Crossing reality.

This is a crossover with several books written by R.A. SALVATORE them being: The Dark Elf Trilogy; Icewinddale trilogy, Legacy of the Drow. I'm not the owner of the characters used in this fic and I'm doing this just for the fun of it and no profit is being made.



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Ranma slowly opened his eyes and looked at the clock, it was 5 AM. When he was in the Amazon village he had made it a habbit to get up early so he could get warmed up for that days training. It also helped him to wake up and clear his mind. Getting up Ranma decided to go out to the dojo to do some working out before the everyone got up.

He tried not to wake up is father, he decided to let him sleep off his hangover. He put on some light clothes and picked up his swords and headed downstairs. The house was completely quiet it seemed no one was up at this time. *Looks like I got the dojo for myself now, gives me the chance to work out with the swords.*

Ever so silently Ranma went downstairs and headed over to the dojo. Once there he picked a spot in the centre of the dojo and sat down to do some medetating. Closing his eyes Ranma ajusted his breathing and slowed his hartbeat. The swords lay beside him still in their scabberd. Ranma remained like that for several minutes when all of a sudden his eyes snapped open. His hands flashed and in another flash he was up on his feet, swords in hand. He immediately began a slow and failry simple (for his standards) it involved mostly straightforward jabs and slashes from various directions. Since he got the blades Ranma had been practising every day. At first he decided to completely focuss on the swords and only sword techniques. After he was getting the hang of them he started to mix in his martial arts skills. He started out with some simple kicks and later on legsweeps and even spinkicks. Now he was at a level where he could use every kick he knew and also use the blades while doing what his school was the best at, mid air combat. Slowly but steadily he started to mix in more advanced moves.

Ranma began to pick up speed and continued, a straight forward jab with his right. After reacting the end of the jab he turned the blade and sliced to his left, spinning on his right leg and following through with a left kick. Immediately he hunched through his right leg and cut with his right handed blade horizontally, 1 feet off of the floor. Still with his right leg bend he kicked of and flipped back. Ranma landed on both feet and stood there, thinking over this last maneuver. *Phew ,that was a nice one, let's see if I can do it starting of with my left.* And so Ranma began again yet this time he began with a jab with his left. He managed to finish the manuever almost perfectly but he wasn't happy. *That's to slow, I need to gain more speed for my kick so can follow through with the low horizontal slash.* He took several deep breaths and began again, first straing of with the right jab and when he was done immeditly going in with the left jab. Again he found it to slow so he decided to try several more times and after about 10 attempts Ranma was breathing heavily. *Still to slow, I need to work on this some more.* Ranma took some time to slow his heartbeat and steady his breathing he sheated his baldes and started of with a slow kata and steadily increased his speed again. Within minutes he was punching and kicking at high speed. A right hook followed by a left spin kick to the head, jumping following through with a kick the left, spreading his legs. In the air he got his defence ready as if fighting with a real opponent. He landed and immediately rolled to his right and back to his feet and stepped in and went low with a viscious sweep. Gettiong to his feet he went at it again, kicking punching and dodging as if there where a real opponent. By this time Ranma had been working out for almost an hour.

Akane was sleeping when he alarm clock went of. Grumpy as usual she slowly opened her eyes and looked at the clock. "Ugh already six o'clock? I want to sleep some more. She hit the snooze button and turned around but as soon as she had her eyes closed another alarm went of, this one even louder then the other and located on the other side of the room. Her eyes snapped open and sighing she got up out of bed. She turned of the other alarm. And stretched a bit. Every day, before going to bed she would tell herself that tomorrow she would get up after the first alarm but every time she would try and sleep some more thus the second alarm. She quickly put on her jogging outfit and quickly made her way downstairs for her morning jog. As she went donwtairs she found Kasumi already awake and getting ready to make breakfast. "Morning Kasumi.?"

"Good morning Akane, have a nice jog." Kasumi even though just awake she was as cheerfull as ever.

"I will." Akane quickly went outside and started with her jog. On her run she thought back about everything that had happened the day before. She remembered everything, this boy named Ranma arriving at the dojo, his secret, when she went and see him in the dojo. She even remembered agreeing to his proposition to be his fiancee. *Why did I do that? I don't even like boys. Man I bet when we tell father he'll go all mushy on us and cry saying how I've grown up. Oh well I just hope Ranma remembers it's all and act or he's dead.* By now she was done with her jog and came back to the dojo, she ran inside upstairs and threw of her jogging attire and put on her gi. She quickly made her way downstairs picked up a bottle of water and went towards the dojo. When she got there she saw that the light where already on and she could hear some one move inside. *Hmm looks like someone is already here wonder who it is. Now father he was to drunkl last night and I don't think any o my sisters are using the dojo, maybe it's Ranma. Let's see.*

She opened the door and looked inside, inside she saw a young boy with black hair going through some kata. *What the who's this?* Akane wanted to step in and ask who the hell this guy was, she was ready to pull out a mallet and smash him when her eyes caught sight of the scabberds on the boys side. *Those are Ranma's swords he must bee some kind of sick perverted boy. I'll show him to mess with the Tendo family.* Akane swung her mallet back ready to throw it at the unwanted intruder or so she thought. "I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT YOU'RE NOT WELCOME GET OUT OR DIE!" She swung the mallet and released it in the boys direction.

Ranma was so focussed on his kata when suddenly he heard a voice sreaming at him. He stopped and turned in the direction of the voice and what he saw made him react on pure instinct. Akane had just thrown a huge malet towards him, it was flying towards him at incredible speed. Without thinking his swords came out and he began.

Akane almost smiled when she saw the surprised look on the boys face but then she saw or better yet she did not see his hands move when his two swords appeared in his hands. As soon as the two swords where out Ranma's hands blurred the incoming mallet seemed to hit a wall of swords as it was shredded to pieces. When he stopped there was nothing left but a small pile of splinters.

"How Dare you ruin my mallet. DIE!!"

Ranma heard Akane scream and saw her attack. "Hey Akane, it's me..." Ranma didn't have time to finish his sentence because Akane was already before him and she started to attack him all out. *Whoa she's pissed. Oh well might as well use this opportunity to see how good her skills are.* And so Ranma sheated his blades and started to dodge her attacks while judging her skills.

Akane noticed that the boy was dodging her attacks. "Ha, you scared?"

"Huh I'm not scared I was just judging your skills." Ranma sidestepped a straight punch.

"Huh what do you mean judge my skills?"

"Oh I thought this was a great opportunity to see how good you are."

Akane kept pressing the attack but she was getting nowhere near him. "Why don't you stop dodging and feel how my skills are."

"I could to that but before I do that I got ta tell you a few things. One: Your attacks are too straightforward. Two: You waste too much energy in your punches and kicks. You should try to use not only your arms or legs but try and use your entire body. Three you defense is lousy, the gaps are big enough for me to drive a truck through."

By now Akane was furious and she got so mad that she dropped what little defense she had and attacked with all her strength. "WHY YOU. DIE!!"

*Man what a temper she really should work on that. If Cologne saw this she would make her regret having a temper like this, She would slap her silly...* All of a sudden Ranma got an idea. He decided to show her what her temper could get her into.

"Say Akane, why don't I show you what I mean?" Ranma continued to dodge her attacks but slowly changed to a more offensive posture.

"Why don't you try and I'll pulp you."

"Ok here we go."

Akane attacked with a simple straight punch again. Ranma dodged the attack and 'slap'. He slapped Akane in her face with his hand.

Akane felt the slap and pushed herself even harder, much to no avail as Ranma dodged her attack and slapped her again.

Ranma was bouncing around dodging her attacks and slapping her where he saw a hole in her defense. As minutes passed Akane began to tire as her cheeks began to turn red from Ranma's slaps. Sure she was getting hit on other parts on her body but she didn't feel them as much as she felt the slaps in her face.

Ranma didn't like what he was doing but he had to teach Akane not to loose focus and that she needed a lot of work. "Akane why don't you stop, you will not hit me and you are getting tired fast and you do have school today."

"I will not stop I will defeat you. I'll teach you not to enter our dojo without permission." Akane was huffing and puffing even though she had only started fighting a few minutes ago.

"I did not enter without permission, I am a guest here so I thought that I had permission to use the dojo."

"What do you mean, you are not a guest."

"Oh yes I am, you see I'm Ranma. This is what I look like normally when I'm not in my cursed form."

"I don't believe you, leave now or I will defeat you."

Ranma sighed and struck one of Akane's pressure points to render her paralyzed. "Let me show you that I'm telling you the truth." Ranma walked over to the bottle of water Akane had brought with her and poured it over his head. As soon as the water hit Ranma changed into his cursed form. Black hair became white as silk and pale skin became dark as the curse was triggered. "You see what I mean, I am Ranma. Oh and don't worry you will be able to move soon but I had to stop you. You where pushing yourself to far."

Akane couldn't believe her eyes, here stood the boy she was engaged to. She still couldn't believe she had done that but her mind was on something completely different now. In her own eyes she was one of the if not the best martial artist there was. But here she was helpless on the ground after having been defeated by a boy. *How could this happen, as far as I know he did not cheat he attacked me whenever he had the chance and I'm sure he was holding back. But how could he defeat me? It was as if he was playing with me. I must know what he meant with the things he said.* Akane was about to ask when she would be able to move again when she was able to move her hands again. Slowly she got up and simply stared at Ranma as he stood there looking at her with a worried look. Akane didn't say anything, she simply turned around and went inside to take a bath and think things over.

Ranma saw the look on Akane's face, it was oh so familiar. He had the same look on his face when Cologne whooped his ass during their training. In a way she knew what she was going through. It hurts when you are defeated thinking you are the best or at least able to defeat the one you are fighting. He decided to let her be for a while and talk to her after she was done with her bath. Ranma cleaned up the water he had spilled and went inside. He would wait until Akane was done and then talk to her before she went to school. He looked at the time and saw it was now 7 o'clock. When he came inside he went upstairs to his room. When he came there he saw his father was awake.

Genma had just awoken when he heard the door to the room open. He looked and saw his son enter the room, in his cursed form. "Ah son I see you have already done some working out. Would you mind to go against me or are you afraid you might lose?" In his mind Genma was a better fighter then Ranma, how could a son be better then his father.

"Suuuure, I'm already done with my workout and you beating me is not very likely."

"I will show on day soon that I am still your master. But if you don't want to I will let it go for today. But I do have to tell you something."

"Oh and that is?"

"Starting today you will go to the same school as Akane and Nabiki." Genma saw that Ranma was about to say something but he cut him short. "You WILL go to school. You do remember the promise you made to Cologne don't you. When you arrive in Japan you will go to school to increase your knowledge about the world. A martial artist has more to his disposal then his fighting skills, knowledge is one of them. Now if you have nothing further I will go and take a bath."

Ranma was at a loss for words, he remembered what he had promised Cologne and he would not break his promise. "Okay dad."

"Good, now I will take a nice bath." Genma got up and left the room and headed to the furoba.

Ranma sat there when something hit him. Akane was still in the bathroom. He was about to warm his father but he didn't do so. Pulping his father would do Akane good. He went over to the hallway and waited as he saw his father enter the furo.

To be continued.