"What is wrong with you!" Nodoka yelled at Genma, "You completely screwed up Ranma's life, you twit!"
"Oh come now," Genma said, now sober enough to talk strait… at least most of the time, "Ranma hash become the worlds premier martial artist!"
"I don't want to hear it, Genma," Nodoka hissed, "You're bumbling could have made Ranma go insane on several occasions!"
"I don't know what yer talking about," Genma retorted.
"Oh, the multiple engagements, Jusenkyo, and not to mention the neko-ken," Nodoka's voice was cold and harsh, "Ranma IS a cat! You could have made him fear himself! You're lucky he kept his mind right and didn't go insane!"
"It's not my fault the boy is afraid of cats!" Genma answered.
"Wrong," Nodoka said, "If Ranma was afraid of cats, how come he isn't afraid of himself."
"You… you mean?"
"Ranma is a very smart boy. He's been playing you the fool ever since he found the booklet in your pack. He's not afraid of cats and he has conscious control of the neko-ken."
Genma started to cry.
"Oh, I'm so proud!"
SMACK!
Ranma jerked awake in the middle of the night that Sunday. Her eyes opened wide. She, still in her cheetah form, dashed around the room in a blur. Pretty soon, she had removed the feminine undergarments and had replaced them with male ones.
She concentrated.
She felt a tingle as she changed.
"YES!" He shouted.
"Very good, Ranma," Happosai said.
"I'm all man again!" Ranma said. Ranma's expression went from joy to confusion suddenly, "Wait… damn you Happosai."
Happosai smirked.
"You knew this would happen," Ranma said.
"Not really," Happosai said, "I had guessed that it would, but I wasn't for sure. When you centered yourself between male and female mentally and physically, you became comfortable with all the aspects of both sides. You are not only a man amongst men, but also 100 woman."
"I hate you, you know that right?" Ranma said.
"Yup!"
The next day at school was a day that went down in history. Mostly because when Akane again attacked with her mallet, Ranma had actually hit her.
Ranma had, upon becoming comfortable, had gotten over his feelings about hitting girls. He was half girl and he could take a hit, so he had realized that girls could take hits just as well as boys can, sometimes even better.
Akane had whipped out her large, completely wooden mega-mallet to slam it down on Ranma's head.
Ranma had parried it, with his own mallet. Or, more accurately, a war-hammer. Instead of being completely wooden, its handle was long and made of very strong bamboo. The head of the hammer was made of very shiny gray metal.
Ranma had whacked Akane's mallet HARD. It had broken in half. Ranma then spun around and stabbed the hammer into Akane's stomach, knocking her back and too the ground.
"You…" Akane said, "You hit me!"
"I know," Ranma said coldly, "I'm not going to go easy on you anymore. Attack me and I WILL defend myself."
Akane was left there, dazed. Ranma couldn't have a hammer! Only girls had hammers, and Ranma was a guy when he summoned it from mallet-space.
Akane saw someone walking towards her.
"H-hello Ryoga," She said.
Ryoga glanced down at her, and for once, didn't start to stammer or blush. His expression remained neutral.
"Where's Ranma?" He asked.
"That baka freak?" Akane said, "He's inside."
"Hmph," Ryoga said, "Idiot I'll agree with you, but he is no more a freak than I am."
Ryoga walked inside the school without saying anything more to Akane.
"Ryoga?" Akane asked quietly.
That day at lunch, the next thing that would make the day go down in history happened.
Ranma eyed Ryoga as he neared him. Ryoga's clothing was baggy, just like Ranma's was.
"Hello, cat," Ryoga said in an oddly calm voice.
Ranma's eyebrows arched in interest.
"What?" Ranma asked, "No 'Ranma prepare to die'?"
"No," Ryoga said, "I'm simply here to apologize."
"What?" Ranma said, not staring at Ryoga in confusion.
"I'm a fool," Ryoga said, glancing at the ground, "I'm such a damn fool."
"Heh… What do you mean?" Ranma asked.
"I swore to try and find any werecheetahs that escaped that day," Ryoga said, "So I could try and protect them from my brethren."
"What!" Ranma said, standing up. He glared at Ryoga.
Ryoga just sighed.
"I don't condone what they did that day," Ryoga said, shaking his head, which was still drooped forward, "They even killed my family when they tried to stand up to them, I was only spared because I was four at the time. If I had known you were a werecheetah…"
"You…" Ranma growled, "You're a werewolf!"
"Yes," Ryoga said.
Ryoga's eyes snapped towards Ranma as Ranma burst into motion. Ranma's form shifted, which meant that Ryoga now had a super fast werecheetah flying towards him.
Ryoga managed to catch Ranma's fist. Ranma might have werecheetah speed, but he was also in a blind rage, and was fighting in a very sloppy fashion.
"I'm trying to apologize!" Ryoga said, "I wasn't the person who ordered the damn attack!"
"SHUT UP!" Ranma's other hand flashed out. Ryoga felt the blow hit his shoulder. Ryoga fell back onto the ground.
"RANMA!" Akane's voice called, "STOP PICKING ON RYOGA!"
"Akane no!" Ryoga yelled as Akane hefted her new mega-mallet.
Ranma whirled around, a kick smacked into Akane's leg, causing her to loose her balance. Another kick blew Akane across the schoolyard, unconscious.
"RANMA!" Another voice, this one came from a demon head Soun, "HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MY LITTLE GIRL!"
Ranma slammed his palm into Soun's stomach. A heat wave burst from Ranma's palm. Soun flew back with a large hole burnt in his shirt and second degree burns on his stomach. Ranma was about to go after Soun again before someone grabbed Ranma in an arm lock from behind.
There was a series of screams from the other students, similar to the screams that had come when Ranma had first transformed a few days ago.
Ryoga had become a huge werewolf. His body covered in brown fur, his ears pointing and becoming like a wolf's ears, his face staying the same except for his eyes. They used to be yellow, now they were a shiny gold. A wolf's tail came from Ryoga's spine.
Where Ranma now had tremendous lower body strength in his hybrid form, Ryoga had superior upper body strength in his. Ranma couldn't get out of the lock.
"Listen you idiot!" Ryoga said, "I didn't have any say so in that damn attack! They killed my brother and almost killed me!"
"DAMN YOU!" Ranma tried to push out of the lock using his leg muscles, but Ryoga's previous super human grip had grown ten times stronger.
"Damn it, listen to me!" Ryoga yelled, "I know who you are! I know who you're family is! I know who your sister was!"
"SHUT UP ABOUT MY SISTER!" Ranma hissed at Ryoga, "YOU BASTARDS KILLED HER!"
"She's still alive, you twit!"
Ranma froze. His eyes snapped open just in time to see Soun running towards Akane like a bat out of hell.
"Wh-what?" Ranma asked in a small voice.
"She's still alive, Ranma," Ryoga didn't let Ranma out of the lock, "A rumor that I found when I had somehow gotten to America. A werecheetah female about our age living in one of the states. I don't know where she is in America, but she's there."
"She's alive?" Ranma asked.
"Yes," Ryoga said, "Let me help you find her. I swore on my parents grave that I would find and help any survivors I found."
Ranma sighed.
"I… sorry that I flipped out on you," Ranma said quietly.
"No sweat," Ryoga said, "Most people react that way."
"What?" Ryoga said, "A way to control my curse?"
"Yup," Happosai said, "But why should I teach you, wolf?"
"Honestly," Ryoga said, "I can't say that you should. I mean… who would teach a werewolf anything these days."
"My thoughts exactly," Happosai said.
"Oh, come on you old coot," Ranma said, his tail lashing slightly, "I've known Ryoga since forever, and he's good person, if not a little obsessive."
"Fine," Happosai said, "I will tell you the lesson. After I am sure that you will not abuse Anything Goes, I shall teach you. You should have it down in a day."
"Hey, it took me almost three days," Ranma said, "Why does he get off easy?"
"Because he turns into a pig," Happosai said, "And he's a werewolf. He's already centered between man and beast. He just has to realize that controlling the change is exactly the same."
"Exactly… the same?" Ryoga asked.
"An oversimplification, but yeah," Ranma said, "I can turn to male and female in exactly the same way I change from human to hybrid to animal form."
"You just have to learn how to specify between the different between the changes," Happosai said, he then smirked, "And then centering yourself between hot and cold."
"Ryoga," Ranma said, "Before you start the hot and cold…"
"Yeah?" Ryoga asked.
"Eat a lot. I was absolutely starving by the time I finished."
Ranma glanced at the werewolf that had walked into the house. Ranma started to chuckle at the side of the shivering wolf.
"You frozen?" Ranma asked.
"Yes, brain no work," Ryoga said, "Can't feel eyes."
