A Ranma 1/2 crossover

By Stephen J. Scalaro

{ } represents signs

[ ] Foreign languages

" " Japanese or personal thoughts

Chapter 2- What do you mean I'm an elf

Once Ranma was in the guide's hut, she put her father down in the corner and then asked the guide "You said that hot water would turn us back to normal."

The guide nodded his head and said "Yes, hot water turn you back to normal, but cold water will turn you back into an elf."

That surprised Ranma. "What do you mean an elf?"

The guide just pointed out a mirror hanging on a wall to her and then replied "Look at ears, face, and body. Only thing I can think of, is elf." I not know anything that drowned in that spring before. Every time before that something fell into it nothing happen. That was one of few uncured springs left, or so I thought."

Ranma looked at herself in the mirror and could help but agree with the guide. She did look like an elf. Her ears where very large and pointed, her hair was a brighter red than any she had seen before and it also reached all the way down to her thighs.

The next thing that she noticed was her eyes. They where the exact same shade of red as her hair. The seemed to be impossibly wide and made her think that if you stared into them long enough that you could see straight into her soul.

Then she noticed the way her clothes looked on her and couldn't help the blush that threatened to make her face the same color as her hair. It seemed that she was actually taller in her new girl form that when her normal one, and this caused her newly acquired clothes to have a tighter fit then she felt comfortable with.

After she was finished looking at her changes she turned her attention back to the guide and asked "OK, nothing has ever changed in that spring before. But why did I change?"

The guide "I not know."

Guide "I still no understand why your clothes go away. That not supposed to happen."

The guide moves over to the fire where there was a tea kettle waiting over it. He picks it up and hands it over to Ranma and says "Water should be hot enough to change now."

Ranma takes the kettle and pores it over her head and shivers when the change starts.

The first thing that he notices after it was over was all the small aches and pains that where absent before. It wasn't anything bad, but just the common everyday feelings that told you that you where still alive and well.

It did seem strange but now that he thought about it, while in his elf half there hadn't been any aches or pains. It wasn't that he didn't have any since of touch or feelings quit the contrary in fact. It seemed that he had more than he was used to. Just like every other sense that he had.

The second thing he noticed was that everything seemed out of focus, the colors weren't as bright, and everything had a lot less detail then before. It was very strange. He knew that this was how he had seen everything for his whole life before the change. But now it was like he had put on a pair of glasses for the first time, then had to take them off.

It was the same with his hearing too. It sounded like he had earplugs on right now. Everything sounded muted.

The only thing that seemed to be muted in his other form was the emotions. It wasn't that they weren't there, it was just that they didn't seem to be as strong. He knew that he should have been a hell of a lot more pissed of towards his father, but he just felt more annoyed than anything else at the time.

The last thing he noticed about the change was that he was wearing his gi again.

The guide must have noticed the same thing "You wearing gi again, very strange sir. You the first person to have clothes change along with body. Your hair now shorter too."

Ranma reached back and felt his pigtail and did feel that it was now back to its normal length.

When he was done checking himself out Ranma took the kettle and poured the rest of the water onto the unconscious panda, turning it back into his father.

Genma woke up sputtering and looked up at his son then back down toward himself and muttered softly "Thank god, it was just a nightmare."

Ranma "You wish it was a nightmare you old fool"

Genma "You should respect your elders boy."

Ranma "Respect? Respect you old man! This last idea of yours is the stupidest one since the Neko-ken."

Genma "Now nothing bad happened did it boy." He then muttered under his breath "It couldn't have happened. I'm not a panda right?"

Ranma grabbed the cup of water out of the guide's hands and threw it at his father. "You are a panda pops! You better look again"

Genma "Groff grouff gruoff " The panda then points at Ranma and continues "Grrr groff grrr grouf grorr"

Ranma shakes his head and speaks to the guide "Do you see what I have to put up with here? This IDIOT doesn't even know that we can't even understand a single word he's saying, but he still continues on."

Genma raises a sign {I am not an idiot. As your father I demand respect that I deserve boy.}

Ranma actually had to laugh at this. "I do give you the respect you DESERVE pops. That is. None at all"

The panda's only reply to that was to throw the sign that it was holding right to Ranma's head. Using the distraction that this caused the panda moved behind Ranma and hit him on the head again rendering him unconscious.

The guide looks at the panda and son and comments "I have to say it again. You two very strange ones, sir."

Genma produced another sign {I'll have you know that when I was his age, I lived in constant fear of my masters wrath. He has no idea of how easy I am on him}

Another sign {Why am I a panda?}

Guide "You sir fall in Shonmaoniichuan. Spring of drowned panda. Very tragic story of panda who drowned 2000 year ago. The legend say whoever fall in spring take body of panda."

Genma {Is there any cure for me.}

Before the guide can answer the question the door opens with a bang and a young man rushes in. The young man was wearing a heavy backpack, yellow shirt and a yellow bandana with black polka-dots.

Young man "Have you seen two people in white gi come through here recently? Someone around my age traveling with his father. The kid has a black hair tied into a pigtail, and the father is nearly bald, and wears a bandana and glasses."

The panda quickly uses it's immense bulk to block the boys view of Ranma and shakes it's head and holds up a sign {Nope, Ranma and his father aren't here. Nope. Just us innocent pandas.}

The panda then points to the way out of the valley {But I think I might have seen someone matching your description heading that way.}

The boy looks at the panda strangely for a second, scratches his head and thanks him. With that done the boy leaves. In the direction of the cursed springs though.

The guide seems to think of something for a moment then remembers what was they were talking about before the interruption. "There is no cure for the curse, sir. Hot water will turn you back to normal. Cold water turn you back to panda again."

Genma nods his head and thinks to himself "A martial artists life is fraught with peril. But I never thought changing into a panda would be one of the perils. Well at least my son doesn't have a curse. God knows what would happen if he actually turned into a girl, like in my dream."

He then takes the kettle that had been cooling off on the table next to him and poured it on Ranma to wake him up. What he saw next shocked him.

He watched what looked like a brief haze flow over his son's form, and when it was gone it left a completely different person in his place. In fact, it looked a lot like the girl that he had turned into in his dream.

He looked at the guide and held up a sign {It wasn't a dream, was it.} while thinking "Nodoka will kill me, Nodoka will kill me. Nodoka will kill me............"

Ranma just sat there looking at her father and trying, and succeeding surprisingly, to suppress her rage. Once she had gotten it under control she stood up and told the panda "I don't think you know how close to the edge you're pushing me old man. I mean look at what this crazy training scheme has done to us this time." She gestured at both her new body and the panda in front of her.

"I mean look at me. I'm an elf now. Not only an elf, but a FEMALE elf. Every time I get hit with water now I'm going to look like some girl going to an anime convention."

The panda sniggers at this while holding up a sign {Oh the horror, the humiliation. My son turns into a fairy.}

Ranma doesn't know whether to laugh, or get mad at the panda's antics. So she just ignores him picks up the kettle off of the floor where Genma dropped it and filled it back up and put it back over the fire.

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Ranma was lost in thought while they walked towards the Joketsuzoku village. According to the guide the village was full of amazon warriors, and they knew the most about the cursed springs than anyone else. They didn't know a cure, but they might know why her curse was so different than all the other ones.

The curse was another thing that she was thinking about a lot. She could tell just form the last few days with it that the curse not only changed her shape, but it also made her a water magnet.

Every time she had changed back into her original form, within an hour she was splashed with water. Most of the time she was splashed in some very unlikely way.

Just like when she had last changed back to her real form last night. Soon after she had, it had started to rain. There wasn't a single cloud in the sky five minutes before, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky five minutes after.

That wasn't the part of the curse that scared her the most though. It was the fact that every time she changed back into her original form, was the sense of loss that was almost painful.

It seemed that each time she changed back, like she was blind and deaf for the first few minutes. Then there was also the feeling of all her daily aches and pains coming back. What was so strange about that was that she knew in her cursed body that her sense of touch was also much stronger.

At first she thought that the enhanced sense of touch would be a liability in a fight, but she had found out otherwise while sparing with her father. If anything it was the reverse. The few hits that he had managed to get in, hardly hurt at all. She knew she was hit there, she even knew the exact amount of force behind each hit.

The first night in her cursed form was a bit of an eye opener for her. Not only could she see in the dark now, she could also see the heat signatures of all the animals around her.

At first she didn't know what she was seeing. It was almost like something out of her peripheral vision. It had been there the entire time, but she hadn't noticed it until night because of all the other distractions.

It was kind of strange to look at because she could see her father and the guide through their tents. She could see the outline of their bodies bathed in a whitish light, and brighter spots in various places in the body. That wasn't the only thing she had found out that night either.

The first thing she had found out was during dinner. It seemed that she wasn't hungry. At first she didn't know what that feeling was either, she had only felt it a few times before in her life.

When she had finished preparing the meal over the campfire, and had sat down to have her daily battle with her father over their food.

For the first half of the meal she had eaten and defended her food out of habit, but as the meal went on at its normal furious pace, she had realized that she wasn't really hungry.

The slight pause of surprise on her part allowed her father to take a fair amount of her food, for which he berated her for slacking off on her training. With her mind back on the meal, she continued to eat and defend her food, but she did so more out of habit, than actual need for the food.

The second thing she had discovered was her improved night vision, and the ability to see heat sources.

The third thing she had found out was that she couldn't sleep. This was also a very strange thing for her, She normally could sleep anywhere, anytime, but it wasn't so that night. For the entire night she had rolled around in her tent and tried to get to sleep to no avail.

The next morning she had expected to be tired, but she wasn't. When she got up she felt like she had gotten a full nights worth of rest. Not spent the entire night trying to sleep.

This was how the next two days went to. She had little need to eat, and no need for sleep. When she did eat, she filled up easily. This had also worried her too, she expected this to degrade her energy levels and tire out quicker, but as she had found out by sparing with her father in her new form, that was anything but the truth.

During that same sparing session she had also found out the she was also much stronger and faster now. Not only faster in reflexes and movement, but in thought too.

When the match started she was amazed at how slowly her father was moving. Before the change his blows where things that were more sensed than seen, but now she could see every move he made like it was in slow motion.

She also realized that with each time she tagged him with a hand or foot, that she put a lot more force into it. The first time she had hit him she had almost dislocated his shoulder without really even trying too.

That sparing match was also the first time she had ever held back. During that match she realized that if she went all-out like she normally does, that she would very likely, seriously hurt, if not cripple, her father.

That match was also the first time that she was able to concentrate solely on improving her technique, instead of just reacting to his attacks during her sparing sessions with him. And she knew that, that was what she was going to have to do from now on, if she wanted to get anything useful out of her sparring sessions with him.

So overall she was fairly happy with her new body (except for being a female elf and all), but she was also getting concerned about it too. Her main concern was what if she started to like this body too much.

With a shake of her head she brought her attention back to the village as the guard waved them through the main gates and into the village.

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Cologne felt worried. She sensed that something important was about to happen. She sensed that a nexus had just entered the village.

She followed the feeling until she reached the village's center where the annual maiden's tournament was taking place. Scanning the crowd she notices the Jusenkyou guide with a girl and a giant panda. Most likely a victim of the Shonmaoniichuan, she thought.

The girl was the nexus though. Looking at her she could see the tangled knots that destiny had woven around the girl. As a nexus she held more freedom then most people ever dreamed of.

A nexus was a person with many different destinies tied to them. They where the people who's lives proved to be monumental pivot points on witch destiny turned. A nexus was a person who's very existence caused change where ever they went. A nexus's life was never dull, most of the time it was the opposite.

Chaos followed them around and they affect the lives of everyone they interact with, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

Before she could get over to the guide and his companions, the panda made it's way towards the table with the winner's feast on it and started to eat the food at an incredible rate.

Needless to say her great granddaughter Shampoo, who had just finished the last match and been declared this years champion, was not happy about this at all. By the time she got to the guide the girl had already accepted the Shampoo's challenge, and they were both on the challenge log.

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Ranma looked at the girl in front of him. She had been reluctant to fight her, but when the guide had translated that she wanted to skin the panda for eating her victory feast, she couldn't just let the old man die.

So here she was facing off against a girl for the first time. About to do something that she had been told her entire life that was wrong. She was about to hit a girl.

Not really knowing any way to stop it she got into a stance and signaled to the girl that she was ready for the fight to begin.

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After talking to the Jusenkyou guide Cologne realized that the power she had felt earlier was emanating from the girl, and that the girl, or elf, was really a boy. Smiling to herself she perched comfortably on the top of her walking stick and got ready to enjoy the mach.

What she saw the elf girl do on the log amazed even her. On a log no more that three feet wide and 10 feet long she was able to dodge and block every blow that her granddaughter threw at her.

Somehow the girl managed to keep this up, constantly dodging, jumping, blocking every move Shampoo threw at her for over half an hour. When the match ended it wasn't by her throwing a single kick or punch, it was by Shampoo tiring herself out and overextending herself during one of her attacks and loosing her balance.

Not in her 300 plus years of life had she ever seen the Maidens Tournament be won without the victor ever launching one attack.

Cologne smiled to herself when she realized that not only had she found the heir she had been looking for, but she was also going to be her grandson too.

Just before Shampoo could give the girl the kiss of death Cologne stopped her by saying [Shampoo no. That girl does not get the kiss of death. She gets the kiss of marriage.]

When Shampoo looks at her and asks what she means by the kiss of marriage, Cologne replies [She has just received a curse at the cursed springs of Jusenkyou, this is not her true form. You know what you have to do if a male outsider defeats you, or do I have to remind you.]

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Ranma jumped off the log after the girl had slipped, and fallen of, to help her up and make sure she was all right.

When she got there to help her the girl roughly grabbed her jaw when a dry old voice called out to her in Mandarin dialect. When the old woman finished speaking to her, Ranma could see the tension flow out of the girl when she gently put her other hand on Ranma's cheek and said [wuo ai ni wuoda airen] then repeating what she just said in Japanese "I love you dear husband" and then kisses Ranma on the mouth.

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End chapter 2