Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction

Merging Forces

Prologue: Death

Standard Disclaimer - All characters not made by me are owned by their respective owners. If you don't know who owns who don't bug me.

My disclaimer - I have some knowledge of the series, reading Gn Volumes 1 - 6 and 9 - 10, as well as some translated manga which will be released god knows when in the states. So just attribute any discrepancies to this fic taking place in an alternate time stream and enjoy the work.

PS if you are against bad jokes, piss poor writing, and occasional quotes from metal songs, you won't like this fic, if you don't mind, enjoy!

"Hullo! My name's Rodney, and I'm immensely strong!

When I was a small lad, I could lift five nabbies on the end of a shovel!"

(Iron Maiden - The sheriff of Huddersfield)

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The sun rose over the cursed springs as a new day dawned. A young man wearing Chinese clothes and sporting a pigtail walked towards the training grounds. He had a look of longing on his face, as if he was in need of companionship, friendship, or maybe even love. But this young man had a greater need.

He needed a cure.

For he is one of the unlucky few to have gone to Jusenkyo before. Even worse he is one of those few to have gained an aquatic curse from the visit. This was Ranma Saotome.

"Maybe I'll actually find the spring this time." he mused, "It'll be nice to go swimming as a guy again. Hm, maybe I can get Mousse and Ryouga off my back for a while. Nah, they'll still want to kill me for something or other. Seems that everyone I know wants to kiss me or kill me, sometimes both." He stopped and pulled a worn picture out of his pocket. "Wish me luck Akane," he said smiling "If this works I'll be the man you want me to be when I come back. Instead of a cursed pervert." He jerked his head up as he heard voices around the bend. He rounded the corner to see the guide and a young American being held at gun point by a girl whose clothes didn't seem to fit right. "What the hell..."

The girl snapped the gun around to bear on Ranma and shouted "Stay back, "

"Okay, but what's the gun for?" Ranma replied

"This bastard ruined my life and now I'm gonna ruin his, get over there with the other two." Ranma following the obviously unstable girl's orders placed his pack on the ground and walked over to where the American boy and the guide were standing. He was unusually calm for the situation.

"Can anyone tell me what's going on?"

"Well," the American boy said in perfect Japanese(1) "Andrew there, well, she's extremely psychotic right now and..."

"I'M NOT A GIRL GARY!!" Andrew screamed at the top of her lungs(2).

And the reason she looked like hers clothes were overlarge suddenly dawned on Ranma, "You fell in the spring of drowned girl, didn't you?"

"YES! This bastard pushed me in!"

"Andrew," Gary yelled "I tried to stop you from falling and you know it! You're paranoid delusional!"

"LIAR!" she screamed, tears forming in his... er... her eyes. "You've hated me since I was made leader of this expedition." She dashed the tears from her eyes and continued to talk. "You see, last year our government found out about the so called "Cursed Springs" and decided to send a team to study the pools and find if and how they worked, I was made team leader and he hated it!"

Gary leaned over to Ranma whispering "The fall into the pool has snapped her mind, she's become paranoid delusion. We're here because it's a training ground, we're game coders. We wanted to get as many martial artists as possible to let us study their styles for a game we're working on." He chuckled "Too bad we didn't know the pools were cursed and the ground was abandoned."

"Game coders?" Ranma replied. "She _has_ snapped."

"He's lying! We were sent here by our government. He was jealous of me and pushed me into the pool to get rid of me. He's been jealous of me since I stole his girlfriend in high school." she accused.

"See what I mean, we didn't go to high school together. We only met this past summer. Some kid wearing a bandanna mumbling about revenge ran by and bumped into Andrew, when I tried to steady him he pushed me away and fell into the pool."

"Stop lying Gary, YOU GOD DAMN PUSHED ME!!" with that she raised her gun to bear on Gary's head. "You know, I think it's time for you to die now Gary. See you on the other side!"

It was then that Ranma's impulsive nature and sense of protection got the better of him. He decided to go for the gun. They struggled for a moment, but while he was the larger of the two, she was quite insane and had a strength born of madness. "Let go, he has to die!" she screamed.

"No way," he shot back, " he doesn't...." Time moved slowly as the gun flared. Pain rivaled only by the first transformation ran through his body. Suddenly his grip went weak as he fell to the ground.

"You shot me, what did you do that for?" he said as the life ran out of him. He then fell on his face, lifeless.

Andrew fell to her knees, suddenly sobbing as the realization of what she had done shocked her to the core and brought her out of the madness. She kneeled there shaking, the gun forgotten as it fell from her fingers. Gary picked it up and gave it to the guide.

"Here, take this." He said as he walked to Ranma's body. "Oh, god. He's just a kid." He stated as he got a better look at the body. "He's younger than I am. Sorry to get you involved in this kid." He sighed and dropped to the ground as he looked at the boys body, depressed and angry at the same time.

"Excuse me sir," the guide began.

"What?" Gary responded, his head in his hands.

"There is still a way to revive him."

"How? He was shot trough the fucking heart!"

"Well, this young sir has the curse from the 'Spring of drowned girl', and he has had it for quite a while now."

"That's nice, he was killed by someone in the same EXACT SITUATION AS HE WAS IN!"

"There is an old legend, that if someone cursed was to be placed back in the pool they were cursed from with a willing person of the same gender, they may be brought back. but..."

"But what?" Gary asked as he began to get up.

"I have never seen it happen," the guide respond. "I do not know how it works exactly. It may bring him back and kill you, it may bring him back and give you the curse..."

"Well," he started as he picked up Ranma's corpse. "I'll have to risk it."

"But sir.."

"No buts! This kid saved my life, I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try to do the same. Now, where's the pool?" he asked.

"It is this way sir." The guide responded as he walked towards the pools. "But what about the other sir?"

"She'll be in shock for a good while, I'll figure something out later."

"If you say so." The guide suddenly stopped at one of the identical looking pools. "Here is the 'Spring of drowned girl', very tragic legend of girl who drowned in spring 1500 years ago. Now, whoever fall in spring take body of girl."

"If this works, will I be cursed as well?" Gary asked, looking at the pool with apprehension.

"I do not know. Like I said, I have never seen this done."

"Well, I guess I'll find out for myself. BANSAI!"

Gary jumped into the spring, thinking "I really hope this works" With that, he fell into blackness.

Footnotes

(1) What? did you expect a piss poor student like Ranma to know enough English to converse? give me a break.

(2) Any cursed person will be referred to as their CURRENT gender and/or species.

End prologue

Old notes

{C&C welcome and requested. I already have parts one and two written up I just have to type them tell me what you think and send me something.}

New notes.

Well, if you’re reading this then I’ve finally got the balls to post this to my page and probably the FFML for the kind of good natured flaming we all know and love. Since I started this story I’ve ended up reading a lot of fics myself and I may have unknowingly stolen a piece or two from someone. Sorry.

1st draft 5/15/98

Current revision 10/21/98

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