My second attempt at a Fanfic.... although the first may never get
posted...:)
Ideas stolen from Richard Lawson... from his Thy Outward Part story.
Most characters copyright Rumiko Takahashi-sama... yes, she is a goddess to
me. All others copyright Black Lightning Design Group... of which I am
a small part (almost negligible, to be exact)
And now...
On to the story!
        Ranma 1/2
        Magic class 101...
        By Shadow Dancer of BWG productions

Prologue       Encounter

     'Well,' I thought, 'Time to get back to the daily grind.'  I seemed to be
saying that a lot recently... I haven't been away from work for ages.  "I also
don't have any girlfriends to go out with, either." I noted.  My name is Ishtay
Mnangnara.  I am 18, a visionary, and I talk to myself.  'A very poor visionary
at that.' I commented.  I also have a habit of listening to when I'm writing
about myself, and responding in any way I choose.
     Today's version of the daily grind is school... not your average
workplace... but then I'm not your average person.  My friends tell me that I'm
totally wierd, for that matter.
     I'm a student at Onoway High... and today will probably be the most wierd
of all of my days.  Today is the day I reach majority.
     Not majority in human terms... majority in magic terms.
     Although I'm totally unaware of this at this point in time.
     I'm dressed in my standard coloration when going to school, purple. 
Purple
everything... and as I rush out my door to get to the bus, I fail to notice the
faint purple coloration shimmering around the edges.  I rush through the door
without a second thought, or a first one for that matter.  I suddenly notice
that I'm falling.
     I never watch where I'm going.
     This happens to be a bad failing, especially when I run through a
shimmering purple gateway into thin air.  Thin air somewhere far away from my
home, I guess... that's all I get to think about, before I hit bottom.
     Wham!
     Or was it Sploosh? I can't remember.
     What I do remember is being dressed for winter, running out the door in
the
morning, and then landing in water at, by the sun, 4 in the afternoon.  I swim
up to the surface, discarding my heavy winter coat in the process.  Now I
remember, it _was_ sploosh.  Thats when my life changed, again.
     I looked up to find a long bamboo pole sticking out of the pool I was
in...
and at the top of the pole was a shimmering purple gateway.  The same one I had
just fallen through.
     It was closing.
     I was in trouble.
     Then I noticed a man looking at me, I recognized him from somewhere.  From
one of those TV shows I watched daily.  Then it hit me.
     Jusenkyou.
     I frantically looked at myself to see what I changed into.  Nothing.  Then
I listened to the guide.
     "Oh! Good sir, you fall in Nyannichuan, spring of drowned girl.  Very
tragic story of a girl that drowned here one thousand, five hundred year ago.
Now whoever fall in spring take body of young girl." long pause while he looks
at me, "Um, sir? why you not girl?"
     I look back at myself.  Sure enough, I'm still not a girl. I think,'Maybe
he got the pool name wrong?  I surely hope so...'  Seeing that I haven't
changed, I dive back down for my coat.  When I come back up, the guide is still
shocked.
     "Young sir? Wh.. why pool not work on you?"
     "I don't know," I joked, "maybee I'm immune to the pool's magic?" I
giggled
furiously, "Or maybe I can't be touched by Jusenkyou water until something
happens to me?  Or maybe you were wrong about the pool, hmm?"
     "Maybe, young sir, I go check, be right back."
     I shrugged, then crawled out of the pool.  Then I noticed it.
     My coat.
     It was wet.
     And I wasn't.
     As this was very confusing at the moment, I decided to take the easy way
out.  I fainted.


                      from
               -=<Shadow Dancer>=-
                       of
        -=Black Lightning=- Design Group
               cshadow@hotmail.com

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