Disclaimers, ad nausium.

Note there will be a section with severe Misspellings. Its to get the Sound of the word correctly. Or at least as close as I can figure it

That are the demons that push us the most. These are the demons that we try the hardest to forget. And who’s demons must be faced first, the first one ot grab you of course. The ones that are leaving you alone, those are easier. The problems of being in a world of dreams, of nightmares really is that the nightmares often control the cream, and only by waking up, in parts are you able to control it. If Skuld faced her worst fear first, would she be able, and strong enough to lead Chibi-Ranma out? She was expecting to deal with his issues first, but instead, as the winds died down, She stood, hand in hand with Ranma, facing the shrine. This is the home of her sister, Belldandy, and Urd. Standing before her is her sister, Urd, standing tall over her, impossibly tall, looking down on her, haughtily.

“Well, Well, Well, what have we here, Little Skuld has a boyfriend?” Skuld looked at herself, and she too was a Chibi, younger, even Ranma at 6 was older than her. “you will NEVER grow up Skuld,. In fact, I will make sure of it” Oni-Urd pulls out a bubbling green liquid, in a glad bottle, and starts moving for Chibi-Skuld. Ranma moves protectively in front of Skuld, “leave her alone!” he cries. Oni-Urd just looks at him, and leers “I will break you properly later boy, first I must destroy my little sister, I AM a demon after all” with this, her form changes, shifting, becoming more demonic. The goddess marks shift to make that of the demon named Mara. Oni-Urd again starts moving and reaching for Chibi-Skuld. She tries to pull her mallet out of magic-space ™ but all she gets is an Acme Mallet-sama 400, with real self blow up action, deflated. Urd missed as she reached for the scrambling back Skuld. Ranma see all of this and laughs. “an almost crying Chibi-Skuld yells at him “what is so funny!”

“Well all of it” laughs Ranma. She is a funny Old lady… “OLD!” the Oni yells at Ranma, changing targets and swinging to grab Ranma. “Yeah yah old bag… Old… like a mummy, and not mine either “ Sticking his tongue out and going Biih deh. “I am surprised someone of your age can move that fast. I mean you look like you mid 40’s or so. And Chubby.. you gotta eat less or folks will confuse you with a hypo.”

As each insult comes, Oni-Urd gets smaller and smaller, until finally she’s a mini-Oni-Urd, jumping up and down and screaming. “GET BACK DOWN THERE SKULD AND DRINK MY POTION” screamed the miniature demoness. At this point, Even Skuld started giggling. Like many times when you’re really afraid, its all you can do once you start laughing to stop, and she was rolling on the floor, laughing at the mini-Urd. She stops whipped the tears form her now adult again eyes, and she realizes that she is back to what she was here. With a “hurmph” the Mini-Urd disappears. And the area they are in folds back into the storms…

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Rei sat in front to the flames for her morning ritual. Chanting away, she channeled her Chi, Into the flames and drifted on them. She was becoming one with the currents and life of the flames, so she could, if they desired, see images of the past, the present or things yet undone. Future events were always mutable, but it always exhilarated her to do this. She chanted on, being the fire before her. Images formed, of the past, her and her friends eating at Ucchan’s, and talking about things. She saw an image of what must be Ucchans now, almost empty, serving a few folks in the early afternoon, and then an intriguing series of images, a boy, man really, who Ukyo sees and starts crying. She hears the name “Ranma” repeated in her mind, and “your alive”. She also sees his eyes, but his eyes hold the look of Death in them. Something cold washes over her, as the images darker, and take that fuzzy Future possible” take that the fire gets. But imposed behind that image was one completely separate, and her head hurt trying to view them both. Two images of a future event. One where he sees her, Call her name softly and reaches forward, to snap her neck like a twig. The inners are with her when this happens. And they transform to fight against him, and while they take him down they cant stop him before he kills once more, the one they cant afford to kill, Usagi…

The other image, is the same, he calls her name out softly and then walks up and hugs her. Many odd images flash by, after that. None, solid enough to see much specifics, thought she does see him preparing to be wedded, and Ukyo attending as his best man.

She pulls herself from the flames, and gasps. Usagi dead, or not. Ukyo’s Ranma was alive, that much was sure, but, what was causing his pain like this, and why did she get such different responses between the two visions. Is what the images talk about not reached a point of decision yet?. Sighing she goes back to her room to get her communicator. The rest need to know, and though she is loath to do this, She has to talk to Pluto.

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The mists part again, and a new scene opens up. Its cramped. And Chibi-Ranma is curled into a ball, not moving, being totally silent. Skuld stoops next to him, “what’s wrong”

“shh, its going to come back,”

“what is Ranma”

“the Beast” if I wait here, eventually it may not come back, and then I can rest forever”

She looks around the cramped underground pit she is in. the smell of urine, feces, and something vaguely Fishy permeates the air. She moves her foot slightly, and it squishes in something very much like fecal matter, or animal guts.

“Its coming back… Its going to hurt me again”

“its ok, Ranma, your not alone I am with you I will stop it.”

“no one can stop it. Ever. Sometimes it lets me be while it feeds.”

“shh its ok” she puts her hand on his shoulder, and feels him silent sob, as a noise is coming form the darkness beyond.

“Rwwoanma…. Brooowy…. Rwooorthless…. Beoooowy…..” she heard being spoken in the darkness. It was an odd voice, a great humanish sound along with a cattish sound. Out of the darkness she could see a great lumbering shape. It was a Huge cat, in a girly smelly Gi. A Fat one, head wrap, and claws that were longer than Chibi-Ranma’s arms. “Trainings you must have Trainings..” the beast bellowed. Ranma cowered behind Skuld. She realized what this fear was. What the Neko-Ken was. Fear, of failure, fear of the cats, but more fear of failure a young boy had from his father. He BECAME the demon that haunted Ranma’s soul. The cats, are a part of it, but, this is the beast that enslaved the love Ranma had for everyone else. He sees dragging behind it, the body of a small child. “Come onnnes Rwaaanmaah, Come trains with your little Uihhchannn…” he throws the mangled body of Chibi-Ukyo at Ranma’s feet. The head swivels a bit, one dead eye lolling up to look at him, “Help me get as good as you are Ranma. Don’t let it hurt me anymore” Ranma again curls up into a ball and shakes. Skuld holds on to Ranma’s shoulder, and pushes Back on the Genma-Neko, Hard. It moves slightly, but not much. “whhhat you doing here Giiihrl…” The beast looks at Skuld. “Booohy brwwwing a New training partner withhhh hihmm” The Neko-ma grabs Skuld and throws her into the pit wall. She lands in the torn bones, and feels a sharp bone enter her side. Blood, She is not experienced with blood, The Neko beast jumped her again. Scratching her arms, then grabing her and tossing her again. Skuld screamed, as she flew through the air, feeling her left arm snap as she hit the wall. The Genma-neko Stands over her, laughing at her “foooowlish Woman…. You cannot defeat us…. We are the ultimate fighter…. We aaarhh the Besst…” the Neko-beast laughed. Ranma could hear her whimpering, could feel the broken bones, and pain, and the fear in her heart. The duty of a martial artist is to protect the weak. Even against the worst of demons, even against his father. No matter how scared he was he must act. “Stop” he said weakly.

“Soon I shawll Fweast on your bones, and bring him your head to play with…”

“Stop!” he said louder.

“Your skills are no match for my Power…. Girl…”

A roar come from Ranma, as he yells, and jumps at the beast. As he flies through the air, his adult form is taken, his battle aura grows around him, and he throws one massive punch at the beast. The Beast Turns around, surprised on his face, as Ranma pays no attention to its cat form, and just attacks with all of his fury he can manage. “I HATE YOU, AND YOU MUST DIE!” he throws a multitude of punches into the cat-beast, as each one hits, a part of the beast dissolves, leaving nothing behind. He continues to pound into the ground repeating “I hate you, I hate you” over and over, creating an indentation in the ground, until a hand is placed on his shoulder, and he looks up to Skuld, who has been healed of her wounds, looking down on him with compassion in her eyes. She understood now that she could not defeat his demons for him. He needed too. And that each demon was different. “Let leave here, Ranma, this too is only a dream”. Chibi-Ranma wipes away the tears that have been falling from his face, as he pounded the group, and takes her hand again.

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Nodoka hummed to herself, she knew that soon Nabiki would be close to her Darling son, and they could not possible help but fall in love. Nabiki was so perfect for him, making up for those area’s he lacked. And it would do her good to be having to put his needs first, that is what a proper wife would have to do anyway, so this will be good training for her. She hummed happily to herself about this. Her brother though could see his sister and knew something was in the air. “Doka, what exactly are you humming about?”

“Well, I have found a suitable position for Nabiki, the girl I told you about, she is to be Miyabi-san’s personal assistant.”

He Sweat dropped “do you REALLY think that is wise? How is Ranma going to take that.”

“why he will take it like he should. He will fall madly in love with her, and they will produce grandchildren!” she exclaimed with hearts in her eyes.

He shakes his head. “no Doka-chan. He will not. I will let her work for us, but, you will not push them together. He needs to get over the damage your husband did to him, and I will NOT have you repeating the same mistakes.” With this he gets up and leaves the table. Nodoka looks at him, but keeps humming to herself.

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Several more fears, both his and hers they traveled through. Always working through them, and together getting past them. Till they came here. No fear or darkness really per say, but there was a nice house, table set up, they came in, Both in their natural forms rather then the assume forms they usually use. “welcome Ranma, this part of your mind is OUR home” this coming from a petite, well endowed woman with long flaming red hair. She Smirked at him, twisted a little and showed a Tremendous amount of Leg…

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Ok, today’s update. We shall see what happens. I am kind of wondering if I want to have Ranko Separate, or not. She could be separated easily in this fic. But it depends on what is best for the story. He IS afraid of his female half, he NEEDS to deal with that, and now is as good a time as any to do so.

Later.

borg rabbit Yeah but babysitter is not something she is going to be able to handle well. She is attracted to Ranma physically, But just like he gets to choose, So does she. How she is going to take this, is well, Not yet Determined. It might killed their relationship, depending on how the stories writes itself. That would irritate me

dennisud Yeah, The reunion, unless I end up writing something completely different. will not go well. In part because Nabiki will freak over this, and partly because Ranma will have visions of “the Marriage Agreement” all over again. Skuld did promise to “never let him be alone” that gives her an out anyway.

Innortal Urd? Doubtful. This is the reason I didn’t want her as the main goddess influent in the first place.

Paul C. Heintz It was never my take that after watching what the goddesses do to Kechii or to the Rat in the mini-goddess’s that morality was their strong point. Going to try really hard NOT to do a Skuld pairing here. It may end up working out that way, but that would defeat the point of the story.

Lerris Kami-sama does some weird things from time to time, at least from our perspective. Why was Skuld chosen to be Ranma’s fix in the first place. She is not very good at this type of thing.

Wonderbee31 Bah Akane. “I guess I should go find my cheating husband then since Mark was a lying cheating Lawyer.” Bitch. I am waiting for Akane to show up too, so we can hurt her lots. Hell, that I wanna see, Akane mallets Ranma, Skuld shows her a Real mallet, but before it lands on Akane’s head, Hotaru, without transforming, hits Akane to Moscow with “Glaive-sama”