Ranma sighed. "Old ghoul, could ya get the water ready, while I ta tell them about the Neko-ken." Ranma said as she sat down. The other youngsters surrounded him as Cologne left to find some water and a place to build a fire.
"My father had been training me ta be the best martial artists of my generation. A martial artist is a fighter who only fights in self defence if they can help it." Ranma explained as she saw that the trio from this world looked confused. "He took me all over the place, learning different martial arts styles and developing my family's school of martial arts. Then when I was ten, he discovered the training manual that contained the Neko-ken, or Cat Fist."
"The Neko-ken is suppose ta be an unbeatable fighting style and it is a powerful style. The problem is that it comes at too high a price." Ranma watched as everyone one is looking at her. "Ta be trained in the style one has ta take a kid of ten or under, and place fish on them. Then place them in a pit full of over twenty starving cats and seal the pit with a rock."
"What?" came Katara's reply. "That's suppose to be training. It sounds like he was trying to kill you. What kind of moronic madman would try to kill his son by feeding him to starving cats. Why was there anyone to stop him from doing this?" As she spoke, snow suddenly started to vibrate as if it was being moved by something.
"Pops, keep the training out in the wilderness. Though after the fifth time, he did need ta take me to the doctors." Ranma could feel the anger coming from Katara now. Red hot heat. Sokka look upset and Aang just looked worried for Ranma. "It was only after I complete the training that Pops found out that the Neko-ken had been banned for causing death or driving the user nuts."
"Nuts?" Aang asked, "Why does it turn you into nuts? Why is that bad?"
"Nuts means crazy. The trainee gets a fear of c-c-cats. Worse if I see to many cats, especially large and powerful ones, I start ta think that I'm a cat. I have the power to create chi claws that can slice through metal. The best thing ta do when this happens is to find a person I trust and have them try ta calm me down by petting me on their laps. Or trigger my curse." Ranma told the teens that were there.
"That is why Shampoo is very unlucky. She has gained a curse form that Ranma fear with all of his life." Shampoo added as her head dropped down.
Sokka looked at his sister twitch in anger at the treatment that Ranma had experience from his father. Her left eye was twitching, her teeth were grinding. It was worse then when he had told her all about women's work. 'I really don't want to upset her right now. I thought that the fire nation was bad.'
"Well, you get use ta it. I just have ta avoid cats." Ranma said, adding, "I only wanna get some hot water ta change back. That and learn more about this airbending stuff." Ranma said with a smile.
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