Slay Ranma by Lioconvoy
Legal Stuff: For the most part none of the characters are mine; the characters of Ranma ½, Sailor Moon, Slayers, and others belong to their respective creators.
Other Stuff from the Author: The idea for this story came to me after reading Carrotglace's "Sailor Ranmoon Vol. 1", and sailor pluto rok's "If Akane was a sailor scout"
Chapter Two: Meeting the family
While he was looking for Akane and Ryoga, Ranma's mind was focused on what was going to happen to Ryoga now. Lina said his transformation was permanent. Many times he had wondered what he would do if he was ever stuck female. What would he tell his mother if that happened? Speaking of his mother, it seemed she caught sight of him, and was coming his way. His first instinct was to run, but then again he was in his male form. Maybe it was time to talk to her.
"Excuse my young man, are you busy right now?" Nodoka said eyeing the young man in front of her.
"Am I busy?" After the conclusions of the recent Ryu Kumon incident he thought she go back to asking random young men if they were her son. But she just asked if he was busy?
"Yes, you see my family is getting together for the "Passing of the Sword" ceremony and I'm not quite ready to introduce them to my former son." Nodoka sighed. She was tempted to visit the Tendo home and grab her son turned daughter, but this young man could pass as he son very well. He looked allot like her younger brother, he'd surely fool her parents.
Ranma tilted his head; he wasn't sure what was going on. "Former son?"
Grabbing the young man by the arm Nodoka started dragging him along to her family home. "Yes apparently he had gender re-assignment surgery. His father turned himself into a panda. Genma must have been desperate to escape from a dept. I honestly don't mind it, I just want my child back, but I guess she's too afraid to admit who she is to me. I had hoped she say something when I took in that fake a bit ago, but she's as stubborn as her father."
Ranma's face went blank, what in the world did his mother think of him.
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Ryoga was sure she left her pack in this lot. Like the voice said she didn't get lost anymore.
"Ryoga, are you sure you left your pack here?" Akane asked looking around the empty lot. "I mean there are allot of empty lots in Nerima."
"Yes it was here; look you can tell the grass over there was flattened recently. That's where my tent was last night." Ryoga remember waking up this morning. She had completed packing her tent and putting everything in her pack before she noticed the change. How she missed her chest had extra weight to it was beyond her, only the fact she couldn't lift her pack, let alone her umbrella, allowed her to see past her early morning anger to the transformation.
"Do you think someone took it?" Akane noticed Ryoga wasn't depressed but seemed truly sad. What did Ranma do to her?
"Akane, only Ranma could lift my bag, and you sent him flying in the opposite direction." Did the voice take her bag? She must be aligned with Ranma somehow.
"I told you not to turn down that street. You see, you should have listened."
Ryoga and Akane turned to see an old demented monk.
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Ranma had remained silent as he let his mother lead him. He honestly didn't know what to say. Not after what she had been telling him about how she viewed him. She was right that Ranko was her son, but that he had some sort of surgery to become her?
"Here we are the Aino family home. Remember you're Ranma Saotome and you've just came back from a training journey with your father." Nodoka was sure this boy would play the part well. He had the same vacant expression as her husband.
"Aino?" Ranma asked following his mother.
"Yes my maiden name was Aino Nodoka. I'm the middle child of three. I have an older sister Haruna, whose daughter is Minako, and I have a younger brother who my son was named after. Ranma has a son of his own named Kaoru." This information was important for her accomplice to know, so she didn't mind sharing it.
"I was named after your brother?" Ranma mentally hit himself. Maybe she would think he meant that in character. He wasn't sure she should know he really was her son yet. He really wasn't sure how to explain his curse.
"Yes, at the time I had though he was a shining example of what a man should be. I didn't find out about his habit until he started passing it on to his son." As she entered the gate to the estate she caught site of her brother and his son.
Ranma saw two young women dressed as his mother and assumed that these two must be his aunt and her daughter. The older woman had black hair worn down and the same blue eyes as his mother, her daughter had red hair in a braid longer then he wore his. Both women were flat-chested.
"Hello brother, you're looking well." Nodoka smiled.
Ranma proceeded to fall face first into the ground.
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Akane and Ryoga were lead by the monk to where he said he had taken Ryoga's belongings. Akane wondered how such a small man could carry so much, but she kept quiet.
Ryoga was used to quiet, but she didn't like it when she actually had company. Now that she was a weak little girl, was this kind of quiet going be normal. With all her strength sapped away, it would be quite some time before she was strong enough to travel, in the mean time what would she do.
"You bandana girl, what is your name?" Sakuranbou said breaking the silence, there were things he needed to discuss with this poor soul, and although he'd prefer to do it in the company of his grandson, it might be best to get it out of the way now.
"Hibiki Ryoga. Why?" Why did this monk need to know her name? What did it matter, once she got her pack she'd go back with Akane to the Tendo Dojo.
"Hmm, that won't do. Ryoga isn't a name for a girl." The monk frowned, and then started thinking of other names that may suit the newly made girl.
"I AM NOT A GIRL!"
"Yes you are, they may not be that big, but they're still very nice." Sakuranbou said this while his face was buried in Ryoga's chest.
Akane watched as Ryoga's face went red with anger. If not for the fact that this pervert knew where her pack was she'd let him die, but since they need him, Akane pulled him off of Ryoga's chest. "Just what do you think you are doing?"
"This young woman needs to be reminded what her bad karma has wrought her. If she does not accept it she cannot move on with her life." Although his face was very serious the monk smiled inwardly at just how much his position let him get away with.
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Ranma woke up finding himself in an unfamiliar room. Sitting over him was an old woman dressed as his mother. Or at least he hoped it was an old woman. Finally meeting his mother's side of the family was definitely not what he thought it would be.
"Ahh, you're awake. So young man, who are you and please don't bother pretending you're my daughter's son. You're not the first she's drug to a family gathering." The Aino Matriarch looked over the young man over once more. He definitely resembled her own son when he was younger.
"Um, actually... I am Saotome Ranma, but I don't think mom knows that." Ranma still didn't have confirmation on whether this was his grandmother or grandfather, she sounded female, but a voice could be just as deceiving.
Aino Masumi could tell from the look in her possible grandson's eyes that his experience with Ranma left him a bit confused. "I am a woman, if that's what you're trying to figure out. What do you mean your mother doesn't know it's you?"
"She thinks I've had a sex change." So this was his grandmother. Ranma wondered what the rest of his mother's family was like. This was definitely a day to remember already.
"And why does she think that?" Masumi knew her daughter had a bit of an over active imagination, but this fantasy sounded a bit odd. Unless…….but that couldn't be it. How would Genma know about that place, and why would he bring his son there?
"Well me and pop's went to China on a training journey. We went to a place called Jusenkyo and I fell in…"
"The Nyannichuan, well that explains everything. I know about the agreement your parent's made before you and your father left, and I'm more the familiar with my daughter's ability to add one and one to make three. Why did you father take you there of all places?" Masumi frowned. Genma was a bigger idiot then she thought. Making a pledge to raise his son as a man among men, and then bringing him to the one place where his son could lose his manhood. Poor boy must have been scared to death of Nodoka whenever she visited the Tendo dojo. Her daughter had spoken of the tomboy Ranko; but not of her beliefs that the tomboy was her son.
"He found a Chinese pamphlet that described training grounds. Since the Saotome School of anything goes martial arts main focus is mid-air combat, pop decided Jusenkyo be the best place for training. Course since he couldn't read the pamphlet, he didn't know it was of ancient training grounds that were no longer used." Ranma looked at his grandmother curiously, how was it she knew of Jusenkyo. "Um…"
"I know what's on your mind Ranma, and let me start by saying you're lucky to be Nodoka's child and not Haruna's. Otherwise, you'd probably share the same fate I and your grandfather had." The Aino matriarch paused. Her own daughters and son never heard this story. It was a tradition she had no intention of continuing. "For many generations the Aino Family has had a matriarch as head of the family. However in the few cases when no daughters were born to the current matriarch, her son was taken to Jusenkyo at age twelve, and forced to wade in the Nyannichuan. Then the family seal would lock the heir in there cursed state permanently. I had been born a man, but my mother forced me to continue the family tradition. From age twelve to today, I've lived as a woman. My husband and I were childhood friends, after I became a woman; he sought out Jusenkyo to become a man. Kimiko opted to have the seal place on himself as well, if I was to be stuck this way he thought it be unfair to be able to change back. Even after all this time, I wish the seals could be broken so Kimiko and I could end our days in our proper genders."
Ranma just sat there surprised at what he was hearing. During the time he was trapped as a girl by the full body cat tongue, Dr. Tofu mentioned Ranma was fully capable of living out the rest of his days as a woman, even to the point of having children. He never wanted to live that possibility and yet here his grandmother had.
"Don't dwell on it too much Ranma. Come on, they're all waiting for us downstairs." Masumi smiled. Ranma got out of the bed and the two went downstairs.
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Lina had been following Ryoga, Akane and the priest that had taken Ryoga's backpack. They eventually ended up at a Shinto Shrine. Images of Ryoga in the uniform of a priestess popped into her head. She wondered if she could fix it so Ryoga would stay here instead of at the Tendo's.
"Grandson!" Sakuranbou called out into the shrine.
"Ahh grandfather, who are these young ladies?"
Akane looked at the priest who had just exited the shrine. He was a young man with black hair in a short pony-tail, and purple eyes. Although the purple eyes were odd, altogether he was cute. He was also a bit familiar. Wait, he had been one of Kasumi's friends in High School, what was his name though.
"Miroku the long haired lady is the owner to the backpack and umbrella, and the short haired one is her friend." The monk smiled.
Lina saw something in the smile of the old man that told her she might just be getting her wish. Ryoga as a priestess would make her fit the role she literally walked into better.
"I thought you said the owner of the items we found this morning was a young man?" Miroku walked over to Ryoga and then patted her butt. "I don't see how you could confuse her for a boy."
Ryoga's face went red with anger and she closed her eyes. First the monk planted his face in her chest and now this priest touched her behind. Her backpack was here, she could kill these two now. If they were still standing in front of her that is. As she opened her eyes she noticed Akane had already sent them flying via Mallet Express.
"Let's get your stuff and go home." Akane said this as her mallet disappeared.
"One of these days I'll figure out where you put that."
Akane and Ryoga turned around to see a black cat. Ryoga recognized the voice as Lina Inverse, the one responsible for her current state. "You're a talking cat?"
"Yes, although that I can rightfully blame on Ranma's ancestors. You however have nothing to blame on Ranma anymore since the Jusenkyo curse he gave you is gone." Lina noticed the blank face on Akane as she approached the two.
"Ryoga had a Jusenkyo curse?" As Akane thought about this she remembered that Ryoga always disappeared around cold water, but what was his curse? Then something else hit her. A cat was talking to her. "Your name isn't Luna is it? I am going to be a Sailor Senshi!?"
Ryoga's eyes went wide. Sailor Senshi? He had seen a few episodes cradled in Akane's arms as P-chan. Those were the girls in short skirt with stupid speeches that fought evil. Maybe the only thing Ryoga would ever agree with Ranma on was that the show was idiotic. "You said Ranma, Akane, and I are your champions, we're not going to be Senshi are we?"
"First Akane, I am Lina Inverse. I am an immortal Sorceress whose duty is protect this world from Shabranigdo, a being of great evil power. However my immortality cost me my form so I am trapped as a cat. Ryoga, you three will be Senshi. I could have found another way to bestow powers to my champion's but I like to see Ranma suffer and I thought this would be a good way to accomplish some suffering."
Akane jumped for joy, she was going to be a beautiful sailor suited warrior of love and Justice. Obviously she was going to be Sailor Mercury, out of the names mentioned she was the most intelligent. Then something entered her head. "Ranma's half girl, but why did you choose Ryoga?"
"I didn't mean to, she got in the way of an orb meant for someone else. For now the three of you will do though. I don't want Moregan being able to adapt to her foe." Lina felt something. They were back. "I will speak more about this later."
Ryoga watched the cat take off. She said she like to see Ranma suffer, so why couldn't she fix him so she could pound Ranma. As she was now her blows didn't even phase Ranma one bit. Also why did she make it so Ranma wasn't locked in his curse form? She'd sort this out when she got back to the Tendo's. "Let's get my bag."
"Leaving so soon?"
"You know it's possible I will be able to do something about your predicament. The two of you should stay a bit longer."
The monk and the priest; how the heck did they get back her so quickly. It normally took Ranma forever to return from a mallet trip. "Do you really think you can help Ryoga?"
"Ryoga's curse has been cause by bad Karma. I believe it's possible to reverse it if we improve upon the state of her karma." As Miroku said this he patted Ryoga's behind again. "However, it would be a waste. You're a very cute young lady."
Sakuranbou watched as his grandson was sent flying once more by the short haired girl's mallet. "You know my grandson meant what he said. It wasn't an excuse to fondle your friend."
"I have a feeling he would of done it anyway." If this perverted duo did have a way to turn Ryoga back maybe it was worth listening to them, but Akane was going to keep her mallet out just in case.
"Let's go inside while we wait for my grandson." The monk sighed.
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Lio's Corner:
-Well I got a bit of an idea going so I thought I'd write it out right away. Sorry for the lack of action, I'm not ready for that yet.
-After a bit of research the events of this story take place after Ranma's encounter with Ryu Kumon. Nodoka hadn't found out about Ranma's curse yet.
-Innortal and Emma Iveli: This chapter should have answered that question.
-RubberNeck: Ryoga's transformation is permanent, but it's not a curse. Nodoka's family is descended from Sylphiel and Gourry.
-tatsu: No Happosai in this story, if I do a sequel then where he's been and why he was absent will be explained. Right now I have plans to end the story after Moregan is stopped. I have a few ideas for the sequel that include Happy, but whether or not I get to them is another matter.
