Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ The Wild Gargoyle ❯ The Pools of Sorrow (Jusenkyo) ( Chapter 1 )

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"The Wild Gargoyles: The Journey"
By Ryu the Weredragon

Disclaimer: Ranma Saotome, Genma Saotome, and Jusankyo are Trademarks of Rumiko Takahashi. Gargoyles and all related characters are trademarks of Disney & Bueno Vista. I am not trying to steal these ideas. Some parts of the Story are based on "Circle Sky" by Gie-Chan (Ranma's Form's apperance [except hair Color], the name of the Gargoyle Spring, the Years ago the Gargoyle Drowned in it, the fact that it's permanant, ect.).

Timeline: After "Sanctuary" but before "M.I.A.", which is the next episode.

Notes: Ranma will have a different Personality later on, because of the Gargoyle Traits he will learn, but for now, you can expect him to act the same. Oh yeah! And Thanks to whoever wrote the story "Wings of China" for the idea.

Also, I went too far when explaining Ranma's Form, but that's so that you know what he looks like. This episode doesn't have a fight scene, because I can't think of one. It's pretty much the Prolouge Anyway!
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"Pools of Sorrow"

Golaith's Voice: Last time on Gargoyles.

[Show scene of Leo, Una, and Griff...Then of The Gargoyles of Venusela...Then, show Kai's clan...NOW show Tom shouting to the group]
Tom: Elisa! I thought you understood! Avalon doesn't bring you to where you want to go! Avalon sends you to where ye need to be!

Elisa: Wait a minute! What does he mean "Where we need to be?".

[Cue Gargoyles Intro Scene]

[Show Scene of Chibi-Ranma & Chibi-Ukyo from the Anime]

[Show Scene of How Ranma Learne the Neko-ken, from the Anime]

[Many years later...]

[Ranma & Genma are about to jump off, totally ignoring the Jusankyo Guide]

Genma: Ready Ranma?\line\line Ranma: Oh man...this place isn't NEARLY as bad as I thought it'd be...

Guide: Wait a minuite! I haven't finished my very tragic story! Very bad you fall in spring!\par

[Ranma & Genma go at it, with Ranma knocking Genma in spring.]

Ranma: What's wrong pops? We done already?

[Suddenly, a Panda jumps out of the spring]

Ranma [In shock]: What the...What the hell is that?

Guide [Holding up sign]: Oh...too bad...you fall in Shaoniichuan, Spring of Drowned Panda...Very Tragic story about Panda who drown in spring 1200 year ago! They say, that any one who fall in spring, take body of Panda!

Ranma: Hey buddy! You never said anything about that to us!

[Genma-Panda knocks Ranma in spring]

Ranma: UWAAAA!

[Ranma falls in spring, but doesn't come out]

Genma-Panda [Sign]: Where is he?

Guide: Too bad...he fall in Gaagoirnichuan, "Spring of Drowned Gargoyle"...He won't come out...At day, nobody ever come out if fall in spring...If you tried at night, he would have taken body of Gargoyle.

Genma-Panda [Sign]: Oh no!

Guide: Here, with Hot water YOU can change back again.

[Guide pours water on Genma-Panda]
Genma: His mother is going to kill me!!! What do I do!?

Guide: Now now, sir...calm down....

[That night...A Mist forms around one of the Larger Pools...The Skiff Docks there.]

Golaith: Where are we?

Elisa: I...I don't know...Somewhere In Asia, is all I can guess.

Guide: Nihao.

Elisa [Whispering]: We're in China.

Elisa: Nihao. Do you speak English?\line\line Guide: A Little, but it broken English.

Elisa: As long as we can understand it...Where are we?\line\line Guide: This is Legendary Cursed Training Ground, Jusankyo.

Elisa: "Jusankyo"?

Guide: Mean "Pools Of Sorrow"...Named that for Very good reason. Over 500 Springs, and each has it's own Curse and Tragedy, except for a few at the edges...

Voice [from a spring, in Japanese]: Aww..man...What hit me?

[A Gargoyle climbs out of a Nearby Spring. A Black Belted Karate Gi is on him, yet ripped up. It is Ranma. His skin isn't the normal tanned color anymore. It had altered to a Greyish Blue Color. His hair grew considerably longer, past his back. He still looked like Ranma; if you can ignore the horns that were coming out of his head. Two thin horns arched out of his skull, one at each temple, and circled around his head. They curled down and inwards slightly at the end. Two smaller, stubby horns sprouted next to each of the longer horns. Her hands roamed over his face, his horns and his ears. The ears were longer and tapered to a point at the tip. His eyes were still blue, maybe a little brighter, but that could have been the effect of his skin dramatically offsetting them. He didn't have any eyebrows to speak of, though. They now looked like bony ridges that stuck out from his face. His frame is considerably larger and more muscled than it used to be. His arms are similarly more muscled as well, and at the elbows, there was a protrusion... His hands aren't really hands anymore, more like claws, or talons, and only 4 Fingers, not five. His legs are drastically different and look more like a crouching animal's, with the ankles being tremendously higher than a normal human's feet with a toe on the high heel. His feet have the same type of claws as his hands, but much larger in proportion. Ranma also has a Tail. The end was shaped like an Arrow. Ranma also has wings. Gigantic bat-like wings that protrude from his back. Black stretches across the frame and the same shade of charcoal grey colored the wing's undersides. Two little claws were attached to the end wing strut.]

Ranma [Japanese]: Wh...What spring was this?

Guide [Japanese]: That spring of Drowned Gargoyle. Unlike other Spring, there is no way to return to Normal.

Ranma [Japanese]: Aw man...Does pops know?

Guide [Japanese]: No...I tell him you never come back, because, the Spring of Drowned Man would have a strange effect on you, making you only normal with Cold Water.

Ranma [Japanese]: Did they fall in?

Guide [Japanese, Shaking head]: No...They just got here.

Elisa: Umm...What's going on?

Guide [English]: This young man fall in a spring that is permanant. Now he will be Gargoyle forever...say, you have Gargoyle companions?

[Elisa Nods]

Guide: Then you can take with you. Boy father left already...had to tell lie, as boy father would have shattered statue, or tried throwing him into another spring...if in cursed form, jumping in spring no be pretty.

Elisa [Walks over to Gargoyle]: Hello, there.

Ranma: Konnichiwa...I mean...Hello. My name is Sa...Ranma Saotome....

Elisa: My name is Elisa Maza...These Gargoyles are Golaith, Angela, and Bronx.

Ranma: Hello. I...was...a practicer of a new martial art, called "Anything Goes", but now I guess I can't really study any more from places in the world...I don't think Anybody would even want me now...I doubt Pop would come back, and Mom wouldn't want a Creature for a son...She wants a "Man Among Men", or else....Seppaku.

Golaith: Seppaku?

Elisa: Japanese Ritual Suicide...It's a very old thing...I can't believe she'd do that though.

Ranma: Blame my old man...He always makes stupid promises. It was his dumb Idea to come \par
here, even though he couldn't read a WORD of Chinese...

Voice: DAMN YOU RANMA!

Ranma: I know that voice. Hibiki Ryoga! I've gotta hide! If he sees me like this...

Elisa: Who's Ryoga Hibiki?

Ranma: A Kid I fought in Junior High...Or was supposed to... He challanged me to a Martial Arts Match Behind his house...But I was waiting for THREE Days for him to show...

Angela: THREE?

Ranma: He has the worlds' worst sense of Direction...I guess you can call it a family curse, because his parents Jiro and Aki also are always lost, and so is his Sister Yoiko. The only people in the family who don't get lost are his dog Checkers and his Cousin Dan. He'll probably end up falling...

[A splash could be heard]

Ranma [Sighing]: Into a pool...Umm...Mr...Guide? What spring did he just fall into?

Guide: Heituenniichuan, Spring of Drowned Black Piglet...

[The Guide Rambles on, and a Piglet Crawls out of the water.]

Elisa: Wow. I'd hate to be that forever.

[A young girl wanders out of a hut]

Girl: Did boy fall into Heituenniichuan?

[Ranma nodded]

Girl: My name Plum. Your curse Reverses with Warm Water....

[Plum says as she carries him in]

Ranma: Lucky him...

Elisa: Guys it's almost sunrise, I think we should go...

[The Gargoyles get on the skiff]

Elisa: Your coming too, Ranma?

Ranma: One, I guess I'm not a Saotome Anymore, two, I'm not Human Anymore so I might as well stay with you, and three...Ryoga's going to go after me if I don't.

Elisa: Good Point...I guess it is Time to shove off.

[Mist Rolls in as the credits begin]
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This episode was Short, because I won't go into Ukyo and the Neko-Ken, or Akane (Yet), but I will later on mention them, those scenes were the opening scenes of the story that are removed...

Why did I put the timeline JUST BEFORE "M.I.A.?", because it's a pivitol point. I can have the chance to have Ranma see the world better than his father would let him, and he might just meet things from his past...