Info – Here's chapter 4. I'm really sorry I haven't updated any others, but I'm kind of at a road block on some. Hopefully, The Makings of a Legend will come to me faster.
Nerima
"Round two Goku!" Ranma yelled before he flew up to Goku. He seemed to blur to the senshi and reappeared in Goku's face before his fist flared out and slammed Goku in the stomach. Goku growled in pain and then punched at Ranma's head, the blow connected solidly with his cheek sending the boy back. Ranma quickly recovered and stared at Goku with those blue eyes again.
"Finally a challenge," he said smiling down at the boy.
"I'm glad you're enjoying this. Cause it's gonna end quickly," Ranma growled as he began to twirl the bow around in his hand. He quickly shot back up into the air and swung his bow at the man. Goku quickly blocked it and swung with his fist. Ranma grabbed his fist and held it away while his leg swung up towards Goku's face. It caught him hard on the chin and sent the man flying away. Goku recovered just in time to get a vicious slam to the head from the lighting staff. While slowly floating away and trying to recover Ranma did a flip kick and sent Goku plummeting to the ground. He slowly flapped his wings once as he watched the man slowly beginning to rise.
"Come on Goku. I thought you were stronger than this?" Ranma questioned as his usual battle smirk came into play. Goku finally got to his feet and looked up at Ranma before shooting into the air. His fist flew out and caught Ranma solidly across the jaw. Ranma's head snapped back and Goku smiled as his head stayed there. Ranma slowly brought his head back to look at Goku and then spat some blood from his mouth to the ground. He looked back up at Goku and smiled before his fist blurred into Goku's stomach and finally finished him with an elbow to the head. Goku yet again went flying into the ground. Ranma watched as Goku made an imprint of his body in the soil beneath.
"This is getting ridiculous. MOKO TAKABISHA!" he yelled as the ball of confidence fired at the downed Saiyan. Goku flipped his body over to his back and looked up into the attack. He quickly lifted his arms and fired his own blast. The two blasts met somewhere in the middle of their runs and quickly began to explode out into larger ball as the two began to compete over the energy attack. Suddenly, Goku dropped one of his hands to the side.
"KA...MA...HA...MA...HA!" he yelled as the new blast shot past the old one and connected with Ranma solidly. Losing his concentration, Ranma's energy cut out and the super powered energy blast powered on and connected to Ranma's already blasted body. Everyone heard Ranma scream in pain and then the explosion drowned it out. Suddenly, there was complete silence and everyone was watching the cloud above for any sign of Ranma. Before it cleared there was a loud yell and the smoke was blown away completely displaying a very pissed off Ranma.
"Damn that stung!" he yelled as lightning flared around his body. He quickly disappeared and reappeared in front of Goku and slammed his fist deep inside the man's stomach. Goku dropped to his knees grabbing his midsection. Ranma quickly grabbed his head and lifted him. His leg swung out and caught Goku heavily across his chest. As the man was flying through the air, Ranma appeared in front of him and slammed both of his fists into the man's head driving him into the ground again. However, just before he hit the ground, Ranma reappeared in front of him again and quickly kicked him away and through five buildings. When Goku blasted through the last one, Ranma appeared behind him and kicked him back through the buildings. Finally, Ranma appeared above Goku again and then knocked his body into the ground. Goku tried to rise only to get knocked back down into the ground. Ranma picked up his body and punched him in the gut. Goku dropped to the ground only to be grabbed back up and punched again. Every single punch Ranma made, Goku would let out a blood-curtailing scream. The Senshi began to run forward to try and help Goku out when it all stopped. They quickly found Ranma standing above a crater. They looked inside the crater to find a bloody mess with black hair. Usagi looked away and then looked like she was on the verge of puking. The outers looked over to Ranma to find him licking his hands clean of the blood. His eyes slowly lifted to look at all the scouts and he smiled.
"Hello," he says happily before licking another part of his bloody hand.
"What did you do?" asked Uranus.
"I had fun. He died," the boy responded as his wings wrapped around his body his grin turning into a smirk.
"That's fun?" Usagi squeaked out.
"Well, yeah kind of," he replies happily picking at his wings, "Do you think these are good colors for wings?" he asked softly changing the subject.
"That is completely off subject! You just killed someone!" Uranus suddenly yelled. Ranma looked up to her and then his evil smirk grew. He suddenly appeared in front of Uranus and gave her a quick kiss on the lips.
"Hmmm...you seemed to enjoy the death. Should I kill more to please you?" he asked softly staring into her eyes. Uranus seemed shocked before she went to punch him. He caught her hand and pulled her roughly towards him before flipping her over his back, making her land on the ground hard. Before she could rise, Ranma's foot was planted into her neck, starting to cut off her air supply. "So you like it rough?" he sneered before putting more pressure into his foot. Uranus began to claw as his leg, trying to get much needed air into her lungs. Ranma began to laugh insanely again.
"SILENT GLAVE SURPRISE!" was screamed out as an energy attack slammed into Ranma's chest, sending him flying into the Tendo Dojo wall. Ranma slowly began to rise up from the rubble and looked back to Hotaru.
"Why did you do that squirt?" he asks softly.
"Cause you're not yourself!" she yelled back. Ranma was suddenly in front of her.
"How would you know what I am and am not!" He started to charge energy into his hand when his body began to shake. His wings and silver hair disappeared, leaving him standing their looking Hotaru in the eyes. He quickly dropped his arms to his sides and looked to the ground. His body begins to shake as tears come to his eyes. He quickly takes off, hopping over the leftovers of the wall.
"Ranma wait!" Mars yelled running to catch up with him.
"Mars hang on," Moon said in her Serenity voice "Pluto, what happened?" she asked turning towards her advisor.
"I don't know what that power up was, but the attitude could have been because his mind is still mixed up from the memories he's reliving. Ranma was very cocky in this life and hated to kill anything. Ranma in his other life, was very quiet, and had no problems killing anything that threatened the Moon Kingdom. When that power up happened, I believe he brought together both personalities, and sense the dominate personality wasn't use to killing, it took a back burner."
"But wouldn't Ranma have still been calm?" asked Saturn.
"He should have, I really don't know what that personality was. It was tainted awfully bad for a God. If he really is a God in that form," she says softly looking at each scout in turn. Moon seemed to be thinking about something for a minute when her eyes suddenly flashed.
"Pluto, I believe I know where the personality came from," she says looking towards her.
"What do you believe your majesty?"
"Neko-ken. Ranma's soul has been tainted by the Neko-ken. When his dominate personality moved back, the old one couldn't come forward because the new Ranma already has two personalities. He only combined the two, making them strong, but his past with the Neko-ken would have weakened that bond, because sadly, his soul is already linked to the feral cat in his mind."
"So that Ranma..." Mars started.
"Is a combination of Neko-Ranma, Ranma, and Ranma," Moon finishes.
"That's confusing," Uranus said looking around for Ranma.
"There is only one problem with that line of thinking," Pluto said.
"Yes?" Moon asks.
"Rune removed the Neko-ken"
"He only removed the fear, he did not remove the already ingrained soul."
"Oh," Pluto responded stupidly, a first for everyone to see.
"We should go after Ranma," Mars suddenly spoke as she looked around.
"Your right, find a place to transform back to our regular forms and look for him. The teams will be Pluto and Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, Jupiter and Venus, Mars and Mercury, and I'll go get Mamoru and we'll look as well," she said before disappearing. The remaining girls quickly took off just as Akane was coming back to conciseness. She looked over and saw the hole in the ground and slowly crawled over to. Just before she arrived at the hole, the body and blood disappeared leaving her very confused.
Somewhere Between Nerima and Juuban
He was walking. It was surprising how fast he can go from okay in life to bottom of the barrel. So he just kept walking. It would be easier to just find a way kill himself. He just kept walking down the street seeming to be in daze. Before he knew or even understood what was going on, he had run into someone. Because he was unprepared, the amazing God and God slayer fell to the ground.
"Hey guy, you okay?" he heard a deep grunt of a voice. He looked up to find a man, no boy about his age wearing an orange muscle shirt, blue shorts made of some kind of cloth, and strangely enough small round sun glasses that barely covered his eyes. He smiled down to Ranma and offered his hand to him. At first Ranma was wary of taking his hand, but then did. The boy quickly lifted him up without a second thought and Ranma was grateful.
"Thank you," he found himself saying. Strange, his voice sounded even more different to him than usual.
"Hey not a problem, I kinda ran into you Ranma Saotome," he replies that same smile on his face. Ranma looked at him in shock, and started to think that maybe he was another rival. He quickly sized him up and found that he didn't seem to give off an aura of a martial artist, but his aura was still radiating kindness. Ranma smiled despite his best efforts not to.
"How do you know my name?"
"How could I not?" he boy replies cryptically. Ranma frowned at this answer and started to think that maybe it was time too leave.
"Well, thanks for helpin' me up," he says before starting to walk off. He suddenly felt a soft hand grip his shoulder and stop him. He knew he could have easily pulled away, but with the contact came a peace and calm he had never before felt.
"Before you go, I have to give you a present," the boy says as Ranma turns around again. He reaches into a backpack that must have been on his back and Ranma missed it, but the strange thing was, he could of swore it wasn't there before. The boy pulled out a small black portable CD player that had a phoenix and a wild stallion carved into it. The carved lines glowed in the indirect light, showing that the lines themselves where lined with gold. It had kanji carved into it as well that made out the word 'Ranma'. The boy smiled as he handed it to Ranma. Just as Ranma touched it, the entire thing pulsed and Ranma felt as if his entire life had just flashed before his eyes. Even the things he wasn't supposed to remember like his own birth.
"Woah," he said before coming unstable. The boy caught him and held him up the same smile on his face. Ranma looked down to find the CD player back to regular, but it still felt as though it pulsed with his energy.
"I think it likes you. Now listen, cause this is important. The CD that is in there now is one that is composed of songs from both of your lives. When listening too it I want you to think about your life. Think about everyone you've meet and had contact with. This life first, and then your other life. If you do this, you will understand how to correctly combine both of them. Do not fear your own memories," he said softly. Ranma glanced back down at the CD player.
"Thank you and I never..." he trails off as the boy is gone. Ranma looks around in shock for the boy but can't find or even sense him. He shrugs in confusion and looks back down to the CD player. He slowly and strangely shakily pulls the headphones up to his ears. He presses the play button and starts to listen in wonder as a song slowly flows into his ears.
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
Ranma started thinking about his life. Was he a bad man? He knew he had been sad for his entire life, but always hid it. But was he a bad man? What is the definition of bad? Did he fit into it? He started to question himself trying to tell if he had been a bad man or not. Obviously, his rivals though he was, but did their opinion on his life even count?
An' no one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
Hated. Ranma knew he was hated. He was hated by Kuno, Ryoga, and Mousse, he knew that, why would they keep attacking him if they didn't? Fated. He was fated to be a reborn Sailor Scout. He was fated to marry Akane or someone else. Why was his path already chosen form him? Why couldn't he choose the path he wanted? Lies. He has told many lies. He tried to lie about the dragon whisker, he tried to lie about his curse, he tried to lie about his ultimate fear. He lied about his skill at times. He lied about his love? That couldn't be right. No, it was right, he had those girls chasing him for no reason. He tried to tell Shampoo that he didn't like her, but she didn't listen. Did he lie about liking her? It would be hard not to like her. Shampoo is very confusing subject. He doesn't want to become a breeding stock for the amazons, and yet, he could see himself with her. Ucchan was his friend, and would always be his friend. Why did he call her his cute fiancée? Is that not lying? Akane.....Akane is a tough one. He thought he loved her. No.....he knew he loved her, but with too many beatings under her belt she became less and less lovable. A random day every month where she didn't beat him is not enough to keep him in love with her. Who could he love? Who would love him?
[Chorus]
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free
He gave a soft smile at the start of the chorus. Everyone thought he was dumb, and he probably was on the outside. But his dreams told him differently, especially now. Hours of loneness...that is true, oh so true. When he was sitting in that pit, cold and beaten, he wanted anyone or anything to help him. Whether they gave him a reason to live, or killed him. He remembered begging for someone to strike him down right then, but it never happened, and he kept living. Love. It never came free for him. It always came with a price. He thought he loved his father, constant pain. He thought he loved Akane, constant beatings. He thought he loved Nerima, constant chaos. He thought he loved martial arts, constant problems. What did he do martial arts now for? Was that really all he could do with his life? Was he truly fated to be a money grubbing bastard like his father? No, he refused to become like that.
No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelin's
Like I do
And I blame you
There is no way his father could feel the same things he does. There is no way his father could ever care about how his actions affect other people. That is the reason he feels such pain when he thinks about his life. And that is why he is able to blame Genma. He refuses to be known as Ranma Saotome anymore. Genma has dishonored that forsaken name too much. He refuses to go by it.
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain an' woe
Can show through
Anger. Does he feel anger? Is he capable of feeling anger? Yes, yes he can. He felt anger at Saffron and killed him. He felt anger at Goku and killed him. He felt anger at Kuno, and let him live? Do his rivals deserve to live? They always said he was honorless? How can that be? Did he use honor against Ryoga and sleep in Akane's bed? No. Did he constantly molest girls and women spouting horrible poetry? No. Did he attack Mousse at every turn for stealing someone's heart? No. He was always protecting the people around him. A stray chi blast struck away from someone's path here. A redirected chain or blade there. How can those assholes say he was honorless? How can they say they have honor?
[Chorus Repeat]
(Discover) L-I-M-P....
Say it....
Discover [x4]
No one knows what it's like
To be mistreated
To be defeated
Behind blue eyes
Mistreated. He knew that word. Genma's training methods where listed in the dictionary under mistreatment. Clasping meat to Ranma and making him run from a wolf pack for speed training. The Cat-fist. Tying him to a tree and pissing off some bees for reaction training. He's been defeated mentally so many times he can't keep up. Why did his father treat him so badly?
And no one knows how to say
That they're sorry
An' don't worry
I'm not telling lies
This line made him think about Akane. She never had to apologize. It was always his fault. How can it be his fault if she can't keep up with him? How can it be his fault if her cooking sucks? How can anything she fucked up at be led back to him? How come the perfect princess had to have everything right the first damn time? No one is that perfect. Hell, even he isn't that perfect. So why was it always his fault when she failed? Why was he responsible for all his father's fuck ups? Why was he responsible for everyone else's problems? It wasn't his fault Ryoga didn't show to their duel. It wasn't his fault that all the girls like him. It wasn't his fault Shampoo likes him so much. It wasn't even his fault that he turned into a girl and got the attention of every guy. It wasn't his fucking fault!
[Chorus Repeat]
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
The song slowly ended and left Ranma standing in the middle of a sidewalk shaking badly. He slowly took the headphones off his head and looked up to the sky again. It was still night, but on the verge of becoming day. In one night he had gone from Ranma Saotome, to God of Cataclysm and Chaos, to just Ranma. He slowly and shakily sat down at a bench still staring into the sky. He is no longer Ranma Saotome. He is Ranma, just Ranma. It was time he grew up and moved on. It was time he ended all his problems. He was finished, no more rivals, no more fiancées, no random battles, no more honor. He was finished. He was done. It was time that Ranma Saotome was laid down to rest forever. He heard a gasp and turned to find Rei and Ami.
"R-Ranma?" Rei asked quietly. He nodded and both girls walked over to him and sat down. Before he knew what was happening, his head was in Rei's lap and tears were coming down his face.
"Ranma are you okay?" Ami's soft voice questioned from behind him.
"Yes.....I just want to be held right now," he says softly. Both girls obliged him and he sighed contentedly.
'Ranma Saotome is dead....but your story is far from over,' a certain boy thought as he watched the scene from a roof above, his sunglasses glinting in the early morning light. He smiles brightly and then slowly stands up fully. "You still have a long way to go Ranma. But now you have allies to help ya," he says into the wind before disappearing. Ranma heard the words and smiled through his tears.
'Friends,' he thinks softly to himself, his head still cradled in Rei's lap.
There we go. Sorry it took so damn long, but I had a vacation and then summer football training hit me hard for a few weeks. I will try and keep updating as much as possible. Now I need some help. If you have anymore ideas for songs on Ranma's life CD and a good reason behind them, tell me in your reviews. I'll take a look at the lyrics and see if works out. Next chapter, Ranma comes back to Nerima, but he's not here for shits and giggles. He's here to put Ranma Saotome to rest. Next time......... The song used in this Fan Fic was created by The Who, and remixed by Limp Bizkit.