The Craziness Collides!(Hope Genma Notices!)
Back in the Ranma dimension......................
The Sun rose on the Tendo dojo, once again. Ryoga was bunking in the same room as Ranma and Genma. This morning, Akane didn't mallet Ranma out the window, before he woke up at least. She probably didn't want to disturb Ryoga. He wasn't as used to it as Genma was. They all got to sleep a little longer, that morning, no malleting to wake them up. That was good as well, because, as I've said, they'd need it. When they did wake up, they could already smell Kasumi cooking up breakfast. "Mmmmmmm....."Ranma said as he streched. Genma was already up yawning and Ryoga was sitting up in his futon. They got ready and went down-stairs. Ranma and Genma sparred as usual, over the pond, and Ryoga sat, thoughtfully, looking at othing in particular. A slight smile was on is face. You can all probably imagine what he was thinking about.
Still in his blissful look, Ryoga didn't seem to notice Kuno jumping almost into the house. "Dear Aka-"he was cut off as Ryoga'fs fist flew into his face. "Oof!"could be heard, as he flew over the rooftops.
Ryoga didn't seem to notice, and kept staring on blissfully, until he heard Kasumi saying,"Breakfast's ready!"Kasumi told them. Also as usual, Ranma and Genma, fell into the pool.
They got out, dried off, and Ranma poured hot water on himself. Genma seemed to like to eat as a panda. This was normal, as I've said. Ryoga had been invited to breakfast, so he ate with them. Unike Ranma and Genma, Ryoga ate slower, and more civilized.
As soon as everyone finished, Ryoga said,"Thank you all. That was great Kasumi."
Kasumi slighly blushed, and replied,"Thank you Ryoga."
Ranma got up and streched. "Hey Ryoga, I don't really have anything to do, so, you want to go fight?"
Ryoga looked up at Ranma, shrugged, and replied,"Sure, I guess so." Ryoga got up and walked out of the house with Ranma.
They were walking along the street, when, Ukyo walked up and said,"Hi Ranchan!"
Ranma looked up. "Oh great, I really don't need this right now."
Then, a biclycle suddenly flew over their heads, and a yell of,"Nihao!"colud be heard. Ranma was aboput to strat beating his head against a wall. Why him?!
"Darn that Shampoo!"Ukyo said, pouting. Shampoo ran up, and glomped Ranma. Ranma struggled, but couldn't seem to shake the amazon. He blushed.
Ryoga sizzled,"YOU'RE BLUSHING YOU CAD! YOU'RE ENGAGED TO AKANE! I WON'T ALLOW THIS!"he yelled, protecting Akane. He tried to punch Ranma, but he dodged. The punch hit Shampoo, right in the face. Ryoga went wide- eyed, as Shampoo's eyes x-ed out, and she flew into the distance, fingers splayed. "NOW YOU MADE ME HIT SOMEONE ELSE! WHY CON'T YOU JUST TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT?!"Ryoga yelled, angry at Ranma.
"HEY, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TRIED TO PUNCH ME IN THE FIRST PLACE!!Ranma yelled back. "YOU THINK I WANT SHAMPOO ON ME LIKE THAT?!"
"YOU MIGHT AS WELL FIGTH ME HERE AND NOW RANMA!"He lunged at Ranma, yelling.
"ARE YOU CRAZY RYOGA?! THIS IS THE CITY, DO YOU WANT TO HURT ANYONE EL-"he was cut off, trying to dodge Ryoga's punch.
We'll come back to you guys a little later.................
Trunks and Goten were suddenly, on the street of atown, probably a precinct of a larger city. "What the?"Trunks said in surprise. "Where are we?! Weren't we just at your house?"
"Well, I thought we were.."Goten replied.
"This definately isn't the forest,"Trunk said, trying to sum up where they were. There were a quite a few people around, but nothing like where Trunks lived. "I don't think I've ever seen a place like this before.."Trunks said, wondering just what kind of place this was. They starting walking, seein if they could find anything that could be of help.
Suddenly, they heard something that sent chills down their spines. "OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!"It had to be one of the scariest things they had ever heard. they looked up, tosee the source of this horror. A girl in tights, was jumping from roof to roof. They could hear here saying,"Ranma dearest, I will soon free you!"The horrid laugh, soon faded into the distance.
Drops of sweat formed on their foreheads. Trunks finally spoke, but softly. "That had to have been the freakiest thing I've ever seen."
"Yah....."Goten replied, slowly.
Elsewhere in the Ranma Dimension...............
"Huh?"Gohan said, thoroughly confused. He looked around. He appeared to be over an ocean. He saw a few small islands below, but no mainland in sight. His father, he noticed, was not far away.
He was about to fly to where he sensed his father, when he appeared right behind him. "Well, guess that takes care of where you are,"Gohan joked. Goku smiled back. "So, I'm guessing you have no idea where we are." Gohan said, knowing the answer already.
"No, and I can sense some high power levels somewhere, but, for some reason, my senses seem to have gone weak, from however we got here. The powers I sense, arefamiliar, but I can't tell, whose they are. I think I can feel them coming back, really slowly."He had a concerned look on his face.
"Same here,"said Gohan. "It's hard to sense any power at all!"
"I guess all we can do, is try to find a high power level in the dark, and check it out,"Goku said, looking off into the distance. "I think I can sense two over in that direction,"Goku pointed to the right.
"Well,"Gohan said,"I guess we'd better go check it out." They flew off ,unknowingly, towards Tokyo, and some people they were and weren't familiar with...........................
Vegeta, surprised from the sudden lower in the gravity, flew upward, into the sky. "WHAT THE?!"he yelled. He stopped fast, and lowered his power to regular. He breathed heavy, trying to figure out what had just happened. He had almost pushed himself into the atmosphere. One minute, he was training at 300 times normal gravity, then, bam, he was in the sky, over the ocean. He was in the clouds at the moment. He lowered himself to get a look around. He saw that he was near a coastline. His being able to snese power level seemed to have, strangely gone down. "What the heck is going on here??!!'he thought to himself. He could barely sense two high power levels, somewhere, he couldn't tell where. They seemed familiar, so he thought he should try to find them, so as to see what was going on. He flew off, blindly groping, to find what he could....................
Piccolo was staning on a high point, above a wide rolling plain of grass. The wind was picking up, and thunder could be heard in the distance. "Aaaah-ahhhh,"he let out. The wind was blowing through his cape. His eyes were wide, his mouth was open, and he had his arms loosely out infront of him, his hands,cringing. Suddenly, he couldn't feel anyone's energy, at least not very much, and the feel of the Earth was completly different. He had some of Kami in him, and Kami knew what was and wasn't the Earth he had guarded for so many years. Something was wrong....very wrong, and he had to get to the bottom of it. He tried his best to sense the highest power level, and flew off, to follow it. It did seem strangely familiar. He couldn't really tell because of his lowered senses though. He slightly sensed afew other powers, but not a strong as the first one he'd spotted. He'd known the storm was coming, and now, he had to find a way out..........
Krillen was, at one moment, laying on a beach in the Sun. He now seemed to find himself in a harsh snow-storm. "AAAHHH!!!"he yelled, as the snow crept into his shirt. "COLD, COLD!!" 'How the heck did I get here?!?!?!'he thought to himself. He couldn't sense much of any power level and he had no idea where he was. 'Oh man, I gotta get out of here!'he thought, flying into the sky shivering. 'I'll try to fly toward the highest power level I can sense, but anyplace would be better than here!!'he thought, desperatly flying away from the storm...................
Trunks and Goten were walking through the city, hands behind their heads, when they heard something, whizzing through the air, from above. It was coming straight at them. They looked up to see a young woman, flying through the air. She seemed to be unconcious. As she was about to hit Trunks, he put his hand up in front of him, casually, and right before she hit him, he stopped, in mid-air. He caught her in his arms, and put her down on the ground.
"Well,"Trunks said, looking strangely at the girl,"she's breathing good, she just looks unconcious."
"Maybe we should try to find a doctor,"Goten suggested.
Trunks nodded,"Yeah, we probably should." Trunks put the girl over his shoulder, and they started walking again. They eventually came to where they could hear some noise. It sounded like a fight. It was still pretty far away, however.
Then, they saw something very strange. They saw a girl with a giant spatula, on her back, walking their way. Drops of sweat formed on their heads. She looked at them and said,"SHAMPOO??" This thoroughly confused Trunks and Goten.
"You mean her?"Trunks asked, pointing to the unconcious girl they'd found earlier.
"Yah,"she said, still looking surprised.
"We found her like this,"Goten commented, as Trunks put this,"Shampoo",down on the ground.
"What happened to her anyway?"Trunks asked, eager to know why she had been flying towards them.
"Weeeell, to put it as simply as possible, Shampoo was hanging on a friend of mine, named Ranma, even though he didn't want her to. Then another friend, Ryoga, who likes Ranma's Fiancee, Akane saw this, and to protect Akane's honor, he tried to punch Ranma in the face, but Ranma dodged, and he hit Shampoo instead. So, I guess that's where you guys came in!"she smiled, as if what she had just said would make perfect sense to anyone.
"Oh......"Trunks said, still kind of confused.
"Believe me, it can be a lot more complicated than that!"she said, seeing their faces.
They both sat with their mouths slighly open for a second. they soon snapped out of it. and Gotne asked,"Where are these friends of yours now?"
"Oh, they're over there, fighting again. Honestly, those two are always going at it!"she laughed. "I do own a restaraunt, it you guys are hungry,"she said, with a smile.
Their faces lit up. Even though they had recently had lunch, they found themselves starved. "It's right over there,"she said, poining to a restaraunt that said,"Ucchan's Okonomiaki."
"Okonomiyaki, sounds great!"Goten said. "Actually, I've never really heard of it."He said, hand on the back of his head.
"Oh, you'll love-"Ukyo was cut off.
Suddenly, a battle cry could be heard, and a blast of energy flew towards Trunks. Ukyo knew she couldn't do anything for him.
Then, Trunks looked straight at the blast, and as it neared him, he deflected it into the sky, where it soon exploded. "Don't your friends know better thatn to use an attack lie that in a city full of people?!"Trunks asked, frustrated. Ukyo stood in awe.
Trunks and Goten rushed into the restaraunt, and Ukyo, slowly followed.
Ukyo had soon found out, that thse two boys were bottomless pits. 'I can't believe, that the amount of food they can eat, surpasses, even Ranma- Honey!'she though to herself. She figured, she'd wait to ask them questions until after they were don eating, since there didn't seem to be a time, when their mouths weren't full.
Finally, they patted their stomachs and said,"That.......was great!"in unison.
"Wow, you guys sure can eat a lot!"she exclaimed, letting out a sigh of relief, that she didn't have to cook anymore, at the moment.
"Hehe,"Goten smiled,"thanks!"
"Sooo, where are you guys from anyway?"Ukyo asked, inquisitively.
"Goten and Trunks weren't exactly sure how to answer this question. Trubks, finally spoke up though,"Well,um, were...not from around here. We were kinda taking a look around. We're here by ourselves. Complicated story." It was the best Trunks could think of at the moment. It would probably be easier to explain once she knew a little more about them. "It'll probably be a little easier to explain, once we explain a little more about ourselves."
"Yeah, probably,"Ukyo said. It made sense.
"Say, could we go check on your friends first? i kinda wanted to meet them,"Trunks said, interested in these two's ablities.
"Yeah, me too!"Goten said, smiling.
"Sure, I guess so!"Ukyo replied, returning the smile.
They headed outiside, to see that the fighting was coser than ever. Ranma and Ryoga jumped right over their heads, then started fighting their way toward Ukyo, Trunks and Goten.
"GAA!"Ukyo said as she jumped out of the way. "What are you guys waiting for?! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!"Ukyo yelled at the two. They stared at the two fighters coming towards them. "RANMA!! STOP!!!"Ukyo yelled, trying to save Trunks and Goten, knowing she couldn't get to them in time.
Trunks and Goten got back to back, knowing that the fighters would come down right in front of them. As they had thought, Ranma came down in front of Trunks and Ryoga came down in front of Goten. They started to punch, when they realized, they weren't going to hit eachother, they were going to hit these kids! It was too late to stop their punches, which were still flying towards the two kids. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"Ukyo yelled, knowing it was too late. She closed her eyes. The next thing she heard was the sound of two punches hitting something. She slowly opened her eyes, to see Ranma and Ryoga, thei rfaces, contorted with terror. Their mouths were open in shock and they were shaking badly. She looked at Trunks and Goten, to see them each holding their index fingers up against Ranma's and Ryoga's fists, as if they had only needed a finger to stop the fight.
Trunks' face looked a little angry,"Don't you guys know it's dangerous to fight like that in a city?! Someone could have gotten hurt! Heck, you could have killed your friend Ukyo, over there!"Trunks pointed to Ukyo with his thumb. Ranma looked over at Ukyo, still seeming unable to work his mouth.
Slowly, Ranma and Ryoga dropped their fists. "AIYAAA!"said a familiar voice. Everyone turned to see Shampoo, a little off-balance, in the doorway to Ukyo's Restaraunt.
"Well,"Trunks said, crossing his arms and looking over at Shampoo,"It looks like Shampoo's finally awake."Ranma looked at Trunks, still amazed, not only because of him blocking Ranma's strongest punch, but how h e knew who Shampoo was.
"Shampoo see whole thing! How little boys do that?"she asked, pointing at Trunks and Goten.
"Well, that's a long story,"Goten laughed.
"Yah,"Trunks aggreed. He turned back to Ranma and Ryoga,"I hope you two learned something from this.
Ranma was finally able to mutter,"Wh-who a-are you?"as he weakly pointed at them.
"I'm Trunks and this is my friend-"Trunks started.
"Goten!"Goten finished.
"It'd probably be easier to finish this talk, inside somewhere."Trunks suggested. "Come to think of it, we don't even have a place to stay.
Ranma blurted out,"Why don't we go to the Tendo Dojo. That's where I live."
"Sounds good to me,"Trunks approved. "That okay Goten?"Trunks asked.
"Sure!"Goten said smiling. And with that, Ranma, Ryoga, Ukyo, and Shampoo, all lead the way to the Tendo Dojo, even though they were barely able to think of anything, besides Trunks' and Goten's reaction to Ranma and Ryog's fight.
Ranma was worrying to himself,'I can't believe this, I punched as hard as I could, and a ten-year-old, stops it with a finger!!!!!! It just isn't possible!'Ranma thought desperatly.
However, his thinking was interuppted by Goten saying,"Wait a second, you're Ranma right?"
"Yah,"Ranma replied, not really thinking about it.
"Trunks, didn't we hear that name earlier today?"Goten asked thoughtfully.
"Yah, I think we did, now that I thik about it..."Trunks said, searching his mind for an answer.
"I remeber now!!"Goten said, snapping his fingers,"We heard this really freaky laugh, and saw this weird person jump from roof to roof, saying they would free you!"Goten said, when he remembered the answer.
Right when Ranma had heard the words,"Freaky Laugh,"he knew it had to be Kodachi. "Well, that's perfect!"Ranma said, putting his hand over his face.
"Who was that psyco anyway? And what was she going to,"save,"you from?"Trunks asked, wondering what some psycopath could have to do with Ranma. From what he'd senn, pyscos didn't seem Ranma type.
"Well..."Ranma said, trying to put Kodachi's madness and delusion into words,"She loves me, is demented, and has the delusion that I love her. She also thinks my other fiancees are holding me under some kind of spell. She's crazy."
"Yah, no kidding,"Trunks said, putting his hands behind his head. He wasn't really listening about the fiancees, he just wanted to know who the psyco they saw earlier was.
On cue, it seemed, kodachi jumped in front of them and laughed,"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" Everyone criged at the sound of this. "Ranma my darling, i have come to save you from your terrible fiancees!"
Ranma looked disgusted,"Why me?"he said, as he looked up into the heavens.
"DIE, SORCERESS!"Kodachi yelled, as she sent some gymnyst weapons Ukyo's way. Ukyo blocked all the, normally deadly weapons. "OHO?! You think you can defeat me?"Kodachi yelled. She pulled out a gymnastic ribbon, and sent it at Ukyo, like a whip. Kodachi cackled, all the while.
Veins were popping out of Trunks' head. He got in front of Ukyo, grabbed the ribbon, swung Kodachi around in the air, and let her fly, strangly, in the direction of the Kuno mansion. "GOSH , THAT WAS ANNOYING!!"Trunks yelled. Everyone, except Goten looked at Trunks in awe. Trunks started to calm down, and tehy started walking again. Ranma was beginning to like this kid......................
"Well,"Ranma said,"Here we are!"he pointed to quite a large house, with a dojo on the side.
"Nice place,"said Goten, smiling.
"Mine's bigger,"Trunks said.
Goten looked at Trunks, frowned and said,"But, Trunks you're rich!"
"Well,Trunks said, a little embarassed,"Yah. Sorry." 'I didn't mean to say that out loud,'he thought to himself.
They headed into the house, to see Soun and Genma playing Shogi. Soun saw them with two children of about, hmmmm, ten, he thought. "Ahhh, hello everyone!"he said, smiling. "I see you've made a couple of new friends!"
Ranma was still half dumbfounded. "Uhh...yah."he said, blankly.
Goten stepped forth to introduce himself,"Hi! My name is Goten!"he said smiling.
"And I'm Trunks,"Trunks said, introducing himself.
Soun continued to smile,"Well hello, Goten and Trunks! I'm Soun, owner of this Dojo."
"And I'm Genma Saotome, Ranma's father,"The man opposite Soun said, bowing.
Akane walked in the room,"Did someone come in?"she asked. She looked at Ranma, Shampoo, Ryoga, and Ukyo, not taking notice of Goten and Trunks yet. "Hi Ryoga!"Akane said, looking at Ryoga. He was the only one who didn't show up at the house, about everyday.
"H-hi, Akane..."Ryoga said, blushing, and twidling his fingers.
"Oh, hi Akane!"Soun said, greeting his daughter, still smiling,"This is Trunks, and Goten,"he pointed to the two boys,"Ranma brought them to our house."
Akane noticed the two boys bowing. "Hi! I'm Akane Tendo!"she said, smiling at them.
"We can sit over here,"Ranma said, pointing to the table, next to the back door. They all sat down and relaxed, at the low table. Tryunks and Goten, looked at the blooming cherry blossom trees, outside. Akane sat down at the table, with them.
Kasumi came in the room, carrying a tray, with glasses of ice water on them. She looked over at Trunks and Goten, and said,"Oh, Ranma, are these some friends of yours?"
"Oh, yah,"said Ranma.
"Well that's nice!"Kasumi said, in her happy-go-lucky tone. They both introduced themselves to Kasumi, and Kasumi did the same, bowing. "Oh yes,"she said, remembering the water,"I brought you all some water!"she said, picking up the tray, and giving them all water. She just, amazingly happened to have just enough. Yup, that's Kasumi, the eternally prepared!
"Weren't you guys gonna tell us about yourselves, and how you did that back there?"Ukyo asked, remebering their earlier conversation.
"Did what?"Akane asked, wondering what had gone on, that she didn't know about.
"They stopped Ranma and Ryoga from punching eachother with one finger and deflected a Perfect Shi Shi Hokudan,"Ukyo said, nonchalantly, sipping her water.
Akane went wide-eyed,"Pffffffffffff!" She had spit out her water, right on Ranma.
On cue, Ranma shrunk seveal inches, his chest bulged, his skin got smoother, his hair turnd red, and he, turned into a she.
Goten and Trunks wnet wide-eyed at this, and almost choked, pounding their chests, so they would pass out. They finally swallowed the water, and were out of breath. Trunks was the first to regain his ability to speak, roughly tough,"WHAT THE-he, and she and the water, and you,"he pointed to the now female Ranma,"how did you-?!"he seemd to lose his ability to speak again. Goten eyed Ranma in amazment.
"WHOA! Calm down! I can explain!"Ranma said. Her voice was igher pitched now as well. "I'm well, um, cursed...He he..."she said, half- chuckling. Trunks and Goten's expressions didn't relly change.
"You're...what?"Goten asked, slowly.
"Cursed. My stupid pop,"he stuck his thumb toward Genma,"took me to train, in a place called, Jusenkyo, in China. He didn't know that there were over A HUNDRED CURSED SPRINGS THERE!"he yelled at his father, who whistled innocently. "Of course, he didn't know a word of Chinese, so, he just looked in a CHINESE traing ground guide book, saw Jusenkyo, then got a guide to take us there. We were going to train on the bamboo poles, sticking up from the pools, when the guide tried to warn us of something. We just jumped onto the poles, and started fighting, he fell into a spring, and THIS happened." He threw a bucket of cold water at Genma, not thinking of Goten and Trunks' reaction. Genma gre in form, grew black and white fur, and overall, tuned into a panda.
Gotena and Trunks' jaws dropped, in a slight smile, and their eyes got wide. However, they wren't moving. They seemed to be in shock. Ranma waved a hand in front of their faces, hoping beyond hope, she hadn't driven them over the edge. "Helloooo?"he said, wondering if they would respond.
"Yaaaah....."Trunks aand Goten replied slowly.
"Oh good, you're still here. Thought I'd lost you for a second there."Ranma said, with a sigh of relief. "Anyway, I was too surprised, and the guide told me, that anyone who fell in a spring, would take the form of what ever had,"drowned", in that spring last. Pop got knocked into the,"Spring of Drowned Panda." I was so surprised, he knocked me into the,"Spring of Drowned Girl", and transformed into this,"she pointed to herself.
"So-so why were you a-boy,"Trunks mangaged to get out.
"Well, cold water activates the curse, and hot water reverses it." Ranma said, mater of factly.
"Well...........that's awfully interesting,"Trunks, who seemed to be able to talk in full sentences, again.
"Heh, heh, yah,"Ranma said, a drop of sweat, forming on her head.
"Well,"said Ukyo, eager to know how the boys were so strong,"We've heard about Ranma, what about you guys?"
"Oh yah, right,"Trunks said, trying to find where to start. "We're really strong, partially because, our dads are.....uh....."he couldn't seem to phrase it right. "Saiyans,"he finally said.
"What?"they all said in unison.
"What's a Saiyan?"Ranma asked, wondering if this was another Super Strong Tribe, or something.
"Uhhh....."Now Trunks was really at a loss.
"Goten got tired of waiting and finished Trunks' snetence for him,"Aliens."
"Wh-WHA?!"Ukyo gasped. They all took on the same sort of frozen look, Goten and Trunks had, when they learned about Ranma's curse.
Yes, Genma and Soun noticed this, buuuuuut, they would panic later, they were too busy playing Shogi, to panic.
"GOTEN!! WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!"Trunks yelled, angry at Goten. "NOW THE'LL PROBABLY GET SENT TO AN INSTITUTION!!"
Goten got a little angry himself, which was quite uncommon,"Well, somebody had to say something, otherwise, they never woulda' found out!"Goten yelled, in retalliation.
"All right, all right,"Trunks said, he didn't want to stay mad. "Look, before you panic,"he looked at their shocked faces,"......any further,"he said slowly,"this is a picture of them." He reached inside his shirt, and ppulled out a group photo, of them, all their friends, and family. "Here's mine-"Trunks pointed to Vegeta, who had his arms crossed, and was frowning.
"And here's mine!"Goten interupted, pointing to Goku, who was smiling and extinding his hand, in the peace sign.
They all looked at the picture, and let out a sigh of relief.
Genma and Soun, looked over and saw this. Genma, who was back to normal said,"Tendo, my friend, it looks like we won't have to panic after all!"he said, slightly smiling.
"Right you are Saotome!"Soun said. They both laughed.
Well, that was sure interesting....... Well, they did notice a lot this time! Looks like we can stop worrying and get on with our lives.............................
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Well, ladies and gentelmen, hope you liked it! I know, kinda' long. this takes up almost half of the whole story! He he. Buuut, that gives you people more time to read, whilest I work on the next chapter! I had to find some palce to go to the next chapter!:
:-) Anyway, please read and review! Hopefully I can get you all the next chapter soon! See you all soon!
Your truly,
S'rac
Back in the Ranma dimension......................
The Sun rose on the Tendo dojo, once again. Ryoga was bunking in the same room as Ranma and Genma. This morning, Akane didn't mallet Ranma out the window, before he woke up at least. She probably didn't want to disturb Ryoga. He wasn't as used to it as Genma was. They all got to sleep a little longer, that morning, no malleting to wake them up. That was good as well, because, as I've said, they'd need it. When they did wake up, they could already smell Kasumi cooking up breakfast. "Mmmmmmm....."Ranma said as he streched. Genma was already up yawning and Ryoga was sitting up in his futon. They got ready and went down-stairs. Ranma and Genma sparred as usual, over the pond, and Ryoga sat, thoughtfully, looking at othing in particular. A slight smile was on is face. You can all probably imagine what he was thinking about.
Still in his blissful look, Ryoga didn't seem to notice Kuno jumping almost into the house. "Dear Aka-"he was cut off as Ryoga'fs fist flew into his face. "Oof!"could be heard, as he flew over the rooftops.
Ryoga didn't seem to notice, and kept staring on blissfully, until he heard Kasumi saying,"Breakfast's ready!"Kasumi told them. Also as usual, Ranma and Genma, fell into the pool.
They got out, dried off, and Ranma poured hot water on himself. Genma seemed to like to eat as a panda. This was normal, as I've said. Ryoga had been invited to breakfast, so he ate with them. Unike Ranma and Genma, Ryoga ate slower, and more civilized.
As soon as everyone finished, Ryoga said,"Thank you all. That was great Kasumi."
Kasumi slighly blushed, and replied,"Thank you Ryoga."
Ranma got up and streched. "Hey Ryoga, I don't really have anything to do, so, you want to go fight?"
Ryoga looked up at Ranma, shrugged, and replied,"Sure, I guess so." Ryoga got up and walked out of the house with Ranma.
They were walking along the street, when, Ukyo walked up and said,"Hi Ranchan!"
Ranma looked up. "Oh great, I really don't need this right now."
Then, a biclycle suddenly flew over their heads, and a yell of,"Nihao!"colud be heard. Ranma was aboput to strat beating his head against a wall. Why him?!
"Darn that Shampoo!"Ukyo said, pouting. Shampoo ran up, and glomped Ranma. Ranma struggled, but couldn't seem to shake the amazon. He blushed.
Ryoga sizzled,"YOU'RE BLUSHING YOU CAD! YOU'RE ENGAGED TO AKANE! I WON'T ALLOW THIS!"he yelled, protecting Akane. He tried to punch Ranma, but he dodged. The punch hit Shampoo, right in the face. Ryoga went wide- eyed, as Shampoo's eyes x-ed out, and she flew into the distance, fingers splayed. "NOW YOU MADE ME HIT SOMEONE ELSE! WHY CON'T YOU JUST TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT?!"Ryoga yelled, angry at Ranma.
"HEY, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TRIED TO PUNCH ME IN THE FIRST PLACE!!Ranma yelled back. "YOU THINK I WANT SHAMPOO ON ME LIKE THAT?!"
"YOU MIGHT AS WELL FIGTH ME HERE AND NOW RANMA!"He lunged at Ranma, yelling.
"ARE YOU CRAZY RYOGA?! THIS IS THE CITY, DO YOU WANT TO HURT ANYONE EL-"he was cut off, trying to dodge Ryoga's punch.
We'll come back to you guys a little later.................
Trunks and Goten were suddenly, on the street of atown, probably a precinct of a larger city. "What the?"Trunks said in surprise. "Where are we?! Weren't we just at your house?"
"Well, I thought we were.."Goten replied.
"This definately isn't the forest,"Trunk said, trying to sum up where they were. There were a quite a few people around, but nothing like where Trunks lived. "I don't think I've ever seen a place like this before.."Trunks said, wondering just what kind of place this was. They starting walking, seein if they could find anything that could be of help.
Suddenly, they heard something that sent chills down their spines. "OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!"It had to be one of the scariest things they had ever heard. they looked up, tosee the source of this horror. A girl in tights, was jumping from roof to roof. They could hear here saying,"Ranma dearest, I will soon free you!"The horrid laugh, soon faded into the distance.
Drops of sweat formed on their foreheads. Trunks finally spoke, but softly. "That had to have been the freakiest thing I've ever seen."
"Yah....."Goten replied, slowly.
Elsewhere in the Ranma Dimension...............
"Huh?"Gohan said, thoroughly confused. He looked around. He appeared to be over an ocean. He saw a few small islands below, but no mainland in sight. His father, he noticed, was not far away.
He was about to fly to where he sensed his father, when he appeared right behind him. "Well, guess that takes care of where you are,"Gohan joked. Goku smiled back. "So, I'm guessing you have no idea where we are." Gohan said, knowing the answer already.
"No, and I can sense some high power levels somewhere, but, for some reason, my senses seem to have gone weak, from however we got here. The powers I sense, arefamiliar, but I can't tell, whose they are. I think I can feel them coming back, really slowly."He had a concerned look on his face.
"Same here,"said Gohan. "It's hard to sense any power at all!"
"I guess all we can do, is try to find a high power level in the dark, and check it out,"Goku said, looking off into the distance. "I think I can sense two over in that direction,"Goku pointed to the right.
"Well,"Gohan said,"I guess we'd better go check it out." They flew off ,unknowingly, towards Tokyo, and some people they were and weren't familiar with...........................
Vegeta, surprised from the sudden lower in the gravity, flew upward, into the sky. "WHAT THE?!"he yelled. He stopped fast, and lowered his power to regular. He breathed heavy, trying to figure out what had just happened. He had almost pushed himself into the atmosphere. One minute, he was training at 300 times normal gravity, then, bam, he was in the sky, over the ocean. He was in the clouds at the moment. He lowered himself to get a look around. He saw that he was near a coastline. His being able to snese power level seemed to have, strangely gone down. "What the heck is going on here??!!'he thought to himself. He could barely sense two high power levels, somewhere, he couldn't tell where. They seemed familiar, so he thought he should try to find them, so as to see what was going on. He flew off, blindly groping, to find what he could....................
Piccolo was staning on a high point, above a wide rolling plain of grass. The wind was picking up, and thunder could be heard in the distance. "Aaaah-ahhhh,"he let out. The wind was blowing through his cape. His eyes were wide, his mouth was open, and he had his arms loosely out infront of him, his hands,cringing. Suddenly, he couldn't feel anyone's energy, at least not very much, and the feel of the Earth was completly different. He had some of Kami in him, and Kami knew what was and wasn't the Earth he had guarded for so many years. Something was wrong....very wrong, and he had to get to the bottom of it. He tried his best to sense the highest power level, and flew off, to follow it. It did seem strangely familiar. He couldn't really tell because of his lowered senses though. He slightly sensed afew other powers, but not a strong as the first one he'd spotted. He'd known the storm was coming, and now, he had to find a way out..........
Krillen was, at one moment, laying on a beach in the Sun. He now seemed to find himself in a harsh snow-storm. "AAAHHH!!!"he yelled, as the snow crept into his shirt. "COLD, COLD!!" 'How the heck did I get here?!?!?!'he thought to himself. He couldn't sense much of any power level and he had no idea where he was. 'Oh man, I gotta get out of here!'he thought, flying into the sky shivering. 'I'll try to fly toward the highest power level I can sense, but anyplace would be better than here!!'he thought, desperatly flying away from the storm...................
Trunks and Goten were walking through the city, hands behind their heads, when they heard something, whizzing through the air, from above. It was coming straight at them. They looked up to see a young woman, flying through the air. She seemed to be unconcious. As she was about to hit Trunks, he put his hand up in front of him, casually, and right before she hit him, he stopped, in mid-air. He caught her in his arms, and put her down on the ground.
"Well,"Trunks said, looking strangely at the girl,"she's breathing good, she just looks unconcious."
"Maybe we should try to find a doctor,"Goten suggested.
Trunks nodded,"Yeah, we probably should." Trunks put the girl over his shoulder, and they started walking again. They eventually came to where they could hear some noise. It sounded like a fight. It was still pretty far away, however.
Then, they saw something very strange. They saw a girl with a giant spatula, on her back, walking their way. Drops of sweat formed on their heads. She looked at them and said,"SHAMPOO??" This thoroughly confused Trunks and Goten.
"You mean her?"Trunks asked, pointing to the unconcious girl they'd found earlier.
"Yah,"she said, still looking surprised.
"We found her like this,"Goten commented, as Trunks put this,"Shampoo",down on the ground.
"What happened to her anyway?"Trunks asked, eager to know why she had been flying towards them.
"Weeeell, to put it as simply as possible, Shampoo was hanging on a friend of mine, named Ranma, even though he didn't want her to. Then another friend, Ryoga, who likes Ranma's Fiancee, Akane saw this, and to protect Akane's honor, he tried to punch Ranma in the face, but Ranma dodged, and he hit Shampoo instead. So, I guess that's where you guys came in!"she smiled, as if what she had just said would make perfect sense to anyone.
"Oh......"Trunks said, still kind of confused.
"Believe me, it can be a lot more complicated than that!"she said, seeing their faces.
They both sat with their mouths slighly open for a second. they soon snapped out of it. and Gotne asked,"Where are these friends of yours now?"
"Oh, they're over there, fighting again. Honestly, those two are always going at it!"she laughed. "I do own a restaraunt, it you guys are hungry,"she said, with a smile.
Their faces lit up. Even though they had recently had lunch, they found themselves starved. "It's right over there,"she said, poining to a restaraunt that said,"Ucchan's Okonomiaki."
"Okonomiyaki, sounds great!"Goten said. "Actually, I've never really heard of it."He said, hand on the back of his head.
"Oh, you'll love-"Ukyo was cut off.
Suddenly, a battle cry could be heard, and a blast of energy flew towards Trunks. Ukyo knew she couldn't do anything for him.
Then, Trunks looked straight at the blast, and as it neared him, he deflected it into the sky, where it soon exploded. "Don't your friends know better thatn to use an attack lie that in a city full of people?!"Trunks asked, frustrated. Ukyo stood in awe.
Trunks and Goten rushed into the restaraunt, and Ukyo, slowly followed.
Ukyo had soon found out, that thse two boys were bottomless pits. 'I can't believe, that the amount of food they can eat, surpasses, even Ranma- Honey!'she though to herself. She figured, she'd wait to ask them questions until after they were don eating, since there didn't seem to be a time, when their mouths weren't full.
Finally, they patted their stomachs and said,"That.......was great!"in unison.
"Wow, you guys sure can eat a lot!"she exclaimed, letting out a sigh of relief, that she didn't have to cook anymore, at the moment.
"Hehe,"Goten smiled,"thanks!"
"Sooo, where are you guys from anyway?"Ukyo asked, inquisitively.
"Goten and Trunks weren't exactly sure how to answer this question. Trubks, finally spoke up though,"Well,um, were...not from around here. We were kinda taking a look around. We're here by ourselves. Complicated story." It was the best Trunks could think of at the moment. It would probably be easier to explain once she knew a little more about them. "It'll probably be a little easier to explain, once we explain a little more about ourselves."
"Yeah, probably,"Ukyo said. It made sense.
"Say, could we go check on your friends first? i kinda wanted to meet them,"Trunks said, interested in these two's ablities.
"Yeah, me too!"Goten said, smiling.
"Sure, I guess so!"Ukyo replied, returning the smile.
They headed outiside, to see that the fighting was coser than ever. Ranma and Ryoga jumped right over their heads, then started fighting their way toward Ukyo, Trunks and Goten.
"GAA!"Ukyo said as she jumped out of the way. "What are you guys waiting for?! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!"Ukyo yelled at the two. They stared at the two fighters coming towards them. "RANMA!! STOP!!!"Ukyo yelled, trying to save Trunks and Goten, knowing she couldn't get to them in time.
Trunks and Goten got back to back, knowing that the fighters would come down right in front of them. As they had thought, Ranma came down in front of Trunks and Ryoga came down in front of Goten. They started to punch, when they realized, they weren't going to hit eachother, they were going to hit these kids! It was too late to stop their punches, which were still flying towards the two kids. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"Ukyo yelled, knowing it was too late. She closed her eyes. The next thing she heard was the sound of two punches hitting something. She slowly opened her eyes, to see Ranma and Ryoga, thei rfaces, contorted with terror. Their mouths were open in shock and they were shaking badly. She looked at Trunks and Goten, to see them each holding their index fingers up against Ranma's and Ryoga's fists, as if they had only needed a finger to stop the fight.
Trunks' face looked a little angry,"Don't you guys know it's dangerous to fight like that in a city?! Someone could have gotten hurt! Heck, you could have killed your friend Ukyo, over there!"Trunks pointed to Ukyo with his thumb. Ranma looked over at Ukyo, still seeming unable to work his mouth.
Slowly, Ranma and Ryoga dropped their fists. "AIYAAA!"said a familiar voice. Everyone turned to see Shampoo, a little off-balance, in the doorway to Ukyo's Restaraunt.
"Well,"Trunks said, crossing his arms and looking over at Shampoo,"It looks like Shampoo's finally awake."Ranma looked at Trunks, still amazed, not only because of him blocking Ranma's strongest punch, but how h e knew who Shampoo was.
"Shampoo see whole thing! How little boys do that?"she asked, pointing at Trunks and Goten.
"Well, that's a long story,"Goten laughed.
"Yah,"Trunks aggreed. He turned back to Ranma and Ryoga,"I hope you two learned something from this.
Ranma was finally able to mutter,"Wh-who a-are you?"as he weakly pointed at them.
"I'm Trunks and this is my friend-"Trunks started.
"Goten!"Goten finished.
"It'd probably be easier to finish this talk, inside somewhere."Trunks suggested. "Come to think of it, we don't even have a place to stay.
Ranma blurted out,"Why don't we go to the Tendo Dojo. That's where I live."
"Sounds good to me,"Trunks approved. "That okay Goten?"Trunks asked.
"Sure!"Goten said smiling. And with that, Ranma, Ryoga, Ukyo, and Shampoo, all lead the way to the Tendo Dojo, even though they were barely able to think of anything, besides Trunks' and Goten's reaction to Ranma and Ryog's fight.
Ranma was worrying to himself,'I can't believe this, I punched as hard as I could, and a ten-year-old, stops it with a finger!!!!!! It just isn't possible!'Ranma thought desperatly.
However, his thinking was interuppted by Goten saying,"Wait a second, you're Ranma right?"
"Yah,"Ranma replied, not really thinking about it.
"Trunks, didn't we hear that name earlier today?"Goten asked thoughtfully.
"Yah, I think we did, now that I thik about it..."Trunks said, searching his mind for an answer.
"I remeber now!!"Goten said, snapping his fingers,"We heard this really freaky laugh, and saw this weird person jump from roof to roof, saying they would free you!"Goten said, when he remembered the answer.
Right when Ranma had heard the words,"Freaky Laugh,"he knew it had to be Kodachi. "Well, that's perfect!"Ranma said, putting his hand over his face.
"Who was that psyco anyway? And what was she going to,"save,"you from?"Trunks asked, wondering what some psycopath could have to do with Ranma. From what he'd senn, pyscos didn't seem Ranma type.
"Well..."Ranma said, trying to put Kodachi's madness and delusion into words,"She loves me, is demented, and has the delusion that I love her. She also thinks my other fiancees are holding me under some kind of spell. She's crazy."
"Yah, no kidding,"Trunks said, putting his hands behind his head. He wasn't really listening about the fiancees, he just wanted to know who the psyco they saw earlier was.
On cue, it seemed, kodachi jumped in front of them and laughed,"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" Everyone criged at the sound of this. "Ranma my darling, i have come to save you from your terrible fiancees!"
Ranma looked disgusted,"Why me?"he said, as he looked up into the heavens.
"DIE, SORCERESS!"Kodachi yelled, as she sent some gymnyst weapons Ukyo's way. Ukyo blocked all the, normally deadly weapons. "OHO?! You think you can defeat me?"Kodachi yelled. She pulled out a gymnastic ribbon, and sent it at Ukyo, like a whip. Kodachi cackled, all the while.
Veins were popping out of Trunks' head. He got in front of Ukyo, grabbed the ribbon, swung Kodachi around in the air, and let her fly, strangly, in the direction of the Kuno mansion. "GOSH , THAT WAS ANNOYING!!"Trunks yelled. Everyone, except Goten looked at Trunks in awe. Trunks started to calm down, and tehy started walking again. Ranma was beginning to like this kid......................
"Well,"Ranma said,"Here we are!"he pointed to quite a large house, with a dojo on the side.
"Nice place,"said Goten, smiling.
"Mine's bigger,"Trunks said.
Goten looked at Trunks, frowned and said,"But, Trunks you're rich!"
"Well,Trunks said, a little embarassed,"Yah. Sorry." 'I didn't mean to say that out loud,'he thought to himself.
They headed into the house, to see Soun and Genma playing Shogi. Soun saw them with two children of about, hmmmm, ten, he thought. "Ahhh, hello everyone!"he said, smiling. "I see you've made a couple of new friends!"
Ranma was still half dumbfounded. "Uhh...yah."he said, blankly.
Goten stepped forth to introduce himself,"Hi! My name is Goten!"he said smiling.
"And I'm Trunks,"Trunks said, introducing himself.
Soun continued to smile,"Well hello, Goten and Trunks! I'm Soun, owner of this Dojo."
"And I'm Genma Saotome, Ranma's father,"The man opposite Soun said, bowing.
Akane walked in the room,"Did someone come in?"she asked. She looked at Ranma, Shampoo, Ryoga, and Ukyo, not taking notice of Goten and Trunks yet. "Hi Ryoga!"Akane said, looking at Ryoga. He was the only one who didn't show up at the house, about everyday.
"H-hi, Akane..."Ryoga said, blushing, and twidling his fingers.
"Oh, hi Akane!"Soun said, greeting his daughter, still smiling,"This is Trunks, and Goten,"he pointed to the two boys,"Ranma brought them to our house."
Akane noticed the two boys bowing. "Hi! I'm Akane Tendo!"she said, smiling at them.
"We can sit over here,"Ranma said, pointing to the table, next to the back door. They all sat down and relaxed, at the low table. Tryunks and Goten, looked at the blooming cherry blossom trees, outside. Akane sat down at the table, with them.
Kasumi came in the room, carrying a tray, with glasses of ice water on them. She looked over at Trunks and Goten, and said,"Oh, Ranma, are these some friends of yours?"
"Oh, yah,"said Ranma.
"Well that's nice!"Kasumi said, in her happy-go-lucky tone. They both introduced themselves to Kasumi, and Kasumi did the same, bowing. "Oh yes,"she said, remembering the water,"I brought you all some water!"she said, picking up the tray, and giving them all water. She just, amazingly happened to have just enough. Yup, that's Kasumi, the eternally prepared!
"Weren't you guys gonna tell us about yourselves, and how you did that back there?"Ukyo asked, remebering their earlier conversation.
"Did what?"Akane asked, wondering what had gone on, that she didn't know about.
"They stopped Ranma and Ryoga from punching eachother with one finger and deflected a Perfect Shi Shi Hokudan,"Ukyo said, nonchalantly, sipping her water.
Akane went wide-eyed,"Pffffffffffff!" She had spit out her water, right on Ranma.
On cue, Ranma shrunk seveal inches, his chest bulged, his skin got smoother, his hair turnd red, and he, turned into a she.
Goten and Trunks wnet wide-eyed at this, and almost choked, pounding their chests, so they would pass out. They finally swallowed the water, and were out of breath. Trunks was the first to regain his ability to speak, roughly tough,"WHAT THE-he, and she and the water, and you,"he pointed to the now female Ranma,"how did you-?!"he seemd to lose his ability to speak again. Goten eyed Ranma in amazment.
"WHOA! Calm down! I can explain!"Ranma said. Her voice was igher pitched now as well. "I'm well, um, cursed...He he..."she said, half- chuckling. Trunks and Goten's expressions didn't relly change.
"You're...what?"Goten asked, slowly.
"Cursed. My stupid pop,"he stuck his thumb toward Genma,"took me to train, in a place called, Jusenkyo, in China. He didn't know that there were over A HUNDRED CURSED SPRINGS THERE!"he yelled at his father, who whistled innocently. "Of course, he didn't know a word of Chinese, so, he just looked in a CHINESE traing ground guide book, saw Jusenkyo, then got a guide to take us there. We were going to train on the bamboo poles, sticking up from the pools, when the guide tried to warn us of something. We just jumped onto the poles, and started fighting, he fell into a spring, and THIS happened." He threw a bucket of cold water at Genma, not thinking of Goten and Trunks' reaction. Genma gre in form, grew black and white fur, and overall, tuned into a panda.
Gotena and Trunks' jaws dropped, in a slight smile, and their eyes got wide. However, they wren't moving. They seemed to be in shock. Ranma waved a hand in front of their faces, hoping beyond hope, she hadn't driven them over the edge. "Helloooo?"he said, wondering if they would respond.
"Yaaaah....."Trunks aand Goten replied slowly.
"Oh good, you're still here. Thought I'd lost you for a second there."Ranma said, with a sigh of relief. "Anyway, I was too surprised, and the guide told me, that anyone who fell in a spring, would take the form of what ever had,"drowned", in that spring last. Pop got knocked into the,"Spring of Drowned Panda." I was so surprised, he knocked me into the,"Spring of Drowned Girl", and transformed into this,"she pointed to herself.
"So-so why were you a-boy,"Trunks mangaged to get out.
"Well, cold water activates the curse, and hot water reverses it." Ranma said, mater of factly.
"Well...........that's awfully interesting,"Trunks, who seemed to be able to talk in full sentences, again.
"Heh, heh, yah,"Ranma said, a drop of sweat, forming on her head.
"Well,"said Ukyo, eager to know how the boys were so strong,"We've heard about Ranma, what about you guys?"
"Oh yah, right,"Trunks said, trying to find where to start. "We're really strong, partially because, our dads are.....uh....."he couldn't seem to phrase it right. "Saiyans,"he finally said.
"What?"they all said in unison.
"What's a Saiyan?"Ranma asked, wondering if this was another Super Strong Tribe, or something.
"Uhhh....."Now Trunks was really at a loss.
"Goten got tired of waiting and finished Trunks' snetence for him,"Aliens."
"Wh-WHA?!"Ukyo gasped. They all took on the same sort of frozen look, Goten and Trunks had, when they learned about Ranma's curse.
Yes, Genma and Soun noticed this, buuuuuut, they would panic later, they were too busy playing Shogi, to panic.
"GOTEN!! WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!"Trunks yelled, angry at Goten. "NOW THE'LL PROBABLY GET SENT TO AN INSTITUTION!!"
Goten got a little angry himself, which was quite uncommon,"Well, somebody had to say something, otherwise, they never woulda' found out!"Goten yelled, in retalliation.
"All right, all right,"Trunks said, he didn't want to stay mad. "Look, before you panic,"he looked at their shocked faces,"......any further,"he said slowly,"this is a picture of them." He reached inside his shirt, and ppulled out a group photo, of them, all their friends, and family. "Here's mine-"Trunks pointed to Vegeta, who had his arms crossed, and was frowning.
"And here's mine!"Goten interupted, pointing to Goku, who was smiling and extinding his hand, in the peace sign.
They all looked at the picture, and let out a sigh of relief.
Genma and Soun, looked over and saw this. Genma, who was back to normal said,"Tendo, my friend, it looks like we won't have to panic after all!"he said, slightly smiling.
"Right you are Saotome!"Soun said. They both laughed.
Well, that was sure interesting....... Well, they did notice a lot this time! Looks like we can stop worrying and get on with our lives.............................
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Well, ladies and gentelmen, hope you liked it! I know, kinda' long. this takes up almost half of the whole story! He he. Buuut, that gives you people more time to read, whilest I work on the next chapter! I had to find some palce to go to the next chapter!:
:-) Anyway, please read and review! Hopefully I can get you all the next chapter soon! See you all soon!
Your truly,
S'rac