A couple hours of arguing about the engagement later Genma regains consciousness .
“Ow that daughter of yours hits pretty hard Soun,” Genma observed. He then looked around for his son, after a few seconds he fixed his eyes on her. While turning red in anger, he screamed, “Boy why are you a girl again? Change back immediately.”
“Geeze, pops, no need to shout I’m standing right here. As I’ve already told you I feel more comfortable in this form,” Ranma responded. Then with a wry smile she continued, “I wouldn’t recommend splashing me with hot water considering what happened last time.”
Genma grumbled incoherently, while thinking, I need to make him realize that he’s a boy not a girl. I know! I’ll threaten him with registering him as a girl if he doesn’t turn back, and try to stay a boy. The plane created he then acted on it, “Alright boy if you like being a girl so much that you refuse turn back, I will register you as a girl for school. This of course includes you wearing the uniform, and the proper underwear to go with it. Of course I will change my mind if you turn back into a boy immediately and try your best to stay as one.” There that should do it, he thought with a smirk.
Ranma took the ultimatum and thought, I had to make this decision soon anyway. I’m not happy about him making me dress up as a girl, including the underwear, but this form feels more natural to me than my ‘real’ form. I guess I had better tell pops my decision. “Alright pops you win.” Genma smiled in satisfaction. The smile performed a vanishing act as Ranma continued, “I’ll go to school as a girl, and this includes dressing as one. If I have to go I might as well be… comfortable…” Her voice faded with the last word as a thought struck her, ever since Jusenkyo I have been thinking better, and more rationally than ever. For instance not fighting with Akane. I was able to tell that I would stand as much chance against her as say, a house of cards in a wind storm. Before Jusenkyo my pride, and ego, would have pushed me to into fighting anyway. Why is this?
She came out of her thoughts, and back to reality and realized that her father had been talking, “… decided which of your three daughters he will be marring?”
Soun winced, and responded, “I have been arguing with the four of them for hours, but they all refuse to accept the engagement.”
Ranma leans toward Nabiki, and whispered, “I was lost in thought and missed most of what pops said. Could you fill me in?”
Nabiki smirked, and responded softly “One thousand yen, please”
“Why should I pay you?”
“If you won’t pay I won’t tell you.” Ranma sighed and dug out a battered one thousand yen bill, he then passed it to Nabiki who accepted it. She then whispered to Ranma, “Thanks, he was ranting about you being a dishonorable son. He then said he will follow through with the threat and register you as a girl and asked Akane to take you for your new wardrobe tomorrow after school. Genma seemed confident that you would see through your ‘delusion’ about feeling comfortable as a girl after living as one for a bit. Finally he asked whether we had made a decision about who would be your fiancée.”
“Thanks for filling me in.”
Genma turned bright red with anger, and was about to explode, when Soun interrupted him, “Let’s turn in for the night, and discuss this again after school tomorrow. Perhaps by then your son would decide to do the honorable thing, and choose one of my daughters to marry.”
“Fine,” Genma replied tightly. Then he turned toward the group as a thought struck him, and he said, “Say Soun? How about we leave it open for the girls to choose too? That way if my son won’t choose then they can.”
“Sounds good to me.”
Later that night…
Ranma laid awake in his futon thinking: What a day. Tomorrow I start school again; normally I would think it’s a waste of time, but in this body I need to outthink my opponents. Heh, at least until I can get some hot water. Ranma yawned. I guess I should get some sleep.
As Ranma drifted peacefully off to sleep, he started to dream…
Suddenly light flared, and an unfamiliar location greets Ranma’s? eyes. He was seeing what apparently looked like a richly decorated hotel room.
He then hears a vaguely familiar voice as a hand comes over one eye; the oddest thing is, it feels like SHE’s speaking “OW, my head, remind me not to do that again.”
A knock is heard at the door. The eyes looked toward the door and the familiar voice called out, “Who is it?”
At this point Ranma realized he is experiencing all of this through another person’s body.
“Shurelia? It’s me Lyner, are you all right?”
“Come in, and to answer your other question no, I have a splitting headache.”
Lyner came in; he is a man about 20 years old wearing a suit of white armor with a sword sheathed at his side. His first action upon entering was to take Shurelia into a hug, and apologized. “I’m sorry; we should never have tried that experiment.”
“I feel a bit stiff, how long was I unconscious?” Shurelia asked.
“About two months, we were really getting worried about you.”
Shurelia frowned upon hearing this, and responded, “No wonder I’m stiff. I had this oddest dream though. “
“An odd dream?”
“Yes an odd dream. I dreamed that I was the son? daughter? I can’t really tell which is correct. Anyway I was the child of an idiotic fat man. He forced me to try a human warrior in physical combat, against an armed opponent, without even a weapon!”
She is interrupted by Lyner mumbling, “What type of moron sends a Reyvateil into a physical confrontation?”
“I don’t know, But to continue, I thought I was going to die and in my panic I dredged up the first spell I could think of, which was the thunder green magic. Fortunately,” she smiles wryly before continuing, “It was enough to win by coincidence. The final straw about that moron was that he tried to engage me to some girls.” She looks at Lyner with a frown, and finishes “I don’t swing that way.”
Lyner had a curious expression on his face, and decided to ask something which had been bugging him since the beginning of her telling the dream; “Why couldn’t you tell whether you were a boy or a girl?”
“The ‘I’ in the dream had a curse that turned me into a Reyvateil with cold water, and a human male with hot water. The idiot of a father had one that turned him into a panda with cold water and human with hot. I don’t know what the child’s original form was.”
weird, Ranma thought, she is giving him an abbreviated version of my life since Jusenkyo.
Lyner thought on this and responded, “Weird, I’m just glad curses like that don’t exist.” Crack-of-Doom “What was that? Anyway I think from your story the person in your dream was originally male.
Shurelia nodded empathically, and responded, “I agree.”
As Lyner let her out of his hug, his sheathed sword knocked a glass of water off the bedside table, and on to Shurelia. She felt a familiar tingling sensation, and with a feeling of dread got up and looked into a mirror that was on the wall. Her eyes widened, and she let lose a scream before she passed out.
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