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Lessons of life, love, and magic
Written by DarkRubberNeck
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Thoughts are in italics
Chapter 2
Ranma's new home
Throughout the rest of the day Ranma told Ami her life story. She started with how her father had taken the young boy Ranma away from his mother, on his birthday the year nineteen eighty four, on a ten year long training trip. How shortly after Genma had taught Ranma the neko-ken, traded him to many fathers to be the fiancé to twenty different women like Akane and Ukyo. Speed training with food, running from wolfs, stealing and other cruel methods of training. But the one that Ranma had thought took the cake was when Genma had taken Ranma to Jusenkyo where he suffered his nightmarish curse. It then moved on to how he gained himself an Amazon who at first wanted to kill his female half, then tried to marry his male half. How afterwards he was taken to the Tendo dojo and declared Akane's fiancé, even though neither of them wanted to marry the other. From giant cat ghosts, to half dragon men, all the way to phoenix god's who all wished to kill Ranma.
To say Ami, Tanaka, and Carl were surprised about the craziness that occurred in Ranma's life was an understatement. Even though none of them truly believed Ranma's story, they all found it to be quiet the interesting story, which could probably make a good book or even an excellent cartoon show.
Just as Ami was about to speak there was a loud beeping sound. Tanaka looked down at his watch then looked up again at Ami "It's time to go Ami. I know you want to continue this, but you know that you have a test early morning tomorrow"
Ami's became face flushed. She was so enwrapped with Ranma's story that she forgot that she had an important music test tomorrow morning.
She looked at Ranma and squeezed her hands "I am truly sorry Ranma, but I have a very important English test tomorrow morning and if I don't go now then I won't be able to get up early enough tomorrow morning. You do understand don't you?"
Ranma tilted her head to her side and asked "You still go to school?"
Ami nodded "Hai Ranma. I am half way through my last year of school. Next year I will be learning how to be a doctor, so I really need to get the best grades possible"
Ranma nodded her head "Ok. I don't wont you to fail because of me. I can tell that this is very important to you and I wish you the best of luck. Maybe I will see you again?"
Ami looked surprised "Of course I will see you again Ranma. Why wouldn't I see you again?"
'Maybe because I am getting sick and tired of listening to these peoples screams at night' "Well you never know what might happen" Ranma gave a warm smile.
Ami got up and walked over to Tanaka and passed him the pad she had been writing on "Here Tanaka, could you please copy this so you can read it too?"
Tanaka nodded "Of course I will. I will drop your copy at mother's desk in two hours. Ok?"
Ami turned around and bowed deeply to Ranma who also did the same "See you again, later Ranma"
Ranma waved her hand goodbye "Bye, Bye Ami"
Ranma watched as the three people opened the door and left the room. Once all three left the room, the door closed and she heard a large clicking sound indicating that it was locked 'Well now I wait'
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It was ten o'clock at night and all the patients in the hospital had been put to bed. Ranma was sitting in the lotus position in the middle of her room. There was a large white glow coming off of her body as she sat there 'It took so long to rebuild my ki and just as long to learn how to use it properly. If anything good came out of this, it's that with all this spare time I have been able to improve myself once again. Although I don't know what had stopped me before, at least I can now use it to quiet a high degree. Now it's time to un-restrain my ki'
Suddenly the white glow around her burst out from her body covering the entire room. Doctor Gabriel who had been strolling down the corridors of the asylum was passing by the corridor Ranma's room was in, when he noticed that through the window of Ranma's door came an extremely bright light. Gabriel didn't have much time to think about what was going on before the door blew off of the wall, taking a large chunk of the wall with it.
Gabriel quickly jumped into the corridor next to him narrowly avoiding the flying door and anything else flying down the corridor.
"Aren't you lucky Gabriel, I wasn't aiming for you, but at least you get to see that I wasn't lying" he heard a feminine yell from down the corridor.
He pocked his head around the corner to see a naked Ranma slowly strolling down the corridor in the direction towards the exit of the building. To his surprise Ranma was glowing white. He would have mistaken her for an angel if he didn't know how dangerous she was. The sirens suddenly went off which indicated that a potentially dangerous patient was escaping.
"You should give up now Ranma. They will go easy on you if you do" he yelled back down the corridor.
A big evil grin formed on Ranma's mouth "You would love that wouldn't you? Well to bad that I am leaving here no matter what. I am sick and tired of being stuck in this hell hole and nothing is going to stop me from leaving and finding my child"
Gabriel grimaced "And how do you expect to get past the security doors and such? You have probably used all you explosives on the door to your room" at that moment a security door in front of Ranma closed, blocking her exit.
Ranma chuckled "Like this fool"
Ranma brought her hands out in front of her and cupped them together. Aiming her hands at the steel door in front of her she yelled "Moko Takabisha!" a large green ball of energy shot out from her hands, smashing against the large door in front of her, blowing a hole through it.
"Too easy"
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'Ranma I hope you're alright. I would hate for anything bad to happen to you, we still haven't figured out what happened to hurt you so much' Mercury heard a beeping sound coming from her mercury computer. She looked down and read the information on it.
"Sailormoon wait a moment. The mercury computer says that whatever is producing such a large amount of this unusual magical energy is about to blast through that wall" she pointed her finger at the wall forty meters in front of them. All the sailor scouts stopped in there tracks and waited for whatever monster was tearing up the hospital to tear through the wall twenty meters in front of them.
Suddenly A large explosion came from the wall in front of them. Smoke and rubble flew everywhere completely blinding all the scouts.
"Moon spiral heart attack!"
"Mercury aqua rhapsody!"
"Mars flame sniper!"
"Jupiter oak evolution!"
"Venus love and beauty shock!"
"World shaking!"
"Deep submerge!"
All the sailor scouts aimed their attacks at the last known location of their unknown enemy in the smoke. The combined attacks produced a vacuum sucking all the smoke towards the aimed target.
'Oh dear lord, not the sailor scouts. I don't want to hurt them. I just hope that they can survive this' "Tsuki koi bakudan" the words were all but whispered, but were still large enough to be heard by all.
Usagi sweat dropped 'I didn't just hear the word bomb, did I?'
An extremely large bright pink ball of light came out of the hole in the wall at high speed. All the attacks hit the ball and had no effect upon the bomb. The bomb continued to flow through each of the attacks, sucking all the dust with it. It flew at high speed towards the group of sailor suited warriors, too fast for any of them to escape the blast radius.
Before they knew it Sailor Saturn had jumped out in front of the group and yelled "Silence wall!"
The bomb was stopped by an invisible barrier four meters in front of the group. Then there was a large explosion and all of the scouts were sent flying through the air backwards.
Ranma cringed 'That's got to have hurt'
Ranma slowly stepped out of the large hole in the wall she made and looked around. She noticed that all the scouts out of action lying unconscious on the ground. She was worried for a moment before she sensed that they were alright 'Thew, would hate to be the one that killed the famous sailor scouts. They were weaker then I thought they would be, but that's rather understandable considering who they were up against' she giggled to herself.
Up on top of the building stood sailor Pluto 'Hmmmm. I hope you are who I think you are. You have been invisible to the time stream this whole time and now I suddenly sensed your energy explode' she cringed at the sight of her fellow sailor scouts. 'However I didn't think you would be that powerful' she tracked Ranma's movement before Ranma suddenly disappeared 'What the hell? How did she do that? Great just great, it is going to be extremely difficult to track and catch you I see' she too suddenly disappeared as she returned to the gates of time.
A cloaked figure arrived on the scene and looked across the field of destruction from its spot, standing on top of a fence on the other side of the field hiding in the shadows. It looked around and noticed the slowly awakening sailor scouts shouting at each other. After finishing talking to each other, they quickly rushed to leave the scene. The cloaked figure didn't care much for the sailor scouts and looked at the large hole made in the wall of the asylum.
"I have finally found you. When I find you again, I swear I will help you be happy again" the voice was too shadowy to tell the gender of the person under the cloak. A lone tear shone from the moonlight on the cloaked figures face, before the figure turned around and disappeared into the night.
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After a few minutes of being unconscious passed, the scouts started returning to consciousness. The first one up was Ami.
"Guys we got to get out of here, otherwise someone might start to ask questions about what happened"
The next person to rise was Sailor Uranus. She quickly raced over to Saturn's side and checked for a pulse.
"Thank goodness she is alright. You're right Mercery. We have to get out of here now before we are blamed for this" she picked Sailor Saturn up and laid her over her shoulder.
All the scouts were now up, they nodded to the unspoken signal and all ran off in different directions. Not even two minutes after the scouts fled into the night, did the police arrive to investigate what happened.
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Ranma was almost gliding through the air as she hoped from roof to roof heading in the direction of Nerima 'That took so much out of me. I had to break through ten different steel doors on top of disabling the sailor scouts, my ki is almost gone. Perhaps I shouldn't hunt down Happousai just yet. Not only do I have to rest, I also have to find what happened to my baby girl. It is not the time to get revenge on Happousai' after four minutes of roof hopping at high speed, her vision began to blur 'Great I am too tired to go any further, I have to find a place to rest'
Her speed was slowing down faster then she realised. She went to hop through a large property, but she was too weak to hop the large distance between the fence and one of the three structures on the property. Her flight was cut too short and she fell to the ground in the middle of the property with a loud THUD! fortunately for Ranma, no one heard her poor landing.
She was laying on her front in the grass, breathing heavily. As she went to get up she heard a familiar song that she grew to love before she had her life destroyed by Happousai.
"Why, oh why do I love you so much?
My tears overflow this much"
"Back in that time, there was so much to lose that I couldn't sing anything
A place just a little ways away--That was where I was"
Ranma wasn't sure why she could hear her favourite song sung by the world famous artist 'Full moon' but she wasn't going to take any chances that this could be another trap set up by Happousai, now that she had left the mental asylum. Using all of her remaining ki she shot her senses out in all directions to sense how many people were around.
She could sense only two people currently on the property. They were both in the small building to her right where the music was coming from. Using her senses she could tell that one was male at an age of twenty six. While the other person was female who was twenty one years old. Ranma's eyes went wide once she realised that the female was singing the song and that it wasn't coming from a stereo. She pulled her senses back and shakily stood up. Slowly she made her way towards the large door on the side of the small wooden building twenty meters in front of her.
"That day, deep in your eyes, I saw the loneliness
Are the two of us really alike?
If I'd realized it, you were always by my side"
"Why do I love you so much?
Your voice rings inside me so much it makes me sad
Just what it was that supported me so much
From afar, I realize it now"
As she neared the entry to the building she could begin to make out the shapes of the two people inside. The man wore long blue jeans, a tight black shirt with a white jacket over top that had blue sleeves. His brown hair was cut to eye length and hung loosely around his head. The woman wore long white jeans that looked to be too loose around her legs. She had a long pink sweater over top of a white shirt. Her hair was yellow dyed and had two balls on top of her head. Her long hair ran freely down her back and was curled at the end
The door was open but both their backs were turned to Ranma, so neither of them saw her coming.
"Like a lost child, crying and searching
But there was no such thing as forever"
""It's okay if you don't believe in anyone" you whispered
Were the two of us really alike?
And I decided then I would protect you"
"Why can't I turn them to memories?
You're too far, too near for me to reach
The more I tell myself "I will forget"
The larger you loom in my thoughts"
Ranma had stopped in the doorway of the building and clung tightly onto the door frame to prevent herself from falling. All her problems seemed so far away as she listened to the magical song. Silent tears flowed down her face as she listened to the rest of the song.
"Why do I love you so much?
Your voice rings (inside me) so much it makes me sad
Just what it was that supported me so much?
I realize it now from afar"
"Why do I love you so much?
It's so easy I just can't answer"
Finally the song finished, however Ranma was so entranced by the song that she didn't realise just how exhausted she really was. Her hand slipped off of the door frame and she slipped into unconsciousness as she hit the floor.
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Startled by a loud thump on the wooden floor behind them, Mitsuki and Takuto quickly turn around and find an unconscious red headed girl laying there.
"Oh no Takuto, what happened to her?" asked Mitsuki.
"I am not sure Mitsuki, I was to busy listening to your song to notice her come in." Takuto replied concerned.
Mitsuki stood up and walked over to the passed out girl.
"She seems fine, but she is breathing slightly heavily. I think she might have passed out from exhaustion. Could you please help me put her to bed Takuto?"
Takuto gave Mitsuki a heart warming smile "Of course"
Ranma woke up the next morning in a strange bed. Not remembering too well the events that transpired the previous night, she quickly jumped up and out of bed, bringing her hands to the ready position. However standing one meter in front of her was a woman five foot two inches tall. She wore a long pink one piece dress, with white bunny ears on the top of her head. But the thing that really freaked Ranma out was the large white angel wings on her back.
Without thinking Ranma screamed and jumped back with all her might. She clung onto the roof as tight as possible and kept a very close eye on the angel below her. The angel in question was staring at Ranma with wide eyes and a surprised look on her face.
Mitsuki was making breakfast for herself and Takuto in the kitchen of the main building of the property when both of them heard a loud scream coming from the visitor's house. Quickly both of them dropped what they were doing and raced out of the building towards the building were the loud scream came from.
When they reached the room they saw a very unusual sight. The redheaded girl that they helped out last night was now clinging to the roof upside down, staring at an empty spot on the floor with a terrified look on her face.
Ranma didn't notice her two hosts arrive; she was too busy worrying about what it meant to see an angel.
"Please don't tell me I died last night. I have to find my child before I die. Please send me back to earth so I can find my child"
Meroko was quiet surprised. No living person has been able to see her since she became and angel without her wanting to be seen. She came here last night because she sensed that Mitsuki and Takuto seemed to be worried about something. When she arrived she found this redhead sleeping in Mitsuki's old room. She was quiet surprised when the young girl suddenly flew out of bed to defend herself, and was even more surprised when the redhead saw her.
Takuto wasn't sure what was wrong with the girl, but he knew he had to calm her down some how "What's wrong miss?"
Ranma heard a male voice to her right and turned to see who spoke. Standing at the entry to the room she saw the two figures from last night. She pointed at the angel "Don't you see her? An angel! There is an angel standing right there"
Takuto and Mitsuki looked at each other with puzzled look's on their. Suddenly Mitsuki's eyes went wide with realization and she turned to face Ranma once more.
"Um, we can't see the angel, but is the angel a girl with long bunny ears on the top of her head?"
Ranma nodded her head vigorously.
'Well the jig is up' and she made herself visible for all the occupants of the room to see.
Mitsuki and Takuto were surprised at what they saw. There standing not even three meters away from them was their old friend Meroko. Mitsuki ran over to Meroko and gave her a big hug.
"Meroko it's been such a long time since we last saw you. We were so worried about you" Takuto, who was standing just in front of the pair, nodded his head.
Ranma looked down at the trio and started wondering what was going on "Um excuse me. But am I dead?"
Mitsuki giggled "No silly you are not dead. Meroko is an old friend that we hadn't seen in years"
Meroko nodded "Yes, but Takuto and Mitsuki hadn't seen me since I became an angel several years ago. The only reason I showed myself now is because some strange reason you can see me"
Ranma hopped down from the ceiling and landed gracefully in front of the trio. All three of them looked shocked at the feet Ranma just pulled off visibly a little too easily for a normal person.
"Ummm… May I ask how you just did that? Are you one of those sailor scouts I had seen running around here in Juuban?" Meroko asked.
Ranma grinned "Na, I'm a Neriman martial artist"
All three of them knew what a Neriman martial artist was. After all it was during the period when Nerima was on the papers quiet a lot when all three of them were staying together. All three of them said "Oh" in unison.
"I see you all know what I am capable of them. Don't worry though, I won't hurt anyone. After all, it is the duty of a martial artist to protect the weak" Ranma smiled warmly at the trio.
Then realization hit Meroko and she jumped at Ranma and grabbed her hands tightly.
"Oh my god! You're the missing Ranma Saotome aren't you? I may be an angel but I have always been a big fan of yours. Once I heard about you ten years ago I went around gathering information on you and discovered you were a pure hearted hero"
Ranma blushed "Well I might have used to have been a hero, but I don't think I am pure hearted any more"
Takuto looked towards the kitchen "Do you need some hot water to return to being a man again Ranma-san?"
Ranma flinched and had a pained look in her eyes. She spoke softly that Takuto almost missed what she said.
"I can't become my male self anymore"
Mitsuki was getting confused. She knew about the Neriman martial artist from the time they made Nerima famous, but she was too concerned with becoming a singer at the time so she never really knew much about who the martial artist were.
"I am sorry Um Ranma-san? I am confused, how could you used to become a man and not now?"
Meroko looked over at Mitsuki then back at Ranma.
"Don't worry about Mitsuki, Ranma-san only Takuto and I know who you are and the things you did all those years ago… Still what did you mean you can't return to your birth form anymore?"
Ranma's face darkened slightly "One word. Happousai"
Takuto and Meroko flinched. Takuto spoke up "Oh. Sorry about that man, it must be hard for you. Do you want to talk about it?"
Ranma nodded "I don't mind. It's the least I could do for you helping me last night. You two did help me last night didn't you?"
Mitsuki nodded "Yep"
Ranma sighed "Maybe I should write this down on paper so I don't have to keep telling everyone. Well I should start with my birthday again"
Ranma proceeded to tell the three very interested people her story of how Happousai had ruined her life.
Meroko looked infuriated "If I wasn't an angel I would kill him. How dare he do something so cruel to you. You poor thing, it must have been hard for you this last year and a half"
Ranma looked at her and started crying "Thank you sniff sniff you are the first person to believe my story in a long time. I had told People who wanted to be my friends at the asylum, but none of them ever believed me. Thank you so much" her smile on her face grew but the tears didn't stop.
Takuto looked at her and smiled "Ranma-san. No Ranma. If you need anything from Mitsuki and myself, maybe a house over your head or some food, we would be more then happy to help you out"
Although Mitsuki wasn't sure if such things were possible, she trusted Meroko and Takuto with her life and if they believed Ranma's story, then she believed it too "Yes Ranma, why don't you come back into the house with us and get something to eat. You probably haven't eaten well since the last meal that Kasumi lady gave you on your birthday"
Ranma looked up at her with a hopeful look in her eyes "You would help me? A complete stranger that came off of the streets with a crazy story?"
Mitsuki nodded "Yes!"
The way she said it, it was clear that she was not going to argue with her stance on the subject.
"Now come on, you need to recover your energy from last night. It must have been hard to escape from the Sailor scouts" she said giggling 'Wow the sailor scouts must be looking all over for her now'
Meroko got up and turned to leave. She turned back around and faced Ranma again.
"Ranma don't worry about those people that you killed. You were doing it to protect your child and that is a very noble cause. It takes a truly good person to have stopped themselves from defending themselves right till the end. I am going to talk to my superiors to try and find out as much as possible about what happened to you. I hope I can help you. Till then Mitsuki and Takuto will look after you and please look after them"
She smiled warmly at Ranma who smiled back. Then she gave an evil smile.
"Oh Ranma by the way. I know how much you just love the artist Full Moon, but did you know that at the time you disappeared, full moon was really a little girl who with magic became a sixteen year old girl?" with that said she disappeared.
Takuto and Mitsuki sweat dropped and Ranma looked a little confused before she realised what Meroko meant. She looked at Mitsuki with stars in her eyes, and Mitsuki looked back with nervousness. Before Mitsuki could explain herself Ranma was through the air and glomped Mitsuki with an S grade Amazon glomp. She looked at Mitsuki with bright eyes and said.
"I wasn't dreaming last night when I came in, was I? You really are full moon" she said with an enormous smile on her face.
Mitsuki nodded her head slowly "Yes Ranma, but whatever you do, please don't tell anyone. Not many people know about magic and it would be bad if they found out about me"
Takuto nodded in agreement "Yes also we were thinking about how to get Mitsuki back onto stage without people asking questions about her age. They think that she is older then she really is. A bit like you. But we can't let that information get out, otherwise she will never be aloud to sing again. You understand right?"
Ranma let go of Mitsuki and nodded "My lips are sealed" she pretending that her lips had a zipper as she zipped her lips shut.
Mitsuki giggled at Ranma's antics "Well Ranma, welcome to our home"
Another chapter retouched, two more to do before I can post the next chapter. Now I am off to work on my web comic some more.