Disclaimer: Ranma1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Author's Ramblings: OK I'm back. I really really missed writing fanfiction. I've decided to post this story first as a new start. The Way Things Are and Full Moons United are going through a slight rewrite and the first chap of TWTA should be up soon. The other chapters shouldn't take to long to rewrite and check, so it shouldn't be too long of a wait. The brand new chaps of FMU and TWTA are done and will go up after I am done with the rewrites. Enjoy the story...again.
Full Moons United
Chapter 1:
Ranma was pissed, really pissed. His dad had taught him another stupid and useless technique. Ranma could still feel his aching joints from that sadistic exercise. His trust for his father seriously decreased as the years had droned on. The first strike came against Genma when he taught Ranma the dreaded Cat-Fist. Ranma had lost a lot of faith in his dad that day. Genma generally ignored his child's feelings and so he couldn't see how his son lost much of his love and respect for his father. A child's eyes never lied; the pain in them was plain to see to every one but Genma.
The second strike against is father came when Ranma over heard his father engaging him to some one for just one lousy training scroll. He was really angry that day; he didn't even know who the girl was. The deal was for him to stay with them to become the man's heir and son-in-law. But on the day of that set date, his father knocked him out and ran off like the demon's hell was chasing him. Ranma could still remember the bruise he had on his stomach from how Genma carried him like a sack of potatoes. This had really made Ranma suspicious about how many times his father had done this. Suddenly the image of Ukyo running after them came to mind.
'OH CRAP. He engaged me to Ukyo and the yatai was the dowry...But isn't Ukyo a boy. Damn my dad must really sick or Ukyo is a... No way I'm sure Ukyo was a he not a she. Now I'm really confused, I need to find out the truth.'
And so Ranma did just as he thought he would. He had gone to a police station and asked if they had any information on a Genma Saotome. At first they didn't want to give anything to him, until he made up a little white lie that Genma had stolen something precious to his family. They quickly took him to one side and gave him all the current information they had on Genma. Ranma must have sat there for at least an hour reading. He couldn't believe his eyes, his father had engaged him more times than he could have ever believed. This got his blood into a serious boil. That was strike three for his faith in his father. Now Ranma didn't believe his father as far as he could throw him, which wasn't very far since Genma was a fat thief and liar.
This all went through his mind as they were going to some legendary training ground. Ranma already had a really bad feeling about this. If his gut wasn't telling him to run away, then there was the look on his father's face. That look he got when he thought he had found the best technique to teach Ranma. But that look always led to some or another bogus thing, that caused Ranma pain in some way or another. Ranma's Chinese was still very basic, he could speak it on an acceptable level. But for him to read anything in Chinese was really hard.
Over the years Ranma had learnt how to hide the fact that he was actually a very smart kid from Genma. His father never allowed him to learn the basics for a successful life. True, survival training was helpful in the bush, but in modern day society smarts was more important. Ranma had spent a lot of his free time learning about the world and how it worked. He had a couple of books with him that he kept well hidden from his father. Ranma had once met this really nice old Chinese man that taught him some really interesting things. Honour and respect where the first two things. They grew closer every day, eventually they saw each other as family over time. Ranma was amazed at how much knowledge and strength his "grandpa" had. Ranma learnt that girls weren't weak in the least and that they were to be respected as equals.
Also Ranma's skill in the arts skyrocketed. In the few months Ranma had known his grandpa, he could already project ki in a physical form. The old man was really impressed with his "grandson". But that didn't stop the old man from teaching him that the brain needs to be trained just as well as the body is. What really astounded him was that his grandson was not only a great fighter, but also had an amazing learning curve for all things academic. He sucked up information like a sponge. It had been almost a year before Genma decided that they had to move on, since staying in one place makes one's art weaker. That was such a big lie, Ranma had never improved so much under any one's study before. He also knew that he hadn't learnt nearly half of what his grandpa could and would teach him.
Before Genma could separate them, grandpa and grandson decided to stay in contact. And so they did every month Ranma would get a letter or package from his grandpa and Ranma would in turn write back. Now and then Ranma would also get a book from his grandpa, teaching him more and improving his art even further. Ranma had learnt many things as the years went by. Chi and Ki manipulation was one of them, this is where he got his bad feeling from. This training ground just felt wrong, like a black hole that sucked people in and changed them for life. He had no idea how right his feeling was. Ranma could read a little of the sign that stood at the entrance of this evil valley. There in bright red were the unmistakable words " DANGER TURN BACK".
" Hey pops I really think this is a bad idea," Ranma said with a scowl on his face," This place just seems wrong. And the sign says danger turn back. I just can't make out the rest."
" Stop being such a little girl Ranma. We're martial artists, we have nothing to fear, " he said with a happy look on his face.
" There is nothing wrong with being a girl you fat fool!" Ranma said with an angry look, " There is something off with this place, something evil and unnatural."
" Are you a coward my boy or are you a man? "
" I am no coward pops, but I'm not stupid either. Unlike some old fat and balding idiot I know, " he said with a smirk.
" WHAT! You're going to pay for that boy."
And so Genma attacked. He couldn't believe how Ranma had changed over the years. Yes Ranma had become strong even beyond Genma's dreams, but he was just so disobedient. His son was supposed to listen to everything he said and follow it to the letter. But the boy had an incredibly strong will of his own. Genma was really angry now. How dare Ranma say he was bald. The fight was really hard to follow as they where jumping all over the place trying to hit each others. Both where so into the fight that they got completely turned around and ended smack dab in the middle on the cursed springs.
Ranma felt his stomach and body screaming for him to run away from where ever he was. He realised that they were both on bamboo poles that were sticking out of strange springs. The entire valley was covered with them. Genma saw that his son was distracted and took advantage of it. Ranma soon realised that his dad was going to get a strike in and so only had time to block with his forearms as it hit. He was sent flying over the springs and came crashing into a hut. The wall shattered as he hit it with his back. He heard a startled cry from inside but he was too mad right now to care. Ranma jumped up quickly and came running after Genma. As he jumped he went sailing over the spring and his fist connected hard with his father's face, sending Genma straight into one of the nearby springs. A red glowing mist was coming off of Ranma as he waited for his father to reappear. But the thing that came out of the spring was not his father. It was a big fat panda.
"WHAT THE HELL?" screamed Ranma.
But the panda was already on him, Ranma blocked as many punches as he could. But the shock of not seeing his father but a panda jump out at him, over whelmed him. The panda's fist connects with Ranma's shoulder and sent him flying. Ranma knew he was going to fall into one of those springs. The one he was falling too had strange green coloured water, unlike the clear blue of the other springs. As soon as he hit the water, he knew something was very wrong. Foreign energies of ki and chi were entering his body at an alarming rate. Whatever ever the change was, Ranma knew something this powerful was definitely permanent.
Genma has waiting for his son to come out of the water with a really angry expression, when he heard some one behind him.
"Oh no customers fall into spring, is very bad," he said with a heavy Chinese accent.
Genma tried to speak but all that came out were growls and hisses.
" Mr. Customer no can speak. Fall into spring of drown panda, very tragic story. Now who fall in spring take on body of what drown there."
Genma was utterly shocked, he looked down at his hands and saw paws instead of his human hands.
' Oh no the boy...Nodoka is going to kill me.'
The fat Chinese guide walked over to the spring that Ranma had fallen into and waited to see what the boy would turn into. But the colour of the water quickly made him sweat. Whatever the boy had turned into would be permanent and no amount of hot water would fix that. Ranma's lungs demanded air, he swam to the surface of the spring in search of that precious life giving air. He broke through with a heavy gasp and the air filled his lungs. The guide was now thoroughly confused. The boy was exactly the same was when he went in. As the boy got out of the water, the spring drained away into the ground, which made the guide even more confused as this had never ever happened to any of the springs before.
" Is Mr. Customer okay? Is not every day one fall into curse spring and not change," the guide said with a questioning look.
" I'm alright, but something strange definitely happened when I got thrown into that spring."
" Hhhhmmm, well I no see change in customer. But one never know, maybe good idea and talk to Amazon womens?"
" We can do that later. What happened to my dad?"
" Oh, no need worry. Other customer only fall into spring of drown panda. Now sir change into panda when ever touch cold water and change back into man with hot water."
Ranma couldn't believe his ears. This was the funniest thing that has ever happened. His father turned into a fat panda every time he touched cold water. This was just too good not to laugh at. Ranma turned around and pointed to his panda father. His laugh was at first only snicker but soon turned into full blown laughter as he was rolling the floor.
" HAHAHAHAHA, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. He deserves all of it and more!"
Ranma's laughter was calming down when the guide spoke up again.
" Mr. Customer is very lucky. Fall into very bad spring but now change, is very very lucky."
" I know something changed within me when I fell in, but I don't see any physical change as of yet. And what was so bad about that spring?" he asked with a confused face.
" Green water spring is very bad, green water make change forever. No even hot water change back."
The colour from Ranma's face drained away. The change within him was permanent. No ill side effects had shown up yet, but something had definitely changed him. He was thankful that it hadn't changed his external appearance yet. Hopefully nothing serious would come of this.
" You said something about Amazons?"
" Amazon womens know maybe what go wrong with spring. We go ask?"
" Yeah sure, maybe they can see if anything seriously went wrong," Ranma said with a concerned look, " Let me just get my fat ass excuse of a father and then we can go."
With that he went off to retrieve his father and also give him a nice long beating for good measure.
To be continued...
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Closing notes: Didn't change much with the rewrite (more like recheck), just a few things here and there. I have a pretty clear idea of what I want the pairings to be, but it will be revealed as the story carries on. The second chapter will be done soon after I've gone through some of the chapters of TWTA. My new stories are also coming out, writing them shouldn't take long as the outlines are pretty much done. Any way I hope you enjoyed this story if you're new to it or even if you've have read it before.
OokamiShiroi out.