Author's note: I know this seems a little out of order, but I'm sure you'll understand at the end. Yatta minna, Ja ne!

The Beginning

An old man, with grey-sliver hair walks slowly to a large door, tapping it softly with its cane the door bursts open. Putting most of his weight on the cane, he walks slowly to the throne. His small beetle eyes look hard at the man sitting there, "Master, I have news that might interest you."

The young man sitting on the throne does not look down; his deep green eyes stare wandering around the room, "Go on Nin." His voice did not seem to rise above a whisper, but it echo around the large room.

Nin, draws a circle on the floor and then a pentagram in the middle, he mumbles a few small words. He moves out of the pentagram, a bright light showers the dimly lit room for a moment before it shows a picture of a young man holding on to a young women who seemed to be naked. The young man seemed to be crying, but shortly after the young woman has put her hand on the young man's cheek. Nin speaks as softly to his master, "Lord, this is Ranma Saotome and the young lady he is holding is Akane Tendo. He just defeated the Prince Saffron from Phoenix Mountain, Lord, and he won. It seems to me that this young man well do anything for this beautiful young women."

The young man sitting on the throne stares deeply at Akane, he looks down at the old man named Nin asking, "When would it be appropriate for drop by and give her a visit?"

"Lord, if you really wish for my opinion, I would say one year, she'll be done with high school then. I well keep my eye on them both, if you wish it, Lord."

"I wish it, and I would also wish that next time you knock on the door," Nin bows before his Lord and walks away using the cane for support. As the door was shut, the young man looked again at the fair young maiden and smiled lustfully.

A year had passed and Akane and Ranma had both graduated from high school, Akane was accepted to Tokyo University, as did Ranma that amazed everyone. Nevertheless, Akane figured Nabiki had something to do with it, seeing that Nabiki was the top business student there.

Akane was doing her morning run when an old man with gray-silver hair stopped her asking, "Could you help my kitty, she can't get down the tree. Seeing no harm in helping this sweet old man, she follows him. They walked for a little bit but Akane started to get this uneasy feeling in her stomach, "Sir, you know you could call the police to help your kitty, but I need to get home." She noticed that they had walked quite a way from where she lives, the old man just smiled and told her it was a little further away.

Akane and the old man were getting close to the woods when she felt she better leave, seeing that she had a really bad feeling about being with this old man she looked down at the old man, who seemed so harmless but the feeling in her gut was telling her to leave. She stopped as she saw a man in a green Chinese out fit, his features reminded Akane of Ranma. She knew it was not Ranma seeing that she left Ranma to go on her morning run alone. She stepped back and as she did this the man disguising, himself as Ranma came walking towards her. His voice was but a whisper, but it reached her ears no less.

"Dear sweet, beautiful Akane, I have been watching over you like a guarding angel, well you come to me freely?" His manner did not seem to be alarming, but she had to get away. She turned around and started running, she knew where she was and she knew the quickest way to get home. She ran.

The young man looked down at the old man saying, "I offered her nicely and yet she refused. Nin, bring her to me, she well be my pet until she breaks or escapes." Nin nodded his head and left in a flash. The young man says softly but towards the direction of Ranma and made sure he heard his words. "Say good bye to your Akane, she is mine. You have other fiancés you can choose from, she is mine."

Ranma, who was fighting his dad jumped out of the way of his punch and jumped onto the roof, his words were quick and everyone listening heard, "Akane's in trouble!" Seeing that Ukyo and Shampoo were their, to feed him breakfast, and Mousse was there to avenge Shampoo, and Ryoga had just found the place. Ranma's announcement made them all running to find Akane.

Akane was jumping from roof to roof, when she felt the presence of the old man. She did not look back but kept her focus. She saw Ranma in the distance and tried harder to reach him. She felt something hit her head and she stumbled and fell. Her vision became a blur and all she could say was her beloved fiancées name.

Nin, picked up Akane, his little frame held her firmly. He noticed Ranma, and noticed on Akane's finger was a ring; he took off the ring and faced Ranma. "My Lord wants her, so he's going to have her. Take this ring and give it to one of your other fiancées, I'm sure they would gladly wear the ring." He throws the ring at Ranma, which Ranma catches. Nin noticed the angry face of Ranma, but did not fear it; he had seen others with such expressions and the others died by his hand.

"Give me back Akane!" Ranma's angry was flaring. He promised to protect her and he promised to marry her too. He felt his ki build up and he let out an attack, but the attack never hit the old man. The old man left with Akane in his hands.

Shampoo, Ukyo, Mousse, and Ryoga were all looking at Ranma as he feel to his knees and cried out Akane's name. He was on hit knees for a little bit but got up and wiped his eyes and he turned to the group, "I am going after Akane, I will find her and I will bring her back." This time, none of them wanted to go with him, Ranma jumped from rooftop to rooftop until he got home. Going straight up to his room, he packed his camping gear in his backpack. He goes down stairs to grab a bit to eat and leaves to find Akane.

Akane wakes up in a large elegant room, her head seemed to be pounding and holding it did not seem to be working. A knock on the door and the door opens the old man who had asked her to get the kitten out of the tree stands before her.

"Akane put this on and I will present you to my Lord," he does not move but waits for her to retrieve the items of clothing from his hands.

Akane still sitting on the bed looks down at the old man, angry rising in thoughts she asks as calmly as her voice would permit, "Who are you? Where am I and Why was I brought here?"

The old man does not move but answers, "I am Nin, you are in the Jade Lord's realm, and you where brought here because the Lord wants you." He moves closer to her, holding on to his cane for support and puts the clothes on the bed, "Change quickly, Jade lord does not like to wait."

The old man walked slowly out the room and the door shut behind him, Akane picked up the clothes and examine it. The top was like a bra with chiffon for sleeves, the pants where made of silk, the color was of a beautiful jade green. Akane quickly changes into this out new outfit, feeling a little exposed as she looked in the mirror. The door opened the old man quickly gestured for her to follow him. Being obedient, she did.

Akane, getting a sick feeling she will be here for awhile decides to learn what she can to escape. She follows Nin to a large door, which as he taps the door it burst open. Akane tries not to react to such a technique, but her reaction was relevant to Nin and the Jade Lord.

Nin takes her to the Jade Lord who is sitting in the throne room staring at nothing. As they are a few feet away, Nin whispers to Akane that she must bow to the Jade Lord, but her reaction was one that was to be expected.

She backed away from them both, which brought the Jade Lord to his feet from where he was sitting. She glares at them and speaks with venom in her voice, "I will not bow to someone I have no respect for! Let me go, you jerk! What am I to you? Why do you want me here?"

The Jade Lord switches to form that looks like Ranma, he glares down at Nin, "Leave Nin, I will teach her who to bow down to. When I'm done with her I will put her in your care, until I want her again." Nin leaves and the Jade Lord steps down from his throne seat and walks to be a few feet away from him. He circles her and smiles lustfully at every inch of what he sees. "Akane, you can't cook, you can't fight, and yet that dork of a fiancés still comes to protect you." He stops to take a few steps closer to her and looks in her deep brown eyes, "Tell me, Beautiful One, have you ever taken a life?" He notices her reaction, "Ah, you haven't, this job while be quite the training for you. When I am through with you, seeing people die will be no different then stepping on a bug. Now, we will fight."

Ranma stopped by Nabiki asking for money to help save her sister, to his surprise, it seemed that she was expecting something like this would happen. Giving him yen and Chinese Yuan, along with his passport and plane ticket, she wished him luck and he was on his way to China.

The plane ride went smoothly, Ranma's first stop was to Jusenkyo, to see if the springs are working, and seeing that it was out of order when he left there the last time. As he scaled the mountains of China, he came across a band of men in black. Waiting to see what these men were up too, he waited and watched.

When night fell, he fell asleep and woke up in a cave, which had marking of a black dragon and from the look of it a history of this dragon and its battles. Ranma looked around to see if anyone else was around when he came across his belonging with someone sitting one it.

"Ah, the sleeper has awakened I see, I am Pong, you are in the cave of the Black Dragon Clan. Tell me, why have you been spying on us?" The young man, stands up and walks towards the sitting Ranma, who stands up.

"I wasn't spying; I was looking for my way to the Jusenkyo pools." Ranma says, amazed the Chinese man speaks Japanese.

Pong looks Ranma up and down and asks, "What is your name?"

Ranma shrugs his shoulders and answers, "Ranma Saotome."

Pong steps back and snap his fingers, with in moments the room is field with Chinese and Japanese men and some women wearing black Chinese outfits like the one Ranma is currently wearing. Pong steps a little bit closer to Ranma asking, "You wouldn't be the famous Ranma Saotome who defeat the Amazon Village champion Shampoo, is engaged to Akane Tendo and defeated Prince Saffron from Phoenix Mountain, are you?" Ranma nods his head, wondering if that was the right thing to do. Pong claps his hand, "Ranma, from this day forward, I give up my right as the Black Dragon Lord and hand it to you." Pong kneels before Ranma and chants something that Ranma could not hear the next thing Ranma knows is that he is falling and his right arm became unbearably sore.

It had been a month since Akane was taken in the Jade Lord's presences. Every morning he would summon her to fight, all the time she would return to her room with her arms and legs sore from the fighting. She would often look in the mirror at her black eyes, wondering why she was brought to such a place. She would always notice all of the bruises across her body. Many times in the morning when he would summon her, she could not answer the call. Either she could not move or she was too sore to move. She had to admit, she had learned and trained a lot harder then she had ever done so in her life.

Often times she would reflect as to why the Jade Lord would take the form of Ranma and how he was able to do it. Today was one of those days, she fought the Jade Lord long and hard, but in the end, she lost. He even smiled at one point when she hit him square in the face with a kick, but that was the only thing that connected. Most of the time she had to block all of his attacks, and she had barely enough time to attack him. However, that one kick, made her proud.

However, after the fight, he allowed Nin to enter and commanded him to teach her how to cook. He then turned to her, who was on the floor gasping for breath, that two hours after the morning fight, Nin well instructs her on the ways of culinary arts. In away that excited her, but then again, he would probably never eat her cooking, so it would not kill him.

In spite of all the training, Akane feared what she would be using this training for and why he had told her she would be taking people's lives. She had no right to take an others life, even if he commanded her to. Actually, she's quite proud of not having to bow to him or any such thing, even though she may find more buries then normal for such an action, she do not respect him, nor well she ever.

Almost a year and half had past and Ranma being the leader for the Black Dragon Clan had finally heard word as to where Akane has been. His hopes where that she was somehow ok, he had ordered his men, when he learned that he really was the leader of the Black Dragons, to gather up any information about her. As the months pasted, he learn of his duty as the leader and did accordingly.

Gathering up his men and women who were in China, Ranma has them all met in the cave that they call home. As they gather, Ranma get other information from them. Like information about the Tendo's and his parents. Nevertheless, his quest to save Akane, was be coming heart wrenching.

When Pong arrived, Ranma announced the meeting would begin. Ranma treated Pong as an equal. Remembering that Pong place the leadership position on to Ranma, he planned to give it back when Akane was safe in his arms.

Pong took his place next to Ranma, and Ranma took control over the meeting. "As you know Dragons, I have wished for any information about my fiancée Akane. Lin, who has been quite faithful, has found the whereabouts of where she may be. From the knowledge of what Lin said, she is being kept in a demon's realm. Once she heard of the news, she did some research on such demons that could have their own realm. Through her research, she believes that Akane is being held in the realm of Jade Lord. She has asked her former Amazon sister to help for information of the Jade Lord and she has received it. Lin, would you please explain." Ranma sits back down and Lin stands up and goes to the front of the room where Ranma stood.

As Ranma sat down, Pong asked, "So Akane is worth dying for?" Ranma glared at him wondering what he meant by that.

Lin, smiling at Ranma then focuses on the people, "My former sisters of the Amazon has told me many things, one, how to kill a demon, two, how to know if a demon is present, and three, how to enter into the demon realm. I have already taught Ranma how to open this realm, sense a demon and kill one, but I will teach you all how to kill a demon and know if a demon is present. Ranma has given us a half a year to learn. He says your life is important and so is Akane's, but he wants you all to know how to defend yourself against such things. Ranma and I will train ten, and then those ten will train, and go down until everyone has trained. This is very important, and we don't need anyone to fail for your life is at stack." She bowed and gave the floor back to Ranma who stood back up.

"I have already picked my ten, and when the night ends, those who haven't been picked will be notified when it is your time to train. Everyone is dismissed." As he ended, the crowed cheered. Pong stood up beside him saying, "Lin has told me much about this Jade Lord, he won't give up Akane easily, if he has her at all. I will be your shadow Ranma, if you wish it. Akane will leave that realm and return to you." He clasped Ranma's forearm as Ranma did him, and thy shook. As everyone left the room, Ranma unconsciously grabbed the thing that was hanging from his neck. He looked down at the ring he was holding and remembered the sweet moment when he gave the ring to Akane. He never quite got the words out of his mouth that he wanted to marry her, but she seemed to understand nonetheless.

Ranma left the great hall of the cave and went to his room. Lying down on the bed, he fell asleep dreaming of better times with his tomboy fiancée.

Akane, wiping blood from her mouth looks down evilly at the ugly demon women in front of her, "You hit me once that is enough to make even the lowest of demons like yourself to tremble with fear." The demon women, looks at what she is carrying in her hand. Akane does not even look at the object, "You better think again, one mistake and you are a goner." The demon woman drops the object, giving Akane an opening she needed and kills the demon. Picking up the object the demon dropped Akane walks back into the Jade Lord's realm.

Walking to his throne room, Akane noticed two things, she was sick and tired of killing demons and two, she just wanted to be in college. The Jade Lord was just an annoyance to her. In spite of the fact that he could still beat her in most fights, but she just wanted to go home. His lustful looks seemed to be more frequent then she would like. Moreover, the fact that she learned to cook better than Nin, also made him liking her go through the roof.

She knocked on the door and was answered with him opening it, to often had she realized he's been doing that and would guide her to his seat were he would ask her to explain what happened. However, today seemed different; his eyes examined her face and the cut on her shoulder. She always got the creeps when he looked at her, but the way he looked, just made her want to run.

"Akane, you're hurt," he whispered, but it always sounded loud in her ears. Speaking a little loud her calls, "Nin, come forth!" Nin comes running in where his master and called. Bowing before him the Jade Lord, he spoke, "Nin, Akane is hurt, patch her up and bring her to me when you are through, I would wish to spend the evening with her." Nin bows and Akane steps away.

Glaring her eyes at them both, she expresses, "I do not need to be patched up, and I can do it myself, as for you spending the evening with me, not in your life. I wish to spend the evening as I have always done since I have been here, by myself. If you will excuse me," she throws the weapon that the demon she just killed at the feet of the Jade Lord and walked away.

Nin looks at the Jade Lord who smiles wickedly down at him asking, "What have you heard about her stupidly stubborn fiancée?"

"He is with the Dragon Clan, he is there leader, he has had his men train to kill demons and from the looks of everything, they plan to attack tonight. I will ready myself for an attack."

The Jade Lord looks at the old man saying, "Notify me when Akane has cleaned herself up, I well spend the evening with her, it's the least she could do for all the training I have put her through. Also, if you could, tell me when Ranma's men have entered my realm, I will have Akane." Nin leaves as his master readies himself for the battle and the night's affairs with Akane.

Akane sits in the bath cleaning the demon blood off her skin and cleaning the wound on her shoulder. She feared that she might have set the Jade Lord's wrath upon her for her actions of not wanting to spend the evening with him, but she had a very bad feeling. His eyes had searched her and that was never a good sign.

Getting out of the bath, Akane puts on a new set of clothes and head into her bedroom. Noticing the Nin was there, she ignored him, but not for long. Getting into bed, he jumped on the bed expressing, "If you do not come with me, then I will take you by force." She rolls over to ignore him and knocked unconscious.

Ranma's Black Dragon clan were outside, they had already faced many demons to get this far, but they did not know how many their were inside. Opening the gate, they enter into the main hall of the realm.

Akane wakes up with the Jade Lord looking lustfully at her; she looks around and notices she must be in his bedchamber. Moving away from him, who only made him move closer, Nin opened the door informing, "He has arrived." Nin left leaving Akane and him alone once again.

"My dear sweet, beautiful Akane, I have been waiting two years for us to enter in such bond. I have been very patient, but a man can't wait forever to taste such a delightful creature as you." Pining her down as she struggles under his grip, he takes the thing, which is a treasures to any virgin.

Ranma heard a woman scream, and ran for her, with Pong as his shadow. He ran, ran, and finally came to a room that was clad in jade. A young woman was on the bed weeping. He noticed the figure change into a man, who was near a window. The women noticed Ranma's sword and took it; she stabbed the man by the window in the back. The man's blood was dark green and his face showed a pleasant smile. Seeing the opportunity to run, so she ran, opening a portal to earth.

Ranma noticing that the demon died, and he orders the Black Dragon to leave. As they leave, Pong noticed one thing, the women who had stabbed the demon in the back really was Akane. Ranma did not notice for she had moved to quickly for his eyes to notice her features, but he did.

As they left the demon realm, Ranma seemed distort, but Pong told him to find the girl. So Ranma did as his shadow had said, he temporally gave the leadership of the Black Dragon Clan to Pong and left to search for the young maiden.

The Jade Lord was wakened by Nin who was cleaning the stab wound he received from Akane, he looked evenly at him asking, "This should have healed by now, why is it taking so long?"

Nin kept his focus on cleaning the wound and informed, "She stabbed you with the Sword of the Gods, and she took it from her fiancée and ran off with it. Would you like me to go after her, my Lord?"

The Jade Lord sits up, "I will deal with her on my own time, and I got what I really wanted from her. Now, keep an eye on them both, I want to know there every action. I want her back later on, but now I'll just annoy her with demons to hunt her down." Nin nodded his old head and continued to clean the wound.

Ranma finally reached Japan; he found a trace of the young woman and was following it. The fact that this young woman had been in the presence of this demon for a long time, he was able to use a tracking device. As he reached a clearing in the woods, he felt like he was seeing things. A young woman was sitting lying on the floor of the clearing. As he came closer, he noticed it was Akane. Then again, he knew he was hungry and he was not sure if his eyes were just playing a trick on him. He was too tired to know the difference. He dropped his pack, picked up Akane, and held her close to his chest. He notice bruise marks on her wrist. He face seemed a little older, but he did not care, she was in his arms. For a short moment, her eyes opened and put her hand on his cheek, speaking his name. He kissed her full on the lips and sank down to the ground holding her in his arms.

He saw light at the end of a tunnel and Akane was right beside him holding his hand. As they walked, closer to the light Akane saw a young woman and she questioned, "Mom?" The women smiled and welcomed them both to this place. The next moment Ranma noticed his girl-side walk toward him. She smiled at them both and pointed to a place on the other side of where they were standing. They followed the women it a little room, they offered them both seats and Ranma's girl half started to speak.

"I am Ying, as you both know me as the Girl Who Died in Spring blah, blah, blah, and anyway; I have come to give you both a hand. As for your mom Akane, she just wanted to see you before you went back home." Akane's mom kisses Akane on the cheek and gives her a hug before she sits down across from both of them. Ying sits beside her. "I will be very brief, Ranma got to Okinawa and train with an old master of Ancient arts named Kenji. Akane, I will be training you until the time Ranma and you are together again. Farwell you two and good luck."

Akane woke up on the lawn of Furinkan High School grounds, under the large oak tree that she had many memories of Ranma and their friends/rivals. Running home to her family, she was greeted with a pleasant and loving welcome home with many tears of happy expressions.

Ranma woke up at a beach in Okinawa, listening to what the dream or whatever it was that told him to find this Kenji guy. He traveled asking many people as to the were-about of this old man, he found him in a little house near the beach he woke up.

He trained with Master Kenji for a year, and after that returned to Japan and be with Akane once again.

Akane finished her part of the story, while Ranma buts-in when he felt like they should know his part. When the explanations ended, it was way into dawn of the next day. Cologne took in all the information, as did those who would be involved with this assault to the Jade Lord and his minion.

Akane left for bed as she finished, knowing that she would have kids to work with in the dojo in a couple of hours, she got the sleep she needed. The other followed her example a while after she left.