Vampyr 666 wrote:

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Cursed in Life, Cursed in Death

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" " are speaking

' ' are quotes

{ } are thoughts

* * are sounds

### are flashbacks

And of coruse $ $ is Nabiki speaking

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Prologue : Here's Ranma...

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Nerima's graveyard.



A burial was ongoing and the priest was giving the final

farewells to the dead. The family and friends were united

He's probably only giving one.  

around the coffin. Most of them had tears running freely on

their faces.



###



"Hey, let her alone!" shouted Ranma, seeing a group ganging on

a girl.

up on

The four assailants turned to face the newcomer and Ranma

could see their faces... but were they truly humans? Their

sharp teeth seemed able to tear apart flesh and bones with the

same ease, their eyes shined an evil greenish light and their

brow was bulging, ruining the faces of these beings

so similar to their victim yet.

If their victim looks like that, perhaps he should reconsider
saving her.  

"Just when we were done with the appetizers, here come the

main course all by himself, we are some lucky guys!" shouted

one of the assailants.



"He came at just the right time, I was starting to get hungry again,"

added another creature.



###



Nodoka was crushed, supported by Genma who was staying

impassive despite the tears running on his cheeks, betraying

his real feelings.



For once, Soun wasn't trying to imitate a waterfall because he

needed like his friend Genma to support his family. Kasumi was

in a state alike Nodoka's. Nabiki was trying to keep her

heartless mercenary fa�ade, but the wetness in her eyes was

talking for her. Akane closed herself from the outside

after his death, beginning a refusal phase.



###



"Hu? What da ya mean 'you're hungry'? Are you some kind of

cannibal?" Ranma was surprised by their remark.



"So innocent, so ignorant, your blood must be delicious,"

stated one of the females of the group.





"First come, first served!" shouted another male, rushing forward

with lightning speed, surprising Ranma and catching him by the

throat with outrageous strength.



"What's the... urgh!" {Damn, he's strong, I must get free or

I'll lost consciousness,} thought Ranma, gripping his inhuman

opponent's wrist and preparing a counter.



"Not bad, you nearly got me there, but I won't let myself be

surprised anymore," Told Ranma to the monster before throwing

Ranma said

him into a wall while freeing himself in the same movement.



"He got notions. But we'll get him, dinner's ready!" shouted

the other male while rushing like his friend had.



"Blood!" added the female, joining the fight.



"Come get me!" Ranma taunted them.



The two creatures made random blows, not having the same level

of martial arts mastery than Ranma. He blocked or dodged the

hits with ease and grace like he always do.

did. 

###



The others girls were doing better. Ukyo was putting a brave

face, crying nonetheless at the injustice, having lost

everything all again. Kodachi was silent, rumor wanted that

the emotional shock restored her sanity. Shampoo, despite

being a proud amazon warrior, was the worst yet, showing that

the Kiss of Marriage wasn't the only thing that pushed her to

chase after her airen.



###



All was good for Ranma in that fight until... the monster that

Ranma had thrown into the wall caught him from behind, Ranma

thinking he was out cold and didn't pay attention to him, which

proved to be a mistake. This gave the two others the opportunity

to hit him dead on.



Ranma spat blood.



{How can they be so strong? Even Ryoga's blows didn't have a

tenth of that power.}

If vampires were ten times as strong as Ryoga, Ranma would already
be dead.  In fact a Buffyverse Ryoga would probably be a human/demon
half-breed.  

The last monster came closer to the one holding Ranma and

helped him. The two hitting Ranma smiled evilly before

starting to hit him again.



{I must get free or I'm done for. Don't have much choice, my

arms are caught and I don't have strength in my legs to hit

them hard enough. Time to take off kid the gloves.} He concluded,

starting to shine a golden light while his battle aura was

spreading around him.



"What the fuck is..." Instinctively, the creatures backed off,

understanding that their prey was going to use a devastative

attack.

devastating

"Moko... TAKABISHA!!" shouted Ranma, sending his ki in both

his hands and hitting the two monsters that were still holding

him. They immediately died, turning to dust with a scream from

beyond the grave. Freed, Ranma fell to his knees, gasping for

air and more than astonished.



###



The boys, on the other hand, were taking things differently.



Ryoga should have been jumping all around in joy from getting

rid of his nemesis, but it was only this one gone that he

realized what he really was for him : his only true friend.



Mousse didn't have that problem, and seeing his injuries he

surely thought that shampoo would finally be his, but she

Shampoo

seemed to not have the same opinion.

I rather Mousse would be torn between hope and distress at
how badly Shampoo was feeling.  

Kuno wasn't present but running to Akane to announce that he

present because 

had 'at last vanquished the sorcerer that keep them apart'

wasn't that good an idea, Akane having broke several of the

hadn't been that good

kendoist's bones in a fit of rage.



###



"What in hell was that!?" shouted Ranma, agape between the

newly formed piles of dust.

Uh...Ranma has already figured out these critters aren't human,
right?  

"You'll pay!" screamed the female , kicking him in the head

and sending him backward.



"Your blood won't be enough, you killed them and you'll regret

this!" screamed the remaining male, jumping to get to Ranma

faster. He caught him by the throat and lifted him easily off

the ground.



"All that excitement got me hungry. Shall we dine?" the male

asked his friend before directing his teeth toward Ranma's

neck.



"I hope he's juicy, he sure made us work up an appetite!" the

female answered before biting on the other side of their

prey's neck.



Ranma was felling faint, falling into darkness, while his

blood was being sucked out of his body. It was only now that

it was too late that he understood the true nature of these

creatures : vampires



###



Keeping themselves apart were a 'troll' and a 'ghoul', and

even if their eyes were devoid of tears, their faces showed

great sadness from having lost so young an adept so good at

their respective arts. He had been their last student,

combining the strongest parts of their arts without any of

the weakness.



Knowing Happy, he was surely weeping after his student's girl

body. Cologne's heart went out for Shampoo, knowing the

pain of losing one's love.



###



After the two vampires drank their fills, they laid Ranma on

their fill

the ground.



"And now, his turn," sniggered the male, cutting his palm with

a sharp nail and letting his tainted blood flow into Ranma's

mouth kept open by the female.



Ranma's body acted on instinct to keep from drowning and

swallowed the blood gathering on the back of his throat.



If Ranma had been conscious, he'd have spat the vampire's blood,

knowing what the cursed liquid would do to him. But it wasn't

the case and Ranma couldn't prevent fate from running it's

course.



###



After the ceremony, the graveyard was emptied slowly but it

was only late into the afternoon that the last person

departed, leaving the nightfall and a feeble wind to watch

after the fresh grave.



After the sun disappeared, a couple came to visit the grave.

Strangely, their eyes were shining a greenish light into the

darkness of night.



"Hmmm... I feel him living already. We were nearly late," the

girl said to her friend.



"Pff, we are here in time to celebrate the rebirth of the newest

member of our little family," he replied, grinning evilly.



The freshly moved earth on the grave moved then shoot out

while a hand was trying to free itself. Then came the arm, the

hole into the earth grew until a head appeared.



A familiar head, with black hair tied into a pigtail, but the

eyes were glowing the same green as the two nocturnal visitors

instead of two blue-gray orbs.



A few more efforts and the new undead finished to dig himself

from his own grave, dressed in the same clothes he liked so

much when still alive : chinese red shirt with black tai-fu

pants, matching sleepers and combat bracers.



After he got rid of the last remain of confusion he was

feeling, because of his troubling awakening, Ranma cast a

glare at the couple in front of him. For a short time, he

didn't recognize them, then his memories started up again.



"You!" He shouted, wanting to jump them, but he tripped, his

body still sore from his rebirth. "What did you do to me?" He

screamed surprised of the strange way his body reacted.



"I offered you eternal life, welcome into the family of the

night's children," explained the man.



"After you killed our two friends yesterday, it was rather

nice of us, don't you agree?" added the woman. "You'd have

died anyway."



"So we changed you like us," completed the man.

To be like us

"NOOOO!" screamed Ranma, jumping on the man and sending both

of them rolling between tombstones. "I'm not like you! I'll

never be! NEVER!" Ranma continued to scream, punching the man

between two rolls.

Er, that gives me kind of the wrong mental image. 
Also we'll be needing an explanation for why Ranma's
soul is still there.  

"Is that your way to thank us?" shouted the woman, coming to

the help of her friend. Her only reward was a punch from

Ranma, pushing the vampire back from where she came.

The vampire's reaction would probably be confusion.
"Hey!  This guy still has a soul!"

"I never asked you to make me into a... a..," said Ranma.



"Vampire?" asked the man, still pinned under Ranma, then he

used his vampire's strength to push Ranma back who rolled

backward and fell into an open grave, already dug for the next

day. Ranma exited the hole a few seconds later, holding a

shovel.



"All you had to do was to die!" said Ranma before breaking the

shovel's handle on his knee. "Last time, I didn't know what

you were, but now I do!" He showed off his self made stake.



"You think you can kill both of us?" shouted the girl, jumping

on Ranma.

Since he could kill two of them before he got upgunned, I don't
see why she would doubt it.  

"Sunnydale? Here, everybody think I'm dead, and I'll not add

to their mourning by imposing them this new curse. USA, here I

come!" Ranma decided, turning his back to his old life.

OK, why?  Does he want the slayer to slay him?


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