Anything-Goes

By: Starwolf Magic

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½ or it's characters. I DO own my OCs. This is the only place you will see this disclaimer… I think.

AN: I am sorry for the short chapter and the confusion this chapter will cause. And I promise that they will get longer with more detail. This is set about 3 months after the end of the anime. No one really knows where Ryoga goes when he is lost and not P-Chan at the Tendo Home. This Story is about one such unknown adventure of his during the anime that was never spoken of.

Prologue: The Start of the End

"I…I love you, Ryoga!" cried the red-headed pigtailed girl. Tears fell from her blue eyes as she turned away and ran from the young man. The man took one step forward to run after her when a truck came out of nowhere, speeding towards the unaware girl. The truck slammed into her at fill speed and kept going till it hit a wall. Panicked, Ryoga rushed towards the accident.

~This didn't just happen!~ he thought, "This girl just confessed she loves me and then is killed? NO! It …~ He skid to a halt near the truck. When he had first saw her he had thought she was Ranma. He had tricked him so many times with his girl side. But this… no this girl was not Ranma. She couldn't have been. He was about to fight Ranma when she came. The black-haired pigtailed boy known as Ranma, whom Ryoga had forgotten when the girl had spoken, skid to a halt beside Ryoga. He had been equally shocked by her appearance, confession, and the accident.

As the dust settled, there lay the young pigtailed girl, just under the truck. A crowd had gathered around to see what happened. Swiftly, Ryoga and Ranma went to free her from under the truck. When Ryoga looked under the truck to see if she had been trapped by anything, and was greeted by growling and glowing red eyes. Without any warning the red eyes lunged at Ryoga.

Snapping fangs missed Ryoga's face by an inch as he jerked back. A dire wolf stood over the fallen girl almost as if it was protecting her. It was pure black, yet the tips of its ears were blood red, along with its muzzle, though not on the bridge of its snout. The fingers of its paws were blood red, as was the very tip of its tail. It snarled at Ryoga and lunged again with speed that would have given Ranma's girl side a run for her money. He dodged again and again as the wolf launched attacks at him. Each dodge seemed to be barely missing him.

~What did I do to spur this wolf's wrath?~