The New Guardian
By The Senshi of Valis
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: Don't own Ranma or W.I.T.C.H.
Ranma was relieved as he made his way to the park near his home so he could have plenty of room to practice since his home was kind of small. He was weirded out but relieved. After the weird shifting from his cursed form to his true form he was sure that whatever that magic was that hit him had caused the anomaly which really wasn't so bad. It seemed that while a guy cold water still activated his curse while in his cursed form just concentrating on changing back returned him back to his true self. It wasn't by any means a cure but it was much better than it was, the only question was if any thing else was going to happen.
Shaking his head to clear his thoughts he entered the park and was relieved when no one was around. After doing a few stretches he started a simple kata slowly working his way into a more complex one as he focused on it and became caught up in it not noticing the guy walking up close to him and watch in awe.
"Wow, you're really good." The guy said breaking Ranma's focus and bringing his attention the guy who was about his age but there was something familiar about him. After studying the other boy Ranma remembered the alley and realized who it was.
"Thanks." Ranma said nervously as he scratched the base of his pigtail. He was very proud of his skills but his mother has warned him to keep it toned down in public.
"The name's Caleb, I'm a bit of a fighter myself." Caleb said with a smile, "Would you like to spar?"
"Sure." Ranma said, glad that the boy didn't seem to recognize him or link him with his cursed form since he was basically wearing the same clothes as earlier. "My name's Ranma."
After about an hour of sparing they both came to a mutual stop, Ranma actually impressed with Caleb's skills. Of course Caleb wasn't anywhere near as good as he himself was but the other boy's skills was nothing to sneeze at.
"You were holding back a lot." Caleb said as he caught his breath, "You must be one of the best fighters I've ever seen."
"Thanks, I've been through a lot of insane training exercises growing up." Ranma said, "Its good to know something good came out of them."
"What do you mean?" Caleb asked, sounding a little suspicious.
"It's nothing." Ranma sighed.
"Have you ever thought of taking on any students?" Caleb asked.
"Not really." Ranma said, thankful that Caleb dropped it though Ranma could see the curiousness and suspicion in the other's eyes. "Why, do you want me to teach you?"
"I was kind of hoping." Caleb laughed nervously.
"I plan on coming here in the morning a couple hours before school," Ranma said, "If you want to come by I'll give you some lessons."
"Thanks." Caleb said.
"No big, I have to go meet my mom though, I'm going to meet my grandmother and aunt tonight." Ranma said.
"See you tomorrow then." Caleb said, taking Ranma's hand, "Safe journeys my friend."
"Yeah." Ranma said a little confused at the strange behavior but decided to return it, "Safe journeys my friend."
As Ranma walked off he couldn't help but smile, Caleb seemed like he wanted to truly be friends. That would make him the first friend that Ranma made sense moving here and the first real friend in a long time. The only thing he had to do was be careful and not let Caleb find out about the curse.
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"Who do you think she was?" Will asked quietly as the others and herself sat around the table at the Silver Dragon, Hay Lin's family restaurant. She knew they really didn't have long since Hay Lin's family said that there were important guests coming to visit but they really needed to figure out who the new guardian was and why.
"Are you sure it was another guardian?" Yan Lin asked sitting down at the table, keeping their conversation low so no one else would hear it.
"She looked like this, grandma." Hay Lin said handing over her sketch book after finishing a drawing in it.
"I guess so how it activated the forbidden guardian." Yan Lin said sadly.
"The forbidden guardian?" Taranee asked worriedly.
"A long time ago there were a group of guardians who was having trouble in their duties and two of them had to leave the country for a few months." Yan Lin said sadly, "The keeper then asked for their help to make a new guardian to help out until they returned and the agreed. The guardians went to the Oracle and requested permission and help to do so but he forbade it claiming it was too dangerous. The guardians upon returning decided that they knew better and attempted to create a new guardian themselves."
"But if the Oracle forbade them then why did they even do it." Cornelia said, "And why did the Oracle even let them"
"Maybe if you let Mrs. Lin finish we'd know Corny." Irma suggested.
"Don't call me Corny, Irma." Cornelia growled.
"Please girls, we don't have much time to finish up." Yan Lin said, "The Oracle didn't really believe that they would succeed but they did. They used the Keeper as a template which is why their uniform looks so much alike. Unfortunately there couldn't be two keepers of the heart and all of the powers were used. Of course they could have made secondary elemental powers such as ice or lightning but the searched out a stronger power and latched on to something very powerful, it was too powerful. The poor girl they chose to bear the mantle of the guardian of chaos was slowly driven insane until she killed two of the guardians before the others could stop her."
"Oh great, a psycho fairy, just what we needed." Irma sighed.
"Is there a chance that the new girl could control the powers without going insane?" Will asked.
"It is believed if the person is powerful enough with enough spiritual training then theoretically they could control their powers. However, we can't know for sure and it's best that we find this new girl before anything happens to her." Yan Lin said.
"She said her name is…Sakura I think." Hay Lin said.
"Cute guy at three o'clock." Cornelia said with a smile, "Not as cute as my Caleb though."
"I see our guests have arrived early." Yan Lin said, "Let's go meet your Auntie Nodoka and Cousin Ranma, Hay Lin."
"Cousin…Aunt?" Hay Lin staring in shock at the red haired woman and pig tailed teen in shock.
"Yes Hay Lin," Yan Lin said, "Nodoka is your father's sister, my daughter."
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AN: Sorry if this chapter didn't make much sense, the next one will for sure. Also, I will try to start making the chapters for this story longer as well. I've been asked by several people about the fight with Will and her mother, in the books they fought a lot for awhile and I always hated that so in my story I'm trying to keep it down which is why Will okayed her mom seeing Mr. Collins. I'll work on some type of glossary thing for the next chapter but I'd like to know what everyone would like to see in it or any suggestions, thanks.
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Until Next Time,
Ja Ne