Welcome fellow fanfic people. It is my greatest deed to announce an old
friend who finally decided to actually write something. Pardon my friend's
mood for it seemed to me that while he wrote this, he was reading Zen's
Bitter End fanfic. So please lay the blame on Zen for this one. Tee-hee!!! 
	Well, this is Lord Tenshin's first fic. Might take a while for the next
one but if you people love this one, just tell me or just tell him yourself. 
	E-mail for Lord Tenshin is at jiromadea@usa.net
	C&C will be most welcome. Flames will be used for future references and
cooking my dinner later. Rantings will be rewarded with an attack from the
Chicken Cannon or anything close by or handy. 
	Remember, this is not Radler's fanfic!!!!! It's a friends!!! 



All Characters featured in or seen in RANMA ½  are properties of  Rumiko
Takahashi
All other characters whosoever they seem like are mine, so there!

Ranma 1/2 fanfic: Dark Times

PROLOUGE: DEATH'S SHADOW (part 1)
by Lord Tenshin 



   	Night time at the great Tokyo Dome, the spectators amidst the arena are
screaming like maniacs, inside the said arena, two figures are seen
squaring off against each other. One of the combatants is a hulking mass of
muscle, a person who is inhumanly huge. His teeth are bared in a gruesome
semblance of a grin as he looks down at his opponent a muscularly slim man
in his early twenties sporting a pigtailed hairdo, who calmly waits his
next move. 

	" What is this, a joke? I've seen cockroaches bigger than him ,I can
squash him with one hand tied behind my back and blindfolded to boot!"
thinks the giant ."I'm giving you a chance to save your skinny butt before
I wipe the floor with it!" he boasts as he lunges at his opponent who
merely leaps out of the way.  "H..how the hell did he dodge so fast?" as
this question was formed in the giant's mind, his opponent smiles at him
and approaches  him with great confidence, dodging every attack he makes. 
	
	Flustered the behemoth  screams and lunges at his opponent with an immense
fist, who casually blocks it with one hand before speaking, "My name is
Ranma Saotome , remember that!".  The colossus screamed in indescribable
agony as he felt his body being rained with numerous blows till finally he
loses consciousness.
          
         "The winner and  champion of the World Martial Arts Tournament for
the fifth consecutive year, Ranma Saotome, of the Saotome school of
anything goes martial arts!" The announcement was drowned by a din of
applause as the official raised Ranma's right hand, he waves at the horde
maniacally screaming out his name, and as he smiled warmly at them half of
the audience's female population started to vanish only to be found  under
their seats out cold, while the other half tore at each other's limbs as
they argued  to whom he was smiling at.

     At the locker room Ranma was changing out of his gi and into his
regular clothes when suddenly someone tosses him a towel, he snags it
without turning around "You can come out now P- chan, I know you're there." 

	A figure suddenly emerges from the shadows condensing to form the shape of
Ryouga Hibiki, Ranma's  long time friend and former rival.  " Ranma, I
thought we agreed a long time ago that you wouldn't call me P- chan any
more !" 

	Ryouga stepped towards Ranma and delivers a playful punch in the
midsection.  

	"Sorry, couldn't resist, it's been a long while " replied  Ranma  he
pauses and looks at his friend. "How's Ucchan  doing ? We've been out of
touch for more than a year now." 

	Ukyou Kuonji , Ranma's former fiancée had married Ryouga  last year , the
couple were headed for their hotel when they suddenly disappeared, only to
turn up months later at a ward near Okinawa.  

	Ryoga  laughed.  " I'm ashamed to admit that we got lost while trying to
find a post office." Ranma facefaulted while thinking to himself,  " Man, I
thought  Ucchan had more sense than letting Ryouga  lead the way, she
really must be head over heels in love with him, I knew they'd be perfect
for each other." 

	He smiled inwardly at the thought and suddenly remembered the crowd of
fans waiting for him outside.  Seeing his distress, Ryouga had only one way
to help his friend, he took his backpack and took out a canteen of water.
" I  knew there was a reason I kept this around." He said as he splashed
his friend with cold water.  

	Where Ranma stood moments ago stood a drenched Ranma -chan.  The door of
the locker room suddenly burst open flooding the room with a sea of fans,
all looking for their Idol, not knowing that they're actually standing on
him/her  "Hey, you jerks, get the hell offa me." She screamed, and the mob
suddenly noticed the human doormat they were standing over, yet the mass of
human limbs simply walked all over her as they cornered Ryouga.  

	"Where is Ranma?"   

	"Are you his manager?"  

	"Hey, who's the doormat?" 

	All eyes turned towards the source of the last question, they saw a
beautiful young woman in her early twenties, with long dark brown hair,
wearing a bandoleer of mini-spatulas and  a  big ass, _ MEGA _ spatula
strapped behind her back , with which she used to pry Ranma -- chan off the
floor.  Looking around the room she noticed her husband being cornered by
the mob, mostly composed of skimpily clad teenage female fans.  

	"Let go of him you hussies!" ,she screamed as she warded them off with her
Mega -spatula not noticing that her husband has already fainted with the
sight of so much flesh.  

	"Oooogh, U-Ukyou!" Ryouga stammered after being awakened by the shaking
he's being given by his wife, praying to the heavens that his wife never
finds out the reason why he passed out.  

	His wife merely smiled at him feigning innocence.  "Uc-chan, Ryouga …. Um,
I could use a little help here! "cried a distressed Ranma-chan as she is
being manhandled by her "loyal" fans who were hoping to squeeze their
hero's location out of her.  

	"I saw him leave through the window, if you hurry you can still catch
him." said Ryouga as he and his wife slowly inched towards the now
unconscious form of Ranma-chan that lay splattered  on the east wall.  The
Horde of fans rushed out as they came in, leaving a disaster area and a
stiff Ranma-chan still imbedded in the east wall.  

	"Ouch …" she muttered feebly as her eyes continue their spiraling. 

	 A few moments later Ranma entered the parking area minus the Hibikis,
they agreed to teach in the dojo.  "If they ever get there." He added as an
afterthought.  

	Ryouga's family may be rich but they seldom get home that someone asked
the Japanese Government to wreck the place.  "Might as well ask them to
stay with us, I mean we do have room to spare." He shrugged as if saying
that he'll leave that for the Gods to decide and hurriedly walked towards
the main parking complex where his prize, a new cherry red Viper, awaited
him all the while humming the tune Kasumi usually hummed while cooking. 


	  Unknown to Ranma two pairs of eyes watched him from an adjacent
building.  "It's time" said a 
very high female voice as she replaced the binoculars in her black
trenchcoat's pocket, the person beside him meekly nodded then vanished.
"Soon Ranma, very soon!" she cackled, laughing maniacally as she walked
away from the ledge
      
	  Seeing a telephone booth Ranma decided to call home just to surprise his
wife. He picked up the handset and dialed the number, he was greeted on the
other line by the cheerful voice of Kasumi Onno 

	"Mushi-mushi Ten..I mean Saotome Residence" 

	"Onnechan, hi! It's Ranma, is Akane there? I'd like to speak to her if you
don't mind." he replied thinking about the numerous times he called home
only to find out that his wife had been out doing one film or the other or
promoting a certain film in some kind of showbiz talkshow. 

	"Oh, Ranma-kun how nice of you to call, Akane's in her room I'll just get
her, hold on okay?" 

	The handset on the other line was gently laid down, a minute later it was
picked up. 

	"Ranma, is that really you?" an exited female voice cried. 

	"Of course it is, who else could it be my kawaiikune tomboy wife?" he
replied jokingly. 

	Akane merely giggled, recalling times in their youth when she replied with
that mallet of hers . "*Times sure have changed the people around here.*"
she thought. 

	"Yeah, it sure did." replied Ranma, Akane was startled she didn't realize
she was thinking out loud. "I 'm sure getting a lot of bad habits from you,
_ my _ hentai husband !" 

	Ranma winced inwardly, not because of the "hentai" remark but more from
the way she emphasized the word _my_ , shrugging he left it at that,
realizing that arguing with her would only upset her and hurt her feelings,
something Ranma swore years ago never to do again. 

	"Look I just called to tell you that Ryouga and Ucchan are coming over for
a visit, I hope we could even let them stay with us, ne?" Akane smiled at
her husband's generosity and thanked the gods for giving her such a great
husband. "Just hurry home o.k., I've got a surprise for you." she answered . 

	Ranma's face suddenly lit, he recalled that the last "surprise Akane gave
him was that sexy black teddie she had bought for their honeymoon. 

	"And you call me a hentai?" Akane blushed at that remark and retorted
"Iie, not that surprise you baka of a hentai, it's something else." Akane
replied her voice suddenly acquiring a sultry edge  " Although… that
surprise could easily be arranged, just hurry home and you'll see ok?
ja'ne!" 

	"Akane wait a minute whats…" the clicking sound of a receiver being
dropped was all that answered him. He went ahead and headed towards the
general direction of his car all the while pondering what his wife had in
store for him. He merely shook his head, " Just like Akane to pull a
bakarate stunt like that!" he whispered and thought to himself just how
lucky he was to have Akane.

    	Back at the dojo Akane leaned against the wall stroking her stomach,
"Oh Ranma, I can't wait to tell you my surprise, soon we're going to have a
real family" she smiled serenely, a smile that can only done by someone
expecting the miracle of life, for unknown to her husband Akane was
pregnant and nine months from now the Saotome couple will be gifted with
twins. 

     Ranma goes to his prize a brand new car, being deep in thought, he was
unaware of the dreadful fate that awaited him, until it was too late. He
turns on the engine switching on the timing device connected to a bomb.

	    A great explosion shook the nearby coliseum. As the pillar of fire
rose from the wreckage of the car a young woman smiled, "You have done well
Sasuke." She addressed the shadows, as a figure emerged shaping itself to
the form of a huge muscular ninja. 

	" I live only to serve, my mistress" he replied in a raspy voice as he
kneeled. The young woman merely cackled and threw a bouquet of black roses
into the wind releasing it's contents as the wind scattered the black
petals everywhere. "Ranma-sama, it was a mistake leaving me for that bitch
Akane, now you have paid for that mistake with your life, for if the black
rose cannot have what she cherishes most in the world then  none shall have
him, farewell Ranma Saotome" she shouted then whispered "farewell my
love…"as a tear fell down the cheeks of the woman known as Kodachi Kunou,
she turned around and walked into the shadows.    

      Akane got up from bed and cried, she knew something was wrong  she
knew something happened to her husband. "Oh Ranma, please be alright," she
prayed as she sobbed herself to sleep.

     A year later violence and crime began to increase rapidly at the once
semi-peaceful town of Nerima it was said that the years that followed were
known as the Dark Times,  the reign of  the Bloody Roses.

………to be continued





Nikholas "Radler" F. Toledo 
mail me here!! <radler@tri-isys.com> 
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Radler: What the hell am I doing in this crazy place!! 
	<rattles the adamantium bars that hold him> 
	Argh!!!! 


A fool who knows he is a fool cannot be called a fool anymore. 
He should be called a genius...