Subject: [FFML] [Ranma][fanfic]What the Heck was That? Chapter 3
From: "the DragonBard" <dragonbard@hotmail.com>
Date: 6/28/2004, 3:34 AM
To: ffml@anifics.com


Chapter 3

Beginning of Revelations

DISCLAIMER:  All characters portrayed herein are the property of Viz Video, 
and Rumiko Takahashi.  I don�t own them, and make no claims to owning them.  
This is a work of fan fiction, and I make no money off of this.

Previous chapters can be found at 
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1518608
Note:  Using a different title on FF.net so that they don't pull it for 
'crude language' or something.
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Sorry this took so long, but I�ve been rather... stuck on what to do for 
this chapter.  I�ll try to make the wait for the next chap shorter, but I 
make no promises.  I�ll also try to make the chapters longer (which seems to 
be one of the primary complains) but again, I make no promises.

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	"Dang blasted, stupid, kami-forsaken, Happosai-wannabes!  They call 
themselves priests?"  Ranma muttered to himself as he wandered a forest.  
"Could keep from hitting me with cold water all the time!  Worse, none of 
them knew anything about spirit energy, besides their sutras.  Next time, I 
use a Shinto priest."
	Ranma continued on in much the same vein for several minutes, until he cam 
across a small clearing, surrounded by some good sized trees.  A quick look 
around, and Ranma started to set up camp.  With his years of experience, it 
was only a matter of minutes, and he was ready to begin training for the 
evening, while he still had some light.
	"Okay."  He muttered to himself.  "I just need to focus my energies onto 
the soles of my feet, and use just enough to keep from falling off, but not 
so much that the ki of the tree repels mine."
	After taking a minute to find a suitable tree, Ranma closed his eyes, and 
began to concentrate.  He slowly lifted his foot, and set it upon the trunk 
of the tree.  Resting it there, and then lifting up his other foot off the 
ground, and bringing it to rest on the tree.
	Before, any climbing he had done had envolved a combination of several 
different methods, though none of which would have allowed him to simply 
stand on a wall as if it was a floor.
	*This is tough.*  Ranma thought to himself as he took another slow step.  
In some ways, this training method reminded him of the one-finger stand 
training from Yu Yu Hakusho.  Both training methods were meant to build up 
control of ones energies, though Genkai's method seemed to focus more on 
building up endurance, while this focused from on control.
	"Now, let's see just how good at this I've become."  He muttered to 
himself, and turned his body so he was looking sideways.
	"Mouko Takabisha."  He called out, and threw a ki blast at a distant tree, 
shattering it with ease.
	Unfortunately, the ki attack seemed to push him off of the tree, causing 
him to fall to the ground.
	"Ouch."
	Ranma continued tree climbing for some time, though he decided to hold off 
on using ki blasts until he was more certain, and tried to figure out 
another ki technique he could use instead to test his skill.  Ranma finally 
decided to stop when the sun began to set.  He then set his hand on top of a 
pile of wood chips and twigs he had already prepared, and it burst into 
flames.
	*Can't generate a fire technique yet, but I can at least use my ki to 
create enough heat to start fires.*  Ranma thought to himself.
	"I can create cold, and I can create heat, but I can't generate fire or 
freeze things, so what am I missing?"  He asked himself.
	Ranma shook his head.  The same question had been plaguing him for months, 
ever since he had started this training.  Trying to develop his own 
techniques based off of anime/manga was prooving more difficult than he 
thought.  Some simply required more power than he had at his disposal, or 
required an entirely different way of thinking.
	"Well, no use just sitting here thinking about it, I've got to get to 
sleep, and get back to training."  Ranma muttered to himself.
	The next day found Ranma up bright and early, standing ten feet away from 
one of the larger trees near camp.
	Ranma began to breath deeply, his eyes closed in contemplation.
	"Katchuu Tenshin Amaguriken revised:  Hundred Hand Slap!"  He called out, 
and instantly his hands began moving at insane speeds, leaving dozens of 
after images behind, making it appear as if he had multiple hands.
	"That was easy.  Too easy."  Ranma muttered, clenching his fists.  "Now to 
kick it up a notch."
	Ranma's ki quickly began to build up, his aura growing to the point where 
small stones, twigs, and leaves began to shudder and be pushed back by it.
	"Meteor Punch!"  He called out as his eyes snapped open.
	For the next few seconds, it was as if Ranma's arms had vanished, leaving 
behind a faint blur as Ranma tried to push his arms, and his ki, to its 
utmost limits.  The force from the blows was enough to chip and crack the 
tree in front of him.  Still, Ranma frowned, and pushed himself harder.
	Suddenly, he stopped, collapsing to his knees, gasping for breath.
	*Thought I had it that time.*  Ranma's arms hung by his sides, exhausted.  
He wasn't sure if he could lift them at that second, and he was too tired to 
even try for a few minutes.
	*This is worse than when I fought Ryouga after the Baksai Tenketsu 
training.  At least then I could still move my arms a bit.*  Ranma began to 
make his way back to his camp.
	"Better train my legs for the rest of the day.  Give my arms a chance to 
recover."

	At the Tendo Dojo, Nabiki slowly went over all of the clues.
	"Okay, he's been avoiding the fiancees, except for Akane, but only because 
they live in the same house.  He's apparently joined the Manga and Video 
Game clubs, even though he doesn't have a video game machine.  Akane says 
he's recovering from Ms Hinako even faster than usual.  Plus, he's been off 
on training trips just about every weekend."
	Nabiki's fingers rapidly tapped against her desk.
	"There's got to be something I'm missing, but what?"  She grumbled to 
herself.  "I've even asked the nerds, but they don't seem to have any 
information either."
	Nabiki glanced out the window, and tried to surpress a shiver that ran down 
her spine.
	"It's been too quiet recently."  She muttered to herself.  "With Ranma 
away, things have calmed down, slightly.  It's like the calm before the 
storm."

	Ranma continued training in the forest for the rest of the day.  Running at 
top speed, while carrying the heavies stones he could find.  Leaping from 
tree to tree, branch to branch, using the tree climbing skill.  Full speed 
training, wearing weighted clothing was enough to drain even Ranma's 
reserves, but that night, when he finally pulled himself back to camp, Ranma 
wasn't quite ready to finish for the day, so he decided to begin an aspect 
of the training that he had so far been putting off.
	"Just hope I don't blind myself doing this."  Ranma told himself, as he 
closed his eyes.
	Slowly, Ranma built up his energies, though it was difficult after the 
intensive training he had put himself through.  Then, he carefully channeled 
those energies into his eyes, much like how he had channeled his energies 
into the soles of his feet, for the tree climbing exercise.
	On the surface, the technique should be much like using ki to enhance one's 
strength, speed, or toughness.  However, seeing was much different than 
moving limbs.
	*The moment of truth.*  Ranma thought to himself, and slowly opened his 
eyes, and stared straight ahead.

	It was a bright and sunny day as Ranma and Akane were walking to school.  
Ranma had only yesterday come back from his latest 'training trip' and Akane 
kept glancing at him, as he walked on the fence beside her.
	The two had just reached the gates to Furinkan, when they were treated to 
lovely voice of the Blue Thunder.
	"So, the Black Mage Saotome once again seeks to defile these hallowed halls 
with his necromancy!  Hold foul villianous fiend, I shall once again drive 
you from this sacred ground, and free my beloveds from your demonic grasp, 
for I am the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High!"  Kuno proclaimed to the world.
	Ranma closed his eyes, and then, opened them again, staring at Kuno, who 
suddenly froze, just as he made motion to attack Ranma.  Kuno's eyes 
widened, buldging out, and he began to make noises, almost as if he was 
choking.
	Ranma guided Akane around the frozen Kuno, who suddenly collapsed.
	"Wonder what happened?"  Akane said curiously. Honestly, she didn't really 
care about Kuno, but it was strange for a person to just freeze like that.  
Anyway, either Sasuke or Nabiki would just drag him to the nurses office, 
like always.
	"Maybe he suddenly realised how much of an idiot he was, and it shocked him 
unconcious."  Ranma said with a shrug.  "Don't really care.  Come on, let's 
get to class before we're late."
	It was later that day, at a Manga Club meeting, when the newest member, 
Ranma, told his new friends about what had happened.
	"And no one realised what you had done?"  Koji , the club treasurer asked, 
laughing.
	"Some of them might have guessed I had something to do with it, but they'll 
just shrug it off."  Ranma smirked.  "Too bad that kind of trick doesn't 
work on someone just as strong as you are.  It'd help when dealing with 
Ryouga or Happi."
	"Well, it looks like you mastered the Shinowippo."  Sakura, one of the few 
female members of the club said.  "That, or you've learned the Glare pokemon 
attack."  She chuckled.
	Ranma groaned.
	"Just because 'some' martial arts techniques are based off of animals, 
doesn't mean I'm going to base any on those things."  Ranma rolled his eyes. 
  "Don't really know what you see in them anyway."
	"They're cute."  Sakura shrugged.
	Everyone, including Sakura, laughed at that.
	"Oh, here's your Naruto books back."  Ranma passed another member several 
manga.  "Those techniques in there are great."
	"Yeah."  Kobiashi, Ranma's Naruto source said.  "Do you want the next 
ones?"
	"Nah."  Ranma shook his head.  "I'm going to look at a bit more of the 
others.  See if I can get some good training methods out of them."
	"Speaking of training, how's it working out?"  Koji asked.
	Ranma grinned.  "Well, I've got to say that it's a whole lot better than 
Pop's stupid ideas about training.  Of course, that's not saying much."
	"Okay, now to get this meeting started."  Koji said.
	The rest of the meeting was spent talking about various anime and manga, 
and what they were going to watch.  Afterwards, many of the members handed 
Ranma notes filled with ideas about techniques and what they did.  Some of 
the ideas, Ranma noted, were actually pretty good.
	It was the next day, while he was sparring with his father, that Ranma 
noticed something.
	It began much like any other day, with the two of them staring at each 
other from across the small pool, and leaped at each other.
	BANG!
	SPLASH!
	One blow, one blow is all it took for Ranma to take down his father.
	"Geeze, Pop, you've really let yourself go if I can take you down that 
easily."  Ranma said as he heaved his pandafied father out of the water and 
onto the ground.
	'Damn it.'  Ranma thought to himself.  'I must be improving more than I 
realised, if I can take out Pop with one hit.'
	Ranma sighed.
	'It's been like this for a couple of weeks now, and unless he pulls out the 
Theif stuff, he can't hold his own against me.'
	Ranma paused for a moment.
	'Actually, now that I think about it, I've improved so much I think I could 
take him even 'if' he used the Yamasenken and Umisenken.'  He shook his 
head.  'Damn, I've gotten so good that the only ones who can take even give 
me a good fight, even holding back, are the Freak, the Ghoul, Rouge and Taro 
in their cursed forms, and Herb.  Or Saffron.'
Ranma shuddered.
	'Unfortunately, Taro and Rouge can't be counted on to give me a good fight 
whenever I need it.  Herb's back in Japan, and I ain't going back there for 
a looong time.'
	Ranma went in to eat breakfast, leaving his rotund father on the ground.  
He was surprised to see Happosai sitting at the table with the others as 
Kasumi and his mother, Nodoka, set down the dishes.
	"Speak of the Devil."  Ranma muttered as he took his place.  Happosai just 
glanced at Ranma, while the others simply ignored his comment.
	The meal went like most others at the Tendo household, once Genma had 
pulled himself in.  That is, until just after everyone had finished, and 
before Ranma or Genma could leave.
	"Ranma my boy,"  Happosai said.  "Starting tomorrow, 'I' will be the one 
you will be sparring with in the mornings."
	Everyone froze in shock.
	"Okay, what's the catch?"  Ranma finally asked.  "You've got something 
planned, I know it."
	"Really need to work on your people reading skills."  Happosai said, 
filling up his pipe.
	"I have nothing planned, except to do a bit of sparring with my heir."  And 
with that, Happosai went upstairs to his room.
	Once in his sanctuary, Happosai relaxed.
	"That boy has improved too fast."  Happosai muttered to himself as he 
absentmindedly played with his lingere collection.  "Someone has been 
training him, and I want to know who it is."
	Happosai then began to rummage around, and finally pulled out a few 
scrolls, remembering the burst of kill ki he had sensed the day before.
	He had been on one of his usual pan... missions of liberation... when he 
happened to be passing by Furinkan.  Hoping to cop a quick feel off of 
Ranma, Ukyou, Akane, or Nabiki, he had jumped into a tree, when he saw Ranma 
walk up to the Kuno boy.
	"Why doesn't he give up?"  Happosai muttered to himself as Kuno challenged 
Ranma.  "That samurai-wannabe has as much chance against Ranma as... "
	Happosai was in shock, and in a slight bit of fear, as Ranma's aura 
suddenly exploded.  It wasn't the size of the aura that scared him, but 
rather what it was made of...
	Kill Ki.
	Kill ki was, on the surface, much like any other ki generated by a mind 
frame or emotion.  However, Kill ki was generated by the will or intent to 
kill.  Only someone who had knowingly killed another living person could 
generate that type of ki, and Ranma was channeling this ki against the Kuno 
boy.  Ranma was using it to attack the boy's ki directly, somewhat like what 
Happosai himself did when he used his giant battle aura to scare an opponent 
into submission.  However, the method Ranma was using, was much more 
powerful, and dangerous.
	With Happosai's giant battle aura, if the opponent was in reasonable 
health, the most that would happen would that they would become paralysed in 
fear for a few seconds.  However, if Ranma's version was too strong, or held 
for too long, it could cause permanent damage to one's ki.  Possibly even... 
death.
	None of the other students in the yard had noticed much about was going on 
beyond Kuno freezing up.
	"Ranma seems to be channeling his aura quite well."  Happosai whispered to 
himself.  "Focusing it through the eyes to directly attack his opponent.  
Ingenius."
	Happosai had then returned to the Tendo home to contemplate what he had 
seen.
	After several hours, Happosai had determined that, since Ranma seemed to be 
keeping mum about what he had been doing during his 'training trips' 
Happosai would be forced to find some other means of discovering what was 
going on.  That meant, pushing Ranma to his limits, until he was forced to 
begin drawing on his new skills.  This would allow Happosai to get a much 
better idea on who was meddling in his afairs.
	Happosai shook himself free from the memory, and began to make plans for 
his sparring match the next day.
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I'm looking for some priests or psychics who might be able to teach Ranma 
how to use Spirit Energy.   They have to be able to use their spiritual 
powers, must have the ability to teach Ranma their skills, and must not be 
from any anime/manga that Ranma is copying things from.  This leaves out 
characters from Fatal Fury/King of Fighters, Street Fighters, YYH, and maybe 
Dark City.

Ones that are possible are Miroku, Keida, and Kagome/Kikyo from IY, 
Katsuhito/Yosho from Tenchi,

Anyone who has an idea, e-mail me at dragonbard@hotmail.com
Thanks.

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