Still toying with the gem, Ranma was briefly puzzled as the little sparkle of something special inside winked out.
After toying with it a bit more, his attention turned to the skies as something started happening to the clouds. A large patch of clouds had turned golden as if sunlight were pouring through them from above.
As it was sunrise, even Ranma knew that wasn't the cause.
As the light from above grew brighter, the clouds started to roll under like inverted crashing waves as something unseen parted the clouds. Then that something started to materialize as a glittery stream of sparkles started to coalescence into a shape. As the glowing iridescent light saturated the area and solidified, a form started to take shape.
Wings spread and tail lashing, it was a western dragon unlike any picture Ranma had ever seen. The wings were like massive clawed arms with what seemed to be dragon fly wings arranged like feathers. The body itself was made of pearlescent steel curved scales, with there being seemingly extraneous ones that made stylistic curved projections from the body. This effect was most noticeable at the head, which had recessed eyes and a short snout surrounded with enough scales that the dragon almost looked like it was wearing a stylized samurai helmet.
In short, it was a big glowing impressive looking dragon. It looked like it was meant to play with the likes of Godzilla, yet it was staring squarely at Ranma as it descended from the heavens.
It was impressive enough that Ranma stood up to get into a relaxed ready stance.
Then it opened it's mouth and spoke in a booming echoing voice that likely most of Tokyo heard.
"Uhm, Hi?" weakly replied Ranma.
Blinking in shock, Ranma was understandably on guard after that remark. "Whaddaya mean by that?"
Giving one last long and very slow flap of it's wings, the shimmering dragon came to a comfortable speaking distance after sitting on the neighbor's house.
Blinking, that was almost exactly what he was thinking just moments before. "Uhm, yeah."
Ranma had to struggle with that one for a long moment, but eventually the garble of big words sorted itself out. "You mean, I'm not supposed to stay here? Like when the Princess returns to the Moon at the end of the story?"
Feeling in fairly high spirits about it, Ranma held back his enthusiasm as recent adventures had taught him a modicum of caution. "Uhm, can you tell me a bit more before we go?"
Despite all intentions of restraint, Ranma was suddenly quite happy. "Really? Really really? Promise?"
Ranma blinked at that, as unless he misunderstood that, it sounded like an awesome idea. At least as long as she acted better than that stupid mirror clone, and he didn't have much doubt that this guy knew what he was doing. "Sounds cool to me, as long as she ain't a pain in the butt or something."
Humming in thought for a second, Ranma looked around intent on figuring out who he should say good-bye to, then trying to figure out if saying good-bye would actually be a good thing with certain over-reactive people. It would probably be better if he upped and disappeared.
Unfortunately, pretty much everyone Ranma knew and then some was visible to Ranma from the roof-top. Apparently the giant glowing dragon was a little louder and more noticeable than he'd thought.
Suddenly feeling on the spot, he waved lamely at the gathered onlookers, noticing that trouble was already brewing among them. Not wanting to get caught up in something lest they make him miss his ride, he gave a short simple greeting. "Uhm, hi. Well, guess this is bye too, so uhm, later guys."
Looking back up at the dragon and ignoring the people closing in, Ranma prepared himself. "Alright, let's get going."
As Shampoo came crashing down on the roof from a lengthy jump, she proved too late as Ranma turned into a glow that was absorbed into the then empty gem. Now glowing brightly, the gem floated up to the waiting dragon, settling into a notch in the armor around his head.
"So, where am I going?"
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