The Human Asari
Chapter 1: Death and Rebirth
1994 Earth Western China Jusendo
Ranma was standing there on the edge of the crater of what had once been Phoenix mountain panting as he surveyed the crumpled form of the god Saffron. She... no HE had won, but the cost, the cost was everything. No longer caring if he lived or died he was only here to finish this fight, end the terror and pain that Saffron had become for so many people.
This wasn't the first time he had fought the Phoenix but this would be the last he promised his family and himself. Staggering slightly he moved slowly across the torn ground towards the barely breathing battered form of his opponent. He thought of all this fight had cost him, everything and everyone he loved was gone now, he would see the phoenix dead and make his way into the next life his conscious clear and his family at peace.
It had been five years since last time she had fought the Phoenix god and had hopped to never have to return to Jusendo, but the Phoenix wouldn't or couldn't forget. The first signs of trouble was when Cologne came and informed him that the Joketsuzoku amazon tribe was at war with the phoenix and she and her grand Daughter Shampoo were returning to their village.
Cologne had tried to dissuade him from this path when she had found him inside the ruins of his first and only true home but in the end had accepted his self destructive spiral as his choice. Cologne the only surviving amazon... the only survivor of the Phoenix's war on the inhabitants of the Jusenkyo valley that weren't of the phoenix tribe had helped him achieve this. Long gone were the techniques powered by confidence that he no longer felt... He had mastered the art of pure ki and had learned everything the old woman had to teach him before she finally succumbed to the wounds she had received when her village had been destroyed.
Coughing several times trying to get precious air into his heavily injured female body he slowly makes his way towards the body of his tormentor, it was time to finish this. This phoenix... he wouldn't call it a god had started this, and he planned to finish it. Using the staff of ascension as a crutch he moves within a few feet of the crumpled form of his adversary and tormentor.
He had been out at a martial arts tournament in Okinawa when the phoenix came, he had received a phone call telling him the dojo was in flames. Rushing home to Nerima he found it all gone... his wife Kasumi, his daughter Mikoto... the entire Tendo family... his mother. No more tears to be shed over his loss, it was nearly over, when he was gone no one was left to grieve.
Trying to shake his currently female body from remembering he looks down at the staff, the Gekkaja and Kinjaken combined into one weapon. He had found them in the ruins of his home... the phoenix was taunting him.
**Flashback**
Ranma Jumped out of the taxi at the smoking ruins of what had been his home for the last few years, there was nothing left but a large hole in the ground. Nothing of the house or dojo, nothing left of the koi pond he seemed so fated to land into when he was in high school.
He climbed down the sides of the depression looking for any sign of what might have happened... who did this... anything.
Walking deeper into the ruins of what had once been the home for him and his family he came across a charred beam laying it what would have been the kitchen. Fond memories raced through his head until his eyes landed upon a glint of silver.
Rushing forwards Ranma quickly found the silver chain and locket hanging from a splinter below the beam.
Collapsing on his knees Ranma's hand tremble as he reached out towards the locket, he had given it to his wife Kasumi not long after the birth of her daughter it held a picture of the three of them and she had never once taken it off.
Tears streaming down his face at the realization of his loss a dark green glow began to surround his body as the depressed anguish began to feed upon his Ki.
With a loud anguish scream towards the heavens Ranma released his depressed Ki in a column of dark green energy that reached up into the heavens. As the scream died down he collapsed to the ground with tears streaming down his face. As if to commiserate with Ranma's loss the sky opened up with a heavy dark rain. Ranma barely noticed the change in gender so wrapped up in what happened.
Holding the locket close to his chest he curled into a ball trying to escape his loss... he'd worry about revenge soon, for now he just wanted to forget it all.
**Flashback End**
He had found the two halves of the staff of ascension that day, the Gekkaja and Kinjaken in the ruins of the dojo. The two weapons used by the Phoenix to achieve full adulthood jammed deep into the ground at the center of the crater. Later he had found out that when the emergency services had responded that is where they had found the bodies of everyone that he ever cared for.
Coughing several more times as he limped towards the form of Saffron now only a few feet away he could see a bright light beginning to from deep within the battered form, the Phoenix god was starting the process of rebirth, turning back into his egg once more. This was the second time he had reduced the phoenix to such a state, he had to end this now as it started or the cycle of pain and death would continue.
Shaking his head at the sight Ranma Raised the staff of ascension over the light, "Not going to happen this time Bird Brain." Letting out a scream of rage and pain he slammed down the bladed tip down on the egg with all of his energy pouring the rest of his Ki into the final attack. Pain wracked his body as he pressed the point of the staff against the shell of the egg as power flowed uncontrolled from the point of impact. The air nearly crackled with energy as the martial artist poured all of his pain and energy into the act of destroying the monster that had already taken everything from him.
Ranma could feel the egg starting to give under his furious assault of energy and force. He began to realize as his energy reserves began to falter that it wasn't going to be enough, something from deep inside the egg was fighting to survive to prevent him from ending the destroyer of his family.
As his massive Ki reserves began to finally fade realization that he had nothing but his own life left to give Ranma began to pour his very life energy into the staff, he had little left to live for but he would see the Phoenix god dead with him. As the tip of the staff finally broke through the outer shell of the Phoenix god's shell Ranma nearly collapsed against the staff of ascension as it slid inside to hit a hard object.
Each breath brought nothing but pain to Ranma as he lay atop the remains of the Phoenix god's attempt at rebirth. With slow movements he reached in and touched what felt like a gem of some sorts. Slowly he pulled the hard object from the center of the remains he looks down to see a large red stone with a crack running through the center.
With a quiet sigh Ranma realized it was over, he had avenged his family's death and Saffron would never be reborn. As he moved off the remains of the he looked up at the heavens clutching the gem to his chest, "Its over Kasumi.. Mikoto.. Rest in peace my love." Finally as he layed there he let the tears he had been holding back for months now stream down his face.
As injured and exhausted as he was Ranma he wasn't able to detect the energy leaking from the cracked gemstone or that it was seeping into his body to fill the void left over after using so much energy to utterly destroy Saffron and preventing his attempt at rebirth.
As Ranma lay there absorbing the energies of the former god even if he didn't realize it, slowly closing his eyes letting the pain and memories slip away blackness overtook him as he passed out his thoughts on his family.
Slowly the red gemstone resting on the chest of the currently female pig-tailed martial artist began to lose its inner light the energy contained inside seeping into the unconscious mortal repairing all the damage and starting to slowly change the mortal into something more. As the gem lost the last of its inner light and any color it might hold four marking appeared on the cheeks of the victor of the fight, a red triangle on one cheek a blue on the opposite while a red and blue diamond on his forehead split directly in half.
Ranma Saotome master of the anything goes school of martial arts had done the impossible, he had killed a Kami. The balance of the universe must be maintained as when a Kami had been killed another must take its place.
1994 Asgard Office of Kami-Sama
Far above in another realm where only the gods and their servants tread a discussion was happening. "This is unprecedented, nothing like this ever has happened on Midgard or even Asgard." The silver haired buxom woman muttered as she paced back in forth in front of the large desk, "This could destroy everything." she throws her hands up in the air before folding them underneath her large breasts.
The older man sitting behind a large desk, "I gave them free will for a reason, you know that Hild." Gesturing to the screen showing the transformation of a mortal into something greater. "What they do with it even we can't naysay."
Hild shakes her head slightly, "But to kill a god? To truly end one of ours existence? Even if its a minor one?" She waves her hand at the screen, "What of the Doublet system? He killed one of yours, but no demon has died."
Kami-Sama sitting behind the desk leaned forward before speaking with soft assured words, "Ranma Saotome absorbed the remaining energies from the seed, he won't become a god... but he's no longer human or even mortal.."
Hild the DaimankaichÅ, the leader of hell drops onto the seat across the desk from her former paramour and current adversary, "He cannot stay on earth, if he exists outside the doublet system, what are you going to do?"
Kami-Sama rubbed the bridge between his eyes, "The fates have not been kind to this one in this realm of Midgard. So the best choice I believe is to send him elsewhere and else when."
The discussion continued for many hours in the mighty halls of Asgard but the decision had already been made on the fate of a mortal that had killed a god.
Movement could be seen in the center of the large crater if anyone was nearby to see it, as the former mortal practitioner of the anything goes Martial arts style began to awaken. Slow movements at first as if the person was expecting more pain then he was receiving.
'Shouldn't I be dead?' was the firs cohesive thought to cross the pigtailed martial artist's mind as he regained consciousness. As his eyes opened slowly his before now slow movements caused the large formerly red crystal to fall to the ground shattering on impact.
Looking around at the desolation Ranma barely noticed as the remains of the gemstone crumbled to dust near his hand before blowing away in the wind.
Slowly Ranma began to stand testing each movement to see if there was any damage lingering from her fight, finding no pain or even any soreness the cursed martial artist reached his feet. Looking down upon his body and the torn clothing still covering most of his modesty, 'still female, at least some things haven't changed.'
Ranma barely takes a few steps away from where she collapsed when a Bright beam of light struck the exact spot in which he stood. In that very second the beam reached him the world seemed to stop. The beam of light enveloping every part of his being felt extremely warm and comforting if very confusing.
Closing his eyes Ranma began to bask in the feeling of this strange light the comfort and solace it was offering giving him a great feeling of calm.
As the pig tailed martial artist stood basking in the bright light something in his body changed, a warm muscle twinge in his shoulders and back before a pair of beautiful red feathered wings sprouted from his back a reward of sorts after such a hard fought choice.
When the light disappeared a few moments later the pigtailed martial artist was gone not to return to any Earth until over five hundred years had passed.
A/N: Thought I'd try to take a crack at a Mass Effect and Ranma 1/2 crossover, just got around to playing the first two games and truly enjoyed the pair. This won't be a Ranma-chan fic insofar as much that he won't be able to shift. I was thinking Ki makes a good analogue of Biotics so was thinking of mixing the two liberally, and as you can guess from the title was figuring an Asari Match-up, I have a few ideas but they're a secret for now. There will be NO other Oh my Godess! characters from this point further, not much more then a plot device to further some ideas.
I NEED a beta reader and would apreciate anyone's assistance in this.
