Suikoden One Half

by MadHat886

An encounter with a magic mirror sends Ranma to another world, leaving behind a broken past. Hey, who's the girl with silver hair? A Suikoden and Mega crossover. Is now officialy one of the longest Ranma Fanfiction on this website!

20. Aftermath of the Mall Battle Part 2

Suikoden One Half

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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Ranma 1/2. The Ranma 1/2 cast belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Nor do I own Suikoden 3 or any other characters that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any.

Note: This chapter is exceptionally long, at 97 pages even, but do not expect all future chapters to be like this. Also, unfortunately school will interfere with updates so expect there to be long periods between new chapters. Sorry people, it can't be helped. Oh, and go ahead and send in any criticisms, praise, flames, whatever. The best of course is the constructive criticisms and praise as the both improve our work. Flames will be accepted, but will not deter us from writing this fic OUR way!

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Chapter 18 – Aftermath of the Mall Battle Part 2

In Ranma's home world –

Sailing through the sea towards the island is a Chinese junk ship owned by the amazons. On the bow is a certain purple haired girl looking for her husband. Shampoo's happy that they had finally found her Airen at last. She had wanted to go to the temple and get him, but her great-grandmother wouldn't let her.

Cologne knew that Ranma is now much stronger than he was before he left Nerima. She could also tell that his new friends aren't your average everyday fighters. Any friends of his never are. Then she had seen the footage of Ranma fighting against those monsters and knew that there's no way she would be able to take him on in a fight without resorting to lethal moves. How a weak male is be able to get that strong in so little time she has no idea.

So after they heard of what happened to Mousse when he had gone and attacked Shampoo's husband they had gotten some help. They had contacted the Amazon village to send the spice sisters Sugar, Pepper, Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint, Tabasco, and Ginger. They all look the same but have different colored hair, all seven colors of the rainbow. The village had also sent Wheat who's small for her age but deadly with knives. Lemon and Apple work well together one uses a spear the other uses a bow. Then there are the twins Ketchup and Mustard. Both have dark skin and light purple hair. Ketchup is the serious one who keeps her hair long in the back and Mustard is the airhead who keeps her hair in two ponytails. (1) As well as some other unmarried warriors. All of them eager to meet the Wild Horse and see how much of a wild horse he is as he would become a breeder for all of them.

Then there are the two twin sisters Red Bean and Green Tea who only came because they didn't like being in a small village for the rest of their lives. Another elder had forced Cologne to accept the two into her group. Both of them aren't into the old ways that women are strong and males are weak so they were sent away from the village to be taught by Cologne. Both of them dress alike and have brown hair but are easy to tell apart. Each girl dresses in the color that's in her name. Both wore brown tights with Chinese dresses over them, but Green Tea's dress is longer than Red Bean's is. Green Tea's shirt flaps went down her left side while Red Bean's shorter one is on her right. They also wore shoulder guards on one of their shoulders, Green Tea's on her left and Red Bean's on her right. They also wore long leather arm guard that went up to their shoulders where the sleeve was cut off. Both girls kept their hair in two braided buns but Red Bean keeps hers covered with pink cloth. Green Tea has red-violet eyes and Red Bean has green-blue eyes. (2)

Checking all of the nearby island resorts they couldn't find anything about Ranma being there. She had gone to the Ono's clinic and listened to the two talked to each other until she had found out that Ranma had gone on vacation on a resort somewhere in this area. She and the others had checked all the others except one. It's a small island resort that very few people know about. It's the perfect place for Ranma to stay without him being mobbed by people. They should have checked this one first but the place is so small they had missed it.

She also has a potion that will make sure that he'll be under the control of Shampoo as it should be since he's just a weak male. It'll make him pretty much a slave, but that's what a man is good for besides impregnating women. Something else is bothering her though. She had felt a familiar ki signature when she had been in Shibuya, but couldn't remember who it is. Oh well, that's not important now. With a male like Ranma there will be many strong children coming out of their tribe for many generations. Since a male like Ranma isn't found everyday the other elders had forced her to agree to let them use him as a breeder for the tribe. It's better than not getting him at all.

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Behind the Amazon's ship –

Unknown to them they're being followed. A motorboat is following far enough away from the women's ship without them knowing. Thanks to the tracker that they had planted on the junk before it left the last port before sailing away. The people on the boat had been told that if they followed the Amazons they would find their target.

On the boat are 12 men who call themselves the Berserkers. They are a band of fighters/hitmen for hire. They will fight for anyone or any organization for the right price. They are dressed like a biker gang complete with helmets and leather is their trademark. Once they are hired they'll get the job done no matter what.

Their leader is Hammer Fist, a large man with a metal left hand that he uses to smash in faces. The new crime lord of Shibuya had hired him and his crew to kidnap Ranma Wild and kill the others with him. He had informed them that by following the Amazons they would find their prey.

"We should be at that island by tomorrow," Hammer Fist said to himself as he looked over the map layout. They will let the Amazons attack first weakening their prey first, and then they would make their move.

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The Thirteenth Day –

Ranma and his group are at the beach enjoying the midday sun again. Tomorrow the boat would come for them so they are getting in their last hours here at the resort. Even the inn's residents are with them. He's currently playing with Iris, Reni and Yun as they built a BIG sand castle together.

Ranma had just built another tower when he felt a familiar ki signature heading his way. He felt two familiar signatures and a whole bunch of new ones. They've just landed on the island near the other side so there's no chance for him to make a run for it, not that he would.

'So they finally came. It took them long enough. They even have backup this time.' He motioned for the kids to stand behind him and made his sword appear. He took it out and stood in a stance towards the direction where he can feel the group of amazons heading his way.

The sound of his sword coming out of its sheath alerted the others. Tina, Ranko and any of the others who knew how to detect ki signatures had already stood up and readied themselves.

"Ranma? What's wrong?" Sakura asked as she approached him. She got a bad feeling when she remembered that that is how he looks when he's fighting when she had seen him on TV. The others also recognized it and those with weapons handy took them out.

He glanced at her then quickly directed his gaze back. "We got company. Ranko, you feel them too?" The redheaded girl nodded. "Tina, Viki, everybody, you are about to meet the Amazons. They're almost here. Becky, take Yun, Reni, and Iris to the inn and stay there. Shiori, please accompany them to make sure they're okay. I've told you what these amazons are like. Sakura, you and the others go too. Tina, everybody, they're here for me. I'll deal with this."

Becky and Shiori took the three kids to the inn as fast as their legs could carry them. Ranma had been expecting the inn's girls to go away, not take up positions next to him along with his group.

Without taking his eyes away from his vigil he said, "Sakura, you and the others don't need to be involved in this. Get back. You too Tina, Viki, everybody. This is my fight and you shouldn't get mixed up in this if you don't have to. Cologne has always been tricky and I don't know how she'd react if she sees all of you with me."

Sakura shook her head as she took out her katana. "Sorry, but this is our island. You are our guests and our friends. I'm also your friend Ranma. No way, I'm going to let you fight this by yourself."

Maria cocked her gun. "You may not know this Ranma, but I swore to myself if you never need help I'll back you up. This is a fight, and fights are my specialty."

Kanna cracked her knuckles. "Same here, I don't know who these people are, but there no way I'm letting them hurt my sensei and my friend."

Sumire readied her naginata, making it glow blue in preparation. "Heh, I'm not leaving you to face these people alone. Besides, I owe you for that talk you gave me." She winked at him and he saw it out of the corner of his eyes. He nodded at her with a small smile even if he never took his eyes off the direction he can feel the ki sources coming from.

Kohran might not have her inventions with her, but she'll fight anyway. "You want me to leave a friend behind? No way! We stick together no matter what!"

Orihime prepared her chains. "I agree. We will NOT let these people get you!"

Lachette got a fire in her eyes that would have scared even Ryoga. "Ranma, they will not touch you. I won't let them," she said to him in english.

Tina, Ranko and his other girlfriends all said, "No way that we're going to let that bimbo get her hands on you!"

Edge, Fred and Rico got their weapons ready. "We haven't been in a good fight in a long time. We need this."

Ms. Hinako merely arched her eyebrow at him. "You think I'll let them get to you? Please. Besides, Kasumi would kill me if I did."

Molly just got that glint in her eye again, except this one is much more menacing. As she started up her bike so that she can finally test it out in a battle.

Before Ranma could say anything a voice interrupted him. "So, son in law, you made some friends I see," said a raspy voice as figures appeared before them.

Everyone saw a whole bunch of beautiful women carrying various weapons. Leading them is a very old woman that they could only tell was a woman by her clothes and hair. The purple haired one that Ranko and Kodachi recognized as Shampoo is bouncing up and down in glee. The two along with Ranma's other girlfriends scowled at how happy she is to see Ranma. Sakura and her gang also saw the purple haired one undressing Ranma with her eyes and they too scowled at her.

The real surprise, however, is when Kohran suddenly yelled, "Red Bean, Green Tea! What are you two doing here?"

The two turned to the one who had screamed out their names and their eyes bulged when they saw her. "Kohran? Hi cousin!" Green Tea shouted.

"I didn't know you were here!" Red Bean shouted.

Cologne turned to the two and hissed at them. "You two be quiet! We are here to get Ranma, not to meet with relatives!"

Shampoo ignored the scowls coming from the various women in the group. "Shampoo happy to see Airen again! You come back to China with Shampoo?" She tried to glomp him, but Cologne hit her on the head to stop her.

Ranma growled. On his forehead underneath his bandanna the blood red part of the rune glowed more solid again. "Forget it Shampoo! I'm NEVER going to China with you! I'll never love you, not after the way you've treated me!"

Cologne merely snorted. "We're taking you no matter what. You are too valuable to let go now. The one who has defeated both Saffron and Herb will give us many strong children."

"Airen! You come with Shampoo NOW! You leave too, too ugly women and come with Shampoo now!"

"We're not going to let you take Ranma from us!" Tina shouted out. Most of her anger is directed at the one who is trying to claim Ranma as her own.

"Yeah! There's no way we're going to let you take him from us! You have to get pass us first!" Chris yelled.

Kodachi snapped her ribbon threateningly. "We have fought before many times before. Now today, we will settle this once and for all." Her figure trembled with fury.

Ranko, Viki and Kasumi merely tensed even further.

"Red Bean, Green Tea, why are you two helping them with this?" Kohran yelled to her cousins, "I thought you two hated the way the guys in the village are treated?"

Green Tea turned to elder with a scowl. "Hey elder! You never said that we we're here to make that guy your granddaughter's groom!"

Red Bean also scowled at the elder. "Yeah! We're not going to make him do something against his will! You said we're just going to pick him up, not force him to be Shampoo's husband! That kiss of marriage thing is total bullshit! Making us fight our cousin isn't something we're going to do either!"

Cologne bopped the two girls on the head. "Quiet you two! You are always doing these things! He's just a weak male anyway! He has no say in this and neither do you!"

"Well, deal with it! We're not going to help you anymore! All of you have always been like this! It's always the 'weak males' that have no say in anything! You just don't get that both genders have their own good points and bad! We've had it with all of you and your archaic laws and thinking!" the two twins shouted at her. They then ran to the other side and took up stances next to their cousin. Everyone stared at them in amazement, particularly Kohran.

Cologne is even emitting a red battle aura, a very big one even. "For this you two will be thrown out of the tribe!"

"So what like we care!" Red Bean shouted.

"Yeah! We quit!" Green Tea agreed with her sister both of them glaring at the elder.

"Red Bean, Green Tea you two are…" Kohran began.

Red Bean just chuckled at her. "Don't worry about it cousin. We've been meaning to do this for a long time, just that we never found the right time or situation to do it in. Besides, you always helped us when we were kids."

Green Tea smiled at her. "Yeah we should repay you back for all the things you did for us. After this consider us even."

Cologne pulled in her battle aura and motioned for the others to prepare for the fight. "So you two are going to fight against us. Consider yourselves cast out of the tribe."

"Good riddance!" the two yelled back her.

For a few tense seconds the two groups just stared at each other. Then with an unseen signal both sides charged at each other. Then the beachside battle halted to a stop when the sound of a bomb going off went through the air. Turning to where the bomb blast came from all the inn girls felt their hearts stop. The inn that has been their home for years, the only real place where they had ever felt like a real family, is going up in flames.

"The inn!" the inn girls all shouted out.

"You girls go! We'll handle things here!" Ranma shouted to them as he continued his charge. They looked a bit reluctant, but went anyway.

"I'll help out!" Molly yelled as she directed her hoverbike towards the burning building to make good use of the water cannon she had made.

"We're coming too!" Red Bean and Green Tea yelled as they followed their cousin.

The Sakura girls and Molly went off to the inn to save it from the flames, leaving Ranma and his group facing the Amazons in a free for all battle.

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At the burning inn –

When Sakura and the others girls got to the inn they saw Becky, Shiori and Reni fighting against what looks like a biker gang armed with glowing melee weapons. Becky and Shiori are surrounded and Reni is trying to keep them away from the two younger girls with her rapier.

Reni and Shiori are making good use of their sword skills in fighting off the bikers whose weapons are electric clubs and blades (3). Becky is wildly swinging a wooden stick at the bikers attacking her, more like taunting her as they circled around her. Their leader is a big man with a metal left arm. He's dressed in a black leather biker outfit like the other bikers but isn't wearing a helmet. His face is very rough and they can see that he went through a lot of fights by the damage to his face. His cruel eyes glinted when he turned to them.

"Boys! Looks like there's some more of these lasses! Get them!"

Sakura and the others charged at the bikers who destroyed their home. Each of them paired off with a biker and hoped that their skills would be enough to take them on.

Lachette and Maria paired off with a strange duo. One is a big fat guy wearing body armor and armed with a riot shield and a MP5K and a tall thin guy also wearing body armor and armed with two claws on each of his arms. Maria took on the fat guy while Lachette took on the thin guy.

Orihime took on a sword swinging biker. Kohran using her energy cannon she had grabbed when she passed her thankfully undamaged workshop and with Molly backing her up with her hoverbike is taking on two of the bikers armed with clubs. Kanna using her fists took on the biggest biker there. Red Bean and Green Tea took on two bikers who are also using clubs. Becky and Reni each took on ones who are fighting with swords. Sumire is fighting against a biker using two twin swords and Sakura's opponent is the leader.

"Who are you?" Sakura yelled as she swung her sword to block an incoming metal fist.

The man just leered at her as he fought off her attempts to kill him. "Names Hammer Fist. We were hired to take Ranma Wild and kill anyone we find little girl."

"So why did you destroy our inn?"

"For the fun of it," Hammer Fist grinned cruelly.

"WHAT? YOU BASTARDS?" all the girls yelled.

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At the beach front battle –

Ranma is fighting Cologne one on one. He knew that she had held back at lot when he was still living in Nerima, but not this much! She's pressing him back as the two fought each other with great intensity. If he had fought against her many months ago he would have been out of this fight in seconds, but thanks to his battles in the other world and training he did with the others he had lots to dish out on her.

"Not bad son-in-law," Cologne yelled as she blocked Ranma's sword with her staff. She couldn't believe how much Ranma had grown since he left Nerima. She had expected him to be better fit and better skilled, but not as much as this! He will make a great asset to the tribe as soon as they can enslave him! That sword of his is something else. She had tried breaking it with her ki-enforced staff, but it didn't even crack. 'What is that sword made out of? Doesn't matter, it will be ours once he is under our control!'

"I'm no longer your son-in-law you old ghoul! None of your laws means anything to me!" Ranma said coldly as he blocked Cologne's attacks with ease. In fact as time progresses he got better and better at blocking her attacks.

"You're just a weak male! You have no say in this!" Cologne shouted out. Her blood's boiling. She had never had to fight this hard against a weak male before. It doesn't matter if he had defeated both Herb and Saffron, he is still a male and therefore inferior to her!

"Weak am I? Then why are you sweating so hard then?" Cologne is breathing heavily since he's not holding back and using his runes to fight. He's surprised that the old ghoul could even keep up with his enhanced speed.

"I'm just getting started!" She made a chi ball that's very similar to his Moko Takabisha, but much larger and more powerful. "Take this!" She shot her hands forward releasing her attack.

Not impressed he decided to end this fight for good. The blood red part of his rune flared brightly under his bandanna. "HAND OF CHAOS!"

He shot an even bigger beam of energy that completely snuffed out hers. Cologne saw her long life flash before her eyes just before it hit her head on. She summoned every bit of her ki and every defensive technique she knew to defend against it, but failed. When it's over she fell onto the sand limp, severely burned and out of action.

Ranma took deep breaths to calm himself. He felt bad…that she survived! The old ghoul may have taught him some of his most powerful techniques, but they don't ever make up for all of the crap she and her granddaughter had done to him. She had never had any respect for him except for that one time he beat her with the nekoken or the laws of his country. She's always going on about how her village's laws are more important. How can one tiny village's laws be greater than a whole country's? How can she and her people justify killing someone because they had been defeated in a fight if they are of the same gender as you and marry you if they are of the opposite gender? How stupid and archaic can she be? That's murder and rape, yet to them they act as if it's everyday life. Instead of treating him with kindness to win his affections they would rather take the easy way and just control him with spells and potions. What do they want, a willing participant or a zombie?

Finally he regains his calm and his rune also returns to its faded out state even though he never noticed it flaring or anything at all. Looking around he saw that the others are taking care of the other amazons that had came with her.

Tina had grabbed both of Shampoo's maces and crushed them with her hands. Shampoo, shocked at seeing her favorite weapons crushed like coke cans, had left herself wide open and Ranko took advantage of that. She jumped over Tina and kicked HARD on her face sending her flying back and into dreamland. Then they turned to the other Amazons and sent them flying as easy as they did with Shampoo. The two of them have always been at his fighting level.

Fred and Rico are back-to-back fighting off a few amazons that have surrounded them. Fred blocks their attacks his shield and sword as Rico took them out with her hammer. Showing that all of their training they had done in their team work is really paying off.

Chris and Kasumi are handling the ones by the waterfront showing that they are well above the Amazon's fighting level. Chris' sword fighting skills have really gotten better as she's disarming the amazons facing her before knocking them out. Kasumi is using her ninja and fighting skills that she learned from her clan's school and knocking out amazons left and right. Any that tries to even punch or kick her is grabbed and was either pinned, thrown or just plain pounded.

Kodachi and the ninjas are taking care of the ones in the tree line. Kodachi and Sasuke are using her paralyzing powered to stop the attacking Amazons cold in their tracks. Kodachi is using her ribbon to ward off any that gets too close to her while Sasuke who was never much of a fighter was running from any that came for him. Ayame and Watari are making short work of the amazons they're facing since fighting in a forest area is right up their alley.

Then hearing a loud explosion he saw a small group of amazons running for their lives. Rally and Minnie are using their modern day weaponry and the Amazons found that their hand-to-hand weapons are no match for theirs. Rally is firing rubber bullets while Minnie is throwing her weak but really painful bombs on them. If the amazons get too close to them then Edge would send them back flying with the Zodiac sword.

Since there are only a few of them the fights didn't last very long. In fact, only a few minutes had passed since the fight started.

He walked towards Viki who had just defeated an attacking Amazon with a head swing from her staff. She had learned how to fight with her staff so she wouldn't have to rely on her magic all the time. "Viki, can you please teleport back to the temple and get grandpa. He needs to be here when they wake up." He indicated the amazons that the others are pulling towards Cologne to pile together.

"Okay, Ranma. Take care!" She kissed him deeply before teleporting back to the temple.

He then turned to the others. "Can you please take care of them? I need to check on Sakura and the other girls."

Hinako is just leisurely cleaning her fingernails. She didn't have to lift a single finger at all. "Sure. Leave these girls to us." She took out a coin and drained them of their energy, ensuring that they won't be getting up anytime soon. Ranma nodded and took off to the inn to help out the girls there.

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At the inn –

Molly and Kohran took care of their opponents by using Molly's hover bike engine to super charge Kohran's energy cannon. It shot a super charged energy blast at the two bikers, sending them flying back and out of the fight. Then Molly got started on putting out the fire with her water cannon.

Kanna is having a hard time with the big brute she's fighting. He's taking all of her best punches thanks to the heavy body armor he's wearing. He grabbed her arm and swung her into a tree. Her whole body hurt as she slides down to the ground. She needs something to take him out NOW! But he then kneels down and grabs her neck, choking her to death. She started grabbing for anything close at hand as her vision was starting to go black. She grabs onto two coconuts that fell when she hit the tree and slammed both of them into the biker's head. She kept on hitting him with the cocoanuts till they broke on his head, but by then he's out cold. She shook her head and tried to recover a bit. Then seeing that Reni, Becky, and Shiori are in trouble with their opponents she forces herself to pick up the big biker and threw him into two of the bikers attacking the other girls. The third biker turned to charge her, but got knocked on his head by Becky slamming the wooden pole she had at the top of his head and knocking him out.

Orihime quickly took care of the biker she's fighting by melting his sword with a fireball. While he's stunned she swung her chains at his head and knocking him out. Turning to help the others she saw Red Bean and Green Tea in trouble. They couldn't get close to the bikers they're fighting thanks to their glowing weapons. Creating two fireballs in her hands she threw them at the biker's weapons melting them. The bikers dropped their weapons when they got too hot to hold onto. Then when they looked up they only saw the incoming kicks of Red Bean and Green Tea knocking them both out.

Maria and Lachette aren't doing well with their opponents. The fat guy's body armor and shield are strong enough to withstand the bullets that Maria is shooting at him. She could only shoot at him when he's reloading his gun and she's running out of places to find cover. The thin guy is too fast for Lachette to keep up with. He drives in and out slashing out with his claws at her. She tried to throw her knives at him but he's too fast for her to hit. When he's fighting head on she barely manages to fight back with her combat knives.

Sumire and Sakura are likewise having trouble with theirs. The guy with the two swords is pushing Sumire back. Sumire's weapon gave her more power and greater reach, but his swords gave him better attacking and defending speed. Sakura is fighting her hardest against Hammer Fist but she couldn't get by his metal arm, especially when he pulled out a machete to fight her with. He used his machete to fight and his metal hand to block with. She couldn't power up her sword since he won't let her get a reprieve to find her center. Sakura had to watch out for both of his weapons and she saw that her sword is starting to get dents as she fought him. She felt stupid when she realized that's what he's been planning the whole time. He's making her hit her sword on his arm and making it break under the pressure.

Ranma arrived at the inn and saw all but four of the attacking bikers were down. He didn't know who they are but they're messing with his friends and that makes them the bad guys. Knowing that he needed to take them out fast he decided to use an old move that he hasn't used for a good while.

"Girls get out of the way!" The girls seeing him all ran out of his attack path. They hid among the trees expecting him to beat the bikers to an inch of their lives.

They weren't expecting him to start taunting them.

"Hey you stupid ugly apes, over here! That's right, I'm talking to you you overgrown baby! Aww, are you going to cry? That's okay, go ahead, cry like the babies you are! Go run home to mommy!"

"WE'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THAT!" all four of the remaining bikers screamed. They all attacked him at once trying to simultaneously skewer and pound him. He just dodged around their attacks by using his Gale Rune to go faster than they are as he led them around in a spiral.

Sakura and the other's faces dawned in horror when they saw the action. "Is he nuts? We have to go back and help him!" Sumire screamed. Then are about to charge back in when Yun stood in front of them and stopped them.

"No! Don't! I recognize what my brother's doing! It's one of his special attacks! Quick, find something to hold yourself down with!" She and Molly ran to the nearest tree and held on as if their lives depended on it. Molly also grabbed onto her hover bike leaving the inn to burn.

The others and even Becky are confused at their actions but did so anyway. What kind of attack would need for them to hang onto a tree for?

They found out a second later. "Hiryu Shoten Ha!"

A giant tornado suddenly appeared around Ranma. Hammer Fist and his crew even the ones out cold are tossed and turned inside the tornado as Ranma stood in the center. The winds are so strong that it puts out the flames destroying the inn. Sakura and the others screamed as they held on tightly. The bikers for a good ten seconds are tossed around like rag dolls until the winds finally relented and all of the bikers fell down unconscious. All but Hammer Fist and the three of his crew that were still standing as they were thrown into the sea.

Everyone's eyes, even Yun and Mollys, are opened wide in shock. Even though the two kids have heard of it they still couldn't believe how powerful that was. As for the Flower Inn's residents, well, shocked would have been an understatement.

Ranma dusted himself off as the winds had blown up quite a bit of sand. He noticed the girls are all staring at him in shock. He walked over to them as Tina and the others arrived with the amazons all tied up.

Jones inspected one of the bikers. "Ranma, who are these people?"

He looked over his shoulder as he walked over to the girls. "They're the ones who blew up the inn. Please tie them up so they won't cause any trouble." Jones and the others nodded as they did so. Hinako also drained them of their energy as well.

He approached the still shocked girls and proceeded to check out their injuries. As he's checking over Reni she and the others snap out of it. "W-w-w-what was that?"

Ranma finished checking the silver haired girl and sat back as he explained to them. "That's one of my old moves that the amazons taught me. Hehe, sorry about that"

They nodded accepting it. Then Sakura and the others finally looked at what is left of their home. They started tearing up and Sakura, Iris, Reni, Sumire, Orihime and Lachette grabbed onto him and started crying. The force knocked him down.

"Our home! Our home is destroyed!" they sobbed. The only ones not sobbing her eyes out are Maria and Kanna. Still they had tear tracks going down their cheeks. Her two cousins are consoling Kohran and Kanna is looking around the remains of the once beautiful resort and looking for anything that survived. Ranma's group felt sorry for them and some went to help Kanna while the others stayed to watch the amazons and bikers. Ranma's girlfriends didn't even mind when some of them latched onto him. While they too miss their homes at least it is still intact.

Maria stalked over to the only one that is still semi-conscious and pointed her gun at him. "Alright, who sent you guys?"

The biker just chuckled. She scowled and hit him on the face with the butt of her gun.

Hinako walked over to her. "Tell us what happened here."

Maria then went over what the bikers had said during the fight, all the while the tears never stopping. "Damn, Neclord must have hired them," Hinako said.

Maria frowned. "Neclord?"

Ranma nodded from the group hug/sob session. "He's the one who sends out the monsters in Shibuya. We've been stopping him every time he does so. Now he's trying to kill me and my group so we'll be out of the way."

"The inn is in ruins," Sumire sobbed looking over the burnt out shell of the inn as she clutched to Ranma's waist and drenched it with her tears.

"Our home," Iris sobbed from under Ranma's arm.

"Girls, it's all my fault. If I didn't come…" Ranma began, but is cut off by Sakura.

"No, it's not your fault. It's this Neclord that's the culprit. He's the one that's going to pay for this!" Sakura yelled from the prized location of his chest.

"Yeah, there's no way we're going to let him or his monsters get away with this!" Kanna shouted from the pile of things that were left undamaged.

Kohran approached him with her cousins in tow. "You've been fighting him right? We're going with you." She said with a fiery gaze.

"Yeah, we're with you cousin!" Red Bean and Green Tea said. Since they're cast out of the tribe and wanted to see more of the outside world they're going to stick around with Ranma's group. From what they've seen it's never boring around them.

"Girl? You mean you want too…?" Ranma couldn't believe that these girls are going to join up with him like that. It shouldn't be too much of a problem for him to rebuild the resort and he told them that.

Reni shook her head from under his other arm and raised her head to look at him. "Besides, there's something about you that makes us want to be with you," she said with emotion.

"It's like you were always meant to be with us. You came in here and changed us forever. Even if you say no we'll follow you anyway," Lachette said from around his neck and all the other girls nodded with her.

"But the danger that you girls will be in! These guys are nothing compared to what we usually go up against!"

Orihime shook her head stood up from the arm she had grabbed onto in her grief. Her eyes are red and puffy from crying, but she possessed the same fire he had seen in Kohran. "Forget it Ranma. We've all made up our minds. We're going to be with you no matter what. Besides, we've seen how you handle things and we have gotten to know you these past two weeks. You will make a great leader. Remember, we're demon hunters too."

Ranma sighed in resignation. "I just hope you girls know what you're getting into."

"RANMA! YOU HAVE SOME EXPLANING TO DO!" shouted all of his girlfriends as they towered over him with huge raging battle auras. Ranma gulped. Oh boy, he's in trouble again. He again asked the question he's been plagued with for many years. 'Why me?'

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City of Shibuya –

The moon is shining over the Shibuya police station as police officers, Core units and soldiers surround it. They didn't want to take any chances with the delivery they are going to make tonight. The crime lords that are part of all of the monster attacks are being transported from Shibuya to an army base to make sure there are no breakouts. Two helicopters are stationed nearby. One is grounded being refueled as the other is flying around the building the crime lords are being housed in while the escort is being organized.

Sakeo is at the top floor of the station working in one of the small offices there. She's making sure that there are no screw-ups in the paperwork. Crime lords such as the ones they are holding are experts at using them to be set free so she's making sure there are no loopholes for any of them. Also she's making sure that there isn't anything that the crime lord's lawyers could use against them when they…

Thump!

A heavy, hollow vibration rattled through the ceiling making the lights in the small office tremble. Sakeo reflexively looked up as she gripped her handgun. There's nothing to see but wood and plaster and the sound didn't repeat itself.

Sakeo stepped into the hallway wondering if anyone knows what that sound was. The cops working the desks outside and the other offices are all out in the hallways looking up at the ceiling. With the same question running threw all of their minds. Turning her attention to the door going up to the roof Sakeo step to…

Craa-ack!

She froze and heard a massive splintering of wood followed by the thick, ponderous steps of someone who must be huge moving through the stairwell past the door. The sounds are deliberate and thundering making sure that any who heard it are terrified.

'Guy must weigh a ton and…oh GOD!' as she saw the door in front of her rip apart.

The biggest man she has ever seen stepped into view, shadowed by the thin haze of dust drifting through the hall. He's dressed in a long army-green overcoat that only emphasized his size and is as tall as an NBA star. Actually the man before her is taller but with the proportionate bulk. A thick utility belt is wrapped around his waist and though she didn't see any weapons she could feel the evil and violence radiating off of him in invisible waves. She could just make out his sickly white blur of a face, the hairless, sloping skull. Sakeo is certain that he's a monster, a killer with black-gloved fists, each big as a human head.

'Shoot! Shoot it!' Sakeo screamed in her head as she held up her gun.

Sakeo aimed but hesitated, terrified of making a horrible mistake. It took one massive step towards her on tree-trunk wide legs and she heard the crunch of denting wood beneath its booted Frankenstein feet. She saw the black eyes, black rimmed with red like lava-filled pits in a misshapen white boulder. Blank but not at all blind, his gaze found hers and he raised one meaty clenched fist, the threat unmistakable.

"It's Mr. X from Resident Evil 2! Kill it!" one of the young guys that played the games shouted out.

She finally got over her shock and fired away at the hulking monster joined by the rest of the cops that have guns with them. But as with its counterpart the bullets aren't even stopping it as it walked right through the wall of bullets. With a sweep of its massive fist it knocked Sakeo into a group of cops behind her knocking them all down. Grabbing a nearby desk the hulking monster threw it into another group of cops crashing and breaking their bodies as the heavy desk struck them.

Getting back up Sakeo saw that Mr. X as it's called tearing up the rooms. Bodies are flying through the air as it swung and punched them out of its way. Grabbing a female cop by her leg he used her like a club knocking away several other officers out of the way before throwing her at a guy standing in front of a window of one of the offices. The force sent them both through the glass window.

Sakeo ran for one of the fire alarms on the floor and pulled it down setting the alarms off all over the building and making it known that something is wrong up here. Looking back to the action Sakeo just managed to duck under X's massive fist as it imbedded itself into the wall where the fire alarm was. One of the male cops tried choking X while its right arm is stuck in the wall halfway to its elbow. But reaching back with its free left arm X grabbed the guy's head and threw him out through one of the windows to the streets below.

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Down below –

Ryo and Kaori are overseeing the transport when two bodies suddenly came through a window from the top floors. The bodies landed hard on a parked car destroying the roof and the windows. They and a few others nearby ran up to it. The two bodies are that of a man and a woman, the woman's body being severely damaged even though it landed on top of the man's body. Then the fire alarm for the station came on. Turning to the building they could hear the faint sounds of gunfire happening around the top floors that they didn't notice before. Then another one of the windows shattered as another body is thrown out of it. The body slammed down onto another one of the parked cars in the street. The car's hood became extremely dented as it broke under the weight of the man. Ryo already knew that guy is already dead. His neck has been bent in an unnatural way.

Then the sounds of the approaching helicopter that has been flying around the building roared through the air as it hovered near where the man was thrown from. A blaring searchlight snapped on from the midsection of the hovering bird and scrawled across the building to the broken window.

Ryo stared up to where the man fell from. He then he heard the sound of a weapon discharge to his right. A look of horror dawned from his face when he recognized that sound.

Shhhh-

A line of colored smoke streaked towards the hovering helicopter from somewhere on the roof of the two-story building near by. 'A surface to air bazooka or a rocket launcher!' Ran threw Ryo's mind.

BOOM!

"NO!" Kaori shouted, but the sound is lost as the missile slammed into the helicopter and exploded. Kaori numbly noted that it had to be a heat rocket to do the damage it's doing as the helicopter spun toward the station, tilting badly to one side, fire spouting from the shattered cockpit.

Ryo grabbed her arm and yanked jerking her off her feet, pulling her out into the yard as a high, climbing, whining noise blew over them, the burning helicopter stuttering into the station as the two huddled behind one of the armored police vans.

The burning helicopter crashed into the police station. Flaming chunks of metal and stone and wood showered down on everyone on the streets as it plunged through the roof of the lobby. Like the voice of destruction Ryo and Kaori heard the triumphant scream rising above it all.

Turning their attention to where the rocket came from they froze at what they saw. It stood between seven and eight feet tall, humanoid, its shoulders impossibly broad, its arms longer than they should have been. Only its hands and head are visible, the rest of its strangely proportioned body clothed in black except for what appeared to be tentacles. Slightly pulsing ropes of flesh that is only half tucked under its collar, their points of origin unseen. Its hairless skin is the color and texture of badly healed scar tissue. Its face looked as though whoever had designed the creature had decided not to bother and instead pulled a too-tight sack of torn leather over its rudimentary skull. Misshapened white slits for eyes are set too low and separated by an irregular line of thick surgical staples. Its nose is barely formed. But the dominant feature by far is its mouth, or lack thereof. The lower half of its face is teeth, giant and square, lipless, set against dark red gums. In its right arm it carried a rocket launcher that had a rocket clip on it and taking a wild guess it still had at least three rockets left in it. In its left arm is a six barrel gatling-gun fed by the big ammo pack on its back. It held it with one hand that would have taken a normal person both just to hold it up.

Ryo's normally unflappable personality took a nosedive at that point and he started shaking. "I-I-It's Nemesis!" Ryo shouted out with fear. He had played the games to familiarize himself with all of the monsters and even reading the paperbacks of the games. Players that he had met told him of how hard it is to kill Nemesis in the game. He would show up every now and then and try to kill you. Your only choices are to either run, which is hard to do, or face him of and hope that you have something really powerful to face him with. It that thing is here then they will need all of the heavy firepower they have get just to put him down. This he knows from personal experience playing Resident Evil 3.

Nemesis lifted the rocket launcher onto its shoulder and fired it at one of the army trucks that had weapons and ammo in it. The truck's supplies are for the police station since they needed heavier firepower to deal with the monsters. The soldiers that were near it were all blown away when the rocket hit the truck. It created a huge fireball going up to the night sky. Ryo, Kaori and everyone else ducked when bullets and explosives set off by the fire went off. After the hail of bullets passed Nemesis jumped down from the roof of the two-story building it was standing on down to the street below.

Ryo is about to fire at it when he saw the gatling-gun that Nemesis held was starting up. Grabbing Kaori again Ryo took off for cover behind one of the armored vans just as Nemesis started firing away at the people outside the station. The bullets tore apart everything they hit tearing through bodies and vehicles with eases. Everyone with a gun started firing at Nemesis as it fired upon them.

But the firepower they're giving out isn't enough to bring him down as it fired its launcher again. This time it aimed at the grounded helicopter blowing it up and the fuel tank with it. The flames from the blast zone spread through the street as the fuel lines underneath the street blew up along with the blast. The pools of fire coming up from underneath the street and a monster out of a video game firing away at the police and army troops in front of the burning station it's like something out of an action movie and news vans that are around the station are getting all the action on film.

Then a big truck drove into one of the four way stops stopping so that the street is blocked off from that way. Then the cargo box the truck had in the back opened up on its side. Inside of it is a host of monsters that Ryo knew from the fight from the mall. Flying down upon the people down below are a half a dozen Dacs.

Then the true blood bath really got started.

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Inside the burning station –

Kotobuki was in his office when the fire alarms started up. He looked around wondering what's going on when he finally noticed the faint sounds of gunfire above him. Then he felt the whole building shuddering when the helicopter hit the building.

He stood up from where he had fallen on the ground and got dazed from hitting his table on the way down. He shook his head and reoriented himself. He's only been knocked out for a few seconds it seems. Then he heard the sounds of gunfire from beyond his office door and the sounds of people dieing and tortured screams came froth. Kotobuki quickly pulled out his gun, a Colt that Ryo had giving him, from a drawer of his desk and made sure that it's loaded and aimed it at the door.

He almost shot the person that barged in his door. Lt. Wen holding a nine-millimeter putting in a new clip as she quickly shut the door behind her. Before she closed the door Kotobuki saw that the station is in chaos as a group of Lickers are attacking everyone in sight. He also saw Gunner and Afterburn walking pass the door that leads to the hallways. Gunner is firing away in front of him and Afterburn is setting the station on fire.

Lt. Wen put her back to the door, a totally terrified expression on her face. "Kotobuki, the station is in chaos! Most of the hallways are filled with those monsters and looks like Neclord's enforcers are here too! They already blocked the hallway to the weapons rooms and all we got to fight them with are these nine-millimeters!"

"Great! Just great!" Kotobuki screamed as he opened up a nearby large cabinet and took out a twelve-gauge shotgun. He grabbed some shells and put them in his pockets for later. "They're probably here to free the crime lords we got locked up. I'm going to go down to the basement where they're being kept."

"But sir! What about the Lickers up here! They're tearing up the place!"

"I'm leaving it in your hands," Kotobuki said as he walked to the front door. "Look in the cabinet. It has some guns that Ryo was keeping here. Tell the survivors on this floor to grab something and fight!" Kotobuki pumped the shotgun up before heading out. He ran to the hallway blasting three Lickers that tried to jump him on the way.

Closing the door Lt. Wen ran over to the cabinet. Inside in plain sight is the stainless steel answer to at least one of her recent prayers; Six Colt Pythons .357 Magnums, six-shot with a swing-out cylinder. Along with it are two more twelve-gauges, a M16 and her god sent a US M79 grenade launcher with a handful of fat 40mm cartridges. Tons of ammo for the rest of the guns are stacked high on one side as well. Looks like the City Hunter may be a dirty man, but he pulled through this time.

Grabbing a colt she got a plan in her head. Opening the door Lt. Wen aimed for the closest Licker and blew its head clear off. She shouted out, "Everybody, there's heavy firearms in Kotobuki's cabinet! Grab something and let's get these guys!" The cops that are close to the office ran in behind her as she gave them cover fire. She only hoped that the other cops on the other floors are holding their own.

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Sakeo is running down the halls as the sounds of fighting got worse. She had made a run for it when she saw that her HP wasn't going to stop Mr. X. She needed to get a better firearm before it's too late. The only reason she had it is that the HP she has had a laser sight on it for better aim. She just hopes that they would be able to stop these monsters before it's too late.

The corridor dead-ended at a door that felt hot to the touch. Mentally crossing her fingers Sakeo opened it since it's the only path left. She stumbled back as a wave of acrid smoke washed over her, the smell of burnt metal and gas thick in the heated air. Looking at its source it's the burning helicopter that had crashed into the building leaving a gaping hole where the windows were. Bodies blackened by the fire littered the room. Then she heard someone shooting a gun.

Crash!

A body of a young female officer flew into the burning room. Sakeo ran to her side but stopped when she saw that she's already dead with a broken neck. Then she turned to the smashed doorway. "Mr. X!"

But the hulking creature walking into the room isn't the same. It's humanoid, giant-sized and hairless like the X monster. Its flesh similar, an almost metallic dark gray, but it's also taller and more muscular. It's built like an eight-foot-tall bodybuilder, rippling with muscles. It's wearing a pair of tan overalls and heavy boots and the hands aren't human hands, they're far more lethal. Its left fist is a metal-spiked mace bigger than her entire head, its right hand a hybrid of flesh and curving knives, two of them at least a foot long. From the blood dripping down from its hands she knew it had already used them.

'We need bigger guns,' she though randomly as the monster turned its cataract-white eyes to look at her before throwing its head back and roaring, an explosive howl of bloodlust and fury.

Terrified but determined Sakeo raised her suddenly pathetic weapon as the hulking creature started walking towards her and put the red dot on its right un-color eye. She squeezed the trigger…

…and heard the dry click of an empty chamber, deafeningly loud even over the raging winds that spun past the damaged wall left by the downed helicopter.

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The streets below –

Ryo and Kaori who gotten separated are now fighting for their lives. These monsters are stronger than the ones that attacked the mall and harder to kill. Knowing the best way to bring one of those monsters down is by taking its head off Ryo aimed for the monsters head or eyes to bring them down. Kaori had grabbed a MP5K from one of the fallen Core members and is firing away at the monsters as they tried to get her.

All around them monsters out of video games attacked the armed law enforces. A cop in a bloody uniform is fighting off a Licker with his shotgun using it like a club since it had run out of bullets. Another cop blew off the head of a Hunter only to be hack into bits by a Gamma Hunter. A Bandersnatcher is brought down by the combine firer power of three soldiers. A Core member is firing away at the monsters in front of him but is picked up by a flying Dac lifting him up. He turned his gun up and blasted its face cleaned off only to drop to the ground below. A soldier is decapitated by a Hunter as another is dog piled by a pair of Lickers and cut apart.

Kaori is about to fire upon them when she saw something coming at her. A wave of malodorous darkness, an impression of shining black claws and hard, ribbed body like the exoskeleton of some giant insect ripped the air inches from her face and would have hit her if not for her stumbling, a step backwards. She tripped over on her own feet and fell watching in horrified amazement as something flew over her upturned face, leaping nimbly to the wall on her right, and continued to run sideways, clinging to the turned over van in a skittering gallop. Awestruck, Kaori tracked it as far as her head could turn, flat on her back, watching as it agilely pivoted on at least three of its legs and dropped to the ground.

She might have simply waited for it to come for her, unable to believe her eyes even as it slashed one of its six, long-bladed legs across her throat, except that it screamed and the trumpeting, triumphant whine that erupted from its inhumanly curved and bloated face is enough to get her moving.

In a flash, Kaori rolled into a crouch and opened fire on the screeching, running thing, unaware that she's screaming a low, raspy cry of terror and disbelief as well. The creature faltered as the rounds tore into its brittle flesh, its limbs flailing wildly, the quality of its shriek changing into a howl of furious pain. Kaori only stop firing when she had blown the thing's head off.

Then she heard a second scream as another one of those bug things attacked her. She couldn't turn in time to aim, but thankfully it's blasted back by the heavy firepower from Ryo's gun as a bullet struck its body. It tried getting back up but Ryo stopped that by a bullet to its head.

"Kaori! Are you okay?" Ryo asked as he ran to her side.

She got back up a bit unsteadily with a bit of help from him. "Yeah, I'm fine, but what were those things?"

"They're called Brainsuckers. We need to take care of these monsters before taking on Nemesis."

"How many are left?" Kaori asked as she grabbed a clip from a dead soldier.

"About two dozen or more, I think," Ryo said firing at one of the monsters that got too close.

Nemesis was tearing through the Core's troop line as it used the last of its rocket, taking out the barricade that they had set up. The gatling-gun is cutting through everything it's aimed at. The firearms being used against it aren't enough as it just walks through the bullets.

Trying to think of a plan Ryo saw that one of the patrol cars is still in working order. Running to it Ryo saw that its engine was still running. Getting in Ryo drove the car at high speed at Nemesis. Nemesis turned his gatling-gun at the incoming car filling it with holes. Ryo seeing that the car is fast enough jumped out of the car as it slammed into Nemesis. The car smashed into the monster and drove right into the fire where the refueling station is still burning. The car blew up as it entered the fire, and Ryo hoped Nemesis with it.

For a few seconds everyone cheered at finally beating the huge monster, but then Nemesis came out of the fire worse for wear, but still alive. Its clothes are in ruins and its tentacles are swinging around in the air through the holes in its clothes. Ryo knew that he's in deep trouble as Nemesis walked over to him.

"Ryo, get down!" Kaori yelled out as she fired a rocket launcher that she picked up from one of the army tucks. Ryo dove for the ground as the rocket flew over him and straight at Nemesis. The rocket stuck in front of the monster causing the ground to open up underneath its feet and fell into the sewers down below.

Ryo stood up as Kaori ran to him. "Thanks Kaori. Now let's get the rest of these monsters!" he said as he fired at a Hunter, bringing it down as he aimed at its head.

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Sakeo is running for her life as that Tyrant is chasing her down the hallway. After finding out that her gun was empty she had made a run for the door behind the monster. She got lucky and was able to run away down the path she came and turned to another hallway. She tried slamming and locking doors behind her but all that did is buy her some extra seconds as it easily smashed through the doors to get to her. Sakeo needed a plan to get this thing off of her back.

Then the Tyrant smashed through the wall in front of her. The hallway she had just run through is a U-shaped one so the Tyrant just smashed through the wall in front of her. Looking for anything to use as a weapon Sakeo spotted a metal writing board that someone must have dropped when the attack had began.

She raised it up in front of her as it swung its mace hand at her. The force of the blow sent her flying back and the metal board that she tried shielding herself with had shattered from the blow. She crashed through one of the doors in the hallway and into the office behind it. She knew that the only reason that she's even still alive was that the metal board had taken the blunt of the blow. But she already knew that she's already dead since the Tyrant would make sure of that. Then a voice spoke up, halting the Tyrant from finishing its work.

"Bloodsmash. Come, it's time for us to go."

Looking through the doorway the Tyrant named Bloodsmash is walking to where she saw Stab. She recognizes him from the videos they had from the ball massacre. Sakeo wondered why he's here. Then it hit her, the crime lords! They had come here to get them out from their cells. Then she felt new pain overtake her body. She lost track of the light, darkness pulling her down.

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Kotobuki pressed his back to the wall as he peeked from behind the T-shape hallway's corner. He had fought his way down to the jail cells passing by dead bodies of cops as well as the monsters attacking the station. He had already taken out three Hunters of both types, two of those rudder arm things as well as eight Lickers and three of those bug things. He's down to 6 shotgun shells and then he would be down to the Colt. He's saving the Colt for the bigger monsters that he's sure to meet.

Looking into the jail cells Kotobuki saw that his worse fears are true. The jail cells are in a full brutal firefight. Neclord's enforcer monsters are making short work of the cell house guards. The whole attack was just so that Neclord could free his lackeys. Afterburn, Spindrive and Gunner are shooting up the lower parts of the jail floors and Faceless and Jestbomb are handling the upper floors while Nails is letting out the crime lords out of their jail cells. He looked around but he didn't see the pumpkin headed monster anywhere.

Then hearing a noise behind him Kotobuki turned and just managed to duck under the ax swing from Jack-O. He raised his shotgun at him but Jack-O swung at it, pulling it up sending the blast to the ceiling. Then with a powerful punch Jack-O sent Kotobuki sliding down the hallway. He still held the shotgun in his hands as he had held onto the gun as he flew threw the air.

Getting back up Kotobuki saw Jack-O running at him. He lifted up the shotgun and blasted Jack-O back, but he knew that a blast of shotgun pellets wouldn't be enough to bring him down. He also knew that the shotgun shots might have gotten the attention of the others. Still feeling the pain in his chest where Jack-O had punched him he made his way up the stairwell.

Staggering up the stairs Kotobuki saw some towering hulk walking down the stairs. It's wearing a long coat like that Tyrant. Then hearing the door behind smash open and Jack-O came on swinging his ax at him. Kotobuki leaned back on the guardrail as he saw the swing coming at him. He went over it as he saw the blade of the ax go over him and fell to the fourth floor of the basement. He felt himself hitting the ground then darkness overtook him.

When he woke up again he saw Ryo kneeling next to him. "Good. You're still alive," Ryo said in relief.

"What about the crime lords?" Kotobuki asked hoarsely, his body still in pain.

Ryo shook his head. "They're gone. They got away."

"Those monster and in such large numbers, we're in deep trouble now," Kotobuki said as Ryo nodded with him.

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Back at the beach –

After an explanation of his 'relationships' with Sakura and the others, with said girls forming a protective ring around him so that Ranma's girlfriends wouldn't kill him, Ranko and the others had calmed down with a lot of reluctance. While they had gotten to know them over the time they've been here that doesn't mean they'll give him up that easily. Everyone then helped with the recovery of items from the burned inn. They were able to get most of the girl's personal items, thankfully most of it surviving, and also a few of Ranma's groups own things. They then all sat down as Jones proceeded to wake up Cologne and the Amazons. They planned to take the bikers back to Shibuya to be locked up. They'll have to take the steamboat since the yacht that Ranma hired wouldn't arrive until tomorrow and the phone lines are destroyed, not that there's even a phone left anyway.

Cologne soon woke up wrapped around with ropes. She looked up at Ranma who is holding onto a sleeping blonde woman (Maria had finally broken down when she saw her mementos of her parents were destroyed and she sobbed onto Ranma's shoulder until she fell asleep) and scowled. A mere male has beaten her again! Without the nekoken this time! She growled at him and is about to break out of the ropes to charge at him when an old man walked into her line of sight.

"Hello Cologne. It's been awhile," Jones toned formally as he stood over the old woman.

It took her a few seconds to recognize the figure. "Jones? Indiana Jones? What are you doing here?" Cologne asked puzzled.

"That's not important. What is important is that I want you to stop harassing my great-grandson," Jones said with a cold voice.

"What? We haven't been in contact with any of your family in decades." Jones merely pointed at Ranma. She made the connection when she saw their blue eyes. "Ranma's your grandson?"

"Yes. He's my great-grandson like I said. I would appreciate it if you stop this hunt to get him into your tribe."

Cologne snapped the ropes holding her and stood up, furious. "But he defeated my great-granddaughter! He's her husband by our laws!" she shouted. Her shout woke up the other amazons, but stayed still to watch. Maria also woke up in Ranma's arms but didn't leave as she too watched.

Jones did not back down at all. "If it wasn't for me getting you Amazons help in World War 2 your lands wouldn't BE your lands right now. I was the one who got the US Air Force to attack that supply base of the Japanese Army so they would forget about invading your lands. If it weren't for me your people would be SLAVES or BREEDING STOCK to them right now to put it lightly. Your people had killed too many women who had come near your village and ENSLAVED men if they had somehow defeated one of your warriors, and if not KILLED THEM!"

Cologne met his angry stare with her own much more experienced one. "Yes, but our laws MUST be fulfilled! He is Shampoo's husband and that's final!"

"You still have an honor plague to fulfill to me for my help and I'm calling it in now," Jones growled. "I want you to drop the 'Kiss of Marriage' AND the 'Kiss of Death' and leave my grandson alone from now on. Or do you Amazons with all your big talk of being honorable can't back it up."

Cologne scowled at Jones for a long time, and then growled, "FINE! The two kisses are null and void! However, that doesn't mean we can't take a slave and breeding stock!"

She suddenly ran past him and everyone much to their surprise. She took out a veil as she ran to where Ranma laid on the ground with the blonde woman. She flung the contents at him. All the potion needs to do is touch his skin and he will be a slave that answers only to her or Shampoo.

Everyone got startled when she practically blurred. They saw her run to where Ranma is and fling some sort of pink liquid at him. They recalled her words and became terrified.

Ranma would have jumped away except that Maria is on his lap. He had no time to do anything else but cover her as the liquid went straight at him.

However, just before the potion hit him Fred appeared with his shield and blocked all of the liquid heading towards him. Cologne is about to knock him away except that a gun is suddenly thrust in front of her face. Then an assortment other weapons are pointed at her neck. The other amazons moved to protect her, but are drained by Hinako and the other's weapons are pointed at their necks as well.

Maria had been surprised as well. She didn't have time take out her gun to stop the old woman. She felt Ranma engulfing her, leaving his back exposed. Luckily Fred stepped in and stopped whatever it is from hitting her friend and partner. She went around him and Fred's shield and pointed her gun at the old woman. She stared coldly at the one who had tried to hurt Ranma. "I don't know what that liquid was, but no way is it touching him." She pulled back the lever for emphasis.

Jones had his gun pointed right at her temple. "That was the most disgusting I have ever seen you do! If I ever see you or your people again I won't hesitate to kill!"

Cologne scowled. "He is too valuable to give up! He defeated Herb and Saffron and even myself! We need his genes in our tribe! Our laws must be fulfilled! Our laws have served us for over three thousand years! It has never failed us before and I will not see it fail here!"

Green Tea spat at her. "Bullshit! You want his genes because you think that he'll give you strong children that you'll use to conquer the other two kingdoms in our…your valley!"

Red Bean also spat at her. "Yeah! The amazons have always been trying to conquer the other two races, but with people like Herb and Saffron being with them you never could! Try growing up and learning to share! Jusenkyo is used by all three races, not just you!"

Cologne growled, but soon she sagged. "Fine. We will go now. I will explain to the council what has happened here." She turned and started back to where she and the other amazons came from towards their boat.

Shampoo wouldn't give up that easily though. She somehow found the strength to stand up staggered to where Ranma had stood up. "But Ranma, Shampoo loves you. Why you no love Shampoo?" she said with tears in her eyes.

Ranma stared coldly at her, the blood red part of his rune glowing again. However, he forced down the hatred he felt with a lot of effort. There's no need to spill blood today. His rune also went back to its original state, although it looked like it fought it the whole way. He knelt down to where she had fallen in front of him and looked her in the eyes. "Shampoo, you see me too much as a prize to actually 'love' me. When we first met you chased me down through a whole country to kill me. You even chased me down to MY country to kill me. That soured me to you. Then when I defeat you as a guy you turn things around by wanting to marry my guy side and kill my girl side. You LIVE right next to Jusenkyo! You should have figured things out as soon as you saw my guy side, yet you still continued to marry me or kill me depending on my gender!" he said to her coldly. She's crying a river of tears now and he felt his heart soften. He sighed. "Shampoo, do you want to know the truth?" She nodded as she continued to cry. "All those potions, all those spells, all the tricks you have used on me wouldn't have mattered if you only did one thing; be nice. You saw how Akane treated me every day. If you had only been nice to me, treated me with respect and as a friend we would probably be in your village now raising many children together. All you needed to do was be kind and understanding, that's all. Yet you went the easy way and tried to enslave me rather than befriend me. If you haven't noticed that's just how Mousse would act." She gasped, never seeing it that way, but he continued on. "That is where you went wrong Shampoo. How can you expect someone to love you when you are trying to FORCE him to love you. I'm sorry, but I can never love someone who treated me like a prize to be won. Learn from this experience when you try to find another husband."

Shampoo looked at him with tear filled eyes then took off for the junk ship, crying the whole way with her heart broken. The other amazons also staggered away back to their ship. Everyone watched them go. When they went too far to be seen they sighed in relief.

The biggest sigh came from Ranma. That had been draining. He turned to Fred whose ship is still dripping of whatever that liquid was. "Thanks. That thing is probably a love potion or something."

Fred just waved it off and proceeded to clean his shield off with some water from a bottle. "Sure, no problem. You've told us before about them so we should have expected something like that."

Everyone said his thanks to them. A mind controlled Ranma, complete with an all powerful rune, is not something to be trifled with. Jones then turned to the inn's girls. "Ranma, what about Sakura and the other girls? They are coming with us right?"

Ranma nodded. "Yeah. They said they want to help kill Neclord for destroying their homes. I figure that we can buy one of the houses next door to the temple since they moved out when they got tired of the reporters. We'll be bringing along Red Bean and Green Tea as well."

Hinako nodded. "Good idea. Everyone, let's gather up what's left of the things and the bikers and go to the steamboat. No use waiting till tomorrow for the yacht to pick us up. We need to drop off these bikers with the police anyway." She kicked one of them for emphasis.

Everyone gathered their things (including a few of Kohran's inventions) and went to where the steamboat is docked. They haven't explained EVERYTHING to Sakura and the other girls yet and they can't afford to do it here so they can't just teleport away. They can't speak of it until the bikers are in jail in case they might overhear something. They also had a hard enough time convincing the girls that Jones had been able to get here by speedboat that dropped him off.

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Later –

Everyone had put their things on the boat and secured the bikers so they won't be in any trouble. Iris is about to start the boat when a shout interrupted them.

"Hey! Wait a second! Stop!"

Sakura and the other girls froze in terror when they recognized the voice, especially Iris and Reni. They got off the boat and faced the panting middle-aged man with a suit and briefcase.

Sakura stepped up to him. "Hello Mr. Suginami! How are you today?" she asked him politely. However, anyone can tell how stressed out she is. Iris hide behind the legs of Maria as Reni did the same with Kanna.

Mr. Suginami got his breath back and stood up with a triumphant grin on his face. "Well, well, we meet again. I've just been to your 'inn' by the way." All the girls paled while Ranma and his group wondered what is going on. "Tell me, what was our agreement for letting Ms. Chateaubriand and Ms. Milchstrase stay with you, hmmm?" he asked with a sneering attitude.

Sakura hesitated, then she said nervously, "If we keep the inn open you will let the two of them stay here. If it's closed down or anything then…"

He beamed in an evil way. "I will take them away! That was the deal, and I only LET the deal pass because of the reputations of your parents and your grandparents. Now, since you have to way to produce an income you are not fit to take care of these two kids. I always knew you and your friends would screw up one of these days. I don't know how the inn blew up and I don't care." He motioned for the two kids to come with him. "Now, you two come with me. There's a nice orphanage waiting for you."

Iris and Reni held on to Maria and Kanna's legs. "We don't want to!"

Orihime and the others stepped in the way as well. "Yeah! We'll find a way! Some people blew up our inn! It's not our fault!"

Lachette fetched one of them and dropped him in front of the social worker. "See! These guys were the ones to blow up our inn! It's not our fault so you shouldn't take them away!"

Mr. Suginami just snorted. "It doesn't matter. You still have no present way of getting an income, therefore they will have to be put in an orphanage for now." He reached for one of Iris' hands, but got stopped by a hand on his wrist.

Ranma looked at the older man coldly. "You won't be taking either one of them today."

Chris came to his side as well. "It was not their fault so you shouldn't take the two kids away for the actions of another group."

All of Ranma's group surrounded the man saying their agreement as Sakura's group watched in astonishment.

Mr. Suginami looked a bit nervous, and then he faced down the one who originally stopped him. "You have no business in this! Stay out of it!"

Ranma just frowned at him, making the older man's knees knock together in fright. "All you need is someone who has a good income and is responsible to take care of the two kids, correct?"

He nodded. "Yes. As you can see they have no way of doing that."

"They will eventually end up in an orphanage where they will be put up for adoption won't they?" Iris, Reni and the others gasped when they figured out what he's planning.

He nodded again. "Yes. Why? Planning to adopt them yourself?" he asked with a bit of a sneer. He didn't look like he has money.

Ranma nodded. "Yes. I want to adopt Reni and Iris to be my daughters. Sakura had already told me about the troubles Iris has had with the government trying to take her away. I didn't know about Reni, but that doesn't change my mind anyway." Ranma's group also nodded, especially Ranma's girlfriends. They wouldn't mind if they would have the two kids as their own daughters after they marry Ranma. They had gotten to know the two kids, especially after Ranma had been able to get them to open up more. They liked what they found about the two kids. Reni and Chris already even share the same hair color.

Mr. Suginami snorted. "Who are you anyway? How can a kid like you take care of children anyway?"

Ranma frowned. "My name is Ranma Wild."

He snorted again. "So? That doesn't mean squa…t…to…me... Wait, you mean THE Ranma Wild?" The man looked more closely and sure enough it's the hero of Shibuya alright. The black bandanna and pigtail and the sword at his side is a dead giveaway.

Ranma nodded. "Yes. If you want I will take this to court. I will NOT let them be taken away from me or the others."

Mr. Suginami shook with fear. This is THE Ranma Wild! No way is he messing with someone with that much fame and fortune! Hell, the kid has a whole CITY routing for him! "N-n-n-no need to! J-j-just sign these papers and they're all yours!" He hastily took out a pen and a bunch of papers out of his briefcase and handed it to Ranma.

Jones went to Ranma's side and read over the contracts as well. He gave his advice to his grandson, deeming the papers okay. Once he signs this he is effectively Iris and Reni's father.

Iris and Reni approached him. "Oniichan, are you sure about this?" the two girls asked nervously.

Ranma looked down at the two girls and smiled warmly at them. He handed the papers to his grandfather for a second and knelt down so he's facing the two kids at eye level. "Only if you want me to do it. Do you want to be my daughters? You won't be separated from Sakura and the others, I promise, but I DO want to adopt the two of you into my family. Please?"

The two thought about it for only a split second before nodding enthusiastically. "Hai papa!" The two girls swarmed into his arms.

Ranma felt a warmth he thought he would never feel when he was called 'papa' by the two girls. He had never felt so happy before. Only when he held his girlfriends or his sister in his arms had he ever felt this content and happy before. This is how it must feel like to be a father, and he loved it. He felt a new love blossom in his heart for his new daughters who he had been thinking of as his little sisters like Yun is until now. A few of the females started crying at the touching scene. After a while he disengaged from them and proceeded to sign the papers.

A few minutes later Iris Chateaubriand and Reni Milchstrase became Iris and Reni Wild. Mr. Suginami thanked him and walked away back to his own boat.

As the social worker walked away Ranma got swarmed into the embraces of a bunch of females, both Sakura's group and his own girlfriends and his daughters. Sakura and the others are murmuring thank yous while his own girlfriends are praising him for what he did. In the background his great-grandfather had never felt so proud of him before and the others gave their congratulations as well. Yun is also in the crowd of females hugging her big brother exclaiming with great happiness that she's an aunty much to the amusement of the others since she's the youngest out of the three of them.

Soon they boarded the boat again and headed towards Shibuya, some to get back home while others will be arriving at their new home with their new leader, their friends, one VERY special friend, and to two girls their new father's home that is now their home as well.

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Next time – Ranma finally faces off with his parents and the two remaining Tendos. And pig-boy has come to get Ranma but he entered the wrong door and finds himself in deep trouble as the girls have a big bone to pick with him. And the dirty old pervert faces off with Ranma. And what's this Neclord has come out to play.

Author's/MadHat886 Notes –

1 – Got them from Magic Play.

2 - Got them from Trouble Chocolate.

3 – Think of the weapons used in Jackie Chan Adventures.

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