As Ranma remembered the pain involved with those ‘techniques’ he began shifting forms while doing his kata. First he began a lemur, next a gorilla, and then a raptor, before switching back to human form. The worst part was whenever Ranma asked his father about his mother, or showed any affection to his father, he would be smacked on the head and called weak and emotional like a girl. His father hogging all the food for himself didn’t win him any respect from Ranma, who would often starve, forced to catch wild game, or steal from food vendors just to fill his empty belly.
This went on for two years, till one day the two stopped and took residence near an old house. Ranma remembers that day so vividly because that was the first time he was able to sleep inside a house instead of camping in the wild. The next day, while Ranma was enjoying a moment of peace from the constant martial arts drills, he saw his father digging a very deep pit inside the home. When asked what his father was doing, the man only replied, “It’s for a technique boy, don’t worry you’ll learn it quick.”
The following day, his father brought a large bag full of some sort of yowling animals and stuffed them all in the pit. Several days later Ranma saw his father had acquired some fish sausages. Licking his lips the eight year old thought of the delicious lunch that could be had with those morsels. Moments later his father had called Ranma to sit before him inside the home.
“My son,” the older man started solemnly, “Today I will train you in the method of the cat-fist -- Well now that’s odd.” Ranma looked up at the odd finish to notice his father adjusting his glasses, then taking them off a bit to rub his eyes, and then putting them back on and staring at something behind Ranma. Normally something like this would make Ranma weary of turning around, as Genma had tried various methods to distract him long enough to get a very painful hit on the boy.
But as the seconds passed and nothing happened, curiosity got the better of Ranma and he turned around to take a look. Floating a few feet off the floor behind him was an oval shaped object that glowed with white blue light. Ranma quickly got up and followed Genma as the older man walked around the object. They both found it was flat and floated absolutely still, not doing anything as they examined it. The object reminded Ranma of an old western mirror he had seen in Nagasaki when the two were training there except it lacked a frame.
(Posted Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:41)
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