|\v/| Primal Chaos
|=_=| [rn][xo:fus][bw] A Ranma 1/2 / Beast Wars crossover fusion
:\_/: Part 6: I'm gonna wash that Maximal right out of your hair!
---begin part 6---
"Ohhh...," Kasumi gasped as Shan Pu planted a kiss on Nabiki's
cheek. "Is that ...?" She paused in horror.
"... the Kiss of Death?" Akane completed.
"Now wait a minute," Ranma protested as he stepped between Shan Pu
and Nabiki. "There's no need to go that far."
"Darling," Shan Pu sighed as she cuddled against his frame while
casting a warning glare at Nabiki.
"Will you listen to me? I'm not marrying anyone!"
"So you're the son-in-law," a new voice added from near the fire.
"I never expected to find the Musk in Japan."
"We're not the Musk," Ranma protested. "Who are you, anyway?"
"She is great grandmother," Shan Pu introduced the old woman.
"This Shan Pu lover, great grandma. He strong warrior, yes?"
She leaned against him and sighed dreamily.
"Would you stop doing that!?"
"Oh, another guest! Where are my manners?" Kasumi blushed with
embarrassment. "Would you like some tea, grand mother?"
"Yes, thank you, Dear," the old woman chuckled merrily then
regarded Ranma curiously.
"I don't think they're 'guests', Kasumi," Akane told her sister
crossly and glared at Ranma.
"So you're not a Musk Warrior, eh?" the old woman asked. "Somehow
I'm not surprised. Well then, there's still no reason you can't
marry Shan Pu. Our way is to marry a strong man, where're you come
from."
"Are you deaf?" Soun yelled at the old woman. "I tell you Ranma
will marry one of my daughters."
"I say thee nay!" Tatewaki proclaimed as he strode into the camp.
He pointed his sword accusingly at Ranma, who was still trying to
prise Shan Pu from his body. "It is obvious that this ... cad is
not worthy of your daughters' love and attention, Mister Tendo."
"Yo, Pop!" Ranma growled at the tiger, "was there any point of even
sending you out on patrol?"
"Hey, it's a big mountain," the tiger protested.
"Tendo Nabiki, my proud lioness!" Tatewaki pronounced as he strode
up to her and presented a plush mouse, "Can you forgive me for ever
doubting you. This is a mere token of my affection."
"Thank you, Kuno, but it's not my style," Nabiki rejected the toy.
"Anyway, I thought you liked Akane? You're really something,
dumping her like this. She's right here, you know."
"Dumping her?" Tatewaki asked in surprise and looked at Akane.
"Please, Kuno," Akane tried to suppress the relief and laughter.
"If it's Nabiki you've chosen, I won't stand in your way."
"Oh, Akane!" Tatewaki sighed. "So sweet and understanding. So
touching! How can I discard you! I love you both!" He moved to
embrace her and received a fist to the face.
"You're not thinking of two timing us?" Nabiki demanded with a
frown.
"How vulgar," Tatewaki dismissed. "Nabiki, you are so cool and
proud. Akane, you are so pure and fierce. Do you call it deceit
that I would seek to openly date you both?"
"No I ...," Nabiki started to protest, then recalled the situation
her father placed her in with Ranma and her sisters. "That is
...."
"Well, Son-in-law," Shan Pu's grandmother chuckled. "It looks like
you have a rival for your women. Why don't you just switch to Shan
Pu."
"Oh, not at all," Kasumi piped up hopefully as she poured the tea.
"Ranma can still choose me. I'm not seeing anyone and she's got
Mousse." She blushed at her forwardness.
"What you talking bout?" Shan Pu demanded in open confusion. "Mu
Tzu just friend from childhood days."
"What's this?" Tatewaki exclaimed. "Another Tendo sister? One as
beautiful as the others. It would be a shame to let such a flower
fall into the hands of that fiend Saotome. No fear, my ponytailed
goddess, for I shall date with thee!"
"What is your problem with me?" Ranma demanded hotly. "Haven't you
got that 'werecat' bug out of your system yet?"
"Ah, Saotome. Forsooth I was mistaken about the source of your
power, yet it is plain that I was correct about the nature of your
evil! Even though you have the Tendo girls, you consort with
another. Die, enemy of women!"
"Look who's talking!" Ranma accused as he dodged the sweep of
Tatewaki's blade while still held in Shan Pu's clutches. "Yow!
Would you let go, Shampoo?"
"Shan Pu never let husband go!" she asserted and snuggled.
"Oh ho ho ho! Never fear, Ranma Darling! I shall save you from
these vile harridans! Then we can be wed!"
"How many bride husband have?" Shan Pu demanded as Kodachi landed
in the camp.
"Will you all listen to me! I'm not going to marry anyone ...!"
"... but one of Soun's daughters," the tiger interrupted with a paw
bash to Ranma's head.
"Never!" Tatewaki cried and lunged at Ranma but received Shan Pu's
foot in his face instead.
"How dare you strike a Kuno!?" Kodachi demanded. "Even though you
were defending my Darling Ranma, I cannot allow it!"
"Is not creepy spider girl Ranma," Shan Pu declared as she finally
released him to face off against Kodachi. "Is Shan Pu Ranma!"
"Hey!" Akane growled as she advanced on Kodachi, "don't think I've
forgotten about your cowardly attack on my sisters."
"Cowardly?" Kodachi laughed. "I was merely ..."
---
"So, you speak Japanese very well, grandmother," Kasumi observed
calmly over the sounds of the brawl.
"I haven't lived a hundred years for nothing," the old woman
chuckled as she sipped her tea and observed the fight.
"Oh, then you're not as old as you look," Nabiki cracked wisely.
"So if you're not really the Musk," the old woman asked pointedly,
"then how did you gain their power?"
"Ranma and his father stole into the Musk's fortress and discovered
their secret," Nabiki replied cautiously. "What do you know of the
Musk?"
"Not much," the old woman supplied candidly. "I was surprised to
hear that they still existed. And Son-in-law has been sharing
their secret?"
"Not exactly," Nabiki observed. "We think someone from the Musk
has been reformatting Ranma's enemies for some reason."
"Why would they do that?" the old woman demanded. "The Musk were
reputed to guard their secret zealously."
"Why don't we just ask that nice Kuno boy?" Kasumi wondered.
"Because he's an idiot," Nabiki supplied blithely then added,
"actually, because it's not likely they'd have told him the truth."
'... or that he'd recognise it if they did,' she added silently.
---
"Don't interfere in my fight!" Akane protested loudly as Ranma
swept her off her feet just as a web-tossed Shan Pu chrashed into
the tree behind where she'd been standing.
"Oh, spider girl so good with trick web," Shan Pu had to admit as
she sliced through the strand binding her feet with her sword.
Unfazed by the impact she added jauntily, "still, creepy girl is
not being enough good at beating Shan Pu!"
"We shall see about that, you foreign trash!" Kodachi laughed as
she readied another strand.
"Saotome, release the fair Akane at once!" Tatewaki ordered as
he gave chase. "Come back here and fight, you coward."
Ranma sprang off a branch, deposited the girl on the ground then
somersaulted towards Tatewaki only to cartwheel to the left as the
sword slashed down in his path.
"Hold still, Saotome," Tatewaki yelled, "so I may deliver righteous
justice to yow!" A loop of silk cord wrapped around Tatewaki's
waist and yanked him into the air.
"Ho ho ho ho!" Kodachi proclaimed as she hurled Tatewaki towards
a boulder. "I cannot let even my brother harm my Darling Ranma!"
"Is not girl Ranma!" Shan Pu protested as she jump kicked Kodachi
in the head. "Is Shan Pu Ranma!"
"Hey, I'm not a possession, you know," Ranma observed as he rolled
to his feet.
"Beast Mode," Tatewaki snarled, transformed then rolled in the air
to spring off the boulder and dive at Ranma with slashing talons
and snapping jaws.
Ranma tumbled backwards, shouldered the ground and kick-tossed the
'raptor high into the air. "Say, you've gotten better, Kuno," he
observed. "Still not good enough to beat me, but not bad."
Tatewaki transformed as he plummeted and held his sword ready.
"Ha! I, the Golden Meteor, have thee now! Prepare to taste
defeat, Saotome."
"Taste my feet," Ranma grinned, transformed and sprang towards the
plummeting cyborg swordsman.
Their sword and paws slashed at each other as they passed, but
neither came close enough to hit.
"First blood!" Tatewaki cried triumphantly as he tumbled to his
feet. His sword pointed victoriously towards the cheetah as it
too landed on its feet.
"What?" the cheetah gasped as he stared at the red servo fluid
leaking from his flank. "Wow! You didn't even touch me!"
"Now you taste the fruits of my training," Tatewaki gloated. "I
shall be victorious."
"Oh, I don't know about that," Ranma smirked. "You took quite a
hit too."
"What are you ...?" Tatewaki stopped asking to stare at the kanji
scratched into his brazen armor. "How dare you mar a samurai's
armor!?"
"Hold still you vile harlot!" Kodachi yelled as Shan Pu
demonstrated her acrobatic skill by playing leap frog with the
beast warrior.
Akane snarled furiously. She couldn't even keep up with the fully
fleshed (in more ways than one, damn it) Joketsu warrior. Seething
with envy she hurled herself at Kodachi, determined to show her
skill was not to be ignored. "Hey! You're supposed to be fighting
me!"
High in the air Shan Pu suddenly saw an opening and thought
maliciously as she dropped down, 'now is my chance to finish off a
rival! This is too good!'
---
"That boy of yours is pretty good," Soun admired as he watched the
fight.
"Your daughter could do with some more agility though," Genma
frowned. "I'll have to speak to Ranma about stepping up her
training."
Soun nodded thoughtfully. "Do you think we should help them?"
Genma looked as Soun. Soun looked back. As one they exclaimed,
"nah!"
After a while Genma asked, "did you bring a shogi board?"
"Of course!" Soun exclaimed and the two turned their back on the
'training exercise' to get down to something serious.
---
"Akane!" Kasumi gasped as she dropped her tea cup. She was too
distraught to notice the cup chip which, for those who knew her,
was a sign of severe distraction indeed.
Ranma, still in beast mode, turned at the alarm and sprang into
action, with Tatewaki following not far behind. The cheetah
barrelled into Shan Pu; knocking her from atop of Akane. His
sensitive nose was suddenly filled with a pungent herbal scent,
giving the Joketsuzoku warrior an opening to flee. Somehow the
big cat did not see so cuddlesome to her at that moment.
"Tendo Akane!" Tatewaki exclaimed as cradled her. Gazing into
her eyes he asked, "art thou unharmed, My Love?"
Those eyes clouded in confusion then cleared. "I feel fine," she
replied and brushed her hair. "I feel strangely ... refreshed.
Say, who are you, anyway?"
"What art thou saying?" Tatewaki demanded.
"You're certainly being fresh," Akane observed and she pushed out
of his grasp. "Have we met somewhere?"
"I am Kuno Tatewaki," the swordsman proclaimed, "the Bronze Dragon
of Furiniken High! Surely thou canst have forgotten thy love!"
"You're ... my lover?" Akane reeled in shock.
"Nay, I said ..." Tatewaki paused in mid correction. "Yea, verily
that is so."
"Gee, Kuno, have _you_ forgotten your 'fierce lioness'?" Nabiki
asked mockingly as her beast mode landed on Tatewaki's head. "I'm
crushed! How will I ever get over you? Seriously, Akane, are you
sure you're okay?"
"Oh my!" Akane exclaimed in shock. "A talking cat!"
"I'm your sister, Nabiki," the cat observed. "How could you have
forgotten me?"
"Uh, Nabiki, maybe you'd better transform," Ranma said and
maximised himself.
"Who are you people?" Akane gasped as she shuttled her gaze
between Ranma and Nabiki. "What are you?"
"What did that shampoo do to you?" Nabiki asked as she peered
down at her befuddled sibling and sniffed.
"Tendo Nabiki," Tatewaki fumed. "Will you please get off of my
head?"
"Oh gosh!" Kasumi exclaimed as she reached the fighters. "It
sounds like you have amnesia, Akane."
"That's okay," Soun said as he hugged his youngest daughter.
"As long as my little girl hasn't forgotten me."
"And who are you, sir?" Akane asked. "You're being awfully
familiar, aren't you?"
"Wah! My baby's forgotten her Daddy!" Soun's floodgates were
released.
"Shan Pu," Ke Lon frowned up a tree. "What did you do to the
girl? You know the Xi Fa Xian Gao Shiatsu is not to be used
that way!"
"Shan Pu only try make girl forget everything _about Ranma_," the
treed girl replied petulantly, "but husband be interrupting. Bad
husband! Shan Pu punish, yes."
Ranma gasped, "you mean that Akane has forgotten ..." He trailed
off and stared at the girl.
"Who's Akane?" Akane wondered in bewilderment.
"... everything," Ke Lon confirmed. "So it would seem."
---
"The Xi Fa Xiang Gao Shiatsu technique uses a combination of
herbal essences and pressure points to manipulate memory," Ke
Lon explained as they gathered around the campfire.
"That sounds, interesting ..." Kodachi exclaimed and leaned
forward eager to hear the details.
"It sounds sort of like retrophrenology," Genma mussed.
"Exactly," Ke Lon said then blinked in confusion. "Eh? What?"
"Phenology was the 'science' of judging a person's personality by
the bumps on his head," Nabiki supplied.
"That's correct," Genma agreed with a nod. "So it stands to reason
that you can change a person's personality ..."
"You are _not_ going to hit my daughter in the head!" Soun yelled
at his old friend.
"Only a total idiot would try that!" Kasumi exclaimed in shock.
"I did not!" Genma protested then flustered, "that is ... I mean
..."
"You people are weird," Akane commented as she drew away from them.
"Anyway," Ke Lon continued. "To cure the Akane, all you need is
secret formula 911 shampoo. Any Healthy Goodness store in China
will know how to make it."
"Then there's no time to waste!" Ranma exclaimed as he stood up
suddenly. "To China! I'll get that shampoo even if I have to swim
there. It'll be hard, but I did it befo.... Ow! What'd ya do
that for?"
Ranma rubbed his head where Ke Lon had clubbed it and turned to
stare at the bottle of formula 911 which she dangled before his
face. "Oh .... Hey! Give me that!"
"Do you think it will be so easy?" Ke Lon asked as she hopped away
from Ranma and tucked the bottle in her robes. "I will cure the
girl when you agree to marry Shan Pu."
"Oh, great grandmother is so so smart!" Shan Pu exclaimed joyously.
"Why you old ...," Ranma growled and cracked his mechanical
knuckles.
---end part 6---
|=_=| [rn][xo:fus][bw] A Ranma 1/2 / Beast Wars crossover fusion
:\_/: Part 6: I'm gonna wash that Maximal right out of your hair!
---begin part 6---
"Ohhh...," Kasumi gasped as Shan Pu planted a kiss on Nabiki's
cheek. "Is that ...?" She paused in horror.
"... the Kiss of Death?" Akane completed.
"Now wait a minute," Ranma protested as he stepped between Shan Pu
and Nabiki. "There's no need to go that far."
"Darling," Shan Pu sighed as she cuddled against his frame while
casting a warning glare at Nabiki.
"Will you listen to me? I'm not marrying anyone!"
"So you're the son-in-law," a new voice added from near the fire.
"I never expected to find the Musk in Japan."
"We're not the Musk," Ranma protested. "Who are you, anyway?"
"She is great grandmother," Shan Pu introduced the old woman.
"This Shan Pu lover, great grandma. He strong warrior, yes?"
She leaned against him and sighed dreamily.
"Would you stop doing that!?"
"Oh, another guest! Where are my manners?" Kasumi blushed with
embarrassment. "Would you like some tea, grand mother?"
"Yes, thank you, Dear," the old woman chuckled merrily then
regarded Ranma curiously.
"I don't think they're 'guests', Kasumi," Akane told her sister
crossly and glared at Ranma.
"So you're not a Musk Warrior, eh?" the old woman asked. "Somehow
I'm not surprised. Well then, there's still no reason you can't
marry Shan Pu. Our way is to marry a strong man, where're you come
from."
"Are you deaf?" Soun yelled at the old woman. "I tell you Ranma
will marry one of my daughters."
"I say thee nay!" Tatewaki proclaimed as he strode into the camp.
He pointed his sword accusingly at Ranma, who was still trying to
prise Shan Pu from his body. "It is obvious that this ... cad is
not worthy of your daughters' love and attention, Mister Tendo."
"Yo, Pop!" Ranma growled at the tiger, "was there any point of even
sending you out on patrol?"
"Hey, it's a big mountain," the tiger protested.
"Tendo Nabiki, my proud lioness!" Tatewaki pronounced as he strode
up to her and presented a plush mouse, "Can you forgive me for ever
doubting you. This is a mere token of my affection."
"Thank you, Kuno, but it's not my style," Nabiki rejected the toy.
"Anyway, I thought you liked Akane? You're really something,
dumping her like this. She's right here, you know."
"Dumping her?" Tatewaki asked in surprise and looked at Akane.
"Please, Kuno," Akane tried to suppress the relief and laughter.
"If it's Nabiki you've chosen, I won't stand in your way."
"Oh, Akane!" Tatewaki sighed. "So sweet and understanding. So
touching! How can I discard you! I love you both!" He moved to
embrace her and received a fist to the face.
"You're not thinking of two timing us?" Nabiki demanded with a
frown.
"How vulgar," Tatewaki dismissed. "Nabiki, you are so cool and
proud. Akane, you are so pure and fierce. Do you call it deceit
that I would seek to openly date you both?"
"No I ...," Nabiki started to protest, then recalled the situation
her father placed her in with Ranma and her sisters. "That is
...."
"Well, Son-in-law," Shan Pu's grandmother chuckled. "It looks like
you have a rival for your women. Why don't you just switch to Shan
Pu."
"Oh, not at all," Kasumi piped up hopefully as she poured the tea.
"Ranma can still choose me. I'm not seeing anyone and she's got
Mousse." She blushed at her forwardness.
"What you talking bout?" Shan Pu demanded in open confusion. "Mu
Tzu just friend from childhood days."
"What's this?" Tatewaki exclaimed. "Another Tendo sister? One as
beautiful as the others. It would be a shame to let such a flower
fall into the hands of that fiend Saotome. No fear, my ponytailed
goddess, for I shall date with thee!"
"What is your problem with me?" Ranma demanded hotly. "Haven't you
got that 'werecat' bug out of your system yet?"
"Ah, Saotome. Forsooth I was mistaken about the source of your
power, yet it is plain that I was correct about the nature of your
evil! Even though you have the Tendo girls, you consort with
another. Die, enemy of women!"
"Look who's talking!" Ranma accused as he dodged the sweep of
Tatewaki's blade while still held in Shan Pu's clutches. "Yow!
Would you let go, Shampoo?"
"Shan Pu never let husband go!" she asserted and snuggled.
"Oh ho ho ho! Never fear, Ranma Darling! I shall save you from
these vile harridans! Then we can be wed!"
"How many bride husband have?" Shan Pu demanded as Kodachi landed
in the camp.
"Will you all listen to me! I'm not going to marry anyone ...!"
"... but one of Soun's daughters," the tiger interrupted with a paw
bash to Ranma's head.
"Never!" Tatewaki cried and lunged at Ranma but received Shan Pu's
foot in his face instead.
"How dare you strike a Kuno!?" Kodachi demanded. "Even though you
were defending my Darling Ranma, I cannot allow it!"
"Is not creepy spider girl Ranma," Shan Pu declared as she finally
released him to face off against Kodachi. "Is Shan Pu Ranma!"
"Hey!" Akane growled as she advanced on Kodachi, "don't think I've
forgotten about your cowardly attack on my sisters."
"Cowardly?" Kodachi laughed. "I was merely ..."
---
"So, you speak Japanese very well, grandmother," Kasumi observed
calmly over the sounds of the brawl.
"I haven't lived a hundred years for nothing," the old woman
chuckled as she sipped her tea and observed the fight.
"Oh, then you're not as old as you look," Nabiki cracked wisely.
"So if you're not really the Musk," the old woman asked pointedly,
"then how did you gain their power?"
"Ranma and his father stole into the Musk's fortress and discovered
their secret," Nabiki replied cautiously. "What do you know of the
Musk?"
"Not much," the old woman supplied candidly. "I was surprised to
hear that they still existed. And Son-in-law has been sharing
their secret?"
"Not exactly," Nabiki observed. "We think someone from the Musk
has been reformatting Ranma's enemies for some reason."
"Why would they do that?" the old woman demanded. "The Musk were
reputed to guard their secret zealously."
"Why don't we just ask that nice Kuno boy?" Kasumi wondered.
"Because he's an idiot," Nabiki supplied blithely then added,
"actually, because it's not likely they'd have told him the truth."
'... or that he'd recognise it if they did,' she added silently.
---
"Don't interfere in my fight!" Akane protested loudly as Ranma
swept her off her feet just as a web-tossed Shan Pu chrashed into
the tree behind where she'd been standing.
"Oh, spider girl so good with trick web," Shan Pu had to admit as
she sliced through the strand binding her feet with her sword.
Unfazed by the impact she added jauntily, "still, creepy girl is
not being enough good at beating Shan Pu!"
"We shall see about that, you foreign trash!" Kodachi laughed as
she readied another strand.
"Saotome, release the fair Akane at once!" Tatewaki ordered as
he gave chase. "Come back here and fight, you coward."
Ranma sprang off a branch, deposited the girl on the ground then
somersaulted towards Tatewaki only to cartwheel to the left as the
sword slashed down in his path.
"Hold still, Saotome," Tatewaki yelled, "so I may deliver righteous
justice to yow!" A loop of silk cord wrapped around Tatewaki's
waist and yanked him into the air.
"Ho ho ho ho!" Kodachi proclaimed as she hurled Tatewaki towards
a boulder. "I cannot let even my brother harm my Darling Ranma!"
"Is not girl Ranma!" Shan Pu protested as she jump kicked Kodachi
in the head. "Is Shan Pu Ranma!"
"Hey, I'm not a possession, you know," Ranma observed as he rolled
to his feet.
"Beast Mode," Tatewaki snarled, transformed then rolled in the air
to spring off the boulder and dive at Ranma with slashing talons
and snapping jaws.
Ranma tumbled backwards, shouldered the ground and kick-tossed the
'raptor high into the air. "Say, you've gotten better, Kuno," he
observed. "Still not good enough to beat me, but not bad."
Tatewaki transformed as he plummeted and held his sword ready.
"Ha! I, the Golden Meteor, have thee now! Prepare to taste
defeat, Saotome."
"Taste my feet," Ranma grinned, transformed and sprang towards the
plummeting cyborg swordsman.
Their sword and paws slashed at each other as they passed, but
neither came close enough to hit.
"First blood!" Tatewaki cried triumphantly as he tumbled to his
feet. His sword pointed victoriously towards the cheetah as it
too landed on its feet.
"What?" the cheetah gasped as he stared at the red servo fluid
leaking from his flank. "Wow! You didn't even touch me!"
"Now you taste the fruits of my training," Tatewaki gloated. "I
shall be victorious."
"Oh, I don't know about that," Ranma smirked. "You took quite a
hit too."
"What are you ...?" Tatewaki stopped asking to stare at the kanji
scratched into his brazen armor. "How dare you mar a samurai's
armor!?"
"Hold still you vile harlot!" Kodachi yelled as Shan Pu
demonstrated her acrobatic skill by playing leap frog with the
beast warrior.
Akane snarled furiously. She couldn't even keep up with the fully
fleshed (in more ways than one, damn it) Joketsu warrior. Seething
with envy she hurled herself at Kodachi, determined to show her
skill was not to be ignored. "Hey! You're supposed to be fighting
me!"
High in the air Shan Pu suddenly saw an opening and thought
maliciously as she dropped down, 'now is my chance to finish off a
rival! This is too good!'
---
"That boy of yours is pretty good," Soun admired as he watched the
fight.
"Your daughter could do with some more agility though," Genma
frowned. "I'll have to speak to Ranma about stepping up her
training."
Soun nodded thoughtfully. "Do you think we should help them?"
Genma looked as Soun. Soun looked back. As one they exclaimed,
"nah!"
After a while Genma asked, "did you bring a shogi board?"
"Of course!" Soun exclaimed and the two turned their back on the
'training exercise' to get down to something serious.
---
"Akane!" Kasumi gasped as she dropped her tea cup. She was too
distraught to notice the cup chip which, for those who knew her,
was a sign of severe distraction indeed.
Ranma, still in beast mode, turned at the alarm and sprang into
action, with Tatewaki following not far behind. The cheetah
barrelled into Shan Pu; knocking her from atop of Akane. His
sensitive nose was suddenly filled with a pungent herbal scent,
giving the Joketsuzoku warrior an opening to flee. Somehow the
big cat did not see so cuddlesome to her at that moment.
"Tendo Akane!" Tatewaki exclaimed as cradled her. Gazing into
her eyes he asked, "art thou unharmed, My Love?"
Those eyes clouded in confusion then cleared. "I feel fine," she
replied and brushed her hair. "I feel strangely ... refreshed.
Say, who are you, anyway?"
"What art thou saying?" Tatewaki demanded.
"You're certainly being fresh," Akane observed and she pushed out
of his grasp. "Have we met somewhere?"
"I am Kuno Tatewaki," the swordsman proclaimed, "the Bronze Dragon
of Furiniken High! Surely thou canst have forgotten thy love!"
"You're ... my lover?" Akane reeled in shock.
"Nay, I said ..." Tatewaki paused in mid correction. "Yea, verily
that is so."
"Gee, Kuno, have _you_ forgotten your 'fierce lioness'?" Nabiki
asked mockingly as her beast mode landed on Tatewaki's head. "I'm
crushed! How will I ever get over you? Seriously, Akane, are you
sure you're okay?"
"Oh my!" Akane exclaimed in shock. "A talking cat!"
"I'm your sister, Nabiki," the cat observed. "How could you have
forgotten me?"
"Uh, Nabiki, maybe you'd better transform," Ranma said and
maximised himself.
"Who are you people?" Akane gasped as she shuttled her gaze
between Ranma and Nabiki. "What are you?"
"What did that shampoo do to you?" Nabiki asked as she peered
down at her befuddled sibling and sniffed.
"Tendo Nabiki," Tatewaki fumed. "Will you please get off of my
head?"
"Oh gosh!" Kasumi exclaimed as she reached the fighters. "It
sounds like you have amnesia, Akane."
"That's okay," Soun said as he hugged his youngest daughter.
"As long as my little girl hasn't forgotten me."
"And who are you, sir?" Akane asked. "You're being awfully
familiar, aren't you?"
"Wah! My baby's forgotten her Daddy!" Soun's floodgates were
released.
"Shan Pu," Ke Lon frowned up a tree. "What did you do to the
girl? You know the Xi Fa Xian Gao Shiatsu is not to be used
that way!"
"Shan Pu only try make girl forget everything _about Ranma_," the
treed girl replied petulantly, "but husband be interrupting. Bad
husband! Shan Pu punish, yes."
Ranma gasped, "you mean that Akane has forgotten ..." He trailed
off and stared at the girl.
"Who's Akane?" Akane wondered in bewilderment.
"... everything," Ke Lon confirmed. "So it would seem."
---
"The Xi Fa Xiang Gao Shiatsu technique uses a combination of
herbal essences and pressure points to manipulate memory," Ke
Lon explained as they gathered around the campfire.
"That sounds, interesting ..." Kodachi exclaimed and leaned
forward eager to hear the details.
"It sounds sort of like retrophrenology," Genma mussed.
"Exactly," Ke Lon said then blinked in confusion. "Eh? What?"
"Phenology was the 'science' of judging a person's personality by
the bumps on his head," Nabiki supplied.
"That's correct," Genma agreed with a nod. "So it stands to reason
that you can change a person's personality ..."
"You are _not_ going to hit my daughter in the head!" Soun yelled
at his old friend.
"Only a total idiot would try that!" Kasumi exclaimed in shock.
"I did not!" Genma protested then flustered, "that is ... I mean
..."
"You people are weird," Akane commented as she drew away from them.
"Anyway," Ke Lon continued. "To cure the Akane, all you need is
secret formula 911 shampoo. Any Healthy Goodness store in China
will know how to make it."
"Then there's no time to waste!" Ranma exclaimed as he stood up
suddenly. "To China! I'll get that shampoo even if I have to swim
there. It'll be hard, but I did it befo.... Ow! What'd ya do
that for?"
Ranma rubbed his head where Ke Lon had clubbed it and turned to
stare at the bottle of formula 911 which she dangled before his
face. "Oh .... Hey! Give me that!"
"Do you think it will be so easy?" Ke Lon asked as she hopped away
from Ranma and tucked the bottle in her robes. "I will cure the
girl when you agree to marry Shan Pu."
"Oh, great grandmother is so so smart!" Shan Pu exclaimed joyously.
"Why you old ...," Ranma growled and cracked his mechanical
knuckles.
---end part 6---