Are you serious?

Chapter 9

By Gabriel R Lopez

If one were to ask what Ranma's motivation for returning to the Tendo dojo was, quite simply, she had no where to go. She had no best friends, no other family besides her father, and she was lost in a place unfamiliar to her, in a body that didn't belong to her. She was quite literally alone, at least with her father there was the illusion that someone cared for her.

Ranma Saotome was a daredevil , which is why she took the opportunity that was presented to her and hopped her bike up the dividing wall between the road and a nearby gated community. Gravity was by no means the enemy of Ranma Saotome years of martial arts freestyle bike training had made her an expert on balance and skill. After performing several stunts, including popping wheelie while traveling along the wall 170 feet. Ranma finaly lost her balance when she ran out of wall. It was a rough landing but Ranma was able to avoid any broken bones… that was shear luck not skill. The bike wasn't as lucky. Good thing it wasn't hers.

Ranma had a funny feeling in her stomach, it wasn't hunger. It was the one that usually accompanied fear. Out of the corner of her eye Ranma noticed a kitty cat. Ranma checked to make sure, yes it was a kitty cat. It went meow, meow, meow and looked like it had just eaten a canary. Ranma, who was still tangled in the wreckage of the bike, managed to get to herself free. Instantly, she tripped over the bike in an attempt to get away from the kitty cat. Having fallen to the ground Ranma squirmed against the cinderblock wall, as the kitty cat rubbed itself against he left leg and purred.

Ranma was Destiny's bitch… Quite literally as Destiny was the name of the little tom cat that had decided Ranma would be his mate. While the physics of it didn't make much sense, Destiny knew that Ranma was a Cat, even though she looked like a human.

"n-nice kitty." Ranma choked out as Destiny purred and rubbed himself all over her. While it was true Ranma was aluriphobic, she could tolerate one or two cats without going into the Neko Ken. However, regardless of size, cats quite literally scared the poo out of her. Ranma pulled herself to her feet and tried to get away but there was another cat blocking her path.

Fate folded his ears back, why that little runty bastard Destiny was hitting on his girl. Well, fate wasn't taking any chances, he'd wipe that sly grin off of Destiny's face one way or the other. Because every cat knows big and ugly wins out over small and cute. "murrrrr, hiss"

Ok, bad sound, bad sound. Ranma had quite literally had had enough of the feline element and decided it best to get the hell out of there before "Achoo!" bamph! "F(bleeeeeeeeep)k!" Rama cursed as her body once again reverted to feline form. Ranma struggled to escape the confines of her...or rather Andrew's clothes.

Oh good, the female was ready to mate, thought Karma, who had just arrived and was blocking Ranma's path from yet another escape route. Five or six more tom cats showed up. Where the hell were they all coming from? Ranma couldn't take it anymore, and finally snapped into the Neko Ken.

Explanations? Luna had none. The last thing she remembered was tracking down Usagi to some obscure region of China after the poor girl had been kidnapped , and now… she was surrounded by an unholy army of tom cats. Luna immediately recognized Famine, Pestilence, Wargiver, and Kello. Worse, she was cornered and knew any minute something really bad was going to happen. Where the hell was Hercules when she needed him.

"You leave my mamma alone you ruffians!" Came the call of a small grey kitten. The kitten had hopped of the a stone wall dividing the street from a local school"

'oh god no.' was the first thought that popped into Luna's head. The very idea of children sent shivers down her spine. "who?"

"Don't worry momma," the Kitten turned around to face Luna, there was a crescent moon shaped marking on her brow and she had a sparkling pair of ruby eyes. "I'll take care of them for you!" The kitten then turned back to face their attackers.

Luna left eye stared to twitch. if she couldn't handle this many tom cats on her own, what could a kitten do, and who was that girl's father?

As the Tom cat's leaped for the two moon cats the kitten simply cried out "STOP! DON'T MOVE!" in an instant the tom cats all became immediately paralysed. Some fell to the ground others just couldn't move.

"how? I mean who…what the hell is going on?" Luna screamed, she was confused.

"The name is Ryu, Ryu Kumon. I'm from the future."

"Luna Kaguya … n-nice to meet you. Did you say you were from the future?" from Ryu's sir name Luna knew immediately that she hadn't slept with Artemis, so she had at least dodged that bullet.

"Yes…can you tell me how to find Genma Saotome?"Ryu asked

"who?" was Luna's reply.

"a young girl about ten years old, pink hair …likes to dress up like a panda."

"I'm sorry, I don't know anyone by that name." Luna observed that Ryu was one unhappy kitty.

"shoot! I traveled to far back." Ryu cursed.

"um, not to pry or anything. But, who exactly is your father?" Luna asked

'frack' Ryu hadn't thought she would ask him that. "uh…I can't tell you. It might alter the time space continuum."

"oh god, I hope it's not Hercules." Luna muttered.

"what?" Ryu asked. Luna was mumbling, and for a moment, Ryu was worried the jig was up.

"ha! nothing, absolutely nothing for you to worry about… I'm just shocked is all. Perhaps we better leave before the boys wake up."

"uh… sure thing momma." Ryu replied.

After the two of them walked past the fallen colony of tom cats, and crossed through a parking lot in silence…

"Ryu…out of curiosity who named you?"

"um…" frak, she was on to him "w-why do you ask momma?"

"well, Ryu is really more of a boy's name. you look more like a Diana."

"I'm a girl?…I mean, of course I' m a girl ha ha ha tee he."

Luna raised an eyebrow. Daughter or not she needed to keep an eye on this one. She wouldn't put it past the dark kingdom to clone one for their own nefarious purposes. Then again, if she truly was from the future, by making contact with Luna, Ryu may have altered the timeline, thus Luna may have decided to have her child a cycle earlier or later, and this could have affected the outcome of his or her gender. Luna hated time travel, there were far too many consequences and possibilities to consider. Oh well, she really should check in with the scouts as soon as possible.