Ariel had grown worried Ranma and melody still weren't back and it had been a few hours now, Ariel then left to look for them in the town, however, as soon as she opened her door she found a brick on her door step, she lifted the brick to find a flyer advertising mermaids at the Tendo dojo, Ariel's anger began to boil. "Nabiki" she hissed, Ariel then left to head to the Tendo dojo.

Tendo dojo…

Ariel walked past the line of customers like melody had, she then walked up to Nabiki anger boiling over. "let them go or do you want a more personal demonstration of a mermaid's abilities" Ariel said.

"You're not going to do anything, your going to get into that cage and swim around to make me money" Nabiki said calmly.

"And why should I do that Nabiki" Ariel hissed. Nabiki then smirked and pulled out a box with a knob and several buttons, she then twisted the knob and pressed one of the buttons and the next thing Ariel knew Ariel and Ranma were getting electrocuted Ariel then gasped at the sight.

"why do you think I put them in a cage in a tank instead of normal tank, that cage gives me the ability to shock them when ever I need to, also I can make It even stronger" she then twisted the knob again "now get in there or the next shock will kill them" Nabiki explained, Ariel then lifted her arm, however, Nabiki just wiggled her finger "now, now don't you think I considered that, my minions also have one of these boxes all permanently set to death, so if you use that ability on me my minions will shock them two and you know what will happen so what is your choice?" Nabiki asked smirking, knowing she had her trapped, Ariel then bowed her head in defeat and got into the cage and took her mermaid form and swam down to her children, Nabiki then let her customers in, with a high charge of course.

Ranma then awoke and saw that she had caught both Ariel and melody, "what happened?" Ranma asked, rubbing the back of her bed.

"Nabiki caught you and melody then used you as a hostage to get the red head" someone answered from outside the tank, Ranma turned to see Akane glaring at her, with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Akane, listen you've got to get us out of here" Ranma pleaded.

"So you can go back with those whores, not likely, besides Genma's hoping to talk some sense into you" Akane said before turning and leaving.

Ranma growled and 'hmph' at Akane Ranma then turned back to her mother "how did she et you in here, couldn't you just do what you did last time?" Ranma asked her voice full of confusion.

"she's already thought of that, if I even tried to use my powers she'll use the cage to shock you, last time it was enough just to knock melody unconscious and would have done the same to you if you were conscious, the next shock will kill you so I had to give up and if we try anything she'll shock us and probably kill us after all are bodies are also worth a lot of money" Ariel explained.

"so this cage is how she shocks us" Ranma said before smirking and rising her arms and twisting her wrists, no one could see this from the outside but water tentacles were surrounding each individual bar of the cage Ranma then twisted her wrist again and the tentacles began to glow and Nabiki gasped when she saw it, Ranma began to shake she knew she couldn't hold it much longer, then using the tentacles she shattered the cage before floating to the bottom of the tank, Nabiki then started hitting the button like mad but nothing happened no shock, not even a bubble or a spark. Ariel then cradled Ranma in her arms and looked around and saw Nabiki couldn't shock them anymore, Ariel then smirked before increasing the water pressure against the glass, the glass slowly began to crack, upon seeing this all the customers ran, the glass cracked all over before shattering, a tidal wave of water then washed out knocking anyone who was still around to the ground. Ariel then manipulated the water so that it was far from them before turning melody and Ranma's tails back into legs before reverting to human herself, Ariel then carried Ranma baby style, with melody walking next to her and headed home, upon arrival Ariel laid Ranma into bed and tucked him in.

The next day…

Ranma stumbled out of bed and left a note on the fridge saying he was going to go training. Ranma walked along the street looking for some way to train while keeping an eye out for Nabiki, she would do anything for money which she demonstrated the day before. Ranma then found himself with a bike on the back of his head.

"Nihao Ranma shampoo have delivery for you" shampoo said gleefully.

"Shampoo get off me" Ranma muttered through gritted teeth. Shampoo then hopped off of him and gave him a box that held a bowl of ramen within it.

"Listen shampoo I'm breaking off the engagement and I don't care about the Amazon traditions" Ranma said after taking a deep breath.

"Why you not want to be with shampoo" shampoo said confused.

"they're many reasons why I don't to be with you, we can still be friends just not engaged" Ranma explained, shampoo didn't take it well instead of just taking it and maybe crying she took out one of her bomborios and hitting Ranma from the chin up sending him flying, and unfortunately for him he landed through the roof into the neko café.

"Ah son in law" the ghoul greeted him.

"I'm not marrying shampoo, I broke off the engagement I'm having a new start, I've found my true family so I'm breaking all of my engagements off" Ranma explained before getting hit into the wall by the old hags stick, Ranma's eyes then flashed light blue, before he stumbled back to his feet taking an anything goes stance, looking as if nothing had happened, there wasn't even a scratch on him. Cologne gasped when she saw him unharmed by her blow.

"So your stronger than before, hmmm something's different about you your aura it's being altered it moves like the ocean" cologne stated confused.

"listen you old ghoul you can't tell me how to live my life no one can and I'm fed up of being told what to do and being manipulated…ghoul you don't want to fight me so just let me break off the engagement" Ranma said.

"and why don't I want to fight you, I know your good son in law but I'm better, I know techniques you couldn't even dream of after all I taught you your two best moves the chestnut fist and the heaven blast of the dragon and I know better moves than that so I can beat you, so why shouldn't I fight you?" cologne said sarcastically all cocky about her abilities, thinking if she beat him and showed him some of her techniques he'd jump at the chance to marry her shampoo.

"I've learnt a lot more in the past week; I can beat you and all your techniques" Ranma shot back.

"Confident aren't we…fine then show me what you've learnt" cologne said before launching at Ranma, Ranma then manipulated the water around him and used them to form tentacles which wrapped around cologne and forced her against the wall. "how is this possible the last time I saw this kind of power was when my tribe happened upon a mermaid, but your not a mermaid…" before cologne could say anything else Ranma interrupted her.

"I'm half mermaid as is my sister and my mother's whole mermaid so you know not to mess with us, now I'm breaking off the engagement" Ranma explained, cologne could only gawk at Ranma.

"Ranma if your half mermaid then that's all the more reason to marry you to shampoo" cologne stated, Ranma then heard mouse and shampoo enter the hut round back and knew he needed to get out of their before he was overwhelmed and forced into a marriage he could handle them separately but together they were too much, Ranma then jumped out through a hole in the roof he had made during his landing and dived into the closest river and swam at the speed of a bullet to get back home.