I do not own ranma 1/2 or tenchi muyo.. This is a corrected version of chapter 1. Many thanks to James Axelrad for proofreading for me.
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Ranma sat in class, his head was pounding, and he could feel his heart beating like it was going to burst out of his chest. He knew there was something wrong with him, but there was no one that he could trust to go to. Shampoo had slipped him another potion. That was two hours ago during lunch.
His sight was getting blurry; his mind felt numb, he wished the doc were still in town. He needed help.
People would not stop laughing at him; they were staring, daring him to move. He knew that he should not feel fear; there was no one strong enough to actually harm him.
Why was he scared, he never had been this scared, there was the pit. No that was years ago, the pit is gone dead and buried.
They still want him. They are after him. his father, the amazons, Kasumi,Nabiki, his mother, Mr. Tendo, Ryouga, the Kuno's and sweet Akane. She said shehated him that he was a perverted freak, she hits him every day.
No one wants him, no one loves him. They all want him dead.
He knows it is not safe in class the teacher is after him.
What did he do? Why do they want to destroy him, he does not want to hurt them. He wants to be friends, why must they mock him.
Ranma starts to rock back and forth in his seat, nervously glancing at the people around him. He knew the minute that he relaxed that they would attack him. Maybe they just wanted his cursed form.
Maybe if he gave in willingly they would not harm him.
No. He knew that they would want more. He would not give in.
However, they would come for him, he knows that they will.
So let them come, he could destroy them, take them down. He will never give up, never surrender. He won't allow them to return him to the pit. But the pit is gone.
Ranma started to shake impatiently waiting for class to end; he knew that he needed the antidote to whatever Shampoo did to him. All of his thoughts were revolving around fear and paranoia. He was thinking, "Who can I trust, my enemies, no they are my friends, but they will exploit me. However, they would not do that, they like me; they treat me just like pops. What is happing to me? What did that crazy Amazon do to me?"
By the time that the final bell rang Ranma was worked into a frenzy, he tried to go out the window but it felt like it was too high up. Thinking to himself, "I do this every day what is happening to me." So he tried to go out the door. But two of his fiancées were blocking his way they looked angry.
Akane was mad Ranma had been distracting her ever sense he ran into that hussy during lunch. He just sat there muttering to his self. With an annoyed tones he asked, "Alright what's wrong now baka?"
Uchan was worried for Ranma; he seemed to be out of it since lunch. He was acting like he had a screw loose she thought. "Maybe he is just nervous because he is finally going to ditch the others and marry me. That's got to be it, because Ranma never acts this way." So she briefly started to have daydreams about mini Ranma's running amuck. Shaking herself out of her own delusions she asked, "Ranchan what's wrong, you can tell me, after all am your cute fiancée."
He knew that they were on to him he thought, "I'll just play it cool they won't notice anything, it's brilliant, and it will buy me the time I need to get out of here." He looked at them as calm as he could and stammered out, "tttthhere iss nnotthingg wwroong, wwwhyy woooulld yyyyoouu thhink tthat." He shifted his stance nervously just in case they tried to get him before continuing, "I just have to go to the bathroom real bad, yeah, that's it, really gotta go."
Akane was miffed here she was all worried and the baka pervert did not want to tell her, so with a huff she spun around and said, "Fine if you don't want to tell me, see if I care, you pervert. You're probably just nervous because you were going to go off with one of your hussies and cheat on me again." Now she was infuriated so she spun around and brought out her righteous mallet of divine punishment and wailed, "RANMA NO BAKA." And struck him, sending him flying out the window where he landed near the gates of the high school.
Ranma rose to his feet slowly thinking, "Wheeew that was close, they almost got me." From behind him, he heard kuno yelling at him.
"Foul sorcerer today I shall smite thee, the steel of my blade is one with my resolve. I shall release your evil bonds that bind my loves to thee. Prepare yourself for this ends today.
Ranma saw Kuno lunge towards him, so he backed up, trying to escape from his wrath. After a few feet, he was sent lunging forward.
Ryouga had finally found his hated enemy, backing away like the coward that he was from the local buffoon. Since he really did not care how Ranma was defeated he decided to help Kuno out with out giving off his usual Ranma prepare to die speech. Therefore, he just walked up behind him and with one punch sent him fling towards Kuno's outstretched blade.
Ranma desperately tried to maneuver around Kuno's blade but was still struck with a glancing blow on his shoulder. He jumped back and then he saw Mousse off to his side.
Mousse was happy he had given his love Shampoo a potion for her errant Airen that was supposed to slowly destroy the persons will, and bring all their fears out of the subconscious reducing them to a quivering mess. He knew in this state Saotome would not be able to fight him. So he cried out, "Saotome for stealing the love of my darling Shampoo I will defeat you today."
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Nodoka Saotome was not having a good day she had just came from the Tendo dojo where her son was supposed to be staying only to find out that he was once again on a training trip. So since school was just ending she decided to go to the high school and see if she can spot Ranko and maybe take her out shopping. For some reason she liked the girl and wanted to spend as much time as she could with her. She started to hear loud commotion coming from the school, and could have sworn that she heard that sweet Akane girl call out Ranma. She decided to pick up her pace to see if maybe her son had returned early.
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Ranma was getting real scared, he was cornered, the wall behind him seemed to high for him to jump up to, Ryouga, Mousse, all three Kuno's, Akane and Uchan were spread out before him, he really was having problems understanding them. Nevertheless, he could tell that they were not thinking nice thoughts. They all had evil grins marking their faces. He scanned the crowd looking for an ally or any one that could help. However as he looked all he could see were menacing scowls of hate. He whimpered and continued scanning around. Eventually his eye's came across one person that did not look like they wanted to kill him. So he shrieked out, "Nabiki, help me pplease they are trying to kill me. Please." He started sobbing desperately trying to fend off blows.
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Nabiki was stunned, and it took a lot to do that, she was starting to take her usual bets when she first realized that something was wrong. Ranma was not fighting like he usually does. She was certain that there was something wrong the second that he called out for her to help him. She thought about what could be wrong, "He is acting like he is terrified of every one. He is flinching every time Urkyo smiles at him, cowering when Akane glares at him, and trying to get away from every one else. He is almost acting like he was on a drug, wait Shampoo was here at lunch and she spilled something all over him. It must be a potion or something." She looked around to see if there was anybody that would help him, then she thought bitterly, "Of course no one will help him, he is Ranma, he always wins, and all his friends would gladly dance over his grave. At least I only use him for the money that he brings into the dojo. Who am I kidding ever sense he found out about the financial state of the dojo he has been trying to help me keep it afloat." As she scanned around, she saw the last person that she wanted to see, it was Ranma's mother. Cursing to herself, she hurried over to Auntie trying to cut her off before she saw Ranma.
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Shampoo was happy, in a few hours her Airen would be hers. Mousse finally made him useful, he had given her a very potent potion that he said would separate her Airen from the kitchen destroyer and allow him to willingly come to her. She just had to wait a few more hours for it to take effect. At first, she did not trust him but then he told her that he got it from where her great-grandmother keeps all her powerful potions. So here, she was packing up her room so she could return to the village as soon as he arrived.
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Nodoka walked threw the gates of the high school and was shocked. All of Ranko's friends were attacking a young man in a red Chinese shirt and black kung-fu pants. He looked pretty beaten up. She started to walk closer when Nabiki cut her off.
"Auntie what brings you here today?" Nabiki asked. Knowing that she was probably here to see Ranko.
Nodoka was trying to get around Nabiki so she could get closer to what was going on. The poor boy looked terrified, and he looked familiar, she thought that he was Ranma but she knew that Ranma was a very good martial artist and this boy looked clumsy. Therefore, she asked, "Nabiki what is going on and who is that boy?"
Nabiki sighed she knew that lying now would not help any but she did care for the jock and did not want to see him dead. So she decided to be upfront and to the point, "Auntie that boy there was drugged with some kind of potion. It seems to be causing him to be terrified by the people who usually mistreat him. Also Aunty that is your son. That is Ranma and I swear to you he has never been like this before, what ever he was given has done this to him. He needs help you have to try to get him away from them."
Nodoka was stunned; this was her son being beaten up by all of Ranko's friends, looking scared and confused. She thought, "Nabiki say's that this is Ranma, and that he is never like this. She also said that he was drugged and needs help, what do I do..." with her mind made up, she strode forward.
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Ranma saw his mother walk into the schoolyard, he was not certain how to feel, one side of him was terrified that she was here to kill him, but the other side remembered something from long ago, a time when he was safe. It was a great time, a happy time. He used to play outside near a lake with a big tree, and she was always there watching making sure that he was safe. He now was confused; he did not know what to do. Could she help him or was she here to finish him off. With a grunt, he took another round of blows from the various assailants
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Mousse was excited now; Saotome's mother was here, this was now perfect. He knew about the seppuku pledge Ranma had, now all he had to do was show his enemies mother how truly unmanly her son was. So he pulled out of his robes the most powerful super soaker that they had at the store, giving it a few extra pumps for good measure he fired off a stream.
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Nodoka froze in her tracks, her son just turned into Ranko right in front of her. She stood there not knowing what to do.
Nabiki was right behind Mrs. Saotome when she saw Ranma transform. Seeing the woman in front of her stop dead in her tracks she quickly walked in front of her and said, "Aunty it is a curse, his father gave it to him, his mind doesn't change only his body, please you have to help him." After saying that Nabiki realized that her ice queen mask had completely eroded away and she was now showing that she was panicking. Fighting to regain full control of here motions, she repeated to herself, "It is Ranma, he will pull through this, he always does, what makes this time so special."
After hearing Nabiki's words Nodoka sprung into action."
Ranma was now even more terrified than before, she felt cornered and to make things worse the Kuno boy was trying to force his affections on her, while everyone else was trying to kill her. Then she saw her mother and froze up completely, allowing herself to take several hits and the Kuno boy to catch her. As she stood there, Kuno was currently kissing her and fondling her breasts, she started shaking and crying. When the wall behind her exploded from a bomb thrown by Kodachi.
Nodoka was pissed, first she finds her son, and then she finds out that he had been drugged, and then she finds out that he has been posing as Ranko right underneath her nose. But what really blew her stack is that boy currently trying to steal her child's virtue. She unsheathed her sword and cried out, "Leave my son alone you monsters, get away from him before I send you to meet your ancestors." She blurred into action, unleashing all her strength to save her child. In the span of a few seconds, she stood before her now cowering son turned daughter, surrounded by the unconscious bodies of her so-called friends.
Ranma was crouched on the ground cowering in fear, she kept whimpering, "I don't want to die, please momma don't kill me, please it's not my fault." Seeing the woman move towards her, she saw an opportunity to make a break for it. She launched herself out through the hole in the wall that Kodachi had made with a bomb, and took off like the hounds of hell where on her heels.
Nabiki was trying to reach Ranma as soon as his mother disposed of all the local loons. She was too slow though because no, sooner than Nodoka had finished Ranma took off. She called after her, "Ranma wait, come back, we aren't going to hurt you." She found her ice queen facade had melted again, she was now crying calling out to Ranma trying to get her to come back.
Nodoka had joined Nabiki in calling out to her child and tried to start after her, but after reaching the hole in the wall, Ranma was long gone. Pulling the other girl into a hug she said, "don't worry we will find my son, i promise you. I do not want to be separated from Ranma anymore, and those monsters that drugged him will pay for this, this I swear."
Nabiki still in tears sobbed out, "How will we find him? There is no telling where he went or if that potion is going to wear off anytime soon. The Amazons did this to him and they like to use strong potions, but if we tell them then they will hunt for him and drag him back to china."
Nodoka realized that if she wanted her son that she would have to get to him first so she said, "We will leave now and pick up what we need while on the way I have enough money on me to last at least a few months on the road."
The two women quickly set out heading in the direction that they had seen Ranma run off in.
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Ranma was running on empty her wounds were still fresh but she knew that she could not stop she need to get to safety. However, she only had a vague memory of a safe place. All she knew is that it was north somewhere. So she ran with all of her strength stopping occasionally to try to catch her breath.
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Nodoka and Nabiki where walking quickly through the woods in silence. They were following Ranma's tracks, something that under normal circumstances would not be possible. However, due to his panicked state it was not difficult. They were probably a good distance behind, they had to stop and gather supplies and that took and hour. But as far as they knew they were the only ones out looking for Ranma.