Ever think that there are some great ideas out there, and that
they are never put together? What if Ranma, instead of falling into
Nyannichuan "spring of drowned girl" fell into one of the Kusenkyo
pools. A small thing though, I combined the two training grounds into
one big ground...with a couple of exceptions...:) It wouldn't be as
funny if he didn't change into a girl (of some kind) so I came up with
this little thing. (Sorry Scott, if some of what I write comes too
close to what you wrote:)
I will be writing this one from three perspectives. One from
Ranma's POV, one an omniscient POV, and one from Akane's POV. You
will be able to tell which is which(I hope).
<this>will indicate when the speaker is talking in Chinese, or
any variant thereof. (as I can't spell very much (if any) in Chinese
so will use this where I can't use correct spelling of what I mean)
[this] will be when the speaker is talking in English, or any
variant thereof.
and *this* will indicate when the current person is thinking.
Standard Disclaimers (Takahashi, Viz., etc.)
Ranma 1/2
Alternate Landings
By Shadow Dancer(AKA Colin Hidson)
Episode 1; part 4
Doctor Tofu was looking at my leg. "What did you do, try to kick
a stone?" Tofu asked concerned. He was poking and prodding at my
leg, most of which made me whimper in pain. "Well, you are one lucky
girl. You almost dislocated your leg, and that would have been bad."
Tears started to form in my eyes from the constant pain. "You were
also lucky in that I had to stay here tonight to do some paperwork.
Now, this is going to hurt..." He proceeded to pull on my leg, trying
to straighten the bone. As I knew what to do, I pulled my body in the
opposite direction. The pain was enormous, but I survived through it
before.
"There," Tofu said, as the bone finally slid into its proper
position. He then proceeded to poke a few spots on my leg and back.
Probably shiatsu pressure points. "There, now. You should stay off
this leg for about two months, can you do that?" I thought about
staying as a girl for two months straight. That was scary, but
accidentally wrecking the setting of the bone by changing would
probably be worse. I nodded. "Are you okay? Is there something
wrong?"
Akane started to say something, but I held up my hand, stopping
her. "Yes, I think that it will be...hard...for me to stay as a girl
for two months straight." Tofu stared at me like I was crazy. "Ever
hear of Jusenkyou?" at his nod, I continued, "I fell into one of the
springs. What you see now," I point to myself, "is my cursed form.
Normally, I'm a sixteen-year-old teenage boy."
Tofu looked at me, and then asked, "Why didn't you reverse the
curse while you were there?"
I looked down at my hands, "I couldn't. There isn't a hot-
spring that _can_ cure this curse." Tofu blanched, "Yes, I know
that's scary, but I have to live with it now. I can try..." I hold
back the tears, barely, "I can try to live life as well as I can,
considering my curse, but it will be hard. What will be harder is
meeting my mother again, after what I've been through. I don't know
how she will react."
Akane walks up to me and holds me close. Tofu then says
something that surprises me, "Ranma, I've seen a study done on people
with Jusenkyou curses, and there is a way for you to change forms
while your leg is broken. From what I read, only what happens to the
hot-water form is permanent."
I start giggling. "Doctor, this _is_ my hot-water form."
Tofu appeared surprised, and then took on a thoughtful look,
"Ranma, I would like to try something, but I would like to keep it in
here, is that fine with you?" I nodded, "Fine then. Akane? Could you
please get some cold and some hot water? We'll be waiting for you." I
watched quietly as Akane left to get some water. She came back a
couple of minutes later with two buckets of water.
Tofu picked up one of the buckets, I guess that it is the
bucket with the cold water. I wait nervously as Doctor Tofu gets
ready to pour the water on me, then he asks, "Akane? Could you please
get ready with the hot water? If something goes wrong, I want to undo
the damage as soon as possible." Akane nods, and then hefts the other
bucket.
Tofu then notices something else. "Ranma, I don't think you want
to ruin your clothes, right?" I'm surprised. I completely forgot
that I grew _drastically_ when I change back into a boy. I quickly
strip out of my clothes, letting Akane help me with my dress and
panties. Then I climbed back on the table (not without wincing) and
get ready for the experiment.
Tofu comes up with the water. for some reason this scares me. I
try to examine my fear. I then start thinking of Akane, but that's
wrong. *Why would I be afraid of Akane?* I think of any reason, and
the bath pops into my mind. *But that was okay, she invited me and
made sure that I was a girl the entire time! She wouldn't be mad at
me for that, would she?* I dismiss the thought as useless. Tofu then
throws the water at me, and the pain starts again, and doesn't stop.
I scream, and then a sheet of hot water flies over me. I'm back into
my girl form, and the pain has lessened considerably.
When I can see properly again, I notice Tofu standing beside me
looking concerned. "Ranma," He asks, "what was the pain like? I'd
like to know what the problem was so that I can fix it."
"It sort of felt like my bone was breaking, again." I mumbled,
"And again, and again..." I stifled a hysterical giggle.
Tofu looked surprised for some reason. "Ranma?" I looked at
him, "I will need to take some tissue samples, is that all right?" I
nod, "Good, I want to check some things...maybe this will be able to
tell me." Tofu went about the tissue-gathering process quickly.
(Author's note: As I don't know the process, myself, I won't describe
it here. If anyone can tell me how it is done, I'll update this
properly.)
"Okay, Ranma. Now I need to check something, can you hold on for
a few minutes?" I nod, seeing no harm in it. Tofu walks back in the
examination room about ten minutes later.
"Ranma, from what I can tell, so far, you will need to stay in
your cursed form to heal the bone properly. I found a reference in
one of my texts that gives an idea on how to prevent the curse form
activating. Or, in your case, keeping the curse active. I'll need
your permission to continue with this, though."
I look at him, and he appears to be nervous about something.
"What is the process?" Akane asks. She appears to be nervous, as
well. I wonder why?
Tofu looks me straight in the eye, "I would need to insert a
non-organic object into an area of your body that your other form
can't handle."
"What do you mean?" I ask, being very confused by his meaning.
"Ranma, he means that he has to put something here," Akane
points between my legs. I finally get what she means and start
blushing.
"Will it hurt?" I ask. *What am I asking that for? Of course
it won't! What's wrong with me?* My mind flies around in circles,
and I miss what Tofu's reply was. I nod, without really thinking
about it.
"Akane, can you hold her down, please?"
That startles me out of my thoughts. *Hold me down? It _is_
going to hurt? Oh, nonononononononono...* I don't have enough time
to move, as Akane is close enough to just reach over and grab me. I
start panicking as Tofu comes over with this smooth metal rod-like
thing. "No," I moan, but it's too late. Tofu quickly slides the rod
inside me. I scream.
*nonononOnONONONO!!! Get this thing out of me!!!* I try
kicking and squirming, but Akane holds me steady, and my kicks didn't
hurt Tofu. He grabs my broken leg, to keep it from further harm, with
one hand, while pushing the rod further into me with the other. While
it doesn't hurt, the fact that something is _inside_ me is very
frightening. My screaming turns to crying, and Akane holds me
tighter, moving around so that she's holding me with a hug, instead of
just holding my arms.
"It's okay, Ranma," Akane whispered, "it's okay. This is
_normal_. Kinda. Girls have to put foreign objects inside themselves
all the time."
I slowly stopped crying. "Yeah? When?" I asked, feeling
slightly strange. *This is scary, but why do I feel good?* I shake
off the feeling.
"When you get older, Ranma," she replied. "When you start
having your...period." Akane blushed at that. For some reason, I
couldn't keep the blush from my cheeks, either.
Tofu was watching my face. "Ranma? Is it bothering you
still?"
I shake my head, "No, it just startled me, that's all."
Tofu nodded, "I expected as much. Now, Ranma. I will need to
put a brace on your leg, to keep the bone from moving around too
much."
I was curious, "Why not a cast?" I inquired, as I started
putting my clothes back on.
Tofu shrugged, "A cast would brake your bone even more, should
you change forms. Although that rod will reduce the possibility, what
if the rod falls out?" He gets out this plastic brace that looks like
it has really big cloth bands holding it together. "Okay, this is
what we are going to use on you. This is my last one, so don't break
it, okay?" I nod, "Good. This one is self-adjusting, so if you change
forms, it will stay around your leg without breaking. It's also
waterproof, so you can still wear it in the water." Tofu then pulls
my leg straight, and attaches the brace. "The only problem is when
you change back to girl form...it doesn't change sizes down on it's
own. You will have to re tighten it every time you change. But that
isn't much of a problem, right?" I nod, "Good. I will be checking
out those samples of yours, to see what changes, besides your age and
sex, there were to you. Okay, you two, it's time for me to close up,
off you go."
"Thank-you doctor!" Akane and I chorused, as we left back to the
house.
"You're welcome. Bye now." Tofu waved to us. I waved back. Akane
was surprised at that for some reason. I just shrugged and tried
walking with the brace on, noting that it supported my weight nicely.
Akane took my hand and led me home again.
What an interesting day.
*****
Although I expected Ranma to act a bit differently when female
form, I didn't expect it to be this much. I walked towards the hose
without really noticing things we were passing. Ranma said something
that startled me, though.
"Akane? Doesn't that look like mother?" I whirled and looked
where Ranma was pointing, but I didn't see anyone.
"Where, Ranma?" I was getting nervous. *Is Ranma seeing
things?* I hoped not.
Ranma pointed again, "There! In that house over there!" I
looked closer, and sure enough, through an open window I could see
that there was someone who looked startlingly like Ranma, albeit about
thirty years older than her current form.
"Yes, Ranma, she looks a lot like your mother. Now we have to
get home, now. It's getting late."
The woman looked up, "Did you say Ranma? Do you know where he
is?" The woman heard us, it seems.
I nod, "Yes, I said Ranma. This is...her. Ranma, say hello to
the nice lady."
Ranma dutifully says, "Hello. Are you my mother? I haven't seen
her for ten years." Ranma looked sad.
The woman looked startled, "Ten years? I haven't seen my son for
that long, too! Hey, you don't look older than five years old. How
could you not have seen your mother for ten?"
I started getting nervous again, but Ranma replied before I could
answer her, "I'm not really five, I'm actually sixteen. My father was
taking me on a training trip..."
The woman interrupted, "A training trip? Tell me, is your
father's name Genma?" Ranma nods, and the woman looks at me for
confirmation. I nod. She then asks Ranma to continue.
"As I was saying, my father took me on a training trip, and about
a month ago, we came to this training ground. It was a place with a
lot of cursed springs that changes people into whatever drowned in
there last. While we were training, father fell in the spring of
drowned panda, and he knocked me in the hot-spring of drowned young
girl." Ranma finished her explanation.
"Well, that's an interesting story. Can you change back right
now?" Ranma started to look scared.
"Sorry, she can't, right now. For a couple of reasons,
really," The woman gestured for me to explain, "Well, Ranma needs
cold water to change back to her normal form, and I don't think that
it will be a good idea for her to change again." At her puzzled
expression, I clarified, "Ranma broke her leg a little while ago when
we were training at my families Dojo. The doctor says that if she
changes back to her male form, that she will re-break her leg, and
that would slow the healing process a lot."
The woman nods, "That's a good explanation. Is there any
reason for Genma to not be able to change?" I shake my head, "Fine
then. I'd like to see my husband, again. It's been too long. One
other thing, how does Genma reverse his curse?"
I say, "He needs hot water to change back into human form. Why do
you ask?"
The woman looks at me, "It's because he's a coward at heart. He
will probably try to hide behind his curse when he finally notices
me." She grins, "I'm glad you told me, Ranma. I'm also glad that I
vetoed your father's suggestion for seppuku if he didn't make you a
manly man. Not that I would have taken the curse into consideration,
though. By the way, is there a way to remove the curses permanently?"
Ranma started to get tears in her eyes, "There isn't a way, for
me. But there is one for father. He can reverse it from the spring
of drowned man."
"Why can't you remove your curse?" She asked.
Knowing that this will make Ranma cry even more, I kneel down and
hold her close, as she answers, "Only a hot-spring can reverse
hot-spring curses. But...but there isn't a hot...hot-spring of
drowned man." Ranma starts crying and I hold her tightly, trying to
calm her down.
"What's wrong with my son?" Demanded Ranma's mother, "Why
would he be crying about something like that?"
I started getting angry, "It _means_ that Ranma won't be able to
control what form she's in, for the rest of her life!" I tried to
calm down, but only marginally succeeded, "How many people do you
think will _want_ to marry a person with Ranma's problem? Offhand, I
only know of one! OOPS..." I blushed, noting that I went too far.
Ranma immediately stopped crying, "You would?" She asked,
incredulously. Ranma's mother looked very surprised both at my
outburst and Ranma's reply to it.
"Sorry, I wasn't thinking about what my son was going
through." She looked at me, "I'm also sorry that I heard your
testament of love," She smirked at that, "but that's your business.
Oh! I forgot the introductions. My name is Nodoka Saotome."
I flushed, for I forgot to introduce myself as well, "My name is
Akane Tendo. Pleased to meet you." My breath suddenly left my body,
as Ranma got over her startlement and tackled me with a hug. "Ranma,"
I gasped, "could you please tone it down? I'm not used to be a landing
mat." Although I was gasping for breath, I couldn't help but giggle
at that. Nodoka was laughing, as well.
"Well, Akane," Nodoka giggled, "it seems that Ranma mirrors your
own sentiments. Can you tell me where your place is, so that I can
visit tomorrow? I'd like to surprise my wayward husband." I giggled
at the thought, and told her. "Well, you ought to get home, soon.
Your fathers are probably worried sick." She smiled as bid each other
farewell.
What an interesting day.
*****
Ranma and Akane had only a five minute walk to make it back to
the house, which went by without incident. They stepped into the
house at about nine-thirty. Kasumi greeted them.
"Did everything go okay at the doctor's, Akane?" Kasumi looked
concerned.
"Everything went fine, Kasumi. One thing though, Ranma won't be
changing back to male for two months. Doctor's orders." Akane
grinned.
"Oh, my. We will have to find someplace for her to sleep,
then." Kasumi looked at Akane, who blushed.
"She can sleep with me, if it won't be too much trouble," Akane
replied, still blushing.
"That's a good girl," approves Soun, who just walked
downstairs, "Kasumi? could you make some tea please? I'm finding it
hard to sleep."
Kasumi nodded and walked into the kitchen. Akane and Ranma
looked at each other, shrugged, and hurried upstairs.
In Akane's room, Akane was helping Ranma get ready for bed.
"But I don't wanna wear pink!" Ranma complained, "Especially pink
with kitties!"
"Quit your griping. It's the only one we have for anyone your
size. If you want, we can buy you some new ones tomorrow. Is that all
right?" Ranma stopped complaining at than point and just nodded. "All
right, then. I'll just go and get another futon for you. Just wait
here and I'll be right back." Akane left the room and came back a
couple of minutes later with a futon and some blankets. She then
proceeded to set up the futon on the floor.
"There. You can sleep here tonight. Good night, Ranma."
stated Akane, as she lay on her bed.
"G'night, Akane." replied Ranma, as she climbed into her
makeshift bed. Ranma tossed and turned for almost half an hour before
she gave up. She stood up and walked over to the bed. "Akane?" Ranma
called out softly.
"Nnngh?" Akane asked.
"Can I sleep with you, please?" Ranma asked quietly, "It's too
cold on the floor."
"Sure..." Akane mumbled. Ranma then climbed into the bed
beside Akane.
Snuggled up against Akane, Ranma soon fell asleep.
*****
Such ends episode 1 of Alternate Landings. Hope you liked it. Do
you really need to ask what I was listening to? Probably.
For the entirety of episode 1, I listened to Captain Tractor's first
CD. Nothing else. Boring huh?
I await the flames.
Shadow Dancer
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Black Lightning Design Group
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Stress Relief
All stressed out? Sometimes it helps to think
of happy scenes. Maybe a pastoral field, a field
with a babbling brook. You're there on a lovely
summer's day...holding someone's head under the
water. Now you're letting them up for a second.
Then blam! Back into the freezing water! Over
and over again! There. Feel better?