Ranma ½ Live Cosplay!
Story by Aero Tendo

Chapter 2: What The?

Slowly Ranma opens his eyes and comes to see that he is lying on top of Akane who is unconscious. Ranma's eyes go wide as saucers and backs up and off of her very quickly until his back hits a cabinet. The result of which makes a loud noise and starts to wake Akane up.

When Akane opens her eyes, she sees a lightly blushing and nervous Ranma, which immediately puts her on guard. She says, "What are you doing Ranma?" to which Ranma shakes his head and says, "Nothing Akane!"

The shaking of his head and the earlier bumping of the cabinet cause the overstuffed doors above his head to become unlatched and out dump a bunch of costumes all over Ranma, to cover him from head to the floor!

The sight of Ranma buried under a mountain of various costumes was just too funny and Akane burst out laughing! She is still laughing when Ranma manages to throw the costumes off of himself much like a dog might shake off water on its fur. Thus scattering them everywhere.

Ranma looked at Akane and was relieved that she wasn't upset anymore but at the same time he was a little annoyed that she was laughing at him.

Suddenly, Ranma sensed a presence approaching the door and with Akane still laughing she didn't sense or hear anything until the door opens to reveal a girl. The girl had short black hair and aside from her face and height, she was a dead ringer for Akane with the yellow martial art outfit with the red belt.

Akane stops laughing to turn her head and gasps in surprise when she sees someone that looks very much like herself! Both Ranma and Akane don't know what to make of the Akane look-a-like and silence prevails until the girl is pushed from behind and a voice is heard.

The head of the voice steps into view and says, "What are you doing blocking the door? Get in already!" before she turns her eyes to see what the Akane look-a-like was seeing and says softly, "Oh… wow!"

Ranma looks back and forth between the two Akanes and looks very confused while real Akane simply sits there growing more angry with every passing second.

Akane finally stands up and yells, "What are you doing with my face and dressed like me?" She watches as the fake Akane puts up her hands in surrender and says, "Now wait a minute…" but Akane's strong suit was never for listening so the fake Akane watches as the real Akane rushes at her as if to punch her into China!

Ranma jumps up to his feet and grabs Akane's wrist, stopping the punch inches before the fake Akane's nose. The real Akane looks at Ranma very angrily and yells, "What did you do that for Ranma?" while the fake Akane faints and is caught by her taller friend behind her.

Ranma says, "Look Akane! She is no martial artist! You could really hurt her!" and then uses his eyes to have Akane who is still a bit upset look at the fainted girl and the girl behind her in another strange costume.

Akane says, "What's going on? Why are you two dressed like that?" looking at the two girls, but giving a glaring look at the fainted Akane every so often.

The taller girl says, "Well, I don't know who YOU are or what you're doing in our club's changing room but I think you should introduce yourself first before I call the police for your breaking in."

Both Ranma and Akane look at each other in surprise and then Ranma says, "We don't know how we got here. Releasing Akane, Ranma points to himself, "I am Ranma Saotome (indicates Akane then) and she is Akane Tendo."

The taller girl looks surprised but the frowns and says, "If you two are who you say you are… then how did you get here?"

Ranma looks at her right in the eyes and says, "The last thing I remember is Kuno waving some sort of weird-looking sword that he claimed was magical at me. Akane wanted to help take on Kuno and then there was a flash." Rubbing the back of his head he continues, "The next thing I know is that we both woke up here before you found us."

Akane says, "Now that we've told you who we are, will you tell us who you and your friend are and why she looks like me?"

The tall girl says, "I am Alice and my unconscious friend here is Jasmine. Both of us are part of a anime cosplay club at our school." The drags her friend over to a nearby chair and sits her up in it before she continues to say, "She is dressed as you Akane because that is who is supposed to be. She was just playing a skit earlier with another one of our members at the convention here."

Alice walks up very close to Akane and gives her a very close going over as if checking her out for something. She then steps back when Akane starts to show signs of getting hostile again before she says, "I am supposed to be playing Naga the Serpent from the anime Slayers."

Alice walks over to Ranma and looks him over closely before saying, "Look, I'm not totally sure what you two are really doing here but your Ranma ½ costumes are really good. I can't find the seams or anything!"

Ranma steps back and says angrily, "We are not kids in some costume, we are really who we say we are! Wait! Are you saying our lives are shown in some anime show?"

Alice walks over to the sink and fills up a tall glass with cold water and takes a sip before walking towards Ranma. She says, "Oh really? So, you're the real Ranma. Then you must know about his curse right?"

Akane shouts, "What does his curse have to do with anything?"

Alice looks at Akane with a disbelieving look and says, "Look, I don't know what you two are really trying to pull. But there is NO way that you two can be who you are. If this guy was really Ranma, he would turn into a girl when I do this!" She tosses the remains of her glass at Ranma, instantly drenching him in cold water and it only takes a moment for Ranma's curse to kick in and turn him into the famous red-haired girl from the series.

Ranma says, "What'd you do that for?" which was a famous line from the series and Alice had watched enough of the series to recognize it as the real voice as well.

Alice's jaw drops and she whispers, "No… Way! How…?" before she looks at Akane and says, "You mean…? You two really ARE who you say?"

Ranma in his now girl form says, "That's what we were trying to tell you!" The shout from Ranma is enough to stir the unconscious Jasmine in the chair and she makes a low moan.

Ranma, Akane and Alice all turn their attention the girl slowly waking up and when she sees Akane with the scowl on her face the cries out, "Ahhhhh! Don't hit me!" before raising her hands up to protect herself.

Akane says, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you! I am sorry for before. I guess I kinda lost my temper when I saw someone looking like me."

Jasmine lowers her arms and says, "You're not going to hit me?" Akane nods to her and says, "I promise."

Jasmine looks a little relieved before she looks at the two of them and says, "Who are you two? Where did you get your costumes? They are really good!"

AN: Well, this is the second chapter. Should be interesting to see what happens next huh? Stay tuned to Ranma Cosplay for more previews. Coming up next... After some explaining, more people find out about Ranma. What does this mean for our stars? Will they ever get home? Can they? Find out in the upcoming chapters of... Ranma 1/2 Cosplay Live!
FYI, I plan to keep this story rather short so don't expect a long one like my Inuyasha story "Kagraku"