Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ An Unusual Father ❯ Something Weird This Way Comes Part 2 ( Chapter 4 )

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An Unusual Father

A Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction by Ryo Oki
ryo_oki@pacbell.net

Disclaimer: All characters and places not created by me
are probably owned by someone else.

Author's Note: This story will be a little different from my last
story, 'Little Angel Lost' in that it has no set ending. I will simply
be adding chapters as ideas come to me. This story will be primarily a comedy
with some romance thrown in. It will be primarily a crossover with the
Baldur's Gate 2 pc game universe and the forgotten realms universe in general
with one other crossover that will be apparent a little later.
For those familiar with AD&D mechanics the setting will use a mixture of
first and second edition rules with a home made spell point system instead
of the usual magic system used in AD&D.

In case I had not mentioned this before, this story is set several
years after the end of the Baldur's Gate 2 computer game. The original
P.C.'s are now all semi-retired and of quite high level. Also, unlike in
the computer game, Minsc did not ask Aerie to be his witch. She decided to
settle down with another member of the party, which I might get around
to discussing later. Sorry, if this annoys anyone, but I feel that it
can be too constraining to always follow the events in a certain
manga or game, when I am writing about the characters in said those
games for example.


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Chapter 4: Something Weird This Way Comes Part 2



Finally arriving back at the village after her little adventure,
Corinne started to search for someone who could help her rescue her
friends from the kobolds. Most of the warriors were out searching in the
wrong direction, but still there would be a few warriors and maybe one
the witches left in the village.

Making her way past one of the outer houses in the village, she
stopped dead in her tracks at seeing an image in window right next to
her. It was her own reflection and she almost fainted upon seeing it.
Why she was....was....dirty of all things. This couldn't be allowed to
happen. She wanted to be a priestess of Sune when she became older. As
she looked right now, no one would want her. Still her friends were in
danger and that is more important than her appearance isn't it?

Maybe if she just washed up real quick, that would do. It wouldn't
take that long, then she could lead everyone back to find those nasty
kobolds and kick there butts like they deserved.

Deciding this she made her way rapidly back to her own home. She
made her way inside and snuck past her mother's room. It wasn't
a difficult task considering her mother was 'entertaining' again. Ever since
her father died her mother had taken one lover after another. It was so
superficial of her. Fortunately her mother's attitudes had not rubbed off
on Corinne in any ways. Well, at least she thought it didn't.

It took a little longer than she thought it would to get cleaned
up properly, after all, her clothes were also quite dirty and so was
she after laying in then in the forest for so long. A quick washing
wouldn't do. She needed new clothes and a bath as well.

She ran out of her house an hour later, with her mother still
unaware that she had even been there. Admittedly Corinne's mother was
not exactly a typical parent, but at least she didn't spend half her
time drunk, like Marlena's mother Misato did.

Corinne was quite lucky that she did not have to wait long to
find someone to help her. A few minutes after she exited her home she
ran into a familiar big bald barbarian with a hamster on his shoulder.
Standing next to him was an equally familiar drow elf priestess.

"I am glad I found you, we found out where Cassandra was, but
I got separated from them, and I had to come back here to find someone
who could help.", Corinne babbled out as fast as she could.

"Slow down child, who is this 'we' that you are talking about.",
Viconia said to the little blond girl.

Corinne quickly told Minsc and Viconia what had happened to
Cassandra and how they had been led through the forest by the goblin
Grovel to where the kobolds were hiding. To say that Viconia was more
than a little annoyed that mere children had done something so
foolish was an understatement to say the least.

Minsc looked over at his wife and saw a faint glow around her,
which tended to happen when she became very angry at someone or
something. He had a feeling that if something happened to any of the
children, especially the boy Ranma, his wife would not stop until
every kobold within a hundred miles of their village was dead.

Minsc hoped that nothing was wrong of course, both for the
children and his wife. It was their first child that caused Viconia
to become more relaxed around other people. Having to bury their son
though seemed to cause Viconia to withdraw more into herself. He was worried
that she would soon shut herself away from everyone else.

Ranma's arrival seemed to change that. Watching his wife try and
comfort the boy when he had nightmares for the first couple days after
he arrived here showed him that Viconia could still care for others.

Since Corinne had never entered the kobold lair, there wasn't a reason
to bring her along, but Viconia still did not believe that the girl should be
wandering around by herself so Corinne was brought back to her home, but
seemed reluctant to let anyone speak to her mother.

As everyone entered the house the reason to Corinne's reluctance
became quite clear. Corinne sighed at how noisy her mother was being
and Viconia seemed to be having trouble keeping one of her eye's from
twitching.

"Perhaps we should wait until they're done?", Minsc said with a
dead pan tone of voice.

"MOTHER, ARE YOU DONE YET?", Corinne said in a loud voice.

"JUST WAIT...OHHHH YEAH...., I MEAN MOTHER IS BUSY DEAR.",
Corinne's mother said as Viconia grumbled something under her breath,
walked right up to the door and kicked it inward with a loud crash.

"(SHRIEK), What are you doing here?", Said two very panicked
voices from within the bedroom.

"Do you have any idea what your child has been doing for the
past several hours?", Viconia said as she glared at the naked and
quite confused woman.

"What?", Corinne's mother said as she pulled a sheet from the
bed and wrapped it around herself.

"You are pathetic. Your child was almost killed because you spend
all your time rutting like an animal with any male that you come across.",
Viconia said to the woman in a tone of voice that had her scooting
backwards across the floor.

"Minsc take this fool with you while I have a talk with this
pitiful excuse for a mother.", Viconia said as Minsc scooped the shocked
villager out of the bed and carried him out of the house.

Once outside Minsc heaved the man through the air causing the naked
villager to land in a large mud puddle, splashing several warriors who had
just returned. They did not seem too thrilled with the "bath" that they
had just been given.

A few minutes after he left the house, Corinne came out and sat on the
front porch. One minute after that, several shrieks and loud banging
sounds were heard from the house. Someone sounded as if they were in pain.

Minsc was tempted to investigate, but what little common sense the
large barbarian possessed, told him that this would be a bad idea to
do something like that at the moment.

The noises continued for about five minutes, then stopped suddenly.
Viconia came out of the house with a smirk on her face. Standing next to
her was Corinne's mother who was now wearing a thick robe and muttering
something about how soap should not be used in such a fashion. She very
quickly led her daughter back into the house and shut the door behind them.

"Do you wish to know what went on after you left?", Viconia asked
Minsc who was still standing in front of the house with a blank
expression on his face.

"No, it be best for Minsc if he not ask. Had enough bad dreams last
time you told me.", Minsc said.

"Well, I did make up for it.", Viconia said as Minsc went from
shocked to embarrassed.

Minsc and Viconia went over to the warriors, who had been splashed
earlier. Since they were now done thrashing their fellow villager they
listened intently to what had happened to the missing girl and the
children who had gone after Cassandra.

They agreed to meet up with Minsc and Viconia at the entrance to
the kobold lair as soon as they could quickly acquire new arrows and other
provisions.

Halfway to their destination, Minsc and Viconia stopped short when a
very familiar and sultry female voice called to them from the side trail
that they were just about to turn onto. Coming into sight was a being that
Viconia had not seen for some time and quite frankly hoped not to see for
quite a while longer.


**************


It had been over a minute and everyone in the underground chamber
continued to stare at the little 'demon' that had just been summoned. Ranma
was one of the first beings to snap out of the daze that he was in and
took a moment to carefully look at the 'creature'.

It definitely wasn't some sort of large drooling fiery monster like
the other demons that everyone had seen through the portal. The creature
appeared to be a young human girl about a year older than Ranma. She had
short blue hair and deep blue eyes. Of course, the small black bat wings
on her back and the short spiky tail showed that she wasn't exactly
human after all.

Ranma also wondered about the strange clothes that she wore. It
looked almost like the uniforms that he had seen some of the older
schoolgirls wear as he and his pop wandered around Japan. The outfit looked
like a white one piece swimsuit with a sort ruffled medium blue skirt. There
was a large blue bow on the girl's chest and a smaller one on her back, just
above the skirt. She was also wearing some sort of crown and a clear blue
'glass?' visor that looked kind of neat.

The large hobgoblin began to twitch, then turned towards the kobold
necromancer with an expression on his face that indicated quite clearly that
he was not happy at what had appeared before him.

"FOOL!, you said that you could summon a demon, a princess of the
abyss that would allow us to conquer all of the neighboring tribes. I paid
you for the items that you said you needed. Yet you summon this weird little
human instead.", the hobgoblin snarled.

"M...m....Master she is clearly not human.... Perhaps she merely wears
a disguise to catch us unaware or until she sees the quality of the
sacrifice we have prepared.", the necromancer said as he tried to stop
from shaking.

"That had better be true or you will die.", the hobgoblin snorted.

"Who are you?", the necromancer politely asked the little demon.

"My name is Amelia Moonstone.", the demon said in a horribly
cute tone of voice, causing the hobgoblin to continue to twitch.

"Are you a demon or other creature from the abyss?", the necromancer
asked.

"Uh-huh, I'm a succubus, or at least mommy says that I will be one
when I grow up.", the little demon girl said in a proud tone of voice.

(THUD)

The necromancer looked over in confusion then fear as the hobgoblin
fell over in shock then began to rise up from the ground while looking at
the necromancer in a most unfriendly manner.

"Wait milord, before you doing anything, she did admit to being a
demon after all.", the necromancer quickly said.

"A child of a demon.", the hobgoblin snarled.

"But that is just it milord, demons do not have children. All
demons are created as you see them. They are not born and age as mortal
creatures are.", the necromancer said.

"Well, most demons are like that, but mommy said she wanted to see
what having a child was like. She got the idea from some drow elf that
she used to know.", the little demon girl said.

"She is still just a child. I doubt she even has any power. How
can she grant us our wish?", the hobgoblin said as his hand began to
move toward the hilt of his sword.

"Oh, I can do all sorts of things. Mommy is the queen of two whole
layers of the abyss.", the demon said as the necromancer looked at her
in shock.

"Two layers?!?", the necromancer whispered in fear.

"What is the problem now?", the hobgoblin said while wondering if it
would just be better to kill off the annoying necromancer and the so-called
demon.

"To control even 1 layer of the abyss is next to impossible. To
control two.......is unheard of.", the necromancer said.

"Can you grant us our wish child or not?", the hobgoblin said
to the demon directly.

"Why should I? You're just mean and ugly old beast.", Amelia said.

**********

When the demon had first appeared Ranma and the others first were
too stunned by its appearance to act, but as the demon seemed to be a lot
less scary than they thought it would be, they quickly came to their
senses and began to come up with a plan to rescue their friend.

Suzanna steadied herself on the edge of the ditch with her crossbow
loaded and aimed at the kobold necromancer. Grovel had pulled out a loud
of the thunderstones and other small objects that Ranma did not
recognize. Marlena was given, temporarily, the ring of invisibility and
the lightning bolt wand. She exited the ditch and began to circle around
to the left of the kobold group so that she could hit the two kobold
shamans. As for Ranma, well he had a spell that had just come to him as
he was looking at all of the kobolds and wondering what he could do to
help. The spell would not blow anything up, but it would help out, he
hoped.

Ranma and the others noticed the little demon say something to
the Necromancer, then much to everyone's shock, she floated out of the
pentagram, that was supposed to contain her. Ranma was going to attack right
then, but the little demon floated over to Cassandra and ripped the rope
bonds away that held her to the table. She then picked the semi-conscious
halfling girl up, turned towards Ranma and the others and winked at them,
much to their surprise. The demon then began to glow a pale red color before
both she and Cassandra faded from view.

Unable to help himself, Ranma shouted out for Cassandra, attracting
the attention of everyone in the room.

"We have intruders kill all of them.", the hobgoblin yelled out
as a muffled curse echoed out from somewhere in the room, followed by
a lightning bolt striking the two shamans and sending what was left of
them slamming into the wall which they were standing by.


************

Meanwhile a little while earlier:

Minsc was surprised to hear a voice suddenly call out so close
to him. He prided himself at being able to spot others before they
managed to get to close to him. This though paled in the shock that
ran through him when he noticed the brief look of nervousness that
Viconia on her face. She never seemed to be shocked by anything. He
readied himself for whatever beast had called out to them.

A few seconds later 3 people stepped out of the shadows of the
side trail. Two of them were drow elf males and they were looking
at Minsc with disgust. The third figure was a little different. She
looked to be about 30 in human years with long red hair, sapphire
blue eyes and two large black bat wings. The lustful look she gave
Minsc went mostly unnoticed, much to the demon's dismay, especially
considering how much her 'armor' showed off her figure.

A succubus, and a powerful one at that. Minsc had become quite
skilled at sensing the power of a foe. He may not be considered to
be 'smart' by many people, but he did have other skills. Hopefully this
creature would not be too hard to deal with. He had children to
rescue.

"Wait a minute..........didn't that silly little blond girl say
something about the kobolds summoning a demon. Maybe this was it.",
Minsc thought briefly to himself.

"It's been quite a while since we have seen each other my dear
Viconia, don't you have something to say to your 'old friend'", the
succubus said with an amused grin on her face.

"It has been a long time Kimori. I was starting to believe that you
had forgotten about me.", Viconia said with as little emotion as she
muster at the moment.

"You know this demon?, Minsc said while pointing towards the
succubus.

"You will show more respect towards our mistress human or you will pay
the price of your rudeness.", of the drow males sneered.

He was quite surprised to find himself knocked to the ground a
moment later with a small brown hamster on his chest growling at him.

The other male drow was quickly knocked to the ground by Minsc and
held their by Minsc standing with one of his legs on the drow's chest.

Kimori looked at her two 'guards' now laying on the ground and
reacted in an unexpected way.

Viconia was shocked to see a demon of Kimori's power now rolling on
the ground laughing so hard that she was starting to gasp for breath.

The two drow were equally stunned by this sight, Minsc on the other
hand just looked confused. This admittedly was not an uncommon occurrence
though.

"(Snicker), (Giggle), Oh my I haven't seen anything so ridiculous
in centuries. My 'brave' servants knocked to the ground by a human and
his pet rodent. (Giggle) Then again you always did have the most unusual
beings around you my dear Viconia.", the demon Kimori said.

"So why have you appeared here Kimori, I doubt it is for a social
call.", Viconia said in a cold tone of voice.

"We have not seen each other in many years and this is the way you
greet an old friend who helped you start a new life.", Kimori said as she
briefly looked at Viconia, then looked at Minsc and licked her lips in a
seductive manner.

Minsc seemed oblivious to this casual flirtation as well as he had
the previous one.

"He can not be that dense can he?", Kimori mumbled.

"(Squeak), (Squeak), You would be surprised.", Boo squeaked.

Seeing how Viconia's stern expression had yet to change, Kimori
sighed and began to speak in a somewhat annoyed tone of voice, "Fine if you
wish to be that way it is your choice. I came here to tell you that now is the
time for you to fulfill the pledge you made to me when you first escaped
your 'first life'."

"What pledge is this?", Minsc asked as he quickly disarmed then
stepped off the drow that he was partially standing on.

Boo also leapt off the other drow that he knocked down, but not before
letting off a growl that a creature of his size should not be able to make.
The little drow elf somehow knew that if he tried anything the little
hamster would do something far worse than knock him to the ground next time
if he tried to do anything foolish.

"Sigh, it is a long story. For now let us just say that when I first
escaped from my home and family in the underdark, I might not have survived
to make it to the surface if Kimori had not agreed to take me there... For
a price.", Viconia said while trying to hide the fact at how much discussing
her past disturbed her.

"You make it sound so ominous. It was a simple exchange of services.
Besides my dear, it is not as if I asking you to kill someone. Well... at
least not directly.", Kimori smiled.

"Then what do you want?", Viconia said in frustrated tone of voice.
After all she had a few children to look for and a "demon" to kill.

"Why I wish you to rescue my daughter from the foolish creature
that summoned her.", Kimori said to a surprised Viconia and Minsc.

"Your daughter? Demons do not have children.", Viconia said.

"I'll explain after she is rescued. For now you must simply
except the truth of what I am saying to you. My dear naive daughter
foolishly walked into a portal that appeared in the abyss. Everyone
else ignored the portal because the pathetic excuse for a summoner
had nothing to offer. My daughter thought it was some sort of game
and went through the portal.", Kimori said while sounding impatient.

"Why couldn't you go?", Minsc asked, while sounding suspicious
of the demon's motives.

"The portal in the abyss closed before anyone else could go though,
and the original builders of the 'temple' in which she appeared was warded
against teleporting into it from this plane of existence.", Kimori said.

"You can not also risk someone finding out that all is not right in
your realm can you?", Viconia asked with a smirk as Kimori frowned.

"No, I can not. Now will you help or must we continue this pointless
banter.", Kimori said.

"Very well, I will help, but after your daughter is rescued then my
debt to you is repaid in full.", Viconia replied.

"Agreed.", Kimori said before fading out, taking the two unconscious
drow with her.

Minsc and Viconia quickly made their way to where they were told the
kobold lair would be. They were met upon arrival, by the warriors from the
village. Neither of the small groups had come upon any kobolds or any other
humanoids for that matter during their short journey. The front door to the
'lair' was even standing wide open. Some faint noises could be heard
through the open door, but it was impossible to tell what they were or where
all of these supposed kobolds had disappeared too.


**************

Ranma could tell the others were not happy with him, not that he
blamed them, he wasn't too happy with himself. He really didn't mean to
yell out to Cassandra but he couldn't help it. He had no idea where she
and the demon went to. Maybe she was taken someplace really nasty like that
swamp, or back to that evil looking place that they had seen through the portal
perhaps she was even (BAMF)..........Or she could just have appeared right
next to him still being held by the demon.

"Eek, its the demon.", Suzanna said while trying to point her crossbow
at the 'evil' creature.

(BONK)

"Oww, you little #*$#", Suzanna said as her crossbow was taken away and
she was smacked on top of the by the little demon just after she set the
still groggy Cassandra on the ground.

"Now be nice or I might decide not to save you from all of them.", the
little demon said as she pointed to all of the kobolds that were now piling
into the room.

Another lightning bolt struck a group of five kobolds as the were
charging the ditch which Ranma and the others were in.

"Now for some fun.", the little demon said in glee as she began to
chant causing a glowing red sphere to form just in front of her hands.

"Aiyah!, little kids get down. Little demon going to cast spell.",
Grovel exclaimed as Suzanna leapt on top of Cassandra and Ranma, much to
their surprise.

As the spell left the little demon's hands it changed from a bright
red sphere, to a dull whitish blue sphere which struck the large hobgoblin
right between the eyes.

(Wump)

Down in the ditch, Ranma and the others waited for what they thought
would be a large explosion. They had little to worry about.

"What kind of spell goes 'Wump'.", Suzanna mumbled.

As she and the others began to stand and look out at what had just
happened, they were surprised to see the hobgoblin laying on the ground face
up with what looked like a large snowball covering his face.

"Well that didn't work. What did I do wrong?", the little demon said
with a pout on her face.

Nearby the kobold necromancer began to cast a spell of his own. It was the
same spell that the demon had tried to cast moments earlier.

Seeing the fireball now forming, Ranma and the others once again threw
themselves onto the floor.

Seconds later a bright flash and a blast of hot air flew over the top
of ditch. No one was burned, but they cool feel the heat in the air. This
was quickly followed unfortunately by the smell of burnt flesh and hair.

Looking carefully over the edge of the ditch Ranma and the others
were shocked to see the now dead bodies of over 40 kobolds. The only two
survivors were the kobold necromancer, who was covered by some sort of
red glowing force field and the hobgoblin. He looked somewhat roasted but
he was still very much alive and quite angry.

The little demon seemed so amused at how the necromancer had done her
job for her, by destroying all of the kobolds that were bothering her, that she
did not notice the hobgoblin charging towards her with a glowing sword in its
hand.

Ranma grabbed a handful of the thunderstones and threw them towards
the kobold as hard as he could. Several exploded around the beast, but two
struck the hobgoblin right in the head, stunning him and knocking him to
the ground.

"You tried to hit me when I wasn't looking. I'm going to punish
you for that.", the little demon said in a righteous sounding voice.

Amelia pulled a small gold belt out of no where and fastened it
about her waist. She walked up to the felled hobgoblin, grabbed him by
the neck and tossed him into the air. Flying up to meet him the little demon
swung herself around and struck the hobgoblin with a circle kick that sent
him flying into the door which the necromancer had originally come through.

As the hobgoblin slid down the door, Ranma could not help but feel
a little jealous. It was true that he enjoyed learning magic, but he still
was impressed by the demon's martial arts. She had kicked the ugly beast
at least thirty feet. Ranma had once asked his father how far he could hit
someone, and he said over fifty feet, but Ranma had never seen his father
do this. His father wouldn't lie to him though would he?

Ranma was jolted awake from his thoughts by the little demon Amelia
landing right in front of him.

"She's cute.", Ranma said barely above a whisper.

"Thank you for saving me.", Amelia said with a smile as she put
her arms around Ranma and kissed him lightly on the cheek, causing
him to suddenly stiffen briefly, then relax.

"I didn't do a lot.", Ranma said while sounding humble much
to Suzanna's amusement.

"That's true.", Suzanna said.

"Who's the old lady?", Amelia said while pointing to Suzanna.

"Grrrr..... What did you say.", Suzanna growled.

Before the two young girls could get into it, so to speak,
several loud crashes and screams began to echo behind the door, which
the hobgoblin was slumped up against.

A few seconds later the door was blown off its hinges, and heading
towards the kobold necromancer. The door barely slowed down as it struck
the kobold and carried both he and hobgoblin towards a very familiar
torture device.

(Squish)

"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.", went the children as they saw hobgoblin and
kobold necromancer smash into the iron maiden with the door to it
slamming shut behind it.

"Hey, where did the bad guy go?", Minsc said as he stuck his
head through the door.

Viconia followed shortly behind, quickly looked around and seeing
that Ranma and the others appeared safe, walked over to the iron maiden
and opened it. Looking briefly, she gave a disinterested snort and slammed
the lid shut, producing an even larger 'squishy' noise than before.

"How disappointing, I was so looking forward to killing the useless
creatures.", Viconia thought to herself as she walked towards the children.

As she reached the children Viconia first thought that the girl
behind Ranma was Marlena but quickly realized that it was the dear
'friend' Kimori's child.

Marlena soon reappeared, quite literally, and looked over Cassandra
to see if the little halfling girl was alright. A quick check by
Viconia confirmed this to be true.

"So you are Amelia, Kimori's child?", Viconia asked the little
demon, while feeling somewhat ill as ease at how close the little
creature was standing next to Ranma.

"I know you, mommy talks about you all the time.", Amelia said.

"She does?", Viconia said in surprise.

"Mommy said she regrets letting you get away and something about
you having the nicest little butt she has ever seen on an elf, or
something like that.", Amelia said as everyone stared at the little
demon, then at the now blushing Viconia.

"Minsc not sure he want to ask.", Minsc mumbled while sounding
somewhat out of sorts.

"(Squeek, Squeek, Squack), I don't know, it sounds like an interesting
story to me.", Boo squeaked out.

Any further discussions were put on hold as Viconia and Minsc
led everyone out of the kobold lair. As they began the climb up to
the surface Suzanna couldn't help but notice how empty the place was, She
wondered if all of the kobolds ran away or something.

Ranma, now holding the still unconscious Cassandra in his arms,
was wondering the same thing.

"Strange aren't there any more kobolds left around here?", Suzanna
said in a confused tone of voice.

"Not any more.", Viconia replied causing more than one person in the
group to shutter involuntarily.

Bringing up the rear, the goblin, Grovel shook his head and wondered
for the 100th time how his life had become so different from other
goblins, not that he was complaining of course.

Upon reaching the surface the group noticed what could only be
Amelia's mother step out of a portal, this time without her two
'companions'.

"Mommy!", Amelia exclaimed as she glomped onto her mother, Kimori.

"I told you not to do that in public child.", Kimori said while
trying to keep a stern appearance.

"There's no demons around here, just this nice boy.", Amelia
said as she pointed to Ranma.

"My what an interesting magical aura this boy has.", Kimori
whispered in the demonic tongue.

"Magic aura? What's that?", Ranma replied in what sounded like
the demonic language.

After a quick explanation by Viconia as to why the boy could speak
demonic, Kimori began to form a portal to send herself and her daughter home.

"Can't he come with us mommy?", Amelia asked.

"No, child he is not a pet, besides it looks like he already has other
girls interested in him.", Kimori said as she watched Cassandra snuggled in
his arms and the other girls standing quite close to him.

"Can I stay here for a while then?", Amelia asked.

"No child, you may not. You would not be accepted among the human. I
am surprised that they even allow a drow in their village, even if you
are a cute little thing.", Kimori said while glancing at Viconia.

"Oh well, maybe we can see each other again.", Amelia sighed as she
flew over to Ranma, and quickly kissed on the cheek again, before flying
into the portal, which closed behind the little demon and her mother.

Ranma was once again so distracted by the kiss that he forgot to
ask the little demon girl why she was dressed in such a strange outfit.
It did make her look cute though, Ranma thought as everyone began
to walk back towards the village where everything would be quiet for a
while, or so they hoped.


Author's Note:

Well once again this chapter has taken far longer than I thought
it would. I suppose I could blame it on writer's block, but if truth be
told, I haven't really felt all that interested in writing as of late.
Perhaps that will change in the future, but for now I have several other
hobbies that I am trying to work on as well.

Now as for what will be written next, I can almost guarantee that it
will be another story, unrelated to anything that I have written so far. I
have thought of several Ranma and other anime short story ideas, so more
than likely they will be written next. Until next time.....

Ryo Oki

ryo_oki@pacbell.net