RanmaZ
Chapter One Setting the Stage
Saotome Ranma sits upon the roof of the Tendo household. He looks down at his hands. He balls them into fists then opens them up. He does it again and again and again…until finally he balls his right hand into a fist and lifts it up. He looks at his fist and ignores the moon in the background.
"Hiryu Shoten Ha(1)!" The pigtail warrior cries out. The dragon erupts from his extended right arm and fist and makes its way to Saffron. Fueled by the heat of Saffron's flames it is even larger than normal. It engulfs him totally. ("Please let this work,") The boy begs. He spares a look to the doll in Mousse's hands. ("Hold on Shampoo. I'll save ya…somehow.")
Saffron laughs as the wind and cold die down. "Was that the best you could do, boy? If so you should give up and die peacefully," He taunts the boy.
Ranma growls and yells up to the hovering god. "I'm goin' get that water Saffron! You hear me?"
"How will you do that? Face it landling, the girl is dead. And soon you and your friends will join her! This is the price you must pay for interrupting my growth!" Saffron laughs as he launches a fireball at the martial artist.
Ranma does not move. Normally he would have yelled something at his opponent before launching into some kind of counter attack. But this time was different. This time a natural instinct beyond anything Ranma had even known took over.
"How?" He asks himself. He brings his fist down in front of his face. "How did I do it?"
Saffron stops laughing as the dirt from his attack finally settles. He smiles. ("So the landling is still alive?") He continues to hover some 30 feet off the ground. He waits for Ranma to do something. After a moment of waiting he finally speaks. "So landling are you giving up?"
Ranma shakes his head then mumbles something.
"What did you say?" Saffron asks. He is still confident in himself and his powers. He believes that the boy below him will give up and resign himself to his fate.
But Ranma has other ideas. He speaks up. "I said I'm goin' KILL you." And with those words a gray aura of power sprang up around him.
Seconds later Saffron found a fist planted in his stomach and an almost evil grin in his face. With a flap of his wings the god put some distance in between himself and the boy. As Saffron recovered from his shock and his injury, he noticed something. ("This landling can fly!")
The grin on Ranma's face disappeared. In its place he wore a scowl of hate. "I will not allow Shampoo to die. For her and my friends…," He takes up a loose stance as he prepares to attack. "I am going to… RIP YOU APART!" He emphasizes his last words.
For the next for moments all Saffron knew was pain. In one last desperate move he lets lose all his remaining strength. But even that is not enough. "Shin Moko Takabisha! (2)"
His last thought before the light of Ranma's attack closed in on him was this. ("There will be no re-birth this time.")
"Yes Father, you wanted to see me?" Urd asked as she entered the Almighty's Office.
"Yes daughter." There was silence for a few seconds before Kami-sama(3) continued. "Something occurred on the Earth a week ago that requires our attention."
"And that would be?"
"A god has died."
"Nani?" Urd was understandably shocked. Gods do not die often or easily. Usually it took a demon or an act of Kami-sama to kill one. And she had not seen the tell-tell signs of either one.
"Actually he was only a demi-god. Saffron the God of the Phoenix People has died. A mortal interrupted his growth into full godhood and killed him."
Urd breathed a sigh of relief. Demi-gods were much easier to kill. A very strong, or lucky, mortal could take down a demi-god. "So what's the big deal? Saffron's a phoenix, right? He'll just be reborn."
"No my daughter. Saffron is dead. I have already begun looking for a replacement for him."
Urd paled. No mortal, no matter how strong, or lucky, had ever permanently killed a god. "How is this possible?"
"The boy is half Saiyan."
"Saiyan?!" Urd took a step back. "Is that possible? I thought the Saiyans were extinct. And now's there's one on the Earth?"
"Yes. There is a Saiyan on Earth, and I want you to go to him and grant him a wish."
"A wish? You're kidding right? He'll probably wish to be immortal or rule the universe. Or worse yet become you!"
"Calm yourself Urd."
"Calm myself? Calm myself? You want me to calm myself when there's a rouge Saiyan running around on the Earth killing gods?" A thought crossed her mind. "Oh no, Belldandy and Skuld are still on the Earth. I have to tell them."
"Urd!" Kami-sama's booming voice silenced her ramblings. "This Saiyan is no threat to us. He is instead an ally."
"An ally? Last time I checked Saiyans were evil creatures."
"Take a seat, this will be a long
story."
Setsuna frowned as she looked at the picture in front of her. The photo is of a young boy going through a strenuous work about. The glistening sweat upon his muscular chest would have made many women swoon over him but not this woman. No, she was not interested in the obviously handsome boy (she beating that part of her mind into submission), she was interested in the tail coming from the young man's pants. As far as she could tell the picture was authentic and had not been tampered with. ("There can be no doubt. A Saiyan is on the Earth.") She frowns once more know what she must do. She had all the information she needed. Hotaru had evidentially bought the picture at school, along with a host of others. ("Mentally note: keep Hotaru away from Makoto and Minako.") Although Hotaru had not known the boy's name, she was able to tell Setsuna where he went to school. ("Tomorrow I will have to pay a visit to Furiken High School. I cannot allow a Saiyan to live on the Earth.")
A sneeze snaps Ranma out of his daydreams. ("Somebody must be talkin' about me,") He thinks as he rubs his nose. He gets up and looks back to the moon. ("One of these days I wanna find out why I can't look at a full moon.") Ranma hops off the roof and to the ground with a small chuckle. Who greets him there on the ground causes him to pale. It is a beautiful woman. She has white hair, darken than normal skin, and is scantily clad. But it is her aura that causes Ranma to pale. ("Not even ten Saffrons could match her.")
Urd smiles. "So you're the Saiyan, huh?"
Ranma arches an eyebrow and gives her a confused look. After a moment he speaks. "Saiyan?"
"Yep!" She points to Ranma. "That's what you are, thanks to the spring at Jusenkyo anyway."
Ranma nods. "So that's what drowned there."
"You got it! And now I'm here to grant you a wish!"
Again Ranma looks confused. "A wish?"
Urd nods. "Yea. Usually the people that are granted wishes find us. But you're a special case."
"What do ya mean?"
"Well…you're a Saiyan. And you don't know how to control your powers too well. That's not a good thing. The last thing Kami-sama wants to a Saiyan without much control roaming around the world, ya know?" Ranma nods. "So I can here to grant your wish."
"I see."
"I already know what your wish is going ta be, but you still have to ask it. So ask away!"
Ranma smiles and nods. "I wish I could train ta control my powers better!" Seconds later Ranma is gone.
Urd smiles. "Wish granted." She also disappears.
A moment later Ranma reappears in the same place. He looks almost identical. There are only slight differences; longer bangs (they know reach to the top of his eyes), blue wristbands, and larger muscles being the most obvious. The largest differences cannot be seen. They lie within the boy. He smiles and turns into the house.
Shampoo sighed as she looked outside at the moon. Looking at it her thoughts turned to Ranma. ("The moon isn't full tonight so he's still up.") She sighs again and begins to daydream about the man of her dreams.
Cologne shakes her head. ("She has fallen in love with the boy, but he has not fallen in love with her. I thought coming to Japan to continue his training would give Shampoo her best chance to ensnare the boy. And yet no one has been able to do so. Not Shampoo, not the Kuonji, not even the Tendo girls.") Cologne smiled as Mousse came into view.
"Shampoo my love!" He cried out and dove at her.
"Stupid Mousse," She replied and added a punch to his face for good measures.
Cologne could not help but chuckle slightly. She was about to tell Shampoo to close up when she felt an energy spike. ("This ki…. It's huge! And it's right by Ranma!") Then they were both gone. ("Gone? He can't be dead!") Then as suddenly as his ki had disappeared it reappeared. But… ("It's even stronger than before. So much power!") An awestruck Cologne began to try and figure out how much powerful Ranma had become in those few seconds. But the level of ki dropped off to normal levels. She smiles at the thought of Ranma finally showing his true potential. ("I'll just have to have a talk with him tomorrow afternoon.")
Washu rapidly types on her keyboard. There had been a massive energy surge in Tokyo, but it had only lasted for a few seconds. ("Barely enough time to record any readings but not enough time to pinpoint its exact location.") Washu frowns as she finishes her initial analysis. "It disappeared too quickly to get an accurate reading on how powerful it is, but it looks like it's the same energy that I detected those other two times." She brings up two other screens next to the first. "The first time was within a year, and the other time was a week ago." She studies the readings intently. "The energy appeared in almost the same location in China the first two times. The first time it was active for about thirty seconds. The second time it was active for slightly more than a minute." Washu sets back in her chair and sighs. "There is no doubt about it. There's a Saiyan on the Earth." Washu banishes the screens and thinks. ("I didn't think the Saiyans had made it into this system.") She sets up and calls up another screen. After reading for a few minutes she nods and sits back. "There are no reports from the Galaxia Police that indicate the Saiyans ever made it here. I can't just ignore a Saiyan." She smiles. "I never got a chance to examine a real Saiyan. A live Saiyan would make an excellent guinea pig." She remembers something and frowns. "The Jurians hate the Saiyans. So I doubt I can tell Ayeka about this. Katsuhito is probably my best bet. I'll tell him about it tomorrow morning and see what he thinks."
Hiryu Shoten Ha- Heavenly Dragon's Blast or something like that
Kami-sama- God