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Chapter 7

"So you can see, I seem to have found myself in quite the conundrum." The small wrinkled woman said to Nodoka before taking a sip of her tea.

"I agree Elder Cologne, and it's probably best we wait for my mother and sister to return from their current job before anything concrete is decided, I was never really apart of the organization so never really knew their, rules. I've left them messages, but that's all I can do." Nodoka replies.

Cologne nodded, knowing there was hardly a direct line to the organization that any of them would have, which was one of the reasons getting Ranma into the tribe would be beneficial. "I will inform the girls of the change of plans, though I fear that will hardly stop their...pursuit, hopefully just prevent any collateral damage."

"Please also remind them to be on their best behavior around Mirei, I'm already having trouble with Ranma's social graces being at the "raised by pandas" level." Nodoka says, shaking her head at the thought of her sons lack of formality.

"I will most definitely, part of their time here is to learn more of the outside world and its customs, so proper etiquette is high on the list. Lufa has probably already read two or three books on the subject just on Japan, Shampoo and Lotion though are going to need extra lessons I'm afraid. Cologne replies.

From the entrance they can hear the group of teenagers returning from school. "Could you all come over, I have a guest here to introduce you too." Nodoka calls out to the group.

While everyone heads to the table looking at the Elder, most with some curiosity, Ranma with a smile, Mirei is still near the entrance to the room and is busy taking the lid of the water bottle she takes to daycare.

"Do you need some more water baby?" Sachiko says seeing her trying to get the lid off.

Without answering though, Mirei gets the lid off and begins to run towards Ranma who turned around to look when Sachiko asked her the question. So as Mirei thrust the bottle forward to spray Ranma he simply leaned out of the way. Akane unfortunately though didn't have reflexes honed in dodging water like Ranma and took the full blast of water to her face.

"Mirei Saotome!" Sachiko said aghast at the girls actions in front of company.

"It's a Youma! Magical Daddy Now!" Mirei shouted, pointing at Elder Cologne and stomping her foot.

"Ranma!"

"What?"

"Why did you dodge the water?"

"Why didn't you?"

Akane gives him a glare.

"Mirei, please go get a towel for your big sister, and then sit with me, we'll be talking about this later." Nodoka instructs the girl, who complies but is keeping her eyes on the old woman the whole time.

"So Ranma, I see you still seem to be dragging chaos around with you. Though I must ask, what is this "Youma" the child mentioned" Cologne asked taking a sip of her tea.

"They are monsters from a children's show she watches, supposedly demons that can only be defeated by magical girls. My sister gave her a VHS tape for her birthday and now its her current obsession…" Nodoka says, grimacing at her sisters choice in gifts. "The main character transforms into a red headed magical girl, hence why she thinks Ranma's curse is simply turning him into one. It doesn't help that his father also turns into a Panda who's the magical sidekick in some other books about a redheaded witch..."

While Cologne laughs heartily at that, the rest of the table tries to at least hide theirs while Ranma gives them all a dirty look. "If it wouldn't lead to her trying to splash me more when you're around, I'd tell her she was right about the youma." Ranma said with a cocky smile at Cologne.

"Respect your elder's sonny, else she'll never respect you when you get to be as old as me." Cologne retorted.

Ranma pulled his hands back from his head, intrinsically blocking the staff to his head, only this time it didn't come. Opening his eyes and looking at the matriarch he gave her a questioning look.

"Your mother has asked for us to be on our best behavior, so the corporal punishment will be saved for training." Cologne answered, giving extra emphasis on the word "saved". Seeing the boy's eyes pick up on that, and his smile deflated, she herself couldn't wait to train with the boy who defied her expectations constantly.

Once Mirei returned with the towel and Akane finished wiping off most of the water, Nodoka gave a brief introduction of the Matriarch to the rest of the group.

"So why are you really here Elder, Shampoo said you're opening a restaurant and she'd be going to school, but there are better locations than Nerima." Nabiki asked, obviously seeing that story wasn't the whole truth.

"Humm, you must be Nabiki, observant as I was told." Cologne replies. "It's not uncommon for us to send groups to other countries for education, we gain modern knowledge and the amazons who have a bit of wanderlust in their soul don't feel trapped in our small village. But as you suspect, our location was not just coincidence." Cologne turns to look directly at Ranma. "Your mother tells me you're finally starting to understand the advances of women, so maybe now the girls will actually have a chance? Too think that all it took was a "new technique", Shampoo's not going to go easy on you after hearing that."

Ranma grimaces as he realizes his mom had obviously told the elder about everything, and what would happen when Shampoo finds out he didn't tell her about it the night before.

"Wait...did you say "girls", as in more than just Shampoo?" Sachiko asks, a hint of annoyance showing on her face.

"While I would of preferred it to just be my great granddaughter, the council decided that each elder would pick a champion, of a sorts, for this endeavor. Ranma you remember Lotion and Lufa do you not?" Cologne asked Ranma.

"Yea Lotion was a great fighter too, but wasn't Lufa training to be a healer, I don't remember her trying to fight me though." Ranma replied with a questioning look.

"True, Lufa is here not just because of you, but that she might gain knowledge of modern medicine. She really should be attending a college as her academics are quiet strong but staying near you will help her improve her Japanese and let her prepare for entrance exams in the mean time. Your mother also mentioned she's looking for a tutor for you, and I would say she is quite suitable to the role." Cologne informed them. "As for challenging you, well, lets just say she tried in her own way, you as always just didn't pick up on it..."

"A tutor…" Ranma's face drops as he groans, knowing that just means more studying for him.

"Yes, though look on the bright side, your mother tells me once you're grades are adequate again you can begin serious training. A tutor will simply get you there faster, unless you're not up to the challenge." Cologne goads, knowing Ranma's weakness to challenges.

"Hey, I don't lose to noth'n, my grades are gonna be the…" Ranma stops himself from saying the best, even he's not that delusional about his education. "Not the worst in class when the year ends!" he finishes, smiling at his declaration.

"Good to hear, I'll even teach you something new if you can pull it off." Cologne says before looking at the clock on the wall. "I am afraid I should be going now, they should be done installing the new kitchen equipment by now and we need to give it a complete cleaning and testing before the inspectors arrive tomorrow. Thank you for your time Mrs. Saotome." She tells the group, hoping up onto her staff and bowing to Nodoka.

"You're most welcome, and I will let you know when I hear something back from my mother or sister." Nodoka says, placing Mirei to the side before standing and returning the bow.

"Farewell Ranma, you might see the girls tomorrow, they'll be registering for classes once their tasks are done for the day." Cologne says before hopping out of the room through the back entrance and up to the roofs towards the restaurant.

After watching her leave the table Ranma looks at Akane excitedly. "This is great Akane, I thought we'd be stuck just sparing with each other and our fathers, now we have Lotion and Shampoo to practice with, and if you can get her to, Cologne knows all sorts of secret techniques to teach ya." His manic voice almost making her forget that she was still wet.

"Not to mention three more girls that are going to try and get you in the sack." Nabiki added with a smirk.

"Nabiki." Nodoka says in a stern tone, motioning her head to Mirei who was getting up from the table and thankfully seemed to ignore the comment as she watched the old woman leave under a suspicious gaze.

Nabiki cringed, thankful that her comment was ignored less she deal with having to come up with an explanation and get a lecture from auntie. "Sorry" she mouthed to Nodoka.

Ranma himself seemed oblivious to the comment also, still telling Akane about the new martial artists skills and abilities. Sachiko though looked less pleased about this turn of events but was unsure of what to do about it, complaining to mom would just make her think that she wanted Ranma and that wasn't what the problem was at all...right?

"Now then, I'm a bit late getting to dinner, Akane and Sachiko please come help me after changing out of your school uniforms. Ranma get started on your school work, Nabiki why don't you do some reading with Mirei, it will help remind you of appropriate vocabulary for her." Nodoka says, getting the group moving before they're all eating past Mirei's bedtime.

That night, Ranma awoke around 2 am to an aching pain, like he was recovering from a mild shot to his jewels. Feeling he needed to use the restroom anyway he made his way to the bathroom to relieve himself. The pain wasn't getting any better and so he decided to see if it was still a problem in his other form. Switching seemed to immediately get rid of the problem though, and not wanting to wake anyone he headed back to his bed to finish sleeping.

"Mom, something's wrong again."

Nodoka turned from the stove at the sound of her son turned daughter's voice, which was filled with fear and frustration. Ranma looked pale as he stood in the kitchen entrance. Rushing over to her son the smell of blood was pungent and she could see some on his hand.

'Damn it...Cologne guessed right, I'd hoped I had more time to prepare.' Nodoka thought as she considered her options.

Moving closer and hugging Ranma as she hoped to calm him. "Ranma, I know this is scary, but this is a totally normal process of the female body. It can be scary the first time, but I promise you that you'll be okay."

"This is NormaL!" Ranma says in a hushed but high pitched tone.

"Yes, lets get you cleaned up and I'll explain." Nodoka says, she quickly turns the stove off before helping him back up the stairs to the bathroom. Once inside she instructed him to strip down and wash off, while he was doing that she knocked on Kasumi's door and then went inside to wake her and ask for help with breakfast as she was going to be a bit busy.

Returning to the bathroom, Ranma had finished a quick scrub in the cold water and was going to put his foot in the furo. "Stop!" she shouted at him just in time, his foot just an inch above the water.

"Cologne told me yesterday that this might happen, and changing back right now would be like taking a sledge hammer to your male private parts." His mother quickly explained, causing Ranma to jump back from the hot water, his hands instinctively cupping around his lower area at the image of what she just said.

"What! Why!" Ranma shouted.

"You know how your bodies share injuries and other physical...occurances right?" Nodoka asks, hoping to calm him down before he wakes the neighborhood.

"Y..yy..yea" Ranma responds.

"Well...right now your female body is doing what it always does every month. It's hard to explain without some pictures, so once I can get the health book again I'll help you understand. But the basics are that your body is shedding a layer of, kinda skin. Every month a woman grows a new one, which is where a baby would grow, and if there's no baby, it sheds it so it can make a fresh one."

"Okay...but how long is this going to take? Will it be done before school?" Ranma asks, starting to calm down, though the idea of everything was making his stomach knot.

"I'm afriad not, it's usually about five to seven days." Nodoka says softly, knowing he wasn't going to take that well.

Surprisingly Ranma doesn't shout anything in response, instead just falling to his knee's and starts to laugh. "Of course...this is all a dream, probably just had some bad food and now I'm hallucinating" He tells himself.

Walking over to Ranma, she kneels down to look at Ranma in the eyes. "Ranma, this is not a dream, this is very much real." She says sternly.

"No no, this makes way more sense, I bet Cologne visiting was part of it too, who would think they'd follow us all the way here. Shedding skin from the inside? No one's going to believe that!" He says manically in quick succession.

"Ranma!" Nodoka says, a bit taken aback by his behavior.

"I bet Sachiko's probably going to come in here next and tell me she's not even happy I'm back, she had a good life here before I showed up and embarrassed her at school and then I keep screwing up around Mirei, she's probably better off with out me ever returning." Ranma continues blathering.

SLAP

Ranma is a bit stunned by the force of the slap, that nearly knocks him over into the tub and forces him to brace himself against the tile flooring. Looking back at his mother he see's she is absolutely pissed.

"Ranma! Never Ever think or say that again! I lost you for fifteen years, and every day since you've returned has made me happier than I ever thought possible. Sachiko has missed you and worried about you for years, and Mirei loves her father, even if he's not always the magical girl she thinks he is." Nodoka says firmly, holding Ranma's shoulders so he can't look away, tears starting to well up in her eyes.

Ranma breaks eye contact with his mother and seems to remain motionless for sometime, until leaning forward and crying into her shoulder. They stayed there for a while until there was a knock at the door to ask if the bathroom was available. Nodoka realizing that it was probably time for the rest of the house to get up and quickly grabbed what she needed, threw a robe around Ranma and took him back to the bedroom, the health book still there from the week before, she began to go over yet another conversation with her son as he laid in bed that no mother thought they would have to have.

'This is some complete and utter bullshit' Ranma thought as he made his way into class. He'd completely missed the first class of the day, having spent it arguing with his mother about his current situation. Having lost that argument he was now walking up the stairwell feeling like crap, having to wear goddamn woman's underwear, and was going to have to stay like this for who knows how long. Looking over he realized he'd just put a hand shaped indent into the banister.

Knocking on the door and quickly taking his seat he tried his best to pay attention, honestly he wanted nothing more than to pay attention to the lesson and not think about anything else. But just sitting was uncomfortable, he tried crossing his legs, sitting with them apart, one ankle over the others knee, but everything felt off, unnatural. Then there was the paranoia, everyone had to be watching him, knowing something was wrong, why else would he be a girl? Why wasn't he just changing back?

When the lunch bell rang he couldn't even jump out the window, his mother having told him any wild movement could make a mess of things and that he'd need to change his..pad, probably during the lunch break to avoid any issues. Daisuke and Hiroshi were looking nervous, probably didn't want to ask him to join them when he'd stayed female the whole morning, so Ranma quickly moved to Sachiko and asked to join her for lunch, surprising her and her friends. Finally seated under their tree, Ranma had at least one positive thing to look forward to, his lunch and began to dig in with gusto.

"Are you...okay?" Sachiko asked Ranma, wondering what was going on that would keep him from school and stay a girl.

Ranma barely stopped eating while answering with a low growl. "No."

Taken aback by the bluntness of the response the three girls looked at each other nervously. She waited for him to finish eating before asking her next question. "Do...you want to talk about it?" she asked quietly as their spot seemed to have grown more popular over the last week and other's were sneaking glances at them.

Ranma let out a loud burp as he finished his meal almost in response. "No...but mom says I can trust ya and that I should in case somet'n happens." he replies, a look of disgust on his face. "Keep this quiet though okay, you two also" Looking at Achika and Mako who both just nod their heads, having watched him unknowingly crush a pencil into dust during class earlier.

"I can't change back to a guy right now cause I'm hav'n a period, and if I did it would feel like someone sledgehammering my nuts." He whispers to the group, wishing to never have to say that again.

The looks on the three girls faces seem to mimic each other and they go from shock, to pain, to sympathy. "That...sucks. I mean, Periods are terrible already, but not being able to change back…" Sachiko says, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"It's always something new with this curse…" Ranma grumbles to himself.

"If it makes it any better, we hate them too." Sachiko says gently.

"Yea, you get to feel like shit for a week, can't do a bunch of stuff, and ride an emotional rollercoaster along with surprise hormone flashbangs. No girl is looking forward to them." Achika says.

"Yea, especially if they come right before something like a trip, or birthday, or swim meet." Mako adds with a grimace.

"But if this sucks so much, why hasn't someone like...fixed it?" Ranma says, holding his stomach as a large cramp hits him.

"No one's figured that one out just yet, but if they do they'll be the greatest hero to half of man kind." Mako replies, laughing at the idea of someone just magically solving the problem.

"I mean, you're a male martial artist and none of you have solved the problem of why your delicate dangly bits are out in the open for anyone to give a swift kick too…" Achika points out.

Ranma grimaces at the memories of time's he had in fact taken a bad shot down there during training. "Okay...that's fair, but they never caused me this much of a problem in seventeen years of being a boy…" Ranma retorts.

"Ranma...what are you going to do about next period, it's P.E." Sachiko asks, a sudden look of worry on her face.

"Uh...what do you all do?" Ranma asks the group.

"They make us change, but we generally just sit out, some of the more athletic girls use tampons and still participate if they want." Achika answers with a shrug.

"Oh…." Ranma responds, the picture of a tampon his mom showed him from the book and her explanation making him feel queasy.

"You should probably go talk to Mrs. Takako, she could give you a pass to get out of it or talk to your teacher before it begins." Sachiko suggest.

"Who?" Ranma asks.

"She's the vice principle, you never asked her name?" Sachiko asks a bit miffed.

"Uh no...it never really came up. But yea, I better head over and talk ta her before something happens." Ranma says, picking up his lunch box.

"Hey Ranma, for what its worth, this is probably the worst part of being a girl you'll have to worry about." Achika says with a shrug.

"Unless you get knoc" Mako says until being slapped upside the head by Achika who is giving her an angry glare along with Sachiko.

Ranma didn't feel like sticking around to find out what she was going to say and made his way towards the office.

Having been able to simply skip the P.E. lesson for the day as the vice principle said she'd talk to the teachers to figure out what they were going to do about the issue, Ranma was thankful nothing else crazy had happened during the final class and was now heading out of the school with Sachiko to meet up with the Tendo sisters before picking up Mirei. But when they got to the bottom floor the main exit seemed to be packed by students looking into the main office.

"What the hecks going on?" Ranma asked mostly to himself while jumping to see over the crowd in his shorter body. The first few attempts didn't seem to show anything, but soon the whole crowd quieted and on his next jump he saw three figures in the office, blue, green, and purple hair. Excited to see some friends again he lands next to Sachiko.

"It's Shampoo and the others, they probably finished their registration stuff, lets wait for them at the gate." He tells Sachiko as he helps push people aside so they can get out of the crowded hallway.

After telling the Tendo sisters what was up, they agree to wait for the amazons to exit. Ranma's smiling at the three girls as they headout the exit, ignoring the throng of boys trying to talk to them. As they get closer and don't seem to pay him any attention he realizes they've never seen him in this body and so calls out to them in Chinese.

Xian Pu, Lo xin, Lu Fa, It's great to see you again! He shouts.

Hearing their names pronounced properly for once, they turn to look at the short red head calling to them, all three confused at first. Shampoo, finally recognizing Sachiko and Akane from the night before making the connection.

Ranma? Is that you? She asks as she walks to meet the group, Lotion and Lufa surprised as they realize it was Ranma in his cursed form like they were told by Cologne, follow behind her.

Yea, Jusenkyo got me and pops, he is panda. Ranma replies as best he can, his Chinese never was that great.

"Hey Ranma, we should get going if we're going to be on time, and we're kinda drawing a crowd…" Sachiko reminds him, getting a little nervous with so many boys crowding around the group now, though most are keeping a distance from Akane.

Ranma nods at her and then turns back to Shampoo. We need get Mirei, you come? He asks.

The girls all nod and smile at him and begin to follow along.

Having finally ditched the last of the curious school mates, with some help of threats from Akane. Ranma begins to introduce the three Amazons to the rest of the group.

"So Shampoo here is the village champion, twice in a row now. She was the first amazon I met when pops and I wandered into a village she was visiting. Had a good spar and been friends ever since." Ranma said with a smile as he put his hand on her shoulder as she walked closely next to him.

Shampoo herself seemed to cringe at the story though, when the fact of the matter was she had challenged Ranma after he had said she was only "pretty good" and gotten trounced in the end. Her grandmother then took an intrest in the boy and it sometimes felt like she payed no attention to her when Ranma was in the village. It also stung to just be called a friend after all her attempts to get Ranma more interested in her.

"Lotion is a real powerhouse, also in like the top five for our age group. I can't wait to see her spar with you Akane, it will be like two mountains clashing!" Ranma said while pointing at the shorter Amazon. Lotion was wearing a similar outfit to Shampoos typical outfit, only with a base of pale blue and royal purple accents, the blue matching her hair color, while her purple eyes matched the accents. While she wasn't happy about being compared to a mountain, it wasn't unreasonable as she was about Akane's height but built much stockier, with her muscles adding slight bulges to even the loose clothing.

"Did you change your hair Lotion?" Ranma asks after examining the girl during his introduction.

Lotion began to blush at the thought he had noticed. "Yeesss...Do you like?" She stammered out as she ran her hand through her short hair that framed her face while not having much to grab onto.

"Yea, it makes more sense to have shorter hair when you close in to grapple like you do." Ranma says, oblivious at the girls cheerfulness as always.

Quickly looking at the last of the Amazon's Ranma begins to introduce her. "Lufa isn't a fighter but is really smart, taught me most of my Chinese and what I know about plants and herbs for healing, really saved me and pops a few times when we were out in the mountains." He says praising her.

"Thank you for your kind words." She responds, giving him a big smile and pushing her chest out just a bit more. While she couldn't compete directly with Shampoo's assets, Lufa was taller and had the more lithe figure as she wasn't packing on muscle everywhere. She had long emerald green hair which matched her eyes and was tied into two ponytails that she then made into ringlets over her ears. She was the only one dressed in more modern clothing, a simple shirt with a long sleeve cardigan over it, paired with a plaid skirt, white ankle socks and black shoes.

They continue walking with the conversation drifting from their travels and the restaurant to the girls class assignments. It seemed Shampoo and Lotion being seventeen had ended up in Akane's class, while Lufa being a year younger will be in Sachiko and Ranma's class, leading to the green hair girl giving the other two a smirk, too which they both returned a glare. They were in the middle of Lufa grilling Nabiki about fashion stores in the area when they arrived at the daycare and Sachiko went in.

As Mirei comes walking out with Sachiko she see's Ranma in his magical girl form and squee's loudly as she bolts right for him.

Picking her up and spinning her around before she tackles him, Ranma laughs at the energetic girl. "Had a good day huh?" He asks her.

She nods as she begins to try and climb and get on his shoulders, which he helps her with, though slightly grimaces in pain as its not making things better for his current situation.

Mirei looks around once on Ranma's shoulders and seems dismayed. "You are short." she says looking down at him with a frown, realizing she's not even taller than some of the girls there while on his shoulders, especially not the one with green hair.

Leaning over to try and whisper into his ear, yet still talking loud enough for everyone to hear. "Are they magical girls too?!" she says excitedly while pointing at the amazons.

The amazon's themselves look confused by the term, while Akane and Nabiki begin to giggle. Seeing Ranma having a look of defeat on his face as she catches up to the group Sachiko asks. "What did I miss?"

"Mirei is wondering if our new friends are magical girls also…" Ranma tells her.

"Oh, so you're finally admitting you are one?" She replies with a smirk.

"What? No, when did I say that?" Ranma replies confused.

"You just said "Magical girls also", so you must be starting to think of yourself as one." She tells him, to which he grumbles about stupid grammer.

The group begins to walk towards the Dojo, with Ranma soon having to put Mirei down as she was wiggling around too much trying to talk to the amazons. She quickly grabbed Ranma's hand, and then Shampoo's after getting in between them. "What's your magical pet?" Mirei asks the smiling older girl.

Shampoo wasn't quite sure what the question was, she was a bit distracted at suddenly holding hands with Ranma's cute sister and the images of their own children in the future. She was brought back to reality though with Mirei tugged on her arm and asked again. "What do you mean, magic pet? Shampoo no have any pets." She replied with her head slightly tilted.

Mirei seemed to be frustrated at that answer and dropped shampoo's hand and went to grab Lotion's hand next, dragging Ranma back with her. "Do you have magical pet?" She once again asked.

Lotion was also not quite sure about the magical part, but she did have a pet back in the village. "I have a dog, but she is back in village, couldn't bring her here." She tells the small girl.

"Why not, is too big?" Mirei asks, thinking of a certain red dog from her books.

"Uh..no, she likes outdoors, city would be sad for her." Lotion tries to explain.

"Okay." Mirei seems to accept that and quickly moves over next to Lufa, but instead of grabbing her hand, which Lufa already had partially extended for her, she stares up at the tall girl.

"Up Up!" Mirei demands more than asks to the girl, letting go of Ranma and raising her arms up.

"Mirei, it's not polite too…" Sachiko begins to tell her daughter, but before she can finish Lufa had already secured the girl on her shoulders.

"It's okay, I have many younger cousins in village." Lufa says reassuringly to Sachiko.

"I'm the tallest!" Mirei cheerfully yells out before looking down at Ranma. "You are so short!"

"That's wonderful Mirei…" Ranma replies, doing his best to not be annoyed at how short his female body was, only Mako was close in height and even then she might be a little taller.

While they continued walking, Mirei asked to go higher to which Sachiko shook her head at Lufa, who nodded in understanding. Ranma continued to walk along next to Lufa and Mirei, with Shampoo and Lotion walking in front but casting jealous looks back at Lufa who smirked at them and seemed to walk a little closer to Ranma than before.

"I have a feeling I know what Mirei's going to be drawing for the next year…" Sachiko says to Akane as they walked behind the others.

"I wonder if we could convince them to dress up for her fourth birthday party, along with a Panda, pretty much any kid going would be super jealous." Akane says with a laugh.

"You know if they did that, she'd throw a fit unless Ranma was also dressed up too, and I can't imagine that happening anytime soon." Sachiko says in a whisper to Akane which brings about the image of Ranma in a short little sailor fuku, and both of them trying to hide their laughter.

"Aiyah, this is our street." Shampoo says looking down the road. Quickly sliding up next to Ranma and pulls him into a hug crushing two parts of her against his own, saying something in Chinese to him that causes him and the other two amazons to blush before releasing him and walking down the street towards the restaurant, a sway in her hips to further distract him. Lotion and Lufa quickly follow after her once Mirei was back down on the ground, scowls on their faces, wishing they'd been a bit quicker.

"Well she seems...amiable." Nabiki says dryly, though not taking her eyes off the retreating girls.

Ranma is brought out of the overly stimulated shock when a sharp pain hits him, grimacing and grunting through some swears. "Ugh...I hate this. Lets get home, I just wanna lay down." He says to the group and starts onward to the Dojo which is just a few blocks away. The girls followed behind, wondering what exactly Shampoo had said to Ranma, and how was tomorrows school day going to be affected by the three new wild amazons. Mirei spent the evening drawing her new heroes in various outfits, and their magical pets they must have.