DRAGON'S DESTINY 6/6: Higher Destiny
a Ranma 1/2 Altered Destiny fanfic by Gregg Sharp
   i don't own these characters, that doesn't keep me
   from having fun with them.
note: if something that does not treat the manga
  as gospel offends you, continue on to the next
  story. this is gonna offend you real bad.
otherwise, kick your shoes off and enjoy.
this is set in the framing device of "The Bet"
  same as the five chapters before that.
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	"AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa."

	Nabiki looked over at Ukyou. "I DO
wish that you'd stop doing that."

	"This is just SO much fun!" Kasumi
smiled, happy as a bluebird and currently flying
like one on PCP.

	"It's not so much the speed," Ukyou
said, closing her eyes tightly. She was yelling
across at Nabiki as the current howl of the
wind seemed to overwhelm everything else.
"It's not even skimming the trees at this kind
of speed."

	Ukyou whimpered again as Kasumi
noticed something, and made another 90 degree
turn at speeds in excess of 120mph. "It's that
she never seems to have heard of 'inertia'."

	Noting the greenish tint to Ukyou's
face, Nabiki called up to where her sister was
holding the rope that connected to their rowboat.
"Whatever you do, don't go any faster, Kasumi."

	Kasumi, off in her own little world, 
of course only made out the last two words.
An expression of joy passed over her face.
"Faster it is!"

	This time two sets of screams could
be heard echoing from the flying rowboat.
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	Mao Yin looked up and gaped for
a moment at what she saw. There was a 
young lady in a skirt, blouse, apron 
combination, holding a rope, which was
attached to a rowboat, from which 
screams could be heard, and she was
flying without the benefit of a plane.

	Aforementioned young lady
abruptly increased speed going from
"Very Fast" to "Where'd She Stash The
Rocket?"

	"Damn," the young mystic 
managed. "That must've been one of
those UFO thingies. Aren't they 
supposed to be saucer-shaped though?"

	Now if she could just make it
to the coastline, she'd find this "Nerima"
and teach that Ryouga to leave HER 
behind.
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	"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!"

	"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"

	"Aku Ryo Tai  San!"

	"Where did all these girls come
from? Ranma, you coward to hide behind
weak little girls!" Ryouga held one hand
down and began summoning chi into it.

	Akane stopped. "Did he say..."

	Sailor Jupiter's antennae popped
back up with a crackling noise. "...weak..."

	"...little..." Flames began to appear
around Sailor Mars hands.

	"...girls?" Shampoo's hand clenched
and formed an energy sword.

	"DIE!" Akane's haymaker slammed
into Ryouga's temple, causing him to step 
backwards.

	"FRY!" Sailor Mars brought her
hands together and launched a "fire soul"
attack.

	"GOODBYE!" Sailor Jupiter got up 
close and personal to thrust her next "Sparkling
Wide Pressure" directly into Ryouga's face.

	Shampoo didn't bother with calling
out an attack, just thrusting forward with her
chi blade.

	"That's enough," Ryouga slapped
the blade to the side and struck open palm to
Shampoo's face. 

	"FREEZE WAVE!" Ryouga struck
the ground, mist shot out in a wave again.
"Well, that was quick."

	A pillar of ice shattered, Akane 
stepping out of the jagged remainder of it
a moment later.

	A second pillar split, this one
revealing Shampoo who'd allowed her 
chi-sword to fade and was smirking. 
"Stupid boy. Trick no work twice on me."

	"Heh, well..." Ryouga's eyes 
widened. Where had Ranma gone while
he was dealing with these girls?

	"DRAGON," came a voice
behind Ryouga. Ryouga turned to see
a beachball sized sphere of chi formed
between Ranma's hands and glowing 
blue-white.

	"Uh-oh," Ryouga managed.

	"FIST!"

	A few moments passed as
Ranma collapsed and the dust settled.

	Shampoo shattered the prisons
of Jupiter and Mars. Akane broke the ice
holding Mercury in place. 

	"They injured." Shampoo 
noted the thready pulse. "They not do
too good."

	Ranma gasped. "Ok. I think
I know what I did wrong the last time."
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	"That's it!" Nabiki pointed.
"That's the mountain in the guidebook.
Supposedly the cave is on the eastern
side of the mountain, to face the dawn."

	Kasumi slowed to a mere 
crawl. She was beginning to feel tired
anyway. Even with her flying ability 
taking most of the weight, her arms
were sore from holding on to the rope.

	"Can we land now?" Ukyou
tried not to sound too desperate.

	"THERE!" Nabiki pointed.
"That's got to be it."

	Kasumi flew directly to the
cave, only smashing the rowboat into
the ground twice as she did so. 
Unfortunately, she was so tired she didn't
notice the rope give way the last time.

	Nabiki and Ukyou, watching the
rope continuing on without them into the
cave, gulped. They then looked at each 
other as the new acceleration made itself
felt.

	"Kasuuuuumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" The
rowboat slid down the steep slope, picking
up a fair amount of speed as it did so.

	Kasumi entered the cave, looking
at all the little glowing sparks floating about.
"Oh my. How pretty."

	There was a single spotlight 
floating in midair, with writing in Chinese on
it. Kasumi nodded, this was exactly how 
she had expected it to look from Ranma's
description. Now where were Nabiki and
Ukyou?

	Kasumi decided to be polite and
respectful while she was waiting. "Hello?
My name is Kasumi Tendo. You know 
someone who's, well," Kasumi blushed,
"somebody special to me."

	Kasumi's blush deepened as 
she thought about him. If she wore glasses
they'd have fogged up. "Oh dear. Anyway,
I'm wondering...he's gotten injured and has
had a great deal of power loss. It seems he's
transferred a lot of his power to me and a few
others to save our lives. Uhm, well it's a bit
awkward.

	" You see, he's got several fiancees
and he's supposed to face some powerful
enemies. We'd help, but we don't have the 
full power he started out with, either.  So,
uhm, I'm really sorry for disturbing you, 
Magic Cave-san, but my sister's the one who
is supposed to make the wish. She says
she's got it all figured out, but she's not here
right at the moment."

	Kasumi paused but there was still
no sign of Nabiki or Ukyou. "Anyway. Ukyou
is the only fiancee who doesn't have a powerup
yet, and she could really use one if she's going
to hang around us. And we've, well, those of us
who've shared Ranma's lifeforce have sort of a
special bond. It's really not fair to her not to have
that.

	"So anyway, there's a lot of problems
that happened along the way. I mean I really
really like Ranma, but if he chooses one of us,
everyone else will get hurt. I don't really want
that to happen." Kasumi listened for a few 
moments but it was completely silent in the 
cave. "It's too bad I can't just wish that you'd 
solve these problems."
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	Somewhere in another dimension,
a little black cat who sometimes went by the name
of Robin Goodfellow was rolling around on the floor,
 laughing its tail off.
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	"Doctor Ikagi, your report?"

	"The genetic samples from young 
Saotome show that he's a New Type, so genetically
advanced towards perfection that he might as well
be another species."

	"Hmmm. Melissa, take a memo for the PM.
Go ahead and approve that marriage law for Nerima,
with the condition that genetic samples are needed.
Dr. Ikagi, we may not be able to clone him, but we
CAN arrange for him to have a lot of kids. Children
who are genetically superior to the bulk of humanity.
Hah! Let's label this the 'Human Enhancement 
Project' - that'll work."

	"As you say, sir." Doctor Ikagi turned
and walked to the elevator. And if she had a private
fantasy about the young man in the report, who was
to criticize her for it?
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	Ranma had one girl under each arm, if
one were to look close, one would see that they were
actually supporting him as they walked.

	Shampoo was giggling like a schoolgirl.

	Akane merely smirked. "Oh yeah, Ranma,
tell us again how you've got the hang of this chi
transfer thing again."

	"Not my fault." Ranma glanced to where
a blushing Ami and Rei were supporting him.

	"Yup, just like my sempai," Lita nodded.
"Course, you couldn't know we heal fast in our
Senshi forms and it wasn't necessary for you to
do anything."

	"Shampoo, why are you glowing?"

	"What you mean, Akane? Oh, Akane
is glowing!"

	"We're all glowing," Amy observed,
switching places with Lita so she could use her
computer to scan. "I'm getting powerful energy
spikes from all of us."	

	"Oh no," said Ranma as he realized
why this feeling was familiar.
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	"It's a snow woman!" Sailor Moon dodged the
creature's blast. "Waaaahh!"

	"Foul creature who perverts, uhm, winter
sports, no that's not it."

	"Ranchan, stick to the blasting and leave
the speeches to others."

	Ranma tried again, noting that there were
now twenty of the snowwomen appearing. "Uhm,
evil ski slope rejects, er, oh hell. DRAGON STORM!"

	"Told you." Ukyou smiled at Ranma.

	"Would you like some cookies?" Kasumi
asked Usagi, using a chi wind burst to sweep the 
little piles of snow into nice tidy piles.
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DONE! Oh can't you see it, oh the horror, of Kasumi
flying and baking chocolate chip cookies, and oh
the terrible horrible story of Ranma getting all the girls.

actually i was planning on having Ukyou get into the
cave, make a wish, and all his "fiancees" would meld
into one being. Kasumi's niceness, Akane's strength,
Shampoo's sex appeal, Nabiki's intelligence, and Ukyou's
cute all in one package.

But the idea of Sentai Team Ranma was too much to
pass up. Especially with a chi-bonded Amy, Lita, and
Rei. 
       The cause of poor Ranma's suffering? Well, it's 
cause he's a character in a comedy show.