Disclaimers:
"Life and Times" (LaT) belongs to DonnyC and can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/4537/index2.html
"The Wheel of Time" (WoT) belongs to Robert Jordan and can be found at
your local book store.
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Editor's Notes
I will be using 'Ranma-chan' when Ranma is in girl from and 'Ranma' when
in guy form, but still refer to him as 'he' in either form.
"<speech>"
*<thoughts>"
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LaT/WoT Crossover.
Untitled: Chapter 1 <Any Suggestions for a Title?>
Ranma was strapped to a chair, with only his boxers and undershirt on
and all sorts of electrodes hooked to him. He was about to get himself
programmed not to be afraid of RyoOhKi, to make him think he was a
rabbit instead of a cat. "You know I only agreed to this because it was
a favor to Sasami. Again, tell me why I had to take all my clothes off.
I'm only getting brain fried here, why did I have to take off my
clothes? And what was with all the tissue samples?"
"Oh, I only need one more sample," said Washu.
Suspiciously, "And that is?"
A mischievous glint appeared in nurse Washu's eye, "A sperm sample!"
"WHAT?! NO WAY! NU UH!! ABOSULUTLE NOT!" Mihoshi walked in the room
apparently lost. "Hey, Mihoshi! Help me get out of this will you!"
"Hai!" Mihoshi proceeded to randomly push buttons on control panel.
Suddenly alarms and lights start going off.
*Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to ask for help from her,* Ranma
thought. Suddenly RyoOhKi hopped into his lap and started to 'meow' at
him. Looking down, "At least I don't seem to afraid of you any more."
As Washu was trying to get Mihoshi away from the control panel and
desperately trying to fix the problems that she created, a strange white
glow started to form around Ranma and RyoOhKi. Then her equipment
exploded and Ranma and RyoOhKi vanished in a flash of light.
--
Moiraine woke with her shift clinging to her sweating body. She could
feel her cheeks wet with tears. The bond was gone! That could only mean
one thing. Burn him! That mule headed fool. Already, she could feel
the emptiness begin to its assault on every inch of her mind. He had to
get himself killed. She heard the door to her room in the temple slide
open. It was her teacher, Urd.
Urd's eyes were bloodshot with worry and pain. "I'm going to have a
talk with Washu. You coming?"
Moiraine only nodded.
--
Somewhere in Juuban, Usagi felt like a part of her suddenly died.
Calling her friends over the communicator, "I think something happened
to Ranma."
"Usagi, how you figure?" said Minako.
"You know that link that Ranma and I share? How often do you feel like a
small part of you up and died?!"
"Last I heard, Ranma was at Masaki Residence," said Ami.
"OK, everyone meet at Rei's then we'll all go there to investigate."
--
Groaning, Ranma sat up and started to look around. He was sitting in
the middle of a road lined with trees on both sides. "Great, now where
am I? Knowing my luck, I probably got thrown into some different
dimension. And I'm sitting here with nothing but my underwear too."
Magically he producing a set of clothes and put it on.
"Meow meow?" RyoOhKi said.
"Well, I know this guy Mousse. He is a master of Hidden Weapons Martial
Arts. It's basically the ability to hide all sorts of things under your
clothes without it being revealed. Same concept. I had the clothes
hidden on me. Hey, how come I can understand what you are saying?"
"Meow?!"
"Of course I can understand what you are saying."
"Meow meow meow?"
"That's what I like to find out. Oh well, let's not worry about that.
Let's try to find out where we are." Suddenly Ranma's danger sense went
off as a nine foot werewolf ran out of the trees intent on killing what
ever laid in its path.
Weaving through its attacks, Ranma was able to disarm and knock it into
unconsciousness using its sleep pressure points. "I wonder why it
attacked me? I guess I have to wait until it wakes up to find out and
that won�t be for a couple of hours." Grabbing the collar of its the
leather tunic he it proceeded to drag it along while in search of some
sort of town to find out where he was.
--
After a couple of hours of dragging the creature, Ranma-chan stopped to
rest, all the while muttering how he able to find the only puddle of
water on a dry desolate road. (He got himself and the creature wet.
Amazingly enough the creature didn�t wake when dragged though a puddle
of water.)
"Meow meow meow!?" RyoOhKi whined.
"So am I. If we ever find a town, we'll get some food there." After a
moment's pause, Ranma started to search himself. Sitting on the ground,
Ranma examined the stuff she found on himself. "Oh great all I have is
a couple vials (identical) of something, about 500 yen, and some of
Washu�s gadgets. Assuming they even accept yen here, we won't be able
to get much." Ranma then picked up one of the vials and examined it
closely. "I wonder what are in these things."
RyoOhKi just sat next to Ranma-chan looking at her sadly. (Probably at
the prospect of not being able to get any food, mainly carrots. ^_^)
After about a minute, the creature that Ranma-chan was dragging started
to stir. Ranma-chan still studying the vial and trying to guess what
was in it, missed this. As the creature awoke, it fixed its sights on
Ranma, ready to satisfy its bloodlust.
As Ranma-chan's danger sensors peaked and snapped her out of her
thoughts and saw the creature lunge at her. She only had enough time to
block its teeth as it came straight for his neck. With one of her arms
now trapped in the creature's jaw, Ranma scowled at it and his left eye
started to twitch. She then hit it over the head with something, which
happened to be the vial she was pondering on. (She some how forgot it
was there. ^_^) The vial broke spilling it contents over the creature
and knocking it out. Ranma just stared dumbly at it, forgetting the
teeth marks on her arm. (Hey, if P-chan can't break skin, I really doubt
a Trolloc can. ^_^)
Lying in front of her now was a girl about 17 years of age. She was
about as tall as Ranma in his male form and had the same measurements
as his girl form. She had long brown hair that reached down to her
waist and had light brown eyes, but since her eyes were shut Ranma
couldn�t see them.
Sighing, "Well, at least I know what are in those vials now. I hope she
won�t be too mad at me for what I did."
"Meow meow?"
While collection his stuff, "Yeah, so she did try to kill me a few
times. But I still cursed her and I don�t know why she attacked me
either. Maybe Pop stole from her family or engaged me to her and never
to bother to tell me." Ranma shuddered at that thought.
Groggily the girl sat up and clutched her head as it throbbed in pain.
Then she started to mutter something in a language that Ranma-chan
couldn�t understand.
Ranma-chan then fished out one of Washu�s gadgets and attached it to her
ear. It was Washu�s Universal Language Translator, patent pending,
which looked amazingly like Belldandy�s seal. (I just wanted Ranma to
wear that kind of earring. ^_^) After the ear piece was on, the girl�s
words started to come through clearly. Her mutterings were that she
couldn�t remember who or what she was or why she was here. *Great, I
knocked all the memories out of her head. And I�m responsible for it
too,* she thought miserably. "Since you can�t remember your name, how
about I give you one, until you can remember your real name that is.
OK? Oh and my name is Ranma Saotome, but you can call me Ranma."
The girl nodded.
With a thoughtful look, "How about Hikari. As for who and what you
are�" Ranma-chan proceeded to tell her about the curse she accidentally
gave her hoping she won�t be too mad at her. (From here on out I�m
going to refer to the girl as Hikari in either form.)
"If Hikari cursed form is girl, then what Hikari original form?" Hikari
asked, disbelieving the story Ranma just told her.
"Well you are a nine-foot tall werewolf."
"What is� �werewolf�?"
"Well it is a creature that is a cross between a man and a wolf. Think
of man with a head of a wolf all covered with fur."
"You mean Trolloc then. So Hikari normal form is Trolloc." As her own
statement hit her, she fainted.
"RyoOhKi, do you get the impression she doesn�t like her original form?"
Ranma asked.
"Meow," RyoOhKi stated, a bit confused on what just when on.
Picking the girl up in a piggyback position, Ranma-chan then proceeded
down the road in hopes of finding a town soon.
--
After another hour had passed, Ranma-chan and company finally arrived at
a small village. The village looked like it was raided recently, with
half of the houses burn to the ground and the other half with little or
no damage. Every eye from the village fell on the two girls and their
strange looking cat that just came walking in. Then mutterings and
speculations about the trio began.
Walking through the village, Ranma-chan was deep in thought on where was
a good place to go to get some information. She was also wonder how a
person can be unconscious for so long after fainting. Spotting an inn
at the end of the road, she though that would be as good as a place as
any and headed for it.
Upon entering the inn, Ranma-chan saw that there were a group of men and
a woman in the common room huddled together in some sort of discussion.
He then saw a slender woman, with a thick braid of graying hair pulled
over shoulder, Mistress al�Vere, approach them.
"Hello. I was wondering if you could tell me where I am."
"Why you are at Winespring Inn in Emond�s Field. And what happened to
you friend there? Also how old are you? You seem much too young to be
on your own." At the notion of outsiders, the group in the common
stopped their discussion and turned their attention to the group near
the entrance. They took special interest in them since the oldest of
them looked no older than seventeen and she was currently on the back of
a girl that looked a year younger, then there was that strange looking
cat of theirs.
Nynaeve al�Meara, the Wisdom of the village, was the woman in the group
in the common room listening to the discussion of the Village Council on
what to do about the Aes Sedai that took four of the village youths from
Emond�s Field during the middle of the night. As she heard Mistress
al�Vere question a couple of people near the entrance of the of the inn,
she and the Village Council turned there attention towards them. At
seeing the two girls, and the youngest with a head of red hair done up
in a braid, she started to yank on her own braid, all the while
muttering something about outsiders.
"Oh, she just fainted." Trying to dodge the rest of the questions,
Ranma said, "I was wondering if you had a map I could look at, we seem
to be lost and I do not know where Emond�s Field is."
"Bran, could you bring me that old map of yours," she called out in the
direction of the common room. "Now for how old you two are and why are
you out here on your own."
Ranma finding no way to dodge the questions again, he answered them. He
also did not know how old Hikari was, but since she looked as old as
Nabiki, he guessed. "Well, I�m sixteen and Hikari here is seventeen.
We were trying to find our way home but got really lost," Ranma said
with a nervous laugh. The way Mistress al�Vere was looking at them,
after she stated their ages, was making her feel really nervous. Lucky
a man, she assumed was Bran, came with a map. "Do you have a place
where I can put Hikari down for a while, so I can look at the map of
yours?"
Gently placing Hikari down in one of the chairs in the common room,
Ranma then studied the map. Looking at the map confirmed Ranma�s
suspicions that he was probably thrown into another dimension. But she
could still sense the bond connecting him to Moiraine, so she thought
that maybe she could help her. Sighing, she handed the map back to the
Bran and said, "I was wondering if there was anywhere I could get a job
so that I might be able to buy enough supplies to get to Baerlon and
maybe a meal and a place to stay until then."
Everyone gasped at what Ranma-chan said. Nynaeve got up, all the while
tugging on her braid and muttering something about outsiders, and said
that she would handle this. She then introduced herself to Ranma and
told him she will be back after she made arrangements. Mistress al�Vere
then said that she would fix some food for the two children and a bowl
of milk for their cat, then promptly disappeared into the kitchen.
"Meow meow," RyoOhKi said sadly to Ranma.
" I know you want some carrots, but since we aren�t paying for the food
we can�t be to picky. Just try it, you might like it."
Ranma-chan then sat down next to Hikari and gently tried to shake her
awake. "Oi, Hikari. Wake up. We maybe leaving soon and I don�t feel
like carrying you all the way to Baerlon."
Hikari stirred and muttered something unintelligent, as Mistress al�Vere
entered the room with a couple plates of food and a bowl of milk. At
the smell of the food, Hikari awoke. Ranma then thanked her for the
food and Hikari did the same. Then both tore into the food like they
haven�t eaten in weeks. RyoOhKi happy drank her bowl of her milk
because she found out that she likes it on first taste.
At the sight of the two children eating, Mistress al�Vere took pity on
the two and went to prepare more food for the poor things.
As Ranma and Hikari finished their secound helping of food, Nynaeve told
them that all the preparations were made and they will be leaving as
soon as they were ready. After thanking Mistress al�Vere for the fine
meal, they got up and followed Nynaeve.
--
At the Masaki Residence: Washu�s Lab
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN�T BRING HIM BACK?!" all of Ranma�s super
powered admirers yelled.
Washu started to back up nervously as all of Ranma�s super powered
admirers was glaring at her. "Well you see when Ranma agreed to one of
my experiments, one so he won�t fear RyoOhKi any more, Mihoshi started
to bunch a bunch of buttons on the control panel of the machine he was
hooked up to." All the girls groaned at hearing Mihoshi�s involvement.
"According to the log files he was thrown into a different dimension,
but the log files were so badly damaged that I don�t know which one.
The only to find him now is to scan each dimension for his life
signature and open to a gateway to bring him back once it is found. But
there is an infinite number of different dimensions out there so it may
take a while for it to be found. But since we got three supercomputers
at our disposal we maybe able to find him within a century." All the
girls groaned at that.
"Three super computers?" Ami asked.
"Yes, three. Mine, yours and the Yggdrasil. We just set it up to search
for Ranma�s life signature then have them notify us when it is found.
I�ll transfer Ranma�s data to your computers, then we can begin the
search."
To be continued�
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Author�s Note:
Is it so hard to believe that Ranma could be a intelligent,
well-mannered person under that ill-mannered, stupid, macho jerk persona
he uses so often?