A.N. - Sorry if you have read this once as I had trouble updating. I just replaced it all together with a more grammaticaly corrected version. I will take more time proof reading my stuff so less problems. Look to the bottom of the page for more AN.
Prologue
Nothing could have prepared them for what was to come.
After one failed attempt at a wedding Ranma and Akane had gotten it right the second time around. With their love no longer hidden the ceremony had been a beautiful event spoke of by Princes and Princess as a fairy tale. Happily ever after was not in their fate though. Their union left others with bitter feelings. While Ranma had been able to reconcile his friendship with Ukyo and Shampoo, even Cologne had felt that their love could no longer be stood against. Many bitter rivals of their past had become their friends and family. But a dark cloud hung over their heads. Those who would not accept the lose of Ranma and even feared him as he had the faced a god and won. The strength and will of Ranma was coveted and if they couldn't have him it left them with but few options they felt, to take him or kill him. Yet they knew to defeat him they would have to first push him over an edge. This would be a dual edged sword they would walk. To demoralize him was the hope, but if they couldn't he would seek vengeance unlike the earth had seen.
A year of marriage and Akane was expecting their first child. The Tendo/Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts was running at full capacity with Ranma teaching and Akane instructing new students. Life was good, then a night happened to change them all forever.
The fight, Ranma's sorrow.
It was a late December evening. Ranma and Akane had moved into the master bedroom in the Tendo house. Soun believed it was time for him to step down as head of the household and held let Ranma take over the reigns as patriarch of the family. Akane had gone to bed already as at eight months pregnant she tended to tire easily. Kasumi was cleaning the kitchen from the night's festivities. Nabiki was on winter break from Tokyo University, where she studied business law.
Everything seemed right this night as Genma and Nodoka where headed to the guest room to sleep. Genma had his arms around his wife as the entered the guest quarters. Opening the door Genma's senses went into overdrive. The sake he had drank earlier seemed to be gone as he moved his wife to safety his own back facing their room. He felt the blade enter his back, but he showed no sign of the pain as he smiled at his wife. With his final breath he told his wife to run. Terror streamed through Nodoka as she saw the end of the Chinese sword that had pierced her husband's heart.
A scream that broke the night brought Ranma to full battle readiness. Before anyone could blink he was up the stairs and at his parents room. Standing before him where 3 Amazon women walking towards his mother. Without even thinking of what was happening before him Ranma took his mother in his arms and ran. His mind was wild with wonderment at what he saw, but before he could deal with it, he knew he had to get his mother to safety.
Reaching the steps he saw Soun coming out of what was once Akane's room.
"Take her!" Before Soun had a chance to respond to this Ranma had put his mother in Soun's arms and turned around. "Get them all out now!"
A hand caught his arm as he made to turn back the way he had come. "Ranma…they killed him."
Looking into his mother's eyes he didn't have to ask who the him was. Dread took him for a second then a battle aura encased him. Its brightness force Soun and Nodoka to shield their eyes. Stretching his senses to their utmost limits he took count of how many life signs he could read planning to make his move. With a final look at his father-in-law Ranma let loose with a primal scream.
Moving with speed and grace that had come from a lifetime of training and pushed by anger he ran to his own bedroom. He had felt three ki's where there should only be two. As he opened the door the ki's in the room had fallen to one. With a look to the futon him and his wife shared he saw an Amazon holding a very large and very wicked looking axe.
Blood dripped from the axe as the wielder raised it back up. Seeing his wife lying in a pool of blood that was obviously hers, sanity lost it grip on his mind. An instinct that had only reached him once before surfaced.
Missing target.
The Amazon strike forces had struck all over Nerima that evening. They had lost only nine members of this elite invasion force.
"Four at the Tendo/Saotome household, three at the Cat Café and two more at random places in Nerima. The traitorous Cologne and her great-granddaughter Shampoo had escaped though. There were three dead enemies at the Tendo/Saotome household, Ranma's father, his wife and their unborn child. Not the results we had wanted, but Ranma attacked so quickly we barely got the rest of the team out. The agent that made it back said that Ranma had been stabbed and was bleeding heavily as he had left with his wife's body." The young Chinese Amazon finished given her report to the elder beside her.
Maoliu had the support of the Joketsuzoku council to complete her actions. Ranma was a warrior to dangerous to leave alive they had decided when the report of Shampoo's failed attempts to claim him as her husband came back. Cologne had been Maoliu's teacher so she was among the most surprised that the tribal elder had turned her back on the her own people and choose to stay in Japan. Now that she was labeled a traitor and outcast she was among the hunted in Japan this night. The council had come to the conclusion that to take over all of Japan may be the beneficial side quest for their warriors, but first all major threats to their conquest had to be eliminated with extreme prejudice.
"Hunt him and kill him and any with him." Maoliu gave this order without looking at her subordinates.
A.N. I am sorry if I have upset some of you with how this story started. Please feel free to bast me alive in the review section but other wise any R&R are welcomed as always. I usually update my personal site if fan fic before I send it here (easier to edit screwups there), so feel free to go there (ala profile).
