Ranma had just arrived back at the tendos after school had finished. Ranma was still in a fowl mood from this morning. Ranma walked into the dining room to see soun and genma cowering against the wall at the sight of a growling blue wolf, that had cornered them.
"ranma…who…who is your new…friend" soun asked shakily.
"never seen her before" ranma replied as he glared at the wolf.
"and how would you know it's a she pervert" akane asked him while crossing her arms over her front.
"facial features" ranma replied annoyed by akane's insult. Ranma then got on all fours and took on his wolf form and let out a low growl and got the other wolfs attention. He then jumped out into the yard.
Wolf speak…
"hey over here" ranma yelled to the other wolf.
"what do you want, you insolent pup?" the she-wolf responded crankily as she dived out of the tendos household and growled at ranma.
"get away from them" ranma declared as the wolves began circling each other.
"this is no concern of yours…I just want my son back" she barked.
"well you won't kind him here" ranma replied.
"he must be here his father is so my son can't be far" the wolf barked back before lunging at ranma, who quickly dodged the attack. Ranma then pounced the wolf from the side and held the snarling wolf down.
"now tell me who you are, I may know your son" ranma barked trying to end the battle before it hurt someone close to him.
"you won't know him, he isn't a wolf" the wolf barked back and saw ranmas confused look. "err…ever heard of jusenkyo" she inquired and ranma instantly realized what she was talking about, he then nodded his head.
"let me guess spring of drowned wolf" ranma asked and saw the wolf beneath him nod, he then got off her and helped her up "who are you" ranma asked again.
"my name in nodoka soatome" the wolf answered and ranma then took on his human form and surprised nodoka at what he'd done.
Human speak…
"long time no see mum…hey crystal could you bring mum some hot water?" ranma requested, crystal nodded and went to get some hot water (she and dawn had been asked not intervene unless they had to).
"n…n…nodoka…" genma stuttered now even more scared, especially when she had hot water poured on her and reverted back to human.
"genma" nodoka replied with her voice full of anger, she then turned to ranma and tears could be seen in her eyes. "ranma is that really you" she asked her voice hopeful (she couldn't believe her search for her son was over even after he had called her mum).
"yes it is, oh and this crystal my sister, not by blood of course and this is dawn my fiance" ranma said unable to look away from his mother.
"fiance" everyone gasped in unison everyone that is except for ranma, dawn and crystal. "how can you be engaged to her you are to marry my dearest akane" soun declared.
"I proposed to dawn when the full moon was up and we were in the mountains looking at the stars, we'd had a relationship for months now and I wanted to be more than just good friends and it turned out she wanted the same" ranma then turned to dawn who was also looking at him caringly.
Sound then used his family's demon head "saotome you shall marry my akane, not this animal" he declared.
Ranma the turned back to soun's demon head and gave him a death glare and got on all fours everyone stepped back thinking ranma was going to go wolf on them, but it was much worse, ranma became a giant wolf, about the size of a full grown man stood up and the width of 2 fully grown men stood at their full height, his fur was as black as a starless sky on a moonless night, he had red eyes, he looked like the kinda wolf you'd see in your worst nightmares, ranma then growled at soun's demon head, showing his huge, sharp fangs, saliva began to drool out. Soun's demon head instantly faded, he then backed up to the wall and cowered at the sight of the ferocious wolf. Dawn then laid a hand on ranma's shoulder. He turned to his fiance and she shook her head. Ranma then went back to his human form and wiped his mouth.
Ranma then saw everyone's confused faces he then took a deep breath. "that was my alpha form, since it was an alpha that bit me I have a normal wolf form and the one you just saw an alpha form." Ranma then explained to everyone about what happened when the alpha of the pact had bit him.
nodoka then turned to face genma and raised her katana "now genma if i recall you made a sepuku pledge" nodoka said sweetly as she approached him.
"but nodoka...didn't i fulfill my pledge and now i have made ranma a man among men" genma pleaded as he began to sweat and back up against the wall.
"genma if i recall you left my only son with 2 vicious wolves and the only reason he survived was because of his curse and they are the ones who raised him and made him a man among men" replied nodoka as she raised her katana even higher.
"stop" nodoka then turned to see the source of the voice was non other than her son "i may not like what he did but i think you should give one last chance before you end his life" ranma reasoned.
"fine one last chance, after all there's no sense in ending his life...yet...genma I'll give you one more chance to make a man of my son and after how the wolves have raised that shouldn't be too hard." nodoka said as she re sheathed her katana.
"so mum you gonna tell us how you got cursed?" ranma asked.
"once i got to china i sought you out by asking around, i studied Chinese at school, i heard several cases where genma would steal numerous products in broad day light and would slip out while no one was looking, i then heard of some training ground. it took me a few weeks but i finally arrived at jusenkyo and i spoke to the guide who spoke of how you and your father had been to jusenkyo and while sparring you each fell into a cursed spring and i was furious to hear that genma had thrown you into the spring of drowned girl while you were too surprised to move, after he had fallen into the spring of drowned panda. it also turned out genma had stolen a scroll from the poor man" nodoka was interrupted when ranma gave her a scroll she was surprised by the fact ranma had the scroll but decided to continue her story deciding she would speak to ranma later about it. "anyway he told me he lost you 2 in the wolf forest, i was worried at first for ranma's life, until he told me the wolves won't harm anyone who has the curse that ranma has, he then told me which pool had which curse within it, when he told me above the spring of drowned wolf, i had an idea, a way to track you 2 down, i dived into the pool and when i emerged a wolf i took a whiff of the air and was delighted when i found your 2 scents and afterwards i continued my search for you 2 only this time by following your scents and now i have finally found you." nodoka finished and then looked around at everyone's shocked faces.
"you...cursed...yourself just so...you could find...ranma" stuttered akane in disbelief.
nodoka then nodded in reply.