"okay Ranma now listen, you are half mermaid and since you have become of age you will start to develop mermaid abilities, when ever you have contact with water you will take on mermaid form regardless of temperature, like melody here and me except I have more control over it and can will my tale to appear and disappear for your tails to disappear they need to be dry" Ariel explained to Ranma who was taking this seemingly well.

"okay so your saying I can control water?" Ranma asked.

"yes" Ariel replied simply.

"and I'm royalty, the 8th in line for the Atlantica throne and next in line for your kingdom?" Ranma asked, half mermaid fine it was royalty he couldn't believe.

"more or less yes" Ariel answered. "oh and look at the time you and melody better get to school" Ariel added when she saw the time.

Tendo complex…

"I wonder where Ranma is, he hasn't come back since that little fight you and him had yesterday" soun said at the dining table.

"probably living it up with some slut" Akane retorted with her usual logic as her anger continued to rise.

"now don't say that Akane he loves you I'm sure he's just training" soun said.

"like I care" Akane shot back as she left and headed to school.

Ranma and melody…

"so you can turn into a mermaid" Ranma said hoping to start a conversation.

"yeah, I was early because of all the magic I came into contact with grand father and sea witches" melody explained she had told Ranma of her and her mothers experiences with sea witches the day before.

They neared the school gates. "Melody stay with me, okay this school is dangerous" Ranma warned as they walked through the gate.

"Ranma Saotome prepare to surrender your hold on the pig tailed girl and the fair maiden Akane" kuno yelled as he swung his wooden sword at Ranma, Ranma was about to use his classic block when melody whispered in his ear.

"don't you see it Ranma the water particles surrounding the wooden sword and the lunatic, use your abilities and control them, draw them away" melody whispered, Ranma then smirked as he knew what she meant, he then thrust his arm out and manipulated water molecules with his hand and drew them out of the wooden sword and manipulated them into a sword of ice and held it up and kuno stopped in his tracks.

"so you finally show your true colours you sorcerer" kuno yelled, he was about to thrust his sword at Ranma, however, as he picked the speed up the sword began to fall a part into sun baked dust, he hadn't noticed Ranma, drawing the water out of the sword caused it to become brittle end weak. Ranma then performed a rolling kick and kicked kuno into a wall and into unconsciousness Ranma then looked at the sword and began to float it about a meter in front of them and willed the particles to weaken and separate, soon the sword was water and flopped down to the ground with a splash.

"I did it" Ranma gasped, "but why didn't you do it, you knew what to do?" Ranma questioned as he turned to his sister.

"yeah, I can't do it I haven't reached the age of seventeen and that's when our full powers come in, all I can do is take on mermaid form, where as you can do that and you have all the powers that come with it" melody explained.

Akane then walked through the gates and saw Ranma with melody and instantly assumed the worst of him and began running at him ready to whack him with her mallet, melody saw this and pushed Ranma out of the way and was hit in the gut by the mallet which twisted and headed upward knocked her all the way from her gut to her chin, melody then went flying into the wall and fell out of the melody shaped hole in the wall to the ground, unconscious, her head was bleeding as was her arm, Ranma then ran towards his sister and crouched down next to her and turned her so she faced the sky and he rested her head on his knee and checked her neck for a pulse and was relieved to find that she was still alive.

"Ranma you pervert" Akane roared as she began running at Ranma with her mallet raised high ready to strike again not caring about hitting melody full on or that she might be seriously injured, big mistake. Ranma then turned to Akane and glared at her and could see all the water in her body and weapon, he then raised his arm and he began twisting his fingers and Akane found she couldn't move, Ranma then twisted his wrist and Akane fell to her knees and her hand smacked on to the ground, she was in agonizing pain, yet she couldn't move, she then watched as her mallet became dust and the water within it wrapped around her arms and began to squeeze her arm as hard as humanly possible before freezing. Akane could only gasp as she felt the cold ice squeeze her arm, Ranma then twisted his wrist again and Akane fell to the ground sprawled out and felt herself being forced into the ground, no one could see Ranma's eyes as they were hidden by his hair, however, no one dared to intervene as they either saw this as a normal day, were terrified of Ranma or simply didn't care.

"Ranma don't I'm…fine" melody said weekly as she opened her eyes, "just hover water over my injuries and concentrate and you will be able to heal me" melody added, Ranma then melted the ice on Akane's arms, still not letting her get up, he then healed melody and made sure the remains of the water didn't touch her, Ranma then helped melody to her feet and turned to Akane and approached her, raised his arm again to only let it drop and Akane felt her limbs respond to her, she could move again, she then staggered to her feet and glared at Ranma.

"Ranma you…" Akane started while gritting her teeth.

"oh zip it Akane you're the one in the wrong here, you attacked melody for no reason" Ranma yelled at her.

"so what she's just another of your bimbo sluts, they'll be another along in a few minutes" Akane retorted angrily.

"how dare you call her that" Ranma yelled as he raised his hand and forced her to the ground again, only this time he allowed her to hold herself up with her arms "how dare you attack my sister then call her a slut" Ranma yelled.

"yeah right you don't have a sister, you're an only child" Akane retorted.

Ranma's anger began to boil and was about to erupt until melody put her hand on Ranma's shoulder and shook her head, Ranma then released his hold on Akane.

"your wrong Akane, me and melody are sisters, genma is not my father and nodoka's not my mother" Ranma replied and then took melody to class.