Miss Ranma

!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS"

Chapter Fifteen

!SWIPE! "Calm down, Akane!" Ranma exclaimed, evading Akane's deadly hammer.

"You've been doing nothing but insult me ever since you got here! I could just kill you!" Akane screamed.

"Wow!" Sakura said. "You have a lot of power even if you don't have much skill or agility."

Akane turned around and faced the newcomer. "Who are you?"

"I'm Sakura Kasugano. Pleased to meet you."

"Yeah, whatever." Akane turned back towards Ranma. "I knew you were a pervert the moment you got here. It's obvious to me you only see your woman's body like an amusement park. Now that you're a guy again you've used your muscles to get women to swoon all over you! You're sick, disgusting, and degrading! There's no way I'd ever marry a pervert like you!"

Sakura looked at Akane then Ranma incredulously. "What's this about Ranma being a girl?"

"It's a long story, Sakura," Ranma answered. "I guess you've never heard of Jusenkyo."

"No, I haven't. What is it?"

Ranma regarded the teenage girl for a moment. "I can sense by her aura that Sakura has no guile or treachery in her. So I'm going to put my trust in her."

Then Ranma explained what she had gone through with Jusenkyo and what the amazons had done to her. "If that freaks you out, and you decide you want nothing to do with me because of it, I won't blame you."

Sakura demured for a moment. "Hey, it's OK, Ranma. I kind of thought you're aura wasn't quite right. How about if I help you get your womanhood back? Then I can train alongside you, learning the Chestnuts on an open fire technique and some of the other things you know. I'll even help you learn the dragon punch better."

"You'd do all that for me?" Ranma said with not a little bit of emotion.

"Sure. I know a good person when I see one. I can use a good sparring partner that doesn't hate me, unlike the other one I've been dealing with. Besides, as a guy you're easy on the eyes," the girl said with a giggle. Then she tried to discreetly look Ranma up an down, failing in the attempt.

"Not you too, Sakura."

"I'll keep myself in control, Ranma, but try to keep your clothes on, OK? You have no idea how hot you are with your clothes off," Sakura said, fighting hard not to drool all over herself. "If some of my classmates saw Ranma as she is now, they'd be all over him or her."

"All right. I'll try. But you have to promise me one thing."

"What's that, Ranma?" Sakura asked.

"When I get my woman's body back, don't hate me because I'm beautiful."

"Huh? Um, all right. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's get to work on this Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire technique. Where do we start?"

"If I can become a better martial artist, things will be great! I'm not sure how things are going to go with Ranma, but hanging out with him or her is going to be a great learning experience!"

"That's a good idea," Kenji interjected. "I might as well try to learn that too."

Throughout a couple of hours, all three martial artists did their best to put their hands in the fire to grasp the chestnuts out of the fire. But while Kenji and Sakura hurt themselves a little bit grasping the chestnuts, it was all but impossible for Ranma to make much progress.

"Aaaargh!"

"Gee, that Cat's Tongue technique did a number on you, Ranma," Sakura commented dourly.

"That's all right, Sakura. I'm not going to give up!" Ranma replied despite the great pain she was suffering. "I have to increase my speed to grab those chestnuts out of the fire."

"You can't do it in your condition, boy," Genma stated. "It's time you face facts. I wanted you to be a man in the first place. I think you should get used to the idea of marrying Akane and carrying on Anything Goes."

"No! No! No!" Ranma screamed, pounding on the ground with both fists.

"Buck up, Ranma," Soun said, patting the then young man on the back. "You'll find your cure at the carnival."

"Uh?"

"That's right. The carnival will help you forget about your problems."

"Uh, yeah."

"It will be great, Ranma!" Sakura shouted, jumping up and down. "There are all sorts of things to see at the carnival."

"We ought to take a break, Ranma. And going to the carnival is a good idea," Kenji replied.

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"A little fun will be good for you, Ranma," Kenji said, walking next to her.

"I suppose so. I hate these clothes though. I'd rather be wearing a kimono."

"You'd look horrible wearing a kimono right now, Ranma. The yukata you're wearing is just fine," Sakura commented.

"Well, you seem to be enjoying yourself, Sakura," Ranma replied giving the short-haired girl a sharp look.

"Of course, I am. I believe in being positive. I'm a whole lot faster than I was a couple of days ago. My resistance to flames has increased fourfold. A few more weeks with you, and I'll be able to defeat anyone including my sensei, Ryu," Sakura said happily as she ate some candied corn on a stick.

"All right. Thanks for sticking with me instead of judging me the way so many people do," Ranma stated.

"No problem, Ranma. After the carnival's over, let's train again. Sooner or later we're gonna learn that technique and get your womanhood back despite the waste of a gorgeous hunk of man."

"What?"

"Just kidding, Ranma. Heh, heh." "I keep forgetting what Ranma really is. Gosh, Ranma makes a handsome man!"

"Hold it right there!" someone called out. !SKIIID! Everyone turned to see a large, obese, round figured man running towards them, stopping several feet in front of Kenji.

"You know this guy, Ranma?"

"No, I don't, Kenji."

"You gave me quite the runaround, Ken Masters! Now I've finally caught up to you. Now the fat lady's about to sing, ain't she?" a large, obese man with a round physique called out as he waddled his way towards them. His head was mostly bald, with a long, blond braided ponytail jutting out from the top and a mustache extending down the sides of his mouth to his chin. His clothing consisted of a yellow sleeveless jumpsuit with black trim and padded shoulders, with the closing straps in his middle left open due to his girth and exposing the center of his torso and lower abdominal hair. Black shoes covered his feet while black fingerless gloves covered his hands and most of his forearms.

"Who are you?" Kenji asked, regarding the newcomer.

"Why you little... That's it! Every time! Every time!" the circular man screamed, stomping on the ground as if he was having a tantrum.

"What? I still don't know who you are," Kenji answered with a look of bewilderment on his face.

"I'm Rufus Sarsaparilla, the greatest fighter in America!"

Kenji regarded the man for a moment. "That's nice. Now run along. I'm sure the people who brought you here to this carnival want you to do whatever it is you do for them."

"That's it! That's it! I'm sick of this treatment!" Rufus stammered as he stomped on the ground some more, his rotund girth jiggling as he shook with rage.

"What treatment?"

"I'm the greatest fighter in America! And your disguise doesn't fool me, Ken Masters! You think dying your hair a dark blue color and pretending to be Japanese is going to allow you to hide from me?"

"What? I'm not Ken Masters; I'm Kenji Tendo! Now run along."

"I'm not going anywhere until we have this out!"

"He wants to fight you, Kenji," Soun stated calmly with his arms folded on his chest like a martial arts instructor. "It's your duty as the heir of the Tendo School of Anything Goes to answer that challenge even if he thinks you're someone you're not."

"All right, Dad." Then Kenji turned towards the large man. "I get it now. You want to fight me, don't you?"

"Yeah, that's right. I'll pulverize you! I'll cut you up, put you back together, and do the whole thing all over again!" Rufus exclaimed, making cutting motions with his hands.

Kenji regarded his new opponent incredulously for a moment. "Well then, let's do it!"

"Now I remember!" Sakura interjected. "You're that fat guy who's been chasing Ken Masters around and getting the wrong person all the time instead. This isn't Ken Masters; it's Kenji Tendo."

"Shut up, little girl. Adults are talking here."

"What?"

"You heard me, little girl!"

"Why you!"

"OK, big man. Let's have our fight," Kenji answered, getting in a martial stance.

"Hold it!" the official who ran the carnival announced, getting in between the two combatants. The official was a rather short and boring looking in his brown suit and tie. His glasses were overly large while his hair was cropped short. Apart from all this, the middle-aged man had a no-nonsense look about him.

"Instead of letting these two guys wreck the whole carnival the way so many martial artists around here like to do, I'm going to use this to my advantage."

"Get out of the way!" Rufus demanded, but the official ignored him.

"Since you two insist on fighting, why don't you fight up on that empty stage over there where everyone can see you?" the official said, pointing at a large stage that was six feet off of the ground. It was 12 by 12 feet squared and was empty, having just been cleaned. "I figured there was going to be a fight of some kind sooner or later, so I had this re-enforced stage ready for the occasion."

"That will be great!" Rufus exclaimed. "Now everyone will see me beat you once and for all, Ken Masters!"

"The name's Kenji, but let's do it." With that, Kenji leaped over towards the stage, landing on it deftly with enormous agility.

"Is that leap supposed to impress me? Watch this!" The huge 400-pound man leaped up on the stage with a lot more agility for his size than Kenji had, his girth jiggling like jello as he moved.

"This guy has a larger stomach than even Pop does," Ranma said as she watched the fight.

"Yes, he does."

"What do you want, Mousse?" Ranma asked impatiently without looking over her shoulders.

"My great-grandmother is waiting for you in our part of the carnival."

"Does she have the Phoenix pill with her?"

"Yes, she does. It's this way. Follow me!" With that Mousse took off, Ranma following after him.

"I got to see this!"Sakura thought to herself as she ran off after them.

Mouse led them inside a building that was a whole lot bigger on the inside than it looked on the outside. As soon as Ranma and Sakura got inside they found that the place was all smoke and mirrors. "Where's the old ghoul?"

"Right here, Ranma!" !POKE!

"Yeow!" Ranma exclaimed with a jump. "Why you..."

"Come and get me; I still have the pill!" the amazon elder called out as she ran off deeper inside the maze of steam, smoke, and mirrors.

"Where are you?" Ranma kept on running and slammed into a clear glass sliding door. "Oof!"

"All we have to do is slam our way through, Ranma," Sakura said. "Hadoken!" !CRASH!

"That's not a bad idea, Sakura, but I have a better one." Ranma looked around and concentrated. "There!" Ranma sent a narrow beam of energy towards a particular mirror. The mirror's destruction caused a chain reaction that caused all the other mirrors and glass panes to fell to the ground, destroyed as well.

"How did you..."

"No time to explain now," Ranma said pertly. "Let's go!" The two martial artists went forward, avoiding the glass on the ground.

"There she is!" Sakura called out.

The amazon elder was in a small raft surrounded by a large pool of steaming hot water. "Here I am, Ranma! I've got the pill too! Come and get it if you dare!"

Ranma immediately took off into the air, flying towards the object of her desire that was around the neck of the old woman. "Then here I come!" Ranma flew down on the amazon elder like a dive bomber and blasted the water around the small boat Deodorant resided on.

"Whoa!" the old woman screamed as Ranma's attacks rocked the boat she was on.

Then Ranma flew in closer. "Kachu tenshin amaguriken!" Ranma screamed as her large, muscular hands moved at a faster rate than they had ever done even while Ranma was a girl. !SWIPE!

"Yeow!" Things became so bad that the ancient woman leaped off the boat and onto dry land. "Not bad, Daughter in Law."

"Not bad? Lookie what I got. Now I'll be able to handle the hot water I need to turn back once and for all." Ranma brandished the medallion that had been around Deodorant's neck, opened its contents, and plopped it in her mouth.

"Tastes like candy."

"It is candy."

"What?" Ranma was so flummoxed she fell into the hot water. "Ow! Hot, hot, hot!" Then Ranma came screaming out of the water in a world of pain.

"I changed the contents just in case. So you've mastered the Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, eh? You're exactly what our clan needs all right," Deodorant said with a cackle.

"I don't believe this!" Ranma growled as the manly muscles she had pulsated in a rage.

"We'll get that pill some other way, Ranma," Sakura said in reply.

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"Oh, yeah!" Kenji yelled as he jumped off of a man-sized, snow slope with his skies.

"Come on, Ranma," Kenji said after having skied up to the entrance of the inn at which they were all staying. "Are you planning on sitting around and moping all day?"

At that point, Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane zipped up to their brother. "Ranma probably wants to spend the time looking at women."

"That's not true, Akane!" Ranma answered harshly. "I'm trying to figure out how I can get my hands on that phoenix pill."

"Sure, you are, Ranma. I bet you're lusting after my sisters right now."

"Akane! Don't say stuff like that," Kenji admonished. "It might be better if you went skiing, Ranma."

"You guys go ahead. I'll be fine right here." Ranma sat down and kept sulking while the others skied away. Then another person stopped by.

"Hi, Ranma!"

"Hi, Sakura."

"I thought you'd like to know that the old lady with your cure is here," Sakura called out from her skis.

"She is? Where is she?"

!BOINK! went the old lady after bouncing off of Sakura's head. "Ow! Hey!"

"I see you feel the need to have your friend try and help you again. Very well, then," the diminutive amazon elder said as she turned towards Ranma and flew off, food in hand. Then Ranma took off after her.

"Ranma, how is it you're able to fly?" Sakura asked with impressed interest as she did her best to keep up.

"I'll explain it to you later, Sakura. Right now I need to get my womanhood back," the girl turned boy answered quickly as Sakura was hard-pressed to keep up.

"Where do you think you're going, old ghoul!

"I'm going off to see to my customers, Ranma."

"Customers? You can go off to see the wizard for all I care!" Then Ranma attempted a swipe at the medallion necklace around the amazon elder's neck.

"Yes. We've based ourselves here to sell Chinese food. Spice was ecstatic about cooking for everyone in this area. I guess people can eat Chinese food anywhere. We have our reasons for being here, but Elder Aloe and Spice's cooking skills are to die for! Would you like your job back, Daughter in Law? It's the best Chinese restaurant in all of Japan."

"No! Give me that pill!"

"You are too slow, Ranma. You might have a better chance if you laid off the steroids. So long, you impertinent male!"

"Aagh!" Ranma screamed as she dove for the amazon elder and hit the ground in the attempt. "Blast it! This over-muscled body is too slow!"

"I don't know, Ranma," Sakura replied. "You're actually faster than a lot of street fighters I've seen."

"Ranma makes such a gorgeous hunk! Why does he feel the need to be a woman? I've read a little about Jusenkyo recently, but I still think the place is a fairy tale. Oh, well. If Ranma gets his cure, I want to see the transformation."

"I'd be a lot better if I was in my own body right now. I have to catch that old ghoul!" Ranma got up and took off for the departing old woman.

!WACK! "Ungh!" Ranma moaned upon being struck by the elder's powerful stick.

"Ranma, Are you OK?" Sakura quickly ran towards where Ranma had been slammed into a large tree.

Ranma quickly shook herself awake. Then she noticed Mousse standing several yards away. "Hmm. I wonder. Yes! I'm going to do it!"

"Sakura, come here. I have an idea." Ranma took the short-haired girl and whispered to her.

"You still haven't seen facts, have you, Daughter in Law?" the amazon elder said as Sakura ran off and Ranma made her way to her.

"I refuse to give in to your control," Ranma answered back upon catching up to the old woman.

"Really? There's an Anything Goes ski race going on. You want to try it?"

"Why would I care about that?"

"Take a look at the prize."

Standing at a podium was a huge, three-foot-tall trophy. But upon closer inspection, Ranma saw, "the phoenix pill! What's it doing over there?"

"All to entice you with. If you want that phoenix pill, you'll partake in that race and win it. It's all up to you, my girl. Ta ta." !ZAP! "I easily evaded that ki blast, Ranma! You know full well you can't beat me in your current form," the matriarch said, turning around and facing the current male.

"Oh, yes I can! I've been training hard, adapting to my male body. I'm simply going to take that pill if it's the last thing I do!" Ranma came flying towards the trophy only to be shot down by a blast of wind from the amazon elder.

"Yeow!" Ranma screamed as she went spinning off into the sky and crashing to the ground!

"Despite all that muscle or because it, you're still no match for me, Ranma. Why don't you consent to marry Mousse and come back with us to Joketsuzoku? I'll make you strong enough to be a chief elder in time," the old woman cackled.

"Why do you keep fighting us, Ranma?" Mousse implored, appearing out of nowhere right beside Ranma. "Don't you know how much I love you?"

"You people try to force to me come back to China with you, and then you have the nerve to call it love?" Ranma answered back.

"Do you want to be a man for the rest of your life? Come with us or else!" Mousse demanded.

"Oh? Now, Sakura!" !SPLASH!

"I hope Ranma knows what he's doing," Sakura thought to herself with an empty water pail in her hands.

"Caw!" Mousse's hawk form sounded out. Then it flew towards Ranma, landing on the young man's back.

"Get it off me! Get it off me!" Ranma screamed going back and forth. Then she noticed Elder Deodorant standing on her stick, looking wide-eyed at her.

"What the..." Deodorant gasped in surprise.

"Grrrr!"

"Has Ranma mastered the Toruken, the Birdfist? Wait, she's flying straight for me!" The amazon leaped into the sky to avoid the oncoming whirlwind that was Ranma.

"Rooaarrr!" Ranma screamed. "This is all your fault, old woman! You did this to Ranma! Ranma make you pay!"

"Foolish child! Even if you did learn the Toruken, there's no way you could beat me, regardless of your gender. Having your friend trick Mousse into changing and activating it, won't help you. You're one hundred years too young to beat... !POW! Ungh!"

"Stupid woman make Ranma something she's not!" the girl turned boy screamed, flying towards the amazon matriarch. But the gender changed martial artist reached the amazon matriarch and violently threw Mousse's avian form off of herself, sending him into a hot spring.

"It's taking all of my ki to avoid getting clobbered. I might be able to handle Ranma if she was female, but all that rage has increased the testosterone in her, making her faster than she would normally be. I have to take her out and fast!" !ZAP! "Ow!"

Ranma's hands glowed with power as she flew towards the amazon elder and grabbed her. She then spun her around and punted her like a football right into a large tree.

"Huff!" "I can't believe Ranma has so much speed. Oh, no! Here she comes again!" !CRASH! "How can Ranma move so fast with all that muscle hindering her?"

Deodorant barely got out of the way of Ranma's violent charge that ended up almost uprooting a large tree.

"Gasp!" Mousse exclaimed after having gotten out of the hot spring.

"Hello there, Mousse. Pleased to meet you."

The myopic boy turned around to see a teenage girl with short hair and a modified skiing outfit version of the short-skirted school uniform she normally wore. "Who are you?"

"I'm Sakura Kasugano."

"I see. You're Ranma's friend. Why did you splash water on me?" the boy said, turning towards her with suspicion.

"Um. I was hoping to see Ranma's transformation. That's it. That's the ticket."

"She's stuck in that form, you silly girl! There's nothing neither you nor Ranma can do about it."

"I don't know about that. Ranma's fear of birds has caused him to go berserk. It's like he's the Hulk or something like that," Sakura replied.

"You don't know what you're talking about, stranger. Now run along."

"Gee, how rude. Anyway, there's a weakness to the Toruken."

"Weakness? What's that? Mousse enquired.

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

"Tell me or else, little girl!" Mousse demanded.

"All right already! Sheesh! Anyway. If Ranma goes through something like getting splashed with water that snaps him out of his revelry, then he'll calm down."

"Is that so?" Mousse narrowed his eyes at the teenage girl. "Do you think I'm stupid enough to fall for something like that?"

"Well, your grandma's taking quite a beating."

"If Ranma beats Great-Grandmother up too badly, she'll never get her womanhood back!"

"In the berserker rage Ranma is in right now, do you think he even cares? Besides, all that testosterone has gone to his head."

"I'm wise to your plan, little girl!"

"Little girl?"

While this was going on, the fight between Ranma and Deodorant continued. The crowd watched the battle with interest, going so far as to run after the combatants to keep watching the said battle.

"I'm going to have to create a hurricane forcefield to keep Ranma at bay until I can think of something." Deodorant spun around at super-speed, creating a wind force shield that knocked Ranma back when he flew into it. Then Ranma made her way towards the amazon elder slowly and powered through, taking hold of the old woman.

"What are you doing?" Deodorant screamed as the two of them spun out of control. "How dare you grab me like that? Unhand me this instant! Let go! Let go, I said!"

Then the ancient woman noticed how Ranma's eyes were red with rage. "Ranma no let go! Ranma squeeze old hag into nothingness!" Ranma screamed, her then masculine chest and arms having burst further out of her clothes, leaving her only wearing ripped pants. Even the pigtail Ranma wore had been sliced away, leaving her with long hair and making her look like a barbarian.

"Aaagh! I'm getting dizzy!"

"Huff!" Ranma growled as she grabbed the old woman and spun her around herself against the direction of the previous whirlwind. Then the current male struck the matriarch with a powerful punch that sent her through some trees.

"Oof!" "I don't know how much more of this I can take. Uh, oh. Here she comes again. Have her muscles gotten bigger? Ranma may even be able to defeat me at this point. I must get away from her." !ZAP! "Yeow!"

Ranma moved in on her opponent fast, firing off ki blasts like there was no tomorrow, nailing the amazon and sending her back end over end. Deodorant finally landed near a clearing at which she stabbed the ice beneath her.

"Ranma get you, old hag!" Ranma screamed in a rage. "Ranma teach you a lesson you never forget!"

Ranma seemed to move at an incalculable speed, but before she got there, the amazon elder had managed to use her stick to create large, jagged pieces of ice. "I hate to have to do this, Ranma, but there seems to be no other way of stopping your wanton rage." Then Deodorant levitated the knife-edged pieces of ice, pointed them at Ranma and let them fly.

"Aargh!" Ranma screamed upon running into the first large piece of ice. "Ice no stop Ranma!" The wild-haired man struck the piece of ice, turning it into harmless splinters.

"There's more where that came from!" Deodorant called out. She then sent more large pieces of ice in Ranma's direction in an autofire fashion.

There were so many giant-sized pieces of ice coming at Ranma that a few began to get through her defenses until... "Tenshin amaguriken!" At super-speed, Ranma shattered countless pieces of snow, exploding them on contact. In a matter of seconds, Ranma made her way towards the old woman who was standing on a large ice platform of levitating snow she had created.

"Gasp! Ranma's speed and power are unparalleled! There's no stopping her now. She's coming this way!"

"At this rate, Ranma might even kill my great-grandmother!" Mousse thought to himself with concern. "Great-Grandmother! The shock of changing back into a woman might snap Ranma out of it!"

"What? Silly male! If we do that we won't have Ranma under our control!" the old woman answered.

"At this rate, Ranma can't even control herself! There's nothing else we can do!" Mousse yelled back.

Deodorant then flew off the snow platform she was on as Ranma blasted it to shreds with a ki blast. Then Ranma made a beeline for her. "It's over, old woman. Old hag make Ranma mad!"

!SMASH!CRACK!POW! "Aaagh!" the ancient, old lady screamed as Ranma began to pound on her.

"Ranma smash!"

"Aaaagh!"

"Ranma! Take it easy!" Kenji called out. Then he turned towards Mousse. "We have to snap Ranma out of it."

"What do you say, Mousse?" Sakura asked with a wry smile.

Mousse walked over to the trophy and grabbed the container that housed the Phoenix pill. He then opened up the container. Turning to Sakura, he ordered, "Make yourself useful and get some hot water!"

As soon as Sakura acquired hot water in the pail she had used from before, Mousse nodded. "Hey, Ranma! This is what you want, right?"

Ranma turned away from her hapless victim. "Give it to me!"

"Mousse! What are you doing?" Deodorant demanded.

"Ranma is going to kill you, Great-Grandmother! His toruken is deadly dangerous!" Mousse answered with respect.

"No, Mousse! I can handle Ranma even in her current state! !POW! Ungh!" Deodorant moaned as Ranma struck her with a roundhouse punch that knocked the old lady back several yards end over end.

"Great-Grandmother!" Mousse called out as he leaped to catch her.

"Huff! Huff! It's inconceivable that Ranma would get so strong," the tired old woman gasped.

"She's coming this way!" Mousse warned. "I need to..."

"No, Mousse! Just let me catch my breath."

"Rroowwrr!" Ranma screamed as she flew towards the two huddled amazons.

"Ranma!" Kenji shouted. When Ranma turned around, she ran over to him. "Here, take this." After putting the pill in her mouth Kenji called out to Sakura. "Now!" !SPLASH!

Sakura watched in shock and surprise as Ranma's form shrunk into that of a busty, red-headed girl. "Golly! I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't have seen it!"

"I wouldn't have either!" Ryoga thought to himself while standing in the crowd unnoticed by anyone. "I guess Ranma is a girl after all. She is kind of cute, especially when she's laughing and giggling. And to think I've had my hands all over her chest! She was so firm yet soft at the same time! I wish she was a little more modest though." The lost boy kept on contemplating as he kept his eyes on the new object of his desire.

"But how?" Deodorant screamed, hopping on her walking stick towards them.

"I used my sleight of hand skills to get that pill from Mousse while he was distracted," Kenji explained proudly.

"What? There's no way a muscle headed buffoon like you could have outsmarted me like that!"

"There's more to me than brute strength, Mousse. You'd be wise to remember that from now on. Besides, at the rate things were going, Ranma would have killed you and your grandma. So be grateful."

"Grateful? You ruined everything!" Deodorant snapped. "I would have handled things well enough."

"Just go home!" Ranma demanded as she took hold of her fiance, looking up at him sweetly. "Thanks for looking out for me, Kenji. I feel so comfortable in my real body. I hated being a man." Then Ranma stopped for a moment. "No offense, Kenji."

"None taken. Besides, I feel comfortable with your body as well, Ranma," Kenji said happily. "You must be cold. Let me help you." Kenji began to stroke her back, warming Ranma up.

"Ooh! That feels good," Ranma moaned.

"Where did that red-headed girl come from?" a boy from the crowd called out.

"Who cares? Did you see what her body looked like? She's hot!"

"I'll say!" another commented.

"Ranmaa!" Akane yelled, running up to them with her family and Ranma's father right behind her.

"What is it now, Akane?" Ranma asked in a perturbed manner.

"Why can't you keep your clothes on? Aren't you cold?"

"Huh? Oh!" Ranma exclaimed in embarrassment over her state of undress as she put her arms over her large bosom. "Sorry, everybody!"

"Don't be sorry!" a boy in the crowd said with a huge smile on his face. "We certainly enjoyed the view!"

"Here, Ranma," Kenji said calmly, putting a large coat around her.

"Thanks, Kenji. I'm not really cold right now though. But one thing's for sure."

"What's that?"

"It's great being me!" Ranma announced, jumping up and down to the delight of the men in the crowd.

"Sigh!" Mousse was crestfallen at the change of events, but Deodorant reassured him.

"Don't worry, Mousse. I'll cook up some other way to get Ranma into our tribe. This is far from over." With that, the amazons left.

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