Sorry that it has been so long since my last post of this story (Real life
gets in the way again). I am also sorry for all the people who have tried to
E-mail me for the last three months. I haven't been able to use my AOL
account (stevej1397@aol.com) so I had to switch to a hotmail account
(stevej1397@hotmail.com)

I have made a few changes to the story, not much, but a few. I plan on
posting the revised first two chapters of Uknown Past and the new third
chapter tonight. If you have any questions, or C&C pleas feel free to E-mail
me.

And here is the fic

Unknown Past

A Ranma 1/2 crossover

By Stephen J. Scalaro



Chapter 1- Ranma fell into the cursed spring of drowned what?!

(If you don't want to read about the standard Jusenkyou start, just search
for "With a" to get to where my fic diverges from the canon.)

 Ranma looked at the training ground before him and shook his head. This
looked to be another of his fathers hair brained schemes to get him to be
the best without working for it.

 If there was one thing that he had learned on this 10 year training journey
with his father, was that you had to work hard to be the best. There was no
shortcuts in the art.. And this had been proven to him very early in his
life.

Every time that his father tried to teach him a secret or unbeatable
technique, it only caused grief to both of them. Ranma saw this again and
again as his father repeatedly tried to teach him a so-called "Ultimate
Technique". When in reality, even the best of them where nothing more that a
cheap trick. They may seem powerful at first, but each and every one of them
had a glaring flaw that was easily exploited, if you knew anything at all
about it.

 At least this time it looked like his father might just have found a
halfway decent training ground. The training ground consisted of many pools
of water, each with bamboo poles sticking up out of them haphazardly.

 This training ground would definitely go well with the Saotome school of
Anything Goes Martial Arts. His schools specialty was mid air combat and
unpredictability, and this looked to be a fairly good place to practice it.

 Jusenkyou guide "Here sirs, we come to famous training ground of cursed
springs Jusenkyou."

 Genma "Are you prepared Ranma?"

 "Ah man, this place ain't near as bad as I thought it would be" Ranma said,
thinking about his earlier thoughts about the training ground.

 Jusenkyou Guide "Ah, sirs, you are very strange ones. This place is very
dangerous. Nobody use it now because more than 100 spring here and each one
have own tragedy happen there."

 During the guide's explanation Ranma and his dad had taken off their
backpacks and had gotten ready to jump onto the poles.

 "Ranma follow me!" Genma called out as he jumped onto one of the poles.

 "Right behind you" Ranma called out as he followed his father onto the
poles.

 Jusenkyou Guide "Hay, sirs what you doing. I have not finished my tragic
story. you can't go there."

 Ranma tuned the guide out. He needed all of his concentration for the up
coming match.

 Genma "I won't go easy on you Ranma."

 Ranma gave his father a smirk and replied "That's just the way I like it."
and the battle was then joined.



 Ranma gathered himself and looked at his father for any signs of when he
would attack. Noticing a slight tensing in his legs, Ranma leapt off of the
pole and traded blows him.

 Ranma smiled once he landed on another pole. Nether of them had gotten a
hit in on the last exchange of blows, but Ranma had noticed something
important about fighting on these bamboo poles.

 He had noticed that the poles tended to sway and flex with the slightest
movements. Because of this Ranma had a much greater advantage than his
father. He could use more speed and strength in his jumps than his father
because of his smaller weight.

 It also meant that his father had to telegraph his moves more that he
normally did because of the extra flex in the bamboo. With his fathers
greater weight he had to be much more cautious about how much power he could
put into his jumps.

 When his father jumped this time Ranma waited a little bit longer than he
normally would have to see where his father's path would take him. When he
saw that his father was going low Ranma jumped high and landed a kick on his
father's back, knocking him into the spring bellow them.

 After landing on another pole Ranma waited for a few seconds then asked
"Hay pop, what's up. We done already?"

 After he said that the springs water started to form a whirlpool, and out
of the center of it a giant panda jumped out and landed on a bamboo pole in
front of Ranma. He looked at the guide and asked "What the hell is that?"

 The Jusenkyou Guide held up a sign while saying "That one Shonmaoniichuan.
Spring of drowned panda. Very tragic story of panda who drowned 2000 year
ago. The legend say whoever fall in spring take body of panda!"

 "Hey buddy, you never said anything about that to us" Ranma said while
looking at the guide. He did have to admit that the panda standing in front
of him was wearing the same gi and glasses as his father.

 Before he could really get over the fact that his father had turned into a
panda, the panda had leapt off of the pole directly at him. This time Ranma
didn't have the time to prepare for the attack. It had caught him completely
by surprise.

 Ranma was hit by the panda's kick and went flying backwards. While in the
air he tried desperately to catch one of the bamboo poles as he went past.
With the tip of his fingers he did manage to grab onto one of the poles and
stop his forward momentum, but he couldn't get enough of a hold to stay on
the pole.

 With a big splash he fell into the spring. He could feel his body tingle
for a minute and then it felt like his flesh was melting off of his bones.
When the change was done Ranma knew that he was no longer the same person he
was.

 It wasn't until he re surfaced that he realized that he had changed even
more than he had thought. Everything looked, sounded, smelled, felt
different then before. Every sense he had was now much more intense then
before.

 He heard the Guide running towards him. The problem was that he could hear
too much of the guide running towards him. Ranma could hear the guide's
heart beating, his clothes rustling, every leaf or twig he stepped on
braking, and other noises he couldn't even identify coming from the guide.

 Not only could he hear the guide's noises he could hear all the noises
around him too. It seemed that his hearing had gotten significantly better.
To make it even worse he could also tell where the noise was coming from and
how far away it was too. It seemed that he could tell minute difference in
the volume level in-between both ears and then uses it to tell how far away
the sound was coming from.

 Then there was his sight. He could see better than he had ever seen before.
(And that is saying a lot since he had 20/10 vision before) It seemed like
he could see more details of all the things around him, almost like the one
time in school when he had looked through a microscope before. The
difference here was that he seemed to see everything that way at once, not
just one thing at a time.

 It wasn't until he started to feel his body that he realized that more had
changed then he had originally thought. The first thing that he realized was
that he didn't have any clothes on anymore. The next was that "he" now had
breasts and didn't have something else in-between "his" legs, but she did
have something that SHE was supposed to have.

 When the guide reached the spring she had fallen into he said "You lucky
sir, this spring has not been cursed. You should no change."

 Ranma slowly pulled herself out of the spring and turned and looked at the
guide and said in a menacing voice "I should not change?" She pointed at her
new body and continued "Then what the hell do you call this!"

 The guide gulped when he saw the look on her face. She was truly pissed
off. "Ah, Mr. customer, I not know what happened. You not supposed to
change. That one of the few springs that has not had someone die in it yet."

 The guide looked at the new girl a bit more closely and then asked "Why you
have no clothes?", while looking around the spring for the gi that she was
wearing before she fell into the spring.

 She just scowled at the guide and replied "They disappeared when I fell
into the spring." The guide looked at her funny and then said "That not
supposed to happen. This very strange."

 Just then the giant panda, that used to be her father showed up and Ranma
rushed up to the panda, grabbed a hold of it's neck with one hand, faster
than her father could see, much less react.

 "Let's go to Jusenkyou you said. It will be good training you said." she
said as she held him by the neck.

 She then threw him down to the ground and continued "Why is it that every
time you find a so called "Forbidden" technique or "Ultimate" training
ground that you have to teach it or go to it old man?"

 She advanced towards the panda and picked it up off the ground by its neck
again. "I would have thought that you would have learned by now, that none
of your hair brained schemes every work out right, but no. YOU NEVER LEARN"

 She threw him back on to the ground and softly said "You never learn, do
you. No matter what mistakes you make, no matter what harm you cause, you
don't care. It's all for the art you say."

 The panda looks at its son turned daughter and starts to get angry. It
brings out a sign {Stop wining like a girl. A true martial artist should be
able to take anything that happens to him in stride. He should be able to
take any bad experience and learn from it.}

 Ranma gestures down at herself and asks "What am I supposed to learn from
this? That you're an IDOT?"

 With that the panda roars a cry of rage and rushes its daughter. She easily
counters her fathers first few punches and she wonders why his punches are
so slow. She smiles at the panda and taunts him "Why are you so slow pops. I
always knew that you where fat and lazy, but this new form of yours is fat,
lazy, and slow."

 The panda seems to take offence to her taunting and redoubles it's efforts
to hit its new daughter. But no matter how hard it tries, it can't seem to
even come close to hitting her.

 Ranma grins at the panda and says "Ah, look at the cute panda get all mad
like that." She gives the guide a smirk and then asks "Doesn't it look
adorable?" With that said she catches and holds both of it's paws and says
"Game over pops, you lose." Then she head butts him and knocks him out.

 The guide looks at her than says "You two very strange ones, yes." Then
quickly looks away, embarrassed at her unclothed state.

 Ranma looks down at herself and with a quick glare at the guide quickly
goes to her pack and puts on the new clothes that she had gotten just a few
days ago.

 When she finished putting her clothes on she turned back to the guide and
asked "Is there a cure?"

 The guide looks at her in her new clothes and gulped. The black silk pants
seemed to be painted on her and clearly showed each and every line on her
legs, and the shirt wasn't much better, if anything it was worse. The shirt
was too small on her, and clearly entirely to tight in certain places.

After quickly looking away again he replies "No, there no cure, but hot
water turn you back to normal until you get hit by cold water again."

 The guide starts toward his hut and motions Ranma to follow him. She easily
picks the panda and both of their packs, and then follows him towards the
hut.