Chapter 1
I disclaim all that is Rumiko Takahashi and Ken Akamatsu
Ranma entered his classroom after spending what felt like days filling out paperwork doing entrance tests, his mother speaking with the dean of Mahora Academy about his curse. The only time he felt this annoyed was undergoing training from the old ghoul during his time in China. He was lucky then the only thing really annoying was the ghouls training methods. He sighed looking around, as Takahata gestured for him to enter the class. "Anything wrong Ranma," Takahata asked.
"Not really, just annoyed bout all the stuff mom had to go through just to get me enrolled," Ranma replied honestly. Ranma was introduced to his homeroom teacher and explanations on how he wasn't wearing a school uniform were made. As his homeroom teacher and Takahata spoke the pig-tailed martial artist wandered over to the window and looked out thinking about the huge turn in his life. Ten years on the road with his father, the rescuing of the Amazon girl from the Musk in China, obtaining the honorary Amazon rank, training with the old ghoul, returning to Japan was dropped a bomb by his father about the engagement only to have it crash to dust when his father found out his friend and his family all died in a fire that burned the family home to the ground. The fire itself was ruled an accident, but the weight of the whole incident didn't sit well with Genma and the fat slob drank himself into a stupor upon setting up camp after making sure Ranma was asleep committed seppuku. Ranma waking up in the morning covered in his father's blood and frantically tried to wake his father. Ranma went into a catatonic state until the authorities located Ranma's two only living relatives, his mother and his younger sister. They ushered Ranma back home and took nearly six months to return him to normal. It took the young man six more months to get over the death as well as get his martial arts skills back up to par.
Ranma frowned deeply, as soon as he was well the first fiancée began arriving. Apparently Genma had not been as forthcoming with certain things as Ranma thought. Most of these underhanded arranged marriages were for things like food, room and board, or just plain cash. Ranma went from being a grieving son to and irate son after one week. But was the essential tonic to bring Ranma completely out of his funk, "Ranma?"
The pig-tailed martial artist blinked turning to the two teachers who were looking at him rather strangely, until caught sight of the slight blue glow surrounding him. With a nervous chuckle he put his hand behind his head and began rubbing it slightly, "Heh, sorry about that."
After Takahata left the pig-tailed boy took a seat near the back and tried his hardest not to fall asleep as class droned on. When lunch time rolled around not wanting to wait, Ranma ran for the open window and jumped out. Much to the shock of twenty-nine students and one teacher Ranma landed softly on the ground three stories below, heading for a small area that was the main assembly area for the entire school, here he sat down and opened the food he packed up for the day.
About midway through his meal, a shadow fell along it, "You know bro, not everyone can jump down three stories and land like you do," a female voice stated calmly.
Ranma looked up at three girls standing in front of him the tallest was the one who spoke she had square rimmed glasses and long hair. Behind her were two others both shorter than her, one had short purple hair with the bangs hiding the majority of her face, while the other was shorter then the others had long blue hair and a blank expression on her face. He knew them all quite well, "Keep forgetting about it, Runie," he smirked slightly as the girl he addressed scowled.
"Well I would think you wouldn't want people to think you're weird," Haruna Saotome replied.
Ranma simply rolled his eyes at her, "This coming from someone who's got a ten year old teaching Junior High."
Haruna tried keep from giggling but it failed, unlike most siblings she had really good relationship with her brother, and had been the pillar of comfort for him while he was dealing with their father's suicide, so much so she almost missed her new semester of school. "Touché, bro, so how's your day at school been?" she asked taking a seat next him.
Ranma groaned slightly glad to talk to someone about it, "Boring, never been good at learning anything outside martial arts."
"Y-you'll get b-better, Ranma I-I'm sure of it," Nodoka Miyazaki stated in her rather soft voice.
Ranma smiled slightly, "Thank you, Nodoka. Still it's a royal pain," he paused looking at the book Haruna had underneath her arm. "What's that sis?"
Haruna held up the book which turned out to be one of her favorite manga. "Oh this, it's a manga, one of my fav Dragon Ball Z." Ranma snatched it and flipped through a couple of pages some showing Goku going through some rather intense training. The more he flipped through the more the pig-tailed martial artist interest was piqued.
Yue glanced at Ranma for a second before turning to Haruna, "Looks like you got one thing in common now."
"Apparently so," Haruna giggled a bit. "If you want bro, I can give you the entire set and some others like it."
Ranma looked up a moment, "What others?" he asked.
The pig-tailed martial artist though had an ulterior motive for reading the mangas he borrowed from his sister. He actually began using the rather bizarre training regime in the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z manga, using the cash account his mother set up for him. Ranma started buying specially made weighted clothing, to put under his clothing, the first few times he barely made it to classes because of this. His morning training sessions became intense. As the month grew to a close he returned all the Dragon Ball mangas he borrowed. It was two months since he had been brought to Mahora, a lot of strange things had occurred on and off campus. Ranma could practically sense something serious was about to happen.
Haruna looked around the empty bathroom, a moment ago she was talking to Yue, Nodoka, Kazumi, and Konoka. The next instant they vanished, while she was use to strange things occurring after all she had a brother who turned into her sister with a simple application of cold water. However she had a sense of dread creep into her at this point, quickly getting out of the bath. She dressed as quickly as she could running out of the dorms hoping to find Negi or one of the other teachers. She started heading toward the administration building. "Haruna?" the girl spun about and saw her brother back toward his own dorms.
"Bro you got to help me, something weird just happen in the bath, I was talking to Nodoka, Yue, and a few others when they vanished," the manga artist stated looking a worried.
The pig-tailed martial artist frowned a moment closing his eyes, "Right I'll go find them, you find Takahata I saw him heading to the Teacher's lounge." With a quick nod Haruna left heading off though she did glance back and what she saw couldn't be placed into words.
Ranma was leapfrogging from roof top to roof top his senses having been fine tuned during his intense training. He could now sense anyone's power if he's met them, he focused on Yue and Nodoka since they have been the only classmates from Haruna's class he knew. He could also feel a strange magical aura where they are trying to muffle their life force. Finishing his approach the magical aura had strengthened as if waiting for a punch to be thrown. Crashing through the aura he came upon to Mahora academy stage that was being set up for the festival that would happen in a few days. He saw Nodoka, Yue, Konoka, Asuna, Setsuna, Fei-Ku, Chizuru, Kazumi, all placed in some bubble. Even though he didn't know them personally his sister was a gossip hound and they're last trip home she told him and their mother about the Kyoto trip and how weird it was.
Not far from them were three doll looking creatures that looked like they were made of water, but it was the fighting that was taking place in the stands that drew his main attention. He spotted Negi Springfield and some boy looking no older than Negi, in a vicious fight with a strange looking man. He watched as Negi made a critical mistake, he moved to far forward and the old man capitalized sending the young wizard crashing to the ground. "Too easy," the old man said in an almost regretful tone. He was about to strike when a huge blast of bluish white light forced him to jump out of the way. He looked up to see a young man dressed in a red Chinese style shirt, a black undershirt, black martial arts style pants, and strange looking black martial arts style boots. "How did you get pass the magic barrier."
"Shut up, you want to pick on little kids and be a pervert, then I got nothing to say to you," Ranma leaping high into the air and landing between Negi and the old man. "If ya want ta fight someone fight me. I'm Ranma Saotome, the sole practioner of the Anything Goes School of Martial arts and the honorary member of a Chinese Amazon tribe who has 4000 years of martial tradition that was given to me."
"That's some title however you are not the one I seek, I only wish to fight the son of the Thousand Master," the old man stated pointing to Negi.
"I already told ya, you want him got to go through me," Ranma stated getting into a loose fighting stance. The old man charge quietly in mumbling something, but before he could finish Ranma seemed to vanished from his spot beside Negi the next moment his elbow was buried deep into the old man's gut. But that wasn't all apparently Negi had recovered enough to begin chanting one of his biggest spells. Suddenly huge series of light arrows came raining down on the proned figure. Ranma quickly jumped out of the way as the arrows impacted. When it was over the old man was on the ground, the ladies were out of the bubble, and the water sprites had vanished.
"Saotome, you didn't need to get involved," Negi gasped walking over to the figure.
"When my sister comes running out of the dorms her face looking like someone died, her best friends caught inside some weird bubble, and her favorite teacher about to buy it," the pig-tailed martial artist looked at Negi with a snort turning his head, "I was already involved, anything involving Runie involves me, better remember that in the future teach."
Negi smiled weakly, "I will try."
Fei-Ku walked up looking at Ranma, "You is strong and say you Amazon, what tribe."
Ranma looked at the girl nervously, one reason was she was stark naked, the second was she had a strange look in her eye. Last time he was in that look's presence was just before he got a major group glomp from the Amazon's just before he and his father departed. "Don't know the tribes name really, it was near the Jusenkyo cursed valley. Um, does that help?"
Fei-Ku's eyes seem to light up even more then before, "Brother!" she then proceeded to glomp him.
"Help…can't…breathe," gasping for the pig-tailed martial artist was saved when Setsuna and Asuna pried the Chinese girl off of him while the other girls were trying there hardest to preserve their modesty in front Negi.
Author's Note: I finally got over the incredible reader's block though not enough for this chapter I'm afraid with only three and a half pages. However the story will pick up next chapter when the Martial Arts tourney starts. As for the girl votes the following tallies so far.
Asuna: 6
Setsuna: 6
Kaede: 8
Yue: 2
Others: 3
I think I'm going pull apart the group a bit a put three more girls in with these.
Mana
Lingshen Chao
Fei-Ku
I've been reading a fic where Sayo and Mana are starting to buy for Ranma's affections and it's pretty good. I will mix in some stuff from the Negima anime, including Ranma meeting Nagi at an early age. Also like to announce that I'm about ready to finally add a new chapter to my Dark Elf and Wild Horse fic, so get ready. I'm looking for co-writers for this project and a few others if interested let me know.