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)

Icarian Wings

Chapter 3: Revelations

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--Last time--

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.

--Now--

As the fire tornado dispersed the viewers that had gathered around could only look on in disbelief, the ground beneath Ranma and Happosai and the surrounding area was damaged as that of a battle zone in world war 2, the grass was still burning and parts of the equipment that was caught within the fire tornado was melted to slag.

Strangely enough none of the equipment that was caught within the tornado suffered the same fate; it was as if the parts that were missing had been sliced clean off.

The two perverted idiots as proclaimed by the student body, Daisuke and Hiroshi, were amongst the crowd made their way to help their friend, but as soon as they got anywhere near Ranma, a flash of light erupted from the unconscious body of Happosai, the light made its way to the body of the young Saotome and enveloped it, the light was so bright it made Daisuke and Hiroshi step back to a point where they could see again.

One the light had faded, the two unconscious bodies were no where to be seen, after a while, the crowd dispersed as the final bell for classes started to ring.

While no one may have noticed at first but where the grass had been scorched, fresh blades of grass were growing at a fast rate.

---Couple of hours later---

Ranma groggily awoke to the sounds of movement and the sound of a very familiar voice

"Ah! Good to see that you're finally awake, for a moment there I thought that you weren't gonna wake up"

'That voice, it can't be, shouldn't he…'

Ranma quickly sat up as soon as he recognised the voice, he regretted that as his head started to throb in pain and his tired muscles aching, but none the less right there in front of him puffing on his pipe was Happosai.

"Take it easy there m'boy, you used up too much spirit energy that I thought and it's taken a toll on your body"

Thoughts of what happened before he blacked out rushed back to him, the fight, Happosai using an aura that dwarfed his own in both power and spiritual sense and the sudden rush of energy that he felt when he created the fire tornado.

"End of the World"

Ranma jumped as he heard the voice, he looked around to see if anyone else was with Happosai, but he couldn't see anyone.

The aged pervert noticed this as he raised an eyebrow; he jumped up next to Ranma and tried to stop the boy from moving around.

"Ranma, don't move your head that quickly, you'll regret it later on when you start to see things"

That comment made the young Saotome snort as he laid his head down

"Heh! That wouldn't be so bad; at least it'll give me a face to the voices that I've been hearing old man"

"Ooooh, you're hearing voices are you, tell me would they happen to sound like this?"

Happosai's face turns placid as his eyes turn completely white

"End of the world"

Ranma had a look of disbelief on his face, thoughts started to click in place, the voices, the fact that the voices sounded like the old pervert's, also the fact that Happosai knew exactly what happened in his dreams finally made the young Saotome realise how he got them in the first place.

"It was you! You put those dreams in my head! Why'd you do that?"

Happosai's face returned to normal, he sat down on the side of the make-shift bed that Ranma was on.

"Indeed it was me, but In all honesty I had a feeling that you'd be the one that I was searching for, but I didn't want to just go and ask you directly, doing so would've gotten the two idiots on my back"

Ranma nodded at that, even he knew that if the old man were to find out what Happosai was asking him, he'd go on about how he's a normal lad

"So, how did you know that it was me that you were looking for? Why didn't you do this dream thing earlier?"

"The reason why I couldn't use dreams to find you in the first place was due to a little problem in China, a problem that you extinguished a little while ago I believe."

"Saffron? What does he have to do with trying to find me?"

"Quite more than you think, Saffron is not only the guardian of the Phoenix tribe, his duty is to make sure that all living things on this planet are protected, why else do you think that all tribes call him a god?"

That got Ranma thinking, during the incident at Jusendo when Saffron blamed him for the future suffering of his people, a twinge of guilt passed through him, and now he knew why.

"I never thought about that until now actually, so what was he doing to interfere with finding me?"

"Since Saffron is the protector of both the Phoenix and living creatures, it's his job to make sure that if some one is looking for a type of creature, or in this case, Icarian, he block out all means of locating said creature."

Happosai took a break to puff on his pipe; he waited a while for the information to be absorbed by the young Saotome.

"It's ironic in a way; the person that Saffron was protecting was the one to end his current carnation, it was only then could I try and find you until he reached a certain age, I was about to give up altogether until a while ago when that little encounter happened "

Happosai paused long enough for Ranma to ask a question that's been bugging him

"Speaking of which, what was the move that I did? It was different compared to when I'm using my Chi. And what exactly IS an Icarian anyway?"

"hohoho, why, you are m'boy. An Icarian is a half Spirit, half Human creature; they are like the go-between for both Spirits and Humans as they can talk to both Spirits and Humans. As for your move, that is the most powerful of Icarian Attacks, It is named "End of the World" when you used it at the sports field, you only tapped into a small portion of the power that End of the world can deliver"

That made even Ranma shiver, what would happened if he would release it when he was a full power.

'Ironically it would be the end of the world' a sudden remembrance of the baby photo of him and Ranryu decided his next question for Happosai

"What about the wings? You had mentioned that you knew about me and these wings that I had, what can you tell me about that?"

"It depends how much you want to know, I could tell you what exactly happened on the day of your birth, or I could tell you about the past and the uniqueness that your wings possess"

Ranma thought for a while before answering with a specific question in mind

"How about, you tell me about the day Ranryu and I was born and how he died"

Happosai nodded

"I had a feeling that you might ask about that, but before I start I've got a question to ask you. When we fought you notice the Spirit aura that I was using. I'm sure that with your mind working at full rate during the battle, you were able to figure out how to generate the spirit aura"

Ranma was hesitant to respond at first, but since Happosai was going to tell him about what happened on the day of his birth he decided to humour the old man.

"I could see the aura coming off you when I was at my mother's house, I followed it to the school and then during the fight when you increased it, I noticed that I did the same thing while against Saffron"

"And what was it that you noticed?"

The young Saotome had his trademark smirk on his face as he replied.

"The fact that I was able to manipulate the wind spirits to create the Hiryu Shoten Ha's that both killed Saffron and saved Akane. The first clue that I got was that I didn't create a spiral to twist the cold and hot auras together; the one that I used before I killed Saffron was normal since I made an ice spiral on the ground and his fire fuelled it."

Happosai nodded at what Ranma was saying, his own smirk reflected that of Ranma's

'Incredible, even before he knew about spirit energy, he used it subconsciously'

"What else did you notice? How was I able to create it?"

Ranma blinked in surprise before responding

"That, I really don't know, you're the only person that I've felt using something like that; I don't even think that the old ghoul can do what you did"

"Ah cologne-chan, she has for ages since we met again tried to figure out how to generate one, but unfortunately she can't and will never be able to. Only you can achieve something like that and if she catches wind of it, then she'll double her efforts to get you back to China with Shampoo" Happosai clenched his fist in anger at the prospect of that happening

That made Ranma grimace; he couldn't possibly imagine spending the rest of his life in a remote section of China being surrounded by women that think all men are below them and are only used for producing heirs for the next generation.

"There's not a chance in hell of that happening, I'll have to die first!"

Ranma calmed down a bit before he carried on with answering Happosai's earlier question.

"While I'm not so sure on how you did it, but I did see the air ripple enough when you charged up for that kick, it wasn't the kick that sent me flying though, it felt more like being blown back by a force ten gale. So I'm gonna assume that you manipulated the nature around you to get your spirit aura."

Happosai shook his head, while his thoughts were that of amazement and disbelief.

"I can't believe how many times you've manage to amazed me m'boy, you winged manipulating the nature spirits on three separate occasions, all of those times were when you were desperate to win, you've even seen me do it but you never figured out how to generate a spirit aura."

Ranma looked a bit sheepish as he scratched the back of his head, he couldn't help but let off a weak laugh.

"Anyway, I'll leave that till later, you wanted to know what happened on the day of your birth and I'm going to tell you"

Ranma was listening intently to what the old man was going to say, he was preparing himself for any shocks that Happosai would throw at him.

"Now, before I get to that day, there's something that you need to know that all Icarians have in common, and that is that they're all born with this gene, more like a virus called a Gaia Taint"

'Gaia Taint? What the hell is a…'

Ranma's thoughts were cut off as Happosai continued

"Before you start asking, Gaia is a man made thing that was created by abusing these special stone that were created by the spirits, and ironically they were called Spirit stones.

The Humans who were envious of the Icarians decided that they wanted their own wings, which further fuelled their appetite for power and greed.

When Gaia was created a battle was fought, for too long did it lasted with a lot of human casualties, eventually Gaia was fought back into a state of suspended animation, but doing so claimed the lives of the two Icarians that fought it."

"So what where does the Gaia taint come into this? I mean if they died before they had kids, then they wouldn't have to worry bout that right?" asked Ranma, he received a grave shake of the head from Happosai who started to talk.

"It was when they came into contact with Gaia did he infect them with the Gaia taint, it doesn't even matter if they bore no offspring, you see, embryos that are blessed by the spirits can become Icarians, it doesn't matter if you don't have the same bloodline, Icarians are born when a crisis is near, so there must be a reason why destiny spat you out" finished off Happosai, He looked up at Ranma to see if it was ok for him to continue. With a nodding verification from Ranma, Happosai got to the point.

"It was the hour after you two were born; I had managed to get a lock on your spirit trails since the energy that was pouring off you both" 'now that I think of it, I guess that's why Genma put you through so many insane martial art techniques.' The last part Happosai thought to himself

"It wasn't until both your energy signatures were separate did I start to worry, it was important for the twins to remain next to each other otherwise bad things would happen, this of course was no exception"

"I arrived too late as the surgeon separated the last wing, there was a surge of Spirit energy and the removal of such an amount activated the taint that Gaia had implanted and effectively killed your brother sigh and at such a very young age"

Ranma had a shocked look on his face, to think that because of the taint that Gaia had put on all Icarians

"So when Ranryu died, it wasn't only just the surgery that killed him, it was the backlash of this Gaia things power that did it?"

Happosai nodded to Ranma's question

"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 not really who you think I am."

"Really? So there's another person the same age as you, who loves going around and stealing women's underwear?" deadpanned Ranma with a disbelieving look on his face

"NO! You little whelp! I'm a Spirit!" shouted Happosai as he smacked Ranma upside the head with his pipe.

"If you're a spirit, then where's the old pervert?" asked Ranma who was nursing an additional bump on his head

"Unfortunately, or rather fortunately for everyone, he died when Soun and Genma trapped him in the cave."

Happosai took a moment to study Ranma's face; it still held a look of disbelief.

"What? Do you actually think that someone could survive being in an explosion and sealed in a cave with no way of getting out and so source of sustenance?"

Ranma's look of disbelief disappeared; now that he thought about it, there was no way that anyone could survive that.

"Ok, that I agree with, but how come you've taken a resemblance of the old perv? I though spirits have no natural form?

"Oh that! It was when the old timer was on the verge of death that I appeared before him. His mind was a blank as he had lost the will to live, so I had a proposition for him, if I possessed his body and let his soul rest in peace; I'd find him an heir that would make his school proud"

For some reason, Ranma had a feeling of where this was heading.

"Lemme guess, you didn't expect that the person that you were looking for also happened to be the person that you promised Happosai that you'd make him the heir that he dreamed of?"

"Hohohoho, got it in one m'boy"

"Granted that this isn't apart of the teaching of the anything goes school, but to control and manifest a spirit aura, you must pull at the spirits around you so they combine into your own aura, only Icarians or Spirit folk can do this"

Happosai got into a stance and concentrated

"Watch closely this time Ranma! This is how you create a spirit aura"

Ranma stared intently at Happosai as he concentrated, the air around him started to distort and twist until the air made its way into his body, a bluish green aura flared around the spirit man as he looked up at the pigtailed martial artist.

"The second colour of the spirit aura represents the type of spirits that you've channelled, Blue for the air/wind spirits, an all green aura represents earth spirits, while red represents fire spirits. There are others, but I think that you can find them out for yourself."

As the aura diminished, Happosai's breathing started to quicken and his

"I hope you've remembered how to do this m'boy cuz that's the last time I can do that, this body's energy is rapidly going and it won't last for more than five minutes at most"

"What? There must be something that can stop that. What if I turned into a girl? Would that help?"

Happosai was stunned for a moment, Ranma, forsaking his manhood for one grope to save the borrowed body that he was in.

"As much as the old Happosai would enjoy it, but it wouldn't do any good, this was going to happen eventually and I'm glad that I got to meet you and train you before this body gave way. Also, one last thing I need to do, catch!"

Happosai chucked an object at Ranma who caught it, at first confusion entered his mind, but the significance of the object he caught clicked in place, in his hands was the object that he'd wanted of the old man in the first place; the Namban Mirror.

"I think that you may need this for where you're going" said Happosai in an obvious tone.

The young Saotome couldn't be any happier, the mirror was now in his hands all he had to do now was to shed a tear on the mirror and he would be on his way.

"Thanks a lot for this Jiji, I owe you one"

"Nonsense m'boy, it should be me owing you, you have made my soul at peace, now it's time for both of us to get going."

A flash of greenish light surrounded the elder man, when the glow faded all that remained was the Gi of Happosai, the former grandmaster of the anything-goes school of martial arts.

Ranma saw the little green speck that came from the Gi travel towards him; the speck disappeared once it came into contact with Ranma's shirt, a mystical voice was heard in the young Saotome's head

"I'll be watching over you Ranma, the last of this world's Icarians"

Ranma tried to hold back the sadness of Happosai's passing, but the information that the deceased old man had told him about himself was too much to take.

"Goodbye Happosai" were Ranma's farewell words as he shed a tear on the mirror, with the image he remembered during his dream influencing the mirror's effects, Ranma Saotome vanished.

---End Flashback---

"So that's what happened to Happosai, and all this time Genma was worrying ragged about the return of the "evil master" to make his life hell"

Ranma laughed at that, the thought of his father being scared spitless of a dead man coming to haunt him was enough to make him laugh.

"I'd like to see the look on his face if that was possible, now he'll have to deal with someone who's worse than the old man."

A tugging on his trouser leg caused Ranma to look down, there besides him was Ranryu who was holding a framed picture

"Daddy, I was wondering who are these two babies in this picture with Grandma?"

Ranma gently took the picture frame from his youngest son's hands and stared intently at it, a smirk grew on his face a few seconds after he took a look.

"That Ryu, would be myself and your uncle on the day we were born"

Nodoka had a happy look on her face when she heard the word "Grandma", which turned into a puzzled look when the name Ryu was mentioned, she realised that it must've been a nickname for him and this was confirmed by the happy look on Ranryu's face as Ranma ruffled up his hair.

'So much like Ranma was at his age, I wish that Ranryu was ali… speaking of which, where is he?'

Nodoka looked thoughtful for a moment as to approach the topic before she spoke up "My son, what happened over there? You said in the letter that you were certain that Ranryu was still alive, what happened to him?"

The response that Nodoka got was that of Ranma suddenly standing up, picking up Ranryu and hoisting him onto his right shoulder so that he was sitting on it and left the room towards the back yard. Puffy jumped off Ranryu's head and made his way to Feena's head.

At first, Nodoka was angered at this brush off, but then saw the look in her son's eyes, a pain that could only be described by the one that owned them could know

"I guess he still can't get over what happened, even to this day"

Nodoka looked over to Feena who was supporting a sad look; she looked up in surprise when Puffy let off a sad Pooof.

After making a quick memo to herself to ask about Puffy later, Nodoka turned her attention to Feena again.

"Miss Feena, what happened when my son arrived at your world? Something happened to both him and Ranryu, I can see that it's tearing him up from the inside, I'm sure that you'd be like I am if something had happened to one of your children, so please, tell me what happened"

Feena looked at the pleading woman with sympathy in her eyes

"In all honesty Nodoka-san, while I agree that I'd be in the same position as you, I think it's best that Ranma tell you personally, it's not my place to tell"

Nodoka saw the look in Feena's face and couldn't help but nod in agreement, as much as she wanted to, she couldn't bear to possibly open almost healed wounds in Ranma's mental state, all she could do for now is wait until her son to tell her what had happened.

---On top of the Saotome house---

"Dad, why are we on top of here?" asked a curious Ranryu, who was still holding the picture that had both his father and his uncle as newborns being held by his Grandmother.

Ranma, who had been quiet for some time looked at his youngest and cracked a smile

"I thought that by now I'd have gotten over what happened with your uncle, but even to this day I cont forget what happened. And when your grandmother asked about him, I guess I didn't want her to know that I failed in doing what I said I'd do"

Neither one said anything for a few minutes before Ranma spoke

"Just in case you're wondering, there's no one around here besides us and the two statues, so you can drop the charade for the moment Ryu"

The innocent look on the young boy's face changed to a serious look that had years of wisdom behind it.

"When are we gonna tell her Ran? I don't like the idea of lying to her like that"

"Yeah, I don't either; at least Feena will keep a lid on this until we can find them, at least you're back here where you were originally born, even after what we all went through it might be for nought if certain individuals get in the way."

"Those headaches can wait till later, but if they even come in the way to destroy what we're looking for, there WILL be hell to pay"

"Don't worry bout that, if push comes to shove, Feena and I can handle them sigh it's what you would do I'm worried about encase you caught one of them, how the hell you still obtained your personality and attitude from before still bothers me"

"Hah! Maybe it's due to the fact that we're linked like all others before us and that allowed my personality to live on, of course since my soul was somewhat joined with yours, I was still able to live all your experiences but have my own take on it" (1)

Ranma couldn't help but shrug at that, his eyes suddenly narrowed as he slightly looked to the left towards a tree.

"Better go back to acting like a kid again Ryu, I sense that we're not alone anymore"

"Fine then "Dad", but what are you going to do about those two? How long are you gonna leave them there?" asked Ranryu who pointed to the frozen forms of Akane and Ryoga

The pigtailed Icarian had a thoughtful look on his face for a while before his lips widened into a grin and his eyes narrowed evilly

"I've got an idea Ryu, watch closely now"

Ranryu didn't have time to reply as Ranma leaped off the roof and landed on the head of Ryoga.

Ranma smirked as he jumped off his long time rivals and looked up into his eyes

'Good, my landing must've knocked him out; it won't do any good if he knew what I was doing'

Ranma looked over to Akane and he noticed that her eyes were still closed was still unconscious from Feena's attack, she was going to receive a wakeup call that she wont soon forget.

He dragged Ryoga still floating form and placed him a few feet above the unconscious Akane, the umbrella that he was holding was removed and his arms and legs were positioned so that they were straightened out.

Laughing at his little handiwork, Ranma leaped up to the top of the house, picked up Ranryu and hid on the other side of the roof.

Ranryu couldn't help but smirk as where this was leading, he held a thumb up in approval.

'Do it Bro!'

Ranma returned the smirk with his own as he held out his hand out

"Countdown in…. 5…. 4…. 3…. 2… 1"

A green and blue glow surrounded Ranma as he partially floated a few inches above the roof, a set of green wings gleamed into existence which were attached to his back.

Ranma closed his eyes and concentrated on the two figures before the Saotome house, a blue aura surrounded the two as time seemed to speed up for them again, with Ryoga falling towards the unconscious Akane.

Ranma dismissed the wings and hid from view again, awaiting the explosion that was to come, nothing happened for a while until a loud scream of "PERVERT!" was heard, that was quickly accompanied by a slap which was heard by everyone within a few miles.

Twin heads appeared slightly over the rooftop to see an angry Akane standing over a whimpering Ryoga; both were trying to hold their laughter as Ryoga was begging for her forgiveness.

Akane seemed to be a bit redder than before as she was looking away from Ryoga, which was soon forgotten as she looked around the area for something, she went over to Ryoga and shouted something about the pervert and his hussy had kidnapped her, this got Ryoga to stand up with a raged look and promising to use a certain pigtailed martial artist's own pigtail as a noose.

They both started to run towards a direction that was vaguely familiar to Ranma.

'Isn't that the direction that the Tendo Dojo is?'

Ranma didn't pay it anymore attention as he looked back to Ranryu.

"Well, there's no sense in staying out here, might as well go back inside."

Ranryu came out of his laughing fit and he didn't need telling twice as he nodded and got on top of his "Fathers" shoulder.

As they both headed back in to the house one of the trees by the Saotome house rustled as a figure shot out of it, its destination was somewhere within Nerima.

---Ucchans Okanomayaki---

Before the start of the Fiancée war Ucchans Okanomayaki restaurant was always open to the public on the weekend, but due to Ukyo's father arriving to help his daughter that option has now been closed off.

Instead the weekend was spent formulating plans against the other Fiancées in a bit to be the one to rightfully marry the Saotome boy.

In Ukyo's room were herself and her father, Hikaru Kuonji. The elder Kuonji was going through the latest plans of how to catch the Youngest Tendo daughter off side when the sound of a person landing caught their attention.

The Figure that landed revealed itself to be Konatsu the Self proclaimed "Ukyo-sama's Kunoichi" he was breathing heavily after a long run from his position in one of the trees that surrounded the Saotome house.

"Ukyo-Sama. Kuonji-Sama I've found out that Ranma Saotome has come back and is now at his mother's house"

Hikaru Kuonji had a grin on his face as he started to walk out the door

"At last, Ukyo! Get your things ready we're gonna make a trip to the Saotome house, its time to see my son in law"

---Nekohanten---

On top of a wooden pole, a wizened old woman's eyes cracked open which darted to the right, Khu lon, the Matriarch of the Jozetsuzoku Amazons was on top of the Nekohanten viewing her surroundings with her chi before she detected a huge source of chi that had a familiar feeling to it.

'This chi signature… after two years he finally shows up, I wonder who the other five auras belong to? And here I thought there wasn't going to be an end to this war; I think things are going to get more interesting now'

Khu Lon let off a cackle before she pogoed off the roof and into the restaurant, plans need to be made.

---Tendo Dojo---

The Tendo household, a place which has suffered more collateral damage in two years since the war began, this being due to the Tendo dojo being the only dojo within Nerima to have headlined the local newspapers consecutively since Ranma disappeared.

This however had a backlash effect of all the fiancées that Genma engaged to his missing son appearing at the Dojo's doorsteps demanding their future husband.

Inside next to a battered Shoji board were Soun Tendo and Genma Saotome, both were doing the usual tactics of distracting the other to remove some pieces if either one were losing.

"Well Soun old buddy, it's been two years since that worthless son of mine vanished and a year since the boy's problems came to wreak hell upon us."

During the time of Ranma's absence, Genma being Genma put the blame of the fiancées that were popping up everyday on to the head of Ranma by claiming that Ranma himself had arranged the agreements

"Quite so Saotome, when that son of yours gets back, only then can we straighten things out" replied Soun

"That's right Tendo, the sooner the better. Oh what did I deserve to have a dishonourable son such as him? A truly honourable son of mine would do the right thing and marry Akane as soon as he gets back" finished off the older Saotome

The sound of the door opening loudly and twin footsteps running towards them snapped the old men out of their thoughts as they saw both Akane and Ryoga make their way into the main room, both had furious looks on their faces that got both men thinking about what could've happened, the mood that Akane was in was quite clear as she vented her rage by punching holes in the table.

Sound got up before Akane could make more holes in the house "Akane! Ryoga! Stop this instant. What's the meaning of this?"

Akane looked at Soun with a glare that told him not to mess with her, unlike before where Soun would cower under her glare, this time he was only a little intimidated

"Daddy! Mr. Saotome! That perverted Baka has come back, he helped one of his floozies when she was having a fight with me and has run off with her."

The mention of Ranma returning got the hopes of the two old men up; they started to celebrate by cracking open a bottle of Sake and cheering about how the schools were finally going be joined

Their celebration was stopped short as the rest of what Akane had said caught up with their minds; Soun nearly cried a flood while Genma was seething in rage

"Why? oh why Ranma? Why do you do things like this to my darling Akane" wailed Soun (2)

"HE DID WHAT!" shouted Genma, the sake bottle started to crack under the pressure of his grip.

Ryoga dealt the final sentence which pushed Genma over the edge

"And that's not all Mr Saotome, he has also kidnapped your wife"

The lost boy smirked on the inside as the bottle in Genma's hand shattered.

'Let's see how you deal with this now Ranma. This time I WILL send you to hell'

---End Chapter 3---

Next Chapter: Headaches

(1) All will be explained in a later chapter… maybe in an interlude

(2) Just because he's taking the art more seriously now, doesn't mean that he hasn't recovered fully, it's only been 1 year since the wars started remember.

Whew, that's Chapter 3 done, thanks to everyone that either reviewed, author alerted or placed this on their favorites/C2 list.

With the fic now above 6100 hits I'm now more determined to carry on and finish this fic, thanks to Hiryo for allowing this fic to be hosted on his website (see bio for site).

Granted that there was no preview of the next chapter, but what I'm about to say has nothing to do with the next chapter of Icarian Wings but with an old fic of mine. That's right, "Ranma the Devil Hunter" is now being continued.

Some authors that have reviewed it in the past have said that the pairing was quickened and Ranma seems god like, well, I've found a way around that, to find out how, wait till I update the fic.

Till then see ya later