Unlike the other three revised chapters, this one is completely revised and changed from the ground up.
The previous chapter four...
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Wild Magic
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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Chapter 4
Ranma honestly couldn’t believe her ears. Sure, she knew that the people she was currently with -- well, at least Washu and that creepy Ryoko woman -- weren’t normal, but she never would have guessed that they were aliens. This meant that her view of reality was, once again, shattered into several small pieces before being stepped on by a pair of heavy boots. What next, an ancient magical kingdom that once lived on the moon thousands of years ago? Nah, that’d be too silly.
Still, it did make sense that there was life out there on other worlds. She just didn’t think that they’d look so much like humans, and figured that kind of thing was only limited to anime and manga. ‘I thought aliens would have weird colored skin and strange-looking bodies…’
The explanation that they had given her was pretty simple, though, since both Ayeka and Tenchi felt that the concepts would be too much for her to understand. After-all, even if she did show off a lot of intelligence for a child her age, she was still ‘only’ two-years-old. It was that kind of thing that Ranma hated the most about being a child again. Well, that AND having to put up with a child mentality and body as well.
“Ranma-chan,” Sasami said with a bright smile as she grabbed one of the younger child’s hands. “Do you want to walk with me and Ryo-Ohki? We could show you around the shrine and the carrot fields, as well as any other places you’d like to see.”
“Myaow myah!” Ryo-Ohki shouted from her spot on Sasami’s head.
A small shiver ran down Ranma’s spine at the cabbit’s shout, but she managed to suppress any other feelings of fear that attempted to crop up. “I guess so.” She answered with a small nod. She never had a chance to see the area around the house because she was running in terror through the woods when she first got there. It would also be a good idea to become familiar with the area so that she didn’t end up getting lost… again.
“Wait, Sasami-chan,” Washu said as she walked over and placed a hand on top of Ranma’s head, “I think I’ll be the one to show our guest around the area.”
Sasami couldn’t help but give the genius a sad look. “Aww, but I wanted to show her around.” Ryo-Ohki also voiced her sadness, but went to make a leap to jump on the small cat-girl’s head. However, she was stopped before she could even move from her spot.
“Sorry, but you can’t go either, Ryo-Ohki. It’ll be just me and Ranma-chan.”
“Hey, what are you trying to pull?” Ryoko asked with a suspicious look in her eyes. “It’s not like you to do something as trivial as this without some kind of motive.”
Tenchi raised his hand. “Now Ryoko, I’m sure Washu-chan has a good reason for wanting to show her around.”
“Oh Tenchi, you really DO care about little ol’ me.” Washu gushed playfully as she clasped her hands together below her chin. “We really must retreat to my lab and perform some more wonderful experiments again.” She could tell that Ryoko and Ayeka were about ready to burst in anger, but ignored them as she gave Ranma a pat on top of the head. “But yes, I do have a good reason. I think that showing her around would be a perfect opportunity for a little student-teacher bonding. We’re going to have so much fun studying the landscape and learning about what is what.”
There was a collective ‘oh’ amongst the group as they all found themselves pitying the child that had managed to gain the mad scientist’s attention. Of course, they also thanked their lucky stars that it wasn’t them who had to go through with that torture.
A sweat-drop came into existence as Ranma attempted to get away. Before she could get too far, however, a hand grabbed the back of her collar. The next thing the small cat-girl knew, she was being carried away in the crook of Washu’s arm. “Lemme go! I don’t wanna learn about boring things!” She attempted to wave at everyone for help, but they didn’t do a thing to save her. “Meanies!”
“Now, now, Ranma-chan,” They heard Washu say as she opened the door, “You may find it boring right now, but I’m sure that you’ll learn to appreciate it soon enough.” The door then shut just as Ranma was about to comment back.
“Ayeka-oneechan… Ranma-chan really is going to be like Washu-oneechan, isn’t she?”
A long moment of silence filled the room before the older princess answered. “Let’s just hope not…”
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Setting the younger redhead back down on the ground as soon as they were far enough away from the house, Washu gave her a smile. “How about we start by visiting the shrine? There’s still one more person around here you should meet.”
With a childish pout visible upon her features, Ranma gave her a nod as she started to follow the genius. Already she noticed at least some improvement in her walking ability, but found herself still stumbling every few steps. “But Washu, why do I-- Ow!” She rubbed the back of her head where she had received a small slap. “What didja do that for?”
The older redhead stopped and raised a finger. “First of all, I’d prefer it if you called me Washu-chan, because I’m just so cute and adorable like that.” The statement earned her a half-lidded stare. “Second of all, since I have taken you on as my student, you shall start referring to me as Washu-sensei.”
“And if I don’t?”
Placing her finger to her lips, Washu put on a show of considering the question. “I could always go and adjust your physical appearance so as to make you more of a cat.” She watched as Ranma paled. “I imagine that you’d look cute with fur.” Calling forth her laptop, Washu proceeded to pull up a holo-image of the child with fur.
“Urk--” It was all Ranma could let out as she stared at the image of her with a small fine layer of light red fur that could be seen on every inch of her body.
“Oh! How about we see how you’d look if her were a little kitten.” The image changed to show one of her as a full kitten. “Would you like to try it out?” Washu asked with a glint in her eye. “It’d only be child’s play for the greatest scientific genius in the universe.”
Ranma quickly and frantically waved her arms in front of her. “N-- No thank you, Washu-sensei. I’m fine the way I am.” Internally, she couldn’t help but lament her fate at being stuck with some alien mad scientist who could change her entire body without breaking a sweat. ‘I’m doomed…’
“And you would have been so cute too. Oh well, maybe some other time then.” Washu responded in mock disappointment as she dismissed her laptop. “Come on, Ranma-chan, the shrine is only up these steps.”
Glancing up, the two-year-old looked on in surprise at just how many they’d have to climb. If this was before she died, then the steps wouldn’t be any problem at all. However, with her toddler body, climbing them would be a task in itself. “Washu… sensei, do we have to go up there now?” She didn’t receive an answer, however, due to the genius already starting up the stairs.
“Hey!” Ranma shouted as she started to follow, but ended up tripping onto her face. Sparing a moment to wipe the tears, she got back to her feet and charged up the stairs as best she could. “You could’ve waited.”
“Ranma-chan, what exactly are you trying to hide?” Washu asked as she stopped for a second time to give the girl a curious and deep look. “I brought us far enough so that everyone at the house wouldn’t hear us talk.”
“Err… what do you mean?” Ranma asked as she attempted to hide her nervousness.
“I’d like to know just who you are exactly. There are several things that just don’t add up, and one of them is just how smart you are for a two-year-old. Even if you were a child genius, there are just too many things that you shouldn’t be able to understand that you already do, and you also don’t seem to have a large problem with pronouncing words. However, you ARE a two-year-old according to every scan I ran, and so I find myself wanting to know the truth to this confusing mystery.”
“I don’t know what--”
Washu lifted a hand to cut her off. “I’m a 20,000-year-old scientific genius, Ranma-chan. You can not pull one over me so easily, and it’s increasingly impossible to do when you don’t even try all that hard to hide your intelligence. Nobody else at the house would even think about it for various reasons. Sasami-chan is just eight-years-old, Mihoshi isn’t that perceptive, Ryoko doesn’t care enough AND is still guilty about nearly killing you, Ayeka-dono only sees you as a two-year-old despite your intelligence, Ryo-Ohki just thinks of you as a friend, and Tenchi-dono has seen enough oddity that it doesn’t cause him to question it. You can fool them easily at the moment, but you can’t fool me.”
Ranma’s mouth opened and closed several times as she attempted to try and figure out what to say. Mentally, she cursed herself for not being careful enough and letting too much get out. “I…” She trailed off as she lowered her gaze to the ground in an attempt to think.
Washu proceeded to cross her arms. “I decided to bring this up with you now when nobody else from the house is near so that a panic of some kind can be avoided. If you don’t start talking, however, then I WILL bring this up with everyone. If that were to happen, then there would be even more unfortunate issues.” Reaching out, she tilted the tiny cat-girl’s head upwards so as to look her straight in the eye. “You don’t have to tell me everything if you don’t want to right now, but I’d like to know that you are at least not any kind of threat.”
“If I tell, could you not let anybody else know?” The two-year-old asked with eyes filled with an odd mixture of hope and reluctance.
“That depends on whether or not your secret could lead to the harm of everyone around here.” The diminutive genius couldn’t help but put together several different reasons for the girl’s origin. It was possible for her to be an advanced clone with advanced knowledge already implanted into her brain, but that would be difficult to see since she used to be 100 percent human. Of course, it was possible that the creator was great enough to mask that aspect and make a perfect HUMAN EARTHLING clone. Another possibility could be that--
“I was killed two years ago and given a chance to be reborn.” Ranma finally blurted out.
Washu blinked for a moment, and then she proceeded to blink again. “That’s all?”
“Whaddaya mean ‘that’s all?’” The two-year-old asked with a frown. She had expected the woman to think her explanation was crazy and impossible, because when was the last time someone said ‘Oh hey, I was killed a while back, but I was brought back to life.’ Did she expect her to say something even more complicated and stranger than that? “What didja expect me to say?”
The older redhead scratched her cheek as she placed her other hand on her hips. “Well, I was anticipating an answer that was more complex and scientific instead of the disappointingly simple and odd one that you supplied.” However, the information really was interesting, and -- if it were true -- provided yet another aspect to the girl that made her a worthy study subject. “How was it that you were killed?” She asked as she watched the young child quietly sulk.
“Some jackass of a wizard got a lucky shot in. If it weren’t for that, I would have beaten him.” It was an even sorer issue to her due to the fact that said wizard apparently already bit the big one and was defeated by a BABY of all things. She didn’t believe a word of what that jerk Xellos said about him still being out there, and so she felt that her chance of giving Voldemort a good kick to the ass was gone thanks to some kid out there named Henry Potting… or something like that. “Dunno why, but I was given a chance to come back to life.”
“How old were you before you were killed.”
“I was 16, but I think I was really close to turning 17.”
‘She was still just a kid.’ Washu thought with a small frown. She decided to continue on with her small questioning session. She doubted that the child would give out information that was more personal or embarrassing, so small general ones would suffice… for now. “Were you a magic user?”
“I was a martial artist.” Ranma answered as she crossed her arms and pouted. “Almost 17 years of hard work gone because of this new body.”
Washu couldn’t help but feel curious as to just how skilled the cat-girl used to be. The primitive little planet they were on did have its share of highly skilled fighters, and a few of them seemed to possess greater than average abilities for human Earthlings. Being able to do more thorough ‘research’ was something she wished she could do, but the issue of the planet being a developing one worked against her. However…
“You know, Ranma-chan, it might not take you as long to reach your previous level of abilities this time around.” At the younger redhead’s questioning look, the diminutive genius continued. “Before, you probably had to learn everything about fighting and martial arts from scratch, right?” The two-year-old nodded. “And I assume that the one who helped you along and taught you was a normal Earthling, correct?”
“Yeah, my father.” Ranma answered with another nod.
A knowing smile appeared on Washu’s lips. “Then everything should be easier this time around.” She started to count off on her fingers. “Firstly, you most likely have an idea as to just what you’re supposed to do so you can properly train. Secondly, you have the greatest scientific genius in the universe with the ability to provide you with any materials you may need for training. Lastly, there are also your Masu and feline physiologies to take into account.”
“What do those last two have to do with anything?” Ranma asked in curiosity. She couldn’t help but agree with Washu on the first point. The second one sounded kind of amazing, and her opinion of the mad scientist rose slightly at the fact that she could help her. The final point was something that she did not want to think about. Having to rely on that cursed part of her being was a terrible thought.
“Your cat physiology should -- in theory -- help you along with balance as soon as you figure out how to work your tail. The changes that are slowly happening to your body are also modifying each of your senses. An example of this is that if someone is attempting to sneak up on you, your hearing or sense of smell will be able to alert you to the presence. It’s also likely that you’ll be able to sense a person’s intentions by listening to the beating of their heart and/or the tone of their voice. I also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of you being able to figure out different ways to use your new claws.”
Looking down at her hands, Ranma stared at her now claw-like fingernails. She couldn’t help but allow a look of disgust to appear as she flexed her hands. She soon blinked a few times when she noticed that every once in a while, her nails would protract and retract ever so slightly. ‘That’s weird…’
“As for your Masu physiology,” Washu continued, “You might not notice it immediately, and it could take a couple years, but you’ll eventually notice an all around improvement in your speed, strength, stamina, and various other bodily attributes. The more you train, the more of an improvement you’ll notice. Likewise, the less you train, the less improvement you’ll gain.”
“Wow…” Ranma let out as she thought about the information that was just given to her. If that was true, then she would be able to get back to her previous level of ability faster than she had expected, and it meant that she would no longer have to put up with being a pathetically weak child.
“However, I would not recommend training until you drop dead, because that’s counter-productive, and there’s no real benefit in being irresponsible to your body like that. These changes will allow a maximum benefit for just the right amount of time spent so that you can reach your goal without pulling all day and night training sessions that would leave you tired and exhausted, and this also means that you’ll have a lot more free time to yourself.” Washu couldn’t help but smile wide. “Of course, you’ll be spending some of that time with me as I teach you everything you need to know about the various sciences, mathematics, geography and culture of various planets, and just about anything else I feel that you should know.”
“Y-- You can’t be serious.” The young cat-girl said in fear and disbelief at the prospect of studying her ass off.
“Oh, I’m very serious, Ranma-chan.” Washu answered as she gave the child a pat on the head. “However, I think it would be a better decision to hold off on beginning your martial arts training until after your physical boosts kick in. As you are right now, trying to train will do nothing but eat up your stamina and cause you to needlessly injure yourself. This means that until that happens, we’re going to focus exclusively on your learning and nothing more. Isn’t that going to be fun?”
“No…” Ranma said with a half-lidded look before turning and heading up the stairs.
“Where are you going?” The diminutive genius asked as she watched the younger redhead walk away.
“Gonna visit the shrine. Maybe some benevolent spirit will listen and give me luck to get through this.” She figured that if she were going to be stuck as the apprentice of a mad scientist, then she could use all the luck she could get.
Washu couldn’t help but feel that the smaller redhead was going to be an interesting source of amusement for years to come. When Ranma was far enough away, Washu turned her attention towards the trees at the side of the staircase. “You know, it really isn’t polite to listen in on a private conversation.”
“Sorry,” A male voice said as a figure stepped out from a line of trees, “But when I was heading towards the house for a visit, I couldn’t help but notice the child that was accompanying you. You can’t blame an elderly man for being curious.” He was -- as he said -- an elderly man with long graying hair tied in a ponytail, and his attire consisted of an outfit often worn by Shinto priests. In front of his eyes was a pair of squared glasses that caught the occasional beam of light.
“I take it that you heard everything.”
Katsuhito gave a small nod. “I did, but it would probably be best for her to not know. She comes off as the type who feels safer about keeping information to herself. The only reason you were able to get the information is because you threatened to expose her to everyone else, and she doesn’t want that kind of trouble.”
“That’s also the reason I only asked her a few simple questions.” If anything, the girl would have probably outright refused to answer anything that ended up being too personal or secret. Her new student definitely was an interesting mystery that needed solving.
Katsuhito found himself sweating slightly at Washu’s sudden outburst of maniacal cackling. Feeling that it was probably the best time to return to his shrine, and to meet their newest guest, he proceeded to climb the steps.
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“Stupid… stairs…” Ranma huffed out as she fell to her hands and knees right as she reached the top. As she tried to get her breathing under control, she couldn’t help but curse her two-year-old body’s inability to be able to do anything physical without suffering from exhaustion. As she sat there, Ranma couldn’t help but hope that those so called ‘boosts’ start sooner than was stated, because constantly being reminded of her fragile form was really annoying.
“It’s not every day that a child as young as you manages to climb up these old steps.” A voice next to her said. Turning her head, the two-year-old noted the old man in Shinto garb who was directing a kindly smile to her. “Would you like a little help up?”
Ranma shook her head as she pushed herself to her feet. “I can do it.” She managed to stand up without a hitch, but as she was about to take a step, her foot phased through the ground just enough to cause her to lose her balance. “Crapcrapcrapcrap!” She shouted as she frantically waved her arms and found herself falling backwards. ‘This is going to hurt!’
Thankfully, she was saved by Washu as the older redhead placed a hand to her back and pushed her into a safe and upright position. “Perhaps I should have programmed those powers to become dormant and only activate at a later date when you would be able to have better control.” The genius mused as she tapped her chin. “Of course, it may be better this way. All you have to do is think of it as being similar to when you were learning to walk. You’re clumsy now, but after a while, these abilities will become second nature to you.”
“Yes, because I had to worry about falling through things or randomly disappearing to somewhere else when I was learning to walk.” Ranma answered sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.
“Just be happy that you haven’t started to randomly fly out of control and into objects. If anything, that aspect of your abilities seems to be less volatile than the other two are.” Of course, that didn’t mean the ability wouldn’t cause problems later.
Freezing in place as she thought about it, the two-year-old redhead couldn’t help but shiver. The idea of randomly being sent into a large object was bad, but that had nothing on her remembering of her earlier experience of flying via Ryoko. “Don’t wanna fly…”
Katsuhito couldn’t help but blink at the reaction before looking towards Washu in an effort to understand just what may have lead to the girl’s fearful demeanor. Upon learning that it was Ryoko who was at the route of both her minor phobia and change of appearance, he couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh. “I was aware of the explosion that had happened, but I merely assumed that it was caused by Ayeka and Ryoko.” Some of their fights did sometimes lead to small explosions. Putting the thought out of his mind, though, the Shinto priest gently placed a hand on top of Ranma’s head and flashed the child a wide and kind smile. “It seems that you may have had a rough time on your first day here, but I’m certain that things will soon start to look up.”
“I guess…” Ranma mumbled as she thought about how everything seemed to be moving too fast for her to keep up. Getting taken from home by some weirdo, encountering Ryoga, Akane, Kasumi, and her former mother, dropped into a forest by herself, visiting a strange house and getting nearly killed because of a crazy woman, having her body altered and changed from the human one she knew, learning that she was in the presence of aliens, and suddenly gaining a mad scientist for a teacher who wanted to teach her more things than she could possibly handle. All this combined made her wish that she could just go back home, crawl into bed, and hope that it was all just one big crazy dream.
What Ranma wasn’t aware of was that as she thought of her current situation, her outward appearance portrayed the look of a young child feeling completely lost and overwhelmed. Her ears and tail, through no conscious thought of her own, drooped down low.
She blinked when she felt a pair of hands grab hold of her ears before pulling them into a upright position. Turning her head, the two-year-old quickly noted that it was Washu who had grabbed onto them. A small reddish tinge could be seen quite clearly upon the older redhead’s cheeks. “What are you--”
“You really need to learn to control your feline appendages, Ranma-chan.” Ranma’s confused look caused Washu to continue. “Your ears and tail have a habit of enhancing your mood from a visual perspective. We’ll have to go over this some other time, but what I will tell you right now is that you need to pay close attention to your emotions and what your ears and tail are doing.”
“I’d rather forget they even exist!” Ranma snapped as she pulled herself away from the genius. Reaching up, she grabbed hold of her own ears. “These things make me look like some kind of freak!” She couldn’t help but shiver as a different thought trickled into her mind. “Crap, I’m now also the fantasy of perverts everywhere. Get these stupid things off!” She yelled as she attempted to pull at the furry protrusions, but only found that they caused her a great deal of pain. “Just get them off.”
Before her actions could lead to something worse, her left hand was quickly grabbed by Katsuhito as her right was snatched by Washu. When she glanced from one person to the other, Ranma couldn’t help but see the both of them giving her a stern and worried look. “Pulling at your ears is not going to accomplish anything except for severe injury and pain.” The elderly priest’s voice was as commanding as his look.
“But--”
“You are far from the only one in the universe to have cat features, Ranma-chan.” Washu added. “There are several different known races found in this galaxy alone that have features like yours, so it’s hardly as bad as you are making it out to be.”
“But I’m not an alien!” The two-year-old shouted in anger and distress. “What about when I walk around in public? I’ll probably get kidnapped and taken to some freaky laboratory where I’ll end up as some kinda guinea pig.” That was definitely something she hoped would never happen.
‘Too late’ Washu thought as she suppressed a cackle. “You could always wear a hat to hide your ears, and it’s possible to make a special sash or belt that would allow you to hide your tail underneath. It’s also possible to claim that your ears and tail are just accessories. That’d work unless someone tried to pull them.”
“Can’t you just get rid of them?” Ranma asked with hope shining in her eyes.
Washu tapped her chin for a moment. “I could, because it would be no problem for someone of my caliber.” Before the younger redhead could get worked up, however, she continued. “However, I won’t.”
“WHAT?!” Ranma shouted as she pulled her hand free from Washu’s and gave her a steel-melting glare. “Whaddaya mean you won’t do it? I don’t want these things, and you could easily get rid of them.” The red in her eyes slowly started to overtake the blue, and it was something that the diminutive genius noticed right away.
“It’s because you aren’t thinking with a clear head.” The older redhead answered as she crossed her arms and met the younger’s glare with her own. “You are only dwelling on the negatives while the positives far outweigh them. As I explained earlier, the changes will allow you to be better off once they finish.”
“But I--”
“Besides, while it would be easy to change you back, it is currently too soon to even attempt it.” That statement caused Ranma to calm down just enough for her eyes to return to normal. “This change to your body was an immense one, and your physical alterations are intertwined very closely with your Masu physiology. Plus, the changes are still active and haven’t slowed down at all. If I were to even attempt to make another change to your body with the way it is, you could face severe or irreversible damages. Do you really want to risk the possibility of your body mutating into something even worse, part of you becoming a living bomb, melting into nothing but a puddle of protoplasmic goo, or whatever other possible terrible outcome?”
Ranma couldn’t help but gulp at the thought of turning into something that was hundreds of times worse than what she currently was. “W-- When do you think would be the soonest and safest time?”
Washu hummed for a moment as she tapped her chin. “It’s hard to say, really. If you were older, the Masu aspect would only take a couple months to fully integrate with your body, and it would also only take those couple of months before you would start to show all of the benefits. This is because you’d have a better physique and more mature body. The abilities you were injected with also wouldn’t take that long to get the hang of if you were older. The feline aspect would take a little longer, but probably only a few months.” She gave the small cat-girl a long look. “However, you are currently just two-years-old, and unlike an adult, your body is already undergoing its fair share of changes. It now has to ‘share’ the time with the Masu restructuring, feline changes, and ability merging.”
Ranma gave the woman a blank stare. “So…” She honestly did not like how it was sounding.
“So if I were to guess, I’d say that it may be about two or three years before it would be safe enough to even attempt any other large changes to your body.” Of course, that was only a rough estimate based on the various factors at work.
Almost feeling as if she was going to black out, Ranma fought it off and attempted to stand as straight as she could. Her hands clenched and unclenched at her side as her eyes shut tightly in an effort to prevent tears of frustration from flowing free. “This isn’t fair…”
“Perhaps,” Katsuhito said as he closed his eyes, “But isn’t that a fact of life?” The statement caused the two-year-old to glance up at him. “What matters most is how you handle what is thrown at you. If you spend every moment fussing over the unfairness of it all, then you shall be stuck in a non-escapable rut. However, if you can bend with the flow and handle it as it comes, then you shall be better off for it.”
“That sounds kind of neat, old man.” The young child said as she stared up at him.
Katsuhito stroked his chin. “You think so? I remember reading it from some horoscope a while back and thinking it was a little on the cheesy side.” After hearing a noise, he looked down to see that the child had face faulted. Washu, on the other hand, was attempting to hide her amusement. “Oh, did you trip over your tail?”
Waving her hand as she got back to her feet, Ranma couldn’t get over just how lame that turned out. Still, as much as she outright hated to admit it, there was some logic to what was said. Maybe she could at least TRY to put up with her cat features until everything was settled enough so that they could be removed. Yeah, she could manage it perfectly! Besides, it wasn’t as if she’d ever become attached to THAT side of her. There was absolutely no way that she’d allow it to happen.
“I’ll try to put up with them until then.” Ranma said in a small voice, much to the relief of her two older companions who found themselves worrying about whether or not she would try and pull her ears off again. “Hey,” She continued as she looked up at the elderly man, “You’re the priest of this shrine, aren’t you?”
“That I am, young lady.” Katsuhito answered with a nod and a smile. “My name is Masaki Katsuhito, but I don’t believe that you’ve told me your name yet.” He already knew the child’s name, but he didn’t want her to know that.
“Ranma,” The cat-girl then blinked. “Wait, did you say Masaki? Does that mean--”
“Yes, I am Tenchi’s grandfather?” The man asked as his smile widened slightly. “It is a pleasure to meet you, Ranma, but I must say that your earlier action in trying to pull off your ears almost gave this old man a panic attack.”
Ranma nervously toyed around with her ponytail. She didn’t mean to freak out the old man earlier, and so she felt bad about it. “Sorry about that.”
“It’s alright, there was no harm done.” The elderly priest answered as he raised a hand. “I do hope that your initial impression of the house doesn’t keep you from trying to enjoy your time here.”
“Of course it won’t!” Washu announced before the younger girl could open her mouth. “She just needs to spend a little more time with everyone, and it won’t be long before she feels right at home. Isn’t that right, Ranma-chan?” She asked as lightly pinched the girl’s cheek.
“That depends on how mad the mad scientist is, Washu-sensei.” There was extra emphasis placed upon ‘sensei’ that made it come off as either sarcastic or accusing. “Nowhere is safe when one of those is on the loose.” She winced as the pinch increased in pressure.
“See, we’re going to get along just fine.” Washu released her pinch before grabbing onto the younger girl’s arm. “Let’s go, Ranma-chan. We need to continue our tour, and we also need to begin your studies as well. I said earlier that this tour would also coincide with a bit of a learning expedition, didn’t I?”
“You were serious about that?” Ranma asked as her eyes grew wide. She had assumed that it had only been a ruse to get them alone, but now she realized that it was true. “I’m too young to start learning and stuff!” She tried standing her ground, but found that it was impossible to do with her current two-year-old body. “I wanna just enjoy my childhooooooddddd!”
“You’re never too young, Ranma-chan, and you’ll have enough time to enjoy your childhood in-between my teachings. Who knows, maybe you’ll even start to love it like I do.”
“Fat chance!” The younger girl’s voice shouted as she was carried out of view.
After watching them leave, Katsuhito allowed a slight shiver to run through his body. The very thought of Ranma turning out similar to Washu was prevalent within his mind. “Be strong-willed, Ranma.” He whispered in hopes that it would help the younger of the two redheads.
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“Tenchi-niichan,” Sasami said with a worried look, “Do you think Washu-oneechan and Ranma-chan are alright? They’ve been gone for a really long time.” True to the young princess’s statement, it was roughly eight hours since the two redheads had left to give the younger a tour of the area.
Tenchi gave her a reassuring smile. “I’m sure they’re okay. Washu-chan did say that she was going to take the time to also teach Ranma-chan.”
“Yes, but don’t you think that Washu-sama may be going a little overboard?” Ayeka asked with a frown. “Ranma-chan is just a two-year-old girl after all, and Washu-sama does tend to go a little overboard when it comes to subjects like this.” She couldn’t help but let her mind wander as she imagined the diminutive genius pulling Ranma along via a rope and going on about a multitude of boring things while the child in question was bored to tears and ready to collapse.
“Well, at least Ranma-chan is going to turn out really smart.” Mihoshi said happily as she munched on some potato chips.
Ryoko rolled her eyes from her lounging spot up on the rafters. “Pfft, I don’t care as long as Washu has a new victim to focus on instead of me or my Tenchi.” Of course, that didn’t mean that she wasn’t feeling a little bit of worry for their newest guest. Washu was definitely an overwhelming force on anybody, let alone a two-year-old child.
“What do you mean YOUR Tenchi?” Ayeka asked with a glare towards the rafters as Ryoko’s fake tail swished lazily about. “There is absolutely no way--”
Before another argument could start, the sound of the front door opening followed by a couple of voices could be heard. “It’s not funny, so stop it.” The annoyed voice of a certain two-year-old could be heard.
Washu’s voice answered in obvious amusement. “Don’t be so embarrassed, Ranma-chan. It’s an accident that could happen to anybody. Well, anybody with uncontrollable teleporting and intangibility.”
“…So only me, then.” Ranma could be heard saying just before the two of them came into view of the other occupants of the house. Her mouth and ears twitched in annoyance when she saw that everyone was staring at her. “I had a little accident, okay?”
‘Little’ accident was an understatement in the eyes of everyone staring at the two-year-old. Her entire body was soaked and covered from head to toe in mud. In fact, the only part of her that didn’t seem to be dirtied was her feet, which was thanks to shoes she had worn. All in all, it almost appeared as if she had jumped head first into a large puddle of mud.
Ryoko couldn’t keep her amusement hidden and promptly fell into fits of roaring laughter that would have caused her to fall if it wasn’t for her ability to fly. “Y-- You’re more of a pig than a cat!”
“RYOKO!” Ayeka shouted as she sent another glare to the ex-space pirate. “This is not funny at all.” The princess proceeded to turn her attention to Washu. “Washu-sama, how could you just bring her inside without cleaning her up? She’s getting mud all over the floor!”
Washu merely shrugged her shoulders. “She’s the one who stalked towards the house.”
Sasami -- with Ryo-Ohki riding on top of her head -- quickly ran up to the two-year-old. “How did you get so messy?”
“Myaow-yah?” The cabbit asked.
“I teleported by accident.” Ranma answered in a small voice as she scratched her arm and averted her gaze out of embarrassment.
A failed attempt at restraining an amused giggle caused everyone to turn towards Washu. “It was more than just that simple of an incident.” She finally said before clearing her throat. “It happened when we were near the carrot fields; without any kind of warning, Ranma-chan teleported from her spot next to me. After a moment of searching, I found her hanging over a tree branch and calling out for help. She was so helpless with a begging look on her face and her ears flattened…” For a moment, everyone thought that the genius would attempt to glomp onto the seething child, but she managed to control herself. “Just before I could help her, she accidentally phased through the branch and headed for a large puddle of mud headfirst. That’s when her intangibility reacted again and caused her to fall INTO the ground and stop halfway at her waste. She then tried to helplessly wave her legs around while being stuck upside down in the mud. Then she-- Ow!” Washu placed her hand over the area of her knee that had been kicked by an angry and embarrassed two-year-old cat-girl.
Said two-year-old cat-girl was currently hiding behind Ayeka and glaring at the genius with a look of childish anger. “It’s not funny at all! It was really dark down there, and I couldn’t move or hear anything…” Her angry look turned into one of fear as her ears flattened upon her head and her body let out a shiver.
Washu couldn’t help but wince at both the look and what was said. She had no idea that the situation was really that terrifying for Ranma since she didn’t voice it at the time. “Sorry about that, Ranma-chan.” Something was telling her that she inadvertently gave the child an obscenely powerful weapon. One day, once she manages to control her cat features, the child would likely become an incredible force to be reckoned with.
“Come with me to get cleaned up, Ranma-chan.” Ayeka said as she grabbed onto the cat-girl’s hand, and immediately grimaced at the feeling of mud. “It just isn’t proper for a young girl to be covered in so much mud and leave it be.”
A frown appeared on Ranma’s muddy face as she looked up at the purple-haired princess. “I can clean myself; I don’t need any help.”
“Nonsense,” The princess answered, “You’re only two-years-old, and you probably won’t wash yourself off properly enough. With as much dirt as there is on you, you can’t afford to do such an inadequate job.”
“I’ll show you ‘only two-years-old!’” Ranma said between clenched teeth. This was definitely one thing that she hated about being a child. “Hey, why are we going outside?”
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Temple of Ranma's Sailor Senshi Seifuku
Anime, Scifi, Fantasy Fan and Original Fiction
Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
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by KonokoHasano » Mon May 18, 2009 8:51 pm
“This is… amazing.” It was the only thing that Ranma could manage to say. The place she found herself in looked almost like some kind of tropical forest bathhouse. From what she could tell, the various flora and rock formations were completely real, and it was beyond amazing that there were even small mini-waterfalls. Hot water could be seen flowing from one part to the next. She could only guess that it was designed in a way for water to also loop back to a starting point, because if it weren’t for that, then the water should stop flowing.
And that didn’t even begin to describe her thoughts on the large dome that allowed one to see outside, nor her initial reaction on seeing the place rise up from the lake.
“Ranma-chan,” Ayeka called from her spot over near one of the mini-waterfalls with a bucket of bathing supplies sitting next to her, “You won’t get cleaned up if you don’t hurry up and get over here!” She had to stifle a giggle at seeing the young redhead crouched upon a rock like a cat as her tail swished behind her and ears twitching in interest.
“Hey, hey,” Ranma shouted as she leapt off of her perch. She hit the ground on her hands followed by her feet. Hopping into an upright position, she ran over to the purple-haired woman. “What is this place? How did it get here? Who did it? How come-- erk!” She stopped short in her question once she fully registered Ayeka’s current state of undress. She attempted to turn around, but tripped over her tail in the process and fell onto her back. “Owie…”
Ayeka appeared above the two-year-old with a concerned look. “Are you okay, Ranma-chan? That looked like a dreadful fall.” She blinked as she watched the child cover her eyes. “Ranma-chan?”
“I’m okay!” The cat-girl said as she continued to cover her eyes. Even after two years as she currently was, Ranma still had some unease when it came to situations like this. It felt even more embarrassing whenever her mother decided to bathe along with her. Having to be bathed by someone else was embarrassing enough. “I just fell over my tail.”
“You should be more careful then.” Ayeka proceeded to help the two-year-old out of her muddied clothing. “As for the questions you asked, this place was created by Ryoko-san about four months ago.” After she finished undressing the young redhead and removing her hair tie, Ayeka filled up a basin with water and poured it over the child.
“Ryoko made it?” Ranma asked in disbelief as she felt shampoo on her head. Just thinking about the woman still caused her to flinch, but to hear that she was actually able to make something like this was impressive. “That’s awesome.”
The purple-haired princess gave a small humph in response. “Well, I will admit that Ryoko-san is talented in being able to create spectacular things such as this, but her more brutish qualities outweigh her good ones by a fair margin.” Placing some more shampoo onto her hand, she proceeded to work a little on the younger girl’s tail. “Still, while she is a monster woman, I don’t think you should fear or try to distance yourself from her. She honestly feels bad about what she did earlier, and while I said her negative traits DO outweigh her positive, she is still a great person to get to know.” Ayeka leaned in close to the child’s ear. “I ask you to please not tell her what I just told you. If she learns of what I said, she will never let me hear the end of it and taunt me till the end.”
Ranma couldn’t help but blink. “Err… okay.” She said. “Why do you call her a monster woman and all that then?”
“There are a lot of reasons.” Ayeka didn’t feel like getting into a long-winded history lesson of what the ex-space pirate did in the past. “More importantly, she’s trying to steal my Tenchi.”
“Huh?” The young child asked as she glanced up and gave the woman an incredulous look. ‘This sounds so familiar…’ She thought as she remembered her own fiancée troubles.
“Tenchi-sama and I are destined to be. Both he and I are of royal blood, while Ryoko is an uncouth barbarian and a one time fugitive of justice who would rather solve things with brutish violence than peaceful negotiation. She hangs over Tenchi-sama like some savage animal with no account for his personal space. It’s inevitable that Tenchi-sama would choose me over her.”
“Oh yeah, princess?” Ryoko asked in a small voice as she appeared behind the woman. “I don’t think a rigid little girl like you has what it takes to satisfy him.”
As soon as Ranma caught sight of the cyan-haired woman, she quickly gave off an ‘eep’ and scooted back as fast as she could. “H-- Hi, Ryoko.” She berated herself for being afraid. She didn’t want to be, but it seemed as if her body and mind said otherwise. Her eye twitched when the cyan-haired woman vanished and reappeared behind her before pulling her close.
“C’mon pipsqueak, if you stay near Ayeka too much, she’s liable to rub off on you. If you’re gonna be using abilities like mine, you need to have a much better role model.” Ryoko flashed the other woman an infuriating smirk. “I can teach you much more useful things than that stick in the mud could.”
Ayeka instantly jumped to her feet. “You’ll just turn her into some galaxy-class criminal!”
“Criminal? Oh my!” Mihoshi announced in shock from her spot behind Ryoko.
Ryoko turned around quickly. “When did you--”
“We can’t allow an impressionable and cute young girl to fall onto the path of a criminal!” The blonde reached out, snatched the small cat-girl, and pulled her close. “I’ll help to grow and become a respectable member of society, and maybe show her the wonders of the Galaxy Police!” She had an oddly serious expression as she held the young redhead close. Said redhead’s hands twitched violently at her side as her face was pressed between Mihoshi’s breasts.
‘A fate worse than death!’ Both Ayeka and Ryoko thought as the idea of Ranma being stuck with the ditz ran through their heads. They even imagined the redhead taking after her. ‘Can’t let her take after Mihoshi or Washu.’ The two proceeded to glance at each other. ‘Or her!’
“Come here, Ranma-chan. You still need to get cleaned.” Ayeka said as she took the thoroughly embarrassed two-year-old from Mihoshi and went to get some soap. It only took a moment for her to notice that the girl wasn’t with her anymore.
Ryoko rolled her eyes as she sat cross-legged a few inches from the ground while holding onto Ranma in her lap. “Pfft, if she does it, we’ll be here all day!”
“Ryoko! I was the one who volunteered to clean her while you were laughing at her misfortune!” Without missing a beat, Ayeka snatched the two-year-old and held her close. “So you can just go away.”
Ranma couldn’t help but feel an odd mixture of embarrassment and dizziness as she was pulled back and forth between the two -- with an occasional attempt from Mihoshi. It was as if she were some kind of plush toy that three children were fighting over. Her world turned into one of agony, however, due to Ayeka grabbing onto her tail and giving a hard yank. Her scream of pain shocked the women enough so that they accidentally dropped her.
“O-- Oh dear, I’m so sorry Ranma-chan.” The purple-haired princess apologized to the small cat-girl as she held her hands to the base of her tail while tears streamed from her eyes. “I didn’t mean to--”
“Good job, Ayeka, you just showed stupid you are when it comes to tails.” Ryoko said with a glare. “This is why a spoiled and pampered princess like you isn’t ready for reality.”
Ayeka met her with a glare of her own as Mihoshi attempted to figure out what to do. “This wouldn’t have happened if you didn’t try to but in where you weren’t needed!”
Both women were stopped from going any further by a pair of heavy buckets that crashed down onto them. Turning their heads, they both saw a highly unamused Washu accompanied by a worried Sasami and Ryo-Ohki. “Now really, don’t you think that you two should be ashamed of yourselves? You have a young child lying on the floor in pain due to the both of you getting into an argument over who will bath her and become a ‘role model.’”
Both Sasami and Ryo-Ohki ran over to the younger redhead as she pushed herself into a sitting position. “Are you alright, Ranma-chan?” She asked as she watched her continue to rub the spot around the base of her tail.
“Why did that hurt so much?” Ranma asked with a wince. Also, why did her back hurt?
Washu kneeled down next to the two-year-old. “It’s because your tail is connected to your spine, and so if it is pulled, there’s a chance that it could affect the nerves and hurt your back.” The diminutive genius reached her hand out and poked at the spot right at the base of the tail. “Your tail also has a plethora of its own nerves with this spot being the most sensitive. Depending on the situation and intentions, having your tail grabbed could range from intense pain to a tickling or calming feeling. To an even farther degree, certain areas of your tail could even give you a slight feeling of pleasure.”
A loud ‘eep’ was heard from the cat-girl as she quickly turned and hid her tail from view. She definitely did not like the sound of it, and couldn’t help but feel a newfound hatred for the swishy appendage. If what Washu said was the truth, then there was no way that Ranma would let anyone touch the thing… ever. Heaven help whoever even TRIED to lay a finger on it.
“Ranma-chan,” Sasami began with a sad look, “I’m sorry that Ayeka-oneechan and Ryoko-oneechan were being so mean and hurt you. Is it okay if I help you get the rest of the dirt off of you? I promise that I won’t hurt you.”
“Myah-mya myaow!” Ryo-Ohki added with her own apologetic look.
Ranma wanted to refuse, but as she glanced into the sad and hopeful eyes of both the younger princess and cabbit, she found her resolve slipping. “A-- Alright,” She said as she glanced down, “But you better leave my tail alone, got it?” Unlike everyone else in the house, she felt like she could trust the blue-haired girl. Maybe it was because she met her first, and was just a polite and kind child.
“I promise.” Sasami answered happily along with the cabbit next to her as she led the two-year-old back over to the mini-waterfall.
While Ranma was being cleaned, she couldn’t help but stare at the falling water ahead of her while she became lost in her thoughts. As she sat there, a phrase that she had quickly forgotten upon waking up from her dream floated through her head. ‘I just need to want to do it…’ She thought as she decided to test the theory by holding her hand with her palm upwards. With a little concentration, she imagined water floating into her hand, and to her shock and all, a small stream of water flowed from the waterfall and into her hand where it hovered as a sphere of water.
As she jumped to her feet, the concentration she had on the ball of liquid vanished and fell to the ground. Ignoring the worried looks and questions coming from the girls around her, Ranma stepped back a few feet before extending her arm towards the waterfall with her palm facing upward. Concentrating, she willed the water to come to her, and to everyone’s shock, a steady stream of water flowed over to the two-year-old until she was holding a sphere that was about the size of a bowling ball.
Almost as if she were in a trance, Ranma raised her other hand and willed the liquid to move into that one. Sure enough, the water did stream over to her other hand and hover in its newest spot. With childish amazement evident upon her features, the cat-girl closed her eyes and made the liquid snake around her arm before levitating into the air and bursting and falling down to the floor around her. As she stood there, Ranma could almost feel a certain level of energy connected to the water. Wondering if this meant that she could grab hold of it by just feeling it out, the two-year-old concentrated a little more and pulled the water from the floor and reformed it into a sphere between her hands before firing it off at a nearby rock.
“Wow…” She said before collapsing to her knees in exhaustion. It was exciting to be able to manipulate the water like that, but it left her weak and tired for some reason. However, now that she had succeeded in making a kind of ‘connection’ to the water, Ranma had to wonder if she could do the same for other things. Maybe she’d try it again later when she didn’t feel as tired.
Her thoughts were broken as Sasami quickly appeared next to her and voiced the questions that everyone else seemed to be wondering. Washu, however, was calmly stroking her chin as her mind went into a kind of excited overdrive over just how interesting the girl was.
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“Sorcery, huh?” Ranma mumbled to herself as she stared at her hands. After leaving the floating bathhouse, Washu had taken her aside and gave her an explanation of what she suspected the two-year-old managed to do. Apparently, the secondary type of energy that she held within her -- the genius called it mana, -- could be molded so that it could perform a large variety of abilities. The cat-girl had managed to collect the water and manipulate it via a connection she formed that allowed her to feel out the water molecules and ‘attract’ them to her while bending it to her will. At least, that was the likely explanation that Washu had given her. The genius mentioned something about doing some research with her providing examples of her ability to use mana.
What really interested her was the prospect of learning to be able to do a lot more with this mana energy. After two years of trying, she was finally able to use it correctly, but just like her ki, using too much mana tired her out. She wouldn’t let that stop her, however, and would continue to test it out and figure the extent of what she was able to do.
“Ranma-chan.” Ranma turned her head to see Ayeka standing next to the chair. The purple-haired princess had attempted to apologize profusely for the accidental pulling of her tail, but the cat-girl was still a little wary and made sure to keep the appendage out of sight. “I think we should discuss your sleeping arrangement.”
“What about it?”
“Well, currently you have a futon sitting in Tenchi-sama’s room, because Washu-sama felt that it was the best location to let you sleep.” The genius had also said that Tenchi seemed like the most responsible, but Ayeka didn’t understand why that was said. “However, I think it would be best if you switched rooms and stayed with either Sasami-chan or me.”
Ranma blinked for a moment. “What’s wrong with Tenchi’s room?”
“It just wouldn’t be proper.” Ayeka answered with a shake of her head. “Tenchi-sama is honorable and kind, yes, but a teenaged boy’s room is no place for a young girl to stay. Ryoko-san tends to sleep in the rafters, Mihoshi-san’s room is a mess, and I feel that you are just too young to sleep in a room by yourself in a house that’s so unknown to you.”
“I’ll pass.” The two-year-old said as she jumped off of the chair. She didn’t really see the problem with staying where she was, but the talk about ‘proper’ and ‘young girl’ filled her with a feeling of annoyance. Still, the idea of getting a room to herself instead of having to share it was a nice one. “There’s an extra room I could use, right?”
“Well, yes, but I don’t think you should be by yourself.”
Ranma waved her hand dismissively as she decided to go and get her futon. “I sleep in my own room at home, so I’ll be okay.” Before she could hear anymore rebuttal from Ayeka, the cat-girl found that she had accidentally teleported… again.
This time, though, she noted that she was hovering upside-down in the air above Tenchi as he was organizing some items in a drawer. The cat-girl quickly noticed that her ability to float had died, and so she was falling towards the teen. “H-- Hey, watch out!” The warning came too late, however, as Ranma’s head crashed into the top of Tenchi’s. As the teen clutched the top of his head, the small redhead continued her fall and landed painfully on her ass. Despite landing on her underside, it was her head that was in pain the post. “Eeow!”
“R-- Ranma?” Tenchi asked as he winced at the feeling of the bump upon his head. It seemed as if he would have to worry about yet another person in the house who could teleport, but this one was just a two-year-old who didn’t have control. “Are you alright?”
“Sorry about that.” Ranma said as she felt her own bump on the top of her head while a few stray tears managed to escape from her eyes. “I was coming to get my futon, but then I ended up teleporting.” As soon as she got to her feet, the two-year-old caught sight of a strange tanish object on the ground that resembled a sword hilt of some kind. “Hey, what’s this?” She asked as she walked over to it. The hilt had two red gems stuck in it with something that looked as if there was space for a third.
“It’s the Tenchi-ken.” Touching his head again, Tenchi made another wince. “I dropped it when you fell on my head.”
The cat-girl’s cheeks turned pink in embarrassment “Err-- Sorry.” Feeling curious about the object, Ranma reached out to pick it up. Right as her hand wrapped around it, she was attacked by a powerful electric shock that caused her to scream out in intense pain.
“Oh shit!” Tenchi yelled out in panic as he ran over to the child and yanked the hilt out of her hand. As soon as it left her hand, the electric shock stopped. “Are you okay?” The teen asked in worry as he kneeled in front of the child as she clutched her arm to her chest. “If I had known that it would have done that to you, I would have stopped you from picking it up.”
Ranma tried as hard as she could to fight off the tears as she held onto her arm. “I can’t feel my arm…” She said with worry. “Why can’t I feel it?”
Tenchi panicked as he attempted to figure out something to say or do, but before he could get to it, the door to his room burst open. “What happened to Ranma-chan?” Sasami asked with worry in her eyes. “We heard her scream and--”
“I dropped the Tenchi-ken. Ranma tried to pick it up, but it shocked her, and now she can’t feel her arm!” The raven-haired teen answered quickly as he motioned between the sword hilt and the obviously frightened two-year-old.
Washu made her way over to the younger redhead and called forth her laptop. “Let me handle this.” She proceeded to run a few scans of the child’s body to check and see if there was anything serious to worry about. “It seems as if the intense shock from the Tenchi-ken has fried almost all of the nerves within her arm and a few others throughout her body. However, she is slowly starting to heal thanks to her Masu structure.” The information caused Tenchi to let out a deep breath and fall onto his bed. “It will likely take all night until your arm is back to normal, though, and it would be a good idea to keep it in a sling.” After punching a few keys on her laptop, a medical sling appeared from a small subspace portal. Washu grabbed it and placed it on the two-year-old. “Just try not to move it too much and you should be fine.”
“Thanks…” Ranma let out softly as her other hand clenched at her side. “But why did it shock me?”
“I have a theory about that.” Washu said as she held her hand to her chin. “I think it’s because your body may have tried to assimilate the gems on the hilt. Your Masu genes may have decided that since they are powerful, they would be a good source to obtain. Because of this, the Tenchi-ken activated its self defense mechanism and attacked the apparent threat.”
‘Stupid Masu…’ The cat-girl thought as she ignored Ryoko go on about they were her gems or something.
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In the end, Ranma did have to -- reluctantly -- choose which person’s room she would share with, because it was figured that she needed help, it would be better to have someone else near her. When she was given the choice, Ranma decided that the best one would be with Sasami. Unlike everyone else, the cat-girl had no bad experiences with the older girl, and it may have also had something to do with the fact that she -- like her -- was a kid as well. An older one, yes, but she was still a child.
Of course, she would have preferred to be able to sleep in a futon than in the same bed as the blue-haired girl. It was just awkward to sleep with someone else. Well, two others if you counted Ryo-Ohki who also slept in the bed.
“Ranma-chan,” The cat-girl turned her head to look at Sasami. The older girl had her arms wrapped around the cabbit as she was turned on her side. “Are you okay? You’ve been having a bad time since you got here.”
Ranma gave her a fake smile. “I’m fine. It wasn’t that bad.”
“I’m sure it’ll get better for you.” Sasami said with her own REAL smile. “The first steps are always the hardest, right? So if you keep at it, it’ll get better. You’ll see.”
“Yeah…” Ranma said as she watched the older girl close her eyes. As she laid there, the two-year-old’s thoughts slowly changed to wondering about her mother, and just how she was doing. ‘I hope mum is okay.’ A large portion of her wanted to go back home, jump into her mother’s arms, and never leave her again. A smaller part of her worried about what she would think about her new cat features, and whether or not she would think of her as some kind of freak or not. ‘There’s no way she could think that, right?’ She asked herself. Since she couldn’t get an answer for that, Ranma pulled the blanket close and reluctantly closed her eyes. ‘Stupid cat ears and tail.’
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Two days later, Ranma found herself in Washu’s lab for the second time. This time, though, was the main entry area instead of the darkened medical room. The previous thought she had regarding the doorway leading to a flight of stairs going down was totally way off track. It merely lead to an area that was completely dark for about a second before another door appeared leading to an incredibly huge place that couldn’t possibly exist where it was.
“How big is this place, Washu… sensei?” She remembered to call the older redhead that after recalling the conversation they had a couple days ago. “And just how can you fit this in the house?”
“My lab’s size is the equivalent to five planets worth of space.” Seeing the flabbergasted expression on the two-year-old’s face filled her with an incredible amount of amusement. Oh how she was going to love teaching the girl. “As for how I fit this in the house… I didn’t. We aren’t in the house anymore, and you could say that we aren’t even on Earth. This place resides in a large subspace pocket that is connected to the Masaki house on Earth via the doorway you just entered through. You can think of it as a secondary layer that doesn’t exist within the house or on Earth, but is still part of the plane that you live on. Were you able to follow?”
“Uh…” Ranma let out as she scratched the base of her ponytail. “Is it kinda like if you take a cake and place another layer on it? You still have the cake, and the new layer is part of it, but is of a different area of its own?” The cat-girl suddenly found herself pulled into a crushing hug.
“You’re a genius in the making!” Washu announced joyously. “It’s a lot more complex than that, but you managed to come up with a working metaphor that allowed you to understand it.” She was definitely curious as to just how far she could take the girl’s mind. It’d be her greatest project to ever take on.
After the genius let go of her, Ranma wobbled for a moment before shaking her head to clear the dizziness. ‘Note to self: Intelligence makes her crazier.’
“Sit down on one of the cushions, Ranma-chan.”
Giving a nod, the cat-girl made herself comfortable on the cushion sitting on the floor. She was surprised when said cushion rose up about a foot into the air and hovered in its spot. “Hey-- What?” Focusing her attention onto Washu, she saw that the woman was calmly sitting on a floating cushion of her own. “You could have warned me…”
“But I wanted to see your reaction.” Washu said with a pout. “Is it a crime for a teacher to want to see the startled reaction of her cute little student?”
‘This is some kind of punishment for my past life, isn’t it?’ Ranma asked herself in annoyance.
“You’re probably wondering why I dragged you in here, right?” At the younger redhead’s nod, Washu brought out her laptop and typed a few keys. In front of Ranma on another cushion materialized several thick books. “I brought you here so that we could begin your lessons. The books you see before you are for some of your first subjects that we’ll be going over. I’ve already also gone over and created a schedule for us to go by.” With the press of a button on her laptop, a holo-screen appeared before Ranma and displayed the schedule to her.
Ranma-chan’s Educational Schedule
Mon - Fri
6:30AM - 8AM: Mathematics
8AM - 9AM: Languages and Linguistics
9AM - 10AM: History and Culture
11AM - 2PM: Free time
2PM - 5PM: Health and Psychology sciences
5PM - 7PM: Geography and Astronomy
Saturdays
7AM - 9AM: Mathematics
9AM - 11AM: Agricultural/Nature Sciences
11AM - Noon: History and Culture
Sundays
Free day
Ranma stared in disbelief at the schedule for several minutes. “A-- Are you serious?” She asked. She already knew the answer, and so it was silly to question it.
“Of course,” Washu answered as she removed the holo-screen. “I think it’s a fair schedule, and since it’ll most likely be a few years before you can start training in your martial arts again, you’ll have a lot of time on your hands. Why not do something with it so you don’t end up getting bored? Besides, this schedule still gives you time to have to yourself. We’re starting off at the lowest tier of each subject, and when I feel that you have enough of a grasp on it, we’ll up it to the next tier and keep going and going. If you give it everything you got, I’m sure that you’ll learn to appreciate it.”
‘I doubt it…’ Ranma thought in annoyance. Still, it wasn’t as if the schedule was overwhelming, and she did get enough time to herself when not working on the lessons. Maybe it wouldn’t be all that bad.
“Oh, and Ranma-chan, there was another reason why I called you into my lab.” With another press of the button, another object materialized into view on top of the text books.
Ranma blinked as her ears and tail twitched in curiosity. “An egg?” She asked as she held up the incubator-like contraption that held within it a rather large egg. For some reason, it felt as if they were connected in some way.
“It’s your partner.”
“Eh-- What-- Partner?”
“Similar to how Ryo-Ohki is to Ryoko. What you have there is an egg from whence a cabbit like Ryo-Ohki will be born.”
“My very own Ryo-Ohki?” Ranma asked as she continued to hold the incubator. She could feel strong emotions being sent from within the egg to her, and there was a strong feeling of warmth that seemed to envelop her. “But why?”
“Well, she won’t BE Ryo-Ohki, but it will be a creature similar to her. I went and based her design on Ryo-Ohki, but I also used some of your own DNA that I gathered while you were resting from your reconstruction. If anything, it’ll be as if it were your own child.”
Ranma nearly fumbled the incubator. “M-- My own child?” She asked with a sweat.
“As for why I decided to give you a partner,” Washu hopped off of her cushion and made her way over to the smaller redhead, “I felt as if I could trust you to take proper care of something that would be a huge responsibility. I told myself that I would never create another Ryo-Ohki, because of how powerful and destructive it could be if put in the wrong hands, but I think that having your own partner will allow you to grow and learn in ways that I can’t teach you.” The genius gave the incubator a small pat. “As a precaution, she won’t be able to turn into a ship or fly. I have disabled that function because it could cause you a lot more harm than good. You may have the mind of a 16-year-old, but you are still two-years-old. Having a function like that in your possession would be dangerous all around.”
Nodding slowly as she stared at the egg, Ranma found herself not caring that she wouldn’t be able to have a space ship at that moment. All she cared about was the creature inside the egg that was calling to her via emotions and mental images.
Washu happily clapped her hands together. “Well, how about we start on your studies? We won’t be able to get too much done today, but it’ll be best if you start learning immediately.”
“Eeeeehhhh?!”
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Author’s Notes:
None at the moment.
And that didn’t even begin to describe her thoughts on the large dome that allowed one to see outside, nor her initial reaction on seeing the place rise up from the lake.
“Ranma-chan,” Ayeka called from her spot over near one of the mini-waterfalls with a bucket of bathing supplies sitting next to her, “You won’t get cleaned up if you don’t hurry up and get over here!” She had to stifle a giggle at seeing the young redhead crouched upon a rock like a cat as her tail swished behind her and ears twitching in interest.
“Hey, hey,” Ranma shouted as she leapt off of her perch. She hit the ground on her hands followed by her feet. Hopping into an upright position, she ran over to the purple-haired woman. “What is this place? How did it get here? Who did it? How come-- erk!” She stopped short in her question once she fully registered Ayeka’s current state of undress. She attempted to turn around, but tripped over her tail in the process and fell onto her back. “Owie…”
Ayeka appeared above the two-year-old with a concerned look. “Are you okay, Ranma-chan? That looked like a dreadful fall.” She blinked as she watched the child cover her eyes. “Ranma-chan?”
“I’m okay!” The cat-girl said as she continued to cover her eyes. Even after two years as she currently was, Ranma still had some unease when it came to situations like this. It felt even more embarrassing whenever her mother decided to bathe along with her. Having to be bathed by someone else was embarrassing enough. “I just fell over my tail.”
“You should be more careful then.” Ayeka proceeded to help the two-year-old out of her muddied clothing. “As for the questions you asked, this place was created by Ryoko-san about four months ago.” After she finished undressing the young redhead and removing her hair tie, Ayeka filled up a basin with water and poured it over the child.
“Ryoko made it?” Ranma asked in disbelief as she felt shampoo on her head. Just thinking about the woman still caused her to flinch, but to hear that she was actually able to make something like this was impressive. “That’s awesome.”
The purple-haired princess gave a small humph in response. “Well, I will admit that Ryoko-san is talented in being able to create spectacular things such as this, but her more brutish qualities outweigh her good ones by a fair margin.” Placing some more shampoo onto her hand, she proceeded to work a little on the younger girl’s tail. “Still, while she is a monster woman, I don’t think you should fear or try to distance yourself from her. She honestly feels bad about what she did earlier, and while I said her negative traits DO outweigh her positive, she is still a great person to get to know.” Ayeka leaned in close to the child’s ear. “I ask you to please not tell her what I just told you. If she learns of what I said, she will never let me hear the end of it and taunt me till the end.”
Ranma couldn’t help but blink. “Err… okay.” She said. “Why do you call her a monster woman and all that then?”
“There are a lot of reasons.” Ayeka didn’t feel like getting into a long-winded history lesson of what the ex-space pirate did in the past. “More importantly, she’s trying to steal my Tenchi.”
“Huh?” The young child asked as she glanced up and gave the woman an incredulous look. ‘This sounds so familiar…’ She thought as she remembered her own fiancée troubles.
“Tenchi-sama and I are destined to be. Both he and I are of royal blood, while Ryoko is an uncouth barbarian and a one time fugitive of justice who would rather solve things with brutish violence than peaceful negotiation. She hangs over Tenchi-sama like some savage animal with no account for his personal space. It’s inevitable that Tenchi-sama would choose me over her.”
“Oh yeah, princess?” Ryoko asked in a small voice as she appeared behind the woman. “I don’t think a rigid little girl like you has what it takes to satisfy him.”
As soon as Ranma caught sight of the cyan-haired woman, she quickly gave off an ‘eep’ and scooted back as fast as she could. “H-- Hi, Ryoko.” She berated herself for being afraid. She didn’t want to be, but it seemed as if her body and mind said otherwise. Her eye twitched when the cyan-haired woman vanished and reappeared behind her before pulling her close.
“C’mon pipsqueak, if you stay near Ayeka too much, she’s liable to rub off on you. If you’re gonna be using abilities like mine, you need to have a much better role model.” Ryoko flashed the other woman an infuriating smirk. “I can teach you much more useful things than that stick in the mud could.”
Ayeka instantly jumped to her feet. “You’ll just turn her into some galaxy-class criminal!”
“Criminal? Oh my!” Mihoshi announced in shock from her spot behind Ryoko.
Ryoko turned around quickly. “When did you--”
“We can’t allow an impressionable and cute young girl to fall onto the path of a criminal!” The blonde reached out, snatched the small cat-girl, and pulled her close. “I’ll help to grow and become a respectable member of society, and maybe show her the wonders of the Galaxy Police!” She had an oddly serious expression as she held the young redhead close. Said redhead’s hands twitched violently at her side as her face was pressed between Mihoshi’s breasts.
‘A fate worse than death!’ Both Ayeka and Ryoko thought as the idea of Ranma being stuck with the ditz ran through their heads. They even imagined the redhead taking after her. ‘Can’t let her take after Mihoshi or Washu.’ The two proceeded to glance at each other. ‘Or her!’
“Come here, Ranma-chan. You still need to get cleaned.” Ayeka said as she took the thoroughly embarrassed two-year-old from Mihoshi and went to get some soap. It only took a moment for her to notice that the girl wasn’t with her anymore.
Ryoko rolled her eyes as she sat cross-legged a few inches from the ground while holding onto Ranma in her lap. “Pfft, if she does it, we’ll be here all day!”
“Ryoko! I was the one who volunteered to clean her while you were laughing at her misfortune!” Without missing a beat, Ayeka snatched the two-year-old and held her close. “So you can just go away.”
Ranma couldn’t help but feel an odd mixture of embarrassment and dizziness as she was pulled back and forth between the two -- with an occasional attempt from Mihoshi. It was as if she were some kind of plush toy that three children were fighting over. Her world turned into one of agony, however, due to Ayeka grabbing onto her tail and giving a hard yank. Her scream of pain shocked the women enough so that they accidentally dropped her.
“O-- Oh dear, I’m so sorry Ranma-chan.” The purple-haired princess apologized to the small cat-girl as she held her hands to the base of her tail while tears streamed from her eyes. “I didn’t mean to--”
“Good job, Ayeka, you just showed stupid you are when it comes to tails.” Ryoko said with a glare. “This is why a spoiled and pampered princess like you isn’t ready for reality.”
Ayeka met her with a glare of her own as Mihoshi attempted to figure out what to do. “This wouldn’t have happened if you didn’t try to but in where you weren’t needed!”
Both women were stopped from going any further by a pair of heavy buckets that crashed down onto them. Turning their heads, they both saw a highly unamused Washu accompanied by a worried Sasami and Ryo-Ohki. “Now really, don’t you think that you two should be ashamed of yourselves? You have a young child lying on the floor in pain due to the both of you getting into an argument over who will bath her and become a ‘role model.’”
Both Sasami and Ryo-Ohki ran over to the younger redhead as she pushed herself into a sitting position. “Are you alright, Ranma-chan?” She asked as she watched her continue to rub the spot around the base of her tail.
“Why did that hurt so much?” Ranma asked with a wince. Also, why did her back hurt?
Washu kneeled down next to the two-year-old. “It’s because your tail is connected to your spine, and so if it is pulled, there’s a chance that it could affect the nerves and hurt your back.” The diminutive genius reached her hand out and poked at the spot right at the base of the tail. “Your tail also has a plethora of its own nerves with this spot being the most sensitive. Depending on the situation and intentions, having your tail grabbed could range from intense pain to a tickling or calming feeling. To an even farther degree, certain areas of your tail could even give you a slight feeling of pleasure.”
A loud ‘eep’ was heard from the cat-girl as she quickly turned and hid her tail from view. She definitely did not like the sound of it, and couldn’t help but feel a newfound hatred for the swishy appendage. If what Washu said was the truth, then there was no way that Ranma would let anyone touch the thing… ever. Heaven help whoever even TRIED to lay a finger on it.
“Ranma-chan,” Sasami began with a sad look, “I’m sorry that Ayeka-oneechan and Ryoko-oneechan were being so mean and hurt you. Is it okay if I help you get the rest of the dirt off of you? I promise that I won’t hurt you.”
“Myah-mya myaow!” Ryo-Ohki added with her own apologetic look.
Ranma wanted to refuse, but as she glanced into the sad and hopeful eyes of both the younger princess and cabbit, she found her resolve slipping. “A-- Alright,” She said as she glanced down, “But you better leave my tail alone, got it?” Unlike everyone else in the house, she felt like she could trust the blue-haired girl. Maybe it was because she met her first, and was just a polite and kind child.
“I promise.” Sasami answered happily along with the cabbit next to her as she led the two-year-old back over to the mini-waterfall.
While Ranma was being cleaned, she couldn’t help but stare at the falling water ahead of her while she became lost in her thoughts. As she sat there, a phrase that she had quickly forgotten upon waking up from her dream floated through her head. ‘I just need to want to do it…’ She thought as she decided to test the theory by holding her hand with her palm upwards. With a little concentration, she imagined water floating into her hand, and to her shock and all, a small stream of water flowed from the waterfall and into her hand where it hovered as a sphere of water.
As she jumped to her feet, the concentration she had on the ball of liquid vanished and fell to the ground. Ignoring the worried looks and questions coming from the girls around her, Ranma stepped back a few feet before extending her arm towards the waterfall with her palm facing upward. Concentrating, she willed the water to come to her, and to everyone’s shock, a steady stream of water flowed over to the two-year-old until she was holding a sphere that was about the size of a bowling ball.
Almost as if she were in a trance, Ranma raised her other hand and willed the liquid to move into that one. Sure enough, the water did stream over to her other hand and hover in its newest spot. With childish amazement evident upon her features, the cat-girl closed her eyes and made the liquid snake around her arm before levitating into the air and bursting and falling down to the floor around her. As she stood there, Ranma could almost feel a certain level of energy connected to the water. Wondering if this meant that she could grab hold of it by just feeling it out, the two-year-old concentrated a little more and pulled the water from the floor and reformed it into a sphere between her hands before firing it off at a nearby rock.
“Wow…” She said before collapsing to her knees in exhaustion. It was exciting to be able to manipulate the water like that, but it left her weak and tired for some reason. However, now that she had succeeded in making a kind of ‘connection’ to the water, Ranma had to wonder if she could do the same for other things. Maybe she’d try it again later when she didn’t feel as tired.
Her thoughts were broken as Sasami quickly appeared next to her and voiced the questions that everyone else seemed to be wondering. Washu, however, was calmly stroking her chin as her mind went into a kind of excited overdrive over just how interesting the girl was.
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“Sorcery, huh?” Ranma mumbled to herself as she stared at her hands. After leaving the floating bathhouse, Washu had taken her aside and gave her an explanation of what she suspected the two-year-old managed to do. Apparently, the secondary type of energy that she held within her -- the genius called it mana, -- could be molded so that it could perform a large variety of abilities. The cat-girl had managed to collect the water and manipulate it via a connection she formed that allowed her to feel out the water molecules and ‘attract’ them to her while bending it to her will. At least, that was the likely explanation that Washu had given her. The genius mentioned something about doing some research with her providing examples of her ability to use mana.
What really interested her was the prospect of learning to be able to do a lot more with this mana energy. After two years of trying, she was finally able to use it correctly, but just like her ki, using too much mana tired her out. She wouldn’t let that stop her, however, and would continue to test it out and figure the extent of what she was able to do.
“Ranma-chan.” Ranma turned her head to see Ayeka standing next to the chair. The purple-haired princess had attempted to apologize profusely for the accidental pulling of her tail, but the cat-girl was still a little wary and made sure to keep the appendage out of sight. “I think we should discuss your sleeping arrangement.”
“What about it?”
“Well, currently you have a futon sitting in Tenchi-sama’s room, because Washu-sama felt that it was the best location to let you sleep.” The genius had also said that Tenchi seemed like the most responsible, but Ayeka didn’t understand why that was said. “However, I think it would be best if you switched rooms and stayed with either Sasami-chan or me.”
Ranma blinked for a moment. “What’s wrong with Tenchi’s room?”
“It just wouldn’t be proper.” Ayeka answered with a shake of her head. “Tenchi-sama is honorable and kind, yes, but a teenaged boy’s room is no place for a young girl to stay. Ryoko-san tends to sleep in the rafters, Mihoshi-san’s room is a mess, and I feel that you are just too young to sleep in a room by yourself in a house that’s so unknown to you.”
“I’ll pass.” The two-year-old said as she jumped off of the chair. She didn’t really see the problem with staying where she was, but the talk about ‘proper’ and ‘young girl’ filled her with a feeling of annoyance. Still, the idea of getting a room to herself instead of having to share it was a nice one. “There’s an extra room I could use, right?”
“Well, yes, but I don’t think you should be by yourself.”
Ranma waved her hand dismissively as she decided to go and get her futon. “I sleep in my own room at home, so I’ll be okay.” Before she could hear anymore rebuttal from Ayeka, the cat-girl found that she had accidentally teleported… again.
This time, though, she noted that she was hovering upside-down in the air above Tenchi as he was organizing some items in a drawer. The cat-girl quickly noticed that her ability to float had died, and so she was falling towards the teen. “H-- Hey, watch out!” The warning came too late, however, as Ranma’s head crashed into the top of Tenchi’s. As the teen clutched the top of his head, the small redhead continued her fall and landed painfully on her ass. Despite landing on her underside, it was her head that was in pain the post. “Eeow!”
“R-- Ranma?” Tenchi asked as he winced at the feeling of the bump upon his head. It seemed as if he would have to worry about yet another person in the house who could teleport, but this one was just a two-year-old who didn’t have control. “Are you alright?”
“Sorry about that.” Ranma said as she felt her own bump on the top of her head while a few stray tears managed to escape from her eyes. “I was coming to get my futon, but then I ended up teleporting.” As soon as she got to her feet, the two-year-old caught sight of a strange tanish object on the ground that resembled a sword hilt of some kind. “Hey, what’s this?” She asked as she walked over to it. The hilt had two red gems stuck in it with something that looked as if there was space for a third.
“It’s the Tenchi-ken.” Touching his head again, Tenchi made another wince. “I dropped it when you fell on my head.”
The cat-girl’s cheeks turned pink in embarrassment “Err-- Sorry.” Feeling curious about the object, Ranma reached out to pick it up. Right as her hand wrapped around it, she was attacked by a powerful electric shock that caused her to scream out in intense pain.
“Oh shit!” Tenchi yelled out in panic as he ran over to the child and yanked the hilt out of her hand. As soon as it left her hand, the electric shock stopped. “Are you okay?” The teen asked in worry as he kneeled in front of the child as she clutched her arm to her chest. “If I had known that it would have done that to you, I would have stopped you from picking it up.”
Ranma tried as hard as she could to fight off the tears as she held onto her arm. “I can’t feel my arm…” She said with worry. “Why can’t I feel it?”
Tenchi panicked as he attempted to figure out something to say or do, but before he could get to it, the door to his room burst open. “What happened to Ranma-chan?” Sasami asked with worry in her eyes. “We heard her scream and--”
“I dropped the Tenchi-ken. Ranma tried to pick it up, but it shocked her, and now she can’t feel her arm!” The raven-haired teen answered quickly as he motioned between the sword hilt and the obviously frightened two-year-old.
Washu made her way over to the younger redhead and called forth her laptop. “Let me handle this.” She proceeded to run a few scans of the child’s body to check and see if there was anything serious to worry about. “It seems as if the intense shock from the Tenchi-ken has fried almost all of the nerves within her arm and a few others throughout her body. However, she is slowly starting to heal thanks to her Masu structure.” The information caused Tenchi to let out a deep breath and fall onto his bed. “It will likely take all night until your arm is back to normal, though, and it would be a good idea to keep it in a sling.” After punching a few keys on her laptop, a medical sling appeared from a small subspace portal. Washu grabbed it and placed it on the two-year-old. “Just try not to move it too much and you should be fine.”
“Thanks…” Ranma let out softly as her other hand clenched at her side. “But why did it shock me?”
“I have a theory about that.” Washu said as she held her hand to her chin. “I think it’s because your body may have tried to assimilate the gems on the hilt. Your Masu genes may have decided that since they are powerful, they would be a good source to obtain. Because of this, the Tenchi-ken activated its self defense mechanism and attacked the apparent threat.”
‘Stupid Masu…’ The cat-girl thought as she ignored Ryoko go on about they were her gems or something.
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In the end, Ranma did have to -- reluctantly -- choose which person’s room she would share with, because it was figured that she needed help, it would be better to have someone else near her. When she was given the choice, Ranma decided that the best one would be with Sasami. Unlike everyone else, the cat-girl had no bad experiences with the older girl, and it may have also had something to do with the fact that she -- like her -- was a kid as well. An older one, yes, but she was still a child.
Of course, she would have preferred to be able to sleep in a futon than in the same bed as the blue-haired girl. It was just awkward to sleep with someone else. Well, two others if you counted Ryo-Ohki who also slept in the bed.
“Ranma-chan,” The cat-girl turned her head to look at Sasami. The older girl had her arms wrapped around the cabbit as she was turned on her side. “Are you okay? You’ve been having a bad time since you got here.”
Ranma gave her a fake smile. “I’m fine. It wasn’t that bad.”
“I’m sure it’ll get better for you.” Sasami said with her own REAL smile. “The first steps are always the hardest, right? So if you keep at it, it’ll get better. You’ll see.”
“Yeah…” Ranma said as she watched the older girl close her eyes. As she laid there, the two-year-old’s thoughts slowly changed to wondering about her mother, and just how she was doing. ‘I hope mum is okay.’ A large portion of her wanted to go back home, jump into her mother’s arms, and never leave her again. A smaller part of her worried about what she would think about her new cat features, and whether or not she would think of her as some kind of freak or not. ‘There’s no way she could think that, right?’ She asked herself. Since she couldn’t get an answer for that, Ranma pulled the blanket close and reluctantly closed her eyes. ‘Stupid cat ears and tail.’
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Two days later, Ranma found herself in Washu’s lab for the second time. This time, though, was the main entry area instead of the darkened medical room. The previous thought she had regarding the doorway leading to a flight of stairs going down was totally way off track. It merely lead to an area that was completely dark for about a second before another door appeared leading to an incredibly huge place that couldn’t possibly exist where it was.
“How big is this place, Washu… sensei?” She remembered to call the older redhead that after recalling the conversation they had a couple days ago. “And just how can you fit this in the house?”
“My lab’s size is the equivalent to five planets worth of space.” Seeing the flabbergasted expression on the two-year-old’s face filled her with an incredible amount of amusement. Oh how she was going to love teaching the girl. “As for how I fit this in the house… I didn’t. We aren’t in the house anymore, and you could say that we aren’t even on Earth. This place resides in a large subspace pocket that is connected to the Masaki house on Earth via the doorway you just entered through. You can think of it as a secondary layer that doesn’t exist within the house or on Earth, but is still part of the plane that you live on. Were you able to follow?”
“Uh…” Ranma let out as she scratched the base of her ponytail. “Is it kinda like if you take a cake and place another layer on it? You still have the cake, and the new layer is part of it, but is of a different area of its own?” The cat-girl suddenly found herself pulled into a crushing hug.
“You’re a genius in the making!” Washu announced joyously. “It’s a lot more complex than that, but you managed to come up with a working metaphor that allowed you to understand it.” She was definitely curious as to just how far she could take the girl’s mind. It’d be her greatest project to ever take on.
After the genius let go of her, Ranma wobbled for a moment before shaking her head to clear the dizziness. ‘Note to self: Intelligence makes her crazier.’
“Sit down on one of the cushions, Ranma-chan.”
Giving a nod, the cat-girl made herself comfortable on the cushion sitting on the floor. She was surprised when said cushion rose up about a foot into the air and hovered in its spot. “Hey-- What?” Focusing her attention onto Washu, she saw that the woman was calmly sitting on a floating cushion of her own. “You could have warned me…”
“But I wanted to see your reaction.” Washu said with a pout. “Is it a crime for a teacher to want to see the startled reaction of her cute little student?”
‘This is some kind of punishment for my past life, isn’t it?’ Ranma asked herself in annoyance.
“You’re probably wondering why I dragged you in here, right?” At the younger redhead’s nod, Washu brought out her laptop and typed a few keys. In front of Ranma on another cushion materialized several thick books. “I brought you here so that we could begin your lessons. The books you see before you are for some of your first subjects that we’ll be going over. I’ve already also gone over and created a schedule for us to go by.” With the press of a button on her laptop, a holo-screen appeared before Ranma and displayed the schedule to her.
Ranma-chan’s Educational Schedule
Mon - Fri
6:30AM - 8AM: Mathematics
8AM - 9AM: Languages and Linguistics
9AM - 10AM: History and Culture
11AM - 2PM: Free time
2PM - 5PM: Health and Psychology sciences
5PM - 7PM: Geography and Astronomy
Saturdays
7AM - 9AM: Mathematics
9AM - 11AM: Agricultural/Nature Sciences
11AM - Noon: History and Culture
Sundays
Free day
Ranma stared in disbelief at the schedule for several minutes. “A-- Are you serious?” She asked. She already knew the answer, and so it was silly to question it.
“Of course,” Washu answered as she removed the holo-screen. “I think it’s a fair schedule, and since it’ll most likely be a few years before you can start training in your martial arts again, you’ll have a lot of time on your hands. Why not do something with it so you don’t end up getting bored? Besides, this schedule still gives you time to have to yourself. We’re starting off at the lowest tier of each subject, and when I feel that you have enough of a grasp on it, we’ll up it to the next tier and keep going and going. If you give it everything you got, I’m sure that you’ll learn to appreciate it.”
‘I doubt it…’ Ranma thought in annoyance. Still, it wasn’t as if the schedule was overwhelming, and she did get enough time to herself when not working on the lessons. Maybe it wouldn’t be all that bad.
“Oh, and Ranma-chan, there was another reason why I called you into my lab.” With another press of the button, another object materialized into view on top of the text books.
Ranma blinked as her ears and tail twitched in curiosity. “An egg?” She asked as she held up the incubator-like contraption that held within it a rather large egg. For some reason, it felt as if they were connected in some way.
“It’s your partner.”
“Eh-- What-- Partner?”
“Similar to how Ryo-Ohki is to Ryoko. What you have there is an egg from whence a cabbit like Ryo-Ohki will be born.”
“My very own Ryo-Ohki?” Ranma asked as she continued to hold the incubator. She could feel strong emotions being sent from within the egg to her, and there was a strong feeling of warmth that seemed to envelop her. “But why?”
“Well, she won’t BE Ryo-Ohki, but it will be a creature similar to her. I went and based her design on Ryo-Ohki, but I also used some of your own DNA that I gathered while you were resting from your reconstruction. If anything, it’ll be as if it were your own child.”
Ranma nearly fumbled the incubator. “M-- My own child?” She asked with a sweat.
“As for why I decided to give you a partner,” Washu hopped off of her cushion and made her way over to the smaller redhead, “I felt as if I could trust you to take proper care of something that would be a huge responsibility. I told myself that I would never create another Ryo-Ohki, because of how powerful and destructive it could be if put in the wrong hands, but I think that having your own partner will allow you to grow and learn in ways that I can’t teach you.” The genius gave the incubator a small pat. “As a precaution, she won’t be able to turn into a ship or fly. I have disabled that function because it could cause you a lot more harm than good. You may have the mind of a 16-year-old, but you are still two-years-old. Having a function like that in your possession would be dangerous all around.”
Nodding slowly as she stared at the egg, Ranma found herself not caring that she wouldn’t be able to have a space ship at that moment. All she cared about was the creature inside the egg that was calling to her via emotions and mental images.
Washu happily clapped her hands together. “Well, how about we start on your studies? We won’t be able to get too much done today, but it’ll be best if you start learning immediately.”
“Eeeeehhhh?!”
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Author’s Notes:
None at the moment.
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by Dumbledork » Tue May 19, 2009 12:15 am
Excellent. The way Washi explains it, it seems like Ranma's cabbit will never learn to turn into a spaceship.
"As a precaution, she won’t be able to turn into a ship or fly. I have disabled that function because it could cause you a lot more harm than good."
Wouldn't it be better to add "at the moment"?
"As a precaution, she won’t be able to turn into a ship or fly. I have disabled that function because it could cause you a lot more harm than good."
Wouldn't it be better to add "at the moment"?
And that's the bottom line 'cause Dumbledork said so.
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by KonokoHasano » Tue May 19, 2009 7:56 am
Ah, yeah, I meant to add 'for now'.
Laira won't be able to become a space ship or fly at the moment, but that limitation will be removed when Ranma is around 9 or 10, but Laira will still have trouble flying.
On another note, one thing I decided for Ranma's learning of magic is for her to go along a kind of 'bending route' of sorts. When she's starting out, her learning of magic will be somewhat similar to bending in that she'll learn how to manipulate and move water, ice, fire, air, rock, etc.
Of course, she'll end up learning how to accomplish many other aspects, but elemental magic will be the first on her list to figure out.
Laira won't be able to become a space ship or fly at the moment, but that limitation will be removed when Ranma is around 9 or 10, but Laira will still have trouble flying.
On another note, one thing I decided for Ranma's learning of magic is for her to go along a kind of 'bending route' of sorts. When she's starting out, her learning of magic will be somewhat similar to bending in that she'll learn how to manipulate and move water, ice, fire, air, rock, etc.
Of course, she'll end up learning how to accomplish many other aspects, but elemental magic will be the first on her list to figure out.
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by Dumbledork » Tue May 19, 2009 9:49 am
I think that's a good start, especially since she won't have anyone to teach her magic for a while.
And that's the bottom line 'cause Dumbledork said so.
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by KonokoHasano » Tue May 19, 2009 10:17 am
Well, at least nobody who would be able to do what she can do.
Learning from Washu will also eventually allow her to advance in her sorcery, because even though it's magic, there's still several aspects of it that could work with a large degree of scientific understanding.
Realizing the fact that the body is usually made up of a majority of water, and that blood has components of water in it could allow Ranma to capture or subdue someone by using her power over water to control their bodies.
Gaining a more scientific understanding would also allow Ranma to grab atoms and molecules out of the air to turn into something else, and she'd also be able to extract water from various plants to use.
Maybe I'm just a little too interested in the aspect of Ranma managing to bend...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IEfOZLLhoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUqGnp2 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yqNYta ... re=related
Also, Ranma would also have help in the way of reading books. The Malfoy manor has a small library, and so she could read through that, and on occasional visits to Diagon Alley throughout the years, she could probably also pick up other books as well.
Learning from Washu will also eventually allow her to advance in her sorcery, because even though it's magic, there's still several aspects of it that could work with a large degree of scientific understanding.
Realizing the fact that the body is usually made up of a majority of water, and that blood has components of water in it could allow Ranma to capture or subdue someone by using her power over water to control their bodies.
Gaining a more scientific understanding would also allow Ranma to grab atoms and molecules out of the air to turn into something else, and she'd also be able to extract water from various plants to use.
Maybe I'm just a little too interested in the aspect of Ranma managing to bend...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IEfOZLLhoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUqGnp2 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yqNYta ... re=related
Also, Ranma would also have help in the way of reading books. The Malfoy manor has a small library, and so she could read through that, and on occasional visits to Diagon Alley throughout the years, she could probably also pick up other books as well.
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by Nekomata-sensei » Tue May 19, 2009 11:21 am
KonokoHasano wrote:Laira won't be able to become a space ship or fly at the moment, but that limitation will be removed when Ranma is around 9 or 10, but Laira will still have trouble flying.
Okay, now, you are of course free to do things your own way in your fic, as your way is still good and a lot of fanfiction use it, but I'd like to bring up some points about Ryo-Ohki and the other 'cabbit' of the 'Ryo-Ohki' Tenchi Muyo OVA vs. the cabbits of Tenchi Universe.
The cabbits you have seem to more resemble the ones of Tenchi Universe, which actually transform into spaceships.
The ones in Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki OVA are actually more of power and computer units. Fuku, for instance, is able to operate the Kamidake II from _before_ birth, seemingly less than months after creation, piloting, navigation, shielding, and weapons are all operated by Fuku, and she generates most of the ship's power, other than basic life-support and stuff. The ship can use alternate power sources, but Fuku provides most of the power unless the ship is fused with a tree ship or is using an (much weaker) artificial power source. Ryo-Ohki in the same series does grow into a crystalline form, and generates most of the ship, but doesn't actually store the whole thing in subspace or anything like that, the ship's core unit is actually below the lake, and Ryo-Ohki summons it when they throw her out over the lake like that. In addition, the 'real' Ryo-Ohki is the differently colored crystal unit on board the ship-mode of those floating crystals, the other 100 are less powerful slave units she generates for parallel processing and power stabilization purposes, although unlike the core Ryo-Ohki they just drain power, don't generate it, using them makes Ryo-Ohki more efficient and able to calculate data better than Fuku.
Because they have child-like minds, Ryo-Ohki and Fuku aren't perfect computer units, their computer-like mental components aren't always active, especially if they are at play or sleep or relaxing or particularly stressed, so they can, for instance, get lost, like in the OAV where Ryo-Ohki gets lost and Ryoko gives her the data to map back out where she was and get back to the house when she started panicking.
The Fuku failed clones created by the villains of GXP were still highly intelligent and capable of performing as computer units, however, their telepathy with the original Fuku made them stubborn and difficult to control, and unlike Fuku, they didn't have power generation abilities, which was the only reason the pirates wanted Fuku, because she was able to generate power similar in levels to a Jurai space tree, although without the light hawk wings.
Washuu only said that she wasn't going to mass produce Ryo-Ohkis for anyone, as she considers her like her own daughter. She still created one for Seina in GXP, who would become Fuku.
Also, Fuku, if you haven't seen GXP, doesn't appear to have any transformations, and if you study the original OVA you'll realize that Fuku's form is based off a 2nd form Ryo-Ohki created when Ryoko first summoned her after Tenchi gave Ryoko one of the gems, which was a fusion with Tenchi's pet cat Chibi, before that the 'cabbits' weren't cabbits at all and only had the crystline forms, afterward Washuu creates Fuku with that as a base form for some reason, likely because Ryo-Ohki preferred it to the crystal form. Fuku isn't mature enough for shapeshifting yet, so she only has one form, thus Washuu picked Ryo-Ohki's favored form, rather than Ryo-Ohki's original base form.
In the case of your story, rather than having Washuu refuse to 'unlock' Laira's spaceship 'form', I'd have her lock Laira's ability to interface with shape ships and technology above a certain level. The slated reason of trying to protect the 'young' Ranma from getting into danger and trouble, not to mention lost in space or something with a younger and playful Laira, would be still a good reason, as Fuku still needed mature pilots to keep her on track and interact with her, while a childish Ranma would be rather impulsive and likely to agree to Laira's more irresponsible choices, particularly because her mental bond with Laira is stronger than Fuku's bond with Seina, since Washuu based Fuku off her own DNA still like with Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki, while Laira is based off Ranma's DNA.
Another thing of note I'd like to bring up is that if my suspicions are correct about Ranma/Lina's soul and connection to the Lord of Nightmares, she has similar, if not superior potential to Ryoko, as Ryoko was based on Washuu, who like the Lord of Nightmares is a cosmic being of vast power and scope capable of creating whole universes, although different in operation of abilities, I'd consider the Lord of Nightmares to be in super deity class just like Washuu, Tokimi and Tsunami in their full goddess forms, however her power obviously manifests differently, the 3 choushin manifest their power, and similar powers derived from them, as the Light Hawk wings. Power from the Lord of Nightmares manifests as chaos magic attacks like Ragna Blade and Giga Slave. Ryoko can theoretically, when she reaches full maturity, possibly evolve to a super-deity class entity like Washuu or at least achieve power like Tsunami's tree-ship form and be able to generate 10 light hawk wings.
I'd recommend that in contrast Ranma, now that she is immortal and masufied, will have the eventual ability to generate Ragna blade and Giga slave based energy and the sorts of astral techniques and magic the Lord of Nightmares performs while possessing Lina in the 8th novel when she defeats Hellmaster Phisbarro(sp?), instead of Light Hawk Wings like Tenchi and what Ryoko will eventually be able to do, but that the power be considered of similar class and scope, Ranma's is just more focused on destruction and creation and the astral plane, while the Light Hawk wings are more focused in the physical plane on energy conversion, creation, and defense, plus Ranma's power is one of chaos where the Light Hawk wings are one of not exactly order aligned entities, but certainly entities who aren't based in chaos like the Lord of Nightmares, but have more direct and logical forms.
Also significant is that Ranma is _also_ Sailor PomPom, a sailor senshi shares a soul with a crystallized form of a planet or other celestial body's mystical core, their soul has been fused with that core, or was that core manifested in humanoid, or at least avatar form, basically the soul of a planet or celestial body. If I remember correctly, you made Sailor PomPom have a large asteroid or something like that as the base of her star seed, and a created senshi, the asteroid's seed being fused with her own. This power, before Galaxia, is mostly order aligned, except for Galaxia and senshi she created, who are chaos aligned, after Eternal Sailor Moon descends into the Galaxy Cauldron she restores the balance of order and chaos to the universe and the senshi, from some past person who'd messed with the balance there in favor of order and caused the creation of evil chaos entities like Galaxia and Metallia as the universe sought to naturally balance itself out, depending on interpretation, this was done retroactively, with Eternal Sailor Moon re-writing the past from the point in the distant past that the order and chaos were first separated, much like how she re-set things by a year or so after defeating Beyrl and Metallia, and insures through some form of karmic resonance that her friends are still born and have relatively similar lives on Earth. I'd recommend this being part of a post Galaxia re-set, as it would be weird for Ranma not getting involved in the big Galaxia battles eventually to suddenly get her soul's order/chaos balance re-set when that battle ends for the senshi, particularly because her soul already has some sort of chaos core from the Lord of Nightmares.
If you have the Sailor PomPom core, this also has aspects on her soul, and aspects on her body while it is awakened, as the senshi avatar forms typically get some form of near immortality, the ability to survive in the vacuum of space, and various other powers resembling those of Ryoko, as well as their individual magical abilities, and whatever artifact items they possess, also linked with their power. Eventually, she'd likely move her own personal asteroid from the Tenchi universe into her own personal pocket of chaos space in her own personal sea of chaos, and probably create some sort of personal habitation on it, like Washuu's lab or the subspace core unit living areas of a Jurai tree ship. If only for it's protection, if the LoN hasn't done this for her already, since damaging that celestial body could destroy her soul, or at least part of it, and also creates a powerful link to the universe the asteroid is in, keeping her reincarnating there.
For now, I'd simply suggest that Washuu notices that Ranma unexpectedly shows similar growth to Ryoko, outside of the Masu abilities, but of a different sort of energy and cosmic power, which from her perspective shouldn't have happened, and would create an interest in Ranma that rivals her interest in Ryoko, and would mean Ranma's power level would be notably higher. Also, I'd suggest Ranma be able to use Lina's talismans of the 4 Mazoku lords if she can get her hands on them in this life similar to the way Ryoko can use the gems, as well as using them to get higher level power out of Laira and make Laira actually able to rival Ryo-Ohki powered by the 3 gem Ryoko. The chaos power may be different, but it is similar in scope to Washuu's gems, although the talismans are a bit more aligned with destruction, they aren't limited to it.
Of course I wouldn't give the talismans to Ranma right away. Lina was somewhere around 14 or 16 when she bought them off Xellos, and it is implied that she wouldn't have been able to use them at a younger age as her magical energies and powers wouldn't have been mature, stable, or strong enough yet, so you'd probably have to wait till Lina's 4th or 6th year at Hogwarts (look up which on Wikipedia or something) and perhaps have Xellos, at the behest of the LoN, trick her into buying them from him again, only to remember them after using them in a dream or something, and get pissed at Xellos as she realized she already owned them. Ranma wouldn't be able to use their full potential right away of course, Ryoko _still_ can't use the full potential of all 3 gems, and she is what, 2000/5000 years old? Ranma might have a little bonus 'time' on her from past incarnations once she matures to adulthood, but Ryoko even with one gem will likely still be able to match if not surpass her in power for a while, even with Ranma having all 4 talismans, since Ranma won't be able to handle the full power of them, having all 4 would just help stabilize and focus the power more, and mastering Sailor Pompom powers would probably provide a 5th focus and power source of a different sort that would help balance it. Still, it would keep Ranma from getting too much Ryoko envy later on as she starts to realize Ryoko's true power and potential.
As for Laira, I'd just make sure her connection to Ranma stays similar to the one Ryo-Ohki has to Ryoko, and have her different from Ryo-Ohki the same ways Ranma is different from Ryoko, but early on, her powers, like the masufied Ranma, should stay similar to Ryoko. Later on I'd suggest letting Laira pick up some magical abilities as Ranma's familiar/adviser of sorts, maybe some stuff similar to the familiars in Nanoha like Arf and the Lizze (sp?) twins, or like the Moon cats.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by Spokavriel » Fri May 22, 2009 5:33 pm
Instead of the Kingdom on the moon how about something more subtle but still connected. Say like Parks on the Dark Side of the moon? The whole moon was Habitable in the Silver Millennium after all. I've just seen so many blatant references to the Moon Kingdom it's getting painful to see any more that are as subtle as Akane's cooking.
Wait so Ranma-chan believes that Voldamort died even though the idea of restoring him to full life was how Xellos got to drag her from her new family? Between being given an instant reincarnation and her parents believing strongly enough for any of this to happen you'd think it's rather impossible for Ranma to be that sheepish following along the un-met unknown mostly Wizarding world.
Ranma-chan was dragged off before she was allowed to even really get to see the Shrine and she didn't get to pray for luck or anything close. Heck Washu didn't even let her have a moment after trying to tear her own ears off to so much as ask Katsuhito for a blessing.
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Quick question. Why is it two days later? I'd think after having a sizable portion of her nerves fried there would have been at least a Physical in the lab to make sure things went as they should with the regeneration.
Wait She DISABLED the cabbit's ability to Transform or Fly? That really seems wrong without gutting everything in the last half of the school year and beyond for what was already written.
Finally after a few days of the site down I get to see if there's any space for comments on comments!
I wouldn't say that Dumbledork. Disabled isn't the same as destroyed when it comes to potential.
Maybe with the "For now" addition you could add "It may make it harder for her to learn later but it's better than letting her accidentally endanger the both of you."
::sigh:: The more time passes the more I find I can't stand reading Nekomatta's posts. I'm sorry no offense intended it's just way too much before getting to the points.
Wait so Ranma-chan believes that Voldamort died even though the idea of restoring him to full life was how Xellos got to drag her from her new family? Between being given an instant reincarnation and her parents believing strongly enough for any of this to happen you'd think it's rather impossible for Ranma to be that sheepish following along the un-met unknown mostly Wizarding world.
Laying it on kinda thick aren't you? Between the Moon Kingdom refference and this... It's almost like Ranma-chan has developed perfect precognition so long as she's trying to deny something she will learn about in the future.Yeah, she could manage it perfectly! Besides, it wasn’t as if she’d ever become attached to THAT side of her. There was absolutely no way that she’d allow it to happen.
Ranma-chan was dragged off before she was allowed to even really get to see the Shrine and she didn't get to pray for luck or anything close. Heck Washu didn't even let her have a moment after trying to tear her own ears off to so much as ask Katsuhito for a blessing.
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Missing a you near the start?“I’ll help to grow and become a respectable member of society, and maybe show her the wonders of the Galaxy Police!”
Lost a how. Not sure how but you lost one.“Good job, Ayeka, you just showed stupid you are when it comes to tails.”
batheYou have a young child lying on the floor in pain due to the both of you getting into an argument over who will bath her and become a ‘role model.’”
most not post. Despite landing on her underside, it was her head that was in pain the post.
missing a she and an in. Definitely at least the in. you don't want to claim Ranma-chan is the entry area after all.This time, though, was the main entry area instead of the darkened medical room.
Quick question. Why is it two days later? I'd think after having a sizable portion of her nerves fried there would have been at least a Physical in the lab to make sure things went as they should with the regeneration.
You either need commas around totally or you should get rid of the way. It's not helping the statement.The previous thought she had regarding the doorway leading to a flight of stairs going down was totally way off track.
Wait She DISABLED the cabbit's ability to Transform or Fly? That really seems wrong without gutting everything in the last half of the school year and beyond for what was already written.
Finally after a few days of the site down I get to see if there's any space for comments on comments!
I wouldn't say that Dumbledork. Disabled isn't the same as destroyed when it comes to potential.
Maybe with the "For now" addition you could add "It may make it harder for her to learn later but it's better than letting her accidentally endanger the both of you."
::sigh:: The more time passes the more I find I can't stand reading Nekomatta's posts. I'm sorry no offense intended it's just way too much before getting to the points.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by KonokoHasano » Fri May 22, 2009 6:17 pm
First I'll get to Spokavriel's comments...
That's probably a lot better of a statement. I'll have to change that.
Why would Ranma believe that when Xellos only said it to get her away from home? It wasn't the full truth on Xellos's part.
Yeah, it's a bad habit of mine >.<
Thanks for the corrections ^_^
She doesn't exactly need the lab to perform incredibly quick physical diagnosis.
Bad choice of words and things on my part. I think Nekomata had a good idea in having it so that Laira is limited currently in what she can merge with and turn into a ship and all. Besides, Laira IS a computer unit like Ryo-Ohki, and so several things are programmable to do.
Now for Nekomata's post. I saw it before the site went down, but I was on my grandma's laptop at the time, and I wasn't logged in, so I didn't get a chance to reply.
As for the aspect about the Tenchi Muyo! OVA cabbits... I know of Ryo-Ohki's assimilation with Chibi and the reason for its form, but I do like the idea of having it so that Laira has a kind of limit on what she can assimilate with and convert, and so she wouldn't have a ship form yet until she goes about actually converting matter and parts and stuff into one. That whole aspect could work a lot better than a 'disablement' of the ship form which isn't exactly possible, since even though Laira is based off of Ryo-Ohki, she's not based on her to a T.
Well, Ryoko's potential is more or less centered with the gems, since those will give her the power of that and all.
In the grand scheme of things, I have it that the Lord of Nightmares was created by the Choushin, but she's still a super deity of sorts that managed to help in creating various parts of the universe, but LoN is unaware of the Choushin who created her. Still, LoN would be very powerful, and so Ranma's connection to her has several benefits.
Now this part is a point I'm incredibly interested in. I've read the manga, but I don't recall any rewriting of the past done by Sailor Moon, but I guess I may have not of read it closely when I was reading the Galaxia part. I can't remember exactly how that went.
However, if it's workable, I do like the idea of making it 'post-galaxia' in a 're-do' of the timeline of sorts that would prevent Galaxia from going on her rampage, because I honestly don't know if I want to have Mau destroyed and all that crud, and so that could be an interesting way out.
I really do like this idea.
Possibly, but I think a better aspect would be if her Sailor Crystal was actually a talisman of her own that provides the power, but I still do like the idea of her getting the talismans again. However, certain aspects of an issue with that making her even more 'insanely uber' could be an issue... maybe.
Instead of the Kingdom on the moon how about something more subtle but still connected. Say like Parks on the Dark Side of the moon? The whole moon was Habitable in the Silver Millennium after all. I've just seen so many blatant references to the Moon Kingdom it's getting painful to see any more that are as subtle as Akane's cooking.
That's probably a lot better of a statement. I'll have to change that.
Wait so Ranma-chan believes that Voldamort died even though the idea of restoring him to full life was how Xellos got to drag her from her new family? Between being given an instant reincarnation and her parents believing strongly enough for any of this to happen you'd think it's rather impossible for Ranma to be that sheepish following along the un-met unknown mostly Wizarding world.
Why would Ranma believe that when Xellos only said it to get her away from home? It wasn't the full truth on Xellos's part.
Laying it on kinda thick aren't you? Between the Moon Kingdom refference and this... It's almost like Ranma-chan has developed perfect precognition so long as she's trying to deny something she will learn about in the future.
Yeah, it's a bad habit of mine >.<
Thanks for the corrections ^_^
Quick question. Why is it two days later? I'd think after having a sizable portion of her nerves fried there would have been at least a Physical in the lab to make sure things went as they should with the regeneration.
She doesn't exactly need the lab to perform incredibly quick physical diagnosis.
Wait She DISABLED the cabbit's ability to Transform or Fly? That really seems wrong without gutting everything in the last half of the school year and beyond for what was already written.
Bad choice of words and things on my part. I think Nekomata had a good idea in having it so that Laira is limited currently in what she can merge with and turn into a ship and all. Besides, Laira IS a computer unit like Ryo-Ohki, and so several things are programmable to do.
Now for Nekomata's post. I saw it before the site went down, but I was on my grandma's laptop at the time, and I wasn't logged in, so I didn't get a chance to reply.
As for the aspect about the Tenchi Muyo! OVA cabbits... I know of Ryo-Ohki's assimilation with Chibi and the reason for its form, but I do like the idea of having it so that Laira has a kind of limit on what she can assimilate with and convert, and so she wouldn't have a ship form yet until she goes about actually converting matter and parts and stuff into one. That whole aspect could work a lot better than a 'disablement' of the ship form which isn't exactly possible, since even though Laira is based off of Ryo-Ohki, she's not based on her to a T.
Another thing of note I'd like to bring up is that if my suspicions are correct about Ranma/Lina's soul and connection to the Lord of Nightmares, she has similar, if not superior potential to Ryoko, as Ryoko was based on Washuu, who like the Lord of Nightmares is a cosmic being of vast power and scope capable of creating whole universes, although different in operation of abilities, I'd consider the Lord of Nightmares to be in super deity class just like Washuu, Tokimi and Tsunami in their full goddess forms, however her power obviously manifests differently, the 3 choushin manifest their power, and similar powers derived from them, as the Light Hawk wings. Power from the Lord of Nightmares manifests as chaos magic attacks like Ragna Blade and Giga Slave. Ryoko can theoretically, when she reaches full maturity, possibly evolve to a super-deity class entity like Washuu or at least achieve power like Tsunami's tree-ship form and be able to generate 10 light hawk wings.
Well, Ryoko's potential is more or less centered with the gems, since those will give her the power of that and all.
In the grand scheme of things, I have it that the Lord of Nightmares was created by the Choushin, but she's still a super deity of sorts that managed to help in creating various parts of the universe, but LoN is unaware of the Choushin who created her. Still, LoN would be very powerful, and so Ranma's connection to her has several benefits.
Also significant is that Ranma is _also_ Sailor PomPom, a sailor senshi shares a soul with a crystallized form of a planet or other celestial body's mystical core, their soul has been fused with that core, or was that core manifested in humanoid, or at least avatar form, basically the soul of a planet or celestial body. If I remember correctly, you made Sailor PomPom have a large asteroid or something like that as the base of her star seed, and a created senshi, the asteroid's seed being fused with her own. This power, before Galaxia, is mostly order aligned, except for Galaxia and senshi she created, who are chaos aligned, after Eternal Sailor Moon descends into the Galaxy Cauldron she restores the balance of order and chaos to the universe and the senshi, from some past person who'd messed with the balance there in favor of order and caused the creation of evil chaos entities like Galaxia and Metallia as the universe sought to naturally balance itself out, depending on interpretation, this was done retroactively, with Eternal Sailor Moon re-writing the past from the point in the distant past that the order and chaos were first separated, much like how she re-set things by a year or so after defeating Beyrl and Metallia, and insures through some form of karmic resonance that her friends are still born and have relatively similar lives on Earth. I'd recommend this being part of a post Galaxia re-set, as it would be weird for Ranma not getting involved in the big Galaxia battles eventually to suddenly get her soul's order/chaos balance re-set when that battle ends for the senshi, particularly because her soul already has some sort of chaos core from the Lord of Nightmares.
Now this part is a point I'm incredibly interested in. I've read the manga, but I don't recall any rewriting of the past done by Sailor Moon, but I guess I may have not of read it closely when I was reading the Galaxia part. I can't remember exactly how that went.
However, if it's workable, I do like the idea of making it 'post-galaxia' in a 're-do' of the timeline of sorts that would prevent Galaxia from going on her rampage, because I honestly don't know if I want to have Mau destroyed and all that crud, and so that could be an interesting way out.
If you have the Sailor PomPom core, this also has aspects on her soul, and aspects on her body while it is awakened, as the senshi avatar forms typically get some form of near immortality, the ability to survive in the vacuum of space, and various other powers resembling those of Ryoko, as well as their individual magical abilities, and whatever artifact items they possess, also linked with their power. Eventually, she'd likely move her own personal asteroid from the Tenchi universe into her own personal pocket of chaos space in her own personal sea of chaos, and probably create some sort of personal habitation on it, like Washuu's lab or the subspace core unit living areas of a Jurai tree ship. If only for it's protection, if the LoN hasn't done this for her already, since damaging that celestial body could destroy her soul, or at least part of it, and also creates a powerful link to the universe the asteroid is in, keeping her reincarnating there.
I really do like this idea.
Of course I wouldn't give the talismans to Ranma right away. Lina was somewhere around 14 or 16 when she bought them off Xellos, and it is implied that she wouldn't have been able to use them at a younger age as her magical energies and powers wouldn't have been mature, stable, or strong enough yet, so you'd probably have to wait till Lina's 4th or 6th year at Hogwarts (look up which on Wikipedia or something) and perhaps have Xellos, at the behest of the LoN, trick her into buying them from him again, only to remember them after using them in a dream or something, and get pissed at Xellos as she realized she already owned them. Ranma wouldn't be able to use their full potential right away of course, Ryoko _still_ can't use the full potential of all 3 gems, and she is what, 2000/5000 years old? Ranma might have a little bonus 'time' on her from past incarnations once she matures to adulthood, but Ryoko even with one gem will likely still be able to match if not surpass her in power for a while, even with Ranma having all 4 talismans, since Ranma won't be able to handle the full power of them, having all 4 would just help stabilize and focus the power more, and mastering Sailor Pompom powers would probably provide a 5th focus and power source of a different sort that would help balance it. Still, it would keep Ranma from getting too much Ryoko envy later on as she starts to realize Ryoko's true power and potential.
Possibly, but I think a better aspect would be if her Sailor Crystal was actually a talisman of her own that provides the power, but I still do like the idea of her getting the talismans again. However, certain aspects of an issue with that making her even more 'insanely uber' could be an issue... maybe.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by Spokavriel » Fri May 22, 2009 6:36 pm
Because in addition to Xellos there's the fact she was reincarnated this fast. And the parents reactions would have been different if they didn't at least believe it. You have no reason for her to assume her new parents are that gullable.Why would Ranma believe that when Xellos only said it to get her away from home? It wasn't the full truth on Xellos's part.
Then please have there be a thought to the effect of being glad she didn't get dragged back there after that nerve burn out. A HP, Slayers or Ranma fan could come along who has no clue about her yellow wellness smiley face device.She doesn't exactly need the lab to perform incredibly quick physical diagnosis.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by J. St.C. Patrick » Sat May 23, 2009 12:54 am
The revisions are looking good.
noticed this:
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noticed this:
That’s when her intangibility reacted again and caused her to fall INTO the ground and stop halfway at her waste.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by Ellen Kuhfeld » Sat May 23, 2009 9:31 pm
Now this part is a point I'm incredibly interested in. I've read the manga, but I don't recall any rewriting of the past done by Sailor Moon, but I guess I may have not of read it closely when I was reading the Galaxia part. I can't remember exactly how that went.
I haven't read the manga, but Moon did a history-reset at the end of the first season of the anime.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by KonokoHasano » Sun May 24, 2009 8:49 am
I'm not really sure if the modifying of history happened in the manga at any point, especially the Galaxia storyline. However, that doesn't mean that I can't throw it in as a reasonable way to allow Ranma to be able to ignore and not get involved with the events of Sailor Moon.
It could definitely be that Ranma's current timeline is the one that is on the post-Galaxia history rewrite path, and so none of the events of Sailor Moon regarding the enemies will happen, and the Senshi will end up regaining their memories of this rewrite later on.
With this, I could have it that Mau never ended up destroyed, and so Ranma could put in more visits, and it's also possible that Ranma could end up meeting a Galaxia who also remembers of the rewrite and stuff.
It could definitely be that Ranma's current timeline is the one that is on the post-Galaxia history rewrite path, and so none of the events of Sailor Moon regarding the enemies will happen, and the Senshi will end up regaining their memories of this rewrite later on.
With this, I could have it that Mau never ended up destroyed, and so Ranma could put in more visits, and it's also possible that Ranma could end up meeting a Galaxia who also remembers of the rewrite and stuff.
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by Spokavriel » Sun May 24, 2009 9:37 am
If you cut out all the SM plot like that then what point is there to including them in the crossover? Just playmates for Luna's reincarnation?
And in all these history resets what does happen to the other enemies? Are they living normal lives like some members of the Dark Moon family were shown to do even though they were in the wrong time?
And in all these history resets what does happen to the other enemies? Are they living normal lives like some members of the Dark Moon family were shown to do even though they were in the wrong time?
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Re: Wild Magic Ch.4 Revised
by KonokoHasano » Sun May 24, 2009 10:00 am
Hmm... eh, I guess I'll have to figure out just how I'm going to incorporate the Sailor Moon cross. It's a good thing that none of the events of Sailor Moon will happen for a while.
I also finally managed to get Ranma's height figured out.
At 11-years-old, Ranma is around 4 feet (121.92cm) tall. That means she's rather short for her age, and so a lot of other students in hogwarts are taller than her. From 11 to 14, she'll only gain a minuscule amount to her height, and so she'll still be tiny.
From 14 to 15, her body will shoot up to 5 feet (152.4cm) tall. She'll then continue to grow until she hits 5' 9" (179cm) between the ages of 15 and 16.
So in effect, she'll be going from tiny to towering. XD
I also finally managed to get Ranma's height figured out.
At 11-years-old, Ranma is around 4 feet (121.92cm) tall. That means she's rather short for her age, and so a lot of other students in hogwarts are taller than her. From 11 to 14, she'll only gain a minuscule amount to her height, and so she'll still be tiny.
From 14 to 15, her body will shoot up to 5 feet (152.4cm) tall. She'll then continue to grow until she hits 5' 9" (179cm) between the ages of 15 and 16.
So in effect, she'll be going from tiny to towering. XD
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