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A New Ranma: Dragon and Phoenix Chapter 2: Returning home
We see Ranma and Genma's camp, and it is almost sunrise. They are both awake, though, and ready for a hearty breakfast to celebrate Ranma's 'rebirth'.
"Are you awake yet, dad?"
"Yes my boy, but I have to make our breakfast first, then we can spar a little, what do you say to that?"
Ranma smiled at his father, glad that he had returned when he had.
"Sure thing dad. By the way, what's for breakfast?"
We now see that Genma really IS making a hearty breakfast, and Genma answers Ranma's question by saying: "That's a surprise, boy. Why don't you come and see for yourself?"
Ranma laughs a little at how happy Genma sounds, and answers: "Coming dad, don't hog all the food, ok?" Ranma walks out of his tent and walks over to his father, and hugs him.
"What was that for, son?" Genma ask with a slightly bewildered expression.
"Do I need a reason to hug my dad?" Ranma asks, grinning for all he's worth.
"Guess not, son" Genma says, and hugs his son back. "Son, I know that I have never said this to you before, but I am proud of you."
Ranma smiles at that remark. "I knew, dad. I could always see it in your eyes, even if you never said it. Let's eat now, ok? I think the stew is nearly boiling now."
"Oh, so it is. Dig in then, my boy. You've earned it."
They both ate up, as it was a delicious rabbit stew. After having eaten, and cleaned their bowls, Genma finally got a good look at his son, and finally noticed some of the changes he had undergone.
"How did your hair become that colour, boy? And you look older too."
Ranma raised his head, and looked Genma in the eyes, and then Genma also saw that Ranma's eyes had changed too. Before, they had been a stormy dark grey-blue colour, but now they were an icy-blue, so pale that it almost looked like he didn't have irises, if not for the slight blue colour. They were slitted too, like a reptile's.
#Gasp# "And your eyes! How did that happen, boy?" Genma said with some worry in his voice.
"They are what I have to tell you and Mom about when we get home, dad. It's a long story, and I only really wanna tell it once, ok?"
Genma was still curious and asked again: "Can't I at least have a clue?"
"Ok, dad. It has to do with my rebirth, and that is all I'll tell you at this time. Shall we leave then?"
With that said, they packed up all their belongings, and started to walk towards the Saotome home.
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"Are we there yet, dad?"
"Yes, my boy, we are almost there now"
Nodoka heard those voices outside the perimeter wall, and recognised them as . "RANMA!! GENMA!!"
She ran to the gates and opened them.
"Hello, No-chan" "Hi, mom!" The Saotome males said at the same time.
"I'm so glad to see you both again. I thought something horrible had happened! How come you haven't visited in three months? Oh, never mind, come in, come in." Nodoka said, all in a rush.
After they had all stepped inside, dropped the packs in their rooms, and generally settled a little more in, they decided that a little tea was in order.
As Nodoka poured tea for Ranma and Genma, she decided to ask Ranma something.
"What ever happened to your hair, son?"
"It's a long story mom, and I'm not entirely sure that you will like some of it."
"What do you mean?" Nodoka said, surprise written all over her face.
*So that's where I got that from* Ranma thought, but simply said: "It has a little to do with dad, and it's not all good."
Genma immediately understood what Ranma meant, and looked a bit sad.
"Yes, No-chan, I'm sorry to say that I want too far in the name of training, and. it is better to show you."
Genma then produced the Neko-ken training manual, and showed the first page to Nodoka. Of course, she was horrified by what she read, but when Genma turned the page, she went as white as a sheet, and fainted.
"She took that rather well." Genma said, and went over to his wife to wake her up.
After a couple of minutes, she woke up. "Did I really read what I thought I read?"
"Yes, dear. Unfortunately, you did."
"WHAT EVER POSSESSED YOU TO TRY TO MAKE OUR SON LEARN SUCH A DANGEROUS TECHNIQUE??!!" Nodoka shouted, in full demon-head mode.
"MOTHER!! STOP THIS AT ONCE!! PLEASE!! Please? He made a mistake, and he admitted to it. I have forgiven him." Both Genma and Nodoka looked at Ranma, and Nodoka deflated.
"I wanted to tell you both something important, as it has to do with exactly that."
Both Genma and Nodoka looked at their son, and were very surprised, because he talked like an adult, not as a child like he seemed to be.
"Yes, I am curious, you said that earlier too. Please tell us your 'long story'" Nodoka said, and looked intently at Ranma, seeing the changes in him.
"Thank you mother. You will also need to know what I am about to say, father, as it also concerns you and mother, not only me."
At that statement Genma's eyes widen, and he looks at his son with even more respect.
"Very well, my boy, I'll stay. I am curious about your tale" *And how you returned from the dead.* he silently added.
Ranma began his tale with what happened with the Neko-ken 'training' (read chapter one if you have already forgotten, I don't really want to write it again ^_^), and at that time, Nodoka interrupted him.
"YOU ACTUALLY DIED?! GENMA NO BAKA!!" #WHAM# Guess who got malleted into the floor ^_^.
"Yes, mother, I died. But as you can see, I came back. And I hope that father wakes up soon #grins# he may want to listen to what I have to say now."
At hearing that, Genma immediately sits up again, still in pain, but sitting. "Yes, I am awake now. Please continue."
Ranma smiles to his parents and takes a deep breath.
"You may not believe this Mother, Father, but I am no longer completely human."
"WHAT??!!" is the simultaneous response from both adults.
"Yes, you see, when I died I met my ancestors, just like they say you do, but they told me that it was not yet my time, and that my family still needed me. They showed me to a scrying pool, a pool where you can see the Earth realm, and showed me how father reacted to my death, and that you, mother, felt my death. Yes, I saw that, mother. I am sorry for making you both cry..."
But Ranma is cut off before he can continue, and Genma says: "It was not your fault Ranma, it was mine. I never should have tried to make you learn the Neko-ken, then you never would have died at all."
Ranma smiled to his father. "Thank you for those words, father, but actually was dying the best thing that could have happened to me."
"HUH?! How is that?" Nodoka and Genma said in unison.
"You see, not only did they show me what had happened to you two, but they also showed me what may have happened if the Neko-ken 'training' had continued. I would have had an overwhelming fear of cats that, when it reached a certain point, would make me either permanently become insane and think I was a cat, or it could be more temporary. Either way, it would have been a nightmare, because I would never be able to pet Frosty again. By the way mom, he's in the kitchen at the moment, and I think he's hungry."
Nodoka was shocked out of her near-catatonic state by that statement, and bolted into the kitchen.
"How did you know that, my boy?" Genma whispered to Ranma.
"I felt his Ki, father." Ranma said with a smirk.
To say that Genma was shocked by that would have been an understatement, but before he could say anything else, Nodoka returned to the living room, holding a small white cat in her arms.
"You were right, Ranma. He was quite hungry. But, how did you know that he was there, son?"
"I felt his Ki, mother."
As she heard that, she was just as shocked as Genma had been (and still was), and felt herself falling as she fainted for the second time in one hour.
As she woke up, she saw the worried faces of her son, husband, and. the cat. Then again, the cat was licking her nose, and that was what had awoken her.
"Are you alright, mom?" Ranma asked, looking a little nervous.
"I am quite fine, son. Thank you for asking, though."
Nodoka smiled at her son, and looked him in the eyes, and saw that his irises where such a pale ice-blue it almost seemed that they weren't there, and then there were his slitted pupils. She began to understand what her son meant when he said that he wasn't completely human.
"Could you continue with your tale, son? I am curious to hear what our ancestors said to you."
Ranma smiled at that, and gently took Frosty off his mother, and sat back down with him in his lap. While he began talking, he was gently petting Frosty, who was purring at the attention.
"Yes, you see mother, one of your ancestors was actually a Phoenix bound in human form, and I think it was your great-great-great-great-great-great- great-great-grandmother."
At hearing that, Nodoka hit the floor for the third time in one evening. She was up again soon after, though, when she heard her son continue to tell his tale.
"She was tired of seeing all around her age, and die, especially her own family, and after about 3 millennia as a phoenix, she chose to make her powers of rebirth dormant, and be able to live as a human. She had hair the colour of flames, a sign of what she had been, and looked very much like you, mom."
Nodoka blushed a little at that statement, and thought: *Maybe I should stop dying my hair? Yes, from now on, I won't dye my hair.* "Thank you, son. I hope that she was happy."
"Oh, she was, mom, she was. You see, she another very special person not long after she bound her powers. He had blue-white hair, and the palest ice- blue eyes you could imagine. They actually married very soon after they met, they just hit it off."
Ranma smiled as he remembered seeing his great-great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-grandmother stand with his great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. They really looked like a strange couple, but they loved each other anyway.
*Oh, well, I hope that you are seeing me now. Will they be shocked or WHAT.* #chuckles#
"What is so funny, boy?" Genma said, looking a bit torn at the edges (Hey, who wouldn't. If YOU just found out that your wife's family had a phoenix in, you would look like that too. ^_^).
"Nothing, father, just thought of something. By the way, mom, did you know that you also have a dragon in your ancestry?"
"WHAT?!" #thump#
"Oh, well. Guess it was an overload, huh dad? . dad?" #pokes Genma#
#thump#
Ranma looks a bit at his parents, then just shrugs and lets them wake up when they wake up.
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Half an hour has passed, and we see that Genma and Nodoka are still out like lights. At this time, Ranma's stomach growls VERY loud, waking both adults.
"Wha-what was that sound? It sounded like a huge beast." Nodoka looks around, and sees Ranma looking a little sheepish.
"Uhm, mom that was me. or rather my stomach. I'm REALLY hungry. How about you, dad?"
Just after having asked that, Genma's stomach growls too.
"Hehehe, I guess that I'm hungry too. No-chan, why don't you fix us some of your special soup? It's been ages since I've last had some of that."
"But, what about Ranma's tale?"
Ranma makes the dreaded 'puppydog-eyes' attack, and says:
"Please, mom? I'll continue after we have eaten, ok?"
Nodoka knew when she was beaten, and gave up.
"Alright, son. But you will continue after we have eaten."
"Sure thing, mom!" Ranma was REALLY looking forward to Nodoka's special soup. It was the greatest!
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To be continued.
Authors notes: So, what do you think? I started writing, and this appeared. Cool, huh? ^_^ As I said last time, I'm open to constructive criticism, but flames will be ignored. I'm also open to some ideas as to where to go with this, but I think I'll let this story be writing itself, with a few guidelines of course. Anyway, hope that you all liked it. Ja ne ^_^
Author's notes (6, August, 2002): Well, as I said in the last chapter, this update is unfortunately only for rewriting purposes, but that doesn't mean that I have given up on this fic, just that I haven't really had any good ideas yet. Oh, well, inspiration strikes when it wants to, I guess. ^_^ Ja ne!
Text between "" mean talking in Japanese, text between "**" means Chinese. Text between ## means actions. Text between * * mean thoughts.
A New Ranma: Dragon and Phoenix Chapter 2: Returning home
We see Ranma and Genma's camp, and it is almost sunrise. They are both awake, though, and ready for a hearty breakfast to celebrate Ranma's 'rebirth'.
"Are you awake yet, dad?"
"Yes my boy, but I have to make our breakfast first, then we can spar a little, what do you say to that?"
Ranma smiled at his father, glad that he had returned when he had.
"Sure thing dad. By the way, what's for breakfast?"
We now see that Genma really IS making a hearty breakfast, and Genma answers Ranma's question by saying: "That's a surprise, boy. Why don't you come and see for yourself?"
Ranma laughs a little at how happy Genma sounds, and answers: "Coming dad, don't hog all the food, ok?" Ranma walks out of his tent and walks over to his father, and hugs him.
"What was that for, son?" Genma ask with a slightly bewildered expression.
"Do I need a reason to hug my dad?" Ranma asks, grinning for all he's worth.
"Guess not, son" Genma says, and hugs his son back. "Son, I know that I have never said this to you before, but I am proud of you."
Ranma smiles at that remark. "I knew, dad. I could always see it in your eyes, even if you never said it. Let's eat now, ok? I think the stew is nearly boiling now."
"Oh, so it is. Dig in then, my boy. You've earned it."
They both ate up, as it was a delicious rabbit stew. After having eaten, and cleaned their bowls, Genma finally got a good look at his son, and finally noticed some of the changes he had undergone.
"How did your hair become that colour, boy? And you look older too."
Ranma raised his head, and looked Genma in the eyes, and then Genma also saw that Ranma's eyes had changed too. Before, they had been a stormy dark grey-blue colour, but now they were an icy-blue, so pale that it almost looked like he didn't have irises, if not for the slight blue colour. They were slitted too, like a reptile's.
#Gasp# "And your eyes! How did that happen, boy?" Genma said with some worry in his voice.
"They are what I have to tell you and Mom about when we get home, dad. It's a long story, and I only really wanna tell it once, ok?"
Genma was still curious and asked again: "Can't I at least have a clue?"
"Ok, dad. It has to do with my rebirth, and that is all I'll tell you at this time. Shall we leave then?"
With that said, they packed up all their belongings, and started to walk towards the Saotome home.
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"Are we there yet, dad?"
"Yes, my boy, we are almost there now"
Nodoka heard those voices outside the perimeter wall, and recognised them as . "RANMA!! GENMA!!"
She ran to the gates and opened them.
"Hello, No-chan" "Hi, mom!" The Saotome males said at the same time.
"I'm so glad to see you both again. I thought something horrible had happened! How come you haven't visited in three months? Oh, never mind, come in, come in." Nodoka said, all in a rush.
After they had all stepped inside, dropped the packs in their rooms, and generally settled a little more in, they decided that a little tea was in order.
As Nodoka poured tea for Ranma and Genma, she decided to ask Ranma something.
"What ever happened to your hair, son?"
"It's a long story mom, and I'm not entirely sure that you will like some of it."
"What do you mean?" Nodoka said, surprise written all over her face.
*So that's where I got that from* Ranma thought, but simply said: "It has a little to do with dad, and it's not all good."
Genma immediately understood what Ranma meant, and looked a bit sad.
"Yes, No-chan, I'm sorry to say that I want too far in the name of training, and. it is better to show you."
Genma then produced the Neko-ken training manual, and showed the first page to Nodoka. Of course, she was horrified by what she read, but when Genma turned the page, she went as white as a sheet, and fainted.
"She took that rather well." Genma said, and went over to his wife to wake her up.
After a couple of minutes, she woke up. "Did I really read what I thought I read?"
"Yes, dear. Unfortunately, you did."
"WHAT EVER POSSESSED YOU TO TRY TO MAKE OUR SON LEARN SUCH A DANGEROUS TECHNIQUE??!!" Nodoka shouted, in full demon-head mode.
"MOTHER!! STOP THIS AT ONCE!! PLEASE!! Please? He made a mistake, and he admitted to it. I have forgiven him." Both Genma and Nodoka looked at Ranma, and Nodoka deflated.
"I wanted to tell you both something important, as it has to do with exactly that."
Both Genma and Nodoka looked at their son, and were very surprised, because he talked like an adult, not as a child like he seemed to be.
"Yes, I am curious, you said that earlier too. Please tell us your 'long story'" Nodoka said, and looked intently at Ranma, seeing the changes in him.
"Thank you mother. You will also need to know what I am about to say, father, as it also concerns you and mother, not only me."
At that statement Genma's eyes widen, and he looks at his son with even more respect.
"Very well, my boy, I'll stay. I am curious about your tale" *And how you returned from the dead.* he silently added.
Ranma began his tale with what happened with the Neko-ken 'training' (read chapter one if you have already forgotten, I don't really want to write it again ^_^), and at that time, Nodoka interrupted him.
"YOU ACTUALLY DIED?! GENMA NO BAKA!!" #WHAM# Guess who got malleted into the floor ^_^.
"Yes, mother, I died. But as you can see, I came back. And I hope that father wakes up soon #grins# he may want to listen to what I have to say now."
At hearing that, Genma immediately sits up again, still in pain, but sitting. "Yes, I am awake now. Please continue."
Ranma smiles to his parents and takes a deep breath.
"You may not believe this Mother, Father, but I am no longer completely human."
"WHAT??!!" is the simultaneous response from both adults.
"Yes, you see, when I died I met my ancestors, just like they say you do, but they told me that it was not yet my time, and that my family still needed me. They showed me to a scrying pool, a pool where you can see the Earth realm, and showed me how father reacted to my death, and that you, mother, felt my death. Yes, I saw that, mother. I am sorry for making you both cry..."
But Ranma is cut off before he can continue, and Genma says: "It was not your fault Ranma, it was mine. I never should have tried to make you learn the Neko-ken, then you never would have died at all."
Ranma smiled to his father. "Thank you for those words, father, but actually was dying the best thing that could have happened to me."
"HUH?! How is that?" Nodoka and Genma said in unison.
"You see, not only did they show me what had happened to you two, but they also showed me what may have happened if the Neko-ken 'training' had continued. I would have had an overwhelming fear of cats that, when it reached a certain point, would make me either permanently become insane and think I was a cat, or it could be more temporary. Either way, it would have been a nightmare, because I would never be able to pet Frosty again. By the way mom, he's in the kitchen at the moment, and I think he's hungry."
Nodoka was shocked out of her near-catatonic state by that statement, and bolted into the kitchen.
"How did you know that, my boy?" Genma whispered to Ranma.
"I felt his Ki, father." Ranma said with a smirk.
To say that Genma was shocked by that would have been an understatement, but before he could say anything else, Nodoka returned to the living room, holding a small white cat in her arms.
"You were right, Ranma. He was quite hungry. But, how did you know that he was there, son?"
"I felt his Ki, mother."
As she heard that, she was just as shocked as Genma had been (and still was), and felt herself falling as she fainted for the second time in one hour.
As she woke up, she saw the worried faces of her son, husband, and. the cat. Then again, the cat was licking her nose, and that was what had awoken her.
"Are you alright, mom?" Ranma asked, looking a little nervous.
"I am quite fine, son. Thank you for asking, though."
Nodoka smiled at her son, and looked him in the eyes, and saw that his irises where such a pale ice-blue it almost seemed that they weren't there, and then there were his slitted pupils. She began to understand what her son meant when he said that he wasn't completely human.
"Could you continue with your tale, son? I am curious to hear what our ancestors said to you."
Ranma smiled at that, and gently took Frosty off his mother, and sat back down with him in his lap. While he began talking, he was gently petting Frosty, who was purring at the attention.
"Yes, you see mother, one of your ancestors was actually a Phoenix bound in human form, and I think it was your great-great-great-great-great-great- great-great-grandmother."
At hearing that, Nodoka hit the floor for the third time in one evening. She was up again soon after, though, when she heard her son continue to tell his tale.
"She was tired of seeing all around her age, and die, especially her own family, and after about 3 millennia as a phoenix, she chose to make her powers of rebirth dormant, and be able to live as a human. She had hair the colour of flames, a sign of what she had been, and looked very much like you, mom."
Nodoka blushed a little at that statement, and thought: *Maybe I should stop dying my hair? Yes, from now on, I won't dye my hair.* "Thank you, son. I hope that she was happy."
"Oh, she was, mom, she was. You see, she another very special person not long after she bound her powers. He had blue-white hair, and the palest ice- blue eyes you could imagine. They actually married very soon after they met, they just hit it off."
Ranma smiled as he remembered seeing his great-great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-grandmother stand with his great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. They really looked like a strange couple, but they loved each other anyway.
*Oh, well, I hope that you are seeing me now. Will they be shocked or WHAT.* #chuckles#
"What is so funny, boy?" Genma said, looking a bit torn at the edges (Hey, who wouldn't. If YOU just found out that your wife's family had a phoenix in, you would look like that too. ^_^).
"Nothing, father, just thought of something. By the way, mom, did you know that you also have a dragon in your ancestry?"
"WHAT?!" #thump#
"Oh, well. Guess it was an overload, huh dad? . dad?" #pokes Genma#
#thump#
Ranma looks a bit at his parents, then just shrugs and lets them wake up when they wake up.
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Half an hour has passed, and we see that Genma and Nodoka are still out like lights. At this time, Ranma's stomach growls VERY loud, waking both adults.
"Wha-what was that sound? It sounded like a huge beast." Nodoka looks around, and sees Ranma looking a little sheepish.
"Uhm, mom that was me. or rather my stomach. I'm REALLY hungry. How about you, dad?"
Just after having asked that, Genma's stomach growls too.
"Hehehe, I guess that I'm hungry too. No-chan, why don't you fix us some of your special soup? It's been ages since I've last had some of that."
"But, what about Ranma's tale?"
Ranma makes the dreaded 'puppydog-eyes' attack, and says:
"Please, mom? I'll continue after we have eaten, ok?"
Nodoka knew when she was beaten, and gave up.
"Alright, son. But you will continue after we have eaten."
"Sure thing, mom!" Ranma was REALLY looking forward to Nodoka's special soup. It was the greatest!
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To be continued.
Authors notes: So, what do you think? I started writing, and this appeared. Cool, huh? ^_^ As I said last time, I'm open to constructive criticism, but flames will be ignored. I'm also open to some ideas as to where to go with this, but I think I'll let this story be writing itself, with a few guidelines of course. Anyway, hope that you all liked it. Ja ne ^_^
Author's notes (6, August, 2002): Well, as I said in the last chapter, this update is unfortunately only for rewriting purposes, but that doesn't mean that I have given up on this fic, just that I haven't really had any good ideas yet. Oh, well, inspiration strikes when it wants to, I guess. ^_^ Ja ne!