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Evangeline One Half Chapter 2
Ranma sat in the guide's hut sipping a cup of tea. Her father on the other hand, was still lying outside, passed out from shock of discovering his transformation into a panda girl. The guide had explained to Ranma that her father's curse was a result of falling into two different springs. This actually made some sense to Ranma, and she made a mental note to not jump into any more springs, not that she had any intention to do so anyway. Ranma continued to sip her tea as she looked around the hut, the guide having excused himself to get something from another room. He claimed it belonged to the girl who had drowned in the pool she had fallen into, and she absently wondered what it could be, but was in no hurry to really find out, no what was most important at the moment was the ramen that was cooking on the stove as she drank her tea.
The guide meanwhile was in the adjacent room and walking towards a shelf a bit slowly, he for the longest time had a little doll in a black dress with wings sitting on his shelf ever since he had found it floating in the pool the customer fell in ten years ago. Truthfully he found the damn thing creepy as hell, and he could swear he could hear the thing laugh from time to time, and when you add in the fact one moment it would have nothing in its hands and a neutral expression, and the next moment it would have two knives in its hands and a maniacal grin on its face meant it was damn scary as well, yes he would be extremely pleased to be rid of it
Outside the hut the currently Panda-woman was waking up from her sudden nap. The panda woman stretched a bit while getting to her feet and rubbed her eyes. 'Hmm, what a strange dream I had,' the panda woman mused to herself before she glanced around at her surroundings a bit then she walked towards the guides hut, for once correctly assuming that's where his, currently her, unknown to herself, son was at. Upon entering the hut however Genma paused noticing a blond haired girl sitting there alternating between eating a bowl of Ramen, and sipping on a cup of tea. "Oh god it wasn't a dream, Nodoka is going to kill me," the panda woman stated aloud with dread. She then took notice of her voice and looked in a nearby mirror with equal dread. "This is not good, come on boy we must find a way to cure ourselves!" she exclaimed.
Ranma looked up from her Ramen and tilted her head "I sure hope you aren't planning on jumping in the spring of drowned man," she stated sarcastically. She then continued, "according to the guide, the springs here are cursed and who ever falls into one takes on the form of that which drowned there last, and if a person jump into another spring their curses will mix, this is why you are a panda woman," she explained as if talking to a five year old. Ranma then paused a moment before taking a bite of Ramen and then a sip of tea before speaking again. "Also from what the guide has told me, the curses have NO known cure, though are easily reversed with hot water but only until splashed with cold water in which case the curse is reactivated again," Ranma took another sip of her tea and closed her eyes a moment to allow her father to digest what she had said.
Genma blinked a few times and had to suppress a shudder at the images of a half male half female panda creature, 'easy Genma ole boy you just have to avoid falling into anymore springs,' the currently female panda woman thought to herself. Then added silently, 'woulda been nice to have at least fallen into the spring of the drowned man instead of the spring of the drowned girl though.' After a moment Genma shook his head "BOY why are you still in that weak girly form, I demand you change back at once!" Ranma's father bellowed in a rather loud voice, much to the younger boy, currently girls's annoyance "We will have to find a cure to our curses, after all the path of true martial artist is fraught with peril, but we need to get rid of these weak and unnatural forms!" Genma shouted with a fist in the air.
Ranma simply opened her eyes and glared at her Father "I will change back when I am good and ready, I don't know if you noticed, but it's currently raining outside, so it would make little sense for me, or you for that matter to change back to our natural forms. Further as I said before there's NO KNOWN CURE. It would be a waste of our time to seek for something that doesn't exist" Ranma paused to take a calming breath before speaking again "Now if you do not shut the hell up, I will kick your ass so hard you will hurt for weeks, I am still quite pissed off at you for knocking me into that damn spring in the first place, and it's YOUR fault we are cursed in the first damn place for bringing us here without learning a damn word of Chinese!" Throughout Ranma's rant if one with magical senses were to have looked they would have noticed a faint magical aura forming around Ranma, and that Ranma's currently green eyes seemed to Glow with power, and while Genma couldn't see this aura, he oddly felt that maybe, for the moment at least, it would indeed be better if he did just sit down and shut up, So in a rare moment of using common sense Genma sat down and helped himself to a bowl of Ramen. Now while neither Ranma nor his currently female father couldn't see nor feel the magical aura around Ranma, two other people however could, one was a doll with a penchant for cutting things up, and the other was an old woman suddenly pogoing around her home which was located in a village that was ran by the council the woman was apart of. Said old woman was also trying to figure why the aura she was feeling felt so familiar.
Back at the Guides hut the Jusenkyo guide walked back into the main room where Ranma and Genma were sitting eating Raman. The guide had a small doll wearing a black dress with black wings. The doll had a rather creepy looking smile on its face that for some reason Ranma found cute. The three people however would be startled as the doll would suddenly spoke up "Ah it's good to see the master again even if it isn't the original master but the new master who takes on the old masters form" the doll said cheerfully before hopping out of the Guides hands and onto Ranma's shoulder "Hiyas Master the names Chachazero but you can call me whatever you want master"
The Jusenkyo guide simply watched the doll talking to the young blond haired girl in silence. 'I was right that doll was not normal,' the guide thought silently to himself and said a silent prayer that the young costumer would take the thing with them when she left to continue their trip.
"Nice to meetcha Zero," came the blonds reply. "The names Ranma, and I suppose your master was the girl who drowned in the pool I fell into?" The blond asked earning a nod from the doll on her shoulder. "What was your master's name?" Ranma then asked as she took a bite of Ramen.
Chachazero grinned "The master had many names, but I suppose the most common name the master went by was Evangeline A.K. McDowell, and she was a powerful mage and a very old vampire. She was at least five hundred years old. Master was turned into a vampire at the young age of ten and traveled around from place to place doing as she pleased.
Ranma smirked a bit 'heh this Evangeline sounds like my kind of person' Ranma thought to herself as she ran a hand though her currently blond hair. "Say Zero any fun ideas of how we could punish the panda without killing her, yet making her wish we did?" Ranma asked her new friend with an evil looking smile as she turned and looked at her father.
Genma began to sweat as she watched her son turned daughter and the creepy doll smile at her with sharp toothed smiles, and had to fight the urge to run away screaming. She had absolutely no idea why, but at that moment her son turned daughter was even more scary then her master ever was.
"We could shave her fur off and pour rubbing alcohol over her that would surely be painful" Zero suggested happily. Earning a grin from Ranma.
"Yes, yes I think that would work, especially if we add some sort of embarrassing outfit, like maybe a sailor fuku or something.." Ranma mused as she took a sip of her tea and leaned back in her seat and sighed she had so many things and information running though her head at the moment that she was rather unsure what to think of it all, however some of the things so found quite interesting and couldn't wait to try out herself. A soft giggle escaped her when she pondered on trying out an ice spell on her pop the next time he pissed her off. She halted her thoughts at that, she had referred to herself if only in thought as a her, but filed that away for examination later on.
The Jusenkyo guide watched the two and truth be told wanted nothing more then for the pair to leave. "Honored customers, may I suggest trying the Amazon village, they might have a few things that could make your curses more controllable" he said with a nod . This was a half truth in truth, the Amazons did have a few curse related items like water proof soap, but he didn't feel the need to let the pair and doll in front of him know this.
(A few miles away at the Amazon village)
Cologne had just finished going over a few scrolls and had consulted with a few of her fellow elders and she was now sure of whom the magical aura she had felt belonged to a blond haired witch that had been seen fighting a man over Jusenkyo ten years ago. Cologne smiled to herself and began to make plans should the person in question decide to pay the village a visit, and she was sure they would as Jusenkyo cursed individuals usually did stop there. Xian Pu would also be quite eager to meet the person in question as she too had witnessed the battle between the mages and was absolutely obsessed with hero worship towards the blonde haired mage. "Perhaps I should bring my great grand-daughter in when the Mage pays us a visit" Cologne cackled with a smile. She then hopped atop her staff and pogoed out of her hut to go and watch the annual tournament, and absently wondered how her great grand daughter would fair in it, though she didn't doubt her great grand daughters skills, she knew that anything could happen, and for some reason had a feeling something would happen.
(Not far from the village)
A certain blond and doll were running though the woods chasseing after a certain panda woman would had stupidly commented AGAIN on how weak and girly Ranma was for remaining in her cursed form, and had ignored all of Ranma's warnings to shut the hell up. So now Genma ran as fast as her panda legs would carry her, her currently daughter and doll close behind her. "You wont get away pops, so why try?" came Ranma's voice from behind Genma, and deciding to try one of the abilities they had filtered into her mind began to chant as she ran "Lic Lac La Lac Lilac(1) Iaculatio Grandinis" (2) she then thrust out her hand and many spears of ice flew towards the panda woman whom just barely managed to avoided them. Ranma smirked at the look on her fathers face, and Chachazero cheered at her new mistress already learning her previous mistress's spells. Chachazero then ran ahead to try and peg the Panda woman with a few slashes of her swords. Her mistress said not to kill the panda woman, but maiming was quite alright, and she would be more then happy to do so.
Genma for her part was sweating bullets and suddenly thinking taunting his son about his cursed from being unmanly had been quite unwise, he had no idea she would get this pissed off. As he continued to dodge ice spears left and right and avoiding the psychotic dolls blades he saw in the distance a wooden gate and made a mad dash for it 'the boy wouldn't fire one of those ice things at e with non-combatants around' Genma assured herself as she ran. Now Genma was quite right in the regard but that did not stop Ranma from trying one more Ice spear. Unfortunately Genma managed to move out of the way and Ranma could only watch as the spear whizzed past the panda woman and zoom right into the village.
(a few minutes earlier in the village)
Xian Pu was sizing up her final opponent in the annual tournament she knew she had to be careful as her opponent had won the last years tournament and wouldn't be a push over. Xian Pu dashed forward with her bonbori and move to attempt an over head swing, her opponent however saw it coming and countered with her own weapon sending Xian Pu back. Xian Pu re analyzed her opponent and knew she might have to try a different tactic if she was going to win. She was about to try something different when both her and her opponents attention was drawn to a Panda woman running like a bat out of hell into the village. Both fighters had to blink at this as it had caught them off guard, so off guard that they didn't even notice the spear of ice until it was too late, the spear severed the ropes holding up the battle log and sending both ground and knocked both of the combatants out..
(present)
Ranma sighed rather disappointed that she had totally missed her pop, but rather pleased at how much she had rattled her pop smiled to herself as she finally caught up to where her pop had run. The first thing she had noticed was a large gathering of people around what seemed to be a fallen log, the second thing she took notice of was the slowly melting ice spear sticking into a nearby tree and the final thing she took notice of was two fighters apparently knocked out having most likely fallen from the fallen log "Um hi I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry bout this" Ranma stated sheepishly, this earning her the attention of the crowed, and those whom had see the mages battle ten years ago gasped, and while those whom hadn't looked on and wondered whom this girl was.
A certain matriarch smiled a knowing smile and pogo'd over to the girl "it is a pleasure to meet you after all these years even if your only one who have taken on the form of one the amazons hold in great regard,, the amazons have even tried for many years to try and have one take on the form you take now but the pool seemed to be warded I suggest though we tend to my great grand daughter and then retire to my home for a talk"
Ranma blinked at the woman speaking to her 'hmm she seems to know about the girl whom drowned in that spring' Ranma thought to herself before nodded "Okay, I came to ask about the curses anyways, I already know threes no cure, but I came hoping you could give me some more information on the curses." Ranma replied with a nod then asked "Might I ask you name?"
Cologne nodded and smiled "My name is elder cologne Matriarch of the Chinese amazons"
1: - Lic Lac La Lac Lilac: Evangeline's "release key" or in this case its now Ranma's release key
2:Iaculatio Grandinis: Hail of Spears. An attack spell which summons and shoots down dense packs of ice spears. Individually, each warhead is more powerful than regular ice projectiles; however, because it takes the physical form of spears, the practical applications of this spell are limited by ballistics.
