Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ A Different Type of Visitor ❯ chapter 02 ( Chapter 2 )
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By: enlu_tarsonis 
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Sci-fi | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 07.22.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 6.0K | Visits: 248 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Sci-fi | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 07.22.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 6.0K | Visits: 248 | Status: Completed
A Different Type of Visitor Premise
So, I've seen a few types of Rifts x-overs. And most of them are pretty decent. Heck, I kind of have one of my own. But now I want to tread down a path that most fic authors only do when they wish to get shunned, or have an ego trip. In my case it's the ego thing. So I decided to make a Super Character for an insert. No this is not me, nor is it my alter ego. But rather a character that I drew up for this Ranma-verse insertion. Maybe this'll make it past chapter 1, and maybe it won't. But anyway, here's the fic. Also the thanks for this idea came from reading The Arch Mage Saga. I wanted to do something along this line for a couple of years now, so I'm finally writing it out a bit in detail.
Standard disclaimer, don't own Ranma 1/2, or Rifts. Wish I had some stock or shares but I don't. I'm doing this for my enjoyment and for the enjoyment of any of my readers. May they continue reading my works after they read this.
Chapter 02
Genma in his new and improved form (panda) was helping the Chinese guide, who had shown up right before he had been forcebly reoriented as a species, get the two people that were in one of the center pools of Jusenkyo out of the pool of water. As the two of them were working, the guide was babbling in broken Japanese to Genma.
"You see, you panda now." He said in his blubbery speech, as he was pulling off his jacket and twisting it up into some form of crude rope. "You fall in spring."
Genma growfed at the man, still not able to completely connect the dots.
"You fall in spring honored customer. you now panda. You cursed now sir." The guide completed twisting the makeshift rope together and then pulled off his suspenders that he had on over a shirt, but under the Chinese jacket. "Now you Panda, very tragic that. You help me rescue other honored customers now sir?" The guide asked in a friendly tone as he finished clipping the suspenders to one side of the jacket rope.
The panda just stood there for a minute then nodded his head.
"Good honored customer. Grab this and stay there." The guide said handing Genma one of the suspender ends. The guide then walked the edge of the spring and stopped on one of the other shores of the larger than average pool. The elastisity of the suspenders made it so that he could stretch them out quite a ways, good thing to as he was now 15 feet apart from the larger being. The guide looked into the pool where the two newly cursed beings were floating face down in the water. He leaned forward a bit and let his jacket dip under the arms of one of them. "You hold good now sir. I pull on rope and she will move to shore. Then we do same to other one."
After the Jusenkyo guide finished his instructions to Genma he pulled the rope slightly taught and the girl drifted towards the shore. After she was done the guide repeated the same proceedure for the other red haired being that was in the cursed waters. Once the two girls were banked on the shore the guide then disguarded his coat on the ground being careful to have minimal contact with the waters soaking it. He used one of the suspender straps to flip over the one that he thought was Genma's traveling companion. Luckily she was still human in appearance, and wearing the same karate gi. Once she was over and seemed to be breathing he then went over to the other red haired girl, she took a lot more doing. "This one has strange items." He commented out loud as he looked at her shiny armor, and odd technological equipment.
Genma meanwhile was a bit distraught at that moment. His son had been turned into a girl. "What am I going to do?" At least as he was an animal he could survive. But with his son a girl his dreams and goals seemed to be flushing down the toilet as he sat there looking at her unconsious form. His train of thought was interupted as the guides next words broke through his revelry. "Why this one have four arms?"
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Elder Cologne of the Jokentetsu arrived at the outskirts of Jusenkyo and spread out at her silent hand signal. She could feel the two different but similar powers moving now, and she didn't want to cause either a misunderstanding or conflict if she could avoid it. The aged matriarch watched in curiosity as a large panda bear was carrying a small being in its arms cautiously. Also she could see the Jusenkyo guide carrying his own unconsious passenger in a firemans carry over his shoulder. Though the panda appeared to be having no problems, the guide was obviously burdoned.
"Hmm..." She muttered watching as things developed.
The two she watched continued their trek into the guides hut as she watched, but the Jusenkyo guides passenger dropped something. After the two she watched entered the hut, she hopped over to the fallen object. Hefting it up she looked at what could only be a weapon or gun of some sort, but it was something that she had never encountered. "Curious." She looked from the heavy object in her hands over to the hut and sent another hand signal for a few of the warriors to advance in silence to the hut. Soon they would know what had occured.
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His world seemed so slowly coalesce into being. First he could feel some air across his face, acrid like an enclosed room that hadn't been washed in a very long time. After awhile he started to have flashes of the previous few days. Of him and his father treking across the land in search of places to train. Of different matches he had with some of the local martial artists. After that a flash of a valley filled with mists and springs came into his mind. He moaned a bit, but something about his voice sounded different. A bit to high pitched he guessed. He tries to sit up, but his balance is way off. As well there seems to be some extra weight on his chest but he can't figure out why through his addled thoughts. Once he fully sat up his chest seemed to keep trying to move him into a near slouch.
"Funny." He said, and again noted his voice seemed to be way to high pitched. He opened his eyes and brought a hand to his chest. He was expecting to see a dim room with an earth floor. He was also expecting to find a wrap or something else on his chest. What he most definatly wasn't expecting was to encounter something soft and yielding on his chest, that felt very sensitive to his questing hand. Also he was not expecting to see something very large and glowing a wierd type of red in the center of its form, and almost blue towards its extremeties. The being was roughly the shape of a large bear, but Ranma had never heard of any bear that glowed in a darkened room like he was in.
He was already on edge at this moment when his hand brushed past one of his nipples in his quest to figure out what had happened. A sharp tingle that started there, and traveled down to his groin area was not expected, nor was Ranma ready for it. He quickly looked down at his chest away from the glowing bear that was standing there, and saw the glowing shape of two very well formed breasts.
Now he was starting to panic.
He was about to check further down, as if to confirm or deny his greatest fear at that moment when he noticed that there was another glow in the room. Slowly panning over, he saw what he could only describe as a furnace of energy lying next to him on another cot. He was starting to hyperventilate now, and might even have calmed down enough to listen to the guide who had started to ramble something off when he had sat up. But before the youth could calm down the glowing bear placed a paw on his shoulder and barked something.
That was all that was required to push the shocked youth over the edge.
"AAAIIIYYYYIIII!!!"
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Cologne was about to start her warriors into a slow and quiet retreat so they could view the hut from afar when an ear piercing female scream sounded from within. She didn't know what had happened, but she did know that there was at least one woman or one Jusenkyo cursed being in trouble in there.
"Go, Rescue the warriors inside." She called out to her nearest group of Amazon warriors. In response 6 of the warriors burst in through the doorway and windows of the hut.
Inside of the hut Genma panda had his paws over his ears and the guide was cringing after Ranma's scream. The guide was about to try to calm Ranma down when his windows and door burst open and 6 Amazon Warriors exploded into the room. One of them backhanded him over to the far wall, and another rushed Genma.
Genma was still a bit dazed by his son turned daughters scream and so can be excused as he was taken out by a simple shoulder body slam of one of the strange warrior women. As he was trying to recover he felt one of his paws grabbed by another of the women and his world turned topsy turvy for a few moments as they swung him into, and through, a nearby wall.
Ranma-chan meanwhile was trying to figure out what was going on, as her vision shifted from that weird glowing to an almost normal view. Well, normal that is except for the several oddly clad women calling out battle cries and attacking the guide and what she could now see was an ordinary panda bear. One of them came near her and sheathed a wicked looking scimitar across her back and held out a hand menecingly as far as the distraught neo-girl could figure. As such she reacted much as her father had been teaching her, take out the opponent with the least amount of force necessary. Of course she didn't count on the fact that in this body she seemed faster than normal, and her block ended up breaking the warriors arm that was reaching for her.
After feeling more than hearing the horible dry twig sensation of someones forarm breaking, Ranma-chan leapt backwards and attempted to get into a defensive stance. "I have to get out of here!" She thought to herself. She felt something shift behind her and tried to twist around as fast as possible, once she was facing the opposite direction she saw one of the other warriors there. Still over balanced she leapt backwards at her full power to avoid her opponant. And ended knocking herself unconcious on the Bonbori of an Amazon warrior preparing to make sure that Genma was actually knocked out.
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Genma had recovered enough wits to play dead the second he awoke from his unexpected wall induced nap. He stayed where he was as he could still hear a bit of commotion around him. After awhile the strange sounds that the Amazon warriors were making with their talk drifted away. Once he was sure they were gone he got up and looked around.
The hut was in shambles. Almost completely destroyed, the wall he had impacted with was one of the supporting walls of the roof and without it the roof was starting to collapse. Genma panda looked over at the Jusenkyo guide who was just starting to get up himself. A large piece of the roof support started to teeter and fall towards the guide and Genma shot across the room and batted it away before it could fall on the guide and injure the poor man further.
"Thanks honored sir." The guide said as soon as he saw who it was that saved him. Genma walked over to the busted in doorway after that and watched as the Amazons carried his son off. "Honored sir, I try to tell you earlier. But we keep get interupted." Genma turned around as the guide started to rummage through the rubble of his hut. He watched curiously as the guide pulled out a small propane grill and lit it. The large panda was about to try to pantomime a question out till the guide put a tea kettle on. He settled down to watch and a few minutes later the guide stood up with the tea kettle.
"Honored sir, Jusenkyo curses act in two ways. Cold water give you curse form. Hot water restore normal form." So saying he poured the water over Genma's head. The panda man felt a strange tingle and then noticed that he was once again human.
"So I'm human again?" he asked hesitantly.
"Only till next cold water hit you." The guide replied.
Genma's shoulders slumped for a second, then he perked up as he now realized that his son would be able to return to his birth form. New plans began to form in his head as he started to plan make new plans. "Guide, do you have a post card I can use?"
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Cologne was looking at the two girls that they had rescued from the Guides hut. She still wasn't sure what that man cursed to be a panda was doing to the more human of the two of the girls, but if it incured a yell like that it could not have been good. Cologne wasn't sure if either of them were in an actual cursed form yet though, as the four armed girl was wearing body armor of a sort that was most definatly made for her four armed form. The Elders small war party was currently in the next valley over from the Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo and were utilizing a small crude camp so they could have an initial look at the two Jusenkyo victoms. The human appearing one had almost caramel colored skin and red hair like the center of a blazing fire. Her ears were pointed on top, and Cologne could make out a Ki furnace in the youth stronger than any she had sensed before.
The other one was wearing a charcoal black enameled molded armor that encased everything but her head. Cologne had recovered the strange gadget that had fallen earlier, as well as a helmet that appeared to be a part of the armor. The helmet was of a strange design, it had no holes for viewing or for seeing as far as Cologne could see, and its front was nearly fetureless. Looking inside using the dying rays of sunlight the Matriarch had seen several vent looking openings in the face part and what appeared to be two glass ovoids around where the eyes would be on the girl. Cologne then looked over the rest of the girl and saw that there was an empty hip holster, shapped just right to hold the gadget that had been dropped earlier. She placed it back in place and it fit snuggly in the holster. "Hmm.." She murmered as she continued her examination. Another thing she could see was the fact that this girl also had similar facial features as the other one they had. As well as the same colored hair and pointed ears. The Elder knew that there had to be a connection.
After she felt that her examination was complete Cologne ordered that a pair of stretchers would be made and the two unconcious girls would be brought to the village for care.
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Her world was comming back into being again. This time though Ranma-chan paid more attention to her body. It was definatly a females body. She could feel her breasts weighing heavily on her chest. And her skin felt much more sensative to her than normal. As well when she swallowed her throat felt different, even when she tensed the muscles in one of her thighs she could feel the difference. It was almost to wierd. Everything seemed to fit in place, even as if she belonged in this form. It felt right somehow, as if she had been born this way. But she knew that she was really a guy, and that there was no way that she could have had everything stolen from her in an instant.
After determining that she was in fact still a girl, Ranma-chan then started to pay attention to the details she could sense in the room. First she paid attention to what she was laying on, it was some sort of down or feather bed with corse sheets. She thought on this then shifted a slight amount and discovered that she was naked but underneath a sheet. Ranma-chan then turned her senses further outward, she could tell without opening her eyes that she was again inside a small room. But this time it was clean and well kept she could tell this because the oder of an unwashed man was completely absent and in its place was what seemed like incense or even a different but pleasant scent. She could also hear the sound of wind outside whispering through some trees, and distantly she could also hear the talking of people. Closer she could hear the soft breathing of someone near to where she lay. The other person had to be either asleep or meditating.
Ranma-chan could almost feel the other person. It was similar to the sensation she got when someone was about to sneak attack her or attack her from a blind side. But she didn't get a dangerous vibe from the other person. Just a feeling of where that person was, and the general distance she was from said person. She could also tell somehow that the person was some form of kin to her. Not like a blood relation, but like they shared some similar characteristics or drive. Like a kindred soul actually.
The red haired neo-girl tuned that out, as well as everything that she was hearing from outside and concentrated on seeing if there was anyone else in the room. After a few moments with no discernable results Ranma-chan sat up and looked around again.
"Woah." She said to herself as she felt the sway of her breasts. "That'll take some getting used to." She quietly continued as she opened her eyes. She found that she was still looking around in that weird other vision that she somehow had now. Looking at herself she saw that her hands glowed, but the tips of her fingers seemed to be a different color, almost a cooler color than the center of her hands. In fact if she tensed a muscle it turned a brighter shade of red or orange, and if she relaxed it it would slowly return to its previous color.
Several moments later Ranma-chan tired of looking at her forearms and hands and decided to look around. Across the room from her was that same glowing being she saw earlier. Ranma-chan stood up and slowly walked over to the other person. She was a bit unsteady on her feet as her center of gravity was slightly off. After a bit she managed to get the hang of walking in this form and finishes making her way over to the other being. Standing over the person, Ranma-chan thought that she was seeing things so she closed her eyes and felt the form of the sleeping person.
"Nope, not seeing things." She said to herself as she traced one set of arms on the left side of the person. She noticed that the person was only wearing some form of sheet on herself, just like she had. Then as she was about to trace across the other persons torso her hand bumped into a soft mound of flesh that Ranma immediatly recognized as a breast. She could feel herself blushing as she slowly backed away from the reclining four armed girl. She could even see her blush when she looked down at herself and saw that the glow of her breasts was slightly brighter than it was a few moments ago.
After everything that had happened Ranma-chan needed a bit of time to think. So she went back over to the bed that she awoke up on and sat down on it. Shortly she drew up the top sheet that had been covering her modesty and drew it up over her lap like she would in her normal form to cover up. Slowly she fell into a near meditative state.
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“Elder Koh Lon. If things were as you describe them, then it would be prudent to keep an eye on your two guests.” A taller than average Elder stated to Cologne.
The two of them were sitting or standing in a clearing near the village. Alongside them was an additional 7 Amazon Elders including Elder Lotion. Cologne was at one of the leading edges of the circle as befitting her position of the oldest Elder and Matriarch of her clan. “They are to the best of my knowledge Elder Bah Lehm.”
Another Elder stepped forward to be heard. Elder Balm motioned for the other clan head to speak. “Elder Bah Lehm, I have not been able to discern what the four armed travelers equipment is for. It is as if they have no power, or are inert in function.”
Elder Balm thought for a second before she spoke to the younger Elder. “You think that perhaps the traveler would be willing to demonstrate her possessions to us? Maybe she would at that, thanks Elder Bea Da.” Elder Bead sat back down. She was one of the youngest Elders present at a young age of 80, but she was also the only one who had attended an outsider technical training facility.
Cologne had been content to listen in after giving her report to the council, but now felt it time to give her two bits. “Elder Bah Lehm, maybe it would be best if one of us was to watch over them, and perhaps even train them in some of our ways. The Soul power in the both of them at rest is enough to match many of our greatest warriors.”
Elder Balm thought on Colognes words for a bit then grinned in a secretive way. “Very well Elder Koh Lon. You may watch over them, and train them. Be sure that they are both aware of your import, and their place in our society. If they prove to be worthy allies you may bring them into the tribe. But if they prove to be adversaries then you know what to do.”
Cologne was secretly pleased at this. She had managed to place herself at just the right position to ensure that the two she had rescued form Jusenkyo were of most benefit to her. “Don’t throw me into the briar patchÉ” The crafty Elder thought trying to remember what American story that came from.
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Ranma-chan was still meditating on what was going on when she heard a rhythmic thumping approach. As if someone was tapping a wooden pole on the ground, but she couldn’t hear the footsteps that would normally accompany such a noise. She thought about that for a minute. “Why would someone mask their steps, but not their staff?”
Ranma-chan stayed sitting up on the bed with the sheet over her lap to cover up her lower body. She continued to listen to the rhythmic cadence of the staff until it stopped outside the door near at the other end of the room. It opened inward and her sight returned to near normal. It could have been considered normal except that though Ranma-chan could see colors and shapes properly, she could also count the individual hairs on the head of the strange creature perched on a gnarled wooden staff.
Ranma-chan jumped backwards holding her fingers in a warding symbol. “AH! Ghoul!” She hollered out.
Cologne just rolled her eyes at that and took two hops across to a bench near to where the naked red haired girl had been laying down.
Ranma-chan just watched unmindful of her nudity as what she took for a ghoul was gathering something up from a nearby counter that she could now make out as she was no longer seeing everything in odd colors. The newly made girl slowly lowered her hands from their warding positions and waited to see what the creature on the staff did.
Cologne watched as her guest calm down a bit. After which she then tossed the small red haired girl a bundle of clothes that she had gathered up from a small counter next to the entryway to the room. The Elder watched as the red haired girl grabbed the clothes expertly out of the air, as if she was long practiced at grabbing objects or cloth out of the air as it was thrown at her. The girl shuffled through the clothes and dressed in only the tight fitting pants and the top, but left the underwear beside. "Interesting, not her real form? Is she actually a man?" Cologne thought to herself as she analyzed the girls actions.
The Amazon Matriarch waited until the girl was fully dressed before she spoke in Mandarin. "Hello young one. Do you know where you are?" She asked in a calm and reasuring tone.
To which the girl just looked at her blankly. Then the girl spoke in Japanese. "What are you?" Cologne was tempted to whack her on the head except that the girl had no insult in her tone, merely curiosity.
Since the girl didn't seem to understand Chinese, Cologne decided to respond in Japanese since she was well versed in the language. "I am Koh Lon, an Elder of the Jokentetsu. What is your name child?"
The girl paused a moment as if in contemplation, after a moment she answered. "I'm Ranma Saotome." She said. Then looked down at herself and added. "I think, I'm not to sure anymore."
Cologne laughed as her suspisions were comfirmed. "You are indead Ranma Saotome, that is if that is your name. As for your body, you are a victom of Jusenkyo."
"What do ya mean... Victom." Ranma-chan asked.
"I mean, that is not your true form. That is a form bestowed on the victoms of Jusenkyo once they are baptised in its magical waters."
"You mean that anyone who gets splashed turns into a girl?" She asked naively.
Of course Cologne didn't resist the urge to hit her on the head this time.
"Ow! What'ja do that for ya ol' ghoul?" Ranma-chan asked rubbing the top of her head where Colognes staff impacted.
"For being impertinant." Cologne said from her perch on top of her staff. Ranma-chan blinked a second as she tried to figure out how Cologne managed to hit her on the head with the staff that she was balanced on top of. While the neo-girl was processing this Cologne continued. "As I was saying, that those who encounter the waters of Jusenkyo gain the body of that which last drowned in the pool of water."
Ranma-chan looked down at herself sadly after hearing that. "So I'm stuck like this." she said forlornly.
Cologne thwacked her on the head again. "No. That is your 'Cursed' form. Your regular form can be regained by the application of hot water."
"You mean that once I get some hot water, I'll never be a girl again?" Ranma-chan asked with hope in her eyes.
"I'm afraid not young one. You'll regain your birth form, until you are doused with cold water." Cologne said and watched as the girls hopes seemed to be dashed. "But you can regain your regular form once more with hot water."
"So... if hit with cold water I'll turn into this." Ranma-chan said as she waived at herself. "And with hot water I'll be a guy." She thought for a second. "That ain't so bad then." Ranma-chan looked up at Cologne then. "You got any hot water then?"
Cologne smiled a bit at the young ones resolve. “Not right now, but I may in a little while. Until then, I would like it if you told me what you can about your companion.” Cologne said with a waive of one arm indicating the other red head who was still asleep.
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Genma Saotome had tracked the small group of Amazons to their village, and watched from a distance as they had taken Ranma and the other girl into one of the huts. Genma had managed all of this from the outskirts of the village, and even managed to avoid several of the villages patrols. He had left the Jusenkyo guide back at the springs as he knew that he could travel better and much more unobserved without the guide to hamper him.
After the Amazons took Ranma into the hut, several of them left and finally the oldest one of them took off hopping on her staff to the North part of town. Genma knew he was stealthy, but since it was still early morning when the Amazons had returned to the village, and not much time had passed, the old thief knew that he couldn’t rescue his son at that time. So growfing a bit under his breath the aging martial artist left to head back to Jusenkyo and ask the guide for advise and aid with the Amazons.
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Ranma-chan had waited patiently for Cologne to return after they had briefly discussed his unknown companion. Ranma-chan had no clue who, or even where the four armed girl came from.
The neo-girl was starting to get a little impatient when Cologne finally hopped into the room with a metal kettle with some steam coming out of the pouring nozzle. “That hot enough?” She asked hopefully. Cologne nodded and poured the water over Ranma-chans head.
The now black haired boy sighed for a moment then squinted his eyes in pain. Cologne could see what the problem was, he had been dressed in a form fitting silk outfit befitting of one of the Jokentetsu warriors. And that it was now several sizes to small, fine for his torso it just constricted his breathing there. But horrid for his legs and crotch area. Acting quickly Cologne used her staff to knock a small cup of water across the room to expertly douse Ranma-kun with water reactivating his curse.
Ranma-chan sighed with relief again as the pain from the sudden clothes shrinking dissipated. “What happened?” She asked of Cologne.
“I forgot to ask you how big your normal form was.” The Elder replied.
“Why would you need to know that?” Ranma-chan asked.
Cologne answered in a voice that stated that it should have been completely obvious to the neo-girl. “Because, your clothes that you are wearing right now are form fitting. And your birth form is bigger than your cursed form.”
“Oh, well where’re my clothes then?” She asked.
“Being cleaned, they wereÉ how shall I sayÉ filthy, and smelled of 5 day old sweat.” Cologne said.
Ranma-chan looked a bit abashed at that, as she knew that her father never let her do much besides travel and martial arts. And as her old man didn’t see much point in washing something that was about to get dirty again anyways that they wouldn’t do much washing until it was drastically needed.
“But what about my returning to normal?” She asked.
Cologne didn’t answer verbally but her pointed gaze at Ranma-chans pants got the message across to the neo-girl anyway.
“Do ya know who she is?” Ranma-chan asked looking at the other girl in the room.
“No idea youngling. But I would like to find something out.”
“What’s that?” Ranma-chan asked curious.
Cologne didn’t answer but poured some more of the hot water from the kettle over the resting form of the other red haired girl. Nothing happened other than the fact that she got wet. “As I thought.”
Ranma-chan looked from the sleeping four armed girl over to Cologne. “What? Something wrong with her?”
“When we got to the valley, both you and your companion here were unconscious and being carried into the Jusenkyo guides hut by a Panda and the Guide. Both of you were also obviously wet, and a wet person in the Valley of Jusenkyo usually means a cursed victem. So we assumed that you both had been cursed.” She pulled back the sheet to show one side of the unconscious girls body. Ranma-chan blushed at seeing the exposed breast because of Colognes actions. “She appears similar to you, but has four arms. So we thought that either her curse had been mixed with another, or that somehow four arms was natural to her.”
Ranma-chan just sat there confused.
“Never mind, we’ll just wait for her to wake up. In the meantime what are we going to do with you?” The Matriarch stated as she turned her gaze towards Ranma-chan.
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A couple of days later Genma and the Jusenkyo guide return to the village that Genma had seen the Amazons bring Ranma to. Since Genma didn’t speak a lick of Chinese he requested the guide to ask where his son was.
The guide left Genma on the outskirts of the Village and traveled inside the small town. The guide returns and tells Genma that they didn’t know of any boy brought here in the last few days. Genma frowned at this and thought for a minute. After he was through thinking he asked the guide to take him to the next Amazon town as the Guide had mentioned that there were several.
As they were leaving Cologne watched them from her vantage point on top of one of the taller trees on the outskirts of the village.
End of Chapter
A/N
None yet.
So, I've seen a few types of Rifts x-overs. And most of them are pretty decent. Heck, I kind of have one of my own. But now I want to tread down a path that most fic authors only do when they wish to get shunned, or have an ego trip. In my case it's the ego thing. So I decided to make a Super Character for an insert. No this is not me, nor is it my alter ego. But rather a character that I drew up for this Ranma-verse insertion. Maybe this'll make it past chapter 1, and maybe it won't. But anyway, here's the fic. Also the thanks for this idea came from reading The Arch Mage Saga. I wanted to do something along this line for a couple of years now, so I'm finally writing it out a bit in detail.
Standard disclaimer, don't own Ranma 1/2, or Rifts. Wish I had some stock or shares but I don't. I'm doing this for my enjoyment and for the enjoyment of any of my readers. May they continue reading my works after they read this.
Chapter 02
Genma in his new and improved form (panda) was helping the Chinese guide, who had shown up right before he had been forcebly reoriented as a species, get the two people that were in one of the center pools of Jusenkyo out of the pool of water. As the two of them were working, the guide was babbling in broken Japanese to Genma.
"You see, you panda now." He said in his blubbery speech, as he was pulling off his jacket and twisting it up into some form of crude rope. "You fall in spring."
Genma growfed at the man, still not able to completely connect the dots.
"You fall in spring honored customer. you now panda. You cursed now sir." The guide completed twisting the makeshift rope together and then pulled off his suspenders that he had on over a shirt, but under the Chinese jacket. "Now you Panda, very tragic that. You help me rescue other honored customers now sir?" The guide asked in a friendly tone as he finished clipping the suspenders to one side of the jacket rope.
The panda just stood there for a minute then nodded his head.
"Good honored customer. Grab this and stay there." The guide said handing Genma one of the suspender ends. The guide then walked the edge of the spring and stopped on one of the other shores of the larger than average pool. The elastisity of the suspenders made it so that he could stretch them out quite a ways, good thing to as he was now 15 feet apart from the larger being. The guide looked into the pool where the two newly cursed beings were floating face down in the water. He leaned forward a bit and let his jacket dip under the arms of one of them. "You hold good now sir. I pull on rope and she will move to shore. Then we do same to other one."
After the Jusenkyo guide finished his instructions to Genma he pulled the rope slightly taught and the girl drifted towards the shore. After she was done the guide repeated the same proceedure for the other red haired being that was in the cursed waters. Once the two girls were banked on the shore the guide then disguarded his coat on the ground being careful to have minimal contact with the waters soaking it. He used one of the suspender straps to flip over the one that he thought was Genma's traveling companion. Luckily she was still human in appearance, and wearing the same karate gi. Once she was over and seemed to be breathing he then went over to the other red haired girl, she took a lot more doing. "This one has strange items." He commented out loud as he looked at her shiny armor, and odd technological equipment.
Genma meanwhile was a bit distraught at that moment. His son had been turned into a girl. "What am I going to do?" At least as he was an animal he could survive. But with his son a girl his dreams and goals seemed to be flushing down the toilet as he sat there looking at her unconsious form. His train of thought was interupted as the guides next words broke through his revelry. "Why this one have four arms?"
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Elder Cologne of the Jokentetsu arrived at the outskirts of Jusenkyo and spread out at her silent hand signal. She could feel the two different but similar powers moving now, and she didn't want to cause either a misunderstanding or conflict if she could avoid it. The aged matriarch watched in curiosity as a large panda bear was carrying a small being in its arms cautiously. Also she could see the Jusenkyo guide carrying his own unconsious passenger in a firemans carry over his shoulder. Though the panda appeared to be having no problems, the guide was obviously burdoned.
"Hmm..." She muttered watching as things developed.
The two she watched continued their trek into the guides hut as she watched, but the Jusenkyo guides passenger dropped something. After the two she watched entered the hut, she hopped over to the fallen object. Hefting it up she looked at what could only be a weapon or gun of some sort, but it was something that she had never encountered. "Curious." She looked from the heavy object in her hands over to the hut and sent another hand signal for a few of the warriors to advance in silence to the hut. Soon they would know what had occured.
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His world seemed so slowly coalesce into being. First he could feel some air across his face, acrid like an enclosed room that hadn't been washed in a very long time. After awhile he started to have flashes of the previous few days. Of him and his father treking across the land in search of places to train. Of different matches he had with some of the local martial artists. After that a flash of a valley filled with mists and springs came into his mind. He moaned a bit, but something about his voice sounded different. A bit to high pitched he guessed. He tries to sit up, but his balance is way off. As well there seems to be some extra weight on his chest but he can't figure out why through his addled thoughts. Once he fully sat up his chest seemed to keep trying to move him into a near slouch.
"Funny." He said, and again noted his voice seemed to be way to high pitched. He opened his eyes and brought a hand to his chest. He was expecting to see a dim room with an earth floor. He was also expecting to find a wrap or something else on his chest. What he most definatly wasn't expecting was to encounter something soft and yielding on his chest, that felt very sensitive to his questing hand. Also he was not expecting to see something very large and glowing a wierd type of red in the center of its form, and almost blue towards its extremeties. The being was roughly the shape of a large bear, but Ranma had never heard of any bear that glowed in a darkened room like he was in.
He was already on edge at this moment when his hand brushed past one of his nipples in his quest to figure out what had happened. A sharp tingle that started there, and traveled down to his groin area was not expected, nor was Ranma ready for it. He quickly looked down at his chest away from the glowing bear that was standing there, and saw the glowing shape of two very well formed breasts.
Now he was starting to panic.
He was about to check further down, as if to confirm or deny his greatest fear at that moment when he noticed that there was another glow in the room. Slowly panning over, he saw what he could only describe as a furnace of energy lying next to him on another cot. He was starting to hyperventilate now, and might even have calmed down enough to listen to the guide who had started to ramble something off when he had sat up. But before the youth could calm down the glowing bear placed a paw on his shoulder and barked something.
That was all that was required to push the shocked youth over the edge.
"AAAIIIYYYYIIII!!!"
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Cologne was about to start her warriors into a slow and quiet retreat so they could view the hut from afar when an ear piercing female scream sounded from within. She didn't know what had happened, but she did know that there was at least one woman or one Jusenkyo cursed being in trouble in there.
"Go, Rescue the warriors inside." She called out to her nearest group of Amazon warriors. In response 6 of the warriors burst in through the doorway and windows of the hut.
Inside of the hut Genma panda had his paws over his ears and the guide was cringing after Ranma's scream. The guide was about to try to calm Ranma down when his windows and door burst open and 6 Amazon Warriors exploded into the room. One of them backhanded him over to the far wall, and another rushed Genma.
Genma was still a bit dazed by his son turned daughters scream and so can be excused as he was taken out by a simple shoulder body slam of one of the strange warrior women. As he was trying to recover he felt one of his paws grabbed by another of the women and his world turned topsy turvy for a few moments as they swung him into, and through, a nearby wall.
Ranma-chan meanwhile was trying to figure out what was going on, as her vision shifted from that weird glowing to an almost normal view. Well, normal that is except for the several oddly clad women calling out battle cries and attacking the guide and what she could now see was an ordinary panda bear. One of them came near her and sheathed a wicked looking scimitar across her back and held out a hand menecingly as far as the distraught neo-girl could figure. As such she reacted much as her father had been teaching her, take out the opponent with the least amount of force necessary. Of course she didn't count on the fact that in this body she seemed faster than normal, and her block ended up breaking the warriors arm that was reaching for her.
After feeling more than hearing the horible dry twig sensation of someones forarm breaking, Ranma-chan leapt backwards and attempted to get into a defensive stance. "I have to get out of here!" She thought to herself. She felt something shift behind her and tried to twist around as fast as possible, once she was facing the opposite direction she saw one of the other warriors there. Still over balanced she leapt backwards at her full power to avoid her opponant. And ended knocking herself unconcious on the Bonbori of an Amazon warrior preparing to make sure that Genma was actually knocked out.
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Genma had recovered enough wits to play dead the second he awoke from his unexpected wall induced nap. He stayed where he was as he could still hear a bit of commotion around him. After awhile the strange sounds that the Amazon warriors were making with their talk drifted away. Once he was sure they were gone he got up and looked around.
The hut was in shambles. Almost completely destroyed, the wall he had impacted with was one of the supporting walls of the roof and without it the roof was starting to collapse. Genma panda looked over at the Jusenkyo guide who was just starting to get up himself. A large piece of the roof support started to teeter and fall towards the guide and Genma shot across the room and batted it away before it could fall on the guide and injure the poor man further.
"Thanks honored sir." The guide said as soon as he saw who it was that saved him. Genma walked over to the busted in doorway after that and watched as the Amazons carried his son off. "Honored sir, I try to tell you earlier. But we keep get interupted." Genma turned around as the guide started to rummage through the rubble of his hut. He watched curiously as the guide pulled out a small propane grill and lit it. The large panda was about to try to pantomime a question out till the guide put a tea kettle on. He settled down to watch and a few minutes later the guide stood up with the tea kettle.
"Honored sir, Jusenkyo curses act in two ways. Cold water give you curse form. Hot water restore normal form." So saying he poured the water over Genma's head. The panda man felt a strange tingle and then noticed that he was once again human.
"So I'm human again?" he asked hesitantly.
"Only till next cold water hit you." The guide replied.
Genma's shoulders slumped for a second, then he perked up as he now realized that his son would be able to return to his birth form. New plans began to form in his head as he started to plan make new plans. "Guide, do you have a post card I can use?"
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Cologne was looking at the two girls that they had rescued from the Guides hut. She still wasn't sure what that man cursed to be a panda was doing to the more human of the two of the girls, but if it incured a yell like that it could not have been good. Cologne wasn't sure if either of them were in an actual cursed form yet though, as the four armed girl was wearing body armor of a sort that was most definatly made for her four armed form. The Elders small war party was currently in the next valley over from the Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo and were utilizing a small crude camp so they could have an initial look at the two Jusenkyo victoms. The human appearing one had almost caramel colored skin and red hair like the center of a blazing fire. Her ears were pointed on top, and Cologne could make out a Ki furnace in the youth stronger than any she had sensed before.
The other one was wearing a charcoal black enameled molded armor that encased everything but her head. Cologne had recovered the strange gadget that had fallen earlier, as well as a helmet that appeared to be a part of the armor. The helmet was of a strange design, it had no holes for viewing or for seeing as far as Cologne could see, and its front was nearly fetureless. Looking inside using the dying rays of sunlight the Matriarch had seen several vent looking openings in the face part and what appeared to be two glass ovoids around where the eyes would be on the girl. Cologne then looked over the rest of the girl and saw that there was an empty hip holster, shapped just right to hold the gadget that had been dropped earlier. She placed it back in place and it fit snuggly in the holster. "Hmm.." She murmered as she continued her examination. Another thing she could see was the fact that this girl also had similar facial features as the other one they had. As well as the same colored hair and pointed ears. The Elder knew that there had to be a connection.
After she felt that her examination was complete Cologne ordered that a pair of stretchers would be made and the two unconcious girls would be brought to the village for care.
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Her world was comming back into being again. This time though Ranma-chan paid more attention to her body. It was definatly a females body. She could feel her breasts weighing heavily on her chest. And her skin felt much more sensative to her than normal. As well when she swallowed her throat felt different, even when she tensed the muscles in one of her thighs she could feel the difference. It was almost to wierd. Everything seemed to fit in place, even as if she belonged in this form. It felt right somehow, as if she had been born this way. But she knew that she was really a guy, and that there was no way that she could have had everything stolen from her in an instant.
After determining that she was in fact still a girl, Ranma-chan then started to pay attention to the details she could sense in the room. First she paid attention to what she was laying on, it was some sort of down or feather bed with corse sheets. She thought on this then shifted a slight amount and discovered that she was naked but underneath a sheet. Ranma-chan then turned her senses further outward, she could tell without opening her eyes that she was again inside a small room. But this time it was clean and well kept she could tell this because the oder of an unwashed man was completely absent and in its place was what seemed like incense or even a different but pleasant scent. She could also hear the sound of wind outside whispering through some trees, and distantly she could also hear the talking of people. Closer she could hear the soft breathing of someone near to where she lay. The other person had to be either asleep or meditating.
Ranma-chan could almost feel the other person. It was similar to the sensation she got when someone was about to sneak attack her or attack her from a blind side. But she didn't get a dangerous vibe from the other person. Just a feeling of where that person was, and the general distance she was from said person. She could also tell somehow that the person was some form of kin to her. Not like a blood relation, but like they shared some similar characteristics or drive. Like a kindred soul actually.
The red haired neo-girl tuned that out, as well as everything that she was hearing from outside and concentrated on seeing if there was anyone else in the room. After a few moments with no discernable results Ranma-chan sat up and looked around again.
"Woah." She said to herself as she felt the sway of her breasts. "That'll take some getting used to." She quietly continued as she opened her eyes. She found that she was still looking around in that weird other vision that she somehow had now. Looking at herself she saw that her hands glowed, but the tips of her fingers seemed to be a different color, almost a cooler color than the center of her hands. In fact if she tensed a muscle it turned a brighter shade of red or orange, and if she relaxed it it would slowly return to its previous color.
Several moments later Ranma-chan tired of looking at her forearms and hands and decided to look around. Across the room from her was that same glowing being she saw earlier. Ranma-chan stood up and slowly walked over to the other person. She was a bit unsteady on her feet as her center of gravity was slightly off. After a bit she managed to get the hang of walking in this form and finishes making her way over to the other being. Standing over the person, Ranma-chan thought that she was seeing things so she closed her eyes and felt the form of the sleeping person.
"Nope, not seeing things." She said to herself as she traced one set of arms on the left side of the person. She noticed that the person was only wearing some form of sheet on herself, just like she had. Then as she was about to trace across the other persons torso her hand bumped into a soft mound of flesh that Ranma immediatly recognized as a breast. She could feel herself blushing as she slowly backed away from the reclining four armed girl. She could even see her blush when she looked down at herself and saw that the glow of her breasts was slightly brighter than it was a few moments ago.
After everything that had happened Ranma-chan needed a bit of time to think. So she went back over to the bed that she awoke up on and sat down on it. Shortly she drew up the top sheet that had been covering her modesty and drew it up over her lap like she would in her normal form to cover up. Slowly she fell into a near meditative state.
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“Elder Koh Lon. If things were as you describe them, then it would be prudent to keep an eye on your two guests.” A taller than average Elder stated to Cologne.
The two of them were sitting or standing in a clearing near the village. Alongside them was an additional 7 Amazon Elders including Elder Lotion. Cologne was at one of the leading edges of the circle as befitting her position of the oldest Elder and Matriarch of her clan. “They are to the best of my knowledge Elder Bah Lehm.”
Another Elder stepped forward to be heard. Elder Balm motioned for the other clan head to speak. “Elder Bah Lehm, I have not been able to discern what the four armed travelers equipment is for. It is as if they have no power, or are inert in function.”
Elder Balm thought for a second before she spoke to the younger Elder. “You think that perhaps the traveler would be willing to demonstrate her possessions to us? Maybe she would at that, thanks Elder Bea Da.” Elder Bead sat back down. She was one of the youngest Elders present at a young age of 80, but she was also the only one who had attended an outsider technical training facility.
Cologne had been content to listen in after giving her report to the council, but now felt it time to give her two bits. “Elder Bah Lehm, maybe it would be best if one of us was to watch over them, and perhaps even train them in some of our ways. The Soul power in the both of them at rest is enough to match many of our greatest warriors.”
Elder Balm thought on Colognes words for a bit then grinned in a secretive way. “Very well Elder Koh Lon. You may watch over them, and train them. Be sure that they are both aware of your import, and their place in our society. If they prove to be worthy allies you may bring them into the tribe. But if they prove to be adversaries then you know what to do.”
Cologne was secretly pleased at this. She had managed to place herself at just the right position to ensure that the two she had rescued form Jusenkyo were of most benefit to her. “Don’t throw me into the briar patchÉ” The crafty Elder thought trying to remember what American story that came from.
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Ranma-chan was still meditating on what was going on when she heard a rhythmic thumping approach. As if someone was tapping a wooden pole on the ground, but she couldn’t hear the footsteps that would normally accompany such a noise. She thought about that for a minute. “Why would someone mask their steps, but not their staff?”
Ranma-chan stayed sitting up on the bed with the sheet over her lap to cover up her lower body. She continued to listen to the rhythmic cadence of the staff until it stopped outside the door near at the other end of the room. It opened inward and her sight returned to near normal. It could have been considered normal except that though Ranma-chan could see colors and shapes properly, she could also count the individual hairs on the head of the strange creature perched on a gnarled wooden staff.
Ranma-chan jumped backwards holding her fingers in a warding symbol. “AH! Ghoul!” She hollered out.
Cologne just rolled her eyes at that and took two hops across to a bench near to where the naked red haired girl had been laying down.
Ranma-chan just watched unmindful of her nudity as what she took for a ghoul was gathering something up from a nearby counter that she could now make out as she was no longer seeing everything in odd colors. The newly made girl slowly lowered her hands from their warding positions and waited to see what the creature on the staff did.
Cologne watched as her guest calm down a bit. After which she then tossed the small red haired girl a bundle of clothes that she had gathered up from a small counter next to the entryway to the room. The Elder watched as the red haired girl grabbed the clothes expertly out of the air, as if she was long practiced at grabbing objects or cloth out of the air as it was thrown at her. The girl shuffled through the clothes and dressed in only the tight fitting pants and the top, but left the underwear beside. "Interesting, not her real form? Is she actually a man?" Cologne thought to herself as she analyzed the girls actions.
The Amazon Matriarch waited until the girl was fully dressed before she spoke in Mandarin. "Hello young one. Do you know where you are?" She asked in a calm and reasuring tone.
To which the girl just looked at her blankly. Then the girl spoke in Japanese. "What are you?" Cologne was tempted to whack her on the head except that the girl had no insult in her tone, merely curiosity.
Since the girl didn't seem to understand Chinese, Cologne decided to respond in Japanese since she was well versed in the language. "I am Koh Lon, an Elder of the Jokentetsu. What is your name child?"
The girl paused a moment as if in contemplation, after a moment she answered. "I'm Ranma Saotome." She said. Then looked down at herself and added. "I think, I'm not to sure anymore."
Cologne laughed as her suspisions were comfirmed. "You are indead Ranma Saotome, that is if that is your name. As for your body, you are a victom of Jusenkyo."
"What do ya mean... Victom." Ranma-chan asked.
"I mean, that is not your true form. That is a form bestowed on the victoms of Jusenkyo once they are baptised in its magical waters."
"You mean that anyone who gets splashed turns into a girl?" She asked naively.
Of course Cologne didn't resist the urge to hit her on the head this time.
"Ow! What'ja do that for ya ol' ghoul?" Ranma-chan asked rubbing the top of her head where Colognes staff impacted.
"For being impertinant." Cologne said from her perch on top of her staff. Ranma-chan blinked a second as she tried to figure out how Cologne managed to hit her on the head with the staff that she was balanced on top of. While the neo-girl was processing this Cologne continued. "As I was saying, that those who encounter the waters of Jusenkyo gain the body of that which last drowned in the pool of water."
Ranma-chan looked down at herself sadly after hearing that. "So I'm stuck like this." she said forlornly.
Cologne thwacked her on the head again. "No. That is your 'Cursed' form. Your regular form can be regained by the application of hot water."
"You mean that once I get some hot water, I'll never be a girl again?" Ranma-chan asked with hope in her eyes.
"I'm afraid not young one. You'll regain your birth form, until you are doused with cold water." Cologne said and watched as the girls hopes seemed to be dashed. "But you can regain your regular form once more with hot water."
"So... if hit with cold water I'll turn into this." Ranma-chan said as she waived at herself. "And with hot water I'll be a guy." She thought for a second. "That ain't so bad then." Ranma-chan looked up at Cologne then. "You got any hot water then?"
Cologne smiled a bit at the young ones resolve. “Not right now, but I may in a little while. Until then, I would like it if you told me what you can about your companion.” Cologne said with a waive of one arm indicating the other red head who was still asleep.
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Genma Saotome had tracked the small group of Amazons to their village, and watched from a distance as they had taken Ranma and the other girl into one of the huts. Genma had managed all of this from the outskirts of the village, and even managed to avoid several of the villages patrols. He had left the Jusenkyo guide back at the springs as he knew that he could travel better and much more unobserved without the guide to hamper him.
After the Amazons took Ranma into the hut, several of them left and finally the oldest one of them took off hopping on her staff to the North part of town. Genma knew he was stealthy, but since it was still early morning when the Amazons had returned to the village, and not much time had passed, the old thief knew that he couldn’t rescue his son at that time. So growfing a bit under his breath the aging martial artist left to head back to Jusenkyo and ask the guide for advise and aid with the Amazons.
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Ranma-chan had waited patiently for Cologne to return after they had briefly discussed his unknown companion. Ranma-chan had no clue who, or even where the four armed girl came from.
The neo-girl was starting to get a little impatient when Cologne finally hopped into the room with a metal kettle with some steam coming out of the pouring nozzle. “That hot enough?” She asked hopefully. Cologne nodded and poured the water over Ranma-chans head.
The now black haired boy sighed for a moment then squinted his eyes in pain. Cologne could see what the problem was, he had been dressed in a form fitting silk outfit befitting of one of the Jokentetsu warriors. And that it was now several sizes to small, fine for his torso it just constricted his breathing there. But horrid for his legs and crotch area. Acting quickly Cologne used her staff to knock a small cup of water across the room to expertly douse Ranma-kun with water reactivating his curse.
Ranma-chan sighed with relief again as the pain from the sudden clothes shrinking dissipated. “What happened?” She asked of Cologne.
“I forgot to ask you how big your normal form was.” The Elder replied.
“Why would you need to know that?” Ranma-chan asked.
Cologne answered in a voice that stated that it should have been completely obvious to the neo-girl. “Because, your clothes that you are wearing right now are form fitting. And your birth form is bigger than your cursed form.”
“Oh, well where’re my clothes then?” She asked.
“Being cleaned, they wereÉ how shall I sayÉ filthy, and smelled of 5 day old sweat.” Cologne said.
Ranma-chan looked a bit abashed at that, as she knew that her father never let her do much besides travel and martial arts. And as her old man didn’t see much point in washing something that was about to get dirty again anyways that they wouldn’t do much washing until it was drastically needed.
“But what about my returning to normal?” She asked.
Cologne didn’t answer verbally but her pointed gaze at Ranma-chans pants got the message across to the neo-girl anyway.
“Do ya know who she is?” Ranma-chan asked looking at the other girl in the room.
“No idea youngling. But I would like to find something out.”
“What’s that?” Ranma-chan asked curious.
Cologne didn’t answer but poured some more of the hot water from the kettle over the resting form of the other red haired girl. Nothing happened other than the fact that she got wet. “As I thought.”
Ranma-chan looked from the sleeping four armed girl over to Cologne. “What? Something wrong with her?”
“When we got to the valley, both you and your companion here were unconscious and being carried into the Jusenkyo guides hut by a Panda and the Guide. Both of you were also obviously wet, and a wet person in the Valley of Jusenkyo usually means a cursed victem. So we assumed that you both had been cursed.” She pulled back the sheet to show one side of the unconscious girls body. Ranma-chan blushed at seeing the exposed breast because of Colognes actions. “She appears similar to you, but has four arms. So we thought that either her curse had been mixed with another, or that somehow four arms was natural to her.”
Ranma-chan just sat there confused.
“Never mind, we’ll just wait for her to wake up. In the meantime what are we going to do with you?” The Matriarch stated as she turned her gaze towards Ranma-chan.
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A couple of days later Genma and the Jusenkyo guide return to the village that Genma had seen the Amazons bring Ranma to. Since Genma didn’t speak a lick of Chinese he requested the guide to ask where his son was.
The guide left Genma on the outskirts of the Village and traveled inside the small town. The guide returns and tells Genma that they didn’t know of any boy brought here in the last few days. Genma frowned at this and thought for a minute. After he was through thinking he asked the guide to take him to the next Amazon town as the Guide had mentioned that there were several.
As they were leaving Cologne watched them from her vantage point on top of one of the taller trees on the outskirts of the village.
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