Genma inwardly smirked as the ancient training ground came into sight. Jusenkyo. He would finally get his son back, he glanced towards the petite redhead at his side, she wore a scarlet silk sleeveless shirt with baggy black Kung Fu pants. Her red hair was bound in a pigtail, her eyes a deep blue, upon her back was a faded dark green backpack filled with camping supplies.

'Nodoka may have failed to provide me with an heir but that doesn't matter anymore as now I will make one.' Genma thought gleefully, Ranma's birth had been a disappointing day for Genma, the day he learned his son was really his daughter and that Nodoka would be unable to bare him anymore children.

"Here we are son, the ancient training ground of Jusenkyo." Genma stated as he returned his gaze to the view.

"This place? It doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought it'd be." Ranma remarked, she had grown up on the road with her father, it confused her as to why he insisted on referring to her as male, she hadn't even known her gender until certain differences were explained at school and she realised she was in fact a girl but whenever she asked him about it he'd only yell and hit her so she refrained from saying anything.

"Don't get cocky Ranma or have you learnt nothing from our spars?" Genma snapped as he continued to lead the way to the training ground.

'Yeah, never let my back face you.' She internally muttered, wishing she had the guts to say that to his face.

The distance to the training ground was swiftly crossed and the two martial artists were greeted by an overweight man wearing a green uniform claiming to be some sort of guide. Genma refused to spare the guide more than a moment of his attention before taking hold of Ranma's wrist and throwing her over the springs where she managed to alter her flight path and land atop one of the many bamboo poles standing within the numerous springs.

Genma smirked before leaping to one opposite his soon to be son, knowing full well the power of this place; he had spent countless nights going over the ground's layout, learning the location of each spring ever since he heard about the place.

"Are you ready Ranma?" Genma called as he prepared to leap forward.

"As ready as I'll ever be." The young redhead answered, Genma leapt forward before Ranma could so much as blink, she leapt back just barley avoiding a right hook as Genma placed himself atop the pole of which Ranma had previously stood upon, his glare following Ranma as she landed on a pole closer to the centre of the training ground.

Genma leapt forward again, giving chase. Ranma leapt to another pole, landing so that the bamboo began to bend back, Genma landed once again on the pole that had once being occupied by Ranma. Ranma launched forward, using the momentum from her last landing to propel herself forward, she landed a powerful strike with her fist to his chest, throwing Genma back.

The overweight martial artist struck several poles as he shot through the air, snapping each one before he crashed into one of the many spring, submerging himself. He felt it, the magic within the cursed waters that surrounded him, he felt it, the magic flowing into him, forcing his body to mutate and grow.

He resurfaced, gasping for air, knowing full well that he was no longer human. Ranma looked on, eyes wide with fear and shock, frozen in place as all she could do was stare at was once her father, her gaze shot to the guide.

"What the hell was that?!" Ranma screamed, pointing to her father.

"That Shonmaonīchuan spring of drowned panda, very sad story of panda who drown there 800 year ago, now whoever fall in take on body of panda." The guide explained as he held up a sign reading 'Shonmaonīchuan'.

"Wha…?" Whatever else Ranma was going to say died on her tongue as she was struck by a roundhouse kick curtesy of Genma, she went flying but slowly lost her altitude before plunging into a spring, Genma smirked as he looked on, waiting for his 'true' son to emerge.

"Oh no! This very bad, very very bad." The guide began yelling over and over again, his tone frantic, Genma spared him a glance, not knowing why he would be making such a big deal about someone falling into the spring of drowned man.

…

Ranma quickly inhaled as she plunged into the cold water, goose bumps decorated her skin. What was going on? What was this? She felt it, something in the water, something not right. Something her body was assimilating. She cringed as she felt some kind of energy surge through her, changing her, she gasped, losing what little air she had as she clutched her breast, her eyes widening in pain as she felt her heart stop.

Her eyes grew heavy and fell shut, she felt her body go limp and begin to slowly float to the bottom of the spring. It stopped. The energy stopped but now filled her body, she could feel it yet she couldn't feel it. Ranma's eyes snapped open, her eyes no longer a deep blue but a demonic crimson, she rose to her feet, standing upon the spring's floor. A dark smirk spread across her lips, she slightly bent her knees before shooting out of the pool like a bullet from a gun and just as quick.

…

Genma and the guide looked on as the scarlet haired girl resurfaced, gliding through the air before landing atop the bamboo pole with unnatural grace, her bangs hiding her expression from view along with her demonic eyes.

The large panda frowned when he noticed his 'son' still possessed two rather large mounds upon 'his' chest.

'How come he's still a girl, I'm certain that, that was the spring of drowned man?' Genma mused.

"Oh no, customer fall into spring of drowned vampire, legend say evil vampire drown their 1800 year ago now whoever falls in is cursed with vampirism." The guide gasped out.

'Vampire?!' Genma internally gasped, unsure how he could have failed, he pulled out the map from his GI pocket, it detailed the location of each spring, he looked at it closely and was dumbfounded, according to the map Ranma had fallen into the spring of drowned man, not vampire, he turned and leapt down to the guide, not noticing how Ranma continued to watch him but remained stood in place.

Genma approached the guide and brought up the map in his paw, shoving it in his face, the guide leaned back in surprise and took in the sight of the map.

"Oh customer, these maps are fake, con men make them to sell to tourists, none of them are accurate." The guide replied.

Genma felt his entire body stiffen as an iron grip encased the back half of his chubby neck. He felt himself being lifted off the ground, he glanced back and was met with the sight of his 'son' glaring at him, her eyes a blood red, a pair of fangs pressing against her lower lip, he gasped for air as he felt her nails sharpen into claws and begin to apply pressure.

"Miss Customer please stop, this not you, this the demon in you." The guide begged as he took hold of her arm, Ranma cast a small glance to the guide.

"What are you talking about you old fool?" She snapped.

"Vampire spring unlike the other springs…it carries a secondary curse, you see vampires are not alive but your human body is still alive it almost creates an inner paradox with the Ki of your human body and the dark mana of your vampire body…no one can exist as both alive and dead, or even undead…the two energies tear the soul apart…" the guide babbled.

"Just put it in simple terms, you're giving me a headache." Ranma interrupted, her gaze hardening into a glare.

"When in your vampire form your personality will alter, taking on the darkest aspects of your nature and banishing anything human and while human you will be void of anything dark, void of any form of malice." He replied rather quickly.

"It sounds like there's effectively two of me…a soft version and 'dark chuckle' me." Ranma laughed as she released the large panda.

"That is more or less the case Miss Customer, that is why that spring had blocks around it, it is the most dangerous of springs." The guide explained as he pointed to the spring, the two martial artists turned and for the first time noticed several road blocks surrounding the pool.

'Can't believe I missed that.' Both Ranma and Genma thought in perfect sync. Ranma then sent a small glance upwards and frowned, she turned back to the guide.

"So how come I'm not burning up right now?" Ranma questioned as she indicated to the clear and rather sunny sky with her thumb.

"Oh that one easy, you see as long as your human body is still alive your vampire form will be immune to things like sunlight." The guide explained.

A/N This is a small idea I had, normally don't start writing without some idea of a plot but I need to get through this block I've got, tell me what you think of the idea and if I can I'll update it, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated and as always please review.