It was perhaps silly, but Nabiki tended to discount magical events such as had occurred with the evil curse doll that had possessed Akane.
Ranma+(Scantily dressed blonde girl)+(Weird story dealing with wishes)=bizarre. Ranma deciding he needed help instead of just putting his foot in his mouth and continuing to shove until he was biting himself in the ass? Couldn't be.
So this was either a scam pulled by the dumb-looking blonde on oh-so-gullible Ranma, some bizarre misunderstanding that had both of them pulling this lame story, or she was having one of those dreams again and had somehow eaten something Akane had made.
"Really, Ranma, how silly," Nabiki grabbed the lamp up and inspected the old battered-looking thing with an appraising eye, "if I were in your shoes, and I had a wish coming to me, it's simple, I'd simply say: 'I wish you didn't transform into a girl when splashed with water.'"
Ranma was suddenly bathed in a moonbeam, sparkled like the bishonen hunk he was, then transformed into his usual buxom bishojo babe form.
"Oh, like, woaw! Wish granted and stuff," a slightly dazed Mihoshi said as she stopped twirling and possed. "Congratulations Mr. Customer, uh, now you don't transform when splashed with water."
"What the hell is this then?" Ranma demanded and gestured to her body.
"Uhm, like, you remember that Law of Conservation of Magik? Well, the least amount of magik required to grant that wish just changed your curse. Now you transform with moonlight and stuff. You, know, typical lycanthropy curse."
"So he's a were-girl?" Nabiki demanded, somewhat sceptical despite having witnessed him change without getting wet.
"That's right," Mihoshi-genie nodded. "Well, I gotta go. Taa-taa for now." Mihoshi and the lamp vanished.
"NABIKI!" Ranma yelled.
"Hey. Look on the bright side," Nabiki exclaimed. "Now you only have to worry about changing three nights a month."
"That's just great," Ranma said flatly, "only... there is ... not ... a full moon ... right now!"
"Uhm, good point," Nabiki observed as she wilted away from Ranma's anger. "Quick, try some hot water."
Hot water did not work, but waiting for the kettle to boil gave Nabiki time to think.
"Look, Ranma, maybe you change under any moonlight. It's late and the moon is out, even if it isn't full."
"That's just great," Ranma grumbled. "Now I have to wait until the moon sets to turn back to a guy?"
"Yeah, well, look on the bright side," Nabiki said. "At least you can predict when you'll change now. You don't have to worry about being splashed in an embarrassing situation. You can go swimming as a guy when the moon is down. Things like that."
Ranma though about it. "Okay, but you better hope I turn back into a guy."
"Or what, Ranma?" Nabiki asked sarcastically. "You'll bite me and turn me into another were-girl?"
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