Cat Fist Fury



This story was inspired from another fan fiction I read called Cat 

Scratch fever. Ranma  belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.



                                 Chapter One

                                Transformation



     "Please Pop! Don't put me down there again!" Ranma Saotome 

cried as he was being forcibly shoved toward a deep pit. His body 

was wrapped in fish sausage.

     "Ranma! Quit your whining!" Genma scolded as he prepared to 

shove his six-year old son into the pit. "A true martial artist must 

suffer for his art! Now get in there!"

     Ranma screamed in horror and pain as he dropped into the 

shadows. An instant later, the sound of a hundred hungry cats were 

emitted from the pit, followed by the sounds of clothes and flesh 

being ripped apart. While this was going on, Genma smiled to 

himself. <Soon, the dreaded Cat Fist Technique will be ours!>

     A few minutes later, the sounds died down and there came a 

foreboding silence. Genma wondered what had happened and 

began to approach the edge of the pit. Suddenly, there was a loud 

screech, followed by a whoosh of air as something launched itself 

upward from the hole. Genma only had enough time to scream as a 

small blur was suddenly upon him and was dealing out immense 

measures of pain.



Nine years later

     "Here sirs! We come to famous training ground of Cursed 

Springs, Jusenkyo!" The guide announced proudly.

     Ranma and his father looked about the landscape of the small 

valley. It had taken them many months to find this place. The 

search was made more difficult, since Genma had not even 

bothered to learn to speak Chinese before they set out for China. 

Now the two of them were staring at a place that was nothing but 

various pools of water with bamboo poles sticking out of them. 

This was what they had suffered to find?

     "Aw man! This place isn't as bad as I thought it might be!" 

Ranma commented as he set down his pack next to his father's. 

"Not like that Cat Fist training!" He added as he glared at Genma.

     The fat martial artist shuddered as he remembered that 

incident. It had taken him six weeks to recover from the mauling 

that he had received from his son, driven mad by the Neko Ken. 

He admitted that training his son in the technique had not been a 

good idea. Putting those thoughts aside, he leapt to a perch on one 

of the poles. "Let's not dwell on the past okay? Now follow me!"

     Ranma followed suit as he took up a position opposite to his 

father. They then began leaping about, trading blows while 

maintaining their balance. At this time, the Guide was frantically 

trying to get their attention. "No sirs! Very bad you fall in 

springs!"

     It wasn't long before one of them took a tumble. Genma found 

himself landing in a pool after being kicked by his son. As he 

made a big splash, Ranma landed on a pole to his right. Behind him 

was a spring that was large and seemed extremely old. The rocks 

on its banks were covered in moss and several of its poles were all 

but rotted through.

     Just as Ranma landed on his perch, a huge panda erupted from 

the surface of the pool Genma had fallen into. Ranma's eyes 

widened with shock as he stared at the animal. His mind barely 

registered the Guide's words about a panda drowning in that spring 

two thousand years ago, when it suddenly leapt forward and 

knocked him backward and into the spring behind him.

     Unlike Genma, Ranma did not immediately emerge from the 

spring in his cursed form. The panda and the guide stared at the 

spring as they waited for the boy to emerge. Suddenly, the water 

became to steam and soon came to a boil. Both men were 

confused as to what was happening. Before either one could even 

contemplate what was going on, the spring exploded as if 

someone had tossed a bomb into it. The panda was knocked off his 

perch by the force of the explosion. Fortunately, he had landed 

near where the guide was and not in another cursed spring.

     The two were sprawled on their backs as the dust kicked up 

from the explosion died down. Getting back on their feet, they 

saw that the spring had been completely obliterated. In its place 

was a deep ditch. Then it happened.

     Genma's fur was put on end and the guide's skin became 

riddled with goose bumps as they heard a blood-curdling roar 

come from the hole. A huge black blur leapt up from the pit, 

causing the father of Ranma Saotome to have a feeling of dj vu. 

When it landed on all fours in front of them, their blood ran cold.

     The beast was roughly the size of a Buick. Its body was sleek, 

yet powerfully built. Its fur was the darkest ebony. Its mouth 

snarled, exposing an impressive set of razor sharp teeth, which 

complimented the two huge canines in front. Looking at the huge 

saber toothed tiger, the Guide swallowed and said, "Oh no! He was 

in Spring of Drowned Monster Tiger! There very tragic legend of 

giant tiger that drown there 20, 000 year ago! Now"

     The guide's words were left unfinished as Ranma let off 

another thunderous roar that caused the nearby poles to quiver. It 

glared with blood in its eyes at Genma. That was all the incentive 

the guide needed for his survival instincts to kick in. Grabbing 

Genma by the paw he began to bolt for his hut.

     "RUN SIR! RUN! RUN! RUN!"

     "Growf?"

     "No time to explain! Must get hot water!"

     Ranma let off a snarl as he began to give chase. His new feline 

form moved with incredible speed as he leapt each of the pools 

with ease. The guide and his father were inside the hut and bolting 

the door, but this proved to be no barrier to the transformed 

martial artist. Ranma smashed through the door as easily as if he 

was going through tissue paper. When he got inside the hut, 

Genma was cowering against a wall and was trembling. Ranma 

could not see the guide anywhere, but didn't care. Getting down 

low and baring his claws, Ranma prepared to pounce on his father.

     <Ranma! Don't! I'm your father!>

     The panda's expression turned from fear to surprise as he felt 

something hot pour down his head. He let off a surprised yelp and 

then discovered himself back in his human form. When he looked 

up, he saw the guide standing between himself and his son, holding 

a kettle of water in one trembling hand.

     "N-no worry sir! Hot water change back to normal, just like 

father! Please calm down!"

     Ranma was sorely tempted to tear into Genma anyway, but after 

a long moment of silence,relented and sat on his haunches. The 

guide then stepped forward and poured the water. The steamy 

liquid ran down the big cat's head and nothing happened. The 

guide became puzzled at this then repeated the process. Still 

nothing happened.

     "W-what is wrong? Young sir no change back!" The guide then 

proceeded to dump the entire contents of the kettle, which caused 

a low and menacing growl. The guide's fear came back as he edged 

away from the tiger. "Oh no! Hot water no work! Young sir still is 

monster tiger!"

     Ranma's eyes widened as the realization sank in. He glanced to 

a mirror that was hanging on a wall. The image reflected back at 

him was that of a black saber toothed tiger. His eyes regained 

their red fury as he glared back at Genma. The fat martial artist's 

expression took on a pure white look as his son resumed his 

position and bared his claws.

     Genma found himself frozen on the spot as he saw that his son 

was beyond all reason. With a final desperate plea, he said, "P-

please Ranma! I'm your father!"

     Ranma let off a roar that made the entire hut tremble as he 

launched himself forward. Genma shut his eyes and waited for the 

end.

     It never came. Instead, he heard a loud crash behind him as the 

wall gave way. Opening his eyes, he saw a huge gaping hole beside 

him. Cautiously, he looked outside and saw a small black dot 

running toward some mountains over the horizon. As the dot 

disappeared, Genma had a sinking feeling that things were going to 

get a lot worse. But as the black dot vanished with the setting sun, 

Genma's resolve hardened.

     "We have to after him!"

     "Oh no sir! Is not very good for customer to go after angry 

tiger now! Many, many wild animals come out at night! Better to 

wait until morning! No worry about son! No one bother him when 

he like that!"

     Genma shook his head as he realized that the guide was right. 

To go after Ranma while he was in that state would have been 

suicidal. It would be best to let the boy calm down. In any case, 

how hard would it be to find a saber-toothed tiger? 

     <I have to get that boy back! He represents the future of the 

Anything Goes School of Martial Arts! As soon as I find him and 

get him back to human, he still has to meet up with Tendo's 

daughters! I didn't spend nine years training that son of mine just 

to have him run off on me! He still has an obligation to carry on 

the Art! The fact that I get to retire and live in luxury for the rest 

of my life is just an added bonus that's all! After all I've done for 

him, I deserve that kind of reward, don't I?>



To be continued



Author's Notes

     The rewrite to this first chapter is relatively minor. I added that 

last bit to show just how shallow Genma is. We all know that he 

wants the engagement to the Tendos, because he sees it as a way 

for him to retire and use Ranma as an excuse to live off the dojo. 

Genma is a lazy, lying, greedy and very poor excuse for a human 

being and these characteristics will be what will ultimately cause 

Ranma to desert him. Nobody honestly believes that what he did 

to Ranma on his training journey was for his benefit, right? 



