Alright, here's the rewritten chapter 2. This is just the start of the, hopefully more fleshed out version of this story and updates wont be as fast as my original story was moving before my break. Well hopefully the more fleshed out version will be better and I will continue to work on it so I can move on. My next chapters should get longer, and since i have covered most of the territory in my other version i know where i am going so writing them will be eaiser, just need to be fleshed out more.

As usual don't own anything from Ranma ½.

CHAPTER 2

The ancient Amazon watched the tournament as her great granddaughter fought the latest challenger though her attention was soon pulled to the three strangers that wandered into the village. The Amazon's had lived near Jusenkyo for so long that the appearance of a demon, a werewolf, and a panda walking on its hind legs didn't do much more than gather a few glances and a word or two before looking back to the tournament fight. There were some very telling things about the three that made it obvious that they were cursed humans. By the looks they were most likely wandering martial artists who hadn't taken the warnings into account when they had went to Jusenkyo and thusly got cursed.

The girl was interesting, standing nearly six feet tall she bore herself with a deadly grace that only the best of fighters could match and seemed to exude a strange mixture of aura that worried the elder. The girl was lean, with grey hair that hung in a braid down her back nearly reaching her waist and with bangs hanging down to shadow golden eyes that surprisingly bore a more catlike look. The girl bore a single slash of black on one cheek and the smaller fangs of the royal wolf demons. The girl was surprisingly busty for a wolf demon but her lack of the arrogance of a normal demon would have been a dead giveaway to anyone that knew of such things that the girl wasn't a real wolf demon.

The elders shifted her view to the other with a slightly more worried view as the last time a werecreature had come through the village they had had to be fought by six of the elders to drive them out. The werewolf stood at a towering seven foot which made him taller than all but the tallest of amazons such as Dowel and bore himself with a skill that nearly matched that of the girl. The large black furred creature seemed to be staying surprisingly close to the demoness almost as if he expected to lose her if he moved away. The werewolf's face wasn't as long or as narrow as a real wolfs and its arms were longer than they should have been for a creature that size which was most likely to allow it to run on all fours if it needed it. The sharp black claws that adorned both its hands and its paws were likely very sharp and its multi-jointed legs were also set up to allow it move on two or four legs. The thick fur around its neck and the shorter tail most likely meant it was a werewolf meant for areas of snow.

Ranma stood on the log watching as the violet haired girl set herself and prepared to attack, the martial artist knew the girl was tired just from the stance and the way she carried herself and Ranma wasn't to happy about fighting a person in that condition but she figured she didn't have a choice. A second later the amazon girl charged launching swift blows at Ranma's head that the other girl ducked before sending a retaliatory kick towards the other girls head only to have her dodge and try and sweep Ranma's feet out from under her. Leaping up she angled a kick towards the girls head only to have the amazon dodge and kick her in the back as she went past almost causing Ranma to fall from the log.

It didn't take Ranma long to figure the girl was faking some of her fatigue but was also trying to end the battle as fast as possible. Beginning a charge Ranma suddenly felt a spike of pain somewhere deep in her mind nearly causing her to stumble from the log before recovering and mounting a defense against the other girl who had taken advantage of the stumble. On the ground near the fighting Cologne frowned as the grey haired girl once again reacted strangely but didn't have time to wonder about it as the ground under her staff trembled. Looking down the elder's frown deepened as the trembling became more and more pronounced, to the point were even the combatants on the challenge log felt it. Soon everyone had turned to look just as the ground cracked buckling upwards and then plummeted away into darkness taking the elder with it.

Ranma blinked in surprise at the gaping hole and realized suddenly that the stinging pain that had been growing in the back of her head had vanished. With a cry in Chinese that Ranma couldn't understand her opponent jumped down and leapt towards the hole only to have several amazons stop her while others grabbed weapons and moved warily towards the strange circle. Landing close by Ranma frowned as she moved closer and started to hear an extremely faint growling from somewhere within the hole just before the smell finally reached her nose.

"Oh man that reeks!" She jumped back waving her hand in front of her face and noticing that Ryoga was doing the same obviously trying to save his werewolf forms more sensitive nose from the horrid smell. The growling was getting louder and she realized it sounded like it was coming from something far to large to be any animal that she knew of, just as she was getting ready to defend herself the hole exploded with motion as the elder burst into view with her staff half covered in black blood and shouting something in Chinese.

The darkness in the hole was suddenly teaming with forms that burst free and tried to swarm the amazons nearby. They stood at seven to eight feet in height with dark brown leathery skin, cloven hooves on multi jointed legs and a hand that ended in three fingers each ending in thick black claws. 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 at least two feet thick that curved out further and down complimenting the spike covered back. Their eyes and mouths were filled with flame and the tusks that jutted upwards reached at least halfway to their eyes. The creatures seemed to have an aversion to heavy clothes, wearing only a loincloth and a breastplate sometimes the chest armor was leather other times it was a simple badly hammered out heavy iron plate some of them even wielded crude axes or other weapons. The creatures were thick bodied but moved with swift efficiency that the amazons were having trouble countering at the outset, and every second more of them piled free of the strange circle.

Ranma didn't hesitate, charging forward she ducked past a clumsy grab by one of the tall demons and leveled a blow into its leather armored chest that caused the creature to crash to its knees as its breath was driven from its chest. It had taken Ranma all of ten seconds to realize that the things were demons but were completely unlike her current form, these creatures seemed to be nothing more than bloodthirsty beasts that were trying to kill every living thing near them. Ranma didn't hesitate before leveling a blow that shattered horns and crushed the side of the demons skull before she leapt towards another kicking it ten feet away and into a building. For some reason she couldn't figure out she was smiling in delight while she tossed more and more of the things into buildings or into range of amazon weapons. That euphoria was short lived though as a feeling of extreme danger spiked within her head causing her to kick her current opponent away and turn to the circle and shout a warning "GET BACK!"

The shout wasn't in time as a large form burst from the hole and slammed down on top of two of the demons its cloven hooves crushing the two lesser beings beneath it. The new demon looked the same as the others except that it was taller and bore a full set of crimson plate armor even up to a large helm that shielded much of its face. The nearest amazons stared in surprise at the thirteen foot tall creature as it drew a sword made of black flame and swung in their direction. Ranma noticed the fact that the swing was done while the demon wasn't even close to the amazons themselves but that didn't seem to stop the amazons and the few buildings they had had their back against being blasted into a charred wreck by waves of black flame.

With a cry of rage Ranma rushed across the distance smashing two other demons out of her way she leapt and slammed a kick into the demons helm protected head only to have the beast whip its arm up and grab her ankle before swinging her downward and slamming her into the ground hard enough to leave a crater. Shaking her head she tried to push herself up only to see the demon raising the sword and readying to strike, right before a large hand clamped closed on its arm and stopped it from striking.

"If anyone is going to kill Saotome it's going to be ME!" Claws on one paw tearing into the rock to anchor himself he grabbed the demons armor and heaved it into the air into a throw that landed the creature twenty feet away. Ryoga wasted no time in ripping one of the large trunks that held up the challenge log from the ground snapping the rope that was tied to the log and throwing the large chunk of lumber at the demon. With a loud splintering sound the log shattered on the plate armor of the demon who let out a grunting laugh and suddenly blurred across the distance that separated him from Ryoga fast enough that even Ranma had trouble following his movements. The creature caught the werewolf's head in one hand and then slammed him down into the rock hard enough to shatter through hardened ground and the rock below as well as crush the werewolf's head.

To Ranma the battle around her seemed to slow as she found herself staring at Ryoga's body and the blood that had started to pool around the cursed boy's body. Nearby Cologne impaled another demon before feeling a strange energy flow over the battlefield, she quickly spun towards the area she sensed the energy coming from only to see the outsider girl standing not far from the body of her friend. The elder had lived a long life and could sense the massive energies rising from the girl even as the armored demon turned and charged. Small black lightning's flickered across the grey haired martial artists form as she focused on the approaching demon and the creature took in the strange slight darkening of the girl's skin and the streaks of black that slipped through her hair as well as her black eyes. The demon swept a full strength punch straight towards to girls head only to have its armored fist slam into an immovable object, a single finger of the girl's left hand.

"You killed my friend, that wasn't a very smart thing to do." An arm went up and back fingers curling into a fist "Die." The simple word was followed by the fist flashing forward towards the demons chest with small streams of black energy trailing the girl's fist. Her arms weren't long enough for the punch to connect to the armor but it didn't have to, as soon as the fist stopped at her full reach the energy took over. The boom was loud enough to stagger the nearby combatants and had both demons and amazons turning to look where it had came from. Black faded from golden eyes and Ranma blinked in confusion as she stared at the large trench that was blasted into the ground and disappeared into the forest at the edge of the village. A Second later her mind latched onto the fact that Ryoga was dead just as the old ghoul she had talked to a short time ago started shouting something and amazon's nearby began to make a running retreat from the fighting.

Cologne watched as Dowel grabbed the large werewolf tossing his body over her shoulder before backing from the fighting near the hole. "Retreat now!" The shout was aimed at her, of that Ranma was sure but she was still confused about what had happened moments ago as well as shocked by Ryoga's death. Her confusion was enough for some demons to get the drop of her with two of them managing to pin her arms just as another red armored demon burst from the hole. The creatures holding Ranma shouted in a grating hissing language and the armored demon turned and moved their way obviously watching Ranma intensely as it approached.

With a massive heave she broke the hold of the two demons; sweeping the feet from under one she crushed its skull with a well placed kick. She slammed her elbow into the gut of the other demon causing it to drop to its knees coughing before she knocked it out then spun away darting for the nearest building as she felt heat explode against her back blasting her forward and all the way through the building ahead of her. Shaking her head the grey haired demon leapt to her feet and jumped to the top of a nearby building and began to roof hop towards the running amazons. She had gotten only four buildings away when the roof gave way underneath her and she felt a large hand grasp her waist, swing her back then slam her into the ground.

Blurred vision stared upwards at the massive demon as its arm rose and she barely managed to twist aside when the blow fell shattering the ground and kicking up a large amount of dust that allowed her to manage a stumbling escape through the village's houses. Even as she ran she could hear the crashing of wood behind her as the demon rushed through the buildings trying to catch up to her, with a flicker of thought rushing through her head she darted to one of the buildings in the beings path and readied herself for the demons exit form the building. Crouching down she clenched one fist and focused all of the strength she could summon into her arm while fortifying her body against the shock it was going to receive, she just hoped that her extra strength in this form would suffice for what she was planning.

Wood cracked outwards then shattered as a red gauntleted fist slammed through it allowing the beast easy passage through. Planks and small chunks of wood shot past her body as she held steady waiting for the running demon to move forward the two steps past the wall that she needed too execute her idea. Ranma's jump actually cratered the ground she leapt from and the demon got less than a second to realize what was coming before Ranma's uppercut snapped towards its armored head. With a crack loud enough to be heard back near the challenge log Ranma's fist slammed into a open palm as the demon moved its hand to intercept her strike.

"No way.." The shocked words had barely left her lips before the demons other arm swept back and then snapped forward slamming its fist into the side of her head.

Wood shattered as the martial artists body slammed through three different houses before impacting the ground and sliding to a stop fetching up against a small cart. She struggled to push herself up but her body wasn't reacting the way it should have and she collapsed back against he cart with her vision fading slowly as the demon tromped forward. Just as it got near her and reached down a small shriveled figure appeared in the air behind it and stabbed a long spear straight through its head before gesturing to people Ranma couldn't see. The last she saw was a young amazon picking her up and a little of the buildings beginning to rush past before she blacked out.

Descriptions.

Shadow Ranma: Without the darkening of her skin, the black highlights in her hair and the black eyes one wouldn't even really know that she existed and simply put off any darker acts to Ranma being angry. This darker version of Ranma will only show herself when Ranma is in female form. She appears to be massively powerful and has an acute understanding of Ranma's demoness abilities. Unlike Ranma she is completely uncaring of the risks to herself by attacking large forces that she couldn't possibly defeat and will attack any enemy until either she is victorious or dead. She does not understand the idea of retreat and will actively pursue any enemy that tries to run from battle even if it means entering a trap to kill them.

Like Ranma she has a highly developed sense of honor and will protect her friends to the death. Her only problem is that her violent nature makes her fire off her most powerful attacks immediately into a fight which exhausts her staying power making her vanish into Ranma's mind once more allowing Ranma to retake control. Ranma remembers nothing of what Shadow Ranma does while she is awake and she will not show herself unless Ranma enters a state where his mind reaches an inability to cope with a current situation. Her existence is actually new, appearing only after Ranma gained his curse and is most probably caused by a minor remnant of the royal wolfs mind.

She has a modicum of influence while Ranma is in control just like Ranma's feelings and thoughts will influence her as well. It was the remnants of demon thoughts that had Ranma so happy while trashing the demons and her influences will work more into Ranma's psyche as time goes on.

Shadow Buster Shot: Shadow Ranma's attack on the red armored demon is the demonic version, at least for her, of a Shi Shi Hokodan. While Ranma and Ryoga have never learned of Ki blasts yet Shadow Ranma shows off the remnants of her demon mind with the ability to fire off a demon aura powered blast of dark energy capable of destroying, at full power, a full twelve city blocks if fired straight at the ground. Shadow Ranma when attacking the demon was not nearly at what would have been considered full power. This attack can be either a simple point and shoot, or a forward punch throwing the energy out.

Author notes.

Alright, just a few different things going on, Ranma and Genma in this story have encountered demons before, though few and far between and none as powerful as the ones here. They both have participated in demon hunts to protect people in one place or another, so Ranma is perfectly willing to attack and even kill the demons here as he sees them as nothing but beasts, like the demons he and Genma hunted before. Those few fights never prepared them for this though. Ryoga as well has met demons before and has used his strength to protect three villages by this point from a demon while in the Middle East.

My use of Shadow Ranma in the original story wasn't as good as I wanted it to be and hopefully my improvements will read better.