Part 2 of the other side of Nerima - the new players Somewhere we find a familiar character reading a book as her tail twitched every so often. Nearby a gray cabbit munched on a carrot, that was at least 20 feet long when an explosion was heard in the background. The only reply the cabbit and the woman gave were a yawn as they continued doing what they were doing. A moment later, however a letter appeared out of nowhere. >Come to Nerima at once Ryouko,< was the reading of the letter. "Hmm, I wonder what mom has in store this time?" Ryouko asked her cabbit. **************** Meanwhile high atop a mountain we find a colossal dragon that looked as if he was made of solid platinum munching on a few gemstones while soaking in a hot tub filled with molten lava when a huge letter appeared out of nowhere. >Be a sport Bahamut and send Ryu through to Nerima,< was the reading of the letter the god of the metallic dragons received. "I wonder what Hishizuka is up to this time," the ancient dragon said before shrugging his colossal shoulders and getting out of the hot tub with a grace one would not expect from a dragon. **************** Somewhere in an ancient castle, we find a man performing experiments using electricity. "Hmm, now this goes here and that goes here," the man said before a letter appeared out of nowhere distracting the man enough that he brushed up against a high voltage storage battery; with predictable results. After the man had recovered, he read the letter >Denki send one of your sons to Nerima< "Hmm, Nerima," Denki wondered before someone entered his laboratory and offered him a drink. After sniffing the drink however Denki poured it on the floor. The results of this were that the floor dissolved. "Son, how many times have I told you no putting super concentrated sulfuric acid in your poisons?" "About a thousand, dad," the youth replied before starting to leave. "Wait Doku," Denki said. "So how are you going to punish me?" Doku asked nervously. "You have to go to Nerima to visit your grandmother Hishizuka so go get packing," Denki said in reply. Doku's reply to this was to run off happily. **************** "Hmm, I know the old ghoul keeps that Teleport wand around here somewhere," mousse said as he searched through Cologne's numerous relics before finding a short wand with an Emerald at the top. Smiling mousse only held up the wand and summoned its magic to Teleport him to Nerima. **************** As mousse appeared back in Nerima he looked around and found himself some distance away from the cat café. mousse mumbled in his native tongue before starting to walk to the cat café however as he rounded a nearby corner he encountered someone he swore came straight out of his favorite anime. "Hmm, I wonder where in Nerima the Tendo dojo is Ryo-ohki," the Ryouko look alike said as she adjusted her sunglasses. In response, the cabbit only meowed a few times. "You do have a point I could just lock on to mom's energy signal," the Ryouko look alike said before vanishing in the exact same manner the Ryouko in mousse's favorite anime did. "Either this thing has just transported me to another universe or the latest crazy woman after Ranma has a serious Ryouko feddish and is a powerful wizard," mousse mumbled to himself before continuing onto the cat café. ****************** Meanwhile at the Tendo dojo we find Ranma and Akane sitting by the koi pond leaning against each other quietly. Watching this from the tearoom Nabiki commented, "All of this mushy stuff is beginning to make me sick." In reply, Nabiki's mother only chuckled before saying, "Nabiki, dear they're both sound asleep right now." "You're joking?" Nabiki asked. "Nope," Hishizuka replied before Kasumi screamed. "I told you, Kasumi, you're not allowed in the kitchen." "Not even for a snack?" Kasumi replied as she entered nursing her hand, which looked like it had been zapped by a wall of electricity. "Nope not even for a snack," Hishizuka replied sternly before someone appeared by the koi pond. "Ryouko?" Kasumi and Nabiki asked in unison as the Ryouko look alike and her cabbit examined Akane who was sleeping. "Is that you, mom?" The Ryouko look alike asked. "No I'm over here, Ryouko," Hishizuka replied drawing Ryouko's attention to her however, her cabbit hoped onto Ranma lap where she began to snuggle. "So I guess you're two of my three younger sisters'," Ryouko said as she floated around Nabiki and Kasumi who were looking at their mother questioningly along with Soun. "What did you honestly think I had only had one family in 5035 years," Hishizuka responded completely nonchalantly as she sipped some tea. Soun, Nabiki and Kasumi's reply to this was to look blank as they watched Ryouko pour herself a cup of tea ... using her prehensile tail. "Hmm, question are you really, Ryouko?" Nabiki asked. "Yes and no," Ryouko replied before adding "...and no I didn't copy anything from the anime ... except for my outfit." "So you've had a cabbit for 800 years?" Kasumi asked. "Yep," Ryouko replied before dematerializing after which everyone in the room turned their attention to Hishizuka. "She always has been a carbon copy of the Ryouko in the anime. *looks off towards the koi pond* I guess it proves the old adage that everyone has a double somewhere. "Although she is a hell of a lot smarter than the one in the anime and her daughter is named Washuu who happens to have a best friend named Mihoshi. "So what's her husband's name?" Nabiki asked curiously. "It wasn't Tenchi and her husband died over a hundred years ago and Washuu is immortal just like she is," Hishizuka replied. ******************* In another part of Nerima, we find a young adult gold dragon walking down the narrow street humming to himself while all the people on the street below seemed not to even notice him. Seeing this, a nearby and longtime resident of Nerima who was sitting on the porch of his house said, "Looks like a rather friendly dragon to me doesn't it dear," to his wife who just nodded in reply before the dragon bent his neck down to his level. "Excuse me sir you wouldn't happen to know where the Tendo dojo is would you?" the dragon asked politely as he held out an oversized map of Nerima. The man's only reply was to pull out a pen and circle the Tendo dojo on the map while he said, "here you go sonny it's right here." "Why thank you and here's something for your trouble," the dragon said before handing the man a large Emerald as he walked off. ******************** Meanwhile in another part of Nerima we find Doku looking at a map while walking down the street so oblivious is he to his surroundings that he runs into someone. That someone happened to be Kodachi who immediately strings him up in her ribbon before complaining about Doku's actions as a commoner however the second later she stops and sniffs Doku before raising her eyebrow, "why am I smelling nightshade from you boy?" Doku's only response to this was to try and talk considering Kodachi's ribbon was over his mouth. Kodachi's replied to that was to roll her eyes before freeing the boy's mouth at which time he said, "Probably because I work with the stuff all the time." Now honestly curious and intrigued Kodachi asked "... and why do you work with nightshade all the time?" "I make poisons for a living," Doku attempted to say with a shrug. "Poisons eh," Kodachi, said with a seductive smile before releasing Doku from her ribbon and saying," come by the Kunou manor and seen me some time," while scratching Doku under the chin as she left. This left Doku to blink before saying, "Terran woman are so confusing," while he also scratched his head. ******************** Elsewhere in Nerima, we find a certain dragon humming as he walked along however he was rudely interrupted by his stomach growling which actually did attract attention. Sheepishly the dragon said 'excuse me' while it scratched behind its head. The response from the gathered people was to mumble something about gargantuan appetites as they continued on their way. Looking and smelling around the dragon noticed a girl with purple hair looking up at him with a quizzical cat like gaze as she balanced on the top of her bike. "Excuse me miss you wouldn't happen to know anywhere a dragon could get a bite to eat?" The dragon asked politely as he bent down to the purple haired girl's level. "Shampoo run ramen store," shampoo replied before adding, "...but shampoo no think you fit in door," as she looked at the dragon curiously. "Hmm, you do have a point there but I have a way to solve it," the dragon replied before closing his eyes and transforming into a young man that was as tall as Ranma and had long golden hair and a deep brown tan. In addition to this, the man wore armor made of golden dragon scales. However, what shampoo was most interested in were the young man's eyes which looked like molten gold. "You visit Jusenkyo?" Shampoo asked curiously. "No but I do know who's fault they were," the young man said before his stomach growled again. "Tell shampoo later you hungry as dragon," shampoo said with a smirk before walking off with the young man close behind. ****************** "AKKKCK A CAT!!!!!!!!," Ranma said as he awoke and ran off. "That'll be 300yen sis," Nabiki said coyly as she held out her hand towards Kasumi who paid up while sighing. Meanwhile back at the koi pond Akane who had been awakened by Ranma scream looked around for the offending cat only to find a cabbit. "Mom what is a cabbit doing here?" Akane asked as she walked into the room while holding Ryo-ohki. "Ask your half-sister she's the one that brought her," Hishizuka replied calmly. Akane's only reply to this was to look blank before looking around the tearoom and noticing Ryouko sitting on the ceiling. "Hi sis," Ryouko said with a smile. "Hmm, mom, an explanation please," Akane said nervously. "There's really no explanation I just decided to drop by," Ryouko said before vanishing. "I'll explain later dear," Hishizuka said as she tapped her fingers on the tea table. "Ok," Akane replied before she left to find Ranma. "Hmm, looks like I'll have to deal with the Neko-ken sooner than I thought," Hishizuka commented before vanishing. ************** An hour or so later we find the mysterious dragon turned human happily smiling as he padded his stomach while beside him sat numerous empty plates of food. Smiling at the young man shampoo said, "You eat much as Ranma but you have much better manners." Burping while looking sheepish, the young man pulled out a leather pouch and asked, "So will 100 gold coins be enough." Blinking shampoo only nodded as she was handed more money then she had ever seen in her life however just as the young man started to leave shampoo asked, "what your name?" "Ryu FitzBahamut," the young man replied before walking out of the store and transforming back into a gold dragon after which shampoo's mother who had been watching the two dropped a pitcher of water on the floor and proceeded to faint. "Shampoo no think mom get Nerima yet," shampoo said with a shrug before turning around and hauling her mother off to her bedroom while the other patrons of the cat café just nodded as they continued to eat. ***************** Meanwhile some distance away for the dojo we find Akane looking for Ranma and Ryo-ohki following Akane while happily meowing. "You know you really shouldn't be following me," Akane said as she turned around to look at Ryo-ohki who looked up at her sadly. "Nothing against you mind you but Ranma has a huge fear of cats caused by his father's training methods." That half cat's reply to this was to hiss while looking off at a convenient wall. "If that means I'd like to pummel the guy go right ahead I'll even give you Genma's address," Akane said before doing just that after which the cabbit went bouncing off with a predatory gleam in its eyes leaving Akane to say, "okay you can come out now Ranma." At that moment, Ranma stepped out of the shadows looking rather fearful and angry with himself. "Don't worry about it baka I know it's not your fault," Akane said lovingly as she wrapped her arm around Ranma. "So, since we're out where do you want to go?" Ranma asked as he and Akane started walking along. "Wherever," Akane replied before the two had to avoid a young man looking at a map who was mumbling something about wondering where the Tendo dojo was. "So why are you going to the Tendo dojo?" Ranma asked. "My grandmother told my dad that I was to come to the Tendo dojo immediately," the young man replied as he stopped and continued to look at the map before asking, "So do you know where the Tendo dojo is?" "Yeah I live there," Ranma responded. "Wow then can you take me there because I have a horrible time reading maps," the young man practically begged. "Yeah sure," Ranma replied with a shrug before he Akane and the young man started heading back to the dojo however just as they rounded the corner to the dojo the three encountered a gold dragon that looked rather lost looking at a map. The only reply Ranma and Akane gave to this was to blink before the dragon bent it's head down to Ranma's eye level where it asked, "excuse me but is this the Tendo dojo?" "Yeah," Ranma replied. "So what you want at the dojo?" Akane asked while hoping the dragon wasn't there to challenge someone. "My godmother Madame RelOrt summoned me here from Avalon," the dragon replied before Hishizuka stepped out of the gates to the dojo. "Ahh good I see you found Ryu and Doku," Hishizuka said with a smile before walking over to Ryu and saying, "Ryu didn't your father tell you you're not supposed to take on dragon form while on earth." "No ma'am he didn't ...and no one seemed to care that I was the dragon anyhow ... I mean I've gotten more attention walking through a village in Avalon then I do here," Ryu replied. Rolling her eyes Hishizuka muttered something in an ancient language before telling the dragon in no uncertain terms to remain in his human form unless in a battle. The dragon's reply to this was to change into a golden haired young man. After which Hishizuka turned her attention to Doku before saying, "...and you Mr. poison master are not to make a single drop of poison within the walls of my home do you understand." Nodding sheepishly Doku said, "Yes grandmother." "Now for some introductions," Hishizuka said before opening the gates to the dojo to reveal Soun, Nabiki and Kasumi, who had been spying. "Now first this is Soun my husband. This is Kasumi my oldest daughter by Soun, Nabiki my middle daughter and the mercenary of diamonds, and lastly Akane my youngest daughter and her husband Ranma," were the introductions Hishizuka provided. With the introductions made, Hishizuka merely walked past Soun, Nabiki and Kasumi leaving everyone to get acquainted on their own. The silence that happened afterwards was deafening and broken only when a familiar looking spaceship zoomed by trying to blast a panda. "So are we going to stare at each other all day?" Ryu asked. "Hmm, no. So what part of Avalon do you come from Ryu?" Akane asked. "Fire Mountain, the palace of the dragon god Bahamut ... who happens to be my dad," Ryu said. "...and I'm Doku poison and trap master extraordinaire," Doku said with a smile before adding "and my father is Madame RelOrt's second immortal child; the heroes villain, Denki the lightning master." "I'm Ranma Saotome of the Saotome school of anything goes style of martial arts," Ranma replied. "And I'm Akane Saotome," Akane replied rather plainly. "Hmm, Soun Tendo grand master of the Tendo School of anything goes martial arts," Soun said rather lamely. "Nabiki Tendo the mercenary of diamonds," Nabiki replied. "Hmm, I'm Kasumi Tendo," Kasumi replied while looking and feeling completely out of place. Before mentally thinking, 'mom's right I do need to get a life all I am here is a NPC house wife amongst a group of PC epic adventure's. I mean even Nabiki could pass off as a 10th level rogue,' Kasumi thought as she headed to her room where she began to look over a few books she had on role-playing games all of which were outdated. "So what kind of class would you want to take up?" Hishizuka asked as she entered and sat down next to Kasumi. "I don't know really," Kasumi, answered truthfully. "Think about it. Because I really doubt you want to stay as a NPC forever," Hishizuka said as she hugged Kasumi who began to sob almost immediately. ********************* A few hours later back at the cat café we find shampoo sitting alone behind the counter when mousse entered proclaiming his love. Shampoo's response to this was to drop kick mousse back out the door before continuing to think about the dragon she head met. shampoo murmured to herself as she remembered looking into the dragons eyes before adding <...and he has a good appetite as well,> as she continued to think about the golden dragon Ryu. A few minutes later, however she was interrupted by her mother entering. Shampoo's mother said while looking rattled. shampoo said with a smile never noticing her mother's panicked look. shampoo's mother complained. Shampoo answered while licking her chops. ********************** Meanwhile at Kunou manor we find the Black Rose absently walking through her Rose Garden thinking of young man she head met. "Hmm, it has been too long I shall have to invite the boy here personally," Kodachi said before laughing evilly as she took to the rooftops. ********************* A few moments earlier high above Nerima, we find Ryouko looking for Ryo- ohki when she saw someone flying over the horizon. Ryouko's response to this was to Teleport to a point where she could intercept the someone before he hit the ground. That is why 2 seconds later mousse found himself pressed face first into Ryouko's breasts. "And who do we have here?" Ryouko said as she picked up mousse by the collar. "Hmm, a rather cute little boy," Ryouko said with a smile before removing the boy's glasses and looking through them. "Geez you must be blind to have to where these things," Ryouko commented to which mousse only grumbled as a reply. "Such language tisk tisk but I'm in a good mood today so I'll do you a favor," Ryouko said before firing and energy blast right at mousse's eyes. To which mousse screened as a reply. However once he reopened, his eyes' he found that he could see clearly. "See now you see," Ryouko said with a chuckle before teleporting down to the ground with mousse and once Ryouko had put mousse safely on the ground she flew off. Mousse for his part just stared in shock at the woman that had restored his eyesight as he tried to form a coherent thought. Ten or so minute's later mousse blinked before heading back to the cat café where he entered and began working at his usual job. ********************* Later in the hidden dungeon, we find Akane looking rather angry. "Why didn't she tell us?" Akane demanded. "Would you have believed her if she did?" Ranma-chan replied as she did one-armed push-ups. "I mean come on it was enough of a shock to you when she popped at my mom's house and you probably would've had heart failure if your mom cast a spell when you were just a kid," Ranma-chan added. "I guess you do have a point there Ranma," Akane admitted as she tried to ignore the way Ranma-chan's breasts were bouncing up and down by looking away from Ranma-chan however in doing so she came face to breast with Ryouko who had just teleported into the room. Predictably, Akane's response to this was to scurry away while Ryouko laughed at her. "Oh, now you can't say you didn't like that," Ryouko chuckled as she floated over to Akane. Akane's reply was an extremely dirty glare as she screamed, "I'm not interested in girls!!" "Oh come on we both know you want to play around with the redhead," Ryouko said with a smile as she floated over to Ranma-chan who seemed to be frozen in time along with the rest of the room. Akane's reply to this statement was to blush as red as her namesake while Ryouko giggled. However, this giggling was Akane start crying which immediately stopped Ryouko's mirth. After which Ryouko floated down to Akane whom she sat by before wrapping her arm around Akane shoulders. Akane responded to this by looking at Ryouko angrily but yet when Akane made eye contact with her half-sister Ryouko's entire presence had changed to that of someone very caring. "Go on tell me what's really wrong," Ryouko, said calmly and soothingly. "I can't," Akane cried before looking over Ranma-chan, "I just can't do it and I've tried." "Do you know why you couldn't do it?" Ryouko asked. "No," Akane replied. "Do you feel like you're cheating on Ranma?" "Not exactly more like I'm cheating Ranma," Akane replied. "Ahh!" Ryouko said in understanding before continuing, "well you don't have to worry about cheating Ranma because I'm sure you figure out very quickly how to give pleasure to her but if I'm guessing right your thinking of something that is extremely disturbing to you." Akane's only reply to this was a nod as she clinched her fists. "So why haven't you asked mom to do it?" Ryouko asked. "I'm afraid okay. I'm afraid Ranma won't like it. I'm afraid Ranma will like it. But, most of all I'm afraid I won't want to go back if I do it," Akane said as she became increasingly tense. Ryouko's only reply to this was to rub her half-sister shoulders in an effort to help Akane relax-- with little success. "Have you ever ... you know?" Akane asked. "No but by third daughter did," Ryouko, answered. "Why?" "Well the first thing you should know is she was a lesbian and she couldn't stand being in any intimate situation with a man and not from lack trying either. She honestly loved her best friend and truly did what to become intimate with him. Now this friend had known her sense she was a little girl had knew of her sexual persuasion. One dark and stormy night after the two had tried for the hundredth time to be come intimate with each other he was sitting by the window looking out upon the capital of Avalon looking depressed. A few moments after that he looked up at me clinched his right fist and asked me if there was any way, he could become female without losing who he was and who my daughter had fallen in love with. I didn't even bother to ask him if he was serious before I told him to go to mother's house and ask her. Hearing that he was rattled to say the lease considering mother is almost as powerful as an ancient with a temper to match. However, I reassured him that she would be expecting him and so he left. When he came back as a woman, my daughter broke down crying. That night the two became very intimate but when my daughter walked into kitchen the next morning she was crying and mumbling about how horrible it was he had to give up part of who he was for her. I told her what type 3 transformation did and it helped somewhat but a few days later she still felt bad about how she couldn't be come intimate with him in his natural form. I gave her rather flipping reply to that. That reply was something along lines of maybe if she knew what it was like to be a man she wouldn't be so scared by being intimate with one. 2 seconds later, she had run out the door heading for mom. A couple of months later both of them were pregnant surprisingly however my daughter was the one that was not happy about the situation." "Why?" Akane asked out of curiosity. "Well if you're worrying if it was a side effect of the transformation; no it wasn't," Ryouko said. "Then why didn't she feel happy about it?" Akane asked. "Hormones. She always had a horrible time with hormones messing with her head," Ryouko explained with a shrug. "Oh," Akane replied before looking away. "Well it looks like you need some time alone with Ranma and don't forget to tell me how goes," Ryouko said with a smirk before teleporting away. Hearing this statement Akane went blue in the face before turning around to find Ranma-chan looking at her while scratching the back of her head. ***************** As Ryouko appeared back in the tearoom of the Tendo, dojo she saw her nephew being dragged off by a woman in a leotard who was laughing insanely. Seeing this Ryouko asked her younger sister Kasumi who was sitting nearby, "who was that?" "Kodachi Kunou," Kasumi answered as she sipped her tea. "She seems a little loopy to me," Ryouko said as she twirled her finger around her ear. "You don't know that half of it," Kasumi replied before sighing deeply. "So what's wrong with you?" Ryouko asked. "Nothing really," Kasumi replied before Kunou ran by chasing Nabiki while spouting poetry. "It doesn't sound like nothing to me," Ryouko replied before asking, "So do you have a boyfriend?" while smirking. Kasumi's only reply to this was a sad shake of her head. "Do you at least have someone you have your eye on?" Ryouko asked. Kasumi's only response to this was to blush before sighing and saying, "yes but he's older than me." "So what mom's older than your dad a lot older," Ryouko said with a crooked smile. "I guess you do have a point but..." Kasumi said before trailing off. "But what?" Ryouko asked. "Nothing," Kasumi said before running off. "What ever this 'nothing' is it must be quite large," Ryouko commented before Ryo-ohki hopped into the room. ************** Meanwhile back hidden dungeon's library we find Hishizuka reading through an old looking tome when she heard an orgasmic scream from the hidden dungeon's lair. The ancient matriarch's only reply to this was to smile and continue her research on the Neko-ken. ************** Meanwhile by the koi pond we find Ryu absently staring at the koi pond when Soun sat next down next to him. "So what's Avalon like?" Soun asked curiously. "It depends which continent your on. The Southern continent is all called nicknamed a world lost in time because things never much advance beyond medieval times. The Western continent however is a place of technology that rivals magic. The eastern continent is the continent of magic. The Northern continent is an endless battlefield punctuated only by shops and places a weary warrior all so you cannot die while you walk upon the Northern continent. The floating continent capital of Avalon brings together all the cultures of Avalon and many of earth. Then there are the other realms were every kind of creature you can imagine lives. Then there is the mythical 'place of the ancients' where the most powerful beings to have ever existed are said to call their home. Soun's response to this wealth of information was to look at the koi pond forlornly and wonder why Hishizuka had ever chosen him. "So can you tell me anything about Hishizuka?" Soun asked with a morbid curiosity only to have Ryu tense up at the mention of his wife's first name this of course did not escape Soun's watchful gaze, "and you can start by telling me why you just flinched." "Madame RelOrt never allows anyone to use her name except for those she truly trusts and loves. It's said that one time a very powerful deity found her name out by some odd circumstance and used it in an ill manner. The next day all of his temples had been destroyed and he was found dead in the ruins of his grandest temple. His very soul had been ripped from his body and tossed to the winds of the astral plane as if he was nothing but a peasant," Ryu explained. "I knew her temper was wrath of the kami stuff but that's ridiculous," Soun said as he nervously scratched the back of his head. "You don't know that half of it," Ryu commented quietly. *************