Going Home
Prologue part 2
"Well this bites." She muttered.
Ranma was not happy. A possible cure for the curse and now here she was permanently female and stuck on an alien world with no way home.
*Well I had better find a town or something*
She looked around and noticed that the forest seemed to get thinner in one direction so after packing up camp she headed in that direction.
Several hours later she sensed an attack and dodged to the side. She spared a quick glance as a small furry creature passed through the spot she had just vacated its claws extended. She backhanded the next one to jump at her into a tree and then the pace picked up. She was forced to use a full body Chestnut Fist to compensate for their speed.
Thirty vicious seconds later it was all over. Twenty of the six legged dog sized silver furred creatures lay around her dead or dying. Their heads were vaguely cat-like but the three eyes and floppy ears meant that they were definately not cats.
Just then she began to feel dizzy and realized that their claws must have been poisoned. So she brought up her chi and used it to cleanse the poison from her system.
*Humph, looks like the tomboy's cooking did some good for me after all*
Looking up at the sun on its way down, Ranma decided to camp for the night. Not knowing when she would find civilization, she skinned the creatures and cooked up their meat. As an afterthought she cleaned the skins so that she could keep them. After the meat was done she tried a small taste to see if it was even edible and was surprised to find that it was very good indeed. Ranma decided that night that she would smoke the rest of the meat in the morning so that she could take it with her. A day later and fifty pounds of smoked meat later, she was on the move again. Surprisingly enough half a day later she found the edge of the forest and a town.
Ranma took an appraising look around as she entered town. It appeared to be a varied mix of medieval and futuristic technology. There were electric lights of some kind hanging over the streets, and everywhere around the old was mixed with the new. Even more surprising was the fact that everyone seemed to be speaking Japanese.
Spying a stall with displaying various kinds of furs, including a brown and mottled variety of what she had killed, she walked over to the vender, an old and grizzled man, to talk to him.
"Hello, I noticed these furs here," She pointed out the furs similar to the ones she had, "and wondered what the going rate was for them."
"Well," he replied, "those there just being furs from yer normal aipas, and so are really cheap, people around here use them for meat. In fact I gots myself a whole crate of the dammed things. If'n yer want'n some of them you can get ten for a credit. Now if you were looking for silver aipa furs yer outa luck. I only gots one of them and it's not fer sale cuz their so rare."
At this Ranma got a Nabiki like gleam in her eye. *Well* she thought *this is interesting indeed, looks like it is a good idea I skinned the ones I killed*
"Well, if some one could get their hands on some of these 'silver aipa' skins, what would you pay for them?" She asked the old man.
"Well, " he answered sounding curious his accent completely gone, "young lady if you happen to have come across some I know of several people who would be happy to pay at least eight hundred credits a piece. Of course I would get at least twenty-five percent as agent for the deal, but don't you think of going out after them yourself. They can move faster than you can see and their poison will drop a stout healthy man in thirty seconds."
At this Ranma grinned like the proverbial cat that had just ate the canary and lowered her voice to a conspiratorial whisper.
"It just so happens that I have twenty of those pelts in my pack and fifty pounds of smoked meat from the twenty I killed just yesterday." At this she sat her pack down on the table an opened it to show him the pelts.
The old mans eyes widened in surprise and shock and his voice shook when he asked to look at one of the pelts. Ranma not seeing any harm in it let him see one. The old man laid it out on the table fur side down and ran a hand held scanner over it; his eyes widened even more after the scan was complete. He proceeded to tell Ranma that his scan showed that Ranma was indeed telling the truth.
"And furthermore I even have the 12,000 credits on hand for all of the pelts you have on you"
And so Ranma had found her new start on this world. About a month later Ranma set out from the village with a greater but still incomplete knowledge of this new world. This would prove her undoing less than a week later.
Ranma woke up in the dark, and the first thing she noticed is that she was sore down there which could only mean one thing. One of the raiders had used her for his pleasure while she was unconscious before throwing her in here. Ranma began to glow with a sickly dark green light.
*They will all die for this* She decided. *They caught me by surprise before, but never again*
For the next thirty minutes the surrounding countryside was treated to a light show the likes of which this world had never seen, as Ranma let loose all the power she had been holding back since saffron.
A week later she stumbled back into the village clothes still singed and tattered from the explosion.
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Nine months later I, Saotome Sakura, was born. After finishing that journal I think back to a week ago when the peace in our lives which had lasted eighteen years was shattered in the night by the noise of a spacecraft, fortunately we knew how to use our chi to make ourselves unappealing or those five days on the slavers ship would have been unbearable. We almost got away cleanly, but one of the guards saw mom at the last minute and opened fire with a hail of blaster fire. I wanted to stay and help but mom would have none of that and told me to run. So I did, and if I hadn't of run I would be as dead as the rest of the people in that arm of the station.
In the last few days before her death my mom told me a lot of things about earth, about the Tendos and all of her adventures there. It only took a few days time for me to find Earth in the station's computer, as I hid from the slavers, and a few more days after that to find a ship I could steal to take me to my mothers home.
Authors notes:
For any of you who want more detail it will be provided later in the story. Also for those of you who think that Ranma is out of character in my story well, in my story Ranma did manage to grow up while he was in Nerima, he just hid it really well. As for the galaxy at large it will be loosely based on the Star Wars universe. No Jedi or Sith though.
If you have any more questions feel free to e-mail me. After the next chapter, where Sakura visits Nerima and lets everyone know what happens, Sakura will return to the stars with a companion. Any suggestions for post-Ranma Nerima pairing will be welcome and if used credit will be given at the end of the chapter. I plan for the companion to be a child of one of those pairings who is only a year or two younger than Sakura. I will give everyone a couple of weeks to give suggestions before I put out the next chapter.
Thanks for reading.
Ghent Johanson
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