Wild Pixie
Chapter 2: Pixie Meets the Tendo's
AN: A Poll is up in my profile concerning Reyvateil Ranma's second book coming after its next chapter.
AN2: I've had some complaints about Akane's extreme temper in this, and i wish to point out that she had had an extra month of Kuno's challenge to make her far worse than cannon.
AN3 I rewatched the first episode with Pixie, and corrected the description of her torpedo attack
Two figures were fighting down a rain slick street in the Nerima ward of Tokyo. One was a red haired young woman with long nails, and the other was a panda. The two were exchanging rapid fire blows, and the Panda was getting the worst of the encounter.
"How dare you engage Ranma like that!" the red haired girl screamed.
/Now Ranma, it's a matter of family honor that this engagement with my friend Soun's daughters goes through!/ a sign the panda held up said, all the while he was thinking, Jusenkyo was a mistake. Not only did I get cursed but Ranma seems to have developed a split personality as well as his own curse, and that second personality is both female and rebellious.
"The name's Lenneth, as I've told you a hundred times!" Lenneth Replied. `Although I still don't see the point of not using Pixie, Ranma` she sent to her bodymate.
`As I explained before, we would be a laughingstock if we used your species name as your personal name. That is why I snuck into a library to find you a name you would like and/or accept. Whops…` Ranma sent before Genma took advantage of the split second lapse in concentration to crack her over the head with the sign he was holding.
The sign broke leaving Lenneth slightly dazed and the panda finished the knockout process with a blow to the temple. He then picked up the now unconscious girl, slung her over his shoulder, and took off toward his friends house.
When he arrived he was surprised to see massive amounts of cement dust settling around the dojo, and coating that part of the yard. Taking a second to set the girl down he rooted through his son's pack he found the thermos that his son had taken to carrying, or more precisely his other personality had acquired it and his son merely kept it full of hot water. Splashing himself with the hot water he reverted himself back to human, but he failed to conserve it, so what would have normally been sufficient for three people was used up on one. Slinging the girl over his shoulder once again he knocked on the door, opening the door was a tall man with long black hair, and an impressive mustache.
"Genma my friend," the man said while grabbing the other man in a hug. The hug caused the girl on the fat man's shoulder to fall off, and the pain of the drop made her wake up.
"Ow, how dare you do that bastard," Lenneth said standing up.
"And you must be Ranma," the mustached man said, and moved in for a hug, a girl with short brown hair and dressed in a kimono stood in the doorway with narrowed eyes as she noticed something odd about their new guest.
"Don't touch me!" she said as she flipped away from the grabby man. "And my name is Lenneth."
"Lenneth, that's a girl's name isn't it? One of the Valkyries from Norse mythology if I'm not mistaken," the girl in the kimono said.
"Yes, so?" Lenneth replied.
"So, your female right?" the brown haired girl asked.
"I am, but Ranma's not," Lenneth said mysteriously.
"Huh?" the girl said intelligently.
"It's complicated," the red haired girl replied.
Soun interrupted, "A… Girl…?" he then looked at Lenneth's chest and saw the way the damp silk clung to her figure. His reaction was surprising to those that didn't know him, he fainted.
-A few minutes later-
Soun reopened his eyes to find his three daughters, the girl who called herself Lenneth, and his old friend. A damp washcloth was on his forehead, no doubt put there by his eldest child.
"Some fiancé daddy, he's a she!" Nabiki said scathingly.
Genma came in at that point carrying a kettle of hot water. "No, my son simply is taking the curse business to far!" He said, and dumped said kettle on the red haired girl.
Everyone present who did not know of the curse was shocked. Two of them, collapsed in a dead faint, a third developed a glowing red aura, and the fourth tried to fit what happened into her normal logical worldview.
"Pervert!" a girl with long black hair screamed, and lacking a convenient nearby heavy object tried to strike Ranma with her fist.
In another universe she might have succeeded, but due to Lenneth's dream training, and the month with the Amazons, the hesitation Ranma once felt at striking girls was virtually eliminated. The girl's attack was stopped short as Ranma kicked her fairly hard right below the sternum. An interesting fact about the location that he hit her, if struck hard enough it causes the victim to hyperventilate, and so she collapsed to her knees, and tried to get her breathing under control.
"Boy, how dare you strike a girl? I taught you better than that," Genma bellowed.
"The amazons taught me better than what you taught me, and also that some girls are as or more dangerous than many boys or men," Ranma replied while listing to the coaching of his body mate.
Nabiki's eyes narrowed, not only due to the fact that her sister was just beaten as easily as if Ranma was taking a walk in the park, but also due to the exchange between father and son. She is used to knowing the facts, and how people will react, an there are many differences between Ranma's attitudes, unconscious movements, conscious movements, and a myriad of other details that have a subtle, and not so subtle, difference from when Ranma introduced him/herself as Lenneth.
"Cheating pervert!" Akane yelled and proceeded to try once again to attack the pigtailed boy. This time she was met with a low power torpedo, which sent her out of the house through the open doors, across the yard and into the surrounding stone fence.
"How dare you!" Nabiki hissed at Ranma.
"What, defend myself? She attacked me twice with no reason, so what was I supposed to do? Something stupid like let her hit me?" Rama asked angrily.
Nabiki blinked at the question, just what did she expect him to do? Take a hit that could probably kill a normal person? The situation at school was degrading rapidly; just last week Akane started hitting the guys hard enough to put them in the hospital, some with broken bones. Three people this morning alone were sent to the hospital with broken ribs, and/or limbs. The violence at school was being covered up by the Kuno family connections, but if Akane attacked someone outside of the school, her sister could be in trouble with the law, especially if she attacked a non martial artist.
"Boy! Stop treating your potential fiancée like that!" Genma bellowed.
"The day I marry that psychopath is the day I die," Ranma replied evenly looking at the still crumpled form visible from where he was seated.
"Just for that comment I choose her to be your Tendo fiancée," Genma said smugly.
"No," Ranma said evenly.
"And what makes you think you have a choice?" Genma asked while smirking.
"I can always drop the Saotome name, go back to China, and live with those nice Amazons. They did say that I could go back at any time, as long as I ditch you that is," Ranma said smugly. "Since you told me mom died, leaving you pretty much cuts my ties to Japan, so going Ronin won't harm me much since I would be leaving the country." Ranma said the last part with a resigned calm, noticing not for the first time that Lenneth's personality was rubbing off on him a bit.
Genma and Nabiki were shocked to hear someone talk so easily about walking away from his family name.
"You wouldn't," Genma said.
"Give me an excuse, and I'm gone. I have stuck with you this long because at first I thought that this is how family's acted, but in my time with the amazons I saw how true families act. If you wish to push me to the point that the last bonds I have with you are gone, I will do what is needed," Ranma said coldly from deep within the soul of ice that her Amazon sensei taught him. That particular technique was not on the restricted list even though it could lead up to some of those maneuvers
"Fine, we will discuss the engagement later," Genma said.
Ranma nodded as the two fainted Tendo's started stirring, and Soun who was the first to awaken saw his friend and the male that the pretty young woman who came in the house with him nearby.
"What happened, where's the girl, and who's this boy?" Soun asked.
Ranma sighed and explained Jusenkyo, the effects, how it's reversed, and most of the details that he learned from the amazons leaving only a few choice bits out in the hopes that his father would run afoul of the missing pieces of information.
"So Lenneth is a split personality that you developed soon after you fell in to deal with the change?" Nabiki asked nervously since she didn't want her or her sisters engaged to a crazy person considering what another crazy person did to her sister.
"Not quite right, but I suppose that's the best explanation. For now at least," Ranma replied. `Sorry Lenneth but it's not like they're going to understand our actual relationship,` he sent to his bodymate with a sigh.
`It will have to do for now," she sent back.
"Anyway son your problem isn't all that bad, there are my three… wait where's Akane?" Soun asked.
Ranma jerked his thumb to where Akane was still out cold, and replied "Out there, she seems to have some issues with my existence and attacked me twice."
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY LITTLE GIRL?" Soun yelled with his head expanding into a large demonic presence.
Ranma didn't flinch however, since after a month with the amazons, and nearly two with Lenneth he had seen many scarier displays of temper, mainly from the Pixie. "Not impressed Mister Tendo, and if you don't want you daughter hurt than you should teach her not to attack strangers," Ranma said coldly.
Soun was shocked that the pigtailed boy had dismissed his demon head trick so easily, but he wasn't going to let him get away with hurting his daughter. "Get out, I don't want you back here until you apologize to Akane," Soun said angrily.
"Fine, then since I will never apologize, this ends the Saotome Tendo pact, thanks Mister Tendo," Ranma said calmly while getting up.
Ranma's words hit the Tendo patriarch hard, almost as hard as it did the Saotome patriarch. They both realized that as long as Soun's pronouncement stood, the pact would be nearly impossible to fill.
"Just apologize boy, it's not worth losing the pact over," Genma commanded.
"Why should I? She simply attacked me without reason, if anything I deserve one from her," Ranma said over his shoulder as he made his way over to his pack.
"Enough of this foolishness you will apologize to my daughter," Soun demanded.
"No," Ranma said simply while putting his pack on and adjusting it for maximum comfort.
Akane, who had regained consciousness in the middle of the argument stumbled through the door at this point, and stopped when she saw the boy who had blasted her to kingdom come. "You Pervert! I challenge you!"
"Fine, let's take it outside, your father demanded I leave until I apologize for defending myself, which won't happen," Ranma said as he walked out the door.
The rest of the household and Genma quickly followed the boy. When they emerged they saw him standing in the middle of the street waiting. Akane quickly moved to stand ten feet away from him, and dropped into a fighting stance.
"You know this will end the same way the last two times you attacked right?" Ranma said.
"You cheated, there is no other way for you to have won! And I wasn't ready, besides you were being a pervert for pretending to be a girl!" the Blue-black haired girl screamed.
"Whatever makes you feel better to think, and as to not being ready, that means you are a fool or a liar, for only a fool attacks before there are ready, and only a liar proclaims they are not ready if they are," the boy replied with the most infuriating smirk Akane had ever seen.
Akane lost it when she heard those words, and quickly rushed him, a quick beginner foot sweep later and she had road rash on her face.
"Stop cheating!" Akane demanded as she got up to try again.
"How do you cheat in a style called anything goes? Besides that was a move I learned when I was six," Ranma responded.
With an inarticulate growl Akane attacked again, this time trying tackle, only to have Ranma move out of the way, and deliver a spin kick to her back sending her moving forward faster than she anticipated. This time her crash was more spectacular, and caused a wardrobe malfunction with Akane's gi, as the friction with the caused the ties that held it closed to snap, leaving the gi open.
Soun stalked up to Ranma, and bellowed angrily, "How dare you hit my baby girl!"
"How dare YOU interrupt a challenge match?" Ranma returned heatedly while keeping an eye on his opponent, who upon realizing she was flashing her bra to the world ran into the house. "Anyway, since your daughter apparently forfeited, and you made it clear I'm not welcome this is goodbye."
Soun gritted his teeth at the attitude he was receiving, but even with his over protective streak he had noticed that his daughter never denied that she attacked him. He also felt shame that he had tried to interrupt a challenge match like he did.
"I take back what I said about the apology, so come inside and let's discuss the engagement pact," Soun said through gritted teeth.
Ranma wanted desperately to just walk away, but without a reason, he was obligated by honor to at least try to make the pact work. He realized that he was standing in the street alone, and everyone else had gone inside. He quickly shook his head and moved inside while sending to Lenneth, `I hope they give us an excuse to drop this engagement.`
`Me to, but if it was me I would've walked away by now. If you are determined to try it though you could leave it open for now, so you could get to know the sisters better then make your choice,` Lenneth responded.
Upon entering the house and sitting beside his father at the table Soun said to him, "These are my daughters Nabiki who is seventeen, Kasumi who is nineteen, and Akane whom you fought who is sixteen. Choose one and she'll be your fiancée."
"Oh he wants Akane," Kasumi quickly said.
"Sorry big sis, but he already said he'd die rather than marry her, so she's out of the running," Nabiki said sadly, as she would've liked to shove him off on her younger sister as well.
"Oh," Kasumi said.
"Ranma…" Soun began angrily.
"I will never marry someone who acts like her, she attacked me without warning or reason, calls cheat when she loses fairly, and just plain pisses me off," Ranma interrupted. A quick sending of `Help!` got Lenneth to help word the next part of his argument, "I think it best if we leave it open, since they are both unique we should get to know each other before making a life altering decision. It also has the best chance to make your daughters happy; you do want them to be happy don't you?"
Soun nodded at Ranma's words and realized that what he said was correct, well the latter part at least. "Fine, we will leave it open until one of the girls steps up for the engagement," Soun said much to the surprise of his friend.
"But Soun…" Genma began.
"Genma my daughters' happiness is important, the contract will be fulfilled, but it will just take a bit of time," Soun interrupted.
"What is that pervert doing here?" Akane yelled as she came into the room. "Don't worry I'll remove him," she declared and started to attack.
"Akane, stop the Saotomes will be our guests for a while, and since you lost the challenge match you will not attack either of them without permission, got that?"
"But…"
"Akane that's enough, he beat you fair and square, so until I deem your ready for a rematch you will not attack him," Soun demanded, a trace of the authority that he used to have before his wife died returning to his voice.
Ranma looked at the rapidly darkening sky, and said "Mister Tendo, I think I'm going to call it a day early, it's been a long day, where will me and pops sleep?"
"Don't you want dinner?" Kasumi asked.
With the mention of food Ranma's stomach growled as he realized that he was hungry since he hadn't eaten all day. "I almost forgot that pops was too cheap to feed us today," Ranma replied. "Thank you for offering."
Kasumi nodded, and left the room to check on the food she had on the stove, thankful that what she was cooking needed time considering what went on that day left her with little time to be in the kitchen.
Soon the meal was dished out, and everyone was eating, Genma had learned the hard way that the amazons had pounded a backbone into his son, and many things that he could get away with before, such as the stealing from his son's plate, earns him one of Ranma's energy attacks.
During the meal Lenneth decided to speak with Ranma because now that things had settled down, the distraction wouldn't be harmful. Before that happened however Ranma accidentally knocked his glass of ice water on himself, changing into his female body. Lenneth assumed control as per the deal, and after adjusting to the change in circumstance sent, `Ranma, now that your reserves have increased to a fair level, I think it's time I taught you another of my skills, we'll start tonight.`
`Cool, what one?` Ranma sent excitedly.
`I'll show you tonight,` Lenneth sent with a smile.
That comment elicited random muttering from Ranma as Lenneth finished the food in front of her, and mindful of the fact that they were guests, restricted her meal to what she needed, and didn't try to eat everything in sight, Nabiki's eyes narrowed again as she noticed the shift in mannerisms, and speech patterns.
That is more than an alternate personality, Nabiki thought. "Tell me Lenneth, what are you to Ranma?"
"Good question, complicated answer, and I don't feel like going through it right now," the renamed Pixie said. Her meal finished Lenneth Picked up her dishes, moved into the kitchen, and deposited them in the sink. This action surprised Kasumi whom is the one that normally did all the chores, and forced her to reevaluate the potential of the perspective fiancé.
"Mister Tendo where will Genma, and I be sleeping?" Lenneth asked politely.
"I will show you," Kasumi replied.
"I can find it myself if you tell me where it is, besides you don't want to leave your food unattended with Genma nearby," the pixie responded.
Kasumi was uncertain what to make of that comment. Well at least until she saw Genma looking at her plate as if he was waiting for something, so with a sigh, and inwardly counseling herself that she wasn't being rude since she was asked to do it this way replied, "It's the guest room, first door on the left as soon as you make it up the stairs."
"Thank you," Lenneth replied, and left the room to grab her pack and head upstairs, for she had a feeling tomorrow would be a long day.
