Miss Ranma
!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS"
Chapter Thirteen
At the dawn of the day, Kenji got up from his bed and got dressed for his morning workout, wearing his usual black boots, dark blue, midriff-baring vest and jeans. After walking outside, the powerful young man swung his ki hammer into the air, taking off with it into the sky into the area of the wilderness where he liked to train. Kenji arrived there in a little less than half an hour. His workout consisted of tai chi type katas, lifting large boulders and shattering them. In addition to that, he attempted to uproot a particularly thick tree; he also toughened himself by throwing his hammer several yards away from himself and allowing hit him as it came back. Once the workout was over, Kenji swung his hammer and made his way back home. In a short amount of time, he could see his home.
"I can't get wait until I get home to enjoy Kasumi's cooking," the powerful young man thought to himself happily as he felt the high wind caress his currently aerodynamic body.
After arriving home, Kenji walked inside, making his way to the furo. After checking to make sure the furo was unoccupied, he walked inside, took his clothes off, washed up, and took a dip in the hot water. "Aah! That feels good!"
But as Kenji relaxed he heard a noise. !PLOP! "What was that? I could have sworn I saw a blur or something fly into the water just now."
!SPLASH! "Nihao!" Kenji had a look of shock on his face as a very busty young amazon woman came out of the water right in front of him in all her naked glory. "Is husband happy to see Shampoo?"
"Look, Shampoo," Kenji said, doing his best not to stare too much at the bouncy young woman's, impressive pulchritude that seemed to stand at attention whenever she stood still which was rare. "I'm not your husband. I'm engaged to Ranma."
Then Shampoo's smiling face turned into a pouting frown. "No bring up obstacle. Shampoo train hard near spring, so she more powerful now than before. Shampoo kill Ranma next time she see her."
"Ranma always defeats you, Shampoo. Why don't you go back home? With your good looks, I'm sure you can find someone who would be thrilled to be with you," Kenji replied." "Gosh, she's gorgeous!"
The young girl violently shook her head back and forth, her bosom shaking as well. "Shampoo no want other man. Kenji only man who strong enough for Shampoo. We make strong amazon warriors together."
"Now look..." Kenji stammered as the beautiful young girl moved closer, her amply, impressive physique closing in on his receptive body.
"Hey, what's going on in there!" someone called out from outside of the furo.
"Nothing! I'm almost done, Ranma!"
"You go away, Ranma! Shampoo kill you after making love to airen!"
Kenji looked upon the amazon maiden on top of him with a sense of shock as he heard, "what? I'm coming in there!" !VOOM! In the split seconds available to him before Ranma barged into the bath, Kenji tried to push his unwanted paramour away but ended up touching the two large orbs on the young girl's upper body as Ranma walked in.
"Ranma! I can explain!"
"Giggle!" the girl on top of him laughed.
"Really, Kenji? It's like you're in a candy store. Can't keep your hands off the bonbons, can you?" Ranma said while raising her eyebrows.
"Now, Ranma."
"I can't blame you, Kenji. You have such a huge pair of assets in your hands. You must be enjoying yourself. Gee, she's bigger than me. I'd be envious if I was the jealous type. But I'll leave you two alone." With that Ranma did an about-face and walked out of the furo, closing the door behind her.
"Ranma!" Kenji called out, trying to getting the amorous amazon off of him, slipping into the water in the process.
"Stupid obstacle ruin beautiful moment with fiance. Shampoo get revenge!" The amazon leaped out of the hot water, grabbed a large towel, and speedily put it on, barely covering herself with it. Then she ran out of the furo, smashing through the door and causing Kenji to trip and fall back into the tub again.
"Haiyaah!" the purple-haired girl screamed, charging Ranma full steam ahead.
"Well, here we go again." Ranma moved with a great deal of economy in her movement, as she put her foot out ever so slightly, causing the steamrolling amazon to trip and go flying through the house.
"Oof! That was stupid trick!" Shampoo exclaimed, getting up, her fastened towel loosening up.
"Trick? You silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids!"
"Ranma, I kill!" Shampoo sped over to Ranma, surprising the pigtailed girl to the point that she got in a well-placed punch to her solar plexus, knocking Ranma back a few feet.
"So you have gotten better," Ranma said, recovering from the last hit. "I guess defeating you will take a little longer. But let's do this outside." !WOOSH! Ranma immediately flew over her powerful opponent, staying close to the ceiling.
"You no get away!" Shampoo turned around and sped after her quarry with so much speed her loosened towel came flying off. In a matter of seconds, the brash amazon was outside, facing her opponent.
"Don't you want to put some clothes on first?" Ranma asked looking away askance. "The boys around here probably can't handle the sight of you in your birthday suit.
"No talk! Fight!" The girl rushed the Ranma, attempting to hit her with well-placed punches and kicks that despite their speed and skill couldn't hit their target.
"I knew something like this would happen again," Nabiki thought to herself as she videotaped the event from the comfort of her room.
"It's been interesting, Shampoo. And I appreciate the fact that you've gotten so much better. But it's time to end this fight." "Ah! An opening!" Ranma struck her opponent with a body blow that sent her high into the air and over the entrance doors of the Tendo compound. "Bon voyage, Shampoo and don't come back!"
"Aaaaah!" the girl screamed as she went flying, eventually crash landing into the parking lot of a nearby McDonald's.
"I saw what happened, Ranma."
The pigtailed girl calmly turned to see Akane standing there with her arms folded on her chest in judgment of her.
"Yeah? What about it?"
"I think you really shouldn't jump to conclusions like that."
"Over what?"
"Over what happened to Kenji and that amazon girl."
"I didn't jump to any conclusions, Akane. I simply left the room before I did or said something I'd regret," Ranma answered with a sense of serenity. "As soon as I had left the room, that crazy girl chased after me, attempting to kill me. As usual, I defeated her."
"Sure, Ranma," Akane said, making it obvious that she didn't believe the pigtailed girl by her body language as she regarded the pigtailed girl shrewdly.
"I know you're steaming with jealousy right now. I bet you wanted to clobber Kenji and send him into the sky the way you did that naked amazon girl. Your envious attitude leaves a lot to be desired. You need to learn how to control yourself better."
Ranma looked at the girl quizzically for a moment. "I think you're confusing me with yourself, Akane. I bet if you caught your fiance in a hot tub in the embrace of a gorgeous woman with large breasts, you'd go berserk."
"No, I wouldn't! I'm a nice person who rarely ever loses her temper. You've got me pegged all wrong, Ranma."
"Give me a break, Akane. I'd hate to think what would have happened to me if Pops had been successful in turning me into a boy. With my luck, I would have had to have been engaged to you. Then you'd be knocking me into space with that huge ki hammer of yours for the slightest provocation," Ranma said with a shudder.
"That is not true."
"It is true. You've often lost your temper. The only reason you don't always attack me right now is that I'd kick your ass all over the place. A guy who was a gentleman that didn't believe in striking women would be at your mercy."
Akane shook her head violently for a moment. "That's not true, Ranma. How dare you judge me that way? How do you know what I would do to a fiance if I had one? I wouldn't be so cruel, especially to a gentleman."
"I'd sympathize with any guy who married you, Akane."
"You don't know what you're talking about. I think you've pretended to be a guy for too long, Ranma."
"That much is true. I'm so happy to be a woman."
"Is that so? I'll be seeing you, Ranma," Deodorant thought to herself after having heard the conversation for the last several minutes. Then she stealthily left the area, smiling to herself as she concocted a plan to get Ranma to heel.
An hour later: "Are you ready?" Elder Deodorant asked, after returning from her intelligence mission. She happily regarded the two amazon girls standing in front of the Chinese restaurant, each one holding two large packages of aromatic Chinese food.
"Yes, Elder!"
"Good. We're off to see the Tendos. I'm sure Ranma will be there."
"Shampoo, be there too!" exclaimed an especially busty looking amazon, making her way towards them.
"Greetings, Shampoo. I'm surprised to see you here. But why are you wearing those strange clothes? I had no idea you had a job at a fast-food restaurant. You should see about getting a job at our new fine-dining Chinese restaurant if you're so inclined; the clothes there would surely be more to your liking. Besides, Spice would hate it if the people here thought that we were serving lousy American fast food," the older woman said, regarding Shampoo's attire with an unconcealed smile. The shirt Shampoo wore looked as if it would tear and the buttons would burst open with her every breath as she stood there in front of them, seething with rage.
"Never mind that now! Shampoo go with you to Tendo home and kill Ranma. Is amazon law! No get in the way!" !POP!POP!
The other two amazon girls looked upon Shampoo in shock, talking to an amazon elder with such disrespect. But Deodorant restrained her anger and gave a pert, authoritative look the brash, young warrior and said, "listen, Shampoo. We're going to the Tendos to greet them. If trying to kill Ranma is so important to you, you can go ahead and try. But she will in all probability defeat you again."
"I train harder with great-grandmother at Jusenkyo! Shampoo ready for Ranma's tricks. She no beat me this time!"
"All right, Shampoo. However..." Deodorant stared at the amazon warrior, glaring at her. "You will not cause massive amounts of property damage as you are known to do whenever you don't get your way. Understand?"
"How Shampoo..."
"Let's speak Chinese. I want to make sure you understand me," the amazon elder interrupted.
"All right. But I have to kill Ranma."
"We are going to knock on the front door and introduce ourselves. As soon as Ranma makes herself known I will inform her that you want to fight her yet again. Then she will fight you outside. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Elder," Shampoo answered, still fuming.
"Good. The Tendos are not our enemies, even if Ranma is your enemy," Deodorant replied.
"Why are you bringing food to the Tendos?" the purple-headed girl asked.
"That is my business. Now that we understand each other let us be off." That being said, the amazons left the bustling restaurant and made their way to the Tendo household.
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Kasumi was finishing some household chores and getting ready to start the preparations for dinner when she heard... !RING!RING! "Someone's at the door! Can somebody get that?"
"I'll get it!" Kenji answered, walking towards the front of the house and opening the door. "Who are you?" the young man said, regarding the diminutive, wrinkled old woman backed up by three other amazons.
"Hello! I am Elder Deodorant of the Joketsuzoku amazons and these are Abra and Kadabra, my distant relatives. And this is..."
"Shampoo!" Ranma called out a few feet from behind her fiance. "What do you want?"
"Ranma I kill!"
"You forget yourself, Shampoo! Didn't Cologne teach you any manners?" the old woman scolded harshly in Chinese. Then she switched over to Japanese again and gave Ranma a favorable look.
"Pardon my impetuous friend, young lady, but Shampoo here wants to fight you again. Would you be so kind as to go outside and get defeating her over with? As soon as you are done fighting her you can partake in the wonderful Chinese food we have here," the amazon elder said with a gracious smile.
!SNIF!SNIF! "Smells pretty good," Ranma commented. "You look a lot like Shampoo's grandma. Are you a friend of hers?"
"No. That's Cologne and she's older than I am. And my presence here has nothing to do with her," Deodorant replied.
Then Ranma looked at the seething Shampoo. "You been working at McDonald's, Shampoo? If that's the case, you should get a larger shirt. You're probably going to come out of that thing during the fight. I know what I'm talking about."
"Shut up and fight!"
"All right." With that Ranma leaped into the air, flying over the amazons and landing outside in front of the building structure. "Come on, Shampoo. I don't have all day."
"Shampoo get much stronger now thanks to Great-Grandmother brutal training! Ranma die today." !POP!POP! Shampoo took a deep breath, using her chi energy to increase her physical abilities to an even higher level.
Ranma made a come hither motion with her hands. "Just bring it."
Shampoo moved in on Ranma so much faster than before that she surprised the pigtailed girl, almost hitting her. But despite the amazon's increase in speed, Ranma still evaded her charging attack, putting her foot out and tripping her opponent in such a way that the well-endowed girl flipped over, barely being able to use her acrobatic skills to land on her feet. She then turned around at lightning speed, leg sweeping Ranma off of her feet, forcing the pigtailed girl to fly backward.
"It's strange how you've improved so much in only an hour. Have you been holding out on me, Shampoo?" Ranma said as she using her enormous agility to land on her feet. "No matter. You're still not better than me."
"Shampoo way better than Ranma now. Hyaaah!" the girl screamed, leaping towards Ranma with a powerful, flying kick that missed its target. As Shampoo passed her by, Ranma leaped into the air and struck her opponent in the back with a roundhouse kick that knocked her out of her flight trajectory and crashing to the ground.
"Give up, Shampoo."
"Shampoo kill!" The powerful amazon came at Ranma again like gangbusters. Ranma came at her too but even faster, nailing the amazon in the stomach with a forward snap kick that knocked the wind out of her.
!BOOM! Then Ranma created a small shockwave under her opponent by stomping the ground and causing her opponent to bounce up into the air. And before Shampoo could get her bearings, Ranma zipped up to her punching and kicking her hundreds of times with rapt combinations.
Then the amazon shouted, "tenshin amaguriken!" Then both fighters were going at it toe to toe with Shampoo striking her opponent with hundreds of punches in a manner of seconds. However, Ranma was getting more hits in than Shampoo on a three to one basis since she also used her feet to kick low.
"Huff! Ungh!" !POP!POP! At the onset of a particularly powerful uppercut, the exhausted amazon went down for the count, crashing to the ground and lying on her back, the overtaxed buttons on her tight shirt having given way, leaving her helpless and unconscious with her large, exposed bosom heaving with every breath.
"Shampoo, you got a lot to learn before you beat me. Better luck next time, kid. Haha ha ha!" Ranma laughed as she walked inside with her hands clasped behind her head.
"I've worked up an appetite. That food sure smells good."
"Good thing I decided to set up my video camera in such a way I could turn it on from inside," Nabiki said as she looked at her iPhone, having connected it to said video camera, allowing the mercenary girl to view what was going on with the fight as she ate. "This is exactly what guys want to see when two hot women fight it out! The guys at school and elsewhere will drool all over themselves for these pictures!"
XXX
"You sure showed Shampoo who was the better woman," the ancient amazon elder said in congratulations after Ranma had cleaned herself up from her previous battle.
"Yep. The girl's pretty good, but I'm the best," Ranma said, pointing her thumb at herself.
"Now it's time for you to enjoy the feast we've brought to you.
!SNIF!SNIF! "It smells pretty good. I can't wait to dig in." Then the sparkling redhead sat down to eat, helping herself to the beautifully made spread. "This is great." "I hope there aren't strings attached to this."
"I'm glad to hear you like it," the older woman said graciously.
"You speak Japanese so well for a Chinese woman," Kasumi said, politely enjoying the food.
"I have learned a lot living these hundreds of years. Heh, heh!"
"And here I figured you weren't a day over a hundred," Nabiki commented.
"Heh, heh." Then the diminutive woman gave Ranma a thoughtful look. "You know that if you were to live as an amazon yourself you could eat food like this all the time. In addition to that, you won't have to deal with Shampoo. But of course, you'd have to marry Mousse."
Ranma stopped eating and said, "I should have known there would be was strings attached to all this food. Listen, madam. I have no intention of living out in the boondocks for the rest of my life. I want to see the world, sharing my martial arts with it."
"That's right," Kenji interjected. "Besides, Ranma is engaged to marry me. We're going to train people in Anything Goes after merging our schools. That's already been decided. Thanks for the meal though."
Deodorant spoke to everyone there, raising her voice. "The amazon way is to make ourselves stronger by any means necessary. Besides, young man," the old woman said, regarding Kenji and pointing a wrinkled, bony finger at the young man. "Haven't you been betrothed to Shampoo ever since you defeated her?"
"Well, I..."
"So you'll also be living 'out in the boondocks'," Deodorant said, looking at Ranma for a moment. "Just like Ranma will be."
"Kenji's with me, Deodorant," Ranma answered, finishing her meal. "As much as we've enjoyed this meal it's time for me to excuse myself. I got some training to do."
Then the elder amazon turned to Genma who was practically shoveling the food into his mouth. "Enjoying yourself, Mr. Saotome?"
"Munch!"
"I'll take that as a yes. If Ranma were to marry my great-grandson, Mousse, you could eat like this for a year, for free."
Genma turned towards the amazon in shock and surprise, a huge smile appearing on his face, the food still in his mouth. "You don't say. I'd have to think about that, old woman."
"Saotome! How dare you even entertain such a notion?" Soun interjected. Then he turned towards the old woman. "Ranma is engaged to my son Kenji. We've sworn to do so from before our children were born, so that is that."
"All right. All right. Free food for you too. Your whole family can have a year's supply of food. Ranma is that important to us."
"Now, see here," Soun answered the diminutive woman.
"I'll just let them talk about it as much as they want. My decision has already been made." Ranma walked out of the house and into the backyard where a small fish was leaping in and out of the koi pond where she saw, "Mousse!"
"Greetings, Ranma." The myopic amazon male had leaped over the wall and showed up right in front of the object of his desire, whipping out a bouquet in her direction. "Won't you be my bride and come back with me to Joketsuzoku?" the boy said with all the charm and charisma he could muster which was considerable.
"You're a nice guy Mousse, but I don't want to go and live out in the middle of nowhere."
"Silly girl!"
Ranma turned around to see Deodorant standing behind her, standing on her stick and glaring at her. "We bring you great tasting food and offer the most powerful and gorgeous male from our village and you spurn us? Never would I have imagined you treating us with so much disrespect. Now I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse."
"Listen, madam. I'm not going out in the..."
"You said something about a workout. Why don't you let me help you out with that?" !BOP! Having struck Ranma on her head, Deodorant leaped away in anticipation of Ranma's rage-induced, oncoming attacks.
"Is that so, old woman? I've about had it with everyone trying to control my life!"
"Don't be so melodramatic! You love martial arts, don't you? I know a great deal of martial arts techniques that you'll never know unless you marry my great-grandson, Mousse. Isn't he handsome? He would practically be your love slave. After grooming you for a few decades you would be in line to be an elder, maybe chief elder if you play your cards right."
"I'm not interested. It's been nice knowing you guys. Now I have things to..." !WOOSH! "Hey!" Ranma exclaimed as she evaded a surprise attack from the shorter, older woman.
"Let's see how skilled you are right now. Who knows? Maybe you'll learn a thing or two by fighting me," the amazon elder stated as she attacked furiously with her stick and floated in the air, hovering a few feet from Ranma...
"Ranma's skills are impressive! How is it this girl has become so powerful at such a young age? We need to get her into our clan at all costs."
"Oof!" Despite Deodorant's superior experience and skill, Ranma had managed to land a couple of hits on her new opponent.
"You want a fight, granny, you got one!"
"You'll have to catch me first!" the old woman called out as she seemed to fly away after taking potshots at the pigtailed girl as she widened the gap between them. She had leaped upon other rooftops as Ranma chased on after her, barely keeping ahead of her pursuer. "You'll have to do better than... Are you flying?"
"That's right. Now, I'm going to give you the fight of your life!"
"Not yet!" Seemingly out of nowhere the old woman whipped out another stick similar to the one she used and threw it at Ranma.
"Yeow!" Ranma screamed as she executed evasion maneuvers to avoid the flying stick that seemed to have a mind of its own as it came at her. "I've has it with this thing!" !ZAP!BLAST! Ranma's killer ki blast obliterated the stick to the shock and surprise of the amazon elder.
"Amazing! Ranma tosses ki energy blasts with shameless ease! It normally takes years to learn something like that! I need to change my strategies," Deodorant thought to herself as she jumped to another rooftop and onto the ground. Still running, Deodorant used her powerful well of ki to propel her legs to run faster than an Olympic sprinter could ever hope to do right through the street at a time when the traffic was low. Not a few people were aghast by the sight of a red-headed girl chasing after a diminutive old woman who was the size of a stuffed doll except a little bigger. (That's a little taller and thicker than Cologne)
"You're pretty fast, old woman!" But as fast as the amazon elder was Ranma was faster, flying up to her quarry and passing her by before the amazon elder knew what was happening. Then Ranma turned around and stood right in front of Deodorant, creating a huge ki energy sphere, forcing the older woman to stop in her tracks to keep from slamming into the hardened woman-made barrier.
"You're pretty good, Daughter-in-Law."
"Daughter-in-Law?"
"Yes. You're to marry my great-grandson, Mousse. With his beautiful appearance and gorgeous body, he's a great catch. And he actually loves you. I don't see why you're being so obstinate about this. With your talents and skills, I can train you in all of our secret amazon martial arts techniques, helping you to become the greatest warrior of all time! All you have to do is marry into our clan. Mousse would then be your love slave. And let me tell you something. The men in our village are well trained when it comes to pleasing women in the bedroom if you get my drift," Deodorant said with eyes raised. "I realize the physical appearance you have would make almost any man be pleased to be your love slave, but an amazon male would be more able and willing to do your bidding. After one night with Mousse, you probably won't want to leave the house."
"That's all very well and good," Ranma said with a slight blush to her face. "But I don't want to live my life out in some out of the way village. Why would I want to live out in the middle of nowhere, anyway? I want to travel and see the world. I want to be free!"
"Who said you'd have to stay in the village all the time? I would be grooming you to be the amazon elder. In about 200 years or so, you'd be able to lead the amazons in any way you saw fit. Think of all the power."
Ranma paused for a moment. "What makes you think I want to lead a whole village? I'm not that power-hungry. I think what you want is someone like Frieza or Vegeta from the universe I spent a year in."
"I know not of these people. But I do believe you spent time in another universe. Your unusually powerful strength, agility, and toughness speak volumes of this," Deodorant replied, looking Ranma over.
"Anyway, political power's not what I'm looking for. It's been fun, but I need to get back now."
But as Ranma began to make her way to the Tendo household... "Not so fast, Daughter-in-Law. From out nowhere, Deodorant seemed to multiply herself again and again until her copies surrounded the pigtailed girl, circling her.
"What is she doing?" a spectator called out.
"What you're seeing is the Splitting Cat Hairs technique. It is one of many impressive amazon secrets I'm sure you'd like to learn, Ranma. Only one of us is real. Which one of us is it? Hahaha haha!"
"I didn't believe I would see ever see such a powerful technique!" Soun called out. He, Genma, Kenji, and his sisters watched the spectacle, having followed the two combatants who fought with a tenacity seen by very few, even by the people of Nerima.
"That looks like a powerful technique, but Ranma can still win," Kenji stated.
"Haha. Don't be so sure of that, roid boy," Mousse said, appearing right next to the young martial artist. "Amazon techniques are the most powerful in the world. As soon as Ranma realizes this, her desire to be the best martial artist in the world will force her to want to learn those ultra-powerful techniques, prompting her to marry me and join our amazon clan in the process. The way things are going, Ranma will be mine in no time."
Then Shampoo appeared on the other side of Kenji, clinging to him and holding on to his arm affectionately. "Shampoo hope amazon elder kill Ranma. Shampoo kill Ranma herself if Elder Deodorant no do it."
"Forget about it, Shampoo. When my great-grandmother is finished talking Ranma into joining our clan, your obligation to kill her will be gone. You can have this muscle-bound oaf if you want," Mousse replied.
"Hey!"
"You're already married to Shampoo, Kenji. There's nothing you can do about that now," Mousse answered, the tall, slender martial artist, standing straighter than a ramrod with his hands clasped inside in his robes as the fight raged on.
"Oh, we'll see about that. You can let go of me now, Shampoo," Kenji replied, breaking free of the amorous amazon girl's iron-clad grip.
"Go get her, Ranma! I know you can beat her!"
"I'll find the real one," Ranma said, making failed attacks at the images.
"Is that so, young girl? And I use the term loosely!"
"What do you mean by that?" Ranma exclaimed as she tried in vain to evade the older woman's attacks. !BOP! "Ow!"
"You'll find out a little later if I fail to convince you to join the amazon tribe!" several voices answered as their numbers seemed to increase.
"I need to concentrate and spot her ki signature, but it's so much more difficult than usual while she uses that technique. Who am I kidding? My ability to spot ki signatures is moderate at best. Wait! There she is! I got her number now." !ZAP!BLAST!
"Yearrgh!" the amazon elder screamed as she went flying backward end over end up into the sky like a soccer ball, her illusionary duplicates vanishing before everyone's eyes.
"Great-grandmother!" Mousse called out.
"Ranma beat your great-grandmother. Ranma no beat my great-grandmother. Shampoo great-grandmother am best," Shampoo said with a look of triumph, giving Mousse an arrogant, crinkly smile.
"Ranma!" the myopic boy announced, walking over to the red-headed girl.
"What?"
"Why won't you come back to Joketsuzoku with me? Am I that hideous to you? As your husband, I would love and cherish you as long as I lived." Mousse said sweetly with his hands on his heart, trying to implore Ranma.
"Look, Mousse. You're a great guy; so I'm sure you can find another girl you think is strong so that you can have a powerful wife. Sheesh! There's that Chun Li chick in that Street Fighter Tournament. Then there's that girl who hangs out with that Ryu guy. There are plenty of powerful women for you to woo yourself to. So long, dude." That having been said, Ranma jumped into the air and flew off.
As Ranma flew a couple of blocks, she was attacked! !WOOSH! "Whoa!" !POKE!
"I'm surprised you dodged that attack, Ranma. Just what I'd respect from my future daughter-in-law."
"I'm not your daughter-in-law," Ranma answered as she landed gently on to the ground, the amazon elder doing likewise.
"Just you wait. In a few days you'll be begging me to let you marry my Mousse," the old woman cackled.
"No way!" Ranma blinked her eyes for a moment, feeling near her solar plexus. "You got in a stealth hit. But I barely felt it."
"That's right. And this is for you." !SPLASH! At that point, Ranma felt a strange metamorphosis, attaining a few inches of height along with an extra 50 pounds of rock-solid muscle and sinew.
"Hey!" Ranma called out. Then she grasped her throat for a moment. "What did you do to me?"
"I used some Spring of Drowned Man water on you to change you into a man."
"What did you do that for?"
"To get you to marry Mousse."
"You want me to marry Mousse as a guy?"
"No, of course not. As soon as you betroth yourself to Mousse I will fix up what I've done. But I don't know. You look delicious as a man," Deodorant said, with a huge smile on her face as she regarded the now muscularly defined youth who stood at five feet eleven inches tall, weighing 180 pounds with phenomenal good looks, jet black hair, and striking blue eyes.
"Wait a minute. This should not have happened! The Jusenkyo guide said I'm immune to being changed by the waters of Jusenkyo!" Ranma stammered, feeling for breasts that were replaced by deep muscular pecks that heaved with her every breath.
The amazon elder blinked her eyes for a moment. "Really? Then it's fortunate that the water I hit you with was temporary Spring of Drowned Man that I had one of the conjurers of my clan cook up. So the real thing wouldn't have worked, eh? I couldn't get to Jusenkyo since Cologne was training Shampoo and some other amazons. Wouldn't have done me any good for Cologne to see me gathering water there. Looks like things worked out for me after all. Heh, heh."
"What makes you think I'd want to be a guy? I've been enjoying my womanhood for the first time in my life. How dare you force me to live as a man again?" Ranma protested vehemently, the testosterone in her system increasing her rage beyond what it would normally be.
"Of course you enjoy being a woman. Who would want to be a man? But I have to say, you're tasty looking. If you want to stay a man forever you can marry one of my granddaughters instead. I'm sure anyone of them would be pleased with you," the old woman said, quickly leaping up towards Ranma, grabbing a hold of him and rubbing her face up to his. That feels so good. Sigh!"
"Yuck!"
"I haven't touched such a handsome young hunk like you in ages," Deodorant said with a cackly laugh.
"Let go of me!" Ranma exclaimed, easily breaking free of the old woman's hold but failing miserably in her attempt to strike the quick and nimble amazon elder.
"Hmm," Deodorant said, leaping a few feet back. "Looks like all those huge muscles of yours have slowed you down. It's like you're musclebound, moving as slow as molasses as far as I'm concerned." !SLAP!SLAP!SLAP!
"Ow! Cheater! Turning me into a musclebound man, so I wouldn't be able to get my hands on you, that's the worst!" Ranma stood there aghast for a moment, overly powerful muscles contracting in anger at the diminutive old woman who had just easily bitch slapped her.
"There's nothing you can do about it, Daughter-in-Law and I use the term loosely. Heh, heh," she replied, easily outmaneuvering the pigtailed youth, running circles around him.
"I know all about Jusenkyo curses. All I have to do is get some hot water and I'll be able to change back into a woman once and for all. You don't scare me, you old hag!"
"That would be true if you could handle hot water. But I've touched a pressure point that makes you as sensitive as a cat's tongue. Right now, the most tepid of water will scald you. There's no way you can turn back into a woman."
"No way!" Ranma exclaimed, grabbing her throat as the deep, manly voice came out of her mouth again.
"I'll be seeing you later, muscles. Ta ta!" That having been said, the old woman leaped into the air, cackling all the way.
"No! No! No!" Ranma yelled, getting on her knees and pounding on the ground in the middle of the street, causing shockwaves and making some people in the area believe that an earthquake was occurring.
"It figures that old woman would have success in turning you into a guy when I failed to do that myself," Genma said with his arms folded on his chest, contemplating the situation.
"Is this what you looked like when you were disguised as a guy, Ranma?" Kenji asked, shocked at the changed appearance of his fiancee.
"Something like this, but I wasn't anywhere near as strong and buffed out." Ranma flexed her powerful muscles for a moment. "It's like I've been taking steroids or something."
"Now you really are a pervert!" Akane exclaimed, prompting Ranma to turn her head in Akane's direction and glare at her angrily.
"Shut up, Akane!"
"We ought to go back home and figure out what to do about this," Kenji interjected, making a point to get in between Akane and Ranma. "And take it easy, Ranma. None of us have any idea how strong you are as a man."
"That's a good idea, son," Soun said, stepping forward. "We'll have all this sorted out in no time!"
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"Yeaarrrgh!" Ranma screamed as she attempted to douse herself with hot water in the furo. "This water is too hot even though I made it a point to mix hot and cold while turning on the faucets, slightly favoring hot water. It's as if my body rejects the hot water, making it irrelevant even if I suffer through the pain of lukewarm water."
"You all right in there, Ranma?" Kenji called out from outside the furo.
"I'm all right!"
"But for how long?" Deodorant asked, bursting out of the water.
"Why you..." !WIFF!WIFF!
"Ah, ah. You're too slow as a man, Ranma. You might have had a chance to beat me as a woman but there's no way you can beat me now. However, if you promise to marry Mousse, I'll give you your womanhood back."
"Never!" Ranma screamed in defiance, shaking her fist in the old woman's direction and taking more swipes her. "I hate the idea of someone trying to control my life the way you're trying to do. If I was so easily controlled, I'd be no good to you!"
Deodorant contemplated what Ranma had said for a moment. "Hmm. You make some good points, but that doesn't change anything. But if you change your mind, you can find me at that new restaurant called the Lotus Blossom. Ta ta." With that, the diminutive woman leaped through the window, taking off into the sky, using her stick to pogo off of building after building until she was out of sight.
"Sheesh! That lady means business." Ranma then turned around to see Kenji standing there, having seen the whole event. "I guess the hot water didn't work."
"No, it didn't. I want my womanhood back and I won't rest until I get it back!"
In a few moments, Ranma was wearing her usual red shirt and green pants that thankfully still fit her new form, the pants and shirt being tight. Eventually, she and Kenji made their way to the main living room where everybody else had gathered.
"What will we do about the merging of the schools?" Soun cried out in tears, putting his hands on his head and shaking back and forth, carrying on.
"Don't worry, Tendo. If Ranma can't become a woman again, he can simply marry one of your daughters," Genma explained.
"Oh, my!" Kasumi exclaimed.
"If that's the case," Nabiki interjected. "Ranma would want Akane."
"Definitely," Kasumi confirmed as the two sisters shoved their youngest sibling in Ranma's direction.
"No way! I would never marry a pervert like him!" Akane stammered.
"Hey, you hate boys, right? Well, right now, Ranma's the best fiance you could ever hope for," Kasumi explained.
"How do you figure that?" Akane asked hotly.
"He has been a girl before. He can probably understand you a whole lot better," Kasumi answered with a pert smile.
Ranma stared at the blue-haired girl in contempt and dread. "I'm not going with Akane, Pop!"
"If you can't turn back into a girl, that is what you will have to do, Ranma!" Genma demanded.
"NOOOOOO!" Ranma screamed, putting her hands on either side of her head. "I'm not going to marry Akane! I don't care what gender I am. No man, woman, or beast should have to marry a hotheaded bitch like that!"
"What did you just say?" Akane demanded, the steam from her anger coming out her ears. Then she got in Ranma's face. "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! You've got me so angry. It was bad enough when you were a girl, but now you're getting me mad!"
"Take it easy, Akane," Kenji said, trying to calm the situation down.
"This is my worst nightmare come to life, having to be married to someone like Akane! Aaargh!"
"As if anybody would want to be married to a pervert like you!" Akane answered back, getting in the youth's face.
While Ranma and Akane argued back and forth, Nabiki contemplated the new situation. "Ranma's hot as a guy. I'd want Ranma for myself if I didn't know what was going on. Yum! At any rate, I bet I can sell a few pictures of Male-Ranma to a lot of horny girls out there. I don't know whether or not Ranma will get his or her womanhood back so I better get to work on this right away! Never a dull moment since Ranma's been living with us."
"Just back off before I hurt you, Akane. I've had it with you and your lame ass remarks!" Ranma exclaimed, looking down on her in testosterone boosted rage.
"Don't threaten me, Ranma. Now that you're a big, strong guy you think you can beat me up," Akane answered hotly, looking him straight in the eyes without flinching.
"I got news for you, Akane. I could be a newborn baby and still beat the stuffing out of you. So back off!"
"That's it!" Akane then whipped out her trusty ki hammer with more speed than she normally had due to her recent training and knocked the surprised Ranma through the roof and high into the sky.
"I don't believe this! I'd beat the daylights out of Akane if I knew my strength which is a lot greater right now. But how much more exactly? I feel as if I could pick up a bus and toss it a few blocks away," Ranma thought to herself as she flew off into the sky.
!SMASH! After having crashed into the trunk of a tree in a nearby park and removed himself from the said tree, Ranma looked up to see a familiar face.
"So it looks like you've finally managed to turn back into a guy finally. Now we can finish our man to man fight without you flashing your fake chest at me to distract me."
"Don't bother me right now, Ryoga!"
"Quit sounding like a woman, Ranma! I didn't have the heart to give you the beating you deserved when you were prancing around as a half-naked girl, shaking your tits and ass in my direction."
"Yeah, Ryoga? You couldn't keep your hands off of my body when I was asleep."
"That's not true!"
"Don't deny it; I caught you enjoying yourself!"
"That's all in the past! Now that you're a man, you can fight me. I find it strange you went from hot busty babe to steroid king all in a week. You're too pretty in either form. But I hope you'll take it like a man and don't cry like a bitch when I beat you up, Ranma!"
"If you want to fight me so badly, so be it. But I'm a whole lot stronger than usual."
"I'm happy to hear that. Now I can give you the beating of your life without any kind of guilt or remorse."
"I'm warning you, Ryoga!"
"Don't warn me, punk!" Then the lost boy began to crack his knuckles in anticipation of his upcoming fight, giving Ranma a wicked grin.
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In the Kansai region, a young martial artist trains on the beach by the sea of Japan, swinging a giant-sized spatula against the power of the waves. "When I get my hands on you, Ranma, you'll rue the day you and your no-good daddy stole from my family. I know you're a great martial artist, so I've been training hard for the day I can finally beat you. On that day I shall have my revenge!"
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I hope you've enjoyed reading this. Please give me a nice review of it. Anyway, let me know what you think of it. Next chapter Ranma deals with Ryoga and the amazon elder who masculated her. Now I would like to give props to the ones who gave me reviews for the last chapter.
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