Ranma ½ and its characters are the creations and
properties of Rumiko
Takahashi. With some original characters by myself.
Ranma Meets the Avatrons
Chapter 2
By Peter A. Sehavilin <sehavilin@comcast.net>
my web page can be found at http://home.comcast.net/~sehavilin/wsb/index.html
Everyone was surprised as the doorbell rang. After
all most of the people
that challenged Ranma to a duel or was a would be
fiancee would normally
barge in. Some leaving in their wake a new door, Or
rather a large hole in
the wall.
"Oh my! I should get the door we have guests," Kasumi
said as she went to let
the Starliners in. She moved to outside to the front
gate to meet them.
Leaving the rest of the Family wondering about the
Starliners. 'This Noha
must be very intimidating,' Nabiki thought seeing how
Genma was cowering in
the corner of the room. Genma was definately afraid
of what this person could
do.
"Come right this way Mr. Starliner," said Kasumi
leading them into the house,
"The family is in the living room waiting to meets
you two."
"Thank you for your hospitality Mrs. Tendo," a voice
answered her.
Kasumi entered the room, followed by the Starliners.
Mr. Starliner was not
what everyone thought they would look like. Noha
Starliner was not the large
Muscle bound man everyone though he would be.
Although he had an athletic
build and seem to keep in shape, he actually looked
harmless. He was no hunk,
but he was handsome in his own right, the biggest
thing noticeable about him
was his height. He was not all that large of a
person, barely standing 5 feet
tall. With his daughter standing just a few inches
shorter then him. 'He's
even smaller then Ranma's girl form,' Nabiki thought
to herself. 'This is
going to be interesting.'
'This man holds the Saotome's clan honor,' Thought
Nodoka. Though watching
Ranma fighting in his girl form, which was pretty
short in it's own right, it
did have it problems for a fighter. Even though she
tended to forget the
little fact could be easily overcome through
experience. Something that Noha
did possessed. She did think that the main problem
would still be getting
him to except a duel. Nodoka could tell by Noha's
moments that he was an
experienced fighter. But his daughter Lorena was not
from her movement. Genma
was right. This girl did not know how to fight at
all. And what troubled her
the most was her behavior that seem childlike. Lorena
was currently looking
at the house with a big innocent child eyes. 'This is
going to be a big
problem,' thought Nodoka, which was confirmed by
Akane.
Akane had also pick up the lack of training in
Lorena. 'She thinks she is
better then me in the art?' Akane said to herself.
'One wrong move from
either Ranma or her and I show them just what a true
martial artist can do to
them,' Akane though to herself as her anger started
to get the better of her.
'Damn! that pervert is giving me another headache.
That insensitive jerk is
always causing me trouble.' As she felt her head was
beginning to bother her
again. Akane got ready to give those two something
they deserved in her mind
if they managed to embarrass her In a way like Ranma
always seem to do.
Ranma was a little sore from his previously encounter
with Akane. He was
feeling like a prize again, just like how everyone
seems to planned his
future for him without caring about what he felt
about it. He wished he could
do something about the beatings from Akane but he
felt trapped. Even a try
and dodge of Akane's mallet could be seen as showing
agitation towards Akane
and a breach of Honor. Contrary to belief Ranma was
not stupid or all that
unaware of things some people tended to believe. He
learned early on that as
far has the youngest Tendo is concerned she always
consider all her action
justified and that he would be put to blame for
Akane's faults. People were
willing to blame and him and attack him for preceded
unfaithfulness toward
Akane. Ranma could literally see that if he tried to
even defend himself in
any way from one off Akane's temper tantrums, her
admirers would try to kill
him even more than they are now.
Currently he was watching Lorena. When she entered
the room he quickly
figured out that the feeling was definately coming
from this girl, and every
time she looks toward him she smiled at him. He felt
her fondness for him.
And Ranma was intonating at the girl's smile. She was
wearing a simple blue
dress that hung well on her small figure, and her
general appearance was very
attractive to look at. She move gracefully across the
room when she walk. But
Ranma could tell she did not have any training in the
art. She might just
have some basic self defense teaching from her
father. Her father however
moved with the confidence of a master. Ranma quickly
figured that from the
way he was moving, Noha was downplaying himself and
move in a way that
displayed no threatening moves. Trying to sense the
man's aura was not very
helpful either. It definitely felt alien, but it also
had a hidden strength
to it. 'He most likely ready to react to anything
that might happen,' thought
Ranma.
"Stop staring at that Alien hussy you perverted
freak." Akane let out at
Ranma. Upset that Ranma was paying more attention to
her then to herself.
Even if he was staring at her she would just have
something to say to the
jerk for having perverted thoughts about her as well.
She continued to think
to herself. She wished this damn headache would go
away. It was hard for her
to think straight when she got them. And she always
liked to blamed Ranma for
giving them to her. Well it did happen when it was
just Kuno that was after
her. And that morning ritual he started. The headache
had gotten much worse
after Ranma came bringing with him all those problems
and showing his
perverted ways. And with every thing that happened
with the failed marriage
it was happening more often and the pain was getting
worse. She was beginning
to think if she just got the pervert out of her life
the pain would go away.
At least Ryoga was better than Ranma. Akane knew that
he was even a better
than Ranma in the Art, and that Ranma only won
because he cheated. He also
knew that she was the best around, Ryoga even told
her how she was way better
than the other fiancees. Ranma however, told her that
they were better in the
art than her. Just like the insensitive jerk he was.
Her father has said to
her that she was the greatest martial artist. And was
better then anyone he
knew. Even Genma, her father's long time friend had
agreed she was way better
than Ranma. Since there was no way that Ranma could
be better then his own
father.....
Seeing that each time the alien girl smiled at Ranma
and he looked at her got
Akane even more angry. The girl was very attractive,
even beautiful in her
own right. She hated the feeling of being attracted
to the girl. She was not
a pervert so she denied what she was feeling. Ever
since she and her old
friend were caught kissing when they wondered what it
was like when she was a
little younger and her father told her that was
wrong. When she asked why all
Soun would say she was being perverted just like a
boy. And then force her
long time and close friend away. He said that he did
not want a girl near his
daughter that acted like a perverted boy. And she
hated the fact she found
Ranma's girl form more attractive than his male form.
It must be Ranma's
perversion that was making her think that. No way was
she a perverted like
him. And now this girl had something about her that
seem to suggest she was a
just as pervert as Ranma's female form was. Akane
thought to herself that if
the girl made one wrong move she would show just what
happened to perverts.
Noha sensing Akane growing hostilities quickly
glanced in her direction, then
turned to Nodoka giving her a genuine warm smile.
Nodoka was taken by the
man. He definitely had an Aura of authority about him
but also had a
sensuality about him that suggested to her that he
could be very manly
elsewhere as well in her mind. Nodoka was a little
taken with that thought.
Even though Genma had not fulfilled any husbandly
duties since Ranma was
born. She still remained faithful to him all those
years. Even after the long
and lonely training journey Genma and Ranma went on.
She did not even think
about being unfaithful when she was alone. 'What was
it about this man that
seemed to be so alluring about him?' Nodoka thought
to herself. She was
brought back to the matter in hand when he spoke.
"Good afternoon Mrs Saotome. I am glad to see you in
good health." Noha said
to her with a gentle smile, giving Nodoka a small
respectful bow.
"I would like to introduces you to my daughter,
Lorena Starliner." Noha said
to her bring his daughter before her.
"Hello Mrs Saotome," she cheerfully said to Nodoka
with a big smile. Then
preceded to gave her a big hug with a friendly kiss
on the check. Being a
small girl she was, Lorena need to drag her down a
little to do it. "I'm
going to be Ranma's fiancee" she said giddily, "then
he won't have to be
lonely any more." she let out he a little frown when
she said that. "Can I go
and be with Ranma now? Daddy said I had to what till
you said it was alright
to be with him," she asked Nodoka with a pleading
look in her eyes.
Nodoka was a little lost with this alien girl. She
behave more like a child
than a girl of 16. She hoped their was not anything
wrong with the girl. She
had a innocent aura about her drawn Nodoka into it.
'At least her father know
proper behavior,' when Noha prompted Lorena into
making a respectful bow to
her. 'I wish I could have a daughter like her.'
Nodoka thought to herself,
totally charmed by the girl's innocent and carefree
nature.
Genma seeing that Nodoka was being taking by Lorena's
charmed was getting
angry. All his hard work at trying to have a easy
life living off of that
ungrateful son and it was getting ruined by this
alien girl. Noha had already
did the unthinkable when Genma shaded on New Avatron.
He had told Genma that
if he was going to stay any longer he should go out
and get a real job.
"Ranma this is all you fault. You are such a
ungrateful worthless son and if
you have married a Tendo, we would not be having this
problem now. Oh why did
you have to be so dishonorable and go against your
father by getting yourself
bonded to the alien girl." Genma let out. He knew
thing were going to get
ugly when Noha started to tell his tale, he did not
want to be around then he
said all the thing Genma had done.
The shout "Bonded!?" and a small "Oh My" can be heard
from the house when
they heard Genma's claim.
"Whaaaaaa! My son-in-law is bonded to a alien girl."
Soun cried out letting
loess the water works from his crying. "Whaaaa! The
dojo's ruin now that the
family will never be joined."
"You will marry a Tendo, boy. Your honor demand it."
yelled out Soun angrily,
scolding himself for letting that little fact out.
This however switch the
room's attention to him.
"You two time perverted freak, you went and got
married behind my back?"
Akane added angrily as her battle aura flared to
life. "Why do people think I
am willing to marry such a dishonorable two timing
perverted freak like you
is beyond me. I don't want anything to do with a
freak like you."
"Behave yourself we have guests, We don't need such
child like behavior right
now." Said Nodoka. Upset at the outburst of the so
call adults in the room.
"It's all the pervert's fault if he was not such an
insensitive jerk we
wouldn't be having this problem." yelled Akane doing
what she does best.
Blaming Ranma even if there was evident saying that
it is not his fault. "If
he was not unfaithful to me and gotten himself boned
to that alien slut. I
wound not be having this trouble now." she snapped
back in her defense.
Lorena frighted at Akane outburst ran behind her
father letting out the word
"Kagone" as she hid behind him.
"What did you call me you hussies?!" Akane yelled at
the girl advancing
towards her. 'I am going to teach this girl just what
a real Martial artist
can do. I'll show this alien Hussies just what I'm
made of,' she thought to
herself. 'They don't know how to fight. They're just
pretending to know the
Art so they can scare us into doing what they want.'
Missing the fact that
Noha was moving in a way that displayed he was a
experienced Warrior.
"Enough Akane, they are guest right now and I
wouldn't want to have any
inappropriate behavior from you," said Nodoka no
longer trusting Akane to
behave yourself. "She's not a martial artist, Akane,
attacking her would go
against the code and a breach of honor." Informed
Nodoka Seeing that Noha
was getting ready to defend his daughter if Akane
attacked her. With Genma's
reaction toward them, Nodoka feared that the young
Tendo girl might not
survive Noha's wrath if she tried to harm Lorena.
"Akane you stand right here a
nd no further out
bursts
from you, I had enough
of your tantrums lately." Nodoka told her. "And
Lorena, my child why don't
you go over and be with Ranma for a while," Nodoka
told Lorena. She watched
Lorena give her a big smile and start to walk toward
Ranma. 'At least with
Ranma across the room it will separate her from
Akane, her anger is getting
us into too much trouble to be trusted around such a
innocent child.' Nodoka
thought to herself. Though what Akane did next got
her angrier in more ways
then the ones she did earlier.
Akane seeing in her mind that this alien hussy was
going over to her Ranma
made her furious. Ranma belonged to her and she
defintely was not going to
let this alien girl have him. "Who gave you
permission to go over to that
pervert you alien hussies?" Disregarding that Ranma's
mother just told the
girl to do just that. "Ranma belongs to me, and I can
do whatever I like to
the pervert, he deserves it for being unfaithful to
me with you, you slut!"
shouted Akane as she went and grabbed Lorena's hair
and quickly warped it
around her fist. Then she gave the hair a hard pull
and raised her fist to
teach this girl her place. She expected the girl to
cry out and as she pulled
her near to give a better chance at pounding the
girl. But the scream of pain
the girl let out was not what she was expecting.
Next thing she knew Akane's arm was hit hard.
Knocking Lorena's hair from her
hand. "You cheater," Akane let out have she brought
her fist down on the
girl. Missing the fact the someone else had just hit
her.
Noha seeing the attack on his daughter went into
motion showing a speed
similar to what Ranma could achieve. He hit Akane's
arm hard to have her let
go of Lorena's hair, snd then gave the enraged Akane
a right cross when he
saw her bring her fist on his daughter causing
Akane's head to be violently
snapped backward.
"You Alien freak, you dare lay your hands on me I
will kill you," Akane said
in a rage summoning her mallet and swinging it at
him. Then she felt Noha hit
her with a open palm strike that felt like a freight
train had it hit her.
She even felt some of her ribs crack because of the
force of the hit. Akane
was sent flying across the room hitting the wall with
such a force the wall
cracked where she hit it.
Everyone watched as Akane slid down the wall onto the
floor out cold. No one
would have believed someone would actually hit Akane
in front of Ranma, since
Ranma tended to always defend Akane even when she got
herself in trouble.
What they didn't know was that currently Ranma was
being assaulted with the
sense of pain and fright that was coming from Lorena.
Ranma hesitated a
seconded when they hit him. But by the time he
decided to stop Akane from
attacking, Noha had already made his move. Ranma was
a forgiving person in
nature but a huge disgrace to the code of a martial
artist was something he
would not tolerate from anyone, especially Akane.
Nabiki was very angry after witnessing what Noha did
to her sister. But kept
her scowl when she realize that Akane just pretty
much stained the Tendo name
and performed a act that could ruin the family's Dojo
honor. She felt
helpless right now and hated it. She know that right
now she could not do
anything and just hope her father did not do anything
to made matter worse.
"You dare to attack my daughter in my house?!" yelled
out Soun in anger. He
got ready to attack the man that just manhandled his
youngest daughter. She
might have attacked a none combatant but Akane was
his baby girl, besides the
Girl was a gaijin and an alien, she was not even
human. Soun tried to
convince himself but really did not believe it. He
know deep in his heart
that Akane just disgraced herself and the dojo. He
just did not wanted to
accept that fact. So he just hope by scaring Noha
off. The problem would just
disappear and thing could go back to the way they
were.
Then Soun did his demon Head technique at Noha,
hoping to scare the man off.
It had to work, as it even sacred Happousai. It
should work quit well against
this alien man. "You will apologize for attacking my
daughter and drop you
claim for you disrespect to this dojo!" Yelled Soun
convinced the attack
would work on him. How Noha reacted almost made Soun
wet his pants.
When Soun did his Demon head attack against Noha, he
pulled out a gun and was
currently pointing it at Soun's head. "I thought you
people were civilize and
were supposed to be a honorable people but I see that
I have been misinform.
Your daughter, without any provocation attacked my
daughter, violation of
your own code," Noha stated to Soun.
"Waaaa! He's going to shoot me and my baby girl is
dead on the floor." Soun
cried out then did what he and Genma always did when
something scared them.
He got on the floor and groveled for Noha's
forgivnesss for Akane's
dishonorable behavior.
"Akane's alright father, she's just unconscious right
now." Informed Kasumi
to her over emotional father, "Although I think she's
going to be a little
sore for a while when she wakes up. Oh My! Why is
their blood on her hand?"
"Look at her hair! It's bleeding," Nabiki cried out
looking at Lorena. Indeed
her hair was bleeding, and a bruise was forming on
her hair where Akane had a
grip on it. She was cling to Ranma and had a look of
fright on her face. With
Ranma looked and seemly ready to attack anyone how
might try anything with
her.
Kasumi with a concerned look at the young alien girl,
indeed her hair was
bleeding. "Oh My, why would Akane do that? It's not
proper to hurt a guest."
She said out loud. Picking up the first a first Aid
kit and when to Lorena
and began treating the girl's injuries. Thinking it
was a bit strange that
hair could bleed, she found the hair thicker than
normal human hair and it
was also warm to the touch. Also she noted that she
seemed to have something
on her back just beneath the back of her dress. And 2
slits also ran down the
back of the dress as well. Putting a finger in the
slit in the dress revealed
the feel of soft feathers to Kasumi, 'Oh MY, she has
wings.' She thought to
herself knowing that it would not be wise to say that
out loud right now.
Looking at the girl's father she also spotted the
slits on his shirt as well.
Nodoka was angry, this Barbarian brought a weapon
into the house. Noting that
Soun had stopped his Demon head technique and
apologized for Akane's
behavior. Noha then put the gun away.
"Why did you bring such a dishonorable weapon in this
house?" Nodoka ask him.
"It not polite to bring in a weapon into some else
home without permission,"
she also stated. Which cause Noha to give her a sight
puzzled look to her.
Also quickly looking at the sword at on her back
"I think I was quite justified in my diction in bring
this side arm with me
with the unjustified attack on my daughter." he said
to Nodoka. "Also this is
a device is called a Sting - Stun gun. It does not
have the capacity to kill,
unlike the sword on your back.
Nodoka was taken by Noha reply. She fidgeted with her
sword for a second
before realizing the Noha was right. She had really
lost face to this man by
her own actions. She just said something to him that
she herself was doing.
This was not going well at all. Though Noha and his
daughter should only have
basic understanding of Japanese Customs. They were
doing a better job at
following them most other gaijin she met. Noha was
clearly following them
better than they were. The constant excitement of the
Tendo home has seem to
have made the family forget proper behavior in the
house. Having a bad
feeling about what's going to happen, she tried to
find a way for both
families to save face and set things back to the way
they were before the two
arrived. Then their dreams of joining the 2 families
can come true and her
son could continue to be manly.
"I think there is a way we can solve this problem in
a more civilized manner.
A duel between you..." began Nodoka but was intruded
before she could
finished
"Are you challenging me to a duel Mrs Saotome?" Noha
asked. "Well, if you
insist I think a warrior's duel would between us
could be carried out in this
Dojo." Noha said to her. "But I don't really need to
since legally I have all
the information I need to prove that your clan is not
honorably following the
contact between us." Noha informed Nodoka.
Everyone was shock at this. Genma was really sweating
bullets now, him
constantly telling Ranma that a Saotome must by their
Honor accept all duels
or be disgraced was coming back to haunt him. The
timely intrusion had made
it almost impossible for Nodoka to switch the duel to
Ranma without losing
face. Noha could and probably would claim that Nodoka
was not following her
own stated could of honor. Then Nodoka would have to
escape the duel to save
face. And Genma knew that she was technically stating
she was a member of the
Saotome school by wearing the family Honor blade
right now.
Nodoka was a little angry but most shocked at Noha
maneuvering of the
situation. Clearly this man was a fast thinker. And
recognized as Genma had,
that Noha just skillfully moved into a trap. If she
tried to switch the duel
to Ranma she could be seen as violating the Saotome's
family honor by trying
to avoid a duel as she was stating that she is the
one carrying the family's
ancestral blade.
Without thinking, she quickly resorted to the line
she used with all other
claims. "The Tendo-Saotome arrangement is the first
and only true claim. All
other arrangements made by my unfortunate husband who
lack of judgment are
not valid." She quickly said. Using the same
reasoning she used with the
other claims. If she said they were not valid, it
would make them that way.
Nabiki after hearing this slapped her hand on here
head. Nodoka had just
state that the Saotome family is in valuation of the
contract. Things could
not get any worst.
"Well then, I just have to find Ranma unmanly for
having to marry a girl
that's not even a human," She said while thinking
that with this promise Noha
would back down. Nodoka noted that he seem to like
Ranma as well, just didn't
show it as open as his daughter. Soulmates or not she
wouldn't let her
bloodline to be tainted by the girl.
"And what do you mean by this, Mrs Saotome?." Noha
asked her, wondering just
what was going on. He did not like what he was
seeing. Ever since the short
visit of the young Ranma to his home so many years
ago, he had came to like
Ranma. Now all he is witnessing only strengthens his
resolute to have the
young man to be remove from all of this and brought
into a family where him
can be himself. Noha didn't like the way he had to do
it. It felt like he was
behaving in the same way he saw these people
behaving. Using Ranma for their
own ends. However he had no other way to give Ranma a
chance live his own
life.
"My husband and Ranma signed a contact that he would
raise Ranma to be a man
among men. And if he has to marry your daughter I
will consider him unmanly.
Ranma has to be manly and marry a Tendo and his
current fiancee Akane Tendo
clearly understand honor better then your daughter
does. I state my Honor on
it." She said not really thinking what she was doing.
Just trying to find a
way out of this mess in a way she did not have to
lose any face. Nodoka was
using the last thing she could think of to prevent
what she consider a
undesirable outcome.
"May I see this contract," Noha ask her. Wondering
how this could be true.
"I have it right here." Said Nodoka taking out the
contract and handing it to
Noha.
After quickly reading the document. Noha face darken.
"This is not a legally
binding contract. There's no Ranma's signature on
this saying that he
agrees." He claimed.
"Ranma did sign it along with my Husband. I am a
witness to the fact". Nodoka
replied. But already knowing that Noha was right
since she recently brought
the document to a lawyer who told her the same thing.
And also the contact
had no legal witness to it. Nodoka being the
beneficiary to the contact could
not really claim to be a witness. Something she did
realize that Noha would
most likely know too. "Genma was reasonable for
making sure Ranma was raised
with the knowledge of the contract." she added.
"And did he?" asked Noha already guessing the answer.
"He did negated that duty but still Ranma is Honor
bound to it." Nodoka this
trying to win a losing battle.
"Well then I challenge you to a duel of honor over
the validity of this
contract. It is my right since it's being use over my
claim which I have
honorable maintained." Noha stated to her.
"No. I will not allow it!" Genma yelled out.
"Quiet Genma, I know what I am doing," Said Nodoka.
Thinking she did have
something in her favor.
"I accept your challenge, but on one condition. It
will be fought with a
civilized weapon, a sword." Nodoka stated. Nodoka
only the most basic
knowledge of the sword incase she had to fulfill the
contract. She knew that
she wouldn't have a chance against someone who has
knowledge of using a sword
but no way this alien would know of a sword. How
could some alien who relies
on technology know of such a true weapon like a
sword? 'Only a true person of
honor would use such a weapon.' she thought to
herself.
"But you don't understand dear, he is consider a
"blade master" by the elves
on his world." Genma let out fearful for Nodoka's
life. "He is also a master
one of their most deadly techniques. Against you he
would have a easy
victory." Genma informed her.
Everyone was shocked at this. They all knew that when
it came to the art
Genma knows what he was taking about. The way he had
said it made them
believe that what he said is true. Also if Noha was
as good as Genma had
said. This would be a fight that Nodoka had no hope
of winning. Elves by
legend were supposed to have had a knowledge of the
sword that surpass even
the greatest of Samurai.
"What's that cheating alien freak doing? He is trying
to be a perverted freak
just like Ranma." Akane yelled out. She had just
regaining conscious in time
to hear the challenge.
"Akane go to your room now." Soun said with a force
he seldom used. With
Nodoka betting her honor that Akane could behave
honorable in this situation.
Thing could get ugly really fast if his daughter lost
her temper. It had
gotten worse lately and she did just stain the family
name with her attack on
the girl. With the way she was acting now, she could
further ruin both
families' honor.
"But it's all the pervert's fault. They would never
come here if he was not
unfaithful to me. Also that dishonorable cheater
should not be here. There's
no way he could have hit me without cheating." She
yelled out in anger.
Forgetting the fact she was attacking Lorena.
"And get way from the freak, you bitch!" She yelled
at Lorena. "He belongs to
me. But I fail to see why I have to marry the
pervert." she continued. The
pain in her head was much worse now. She could only
think that by attacking
Ranma and the girl this would make the pain go away.
"And if I ever see you again I will kill you. And
Ranma too if I even catch
him looking at you," Akane said in her anger. Failing
to realize she not only
stained the Tendo's honor for a second time that day.
She also stained
Nodoka's as well from her previous statement she made
before Akane regained
conscious.
"Akane to your room. Now!" Nodoka told Akane angrily.
She was angry that
Akane had stained her honor further and also dare to
state that Ranma
belonged to her. They had barely got into the dojo
before Akane's latest out
burst. "We will discuss your dishonorable behavior
once this is over."
"But aunty is that per..." Akane tried to say in her
defense but was cut off
by Nodoka before she could finish.
"No buts Akane, your room now." said Nodoka
forcefully. Wishing that for once
Akane could just stay away. She watched as Akane left
the room clearly in a
anger state mumbling something. Then she turned to
Ranma. Lorena was still
clinging to Ranma. And was visibly shacking in terror
from the display the
Akane made. The girl was clearly frighten because of
Akane. Her heart went
out to the girl. Nodoka thought that such a sweet
innocent child really
should not be exposed to what was happening but with
all that was going on
was forcing her to witness such things.
Nodoka along with Nabiki did catch a short exchange
between father and
daughter in a language they did not recognize. After
the exchange Lorena
touch something beneath her dress and for a brief
second a faint light
shimmer surrounded her. "A shield of some sort?"
Nodoka thought to herself.
If it was, she felt more comfortable the girl did
have some protection just
in case something else happened.
"Shall we continue?" Said Noha getting ready for the
duel. Wanting to get
this over as quickly as possible. After picking one
of the practice blades
the Tendos had he begin to test it. Nodoka and he
rest of the family become
very nervous at the way he was handing the blade. He
clearly showed that he
know how to use it.
Ranma felt trapped with all that was going on.
Watching his mother get
involved in a duel she clearly couldn't win, didn't
sit well with him. He
would rather fight the duel himself but Ranma knew
that Honor demanded him to
not interfere.
Lorena sensing Ranma uneasiness asked her father not
to hurt Nodoka. "She's
just confused and scared," she informed her father.
"I will try not to, dear. It would be a shame to harm
such a lovely lady as
her." Noha said with a warm smile, which caused a
small blush to come over
Nodoka.
'He is manly.' Nodoka thought to herself. Wishing
that Genma were still manly
like the time she caught him peeping on her all those
years ago. "Yes we
should continue with this." Accepting in the fact she
was going to lose. This
way at least she could save face.
"No I forbid it. If they're going to be a duel and
someone will die from it,
it should be Ranma that is killed, that what the boy
is for." Genma let out
afraid for his wife. The truth is he was more afraid
that his long laid plan
for a comfortable life was going to be ruined. "If
Ranma doesn't fight this
duel he will be tossed out of the clan." Genma then
stated. If he was going
to lose his life of luxery he wanted the blame to
fall on Ranma. He failed to
realize that he just lost his honor by breaking the
rule he selfishly
enforced on Ranma too many times. A Saotome must
accept all challenges made
to them or lost all honor.
Genma cowered by the rage on Nodoka's face, quickly
figuring out his mistake
but then went on the only course of action he could
think of in saving his
own skin. "Ranma for failing to be honorable in the
face of a threat to you
mother. You are hereby no longer a Saotome, I have no
son, and Nodoka if you
show any farther disrespect to me you will be tossed
out as well. I am the
Head of the clans and you must do what I say without
question," Genma added,
thinking it would be enough to save his own skin.
Nodoka was reliving her worst nightmare all over
again. Her own family was
all but tossed her out upon learning of her marriage
to Genma. They had tried
to inform her that if it came to greed or honor.
Genma would choose greed.
Something she denied saying that Genma was a very
honorable man. And in the
end went against her own family in marrying Genma. It
was the main reason she
was so hard on Ranma about being honorable. However,
Genma just prove that
her family was right all along and honor was nothing
but a word to her
husband.
"Husband, you dishonorable piece of trash. My family
was right all along, you
nothing but a dishonorable coward. I demand you
fulfill the seppuku contract
to me right now." Nodoka said in a rage she never
knew before. Rasing her
sword in ready to behead Genma.
Genma caught in fear was only saved by Akane choosing
that moment to infixed
her own brand of justice to Ranma and Lorena for what
happened to her
earlier. Throwing a bucket of water on both of them
causing Ranma to change
to his curse form. Lorena to let out a cry of shock
and surprise causing all
eyes in the room to look at them.
"Look at the perverted freak you've been engage to,
you slut!" she screamed
at Lorena. "See the freak as he really is."
Lorena and Noha was shocked at the change Ranma
underwent. "A changeling?"
Noha asked, "Now this is interesting," he added.
While Lorena was just saying
how complete the change was, by doing to Ranma what
so many others had done
before. Testing to see if Ranma's female form breast
were real. She was
actually gently touch them in a way that cause a
blush and a slight moan from
Ranma. Then to the shock of the Tendo's and Saotome
they saw her put her hand
down Ranma's pants in a way that cause a bigger blush
and a lower moan to
come from Ranma. For a moment they actually saw
Ranma's eye crossed.
"Its just Ranma, I don't mind that he's a girl right
now." Lorena said after
satisfying herself just how complete the change was
and went back to coddling
up to Ranma resting her head on Ranma ample bosom.
"You Perverts!" Akane let out angrily as she began to
advance on the two, but
was stopped by Nodoka's stern look.
And only Nabiki notice Noha get ready to do something
if Akane attacked
Lorena again.
"It's not really her fault, daddy. She's got
something bad in her mind that's
making her do this." Lorena said trying to tell her
father something.
"You pervert!" Akane yelled at the girl. Thinking she
was referring to some
of the dream she had she always dreamt herself. In
which she or Ranma where
touched in a way Lorena just touched Ranma. "I am
going to kill you for
thinking me as a pervert," Akane let out. Attacking
the Girl with full intent
on killing her. Using a speed that caught everyone
off guard. She slammed the
mallet at Lorena's head hitting a barrier with a loud
crack. Her seconded
blow hit Ranma in the arm as he tried to use is own
body to shield Lorena for
Akane's onslaught.
"You dare to try and interfere, you perverted
freak?!" Yelled Akane in a
blind rage. "I will kill you too for interfering." As
she raised her mallet
to kill both of them.
Before anyone could do, a low noise was heard as if
something was going off.
A flash of light was seen and Akane fell lifelessly
to the floor.
"Oh My! He Shot Akane" Kasumi let out not believing
what she was seeing.
"You bastard!" Nabiki said in anger. Upset that Noha
had just killed her
youngest sister right in front of her. She did not
care that Noha was full
justified in his actions. No one should dare try to
harm her family in front
of her. And Nabiki was already starting a plan for
revenge on him for killing
Akane.
"You killed my baby girl!" Soun yelled out watching
his youngest daughter
lying on the floor not moving. He thought about
attacking Noha for killing
her but figured Noha would just shoot him as well.
Noha, to Soun was just as
scary as the master was and the only thing he could
think of doing now was
crying.
"Whaaaaa! My baby girl is dead! whhaaaaaaa!" He cried
out in a shower of
tears.
Nodoka, remembering what Noha had said earlier
quickly check Akane and found
her still breathing. The girl was just unconscious
just like Noha stated the
gun he used would only do the worst to Akane. "She
still alive just
unconscious. Remember what he told use about his
gun." Said Nodoka, but
thought that Akane was going to wish that Noha had
killed her when she knew
what was most likely in store for her.
Noha was holding some sort of device over Akane's
head. And Soun was afraid
what Noha would try to do to her. Although Akane just
had totally shamed the
Tendo name. She was still was his baby Girl.
"What are you doing to my daughter." Soun asked Noha,
he held the device over
Akane's head.
"I am checking out why Lorena said about a bad
thoughts in her head. I think
she sensed something," Noha Informed Soun. After a
few seconds he turned to
the eldest Tendo with a concerned look.
"When was the last time your daughter have a medical
checkup?" Noha ask him.
"She was at Dr. tofu a few days ago, he the local
chiropractor. He takes care
of our medical needs." Soun said, worried at what
Noha what leading to. "Is
there something wrong with Akane," Soun asked getting
more nervous.
"She has a tumor in her brain which is in the
advanced stage of development.
As far as I can tell, it is in the area of the brain
the controls reasoning
and emotions." Noha explained. This earned a gasp
from all the people in the
room. "There also seems to be something aggravating
it. But I can't tell with
this for certain." Noha continued.
"Why is that? Is something wrong with that device?"
Nabiki asked. Wondering
why he could not tell them more.
"This is a tactical scanning device, not a medical
one. Although I can tell
some things with it, one that been configured for
magical purposes would
clearly be better for this." Noha said. Something was
telling him that it's
not just the tumor that was causing Akane's behavior.
However, he needed a
true medical scanner to tell just what it was.
"Is their anything you can do for my daughter?" Soun
asked Noha hoping that
maybe he know of something that could help Akane. He
worst fears were coming
true, as his late wife died from the very same thing
as Akane now had. He was
told by the doctor after his wife death to have all
his children have a exam
yearly for it since it was hereditary. However, his
first visit there just
reminded him on how his wife died. After that, he
never bring his daughter
there again, thinking that if he just ignored the
problem it would just go
away. "Can you also check my two other daughters
please, I want to make sure
they're still alright and there's nothing wrong with
them"
"I'll see what I can do but I can't promise
anything," He told Soun. First he
when to Nabiki and began scan her. All the time
Nabiki had a nerves look to
her when he just said hmmmm.
"Let me guess, a junk food eater are you?" Noha ask
her with a shy smile.
"How did you find out about that?" Nabiki was a
little taken by Noha knowing
one of her favorite foods.
"This the amount of preservation and other chemicals
in your system,
especially the ones most commonly found in junk
food." Noha informed Nabiki.
"Other than that you in good health." He then told
her, petted her on the
head fondly. "Nothing you need to worry about, but it
still a good idea to
get checked up by a specialist."
Noha then went to Kasumi, giving the same treatment
to her. The usual "Oh My"
what heard a few time as he move the device in his
hand over her.
After Noha finished, he looked at Kasumi with a
questionable look. "Oh MY
what? You keep saying that, I was just wondering what
you where referring
to?" Noha ask her.
"Oh My, well it's just....Oh My, no one ever ask that
before, aahh well, it's
like..... I don't know." Kasumi finally let out,
looking a little sheepish.
With a soft chuckle from the room.
"You have a slight tumor in a different location, it
is just in the early
stages." He informed them.
"Whaaaa! Two of my girls are going to die. Waaa!"
Soun cried out. Letting
out another shower of tears.
"Is there anything you can do?" Nabiki asked, hoping
maybe Noha's people know
of something that could do to cure her sisters.
"Well the tumor can be remove easily, but I think I
am not permitted to share
that information with your medical community." Noha
told them. He reminded
them that he was not going to let a lot of his
technology from his home world
become common knowledge here.
"Is there anything you can do?" Nodoka asked. She had
grown fond of the Tendo
sisters and also hope that something could be done to
help them out.
"I will remove the Tendo claim and will support
Lorena's and Ranma's
reunion," Soun claimed, hoping that would make Noha
more likely to help
Kasumi and Akane.
"But what about the promise to unite the schools,
Soun?" Genma asked seeing
his dreams floating further away. Also forgetting
that by disowning Ranma, he
had just destroyed his dream as well.
"But Akane's the only one how practice the Tendo
Marital Arts any more." Soun
informed. "besides Akane's and Kasumi's life is at
stake and he might be able
to save them." Soun further explained to Genma.
"But you still have one daughter left, that's fine.
She can marry Ranma. All
is not lost if your other daughters die. Nabiki is
healthy so there's still
one daughter left to uphold the promise." Genma
explain, showing what he was
really thinking.
"Genma, that so rude of you, how could you say such
thing!" Nodoka holding
onto her katana, showing him how angry she was. That
cause Genma to back
against the wall visibly sweating.
"I will see if my sister can come over to help. If it
done discreetly I think
it can be done." Noha said. 'In truth he was willing
to help because to him
it was the right thing to do. The thought using it to
his advantage would be
violating his own belief but maybe this way some good
could come from it.'
Noha thought to himself.
"How can you sister help Kasumi and Akane?" Nodoka
asked. Wondering how this
man's sister could help. 'Maybe she a Doctor.' she
thought to herself.
"My sister is a doctor and works in the best hospital
where I am from. I am
sure she will be able to help them." Noha said
confirming what Nodoka was
thinking.
"Then it decided, Ranma and Lorena shall be engaged
to marry. And Noha with
the help of his dister will provide help for both the
Tendo and Saotome
families supporting the claim." Nodoka stated with a
quick look at Soun how
noted his agreement at what she just said.
Nodoka was grateful that the duel was off. She knew
now she would lose badly
if it was still on. This way she could get out of it
will still save face.
Both family had been shamed and thoroughly dishonored
themselves to the
Starliners earlier. By honor, Noha could demand a lot
more. Things like
taking both families' honor blades.
Genma was watching what just happened in horror. All
this hard work was being
lost. 'I deserve to live off the boy for all I did
for him, And this is what
that disgrace does to me?' quickly thinking he came
up with a plan. It was
risky but it just might work. And Genma already
decided what he would do if
this last attempt failed.
"Nodoka I will not tolerate this disrespect to me
from you and Ranma. If you
and Ranma don't swear that you'll obey me right now
and have Ranma marry a
Tendo. Both of you will be tossed out. I will no
longer tolerate the
dishonorable disrespect to me. I am the head of the
clan and you must obey me
without question!" Genma yelled at his wife trying to
show firmness will he
was actually very afraid of what would happen next.
"Dishonorable panda, you just showed that you're
totally without honor and
you dare claim I am without it? Fine, if you want it
that way, I'm going to
file for divorse you dishonorable piece of trash. At
least I am not some
wanted criminal. Like you are." Nodoka said in a
rage. She wanted to take
care of the evil in her family but it was not the
time to do so.
Turning to Noha she apologized for the most recent
display from her soon to
be ex-husband. Unfortunately, that was what Genma had
being waiting for.
Knowing this would be the only time to do it, Genma
charged at Nodoka and
grabbed at her Kimono, ripping it open to get at the
envelope containing the
fund Noha had sent her. Before Nodoka could react he
threw her at Noha who
quickly caught her just like Genma had plan. He also
grab Nodoka's sword and
then slashed it at one person he knew everyone would
help out first so it
will give him times to escape.
Kasumi let out a cry of pain as the sword hit her in
the arm, cutting deep
into it. It was then that Genma made his escape.
Using one of the sealed
technique the Umisen-ken to disappear from view. He
did know that Noha could
still sense his present, 'Damn him and his people
ability to sense motion.'
He thought to himself. He knew that he could Defeat
Noha in a all out fight.
But he was more afraid of his friends, Tanis and
Nime. And Genma was
absolutely terrified of Tanis. If something happened
to Noha, Genma had a
good idea that Tanis would be one of the first to
come to see what happened
to him. Genma would rather be sealed in a cave with
Happy and Cologne for a
decade rather then meet that beast again. And he
totally believed that Nime
would carry out her threat of using him as a
scratching post. If she learned
of the Neko-ken. All it takes is for his weak willed
son to look at her for
Nime to realize something was wrong. This was all the
boy's fault for being
so weak during the training in developing the fear of
cats of his.
Genma knew he had to get out of Tokyo as soon as he
could. He needed to get
this check cash and leave Japan as soon as possible.
At least with the check
he could still mange to retire to an easy life even
when he know it will have
to be in a different Country.
Genma then continued to the nearest branch of the
bank he knew Nodoka kept
her accounts, although he did stop at a pawnshop
along the way after stealing
Nodoka's blade.
Back at the Tendo home, Kasumi holding onto her
bleeding arm with tears in
her eyes. She was wondering why Genma attacked her
with a sword. Nabiki
quickly went to the phone and called doctor Tofu.
Soun tried to stop the bleeding. He looked at Ranma
wondering why he didn't
do anything to stop Genma. He saw that Lorena had a
death grip on Ranma. From
the color the poor boy was turning into she must be
strong. The last time
Ranma looked like that was when Ryoga was giving him
a bear hug in their last
duel. If the girl's was anywhere near as strong as
Ryoga, he doubted that
Ranma could away from the girl even if he wanted to.
Nodoka was trying to cover herself with her now
ruined kimono. She was
thankful that Noha caught her before she was injured,
but her attention was
currently on Kasumi who was injured. The next time
she meet Genma, she will
kill him, a thought that almost everyone in the room
shared.
Afer Noha put Nodoka down, he moved to Kasumi getting
something out from
under his vest and began to work on Kasumi's arm.
"What are you using on her?" he Soun asked.
"It a Combat Med Kit, I got into the habit of
carrying one on me at all
times," Noha said using a spray on Kasumi arm. The
bleeding stop almost
immediately after the spray. Then he used a strange
device on Kasumi's arm.
"It just a mild sedative, It will help the pain."
Explain Noha.
By the time he was done, Tofu had arrived. Fighting
off the silliness that
tended to come over him in the present of Kasumi, he
starts to examine her.
However he seemed to be failing as his glasses
started to fog up.
Noha seeing Tofu's reaction to a second to figure out
what was happening to
him. He then took off his watch and handed it to
Tofu. "Here wear this, It
will help your concentration." he told Tofu.
Tofu put on the watch, then almost tore it off. It
was giving off something
that was quite uncomfortable, almost painful.
Wondering why this man was
wearing such a device he quickly looked at the man's
aura. He was a little
shock at what he found. 'This man's a alien.'
Although the man had an aura of
a warrior in him, he also had a dormant one as well.
It's like there's two
different instinct about him. One of them, the
dormant one had an innocents
feel to it which are similar to Kasumi's, Also seem
to have a scent of
sensuality to it. But it was clear to him that the
Warrior like Aura was
dominant in the man.
Then Tofu looked at the girl that was with Ranma. He
was not surprise to see
that the girl's aura was of the same the man.
However, her aura seem to be
the opposite of the man's. She had an aura of
innocent to her that almost
rivaled Kasumi's. The sensuality scents seem to be a
lot stronger in her too.
'The girl also have a strong warrior scent but she
would need a lot of
training to let that side of her out.' He thought to
himself.
He then realize that they did have 2 sets of
instinct, with one dominate most
of the time. 'Guess only one could be in control at a
time'. The sensuality
of the girl made him think of an angelic Nymph. It
almost turned him into a
fit of silliness if the watch didn't send a pulse of
pain through is rest.
Preventing him from losing control.
After finishing looking at Kasumi's arm, Tofu turned
to Nodoka. "Who treated
the arm. It is a very good work. There's no bleeding
now and the injury is
beginning to heal already. Normally a cut this deep
would require stitches
but I think all that needs to be done now is to place
a brace on the arm to
immobilize it. Also, she would need to take it easy
and have a rest for a few
days to allow it to heal."
The whole family was grateful for the news. Nodoka
still kept her ripped
Kimono closed as she moved over to them. "Mr
Starliner treated Kasumi with a
medical kit of his." she informed Tofu. "I can spend
some time here to allow
Kasumi's arm to heal, as for the chores around the
house I'll cover it until
she gets better."
"Also, Ranma should stay over at Starliner house."
Nodoka said thinking it
would be best for Ranma to get out of the house
before Akane woke up. "Ranma,
why don't you go and get your things ready? It's only
proper you stay with
your fiancee," she told her son.
"I already have his backpack right here Aunty. I got
it when I went through
Genma's things trying to find out where he might have
gone," Nabiki said. She
was going to make Genma pay for what he just did to
her sister. She had guess
that Ranma would be leaving with the Starliners so
she took Ranma's
belongings as well.
"That is very thoughtful of you Nabiki," Nodoka said
to her, then walked up
to Noha. "Please take care of my son and make sure he
keeps up his training."
When she was near Noha she ended up accidentally
tripping herself. Noha
caught her and helped he up. However, one of his
hands accidentally glomped
onto one of her breasts. Her first reaction was
slapping him, a stray thought
on how her action would seem similar to how Akane
would react when helped
stopped her. Another reason is because the gentle
squish and soft caress his
hand were sending shiver down her spine. 'Genma
touches was never this
pleasurable.' With a blush on a face and a stifled
moan, she look at Noha.
It took a second for Noha to realize just where his
hand was before he
removed them and quickly apologize to her. Nodoka was
taken that Noha
actually was unaware of just what his hand wore
doing. 'He is so manly,' she
thought thinking that if this is what the touch was
like when he did it by
accident, then how would it feel if he touch her like
a man who touches a
real women. Nodoka felt very warm all of a sudden
with the thought of getting
to know Noha better in a more personal way. She found
herself not minding to
become a mistress to such a manly man if he turned
out to still be married.
After gathering all his belongings Ranma and the
Starliner's left Tendo home.
Ranma walked along with them in a solemn mood. His
life was again decided for
him without his approval. It was so unfair. Today he
lost a fiancee and at
the same time, gained another one. The way Lorena was
holding his hand was
new to Ranma as well. Lorena in a way was his first
fiancee but so far she
haven't demand anything other than saying hi. She
also seem contented just
staying with him. The only thing that made Ranma a
little uneasy was she was
also the first girl he seem to had a desire for. Its
nothing like the boys in
school seemed to have but it was still sexual by
nature. Ranma didn't know
that it was Lorena's Avatron gift tend to have a aura
of sexuality around
them. Being nearly as innocent like Kasumi, Ranma was
a little confused as to
why he would have such feeling.
"Is there anything wrong Ranma? You seem to lost
yourself in thought." Noha
ask Ranma.
"It's nothing, I'm just thinking." Ranma said, trying
to avoid the subject.
"You can speak frankly Ranma, actually I would prefer
that you were honest."
Noha informed him.
"It's just that I never ask for any of this. I never
chose to have any
fiancee right now." Ranma told Noha wondering if he
would ever have a life of
his own.
"I make a deal with you then. When you finish school
and college, making sure
you try your best effort in your studies. I will
leave the choice if you want
Lorena marrying you. All I want to ask is that you
try and make your
relationship work out." Noha said to him.
"But I am a martial artist why do I need to go to
college for? It not like I
am going to need it." Ranma said, not liking the
idea.
"To put it simply, I want you to be the best you can
be Ranma. A good
education will help you to be just that." Noha said,
"You're not afraid that
you'll not do well in school are you?" he ask him
smirking all the while.
"I am not afraid of anything and I will meet your
challenge." Ranma said, a
little angry that someone would dare to call him a
coward. "What I want to
know is, what will I get out of this once I meet you
challenge?" Ranma then
asked Noha.
"That is all part of the challenge Ranma," Noha told
him. "What you can get
out of it can only be found by yourself." He then
said with a smile.
After that, they continued down the street in
silence. Ranma then thought
that his new life will going to be very different
from what he was use to.
Guess it's going to be a very interesting time for
them. He just wonder what
the future had in store for them especially after his
other so-called
fiancees found out about Lorena. He hoped that they
would be able to come out
alive. Things are defiantly going to change with Noha
and Lorena where