I don't own Ranma ½ and never will. The characters from Element are mine and you'll have to ask if you want to use them, besides I'm the only person who knows their history and personality. Please review! Enjoy!
New Power
Chapter 4: Three Dragons and a Phoenix
"Were home!" Ranma and Akane shout to the occupants of the house from the front door.
"Welcome back, oh I see you have some friends with you." Kasumi says walking from the kitchen where she was preparing lunch.
"Yea we kinda met the hard way but they cleaned us up after we fell into some garbage. They said they wanted to talk with us anyway." Ranma quickly explains.
"Well let them in so they can introduce themselves." Kasumi says in her usual cheery tone.
Once they were in the dining room they took a seat at the table while Kasumi left to get some tea.
Ranma and Akane noticed that noone else seemed to be in the house, Nodoka was hanging out laundry, Nabiki was out doing something with her friends, and their fathers were probably at the nearest bar getting drunk and trying to come up with wedding plans for their children.
"So what are you two here for anyway? And how did you do that trick with the water?" Ranma asks.
"Well its about you two, you have powerful spirits inside of you that will change you and give you special abilities that few others are capable of." Junsui explains.
"Isn't that a little blunt? Waddya mean that we have spirits inside us that will change us?" Akane asks giving the girl across the table a confused look.
"Don't worry 'bout it, the only things that happen is that your hair might change color, eyes get slitted like ours, and you'll get wing markings on your backs. That's all really, at least until ya transform anyway." Kagayaki explains offhandedly.
"Transform?" Ranma asks.
"Yea, ya get stronger, faster, a few new fighting tools, it ain't bad at all but I wouldn't recommend doin' it often, you can do more damage than necessary if you don't learn to control it and you could ruin some clothes while you're at it." Kagayaki explains.
"Oh my" Kasumi gasps hearing the statement about the possibility of Ranma and her little sister ruining more clothes than they already do.
"So you're saying were going to be dangerous soon?" Akane asks.
"Only if you let the power go to your head and use it for personal gain, for those that do that we are the ones they have to mess with first." Junsui answers.
"Don't forget the demons, they've been starting to come in groups and even small armies." Kagayaki adds.
"Demons? Armies? You fight them?" Akane asks.
"Yea they aren't too strong anyway, more annoying than anything."Junsui says.
"So you're sayin' we don't have any choice about this new power were getting but it will make us stronger and faster?" Ranma says.
"Basically, and your senses get a lot better too." Kagayaki adds.
"At least you're telling us now rather than later like pop would." Ranma says.
"What was that about your father, son?" Nodoka asks as she enters the room.
"Nothin', just talking about how pop wait until after something happens to tell ya about it."
"Oh, I can see how you feel about that. That reminds me, after you two left this morning for your exercises your fathers moved all of Akane's things into Ranma's room. Since Genma is no longer staying in there they thought that you should spend more time together."
"Mom, why didn't you stop them?"
"Because Kasumi and I were out shopping at the time and when we got back they left for the bar and you came shortly after." Nodoka explains.
After dinner Ranma and Akane were sitting in front of Kagayaki and Junsui in the center of the dojo. They had gone there to discover what kind of 'Elemental Spirit' was inside Ranma and Akane and explain more about them.
"So do you know what's in us, Kagayaki?" Akane asks slightly worried.
"Yea and I think that we know the origin of your spirits as well. I recognize you ki patterns from when we were in China not too long ago, you Ranma, were fighting Saffron, who wasn't really a god but someone like us except he used his power for himself. The way you killed him Ranma, apparently caught the interest of an ice dragon spirit and he chose you to be his host so he could physically act. I think that the spirit from Saffron wanted to be released from its evil host so it convinced Saffron to fight you knowing that you may kill him." Kagayaki explains oblivious to the flinching caused by bad memories from the two teens in front of him. "When you killed him the phoenix spirit trapped inside him was released and she took Akane as her host and at the same time brought her back to life."
"That makes sense, the phoenix is supposedly the legendary bird of fire and is reborn when it dies." Akane whispers.
"That means that you now have the power of fire and Ranma has the power of ice." Junsui adds.
"If were fire and ice, what are you guys?" Ranma asks.
"Heh, if you haven't noticed she has a water dragon spirit so she has the power of water. Me, I have a lightning dragon spirit so I have the power of lightning." Kagayaki answers.
"Who would have thought of opposing elements in love with each other!" Junsui laughs and is soon joined by the others.
"Hey Ranma, your moms been listening the whole time." Kagayaki whispers in Ranma's ear which made his face change to an interesting shade of red.
"Akane, I think Kag 'accidently' shorted your sisters surveillance system." Junsui whispers to Akane.
"Personally I think that's good." Akane says stifling a giggle .
To be continued...
This will be the last chapter that I can put up until Thanksgiving break, I'm a few hours from home, filled a memory stick to full capacity without checking the content before I left, don't have a car to get home from college, and even if I did I don't exactly know the way home. I know I should have spaced out the updates from a few minutes to a few weeks but I have three more chapters at home to add to the site right away. Meanwhile I'll occupy my time working on "Kitsune and Dragon" (my Naruto story). Have fun and remember the more reviews I get, the more I will write and stay awake in class.
See ya!
Lightning Bob