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!

44. Castle Battle!

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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 34 – Castle Battle!

Ranma floated above the place that he has finally gotten too. The center of Top's lands stood tall and firm as it towered above the landscape surrounding it. The Ranma was amazed at the incredible architecture. Huge stone columns were everywhere and the high-roofed buildings stood like proud monuments. The streets were all paved and smooth and there were fountains and/or huge statues or gardens at every major intersection. The city, itself, was absolutely huge and the number of people who lived here must be mind-boggling. As his eyes traveled up the streets towards the palace that stood in the center could only gawk at the magnificent architecture and beautiful splendor. There were water-ways ran all along the city and he could spot some boats being driven down the water-ways. Ranma guess that when Fight had told him how many servants that works for Top she meant the amount that works in the castle not the surrounding city.

The city itself had sprang up around the castles as Top's hobby of picking up women here and there in different worlds over the years had raise the number of people living in the pocket dimension that this world is place in and room in the castle had started to get champ. So Top had gotten a city built around the castle to house all of the women that she had been picking up. Now a large population of beautiful, busty, and shapely women now lived in the city that their mistress built. And since the no men rule was in place before the city was built most of the younger women who grew up in the city have never seen a guy besides their mistress's brothers when they visit her.

The castle in the center of the city was easily the tallest building in the city. All expect for the wall around the castle the entire city was open for anyone to enter or leave which meant that Top wasn't afraid of anyone entering the city and that they could handle any problem that came their way. The castle was something that Ranma had seen in movies and read in books he did hear about some grand castles in the other countries outside of the Grasslands but he hasn't seen them yet. It was built on several levels with towers and raising buildings. There were five main towers of the castle the four located on all four sides of the castles faces North, South, East and West. The main tower stood the highest top in the very center of the castle it was off with a glass dome over it.

"Well Top, I hope that you're ready for me," Ranma said to himself as he flew downwards towards the castle and end this game of theirs.

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Meanwhile –

At the very top of the castle in the central tower of the castle the mistress of the castle waited for her guest. The tower chamber was huge and looked more like a temple, with its marble pillars and smooth granite floor. The vaulted ceiling was a full fifty feet high and dappled beams of daylight shone down from above. The entire palace was cool and airy, two long pools lined the sides of the room helping to keep the room cool even in the hottest of summer days. Sitting on a chair that looks like it was craved out of the large tree that's in the middle of the room was the mistress of the castle. The glass walls allowed her to see the layout of the city that surrounds the castle on all sides.

A maid came up to her serving some tea when the doors open and Wendy came running in. She stops in front of her mistress and bow to her, "Mistress Top, Ranma has beaten the Meow, Meow tribe and is on his way here."

"Yes, I know," Top said drinking her tea, "I already told the guards to let him reach the castle unheeded."

"Umm what about the women in the city?" Wendy asks, "Once they spot Ranma they will give chase since they haven't seen a guy especially someone of Ranma's class for a very long time."

"Well Ranma is going to have to be able to sneak into the castle without alerting them won't he," she said with a knowing smile.

"Right but this is Ranma we're talking about," Wendy stated.

"Yup someone will spot him and a chase will take place where all of the townswomen go and try to catch Ranma till he makes it into the castle walls that is. You see, I told them that he's fair game till he reaches here," she smiled thinking of the fun she's going to have watching.

"So when you think they will spot him?" Wendy said but before her mistress could answer they spotted a large dust cloud coming out from some of the buildings. From her vantage point she spotted women all running towards where the dust cloud came from.

"Oh there's Ranma now," she smiled before Wendy could say something, "Wendy go and get everyone ready for Ranma get everyone to their stations. And as for you," she turned to the maid who serve her tea, "As for you tell the maids to keep an eye on Thomas and make sure he's kept busy."

"At once mistress," the maid said smiling as she left the room.

"I hope the damages won't be that big," Wendy said seeing a dust cloud going between the buildings this way and that way.

"Are you kidding this is Ranma we're talking about," Top said as one of the buildings was run into by the crowd and out the back leaving a huge hole where they had just went through. Leaving quite a mess in their wake as the clothes store would need a major renovations once the owner and her workers returned from the chase they have joined first. Her eyes shifted as someone appeared besides her, "Oh it's you."

"Yes, I would like to face with this Ranma fellow."

"So you're finally going to do some real work around here," Wendy said eyeing the newcomer.

"Well, I can't leave the castle grounds like you guys can."

"Alright when he reaches the room to this level show me the reason why, I keep you around," Top said to the person standing besides her.

"Don't worry, I will."

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In the city below a few minutes before –

Ranma had found himself running for his life as a horde of women were hot on his heels. He had tried sneaking around in the alleyways of the city to remind hidden from view. It was clear to him that he was the only guy in the city and he didn't want what happen when those pixies in the forest had spotted him. The last thing he wanted was a horde of women running after him. He had spotted more then a few werebeast walking around so which meant that if he uses the Umi-Sen-Ken then the weregirls would still be able to sense him and also there were those magical women that he saw walking around bothered him as well.

Finding a cloak hanging on a clothesline, Ranma wrap it around him and lifted the hood over his head hiding both his figure and face from view. He hopes that the people on the streets won't look too closely at him as he passes them. Calmly he walk onto the street making sure the he wouldn't bump into anyone as he did.

The women on the streets gave him little mind as he walk pass them. The werebeast women did give a sniff in the air as he passed them but they just snug it off. Ranma stop in the middle of a square as he thought of a plan to get into the castle. He sat down on the side of the fountain in the middle and began to think up a plan that won't get a horde of women running after him… again.

Ranma so lost in thought that he didn't notice two small girls who were short enough to peek under his hood. At first they really didn't know what they were looking at as they hadn't seen a guy for a long time not since Mad, Top's brother had set up that carnival for all of the kids in the city. That was the last time that they saw a guy, well their mothers did show them the pictures of their fathers who they had met in others worlds but besides that nothing else.

Ranma notice them when they put their hands on his right leg leaning on it as they stare at him, "Oh hi there," he smiled at them. They continued to stare at him for a few more minutes.

"Marry me!" the first one shouted as she tried to leap onto his lap.

"No me, I'll be the best wife ever!" the second one shouted trying to jump into his lap as well.

This got the attention of every woman around the scene as the two girls fought over who gets to sit in the lap of that cloak figure.

"Is that a guy?" one of the women asks.

"Smells like one," a she-wolf said as she got Ranma's scent. Then one of the girls managed to shake loose his hood as she tried to leap onto his lap much to the delight of the women around the area letting them get a good look.

"It's that guy on the billboard!" one of the young women said as their mistress Top had posted that a guy would be trying to get into the castle and if they manage to catch him. He would be theirs to use whatever they wanted with him… as long as it didn't kill him that is.

Ranma notice everyone looking at him as he was busy with those two girls fighting over him. Taking a look around, Ranma saw that all of the women were just staring at him with a predatory intensity while scarlet bloomed on their cheeks. He sweatdropped heavily seeing all of women around him staring at him like he was a piece of prime-cut meat.

'Okay, 'now' I'm worried.'

"Get him!" one of the women in the back shouted. As one they all started rushing at him wanting to grab him before someone else beat them to it.

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Back to the present –

Ducking under flying tackles and objects thrown out of windows at him, Ranma wish that he hadn't stop to think so he wouldn't be here now. Right behind him was a vast horde of male hungry women hot on his heels. Women with ladders now and then pop out of the houses trying to block his way but Ranma usually jumps over them or cuts through some buildings or alleyways.

Keeping his eyes towards the castle Ranma found himself getting nearer to it as he ran ahead of the mob. Scaling a building when he found himself in a dead end he thought he was safe for awhile till the beastwomen started climbing up after him and the flyers took flight. Hopping from roof top to roof top Ranma couldn't help but be reminded of the times he did this before to get away from the wrecking crew when they were after him in his old life. Taking a look back he saw the beastwomen catching up to him.

"Get him before he reaches the castles wall!" a catwoman shouted as she leaps after him.

"He's only fair game till he reaches the castle!" a monkey-tailed girl said as she threw banana peels at Ranma trying to trip him up. The peels cause more then a few of the others also giving chase to fall as they trip on the peels instead of their intended target.

"Thanks for the info!" Ranma shouted back to them, 'Now all, I have to do is to get over the walls and, I'll be home free from these women.'

"Gee thanks why don't you girls just give him a lift to the castle while you're at it," one of the women shouted at the ones that just told Ranma how far they could chase him.

'Almost there,' Ranma could see he was nearing the wall that separated the city for the castle grounds once there he's home free, "What the?"

"Get him!" the cry went out as a horde of women suddenly pop out in front of him using ladders and jumping up from between the buildings.

Seeing his way block Ranma aim downwards with his blaster towards the roof of the building he's running on. With a quick charge blast he made a hole and jump down it as the mob that was following him ran pass the hole as it happened so fast while the others in the back jump in after him. Running through the building Ranma slammed the door shut of the room he just crash into buying him some time. In the hallway he ducks around the women that tried to grab him coming out from the apartments when they step out to see what the noise was about. The apartment door he entered from broke open as the women from the rooftop came after him. Turning a corner he saw a dead end there was nothing but a window letting him see the castle up ahead.

Outside the building, Wendy watches as the townswomen were running into the apartment building. Some were using the hole that, Ranma made that would have to be repaired as well as all of the damages that this chase has cause already. The sound of breaking glass cause, Wendy to look up as, Ranma drove through the broken window. He landed in front of her and quickly leaped over her in one movement taking off to the castle gates.

The sounds of running feet cause her to look back, "Oh ho," was what she manage to say before she was engulfed in mob as they ran after Ranma.

Running at top speed, Ranma saw the castle wall coming up. Reaching a higher speed using the Gale Rune ran up the wall much to the surprise of the women chasing him as some of them could only run up the side of a wall a few feet before they fall back down. Once he was over the wall, Ranma could hear the protest from the women as they couldn't catch him now. Then he got a look what was in front of him in the garden where he found himself in and had a deja-vu.

There were thirty of them in all, women straight out from various of athletic clubs and sports teams by the look of them, each representing a different recreational pursuit and all of them smiling in anticipation as if this were the sort of sport they looked forward to playing, and with Ranma as their chosen opponent since they were all confronting him. (1)

"Ready to play, Ranma-chan?" one of these club leaders asked, a beautiful girl dressed up in a samurai hakama, wooden bokken at the ready.

"You got to be joking?" Ranma asked in a tired voice, "I see that, Top told you girls about what use to happen to Akane before we met."

"What's the matter, Ranma-chan?" a girl in tennis shorts asked slyly while fingering her racket, "Getting cold feet on us already?"

"Maybe you're afraid that one of us gets a good hit on you and we'll get to have a party with you?" said a girl bouncing a basketball up and down in regular rhythm.

"And all of us have been in training ever since mistress told us about you were coming here," said another pretty girl in a Judo gi, "So don't expect an easy time of it, because unlike those boys in your old school we work as a team." She gave him a wink, "We work really well as a team."

"What like a group scene?" Ranma winced hoping that none of the girls back home get any ideas, "You do know that, I already have more then enough girls after me back home?"

"Well that never stop more from joining the 'I went to marry Ranma club'," snickered a lovely young thing dressed in western-style fencing gear as she raised her foil in salute of her prospective opponent.

"And we're not going to give up a chance like this up," said another girl who was bouncing a soccer ball from one knee to the other.

"Yup no way," said yet another lovely blonde thing as she struck a pose in her cheerleader's outfit, "A hunky guy like you doesn't show up around here that often so we're going to beat you then have our way with you just like what mistress told us we could."

"What?" Ranma reacted in dismay, "Top Hat said...what?"

"Yup," a girl dress in fishing gear holding a long fishing rod across her back, "She went and told us all about you."

"And we know what to expect from you," a redhead in a kickboxing outfit said punching in the air.

"Um...did she mention anything else"" Ranma asked rather nervously.

"Not that, I can recall, stranger," said a lady in a baseball uniform as she balanced a bat on one shoulder, then paused to give Ranma a better study, "Of course she didn't tell us what kinds of moves you got just the basics."

"Not to mention how you like it in bed," a volleyball player cooed.

"So how you like it?" a gymnast giggled.

"None of your business," Ranma shouted causing many of the girls to giggle at him.

"Oooh...sounds very protective if you ask me, Ranma-chan," a hockey-clad girl mused while brandishing her wooden hockey stick.

"So are those girls of yours, 'good' at working together?" a girl in football gear asks.

"Maybe we ought to check these girls out after we get through working you over," a girl with a ball cap and a pool-table cue remarked, giving Ranma a speculative study before adding, "Besides, I haven't met a guy yet that's not a bit turned by some good old girl-on-girl action."

"Yeah unless…" a girl in a one-piece blue swimsuit said eyeing him as she was clapping her hand held paddles in her hands.

"Well that would explain why he doesn't take advantage of all of those girls that wouldn't mind if he acts hentai on them," a girl dress in a card dealer outfit said as she sent flying a deck from one hand to the other and back again.

"You mean he's…," ask a girl holding a bowling ball.

"Well that would explain a lot," a crochet player said fingering her mallet.

"Hey, I'm not 'like' that!" Ranma shouted.

"So you're just shy then," a girl holding a skateboard and wearing the protective gear said.

"We'll handle that!" a girl wearing gym clothes smiled.

"Let's get him!" a ballerina shouted causing all of the girls to rush forward at Ranma who was having flashbacks.

Wendy who had finally freed herself from the crowd had climb up the wall and now was gasping heavily as she rested on the top, "I knew, I should have join those fitness classes that Pan set up. Man, I really shouldn't use my magic to get around all of the time," Wendy wipes her brow with a napkin as she cooled off as she was force to run along with the crowd or get run over, "Now where's Ranma?"

"Ahhhhh!" a girl in a rollerblading outfit scream as she was thrown into the wall below Wendy.

"Oh there he is," the elf mage grumbled as she watches the action from up top the wall. Looking down she could see that a number of the girls were already down as the others continued to fight against Ranma.

Ranma was fighting off the leaders of the spot teams that are around the city. And was holding his ground as unlike those boys that use to fight Akane they were stronger and much better fighters and knew how to work as a team. A soccer player kick her ball sending it flying at the unprotected back of Ranma making him stumble as he fought off a female golfer clubs with his sword. Ducking the swing for a racket he grab onto the putter that the golfer was swing at him with playing tug of war as he dodge a baseball. Hearing a yell Ranma let go of the club and jump over the female football player as she did a flying tackle slamming into the golfer and sending them crashing into the crowd of girls behind her.

The bowler reel her bowling arm back and tried to knock him out with her bowling ball to his face. He ducks under her fist making her topple over him as she couldn't stop herself while holding her bowling ball sending her crashing into the hockey player. Seeing an opening in the crowd Ranma open hand hit the gut of a flying female wrestler and made a break for it. The reminding women quickly ran after him seeing their prize running off. Those with balls or throwing objects began shooting at him trying to stop him. The volleyball player strike her ball hitting Ranma's legs out from under him, "Got him!"

Ranma fell and rolled along the ground and leap back to his feet much to the dismay of the girls behind him. The only ones left from the sports group were the skateboarder, baseball player, volleyball player, the card dealer, pool-cue player, and the fencer were the only ones left standing in his wake. All of the others were spread out wherever they had fallen at.

"Well, I better get inside and tell the others to get ready," Wendy said as she teleports into the castle.

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Inside the castle –

Pan had assembled her team of Amazoness warriors in the room that leads to the room with the stairwell to the top of the tower where their mistress awaits. With them were the Magic Unit made up of the most powerful female Duel Monsters along with a host of female duel monsters that were summoned.

"Alright once Ranma enters the castle we'll all go to our places and wait for him," the dark elf shouted so that everyone in the hall would be able to hear her.

Wendy suddenly teleported next to her, "Ranma is being chase by what's left of the Sport Squad and should be here soon," the light elf mage informed her dark counterpart.

"Alright you girls hear that he'll be here at anytime so everyone to their places!" Pan shouted.

A loud war cry erupted from the crowd of females. All of them knew what would be theirs if they won and it's been so long since their mistress brought a guy besides her brothers here. They began filing out of the room when the only door leading out was block by their mistress's brother Mad.

"Mad what are you doing here?" Lum the oldest Harpie Lady asks as her three younger sisters stood behind her.

"Well seeing that Ranma been through so much in just getting to here, I decided to help him out."

"What you're going to fight us?" Dark Magician Girl asks as her counter parts all began powering up as there was no telling what to expect from him.

"Your sister won't be happy about this," Pan frowned but inside she was scared along with all of the others in the room. As out of all of them only their mistress has ever seen Mad without his bondage gear warp around his body. And they knew that once he's freed from them that he'll be a whole lot stronger.

"Oh me go and fight you girls?" he chuckled, "I wouldn't think of fighting any of you." Then the sounds of fighting came out from behind the door and sounded like it was coming closer.

"What's that?" Wendy asks.

"The backup," Mad said as he disappeared just as the doors flew open and one of the female guards came out flying from the hallway. They all step back as the armored figure walkthrough the dust that rose up when the door was smash open. All they could make out was that it's armed with a large shield and spear, fully armored but they could see was a girl thanks to the orange skirt it wore, they couldn't see the face since its helmet visor was down.

"WHERE'S MASTER THOMAS!"

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Downstairs –

One of the side doors of the castle burst open as Ranma ran into the castle followed closely from behind by what's left of the Sport Squad. He had to admit that if they would have fought Akane that she would have owe all of them a date under a minute after the fight as they're much tougher then the hentai squad back home. He was lucky that he manage to knock most of them out or lock their bodies with presser points when they had close onto him trying to use their numbers to beat him.

'It's a good thing, I know how to fight against a group now,' Ranma thought to himself as he looks back and saw the skateboarder catching up to him as she did have wheels to help her.

"You're not getting away from me!" she shouted as she crouch down on her board and did a running jump at him. When she got close to him in midair and grabbing her board from underneath her she swung it hitting Ranma off of his feet, then just as fast she got her board back under as she hit the ground.

"Nice move," Ranma said as he rolled back onto his feet.

"Well you fought the rest now you're fighting the best," she smirks at him as the others of her group caught up with them.

"Here's my fast ball!" shouted the baseball player as she reeled back and threw a sinker at him.

But this time he was ready as it came near him. Ranma swung his sword cutting the ball into two, "Alright come and get it girls!"

"With pleasure!" the card dealer shouted as her cards formed a whip as if the ends were struck together.

"All together girls!" the fencer said as one the rush at him.

Ranma block the overhead swing from the baseball players bat kicking her away with a front kick. The skateboarder rush at him on her board her arm stretch out as she zoom by hocking him on his neck knocking him down. He rolled out of the way as the volleyball player strike her ball sending it flying where his head was. Jumping onto his feet he found himself defending himself from the fencer and the pool player as they took swings at him. The pool player lunge at him with her stick but miss as he dodge to the side, quickly she grab the middle of her weapon and swung the heavier back end into Ranma's face. The fencer seeing an opening thrush her weapon for a wounding blow but was stop as Ranma grab her weapon bending it and kick her into a wall. The pool player swung at him but he blocks her weapon with his sword and sent her flying back with a open hand palm strike.

"Take this!" the card dealer shouted as she thrust her arms in front of her sending a stream of cards flying at him.

Seeing the swarm of cards flying at him, Ranma took off down the hall running ahead of the flying cards. The cards seem to have a mind of their own as they followed him wherever he went. Seeing that he couldn't lose them he twisted back and fired a Wave of Chaos at the cards burning them to nothing. As the smoke cleared the skateboarder burst out of the smokescreen Ranma took a sword swing at her but she block his blow with her board. Planting her feet she shoves him back and swung her board into his face. Growling Ranma saw her taking another swing at him tighten, his grip on his sword and slice her skateboard into two. Then before she could react he swung the flat side of his sword on top of her head knocking her out. He didn't have to worry about brain damage because of her helmet she wore.

Turning around, Ranma barely manage to dodge the baseball players bat as it crash into the wall he was standing next to. He was force back as she took wild swings at him with her bat. As she took a reeled back swing at him, Ranma kick her bat out of her hands and with his free hand punch her into her guts knocking all of the air out of her.

"Hey stud!" the pool player shouted as she threw an eight-ball up into the air and as he fell she reeled her stick as if she was on a pool table and strike the ball out of midair sending flying straight at him.

"Yipes," Ranma yelled jumping to the side as the pool ball imbedded itself deeply into the wall, "That was neat."

"Thanks, I call it the 'Flying-Pool-Ball-Strike'," she smiled as she lifted a great hand full of more pool balls showing him them before throwing them into the air, "Now here's the other nine!"

Ranma eyes widened as the balls flew at him leaving holes in the wall as they miss him. He couldn't believe that she was able to hit all of them with that stick of hers before they hit the floor. "Nice moves but there's a flaw in it."

"And what is that?" she asks as she hit the last ball… then she realized what the flaw was.

"It's that you can only do that as long as you have balls to hit!" Ranma shouted as he rushed forward dodging the last ball doing an elbow slam her knocking her, a couple of feet backwards.

Looking down the hall he saw the volleyball player striking her ball sending it flying at him. Gripping his sword he swung it like a bat using the flat side of the blade, when it connected he knock the volleyball flying back even faster then it had came at him. The volleyball girl couldn't get out of the way fast enough as the ball struck her right in the middle of her forehead knocking her into dreamland.

The female fencer who had gotten back into the fight was slowly sneaking up from behind him. Her foil maybe useless now but she can still grab him and let her last remaining teammate the chance to knock him out. She leap at him but all of the sudden his right arm flew backwards his fist hitting her wired mess protective faceguard leaving a dent and knocking her out.

"Well now…" the card dealer said as she held a handful of cards in each of her hands, "Time for the main event!" The cards all shot upwards making two whips of cards she reeled back and whip them at him.

Ranma jump to the side as the card whips slice through the marble floor as easy as if it was made out of paper. As one of the whips tired to stab him, making him dodge to the left as the other one flew straight at him. He brought his sword up in time making the cards slide off of his sword making sparks as it did. Turning to the other he cut the whip as it flew by him but the card whip just reformed as the card dealer had more cards up her sleeves.

'This isn't good,' Ranma thought to himself as he couldn't get close enough to her and cutting her card whips didn't do any good as they just grew back, 'Wait when, I train with Ranko and Orihime they have the range advantage with their weapons but, I do beat them most of the time.'

Thinking back how he defeated Ranko and Orihime when he fought them, Ranma thought of a plan. He beats them when they strike as they couldn't use their whips at close range and he rushes at them and tackle them down. (But that usually ends up in them making out.) Waiting till she whip her whips at him, Ranma powered up his 'Gale Rune' and darted forward avoiding the razor sharp whips closing in on her between her arms. Her eyes widened in shock as Ranma appeared in front of her then widen even more as his knee connected to her stomach making her fall to her knees before falling limply to the side out cold.

"Now where's Thomas," Ranma said to himself as he ran through the castle making his way to the main tower.

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At the bottom of the main tower –

"So he has gotten past the Sports Squad," one voice said in the room.

"Yes this, Ranma is much stronger then, I first thought," said the other person.

"We're going to have some fun with him."

"By the way weren't Pan and the others suppose be at their places?"

"Yeah they should have passed by us by now," the first person wondered.

"Where are they anyways?"

"Quite he's coming!"

The two metal doors open as Ranma ran into the room. His eyes traveled upwards as he stared at the spiral staircase that lead up to the main tower. Funny thing was that he didn't see any guards as he made his way through the castle besides those sports girls he had beaten.

"Well now what do we have here?" causing Ranma to stare upwards and his jaws drops and eyes widen and he felt a nose bleed coming.

There were two women standing on top of a floating platform that just hovered in midair. The first woman was an extremely pale skinned, tall, knock-out of a woman that reminded him of Jeane except that this woman has long dark green hair instead of white. She flaunted her ivory tone and wore a pure white gown with long white gloves and even completely white high heels. She truly looked like an elegant, blindingly bright angel except for her dark green hair, which stood out like a shimmering halo of greenery around her face. She wore especially dark and glossy lipstick, and for some moments Ranma was transfixed by the sight of those luscious lips, and her sparkling emerald eyes. Her shimmering green eyes radiated a serenity, grace, and sophistication that perfectly reflected her inner personality. But this persona that Ranma could tell just masked a wild and mischievous side. But then his eyes dropped lower. Her gown was made of carefully arranged folds of cloth and it covered most of her except for her breasts, which only had one strip running up the middle of each, pulling tight over her extremely prominent and… well better not think of that. It looked like almost any movement could cause her breasts to swing free, and of course that was how she had intended it to be as it would let her get a few hits when he stares at her chest. Her weapon was a strange looking spear as at the top it had a metal ball at the top tip off with a spear head. The weight would make a strike from that spear more powerful and out from one side there was a long ax head that would add even more power to the hit.

As for the second woman Ranma couldn't believe what she wore or in this case so little of. Such scraps of covering that existed were made of dark red leather. There was one tiny strapless section that valiantly held her gargantuan breast up, and another tiny separate section that covered the middle of her fanny, the area just around her private parts, and not much else like a thong. The look was completed with leather gloves that went past the elbows, boots that came up past the knees, and a dog collar. Her short cut golden blonde hair was in stark contrast to her dusky dark ebony skin that was so black that if she would have worn anything black it would totally blend in with her dark skin tone. She held two long elongated S-shape twin scythes in each of her hands. The blades curved downwards like half cut crescent moons and from the way she held them she knew how to use them.

"Hello there," the pale woman greeted him, "I'm Ying."

"And, I'm Yang," the dark skin woman smiled wickedly.

"Together we're the Ying/Yang sisters!"

"So there are some people here," Ranma said as he readied his sword, "I was wondering why there where nobody in the halls."

"Yeah we're wondering about that as well," Yang said a sweatdrop going the side of her head.

"Well let's get this thing on!" Ying smiled as she leaps down at him preparing an overhead swing at him. Her mace-spear slammed into the ground as Ranma jump backwards. She followed by vaulting with her spear to kick him back further.

Yang followed her sister's action as she started twisting her twin scythes in her hands like fans. She jump down but began to hover as her spinning scythes are acting like helicopter blades. Yang literally flew at him sweeping the air with her twin spinning weapons making, Ranma dodge out of the way. As he learned from his fights with Blight and La Noon that when weapons are spinning that fast that there was no way for him to get by till they stop spinning. He could only slow her down as he blocks her weapons with his sword and ki blasts. Then she was joined by her sister Ying, together they force Ranma on the defensive making him ran backwards as he fought off their attacks.

"Enough of this!" Ranma shouted as he cast the 'Twilight Blade' spell on his sword making it glow a purple haze making the two sisters back off in fright.

Rushing forward Ranma slice the top half of Ying's mace-spear causing it to fell leaving a small creator in the marble floor showing how heavy it is. Before she could react he slam the side of her face with his foot, making her spin around before falling to the ground. Yang seeing her sister down screams as she flew at him. Ranma just stood there as she flew at him, he calmly sheathed his sword and waited for her to get closer. Then in a flash it was over as Ranma appeared behind her with his sword drawn out with the backside of his blade facing downwards. Yang let go of her scythes letting them fall as her eyes rolled back in their sockets as she fell face down a bruise was forming on her side where, Ranma had hit her with the backside of his sword.

"Sorry but, I couldn't have taken it any easier on you girls." Ranma spoke as he jumps onto the platform, "But a friend is counting on me."

As the platform rose up taking Ranma up to the top floor a figure step out of the shadows. 'So he's not holding back anymore,' a smile appeared on the figures face, 'Good now he stands a chance.'

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On the floor below the throne room –

Ranma was prepared for whatever and anything that was to come. Since he didn't see anybody else in the castle not even a maid as he made his way to here that only meant one thing. That they were all waiting for him upstairs, which meant that he would be facing all of them at once when he reaches the top. At the floor over him a square hole that would let the platform fit through and that would make him an easy target once he stops. But then when the platform reached the top what he found was something that he never thought that he would see.

The whole room was littered with the bodies of the female servants of the castle. The room was huge like that of a grand ballroom that allowed all of the servants to gather in the room at once. And by the looks of things they were all here and all of them laid beaten around the wreck room. From the state of the room there was a big battle had taken place in the room piles of broken stone work and wood told how intense the battle was.

Then sound of fighting on the second leave on the walkway cause, Ranma to look upwards. The sound of wood breaking was closely followed by the body of Pan the dark elf falling onto a pile of bodies of women that reminded him of the Harpie Ladies. Seeing that she's still alive Ranma ran up to the staircase and onto the walkway. When he reaches the top he found a familiar figure at the top.

Leaning on the wall with her armor and shield battered, gripping her long spear tightly was Cecile. He rush to her side as he help her up, "Cecile what are you doing here?"

She was huffing and puffing as she tried to find her voice "I… I came to save Master Thomas back."

"Did you….?" Ranma began looking around the room as he couldn't believed that she went and beaten an entire room full of fighters that would cause him problems and could easily beat him when they all attack him at once.

"Yeah…" she smiled weakly, "They wouldn't tell me where Master Thomas was and they wouldn't let me pass so, I had to fight them all." She slump as she tried to gain a fourth or was this, her seventh wind it was hard to keep count anymore.

"You went and beat all of them?" Ranma asks shock at the fact that he had trouble fighting about thirty of those sport girls and here Cecile went and beat over five hundred of Top's servants.

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"How in the world did she beat all of them?" Leknaat asks as she lay on her stomach watching hew viewing globe. She had changes her sitting position to help relieve some of her sourness. She had watched it happen but she still couldn't believe her own eyes.

"Oh it's quite simple really," Chaos replied.

"And that is what?"

"That she just wanted, Thomas more then they did," he smiled as the sightless mage facefaulted.

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Everyone stared at what Minds viewing screen showed them. All of them blink and blink again at what they saw. Some even rubbing their eyes to make sure they're were really seeing this.

"My, Cecile training has really paid off," Martha said as the others in the room all dumbly nodded.

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"Come on, drink this," Ranma said as he handed her two bottles of Mega Medicine A since she needs to recover all of her strength.

Gulping down both bottles, Cecile wipes her mouth as she felt better, "Thanks, I needed that."

"So how did you get here?"

"Oh that," she said as she looks over her damage shield sighing as she sees her only reminding one of her fathers shields was almost beyond repair, "A guy who said that he's one of Top brothers appeared in front of me and asks if, I wanted to help you save Master Thomas."

"Oh that must have been, Mad who brought you here."

With renewed vigor Cecile stood up and started running down the hall, "Come on we need to save Master Thomas!"

"Hey wait up!" Ranma shouted catching up with her.

Going through the double metal doors down the hall they found themselves in a wide circler room. Beams of light shined down from the single large window on top of the ceiling. There's a stone staircase circled the cylinder shape room leading to the doors located above them. And standing in to middle of the room was something that they never thought they would see in a place like this… a large heavyset man waiting for them.

He looks to be a few years older then Ranma is he's about three to five years older then he is. He wasn't all that fat but more of a mix of fat and muscle, a large belly, bronzes colored skin, thick and long limbs if he was skinny he would have look taller then he really was. He wore a baggy pair of green baggy shorts that were held up by red suspenders, the left strap was hanging off of his shoulders so that only the right one was holding his shorts up. A pair of heavy work boots, a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a wide brim tan colored hat with a pair of goggles resting on the top half completed his outfit. The only piece of armor that he wore was a placket, a metal plate covering his large vulnerable belly tied with a shoulder-harness making it hard to knock it off of him. As the stomach area was where most people would stab at when they fight and he couldn't go for a quick knock-out punch since the stomach was where to hit to knock the wind out of someone.

He was armed with a large oval shape shield the surface of it was covered in green leather and lavishly decorated on its outer side in bronze with the image of the sun. In his other hand he held a mighty two-handed battle axe. The battle axe had a broad double-bladed head that made it considerably heavier then most other axes; but he held it up easily without any strain with one arm. Its shaft was a bit short, with meant that there would be less movement of the hands on the shaft. However, this was more than compensated for by the greatly increased striking power generated by the massive axe head. Also, because it was double-bladed, it could be swung in both directions with virtually no need to adjust the stance or grip and thanks to the strap on the bottom of the shaft around his wrist the axe couldn't be knock out of his hands easily.

"Been waiting for you two," he greeted them, resting his axe on his shoulder.

"I thought that there weren't any guys in this place, besides Thomas that is," Ranma wondered.

"Oh you see, I was already here when, Top went and made that rule of no guys besides her brothers to come here. And since, I was already living in the castle at the time she let me stay."

"But from what, I have seen with the kinds of folks that are living here… then why? Cecile began.

"Why she lets a fat guy like me live here instead of a stud?" he began to chuckle, "Simple really because, I was the only guy that she has ever met who wasn't already deeply in love with someone else that didn't go all gag, gag over her body."

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Inside of a dance club –

It was nighttime and there was the usually going on's at the club around that time. The guy was sitting at the counter enjoying a drink while watching the party scene around him. The big guy in the apron over a white shirt and black jeans who was working the bar was, Ram the owner of the dinner. And whose nickname 'Ram' came from his old football days and no one had ever bothered to use his real name ever since then. Thinking about it he had never learned what Ram's real name was he had always called him Ram like all the others have.

He was taking a drink as he was reading an interesting book when he felt someone walking towards him. As if the other sounds of the dance floor weren't even there he zeroed onto the footsteps. From the way the footsteps fell it was a female as the person walk with a jiggle in her steps. Funny thing was that he didn't smell any perfume coming from her as the women who go here usually wear lots of perfume.

"Mind if, I take this seat?"

"Sure go for it," he said not even bothering to look at her.

They sat there for awhile as he continued to read his book he could tell she was waiting for him to make an idiot out of himself to impress her. Well he wasn't one to make a fool out of himself just for a pair of legs.

"So got a good book there?"

"Yup!"

"So what is it about?"

"Oh it's about an island from the modern time getting transported back thousands of years into the pass and the inhabitants of the island have to adjust to the Bronze Ages," he said keeping his eyes off of her.

"So what's the title?"

"It's called 'Island in the Sea of Time' by S.M. Stirling," he replied. (2)

Silences took over as he went back to his book not even giving her a pasting glance. She raps her fingers on the counter as she waited for him to look at her. Then finally she couldn't stand it anymore, "You know you could at least give me a look."

"Why so that, I see if you're hot or not like the guys you get to buy you drinks?"

"Really is that the first thing that comes to your mind?" she said with some heat in her voice.

"Well this place isn't known for people just talking with each other."

"You at least could look and see who you're talking too."

Knowing the she wouldn't stop till he takes a look at her, he tore his eyes from his book and saw a knockout redhead sitting next to him. She's wearing a blue leather outfit that showed off her assets and wore a white tophat. She would have look, odd but in a place like this it was norm but, she was getting a lot of stares from both male and female club goers. Then he went back to his book much to her irritation.

"You could ask my name you know," she waited for him to ask her. Several minutes pass as he turned four pages of his book until she couldn't take the waiting anymore, "My names Top Hat." She then waited for him to ask about her name. He finished seven pages when she spoke again, "Aren't you even going to asks about my weird name?"

"You're asking a guy if he finds your name strange when he knows a guy whose name is Harry Dick?"

"Really?" she couldn't help but chuckled.

"Yeah so a name like Top Hat isn't really that strange for me," he said before going back to his book.

"You do realized that a knockout babe is sitting next to you and talking to you right," Top said as she rarely needed to do much to get a guy all over her.

"Why should, I bother dealing with a woman that flirts off her body like that?"

"What you don't like that sort of thing?"

"Please! I'm not planning on finding a girl till after, I'm all settled down. I just finished with collage and, I'm still trying to find a job. So, I'm not even going to try to get a date with someone of the opposite sex till, I'm all settled down," he explained himself.

"Well you really thinking ahead unlike most of the guys here," Top said as she realized that she wasn't dealing with a guy that thinks with their other 'head'.

"What should, I go get a girl knock up then work day and night just to make the bills before, I'm ready for that kind of thing? I know a lot of people from High School who had kids before they were done with school and now are working their butts off to pay the bills."

"You know we really should talk more," she smiled as she gave him a business card, "You should come down to my office and we talk more there."

He looks at the card in her hand before he took it from her.

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"From there, I learned who Top really is and got a job working for her," he remark remembering something from his past, "I really couldn't think of my life would be like if, I had never took that card from her." He chuckled, "I wouldn't be the person that, I am now that's for sure if we had we had never met at that club."

"What you mean by that?" Cecile began as he didn't look that special.

"Well it was when me and Top went to another world to gathered some items, I went and found a strange looking fruit that, I went and ate. Later, I found out that it was a cursed fruit coming from a place called the Grand Line. (3) There are many different kinds of cursed fruits and the one that, I ate was the, Eternal Fruit that makes me unable to die in normal means anyways. That fruit only appears one out of a hundred-million cursed fruits." He laughs as he remembered what happen afterward, "But, I did found out that, I couldn't swim as, I sink like a rock. But one of Top's potions took care of that problem."

"So that means, I can't kill you no matter what, I do to you right?" Ranma asks as he took in everything he said.

"Yes even if, I'm cut to ribbons, I would just reform sooner or later and regenerate any lost body parts. That's why, I don't need to wear that much armor since, I can take more damage then most other fighters can."

"Well thanks for telling me then," Ranma smiled thinking of the fight ahead of him, "That means that I won't have to hold back then."

"Yup you can fight with everything you got so don't hold back on my account."

"Cecile go on ahead this is my fight," Ranma said pointing her to the staircase.

"Wait, I can help you," Cecile said as she could tell he wasn't a lightweight.

"No if Top kept this guy even after she made that no guy rule here then there must be a good reason why," Ranma told her as he could feel the aura surrounding him, "And there's no one but him here so that means he's Tops last line of defense. Go and get Thomas."

"Be careful!" she shouted as she ran up the stairs.

"So then want to make some ground rules or just play it by ear?" he said as he lowered his axe and raised his shield.

"Well since, I don't want to find out how angry, Top would get if we bring this castle down how about no big energy attacks," Ranma said as he felt some relief in that he finally facing a guy that plays fair.

"Yeah, I never saw Top that angry before when Mad went and destroyed the west wing of the castle."

"So what's your name anyways?" Ranma said pulling out his sword.

"Name's Jeffro," he smiled. "Now then let's fight."

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The doors flew open as Cecile burst into the throne room. Her left eye began to twitch as she saw Thomas. He was surrounded by maids all in some very snug French Maid outfits. Their skirts and aprons, all ended two inches below their crotch, sashayed a bit, black pantyhose hugging their hips. There were elves, humans, werebeast, and other kinds of races that made up of the gathering of maids that surrounded Thomas. There must have been more then thirty of them and she couldn't help but compare that all of them have much bigger breast that made some look that they have melons for breast. And currently Thomas was trap between the embrace of three of the busty maids who are rubbing their assets all over him.

"Get away from him!" Cecile shouted as she ran at them swinging her spear. But stop when Top appeared in front of her.

"So you're the one that my brother sent to help Ranma," she smiled looking her over like a piece of meat, "You're a cute one," she raised her keyblade and pointed it at her, "Let's fight then."

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Downstairs –

With his blade glowing with the 'Twilight Blade' spell Ranma darted forward. His sword connected with Jeffro's axe but he was shock to find that his sword hadn't cut through his weapon. Jeffro shifted his weight and swung his shield around knocking Ranma back. He flipped in the air and landed on his feet.

"How? My sword should have cut right through your weapon?" Ranma asks him.

"Sorry but magical spells or fancy moves won't break my equipments," Jeffro pointed to his shield as runes appeared, glowing a green color, "Magic Runes made to withstand even the strongest attacks nothing short of Dark Hat has the ability to break them with any real ease." (4)

'That's not good,' Ranma thought to himself as he had wanted to get to fight over with as fast as possible.

Ranma made a leaping run as he swung downwards with his sword. Jeffro raised his shield blocking his strike and shove Ranma away knocking him flat on his back. He brought his axe over his head and swung downwards, Ranma used his sword to block his swing. Pressing down, Jeffro prove that he's stronger and also weighted more as he put his body mass into it pushing, Ranma's sword down. Ranma put a stop to this with a leg sweep knocking him down and quickly jumping onto his feet.

Running at the down form of his opponent he swung downwards as Jeffro was still on his back. To his shock instead of blocking or rolling out of the way he instead took his sword swing hitting him on his shoulder. Instead of crying out in pain he just grin and swing his axe at him hitting him on his chest knocking him back. Clutching his chest, Ranma saw that his armor had held together from the axe blow but he still felt the force of the blow. Looking up at his opponent he saw that the gasping wound his sword made was rapidly healing.

They have been testing each others skills for awhile now. And from what Ranma has seen, Jeffro wasn't even really bothering to block most of his attacks as he has seen what he said about being unkillable was true. His body would heal as fast as Blight's which meant that he couldn't be taken down without doing some major damage to him. And he couldn't get pass his shield to go for a knockout blow and his placket protecting him from any hits that could knock the wind right out of him. The only thing he could think of using was his Rune to knock him out.

"Thinking of using that Rune, I see," Jeffro said as he stayed out of Ranma's sword range.

"Well someone who can heal any wound that, I inflict. Well, I need to get by you fast before something happens to Cecile," Ranma said readying his sword.

"Tell me something," Jeffro said lowering his guard, "Why are you fighting that war in the Grasslands for?

Ranma eyes widen as he hasn't really thought of the reason why he's fighting. So much was happening that he had never thought about it as he never really had time to think about it. Thinking about it he had first started this path when he decided to go and find the 'Fire Bringer' Kanin when, Jimba had told Chris that the 'Fire Bringer' would tell her the truth about her father. From there he decided to find him and asks him about the war that's was starting up and why he was so important to it. Then it snowballed from there.

He learned that Piccolo had taken part in the war and from Sana the 'Flame Champion's' wife he learned that he had given up his eternal life to be with her. Learning that he found all he needed to know of what he was like what kind of person he was. The True Rune of Fire was sealed away with a sealing spell that hid it from Harmonia who wanted to get it back as Kanin had stolen it from one of their temples. For the seal to be undone so that a new 'Flame Champion' could be made, someone needed to give up their life to unseal it and that person was Yun. He would have given up his life so that she could live instead of walking the path that she had foresaw. But faith had other ideas as Noclord with his enforcers had shown up trying to take his Rune. Edge with the Zodiac Sword a True Rune itself attack him head on and with their magical energies had mix together with the unsealing magic that was killing him something unexpected happened. Ranma found himself transported back to his homeworld and he wasn't alone. He met new friends and made some out of old ones while he was there. He even learned about his hidden past and met his great-grandfather and what had been kept hidden from him. (5)

But somehow along the way he had lost what he has been fighting for. Even when he found himself back in the other world after stopping Noclord from taking over in his homeworld… He found himself the father of two, Reni and Iris and even learned that Natsume and Kurumi are in fact his half sisters since that fat panda left their mother when she had only given birth to girls and a great-grandfather that he never knew. He found himself the master of a castle and was so caught up in running things and helping the Grassland forces in beating back the Harmonia forces that… Why is he fighting what for? He had started out just leaving his old life behind him but then… Ever since he got the Chaos Rune his life had gotten even wilder then it was before. He had just been going with the flow not asking the reason why he was even fighting for… He had wanted to put a stop to this war but now that it's in full gear he could only now help in ending it as fast as possible. But he lost sight in the reason why he was fighting for…

"Why am, I fighting?" Ranma asks himself as his mind races for an answer.

"It's something that you haven't really thought about isn't it," Jeffro said in a serious voice, "Once someone begins to think of the reason why they're fighting for is when they truly begin to see deep inside of themselves. Some find that they're fighting for someone else's reason. While others see that they've been deluding themselves in their words and beliefs. This has broken more then one strong person before as they find that they've been fighting for someone else's beliefs or that they have been fighting for the very thing they been trying to prevent. In all the only the people that can look into themselves and see who they're really are and aspects what they're really are. They're the ones that continue to grow stronger as they continue to walk foreword."

Ranma thought about what he had said and look deep inside for the reason why he's been fighting. Was he fighting for himself or for others? He knows what people are treated like under Harmonia rule as he has heard first hand from people who lived under their rule who had escape into the Grasslands. But was that the reason why he was fighting? Was it to save the people of the Grasslands from the Harmonia army? It was a noble cause but still it wasn't his reason it was theirs. What was the reason why he was fighting? For most of his life he had been living for someone else's dreams or someone else's ideas. Besides fighting the next opponent that came at him screaming about honor he didn't really have that much to live for in his old life. If he had stayed he would had open the old dojo to train students but thinking about it besides the some of the people in Nerima there weren't that many people that were interested in learning Martial Arts. Mostly people were just doing it to stay fit or to defend themselves in the badder parts of town. Sure there were the fighting tournaments as he has heard that some give out good prize money. But still that was only because he never had the chance to be anything else but a fighter. What was his purpose in his life just living to beat the next challenger that came at him? If he hadn't came to the other world then he would had never become more then just a fighter. Then his meeting with Thomas it changed his life as he finally met someone that just wanted to be friends with him and nothing else.

Jeffro watch as Ranma stood motionless with a calm look on his face. Then slowly he raised his sword and readied himself. "So you're still going to fight even without a reason. Fine let's get this over with."

"Splitting Heaven!" he shouted as he did one of the strongest attacks that his great-grandmother created. Jeffro tried to block the incoming attack but was quickly overwhelm by the sheer number of the attacks that are coming at him. Each one of Ranma's strikes was aiming at spots that would maim or cripple even the strongest of fighters. When it was over Ranma was sheathing his sword as blood burst out from the numerous wounds inflicted onto him. His weapons fell to the floor the straps holding them onto him having been cut to ribbons as he fell onto his back. He was a bloody mess as his limbs were just hanging on and gasping wounds covered his entire body.

He began coughing up some blood, "Well done this is going to take awhile till my body is fully healed," he cough up some more blood, "So have you found the reason why you're fighting for?"

"Yes, I have thanks to you for getting me to think about the reason why, I fight," Ranma smiled, "Almost all of my life, I was just fighting for a reason to continuing on living. Not caring about what tomorrow might bring but just fighting whatever came at me. Now, I know the reason why, I fight it was so simple that, I didn't see it for a deeper truth that, I thought was the real me."

"So what's your reason for fighting?" Jeffro asks as his body began healing itself.

"All of my life, I have been making mistakes with it. I can admit this since, I'm strong enough to see myself how, I have look like to others around me. A guy with too much pride in himself even though if, I could back up my words," Ranma smiled, "It took me so long just to realized that, I was just living someone else's dreams that my entire life had been already planed out for me. Now the reason why, I fight is that, I'm fighting for is to see what's at the end of this path that, I have chosen for myself with led me too."

"Fighting to see where this path of life is taking you," Jeffro chuckled, "A simple reason to live for but then that's what life is all about living to find a place for yourself in the world. Go on then, Ranma and continue to walk the path that you have chosen to live."

"Will do," Ranma said as he walks up the stairs, "Thanks for reminding me why, I'm fighting for."

"Ranma the path that you have chosen to follow will be a hard one to follow but that's life for you," Jeffro said to himself, "Dying is easy, living is hard. People living out the path of life that they have chosen for themselves to live out, walking down that path for the end of it until it's their time to go. Too bad that option, is no longer open for me anymore."

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Ranma ran through the double doors of the top floor of the main tower. He had drunk some Mega Medicine A as that fight with Jeffro had taken a heavy toll on him. Inside he found Top waiting for him in the middle of the room.

"Well, I see that you had to use the 'Splitting Heaven' technique to beat Jeffro," she smiled as she rested her hands on that key shape sword of hers, "He's really is something special, I'm so glad that, I hired him when, I did. Besides he's the only guy, I can trust that won't go and just fool around with my girls all of the time. "

"So where's Cecile?"

"She right there with Thomas," Top said pointing to her left.

Ranma turned and was shock as Cecile wasn't in her armor suit anymore. They lay in a heap with her spear and shield, are next to the pile of pillows she and Thomas sat on. Without her armor on her she look like a pre-teen as while she's cute he could she that she could be mistaken for someone younger thanks to her look and underdeveloped body. Under her armor and the padding she had one a loose fitting shirt and that orange skirt that she wears all of the time. And like Thomas she was surrounded by maids in maid outfits that made Ranma feel a nosebleed coming his way as like most of the women that he has seen around this place are all busty and shapely. And they were fooling around with both of the blushing couple.

"Ranma you're here," Thomas said as he was held down sitting on the lap of a large chested dark haired beauty holding him close to her ample chest as his head was trap between them. And on either side of him are two more busty maids pressing their bodies to his making him blush, a very deep red. The same goes for Cecile who was in the same position as he was head trap between breast bigger then her head and two more maids on either side of her.

"Get us out of here!" Cecile scream, blushing red as she felt one of the maids began touching her in the back… very low in the back.

"She put up a one hell of a fight but as you can see that she couldn't keep up with someone like me," Top smiled.

"The first chance you got you went and stuff, my face between your breasts!" Cecile shouted her face burning red. The moment that she went and charge at her, Top went and grab her by her head and stuff her face between those melons that she calls breast and held her there till she fainted to lack of air.

"I couldn't help it you're just so cute!" Top laugh before giving her a look that Cecile didn't like at all, "In fact when the others downstairs pull themselves back together you can make it up to them by letting them have their fun with you."

"EEP!" Cecile let out as she found herself the center of attention of the maids all of them grinning down at her.

"That's unless if you can beat me that is," Top said facing off with Ranma.

"Alright then let's fight then," he said as he readied himself to meet her attack.

"Yes let's do besides you went through a lot just to get here," Top smiled as she lifted up her keyblade and pulled out a sword hilt with a crescent-shaped guard curving out towards a short double-edge blade. The funny thing was that the pommel that's the counterweight of the sword was an iron ball like a mace and the blade of the sword looks like it was cut into slices and stacked on top of each other.

They just stared at each other waiting for the other to make the first move neither moving. Then the silence was broken as Ranma darted forward using his 'Gale Rune' to move faster then the normal eye could follow. Running at full speed Ranma swung his sword at her but she lifted her keyblade up at the last moment locking her weapon with his. With a swift kick she sent him flying back but he flipped in midair and landed onto his feet. She lashed out with her short sword that suddenly lengthen and expanded he could see that the sword was made up of pieces that are connected with metal cords that could stretch like a rubber band. Ranma shielded himself with his sword, Top's sword end made sparks as it slide on the others sword surface. She followed through by running at him and slamming the flat side of her keyblade into his side sending him rolling along the ground.

"What was that?" Ranma asks as he got back onto his feet.

"My Snake-sword newest model that's stronger and tougher then the last model," Top said, "I have mix long range and short range attacks all into one. You saw something like my style when you fought Tina but she had a major weakness when she did that mace hair trick of hers. You see she's can't defend herself when she uses it to hit a far away target. I on the other hand, I can always defend myself when, I use my snake-sword since, I'm ambidextrous and have study up in how to use each of my weapons to their full power."

"Well we see about that," Ranma said as he charged at her again.

Ducking the snake-sword as it flew at him he attack Top with lighting fast strikes. Calmly she blocks each one of his strikes with her keyblade as she slowly walks backwards all awhile smiling at him. Ranma wondered what she's smiling about when he remembered her other sword. He jumps to the side as she had twisted her weapon with a turn of her wrist, around sending it flying at him. Seeing that he couldn't get at her as long as she can whip her sword around like that he decided to attack from afar. Powering up some energy in his free hand Ranma fired a blast of ki at her. But she just sent it flying back at him with a swing of her keyblade. Ranma was thrown through the air as his own energy attack struck near him. Jumping to his feet he saw, Top swinging her snake-sword he quickly swings his sword blocking her strike.

Leaping onto the railings on the side walls, Ranma powered up his blaster and began firing at her sending bolts of energy blast at her. As she did with his last attack she blocks each one of his attacks sending them flying back at him. He had to leap from one side of the wall to the other as his own energy attacks were being knock back at him. Then when the energy attack barraged ended, Top began whipping her snake-sword at him and it acted like a snake as it followed him around the room darting into and out gracefully as Top tried to hit him. It reminded him of Kodachi, Kurumi when they used their ribbons and then there was Happosai who sometimes used that snake like ki attack. The best thing he could do was to dodge and go in for a close range attack but unlike the others who use long range weapons, Top was also armed with a close range weapons as well.

Ranma danger sense started up causing him to stop just as Top's keyblade sank into the wall ahead of him. She was standing on it using it as a ledge as he hangs from one of the handholds on the wall.

"You're going to have to do much better then this to beat me you know," Top smiled as her snake-sword rewined itself back to its resting length.

Then using one hand to hold onto the sword hilt she swung around on it and using her legs grabbing his head between them. She swung him around a few times before letting him go sending him crashing on the ground strong enough to leave cracks on the tiles. Looking up he saw her snake-sword heading at him, rolling along the ground the sword tip followed him cutting into the ground as it did. Leaping back onto his feet Ranma block and knock Top's blade back to her.

'At this rate, I'm going to lose this fight,' Ranma thought to himself as he knew when he's up against something that he wouldn't be able to beat easily. But there was one way but if he did take off his limiter there was no telling what his beast form would do.

"Forget about trying to use your beast form on me, I know how to handle wild beast," Top said, "Don't look so surprise, I did say, I'm a stagiest didn't I? I had this fight plan out from the very beginning and look at every possible action and outcomes for our battle. The only thing, I didn't count on was that Mad would send Cecile here to clear the way for you."

"Well then that's all, I needed to know then," Ranma smiled as he looks up at Top standing on the hilt of her sword sticking out of the wall.

'Hmm he knows that, I can't plan out everything now and he's going to be fighting harder now. Which means sooner or later he'll make a mistake and that's when, I strike!' Top thought to herself as she pulled out her keyblade out from under her sending her falling down.

Landing onto her feet she whips her snake-sword again at him. Ranma duck the whipping blade and ran straight at her. She blocks his strikes with ease just like last time but instead of dodging the incoming snake-sword he just twisted around allowing the blade to pass him before he resumed his attack. Top began using both of her swords to block his faster and faster attacks forcing her back then he stops jumping back.

"Splitting Heaven!" Ranma shouted out his attack sending hundreds of sword strikes at her in a matter of seconds. But to his surprise she block each one of his strikes with her blades just as fast as he was sending them at her. When his attack was over without landing a single hit he jump back to recover his breath.

"Your Great-Grandmother was something that's for sure," Top smiled, "For her to create a attack like that as well as those other skills she has passed down to you is something to take pride in. But it's too bad for you that, I came across a technique that's just like that last attack."

"Well, I have more then that attack you know," he said as he powered up for another attack, "Spirit of the Wind!"

He disappeared from sight but, Top already knew where his attack would be coming from and guarded her sides. She felt the fast blow hit her left side but was harmless as she had block that blow with her keyblade. But then she heard him shouting out another attack.

"Raging Sword!" Ranma shouted as he used a new move. This attack channeled the users ki energy through the sword creating a blast of energy consecrated into one spot for maximized damage. The blast hit Top backside sending her flying into the air before falling limply onto the ground on her back, her top hat was still on her head even after an attack like that. The maids all gasped as they saw their mistress get blasted around like that.

He thought it was over when Top's legs lifted upwards planting her feet on either side of her head. Then showing how flexible she is she her body lifted itself upward, Ranma was reminded of what Kodachi did when they had that Gym fight when they had first met up with each other. When her face appeared she was smiling.

"Nice real nice," Top said as she has she placed her swords on the ground in front of her, "Let's go and let's throw the kids gloves off." She began pulling off her gloves off then making them into a small bundle she threw them aside and a loud clang echoed as they hit the floor leaving cracks on the floor. Then she unstrapped her boots then kicks them off away from her so it wouldn't trip her they made loud clanging sounds as they hit the ground too. Then she took off her blue jacket off and threw aside it with little effort and the jacket hitting the ground left a large crater when it hit. Then she began stretching and getting kinks out of her system, "That's feels so much better without all of my training equipment on me. Hmm, I feel so light now!"

"So you were wearing weighted clothing all of this time," Ranma said eyeing her. Then he grab his bracelets pulling them off, "I'm been were limiters as well."

"Yes, I already knew that. You been saving up for your fight with me letting all of the fights you been in to help you power up for this fight with me. FIY that was over two-thousand pounds worth of weights that, I took off from my hundred-eighty pound figure," Top explained to him. Then her hands began glowing a green glow, "Now let me show you some tricks that, I have pick up."

"Wait you weigh hundred-eighty?" Ranma asks as most women keep their weight secret as even the girls back home wouldn't let him know how much they weigh.

"I got very dense muscles and besides having some body fat on you is a good thing," Top smiled as her arms squeezed her breast between them making them look bigger as they bugled outwards, "Some people look better with some fat on them don't you think?"

Ranma eyes widen at first at all of that flesh being thrust at him and then suddenly she began throwing green fireballs at him. He had to act fast on his feet as he dodges the flaming balls being thrown at him. He began firing back at her with his blaster trying to stop her but she countered his blasts with her own shots. The energy blast hitting each other created large explosions that filled the room with smoke. Ranma continued to fire into the last spot he saw her in as he judge this by where the fireballs were coming from when, Top appeared next to him. She reeled back her left fist glowing brightly before giving him a good left hock knocking him several feet backwards. He recovered but was knocked to the ground as more green fireballs were thrown at him. Rolling to his feet, Ranma began using his sword to block all of the fireballs as he waited for, Top to stop for a recharge as she couldn't throw so many fireballs without resting afterwards.

"Waiting for me to need to take a break aren't you," Top smirked, "Well bad news for you is that my endurances levels are insanely high, I can do this all day."

"Great just great," Ranma said to himself as he shielded himself from her attacks.

Top brought her hands together and began blasting a stream of green energy at him. He had to jump around fast to avoid her attack that look like she could keep it up without having to pause. He had to think of a way to get to close to her as she didn't let up with her attack. Then remembering what, Blight did when he face off with Hugo, Ranma started spinning his sword in his hand as fast as he could do and charge at Top. As with Blight when he did this move, Ranma's spinning sword created an air shield in front of him protecting him from the stream of green fire that's being thrown at him. Top tried putting more power into her attack but he just kept coming at her.

Kicking up her keyblade, Top stop her fire attack and thrust her blade at the center of Ranma's spinning sword. Ranma let out a yelp as her blade struck his hand making him let go of his sword and hurled it into the air burying itself into the wall. She followed through with a strike to his chest with the flat side of her sword knocking him back.

Top smirked as her foe was frozen with shock. Then she decided to use one of her sword techniques. She had been working on this particular movement since she saw it done by that swordsman from that world. That world was where that anime called Samurai Deeper Kyo was very real.

Holding up her free hand, she made a bit of her ki appear on her index and middle fingers. She then began running the tips of her fingers across the blade of her keybalde, causing it to glow with green light.

Top smirked as her fingers reached the tip of the blade. She began to softly speak the first line.

"Mumyou Jinpu Style... Satsujin Ken"

Ranma was now petrified with shock as he remembers where he heard that attack from one of the anime shows and couldn't move as Top raised her sword above her head, then brought the sword down in a graceful arc.

"Mizuchi!"

A huge wind had been swept up and blew toward Ranma. He brought his arms up to guard his face as he was enveloped in the gale force. Then, as suddenly as it appeared, it died down, leaving him seemingly unharmed. Ranma wondered what happened with that attack thinking maybe it didn't work, but then he heard an ominous cracking sound. Metal pieces clattered to the ground as his armor fell apart leaving him only in the armor that Brute Hat had remade for him.

Top smiled evilly after she had unshelled her opponent like a lobster. "You heard it too... didn't you? The voice... of the wind!"

"Take it off!" one of the maids shouted out as she saw the outline of his well muscular body.

Loud wolf whistles rounded off from the maids making Ranma blush. Thomas and Cecile couldn't believe that grown women would act like this. But then thinking about it they really didn't really knew that many older women that acted like their age. As they saw what the girl's that are after, Ranma acted like sometimes.

"That's an idea," Top smiled as she lighted up her keyblade with her green fire and attack him head on.

'I need to watch it,' Ranma thought to himself as he dodges the flaming green sword, 'The flames won't do that much damage but the blade sure will.'

"Come on you got to be better then that to beat me," Top calmly said as she swung her sword at him, "If you don't beat me then you'll lose the right to, Fight's hand in marriage."

Ranma couldn't suppress a scowl as Top invaded his personal space with series upon series of skillful feints, punches, sword swings, and kicks. 'This is getting old real fast damnit! As some of her attacks got pass his defense hitting him.

"Ooof!" he breathed out as Top landed yet another powerful kick to his abdomen. Grunting from the amount of force that single kick held, Ranma allowed the excess kinetic energy to push him as far away as it could from the hundred-eighty some odd pounds of the tall flaming haired woman in front of him. He knew it was only a momentary respite from the battle; even now Top was rushing up to continue the fight. Still, this small delay would give him some much-needed time to recover and to think of some kind of plan.

'Let's see, I need something that will let me go through her defense without her countering it,' Ranma thought to himself. He looks around the room to see if there's anything here that he could use to help him out.

"Looking for something in the room that will help you?" Top asks as she phased her attack for a moment, "Sorry but, I never leave anything to chance and made sure there's no object's here that could give an opponent an edge."

'Damn she's right,' Ranma saw that there's nothing in the room that he could use to help him. And he couldn't stop to pull his sword out of the wall or…

"Hand of Chaos!"

Top jump to the side as his magic attack zoom pass her she raised an eyebrow, "What was that suppose to do?"

"Beat you!" Ranma smiled as his beam struck his sword and hitting the metal surface bouncing it back. Top felt the incoming energy and turned around just as the beam hit her dead center blasting her pass Ranma and into the wall. The force of the attack left a crater in the wall with Top buried face first in it.

"You got her!" Cecile shouted.

"Is she okay?" Thomas asks.

"If she's anything like the rest of her family she's fine," Ranma said as he recovers from his battle with her.

"That's right!" Ranma turned around and saw, Top shaking the dust out of her hair, "You shouldn't think that, I would go down that easy."

"You are strong, Fight went down when, I hit her with that spell and Brute took it full force but someone of his sizes can take a whole lot of damage before going down." Ranma commented.

"It takes more than that to keep me down," Top smiled.

"So this is what it's like to fight against the older siblings of the Hat's," Ranma smiled back to her.

"We're a lot more powerful then our younger siblings that's for sure. We're at a whole other league then they are in terms of power and skills. You're going to have to do a lot better then that to knock me out."

"So you're going to start fighting for real now," Ranma said pointing his sword at her.

"You knew that, I been playing around," she said with a bemuse smile on her as she kicks her sword back up to her hands, "Then let me show you my fighting moves then."

"Let's do this thing!" he said as they ran at each other.

Ranma lunges towards Top's legs, however, she brings up her foot, kicking Ranma in the jaw and making his body rise into the air. Top, with her foot still up then does a full 360-degree turn, doing a roundhouse-kick, which catches Ranma's abdomen, and sends him flying away from her.

Using his cat like grace landed on his feet, "Ow… Damn… she's not even winded from that attack, I hit her with."

Ranma's eyes narrow in on, Top who is moving closer to him.

"Damn it! I have to fight harder!"

Ranma then shakes off the blows he received and runs at Top again. However, as Top goes to strike at him with her sword, Ranma dodges it, and does a flip-kick, which hits Top in the jaw and she stumbles a few steps back but not before hitting his left leg with her sword. However Ranma's eyes widen in pain and he doesn't manage to land, on his feet but in a heap.

Top feels her jaw and smiles, 'Impressive… I actually felt that… Nowhere near as powerful as one of Pan's punches at half-strength, but it's very impressive if, I felt that… Too bad with that blow, I gave him his leg must be hurting now.'

Ranma manages to get back onto his feet with some effort. 'Damn! My leg is killing me… And Top doesn't seem that hurt either.'

Ranma grimaces… He admits to himself that he might be a 'bit' out-classed.

Ranma then starts running at Top again. She frowns… He can't win if he keeps going at her like this… Top does a full swing with her sword to make him move back, but as before, Ranma manages to duck under the attack. He then does an uppercut and hits Top in the jaw and his eyes widen in pain when he connected.

"OW!" what is she made out of? Ranma felt like he had just punch a solid steel door. She must have gotten some really serious Breaking Point training that's for sure.

Top blinks… She really felt that one and that was saying something as her body could take a whole lot of punishment. She then does an open-handed palm strike to Ranma's abdomen so she can gain some room. Ranma falls to his hands and knees and coughs up a bit of blood.

'DAMN IT!' she's much stronger then he thought she would be.

Ranma blinks as he sees Top move towards him slowly. Ranma forces himself onto his feet and gets into a fighting stance. Top nods her head, impressed by Ranma's tenacity to keep fighting.

"Now that's stamina," then she thought, 'He's going to need it when the girls finally decide to just share him and get a hold of him.'

Top then takes off at Ranma like a rocket. Ranma then smiles… He has an idea… he throws his sword into the air and then runs at her and tries the Katchu Tenshin Amaguriken, Top manages to evade all of his strikes… Then she realizes something wasn't right when she hears the maids screaming something at her.

'HIS SWORD!'

Top quickly brings her sword up and strikes the falling sword away as it fell down to her. She curses herself for falling for something like that. Reminding her of that fight with that, redhead Armsmaster in the Gold Digger world.

'NO! NO I'M OFF BALANCE!'

Ranma uses Top's state to his advantage as he keeps punching her in the same spot of her abdomen over and over again. Top's eyes widen as she feels sharp pain on her abdomen just below her breast. She tries to bring her fists down to hit Ranma, but then he uses his head to head-butt her.

Top steps back, her body starting to protest… Her stomach was alive with pain, and that head-butt hurt! Worse, when she had reached up to strike his sword also hurt her back as she already had back problems with her breast as she needs to wear a back support when she sleeps. Top looks at Ranma she can tell that his ankle hurts from when she had hit him, and his hand and wrist hurted too. At least his head doesn't seem too bad.

'Okay… Now we're on a more even level for fighting… except that he doesn't have his sword…' Top thought to herself as she works out this fight in her head.

Top then tosses her keyblade to the side and gets into a fighting stance… The fight is now hand-to-hand combat!

Ranma runs at Top and the two share blows when they clash together. Both are getting as much as they receive, as they aren't concentrating at blocking, but just getting in as many hits as possible on each other.

Ranma grimaces as the fight continued. He's nowhere near as strong as Top is, but his stamina and endurance are high almost at her level. After all of that 'endurance training' with Tina and the other girls was more effective than training in the Baksai Tenketsu with nuclear missiles! As they didn't hold back when they're training with him as he told them that they shouldn't hold back as he needed to become stronger they even gang up him sometimes but afterwards they make out with him so that they made up the beating they had given him.

'Hmm… I guess all that training with Tina without her limiter on is really pays off,' Ranma thought to himself as he continued to throw punches.

After a few more moments of intense punching, both break away. Both Ranma and Top are covered in bruises. Top's attacks had more force, but Ranma could actually take the blows a bit more easily than Top could with hers. As Tina hadn't held back during their training with each other only making sure she doesn't kill him.

"Impressive…"

Ranma was breathes heavily trying to recover from their last bout, "Yeah…"

"Let's end this…" she said as she powered up her aura her hands glowing green again.

"But first," Ranma said as he fired upwards with his blaster into the glass ceiling making a large hole, "Let's see if you can keep up with me!" He grabs his sword from where it fell then jump high into the air spreading out his wing taking flight.

You're not the only one that can fly!" Top smiled as she picks up her Snake-Sword as well then suddenly took off into the air after him.

"You can fly without wing?" Ranma said as he saw her flying up into the air.

"Of course, I can," she smirks, "It's a little thing that, I had picked up during one of my travels."

A huge blast of ki energy was launched from Ranma's open palm, but his opponent dodged the attack and fired off several beams in retaliation. Ranma blurred to avoid the barrage and reappeared using his Gale Rune to speed up his flying speed behind her. He swung his sword at her, but she instantly twisted to block the blade with her sword.

The two began trading thrusts, parries, stabs and counter-slashes at speeds too fast for most eyes to follow, but while Ranma's style was great in midair combat even he had his limits as he battled Top in the sky above her castle. He couldn't fly without landing again as he couldn't fly at this kind of height for long and this was the first time he besides his fight with Faceless that he had fought someone in the air.

"Moko Takabisha!"

Ranma flew back to get some fighting room and launched several of energyballs at her. But, Top's speed proved to be too fast as she evaded all of the deadly projectiles. Two of the energyballs flew down and blasted off the top of the east tower of the Top's palace. Fortunately, no one had been inside at the time as most of the people in the castle were still out from, Cecile wrath.

As Top was busy dodging the energy attacks, Ranma took this opportunity to focus his power. He charged up his blaster making all of his energy go into his blaster and fired a charge shot at her. Top saw it coming and used her Snake-Sword to reach out and hit the incoming shot exploding it before it hit her sending dust into the air.

Looking around, Ranma spotted Top flying above him. She whips her sword sending the whip like blade flying at him. He twisted in the air as the blade acted like its name shake following him in the air.

'Time for me to use that spell that Piccolo showed me awhile ago,' Ranma thought to himself as he flew pass the whip blades and stop in front of Top putting his thumbs and index fingers together forming a circle in front of his forehead with his eyes close.

"Nova Flare!"

A blinding white light burst out from his hands engulfing everything in sight that flared like magnesium powder. Top cried out as it took the attack at full strength.

"Now its time to get some distance," Ranma said to himself as he flew down onto the west tower.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Top screamed out. She screamed as her eyes were blinded by the flare that Ranma used on her. She couldn't see a thing as the light had made her eyes useless till they recovered from that attack.

'This is my only chance,' Ranma thought to himself as he chanted a spell that he hadn't used since that day he had fought against Brute the giant of the Hat family.

"Darkness beyond twilight..."

"What is that?" Cecile asked as she and the others watched from the sidelines. They had gone onto the deck outside of the main tower to watch the air fight.

"Crimson beyond blood that flows..."

"It sounds like some kind of spell. But, I've never heard of those incantations before," Thomas said as he had study up Runes and spells with the help of, Ernie so that he could become more useful.

"Buried in the stream of time is where you're power grows..."

"Wait, I know that spell," the tall dark haired maid said.

"I pledge myself to conquer, all the foes that stand. Against the mighty gift bestowed in my unworthy hand..."

"It's that spell Magic help that mage Piccolo make," the maid said. She turned to her mistress who was still hovering in midair and shouted at the top of her lungs, "MISTRESS HE'S GOING TO HIT YOU WITH THE DRAGON SLAVE SPELL!"

'Where is he?' Top thought to herself trying to find where he was.

"LET THE FOOLS WHO STANDS BEFORE ME BE DESTROYED BY THE POWER YOU AND I POSSESS!"

"There you are!" Top shouted as she brought her hands together forming a dense sphere of energy for her special move. This would take almost all of her energy and she wouldn't be able to use anymore strong energy attacks till she had time to recharge for a bit.

"DRAGON SLAVE!"

Ranma threw the glowing ball of magic straight at Top hoping that someone like her would be able to take the power from his attack.

"BEAM TOP CANNON SHOT!"

She counters his with her energy attack throwing the energyball at the incoming spell.

The two balls of power smashed into each other both trying to push the other spell back to the sender.

'Her attack is as strong as mine. I need to add more power to it,' Ranma thought to himself as he charged up his blaster, 'Need to beat her, I can't lose Tina like this.' Then if answering him the fourth spell of his Chaos Rune unlocked itself. And he knew how to use it the Rune on his forehead glowed brightly. (6)

"Heart of Creation!"

Top's eyes widen as she saw a massive glowing purple ball of magic flying at her. It struck the two spells they had thrown at each other. Instead of exploding on contact it engulfed both of the spells adding their power into itself. Tops eyes widen as she saw the ball of magic heading straight at her and she couldn't get away from it fast enough.

Ranma watch as his spell struck Top taking her with it as it flew away from the castle and the town. The spell flew out and smash into the side of one of the outlining hills creating a huge dust cloud as it blew. When the light of the blast died down, Ranma saw a huge creator left in its wake.

"Where is she?" Ranma asks as she looks around the creator looking for her body.

"Right behind you."

Ranma eyes widen before gaining control over himself as he stood back-to-back with Top, "So how did you do it? I saw you get hit by that spell."

"I got hit alright but, I was slightly to the side when, I got hit. So when the spell struck the hillside, I got thrown into the air instead of being on the bottom of the spell. Then all, I had to do was to fly ahead of the blast," Top explained to him.

"So where do we take it from here?" Ranma asks as he was drained of almost all of his energy now as he had used two powerful attacks one after the other.

"Simple really," Top said and he could tell she was smiling, "You win."

"What you mean," Ranma asks, "I can tell you can still fight while, I'm almost drain of all of my energy."

"Well you see," Top said as they both turn around to face each other and Ranma saw he had knock her hat off and was in her hands, "You knock my hat off so you win. Since you're already engage with Tina, I can't be engage to you since there are some things that even, I won't cross. But that would bring a whole new meaning to sisterly love."

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Back at Windia –

Everyone is staring at a blushing red Tina.

"Don't asks please just don't asks," she mumbled as she wish that her sister wouldn't do these kind of things to her.

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"Just like that, I win," Ranma asks.

"Yes just like that. Luck has been on your side this day," Top smiled as she put on her hat back on her head, "There are four things that every fighter should have with them. Power, Wisdom, Spirit, and of course there's Luck. As more then one powerful being, has been brought down by a person that has luck on their side."

"I guess, I should be heading back now," Ranma said as he began recovering from his battle.

"Yes and my gift to you is that spell that, I help unlock," she smile at him as she clap her hands together teleporting both of them back to the main tower.

"Ranma you won," Cecile said as she run from the maids over to him.

"Thanks for coming to save me," Thomas said as he finally gotten away from the maids that been playing with him all of this time, "Sorry about all of the trouble that you had to go through."

"A friend like you is worth the trouble," Ranma smiled as he pulled out a bottle of Mega Medicine A and gulp it down.

"Well, I got some clearing up to do," Top said then she eyed Cecile, "You better get out of here before the girls downstairs wake up."

"So, I took them down, I can do it again," Cecile gloated.

"That's what you think," the dark haired maid said.

"They're not going to fight you this time they're going to rip of your clothes and have their way with you," Top smiled.

"Let's go then," Cecile said as she gathered her things and stood very close to Thomas and Ranma.

"Here," Top said as she used her keyblade and slice through the air opening up a portal.

"Thanks," Ranma said as he steps into it.

"Oh yes let me take these," Top said taking Cecile's equipment, "I have my brother repair them for you."

"But my armor and spear," Cecile mumbled as she felt naked without them.

"I have them back to you as soon as, I can," Top smiled as she push her into the portal.

"Well bye," Thomas said as he went after Cecile.

"Well that was fun," Top said as she knew that Mind had shutdown that view screen of hers so it was safe to talk freely.

"Mistress why didn't you use your full power?" the tall dark haired maid asks.

"Simple if, I had taken off my limiter off there's no way Ranma would be able to keep his mind on the battle," Top smiled as her limiter was the leather bodysuit that she wears. The only thing she wore under it was an outfit that would look something out of a harem girl would wear well as the outfit really shouldn't be call an outfit as there's so little to it.

"Yes but we all love to see you in it," she as her other maids smiled.

"Well after clear up let me model it at Sky Queens party," she smiled as she step downstairs to wake up the other girls.

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Back at Lake Castle –

Reni was working on her rapier skills with the help of the other kids. As the grownups wouldn't let them watch the fight with Top Hat so they were in the ranch area. She was training on a wooden dummy as Melville and his group watch along with Lulu, Shabon, and Louis. Iris was in her room playing with Kuriboh, along with Yun. Hugo was off with Lilly and the grownups were elsewhere. The only grownups with them were Sasuke and Reni's two bodyguards Emma and Wendy.

A loud noise suddenly came out from the woods. Making everyone stop what they were doing.

(With you in my usual sight, I can breath
Even though that's already plenty enough to me)

A chain-ball flew out of the woods hitting Sasuke knocking him several feet away from the group. Emma and Wendy shouted to the kids to run.

(The petty me does nothing but repeat mistakes
How strong a strength do I need to have so that nothing will get hurt?)

A giant with two massive metal arms burst out of the forest. He swung his right arm hitting Emma throwing her into the air. Wendy was preparing a spell but was cut off as the metal armed giant swung his other arm hitting her.

(Without hesitation, I believe in this love and live on
I'll tightly embrace your unbandaged wound
And together we'll keep on walking, because we can't go back
Even now, the inerasable sin deep in my chest hurts, but-
Darling)

A tall bamboo man jumps in front of the fleeing kids stopping them in their tracks.

(I remember the painfulness of the love I lost back then
I'm a little perplexed by the vivid blueness of this sky)

With a kick he sent Alanis flying back with a kick to the head. Elliot raised his crossbow but punch hard in the face knocking him out and another punch hit Shabon. Melville screamed as he leaps at the bamboo man with his sword. But was slam back with a head butt to the head.

(For example, even if I sacrificed something, I'd only believe in one thing
The color of the bloomed flowers in the instant when your straightforward eyes reflect)

A girl about Reni age rolled in front of her using two giant spike covered shields holding them together making a ball. Lulu and Louis jump in front of her.

(Even if I'm powerless, I'll live on strongly in this destiny
We'll join our hands and our warmths will melt together forever
If so, even if the sins of more things to come will be painful)

Spikes flew from her shield hitting Lulu and Louis a spike in Lulu's stomach and on Louis right shoulder. Reni eyes widen as she saw her friends all down. A shadow covered her.

(For example, if as long as I'm with you, even if we just turn against the waves of the world...)

She looks up to see someone she thought to be dead, "It's you!" As Jestbomb slam her mace arm into her face.

(Without hesitation, I believe in this love and live on
I'll tightly embrace your unbandaged wound)

Chris rode into the area where she had left Reni at. Her eyes filled with terror as she saw the bodies on the ground. With her are Borus and Percival who had came along with her. She had come to tell Reni that her father was back.

(Without hesitation, I live in this destiny and live on
If I'm with you, surely we'll be connected forever)

"Lady Chris…" Sasuke gasp out.

(And together we'll only look forward, even if nothing came to be done
Nevertheless, I'll keep on protecting you with my hands by all means-)

"What happen?" she asks as she keeled besides him.

"They took Reni to the old mine north of Vinay Del Zexay," Sasuke gasps, "It was Jestbomb and Gasper who took her along with others."

(Darling) (7)

"Borus go back to the castle and tell the others what happen and where they took Reni. Percival take care of the wounded," Chirs said in an emotionless voice, "I'm going after my daughter."

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Next Time – Many of you readers say, I need to add some more edge to my story. So, I'm going to give you readers something that will shock all of you. Next time in 'Broken Bond'.

Author's Notes

1 – I just had to do this one!

2 – One of my favorite books there are three books in all so anyone interested should got the first one to see if you too like cross-time book series?

3 – How many people need help figuring out what crossover it is?

4 – Got that from the Scottsmen from Samaria Jack.

5 – Can anyone tell me where, I can find that other story where 'Indiana Jones' is Ranma's grandfather?

6 – List of Chaos Rune spells:

1st spell 'Chaos Wave'

2nd spell 'Hand of Chaos'

3rd spell 'Twilight Blade' other half of the spell 'Healing Blade'

4th spell 'Heart of Creation'

7 – Full Metal Alchemist ending song

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