Make Me Feel

The Chapter Six

AN: Even shorter than chapter five. At least I’m writing, right?

My feelings return more and more each day. I can’t figure out why at all. It has to be uncovered somehow.

Could it be the girl, Akane? But why?

There is no reason. No hope for figuring it out. She is unspectacular, unremarkable. A perfectly normal person amongst a city of insanity.

Well, not perfectly normal. But normal enough to count.

And Ryoga… he had been just a little too enthusiastic…

Feverish dreams of cats and a welling of fear wake me in time to see Ryoga standing over my futon holding a giant mace.

See what I mean? Too enthusiastic.

As the mace slams down, hitting the pillow in the exact center of the spot my head was previously resting, I roll to the side and jump… out the window.

He holds his normal battle umbrella above him to block the pouring rain as we fight outside.

“There is another reason I have to defeat you, Ranma!” He snarls, huddling under his umbrella further though continuing the frenzied dodging and attacking.

“I followed you to china when you left Japan. I followed you all the way into the training grounds of Jusenkyo!” Pausing the fight for a moment, he gestured at my changed form. “I am cursed, Ranma! You have a lot to answer for!”

At that instant he was hit with a weight, tossed by Akane from the door. He dropped his umbrella but quickly ran.

I ran after, far faster and aided by the Umi-sen-ken.

To see Ryouga seem to explode as the transformation took place, growing huge and disfigured. Whatever he was, it was no longer human.

“If this form wasn’t so useful,” Ryouga’s hideous form growled out, “I would kill you! But because of this, I will merely defeat you.”

He looked like a gross combination of a lion, an eagle, a serpent and a man. His rear legs were human but clawed, his front legs were eagle claws and two giant bat wings reached out behind him. His three heads were eagle, human and lion, human in the middle between eagle on the left and lion on the right, with a long tail behind him terminating in a cobra head.

“The spring of drowned Chimaera, the guide said. Four thousand years ago a Chimaera was captured by the humans it had attacked, and drowned in the spring as punishment.”

“Nasty. Wish my cursed form was that useful.” I gestured to myself and said, “This form only gives me a wider area of choice for clothing styles.”

I was just as surprised as he was that I was joking like that. Or that I had made a joke at all. It wasn’t even very good!

“Now you see why I had the umbrella… I had originally wanted this to be a fair fight.”

With that, he charged again, this time with speed that even my female form couldn’t match. I barely dodged his charge, but he couldn’t stop in time not to smash through a wall. I smirked. Poor three-head hadn’t been in this form long enough to learn how to use it right, I think.

He managed to stumble back through, but Akane saw him. He snorted, and she shrieked. “A MONSTER!”

He turned to see what had said that, and swung a clawed foot a little too high. I managed to run fast enough to pick her up and avoid her decapitation, but her hair wasn’t so lucky. Hmm… I could see the resemblance to Nabiki a little better now…

Ryouga was apparently either horrified at what he’d done or scared of the retribution so he left in a hurry. I carried Akane, who had fainted, back inside.

Kasumi summed up the night with her usual two words. “Oh my!”

AN: I received a disturbing review, telling me that this Ranma is a Mary-Sue. I removed it because it was anonymous and offensive in it's wording but... Looking back, I guess you could call him overpowered… But the reason why I did this is because the power levels don’t really matter. This story is about the other stuff that is going on, and the changes that happened to the characters because of it. Don’t worry about the “Ranma is a god” stuff. That will all change very soon… MUHAHAHA!