Disclaimer: Pane to K-kun on top of a very tall building.
K: Ok, I'm here again, I hope I won't be hit to the next 100 years this time, so here we go. I don't own Ranma ½ stories nor characters, wanna blame someone? Rumiko Takahashi is your girl.
(K-kun shut his eyes and waits for the hammer to fall, but nothing happens).
K: Yahoooo!!, I wasn't hit!!, I wasn't hit!!
Pane to Rumiko a little far the building, with an explosive switch in her hands
RT: YOU BAKAAAAAA!!!! (Switches on and the building crashes down)
K: KAWAIKUNEEEEEeeee. !!!! (While falling)
K: Darn!, why do the girls always gotta win? anyways, Veida, Axel and the others are mine Better rest some before trying to stand up

Notes: 'k, these are some hints I'm giving you:
Plain and simple text
"Dialogues"
*Other language dialogs*
"Inner dialog"
[ That fat panda guy signs ]
My thoughts and comments
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Characters I used in this Chapter:
Tendo Akane
Kuonji Ukyo
Saotome Ranma
Hibiki Ryoga
Galio Axel
Galio Veida

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Chapter 3: The discover
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On the way to the Tendo Dojo, there was the common chatter and all, but out of a sudden, Axel falls to the ground, shaking violently and mumbling.
Veida is trying to help her husband to ease the pain and the shaking.
Everybody is trying to help, but Veida tell them not to. She just stays there with him and begin to speak soothe words into his ear. After some minutes, he is beginning to calm himself down, and some time after he is completely calmed. The boys try to help him get up and both notice that he is in fact very heavy, to much to a man of his complex.
They are going to ask what had happened when Axel finally says:
"Apocalypse has awoken".
Everybody is watching at the figure that is laying on the floor, all of them with a disbelieving look in their faces, all but one without knowledge of what exactly he'd just said.
"What did you mean with that?" asked Akane.
"Well, ummm, it's very hard and very long to explain Let's keep walking to the Tendo Dojo and I'll explain you all what exactly is happening, ok?" said Axel and stood up with a single movement.
The rest of the walking was very quiet, nobody was speaking, because all of them were thinking about the statement that made Axel, and he was trying to corroborate his feelings.
Veida was very shocked about what her husband had just said. That sure means a lot of trouble, a lot of pain and a lot of sacrifice. If she'd studied his prophecies well enough, he meant that the end of the human race was at hand. If they were not strong enough, they all are doomed.
Soon they reached the Dojo. Ukyo and Ryoga left to the old Ucchan's to check the place and promised they'd return to have dinner with them all.
Ranma and Akane showed Axel and Veida their room. Since Genma left the house to go back to Nodoka's and Soun went after him leaving the Dojo only for Kasumi and her husband Tofu, they had a vacant room. Ranma was living now in Nabiki's (she'd already moved to Kasumi's old room, since she went to her father's) and the guest room was free again.
Veida and Axel were unpacking the few things they carried for weekend, while Ranma was in the room with them and Akane's was in the kitchen with kasumi, with her weekly kitchen classes.
"So Axel, why are you so strong?, neither Ryoga is as hard as you seem to be" asked Ranma
"Well, I've trained a lot since 12 years ago, almost since I started the school" started Axel.
"Wow, well, I've trained for the same time more or less. I'm not as strong as you look, but I think I'm faster."
"You think so?" Asked Veida, while looking directly into Ranma's eyes.
"Well, yeah. I'm some experienced with fighters and although you seem to have great speed, I still think I can overpower you in that area"
"There's only one way to verify that theory Ranma, isn't it sweetheart?" asked Axel while looking towards Veida.
He was being the same Axel of all the times. Confident, but at the same time humble, without trying to sound jerk. Ranma took this as an invitation of Axel to start the spar, so Ranma stood up.
"Ok, let's go to the Dojo and let us find out, ok?"
"It sounds ok with me, you wanna come, Veida?"
"Of course honey!, I'm always willing to see you fight.. You know how I feel when you are all sweaty and agitated" said Veida in a normal, but still sexy tone that made Axel blush and Ranma get all red.
"Well, he he he, Veida, not in front of our host, please" Said Axel and put his arms around her waist. He then kissed her tenderly on her lips.
Ranma was watching how normal and loving they were acting and thought that maybe he'd like Akane acting the same way with him, and not just being in very dangerous situations to let themselves open to each other.
They went down to the dojo, passing by the kitchen to tell Akane and Kasumi where they'll be, Akane getting interested that the strange person that had suddenly became their friend, and her fiancé were going to spar.
"Aren't you gonna wait for Ryoga?" Asked Akane
"I think maybe he'll be here soon, tell him where we please" said Ranma and gave a smile to Akane, that Secret Saotome Technique Smile That Make Your Legs Go Jelly. Akane blushed and smiled goofily, something that later she'd remember.
"O-o-ok Ranma. Ah, ummm, could I go with you to watch the spar?"
"Of course Akane, I think that maybe you and Veida can spar, too" said Axel
"Why, yes!, let me put on my gi. Kasumi, may I skip the class today, please?" Akane shows her Secret Tendo Technique Water Puppy Eyes, a technique so powerful that defeats Kasumi's will.
"Mmm, Ok Akane, but you have to cook tomorrow in order to repay this class"
"Yes Kasumi, no problem"
Akane went upstairs to change into her training clothes and went to the dojo in record time, because Veida, Ranma and Axel were still warming up. Akane began doing a warming kata.
After some minutes, Ranma stopped his warming and turn to the door of the Dojo; there were Ukyo and Ryoga.
"Hey Ucchan, how long have you been there?"
"Oh, just two or three minutes, we wouldn't want to distract your train"
"Nah, we are just warming up to a little spar, are you ready Ryoga?"
"I'm ready as always Ranma."
"Ok, let's see what you can do man" said to Axel. Axel and Ranma moved to the center of the Dojo and began moving. They stayed moving around each other, until Axel spoke:
"Do the first move"
"I must warn you, I see that you are strong enough to resist my punches, so I'm not gonna hold back."
"I agree"
And Ranma jumped to Axel and the spar began. They were hitting each other so fast, that even Ukyo and Ryoga were having problems to follow the fight. Ranma threw Kicks, flips, punches, round flips, jumps and all that he had in the sleeve. Equally, Axel was blocking and dodging every hit that Ranma threw to him, some of the hits still connected, but Axel was as strong or stronger than Ryoga.
After some minutes, they stopped.
"Ok, so I think is enough of playing, why don't you attack me?" Said Ranma
"I'm afraid that if I attack you, I might hurt you. You are my friend, and I don't want to hurt you"
For the very first time in his life, Ranma was feeling what Akane must feel every time they try to spar and Ranma is holding back almost ridicously.
"Aww, c'mon, it's not like I'll get hurt, I'm strong enough, so don't be kidding me."
"Then let me do something" Said Axel and took off his sword.
"Darn, he was sparring with the sword?!?!, that must means that he is a lot stronger!" said Ryoga
"And you haven't seen nothing, Ryoga-kun" said Veida calmly.
"Hey Ryoga, watch out" Axel threw his sword to Ryoga and he managed to grab it without losing his balance.
"Now we can spar a little bit more seriously" Said Axel to Ranma
And the spar began again, this time Axel was the first attacking and almost connected his punch.
"I never saw that coming" thought Ranma.
The spar continued for another few minutes, until Ranma stopped again.
"I think you are very fast, a little faster than Ryoga, but a little slower than me, also. Ryoga, you wanna spar with him?"
"Yeah, it's my turn."
They began the sparring after Ryoga made the first move, they continued for a while, after Axel said:
"Well, I see that you two are very good fighters. Maybe you two can fight against me at the same time."
Ryoga was already sweating, and almost fainted when he heard what Axel had just said.
"Are you kidding?, the two of us could defeat you easily!"
"Is that true?, well, I like facing odd possibilities" and gave a small smile.
Ranma grinned at this comment "He's some like me, let's erase that smile from his face"
"Ok Ryoga, we'll spar both against him" Said Ranma
"Perfect" said Axel "just wait a second" and he took off his vest and let it fall to the ground, the vest sounded like a sack of rocks when it touched the floor, but was oblivious to the others. Ranma looked towards Ryoga and nodded. And the spar began again.
Ranma connected two or three times "He seems a little faster, I thought he'd be tired from the spar with Ryoga, but he seems just warm!" thought Ranma.
He and Ryoga were doing their best to try to knock Axel out, but he was just too fast and strong. They kicked him once and then Ryoga kicked his leg to make him lost balance while Ranma punched on his chest. Axel fell to the ground.
"He, we made you fall man, you can't say we didn't warn you."
"Well yeah, mmm, is really hot right here or is just me?" said Axel and began to take off his shirt. Broad shoulders and a very firm chest appeared, he was just wearing his tank top now and the shirt was with his vest.
"Wow, Veida, you should forgive me but your husband is damn of a sexy man" said Ukyo grinning.
Ryoga and Ranma sweat dropped after hearing this, but Axel paid no attention
"Oh, I know Ukyo, and he's still sexier at night" said Veida and bitted her lower lip. This comment made Axel blush like hell in summer.
"Veida!" said Axel still hard blushing.
"Let's continue the spar" said Axel turning to the guys and suddenly disappeared. Or almost that is what seemed.
Two fraction of second later Ryoga was laying on the floor and Ranma was struggling with a blur in front of him
"What the" Ranma was sure that the blur in front of him was Axel, Ranma could feel his ki, but he couldn't do anything to stop him. He was feeling dozen after dozen of little punches on all his body. And suddenly it stopped.
"What about now?" asked Axel
Ryoga was getting on his feet. "Hey!, how the heck did you do that?!?!"
Ranma was touching his chest, his arms, and legs; he noticed where all the hits connected "I think that vest and shirt have something to do with the answer".
Ryoga went to where Axel's clothes were and tried lift the shirt
"Jeeze, this must be 40 pounds or so"
"You are right Ryoga" said Veida "I made it by myself, also the vest and the pants"
Akane, Ukyo, Ranma and Ryoga were open mouthed, better to say, they had their mouths almost touching the floor.
"You.were.fighting.with.almost.200.pounds" said Ranma stunned
"Mmm, nope, they are something like 300. You see, the sword is 150 pounds, the vest is 45 pounds, the shirt is 30 and the pants are 75 pounds, but of course I wouldn't take off my pants"
All but Veida fainted
"I think taking off your pants wouldn't be such a bad idea"
"Maybe not honey, but I think that should be done not in front of our hosts"
Slowly all of the others were standing up. To see that Axel was moving at a very fast speed was surprising enough, but discover that he is wearing almost three times his own weight and still moving so fast, that was impossible.
"I know all of you have a lot of questions, and I promise to all of you that tonight after dinner I'll tell you all about me, my wife, my life and why are you gonna help me save the world"
"WHAT??"
"Tonight. After dinner."
Axel took his clothes and sword, and left the Dojo to the room where he and Veida were staying. He thought that maybe a quick shower after the sparring with Ranma and Ryoga would be welcomed very well. Veida reached him after some steps.
"Why did you tell them about it?"
"Well, I think they deserve the chance to choose their fate, I think they earned the right to know after what they showed to me back at the Dojo. I almost took off all my training clothes to win!"
"Well, that's amazing I know, but I still think that you must've told them in a better moment."
"What is, is; so we better start thinking how can we explain all the mess that they are already in, before we go to have dinner"
"Ok honey, but first, I think I'll do something I wanted to do since this afternoon with that Kuno guy" and next Veida took off her silk shirt, and was only in her black top right now.
Axel had a goofy look on his face Veida approached Axel with extremely sexy steps, something that Axel learned to appreciate very well.
Veida was now in front of Axel, just inches her from his chest. Veida stood on her tiptoes and gave Axel a kiss on his cheek.
"What was that?" asked a now disappointed looking Axel
"Well, as you said earlier, we can't do anything while living as guests"
Axel didn't answer; he cupped her face with his right arm, circled her waist with his left and put a firm yet soft kiss on her lips. Veida looked surprised at first, but began enjoying the touch, the smell, and the heat of Axel's body. She just put her arms around his neck and kept kissing him for a while. Passion, care, love, desire, all those feelings could be sensed in the contact. Then Axel pulled off a little.
"I-I-I-I t-t-think we m-m-must st-t-t-top here, s-s-s-sweetheart" stuttered Axel.
"--SIGH-- Well, I think you're right honey you need a shower" said Veida while looking down "a COLD shower".
Axel blushed after this statement. He grabbed his towel and clothes, and exit heading to the bathroom.
Veida sighed again, "It was just too close this time", thought Veida
"If I break his concentration, Apocalypse's servants could find us right away I don't want to be thru all the hell again It's just that is really hard to be so much time away from him, from his hugs and kisses I miss his touch so bad"
"Damn!, that was very close" thought Axel while washing his arms "I need being in constant restraint of my OWN happy that damn Pest! " memories flooded his mind


FLASHBACK: a year ago
"Ha ha ha do you really thought you'd be safe from me?" asked a man-like shadow
"Who is there?" demanded Axel
"Oh boy, this is gonna be really funny I hope you don't mind if answer that question with actions, Death"
The figure extended its hand to Axel and Veida, and a ray of dark light emanated from there. Axel managed to create a force field around them, but the ray was very powerful and the attack was so sudden. The field force just filtrated the ray and it struck both of them, but mostly Veida.
Axel began to feel very sick. Veida fainted.
"Pest." Said Axel in a low growl
"Well, I think that's my name, yes" said the man now fully lighted by the moon "And I think I must tell you something. Apocalypse sent me to track you down; he wants you to come back to his path, to be his honorable servant, as Famine and I are proud of be. He told me to do this, so you can get rid of your 'girlfriend' and you can return without hesitation"
He had taken off a rather large scimitar from his back, and was now ready to attack Veida
"So, better we finish this soon, I'm starting to feel SICK in this place, he he he"
"You touch her, you die" Axel managed to spit this words out of his mouth, due to the intense pain that he was suffering "she must be feeling like hundred of hells, if the venom of that attack make me feel like this..., but I think it won't kill her, this is just a distracter, just to make up some time for him to finish her"
"Ha ha ha, don't make me laugh boy, you're such a pitiful look by yourself, she must be dead by now, I'm just trying to be sure"
The man lifted his scimitar just above Veida's tremble body, and aimed to her neck
"Well, I think I'll be home early today, honey!" said Pest.
"No!" was all that Axel could think
END OF FLASHBACK


A knock on the door snapped him from his memories
"Hey!, is anybody there?" asked Akane from outside
"Wha... oh, yeah Akane, hold a sec"
Axel finished washing off and quickly dried and put on his clothes.
"All yours Akane, sorry for the delay"
"No problem, it's just that I thought you fell asleep in there"
Ranma meanwhile was downstairs in the kitchen, with Kasumi.
"Hey Kasumi, how are Doctor Tofu and you doing?"
"Oh, very well Ranma-kun, thank you very much. He's right now in a seminar in Tokyo, but he'll be back tomorrow morning. How are you guys doing at school?"
"Well, Akane and Ucchan are getting good grades, they're very smart and dedicated. And, well, he he, Ryoga and I are surviving, you know how hard is study for me. Ryoga is a regular-good student, but he misses some classes when his 'where-the-hell-I-am-now' curse strikes back. Anyway, he's getting rid of it, I think it is just psychological."
Kasumi was cooking a rather large amount of ramen, but nevertheless was happy of having guests at house. There was no happiness to Kasumi like remember how noisy and full the house seemed to be in the early days.
The dinner was ready and all of them came down to eat.
Ranma and Ryoga were the first finishing their meals, they were very interested in what Axel would tell them. Axel was silently eating, giving some comments to Kasumi and Veida was light chatting with Akane and Ukyo.
Finally, all had finished dinner, and were just drinking some tea. Kasumi was washing dishes in the kitchen and Veida was helping her.
"Well, we are ready man, what do you have to tell us about all this 'help me save the world' stuff?, and why Ryoga and me?" asked Ranma.
"Well, let me tell you all a story, and please listen carefully at every word I am going to say."

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To be continued
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Well, that's it, maybe I'm being a horrible writer, but, what the heck, I'm a beginner!
Please correct me with my grammar I speak English as second language and this is my first fanfic ever!!