Locked, bone-tired, waking up in a hospital...with fur and a tail.
This was not looking to be the best of days.
Strangely enough, she didn't through a temper tantrum or anything as she walked back into her room and flopped on the bed. Somehow, it seemed a bit silly to be worried about it after every other time. It always seemed to come unlocked eventually, and, if it didn't, well, seemed there were bigger issues to be concerned with.
Like the fuzzy memories and the fact that she now had a fur and a tail...oh and pointy ears.
She lay back on the bed and tired to think back over the past couple of days, but the only thing that happened were fuzzy images that made her tits feel tight and her groin sticky. Which, of course, brought another surprise.
Normally, any sort of "girly" feeling immediately set Ranma into a panic mode. A lot of sexual reactions were likewise embarrassing, heaven forbid the occurence of girly sexual feelings. Yet, at the moment, Ranma just shrugged it off as just frustrating and let the feelings just fade away.
As the door opened, a doctor wearing a surgeon's mask and carrying a clipboard came in along with one a nurse. Ranma spared the nurse a brief glance, despite being about ten years older than her, the woman was very attractive. A half-remembered twinge brought Ranma to look about for a moment as if expecting an attack, but otherwise she thought nothing of the momentary appraisal.
"Excuse me, Miss..." the doctor started, looking down at his clipboard. "If we could start with your name?"
"Ah..." Ranma considered for a moment and then shrugged. It wasn't like it would be easy to keep hidden at the moment. "Saotome Ranma, son of Saotome Genma and Nodoka."
"Excuse me," the doctor said. "Don't you mean daughter or child?"
"Nope," Ranma said simply, blinking.
"You are aware that you're a girl?" the doctor asked.
"Hard to miss with a body like this," Ranma said, shrugging.
"You don't act like I'd expect a..."
"A guy turned into a girl to act?" Ranma finished. "Been dealing with this for a couple of years, doc. Old news. The tail and fur are new though, and I ain't woken up in a hospital with fuzzy memories since I was a kid."
"A couple of years," the doctor noted. "Could explain a bit more?"
As Ranma explained the curse to the doctor, he was tempted to just dismiss the seemingly ridiculous concept, but it did explain some of the strange reading he'd been getting on some of the animal women's DNA. Traces of male DNA, as if the body had been disposing of it bit by bit like it was a virus. Checking his notes, however, he found no indication of such a thing with this patient. Perhaps this pre-existing condition, this "curse" was the reason for that.
"You seem to have been through a lot, Miss...Mr Saotome," the doctor corrected himself.
"Yeah, but I usually wake up at the Tendo's, or Doc Tofu's, or one of a couple of other places," Ranma said, looking around. "You got a phone so that I could call them?"
"I assume you're referring to a place in Nerima ward?" the doctor asked.
"Well, duh," Ranma said, arching her eyebrow, somewhat hard to perceive on her furry face. "Where else?"
"I'm sorry to say that you are the first resident of Nerima, barring young children, to awaken for the past week days," the doctor said.
Ranma stared.
She blinked.
Her tail flicked around in front of her.
"Wha...?" Ranma said quietly. A sudden and terrible thought came to her then and she gasped. "Was there a bomb or somethin?"
"Something," the doctor said, taking off his glasses for a moment and pinching his eyes together. "Perhaps I should explain your case first."
"Okay," Ranma said quietly.
"Records indicate that you were found in a hotel room during rescue operations five days ago," the doctor said. "Your...fur was matted, in places, with traces of vaginal fluid from at least seven women and the semen of one man."
Ranma's confused look signaled to the doctor that she had no idea what any of that meant.
"You had apparently had sex with at least eight people before we found you," the doctor explained.
Ranma's eyes widened, but she still remained calm.
"And one of them was a guy?" Ranma almost whispered.
"Yes," the doctor proceeded slowly. "The majority of the women in our hospital, several hospitals now, actually, have the same situation as you?"
"What does that mean?" Ranma asked.
"Every adult female resident of Nerima, including a few visitors and a large number of people from nearby areas," the doctor said. "Had apparently had sex with multiple women and one, rarely two, men."
"And they're all fox girls?" Ranma asked.
"No," the doctor said, to the fox-girl's momentary relief. "Only one-hundred-fifty-nine of them. There are a little more than one hundred different varieties of animal women currently. All apparently aged between fourteen and eighteen. And all seem to be carrying a child."
Ranma's jaw dropped open. She didn't particularly know what was the most shocking, that she'd had lots of sex and forgotten about it, or that the same had happened to most of the women in the area she lived in, or that she had slept with a guy. That last alone should have made her catatonic.
Except she kind of was catatonic already so everything was fine and normal then.
"You mentioned some fuzzy memories," the doctor said, causing Ranma to shake out of her fugue.
"Uh...yeah," Ranma said weakly. "What about it?"
"Could you tell Nurse Jun here what you can remember?" the doctor asked. When Ranma nodded, the doctor stood up and scribbled something down on his notebook. "Well, if you'll excuse me, I have to see about some of the other patients."
"Right," Ranma said, turning to look into the comforting, if slightly uncomfortable, face of Nurse Jun.
Ranma was considering that "Nurse Jun" probably was worried that the fox girl was going to jump her bones as soon as she was alone with her when another thought occured to him.
"Wait," Ranma said. "All the women are pregnant?"
"That's right," the doctor said, pausing at the door.
"And that would include..." Ranma's voice faded off as she pointed to herself.
"Yes, it would," the doctor said comfortingly. "Nurse, please try to be attendant."
"Yes, doctor," the nurse said suddenly, as if she'd been caught doing something.
Ranma blinked again as the doctor finally left, but otherwise only muttered.
"You know, this is something I'd usually start crying and screaming about..."
"Oh, I'm sure the shock has dulled everything," the nurse said, glancing to the empty doorway with a bit of vindictive salt of her own for the doctor. "Probably better off to receive everything like that. So much to handle your brain just lets it all settle to protect itself."
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