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Author: Jerry Unipeg
Fiction Rated: M - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Reviews: 9 - Published: 04-02-08 - Updated: 04-03-08 - id:4172365
Ranma 1/2:
Dragons, Mages, & Martial Artists Crossover: Dragon Lance By: Dani Yanega (please respond to this e-mail address)
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Chapter Three

Akane walked into the house her shoulders slumped. Kasumi came out of the kitchen while Akane was removing her shoes. Her smile faded slightly at the pain on her sister's face. She came up and pulled Akane into a tight embrace.
She stroked her sister's short black-blue hair.

"What is wrong sister?" Kasumi asked her worry evident in her voice.

"I need to talk to the family can you get them together please I have to make a phone call." Kasumi released her grip when Akane walked away to use the telephone.

She went through the house gathering everyone together. She disappeared into the kitchen to retrieve a pot of tea and cups for everyone. She sat them on the table when Akane entered the family room carrying an additional cup. Her eyes red and puffy.

"So what is this meeting about Akane my time is money." Nabiki said holding out her hand palm up as if expecting payment.

Akane looked at Nabiki's outstretched hand her anger finding another outlet exploded as did her aura. Akane pulled out her mallet and had every intention of using it when a gentle but firm hand took hold of her mallet. Akane turned and saw Kasumi looking at her reproachfully. Akane however refused to be guilty.

"Then I suggest you leave! This information does not concern you!" Akane growled at a surprised Nabiki as she sat scrunched up slightly as she thought the mallet was going to fall.

Soun and Genma stared at Akane their eyes wide with surprise. Their mouths opening and closing like a fish out of water. The knock at the door ended some of the tension in the room. Kasumi left to answer the door while Akane stood glaring at Nabiki daring her to say one more word. Nabiki showed her true intelligence and kept her mouth shut. She also curtailed her prankster nature and kept it under a tight rein.

All eyes turned to the door when Kasumi came in leading Ukyo who brought a take out box of okonomiyaki her eyes widened as she saw Akane glaring at Nabiki and glowing bright red. She smiled tentatively as she walked over to the table setting down the box of food. Genma's eyes never left the box a small amount of drool rolling down the corner of his mouth.

"Where's Ranchan?" She asked happily while looking around for her fianc? Akane sighed sadly and directed her to sit.

She sighed heavily again then looked each of the people in the eye. She still glared at Nabiki before she continued. Her tears began to spill again as the group watched her with worry. Ukyo got up and put a comforting arm around her sometime rival and sometime friend. Akane smiled her thanks, then steeled herself for the chaos to come.

"Ranma is gone!" She said barely above a whisper, but it was loud enough that everyone heard her.

"WHAT!" Everyone shouted simultaneously at the youngest Tendo.

Ukyo was the angriest and was about to attack Akane when she collapsed to the floor in tears. Ukyo stared down at the distraught girl as she wrapped her arms around herself and began to her rock back and forth. The others in the room all rose and made an attempt to charge Akane to get more information but were met by a spatula shuriken embedded in the floor in front of them. They looked up to see Ukyo standing guard over Akane, her only real friend other then her Ranchan.
Ukyo dropped next to Akane and wrapped her arms around her. She cooed softly until Akane was calm enough to speak. When she finally stopped crying Akane still in Ukyo's arms told them what had happened.

Everyone was stunned into silence their attention completely on Akane while she related what befell the Anything Goes Heir. How Mousse had used an ancient magical artifact and sent Ryoga and Ranma somewhere. How because Ranma was female, Kuno seeing everything attacked Mousse and knocked him into the tail end of the spell and how she tried to join them but the spell had completed before she could get there.

"Cologne said she couldn't bring him back but she would find a way to talk to him and help him find his way home." Akane completed with a hiccupping sob while Ukyo held onto her.

"NNNNOOOOOO! NOT AGAIN!" They all turned to see a katana fall from lifeless fingers as Nodoka Saotome fainted.

The growing group found a secluded spot near a stream that was flanked on two sides by high cliffs. Ranma, Ryoga, and Mousse took to the cliffs like mountain goats checking the surround area and looking for any hidden enemies. The companions watched them as they reconnoitered the area from above while Strum and Riverwind checked area at their level.

"Ranma are you going to tell them about the curses?" Ryoga asked unsure if they should or not.

"I mean I really don't want them to know about that aspect of my life." Ryoga continued not noticing the angry glare from the redhead.

"Well I think we better especially you two!" Both Mousse and Ryoga looked at Ranma their anger building into the visible range.

"Look of the three of us I am the only one that stays human. You two were relatively safe in Nerima no one there generally fixes fresh duck or pig! Here though the two of you are a meal waiting to happen. If they know about it they will protect you until they can get you turned back otherwise you're their supper." Ranma finished her arms crossed over her ample chest.

"She makes sense Ryoga, we can not afford to be killed by the very people we are traveling with." Mousse agreed, but he stared at Ranma wondering when he got so smart.

The teens returned to the camp and Ranma took two buckets from Mousse, Raistlin watching intently as the blind boy pulled them from his robes. His eyes gleamed with excitement at his ability to pull things out of thin air. Tasslehoff stood transfixed he then grabbed the end of Mousse's sleeve and stuck his head up the open end of the sleeve.

"What else do you have up there? Where did those buckets come from? Can you hide me up there? Can I lea..ack!" His curiosity was curtailed when the gruff dwarf walked by and grabbed his topknot and pulled him along behind him.

Ryoga just giggled as Mousse watched the kender being dragged away, shock evident on his face. They turned when Ranma returned with two buckets full of water. Ryoga sat his pack down and pulled out his camping stove and began to heat one of the buckets of water. Ranma gathered the others around them, they were a little unsure as they stared nervously at the stove. Ranma followed their gazes then sighed.

"Where we come from it is just normal camping equipment." She told them exasperated.

"And where is that?" Raistlin asked, Ranma was getting nervous as she seemed to constantly hold the gold mans attention.

"First tell us were we are?" Mousse asked not looking up from the bucket of water cooking on the stove.

"Your four miles outside Solace." The kender piped in Ranma shook her head no.

"What planet are we on?" The companions looked at Ranma like she had two heads but she waited patiently for a reply.

"You are on the planet Krynn, ruled over by the God Paladine and under attack by the Dark Queen Takahisis." Tika came forward wanting to know more about the three young people, Ranma and the other two nodded as if expecting that for an answer.

Ranma sat down and the other companions followed suit. She told them about the last three years of their lives in Nerima leaving out nothing of that time and starting with Jusenkyo. Their new companions stared at them with disbelief until Ranma stood and with a cup of water from the heated bucket poured it over her now his head.

"My true form is that of a male. Ryoga and Mousse has it worse then me, I at least stay human. We are telling you this because their forms tend to lend them to becoming someone's dinner." With that Ranma dumped a cup of cold water one each of the other boys.

He did not know eyes could get so big as the other group watched as Ryoga turned into a little black piglet with a yellow and black scarf around his neck. They watched as he struggled out from his clothes. They then turned at the quacking noise to see a white duck with glasses sitting amidst the white robes of Mousse.
Ranma then splashed himself and they all watched as she changed from a handsome tall young man to petite buxom and very pretty redhead.

They watched as Ranma then poured hot water over the pig and the duck. The group stood transfixed as Ryoga and Mousse reappeared each boy grabbing their clothes and quickly redressing. Ranma then dumped hot water back on herself to become a himself. The three teens waited for a reaction but all they got was dumbfounded stares. Ranma waved a hand in front of the face of the one called Tanis and there was no movement. He turned to his dressed friends with a worried look.

"I think we fried their brains!" He told Mousse and Ryoga, the clearing of a throat caught their attention.

"Not all of us young man. Since I am a mage I am use to dealing with magic"
Raistlin told the three boys.

"Could you free us from the curses?" Ryoga asked hopefully.

Akane walked to school a noticeable shadow missing from the fence. She walked with her head bowed her eyes still red and puffy from crying herself to sleep.
She was thinking about what had happened in the park yesterday. She knew that since Kuno was there she would have to start to fight her way into school again.
Akane was not paying attention when she slammed into an immovable object landing solidly on her rump. She looked up into the sad face of Ukyo her eyes also puffy from crying.

"How is Mrs. Saotome doing this morning?" Ukyo asked the girl sitting her behind.

A bonari slams into the ground between Ukyo and Akane. They turned to see Shampoo on the roof of the building next to them. Both girls scowled as they stared up at the beautiful Amazon her purple hair flowing around her like liquid silk. She jumped down next to them and picked up her weapon then held a hand out to the downed Tendo girl.

Akane was tempted to knock the offered hand away but her curiosity had gotten the better of her. She took Shampoo's hand and let the girl pull her to her feet. Akane picked up her book bag and rubbed her bruised butt. She then looked at the two other fianc?s of Ranma and saw them glaring angrily at each other.

"That's enough!" Akane told them while she stepped in between them.

"Shampoo not let spatula-girl blame violent-girl this time since it was Mousse that sent away Airen. Even if violent girl not good for husband." Shampoo told them with some arrogance.

"Ukyo doesn't blame me Shampoo. I told her last night what had happened. I was on the ground because I wasn't watching where I was going and ran into a brick wall named Ukyo." She told the Amazon with a wry sad smile, Shampoo looked at both girls and nodded a bit of sadness crept into her eyes.

"Great grandmother want see you and spatula-girl after school. She said she might have something to tell. She not want mercenary-girl, panda-man or father there. They cause to much trouble." She continued with a little less arrogance and more sadness.

"Ok Shampoo we will be there, can you tell us anything at all?" Akane asked her rival with a little trepidation.

"Shampoo no understand, great grandmother lock self in room since yesterday she come out few minute ago. She send Shampoo to give message but she no answer any of Shampoo questions. She have haunted look in eyes and for great grandmother that make Shampoo nervous." She told the others knowing they were her only link to her Airen in a weird way.

"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!" The three girls cringed and shivered at the maniacal laughter of Kodachi Kuno.

The three girls dove out of the way as a large beach ball landed in the center of them and exploded. The newly formed triad took ready stances as they waited for Kodachi to appear. They didn't wait long a ribbon snapped out from atop a light post and wrapped around Ukyo's spatula.

Kodachi tried to pull the okonomiyaki chef's weapon from her. The ribbon snapped back as a response to the fact that Shampoo cut the ribbon with a sword she pulled from no where. The sudden release of tension caused both girls to stumble back. Ukyo was righted by Shampoo and Akane while Kodachi fell from the street light. She spun and flipped in mid air to land in front of her rivals for her Ranma-sama.

"What crazy-girl want?" Shampoo snarled her sword at the ready.

"OHOHOHOHOHOH! Brother had told me the scarlet haired tramp has been sent away from my Ranma-sama. Now all that remains is to get rid of the three of you"
She through a bouquet of black roses at the girls, which was deflected by the flat of Ukyo's spatula.

"YOU DON'T GET IT DO YOU, YOU CRAZY BIMBO RANMA HATES YOU, HE WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! HE WENT WITH THE REDHEAD TO GET AWAY FROM YOU!" Akane screamed her anger rising to a glowing red.

"How dare you lie my Ranma-sama loves me it is only you three and that redheaded trollop that keeps him from me!" She hissed back at the young Tendo girl, while lashing out with several spiked clubs.

"Then why did he leave and only WE knew about and not you, sugar!" Ukyo asked knocking one of the clubs away from her.

"Yes crazy-girl no know Airen gone until we tell her, means Ranma care more for three of us then for crazy ribbon-girl." Shampoo added knocking the one heading for her away with her sword.

"You know their right Kodachi you can only get near him if you paralyze him otherwise he runs from you. The same for Kuno's pigtailed goddess. They got tired of you not listening to them and left only we know where they are and they won't be back until they can fix it so that you and your moronic brother can't brother them." Akane continued the barrage swinging her book bag in time to knock her in coming club into the horizon.

The Kuno mind was as brilliant as a rusty nail and solid as a sieve. Their minds work in a realm all their own. Especially if they did not want to believe what they were being told or saw. Even more so if it threatened their own little worlds. They would bring the information into their minds examine it discard any or all that did not fit their perceptions and reformulate it to fit nicely into their special little world. This is what Kodachi did and this is what she came up with.

"THAT REDHEADED HARLOT WILL NOT MARRY MY RANMA-SAMA I WON'T ALLOW IT!" Screamed the crazy girl as the three fianc?s looked on with bemused and shocked at the out come of their information.

Shampoo, Ukyo, and Akane watched as Kodachi ignored them and headed off into the distance presumably to start to plan on how to find Ranma and prevent him from marrying the redhead pigtailed girl.

"Tell Cologne we will be at the Nekohanten right after school." Ukyo told Shampoo then she and Akane turned and ran toward school.

Shampoo watched with lonely eyes as the two girls ran toward Furinkan High School. She watched until she could not see them any more then turned and jumped to the roof of a nearby building. She looked once more toward the school and spotted her rivals as they disappeared around the last corner before reaching the school. She then turned and headed back to the Cat Caf? her eyes shining with unshed tears.

None of the fianc?s noticed the shadow at the edge of the alley. None noticed it as it watched the fight with Kodachi or when it watched two of them leave for school Shampoo had not seen the glowing red eyes follow her as she jumped to the roof of a nearby building. Shampoo hadn't noticed when the figure followed her staying hidden in the shadows. A sense of urgency permeated the air around this hidden figure.

The mysterious figure hid within the confines of another alley and watched the Nekohanten its eyes narrowed to slits the red still glowing from them. It stood there biding its time waiting for the other two to show up. The figure melted back into the dark depths of the alley Shampoo appeared carrying several takeout boxes.

The glowing eyes watched her as she mounted her bike and took to the fence.
Wide eyed the figure watched as she speed off at unheard of speeds along the fence top. The figure sat slumped on a crate in the alley waiting for the return and arrival of the people who had the information it needed and wanted.

Akane and Ukyo reached the school grounds and Akane sighed with relief, when a horde of hormonal crazed boys hadn't greeted her. The two girls crossed through the gate and stopped in awe. The school courtyard was littered with unconscious boys. There were even boys draped over tree branches like rag dolls. Ukyo touched Akane's arm and drew her attention to a bruised and battered Kuno hanging partially off the school roof.

"Ranma's Chinese fianc? paid the school a visit this morning. She tore into the boys shouting Ranma's name. Then Kuno challenged her and she left him up there." One of the girls standing about told them while pointing at an unconscious Kuno.

"She must be mad about not being able to beat up Mousse so she came here to work of her anger." Ukyo calmly stated while she looked around tsking every once in a while.

"Well she was the maddest at Kuno-sempi he knocked her out for a few moments and was about to grab something he shouldn't when she came too and I thought you could glow brightly Akane. She glowed like a living sun that was when she pounded him and threw him onto the roof." The girl continued shaking her head with a smug smile.

"Wait a minute!" Ukyo and Akane both said at the same time their eyes wide with surprise and hope.

"She was beaten by Kuno?" The simultaneous questions still in working order.

"Yes but he did cheat, he pulled a underhanded move which threw her off." The girl told them.

"What?" Ukyo got out a split second before Akane.

"Well..?" The girl thought for a moment.

flashback
Shampoo jumped from the wall surrounding the school. She was not surprised to see the horde of boys waiting for Akane again. She did not care if every male in the city fought her and normally she wouldn't even help her. Today however she wanted to beat someone she wanted to beat Kuno to pulp because he could have saved her Airen. She decided to warm up with these worthless males.

"AYE! I FIGHT YOU ALL!" The hormonal boys turned and saw the curvaceous Amazon standing in front of them in a ready stance.

"HEY IF WE BEAT HER SHE IS OURS!" One boy in the back shouted, it was the signal they all needed.

The boys attacked in mass each with a day dream of doing anything they wanted with the purple haired Amazon (Daydreams CENSORED! Sorry use your imagination.
Shampoo wasted no time in eliminating her warm up as she was looking for one boy in particular. She will teach him not to save her Airen.

The fight was short, shorter then when Akane battled them but longer then when Ranma fought them. She surveyed the area with disgust, as she didn't even work up a good sweat. She then stumbled forward as a body fell against her back his arms around her waist.

"OH, SHAMPOO MARRY ME!" Came the cry of the dazed and bruised boy.

Shampoo grabbed hold of his arms and gave her answer in the form of a Judo through the boy landed across the branch of a tree. The wind being knocked from him, he passed out with a leering smile on his face for his ability to grope the Amazon. He hung on the branch like a Christmas ornament and decorated the tree like the five other boys. Shampoo glared at the sleeping boy debating if she should finish him for touching her when the voice of the boy she really came to see called her attention.

"What is this the lowly Chinese maiden thinks she can take the fair tigress'
place in battle, HA! I will dispatch thee and await the arrival of the fierce Tendo Akane!" Kuno began his soliloquy.

Shampoo then turned to face the kendoist a gleam of rage flashing in her purple eyes. She pulled her bonari from a space only she knew and charged the crazy boy. She slowly began to glow but it was only a small aura but it was one she was proud of. She brought her bonari down toward Kuno's head but he blocked it with his bokken.

"I KILL YOU, YOU NOT SAVE AIREN!" Shampoo shouted into the face of lunatic.

"Then I have done the world a service for ridding it of that foul sorcerer. I must now rescue my beautiful pigtailed Goddess. I should have known the evil Saotome was behind my pigtailed Goddesses disappearance. She will show her love and appreciation for me when I come to her rescue!" Kuno started another round of gobbledygook.

To which Shampoo faked with her left hand then smashed the bonari with her right hand into the stomach of Kuno. Kuno flew back hitting the tree he was hiding behind. He slowly rose his head bowed. He then snapped his head up a gleam of lust appearing in his eyes. Shampoo faltered at how he was looking at her. She shivered when he smiled lustfully at her.

"So you yearn to be my love! So be it if you win I will date thee if I win I will allow you to date me! I can not give you the same status as my two loves but I will take you as my mistress." Kuno lunged at a stunned Shampoo.

Shampoo stared at the kendo practitioner. Her eyes wide with confusion, she stared blankly at the charging kendoist her mouth opening and close with stunned silence. Kuno reached her quickly but instead of striking her he pulled her into an embrace and kissed her deeply. His tongue entered her mouth and explored it hungrily. While one arm was holding the Amazon to him the other was exploring places an honorable man would not dare to go.

Shampoo's eyes got even wider when his roaming hand reached a place no man has ever touched. Before she could retaliate Kuno's free hand snaked up and his clenched fist landed solidly on her jaw knocking her back into the wall surrounding the school. Shampoo had the air knocked from her lungs which was no problem the problem was when her head snapped back hitting the wall and knocking her out. Shampoo slid down the wall and landed in a heap her clothes slightly askew.

Kuno stumbled up to the unconscious Amazon he knelt down in next to her and started to reach out for her. His excitement at finally beating one of the many warrior maids in the area even if it wasn't his tigress Akane or pigtailed Goddess. His hand gently pushed the purple locks from her face. He pulled his hand quickly back when he saw the purple eye that stared at him turned black with rage.

Shampoo twisted and reached out with her foot. She connected with Kuno's jaw sending him to the other side of the schoolyard and away from her. She rose to her feet, her aura blazing around her like the sun. She pulled her bonari out and charged the slowly rising Blue Thunder. her hands blurred as she pummeled the arrogant swordsman. Her speed was born of righteous indignation and not the chestnut fist. Kuno tried to block her blows and did block some of them. The students watched as the sparks flew never realizing wood could spark.

A collective gasp came from the onlookers when Kuno's sword burst into flame.
When the flames died what was left was a sliver of steel that had been incased in the wooden bokken. Shampoo snarled as she stepped up her attack and with a final blow gave Kuno a bonari uppercut which sent him to sleepy land on the edge of the school roof. Shampoo straightened her clothes and snarled at one of the boys that tried to approach her. She then turned and jumped over the fence leaving the schoolyard in a shambles.
End Flashback

Akane and Ukyo sat in their seats as they listened to the girl finish with the tale of what happened. The young girl turned to face front when the teacher arrived. Ukyo and Akane sat dazed through their classes they knew Amazon law and were wondering if Kuno's victory overrode Ranma's marriage to the Amazon or just added Kuno as a second husband.

Their school day moved slowly as they walked through it with a dazed expression.
Their minds working furiously over the possibilities. The one they kept coming up with was that if Kuno replaced Ranma Cologne would not help them. Then again she may do what ever she could to bring him home so her granddaughter would not have to mix her bloodline with a major moron. When the girls left school at the end of the day Kuno still slept peacefully on the roof.



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