"Ah," said Genma, nodding. He knew where Ranma was now, and what Ranma was doing.
The Tatajin race had not had an easy life of it. They had struggled to survive, their name reflected that - a will to survive and overcome all obstacles that a hostile existence could throw at them.
Ranma was half-Tatajin and very strong and REALLY fast. He discovered that he wasn't the strongest person on the block when he met another young half-Tatajin. This one's name was Ryoga Hibiki.
Setsuna, watching events play out, noticed there were some differences. Oh, he had his father's fangs and such. He didn't get lost quite so badly though, except when he tried to do his running-leap attack. That was because Ryoga was STRONG. Stronger and tougher than Ranma, though the now six-year-old was able to lift eight tons. Ryoga was able to lift twelve.
Ryoga's mother, Amaraatha, was Tatajin like Nodoka was. The Hibiki Curse of getting lost met the natural magic-resistance of a Tatajin and was reduced. Ryoga grew up in a house where one of the two parents regularly found her way home.
Ryoga was therefore a friend of Ranma, a rival as well, but the two could play full out and not injure each other that much. The landscape, well, that was a different story.
Which was why Genma was nodding and not going after his son. When those two started in, best not to be nearby.
Ranma blinked as he realized he'd gotten airborne again. Dang but that Ryoga could hit. He hadn't run into anyone else who could give him the workout Ryoga could.
Now he had to check and angle it so he didn't land on anything fragile. You know, cars, buildings, stuff that broke way too easy. Oops, he was heading towards some little girl walking along the street?! He'd have to twist like so and -
KA-WHUMP!
At first her thought had been a skydiver who had failed to carry a parachute.
Then she'd noticed that he looked a bit bruised and stunned, but it was the pavement that looked cracked and crunched - not so much the boy.
Setsuna nodded. That was how they'd met. Then two months later, Makoto had lost her parents in a plane crash in the Mid-Pacific and Ranma spent several days trying to get her to smile before she finally relented.
That 'over open water that stretched for miles in all directions' was the reason that Makoto had lost those parents, otherwise ONE of them might have survived.
The girl immediately became a treasured friend of both Ryoga and Ranma because, like them, she was half alien and could relate to them.
Setsuna nodded, having seen the possibility. Of course Makoto would turn out to be:
(Posted Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:30)
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