Due to my low reviews authors notes will be short as always... darn...
IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTES INVOLVING MY MAIN FIC THE BLESSING!!! PLEASE READ! Hiya. Been a long time 4 this fic. I have this horrible case of writers block on the blessing and am trying to over come it. It's not working.First I need fanart for The Blessing. If anyone can draw worth a damn sent me some pics of what you picture my descriptions for each person to be like. (Preferably Ranma.... others would be liked.) As was said in the last chapter of the Blessing Ranma is getting yet another new look. I havn't described that look yet but I have it in my mind so just send pics of descriptions I've given allready. If I Don't get any pics I won't be that dissapointed but I'd really like some. If it's worth your time please send me some drawings or anything you feel is pretty good. My e-mail(and yahoo messenger) is Thanks
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I know its a little late but hears to a celebration of 200 pages of Fanfiction on Cheers.
Also another celebration to the fact that this fic has now aquired 40,000 words! Cheers!
And one last one the the fact that I, in total, now have over 100,000 words in all my fics! Cheers! On with the show. ... Cheers!
Changes
Chapter 15: A Change of Body
"S..she's messing with your head! She is!" The male voice shouted. He appeared and pointed to the other mirror.
"So are you." Ranma replied coldly.
"Please..." he moaned.
"No... it's over."
A blue light appeared erupted from her matress. It formed a circle around Ranma as she sat up on her bed. She lifted, once again, into the air to hover for about a minute. Her eyes were forced shut and she fell unconcious.
At 9:24 she awoke. As she opened her eyes she realized that the entire bed was soaked. It was as if an entire river had been dumped inside her room. Everything was wet.
"Oh DAMN! What the HELL!?" She cried.
Ranma began to think of a way to clean all the water up. As she was thinking the water began to rise into the air. It formed large bubbles of water around her leaving everything dry. The bubbles went to the window and squeezed throught the cracks in it leaving not a droplet of water. When Ranma finally glanced up from her thoughts she saw that everything was dry.
Having seen this Ranma decided it must have been an illusion caused by the stress of the previous nights fight with her original forms. She glanced in the mirror. Her reflection... wasn't what she expected.
TIMEBREAK
Ranma... has changed again! Kasumi had thought this almost funny as she glanced at the picture. Ranma's hair had become a deep blue that had almost singular strips of red hair randomly placed throughout. She had become shorter again. Almost the size of her normal red-headed form.
There were two pictures of her actually. The first one was almost normal looking. Ranma had the blue/red striped hair and blue eyes again, and was also short. The second was slightly off.
Ranma had enourmous wings sprouting from her back that were also a deep blue, only slightly darker than her hair, that appeared to be moving and made of water. They looked as if she had folded up water into plastic and molded them into a body part. Her hands had little blue balls of energy on the ends of them that Ranma was looking at in the picture.
When looking at the back Kasumi saw some writing.
"I am able to make my self look completely normal except for the wierd hair style. Good thing I cut it short again. I dunno why this happened but I think it had something to do with the Jusenkyo water."
TIMEBREAK
OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!
Ranma had looked in the mirror and found herself looking much different. Fortunantly she still looked close enough to her blonde form that she could pass off as her as long as she transformed. She had no idea how this had happened. Suddenly she was, half dragon apparently. Unfortunantly... she was short again. She hated being short. Also unfortunantly, while her "cuteness" had gone down, now she would stand out in the crowd like a sore thumb. Blonds were a dime a dozen. Natural blue haired girls were... really... really rare.
TIMEBREAK
"Ra... Ranko?... What? Happened to you?" The teacher asked with downright surprise at the short girl who sat in the chair.
"I forgot to dye my hair this morning." She said.
"Huh?" He replied confused.
"This is... my normal hair color." She said. The classes eyes bugged.
"But... your eyes are different too?"
"No contacts today." Ranma replied.
"How are you shorter...?" He asked.
"I wore short shoes." Ranma replied nervously.
"Eh heh..."
Most of the classes that passed that day were like that. Ranma had never felt so awkward.
At lunch time she met up with the five of her normal friends.
"Ranma! WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOURSELF!" Shannon cried.
"I don't know. Something happened last night and I changed forms. Yeah well this is just another one." Ranma said.
"Does this sort of thing ALWAYS happen to you?" One of the boys asked.
"Eh... more or less."
"Maybe that old lech did something to you? Could that be it?" Shannon asked.
"I doubt it. He usually goes for less subtle things like mind control, sleepin pills, pills that make you fall in eternal love with the person you first see of the opposite sex.... "
"Ranma... your just one crazy person." Shannon said plainly.
"Welcome to my life." Ranma replied.
A group of girls walked by. Ranko!... Is your hair... NORMALLY that color? Ranko! You wear contacts? Ranko! I always thought your hair was a little TOO blonde... Blah Blah Blah. It ended with Ranko running away. She found herself in the computer lab.
"Yo! Joshua!" She cried. A nerdy looking boy sitting at a computer looked up. "Ranko, heh, nice hairdo." He replied. "What'cha need?" Joshua was a nerd who was very much into computers. He and 2 others, another boy and a girl named Toa and Nina, sat near him. Ranko had gotten to know these three somewhat well. They had been searching the internet for any information on Jusenkyo for her.
"We've found nothing as always, Ranko. This Jusenkyo place of yours simply doesn't exist." Joshua said.
"Never mind that right now. I need you to look up something else. Look up Pheonix people, or Pheonix God." Ranma said.
"Ranko.... your into some weird stuff. But ok sure why not." Joshua typed in a few words in a search engine and 13 responses came. The first four were worthless bits of Greek information. But the fifth one caught Ranma's eye.
Saffron God Of Fire and How he came to be. By the cursed springs guide.
"Wow... that seems really easy." Ranko said. He clicked on it and it opened a page that had a picture of the child Saffron Ranma had fought.
"The guide did this?" Ranko asked herself.
He scrolled down the page and saw a short paragraph.
Saffron is Pheonix God. Thought Undestructable he was the leader of the pheonix people for a very long time. However recent information has told us that he can be killed. An amazing young man who had fallen under the spring of drown girl curse here at the springs, defeated him. He will henceforth be known as the Legendary Ranma Saotome.
"Wow didn't know I was famous." Ranko thought.
"Does this mean anything to you Ranko?" Toa asked.
"Yes it does, keep heading down." Ranko replied.
"Whats this about spring of drown girl?" Nina asked.
"Eh... its nothing just don't worry about it!" Ranma said frantically.
Saffron being a pheonix, was simply reborn from the ashes of his death after Ranma killed him but he was nothing but a young child. This is the first proof that Saffron could be killed to surface in thousands of years. However, at the moment, Saffron is revived and is hunting down Ranma. He knows where Ranma is and he shall be there soon. Please be careful honored guest.
Ranko gasped. "Saffron's looking for me?" She thought.
Nina noticed the gasp. She was extreamly suspicious of Ranko and had been for a long time now.
Another picture of Saffron appeared.
"Old man musta had a camera. That's no drawing." Ranko thought.
"Who is this guy? Saffron?" Joshua asked.
"God of the Pheonix and lord of Mt. Pheonix." Ranko said quickly.
"Well that clears up everything. Why are you so interested in urban legends?" Nina asked. "Hey, this Ranma guy here looks amazing! I'd kill for a guy like that." She said as a picture of Ranko's former male form scrolled down.
"Eh heh heh.. yeah... really good looking... heh...!" Ranko drowned off.
Four links appeared. The first said. "The Cursed springs home page."
The second was titled. "Saffron. A Biography"
The third. "The Blessing"
And the fourth. "Saffrons Legendary Sister."
"Well now that I'm curious. Click there." Ranko said and pointed to the last link.
A picture of a very old looking painting of a blue haired girl appeared that looked almost exactly like herself when she let go of the invisibility of her... new found appendages.
"Oh you've GOT to be kidding me." Ranma screamed in her head.
"Hey this girl looks a lot like you Ranko!" Nina said surprised.
"No kidding."
Scrolling down a paragraph appeared.
This is an ancient painting passed down in the Pheonix Royal Family. It is said that once upon a time Saffron God of the Pheonix had a sister. This sister was of human decent and as such banished from the world of the Pheonix. Also she was spawned by way of the dragon tap instead of the Pheonix tap making her a Dragon Goddess of Water. After many years of interbreeding with humans the girl was seemingly forgotton. However it appears her decendent has very recently resurfaced. "Ranma" will understand this.
"What the hell? Is this a message to me? How in the heck did the guide get a computer anyway? How did he make this in less than a day and most importantly... HOW DID HE KNOW?" Ranma thought. Her face, however, had shown none of the expression her mind had. Unless you were completely oblivious. Like Joshua and Toa.
"Go back and hit the cursed springs homepage." Ranma told him. He did so quickly.
"Jusenkyo springs Legendary training ground." It titled on the front.
NO WAY! I"VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THAT FOR WEEKS! HOW DO YOU COME IN AND FIND IT INSTANTLY!
Jusenkyo now has 1121 springs. Each with their own tragic curse. Curses are that whoever drowns in a spring leaves an imprint in the waters of the spring. After that whoever falls into the spring takes the body of whatever drowned there last. Curse is reversable but only temporarily. Cold water turn victim into body of cursed form. Hot water turn back to normal form. Most recent spring is spring of drown Akane. Young girl named Akane who acompany Ranma Saotome to Mount Pheonix drown there. Now whoever fall in spring take body of Akane. Fortunantly. Somehow Akane got out of spring before she die.
"You know this seems to be more of a message to this Ranma person than a webpage." Toa commmented.
"You know I think your right." Ranko replied. They started searching all components of the most definantly "INCOMPLETE" Webpage.
"Wait... Ranma fell in spring of drown girl? That would mean that he... became a she?" Nina asked.
"Eh... yeah... could be?.. heh..." Ranko tugged on her pigtail.
Nina narrowed her eyes eyeing the pigtail that looked exactly like the boy in the picture's.
"Have you ever been to this Jusenkyo place before.... RanKO?" Nina asked.
Toa and Joshua looked up wondering why Nina seemed so angry at Ranko.
"NO.. what!? What makes you think that?" Ranko asked.
"Your name is abnormally close to being Ranma. You want information on a place that apparently changes people's forms. Why couldn't you be this Ranma person if you believe in this stuff? You seem very interested in anything said to Ranma!" Nina cried.
"Eh..."
"Spill it! I KNOW you've been hiding something Ranko. What is it!? Contant appearance changes. Skipping school. Living on you own? And Amnesia my ass!" She cried.
"Your another Nabiki..." Ranko muttered.
Ranko sighed. She'd only known these particular three for about twelve days. She didn't know if he could trust them. But, she decided, if she couldn't, and they accused her, she could always just say they were insane.
"Huh... fine." She said.
Ranko stood up and walked to the middle of the room. First a Blue light erupted in a circle around her. Secondly and just as suddenly, blue lights erupted from her back. Two blue lines appeared parrellel to her spine on the right and left sides. The two wings she had been concealing burst forth from her back and the five small balls of energy constantly at her fingers began to glow along with the dragon's eye on her forehead, now made visible by the wind brushing at her hair.
"... Wow..."
TIMEBREAK
Luc had been struck silent the entire day. The girl that was Ranko was everything he had ever dreamed of. He didn't know why. He loved whatever her new appearance gave her. The pony tail she dressed it in fit perfectly with her blue hair. Her eyes, now also a perfect blue, blended with just about every other thing in his fantasy of a perfect girl. Also coupled with the fact that whatever had happened had made her shorter than him. Considering her beauty was now much less to most people. Most prefered her with blonde long hair. Luc always was a little off though.
He spent all day lying under an apple tree with a dumb smile on his face, daydreaming. "I got to ask her out! But wait! She said she was actually a guy?... Thats just freaky! Damnit what the hell!? My perfect girl finally comes along and says she's a cursed guy? How screwed up is that?... I'm giving it a shot anyway."
TIMEBREAK/FLASHBACK
"Aya! Honored Customer in Danger! Must warn Ranma somehow! How though. I no know where he stay! Um.. Um.. Um..!"
"Why not use the internet papa?" Plum said suddenly.
"What? What that Plum?" He asked.
She giggled. "We'd have to go to a city."
"If it will save honored customer I try it."
A few hours of searching for a computer company later.
"How you know all this Plum?" The guide asked as Plum helped him construct a web page.
"Remember last year we come to town? I find book called HTML for Dummies. It teach me how. You know pictures you got from home Mt. Pheonix? We could put on page if you want."
After about half an hour an almost completely professional looking web page was on the internet.
"You sure honored customer see this?" The guide asked.
"It's the best way for us to try to reach him." Plum replied.
They spent an hour walking back to the hut. When they got there they saw that an errie blue light was glowing inside.
"Someone inside Plum. You stay I look." He said cautiously.
He crept up the window of the hut and saw something that he never would have expected. The blue light came from a small object in the corner of the room. It was a pendant. "AIYA! THE DRAGON PENDANT GLOWS! DRAGON GODDESS IS AWAKE!" He looked at the pendant. Actually it was more of a Locket. For years he had been trying to open it with no success. There it lay, open as possible. Inside was a picture of a red headed girl.
"PLUM WE MUST RETURN TO TOWN TO INTERNET THING!" He cried as he ran into the house, scooped up the pendant, and a picture of the old goddess, ran back out picked plum up and began running again.
Thinking on the way the guide pondered why Ranma's picture was there. Then, noticing the reseblance between Ranma's female form and the dragon goddess(except for the red hair), he realized that it was very much possible that Ranma was a direct decendant. Paired with everything else that had happened to Ranma... The Blessing, touching the Jusenkyo water, touching the Water staff, and being directly related to the long since deceased Water Goddess, must have triggered her to regain dormant powers.
TIMEBREAK
"WHY DIDN"T IT WORK! IT SHOULD HAVE WORKED! I DON"T UNDERSTAND!!!!" The archbishop cried loudly.
"Hmm..." Was all the messenger would reply.
"SHE ACCEPTED THE FORM! THATS ALL THAT SHOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN! WHY!!! WHY!!! WHY!!!!?????" He screammed.
"Hmm..." Was all the messenger would reply.
"I mean SURELY I'd know the goal to my own spell but WHY ISN'T IT WORKING!!!!!" He began to kick and squirm frantically like a small child.
"Hmm..." Was all the messenger would reply.
"WILL YOU STOP THAT!!!!?!?!?!?!?!"
Quoth the messenger. "Nevermore."
TIMEBREAK
"DAMNIT IT CHOOSES NOW TO RAIN! WHY ME?!!?!?!" Saffron cried as the rain pelted his fiery body. Not that it truly hurt him or anything. Just picture a million little gnats pecking you and you'd get really annoyed too.
Saffron flew higher until he made it above the clouds and rain. It made him much happier. "Ranma Saotome! Two days until your doom!!"
Flying at increadible speeds? Check. Gut wrenching maniacal laughter? Check. Ranma sneezing? Big Check.
Citizens of Hawaii could've sworn they'd seen molten fire high in the sky as an ominus red light appeared and flew by disguised by the clouds.
TIMEBREAK
"Kami-sama. I'm Saffron's couple of greats Grand Niece... Nephew. Whatever. Now I'm pissed." Ranko thought. Fortuanantly for her, none of the nerds had thought anything about it other than, "Wow... Cool." Or at least until Nina realized that she was originally a guy. Then... well she got quite angry."
FLASHBACK
"Wait so your this dragon girl? AND RANMA?" Nina asked.
"Heh... Sorry bout this?" Ranma almost said as a question.
"YOUR A GUY!? So what were you planning on DOING when Gym class rolls around next monday?" She cried. It was friday.
"I... uh... was just gonna say I was shy and change in a stall! HONEST! Look I have no interest in girls!" She cried.
"Your a guy and your not interested in girls?" Toa asked.
"Eh... NO! NOT... UGH! DAMN!" She cried. She dropped her head. "Look this curse doesn't just affect the body. It's starting to effect my mind. I keep thinking of myself as a girl and no matter how much I keep striving to be a guy again... I'm startin to like this." She admitted.
"Don't get me wrong, I still like girls. Its just... there is one in particular who I was... well... forget it. Old news... Please do me a favor and keep calling me Ranko?" She asked.
She pulled her wings back into her body. The balls of energy on the end of her fingers stopped glowing. The dragon's eye on her forehead stopped glowing.
"All this happened just last night. I wasn't able to do this yesterday. Funny thing about it is, last night I accepted the fact that I may stay a girl for the rest of my life. Then that blue light showed up." Ranko said.
"Maybe you could tell us more of whats happened to you? I assume you never actually had amnesia?" Joshua asked.
"No... fraid' not."
"Yeah tell us. What was up with that Happosai guy from yesterday?" Toa asked.
Suddenly Nina began to fume.
The door opened. Luc walked in.
"Hey Luc!" She called.
"Ranm... er.. Ranko! Heh... hi!" He said.
"Don't worry about it Luc. They just found out my real name." Ranko told him.
"Oh? Well that's cool. You know all there is to know or just why she lied about her name?" Luc asked.
"Just why she lied about her name. Why?" Nina asked.
"Heh... Wait till you hear the story about her fiancees!" Luc said.
"FIANCEES!?" They cried.
"Ugh... another time. Another Day." Ranko said.