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Text between "" mean talking in Japanese, text between "**" means Chinese. Text between ## means actions. Text between ** mean thoughts.
A New Ranma: Dragon and Phoenix
Time: Ranma at age 8. Place: The Neko-ken 'training'-pit. Scene: We see Ranma standing in a blood-soaked Gi with scratch-marks all over him, and some are still bleeding. Ranma also has a lot of fish cakes tied to him. This will be his second trip in the Pit.
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"Poppa, I don't wanna go down there again! It hurts!" Ranma said with a shiver.
"Nonsense, my boy. Are you a Man or a weak little girl? Now get back in there!" His father said while pointing towards the Pit. *Why doesn't that boy of mine want to get into there again? It's just a couple of cats, for crying out loud.*
"Oh-okay, poppa. I'll go down again." *but it still hurts from last time.* With that said, Ranma walks over to the Pit, looks down into it, and jumps in. "Ow.nice kitties.good kitties.." *Why do I hafta be here? It hurts so much.* Ranma starts to get nervous when he sees all the cats looking at him hungrily, but by that time it is too late. Genma has already put down the Lid on the Pit. All the cats jump on him, and start clawing him for the fish cakes that are on him. "AAAHHH!!!! IT HURTS!!!!" Ranma has already rolled up into a ball, but the cats are in frenzy by this time, they are still starved from the last time he was down there, and he smells like fish. Though not all of the cats were clawing him, many were, and after about 20 minutes, Ranma is bleeding a lot, and the cats have backed off.
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*Why is that worthless boy taking so long to learn the Neko-ken?* Genma thinks, ignoring the yowling and the cries of pain coming from the Pit. He is also drinking quite heavily from a bottle of sake, and we see many more bottles lying near him.
*I would never say this to the boy, but he is almost as good as me. Of course, I haven't taught him the Yamasenken or the Umisenken, but I couldn't do that, not after having sealed them.*
We see a book lying next to him, opened on the first page, and we see that it is the Neko-ken training manual. *Huh? I thought I had thrown it away already.*
Genma reaches down to pick it up, but then a gust of wind turns the page, and he sees what it says on the next page. "WHAT??!!" Guess what he just found out.
*Oh no! I have to get the boy, NOW!* Genma the runs over to the Pit, lifts the lid, and looks down to see Ranma in a pool of blood. He immediately jumps down, scoops up Ranma, and jumps out of the Pit again, all in less than 5 seconds. After having laid Ranma down again, he then checks his pulse, only to find none.
*Oh no.. * "No. wake up, boy. wake up."
Genma then starts crying for his lost child, his first true sign that he cares in 3 years, and cannot stop. He then begs for the heavens to have mercy on him, to bring back his son, but soon falls asleep, still cradling the limp body of Ranma to his chest.
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The next morning, Genma wakes up, and notices that it was not a nightmare that his son was dead, it was real.
"Oh, my dear boy, why didn't I read the next page. then you would still have been alive."
This continued for about 5 more minutes, and then a thought came to him.
*I must show him my last respects.*
He began collecting firewood for a pyre, as he thought that was the best way to show his respect for his only son, his pride and joy.
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It is midday and we see a pyre set up, and Ranma's body wrapped a blanket. Genma stands next to it, a torch in hand.
"I will miss you, my son" he says, with tears in his eyes, and lowers the torch to the pyre. It slowly starts to burn, and the flames begin to reach towards Ranma.
Ranma's body, strangely enough, starts to glow as the flames come near him, and then the flames begin to be absorbed into him.
"HUH??!!" *WHAT THE HELL??!!*
Ranma's body starts to change, he becomes a bit more muscular, but not so much that it hinders any movement (Think Goku, early in Dragonball). His hair becomes a fiery red with ice-blue highlights. And the, to Genma's great surprise, his eyes open, and we see that his irises are a ice-blue, and his irises are slitted. The pyre's fires wink out, and Ranma gets up, and looks towards Genma.
"Thank you Father, for your words. I am glad you have finally seen your feelings."
He then breaks out in a grin
"I'm really happy to be back with ya, pops."
He then gives Genma a big hug, and softly cries.
"I missed you, my boy. It may not have seemed like it on our trip, but I DO care about you. I did what I did so you could be the best Martial Artist, just like I wanted to be, but could not. You are the pride of the Saotome clan, and I will from this day forward be a better father than I have been so far."
Genma smiled back to Ranma, and hugged him back. "But if I may ask, son, HOW did you come back? You were dead for an entire day."
"I saw you from heaven, dad. I saw how you cried for me, and I also saw mom. She felt me die, and she cried too. I begged the Kami to return me to Earth, but they said that they could not. When I asked 'Why?' they simply said that I had to do it myself. And I did."
"But, HOW did you do it, son?"
Ranma smiled at that question, and said "When we see Mother again, I'll answer that, okay, dad? I really miss her, and I wanna see her right away."
Genma Smiled to his son, and thought it over. *If we return now, I could see her again too, and we could be a family again. I would still train Ranma, but it would have to be toned down. do I really want that? .. HELL YEAH! I will not risk loosing my only son again, especially not because of TRAINING.* "Of course, Ranma. We'll leave tomorrow, okay son?"
"Sure thing dad, I'm a bit tired too"
That said, the two Saotome men pitched up their tents, and went to sleep. They would have a long day tomorrow.
To be continued.
Author's notes: So.what do you think? Should I try to continue this? Or maybe revise it? I'm open to constructive criticism, but flames will be ignored. Hope that you all liked it. Ja ne ^_^
Author's notes (6. August, 2002): Well... I'm afraid that I haven't been able to come up with a new chapter, just some VERY minor rewriting of this and the next chapter... well, I hope that will change soon, so until then, Ja ne ^_^
Text between "" mean talking in Japanese, text between "**" means Chinese. Text between ## means actions. Text between ** mean thoughts.
A New Ranma: Dragon and Phoenix
Time: Ranma at age 8. Place: The Neko-ken 'training'-pit. Scene: We see Ranma standing in a blood-soaked Gi with scratch-marks all over him, and some are still bleeding. Ranma also has a lot of fish cakes tied to him. This will be his second trip in the Pit.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
"Poppa, I don't wanna go down there again! It hurts!" Ranma said with a shiver.
"Nonsense, my boy. Are you a Man or a weak little girl? Now get back in there!" His father said while pointing towards the Pit. *Why doesn't that boy of mine want to get into there again? It's just a couple of cats, for crying out loud.*
"Oh-okay, poppa. I'll go down again." *but it still hurts from last time.* With that said, Ranma walks over to the Pit, looks down into it, and jumps in. "Ow.nice kitties.good kitties.." *Why do I hafta be here? It hurts so much.* Ranma starts to get nervous when he sees all the cats looking at him hungrily, but by that time it is too late. Genma has already put down the Lid on the Pit. All the cats jump on him, and start clawing him for the fish cakes that are on him. "AAAHHH!!!! IT HURTS!!!!" Ranma has already rolled up into a ball, but the cats are in frenzy by this time, they are still starved from the last time he was down there, and he smells like fish. Though not all of the cats were clawing him, many were, and after about 20 minutes, Ranma is bleeding a lot, and the cats have backed off.
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*Why is that worthless boy taking so long to learn the Neko-ken?* Genma thinks, ignoring the yowling and the cries of pain coming from the Pit. He is also drinking quite heavily from a bottle of sake, and we see many more bottles lying near him.
*I would never say this to the boy, but he is almost as good as me. Of course, I haven't taught him the Yamasenken or the Umisenken, but I couldn't do that, not after having sealed them.*
We see a book lying next to him, opened on the first page, and we see that it is the Neko-ken training manual. *Huh? I thought I had thrown it away already.*
Genma reaches down to pick it up, but then a gust of wind turns the page, and he sees what it says on the next page. "WHAT??!!" Guess what he just found out.
*Oh no! I have to get the boy, NOW!* Genma the runs over to the Pit, lifts the lid, and looks down to see Ranma in a pool of blood. He immediately jumps down, scoops up Ranma, and jumps out of the Pit again, all in less than 5 seconds. After having laid Ranma down again, he then checks his pulse, only to find none.
*Oh no.. * "No. wake up, boy. wake up."
Genma then starts crying for his lost child, his first true sign that he cares in 3 years, and cannot stop. He then begs for the heavens to have mercy on him, to bring back his son, but soon falls asleep, still cradling the limp body of Ranma to his chest.
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The next morning, Genma wakes up, and notices that it was not a nightmare that his son was dead, it was real.
"Oh, my dear boy, why didn't I read the next page. then you would still have been alive."
This continued for about 5 more minutes, and then a thought came to him.
*I must show him my last respects.*
He began collecting firewood for a pyre, as he thought that was the best way to show his respect for his only son, his pride and joy.
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It is midday and we see a pyre set up, and Ranma's body wrapped a blanket. Genma stands next to it, a torch in hand.
"I will miss you, my son" he says, with tears in his eyes, and lowers the torch to the pyre. It slowly starts to burn, and the flames begin to reach towards Ranma.
Ranma's body, strangely enough, starts to glow as the flames come near him, and then the flames begin to be absorbed into him.
"HUH??!!" *WHAT THE HELL??!!*
Ranma's body starts to change, he becomes a bit more muscular, but not so much that it hinders any movement (Think Goku, early in Dragonball). His hair becomes a fiery red with ice-blue highlights. And the, to Genma's great surprise, his eyes open, and we see that his irises are a ice-blue, and his irises are slitted. The pyre's fires wink out, and Ranma gets up, and looks towards Genma.
"Thank you Father, for your words. I am glad you have finally seen your feelings."
He then breaks out in a grin
"I'm really happy to be back with ya, pops."
He then gives Genma a big hug, and softly cries.
"I missed you, my boy. It may not have seemed like it on our trip, but I DO care about you. I did what I did so you could be the best Martial Artist, just like I wanted to be, but could not. You are the pride of the Saotome clan, and I will from this day forward be a better father than I have been so far."
Genma smiled back to Ranma, and hugged him back. "But if I may ask, son, HOW did you come back? You were dead for an entire day."
"I saw you from heaven, dad. I saw how you cried for me, and I also saw mom. She felt me die, and she cried too. I begged the Kami to return me to Earth, but they said that they could not. When I asked 'Why?' they simply said that I had to do it myself. And I did."
"But, HOW did you do it, son?"
Ranma smiled at that question, and said "When we see Mother again, I'll answer that, okay, dad? I really miss her, and I wanna see her right away."
Genma Smiled to his son, and thought it over. *If we return now, I could see her again too, and we could be a family again. I would still train Ranma, but it would have to be toned down. do I really want that? .. HELL YEAH! I will not risk loosing my only son again, especially not because of TRAINING.* "Of course, Ranma. We'll leave tomorrow, okay son?"
"Sure thing dad, I'm a bit tired too"
That said, the two Saotome men pitched up their tents, and went to sleep. They would have a long day tomorrow.
To be continued.
Author's notes: So.what do you think? Should I try to continue this? Or maybe revise it? I'm open to constructive criticism, but flames will be ignored. Hope that you all liked it. Ja ne ^_^
Author's notes (6. August, 2002): Well... I'm afraid that I haven't been able to come up with a new chapter, just some VERY minor rewriting of this and the next chapter... well, I hope that will change soon, so until then, Ja ne ^_^