Shampoo was glad her great grandmother had prepared her for this in some ways, which allowed her to make up complex plans much more quickly then she should have. Given the magic which had appeared in Nerima and the experiences her tribe had with similar tricks, her great grandmother had analyzed and developed plans for what happens when the right thing appeared in their hands. What happens when they had a love spell, when they had a mind altering trick, when they access to time travel which could change the past. When the Nekohaten hit a slowdown during the day or at night, the cunning old woman would plot out guidelines of what they could do when fate gave them a hand.
This didn't stop Shampoo from whating to move to the fastest method of getting Ranma's attention, using the power of the Mind Stone to change Ranma's mind and the power of the Soul Stone to make the two of them soulmates. She recalled the images as she decided to make her mark with the Mind and Soul Gems. Lines of relationships were made solid before her, but this time she was going to change things a bit.
Kodachi and Ukyo were not a major threat at the moment, given Ranma's feelings for them at this point. It would be easy to remove the reds in those lines which would cause one to turn grey and the other green, annoying but no threats on either parts. The threat was Akane.
Akane's fine chain of purple diamonds had to change. Shampoo moved her hand over the image and drained the strength of the chain into first the strength of steel and then hemp. Moving her other hand over it, the red drained from the purple as it turned blue along the entire line of the chain. A final wave of both hands and the chain was now a rope, stong and new but still rope. Akane now had a blue rope of hemp, which took her out as she was now seen as a sister to Ranma and not a love interest.
Shampoo then turned to her own rope. She drained the grey of apathy from the rope, using the red from Akane's former chain to dye the rope. The rope begain to unfray as it took on the look of a new rope, red on Shampoo's side and red with orange sploches on Ranma's.
Shampoo took a moment to look at her work so far, 'Might be a good idea if Ranma and I were friend as well as husband and wife. It would make the marriage last longer.'
The rope slowly turned from pure crimson to a brillant orange. She then changed the strength of the rope so it was made of orange diamonds, before the rope turned into a chain.
The rope changes were not being enacted in real time, since Shampoo wanted to change all of the 'loose ends' before leting the change happen. Which she made real by dismissing the images which she had created on the love life of one Ranma Saotome.
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