Ranma ½ fan fiction
Deadly Intentions
by Ranma chan
Disclaimer: I know that Rumiko Takahashi is the creator Ranma and I give her full credit cause I don't know how
else I would spend my lonely nights without her.
Authors notes:
I have written fan fictions before but I never really liked any that I wrote, and plus I got stuck in the middle and I
gave up. But here is another sorry attempt, and I will say that I really don't think that this one will go anywhere
but here is what I am thinking for the moment. If you like it that much then tell me in your reviews so that I might
get the encouragement I need to continue it. And yes I know, that I have the WORST GRAMMAR in the
WORLD. I have no pre-readers so if you would like to be one, then e-mail me. If you have read any other fic by
me, I hope that this is at least a little better along the lines of grammar. If you have a question about a line, or find
a mistake, then e-mail me, please. Gomen-nasai to everyone.
Sometimes when the gods like you they give you nothing but trouble in your life and make it a living, burning,
hell.
Well anyway, Ranma Saotome happened to be liked by the gods, and we all already know that. So lets move onto
something that we don't know.
The gods like to challenge the ones that they adore, just to see if the mere mortal will live through the torture. Now
we all know that certain ones can handle more of a challenge, but what if, just one time that challenge got out of
hand, and what was thought to be a game to the gods, turns out to be a war.
Now maybe this war was not just between the gods, and maybe it really didn't affect the gods to an extent that the
earth was in danger, but maybe it affected certain mortal's lives.
Now as to some mortals having more power than that of others, well what if some had the power of the gods?
Our scene unfolds first in the clouds, in a whole other dimension, where there are domains, and gods, and demi
gods, that quarrel over the leftovers, and ghosts, can't forget the ghosts. In this world of magic, everyone has his
space and to invade that space would cost some their essence.
There are also rules that must be followed.
Now certain beings like to stretch those rules, and you could say that this is how the whole story begins, but for
now, lets just not go on that track.
The god of the water was a joker, and he liked to play with mortals, which wasn't illegal, but what was illegal was to
touch a mortal that had a signature of another god. But the water god, didn't pay attention to this rule and many times, had toyed with the mortals of other gods, and had gotten away with it, but everyone has his day, as the
saying goes. The water god loved to make the lives of mortals harder, so in many places in the world he had set
up cursed springs. But his favorite out of them all was located in China.
Many great fighters, who where "owned" by other gods, had come to train, and there they had
fallen into his pools of doom. Of course, you may say that he in essence didn't actually touch the mortals, for they
fell into his springs, but he wasn't all innocent. No, he had purposely led each and everyone to it, and had even
had their springs chosen for them. But no one could ever lay the blame on him, until one day he made a mistake.
He messed with the wind gods mortal, his prize mortal, which he had been teaching, for many years. The wind
god had a knack for young children, and he had chosen a small boy, that seemed to have much potential even at
a tender age. He had guided the child ever since birth in his dreams, a blessing it was to have one of the wisest
and most powerful gods watching you.
The Wind god had known as the boy was traveling that the air around them was unstable, and had found out
that another god had left a trail. The father had ideas planted into his head that were unnatural, from an outer
source. And the wind god knew by its pattern, the lazy, giddy pattern, that it could only come from one god, the
water god. But unfortunately, he could not get the other gods to believe him, so he did some fooling of his own,
and made a war break out among the mountain people in china, which eventually lead to the destruction, of the
water god's favorite springs.
But that did not change the predicament, of his boy, his prized fighter, that now surpassed all mortals, though he
didn't know it. And so the war began in the heavens, and the water god tried to plan his revenge, without
breaking the rules, as the Wind god had done. But he could not figure out a way to harm the young man that the
Wind god loved so much, until one day, he knew.
Nerima
"Akane, can't we just walk to school, without fighting for once!"
"I didn't start this, I remember, I heard you saying that I was weak, and I am trying to tell you that I am not weak, I
am just not YOU is all!"
"And that still makes you weak, all girls are weak."
"They are not! You know I bet you someday you will come up against an opponent that is a girl that is at least as
strong as you, and you will actually, have to fight back for once!"
"Maybe, but I doubt it. After Saffron, I don't think that there is much left as competition."
"Ranma, you are getting to have an ego that is bigger than the gods, and that isn't a good thing."
"Hay I am only speaking the truth."
"Well be more humble, you don't want them to take their anger out on you."
"Yea right Akane, the gods like to challenge us, but the challenge is never meant to hurt you."
"Then what was Saffron?"
Ranma was silent, he really didn't have an answer, what was Saffron? Akane he knew was almost in tears, she
always got all teary when they talked about Saffron, and it seemed that it was on their agenda for conversation
lately. Ranma hated to think about it. Akane had almost died and Saffron was his hardest opponent ever. And he
remembered, that he finally told Akane that he loved her, and that scared him just as much as anything else.
But what was Saffron, was it just a freak in nature that he happened, to be the one that had to defeat Saffron, and
that was just part of his destiny, that he had to have this curse for all of eternity, or was it an elaborate plan from a
higher source, to ruin him?
"Akane I don't know what Saffron was, but I do know that I was fighting for everything there, everything."
"Ranma, it is too quiet, I have the feeling that everything is to quiet."
"What do you mean?"
"Ranma, I can't really explain it, I have had this feeling before, it is like I am being warned that something is going
to happen, and I know it is not something that is good, and to tell you the truth it scares me."
"Akane, you ok?"
Akane was terrified, just as she had said. She had been having dreams, nightmares. She had never told anyone,
but, she had them before. Many times, before Ranma had come, she had known that something was going to
happen to her, that time it was a good feeling, and before Nekonron, she had a bad feeling, and before, Saffron,
she had nightmares, for months, just to name a few. Now I was happening again and she didn't like it one bit, and
this time she was determined to do all in her power to prevent something from happening to Ranma.
"Ranma, um, I have this feeling, and I know that this might sound crazy, but I have had it before, and at first I
didn't believe it myself, but after Saffron, there is no doubt that this feeling is telling me the truth. Something is
going to happen, and I don't think that it is something that is in our favor. I am scared."
"Akane, are you sure, that this isn't something, like I don't know, some weird girl mood that you are in or
something? What do you mean a feeling?"
"Ranma a feeling, like right her in your gut, like when your chi tells you that danger is near that sort of feeling."
"Akane, how do you know it's true, I mean it just sounds crazy, that's all."
"Ranma, it sounds crazy, but the last time I had this feeling was a month before Saffron, and I don't want Saffron
to repeat itself, and that is the only reason I am even trying to convince you that I know what I am talking about!"
By now Akane couldn't handle talking about anything to Ranma anymore, and ran the rest of the way to school.
Ranma didn't bother to follow her, it would make her uncomfortable, and he thought it better to just leave her
alone. She knew that something bad was going to happen and she didn't tell me, I wonder how long this has been
going on, she never fails to surprise me, he thought, and started to fasten the pace on the fence to school.
Akane ran as fast as she could, she knew that Ranma would dare not follow her, but she didn't care, she just
wanted to run, to take her emotional pain out on nothing, she had been keeping her fears all locked up for a week,
when the dreams had started, and she had finally found the courage. The courage, just to try and tell him that she
was scared, and as far as she was concerned, he thought her mad!
But the dreams were getting longer, and they were starting to take a tole on her, she couldn't sleep much now. She
knew that something was going to happen any day now, she just wished she could figure out what it was. She
had been trying to explore the nightmares to try and get information out of them, but she never could.
She would always wake up, just before, and then she couldn't remember anything. But she still tried even in the
day to remember, something, just one little bit of information that would help to save her and Ranma for the nest
trial that they would soon face.
The water god had a perfect plan, that he felt would give his mortal friends a real fight, one where they would have
to defend all that they loved while defending themselves, and they would have to walk right into it, and he
wouldn't be the dealer of the mess. He was overjoyed.
There was one goddess that did believe the Wind god, but she didn't give it away to anyone, she was a quiet
goddess. She preferred to just watch her mortal, and help her through her dreams like the other gods did, she
knew that they believed Wind too, just to destroy the water god, would be destroying all of the mortals, so they
just stood by while the selfish ones warred out on the Earth.
She the Dream goddess, was determined however to help the mortals in whatever was she could, without directly
telling them what was about to happen for that was against the rules. So she told her mortal the future, leaving out
the very end, yet still she could not make her understand. With the hour of terror fast approaching, she just
waited, for the picture to appear in her magic mirror.
Akane, stopped running. She was at the canal. Ranma always went here to clear his mind, so she thought that she
could find peace here as well. She closed her eyes, at the waters edge, and went into meditation.
She thought hard...listening to the water...smelling the water...and then all of a sudden, her mind was taken over
by the water, and she felt her soul drift away...her body, taken along for a ride through dimensional channels...
Water laughed, it had went just as planned. The girl belonged to him for the moment. He would lure the boy, by
the girl, just like he had done last time.
Now Dream, saw what was happening and decided that it had gone too far, between the two crazy gods. Her
mortal, was captured, as she knew would happen, but she would now punish Water herself, she would let the girl
and boy do it, but first she had to let the boy know. It called for desperate measures, to take place.
"Draft."
"Yes, mistress."
"Call together everyone, I am going to earth in a little while and I would like to talk to all of them, for I do not know
how long I will be gone."
"Yes miss."
Dream thought, I will go and talk to the boy, and tell him of Wind and Water and I will also give him my mark.
Wind and water, will have to learn to share. She thought.
"Everyone, a girl had been brought into our dimension and she is marked by me, that gives me the right if I so
choose to bring her to my domain. Water has her, and I do not think that he will willingly give her to me, so I am
asking that you go and get her. Secretively. I know it is not an easy task, but I request that you try. I will be
leaving for earth, and that will make Water a little paranoid, and that will give you the chance to sneak in and get
her."
With that she left them, they knew the rest.
Ranma, felt something, but it was out of place. He didn't know what it was or where it had come from, but it came
and went in a split second and he couldn't follow it. But he did feel a part of him lapse. It was like something was
missing from himself. He thought a second, and then it came to him, Akane. Something is wrong. Where was
Akane?
"Akane!"
He became scared, she had just run off where was she now, he could see the school yard, and the students in it,
and Akane wasn't there...
"Akane, where are you? Akane!"
Ranma heard something in his mind just then.
'Ranma.'
"Huh?"
'Ranma.'
"Who's calling me and what have you done with Akane?"
'Akane is safe for the moment, and I didn't do anything to her.'
"Where are you? I can't see you!"
"I am right here."
Ranma turned around and in front of him was a beautiful woman. She had long white hair that was floating in the
air just like she was. She was in a gold dress and she held in her hand a mirror.
"Ranma you are the only one that can see me and talk to me. I am Dream. I have been trying to tell Akane about
this disaster, keep her away from that clown of a god. But it seems that I could not and now she is with him,
although I am trying to get her to my lair, but there is not a lot of time. Ranma You now are mine."
She touched his head with the tip of her index finger, and then spoke again.
"Ranma I cannot take you to her, she must find a way to your world again of you to ours. But either way it is
dangerous, and I cannot help you much, but I will do what I can. If Akane comes to my lair, I will take care of her
until I see fit for her to leave, and try and find her way home, I am sorry that I couldn't prevent this from
happening, but sometime the other gods get out of hand, and I am trying to have this settled soon, hopefully in
your lifetime. Wind will be furious if you are hurt, so be careful."
"Wind, you mean the god Wind?"
"Yes, he adores you Ranma."
"How did Akane get in your dimension?"
"Water wants to destroy you and he thought that the only way to get you killed, was to capture Akane and have
you die in the process of saving her. But I think that he underestimates the power of you both."
"How do I get to her?"
"I can only tell you to look to your heart."
"What is that supposed to do for me?!"
"Ranma, you underestimate the heart. You of all people should know that it holds powers greater that even I, think
back if you will to Saffron, just for a minute. When you were battling and then you realized that if you lost that
Akane would get hurt or even die, what happened to you?"
"Well um the adrenaline kicked in, I guess. I just got a rush of power."
"Ranma that wasn't just a rush of power, that was your heart protecting itself."
"What do you mean?"
"Ranma, stop ling to your self! What would have happened to you if Akane had died at Saffron? You know the
answer. You would have killed yourself. I know I can see the future and all possible futures. I am not the only one
that can see these futures, your heart can too, it didn't feel that it was time for you to end your life, so if let you
use a fraction of its power, to save the one that you loved."
"Tell me then Dream, please, will I get Akane back!?"
"Ranma my boy, you may, just remember, that your heart is the key, to defeating a god and maybe you will."
Dream smiled. She knew now why Wind loved this one so, he was so full of charisma and life. She thought back to
her younger days when she would come down to Earth and look for its men. She remembered only one like him,
and he was so much like her past lover. She could even see Calendari's face in Ranma's.
She knew that she had to go, he was making her lose herself here, and she didn't want to loose it here, in front of
him.
"Dream I will save Akane."
"I know, I must go."
And she left. Ranma still had so many questions that needed to be answered.
Akane was gone, into another realm, and he had to save her. How was he to get to another realm...and how could
he go to school or home without Akane?
Gods help me he thought. He had to go to someone that knew at least something about this sort of stuff. And
who do I know that knows about the gods?
Dr. Tofu knows so much about history I am sure that he will know something about dimensional travel. I have to
see him. He ran to Dr. Tofu's and barged in like there was no tomorrow.
"Dr. Tofu where are you."
"Ranma, what is it, is everything all right?"
"No, I need your help! This is going to sound crazy, but I was told by a god that Akane has been kidnaped by
another god and taken to another dimension. I have to save her, and I need o know if you know anything about
dimensional travel or even something about the gods, maybe their rivals and so forth, and I need to hurry!"
"Ranma, a step at a time, you say that a god talked to you and told you that Akane was kidnaped?"
"Yes and she was taken to their dimension!"
"Who's dimension?"
"The gods! The gods!"
"Ranma, this all sounds strange, but then agin it would explain some things."
"Like what things."
"Well like saffron, and the weird airs that have been around lately. It was like something very bad was about to
happen. And if the gods are involved, it would also explain some of the strange things that are always happening
to you Ranma."
"How would it explain any of the stuff that happens to me?"
"Well it is legend that the gods have favorites and that their favorites are challenged greater, and trained to meet
any obstacle."
"Dr. Tofu, just tell me wether you can help me or not, I have to hurry, each passing second is another second that
Akane is alone."
"Ranma, I don't know of how much help that I can be of to you but lets go look in the library."
"Ok."
In the library, Dr. Tofu takes a pile of about twenty books and puts them in front of Ranma.
"Ranma, look through these while I look through the others, and try and read what you can, I am not sure if it is all
in Japanese."
Ranma read.
The first book had ancient writings about people that were legends, and how it was believed that the gods loved
them and that was why they were so important to Earth. It spoke of many legends and how all of them had harder
lives that other mortals. Then another part of the book had a part about the gods. Ranma read a little harder and
focused, he came to a part on the Dram goddess.
Dream.
A goddess that spoke to mortals in their sleep. It was said that she would come down at dusk sometimes, and
entice men to be her lovers, then granting them much power.
He also read about Wind.
Wind.
Wind was said to be one of the wisest of the gods. He loved small children, and rarely found, anyone that he
favored, yet if that one were to be found, he was the prize among all mortals. He read about many of the gods.
Water.
Water was said to be a trixter of sorts. He liked to torture mortals, cursing them, especially the ones that other
gods loved. He would do it just to make the other gods angry, and to show that he thought that he was the
greatest of all of the gods. The other gods, have always wanted to destroy him, but because the fear that the
mortal world would end, because of the lack of waters absence, they have always spared him.
He finished that book, and moved onto another.
Gods and mortals, he read, live in alter parallel dimensions, rarely ever crossing... The script changed, to Chinese
he thought, but he wasn't sure. He couldn't read it but there were pictures, and they looked like they told a story.
He studied the pictures. The first was of a boy and a girl. They looked like they were about to kiss in the picture.
The nest was of the girl being taken away from the boy by an angel it looked like, or another god. He wasn't sure.
The next was the boy and he was hunched over on the ground. But his chest was expanding. The next of the girl,
in another place... The next of the boys chest exploding with light. Then the boy was transformed, and transported
into the place that the girl was, it showed the boy destroying the god or angel and taking the girl into his arms. He
had an idea what happened by the pictures, but he had to be sure, maybe this was the anser to his problem.
Dream had said he only needed to use his heart.
"Dr. Tofu, look at this."
"What is it?"
"It looks like a story, and it is in another dialect. I would like to know what it says."
"Well lets me see here. Wow this looks like ancient Chinese. Hmm... it says, well it is a legend, about a young boy
and girl that were to wed. The girl however, was taken to the god's world, one day because her "owner," in a sense,
didn't like the boy and thought that he wasn't fit for her mortal, so she decided to have the mortal come and live in
her realm, forever, making her a goddess someday. She took the girl and the boy was left heartbroken. As a last
action, he swore upon his heart that he would get his bride back, and he prayed to all of the gods for their wisdom.
Well, it says that one of them answered his prayer and gave him wisdom. He knew that all he needed was the
power of the heart. So he opened his heart to himself and used its power to save his bride. And that is the story."
"Don't you see Dr. Tofu that is it. The use of your heart, just as dream has said."
"Ranma, what do you mean?"
"Dr. Tofu, I can't explain. I have to go. Promise that you will keep this a secret until tonight, and then tell my
family, and the Tendous that I will be back soon and with Akane."
"Ranma, you can't just leave- "
"I have to, Doc. I have to save Akane and I can't do that if I am running around telling everyone what I think
happened, and plus half the people that I tell are not going to believe me, just like you didn't at first. I have to go, I
don't know when I will be back if I will, or whether I will die trying, just take care of everyone while I'm gone."
"Ranma..."
But Ranma was long gone before he could say another word.
Ranma ran. Akane was gone, how was he going to get to the dimension of the gods, unless, maybe if he went to
the temple of the wind god, he could ask for passage to the dimension of the gods. But what if he didn't consent.
Lets see, use your heart. Heart... Heart... Heart... That was it.
He started to meditate thinking only about Akane and how she was gone and how the only way of getting to her
was going to the realm of the gods...
'Heart take me to the realm of the gods...I have to save Akane..I love Akane...take me to the realm of the gods...'
In a blast of light...he found himself in a room that was made of nothing yet he was sitting on air.
"Hello?"
"Ranma, you are in my realm...how did you get here?"
"Who are you, and where, are you?"
"Ranma, I am Wind, and I am here."
"Why is it that all you gods appear behind me?"
"Ranma, you just traveled through a dimensional channel, how did you do it?"
"I don't really know, I talked to Dream, and she told me about heart, and I guess, that I just told my heart that I
needed to be here, and here I am."
"Boy, you are amazing, that is a move that only gods have the power to yield! Using a heart to travel. You should
have died in the dimensional switch. No mortal has ever come here of his or her own free will. Well, maybe one or
two, but they had a little help. You did it all on your own."
"Look, Mr. Wind, I know that this is going to be rude, but Water has Akane, and I would like to have her back."
"Ranma, I don't know what to say, there is little that we can do about Water. He had powers that humans need to
live, and we are afraid of what he might do if we oppose him, or attempt to kill him."
"Why don't you kill him and get someone to take his place?"
"That is a big responsibility, and we have not found someone yet worthy for such a position."
"Well I don't care about anything but Akane, and I will get her back. Water can't use her like this, if he wanted a
fight, then he should have just asked."
"Ranma I will take you to Water, you can deal with him, I will help you get Akane back, we have fought long
enough, it is time to settle all of this once and for all."
End Chapter One
Author's note:
As I said before, if you think that this is any good, tell me, pretty please. This is actually something that I wrote, a
LONG, LONG time ago, and I don't remember what I have planned for it, so unless you all think I should, I don't
think I will have the patience to continue it on my own. Please Review. Yes, I will work on "Loves Destiny," my other story,soon.
Any Questions, you can ask in your review, or e-mail me @
ranma_chan1@hotmail.com
Ranko_chan
Deadly Intentions
by Ranma chan
Disclaimer: I know that Rumiko Takahashi is the creator Ranma and I give her full credit cause I don't know how
else I would spend my lonely nights without her.
Authors notes:
I have written fan fictions before but I never really liked any that I wrote, and plus I got stuck in the middle and I
gave up. But here is another sorry attempt, and I will say that I really don't think that this one will go anywhere
but here is what I am thinking for the moment. If you like it that much then tell me in your reviews so that I might
get the encouragement I need to continue it. And yes I know, that I have the WORST GRAMMAR in the
WORLD. I have no pre-readers so if you would like to be one, then e-mail me. If you have read any other fic by
me, I hope that this is at least a little better along the lines of grammar. If you have a question about a line, or find
a mistake, then e-mail me, please. Gomen-nasai to everyone.
Sometimes when the gods like you they give you nothing but trouble in your life and make it a living, burning,
hell.
Well anyway, Ranma Saotome happened to be liked by the gods, and we all already know that. So lets move onto
something that we don't know.
The gods like to challenge the ones that they adore, just to see if the mere mortal will live through the torture. Now
we all know that certain ones can handle more of a challenge, but what if, just one time that challenge got out of
hand, and what was thought to be a game to the gods, turns out to be a war.
Now maybe this war was not just between the gods, and maybe it really didn't affect the gods to an extent that the
earth was in danger, but maybe it affected certain mortal's lives.
Now as to some mortals having more power than that of others, well what if some had the power of the gods?
Our scene unfolds first in the clouds, in a whole other dimension, where there are domains, and gods, and demi
gods, that quarrel over the leftovers, and ghosts, can't forget the ghosts. In this world of magic, everyone has his
space and to invade that space would cost some their essence.
There are also rules that must be followed.
Now certain beings like to stretch those rules, and you could say that this is how the whole story begins, but for
now, lets just not go on that track.
The god of the water was a joker, and he liked to play with mortals, which wasn't illegal, but what was illegal was to
touch a mortal that had a signature of another god. But the water god, didn't pay attention to this rule and many times, had toyed with the mortals of other gods, and had gotten away with it, but everyone has his day, as the
saying goes. The water god loved to make the lives of mortals harder, so in many places in the world he had set
up cursed springs. But his favorite out of them all was located in China.
Many great fighters, who where "owned" by other gods, had come to train, and there they had
fallen into his pools of doom. Of course, you may say that he in essence didn't actually touch the mortals, for they
fell into his springs, but he wasn't all innocent. No, he had purposely led each and everyone to it, and had even
had their springs chosen for them. But no one could ever lay the blame on him, until one day he made a mistake.
He messed with the wind gods mortal, his prize mortal, which he had been teaching, for many years. The wind
god had a knack for young children, and he had chosen a small boy, that seemed to have much potential even at
a tender age. He had guided the child ever since birth in his dreams, a blessing it was to have one of the wisest
and most powerful gods watching you.
The Wind god had known as the boy was traveling that the air around them was unstable, and had found out
that another god had left a trail. The father had ideas planted into his head that were unnatural, from an outer
source. And the wind god knew by its pattern, the lazy, giddy pattern, that it could only come from one god, the
water god. But unfortunately, he could not get the other gods to believe him, so he did some fooling of his own,
and made a war break out among the mountain people in china, which eventually lead to the destruction, of the
water god's favorite springs.
But that did not change the predicament, of his boy, his prized fighter, that now surpassed all mortals, though he
didn't know it. And so the war began in the heavens, and the water god tried to plan his revenge, without
breaking the rules, as the Wind god had done. But he could not figure out a way to harm the young man that the
Wind god loved so much, until one day, he knew.
Nerima
"Akane, can't we just walk to school, without fighting for once!"
"I didn't start this, I remember, I heard you saying that I was weak, and I am trying to tell you that I am not weak, I
am just not YOU is all!"
"And that still makes you weak, all girls are weak."
"They are not! You know I bet you someday you will come up against an opponent that is a girl that is at least as
strong as you, and you will actually, have to fight back for once!"
"Maybe, but I doubt it. After Saffron, I don't think that there is much left as competition."
"Ranma, you are getting to have an ego that is bigger than the gods, and that isn't a good thing."
"Hay I am only speaking the truth."
"Well be more humble, you don't want them to take their anger out on you."
"Yea right Akane, the gods like to challenge us, but the challenge is never meant to hurt you."
"Then what was Saffron?"
Ranma was silent, he really didn't have an answer, what was Saffron? Akane he knew was almost in tears, she
always got all teary when they talked about Saffron, and it seemed that it was on their agenda for conversation
lately. Ranma hated to think about it. Akane had almost died and Saffron was his hardest opponent ever. And he
remembered, that he finally told Akane that he loved her, and that scared him just as much as anything else.
But what was Saffron, was it just a freak in nature that he happened, to be the one that had to defeat Saffron, and
that was just part of his destiny, that he had to have this curse for all of eternity, or was it an elaborate plan from a
higher source, to ruin him?
"Akane I don't know what Saffron was, but I do know that I was fighting for everything there, everything."
"Ranma, it is too quiet, I have the feeling that everything is to quiet."
"What do you mean?"
"Ranma, I can't really explain it, I have had this feeling before, it is like I am being warned that something is going
to happen, and I know it is not something that is good, and to tell you the truth it scares me."
"Akane, you ok?"
Akane was terrified, just as she had said. She had been having dreams, nightmares. She had never told anyone,
but, she had them before. Many times, before Ranma had come, she had known that something was going to
happen to her, that time it was a good feeling, and before Nekonron, she had a bad feeling, and before, Saffron,
she had nightmares, for months, just to name a few. Now I was happening again and she didn't like it one bit, and
this time she was determined to do all in her power to prevent something from happening to Ranma.
"Ranma, um, I have this feeling, and I know that this might sound crazy, but I have had it before, and at first I
didn't believe it myself, but after Saffron, there is no doubt that this feeling is telling me the truth. Something is
going to happen, and I don't think that it is something that is in our favor. I am scared."
"Akane, are you sure, that this isn't something, like I don't know, some weird girl mood that you are in or
something? What do you mean a feeling?"
"Ranma a feeling, like right her in your gut, like when your chi tells you that danger is near that sort of feeling."
"Akane, how do you know it's true, I mean it just sounds crazy, that's all."
"Ranma, it sounds crazy, but the last time I had this feeling was a month before Saffron, and I don't want Saffron
to repeat itself, and that is the only reason I am even trying to convince you that I know what I am talking about!"
By now Akane couldn't handle talking about anything to Ranma anymore, and ran the rest of the way to school.
Ranma didn't bother to follow her, it would make her uncomfortable, and he thought it better to just leave her
alone. She knew that something bad was going to happen and she didn't tell me, I wonder how long this has been
going on, she never fails to surprise me, he thought, and started to fasten the pace on the fence to school.
Akane ran as fast as she could, she knew that Ranma would dare not follow her, but she didn't care, she just
wanted to run, to take her emotional pain out on nothing, she had been keeping her fears all locked up for a week,
when the dreams had started, and she had finally found the courage. The courage, just to try and tell him that she
was scared, and as far as she was concerned, he thought her mad!
But the dreams were getting longer, and they were starting to take a tole on her, she couldn't sleep much now. She
knew that something was going to happen any day now, she just wished she could figure out what it was. She
had been trying to explore the nightmares to try and get information out of them, but she never could.
She would always wake up, just before, and then she couldn't remember anything. But she still tried even in the
day to remember, something, just one little bit of information that would help to save her and Ranma for the nest
trial that they would soon face.
The water god had a perfect plan, that he felt would give his mortal friends a real fight, one where they would have
to defend all that they loved while defending themselves, and they would have to walk right into it, and he
wouldn't be the dealer of the mess. He was overjoyed.
There was one goddess that did believe the Wind god, but she didn't give it away to anyone, she was a quiet
goddess. She preferred to just watch her mortal, and help her through her dreams like the other gods did, she
knew that they believed Wind too, just to destroy the water god, would be destroying all of the mortals, so they
just stood by while the selfish ones warred out on the Earth.
She the Dream goddess, was determined however to help the mortals in whatever was she could, without directly
telling them what was about to happen for that was against the rules. So she told her mortal the future, leaving out
the very end, yet still she could not make her understand. With the hour of terror fast approaching, she just
waited, for the picture to appear in her magic mirror.
Akane, stopped running. She was at the canal. Ranma always went here to clear his mind, so she thought that she
could find peace here as well. She closed her eyes, at the waters edge, and went into meditation.
She thought hard...listening to the water...smelling the water...and then all of a sudden, her mind was taken over
by the water, and she felt her soul drift away...her body, taken along for a ride through dimensional channels...
Water laughed, it had went just as planned. The girl belonged to him for the moment. He would lure the boy, by
the girl, just like he had done last time.
Now Dream, saw what was happening and decided that it had gone too far, between the two crazy gods. Her
mortal, was captured, as she knew would happen, but she would now punish Water herself, she would let the girl
and boy do it, but first she had to let the boy know. It called for desperate measures, to take place.
"Draft."
"Yes, mistress."
"Call together everyone, I am going to earth in a little while and I would like to talk to all of them, for I do not know
how long I will be gone."
"Yes miss."
Dream thought, I will go and talk to the boy, and tell him of Wind and Water and I will also give him my mark.
Wind and water, will have to learn to share. She thought.
"Everyone, a girl had been brought into our dimension and she is marked by me, that gives me the right if I so
choose to bring her to my domain. Water has her, and I do not think that he will willingly give her to me, so I am
asking that you go and get her. Secretively. I know it is not an easy task, but I request that you try. I will be
leaving for earth, and that will make Water a little paranoid, and that will give you the chance to sneak in and get
her."
With that she left them, they knew the rest.
Ranma, felt something, but it was out of place. He didn't know what it was or where it had come from, but it came
and went in a split second and he couldn't follow it. But he did feel a part of him lapse. It was like something was
missing from himself. He thought a second, and then it came to him, Akane. Something is wrong. Where was
Akane?
"Akane!"
He became scared, she had just run off where was she now, he could see the school yard, and the students in it,
and Akane wasn't there...
"Akane, where are you? Akane!"
Ranma heard something in his mind just then.
'Ranma.'
"Huh?"
'Ranma.'
"Who's calling me and what have you done with Akane?"
'Akane is safe for the moment, and I didn't do anything to her.'
"Where are you? I can't see you!"
"I am right here."
Ranma turned around and in front of him was a beautiful woman. She had long white hair that was floating in the
air just like she was. She was in a gold dress and she held in her hand a mirror.
"Ranma you are the only one that can see me and talk to me. I am Dream. I have been trying to tell Akane about
this disaster, keep her away from that clown of a god. But it seems that I could not and now she is with him,
although I am trying to get her to my lair, but there is not a lot of time. Ranma You now are mine."
She touched his head with the tip of her index finger, and then spoke again.
"Ranma I cannot take you to her, she must find a way to your world again of you to ours. But either way it is
dangerous, and I cannot help you much, but I will do what I can. If Akane comes to my lair, I will take care of her
until I see fit for her to leave, and try and find her way home, I am sorry that I couldn't prevent this from
happening, but sometime the other gods get out of hand, and I am trying to have this settled soon, hopefully in
your lifetime. Wind will be furious if you are hurt, so be careful."
"Wind, you mean the god Wind?"
"Yes, he adores you Ranma."
"How did Akane get in your dimension?"
"Water wants to destroy you and he thought that the only way to get you killed, was to capture Akane and have
you die in the process of saving her. But I think that he underestimates the power of you both."
"How do I get to her?"
"I can only tell you to look to your heart."
"What is that supposed to do for me?!"
"Ranma, you underestimate the heart. You of all people should know that it holds powers greater that even I, think
back if you will to Saffron, just for a minute. When you were battling and then you realized that if you lost that
Akane would get hurt or even die, what happened to you?"
"Well um the adrenaline kicked in, I guess. I just got a rush of power."
"Ranma that wasn't just a rush of power, that was your heart protecting itself."
"What do you mean?"
"Ranma, stop ling to your self! What would have happened to you if Akane had died at Saffron? You know the
answer. You would have killed yourself. I know I can see the future and all possible futures. I am not the only one
that can see these futures, your heart can too, it didn't feel that it was time for you to end your life, so if let you
use a fraction of its power, to save the one that you loved."
"Tell me then Dream, please, will I get Akane back!?"
"Ranma my boy, you may, just remember, that your heart is the key, to defeating a god and maybe you will."
Dream smiled. She knew now why Wind loved this one so, he was so full of charisma and life. She thought back to
her younger days when she would come down to Earth and look for its men. She remembered only one like him,
and he was so much like her past lover. She could even see Calendari's face in Ranma's.
She knew that she had to go, he was making her lose herself here, and she didn't want to loose it here, in front of
him.
"Dream I will save Akane."
"I know, I must go."
And she left. Ranma still had so many questions that needed to be answered.
Akane was gone, into another realm, and he had to save her. How was he to get to another realm...and how could
he go to school or home without Akane?
Gods help me he thought. He had to go to someone that knew at least something about this sort of stuff. And
who do I know that knows about the gods?
Dr. Tofu knows so much about history I am sure that he will know something about dimensional travel. I have to
see him. He ran to Dr. Tofu's and barged in like there was no tomorrow.
"Dr. Tofu where are you."
"Ranma, what is it, is everything all right?"
"No, I need your help! This is going to sound crazy, but I was told by a god that Akane has been kidnaped by
another god and taken to another dimension. I have to save her, and I need o know if you know anything about
dimensional travel or even something about the gods, maybe their rivals and so forth, and I need to hurry!"
"Ranma, a step at a time, you say that a god talked to you and told you that Akane was kidnaped?"
"Yes and she was taken to their dimension!"
"Who's dimension?"
"The gods! The gods!"
"Ranma, this all sounds strange, but then agin it would explain some things."
"Like what things."
"Well like saffron, and the weird airs that have been around lately. It was like something very bad was about to
happen. And if the gods are involved, it would also explain some of the strange things that are always happening
to you Ranma."
"How would it explain any of the stuff that happens to me?"
"Well it is legend that the gods have favorites and that their favorites are challenged greater, and trained to meet
any obstacle."
"Dr. Tofu, just tell me wether you can help me or not, I have to hurry, each passing second is another second that
Akane is alone."
"Ranma, I don't know of how much help that I can be of to you but lets go look in the library."
"Ok."
In the library, Dr. Tofu takes a pile of about twenty books and puts them in front of Ranma.
"Ranma, look through these while I look through the others, and try and read what you can, I am not sure if it is all
in Japanese."
Ranma read.
The first book had ancient writings about people that were legends, and how it was believed that the gods loved
them and that was why they were so important to Earth. It spoke of many legends and how all of them had harder
lives that other mortals. Then another part of the book had a part about the gods. Ranma read a little harder and
focused, he came to a part on the Dram goddess.
Dream.
A goddess that spoke to mortals in their sleep. It was said that she would come down at dusk sometimes, and
entice men to be her lovers, then granting them much power.
He also read about Wind.
Wind.
Wind was said to be one of the wisest of the gods. He loved small children, and rarely found, anyone that he
favored, yet if that one were to be found, he was the prize among all mortals. He read about many of the gods.
Water.
Water was said to be a trixter of sorts. He liked to torture mortals, cursing them, especially the ones that other
gods loved. He would do it just to make the other gods angry, and to show that he thought that he was the
greatest of all of the gods. The other gods, have always wanted to destroy him, but because the fear that the
mortal world would end, because of the lack of waters absence, they have always spared him.
He finished that book, and moved onto another.
Gods and mortals, he read, live in alter parallel dimensions, rarely ever crossing... The script changed, to Chinese
he thought, but he wasn't sure. He couldn't read it but there were pictures, and they looked like they told a story.
He studied the pictures. The first was of a boy and a girl. They looked like they were about to kiss in the picture.
The nest was of the girl being taken away from the boy by an angel it looked like, or another god. He wasn't sure.
The next was the boy and he was hunched over on the ground. But his chest was expanding. The next of the girl,
in another place... The next of the boys chest exploding with light. Then the boy was transformed, and transported
into the place that the girl was, it showed the boy destroying the god or angel and taking the girl into his arms. He
had an idea what happened by the pictures, but he had to be sure, maybe this was the anser to his problem.
Dream had said he only needed to use his heart.
"Dr. Tofu, look at this."
"What is it?"
"It looks like a story, and it is in another dialect. I would like to know what it says."
"Well lets me see here. Wow this looks like ancient Chinese. Hmm... it says, well it is a legend, about a young boy
and girl that were to wed. The girl however, was taken to the god's world, one day because her "owner," in a sense,
didn't like the boy and thought that he wasn't fit for her mortal, so she decided to have the mortal come and live in
her realm, forever, making her a goddess someday. She took the girl and the boy was left heartbroken. As a last
action, he swore upon his heart that he would get his bride back, and he prayed to all of the gods for their wisdom.
Well, it says that one of them answered his prayer and gave him wisdom. He knew that all he needed was the
power of the heart. So he opened his heart to himself and used its power to save his bride. And that is the story."
"Don't you see Dr. Tofu that is it. The use of your heart, just as dream has said."
"Ranma, what do you mean?"
"Dr. Tofu, I can't explain. I have to go. Promise that you will keep this a secret until tonight, and then tell my
family, and the Tendous that I will be back soon and with Akane."
"Ranma, you can't just leave- "
"I have to, Doc. I have to save Akane and I can't do that if I am running around telling everyone what I think
happened, and plus half the people that I tell are not going to believe me, just like you didn't at first. I have to go, I
don't know when I will be back if I will, or whether I will die trying, just take care of everyone while I'm gone."
"Ranma..."
But Ranma was long gone before he could say another word.
Ranma ran. Akane was gone, how was he going to get to the dimension of the gods, unless, maybe if he went to
the temple of the wind god, he could ask for passage to the dimension of the gods. But what if he didn't consent.
Lets see, use your heart. Heart... Heart... Heart... That was it.
He started to meditate thinking only about Akane and how she was gone and how the only way of getting to her
was going to the realm of the gods...
'Heart take me to the realm of the gods...I have to save Akane..I love Akane...take me to the realm of the gods...'
In a blast of light...he found himself in a room that was made of nothing yet he was sitting on air.
"Hello?"
"Ranma, you are in my realm...how did you get here?"
"Who are you, and where, are you?"
"Ranma, I am Wind, and I am here."
"Why is it that all you gods appear behind me?"
"Ranma, you just traveled through a dimensional channel, how did you do it?"
"I don't really know, I talked to Dream, and she told me about heart, and I guess, that I just told my heart that I
needed to be here, and here I am."
"Boy, you are amazing, that is a move that only gods have the power to yield! Using a heart to travel. You should
have died in the dimensional switch. No mortal has ever come here of his or her own free will. Well, maybe one or
two, but they had a little help. You did it all on your own."
"Look, Mr. Wind, I know that this is going to be rude, but Water has Akane, and I would like to have her back."
"Ranma, I don't know what to say, there is little that we can do about Water. He had powers that humans need to
live, and we are afraid of what he might do if we oppose him, or attempt to kill him."
"Why don't you kill him and get someone to take his place?"
"That is a big responsibility, and we have not found someone yet worthy for such a position."
"Well I don't care about anything but Akane, and I will get her back. Water can't use her like this, if he wanted a
fight, then he should have just asked."
"Ranma I will take you to Water, you can deal with him, I will help you get Akane back, we have fought long
enough, it is time to settle all of this once and for all."
End Chapter One
Author's note:
As I said before, if you think that this is any good, tell me, pretty please. This is actually something that I wrote, a
LONG, LONG time ago, and I don't remember what I have planned for it, so unless you all think I should, I don't
think I will have the patience to continue it on my own. Please Review. Yes, I will work on "Loves Destiny," my other story,soon.
Any Questions, you can ask in your review, or e-mail me @
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