Ranma, Ryoga, Shampoo, and Nodoka walked out of the airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Ranma was tempted to go hybrid and run there, but Nodoka convinced him to go with the others in a cab.
Happosai popped out of Shampoo's suitcase. Cologne popped out of Nodoka's. Money had been tight, so they had to smuggle them aboard. It wasn't that hard, especially with Shampoo's knowledge of hidden weapons. Also, Ryoga had learned how to 'displace' things when he centered his sense of reality.
He could 'put them aside' and out of view for later purposes. It was better than the Hidden Weapons because it was like putting them all in a bag. You could forget about them with no real consequence, whereas with Hidden Weapons they will reappear if you lose focus.
Of course, if you have a fire burning in your displacement, the heat from it would spread out in your body, making you hot and sweaty. Ryoga and Ranma believe that if they ever had to put silver inside of it, it would hurt. The items in the displacement affected the carrier in small but noticeable ways.
On the plane, Ranma had been meditating and centering his own sense of reality. By the time the plane landed, he had figured it out.
Ranma had instantly put another set of clothes into the 'displacement' or 'item space'. A female set. If he wanted to be female at them moment, it would be as simple as pushing his male clothes in and pulling the female ones out. He wasn't going to try it just yet, as he had not yet perfected getting them in and out quickly, meaning that he or she wouldn't be wearing anything for maybe two seconds.
Ryoga and Shampoo had fallen asleep by the time they arrived on the street that he had seen in his dream state.
Ranma ripped into motion, flying out of the window without opening the door. He bolted down the road, going faster than the speeding car, even though he was in human form. His baggy clothes slowed him slightly, but not much.
Ranma skidded to a halt in front of a large house. He stared up at it for a moment. The visions in his dream state had merely said the town and street, but not the house.
But he knew it was this house. He knew.
He stood there, staring up at the house, until the two cabs stopped in front of the house. The others piled out and stood with him.
"Well, ring the door bell already," Ryoga said.
Ranma slowly reached out to press the doorbell. He stopped just before touching it. Ranma smirked.
"What are you doing?" Ryoga asked.
Ranma closed his eyes for a moment.
A squeaking sound suddenly erupted from the house. It was hard to hear at first. Someone yelled to open the door. The squealing becomes louder as an odd looking person opened the door. The boy looked at the people outside before turning towards a staircase.
A blur flew down the staircase before it charged the door and slammed into Ranma.
Ranma and the blur flew out into the middle of the street. Ranma flipped over and landed on his feet lightly in the middle of the street.
Everyone glanced back at them to see Ranma in his hybrid form being hugged deeply by another werecheetah.
From a window upstairs, who girls were looking out at the pair.
"Hey," One said, "That guys a werecheetah!"
"Look's like Brit knows 'em," the taller girl said.
"He's cute," The smaller one started to drool slightly.
"You scare me sometimes," The tall one said, glancing at the drooling girl.
"Everyone," Brittany said, "I want you all to meet my older brother."
"Yo," Ranma said.
Silence for a moment. Theo and Julia looked confused. Séance looked slightly bored. Gina was looking at the two people of very short stature. Brianna was in her own little world, laughing occasionally. Genn was staring at Brianna with a scared look in his eyes.
They were all seated in the rather large living room.
"You have a brother?" Theo asked.
"Yes," Brittany said, "I didn't know he existed until yesterday at the ma…"
Brittany's mouth snapped shut.
Theo and Julia turned their gaze to her.
"At where?" Theo asked.
"Ehheh," Brittany nervously laughed, "…t-the mall?"
Theo groaned and started to rub his temples.
"It's okay," Gina said, "We didn't buy that much."
"…we?" Julia turned to Gina, "Since when did you go on the shopping binges?"
"Well, I was hungry and Brittany said she wou…" Gina noticed that Brianna was salivating. She just stared at her. Theo and Julia turned to her too.
Ryoga was staring back at the cat girl. He had been scooting away from her for the past three minutes, with a fearful look in his eyes.
"Bwahahaha…" Brianna laughed quietly.
Of course, Ryoga and Shampoo had no idea what was going on. They didn't speak English.
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Ryoga and Shampoo can only speak Japanese. Brittany now understands it because of her link with Ranma, but cannot speak it.
Ranma knew English from back when he was four, but he hadn't used it a long time, so he couldn't speak it without a Japanese accent.
Julia, Brittany, and Séance can only speak English.
That left Theo, Gina, Nodoka, Happosai, and Cologne that spoke both.
It didn't matter with Genn, he's telepathic anyway.
"What's up with her?" Ranma asked quietly into Brittany's ear.
"She's a raving nymphomaniac," Brittany said, "She's got her eyes set on conquering you're friend."
"Um…" Ranma said, "That might not be a good idea."
"You try and stop her, I haven't been able to yet," Brittany said.
"No, it's not that…" Ranma said, "It's… um…"
Ranma whispered something very quietly into her ear.
Brittany's eyes grew huge.
"He's WHAT!" She yelled, standing up.
"You told her, didn't you?" Ryoga asked in Japanese.
"Um… yeah, sorry," Ranma told him.
"What?" Theo asked, "Told her what?"
"Um…" Ranma said, "It… um… it's complicated."
"How can you be friends with him!" Brittany asked loudly.
"Because," Ranma said, "He didn't know what I was, and I didn't know what he was. We only found out about each other two months ago. Ryoga's a nice guy."
"But…" Brittany said.
"It's okay," Ryoga said, "I'll understand if you want me to leave."
"What're they talking about?" Julia whispered to her husband.
"That boy, Ryoga," Theo whispered back, "He's not human, but they haven't said what he is."
"Calm down, Brittany," Ranma said, "Ryoga's parents and his older brother were killed by other werewolves. He's a bit obsessive, so he's been searching out werecheetahs and make sure the rest of the werewolves left don't kill them."
"What!" Theo yelled.
Ryoga groaned.
"Mr. Diggers," Nodoka spoke, "I reassure you that, even though Ryoga is in fact a werewolf, he means no harm to anyone. He is a very noble boy and Ranma's best friend."
"What's going on?" Séance asked, "Hearing only one side of the conversation is confusing."
"Ryoga's a werewolf," Gina said.
Chaos ensued.
A slightly crispy Ryoga now sat in the backyard. Of course, one normally doesn't sit on their face while in hybrid form. He had been forced to take hybrid form when Brianna began shooting at him.
Ranma, also in hybrid form, was sitting next to him.
"They're certainly enthusiastic," Ranma said.
"Fmmphfs," Ryoga responded. ("Groan…")
"Oh come on," Ranma said, "I know you think that drooling one was cute."
"Feef mfefe!" Ryoga shouted. ("She's freaky!")
"She freaked me out too," Ranma said, "Although I guess she's family now."
"Ef fmeph phemfe phf phew," Ryoga said, "few mphf hmm." ("I feel sorry for you, you live here.")
"Hey, you're gonna be staying in the house for a while too, ya know," Ranma said.
"Smme em nff memephe ph pher," Ryoga said. ("At least I'm not related to her.")
"So I have a freaky family," Ranma said, "I don't care if they're freaky, hell, they're gonna think I'm freaky when they find out about my 'other form'."
"Hmmmmhmhmhmhmhmhm," Ryoga laughed.
"Shut up, pig-dog."
"Eh hmft ew…" ("I hate you.")
"I'm not sure about this," Theo said, "Those three… they're not normal kids."
"I did sense something," Julia said, "They seemed too… too something, I can't place it."
"They all have a strange feel to their aura. A normal persons aura swirls with their emotions and feelings. The colors shift around in a way that symbolizes what they are feeling and thinking," Theo said, "The same is true with those three, yet the auras are tremendous, just like the two elderly."
"They don't look like fighters," Julia said, "Ranma has the same type of grace that Brittany has. Ryoga carries himself like any werecreature would. I mean, for a werewolf, Ryoga looks gangly. He has nearly no muscles on him. Neither does Ranma."
"I know," Theo said, "That's the thing. The way they looked and felt wasn't correct. I noticed when I searched their auras. Their physical strengths are somehow in tune with their mental ones. Instead of their muscles being physical, they are entirely spiritual in nature. This allows their abilities to go beyond the limits of the physical body."
"Theo," Julia said, "Ranma is Brittany's brother. I doubt that he would hurt her. Ryoga… he didn't attack Brianna when she started shooting at him. He even seemed to be a little infatuated with her."
"Still," Theo said.
"I do understand what you're getting at, though," Julia said, "We do not know them, and as such, we should keep a close eye on them. But not to the point of obviously distrusting them."
"I guess you're ri…"
A scream echoed throughout the house. It was Brittany.
Theo and Julia ripped into action.
