Permanent ChPermanent Ch.11
When one is lost...
Ranma stood with her two opponents facing her and breathed heavily. She was 
bleeding from a small cut on her elbow that the one called Ko-li had inflicted 
on her and was otherwise uninjured; she was however getting worn down. The pair 
was attacking in unison and Ranma was hard pressed to avoid both of them at the 
same time. They were very good, but Ranma was better. She jammed her elbow into 
the back of Talcum's neck causing her to slam into the ground. The younger girl 
had abandoned her spear in favor of a pair of nunchaku when the fight had 
started. She was giving Ranma the most trouble out of the two. Ko-li jabbed the 
spear at Ranma who jumped up over the weapon and backhanded the her in the face. 
Talcum jumped up off the ground and swung at Ranma with the nunchaku, Ranma 
blocked and nearly broke her arm on the weapon. Ko-li slashed at Ranma's shirt 
barely missing the girl and Ranma rolled under Talcum's legs to escape. She 
kicked straight up when she was directly under her and the girl hit the floor 
after being lifted three feet in the air by the force of the kick. She was out 
for a short time. 
Ko-li frowned when her partner was put out of commission. She took a relaxed 
stance and held her left arm in the air. Her right arm was pointed at Ranma who 
was on the other side of the room. Ko-li smiled and jumped straight up and spun 
in the air releasing a volley of throwing knives at Ranma. Ranma smiled and 
raised her hand. She began to glow blue and the knives stopped in mid air. Ko-li 
gasped as she landed and her knives spun towards her in mid strike. "Aiya!" she 
cried as she was pinned to the wall by her clothing.
"Now what should I do with you?" said Ranma with a small grin. It was short 
lived as the Amazon promptly removed her top and ripped her pants free easily.
"Feh, I've had enough of this," snorted Ranma as she raised her hand and pushed 
at the air. The air in front of her distorted, looking almost like water, and 
seemed to rush forward pinning the hapless girl to the wall. "I'm much stronger 
than when I defeated Shampoo," she said with a small amount of laughter. A look 
of terror crossed the Amazon's face and she prepared to die.
Talcum rushed Ranma from behind and almost grabbed her. Ranma jumped straight up 
into the air and came down on the girl's back. A ball of fire formed in Ranma's 
hand and she smiled as she aimed it at the pinned girl's head.
"I will not go through this again," said Ranma angrily. She raised the hand that 
was holding the spell keeping Ko-li against the wall and the girl was lifted up 
and the Amazon started to choke.
"Leave them, they will not attack again," said an aged voice from the back of 
the dojo.
"What?" said Ranma as she spun around to face the new comer. Ko-li was thrown to 
the side against the opposite wall and began to clutch at her neck desperately 
as if trying to pull away an invisible hand; and Talcum screamed in pain as 
Ranma twisted her foot on her back tearing the muscle there.
Cologne stood at the back of the dojo and smiled at Ranma. "I am Cologne, the 
elder of the Amazon tribe, They will not attack you again." 
Ranma released Ko-li from her grip and the fireball vanished. She kept Talcum 
pinned to the floor with her hand ready to make another.
"Relax dear this was just a final test; I knew you would not fail," said the old 
woman.
"Test?" said Ranma warily.
"Yes my dear. Shampoo gave you the kiss of death when you defeat her the first 
time, You destroyed her in combat and she died honorably. You have proven 
yourself worthy to become an amazon, you are now one of us. Isn't that nice?" 
said the old woman with cheery looking smile.
"What?" said Ranma with a look of horror on her face.
Cologne sighed and sat down across from Ranma. "Our way is to remain strong, 
Shampoo was my great granddaughter and I will mourn her for a very long time; 
however, I realize that you did what you did to survive. Just as we have. We 
live in a cold and hostile environment, in order for our people to survive the 
harsh communist government of our country we must remain strong enough to fend 
for ourselves, we use this to weed out the weak and create strong blood ties in 
our tribe. It is how we survive."
Ranma stepped off Talcum and sat down next to Cologne with a hard stare. "If I 
refuse to join you?" she asked.
"You cannot, You are now a member of our tribe," said Cologne simply.
"I'm not going back to China." said Ranma.
"If that is your wish I will honor it, we ask only to have the privilege of your 
help when it is needed, that you at least honor our laws and abide by them, and 
allow access to your knowledge. You are a very powerful mage, you have collected 
more magic than our tribe has in three thousand years of history. In return we 
will teach you to be a greater warrior and give you access to our own vast 
library. It is a simple trade of information, if you would like to put it that 
way. I am aware of your 'condition' and we will not ask you to marry," said the 
matriarch.
"I will not give you full access to my library ghoul," said Ranma with a sneer. 
"What?" said Cologne in surprise.
"I have books that were never meant for human eyes and I intend to make sure 
they stay out of reach." 
Cologne smiled and stood. "We'll be leaving now, I shall talk again with you 
later. You must be made familiar with amazon law." 
"Whatever," snorted Ranma.
"Good bye sister Ranma," said Talcum and Ko-li as they bowed shakily and 
followed Cologne as best they could in their condition.
Ranma walked into the yard and jumped back into her room.
"What about pill?" asked Talcum.
"I have plans for it, she will receive it in time. Besides, I have plans for the 
young Saotome, she will return to China with us of her own accord, it may take 
some time though," said Cologne as they jumped from rooftop to rooftop towards 
the newly opened 'Cat cafe'.
Ko-li frowned as she followed. "She is likely to ignore us, how can we be sure 
we can convince her?" 
"Simple child, we'll offer her a job. In time she will grow accustomed to us and 
no doubt the two of you will get along quite well once you get past your 
differences," snorted the old woman. "The three of you have more in common than 
you think."
"You seem to know a lot about this." said Ko-li.
"Your fighting abilities weren't the only reason I brought you young one." 
thought Cologne with a smile.
The next day after school Ranma sat with Gosunkugi in his room. "Try again," she 
sighed. 
Gosunkugi frowned and looked at the book. "I'm sure I followed the 
instructions..." he muttered as he flipped through the pages. "Wait, these two 
are stuck together. What was I doing?" 
Outside Hiroshi and Daisuke walked by the home. "I hear Ranma's been hanging out 
with Gosunkugi. Seems our prediction came true," snorted Hiroshi.
"What does she see in him?" muttered Daisuke.
Then as they passed the windows of the home exploded in flames and a deafening 
roar was heard from within the home. 
"What was that?" cried Hiroshi.
"Nothing we didn't see a thing; keep walking," said Daisuke as he drug his 
friend down the sidewalk.
In the room Ranma sat in a corner with a blue glow dying down in her hand with a 
look of shock and surprise on her face. Gosunkugi cowered on the bed with a look 
of sheer terror. 
"Damn it! How the hell did you get a light spell mixed up with a low-level demon 
summon spell?"!!" she cried angrily.
"I'm sorry! The pages were stuck together!" whimpered Gosunkugi pathetically.
"What ever, we'll continue this later. Study the book and you'd recognize that 
you weren't reading the right spell any more. I'd better see some improvement 
next time or else," warned Ranma as she reverted the room back to normal with a 
small spell. "I'll see you later." 
"Bye sensei," muttered the pathetic boy as he opened the book and started to 
study it carefully.
"Ah, Ranma dear, How are you?" said a familiar voice from next to Ranma as she 
walked home. 
"Not today ghoul I'm not in the mood," she muttered.
"Too bad I was about to offer you a job," said Cologne.
"I already have one thanks," snorted Ranma bitterly.
"I am aware of your current employment, this one pays twice as well and you will 
be working with your 'sisters,'" said Cologne cheerfully.
"No thanks," muttered Ranma as she turned to take a different route along the 
fence.
"Not even if it means you could acquire this?" said the elder Amazon as she held 
up a small clear pill with distinct markings on it.
Ranma froze in her tracks. "Where did you get that?!" 
"A certain counsel of mages, only one is created every five hundred years," said 
Cologne with a wicked smile. She knew she had the girl.
"The Saint pill?" said Ranma with a haunted look.
"Yes, it can cure any curse," said the woman with a dark smile. "If I should 
lose it during the course of the day at work..." said the ghoul with a mocking 
far off gaze; Ranma knew what she meant, If she wanted it she had to take it 
from her.
"All right ghoul, you got a deal," she said with a small smile.
The next day Ranma came home and sat down at the table across from her father 
and Mr. Tendo who were both playing Shogi. Akane sat next to her with a frown on 
her face. Mr. P sat in her arms and looked at Ranma with small pig chuckles. 
Ranma glared at him. In recent weeks he had become an almost permanent fixture 
on Akane's chest.
"Ranma...what happened?" asked Akane.
Ranma seethed as she rubbed at her arms. 'Reject' was stamped on them in bright 
red ink up and down the length of her forearm.
"My new boss is a slave driver that's what," she muttered.
"New boss?" said Mr. Panda's sign.
"Yea, I got another job at this place called the 'Cat cafe'. I get fewer hours 
but they pay much better. I even got a few of my regular customers going there 
now. A lot of the guys from school found out about it some how too," said Ranma 
with a small frown.
Nabiki just looked at the ceiling innocently.
"Yea, but what's that got to do with those marks?" said Akane looking 
bewildered.
"Lets just say they are a bit competitive," muttered Ranma. "Stupid ghoul, I'll 
get that pill yet."
A week later...
Akane walked into the relatively small Chinese restaurant and looked around. 
"Ranma?" she said with a small smile as Ranma walked by lazily balancing seven 
bowls of Ramen as she rushed by to a table.
"Here ya go," she chimed cheerfully. A slam followed by a few crashes could be 
heard and Ko-li dusted her hands off as she turned from around a corner and 
walked over to a chalkboard with some Chinese writing on it. She made a mark 
under one of the columns.
"Hey Akane! Come for lunch?" asked Ranma as she gave the Chinese girl an 
approving smirk.
"Thought I'd stop by...what is that?" asked Akane as she pointed at the board. 
It had close to thirty marks on it with most of them under the only symbols she 
recognized on the board; they were the Kanji for 'Ranma'.
"That's just something the girls and I came up with after I started working 
here. We keep score on who teaches the most people about the 'no touching rule'. 
Most people sort of got the hang of it pretty quick so its not anything like 
what it used to be," said Ranma with a smile as she led Akane to a table.
"That's...weird. I like it, but its still weird," said Akane with a smile.
"Ranma come here," said Cologne from her perch on a counter.
"What is it?" asked the girl with a little sarcasm in her voice.
She and Akane were lead to the back alley. Akane had followed out of curiosity 
and watched cheerfully as the old woman began to start a fire.
"What's up ghoul?" snorted Ranma.
"Watch," said Cologne as she pulled a bag of chestnuts from her robes and threw 
them into the fire. She let them burn for a moment and then jabbed her hands 
into the fire. In a split second her hands vanished and then reappeared holding 
two handfuls of roasted chestnuts. "That was the Katsutenshin amaguriken 
technique; learn it and taking the pill will be child's play.
"I couldn't even see her hands move," gasped Akane.
"Interesting," said Ranma as she looked thoughtful and returned to the 
restaurant; Akane had never seen Ranma look quite so determined before.
"Your really going to try to learn that?" asked Akane.
"I just might," replied the girl with a smile.
"You'll get burnt," warned her friend.
"Hey, since your here I'll buy you lunch," said Ranma as she lead her back to 
her table.
Several days later...
Ranma sat in the yard with a grim look on her face, Akane and her family looked 
dressed up in their Kimono and were preparing to leave for a summer festival. 
Akane giggled with Mr. P in her arms and kissed him on the nose. "I wish I could 
take you to the festival Mr. P," she said cheerfully.
Ranma simply smiled wearily and stood adjusting her own Kimono. "I guess we 
should go soon."
"I think it's great your coming with us," said Akane with a smile
"Well, I am supposed to help out with the haunted house later tonight anyway," 
said Ranma as she shrugged her shoulders.
"So Ranma, have you mastered the Amaguriken technique yet?" asked Cologne from 
the wall above them. She held out a small case and Ranma lunged for it. The pair 
exchanged blows for a moment and Ranma's arms were covered in reject signs 
again, she growled at Cologne.
"Your still to slo..." Cologne stopped as she realized that Ranma was not 
growling but laughing.
Ranma held out her hand and flipped the clear pill in the air casually. "How did 
you get that?" said Cologne in shock.
"Got ya!" said Ranma.
"No! If he uses it and returns to a male now my plans are ruined," thought 
Cologne desperately.
Then Ranma did something completely unexpected. She reached over and snatched 
Mr. P from Akane's grasp causing her to gasp in surprise. Then she shoved the 
pill into his mouth and covered his snout tightly. The pig struggled in 
confusion for a moment and then went still. Ranma dropped him and he began to 
squeal in pain.
"What have you done to him?!" cried Akane in shock as she reached for him. Ranma 
stopped her and shook her head.
Mr. P began to writhe and grow on the ground as his skin became lighter and his 
squeal turned into a scream.
Cologne and the Tendo family watched in shock. 
Ryoga Hibiki stood and looked at his hands in complete and total wonder. "What?" 
he said. He clutched his throat as the sound and feel of his voice felt strange 
and alien to him now. He looked at Ranma and then Akane. His face twisted and 
tears fell down his cheeks. "I'm a man again?" he said as his voice cracked.
"Again?" thought Akane even through her shock.
Cologne only stared in disbelief at what Ranma had done.
"That means...Ranma..." said the boy as he fell to his knees.
Ranma smiled as she looked at Ryoga. He stood...and punched her dead in the 
face. "Ranma! How dare you!" he yelled in anger as he took up a ready stance.
TbC.......
 
C&C to Catbert25@juno.com
That has got to be the most evil cliffhanger I have ever written. 
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! Bow at my feet and beg for more fools! Suffer at my 
mercy! HA HA
Just so you know this is something I have had planned from the beginning. I have 
special plans for Ryoga, and you know Ukyo and Happosai still haven't showed up 
yet. Plus I still have to get Kodachi in on all this mess. [And that means more 
Kuno, as he will be a major part of her 'real' introduction.] That's all the 
information I feel like giving out now so wait until next fic.
ja
Carrotglace@juno.com
 
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