Well I've kept a lot, but make a lot of changes too. Anyways
tell me what you think.
Specific question: any ideas what Nodoka's Sanjiyan name was?
I have some ideas for her return and would like to identify her.
It was two minuites to midnight. In the greenhouse of the Kuno
estate a figure was working dillagently. That part of the greenhouse
was unlit except for the candles, five black candles lit at each point
of a pentagram, and a large red candle lit at the center. The
figure spoke, her voice chanting a strange chant in a language that
resembled chinese. Her chant continued and rose in volume.
As Midnight arived the chant reached a creshendo and the flame
of the red candle turned bright blue. From this blue flame rose a
could of black smoke that filled the center of the mystic circle. Two
eyes sudenly formed in the cloud and a voice issued from the mists.
"For what porpose am I summoned?"
"I call you to take the life of a single woman." It's summoner
replied calmly. "You will seek her in the daylight when she is in the
company of two others."
Ranma was walking down the street trying not to look to his
right. Walking where Ranma wasn't looking was Akane. Who was also
avoiding his gaze. They were both nervous.
"We're just doing this for my father, you know." Akane
commented.
"I know, it's not really a date, we're just seeing a movie
together because it's your father's birthday and you want him to be
happy." Ranma replied. He added in a quieter tone "As if I'd ever ask
a tomboy like you on a real date."
"Ranma!" Akane shouted, turning to glair at him. She closed
her eyes then said through grited teeth "I'm trying to stay civil with
you so keep your mouth shut and don't act like your usual hentai self."
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Ranma pivoted and stared
right into Akane's glair. *Back in familiar teritory.* Ranma and
Akane both thought to themselves with feelings of releif mixed with
dissapointment. Not that either one would admit it to anyone,
including themselves.
"Nihao Ranma!" Came a voice from behind the pair. They turned
to see Shampoo brake her bike and squeal to a stop one inch from the
pair. She grabed Ranma and said, "Have day off, we go on date yes?"
"Ranma!" Akane said angrily.
"What Akane do here?" Shampoo said looking at the youngest
Tendo Daughter.
"Uh, well it's her father's birthday and we're pretending to be
going out as a kinda present. It's not a date or nothing�" Ranma said
as he pulled himself free of Shampoo's arms. He trailed off as his
well trained sense of danger triggered. He glanced up a moment then
grabed both Akane and Shampoo and jumped to the left.
"RANMA!" Akane yelled, but the rest of her statement was cut
off by the explosion of the large object smashing a large crater where
the three of them had just stood.
The three Martial artists looked as the dust cleared revealing
a large, being. It rose from it's crouched over possition and turned
to look at the three girls. It was almost seven feet tall with deep
red scaley skin mostly covered by very black armor. Lashing it's tail
against the ground it growled. "Good dodge, but it doesn't change the
fact that you shall die today."
Ranma stepped foreward. "All right who are you and why are you
after me."
"You couldn't pronounce my name anyways. As for why, I was
asked to kill you and obeying that kind of request is both duty and
pleasure." The demon steped forward, folding it's against it's back.
It raised it's right hand, which crackled with black fire. "Goodbye."
Ranma pushed the girls to opposite sides as he charged
foreward, dodging the stream of fire which ignited the pavement where
they had stood a moment earlier. As Ranma approached the demon it
lashed out against him with the claws on it's left hand. Ranma ducked
under the attack and slambed a fist into his opponents stomach with
enough force to split a redwood in half. The demon grunted and
quivered slightley under the blow, lashing out with a claw strike which
Ranma jumped just out of range of.
As the demons claws missed their target, it had also extended
it's coresponding wing. This appendage struck Ranma squarely, knocking
him to the ground.
The demon jumped foreward to it's feets claws extended, then
with a strong wingbeat pushed itself back, away from Shampoo who had
stepped over Ranma, sword extended so that the demon could impale
himself. The demon frowned, then pivoted aside from Shampoo and
Ranma's rising form as Akane jumped in, her kick cracking the ground
where it had stood.
"Do you mind?" The demon's tail sudenly lashed out, impailing
Akane in her lower left chest. Before she could do more that gasp, the
tail sudenly moved, throwing her against the fence of the canal. "Now
die quetly�"
"AHHHRRR!!" Ranma screamed as he leaped at the demon, his
battle aura surging like a storm. The demon moved it's claws to block
to block the rush, and found itself staggering to the side as Ranma
avoited the move and rammed 150 hard punches into it's left side. As
the demon staggered back, Ranma paused, just long enough to focus the
Rage that had inundated his mind into his hands. A feirce light,
Bright red mixed with blue formed around Ranma's hands for a second
before he closed the distance with his opponent. Lashing out with all
his strength, Ranma double fisted punch impacted with the demons face
and upper chest. It was thrown backward by the blow, shattering the
wall opposite the fence.
Ranma could baerly think of anything but catching the monster,
and destroying it as thoroughly as he could, when he heard a soft cough
from the edge of the canal. His rage disapated like a tear in the
ocean. "Akane!" He called as he rushed to her side.
Shampoo shook her head, pushing asside the shock she felt at
seeing her Rival so casually impailed and Ranma's rage filled response.
*Unforgivable Shampoo! You are a warrior, if you hesitate like that
it could cost you your life!* She ran foreward, slowing to a slow walk
a few feet from the collapsed wall. The rubble shifted and the demon
pulled itself to it's feet. There was a trickle of blood oozing from
it's lips and it's upper chest was slightly discolored from Ranma's
last attack, but it seemed more enraged than hurt. Shampoo heard Ranma
scream Akane's name, and ignored the surge of pain in her heart.
*Ranma distracted, I must hold back this monster untill he's ready to
fight.* She thought as she shifted her grip on her sword.
Ranma dropped to his knees in the pool of blood forming around
Akane. *So Much Blood�* "NO!" He tore off his shirt and started
trying to pack the wound, to do anything that would stop the bleeding.
The Demon porposfully stepped toward Ranma, stoping as it saw
Shampoo step into it's path, sword pointed right at it.
Akane looked up at him. "Ranma." She said quietly, her voice
distorted by the blood in her throat.
"Step asside and live." The demon stated, raising it's right
hand and forming a sphere of black fire over it's palm to emphasise the
point. Shampoo responede by thrusting her left arm foreward, throwing
three small knives at the hand. The demon knocked the blades out of
the air with it's left hand, then lifted it's right and grasped the
ball of fire. The flames surged outward, assuming the shape of a large
sword, then fading to reveal a real sword.
"Don't try to talk. Save your strength, we'll talk after I get
you to a hospital." There was a strong constant ache in his forehead,
Ranma ignored it. *Damn it what do I do!* He knew about injury. In
his mind he reviewed every option he could think of to get her
someplace she could be treated, but as he thought them he knew they
would be to slow, that they would jostle her wound to much, that
anything he thought of would have Akane die before he could get her to
help.
Shampoo was putting all her speed and strength into parying the
demon's ferocious attack. She jumped back from a low slash and
extended her sword. The demon's black blade had left her own blade
badly knicked and chipped.
Akane winced as she lifted her left arm. "I'm sorry, Ranma. I
want you to know I love..." Her arm dropped, and she closed her eyes.
"Akane..." Ranma said, leaning forward and looking into her
face. A drop of blood fell onto her cheek, from the red horizontal
line that had appeared in his forehead. Akane's breathing was becoming
shallower. "No." Another drop of blood fell. "No!" Ranma had to
wince at the searing pain in the front of his head. "NO!" he screamed
to the heavens. The line of blood in his forehead split, revealing the
eye beneath.
Shampoo took another step backward, and just baerly kept
herself from turning as a bright light exploded behind her. In front
of her the demon dropped it's guard while it openly gaped. Not wasting
the opportunity Shampoo spun foreward swinging her sword in a great
circular arc. The sword shattered on the demon's chest, leaving a
raged line of black blood. Continuing the circle of her attack,
Shampoo raised her leg into a roundhouse kick into the demon's stomach,
throwing it back to the broken wall. Unable to contain her curiosity
any longer she turned to look at Ranma.
Ranma didn't know what had happened; his body suddenly felt as
though it was filled with power. A wave of euphoria swept across him,
and was shattered by the reality he saw before him. Akane was lying on
the ground, and he could see her life flowing through her, could see it
dimming as she died. Ranma knew he had to save her. And a means to
save her formed in his head. Not questioning its source Ranma leaned
forward and put his effort into the task.
Light exploded around Ranma. Then the light became
concentrated, focused into a beam from his third eye to Akane's chest.
A glowing sphere emerged from her and traveled up the beam to be
absorbed by the eye. The eye closed, the light was gone.
Shampoo watched as the light surrounding Ranma concentrated
into a beam from his head to Akane's chest. She saw the sphere of
light float up the beam to where Ranma's body obscured her view. Then
the beam faded. Ranma sat still for a second. Then he surged up and
pivoted to face her. There was something changed about his face but
she couldn't see what it was. He raised his arms, his hands clenched
into tight fists. Then he sudenly extended the first and last finger
of each hand and a aura of blue fire formed around them.
With a feirce cry Ranma thrust his hands foreward and the fire
exploded from his hands and surged right at her like a wave. Shampoo
raised her arms in a semi instinctive attempt at defence, then blinked
in shock as the fire passed through her like she hadn't existed. Her
contemplation was cut short by the scream from behind her. Pivoting
Shampoo saw the demon burning with the same flames which had passed
through her harmlessly. A second later it began to crumble into a pile
of dust.
Genma Saotome was running along the canal. Looking up he saw a
pillar of blue flame form and dissapate a few blocks ahead of him. He
accelerated. *What is happening?* He had been trying to con a vendor
out of some rice cakes when he had sudenly felt an overwealming sense
of impending doom. It was a sensation he had not felt in years, but he
had known it was real and that his son was it's focus. "RANMA!!"
Genma ran foreward. On his left he saw Shampoo standing before
a shattered section of wall She was staring at the two forms lying by
the fence. "Oh, my son!" he cried as he ran up to Ranma. Kneeling
beside him he flipped him onto his back and checked his kneck's pulse.
Then he looked at Akane. "What happeded�" He paused looking down at
the pool of blood that he was standing at the fringes of.. He blinked a
moment, then he looked closer, and his eyes widened. The blood was
flowing back into Akane's wound. Turning to Akane, he reached out to
brush the hair away from her forehead. "Oh Nodoka." He whispered.
Then he reached down, swung Akane over his left shoulder, Ranma over
his right, and stood.
"Ayah!" Shampoo had managed to overcome her shock enough to
walk to where Genma stood. His suden decision to manhandle both Ranma
and her rival fiance Akane took her by complete surprise.
Genma looked her in the eye. Shampoo had never seen this
expression on him before. It was a combination of fear, sorrow, and
relief. "Akane's not in any danger. I'll explain it to her and Ranma
back at the Dojo once they wake up." He looked thoughtfull for a
moment. "I'll definitely have to explain things to everyone�
Shampoo," He hesitated for a moment. "Something significant just
happened to Ranma. And I'd rather explain it to everyone at once so
please get Ukyo and ask her to come to the Dojo."
Genma turned, and started down the street at a run.
Ranma groaned slightly, and blinked as he awoke. He recognized
that he was lying in his and his father's room. He remembered what had
happened just before he fell asleep. "Akane!" he cried as he bolted to
his feet. Looking to his side he saw Akane lying on a futon a few feet
away from him. She was wearing the dress, however he could see through
the rip the unmarked skin underneath. Reddening slightly, Ranma looked
away from her chest, and looked at the familiar contours of her face.
He had seen Akane in many moods, and even sleeping like now, he knew
her face perfectly. There was something different about it. On her
forehead there was a Chinese character.
"Ranma," said a womans voice from the doorway of the room.
Ranma hadn't heard the voice very often, but he knew it very well. His
mother's voice.
He looked down at himself and saw that he was male. Expanding
his observation he saw his mother was looking directly at him, and
there was no way he could run or change.
"Don't worry Ranma," his mother said as she walked across the
room to him. "I'm not here about Jusenkyo, or the promise of Seppuku
you've feared so much."
"Mom?" was Ranmas quiet response as he turned to her. He
could see a smile on her face and tears in her eyes.
Nodoka responded by grabbing him into a fierce hug, whispering,
"I missed you so much."
"Oh Mom." Ranma grabed her, huging as feircely as he could
without squeasing harder than he knew she could take. For a minute the
hug was all that mattered to either of them.
Nodoka separated them and brushed the tears from her eyes.
"Now, let me look at you," she said as she observed him carefully. "I
see you do take after me. In ways I had not wanted," she said with a
sigh.
Ranma sudenly recalled the strange feelings and vision that had
overtaken him when he saw Akane lying wounded in the ring. He was
about to ask Nodoka if she somehow meant this, when he heard Akane
moan. Spinning and kneeling beside her, he quietly said, "Akane," as
he watched her wake up.
"Uh," Akane stated, opening her eyes, and looking around. She
stopped when she saw Ranma and said quietly "Ranma..." Then she
blinked in memory. She glanced down at the bloodstained dres, and
putting her hand into the hole formed by the demons attack she felt the
undamaged skin. "How?"
"I can answer that," Nodoka stated quietly from the door.
Ranma and Akane both looked at her, her joy at being reunited with her
son was being overcome by some unknown Sorrow. "Mom?" Ranma said
quietly.
"Mrs. Saotome?" Akane added, sitting up.
"Come on, I think I'd rather explain this to everyone," she
said as she turned and walked out the door.
Ranma looked after her, then looked back at Akane.
Akane looked at Ranma, looked down at her dress, and said "I,
uh, I think I ought to change into something else."
Ranma glanced down at his own outfit, then said. "Yeah, me
too."
Ranma walked down the stairs with Akane right behind him.
Akane was wearing her yellow dress with a floral pattern, Ranma his red
shirt and black pants. They both paused as they overlooked the family
room. Nodoka, Genma, the rest of the Tendo family and Shampoo and Ukyo
were all gathered around the table. Everyone turned their head to look
at Ranma and Akane.
No one said anything.
Nodoka indicated that the two of them sit at a open space to
her left.
"Ranma, there is so much to tell you. So much you need to
know..." Nodoka trailed off looking down at the table.
"I think it would be best if I tell him how we met," Genma said
to her.
Genma turned to Ranma and began. "I met Nodoka in the year
1895. I was at that time only a few years older than you are now." He
looked at the incredulous looks from around the table. "It may be hard
to believe but at the time she wasn't human."
Nodoka looked up and started talking. "My people were known as
the Sanjiyan Unkara, or sometimes as the Triclops. When we existed, at
least. For a very long time we sought to end our immortality and
attain humanity. To the best of my knowledge I was the last to find a
way to become human."
Nabiki looked at her and said in a skeptical voice, "So you
were Immortal, and you wanted to give it up?"
Nodoka sighed and looked at the table. "You can only see our
longevity, our power. You don't know the terrible prices they require,
or the gifts of humanity that you know too well to see."
"This is all very interesting," Nabiki commented. "But
accoarding to Shampoo, my little sister just got almost killed by some
demon and now she's in perfect shape. How do you explain that?"
"If you listen to the rest of our story it will all make
sense," Genma responded. "To shorten the tale; I met Nodoka on the
road, and agreed to show her the way to Kyoto. However on the way
there , there was an... accident."
"An inn was on fire, and Genma was severely injured trying to
save the people inside. I had only known him a short time, but I knew
that I couldn't allow him to die. So I used one of the most basic and
potent powers of the Sanjiyan and made him my WU." Pausing, Nodoka
took a sip from the cup of tea Kasumi had given her just before Ranma
and Akane had arrived. She continued, "The Sanjiyan posses great magic
power. However, when we use that power to its utmost, it weakens us,
often leaving us powerless for days at a time. So, long ago, even by
immortal standards, we learned how to take the soul of another and
merge it with our own. The one whose soul we have taken becomes our
WU, our... protector and servant. As the soul is kept safe within our
own, the WU's body becomes immune from harm, all injuries heal at
fantastic speed, and they share our own longevity, and a portion of our
power." Nodoka stopped and looked at her tea.
Genma resumed the narrative, "For a very long time I traveled
with Nodoka, helping her search for a way to become human. And
eventually we found the Nyanichuan."
Ranma blinked. He looked at his father with a disbelieving
expression. "YOU KNEW?!"
"We knew, Ranma," Nodoka responded. "You see, the Nyanichuan
was the critical catalyst in the spell which made me human, and within
a few hours the character marking your father my WU faded forever. We
traveled apart for a few years, I wanted to get a feel of humanity,
your father met Happosei and Soun, and decided to relearn fighting
without the power he had gained from me. After disposing of Happosei,
we met again, he proposed and I accepted." She smiled at the memory.
"We bought a house with the savings of centuries, and just over a year
later, I had you." She looked at Ranma her eyes glistening, and a
smile on her face. Then the smile faltered.
"However even from the beginning, I wondered if my Sanjiyan
nature was gone or merely suppressed. I was uncertain whether or not
you might have inherited my former nature. Then when you were five I
knew. You were at the playground, and a group of bullies was picking
on you. You had enough training to handle any one of them one on one,
but they were threatening you all at once. When I was coming to help
you, I saw you're forehead begin to spontaneously bleed, here," Nodoka
said extending her finger and tracing a short line in the center of
Ranma's forehead.
"Here you were in a situation where a young Sanjiyan would have
tried to call forth his power, and there was blood where you're third
eye would have opened. That was when I knew you had inherited my
former nature from me." Nodoka looked down, her eyes glistening, her
hands clenched.
Genma glanced at his wife, then started talking, "Anyway,
Nodoka didn't know what to do. Remember it hadn't been that long ago
when she gave up the power of the Sanjiyan forever. Now she discovered
that the power she had spent most of her life trying to escape was part
of you. We talked about what to do for a long time. Nodoka was
desperate to enable you to grow up and live your life as a normal
human, but she had no idea how to. I hoped she could succeed, but I
also knew that if you did become Sanjiyan, you needed to be able to
handle it. After about a week, Nodoka decided that her presence risked
empowering your Sanjiyan side and she insisted that I take you and
raise you till you were a man. So we began our long training trip.
"I was determined that if I failed to keep you human you should
at least have some experience with travel and Martial Arts in
preparation for life as a Sanjiyan. And as you were about to turn
sixteen, I decided to hedge our bets and take you to Jusenkyo to add an
extra bit of insurance that your Sanjiyan nature would remain sealed."
"So what about that promise? The man among men thing?" Nabiki
asked.
Nodoka looked at her. "That was my idea. Genma told me that
he was coming home after Jusenkyo, I wanted to see my son again so
much, but I was still terrified that I might awaken the Sanjiyan nature
within him. I chickened out at the last moment, and Genma decided to
come here instead." She sighed and looked down. "I kept planning to
come, but the fear kept holding me back. Eventually I contacted Genma
and we tried to think up a way for me to see Ranma with the Jusenkyo
curse as a buffer. Genma and I thought up the man among men promise as
a way to keep you in your cursed form without having to burden you with
the knowledge that you weren't fully human. Genma told me that there
was no sign of your Sanjiyan side manifesting, so I was planning a way
to reveal your secret and accept your manliness. However before I
could, Akane was attacked, and your pain and anger at seeing her dying
awoke my side of you're heritage. You made her your WU to save her
life."
Ranma looked at Akane, then said quietly "Hai." Akane looked
back at him, a somewhat surprised expression on her face.
"Akane," Nodoka said, turning her attention to her sons
Fianc�e.
Blinking back her surprise Akane looked at Nodoka. "Hai?"
"You aren't sure you believe what I've said, are you?"
"Well..."
"Give me your hand a moment," Nodoka said evenly. Akane looked
at her a moment, then extended her open right hand toward Mrs. Saotome,
palm up. Nodoka touched the fingers of her own right hand to Akane's,
then her left hand stabbed a Tanto dagger into Akane's palm.
It took everyone a moment to overcome the sense of shock enough
to react. Ranma was first, grabbing his mother's wrist, and yanking it
back. Before he could do anything more, Nodoka said, "Hold up your
hand, Akane."
Akane was looking at her just wounded hand, and looked at
Nodoka she held it up. As everyone watched, the blood that had poured
from the wound flowed back into it. Soon the wound had faded without a
trace.
"Hmm, getting soft in your old age I see," Genma commented.
Nodoka glanced at him with an annoyed look, "She is my son's
fianc�e, not some slow witted wanderer I just met."
Genma turned to Akane and said, "She illustrated my
newly-gained healing power to me by chopping off my head." He rubbed
his neck and winced somewhat.
As Ranma sat back down at the table, Soun finally stopped
crying. "Well, this is all a bit of a shock, but my little girl is
alive and well and that's what's important."
Nodoka and Genma both looked away from him and coughed in near
perfect unison. "Well..." Genma said.
"Technically..." Nodoka added.
"Umm, the term most commonly used is, er, undead." Genma
finished. Soun stared at him, then started crying again.
"Undead?" Akane asked.
"Undead, as in something like a vampire or a zombie?" Nabiki
said, looking right at the Saotome's.
Nodoka frowned and said, "It's a lable humanity placed on the
WU."
Suddenly a small object blurred into the room. "Ranma-Chan!"
it called out, as it resolved itself into Happosei long enough to
splash Ranma with a bucket of cold water. A second later the old
pervert had clamped himself onto Ranma's newly acquired breasts.
"GRRAA!" Ranma replied. Her clothes were whipped by an unseen
wind, her hair raised by an updraft that only affected her, then there
was a blinding flash of light and a crash.
Ranma had risen to her feet. Her right arm was extended from
throwing Happosei into the garden. Her third eye was open and glaring
at the old master. "You disgusting old freak," she said, her voice
vibrating with power.
When this had happened a few hours ago, all of Ranma's
attention had been directed to Akane. Now Akane was safe, and she felt
none of the pain that had accompanied her initial awakening. She could
feel the power coursing through her body, focusing in the eye that had
just opened in her forehead.
What's more, this third eye didn't see what her other two saw.
Through it she saw the spirits that were everywhere. She could see
the cloud of dark spiritual energy surrounding the old man she had just
thrown into the backyard. And despite the newness of this new sight,
she knew instinctively what she was seeing. And as she looked at the
wind, actually seeing it for the first time; she knew that she could do
more than just look. Taking a step toward the garden she raised her
hands.
As Ranma lifted her hands, wind swirled around her, picking up
speed. Ranma shifted her hands, once again extending the two outer
fingers while bringing her thumb to meet the other two. She jabbed
her hands forward, and as the wind around her died down, a dramatically
stronger wind formed around Happosei, lifting the old pervert into the
air. Ranma quickly gestured away with her right hand. Happosei was
hurled into the distant sky. Ranma smiled slightly.
Then the smile faded, and she pivited and leaped onto the Roof
of the Dojo. Everyone ran into the Yard.
"Ranma?" Genma called to his son, then jumped onto the roof
after him as he heard a suden shreak of pain. Landing on the roof, he
ran to where Ranma sat, rubbing her somewhat scorched foot and looking
at three paper charms lying on the roof in front of her. Smoke was
rising from the middle one.
"Ow, Old Ghoul," Ranma muttered to herself as he stopped
rubbing her foot and stood. A quick glance confirmed what Genma
recognised from Ranma's voice, the third eye was closed again.
"You shouldn't startle an old woman like that." Colougne
responded from the other side of the wards. "You scared me half to
death."
Genma looked at the ancient Matriarch, who was standing on the
other side of the wards from Ranma. He picked up a ward and
commented, "Expecting trouble?"
Colougne folded her arms into her sleves and responded,
"Earlier this afternoon I had a suden sense of great darkness and
danger. I grabed a few wards and tracked it down, and arived just as
you were running off with Ranma and Akane. I felt something strange
about them, and I decided I had better follow."
"And why were you hiding here?"
"I didn't want to show myself untill I had some idea what was
happening." Colougne shrugged and walked to the edge of the roof. All
three Martial artists jumped into the yard below.
"Great Grandmother!" Shampoo cried in surprise as she saw
Colougne.
"Come Shampoo, we both have much to think about." Colougne
responede as she used her staff to leap from roof to roof in the
direction of the Nekohanten. Shampoo looked after her, paused and
looked at Ranma. Then she jumped over the wall and began following
Colougne. Mousse immediately followed Shampoo.
Genma looked at the retreating trio of Amazon's and commented,
"Well we've still got some things to discuss. Let's head back
inside.."
"Nabiki, would you hand this to Akane?" Genma said as he sat
down, handing a spirit ward to the middle Tendo sister.
Nabiki looked at the bery ordinary looking piece of paper in
her hand and extended it to her sister.
"OWWW!" Akane cried as she jerked her hand away from the
paper. "That's red hot!" She added as she masaged her hand.
"To you and Ranma now," Genma replied, tearing the one in his
hand in half.
"That may be important to know, but I think we have more
important concerns right now." Nodoka said. "I asked Shampoo about
what you fought, and it was definitely some sort of Stygian order
demon. I was never too familiar with them so I can't be too sure but
if one of them appeared it was almost certainly summoned by someone."
"When I find out who the'll be sorry." Ranma commented
quietly.
"Tomorrow son." Genma replied. "I still remember enough about
Magic to put together something that will let us track whoever summoned
that demon, but you are going to get a good night's sleep first."
Ranma opened his mouth to protest, but Nodoka interupted him,
"You've used a lot of magic today, and you will need to be at full
strength, just in case." She smiled. "We have plenty to talk about
till then," She looked at Ukyo. "I'd like to know why your chasing
after my son and calling him your fiance for instance."
Genma's face sudenly became much whiter and he said. "Uh, I'll need to
start the compass witch, ah witch compass."
"Sit down, Dearest." Nodoka replied. "I'd like to hear your
viewpoint on this too."