Ranma 1/2: Ranma No More Alternate History By: Dani Yanega yanega@mindspring.com (please respond to this e-mail address) http://mindspring.com/~yanega/index.htm or Mirror Site at: http://www.ranko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm Chapter Sixty "DOCTOR TOFU!" Ran Koh shouts when she bursts into the clinic of Dr. Tofu and Kasumi. "Ran Koh whats..OH MY KAMI-SAMA! KASUMI PREPARE AN EXAMINATION ROOM!" Tofu leads the sorceress towards the back of the clinic, neither sees Li Ly enter. "I tried to heal her but my magic didn't work. Genma attacked us, using his secret techniques." Ran Koh gently lays her mother on an examination table then pulls up a chair next to her. Ran Koh looks down at her sleeping mother, holding her good hand. Worry fills the Light Warrior's face. Her concentration is so intense on her mother's well being that she never senses the arrival of Li Ly. Tofu only notices her when Ran Koh collapses to the floor in a heap. "Sorry I had to do that doctor. You have two patients not one." Li Ly tells the doctor as she lifts the wounded warrior. Li Ly follows Kasumi to another room. She gently places the warrior on the table and presses the same pressure points Ran Koh had pressed on her mother to slow blood loss. Li Ly just hopes the girl did not loose too much blood. "OH MY!" Kasumi gasps as she removes Ran Koh's shirt to see the large deep gash on Ran Koh's side. Kasumi begins to clean up the wound while Li Ly examines it. She stretches out her senses and curses a blue streak in Chinese. Kasumi turns to her and blushes at the woman's language. Li Ly looks at her with an eyebrow raising. "I taught myself several languages over the years. There is not much else to do when you finish cleaning the house." Kasumi shrugs and takes away the bloody water and rags. "The wound is very clean and has smooth edges. I didn't know her father used weapons. I thought he hated them?" Kasumi tells the Amazon elder. "He didn't use a weapon it was a chi vacuum blade. Ran Koh said they were his forbidden techniques. She must have pulled them from his mind, because she was using a similar attack." Li Ly looks up as Tofu enters the room. "That _might_ explain why her magic did not work against it. What I don't understand though is why. If the magic users' healing spells don't work against chi we're going to be in a lot of trouble in this war." Tofu tells the woman as he begins to examine the wound, talking with the Amazon from time to time. "Doctor use your martial art senses on that wound. What do you see?" Tofu looks up at her surprise on his face. He then nods and stretches out his senses. Kasumi watches as her fiancé's eyes widen with horror. She then watches as he closes his eyes and concentrates even harder. His dark blue aura flickering into existence as he puts all he has into the search to confirm his first reading. At the opening of the clinic's front door Li Ly leaves while Dr. Tofu continues to his chi examination. Kasumi is torn between staying with her husband or following Li Ly. To help tend to the new patients. "WHAT!" Kasumi turns at the multiple shouts. She notices her husband-to-be never even hears them. She hears scuffling and the tapping of a staff enter Nodoka's room. She starts to head toward Nodoka's room when a hand reaches out and grabs her arm. She looks down to see her fiancé's hand around her arm in a tight but gentle grasp. "Stay I need your help. Like I showed you Kasumi read Ran Koh's chi." He tells her. His hand never lets go of her arm, as Kasumi faces the unconscious warrior. A warm yellow glow surrounds Kasumi as she reaches out to the girl before her. Kasumi's aura begins to tinge with dark blue as Tofu helps her by feeding her some of his power. "OH MY!" Kasumi gasps as her eyes snap open with surprise and horror. "Ono! T..that is not possible! Is it?" Kasumi looks to her love her body trembling. "Normally I would say not but that moron managed to be able to do it." The two young lovers turn toward the door to see the Amazon elders and the Light Warrior leaders. "How is she doctor?" Ku Lon continues as she enters the room. "They both will be fine but since magic can not heal them we will have to settle for the old fashion way." Tofu goes to a cabinet and pulls out some sutures. He presses points on Ran Koh to deaden the pain and begins to sew up her wound. Kasumi takes some of the others and heads into Nodoka's room to do the same for the gash in her arm. Mas Cra follows her to help. Samuel and Ryoga step closer to the table worry on their faces. "Why is she unconscious?" Samuel stares down at the pale girl taking her hand in his. "Li Ly used some shiatsu points so we could treat her. She was worrying too much about her mother to realize she was hurt. She has also lost a lot of blood." Tofu tells them absently as he sews. "Doctor we can not wait for her to heal naturally, neither her or her mother. With 'He Who Devours the Light' on the attack we need them." Ku Lon tells the doctor. "There is not much I can do elder. Magic doesn't work on these wounds. You should be thinking of a way to make Genma forget about these techniques. From what I have heard about him he would sell the information to the enemy for enough money for a piece of bread." Tofu's voice tells her as it fills with disgust. Ku Lon looks down at her great grand cousin worry on her face. She takes a deep breath and straightens as best she can. She hops forward and kisses the forehead of the young girl she has grown to care for almost as much as her own great grand daughter. "Stay with them Li Ly I must do as the doctor suggests." Ku Lon is gone before Tofu can ask what she is talking about. "An ancient Amazon secret." Li Ly tells him with a small smile. "When you and Kasumi are finished can we put her in the same room with her mother? I am afraid she may have night terrors otherwise, plus if you don't she won't stay put when she wakes." Tofu sees the proud look on the Amazon's face as she looks down at the warrior. "Yes but the rest of the light warriors are going to have to leave. I can not have them under foot." Tofu tells them his voice firm. "They need protection!" Samuel tells the two, worry and anger growing. "I will stay with them wizard!" Li Ly tells them leaving no room for argument. /*\*/*\ Samuel and Ryoga help Dr. Tofu move Ran Koh in with her mother. They then help them set up a cot for Li Ly. He then forces the Light Warriors out of his clinic with the promise to call if they need them. Tofu then prepares to open for the other patients he must tend. He closes the door to the Takashi women's room and with the help of Kasumi begins his day. The problem is his first visitor is the rest of the Takashi clan. Tofu hangs his head, rubbing his forehead with his hand. Kasumi smiles at him and places a comforting hand on his shoulder. He turns to her and smiles sadly. He then turns to address the family of Ran Koh and Nodoka. "May I help you?" He tries to go for the innocent look, it doesn't help he is not as good at it as his beloved. "Don't give us that Doc where are they before I demonstrate the Takashi school of Kendo of the Light!" Hayashi growls low in his throat. "HAYASHI!" His mother snaps and he looks back at her with a sheepish blush. "I apologize doctor, it is just..!" The group turns when a door next to them opens. "They are in here but are not yet awake. You will need to come back later. They need their rest!" The Takashis try to enter the room but find the way blocked by a wall of Amazon elder. "Let us see them!" Taji tells her trying to push past the one hundred and fifty year old woman. "They are sleeping. When they wake and are ready to receive visitors you will be summoned." Li Ly continues ignoring the looks of rage from the men of the Takashi clan. "Why are you here, _elder_!" Hiroshi asks remembering the conflict between his niece and this women. "Guard duty!" She states flatly then turns and re-enters the room closing and locking the door behind her. The Takashis just stare at the door their faces registering shock and disbelief. Taji stares at the door her small delicate hands closing and opening in small white knuckle fists. Her family gulps collectively and moves back pulling the good doctor and his fiancée with them. "She is _my_ daughter and granddaughter! I will see them!" Taji's voice was low and menacing. "Oh my!" Gasps Kasumi as the matriarch of the Takashi clan begins to glow a soft blue white. Taji pulls a beautifully crafted katana from somewhere. Its blade shining from Taji's aura. The watchers can see the intricate scroll work up and down the blade. This was the Takashi Honor blade, but unlike most family honor swords this one has seen battle and is still razor sharp. Taji's aura flows from her body into the family sword. The katana glows brightly with the aura of its wielder. Taji steps forward and with a downward swing slices through the door before her. Keitaro with a small smirk at the shock on the Amazon's face hands Dr. Tofu a bundle of yen. "To fix the door." He whispers with a chuckle at the shock on Tofu's and Kasumi's face. "They are _my_ family and I will be with them!" Taji challenges the Amazon. Li Ly stands to meet the challenge when all stop at a gasp that comes from one of the wounded women. They turn to see Ran Koh sitting up her eyes wide with horror and fear and her Light Warrior aura blazing brightly around her. It is Li Ly that notices her pendant glowing even brighter. /*\*/*\ Ku Lon enters the front door of the apartment building and sees a small group at the door of the war room. She pogoes over to them, her hand snaking out to grab the blur heading for her. She looks down to see Cali looking up at her with bright and shining eyes. "Still at it are we little one?" Ku Lon asks the kitten as Cali bats a strand of Ku Lon's long white hair. Ku Lon puts the kitten on her shoulder as Ran Koh does and heads for the war room. She enters to see the Dr. Cassia and Takashi tending an unconscious Genma. She notices he is fully naked and his crotch is heavily bandaged. She looks around to see many of the men standing with grimaces on their faces and their legs crossed in sympathy. She hears a low growl and turns to see Sera standing next to her granddaughter. "Great grandmother! What you do here?" Xian Pu asks as she comes up to her elder. "What happen Xian Pu?" Ku Lon asks as she points to the patient. "He be bad bad panda-man. He try attack Erin and blood bonded! He kick Sera across room!" Ku Lon listens and her ever sharp mind sees where this description is going. "Sera retaliated and used the Neko-ken on him and he aimed low!" Ku Lon finishes as she raises her hand to stop her granddaughter from saying any more. The young Amazon nods and looks toward the man being tended. She follows behind her grandmother as the matriarch heads toward the two doctors. They are busy tending the gashes from Ran Koh's Vacuum whip. Ku Lon reaches out with her senses and feels the same power as she felt in the wounds of Ran Koh and Nodoka. "I need to perform an ancient Amazon technique on him. It is called the 'Xi Fa- Xiang Gao'!" (THANK YOU All! I went with this spelling because it goes with the use of the Chinese versions of names) Xian Pu gasps at the mention of the Amazon technique. "Why great grandmother want do that?" She asks her eyes wide, watching Ku Lon pull out a small bottle with the #119 on it. "What does this technique do?" Dr. Cassia asks but it is Mirako that answers him. "It is a mind manipulation technique. One of my old Chinese sensei once told me about it. He thought the knowledge of _how_ to do it was lost in history. You use a combination of herbs and shiatsu points to make the recipient forget old memories and or give them new ones." Mirako watches as the two Amazon's corroborate her explanation. "I am afraid I can not allow you to do that to my patient without his knowledge elder." Cassia told the ancient woman. "You can and will doctor. If the knowledge I am removing could save the lives of innocent people." Ku Lon glares at him. "How so elder?" They all turn to see the Light Warriors behind them some very angry. "Aww, Li Ly threw you out, I see!" She tells them with a knowing smile. "I asked a question _cousin_!" Ryoga asks again of his soul mates distant relative. "*SIGH!* Ran Koh discovered that the wounds inflicted on her mother during her fight with _him_ are not healable by magic. Which is why she is at Tofu's clinic. Ran Koh also sustained similar injuries. When I returned here I checked with my senses and Ran Koh's wounds have the same signature as those she gave her father." Ku Lon pauses to let this sink in and see if anyone understands what she is saying. "Then there is something more to the Saotome Secret Techniques then chi and ki manipulation?" The questions comes from Msu Tsu, as he stares at the naked man, the Light Warrior cringing as he spots the heavy bandages on the others groin. "Very good Msu Tsu, you are correct. Now all of you examine the wounds on him. His wounds only varies slightly from those on Ran Koh and Nodoka because unconsciously Ran Koh seems to allow some of the Neko-ken into her chi." Ku Lon waits as the Light Warriors do as she asks. They all glow with their respective Light Warrior auras. Ku Lon then looks around and notices the other warriors around the room also using their senses to examine the wounds. She smiles proudly at her many students. She does not kid herself she knows their abilities are a side effect of fighting with the Light Warriors. She also knows when the war is over they will retain everything they learned which means she needs to find a way to get them back to the village. The Amazon nation will survive another three thousand years even more with all this strong new blood. She continues to look around the room and can tell that some are having troubles reaching with their senses. She makes a mental note of who so they can have extra training in that area. She knows the danger sense must be honed or it can cost them their lives. She stumbles slightly on her staff, but she holds her balance. She looks down and sees Sera standing next to her. She scowls at first then sees him stare at her with sad eyes. She knows he wants his momma Ran Koh. She jumps from her staff onto the tiger's back. She is the only one Sera will allow to do this. She leans forward and whispers to him. "Do not fear my strong friend your momma is ok. She will be back tomorrow." Sera nods his head in understanding then lowers himself to the floor. Ku Lon stays on his back and waits for the room to finish. Derek and Mirako watch the warriors then turn to Ku Lon. She is reclining on the back of the tiger waiting like they are, for the warriors to finish. "BY THE SPIRITS AROUND US!" The three turn to Don the shaman his eyes open wide with horror. His exclamation causes some of the warriors to break from their search. They then continue when they see Ku Lon give him a signal to stay quite. It is not long after that the others begin to make the same discovery. "How was he able to do that!" Roberto demands his eyes flitting between Genma and Ku Lon. "I do not know, but I am sure Ran Koh does. I want to remove the knowledge of those techniques from his mind. We fear he may use them against us in battle. So intent is his desire to get his _son_ back. He may give up the information for that opportunity." Ku Lon tells the group as she glares at the sleeping man. "I will allow you to remove those techniques _only_ elder though I do not understand why it is upsetting you all. I will however bow to your judgment in that. _However,_ I want your word of honor as an Amazon matriarch that you will _not_ change any other memories." Dr. Cassia tells the old woman his eyes flashing with determination. Ku Lon looks at the doctor her eyebrow raising. Xian Pu stares dumb founded at him. She does not know whether to be insulted for his demand of an oath from her great grandmother or surprised that he knows the oath in such a manner is binding by death to an Amazon. "I agree!" Ku Lon states as she slides off of Sera's back a small paw flashing out at the movement of her long white hair. "*SASP!* Great grandmother!" Xian Pu asks her eyes wide with shock. "Enough child it is a valid request. Although it would help alleviate our problems with him. He is still Ran Koh's father and he has the right to remember that as does Ran Koh." Ku Lon tells her great granddaughter looking at her over her shoulder. The group watches as Ku Lon performs the 'Xi Fa-Xiang Gao' Mirako more closely then others. Her mind going to the people it would help especially children. They could be made to forget horrendous memories until they are old enough to understand and deal with them. Mirako knows this technique can not be used as a permanent solution but it can be a helpful tool. Ku Lon steps back from the Anything Goes Martial Artist after pressing his shiatsu points to wake him. She waits for him to become conscious. She watches as Genma opens his eyes and tries to figure out where he is. He turns and stares at her his eyes first showing surprise then narrows to rage. "Where is my _SON_!" He growls at the elder. "You killed your son at Jusenkyo fool. Tell me what techniques were you using when you fought Ran Koh on the roof this morning?" Ku Lon moves on as she wants to get rid of this man as soon as she can. "I use Anything Goes." He looks at her with confusion as if she has three heads and a tail. "Really? I never saw Happosai use those moves before." Ku Lon smirks as she watches Genma go white at the mention of his masters name. "Y..You k..know the m..m..master?" Genma asks trying to back away from the unlucky woman. "Why yes I do. So did he teach you those moves you used this morning?" Ku Lon keeps pressing, trying to get the information she wants without giving the man before her any ideas. "H..He taught me everything I know." Genma though proud of his skill still looks around the room with nervous flitting eyes. "Hmm, yes and I can see you were an excellent student also." Ku Lon knows a little ego boosting can get a person a lot of things. "I was his best student, even better the Tendo. After all I taught my son our art! He has no one heir that can use the Tendo school!" Genma tells her puffing his chest out. Ku Lon looks at him, hiding her disgust. She smirks when she sees him begin to shiver from the cold of the room. She looks up at him with cold calculating eyes. She watches as this time Genma shivers from something other then the cold. "I see, did you ever think of making up your own techniques?" She asks him cautiously knowing this line of questioning might cause them problems. "I did once, but..!" Ku Lon watches him deflate she was hoping for this reaction. "I tried but I just couldn't get them to work so I gave up hoping maybe Ranma would be able to complete them where I couldn't." Genma sighs and looks down not seeing Ku Lon smile triumphantly. "AACCKKK!" Ku Lon looks back at the panda-man her eyebrow arching questionably. "I..I..I'm n..naked!" Genma stutters as he scrambles for some clothes. The room breaks out into a chorus of laughter. Genma quickly dresses as Dr. Cassia tries to get him to rest. Genma pulls back from the doctor and glares at him. He then turns to the old woman and with a snarl he turns and runs from the building. "I WILL BE BACK FOR MY _SON_!" His shout fading in the distances. "Well at least that is taken care of." Ku Lon says brushing her hands together as if removing crumbs. "Why did you let him remember he was trying to create those techniques." Michael Sanders asks his eyes flashing with anger. "It is best to let him think he failed at creating them then to block them totally. Something could jar the memory loose that way. I also changed what the techniques were so if he sees Ran Koh using them he won't recognize them as his." Ku Lon tells the group. "But still..*GASP*!" The reply is cut short as Michael and the other Light Warriors stiffen. "What is wrong?" Ku Lon asks them worry on her face. Ku Lon then freezes her eyes open in horror. This is the first time she can feel his presence. 'He Who Devours the Light' is getting stronger. Xian Pu runs to her grandmother as the old woman stumbles slightly. "What does this mean! Why can I feel him now!" Ku Lon demands of the recovering but still shaky Light Warriors. "All you elders can feel it. His first three generals are nearly awake. They will now be heading out to create the three dead ones they need." Jasmine tells her a slight shudder still going through her body. Ku Lon looks to Mas Cra who just enters the room, her face pale. She nods her head and shivers again as the presence is still lingering. The other warriors in the room do not notice it. Ku Lon and Mas Cra notice though that Don and a few of the other shaman that are there do notice the evil. "Then we need to start major preparations. We are going to step up all of your training. You will all be drafted to help train the Japanese soldiers that will be fighting with us. Do not however teach them any magic if you know it. Just enhance their martial arts training." The group nods as they follow Ku Lon and Mas Cra back to the Joketsuzoku village.