A.N. This is set directly after the end of the series, with the exception that Ranma hasn't run off yet. RanmaOC pairing. Akane Angst.
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma. However, concepts not invented by Rumiko Takahasi I do own, so please ask me before scampering off with them.
Demons in Nermia!
Chapter 1: ONI!
"RANMA!" It was a regular Sunday afternoon, and Akane was once again unhappy with her fiancee.
"I HAVEN'T EVEN DONE ANYTHING THIS WHOLE WEEK! WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, TOMBOY?" Ranma yelled back.
"THAT IS THE PROBLEM! When you decide to shut up and not bother me, you're scheming something, I know it! ALL BOYS ARE THE SAME!"
"THAT'S FINE! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS! I'M GOING FOR A WALK!"
"Oh, Ranma! Don't forget to come back by dinner! It's beef stir-fry night!" Kasumi yelled after him.
"I will!"
"AND DON'T BOTHER COMING BACK, EITHER!" Akane yelled after him, but was too late. The princess's time in her own little world had allowed him to escape. She just began fuming. She then began spewing curses as she watched the pigtailed boy bound across rooftops, and over the horizon.
Stupid Tomboy. She's suspicious even I'm being nice to her.
Ranma kept bounding, almost ignoring where he was going, which was out of the district and into another.
I wonder if Nabiki has anything to do with this.
Said girl in question sneezed abruptly, wondering if leaving her window open at night was inviting a cold in.
Ranma continued on his train of thought, his body on autopilot. He was now doing laps around Nermia, and he had three more hours before he was to be back at the Tendou's.
Now in the restaurant subdistrict in Nermia, Ranma was fair game for some of his fiancees.
Oh, look, there's one now. She has purple hair, and is moving like a bullet towards Ranma on that metallic contraption of hers.
What? There's no way you could that thing a bicycle.
"Nihao, Airen!" Shampoo saw her landing pad grab her bike, and flip up above her. So, he wanted to play did he?
However, as soon as Shampoo stepped off her bike, Ranma had nearly rounded the street corner. Shampoo bounded after him.
"Come back, Airen!" Shampoo went in for her famous glomp ...
... and failed spectacularly, landing on her face, while Ranma flipped out of the way. A vein appeared on Shampoo's head. Before she moved again, she heard him utter
"Stupid Tomboy."
That stunned Shampoo into sitting still. Was he talking about her? Or Akane? Or someone else entirely? Shampoo had too many questions floating about in her head, and she wanted answers. But, by the time she'd realized this, Ranma was no where to be found.
Guess I'll have to ask Great-Grandmother, then.
What, did you expect her to think in Japanese?
Erin was a normal succubus; drop-dead gorgeous face, silky-smooth, long, ebony hair, body to die for, pair of concealed bat wings. That, and she thrived on the lust she drained from other beings, rather then just simply wanting to steal the souls of the beings she made lust after her.
Right now, she was sitting in a college classroom, after class, smiling at boys as they walked by, and gently laughing when they ran into desks or walls. She got a real big kick when their girl friends slapped them. She started rolling on the floor with laughter when one guy got beaten up by a mob for simply saying hello to her.
After she had collected her books, she began to walk to her apartment. Which of course, happened to be about twenty minutes away.
In Nermia.
She was scanning the crowds for anyone particularly delicious looking. She was beginning to feel the effects of not draining lust for a while. She couldn't do it during class, or in large crowds. That many horny people in one spot just wasn't her style. That, and her general wanted her to catch a few more souls.
Erin sighed. No one of any good today. Just after thinking that, her energy and spiritual senses went into a frenzy. She looked up, and low and behold, it was everyone's favorite pigtailed mortal.
Erin had to fan herself just a little. Had the temperature just gone up? Why did she feel so weird. She decided she would be set for a while if she could get his soul.
"Hello." Erin tried. She'd used a small amount of magic to convince him to stop walking, but he was still lost in thought.
"Hello?" she tried again, with almost the same results.
"HELLO!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. Ranma snapped out of his reverie, and focused his eyes down after taking an akward one-legged stance, and putting his hands in between himself and Erin.
"AHH! Who're you?" Ranma asked quickly. He really hoped she hadn't come to collect on any promises.
"I'm Erin! And you are?" She said, leaning forward, slightly thrusting out her chest, to get his attention. Ranma's steel-skull deflected the body language attempt.
"Ranma. You haven't come to collect on any stupid promise my dad made you, would you be?" Erin managed to keep her composure. Barely.
What, has he got gynophobia because of his dad? This is getting more interesting by the second!
"Noo." She said scooting closer to him. Ranma had shied away from her, and stepped onto his other foot. Erin was almost in shock. How was he resisting her charms?
"What's with you?" She asked, feigning an almost hurt voice.
"With a few exceptions, Girls who show an interest in me are dangerous."
Ah. So, he's got, or had, a few bad girlfriends. I'll slow up just a bit then. No need to rush these things.
"Could I be one of those few?" She had switched her body language from screaming "TAKE ME!" to "I'm just the sweetest thing you've ever met." Not that this had any affect on Ranma, whatsoever. The crowd, however, went from spectacularly horny to gooey on the inside in a matter of seconds.
"Why?" was his simple response. However, his reaction to her answer was unnecessary, as a few seconds later, a huge demon appeared out of nowhere. No one but Ranma and the girl seemed to notice.
"Al-." Erin tried to say, but Ranma's mind had gone into overdrive.
It was time to fight. He launched a kick at the thorny looking demon. Who merely grabbed his extended his foot and threw him into a building, promptly ending that match. He then grabbed Erin, slung her over his shoulder, and began walking.
Erin had sort of been stunned during this entire slew of events. When she finally snapped back, she was atop the thorny demon's shoulder.
"Alphus? Alphus, you can put me down now." She said, in a cute voice, thoroughly mustered. Alphus didn't seem to respond.
"Please?" Cuteness factor increased by x10. Alphus still didn't seem to respond. Erin's eyes widened just a little.
OK, they became really big. So what?
"Alphus, you pervert, put me down this instant!" She screamed. Alphus's mouth twisted into a cruel grin.
"PUT HER DOWN THIS INSTANT, MONSTER!" Erin was used to seeing people die. Erin was used to seeing Alphus throwing people into buildings. Put 1 and 1 together with Ranma, however, and you wind up with something on the order of pi.
"How did you survive!" Erin screamed.
"That was nothing. I was just stuck after he threw me." Ranma dusted a bit of plaster off of his shoulder.
"I think a good fight before dinner would help me work up an appetite." Ranma said, moving into a raised one-legged stance, beckoning the large, terrifying demon. The fact of which, Ranma was completely blind to. Alphus just glared at the boy. Though not shaken, Ranma said,
"I eat people like you for breakfast." Alphus charged the boy. Ranma flipped over the charge, and landed a stomping double kick on the demon's back. A sickening crunch is heard.
"He doesn't break that easy, do he?" Ranma asked Erin, who shook her head. Ranma looked again at the getting up demon. One of the thorns was dangling. So that's what'd snapped. Alphus made eye contact with the boy again, before he charged again.
"You don't learn very well, do you?" Ranma flipped over Alphus, promptly had his foot caught, and had Alphus throw him into the side of another building.
"Like that does anything but tickle. Ryouga can hit hard then that, and he ain't no demon." Ranma commented, bringing his right hand up. A bright blue ball formed in front of it. Ranma smirked and charged.
"Mokou Takabishi!" He screamed, and hit the demon at nearly point blank. A bunch of black dust flew into the air, knocking both Ranma and Erin over. Ranma could almost hear the demon's final words in the back of his head.
Well, well, Ranma Saotome. You are truly an interesting person. He who defeats me ... well, now, that would be telling, wouldn't it?
Ranma just wanted the world to stop spinning, so he could get home.
Erin came to the moment the cloud dissipated. Several hours had passed, and she had a great big kink in her back. She stood up to stretch it, and noticed that her target was gone. She smiled. She dispelled the illusion around her, returning to the form of a succubus. She unfurled her Bat-wing, and took off into the night sky.
Its a wonder that she doesn't get cold in that armor bikini.
Erin had decided that she would find the boy's house. Tracing his energies would be fairly easy. He seemed to be content with just letting his aura sit there, and not do much with it. That, or he hadn't learned to conceal it.
Erin neared the Tendou Dojo, and reformed the illusion maintained around her. She landed on the roof, and listened in on the conversation that was being held in the living room. Apparently, Ranma was already home, and hadn't left again.
"Oh, Ranma! What happened! Why are you covered in soot?"
"ACHOOOOO!" Nabiki had walked into the room. With a highly congested nose she continued, "OK, who brought home flowers?"
"No one. Ranma's covered in soot!"
"That can't be soot, Sis. Otherwise, I wouldn't be sne-ACHOOO!"
"Can I lie down now? The room is still on spin cycle." Ranma said. Kasumi hurried over to the boy, and deftly guided him over to the sofa, where Akane was watching TV.
"Get your hands off my sister, pervert." Akane nearly screamed, and had climbed up onto the back of the sofa.
"Kasumi's the one who's holdin' me up, remember?" Ranma retorted.
"Akane, be a dear, and go sit in the chair for a moment. Ranma is feeling dizzy." Akane snorted, then her face contorted into anger. After a moment, everyone sat down, Kasumi in a chair, Ranma on the Couch, and the others sitting on various cushions and chairs. Nodoka called from the kitchen,
"I'm listening!"
"So, you were out seeing the Black Rose, were you?" She said. Ranma gave a look of surprise.
"Somehow, I knew you were going to say that. Even if you don't believe me, I'm going to tell you what happened. It's a little fuzzy, still. I was walking along, minding my own business, when this girl comes up to-"
"HAH! I knew he was a pervert!" Akane yelled.
"-me, and when she gets my attention, I asked her if she was here to get anything from my dad or me. When she said no, she started acting like a more sophisticated, straighter talking Shampoo. But before-"
"YOU REALLY ARE A PERVERT!" She screamed. Erin sweatdropped. If anything, the boy was the biggest introvert she'd ever seen. No girl could hold him with mere charm alone. It was a good thing she had her magic.
"-anything could happen, this big... I don't know, thing, attacked, and I managed to beat it with the Mokou Takabishi, and when it was beaten, it let off this huge rush of wind and this black stuff. I stumbled out of the cloud, and went looking for the darn thing, so it couldn't terrorize anything else. But I couldn't find it, and by the time I stopped, it was time to get here."
"So, you never went back and checked on the poor girl?" Mr. Tendou asked. However, before he could answer, Erin took the time to knock on the front door.
"Oh, a visitor!"
A.N. I am officially tired after writing this. I am hoping some good reviews come out of this. Please! I don't bite, honestly!