With time, a second body slowly formed in the chair next to the entranced martial artist, and the hovering soul formed of the drowned girl's infinite splinter and Ranma's experiences, was drawn into the building flesh.
Red hair, thick and long, like cables or snakes, that seemed to twist as if alive when the girl's head shifted. Green skin, with the occasional patch of rainbow scales, arranged almost decoratively, covered her form, designed with fertility, attraction and mothering in mind, and slitted eyes sat under closed lids. Breath passed between a pair of fangs folded up against the back of the girl's mouth and over an agile forked tongue. Sound passed into ears fanned like a fish's fins, but was not heard by the slumbering newborn. Great, white dove's wings grew out of her back and lay about limply.
Medusa carefully set about the task of dressing the girl, keeping her awake, and then she laid a bried kiss on her creation's lips and let a portion of her power pass into the new girl.
Like her, the new girl was now a creature of fertility, life, death, and transformation. She would have power in her look to attract whatever attention she desired, she could heal, she could deal the stoning gaze that had later men had used to condemn Medusa, and she could bring other men and women over to this new race.
This new gorgon.
But only the willing would be affected by that venom.
Then she turned to Ranma, and proceeded to change him, into something not yet thought of. A male medusae. Only his skin was blue, and his wings were red.
And, as with the girl, she passed a portion of her power on to him.
"And now I sever all bonds that tie you to my will," she spoke ritually. "To do as your wills demand, save only that I would see more of your kin exist in the future. Take husband, take wife, breed, your line she breed true for twenty generations. Bring others my gift, though you may not find a willing party for two hundred years, your lives shall be ageless and only willful violence shall slay. You are the bearers of my power and only you two shall be able to pass the gift. Fight evil and let it not be said that medusae were ever creatures of ugliness and evil."
And with that she...
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