Author's Note: I'm apologizing for what seems like a repost, but I finally fixed a glaring error. Next Chapter should be up within a week. AS always, I own neither Ranma ½ or Slayers. Don't know who owns em, but I don't.

Ryoga stops his attack as well. "How could I not? I'm her sweet liddle Pchan. I hear whose name she calls out for in the middle of the night. Both when shes frightened or happy or..." He stops before he reveals all of Akane's secrets.

"Normally I'd think you were just trying to piss me off with that. But your aura says you are extremely depre…" Ranma stops speaking as she realizes what is about to happen. "Aw come on man, cheer up! PLEASE!! Before you level the park!" She slowly starts backing away from the angst ridden teen. Looking around, she tries to find something to distract her rival. That 'thing' happens to be wearing a green leotard tumbling through the sky toward them. "Hey look! Someone sent Kodachi flying!"

"Your feeble attempts to cheer me up arent gonna work Ranma." He drops his left leg back to brace himself as he puts his wrists together palms outwards, "SHI SHI HOUKOUDAN!" His blast travels toward Ranma, but is intercepted by an already unconscious gymnast. Kodatchi is sent flying again back the way she came.

"Hey, she was out cold! Maybe we should check on her?"

"Huh? You didn't just get blasted?" Ryoga, looking rather confused, stares at Ranma in disbelief. "I could've sworn that just impacted you and sent you flying!" Ranma merely shakes her head.

"Just follow me P-Chan, and try not to get lost." 'I really want to know what sent Kodatchi flying.' Ranma takes off after the normally insane girl.

The distant isn't very far as a yell is heard. "Gourry! Get this green lump off of me!" Running into the clearing, the pigtailed martial artist sees three figures. One of them, a tall blonde boy wearing several pieces of blue armor. The other two are tangled together. Kodatchi is lumped in with an oddly dressed female.

"Lina, what do you want me to do? Every time I touch another girl you yell at me. So get yourself out of this one." The sword bearing blonde just stands looking confusedly at the lump of girls near him.

"It's your fault that she's on top of me! If you hadn't ducked"

"If I hadn't ducked all three of us would have been tangled. And I definitely do not want to get fireball'd today."

He looks proud of himself, right until, "Fine then, I promise I won't Fireball you today. DILL BRAND!" The girl underneath the leotard wearing gymnast just mashes her palm onto the ground. Directly after which, a circle of fire appears around the armor clad boy then immediately bursts upwards.

"OWWW, Lina, that hurt!" Amazingly, the one called Gourry is only slightly charred, yet still standing. Both martial artist's just stand there looking stunned.

"Fine! I'll just get her off myself!" A rather irritated red head squirms her way out of the tangle and stands up. Brushing off her cape and clothes, she takes a good look around. "Who are you two? Brigands here to steal my money? I really hope so, cause I need to lose some tension right about now." The two black haired martial artists just start stammering. "Well that must mean that you are not here to rob me. Damn. Well, stop stammering and say something intelligent before I fry you both on principle!"

Ranma recovers first, "You can throw a real fireball?"

"Can't all sorceresses?"

"Arent sorceresses supposed to be at least slightly cute and built?" Ryouga, in a moment of clarity manages to start Lina's eye to twitching. "And what's this deal about brigands? How old are you anyways? 12?"

"Just ignore Pchan over there. My names Saotome Ranma. Who are you and why can you do magic?"

"Quit calling me PCHAN!"

"What you like Charlotte better?"

Lina and Gourry simply look on in confusion as the conversation seems to be taking a weird turn.

"UMMMMM, Excuse me. But I'd like to introduce myself now if you don't mind!" Lina, fully infuriated at the implication of being called short, flat chested and not cute, starts drawing energy into her palms. Saotome notices and quickly replies,

"Oh, sorry about that." Turning to Hibiki, she yells "SHUT UP Ryouga! SHES ABOUT READY TO FRY US BOTH!!" With that statement, the eternally lost pig does what hes told for once. "I apologize miss. Like I said, I'm Saotome Ranma of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts. This lame brain is my friend Hibiki Ryouga."

Before Lina can reply, Gourry jumps in. "I'm Gabriev Gourry, a mercenary swordsman. This redheaded flat chested short tempered little girl, the Bandit Killer, the scourge of Seylune, the killer of demons, and friend to Chimeras. She is the sorceress Inverse Lina..She's also known as the dragon spooooff" With each word spoken by the swordsman, Lina's eye twitch got worse. Right up until she hit him on the back of the head.

"Well, I don't know where Seylune is, but your no more tomboyish than my fiance. It's good to meet you Lina."

Ranma holds out her hand to the girl. 'She looks slightly familiar. I wonder why?'

Ryouga is having similar thoughts. 'This evil tempered little witch looks almost like Ranma in his girl form, except three times flatter.' Upon thinking this, he does a double take. Ranchan, shaking hands with a flat version of herself? 'Aw hell!'

"So how did you end up here?" Ranma, curiously asks.

"My friend here can do some magic, but he can't control it. He meant to heal himself and instead teleported us here." Now that things have calmed down a bit, she looks harder at the unusual duo in front of her. 'Well, that's weird, I can sense some weird magic around both of these two. The aura of these two are similar, but there are minor differences in the magic. Wonder what it is?'

"Well, since you two aren't from around here, why don't you come stay with us for a day or two? Maybe we can help you find a way home?" 'Or maybe I can convince her to blow up the old freak!' Grinning to herself on a new plan she waits for an answer.

'Hmm, It would be good to have someplace to stay for a bit, as well as a guide in this strange country.' "Sure. Lead the way Ranma!"

And with that, the four head off towards the Tendo Dojo. Leaving a still smoking Kuno lying limply on the ground.

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AN: I apologize again for the erroneous posts. My computer was having trouble on several different occasions. I also apologize for the slower rythym of the story. It should pick up once Akane meets Lina...