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Ranma's apprentice.
Ranma walked beside Akane towards the school as usual. Akane hung back with her 
friends and talked vigorously. Ranma looked back at her and sighed. "Hey, Ranma 
what's up?" asked Yuka.
"You'll find out when we get to school," said Akane with a small smile.
"I got a hundred yen that says he's calling himself 'black eagle,'" commented 
Nabiki as the group caught up with her.
"Your on, I think its 'Dark angel' myself," said Ranma from her perch with a 
smile.
Akane smiled as Ranma cheerfully walked towards the school and argued happily 
with Nabiki over Kuno's new name.
Kuno smiled as the group of girls walked towards the gates of Furinkan. "Ah, 
Ranma-kun, I the Dark eagle, the Black angel of Furinkan high would spar with 
you," said the boy dramatically as he pointed his bokuten at Ranma. His ten-foot 
long wings were spread wide and he held the bokuten in his clawed hand, a dark 
smile was on his lips. 
"Draw," said Nabiki and Ranma in unison. They looked at each other and started 
laughing.
"Are you mocking me?" asked Kuno with a frown.
"No Kuno, Its just something that happened on the way to school," said Ranma as 
she eyed him carefully.
"You know Ranma, the curse was not completely removed, I can still 'see' a lie," 
the boy frowned slightly and then dismissed the matter.
"Well, I was trying to be polite Kuno, you could return the favor," Ranma eyed 
him carefully and smiled a little.
"Ah, very well then you accept my challenge?!" said Kuno as he gave a rough 
snort to dismiss the conversation.
"What the hell is he thinking?" muttered Daisuke as he looked at Kuno's wings 
skeptically.
"Those things look ridiculous who is he trying to fool? I guess he thinks those 
fake wings make him look like one happening dude," said Daisuke from next to 
him.
"Happening dude?" said Hiroshi with a strange stare.
"Shut up man," muttered Daisuke. "Kick his ass Ranma!" he cried as he waved at 
her.
"Man you've got it bad," muttered Hiroshi as he watched his pathetic friend 
drool. Then he looked at Ranma for a moment. "Kick his ass Ranma!" he cried with 
his friend.
"I thought you thought she was creepy," said Daisuke with a slightly annoyed 
look.
"I saw the light my friend, she just jumped."
"Yea, heheh heh heh," agreed his friend.
"I think they actually make him look kind of regal for once," said one of the 
nearby girls. Her friends looked at her strangely and backed away. "What?!" she 
cried defensively as she glared at them.
From a nearby set of bushes Hikaru Gosunkugi watched in awe. He was very near to 
the pair and could see Kuno's back closely. He could see the muscles tense up 
and move as Kuno moved around. He lifted his camera and began to snap photos 
despite his shock. "The wings are real," he thought over and over. "How?!" he 
asked himself out loud.
Kuno swung at Ranma with blinding speed and she ducked under the strike easily. 
Kuno was much faster but his patterns were still readable. Then the kendoist 
changed; Ranma took a light blow on her side and backed away with a surprised 
look. 
Kuno smiled. "Point, You can learn allot about yourself when you can only hear 
the truth Saotome," said the Kendoist with a smile. Ranma grit her teeth and 
charged.
Kuno was not expecting her to rush him he swung wildly; Ranma dodged skillfully 
around his blows barely. How ever fast he was now Ranma was still faster. 
"Damn," he said as she struck his chest.
"Point," she said with a smile.
Then Kuno did something completely unexpected. 
Ranma charged again and Kuno began to beat his wings. Ranma was taken by 
surprise and thrown back from the sheer force of the wind created. She grit her 
teeth and struggled to keep her balance. Kuno smiled and jumped up into the air, 
he spread his wings and soared up.
"They work?" said Ranma in disbelief. "Now I know why he wanted to keep them." 
The entire student body of Furinkan high stared at the spectacle in disbelief. 
Kuno was flying around and diving at Ranma at high speeds in an attempt to tag 
him from above. She kept away pretty well but almost took several of the 
strikes. "OOH, he really is an angel!" cried one of the girls in delight. No one 
said anything.
"Damn!" cursed Ranma as she rolled on the ground away from another of the 
kendoist strikes. She turned and saw him diving again. She stood and jumped into 
the air. Kuno was taken by surprise and swung clumsily at Ranma who dodged and 
grabbed his shirt. She shifted her weight and drug him to the ground The pair 
rolled for about twenty feet when they hit and came to a stop near a tree. Ranma 
landed on top and punched at Kuno's face stopping just before the tip of his 
nose. "Point. I win," she said with a smile.
Kuno grinned and nodded. "You took me by surprise Saotome, tomorrow will be 
different," he said as she let him stand.
Ranma smirked, she could get to like this little game. For the first time in a 
long while she had a challenge.
During lunch Akane Tendo sat with some friends at her usual spot. She laughed 
and smiled as she conversed with them. Ranma was strangely absent and she 
glanced around occasionally. Hikaru sat in the bushes and sighed as he snapped a 
few photos. "Today Akane Tendo I will have you!" he said to himself as he pulled 
out a voodoo doll and nailed it to a tree with tears in his eyes. He took a 
small bag out of his pocket and dumped its contents onto the ground. An assorted 
array of strange things fell out, things like dried eyes and tails. He looked at 
a small piece of paper and began to read directions off as he followed them. 
"All right, First I take the eyes and place them in the yak urine and then I add 
the herb mixture, and then I tie the leather on top of the bottle with the 
lizard tail and shake it up. It should glow pink and then I just say who I..." 
he looked at the bottle in disappointment. He had a rather disgusting stink bomb 
for his work and he knew it. "Stupid salesman, it didn't work," he said to 
himself.
"That's because you didn't do it right," said a feminine voice. Hikaru froze and 
turned to see Ranma hanging upside down from a tree branch just inches away from 
him. 
"Auuuuggghhh!" he cried in surprise.
"Shut up fool. Who ever wrote those instructions is a moron, the ingredients are 
right but you mixed them totally wrong," said Ranma casually.
"Um, you've done this before?" asked Gosunkugi as he turned completely red.
"No," said Ranma with a cold stare. "You must be Hikaru Gosunkugi, the other 
'Sorcerer' Kuno mentioned," said Ranma as she jumped down beside him.
"Uh, yea, please don't tell Akane about this." said the boy pathetically.
"Don't worry it wouldn't have worked anyway, love is fates favorite toy and she 
doesn't like sharing. It wouldn't have come out the way you wanted it to, you 
might have ended up dating Kuno. Even if it had worked I would have destroyed 
the spell," said Ranma as she assessed the boy.
Gosunkugi shuddered as he thought of the possibility of dating Kuno. "Wait a 
minute. How do you know that?" said the boy as he turned and stared at Ranma in 
disbelief.
"How do you think I know brainiac?" said Ranma smugly.
Gosunkugi backed into a tree. "You're a witch!" he cried.
"Keep it down, and I prefer the term Mage thank you." Ranma replied curtly.
"What do you want?" said the frightened boy.
"You and I need to talk kid, I've been watching you and you've been using some 
pretty dangerous and stupid magic, luckily you've never gotten it right. This is 
as close as you've come," said Ranma as she held up the bottle he had just mixed 
and made a slightly disgusted look. She looked even cuter than normal for a 
moment and Gosunkugi had to cover his nose with his hand.
"I don't want to clean up your mess on the off chance that you get something 
right or really screw something up in the wrong way. I can guarantee that if the 
kinds of spells you've been trying to use do come out right they aren't gonna 
react the way your expecting, magic is very dangerous for some one like you. You 
don't think about what might happen, only what you want to happen and that's not 
the way it works I'm afraid. You had better find something else to do with your 
spare time got it?" said Ranma with a warning glare.
"B-but I..." stammered the frightened boy as he backed into the tree.
"Look no buts here, this is some dangerous crap your messing with, I want the 
book your getting it from -now-," growled Ranma.
"I...I don't have it with me," stammered the boy.
After school that day Ranma followed him home. "But if my parents find me with a 
girl when they come home..." stammered the boy.
"They'll probably cry tears of joy," said Ranma flatly.
Hikaru just hung his head in defeat. "Here we are," he said as he turned into 
his yard. It was an average home normal really. Even Gosunkugi's room looked 
normal when he opened the door. Ranma shielded her face and backed into the wall 
as the force of the book's power overwhelmed her. 
"Jeezus kid what have you got?!" she cried in anger. Voices screamed in pain and 
cursed in various languages as she entered. A book sat opened on the desk in the 
corner. "You left a magic tome opened? Are you dense?!" she screamed.
"No one told me I wasn't supposed to!" retorted Gosunkugi.
Ranma ran over and slammed the book shut. She glared at the cover and pulled her 
hand away in revulsion. "Just as I though, Necronomicon exmortum. I'm sick of 
these things," she muttered.
"You've seen it before?" asked Gosunkugi in surprise.
"I have seven, I had to 'confiscate' them from idiots like you," grumbled Ranma 
bitterly. She placed her hands over the book and mumbled something. All the 
power in the room seemed to move in reverse for a moment and a lock appeared on 
the book.
"What did you do?" asked Hikaru from behind Ranma.
"I sealed it," she said as she placed the book under her arm and began to walk 
out of the room.
"Cool!" exclaimed the boy as she left. She turned to see that he had sealed his 
math book.
"Idiot. You can't open it now! How are you going to do your homework?" she said 
angrily.
"I hadn't thought of that," said Hikaru with a defeated stare.
"Exactly why you shouldn't be using magic; I had to learn the hard way," said 
Ranma coolly.
"What if, you taught me?" said Gosunkugi with a withering stare. He was having 
trouble speaking to her if he looked at her. It was easy to think she was a boy 
if he didn't see her.
"No," said Ranma.
"Please I'll do anything!" cried the boy.
"So you can go and screw up like this again? You lucky this book didn't eat your 
soul the moment you opened it! I've seen it happen and it isn't pretty," said 
Ranma angrily. 
Hikaru shrunk back, "But no one told me..." he started.
"You couldn't tell this thing was evil the moment you touched it?! You knew! 
Don't give me that bullshit you little worm!" screamed Ranma as she slapped him 
hard. "You could have done things you don't even want to think about with this 
if you had screwed up."
"Please teach me, I'll change, I won't use it to make Akane love me or hurt 
anyone, I swear!" cried the boy as he fell to his knees.
"Why do you want to learn magic?" said Ranma with a cold stare. "If he says 'to 
help people' I'm walking out the door," she thought coldly.
"Because without it I'm nothing, I'm just some creepy kid with no friends. 
Nobody. Just someone people will half remember in the year book, they'll look at 
me and go, 'hey look its that creepy Gosunkugi kid, remember him?' I don't want 
to be like that," said the boy, tears began to fall down his face.
"Stop crying you're a boy aren't you?" said Ranma angrily, she then winced as 
the words brought back a bitter feeling in herself. Hikaru stood and tried to 
gain back some of his dignity.
"You will never touch another book like this. Do you understand?" said Ranma as 
she glared at him. He nodded and a weak smile formed. 
"I'll help you learn, but I can't really teach you, you have to learn on your 
own," said Ranma as she turned to leave. She stopped just as he was about to 
thank her. "Let's get one thing straight, I am only doing this because I know 
you'll just go and try this on your own if I don't. I don't want you getting 
another copy of this or something worse," said Ranma as she walked out.
"Worse?" said Gosunkugi to himself as he watched her leave. He paled and sat 
down on his bed. He began to realize what the book was doing to him while he had 
it, with out its influence he felt his head clear and he realized just how evil 
it was. The feeling he had gotten but foolishly ignored when he had found it 
became clear. He knew she was right, he already felt an unbelievable urge to 
find another copy. Then he thought again. "Worse? Is that possible?" The urge 
died down suddenly and he felt much better.
"Yes boy, it is," said a voice in the back of his mind. He looked out the window 
to see Ranma staring at him from the street. She turned and began to walk home.
TbC....
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Next time: Another threat from China? A double attack! Plus Kuno deals with his 
new form, is it what he had hoped it was?
 
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