CH2: A new friend

AN(This story is just really for fun. Meaning this story will have no bounds to it. I'm thinking about crossing it with several games and stories, since One Piece itself is pretty unbound too. Also Ranma will not be a pirate. Remember Luffy and Ranma have fused souls so, he may want to be the greatest, but he wants to be a martial artist not the King of the Pirates. He will have sea adventures though, but that is it. Anyway just to tell all of you.On a final note due to school its making it harder for me to come out with new chapters so please just bare with me and don't give up on me, Ihaven't given up on any story yet, it'll just take time.)

Dis: I don't own any of these series; they belong to their respected authors/owners.

Ranma and Ukyo sighed as they left Japan on a boat. It had been 11 years since they decided to go on their own and they have been training together since they left behind Genma. They had both increased their skills to incredible levels.

Through thick and thin, Ukyo stood by Ranma and she had gotten stronger as a fighter thanks to sparring with Ranma. She has grown to be a beautiful young woman and has continued her family's style, Okonomiyaki fighting. She now carries a giant spatula sharpened on all sides; that weighs about 100 pounds, she has trained with it long enough that she doesn't need to compensate for using it. With Ranma's dodging abilities, he helped her have better accuracy with her throwing spatulas. Unfortunately her throwing weapons can only go so far.

Ranma has excelled as well. Through tough training and lots of meat, Ranma had grown into a handsome, powerful, yet streamline built male around the height of 6 feet. Along with Ukyo he has built up his power and abilities to great levels. Through his learning how to fight, he has developed his abilities that far exceed many in skill. Now at 17, he is ready to go out in the world and challenge the greatest fighters for the title of greatest martial artist in the world. The first stop is China where the martial arts were born.

Sometime later:

"Hey Ucchan are you sure this is a good place to start training. I mean it's just a bunch of springs. How dangerous can they be?" Asked Ranma

"Well according to this brochure it says these spring house hundreds of curses that have been done thanks to the creatures and people that have drowned there. Legend says if you fall into one, you'll become whatever drowned in that spring." Ukyo snorted. "Who would be stupid enough to believe that?"

"Oh man! It's a good thing that guy sold us that brochure before, we could have been cursed!" Ranma yelled, Ukyo face-faulted.

Getting up, Ukyo bonked him on his head with the flat of her battle spatula. "Ranma don't be so stupid, do you really think that there are such things as cursed springs?"

"Well its better to be safe than sorry lets just go past it."

"Fine." Ukyo rolled her eyes as the two went into the valley.

The two soon found the guide to the place and asked him for help around the place. He agreed and was happy that outsiders actually listened to reason and stayed away from Jusenkyo springs. As they made through the road they heard sounds of fighting on a cliff straight above them and saw a man falling from it heading into a spring.

"Get lost you worthless musk hybrid! I hope you get cursed." Yelled a guy with big white robes on.

Ukyo and Ranma gasped as they saw the guy was bleeding from several places and clearly knocked out.

"Oh no!" Ukyo yelled.

"He'll get cursed in the springs! Don't worry I got him!" Ranma raced off to catch him, but he couldn't get him fast enough and would fall in the spring. Thinking fast Ranma grabbed his leg and swung him toward Ukyo. "Catch!" He yelled before he himself fell into the spring.

"Ranma!" Ukyo yelled as she put down the man and ran toward the spring with the guide. Instead of there being a male Ranma; out of the spring came a short, busty, red headed Ranma-chan.

After remerging from the spring and coughing a bit; Ranma felt different, shorter, and he felt he had more weight in his chest area. He then heard the guide speaking and looked up to where Ukyo and said guide were standing and gawking.

"Oh too bad noble straw hat customer. You fall in spring of drown girl. Very tragic tale of a girl who fall in spring 1500 year ago, now whoever fall in spring take body of girl." The guide summarized next to the stunned Ukyo.

"I don't believe it. The cursed springs were real after all!" Ukyo exclaimed.

"Told ya! Now I'm a girl! A…really…pretty girl too." Ranma muttered as he looked at his reflection.

Due to being on the road with Ukyo as they traveled; Ranma was not unfamiliar with the body of a girl and how attractive a girl was to a man. He never slept with her or anything. He just couldn't help but notice girls when he reached puberty. He wasn't a pervert or anything, but he had learned to appreciate the other sex like a normal person even though sometimes he was oblivious to it; now wasn't one of those times.

Ranma couldn't help but start feeling his new girl body and blushed as he grabbed the very large bust he now sported. The smaller frame size made his clothes and hat fit looser, but the chest was large enough to make up for her smaller size. He blushed more as he let go of his chest and saw it bounce around before it went back into place.

All the while Ukyo was growling in angry jealousy as she saw Ranma start fondling his girl body. The guide left a bit ago to get something and the guy was still unconscious; but all this was far from Ukyo's mind. Grabbing her battle spatula, she slashed at the spring trying to hit Ranma who got out of his examination and jumped from the pool as he sensed the attack; he reset his hat as he looked at Ukyo.

"What was that for ya tomboy!" Ranma yelled with a demon face.

"That was to stop you from further fondling your girl body you perv!" Ukyo countered with her own demon-face.

"I wasn't fondling…I was checking to see how this body worked!" Ranma yelled.

"Yeah right!"

Before another round of yelling could begin; Ranma felt hot water hit his head and looked behind him to see the guide with a pot of hot water. "What was that for ya stupid guide!" Ranma stopped as he heard his male voice and felt his chest to find nothing but hard muscle and his clothes even fit again.

"Hey I'm a guy again!" He said in victory. "So this curse is cured by hot water?" He asked looking at the guide.

The guide shook his head. "Sorry mister customer, hot water only temporary cure. When hit with cold water, you go back to being young lady." The guide explained.

"So I get hit with cold water I become a girl, but it's fixed with hot water huh? Oh well nothing I can't live with."

"How can you be so calm about it?" Ukyo and the guide said at once.

"It's not too big of a deal, sure I think it's a bit annoying, but at least I'm still human, right?" Ranma stated.

'How in the world can he be so upbeat?' Ukyo thought, which was one attitude about him that she thought, was attractive. 'So honest, so brave and so calm. If we get married I would be so happy.' She sighed. She knew now what engagement was so she was a shoe in. But she never really talked about it with Ranma. She decided just to wait for now until she knew how he felt. If he didn't reciprocate her feelings; at least she still had a friend.

"Hey look!" Ranma yelled as he raced toward the place where the guy he saved was unconscious.

"Huh?" Ukyo muttered as she snapped out of her thoughts.

Near the cliff was the person that the beaten man was fighting before. In a closer look, the man wore oversized robes, had long black hair and what looked like oversized coke bottle thick glasses. He stood over the fallen man with two short swords; ready to cut the other mans head off.

"Hey man! You won, leave him alone!" Ranma yelled almost there.

"Shut up outsider!" The man spoke in Japanese. "I am an Amazon and when I fight a challenge, it is to the death!" He then swung crisscrossed so that he could severe the head.

"I won't let you!" Ranma kicked the guy in the face sending him across the field. "Hurting a guy when he's down is just plain dirty. You must really be an underhanded bastard to do something like that." Ranma stated; he told Ukyo to look after the guy as he got into a fighting stance. His face had lost its naiveté and cheerfulness to become serious and tough.

The man in big robes got up groggily as he grabbed his face in pain. The kick felt like being hit by a speeding wrecking ball. He was lucky his head didn't split open. 'Damn that outsider! How dare he stand up for that piece of trash, just when I was going to finish the job. Well he's gonna regret getting in my way.' "You'll regret hitting me outsider!" In a flash he took out two battle axes.

"Like that will happen. I'm Ranma 'Straw-hat' Soatome, and if you think I'm gonna let you kill an unconscious guy then you're crazy!"

The man started running at him, axes at ready. "Well 'Straw-hat' I'm Mousse of the Joketsu Amazons and you're an obstacle in letting me finish that filth off. As the saying goes to Amazons, obstacles are made for killing!" He punctuated the last word, by slashing down with one of his axes.

Ranma evaded this by doing midair splits, but he had to do a backward flip in order to dodge the second axe as it came at him. After landing with his hand further stopping him, Mousse let go of his axes and threw bladed chains at him. Ranma jumped again causing the weapons to miss him again. Getting angrier at not hitting his target, Mousse took out dozens of throwing stars and started throwing them at his airborne opponent. Ranma caught two of the stars and used them to block the rest. When he landed behind Mousse he had his right arm cocked back and his hand up front.

"ARRRGH! I'm sick of you getting in my way!" Mousse yelled as he took out yet another weapon, which were forearm blades.

As he got closer Ranma's eyes were hidden by his bangs and hat but they were seen only when he looked up smiling. "Heh, well you're pretty good at getting weapons out, but you should really just use one weapon. All those just are too much. But since you want to hurt that guy so much, then let me show you a move I've been working on for the last 11 years." His fist started circling with yellow ki as he waited for Mousse.

Mousse was just about to cut him in fourths; then it happened. "

"Burn Pistol!" Out of Ranma's fist shot an energy blast that hit a surprised Mousse's stomach hard.

The attack looked like a yellow meteor with an erratic tail, which moved like a fire. It tore up Mousse's robes and sent him flying. He smashed into the cliff breaking some of it and kept him going until it exploded in midair. When it did, Mousse dropped down burned and unconscious into a spring with a big splash.

"I Win!" Ranma yelled his arms up in victory.

Ukyo smiled as Ranma showed that jerk who was boss. The guide smiled as well at the honorable person. Though he wasn't supposed to pick sides being near three villages, he couldn't help but grin in satisfaction that, that uppity male Amazon got clobbered for his dishonorable ways. Looking were he landed he sighed as even though he didn't like it, it still was his job to help people cursed at Jusenkyo.

"Too bad, bad boy fall into spring of drowned duck, who ever fall in take body of duck. Though sir deserves this." Grinning, he grabbed a large bamboo pole and ran toward where Mousse had landed.

Ukyo sweat-dropped. "How in the world can a duck drown?"

Ranma walked over to Ukyo with a smile. "Maybe it wasn't a very smart duck. See Uc-chan, I could have had a curse a lot worse than a gender changing one."

"Okay I admit it."

"Besides at least I'm sexy in my other form." 'WHAM' Ukyo hit Ranma over the head with her battle spatula for being perverted.

"Ow, lousy tomboy." Ranma muttered as he looked at the guy in Ukyo's hands.

The guy was around his age with brown hair, with shades of black hair down to his waist. He had a blue Chinese shirt with slightly flaring sleeves and wore black kungfu pants and basic slippers. Underneath his sleeves were archer guards, and from how his upper chest, shoulders and arms had extra muscle, Ranma concluded that he was an archer by trade.

"So how is he Uc-chan?"

"He'll live if that's what you mean. This guy is pretty beat up. He has dozens of large cuts and several stab wounds maybe some broken bones and several bruises. Lucky nothing vital was hit. Still he should be alright after a few weeks to a month." Ukyo stated as she and Ranma started wrapping the mans wounds.

2 Hours Later:

The guy's golden eyes opened and he started groaning as he saw Ukyo and Ranma near a fire. Sitting up he looked down at himself and saw that he was nearly covered in bandages. He looked around and saw it was night time and near where he was were his arm guards. He would have wondered where his bow and arrows were if he didn't smell the tasty meat cooking on the fire the two strangers were sitting at. As his stomach growled he got up with a wince and walked over to the people. They looked at him and the one with the straw hat smiled.

"Hey there good to see your still alive."

Remembering the books he read about learning Japanese, he spoke. "W-what happened to me today. I remember that bastard Mousse hitting me with a pepper spray bomb and then nothing else."

"Mousse? Are you talking about that guy with long hair and big robes and glasses that Ranma here beat?" Ukyo asked.

"Yeah…wait a minute you beat Mousse our best male fighter?" The guy gasped looking at Ranma; his stomach growled again making him blush. "Um could I have some of that meat?"

Ranma grinned and handed him a smaller piece than he had. "Yeah I beat em, but I wouldn't say he was that great, it didn't take me long to cobbler him." Ranma flexed his arm to accentuate his point.

Ukyo nodded. "He was easy for Ranma. You were lucky that we were there; Ranma saved you from being cursed to turn into a girl and saved your life when that bastard tried to kill while you were down. Now Ranma is cursed to be a girl half the time."

After taking a bit of the food, the guys head dropped down in depression as Ukyo finished what she said.

"What's wrong?" Ranma asked while stuffing his face with meat. "Is the food bad? We found some really good pork and some duck in the forest and Ukyo put her special sauce that she made okonomyaki with, which tastes good on anything…"

"No it's not the food, in fact its some of the best I've ever had, and it's just that it would have been better if you had just let me get cursed or even die. I've lost my honor and home after losing to Mousse."

"What do you mean… umm sorry but what's your name? Sorry we haven't given our names yet either. I'm Ukyo Kuonji and this is Ranma Soatome."

"I'm Sheeve, former male amazon and musk hybrid."

"Umm what does that mean; hybrid? What do you mean you have lost your honor and home?" Ranma asked.

Sheeve sighed as he owed these people his life, for what its worth, so they at least deserved to know. "You see my mother was a 'woman' of the musk tribe and my father was an amazon male warrior."

"So?" Both listeners asked.

"Sorry that's right you two are from Japan right?" They both nodded. "Well you see here in this mountain range there are three tribes that are basically enemies of each other; the Musk, the Phoenix and the Amazons. For hundreds of years now these tribes have been circling each other like angry dogs ready for when the other one attacks. But recently during the 50 years, the Musk and the Amazons have been in conflict very much and the Phoenix has just stayed away, but they think they are superior to humans because they are really bird people…"

"Wow they really are bird people here?" Ranma asked astonished.

"Umm yes and so…"

"Say Sheeve, do they look like this?" Ranma asked as he showed his picture of a badly drawn bird with human arms and legs.

"Will you let me finish!" Sheeve yelled turning into a demon head. "I don't know what they look like really, but they do not look like that diseased chicken you drew."

"It's a Phoenix."

"No its not, anyway because of the ways both tribes act and the constant attacks between the two the Musk and Amazons have grown to hate one another. You see Musk use the spring of drown girl…"

"That's what I fell in." Ranma added

Sheeves eye twitched at him, but he continued. "Anyway, they use a pot that makes the curse permanent and they use animals and pour the spring from the pot turning them into women and using them as slaves and breeding stock, both are the same to them. You see the amazons are female dominated and think what the musk do is horrible. Of course they, in general, don't consider males all that useful anyway even if some of them are good fighters. They are considered second class citizens in the village.

Anyway, my mother was a female musk which meant she was an animal that was turned into a human. She was a snake before she was turned, but before she could have been with a male musk, she ran away and went to the Amazon village. At first people said to leave; but she begged them to let her stay. Being turned human, she was able to speak in our human language. She was about to be thrown out when an Amazon elder named Cologne allowed her to stay. So they hid her from the musk, but life still wasn't easy on her.

Even with her being female she was still considered a musk abomination on the female gender. Females hurt her, while most males refused to even be near her until she met my father. He was an Amazon who came back after an exchange program from the US, there he had learned that no matter what all humans were considered equals. He didn't care she was once a snake or even a musk; to him she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. They soon got together and married."

"That's so romantic!" Ukyo sighed.

Ranma laughed. "Hey Ucchan, stop acting like such a girl."

"I am a girl!" Demon-Ukyo stated

"Please people, I'm trying to tell a story here." Sheeve stated flatly. "Sorry" Both replied. "ANYway, I was born a few years later, and when I was 5 I learned about what I was. You see the reason musk do what they do is because they gain certain powers when they mate with animals. I'm no exception to this idea." Sheeve closed his eyes and a few seconds later quickly opened them causing Ukyo to 'eep' at what happen and Ranma to just mutter 'Cool'. For what happened was Sheeve's golden eyes had change to entirely silver not just the pupils but his entire eye. After a few moments to let them look and started talking again.

"You see I may not have super strength or anything, but I have the ultimate vision thanks to my snake mother. My eyes have inferred, scoptic and night vision, I also have perfect depth perception and accuracy, nothing can hide from me and I can hit a fly a hundred yards without killing it. My senses have also been enhanced so I can see and hear very well. These abilities I have are why I am very good at tracking and archery.

When I was born though, people, but my parents, despised me. Not only was I a male, but I was considered a musk abomination even if I was born within the tribe. I was lucky that I had the love of my parents or else I probably would have died from loneliness during the first years of life. Despite this my father and mother taught me what they knew of the martial arts. My mother found earlier that her ways of the snake agility could be used as martial arts and she taught what she had discovered and my father taught me about Wu Shu of the tribe at five I learned I was very good at archery and I learned how to do that."

Sheeve smiled at the memory but became very sad as he remembered what happened next. "Everything was okay even if the tribe didn't like me. But when I was seven the Musk attacked the village on a raid. My parent died during that raid because they found out that my mother was the lost female they never found. They killed them both." Sheeve stopped to get himself back together, after a few minutes he continued. "I was devastated by what happened as you can guess. I was all alone after that, if not for the elder Cologne that comforted me I would have been destroyed, but she gave me comfort because I guess she had a weakness to orphaned children.

As I got older the people still treated me like trash because of what I was. At the age of ten my rage grew and swore that I would show people of the village that I was someone. I trained hard in what my parents taught me and extended what they knew. I blocked out all other problems and insults and trained and studied the art. Soon I became the best archer even better than the village's best female fighter. My skills I learned how to use my snake quick striking and agility to use in a fight and had these curved tantos made for the art I used." Sheeve pulled his pant legs up and showed them the simple blades.

"Sadly no one still saw anything in me. The females especially the males treated me as a weakling. They thought I was still just an abomination. The worst was the strongest male Amazon Moose. He kept telling me and ranting to everyone that I was nothing. When I tried to make friends earlier he told them about me and made me look like a monster. I finally had it and I challenged him. If I won I would be the strongest male, if I lost then I would leave the village, he accepted.

The fight had lasted for hours until when I was about to finish the fight he used a pepper spray on me that had a mix of hallucinogen and sprayed it in my eyes. I had my snakes eyes activated and it totally crippled me. This gave Moose the needed leverage to attack me full out with his chained, blades, weights, everything he had and I was about to black out he kicked me one last time in the face. The next thing I knew I was waking up here." Sheeve finished.

Ukyo was shocked at what she heard and saddened at how hard a life he had. Ranma just sat there silent but his face was stern. Sheeve himself, after finishing his story wondered why he just spilt everything to these people who were basically strangers to him. But when he talked to them, they held no anger or fear, they just listened to him something no one in the village really did they just ignored him. He felt from the two a feeling he only had for his parents, trust. Even if they just met he felt a trust that meant they would never leave a friend behind and would do what theycan for the friend. He guessed that was the reason he told them as much as he did.

It was then Ranma straightened his hat and stood up patting his knee's on the way up. "Okay!" He yelled to the sky with his arms raised.

"What?" Sheeve asked.

"Ucchan, Sheeve, tomorrow we're gonna go to the Amazon village to challenge them to a fight."

Sheeve gasped at this while Ukyo nodded when she saw the look in her friends eye.

Not see this Sheeve yelled at him. "Are you crazy those people are in a whole different world then you! What makes you think you can fight them?"

Ranma just gave him a big grin. "Cause thats why we came." Ukyo then started sporting the same grin in anticipation.

After looking at the two for a minute he couldn't help but laugh at how sure they were. He started laughing harder but stopped as his wound started to hurt him. "Ow, I gotta say both of you are nuts, especially you Ranma, butI gotta admit your both entertaining and I like you."

"Thanks"They both said unisom.

Kami Plane:

Kami samagrinned athow thenew reality was going. "Looks like the true fun begins." He grinned mischiefly as continued to watch.

To be continued
Man this was a while since I updated this. For those of you who are wondering I'm working on Ravens Gaurdian and several others including my new Naruto fic. Hopefully I can get a new chapter in each storyby this weekend. Anyway as alwasy please review.