Chapter 1 Here's Ranma...
'Bringing Ranma from China. Genma.'
At those words on the postcard with a panda on it, Soun Tendo started tearing up as he usually did when overstimulated. "At last, Ranma is coming. I must tell the girls."
"Kasumi!"
A young woman in the kitchen cutting up watermelon stopped what she was doing and turned around. "Yes, Father?"
"Come into the sitting room. I've got something to tell you all." Soun eagerly told her before running off.
'Oh my, wonder what has him all riled up all of a sudden.' Kasumi thought before washing her hands and doing as she was told.
"Nabiki!"
A younger woman was lying on her bed with a popsicle in her mouth and looking at a magazine. "Hmm?"
"Come down to the sitting room. Family meeting." Soun told her before running off again.
'Haven't seen him this eager since the bar had a two-for-one special. This must be big.' Nabiki thought as she stretched off her mattress.
"Akane. Akane? Where is that girl?" The Tendo patriarch asked himself, unable to find his youngest child.
Said teenager came into the house from a side entrance after a jog and went to the family dojo, eager for a little more in her workout. She changed into her gi and set up some cinder blocks, and then crushed them with a karate chop. "That felt good."
"Y'know, this is exactly why the boys at school think you're strange Akane." Nabiki commented, standing by the entrance to the dojo.
"So what?" Akane snuffed. "Not everyone thinks the world revolves around boys Nabiki." She said the word 'boys' as if it was venomous.
Nabiki turned away with her arms behind her head. "Oh yeah? Well, then maybe you wouldn't be interested in what Daddy has to tell us." She walked away before Akane could ask for more.
'Huh? What does she mean by that?' Akane asked herself, then followed her sister. She met up with her in the sitting room, and sat down with her and Kasumi on one side of the low table across from their father. "What's going on, Dad?"
"Well, I got a postcard from an old friend of mine. He and I were students of Anything Goes Martial Arts years ago and even though we specialized in different aspects of the art and did different things afterwards, we both knew one day it would be good to unite the two branches again. So we decided that in the future, if one of us had a son and the other a daughter, we'd get the two wed so the schools would be united."
None of his daughters said anything, but he could tell they had already put the pieces together. Nevertheless, he continued his explanation. "My friend, Genma Saotome, had one child, a son named Ranma. If one of you three were to marry him, the future and well-being of yourself and the estate would be secure."
"Now wait a minute!" Akane angrily yelled. "Don't we get to have a say in who we marry?"
"Akane's right, Father." Kasumi calmly added. "We've never even met Ranma."
"That's easily fixed. He's on his way here." Soun told them.
"Now?" Akane asked, not liking this more and more.
"Yes. Ranma and his father have been on a training trip for about ten years and are headed this way. They've been to quite a few places, and recently it seems they've crossed into China." Soun explained.
Nabiki sure was impressed. "Wow! China?" 'Must have quite a wallet to afford that trip.'
Akane wasn't so impressed. "So he went all the way to China. Big deal."
"What kind of guy is he? Is he cute?" Nabiki curiously asked.
"How old is he? Younger men bore me." Kasumi wondered. "What kind of guy is this Ranma?"
Soun took a deep breath. "I don't know."
"You don't know?" Nabiki repeated, frowning.
"I've never met him." He confessed casually. Needless to say, this did not help his case, and things got quiet enough that the soft sound of rain starting could be heard from outside.
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The sounds of fighting down the street could be heard, and passerbys looked over to see what was going on. Imagine their surprise when they see, of all things possible and impossible, a teenaged girl running around in public in broad daylight and the rain in a skimpy bikini, chased by a panda of all things. The girl turned around to face the creature and took up a combat stance. "Your move, old man." No male could take their eyes off her. She wore a black bikini, which if it was a full body a lightning bolt would be on it, on a killer body, and her bust was the envy of many girls, and had platinum blond hair. All the women around were horrified by her lack of decency and jealous of her figure at the same time.
The Panda held up a sign, 'This marriage is for the honour of the schools!' flip, 'They must be joined!'
"What honour," The girl shouted back. "You stole, you arranged multiple marriages for me, some of them for a piece of sardine, and you stole my Sundae Special!"
'Stop complaining,' flip, 'You sound just like a girl,' the panda signed.
The girl kicked a firehydrant and the entire thing went sailing into the panda's head, "I am one thanks to you! Anyway, I'm not going!"
With that she started to float away, but she appeared to have difficulty staying in the air. The panda picked up a stop sign from the sidewalk and wacked it on the girls head before she could get to far.
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At the Tendos, "So when are they going to be here," Nabiki asked.
Just then they heard the front door slide open and Soun said, "That must be them!"
Nabiki and Soun raced to the front and they were greated by a panda and a bikini clad girl, "Let go of my old man!" With that she flipped throwing the panda over Nabiki and Soun and she saw them and she quickly said, "Sorry 'bout this. I'm Ranma Saotome."
Soun started crieing as he hugged the newly christened Ranma and Ranma quickly got him off, "Umm daddy, that's not a boy," Nabiki said as she started poking Ranma, generous assets.
"Would you stop that," Ranma said slightly agitated.
"Oh my," Kasumi said as she walked in, followed by Akane.
"She's nothing but a skank," Akane nearly shouted.
"Nice meeting you too," Ranma said sarcasticlly.
"Sorry about my younger sister," Kasumi apologized for her younger sisters words.
"It's not your fault," Ranma said bowing respectively back as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Stop apologizing for the skank," Akana scolded her older sister.
"She's our guest Akane, and we should be respectful," Kasumi replied with her normal smile.
"Do you have hot water that I can borrow," Ranma asked.
"Of course, how hot do you want it," Kasumi asked.
"Hot enough," Ranma replied.
-3 minutes later-
Kasumi came back with a glass of hot water and she handed it to Ranma which she quickly poured over herself and the girl was replaced by a black haired man, in a pigtail, wearing chinese style clothing and the now boy Ranma said, "I'm Ranma Saoutome. Sorry 'bout this."
The Tendo's were a gape at whata they saw.
Akane was the first to recover and she yelled, "I knew it you are a pervet!" She pulled out her Pervert Hammer and swung at Ranma and she missed as Ranma seemed to vanish as she was about to hit him.
"Where did he go," Akane shouted/ask as she held the hammer part behind her, ready to swing.
The Tendo's looked around and they heard, "Nice view up here."
They turned and saw Ranma standing on the hammer part of Akane's hammer and Akane started swinging as Ranma jumped off and effortlessly dodged Akane's swings. Ranma than got in a series of jabs causing Akane's arms to go numb and drop the hammer as she lost feeling in her arms.
"You pervert," Akane yelled, "How dare you do that to me!"
Ranma shot back, "Maybe if you weren't trying to maime me and I'd probably wouldn't have used the pressure points in your arm."
"This is interesting in all but how are able to change into a girl and back?" Nabiki interrupted.
"I'd be happy to explain," Ranma said as Kasumi brought in some more hot water and she poured some over the panda who was currently playing with a ball, trying to look innocent. The panda turned into a middle aged man. "Care to explain to your old friend how we got this curse old man?"
The man held up a sign that said, 'I'm just an innocent panda.' This caused the Tendo daughters to anime sweatdrop at what the sign said.
"Akane, is it? Would you be so kind and use the hammer of yours," Ranma asked, Akane did just that.
-Flashback China a little over a month ago-
Ranma and Genma stood taking a breather and looking at their destination. They saw many small pools of water that looked like oversized puddles, all with at least one tall bamboo pole sticking out of them, sometimes two or three, all surrounded by some mountains that led to one of three ancient Chinese tribes. Greeting them was one portly Chinese man in a green uniform who had been expecting them thanks to a phone call by Genma to confirm the location of the grounds. Too bad Genma didn't bother to hear the warning in the call, or he might have reconsidered coming here.
"Welcome sirs to hidden training grounds Jusenkyo. Also called Grounds of Accursed Springs by neighboring tribes that use for training or punishment. Still in use today but not as much as long ago." The guide greeted them, speaking broken Japanese with a typical Chinese accent. It almost sounded stereotypical. "There much history to these grounds. Over one hundred springs here and every one have tragic story attached to it. Only the best fighters dare to train here and even they sometimes fall victim to Jusenkyo curse."
"Hmmph. You intimidated boy?" Genma asked, paying no mind to the mention of a curse. All he heard was 'only the best fighters dare to train here' and figured it was a good way to test Ranma's skills.
"Not all all. Didn't come all this way just ta chicken out now." Ranma said before he took his pack off, his thought process similar to Genma's at the moment. Genma did the same with his pack.
The guide was about to tell them exactly why and how the training ground was cursed, but before he could, they jumped on top of two separate poles and took careful stances. Needless to say, the guide was shocked as there had not been any visitors that didn't at least heed the warning in years. "What you doing? Sirs, very bad if you fall in spring."
Ranma and Genma ignored that, figuring he just meant it was against the point to get wet, which was obvious. "I'm not gonna go easy on you son." Genma warned, arms stretched out to balance himself.
"Heh, I wouldn't want you to." Ranma added, his arms more poised to retaliate but still balancing him.
"Sirs, get down from there. Bad idea to just-" The guide tried to warn them still, but paused when they started jumping and fighting in midair. The two fought in the way Saotomes specialize in for about three minutes before Ranma found an opening and kicked Genma. The bald man fell down into a spring and sank under the surface. "Ooh, not good. Mr. Customer fall in cursed spring."
"Hey Pop we done already?" Ranma asked, disappointed since his father wasn't getting up as quickly as he usually did in their spars.
A panda jumped out of the spring and took a fighting stance a confused Ranma said, "A panda? Since when panda's learn the art?"
"He fall into Spring of Drowned Panda." Guide answered. "Tragic story of panda that drown in there 3600 year ago. Now anyone that fall in spring take body of panda."
"What? Hey, you never said anything about-" Ranma shouted. Genma took the opportunity to sneak in another attack, believing the spar wasn't over yet just because he changed species all of a sudden. The now panda Genma attacked Ranma when he was still flabbergasted as to what was going on
When Ranma surfaced, he was too busy coughing up water to notice any change. When he wiped the water out of his eyes he could see again, and the first thing he could see was blond to the side of his eyes. Wondering if he had been changed into anything, he fearfully touched the yellow stuff and saw it was hair. His hair. 'My hair is blonde!'
"Sorry younger customer. Tried to warn but you two no listen." The guide told him, walking towards him. "You fell into Spring of Drowned Bikini clad superheroine. Tragic story of a female hero that drown there 5 year ago. Now whoever fall in take body of girl super. Oddly, one of few springs that affect clothing too. Not know why."
Ranma's eyes widened at hearing the words 'take body of young girl', the oni part not registering in his mind. He reached for his white gi to get a good look at his chest to confirm this, but didn't feel it. Instead, he felt a pair of breasts held by something much like a bra. Ranma looked down and saw just that, and screamed.
"See? Now you young girl." The guide added.
Ranma climbed out of the water and saw he... she was wearing something that looked and felt like panties or the bottom half of a two piece swimsuit. Feeling all over her body, she confirmed it was true, he was now a she. A blonde, well-figured, barely dressed, she.
-End Flashback-
Kasumi was wiping the tears coming from her eyes, Akane was glaring out him, and Soun and Tendo were balling their eyes out at the story, Nabiki was wondering how she could use this to her advantage.
"I managed to get the travel broucher that my old man used to go there and in the last line it said and I quote, 'We are not responsible for the form you may get cursed with,' and my old man was to lazy to read that part," Ranma explaiined.
"So it your fathers fault," Nabiki said and Ranma nodded.
"He wouldn't allow me to read and I managed to steal it the day after," Ranma explained furher.
"You're just a pervert and you know it," Akane said giving him the 3rd degree.
"I'm no pervert," Ranma said.
"You change into a girl, what's more perveted than that," Akane shouted back using her logic.
"He could use his curse into sneaking into the girls side of the hot springs," Nabiki suggested.
Akane galared at Ranma and he continued, "If you want to blame someone blame my old man, 9 out of 10 times some BS appears in my life, it can be somehow linked back to him."
To Be Continued...
A/N: Ranma's outfit and appearance in his girlform is the cover image.
OCC Ranma
Ranma only had his cursed form for only a month so he/she doesn't have full control of his powers from his female body.