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(From Saberwulfe: If you don't understand what has happened, or why I jumped ahead, be patient. All will be revealed in its own time.)
Chapter 2 Here's Ranma, and Shampoo and Pepper... "And here sirs is Village of Amazons." The guide explained, Ranma nodded and was about to speak when she heard a loud 'splash' then loud cheering. "Huh, sounds like some kind of battle." She commented as the panda and herself followed the guide into the village. "Very likely sirs. Is probably the inter village competition, where one village face another to try and decide who grand champion." Ranma nodded very interested, maybe he could challange the current champion, then he might be able to find out more about Amazonian martial arts. Ranma and Genma Saotome (In cursed form from a brief but unavoidable rain fall,) followed the Jusenkyo guide into the village, after the guide exchanged a few words with two rather wary looking guards, the strange procession consisting of a guide, a red-headed, and quite attractive female and a panda carrying two backpacks walked into the village. "This way sirs, they said that we could wait in the house of village Matriarch. She will see us after competition to discuss your challenge." Ranma nodded, then slowly eyeballed her pop. He was looking at a large platter of fruit that was being brought towards them by a teenager about Ranma's age. The teenager had long flowing black hair, long, flowing white robes and wore glasses that put coke-bottle glasses to shame. 'Greetings I am Mo-tsu, I will be entertaining you until the Matriarch is finished with her duties.' Ranma nodded. 'Hi, my name is Ranma.' Mo-tsu first eyed the young girl with a critical eye, then the panda who was gaping at her, then it all came clear. Jusenkyo. 'You're not from around here are you?' Ranma nodded. 'That's right, me and the furball are from Japan.' She motioned to the panda. 'Huh, I see. Well then, perhaps we should converse in Japanese?' Mo-tsu suggested, to which, Ranma shrugged. 'I can speak Chinese quite well, he can't. Since he didn't bother learning any Chinese, I don't see why we should include him in our conversation...Mousse? You did say that was your name, right?' Mousse nodded, 'Mo-tsu, or Mousse. Either way, your correct.' The two remained silent for a moment, during that time Ranma began to finger the White at his side, when he had a very unusual idea. 'Hey, do you practice martial arts?' Mousse was so surprised by the question that he answered by pure reflex. 'Why, yes I do...'
The Matriarch of the village fought back bitter tears as she watched a black haired archer walking away. Beside her, a blue-haired female was also on the verge of tears. 'Aiya, Great-Grandmother, why does Jai-yel have to leave?' The blue- haired one asked, her voice shaking in sadness. 'Xian-Pu, there is no easy way to say this but. Jai-yel has learned all he can from us, he even taught me a few things about patience. But, he wants to know more about where he came from, who his real parents are, if they are still alive, and if they would accept him as he is. But he will always be an Amazon, no matter what.' Shampoo she had learned a lot from the strange archer as well. Soon after he arrived, they had discovered an unusual...condition that he had as a result of the Nekoken training. This condition made him look weak, but the Amazon male was far from helpless. The two Amazons stood still for a moment, then Shampoo reeled, as if hit by a staggering blow. 'What do you mean, great-grandmother?' 'hmm?' 'What did you mean that Jai-yel taught you a few things about patience?' Shampoo was looking so shocked that she could've been knocked over by a feather. 'Despite what I say, I don't know everything. Jai-yel taught me to have a little more patience for people who are different.' She eyeballed her great- grandaughter before continuing, 'Do you remember the words that Jai-yel said to you the day before the competition?' Shampoo tried to recall what he had said, then hit hit her like a tank. 'Look with your eyes, see with your heart. But what does that mean?' Cologne shook her head. 'It means look at everything, but believe only what your heart tells you.' Shampoo smiled, 'Jai-yel is much wiser than I gave him credit for.' Cologne nodded in agreement as the two Amazons began heading back to the village. 'Yes, he overcame his disability quite well. Unless you knew what you were looking for, it'd be nearly impossible to tell that Jai-yel is blind.'
Mousse and Ranma were leaping from building top to building top, but Ranma was in his male form. He had explained his Jusenkyo curse to the blind Amazon, who took it surprisingly well. Then Genma had raised a sign [Can I ask for some water, and for you two to speak in Japanese?] Ranma was only half surprised when Mousse had produced a steaming kettle from his cloak. After transforming back, Ranma asked how Mousse did that. "It's called the hidden weapons technique." The blind Amazon stated proudly. "Huh, interesting. So, could you teach me?" The Amazon shook his head. "No, for it takes many years to learn and-" He was suddenly cut off when Ranma stood up, and walked behind him. "I'm a fast learner, and besides. I may be able to give you something you want." Before Mouse could ask what Ranma meant, when he felt a sharp pain shoot up through several points on his back and neck. The pain was incredible, and yet, somehow, wonderful at the same time. Mousse had struggled for breath, trying to ignore the intense agony that rippled through him. "Wh...What the hell was that all about?" Mousse demanded, to answer his question, Ranma simply removed Mousse's glasses. "I was looking at your aura, and I could see that several ki producing epicenters of your body had been closed. But they way that they had been shut off, it almost looked as if it had been done on purpose. But anyway, I re-opened them, and I'm glad that I did, because if they had remained shut for too much longer, they would've killed you." Mousse had been dumbfounded, apparantly, his ki had been building up and if Ranma hadn't opened the epicenters, then he would've errupted like Mt.Fuji. "Okay Ranma, I guess I could teach you some of the hidden weapons technique, but only since you saved my life, and gave me me back my sight."
Ten minutes later, both boys were leaping around the village while hurling shurikens, throwing knives and any number of sharp, pointy objects at eachother. This was about the time that the Matriarch and the tribal champion entered the village. 'Grrrrr, it looks like Mo-tsu has infuriated yet another outsider.' Growled Shampoo as she flicked her Bon-bori up into her hands and was preparing to go beat some sense into offending male, when she felt Cologne's hand on her shoulder. 'Wait a moment child. Do you see anything out of place?' Shampoo snorted, What kind of question was that? But she also knew that it was hazardous to ones' health not to follow great-grandmother's instructions, so she turned and looked at the two combatants. 'Huh!?' Shampoo gasped as realization washed over her. 'Yes, it appears that Mo-tsu no longer needs his glasses.' Indeed, it was true, Mousse was no longer wearing his glasses. But Shampoo wasn't quite sure which she should be more shocked about, the fact that he was enganging in battle without his glasses, or the fact that he was actualy holding his own. The stranger on the other hand, seemed to be on the receiving end of most of the punishment. "Perhaps you should give up! There is no way you can beat me! Because I am the master of the hidden weapon YOW!" His taunting was suddenly cut short by a barrage of no less then two hundred shruikens. The hidden weapons master leapt up high, then countered with a barrage of throwing spikes. Ranma on the other hand didn't dodge the weapons, but leapt AT them. "SABER EYE!" he roared, litteraly roared. Then, two glowing, gold/black beams of light lanced out from his eyes reducing the weapons to dust. Cologne, Shampoo, Mousse, Genma and about fifty other villagers stared on with awe, it was then that the Amazonian Matriarch first noticed the sword strapped to the young boys' side. 'Things just got a lot more complicated.' She grumbled. Two years later "After that, they took my son, then kicked me out of the village." Genma had just finished explaining to Soun Tendo and his three daughters the reason why he had shown up without a son. "That's horrible." Soun wept, "Imagine having your own flesh and blood torn away from you in front of your eyes and being powerless to prevent it." "Indeed, that's awful." Kasumi agreed. Meanwhile, in China, at Joketsuzoku 'Well young tiger, you have progressed much farther and faster than I originaly thought, especially since that unpractical joke that some call your father has been removed from your training.' An ancient woman said the last part with more than just a little venom in her voice. Her name was Ki master Tung. She was so old that she made even elder Cologne seem young, and more powerful than Dowel, a brute of an Amazon that sparred with Ranma on a regular basis. Ranma gave his teacher a fanged smile, like his cat-like, the fangs seemed to have developed on their own. Unlike his eyes though, they couldn't be masked. 'Thank you elder Tung, you have taught me more in the past two years than my father could've taught me in twenty.' The ancient martial artist snorted, 'You're damn right.' She shook her head, "I still can't believe that he mistook the cat-fist for this, what the hell was he thinking?" She thought to herself, then she turned to her student. 'You may leave now, the lesson for today is done.' "And your final lesson will be tommorow." She quietly thought. Ranma went down onto one knee, then put the knuckles of his right hand to the ground and bowed his head. 'Thank you elder Tung.' Then he jogged out of her hut.
Two months later, outside the Tendo Dojo "OH! DAMN! I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" The youngest Tendo daughter launched herself out of the house, then bolted down the street where her sister, Nabiki, was already turning the corner. "Hurry up Akane, or you'll have to stand outside Dalton Sensei's door AGAIN!" Her older sister taunted before rounding the corner. "Ugh, and I still have the hentai brigade to deal with too." Akane whined to herself. She followed her sister around the corner and was flying, almost literally, across a bridge when... ZOOM! a black and gold blur shot past at a speed that must've been nothing short of mach 1. But the surprise didn't end there, the stunned Tendo daughter was then passed by two more blurs, and she barely caught one of them shouting something in a sopranno voice. The only word she recognized was 'Aiyaa'. Akane blinked in confusion as she attempted to follow the blurs of colour, but her eyes fell on the clock tower. "7:45? OH DAMN!" She chased the blurs (because they were heading in the same direction), rounded the last corner, and headed straight towards the hentai brigade-which was laid on flat all across the school yard. "Huh?" She slowed a jog, "Who the heck?" She slowly walked into the yard, all the current members of the hentai brigade (which consisted of 90% of the male population of the school,) were out cold-save for one, and he was facing off with a boy she didn't recognize. "Your cur!, how dare you come between me and the wonderous beauties before me. Who do you think you are?" Akane groaned, Kuno was about to start into his infamous 'worlds-greatest- kendoist' speech, AGAIN! She had lost track of how many times she had been forced to listen to his ego-pumped rantings. " I was just leaving, that's what." The black and gold clad boy claimed, then he turned to the two girls. Akane blinked as in confusion at the stranger and his female companions. The girls had bizarre hair colours, one had a strange blue/purple hair colour and was wearing a school uniform that showed off her ample chest quite nicely. The other had hair that was intense green in colouration, and was also clad in a school uniform, but her uniform was very complimenting in the leg department. Finaly, her eyes came to rest on the boy, he was clad in a modified version of the male uniform. His was jet black and the fringes of it was lined with gold. Akane felt her eyebrows rise as she drank in the image before her, his body was very athletic, not to the point that he was freakishly large, but he was quite muscular. "Come on Shampoo, Pepper, let's go. I don't have time to deal with this idiot." "Why you!" But before Kuno could swing, the three newcomers had leapt up into the air and each landed and slipped into, a different window on the second floor, Akane gaped as her brain registered what had just happened. "They just leapt two stories!" She realized, then there was a loud ringing. "OH I'M LATE!"
A little later, in the school... "Hello guys!" Dalton sensei said warmly. There was a chorus of differently timed 'Good morning sensei' before all eyes fell on the three standing at the front. Dalton sensei noted this. "Well, I see you've all noticed our new students." He said with a grin, then he turned towards the two girls, and the one boy. Akane glared angrily at them, it was because of them that she was late, and now she would have to stand out in the hall! "I'll let them introduce themselves." Dalton sensei concluded. The first blue/purple haired girl stepped forward. "Nihao, Shampoos' name is Shampoo! Is Amazon warrior from China." Then the green haired girl stepped forward. "Hello, my name is Pepper, I'm also a Chinese Amazon, but I'm not a warrior, I'm a lore master." She gave the crowd a super-kawaii smile before stepping back. Finally, the one that most of the class had been waiting for, the boy stepped forward. "Hey, my name is Ranma, but you can call me Razor. I too am an Amazon from China, but I'm the ki master of our village." Akane gasped, and she felt as if someone had just dropped a bomb. "Ranma, my sons name is Ranma" Those were the words that Genma had spoken, and Soun had said that one of his daughters was going to marry Ranma! "Why do I get the feeling that my life was just turned upside down?" END OF CHAPTER 2
(From Saberwulfe: If you don't understand what has happened, or why I jumped ahead, be patient. All will be revealed in its own time.)
Chapter 2 Here's Ranma, and Shampoo and Pepper... "And here sirs is Village of Amazons." The guide explained, Ranma nodded and was about to speak when she heard a loud 'splash' then loud cheering. "Huh, sounds like some kind of battle." She commented as the panda and herself followed the guide into the village. "Very likely sirs. Is probably the inter village competition, where one village face another to try and decide who grand champion." Ranma nodded very interested, maybe he could challange the current champion, then he might be able to find out more about Amazonian martial arts. Ranma and Genma Saotome (In cursed form from a brief but unavoidable rain fall,) followed the Jusenkyo guide into the village, after the guide exchanged a few words with two rather wary looking guards, the strange procession consisting of a guide, a red-headed, and quite attractive female and a panda carrying two backpacks walked into the village. "This way sirs, they said that we could wait in the house of village Matriarch. She will see us after competition to discuss your challenge." Ranma nodded, then slowly eyeballed her pop. He was looking at a large platter of fruit that was being brought towards them by a teenager about Ranma's age. The teenager had long flowing black hair, long, flowing white robes and wore glasses that put coke-bottle glasses to shame. 'Greetings I am Mo-tsu, I will be entertaining you until the Matriarch is finished with her duties.' Ranma nodded. 'Hi, my name is Ranma.' Mo-tsu first eyed the young girl with a critical eye, then the panda who was gaping at her, then it all came clear. Jusenkyo. 'You're not from around here are you?' Ranma nodded. 'That's right, me and the furball are from Japan.' She motioned to the panda. 'Huh, I see. Well then, perhaps we should converse in Japanese?' Mo-tsu suggested, to which, Ranma shrugged. 'I can speak Chinese quite well, he can't. Since he didn't bother learning any Chinese, I don't see why we should include him in our conversation...Mousse? You did say that was your name, right?' Mousse nodded, 'Mo-tsu, or Mousse. Either way, your correct.' The two remained silent for a moment, during that time Ranma began to finger the White at his side, when he had a very unusual idea. 'Hey, do you practice martial arts?' Mousse was so surprised by the question that he answered by pure reflex. 'Why, yes I do...'
The Matriarch of the village fought back bitter tears as she watched a black haired archer walking away. Beside her, a blue-haired female was also on the verge of tears. 'Aiya, Great-Grandmother, why does Jai-yel have to leave?' The blue- haired one asked, her voice shaking in sadness. 'Xian-Pu, there is no easy way to say this but. Jai-yel has learned all he can from us, he even taught me a few things about patience. But, he wants to know more about where he came from, who his real parents are, if they are still alive, and if they would accept him as he is. But he will always be an Amazon, no matter what.' Shampoo she had learned a lot from the strange archer as well. Soon after he arrived, they had discovered an unusual...condition that he had as a result of the Nekoken training. This condition made him look weak, but the Amazon male was far from helpless. The two Amazons stood still for a moment, then Shampoo reeled, as if hit by a staggering blow. 'What do you mean, great-grandmother?' 'hmm?' 'What did you mean that Jai-yel taught you a few things about patience?' Shampoo was looking so shocked that she could've been knocked over by a feather. 'Despite what I say, I don't know everything. Jai-yel taught me to have a little more patience for people who are different.' She eyeballed her great- grandaughter before continuing, 'Do you remember the words that Jai-yel said to you the day before the competition?' Shampoo tried to recall what he had said, then hit hit her like a tank. 'Look with your eyes, see with your heart. But what does that mean?' Cologne shook her head. 'It means look at everything, but believe only what your heart tells you.' Shampoo smiled, 'Jai-yel is much wiser than I gave him credit for.' Cologne nodded in agreement as the two Amazons began heading back to the village. 'Yes, he overcame his disability quite well. Unless you knew what you were looking for, it'd be nearly impossible to tell that Jai-yel is blind.'
Mousse and Ranma were leaping from building top to building top, but Ranma was in his male form. He had explained his Jusenkyo curse to the blind Amazon, who took it surprisingly well. Then Genma had raised a sign [Can I ask for some water, and for you two to speak in Japanese?] Ranma was only half surprised when Mousse had produced a steaming kettle from his cloak. After transforming back, Ranma asked how Mousse did that. "It's called the hidden weapons technique." The blind Amazon stated proudly. "Huh, interesting. So, could you teach me?" The Amazon shook his head. "No, for it takes many years to learn and-" He was suddenly cut off when Ranma stood up, and walked behind him. "I'm a fast learner, and besides. I may be able to give you something you want." Before Mouse could ask what Ranma meant, when he felt a sharp pain shoot up through several points on his back and neck. The pain was incredible, and yet, somehow, wonderful at the same time. Mousse had struggled for breath, trying to ignore the intense agony that rippled through him. "Wh...What the hell was that all about?" Mousse demanded, to answer his question, Ranma simply removed Mousse's glasses. "I was looking at your aura, and I could see that several ki producing epicenters of your body had been closed. But they way that they had been shut off, it almost looked as if it had been done on purpose. But anyway, I re-opened them, and I'm glad that I did, because if they had remained shut for too much longer, they would've killed you." Mousse had been dumbfounded, apparantly, his ki had been building up and if Ranma hadn't opened the epicenters, then he would've errupted like Mt.Fuji. "Okay Ranma, I guess I could teach you some of the hidden weapons technique, but only since you saved my life, and gave me me back my sight."
Ten minutes later, both boys were leaping around the village while hurling shurikens, throwing knives and any number of sharp, pointy objects at eachother. This was about the time that the Matriarch and the tribal champion entered the village. 'Grrrrr, it looks like Mo-tsu has infuriated yet another outsider.' Growled Shampoo as she flicked her Bon-bori up into her hands and was preparing to go beat some sense into offending male, when she felt Cologne's hand on her shoulder. 'Wait a moment child. Do you see anything out of place?' Shampoo snorted, What kind of question was that? But she also knew that it was hazardous to ones' health not to follow great-grandmother's instructions, so she turned and looked at the two combatants. 'Huh!?' Shampoo gasped as realization washed over her. 'Yes, it appears that Mo-tsu no longer needs his glasses.' Indeed, it was true, Mousse was no longer wearing his glasses. But Shampoo wasn't quite sure which she should be more shocked about, the fact that he was enganging in battle without his glasses, or the fact that he was actualy holding his own. The stranger on the other hand, seemed to be on the receiving end of most of the punishment. "Perhaps you should give up! There is no way you can beat me! Because I am the master of the hidden weapon YOW!" His taunting was suddenly cut short by a barrage of no less then two hundred shruikens. The hidden weapons master leapt up high, then countered with a barrage of throwing spikes. Ranma on the other hand didn't dodge the weapons, but leapt AT them. "SABER EYE!" he roared, litteraly roared. Then, two glowing, gold/black beams of light lanced out from his eyes reducing the weapons to dust. Cologne, Shampoo, Mousse, Genma and about fifty other villagers stared on with awe, it was then that the Amazonian Matriarch first noticed the sword strapped to the young boys' side. 'Things just got a lot more complicated.' She grumbled. Two years later "After that, they took my son, then kicked me out of the village." Genma had just finished explaining to Soun Tendo and his three daughters the reason why he had shown up without a son. "That's horrible." Soun wept, "Imagine having your own flesh and blood torn away from you in front of your eyes and being powerless to prevent it." "Indeed, that's awful." Kasumi agreed. Meanwhile, in China, at Joketsuzoku 'Well young tiger, you have progressed much farther and faster than I originaly thought, especially since that unpractical joke that some call your father has been removed from your training.' An ancient woman said the last part with more than just a little venom in her voice. Her name was Ki master Tung. She was so old that she made even elder Cologne seem young, and more powerful than Dowel, a brute of an Amazon that sparred with Ranma on a regular basis. Ranma gave his teacher a fanged smile, like his cat-like, the fangs seemed to have developed on their own. Unlike his eyes though, they couldn't be masked. 'Thank you elder Tung, you have taught me more in the past two years than my father could've taught me in twenty.' The ancient martial artist snorted, 'You're damn right.' She shook her head, "I still can't believe that he mistook the cat-fist for this, what the hell was he thinking?" She thought to herself, then she turned to her student. 'You may leave now, the lesson for today is done.' "And your final lesson will be tommorow." She quietly thought. Ranma went down onto one knee, then put the knuckles of his right hand to the ground and bowed his head. 'Thank you elder Tung.' Then he jogged out of her hut.
Two months later, outside the Tendo Dojo "OH! DAMN! I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" The youngest Tendo daughter launched herself out of the house, then bolted down the street where her sister, Nabiki, was already turning the corner. "Hurry up Akane, or you'll have to stand outside Dalton Sensei's door AGAIN!" Her older sister taunted before rounding the corner. "Ugh, and I still have the hentai brigade to deal with too." Akane whined to herself. She followed her sister around the corner and was flying, almost literally, across a bridge when... ZOOM! a black and gold blur shot past at a speed that must've been nothing short of mach 1. But the surprise didn't end there, the stunned Tendo daughter was then passed by two more blurs, and she barely caught one of them shouting something in a sopranno voice. The only word she recognized was 'Aiyaa'. Akane blinked in confusion as she attempted to follow the blurs of colour, but her eyes fell on the clock tower. "7:45? OH DAMN!" She chased the blurs (because they were heading in the same direction), rounded the last corner, and headed straight towards the hentai brigade-which was laid on flat all across the school yard. "Huh?" She slowed a jog, "Who the heck?" She slowly walked into the yard, all the current members of the hentai brigade (which consisted of 90% of the male population of the school,) were out cold-save for one, and he was facing off with a boy she didn't recognize. "Your cur!, how dare you come between me and the wonderous beauties before me. Who do you think you are?" Akane groaned, Kuno was about to start into his infamous 'worlds-greatest- kendoist' speech, AGAIN! She had lost track of how many times she had been forced to listen to his ego-pumped rantings. " I was just leaving, that's what." The black and gold clad boy claimed, then he turned to the two girls. Akane blinked as in confusion at the stranger and his female companions. The girls had bizarre hair colours, one had a strange blue/purple hair colour and was wearing a school uniform that showed off her ample chest quite nicely. The other had hair that was intense green in colouration, and was also clad in a school uniform, but her uniform was very complimenting in the leg department. Finaly, her eyes came to rest on the boy, he was clad in a modified version of the male uniform. His was jet black and the fringes of it was lined with gold. Akane felt her eyebrows rise as she drank in the image before her, his body was very athletic, not to the point that he was freakishly large, but he was quite muscular. "Come on Shampoo, Pepper, let's go. I don't have time to deal with this idiot." "Why you!" But before Kuno could swing, the three newcomers had leapt up into the air and each landed and slipped into, a different window on the second floor, Akane gaped as her brain registered what had just happened. "They just leapt two stories!" She realized, then there was a loud ringing. "OH I'M LATE!"
A little later, in the school... "Hello guys!" Dalton sensei said warmly. There was a chorus of differently timed 'Good morning sensei' before all eyes fell on the three standing at the front. Dalton sensei noted this. "Well, I see you've all noticed our new students." He said with a grin, then he turned towards the two girls, and the one boy. Akane glared angrily at them, it was because of them that she was late, and now she would have to stand out in the hall! "I'll let them introduce themselves." Dalton sensei concluded. The first blue/purple haired girl stepped forward. "Nihao, Shampoos' name is Shampoo! Is Amazon warrior from China." Then the green haired girl stepped forward. "Hello, my name is Pepper, I'm also a Chinese Amazon, but I'm not a warrior, I'm a lore master." She gave the crowd a super-kawaii smile before stepping back. Finally, the one that most of the class had been waiting for, the boy stepped forward. "Hey, my name is Ranma, but you can call me Razor. I too am an Amazon from China, but I'm the ki master of our village." Akane gasped, and she felt as if someone had just dropped a bomb. "Ranma, my sons name is Ranma" Those were the words that Genma had spoken, and Soun had said that one of his daughters was going to marry Ranma! "Why do I get the feeling that my life was just turned upside down?" END OF CHAPTER 2