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Chapter 1: Back to being 5 years old and Retraining
It was a clear sky in the Nerima prefecture of Tokyo.
"RANMA NO BAKA!"
You could clearly see the famous Ranma Saotome of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts flying through the air. He was sent into LEO (Lower Earth Orbit) by his mallet happy fiancé, Akane Tendo.
While riding Akane Air, the young Saotome was brooding. 'Great, just great' he thought sarcastically. 'What did I do to make Akane angry? I dodged Shampoo, Ukyo and Kodachi the whole day. I didn't interfere with her fight with Kuno. Heck I even tried her poisonous junk she passes for food it was already a week passed the Jusendo incident and she treats worse than before.
'Why me?' Ranma silently asked the gods when he found himself heading towards a manhole. 'I wish that I was in another world or something'
Above in heaven, several gods who watched Ranma throughout his life granted his wish.
'We hope you will like your new home' one goddess of the present thought as she watched Ranma fall through the manhole which was actually a dimensional portal.
"Itte! What happened?"
Ranma found himself in a forest, though he felt strange. Using his hearing he found a nearby stream, Ranma walked over to it to get a drink of water. After drinking, the practitioner of the Anything Goes screamed.
"AHHHHHH!"
He founds himself to being a 5 year old again. Ranma heard rustling nearby, he came face to face with a huge wolf (by Ranma's perception) looking at him. Ranma instantly took a defensive stance and engaged the wolf.
The fang looked at the young boy curiously, most human children would from it screaming. This child however was going to fight it, shrugging the way a Fang could only do, it charged. The Fang had the intention of eating the boy. It did not expect the boy to dodge its charge and counter attack.
The Fang growled as it charged again, and again and again. Each time he did, the boy would dodge at the last second and hit its side with his fist. The Fang was pleased however when it landed a strike on the boy's leg.
The Fang charged like the last few times but when the child was about to dodge, the Fang lashed out with its claws, hitting the boy on his legs. Blood flowed from the deep gashes, Ranma looked at the Fang before going as fast as he could. Not impressive as his speed when he was eighteen but impressive nonetheless.
Ranma raced to the front of the Fang and unleashed one of his moves.
"Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!"
Ranma delivered 500 in five seconds(1). The force of the blows was enough to splatter the monsters brain from the inside of its skull. Ranma found a bag of gold and a card, the card showed the picture of the monster he had just killed.
Ranma sighed, he had to get back in shape. Ranma decided to change his clothes by getting his pack from subspace. 'Good thing I learned this from Mousse' he thought as he drew out an old gi he wore when he trained with Genma.
Ranma decided started to retrain his body. Ranma saw an episode from a gaijin cartoon called 'Samurai Jack' where Jack was trained in endurance and how to jump high by strapping huge rocks to Jack's body.
For the next two month, Ranma retrained his endurance and strength using that training method. He adds weight after every two days. After that month Ranma could now jump higher than 50feet.
Then the martial artist started going through the Backusai Tenketsu training. He started from trees and slowly made his ways to boulders. After four months, Ranma was able to master the technique and started making improvements to it.
Afterwards, Ranma started to re-master the chestnut fist. Though he could still do it, it wasn't fast enough. He did this for three months, afterwards he spent another three months improving it, applying it so that his whole body could do it and mixed it with the breaking point technique.
For the next three years Ranma had redeveloped the usage of his ki, the Hiryuu Shoten Ha and the Mouko Takabisha. He also learned several shiatsu points from books that were given to him by Doc. Tofu and Kasumi.
Ranma is fifteen years old now and decided to explore the area outside the forest. A few minutes of exploring he came across two people being attacked by a group of Fangs and Goblins. The martial artist noticed that the persons being attacked were both women(2), both were wearing cloaks so he couldn't see their features. One, which Ranma deduced to be a master taking on several Fangs while the student who was about Ranma's age taking on the Goblins.
Ranma took out his bokken and rushed out to help when he saw one of the goblins sneak up to the student. Ranma decided to make a weapon from the trees since it helped him with his reach since he was in a younger body.
Ranma was really surprised on how much one can learn from watching anime shows. He was able to duplicate moves from several shows he had watched in the Tendo Household. Ranma practiced with his weapon for about five years. He was able to duplicate moves from 'Samura X', 'Samura Deeper Kyo' and 'Dragon Ball Z'. Ranma was currently working on trying to duplicate the magic and attacks from 'Slayers' and 'Flame of Recca'. Though he was making a slow progress with it.
Ranma used his ki powered bokken and slashed the goblin clean in half. The two women were surprised by his appearance but the shock wore off and the battle continued. After a few more minutes of battling and collecting the spoils, the three introduced themselves.
"Thank you for you assistance young man" the older woman said "I'm Aya Kamigawa, General of the forces of Alexandria." Aya then removed the hood of her cloak.
She has shoulder length blonde hair, blue eyes and she wore knight type clothing underneath her cloak. A word strapped to her side, Ranma took note that the swords edges were curved.
Aya then looked at her student, who also removed her hood. "This is my student, Beatrix(3)" Aya introduced. Beatrix has long, flowing light brown hair. She has also blue eyes(4) like Aya. She wore, what looked like a standard knight uniform unlike Aya. Beatrix also wore a blue bandanna on her forehead. She also has an ordinary sword strapped to her side.
"I'm Ranma Saotome, grandmaster of the Anything Goes Martial Arts" Ranma said introducing himself. True, Happosai was still grandmaster, but the pervert couldn't beat Saffron which he did.
Three decided to make camp in the spot since it was near the stream for a supply of water. "I was really impressed how you handled those monsters with only a practice sword." Aya said. "Yes, I never knew you could kill monsters with a practice sword." Beatrix said as she was fascinated the way Ranma fought.
Ranma blushed in embarrassment, "Uh…Thanks. You could actually do a lot of things with Ki" Ranma said. "Key?" Beatrix said not understanding. "No, Ki. Its sort of your life energy. You can use it to enhance your strength, speed, endurance etc. You could even use it to make a weak material like wood become dangerous as steel." Ranma explained.
Aya looked at Ranma with a twinkle in her eyes. "I would like to learn more about Ki. Would you be willing to teach us? If we teach you a few tricks of our own?" Aya asked
Ranma nodded "Sure, but could just teach me how to use magic instead. I'm having no luck with it." "Agreed" Aya said as she shook hands with Ranma. Beatrix was excited, she was going to have a friend and sparring partner. "By the way, could we stay here for a while. Using Ki might be a bit destructive" Ranma said as he remembered Ryoga's Shi Shi Hakodan.
"No problem" Beatrix answered. The three finished their dinner and went to bed. The next three months. Ranma taught Beatrix and Aya how to access their Ki and in return, Aya would teach Ranma ho to do magic.
Beatrix and Aya had no problems with their training. Ranma on the other hand was having difficulty with his training. However, Ranma being one with one of the best learning curves of his age was able to cast magic.
Ranma realized that training with the two had increased his Ki supply to an enormous proportion. Allowing it to merge with his mana(5) thus allowing Ranma to cast spells simply and less draining.
After another month of traveling and training the three managed to make it to Alexandria. That was when Ranma decided to part ways.
"Are sure you don't want to come with us to Alexandrian castle?" Aya asked for the umpteenth time. "Yeah, I'm going to continue my training. I usually don't stay in a place for to long. I'll probably buy some clothes, supplies and probably replace my broken bokken" Ranma said
During their travels, Ranma's bokken broke when the three stumbled across a grand Dragon. A big bad ass monster that could take Ryouga, Mousse and Kuno in one swipe.
"It was an honor to study under you Aya-san." Ranma said as he bowed in respect. He looked over to Beatrix who was mustering everything not to cry. He took out something from his subspace pocket.
It was something that he had fashioned himself using four precious gems and a dragon tear. It was a pendant,. A Topaz, Emerald, Quartz and Garnet attached to the round part of the Dragons Tear. All five glistening in the sunlight, Ranma placed around Beatrix's neck.
Beatrix smiled sadly as she enveloped Ranma in a hug. "I'll miss you" she said. Ranma smiled also "So will I" and finally the three went their separate ways.
Ranma used the money he had earned from fighting and bought himself a new set of clothing. It was expensive but worth it. He now wore a pair of black boots, black leggings, white shirt like tunic with a red vest and brown leather gloves. Ranma customized it to refit him and to be extremely durable to attacks, magic and weather.
Ranma went to the local synthesize shop to customize a new sword. Using some materials he found, Ranma was able to synthesize the first Katana on Gaia. The katana he dubbed 'Sai' from ' Flame of Recca'. Sai has a slightly blue and red tinge on it's blade. Its size was that of a regular katana but 'Sai' has the ability to amplify magic and Ki to a whole new level. Ranma bought a few supplies (i.e. items and food) and left Alexandria to continue his training.
Thought Ranma continued his training, he always came back to visit once in a while though. Ranma traveled for sixteen years but he still did not yet visit Alexandria recently. Why? Because he had started to master spells from 'Slayers' and he was able sometimes summon a flame dragon or two.
A thirty-one year old Ranma is currently cliff climbing to Alexandria Platue. He reached the top in less in a day. He was coming back to visit Alexandria and Beatrix.
1 Ranma body is weaker as a five year old so he couldn't do his techniques perfectly
2 Ranma can identify a person's gender by looking at ones aura
3 I don't know Beatrix's last name
4 Thats how Beatrix looks like to me
5 Mana is actually MP
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