After Ranma had locked himself away in the closet, Nodoka and the Tendo sisters sat down in the living room to talk about... well, what they wanted to talk about had red-striped fur, a pigtail and was rubbing her head affectionally against her chosen mother's leg.
The fathers couldn't be involved in this, simply because they had accidentally angered Happosai a few days ago, and he was still chasing them throughout the country.
After a few uncomfortable moments of silence (except for the continued purring of a certain tiger-girl), Nabiki broke the silence by saying what virtually everyone in the room was wondering: "So... if this isn't Ranma, who is it? A Mirror Clone? A byproduct by Jusenkyo water of the drowned twin? Or simply a female twin of Ranma we didn’t know about and who was genetically altered?"
"I would like to know that as well," Nodoka sighed while petting the affectionate tiger-girl's head. "Say... Ranko."
"Mmmyes?" the girl in question asked when looking up.
"Can you tell us where are you from?"
Ranko smiled. "From the zoo." And then, she continued her rubbing and purring.
"I figured as much," Akane muttered. "But that doesn't answer the question why you look just like our Ranma."
"Don't knyyyoww why I look like this. One night, I suddenly woke up and looked like this. But I liked it. Before, I've been all alone, Mommy gone, brothers and sisters gone, Ranko all alone..."
Her ears drooped and the four females in the room couldn't help but feel sorry for the cute cat-girl.
But almost immediately, Ranko perked up. "But I'm much stronger now. Got out of cage and freed my friends. They're all like me now. Then I came here to search for Mommy and big brothers and sisters. And now..." Again, she rubbed herself against Nodoka’s legs. "I found you... Pprrrrrr... Mommy..."
Akane leaned over to Nodoka's ear and whispered: "If she has been a normal, young tiger before, then something must have happened to make her change like this."
"I doubt the Amazons are involved," Nabiki said. "I mean, what advantage would they take of turning a tiger into a double of Ranma's female form?"
Kasumi then realized something. "Oh my... she said she freed her friends and that they changed like her... Does that mean there are other zoo animals turned into human-like beings out there?"
Nodoka returned her attention to the tiger-girl. "Ranko, dear... Can you please tell us more about your friends? Do they have names as well?"
Ranko nodded enthusiastically. "Surrrre. Let's see, there's Akane, Kasumi, Nabiki..."
Kasumi and Nabiki gasped while Nabiki looked like she was going to choke on the tofu she was nibbling on.
"Ucchan, Shampoo, Akari, and I guess you could say Azusa and Kodachi are my friends too... meow!"
"I think I'm getting a headache..." Nabiki murmured.
"I-is the monster gone?" Ranma’s voice came out of the closet.
"Nyyaaah?" Ranko’s head turned around. "Where are you, big brotherr...?"
"YAH!" The closet shut tightly.
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Meanwhile, Shampoo (the real one) was on her way to the Tendo Dojo, to bring Ranma some of her delicious ramen for lunch. Was much better than risking her Airen to be poisoned by violent kitchen-destroyer's food.
When her bike came around the corner, she stopped. Didn't she know that girl in front of her?
"Ribbon-girl?"
The furry girl turned around. "You must have mistaken me with someone else, human peasant," the lioness growled. "I own no ribbons."
Shampoo scratched her head. "You fell into spring of drowned girl-holding-kitty?"
Leodachi tried to understand what the human girl meant by that.
"I do not know what you are prattling about," she finally said. "Now, leave. I have no time to waste for the likes of... aaah... aaaaaaahh... AAAAAAAAHHH..."
For some reason, Shampoo's sense of danger warned her that she was in an unsafe position. But she could not detect any danger... Ribbon-girl was busy sneezing, was she?
"AAAAAH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
"GYAAAAAAH!" Shampoo yelled as the powerful air blast that came forth from the lion-girls muzzle blew her and her bike away. "Is too, too stormy here!"
Leodachi sniffed as she watched the strange girl soar away in the distance. Damn, she had to do something against this cold.
"Does anyone around here have a tissue?" she muttered.
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