Ursine
Concerned Citizen
- Location
- Home, Sweet Home
Dude, spoiler that crap, some people on this site are still innocent enough not to need to know that.
If ignorance is a bliss, knowledge must surely be an ulcer." -Florence Ambrose
To digress: I'm surprised that the martial artists aren't having to help train the youngsters and/or trade their own services. It almost feels like Hikaru's footing the bill for this portion of the trip.
To digress: I'm surprised that the martial artists aren't having to help train the youngsters and/or trade their own services. It almost feels like Hikaru's footing the bill for this portion of the trip.
Ursine
Concerned Citizen
- Location
- Home, Sweet Home
Training in martial arts takes a lot of time. And is impossible to do without the outsiders learning some of the village's techniques as well.
Having Hikaru make some improvements to the village just takes a few minutes to a couple of hours.
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Waterslide
"I can improve to yields by aboout 15%"
"Not more?"
I shrugged.
"No, the system you're using to grow your food is already pretty good, there's only so much I can do to improve it."
This is my life, Hikaru, part time medic, part time farmhand. I got to work carving some runes into some pottery, which would then be strategically placed to enhance the already impressive array. That's what humbled me about this trip, there's always someone better and whoever did the work in Jungle village was a true master.
A woman in a fox costume licked her lips hungrily.
"He's taken."
Ukyo glared at her and the foxgirl left. We went back to our rooms, slept and then left in the morning. After Jungle villiage we saw more green, more people. It was far from the war. Finally we ended up at the cursed springs. A guide looked at us.
"How are things going back east?"
"Bad."
"Does...Does China still exist?"
I looked at Ranma.
"It does, but it's pretty ugly, the russians, well you know."
There were grimaces.
"We need to use the springs."
He put some food on the ground.
"Let's talk."
The primary guide stepped forward.
"We're going to need more then that, we haven't been getting shipments."
"Three bags of rice."
"Four, and we want any alcohol you have."
"We still have to travel back, you're not the only one who wants a bribe, and the russians are the russians. Two bottles of Sake, four bags of rice."
They looked at each other and sighed.
"Deal."
We pulled the bags of rice out of my pockets and gave them two large bottles of rice wine, and we were welcomed into the springs.
"I'm going to stay back."
I grimaced at Akane.
"Why?"
"I don't want to get cursed."
"And we don't want you to get kidnapped, stay with the goddamned group."
"I'm going to be fine."
We all looked at each other, Ukyo grimaced.
"Maybe you should, um stay with the group?"
"I can handle myself."
More of us grimaced.
"Seriously."
We stared at her.
"Guys."
Ranma sighed.
"Fine, whatever."
We walked into the springs, armed with maps we slowly and carefully got to the proper pools. I watched in awe as I felt a popping sensation as the curse was lifted from the three damaged members of the group, then we went back outside and...
"Your friend has been-"
"Kidnapped, we know."
Ranma sighed.
"Who did it."
"The Phoenix kingdom."
"Where?"
He pointed in a direction and Ranma flipped a coin, he shook his head.
"Well, let's get her back."
"I can improve to yields by aboout 15%"
"Not more?"
I shrugged.
"No, the system you're using to grow your food is already pretty good, there's only so much I can do to improve it."
This is my life, Hikaru, part time medic, part time farmhand. I got to work carving some runes into some pottery, which would then be strategically placed to enhance the already impressive array. That's what humbled me about this trip, there's always someone better and whoever did the work in Jungle village was a true master.
A woman in a fox costume licked her lips hungrily.
"He's taken."
Ukyo glared at her and the foxgirl left. We went back to our rooms, slept and then left in the morning. After Jungle villiage we saw more green, more people. It was far from the war. Finally we ended up at the cursed springs. A guide looked at us.
"How are things going back east?"
"Bad."
"Does...Does China still exist?"
I looked at Ranma.
"It does, but it's pretty ugly, the russians, well you know."
There were grimaces.
"We need to use the springs."
He put some food on the ground.
"Let's talk."
The primary guide stepped forward.
"We're going to need more then that, we haven't been getting shipments."
"Three bags of rice."
"Four, and we want any alcohol you have."
"We still have to travel back, you're not the only one who wants a bribe, and the russians are the russians. Two bottles of Sake, four bags of rice."
They looked at each other and sighed.
"Deal."
We pulled the bags of rice out of my pockets and gave them two large bottles of rice wine, and we were welcomed into the springs.
"I'm going to stay back."
I grimaced at Akane.
"Why?"
"I don't want to get cursed."
"And we don't want you to get kidnapped, stay with the goddamned group."
"I'm going to be fine."
We all looked at each other, Ukyo grimaced.
"Maybe you should, um stay with the group?"
"I can handle myself."
More of us grimaced.
"Seriously."
We stared at her.
"Guys."
Ranma sighed.
"Fine, whatever."
We walked into the springs, armed with maps we slowly and carefully got to the proper pools. I watched in awe as I felt a popping sensation as the curse was lifted from the three damaged members of the group, then we went back outside and...
"Your friend has been-"
"Kidnapped, we know."
Ranma sighed.
"Who did it."
"The Phoenix kingdom."
"Where?"
He pointed in a direction and Ranma flipped a coin, he shook his head.
"Well, let's get her back."
Jackercracks
In a British accent
- Location
- England
Here's who they're fighting, for the people who want to know Phoenix People
Ranma is so done with her shit. Just so very done. If she's in another easily broken wooden cage I think he's just going to turn around and walk away. Probably instead she'll be in a magic enslaving egg thing though. I hope her stupidity doesn't get anyone actually important hurt.
edmantgoog
init high just high
to be fair she reallyy can handler herself against most opponents, its just that she is often facing geniuses, once in a genaration miricals and rare tallents.... basically she is just unlucky when it comes to conflict, though statisticly7 speaking she can take care of herself.
so i would sday less stupidity and more.... refusing to accet her own bad luck. which to be fair a lot of people (myself inclued sometimes) do
so i would sday less stupidity and more.... refusing to accet her own bad luck. which to be fair a lot of people (myself inclued sometimes) do
Cherico
Machine
well that and Akane is dealing with some serious emotional issues, her mother's dead, her fathers dead, her sisters dead, her fiancee left her for another woman the sister of the man who used to raise a small army of men to attack her once a week. Her friends more or less ditched her when her sister went to jail, she has no idea how she's going to support herself when the insurance money runs out and on top of that she's still in high school.
Akane is not in a good place right now.
I think that part of the problem is that you have kind of removed some of Akanes best traits and roll in canon.
In canon, she is for want of a better term the kind one, and out of all the fiancés she is really the only one that doesn't actively pursue Ranma, honestly at this point with this character there is no real reason for her to be in the story except to balk at entering and get captured kind of seemingly by author fiat.
Honestly it might be better to just excise her from the story and have her role taken by Ukyo, who was told to wait outside by Hikaru to avoid having her risk a curse, which Would set up a nice conflict.
Phoenixes are nice, right? I'm sure she'll be fine. They can just head home. She'll catch up later.
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We walked along the deserted road, Ranma frowned.
"I'm not doing this a fourth time."
The others stared at me.
"Ru."
"Ranma, the first time was understandable, the second time, ok that's a fluke, but three times? That's a pattern."
He sighed at looked at the rest of us, Ryuga was upset but didn't say anything.
"Ok Ru, I'm going to put it to a vote, does everyone agree that this is the last rescue?"
All the hands went up except one, Ranma stared at his own hand hanging in the air.
"Huh...well it's looks like were all in agreement Ryoga, I'm willing to pack you a lunch if this happens again."
He shrugged.
"Thanks Ranma."
We continued walking towards the enemies mountain strong hold.
"Airen, why you chose ugly crazy girl instead of me."
"Not now, Shampoo."
"Why?"
He stopped.
"First of all, I think Kodachi's pretty."
She smiled.
"Second really? REALLY? YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT YET?"
He was yelling.
"No?"
"Ok, let me explain it Shampoo, first of all there's Mousse. I got sick, real sick of having him trying to slice me open like a loaf of bread, but hey even that could have been forgiven. The reason, the real reason why we didn't work out, why we would never work out? It's all the magic bullshit."
"I'm right here!"
"Sorry Ru."
He turned back to Shampoo.
"Remember the mushrooms? The love potions, your crazy cousins, the memory loss potion incident, which I'm still mad about. Point is I'm a human, goddamned being and you treated me like a slab of meat, instead of a person. That's why it didn't work out, that's why you and me will never work out."
Shampoo huffed.
"But I gave you the-"
"Kiss of death, not the kiss of marriage and I actually read through your law book, that kiss was completely non binding."
"But."
"If the kiss of death's sentence is not carried out with in three moons then the event that caused it is considered to be forgiven. Page 108, paragraf 7."
Shampoo blinked and I stared at him as if he had grown another head.
"Working in demolition has taught me the importance of you know, actually studying and learning stuff. Breaking the wrong thing gets you really expensive fines."
Ranma kicked a rock and we continued onwards towards the land of the Phoenix people.
We walked along the deserted road, Ranma frowned.
"I'm not doing this a fourth time."
The others stared at me.
"Ru."
"Ranma, the first time was understandable, the second time, ok that's a fluke, but three times? That's a pattern."
He sighed at looked at the rest of us, Ryuga was upset but didn't say anything.
"Ok Ru, I'm going to put it to a vote, does everyone agree that this is the last rescue?"
All the hands went up except one, Ranma stared at his own hand hanging in the air.
"Huh...well it's looks like were all in agreement Ryoga, I'm willing to pack you a lunch if this happens again."
He shrugged.
"Thanks Ranma."
We continued walking towards the enemies mountain strong hold.
"Airen, why you chose ugly crazy girl instead of me."
"Not now, Shampoo."
"Why?"
He stopped.
"First of all, I think Kodachi's pretty."
She smiled.
"Second really? REALLY? YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT YET?"
He was yelling.
"No?"
"Ok, let me explain it Shampoo, first of all there's Mousse. I got sick, real sick of having him trying to slice me open like a loaf of bread, but hey even that could have been forgiven. The reason, the real reason why we didn't work out, why we would never work out? It's all the magic bullshit."
"I'm right here!"
"Sorry Ru."
He turned back to Shampoo.
"Remember the mushrooms? The love potions, your crazy cousins, the memory loss potion incident, which I'm still mad about. Point is I'm a human, goddamned being and you treated me like a slab of meat, instead of a person. That's why it didn't work out, that's why you and me will never work out."
Shampoo huffed.
"But I gave you the-"
"Kiss of death, not the kiss of marriage and I actually read through your law book, that kiss was completely non binding."
"But."
"If the kiss of death's sentence is not carried out with in three moons then the event that caused it is considered to be forgiven. Page 108, paragraf 7."
Shampoo blinked and I stared at him as if he had grown another head.
"Working in demolition has taught me the importance of you know, actually studying and learning stuff. Breaking the wrong thing gets you really expensive fines."
Ranma kicked a rock and we continued onwards towards the land of the Phoenix people.
Cardo076
Meow
- Location
- Denver
This is something I wish I'd known earlier in life.
Finbar
Generic Minion #314
- Location
- Sydney
Ok, I am amused
I liked the verbal slap down of Shampoo, who I always felt was more than a little unhinged. Kodachi levels in fact.
I am also amused by the vote (a fricken vote!) on not rescuing Akane any more.
Has Hikaru checked her for Curses? She might have one that makes her the target of kidnapping attempts.
I liked the verbal slap down of Shampoo, who I always felt was more than a little unhinged. Kodachi levels in fact.
I am also amused by the vote (a fricken vote!) on not rescuing Akane any more.
Has Hikaru checked her for Curses? She might have one that makes her the target of kidnapping attempts.
- Location
- wethersfield,ct
I almost facepalmed when I read that, it seems so right-in-our-faces obvious, but it never occurred to me that she could be cursed too.
- Location
- wethersfield,ct
I figured it would be like most of the other curses described, some cave-wizard was an a-hole and cursed the Tendo line so that whenever a descendant meets the criteria, their wisdom score is occasionally cut in half and they are kidnapped.
I can see it now, an ancestor Tendo refused a marriage, and so was cursed that any female descendant who became a martial artist would lose their common sense and get kidnapped. And because Akane keeps surviving it keeps happening.
zecorezecron
Verified Asshole
- Location
- Washington
Akane being cursed was literally my first thought about why. It was just so obvious I figured that everyone knew about it.
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You win an interlude of choice for figuring it out.
Ryouga- The end
Cherico
Machine
Ryoga Hibiki
You know how in comic books, and movies, and all this stuff the heroes win and there's a happy ending.
Life isn't like that, now I'm not saying I hate my current life, far from it but life is a mixed bag with good things, bad things and boring moments in between. Right, so you wanted to know how it went, didn't you?
The phoenix king kidnapped Akane to make her his bride, why did he do this? He was young, impulsive and had been given everything he could ever want. He was a spoiled brat with the power of a god. Maybe that's why there was a token effort to stop us. Or maybe it was the Sino Russian war. The Phoenix people had bigger problems on their plate and were essentially fed up with their local spoiled brat making things worse.
So there was a fight to get there, but looking back on it, they put up a token fight and I remember people just walking out of the fight. We felt great, felt like champions and then we fought the phoenix king. Saffron might have been a spoiled idiot but the boy could fight. It took all of us working together to even hold a chance. The only reason we survived was because, like I said he was a spoiled idiot.
The man wasn't used to taking a hit so when one of us hit him and hit him hard he froze up, he wasn't used to using actual tactics either or having people fight back. All of us, however? We were used to people fighting back used to being hurt used to being pummeled so we just hit him working together as a team.
Then he blew the top off the roof, and he laughed at us as the rain hit us.
That's when I couldn't help but smile, it was raining hard that night maybe it was the war maybe it was luck but it was raining hard and Hikaru's eyes glowed a bright blue, his body glowed next and then the water rushed down. We used ki attacks to help power up the rushing roar of water. It helped make the effect stronger.
Saffron fought it, against the storm of water rushing toward him, Ranma and I? We rushed forward took a deep breath and punched him in the belly. That moment stunned him, the fact that we slammed his head against the floor helped even more, and the water flowed into his mouth. Saffron screamed, which was a big mistake. We held him down until he stopped moving, until he stopped breathing, until his lungs burst and his dead corpse stared at us with lifeless eyes. **
We stopped then and watched as his body burned away and turned into an egg.
"We will raise him right next time."
That shook us out of our shock.
"What?"
Ranma broke the silence.
"We made a mistake, we spoiled him too much he was such a sweet boy such a lovable boy that we spoiled him."
The old monk picked up the egg and looked at it.
"You were a good boy too bad you were such a shit adult."
He bowed to us and we were allowed to go home. Hikaru used some kind of spell to teleport us home back to Nerma and I was thankful for it. We saw things in China that still haunt me to this day.
As for what happened next?
Ukyo asked Hikaru to marry her, and when senior year ended she did, they had three kids together. Good kids Hikaru says he thanks the gods that they got their looks from their mother but I see a lot of him in them, and that's a good thing.
Ranma and Kodachi tied the knot next she's still on medication though that's for life and she sees a therapist once a week just to make sure everything's on the up and up. Ranma joins her in the therapy sessions. They had one kid; he became a therapist does a damned good job of it. I asked Ranma why he didn't have more but he told me he was worried about screwing things up.
He shouldn't have been so worried Ranma was a damned fine father, gave his boy a better life than his dad ever gave him.
Takewaki Kuno...married the master of martial arts cheerleading. The family estate has never done better than under his management, I like him now consider him a friend even but he harbors a lot of guilt for the way he acted when he was well gone.
He fought hard to come back from that dark place; it took all of us working together to do it but he's back now but there's a tiredness to him a brokenness to him a humility to him as well ***. He's become a good man a good friend.
Professor Macguffin, well he vanished when his ten years were up, he communicates with his son by magic mirror when he can. I feel bad for him I think his curse the curse of being forced to travel the multiverse alone was far worse than any of ours.
Hikaru's girl married his sensei's son, they're about to have a kid, he was worried about them getting married so young but his wife just said that they made it work so why worry?
As for me? I married Akane Tendo, she well she doesn't leave her property anymore. Being kidnapped all those times, the boy bully routine's her sister's death, her father's death. These things broke her and after high school, he just stopped leaving the property. I worked odd jobs to support her, support us and one thing led to another.
We have two kids a boy and a girl, they grew up and had kids of their own, as for the world?
The Sino-Russian war shattered China like glass but for the Soviet Union the war ground them up into nothing. The Soviet Union collapsed in 92 and the Russian successor state is a pale shadow of what it once was.
North Korea collapsed next and the south conquered it, their pretty strong these days and have taken some former Chinese provinces with a high number of ethnic Koreans. The UN stopped them from grabbing more.
The world? The worlds pretty peaceful and has been for decades, and as for Japan? Well, the countries ruled by a kind of nostalgia for the past. Our economy our people simply couldn't keep up the same kind of pace we were at so the normal world kind of puttered out. The twilight world the world of magi, martial artists and other stuff?
We thought we were going to die out, thought we were going back into the dust bin of history, but national survival has a way of changing things. We were the only one having kids, so the government decided to make it mandatory for people to learn the way of ki. It started in the rural areas, and well it worked the birth rate stopped declining so more small towns opted into it.
We are 50% of the population now and it looks like we are going to be the majority soon.
We survived by empowering the people maybe just maybe there is a lesson in that.
You know how in comic books, and movies, and all this stuff the heroes win and there's a happy ending.
Life isn't like that, now I'm not saying I hate my current life, far from it but life is a mixed bag with good things, bad things and boring moments in between. Right, so you wanted to know how it went, didn't you?
The phoenix king kidnapped Akane to make her his bride, why did he do this? He was young, impulsive and had been given everything he could ever want. He was a spoiled brat with the power of a god. Maybe that's why there was a token effort to stop us. Or maybe it was the Sino Russian war. The Phoenix people had bigger problems on their plate and were essentially fed up with their local spoiled brat making things worse.
So there was a fight to get there, but looking back on it, they put up a token fight and I remember people just walking out of the fight. We felt great, felt like champions and then we fought the phoenix king. Saffron might have been a spoiled idiot but the boy could fight. It took all of us working together to even hold a chance. The only reason we survived was because, like I said he was a spoiled idiot.
The man wasn't used to taking a hit so when one of us hit him and hit him hard he froze up, he wasn't used to using actual tactics either or having people fight back. All of us, however? We were used to people fighting back used to being hurt used to being pummeled so we just hit him working together as a team.
Then he blew the top off the roof, and he laughed at us as the rain hit us.
That's when I couldn't help but smile, it was raining hard that night maybe it was the war maybe it was luck but it was raining hard and Hikaru's eyes glowed a bright blue, his body glowed next and then the water rushed down. We used ki attacks to help power up the rushing roar of water. It helped make the effect stronger.
Saffron fought it, against the storm of water rushing toward him, Ranma and I? We rushed forward took a deep breath and punched him in the belly. That moment stunned him, the fact that we slammed his head against the floor helped even more, and the water flowed into his mouth. Saffron screamed, which was a big mistake. We held him down until he stopped moving, until he stopped breathing, until his lungs burst and his dead corpse stared at us with lifeless eyes. **
We stopped then and watched as his body burned away and turned into an egg.
"We will raise him right next time."
That shook us out of our shock.
"What?"
Ranma broke the silence.
"We made a mistake, we spoiled him too much he was such a sweet boy such a lovable boy that we spoiled him."
The old monk picked up the egg and looked at it.
"You were a good boy too bad you were such a shit adult."
He bowed to us and we were allowed to go home. Hikaru used some kind of spell to teleport us home back to Nerma and I was thankful for it. We saw things in China that still haunt me to this day.
As for what happened next?
Ukyo asked Hikaru to marry her, and when senior year ended she did, they had three kids together. Good kids Hikaru says he thanks the gods that they got their looks from their mother but I see a lot of him in them, and that's a good thing.
Ranma and Kodachi tied the knot next she's still on medication though that's for life and she sees a therapist once a week just to make sure everything's on the up and up. Ranma joins her in the therapy sessions. They had one kid; he became a therapist does a damned good job of it. I asked Ranma why he didn't have more but he told me he was worried about screwing things up.
He shouldn't have been so worried Ranma was a damned fine father, gave his boy a better life than his dad ever gave him.
Takewaki Kuno...married the master of martial arts cheerleading. The family estate has never done better than under his management, I like him now consider him a friend even but he harbors a lot of guilt for the way he acted when he was well gone.
He fought hard to come back from that dark place; it took all of us working together to do it but he's back now but there's a tiredness to him a brokenness to him a humility to him as well ***. He's become a good man a good friend.
Professor Macguffin, well he vanished when his ten years were up, he communicates with his son by magic mirror when he can. I feel bad for him I think his curse the curse of being forced to travel the multiverse alone was far worse than any of ours.
Hikaru's girl married his sensei's son, they're about to have a kid, he was worried about them getting married so young but his wife just said that they made it work so why worry?
As for me? I married Akane Tendo, she well she doesn't leave her property anymore. Being kidnapped all those times, the boy bully routine's her sister's death, her father's death. These things broke her and after high school, he just stopped leaving the property. I worked odd jobs to support her, support us and one thing led to another.
We have two kids a boy and a girl, they grew up and had kids of their own, as for the world?
The Sino-Russian war shattered China like glass but for the Soviet Union the war ground them up into nothing. The Soviet Union collapsed in 92 and the Russian successor state is a pale shadow of what it once was.
North Korea collapsed next and the south conquered it, their pretty strong these days and have taken some former Chinese provinces with a high number of ethnic Koreans. The UN stopped them from grabbing more.
The world? The worlds pretty peaceful and has been for decades, and as for Japan? Well, the countries ruled by a kind of nostalgia for the past. Our economy our people simply couldn't keep up the same kind of pace we were at so the normal world kind of puttered out. The twilight world the world of magi, martial artists and other stuff?
We thought we were going to die out, thought we were going back into the dust bin of history, but national survival has a way of changing things. We were the only one having kids, so the government decided to make it mandatory for people to learn the way of ki. It started in the rural areas, and well it worked the birth rate stopped declining so more small towns opted into it.
We are 50% of the population now and it looks like we are going to be the majority soon.
We survived by empowering the people maybe just maybe there is a lesson in that.
Jumper mentors Gosunkigi, teaching him water bending, various magical styles and the greatest power of all: common fucking sense. It mostly works. Gos bangs Ukyo instead of pining after Akane and they all live Happily ever after... except for the jumper, who eventually retires to Westeros.
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