The 2nd Bet
The Lost Entry

Disclaimer:
Oh, all right already. I disclaim. Now get out of my house. And no, I don't want to buy your mother. Damn lawyers.

Anyways, just to be on the safe side: The characters depicted in this concoction are not mine, they belong to other people. One mentioned here should be Rumiko Takahashi for the Ranma-bits and Pioneer for Tenchi Muyo.


Prologue

Toltiir looked up from his catnap, as someone entered the cave. The snoring from the small, red fox stopped right after the sound of footsteps could be heard.

A loud crash, followed by a string of creative cursing could he heard from the entrance. Toltiir grinned. Another entry in this bet was about to begin. And from the type of entrance, it could be only...

"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW? RANMA SAOTOME, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"

Toltiir facefaulted. That was not who he had expected.

A human boy walked around the corner and looked warily at the well. Toltiir called out to him "stay away from the water, boy. This is none of your business"

The boy was clad in dirty and worn clothes. His unruly hair was kept in check with a yellow and black bandanna. He jumped back startled as he heard the voice. Then he looked around and seeing nothing but two aimals, shouted "WHO SAID THAT? SHOW YOURSELF!"

The fox decided to add his part to he conversation and said "Don't blow a fuse, boy. You definitely don't want to be here. This is no place for you mortals."

Ryouga, if you haven't found out by now, started to panic as the fox spoke to him. When he saw the small, black cat grin at him in a mischievous and definitely not catlike manner, it was too much for him to bear. With a shout of "BAKUSAI TENKETSU" he stabbed a finger at the wall and ran screaming through the new hole and vanished in a corpse of trees.

"He took that better than I expected," said Toltiir while watching a stone from the explosion fly toward the well. It fell into the water of the well and created some ripples on the surface. As a side effect, it made a little change in the timeline around a body of small pools in a valley filled with mist.

Toltiir looked into the water and grinned. The fox looked at the cat, then at the water. After a few moments he asked "Does that count?"

Toltiir shrugged. "Why not? I have seen worse. By the way, you can come out now, Tsunami"

A beautiful woman appeared out of nowhere and smiled at the cat. "I hope you will accept my entry." Then she looked into the well too as two people approached the pools...

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Ranma looked at the peaceful valley with the small springs and sighed. Finally, they had arrived at Jusenkyo, their last stop before they would return to Japan.

"Looks nice. This is your famous training ground, pops?"

"Nice? I will show you nice, boy. Move your lazy butt up here or are you too girly and want to look more at the pretty springs?" a burly man shouted in a mocking voice at his son. Then he dropped his backpack and jumped on top of one of the poles. which decorated the center of each pool.

"Girly? I will show you girly, old man!" Ranma also dropped his pack and jumped on another pole a few springs away, facing his father, waiting for an attack. Both of them ignored an small chinese man, who shouted something uncomprehensible at them, before he entered a hut and came back with a kettle in his hand.

Soon, Genma lost the little bit of patience he had and jumped toward Ranma, jelling a loud battlecry. When his father was in midflight, Ranma smirked and jumped at his father, landing on his head. He jumped again toward the pole, where Genma started his move and pushed his father downward, where Genma landed in the water...

He was ill prepared for a large panda, who jumped out of the pool and levelled itself out on a pole. He noticed his fathers glasses hanging from on of the ears, before it jumped toward him and backhanded the stunned boy toward another pool. Ranma paniced as he approached the water of a pool. 'I don't want to be a panda' was his last thought before the world became a very wet place - at least for him.

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Genma watched satisfied, as Ranma fell into a pool. "Ungrateful boy. Serves you right for pushing me into the water" he shouted. At least he tried. The bellow of an animal was unexpected. Then he saw the white fur on his arm...

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Ranma broke the surface of the pool and saw the panda, looking at its arm. As he tried to stand up, he lost his balance and fell toward the edge of the spring, where he crawled out of the water. With a sinking feeling, he looked at his reflection in the water of the pool... and screamed.

"That's it. Today you DIE, old man!!!" Then the new girl stood up and ran toward a startled panda. Genma took one look at the angry girl in his son's clothes and turned around, fleeing.toward the trees.

A small stone at the edge of another pool, combined with her new body caused Ranma to loose her balance and she dived headfirst into the next pool instead of jumping over it. The water bubbled for a moment, before a blur shot out of it and after the panda. A short moment later, terrified screams of pain from a certain panda could be heard, as he was mercilessly beaten up...

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A small sensor, hidden in the cliffs around Jusenkyo picked up some information and sent a report to a small shrine in Japan. A long unused computer in the office of the priest picked the report up and notified it's owner, known today as Masaki Katsuhiko.

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Notes:

That's it for now. I hope some of you people out there like this concoction a little bit. The idea just appeared in my head after reading the Accidential Bet, in case someone found the cave somewhat familiar.

Please note, that english is not my mother language. I'm a native german, so the grammar may be a little bit off. Send me a comment, what to write better and I will do my best and fix it. I also search for some prereaders. Ask at the address below and you will be answered.

Ryouga and the amazons will play a major part in the next chapter. And no, Ryouga will NOT become a piglet.

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