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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.
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Chapter 28 – Bonding
The sounds of two swords clashing together rang out in the training hall of the center building of Brass Castle. The four of the six knight's watch along with the knights not on duty as their captain fought with her daughter. Since the attempt on Maria's life Chris has taken Reni under her watchful eye since the attacker is someone that's in the Howling Voice Guild as they're the only ones besides Reni and Maria use guns. Salome was currently looking into all of the leads into who shot Maria as he looks over the reports on the Harmonian Army.
"You're holding the handle too tight loosen up your grip," Chris said as she spots what Reni was doing wrong in her sword skills as she blocks one of her swings. She's been training Reni in how to swing her sword the right way since she saw that Reni is using that lance of hers too much and not spending enough time with her sword skills.
Reni loosens her grip on her rapier as she swings again at her mother in a side swept. "Spread out your legs when you try a power swing and remember to swing with your hips with side swings not with your arms you get more power that way," Chris corrected as she blocks Reni's attack again.
Reni jumps back as she looks at her mothers stands trying to see an opening in her defense. "Reni remember that you need to keep up an offence when you back away like that or you open yourself to a attack. Make sure that you don't forget that you have a slight advantage with your speed and smaller body sizes to me but you don't have to power to take me head long yet. Remember use your head when fighting someone stronger then you are use your speed if you can move fast and keep an eye on the type of weapon they use. It will tell you if they're fast attackers or power hitters but always be on the look out for the weapon users that are a blend of both speed and power," Chris said seeing that Reni had let herself wide open.
Reni powered up as she launch herself at her mom in a power charge but Chris just jump to the side and gave her daughter a slap on her butt with the flat side of her sword as she rush by. "When you do that make sure that you don't telegraph what you're going to do or you get something worse then a slap on you rear," Chris said as she face a burning red face Reni rubbing where her mother had hit her.
Looking around Reni spots a small round shield on one of the weapon and armor stands in the training room. Strapping the strap onto her wrist she turn back to her mother as she now has a defensive and offensives tool to use. "Well now you're thinking getting a good defensive tool while maintaining your advantage with your quicker speed," Chris said as she saw that Reni is using her head, "Remember that some people will have more defense power or attacking power depending on what type of weapons and equipment that they use. It's a good idea to maintain a well balance of strength and speed. Make sure that you pick the equipment that works well with your kind of fighting style. Also be watchful for enemies with longer attack range then you the best way to deal with them is to get close to them to attack."
Reni attack again thrusting her rapier in rapid succession at Chris as she back away from her blocking each one of her strikes with her sword. Then swinging upwards from a downward block she cause Reni to break off her attack as she was force backwards leaving her breathless as she tries to recover from her attack, "Nice usage of your rapier in rapid stabs and with all of the training you been through your swinging speed has increase," Chris said, "But your father did show me how to deflect that kind of attack as he has done with mine when, I used it on him."
Reni found herself on the defensive as her mother used her Phoenix Rune sending even faster strikes at Reni then when she had done the same thing to her just moments ago. Reni move backwards fast as she could while blocking her mothers, strikes with her sword and shield. She couldn't strike back as the blows coming from her mom were too fast and powerful for her to switch to offense as there was no why she would last with that kind of power that's up against her. Then Chris final swing of her sword as she finished off from her multi-attack knocking Reni's sword away from her before she could recover from the onslaught, "That time you weren't holding your sword tightly enough. When you defend make sure you have a firm grip on your weapon when blocking," Chris said as she stared at a huffing and puffing Reni, "You're wondering why, I'm not out of breath like you when, I used my Rune like the move you used on me. Well your father taught me how to recover quickly from using a multiple attack. Now you're ready to give?"
"Sorry mom but like dad, I'm not going down till, I'm down and out," Reni said as she brought her shield in front of her bracing for another attack.
Chris just shook her head, "Reni from what, I heard from Ms. Hinako is that kind of thinking is what got him in so much trouble. He never knows when to stop or back down."
"Yeah but that's why you love him," Reni said as she shifted her weight to her front and rush at her mom using her shield as a battling-ram. Chris brought up her sword in front of her using it like a shield as Reni slammed into her with her shield.
Regaining her balance Chris was force back as her daughter swings that shield of hers like a club. Step-siding one of her mom's downward swings Reni slammed her shield on her mom's unguarded backside knocking her forward. Chris twisted around facing her daughter again as she recovered, "So you're using the same tactics that Red Bean and Green Tea use in their fighting styles," Chris said as she approve on her daughter changing her style when back into a corner as she would have to know how to use more then just her rapier and lance of hers, "I admit that when, I fight with them its hard to get pass their defenses. But that's only because when one defends the other attacks you on the other hand can only attack or defend at any given time."
"So what, I still can win this match," Reni said as she charge forward again but then her face turn to shock as her mom fell to the ground kicking her legs out from under her as she couldn't stop herself in time. She would have fallen to the ground but she was grabbed around her waist and lifted up as he mom carried her under her arm like a bag.
"Sorry dear but its getting late and, plus it's almost dinner time," Chris smiled at Reni.
"Mom!" Reni protested as she wiggled around her mothers hold trying to free herself, "I said to fight me for real!"
"Sorry but you're still my daughter and, I'm not about to hurt you," Chris said, "Try one of the other knights."
"Lady Chris the last time she did that you step in," Percival reminded her.
"Yeah when Leo hit her on her head with the flat side of his ax and when she started crying you threw that stool at his head," Borus said still bitter of that Chris has fallen for Ranma and that Reni still treats her as her mother.
"Well it's a mother's job to look out for her kids," Chris said still holding Reni under her arm.
"Yeah but you ask me to fight her," Leo said rubbing the back of his head where the wooden stool had hit him.
"I told you to train her not to hurt her like that," Chris said, "And with your kind of strength that blow, could have been very damaging to her head as she doesn't wear a helmet."
"Yup that's right!" one of the female knights said who's a mother herself.
"Yeah you don't hit a girl that young with an ax like yours it could lead to brain damage!" another one said as the females knights in the room sent glares to Leo causing the big knight to sweat seeing the angry stares.
"No wonder besides Chris that none of you of the Six Knights have any kids," a young female knight said.
"Yeah look at how they treat Louis imagine what they would do with their kids," another one said.
"Well, I'm not planning on having any kids anytime soon," Roland said keeping a calm face not letting what the female knights saying get to him unlike his fellow knights.
"Hey, Louis would you get Reni's rapier and also take her shield as well and put them in my room?" Chris asks looking at the kid in question handing him Reni shield that she had gotten off of her, "We need to wash up."
"Alright," Louis said as he grabs Reni's things and headed off to her room as Chris headed off to the baths.
"Reni really acts like Chris daughter," Percival said after Chris had left the room still carrying Reni under her arm.
"Well a family is the people that care for you and love you," Roland said.
"Yeah but how am, I suppose to train her if, I can't hurt her? Besides a scar here and there isn't that bad," Leo said causing all of the female knights to stare at him trying to burn holes through him with their glares.
"Putting a scar on a girl that young?" one of them growled.
"And ruin her good looks?" another said as a battle aura surrounded her and the rest of the women there.
"Get him!" one of them shouted and soon Leo found himself running for his life as a horde of angry female knights, chase after him.
"Well we won't be seeing Leo for awhile. Either he hides till the heat is off or gets caught by those ladies," Percival said watching the chase disappearing around the corner.
"I still can't believe that Lady Chris fell for Ranma," Borus muttered.
"Yeah all of the unmarried women are all into him as well," one of the knights said.
"The only thing that's holding them back is that the captain is his fiancée," another one said.
"And they're starting to put us by his stander when picking out a data," one of the guys grunted.
"Well Ranma isn't like most men that, I have met in my life," Roland inputted.
Percival look at Roland knowing that elves do live a lot longer then most other races, "How old are you anyways? I know that elves take awhile to show aging after they reach full maturely but, I don't really know what age that is."
"I'm hundred-eighteen," Roland answered.
"Really?" Borus ask as he didn't think that he was that young well young for an elf anyways.
"Yes is only when we elves reach around our late two-hundreds to three-hundreds of age that we settled down," Roland said.
"So how long do elves live?" Borus asks.
"Well the average age that we elves live is between five-hundred to seven-hundred years give or take but there have been some elves that have live to around a thousand," Roland said.
"So when you think those girls will catch up with Leo?" Borus asks.
"When we start hearing his screams," Percival answered.
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In the baths of Brass Castle –
Placing her clothes in a wicker basket off to the side, Reni squatted down beside her mother Chris and scooped a several ladles of hot water over her head and shoulders, washing off the day's dust. Several other female knights had joined them in the baths washing up from their patrols and training. Two women that she had gotten to know over the time she spent staying here had joined them also. Her mom had assigned two of her best female knights to act as her bodyguards when she wasn't around. There was Emma who uses a short stabbing spear and a large shield to fight with. She had dark skin since she came from the Island Nations and has short curly blond hair. She was almost flat-chested and her muscular body rippled with her every movement. And there was Wendy a brown haired mage who's powerful in Wind and Earth magic who uses a long handle war pick in battle. Her skin was is a shade golden brown and she had a fuller, rounder body then Emma does. The two get along with each other even if Wendy likes to rub the fact that she's bigger in the chest and hips area then Emma is and who could be mistaken for a man now and then.
Naturally, the communal bath room followed the same design philosophy as Japanese baths, it was the only thing that made sense in a country where people were expecting to travel for days or weeks without washing. Everyone stood around for a while, rinsing and washing while standing on the floor. Great rivers of dirty soapy water cascaded off all the ladies but by the time they were done and heading to the large soaking tubs, they were clean enough that they would not be making each other dirty merely with their presence. Sitting in the warm water Reni began thinking back to the last two days she has spent in Brass Castle with her mom. And also how it had reminded her that she was in a different world now as she's been mostly been in Winda since she had gotten here. Like when she had gone out to get a dress that her mother wanted her to get as she really doesn't have a single dress in her wardroom. She just likes wearing pants instead of wearing a dress but Chris her mother has already given her money for the dress saying that she'll wear it when they need to look at their finest for a ball or something.
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Shopping for clothes with her two bodyguards was well and truly enough to destroy any thoughts Reni may have had about the mineral content of the local currency. It was not that she was a clothes horse, fashion oriented or even a particularly keen shopper like some girls she knows. It was simply the difference between what is, and what was. "Prent a porte" or "ready to wear" clothes had only been introduced on Reni's home world about a century prior to her own birth as a standard within shops. Even then, they had not become common and accepted until mass production and population shortages during the Second World War forced their acceptance on the public. Of course, by Reni's time off-the-rack clothing was the norm, not the exception. Her idea of clothes shopping was walking past endless shops with infinite variety, then finding something you liked and searching for the right size.
Emma and Wendy quickly dissuaded her of that concept. In fact, they were as shocked by the concept of having clothes available and waiting for someone, as Reni had been with the idea that you would hand make, custom fit every single item. They had heard that their captain had been to another world but still they had the hard time getting use to the idea that people in their captain's daughter world that clothes would be just waiting for someone to buy them.
The home of the seamstress that her mom had told her to go to was only a short walk from the main fortress, as was to be expected with the tendency for businesses to be diversified throughout the walled in town in a homogenous manner. Wendy who's in front of the group began talking to Reni, "You'll like Mistress Lilly, Lady Reni. She's very good, and quite reasonable, too. She did the gowns for both of my sister's weddings. I came over here last night after we spoke to Lady Chris, and had a chat to her, so it should make things easier."
Pushing open the door, Wendy gestured for Reni to lead her into the well lit interior of the building with Emma following behind her. She had barely made it though the door and into the toasty warmth when a voice called out for the door to be shut. Jumping forwards so that Emma would not actually need to step on top of her, Reni realized just how warm the room was, warmer than some of the buildings that's she has been inside of in the fortress as kept. Looking around, Reni was amazed at the number of bolts of cloth that adorned the walls. She had been to a few haberdasheries and fabric shops in the mainland from the island inn, but Mistress Lilly's collection would have rivaled anything she had seen for quantity, and beat them hands down for variety.
"Ahh, you'll be Lady Jones that Wendy was telling me about then? My you're a young one, aren't you?" Mistress Lilly possessed what kind people would refer to as a generous figure. She also possessed a pair of the most calloused hands Reni had ever seen, and she had no doubt at all that the woman could sew all day long and not feel the slightest pain from gripping the needle or getting stabbed. Taking some wide steps around the girl, Mistress Lilly reached out occasionally to sweep imaginary cloth or lightly touch her waist or hips to see just where the body was underneath the clothes that Reni currently wore.
"I've got both my assistants in, and we can put off some work for the day, but I don't see any way we can have something right for wearing with royalty done by today. I'll work all night, and I'll get those lazy girls working too, but the best I can offer you is to have it by tomorrow morning. You can ask anyone else in the city if they can do it in time, but if they say yes, they'll be lying," Mistress Lilly explained to Reni.
"Tomorrow will be fine, thank you," Mentally Reni was trying to total up what bill for this dress would come to. Three dedicated people working on it all day and night? Did she even have enough money to cover the dress? But then her mother is paying the bill for the dress and she has the money for it. Besides mom could always just sit on dad's lap and asks him for some as she has seen her other mothers go and do that to him when they're asking him for something.
"Good. We'll need you here for as much time as you can spare, Lady Reni. If we're to do the fittings and measurements in a hurry, we'll save time if we don't have to fetch you." There was an expectant look to her eyes, which vanished into a broad smile when Reni nodded. Before the girl could explain she would be willing to sit and read while waiting, Mistress Lilly continued with the grace and might of a sailing ship.
"What color would you like?" Lilly asks her.
"Light blue if you don't mind," Reni said.
"Light blue... Light blue..." Lilly dug around for a while, moving bolts that were stacked against the wall until she pulled out one that was an almost perfect match. "How's this? It's silk, one of the best available. Wendy was saying you're the daughter of that Ranma fellow Master of Windia and your mother is Lady Chris so money isn't going to be a problem."
Gently running her fingers over the cotton, Reni marveled at just how smooth it was. Perhaps there was something to be said for hand making everything. "It's beautiful, Mistress Lilly."
"Good, good. And this will hang nicely for the skirt. Now just give me a moment." Placing the bolt to one side, the seamstress pulled out some parchment, a brush and some ink.
While Lilly worked over the design with swift, sure strokes Emma leaned in close. "Mistress Lilly is very good. She does the most beautiful work and she made the outfit that Chris wore to at the Anniversary Ball before she became Captain." (1)
As soon as Reni accepted the proposed design while the ink was still damp the seamstress underwent an instant transformation into an authoritative all-business mode. Reni was undressed in just a few moments, allowing her to understand why the room was kept so warm. A simple but very warm dressing gown was provided, but she could not put it on until Lilly had measured every possible length on her body. Being an Asian her proportions were slightly different from the typical Caucasian body type that these women around here like her mother resembled, but that did not pose any problem to the mistress of her trade.
The need for the excellent lighting was also made obvious quickly, since Mistress Lilly and her two assistants dived into the work right there, measuring and slicing material with almost reckless haste. Every few minutes Reni would be called up again to have another piece of cloth measured against her body in a process that seemed to take all day.
Somewhere during that time Wendy slipped out while Emma stood guard only to return with meals for all of them. By the time evening rolled around, the basic under-dress was nearing completion, as was the mass of petty-coats that would give her skirt its volume. With the main work progressing well on the dress, Lilly nodded her satisfaction and thanks to Reni and allowed her to leave for the night. "Be back early tomorrow. We'll have some work to do finishing things off, but if you come by just after dawn we should be ready for the final fitting and adjustment."
Admiring herself in the full length mirror, Reni marveled at how jealous her friends she has made back at Windia would be if they could see her now, truly, it was a dress fit for a fairytale princess. Well with her father a Master of his own castle so she guessed that she was one in a way. The dress was done in the fine silk that she had picked out yesterday, but Mistress Lilly had made several additions. The front of the bodice was done in high grade silk of just a slightly darker blue, as were the linings of several large pleats running down the wide skirt. Given the way the human eye was naturally attracted to movement and detail, the small areas of silk gave the impression that most of the dress was made of the expensive fabric, while in reality that was not the case.
Following the current fashions in Zexen, the dress came all the way up to her throat, and descended to just brush against the floor as she walked. Running her hands down the side of her bodice and then out onto the flaring skirt, Reni reminded herself to be careful of how much of Orihime and Mamie fine foods she eats. There was no elastic in the dress, it was simply cut to match her figure, meaning that she could not afford to let her waist or hips grow otherwise she would be wasting all the hard work that had gone into it. But she is still a growing girl and when she out grows this dress she will have to hand it down to Iris as she gets bigger as she grows.
And when she brought it back to the fortress and showed it to Chris… Well so now knows what some kids had to go through with their parents and her mom had pick her up and took her to the women's only area of the base to show her off to the other female knights. After that she had went back to their room and put on her fighting outfit and challenge her mom to a duel which she lost.
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"Reni…" Chris said breaking her line of thought as she's been washing her back with a washcloth as Reni sat in her lap in the bath, "So did you clean up the mess in our room?"
"Oh, I got Louis to clean it for me," Reni said as Chris dumps a bucket of water over her head.
"You shouldn't have Louis do your chores for you," Chris said as Reni shook her head like a dog after getting a bath.
"Oh come on Captain she's just getting boys to do her every bidding for her," Emma said.
"And that's what we girls do best," Wendy giggled along with the other women in the bath.
"Yeah she been having Louis doing odd jobs for her since she got here," Emma said.
"Reni is this true?" Chris asks looking to her daughter who was leaning her back on her chest with her breast rubbing against Reni's back using them as back pillows.
"Well, I'm just doing what you and the others do with dad to get him to do stuff," Reni said causing Chris to blush.
"So you have been using your female charms to get Master Ranma to do things for you," Wendy grinned at Chris.
"Well that's what my mom did with my dad and it always works," one of the women in the bath said.
"Reni you know that you're father isn't going to like it that you're into boys now," Chris smiled at Reni.
"Well…," Reni said returning the smile, "I'm sure that you can get him to see things our way." Both mother and daughter began giggling soon joined by the other women in the bath.
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In the meeting room of Brass Castle –
Salome was busy at the desk looking over paperwork for the work being done around the castle. He was looking at the forms for the new equipment that's coming in from Windia with the new equipment they're getting defending the castle from attack will be much easier. They have already set up the some trebuchets and place the three arbalests that was used at the last battle were place into set positions along the wall facing the plains.
They had started setting up for battle since the reports of one of the supply bases that Ranma has been setting up was attack and all of the defenders been killed. All of the supplies that were going to be sent to the outlining villages were all looted. All they found of the enemy that attack them was that they used crossbows during the attack from the bolts they found embedded in the bodies of the bodies of the defenders. They couldn't find any bodies of the enemies that had attack and all but the bolts were the only thing they could find of the attacking force. The enemy was smart enough to take all of the bodies of their fallen with them so that they wouldn't know who had attack them.
Ranma had contacted him after receiving the report of the attack to see what he can find out. He has been looking into every led that he could find but all of them came to a dead end. According to the reports he has read a transport unit was in the base at the time being led by one of Ranma's students he had hand pick to led it. So that meant that the attacking forces were much stronger then the Harmonian Army they had faced with. Or that Harmonian has sent out for the big guns in their army as they saw that they have to fight them for keeps with Ranma here.
Looking up from the parchment he was reading Salome reach from another form to read over when he saw he wasn't alone in the room anymore causing him to jump. But calm down after seeing who it was, "Watari what are you doing here?"
"Ranma sent me to talk to you. He's busy with the girls at the moment," Watari answered.
"Oh he's finally agreed to letting the other girls to sleep with him isn't he," Salome said as there was a bet going around on how long it's going to take for Ranma to cave in and let the other girls that are in love with him to get him to let them sleep with him. He doesn't like the fact that even with Reni calling Lady Chris her mother she still has to fight to marry him. And there was still his promise Ranma had made that he's going to kill Chris sooner or later.
"Yes they're still talking about the sleeping arrangements with Ranma," Watari said to him that show a hint of amusement in his voice but then turned back to his usually emotionless voice, "So you found out about who attack the supply base?"
"No all that we know is that the attackers used crossbow bolts with black feathers and all other clues burned down with the base," Salome said.
"How about the person that shot, Maria any reports on active 'Howling Voice Guild' members in the Grassland area?" Watari asks.
"Well using all of my networks, I can't find any trace of any Guild members in the Grasslands," Salome said as he has a very good network of informants throughout the Grasslands and into some of the near by countries, "How about you and your fellow ninjas? Came up with anything with your sources?"
"No, none of the informants have any leads. Ayame is trying to gather information but isn't coming up with any leads. Kasumi being one of Ranma's fiancées maybe a skilled ninja but still hasn't learn the landscape of the Grasslands let and is busy keeping an eye on the going ons in Windia. Lachette is working with Sumire in her new trading business that she has started up. And Sasuke well he's better off just in spying and setting up traps rather then doing any real ninja work," Watari said as he can't see why Kodachi keeps Sasuke around as a ninja servant. But he is very good at spying and setting up traps but that's all her has going for him as a ninja.
"Alright just inform me on any new updates," Salome said, "And when is the shipment of equipment will get here?"
"Well the wagon train left this morning so it should take about two days to reach here," Watari said before disappearing from sight.
"One of these days, I have to asks, how they do that," Salome said to himself before returning to work.
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In the Harmonian Army camp –
"So we attack the outlining forts and supply bases along boarders of Windia to get Ranma's forcers to attack us," Albert said laying out the plan.
"If we do that then we'll leave our rear wide open for attack from Brass Castle forces," Dio said as the reason why they didn't just march around Brass Castle was that they would be attack from the back from the forces inside of the walls.
"Yes that's why you well send some units to lay siege to the castle along with air support from the Mantor Riders to keep the defenders busy till our plan is fulfill," Albert explained.
Sasarai look over the plans that Albert had laid out, "There be many loses to our side if we do this you know."
"Yes but to get rid of Ranma this will be the price to be paid and once he's gone the rest of the Grassland forces will follow suit," Albert said.
"This plan will take awhile to play out as the reinforcements won't be here for a couple more days," Sasarai said.
"Well then you then better be planning on which units that you can afford to lose when the plan is set into motion then," Albert said taking his leave.
"I don't like this," Dio said after Albert had left the tent. He was use to having some of his troops dying on him but the way Albert acted it was like losing pieces in a chess game to him.
"Yes but if we're going to conquer the Grasslands we'll need to get rid of Ranma first," Sasarai said deep in thought as he wonders what's Anarchy is planning as he has seen his types of people before but never at the scoop before. Who knows what his ultimate goal is.
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In Lake Castle –
Ranma sighed as he leaned on the guardrail over looking the waterfront of the pier. He had gotten Little Viki to teleport him to Lake Castle for awhile till the girls are done setting up whose going to be sleeping with him tonight. Before he had left he saw that they had Martha drawing lots for them in the lottery for sleeping with him. Well at least with Martha there the girls wouldn't start fighting again.
"Hi brother," turning Ranma saw his three sisters Natsume, Kurumi and Yun walking towards him. He's been so busy with Windia that he hasn't seen the three of them for awhile now. But at least Yun is really getting to know their older sisters.
"Hi girls," Ranma said as he gave Yun a hug, "How's has it been going?"
"Fine," Kurumi said, "Been teaching Yun our branch of the school and she's been doing well."
"Wow really?" Ranma asks his youngest sister.
"Yup been doing real well," Yun giggled.
"So we haven't seen you in awhile," Natsume the oldest of the Jones siblings grinned, "Once little brother finds girls he has no time for his sisters."
"Well…" Ranma began sweating a little, "I been busy with work in maintaining the castle and filling out all of the paper works."
"And being naughty with your girlfriends," Yun giggled seeing her big brother face turning red.
"Yeah so how long do we have to wait for some nieces or nephews?" Kurumi asks pulling on her ribbon in her hair.
"Yes, little bro how long?" Natsume asks.
"Hi Ranma!" Thomas had come just in time to save him from his sisters. Following right behind him is Cecile with him as always.
"Hi Thomas, Cecile how are things here?" Ranma greeted his friend.
"Doing fine," Cecile answered.
"Brother having girl problems," Yun said.
"Tell me about it," Hugo said as he walks up to their group looking all rugged, "Lilly went and beat me up after this girl gave me a kiss for helping her with some boxes at Mamie restaurant. Then all of the sudden after she gave me that kiss Lilly went and jump all over me."
"There you are!" Hugo turned white as Lilly stomp over to him, "How dare you go and flirt with that girl in front of me!"
"All, I did was help her and besides it's not like were boyfriend and girlfriend," Hugo said pressing his back against the guardrail.
"So does that mean that, I'm not good enough to be your girlfriend?" Lilly asks with a mean face with her face right in front of his.
"So you're in love with Hugo then," Ranma said.
"What it's nothing like that!" Lilly shouted waving her hands in front of her.
"Sure then why are you blushing then?" Kurumi smiled at her.
"Yup this reminds me of Ranma life before he left his old life," Natsume asks.
"Better be careful with Hugo or you lose him," Ranma said to Lilly.
"Yeah and big brother knows all about girls since he has many girlfriends that fight over him," Yun said.
"Wow it must be rough to have all of those girls on you all of the time," Thomas said very glad that he wasn't in Ranma's shoes. He still smarts from the beating that the girls gave him awhile back.
"Indeed he does," said a husky voice.
Turning they saw a literal bombshell of a woman. She has long, flowing bright red hair that went down to her slim waist with bounce to it. Her lively green eyes captivated anyone lucky enough to look into them. Her skin is a healthy tan color and is smooth, soft, velvety skin, not a hint of a blemish anywhere and absolutely mind blowing to touch. Her high cheekbones highlighted a painfully beautiful face that could have graced the cover of any magazine. She is dressed in a very form-fitting blue leather body suit that emphasizes her curves. The leather suit left her slim limbs bare. She has impossibly long legs and has a firm muscle tone remained subtly hidden, only revealing itself when she stretched - not that anyone would still be conscious if they saw her stretching. She has very impressive, ample, over-developed breasts that seem to defy gravity and an even larger heart-shape rump and gorgeous thighs. The bodysuit is clearly filled out to its very limits so much so that it looks likes it's painted right on her. It especially looks painted on around the chest and rear area as she has her chest thrust out as her lower-back forward showing off her curves. She also wore a small white jacket; open in the front with dome-shaped shoulder pads made of metal. However, the jacket didn't cover much, merely accentuated her impressive chest. Matching white gloves, knee high boots and a white top hat completed the ensemble. With an aura that fairly screamed out "I'm hot!", she made sure that everyone got the idea, flaunting her 42-24-36 figure in front of them. Her figure had the perfect balance of toned fitness and voluptuous curves that most women would kill to have. She also held a strange looking sword that looks more like a key holding it in front of her firmly planted in the ground using it like a cane. (2)
"And, I thought that Ms. Jeane and Hinako were well endowed," Kurumi gasps as she saw the body of the sexy woman standing in front of them. Natsume nodded dumbly as she might not be as develop as her older sister but she was coming along well but this woman had them and the other girls she knows outgunned as she was the very image of the word stack.
Hugo jaws had drop and was staring stupidly at the woman till Lilly saw that and slap him to get him to stop staring at her. Lilly couldn't stand that Hugo was looking at that redhead bimbo like that. First it was that cute girl that works at Mamie's restaurant and the fact that girl was more develop then she is had nothing to do with it that she had punch Hugo after she had saw that girl kiss him. Looking down to her chest which hasn't grown that much as she had gotten taller she grunted a bit as she couldn't help that she's a late bloomer.
Cecile look down to her chest her hands cover them looking at Thomas who was blushing bight red just staring at the woman before them. She had a slight blush as she glance sideways at Thomas wondering if he was into girls with big breast like most guys she knows. Ranma was blushing as well as he knew that a sexy woman appearing out of nowhere didn't mean anything good for him. Yun on the other hand was wondering why the grownups were all staring at that woman for. Then one of her visions hit her and she knew who the person was and knew what was in store for her big brother.
"Hello there Ranma," the woman smiled, much like that of a fox who has found something tasty, "I'm Top Hat the eldest of the Hat sisters and second oldest of the family. It's time for you to fight me."
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Next Time – Ranma finally squares off with one of the three eldest of the Hat siblings. Can Ranma beat an opponent that's even more skilled in battle then he is? Also will, Tina and the others will kill him when Top's sexy female servants start warming themselves up to him and they want him to warm them up as well? And why is Top looking at Thomas like that for?
Author's Notes
1 – Look at vol.1 of Suikoden Manga for more information.
2 – Alright how many of you people need me to tell you where I got the sword from?
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