Strange...
A Ranma ½ fanfic
I do not own Ranma ½ or any series that I may use characters from in the future; if I did then I wouldn't be writing this.
Chapter zero, prologue
PROLOUGE TO THE
Far outside the boundaries of any dimension lies the "looking glass" a place that exists only to monitor the worlds outside of it and keep them from destroying themselves and others. Almost every inhabitant of looking glass has the power to influence the worlds, both from inside and outside the world itself. It is here, in the looking glasses food court that our story begins.
LOOKING GLASS FOOD COURT, DAY -1, 4:44 AM XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
World growled, an event that occurred about as frequently and consistently as the sun rising and setting on mercury. World Arcana was not one of the friendliest inhabitants of the looking glass, all of whom were named after methods of telling the future, and was currently behaving even worse than was the norm.
"Not even one date!" he growled under his breath, "I can't even get the two of them to go on one proper date in a year and you want me to get them married in TWO MONTH'S!"
The unfortunate recipient of world rage was Page. Page was the least powerful of the inhabitants of the looking glass, he had no power to influence worlds even if he could have entered them, and was therefore recruited to keep the world of looking glass in order.
"I'm sorry world, but dea- I mean "change" and love are busy, we had to turn to you for marriage based prevention." The meek man explained.
World growled again, not the growl he had used before. No, this growl was reserved for death and love unloading their work load on him. Loves powers allowed her to form bonds between people, though actual love was usually not the kind of bond formed. Death's or "change's" power allowed him, her, IT to create vast alterations to the status quo of the world, very rarely actually resulting in death. Both were able to draw two people into marriage easily using these talents, but world's own powers, "END" and "BEGIN" made him the only other person able to alter a world to create a marriage. He could use BEGIN to create something in a timeline, and END to cease the events that the BEGIN caused. The problem was that he had very little control over the events that transpired in-between those two points, other than a brief Idea of how the changes would affect the time line between the two points. This meant that he could use BEGIN to create an unnatural relationship, and END to set the date of their marriage, but that the marriage would be an unhappy and forced feeling one.
This would not work for this case as the work order stated that the two in this case had to be married happily for at least twenty years if not life to prevent the discovery of other worlds. World had spent the last year, painstakingly setting up the relationship between the targets with thousands of carefully set beginnings and ends to create the absolute best environment for their relationship, and he was still lucky the two hadn't killed each other by now! And now page comes down here and tells him that he only TWO BLOODY MONTHS LEFT! How could this get any-
World broke from his thought at something he could sworn page had just said, "Could you please repeat that page?"He said calmly.
Page blinked in surprise, it was rare to see world calm "I said that due to short amount of time left in this case, you are authorized to perform a direct interaction with the world with anything short of loss of life as a possible option."
A warm sincere smile spread over world features. Page nearly wet himself in terror and fled as fast as was possible, a change in mood like that from World was rarely a good thing.
The laugh that followed made him entirely certain that he wanted no part in this.
After laughing unsettlingly for several minutes, he said whispered softly "Ranma Saotome, Akane Tendo, I am going to get your together if I have to hold a shotgun to your heads and FORCE you to get married!"
UNIVERSE 18 .1 .13 .14 .1 .½. TENDO DOJO DAY 0 12:00
Kasumi stared down at the Ranma and Akanes teacups, or rather what remained of them. She knew that if a teacup broke without being dropped, it was bad luck. She didn't want to think of what both of the cups turning to dust indicated! "Oh my! I hope this doesn't mean more bad luck for those two, they have enough trouble already." She sighed, returning to her cleaning.
SAME UNIVERSE, SAME TIME, KUNO MANSION
Tatewaki Kuno grinned at the sight before him, he had needed to test his now skills, and his insane family had been quite compliant in that regard once properly, persuaded. Both his insane father and sister lay unconscious on the floor, the floor itself burnt and smashed from his newest technique.
"Be prepared Saotome, for on the morrow next you will be torn asunder before my mighty blade! And all thanks to this scroll of ancient wisdom!" He shouted, holding a scroll high above his head, a scroll clearly reading "arcane sword style".
JUST OUTSIDE
World chuckled, the first step to get Ranma and Akane married would be to force them to admit their love for each other in public, and with Kuno's new power and restored nobility that was the END he had set up. He was reasonably sure that Ukyo would give up if she was sure that the two were really in love, and if Tatewaki keeps his end of the bargain then Kodachi is on her way to the Nermia Insane Asylum as soon as she wakes up. Shampoo, would be trickier, but he would leave that for the second step.
World walked away from the mansion laughing, this was the most fun he had on the job in centuries.