Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ or Tales of Symphonia but I do own Tales Of Symphonia, it's a great game and I encourage anyone reading this story who hasn't played the game to do so. It will give you a better understanding although I will try my best to explain it.

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The walk back to the village was uneventful except for a few minor creatures that got in his way. He kept replaying the recent fight over and over in his mind trying to see what he could have done differently but for the first time ever he came up blank. Kratos was a true master of swordsmanship and ki manipulation. He was in almost every way, Ranma's better.

Ranma didn't fell bad about this though which was strange. It was probably due to the fact that Ranma now had a challenge to rise up to and meet. Not to mention Kratos said he would train him which made the deal that much sweeter.

Finally he reached the village entrance where Lloyd was waiting for him, "So what did he want?" asked Lloyd expectantly.

Ranma knew better then to tell Lloyd the whole truth. If he told him about the journey then Lloyd would probably be a bit envious, "He wanted to talk about my home world and show me a few martial arts tricks," He invented. It wasn't that far from the truth.

Lloyd's curiosity seemed satisfied for the most part but as they walked back out onto the field he asked, "What did he show you?"

"He told me how to produce a ki blast. It should come in handy later, don't you think?" Ranma raised his hand and formed a ki blast that was made of confidence. He didn't have the time to make a pure one and he didn't want to show off too much.

Lloyd nodded approvingly, "It will come in handy. By the way were you planning on joining the journey of regeneration?"

"I was thinking about it," he said cautiously.

"I think it would be great if you could come." He said excitedly, "Colette asked me to come. Their leaving at noon day after tomorrow."

Ranma took a moment to process this new information. Kratos told him to meet at 10:00 day after tomorrow. Apparently Colette didn't want to hurt Lloyd's feelings by denying him to come along. Ranma felt sorry for Lloyd but he respected Colette wishes and kept silent about his revelation.

They were almost to the forest when they encountered a new creature. It appeared to be a blue and white dog type creature but it was about 3 times the size of one. On all fours it stood just below the height of Ranma and Lloyd. Ranma got into a battle stance, ready to attack but Lloyd hurriedly put a hand on Ranma's shoulder.

"Hey, calm down that's just Noishe, my pet dog." Said Lloyd

"Whine." Noishe agreed

'What kind of a dog is that?' thought Ranma to himself but he lowered his fist anyway.

Noishe approached Ranma cautiously sniffing here and there. Ranma stood still for the inspection. Finally Noishe let out a whine and rubbed it's head against Ranma's chest. Ranma reached his hand forward and petted him softly.

"Do you like animals?" asked Lloyd who looked over the scene with an approving eye.

Ranma thought for a moment, "Well, I'm not much of a cat person," he shivered a bit at this, "But I kinda like dogs." He had never owned a pet on the road but he was already starting to like Noishe.

"Noishe seems quite comfortable around you. He usually doesn't trust this easily." Lloyd commented.

They reached the outskirts of the forest where Noishe abruptly ran off, "What's up with him?" he asked.

"I think that he's afraid of fiends. Don't worry, we'll see him again." He took a quick look around and drew his wooden blade, "Were gonna have to fight some fiends, think your up to it?"

Ranma surveyed the monsters in front of them blocking the path they were walking on, "Bring it." He said.

They arrived some time later at Lloyd's house. It was a moderately sized 2-story house with an adjoining corral which was inhabited by Noishe. Ranma also noticed there was a single grave which was apparently made out to Anna, Lloyd's mother.

Lloyd motioned Ranma inside his house. Inside he saw what looked like a smithy complete with anvil and furnace. Various pieces of equipment hung across the walls, mostly hammers and tongs but there was also a few swords and pieces of armor. The smith himself was standing just barely above an anvil that he was working on with. Despite his height he was swinging the metal smith hammer he had like a toy. He didn't seem to notice them until Lloyd spoke up.

"Hey dad I'm home." Spoke Lloyd.

The dwarf looked up from his work and took in their appearances while wiping his brow, "Welcome back Lloyd, how was school today?" He spoke with a slight Scottish accent.

"It was awesome!" Said Lloyd excitedly, "I was able to help Colette receive the oracle."

"Nice of you to help her. I heard about the desian attack on the temple and wondered if you were ok."

Lloyd indicated Ranma, "Ranma here took out most of them before Colette, Genis, and I even arrived."

"Well met Ranma! Names Dirk." He extended his hand towards Ranma who took off his gauntlet and accepted it. He was mildly surprised to find that Dirk had a huge amount of strength in his handshake.

"Likewise." Said Ranma.

"He doesn't have a place to stay so I was wondering if he could bunk here for the night." Said Lloyd.

"I don't see a problem with that," said Dirk. He noticed Ranma's un-gauntleted hand had a keyless exsphere on it before Ranma replaced the gauntlet.

Ranma withdrew the bag of coins that Kratos gave him and presented some to Dirk who only held up his hand in a stop gesture, "It's on the house lad. Consider it repayment for helping Lloyd today."

"I really don't like to freeload," said Ranma uncertainly.

Dirk had encountered people like Ranma before and knew that Ranma was going to feel guilty if he stayed for free so Dirk gave him an alternative, "Well lad, if you insist on paying for something, you can pay me to make you a key crest for your exsphere."

Ranma had forgotten about that but quickly remembered. He reached into the bag and withdrew about three quarters of the gold he received from Kratos, "If it's not to much trouble could you make me some armor as well?" he asked.

Dirk looked over the money offered. It was quite a generous amount, "All right, you got yourself a deal. I'll get started right after dinner."

Dinner was a very basic but very well made meal of meat stew and rice. Ranma treated them all to a show of the Saotome speed eating. It was almost a full 5 minutes before anyone said anything.

As Ranma reached for the serving platter again Dirk grabbed his arm and said, "Slow down a bit lad, the food aint going to walk off your plate now."

Afterwards Ranma did make an effort to eat at a semi-normal pace. At dinner they exchanged stories. Ranma told about his home world and escape from the human ranch finally ending with Martel Temple. Dirk was a little concerned about the desians coming to claim him but he decided not to voice his worries out loud. Day after tomorrow he would be gone from the village on the journey of regeneration, what could happen? After hearing about Genis and his magic wheel he also made a mental note to make Ranma's armor particularly resistant to fire.

Dirk was also sickened by Genma's abusive treatment of Ranma. After Ranma got done with the 5th training exercise Dirk had made a silent vow to place Genma's head on the anvil if he ever got ahold of him. When he finished his story Dirk spoke to Ranma, "He may be your father and all but you are lucky to be away from him."

Ranma was starting to hear this more and more. He was also starting to agree with them. Genma did nothing beyond teaching the basics of martial arts to Ranma and sold him off to feed his fat stomach.

Dirk and Lloyd then began telling Ranma about the land of Sylvarant and the journey of regeneration. Mana was the lifeblood of the planet. Without it, crops wouldn't grow, rain wouldn't fall and the land would be overrun by desians. The chosen would go on a journey of regeneration to restore mana to the land for a time. Apparently the last chosen had failed the journey, killed by the desians, and the land was in desperate need of regeneration.

All this firmed Ranma's desire to become part of the journey to help not only Colette but everyone in the land of Sylvarant. Dirk continued, helped along some by Lloyd, telling him that the chosen would make a journey to all the seals and then finally go to the tower of salvation to regenerate the world.

Finally after finishing the meal Ranma and Lloyd were tired from the days events. Dirk ushered them to the upstairs room where two beds awaited, assuring Ranma his equipment would be done by morning.

Ranma lay awake for a while thinking about how the day had gone. 'Well I'm making a good start in the new world he thought' and with that he went to sleep.

Ranma awoke peacefully for the first time since he was 6. Ever since his dad took him on the training trip for 10 years he had always been awakened by a kick to the stomach or a throw off a cliff.

It was still early so Ranma decided to do his morning practice. Just because he was in a strange new world was not an excuse to slack off in his training. After yawning a few times and doing some stretches he went downstairs fully awake. He was shocked to find that Dirk was already up, either that or he hadn't gone to bed. He was putting the finishing touches on a set of pale blue armor.

"Did you stay up all night?" asked Ranma, amazed that someone would be that dedicated to making a set of armor.

"Nothing to it," said Dirk dismissively, "It comes with the business and it gives you time to try it out. I also made you a new pair of gauntlets." He pointed to a pair of shiny steel gauntlets.

"That wasn't part of the deal," stated Ranma, "There must be some way that I can repay you for those."

"Just hand over your old ones. I can reuse the metal in them," said Dirk with finality, "Now lets see you try it on." He handed the armor to Ranma who accepted wordlessly.

The armor consisted of a light plate mail type. It would give the wearer moderate protection while not restricting movement with it's weight. Dirk had also made him a set of sturdy leather boots. He told Ranma that he was going to be traveling on foot a lot and needed a proper set of shoes for the journey. Ranma could hardly argue with that.

Ranma turned to go outside of the house but Dirk stopped him, "Don't forget this." He held up the completed key crest for his exsphere. With a bit of help he was able to attach it firmly to the exsphere so that it was no longer touching his skin.

"Say Dirk, Lloyd said that this thing," he indicated the exsphere now attached to the key crest, "increased a humans power or something like that."

Dirk seemed to think about his words before he said them, "Yes and no. The exsphere helps are dormant abilities and skills to awaken. Some might consider it a free power up but the abilities still come from inside you."

Whatever Dirk said Ranma still felt as though it were a free power up and he didn't really support those. He moved to take the exsphere and key crest off but was stopped by Dirk's hand.

"You are a true martial artist, wishing to get by on sill alone and not by free power ups but consider this, every desian that you face is going to have an exsphere. You can think of this as putting you on level with them." Ranma still did not looked convinced so Dirk finally said, "If you don't want to do it yourself then can you do it for Colette? She will need all the help she can get, free power or not."

Ranma finally gave in and promised to keep the exsphere, for Colette, if not himself.

Ranma went outdoors to the field to practice. The armor was already becoming a second skin to him for he could hardly notice its weight. He was soon doing advanced katas with just as much grace and speed as before.

The boots took a little more time to get used to, though not much. He usually didn't wear shoes at all when he fought or when he did, he went for comfort to save himself any unneeded sores on his feet. Dirk knew what he was doing, however, and made the boots well padded on the inside. Who would have thought that he was a great leather worker as well as a smith?

An hour later Dirk called him in to breakfast. He was greeted there by a tired Lloyd who was just getting up. Lloyd noticed his new armor and nodded approvingly while saying, "Looks good dad, good job."

Breakfast, like dinner, was a simple but delicious meal of omelets and bacon. Ranma was once again shocked at the cooking skills Dirk seemed to possess. He silently wondered what else the dwarf could do.

After breakfast Dirk pushed some basic school supplies towards Ranma who groaned.

"Ya may be leavin tomorrow but you know right well that the professor is going along with you. You don't be wanting to miss school with you at her mercy." Lloyd unconsciously shivered, probably remembering the injury she had dealt him yesterday.

Ranma couldn't blame him. If yesterday was any indication of her usual behavior he was in for a long trip, it was best not to get her angry before the journey even started. He nodded affirmative to Dirk who threw him and Lloyd a packed lunch.

"We have 10 minutes to get to class," commented Lloyd as they were walking away from Dirk's house, "Race you there!" and with that, he took off with a pace that would rival Ranma's speed.

Ranma was also impressed with his speed. He may be below Kratos and him but he sure could move fast, he ran hard to catch up with him and slackened his pace once he reached him.

Several fiends who were awaiting them on the path were shocked to see two blurs, one blue the other red, run at them with a pace seemingly impossible for a human. They charged straight through all of the fiends, knocking quite a few several yards away.

They got to the classroom with 2 minutes to spare. Raine greeted them as they got in, "Ranma Saotome, nice to see that you will be attending class here," she turned to Lloyd, "And it is also nice to see you on time for the 2nd time this year." This comment was met with a few sniggers from the class.

"Thanks professor." Said Lloyd obliviously.

Lloyd took his seat and Ranma walked to the front of the room and introduced himself, "I'm Ranma Saotome and I'm from er…" he paused for a second not sure how to continue, "… out of town." He finished lamely. This however seemed to be acceptable to Raine and she assigned him a seat between Lloyd and Genis.

The discussion started with geography, mostly relating to the chosen's journey. Ranma and Lloyd stayed awake for the entire part of this lesson, for it was going to be of importance on the journey but as soon as the discussion changed to mathematics it only took about 2 minutes for him to fall asleep. Raine picked up an eraser from the board that Ranma noticed was labeled "Lloyd" and threw it at him, hitting him square in the head.

"Please pick up your water buckets and stand at the back of the class." The way she said it made it sound like it was a usual occurrence, not to mention the buckets were already full and also labeled Lloyd.

Ranma was able to last through mathematics but was similarly asleep by the time that she reached English. Raine looked surprised for a second but then she went to her desk and took out another eraser and a black pen and wrote "Ranma" on it and then chucked it at him.

Still asleep, Ranma raised his right hand and caught the eraser and continued sleeping. Raine was shocked but quickly recovered throwing pens, chalk and another eraser but all of them were deflected by Ranma's seemingly automatic response. The whole class, even Lloyd who just woke up when a stray piece of chalk hit him, was watching him now.

Still betraying no anger Raine went over to Lloyd and took one of his buckets, walked over to where Ranma and Genis, who vacated the seat when he saw the bucket, was sitting and promptly emptied the contents onto the still sleeping Ranma.

Ranma instantly jolted awake and got into an aggressive stance, kicking over a few chairs in the process, but relaxed when he saw who it was, "What did ya do that for?" he protested.

Raine still seemed unfazed by the stance or question, merely saying, "I would appreciate it if you did not sleep in class. Please grab two buckets and stand in the back of the class." Raine walked back to the front of the class and resumed teaching as if nothing had happened.

Afterwards both Ranma and Lloyd were able to stay awake for another 10 minutes before finally falling asleep while standing up. Raine decided to give it up for a lost cause, at least until the chosen's journey began. Then she would have the time to properly educate Ranma Saotome.

Even though he was sleeping, Ranma could still feel a shiver crawl up his spine for some reason.

The rest of the school day was uneventful save for Raine throwing another bucket of water on Ranma because he started snoring. Ranma thought the class was a complete waste of time. Except for the chosen's journey he wasn't interested in the things that professor Raine talked about.

"Say Ranma, would you like to come and train with me? That's what I usually do after school."

Ranma was itching to get out and practice with his new equipment on some enemies so he agreed. With Genis and Colette in tow they proceeded to leave the village but they were stopped by the guards.

"Lloyd Irving, you have a message from the mayor." Said the guard.

"From the mayor? What is it?"

"He asked if any of you had been near the ranch at all and warns you not to go near it."

Colette quickly glanced at Ranma then looked away. Genis, Ranma noticed, had turned a slightly brighter shade of white.

"Nope, none of us had been near the ranch or ever plan to." Said Lloyd and the guard let them pass.

Lloyd went out to the middle of the field and took a bottle from his pack. He opened it and placed it in the center of the field. The bottle released a dark smoke.

"What's that?" asked Ranma.

"That's a dark bottle." Genis responded, "It attracts enemies to it."

"I thought we could use a little warm up since your probably sore from standing in class all day." Said Lloyd

Ranma agreed while preparing himself for a fight. Already he could see enemies zeroing in on their position, attracted by the effects of the bottle.

There was only one way to describe the battle that took place. Endless wave meets unmovable force. Approximately 25 enemies attacked the duo (sometimes quadruple if they got past Lloyd and Ranma) in the short time the bottle lasted and approximately 25 enemies fell beneath the combined powers of Lloyd, Ranma, and sometimes Genis and Colette.

Ranma and Lloyd took a quick breather before facing off against eachother. Each person respectfully saluted the other and began. Ranma immediately noticed a difference between Lloyd and Kratos fighting styles with the sword.

While Lloyd was above average of most swordfighters he had met, his skill fell below average. While his good speed and strength might be more than enough to take down the minor enemies they found and most desians, it was far from Kratos level who fought as though the sword was just another part of his body.

Ranma did not go full out on Lloyd, rather he danced around his blows and struck him lightly when he left an opening. Rather then get angry at this, Lloyd took this as a cue to tighten his defenses and try to attack with more speed, if not more force.

After about 10 minutes of this exercise Ranma jumped over Lloyd's head and swept his legs out from under him. Lloyd got up and bowed to Ranma who did it in return.

"Thanks for the practice session." Said Lloyd. Even though it was brief, Lloyd felt like he had learned something from Ranma.

Colette turned to go back to her house after saying her goodbyes. Ranma and Lloyd turned to the entrance of Iselia Forest but they were stopped by Genis, "Hey Lloyd could I come with you part of the way?"

"Sure, but why?" Asked Lloyd

"I…er…want to visit a friend of mine." He finished lamely.

"Oh I didn't think you had any friends outside of the village except for me." Said Lloyd.

"Sure you can come with us." Finished Ranma. He didn't think it would be that big of a deal if he did.

Ranma and company walked through the forest casually beating off any enemies they encountered. They had ceased to be even a nuisance a long time ago, however this world seemed to produce a never ending supply of fiends that were out for their blood, no matter how weak they were.

When Lloyd had lead Ranma to his house yesterday he had memorized the route so he was a little concerned when he saw Genis take a path that was branching off to the left, "Hey Genis, that's the way to the ranch, wouldn't this be in violation of the non-aggression treaty?"

"The desians already violated the treaty when they attacked the temple! Besides, this will only take a minute." argued Genis.

Lloyd bowed before superior intellect, "Alright but I'm coming with you."

"This could get ugly, I'll come too." Put in Ranma.

Genis led them back to the place that Ranma had hoped never to see again, Iselia Human Ranch. Genis led them off to the left of the front gate where one of the prisoners were waiting. Ranma was shocked to see that it was Marble.

"Marble!" exclaimed Genis running up, "How are you? I saved you some of my lunch."

"It is nice to see you again Genis," she said as she took the food and ate it slowly. She took in his other two companions, "You must be Lloyd, Genis has told me so much about you."

"Nice to meet you." Said Lloyd politely.

"Ah, Ranma. I didn't expect to see you here again."

"You two knew eachother?" asked Genis

"We were cellmates." Explained Ranma.

"Yes, you caused quite an uproar with your escape. The security guards have been in quite a foul mood lately. I believe it was triple guard duty for 3 weeks." She chuckled softly.

"Yeah well serves them right for not paying attention." Said Ranma nonchalant.

As Marble finished the sandwich that Genis brought her Lloyd noticed a gem embedded in her right hand, "You have an exsphere!" he exclaimed.

Marble looked at the back of her hand before saying unconcernedly, "Oh so that's what this silly thing is. What does it do?"

Lloyd then proceeded to give his lecture on exspheres. He may have had no talent for academic work but he could tell you anything about those gems and he could talk about it like it came from a textbook. Ranma wasn't really listening, he had heard it before.

When Lloyd was done, Genis asked him if his dad could make a key crest. Lloyd agreed saying that he would ask his dad. Ranma however, was looking past them at the guards approaching, "Guys we gotta get outta here fast!" he whispered loudly.

"Hey old woman, what do you think your doing over there!" shouted one of the guards.

"I'm sorry I'll get back to work right away." She moved past them but was held up by another guard.

"Who were you talking to?" he asked

"There was no one there." She responded

"Hmm, I don't think that she's being completely honest with us." Said the third, "Take her out back and make her talk."

The trio had caught the whole guards conversation. "Quick we need to see what's happening!" whispered Genis.

"Right," said Lloyd. He pointed to some cliffs over to the right of the gate, "We can climb up there."

Ranma remained silent. He already knew what was happening to her, having seen more than one person suffer the same fate. He followed them up the cliffs which conveniently formed a series of low jumps to the top.

When they got to the top they witnessed the three desians with their whips out taking turns hitting Marble in the back. The weak cloth of the ranch was torn and there were several red marks on her back where the whips struck.

"We have to help her!" Genis exclaimed.

Lloyd closed his eyes in thought for a moment then he opened them and spoke, "Alright Genis, cast fireball and try to hit all three guards. I'll run by the gate and jump of the ledge. You make your way back to the village once the guards are distracted. Ranma?"

Ranma took a good look at the gate and noticed something disturbing. On the gate were a pair of security cameras, "I'll take those out." He pointed to the cameras.

Genis readied his spell and Ranma noticed that all nervousness was gone. He was a mask of concentration and determination that betrayed no emotion. He aimed his fireball perfectly and hit all three desians in the back. At the same time Ranma released two weak confidence blasts and took out the cameras. Lloyd jumped on top of the gate and jumped to the ground just as it opened. Lloyd successfully made his leap off of the cliff and lost them.

Unfortunately Genis stumbled and the desians turned around. Ranma silently cursed, he would have to take those two out or the village woul suffer. Ranma despised killing but he couldn't let these two live or word would get back. Ranma jumped from his perch on the cliff and ran towards the two desians catching them by surprise.

Ranma did not think about what he was doing, he thought about the wrongs the desians committed, mercilessly whipping the slaves for the smallest of things, raiding villages and bringing back more humans to their ranch, and finally killing them off after they had stayed a while (at least that was what he thought. He had seen slaves taken away and never return).

Ranma had charged his fist with ki and delivered a lethal punch to one desian's head. The other two turned around and Ranma unleashed a small Demon Blast into another ones heart, leaving a hole going through his chest. The third one actually had time to get his crossbow out before Ranma kicked it out of his hands and used the same foot to kick him in the throat crushing his windpipe.

Task finished, Ranma followed Lloyd's exit by jumping off the cliff to the left of the entrance, just in time too because the reinforcements were arriving. The cliff was easily 40 feet high but Ranma softened his fall with ki. Coupled with his training and exsphere the fall did little damage, except to the ground around him.

Lloyd had met him at the bottom, "I take it that your jumping off the cliff means that things did not go well."

"No worries, I took out the ones that saw me." Ranma tried to act casual but he was still shaken from what he had done. The desians may have deserved it but Ranma would never enjoy killing humans, or half elves for that matter.

They were quickly joined by Genis who had made it down the hill finally, "That was a little close." Said Genis out of breath.

"Don't worry," said Lloyd speaking for Ranma, "He took out the ones that saw us and none of them saw our faces."

"Thanks a lot Lloyd, you may have saved Marble's life." Said Genis. He looked at the sky and noticed the sun setting, "I have to get home, see you tomorrow at noon, there's no school tomorrow." He walked out of the forest and back to the village.

"We should get heading back to Dirk's place as well." Said Lloyd.

Ranma, still mulling over what had just happened, was surprised when they found the exit to the forest blocked by none other than Kratos. He gave no explanation to why he was there, he only asked that Ranma speak to him for a moment. Ranma accepted slightly confused while Lloyd waited at the entrance.

"I am glad to see you well after your little adventure at the ranch." He said.

'How could he have been there without me noticing?' he thought shocked.

Kratos seemed to read his mind, "It's a stealth technique that I picked up in my travels. With practice you can mask your aura but that's not what's important right now."

"Ranma," he started his tone suddenly becoming more serious, "Do you know what the difference is between a warrior and a martial artist?"

Ranma nodded, he had learned the philosophy from one of his many teachers in the martial arts. Though they seemed the same they were worlds apart.

"When you go on this journey, you will have to be a warrior and not just a martial artist. While a martial artist may go for a knockout and try and put down his opponents in the least forceful manner, a warrior knows that sometimes despite what you may do, may have to use lethal force."

Ranma nodded his head in understanding, feeling a little reassured.

"I am not stating that you have to enjoy killing. It is your humanity and reluctance to kill that sets you apart from people like desians who kill for fun and pleasure. Never forget that." And with that he walked away leaving Ranma with his thoughts.

"So what did he want?" asked Lloyd grumpily. He held a grudging respect for Kratos and his skills but not much else.

"That time at the ranch," he began in a hollow tone, "Was the first time that I killed someone."

Lloyd nodded in understanding and spoke in a rare moment of wisdom, "It was hard for me too. Couldn't get out of my room for two whole days I was depressed until Dirk came and consoled me saying that killing was sometimes necessary but you never had to enjoy it."

Ranma smiled a bit at this, "Kratos said the same thing."

"I hate to admit it but the guys right." Commented Lloyd, "We are probably going to be encountering a lot of less than friendly people on the road so we better be prepared." Ranma felt a pang of guilt as he talked about the chosen's journey.

Ranma was feeling a lot better now although he would never like killing, "Thanks Lloyd."

"No problem," Ranma and Lloyd's stomachs chose this moment to alert their masters that they were due for dinner, "Race you home!" Lloyd shouted and took off towards Dirk's house, Ranma trailing behind.

A/N: Finally, a new chapter is up. I would have gotten it sooner but my mom has taken the computer memory down to 1 gig with her digital camera and now she works day and night to take the pictures off the computer and onto discs. This has give me very little time to type unfortunately…

Inu-Yasha: Well you have time now so you should stop ranting and start typing your next chapter.

ClanCrusher: What the heck are you doing here? You aren't even in this story!

Inu-Yasha: Yeah but anyone can come in during the authors note.

Sailor Scouts: In the name of love and justice we will punish you demon!

ClanCrusher: Oh boy.

Robin: There's the fanged demon! Teen Titans Go!

Ryoga: Who me? Can you tell me where I am?

The rest of NWC: Ranma prepare to die!

Mallet-sama: Lloyd no Baka! (Guess who?)

Pluto: You are all threats to crystal Tokyo. You must die!

ClanCrusher: Well I'm getting the heck outta here. (Ducks under a table as a fire ball nearly hits him)

On a more serious note I still want your reviews, comments, criticisms, etc. I cant live without them. Next time on Ranma of Symphonia "The Journey Begins" or it will if they don't kill me first.

Trigger Happy Mallet Girl: ClanCrusher No BAKA!