Slowly, she turned around. Her best friend and worst enemy was there, doing the one thing she had hoped he'd never do. She was in to much shock from seeing the wild burst forming to cast a counter spell. The flow of power was chaotic, and one of the most mesmerizing experiences she had ever seen. It only lasted a moment. The energy burst out and encompassed both of them. She felt herself being pulled in multiple directions at once. She even saw her self from every angle. The pure shock of the strange views caused her head to hurt and eventually black out. The burst subsided leaving the two trapped in its storm feeling refreshed yet fully asleep.

In the middle of a park, a red headed girl wearing light armor, a cape, and a fencing style sword sits up. Looking around, she sees her friend nearby. "Gourry, what have you done this time." She stands up brushes herself off and goes to wake her traveling companion. "Gourry, Gourry…. GOURRY!"

"Lina, It's not a school day. Let me sleep."

Irritated, she replies, "if you don't get up in 5 secs, YOU will get to meet the wrong end of a Dragu…"

"I'm up! I'm up! don't do anything drastic!" saying this, he stands up and straigtens out his armor. "So where are we?"

"Beats me butter for brains. You're the one who sent us here. What spell did you cast anyway?"

"A healing spell."

"Check yourself and make sure you have everything…"

"Um… Armor, sword, backpack, bedroll, yup got everything. Why, you missing something Lina?"

"I'm about to be missing a traveling companion. How many times have I told you not to cast spells that way? We are no longer where we were. Heck, were not even when we were." She looks around and sees the empty park. Except for one guy running around dancing with a skeleton?

"Whoo Hoo! She touched me Betty! She touched me!" Momentarily, the strange guy leaves the area.

"Gourry, lets go. We have to find out where we are. Hopefully this place isn't full of loopy people." Even as she says this, she hears something. Something so evil and twisted that it, in her mind, could only come from one source.

"AH HA HA HA HA HA AH HA HA HA HA OOH HA HA HA HA!" Looking around fearfully she sees the source of the laughter. The Source is wearing a leotard and waving a ribbon around. It's not the person she expected. Thankfully. But just to be sure… Aim ahead of the bounding figure by a little and, "FIRE---BALL!" The bounding figure gets caught mid bound and blown out to the middle of the lake nearby. "The odds are, this isn't the end of the crazy people. Gourry, lets go."

"So why did you fry her?"

"That one was on principal."

"Speaking of frying, Lina I'm hungry. Let's find something to eat."

The oddly garbed pair start heading towards the outside of the park. Nearing the street, a few cars drive by. "Be carefull Lina, these horseless carriages are loud and fast. I don't want you to get hurt."

"Gourry, that's one of the most intelligent things you've said. What an interesting type of stone. It must have taken a lot to put that down. " She stares intently at the street. "Gourry, put this on. I've been saving it in case of emergency and you just caused it." She hands him a small golden earing, and then pulls another one out and puts it on herself."

"What does this do?"

"This will allow us to understand anyone we might meet. As well as for them to understand us."

"Oh." Looking puzzled, Gourry just clips the accessory to his ear.

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The normalcy of the day was normal only by the standards of Tokyo. In each of it's residential wards, something different was going on. In the Juuban district, super powered high school girls fought strange beings from other dimensions. In another ward, a teenage girl used a well to travel to an ancient era. All of these wards had one thing, no make that one person in common. And that was only because he managed to be where ever he didn't want to be. Ryoga Hibiki cursed for the thousandth time, "Where the hell am I now?" His vocal expression deafened the nearest person.

"Hey P-Chan. Glad to see your pork butt around here again."

"Ranma! This is all your fault!" Spinning, the fanged boy lunges with his umbrella. Upon which a red headed pigtailed female lands. Shaking the bamboo, Ryoga tries to dislodge the source of his ire.

"How is it my fault that you got lost again?" Spinning like a top on the ball of her left foot, Ranma plants his right foot on the side of the bandanna sporting head. The result of which is one new hole in a nearby wall, and Ranma jumping up and down on her left foot. "Damn Ryoga! No wonder you blame me for everything! Not only are you mentally thick as a rock, you must be made of one as well!"

The insult only serves to increase "P-Chan's" anger. "Ranma! Prepare to die! I'm tired of always being second to you! In fighting, and in Akane's heart! You have her wrapped around your little pinky and don't even seem to care!" Even as the lost boy speaks he is throwing punches at the pigtailed martial artist.

"What are you talking about? Akane likes me?" Ranma stops midstrike as what his rival just said sinks in. "How do you know this?"

Ryoga stops his attack as well. "How could I not? I'm her sweet liddle Pchan. I hear whose name she calls out for in the middle of the night. Both when shes frightened or happy or..." He stops before he reveals all of Akane's secrets.