But other than that, he was feeling rather good. To be honest, he was feeling rather charged up, and better than he ever had. At his age, there were always the creaks and aches of age settling in, but he felt invigorated. He was doing rather well for a man who'd risked his life, and worse, to just be teleported around Japan, but he did feel that way. It had the sense of being something fleeting, but he was going to take what he could, and enjoy it.
"Okay boy," he told his son, "You know what we're going to do when we get to Okayama?"
Ranma raised a smiling face up to look at his father. "Find a place to make camp!"
"Exactly. And then?"
"Train!"
"Good boy," the elder Saotome said, and ruffled his son's hair.
"Thanks!"
"It's just too bad that the scroll didn't work..."
"The scroll's got a bad style?"
"Well... It works, but it's not exactly useful. And you know what I think of techniques you can't put into a fight."
"They aren't worth spendin' lots of time on," the child replied, obviously parroting his father's words.
"That's right. So we'll just hold onto the scroll, and go on our way."
"Okay. It's just too bad it didn't do anythin'..."
"It did something... But nothing we can really see to use. For all we know, it could have made us stronger, but I haven't seen anything that would make that true."
Even as he gave a slight shrug towards his son, Genma didn't know that his words were true. At the same time that there were all sorts of creatures and beings beyond human comprehension out along the route they'd travelled, there were other forces, some sentient and others not, that were along the path as well. They had come across energies that most humans never tapped into, and they passed through fields that separated the planes of existence from each other. These were powers that when touched by any being would leave their mark on that lifeform.
And in this case, it was on a pair of martial artists who had no idea of what they'd actually done.
Instead, Genma merely led his son on a trip, with both of them completely clueless about their situation. He didn't know that he had transported the pair of them to another version of his homeworld, nor did he have any concept of the fact that the 'energized' feeling he was having was the remnants of the energies he'd passed through, slipping away, having done the changes they'd started. Not even the fact that when he'd arrived, a ball of lightning had expanded as wind tore around it until it all exploded in a blast of air that many people nearby had stopped to hear. As far as he was concerned, it was merely a lightning strike or a careless camper that had left the burnt leaves behind, rather than anything he'd done.
So, onward he walked, oblivious of even the basic, and immediate, problem of authorities coming to investigate the odd happenings, while:
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