A Ranma ½ / Yu Yu Hakusho / Sakura Wars / Inu Yasha / Darkstalkers / Devil May Cry / Multi-crossover

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ and Yu Yu Hakusho or any other anime/game titles for that matter. Though I sometimes wish I was a class-S youkai…heh.

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"Master…" Q-bee whispered.

Jedah bled anew, but this time, he had a small smile on his lips. It was working! And from the looks of it, it seemed that he really could assimilate such a large amount of power all by himself. Granted that he could sense the destruction of several major lands in Makai and there was still a risk of him losing his life, but it was a small price to pay for the safety of the people, his people, even if they do not know it.

Seeing the smile on her master's lips, Q-bee began to focus more on gathering souls for Jedah. Her drones had just informed her that they were winning the war outside, and she couldn't be happier. They were winning against those interlopers and it also looked like they were going to succeed in saving the realm, no, their home, as well.

Fate had a different agenda it seemed, as a large blast of youki suddenly darted past both Q-bee and Jedah and struck the middle Gate, immediately causing it to send streams of energy around the volcanic center.

Jedah looked on, eyes wide, as a couple more extremely powerful blasts of youki struck the three Gates. He gritted his teeth. No, if these dimensional tunnels collapse, then their one and only chance at saving Makai would go down with it. The tunnel that Reikai monitored simply wouldn't do anymore since it didn't have the energy it used to have. That was why he fell to his knees when he sensed that the three dimensional tunnels almost instantly began to shift time and space inside each one of them, signifying their destruction. "No… no… it's gone… the power… it's gone…"

Q-bee, as well as several drones that were inside the volcano, also fell to their knees. It was gone, just like that. It was destroyed before their master could even use its power to completely seal it off. They could only bow their heads in dismay, fully knowing what awaited them now that their only hope was destroyed right before their eyes.

"Dohma!" a certain Wargod called out as he and his comrades landed inside the dormant volcano, just a few feet behind the former ruler and his army.

Jedah's body began to tremble as he chuckled softly. It was then followed by a large rumbling on the ground as several geysers of lava suddenly burst out of it. "You ruined it… heheheh… ahahahah… you just doomed us all… ahahaha…" He looked at Raizen over his shoulder and the Wargod had to suppress the urge to step back when the former ruler had a maniacal look in his eyes, a sick, twisted, sadistic smile on his lips, and a mixture of blue and red blood was pouring out of his body, "It's all over… all I can do now is to rid the realm of idiotic, meddlesome people such as you!"

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Dark Ascension

By Insane Blight

The Evil Realm Majigen III: In His Footsteps

Bulleta smirked, cocking her gun and turning towards the damphir. "Well damphy? Can I at least kill this… whatever the hell this boy is supposed to be?" 'I bet I could get a lot of money on those wings of his… oohh, I want to kill him! I want to blow him up to itty bitty pieces! What weapon shall I use though, a Rocket Launcher, Flamethrower, or, hee hee, my personal favorite, the spirit powered Gatling gun?'

Donovan didn't answer her. Instead, he looked at the boy rather intently as he sat comfortably on Felicia's lap and purred happily, much like a cat, which was extremely odd because the boy did not look like he was from the male cat race, not with those marks and those folded metallic wings. Felicia seemed to share the same thoughts but he could tell that the cat-woman felt a small sense of joy when Ranma began talking 'cat' to her, a language that only those from the cat race could understand, at least until now.

Lei-Lei crouched in front of the 'two' cat people, but not before addressing the red-hooded girl, "Ms. Bulleta, he doesn't look dangerous to me, please don't be too rash on your decisions." Ignoring the scowl on Bulleta's face, she turned back to the two and smiled, "What is he saying, Ms. Felicia?"

Felicia smiled slightly, patting the pigtailed boy on the head, much to his delight. "He said that his name is Ranma, and he also said that he's very happy to see someone like me," there was a hint of sadness when she finished.

Donovan remained stoic as he asked, "Why exactly is that? You know and I know that he is not from the cat race, hybrid or no, so where exactly did he learn to speak in your tongue?"

"He was 'taught' by a couple of people. He's acting like a cat because he went through a horrible demonic torture that greatly affected his mentality, and he learned to speak in our tongue because he was taught by someone, a woman…" she paused, noticing Ranma's sudden change of expression, "A woman whom he liked very much… and a woman who used him in so many ways," she shuddered at the end, remembering the exact words that came out of the pigtailed boy's mouth. Nobody deserved going through such an ordeal.

The damphir merely nodded as he kept looking at the pigtailed boy. First of all, he did not even sense his presence until the last minute. How was that possible? His ki reading abilities, along with his vampiric senses, were among the best on Ningenkai, and he did not even notice him?

Fortunately, something clicked in his mind just then. Yes, he did have prior experience with such things, his encounter with the cosmic being Pyron. Pyron had an ability called teleportation, which meant that it was as he first suspected, they were in another realm altogether. 'This boy does bear a semblance to the aura of the person I'm looking for, a relative maybe… what in the… no, the legendary Sei Kou Ki? He can use it?'

Ranma was having the time of his life. Lilith told him that there were cat people in Makai but he didn't quite believe her back then, but now… wow! He could even talk in their tongue! His time with that kind and mean lady really did pay off! He purred happily, rubbing his cheek against Felicia's. 'What a nice lady, and she's looks cute when she smiles too!'

A loud crash that came from the north wall snapped the group out of their thoughts. Bulleta's evil grin finally returned to her face, well, well, it was none other than Wolfy, and he brought someone else too!

"Damn, my back…" Dante muttered, as he tried to get up. He tried to smile when he saw the kid, who was sitting on a woman's lap?! Didn't know the kid had it in him. He wondered if a certain blonde would let him do that to her, ah, he'd ask her later, right now he had to kick someone's ass.

"Grr…" Talbain growled, having already recovered and was now glaring at the wall they went through.

A familiar set of appendages appeared into view, causing Ranma's eyes to widen. Four Kamui golems barged into the room, completely destroying the north wall.

Donovan's eyes widened when he couldn't sense any sort of power from the four golems. "What kind of demonic creatures are they?"

Talbain wiped some blood off his mouth, "If you really want to know, they're the Darkstalkers Anakaris, that zombie fellow, that Frankenstein creation, and that merman Rikuo… at least they used to be. We saw them change into these killing machines a little while ago."

"Kamui…" Ranma whispered, catching everyone's attention, "They're Kamui golems… a 'friend' of mine said that they're indestructible monstrosities, though I really don't want to believe that."

"I agree with you on that one, kid." Dante said, drawing his sword Alastor from its strap. "Question is… how in god's name did they get here?"

Bulleta interrupted as she grinned maniacally, "Ah, who the hell cares?! Just blast them all to hell!" She quickly grabbed a couple of grenades in her basket, charged them with reiki, and threw them to the four monsters before raising her basket and aiming it to the golems. She laughed as she blasted one of them with a barrage of rocket attacks.

For once, the Dark Hunters and the Darkstalkers were in full agreement with each other as they charged at the Kamui golems, though they did not immediately notice that the castle walls, the whole castle for that matter, were vastly disappearing, no one noticed except for the two cat people.

Ranma hissed when an image of a person suddenly appeared in front of him for a brief moment. He hopped out of Felicia's lap, stood up, and glared at the man that was slowly coming into view right in front of him, "Raizen…"

Lilith wandered aimlessly around the vastly disappearing Dohma Castle, gasping for breath at every opportunity. Her memories were fading, slowly but surely they were fading, she could barely even remember the time when Berial spilt her powers in three. Morrigan had disappeared, and that only made her even more frustrated for she knew that once Majigen collapses, she would only have a few moments before she vanishes as well. She snarled at that, "Morrigan! Come out you inferior succubus! Come out and show yourself!"

"Fire!"

The young and weakened succubus was blasted through the wall and into a large room by Demitri's energy blast. She tried to get up, but her strength was almost gone. Behind her, she could feel that Demitri was slowly looming over her prone form, before hearing him chuckle darkly. She cursed silently as tears formed around her eyes. She knew she would be killed by this vampire and there was nothing she could do about it. Just then, an image flashed through her mind, an image of a psychotic boy innocently smiling at her. 'W-Why am I thinking about him now?'

"I'll take pleasure in making you scream in my dungeon forever…" 'Why does she have Aensland's aura?'

"I-I'd pass, v-vampire," Lilith sneered, forming an energy orb around her hand. "I'd rather die than be nothing more than a toy for your sick pleasures!" Before she could even blast herself, an energy projectile struck her hand, burning it, and making her energy orb disappear completely. "Who…?"

Morrigan hovered above the two demons, arms crossed. She frowned as she eyed Demitri, but she smiled slyly when she turned to look at Lilith. "Now, now, where's the fun in killing yourself? At least let me taste you first, I'm sure I can make you change your mind."

"Oh, I'm sure you can…" Lilith chuckled dryly, her transparent body trembling from exhaustion. 'I hate myself.'

Demitri snarled and flew up, trying to grab the playful succubus, which Morrigan nimbly dodged with a mischievous smile. After a few minutes of playing 'tag', the vampire lord growled in frustration. He held up both arms as he went into his real demonic form, where several bat familiars quickly formed and gathered themselves around his body. With unrivaled speed, he got in front of Morrigan and kicked her on the stomach, forcing her to hunch over.

That was just the beginning of a vicious assault. As Morrigan hunched over, Demitri drove his elbow to her spine, the vampire lord smiled when he heard sounds of bones breaking. He continued by driving his knee to her face, followed by a hard slap to her face that sent her crashing down to the stairs. He hovered above Morrigan's prone form, gathered energy through his hands, and aimed it at her. He was about to launch his attack when, to his shock, the downed succubus vanished in front of his eyes.

"Tsk, tsk, illusion… oh dear, falling for the same trick again? Sigh, you leave me no choice… I'll finish this little game of ours right now, vampire."

Demitri quickly spun around, and he was promptly hit with a lot of small energy blasts that left him dazed, but that was more than enough time for Morrigan to veer up and morph her bat wings into a weapon.

"Our time together was quite enjoyable, till you began to bore me. Farewell, Maximov, and take this shower as a gift," Morrigan said with a smile as she heard a whirring sound just before energy blasts shot out of her morphed bat wings at high speed, hitting the vampire lord several times in the face, the stomach, and most importantly, the demonic heart. This time, her energy blasts did not just struck Demitri though, this time, her blasts actually went right through him.

The vampire lord had numerous holes on his body, and blood was pouring out of it at an alarming rate, but to Morrigan's surprise, Demitri actually smiled a bloody smile before charging forward and grabbing her neck. "If I can't have you, I'll take you to hell with me!" he yelled as he started to drain her life force.

Struggling to get out of Demitri's hold, Morrigan tried to pry the vampire's hands away from her neck but to no avail. The vampire lord laughed maniacally as he continued draining her energy, but something went horribly wrong midway. His wounds pulsated, right before they exploded, forcing him to release his hold on the succubus. They exploded, one after the other, eliciting anguished scream after scream from Demitri. Finally, he screamed one last time as a massive explosion finished him off.

'I-I was wondering when it would start working…' Lilith thought with a small, albeit tired, smile. She frowned when Morrigan fell back and then dropped to the ground in a crash. Slowly, she began to crawl towards her other half, ignoring the pain in her body. She stopped however, when her body was again struck with an unbearable amount of pain as Majigen finally collapsed. Lilith's body immediately began to fade away, but that only strengthened her resolve as she continued to desperately reach for her other half.

"My… body…!"

"Raizen…" Ranma growled out as Majigen collapsed, sending them to the not-so-dormant volcano Gilala Gila.

Jedah and Raizen were at a stalemate. However, it was clear to everyone that watched the two earlier that Jedah would've trashed the Wargod in seconds had he chose not to fight Raizen's comrades. Said comrades lay on the ground, some were heavily wounded, most were in critical, but Q-bee was knocked out too, and all the drones inside the volcano had been killed.

Ranma clenched his fists. That demon's aura was the same as Urameshi's and there he was, standing in front of him, his brother's murderer, and he simply couldn't control himself, as anger and hatred was consuming his very being. He did not waste a second longer. He quickly rushed forward and punched Raizen on the face, breaking Jedah and the Wargod's deadlock. He then grabbed Raizen's throat with one hand while his other hand repeatedly punched the Wargod on the stomach, drawing out a stifled gasp each and every time.

Jedah watched as Ranma unremittingly attacked the Wargod Raizen with such intense ferocity. He thought about helping the boy in killing Raizen once and for all but something else caught his attention. To the side, he was treated to the sight of both the Dark Hunters and Darkstalkers desperately fighting the four abominations. Just seeing it made him bow his head in defeat.

"Kamui… the first sign…" Jedah whispered with a forlorn look. He looked up and smiled sadly when the color of the sky was fiery red. That was when he knew it was over. Not that it would matter for long, his injuries were catching up to him, and soon, even though with a heavy heart, he would finally be able to rest for eternity. He turned to look at his descendant and couldn't help but look at him in pity. A one of a kind soul, so pure yet so corrupted. He shook his head, that child would end up destroying himself one day.

The former ruler closed his eyes and was glad that at least Q-bee's army was winning the battle outside, though he feared that their victory would be for naught as Berial and Voshtal's mistakes had almost been set free. With his eyes still closed, he fell back to the ground on his back, a sad smile on his bloodstained lips. Over… it was all over…

Raizen countered by punching Ranma's throat, immediately forcing him to release the hold as he clutched his throat and coughed out blood. Both demons jumped back and glared at each other as they tried to gather themselves.

"Cursed Child…"

"Bastard…"

The pigtailed demon rushed back at him and threw a few punches and kicks that Raizen blocked quite easily, though he the Wargod was wincing the whole time, but it was for a different reason. "Why do you call me that?! Why am I a cursed child?! Is it because I'm a half-breed?! A lowly demon with disgusting human blood?!"

Raizen smirked, catching Ranma's fist with one hand, "You should ask your ancestors." Seeing Ranma turn his gaze to Jedah, he chuckled slightly, "I mean your human ancestors. Find out as much as you can about them, then you'll know why I call you a cursed child."

Ranma jumped back, a little stunned at Raizen's words, before snarling and charging at him once again. This time, he had a smile on his face as he did a feint punch to the Wargod's face, only to hit him in the stomach instead. Ranma's smile turned into a downright maniacal one when Raizen screamed out loud. "This is for my brother!!!"

"Gah!!"

The pigtailed boy buried his youki-covered fist deeper into Raizen's stomach, not minding that the ruler was throwing up huge amounts of blood the more he did that. Snarling loudly, Raizen responded by driving his fingers into the boy's stomach, before making a slashing motion upwards that completely tore through both Ranma's flesh and armor from the stomach up to his chest, leaving him a bloody mess as he fell back.

Ranma was wide-eyed, but he instinctively summoned his scythe and managed to slash Raizen as he fell back, slashing him from the left side of his stomach to the upper right side of his chest in a slanting pattern, leaving him a bloody mess as well. Both demons fell down to the ground, both demons severely wounded…

Just then a large demon came into view. He looked at Ranma with a mixture of anger and respect before turning towards Raizen. He carefully lifted the Wargod up as he whispered, "I got you old friend… I got you." Enki then turned to his still able comrades, "Tell Raizen and Mukuro's army to fallback! We are retreating right now! What are you waiting for? Move it!"

Dante pointed his arm to the four Kamui golems as black ooze wrapped around it and formed a familiar weapon. Focusing all his energy into the weapon, he launched four bluish blasts that relentlessly attacked the four golems. Donovan and Talbain knew what Dante was thinking so they helped in pushing back the golems to the lava pits, with Talbain using his Fire Dragon Cannon and Donovan using his spirit blizzard.

The three could only do so much as the golems regenerated, but luckily, Bulleta was there and she just gave the word overkill a whole new meaning. She jumped onto one of them and began shoving rocket after rocket to its head. While the hole she created hadn't regenerated yet, she dropped around ten grenades into the hole and jumped back, shooting the golem's body with her Uzi before it exploded to pieces.

The red-hooded girl then went for the next one. She pulled out a dagger and charged it with reiki as she easily slashed the second Kamui's arms and legs, much to the shock and awe of the rest. Then, she leapt up and stabbed the Kamui right between the eyes, laughing hysterically as she was splashed by its blood. She pulled the dagger out and shoved the tip of her Uzi to the open wound and began to literally blast its brains out.

Dante whistled, being the first one to recover from shock. "Remind me never to get on her bad side…"

"She's a monster…" Talbain muttered.

Donovan just shook his head. He'll never understand what goes inside the mind of that hunter. To his side, she saw that Lei-Lei and Felicia were shaking in fear. The two must've sensed the dark power Bulleta was using along with her reiki, a power that could easily make low level demons cower in fear.

Bulleta jumped off the second and onto the third. This time, she used her bare hands as she punched right through the Kamui's head, gripping some of its insides with her hand. She then charged her dagger with more reiki and it suddenly became longer as the reiki provided the extra length. She jumped back and laughed in delight as she slashed the third one in two, though she frowned when she noticed that the others were just standing on the side, "Well, what are you dimwits waiting for?! Do I have to do everything myself?! Throw them to the lava pits, now!"

The forth and last Kamui took this opportunity to swat Bulleta to the far side, slamming her into a wall. She may have unbelievable powers but she was still human, thus the blow knocked her out. Kamui turned its gaze to the rest of the group and crouched slightly, right before a swirl of energy began to form in front of its chest.

Dante's eyes widened. "Everybody take cover!"

Everybody did just that as a large beam of energy shot out of Kamui's chest, destroying everything in sight. It never hit anyone of them, until Felicia's foot got stuck in an opening on the ground. Felicia looked on as Kamui focused solely on her. Snapping her eyes shut, she awaited her death that never came. She hesitantly opened her eyes and gasped when she saw that a certain pigtailed boy stood in between her and the energy beam. "Ranma?! No! Get away!"

Ranma screamed as he sent the blast back to the golem, creating a hole through its chest but the backlash threw the pigtailed boy far back, roughly skidding to the ground. Coughing up blood, Ranma awkwardly got up, but he found himself being lifted in the air. He looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened when he saw the unstable middle vortex was the one doing it as it quickly pulled him inside before he could even react.

"Ranma!"

"Kid!"

Dante was about to go after Ranma but he was held off by both Lei-Lei and Talbain. "Let me go! Let me go dammit! Talbain… let me go or else I'll put a bullet in your furry head!"

"Can't you see it?! It's shifting the space in front of it like a miniature black hole! And who knows where that tunnel leads to now?! You'd die before you could even find him!" the werewolf reasoned as he gripped Dante's shoulder.

After a few more minutes, the Devil Hunter reluctantly backed down. Since then, he simply stared at the middle tunnel, until he noticed some movement to his side. It was that woman, a succubus, but, he was sure that Lilith was lying next to her when he saw them a little earlier so where was she? Great, he already saw one kid disappear, now this one seemed to vanish as well. 'Well, there was only one way to find out,' he thought as he walked towards the woman.

"You," Dante began, shoving his gun to the side of Morrigan's head, "What happened to the little girl that was lying next to you earlier? Did you kill her?"

"Don't call me a little girl," Morrigan muttered angrily, before blinking and shaking her head, "I don't know where she is, and would you mind pointing that infernal contraption somewhere else? I'm not exactly in the mood to fight gung-ho Dark Hunters such as yourself."

The ground shook a lot more violently than ever before, all of them falling down hard from losing their balance.

Talbain took a look at their situation, it was not good. "We have to get out of here! This volcano could blow up at any second!" he yelled to the others.

Donovan nodded, carrying an unconscious Bulleta by the arms while Lei-Lei began destroying a section of the volcano wall with her weapons, Talbain assisted her as well. Felicia snapped out of her shock as she went over to Morrigan and immediately supported her friend and the two joined the group in making their own exit.

Dante however, stared at the middle vortex again. He stayed that way until he smiled slightly. He took a step forward but stopped when he saw that Talbain was blocking his way.

"Weren't you listening? I told you before… it's dangerous to go after that child, you may lose your life in doing-"

"Try and fucking stop me," Dante snarled, pointing his guns to all the Darkstalker. He then pointed them to the rest as he slowly walked towards the middle dimensional tunnel. 'Kid, you owe me big time for this,' he thought as he holstered his guns and jumped into the vortex.

Morrigan looked on as the Devil Hunter vanished completely. For a minute there, she had an odd gleam in her eyes that almost made her want to go after the two hybrids, but it quickly disappeared when Felicia began to wonder what was wrong. "It's nothing Felicia… nothing at all…"

'Cold… so cold…' Ranma thought with a shudder as he drifted aimlessly inside the tunnel. Still, it wasn't so bad, as his old home was a lot colder than this place. He was wounded pretty badly, but it was worth saving that lady. Though now he guessed that without any souls to assimilate, and without anyone to help him, he could very well lose his life inside this tunnel. Well, at least he wasn't alone. Now he knew why the demons they sent in here never came back, the skeletal remains all around him was the clincher.

Just then, a bright light appeared out of nowhere, and he just cursed out loud as he was pulled into yet another vortex, maybe it was the end of the tunnel, then again, maybe it wasn't. Either way, he had no choice but to sit back, enjoy the painful ride, and hope for the best…

Back inside Gilala Gila, Q-bee and Jedah were right in the middle of the place, surrounded by lava and the four regenerated Kamui golems. Jedah was lying down, his head rested on Q-bee's lap while Q-bee just looked at her one and only master with a small, sad smile. She had ordered her victorious army to go back to their old home, select a new queen, and prepare for the coming disaster. She only hoped that they would succeed in defeating it.

"Q-bee…" Jedah muttered, his eyes still closed, "I… thank you…"

Q-bee bowed her head as tears threatened to fall from her eyes. When Jedah whispered a few more words, his final words, she finally gave in to her emotions. Tears flowed freely from her eyes as she hugged her master tightly, not only for the loss of someone she truly loved, but also for oncoming plague that would surely wipe out the demons of Makai if they were not stopped.

"I pray that they could defeat them…" she whispered as she eyed the Kamui golems, before looking at Jedah with a smile, "Master… let's go… together…"

A huge wave of lava suddenly came out from behind them. Q-bee smiled and closed her eyes as the lava wave swallowed the two of them whole, finally ending their lives, their suffering.

Donovan and the rest tensed up when Jedah's last words resonated throughout the entire volcano.

"With my demise… the seal has finally been broken… and Makai… no… the three realms… have just been sentenced to death…"

"U-Ugh…" Ranma groaned a little, his body shuddering involuntarily. His body felt like it was encased in ice, just like that one time with that woman. He slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was lying beside a small lake and judging from the trees all around him, he was near a lake in the middle of a forest of whatever realm he ended up on.

Sitting up, he quickly spat out blood and the wound he received from Raizen bled at an alarming pace. Quickly placing his hand in front of his chest, he immediately tried to close the wound with the remaining power he had left. It worked, but he knew it wouldn't last for long. He had to find something to treat it soon or else he'd join his brother in the after life. Come to think of it, that was okay too, but he didn't know if Itsuki would be around or not when he died. Like his brother, he refused to go to Reikai and be judged by those idiots.

Shaking his head, he willed himself to stand up and start searching for people. Be they demon, animal, or whatever, he didn't care, he just needed something to assimilate and fast. After a few minutes of wandering, that line of thought was quickly put to an end when he found an opening that led him outside the forest. His eyes widened when he saw a town… a city… a familiar tower… just a few miles north…

"This is… Tokyo…" he whispered. That would mean he was in Ningenkai, but how? Did the tunnel do this? But wasn't the left one supposed to be the one that had the way to Ningenkai? How did this happen? He clutched his head, he was close to fainting, his wound was deep and could prove fatal if he didn't take care of it immediately, he had lost a large amount of blood, and he had no one to ask for help, the humans from the city included.

Still, he had to find someone to treat this, or like his earlier thought, he could just assimilate a few human souls, but he was afraid of the damage it might bring to his already injured body. Truth be told, he felt a sharp pain in his heart when Lilith provided him with a human soul to assimilate that one time, it was simply unbearable and he wasn't sure if he could stand a number of those. He shook his head, he had to try something.

Focusing his senses for a minute, he gave off a sigh of relief when he sensed that Dr. Kamiya was somewhere in the city. Good, The Doctor could heal him in no time, but first off… he needed some 'human' clothes. Though it pained him to do this, he willed his wings to go inside his body and then he morphed his energy-induced clothes into a plain black shirt, loose black pants and matching shoes. His black energy shirt should hide his wound if it bleeds again, and he hoped that he had enough energy to go to where Kamiya was located.

Ranma cursed Raizen for the thousandth time. He had made it into the city, but he could barely stand up, hell, he needed to lean on the walls for support. The people around him were all looking at him, and he was trying so hard to not kill them all and consume their souls. He was tempted, he was very tempted to do so, but he quickly reminded himself of his past experience in assimilating human souls.

A few minutes passed, he was literally dragging his feet now, he was gasping for breath, and his vision was becoming a little blurry. That was when he heard someone calling him, asking him if he was alright. Heh, he didn't know that humans still cared for each other. He chuckled slightly, looked up, and went on to see who this person was.

"Excuse me, are you alright young man?" a woman asked.

"Don't worry about me, I'm…" Ranma stopped in mid-sentence as he literally froze on the spot when he got a good look at the woman. Auburn hair, traditional kimono, and a sword wrapped in a bundle. "Mom…" he mumbled out in shock as he looked at the woman in front of him.

Nodoka's eyes widened when she heard him say that. She looked at him wide-eyed as she hesitantly asked, "R-Ranma…? I-Is it really y-y-you?" she asked, her voice full of longing.

The hybrid looked at her oddly then he slowly nodded his head, quite perturbed at her unusual reaction.

"Ranma…! Oh, my son! I missed you! I missed you so much, my manly, manly son!" she said through tears of joy as she hugged him tightly, causing his injuries to bleed anew.

Ranma's vision blurred as he found himself on the verge of losing consciousness. He shook his head, desperately trying to make sense of what was going on, then, the shock of seeing his mother act like this finally caught up with him. It was simply too much. He fainted in his mother's arms, and his last thoughts were…

'What the hell is going on?'

AN: Eheheh, yup, Majin Ranma was transported to the original Ranma world, and he just met that world's 'Oh-my-son-is-so-manly' Nodoka. Anyway, canon Ranma takes place a few weeks before the Saotome's and the Tendo's go to the beach, the volume where Genma and Ranma will visit the Saotome family grave. Well, till next.

Ugh, right now, my internet access is limited this week, I have a headache, I have a fever, and I have to sleep… Ja…

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