The 2nd Bet
The Lost Entry
Disclaimer:
Some of he characters in the story are mine, as is the story itself. Unfortunately, the rest doesn't belong to me.
Prologue
Toltiir looked up, as someone entered the cave where he had just taken a little catnap. The snoring coming from the small, red fox prooved that he was not the only one to do such things in times between the entries.
The snoring of the fox stopped as something made its presence known with a loud crash, followed by a string of creative cursing. Toltiir grinned. Another entry in this bet was about to begin. And from the type of entrance, it could be only...
"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW? RANMA SAOTOME, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"
Toltiir facefaulted. That was not who he had expected.
A human boy, about 16 mortal years old, walked around the corner and looked warily at the well. Toltiir called out to him "stay away from the water, boy. This is none of your business"
The boy, a fairly handsome one was clad in dirty and worn clothes. His unruly hair was bound with a yellow and black bandanna. He jumped back startled as he heard the voice. Then he looked around and, seeing nothing but two aimals, shouted "WHO SAID THAT? SHOW YOURSELF!"
The fox decided to add his part to he conversation and said "Look here,sonnyboy. You definitely don't want to be here. This is no place for you mortals."
Ryouga, if you haven't found out by now, started to panic as the fox spoke to him. When he saw the small, black cat grin at him in a mischievous and definitely not catlike manner, it was too much for him to bear. With a shout of "BAKUSAI TENKETSU" he stabbed a finger at the wall and ran screaming through the new hole.
"He took that better than i expected, " said Toltiir while watching a stone from the explosion fly toward the well. It changed a tiny little detail in the timeline, as it vanished into the water.
Toltiir looked into the water and grinned. The fox looked at the cat, then at the timeline. After a few moments he asked "Does that count?"
Toltiir shrugged. "Why not? I have seen worse."
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Ranma looked at the paceful valley with the small springs and sighed. Finally, they had arrived at Jusenkyo, their last stop before their return to Japan.
"Looks pretty. This is your famous trainingground, pops?"
"Pretty? I will show you pretty, boy. Move your lazy butt up here or are you too girly and want to look more at the pretty springs?" With this words, Genma Saotome, a burly man in a dirty gi and a handkerchief on his head, dropped his backpack and jumped on one of the bambo-poles, which decorated the center of most of the springs.
"Girly? I will show you girly, old man!" Then Ranma dropped his pack too and jumped on another pole, a few springs away and faced his father, waiting. Both of them ignored a small chinese man, who entered a hut for a moment, before he came back with a kettle in his hand.
Soon, Genma lost his patience and jumped on the poles toward his son, who smirked at him. As Genma jumped toward him with an outstretched foot, Ranma jumped upward and landed on the head of Genma. Jumping again toward the pole, where his father came from, he pushed the man into the water of the pool below. Then he faced the water, where his father had vanished just seconds ago.
He was ill prepared for a large panda jumping out and leveling itself on a pole, before it jumped toward him and backhanded him toward another pool. Panicking, he saw the water of the pool approach, before the world became a very wet place - at least for him.
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Genma watched satisfied, as Ranma fell into a pool. "Ungrateful boy. Serves you right for pushing me into the water" he shouted. At least he tried. The bellow of an animal was unexpected. Then he saw the white fur on his arm...
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Ranma broke the surface of the pool and saw the panda, looking at its arm. Then he saw his reflection in the water of the pool and realized that something was wrong. Somehow his body felt wrong. He growled and found his voice changed. It was pitched different and sounded somewhat higher. As he looked down on his chest and found his two new appendages under his now baggy gi, she screamed in outrage.
"Old man, you're so dead!!!" Then the new girl climbed out of the pool and started to run after the fleeing panda. A small stone at the edge of another pool, combined with her new body caused Ranma to loose her balance and she dived headfirst into the next pool instead of jumping over it. The water bubbled for a moment, before a blur shot out of it and after the panda. A short moment later, terrifed screams of pain from a certain panda could be heard...
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The 2nd Bet
The Lost Entry
Disclaimer:
Some of the characters in the story are mine, as is the story itself. Unfortunately, the rest doesn't belong to me. Ranma One Half belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and whoever else prints it. Here in Germany that would be xxxRanmaPrint. Tenchi Muyo belongs to xxxTenchiAuthor. Unfortunately, the german release belongs to xxxTenchiVideo, which means that the german translation is just plain horrible and not worth the money you have to pay for it (Almost every character sounds as if the speaker was incredibly bored at the moment of the dialogue. It's a wonder they get paid - if they are).
Chapter 01
Ranma searched through the backpack of his father.Maybe the old man had some useful things in there. So far he had found the catfist-manual, some scrolls and a little bit of money. On the bottom of the pack was an old piece of paper next to the picture of a woman. The woman looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't think of a reason why.
As he read the paper, he snorted. To bad his father laid outside, beaten up and unconscious. 'Oh well, he will wake up. Then he has another one coming' thought Ranma. 'Sepukku, my ass. I bet he never had intentions to go through it. He would probably have weaseled his way out somehow. Or maybe blamed me being useless and lazy and a failure not worth teaching anything. Hah!'
The guide greeted him, as he entered his hut. "Greetings, Mr. Customer. You find something useful in pack of other Mr. Customer?' he asked and prepared to boil some hot water.
"Not really. Some scrolls with techniques, a little bit of money and a picture of a woman. But I'm not finished yet. Maybe there is something else, I'm not finished yet. Say, you have thermos here. I could really use one or two, in case I change again".
"Mr. Customer has good idea. but this one no understand why fear other form so bad. It could be worse and you still look human... well, mostly."
Ranma shivered and tossed the guide the catfist-manual. Then he continued to search through his fathers belongings.
The guide looked through the manual and started to develop a faint green hue on his skin after a short time.
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After another beating of his father - the old man had woken up and tried to get some revenge - he bid farewell to the guide. As small note that he could go to hell for all he cared was placed next to the unconscious panda. He had found a map and the guide had pointed out where he was. Ranma was sure, he could find his way toward the coast and return to Japan without his father. Having the old fart with him would slow him down and would bring him just more trouble anyway. Two thermos with hot water, which the guide had given him for free, where stored away in his backpack and his belt. He would have to replace the water regularly, but it was better than nothing. Then he waved goodbye at the guide and walked away.
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Ryouga walked toward the hut on the other side of that strange springs, as a shout from the hut distracted him for a moment. In front of the hut was a small, chinese man yelling something uncomprehensible at him and walking slowly toward him. A big panda lied next to the hut unmoving on the ground.
Waving at the man, Ryouga looked firmly at him and walked forward - directly into one of the springs.
A moment later, a petite, brownhaired girl with an impressive built broke the surface of the spring and gasped for air. Then she climbed out of the spring and shook the water out of her hair.
"Aiyaaah, Miss Customer fell in spring of drowned girl. You lucky, you not change.", the guide told her. as he appeared next to her, eying the springs carefully.
"Huh? Who are you calling Miss?" asked Ryouga and wondered what happened to his voice. Then he looked downwards. His chest looked strange. And somehow, his clothes didn't fit anymore. A patting of his chest revealed something that shouldn't be there and it felt funny too. With a sinking feeling, he opened the top buttons and peered inside his shirt.
The guide wondered why the eyes of the girl before him suddenly glazed over before she passed out with a major nosebleed. All he could do was grab her and level her out on the ground. It wouldn't do for her to fall into the spring of drowned boy behind her. That would be a terrible waste. Then he started moving her toward his hut, before something else could happen.
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Genma woke up with a splitting headache. 'That ungrateful son of mine. He must have hit me on the had with a lucky shot.' As he stood up, he could see his paws and whimpered. "What have I done to deserve this?" he growfed toward the heaven. There was no answer. He also ignored the note left to him.
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Ryouga woke up and groaned. 'That was a strange dream.'
"Ah, Miss Customer awake. You tell his one, why you faint in middle of cursed springs. That very dangerous."
"Who are you calling Miss?" asked Ryouga and opened his eyes. He was lying in a bed and his wet clothes where lying in a heap next to it. He sat up and dropped the cover to his waist. Then he wondered why the guide turned around. And why was he blushing? And how the heck could women stand that jiggling of their breasts when they moved?...
Ryouga froze at that last thought. That was simply not possible. He was a man, he couldn't have... Then he looked down and screamed.
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Genma heard the scream and rushed into the hut, waving a sign around with 'Son, what happened?' He ignored the glare, the guide was sending toward him and looked at the girl sitting on the bed and screaming her head off. 'Nice breasts.' he thought. Then a thought hit him. This couldn't be Ranma. Ranma was a... whatever that was, but it was not that girl on the bed with the nice breasts. The sign with 'Where is Ranma' was ignored by both of the other occupants of the hut.
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The 2nd Bet
The Lost Entry
Disclaimer:
They are not mine. If they where, I probably wouldn't have to work so hard to pay all the bills.
Anyways, just to be on the safe side: The characters depicted in this concoction are not mine, they belong to other people. One mentioned here should be Rumiko Takahashi for the Ranma-bits and Pioneer for Tenchi Muyo.
Chapter 02
"Computer, list all new records on subjects Saotome, Genma and Saotome, Ranma" a female voice spoke.
"Case files for Saotome, Genma, ID 54-0315/Earth-4356 and Saotome, Ranma, ID 54-0315/Earth-4357 are classified. Please enter authorization." This voice had a pleasant sounding baritone, but lacked any emotion.
"Saotome, Nodoka. Galaxy Police Detective First Class, stationed on Earth to ensure the non-interference preserve placed upon the system by the juraian law. Password-sequence: Revenge is a dish best served cold."
"Authorization accepted. Checking Database, please wait..."
Nodoka sighed. Since she lost the trail on Genma in China, she checked all her sources daily, but so far had found nothing. After her husband went on this training trip with their son ten years ago, she was recruited by the Galaxy Police. After her time at the academy and her return to Earth, she had tried to find her husband. Following all the leads, she had found in her search, gave her more knowledge about the suffering, her son had had, growing up with Genma alone. The story told by them had her weeping for her son more than once - and wishing to get Genma in her hands to wring some justice out of his sorry hide.
The voice of the computer interrupted her musings. "No new records where found since your last call yesterday, Detective. Do you want to add new data to the file?"
"No, thank you. If anything turns up, inform me. Terminate session."
"Acknowledged. Session terminated. Have a nice day."
Nodoka sighed and transformed her control cube back into the bracelet, she wore on her left wrist. Pouring herself some tea, she pondered what to do next. Asking Yosho, if he found some news of her son was not an option at the moment. He was busy with his grandson and their guests and had no time to help her search her son.
Then there was the matter of her new partner, who was supposed to arrive in four days - one Mihoshi Kuramitsu. The data she received with the information about her was somewhat strange, but she seemed to be a good officer, even if she was a bit enthusiastic at times. She had a feeling, that her superior officer at headquarters was afraid of her. "Good luck with her, you will need it" was one strange addendum to the message, when the orders arrived. And why did she ask about her insurance. Well, four days and she would know.
Her train of thoughts was interrupted by the telephone.
"Saotome residence, Saotome Nodoka is speaking."
"Umm... Mom?" a male voice stuttered.
"Mom? Is that you, Ranma?"
"Ya, sorta... Umm, not ta sound urgent or sumthin', but can ya tell me how ta reach ya. I found yer in the phonebook and have no idea how ta find yer address."
"Where are you, son?" Nodoka asked eagerly.
"At the harbour. I just arrived with a fishing vessel from China. I'm glad, I'm away from ta water."
"Stay there. I will come and get you there. Don't move away."
"Ok mom, see ya later then."
Nodoka smiled happily, then called for a cab to fetch her son. "Oh, I can't wait. To bad, I can't use the ship to go there. It would be much faster. Oh well. A little bit more is nothing compared to the last years..."
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After driving to the harbour and finding Ranma, they arrived back at her home. Ranma looked at the modest house with big eyes. Then he shivered. It was about to rain, he could see the clouds overhead.
"Lets go inside, mom. I have a lot ta tell ya."
Nodoka smiled, glad to have her son back. Even though she would have to do something about his language skills. His diction and vocabulary had holes big enough for a Juraian treeship.
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Ranma sat at the table in the living room, a cup of hot tea in his hands. His mother had shown him his old room and he dropped his pack there. He wondered where to start with the story of his life. Then he internally shrugged. The beginning would be a good start.
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Nodoka smiled, as Ranma told her about his friend Ucchan, who he met at age 6.
She wept in horror, as Ranma told her about the Neko-ken training at age 7. She knew about the training, but the effects on Ranma where knew to her.
Nodoka almost fainted after hearing about Genma using the Touched Soul technique to kickstart Ranmas using ki.
A pale Nodoka listened to Ranma telling her about the training in the Ocean Born-technique and the Shark Fist at the age of 14, when they crossed over to China.
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Ranma sighed. His mother took his story rather well. Now for the worst part.
"Umm, mom? There is one more part. but I don't know if ya'll believe this."
"Why not, Ranma. At the moment I would believe almost anything you say."
"Well...It's the best I show ya, but I need some hot and cold water for it. And some time ta prepare for it." Ranma fidgeted, as he said that and somehow gave the impression that he would rather storm the gates of hell with nothing more than a bucket of water instead of telling her.
"Son, you don't have to tell me this, if you don't want to."
Ranma sighed. "I really don't want to, but in the last two weeks I found that I better come right out instead of springing the surprise on the people. Monster is one of the better words I have been called."
Nodoka pondered that for a moment, then nodded and went into the kitchen to fetch the water. She placed two glasses in front of her son, then sat down. "Whenever you are ready." she said, smiling encouragingly at Ranma.
Ranma made some efforts to calm himself, then said "The last place, pop and me went, was called Jusenkyo, the pools of sorrow. A well deserved name, if ya ask me. It's a valley filled with springs and supposed to be a training ground for balance practice. Ya see, each spring has a bamboo pole in it and pop decided, that we should spar on top of them. He even had a brochure about that place, but the moron was not able to read it. I think the only chinese phrase he knows is "where is the sake?" and some possible answers to that."
"Anyways, pop ignored the guide,and I did the same thing. After some rounds I manged to dunk pop into one of the springs. Turned out ta be the "spring of drowned panda". I watched the spring, when a giant panda jumped out and backhanded me into another spring, the "spring of the drowned girl". Well, I came out and... well, I had breasts and stuff and was really angry, so I jumped at the panda to beat the shit out of him, when I stumbled and fell in another spring, this one had a cat-demon drowned in it. I trashed pop pretty good, before I found out what happened."
Then Ranma stood up, splashed himself with cold water and changed. His ears vanished and appeared on top of his head. He grew almost a foot in height, a tail found it's way out of his trouser and all over his visible skin fur appeared. It was some dark yellow with black spots. His hair changed color from black to a firy red. Then his chest expanded in two prominent locations and the whole body became feminine.
As the change was finished, a beeping sound came from the bracelet on Nodokas left wrist. She blinked, looked at Ranma and blinked again. Then her focus shifted to the bracelet.
She touched a small gem on it and the beeping stopped. A small holographic matrix was activated and displayed above the gem. A red arrow pointed at Ranma and a small field with data appeared.
"Warning. Genetic structure of being ahead changed from human male to kartigh female. DNA scan after change shows 74% match of subject Marowth, Class B criminal wanted in 53 systems for violations of local law. Also wanted for violation of Galaxy Police regulation 23 - Killing of Officer, regulation 26 - resistance to capture, regulation 54 - escape from high security prison on Rigel IV and regulation 248 - theft of Galaxy Police property, in this case a Galaxy Police Misaki Class Cruiser. Warning - subject is extremely dangerous."
"Class B? Oh Kami-sama. A Class B criminal on my planet." With that outburst, Nodoka turned the display off, tapped another spot on the bracelet and was suddenly clad in a blue uniform. Her katana was unraveled and the blade ignited into a juraian key.
Then she turned toward Ranma, drew the key into a defensive position in front of her body and aimed the gun at the frozen youth and shouted: "Freeze, Criminal. This is Nodoka Saotome, First Class Detective of the Galaxy Police and you are under arrest. Now hand over my son, raise your hands and don't make any hasty move or I will shoot you."
"Mom, you have a curse too?" squeaked Ranma, obviously stunned by her mothers transformation. Then she used the only appropriate technique, she could think off at the moment - she fainted and draped herself nicely over the table.
TBC... arrival of Mihoshi, Nodoka calling Yosho and asks for help with a family matter.
The Lost Entry
Disclaimer:
Some of he characters in the story are mine, as is the story itself. Unfortunately, the rest doesn't belong to me.
Prologue
Toltiir looked up, as someone entered the cave where he had just taken a little catnap. The snoring coming from the small, red fox prooved that he was not the only one to do such things in times between the entries.
The snoring of the fox stopped as something made its presence known with a loud crash, followed by a string of creative cursing. Toltiir grinned. Another entry in this bet was about to begin. And from the type of entrance, it could be only...
"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW? RANMA SAOTOME, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"
Toltiir facefaulted. That was not who he had expected.
A human boy, about 16 mortal years old, walked around the corner and looked warily at the well. Toltiir called out to him "stay away from the water, boy. This is none of your business"
The boy, a fairly handsome one was clad in dirty and worn clothes. His unruly hair was bound with a yellow and black bandanna. He jumped back startled as he heard the voice. Then he looked around and, seeing nothing but two aimals, shouted "WHO SAID THAT? SHOW YOURSELF!"
The fox decided to add his part to he conversation and said "Look here,sonnyboy. You definitely don't want to be here. This is no place for you mortals."
Ryouga, if you haven't found out by now, started to panic as the fox spoke to him. When he saw the small, black cat grin at him in a mischievous and definitely not catlike manner, it was too much for him to bear. With a shout of "BAKUSAI TENKETSU" he stabbed a finger at the wall and ran screaming through the new hole.
"He took that better than i expected, " said Toltiir while watching a stone from the explosion fly toward the well. It changed a tiny little detail in the timeline, as it vanished into the water.
Toltiir looked into the water and grinned. The fox looked at the cat, then at the timeline. After a few moments he asked "Does that count?"
Toltiir shrugged. "Why not? I have seen worse."
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Ranma looked at the paceful valley with the small springs and sighed. Finally, they had arrived at Jusenkyo, their last stop before their return to Japan.
"Looks pretty. This is your famous trainingground, pops?"
"Pretty? I will show you pretty, boy. Move your lazy butt up here or are you too girly and want to look more at the pretty springs?" With this words, Genma Saotome, a burly man in a dirty gi and a handkerchief on his head, dropped his backpack and jumped on one of the bambo-poles, which decorated the center of most of the springs.
"Girly? I will show you girly, old man!" Then Ranma dropped his pack too and jumped on another pole, a few springs away and faced his father, waiting. Both of them ignored a small chinese man, who entered a hut for a moment, before he came back with a kettle in his hand.
Soon, Genma lost his patience and jumped on the poles toward his son, who smirked at him. As Genma jumped toward him with an outstretched foot, Ranma jumped upward and landed on the head of Genma. Jumping again toward the pole, where his father came from, he pushed the man into the water of the pool below. Then he faced the water, where his father had vanished just seconds ago.
He was ill prepared for a large panda jumping out and leveling itself on a pole, before it jumped toward him and backhanded him toward another pool. Panicking, he saw the water of the pool approach, before the world became a very wet place - at least for him.
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Genma watched satisfied, as Ranma fell into a pool. "Ungrateful boy. Serves you right for pushing me into the water" he shouted. At least he tried. The bellow of an animal was unexpected. Then he saw the white fur on his arm...
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Ranma broke the surface of the pool and saw the panda, looking at its arm. Then he saw his reflection in the water of the pool and realized that something was wrong. Somehow his body felt wrong. He growled and found his voice changed. It was pitched different and sounded somewhat higher. As he looked down on his chest and found his two new appendages under his now baggy gi, she screamed in outrage.
"Old man, you're so dead!!!" Then the new girl climbed out of the pool and started to run after the fleeing panda. A small stone at the edge of another pool, combined with her new body caused Ranma to loose her balance and she dived headfirst into the next pool instead of jumping over it. The water bubbled for a moment, before a blur shot out of it and after the panda. A short moment later, terrifed screams of pain from a certain panda could be heard...
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The 2nd Bet
The Lost Entry
Disclaimer:
Some of the characters in the story are mine, as is the story itself. Unfortunately, the rest doesn't belong to me. Ranma One Half belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and whoever else prints it. Here in Germany that would be xxxRanmaPrint. Tenchi Muyo belongs to xxxTenchiAuthor. Unfortunately, the german release belongs to xxxTenchiVideo, which means that the german translation is just plain horrible and not worth the money you have to pay for it (Almost every character sounds as if the speaker was incredibly bored at the moment of the dialogue. It's a wonder they get paid - if they are).
Chapter 01
Ranma searched through the backpack of his father.Maybe the old man had some useful things in there. So far he had found the catfist-manual, some scrolls and a little bit of money. On the bottom of the pack was an old piece of paper next to the picture of a woman. The woman looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't think of a reason why.
As he read the paper, he snorted. To bad his father laid outside, beaten up and unconscious. 'Oh well, he will wake up. Then he has another one coming' thought Ranma. 'Sepukku, my ass. I bet he never had intentions to go through it. He would probably have weaseled his way out somehow. Or maybe blamed me being useless and lazy and a failure not worth teaching anything. Hah!'
The guide greeted him, as he entered his hut. "Greetings, Mr. Customer. You find something useful in pack of other Mr. Customer?' he asked and prepared to boil some hot water.
"Not really. Some scrolls with techniques, a little bit of money and a picture of a woman. But I'm not finished yet. Maybe there is something else, I'm not finished yet. Say, you have thermos here. I could really use one or two, in case I change again".
"Mr. Customer has good idea. but this one no understand why fear other form so bad. It could be worse and you still look human... well, mostly."
Ranma shivered and tossed the guide the catfist-manual. Then he continued to search through his fathers belongings.
The guide looked through the manual and started to develop a faint green hue on his skin after a short time.
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After another beating of his father - the old man had woken up and tried to get some revenge - he bid farewell to the guide. As small note that he could go to hell for all he cared was placed next to the unconscious panda. He had found a map and the guide had pointed out where he was. Ranma was sure, he could find his way toward the coast and return to Japan without his father. Having the old fart with him would slow him down and would bring him just more trouble anyway. Two thermos with hot water, which the guide had given him for free, where stored away in his backpack and his belt. He would have to replace the water regularly, but it was better than nothing. Then he waved goodbye at the guide and walked away.
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Ryouga walked toward the hut on the other side of that strange springs, as a shout from the hut distracted him for a moment. In front of the hut was a small, chinese man yelling something uncomprehensible at him and walking slowly toward him. A big panda lied next to the hut unmoving on the ground.
Waving at the man, Ryouga looked firmly at him and walked forward - directly into one of the springs.
A moment later, a petite, brownhaired girl with an impressive built broke the surface of the spring and gasped for air. Then she climbed out of the spring and shook the water out of her hair.
"Aiyaaah, Miss Customer fell in spring of drowned girl. You lucky, you not change.", the guide told her. as he appeared next to her, eying the springs carefully.
"Huh? Who are you calling Miss?" asked Ryouga and wondered what happened to his voice. Then he looked downwards. His chest looked strange. And somehow, his clothes didn't fit anymore. A patting of his chest revealed something that shouldn't be there and it felt funny too. With a sinking feeling, he opened the top buttons and peered inside his shirt.
The guide wondered why the eyes of the girl before him suddenly glazed over before she passed out with a major nosebleed. All he could do was grab her and level her out on the ground. It wouldn't do for her to fall into the spring of drowned boy behind her. That would be a terrible waste. Then he started moving her toward his hut, before something else could happen.
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Genma woke up with a splitting headache. 'That ungrateful son of mine. He must have hit me on the had with a lucky shot.' As he stood up, he could see his paws and whimpered. "What have I done to deserve this?" he growfed toward the heaven. There was no answer. He also ignored the note left to him.
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Ryouga woke up and groaned. 'That was a strange dream.'
"Ah, Miss Customer awake. You tell his one, why you faint in middle of cursed springs. That very dangerous."
"Who are you calling Miss?" asked Ryouga and opened his eyes. He was lying in a bed and his wet clothes where lying in a heap next to it. He sat up and dropped the cover to his waist. Then he wondered why the guide turned around. And why was he blushing? And how the heck could women stand that jiggling of their breasts when they moved?...
Ryouga froze at that last thought. That was simply not possible. He was a man, he couldn't have... Then he looked down and screamed.
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Genma heard the scream and rushed into the hut, waving a sign around with 'Son, what happened?' He ignored the glare, the guide was sending toward him and looked at the girl sitting on the bed and screaming her head off. 'Nice breasts.' he thought. Then a thought hit him. This couldn't be Ranma. Ranma was a... whatever that was, but it was not that girl on the bed with the nice breasts. The sign with 'Where is Ranma' was ignored by both of the other occupants of the hut.
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The 2nd Bet
The Lost Entry
Disclaimer:
They are not mine. If they where, I probably wouldn't have to work so hard to pay all the bills.
Anyways, just to be on the safe side: The characters depicted in this concoction are not mine, they belong to other people. One mentioned here should be Rumiko Takahashi for the Ranma-bits and Pioneer for Tenchi Muyo.
Chapter 02
"Computer, list all new records on subjects Saotome, Genma and Saotome, Ranma" a female voice spoke.
"Case files for Saotome, Genma, ID 54-0315/Earth-4356 and Saotome, Ranma, ID 54-0315/Earth-4357 are classified. Please enter authorization." This voice had a pleasant sounding baritone, but lacked any emotion.
"Saotome, Nodoka. Galaxy Police Detective First Class, stationed on Earth to ensure the non-interference preserve placed upon the system by the juraian law. Password-sequence: Revenge is a dish best served cold."
"Authorization accepted. Checking Database, please wait..."
Nodoka sighed. Since she lost the trail on Genma in China, she checked all her sources daily, but so far had found nothing. After her husband went on this training trip with their son ten years ago, she was recruited by the Galaxy Police. After her time at the academy and her return to Earth, she had tried to find her husband. Following all the leads, she had found in her search, gave her more knowledge about the suffering, her son had had, growing up with Genma alone. The story told by them had her weeping for her son more than once - and wishing to get Genma in her hands to wring some justice out of his sorry hide.
The voice of the computer interrupted her musings. "No new records where found since your last call yesterday, Detective. Do you want to add new data to the file?"
"No, thank you. If anything turns up, inform me. Terminate session."
"Acknowledged. Session terminated. Have a nice day."
Nodoka sighed and transformed her control cube back into the bracelet, she wore on her left wrist. Pouring herself some tea, she pondered what to do next. Asking Yosho, if he found some news of her son was not an option at the moment. He was busy with his grandson and their guests and had no time to help her search her son.
Then there was the matter of her new partner, who was supposed to arrive in four days - one Mihoshi Kuramitsu. The data she received with the information about her was somewhat strange, but she seemed to be a good officer, even if she was a bit enthusiastic at times. She had a feeling, that her superior officer at headquarters was afraid of her. "Good luck with her, you will need it" was one strange addendum to the message, when the orders arrived. And why did she ask about her insurance. Well, four days and she would know.
Her train of thoughts was interrupted by the telephone.
"Saotome residence, Saotome Nodoka is speaking."
"Umm... Mom?" a male voice stuttered.
"Mom? Is that you, Ranma?"
"Ya, sorta... Umm, not ta sound urgent or sumthin', but can ya tell me how ta reach ya. I found yer in the phonebook and have no idea how ta find yer address."
"Where are you, son?" Nodoka asked eagerly.
"At the harbour. I just arrived with a fishing vessel from China. I'm glad, I'm away from ta water."
"Stay there. I will come and get you there. Don't move away."
"Ok mom, see ya later then."
Nodoka smiled happily, then called for a cab to fetch her son. "Oh, I can't wait. To bad, I can't use the ship to go there. It would be much faster. Oh well. A little bit more is nothing compared to the last years..."
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After driving to the harbour and finding Ranma, they arrived back at her home. Ranma looked at the modest house with big eyes. Then he shivered. It was about to rain, he could see the clouds overhead.
"Lets go inside, mom. I have a lot ta tell ya."
Nodoka smiled, glad to have her son back. Even though she would have to do something about his language skills. His diction and vocabulary had holes big enough for a Juraian treeship.
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Ranma sat at the table in the living room, a cup of hot tea in his hands. His mother had shown him his old room and he dropped his pack there. He wondered where to start with the story of his life. Then he internally shrugged. The beginning would be a good start.
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Nodoka smiled, as Ranma told her about his friend Ucchan, who he met at age 6.
She wept in horror, as Ranma told her about the Neko-ken training at age 7. She knew about the training, but the effects on Ranma where knew to her.
Nodoka almost fainted after hearing about Genma using the Touched Soul technique to kickstart Ranmas using ki.
A pale Nodoka listened to Ranma telling her about the training in the Ocean Born-technique and the Shark Fist at the age of 14, when they crossed over to China.
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Ranma sighed. His mother took his story rather well. Now for the worst part.
"Umm, mom? There is one more part. but I don't know if ya'll believe this."
"Why not, Ranma. At the moment I would believe almost anything you say."
"Well...It's the best I show ya, but I need some hot and cold water for it. And some time ta prepare for it." Ranma fidgeted, as he said that and somehow gave the impression that he would rather storm the gates of hell with nothing more than a bucket of water instead of telling her.
"Son, you don't have to tell me this, if you don't want to."
Ranma sighed. "I really don't want to, but in the last two weeks I found that I better come right out instead of springing the surprise on the people. Monster is one of the better words I have been called."
Nodoka pondered that for a moment, then nodded and went into the kitchen to fetch the water. She placed two glasses in front of her son, then sat down. "Whenever you are ready." she said, smiling encouragingly at Ranma.
Ranma made some efforts to calm himself, then said "The last place, pop and me went, was called Jusenkyo, the pools of sorrow. A well deserved name, if ya ask me. It's a valley filled with springs and supposed to be a training ground for balance practice. Ya see, each spring has a bamboo pole in it and pop decided, that we should spar on top of them. He even had a brochure about that place, but the moron was not able to read it. I think the only chinese phrase he knows is "where is the sake?" and some possible answers to that."
"Anyways, pop ignored the guide,and I did the same thing. After some rounds I manged to dunk pop into one of the springs. Turned out ta be the "spring of drowned panda". I watched the spring, when a giant panda jumped out and backhanded me into another spring, the "spring of the drowned girl". Well, I came out and... well, I had breasts and stuff and was really angry, so I jumped at the panda to beat the shit out of him, when I stumbled and fell in another spring, this one had a cat-demon drowned in it. I trashed pop pretty good, before I found out what happened."
Then Ranma stood up, splashed himself with cold water and changed. His ears vanished and appeared on top of his head. He grew almost a foot in height, a tail found it's way out of his trouser and all over his visible skin fur appeared. It was some dark yellow with black spots. His hair changed color from black to a firy red. Then his chest expanded in two prominent locations and the whole body became feminine.
As the change was finished, a beeping sound came from the bracelet on Nodokas left wrist. She blinked, looked at Ranma and blinked again. Then her focus shifted to the bracelet.
She touched a small gem on it and the beeping stopped. A small holographic matrix was activated and displayed above the gem. A red arrow pointed at Ranma and a small field with data appeared.
"Warning. Genetic structure of being ahead changed from human male to kartigh female. DNA scan after change shows 74% match of subject Marowth, Class B criminal wanted in 53 systems for violations of local law. Also wanted for violation of Galaxy Police regulation 23 - Killing of Officer, regulation 26 - resistance to capture, regulation 54 - escape from high security prison on Rigel IV and regulation 248 - theft of Galaxy Police property, in this case a Galaxy Police Misaki Class Cruiser. Warning - subject is extremely dangerous."
"Class B? Oh Kami-sama. A Class B criminal on my planet." With that outburst, Nodoka turned the display off, tapped another spot on the bracelet and was suddenly clad in a blue uniform. Her katana was unraveled and the blade ignited into a juraian key.
Then she turned toward Ranma, drew the key into a defensive position in front of her body and aimed the gun at the frozen youth and shouted: "Freeze, Criminal. This is Nodoka Saotome, First Class Detective of the Galaxy Police and you are under arrest. Now hand over my son, raise your hands and don't make any hasty move or I will shoot you."
"Mom, you have a curse too?" squeaked Ranma, obviously stunned by her mothers transformation. Then she used the only appropriate technique, she could think off at the moment - she fainted and draped herself nicely over the table.
TBC... arrival of Mihoshi, Nodoka calling Yosho and asks for help with a family matter.