Winged Entropy Prologue
Gundam Wing crossover with Ranma 1/2
by Naquiel

Disclaimer - Ranma and Gundam Wing don't belong to me so please don't sue.

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Prologue

Ranma was cold. It was so cold he couldn't feel anything but cold. He couldn't move. So cold, oh, so cold. He couldn't think, couldn't remember. His aura was thrashing; he could feel it. But: against what?
So, so cold. He couldn't think properly. He was sluggish, he was still, he, was dying. No, he was Ranma Saotome! He was the best martial artist, of his generation. He could fight and win against three hundred; or so, year-old martial arts grandmasters and probably win! He had fought against a God...
Wait, there. A memory, dim, fading, even as he search for it, reached for it. He slowed, calmed, let it flow towards his consciousness. He could see it now, feel it, taste it, become it.
He was at... Phionex Mountain. Yes Phionex Mountain. He was there to save someone, some... Akane, yes, it was Akane. Cold, oh so cold. She was kidnapped, he wanted, to leave her, to go away, but she got captured, he had a duty to help her, to save her. No matter how much he hated her, he had to help!
Saffron, he fought with him, the Gen, no, Gekkaja. He used the Gekkaja. Saffron, heat, fire, the... Kinjakan.
They fought, he fought as best he could. He, he... won, but at a terrible price. His family, friends, rivals, his life was killed in a stray fireball.
His mother and father.
Kasumi, Nabiki, and their father.
Royoga, and all of the others. All of them were dead.
It was so cold.
He was too late for any of them and he grieved, even for Akane, the hateful, spiteful girl. He used the Gekkaja, unleashed it's full potential. Killed Saffron... killed himself. Or so he thought.
Oh, so cold.
He was Ranma Saotome, and he would not DIE!
His rage, his grief, his pain flared like a bonfire and around his form came a flame of purest negative emotion, unleashing him from his unseen cold prison.
The pain... the anger... the agony... the memories... mother... father... Kasumi... Nabiki... Akane... Cologne... Shampoo... Mousse... Royoga... everyone he knew... the pain.
It became too much and all he felt before giving into darkness, was release.

Magic has a consciousness. It's not, by any means sentient, but it reacts to certain stimuli, in a way that could only be the behaviour of a consciousness. As it is conscious, it can also make decisions, alliances, and enemies to a minute degree in comparison to a fully developed human consciousness.
The consciousness of the Gekkaja was magic, and magic was its consciousness. The same is true for hundreds of thousand of magical elements. Many of which, at some point, came into contact with a young martial artist called Ranma. As such, as they encountered, were touched, broken or digested, by Ranma. A fragment of their semi-consciousness was implanted into him, the rest dissipating into the magical aura of the world. Over time, they grew, until one day when Ranma came to Phionex Mountain, to fight with the self-proclaimed Phionex God.
When Ranma killed Saffron with the power of the Gekkaja, he broke both of the powerful staffs, their magical energies flew into Ranma. His body was enshrouded in a block of ice, just as the ice truly killed Saffron, releasing the energy in his body, including his magical power to regenerate; it froze the magical energy that was contained by Ranma, into him, along with his spiritual energy.
Over time, the magical energies grew and fought. Many conflicts of a magical and spiritual nature occurred within his body. One great conflict, was the 'fight' between the two magical items, the Gekkaja and the Kinjakan, and the Jusenkyo curse!
Eventually, the combined, allied might of the magical items overcame the crumbling curse, breaking down its magical energies to empower 'themselves'.
Many such conflicts occurred until eventually many of the lesser magicks: the love potions and trinkets used on him by the Amazons, and so forth, were completely absorbed by the stronger magicks. Only a few of the magical consciousness' survived: the Gekkaja, the Kinjakan, the magic mushrooms, and Nekoken.
The Nekoken; was originally a powerful, and flawed martial arts technique, designed to, be triggered by an intense fear of cats, and the release of an animalistic alternate personality. With all the magical energies running around, the Nekoken, which possessed a minor cat spirit, was capable of absorbing enough of the latent magical energy, to become a thing of magic and thus change it's nature.
The Magic Mushrooms were capable of reversing the ageing process to a preset degree. The reisdual magic having gathered enough magic; had a definate effect of the host body. The magic was supposed to reverse the ageing process, but; contaminated as it was by the power of two different sized mushrooms, and the magics it needed to digest, instead he would merely be of the same age for as long as he lived.
The end result was the end of the conflict. The energies 'allied' themselves; delaring a form of 'peace treaty.' They were all of equal power and intensity, and could no longer fight with anything more than a stalemate. So, with this internal balance reaced, the energies worked together to regain their hosts animation. The energies equally saturated the tissues and aura of their 'host,' or 'master.' The result was immunity to extreme heat and cold, full control over the Nekoken claws, agility, speed, power and the life-long youth of the mushroom's magic.
Perhaps Ranma would figure this out in the future, perhaps not, either way, these powers would bring him back.
As Ranma lay in his crater, the blackened ice around him smoothed by the heat, his body in a large shallow puddle, the power of the Gekkaja was obvious. The immunity to extreme cold was protecting him from the coldness of the mountain of ice he had blown the top off. His Kinjakan-magic created enough heat within his body to allow his body to survive. The Nekoken made his body strong enough to survive the small, falling; pieces of ice from giving him so much as a bruise. And the magic of the mushrooms, ah. When Ranma surged his power to blow him out of the ice, it created a momentary reaction in the weaves of natural magic, causing an unforseeable reaction in the Mushroom magic. The magic, in question, absorbed the natural magical energy and surged, changing his form into that of a five year old boy! I wonder if he knows?