Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Destiny of the Magi ❯ The Sick, The Idiotic, and The Perverted... don’t ask... ( Chapter 16 )

"AHCHOO!"

Kikori sniffed and huddled into her blanket more as a sudden chill went up her spine. Ranma placed another wet cloth onto the Priestess' forehead and sighed.

"I can't believe it, miss perfect priestess of healing is sick." Ranma snickered.

Kikori groaned and weakly gave Ranma a glare, "I have a headache, so don't bother me."

"Hey!" Ranma grinned, "You should be glad that I'm taking care of you, who knows what Shampoo might pull out to `cure' you of your cold."

"Anything is better than your bad jokes and even worst insults." Kikori retorted weakly and hid her head underneath her blanket.

Ranma sighed and shook his head, "Kikori, the wet cloth is still on your forehead. You'll only get your blanket wet."

"I dun care." Kikori muttered.

The pigtailed mage sighed again and pulled the blanket down and removed the cloth from the priestess' head, "Ki-chan, I'll bring you dinner when it's done ok? Just sleep and try to get better."

Kikori blushed as Ranma tucks her in, "Thanks Ranma."

Ranma smiled softly and kissed Kikori on her cheek, "Sleep well."

Kikori stared at the ceiling for a whole minute before blinking and realize something is wrong.

"Did Ranma just kiss me..."

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Act:1 Chapter:16

The Sick, The Idiotic, and The Perverted... don't ask...

< Did I just kiss Kikori... > Ranma stopped in mid stride as he was about to reach the kitchen, < What the HELL did I just do that? >

"Hey Ranma!"

"AH!" Ranma jumped and turned around gripping at his chest, "SHAMPOO! Will you QUIT doing THAT!"

The Amazon grinned, "But it's so fun seeing you jump so high! And that expression!"

Ranma's eyes twitched irritably, "Right... Anyways, can ya help me in the kitchen for a bit, I need ta cook somethin for Kikori ta eat."

The Amazon nodded, "No problem."

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Kikori continues to stare at the ceiling as one question continues to haunt her mind, < WHAT WAS RANMA DOING KISSING ME LIKE THAT! >

Knock Knock

"Who is it." Kikori groaned as she attempts to push herself to a sitting position.

"Just me, Ranma. I'm coming in to bring ya somethin ta eat." The door swings open revealing Ranma wearing an apron and holding a tray of food for the sick priestess.

Kikori held back her laughter, "Nice apron Ranma."

Ranma growled, "Stupid Shampoo... force me to wear one as a girl and then dumps hot water on me."

"Let Shampoo have her fun." Kikori replied as she tries to take the tray away from Ranma, who wards her away. "Hey!"

"It's heavy, I don't think ya can lift it by yourself." Ranma warned, "Don't worry, I won't be feedin' ya too."

Kikori laughed softly, "I'm not THAT sick Ranma, just a little dizzy and minor coughing. You're treating me like I'm having a bad case of the flu."

Ranma scratches his head sheepishly, "Well, they say the first time ya sick is the worst time, and this is the first time I've seen ya sick..."

Kikori picks up a spoon from the tray and slowly sips from the bowl of soup, "Well, this ISN'T my first time sick, believe it or not, I just take care of my body."

Ranma snorted, "And I don't?"

"Of course you don't," Kikori answered matter of factly, "The way you keep on insulting every girl and guy you meet is a sure sign that your asking for a beating, and therefore, you don't take care of your body."

Ranma blinked, "Wha..."

"Oh nevermind." Kikori huffed and continue to eat her dinner.

Ranma grinned, "Don't spill anything, I really don't wanna clean up ya mess for ya."

Kikori glared and the retreating spirit mage, "I'll show you spilling."

Ranma laughed as the Priestess throws a spoonful of rice at him and quickly closes the door behind him, "I am NOT cleaning that up Kikori!"

"Hmph," Kikori huffed with a slight smile, "and if you don't, I won't be cleaning up YOUR mess the next time."

"Aww... Kikori!" Ranma whined, "I'm just playin' around!"

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" 'ello." Ranma said into the receiver right after he picked it up.

"Ranma, its Landal."

"Yo Lan-chan." Ranma said grinning madly knowing that he is annoying the prankster spirit mage.

"I wouldn't be saying that mister aqua-transsexual mage." Landal retorted.

Ranma growled and muttered to himself and slammed the phone back to its place.

RING RING

"WHAT!"

"Actually Ranma, if you're not too busy, I have some information that might interest you." Landal said professionally, "You can even say I have some bad news and some good news too!"

Ranma blinked "Oh ok."

"Good news first," Landal started, "something with an intensely unpure aura is headed your way and all the mage tower had a bounty on this person mostly from all the females that petitioned it so you will have something to do for a while that won't get you bored."

"That is GOOD news?" Ranma sweatdropped.

"Well, I guessed that you'd jump at any chance of having some action so..."

"So what's the bad news?"

"Well, because of that `intensely unpure aura', most priestess falls ill because that man's aura taints all the other auras, so Kikori might feel extremely ill for the next few while."

Ranma blinked, < So THAT'S why Kikori is sick? >

"Anyway, I'll leave you to fend for yourself and take care of your little girl priestess friend. See you soon."

Ranma twitched as he held on to the receiver, "I hate that man..."

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Screams and shouts of pervert echoed out through the district of Nerima. To most people, mostly women and teenage girls, these screams are directed to a specific old man who is carrying a large bag full of panties and bras, but to two, these screams are directed to...

"I still don't get why you have to send that blank demon of yours to do all your dirty work."

A small figured laughed at the feminine figure that said it, "Why? So that I can spend my time fondling you AND get plenty of panties and bras!"

The Female figured fumed as the smaller figure suddenly appeared on top of her chest, "Happosai... FRY!"

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Ranma sighed as he sat at the counter of the `Mystical Dimension.' "This is SO bor-"

"GIVE US ALL ALL OF YOUR WANDS NOW!"

Ranma fell from his chair as the crowd of obviously angry women and girls crashed into the store.

"ALL of them?"

"YES!"

"Err, that would cost ya..." Ranma laughed nervously as all the women, all of them holding various blunt and sharp and even unheard of weapons, glared at him, "The rest of the wands are in the storage area, I'll get them for ya." Ranma squeaked and quickly dashed for the storage room.

"What was THAT about." Ranma muttered to himself, "I just hope this isn't some way ta get free stuff from our store..."

"WHERE ON EARTH AM I NOW!"

Ryoga suddenly crashed through the wall of the storage room

"I AM GOING TO KILL THAT LITTLE GNOME!"

A portal opened and Zandia and Ukiko dropped out of it.

Ranma blinked, "Ryoga? Angel-sensei?"

The two blinked in unison, "Oh hi Ranma, me and my student only here to pick up some supplies to kill this little Gnome."

Ranma scratched his head, "Err, Sorry sensei, but that would be kinda hard. Ya see, all the girls in town are takin' all the wands and robbing me blind with lotsa weapons."

Zandia blinked, "Oh they must be after that little gnome too. That's ok I guess."

Ukiko, who was hiding behind her teacher, meekly said, "Is the pervert gone?"

"Yes he is." Zandia said soothingly, "Ranma, can you take care of my student for a while, I have a pervert to hunt."

Ranma and Ryoga slowly stepped away from the glowing spirit mage, "S-Sure..."

"Now, to organize my army of angry women." Zandia chuckled evilly and walked out of the storage room leaving a very scared Ranma and a totally confused Ryoga to baby-sit a frightened little girl.

"Err..." Ryoga finally said scratching his head, "This might be a stupid question, but what in the world is going on?"

Ranma shrugged, "As long as it doesn't harm me in anyway, I don't care."

The pigtailed mage sighed and placed his hand on Ukiko's shoulder and gently led the girl upstairs, "Don't worry about a thing, if there is one person on earth that can take down anything, it'll be an angry Angel-sensei."

The girl nodded, "I guess so..."

"So tell me, what happened?" Ranma asked the girl while Ryoga followed the two in case he got lost again.

"Well, we were about to come back here `cause we ran out of food and stuff and Angel-sensei said that we should leech off Sempai and Kikori for a while before we head out again." Ukiko said innocently.

< Go figure they're coming back to live off us before heading out again > Ranma thought bitterly.

"Then when we got near the shop, this small man," Ukiko raised his hand to her nose, "about that tall jumped out of nowhere and landed right on Sensei's chest!"

Ryoga and Ranma winced and stopped in front of Kikori's room, "No wonder Sensei was so pissed off." Ranma said with a shiver before opening the door.

"Anyways, Sensei casted a spell on that man and blasted him away, but he stood back up again so Sensei casted another spell and another one and another one until she got tired and teleported us here!" Ukiko gasped for breath after she has finished.

Ranma shook his head and sat Ukiko on a stool beside Kikori's desk before checking up on his partner. Ryoga stood at the doorway with his arms crossed and frowning, "So now, Zandia is about ta lead a bunch of mad chicks armed with wands and other magical and non-magical stuff of every kind ta kill the guy?"

Ukiko nodded her head enthusiastically.

"Too bad Kikori is down `cause of that `unpure aura' in town, maybe she can cast a banishment spell on that guy and see if he's a demon or not." Ranma said from the side of Kikori's bed replacing the warm towel on top of a sleeping Kikori's forehead with a cool one, "Come ta think of it, I think Elder Cologne said somethin' about a pervert. A demon class Caller or somethin', think this man is the guy Elder was talking about?"

Ryoga shrugged, "Well only one way to find out, let's go."

Ranma nodded, "Ukiko, stay here with Kikori ok, help me take care of her."

"Okay Sempai, I'll take care of your girlfriend."

Ranma's eye twitched, "Sensei told ya ta say that didn't she."

Ukiko nodded her head.

"Why am I surround by people that love ta torture me." Ranma muttered darkly before leading Ryoga out of the store to track down the mob of women chasing the pervert.

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< You'd think that finding a mob of shouting angry women would be easy... > Ranma thought to himself as he glided across the sky with Ryoga tailing him by jumping on the roofs.

"See anything Ranma?" Ryoga yelled.

"No ye-... nevermind..." Ranma sighed and landed beside the Caller, "I saw them, but there were two others following them."

Ryoga frowned, "Let's go see those two first, maybe they know something about that pervert."

Ranma nodded and once again flew into the sky leading Ryoga towards the two figures trailing the mob of angry women.

< Something is not right... > Ranma landed in the path of the two figure, effectively trapping them between himself and Ryoga, "Who are ya guys?"

The pigtailed mage sweatdropped when he saw the female grinned evilly and continuously stomp on the smaller person, "So who ARE ya two?"

The women, wearing a leather tank-top and short cut-off jeans with spiked bracelet with hair the seem to be flickering flames, stopped stomping on the small man, her slitted brown eyes flickered as if it was a small flame, and grinned at him, "Why should I tell you?"

"Ah, don't be such a prune Frayja," The man said dusting himself off as if nothing happened, "I am Happosai! Demon Caller expert!"

"YOUR Happosai?" Ranma shook his head in disbelieve, "I thought the person with guts ta steal from the Amazons would be a bit taller than ya."

"Yeah, If Ranma didn't tell me that you REALLY are a demon class caller, I'd say that you can't even call a dust bunny by the looks of you." Ryoga added from behind scratching his head, "Heck, you look like you'd be squashed even if a dust bunny landed on you."

Frayja snickered while Happosai fumed, "I'll teach you to insult me you little whelp! Frayja, go burn that little BOY."

"Better than you groping me," Frayja muttered before charging Ranma.

"RELEASE!" Ranma thrust his hands forward, throwing a ball of magic towards Frayja slamming into her and pushing her back to where she was originally.

"Oh great... A wind spirit mage." Frayja growled, "You know I can't take on one of those with the limits you gave me Happosai."

"Arise into the world of the living, seek to guard the ways of the spirit! Cometh SPIRT GOLEM!" Ryoga yelled spreading his arms wide open. Air above Ryoga swirled into one point and starts to glow. The glow quickly widens opening a gateway.

"Great, a wind spirit mage AND a Caller," Frayja muttered irritably, "I did not sign up for this! So what if I'm a god damned Demon! With these stupid control limits your giving me, I can barely keep up with the golem! Let alone the spirit mage!"

Happosai scratched his chin thoughtfully, "Blank Demon, Recall."

The air beside Happosai shimmered and with a pop, a replica of Happosai appeared.

"Blank Form."

The `Blank demon' blurred and morphed itself so that it is all white without any features.

"Well, now that this is a three on three fight," Happosai smirked, "Let see how you beat me now! Frayja take care of caller boy, Blank demon, dispose of the golem anyway you like, that whelp is mine. Oh yeah, I'll release some limits off you, happy now Frayja?"

The demoness grinned, "Much..."

Ranma gulped, "This is NOT my day..."

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"Hey, where did that pervert go!"

"Yeah! We still haven't beaten him up yet!"

"I still need to get my bra back! I just brought that one too!"

Zandia frowned as the mob of women begins to grow frustrated at the sudden disappearance of the pervert.

< Magic... Strong magic too... and two weaker sources >

"That way!" Zandia suddenly pointed and starts to dash towards the direction, leading the mob of angry women with her.

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Ranma hissed as Happosai landed a hit on him, "Eat this freak! Wind, you are the weapon of DEATH!"

Ranma flung waves and waves of bladed winds towards the ancient Caller who dodged him effortlessly, "Must say, you are giving me quite a work out my boy."

"I'll give ya MORE than a work out!" Ranma growled, "SPIRITS OF WIND, STREAM FROM MY HANDS!" Ranma thrusts his arm out releasing a torrent of air towards Happosai who jumps up trying to dodge the spell. As the air hit the ground below him, it explodes upwards, trapping Happosai within a tight whirlwind. "Spirits of wind GATHER! RELEASE AND SCATTER!"

Endless balls of green magic flies out of Ranma's hand, filling the whirlwind with balls of magic which continuously hit the ancient Caller. "Suck on THAT freak!"

"Why that was really uncalled for."

Ranma gasped and turned around just to receive a punch to the stomach, "Take this! Spirits of wind, Gather, Release and TRACK!"

"Too slow my boy." Happosai smirked and dodged the ball of magic, "And a bit on the weak side too."

"What!" Ranma watched as the ball made a U-turn and slammed into Happosai with no ill effect

"Well, enough playing around," The ancient pervert smiled silghtly, "Now you shall face my BATTLE AURA!"

Ranma growled and raised his hand to throw another spell at his opponent but froze mid-way, < I... I can't move... How did he turn so BIG! >

WHAM!

Ranma fell to his back and struggled to pull himself back up, "Damnit!"

Ranma looked around to see Ryoga standing ways away burnt heavily by the Fire demoness. The spirit golem, who is fairing much better than the two humans, slowly losing to a copy of itself. "DAMNIT!"

"So what are you going to do now whelp?"

Ranma growled, "This!"

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Ryoga groaned as another wave of hot air slammed into his already sensitive skin, "I did NOT become a Caller to have a demon beat on me like this."

Frayja smirked, "And here I am, not even in my battle attire yet, and you, complaining about me being too hard to beat? What kinda Caller ARE you."

The fanged Caller snarled, "The Golem kind."

The demoness smirked as Ryoga throws a barrage of his bandanna's at her, "You HAVE to learn not to use flammable stuff on beings like me you know." Her eyes, previously brown, turn bright red. The bandannas all burst into flame and reversed their route heading right back at Ryoga.

"ERK!"

Ryoga throws himself aside, desperately dodging his own flaming bandannas.

< This ISN'T good! If I summon another golem, my spirit golem won't have enough power to hold off the blank demon, but at this rate, I'll be a roast beef in no time! >

"So little boy, now that you're playing with the big people, how do you feel?" Frayja taunted as she juggles five mini fireballs casually.

"Peachy." Ryoga muttered as he stood back up, wincing as his clothes touched some of his many burns.

"PRINCESS OF ICE! GODDESS OF COLD! COMETH!"

Ryoga gasped and turned towards Ranma to see a circle of ice next to him forming, "Oh, NOW he summons Artricia."

Frayja snarled as she sees Artricia rise quickly out of the circle of ice, "Artricia..."

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"You know, I was having a nice dream when you called me!" The ice princess sighed, "You owe me big time Mister!"

Ranma ignored her and stood himself up, "'Tricia, can ya help me and Ryoga in this fight a little? I think we're a little out matched."

Artricia frowned and turned around, "Frayja... It's been a while."

"Never knew you fancied human lovers Artricia," Frayja growled, "Never thought you like younger men."

The ice princess growled, "Well at least I have better taste than you! Bonding with a old WRINKLY pervert I see."

"Hmph, at least I have a decent Caller PEDOPHLILE!"

Artricia fumed, "SLUT!"

"WHORE!"

"BITCH!"

"YOU IGNORENT GOD!"

"YOU FILTHY DEMON!"

Ranma and Ryoga sweatdropped completely forgetting the fight, Happosai lost all his concentration and starts to jump up and down excitedly, "WOO HOO! CAT FIGHT!"

"SHUT UP YOU FREAK!"

"SHUT UP YOU FREAK!"

The two called beings shot an unnecessarily large ball of magic at Happosai, blasting him into the ground.

Frayja smirked, "I'll beat you back to where ever you came from and then drag you to Huren's* front door as a gift!"

Flames swirled around Frayja covering her for a mere moment. Instantly, her clothing is replaced with a chest plate, her jeans has turned into a long denim skirt reaching her knees with a slit that reached her upper thighs. Her boots as been replaced with a slipper with iron legging. Her bracelet turned into an arm guard that sported a wicked looking blade on the side.

Artricia frowned and looked at her mode of dress, a sky blue bikini and a long dress, "Ranma, release my lock."

The spirit mage blinked, "But that would..."

"DO IT!"

Ranma flinched at the coldness of his otherworldly partner's voice, "Locks of magical bind, unlock."

A rush of cold air blew towards the goddess of cold, her slitted eyes turned solid blue, and her usually pale skin turned pure white. Instead of her bikini and dress, she now has a plate mail with a large Claymore sword, made of ice, strapped to her back, her legs are left seemingly unprotected, but if you look closely, you'll see a transparent layer of ice that acts as legging.

"The fire demon is mine," Artricia said coldly, "Do whatever you like with the others."

Ranma nodded, "Ryoga, you should help ya golem. That pervert is mine."

Ryoga blinked and muttered to himself, "What's with Ranma and personal fights, they always seem to end that way doesn't it?"

Happosai, who has completely recovered from the blast the two summoned beings, climbed back up the crater created by the blast, "So, I see you're a talent. I swear the gods are out to get me."

Ranma smirked, "Well, ya know, with the stuff ya do, I won't be surprised freak."

Happosai nodded towards Ryoga, "Pretty confident that you'll win this little fight aren't you boy?"

"Ranma Saotome don't LOSE!" Ranma yelled as he punched into the air in front of him. "I call upon the breath of a demon!"

Happosai's eyes widened, "Saoto- OOF!"

"Wind give me thy blessings!" Ranma rushed towards the surprised and off balanced Demon caller and unleashed punches and kicks which is quickly followed by a close ranged attack of his ball of magic, knocking Happosai into a wall.

"So, your Genma's boy..." Happosai whispered to himself, "Why is he a mage then?"

"Give up?" Ranma smirked, "Or are ya restin' so ya can keep up wit me?"

"Definitely Genma's boy," Happosai muttered before proclaiming loudly, "Oh on, I'm just letting you rest so I may actually have a little bit of fun before I leave you knocked out on the cold hard concrete ground."

Ranma growled, "I call upon the breath of the demon!"

Happosai shook his head and charged forward towards the incoming needles of air weaving between them with ease and stopped in front of Ranma, "You'll need to do much better than THAT whelp!"

Ranma immediately throws a punching combo at Happosai who skillfully blocks all of them and takes out his pipe to knock Ranma down to his knees and hands planted on the ground.

"Powers of uninhibited winds, thy powers are at my call. Come to me oh winds of destruction, show the unworthy thy power." Ranma whispered. Air picked up quickly around Ranma and green beams of magic shot up from the ground hitting Happosai everywhere he dodged, "UNLEASHED POWER!" Ranma's eye's glows bright white, the beam narrows making each of them like needles ripping through the Demon caller.

The wind died down quickly leaving an exhausted Ranma, "No one can stand up after THAT!"

"I wouldn't bet on that my boy."

"Shit..."

*Note: Huren is the Demon of Wind. He has become attracted to Artricia during one of the battles that took place in their realm. After seeing her fight, Huren has made it his `quest' to get Artricia in the sack. But he won't be making a appearance in my fic anytime soon.

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Artricia drew her Claymore sword and held it in front of her in guard position staring at her opponent how held her hands up like a boxer would, with the blades on her arm guard facing the ice princess.

"Your move Frayja."

The fire demon smirked and blurred, leaving a streak of red as prove that she didn't teleport right beside Artricia and quickly attacked her with the blades on her arm guard.

Artricia's visage remains expressionless as she systematically blocks all the strikes made by her opponent and counter attacking on rare occasions with quick slashes, pushing Frayja back.

"You've improved Artricia, you're faster than I remember."

"And you're still as reckless and fast as I remember you." Artricia replied switching her stance so that her two handed sword is pointed towards her side with her right leg in front of her, "I believe it's my move now?"

Without waiting for a reply, Artricia dashed forward, slower than her counterpart, but still at impressive speed. At the last moment, she jumps into the air and makes a somersault and slashing at Frayja's head, who blocks it at ease with her arm guard. Quickly turning around, Artricia quickly unleashed a powerful slash upward knocking Frayja back as she blocked, once again, with her arm guards.

Seeing her opponent disoriented, Artricia quickly followed her attack with quick slashes towards her less protected thighs. Seeing this, Frayja jumped up into the air above her opponent and fired a stream of fire onto the goddess's head. The stream of fire was deflected to the side by the Claymore sword.

Once again, the two summoned beings faced each other, each in their own guard position.

"Looks like your little boyfriend is going to lose." Frayja smirked as she took a glance at the battle between Ranma and Happosai, "Seems like I'll win this one Artricia."

A frown appeared on Artricia's calm face, "Well, then I'll just have to finish you off before I fade out then."

With a yell, Artricia dashed forward with her sword pointed towards the demon, leaving a trail of ice, and thrusted it towards the Frayja who dodged to the side but quickly found herself hit at the neck by her opponent's arm.

The Claymore sword clattered on the ground right before Frayja landed with a loud clack, seconds after Frayja landed, Artricia mounted Frayja with a ball of cold magic right in front of the fire demon's face.

"Good match, see you the next century."

The Fire Demoness quickly froze with a shocked expression on her face. Few moments later, her form faded into nothing leaving a block of ice behind.

Artricia groaned as she felt herself being pulled back to her realm, "Ranma..."

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Ryoga snarled as he tripped the blank demon, which has taken his golem's form, with a powerful leg sweep.

"Golem, smash him in!" Ryoga barked and sat back and watched with satisfaction as his spirit golem continuously punched his copy, "Finish it off!"

With a low roar, the spirit golem grabbed its copy and throws it up into the air, and punched it with a haymaker when it was right on top of it.

"Good work golem." Ryoga said with a smirk, "Wasn't that tough with me around huh?"

The golem grunted in reply.

"Don't go back yet golem, let see how Ranma's doing first." Ryoga said causally and turned around to see Ranma using his third most powerful spell, "Well seem like we won this one."

"NO one, can stand up after that."

Ryoga nodded dumbly having witnessed that spell in full power.

"I wouldn't bet on it my boy."

Ryoga gasped < What is that thing! >

"Well time to finish you off isn't it?" Happosai begins to flare up his battle aura, "Feel my AURA!"

Ryoga froze as he saw a giant version of Happosai suddenly appear and beat Ranma savagely with a hook punch.

"S-Stop that!" Ryoga managed to shout as he slowly regained some of his motor control.

"Ah so your still strong enough to fight huh?" Happosai chuckled and looked up into the sky, "Still plenty of daylight left, I think I'll take my time with you."

Ryoga clenched his fist and readied himself for the fight of his life.

"We're not done yet..."

The old pervert blinked and turned to see Ranma holding out his palm, pointing at him with a ball of white energy, "RELEASE!"

Happosai snorted and dodged the blast easily, "That was a waste of-"

BOOM!

"WHOA!"

< That... that kid... he bypassed the element filter of the spirit mage, he manage to wield pure foreign spirit! >

"HAPPOSAI!"

"Tch," the said pervert sighed, "Well, I'll play with you boys again later, can't have those crazy amazons catch me after all... Ta Ta."

"Stop!" Ryoga yelled weakly as he strength finally gave way and he collapsed.

"Now where is my heir and why is Ranma fighting with the Caller and not his partner." Cologne muttered to herself as she used her abilities to levitate the two fallen mages, "He got away again..."

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< Hehe, that old mummy of an Amazon will never catch me! > Happosai thought with glee as he made his escape, < Til next time Ranma Saotome, til next time. >

"HEY! It's the pervert we're looking for!"

"Oh yeah! GET HIM!"

"WANDS! AIM! FIRE!"

If there is one thing in the world that is unstoppable, it's a mob of enraged women from Nerima with enough magical wands to demolish a small country...

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Ranma groaned as he opened his eyes, "Wha happen?"

"You fainted because you over excreted yourself."

"Kikori?"

Said priestess frowned at her partner, "Taking on a demon class caller with only you and Ryoga, you must be crazy!"

Ranma grinned, "Yep, that's me!"

Kikori huffed and glared at Ranma, "You were out for a whole day!"

"So? Did we win?"

"As far as I know, Happosai got away." Kikori answered and laid her hand on top of Ranma's chest, "But from what Zandia said, the mob of women knocked him around a lot. He should be in the hospital for at least a week!"

Knock Knock

"Come in." The two teens said in unison.

"Well what do we have here," Cologne said after entering the room, "Having a heart to heart talk? Or am I interrupting something more hmmm?"

"Just talkin' about what happened, s'all." Ranma said and turned his head to hide his blush.

"I see..." Cologne said subdued, "Well, if it's any consolation, you did extremely well in stalling a demon class Caller. To tell the truth, I expected you to not last as long as you did without Kikori's help."

"Wow, thanks for ya vote of confidence." Ranma said wirly, "Say, where's Shamps?"

"It's XIAN PU!"

Ranma sweatdropped, "Guess she's here too huh?"

Shampoo huffed as she entered the room, "I'm sorry to not been there."

Ranma gave the young Amazon a shrug, "It doesn't matter, he'd just grope ya or somethin'." Ranma frowned, "Come ta think of it, I'm surprised my curse didn't act up and turn me inta a girl when I fought him."

"Just thank the gods for small miracles." Cologne said with mirth, "Anyways, Happosai has escaped the hospital and is out wandering again, I guess I'll be tracking him down again."

Ranma's eyes twitched, "He was zapped be every wand in our storage and he is out of the hospital in ONE DAY!"

"He has a VERY high recovery rate." Cologne said with a sigh, "He probably gets in from groping Demonesses or something of the like."

"Ok, I think Ranma needs some air," Kikori said professionally, "if you don't mind, Elder, Shampoo, can you please go to the living room and entertain Ukiko please."

"Oohh... come to think of it, I have this REALLY cute dress for Ukiko to wear!" Shampoo said happily and hopped out of the room.

"I am almost ashamed of my heir's antics..." Cologne sighed, "Oh well, I guess I pushed her too hard as a child and now she's catching up on her childhood since she has free time."

Kikori giggled after Cologne exited the door.

"Well Kikori?" Ranma said expectedly, "Ya have somethin' ta say?"

The Priestess nodded, "Tricia is hiding herself at the back."

"Right... I'll go get her."

Ranma pushed himself out of bed and quickly slipped out back with Kikori close behind him.

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"I see you're better now."

Ranma winced at the cold voice Artricia uses now, "Yeah... thanks Tricia."

The goddess of ice stared at Ranma with her pupil-less eyes, "Ranma, I just want you to know, I never regretted coming along with you. I just hope that... that..."

Kikori blinked, "I'll be inside and give you two some privacy."

Ranma nodded his thanks and watched Kikori go back in, "Thanks again Tricia. Locks of Magical bi-"

"Ranma stop."

The pigtailed mage stopped in mid-chant and blinked in confusion.

"Mas- Ranma... I... never... thanked you." Artricia stuttered, "I..."

Ranma chuckled, "Tricia, if it wasn't for ya, I woulda done somethin' really stupid in Tibet. It's the least I can do."

Ranma took in a breath to start his spell again when a finger pressed against his lips and stopped him.

"Ranma, Master...." Artricia said with a sigh.

The pigtailed mage licked his lips and swallowed, "Locks of Magical bind! Lock away her powers once more!"

Artricia smiled sadly as the spell surround her, locking her powers away.

"WOW! You shoulda seen me Ranma! I KICK HER FIREY DEMON BUTT!" Artricia said happily, "Anyway, I'm feeling tired now, I'm going to go home `kay? Bye!"

Ranma watched as the princess of cold disappeared back to her realm, "That's two down, one left..."

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"...Then WHAM! Man what a punch I hit him with!" Ranma laughed, "If he wasn't like a god damned cockroach, he woulda been a SMIRE on the pavement!"

"Yes, that would explain why you were laying on the ground, bloody, bruised, and unconscious when Elder found you." Kikori said tiredly.

"Aww, come on Kikori. Ya haveta believe me!" Ranma whined, "I really had him then! I even nailed him with one of my big four!"

Kikori hid a smile, "Yes, that would ALSO explain why he was still standing after he hit him with an unlimited big four."

"But he just WON'T lose!" Ranma huffed, "It's like trying ta kill a cockroaches!"

"Well, I guess a bunch of untrained, girls with low level magical wands did better than you." Kikori continued to tease.

"KIKORI~I!" Ranma said in a whiny tone, "Don't be so mean!"

Kikori raised a cup of cold water and splashed Ranma with it, "Please Ranma, whining while you're a guy. It's unbecoming."

Ranma pouted cutely and gave Kikori a puppy face.

"You know that doesn't work." Kikori said professionally as she continues to prepare dinner, "Now if you want to have dinner, go away and bother Shampoo with your exploits."

Ranma grinned, "That's RIGHT! THEY SHAMPS!"

"FOR THE LAST TIME! IT'S XIAN PU!"

"Aww come on Shamps!"

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I'm starting to think my muse is playing a elaborate trick on me. At 3 AM, last night, or morning... whatever... I wake up with a sudden idea that hit me. So I woke up, walked to my computer and tried to type. But when I sat down, typed a few scenes... I got stuck. So I tried to go back to sleep. But being devious and all that, I get struck with another idea, So I walked to my computer, and started typing again.

This continued up until 9 o'clock when I have a class...

All this after abandoning me for so long...

Muse... Do you hate me that much?

Anyways, Seeing I introduced so much new stuff in this chapter, I think I should explain a stuff that you should be curious about.

OMAKE Let Saiko Explain it all! Omake

Ahem!

Saiko cleared her throat and took out some Q cards from one of the pockets on her cargo pants, "Hi, Since my brother is too lazy to explain all this stuff, and Kikori said something about keeping him company, I'm here to explain to you the workings of SPIRIT MAGIC~! ic.. ic... ic... ic..."

"Where did that echo come from?" Saiko scratched her head, "Anyways, spirit magic is actually a filtered form of pure FOREIGN spirits."

"Now you might be wondering, isn't that chi? Or ki? That is not true! In fact, Chi or Ki is LIFE energy, which is totally different from SPIRIT energy. Obviously, if you use spirit energy that you yourself have, then you'll be throwing your own soul at your enemy, effectively killing yourself."

Saiko steps to one side and takes out a controller out of her shirt pocket and pressed a button, "HEY! This projector doesn't work!"

"SORRY SAIKO, FORGOT TO FIX IT. RYOGA ACCIDENTLY SMASHED IT AGAIN WHEN RANMA GOT HIM MAD."

"Anyway..." Saiko said with a sweatdrop on her head, "When you're using spirit magic, your drawing spirits from the magic `lines' of earth which contains the spirits of the departed. But having a foreign spirit going through your body is pretty messy! If your not careful, you might accidentally knock out your own spirit and killing yourslef!"

Saiko frowned and looked at her Q cards again, "what does this... lets see... that's that... so... OOH."

"Okay! Each person's soul is close to one of the few elements of spirit realm, Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth, are the four most common ones. Depending on which element your most compatible with, you can use your own spirit to filter out the energies from the foreign spirit and use that as your weapon!"

Saiko adopted a very serious expression, "What Ranma did in this chapter is REALLY dangerous! Channeling Raw spirits without filtering can kill him easily! So don't try it at home!"

"Remember! Safety first when you use magic!" Saiko winked and waves goodbye, "See you later~!"

Omake End Omake

Heres something extra just cuz my muse haven't abandoned me yet and I have this strange urge to write -,-

Omake2! Artricia Omake2!

This isn't really a Omake... just an explanation on what the HELL Ranma was talking about when he locked away Artricia's power. Being a Talent, Ranma can't really be that good of a caller if he is in direct control of his creatures, mostly because he needs to control his own magic, and that takes concentration.

So he made a deal with Artricia!

Artricia, according to text, is very frigid, even if she doesn't want to be. The more cold she acts, the more power she can wield. So Ranma decided that if Artricia will be willing to have her powers locked away so that she doesn't make too big of a mess when she fights, Ranma will summon her when he needs to and then some and she will have free will whenever he summons her.

Now how is that beneficial to Artricia?

Well, being a Being of another realm, she can't really go to Ranma's realm. And being cooped up in one place is really boring, no matter HOW frigid you are. So being summoned is already a plus. Most summoned beings only have partial will. If the caller doesn't command the creature or being, they WILL have free reign, but once commanded, they will be compelled to do what they are told. BUT if they make a move before the caller makes his/her first command, they would be send back, which is bad for them.

Artricia has total free will, so Ranma don't need to waste concentration on her to command her, or even concentrate on keeping Artricia in his own plane.

About the two down one left bit? Well, Seals that can seal away a goddesses power must be powerful right? Well guess what? Ranma can only seal it away one more time before Artricia can only be summoned with Ranma's full concentration! *GASP!!*

Now about Artricia call Ranma master... Well... that's for later ^^

Thanks for reading~~

Omake2! End Omake2!

Well... again... thanks for reading ^^ leave reviews or email me about comments or other things you think I can improve on if you want ^^

Sorry for being so late to update... I blame my muse ^^;;;