(All right the votes are +2 -2 for Ranko/Ryoga. Ranma/Ukyo has stayed the same and Akane got another -1 leaving the score

Ranko/Ryoga 2

Ranma/Ukyo 2

Ranma/Akane -2

(Whats with you people and twos! Come on!) I'm starting to edge away from Ranko/Ryoga. After thinking about it for a while, I realized if I do that this would take endless hours most likely spending from now till I get out of high school! And about the first part of this chapter, you don't need to worry. I'm not going to make it an Akane/Ranma fic! So with any more gilding the lidy and with no more ado I give you...(suspence builds during silence) THE SHOW!)

Chapter 3: Calm Before the Storm

//\\Ranma//\\

Ranma lay on his futon listening to Genma blab on about the upcoming wedding downstairs.

"Stupid pop. Arranging marriges that I don't... don't... ah who am I kiddin'?" he thought. I want to marry Akane, but I still don't know if she wants it. I mean she does make food for me, if you can call it food. But when I try to compliment her on anything she gets mad... even though my complements sometimes aren't, um... She doesn't act like she loves me. I sometimes wonder if she even likes me!

Meanwhile, in her room, Akane sneezed for no apparent reason but guessing someone had just thought something that was really stupid.

"Oh well. I guess what happens, happens, now," Ranma thought.

He continued rambling his thoughts late into the night long after his father had come upstairs and gone to sleep.

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//\\Ryoga//\\

Ryoga wandered along a street path wondering, once again, where he was.

"Now, I know the dojo is around here somewhere," he thought having absolutly no idea that he was in Shikoku. I hope that I don't miss that damn wedding. I'll die I Ranma marries Akane. Right after him of course.

"Hmm, I wonder what time it is," he said aloud. He looked around the small town he was in and saw a large clock nearby telling him it was way past his bedtime.

"11:25, Shoot! I'd better find a forest or something to sleep in tonight,"

He walked till he was just outside of the town to a small woods, set up his tent, and fell asleep...

****************** A half hour later around midnight...

"A WILD BOAR IS COMING! A WILD BOAR IS COMING RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" a man yelled as he rang the bell.

Ryoga woke, angrily, and put some clothes on to go shut the man up. Once he got out of his tent he walked towards the town, that had now become lit up with lights from houses and buildings. As he got closer he noticed that there was a large shape moving through the town wrecking buildings and anything else there was to wreck. Once he got into the town the the thing noticed him. By then he was able to easily tell that it was, in fact, a wild boar.

"I am sure this has happened to me before," he thought.

"HEY THERE GET OUT OF THE WAY!" the man at the bell yelled.

At the last second Ryoga pulled out his bamboo umbrella and stopped the boar by putting the end directly at it's snout, then proceeding to fling it into the air to land a few feet behind him.

"Wow," the entire town said.

"He stopped that there wild boar with a bamboo umbrelly!" an old man said.

"Ya all into martial arts or somethin'?" the bellman asked.

"Could you tell me where I could find the Tendo dojo?" Ryoga asked.

The man frowned as he recognized the man.

"Hey your that feller who came here a few years ago! Good ta see ya! How've ya been?" the bellman asked.

"Huh? A few years ago?" Ryoga asked.

"Well yeah! Don't ya remember us! You stopped a wild boar a few years ago for us! As it was attackin' the town!" he said.

Suddenly it clicked in his memory.

"Now I remember! So this is..."

"Shikoku!" the man interupted. "So did ya ever find that Furinkan High School?"

"Uh... yeah. I uh, gotta go now. Sorry for bothering you!" he said as he turned around and proceeded to walk in the exact opposite direction of his tent.

"Poor feller, still don't have a good sense of direction! I wonder if he'll be a tourist attraction again? Our little town got real popular that year!" the old man commented.

***************** X Year X Month X Day (X Planet)

Two figures stand in the middle of a dessert looking at a huge pyrimid. The first figure is wearing a black overcoat with a white armlet on his chest. At his side is a seven foot sword, called the Masamune. The other figure looks wears a white lab coat with black gloves and boots. Both should be extreamly hot under the sun wearing as much clothes as they are but for some reason, they are not.

It is probably around 2:00 considering where the sun is. Suddenly the pyrimid shrinks. It keeps shrinking untill it is the size of a fist. It bocomes circular and black.

"So this is the Black Materia. I never thought it would be so easy. Now all we have to do is wait," a the first figure said.

"Wait? What for?" the second figure asked.

"We have to wait for holy to be summoned," the first said.

"WHAT!" the second replied. "If holy is summoned the black materia will be useless! Are you insane!"

"Don't worry, Deamo. I have everything under control," he replied.

"You had best Siepher. Jenova was destroyed. I can't help you with any more clones," Deamo said.

"You worry too much!" Siepher replied.

"I suppose I can trust you. Now for the second order of business' how will we get to Earth?" Deamo asked. "I'm truly getting sick of this dump of a planet Gaia!" he exclaimed.

"Sick of your own planet?" Siepher asked. "Not healthy if you ask me, even though all it is now is a gigantic dessert,"

"I didn't ask you!" Deamo replied.

"I suppose a thousand years did a number on this planet. It ran low on life stream when a meteor hit 1000 years ago. Attacking this planet with meteor would prove useless. I could barely stand having a rock thrown at it now. The people here live under ground, where the last water remains," Siepher said to no one in particular.

"Another meteor would have hit this planet a fifteen hundred ago. A magical one. But that was avoided by holy and an Ancient. Now you want holy summoned before meteor even gets its chance?" Deamo asked. "And to think all that work done by Cloud and Aerith to prevent meteor from hitting the planet, only for a normal meteor to hit it five hundred years later! Letting me, the decendent of Hojo, to find remanents of a specimen, called Jenova, and creat you! The brother of the great Sephiroth, from a thousand years ago! Ironic isn't it?"

Deamo walked off toward a gigantic aircraft not far away, feeling much better having done the, give away maniacle scheme rant #42! (Who wouldn't feel good after getting a speech like that off in one breath?)

Seipher looked at the small ball in his hand. "One thousand years ago you killed my brother Aerith. Now lets see if your sister can deal with me!" he thought.

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Ranma was once again looking through the mirror at his girl form. She was talking. "Mabye this isn't just some stupid dream," he thought. When he listened closely to the mirror he could make out the muffled sound of his girl form's voice. But this required leaning against the glass mirror with his ear up to it making the girl on the other side of the mirror laugh her ass off as she watched him, so he stopped doing that.

On the other side of the mirror, however...(The opposite sides of the mirror will now be called Lariath's Side and Ranma's Side)

"So thats where I came from?" Lariath asked.

//Yes//

"Why didn't you talk to me earlier?"

//I didn't know I could//

"How did you find out?" Lariath asked.

Lariath was one for questions. She had always wondered why she was stuck for every hundred years or so, in a spring while everyone else, so it seemed, got to walk about freely on their own.

//Ranma touched my lifestream. Not a common thing for anybody//

Lariath looked toward the mirror and saw Ranma tapping his foot. She giggled. It was pretty funny. Him just standing in the darkness waiting for somone to talk to him.

"Could you go tell Ranma that? I'm sure he'd like to know his girl form is an alien!" she asked.

//Alright//

Ranma's Side

//Ranma//

"Finally! Just how long were you planning on keeping me waiting?" Ranma asked.

//I just came to tell you where Lariath is from//

"Oh, this'll be REAL intresting," Ranma thought.

//She is from a far away planet called Gaia that was struck by a large meteor about 1000 years ago//

Ranma face faulted. "It actually WAS intresting!" he thought. "So your sayin' she's an alien?" Ranma asked pointing to the girl beyond the mirror.

//Yes//

Ranma walked to the mirror and looked at her closely. She became nervous under his eyes and blushed. "She don't look like an alien to me! She acts just like a normal girl!" he thought. He then noticed the one difference between the girl on the other side of the mirror and his normal girl form... she had green eyes.

He woke up.

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Something is about to happen to you Earth.

I know Gaia.

I don't want you to end up like me! Do you understand Earth?

I know Gaia.

Then why aren't you starting to teach the Ancient? She was sent from me after all!

I will soon.

You had better hurry! If you don't teach your people Materia you will die before I do!

....I know Gaia.

(Cliffhanger or not? I've taken 4 days to write this! It got really annoying trying to sit down, and then getting called away to mow the yard or something directly after. So, like my idea? Decendent of Hojo and brother of Sephiroth?... What?! What do you mean its corny! It is not! (hee) I need the pairing votes to keep coming. I'm still not gonna start the romance untill a few chapters later. By the way the vote pole for pairings ends after I post Chapter six so vote before then? Oh yeah and after writing this I decided WHO CARES IF IT TAKES TILL I'M OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL! So I edged back toward the Ranko/Ryoga pairing. So, untill next time, Later!)