Silly as the attacks seemed to be, this needed to be stopped. Those not yet affected rushed forward to attack to jar.
“Intruders!”
Before he had a chance to land a blow, a windstorm sucked Ranma into the jar.
Again the hand on the sundial spun. “The cat goe-…” The jar abruptly stopped speaking and started shuddering violently. Moments later, it shattered as its captive broke free.
“Rrrreow! Fsssssst!” Ranma landed on all fours, ready for a fight. His eyes darted around the room, looking for the one who had dared entrap him.
Lyta and Myna had been hurrying forward to help attack the jar, but now they drew back a bit. Ranma had obviously been affected by the jar’s magic, and something in his new attitude seemed to radiate ‘danger’.
“B-kaw. B- oh, what hit me?” Rii rubbed her forehead. Her head was still spinning and her memories were in a jumble.
“Mooo-Ohh. Oh, my head. That wasn’t very nice.” Sereni was also somewhat disoriented as the enchantment affecting her mind ended, but she remembered what had occurred.
“Are you guys alright?” Mercuria helped Sereni back to her feet and went to check on Rii. Lyta remained where she was to keep an eye on the still strangely-acting Ranma.
“Yeah, I’m ok.” Rii was more embarrassed over being caught like that than anything else.
“I’m fine, but what about Ranma?” asked Sereni.
“He seems to still be under the spell that thing cast.” Lyta answered. She struggled to remain still as Ranma approached her and started sniffing at her, cat-like.
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Neko-Ranma was starting to settle down. Whoever had tried to trap him was nowhere to be seen. The only ones nearby were a group of young females. Their scents weren’t familiar to Neko-Ranma, but something in his subconscious memory told him that they were to be protected.
Putting it in terms he could understand, Neko-Ranma decided that these were potential mates for his pride. He didn’t feel any immediate urge to mate with any of them, but he deemed it only right that a male such as himself have a choice available where the time came for him to mate. And as the Alpha-male, it was his duty to protect his females from enemies, dangers, and rival tom-cats.
Since none of these were in evidence, Neko-Ranma moved forward to familiarize himself with his pack.
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“What’s he doing?” asked a somewhat nervous Sereni as Ranma finished with Myna and started padding over toward her.
“He’s just taking your scent.” Rii had seen this before, during her Ranger training. Although seeing a human doing it was rather bizarre.
“Why isn’t he coming out of it like Rii and Sereni did?” Myna asked Mercuria.
“Uhm. I guess Rii and Sereni’s enchantment was broken because the jar that caused it was shattered. Since Ranma was inside the jar when he broke it, he may have been exposed to enough magic to affect the spell affecting him. It might wear off soon, or we may need to get it dispelled.”
Not knowing anything about the Neko-ken, all the girls just assumed that this was solely a result of the jar’s magic.
“But why- oh, never mind.” Myna was going to ask another question, but saw that it would be futile. Ranma was now familiarizing himself with Mercuria, who was beet red with embarrassment at having a boy sniff over her naked body like that.
When Ranma turned his attention to her, Rii only watched in fascination. He was acting exactly like one of her old mentor's animal friends. Even his unconscious movements seemed more animal-like than human.
And so…
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