Azure: Well here it is chapter five sorry for the long wait but been caught up in other things...heh
Nyx: what she means is that she's been busy watching anime and reading it along with dealing with her college courses
Azure: *grumbles * oh shut it....but the school thing is the main reason why it had taken a while to get this thing up since I'm in another country for at least until October.
Nyx: Which basically means that she may not be able to update until then....if she's lucky.
Azure: *groans * besides I need to figure out what's going to go on in the other chapters rather then making it up as I go...that really got me far...*sarcasm*
Nyx: Uh huh...anyway since there weren't any questions in the reviews for the last chapter I might as well give the results for the poll I have up.
Charmcaster: 10
Julie: 10
Azure: I was really surprised they were tied ahahaha but things could change for a bit since the only definite pairing is Ranma/Gwen. Thanks so much for everyone's support so far! And enjoy the chapter!!
Inside Ranma's mind...
"Oh man...what hit me?" Ranma groaned as he sat up and rubbed his head, his vision was still spinning but he could vaguely make out someone coming closer to him, when the figure was standing right in front of him he saw that it was Ranko.
"More like what gave you a concussion." Ranko muttered folding her arms as she shook her head. "try a megaton hammer by the brute." Ranma looked up at his girl half and noticed that her clothing was normal and exactly like his except her shirt and pants were the opposite of his.
"Ranko? What the hell?" Ranma wondered disoriented as he tried to stand up. The red haired female version of himself walked over and helped him up. "where are we? And how are you standing in front of me?"
"Technically we're inside your head...literally. Tomboy's mallet knocked you out pretty good." Ranko replied. "hence why I'm able to stand in front of you since I'm pretty much always in your head."
Ranma looked around at his supposed mind. Everything seemed bleak, foreboding and down right dark and creepy. "Are you sure this is my mind? Last time I checked I'm not depressed or anything by the looks of this place..."
Ranko shrugged. "Well, I don't think there's any rules where you can't change it. I've heard people going to their 'happy place' which basically imagining yourself in a place far away from your troubles."
"So....you're basically saying I should change the interior of my head so that it isn't so dark?" Ranma asked.
"Unless you prefer to keep this place all doom and gloom, not to mention vastly empty, which explains a lot with you." Ranko replied smirking at the last comment. Ranma threw her a look as she shrugged. "besides your head, pretty much your rules."
"Right....so just think of what I want this place to look like and it'll end up like that right?" Ranma asked to make sure as Ranko nodded. "alright...my 'happy place'..." the martial artist muttered ignoring a muffled snicker from his girl half. Ranma tried to picture an ideal place for him to go to, where there wasn't any annoying pops to drag him around and get him in trouble with the locals, a place where he could just go all out and train with no interruptions or distractions.
The area around them started to rumble and Ranko watched as the dark walls of Ranma's mind seemed to fade and soon was replace by a brighter, sunnier place. She watched as all of a sudden the area below her and Ranma's feet seemed to shoot upwards right below her suddenly forming to look like some sort of temple on the hill. Stairs formed a long walkway down to the area below, from the view on top of the temple Ranko could see a forest emerging, a mountain range in the background generally almost looking like a mix of the mountains in china and a temple Ranma had probably gone to when Genma had them traveling. The female version of the chaos magnet couldn't help but whistle at the impressive view she saw.
"Wow, nice job big brother, "she said grinning, "looks MUCH better then that bleak emo place."
"I ain't an emu..." Ranma replied while Ranko sniggered.
"Pift...emu...ahahahaha ri-right Ranma..." the girl laughed out, before she finally stopped laughing and looked at the male and wondered why he had that look on his face.
"Something wrong in paradise?"
"Yeah...I'm wondering where that dark cavern is doing there."
Ranko blinked and looked out in the distance of the mind-scape where Ranma was pointing and saw indeed there was a dark part of the forest with a foreboding looking cave just at the back of it. The area around the cave looked dead and desolate as the trees had no leaves looking petrified and no other plant life was around it at all.
"Hmm...I guess since this is your mind, your emotions may become personified if they're strong enough." Ranko rationalized.
"Eh? So you're saying that cavern is something like my dark side or self?" Ranma asked.
"Either that, which is possible or it could be your greatest, darkest fear like...Neko-ken?" Ranko replied getting a shudder out of the male form.
"Please don't mention that around me..."
"Ya know you REALLY need to work on that fear of yours, its gunna be really hard to fight seriously if your rivals/enemies knew they just had to hold a kitten to get a fear response outta ya." Ranko said,
"Hey!! it takes more then a KITTEN to scare me!! maybe like two or three of 'em hellions..." Ranma replied muttering as the girl rolled her eyes.
"Uh huh whatever you say Ranma..." she replied, Ranma bristled at her.
"Wouldn't YOU be scared of cats too sense you're pretty much me??" Ranma asked. Ranko blinked and thought about it.
"Ya know usually that'd be true but some reason I just don't feel the extreme fear you do around cats." Ranko shrugged.
"Oh great, so my guy side is afraid of cats but my girl side isn't!?" Ranma couldn't help but groan.
"Look at it this way, now to break out of the nekoken probably is to just get splashed!" Ranko laughed while the male half was glowering at her. Suddenly a thought occurred to Ranko. "Heeeeeeyyy I wonder....let's check out the shrine Ranma!! I wanna see if my theory is right!!" the girl suddenly exclaimed running into the temple that the boy had made.
"Huh!? What theory are you talking about Ranko!? Get back here and answer me!" Ranma shouted after his girl half chasing after her inside. Once inside Ranko looked at all the different doors down the hallway that were in front of them. She started walking by them, looking for something specific. When Ranma finally caught up to her he raised an eyebrow as he followed his 'sister' down the hallway.
"Just what are you looking for Ranko?"
"I'll know it when I see it Ranma."
"Do you even know WHAT it is?"
"Hmm sorta?"
"Oh that helps a lot sis..."
"Shut up and just let me look..."
"Whatever you say."
After a few minutes of walking down the seemingly endless hallway Ranma let out a long bored yawn before crashing into the backside of his girl half.
"Hey!! Give a warning when ya decide to stop sis!!" Ranma said looking at the grinning redhead. Wondering why exactly she was grinning as she stood in front of a door he turned and tried to see what was so special about this particular door. It was only a few seconds when Ranma noticed a VERY familiar signal on the top of the doorway.
"You had a theory that the Omnitrix had a room in my head!?!?" the boy exclaimed as Ranko nodded.
"Uh huh, since the dark cavern could reflect your fear, and darker self, I kinda took a wild guess to see if you had a room for the Omnitx." the girl replied, "since it IS technically apart of you and the DNA had to have come from living aliens..."
"Ya know I REALLY hope this doesn't make me end up with some bizarre condition where each alien takes over me when I open this door." Ranma stated dryly.
"You mean multi-personality disorder? I dunno if that'll work but this is your mind and ya never know what happens..." Ranko shrugged. "let's open it!!"
"What!? Are you sure that's a good idea!?" Ranma asked. "we don't know what's going to happen if we open it! I mean sure I MADE this place but I wasn't exactly detailed on what each room has ya know!!"
"Ranma, you can't be afraid of things in your own head, you're pretty much the controller here ya know." Ranko replied as she gripped the door handle and slid it opened. The two blinked as they stared at what looked like outer space with multiple different areas in large glass spheres. It was like a whole variety of places were all just shoved together inside this room...
"Wow...never expected anything like THIS..." Ranko murmured as she gazed at each area. She moved forward towards one of the areas that was the sky with huge rock formations that looked like they were just floating there. "I wonder...." the female version of the martial artist said to herself as she pressed her hand against the 'glass'. Her eyes widened when her hand seemed to pass right through when she pushed forward. Unfortunately she didn't realize how much of her weight she had shifted forward and she soon fell through the glass.
"Raaaannnmmaaaaa!!!"
"What the!! Ranko what the heck!?" Ranma cried rushing forward tried to go through the glass like his sister did, but was met with a loud "THUNK" as he just hit the glass and was repelled backwards and onto the ground. Rubbing his head as he sat up he stared worriedly at the 'area' that Ranko had disappeared to.
"What in the world? How come Ranko could get through but I couldn't!?!?"
"I believe I can answer that..."
Ranma turned around and gawked at who he saw.
"What the hell...Nyx? What're you doing inside my head!?"
The griffin version of Nyx just grinned and helped Ranma up.
"Technically I both am and are not Nyx." the griffon replied.
"Okay, I'm confused..."
"Well see I was PART of Nyx's DNA before he added me into the omnitrix, so yes I am Nyx but not because I'm in the omnitrix where my DNA gets mixed with yours forming YOUR griffon form." the replica replied.
Ranma rubbed his head.
"Alright...let's just say I understood that and that pretty much you're a clone?" the braided martial artist asked, getting a nod from the Nyx in front of him. "so why can't I go where Ranko fell!? She's going to get hurt!! and what should I call you?? its going to be confusing with two Nyx's" the martial artist exclaimed, as the griffon laughed.
"She's not going to get hurt don't worry. The reason because she could go in that area and you can't is well...because THAT area's alien is a girl." the replica replied, "and if having two Nyx's confuses you then just call me Vale."
"....wait so Ranko could get through because the alien is a GIRL!?" Ranma nearly shouted.
"Yes, because of your...unique condition...when the omnitrix separated you and Ranko giving her a personality and mind of her own, I guess it caused some sort of reaction with the other aliens, separating as you see here." Vale stated waving an arm around the many thousands of glass sphere worlds around them.
"So Ranko can enter the female aliens homes and I can enter the males home...so can the aliens escape from the worlds?" Ranma asked.
"Only if you've transformed into us at least once then we can leave our 'realms' but others that are more bloody and dangerous can't escape as easily. Its because they'd be fighting for dominance of your body. So THEIR realms are more shielded so they don't end up leaking out." Vale explained.
"Leaking out?" the transgendered boy asked.
"Remember when you transformed into thy Vrykolakas?" Vale asked. Ranma shuddered at that.
"I don't want to remember...that was horrible that feeling and bloodlust I felt when in that form? All the horrible things I wanted to do...." the martial artist started trailing off.
"Exactly, what you were feeling was the Vrykolakas main personality trying to take over you." Vale explained, "some aliens are like that despite being just a fragment of the original's DNA. Their personalities may be so strong their natural instincts or persona would take over yours when shifting to that form."
"Can that thing and the others really take over my personality?"
"Only if you let it. But it should be relatively safe encased in its world."
"REALITIVLY safe!?"
"Well...there are variables that could make it easier for them to get out but you can never be too careful."
"Oh great...I just hope Ranko comes out of that soon..."
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Ranko sighed as she folded her arms and crossed her legs as she continued falling in the endless world as the wind whipped itself around her.
"You know fifteen minutes ago it got old screaming waiting for something to happen, urgh I just better not end up trapped in this world." she muttered.
"Oh don't worry, I was wondering when you would stop screaming and let me get near you." a young voice said near her, making Ranko turn her head towards the voice and stare.
The form that spoke to her was some sort of harpy based alien, with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes that glittered playfully, her body had some sort of armor that started at the the top of its chest and covered the lower part of her body like some sort of leotard. Her arms had light reddish wings attached to them as instead of hands there were sharp three fingered claws, and sharp talons on her feet as well. Her legs were covered by armor exactly like the ones on her chest. The harpy grasped Ranko's arm in her feet before spreading out her arms and flying upwards towards one of the rock formations, when they finally arrived there the alien dropped Ranko onto the ground and floated a bit before landing softly in front of her.
"Sooooo I take it this is your world then?" Ranko started trying to start a conversation.
"Yep you can call me Kazehime, I'm basically a wind alien." she replied as the alien sat down in front of her.
"Alright, maybe you can explain to me why I was able to come here and Ranma wasn't, " Ranko started, "I mean by now Ranma would've tried to jump in after me by now and NOT hearing him following after is kinda weird."
"Oh that's easy. Technically only you can access my world!" KazeHime replied. Ranko gave the alien a blank look.
"Does this have something to do with Ranma splitting in to a boy and girl?"
"Yup! Well sort of. The other reason is when you two used the Kagamisei aliens and you got your personality, I guess there was some sort of chain reaction that ended up having the aliens in this Omnitrix split into the different worlds you see and only accessible to either you or Ranma." KazeHime explained.
"So now Nyx's theory was right in stating that when a girl alien form is used I'm basically in control of the female aliens like you?" Ranko asked. Seeing KazeHime nod the red haired girl sighed.
"Well that makes sense, uh now could you possibly send me back up there to Ranma? I think he might be getting a little worried." Ranko asked.
"Sure thing, just wrap your arms around my neck and hop on my back." KazeHime replied standing up as Ranko did the same. The girl hopped on the harpy's back and wrapped her arms securely around the alien's neck before she took off to where Ranko had first fallen. There she saw sitting outside in the area before she had fallen in was Ranma with...Nyx?
"I believe this your stop young Ranko, I hope you see you again when you use my form." KazeHime giggled as Ranko fell back outside of the glass sphere before away in her world.
"So have fun Ranko?" Ranma asked as he helped his sister up.
"Yeah it was interesting." Ranko replied before looking at Nyx or what LOOK like Nyx. "hey Ranma is this like your head guardian or something?"
Ranma gifted the girl with a blank look. "My head guardian?"
Ranko shrugged, "a manifestation of someone you trust to guard your mind incase someone gets wise and tries to enter it or something?"
"......where the hell do you get this stuff?"
"....dunno, it just comes to me?"
"Brilliant sis...really..."
"Anyway so what's with the Nyx clone?"
"Well apparently Nyx-niisan put his DNA in here as well so....meet Nyx's clone Vale." Ranma introduced.
"Nice to meet you Vale. So what now?" Ranko asked. Nyx stood up and stretched a bit.
"I think now is time for you to wake up." Nyx replied, "don't worry I'll fill Ranko in on anything that's needed."
"Urgh alright alright. Wake up wake up...er..." Ranma said looking at the two in front of him. "this is kinda weird ya know..."
All of a sudden he didn't like the grin that appeared on Ranko's face and started to back away slowly.
"Uh Ranko why do you have that look in your eye...."
But before Ranma could get a direct answer Ranko somehow produced a mallet making both men sweat.
"Hey if knocking you out in the real world brought you here, then knocking you out here should bring you to the real world!" she stated as she raised the mallet.
"What kind of logic is that Ranko!?"
Unfortunately he never got his answer as the red haired girl quickly brought it down and hit him on the head with her mallet knocking him literally out of his mind. Nyx turned to the amused girl as she made her weapon disappear.
"Did you really have to do that?" Vale asked.
"No, but it was fun!" she replied giggling.
Vale just groaned and shook his head as Ranko looked at him.
"Now anything else I should be informed about?" she asked.
"Yeowwwww!!! RANKO!!!" Ranma yelled sitting up in his futon and rubbing his head for any love taps his sister may have left him. 'note to self, find something to get back a female self...'
//your note is noted and filed dear brother...// Ranko replied in his head as Ranma sat up as he rolled his eyes.
"Might as well see if there's still some dinner left..." he muttered to himself as he headed down the stairs.
//Well Genma wasn't snoring away next to you so that must mean that everyone's still downstairs.// Ranko added.
Ranma nodded as soon as he got to the bottom of the stairs he saw Genma, the Tendos and the girl he had accidentally walked in on the furo at the table as well. It looked like dinner had already started as everyone already had their plates and had been talking for a bit.
//Oh Ranma, Vale said that you shouldn't ask about that thing the girl did. I think he's right because the girl looked like she wasn't suppose to do whatever it was she did.//
//I guess so Ranko...// Ranma replied as he headed towards the table.
"Glad you finally decided to join us Ranma." Nabiki said grinning as Ranma took his place between Genma and Nyx. "have a pleasant nap?"
"Didn't take long for you to wake up from Akane's hit..." Nyx added next to the boy, "nice timing too."
"Yeah, you can thank Ranko for getting me up." Ranma muttered as Kasumi passed him his plate. He thanked her as he took it.
"So anything happen while I was knocked unconscious?" Ranma asked whispering as to not disturb the talk at the table.
"Well besides me having to drag your sorry butt to the futon, Akane took care of Ryoga when he jumped off your head to avoid getting hit. Ranma looked around for said piglet and saw that Ryoga in his piglet form had a blush on his cheeks as he sat in Akane's lap. He didn't need to voice his opinion as Ranko saw where Ryoga was and made HER displeasure known.
//Hey what the hell is Ryoga doing in the tomboy's lap!?!?!//
Ranma rubbed his head as he felt a migraine from his girl's half yelling and gazed over at said other cursed martial artist who didn't know whether he should move or just enjoy where he is.
//Ranko you sound jealous of Akane holding Ryoga in his pig form//
Ranma was amused when he heard sputtering and then silence from his other half.
'Well at least that took care of that...'he couldn't help but grin. He heard his name being called and looked over to Kasumi who was about to introduce the new face at the table.
"I'm glad you could join us Ranma-kun, we were just about to introduce Akane-chan's new friend!" the eldest Tendo said as she soon sat down and smiled gently at the red head girl.
Bowing her head a bit the girl said, "Its very nice to meet you. my name is Gwen Tenneyson er...or Tenneyson Gwen, I'm still a bit rough on the right way to say this." she finished laughing sheepishly.
"That was very good Tenneyson-san." Kasumi said.
"Oh please, just call me Gwen. Tenneyson-san makes me sound old and that's really my grandpa." Gwen replied.
"So you said you were staying here with your grandfather then?" Nabiki asked as she separated her chopsticks and started to eat the food Kasumi and Nyx had mad. Gwen nodded as she started to dig into her food as well.
"Yes, my grandpa, cousin and I have been traveling a while in America, " she started, "so Grandpa thought it would be nice for a change of scenery and he wanted to see his old friend."
"You mean Tofu-sensei right? Oh I would love to see the places you visited in America Gwen-san." Kasumi asked. Gwen smiled at the elder Tendo.
"I'll find the photos we took and bring them next time Kasumi-san." Gwen replied.
"That would be wonderful! We can have some tea then." Kasumi added happy and eager to see photos of new places.
"So your grandfather is an old friend of Tofu's huh? Exactly what did they do?" Nabiki asked curiously. She knew that Tofu didn't talk much about his past except for his family on occasion but nothing about a previous occupation or work had ever come up.
"Uh..." Gwen paused a bit wondering what to say, she knew she couldn't exactly say that Tofu-san and her grandfather use to fight aliens off from invading Earth, "they worked together in the army. Grandpa was a field officer, he did a little of everything and Tofu-sensei was a doctor back then."
"Hmm I see that's very interesting..." the middle Tendo said with a grin on her face as she went back to eating. Gwen couldn't help that she got the distinct feeling that she should be careful what she says around this Tendo.
"Er-hem so Gwen-san exactly what brought you to our dojo in the first place?" Soun asked looking at the red head curiously.
"Oh well I was walking around after eating lunch with my cousin and we separated." Gwen started as she ate, "I was just wandering around looking for something to do when I found myself in front of your dojo."
"Yeah I saw her standing in front of the house for a while and she wanted to have a match." Akane replied feeding some scraps to the little piglet in her lap. "too bad we couldn't finish it since Kasumi-neechan called us for dinner and invited Gwen as well." the tomboy added a little irritated that she couldn't finish the match, she was sure she could've won.
"You put up a good fight Akane-san." Gwen said trying to calm, "we can have a re-match next time alright? I'm going to be here for a while anyway."
"That's true. Alright I'll hold you to that promise!" the girl chirped. Gwen just nodded and turned her attention to the two figures that hadn't said a word so far at the table, well three if you counted the rather large balding man next to the guy that had walked into her in the bathroom.
"Kasumi-san who are those two at the edge of the table...are they usually this quiet?" Gwen asked.
"Oh the one in the pigtail is Ranma-kun and one of his adopted brother Nyx Valeth." Kasumi replied, "the other man next to him is his father Uncle Genma, he's an old friend of my daddy."
"I see..." Gwen said and frowned when she thought she saw something familiar on the wristband of the pigtailed martial artist but shook her head. 'that can't be right I must be seeing things' she assured herself before going back and conversing with Kasumi and Akane. But before the young man's name seemed familiar.
"Wait...Ranma? As in Ranma Saotome?" Gwen suddenly asked catching the attention of the whole table, at least before a loud groan from the pigtailed martial broke the silence.
"Oh geez Pops don't tell me you got HER involved as well!?!?" Ranma exclaimed obviously irritated. "I don't need anymore problems caused by you and your fat stomach!!"
Genma actually bristled at that and stood up glaring down at the irate marital artist heir.
"Boy!! I have never even seen that girl until today!! I did not get you involved with her...er...at least I THINK so..." the balding martial artist declared, before muttering the last part which mad Ranma stand up as well and glare hard at Genma.
"I'd throw food at your sorry face but Kasumi and Nyx-niisan made it so I won't waste it. BUT IT WON'T STOP ME FROM DOING THIS OLD MAN!!!" and with that he grabbed the front of Genma's clothes and threw him towards the koi pond, with a resounding splash.
When Genma was about to be thrown, Akane quickly pushed Gwen out of the way as the fat martial artist sailed over her head.
"What the hell!?? Akane does that happen a lot!?" Gwen exclaimed looking from the koi pond to a pissed off teenager. The youngest Tendo huffed.
"Yeah, he always manages to get under Ranma's skin when it involves other girls he gets engaged to." Akane muttered before eyeing Gwen, "where DID you hear Ranma's name from anyway?"
"Oh, uh it was from Ukyo-san. My cousin and I went there earlier to eat lunch!" Gwen replied, wondering if she suddenly said something wrong as Akane's curious look quickly changed to one of suspicion.
"Were you sent her because she asked you to?"
"What!? No way why would you say something like that!?" Gwen replied surprised at the accusation.
"Akane-chan really now! Gwen-san is a guest and I believe she just said she just heard of Ranma from Ukyo-san. She probably barely knows her right?" Kasumi intervene before Akane's more violent tendencies came out. Gwen just nodded as she watched as Kasumi's words seemed to get through the youngest Tendo's head and she nodded, albeit reluctantly. Gwen cleared her throat getting the two girl's attention once more.
"Shouldn't you be worried about Saotome-san? I don't think he has come up from the koi pond." she asked but to her surprised Akane just shrugged it off.
"Oh don't worry he'll be out in a few seconds."
"Huh?"
Suddenly a loud splash erupted from the backyard as something came out of the water. Gwen turned and thought she was going to see the balding martial artist that had gotten tossed in there but instead something else came out!
"What the hell!!??" she exclaimed staring wide-eyed at what had come out.
That was probably the last coherent thing Gwen would say as in the next second a giant panda came out of the pond and was about to storm inside to get back at his son if Kasumi hadn't stopped him.
"Now Uncle Saotome we have a guest I don't think it would be polite to ruin this dinner. I'll go get you some hot water so we can explain this 'situation' to our guest." the eldest Tendo said as she calmly turned towards the kitchen to get some hot water.
'Okay, aliens coming to destroy Ben I can take, aliens coming OUT of the omnitrix and trying to change the world into a dark home I can see' Gwen thought to herself as she tried rationalizing what happened, 'random attacks from past villains even that I can take to a point...although Dr. Animo is pushing the limits, even a mentally deranged rival, an old fashioned cult bent on collecting alien tech I can take but what in the WORLD is going on that a PANDA shoots out of the water where a man fell in!!'
Gwen snapped out of her thoughts when she looked up and saw the same stormy blue irises that she had looked at when she was coming out of the bath near her face.
"Oi you okay uh Gwen-san was it?" Ranma asked.
She quickly stood up and nodded.
"Uh ye-yeah!! but what happened to your father? He isn't uh...some sort of alien is he?" Gwen asked carefully. She was met with blank stares before most of the table except for Ranma and Nyx ended up laughing.
"Ahahahahaha! Oh that's a good one and a first!!" Nabiki snickered, "but I don't really believe all those farfetched stories about being intelligent life out there."
"You'd be surprised..." Gwen muttered to herself. "so if he's not an alien then what is he?"
"HE is a very stupid martial artist that can't read chinese and ended up getting him, myself and Ranma here cursed." Nyx spoke up rather bored.
"Cursed? As in bad luck and hexes?" Gwen asked. But Ranma next to her shook his head as he started to explain.
"No as in cursed to change into whatever we fell into..." he started, "basically there are these springs in the Chinese mountains called "Jusenkyo" and the old man here only saw them as some sort of training ground. Bottom line all three of us fell into a pool and are now prone to water attacks that change us into whatever pools we fell into."
Gwen blinked and stared at Ranma for a few minutes before looking at Nyx. She was about to say something when Kasumi came back with a kettle of hot water and poured in on the panda and before Gwen's eyes she saw the panda change into Genma.
"Wow you weren't kidding so you just transform into them huh...this is pretty...unbelievable..." Gwen said before she pinched herself and let out a yelp. "yeep I'm not dreaming..."
"Trust me we didn't believe at first but the proof is in the transformation." Nabiki said picking up a glass of water. "and this is what Ranma changes into" she added before splashing the water on the boy and before Gwen's eyes the 'he' transformed into a 'she'. The now female Ranma or Ranko coughed as bit of water had surprised her and glared at Nabiki,
"What the hell was that for Nabiki!?!?" Ranko cried out suddenly in control of the body with Ranma in the back of her head.
"Well obviously she needed a little more proof of the curses so why not show her?" Nabiki replied smirking at the scowling pigtailed red haired girl.
"So...you're really a girl...as in uh everywhere?" Gwen asked looking at Ranma's new body.
"Yer not going to touch and feel if they're real are ya?" the martial artist replied eyeing Gwen as she recalled what Nabiki had done the first time she had seen the girl. Gwen blushed furiously as she shook her head.
"N-no!! that would be extremely rude!! but that's an interesting cures though..." was all Gwen could say as she couldn't think of anything else to say to the boy now turned girl.
"At least someone realized it was rather rude..." Ranma muttered eyeing Nabiki. Kasumi walked over to Ranma and poured the remaining water on him turning him back to a boy much to his relief.
"Thanks Kasumi."
"You're welcome Ranma-kun."
Gwen took a glance at the clock and was amazed at how much time had passed. She quickly stood up and bowed.
"It was really nice meeting you all but its getting late and I think I should head back to the clinic." Gwen said.
"Hey boy you should walk her back to make sure she's alright." Genma said, "its a martial artist's duty to protect the weak."
At that statement Gwen glared at the martial artist as somehow throughout the time he had turned back human until now he had a go board in front of him with Soun sitting across from him.
"Excuse me Saotome-san but I'm not weak..." Gwen grounded out. Just as it looked like Genma was about to go on about the martial artist's code Akane thankfully managed to interrupt the man.
"Ranma, just walk her back to Tofu-sensei's. You OWE her anyway for walking in like you did you pervert." she growled as she cuddled her new black piglet to her chest. Ranma could feel Ranko twitching in the back of his head very irritated at the youngest Tendo.
//Just let it go Ranko...just let it go....//
//Shut...up....and just take Gwen-chan back to Tofu-sensei's for once the tomboy is right I did try to warn ya//
Ranma rolled his eyes but stood up as well.
"Fine fine, if it'll get all you off my back..." he grumbled as he headed to the front door with Gwen following after.
She gave one last bow as Kasumi and Nyx started to clean up the table as the rest of the family went off to do their own thing. The two walked in silence for a while and Gwen was looking at the martial artist curiously.
"So...uhm..what's it like...I mean changing into a girl has to be weird right?" Gwen started not sure if this was one of her more brilliant ideas for a conversation starter.
"Ya know you don't have to be polite about it." Ranma gruffed out, his hands shoved in his pockets. "you can just call me out like the tomboy does..."
"Call you out?" Gwen asked confused, stopping and making Ranma sigh as he turned around and gave her a look.
"You know the whole, you change into a girl you're such a pervert, I can't believe I was actually nice to you yadda yadda yadda..." Ranmu mumbled.
"Uh...well do you er...look at yourself when you change?" Gwen asked trying not to sound accusing.
//for the love of god you better NOT Ranma!!!// Ranko shouted in Ranma's head.
"No of course not!! though when I change sometimes I can't even tell that I did and end up doing something that the tomboy sees as perverted..." Ranma replied, recalling one time he had gotten soak at the Tendos and had been transformed when he removed his shirt to wring out the water. He could still feel the lump Akane had given him that day as well.
"Do you use your form to peek in on other girls?" Gwen asked a bit more confident around the martial artist. Ranma gave Gwen a strange look. "just answer the question Ranma-kun."
"No I don't. That's really wrong and invasion of privacy...I think..." he replied. Gwen smiled and nodded as soon she stood right next to Ranma.
"Any playboy magazines?"
"What the hell are those?"
"posters of half naked women?"
"Uh...no?"
"Collecting women's undergarments?"
"The hell!?!? of course not!!"
"Good! Then I don't see you as a pervert then." she replied giggling at the expression Ranma had at the last question. "I was joking about the last thing though but your expression was hilarious."
"Eh? Seriously? You don't find it weird, strange, freaky or awkward I change into another gender!?" Ranma asked truly surprised.
"Well...you answered my questions honestly and you haven't done anything perverted... at least intentionally.." she replied saying the last part quietly as they both recalled the bath scene. "so I don't see anything wrong with it except for it being a little weird."
"So I'm not a freak?"
Gwen giggled at the rather cute expression Ranma had on his face and shook her head.
"Trust me, I've seen a lot worse that really do deserve the name freak..." she replied remembering a certain rival's of her cousin with his mismatched body parts. Ranma smiled bright at the other girl, happy that someone he met didn't have such a perverted or violent reaction to his transformation.
"Well that's great! So you train in martial arts as well?" Ranma asked a lot happier to be talking to Gwen now.
"Well I only have a black belt in Taekwondo, but I have been curious of other styles and been reading about them." Gwen replied, "I don't really get the chance to see other martial artists really."
"Well at least you've had some training and a black belt is an accomplishment." Ranma replied encouragingly.
"Thanks Ranma, what about you? Your father is obvious a martial artist does that make you one too?" she asked.
"Heh I'm the best around." he proclaimed making Gwen laugh.
"Confident aren't you?" she asked.
"Hey the truth's the truth!" Ranma replied.
"You think you should be saying all that? You know there are probably others in the world that could be better then you." Gwen said.
"Ha! Bring them on, even if they manage to beat me I'll get right back and kick their asses!" Ranma smirked. "I haven't been training for ten years on the road for nothing." at that statement Gwen couldn't help but gawk at Ranma.
"Wait a minute, ten straight years of training on the road? What about your family?" Gwen asked concern.
"Well...pops never really said anything about other family members." Ranma replied shrugging.
"What about your mother?"
"I asked once but he quickly changed the subject though. I'm starting to think I don't have one..."
"Now don't say that!" Gwen exclaimed surprising Ranma. "just because he doesn't SAY anything about your family doesn't mean you can't find out somehow. I mean sure you could take his word for it but I think its better to think positive rather then negatively."
The pigtailed martial artist looked at Gwen before letting a goofy smile cross his face.
"Yeah you're right, Nyx-niisan has been telling me not to trust Genma so much and find stuff out on my own." he replied as they continued walking under the street lamp lights. "so what did Ucchan say about me exactly?"
At this, Gwen couldn't help but grimace. "Well she said that even though the two of you are best friends, she still can't wait for you to choose her or her winning you over and marrying you." she replied. "was she serious though? She really is your finance?"
"Yeah and probably a whole bunch of other girls as well that I don't know about...pops tends to...think more of his stomach then he does with his head most of the time and traded me in order to get a meal out of some poor family." Ranma replied.
"That...sucks. Ukyo-san seems like such a nice person though..." Gwen said.
"Yeah she is, until you manage to get her angry or when she's fighting." Ranma sighed. "okay so enough of this subject how do you like Nermia so far?"
"its...alright unfortunately there hasn't been much to do around here...er.. no offense or anything." Gwen said as Ranma casually shrugged.
"None taken, I only arrived here a little while ago myself and the most activity I get comes from my school, then again..." Ranma added albeit dryly, "knowing my luck a lot of things are bound to happen if you hang around me long enough..."
Gwen laughed at that. "Maybe you never know Ranma..." she replied.
The two of them soon walked passed a restaurant that was to be open soon called the "Nekohanten" and two familiar faces were looking out the window as the two passed, one figure with purple hair blowing in the wind a bit as a the second figure was standing on a cane. Ranma could've sworn he was being watched and turned around to look at the building they had just passed but the two figures in the window had disappeared.
"Ranma? Did you see something?" Gwen asked.
"Nah, just got the weirdest feeling someone was watching me Gwen, now you were asking about Furinkan?" he asked as Gwen nodded. The two continued their conversation until they finally arrived at the clinic.
"It was really nice talking to you Ranma." Gwen said smiling.
"Yeah its nice to have a normal conversation without someone wanting to fight me or something." Ranma replied grinning back. "maybe I'll see ya around? We could probably talk some more."
"Sure, and maybe I can actually convince you to spar with me." Gwen replied shrugging making Ranma shrug.
"Maybe, at least I can tell you're a bit more serious in training then Akane with how you walk." the pigtailed martial artist said to Gwen's surprise.
"You can just tell that by how I walk?" she asked.
"Yeah, something Pops ingrained into my head was to tell if someone knew how to fight by how they walk or some junk like that." he replied, " and from the conversation that was going on about the match between you and tomboy, I think you would've had a fair chance of winning against her."
"You really think so? Akane was rather strong but she seemed a bit..." Gwen started not sure how to say it without sounding rude to the youngest Tendo.
"slow? Predictable? One-sided?" Ranma filled in.
"I was going to say less focused on style and more on strength." Gwen replied dryly. "you know insulting her is probably one of the reasons she may be irritated towards you."
"Maybe, but I can't take the tomboy serious if all she does is break bricks and jogs rather then do katas or anything else to improve her form." Ranma replied.
"That's a good idea, I haven't been able to practice a bit because of traveling with my grandpa...and Akane did invite me to have a rematch with her..." Gwen said. "maybe I'll pick up some books on katas ."
"Eehh books? I'd rather see a real teacher so they can actually help ya." Ranma replied.
"maybe but I'll think of something to practice. Anyway thanks for the walk Ranma, it was really nice getting to know you." Gwen said as she waved at the martial artist before knocking opening the clinic door and walking in.
Once Ranma was sure Gwen was inside he headed back to the Tendo dojo having a conversation or argument with Ranko.
//Ya know you could always offer to help her with katas ya know.// Ranko said.
//Eh maybe...dunno though sis..// Ranma replied as he heard a scoff from his girl half.
//Please don't tell me you buy into that crap that girls can't fight. Hello??? half the Omnitrix's aliens ARE girls that can and will fight...//
//No I don't, Nyx manage to get that out of my head early..//
//That's good. That's just a stupid thing to believe. Girl's can't fight HA the next guy that says that is going to get a nice 'present' in their-//
//I get the point Ranko, now is there anything else I should know about?//
//Not really, although I'm still pissed at Nabiki for suddenly splashing water on you! urgh do you know how annoying it is to suddenly be talking to Vale and Kazehime when you're suddenly pulled away!?//
//Really annoying by how you sound and are you still mad at tomboy for getting Ryoga as her pet?// Ranma was met with silence on that part and snickered. //serious it sounds like your actually JEALOUS of the tomboy!//
//I am not jealous of that stupid mallet-happy tomboy!!!! shut UP about that already Ranma!!//
//Alright alright no more talking about Ryoga with Akane. Now I have a question that I forgot to ask Vale//
//What is it?//
//If he can come out of his world thing since I transformed into him does that mean Quillback can as well? And any other alien that isn't threatening to take over me?//
//Give me a minute....hmm yep Quillback can come out he just doesn't want to Vale said since he's having fun running around in his own world.//
Ranma had to cut the conversation there because he had arrived back at the Tendo dojo and had to talk to Nyx about what he had discovered in his own mind...and hope that Nabiki didn't hear about it. Last thing he needed was the money eyed Tendo to find out about the Omnitrix
"So you had a good time at the Tendos?" Max asked seeing Gwen walk through the front door and locked it behind her just in case.
"It was....interesting I'll say that much." Gwen replied smiling, she turned to Tofu for a moment. "Tofu-sensei did you know about uh....the people at the Tendo's condition?" At first Tofu looked confused before realization came across his face.
"Oh you mean the curses?" Tofu asked seeing Gwen nod. "yes I ran into that when Akane-chan came in and asked for some hot water. Its pretty unbelievable but with what your grandpa Max and I went through something like that shouldn't be that surprising." the doctor added laughing.
"What does she mean by curses Ono?" Max asked wondering what his granddaughter and old friend were talking about.
Tofu explained the situation to Max while Gwen looked around wondering where Ben was. When Ono finished explaining things to the elder Tenneyson Max couldn't help but pinch himself and when he felt pain he looked back at Tofu.
"Guess I shouldn't be surprised by the oddities that happen around our own world huh, oh and if you're wondering where Ben is, he really enjoyed the restaurant so much he ate too much sushi and shrimp. He's back in the rust bucket sleeping." Max replied making Gwen roll her eyes.
"Why shouldn't I be surprised?" she asked sighing. "oh! Hey Grandpa I have a quick question."
"Yes Gwen?"
"Weeeelll...I was wondering how long would it take for you to enroll me in Furinkan High?"
The next morning thankfully Nyx wasn't thrown into the pond instead it was Ranma.
"Though, you'd think with how many times Genma's done that Ranma would've figured out something to stop it." the alien said to himself as he stretched and got dressed.
He walked out of the room and could hear someone was already in the furo, Akane was his guess since she usually went jogging in the morning and came back to wash up. He noticed Nabiki was already downstairs drinking her morning coffee to wake her up as he walked by her and headed directly into the kitchen to help Kasumi.
"Need any help this morning Kasumi-san?" Nyx asked once he walked inside. Kasumi turned around a little surprised and nearly dropped the bowl of rice she was holding if Nyx hadn't caught it.
"Oh Nyx-san you surprised me!" she exclaimed, "but I think you're a little late I finished breakfast already and made Akane-chan's, Ranma-kun's and Nabiki's bentos."
"Dang I should get up earlier to help you." Nyx replied as he couldn't help but grin at the elder Tendo. "So any shopping plans today?" he added as he helped carried out the food for breakfast at the table. The two could hear Ranma and Genma fighting as usual in the backyard as Soun soon came walking down the stairs scratching his chest and letting out a loud yawn.
"No, I think we did this week's shopping and should have enough supplies for the week." Kasumi replied as they put down the food. "oh my I forgot your tea Nyx-san!"
"Don't worry about it, I'll get It myself." Nyx replied assuring the eldest Tendo. "Ranma and Genma should be done soon so I'll just be a minute." Kasumi nodded and sat down as she Soun soon joined and grabbed his coffee that was sitting in his usual spot. As Nyx grabbed the tea kettle that was on the stove he filled it up with water and turned on the stove and waited it for be hot enough as he grabbed his tea packet.
'I know Kasumi says Ranma and I are guests I still think its rather hard on her cooking and doing all the shopping...maybe if I look for a job I can get some earthling's currency and help her out...that and maybe find some parts to fix some other devices in my bag...' the alien thought to himself as the tea kettle whistled loudly and grabbing a rag he grasped the top of the kettle and poured it into his cup making his tea.
When he got back to the table the usual was going on that happened every morning. Genma was trying to steal food off of Ranma's plate while said martial artist was somehow arguing with Akane at the same time, Nabiki ignored the two brawling martial artists and her sister, Soun was going on how well Akane and Ranma were getting along until the said teenagers were yelling at Soun.
"Yep just a normal day..." Nyx sighed as he sat down and tried to drink his tea without having it be knocked over somehow. Once the usual breakfast was over with Nabiki, Ranma and Akane headed off to school while Soun and Genma went back to playing shogi.
"What do you plan to do today Nyx-san? Work on your projects some more?" Kasumi asked as she carried a laundry basket in her arms once she and Nyx had cleaned up the table.
"I think I'll go look around town to see if anything interesting is going on." Nyx replied as he put on his shoes.
"Alright I'll see you for lunch maybe?" Kasumi asked making Nyx grin.
"Sure, I think I saw a nice cafe with some desserts you may like to try." Nyx replied.
"Ahaha are you asking me on a date Nyx-san?" Kasumi couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Hmm as much as I would love to Kasumi-san," Nyx replied," I am already taken, but its just between friends. That's fine with you right?"
"I wouldn't have it any other way. Your girlfriend is one lucky person to have you for a boyfriend though..." she replied giggling as she walked off to do the laundry as Nyx headed out the door.
"Yeah....she is..." Nyx couldn't help but add as he thought about his lovely Aria and son Zachary before leaving the Tendo dojo. Nyx walked around the usual area trying to look for any place that looked interesting to check out at least or were hiring. He stopped a few times to look through a hardware store nearby and noted several objects that he could use once he got some money to buy it.
"I just need to find a place to work at..." he mumbled to himself sighing a bit. He suddenly heard a bit of arguing nearby and turned to look for the source. He saw two girls and a guy were in front of what looked like to be a mix between a bakery and cafe arguing a bit. He moved closer to see what the problem was.
"You see!! I warned you not to mess around with the machine and now look what you did!" one girl exclaimed, "we're going to be behind on today's wares!!"
"I said I was sorry what do you want me to do about it!? I can't fix it!!" the other girl groaned, "i only pressed two things!!"
"Well do SOMETHING because we can't order another one since it'll take at least two weeks before it'll get here!!" the other girl scowled.
"Okay you two stop it!!" the man growled obviously in-charge of the bakery. "we just need to call a repairman and see if it can get fixed!"
"But Ren it'll take a while before the guy gets here and by that time our usual morning rush!!" the girl exclaimed. "not to mention Shotaro, Maria and Yasahiro won't get here until at least eight!!"
"But I thought Maria-chan was going to visit her father over in Osaka?" Kyoko asked making Moko groan.
"Crap forgot about that, and I just remembered Shotaro had to call in his vacation early for something happening at his family's hotel in Kyoto." Moko grumbled.
Ren sighed. "Calm down Moko I'm sure the guy will get here fast enough if we call by now." he sighed. "and we can worry about what we're going to do with Maria and Shotaro gone later."
"Argh you just had to try and cook those croissants didn't you Kyoko?" Moko groaned rubbing her head frustrated. The other girl was calmed by now and had the decency to look down.
"I'm sorry Moko-chan...Sempai..." she murmured fiddling with her fingers.
"Uh would it be alright if I had a look at it?" Nyx suddenly spoke up catching the three's attention.
"Who the hell are you?" Moko asked narrowing her eyes at Nyx.
"Well I happen to pretty good with machinery I was wondering if I could take a look at it?" Nyx said, "I could probably fix it. I promise I won't do anything to it."
Before Moko could reply the other girl, Kyoko rushed forward and grabbed his hand shaking it rapidly.
"Really!? Oh thank god!! I was really worried we would be behind with one of our ovens breaking down!! you're a lifesaver!!" she exclaimed, "its in here!!" the girl added pulling Nyx inside the bakery leaving the other two employees staring.
"That girl is going to get in serious trouble with someone if she keeps doing that ya know..." Moko couldn't help but groan out. Ren just laughed sheepishly as he shrugged and followed his excited employee inside.
"That's just one of Kyoko-chan's perks." Ren replied.
"Uh huh....so when you going to propose to her boss?" Moko couldn't help but grin, making her boss stumble and stare at the girl.
"Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-what!?!?" stuttered the man blushing furiously.
Moko just walked in passed her boss rather satisfied with the look on his face as she headed into the kitchen. She leaned against the doorway as Kyoko showed Nyx the over she had burned out. He nodded a few times and asked for her to move away for a bit while he looked inside and at the wiring.
'hmm..this is a rather simple machine...let's see we can cut this wire here and divert its power here when I connect these two together and-'
Much to the surprise of the three the machine came back to life continuing to back the croissants before it had broken down.
"Oh yay you fixed it thank you so much!! you don't know how much it saved us!!" Kyoko cried out jumping around happily. Ren managed to calm his blazing face as he walked into the kitchen before Kyoko accidentally knocked over some trays.
"That's good Kyoko-chan. Now why don't you get started on making those cookies now that the oven is fixed?"
"Sure thing Sempai!" Kyoko giggled before heading to another part of the kitchen.
"I'll stay here and finish the breads boss." Moko said walking pass Nyx as she checked on the croissants, baguettes, loaves and other breads.
Ren turned his attention to Nyx.
"Thank you very much for fixing our oven. Like my girlfriend said you saved us from getting behind schedule. Is there anything I can do for you to thank you?" Ren asked.
"Not unless you were offering a job." Nyx replied, "I've been looking around for one to help out this person I'm staying with and-"
"You're hired."
"Huh? Wait don't you need to do some interview or at least know what I can or can't do? I mean I can't even bake!!" Nyx stuttered out surprised at the offer.
"You can learn from Kyoko-chan and Moko-chan as they help and watch you." Ren explained the grin never leaving his face, "not to mention if one of our machines break again you can just fix it instead of us having to call a repair man. So what do you say?"
"if I can leave a bit for lunch to take a friend out then I don't see a problem." Nyx laughed holding out his hand as Ren grinned and shook his. "now go to Moko-chan and she'll give you an apron and get you started on something simple."
"Sure think Ren-san." Nyx said, happy that he managed to land a job even if it was completely by accident.
"Grandpa do we HAVE to be here!? This is so BORING!!" Ben complained as he sat in an uncomfortable chair next to Max as Gwen was in a different room being tested. "I don't understand why Gwen even WANTS to go to school when we're on vacation!!"
"She's just bored and wanted to have an interesting experience, you could join her you know." Max replied.
"Nooooo thank you. I'll stick with wandering around or hanging around Tofu-san. That thing he does on his patients is interesting." Ben replied.
"You mean those shiatsu points?" Max asked looking at Ben.
"yeah, think he'll teach me anything like that?" Ben replied looking at Max.
"I don't know Ben you can ask him but I wouldn't get your hopes up." his grandfather replied before Gwen opened the door grinning.
"I passed!! I can become a transfer student here for awhile! HA I knew all that extra studying would come in handy!" Gwen said grinning.
"That's wonderful Gwen. I'm glad you found something to do although I was rather surprised you asked to go to school of all things." Max replied.
"I got curious about it. Thanks for doing this for me Grandpa." Gwen replied hugging Max.
"Hahaha no problem Gwen. Maybe I can find something for Ben to do like take up martial arts or maybe even kendo or something." Max laughed.
"Hey that kendo stuff sounds interesting!!" Ben exclaimed looking at his grandpa.
"Well if he can handle several alien species how hard could kendo possibly be?" Gwen replied sarcastically. Ben threw her a nasty look while Gwen just rolled her eyes.
"Alright quit it you two. So you're going start today then? What about the uniform?" Max asked.
"They said since I'm only going to be here for a while they said its alright for me to wear my normal clothes. Then again I don't think I'd like the uniforms too much..." Gwen said grimacing. Max just laughed and patted his grandchild's head.
"Well try and stay out of trouble and don't forget what we discussed when we got here." Max stated, "only in emergencies."
"I got it grandpa! Have fun trying to get Ben to do something!" Gwen laughed as Ben just grumbled something under his breath as he followed Max out of the administrative office.
As the two other Tenneysons left the school Ben couldn't help but look at his Omnitrix. It was earlier when he, Grandpa Max and Gwen had walked into school to get Gwen registered at Furinkan. He had gotten bored and thirsty and went to look for a water fountain when he had nearly crashed into someone running down the hallway with some girl after him. It was the moment when the guy had passed that his Omnitrix started to beep wildly before going silent. He looked around wonder what exactly it was on the guy that made it go off since there was hardly anyone in the hallways beside those two and himself during that time.
"Is something wrong Ben? You keep looking at the Omnitrix." Max asked breaking Ben out of his thoughts, "did it sense something?"
"I don't know Grandpa..."
"If you hurry you can make it to second period." the secretary said as she handed Gwen her schedule and giving her instructions on how to reach her classroom. "oh take this slip as well, it'll explain why you're here to your teachers."
"Thank you, by the way what was with that crowd at the gate this morning. What was that about?" Gwen asked.
"oh don't mind that, you'll get use to it coming here." the secretary replied yawning. "we all gotten pretty use to it."
"Right...I'll be sure to make note of that." Gwen said as she shouldered her bag and headed out the door to try and find her classroom. She heard the bell for first period already ring as there were a few lingering students in the hallways. Ignoring the looks she was getting she walked up a flight of stairs to the second floor where she soon found her classroom just as the bell signaling the beginning of class rang.
"Whew made it just in time." Gwen said to herself as she knocked on the door. The door slid opened and the teacher opened the door and raised an eyebrow at Gwen.
"Can I help you with something miss?"
Gwen nodded and handed the man the piece of paper the secretary at the administrative office had handed her to give to her teachers. The teacher took it and read it over before looking quite interested at the girl in front of her.
"Well my name is Orion-sensei and I'll be your English teacher Tenneyson-san." he said as he moved out of the way to let her in. "I do hope you enjoy Furinkan."
"Thank you sensei." Gwen said bowing as she walked into the room as Orion-sensei closed the door behind her and headed to the front of the class where Gwen stood.
"Class, today we have a transfer student from America that's going to stay with us for awhile. Please introduce yourself." Orion-sensei said, as the whole class was paying attention to Gwen.
"It's pleasure to meet you all. I'm Tenneyson, Gwen I like reading, traveling, learning new and interesting things and interested in martial arts as well, please refrain from calling me Tenneyson-san and call me Gwen please." Gwen said smiling.
"That's very interesting to hear Tenneyson-san. Now since you're new and don't have the text book you can take the seat next to...let's see..." Orion-sensei said looking for an empty seat, he soon saw one. "ah I see the seat next to Saotome-san is clear. You may sit there and share his textbooks then."
"But Sensei, Barragan-kun sits there!" one student pointed out.
"Yes well he's not here today is he? The seat is free since then. We can have him move somewhere else I'm sure he won't mind." Orion-sensei replied sternly. "now everyone please open their books to chapter four. We were discussion the use of double negatives where we last left off."
"You know when I mentioned the school I never expected you to actually join it." Ranma said as Gwen scooted her desk closer to Ranma to see the textbook as Gwen just grinned back.
"Hey I don't mind and the entrance exam wasn't that hard besides you said your life could get interesting and seeing as nothing else seems to happen around here I figure hanging around you might be interesting." Gwen added. Ranma rolled his eyes but couldn't help but grin back at the other girl before going back to the book so the sensei wouldn't notice them talking. Unfortunately for them they failed to notice two burning glares at the back of their own heads from a certain chef and tomboy...
The day seemed to go by rather quickly with Gwen and Ranma talking as they walked to their classroom together, catching much attention of the other students wondering who this new girl was that Ranma was talking to. Lunch soon came which was Ranma's favorite time of the day since he got to enjoy the food Kasumi had made for him. Today he managed to avoid Kuno barging into his classroom and walked with Gwen out into the field.
"So what do you think of the school so far?" Ranma asked as they tried to find a seat near a tree for shade.
"Its not that bad, I just need to learn how to write better in japanese..." Gwen laughed. "I can understand if fine but writing and reading is a different matter. Though I think I'm getting it."
"Yeah you pick up on things rather fast." Ranma added as they finally sat down under a tree near the fence. " you do have a lunch right?"
"Uh...just some snacks I packed for my trip. I'll bring a proper lunch tomorrow though." Gwen replied. "though I should be thankful its not my Grandpa's cooking if it was I'd have thrown it away."
"It couldn't be that bad..."
"Oh trust me it is when one of his recipes called for maggots and other...'natural' stuff..." Gwen replied grimacing.
"I'm suddenly thankful my pops was never that desperate for food..." Ranma stated as he opened the bento Kasumi made for him as Gwen unwrapped a granola bar. Before either of them could eat Ukyo stood in front of the two.
"Hey Ranchan I didn't know you knew Gwen-san here..." Ukyo said her eye twitching in irritation as she had been ignored practically all day with Ranma talking mostly to Gwen.
"Oh hey Ucchan. Uh...I just met Gwen-san when she came by the Tendo Dojo after having a match with Akane." Ranma replied sweating a bit at the glare he was getting from Ukyo.
"Um hello Ukyo-san I didn't know you go to school here..." Gwen spoke up to try and curve the anger she could feel radiating off the angry chef. Immediately Ukyo turned towards her and gave her a glare and stomped towards her.
"Listen Gwen-san you seem smart so I'll let you off with a warning. Don't get close to MY Ranchan alright? He is mine and I refuse to have any more competition for him." she scowled.
"Ukyo-san I understand, but honestly don't you think that treating Ranma like this isn't right?" Gwen argued.
"Treating Ranchan like what? I treat him fine." Ukyo replied looking confused at the American girl.
"No I mean-is that a bicycle bell I hear?" Gwen started but stopped when she heard the sound that interrupted her from continuing. Ukyo looked the other girl for a moment but then she also heard the sound.
"Why does it sound like the sound is coming from...ABOVE!!!" Ukyo suddenly shouted leaping out of the way when a shadow was coming down almost on top of them. Gwen also managed to get out of the way but Ranma, who was more interested in eating his food hadn't bother to listen to the girl's conversation and therefore didn't hear the bell sound before he soon found himself with said bike on top of him.
Gwen stared. "Okay does anyone else find this picture wrong?" the girl asked staring at the purple haired girl in chinese silk clothing on the bike with one hand on the handlebar and the other holding some sort of container.
"Hehehehe Ni hao airen! Shampoo come and bring you delicious ramen!" the girl on top of the bike said as she leapt off the bike allowing Ranma to stand up only to get glomped by said girl once she had put the container down. Ukyo was burning at the sight as was Akane who had heard the commotion as she was sitting with her friends. Gwen could only stare before giving the confused boy a dry laugh.
"Well you were right about one thing Ranma-kun...so far it hasn't been a dull moment hanging around you." Gwen stated.
Well there we go! The fifth chapter. Uh some things about this though is well I'm not sure about the exact military ranks so I just put field officer for something Gwen could say. I think I kept everyone's personalties the same. Let's see what else, I kind of forgotten how exactly Shampoo sees Ranma when she first comes to Nerima, I think in the anime she was shown to go through the Tendo dojo to attack Ranko and in the manga she came through the wall of a classroom to serve Ranma lunch.
I know that thing with Nyx working at a bakery may seem a bit random but I thought it would be amusing to see the alien work in a bakery and I hope I got Gwen's reaction to the curses right I tried to do the best with her personality. Well I think that's about it, so please review and tell me any ideas or suggestions you could have and send me any alien ideas as well if you have any! Thanks again for reading!!
Oh and just for the hell of it can anyone guess what manga I got the names for the people who worked at the bakery that Nyx now works out from?