"Here we are, boy..." Genma smiled as he spread his arms. "The springs of Jusenkyo... a famous training spot for martial artists!"
Ranma looked around in awe. After they walking all over the wide plains of Hyrule, they had reached this secluded valley, lying in-between Death Mountain and the Zora river. All over the training grounds, many pools of water were spread, long wooden poles protruding from their shallow depths.
"Looks like an awesome place," the 12-year old murmured. Then he frowned and threw his father an angry glance. "Although I hope this idea is better than your plan to teach me the Cucco-Ken..." he grumbled.
"Take care, honored customers," the small, rotund guide told them. "Jusenkyo is sacred place of Zora tribe... Would be too, too bad if you do something foolish..."
"Why? You want to tell us that we aren't supposed to train here?" Genma asked.
"I didn't say that, honored customer," the guide shook his round head. "But Jusenkyo is sacred for a reason... You see, every single one of those springs is cursed..."
He blinked and turned around. The bald customer and his son have vanished? Where could they be?
The sounds of ki-powered jumps and the smacks of fists and feet turned his attention towards the springs, where the two customers were jumping from pole to pole, exchanging blows.
"Oh, be careful, dear customers..." the Jusenkyo guide said in a troubled voice. "If you fall down in springs..."
Ranma and Genma ignored him.
"C'mon, Pops," the pig-tailed boy taunted while balancing on a pole. "Is that the best you got?"
Genma grimaced. He had trained his son very well, that was for sure. To think that he was that good at such a young age...
Well, but he still wasn't good enough to defeat his old man.
"Let me remind you of one important rule, Ranma," Genma smirked and jumped towards his son. Pride goes before a fa... aaaahaaaahaaah... aaaaaaaall!"
SPLASH!
Ranma grinned as he looked down at the spring in which his father had just stumbled. "You were saying?"
Suddenly, something massive burst forth from the tiny spring, something much bigger than his father ever was.
"Oh no!" the Jusenkyo guide gasped. "Honored customer fall into Spring of Drowned Moosh... Terrible tragic story of winged bear that drowned in that spring a hundred years ago..."
Ranma yelped in surprise as the enormous, blue-furred bear with the tiny wings on its back landed on one of the poles, looked at him grimly and then attacked.
Ranma was that baffled that he nearly forgot to fight back. He slipped and... fell down, right into the spring underneath him.
SPLASH!
Ranma felt weird under the water, but at the same time, strangely relaxed, as if the water would mean no harm to him...
But if he stayed for too long under water, he would surely drown, so he surfaced with a gasp.
Ranma blinked as he looked closer at the slick, blue skin of his arm. The winged bear on top of the pole sweat-dropped, while the guide let out another gasp.
"Aiyah! Now young Mr. Customer fell into Spring of Drowned Zora Girl... Terrible tragic story of young Zora girl that drowned in that spring many years ago..."
Wait a minute... Zora GIRL?
Ranma glanced down at his... HER chest and patted the small bulges that had appeared there. Sure, they were small... but they were definitely there. And let's not forget her blue skin and webbed feet, the fins hanging from her forearms and hips, and the small protrusion looking like a tiny fish-tail that was situated where the pigtail had been.
"AAAAAAH!" Ranma yelled. "I'M A CUTE FISH-GIRL!"
The winged bear let out a growf and held up a wooden sign that read: 'And what about me?'
"Ranma?"
Ranma froze. That voice... could it be? It had been a long time since he heard it, but he could recognize it anywhere...
The little Zora-girl standing within the cursed spring turned around. "M-mom?"
Nodoka nee Saotome stood next to the Jusenkyo guide in her blue kimono and looked at her daughter nee son with wide eyes.
'Of all springs, that he fell into that one...' she thought.
And then she rushed at her new daughter and grabbed onto her with a massive glomp.
"GAH! Mom! Whaddya doin'? Let go offa me!"
"Oh, Ranma!" Nodoka gushed. "You're just soooo CUTE!!"
Ranma groaned. This day couldn't get any worse...
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