-- Listar MIME Encryption -------------- -- Name : 3WAMST.txt -- Desc : 3WAMST.txt roiughbeargeu459yt957u4poh5y980425ig098whgo5b28045gb3quhpgf3qb08wg32q7fgwao gf98f987ahgwogfwagfb89rg3wqfgbwq984hfoiq32f083qwb098fhq3w098hfq3wif4g0qwhgf 4wqghfiqgw08gfbouiwqgecwq8fcgwoaifgo8uwagfwa >Battle: smegging old machines work dang it >3WAMST 2K >- >WWWA Mystery Science Theatre 2000 >- >BattleKrome: what does 3WA mean anyway? >Yuri: I don't know I just work there >Leona: You know what, who cares? >Battlekrome: good point >:CAST call:: >Battlekrome: myself who else would I be? an actual anime character? my ego might be big but it's not that big >Darth Maul: ....... >Battle: due to copyright considerations, Darth Maul is here as a non-speaking part, not that he said much in Episode 1 >Yuri: 3WA trouble shooter, half of the Lovely Angels >Leona Ozaki: Tank police. Have you guys seen Bonaparte yet?? >Battle: yes we have Leona you showed it to us at the start of the last 3WAMST >Aooga - Aooga - Aooga >FANFIC ALERT >10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0 Happy New Year! Old Soul 1/2 - a Ranma 1/2 and Slayers xover by Francis Bourque >Battle: oooh a xover Stardard disclaimers applied. It is mainly a Ranma 1/2 fanfic with nuances of Slayers. I don't own any of their characters or series. >Yuri: there are non standard ones?? >Battle: yeah those are the ones that are funny Begin: 18 august 1999 >Leona: Wonder if he meant begun? >Battle: He's French; that explains it Last Update: 25 august 1999 Version 1.0 revision 6 >Battle: I'd hate to see Version 1.0 revision 0 {} Notes from the author. Not many. >Leona: Notes from us. LOTS Old Soul 1/2 - chapter 1 Chapter 1: Magic, a curse and reincarnation! >Leona: doesn't Slayers have episode names like this?? >Battle: Yep [Jusenkyo] We see a boy and his father practicing martial arts over the pools of Jusenkyo. They jump from pole to pole in pursuit of each others in turn. The boy, whose name is Ranma, seems to have the advantage so far. >Yuri: Who else on earth would be as dumb as these two?? >Battle: Ryoga and Kuno?? The Jusenkyo guide is very distressed though. Another pair of customers were at risk to fall and get a curse. >Leona: one would think he'd of reached a state of apathy to people getting cursed >Battle: maybe he's new to the job?? Really tragic stories since the tourism's industry ignored completely the fact of the curses and preferred making money. After all, how many magical sites could they present if they were requested, except for Jusenkyo itself? Some, but certainely not that magical and permanent in multiples possible effects. >Leona: Jusenkyo, a tourist trap?? >Battle: gives whole new meaning to Rip-off "Don't fall in the pools, sir," said the guide without effect, either because they ignored him completely or didn't hear him. >Battle: usually the people who get cursed ignore him After a lucky kick to his father which dropped him in a pool, the guide announced "You fall in spring of drowned Panda. Very tragic story of Panda who drowned here two thousand years ago, now you take body of Panda." Ranma, after hearing that, was shocked and fell by himself in another spring. >Leona: um.. didn't in the canon Ranma gets knocked into Nyannichuan by Genma?? >Battle: it's called artistic license >Leona: that's quite a bending of it "Very sorry sir. You fall in spring of drowned girl. But it permanent since a Musk Dynasty's warrior accidentally drop an artifact they used to lock the curses form from that spring more then forty years ago. They didn't bother to retrieve it because they used that artifact only for this spring in the first place anyway. Now you were lock as a girl forever." recited the guide and though for himself "Very trafic stories, this particular curse, especialy when someone drop in it !" >Leona: trafic?? that spring must get pretty busy >Battle: Leona, it's a typo "What do you mean I'm locked as a girl?" Ranma looked down and saw for himself. He, now a she, went into shock. It's been a very stressful day so far since his or her father come to taked him. >Battle: good lord, typo alert During this time, the Panda pushed Ranma-chan into another pool. He hoped to unlock the curse somehow to return Ranma to a man. Otherwise they could be force to commit seppuku. >Yuri: It was the Panda in the valley with the pool! >Battle and Leona: -sweat-drop- "Very sorry sir, you dropped your son in the spring of >Battle: that wasn't dropped, he was pushed! >Yuri: that should be SHE >Battle: Well... drowned's spirit. It's to my regret to inform you that it is a fatal's pool." said the guide to the stupid Panda. {The guide think so anyway} >Leona: A fatal pool huh? >Battle: It can kill at twenty paces >Yuri: Really?? >Battle:-sweat-drop- "Eh? What's the big idea? I nearly drowned here, stupid!" said a very angry Ranma-chan. She didn't notice that she had lost most of her new curves and had become a little red-hair's girl of fourteen at most. Ranma-chan didn't check before being pushed in the last pool, so only her father and the guide remarked this. Suddenly, she started to glow dark red like fire and become quick alone all of a sudden. The other two were in shocked, but it wore off fast when comfronted to Ranma-chan's temper, or a sense of complete doom to be exact. >Battle: grammar... must turn off... >Yuri: I've seen worse >Battle: really? >Yuri: ...no "Euh? Where are they? Pop couldn't teleport last time I checked." thought a very calm Ranma-chan. She was not angry to begin with, just very confused. She didn't knew she was glowing or out of it for a minute at least. "Could this be a Saotome forbidden technique?" she mused about that and considered it to not be the case. He had tried to learned them, after founding one day, 2 years ago, a letter from his Mother about these forbiddens techniques. He tried anything he could come with. Without any luck throught. He'd knew only they were named 'Yamasen-Ken' and 'Umisen-Ken', not that much to learned them. If only he knew what they were. At least he learned that day that he has a Mother in Japan. He just didn't knew where yet. As a side benefite, he'd discovered that the mere mention of his Mom's name maked his father flinched at a minimum. "Most probably the Saotome secret technique, or whatever his father called it in his blinded panic, when he used it most of the times anyways." Ranma-chan finally thought to herself. "Oh well, who cares? I'll go visit Shampoo, she will be surprise to see me. Cologue-sensei too. I sure hope she has a way to uncurse me." she decided and proceeded to go to the Amazon's village. Battle: Must stop the typos.. Leona: If WE have to watch/read this YOU have to as well, Battle [Near Jusenkyo, same time] We see a boy. Not any boy. This particular boy was lost as was usuals for him. >Yuri: he's cute >Battle: are you always thinking about boys? >Yuri: no sometimes I think of hurting Kei His name: Ryoga Hibiki. His mission: Take his revenge on another boy, whose name was Ranma Saotomes. His means: Be as lost as Ranma. That should worked just fine. {Not too soon. Ryoga was there. Having him behind me, directing what he wanted that I writed about him, was unex'pected. But not to worried. He's lost again! ... I hoped!?!} >Battle: Ryoga is helping to write the fic?? >Leona: yeah notice how it gets better in parts. that's when he gets lost >Battle: Oh yeah "Where the hell I am now!" cried Ryoga to the sky. >Yuri: was that a question or a statement? >Leona : well, we are talking about a Hibiki >Battle: I think Ryoga uses this phase so often he has copyrighted it {Ah! I was right! He's lost again.} >Battle: the author takes this as a good thing? We taked a little time to examined him now he's where he should be: >Leona: Him being lost is what he's supposed to be doing? Ryoga gets lost without help and with it Cute's Fangs: Checked! >Yuri: told ya he's cute >Battle: are you going to say that about every male character? >Yuri: well.... not Kuno >Battle: -face-fault- Clothes worned out: Checked! Combat's Umbrella on a gigantic Backpack: Checked! Tiger's trip Bandanna: Checked! {Euh? Tiger's trip?!} >Leona: I wonder who's running around with the marker checking Ryoga's stuff? >Battle: maybe the master of Martial Arts Calligraphy? [Amazon's village, later] Ranma-chan was watching the match on the fighting log when Cologne approached her from behind. Just before she was able to surprised her, Ranma-chan spoke: "I had a small accident at Jusenkyo, can you help me?" she asked to a very shocked Cologne, event if she didn't show it. "Did I know you?" she finally asked, finding this girl familliar for some reason. "You could say that. It's me, Ranma." "You were more mature boy last time, weren't you?" she asked her, more to incited her to continu. "Stupid curses. I Picked it up at Jusenkyo. And the worse is that I mixed the drowned girl's pool and the spirit's pool in addition to a permanent curse." she concluded. "Do you know of a cure anyway?" Ranma-chan asked. "Sorry. Only rare individual were ever cured, and the same cure that worked for them, won't work for another in most cases." Cologne paused briefly before continuing. >Leona: So there is a cure but it won't work? >Battle: yep "Do you know what kind of effects thoses two pools can have?" asked Cologne thinking of the past cases and the discovery of their effects. They were all recorded in the amazon's archive. A good thing these cases had not always tragic's consequences, quite the contrary in most cases, but in one thousand year since the spirit's pool was created, the full effects retained many mystery for the elders. They didn't know either how a spirit could drowned. >Yuri: well, it could be a water spirit "Not really, apart from making me a girl." Ranma-chan replied. "It's pretty simple. These two pool when used in combination, can awaken a past live when you were female. Though you were lucky to fall in the drowned girl's pool first, because the spirit's pool is fatal in other case." stated Cologne. >Leona: falling in a spring is simple? >Battle: yeah, even an idiot can do it >Leona: does that include you? >Battle: shut up "Good to know. I already have a weird urge to do strange thing like black magic. I seemed also to have gained knowledges I didn't have before. That could explained the knowledges at least, even if it didn't seemed to make any senses." a worried Ranma-chan replied. >Battle: this author has a real problem with pluralizing >Yuri: that's ::counts:: three for three "I would not worry to much, your soul was primarily good." stated Cologne but was a little disturbed, black magic was not a thing to play around with, even when not using it with evil's intends. >Battle: Was?? it isn't anymore? >Yuri: well, Lina Inverse isn't exactly an angel "I was worried for a time here. Do you think I could learn normal magic?" asked a very hopeful Ranma-chan, always ready to learn something new, like the Chestnut Fist or the Breaking Point technique that she learned from Cologne in the last month. She now felt the ability to use magic, and so should learn how to do it. As long as it done correctly she should be fine. >Battle: for those who don't know translations those are the katchu tenshin amiguriken and baktsai-tensu >Yuri: if they're reading this fic wouldn't they know that? >Battle: D'oh That brought another thought "Hey! Why you didn't warn me about Jusenkyo anyway?" asked Ranma. "I didn't think you were stupid enough to get there in the first place." responded Cologne, to which Ranma cursed loudly: >Battle: see I told you; any idiot can get cursed >Leona: you're a slow learner, aren't you? >Battle: if you don't stop that, Leona, I might have to hurt something you hold dear >Leona: my mother? >Battle: No, Bonaparte, I could easily write in something in Dominion Crisis >Leona: Eep "It all my pop fault. Stupid Panda !" >Yuri: when did Genma change his name? >Battle: yeah, spring of drowned panda isn't permanent Cologue thinking to herself "Perhaps she can't marry my Shampoo now, but I can make her an Amazon if I adopt and train her in my magic. Nobody else in the tribe has enough magic potential among the younger generations, but Ranma seem to be showing immense amount of magical ability since her journey to Jusenkyo." >Battle: this guy got cursed less than a day ago, and all ready everyone thinks he's a girl >Yuri: yeah, he looked cute too >Battle: do you have to do that? >Yuri: do what? >Battle:-sweatdrop- Intending to know how much magical potential Ranma-chan now possesses, Cologne intoned a brief spell of detection to help in her evaluation. Ajusting her vision on her magical's sense, she was shocked to see that Ranma was literally surrounded by unfocuse magic. No wonder she was able to sense her potential. She prayed that nobody attack her before she could control herself. >Battle: this author really needs to get pre-readers >Yuri: he already does >Leona: then why haven't all these typo's been found? >Battle: Blind pre-readers?? "I'll have to warn the others Elders about this." she thought finally, she really didn't want a sorceress on the rampage and knowing Ranma, who attracted fights like flies to honey, she promise herself to train Ranma even if she didn't want to be trained. >Battle: I know Cologne is wise and sage but precognitive as well?? Not losing anymore time she finally replied to Ranma "Your training in magic begins tomorrow morning. It time to go to bed." and was gone before Ranma could even thought to refuse. >Yuri: ooh ooh a Shampooism! >Battle: a Shampooism? >Yuri: Yes, it when someone talk like Shampoo [Morning, a clearing away from the Village] "Ok Ranma, the first thing you need to do is read this book which explains the basics of magic. When you have finished, read it again at least four more times. It's very important to know the basics or else you can kill yourself or others accidentally." stated Cologne-sensei to a nearly asleep Ranma-chan. >Battle: headline 'woman kills others with fire spell' >Yuri: a fireball isn't that dangerous is it? >Battle and Leona: -sweat-drop- "Also if you can master all these spells, you could possibly transform back to male form for short period of time with the more advanced magic." added Cologne to Ranma, who was already reading through the book. >Leona: I didn't know Ranma could read Chinese >Battle: he can't She's very motivated all of a sudden, Cologne-sensei thought. Cologne chuckle for herself. Maybe it remain a possibility to marry her to Shampoo. That is, if he could transform himself back. She didn't have enough magical ability herself, but with all the magical's power Ranma lecked out, there was a very good chance. [Before night the same day, outside of Cologne's house] >Leona: Cologne has a house? looks more like a hut >Battle: Ranma has lived most of his life on the road, any building with more than one room is a house "Cologne, I already read the book ten time and didn't catch something in the spell-casting part. Why not just use words in mandarin or japanese for the spells, because the book say that the intend in the mind of the spell-caster have to be clear, and the words served just as focus." asked a very curious Ranma her sensei, who begin trying to explained why. >Battle: so in other words one needs a clear mind to cast spells? >Leona: you could do that easy, Battle >Battle: hey "You know Ranma that all the more advance spells require the correct wording to work," begin Cologne but was cut by Ranma, who then received a wrack on her head for it. >Battle: so does English "Hey that hurt. Stop that!" Ranma said will frictionning her head and continu as if nothing wrong "I don't know for these spells, but, why, for flying I needed a complexe wording if a 'FLY' command could do the same?" insist Ranma-chan. >Leona: is frictionning a word?? >Battle: is it a force? >Darth Maul: -grin- >Yuri: is it from the mind of a madman? >Battle: nope that's EVA "That won't work," but Cologne stop there. Ranma had justed jump and said 'FLY' and remain ten meter from the ground to her great displaisure because she didn't know how to handle that, and so remained freeze from shock. After all she'd had to learn all the spells and be able to recited them all by heart and consider Ranma's 'FLY' command to be cheating. It was really hard work to memorized all of them after all. >Battle: not only is tense, grammar and plural screwed with his spell checker doesn't work >Yuri: maybe he doesn't have one? >Battle: including the pre-readers as well? >Yuri: maybe they're unemployed pre-readers? After regaining her composure, Cologue decided to help and asked Ranma: "Can you move in concentrating on it?" "I could try it, I guess." confirmed Ranma. She begin to move slowly but increased her speed as she became more familiar with using her Will to fly all over the place. She attracted many villagers, who were surprise to say the least. After all, the Matriachs didn't show off like that very often, if not at all. >Leona: this is a village filled with marital artist who can do stuff that makes normal people stare and when someone starts flying they stare?? >Battle: what, no LEOMA? Even Mu Tzu? "Ranma!" asked Cologne loudly, after finally having all she can take from all that showing off. "Yes?" replied Ranma. To Cologne shock, Ranma was less then one meter from her. She begin seriously to hated being so shock all the time since Ranma arrival. She's really too wild, as part of her name implied. >Battle: technically it's his name >Yuri: well, technically he's a she >Battle: good point. Hrmm Cologne is getting shocked too much >Leona: yeah one would think after three hundred years she would have seen almost everything >Battle: including a sex changed martial artist turned sorceress? >Yuri: well.... it could happen After a moment, Cologne decided to guide Ranma out of the amazon's village. At a good distance from the village, Cologne decided to continu before when Ranma had decide to use a 'FLY' spell. "Ok. Firstly. Stopped to show off like that. Two. The wording off a spell was did like that for a very good reason. Imagined you summond a minor Demon or used their powers indirectly?! In that case if you say 'Demon's Summond', you can be sure that they will do minced meat out of you, if it even worked, just after it finished founding it very funny, if you were lucky." >Battle: minced is right. Do you know how hard it is to summon idiots? >Leona: hey >Darth Maul and Yuri: -ignite their lightsabers- >Battle: care to dance? >-sounds of hurting- >Battle:-battered, and charred - I'm sorry Taking her breathed back, Cologne-sensei continued: "So at least, don't ever forget that any spells who called on the power of others then yourself, which included all Elementals, Demons, Gods, if you can even summond them, or any others cosmic's being, needed the corrected wording else won't worked or back-fired on you. All spells that used your own energy, could be name whatever you wanted." Ranma digested these explanations and decided that it could do for now. >Battle: ::burp:: s'cuse me "One more thing. Don't ever summond a demon. They are easy to maked deals with, but will cost you your soul most of the time." Ranma gulped at that. He had read that part of the book, but didn't catch that particular penalty. >Battle: right that's it, 2 minutes for illiteracy [Some time later, after returning to Cologne's house] "Ranma, why didn't you talk to Shampoo about your curses?" asked Cologue. "I wanted to have my manhood back before that. I didn't want her to know about the curse if I had to remain like this forever." resplied a downcast Ranma-chan. "Oh, I see. You will have to tell her eventually, you know. And she was already very curious about you, and the fact you were being trained by me didn't help either. And also, from her point of view, Ranma has disapear." she comment. >Battle: if Cologne speaks this poorly, how bad will Shampoo be? [One week later, in Cologne's house, diner's table] >Battle: One week later, still here, still bored Cologne after adopting Ranma-chan with the consent of the others elders, was currently talking to her newly adopted 'daughter'. "... and you just blasted them with a fireball. It a little much you don't think?!" Cologne reprimanded Ranma-chan. "They insult my figure, I couldn't back down on an insults like these." an uneasy Ranma-chan tried to explain to Cologne, who didn't know what to do of that mess. And just after adopting her too. >Battle: and the infamous Inverse temper comes to bear >Yuri: what bear? She blasted em but good "It was you, who was saying the other day that you were happy for not having them in the way as you put it." said Cologne then added "Then now you were outrage by it?" she added more loudly. "They were really insulting you know. They didn't quite just after some insults. But when one of the boy glomped me to proved that nothing was there, I losted it. I'm very sorry, I should had better control then that." explained Ranma-chan. >Leona: a guy in an Amazon village glomping?? >Battle: well Mu Tzu had to practice somewhere "You will just have to do their works, will they recuperated for the next few days, as a punishment. It's the better I could do. Your status here is not very good yet. At least you didn't blast any female warrior while you were at it." said a more calm Cologne. A good way to prevent displeasures and was better then allienating anyone in the tribe. >Battle: from the wording it sounds like the guys were all artists "One other thing," added Cologne "I'd saw some importants changes in your temper and personality since Jusenkyo and I think I may had the answer to explain them, but I don't really know how to control them other then self-control." she stop to drink some water and continu "But the facts remain that a very powerful sorceress could be one of your previous incarnation and the change of temper could be attribute to it too." >Yuri: Ranma always did have a bad temper, he just usually didn't get angry often >Battle: yeah, that makes a lot of sense, Yuri "You mean that my present magical's ability could be from one of my previous life?" inquiries Ranma-chan, not sure what to believed. "And your temper too, don't forget." added Cologne. >Battle: you can't forget the temper "All that because I was pushed in the spirit's pool. Pop will pass a very bad couples of days when I catch him." and begin to imagine what she can do to him without killing him. She daydream that way for a while but something keep nagging at her about all these spirit's things and suddenly asked Cologne: >Battle: ooh, a Genma Bashing >Leona: and there was much rejoicing, >All: Yay "You don't think there could be any chance that she will take control, do you?" she asked very nervous and with good reasons. "I don't think so, except your temper could become a lot worse if you are not very careful about it." Cologne said and hoped that she was doing the right thing. After all, it has others effects a lot less dramatic, that could modified further her personality. But the others was having the option to change back and having a lot less change in their minds. >Battle: in other words, she starts acting like Lina? >Leona: yeah, but still she acts like Ranma? >Yuri: there's a difference? >Battle and Leona: YES! >Yuri: but they both had red hair >Battle and Leona: -sweat-drop- [A month later, outside in the village] Ranma was experimenting with lightning for the last two hours. We could heard her cried: "lightning Strike!" and see the lightning strike from the sky directly on a target she pointed at, as much with her hand then her mind. >Battle: WE?? >Leona: why would we watch Ranma shoot lightning? >Yuri: entertainment? She did this many more time for fun. Only problem, she suddenly was distracted by a knife who just fly near her and she losed the control of the mind on the lightning. >Leona: and it came out of her arse, blasting the English >Battle and Yuri: ..... She was immediately strike many time over by it. She unconsciously directed many lightning on Mu Tsu too for startling her. The last thing she saw before losing consciousness, was Mu Tsu down from literal shock. >Battle: a shocking experience, huh? >Yuri and Leona: ... ... [An hour later, amazon's village. After Ranma regained consciousness] A very much fried Ranma-chan come to Cologne-sensei for advices. "Cologne-sensei, could I talk to you a moment, please?" asked Ranma carefully, when she has seen Cologne talking with two others Elders. "An instant please, wait for me in my house." replied Cologne and proceded to finish her meeting. >Yuri: There is a point to this?? >Leona: yeah, it makes us talk more >Battle: excellent, all is going according to the scenario >Leona: what scenario? >Battle: never mind, wrong series [Ten minutes later, in Cologne's house] "What seemed to be the problem?" asked Cologne, eyeing a very fried Ranma-chan. A good indice of that was all the hairs on end, on all her visible body parts, maintained there by static alone. "I think that I found why my simplified method of spell-casting was not always a good thing," Ranma-chan paused an instant and resumed "it occured to me when I was trying a spell of lightning that I call 'Lightning Strike'. All was good for the first few times, except when I forgot to give a 'mental target', after being startled my Mu Tsu, and the lightning strike me instead." she paused again to give time to Cologne-sensei to assimilated that and resumed for the second time: "I come to think because of it, that if the caster for any reasons didn't have a clear intend in mind, that method will do exactly what they mean literaly, and it hurt, a lot. It strike me at least 3 times before I lost conciousness, a good thing to, else It'd kill me. I was in a sort of loop when I didn't have a clear target in mind." conclude finally Ranma-chan and after some time without reaction from Cologne, she decided to go clean herself, not happy at all to gave reasons to Cologne, even partially. >Yuri: wonder how i could get my hair to do that? >Battle: stick a wire in a electrical socket? >Yuri: yeah, that would work [Five minutes later] We see Cologne smirking to herself with what Ranma just said. She didn't need entertainment with Ranma around, that girl always find new way to do that instead. >-ZZZAP!- >Battle: Um.. Yuri why did you do that? >Yuri: -slightly scorched with hair on end- [Next week, observation's post way out of the amazon's village] Genma was observing his son, now 'daughter', since the last month. He was very affraid by that troll for one thing and what worried him the most, was that Ranma didn't change at all to male since Jusenkyo. But what stop him to retrieved his son, was the amazing display of power he has seen Ranma doing. So he waited and observed. "Time for food. where could I find some, where nobody already know me?" he asked to himself. >Yuri: Does Genma always think with his stomach?? >Battle: Most of the time >Yuri: what does he think about the rest of the time? >Battle: the yellow stripe down his back [Somewhere in the world] "If only I wasn't curse to be always so lost, I'd be able to found my love then!" a frustrated Ryoga cried. >Battle: oh no, its a Kunoesque moment! [Begin Flashback] Ryoga was observing 2 girls playing with big boulders for the last hour. One launched a boulder to the other by a funny set of roped and counter-mass. The others received it full forced on her. Ryoga was very puzzles by that. The girl didn't seem to mind the beating she was receiving for the last hour either. >Battle: Three guesses as to who these two girls are and your first two don't count What unnerved him thought, was that the girl that was beaten repeatedly, didn't induce a nose-bleed like all girls tended to do to him. He then recalled his father saying, long ago, that if he ever feeled differently about one girl then all others girls, that meaned that he was in loved. >Leona: Ah, the facts of Life, the birds and the bees all in 5 seconds After that revelation, he was so elate by it that he said: "I promised my love to return to you. As soon as I had take my revenge on Ranma!" he cried to the henven, but not loud enough for the girls below to hear him through the sounds of their training. >Battle: henven?? wtf >Yuri: Well, Ryoga isn't Christian [End Flashback] "Ranma Saotome! It all your fault!" cried Ryoga, after recalling how he losted his only love on this world because of him. [Two weeks later, in a clearing where Ranma experimented with magic] She was praticing a spell to try to trigger a Jusenkyo curse, but didn't have a subjet to test it on. All the potential subjets keeped away from her, as much for their how health then in fear of a permanent curse. Suddenly Mu Tsu, who she had see many time annoying Shampoo, drop out of the forest >Yuri: can't this author see the forest for the trees? >Battle and Leona: -sweat-drop- and attack her with chain, dagger and anything except the kitchen's sink. Forget that last one, he had it too. >All: ..... After levitating out of the trajectory of Mu Tsu weapons, Ranma-chan lost control of her other spell and Mu Tsu just seem to disintegrated, leaving nothing but clothes left behind. "What the hell, this spell wasn't that powerful." said Ranma, in total shocked for killing someone in that manner. After recuperating from her shock, Ranma approached carefully the clothes of Mu Tsu just to be sure. She was toying with the idea of just leaving, except she had a responsability to at least see if she could corrected whatever happend. As she approached, a duck fly away from the clothes and tried to fly throught a tree, which was not a good way to remained concious. >Yuri: red light! >Battle: Yuri, you do realize how few people will get that reference? Ranma, thinking she had somehow transform Mu Tsu into a duck, began to gather his clothes and the duck itself. Concentrating she said "FLY" and levitated heavily toward the village and possible help for Mu Tsu. All the hidden weapons's stuff seemed to interferred with her 'FLY' spells, where ever they were. >Battle: oh my, a flying junk yard [Healer's House] This was not the best day to go see the healer. She was having the worse day in her life it seem, and Tyl enol wasn't finished >Yuri: Tylenol as in Aspirin? >Battle: good God, hair products now medicine? >Leona: well, at least she's well named yet. At least her parents had give her a name that couldn't be mangled to much, but some kids find it funny to called her Aspi rine for some reason that she didn't understand. Yuri: see As for that day, all the childrens, it seem, chosed to hurt themself all at the same time. >Battle: it's an omen I tell you. Evil times are coming >Darth Maul: -grin- She just finished with the last kid and go taking a break outside when she see someone. After a seconde she can identify Ranma-chan, descending at all speed, directly at her. She had no time to do a thing before Ranma-chan stop directly in front of her. Tyl didn't know if she should feint after that, but resigned that the day could only get worse. She begin a visual examination of Ranma-chan, except she didn't seem at all to be sick. So she finally asked: "Ranma, what can I do for you?" "Oh, euh, I'd accidentally transformed Mu Tsu into a duck and wanted to know what could be done about that?" she explained the better she could. "You didn't know that Mu Tsu had gone to Jusenkyo and got cursed, did you?" Tyl know already that was the case but any diversion from kids of seven to nine years old was welcome right now. "No. So just hot water then, right?!" asked Ranma-chan prying already that the spell, he losted control of, didn't lock Mu Tsu in curse form permanently, after all she was trying with the spell, to unlock her own curse in activating it, without the help of water. >Battle: another example of weirdness due to a bad grasp of English >Leona: either that or the pre-readers didn't find it "Don't worried, I will take care of him." said Tyl in taking Mu Tsu and his clothes with her in her house. [Later with Cologue and Shampoo] "So basically this idiot was thinking that Shampoo was interest in girls only because Shampoo and I trained together, and was jealous of me since my curse, and had decide to find the girl's and the spirit's pools. Am I right so far?" asked Ranma-chan really surprised by how stupid one can get, a little like her father thinking of it, and surprise also to be able to say all that in one shot. >Battle: if Ranma thinks Mu Tzu is stupid, what will he think of Kuno? >Yuri: that he is an idiot? >Battle: he'll think that even if he didn't meet Mu Tzu "Basically yes, except he didn't find the right pools but another and you had already witness it first hand." stated Cologne and added "And even if he had been able to used them, I doubt he'd been able to gain any significant power. He had never have very strong will to begin with, very forceful though when it concern Shampoo." "Shampoo always say that Mu Tsu was an idiot, now Shampoo know without a doubt that he was one." she said with disdain. >Battle: good lord, Shampoo speaks better 'Japanese' than anyone else in story does [2 weeks later] "When Shampoo see Ranma again?" asked a hopeful Shampoo to Ranma, who had nearly finished packing. "I don't really know, I intend to go find my good for nothing of a father and find my mother now that my training in magic is completed." it's without saying she cheated a lot to learned that fast. She didn't master the transformation spell yet, mainly because the curses resisted magic very well. She was able to cast very good illusions and any others spells who could be direct by Will alone and a word or two for good measures, and added to that a good numbers of more advanced spells where the wording was very important. >Battle: the curses resisted transformation spells? That doesn't make sense >Leona: yeah, if anything, he could transform himself, but cold water would turn him back into a girl And what more, in the power output alone, she could generate very meaned fireballs even if she was eating a lot more then before, but without a father to steal his food, it seemed as much as before. >Battle: um, to point out something, Lina could easily out eat Ranma She also managed to created many spells with her simplified method of spells-casting with many misadventures when she wasn't careful. She even though having transform Mu Tsu into a duck, before learning that it was a curse, and not her spell, that cause the change and just activated it by mistake. It gave her some idea for transforming herself back into a guy for a later time thought. She'd also adapted to being female with the help of Cologne and Shampoo in the first two months and appreciated greatly not to have a 'big figure' even if she look like a child of fourteen at most. She keeped being call 'little girl' too often to care to think about it anyways. A fireball or two did wonder on that account, after her first three months, and with her quick temper nobody provoked her if they could helped it. Even throught after the first time she used them, she was very cautious to cut a lot of their powers. >Battle: ooh, a Ranma with magical powers wonder how long before Kuno ends up in the hospital after first meeting her? >Yuri: couple seconds? "Enough flashback," thought Ranma "Time to give my gift to Shampoo." But before that, she constated that they had been walking all the way to the village's exit, without her noticing it. She decided to dismise it. "Shampoo, if you wanted, I could come here more often, will I continu what I have to do in Japan," began Ranma. >Battle: wouldn't that be counterproductive? "Shampoo so happy, comme see Shampoo anytime. Always welcome!" interrupted Shampoo and stop to permit Ranma to completed what she was trying to saw. >Yuri: I didn't know Ranma was into carpentry "Ok. Good to know. Anyways, I had create a mean to teleport with the help of a focus, and I wanted you to help in amplifying the focus I have here," taking a rock with the kanji of Shampoo on one face and Ranma one the other "just maked sure to not have it on you if you don't wanted me to appear inexpectly in your bath or whatever." >Battle: Ranma and experimenting with magic? >Leona: that's a quick way to really screw things up "The bath is a good place, but Shampoo will remember." said Shampoo, who had come to liked Ranma and lately Ranma-chan very much. "Euh! Also, it will take me many weeks before I can used it safely. I had never actually tried it before, and should perfected the spell first." added Ranma "It's Ok, Shampoo very understanding." replied Shampoo. "Ok! It a farewell. I had already said my goodbye to Cologne. So I could go now if all are ok with you?" asked Ranma. "Bye bye!, hope to see you very soon." replied Shampoo, a little down for having Ranma-chan leaving for Japan without her. Shampoo though to herself "Now Shampoo had Mu Tsu to deal with. As if Shampoo didn't see all the attempts on Ranma's and laterly Ranma-chan's life. He nearly succeed once, except Shampoo had given the antidot to Ranma-chan just in time, without her knowing." >Battle: why would Mu Tzu try to kill Ranma? >Leona: in the canon, it was due to he was 'engaged' to Shampoo >Battle: and here he is trying to kill Ranma because why? [End chapter 1] I will need to do some more researched on Lina Inverse and learn magic now, if only it could worked for real too ;) I tried 'Flare Arrow' and it didn't work at the first tried anyways. After a hundred times I decide to forget it. >Battle: did you use the correct words? >Yuri: and pay someone for the cool special effects? >Leona: and get the neat camera angles and zooms? >Darth Maul: ....? The magic used here is my own view of magic + slayers's + Ranma 1/2's. If anyone has better idea, send me the text about it. Just don't forget that Slayer's magic or Ranma's was screw-up when they combined. Notes: Why Ranma-chan called Cologne and Shampoo in japanese translation and Mu Tsu in chinese's: Simple, he talked to Cologue and Shampoo from the start and had already called them by these names before learning of the correct wording via his studied in mandarin. He only talk to Mu Tsu later and taked the correct name when he learn of it. He continu to called Shampoo by that name in friendship and habit mainly. >Battle: so mispronouncing their names is Ranma's sign of friendship? For the reader who didn't knew what happended here in the first part of chapter one, the 'glow dark red like fire' part was caused by the joining of Ranma's Soul and memory's with one of his most powerful female's past live, who happend to be Lina Inverse's, without the memory or at least not very easy to recalled.} And also souls didn't bother with what universes they were in. Ranma's universe and Lina's were not the same. Another reason why magic didn't react the same way. The magic of the two universes somehow merge and had become even more chaostic in Ranma-chan if that possible. And the Masoku didn't seemed to exist in Ranma's universes. >Battle: wonder if Francis knows the most black magic gets it's power from the Masoku? [Simplified Spell-casting of Ranma-chan, in order of most used] Fly: Permit Ranma-chan to fly very easily even if not faster then 50 kph more of less. She needed a more advanced spell for more speed else it back-fire on her as it did when she pushed it. (She simply drop in most case) It is more a levitate spell without a shield. >Battle: I can fly like an eagle >Yuri: I remember that song Fireball: Her most used spell after 'Fly'. It generated a 'Fireball' that could be control in power easily, if only she could control her temper when casting it. (Thought that spell was a true spell, not a simplified version) >Battle: heh, toasty Lightning Strike: One of her least used spell, because she losted control of it the first time she got distracted and she was reluctant to try it again. The lightning come from the sky, not from herself, which explain why she was stuck by it at least three times. >Leona: wonder if there's such thing as lightning rounds I could use for Bonaparte? [Spells learned to date but not showed or very used] Stop: Stop a target literaly and couldn't move until release or if Ranma-chan lost interest in keeping them 'Stop'. (See 'Sleep' for more info) Sleep: As it implied, put to sleep a Target, could be more then one Targets too. It was more a form of hypnotism inforced by magic, similar to 'Stop'. >Battle: this fic will do that >Leona: no, you'll be too busy trying to figure out what he's saying Shield: It's a on way shield in front of her. Very easy to cast but need a constant Will to maintain it. She can used her hand to reinforce and directed it. [Advanced's spells] For the more advances spells, Ranma-chan learned them too, but didn't like to used them. Too much asle when martial art could to it as easily. Most didn't worked very well anyways, and her magic didn't seemed to be totally compatible even if very powerful. >Battle: the main point of advanced spells is if there is an easier way to do it without magic, then there isn't a need to call it an advanced spell >Yuri: but, consider what Ranma knows of martial arts >Leona: Yeah, a haste spell would be relatively useless for Ranma She master transformation's spells and illusion's spells. She also learned many others spells, but didn't intend to really used them. She just did them right at least one time and continued to the next spell. The transformation's spells were too expansive in evergy to used lightly anyways. >Battle: why would they be? She refused to learned any kind of summoning of Demon, she wanted to keep her soul. She has only one after all, thought not absolutely certain of that since Jusenkyo. Also she learned some healing spells, except her body resisted them nearly as much as those of transformations. >Battle: another thing, the curse wouldn't interfere with healing A good part of the spells of advanced magic seemed to be too unpredictabled to used and Ranma-chan stop trying them. [Experimental's spells] Gateway ???? [paused] Activation: This is the only way that Ranma-chan was able to used a teleport's spell. For some reasons the advanced spell of level 3 for doing a translocation, didn't work and Cologne was never able, for lack of enough magical's power, to try it. So she improvised. Firstly she taked a little of her chi, combined it with a little of her magic and binded it in a small rock or others items and finally sealed it with a drop of her blood. She used them as focus for teleporting near them. Worked better if someone she know carry them as well. Less tiring for one thing. The [pause] part, serve to searched the ???? part, ???? is the name or description of the focus, and only when Ranma-chan had the destination in mind, could she complete the spell safely. >Battle: we hope the ???? is the locator target >Yuri: why didn't he just say so? >Leona: he forgot? For example: Gateway Shampoo [pause for the time it take to localised Shampoo with the focus's rock on her] Activation. Warning: She only constructed the method to used it after others spells she knew to worked. Never used it to date. {So don't distract her please, I still needed her for chapter two ;) } >Battle: some of these author notes are as lame as our stuff >Yuri: lamer I think >Battle: I don't know about that >Yuri: what? >Battle: you thinking? Not going to happen >Yuri: hey If you wanted to knew why you didn't saw many more scenes showing Ranma-chan learning magic, it because even me didn't know where Ranma hided to perfected them. She liked showing off too much to show any spells not working, or doing funny things as a lot of Advanced Spells tended to do with her. >Battle: you know this guy acts like he's omniscient, but can't see some stuff? >Yuri: that's like being God and not being able to tie your shoelace [Martial arts] Chestnut Fist: Really mean punch technique, if only it was only once. If you were lucky you received two hundreds punch. But it more likely, five hundreds. Breaking Point technique: Ranma was good at blowing thing up. He was experimenting secretly at finding others alternated use to that technique. {Don't ask me, it's a secret !} >Leona: is Francis actually Xelloss? >Battle: Now that, is another secret [Last comments about the author] I have better grammar then only four days ago. Good thing to. I talk french basically but have come to read/write/nearly talk in english since three years and a half and the nearly talking part is mainly because of a lack of praticed and people not talking english where I'm locate. >Battle: keep up the studying. I hate to say it, but you need it. Kudos on trying though [Previews about chapter two] Ranma-chan returned home to see her mother, or at least she think so... See what happend when Ranma-chan and Blue Thunder see each others. >Battle: hey, that would be the main event of the next chapter, don't you think?? [Last notes about future chapters] I had already the outline of chapter 2 and 3. I will began these when I finished polishing the Prologue and chapter one. I don't wanted to do them again, and again, and again, and again! I'm not the enersizer's bunny after all. Salut bien ! >Battle: Good bye >Yuri: Auf viedersain >Leona: Sayonnara