RanGen 1/2, Part 2
Ranma and Genma arrived at the Amazon village in their uncursed forms,
and Ranma had to fight because he and his father ate the prize feast.
Since Ranma has defeated Shampoo, Amazon law requires he marry her.
They have negotiated with Cologne to get to Nannichiwan and reverse
their curse.
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Ranma and Genma followed Shampoo as she smashed with her bonburi though
underbrush and trees, anything and everything that got in the way.
"Great grandmother tell me where to find place to get curse reversed.
You get cure, then we start dates right away!"
As they emerged from a narrow ravine, Ranma and Genma saw again the
many pools with bamboo poles sticking out high above them.
"Is this some kind of trick?" demanded Genma. "This is where we
got cursed in the first place."
"Also where curse reversed. There is man-drowned spring here. Legend
say man drowned there 2500 year ago. Very tragic story. Now whoever
fall in take form of man when cold water touch them. To you already
cursed by other Jushenkyo pools it restore your original shapes so you no
turn panda and girl when wet."
Genma and Ranma started to rush ahead to the pools.
"Wait. Great-grandma tell me which one. No try to find yourself. Many
pools, some do much worse to you than turn panda or girl."
She led them carefully around dozens of pools, finally coming to the other
side from which they had trained.
"Here Nannichiwan, pool of drowned man!"
Genma and Ranma rushed for the pool.
"Ain't gonna be a girl no more!" Ranma shouted.
"No more bamboo for breakfast!" Genma shouted.
"Wait! Great-grandma say, one at time!"
They paid no attention to this, and both eagerly dived into the pool at
once. There was a crackling sound like lightning, and then steam came
off from the water, fogging the air for several yards around.
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Mousse had been stalking them all day, keeping them in sight from the
underbrush. "Ranma Saotome, this is the day you die!" he raved.
By a miracle of caution he had avoiding falling into any pools so
far. The fog would let him get closer, but it steamed his glasses,
rendering him nearly as blind as he was without them.
Ranma emerged from the water first.
"Hai-yah! My darling Ranma is cured, now we date!" said Shampoo.
"I understand your happiness, my dear young lady, but aren't you
hugging the wrong person? Not that I mind, of course," said Ranma.
"Ranma, you die!" Mousse yelled, charging with chains flying from his
sleeves.
"Ah, the young man with spectacles. Why are you attacking _me_? Excuse
me Shampoo, I need my hands free from this." Ranma pushed Shampoo
to one side and prepared to meet Mousse's charge. Ranma ducked the
swinging chains, but Shampoo, still trying to grasp why Ranma was acting
so strangely, was hit a glancing blow and fell back into Nannichiwan.
Ranma seized a passing chain, and with a mighty pull sent Mousse
flying into another pool close by.
By now, Genma had come out of the pool on the other side and was trying
to get dried off. "Hey, what's all the noise, pop?"
He heard a splashing sound, and then the cries of an angry animal.
Suddenly it came into view from the fog, a horrifying sight. It was a
hissing long-haired black tom cat with spectacles.
The person who looked like Genma appeared terrified. "A Ca-ca-ca-cat!
Stay, stay away from me." He broke and ran, fortunately in a direction
away from the pools.
"Hey, who was that? That looked like me!" said the person who looked
like Ranma. He looked down at himself, suddenly coming to a
realization. "It _was_ me! Ranma, come back here with my body!"
He ran after the other man.
With a gasp, a very cute young man with violet hair broke the surface
of Nannichiwan.
"Come back, Ranma! You promise to date Shampoo!"
He started to run after the two men, but the black cat leapt onto his
back, trying to stop him. It began fighting, hissing, and scratching.
Shampoo won easily, but it was too late. The men had run off.
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Genma (looking like Ranma) didn't get far, however. Suddenly, Cologne
leaped into his path, landing with perfect balance on the point of her
stick.
"Hoho, sonny boy. You've decided to go back on your promise now that
you're cured, haven't you? I'm disappointed in you. But you're a
hundred years too early to fool me. I've been keeping watch here on the
nearest path out of the valley just in case. I let your father by, but
you aren't going anywhere."
"Wait, I..." Genma/Ranma said.
"Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!" Cologne's stick flew with incredible
speed, dealing Genma/Ranma 100 blows in a second. There was no
defending against it. In an instant he was rendered unconscious.
"Too bad. I'd hoped to give Shampoo a better start in her married life
by letting you two have time to get to know each other. Now, we'll do
it the hard way, with a good old-fashioned Amazon shotgun wedding."
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Genma/Ranma woke up on a mat in a darkened hut. Groggily he staggered
to try the door. He rattled it, but it was locked.
"No try to get out, groom," said a high-pitched, cute voice. It was not
Shampoo's.
"Right. We Lin-Lin and Ran-ran, your bridesmaids and guards," said another
voice. "Wedding in one hour."
"What am I going to do?" thought Genma. "I can't commit bigamy,
enjoyable as that might be. I'd surely have to take a hot bath
sometime, and then they'd kill me. But if I tell them who I really am
they may hold me hostage to trap Ranma. Think, Saotome...". Suddenly
he had an inspiration.
"May I please have some hot water to freshen up before the wedding?" he
asked them. "I'm sure Shampoo would rather have a bridegroom who wasn't
all dusty from being beaten up on the road."
"OK, you can have. But no tricks!" A few minutes later Lin-lin opened
the door a little way and pushed in a bucket while Ran-ran stayed back
to prevent him from rushing the door.
"What they don't realize is that the water _is_ the trick," he thought.
He listened carefully at each wall of the hut. It seemed unguarded at
the back. With a single powerful kick he made a crack big enough to
slip out as Ranma. Quickly he dumped the bucket on himself and shoved
it back through into the hut.
Lin-lin and Ran-ran, alerted by the noise, came rushing around the
corner. They saw the older Saotome, apparently trying to break into the
hut from outside. "You Ranma father! Great-grandmother of Shampoo warn
us you may come to rescue son. We supposed to beat you up and throw you
out of village!"
"I'll go peacefully," he said. "You can't blame me for trying." He
ran. No-one in the village tried to stop him.
Ranma and Genma arrived at the Amazon village in their uncursed forms,
and Ranma had to fight because he and his father ate the prize feast.
Since Ranma has defeated Shampoo, Amazon law requires he marry her.
They have negotiated with Cologne to get to Nannichiwan and reverse
their curse.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Ranma and Genma followed Shampoo as she smashed with her bonburi though
underbrush and trees, anything and everything that got in the way.
"Great grandmother tell me where to find place to get curse reversed.
You get cure, then we start dates right away!"
As they emerged from a narrow ravine, Ranma and Genma saw again the
many pools with bamboo poles sticking out high above them.
"Is this some kind of trick?" demanded Genma. "This is where we
got cursed in the first place."
"Also where curse reversed. There is man-drowned spring here. Legend
say man drowned there 2500 year ago. Very tragic story. Now whoever
fall in take form of man when cold water touch them. To you already
cursed by other Jushenkyo pools it restore your original shapes so you no
turn panda and girl when wet."
Genma and Ranma started to rush ahead to the pools.
"Wait. Great-grandma tell me which one. No try to find yourself. Many
pools, some do much worse to you than turn panda or girl."
She led them carefully around dozens of pools, finally coming to the other
side from which they had trained.
"Here Nannichiwan, pool of drowned man!"
Genma and Ranma rushed for the pool.
"Ain't gonna be a girl no more!" Ranma shouted.
"No more bamboo for breakfast!" Genma shouted.
"Wait! Great-grandma say, one at time!"
They paid no attention to this, and both eagerly dived into the pool at
once. There was a crackling sound like lightning, and then steam came
off from the water, fogging the air for several yards around.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Mousse had been stalking them all day, keeping them in sight from the
underbrush. "Ranma Saotome, this is the day you die!" he raved.
By a miracle of caution he had avoiding falling into any pools so
far. The fog would let him get closer, but it steamed his glasses,
rendering him nearly as blind as he was without them.
Ranma emerged from the water first.
"Hai-yah! My darling Ranma is cured, now we date!" said Shampoo.
"I understand your happiness, my dear young lady, but aren't you
hugging the wrong person? Not that I mind, of course," said Ranma.
"Ranma, you die!" Mousse yelled, charging with chains flying from his
sleeves.
"Ah, the young man with spectacles. Why are you attacking _me_? Excuse
me Shampoo, I need my hands free from this." Ranma pushed Shampoo
to one side and prepared to meet Mousse's charge. Ranma ducked the
swinging chains, but Shampoo, still trying to grasp why Ranma was acting
so strangely, was hit a glancing blow and fell back into Nannichiwan.
Ranma seized a passing chain, and with a mighty pull sent Mousse
flying into another pool close by.
By now, Genma had come out of the pool on the other side and was trying
to get dried off. "Hey, what's all the noise, pop?"
He heard a splashing sound, and then the cries of an angry animal.
Suddenly it came into view from the fog, a horrifying sight. It was a
hissing long-haired black tom cat with spectacles.
The person who looked like Genma appeared terrified. "A Ca-ca-ca-cat!
Stay, stay away from me." He broke and ran, fortunately in a direction
away from the pools.
"Hey, who was that? That looked like me!" said the person who looked
like Ranma. He looked down at himself, suddenly coming to a
realization. "It _was_ me! Ranma, come back here with my body!"
He ran after the other man.
With a gasp, a very cute young man with violet hair broke the surface
of Nannichiwan.
"Come back, Ranma! You promise to date Shampoo!"
He started to run after the two men, but the black cat leapt onto his
back, trying to stop him. It began fighting, hissing, and scratching.
Shampoo won easily, but it was too late. The men had run off.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Genma (looking like Ranma) didn't get far, however. Suddenly, Cologne
leaped into his path, landing with perfect balance on the point of her
stick.
"Hoho, sonny boy. You've decided to go back on your promise now that
you're cured, haven't you? I'm disappointed in you. But you're a
hundred years too early to fool me. I've been keeping watch here on the
nearest path out of the valley just in case. I let your father by, but
you aren't going anywhere."
"Wait, I..." Genma/Ranma said.
"Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!" Cologne's stick flew with incredible
speed, dealing Genma/Ranma 100 blows in a second. There was no
defending against it. In an instant he was rendered unconscious.
"Too bad. I'd hoped to give Shampoo a better start in her married life
by letting you two have time to get to know each other. Now, we'll do
it the hard way, with a good old-fashioned Amazon shotgun wedding."
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Genma/Ranma woke up on a mat in a darkened hut. Groggily he staggered
to try the door. He rattled it, but it was locked.
"No try to get out, groom," said a high-pitched, cute voice. It was not
Shampoo's.
"Right. We Lin-Lin and Ran-ran, your bridesmaids and guards," said another
voice. "Wedding in one hour."
"What am I going to do?" thought Genma. "I can't commit bigamy,
enjoyable as that might be. I'd surely have to take a hot bath
sometime, and then they'd kill me. But if I tell them who I really am
they may hold me hostage to trap Ranma. Think, Saotome...". Suddenly
he had an inspiration.
"May I please have some hot water to freshen up before the wedding?" he
asked them. "I'm sure Shampoo would rather have a bridegroom who wasn't
all dusty from being beaten up on the road."
"OK, you can have. But no tricks!" A few minutes later Lin-lin opened
the door a little way and pushed in a bucket while Ran-ran stayed back
to prevent him from rushing the door.
"What they don't realize is that the water _is_ the trick," he thought.
He listened carefully at each wall of the hut. It seemed unguarded at
the back. With a single powerful kick he made a crack big enough to
slip out as Ranma. Quickly he dumped the bucket on himself and shoved
it back through into the hut.
Lin-lin and Ran-ran, alerted by the noise, came rushing around the
corner. They saw the older Saotome, apparently trying to break into the
hut from outside. "You Ranma father! Great-grandmother of Shampoo warn
us you may come to rescue son. We supposed to beat you up and throw you
out of village!"
"I'll go peacefully," he said. "You can't blame me for trying." He
ran. No-one in the village tried to stop him.