Ranma 1/2: A New Awakening Alternate Continuation (minor crossovers) By: Dani Yanega yanega@mindspring.com Co-author & Concept by: "Jerry" starfire@brainerd.net Chapter Twelve Ranko slowly woke up confused as to where she was, she looked around the strange room, then remembered she was at gramma and grampa's house. She looked out the window and saw the sun had not yet risen, so she clamored out of her bed and headed to the room next door. Ranko was wearing the pink cotton nightgown her momma had gotten her. It goes to the floor and was sleeveless. It was fairly plain, save for the embroidered horses around the collar. Ranko opened her door and peeked out the hallway, when she saw it was all clear she put on her top speed and headed straight to her grandparents room. /*\*/*\ Yiri and Mychol were sound a sleep dreaming of more grandchildren when they were jolted awake by their bedroom door being slammed open, and the sudden explosion of air from their lungs. They look up into a pair of twinkling blue eyes, which was staring down from on top of them. "Good morning, gramma! Good morning grampa! It is time to get up and train wanna come with me?" Ranko asked with a bright cheery smile. "Ranko, dear, that is 'do you want to come with me?'" The three of them turn to the doorway to see Nodoka standing there with an embarrassed look, and Seran trying not to laugh. "Come on now dear go get your clothes on so we can train, and let your grandparents rest." Ranko kissed both her grandparents then jumped out of the bed and blurred out of the room. "_Is she always that fast_?" Asked an amazed Yiri, both Seran and Nodoka nodded. "I am sorry, I tried to warn you what might happen if you put Ranko next to your room, but _Seran_ wouldn't let me." She said giving her fiancé a nudge in his side. "HEY! Now, Aerial and I have had the full benefit of our daughter I thought it only fair my parents get a little, of hurricane Ranko as well." Seran told her with a mischievous grin. "That was the full benefit?" Mychol asked a sweat drop forming on his forehead. "Actually no it isn't, but you get use to after a while, and training helps a lot." Seran tells them when he quickly turned around and caught a blur of purple and red as it streaked into the room. "I'm ready poppa Seran!" Ranko chorused while landing in Seran's open arms, his parents staring wide-eyed at his ability to catch her and to know she was coming. "Yes little hurricane we're ready for training. See you later mom, dad." Seran told his parents while leading Ranko out. "Bye gramma, bye grampa!" Ranko waved with her free hand as she was being pulled from the room. "Good morning to you both, I am sorry again, we will see you at breakfast." Nodoka explained as she bowed and closed the door behind her. Mychol looked at his wife, with shock, and saw his feelings mirrored in her eyes. They both jumped from their bed and threw on some clothes. They then headed out of their room toward the courtyard. Seran had asked the night before if the three of them could train in the courtyard while they were there. When they reached the courtyard they nearly collapsed with shock. They watched their son, future daughter-in-law and granddaughter doing complex exercises with jumps from fifteen to over thirty feet without using their wings. What really fascinated them was the blue glow around each of them. Mychol cast a spell of 'True Seeing' and nearly passed out, his wife catching him before he could hit the ground. She looked worriedly at her husband then back at the trio of martial artists. She watched as the blue glow coalesced about their bodies and through their wings. Both Yiri and Mychol gasped while they watched as the their wings began to flap to an invisible blur. No one saw the other member of the astounded audience as she stood transfixed, watching her uncle and soon to be aunt and cousin. Jealousy flashed into her eyes when she saw awe and pride glow upon her grandparents faces. She was the princess in this family and no little mongrel upstart was going to usurp her throne. She looked around and found a jagged piece of quartz that littered the walkway. She checked if for sharpness, when she satisfied herself as to the damage it could do she threw it with all her might at Ranko's wings. "YIRKO! NO!" Yirko turned to see her grandmother watching her, with a glare of hate at Ranko she turned and ran back inside. Yiri and Mychol watched as the sharp quartz crystal headed straight at Ranko, neither able to stop it. Yirko watched from behind the curtained window to her room, a sadistic smile firmly in place. Her smile soon faded to one of shock and fear, while Yiri and Mychol were amazed and ecstatic at the feat they witnessed. /*\*/*\ Ranko worked out with her most complicated kata, her mother and Seran had not yet mastered the moves but were doing quite well. She sensed the presence of her grandparents, but kept going. She needed to learn the kata with the wings, and to learn to compensate for them during battle. She hadn't much farther to go in that respect. She had gotten to the point she where she can almost forget, they're there. She had begun experimenting with her wings to see how they could be used during a battle, also. Ranko sensed another presence one that was not friendly toward her and her mother. Never missing a step she extended her senses toward that presence to monitor it. The corners of her mouth turned up slightly as she felt the emotions coming from her _cousin_, and was not surprised when she felt the income projectile. Ranko never opened her eyes she just spun slightly and snatched the jagged piece of quartz from the air then turned in the direction of the one who threw it. She opened her eyes which burned with angry fire. Ranko knew the elf girl was watching and with her fore finger and thumb crushed the crystal to dust. Ranko then returned to her exercises, she needed to calm herself before she sparred with her parents. She heard the gasps of her grandparents, but did not acknowledge them. Soon Ranko was lost again in her kata and had found her center. When she had reached the calmness she desired she opened her eyes to see her parents staring at her. "Huh? What?" She looked around herself as if maybe she had a tear in her outfit or something. "Ranko, dear what were you thinking just now?" Her mother asked her quietly, Ranko looked at her for a moment. "I was happy I had found my center and could become calm for our sparring. Why?" Ranko asked with a look mixed with confusion and curiosity. "Your grandparents told us what happen, and as we watched your aura went from dark red, to your normal bright blue, to pure white." Nodoka explained, Ranko looked thoughtful for a moment then flared her aura. Instead of the normal bright blue her aura was now pure white, she closed her eyes and touched the center from where this aura came from, at first she frowned then gasped. She snapped open her eyes with shock, fear and excitement filling them. Her vision was suddenly blocked with the view of her poppa Seran. "Ranko, what is wrong? What has happened to your battle aura?" Ranko looked into his worried face and smiled brightly. /*\*/*\ Nabiki stared at the receiver with a scowl of confusion. Kasumi walked in from the kitchen and noticed her younger sister. She watched her for a moment sensing the shock and confusion coming from her as only she can. "Nabiki what is wrong?" Nabiki snapped out of her daze and looked to her older sister. "That was Ukyo, she said I needed to come get Akane. Akane attacked her without provocation and Ukyo knocked her out. She also said that if Akane did it again she would press charges." Nabiki told her with a small scowl. "_Oh my_!" Kasumi said with a shocked look on her face. "MY BABY WHERE'S MY BABY!" Soun burst into the entryway and out the front door forgetting to change his shoes, Nabiki just shrugged and headed after him. [This has ought to be good.] She thought while she ran to catch up to her father. They reached Ucchan's in a matter of moments, just in time to see Kuno get ready to pick Akane up and abscond with her. Soun attacked with the ferociousness of a mother lion. Nabiki was surprised, he had it in him. When he finished Kuno was unconscious on the ground next to Akane. Soun picked up Akane and headed for Ucchan's, Nabiki smiled down at Kuno then turned to follow her father. Soun stood in front of Ucchan's door then kicked it in. Stepping inside he saw Ukyo cooking and serving her customers. "That will cost you Tendo, I will be sending the bill to the Dojo, and you had better pay it." Ukyo told them without even looking at them. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY LITTLE GIRL!" Soun bellowed, exploding into his demon head. Ukyo just continued to cook and serve okonomiyaki to her customers. They at first cringe then take strength from Ukyo's calm demeanor and sit back to watch the show. "I did nothing no other fighter would do when attacked from the back by a coward. Oh forgive me that is how _you_ and that jackass panda do it isn't it." Ukyo told him with a low menacing growl. "You had _no_ right to hurt my little girl!" Soun began to wail, but stopped suddenly when a throwing spatula Kasumi missed landed at Soun's feet just barely touching his slippers. "_YOUR DAUGHTER DOES NOTHING BUT COMPLAIN SHE IS A MARTIAL ARTIST, BUT I SEE NO EVIDENCE OF THAT_. No martial artist would act out in anger as she does, no martial artist would attack someone they _KNOW_ won't strike back like she did to Ranchan. No martial artist would attack an opponent they _know is weaker_, then them. As she did with me and all those boys at school. _YOUR DAUGHTER_ is nothing but a bully and if she ever comes near me again in a threatening manor I will have her arrested. NOW GET OUT OF MY SHOP AND TAKE THAT TRASH WITH YOU!" Ukyo told them as she raised another throwing spatula she pulled from a hidden compartment under the grill. The pixies are shaken from the stunned silence at the arrival of another one of Ukyo's throwing spatulas. They knew she wouldn't use them to hurt herself but they decided to make sure. Quietly while Ukyo was occupied they cast a small spell on both spatulas, prevent her from harming _herself_ with them. Soun backed out of the café keeping a wary eye on the chief. Nabiki just stared at the chief debating if she should applaud or get revenge. She decided on neither, if her plan worked out she will be set for life. She turned to face Ukyo and with a sly grin held out her hand as if expecting some kind of compensation. "Don't even try it Tendo I did you a favor by calling you, as far as I am concerned Kuno could have taken her and I would have done nothing to stop it. She deserved what she got. She picks fights with people she knows she can't beat, but refuses to admit that. Then expects someone else usually Ranchan to get her out of trouble. Well from now on you get your bitch of sister out of trouble, I won't help any longer." Ukyo then turned back to her grill and finished preparing lunch for her customers. Nabiki turned and left the restaurant with a thoughtful look on her face. She was right about everything all Akane ever did was take Ranma for granted. Then she shrugged and went on home, what does she care anyway she had no connection to them except that they will make her the richest girl in the world. Well pretty darn close, anyway. /*\*/*\ The shadow watched as the Tendos left and headed for their home. He took off toward the park, he needed some time to himself. If the group he hung around with knew how he got his alone time he would never hear the end of it. Mousse entered the park and picked up a cup of lake water then headed into the woods. He hid in some bushes and removed all his clothes then put them into his hidden weapons space. Next he dumped the cold water over himself turning him into a large white duck. Mousse then flew to the lake and landed out in the middle of it. He sat there swimming lazily, while going over in his mind what had been happening to him since Ranma became a girl and left Nerima. Mousse swam toward a flock of ducks, staying to the outer edge of the flock he swam slowly his head bowed. While he swam gently in circles, he thought of the night Shampoo uttered the ancient Amazon prayer to find her one true love. A love that was not him. [I guess I was blind in more ways then one.] Mousse thought as he gave a little ducky laugh. [Then there was today, where did that feeling come from? I never thought of Ukyo as anything in particular, especially a sister. This all started when Ranma changed, ever since he, no _she_ left for the Faerie realm. He had not felt right, it was not a feeling he could explain to anyone, and they wouldn't listen if he could.] Mousse swam lazily toward Duck Island in the center of the lake, to escape the over zealous children trying to feed him bread. Mousse waddled up onto the shores of the island and toward the center. He found a nice soft piece of moss and settled down to continue thinking. His life changed drastically the day Ranma walked into the village. It allowed him to be free in a way he never could, if he had stayed there. Mousse's head shot up a shocked duck look on his face. [Man where did that thought come from?] Mousse asked himself quietly. Mousse began to wonder if his whole life was a mistake to begin with, his pursuit of Shampoo. When he followed her to Japan, his attacks on Ranma. Mousse hung his head as he remembered all the things he tried to do to Ranma. Just so he could win Shampoo, and never once had Ranma ever started a fight with him. He always tried to be friends, to find someone who would just like him for him. He never realized how much he and Ranma were a like until the change. Now he will be forced to return to the village, and placed in an arranged marriage to someone he doesn't know or love. Shaking his head a little teardrop falls when he realized his life was just like Ranma's and instead of making a friend he made an enemy. [Maybe I can change this, I mean after all Ranma became Ranko and changed although I don't think that was how she wanted it. I wonder if they would allow me to..no probably not, but it wouldn't hurt to ask I guess.] Mousse thought as he hunkered down into the moss deciding it was safer for him to sleep here then go back to the Cat Café and Shampoo's mood swings. After all Nodoka was suppose to come back on Friday to talk to Cologne before the meeting on Sunday. He might be able to at least ask, after all it wouldn't hurt to ask, would it. Slowly Mousse closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep, as a gentle breeze slowly ruffed his feathers. /*\*/*\ Akane awoke, her head hurt, as she slowly sat up. She looked outside and saw it was dark. She looked to the clock and saw it was a little after 10pm. She was hungry so she got up and headed for the kitchen. She rummaged through the refrigerator and found some of Kasumi's beef bowl and a small bowl of rice. She took her treasures and sat down at the kitchen table and began to eat, when the kitchen lights flicked on. "Oooo, do you have to turn on the lights my head hurts!" She wailed covering her face with her hands in an attempt to block the light. "You wouldn't have a headache if you hadn't attacked Ukyo from behind, like a spoiled little brat." Nabiki said with a voice of arctic ice. "She threw my casserole into the Dumpster, without even eating it!" Akane complained in her defense. "I know all about that too, it seems that the crap you call food ignited the gases in that Dumpster, causing a mushroom fire cloud that could be seen all the way to Juuban. It was all over the news." Nabiki told her coldly, Akane cringed from the coldness in her sisters voice. "One more thing Akane, Ukyo says if you _ever_ attack her again she is sending you to jail. She won't put up with your spoiled little temper tantrums. Oh, yes and just so you know I will _not_ waste the families money to get you out!" Nabiki turned and stormed out of the kitchen, feeling that a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders. As Nabiki climbed the stairs, she felt guilty for what she had to do, and say to her sister. It had to be done, however, or Akane was going to put them in the poor house. It was bad enough she had to pay for damages to the house and Dojo. She must now pay for the door to Ucchan's, all because of Akane and that damn temper. When Nabiki reached the top of the stairs she turned with a scowl and looked toward the kitchen. Nabiki heard her sister scream her normal battle cry. She turned and walked away shaking her head as she went to her bedroom, wondering if causing more pain to someone who has had nothing but pain, was worth the fortune she was going to receive. Nabiki entered her room and closed the door. While she leaned against the door, she thought about the last few years since Ranma came, and how in one way or another everyone in some way had used him for their own ends without thinking about him and his needs. She wondered what it was like in the Faerie realm? If she could be happy there? Nabiki's eyes snapped open, her mind frozen on those two questions. [Whoa! Now I know I need some sleep if I am thinking that kind of stuff!]. Nabiki pushed off the door and headed for her bed. She crawled under the covers and turned to stare out the window at the stares. As sleep claimed she wondered what the stars are like in the Faerie realm. /*\*/*\ Akane sat in the kitchen staring down at her hands, Nabiki's threat playing over in her mind. She knew this was Ranma's fault. It had to be his fault, it always was after all. This wouldn't have happened if he hadn't gotten stuck as a female, or turned into an overgrown Renaissance Fair reject. She knew he did this on purpose because that casserole was supposed to be for him. He is always trying to avoid eating her cooking. Look at all the pain he is causing Ukyo, not to mention Shampoo. He is such in inconsiderate _jerk_! Now she has to go talk to Ukyo and patch things up with _her_ just to keep out of trouble. "RRRAAANNNNMMMAAAA! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, JERK!" Akane screamed while slamming her fists down on the table, splintering that end of it. This caused a chain reaction seeing her late night supper crash to the floor. Akane sat there staring at the mess then got up and stormed out of the kitchen and to her bedroom, leaving her mess for Kasumi to clean up.