Well. I've seen a few other fics of the genre but I figured I'd try my hand at it. On with the show.
Chapter One: Opened Doors.
Ranma walked forward. He stood in a long dark corridor lit only by the moonlight through a few unopened windows. The air was chilly and damp. He kept going untill the hallway split into a two-way fork. He didnt' know which fork to take. Both doors were equally dark and uninviting. But turning around was no option. There was nothing back there.
There was a Yinyang on each wall. On the left wall however the Yin part of the sign was highlighted. And on the right wall. The Yang was highlighted.
He decided to go left. He walked up to the door, but it was locked. He felt like punching throught it but decided against it. This was no ordinary door.
He walked back to the fork and walked to the right. Also locked.
"Choose... choose which door... You can only choose one, mutant!" He heard a voice cry out in his head.
"Choose... Choose! CHOOSE!" It cried. It kept shouting. Getting louder and louder with each shout. And then it stopped. And Ranma feinted.
Or actually.. He woke up!
SPLASH!
Come on boy! Your usually better than that!" Genma cried from the window that was their room.
"Allright pops! You want some? Come and get it!" Ranma cried back as she got up from the koi pond. The water was warm and Ranma remained in his male form.
It was early September and the school year had just started again. Ranma now as a senior. Two weeks since the failed wedding. Four since the climactic battle between the pheonix and dragon rods.
However things had not become normal. Far from it actually. Uuchan's was closed. Ranma and Akane had gone to help Ukyo clear out her store. She wasn't closing because she wanted too of course. She went out of business. She planned on returning home to her father. And if he didn't accept her, then she would leave and start another Uuchan's elsewhere.
Ryoga was still around and also still challenged Ranma constantly. However.. now it was more of friendly battles instead of, RANMA PREPARE TO DIE! Ryoga was engaged to Akari to Ranma's amazement. And had also found a cure to his loss of direction. How, Ranma had no clue. Ryoga wouldn't elaborate because he said it was too embarrasing.
The most weird thing that had happened by far, however, was that Ranma and Akane had broken the engagement... And were dating! They had managed to go on their first successful date! It also helped that secretly Nodoka had payed 50,000 yen to Nabiki for her silence. No inturuptions occured. Dinner, a movie and a kiss at the end when Ranma left Akane at her room and went into his and went to bed.
Of course he didn't actually sleep.
But anyway.
The things that did stay normal were the amazons and the Kuno's. Both still fought for Ranma. Akane was attacked almost by shampoo and Kodachi, while Ranma was as well by Mousse and Kuno.
Ranma was forced to protect Akane alot untill one day...
Ranma and Akane were out on a date. Their fifth date actually. They were coming closer to unbreaking the engagement. They were in the park. It was sunny. Dasies bloomed. Dandilions kept being a pain in the ass to gardeners and Ranma was kissing Akane. All was right with the world.
Untill Shampoo walked by.
Suddenly Akane felt another kiss on her cheek. She jumped away from Ranma and Shampoo.
"Huh?" Ranma thought as he tripped and fell forward onto the ground.
"AKANE YOU I KILL!" Shampoo shouted as the lept over Ranma and swung a scimatar that had come from no where at Akane.
Akane dodged and took whatever attack Shampoo threw in stride. Ranma was unconcious. He had hit his head on a lamp. Suddenly Akane pulled out her mallet and swung it sideways. Using her anger at the fact that Ranma wasn't awake to protect her she swung left and slammed Shampoo into a tree. Shampoo fell unconcious.
"Hmph!" She thought. She turned back toward Ranma. But then without her expecting it Shampoo, jumped up and kicked Akane's legs out from under her. She screamed as she fell.
Just then Ranma awoke. He looked around, confused untill he saw Shampoo huddled over his fiancee. The scimitar at her neck.
"Huh?... Wha? AKANE!" He cried he jumped and kicked Shampoo off her.
Shampoo actually fell unconsions this time.
"Ranma... th... thanks..." She said. But when she tried to stand she realized she couldn't move her leg.
Ranma picked up Akane and ran as fast as he could to doctor Tofu's.
"Well... Akane this is kind of serious. This is no sprained ankle. Your right leg is broken... given that you heal pretty quick, too, I'd say it should be cured in about two months..." He told her.
"Ta... Two MONTHS!" She cried. "I can't be crippled for two months! What if Shampoo attacks me again!?"
"Well... I'd suggest you left Nerima for a while..." Is what the doctor replied.
As Ranma carried Akane home after about an hour at the clinic, he asked her, "You said she kissed you? On the cheek?"
"Yes.. but isn't that... the kiss of death?" She asked.
"Ya. it sounds like it." Ranma replied. "She'd always fallen short of doing it before."
"... We may have to leave Nerima, Aka-chan." Ranma told her.
She smiled. She loved when he called her that. Tomboy was second best nowadays...
"Leave Nerima! NO WAY! I'd never run from that Chineese Bimbo!" Akane cried.
"Yeah your right. After all... running does seem like it's not an option..." Ranma replied.
"RANMA!!! That's not what I meant." Akane mumbled.
"Akane... you have a hard time defending yourself from her when you CAN walk! I can't always be around! And she's getting more lethal." Ranma trailed off.
"I'd be able to defend myself if you'd teach me!" She cried.
"I'd be able to teach you if you'd stop getting mad at me dodging you." He replied calmly.
"RRrrr!" She growled and turned away. They landed at the dojo.
"Well... you know Akane, how we got invited to that Xavier's institute? You remember?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah... but what about it?" Akane replied. She actually had no idea what Ranma was talking about.
"I do not understand professor... why is this Ranma person so important?" Jean asked... she was following Professor Xavier to Cerebro.
"Come I'll show you." He had replied.
The proffessor had been amazed. While he was working with Cerebro trying to find someone. Suddenly three of the millions of mutant auras began to rise. This, all in all, wasn't abnormal. Everytime a mutant used there powers they're aura would rise. However, the thing about these mutants were, there power kept rising. One of the mutants was increadibly weak. It's power was keeping it alive. Further inspection led the Xavier to find the name of this mutant. Akane. Akane had somehow been reduced to the form of a doll and was being carried around by another mutant. This mutant was called Ranma.
When he probed Akane's mind he found her power. This one alone was very difficult for him to figure out. But what he began to realize was that Akane held in her the essence of a dragon like being. Her second power was the ability to breath fire. He also asumed it possible for her to fly. This power, at the moment, was inactive.
The professor probed Ranma's mind but couldn't find what they're mutant abilities were. But he was mutant, most definantly, as his aura apeared red. But the only power that he was displaying was that of extreamly developed martial arts. When he entered the mutant section of Ranma's brain he saw two doors. One on the left of a fork and one on the right. Both down long dark corridors. Both were closed. This was extreamly odd as every other mutant he had encountered had basically one door and none of them had yin yang symbols on the doors.
When he looked at Ranma's aura more closely he realized that his aura had a slight green tint to it, instead of just all red. Also odd.
The last mutant he observed was the one the two were fighting.
This mutant's abilities were easy. Imortallity for a first. Secondly, an abnormal relation to pheonixes. It was surrounded in fiery energy.
The professor watched the battle through Ranma's eyes and he felt the terror Ranma did at the possibility of losing Akane. And when Ranma began to use his greater techniques such as the Hiryu Shoten Ha, the professor became even more impressed.
A normal human fighting an immortal pheonix and possibly winning? It was unheard of.
And when the pheonix Saffron was destroyed by Ranma's final attack, the professor watched as Ranma revised a completely new technique. Hiryu Gyoten Ha, to make the dragon rise up and spray it's water up to them.
The power that boy had possesed had not been something to be overlooked.
But saddly, the girl had died. Her aura had completely disapated. The energy that had been the resistance to fire and the long life of a dragon that had been keeping her alive had died out.
The thing that truly caught Charles Xaviers eye was what Ranma did.
When he became saddened enough... it happened. Ranma re-embued life into the girl. Restarted her and completely healed her. A feat thought, completely impossible for centuries.
This boy had, while however slight, control the reverse of energy.
There is a theory that says that one day all the energy in the entire universe will be spread completely even. That when all people had died and all the univers had expanded to its complete maximum. When every star had created their supernova and every black hole crushed in on itself. That every cell would be spread apart from every other.
This boy, had just made it possible to reverse that theory.
The restoring of life. Starting a dead organism. Bringing something that was entirely and utterly destroyed back to life and perfect condition. It was unthinkable.
This was Ranma's power.
The ability to reverse the release of energy. If he could restart a heart. Perhaps he could, unburn fuel? Rebuild broken buildings as if they had never even had a crack.
Control of the flow of energy. Perhaps the ultimate power.
It could also be an ultimate destructive force. Perhaps he could take the energy away? Kill people by simply taking out the Kinetic energy of a heart? Or Brain?
The professor had to at least try to get him to come. He would send a formal letter. If that didn't work he would go to wherever Ranma was in person.
"Jean, I think that Ranma may be able to control the flow of energy.
"... ? What do you mean?" She asked.
"All I am sure of is he definantly is capable of resurection." The prefessor replied.
"Oh my." Jean said.
-Flashback-
"Hey Akane! Ranma! A letter came in the mail for you!!!!" Kasumi called.
Both had been in their rooms contemplating the failed wedding. Ranma, angry at his fiancees that wouldn't leave him and his tomboy alone. And Akane angry at Ranma for thinking it was his fault, as everyone has a tendancy of doing.
Ranma came down. Akane hadn't heard.
"Xavier's institue for the gifted? What the hell? They think i'm retarded or something!" Ranma thought.
He opened the letter. Inside was a plain note reading.
Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo
Hello. My name is Professor Xavier. I am sending you this letter as an invitation to both of you. I wish to have the two of you come to this school and learn. This school is not a school for mentally inept, people. It is for mutants. I teach mutants with to control the powers that they come to posses. The real reason that I have singled you two in particular out is because of the power that you both displayed in China.
Akane. I believe that your mutant powers are somewhat like a mystic creature called a dragon. It is possible that you will be able to breath fire and fly. I don't know otherwise but I wish to teach you how.
"Ranma. It is sufficient to say that I must know more about you. If you do not reply within three weeks time I will be forced to find you myself. Your power is not that of this world. I would hate to think of the consequences of the power you posses being in the wrong hands.
A phone number for you to call is on the back. Should you choose to take us up on our offer the trip too America will be free of charge and the plane to get you here will arive there in under four hours from your call.
Professor Charles Xavier of the Xaviers Institute for the Gifted.
Please accept this invitation. A phone number is on the back of this invitation. Call this number to speak with us. Thank you.
"Ugh... now they think I'm a mutant? ... What's a mutant anyway? Akane breathing fire and flying? heh! Yeah Right! Oh well." And he dropped the message on the table.
To Be Continued? You Decide!
Chapter One: Opened Doors.
Ranma walked forward. He stood in a long dark corridor lit only by the moonlight through a few unopened windows. The air was chilly and damp. He kept going untill the hallway split into a two-way fork. He didnt' know which fork to take. Both doors were equally dark and uninviting. But turning around was no option. There was nothing back there.
There was a Yinyang on each wall. On the left wall however the Yin part of the sign was highlighted. And on the right wall. The Yang was highlighted.
He decided to go left. He walked up to the door, but it was locked. He felt like punching throught it but decided against it. This was no ordinary door.
He walked back to the fork and walked to the right. Also locked.
"Choose... choose which door... You can only choose one, mutant!" He heard a voice cry out in his head.
"Choose... Choose! CHOOSE!" It cried. It kept shouting. Getting louder and louder with each shout. And then it stopped. And Ranma feinted.
Or actually.. He woke up!
SPLASH!
Come on boy! Your usually better than that!" Genma cried from the window that was their room.
"Allright pops! You want some? Come and get it!" Ranma cried back as she got up from the koi pond. The water was warm and Ranma remained in his male form.
It was early September and the school year had just started again. Ranma now as a senior. Two weeks since the failed wedding. Four since the climactic battle between the pheonix and dragon rods.
However things had not become normal. Far from it actually. Uuchan's was closed. Ranma and Akane had gone to help Ukyo clear out her store. She wasn't closing because she wanted too of course. She went out of business. She planned on returning home to her father. And if he didn't accept her, then she would leave and start another Uuchan's elsewhere.
Ryoga was still around and also still challenged Ranma constantly. However.. now it was more of friendly battles instead of, RANMA PREPARE TO DIE! Ryoga was engaged to Akari to Ranma's amazement. And had also found a cure to his loss of direction. How, Ranma had no clue. Ryoga wouldn't elaborate because he said it was too embarrasing.
The most weird thing that had happened by far, however, was that Ranma and Akane had broken the engagement... And were dating! They had managed to go on their first successful date! It also helped that secretly Nodoka had payed 50,000 yen to Nabiki for her silence. No inturuptions occured. Dinner, a movie and a kiss at the end when Ranma left Akane at her room and went into his and went to bed.
Of course he didn't actually sleep.
But anyway.
The things that did stay normal were the amazons and the Kuno's. Both still fought for Ranma. Akane was attacked almost by shampoo and Kodachi, while Ranma was as well by Mousse and Kuno.
Ranma was forced to protect Akane alot untill one day...
Ranma and Akane were out on a date. Their fifth date actually. They were coming closer to unbreaking the engagement. They were in the park. It was sunny. Dasies bloomed. Dandilions kept being a pain in the ass to gardeners and Ranma was kissing Akane. All was right with the world.
Untill Shampoo walked by.
Suddenly Akane felt another kiss on her cheek. She jumped away from Ranma and Shampoo.
"Huh?" Ranma thought as he tripped and fell forward onto the ground.
"AKANE YOU I KILL!" Shampoo shouted as the lept over Ranma and swung a scimatar that had come from no where at Akane.
Akane dodged and took whatever attack Shampoo threw in stride. Ranma was unconcious. He had hit his head on a lamp. Suddenly Akane pulled out her mallet and swung it sideways. Using her anger at the fact that Ranma wasn't awake to protect her she swung left and slammed Shampoo into a tree. Shampoo fell unconcious.
"Hmph!" She thought. She turned back toward Ranma. But then without her expecting it Shampoo, jumped up and kicked Akane's legs out from under her. She screamed as she fell.
Just then Ranma awoke. He looked around, confused untill he saw Shampoo huddled over his fiancee. The scimitar at her neck.
"Huh?... Wha? AKANE!" He cried he jumped and kicked Shampoo off her.
Shampoo actually fell unconsions this time.
"Ranma... th... thanks..." She said. But when she tried to stand she realized she couldn't move her leg.
Ranma picked up Akane and ran as fast as he could to doctor Tofu's.
"Well... Akane this is kind of serious. This is no sprained ankle. Your right leg is broken... given that you heal pretty quick, too, I'd say it should be cured in about two months..." He told her.
"Ta... Two MONTHS!" She cried. "I can't be crippled for two months! What if Shampoo attacks me again!?"
"Well... I'd suggest you left Nerima for a while..." Is what the doctor replied.
As Ranma carried Akane home after about an hour at the clinic, he asked her, "You said she kissed you? On the cheek?"
"Yes.. but isn't that... the kiss of death?" She asked.
"Ya. it sounds like it." Ranma replied. "She'd always fallen short of doing it before."
"... We may have to leave Nerima, Aka-chan." Ranma told her.
She smiled. She loved when he called her that. Tomboy was second best nowadays...
"Leave Nerima! NO WAY! I'd never run from that Chineese Bimbo!" Akane cried.
"Yeah your right. After all... running does seem like it's not an option..." Ranma replied.
"RANMA!!! That's not what I meant." Akane mumbled.
"Akane... you have a hard time defending yourself from her when you CAN walk! I can't always be around! And she's getting more lethal." Ranma trailed off.
"I'd be able to defend myself if you'd teach me!" She cried.
"I'd be able to teach you if you'd stop getting mad at me dodging you." He replied calmly.
"RRrrr!" She growled and turned away. They landed at the dojo.
"Well... you know Akane, how we got invited to that Xavier's institute? You remember?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah... but what about it?" Akane replied. She actually had no idea what Ranma was talking about.
"I do not understand professor... why is this Ranma person so important?" Jean asked... she was following Professor Xavier to Cerebro.
"Come I'll show you." He had replied.
The proffessor had been amazed. While he was working with Cerebro trying to find someone. Suddenly three of the millions of mutant auras began to rise. This, all in all, wasn't abnormal. Everytime a mutant used there powers they're aura would rise. However, the thing about these mutants were, there power kept rising. One of the mutants was increadibly weak. It's power was keeping it alive. Further inspection led the Xavier to find the name of this mutant. Akane. Akane had somehow been reduced to the form of a doll and was being carried around by another mutant. This mutant was called Ranma.
When he probed Akane's mind he found her power. This one alone was very difficult for him to figure out. But what he began to realize was that Akane held in her the essence of a dragon like being. Her second power was the ability to breath fire. He also asumed it possible for her to fly. This power, at the moment, was inactive.
The professor probed Ranma's mind but couldn't find what they're mutant abilities were. But he was mutant, most definantly, as his aura apeared red. But the only power that he was displaying was that of extreamly developed martial arts. When he entered the mutant section of Ranma's brain he saw two doors. One on the left of a fork and one on the right. Both down long dark corridors. Both were closed. This was extreamly odd as every other mutant he had encountered had basically one door and none of them had yin yang symbols on the doors.
When he looked at Ranma's aura more closely he realized that his aura had a slight green tint to it, instead of just all red. Also odd.
The last mutant he observed was the one the two were fighting.
This mutant's abilities were easy. Imortallity for a first. Secondly, an abnormal relation to pheonixes. It was surrounded in fiery energy.
The professor watched the battle through Ranma's eyes and he felt the terror Ranma did at the possibility of losing Akane. And when Ranma began to use his greater techniques such as the Hiryu Shoten Ha, the professor became even more impressed.
A normal human fighting an immortal pheonix and possibly winning? It was unheard of.
And when the pheonix Saffron was destroyed by Ranma's final attack, the professor watched as Ranma revised a completely new technique. Hiryu Gyoten Ha, to make the dragon rise up and spray it's water up to them.
The power that boy had possesed had not been something to be overlooked.
But saddly, the girl had died. Her aura had completely disapated. The energy that had been the resistance to fire and the long life of a dragon that had been keeping her alive had died out.
The thing that truly caught Charles Xaviers eye was what Ranma did.
When he became saddened enough... it happened. Ranma re-embued life into the girl. Restarted her and completely healed her. A feat thought, completely impossible for centuries.
This boy had, while however slight, control the reverse of energy.
There is a theory that says that one day all the energy in the entire universe will be spread completely even. That when all people had died and all the univers had expanded to its complete maximum. When every star had created their supernova and every black hole crushed in on itself. That every cell would be spread apart from every other.
This boy, had just made it possible to reverse that theory.
The restoring of life. Starting a dead organism. Bringing something that was entirely and utterly destroyed back to life and perfect condition. It was unthinkable.
This was Ranma's power.
The ability to reverse the release of energy. If he could restart a heart. Perhaps he could, unburn fuel? Rebuild broken buildings as if they had never even had a crack.
Control of the flow of energy. Perhaps the ultimate power.
It could also be an ultimate destructive force. Perhaps he could take the energy away? Kill people by simply taking out the Kinetic energy of a heart? Or Brain?
The professor had to at least try to get him to come. He would send a formal letter. If that didn't work he would go to wherever Ranma was in person.
"Jean, I think that Ranma may be able to control the flow of energy.
"... ? What do you mean?" She asked.
"All I am sure of is he definantly is capable of resurection." The prefessor replied.
"Oh my." Jean said.
-Flashback-
"Hey Akane! Ranma! A letter came in the mail for you!!!!" Kasumi called.
Both had been in their rooms contemplating the failed wedding. Ranma, angry at his fiancees that wouldn't leave him and his tomboy alone. And Akane angry at Ranma for thinking it was his fault, as everyone has a tendancy of doing.
Ranma came down. Akane hadn't heard.
"Xavier's institue for the gifted? What the hell? They think i'm retarded or something!" Ranma thought.
He opened the letter. Inside was a plain note reading.
Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo
Hello. My name is Professor Xavier. I am sending you this letter as an invitation to both of you. I wish to have the two of you come to this school and learn. This school is not a school for mentally inept, people. It is for mutants. I teach mutants with to control the powers that they come to posses. The real reason that I have singled you two in particular out is because of the power that you both displayed in China.
Akane. I believe that your mutant powers are somewhat like a mystic creature called a dragon. It is possible that you will be able to breath fire and fly. I don't know otherwise but I wish to teach you how.
"Ranma. It is sufficient to say that I must know more about you. If you do not reply within three weeks time I will be forced to find you myself. Your power is not that of this world. I would hate to think of the consequences of the power you posses being in the wrong hands.
A phone number for you to call is on the back. Should you choose to take us up on our offer the trip too America will be free of charge and the plane to get you here will arive there in under four hours from your call.
Professor Charles Xavier of the Xaviers Institute for the Gifted.
Please accept this invitation. A phone number is on the back of this invitation. Call this number to speak with us. Thank you.
"Ugh... now they think I'm a mutant? ... What's a mutant anyway? Akane breathing fire and flying? heh! Yeah Right! Oh well." And he dropped the message on the table.
To Be Continued? You Decide!