Gold Digger Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Smoke and Wind ❯ Preparing and Battles ( Chapter 3 )

The Disclaimer is in the prologue.

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Tanya looked about the peaceful landscape with a mix of trepidation and relief. Sanctuary was very unlike the prison she had expected to be left in. More of a mental institution really, a place of healing...that you weren't allowed to leave under most circumstances.

The situation Tanya had left for wasn't most circumstances. But she still was expected to call back over her psi-crystal regularly for counseling and check up. However, what she had to ask required a more personal visit. It had taken her most of the day to get there. She had left before noon and wouldn't be back home until late evening at the earliest. Quite hard to get anywhere on Jade, especially if said place was warded against teleportation. She just hoped her husband didn't do anything stupid while she was gone.

"Tanya'Rey," Merigold greeted her with apparent warmth but obvious strain, considering the matter of her sister.

"Tanya Saotome," the Kryn corrected showing off her ring and smiling. "Tied the knot two days after the last time I talked to you."

"Really? Congratulations, is that why you're coming personally to sanctuary this time?" Merigold asked. The sudden nervousness shown by Tanya revealed that this was indeed not the case.

"I need to build some golems," Tanya said after considering how to phrase it for a moment.

"Any particular reason why?" Merigold asked.

"G'Nolga," Tanya said simply. Merigold froze now.

"I thought your bo...husband buried her alive," Merigold said a touch distressed by that.

"Julia Diggers told me she's alive," Tanya said. "And...I'd rather be prepared. Ranma's training, but if he needs back-up..."

Merigold considered the matter for a moment.

"You realize that if they go out of control you're back here for the remainder of your sentence," Merigold warned. "Only allowed occasional visits by your man."

"I understand," Tanya said through gritted teeth. She hated being restricted like this. And it was all that...no, no, no. Thinking like that was what got her in trouble in the first place.

"And you are only allowed lesser golems in any case," Merigold said. At that Tanya winced.

"Lesser golems!" she screeched. "Mud, plant, clay?! I might as well through pink bunnies at her! I need minor golems at the least! And even that'll just slow her down!"

"I'm bending a lot of rules as it is, Tanya," Merigold said. The council will certainly react if you start building golems, as far as they're concerned, lesser materials are just fine for home protection."

"Not against a Weaponmaster!" Tanya protested.

"Believe me, I understand," Merigold said. "But between your Ranma and your golems, you should be fine..." The Dwarven mage didn't sound too convincing.

"No disintegration crystals either," Tanya predicted. Merigold colored slightly as she imagined her sister, however wicked and twisted, being hit by a disintegration ray.

"No disintegration crystals," Merigold confirmed. Tanya looked distraught as she considered the result of the conversation.

"Thanks," she muttered, downcast, "I'll figure something out."

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Meanwhile in Atlanta. . .

Britanny frowned deeply, unconsciously squeezing her husband's hands tightly while absently rubbing over her bulging tummy. "Tanya.. is free?" she nearly growled out.

Julia, having arrived at home a few minutes previous, nodded, and then hissed, "Careful Theo, my back is still sore."

Theo shook his head, lightening up on his massage slightly so as not to aggravate the wounds she had received the day prior. Most were gone, in fact you could barely see any sign of them at all. That didn't mean she wasn't still sore about it. Either Physically or mentally.

"Sorry Julia." Theo mumbled.

Julia smirked, then turned back to her daughter, "No Britanny, she is not free. She isn't staying at the Sanctuary anymore, but she is still under observation."

Brit fumed, "So what's to stop her from high-tailing it back here and trying to kill my baby again!?"

Julia nodded, understanding of her daughter's fears, "Ranma, he's the big reason she hasn't tried anything drastic."

Gina, who had been simply listening through most of the conversation jumped in on this, "Who's Ranma? And just how is he a reason for that psycho to hold off on coming after us again?" She frowned.

"Ranma is her husband." Julia stated simply.

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Crickets would have been louder than the silence that fell on the room. Theo already knew of Tanya's marriage, thus continued his ministrations.

Strype recovered first, "Tanya is married? When? How? Last we heard she was still..." when Brit started growling Strype hammed up. The sound of her teeth clenching a sure sign to shut the hell up, if you valued you're life - or testicles. One can never be too certain what a pregnant emotionally unstable wife could do in the heat of the moment.

"I don't know the exact details, only what I was told. Tanya had met Ranma one night, and from there they kept running into each other constantly. Tanya developed feelings for the man during that time, and when he fought G'Nolga off to defend her she had been seriously wounded in the battle. Three weeks of constant therapy by Ranma pretty much sealed their union." Julia explained, wincing again when Theo passed over a tender spot.

"Mom.." Gina began, "How did you hurt you're back?"

"Eh.. heh." Julia grinned a bit, "I challenged Tanya's husband to a fight. We tied." she left out the fact that she could take him out if they ever fought again, but it was best her kids didn't get the wrong idea about him. "I still don't know how he used pine needles like that.."

"BRIANNA!" Brit suddenly screamed.

"What?" came the annoyed voice of Brianna, who was just being quiet like Gina had been.

"Build an Army of Peebos! We're going to take Tanya and her sneaky mother beating husband down!" she cackled madly.

Julia, Theo, Gina, Brianna, and Strype sweat-dropped.

"Brianna dear." Julia whispered.

"Yeah mom?"

"Hide you're stock-pile of weapons." Julia ordered.

"Heh. You don't need to tell me twice!"

"I know! I'll blow them up! That'll teach that bitch! She can't try and kill us if we blow her into a million pieces! Yes.. we'll get her, and this Ranma too!" Brit went on as only a mother nearing the end of her term, and no doubt slightly insane from the events, could.

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At that moment in Jade. . .

A figure was walking into Seers Hamlet, one that was a danger to all those around if the person got into a fight. The person caused massive destruction wherever they went, this person also could be distracted easily by something it wanted and even easier to anger. When angry this person would lash out and destroy anything to get even, no it was not Lina Inverse, but rather one Ryoga Hibiki.

Ryoga was grumbling to himself, at least he was nearing a town, and that meant he would be able to get some food at the very least. When he entered he saw how the houses were all more-or-less tree houses, like in that movie, Lord of the Rings that he had seen once when he was lost in a theater for over a week. Looking around he saw that there were numerous werefolk, "Nothing new there." He mumbled to himself, ever since coming to this world he had seen things that he thought were only myth, not that he discarded the ideas after seeing Musk, Amazons, the Orochi, curses, and Saffron, after seeing all that Werecreatures were easy to believe in.

He continued walking, though he stopped to chuckle at seeing a small Jagwere knock a Weretiger clean into the atmosphere for being a pervert, it reminded him of Nerima when the pervert patrols were out. Looking around, he saw that people just ignored it, so he assumed that it happened quite often. He continued walking looking for an inn or tavern, completely missing both as they were right in plain sight, if they were hidden, he would have found them already. Continuing to walk he saw something up ahead that made his fist clench, his blood boil and caused him to lose focus, no it wasn't Happosai groping girls again, but rather Ranma Saotome. His traditional way of announcing himself usually didn't work, so Ryoga tried a different way. Dropping his backpack and channeling his Ki for an attack he held up his hand and whispered, "Shi Shi Hokodan." Instead of a green blast, this one was reddish in color.

Both Ranma and Ryoga, shortly after the fight with Saffron found that they could channel their Ki through any emotion, making both of them more dangerous.

The red blast raced towards Ranma quickly, but not quietly, mainly it was due to the people running out of the way and screaming. Ranma, who had gone to Seer's Hamlet for supplys, turned towards the sound and saw a Ki blast heading straight for him, he wasn't feeling so hot after his fight with Julia and it would take him at least one more day to completely recover. He thought about dodging, but discarded it, as there were people and buildings behind him. So instead he brought his aura up and crossed his arms to block.

The red Shi Shi Hokodan collided with Ranma and pushed him back several feet from the explosion. Lowering his arms he wondered who was stupid enough to use a Ki attack in a populated area. He groaned when he saw it was Ryoga. "Damn it pig-boy, watch where you fire those things, someone could get hurt!"

Ryoga sneered, "The only one who's going to get hurt is you!" And with that, Ryoga brought his aura to full bloom, a mixture of reds and greens, making him look like a demented Christmas tree.

Ranma gulped, Ryoga was at full strength and he wasn't which would make this battle really hard. Ranma fought down his nervousness and concentrated for the fight ahead, everyone had already fled the area for the fight that was going to happen, some went to try and find the Edge Guard to have them stop this fight. Just before they charged into battle Ranma had an idle thought, 'At least Tanya isn't here, Ryoga would attack her if he found out about us, and if Tanya fought back and hurt him, she'd be back in prison finishing her term.' And with that they charged, Ryoga, while being three times stronger and at least twice as fast as before still made many of the same mistakes when fighting, he relied on his toughness more than he relied on blocking. Ranma had increased his natural speed to about three times what it was when he left, and his strength doubled since arriving in Jade. This fight, even with Ranma being hurt, was a powered-up version of what went on in Nerima, or a toned-down version of Julia's and G'Nolga's fights.

When they met, Ryoga executed a wicked left hook at Ranma's head, Ranma ducked and landed about twenty blows to Ryoga's sternum. Ryoga barely grunted and tried to knee Ranma in the chest, who in turn blocked it with both of his hands. Even though he blocked the force of the blow sent Ranma up in the air and back twenty feet. 'Shit, looks like pig-boy improved as much as I did, and he's not tired and hurt.'

"What's the matter Ranma? Surprised I'm better than what I was?"

Ranma smirked a bit, "Not really, just caught me off guard with your strength is all. But you're still the same Ryoga Hibiki, slow, stupid, and really dumb."

Ryoga frowned deeply, "Oh, now I'm definitely going to kill you." And with that he charged, and his aura went completely red, but in his anger, he was making even more mistakes. His strength had increased because of his anger, but now his blows were sloppy, though if he hit, it would probably really hurt.

Ranma twisted his body out of the way of a right uppercut and elbowed Ryoga in the small of the back. Ryoga grunted and back-handed Ranma across the jaw which sent him sprawling. Grimacing, Ranma jumped to his feet, 'Damn it, that hit nearly took my jaw off. If I was at full strength I could keep fighting like this, but I have to finish it now. Good thing I don't need that stupid spiral anymore.' And indeed he didn't, when he fought G'Nolga in that cavern, he pissed her off enough that she was radiating an aura that was at least as strong as Saffron's. All he had to do was use the Soul of Ice and force his aura to spiral around hers, and viola, a massive Hiryuu Shoten Ha, it was strong enough to drop that cavern and part of the cliff on top of her.

"Okay pig-boy, you're going down, right here and now!"

"Heh, try and stop me!!" Ryoga charged with one hand reared back and charging a Ki attack, while Ranma was dipping into the Soul of Ice, as soon as Ryoga got into range, Ranma's aura started to spiral around Ryoga's, before Ranma could execute his plan Ryoga launched a Ki blast, "Shi Shi Hokodan!!"

Ranma knew he was going to get hit, but he had to use his move. "Hiryuu Shoten Ha!!" Ranma punched at the center of the aura and a massive tornado flew upwards and sucked Ryoga into it. Ranma got hit with the Ki blast and was flung into a building. Grimacing, Ranma looked at what was going on. The tornado was still going strong, which meant that pig-boy's aura hadn't run out yet. Wincing in pain Ranma got up and watched as the tornado eventually died off and Ryoga crashed to the ground.

"Damn you Ranma." He said weakly.

Ranma shook his head, though he had to admit that Ryoga had gotten a lot better. "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!"

'Why me?' He wondered and turned to see a Weretiger, two Jagweres and a Werelion. Eight months ago Ranma would have been running in terror, but being around all these werefolk had taken care of a lot of his ailurophobia, just as long as they weren't in full cat mode, he could handle it. "Yes?"

The male Jagwere spoke, "For disturbing the peace, doing property damage, and endangering people's lives, you and that other person will have to be detained."

Ranma sighed, he knew he couldn't win this one, just wait till everything blows over and then be on your way. "Fine, fine, I'll go with, don't want to get in even bigger trouble."