The wedding had started off alright at first but now…like the rest of Ranma's life it was utter chaos. Shampoo and Ukyo were throwing bombs everywhere, Kuno was attacking him, Kodachi was attacking Akane, and plus it was free-for-all for the water from the Cursed Spring of Drowned Man with Genma, Ryouga and Mousse in it.

Ranma was trying to keep things under control but with limited success. Ranma had finally found his infinite patience at an end. All his life he'd been made to suffer because of things beyond his control. He'd realised that his father never really cared for him when he'd thrown him into the pit of cats. He could've died in the name of training! He remembered the hissing and scratching as well as him screaming in pain. He couldn't do anything about it.

No more! Ranma's temper began to snap as his eyes suddenly glowed bright blue before he roared, "ENOUGH!" The ki he was releasing was intense but that was normal for him. What wasn't normal were the strong markings on his face right before his body…changed.

It wasn't a change because of his curse, but something else…

Ranma could feel his entire body morph as grey organic armor covered him from head to toe. His teeth turned into fangs as he felt his neck getting longer. Also, he could feel something coiling around his arms and legs.

The fighting ceased when they saw this and Akane screamed. Gone was Ranma and in his place…was the Orochi Orphenoch.

He was serpentine in appearance with a snake's head in the centre of his chest and snakes coiled around his arms and legs. His feet looked like snake heads and hanging from behind his head like hair were even more snakes. His entire body was a mixture of grey and white.

Kuno proclaimed, "So, the demon reveals himself! I shall smite thee!" He rushed at the transformed Ranma, which was a bad idea in itself. He swung down his sword…

CLANG!

The blade, however, was caught between Ranma's now claw-like fingers as he turned his head to look at Kuno. "Kuno…you've been a pain in my ass for a long time. I'm tired of your stupidity and delusions! WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE YOU SHUT UP?!" The snakes hanging from behind his head suddenly reacted to his anger. They struck forward and then wrapped around Kuno's wrists and throat before one of them shoved itself into Kuno's mouth and down his throat. Everyone watched horrified because as soon as Ranma removed the snake, Kuno's body trembled before crumbling into dust. Ranma jerked away from the collapsing body, almost as frightened as everyone else in the room, if not more so.

"What the hell?!" Ranma gasped as he backed away. What the heck had happened? He didn't order the snakes to do that. His horror only grew when the full implications of what happened. "Oh my god…"

No one was sure who screamed first. It was assumed that it was one of the girls, but it might have been one of the fathers knowing how whiney they were. Ranma looked around, still numb to the fact that his body had changed. The rivals were staring while the fiancées could only stare. Kodachi seemed to be on the brink of complete insanity…well, deeper insanity, at the sight of her brother or at least what remained of him.

Ranma felt himself beginning to panic. He had killed again! First Saffron and now Kuno! Unlike the phoenix king, Kuno wasn't going to get back up again.

"No…no, no, no…NOOOOOOOOO!" Ranma bellowed, the snakes around his limbs hissing in empathic despair. Dashing to the side, Ranma crashed through the room. It didn't seem he had even noticed that he had crashed through the solid wall. The collected guests could only stare in fear and surprise at what had happened.

LATER…..

"Saotome!" Soun bawled. "What happened to your son!? He has to be human to join the schools!"

"I don't know!" Genma insisted. "He's never done this before!"

"You're lying!" Nodoka hissed as she drew her sword. "You know why my manly son turned into that beast! Tell me!"

Once the devastation had passed, the guests had arrived expecting a wedding, but got a ruined dojo instead. Nabiki had taken every money gift from the guests and kept it to repair the dojo. Akane had been traumatized and wasn't talking while the fiancées seemed to have lost that spark that kept them in the competition that they set up between themselves. Kodachi had to be hauled away by the police as they took statements from everyone. For once they actually got involved when they heard someone died. The rivals were mixed about the situation. On one hand, the girls they loved/lusted after were most definitely free, but on the other hand, Ranma had turned into a true monster. It was hard to tell what was better.

Kasumi seemed to be doing the best, but the trembling in her hands showed even she was shocked by the events. She was so sure this was going to be the day where her little brother and her little sister were going to get married. Instead, the rivals and fiancées attacked en masse and Ranma had turned into a monster and killed one of them.

'There's a reason why my son has turned into a monster and I know you must be involved!" she held the sword under Genma's chin. "Talk!"

Now Genma was in a pickle and his son wasn't around for him to put the blame on. Of course, he really did not know how his son suddenly turned into a monster, and a powerful one at that. There was nothing he could say to fix this because someone had actually died now and it wasn't a god that could resurrect himself. Kuno may have been a pain but he had still been human but now he was just a pile of dust after Ranma, or whatever he'd turned into, had been done with him.

"Grandmother," Shampoo asked Cologne. "What was that thing Airen become? Was it demon?"