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Part 14: Nightmares
After Lum offered Ranma to sleep at her place there was a minute of silence. Ranma looked at Akane who seemed troubled but other than that she kept quite.
Seeing that his little girl won't speak her mind Soun chose to speak it.
"I won't let it!"
The family looked at him and seemed shocked how bravely he strode to Ranma.
"I CAN'T let you do this Ranma. Think about my little girl. You are breaking her heart with this!"
The young Saotome looked surprised by the outburst.
"(I wonder how come he can grow a spine suddenly only to throw it away instantly.)"
Since there was no answer from Ranma, Soun smiled knowing that he had won.
"Now Ranma, it's time you come home, to where you belong, to your family, to your friends and to your dear fiancée."
Soun was ready to grab the pigtailed fighter and run for it if was needed when suddenly someone intervened.
"He doesn't have to. Ranma isn't an object to belong anyone... anywhere he doesn't want to."
Soun couldn't believe his ears. His little daughter just gave up on her fiancée?
"Akane don't say such things. You two were meant for each other since..."
The young Tendo girl wanted to continue but a hand on her shoulder stopped her.
"It's alright Akane you did what you can." Ranma smiled at her and something changed in her.
"So what I do is not good enough is that it?" Akane yelled back at the pigtailed boy who was surprised by the sudden change.
"I didn't..."
Before Ranma could have finished what he wanted to say Akane took a step closer only a few inches remained between them.
"But you thought that didn't you! I had it with you! No matter what I do it's..."
Ranma's temper got the better of him as he yelled at the girl in front of him.
"Enough!"
It wasn't the word that made Akane stop, far from it. It was the booming deep voice and that malicious intent that came with it that demanded her to comply.
In her eyes what stood before her was no longer Ranma she knew. It was more like a stranger, a very dangerous stranger.
Ranma quickly looked at Soun who started sweating.
"I think we are finished for today. I will come over tomorrow and we will talk." The authority that radiated from Ranma made Soun give in.
"Yes. I think we already did a scene. It's better to return home." The patriarch of the Tendo home was eager to get home as quickly as he could.
After saying there quick farewells, the Tendo and Saotome family returned home with one member of the Hibikis.
When the well known faces disappeared, Ranma's legs gave in as he fell to his knees.
"I'm beat... this was one hell of a day."
As he was trying to ease the pain from his body he felt a pair of arms around him and two soft orbs push into his back.
"You shouldn't push yourself so hard darling."
Ranma wasn't as tense as he was before around Lum.
"(Maybe this won't be as bad as I first thought.)"
The pigtailed fighter turned his head to face Lum, at that moment the deep sea met the sky as their eyes met.
For a moment Ranma felt something pulling him closer to her but the sudden pain in his back reminded him of his situation.
"I got a question Lum."
The young oni smiled at her appointed husband. "What is it darling?"
"How are we going to get to your ship with me barely able to move?" An awkward silence followed as the gears started to turn in their heads.
-A little later-
Lum opened the door of her ship and helped Ranma walk to the nearest place where he could sit down.
"I feel like a hunk of meat after a ride in the grinder."
Hearing this, the owner of the ship looked at her guest with an annoyed look.
"Don't talk like that. I'll get some of my oni medication for you."
With Lum in the next room Ranma sighed as he felt his body burning up.
"(The last time I felt like this was when I had that fever.)"
His vision started to blur and had trouble breathing.
"(Is it hot in here or is it me? I wish I could use the Soul of Ice as an air conditioner.)" With a hazy mind, Ranma still felt well enough to make a joke.
In the store room Lum went through a few boxes that had medicine in it and went for the first aid kit.
"I hope this will be enough. I don't want to board father's ship to get darling to the ship doctor."
Holding the first aid kit and a small box of medicine Lum walked in the main room where she left Ranma.
"Darling I got the... did I left the heater on a high temperature?"
Looking at the computer she could see that the heating was on 20C°, yet the room temperature was 29 C°!
"(Where is this heat coming from?)"
"Ranma aren't you... Ranma!" The medicine in her hands fell to the grounds as she panicked when her guest looked like he was ready to leave this world.
"(Wait! High body temperature... I need to cool him down!)" Grabbing Ranma she flew to the bathroom where she put him into the tub and let the cold water cool her loved one.
While it was a good idea it didn't go as the young oni planned. Because of the increased body temperature the cold water started to heat up and the tub was already full so she couldn't open the faucet for more cold water.
"I better bring ice."
Returning with a bucket of ice she poured it all into the tub and around Ranma. Her love soon showed signs that he was better.
"He's calming down now. By the Grand Oni... I thought I might lose you."
After a few minutes that seemed like eternal darkness to Ranma, he opened his eyes and he found himself sitting by a tree in the middle of a forest.
"Where am I?" The next surprise was that he felt his lips move, he heard his voice, yet neither happened. Then his body stood up by its self and walked.
"Where am I going? I don't like this." Soon he could see a dirt path and his body followed the road.
For a long while nothing was visible but the forest and the path. A boring view after a while but Ranma at least had time to think about what happened.
"I still can't find a reason! The last time I was on Lum's spaceship."
While Ranma was trying to find an answer for this strange event he didn't see that a handful of view looking people entered his view.
What shook him from his thinking was a loud yell.
"...I said that you will show us to the city of Algernuk or you will die here!" Ranma looked to the source and saw a tall guy, a walking mountain of muscle, wearing armour that didn't look too practical and wielded a wicked looking axe like if it was a butter knife!
"This guy has to crap load of muscles... how can he even move with all this?" While the pigtailed boy didn't like to be skinny, he didn't like the other side of the coin, this extreme muscle man.
For once since the young Saotome found him in this strange predicament he saw his lips move and heard a very familiar voice.
"Dogs of Kheval, you presume to believe I would follow YOUR orders?"
The guy next to the muscle mountain started laughing. His fat belly danced as the muscles moved under the skin. It was a miracle that someone had the patience to make armour for him... one that was three size smaller from the looks of it.
The man's pig like look paired with an annoying voice.
"Calm down Ekirl, this guy probably has a death wish." With that said the pig like man came closer and his face was only inches away from Ranma who was nauseous from the guy.
"I didn't feel this bad when I walked in on Happosai bathing!" As Ranma was fighting down the sickness, when his body acted again.
"I guess the saying is true. Distance does make things pretty." Hearing this, the pig man's face contorted into a grimace that made it even uglier, if that was possible.
"A wise guy, huh? Well you know what WE don't have time for you. Either take us to the city or prepare to be killed." The threat wasn't just a bluff as the pig man pulled out a dagger.
The answer came as quickly as it was unexpected.
"I won't tolerate this anymore."
"What? You think this is some kind of game, maybe a ball where we wear costumes?" Spit started to fly from the pig-man's mouth as he slowly lost his patience.
"Whoever did your costume, I'm impressed. I have never seen a pig this realistic before." Hearing this the pig-man's eye twitched and he prepared to strike.
In one moment the scenario changed. Ranma's body struck out, the arm of the offender got twisted like soft clay. The edge of the dagger stopped between pig-man's lips who sweating enough to compete with Soun when he cries!
"I'm already used to scoundrels from Kheval acting like this. What I'm not used to is your smell." The voice that left Ranma's lips was still the deep voice, but it felt colder then winter in Syberia at its lowest temperature!
The pig-man didn't dare to answer, yet the tall man known as Ekirl took a step closer.
"Interesting. You can't be just a soldier in the army of King Meidas. You should know that even if you kill Raobaimy you can't win against all of us."
There was a moment of silence and the dagger pulled back a little and the pig-man seemed relieved. Then Ranma could feel a smile creep onto his face and a dark, sinister feeling behind it.
"You chose wWE..." Before the pig-man could finish the dagger moved forward, cutting through the side of his mouth and cleaving the jaw bone, going through the bone and muscle like butter then exiting at the back of the head.
Everything that was higher than where the jaw bone is connected to the rest of the skull got freed from the rest of the head and flew freely to land in front of Ekirl.
The man was shocked to see his comrade executed in such a brutal and bloody way, then the shock turned into anger.
"Kill him!"
As three soldiers ran forward Ranma, he wasn't sure he wanted to see what came. There was a ripple in the air that the warriors couldn't see.
As they neared Ranma, he could see them disintegrate until nothing was left of them. Not even armour or weapons.
The muscle mountain instantly yelled after seeing this.
"Demon! So it isn't just a rumour that Queen Aliamen employs fiends in its ranks."
A low laughter came from Ranma, when he took a step forward the group they instantly took two backwards.
"Believe whatever you will, none of you shall leave this place alive."
Before any of the soldiers could move, a dark aura erupted from the ground, surrounded them and formed a dome above them.
Then Ranma's body spoke out.
"I don't have time to play with you lot. So I'll make it quick."
"Please don't!"One of the soldiers, who looked like an overgrown rat fell on his knees and started begging for his life.
The rest followed, except the muscle man.
"Fools! Don't beg for your lives to this monster. This causes him joy to see us mortals suffer at his hand."
A raised eyebrow was all the reaction this brought out from Ranma's body.
"Just about as much as your troops had plundering our villages, not to mention murdering and violating civilians!"
Ranma could feel the muscles move in his right arm until it was raised to eye level. A black flame appeared around his hand.
"Golden Eclipse!"
The victims of the attack started screaming as golden flames licked their bodies, followed up by lightening that erupted from them.
The bodies slowly turned black as the dome shrank until all that remained was an orb, small enough to fit into a five year old child's palm. Then it collapsed on itself, leaving no trace of what happened to its victims. The only thing that remained was the hole it left but that wasn't big enough for anyone to notice.
As the attack ended and he felt his legs about to move Ranma felt a sudden weakness as he fell forward, his arms crashing into the ground to hold him up.
He felt a warm liquid in his throat as he started coughing and spat on the ground to get rid of it. The precious vitae that left his body were darker than it's supposed to.
"What's happening here?" Ranma wasn't sure what this all meant. Is this like one of those nightmares he had before?
As he tried to find an answer his body stood up after coughing up more blood and getting rid of it the good old way. He rubbed his hand on the ground and took a handful of the soil to remove the smell.
After a long walk and strangely no other encounter with anything Ranma could see a city in the horizon but his body ventured deep into the forest and soon he could see a little house.
The house was built in a small clearing in the forest, the clearing was the price of the house probably since the building was made from timber and hewn stone. There was movement in front of the window and the pigtailed boy wasn't sure if he wanted to see what will happen.
Suddenly the door flung open and there stood a woman. One word sprang into the pigtailed boy's mind when he saw her.
"Beautiful."
The woman had a serene feeling around her like that reminded him of Kasumi. This paired up by a beautiful cyan coloured hair that reached to her shoulders and deep green eyes that sparkled like an emerald. She wore something similar that reminded Ranma of the mediaeval European clothes he had seen in his history books.
Once again the pigtailed boy could feel his mouth moving.
"I'm back, Magali."
"Welcome home, dear." Her voice was slightly deeper than Kasumi's but in his eyes, Ranma could swear that this was Kasumi with different coloured hair and eyes.
As Ranma thought about the ghostly resemblance but it soon came to an end when his eyes caught movement behind the woman's skirt.
A little girl, looked from right besides the woman, she looked curiously for a moment than a huge smile appeared on her face, then it ran towards Ranma.
The girl hugged the pigtailed boy's legs since she barely reached to his thigh. He could feel as his body crouched to hug the child. The little girl was glowing from happiness.
"I'm glad you are back daddy."
That one word felt like hundreds of punches from Ryoga for Ranma. His vision blurred for a moment before it returned to normal.
"I'm glad too Ella."
The little girl looked a lot like the woman who is probably her mother. The only difference was the skin tone and hair colour. While the woman had a light bronze colour probably from being outside a lot, the child had medium skin colour. Her hair was white but the end had a cyan tint to it.
"Daddy, pick me up!" Ella asked and Ranma could feel his body act and lift the child and put her on his shoulder to give her a ride.
Looking at the girl who grabbed onto his head Ranma felt proud all of a sudden.
"Let's go in, we will play outside later."
The girl let out a loud squeal of happiness as they entered the house.
It was a cosy home. Not big but enough for the little family. As he looked around he could see what could be called a living room. The room didn't have much furniture, a table with four chairs around it in the middle of the room, an end table and bookshelf and something that could be called a couch but what caught Ranma's attention the most was on the wall, a mirror and mostly what it reflected.
The man in the mirror was Ranryu.
"Is this... his memory? So he has... had a family?"
Ranryu went over to the couch and he put the little girl down and sat down next to her. The woman walked.
Magali joined her family as she sat next to her husband.
"So tell us dear what happened while you were away?"
"The usual, the queen sent me to the front line to act as an adviser for the generals. I still can't believe that some of those morons actually got those positions..."
His story was interrupted by Ella who climbed up on him.
"Because my daddy's the strongest general right!"
Ranryu took Ella down as the little girl grabbed his hair to climb onto his shoulders.
"Ella, you know I don't like it if you pull my hair."
"But you are the strongest general right?" Ella's deep green eyes shined from curiosity as she looked upon her father.
"I'm sorry Ella, but I'm not the strongest general." Hearing this, the child seemed to be saddened but when his father's right hand reached to her chin to tilt her head upwards she got one more answer.
"I can't be the strongest general since officially I'm not a general. I'm a special adviser and court mage." The child's expression turned serious, as serious as a five year old can get. Then when Ranryu did a few movements with his right hand and a little statue started to take shape as the air became solid. It fit right into his palm.
"Here you go Ella." As he looked at the happy child's face Ranma could suddenly felt proud and happy like he never had before.
Little Ella looked at the statue for a few moments before she could realise what it was.
"It's mama. Look mommy it's a statue of you."
Magali leaned closer to see it. It was her; the material of the statue which turned see through made it hard to see.
"It's beautiful, Ranryu. Why me?"
"You are one of my most precious treasures. So I'll give one treasure to the other." When Ranryu finished he pulled Magali and Ella closer to him.
The three enjoyed the protection and love they had for each other for minutes before Ranryu's stomach broke the moment. Ella started to chuckle as his father pointed to Magali. Said woman shook her head with a playful smile. Soon Ella's stomach also voiced its need.
The young mother stood up from the couch and headed into the next room which Ranma could see was the kitchen. At least if the fireplace wasn't just there for decoration.
"I'll cook up something, Ella do you want to help me?"
The little girl nodded and ran after her mother. Ranryu was alone on the couch when Magali looked out of the kitchen.
"You should take a bath while we are getting ready with the supper. If we are ready soon I might join you." With that she gave him a wink and returned to her things.
After a quick bath outside Ranryu returned wearing a towel around his private parts. Magali came out and smiled when her love started dressing in the middle of the room.
"You know dear that you could dress up in our room. Not that I mind what I can see but Ella is still too young to get that talk."
"I'm pretty sure when we even realise it that she has grown old enough, she will be asking about it already." The playful look paired up with what he said earned a loud sigh out of Magali.
"Talking about it is already making me feel old and I'm already an old lady." The young mother said while posing dramatically and it earned her an embrace from her now clothed husband.
"Twenty four winters and you call yourself old. What should I say then with my age?"
Hearing the question the woman felt shamed as she looked away for a moment.
"I... know well enough that mages tend to live a very long life."
The two lovers were about to share a kiss when the fruit of their love entered the room.
"Mommy the food is ready."
After a healthy meal the little family started preparing for bed. This didn't go as smooth as one would think.
"I don't want to go to sleep. I want to play outside with daddy!" The little girl said sitting on her bed as her parents tucked her in.
"The Sun is almost gone already; playing outside at this time isn't safe." This wasn't a good enough answer for the little girl as she tried the famed puppy dog eye attack.
Since even the silver haired man couldn't face the attack head on he used another tactic, he compromised.
"We will have a lot of fun tomorrow but to do that you will a lot of sleep."
Magali started her own front line to make her child agree.
"Now Ella I know you want to be with father but your father is tired. He would like to retire to bed soon. You two can't have fun if he falls asleep every minute."
The little girl nodded and lay down to sleep. Ranryu blew at the candle and darkness took its place.
Before the young parents could go out of the room the little girl spoke.
"Can I have a story?"
The two looked at each other and knew that this was coming. The silver haired man sat next to her daughter and pulled his wife on his lap.
"What kind of a story would you like to hear?"
"How mommy and you met daddy!"
The father was a little surprised but not without a reason.
"Again? We already told you that about a thousand times if not more."
Magali knew that arguing with Ella would only prolong her going to sleep so she coerced her husband. "She isn't bored of it so we could tell it again."
With a final look from the two girls in the room Ranryu knew that he didn't have a choice.
"It all started seven years ago, back then I was still a wandering mage. Your mother..."
The little girl was brimming from excitement even if she could tell the story even if they woke her in the middle of the night.
"Mommy was the handmaiden of the princess, right?"
From this point on Ranryu knew that Ella will finish what he wanted to say and ask if she remembered it well.
"Yes, the princess of Kalon to be exact. The king and the princess along with their attendants left from the capital city Shak to Rolenbier."
The little girl was radiating joy as she listened to the story and her parents felt proud as they looked on her.
"Between the two cities the roads were known to be dangerous but there weren't any reports of danger for quite a long time the kind decided that brining a big entourage wasn't a good idea. Only five if the royal guards came along with them."
"Then the bandits attacked?"
When the little girl asked, Magali felt that it was her turn to continue the story.
"Yes, Ella. The guards held them back for a few minutes but the bandits overcome them by sheer number."
The little girl pulled the cover up to her neck as she moved back a little.
"When the leader of the thieves arrived and wanted to kill the king so he could claim his throne he got a big surprise."
"Daddy arrived, right?"
"Yes, he did... and what an entrance he had." The young mother looked at her husband who had a smug look on his face.
The silver haired man shot a half serious look at his wife.
"That grizzly attacked first and as self defence I spinning kicked him! How should I have known that it lands on someone?"
As a reply the young mother shoot him back a playful look.
"And that grizzly tried to use a whole tree as a weapon by chance?"
Seeing that this was still a debate the two usually had and hours pass before he usually ended it with a sentence.
"That tree was in the way when I kicked him."
"Anyway, after beating the thieves the king brought your father with us. When your father showed signs of being a mage... a very powerful one, the king offered him the chance to marry the princess."
"But daddy refused right?"
Magali stroked her daughters head and answered.
"Yes, he did. And till this day he won't tell me a good reason why he did so."
Hearing this Ranryu quickly said a random excuse.
"She had a big and disgusting pimple on her face."
"Anyway the king insisted that he should marry the princess. After a few days of trying to make your father agree the king asked him why won't he take his daughter as his wife?" Magali chuckled as Ranryu looked away quickly.
"I was in the room at that time when your father said this: My heart already belongs to another." Magali had a light blush appear and she hugged her husband to calm herself.
"The funny thing is that your mother was assigned to me as an attendant while I stayed there. Under that six and a half day I got to know a lot about your mother. When she came into the room and heard my answer she turned scarlet red. Your mother already knew that I was talking about her."
Ella seemed interested but a little scared as she asked.
"The king didn't let it go right?"
Ranryu continued the story as she held his wife closer.
"He didn't. In the end I offered him a deal: I will serve his family and until his blood still flows in the royal family I will be loyal till death. In return the royal family has to protect my family; if anything happens to them that the royal family could have stopped than I am freed from my end of the deal."
"What about the princess?"
Magali and Ranryu shared an awkward moment as a nervous smile appeared on their faces.
"The princess wanted to skin me because I insulted her. When she heard the news that I chose her handmaiden over her... that is something you are too young to hear."
Seeing that the story had to continue quickly or the little girl would start questioning that wouldn't end for a while, Magali did what she had to.
"For two years I travelled with your father and by the end of the second year we got married. The next year we had a little surprise and you were born."
The curious mind of the little girl couldn't get enough of the story as she asked her parent to continue.
"And what happened after that?"
"What happened after that is for another night. It's time to sleep."
-Back with Lum-
Lum was sitting besides Ranma who was still soaking in the tub. About an hour passed after the first bucket of ice was dumped into the tub. Since then seven other buckets were needed to keep Ranma on tolerable heat level. The water was already lukewarm when she had the idea that maybe she should call Oyuki, she could help her.
"She could help me with this and I could call father so I could dock the ship and take darling to the ship doctor..." She wanted to continue her monologue but Ranma started trashing and yelling, Lum screamed from the sudden outburst but Ranma became silent again.
Moving closer to Ranma she could see that he was dreaming.
"A fever dreams no doubt. I better get another bucket of ice before the last batch completely melts." Quickly flying to the kitchen and after getting a refill she flew back to her sick guest.
"This should keep you cool." As she dumped it on him, the ice didn't start to melt like previously. Seeing this as a good thing she moved to get her thermometer.
After the gadget did its job at auxiliary reading, Lum was pleased. The temperature went down to normal 35.8°.
"I hope the fever stays down. I better move him into the bed so he will be more comfortable." After getting Ranma out of the tub she started undressing him.
When she reached the boxer an idea crossed her mind about seeing him naked again but she shook her head.
"Darling wouldn't like it, if I did that. Besides it would be better if he would take it off for me."
Laying Ranma on to her bed she tucked him in and moved besides him, wearing her night clothes that was like her usual oni clothes without the boots and but much softer.
"I'll stay here to ward off the nightmares darling. Get better quickly."
Lum tried to stay awake but she soon fell asleep.
-Back in Ranma's dream-
Ranryu felt movement from his wife he slowly lifted his head up to see that the sun wasn't up yet. Magali was having a bad dream so he pulled her closer to himself. The young woman soon calmed down and her face changed to a peaceful one.
"Ella did get that innocent look from you." Ranryu said that it a low voice to not wake up Magali.
As he held her next to him he felt something coming close to his home. Without hesitation he moved out of the bed but watched out not to wake up Magali or Ella.
He summoned his clothes on himself and walked out of the house. As he looked around he could see a weak source of light coming closer.
Ranma felt that Ranryu was frightened for a moment before confidence took its part, paired up with blood lust.
The light source came close enough for Ranryu to see who or what it was. A knight was carrying a torch as he rode his horse.
"In what business are you on my land?" When Ranryu spoke the knight got scared and threw the torch away as he pulled his sword out.
"Who is there? Am I talking to the mage of Algar?" The knight looked around himself but without his torch he could barely see the horse he was on.
"Yes, now why are you here?" Ranryu appeared right next to the night that jumped up from his horse which is quite a feat with the armour he had and all this from a sitting position.
The knight fell down and scooted under the nearest tree.
"Please don't hurt me Lord Mage! I came to give your lordship a message from the soon to be queen, princess Erzal."
Why seeing the scene unfold before him Ranma felt that an important piece was missing from the puzzle.
"(I wonder why these guys fear Ranryu so much. Okay he is someone you probably wouldn't want to mess with but that guy is just delivering a message. And who is this Erzal?)"
"Then hand it over and leave. I don't like people who don't know when to visit." With that he snapped his fingers and the surrounding trees started to glow and gave off enough light that the knight could see the master of the land.
"Thank you Sir. Here is the message." The knight rummaged in his saddle pack and gave him the envelope.
"You may leave now Sir Knight." Ranryu said to the knight as he opened the envelope.
The knight swallowed so hard that Ranryu could hear it and had to force back a laughter aimed at the cowardly man.
"As much as I would like to my lord, princess Erzal commanded that I shall wait for a reply." Ranryu nodded and quickly read through the mail.
Ranma wasn't sure that he should read the letter but he was curious what it said.
"Court mage and Grand Advisor, Kuroi Ranryu. You are to appear in the royal castle tomorrow before the Sun starts descending. It is urgent that you appear as tomorrow an important meeting will be held."
Ranma wasn't sure what to think, the letter was official as there was a seal and a signature that could rival Happosai's but he could make out at Erzal out of it. Yet something felt odd, like it was a trap.
Ranryu put the letter back into the envelope then he looked at the knight who visibly calmed down.
"Tell the princess that I shall do as she asks. Have a safe journey back to the castle sir knight."
"Thank you, sir mage. Pleasant dreams." With that the knight rode away as quickly as he could. Ranma could feel that Ranryu was upset.
"I wasn't even at home for a day and I'm already summoned. Sometimes I wonder why I went into that agreement."
Before Ranma could think about anything else the scene suddenly turned black. A sudden burst of light made his vision blur a little as another scene played out in front of him.
Ranryu was walking through a corridor and reached a big door. Two knights armed with lances stood by it and they tried to stop him but before they could move the lances, both knights impacted in the wall and as they struggled the plate defending their torso suddenly dented and from the looks of it everything organ was squashed as Ranryu went pass them.
Ranma had to force back the vomit that threatened to escape at the sight. The gruesome sight of blood dripping out of the armour and on the wall as the two guards struggled for a little before they stopped moving.
Ranryu kicked the door and the door hinge gave in as the massive door fell... flew forward! A scream could be heard before a meaty squash was heard. A path of blood showed that someone was behind the door.
"Why is he doing this?" Ranma wasn't sure what to think, this aggression and bloodlust was too sudden. Something must have happened but he could barely watch because of the gruesome deaths.
Another burst of light almost blinded him as he was forced to look away from it.
Ranma opened his eyes and could feel that his chest was heavier then usually. He looked around, he was in Lum's room and he soon found the owner of the room. On his chest, naked chest sleeping next to him.
"How did I get here and why was I sleeping next to Lum?"
As Ranma tried to remember how he got here all he could remember was the fight with Ryoga and when he got back and started feeling ill. After that nothing, up till that... dream.
"(Ranryu, I hope you're ready to give me answers I want!)"
Writer's note:
Boy, it was a LONG wait this was. Sorry for not being active. A lot of stuff happened, some I will share. After getting my first ever profession and job hunting takes a lot of my time. While doing that I got my driving license which I got on my third try when it came to the driving part. Also my friend Gelionlegends who also helps me with the stories I make, mostly correcting my grammar and giving interesting ideas. (Check out his work, you might like it.) So this chapter and possible the next ones as well will be only corrected by me, using my rusty English skills and the so trustworthy build in error corrector in Word.
I know some people WILL hate and despise me for this chapter and some even wrote that they don't like my OC. Fair enough, I'm not asking for anyone to like him because I don't want him to be a likeable character.
Still I thought a lot about it why the readers didn't like him. Maybe because I didn't make him interesting enough, then again I didn't really show much about him.