Ranma and Genma had already arrived at Jusenkyo.
“This place isn’t so bad,” Ranma remarked while he scanned the training grounds.
“Sirs, you are strange ones. No one comes here, because there are more than one hundred springs here. Each spring one their own tragic story.” The guide declared in broken Japanese.
The two ignored the guide and each jumped onto a pole.
“Hey, sirs, don’t go there, I haven’t finished my story.” the guide said in a panicky voice.
Ranma and Genma had several midair bouts before Ranma landed a hit. This sent Genma into the spring of drowned panda.
In another universe…
In the tower of Ar Tonelico Lyner and Shurelia were conducting an experiment. Their purpose was to test a prototype of the Hymn Crystal Purger, so they would have a spare if the first one was lost or destroyed.
“Ready Lyner?” Shurelia asked from her position.
Looking at the Hymn Crystal doubtfully, Lyner tried to confirm: "are you sure about installing the prototype in you, Shurelia? You know--we're not even certain we have this made right."
“Just do it.”
Lyner started the installation of the Hymn Crystal. Everything seemed to be going well until Shurelia screamed in pain and fainted. Lyner aborted the installation immediately, and rushed to her side. Franic he called her name and shook her, hoping to revive her, then he gathered her into his arms and fled to the Inn. He then left her in a room to rest so he could fetch a doctor. Unnoticed by the anguished Lyner: a small sliver of Shurelia’s essence was lost in the experiment.
“Growf,” growled the panda as it sprang out of the pool and landed on a pole.
“What the hell is that?” Ranma demanded to the guide.
“That, Sir, is The Spring of Drowned Panda, very tragic story of panda that fall in spring and drowned two thousand years ago. Now whoever falls in spring takes the body of panda.”
Ranma’s attention to the guide proved to be his undoing as his father decked him into a spring.
The spring Ranma fell into should have been The Spring of Drowned Girl. However, in the instant before Ranma fell in the spring the missing sliver of Shurelia’s essence contaminated the pool, turning it into The Spring of Drowned Reyvateil.
If things had gone without Lyner’s and Shurelia’s mishap he would have become a short busty redhead faster but weaker, instead he became a Reyvateil Origin.
“Young sir fall into the Spring of Drowned Girl, very tragic tale of young girl who drown one thousand five hundred years ago.”
Ranma looked at his chest and after he steadied his nerves he opened his Gi and sees two small girlish mounds. After he climbed out he looked at his reflection in the spring. Instead of seeing a young man’s face with black hair done in a pigtail he saw a young girl’s face. Shock kept him from screaming, so he has time to objectively estimate the age of the face and body he saw, to be fourteen or fifteen years old. His formally black hair looked silver. As the shocks starts wearing thin, a scream of denial started to go into shock at this point… the spring undergoes some subtle change.
“That’s odd, most customers who fall in that spring have a better body than that, oh well.” The guide remarked then he looked closer. “Another oddity, customer, you look younger, this pool is not supposed to effect age” he waited until Ranma calmed down then he continued his explanation, “hot water will change you back until you hit cold water again.” The guide decided to heat up a kettle for a demonstration. Then he doused the two with the hot water. “See now you both human and male.”
On the way to the Chinese Amazon Village… they got hit by rain.
“Geeze, Pop, want to try sparring like this, so we can get used to these bodies?” Ranma asked as she suddenly staggered under her pack.
‘Fine but do you really think you can win as a girl?’ Genma put up on a sign after he dropped his pack. He then went into his fighting stance and put up another sign with, ‘Ready Boy?’
“Sure thing, Pops,” the silver haired girl said confidently.
Genma dashed forward, and Ranma immediately realized that she couldn’t keep up.
“Wait,” Ranma shouted right before the Panda knocked Ranma into a tree, knocking her cold.
Later after Ranma regained consciousness…
“What’s the matter with you boy?” Genma complained as Ranma regained consciousnesses, “that shouldn’t have knocked you out, so quickly, or for so long.”
“I don’t know I can’t seem to move as fast in this form, or take a hit as well.” Ranma admitted as she tried to lift up her pack, only to find out she could barely lift it. “What the Hell? I have almost no strength!”
“That’s it, boy, you need to work on that forms endurance put that pack on we will jog to start.”
Ranma made it a quarter mile until she collapsed under the weight of both being exhausted and her pack. “I can’t go on”
“Boy, why have you stopped? You only went a quarter mile.”
“I can’t help it. This body has no endurance, " she replied panting, "it took everything I had to get this far.”
Genma looked at the silver haired girl and sighed, resigned: “fine until your endurance and strength allows you to keep up with the pack I’ll carry the packs. Try to keep up," he continued to mumble while walking away, “what else can you expect from a weak girl?”
Now it’s time to…
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