Disclaimer: Ranma ½ belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz Video and Winx Club belongs to Iginio Straffi and Rai S.p.A (NOT 4Kids!!)
Note: this follows the Rai version of Winx as the 4Kids version butchered it too much, like with every anime it dubs.
Chapter 8: Sore Losers! The Trix Attacks!
Evening, Winx dorm…
It has been almost a week since Ranma had come to Alfea. Lately, he had been practicing his magical prowess as well as his martial arts skill. More importantly, he had been practicing the shape-shifting abilities taught in Wizgiz's class. Ranma wanted to overcome the water trigger of his curse more than anything. It may not get rid of it completely, but it helped to avoid transforming at inopportune times, which in the past, had always been every time.
In the past, he was able to transform his hair color and switch attires (between his kung fu outfit and his formal wear). Lately, to a degree, Ranma was able to switch between his two forms without water. It took about three minutes to switch after getting splashed, but soon, he'd be able to do it almost instantaneously. Needless to say, Wizgiz was impressed with Ranma's progress. He tended to be a fast learner.
"It seems you're getting the hang of metamorphing yourself, Ranma." Said Zing. She had been observing Ranma with his practices of handling his Jusenkyo curse. Seeing that he could turn into a girl, she could understand why she was bonded to him when pixies are usually bonded to faeries.
"Thanks, Zing." Said Ranma. "I've been training on it. I hope to be able to change as instantaneously as you do."
"Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it in no time!" Zing then dresses herself up in the kung fu attire Ranma wears and had her hair in a pigtail. "I'm of the Everything-Went!"
"That's Anything-Goes, Zing." Ranma laughed.
"Whoops…" Zing looked embarrassed as she reverted back to herself. "By the way, Ranma what happened back in Professor Saotome's class?"
Ranma winced as he thought back to that time earlier.
Flashback
Nodoka's class
"Today, class, we shall learn how to channel ki into objects." Said Nodoka. "By doing this, you can make almost any object into a weapon." She had on her desk a deck of playing cards and a silk scarf. Off to the side was a pair of pedestals with an apple placed on them.
"Ordinary objects like these cards and scarf can be lethal with an application of ki." Nodoka picks up three of the playing cards and charges them with her ki. They faintly glow blue, then get thrown at one of the apples. The cards seemingly pass through the fruit, but then falls apart into four slices. The cards themselves get embedded in the opposite wall. The class looked on with amazement.
"Now then, who would like to give it a go?" Nodoka asked.
"I'd like to try, Saotome-sensei!" Stella said while getting up from her seat. The class had preferred to address Nodoka as Saotome-sensei.
"Alright then, Stella, come on up."
Stella gets up and goes towards the desk. She picks up the silk scarf.
"Now then, Stella, focus your ki into the scarf and strike the apple." Nodoka instructed.
The blonde faerie of the Sun and Moon nods as she focuses her ki. She noticed a few days ago that she was able to channel ki through her sense of vanity. As she thought about how beautiful she is and her pride in her physical appearance, the scarf glowed a faint magenta. Stella then whips the scarf at the apple, which explodes the fruit on the spot due to the force. Students had to cover their faces to block the apple tidbits.
"Whoops… heheh…. I guess I overdid it…" Stella said in embarrassment.
Ranma-chan couldn't help but be impressed, Stella had managed to use that scarf like a bullwhip.
"That was quite powerful, Stella." Said Nodoka. "A lack of control, but powerful, nonetheless…"
It was then that some of the pixie pets had flown through the door and out an open window. Nodoka and the students could only laugh as the pets made their rounds about the campus.
"Oh, maybe I should've shut the door?" said Nodoka.
Ranma-chan observed the pixie pets, which looked like little animals with faerie wings: a frog, a seahorse, a bear, a crab (huh?), a porcupine, and a…
The pig-tailed redhead's eyes widened as he saw a winged…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!! CAT CAT CAT!!" She immediately shot upward from her seat and grabbed onto the ceiling with a vice-like grip. This startled and caught the attention of everyone in the room. She was trembling like crazy as the cat pixie pet looked with confusion and just flew out the window.
Nodoka and the class looked up at the scared Ranma-chan with worry. "Getitawaygetitawaygetitawaygetitawaygetitawaygetitaway!"
Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Layla remembered that Ranma-chan had suffered a severe case of allurophobia due to the Neko Ken training.
Zing flies in, hearing the commotion, and saw her bonded faerie latched onto the ceiling. She was understandably confused as to what she was doing.
"Oh my, Ranma certainly jumps high, doesn't she?" said Flora.
End flashback
"I'm scared to death of cats because of a training exercise my idiot father put me through…" said Ranma.
Zing was livid. "You're scared of cats, Ranma? But they're so cute and harmless!"
"Not when they savagely eat food strapped to your body." Said Ranma. "And that was the training for it."
"What!? What kind of sick mind would think of that?" ask Zing incredulously.
"Kami-sama only knows that…" said Ranma.
"You should try doing something about that fear of yours, Ranma." Said Zing. "Who knows what would happen if any of your enemies took advantage of that. Oh! I just remembered! I have to go meet the others! I'll see you around, Ranma!"
With that, Zing flies out the balcony.
"Yoo-hoo! Ranma!"
Ranma turns to see Stella coming into the room. Behind her were the other Winx.
"Oh, girls! What's going on?" asked Ranma.
"We thought we'd go out to Magix for a bite." Said Layla. "Would you like to come?"
Ranma's stomach audibly growls, which earned him some giggles from the girls. He blushes with embarrassment, but the thought of food was appealing.
"I'm so ready for that!" said Ranma as he stood up. "We leaving now?"
"Not just yet, Ranma…" said Stella. "There's something we want to do, first…"
"Uh… what's that?" asked Ranma nervously.
The girls grab Ranma and lead him into Stella's room. There was a chair in the middle and her wardrobe closet was opened. The blonde gestures to the dark-skinned faerie. Nodding, Layla materializes a glass of water and splashes Ranma with it, turning him to his girl form.
"Wh-what're you doing!?" asked Ranma-chan. She did not like where this was going.
"Oh, your kung fu outfit looks great on such a handsome guy, but it doesn't look cute at all on a girl!" said Stella with a sly grin. "Therefore… it's time for a makeover game!"
"WHAT!?"
"I'm afraid I have to agree, Ranma." Said Musa.
"I tried to talk her out of it, but it just sounded too interesting to pass up!" said Bloom while smiling.
"Sorry about this…" Flora apologized.
"Not you, too!" said Ranma-chan.
The door to Stella's room closed as the screams of a pigtailed girl echoed through the campus.
City of Magix
"Ahh…. It feels so nice out today!" said Musa as she got off the bus.
"I agree, despite the fact that it's evening.." Said Tecna.
Layla, Stella, Flora, and Bloom soon exited the bus.
"Come on out, Ranma!" Stella called.
Ranma-chan slowly got off of the bus. Her feet still had on her usual black kung fu shoes, but the rest of her was definitely different. She had on dark blue jeans and a short denim jacket with the sleeves folded to the forearms. Underneath the jacket she wore a red bikini bra with orange flame prints. Her red hair was not in her usual pigtail, but instead flowed to her mid-back, the pigtail starting at just below the shoulders instead of directly at her scalp.
"I feel so stupid…" said a blushing Ranma-chan. She couldn't believe she was forced into a makeover game. These girls had such strange ways of fun. Thank God she was still wearing her boxers underneath. She'd tolerate wearing girls' clothing, but she draws the line at undergarments. She had to keep her dignity, after all.
"Come on, Ranma! You look fine!" said Stella and she pulled on her arm. "I've really outdone myself!"
"I think you look great, Ranma!" said Flora as she took her other arm.
"Alright then, let's go!" said Musa as she led them all into the city.
They all head towards an outdoor café to eat out at. Each had ordered a cheesecake slice. Bloom had cookies n' cream, Stella chocolate mousse, Flora strawberry, Musa lemon raspberry cream, Tecna, tiramisu, Layla coconut chocolate cream, and Ranma-chan went for the chocolate mudslide. The pigtailed girl couldn't help but revel in the rich taste and texture of the pastry.
"Damn this is good!" said Ranma-chan.
"Slow down, Ranma!" said Bloom. "You could choke!"
Ranma-chan quickly restrains herself. "Sorry about that… you know, I never did eat stuff like this when I'm a guy. Why is that?"
"Oh? You mean you don't have much of a sweet tooth?" asked Flora.
"Not that I know of…" said Ranma-chan.
Suddenly, the waiter puts down seven specialty ice creams on their table. It was a big scoop of strawberry ice cream in a pineapple bowl topped with raspberries. A cocktail umbrella and a spoon sticks out of each dish.
"Huh? We didn't order this." Said Layla.
"Eh heheheh… um… I just thought you'd like some of this…. my treat, or course…" the young waiter said nervously.
"Really? We can have these? For free?" Ranma-chan asks excitedly while smiling cutely.
Swooned, the waiter uses his serving tray to cover his face with embarrassment and runs off giggling.
"All right! Free eats!" said Ranma-chan as she took one of the ice cream dishes. "Itadakimasu!"
As Ranma-chan digs in, Bloom and the others followed suit, though in a more restrained manner. It would be rude to refuse free food. (1)
Later…
"Ooooh! That was good stuff!" said Ranma-chan.
"I think I'm full…" said Musa.
"Well, we should return back to Alfea." Said Tecna.
"Yeah, I want to change so bad!" said Ranma-chan.
"Aw come on, Ranma! It wasn't so bad being dressed up so beautifully." Teased Stella.
"Yeah right…" Ranma-chan grumbled. She could've easily changed her clothes magically thanks to the lessons she's learned in metamorphosis class, but she didn't want to offend Stella.
Something was caught from the corner of Bloom's eye. Turning, she saw a little light-blue-furred rabbit hopping away.
"Kiko?" said Bloom in a puzzled tone.
"Huh? Kiko?" said Ranma-chan.
"Didn't you leave him at the dorm, Bloom?" asked Flora.
"I thought I did." Said Bloom. "Did he somehow sneak on board?"
"We'd better catch him!" said Layla.
The seven girls sprinted off in the direction where the rabbit had hopped off to. Somehow, he kept evading them, then would be seen again to give chase.
"Wait, Kiko!" Bloom called out.
They continued to follow him, not realizing that they had wound up at an old abandoned lot on the outskirts of the city. Finally, the rabbit stops in the middle of the field and turns to look at the girls with red glowing eyes. This caused the faeries to stop in their tracks.
"Wait! That's not Kiko!" said Bloom.
"Correct, Bloom!" said 'Kiko' in a familiar voice. An aura of darkness surrounds the rabbit, shifting form, and turns into Darcy. "It was so easy to bait you!"
"Darcy!" said Musa with venom in her voice.
Icy and Stormy appeared on either side of their darkness-based sister.
"We've been waiting, faeries!" said Icy.
"Icy! Stormy!" said Bloom as she and the others got into defensive stances. "How did you get out of Light Rock!?"
"We were let out on good behavior!" Stormy mocked.
"Yeah right! Like you know how to be on good behavior!" retorted Stella.
Ranma-chan narrowed her eyes as she once again faces off against the Trix. "What's wrong? The last beating I gave you wasn't enough?"
The Trix looked over at Ranma-chan and recognized her as the one who had defeated them so easily.
"You! I'll make sure I make you suffer for the last time!" said Icy in anger.
"You're welcome to try, ice-cube!" taunted Ranma-chan.
Flora then noticed something on the Trix's faces. "Girls! Look!"
Bloom and the others became alarmed when they saw the marking of a wicked-looking letter 'V' over a circle.
"The Mark of Valtor? So he broke you out!" said Bloom as her anger started to rise.
"That's right! And we'll drag you to him by force if we have to!" said Darcy.
"Let's take these new abilities for a test drive!" said Stormy.
Flashback
Valtor was once again using Shadowhaunt as a base of operations until a suitable one was available. He was angry that the Trix had failed to bring Bloom back and was punishing them by activating their marks.
"You idiots! I asked you to bring back one faerie and you failed!" yelled Valtor at the pain-wracked forms of Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. They winced at his anger while trying to take the pain of their elemental opposites coming from their marks.
"It… it wasn't our fault, Valtor!" Icy pleaded while she was burning. "We ran into some unexpected trouble…."
"You lost to a CROSS-DRESSER! That's what you did!" yelled Valtor as he upped the level of intensity on the marks, making the witches scream out more.
"F-forgive us, Valtor! We'll do better next time!" said Darcy as her body started emitting beams of light.
"Please, Valtor!" said Stormy, who was stoned at the neck while cracks appeared all over her body.
"Oh you'd better!" said Valtor as he finally halted the marks. Icy, Darcy, and Stormy's bodies were back to normal, but the pain was still there. "I'll just have to give you new abilities so that you won't have any excuse to lose."
He holds up his hand and engulfs each witch in a dark aura. Each girl could feel herself being augmented.
"Now go. I have other matters to attend to." Valtor disappears into a portal, off to steal the magic from some hapless planet.
End flashback
"Ice servants!"
"Shadow servants!"
"Lightning servants!"
Ice fragments formed together to create two seven-foot ice golems armed with icicle clubs. Shadows in the ground had risen and taken dark shapes of black armored knights, one held a wicked sword, the other a halberd. Lightning struck, which created two being made of pure lightning, which audibly crackled.
"GET THEM!"
Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Layla stood with defiant looks and said two words.
"WINX ENCHANTIX!"
Ranma-chan looks in awe at the sight of the girls transforming into their final faerie forms. Although she knows of them due to the memories of the Specialists, it was still something to see it in person.
Eeeeeeenchaaaaaaaantiiiiiiiiix… oh oh oh ooooh ooooooh! Enchantix!
Magical powder!
Maximum power!
Enchantiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix!
Powers upon me!
Powerful, magical!
Wonderful, dimension!
Powerful Enchantix!
Incredible vision, incredible power of Winx!
Enchantix! (2)
Bloom was dressed in a short frilly multi-layered halter dress colored turquoise, cyan, and light blue. The dress was slightly opened in the front, showing a bit of cleavage. She had pink, translucent above-the-elbow gloves on her arms and blue barefoot sandals on her feet. Two sets of blue, heart-shaped barrettes were worn on either side of her head. Brightly-colored, bejeweled, butterfly-like gossamer wings protruded from her back. Her red hair lengthened down to her ankles.
Stella wore an orange short skirt that resembled the petals of a flower with a pink strip in front and back. She also sported a small orange top with a star design hanging over the cleavage, had pink, translucent above-the-elbow gloves on her arms and orange barefoot sandals on her feet. A turquoise tiara rests on her head and bejeweled gossamer wings protruded from her back. Her blonde hair had also lengthened to her ankles, as well as grown an extra set of pigtails on either side of her head.
Flora had on a short fushia-colored dress with a halter strap looped around her neck and fastened in the middle of her chest. Pink, translucent above-the-elbow gloves were on her arms and cyan barefoot sandals on her feet. She wore a cyan tiara on her head as bejeweled gossamer wings protruded from her back. Her brown hair had lengthened down to her ankles and was styled in several elegant pigtails.
Musa was clad in a puffy magenta diamond skirt with a matching magenta tube top. The top had a yellow cloth hanging from the right shoulder and the skirt another yellow cloth hanging from the left hip. She had pink, translucent above-the-elbow gloves on her arms and thistle barefoot sandals on her feet. A thistle tiara rests on her head and bejeweled gossamer wings on her back. Her black pigtails lengthened to the back of her knees.
Tecna was dressed in a violet shorts and tube top ensemble. The top had a light green triangular front design that connected to a metallic-sheened outer short skirt wrapped around her shorts. . She had silver, translucent above-the-elbow gloves on her arms and violet barefoot sandals on her feet. A soft green beret clip was placed upon the left side of her head and bejeweled gossamer wings on her back. Her previously short violet hair had lengthened to just past the shoulders.
Layla was wearing a frilly cyan tube top decorated with magenta and yellow with a matching short skirt. Each part had hanging cloth parts on the bottom resembling waving seaweed. She had yellow, translucent above-the-elbow gloves on her arms and green barefoot sandals on her feet. A cyan forehead tiara bearing pearls wraps around her head as bejeweled gossamer wings protrude from her back. Her dark brown curly hair had gained streaks, grew braided pigtails, and lengthened to her ankles.
Although currently a girl, Ranma-chan felt a nosebleed coming on as she saw her six roommates transform, wearing skimpy outfits. The short skirts and barefoot sandals they all had only emphasized how shapely and sexy their legs are…
She quickly shakes her head and focuses on the task at hand. (3)
The two ice golems lunge for Bloom and Musa. Stella and Tecna were fighting the shadow knights while Flora and Layla tangled with the lightning monsters. That left Ranma-chan with the Trix.
"Stuck together with you, I see." Said Ranma-chan. She opted not to turn herself into her faerie form and instead reverts back to male form with her own powers. A flash engulfed her and once gone, now stood a male Ranma in his kung fu attire. Those hours of training in metamorphosis had finally paid off. He slides into an Anything Goes stance.
"What's wrong? Not going to turn into your faerie form, boy?" taunted Stormy.
"I don't need to transform to take you three on!" replied Ranma.
"Either you're really brave or really stupid!" said Icy.
"You won't be fighting us this time…" said Darcy as she and her two sisters called forth a small group of humanoid monsters made of either ice, shadows, or lightning. "Get that punk!"
"Pyro Blast!" Bloom hurls a huge fireball at one of the ice golems, knocking it down. It gets back up and swings its icicle club at her. She manages to melt through it before it connected, then sends out another fire attack at its face, knocking it down once more.
"Sonic Wave!" Musa claps her hands together to send out an intense soundwave at the other ice golem, causing it to crack a bit. She sends out a beam of concentrated air pressure from her hand at the golem, breaking off its left arm. She sends another one which broke off its left leg, causing it to fall over.
Stella was busy parrying a shadow knight's sword with her own, which she had formed from a shaft of light. Seeing an opening, she swung at the knight's head, knocking off the helmet. She was disgusted to see that there was no head, and that it was still moving. Jumping to dodge the sword, Stella flies over the empty neck of the armor and thrusts her light sword into it, causing it to spasm and fall over. Tecna takes out her PDA and shoots the other knight with a bolt of green electricity, stunning it for a moment. It moves forward, trying to skewer her with its halberd. The techno faerie quickly dodges the strikes and retaliates by whipping it with a chain of green lightning, breaking out one of its sides and causing it to collapse.
Flora weaves in and out trying to dodge the lightning demon's bolts being shot at her. She tries to incapacitate it with some spikey vines she makes emerge from the ground. It easily breaks out and attacks her again. She tries something else as she dodges the bolts.
"Branch Coil!"
The lightning demon was suddenly ensnared in a thick wooden branch. It couldn't break out this time since wood doesn't conduct electricity.
Layla creates a shield of water to block the other lightning demon's electric blasts. The water absorbed the lightning into itself, so as long as she herself didn't touch it, she'd be fine. Once the demon stopped. Layla made her move.
"Aqua Blanket!"
The demon suddenly gets engulfed in a thick sheet of water that appeared and fell from above, shorting it out.
"Water Jail!"
Layla sends out a huge bubble that sucked the demon inside, making it float helplessly in the center.
Ranma goes and beats the living daylights out of the ice, shadow, and lightning humanoids. He easily shatters the ice pawns with simple punches and kicks.
"KACHU TENSHIN AMAGURIKEN!"
Using the rapid punch technique, Ranma plows through the ice pawns, reducing them to ice cubes. The shadow pawns, since they were elastic, had to be taken out by ki blasts.
"MOKO TAKABISHA!"
Cupping his hands, he shot a huge ball of his confidence-fueled ki into the shadows, exploding on impact and causing them to disperse into nothing.
The lightning pawns, he couldn't risk touching. He could just use his Moko Takabisha, but decided to try out his new weapon. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a sword hilt and activates the green light blade. Brandon's sword was a lot longer and wider than normal. The blade was about six inches wide and a little over a meter long. Brandon's tactics came to the fore and Ranma began hacking up the lightning pawns. Since the sword was light and not metal, he didn't have to worry about it conducting electricity to shock him. Vertical, horizontal, diagonal, in three pieces, four pieces, Ranma systematically cuts down the pawns to size, causing each to dissipate into nothing. Once finished, he deactivates the blade and puts it away.
The Trix couldn't believe how easily the martial artist and faeries had beaten their forces. They had to do something fast or they'll have to suffer the wrath of Valtor.
"We'll just have to make something tougher!" said Icy.
She, Darcy, and Stormy recall the remains of the downed forces and merge the like elements together. The puddles of ice, shadow, and lightning spread out to surround Ranma and the Winx. The girls fly up above the ground, leaving Ranma standing alone between the puddles.
"Just what're you up to?" asked Ranma. He didn't let his guard down even for a second.
The puddles reformed into the shapes of quadruped animals the size of small cars. Ranma cringed as he heard them growling. Fear led to panic. The rest of their bodies formed, claws on their paws, long tails, sharp teeth, pointed ears…. Fear confirmed. Panic led to hysteria.
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!! C-C-C-C-C-C-CATS!!"
The sight of seeing tigers made of ice, darkness, and electricity was enough to make Ranma go crazy. He tried to run, but he'd get blocked off by a tiger and forced inward. The Trix looked confused at the whole spectacle, but grinned deviously.
"Heheh…. it looks like tough guy here is afraid of cats!" said Darcy in delight.
"Tigers! Dispose of the pigtailed one!" Stormy ordered.
The elemental tigers obliged and raced around Ranma, blocking off any escape route. They started firing off ice blocks, dark rays, and lightning bolts at him. He had been too terrified to dodge effectively and wound up getting hit by some attacks. Ranma continued to scream at the top of his lungs in terror.
"RANMA!"
Bloom and the others tried to go down and assist him. If he were scared of a harmless pixie pet cat like this morning, he'd be absolutely terrified at the monstrous tigers trying to kill him. However before they could get to him, they were suddenly encased in a globe of darkness, courtesy of Darcy, temporarily holding them in place.
"Now now, it's rude to interrupt the show!" said Darcy.
"You can just watch as your friend gets ripped to shreds!" said Icy. "Tigers! Kill him!"
Ranma screams as the tigers simultaneously pounced on him.
"RANMA! NO!"
The Winx girls cried out after seeing the pigtailed boy seemingly crushed under the three monsterous tigers.
"It's about time he shut up! His screaming was giving me a headache…" said Stormy.
That was when it happened.
There was a low meowing sound coming from the tigers.
"Huh? What is that?" asked Darcy to no one in particular.
A rumbling could be heard, then suddenly, the three tigers were tossed aside like toys, slamming into Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. This caused the dark globe holding the Winx girls to vanish.
Everyone looked over to Ranma, who was hunched over on all fours. His eyes were slitted like a cat's and holds up a hand like a paw. He started letting out low meowing sounds from his throat as he slowly approached the Trix and the tigers on his hands and feet.
"Ranma?" said Layla.
"What the hell just happened!?" said Stormy.
"He's acting weird…" said Darcy.
"Who cares!? He's a freak! Kill him!" shouted Icy.
Neko-Ranma and the tigers faced off, then they lunged at each other.
"Pathetic! Does that freak think he can beat our creatures by acting like a stray cat?" Icy mocked.
However, Neko-Ranma was far from helpless. With his ki-powered 'claws', he diced up the ice tiger to pieces, which melted to nothing. Running on all fours, he dodged the dark rays and electric shocks from the remaining two tigers. Zig-zaging towards the shadow tiger with inhuman speed, Neko-Ranma jumped on top of its back and stabs his hand through it, causing the dark monster to roar in pain. He stabbed repeatedly into the tiger's back at a rapid-fire pace until it was was dispersed into globs of black, merging back into the shadows. Leaping off, Neko-Ranma charges at the lightning tiger. He curled into a ball with his claws out and spin-drives into the monster like a buzz saw, slicing it in twain and dissipating into the air. Neko-Ranma skids to a stop and focuses his attention on the Trix, who looked shocked at the whole scene.
"N… no way! He killed our creatures with his bare hands!" said Stormy.
"But that's impossible! No one could do that!" denied Icy.
Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Layla looked worried. Ranma was hunched over with a feral look in his eyes. He was like an uncaged wild animal.
"Is this…. the Neko Ken Ranma spoke of?" asked Musa.
"Now I know why it's called the Cat Fist!" said Stella.
Neko-Ranma suddenly charges forward at the surprised witches, who quickly fly out of reach. That didn't help as the wild boy jumps upward at a retreating Stormy, grabs her by the ankles, and hurls her at Darcy, knocking them both to the ground. He falls to the ground, landing on all fours (as all cats naturally do), then turns and jumps up at Icy above.
"Keep away, you maniac!" She fires off a beam of ice at Neko-Ranma in defense, but became horrified when he started SCRATCHING his way through her beam, slicing it in twain and passing by harmlessly on either side of him. "No!"
Icy turns to fly away, but was grabbed by her hair by Neko-Ranma. She screams as he spins her around by the hair and throws her into the downed forms of Darcy and Stormy. He lands before them, snarling, jut as the Trix recover.
"He's out of his mind! Just who is he!?" said Darcy as she got up.
"We've got to take him out now!" said Stormy.
"How dare you treat us this way!" said Icy.
Neko-Ranma makes a mad dash towards the witches just as they launch their attacks. Stormy fires off a huge bolt of lightning, Darcy follows up with a wave of darkness, and Icy finishes with a barrage of ice boulders. Neko-Ranma was not deterred, however, and to the shock of all who was watching, he broke right through their spells.
He flips forward and delivers multiple overhead spinning slashes from his ki-powered 'claws' at the lightning bolt, destroying it. Just as the darkness wave comes upon him, Neko-Ranma jumps up and delivers a double horizontal backhand slash followed by a ki-powered axe kick, slicing a cross shape into the wave. It falls apart in four pieces and vanishes. Finally, Neko-Ranma goes into a frenzy and rapidly scratches out in front of him, ripping through the ice boulders flying at him as if they were wet newspaper. Once all three spells were destroyed, the Trix were defenseless.
"NO! HE'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!" yelled Darcy.
The Winx, who were safely in the air, watched in astonishment as their lone male roommate mercilessly attack the Trix. The downside to magic is that one needed time and concentration to pull off any spells. The Neko Ken utilizes power and speed, which was perfect for a fast paced battle. Neko-Ranma didn't give the Trix enough time to try and use any spells again. With inhuman speed, Neko-Ranma lunges at Icy before she could conjure up ice and socks her in the face. Before she fell to the ground, he turns and gives a kick to the gut to Stormy, then turns and smacks Darcy from behind her head. All three fell to the ground simultaneously. As they get up, Neko-Ranma makes rapid passes back and forth at them. Each pass, he'd deliver a ki-powered slash. Icy, Darcy, and Stormy scream in pain as they felt themselves getting cut up.
Finally, after about twelve passes in a span of six seconds, Neko-Ranma skids to a stop. There stood the Trix, sporting a couple of bruises as well as a few cuts. They weren't deep, but they still hurt like hell. It was like their bodies had numerous papercuts on them. Their clothes were almost shredded to the point where it might fall off of their bodies any second. To put it shortly, Neko-Ranma had put them through the wringer. They looked exactly like what the cat, or cat-boy, dragged in, multiple times.
"Icy…. we've got… to… retreat…" said Darcy in a pained voice while trying to cover up her chest.
"We cannot… fight like this… especially with our clothes in shreds…" said Stormy who was also trying to hold her clothes up.
Icy grits her teeth, but had to agree. They couldn't win this way. "We'll get you for this!"
With that said, the Trix vanish. The threat gone, the Winx floated down behind Neko-Ranma, who turns and looks at them in confusion.
"Mrowr?"
"Wow… that Neko Ken was something…" said Layla.
"But…. what about Ranma?" asked Bloom as she and the others looked at the cat-boy, who was currently licking the back of his hand.
"Don't tell me he's going to stay like this for too long…" said Tecna.
"I still can't believe he did all that to those monster and the Trix!" said Stella. They've never seen anyone beaten so badly.
Neko-Ranma walks up to the faerie girls and stops five feet in front of them, sitting on his haunches. "Meow!"
They all stare at the cat-boy, but then Flora walks forward.
"Flora? What are you doing?" asked Musa.
"He's like a cat right now. I'm going to try something." Replied Flora. She kneels down and gestures to Neko-Ranma. "Here, kitty kitty kitty!"
Neko-Ranma smiles and meows in delight. He jumps towards Flora and lies on her lap cat style. She laughs as she strokes his back, eliciting a purr from him.
"That's right… nice kitty, good kitty!" said Flora as she scratched under Neko-Ranma's chin.
Bloom, Stella, Musa, Tecna, and Layla stare in amazement at Flora who had tamed someone who shredded the Trix and a bunch of monsters like yesterday's news.
"That's… pretty cool, Flora!" said Musa.
"But how did you figure that would work? " asked Tecna.
"Well, he is like a cat, so he has to be treated like one to be calmed down." Replied Flora as she pats Neko-Ranma on the head. "You know, he's actually kinda cute like this."
"Meow!"
After a while, Neko-Ranma falls asleep. The Winx decided to fly back to Alfea since they're still in Enchantix mode. Bloom carried Ranma under his arms and Stella his legs. He tended to be quite heavy.
Winx dorm…
"Ugh…. What happened…?" a groggy Ranma said while getting up from the couch. He saw Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Layla, in civilian mode, surrounding the couch looking at him.
"Ranma, you don't remember?" asked Musa.
"You totally annihilated the Trix and their creatures!" said Stella.
"Sorry, all I remember was being cat-piled by those… brrrr… tigers… and then… I find myself here…" said Ranma. It hits him. "Oh… I just did the Neko Ken, didn't I?"
"You did, Ranma." Replied Bloom. "I have to admit, that technique is pretty powerful."
"Yeah, but what good is it if I'm not even in control?" asked Ranma. "I could've done without it. I don't recall anything that's happened when I'm like that. I could've hurt innocent people… I could've hurt… all of you…"
"But you didn't, Ranma, and we're all safe. That's all that matters." Said Tecna.
"Still, I wish that I didn't have to deal with this." said Ranma. "As far as I'm concerned, the Neko Ken is a detriment to me. Maybe the faculty can help purge this awful fear out of me." He then got to thinking. "Hold on, so what happened after I took those witches out?"
"Well…." Said Flora.
Flashback
Flora sat with Neko-Ranma lying on her lap. The other girls were kneeling in the same manner in a circle. They all started taking turns in having Neko-Ranma lying on her lap and pampering him. He meows happily as the girls giggled at the cuteness of the cat-boy.
End flashback
"That eventually calmed you down." Flora finished her story.
Ranma winced and blushed horribly. "I…. did all that…?"
"Oh no! That wasn't all! You also licked our necks and faces when you were lying on our laps! You obviously liked those strokes and scratches we gave you." said Stella. "You were like a cute little kitty! You know, now that I think about it, that licking did feel very good…"
"STELLA!" the other girls yelled with indignity while blushing.
"What? I'm just saying…" said Stella.
It was at that time that Ranma finally passed out with spiralled eyes and a nosebleed. That was just too much information for him.
"Whoops… I think I overdid it…" said an embarrassed Stella.
To be continued…
Preview…
Layla: So this is the famous Japan, huh?
Bloom: The Land of the Rising Sun! I've always wanted to see this place!
Stella: Oooh! Those kimonos look fabulous!
Ranma: This is no vacation, girls! I'm here to face my past…
Flora: Has it really been a week? Time passes by fast! Next time, on Ranma Club, 'Choice! Nerima or Magix?'
Nodoka: Is that your final decision, Ranma?
Ranma: ….. Yes, it is….
Author's notes:
Man! This chapter took longer than I thought! Longer than Chapter 6, even!
(1) Ranma did this exact same thing in the episode 'Ranma and the Evil Within', when Ranma's two forms got separated.
(2) The Enchantix theme song from the Rai version.
(3) It's kinda hard to concentrate when you're a guy among six scantily-clad ladies. lol
I still have plans on what'll be going on as this story progresses. It's just a matter of trying to express them in words.
Dumbledork: Thanks for the tea correction. I might have to revise some chapters.
Irishwhirlpool: Thanks. Things will start to get even crazier as the story goes on.
Andrew9000: I believe it is possible for Ranma to get together with them all. It's a haremfic, after all. I've seen it done lots of times. I got the idea from Ryan L. Spradling's "A Spying Dragon" and 'Wild Moon ½'. If he can make the multiple loves thin work, then so can I! Nodoka would probably encourage it, anyway.
Jerry Unipeg: Yeah, chaos will come to Magix, and chaos may return to Nerima… (hint hint nudge nudge)
Sakura Lisel: Just keep in mind that the Specialists' souls combined to form Ranma's soul.
Lightsfaith: I intend to continue.
Ten-Faced Paladin: Aw… I thought I was writing pretty long. Writing is hard….
Erin: Rai is still superior. It had better drama, better character character development, and better music, not to mention keep all scenes intact. Personalities were a little switched around, too.
Drake0x: I'm working on keeping it up! It'll go on as long as I've got material!
Grave Wolf: I was thinking about the Kage Bushin no Jutsu idea, too, but I have to do it in a way so that Ranma's self isn't lost.
Thank you all for your reviews! Keep 'em coming!