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Chapter 2: Nyannichaun
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Herb, Lime, Mint, and Basil were currently on their way to Jusenkyo, an uncoincious Oni-Ranma in tow.
("I don't know about this, Herb.") Mint complained, he was currently helping Basil walk after being horribly burned by own of Oni-Ranma's blasts, Lime was
still dragging the unconsious beast and having some difficulty while Herb was leading the way to Jusenkyo.
("It took all four of us to take it down, and Basil was quite injured, I don't think we'll be able to stop it if it fights back after the change.")
("It will be easier after the transformation. This beast has a thick hide, but that won't carry over to a human body.") The Musk Prince cut away some low
hanging branches as the four of them continued on, after about two minutes of walking, they finally reached Jusenkyo.
("Ah! welcome guests, to the legendary training ground of...holy crap! IT'S BACK! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!") The guide ran into his hut at top speed and blocked off the door with every item at his disposal. The Musk warriors looked a little confused before shrugging it off and approaching the Nyannichuan.
("Here it is, Lime. Dump him in.") The tiger man nodded his head and pulled the creature onto his shoulder, he was about to hurl Oni-Ranma into the Nyannichaun when his eyes shot open and his body instantly went aflame.
("ARG!!!!!!!!!") Lime is sent flying back into a nearby spring by a fireball from Oni-Ranma's jaws. Mint dropped Basil and attacked the beast with his sword only to be swatted into another spring.
("LIME! MINT!") Herb snarled and began hurling chi blast after chi blast after chi blast right into Oni-Ranma's face. The massive flaming creature dodged out
of the way and lept into the air in a downward pounce, only to be met in midair by Herb who grabbed him by the neck and hurled him downward towards the
Nyannichaun. with a massive splash Ranma was dunked, Basil was transformed by the water while Herb slowly hovered down to the floor.
("Lord Herb, we've been cursed!") Basil was now human and female, but still injured as she looked up at Herb.
("Don't worry, you won't be stuck like this for long, it may not be a permenant fix, but the ladle will return you to your true forms.") Herb told her while keeping his eyes locked on the spring, knowing better than to be distracted by Brasil's newly grown breasts. Tora-Lime and Inu-Mint climb out of the pools and attempted to walk over to Herb, by some stroke of irony they had landed in the Springs of Drowned Tiger and Wolf and were looking at their bodies in shock. Everyone was brought out of their stupor when the Nyannichaun exploded in a pillar of fire and was instantly evaperated as a single figure let out an inhuman roar.
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Ranma was confused, this place seemed oddly familiar and he was getting REALLY bad vibes from it, all he knew was that is was a REALLY bad idea to fall into one of the springs. The great fiery monster quickly sent both of that Human's friends flying into those evil springs, unfortunetly that seemed to make the alpha male angry as he shot his strange energy at him. Oni-Ranma dodged and attempted to pounce the male only to see him fly into the air and hurl him into
a pool.Oni-Ranma felt the water wash over his body and put out his flames as a strange tingling sensation spread across his entire body, he suddenly became a lot smaller and a lot slimmer, curving in areas and buldging in others, Ranma looked down at his paws to see they were no longer paws, but hands and fingers, looking over the rest of his...or her body came to the realization that Ranma was now a Human Female, a HUMAN female!!!!!!!
"RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With a roar of anger and hatred Onna-Ranma's body suddenly exploded in flames, causing a pillar of fire to be blown from the spring she was standing in and evaperate the water, she suddenly felt another tingling feeling as fur began to sprout all over her body, she changed slightly and looked at herself one more to see that she was now a Were Tiger, or Tigress to be more exact. Not knowing how the change was made,
and not really caring for that matter, Ranma lept from the spring in a fiery fury, letting the flames coat herself like they always had.
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Herb looked in awe at the Humanoid, but obviously female, tiger that just lept from the ditch the spring used to be located in. Were-Ranma landed infront of Herb and put her flames in place, the prince had to leap out of the way of several fireballs hurled at him as the tigeress went into a frenzy of flames and blasts since she had a lack of mobility, probably due to lack of balance on two legs, although she was doing far better than he had expected.
("I don't understand, why did it become this creature instead of a woman!?") Herb lept into the air and began to hover in place while hurling chi blasts down at Were-Ranma. Ranma didn't take this for long before he shot a huge blast of fire downward to propel herself into the air, Herb was too shocked to see the massive comet smash into him, sending him flying towards a certain amazon village. Were-Ranma landed and bounded off on all fours after Herb, planning on finishing the job. The three newly cursed Musk's could only watch in shock, and hope Herb would be victorious.
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Shan Pu, Great grandchild to the village elder Cologne, was going throw a kata with her bon buri when she saw something quite unusual, after all, it wasn't everyday you saw the prince of the Musk Dynasty on a crash course with your backyard. The purple haired amazon dodged out of the way as Herb collided with the boulder she had been standing on, shattering it.
("What are you doing in the amazon village!") Shan pu took on a defencive stance as Herb stood up and barely gave the amazon a second glace before a fireball
came flying down at him, Herb lept out of the way as a crater was burned into the ground and a flaming Were-Ranma emerged.
("Good, I thought you would run away...") Herb instantly began attacking Were-Ranma, covering his arms with chi to prevent himself from being burned while
Shan pu could only stare in dumbstruck awe at the scene before her: Herb, prince of the Musk Dynasty, sworn enemy of the amazons was currently doing battle
with a walking inferno in her backyard. What the hell was going on today?!
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAOOOOOORRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!" Were-Ranma swiped at Herb sending him flying out of the yard and into the dirt path inbetween buildings and followed
in pursuit, going down on all fours and waving some sparks off her tail before pouncing on Herb.
("What is going on out there?") Several amazons were now standing in the streets watching the odd battle in dumb shock, all but one, that one being a three hundred year old woman who was currently running in a spiral around the two fighters, faster than either of them could register.
"Hiryuu Shouten Ha!!!" Cologne threw her fist up and a massive tornado sprung up, quickly becoming a flaming twister of doom as Were-Ranma's flames were
pulled from her body and thrown into the twisting winds, she was constantly feeding power to her body trying to overpower the winds and break free but was inadvertingly making it stronger instead. After about two minutes, the wind disipitated, and a battered Onna-Ranma hit the floor, oddly enough Herb was nowhere in sight.
-----about a mile up-----
A heavily burned and very pissed Herb was floating in midair looking down at the amazon village in annoyance.
("So, my bride also has a human form, at least it wasn't in vain, but I'll never retreive her as long as she is with the amazons, another time then.") Herb began to float away, bringing himself slowly to the ground, knowing good and well he didn't want to free fall from this height so close to Jusenkyo.
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Shan Pu slowly approached the smaller girl lieing in the street, not knowing where she came from.
("I don't understand, Herb and that fire beast went in, but she came out. The technique doesn't normally do that.") the purple haired amazon was bopped on the head by Cologne as the martiarch approached Onna-Ranma as well.
("Don't be foolish, young one. This girl was that fire beast, it was obviously some form of technique. Although I'm not too sure how Herb managed to vanish within the winds.")
("But great-grandmother, what did the musk want with her?") Shampoo asked, confused.
("That is what I plan on finding out. Bring her to my house, and find her some clothes, that techinque must have burned the clothes away.") Cologne began to hop away as a pair of amazons did as she had said, carrying the small redhead to the elder's house.
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Onna-Ranma came to several hours later, she was covered in the furs of various beasts and was lieing on a mat on the floor, appon further insection she was also clothed in amazonian garb. She was once again human, the one creature she had grown to despise.
("So your awake, child.") Onna-Ranma turned in surprise to a small, shiveled up...thing that was standing nearby. The redhead sat up and backed up against
the wall and tenced.
("Calm down, I will not hurt you. My name is Cologne, I am the elder of this village.") Ranma wasn't too sure what the noises it was making meant, only knew that it was trying to comunicate. It did so in a similar fasion to that of a human, but it certainly didn't look human.
"Graa...ba..fa..da..ma?" The red head began working her vocals, trying to figure out how to make the proper noises. Being in china and constantly being
hunted allowed one to pick up a language, but she never had the equipment, or desire to speak it. After several attempts Ranma cleared her throat and began speaking in heavily accented chinese.
("Where is this? What is going on? Why are Humans here?") Cologne, Noticing that Ranma couldn't speak maradin, switched to the dialect Ranma was now using.
("This is the amazon village, you were fighting an enemy of our village and using a strange technique, I stopped the fight with a technique of my own and had you brought here. And what do you mean by "Humans?") Ranma threw off the blankets and sat across from the troll, or whatever the hell it was.
("Humans are evil creatures, they hunt and kill beasts with their tools, being too cowardly to fight us with their own body. They are nothing but trouble, and never leave our kind in peace. You should know the problems humans cause") Now Cologne was confused, why was this girl speaking of humans as if they were animals? what does she mean by "our kind?"
("What do you mean, 'Our Kind'?")
("Why the beasts of course! Creatures who only kill to eat and use their own paws and body to fight, and not tools like the cowardly humans.") The amazon elder decided to drop the subject, obviously this young one wasn't right in the head.
("Why was the musk...Those humans after you?") cologne asked gently. Ranma began to think before replying.
Ranma began to think before replying ("I'm not sure, say something about 'bride' and 'transformation' what does that mean?") Cologne instantly realized why
Ranma was speaking about humans in such a way, she was really an animal. But then how did she know that technique, or how to speak chinese for that matter? Before Cologne could ask the door opened and an amazon was standing in the door.
("Elder Cologne, the tournament is about to begin.") Ranma tenced at the sight of a human, Cologne noticed this and quickly replied.
("Alright, I will be there shortly.") The girl nodded and left and Ranma relaxed, Cologne grabbed her staff and stood on it while Ranma stood.
("Well, young one, the..Humans are about to fight eachother to see who..er...should be the new leader of the pack. You are in human body now, so they shouldn't bother you, would you like to go see it?") Ranma thought it over a bit, the troll had a point, and knowing how humans behaved might help her avoid them in the future, so why not?
("Ok, I guess.") The red head stood and followed Cologne out of the hut, going over to a large gathering of humans near a suspended log...