The Evil Within
By James Moore
The characters in this story are not mine, so there :-p
Chapter 1
Finding Ranma
"I can't believe Nodoko had to send me all the way to Tateyama to get this," Genma Saotome said out loud to himself as he walked back to Nermia and his lovely wife. He looked at the envelope in his hand. He knew that inside it was the results of Nodoko's fertility test. He dreaded what it said, because it would most likely confirm what he already suspected. He and Nodoko had been trying to conceive a child for almost a year now, but nothing had happened. He hoped his suspicions that Nodoko was unfertile were false, because he really did love her. He only wished that he would get a son to raise to be the heir of his school.
Unnoticed by Genma, something gleamed briefly in the sky. That something came down to Earth at a really fast pace. Genma now noticed it and watched as it plummeted down to the ground. He noticed that whatever it was, it wasn't a meteor. A few seconds after that, the thing hit the ground about 2 miles away.
What the heck was that? Genma thought. He was still standing thinking about it when the shock wave hit him and knocked him back. He figured that he wouldn't find out what it was unless he went to check it out, and soon he was racing through the fields and trees, heading for the thing.
When he got to the crater, the dust had had enough time to settle and he could see what had fallen from the sky. It was a grayish spherical object with a green circle on one side. As Genma crept up to the object, cautiously in case it tried to attack or something, he realized the green circle was a window. When he got close enough, he leaned over so he could see into the window, but then a "door" opened on the thing. When he saw what was inside, he decided that the thing was a spaceship.
There was a baby inside the spaceship. It was a black-haired boy no older than 2 years old who was sleeping. As he analyzed the child to make sure it was human, his foot hit the ship. This cause the ship to rock some, which woke the child up. When it saw Genma, it smiled, mad some sort of happy noise, and reached it's hands up as if to grab Genma. "It seems my wish has been granted," Genma thought, "If no one claims the child, it could be ours." He excitedly picked the child up, held it close to him, and raced home as fast as he could.
They named the child, Ranma
2 years later
"Nodoko, look what I got," yelled Genma when he got home.
"What is it," asked a curious Nodoko as she entered the room.
"A merchant was selling magic items, and showed me this." He opened his hand to reveal a pink crystal shard. "He said that it is a piece of a Shikon jewel or something like that. He said it could make our boy's strength like that of a human, not a monster. I went to a priest to verify that the merchant was telling the truth. He looked at it closely and told me that the merchant was telling the truth."
"That's great! Ranma is getting very hard to control, and I'm afraid what would happen if he was caught while using his super human strength. Though he very well could be one, I don't want to think of what would happen if people knew he was an alien or something." Nodoko paused, looking thoughtful for a moment, then asked, "So, how does it work?"
"The priest said that all we have to do is have Ranma swallow it. That shouldn't be too hard, seeing as how he hardly sees what he's eating now. He just packs it into his mouth. The only warning he gave was that Ranma might still act a little strange."
Nodoko shook her head. "I would hope not." She paused, considering if she really wanted to try this. She decided that she did. "I hope this works"