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[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, but I'm not trying to make any money off this so I guess it's OK then.

This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko.

This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell me what you think.

Chapter 10: Engagement from Above


Up in Asgard, in the Contract Offices for the Gods, a memo was printed out and started an uproar.

A young goddess grabbed the memo from the printer, reads it, and exclaims. "Like the dung of the Great Wolf Fenrir, this is going to cause a great stink in Asgard!" She yells waving the memo around and holding her nose.

This drew the attention of Hermes, God of Messengers and Thieves, who ran over and grabbed the memo. "Let's see what has you so excited Sheena." He says starting to read the memo. "Hmm, 'Urgent action required in the matter of the engagement between a daughter of Odin a.k.a. Kami-sama and Saotome Ranma son of Saotome Genma. Reference Prayer 1989AD-OD#25436.' WAOH! Who would have though it of old One-Eye?! Setting up one of his girls in an arranged marriage. HA HA HA!"

"But Lord Hermes, isn't there a clause invalidating arranged marriages between Gods and mortals." Sheena asks suddenly worried about all the times her father Bacchus engaged her while drunk in a bar on Earth.

"That's right Sheena. That has been on the books since the Titan's were in charge." Hermes replies. "As I recall the story, several of Kronos's daughters were mighty upset about being married off to men that rarely lived even 50 years and were of less than 6 feet in height. I could see the problem of course, his youngest daughter was 300 years old at the time and his shortest was 20 feet tall, they gathered support from the other young Titan's, even the men since it would prevent a forced wedding if they got some mortal maiden in the family way. It's been enforced ever since, even by our rivals down below."

"But Lord Hermes, how does that affect Lady Belldandy's situation?" Sheena asks.

"Well, Belldandy has a contract to fulfil a Wish. The only time she questioned the arrangement was right at the start, and she never really complained about it. Also the Wish never mentioned getting married, that's up to them to decide on."

"Then shouldn't Yggdrasil have ignored this deal?"

"Well you would think so. Maybe Odin will give his girls the option to marry this mortal, but he can't insist. The only way this could be a problem is if this Ranma fellow is an Immortal. Then of course this would be a done deal with little chance to get out of it. But Odin knows better to make deals like that with other god's after all the trouble he used to have with Loki."

"Hmm, I'll just pull up this Ranma's file." Sheena says sitting down at her workstation and typing away. "Hmm, Saotome Ranma, son of Saotome Genma and Masaki Nodoka, Japanese male or female?! See note 2? age 17, height 5'9" or 5', weight 150 lbs. or 105 lbs., hair color black or red, eye color blue. All right, note 2 is a Nyanniichuan curse! He changes into a girl when splashed with cold water with hot water returning him to his male body."

"Poor guy. That must make his life interesting." Hermes remarks, reading over Sheena's shoulder. "Look for something that would change his mortal status, check in his accomplishments."

"OK, lets see. Possible third in line for the Throne of the Juraii Empire."

"Hmm, that could do it if he has a Ship Tree, they extend their partner's lifespan too over a thousand years."

"No mention of a Juraii Ship Tree. Hmm, what’s this? Survived eating Mermaid's Flesh, what’s that? I've never heard of it." Sheena asks.

"Mermaid's Flesh! Well, it's a powerful mutagenic poison. But a man that eats it and lives becomes Immortal. Age, disease, and most poisons have no more effect on him, and he will heal injures at an amazing rate, even to the point of coming back from the dead in most cases." Hermes replies. "I'll have to rush this up to Odin, it seems that one of his girls has a fiancé to track down. I don't envy him telling them about it."

Everyone cringes at telling one of the Norns that they were getting married to some guy.

Sheena calls up Ranma's ID picture and gets a split screen with boy and girl Ranma’s side by side and exclaims. "Wow! He's buff! and his girl form is a hottie!"

"Urd may not complain when she sees this."

"Urd?! Why her?"

"Well, Skuld is still appears too young," Hermes says, "and Belldandy is pretty stuck on that Morisato guy. Urd looks older than him, but I doubt he would complain. Of course, being an Immortal now, he could also wait a few years for Skuld to be old enough if he doesn't like Urd. But I need to get this to Odin, come on Sheena."

"Why do I need to go?"

"Because misery loves company my dear little goddess. If I suffer so should you, so put Ranma's file on a disc and come on." insists Hermes. "And call ahead and tell his secretary that we're coming up."

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Getting in to see Kami-sama wasn't too hard, Yggdrasil was running fine and things were OK between the forces of Heaven and Hell at the moment, and they said it was urgent business concerning a new Immortal so Ares got bumped and rescheduled for Thursday afternoon to discuss more advanced training for the Valkeries and Eihenhier.

As Hermes ran in dragging Sheena behind him Ares was arguing with Kami-sama's secretary about his appointment.

"Now Ares, don't be like that." Hermes says. "This is a rather unusual case involving family business between Odin himself and a new Immortal. In fact you might want to hang around if you want to see Himself lose his cool, you should be able to hear it out here just fine."

"What's this Hermes? You got a prank in the works?" Ares asks his fellow Greek God.

"No, just being the messenger of weird news. It should be all over the grapevine right after this meeting." Hermes replies. "He'll never be able to keep this one quiet."

"Nuh unh, No Way, not this one, it's too . . . juicy." Sheena adds barely controlling her snickering.

"OK, now you've got me interested, Spill it. What's going on?" Ares demands.

"Sorry. Got to tell the boss man first, but stick around and we can get a drink after and I'll let you in on the whole story." Hermes says putting Ares off until later.

Then seeing an angry Hera coming out of Odin's office Ares says, "I heard that she has another Woman Scorned case, something about some Japanese girl getting her marriage ruined, fighting, bombs and bloodshed, a real mess and Hera wants to go after the playboy groom Ranma something."

"Ranma? Would that happen to be Saotome Ranma?" Sheena asks the war god.

"Hmm, probably." Ares replies. "Saotome Ranma, yeah that's where I saw that name. He's quite the fighter. He won a battle with Saffron and the Phoenix Guard. A Very good martial artist, from the report I saw, he could give her more trouble than Hercules did if she goes after him."

"Tell you what Ares, get together what you can on this Ranma and his dad Genma and meet us at the mead hall over on Troubadour. This is the biggest thing to hit Asgard since Belldandy granted that kid's wish and got stuck down there." Hermes tells him, then. "But I've got to give the boss the Good news. C ya. Come on Sheena."

Hermes drags Sheena into Kami-sama's office and halts in front of the one-eyed god's desk.

"So Hermes, what's so important that you had to bump Ares's appointment, you know how he gets." Odin says from his spot behind the desk.

"Well, better get out the mead. This news requires a toast." Hermes says trying to keep a straight face.

Odin tries to do the eyebrow trick, but doesn't pull it off very well, what with the eye patch and all, so he pulls out a bottle from the desk and conjures up three shot glasses and pours the shots. Once they all have a glass in hand he says, "OK, now spill it."

Hermes looks at Sheena then raises his glass to Odin, Sheena mirroring his actions and they both say "Congratulations on the upcoming wedding of your daughter and Saotome Ranma. Kanpei!" as they toss back they're shots leaving Odin spewing mead from his nose.

"WHAT!!!" Odin's roar is heard all over Asgard. "HERMES! You did that on purpose!" Odin yells across the desk at the God of Messengers. "You and your Fiendish sense of humor are going to get you into trouble someday, maybe today. Now tell me what is going on."

"Heh heh heh, it was worth it. Erm hrm, well Sheena here pulled an important memo from Yggdrasil that suggests immediate action concerning the engagement of a Daughter of Odin and a certain Saotome Ranma." Hermes explains handing over the memo.

"Did you know that Hera was just in here wanting support for going after this Ranma boy for jilting his bride at the altar?" Seeing Hermes nod Odin continues. "She wanted several of our top Valkeries to put him in his place since he has reservations about hitting girls. I told her I'd look into it and get back to her. Now your telling me that one of my little girls is going to marry this guy! Explain."

"The memo references a prayer that you answered 5 years ago, providing aid to a Saotome Genma." Sheena replies.

"Yes, I remember that." Odin recalls. "He was in Hamburg with his son Ranma who was about 13. He had accepted a contract to train Wolfgang Krausser the Third in the art of Anything Goes for a year, but when he got to the estate he was told that the elder Wolfgang had been killed by his own son in a fight, and the young man he was to train was a vicious beast of a man. So he canceled the contract and ran off without refunding the deposit. This left him broke and stranded in Germany. (He had already spent all the money.) He prayed to me at one of the old roadside shrines, asking for help escaping Wolfgang and leaving Germany. He even offered to marry his son to . . . one of . . . my daughters! But! His son is a mortal, so I ignored the offer and helped him mostly for the sake of his son. Well Hermes, you had me going worried there for a minute. That was a well-played joke. HA HA HA."

"Well, it’s nice to see that you can appreciate a good joke, but the fact remains that Saotome Ranma is no longer a mortal, Thus making a Valid Engagement since you answered that prayer." Hermes tells Odin with his most serious tone.

Sheena adds her 2 yen, "We looked up Saotome Ranma's file and found that he has eaten the flesh of a Mermaid and achieved Immortality. If it makes you feel better he is quite the handsome young man and probably isn't as bad as some people make him out to be."

"I hope not!" Odin growls, banging his head on the desk. "According to Hera, Ranma's womanizing causes more trouble than even that of Paris."

[Note: To those how don't know. Paris was a young man who judged a beauty contest between several Greek Goddesses, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera I think, he choose Aphrodite and she rewarded him by making Helen of Troy fall in love with him. Just one problem, she was married to a Greek King at the time, her eloping with Paris to Troy caused the Trojan War.]

"Leave the file and tell my secretary to cancel everything else today and tomorrow for urgent family business, it looks like I'm going to Tokyo for a visit." Kami-sama says shooing them from his office.

Just before they escape Odin yells out, "Oh Hermes, you and Sheena need to go find my soon-to-be Son-in-law and escort him to Belldandy's temple tomorrow for lunch. GOT IT!"

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Ares meets up with Hermes and Sheena later at the mead hall carrying several files, with Athena at his side. Both Hermes and Sheena have empty mugs lined up in front of them already.

"That bad hunh?" Ares asks them.

"What? Didn't you hear?" Sheena replies.

"Everyone heard." Ares replies. "Not everyone knows the whole story yet, maybe no ones all of it, but I found out about most of it."

"WE found most of it." Athena tells them. "Ares called me in when it started getting too confusing for him."

"Yeah, that was about 2 minutes after I started." Ares replies. "The poor kid's life is like a multi-train pileup at a switching yard. There is no way in sight of getting the mess straightened out."

"Uhm, when did you two start getting along?" Hermes asks them. "You used to hate each other with a passion, always at each others throats."

"Hah hah, we got over our little rivalry 2,000 years ago. We just kept it a secret. It was too both our advantage." Athena replies.

"Yeah, for one thing other gods would always try and play us off against each other," Ares adds, "and expect me to be too rash and Athena too cautious, but we would be talking to each other behind the scenes. It worked out great for both of us."

Hermes smacked himself in the forehead, now knowing why the pair had never really fell into his pranks. Sheena just laughed.

Ares sets open up a file on the table while Athena starts talking. "The first thing we looked into was any contracts with other Gods. We found one, turns out that what Saotome Genma met your father Bacchus in a bar one night." She addresses to Sheena.

"Oh No!" Sheena yells.

"But this happened 18 years ago, so your safe, Sheena." Ares says laying a hand on her shoulder.

"Right, your father Bacchus, engaged your older sister Peorth to Ranma." Athena continues. "But we think that a Demon may also have made a contract with Genma for Ranma."

"We can only hope it was just an engagement." Ares finishes. "Other than that it looks like Ranma is engaged to 8 Japanese girls, 4 of whom can be considered Immortals."

"As well as five Amazon brides by combat, one of them reaffirmed by a challenge fight in front of witnesses." Athena adds.

"Also Ranma can be considered as being Japanese, Amazon, and Juraiian by law, marriage, and birthright." Ares tells them.

"Besides now being an Immortal by the laws of Heaven and Hell." Athena says. "By Japanese law he is in a hopeless situation, honorably engaged to sixteen girls and only able too marry one of them."

"But all of the others allow polygamy," Ares says, "even though 16 wives is beyond any precedent in Heaven or Hell or among the Amazons or Juraii."

"The best option we've seen so far," Athena suggests, "is for all the brides to be accepted into the Amazon tribe and then marry Ranma, and get their families and the Japanese government to recognize Amazon marriage law."

"But Amazon marriage law is savage and feminist in the extreme." Ares explains, "With engagement by combat, and settling disputes with duels. The husband also has many duties to his wives, and almost no rights under Amazon law." Ares says giving Athena a dirty look.

"Hey! Don't look at me like that!" Athena yells at Ares. "I'm just their War God, they took after Hera for how to treat their men, since Artemis is still a Virgin Goddess and has no family of her own. Look at how your Musk tribe worked out!"

"Don't blame me for that!" Ares yells back. "They would have been fine if they hadn't found a way to lock that Nyanniichuan curse to get brides. Anything dunked in there comes out as a full-blown hottie that made it really easy to get into bestiality. At least they don't let the wild mothers raise the kids. It’s bad enough being descended from wild animals without being raised by them."

"HEY! Hey! Hey!" Hermes yells, interrupting the two war gods. "What happened to you to getting along?"

"Well, we have to keep up the act, and there are still several touche subjects that we argue about." Athena explains. "The Amazon and Musk tribes are one of our disagreements."

"So, what are the chances of Amazon law being recognized by the Japanese?" Sheena asks.

"Pretty good, since Amazon law is backed by the government of the People’s Republic of China." Athena replies. "The PRC lets them have what they want most of the time and just leaves them alone and respect their cultural diversity, but still consider them Chinese citizens."

"Yeah, the Chinese have always kowtoed to the Amazons somewhat because of the mystic powers of the Elders." Ares informs them. "Did you know that Xian Pu, Koh Lon, and Ranma have diplomatic immunity issued by the PRC government?"

“What?!” Sheena exclaims. “Why would Ranma have Chinese diplomatic immunity? He’s Japanese!”

“Who is married to an Chinese Amazon Champion.” Athena reminds Sheena. “Ranma just hasn’t realized that Amazon Law is recognized by the Chinese government, and thus by the rest of the world, and since Ranma, Genma, and the Tendos, with the exception of Nabiki, don’t realize the fact that Amazon Law is backed up by the PRC, they consider Xian Pu as a determined fiancee with a weak claim.”

“Why has this Nabiki not informed them of this?” Hermes asks. “It seems silly to seek marriage to a married man.”

“Since Ranma has never consummated the marriage to Shampoo it would be fairly easy to get it annulled by the Japanese courts.” Ares replies. “There is also the fact that the Amazons are polygamous, and that Ranma has more rights and power than any other Amazon male due to his status as a female warrior and having defeated an Elder in a challenge fight, not to mention his defeat of Musk and Phoenix leaders.”

“That’s right, Ranma actually has more say than his First Wife in the marriage.” Athena interjects. “The first Husband to be the best female warrior in a marriage ever! Ha ha ha ha!”

"Yeah, I bet that really gets to those Ultra-Feminist Elders." Ares says. "The usual setup is for a great male warrior to have many Amazon wives so that they can gang up on him under the command of the first wife, but it looks like Ranma will have many Japanese wives who will defer to their husband. Moving on, Sheena, are you going to track down your father, Bacchus, and question him about Peorth's engagement?"

"Why bother?" Sheena replies. "Dad was drunk when he made it, and probably didn't even remember it the morning afterwards. We daughters of Bacchus know how he works and sometimes check our files and tease each other about our mortal fiancees. Last I checked I had 25 fiancees, all mortal of course, so they don't count, Peorth had 48 fiancees, Diana had 75, and my older sisters have all topped 100, with Tiphinius having the record at 350 fiancees, of which only 4 are still alive. I think he sets us up more often while we are young, but he still sometimes remembers his older daughters that are still single."

"What!" Ares roars, outraged at Bacchus making so many engagements for his daughters. "You’re only, what 13 years old, and you've already got major fiancee problems!"

"It's not a big deal." Sheena tells him in a calm voice, not wanting them to know that she’s only 10 years old. "We just ignore it mostly, since our fiancees are mortal we don't have to marry them, and usually both sides don't remember the deal in the morning anyway. I think this will be the first time that Dad has set one of us up with an Immortal, and that's just a fluke because he ate of a mermaid's flesh. I will, of course, tell Peorth about it when I see her tomorrow. Lucky girl, getting an arranged engagement to the newest Immortal bachelor. Hehehe hahaha BwuhaHAHAHA!"

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Down on Earth, at a temple not far from the Nekomi Institute of Technology, Urd was playing Uno against Skuld and Peorth for the TV remote, Keiichi was in the garage working on a motorized skateboard, and Belldandy was cooking breakfast in the kitchen when the phone started ringing.

Skuld put down her cards and answered the phone before Belldandy could get out of the kitchen. "Mushi mushi . . . Hello Otousama, it's nice to hear from you too . . . No everything is fine here, Urd hasn't caused too much trouble lately . . . We're going to have company coming over for lunch tomorrow. How many? ... At least four, but you figure more will show up. . . . Ten! ... And several big eaters, I'll tell her . . . You want all of us here. What about Peorth? She’s down here on vacation . . . Great! Hermes is bringing Sheena down. I haven't seen her since I've been down here. I'll be sure and tell her . . . We'll be ready. Ja ne Otousama."

All the other goddesses had gathered around to listen in.

"Ok squirt, what's wrong this time?" Urd asks.

"He didn't mention anything being wrong." Skuld answers, "But he also didn't say why we are having company tomorrow. He mentioned that Hermes was going to bring Sheena down and escort a guest here, and that some of his friends might come along with him. And that there might be other uninvited guests, but that we are to try and avoid fighting with them."

"Oh my." says Belldandy (What? Were you expecting it to be Kasumi?) "Well it sounds like I'll have to do some shopping today. So Urd, what's your mother's favorite food?"

"Right, we can probably expect Hild and Mara to drop in uninvited. I know she likes chocolate cake. They made up Devil's Food Cake for her sweet tooth. Besides that anything really spicy." Urd tells her.

"I wonder why Uncle Hermes is bringing Sheena-imoutochan with him?" Peorth asks.

"I heard that Sheena has been hanging around the Contract Office where he has been working recently." Skuld tells her. "Excuse me. I have to go outside for something."

Skuld walks out behind the house and stands still looking up into the sky when a bright beam of light reaches down from the sky to the goddess mark on her forehead. Skuld seems to be growing up and filling out while in the beam of light. When the light stops Skuld walks back inside and is only a couple inches shorter than Urd and looks like a 17-year-old hottie.

"Wha.. wha.. what is this for?!" Urd asks her not so little anymore sister.

"Uhm, well, Kami-sama said he didn't think it was fair for me to look so young considering who is coming over." Skuld explains. "He said it would give all the other girls too much of an advantage over me, so I figure our important guest must be a guy."

"Oooh Skuld, for Kami-sama to do this, the guy must be a prospective boyfriend or something." Peorth says teasing Skuld while eyeing her up. "Why, you look good enough to give me and Urd some competition."

"Yeah, that’s the idea I got too." Skuld says, sticking her chest out and doing a bust check with Peorth and Urd. "Well, they may not be as big, but I think I look cuter than you guys."

"Uh oh, you think we are going to be competing against each other for some guy?" Urd says pointing at herself, Peorth, and Skuld.

"Yep, but I think that it goes beyond that." Skuld replies. "Why else would he mention him maybe bringing friends and expecting uninvited guests to drop in. For some reason I think this is going to be complicated."Converting /tmp/phpaq1WDq to /dev/stdout