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Blessings in disguise Ch 46

"Talking"

Shouting

'Thinking'

*Sound Affects*

{Written Words}

' Memory '

(Chinese)

"I said I was sorry. But how can you say it's my fault it's your uncles." Akane yelled as he dodged ki blasts from his unwilling mate.

"Of course I can. It is your children I'm carrying!" Herb yelled as she threw a few more blasts for good measure the last one winged Akane allowing Herb to bean him on the head with a fairly heavy vase. This not surprisingly knocked him out.

In a huff Herb left their room which was theirs courtesy of her father Spice whom more or less forced it on her "Seeing as you're mated now you can't stay in your old room. As you are my heir you and your mate can have a few of the king's rooms on the condition that you two sleep in the same room, and try to get along." This played through her mind as she stalked from the room heading for the audience chamber.

"That's what he said. He can be so infuriating." Herb growled out when a thought struck her. 'He never acted like this while I was a boy. I see seeing as I'm permanently a girl he making up for lost time by getting to know his daughter.' Herb thought with a laugh.

"Who is that?" An unfamiliar voice said from the chamber.

"Just my daughter passing by nothing to worry about." Herb heard Spice say. "Do carry on."

"Yes carrying on. We in Shanghai have determined that your people has become a liability." The ambassador stated.

"Explain something to me. How are we a liability?" Spice asked while Herb listened from the door.

"Due to your cease fire agreement with the Amazons your two civilizations are not keeping your numbers at a manageable level." The ambassador said as Spice raised an eyebrow in surprise. "As such I have been given the authority to offer a choice. First is for you and your ilk to leave this country without any resistance."

"And should we choose to resist?" Spice asked.

"You will face annihilation." The ambassador answered. Herb stiffened hearing this.

"Get out." Spice said in a quiet yet deadly tone.

"Pardon?" The ambassador asked.

"Leave if you wish to live!" Spice yelled lacing his voice with ki blasting the doors open with the force of his voice sending the ambassador flying against the wall across the hall.

"You will pay for this. Mark my words Spice you will pay dearly for this transgression." The ambassador said in disdain and not a little fear as he limped away.

Spice stood in the door glaring after him till he hobbled around a corner and kept his imposing bearing up for a minute more for good measure. Relaxing he turned to the door on the left closing it. "You know Herb you're lucky that alcove was there. Otherwise that door would have crushed you." He commented looking at the still startled girl.

Said startled girl fell into her fathers waiting arms. "What are you planning father?" Herb asked weakly.

"We are fleeing the country taking only the essentials." Spice began. "We are strong but the more modern chinese army is more powerful and better resources we be fighting a losing battle."

"How did you know what I was going to ask?" Herb asked looking up.

"I was young once too." Spice answered smiling.

"Ok that's enough of that." Herb stated as she pushed Spice away.

Spice quirked an eyebrow at her change in mood. "And what brought this on? Have you resigned yourself to being female?"

"More or less. It struck me as weird that you where acting differently toward me than I remembered. So I thought I might try giving into how this body wishes to act. But I've held onto my male identity for so long it's going to take awhile fully reconcile that part of myself."

"Is that why your mate is unconscious at the moment?"

"How'd you know?" Herb asked surprised.

"You just told me." Spice replied smiling. "Just remember he was born a female so he is in the same boat as you."

"Ok I'll try." Herb answered with a look of disdain.

"Now don't be that way." Spice said after catching her look. "In all honesty I really did want a daughter over a son."

Herb's eyebrows shot up in surprise at this revelation. "I always thought men wished for a son to carry on their line?"

"But I'm not most men now am I?" Spice asked before continuing. "Enough of that we need to gather our people and the Amazons and leave China by the safest route possible."

OOooOO

Lime and Mint were sitting in on the Amazon meeting with the Chinese ambassador sent to them as they and Ukyo had taken up residence in the Amazon village. Their send off while no less forcefull was a little more subtle.

The Amazon council was in agreement with Spice's proposal and joined with the musk as they fled china by way of Mongolia up through to Siberia where they found passage on a few different ships to Japan. Once there after much discussion with Cologne it was decided that they would open a chain of Neko hatin restaurants throughout Japan. Among other things a good number of the amazon warriors married musk warriors as they determined the amazon males weren't worth the trouble.

OOooOO

A year and a half passed in a rather boring fashion for Ranma as there really was nothing to do being in suspended animation as she was. The same couldn't be said for the rest of her family as six more hakai attacked each more powerful than the last. A little bit more of japan was destroyed each time but fortunately nobody was killed permanently. Yuki died once from extreme ki exhaustion. Yoiko died twice once from impalement and another time from blood loss. Daisuke, and Hiroshi both were dismembered a time or two but the mermaid flesh they had eaten allowed their limbs to be reattached along with reviving them. Shiori was banned from fighting due to her being pregnant.

The scientists on the dieing planet had made advances on their purgers by studying Ranma's physiology. Ranma thanks to the help of Sakura and her brother was able to hide the truly telling parts that would have spelled earths doom. It was a long slow process but Ranma and her two children where able to accomplish what they set out to do.

"Do you think it's because of her pregnancy?" One of the scientists on duty asked.

"What?" His partner asked in return.

"Is her pregnancy the reason why it's taking less sedative to keep her under?" The turtle like scientist asked.

"I see what you're saying. It's possible because the other girl is taking steadily more." The pointy eared scientist answered.

Unbeknown to their captors Ranma was faking being under at this time though it had been increasingly difficult for her to remain in her meditative state though she knew she couldn't break out to soon and thus get recaptured. 'Ok Kiddos now I need your help. We're busting out of here.' Ranma thought as she left her mindscape. Though she didn't receive a spoken reply she knew they had started because her body became encased in crystal so she opened her eyes for the first time in more than a year.

"What is this?" One of the scientists asked in fear as all of the monitoring equipment suddenly went haywire. They watched in fear as the entirety of the holding tank suddenly crystallized and Ranma opened her eyes releasing a massive wave of ki shattering the crystal that now encased her.

Feeling just slightly groggy Ranma paralyzed the two by using a ki claw cutting their nerves not enough to kill them just that they couldn't use their arms or legs. "You won't die but there are fates worse than death. This is one of them." Ranma said with a straight face. "Now for your other prisoner." Ranma said as she smashed the glass causing a viscous fluid to flow out of the broken tank. After removing the breathing apparatus from the girls face Ranma picked her and made her get away as fast as she could. Seeing as you could definitely tell she was pregnant while still moving quickly it was slow compared to her usual pace.

Because no one had ever escaped before security was lax. That is to say it was nonexistent. Ranma was able to leave the building she was in as well as the city into the surrounding countryside which appeared to be failing farmland just up a ridge from this Ranma found a cave with a small stream. Now that she wasn't running she was able to actually learn about her unconscious companion seeing as her ki sight was inhibited by being held unconscious for eighteen months. "Wait a minute this ki is familiar." Ranma said aloud as she started to physically examine the girl. Physically she was a slight girl smaller even than Ranma herself. Though reading her ki she felt to be about the same age as Ranma if not slightly older. Ranma left for a short time to collect food the activity left her feeling exhausted because she hadn't moved in over a year on top of her time being near.

The other girl didn't awaken for three more days. When she awoke you could hear her stomach complaining from a mile away. "Hey your awake. Nice to have someone else like me to talk to for awhile." Ranma said smiling.

"Thanks for getting me out of there." The girl replied.

"Not a problem. Though I'm going to need your help to gather food because as you can see I'm pregnant so I'll be more or less useless shortly." Ranma stated.

"I see. So how far along are you?" The girl asked.

"Um I'm thinking almost twenty two months." Ranma answered.

"Huh? I thought gestation was nine months?" The girl queried in surprise.

"Uh no hanyo have a gestation of almost 2 years." Ranma answered slowly. "Something tells me you've been around nothing but humans."

"You could say that." The girl said eating slowly. "You know considering what went into this stew it's not half bad."

"I've had lots of practice. As well as making my own dishes." Ranma answered shrugging. Nodding the other girl stood shakely. "Been awhile hasn't it?"

"Yeah it has." The other girl answered as she went to wash. She returned shortly her hair dripping. "Could I feel?" The girl asked reverently after sitting for awhile.

"I don't see why not." Ranma answered from where she was leaning against the cave wall watching the fire and her companion.. The girl tentatively layed her hand on Ranma's swollen belly. After about a minute she felt two simultaneous kicks bringing a grunt of pain from Ranma. "Ok I really felt that one. But it almost seems like they're greeting you." Ranma said looking at her. "Just who are you?"

"I'm nobody of consequence." The girl said as she seemed to recede into herself.

Ranma spent the next two months doing what she could which due to her condition was much less than she would have liked. Her mysterious friend spent much of that time away from their hideout coming back every two or three days with supplies and clothes for Ranma whom as her time got closer found it increasingly difficult to move around as her two kits continued to grow which this close to the end they grew more quickly. "Where do you keep going?" Ranma asked in frustration one day as her companion being gone meant that the only one she had to talk to was Sakura.

"Just around." The girl answered uneasily.

"Sakura thinks you are someone I know. So who are you?" Ranma asked.

"Who's Sakura?" The girl asked stumped.

"She's my daughter." Ranma answered laying a hand on her belly. Then looking up with a steely look in her eyes "Now tell me. Who are you?"

"My daughter." The other girl said quietly as she leaned against the wall Ranma just picking it up.

"Wait. Are you Ryoga perchance?" Ranma asked looking surprised wincing slightly as a sudden pain hit her in the gut like it had for the last few days.

"Yeah that's me eternal lost boy and former magical pig." The girl now revealed to be Ryoga answered as she laughed dryly. "At least I used to be a boy."

"It's great that I found my mate and all but. I need a little help here!" Ranma screamed as another more intense wave of pain hit her along with the fact her water broke.

"What do I do? What do I do?" Ryoga yelled as she ran around in a panic.

"Calm down you need to take a deep breath and relax. Panicking gets you nowhere." Ranma said before screaming in pain as another contraction hit.

"Ok I'm calm." Ryoga said as she took a few deep breaths then Ranma screamed in pain again. "I can't be calm at a time like this!" She yelled on the verge of hyperventilating.

"Calm down collect some water and heat it. And take whatever extra cloth we have and put it in the water." Ranma commanded as she gasped for air before another contraction hit. Four grueling hours later and much panic on Ryoga's part found a tired Ranma nursing a hungry Sakura and their son who as the pair decided to call him Rikuo. Rikuo had chocolate brown hair with green highlights his ears matching this theme.

"Amazing that we created these two lives." Ryoga said in amazement.

"I wouldn't go around saying that while looking like a girl." Ranma said laughing.

"Hey I can't help it. I can't change back. Something about that herb that made you pregnant changed me into a girl and locked me."

"Technically you got me pregnant." Ranma replied.

"Fine but it was to save you from dying." Ryoga said indignantly.

"Because of consuming the mermaid flesh it wouldn't have killed me but a few times. That is till the toxicity is diluted to a non-lethal amount"

"Be that way. It saved you from a painful death." Ryoga answered in huff.

"Who said I was complaining it's not like we were going to be aging anyways."

"Weren't you just complaining about it a minute ago?" Ryoga asked now confused.

"What gave you that idea?" Ranma asked smiling. "We can continue this later I'm tired." Ranma added before falling asleep cradeling Sakura and Rikuo in her arms.

"Ok now that the three of you are safe I will finish my self imposed mission." Ryoga said as she left the cave.

During the prior four months Ryoga had been training to get herself used to her female body as that strangeness had caused her to be captured in the first place. She had also learned that she was the reason that this civilization had decided to attack earth as their new target. So to redeem herself she made the decision to stop or at least slow them down. First she got them clothes as she didn't like the idea of the two of them running around in nothing but underwear. Ryoga didn't want to reveal who she was to Ranma as yet so she spent as much time as she could away from her mate. The first thing she did was destroy the machine that created the portals to earth. 'Better to be stuck here than to continue to allow my home to be destroyed.' Was her thinking to justify her actions.

Due to this their former captors sent creatures to kill them so that they could resume their work. Ryoga made sure that they couldn't harm Ranma as well as hindering their production. Now that she knew time was running out and she was confident in her control over her body she went to destroy the central computer system for the planet.

OOooOO

It had been four days since the twins were born and Ranma felt reasonably rested so she decided to reestablish contact with home.

OOooOO

Yuki was happy. Happy that she could spend time with her boyfriend. Happy that their had been no attacks for the last few months. Above all she was happy that her parents still excepted her for who she was after dieing and coming back to life to finding her mother sitting at her bedside in tears. She remembered it vividly as her mother had been holding her as if she was going to disappear. She was unable to dwell on it though as she suddenly got a headache causing her to fall over.

"Yuki are you ok?" Daisuke asked worried

"I'm fine its just that someone is finally calling home." Yuki answered smiling then grimacing as another wave of pain hit. "Just take me the command center Ranma is making a long distance call." Yuki yelled as her it felt like her head now had a vice squeezing it causing her to almost blackout.

Nodding Daisuke transformed into his dragon form and letting her get on his back before taking off heading for the Neko hatin as they were currently on the other side of Tokyo. The occupants of the Neko hatin heard a sonic boom pass by then as they watched Daisuke landed kneeling in a crater of his making in his hanyo form catching a seemingly unconscious Yuki in his arms.

"What's wrong child?" Cologne asked worried as Daisuke raced by.

"Ranma's calling." He called over his shoulder causing just about everyone else to drop what they were doing and go into a mad scramble to follow. Arriving at his destination Daisuke set Yuki down at her customary seat as she slowly laid her hands on the table bringing ki into her hands.

"Hello is anybody there?" Ranma asked as the glass for her plate lit up for the first time in a year and a half. She was met with a wild cheering as everyone in the room cheered for the fact that Ranma was still alive. "Ok apparently some people are glad to hear that I'm still alive." Ranma said with a giggle. Yuki let out a sigh of relief as her headache was now gone.

"Ranma it's good to hear your voice again. Am I to assume this means that your children are born?" Cologne asked as she couldn't see anything but black as Ranma had her eyes closed.

"But of course and if everything goes like it feels then you won't have to worry about the hakai for much longer."

"What does that mean?" Nodoka asked unable to hold back any longer.

"Oh hey mom. It just that Ryoga is taking care of it seeing as I currently can't do much at the moment." Ranma answered.

"So you've found Ryoga." Cologne stated.

"Yep she's doing fine." Ranma replied.

"I see. Then Mousse wasn't an isolated incident." Cologne said nodding

"What happened to Mousse?" Ranma asked worried.

"He now turns into a black cat. It appears that for couples with jusenkyo curses the male half are changed to have the same curse should it be different." Cologne explained.

"That's not entirely true because Ryoga is currently locked as a girl." Ranma stated.

"I see. That is a problem that quite possibly is uniquely your own." Cologne said as the screen flickered.

"Well it feels that Yuki is almost out of ki. So I'm cutting the connection see you later." Ranma said as the glow faded from the plate of glass.

Yuki for her part was gasping for breath as if she had just run a marathon. "Ok I'm beat." Yuki said after catching her breath before falling asleep right then and there.

"At least Ranma is doing well." Genma said from where he stood against the wall.

"That is true and Yuki can take a break for a day or two she earned it." Cologne said as the crowd dispersed nodding in agreement.

OOooOO

"You idiot that was our best chance of getting back home!" Ranma yelled as he chased down his currently female mate.

"I'm sorry I thought you could communicate with them!" Ryoga yelled in apology as she ran for her life Rikuo and Sakura looking on with wide eyes.

"That machine was the only reason that I could because it pinpointed exactly where Earth was. Now I have to waste precious ki looking for it!" Ranma yelled in frustration finally grabbing Ryoga.

"Yes well look at it this way now you should be able to change your form at will." Ryoga said trying to diffuse the situation holding her hands up in defense as she landed on her back.

"Yes well there is that thank you." Ranma said calming as he crossed his arms whilst he sat straddling his much smaller mate.

"Mama seeing as you're Daddy now. And Papa is Mommy. Are you going to be doing this?" The year old Sakura asked making a pretty telling hand gesture that caused Rikuo to turn female as he/she began blushing.

"Huh?" The couple asked confused then realizing their position leapt apart realizing what it looked like.

"I say we call a truce till we cool down a little. Don't want to get carried away in front of them." Ryoga said her face red as a tomato at being caught her ears plastered flat against her head.

"It's a deal." Ranma said not much better though still male because after Ranma had stopped lactating she changed into a he with out the ability to change back though he wished to.

What started this had been Ryoga accidentally completely destroying the portal generator while trying to open a portal as they didn't trust the natives. And Ranma found that it was the only thing that kept her/his link to earth open. The side affect was that it changed Rikuo's transformation trigger from water to an act of will. Not sure about Ranma and Ryoga as they were still locked.

About Sakura and Rikuo. Due to them having immortal hanyo parents and being the results of a forced union due to a little known chinese herb concoction that would have killed a normal woman. They matured at an extremely accelerated rate where as they should have only been at the age of one in development they where almost five. Rikuo had the power over earth and plant life thus was able to boost the local agriculture by adapting the plants to the more arid environment because the planet had been too aged for how old it's star was that and he inherited Ranma's curse. Sakura had control over the minerals found in the soil specifically the ones that create gems and crystals among other things.

The native populace seemed to be less inclined to take over other worlds. At least the commoners were. The higher ups on the other hand were more inclined to try taking over other worlds. Ranma and Ryoga for the most part kept them in check. Those that weren't didn't seem to stay around for long through no effort on Ranma or Ryoga's part. Their peacefull existence trying to get back to earth was not going to be able to carry on though as the leaders that disappeared had been gathering supporters to do away with Ranma and Ryoga allowing them carry on with harvesting other planets of their natural resources.

They had almost succeeded in destroying Ranma and Ryoga but were kept from doing so at the last minute by Sakura and Rikuo who's elemental power had an interesting side effect when combined. Sakura's power over crystals and Rikuo's power over plant life allows them to seal alive whomever they chose into a block of crystal including themselves which is what they did. They sealed their parents and themselves into a block of crystal just as a barrage of ki blasts impacted where they and their at the moment dead parents were. The resulting blast sent the block into space where it began heading toward the systems sun. It's course however was changed before it was affected by the stars gravity.

OOooOO

"Father why are you going so far to keep these people alive?" A confused Beldandy asked the Almighty.

"Because my child in the future a greiving boy will make a wish that I personally have chosen to grant. These people are the instruments by which I will fulfill that wish." The Almighty answered the inquiry.

"Thank you for sharing a little of your bountiful wisdom and foresight." Beldandy stated bowing.

"You're welcome my daughter. Now if I'm not mistake I do believe your husband is in need of your company." The Almighty said a smile on his face.

"Thank you father." Beldandy said returning the smile as she faded from the heavenly plane returning to Earth.

THE END

Or is it?