A Ranma ½ / Grandia crossover

Notes: the story happens after the manga ends; all copywritten material belongs to their respected owners, and the only profit I make in writing this fanfiction is for my own enjoyment.

Warning

Contains spoilers to those who have not completed Grandia

And somewhat AU in places.

place

"speech"

thinking

"mysterious voices"

(Authors note)

AN: all chapters will be revised as soon as this fic is completed

Icarian Wings

Chapter 1

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It's been nearly two years since anyone had last seen the pigtailed martial artist, for the first couple of months things were peaceful, that was until both Ukyo and Shampoo attacked Akane due to belief that she had frightened Ranma away and had messed up their chances of being with him.

That Sparked a chain of events in which eventually got Ryoga, Soun and Genma defending Akane, seeing the attacks on his child finally snapped Soun out of his seemingly everlasting depression and had started training Akane again with the help of Genma and Ryoga.

Ukyo had managed to contact her father and a few of her relatives when Akane started holding off against most of the attacks from Shampoo and herself, shampoo made a request to Cologne for requesting aid from the Amazon tribe, the reason that was given? Cologne twisted a few words about a strong outsider that could be a threat to the Amazon population if it weren't stopped.

Akanes frustration and anger grew with each passing day Ranma didn't return, the old saying "too many straws on a camel's back would break" did come true when word got out about Ranma going missing, the next thing that she knew there were at least thirteen more families knocking on her doorstep claiming to challenge her for the young Saotome's hand, of course with Soun, Genma and Ryoga's help in her training she beat them all, but that didn't stop them from trying to ambush her.

Eventually one thing lead to another and all hell broke to what the Nerima residents now call "the Fiancée War", the war itself had been in full throttle for a whole year which ironically started on the same day when Ranma went missing.

Things could've been worse, when the young Saotome left no one had heard anything of the grandmaster of the anything goes school, the usual panty raids had stopped and his room at the Tendo dojo had been cleared out. While this to some may seem like a blessing (some being Soun and Genma) but others (namley the NWC) kept on looking over their shoulders in case of the letch's return.

But besides the war and disappearances, what seemed weird to the inhabitants of Nerima was the fact that there was no change in the mother of Ranma, Nodoka Saotome.

Ever since that day when her son left Nodoka had been her usual self, going through her daily ritual of maintaining her house, going to the Tendos to check up on Genma and talk to Kasumi, followed by some shopping and then home to relax until the day was over.

That ritual was about to change.

It was during one day when Nodoka approached her home after some grocery shopping when she saw a group of people standing in front of her doorstep, there were four children and two adults, the adult female had an unusual hair colour of emerald green while the adult male had raven black hair.

The children must have been their children because their features were nearly identical to the adults, Nodoka caught a glimpse of a foot long pigtail at the base of the older man's neck, and she also saw familiar features that she hadn't seen since that day.

Two Years Ago - Saotome house

Nodoka was just about to start preparing breakfast before she started her daily chores for the day when the front door was knocked loudly.

Who could that be at this time of the morning?

As she made her way to the front door she couldn't help but wonder who it could be, it couldn't be any of her neighbors since most of them went abroad yesterday, they did ask her to come along but she declined, something told her that she needed to be at the house during that week.

She reached the door and opened it to reveal both a storm with rain falling heavily and a currently wet and out of breath Ranma-chan, in her hand she clutched three pieces of paper.

Nodoka beamed with happiness that her son had decided to visit her, but she was also a bit worried about why she was here, had something happened at the Tendos?

"Why hello Ranma it's nice to see you here, are you ok? You seem kind of down, has something happened at the Tendos?"

Thunder crackled and lightning arched through the sky as the rain behind the pigtailed martial artist to fall faster, the only reply that she got was Ranma placing the forms into Nodokas hand in a forceful manner.

Confused and a bit angered by her son currently turned daughter's forceful passing she gave her a stern look, her son would have seen it if it weren't for her having her head down and her eyes being hidden by bangs of hair.

Regardless of how or why her son was at the doorstep Nodoka invited Ranma in, she ushered her towards the main room where there was a table with two settees on either side, more concerned with her son at the moment she left the certificates on the table and sat the pigtailed marital artist down, she quickly went to the kitchen to come back with a towel and a cup of hot water in which Ranma accepted and splashed some on her face.

Even though Nodoka has seen it over a dozen times she still can't get over the change her son has from going to male to female and vice versa.

She watched as her now son dried himself off, his head was still looking down as if he refused to look at her.

Nodoka was a bit concerned at her son's current state, he had yet to speak and he wasn't acting like his usual brash self, she tried breaking the ice between them.

"Ranma is something wrong? I'll listen to whatever is on your mind".

Ranma only nodded as he pointed towards the table or more precisely what was near her, she looked to see that her son was pointing at the certificates that he'd brought with him.

Nodoka looked towards the certificates on the table just inches in front of her; she picked them up and started to scan through them all the while having a bad feeling.

A gasp was heard as Nodoka saw a name on the second and third certificates, one that she hoped that her son wouldn never find out about, "Ranryu!"

Out of the corner of her eye Nodoka saw her son's head lift up, she looked towards Ranma who was now staring at her, the look in his eyes were that of someone pleading, this shocked Nodoka at the fact that her son has never begged or pleaded in his life (of what she's heard).

Nodoka was expecting the inevitable but she didn't realize how soon Ranma had found out, Genma had dismissed it by casually saying "the boy'll never find out".

He'll never find out he said, I was a fool to believe him, Ranma please forgive me

"Ranma what... how did you... where did you get these?"

Ranma spoke for the first time entering his mothers house, when he spoke it was as if all emotion was drained with every word he spoke.

"From Dr Tofu, it's funny, I went there to find out what this scar that I have was, but instead I found out that I'm a twin."

Silence filled the room; the colour on Nodoka's face was completely drained while her mouth was slowly opening and closing.

"Mom, why didn't you tell me that I have a brother?"

"R-r-ranma, about Ranryu, i know that you may be distraught by finding out that you had a brother, I know that I should've told you but I guess I didn't have the heart to do so."

It was at that moment that Ranma had seen a new side of his mother; the iron-willed Nodoka Saotome had started to cry.

Not one to see a female cry, Ranma went over to hug his mother in whom she responded by hugging him tightly and letting out with tears, it was a while before Nodoka calmed down and looked up at Ranma.

"I'm sorry about this my son but what I'm about to tell you might be shocking at first but please bear with me, when I met you as Ranko I started having some dreams, and those dreams showed the events of what happened a week before they happened."

Ranma looked wide-eyed at his mother, if what she was saying was the truth then she knew all along about the curse since the hot spring incident (1)

"M-mom? Does that mean that you knew bout the curse for ages?"

Nodoka could only nod her head in response

"At first I thought I was going crazy, but when the dreams happened again and they played out in real life, I couldn't help but accept and carry out what happened. The reason why I didn't tell you earlier is well, I kind of enjoyed being with you as if I had a daughter"

"B-b-but the seppuku pledge, Oyaji told me bout it, even you said of it when you first came to the Tendo's, if you knew bout the curse then why didn't you hold us to it?"

"that pledge was indeed a seppuku pledge, but do you really think that I'd hold you to it since I've already lost one son... oh Ranryu, if only he was alive, I wonder what things would've been like if he didn't die"

That caught Ranma's interest; this was one of the other reasons why he came over to see his mother in the first place.

"Mom, what would you say if I tell you that Ranryu could be alive?"

Nodoka's head snapped up with her eyes wide and brimming with tears

"Ranma! What do you mean by that?"

"It's apart of the reason why I'm here in the first place, i had a dream last night and in it i saw Ranryu, it was strange due to the fact that he had these glowing green wings that were attached on his back, it was before i woke up he called out to me to help him, i think that he was in danger of something."

Ranma looked at his now pale-faced mother, she was trembling and tears threatened to leak from her eyes, she disengaged herself from Ranma and went to a semi-large mirror that was in the hallway, after lifting the mirror off and placing it on the floor she slipped her hand into a square hole to grab something, Nodoka replaced the mirror and went back to her son who was now looking at her with confusion. She spoke with a mixture of fear and seriousness.

"Ranma, these wings you were talking about, by any chance did they look like these?"

The item the Nodoka held was now placed on the table in front of Ranma, it was a picture that showed two newborns with a young woman holding them in each arm, it didn't take Ranma long to figure that the young woman was his mother but the thing that caught the pigtailed martial artist's eye were the two sets of green wings that were twice the size of the babes coming out of their backs.

Ranma just stared intently with his mouth half open, he was mesmerized by the fact that both baby boys had wings, if that was true, then why doesn't he have the wings on him now?

"Genma took the picture, he was so pleased that he'd sired two healthy boys that he wanted to be the one to take the first picture, the doctors wanted to operate on one of you to see if they could get rid of the wings. They said it was unnatural and you could be looked down upon while growing up, we reluctantly agreed and an hour or so later they came back with the news that your brother had died."

Nodoka started to weep again, this time Ranma joined her with tears threatening to fall all the time still looking at the photo

"They explained that when they cut off the wings Ranryu's heart stopped beating, they tried everything that they could bring him back but in the end...sob... There was nothing that they could do. They were puzzled at the fact that the results showed that he was perfectly healthy, the strangest thing that happened though during the hour was when you suddenly cried out and your wings disappeared." explained Nodoka

The only response that Ranma gave her was a movement to stand up and walk out the room, knowing that her son probably went to his room that she'd set up if he ever decide to spend the night, this was confirmed by the sound of creeking stairs and a later sound of a door shutting.

That was the last that she'd saw of him, later on Nodoka went upstairs to check on him only to find the window open with the curtains flapping and a note on the futon.

Mom

i'm sorry for doing this but I'm gonna be gone for a while, after our talk I recon that my brother IS alive, I know it sounds crazy but I assure you that he's alive and well somewhere, I'm off to find the old leach he's got something that can help me.

I'll be back before ya know it

Ranma.

Present time

Nodoka shook her head from her day dream and walked up to what she'd suppose to be a family.

"Hello there can I help you? You seem to be lost"

The woman of the group looked to her and smiled, Nodoka noticed that the woman in front of her supported some sort of ornaments in her hair.

"Why yes, we were wondering if the owner of this house is in?"

"That would be me my dear, is there anything i can help you with?"

The woman turned to the man who was playing with the children, he had one on a piggyback ride, one each on his arms and the last grabbing onto his right leg, she giggled as she called to him.

"Anata! Come here for a second, the owner is here"

Nodoka looked at the man in front of her with a sense of awe, he seemed to have no problem walking towards them with 4 children hanging off him, and each seemed to be at least 4 or 5 years old.

"Ok kids time to get off your father I think that he needs the room for this"

The children groaned/whined as they climbed off of their positions and stood next to the mother, the man looked at Nodoka as if he was looking at a familiar face, he looked to his children with a smirk and looked back to Nodoka.

"Hello there, I guess that you've met my darling wife Feena, these are our children, the girls are named Kikuko and Nodoka." pronounced the pigtailed man

Nodoka looked at the kids as the names were called out, Kikuko had her mother's eyes and her fathers hair colour, she wore a dark greenish tunic with matching shorts, Nodoka-chan took her by surprise since she would resemble herself at her age if she had green hair, she was dressed in a cute sailors uniform with a pink bow which had twin pink antennas.

She took a look at the boys, the one on her left had green hair and blue eyes while wearing a grey tank-top with black slacks, the other one caught her eye the most, the boy wore black slacks like his brother but instead of the tank-top he wore a red chinese shirt with the arms cut off at the elbows, his hair was raven black that was tied up in a pigtail like his fathers and his eyes were a familiar blue-grey.

The man put his hand on top of the boy with the green hair and ruffled it up a bit

"This little tyke is Kojiro, one of the first born with Nodoka here, and this fellow don't you think he looks familiar? His name is Ranryu, named after my twin brother"

If the man wanted to get a reaction out of Nodoka he definatly got one, the woman in question knelt on the floor and stared at the one son and the father, tears were flowing as she focused more on the man.

"T-then that must mean you're..." asked Nodoka with tears forming in her eyes

"Ranma Saotome, Tadaima Okasan"(2)

Ranma suddenly found himself in a bone-crushing hug courtesy of his mother, the force when she flung herself on him was too much that they fell to the floor both hugging each other for all its worth.

"O-kaeri nasai"(3) Nodoka was in full tears as she said the only thing that summed up the past two years.

Feena could only look on at the reunion between mother and son with a smile

It was worth it in the end, wasn't it darling? All those hardships we went through all finally bore fruit.

While the reunion took place, nobody took notice of the figure that came jogging around the corner, it seems that the two years had been in favor to Akane Tendo, her hair had grown back to the length that it was before Ryoga accidentally cut it, her height had increased to a little higher than Ranma had been before he left and her bust rivaled that of Shampoo and her sister Nabiki's.

She was currently lost in deep thought; said thoughts were more about a certain pigtailed baka and the recent two years since his disappearance than anything else.

Where is that jerk! This is all his fault, everything was fine until he left, even Nabiki cant find him and she's got lots of people looking for him. He'd better not come back otherwise i'll show him why i'm the best in Nerima

She was quickly snapped out of her thoughts when she came up towards a man on the floor with his arms around a woman who she instantly recognized as Nodoka, anger flooded through the young Tendo as she saw that she was crying, she rushed up with her trusty mallet in hand ready to deal damage to (in her eyes) a molester.

End Chapter 1

(1) see Ranma 1/2 viz book #31

(2) i'm home mother

(3)Welcome home

WOAH! It's been nearly a year since I published this ¬¬! I'd noticed that most people said that Amnar was a rubbish name so I've changed it to Ranryu instead.

Please R+R. your comments + critism are most welcome as it will help with future chapters