Author's Note:

This is another story I started on another website, but never got to finish. Since I wanted to share this beginning with more people, I decided to post it here on . Maybe I will continue it some time in the distant future, but for now, I have other projects to focus on. Still I hope you enjoy this story, even if it's just an unfinished one.

Kasumi was standing before a difficult decision. She was about to ask a genie for a wish.

Said Genie was living in the bottle Ranma had acquired. Let's not say how and when he did acquire said bottle, but it's important to notice that after he freed mentioned genie, she explained to him about his free wish. Yes, one wish, not three. Just one.

And even though the slightly ditzy, blonde genie tried to explain all the rules to him, Ranma still wasn't too sure what he should wish for. Get rid of his curse? Solve the fiancee problem? Send Happosai to Antarctica?

Since Kasumi was one of the calmest persons he knew, and because she never made a rash decision, she felt like the right person Ranma could turn to for advice. If she wouldn't have a good idea for a wish, nobody would.

In the end, he decided to let Kasumi make the wish for him. Consequently, there wouldn't be any chance he could mess his wish up.

"I wish... No, that's not it. I wish... No, that wouldn't make any sense... I wish... Oh my, that wouldn't work at all..."

"Aaaahhrrrgg," Ranma nearly screamed. "Would you make up your mind already?"

"I'm sorry, Ranma-kun," Kasumi apologized. "But this is nothing I can just solve by making a wish out of the blue. I think I have to think of it a little more..."

Ranma sighed. Perhaps Kasumi was right. "Yeah, sure... Just tell me when you're gonna make that wish, okay?"

"Sure, Ranma!" Kasumi said with a smile. She took the lamp and carried it upstairs, into her room.

For now, Kasumi had no time to further think of a wish. The housework had to be done, after all. And while wishing that she didn't have to do the housework was a tempting wish, she didn't do it. After all, she had promised Ranma to help him out with his problems.

So she just placed the bottle on her nightstand and went back downstairs to clean, cook and do the laundry.

After a few hours, she had nearly forgotten the bottle and the promise she made.

In the evening, after dinner, Kasumi just cleared the table and put the dirty dishes into the sink... She would take care of them tomorrow. For today, she was tired and decided to go to bed early.

After saying good night to everyone, she went back into her room. After she was sure that everyone else had gone to bed too, she opened a drawer and pulled out a small device with a screen and several buttons.

You know, Kasumi always had a hobby that everyone was unaware of... even her own sisters. And she felt a little embarrassed when she imagined what her family would say if they found out.

Kasumi was a Pokémon fan.

Almost every evening, before she went to sleep, she pulled out the Game Boy hidden in her drawer and played one of the famous Pokémon games. A few days ago, she had saved enough money to buy a Game Boy Advance as well and one of the newer generation of Pokémon games.

She sat down on her bed, ignoring the bottle that was still standing there and switched the little handheld console on.

After excitedly playing for a while, she sighed. Better not overdoing it, she still had much work to do the next day. So she saved her game and switched the Game Boy off. She carefully put it back into the drawer and covered it with some socks. Afterwards, she went to bed.

Once again, she sighed. "Oh well..." she murmured to herself. "Those little Pokémon sure are cute. Too bad they're just in a video game."

Her gaze fell on the lamp standing on her nightstand. "Oh my, I promised Ranma to think of a suitable wish. Oh well, I'll do it tomorrow, then..."

Suddenly, she snickered. "Would be nice if I had that wish for myself, though..." She closed her eyes. "I could easily have my own little Pokémon pal... Too bad Ranma was the one to find that bottle. I could make everyone a Pokémon... or at least half of them!"

Slowly, Kasumi drifted off to sleep while her eyes closed. "I wish... something like that would happen..."

Then she fell asleep.

Coming out of the bottle, a cheerful girl's voice shouted: "Wish granted!"

Now, barring the fact that Kasumi wasn't wide awake when she made that wish, what she really meant was that everyone who would like to own his or her own Pokémon could get one.

But of course, genies are known for misinterpreting the wishes people make. And if the genie is a ditzy girl like Mihoshi... well, you get the idea...

So when she granted Kasumi her wish, its results were totally different from what Kasumi had in mind, even if she had made that wish intentionally.

The chirping tune of a little songbird was greeting the new day.

Mumbling, Ranma slowly woke up. He always hated getting up early on Sundays. If it weren't for the stupid bird outside, he could have easily slept another hour or so.

He turned around and tried to sleep some more. Perhaps this bird would fly away some time...

SPLASH!

"Gyaaaaah!" Ranma-chan screamed, jumping out of her bed. "What d'ya do that for?"

"Time to get up, boy," her father said in a gruff voice. "The early martial artist catches the good spar."

"Try to catch THIS!" Ranma angrily shouted, kicking her Pops out and into the koi pond. A wet and slightly unhappy panda rose of it.

So, a usual day, like always.

Or so it may seem...

Because today... was the day the world would change.

Grumbling, Ranma-chan went into the living room, when she saw Akane coming down the stairs. "Morning, 'kane," she grumbled sleepily.

"Still not awake?" Akane wondered. "You know, some people would think getting up at 10 in the morning wouldn't be too early for a Sunday."

"Well, I'm not anyone," Ranma replied while flopping down on a chair. "I need my beauty sleep..."

"You're just lazy, that's all!"

"Morning," Nabiki greeted them while coming down. "Bickering again?"

"Ranma started it!"

"Akane started it!"

While the bickering continued, Kasumi listened from the kitchen and giggled. Sometimes, she really wondered if Akane and Ranma would make such a good couple... But, then again, married couples bicker all the time, right?

Just then, she felt dizzy. Staggering, she leaned against the sink. "Ooooh... what was that?" she mumbled. Shaking her head, she recovered from the dizzy spell. "Strange... perhaps I shouldn't stay up so late anymore..."

But in the living room, the other three teenagers also felt dizzy for some reason. "What... what was that?" Akane murmured.

Nabiki shook her head. "I just... felt lightheaded for some reason."

"Yeah, me too," Ranma nodded. "Wonder what that was..." Then, her gaze fell on Nabiki's face. She blinked.

Nabiki looked back. "What?"

Ranma raised her finger. "Um, Nabiki... perhaps taking a shave would help you..."

"What are you talking about?" the middle Tendo asked irritated.

"I think he's talking about your... whiskers." Akane said.

Nabiki blinked and ran to the mirror. They were right: Jutting out of her face were two pairs of long hairs, looking very much like a cat's whiskers.

"What the heck...?" Nabiki mumbled. "Since when did I grow facial hair? Great... Gotta have to remove this before I go to school tomorrow..."

"Perhaps you just need a better barber," Ranma grinned. Then she shivered. "Say, don't you think it's cold in here?"

"Not really," Akane replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Dunno why... but I'm cold, all of a sudden." Ranma wrapped her arms around her body. "I could use something hot..."

"Hot water, Ranma?" Kasumi asked and brought her a kettle. "Here you are!"

Ranma nodded, took the kettle and poured the hot water over her head. Once he was male again, he put down the kettle and sighed. "That felt... really nice. But... I could've used a little more."

"How about taking a hot bath?" Kasumi suggested. "We don't want you coming down with a cold, right?"

Ranma nodded. "Yeah, good idea! Oh, and Akane... don't come in again just so you get an excuse for hitting me, okay?"

Akane growled. "I have no idea what you're talking about..."

While Ranma went to the bathroom, Soun came into the room. "Good morning," he greeted his daughters, then he sniffed. "My, Kasumi... this smells delicious. Breakfast ready?"

"Almost, father," Kasumi replied. "But we have to wait for Ranma and Mr. Saotome."

"Yeah, where is the old panda anyway?" Nabiki asked while clipping her whiskers.

Akane pointed outside. "Sitting in the pond and sulking."

Nabiki shrugged. "Figures..."

Just then, their father had to sneeze. "'scuse me..." he sniffed and pulled out a tissue.

Accidentally, he also pulled out a small coin that rolled over the floor. "Oops!"

Nabiki stared when she saw the rolling, glittering coin. She just couldn't keep her eyes off.

Then she pounced. "MINE!" She landed on the coin with a heavy 'thud' and clutched it to her chest. "All mine..." she said... it almost sounded like purring.

Akane stared. "Nabiki... what the hell is wrong with you?"

"I don't know what came over me, sis..." Nabiki said after coming into the kitchen. "I mean, I know I always have been after money, but that was ridiculous... I know me better than anyone else, I can control myself better than that."

"Perhaps you slowly mutate..." Kasumi snickered. "And turn into a magpie... You know, going after everything that glitters..."

"Very funny," Nabiki grumbled and clipped another whisker. "But with those hairs coming out of my face, I'd rather say a cat."

That made Kasumi ponder... A money-loving cat? That sounded awfully familiar to her...

"Oh, I still have to get some hot water ready for Mr. Saotome," she suddenly realized. "Okay, here's the kettle, all I need is some waabbbblllrr..."

"Kasumi?" Nabiki stared in shock as she saw her older sister spit out liters of water into the kettle and, after it was flowing out of the top, into the kitchen sink.

Kasumi's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when she realized what she was doing.

Nabiki peered down into the sink. "Um... sis, I think that's enough..."

Kasumi closed her mouth... and the flow of water stopped. Together, they watched how the excess of water went down the drain.

"Just how did you do that just now?" Nabiki asked.

Kasumi shook her head. "I'm not too sure... but... I have a hunch."

Nabiki looked closely at her face. "Are your cheeks turning blue?"

"I really wonder what got into Nabiki," Akane said after Ranma came back from his bath. "I've never seen her act like this before."

"Perhaps her shares have fallen in value..." Ranma grinned. "And now she's after every little coin she can get."

"I don't think that's it," Akane said. She re-opened the book she had been reading just now. "It's too dark in here..." she mumbled. "Ranma can you switch on the lamp, please?"

Ranma went over to the floor lamp standing behind Akane's chair and pulled the cord. Nothing.

"I guess the bulb is all burnt through," he speculated. "Lemme see..." He screwed the bulb out of the socket. "Yup, needs a new one."

Akane sighed. "I'll get one..." She went over to the cupboard and pulled out a new light bulb, still in the package.

"All right, let's..." But when she pulled out the bulb of the package, it instantly began glowing brightly.

Ranma blinked. "Well... this one is working, all right..."

"But... but... how can this be?" Akane stuttered. "The bulb needs electricity to light up."

"Lemme take it..." Ranma said and reached for the bulb.

ZAP!

"OW!" Ranma clutched his hand and dropped the bulb. The instant Akane let go of it, it turned dark again.

"Be careful," Akane scowled. "You'll break it."

"I just got an electrical shock when I touched your hand," Ranma said while rubbing his wrist.

"How could there be electricity flowing through the bulb? I touched it as well, remember?"

"No, you don't understand: I didn't touch the bulb, I touched YOU. As in: Touched your skin."

Akane touched her own hand. "I don't feel anything... but..."

Ranma took another look at Akane and gasped. "Akane! Your hair!"

"What?" Akane reached for her head. "What's that?"

She hurried to the mirror. On top of her head, her hair was looking much spikier than it had been previously. And was that a tinge of yellow at the tips?

"Something very strange is going on here..." Ranma murmured.

"I think I know what is causing all this," Kasumi said to the others after Akane and Ranma told her and Nabiki about the new changes. "Ranma, you remember the lamp you gave me yesterday?"

Ranma gasped. "You mean to tell me you made a wish that changed us like this?"

"Perhaps... but I'm going to find out," Kasumi replied and hurried upstairs.

"Um, wait a sec..." Akane said in a confused voice while they were following her oldest sister. "Lamp? Wish? What's going on here?"

A few moments later, they were all standing in Kasumi's room. Meanwhile, the bluish tint on her skin had already spread across most of her face and was starting to wander down her shoulders. In addition to her whiskers, much more facial fur had grown on Nabiki's face, so that she didn't bother to clip it down anymore. Also, her ears had grown and were sticking out of her hair. Ranma's fingernails were slowly turning into claws while his skin was tinged red. On Akane's body, the spiky, yellow fur had begun growing on her body, and on some places, it had already pierced her clothing.

"I hope this is only temporary," Akane grumbled. "Or I'll need a new wardrobe."

Kasumi smiled. "You just have to relax, Akane. Your fur then will flatten to your body."

Ranma rubbed the lamp. "Mihoshi, get out here!"

The smoke flowed out of the bottle and turned into the curvaceous and ditzy genie. "Hi there," she grinned. "Satisfied with your wish?"

"I can't remember making a wish," Kasumi said. "Was it yesterday evening?"

"Yup!" Mihoshi nodded. "Your exact words have been, and I quote: 'Too bad Ranma was the one to find that bottle. I could make everyone a Pokémon... or at least half of them! I wish something like that would happen.' End quote!"

Kasumi sighed. "I figured it was something like this..."

"Pokémon?" Akane gasped. "We're turning into Pokémon?"

"I'm afraid so," Kasumi nodded. "From what I see, you'll be a Jolteon, an Electric-type Pokémon. Nabiki I'm pretty sure is turning into a Meowth, a cat-like Normal-type."

"Hey, I'm anything but normal," Nabiki grumbled.

"Myself, I'm thinking I might be a Vaporeon, a Water-type... but I'm not too sure about it. Ranma could be either a Charmander or a Charmeleon... but he's definitely a Fire-type."

"How do you know about all this?" Ranma wondered.

Kasumi grinned sheepishly and walked to her drawer. There, she pulled out her Game Boy Advance. "You know, I've been playing these games for a few years now..."

Nabiki giggled. "Are there more secrets you haven't told us, sis?"

Akane turned to Mihoshi. "But... you can change us back, right?"

"Nope, no can do, I'm sorry," the bubbly genie replied. "A wish is a wish... and your sister only got one. Besides, I only stayed behind so I could tell you the exact effects of the wish: During this day, every human on Earth will slowly turn into a being that's half-human, half-Pokémon. Some of the Pokémon's instincts will come to the surface..."

"So that's why I pounced on that rolling coin," Nabiki realized.

"And it won't be reversable. Well, that's all! Have fun!"

"Wait a minute!" Kasumi shouted. "Please, you have to do something against this."

"I really can't help you further," Mihosi said while turning back into smoke. "And I have to leave now... the next customer's waiting! Bye-bye!"

And after the smoke was back into the bottle, it simply disappeared.

Nabiki groaned. Akane sighed. "Well, I think you messed up, Kasumi."

"Oh well," Kasumi sighed. "Can't be helped now... besides, I think your new abilities will come in handy if there's a blackout." She giggled.

"Very funny..." Akane growled.

Then, she took a sniff. "Does anyone else smell something burnt?"

They looked around. Then, Nabiki's gaze fell on Ranma's behind. "Um, Saotome... I think your pants are burning."

"YAAAAAH!" Ranma screamed and jumped around the room while swatting his own butt. "Put it out! Put it out!"

"Ummm... Actually, I think that wouldn't be a good idea. A Charmander's tail is always on fire... and if the flame would be extinguished, it would grow much weaker and would probably become sick, until it was lit again."

"Great..." Ranma moaned, when the back of his pants exploded and a reptilian tail shot outward, tipped by the trademark flame of a Charmander.

Akane blushed when she saw Ranma's behind and turned around. Nabiki just watched the show and whistled. "Nice derriere, Saotome!" Kasumi simply murmured: "Oh my..."

"Oh my indeed," Ranma groaned.

Ukyo frowned as she stared into the mirror. She really had no explanation for the fur that had started to grow all over her body this morning. On her back side, it was black... On her front side, it was yellow. Also, on her back, she could see those weird red spots...

"Perhaps Ranchan knows what to do..." she murmured. "Konatsu?"

"Yes mistress?" the ninja said, suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

Ukyo yelped and jumped back in surprise.

Then she cowered in fear when a big flame erupted out of her back. Konatsu took a step back and gasped. "M-mistress?"

Quickly, the fire went out as quickly as it had started, and everything was as it had been before the little outburst.

Except that Ukyo's chef outfit was now ruined, and it fell down in scraps and piles of ash.

Konatsu stared at his mistress' face...

...then his gaze wandered lower.

Realizing her male kunoichi was developing a nosebleed, Ukyo quickly covered her breasts... even her breast bindings had been burnt. "Don't just stand there," she grumbled. "Bring me a shirt or something."

"R-right away, mistress," Konatsu stuttered and went to get something.

Ukyo didn't really notice the fact how his face was covered in black fur... but when he turned around, she could see the three strange, feather-shaped tails that came out of his behind.

"What the heck?" she murmured to herself.

"Hey, old bat!" Mousse grumbled as he entered the room.

"Be quit, boy," Elder Cologne mumbled. "Don't you see I'm meditating?"

"Yeah, yeah... but... something strange happened."

Cologne opened her eyes. "What?"

Mousse pulled his hands back into his long sleeves and produced a pair of long onion-sticks, which gave off a pleasant aroma. "See? All of my hidden weapons have been turned into this. You have an explanation for it?"

Cologne blinked. Now that... was strange indeed. "Are you sure those are your weapons, Mousse? Perhaps you just misplaced them and took some cooking ingredients when you didn't put on your glasses."

"I'm sure of it because they transformed when I was practicing with them... and I had my glasses on at that time."

"Fascinating..." Cologne said in a very Mr. Spock-like manner and rubbed her chin. "This calls for some investigating..."

"Hey, old bat!"

"Don't call me that! And what is it?"

Mousse raised an index finger. "Just curious: Since when can you float?"

Cologne stared down at the ground... and the nearly blind boy was right, she was floating several inches over the ground. "Strange... I could have sworn I was sitting atop my cane..."

Just then the front door opened and Shampoo came back from her delivery. "Great-grandmother! Great-grandmother!"

The force of her arrival made Cologne lose her concentration, and she fell to the floor with a 'thud'. Gathering herself, the elder shook her head. "What is it, Shampoo?"

"Great-grandmother... Shampoo turn into tentacle monster!"

Cologne stuttered. "W-W-WHAT?"

"See?" Shampoo raised her arms, and from underneath her armpits came thin, green tendrils that grew in length until they were long enough to touch the walls of the restaurant.

Cologne came closer and inspected the strange protrusions. "Those are... vines!"

"Yes, and look what Shampoo can make them do..." Shampoo looked at the vine coming out from under her right arm and made it sneak over to Mousse, who was just examining one of the onion sticks. Sneakily, the vine came up from behind him and suddenly, wrapped itself around his head.

"GAH!" he shouted. "My vision is gone! I'm blind!"

Shampoo giggled. "Stupid Mousse!" And she released him.

Cologne had watched the display with awe. "Most fascinating," she said again. "You have the ability to freely control them?"

Shampoo nodded. "You think Shampoo has to rape innocent virgins now?"

The elder groaned. "Shampoo, I DON'T think you're turning into a tentacle monster... There's something strange about duck-boy and me too..."

"What we do now, great-grandmother?"

"Calm down, child! I think we should see if we are the only ones or if other people are affected as well..."

She sighed. "But first, can you tell me why my head feels like it's pointy?"

In the Kuno manor, the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High was striding through the corridors. "Sister! Where are you? I have to talk to you!"

After a while, he found her in the greenhouse.

"What seems to be the matter, brother?" Kodachi asked without looking at him.

"Sister, did you take all of my bokkens?"

"Now why would I do something stupid like this?"

"Because they are gone and replaced with those... those... disgusting objects."

Kodachi turned around and looked at the big bone he was thrusting into her face. "Take that out of my face, brother! You are correct, that IS disgusting..."

"But if you didn't do it... who else could have done something like this?" the dense kendoist wondered. He scratched his head. Then it came to him... "Of course! Ranma Saotome! That foul sorcerer! He has placed a curse on me so I can't strike him down with my noble weapons!"

"Please, brother... my darling Ranma would never do something like this..." Then she realized something. "Brother... your head..."

Tatewaki looked back at his sister. "Sister... your hands..."

While her brother reached up to touch the strange, bony substance which coated his head, Kodachi stared at the two big roses that were growing around her hands. A red one around her right hand and a blue one around her left hand.

Just then, their ninja servant, Sasuke, appeared in-between them. "Master Kuno, Mistress Kodachi... I think something strange has happened."

And he spread the white, membran-like wings coming from his back.