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A Ranma 1/2 fan fiction

By Dmitri 'Ranshin' Antonov

The Guardians of earth

Chapter one: Life Changes

Ranma Saotome awoke in his futon covered in sweat and breathing heavily. The
images from the dream he just had still blurred in his mind. The dream did not
feel very important to him, yet the images of it replayed again and again in his
head.

*What kind of a dream was that?* Ranma thought, obviously shocked at what he had
dreamed. *Jeez, that was one weird dream* He tried to get it out of his head,
but he could not. The more he tried to reject the images the worse the images
got. He could not get the room out of his head. The weird looking figures. The
caskets on the platforms. The writing on the walls. This did not make sense.
Shouldn't a person forget a dream quickly after waking up? Yet he could not get
this dream out of his head. The more he thought about it the worse his thoughts
became.

Was this something that had to do with him? He asked himself again why he would
dream something so...unnatural. This word did not make Ranma uncomfortable for
his life is more than unnatural. Ranma could not remember what exactly happened
in the dream. Only hazy visions that pester him to no end and don't go away.

After a while of trying to clear his mind of the offending images he decided to
try to sleep. He shouldn't lose any sleep over this. So Ranma lay down on his
futon, closed his eyes and got ready for sleep to overtake him. He didn't get
any sleep that night.

The next morning a break of a window could be heard and someone could be seen
falling into a little koi pond. After a splash is heard every occupant of the
Tendo home would this that this was Ranma Saotome. Yet, in the pond you could
see a very fat looking panda with a bump on his head and a sign in his paw that
said 'ouch'. Then out of the broken window jump a figure with a pigtail hanging
at the back of his head, and he has a lazy looking look on his face and has bags
under his eyes. This was due to the fact that Ranma didn't get any sleep last
night.

"Servers you right for trying to attack my while I could have been asleep."
Ranma said lazily. "I get woken up by either you kicking me out the window or
Akane splashing me with cold water." He said with a hint of anger in his voice.
He was too damn tired to fight today. Not a wink of sleep and people expected
him to not be angry? He may be a top notch martial artist, but even they can get
tired. He gets into fights every day. Of course he gets tired! And to boot it
all off, that weird dream did not help one bit!

Before going back inside the house Ranma gave his panda of a father a kick to
the chest and sent him into the pond again. Ranma went into the bathroom to take
a good, cold shower. For god sakes he really needed one. He went into the
dressing room and took his tank top and boxers off. Then he went into the
bathroom itself and put on a cold shower. His body didn't really react to the
cold water, except for the way it should. His male body turned female like it
always has whenever it came in touch with cold water. He didn't feel too cold
though. His body had gotten used to so much cold water so it didn't really
bother him.

While he showered, the dream he had came back to him. Hitting his brain full
force. The thoughts and the images of his dream replayed in his mind once again.
This time though it was more clear. He couldn't hear any voices, but he knew
that the two figures standing in the middle of the small hall were speaking. He
saw a few different colours in the room. Shining bright as the sun. Ranma stayed
in his trance like state for over ten minutes before finally realizing that he
should go and have some breakfast before going to school.

Ranma ate like he usually did, like a starving horse. He didn't eat as much as
he usually did, but no one noticed. On his way to school Ranma ran on the fence
like always. But this time he didn't pay any attention to what was going on
around him. For some odd reason the dream flashed through his mind once again.
*What's going on!?* he thought. *Am I going crazy?!* Ranma didn't like what was
going on with him. Some kind of weird dream always showed again and again in his
head. It would leave him alone for a while but then hit him again like a hammer.
Whenever he thought the dream would stop showing or when he forgot about the
dream it appeared again. What kind of dream was this? Did this dream want Ranma
to remember itself? Or was he just going insane? He didn't know and he didn't
really care.

His life had only gotten worse after the failed wedding. Akane got more violent,
the others got more desperate. But some good things did happen. Nabiki laid off
more, and left him alone. Kasumi was even nicer to him. His mom was having
second thoughts about the engagement, and for some reason he hadn't seen Ryoga
for a while. After the fiasco Ryoga actually came up to Ranma and apologized. He
even promised to never willingly go to bed with Akane as P-chan. Ranma didn't
know why the change, but he liked it. Maybe he and Ryoga could become friends
again. That's something that Ranma's seriously been lacking. Friendship. Ukyo
had become more desperate to get him, so their friendship was out of the
question. Shampoo was more persistent, she bugged him all the time. Kodachi was
never an option. Akane has been abusing him more than ever since the failed
wedding. She blamed it all on him. Everyone did, well almost everyone.

When they got to school Kuno did his usual routine of attacking Ranma spouting
some stupid poetry, and then getting knocked out due to getting Ranma's foot in
his face. Class was pretty normal, except for the fact that Ranma paid
attention. A couple of weeks after the fiasco he had decided, after a quick talk
to his mother, that he should study if he hoped of taking care of himself. Ranma
had started to get better at school pretty fast. Now instead of his usual F's
and lucky D's he got B's and if he studied really hard and got really lucky he
got an A. This of course made Akane jealous, because the teachers all praised
him for his grades. She had always had A's and B's. And of course when Akane
gets jealous she gets angry, when she gets angry she lashed out. And of course
for that Ranma is always her target. So Ranma flies a little more these days for
no good reason.

On the way home he was whistling to himself, walking on the fence, his hands in
his pockets. He had already forgotten about what had happened today and about
that dream of his. Forgetting the dream was a bad idea. Because while he walked
on the fence, completely off guard, the dream hit him full force once again.

This time Ranma could hear something beside seeing. He could hear the two
figures talking. He couldn't understand what they said though. Then he heard a
few flashes and booms and other stuff while the lights flashed. He could see
seven bright colours flashing: Red, Blue, Yellow, Grey, Brown, Silver and Green.
They all flashed one at a time.

Then all of a sudden Ranma was brought back to reality. He was walking on the
fence, on his way back to the Tendo dojo. He didn't understand this one bit. The
same dream, in his head. Replaying again and again. What the heck was going on!?
Had this something to do with him? Someone who didn't like? That sure is a big
list. A new one? Someone who wanted his head on a platter, maybe? He didn't know
and he didn't understand. Maybe he didn't want to understand. But he was going
to find out. He wanted to know what was going on. He really wanted to know what
was going on.

When he got home he went to the bathroom before anyone noticed him. He walked
into the changing room and took his clothes off. Before going to the bathroom
itself he went to the almost full sized mirror on the wall. He checked to see if
any scars, cuts or bruises were there. Just in case. But he was happy to find
none. Then he noticed something, he had some strange looking marks on his fore
head and on the back of his hands. They were really hard to notice, because they
were very faint. On his forehead was a kanji that he couldn't read because it
wasn't clear enough. There was also a 'V' like just below the kanji, it ended at
the centre of his eyebrows. And at the back of his hands were also 'V' like
marks. In the middle of the marks were also a kanji, but he couldn't read it.

Ranma wondered what was going on. He seemed to wonder many times today. Nothing
was normal. He was used to some abnormalities but this was the 'coup de grace'.
He didn't understand anything. He wanted to, yet he didn't want to understand.
Like two voices in his head, both his own. His instinct, and his wisdom. His
instinct wanted to understand, to know what was going on. And his wisdom wanted
to forget, to let this pass and let himself forget about all this. For now he
didn't know which voice to trust, so he went into the bathroom and climbed into
the tub. He was glad Kasumi always had it filled.

While he relaxed in the tub his mind wavered off. And he fell asleep. He dreamt
the same dream again. This time clearly. There was nothing he couldn't see and
nothing he couldn't hear. He saw everything and heard everything. Yet he didn't
understand what this had to do with him. Ranma let himself dream. He didn't know
he wouldn't remember the whole dream when he would wake up. And he didn't know
that while he dreamt, his marks glowed. The 'V' like marks glowed in a light
blue type colour. And the kanji glowed in pure light yellow. And the kanji could
be seen clearly. It said 'Lightning'...

After sleeping in the tub for about a half hour Ranma woke up. He had a strange
dream, the dream was...he couldn't remember. He had dreamt, he knew that. Yet,
he didn't remember what the dream was. He filed that as three things. Normal,
strange and freaky. He didn't know which was more true. He didn't care. He
climbed out of the tub and dried himself off. Then he got dressed and before
leaving looked in the mirror. What he saw was that his forehead still had those
faint 'V' type lines and the kanji was there also. The force of the dream hit
him again that day. He remembered it. All of it.

He didn't know what was going on, that was familiar. Yet one thing was clear, he
couldn't let other people see those marks. He had to hide them, just in case. He
opened a shelf that contained bandages and such. He found some special bandages
that he wrapped around his hands so no one would see the marks on his hands.
Then he tied a bandage around his head like a bandana. Then he looked in the
mirror. Nothing, the mark couldn't be seen. Happy about that and promising
himself to find out about the marks later, he went down to have breakfast.

When he came to the living room dinner was just starting. He sat down next to
his old man and Akane. Genma noticed the bandages Ranma had on and just had to
ask. "What happened to you boy?" "I cut myself during a little training pop.
Nothing serious." Ranma replied. "What kind of training were you doing boy?"
Genma asked him. Ranma had to think quick. But thanks to his new memorising
abilities and his newly developed fast thinking abilities he quickly answered.
"I was trying to come up with a new attack pop." "What kind of attack?" Genma
asked his son yet another time. Ranma had an easy answer to that question. The
attack he revises the most. "A new version of the Hiryu Shoten Ha." "Ok, boy."
Genma let the subject drop. A full stomach was the most important thing to him
anyway.

Ranma ate his food with more force than ever before. He ate at Amaguriken speed.
Which was a surprise because he didn't need to do that to beat his father. He
ate all of his food, the extra bowls he asked for and almost all of his fathers
food. He had never been this hungry before. Only once maybe, when he was doing
some very serious training. When he finished his food he left the table with a
"Thank you" to Kasumi and his mom for making the meal. He went into his room and
closed his door behind him. He laid down onto the bed and let his mind wander.
*What is going on? I don't remember being that hungry. Is this because of the
marks or something? Maybe it's connected. I'll find out. I will. But not now.
I'm tired* And after that Ranma fell asleep.

Authors notes: There's the first chapter. Hope you all like it.