Okay! Some people who reviewed Feral Paradise have asked for a backstory to give the reasons for why Ranma acts the way he/she does in that story. So Feral Paradise is on hold until this prequel is completed, hopefully. I'm going to try and write a prequel, if I screw this up badly enough I just may have to go back to finishing feral paradise instead. Review this and tell me if Ranma is too far from canon at the start as he will be changing as the story goes on, hopefully not changing to fast.

This story wont just focus on Ranma and Ryoga though they are the two main characters, hopefully Ryoga will have his own story after Feral Paradise if I manage to get that far, as this is a war there are other characters doing their part. Some like Saffron will be ooc due mainly to him having to be ooc for the story to progress. Though technically he was only around for a short time in the manga anyway. Yes before anyone asks Ryoga will have his directional problem fixed after a time, its going to be useful a few times first. And no, everyone will not spontaneously begin to speak Japanese for Ranma and Ryoga's benefit, the elders and phoenix tribe will deal with the language problem the two boys, and Genma, have. Genma will be in the story, and he will fight but I wont focus on him very much at all.

I have nothing to do with Ranma ½.

Smoke coiled lazily from the guide's pipe as he watched the two martial artists fighting across the bamboo poles sticking up from the Jusenkyo springs. He had been sitting watching them for two and a half days now as they had, somehow, managed to avoid a dunking in the springs. While immediately not falling in wasn't something new the almost three days was approaching the record for the longest time spent by a group without getting cursed. The guide had to admit that the two were exceptional fighters on par with the best of the amazons, bar the elders.

Ranma planted a hand on the end of one of the bamboo poles and kicked upwards with both legs landing a strong strike to Genma's gut throwing him into the air. The older martial artist caught a pole and sprung himself to another pole landing lightly before leaping forward and landing a blow that sent Ranma to the ground between two springs. The boy leapt up and launched a furious assault into Genma that he couldn't defend against completely and sent him flying backwards into a spring.

"Guess I win this one eh pops." Ranma smirked for a second before a large panda exploded from the water to land on a pole taking up a stance his father normally used. The pigtailed boy remembered the guides frantic talking when they had first arrived but pops had distracted him and the guide had never talked about it again. The guide had said something about cursed springs and Ranma was starting to understand that maybe they should have listened.

The pigtailed boy jumped back retreating across the poles as panda Genma charged after him seeming completely unknowing of his changed form. Ranma defended against several strikes and continued to try and get his father to see the fact that he was cursed and had changed form. Through sheer luck Ranma reached the edge of the springs in one area and leapt to the ground defending against the panda until he could throw him into the cliff.

"Look at ya pops, yer a panda!" Ranma had to dodge another strike before Genma seemed to some to his senses and looked down.

"GROWF!" The older man, now panda, turned to the guide.

"Tried to warn mister customers, but no one ever listens to the guide." The guide sat back and watched the anger growing on the young mans face, thankfully directed at his father.

"You could have got me cursed you idiot!" Ranma leapt forward as the panda bolted and the guide got to see the beginning of a chase the likes of which he hadn't seen in six years.

Ryoga stood at the top of the cliff staring out at the springs below him wondering if he was ever going to catch up to Ranma and get revenge for the fight the other boy had failed to show up for. It was at that exact time that he saw two figures rushing along the cliff towards him, while he could care less about the panda, the pigtailed fighter chasing it was another matter. "Ranma! Finally I can have my revenge!" And Ryoga leapt forward.

The lost boy tossed off Ranma's balance when he attacked the other martial artist and the panda was able to strike both of them with a throw…right over the cliff and down towards the springs.

"Damn you pops!" Ranma shouted.

The guide watched the two fall, wincing as the new young mister customer hit the cliff and rebounded off of it to impact the other boy and knock them into two springs. The closest spring bubbled slightly then burst upwards as a fur covered form broke the surface of the spring.

"New young mister customer fall in spring of drowned werewolf, very happy tale of vicious werewolf who was drowned in spring by wolf demoness over 7000 year ago." The guide turned to the other martial artist who was now just sitting in the shallow pool staring at his, now her, chest. "That one spring of drowned female wolf demon, very happy tale of wolf demoness who drowned in spring by musk dynasty warriors after demoness drown werewolf over 7000 year ago."

Ranma couldn't help but sit and stare at the chest that now pushed her top open and realize that he was now a she, because of that other boy. Her now sharper mind latched onto the boys image and searched her memory settling on one image and marking it as the most likely match. Right after that her mind decided on a course of action.

"Ryoga Hibiki, prepare for pain!" The red haired demoness launched herself across the intervening springs and attacked the werewolf.

"As can see, curse is reversible with hot water." The Guide said four hours later after Ranma and Ryoga had exhausted themselves. "But curse form will return with cold water, can't be cured."

"This is your fault Ranma!" Ryoga jumped up to attack only to get knocked down by an angry Ranma "My fault! You're the one that attacked me!"

"You knocked me off the cliff!" Ryoga countered with a straight punch that Ranma evaded.

"What the hell are you talking about pops was the one that…" Both boys turned to look at the panda who hadn't got any hot water yet.

The guide sighed as his front door was torn down for the 78th time in the last ten years and went to find the repair kit knowing that the three foreigners knew the way to change back so they would either be back or head outward.

"We're lost." Ranma looked around as she tried to figure out exactly where they were by the position of the sun.

2 HOURS LATER

"It was a good thing I found those hot springs for us wasn't it boys." Genma puffed out his chest at his own achievement.

"Yeah real great job pops. Though come to think of it we wouldn't even have needed them if you hadn't gotten us CURSED!" He shouted the last word in his fathers right ear before stalking back towards were he had put his pack.

"Where do you think the guides place is?" Again Ranma tried to find a direction that might take them back to Jusenkyo and the guide.

"Who cares boy, it just means we don't have to pay him anything. Now let's get going, I have this map that should help us get out of here without running into danger."

2 HOURS LATER

"NOT RUNNING INTO DANGER HUH!" Ranma screamed as he dodged another strike from a snake the size of a semi truck and struggled to duck under a swipe from a bear the size of a house while making sure Ryoga didn't get lost.

2 HOURS LATER

"I'LL KILL YOU POPS!" The cursed martial artist was currently trying to disengage himself from a plant that was doing its best to eat him while Ryoga used his belt to cut away at the vines.

2 HOURS LATER

Ranma rolled around on the ground laughing as a Genma-panda tried to fight off a female panda that seemed to find him good looking.

SEVERAL DAYS LATER

Ranma muttered curses as she stalked through the forest shooting glares at her father for splashing her and Ryoga earlier in a bout of 'if you can't dodge the water you're slacking off.'

Ranma frowned as she wandered down what, to her and Ryoga, looked to be a path used by hunters.

Ever since she had gotten cursed whenever she was in her cursed form things seemed to be so different. Colors were brighter and smells were clearer, hell she could see with a sharpness that had staggered her once she had calmed down after her panda chase. But it wasn't just that, she had found that if she was in her cursed form her fathers punches felt allot weaker and she always felt like she had massive amounts of energy just waiting too be tapped.

The three martial artists wandered into the edge of a large village that looked to have come from another era. At first the travelers wondered if anyone lived in the place till they heard shouts and crashes coming from further into the village. Ryoga managed to get there first, surprising Ranma though the directional sense of the lost boy had been getting better since his curse, and saw a group of hundreds of people watching two fighters attacking each other on a large log.

The fight didn't last long before a violet haired girl around Ranma's age knocked the other woman, at least Ranma thought it was a woman, high into the air to land with a loud thud a hundred feet away. The girl had barely turned around before she threw a weapon at the table Ranma had seen Genma sit down at. Violet hair streaming behind her the girl leapt from the log and landed by Ranma and Ryoga demanding something in Chinese.

"Um, sorry I don't speak Chinese." Ranma was getting worried with the way the girl was looking until what had to be the oldest person Ranma had ever seen came pogoing up on a long staff.

"I am cologne, my great granddaughter is asking why your pet is eating her prize?" Cologne wasn't a fool and could easily tell that all three of the beings in-front of her were cursed, the easiest to tell being the large seven foot tall black furred werewolf standing next to the much shorter red haired demoness. The werewolf was the most interesting, at seven foot tall he towered over all but the tallest of amazons, like Dowel, he had a shorter muzzle than an actual wolf and his arms were longer than a normal beings that size would be. 'Probably to allow him to run on all fours' the elder mused as she examined the double jointed legs and moved up to the thick chest and mane of black fur that seemed to make the head look larger.

Standing at a mere 5 foot 3 inches the demoness was a much less intimidating sight if one didn't know what to look for. The clawed fingers and golden eyes, surprisingly catlike with slit pupil instead of more wolflike, plus the small fangs would tell a experienced demon hunter that the girl was a powerful member of the royal wolf clans instead of a much lower wolf demon. She was surprisingly busty for a wolf demon and bore none of the normal arrogance a true demon would display which was as good a showing as anything that she was a human in demon guise. Pointed ears and a slash of black on her left cheek marked her as a royal wolf far down in the line of nobles.

While the two infront of her were obviously cursed the pandas actions actually could be mistaken as an actual panda, except every now and then it tried to use a utensil. "He aint a pet he's my pops." Ranma looked at the angry girl then turned to the old woman and decided to try and fix things "If I fight her and win would the prize then be mine?"

Cologne blinked in surprise at the girl's swift decision to join in the tournament but nodded watching as the girl jumped to the log before she could tell her of the dangers of an outsider joining without conditions set. The battle cologne knew was going to be short, what with shampoo tired from the rest of the tournament and not ready for another challenger.

The old woman watched the redheads moves as she dodged the shampoo's assault and couldn't help but admit that the girl was good. 360 year old eyes shifted to the ground as it trembled slightly, the old woman frowned as the trembling increased so much that everyone nearby was able to feel it. It became so bad that even the two on the log stopped fighting and looked around.

"Is it an earthquake?" The rumbling voice asking the question came from the werewolf and Cologne looked at him in surprise for a second before looking back at the ground "No I don't think…" The ground split upwards underneath the tip of her staff and then collapsed downwards into darkness taking the elder with it.

Ranma blinked in surprise as a perfect circular ten foot wide hole collapsed downwards taking the old woman with it when it went. She heard a shout from the girl next to her and leapt down to move closer as several others stopped the violet haired girl from leaping into the hole after the elder. She had barely gotten close when she had to scramble back clutching at her nose, Ryoga did the same. "Oh man that reeks!" She had only a moments warning before the elder erupted from the hole with a staff covered in black blood and shouting in Chinese before the hole was no longer empty.

The things were each around seven feet tall with a dark reddish tan skin that looked like hard leather. They had dual jointed legs with cloven hooves and three fingered hands ending in thick black claws. Thick chests bore a mixture of leather breastplates and elaborate steel plates but it was their faces which caused many to stumble their initial assault against the demons. They had thick tusks jutting up almost to their eyes and bore jaws full of sharp teeth, but it was the flames that burned in their eyes and mouths that caused some pull back. Their heads were topped by a set of thick horns that curved out then down till they stopped at the same level as their jaws, behind those horns was a second set of horns much thicker than the first, at least two feet thick, that curved out further and down complimenting the spike covered back. It made attacking them from behind extremely tricky if not impossible without a weapon or injuring oneself.

Ranma's analysis of the demon invaders took her only ten seconds yet even that was almost to long as the beasts cut through the first line of defense and attacked the amazons near Ranma and Ryoga. The cursed martial artists barely had time to realize what was happening before they were fighting for their lives.

Descriptions.

Spring of drowned werewolf: A very happy, tragic if you were the wolf, spring created when a very vicious werewolf went on a rampage throughout the lands of the three tribes until he came across the sleeping form of a very beautiful wolf demon. Believing he could ravage the beauty he approached only to have the wolf demon begin to pummel him into unconsciousness. The battle raged for over twenty hours before the almost evenly matched opponents reached Jusenkyo and the demoness drowned the werewolf in a spring. Unlike normal werewolves the person drowned in this spring has no problem being in wolf form and does not have to worry about the feral state that other werewolves suffer from. They are even able to talk.

Spring of drowned female wolf demon: The spring, created when the musk royals attacked the weakened wolf demoness, has never been accessed by anyone but Ranma and it is somewhat a good thing. Ranma in demon form is more prone to violence and rash judgment though she has a sharp tactical mind she is willing to almost throw her life away before really starting to think of a plan of action. The remnants of the demons mind give Ranma a somewhat jaded view of the world and he begins to act somewhat different after receiving the curse itself. Though Ranma is still reluctant to take a life unless it is demonic or undead, his somewhat darker view of the world makes him more dangerous than he would be normally but he also is very loyal to those he considers allies. There is also a dark side to Ranma's curse that he knows nothing about but only manages to feel every no and then.

As for the curses, I'm of the type that believes in the springs making a person what they would have looked like had they been born that way. In Ranma's case he looks nothing like the actual demon that drowned there besides a few cosmetic similarities, he actually looks like what he would have looked like had he been born female from a Nodoka and Genma who were demons. Ryoga looks like what he would have looked like had he been born a werewolf and Genma looks as he would if he had been born a panda. Besides a few select springs I believe the springs act as such. I also like the springs mix idea so there is no cure in Jusenkyo for any of the curses.