Tendo Dojo - 8:55 PM - November 7, 1985
The two girls stood on opposite sides of the dojo, Akane with her hands up in a combat stance and Ranma with her hands crossed, with an analytical look on her face.
"Don't keep your knees locked. Your opponent sees that, and they'll be able to catch you moving.
Akane rushed at the redhead, expecting a block.
Ranma instead gracefully leaped over the bluenette as said bluenette tried landing a punch on her.
"Case in point, that"
Akane tried going for a roundhouse kick as Ranma landed behind her.
"You're really strong, I'll give you that" Ranma said, as she blocked the kick. "But you're telegraphing your moves."
Akane tried retaliating with another punch.
"Don't lock your elbows." Ranma said, as she prodded the joint, bending it. "A good hit here and you're down an arm."
At this point, Akane really got mad, both for Ranma easily avoiding her and for the flaws in the style being pointed out as it happened.
She retaliated with a roundhouse kick, that Ranma once again caught.
"You definitely shouldn't have your thigh and shin moving together like that." she said, letting go of the leg.
"Well, my Dad hasn't trained me, ever since Mom died." Akane replied, with a melancholic tone.
Ranma replied with a hug, flustering the other girl.
"I'm so sorry for your loss Akane." she said. 'But at least you did get to know her.' she mentally added.
"Anyways, enough sadness, so you wanted a hot shower?" Akane asked.
"Yeah," Ranma replied. "hadn't had one in forever."
"Well, There's a bathroom down the hall when you turn right. It's the second door on your left"
"Thanks Akane" Ranma said, as she raced down the hall towards the bathroom.
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport - 10:00 PM
A lavender haired girl looked out of the windows of the terminal gate, watching the planes take off and land. As she waited for her flight to arrive, she reflected on how it all started.
A Month Prior
It was the annual Nujiezu martial arts tournament, where all of the best warriors in the village fought for the prize of a great feast.
It was in that tournament that Shampoo curbstomped the competition, as she did every year. As she got off the log used as the platform, she saw a redheaded outsider and her panda chomping down on the feast that was to be her prize. As she walked towards the interlopers, chui in hand, she observed the redhead freeze in terror, while the panda continued to ingest the food.
And so she challenged the redhead to a fight, believing her to be at fault for stealing her food at the time.
And for the first time in a long time, she lost.
And as per Amazon tradition, she gave the Kiss of Death to the redhead, prepared to track her and the panda down to the ends of the earth to kill her or die in the process. However her pride drove her to insist on carrying it out by herself, a decision she was ultimately thankful for, considering what she learned about the duo during the pursuit.
For starters, she immediately found that the panda, named Genma, was actually a victim of a jusenkyo curse, and that the same applied to the girl, named Ranma.
And that Ranma actually preferred to be female as much as possible, to the chagrin of the misogynistic fatass of a father that was Genma, who constantly insisted that she was a boy.
To be fair, she did look fairly attractive as a girl, at least in Shampoo's opinion. But that's besides the point.
Anyways, as she continued following them, she found out the true extent of the relationship between the panda and the cursed girl, mainly that it was anything but loving, since Genma was a sack of pus that constantly abused and manipulated Ranma under the pretense of training, and often left her without food or a tent while he ate like a fucking king. He even used her to make money for himself and left her to do all the dirty work while he drank his ass of somewhere
Honestly, she really hated the waste of oxygen that was Genma Saotome.
But she did have a Kiss of Death to uphold, and she was 80% sure that she was being followed by her fellow Amazons. So she occasionally attacked the duo, but always tried to make sure that she got Ranma away from that bastard. Sometimes it worked, and she'd leave her stuff like food and money. Other times, she failed, losing them. And the last attempt was one of those times.
Piecing together the bits of info she got from eavesdropping on them, as well as whatever she got from people that may have seen them, she figured out that they were going to a place in Japan called Nerima, which was a ward in Japan. And that the reason for this was to get her engaged to one of the daughters of someone named Soun Tendo, a person who the tub of lard referred to as an old friend.
In the present
Shampoo's train of thought was interrupted by the voice announcing that the flight has arrived. Taking a backpack and a carry on suitcase, she boarded the CAAC Airlines IL-62, bound for Tokyo.
And as she got on the plane, she swore that Genma Saotome will pay for everything he did to her Airen.
