Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ A Different Time... ❯ A Different time... ( Chapter 1 )

 

Ranma: Older

 

Disclaimer: Ranma and company are not mine, I don't claim ownership of the characters. They belong to other people who are by far richer than I am.

 

Disclaimer two: I am not Rumiko Takahashi, thus whatever I have her characters do is going to be out of character. If you want the characters to act in character then read her manga, anything out of the mangas or the animes is technically out of character.

 

On with the show:

 

“Pops, I should kill you for this.” The young red headed girl named Ranma said venomously to the panda that was walking ahead of her on the path. The panda didn't acknowledge what she said, and instead focused on the back of their guide.

 

“Hey guide, you said these Amazons would have a cure for these curses, right?” The girl yelled at the portly china man leading them.

 

“Amazons know much about Josenkyo, they know what you look for.”

 

While not satisfied with the answer, the girl didn't push it. It had been a full day of walking from josenkyo to where they were now. A full day going out of their way because of some horrible accident that they could have never have forseen. The life of a martial artist is fraught with peril, but this was ridiculous.

 

The bulk of the Amazons were gathered around a large log when the trio walked into the village. On it were a pair of Amazons fighting, showing an incredible degree of skill and balance. One of the fighters was a young girl who was dominating a huge gorilla of a woman to the pleasure of the crowd. This was lost on the panda, as he had managed to find empty seats at a table laden with food, and his stomach did the rest of the thinking for him.

 

The girl was watching the fight in progress and wasn't paying attention to the bear. She was giving a critical eye to the fighters on the log watching their moves, her assessment, she could take them. The younger one finally finished the fight, and was declared the winner. The look in her eyes as she looked over in the panda's direction said that the chance to prove that assessment would come soon.

 

Ranma looked over at the panda and groaned. “What have you done now, pops?”

 

The girl from the log started to yell at her in Mandarin, pointing vigorously at the panda and the table of eaten food.

 

“Yo! Guide! What's she saying?”

 

“She demanding you give panda customer to her for eating her prize.”

 

There was still enough on the table to feed Ranma. She was seriously tempted to just agree to the girl's demands, but she had another idea.

 

“Hey guide, she's saying that pop's ate her food, right? So if I challenge her for the food, there won't be a problem, right?”

 

The guide shot off some rapid fire Mandarin at the girl who shot some back.

 

“She agree but you give panda if you lose.”

 

“I can agree to those terms.”

 

The fight took less than five minutes, the Amazon girl went down with one good kick from Ranma. Once he determined that she was down, Ranma hopped over to the table and started to help herself to the remainder of the winnings.

 

The felled girl regained her senses to realize that she had lost and approached the girl that had defeated her.

 

The small kiss surprised Ranma, considering where it came from and especially the reaction of the guide. He grabbed her and tried to run off with her, screaming about a kiss of death.

 

Ranma extracted herself from the guide's arms before he could get very far.

 

“You I kill.” Came the lilting voice of the girl that Ranma had just defeated as well as the swish of air getting cut by a viscious sword swing that missed it's mark.

 

Ranma wasted no time to show how much she didn't like to be threatened to the poor girl. When she was done, Ranma held the Chinese girl in a submission hold with one of the girl's hidden knives at her throat.

 

“Guide, translate this for me…You've got about five seconds to explain yourself before I make good on your `Kiss of Death' with one of my own.” The small red head said with no small amount of venom.

 

The guide nervously translated what Ranma had said to the girl. She responded hesitantly, up until Ranma started to scratch her throat with the knife.

 

“She say it village law, when outsider female defeat Amazon, that Amazon hunt outsider female and kill.”

 

Ranma stared at the guide as if he had grown a second head.

 

“You're kidding, right? I mean, that has got to be the stupidest thing I have heard of. I beat her, and now she has to kill me, just because I'm a girl?” Ranma released the hold on the girl and pushed her away.

 

“This has got to be one of the most dishonorable places I have ever been too, pops would love it here. Tell the little bitch I want to talk to her elders and if she doesn't want to be buried tonight, she'll keep her peace.”

 

The Chinese girl looked ready to attack again until the guide started to speak again. Ranma took the knife she had taken and started to bend the blade into new and interesting shapes while staring directly into her eyes. She reluctantly went to get her elders.

 

Ranma looked around and couldn't find the panda anywhere.

 

A minute later, Ranma was facing the young girl again as well as a wizened midget on a staff with long white hair that nearly hit the floor.

 

“She is Khon Lon, matriarch of Amazon village.” The guide provided.

 

“Elder Khon Lon, I bring grievances to you. This girl has lost to me in honorable combat and now seeks to kill me due to your laws, what is the meaning of this? Translate for me guide.”

 

“That won't be necessary, child. I see no fault in what you have told me, it is the way things have been for thousands of years.”

 

“You don't see any problems with that? I see quite a few problems with that. One, the terms were agreed to before hand, food or panda. No mention of death. Two, she couldn't defeat me before, how do you expect for her to kill me? Finally, I would hate to see your laws responsible for an international event.”

 

“Who are you to challenge our laws, you impudent child? You are nothing to us.”

 

“So you're going to push this through to the end? You want to see me dead for being better that her?”

 

Khon lon nods her head.

 

“What if I kill her first, before she has a chance to kill me, will I have to worry about more of you coming for me?”

 

“No child, if you kill Xian pu then you are free of the kiss.”

 

“Then lets finish this while my food is still good, tell her I'll meet her at the log. I want your word as matriarch that if I win, then nothing will happen to me after wards. No death threats, no attempts at my life, nothing.”

 

“I doubt that you'll survive, but I give my word.”

 

The pair face off again at the log. Once the signal is given, Ranma waits for her opponent to close the gap before using the deadly Yamisuken to cleave Xian pu in two equal halves, showering the immediate area in blood. A blood soaked Ranma calmly makes her way to the shocked elder.

 

“I think it was time that you changed your rules, this could have been avoided.”

 

Ranma picked up some of the choice foods on the table. She then picked up a still hot cup of tea and splashed her face with it to get some of the blood out. The shift in form does not go unnoticed by the crowd or the elder. Josenkyo is mentioned several times.

 

While the girl that was Ranma was youthful with bright red hair, the male Ranma was taller and noticeably older, his eyes spoke of past pains and love lost, as well as a deep sense of betrayal.

 

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