The big, burly man slammed his fist down on the table. "We have to stop those psychic cult freaks from gaining too much power at all costs. Their abilities are too much of a threat for our own plans... We can't let them do want they want!"
"You're right," the skinny man next to him nodded. "We'll do anything to recruit new members ourselves, sensei!"
"But remember..." The Dragonite raised a finger. "Only dragon-types or potential dragon-types come into question, understood? We want to be a superior organization, so we need superior clansmen!"
He turned to his other followers who were waiting in anticipation. "We will show the world and Kada Brahma the power of the dragon! Long live the Dragon Clan!"
The other half-dragons raised their fists and weapons. "Long live our master Tatsu! Long live the Dragon Clan!"
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Ranma and Akane were just coming from their last lesson for today... swimming. "Man, that teacher sure was persistent..." Ranma grumbled angrily. "Imagine, it took me 30 minutes to convince him that it wouldn't be too healthy for fire-types or rock-types to swim."
"I'm just glad I managed to keep my new powers under control," Akane said. "I certainly don't want to be responsible for a whole class of electrocuted students."
They left school. Luckily for them, Kuno still had to recover from Miss Hinako's drain attack... somehow, it must have turned into a plant-type attack, which his species was weak against. So he didn't get a chance to harass them again on their way back home.
Ranma started walking, then looked back at his fiancee. "You coming, Akane?"
Akane shook her head. "No, Sayuri invited me and Yuka for lunch today. Go on ahead without me and tell Kasumi I'm coming late, okay?"
"Okay, got it! Just be careful when going home."
"Ranma, I can take care of myself you know?"
He grinned. "Oh sure, like Shampoo says: You're a violent girl, huh?"
Akane grimaced and considered pulling out her mallet. "Ranma no baka!"
Ranma grinned and turned around, heading home.
When he was halfway there, he could hear loud shouts coming out of an alley.
"Leave me alone!" a high voice shouted, and then: "Help!"
Now Ranma surely had some bad traits, such as his enormous ego or his inability to keep his mouth shut at the right time... but one good trait of him was the willingness to help others.
It's a martial artist's duty to help the weak... a lesson of his father that he always tried to remember.
And that was the reason why he didn't hesitate... and ran towards the source of the voice.
When he came around the corner, he could see a gang of three guys harassing a younger girl. The men were dressed in black leather jackets and had a strange tatoo on their right arms which he didn't recognize. Strangely, they all were of the same type, even the girl: Dragon-types!
"This is your last chance, girl," one of the three guys, a Bagon, said. "Join the Clan... or we'll kill you!"
"Forget it!" the girl, a half-Dratini, shouted back. "You're nothing but a bunch of criminals... even before you turned into Pokémon!"
"Wrong answer..." the thug growled and bared his fangs.
"Hey you," Ranma shouted. "Is that any way to treat a lady?"
"Where does he come from?" the Bagon shouted. His comrades, two Shelgons, looked at Ranma curiously. "Is that one of us?" the left one asked.
The Bagon shook his head. "Nah, he just looks like it. He's a fire-type, and that means he's just a waste of time... Let's kill him too!"
"I'm sorry, but that won't be too easy," the pig-tailed Charmander smirked. He took on his battle pose. "Bring it on!"
The two Shelgons rushed at him with lowered heads. The thick, bony structure surrounding their body would make a direct impact hard and painful... under normal circumstances.
But they had never fought someone like Ranma before. He stopped one of them in his tracks by kicking him hardly against the wall, then he grabbed the other one's head and flipped him over.
"Let's see how you like that," Ranma grinned. "Moko Takabisha!"
Now a dragon-type was resistant against most of the other Pokémon elements, including fire, water and electricity. But a powerful ki attack affected them as it would a normal human being. So Ranma's attack took them totally by surprise and knocked them back.
"He's too strong," one of them told his leader.
"Okay, retreat for now," the Bagon snarled. He angrily shook his fist. "Whoever you are, make sure we never meet again... Keep in mind that you are now an enemy of the Dragon Clan!"
And then, the three guys ran away.
Ranma walked to the girl who was just getting up from the ground. She looked like she was 14 or 15 years old, and her fin-like ears surely made her look cute.
"Thanks," she said. "I know some karate myself, but they were just too strong."
"You're not from around here, are you?" Ranma asked. She shook her head. "No, I'm from Osaka... I'm here because I'm searching for my cousin. I was told I cold find him here in Nerima."
"What did those guys want from you?" Ranma asked.
She shrugged. "They asked me to join their gang, called the 'Dragon Clan'. My father told me about it... they existed even before everyone began changing... I can just guess that, by a twisted coincidence, their members all turned into dragon-types."
"If they're as bad as you tell me, they really haven't earned such powers, that's for sure."
"Oh, I'm sorry... I haven't introduced myself yet."
"That's okay! I'm Ranma! Ranma Saotome!"
"And I'm Ryuko!" She grinned, showing a pair of cute fangs. "Ryuko Hibiki!"
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