck at the thought of leaving the paradise they were in. They loved each other and would stay forever. They decided to stay and keep the garden clean and the books dusted. As long as they could be together it was good for them.
Ranma walked through her cave. All the way from his paradise on one side of the mountain to the small cave that wsa the entrance on the other. I took her ten minutes to walk it so she made it in .002 seconds.(Of COURSE SHE CAN FLY!)
"Well, Ryoga? It's time to rejoin the human population," She said.
"Heh.. pathetic mortals!!! I'm the thousand year pig! Fear me and dispair!!!" Ryoga joked.
Ranma chuckled. "Well, Thousand year pig... The avatar of chaos has returned." She said as she picked up her bag and began walking down the hill.
Ryoga stared at her retreating form for a minute and then said, "Hey why do you get the cool name!?!?"
Ranma chuckled.
(Well, I hope you like... To the one who wrote Sorrow of the Trees... Well if you have any problems with me writing this, tell me and I'll take it off the net if you want. Ja ne!
At the northern end of Japan was an old mountain. It was once a Volcano but is now just a dormant rock. People don't go to this mountain. It's not because its scary to go. Nor is it too far. It's not even very hard to climb. A path that has been there for centuries could lead a traveler easily up it. No, none of these things keep people away from it. It is the prensence there. When anyone walks to that mountain they feel, immense saddness. It makes them want to turn around or go around the mountian. No one ever knew why. For 1,000 years it turned out travelers. The entire world had been turned into one great city. Wherever there was not an ocean there was a city or a park. And, also the world had finally met other life out there in space and had joined in galactic trade to keep their planet running. It worked very well. But this mountain remained untouched. It was not even a park like the rest of the forests. It was just that no one ever wanted to go there. But one day a man swore he would make it to the top of this mountain.
When he reached the mountain he felt no saddness like others did. Something about him was different. He left his friends and climbed the mountain alone. He was not truly different than any of his friends. The only abnormal things about him were his practice in martial arts and his uncanny ability to summon a hammer whenever angry, which he was often. When he reached about the middle he found a small cave. It looked as if it were about to begin to rain so he went in. There he met her... again. At first she was untalkative. She almost shunned him. Somehow she could throw him into walls without lifting a finger. He fell in love with her over a course of three days. He told her his name. It was Yumana Hibiki. But when she didn't return the love he became angry and summoned his mallet. He slammed it into her before he even realized what he was doing.
When she stood back up, which was immediatly, he apologized again and again. He had no idea why he had done such a thing. What surprised him the most was the fact that she walked up to him and kissed him as a response to his apology. "My name is Ranma Soatome, your fiancee once upon a time," Ranma said.
She told him her story. About her age. About how she had been locked in her cursed form as her male form died. As was the same for her friends Ryoga, Shampoo and Mousse, who had lived on the mountain with her for nearly the past thousand years as a piglet, cat, and duck. She told him how her father had died all those years ago from sickness and she had wished she could die from sickness as he did too to be with Akane. How she had come to this mountain and named it herself. She had called it, The Lonely Mountain. How she had found the diamonds within it and carved them into a crystalline pallace underground. She showed him her library... It had well over five hundred thousand books on everything one could possibly want... and how she had read them all. How she had become untouchable in her martial arts. And how she had lived keeping the other side of the mountain the most beautiful garden in all the world. It was Eden.
He had told her about his story. It was much shorter than hers. He told how once upon a time an ancestor of his name Rania had cured their family line of a curse to be lost for all eternity. Ranma and Ryoga laughed at this. Rania had been Ryoga's great granddaughter. He told her how the world had become a technological world based on the democracy created by the founding fathers 1400 years before, but how it had been corrupted.
How happy she and the three pets became. They had grown to love Ranma over the years. She had learned their languages and could understand them perfectly. But they had all hated the thousand years while Ranma was patiently waiting for death. Ranma and Ryoga were both like this. Mousse and Shampoo at least had each other... but Ryoga and Ranma were truly alone for all those years. They clung to each other through them as they always would.
Yumana never left that mountain. There was no reason to. All his family was dead anyway. He also prefered this mountain to the corrupt and evil outside world where the rich were kings and the poor were nothing more than mud. Ranma and Yumana were married, however Ranma never took on the Hibiki name and never bore children. (To Ryoga's sadness)
Seventy years of happiness and harmony later Yumana died.
One month later when Ranma had finally finished her greiving and had set him inside a dimond tomb above the ground and made it so he would never decay, she sat in silence. The mountain, once lively, had become, The Lonely Mountain again.
"So, what will you do now?" Ryoga said as he comforted Ranma as best a pig could do(which was abnormally good).
"I'll wait... I know... If I wait long enough... Akane will return. Yumana... will return to me," she said.
Then she giggled in a fake sort of way and said, "Maybe you'll meet the reincarnation of Akari as a pig some day huh Ryo-chan?"
Ryoga growled. But laughed all the same.
Three hundred years later.
"Heh, wow Ryoga... I hit 700,000 books," Ranma said looking at her library. Most anyone who cared for knowledge would drool at the sight of these anicient texts in perfect condition.
"Hmph, Ranma you wrote five thousand yourself! And three thousand of those were autobiographies!!!" Ryoga returned to her.
"Hum, do I really have that many stories to tell?" Ranma asked no one in particular.
"Yes," Ryoga said.
Silence reigned for a while.
I'm going to the garden.
Ok.
Ranma walked out to the garden and sat down amoung the flowers.
She pulled the thin green sprouts of weeds from among the flowers with a practiced graceful hand. "what if this garden were my life?" she thought. "I would be this flower, but these weeds would be my family." A soft tear rolls down her cheek . After all these years, she still cried over her losses. "No, I hate thinking of them as weeds. Perhaps they are the flowers, beautiful and brief as summer's warmth, while we are the trees, tough and living through the winters as well, crying with our leaves as the flowers die." She looked up at the surrounding trees, for her home is deep in the wooded mountains, and frowns in wonder at the trees. "Yes, we are like trees.
"I must stop this," She thought. "I have to move on. I can't do this anymore. I'm going back. I'm done here. My time on The Lonely Mountian is done. I can't wait any longer here. I will go somewhere else. I won't just wait in this solitude anymore. Sure I love to be with Ryoga and Mousse and Shampoo but.... It's just not the same,"
She walked back inside her palace and up the dimond stairway back to the library and Ryoga.
"Ryoga, I've decided... I'm leaving the mountian," Ranma said as she walked in.
Ryoga's eyes widened.
"Your, your not serious are you!!!!" he exclaimed in his pig language.
"Yes, I am. I'm smart enough to get along out there. Who wouldn't be after 1300 years of learning everything I could? I... I just can't take this anymore," She said.
"Well, your not going without me!!!" Ryoga said.
"...You can come if you can convice Shampoo and Mousse to stay," Ranma said.
"Hey you can't order me ar...well... heh I guess you can.. heh," Ryoga said.
Ryoga trotted off. Ranma began to pack. She hoped girls still wore things like what she wore but she guessed not. But they never wore things like Chineese button up shirts anyway. Luckily it turned out Mousse and Shampoo were horror struck at the thought of leaving the paradise they were in. They loved each other and would stay forever. They decided to stay and keep the garden clean and the books dusted. As long as they could be together it was good for them.
Ranma walked through her cave. All the way from his paradise on one side of the mountain to the small cave that wsa the entrance on the other. I took her ten minutes to walk it so she made it in .002 seconds.(Of COURSE SHE CAN FLY!)
"Well, Ryoga? It's time to rejoin the human population," She said.
"Heh.. pathetic mortals!!! I'm the thousand year pig! Fear me and dispair!!!" Ryoga joked.
Ranma chuckled. "Well, Thousand year pig... The avatar of chaos has returned." She said as she picked up her bag and began walking down the hill.
Ryoga stared at her retreating form for a minute and then said, "Hey why do you get the cool name!?!?"
Ranma chuckled.
(Well, I hope you like... To the one who wrote Sorrow of the Trees... Well if you have any problems with me writing this, tell me and I'll take it off the net if you want. Ja ne!