And it had quite obviously not been inhabited for some time.
That made the sight of the four teenaged girls laying in a circle on the floor all the more strange.
One, a pigtailed redhead sat up with a groan and a wince as she held her head. "What hit me..?"
"I do not know, but it seems odd to be here without reason," the girl across from her, dressed in a clearly costly outfit, replied with a frown as she opened her eyes. "Father?"
"Huh? I've never met you, and I've never had kids. And if I did, I'd be the mother."
"That is rather odd... You look like my parent..."
"Funny. I look like my Dad," the redhead commented.
"Is that why you look like my dad?" commented a third girl as she stopped rubbing at her face to look at her pigtailed companion.
"And who would your dad be?"
"Ranma Saotome."
"That can't be!"
"And why is that?"
"Because he's my dad!"
"Okay," the last girl commented as she sat up and looked at the other three. "How can that happen?"
"How should we know?!"
The well dressed girl nodded. "Exactly. It seems that the three of us have the same father somehow."
Stopping in the middle of adjusting her Chinese style dress, the last girl to awaken gave her companion an arch look. "Four."
"The concept that we all have the same father is rather... odd."
"Listen," the redhead growled, "I don't know about the rest of you, but I think it's obvious that he's my father, as sure as my name's Ranko Saotome."
"Interesting..."
"How's that?"
"My name's Sashizoe Saotome."
"GAH!"
"And now you sound like Father. At least when he's gotten into some sort of... situation. He can so amuse Mother..."
"Who's your mother?" Ranko asked.
"Kodachi Saotome. And your's?"
"Akane Saotome."
"He married your mother?"
"And he did yours?"
"What do you think?"
"I think," commented the third girl to awaken, "That my father is married to Ukyo Saotome, my mother."
"I see..," Sashizoe replied, "And you are..?"
"Shoko Saotome."
Kodachi's daughter turned to the last girl of the group. "And your name is..?"
"Lotion Saotome," the girl in the Chinese dress replied.
"Your mother is..."
"Shampoo Saotome. What? Did you expect me to talk funny?"
"Not at all... It's just that..."
"It's just kind of wierd that Dad's daughters from the different girls that had been after him are... here. Whereever that is..," Shoko drawled.
"Here is a temple," a decidedly male voice put in, and the four girls leapt to stand in defensive positions.
"What the heck..?" Ranko growled.
A robed figure stood in front of them, with his hands hidden in the volume of his sleeves. "You're probably wondering many things..."
"You got that right."
"First off, don't worry about your family situations. Each of you is from a different world. In each, Ranma Saotome had chosen a different girl, and wound up living a different life."
"Pardon me," Sashizoe put in, "but what does that mean?"
"Take it this way. Each thing that any one person does results in an effect on that person's life. Everything from breathing, to... meeting the love of their life, to... getting hit by a boulder. Those moments change what can happen to a person, and which path their lives would take. In the vast scheme of things, a person's life can take different roads, and for each road, there is a world where those events happen."
"So what you are saying is that we each come from worlds where the difference is which woman our father chose to wed?"
"An... oversimplification, but sufficient for now," the robed figure allowed.
"So what are we doing here?" Shoko asked.
"It is simple. This is the world of none of you, but it is one that needs you."
"More riddles..," Lotion sighed, "This guy would get along wonderfully with Great-Great-Grandmother."
"Amusing. Let me explain. On this world is a version of your father, and the four of you are needed to help him."
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
"And what are we supposed to do?"
"You are to:
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