[Episode 111206] [Episode 111206]"Ranma?" She asked quietly, gently shaking the smaller girl to get her attention. It didn't escape her notice how the elf girl froze completely before slowly turning her head to look at the older girl. The terrified expression on her face did more than anything else to calm the mercenary girl down. Nabiki took a deep breath to calm down before speaking. "Ranma, could you please stop that for a second so we can talk?"
"I... I..." The former boy tried to say something, but wasn't able to complete it.
"I want you to sit down over here and talk to me, okay?" The Ice Queen calmly said while pointing towards the bed.
"Bu... bu..." Ranma stuttered, her terrified face looking back and forth between her master and the naga.
Sighing, Ryan gently grabbed the elf girls wrist and pulled it away from his body. "It's okay." He said with a sad smile on his face while he gently pushed the small girls body in the right direction. "I think we all need to talk about this."
"Ma... master?" The ex-boy whimpered, settling his weight down on his heels. Her head canted to the side a little bit as the girl studied her master, trying to see something in his eyes. "I... I'm not gonna... be... pu... punished?" She asked hesitantly, her body tensing up in fear.
"No!" Ryan shook his head violently. "Just go talk to your friend, okay?"
"Yes, master." The smaller girl replied, not noticing the young man flinching at the term of address. Slowly, the small girl rose to her feet and crossed the room to sit down by the watching naga.
"Ranma, do you remember who you were?" Nabiki asked after a few moments of silence.
"Ye... yes." The elf nodded her head. "Ra... Ranma Soatome... heir of the Soatome branch of Anything Go... Goes."
"That's good." The naga responded. "Do you remember what happened to you this morning?"
The elf nodded again. "Yeah. The bad lady turned us into..."
"That's right." Nabiki cut in. "What happened after that?"
"There was this... thump... or something." Ranma closed her eyes in order to recall things more clearly. "Then everything went dark when I got sucked into some sort of magical ball." Tears started flowing freely down the younger girls face.
When it became apparent that the martial artist wouldn't continue, the naga decided to do a little prompting. "What happened after that?"
"It... it hurt." The former boy sobbed, leaning towards the mercenary girl until she was once again wrapped up in a comforting embrace. "The magic was too much, Nabiki. I tried to fight it. I really did." Ranma tucked her face into the naga's neck and began wailing her words. "I already hurt so much from turning into this... this... this FREAK! But the ball... oh, Kami... every time I tried to tell the ball the truth it hurt so much! It was like getting zapped by lightning, it hurt so much! And then... and then..." Her voice abruptly cut off as her entire body became wracked in sobbing, shuddering mess.
Allowing a few moments of grief, Nabiki stroked the younger girls back and made shushing sounds in her ear. When the body quit shaking so violently, she started her questioning once again. "What happened after that, Ranma?" She whispered.
"I... I promised... to do any... anything... ta... ta make... the pain stop." The pig-tailed girl stuttered before shivering. "And it felt so... so good, Nabiki. I never felt that way before." The girl quieted down a little, but continued to cry. "It was the pain or feeling good. I couldn't fight it no more. If I obeyed, I felt good. If I said anything else, the ball made me scream. It hurt so bad. I tried to fight it, but I didn't wanna feel bad like that no more. I didn't know what ta do, so I just went with what the ball was telling me."
"It's alright now, Ranma. I'll take care of you." Nabiki promised, not being able to hold back her own flood of tears.
"The ball kept telling me to do perverted things, Nabiki." Ranma whimpered. "I didn't wanna, I swear! I swear I didn't wanna do those things!"
"I have you. It's okay now." The naga continued to reassure the broken girl in her arms.
"Akane's gonna hate me now." Ranma whimpered pathetically. "I came out of the ball and did those things like she's always accusing me of." Her voice choked for a second in a bid to draw in more air for her abused lungs. "I wanted to fight master, but I was scared."
"What were you scared of, Ranma?" The Ice Queen whispered, feeling her own heart ache at the other girls pain.
"It hurt so much ta not obey." The elf cried. "I was scared like a little girl, Nabiki. I thought he was gonna put me back in the ball, so I let him do that stuff to me. And... and... and..." She wrapped her arms around the larger girl and hugged her as hard as she could.
"And what?" The older girl asked, not sure if she wanted to hear the answer or not.
"And part of me... a little piece... wanted him ta do that stuff." She sobbed. "If... if it felt good... it wouldn't hurt no more. The ball promised me that I'd feel good if I did that stuff, but I don't!" The elf finished in a loud yell. "I... I feel dirty! And... and... and filthy! And Akane ain't gonna like me no more because I'm a pervert! And momma's gonna make me kill myself because I can't be a man no more! And I feel so... so... dirty!" She broke down completely and went limp, tears streaming down her cheeks as loud broken wails of agony escaped her throat.
As the naga continued to comfort the wailing elf, a guilty feeling Ryan watched the scene continue. He...
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