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
Somewhat AU in places.
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"Speech"
'Thinking'
"Mysterious voices"
(Authors note)
(AN: I'd like to thank to all those who either viewed or left reviews, I couldn't believe it when I saw the hits go over 2000, I know that this chapter is late and I'll try and complete chapter 3 soon as possible,
On another note, I'd like it to be known than writing fights are one of my weak points and I refuse to copy fights that are done in other fics so that mine will work, how will I be able to get better when I'm copying and changing someone else's work?
So this is in advance, if my fight scenes aren't good, well, that's the best I can get it.
With that said and done, now onto chapter 2.)
Icarian Wings
Chapter 2
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--Last time--
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.
--Now--
Of course at the time of the young Tendo's decision, Nodoka was crying freely as she was hugging her son, two years of patience was worth the wait for this moment, her son had returned with a wife and Grandchildren.
'Wait a moment… grandchildren!' was the instant thought that broke through Nodoka's mother/son reunion, she looked up to the four children that were staring intently at her and let off a scream that was filled with joy.
Unfortunately for the family, Akane mistook that for a scream filled with terror that further pushed her resolve to 'bash the molester'. As she was a few feet away from striking distance Akane let off a cry of retribution that caught the attentions of everyone present.
When the war cry reached the ears of Ranma, he instantly rolled over so that his mother was underneath him; with that she would be protected from whoever was attacking them but he didn't expect that his attacker would be his former fiancée.
'Akane!' Thought Ranma incredulously as he saw Akane in the air with a mallet ready, he darted his head towards Feena's direction with a look that she nodded in response.
Feena leaped into the air and threw three knifes which embedded into the surface of the mallet, forcing it from the younger Tendo's hands, her hand went to her waist side as she unhooked the her whip and lashed it towards Akane, effectively binding her and harshly bringing her to the floor.
Ranma urged his kids to follow him as he picked his mother up and went to one side; Nodoka was confused by this and looked at Ranma who shook his head.
"It's best to give Feena some room"
Akane was in a state of shock, the one minute she was about to smash Nodoka's offender only to find herself on the floor bound by a whip and her mallet on the other side of the walkway, he thoughts were broken when someone walked into her line of vision, it was Feena, said person held the whip tightly as she looked down at the fallen girl.
Akane shot the woman a glare "what do you think you're doing? Why did you tie me up when there's a molester doing something perverted!"
Feena returned the glare with her own "that "molester" you're referring to happens to be my husband and I'd appreciate it if stop accusing him of something that he didn't do"
Akane's glare ceased as she now stared at the woman in shock. This woman was allowing her husband to do perverted things? 'And to auntie of all people'
This caused her anger to come back, now higher than before she got up on her feet and strained against the whip that bound her, trying to break out of its hold.
Feena saw this attempt and decided to amuse the girl; she held the whip handle loosely which allowed Akane to break free, doing so also let the whip handle being pulled free from her hand, Feena put on a fake look of surprise which made the youngest Tendo smirk.
Akane looked at the surprised face of her opponent and smirked, using this to her advantage she ran up to Feena and launched a roundhouse kick aiming for her head, the smirk was erased when her opponent bent backwards into a handstand.
Akane may have gotten faster and stronger in two years, but Feena had years of experience of fighting due to her adventures. Feena used her legs to trap the offending leg between hers and used her leverage to launch Akane towards where Ranma, Nodoka and the Children are.
The younger Tendo managed to flip and land on her feet only inches from Nodoka who was out of Ranma's arms and currently holding Ranryu, fussing over him as much as she could while keeping an eye on the fight. Akane however completely forgot about her earlier concern for Nodoka as she concentrated on her opponent.
'What's going on? Why aren't my attacks hitting! I've been trained by not only Ryoga, but by my father and Mr. Saotome, I should be the best in Nerima' Thought Akane while she recovered, a thought sprung to mind when she remembered what Genma told her if she was by herself and in a situation of being beated.
'I guess I have no choice, this'll teach her not to mess with me.
Ranma's senses was always on incase of an ambushed attack, but was surprised when Akane's body seemed to just disappear along with her aura.
'What the! She knows the Umi-Sen-Ken! But how… OYAJI! That idiot! He actually taught someone like Akane those techniques!'
He focused his senses to the area that the fight was taking place, he pin pointed Akane behind his wife.
"FEENA! BEHIND YOU!" shouted Ranma
He was a little too late as Feena, who was thrown off by Akane disappearing, was hit repeatedly in the back by one of the basic moves of the Umi-Sen-Ken.
Feena let out a gasp of pain as she knelt on all fours; she managed to turn her head round before she got kicked towards her husband.
Akane let of a laugh as she saw the woman try to get back up, even though Feena wasn't flat on the floor she didn't seem to show the look surprise if she was, she went over to the recovering Feena and floored her with an axe kick, seemingly bringing Feena to an unconscious state.
"That's what you get for messing around with the best" said an arrogant Akane.
"That's funny" a voice said with humor, Akane looked up and saw the man that was "molesting" Nodoka, her glare returned as she got into a loose battle stance
"what's funny?" as asked
Ranma laughed a little "about you being the best. I'm pretty sure the last I looked, the person to beat was a lad named Ranma Saotome"
Akane's anger rose a bit at the mention of the pigtail martial artist's name
"What about that pervert!" growled Akane "he ran away two years ago and hasn't been seen since! I'm now stronger than before so that baka won't stand a chance against me, so that makes me the best!"
Ranma sighed while shaking his head "There's a saying that I'm most particularly fond of, you know what that is?"
By the look on Akane's face he knew that she didn't care
"I'll say it anyway, the saying is "to be the best, you've got to beat the best" and by what you told me, Ranma in my opinion is still the best since you've yet to beat him"
The last comment did the job as Akane ran towards Ranma with the intention of dealing severe harm to him, she was about to hit him when she paused in mid punch, the reason? Nodoka was standing in front of Ranma, while facing Akane with a hard look on her face, Ranryu was by her side clutching the leg part of her kimono.
"Don't you dare harm him Miss Tendo, otherwise you'll know what true fear is like" she threatened while a hand was on the sheath of her katana
Akane took a step back by Nodoka's threat "A-Auntie? Why are you defending this molester? He was trying to take advantage of you a while ago"
Nodoka had a disgusted look on her face "you must have some imagination there Akane, do you think that I'm incapable of defending myself against molesters and rapists?" she unsheathed her sword and swung it towards Akane, the young Tendo closed her eyes with her arms crossed in front of her face fearing the worst.
when a few second went by she heard the sound of a sword being sheathed, she opened her eyes a little, then all the way, she blew a sigh of relief then saw a few strands of hair on her arms, a familiar bluish black colour.
Dread filled her and then left as she felt behind her neck to find that her hair was the same length as before, Nodoka coughed politely to get Akane's attention.
"Now that we've got that out of the way, Akane dear, please tell me why you think that my son would try to molest me?"
Akane blinked at that "what do you mean you son? The pervert isn't…." she stopped to look at the child holding onto Nodoka's kimono then to the man behind her, the boy and the man's facial features looked nearly identical, as if the older man was a future version of the boy.
She put two and two together and her face grimaced "R-Ranma!
Ranma sweat-dropped when his mother said his name.
'Maybe she wont make the connection?' that hope was dashed when Akane said his name with full recognition on her face 'Great, she figured me out but could never figure out Ryoga' "Yo, Akane, how's it going?" he said with his hand in a waving gesture.
"Ranma! You BAKA! Where the hell have you been for the past two year! Do you have any idea what I've been through when you left?" shouted Akane, her fists clenching tight.
"I couldn't help it Akane, I was somewhere else at the time, looking for my brother" replied Ranma, trying to get Mt. Akane to cool down (fat chance! ¬¬!)
"NO EXCUSES! YOU'RE COMING BACK WITH ME TO THE DOJO TO SORT THIS MESS OUT!" Akane made a rush towards Ranma again to try and knock him out while completely ignoring Nodoka's previous warning.
Ranma moved the children and his mother to one side as Akane brandished another Mallet, only this one seemed to resemble a modified war hammer, Ranma got into a low combat stance as the war hammer descended, Ranma threw a punch which connected with the war hammer, breaking the head off in the process.
Akane was in shock, her mallet always worked on Ranma, but somehow he managed to destroy it.
"A tip while fighting an opponent Akane, never repeat your moves, that way your opponent will find a weak point." She heard Ranma say. She looked at the pigtailed martial artist with cold eyes, she wasn't about to be intimidated by a boy that she beat on a regular basis before he left.
She growled and slipped into a stance that was familiar to Ranma, 'Ryoga uses that, could she be trying…' the train of thought was stopped when his eye saw movement from behind Akane, he held back a laugh as he knew that Akane wouldn't get a chance to pull off whatever she was planning.
"Oh, and another tip while fighting an opponent Akane, never turn your back" deadpanned Ranma as he pointed behind her.
"Now I'm REALLY angry!"
Akane turned around to see Feena up on her feet and cracking the whip towards her
'h-how?' were her last thoughts before she lost consciousness.
When she saw Akane hit the floor and didn't move, Feena sighed as she put her whip back on her hip, she was about to speak, but a scream of rage stopped her from doing so, she knew that it couldn't have been Akane since she's lying on the floor unconscious.
Her danger sense went of as she twisted her whole body around to face whatever it was; a figure was descending with an umbrella poised straight for her.
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Ryoga was not having the best of days, first he got lost in the middle of the night trying to find the bathroom, then he manage to find Akane in the Tendo living room (granted to him that's not a bad thing). When he was asked by Akane to join her on a jog in the early morning, he was ecstatic, not only could he spend time with the love of his life (unbeknownst to her though) but he could protect her encase of an ambushed brought on by the girls that are out to hurt her.
But that moment wasn't long lived, as soon as Akane turned a corner he went the opposite way, he wasn't quite sure when Nerima developed a rain forest, but he knew that he needed to get back to Akane as soon as possible, so he did something that most people would call a miracle for him, he turned to way he came and ran as fast as he could.
Ryoga manage to make it back to the area that he was when Akane turned the corner, just in time to see his beloved try to take a random bloke's head off
'Must've tried to do something to her' thought Ryoga.
His face mirrored that of Akane's when the man broke the head of the war hammer with just his fist.
But what got his blood boiling was when Akane confirmed the older man to be his sworn enemy, followed by the Woman that was on the floor getting up and knocking out Akane with her whip.
'RANMA! That no good bastard! How dare they hurt Akane, she must be one of the fiancées that have been targeting her, I'll show them'
Unlike Ranma, Ryoga didn't have a problem with fighting the opposite gender, especially since he had to fight the aquatransexual martial artist quite often in his female form before he disappeared.
The lost boy reached for his umbrella from subspace that he'd recently learnt from Mousse, leapt into the air with a scream of rage with the umbrella poised downwards with both hands on the handle, time seemed to slow down for Ryoga as he neared the woman.
While Feena could hold her own in a fight, her sixth sense that had saved her live on numerous adventures wasn't quick enough to sense the lost boy, she could only look on as the seething Ryoga was plummeting down towards her, she wasn't sure if her eyes were hazy or if time was slowing down because Ryoga seemed to be gradually slow down to a sudden stop in mid air with his fangs barred and his face in a rage.
Confusion took over Feena's face for a while until she noticed a bright green light followed by small bluish balls of light being spread across the area. She turned around after the green light had died down to see her husband who had a hand out with his palm facing the lost boy, he attention was then focused towards Nodoka who was currently kneeling down was as stiff as a statue with her front away from them, a few whines were heard from around Nodoka as Ranma started to laugh.
"Papa, couldn't you have waited until we were out of grandma's reach when you did that" whined Ranryu, his siblings agreed whole heartedly as Nodoka had all four children in her arms in a protective manner, all were trying to scramble out of the embrace but to no avail they couldn't.
Ranma could only laugh as he helped Feena who was favouring her right leg.
"Ranma, maybe we should've kept quiet until we've recovered from getting here, that jump did take a lot out of us and you went ahead and used one of the other three to freeze everything."
Ranma, who was now breathing hard, could only agree with his wife.
"Yeah, maybe we should've, if we had then Ryoga wouldn't have gotten an advantage over you. I know you're strong but a long time has gone past since I was last here and knowing Ryoga he had probably doubled his strength and techniques to a point where he could beat the old me down without even trying"
Feena remained silent as they rescued their children from Nodoka, the Bow on Nodoka-chan's top detached itself and started to circle Ranma's head while letting off an angry noise before setting down on his head.
"Sorry Puffy, forgot to mention to mom in the introduction"
"Poooooof! Poof, poooooof, poooof!"
"How was I supposed to know that she thought that you were an accessory?"
"Poof poooof, poof poof!"
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry, I'll make it up to you later ok?"
Puffy let of a happy "Poof" before jumping off Ranma's head and going back to Nodoka-chans' uniform.
The pigtailed Saotome gently picked up his frozen mother and lead Feena and their children into the Saotome house.
Once inside, Ranma took Nodoka into the living room and placed her down on the settee, Feena came and sat down next to him while Ranryu, Kojiro, Kikuko and Nodoka-chan were wondering around the room taking in the sights, Nodoka-chan was fascinated by the collection of katana's that Nodoka had bought
'Must be karma' mused Ranma as he saw the wide-eyed Nodoka-chan by the Katana's.
Puffy had removed itself from Nodoka-chan and made a landing on Ranryu's head. Ranryu, Kojiro and Kikuko were currently looking at the photos that were on display, there were two in particular that had caught their interest more than the others.
Kikuko was looking at a picture that had two young adults and a child around the same age as them, Kikuko giggles as she recognises the child "Wow, look at that nii-chan, you look just like him"
"No I don't nee-chan I've got green hair"
"Kojiro-nii-chan no Baka! I'm talking to Ryu-nii-chan"
Ranryu in particular was focusing on a different picture altogether, this one was laminated while in a clear box, the picture itself showed that of two newborns with glowing green wings being held by their mother.
Ranryu took the picture and made his way to Ranma, who had his hand on Nodoka's head which was started to glow a bright blue, for a couple of seconds nothing happened until her fingers started twitching, the arms were next as they started to relax, after a few more seconds Nodoka was moving again.
The Saotome Matriarch stood up and started to stretch, casually popping bones that were sore, when she was done Nodoka sat back down next to her son, occasionally looking at Puffy
"Ranma, what was is that you did a while ago? I couldn't move my body but I could still see and hear what was going on around me, has this got something to do with what we talked about two years ago?" asked Nodoka, who was now paying her full attention on Ranma.
The pigtailed martial artist sighed as he realised that this was going to take a long time to explain. "Mom, remember on that day two years ago? When I left you that note saying that the old freak may have a way of finding my brother, in fact I was correct in a way"
---Flashback – two years ago---
Ranma took one more look at his mother's house as he leaped from rooftop to rooftop, his mind set on one thing, "Happosai"
After the battle with Saffron, the pigtailed martial artist had developed an ability to sense the Ki of most of the martial artists, each one in their own uniqueness, during a past scan on the old pervert Ranma had noticed that unlike the battle aura that Happosai puts out, the scan had shown him something that was completely opposite to the lustful aura that he's used to seeing.
'That aura, it seems to be more passive and spiritual than anger and lust'
Ranma's line of thought was interrupted when said passive and spiritual aura was sensed not too far from where he was
'There it is, where is it coming from?' he searched around his current area, some parts he looked were weaker but he eventually looked to a direction that seemed to be the strongest 'that's the direction of the school, heh, maybe the old letch is starting earlier than he usually does'
The rest of the roof hopping was done in silence, his mind gradually focusing on the soul of ice, becoming cold and calculating while wondering what he would do and what would happen once he arrived at the school
--- Furinkan High School---
Happosai, the grandmaster of the anything goes school was having the time of his life; the bag on his back was fuller than usual "What a haul! What a haul! Starting early does have its advantages after all" was the gleeful cry from the grandmaster as he made his way towards Furinkan high; he made a pit stop first by a block of flats to "liberate" the unfortunate victims of their underwear.
Next was a Laundromat, there he struck lucky when women that thought that going to an outside source in the early hours of the morning will save their underwear from the residential pervert… they were wrong, within a few minutes they were pillaged from right beneath their noses.
When the dubbed "evil master" of Soun and Genma arrived at the school, he was there just in time to see the arrival of students, most of them being the female variety, just as he was about to perform his daily ritual of zooming past and flipping the girls' skirts his detected something coming straight towards him.
'Must be Ranma, makes a change for him to be up early, ho ho ho, I'll get to see my Ranma-chan, what an excellent way to start the day' thought Happosai with a cheerful smile.
He didn't have to wait long until the pigtailed prodigy arrived, his eyes staring intently at the aged martial artists own
"Ranma my boy, it's good to see you" he pulls out a pail of water and a pair of female underwear "maybe you could entertain me and put these on for me"
He didn't get an answer as Ranma kept on staring at him, a few minutes passed with no word from either of them.
A crowd had started to form around the two, seeing the aged pervert and the aquatransexual staring each other down surely meant that something good or bad was about to happen
"Jiji! You've got something that I need, I suggest that you hand it over" demanded Ranma
"Oh? And what that might be?" teased Happosai
"I'll tell you after I beat you" Ranma didn't leave time for Happosai to react as he dived towards him with the intention of making the fight last as short as possible.
Happosai dodged effortlessly out of the way, leaving Ranma to crash into the gate wall
'This isn't like him to do this, granted that he usually does intend to rush head first into things, but something must be bothering him to act like this'
The elder man made his way over to the pigtailed boy who was getting up from his collision
"Tell me Ranma, what's got you out of your usual character? You don't seem to have your usual aura of confidence, and your dive then was completely telegraphed to the point where I'd be going against a novice martial artist!" said Happosai while becoming slightly angered with Ranma not responding.
The silence lasted a bit longer before Ranma spoke "if you want to know that badly, then I'll tell ya, recently after the battle with Saffron, I've been having these.. dreams, in them I'm in an unknown land staring up at this behemoth of an insect" Happosai slightly raised an eyebrow "the insect had three huge wings and tentacles that were trying its damnest to get me no matter what"
The aged pervert's eyes started to widen as the descriptions started to make him think of past memories.
While he was reminiscing Ranma carried on "if you think that's weird, just wait till you hear what happened before that, I originally started out in a vast field, the trees and flowers there seemed to be at it's peak of life, anyone could get lost with the tranquillity that was being projected from there 'at times I wish that happened here'"
The last he thought to himself.
By this time the student body around the two had doubled, one of them was Nabiki who was listening to Ranma's "story" with hopes of using this information against him and relieve him of his money to keep this quiet.
Ranma, who sensed that Nabiki was amongst the students was at first wary, but then realised that once this matter was settled he wouldn't have to deal with Nabiki 'hopefully for a looong time' he thought.
Ranma continued on "So there I was in the middle of this field where all of a sudden….."
"Everything turns to stone" finished Happosai, who was now on the receiving end of a socked and bewildered look from Ranma.
"H-how did you know?"
The aged martial artist let of a light laugh as he lit up his pipe.
"I know more than you need to know, how bout a little challenge? 'Knowing the lad, he'd want a way to get there, the only thing I can think of that has that capability is the Nanban mirror, heh, if he wants the mirror I might as well let him work for it'
The mood that Ranma was in before seemed to vanish as his original personality came back in full swing along with his confident smirk "Ok old freak, I'm in, you'd better go all out cuz I'm not gonna hold back"
Happosai smiled while nodding at Ranma's declaration
"If that's what you want m'boy then I'm not going to hold back like I usually do, this will be your test sort a speak, if you can defeat me while I'm going all out, I'll give you the Nanban mirror and tell you what I know"
Ranma did a back-take at this 'H-how did he... I'll ask him later, knowing the old perv he might've guessed that I want the mirror to get to Ranryu'
Both combatants got into their stances, Ranma's stance was meant for both speed and power, while Happosai was in a small crouch with his pipe at the ready.
The pair seemed to stand there without moving an inch; it was as if they knew that the first person to move would have the disadvantage, a disadvantage that Ranma didn't want to be in as he reached into his pocket and chucked something towards Happosai.
Ranma rushed forwards to catch the old man off guard but a forceful punch to the chest sent him flying past the gates and into the school yard.
"I won't be easily distracted like that Ranma!" exclaimed Happosai, in his hand was the object that Ranma had thrown "But thank you for the gift anyway m'boy, silk was always my favourite" he finished as he put the undergarments inside his Gi.
Ranma looked on in shock 'no way! The perv wasn't distracted like he usually is?'
From then on Ranma had to rethink his strategy over, but since Happosai was darting towards him he decided to wing it and see if he could catch him off guard, so he charged towards him.
For the next 5 minutes the two went at it, whether it was dodging a punch, a hit getting through or capitalising on the mistakes that they made, each move made the crowd around them look on in awe.
Meanwhile, Nabiki was taking bets on the outcome on the fight; she wasn't able to take many bets since most of the spectators were focusing on the fight to take notice
Ranma backed off when Happosai connected to his mid section with a hard kick combo, a sharp shooting pain spread through his ribs, his hand gingerly drifted to his ribs and winched as the pain increased.
'damnit! This is gonna set me back a bit, but what can I do now?'
For the first time since he could remember, Ranma was starting to become frustrated
'I need the mirror to get to Ranryu'
Happosai saw the look of pain on Ranma's face and a hand on one of his ribs "Ranma, how about you give it a rest for a while, your ribs seem to be bro…"
"NEVER!" shouted the pigtailed boy, cutting Happosai off in mid sentence.
The crowd started to back off as Ranma's aura flared, most of the students that were closest to the action had to cover their eyes due to the brightness of the young Saotome's aura.
The aged martial artist shook his head while he puffed on his pipe 'The boy is really going all out on this, but that wont be enough to beat me'
"Listen m'boy, even if you come at me with an aura like that, it's not going to do anything against mine" his usual aura was replaced by another which radiated a kind of serene feeling, one that didn't suit the pervert to those that knew him.
"Let's see if you can go against this Spirit aura" announced Happosai as he charged towards the young Saotome.
"Bring it on old man" countered Ranma as he headed back into the battle, his blue aura blazing around him.
The next few minutes could only be described as a one sided fight, never before had anyone seen Ranma being manhandled like he is now, anything that he tried against the old pervert was countered and returned double than what was given out, the fight progressed towards the sports field.
In an attempt of desperation, Ranma tried to lure Happosai into the Hiryu Shoten Ha, all attempts of angering the old man was trounced upon as a kick to the face sent Ranma next to the field that was mainly used for Basketball and football.
'Is-is this all I can do?' thought Ranma, who was getting back up sluggishly, his right arm dangling at its side while his left hand was holding his ribs
'Maybe the perv's right, what if I'm never to beat him, with that Spirit aura that he's using, I'll never beat him, am – am I gonna lose?'
Ranma slapped himself hard when he thought of that
'NO! I absolutely refuse, I'm Ranma Saotome and I never lose, especially to a panty loving pervert like Happosai'
"Is that all you've got there boy! If that's all then there's no point in giving you the mirror" taunted Happosai 'c'mon boy, I know you can do it'
Something snapped inside Ranma's mind, he was bloodied, battered and had several broken bones, but he wasn't beaten yet, not by a long shot.
Instead of his usual blue aura, a bright green aura exploded around him, making some of the student step back in fear while the others were forced onto their backsides.
Happosai looked on with mixed feelings of fright and joy, joy for Ranma finally letting loose and fright from the eerie voice that came from the pigtailed martial artist
"Oh spirits of red! Use the furious flames to crush evil into dust!"
The students of Furinkan high were frightened by what happened next, at first there was nothing, then the wind started to pick up around the young Saotome, at first they thought that a Hiryu Shoten Ha was coming, but that thought was diminished when a whirlwind of fire enveloped both Ranma and Happosai
Meanwhile on the inside, the aged martial artist was experiencing pain that was on a whole different level than before while the pigtailed prodigy was seemingly unaffected by the flames that were lashing around his body.
What seemed to last for a life time for Happosai only lasted for a minute as the flaming whirlwind started to disperse, as the fire tornado died down the sight of an unconscious Happosai was all that Ranma could remember before blacking out, the pain and exhaustion from the fight taking its toll.
End Chapter 2
Next chapter: Revelations
--Miniscule sneak preview--
"On that day the spirits wept, the tragedy that fell upon the newborn Icarians was one that made the spirits cry out for the ages, I'm just glad that you survived"
Ranma looked a bit skeptic before responding back
"Well that doesn't explain how you know about me, by the sounds of things it's a lot more than I thought, what's you're involvement in this?"
The aged man laughed gently as he looked Ranma dead square in the eyes
"My involvement in this is more than you think m'boy, it's because I'm….."
--End sneak preview--
WOAH! I hadn't expected the chapter to be this long in all honesty I was only looking for just under 3000 – 2500 words or so but never 5000! This is my longest chapter to date.
Anyway, hope you all enjoyed the 2nd chapter, remember that reviews, whether they're flames, constructive criticism or praises are always welcome.
