Ranma King of Games Chapter Two.
Disclaimer.
I don't own Ranma or Yugioh. But considering how many cards I've bought I probably could have.
"Words"
Thoughts
[Monster stats]
{Life points}
Instead of in the anime, whenever Yami speaks with Ranma he will be standing outside of his body. Not just being heard in his head.
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Ranma finished eating his seventh okonomiyaki at Ukyou's restaurant. Ukyou smiled as she prepared another one for him. Unlike most people who were disgusted at the way Ranma ate, Ukyou loved watching Ranma enjoy her cooking with such enthusiasm. Secretly she entertained several fantasies of watching him eat when they were both married and had kids. Forcefully pushing those thoughts aside she took out her two card halves and sighed.
"I really appreciate what you've done for me Ranma. But Kaiba was right; this card is pretty much useless now." Ranma finished swallowing and wiped his hands clean.
"Let me see it Ukyou, I'd like to try something." Fitting the two torn half's together he merged with Yami and focused. Yami started to manipulate his ki so that the frayed edges glowed and started melding together. Ukyou watched in awe as her favorite card was restored to its original state. Taking it from Ranma's hands she studied it carefully. A hairline crease was the only thing that could show it had ever been damaged. Giving a shout of glee she snatched Ranma into a gigantic bear hug.
"Thank you Ranma! I don't know how you did it but Thank You!" Grinning from ear to ear Ranma hugged back as Yami departed to return to his mental home. Those lessons he had given Ranma last night on interacting with females had come in handy after all.
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Ranma sighed happily as he walked up the steps of the Tendo home. As soon as he set a foot in the door he was immediately splashed by a panda. It turned its back and left holding up a sign.
[Get packed boy, your mothers here to see you and she's staying until you come back.] Ranma gulped and forced his body to shift to its female form. He and Yami had decided last night that it would be best if the others didn't know about his control over his curse just yet. Genma and all of the other cursed individuals in the area would most likely try to steal the millennium puzzle and that definitely wasn't something he wanted to happen. Not that it would help them anyway. Avoiding the living room, where he heard his mother and a very nervous Soun laughing, he headed up to the guest room. After entering Genma threw him a pack.
"Come on boy, were going on a little training journey. We'll go hide in the mountains for a few days or weeks or months and then come back when you're mother leaves. Ranma threw his pack on the ground forcefully.
"No." Genma didn't seem to notice.
"Good, I'm glad you agree. I was thinking Mt.."
"I said no pops." Genma seemed to notice this and frowned.
"I'm your father you ungrateful boy, how dare you not listen to my orders!" Ranma's personality and appearance seemed to take on a more savage tone.
"I'm not hiding any more pops, you tricked me into that seppuku pledge with mom and I'm going to go through with it if she wants me to. It's not my place to try and break an honor vow like you do so often." Genma cleared his throat in fake indignation.
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Several names come to mind. The Dajoiki clan, the Kuinji clan, the KUNO clan, those other half dozen families that you swindled. I don't know why you seem so set on this engagement to the Tendo's but frankly I don't care. I'm not going to hide my girl side from mom any more. I'm sick of pretending to be Ranko Tendo you stupid panda!" Ranma grabbed a kettle of now cold water and threw it at Genma. Genma-panda turned white (Panda's are mostly white to begin with but somehow he managed to turn whiter.) and started backing away. Turning around Ranma saw his mother standing in the doorway with a look of shock on her face.
"Oh Shi."
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Ukyou hurried up the walk of the Tendo home intent on collecting her winnings from Nabiki. With one hundred thousand yen she could afford that new bigger grill for her restaurant she had been saving up for, and a little left over to send to her dad for medicine. Her smirk died as she noticed a familiar katana resting by the door. Ranma had told her long ago of how he couldn't see his mother and she prayed that he was in his girl from now. Not waiting to be admitted she rushed into the living room and tensed up when she saw Ranma sitting on a cushion in front of his mother. Putting on a fake smile to hide her fear she cheerfully spoke up.
"Hi Ranma, whose this?" This however brought a wince of pain from Ranma and a steely look from Nodoka.
"You must be Ukyou Kuinji. Ranma was just telling me about how his father cheated your family and for that I do apologize. But the fact remains that Ranma hasn't lived up to the terms of the seppuku contract and now I expect him to honor it." Ukyou gasped.
"Please no! Not that, how can you kill your own son?! His curse only effects his body, I accept it and so does every one else."
Do you honestly think that I would have my only son kill himself over something as stupid as that? A real man doesn't hide in fear from his own mother. However I'm willing to give him one last chance to redeem himself. I saw how you beat Seto Kaiba today and I'm going to give you a chance to duel for your life. If you win then I'll tear up the contract and if I win you will go through with it. What do you say?" Yami fused with Ranma and grimly answered.
"I accept, but I don't have a deck of my own. I had to use Ukyou's deck when I beat Kaiba." Nodoka was secretly amazed that any one could win a duel using a deck they hadn't constructed themselves but didn't show it.
"Very well, perhaps Ukyou here will lend you her deck again. Will you Miss Ukyou?" Wordlessly Ukyou took out her deck from the case on her belt and handed it to Ranma. Nodoka took out her own deck and began shuffling it. The two players set their decks on their dueling mats and the grim game began.
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Nodoka went first.
"I'll lay Witch of the Black Forest in attack mode and end my turn [1200/1000]." Yami frowned as he looked at his hand.
"I'll lay one card face down and attack with Ax Raider. [1700/1100]" Ranma moved his monster so that it touched his mothers and she removed it from the field.
{Nodoka 1500, Ranma 2000
"Good Ranma, you destroyed my monster and I lost five hundred life points. However, Witch of the Black Forrest lets me summon a monster from my deck to my hand with a defense of 1500 or less." After finding the monster she wanted she shuffled her deck and drew a card.
"Now I'll use Graceful Charity to draw three cards and discard two old ones and set Sangan in attack mode. [1100/1300]" Ranma drew a card and destroyed Sangon with his Ax Raider. Nodoka smiled.
{Nodoka 1100, Ranma 2000}
"You did it again Ranma, Sangon also allows me to summon a monster to my hand with a defense of less then 1500 but I also have to show you what it is. She pulled a card out of her deck and held it for Ranma to see. When Yami saw it he felt his blood grow cold.
The left arm of Exodia! It can't be!
What's an Exodia?
It's a monster that can't be stopped. It is divided into five different pieces and if you can draw all five then into your hand the game is automatically over and you are the winner. Since each piece has very little attack and defense power she can use summon monsters like Sangon to bring each piece to her hand.
Oh, that sure isn't good. But Nodoka wasn't finished.
"Now that it's my turn I'll use another Graceful Charity card and summon the Cannon Soldier in defense mode. [400/1400] and then I'll lay one card face down and use Swords of reviling light so you can't attack for three turns." Ranma frowned at this and drew his card.
I lay one card face down and summon the Red Eyes Black Dragon in attack mode." Nodoka was a little surprised to see such a rare card but didn't show it. It was her turn again and she laid another Witch of the Black Forrest on the field.
"Now I activate cannon soldier's special ability. I sacrifice my witch and have it aim it's self directly at your life points. Meaning they go down by four hundred. I also get to summon another monster from my deck. Then I use the magic card Hinatome, It will directly attack your life point and decrease then by a further three hundred."
{Nodoka 1100, Ranma 1300}
Ranma flipped the face down card he had set last turn over.
"I play Lightforce Sword and aim it for a piece of Exodia. It will remove it from play for three turns." He pointed to the card he wanted and it was reviled to be the Right Arm of Exodia. Nodoka scowled at this and went back to the game. She laid another Sangon on the field and again used Cannons soldier's ability to inflict four hundred points of direct damage to his life points.
[Nodoka 1500, Ranma 900]
She then took another card from her deck and then spoke.
"I now have all four pieces of Exodia in my hand Ranma. At the end of my next turn your Lightforce sword will time out, the final piece will return to my hand and I'll win the game. This is your last turn and you had better make it count." Ranma drew a card, looked at it and laid it back on the top of his deck.
"I surrender; I can't play any cards this turn."
Nodoka picked up her Exodia piece and laid all of them on her side of the field.
"I win."
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Ukyou started to sob as she saw Nodoka pick up her katana and rise. She walked toward Ranma who had his head bowed and swung her sword. Ukyou could have sworn that Ranma smiled sadly at her before closing his eyes and a look of peace came over his face.
ShhhhhTHUUNKKK!!!
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Ukyou stared at the broken sword blade lying at her feet. After pulling the broken handle away from the doorframe where she had snapped the sword Nodoka placed the pieces into its sheath and turned back to the two stunned teenagers.
"I am SO glad I don't have to carry that any more." Ranma managed to find his voice.
"Mom, I lost. Why didn't you kill me?" Nodoka smiled and hugged him.
"Why would I do that my son? You obviously won the game" She reached over and picked up the card Ranma had set face down in his first turn and the card on the top of his deck.
"I thought so, Card Destruction and the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Card Destruction makes both players discard every card in their hand, which means my four other Exodia cards would have been sent to the graveyard. If you had then used the Blue Eyes White Dragon the next time I attacked with my Cannon Soldier you would have wiped out my life points. You could have beaten me in that last turn of yours but you didn't. It takes a real man among men to face his death knowing he could have stopped it." Ranma got a questioning look on his face.
"How did you know what my cards were?" Nodoka pointed to a full length mirror behind him as he and Ukyou face faulted. Ukyou picked herself up and started to giggle.
"Typical Ranma, he never loses a fight but when it comes to noticing the obvious he's brain dead."
"Hey!" Ukyou glomped onto Ranma's shoulder.
"I'm just kidding you Ranma. I don't care if you're as perceptive as a brick; you're still my Ran-chan."
"Oh..thanks." Ukyou and Nodoka fell over laughing much to the mystification of Ranma. Yami groaned and popped open another beer as went off to relax. Pyramids may rise and fall but something's would never change.
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Ranma, Nodoka, Ukyou and Kasumi all sat around the Tendo living room drinking tea. Nodoka smiled at the way Ranma and Ukyou sat so close to each other, grandchildren couldn't be far away from the look of it.
"Ranma, now that we are together I think you should move back with me to my house so we can catch up on all of the time we've been apart. It's still within range of your school so you wouldn't have to transfer, and I believe the Uchans is right on the way there." Ranma was quiet for a moment as he thought it over.
(Down in the pits off hell Satan wondered why it was starting to snow.)
"I'd really like that mom." Nodoka smiled.
"Good, we can pack up your things and leave for there tonight."
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Ranma grinned as he packed his backpack with the few belongings he had. Feeling a draft he looked over at the broken window. Genma had jumped out of it when he had seen his angry sword wielding wife and left Ranma to his fate. Soun had soon followed fearing that Nodoka would take it out on him for hiding her wayward husband. The last they had been seen was heading off in the direction of Kyoto. He had lifted his pack and was taking one last look around the room when he heard a quiet voice.
"I'll miss you Ranma, you were like a little brother to me." Turning around he saw Kasumi standing in the doorway with sad smile on her face. Ranma walked over to her and pulled her into an embrace.
"I'll miss you a lot to Kasumi. Except for Uchan you were only one that ever treated me with any kindness. Is there anything I can do for you?" Kasumi seemed to think for a moment and then took something golden from behind her back.
"Yes, please stand still for a moment." Putting the point of the key shaped object on Ranma's forehead she turned it half a turn and time seemed to stop.
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Authors notes.
First of all I know that Lightforce Sword takes four turns but I was pressed for time and only used three. If there were any more card errors I'm sorry. Now we know that Kasumi has the Millennium Key but is she evil or good? We'll soon know in the next chapter.
Send C&C and any cards you don't want to animeprime1@hotmail.com
Disclaimer.
I don't own Ranma or Yugioh. But considering how many cards I've bought I probably could have.
"Words"
Thoughts
[Monster stats]
{Life points}
Instead of in the anime, whenever Yami speaks with Ranma he will be standing outside of his body. Not just being heard in his head.
_____________________________
Ranma finished eating his seventh okonomiyaki at Ukyou's restaurant. Ukyou smiled as she prepared another one for him. Unlike most people who were disgusted at the way Ranma ate, Ukyou loved watching Ranma enjoy her cooking with such enthusiasm. Secretly she entertained several fantasies of watching him eat when they were both married and had kids. Forcefully pushing those thoughts aside she took out her two card halves and sighed.
"I really appreciate what you've done for me Ranma. But Kaiba was right; this card is pretty much useless now." Ranma finished swallowing and wiped his hands clean.
"Let me see it Ukyou, I'd like to try something." Fitting the two torn half's together he merged with Yami and focused. Yami started to manipulate his ki so that the frayed edges glowed and started melding together. Ukyou watched in awe as her favorite card was restored to its original state. Taking it from Ranma's hands she studied it carefully. A hairline crease was the only thing that could show it had ever been damaged. Giving a shout of glee she snatched Ranma into a gigantic bear hug.
"Thank you Ranma! I don't know how you did it but Thank You!" Grinning from ear to ear Ranma hugged back as Yami departed to return to his mental home. Those lessons he had given Ranma last night on interacting with females had come in handy after all.
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Ranma sighed happily as he walked up the steps of the Tendo home. As soon as he set a foot in the door he was immediately splashed by a panda. It turned its back and left holding up a sign.
[Get packed boy, your mothers here to see you and she's staying until you come back.] Ranma gulped and forced his body to shift to its female form. He and Yami had decided last night that it would be best if the others didn't know about his control over his curse just yet. Genma and all of the other cursed individuals in the area would most likely try to steal the millennium puzzle and that definitely wasn't something he wanted to happen. Not that it would help them anyway. Avoiding the living room, where he heard his mother and a very nervous Soun laughing, he headed up to the guest room. After entering Genma threw him a pack.
"Come on boy, were going on a little training journey. We'll go hide in the mountains for a few days or weeks or months and then come back when you're mother leaves. Ranma threw his pack on the ground forcefully.
"No." Genma didn't seem to notice.
"Good, I'm glad you agree. I was thinking Mt.."
"I said no pops." Genma seemed to notice this and frowned.
"I'm your father you ungrateful boy, how dare you not listen to my orders!" Ranma's personality and appearance seemed to take on a more savage tone.
"I'm not hiding any more pops, you tricked me into that seppuku pledge with mom and I'm going to go through with it if she wants me to. It's not my place to try and break an honor vow like you do so often." Genma cleared his throat in fake indignation.
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Several names come to mind. The Dajoiki clan, the Kuinji clan, the KUNO clan, those other half dozen families that you swindled. I don't know why you seem so set on this engagement to the Tendo's but frankly I don't care. I'm not going to hide my girl side from mom any more. I'm sick of pretending to be Ranko Tendo you stupid panda!" Ranma grabbed a kettle of now cold water and threw it at Genma. Genma-panda turned white (Panda's are mostly white to begin with but somehow he managed to turn whiter.) and started backing away. Turning around Ranma saw his mother standing in the doorway with a look of shock on her face.
"Oh Shi."
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Ukyou hurried up the walk of the Tendo home intent on collecting her winnings from Nabiki. With one hundred thousand yen she could afford that new bigger grill for her restaurant she had been saving up for, and a little left over to send to her dad for medicine. Her smirk died as she noticed a familiar katana resting by the door. Ranma had told her long ago of how he couldn't see his mother and she prayed that he was in his girl from now. Not waiting to be admitted she rushed into the living room and tensed up when she saw Ranma sitting on a cushion in front of his mother. Putting on a fake smile to hide her fear she cheerfully spoke up.
"Hi Ranma, whose this?" This however brought a wince of pain from Ranma and a steely look from Nodoka.
"You must be Ukyou Kuinji. Ranma was just telling me about how his father cheated your family and for that I do apologize. But the fact remains that Ranma hasn't lived up to the terms of the seppuku contract and now I expect him to honor it." Ukyou gasped.
"Please no! Not that, how can you kill your own son?! His curse only effects his body, I accept it and so does every one else."
Do you honestly think that I would have my only son kill himself over something as stupid as that? A real man doesn't hide in fear from his own mother. However I'm willing to give him one last chance to redeem himself. I saw how you beat Seto Kaiba today and I'm going to give you a chance to duel for your life. If you win then I'll tear up the contract and if I win you will go through with it. What do you say?" Yami fused with Ranma and grimly answered.
"I accept, but I don't have a deck of my own. I had to use Ukyou's deck when I beat Kaiba." Nodoka was secretly amazed that any one could win a duel using a deck they hadn't constructed themselves but didn't show it.
"Very well, perhaps Ukyou here will lend you her deck again. Will you Miss Ukyou?" Wordlessly Ukyou took out her deck from the case on her belt and handed it to Ranma. Nodoka took out her own deck and began shuffling it. The two players set their decks on their dueling mats and the grim game began.
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Nodoka went first.
"I'll lay Witch of the Black Forest in attack mode and end my turn [1200/1000]." Yami frowned as he looked at his hand.
"I'll lay one card face down and attack with Ax Raider. [1700/1100]" Ranma moved his monster so that it touched his mothers and she removed it from the field.
{Nodoka 1500, Ranma 2000
"Good Ranma, you destroyed my monster and I lost five hundred life points. However, Witch of the Black Forrest lets me summon a monster from my deck to my hand with a defense of 1500 or less." After finding the monster she wanted she shuffled her deck and drew a card.
"Now I'll use Graceful Charity to draw three cards and discard two old ones and set Sangan in attack mode. [1100/1300]" Ranma drew a card and destroyed Sangon with his Ax Raider. Nodoka smiled.
{Nodoka 1100, Ranma 2000}
"You did it again Ranma, Sangon also allows me to summon a monster to my hand with a defense of less then 1500 but I also have to show you what it is. She pulled a card out of her deck and held it for Ranma to see. When Yami saw it he felt his blood grow cold.
The left arm of Exodia! It can't be!
What's an Exodia?
It's a monster that can't be stopped. It is divided into five different pieces and if you can draw all five then into your hand the game is automatically over and you are the winner. Since each piece has very little attack and defense power she can use summon monsters like Sangon to bring each piece to her hand.
Oh, that sure isn't good. But Nodoka wasn't finished.
"Now that it's my turn I'll use another Graceful Charity card and summon the Cannon Soldier in defense mode. [400/1400] and then I'll lay one card face down and use Swords of reviling light so you can't attack for three turns." Ranma frowned at this and drew his card.
I lay one card face down and summon the Red Eyes Black Dragon in attack mode." Nodoka was a little surprised to see such a rare card but didn't show it. It was her turn again and she laid another Witch of the Black Forrest on the field.
"Now I activate cannon soldier's special ability. I sacrifice my witch and have it aim it's self directly at your life points. Meaning they go down by four hundred. I also get to summon another monster from my deck. Then I use the magic card Hinatome, It will directly attack your life point and decrease then by a further three hundred."
{Nodoka 1100, Ranma 1300}
Ranma flipped the face down card he had set last turn over.
"I play Lightforce Sword and aim it for a piece of Exodia. It will remove it from play for three turns." He pointed to the card he wanted and it was reviled to be the Right Arm of Exodia. Nodoka scowled at this and went back to the game. She laid another Sangon on the field and again used Cannons soldier's ability to inflict four hundred points of direct damage to his life points.
[Nodoka 1500, Ranma 900]
She then took another card from her deck and then spoke.
"I now have all four pieces of Exodia in my hand Ranma. At the end of my next turn your Lightforce sword will time out, the final piece will return to my hand and I'll win the game. This is your last turn and you had better make it count." Ranma drew a card, looked at it and laid it back on the top of his deck.
"I surrender; I can't play any cards this turn."
Nodoka picked up her Exodia piece and laid all of them on her side of the field.
"I win."
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Ukyou started to sob as she saw Nodoka pick up her katana and rise. She walked toward Ranma who had his head bowed and swung her sword. Ukyou could have sworn that Ranma smiled sadly at her before closing his eyes and a look of peace came over his face.
ShhhhhTHUUNKKK!!!
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Ukyou stared at the broken sword blade lying at her feet. After pulling the broken handle away from the doorframe where she had snapped the sword Nodoka placed the pieces into its sheath and turned back to the two stunned teenagers.
"I am SO glad I don't have to carry that any more." Ranma managed to find his voice.
"Mom, I lost. Why didn't you kill me?" Nodoka smiled and hugged him.
"Why would I do that my son? You obviously won the game" She reached over and picked up the card Ranma had set face down in his first turn and the card on the top of his deck.
"I thought so, Card Destruction and the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Card Destruction makes both players discard every card in their hand, which means my four other Exodia cards would have been sent to the graveyard. If you had then used the Blue Eyes White Dragon the next time I attacked with my Cannon Soldier you would have wiped out my life points. You could have beaten me in that last turn of yours but you didn't. It takes a real man among men to face his death knowing he could have stopped it." Ranma got a questioning look on his face.
"How did you know what my cards were?" Nodoka pointed to a full length mirror behind him as he and Ukyou face faulted. Ukyou picked herself up and started to giggle.
"Typical Ranma, he never loses a fight but when it comes to noticing the obvious he's brain dead."
"Hey!" Ukyou glomped onto Ranma's shoulder.
"I'm just kidding you Ranma. I don't care if you're as perceptive as a brick; you're still my Ran-chan."
"Oh..thanks." Ukyou and Nodoka fell over laughing much to the mystification of Ranma. Yami groaned and popped open another beer as went off to relax. Pyramids may rise and fall but something's would never change.
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Ranma, Nodoka, Ukyou and Kasumi all sat around the Tendo living room drinking tea. Nodoka smiled at the way Ranma and Ukyou sat so close to each other, grandchildren couldn't be far away from the look of it.
"Ranma, now that we are together I think you should move back with me to my house so we can catch up on all of the time we've been apart. It's still within range of your school so you wouldn't have to transfer, and I believe the Uchans is right on the way there." Ranma was quiet for a moment as he thought it over.
(Down in the pits off hell Satan wondered why it was starting to snow.)
"I'd really like that mom." Nodoka smiled.
"Good, we can pack up your things and leave for there tonight."
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Ranma grinned as he packed his backpack with the few belongings he had. Feeling a draft he looked over at the broken window. Genma had jumped out of it when he had seen his angry sword wielding wife and left Ranma to his fate. Soun had soon followed fearing that Nodoka would take it out on him for hiding her wayward husband. The last they had been seen was heading off in the direction of Kyoto. He had lifted his pack and was taking one last look around the room when he heard a quiet voice.
"I'll miss you Ranma, you were like a little brother to me." Turning around he saw Kasumi standing in the doorway with sad smile on her face. Ranma walked over to her and pulled her into an embrace.
"I'll miss you a lot to Kasumi. Except for Uchan you were only one that ever treated me with any kindness. Is there anything I can do for you?" Kasumi seemed to think for a moment and then took something golden from behind her back.
"Yes, please stand still for a moment." Putting the point of the key shaped object on Ranma's forehead she turned it half a turn and time seemed to stop.
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Authors notes.
First of all I know that Lightforce Sword takes four turns but I was pressed for time and only used three. If there were any more card errors I'm sorry. Now we know that Kasumi has the Millennium Key but is she evil or good? We'll soon know in the next chapter.
Send C&C and any cards you don't want to animeprime1@hotmail.com