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Peter pan and Tinker Bell are owned by J. M. Barrie . Ranma and all that comes with him are owned by Rumiko and a whole other lot.
Ranma's 7.5 inch companion
We find ourselves in a remote region. Mountains encircle a small clearing, cutting it virtually off from the rest of the world, wrapping it up in its own magical world. The clearing is defined by a multitude of pools scattered across the place seemingly arbitrary. A peculiar landscape instantly distinguishes itself from other possible nearby clearings. From every pool were poles sticking out, mostly three or four for every pool, but at times five or six.
On one of these poles, we find a youth, dressed in a white gi outfit. The youth was keeping his balance with remarkable ease, as if he had been standing on poles a whole life. The youth was at the moment looking at a certain pool. A pool showing circling ripples. From the size and violence of the ripples, something heavy must've been thrown in very fast.
"Heh, I won" the voice was distinctly male, and had a certain cocky character.
"…" the voice was also waiting.
"Hey, you okay dad?" Less cocky now, but getting worried.
Suddenly, like a rocket, a giant panda erupted from the pool the youth had been looking at. The boy, not being used to Panda's jumping out of pools, stared shell-shocked at the giant panda, who, not in the slightest disturbed, took his stance on one of the poles across the boy.
"What the H…" However, before the boy could end his phrase, the panda attacked, and kicked the still shocked boy in the pool directly under him.
Splash,
After a couple of moments, a redheaded girl broke the surface of the pool. Quite disorientated, she looked around and above her. Her eyes quickly found a panda balanced on a pool. The animal in question was looking back at her with a certain dread in his eyes. The redhead, wondering what the dread was all about - not too mention that it was a panda looking at her - suddenly came to realise that her gi was clinging to something she shouldn't have.
Shivering, she slowly pulled her gi open, and looked down. Two firm breasts stared back at her. The redhead, quite in shock now, stared straight ahead slowly letting events dawn on her, and what apparently their implications were.
'Pool, water, dad, panda, me, also pool, dad's fault, me now girl ... dad's fault...' The redhead's thoughts weren't very coherent, but quite enough for her to know who to kill.
With a feral growl she burst out of the pool jumping back on her pole, opposite of the panda she now realised was her dad (and strangely enough this didn't seem to faze her all that much. But then again, she just realised she had turned female, it might be understandable that her mind was slightly occupied at the moment). It wisely had chosen to flee, very quickly and very cowardly too. He hadn't seen his son so angry before. His, or rather her eyes were drawn into a fierce angry glare, her teeth grinding and her whole stance screamed fury and anger.
Hence, the panda jumped of his pool, on the ground and began his amazingly – for a panda at least – speedy retreat. The redhead however wasn't about to let him escape, and jumped off her pole right on the spot her father had jumped on from his pole. Where the Panda had landed with a heavy thud, imprinting his pawns deeply in the mud, the redhead landed softly, hardly leaving any trace.
And so a very lovely pretty redhead began her hunt - unmistakably upset - for a terrified panda (and the panda had a fairly good reason to be worried too). Somewhere along her jump from the pool she had lost her pants, and was wearing beside a white gi top and boxers not a thing, rendering her shapely well muscled legs quite visible.
"You come back here you bastard" fuelled by a deep feral anger the redhead began rapidly gaining in on the Panda.
The panda noticed the fast approaching redhead, and instead of jumping around the area choose instead higher ground. He jumped on a quite wobbly rock formation shifting it every so slightly, however not making it plunge, and launched himself upwards.
"Stop running dad. You can't hide." The voice came closer, a perfect catalyst for the panda to quicken his pace, and with even more fervour it ascended the small hill (it hardly mattered though because the Panda's reasoning said that if there was reason to run, you might as well run all out. Also, you never look back. Chances are that the object of terror was still very terrifying when you turned around). The panda recognized the edge in the redhead's voice very well. It was that particular edge people used unconsciously when ready to kill about anything (and he had heard his share of those).
The redhead reached the rock formation his dad had chosen to climb higher on. With uncanny ease, she jumped from one rock to another, still quickly gaining ground.
The Panda had reached the top of the hill, and now had no choice but to run on flat ground. It knew it didn't really matter one way or another, on ground or climbing he was done for.
The redhead also realised her target was coming nearer quickly. She saw a rock sticking out, however didn't notice how rickety it was. She stretched her leg, reaching for the rock, planning on leaping from it directly towards the top of the hill.
Her feet touched the stone formation, and…
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300 years ago
"I don't see anyone here Tinker Bell!" The voice was carefree and smug. It was as if the owner thought he owned the world, as if he knew everyone would do his bidding. Or more accurately it was the voice of an eight year old who believed he was the fastest, strongest of all, but in all probability wasn't.
He had a green hat, with a red plume on it, under that a dark brown bush of hair, which was supported by a smiling face, and beneath this a torso clothed with a green shirt cut in sharp corners around his short sleeves. His pants were a darker green, and quite stretchy. His boots were brown. He looked like the wet dream of a couple of nature loving hippies.
The youth was also apparently flying, dodging the many different poles sticking out of the pools as he went.
"Strange place this. Why are there sticks sticking out of the pools? We don't have that in Never-land do we? Or in London for that matter. What do you think Tinker Bell?" His question was addressed at his companion, a small seven and half inch long pixie. The pixie, she flying at high speed, hearing the boy was addressing her turned around.
"Hey, Tinker Bell, what'dja thi…" The youth now also turned and saw his friend's uncoordinated flight right towards some rocks "Watch the rocks Tinke…"
But the warning came too late. While the pixie had tilted her head, she was flying, quite quickly, headfirst into a rock. The rock shook on the impact, but didn't topple down. The pixie however did, headfirst into "luckily" a pool.
"Hahahaha, watch where you're going Tinker Bell. Hahahaha" the youth apparently found the situation hilarious. He floated towards the pool were his diminutive friend fell into.
"Hey, Tink, you alright?" he kept floating above the pool a while, when suddenly, like a rocket, a white but slightly reddened ball of light shot up. It flew right in front of the youth's face, and apparently was saying something, kind of angry too if all her frantic movements were any indication.
"Come'on Tinker Bell, it was kinda funny." The pixie however didn't share the youth's sense of humour. With a huff, she presented her back to the youth and crossed her arms.
"Aah, don't be like that." Then he looked around and concluded that there weren't any interesting people to find.
With a sigh he told his friend so "There's no one interesting here. Let's head back for Never-land."
And with that the amused youth, and a slightly upset pixie returned to where they came from.
When both were nothing but a star in the sky, a man came out of his cottage, and immediately noticed the ripples in a certain pool.
"Aiyaaa, this bad. Don't know what drowned in it. Oh well, one day, someone fall in. just tell them very tragic story of fruit. They never listen anyways."
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Her feet touched the stone formation, and… under her weight the rocks shifted one last time before crumbling, and admitting that the laws of gravity were the stronger. With a loud rumbling noise, they plummeted down, taking an already shocked redhead with them.
And thus together with stones and dust, the redhead fell headfirst into another pool.
"Oh no, this tragic story. 300 years ago a... well… a fruit drowned there…" The guide pondered about this for a while "that cannot be right. Must be mistake."
The guide looked curiously in the pond, ready to run if whatever had drowned in there 300 years ago was something awful, grotesque or just plain ridiculous. A figure was swimming upwards and broke the surface of the water.
The guide looked shocked. The panda that had neared – making sure he kept a safe distance – imitated the guide's expression.
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The sky was bleu, and the sun was a blazing orb in the sky. Indeed, Nerima had a perfect sunny day, and luck would have it that it was Sunday. Everyone could enjoy the sun, the on-Sunday open shops, the scantily clad girls, the parks or those bizarre weary travellers. Well, two bizarre travellers, and one awfully odd sort of creature. Some were watching them out of sheer curiosity, which were mostly females but some males as well - others, all males, were watching one creature in particular for ... other reasons.
"So, tell me again why I don't have any bloody pants?" a perturbed voice asked to one of her companions.
"For the umpteenth time, I dunno, but I think it's because I fell in without any. Why you ain't wearing a white gi top, I don't know." The owner of the voice cocked her head, looking at what was beside him " Why? Bothering ya?" where the other voice was clearly female, and oddly high pitched, this voice was low and could belong to any next boy.
"Yea, quite a lot actually. For one thing" and the thing made a snorting sound making her disgust clear. "These yokes don't seem to stop staring at me" she looked around menacingly, but it didn't help any. Somehow people weren't getting aware of her anger, not even those who were watching them out of curiosity. (Besides, even if they did notice her unease, they would shrug it off as she being awfully cute)
"Well, easily solved. I'm sure if we asked some hot water, they'll give it to ya. Well, those not having any interest in the wrong places, or just fall unconscious." Loudly the boy laughed at his own joke, but got stopped as a tiny sharp pinch told him his joke wasn't exactly appreciated.
"Shut up" the creature huffed, and tightened her belt, while looking around at her audience. In retrospect, tightening her belt probably was not the best idea. Her clothes were small as it was; tightening them only enhanced her already elaborate features. True, it was only enjoyment for those with good eyesight.
"Bloody oddballs." She commented, keeping up the tugging at her small belt.
Out of nowhere, it suddenly began to rain heavily, soaking all three travellers to the bone. abruptly, they got more stares, as now out of nowhere a panda apparently appeared, together with a redhead who amazingly looked similar to the already quite peculiar other creature. She however pretty much stayed the same. The only noticeable (well, hardly actually) difference was her carrying now instead of a disgusted angry scowl, now a weary, frustrated frown.
She closed her eyes, and softly thumped her head with her right hand. "Jeez, this had to happen!" she muttered quietly. She sighed, and looked behind her. Observing that indeed they were quite wet, she decided she could use a lift and made it herself comfortable on the now quite disturbed and soaked trudging redhead.
Wearily, the redhead looked beside her. "what'dja think you're doing?" she asked irritated at the other creature.
"Sitting on your shoulder, what does it look like?" the voice had that particular tone of a person telling a baby something really simple.
"What? Get off, I'm no taxi" the redhead began wildly shaking her shoulders.
The one doing the sitting was frantically trying to hold on to the redhead, screaming at the her to stop. "Come'on, what's wrong with me sitting on your shoulders? I hardly weight anything anyway. And ya know how nasty it is to go around with weather like this."
The redhead stopped shaking, but gave the thing on her shoulder a hard stare. "You can go on well enough without sitting on me." But regardless, stopped shaking and let the other just sit on her shoulder.
After a fashion, she turned to her father "Hey dad, where are we going anyway? You said we had something to do in Nerima and all, but I still don't know anything, and we've been in Nerima now for a while"
The panda looked around; found a kettle someone was carrying around, grabbed the creature on the redheads shoulder and threw it in the kettle. The redhead gave the panda an incredulous look.
"What was that for? You know how she hates that" she stated mater of factually
/Son, I've got something important to tell you. I think she'd only complicate matters\
The redhead snickered at that "doesn't she? Doubt she wants to though, but she can't really help it, now can she?. Anyway, spill it. What's up?" she didn't interrupt her trudging though and only looked sideways to se what her father was writing on his panels.
/It is a grave matter of honour my son, which you are destined to fulfil\
"If it's another great technique I am 'honoured' to learn, you can piss of." The redhead hefted her quite insanely large backpack further up her back and frowned.
/It is about the future. Your future and the future of our school\
This got the redhead's attention. She turned around, put her backpack on the sidewalk and sat on it, her feet not quite reaching the tiles.
"Hit me, what's so important you gotta tell me" her genuine interest boosted the Panda's confidence and without further ado, the Panda revealed the nature of their trip.
/Son, you are engaged to one of the daughters of an old friend of mine\ as if someone turned the redhead off, her dangling feet stopped in mid-motion. Her fist clenched her backpack, and her eyes turned for the second time in a month in a deep dark angry scowl.
"You've got me WHAT?"
/It is a great honour son; you should be very happy\ the Panda didn't seem to change expressions much, besides backing away slightly. In case if increased fury, he was ready to run.
"You've got me WHAT?" by now, she had jumped of the backpack, and her scowl was deepening.
/It is with the daughter of my friend Soun Tendo. Taking a Tendo as wife is en insurance for the Anything Goes school of martial arts\ The panda, knowing the extend of the promise, choose to stand his ground, and didn't run.
"You've got me WHAT?" the scowl kept deepening to frightening levels.
/There is no need to get upset son. It is a deal made before you were even born\
"You've got me WHAT?" then after realising what the panda had written, she shook her had "You've got me What? WHEN?"
/Don't be so alarmed boy. It's a great thing to happen\
"A great thing...? Why you lousy good for nothing tosser. Are ya stupid or something? Engaging me of all things." She took her backpack, and took off.
While walking away, she turned and gave her dad an angry scowl "No deal dad, I'm gonna get back to China." She turned back, flipping her pig tail over her shoulder, giving her dad her back. The Panda however was not amused with his son renouncing the engagement just like that, and lunged for the redhead.
The hit connected, but the redhead wasn't about to go let that hit go unpunished. Before long both a panda and a redhead were dealing blows. At a certain moment, the redhead ran off, trying to get some space to launch a kick. She threw her backpack and shoes aside, and launched a kick at the Panda. The panda took the full hit and flew backwards. However with speed uncanny for a Panda it stood up and began rapidly punching. The girl almost seemed to blur when she evaded the Panda's attack, and with the same speed got hold of the Panda's right pawn, and lifted the humongous large Panda on her back and threw it on the ground.
"Bloody pickin' my fiancée for me like that." She sweated, and really annoyed now.
Many bystanders reacted shocked on seeing a petite little girl, being able to lift the large panda and threw it like a sack of flour on the ground. It at least did seem to do the trick as the Panda stayed on the ground.
"As I said, I'm bloody well going back to China" she grabbed her backpack and shoes she had thrown aside, and walked away again.
The panda however choose that moment to get up. Dazedly it looked around. On noticing the traffic sign the redhead had thrown it against, it grabbed it, and tore it out of the street with apparently little effort. It aimed the sign at the redhead, and went for a full hit.
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"A fiancée? What are you talking about that dad?" the voice was definitely angry.
"An engagement. It is a deal a friend and I made in our youth. We'll unite our two schools for the future of the Anything goes school of Martial arts. His name is Ranma Saotome, and he has trained in China for the last couple of months" the voice of the patriarch was calm but firm, soothing but resolute.
"Wow China" this was another female, not sounding quite as angry, quite enthusiast actually in fact.
"humph, China, so what?" this however did came from the same angry person
"Oh my, I don't know. What is he like?" this came from a third female. Where the first one was angry the other excited this one was calm and composed.
"Yea dad is he cute?" this was again from the excited one.
"I don't know" the patriarch sounded as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
"You don't know?" all three females asked as one, incredulous at their father's answer.
"I've never met him, but that should be quickly solved, you see, he comet us any moment now" all three females looked at one another. After a second though, as if on queue, the bell rang.
Instantly both the patriarch as the excited girl went for the door, the other two remained indoors. However, both the patriarch as the girl came immediately running back followed by a huge Panda who was carrying what appeared to be a body and two backpacks.
The excited one, still excited really but for a whole new reason, shouted at her dad. "Dad, what's a panda with a dead body doing in our house?" she pointed at the Panda, screaming her head off.
The man just shook her head "I don't know"
The girl huffed "Well, he doesn't seem to be bothered by it" her screaming however woke the girl.
"bloody... turn the volume down, my head..." the redhead pushed herself up from the panda, and looked around, then at the people looking dead scared at both her and the panda. The panda, sensing the girl had woken up, picked her up in both his pawns, and put her in front of the patriarch.
Slowly, the man moved closer pointing at the now woken redhead. "Are you Ranma Saotome?"
The girl looked at the man confused. There was a reflex to be ashamed at her state of gender, but probably due to some flying loudmouth she wasn't so uncomfortable anymore.
"Ranma Saotome, Happy to meet ya" her smile was wide and genuine. She stretched her arm, wanting to shake the man's arm.
"He's so cute" commented the energetic girl.
The man however didn't take the girl's hand instead took the girl in a tight embrace. The girl, shocked, remained still. After two seconds however, the girl realised the man had eventually noticed the obvious.
He took the girl by the shoulders, and stared at what was clearly a bosom. Apparently not feeling too well the man fell unconscious. The girl bent over slightly her hands on her back looking down at the man with big wondering eyes, looking quite confused and cute in the process.
"Lovely start, just lovely."
Rant
Another check, another read, another couple of mistakes erased, now with Oxford Practise Grammar new edition next to me (I hardly looked at it)
Right, I got rid of much of the insulting here, and some of the more coloured British terms. I'm not going to change every bloody thing however (i.e. a taxi might be a cab, but that sounds rather awful so I'm not gonna do that). Besides, I'm not the only one writing like this. I've seen plenty fabulous Ranma fics using many British words and they hardly got pissed on. --
... Of course, I guess they don't let Ranma curse every half a second... okaaay, I got it, I'll make him a bloody angel. Ain't I just the most obliging person you've ever met
If you were wondering, it IS peter pan, or at least based on peter pan. Peter Pan came from London and I doubt it was 300 hundreds years ago. I don't know really, I haven't read the book, only heard things from here and there (something about him boarding a ship, sold to slavery, escaping, and landing in never land…). If it isn't really possible he's peter pan, call him Hiro Pan. Tinker Bell is Tinker Bell because Tinker Bell rules.
Now, as you can see, my Tinker Bell can talk loud here. I thought that in the movie "Hook" Our Julia also was able to talk (i.e. Julia Roberts played Tinker Bell).
Ehm… I also got a review asking if Ranko could see magical people and animals… clearly I don't know anything about that. But I'm glad you mentioned it. Love material to work with. Is there anything else Tinker Bell can do? I know she can make people fly (if they believe yadieyadieyah) with her pixie dust.
One last thing. someone said 20 centimetres is pretty tall for a pixie. well, Tinkerbell is a bit longer then Peter's head, and my own head is from the neck 25 cm. so, since peter is younger then me, I took his face 5 cm shorter then mine, and thought that 20 cm is a pretty nice size for a pixie. 20 cm is about 7 to 8 inches. Anyway, since most people use inches, I'll stay with inches.
Cheers,
Riverburn