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'blablabla' = thoughts
"blablabla" = speech
*blablabla* = telepathy
(blablabla) = denotes a comment on the situation
Now lets start with the fic :
Chapter 2 : On with the story
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Voice 1 : AT LAST HE STARTS AGAIN
Voice 2 : YES ! ! ! POPCORN ?
Voice 1 : THANKS.
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Ranma is now in the cave he started in, on is right is a large sack filled with rocks that looks exactly like the one he wore when entering the cave (blink, well actually it is the same sack) on is left is a pile of blue rocks and on is neck is a little golden dragon.
Ranma : *OK, so now what*
Goldwing : *Well master maybe we should start by setting the details as they were before you left*
Ranma : *I guess you are right, and maybe it wouldn't be to bad of an idea either to not show all we know to oyaji no baka*
Goldwing : *Strange, I was not even going to suggest that*
Ranma : *Stop being sarcastic, I did not raise you like that*
Goldwing : *Well technically you did not raise me at all*
Ranma : *Why oh why did I want to invoke a Dragon I could have had a cat familiar like every other magic users but noooo I had to be a smartass and go with the little all knowing golden critter*
Goldwing : *Ha Ha Ha, very funny now can we get on with the matter at hands master or would you rather keep ranting a bit more*
Ranma : *I'd rather keep ranting a bit more thank you*
Goldwing (facevaulting) : *THAT WAS NOT MEANT AS A QUESTION ! !*
Ranma (laughing) : *Sorry mpfff I could not hahaha help myself hahahahahaha*
Goldwing : *Ok, now can we proceed*
So Ranma picks the one hundred kilo pack, grabs a blue rock then as if in afterthought smears himself a bit and starts to the entrance of the cave.
Ranma : *Pack, check, blue rock, check, looking tired, check, dragon hidden, check
Goldwing : *Jeeze are we grumpy or what, i'll turn invisible alright*
Ranma : *You would be grumpy too if you had to meet my father back after a long vacation away from his stupidity*
Goldwing (blushing) : *I guess I would at that*
And so speaking with his invisible dragon Ranma arrives at the entrance.
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Voice 1 : IT KINDS OF START SLOWLY.
Voice 2 : WELL I GUESS THE AUTHOR IS DOING SOME FILLING IN BECAUSE HE'S SHORT ON IDEAS
Author : NO I'M NOT, OUPS
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Now we can see the outside of the cave apparently it suddenly stopped raining, a drenched Genma is standing underneath a tree trying to grab a tent that seemed to have been blown into it, suddenly he stops and stares around him.
Genma : 'I wonder why it stopped raining ? ?'
We then ear a sound coming from the cave and there comes Ranma dragging himself out of it on hands and knees.
Genma : 'That's my boy, I knew he could do it' "ATCHHHOOOO Snirf" 'well it looks like I got a bit of a cold'
He then walks to Ranma
Genma : "Now boy show me what you've learned Snirfff"
And he launches himself at Ranma with a drop kick, only to meet the sack of rock that Ranma dropped while rolling on himself apparently exhausted.
Genma : "AOUCCHHH" 'well I guess it wouldn't hurt to wait a bit before testing the boy's new abilities"
So thinking Genma sits down holding his foot and waits for his boy to wake up (actually he hurt his foot and can't stand anymore)
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Voice 1 : WELL RANMA HAS BECOME QUITE AN ACTOR
Voice 2 : IF YOU WERE HIM WOULD YOU SHOW THE BAKA ALL YOU COULD DO ?
Voice 1 : AND GET MYSELF SOLD TO UNDERWORLD FIGHTING LEAGUES DO I LOOK LIKE A FOOL ?
Voice 2 : SEE ?
Voice 1 : I GUESS !
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After a night's sleep Genma decided to finally see what his boy could do.
Genma : "This time for real boy, show me what you're made of"
Ranma : 'Better act like he would expect me to' "Coming pop, you're gonna get it this time"
Then comes quite a bit of sparing :
Genma jumped foot extended apparently intended to take his kid down, however it seemed that Ranma did not agree with it because he grabbed the foot and propelled his father face first into a tree. Genma then got himself up before jumping back into the fray this time with Ranma beginning to throw rocks at him.
Genma : "AOUCH, AUOW, STOP IT, IT AIN'T MARTIAL ARTS"
Ranma (still throwing rocks) : "Sure is dad, anything goes martial arts rock throwing, that's what I learned in there"
Genma (whining) : "ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT I YIELD, STOP THROWING"
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Voice 1 : WELL HE FOUND A GOOD USE FOR THESE ROCKS I MUST SAY.
Voice 2 : THAT IS SOMETHING I CAN BUT AGREE WITH.
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Genma (currently bandaging himself) : "Well boy it seems that training was effective" 'maybe a bit to much' "now let us go to the next training ground"
Ranma : "I'm with you dad"
And so they go, from training ground to training ground, with Ranma acting as his father would expect while learning all that he can.
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Six years later.
While travelling from training ground to training ground Ranma learned quite a bit more about human life and martial arts. With his new capabilities diminishing his adaptation time drastically he progressed at an amazing rate working on what he considered the arts in a global point of view, that is to say schooling, arts and magic in addition to the martial arts that were his first point of focus.
If you were looking at the boy during all that time you would have said he had changed quite radically from the boy he was seven years before, in fact you could say he was as near of perfection as man can be except for that tiny little weakness he had, speaking of it, it was that weakness that put his current situation.
Girl : "Pleaaase Ranchan, just one little movie"
Ranma : "But I don't have time for … no don't look at me with these eyes … sighhhh alright I'll go with you just stop with the eyes will you."
Girl : "Yatta, thanks Ranchan, I knew you wouldn't let me drop on this" 'and thank you puppy eyes anything goes dating technique'
Goldwing (grinning) : *Sucker*
Ranma : *I know but I just can't resist those eyes*
Goldwing : *How many does it make*
Ranma : *I don't know, 30 - 40 ??*
Goldwing : *And they all consider themselves your fiancée ? Bwahahhaha ….*
Ranma (sulking) : *Cut it out !!*
Girl : "Comon Ranchan, we're gonna be late"
Ranma : "Coming !"
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Voice 1 : AND I THOUGHT HE WOULD ESCAPE ALL THESE ENGAGMENTS ON HIS FATHER PART.
Voice 2 : WELL, HE HAS, HIS FATHER ONLY MADE TWO ENGAGMENTS FOR HIM, THE TENDO ONE AND THE KUONJI ONE, ALL THE OTHERS WERE STOPPED BY RANMA ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
Voice 1 : YEAH, BUT ALMOST EVERY GIRL HE ENCOUNTERS CONSIDERS HERSELF HIS FIANCEE BY THE TIME HE LEAVES.
Voice 2 : WHAT DO YOU WANT ? HE'S JUST TO NICE A CATCH.
Voice 1 : WHY DO I GET THE FEELING HE WILL BE ALL TO HAPPY TO FOLLOW HIS FATHER TO JUSYENKO JUST TO ESCAPE THIS MESS.
Voice 2 : MAYBE BECAUSE IT'S THE DESTINY OF GENMA NO BAKA TO GET CURSED WHATEVER THE TIMELINE.
Voice 1 : MAYBE.
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Ranma was coming home from that date, as he approached the apartment he resided in with his father during his sojourn in this town he did not notice Genma observing him.
Genma : 'Hum, the boy decidedly is around girl too much, it's gonna turn him soft and beside it's already hard enough to manipulate him now without adding girls in the equation, maybe it is time to finish that training trip.'
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Voice 1 : HE DOES FORGET ALL THE TIMES HE WANTED TO ENGAGE OR RATHER SELL HIS SON FOR FOOD OR MONEY.
Voice 2 : NO HE JUST DOES NOT CONSIDER THESE TIMES AS BEING AROUND GIRLS SINCE HE DID NOT PLAN TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE ENGAGMENTS HE MADE.
Voice 1 : SO IN FACT HIS ONLY OPPOSITION TO HIS SON BEING WITH GIRLS IS THAT HE WOULD CONCEDE CONTROL TO THEM.
Voice 2 : I THINK THAT SUMARISES IT.
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Genma approached Ranma obviously wanting to speak to him, seeing this Ranma's first thought was that Genma again had one of his stupid ideas, the 150th this week.
Genma : "Son, I want to have a word with you"
Ranma : "Whatever the question the answer is NO!"
Genma : "Hmphh, I only thought maybe you would want some respite from all these fiancées of yours"
Ranma : "Like you would have a solution"
Genma : "As a matter of fact I do, a short training trip in China followed by a return at home with your mom"
Ranma : "Mom ? I thought she was dead, she's alive?"
Genma : "Yes she's alive and she's the one who gave the agreement for that training trip we made since you were six" 'That should make him follow me'
Ranma : "Yeah, right and I bet she also gave you the brochure with all those funny training techniques in it"
Genma (sweating) : "Not exactly, but she did want you to become a man among men"
Ranma : "And that training trip wouldn't happen to be at Jusyenko?"
Genma : "How do you know, …. Euh I mean not at all, it's more like around the Bakayalanka range"
Ranma : *What do you think Goldwing do we accept, it could be fun*
Goldwing : *Yeah, and besides it's not as if you would be idiot enough to get yourself cursed*
Ranma : *Yes, but the baka probably would*
Goldwing : *I wonder how the spirits of the spring would decide to curse him*
Ranma : *I don't know but I'm definitely going to* "Okay pop, since you will not let me see mom before that trip I'll follow you to China"
Genma : "I knew you wouldn't deceive me son."
Ranma : "Yeah, yeah" *I'm betting on spring of drowned idiot*
Goldwing : *Nah that wouldn't make any change, I'm betting on spring of drowned ass or maybe drowned lobotomised chicken*
Ranma : *???*
Goldwing : *Just kidding ^___^*
Ranma : *You almost had me there.*
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Voice 1 : AND SO THEY GO TO JUSYENKO.
Voice 2 : YES IT APPEARS TO BE DESTINY.
Voice 1 : DO YOU THINK WE'LL SEE RYOGA.
Voice 2 : I DON'T KNOW, IT WOULD BE SURPRISING THOUGH, THEY HAVEN'T MET YET.
Voice 1 : YEAH.
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Zoom in on a landscape of mountains, what a beautiful sight, nature at his best, wild.
The camera pans to the right, now we can see a valley covered in springs, hundreds of them.
Two men stand near the entrance of the valley, on their left stands a panel, zooming closer we can read "Cursed Spring of Jusyenko, do not fall in, very bad"
Ranma : "So here lies Jusyenko"
Genma : "Common boy let's train"
Ranma : "Right behind you"
Now they jump on the poles standing out of the spring and begin to fight.
The sound of the fight goes to a little hut by the side of the entrance of the valley, out of it comes a man with a Chinese army uniform, seeing the two persons fighting atop the poles he approaches screaming.
Man : "No misters, no fighting atop the poles, very bad if you fall in springs"
But all these screaming has virtually no effect on the two ditching it out in mid-air, so the fight continues until at one time Genma overextends itself and gets himself kicked by Ranma into one of the springs, Ranma then continues to go and stand on one of the poles.
Man : "AAAAAAHHHH, you fall in pool of drowned idiot … Uh why you no change"
Ranma : *Yatta I knew it, pay up*
Goldwing : *It does not count you sent him there on purpose*
Meanwhile Genma gets out of the spring of drowned idiot, patting himself.
Genma : 'Pfeeww, I almost believed him there with that spring of drowned idiot'
Then Genma glides on the wet ground and falls into the spring next to the one he just got out of, a panda surfaces spluttering.
Genma-Panda : "Grooowr, Growf, Grawl" (translation Cough, Splurt, Spit)
Man : "AAAAAAHHHH you fall in pool of drowned Panda, terrible story of Panda who drowned into spring one thousand years ago"
Ranma (rolling atop the pole) : "BWAHAHAHAHA …. Drowned Panda, it's so him"
Goldwing : *I concur, HAHAHAHA … Drowned Panda, it's even better than drowned Ass*
Hearing the laugh the man turns to look at Ranma, his reaction on seeing him roll atop a pole is not at all surprising he facevaults, getting up he asks.
Man : "Uh young master how you stand on pole while rolling around ??"
At these words Ranma sobers up,
Ranma : "I was trained for perfect balance, but you are right, I shouldn't tempt fate by staying above these pools"
And so saying he jumps to the ground in front of the Man.
Ranma : "I am Ranma Saotome, the Panda is my father pleased to meet you"
Man : "I am the guide of Jusyenko, from your reaction I gather you knew of the properties of the springs"
Ranma : "Yes, but Panda-baka over there never even bothered to read the manual in the first place"
Hearing that his son knew of the springs before coming Genma-Panda starts to scream while attacking him.
Genma-Panda : "GROOOOOWWWWLLLLLL" (translation Ranma this is all your fault)
But he didn't take into account the fact that his son hid his abilities from him for over six years, therefore it is not surprising that Ranma escapes him while retaliating with deadly accuracy.
Genma-Panda : "GRAAAWL, GREOOOWL, GRRUUUWL, GROWCHHH, …." (translation AIIHH, OUUUCH, AUUUUW, AWWWWCHH, …)
Ranma : "That'll teach you to interrupt my conversation"
Ranma then turns to the Guide
Ranma : "I presume this is not one of the locked springs, it reverses with hot water right"
Guide : "Young master is right, spring reverses effect with hot water"
Ranma : "Good, could you lead us to a place where we can eventually reside for a time, just so that he get's a bit more acquainted with his curse"
Guide : "No problem, young master, village of Jokusetsu nearby, they have plenty of experience with cursed springs and will be able to help your father adapt"
Ranma : "Good, I'll let you show us the way then"
And lo, Ranma goes to meet the formidable matriarchy of the amazons.
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Voice 1 : IT SEEMS LIKE RANMA WAS DESTINED TO MEET THE AMAZONS
Voice 2 : ALMOST LIKE HIS FATHER WAS DESTINED TO BE CURSED
Voice 1 : YES, I ALMOST ASK MYSELF IF SOMEONE IS NOT MEDDLING WITH OUR GAME
Voice 2 : IT MAY BE SO, BUT I DON'T FEEL INTERFERENCE
Voice 1 : YOU ARE RIGHT OF COURSE, I GUESS I HAVE TO VIVID AN IMAGINATION
Voice 2 : MAYBE, LET'S SEE WHAT COMES NEXT SHALL WE.
Voice 1 : YES, IT APPEARS LIKE IT WILL START TO GET INTERESTING AGAIN.
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We switch to a small road on the side of a mountain, Ranma, the Guide and Genma still in Panda form are walking slowly seemingly impressed with the majesty of the view, although you can see from Genma that it is Ranma that appreciates the view and fixes the pace of the promenade.
Genma-Panda : "Graowl Gworf Greewr, Growch" (translation Son are you sure we can't go a little faster, I'm hungry)
Ranma : "You're always hungry old man"
Guide : "The young master can understand what his father says ?"
Ranma : "Nope"
Guide : "Then how comes"
Ranma : "I know my father, there are two things that permanently traverse his brains, one is money, the other is food, since he can't think about money in such an environment he must be thinking about food"
Genma-Panda : "Groooafr Greeewl, Graooofr Graaa" (translation That's not true son, I have more than two thoughts in my brain)
Ranma : "Yeah right"
Guide : "……"
Thus talking they arrive before a wall of wood rising a good ten meters above the ground, the entrance in the middle of the wall is surprisingly unguarded and the doors are open, on the left of the door stands a panel with written in chinese :
"Festival of Jokusetsu
Tournament organised
First prize is a banquet"
Guide : "Customers are in great luck, today day of Festival in Jokusetsu"
Ranma : *Goldwing, don't we have some data on the Jokusetsoku*
Goldwing : *From what I remember reading it is a tribe of amazons with very peculiar laws*
Ranma : *Peculiar, in what sense*
Goldwing : *For example when an external female beats an amazon in direct combat, the amazon must give the kiss of death and kill the external female*
Ranma : *No rule for the case of a male beating an amazon?*
Goldwing : *None that I remember of but it would not surprise me if there was*
Ranma : *Then we'd better be careful with what we do around here*
Guide : "Oh no customer, you not eat first prize"
Hearing this Ranma raises his head and looks around, it seems like he was distracted by his telepathic conversation with Goldwing.
Ranma : "What?"
Ranma then sees his father still in Panda form eating at a table with lots of food piled upon it, on the table stands also a panel with "first prize" written on it. Ranma immediately acts to prevent further damage to the already well diminished buffet.
Ranma (grabbing his dad by the scruff of the neck) : "Stop eating Pop, this is not for you"
Genma-Panda (trying to continue eating nevertheless) : "Groowwf Graaawl" (translation but I'm sooo hungry)
Girl : "Why is your pet eating my prize?"
At these words Ranma turns around letting go of the Panda who starts eating again, seeing this out of the corner of his eyes he kicks him some ten meters from the table. He then looks at the girl that addressed him. It is a young buxom girl with long flowing purple hair, in her hands she holds a pair of what could be qualified as hammer, they are two sticks around fifty centimetres long with a round ball on the end, the ensemble being made of metal.
Ranma : "My name is Ranma, he's not my pet but my dad cursed by Jusyenko, I'm sorry if he ate your prize but I can't be held responsible for his foolish actions"
Girl : "I am Xian Pu and you won't get away with such easy excuses"
Behind the girl appears a gnarled woman hopping on a stick. Ranma would have ignored her if it wasn't for the fact that he felt more ki in that woman alone than in the rest of the crowd that came to assist to the fight that seemed to be a foregone conclusion. Sensing this Ranma extended his sense a little.
Ranma :*Do you feel it, they are several high ki signatures in the region*
Goldwing : *Yes, I must admit I didn't pay attention before, but they are not all coming from this village*
Ranma : *No, but that means we'd better be cautious, I think we could take them, but it would be close*
Goldwing : *Don't underestimate them, they may hide their ki like you do*
Ranma : *You are right, I almost got to cocky again*
Goldwing : *And pay attention they are talking to you*
Ranma : *Huh*
Old-Woman : "Are you back with us now, or is it that we impress you so much that made you lose our voice"
Ranma : "I'm sorry, I was a little bit surprised by the importance of your ki"
The old woman seemed surprised.
Old-Woman : 'So he can sense ki, I may have been right in my first assessment then, he is someone with potential'
Ranma : 'Damn, I disclosed to much information already, if Naryu was there he would shop my head off for being so careless'
Old-woman : "Well we're not going to mount this little pebble in a mountain, my name is Ku-Lon matriarch of the Jokusetsoku, you've already met my granddaughter Xian-Pu"
Xian-Pu (protesting) : "But grandmother"
Ku-Lon (with authority) : "Xian-Pu !"
Xian-Pu (resigned) : "Yes elder"
Ranma : "I'm terribly sorry for the interference of my dad, when he is hungry, and that is most of the time, he does not think"
Ku-Lon : "A Jusenkyo curse ne?"
Ranma : "Yes, the guide said you could help"
Seeing that no fight would come the villagers disperse grumbling a bit over elders and their habits of interference.
Ku-Lon : "I may be able to help effectively but we would better be discussing this in a more private place … and restrain your father or I will be forced to treat him like an animal and put him in a cage"
Ranma : "Please do, that would be a relief"
Ku-Lon, Xian-Pu and Genma-Panda facevaults, Ranma rolls on the floor laughing.
Ku-Lon (raising herself of the ground) : "Well that was a good one, I almost thought you were serious for a second"
Ranma (stops laughing) : "I was!"
Ku-Lon : "Well shall we go to discuss this little affair between us"
Ranma : "Gladly"
And Ku-Lon starts walking to a hut made of wood followed by Ranma, Xian-Pu and Genma-Panda who decided to behave rather than be put in a cage. He for once never doubted that his son was serious, this at least he learned from the six years passed with him after that special training. His son had learned more in that cave than what he showed to the external world.
End chapter two