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Ranma's Journey Chapter 1: Revelations

Ranma was losing. He refused to admit it to even himself, after all, Ranma Saotome never loses, right? But with Saffron throwing fireball after fireball at an already exhausted Ranma, he began to realize that even his vast energy reserves wouldn't be enough to escape from this battle alive.

In a last ditch effort, he gathers as much ki to himself as he can, fuelled by his unwavering confidence he releases his largest moko takabisha to date. Ranma smiled, that was the last of his ki, if that didn't stop Saffron he didn't know what would. His grin quickly turned to shock as an enormous ball of crimson flames hurled towards him through the haze. With no time to dodge he braced himself for the incoming attack, but without his ki to bolster his strength, and suffering from exhaustion, Ranma knew he wasn't surviving this battle.

As the energy slammed into him, for the first time Ranma gave into despair, his confidence failing as the last of his ki disappeared. 'this is it' he thought 'I'm going to die.'

With that thought running through his head, Ranma prepared himself for the end, when suddenly, at the edge of his failing conscience a malevolent energy swept through his body. Like an enormous heartbeat, Ranma began to pulse, his body glowing with a red aura. With each pulse, his nails changed to claws, his incisors slowly lengthened into fangs, and his muscle mass increased. With a final pulse, Ranma's hair turned silver, and his eyes glowed blood read.

He grinned farrelly at the look of shock and fear worn by Saffron. "Why so surprised Saffron?" he said, his voice a deep guttural growl, "I already told you, Ranma Saotome never loses." With that he releases an ice tornado that combines with Saffrons own fiery aura, ripping him to pieces.

Exhausted, Ranma collapses on the ground and changes back to normal. He'd won, he didn't know how, but he'd won.

It's been one month, one measly little month, and already they've forgotten what I did. Either that or they just don't care.' thought Ranma with a small amount of bitterness. Allowed he states, "I killed a god! do they really think they're going to beat me! It's nothing but the same old thing every day, I never have a good challenge anymore, even Ryoga's no match for me, and I don't even need to use the new energy source I discovered. Whatever happened when I fought Saffron caused my ki to increase at least tenfold. But I'm so tired, even with all this energy my patience with Nerima is wearing thin."

Ranma leapt off the roof he was on to talk with Kasumi, the only person who seemed to listen to and understand him. "I'm just so tired of it all" sighed an exasperated Ranma as he helped Kasumi with dinner. He had just finished explaining how mousse and Kuno had teamed up and attacked him together. "It's taking all of my self control not to go all out and accidentally really hurt one of them."

Kasumi gave him a sad smile and grabbed his hand. He flinched from the contact but Kasumi's grip tightened. "Oh my!" she exclaimed, putting a hand on his forehead, " You're burning up, What's wrong?" "That'd be Akane's cooking this morning, I think she put some Nightshade and Hemlock in there." Ranma said, holding his stomach from the memory.

"Hmm, I think you should go to bed and get some rest" said Kasumi. "Not before dinner, I'm hungry!" Ranma pleaded.

Dinner was served early that night thanks to Ranma helping in the kitchen. He ate quickly, like always, and left to get some much needed rest. H said goodnight to Kasumi in the kitchen, but she stopped him before he could go, insisting he use her bed to rest instead of that 'uncomfortable mat' he always sleeps on. Too tired to argue, Ranma stumbles up the stairs and into Kasumi's room.

It's only seconds before he's out. Normally nothing short of a nuclear bomb in the face will wake Ranma up, but a rise in his fever caused him to wake up only a couple hours after going to bed. Looking over he's surprised to see Kasumi sitting on the bedside stroking his hair. "Oh my! I'm sorry Ranma, I didn't mean to wake you." Kasumi exclaimed standing up to go. " 's ok, s'nice dn't stop" mumbled Ranma still half out of it from having just woken up. With a serene smile Kasumi continues to stroke his hair until she pulls herself into bed next to Ranma and falls asleep, an arm across his shoulder.

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The next morning Akane, wanting to spar with Ranma got up early to try and convince him to fight her for real. She was surprised to find he wasn't in his futon and proceeded to look all over the house for him. About to give up on her search, she decides to check with Kasumi to see if She knew where he was.

Walking quietly into Kasumi's room she's filled with righteous female fury upon seeing Ranma in bed with Kasumi! That pervert! He'd pay!

"Ranma you pervert!" screamed Akane, launching himself at the offending pigtailed boy with her trusty pervert bashing mallet.

Ranma immediately leaps into action having been shocked into action from a peaceful sleep by Akane's battle cry. His body is enveloped in a bright blue aura as his arm shot out, crushing the mallet head in its grip.

Kasumi, woke up and tried to placate Akane but Akane was seeing red and attacking anything that moved, with a new mallet, her next swing comes crashing towards Kasumi. Growling Ranma moves into the mallets path and wrenches it from Akane's hands.

With a couple quick pressure points he quickly immobilizes Akane. Staring at her with a frown he says "I don't care if you attack me, but I won't have you hitting Kasumi, you could have killed with that stupid mallet of yours! I know how much you want me to fight you for real, so I challenge you Akane. Meet me in the open lot in one week. I'll fight you for real.

Walking out the door he turns to Kasumi, "She'll be frozen like that for a few minutes, you might want to explain this whole situation. I've got some things to take care of so I'll be gone for a couple of hours."

After Akane calms down, Ranma comes back with several sheets of paper. Handing one to Akane he says, "There, now it's official." "What is?" she asks "The challenge!" Ranma yells as he races off, roof hopping somewhere else.

He makes his way to the cat cafe and hands both Cologne and Shampoo a challenge. Looking at them, Cologne, confused asks, "you do realize the challenge date and time is the same for both Shampoo and I Son-in-law?" "Of course ya old ghoul" Ranma replies with a grin as he races off once again.

'What are you up to Son-in-law?' thought Cologne. Suddenly Ranma races back int the cafe, grabs a pot of hot water from the stove and tossess it at a certian blind duck boy. "I almost forgot about ya. Here ya go." said Ranma while pulling a piece of paper from his stack. "This one's for you Mousse." "What is it?" asked Mousse with a frown. "A challenge letter." "Ranma!" Mousse yells "How dare you try and take my Shampoo away from me!" Ranma sighs and shakes his head, "Mousse, put your glasses on and read the terms of the fight, I'm not Challenging you for Shampoo." With that last remark, Ranma dashes from the cat cafe leaving three slightly confused Amazons behind.

Later that day Ranma relaxed on the Tendo roof. 'Finally' he thought 'I'll settle my problems with Nerima for good!' He had just finished delivering challenge letters to every major martial artist in Nerima, his fiances, Ryoga, Kuno, Happosai, even Soun and Genma received a letter. And all of them had the challenge date at the same time and place.

A week passed, Ranma stood alone in an empty lot. Expanding his senses he felt several auras approaching. 'Here they come' he thought, 'this'll be interesting.'

"Boy! what is the meaning of this?" yelled Genma. "yes, Shampoo no understand, Airen challenge too, too many people." Said a confused looking Shampoo. "Ranma! you would challenge me for the title of Grand Master! You're 200 years too early to defeat me! yelled Happosai. "Vile sorcerer! I will defeat thee!", "Ranma! because of you I've seen hell!", "Shampoo! I love you!" THWACK "Put your glasses on boy!", "huh? Oh, sorry Cologne,"

As the Martial artists of Nerima all arrived at the lot, Ranma waited patiently for them to stop there in fighting. Finally settled down, Ranma says "So you all know why you're here, I've decided to settle all my scores with Nerima once and for all. I'll be fighting all of you at once. If I win, All Engagements are off, and I gain the title of Grand Master of Anything goes, If I lose, I'll meet the terms of whoever landed the finishing blow. This is to be the match to end all others, So I expect you to go all out. I know I will"

Genma scoffed, "you really think you can take all of us at once? I know you're strong, but this is definitely pushing it." The others nodded in agreement. Ranma looked at them with that infuriating smirk of his. "Oh, I think I'm more than strong enough to handle all of you."

With that, for the first time since Saffron, Ranma let out his full aura, The fiery blue batlle aura rose well over a hundred feet into the air, expanding outward, it pushed everyone there completely of the vacant lot. "Are you guys ready?" he smirked

"Ranma! you've been holding back on us!" yells an angry Ryoga. "Well duh, I didn't want to kill you guys on accident." Ranma replies with a role of his eyes, still maintaining the enormous battle aura. "And now you want to kill us?" asks Ryoga. "No but I do want to intimidate you," said a grinning Ranma as he brought in and condensed his aura like a shimmering blue armor around his body.

By unspoken consent, everyone there charged at Ranma, attacking him with everything they had. Ranma was speed incarnate, weaving in and out of punches and kicks, throughout the entire fight he was nothing but a red and black blur. For the first five minutes of the fight, Ranma never let anyone touch him at all. He suddenly reaches out and grabs a punch thrown by Ryoga, casually tossing him into the oncoming ranged attack from Cologne. She frowned as her attack missed its intended target, nailing Ryoga, who collapsed of the ground out of the fight.

The fight continued until all that were left was the old ghoul and Happosai. They both flaired their battle auras which together was actually larger than Ranma's. "I knew you were holding back on me." Ranma said with a smile, "Would you like to know a secret?" he asked "...So was I." Ranma once again again released his full battle aura. His smile turns farel as his aura became red, his teeth became fangs, and his hair lengthened and turned silver. Energy exploded from him as he flexed his clawed hands. "Ready?" Ranma asks. Cologne and Happosai stare in shock as Ranma seems to disappear, appearing almost instantly with a fist imbedded in both elders.

Later that evening Ranma was eating dinner with the Tendo's as usual. "Congratulations on your defeat of the master boy." said Genma "What happened to you out there Ranma?" asked Akane. "Huh?" said Ranma in all his intelligence. "You turned all red and silver and looked, well... evil" Akane clarified with a slight shiver.

"I believe I know the answer to that." Everyone turned toward Nodoka as she fingered her family katana, fidgeting with it nervously. "I know the answer, but I don't think you'll like it." she said. " Don't leave it there! Tell us what you know!" exclaimed a very concerned Genma, he didn't know why, but he was getting a very bad feeling about this.

"The seal I had placed on Ranma is failing, soon it will be completely gone, and his true nature will be revealed." Nodoka whispered wide eyed. "Whoa mom! slow down and start from the beginning. What's going on?" asks Ranma. "I'd like to know that myself Nodoka" says Genma.

"Alright" sighed Nodoka, "I guess you would have found out eventually anyway, besides you deserve to know." "Know what?" said Ranma. With a deep breath Nodoka said, "Ranma, when I was younger, My father pressured me into a relationship with Genma. At the time I wanted nothing to do with him, that changed of course, but back then I wanted nothing more than to escape from the whole ordeal. Happosai was with Genma at the time, and I stumbled across the Nanban mirror. After learning of its unique properties, I thought It would be the perfect way to escape from everything that was going on. With just a tear, I was transported 600 years into the past to feudal Japan. There I met and fell in love with a young half demon named Inuyasha. He was so manly! So arrogant and proud. His father was the demon lord of Western Japan you know. And Ranma, you...you are his son. The last words coming out at barely a whisper.

"What! so Genma's", "Not your father" Nodoka finished. And I'm some sort of quarter demon?" Ranma practically yelled. "Half demon, you're a half demon " said Nodoka, "At certain times half demons change into either full humans or full demons, apparently intercourse is one of those full demon times. So you're a half demon

End of first chapter. More will be coming soon but in the meantime please R+R seeing as I'm brand new to this.

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