A/N Ok, I admit it, I am a total idiot! I wrote outsome of Chapter 2, and then I thought I accidentally deleted it! Silly me huh? Anyways, I guess I should clear something up. Since I wrote the first chapter, I have talked to a friend, and I also thought about who Ranma should wind up with, but well...(gets ready to hide) I don't know who Ranma is going to wind up with, it might not even be one of the Tendos. Especially not Akane! I know, for all you Akane/Ranma fanatics out there, Akane is the only fiancee that Ranma can marry, but remember, this is my fic, and besides,

Akane told Ranma that the engagement was off, and he agreed! I don't know how I will work out who Ranma winds up with but I guess I will give you a little preview of all the series that have entered my mind to come into this fic! Would you like that? Yes? Well, hehe, hmmmmmmmmmmmm, let's see here, what one should I mention first? Oh yeah, well, obviously Ranma 1/2 is going to be in it, duh! Oh, and Oh! My Goddess (Ah! Megami-Sama for you pure bloods out there, and yeah, you know who you are!) and ummmmmmmmmmmmmm, let's see...well, I guess that is all the preview I can give you right now, because I

don't want to spoil the fun! ducks as several sharp objects fly through the space his head occupied a moment before "HEY NO SHARP OBJECTS! THOSE HURT! " Ok, ok, if it will keep you from killing me, well... we "might" see some or all of the Tenchi crew, and maybe even the X-men will make an appearance, I am still negotiating with Xavier! Anyways, TTFN, Ja Ne, and all that, and if you have any ideas for a series to cross over with, well... let me know and I will try to find some of the anime or shows or what not, and watch them to see if they have what it will take to be part of my fic! Laters!

Chapter 2

WAAAAAH, MY LITTLE GIRL IS NO LONGER HUMAN!

Chinese

thoughts

The next morning, Nerima was surprisingly calm, and all the inhabitants of that chaotic district here in fear of their lives, because if it was a calm day, then that meant something really really terrible was going to happen, and that meant lots and lots of property damage!

But, all was not quite as calm as everyone thought, so maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be as terrible as everyone thought. At the Neko-Hanten, Cologne was staring at her great-granddaughter, and Mousse, and wondering what they were going to do now. Cologne

looked at Mousse, and just sighed, before telling him to go clean up, and rest, they wouldn't be opening the restaurant today. Mousse left with a sigh, for the second day in a row, after basically getting his head handed to him by that wretched Saotome, but he didn't say anything.

Cologne looked at Shampoo, and said, " Granddaughter, you have told me how you got injured by Son-In-Law, but you will not tell me what he said about why he did so, or what he said afterwards, and why you came home crying. Now as your elder, I am ordering you to tell

me everything that Son-In-Law said to you! " Shampoo just looked at her great-grandmother, and thought to herself, I can't tell her what Ranma said, but I can't lie to her either, what can I tell her?

Before Shampoo could say anything though, Ranma came through the front door of the Neko-Hanten, and looked around. When Shampoo saw Ranma, she actually shrank away from him in fear, causing Cologne to look at the two of them sharply. Hopping forward, she regarded

Ranma for a moment, and then asked, "What brings you by this early, Son-In-Law?" Ranma looked at Cologne sharply, then at Shampoo, and shook his head, and said, "I take it she didn't tell you what I told her. Did you Shampoo?" Ranma glared at Shampoo, and Shampoo could only flinch under Ranma's titanium hard gaze, and shake her head, no.

Ranma then looked at Cologne, and his gaze softened a little, though Cologne was a little disconcerted to see such a hard gaze turned her way by Ranma. Ranma then said, in a slightly chilly voice, "When I did what I did to Shampoo yesterday, I told her that she was not now, nor ever would be, my wife. I told her that she was to come back and tell you that if you tried any tricks, love potions, or anything like that to get me to go back to China with you, then you would

earn me as an enemy, instead of a possible ally."

Cologne just looked at Ranma, and then at Shampoo, and asked, "Great-Granddaughter, is this true?" Shampoo could only look at the ground, and nod her head in the affirmative.

Cologne then looked back at Ranma, and asked, "What makes you think that your powerful enough to take on the whole village of Joketsuzoku?" Before Cologne could react, Ranma was right in front of her, and had a finger resting just over a pain center pressure point, that would disable even Cologne. She could tell that he hadn't resorted to the Umi-Senken, but that he had moved so fast he seemed to teleport, and she couldn't even see him move, let alone match his

speed. She looked at him, and then to her surprise, Ranma removed the holds he had on his aura, and his battle aura blazed out, pushing Cologne and Shampoo back. Cologne could only stare at Ranma in shock, as Ranma said, "I take it Mousse and Shampoo never told you the full story of what happened in China this last time I had to rescue Akane?" Cologne could only shake

her head, and say, "Apparently not!" She then glared at Shampoo, and Shampoo shrank back in abject misery and shame. Ranma then told Cologne, "I fought Saffron, and killed him. I killed a God or a demi-God, if you will."

Cologne stared at Ranma, and then looked at Shampoo, and said to Shampoo, "We will talk about your punishment later Granddaughter, go to your room for now." Shampoo nodded miserably, and headed upstairs. Cologne then looked at Ranma, and bowed to him, then

offered him a seat. To Ranma's surprise, Cologne was treating him as an "EQUAL" instead of a mere servant or something. Ranma sat down, and then looked at Cologne, as she sat across from him, and he asked suspiciously, "What are you up to, Cologne?" Cologne was surprised to find that Ranma was actually showing her respect, and using her name, instead of showing her dis-respect by calling her old ghoul, or any of the other name's he had for her. She looked at Ranma, and quietly told him, "I am hereby canceling the kiss of death, and the kiss of marriage. I would ask instead that you ally yourself willingly with the Amazons of Joketsuzoku, and allow me to train you in what I can. I will have to let the council of elder's know that things have changed." It

then hit Cologne, that Ranma wasn't talking like he normally did, and she looked at him and asked, "What happened to your usual manner of speech Ranma?" Ranma looked at her and sighed, and said, "Yet another curse I have had to live under, thanks to that damned baka

panda! It isn't a very long story, and it takes place about a year after the training trip started, and is about 3 months before the neko-ken training."

FlashBack

Chibi-Ranma is looking at a small scroll, that he had seen fall out of his father's gi, after Genma passed out from drinking a couple dozen bottles of Sake. As Ranma looked at the scroll, a sudden mist rolled into the clearing where he and his father were camping. Ranma looked around curiously, and eventually noticed a form appearing in the mist before him. C-Ranma

looks at the form, and with the innocence of youth, (yeah, even though he has been with Genma for a year already on the training trip, Ranma still has the innocence of youth), says to the apparition, "Hi, I'm Ranma Saotome, who are you?" The apparition just looks at C-Ranma and sees that he has the scroll it wants back, and says to C-Ranma in a cold voice, "I am the spirit guardian of that scroll, it was stolen from my temple earlier today. Give it back, or I will kill you where you stand!"

C-Ranma could only look at the spirit in shock, and then look at the scroll. "But it belongs to my daddy, I saw it fall out of his gi, and I am not supposed to give anyone anything that belongs to my daddy!" The spirit looked at Genma, lying passed out on the ground, and then looked back at C-Ranma. "That is the man that stole the scroll from my temple. Give it back, or I will kill you and your father. If you argue with me or fight me, then it will go all the harder for you." C-Ranma looked at the scroll, then at the spirit, and remembered suddenly how his dad wanted him to speak, and said to the spirit, "Well, ya can't have it back, it ain't yours any more, an 'sides, wha' would a spirit need with a scroll like this anyway's?" The spirit looked at C-Ranma and sighed a ghostly sigh. "Give me the scroll, now!" Suddenly the spirit was glowing with power, and C-Ranma could only stare in shock and fear, and then he thrust the scroll towards the spirit.

The spirit took the scroll from Ranma and said, "You are a very intelligent person, but you choose to pretend to be dumb and apparently only care about the art, even though you care about more than just that. Since that is the case, I hereby curse you to talk and act as an uncultured, uneducated person, until your wedding day. When you stand before a priest, with your soon to be bride by your side, the curse will be lifted. As a Priestess of Benzaiten, I need to give you a chance to learn from your mistakes after all." The spirit then faded from sight, taking the

scroll with it, and the mist as well. C-Ranma could only stare at the spot where the spirit was a moment before, and say softly to himself, "she was scary, tho I wasn't scared, nope not at all!" So began Ranma's course of self-delusion regarding fear and everything else that was to come.

End FlashBack

Ranma looked at Cologne, and she just stared at him in shock. "You mean you have been under a curse like that since you were 7?" Ranma nodded his head, and said, "All because Oyaji couldn't leave a scroll behind, that probably didn't even contain a martial arts technique!" Cologne just shook her head, and wondered what it would take to get rid of the stupid panda? Shaking such thoughts from her head, over a mere male, Cologne looked at Ranma and asked, "So

Ranma, will you ally yourself with the Amazon tribe? I will do what I can to teach you what I am allowed to. But I will admit, since you are the first person in our history to be able to kill/defeat Saffron, by yourself, I think I will be able to convince the council to let me teach you all our techniques, as long as you promise not to use them against us, or teach them to those who might use them against us."

Ranma looked at Cologne, and said, "May I have a few days to think on this? Tentatively, I will agree to ally myself with you, but I put a condition on it."

Cologne just sighed, and asked, "That condition being?" Ranma smiled gently at Cologne, and said, "Don't worry, it isn't as bad as you might think. I just ask for the right, as your ally, to not only

train in your ways, but to train other amazon's in my style, and also, to be allowed to incorporate the amazon techniques into the Anything Goes style. I will also be allowed to train any and all students that come to me, after they have proven their Honor to my satisfaction, in the amazon version of the Anything Goes school. I will make the amazon techniques a separate part of the school, besides the hiryu shoten ha, and the bakusai tenketsu, and the Katchu Tenshin Amaguriken, separate from the regular school, but all amazon techniques will be in the Anything Goes school. Only those three techniques I have already named, will be part of the regular school! Do you agree to these terms?"

Cologne looked at Ranma in admiration, and with pride. "Ranma, you have just presented a matter to me in the same way an Elder would have, I am impressed, and I agree tentatively as well, to your conditions, since they are more than just one, but I accept. I will have to talk to the other Elder's, but I am sure they will agree. Good day to you Ranma, I need to go have a "talk" with my great-granddaughter, and that idiot Mu Tsu!" Ranma just smiled, and said, "Don't be too

hard on Mu Tsu, he knew that if he said anything, it wouldn't be believed. I must say though, Xian Pu should have told you everything. If I had known that she didn't, I would have told you myself! Good day Elder Cologne."

Cologne could only watch in shock, as the pig-tailed aquatransexual martial artist walked calmly out the door. She shook her head, and then turned to deal with her two charges, not feeling very happy with them at the moment!

Meanwhile, Back at the Dojo

Nabiki stretched, and looked at her clock by her bed. Fortunately, for everyone involved, it was summer break, so the time didn't bother Nabiki that much, except for the fact she missed breakfast. Then suddenly her eye's opened wide in shock again, as it finally seeped into her slowly booting mind, what the time actually was! 11:39 in the morning? She over slept that badly? Now granted, Nabiki wasn't a morning person, (and you all know she isn't very verbal until after breakfast, so...) but still, to over sleep that much?

She wondered why Kasumi hadn't woken her before now. But then she figured, after the last couple of days, Kasumi probably figured she needed the sleep.(1) Nabiki then got up and gathered her bathing supplies, and headed for the furoba to change, and then go clean up and soak for a few minutes.

Or rather, that was what she originally planned, but as she walked into the changing room, and looked at the mirror, all other thoughts fell by the wayside, (actually, they all fell over in a dead faint, and the wind that blew past Nabiki unnoticed, cleaned up the debris so it didn't cause a large amount of clutter.) Nabiki slowly reached up and started to rub at the spot she could see on her forehead, but not being able to remove it, she then started to rub at the triangles under each of her eyes. She was a little unnerved at not being able to remove them, and then suddenly she remembered the last time she had seen those marks on her forehead, and under her eyes...

TBC...

(1) Kasumi actually had more on her mind than waking Nabiki up, she was actually thinking about what her feelings were, should the engagement be switched to her. But then again, Kasumi hasn't admitted to any attractions for Ranma, since he is so much younger than her!

Ok everyone, now your probably sitting there wondering why I am being such a sadistic bastard, and well, all I can say is...I thought that would be a good place to stop, and well, we all love cliffhangers, right? ducks the sharp objects flying past his head, and whimpers, and then yelps in fright, as a few bullets fly over head HEY! NO GUNS! THOSE THINGS CAN KILL SOMEONE YOU KNOW! KNIVES, SWORDS, OTHER SHARP OBJECTS ARE FINE, THEY MIGHT ONLY CAUSE TEMPORARY HARM! then looks to the side, and goes absolutely pale, as he see's Nabiki glaring at him, and Ranma cracking his knuckles with a gleam in his eye's, promising massive amounts of pain. "Ummmmmm, hi you two, ummmmmmm, I promise to have the next chapter out in the next couple of days?" Nabiki just glares, but then nods. "whooooooooo, saved by my imagination!"

P.S. I know I know, the title has nothing to do with what happened in this chapter, but hehe, I guess it just didn't come about yet! I will probably just make this part one of chapter 2 and all, and then post part 2.5 in a couple of days, depending on my work schedule! Ja Ne, TTFN, and Till Next time folks! Oh, and doesn't writer's block suck?