Well, though this isn't my first fic it's darn close so I hope its okay. It's an AU starting at a time after Jusenkyo though the actual divergence starts at Jusenkyo. For those who notice, yes the island idea is taken from farcry but the islands and stuff on them has nothing to do with farcry and really isn't even related in a story sense.
I don't own Ranma ½ and never will.
War History: Ranma and Genma's training journey took them all over the world for 12 years of extreme training for Ranma to become the greatest martial artist in the world. At age 10 Ranma was able to defeat a grandmaster of kempo and proved himself to be very powerful. At age 15 Genma took Ranma to china from America where Ranma had learned from some special forces and black ops training schools that Genma had managed to weasel his son into staying at. The training at Jusenkyo took three days and on the third day Genma fell into the spring of drowned panda shocking Ranma so badly that he only managed to try and escape from the panda in hopes of not falling into a spring himself. Genma, currently unaware of his pandafication attacked Ranma near a disused part of the springs and knocked the boy into the spring of drowned female wolf demon giving rise to a Ranma who's physical and ki abilities far exceeded her fathers, at least while in girl form.
CHAPTER 1
Ranma swam steadily for the island she could see in the distance wondering if she would find pops there or not. After the Jusenkyo demon war that had taken almost an entire year, in which Ranma had learned quite a bit and ended up with friends among the amazons the musk and phoenix tribes, Genma had decided to head to Japan. Brushing strands of short spiky crimson hair out of her eyes she wondered why pop had seemed so urgent to get to Japan to meet some guy named Tendo.
Ranma hooked strands of hair behind pointed ears and used her demon heightened vision to look at the island. For some reason she was starting to get a strangely bad feeling about this place. Strong strokes carried her to a large metal wall that seemed to go from the sea floor to ten feet above water, looking along its length she could see what looked to be a section that would open to allow ships to move in.
Clawed fingers tore into metal as the redhead scaled up the wall and then perched on the top staring down into a large circular bay with calm waters lapping at the base of the wall as well as at a stone pier on the far side of the water. Nostrils flaring she smelled salty sea air mixed with a strange chemical smell that set her danger sense pinging. The girl shivered as cold air blew across wet silk drawing her attention from the waters to the sky and the seagulls gliding on the winds and crying out in search of food. Thinking she had nowhere else to go, and there was a building at the docks she figured it was best to head that way. Cleaving the water in a somewhat overdone dive she swam to the surface and took off for the docks.
Where was pops anyway? She remembered the massive storm that had dogged the ship they had booked passage on for days; pushing them off course and who knew where. The ship had finally gone down about a weeks worth of swim time away from this island chain. She had had the fortune to have a good enough sense of direction that she was able to head for the islands. Feeling something brush by her foot she gave a sharp kick downward to discourage the fish from coming back and went back to thinking about her current predicament.
She hadn't had more than a few seconds more time to think when something wrapped around her ankle up her leg and pulled her underwater. The martial artist struggled for a second before sharp eyes managed to pick out what was pulling her down into the depths. Ranma could only stare in shock at the creature she could see in the darkness. Like an octopus the creature had tentacles but unlike an octopus this creature had something like twenty and the smallest of them was as thick as her leg with the largest being thicker than her whole body. The massive creature shifted and she could see nine foot wide milky white eyes open to look up at her before a giant mouth, seeming to make up almost two thirds of the creatures central body, opened with a roar that was deafening even though they were underwater.
Reaching down and tugging futilely against the tentacle for a moment she decided that she was just going to have to fight full out. Placing her hands in front of her he she created a glowing golden sickle of ki which she fired downward cutting the tentacle apart and letting her get to the surface. She made a swift movement towards the docks through now churning water while the only thing she could think about was the creature's shark like teeth filling that massive maw. She hadn't made it far when another tentacle wrapped around her legs pinning them together and another wrapped around her waist jerking her underwater again.
The young demoness felt a spike of anger as she was reeled in towards that massive mouth and raised her hands again. With her left hand set behind her right and fingers splayed she gathered energy for a 'dinner deterrent' that the creature was never going to forget. Points of energy gathered into her hand forming a sphere twice the size of a basketball while water hissed and steamed away from the heat. Catlike eyes narrowing in anger as the tentacles tightened around her she let the blast fly downward into the creatures gaping mouth.
Energy melted soft flesh and borrowed deeply into the creature's body before detonating and blasting pale flesh open letting gallons of blood to pour out of the now perforated body. Ranma felt the tentacles slip free and she shot to the surface making a mad scramble for the docks hoping that no more of those things lived in the bay. Normally spiky crimson hair plastered to her scalp she pulled herself onto the docks and then scrambled along them until she reached and area that wasn't over water. Seconds after she had vacated the docks several consecutive dull roars were heard from underwater and large tentacles swept up over the pier and ripped the stone structure down into the depths.
When she stopped staring out over the water she could only imagine how long she had been sitting there and stood up looking around wondering what this place was. The only building here looked to have been military once due to the over the top concrete construction and the fact that the balcony for the second level was a wraparound with only a narrow view out of stone. But on top of that building was a large satellite dish with alluded to possible communication, if there was one place Ranma had been happy to stay it had been the six months on the American military base pops had managed to work out.
She had been paying so much attention to the dish on the building that she hadn't been watching where she was going and tripped over something. Her chin hit stone with a crack and she found herself staring at a severed hand still gripping the stock and trigger of a pump action shotgun. She would deny it later but at that instance she screamed in terror and scrambled back only to find herself now sitting beside the hands previous owner. Letting out another scream Ranma scrambled away from the body trying to tell herself that she wasn't seeing what she was seeing as she remembered specifically promising herself that she wouldn't see anymore dead bodies after the war.
Even if she didn't want to look at it she couldn't look away and found her tactical sense marking things about the corpse that let her know, possibly, what killed the man. The corpse was sprawled on its back with sightless eyes staring at a crate since the head was turned at an angle it wasn't meant to go. One arm was still attached and lifted to the sky with the fingers twisted and curled as if trying to grab something to pull him away from his fate. It was the horrified look still on the face and the fact that his guts where currently spread in a four foot radius around the body that was starting to creep her out.
She scrambled back a little further from the body only to bump up against something behind her. The redhead pretty much knew what was behind her but tilted her head back anyway to see, only to throw herself forward to dodge a grasping hand. Spinning around her demon enhanced scent of smell was almost overwhelmed by the stench coming from the creature that now began to shamble towards her. The corpse of the man, for it had definitely once been a living man, had no stomach or intestines left just a large gaping hole through which one could see glistening bone from his spine. The creature also was missing its lower jaw and part of the left side of its face meaning that its left eye was gone allowing her to get a look at the empty bony socket that stared at her.
The thing let loose a gurgling moan and shambled forward stumbling every now and then but drawing ever closer. Ranma did what any demon cursed form martial artists would do in such a situation, getting to her feet she took three steps forward and landed a kick in the creature's chest that could easily flip a car with its strength. The thing went flying backwards to slam into a semi trailer crate crumpling metal as it hit and then falling to the ground.
"Yes! HAHA." Ranma's shout of victory died swiftly as the creature let out another gurgling moan and stumbled to its feet, though it now bore a much crushed in chest. The redhead stumbled back and tripped again, this time over the shotgun giving her an idea. It took a few seconds to pry fingers off of the gun but she finally got the hand loose and raised the gun taking careful aim she let the creature have it. The dead mans head exploded letting the corpse fall to the ground with a stump of a neck the only thing remaining.
Ranma pulled the slide, turned, and barely back-stepped from another creature that came shuffling out of the crates. Bringing the gun up she let fly with another shell that dropped the thing by removing its head as well. Feeling vindictive she cocked the gun again and tried to shoot the body again only to have the gun give off a loud click. Wind whispered across the area bringing nothing but the stench of blood and death to Ranma's nose when she heard a strange cracking sound behind her. The martial artist spun around to see the creature she had shot only moments ago slowly standing up while its chest seemed to jerk and twitch. Seconds later the skin and bones split open to reveal a large red and orange eye staring out of the opening.
Ranma couldn't believe what she was seeing which is why she hesitated, enough of a delay that the creature could move. This was no shambling creature like before it moved with a swift loping run that crossed the distance between crate and girl in only two seconds allowing it to grab the girl's shoulders and try to pull her forward. Ranma could see that the eye was set near the back of the, now distended, chest and the shard of ribs had somehow been made into teeth. The thing tried to pull Ranma into its new 'mouth' to try and bite her but it had failed to take into consideration that Ranma, being a demon, had extremely high levels of strength. Well, technically the creature didn't think much at all actually.
Grabbing the creature by its still, somewhat, intact clothes she shifted her feet and threw it backwards away from her. The creature had landed a good twenty feet from her, on its feet no less, which gave her approximately three seconds before it crossed the distance again. Her hand came up and energy flashed in a brilliant flare of green power the detonation a whole two feet in front of her and turning the creature into a few small chunks of flesh.
It also blasted Ranma backwards nearer the water.
Letting out a groan she closed her eyes and simply let the sun warm her and her now nearly dry clothes, since now she knew what to sense and could tell that there were none of the creatures around. Of course she should have kept sensing as only five minutes of laying in place later and she heard deep rumbling growl coming from her right causing her to turn on her side and look.
It was big; she could only think that as she dodged for the fifth time missing being gutted for the fifth time. The thing was the size a pony at least but seemed to be some kind of oversized dog. Its skin was completely translucent allowing a person to see its muscles and veins, though the muscles over the heart were also translucent allowing her to see the beating organ. Though it appeared to be some kind of dog its skin, what little she had felt of it, was scaled and it had six inch long fangs on both the bottom and top of its jaws with a long forked tongue.
Throwing on a large boost of speed Ranma dodged around another swipe and caught the things tail swinging it in a circle several times before sending it flying into a crate. She followed this with a charge and over three thousand blows to the same area in the next six seconds. Bare feet skidded backwards as she came to a stop shaking her hand to try and work some feeling back into it while watching the hole she had slammed the thing through. A moment later it tore its way free, not seeming hurt at all by her attack, and renewed its trying to kill her.
Flipping backwards from another attack she snagged the shotgun from where it lay on the ground, caught it with both hands and swung as hard as she could. Metal tore in half as the thing went flying into another crate and Ranma threw the remaining chunk of metal behind her pinning the last creature she had sensed now entering the area to another crate by it's head.
With a loud groan a semi trailer crate was sent airborne towards her by a bat of the creatures paw forcing Ranma to throw herself backwards. The crate passed within inches of her face as she arched back. The end of the crate swept past as she planted her hands on the ground and threw herself skywards to void losing her arms to the things swipe attack. Twisting in midair she plummeted downwards as the thing looked up.
"Meteor Descent!"
The shout echoed over the waters followed by a thunderous BOOM! As the thing was slammed six feet deep in solid rock allowing Ranma to leap out to another crate and look down into the hole.
"Dead?" The word had barely escaped her lips when rock broke and Ranma found herself being slammed into the ground with the creature on top of her. She kicked upwards at full strength sending the thing flying and raised her hands, one behind the other, and gathered energy as the thing fell.
"Happo Star Blast!"
The star of crimson energy slammed into the thing with a detonation that sent crates flying out into the bay and tossed Ranma a good twenty feet. She lay there for a second before leaping to her feet and looking at the area the thing would have landed in hoping that that had been enough to put it down. Her delay nearly cost her life as the thing leapt for her showing no signs of damage letting a swipe of claws, claws she had seen cut into stone as easily as hers did, at her.
The part of Ranma's brain running tactical moved with speeds only an unholy creature like a demon could and hit on a plan. She threw herself backwards, her body arching back underneath the thing letting its claws miss as she brought her hands up underneath the thing letting fly with a blast at point blank. The blue energy beam blasted the thing into the air and dropped it down…into the water of the bay. She was practically holding her breath as she watched the calm waters and waving jungle plants near the waters edge wondering if this would work.
Claws tore stone as the thing pulled itself free of the water and up onto the land, it shook itself like a normal dog then began to move forward. Ranma set herself for another attack only to jerk in surprise as several large tentacles burst forth from the water and wrapped around the thing and began to pull it back towards the water. Not losing time the thing dug claws into rock and stopped moving; Ranma watched in surprise as the thing actually managed to move forward. Six more tentacles joined the first, then ten more from different angles showing that more than one underwater creature was pulling at once. Even with most of its body covered the thing managed to tug one set of claws free and move a leg forward then pull itself forward, the dull thud from in the water was obviously the underwater creatures hitting the rock near shore which gave them some leverage.
With a loud cracking sound rock gave way and the things claws tore through solid stone as it was pulled back and disappeared into the churning water. Ranma collapsed to her knees letting her shoulders slump and letting out a sigh of relief. Even so she couldn't help but feel a kind of shock while thinking about the fact that the thing managed to move forward even with all of those creatures pulling on it. With a last sigh she looked at the darkening sky and headed for the building hoping to find shelter for the night away from undead and other things.
What little sunlight was left in the day reached deep in the bay almost reaching the bottom near the docks and seemed to reflect off of something deep in the water. Dark blood flowed lazily through sea water as the carcasses of twelve massive creatures floated near the bottom of the bay. Chunks of the creatures were already being devoured by things living on the ocean floor but the thing the light glinted on slammed claws into stone and began a long climb towards the surface and dry land.
'revenge' thoughts for the first time in its existence flowed into the things head, it wanted revenge against the two-legs being that had battled it to a standstill. It wanted to tear the two-legs to pieces and drown its anger in her precious screams, it was too heavy to swim to the surface but it found it was just as easy to climb and as it climbed the few small gashes in its skin that the creatures had made with their teeth began to be covered with a dark green slim that hardened allowing healing of the wounds. Also as it climbed its body took stock of its current battles and strengthened it scales and increased its muscle mass to adapt it better for fighting not only the girl but any of the water creatures it might run into.
Claws tore rock as the creature got closer to the surface and its mind began to think and plan for the first time since its creation. 'Stealth' it realized that was the best way to go about this, attack when the two-legs was sleeping or unaware of its presence and it could have the most fun with the least amount of effort. If anyone had been able to see they would have been disturbed by the somewhat human looking grin the thing was now sporting.
Discriptions.
Meteor Descent: A ki powered kick capable of driving the user through over seventy feet of solid stone or turning a main battle tank into a few chunks of minor scrap metal its meant to be used only on inanimate objects unless the enemy is of great power at which time the kick is used as a one hit kill strike.
Happo Star Blast: The upgraded version of Happosai's firecracker attack, and the true attack that Happosai used on a training trip with Genma and Soun. Genma found the scroll for it buried in some of the masters old things and tried to master the technique only to almost blow himself up. Ranma mastered the technique during the war and used it to great effect.
Unnamed attack/volleyball spike: Ranma will throw herself/himself backwards arching underneath the enemy then bringing both hands up underneath the enemy then firing a blast meant to blast them skyward at heights only powerful martial artists can survive falling from.