Winged Ranma-Chan
"THOUGHTS"
Chapter One
For several days a group of beautiful women dressed in archaic Chinese clothing consisting of matching blouses and pants that seemed feminine and warlike at the same time had been working deep in the mainland of China under the cover of a forest of dozens of tall trees, desiring to bring objects from inside a rocky hillside from which there was no opening until one of them had created it.
"Bakusai tensetsu!" one of the women shouted, shattering the mountainside of rock and dirt into a thousand small pieces and splinters with her fingers. Thus she created a larger-than-man sized hole that allowed the women warriors to come and go inside the newly created cave as they pleased.
Once inside the cave the women brought out previously hidden treasures like gold, silver, diamonds, and other precious metals, placing them in wooden boxes.
"Good work, sisters. We're almost done!" what looked like a woman in her sixties who was tall, slender, and fit called out.
"But what will happen if the other elders find out about all this, Elder Sassoon?" a teenage amazon asked as she brought out another valuable object.
"Don't worry about that, sister, what the other elders don't know won't hurt them or us. Wait. Is that the Crystal Stone?"
"Yes, Elder, it is."
The Crystal Stone was a baseball sized silver/fluorescent diamond without flaws and shaped much like a trapezoid while upside down. It shined so greatly that everyone in the area couldn't directly look at it. Even the elder had to cover her eyes when the amazon carrying it held it up to her. The gem was so bright that even a hidden figure who had been watching the women in their work from behind some distant trees in the forest took rapt notice.
"There it is. That rock should net me a lot of yen when I sell it on the black market. Some of the other things in those boxes should net a pretty penny too," the rotund figure speculated from the shadows as he planned to rob these women the first opportunity he got.
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Later that night, the figure continued to lurk behind trees until most of the women went to sleep, only a couple of them being awake to stand watch.
Then the shadowy figure made himself invisible and crept up to the two guardswomen, nerve pinching each of them into unconsciousness. Then he took hold of the baseball sized diamond, grabbed some other valuables, placed them in his subspace pouch, and silently left the area.
"This Crystal Stone is beautiful!" the figure thought as he took hold of the rock and felt it up in an almost sensual manner. Then he breathed in the aroma.
"I'm not so sure if I'll even sell this thing. Maybe I'll just keep it. Anyway, I better get back to Ranma. Who knows what kind of trouble that worthless son of mine has gotten himself into?"
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The next bright sunny day with the wind tugging at them, two figures faced off against each other in a clearing in another forest. Each of them were bare foot and wore dirty karate gis. Their huge backpacks were a few feet away on the ground while they came at each other.
The heftier one, Genma Saotome, was bald with a rag covering his head as he moved with grace learned from years of martial arts training despite his ample bulk and middle aged years. His black eyes regarded the fast moving young man in front of him through his glasses as the muscles under his girth contracted flawlessly with his every movement.
The other one was a handsome young boy with a slender, muscular physique, blue eyes, and long black hair done up in a pigtail. He was the other one's son, Ranma Saotome, a prodigy who had been training in martial arts since birth.
They had been traveling in Mainland China for years, learning martial arts techniques from some of the best masters in the country after having trained under martial arts masters in Japan and Korea. By this time both of them were a little weary. Despite all that, they both fought each other with deadly earnest.
"You're getting soft, Ranma. Quit fighting like a girl and get serious!" Genma ordered as he attempted to strike his son with fists full of fury backed up by low, medium, and high kicks.
"I am taking this serious, Pop!"
"Then show me what you got!"
"You're only going to see it once," Ranma said as he moved in on his father, gliding on the ground, leading off with a few rapid-fire punches as a feint. Then he struck with some low kicks and a legsweep, tripping his opponent and causing him to go crashing to the ground.
"Oof!"
"How about that, Pop?"
"Don't get cute, Ranma. It will take more than cheap tricks for you to inherit the school of Anything Goes."
Then the hefty man sprang to his feet, practically flying into Ranma who sidestepped the attack. Then he executed martial throw, slamming Genma into the ground, using the force of his opponent's own momentum along with his own strength and skill.
"Expensive enough for ya?" Ranma said in triumph with his hands on his hips as he regarded the prone form of his father.
"Again!" Genma screamed as he was on his feet in less than the blink of an eye, ready to attack. "Hyaaaih!"
Before Ranma knew what was happening, Genma was upon him attacking with rights and lefts including a few kicks. However, the nimble boy evaded all of the attacks using an economy of movement that made it seem as if he was barely moving at all.
"Where did the boy learn to do that? Going from one martial arts master to another was meant to make him better, but it wasn't as if I was able to watch the boy as he learned everything. It's quite possible some of those martial artists taught the boy more than I would have thought he was capable of learning," Genma thought as he engaged his son in battle.
Then Ranma counter attacked, surprising his father with his super human speed, striking him dozens of times in a matter of seconds, ending the barrage with a roundhouse kick to the stomach that dropped the old man to the ground.
"Ungh!"
"How about that, Pop?! Pop?"
Despite Ranma's seeming victory Genma was once again on his feet and on the attack!
While the battle waged on, a young girl dressed similarly to the women Genma had encountered earlier quietly watched them. Then she left the area.
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"I've found the missing diamond, Elder!" the amazon who had watched the two martial artists fight earlier called out as she ran towards a group of women dressed archaic Chinese clothing.
"Good work, Bubbles."
Then the amazon elder turned towards her second-in-command, a tall, slender, wiry young woman with long orange hair. "Orange Blossom!"
"Yes, Elder!"
"Take half of us and pursue that thief. While you're doing that, I'll lead the other half of us who will go the long way around so that we might hit them from both sides. Now let us be off!"
"Yes, Elder!" the women shouted in unison.
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Later on, Genma and Ranma were making their way towards their final destination, being only a dozen or so miles away from it.
"How much longer, Pop?" the boy asked.
"We're almost there, Ranma. Now be quite!"
"This training trip has been going on for like forever. When will we get back home? And when will I get to see Mother again?"
"I said be quite! We'll return home after this training trip is over and not before! Now shut up!" Genma demanded, putting his foot down.
"After this training trip is over I'll be set for life when I have Ranma marry one of the daughters of my best friend. I can hardly wait! Soon all of my efforts will bear fruit."
As Ranma and Genma walked on the road, they both sensed something.
"So you sense that, Ranma?" the older man queried.
"Yeah, we're being followed."
"Let's pick up our pace slowly," Genma said, prompting his son to do just that, keeping up with him.
Then they both heard footsteps getting closer. "Never mind stealth, Ranma. Run!"
The two martial artists shot off forward, using their superior awareness to avoid getting hit with the arrows and other projectiles coming at them from behind.
"Get them! Don't let these thieving men get away!" Orange Blossom demanded.
Despite the exhausting journey they had both partaken, father and son widened the gap between them and their pursuers.
"What's going on, Pop? Did you do something to offend these ladies like robbing them? There has to be more than dozen of them!"
"Silence, Ranma!" "These bitches would have to show up now. The loot these women had was astounding. We're almost done with this training trip. Maybe I can skip Jusenkyo, vanish, and let them have the boy until I can procure him at a later date."
However, as the two fleet footed martial artists sped up a few of their pursuers managed to keep up with them. These fleet-footed women were the most competent martial artists of the bunch with the ability to use their ki to power up their fast moving gams, increasing their running speed.
"Stay with them! We'll let the others catch up with us as soon as they can!" the lead woman called out from thirty yards away.
"No problem, Captain. I've already had a few of our sisters lying in wait to ensnare them as soon as our quarry gets close enough to them."
"Good work, Foam. We'll nab these thieving males yet!" Orange Blossom said as the five of them continued to give chase.
"Pop! Look out! We're headed for a trap!" Ranma called out as his martial arts honed danger sense went off.
"Hmm. You're right, Ranma!" "How is it he discovered the oncoming trap before I did? I've trained this boy too well."
"Here it comes!" Ranma leaped high into the air with his father who followed in sync, flying over the huge fish net that appeared seconds after their leap. As Ranma leapt forward, he looked down upon the beautiful, busty, yet moderately muscular women who had executed the ensnarement in vain.
"We missed them!" a young girl called out.
"Yes, but the boy was gorgeous!" another girl commented as he and his father leaped away and landed on the ground, continuing their run.
"Nice try, Foam, but they're still on the loose," the captain said as her crew passed by the others who had sprung the trap.
"I thought that would work, but the skills of our quarry were under estimated," Foam answered.
"Bah. No matter. We'll still catch them," the captain said.
"Isn't Jusenkyo a few miles ahead of us?" another woman warrior called out as they kept up the chase.
"That's right, Rinse. If these men aren't careful they'll wind up being turned into some kind of animal. At that point, capturing them will be all the easier."
"I think we've lost them!" Genma said as he huffed and puffed from his exertions.
"They're still behind us, Pop. I can feel it. They'll catch up to us if we don't keep moving. Who are they anyway?"
"Never mind that…" At that point both Genma and Ranma realized that there was nothing but rugged mountain to their right and a cliff with the ground hundreds of feet below on their left. There were amazons behind them. They were surprised to see more amazons in front of them.
"We're the Amazons of Joketsuzoku, and you are now our captives!" an attractive amazon elder dressed in Chinese style cloak backed up by another group of young women armed with blades, halberds, and other melee weapons said as the first group of pursuing amazons caught up to them.
"We have you now!" Orange Blossom with her group of amazons behind her said.
"We're surrounded!" Genma stated.
"What happened, Pop? Did you rob these women as you've done to others in the past?" Ranma asked, regarding the looks of hostility from the beautiful warriors surrounding them.
"Silence, Ranma! I…"
"I'll answer that question. A few of our treasures have been stolen. One of those treasures has a ki tracking marker on it!" the amazon elder amazon called out as she pointed at Genma's enlarged stomach with what looked like a walking stick.
"Uh, oh!" Genma gasped.
"Pop! I kinda thought your stomach had gotten a little bigger. What did you do, eat all their treasures?!" Ranma gasped.
"There's no time to lose!" "Run for it, boy!" Genma yelled as he vanished into thin air.
"Pop, where did you go?!" Ranma called out, turning back and forth in search of his father. Then he ran up the adjoining cliff, making an end run around the second group of amazons, leaping over them, landing several yards away.
"Don't let him get away!" Orange Blossom shouted out as they shot arrows and threw blunt objects at their quarry.
"Oof!" the boy moaned upon getting hit with a blunt object. Then he noticed the oncoming cliff overlooking the springs of Jusenkyo.
"I have no choice. I'm going to have to try to land into one of those springs in order to break my fall."
As Ranma fell towards the springs, a huge wrecking ball came crashing towards him, prompting him to glide out of the way. Thus the wrecking ball crashed through a wooden barrier, covering over a spring.
"Come back to me, my weapon!" an amazon called, prompting the ball to shoot up from the spring on its way back to its owner, but not before further destroying the barrier and smashing into Ranma, knocking him into another nearby spring.
"Ugh!"
"Ranma!" Genma cried out from nowhere as Ranma fell in, making a splash.
With a great deal of speed and agility, Genma made his way towards the spring Ranma had fallen into while avoiding the sharp arrows from the amazons above him. Then he became invisible again as he ran down the cliff.
"Where did the older one go?" an amazon called out.
"I don't know, but we'll keep searching the area until we find the both of them," the older amazon ordered.
"We should jump down from here after them!" a younger amazon called out.
"No, that's too dangerous. We'll have to climb down carefully. We don't want to fall into any of the springs," the older amazon commanded.
As the women took out climbing equipment and made their way down, the Jusenkyo guide came running out of his hut.
The guide wore a tanned Mao suit, which included a matching tunic, pants, and cap with a yellow star in front of his cap. His hefty physique moved with a speed that belied his bulk as he made his way to the spring.
"You fall into Spring of Drowned Girl!" the guide called out.
"What?!" Genma yelled as he reappeared.
"I wonder why he no come out yet," the guide said upon seeing the bubbles coming up from the spring.
As Ranma went downward lower into the spring, he swallowed some of the water which helped him to snap him out of his stunned state. Then he noticed a bright light at the bottom of the spring to which he swam in a state of curiosity.
"Am I dying? For some reason I'm not choking on the water."
"High there," a masculine voice called out as Ranma found himself in a chalk white room with nothing in it except for the boy who had called out to him, standing a few feet away from him.
Then Ranma looked up and regarded the boy who regarded him in turn.
"What the… You look like me!" Ranma called out as he abruptly turned to the right and the left unable to see nothing but white.
"That's right. Your name's Ranma, isn't it?" the boy dressed in a white karate gi just like Ranma wore answered back.
"Yes, I…" Then Ranma grasped his throat. "What happened to my voice?!"
"Your voice has changed along with your body. Look down and you'll see what I'm talking about."
Ranma gasped in horror as "she" saw the larger than life bosom attached to her chest covered in soft supple, apple blossom skin.
"What's going on?! Have you switched places with me? Is that why you look like me? Put me back!" Ranma demanded.
"Easy, Ranma. Right now, even though I look like you, don't feel too bad about it. Cuz right now you look like me," the boy answered.
"Whaaat?! What are you talking about?!"
"Here's the deal, Ranma. I'm a female version of you from an alternate universe. My mother took me to Jusenkyo on a training trip where I fell into the Spring of Drowned Boy, drinking up the water on the way down. You fell in the Spring of Drowned Girl and did the same thing."
"What does this all mean?" Ranma asked.
"It means you're going to be permanently stuck as a girl. The same goes for me," the boy answered.
"You're stuck as a girl?"
"No, I'll be stuck as a boy."
"Nooo! Girls are weak! I can't live the rest of my life as a girl!" Ranma screamed, clasping her head in shame.
The boy glared at Ranma for a moment. Then he spoke up. "It doesn't have to be that way. We can change places."
"Uh?"
"What I'm saying is that I can live my life in your universe as a girl while you live your life in mine as a boy. We can even put our hands together so we can know what our respective universes and lives were like thus we'll each know what we're in for. If we switch we'll also absorb the other's skills so we can handle being in the other's universe."
"Gee, I don't know."
"It wouldn't hurt just to check. Maybe you'll find my universe better than yours and vice versa," the boy said.
"How did you manage to be here waiting for me? This all seems to be a little bit too convenient," Ranma said as he looked around the area.
"In the past, I've read about alternate universes. I noticed the light at the bottom of my spring as you did."
"Is that light some kind of interdimensional pathway?" Ranma asked.
"Yes, that's right, but I don't know how long it will stay open. So we have to make up our minds quickly. We should see what our universes look like right now."
"I guess it wouldn't hurt to check. Let's do it!" Ranma said as he put his hand out, prompting the "boy" to do likewise. As the two held hands they saw the other's world, the other's life up to that point flashing before the other's eyes.
"Your father's a prick, Ranma, but despite all that I think I'll be able to deal with him. You even know more martial arts than I do. It will be great assimilating all that."
"You still want to trade places with me?! Are you kidding?! Your universe is wonderful! You have friends, great parents, and a nice home."
"That's true," the "boy" answered.
"You're a space pilot and have flown all the way to other solar systems?"
"Yes, that's right. I should tell you that sooner or later you'll get drafted to fight in an interstellar war when you're older. The military can be quite controlling and confining. So I'm not really thrilled with the idea. I'd rather roam free like a bird," the "boy" said.
"I don't mind the idea of confinement, as long as I can be a man the whole time. The idea of being a girl is revolting."
After glaring at Ranma for a moment, the "boy" responded. "So you want to trade places or not? We don't have a whole lot of time."
Ranma thought for a moment. "Yeah! I wish you luck with my old man who hates women and the women who are chasing after us."
"And I wish you luck with the galactic war you'll have to get involved in and with a life of boredom in the meantime," the "boy" answered.
"Let's do it!"
At that moment, the essences of both Ranmas switched. Then Ranma came swimming up out of the spring.
"Ranma what happened to you?!" a feminine voice called out.
"Mom?"
The attractive woman regarding Ranma had a gentle aura about her. She closely resembled Ranma's previous female form with medium brown, shoulder-length hair that she wore up in a bun. She also wore a kimono that was cut off at the thighs, allowing her more freedom of movement. In addition to that she had a samurai blade in its scabbard strapped to her back.
"Yes, Ranma, it's me. Oh, my! You've turned into a boy. Oh, I shouldn't have brought you to this place. I'm so sorry," the woman said.
Then the woman was surprised when Ranma ran towards her and gave her an affectionate hug.
"Ranma?"
"That's OK, Mother. I can live as a boy. And it's so great to be able to see you!" Ranma said with tears in his eyes.
"All right, Ranma, but you were only in that spring for a couple of minutes. I was about to dive in after you when you finally came up."
At that point the Jusenkyo guide showed up. "You fall in Spring of Drowned Boy. Tragic story of boy who fell and drowned in spring two thousand year ago."
Ranma was so happy to see his mother that he ignored the guide.
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In the present universe:
"Whew! My previous universe was boring. But this place is so much more interesting," Ranma said upon exiting the spring.
"Ranma, look out!" Genma called out as a huge wrecking ball smashed into the back of the girl, knocking her into another spring, the spring that had been smashed into by another wrecking ball couple minutes earlier.
"Oh, no! She get knocked into the Spring of Drowned Avian Android! Why is wooden barrier broken? I covered that spring earlier."
"Why did you cover up that spring and not the others?" Genma asked as the amazons made their way towards them.
"A winged android fell into this spring two hundred year ago," the guide explained excitedly as Genma shrewdly regarded the spring.
"Winged android? There are rumors about winged people around here called the phoenix. Is that what you're talking about?" Genma asked.
"No. The avian that drowned here was somewhat artificial, the bone structure of the body and wings being made of an indestructible alloy. Avian was partially synthetic being or cyborg, a genderless mechanism of some kind. Something came crashing down from space and died in spring."
"Oh, I see."
Once again Ranma had swallowed much of the water in the spring since she had gotten the wind knocked out of her, her mouth being wide open.
"This Ranma guy had a whole load of chaos in his life. Maybe I shouldn't have made that deal with him. What am I going to turn into now?"
Then the spring began to bubble up.
!BOOM!
"What the…"
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"So, you thief, what are you going to do now?" the older amazon called out with her and the other amazons having surrounded Genma at the spring.
"Thief? You must be talking about my son. He does things like that all the time. I really shouldn't have spoiled him as much as I have," Genma said nervously.
"You were the one who stole our newfound treasure. Now hand it over or be prepared to hand over your life!"
"Um well." At that moment, Genma vanished into thin air.
"Where did he go?! Find him! He couldn't have gotten far!"
"Those silly girls will never find me while I'm using my umisen. But my biggest problem is what happened to Ranma. Has he died? No, that can't be. If he's dead then I can't live off of him while I retire and live in luxury for the rest of my life. I'll simply have to come back here when the coast is clear."
"You!" the older amazon called out, pointing at the Jusenkyo guide with her walking stick.
"Yes?"
"Where did that boy go off too? Answer me!"
"He fell in Spring of Drowned Girl. Then one of your amazons knocked him into Spring of Drowned Avian Android. It too risky to go diving into spring. It best to wait for him to come out on own."
"Is that so?"
"Why was it covered up?" Orange Blossom interjected.
"Spring of Avian Android unpredictable in power. Not know what happen if someone fall into it. Could be disaster," the guide explained.
At that point the water of the spring began to simmer until it reached a boiling point. Then… !BOOM!
"Hear me, world! No more am I what I once was! I am the new Ranma Saotome!" a taller and beautiful young woman with bright red hair, wings, boots, bracelets, and a slingshot bikini-like top being composed of one piece of silk cloth going from three inches left of her navel down to the bikini-like bottom which left her thighs exposed, going up the front of her body, going to the back of her neck then down her front again three inches to the right of her navel. Thus her back and midriff were bare, exposing much of her fair skin.
Everyone marveled at her startling, gravity defying hard body, her slender muscular physique, showing off beautifully, lightly defined abdominal muscles and femininely yet muscular arms which were spread out straight like her wings. Gone was the pigtail, allowing her long and thick, luscious red hair to cascade down the milky white shoulders of the five feet six inch girl weighing a busty 125 pounds.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Thanks for taking the time to read this fanfic. I also have another fanfic called Attack on Ranma. It's crossed with Attack on Titan. You probably haven't seen it since it's in the Ranma/anime crossover section. Or you can go to my profile to see it. I hope you'll take a look at it and tell me what you think.