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Ranma blinked his eyes open adjusting them to the light. When they were fully open he looked around the room and noticed that he was in his room at his Mother's house. For a brief moment he wondered how he got there and then he recalled the last time he woke up and the brief talk with Kasumi. Ranma also remembered his injuries and looked down to see that he was no longer bandaged up so he concluded that he was now healed enough to move. When he sat up his body protested like it did the last time only to a much less degree. The pain quickly subsided and Ranma moved to stand up. That was when the door opened a strange woman entered his room. He briefly thought she looked familiar but could not remember from where he saw her. "I thought you'd be up today," the woman said.

"Um who are you and why are you in my Mom's house?" Ranma asked.

"My name is Aishia," Aishia answered. "And I'm here because I helped bring you here after your fight with Ryouga."

"I don't remember fighting Ryouga," Ranma stated.

Aishia shook her head for a moment, "No I suppose you wouldn't. Well when you get dressed and come out to the living room we'll explain some things and hopefully you can answer some questions as well."

Ranma nodded and Aishia left the room. He then stood up and got dressed, after a few minutes Ranma went to the living room and was greeted by his Mother, Aishia, Ukyou, Shampoo and Cologne. "Um, hi, what's going on?" he asked.

"Please sit down Son," Nodoka responded. "We have a lot to tell you."

After obeying his Mother, Ranma asked, "So what did you want to tell me?"

"It has to do with your fight with Ryouga," Aishia joined in. "First thing, do you remember that large wolf you fought?" Ranma thought for a moment then nodded, "Good that Ranma was Ryouga."

"What?" Ranma interrupted. "Don't tell he got another curse?"

"Some would call it that," Aishia responded, "Tell me Ranma what do you know about Lycanthropes?"

"Lycan…what?" Ranma asked.

"Lycanthropes," Cologne responded, "A more familiar term would be Werewolf."

Ranma went silent for a minute then asked, "Are you telling me that Pig Boy is now a Werewolf?"

"Yes," Aishia answered. "And so are you."

Ranma blinked at the statement then turned to women he was most familiar with, "She's kidding right?" the group shook their head, "You mean she's serious?" They nodded their heads. Ranma then sat back and looked at the ceiling, "Just when I thought my life couldn't get any weirder."

"Perhaps we should start from the beginning," Nodoka suggested. The others agreed and went on to explain everything they knew. From Aishia's arrival to her requesting information from Nabiki, to finding Ryouga, to the fight and his surprising transformation, to their trying to find out how he changed.

"So let me get this straight," Ranma spoke at the end. "Aishia came looking for a, Lupine?" he asked. Aishia nodded to answer, "Found one in Ryouga then took him to train his new abilities he got lost, changed into that huge wolf and attacked me. Then during the fight I changed into another wolf only this one white and part of thought to be dead line of Lupine," he finished summarizing. The group of women nodded in response, "Ok so then did I change because Ryouga bit me or something else?"

"Actually I was hoping you could help me with that," Aishia answered. "You did not change because Ryouga bit you. And while that could pass on Lycanthropy it would not have caused you to change for a while, at least until the next full moon. So that leaves a couple of other possibilities. Now I need to ask you if you recall being attacked by another large wolf?"

"Well not a large wolf," Ranma answered. "I think it was before the Neko-ken training and before I met Ucchan. Pops, I mean Genma, was training me in speed by tying meat to me and having me out run a pack of wolves. I couldn't outrun them and they eventually caught up to me. The last I remember is one of the wolves lunging at me. I don't remember what happened after that."

Ranma looked around the room and saw several of the women muttering about just one more reason why they were going to kill Genma. Aishia on the other hand looked rather thoughtful, "From what you describe they were nothing but normal wolves and normal wolves can't cause a change." She then shook her head, "I really need some help with this." She then turned to Cologne and said, "Old Friend, I'm going to have to leave for a while and make some contacts and take Ranma with me. They might be able to shed more light on this, but I can only talk to them in person."

"I thought you were going to help Ryouga with his new abilities," Cologne said.

"I did plan on it and still do," Aishia replied. "But this is not something that can just be ignored. I need to find the cause for Ranma's Lycanthropy. What I need from you is to help guide him while I'm gone." Everyone in the room was taken back by that, even Cologne, "You know enough about Lycanthropes to help Ryouga through the first stages and have helped train him in the past. In retrospect I should have asked for your help when I took Ryouga away the first time, you might have been able to convince him not to wonder off."

"How long will you be gone?" Cologne asked. "As you said I can help with the initial changes now that he has changed the first time. But the more advanced training will have to be done by another Lycanthrope."

"Regardless of what I find out or don't find out, Ranma and I will be back before the next full moon," Aishia said. "Until then you'll have to keep an eye on Ryouga."

"Hey wait," Ranma jumped in, "Where is Pig Boy?"

"He's in your Father's room right now," Nodoka answered. "Currently tied to the bed so when he wakes up he doesn't try and wonder off and gets himself lost."

As if signaled, a shout from the bedroom alerts them Ryouga is up, "RANMA THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

"I'll go make sure he doesn't try and to break free and get lost," Cologne said as she hopes on her staff down the hall.

After Cologne left Nodoka stood up as well, "I am going to call Kasumi, she and Nabiki will want to know that you're up Ranma."

At the Tendo Dojo Kasumi was fixing lunch when the phone rang. After a few minutes of conversation she hung up the phone and went into the living room where Nabiki was watching some TV in order to take her mind off Ranma. When Kasumi entered she greeted her younger Sister, "Nabiki, that was Auntie on the phone. She said that Ranma is awake."

Nabiki looks away from the TV and one can tell a great burden has been lifted from her mind, "That's great Kasumi. What else did she say?"

"She and the others told Ranma about," she looked around to make sure Akane was not around. They decided that after Akane had heard about Ryouga and Ranma fighting and she nearly went ballistic about Ranma picking on Ryouga they would not tell her the complete story. Seeing that Akane was not around Kasumi continued, "His Lycanthropy, she said that he took it rather well."

"I think he's just used to weird happenings going on in his life," Nabiki smirked. "So when do you want to go see him?"

"Oh my, Akane has not come back yet and lunch is not finished," Kasumi said.

Nabiki knew Kasumi better than anyone and knew that this was her polite way of saying she did not want to risk her kitchen incase Akane decided to make something while they were away. "Alright Sis, we'll head over to see him after lunch and tell Akane that we'll order out for once."

Kasumi smiled at Nabiki's understanding and went back into the kitchen to finish lunch. It was not long after Akane came stomping into the house in a huff. Nabiki curious about why her violent Sister was mad now asked, "What's wrong Akane?"

"I can't find that Pervert's hussies anywhere!" Akane answered. "I just know they're out doing things perverted!"

Nabiki sighed and rubbed her temples in frustration, "Didn't Kasumi and I tell you that Ranma was injured in his fight with Ryouga and has been resting so he can recover at his Mother's house."

Akane either did not hear or just ignored Nabiki as she went further into her tirade, "When I get my hands on the Pervert I'm going to kill him for going off with his hussies. Saying that he's staying with his Mother! He has sunk to a knew low involving Auntie with his lies!"

Nabiki listening to Akane's rants lost the last her patients and went up and smacked Akane. "For the last time Ranma has not been with any of his fiancés!" she glared at Akane. "At least not the way you're thinking! They have been visiting him at Auntie's because he's been unconscious for a week after Ryouga attacked him for no reason just like he always does!" She then stepped closer invading Akane's personal space, "Kasumi and I have been by there lots of times over the past few days to check on him and we're not even his fiancé like you're suppose to be! You haven't even visited him once all you did was accuse him of being a pervert without any proof!"

Akane takes a step back as the middle Sister yells at her, "Well he's always going off and cheating on me."

"Ranma has not once cheated on you since the time we met him," Nabiki answered. "He has been faithful to you even after everything you did to him. Thankfully he won't have to put up with you anymore, the engagement no longer matters!"

"What do you mean?" Akane asked.

"Auntie cancel the agreement," Nabiki answered.

"Then why do you keep going to visit him? You have no reason to," Akane said.

"Kasumi and I go because we care about him," Nabiki replied leaving the room. She felt if she stayed any longer she would tell more than she wanted to.

After Nabiki left Akane began to think about what her Sister said. Unfortunately for her all she thought about was that Nabiki and Kasumi cared for him, the other fiancés were there as well and Nodoka canceled the engagement to her. In her warped mind she concluded, "That Pervert has been seducing my Sisters and his hussies and now he has Auntie lying for him!" A red battle aura then began manifest around her as she became even angrier, "I'll kill that Pervert for cheating on me!"

Back at Nodoka's house Ryouga and Cologne came back into the living room. Ryouga was rubbing his head because during Cologne's explanation of what's going on he tried to blame Ranma every so often and Cologne hit him on the head to regain his attention. By the time she was done Cologne hit Ryouga's head over a dozen times causing even his thick head to hurt. After he promised not to try anything, only after another bop to the head, Ryouga followed her very closely out to the living room. When he arrived he was tempted to attack Ranma as soon as he saw him but one look at Cologne's staff made him think better of it. Instead he sat down and said, "So you're a Werewolf too."

"Yep," Ranma responded, "Just more weirdness that comes from living in Nerima." On this Ryouga would agree with Ranma completely. Ever since he came to Nerima the weirdness in his life continued to grow with every passing day, he blamed Ranma for the most part but did concede that Ranma got his share of weirdness himself.

"Now I assume Cologne told you about our future plans," Aishia spoke up, Ryouga looked at the Lupine and nodded. "Good, she's going to take over you're training for a while and I'm going to take Ranma to some friends of mine that might tell us how he has changed."

"Why does he have to go with you?" Ukyou asked. She and Shampoo had been silent for no other reason than not knowing what to say. But now she felt she had a valid question.

"These friends have no means to get here," Aishia answered. "They live in isolated parts of the world and it's also difficult just to send them a message."

"When you and Airen leave?" Shampoo asked.

"I'll need to inform my people of what I'm doing before I leave and that will take a couple of days," Aishia answered. "We'll leave after that," she then turned to Ranma, "That is unless you have some objections."

Ranma shook his head, "No to tell you the truth I want to know how this happened as much, probably more than you do. The sooner we leave the sooner we get answers."

"Good then," Aishia responds, "We'll leave in a couple of days then."