"All right Ryoga. Where do you live these days?"
"The Unryu farm. She uh... she loves pigs."
"She who?" Nabiki asked.
"Oh, her name's Akari Unryu."
"Let me have a word with the others." Ranma said retreating to the family. "Ken? How ya doin' champ?"
"'m still standing." He mumbled, leaning against Nabiki.
"Think you can survive a chaos shift spell or two?"
"Ranma, wouldn't it be better for me to take the children home?" Nabiki asked.
"Not with the Amazon's scheming. I don't want any of us to be alone. We make far too tempting targets and the novelty of our powers will only keep the old bat on the defensive for a little while."
"All right, we stick together." Rikku said briskly. "So what's the plan?"
"Ken, can you survive the jump?" Ranma repeated.
"'m not dead father. Not anymore." Ken growled. "Let's do this."
"Hey Ryoga, you got any thing from this Akari?"
"Yeah. She made me this sweater." Ryoga said, rummaging in his pack.
"Ah, handmade and full of her aura. Perfect for my purposes." Ranma said taking the offered sweater. "All right, let's do this." With that he closed his eyes and began to chant as a veil of mist began to swirl around them, obscuring the outside world.
"W-what's he doing?" Ryoga stammered trying to back away.
"Don't move." Nabiki said grabbing the younger boy. "If you move too much you'll throw off the parameters of the spell, and then we'll all really be lost."
"Spell?" Ryoga repeated dumbly.
"Yo Ryoga, is this the place?" Ranma asked as the mists began to thin.
"Yes! This is it!" Ryoga said excitedly.
"Excellent. Hang tight, I'm almost done." Ranma said briefly, before resuming his chanting.
"Ranma... knows magic? Where have you been?"
"That..." Nabiki leaned in close and winked. "is a secret!"
Ryoga was about to facefault when Ranma caught his arm with his free hand. "We're here, buddy."
"Ryoga!" A female voice cried out as a brown haired girl came jogging towards the group.
"Guys, this is my girlfriend Akari. Akari chan, this is Ranma, and Nabiki, and... I didn't get their names."
"I'm Rikku and this is my brother Kenshiro."
"Nice to meet you all. Are you friends with Ryoga kun?"
"Yeah, I guess we are." Ranma said with a smile. "Hey Ryo, can I have a word with you for a minute?"
"Yeah, sure." He said allowing Ranma to lead him around the side of the building. "So what's up?"
"Just settling an old debt." The mage replied holding up a handful of lightening. Ryoga stared dumbfounded as Ranma slammed the lightening hard into his chest, shocking the younger martial artist.
"What the hell was that for?" Ryoga gasped from the ground.
"I got you cursed. I fixed your curse." Ranma said calmly as the sky opened up and rain began to fall.
Ryoga glared in sheer hatred and lunged at Ranma. "You idiot! Akari likes my curse! She thinks P-chan is cute! I didn't want to be cured."
"You're not." Ranma said blandly smacking Ryoga's punches aside.
"Huh?" Ryoga blinked in surprise. "What do you mean? It's raining and I'm not changing!"
"I said I fixed your curse. Curing the curse is beyond my abilities. What I did was change your trigger, same as I changed mine."
"So I'm not cured?"
"Nope. Can't cure curses." Ranma said calmly. "I made it so you change at will and bonded you clothes to this form, so no more popping up naked."
"Can you change someone's cursed form?"
Ranma sighed. "You mean changed what a person turns into? Yes I can... but it's not easy. You're body is used to turning into a pig. It's not gonna like being forced into a different shape."
"No, I like the pig. I was just curious." Ryoga asked.
"Hey, I'm goin to the Dojo tomorrow to settle the engagement. You want to come with?"
"Considering that "settling" that particular problem would involve seeing someone getting the snot kicked out of them, yeah I think I'd like to tag along. Only one problem. My sense of direction."
"I need more time to study it before I could say anything one way or another, but I can give you a temporary fix." That being said Ranma spun his cane in his fingers transforming it into an exquisite fountain pen. "Now then, Ryoga, if I may have your right hand please."
"S-sure, but what are you doing?" He asked as Ranma began doodling on his outstretched palm.
"I'm making you an Aura compass. It can lead you to any aura you sample after it's done."
"You mean I could find my way back to Akari? On my own?"
"Yup." Ranma said as the ink dried. "Just press you hand together with the aura you want to sample, like this, and then you're done." The mage explained pressing his palm together with the younger boy's.
"How long will it last?"
"About four months. You can go ahead and bathe and everything, since it's magical ink, but it'll fade eventually."
"Why are you doing all this?" Ryoga asked as they rejoined the others.
"Because you're my friend, and because you changed for the better." Ranma said, wrapping Akari's hand in Ryoga's marked one. "Take care of him. He's a good catch."
"I will." Akari promised, as Ranma stepped back to his family and began to chant.
"Ryoga. Ten AM at my mom's place if you're coming. Later buddy." With those words a dome of mist surrounded the family and when it cleared, they were gone.
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