J M Coale wrote:

Cynewulf wrote:

     Oh, no!...ke for a rather unpleasant story - one

I don't think I could write, in any case.

        Any others?

        -Mike

        A possibility would involve Akane. I know people dilike screwing around with
the Akane who is actually almost normal in the Ranma world. But what would happen if
Akane assidently was hit by the Water of the Drowned-man and permanently became a man.
Would Ranma take a female form to be with Akane? This could lead  to an interesting
post-series based on the development of onna-Ranma, and could involve Ranma pregnant by
Akane. Bizarre twist, huh?

        Joseph "Ashira" Kohle

        ...

You know, I was going to write that, but the build up for that story was 
too much.  I plotted out a pretty complicated plot to get that to happen:

1  add a new character,Mizujin, who is cursed to turn into a man or a 
woran, we don't know.  S/he is like Muosse with whit hair, but he is the 
master of water, and can change at will.  For some mysterious reason, he 
wants to try to get Ranma and Akane to gether.

2  Mizujin cures Ryoga with Drowned man spring water.  Akane finds out 
and beats up Ranma, Akari-chan finds out and beats up Mizujin.

3  Ranma gets mad at Mizujin for curing Ryoga and not him,  so he forces 
Mizujin to take him to the source of the Spring.  Mizujin reveals a 
Japanese Nannichuan in a backwater village hidden in the wilds of Japan.
However, the spring is dried up, it now runs drop by drop, and the Ranma 
crew must wait there for months until the spring makes 450 ml ( this I 
beleive is the minimum for cursing) to cure Ranma.  

4  During some arguement, Akane smacks Ranma upside the head in front of 
a town statue.  In this village, the law says they are now married.  
Ranma and Akane protest, naturally.

5   Despite all there efforts, Ranma and Akane get locked in a "honeymoon 
suite" by Genma, the Tendos, Mizujin and some villigers.  This is a small 
room with one small bed.  Naturally, Ranma gets the floor.  There 
"married life would have gone on like that if it weren't for Mizujin's 
little ... "innovation".  Mizujin derived some spikes that shoot up from 
the floor, forcing the two to sleep together on the same bed.  True, 
nothing "happens", but the closeness begins to get to Ranma.  After a few 
days, he  is a bout to confess his love, but...

6   "Flute" appears.  He is a real bad dude.  He has grey skin, a black 
suit, black shirt, black tie, black turban, black sunglasses, and black 
shoes.  He flies around on a chunk on earth, not unlike Tyrax from the 
Fantasic Four.
	Flute appears to destroy the spring, but Ranma fights him.  Ranma 
can't defeat Flute, but he does knock of his glasses and turban to reveal 
a larger than normal head and black, slitted eyes.  Yes, Flute is an 
alein.

7  Flute, in true super-villian mode, tells his life story: 5,000 years 
ago, his spaceship crash landed into Mt. Pheonix.  Flute has been stuck 
in suspended animation ever since.  The water emminating from Mt. Phonix 
ran though the ships KI MATRIX.  Apparently, Flutes people have melded KI 
and technology to create teleporters and warp drives.  The water absorbed 
some of the the MATRIX'S reality altering power.  It spread to each of 
the springs.  When a cursed person shanges, he or she is actually 
"sliding" his or her body into another dimension and replacing it with a 
"them" of another time and place.  Water being a major source of like, 
therefore containing life energy, is the key.
	Flute plans to destroy any evidence of his stay by destroying the 
 springs and those cursed.

8  In the continuing battle, Flute fires what appears to be a KI shot at 
Akane and Ranma jumps in the beams way.
	The beam was actually a "reality-altering" shot.  After they 
recover, they find out that Ranma is stuck as a woman and Akane is a man 
who changes into a woman with cold water...

9  Ranma cannot defeat Flute, but smashes his flying rock.  Shocked, 
Flute retreats temporerily.

10 At this stage, Genma gets an cold.  Mizujin  mixes up a cold remedy.  
He also mixes up a "passion potion" for Ranma, for when things get back 
to normal.  One night, Akane-kun thinks he is coming down with Genma's 
cold, so he unwittingly takes some of Genma's remedy olny to mistake 
bottles and takes the "passion potion".  After that, well, y'know...

11   Now Ranma is Pregnant.  This brings Akane and Ranma closer together 
as they decide to keep the child.  But they still have Flute somewhere 
out there waiting to destroy the spring, and he is the only one who can 
fix them.

12   Flute eventually returns, with a new rock.  Ranma can't fight him 
because of the danger of a miscarage.  Akane-kun and the rest of the cast 
battle Flute.  Akane blocks another "reality shot" aimed at Ranma from 
Flute, which solves that problem.
 	Team Akane eventually wins.

There it is in a nutshell.  A big nuitshell.  Now you know why I never 
had time to wright it!

--HAYES