(AN: I can't help it! I like Gold Digger - And not because there are a bunch of nubile psuedo-nyphomaniacs like certain people seem to think. [Though that is a bonus.. hehe])
Ranma groaned, his recent trip via Akane Air had punted him farther than he had ever gone before. Damn kawiikun tomboi! He didn't even want to know how she managed it, physics never really endeared him.
It was curious. His host had yet to determine that he had crashed through a roof and landed on a female. It's sensors indicated the room had four occupants, two Females of unknown origin as well as two males.
Correction: Occupants of room did not appear to be of the same species of host, all having similarites to Rat subservant.
Contant: Host currently in close contact with female one, collecting dermal cells for study.
Lydia groaned, the ungodly pain of having some guy come smashing through the roof and crushing her body was abit much for her to take. "&%^@ me.. that hurt.."
Ranma blinked as the voice registered, as well as the soft cuishion he was setting on. Thinking for a moment, he decided to risk it and looked down. First he spotted feet, then legs, and last but not least a tail leading up to a rather round rump.
"kay.." he stated simply. He had just crashed down on a girl, lets not forget the girl has a tail and more than likely would be pissed off and more than capable of kicking his ass. After all, he watched DBZ and all the serious ass kickers have, or had tails at one point. He conviently forgot that females in general were the weaker of the race, and opted to simply ignore the dazed female beneath him and look for worthwhile information; such as an escape route.
It took a moment for his eyes to adjust to the dim light, but eventually they did and he took note of the rooms other occupants. A rather 'Shampoo'ish looking half rat, half woman stood blinking at him in shock. Some young looking dude next to her was covering his ears for some reason, also a half man half rat.
Then there was the old rat dude, who looked to be quickly coming out of his stupor. Ranma didn't know how or why, but he felt.. power in the old guy's frame. Not more tham him, no way no how not happenin, but still some one not to mess with idly.
Ranma shrugged. So his pathelogical yet loveable violent Fiancee knocked him to a den of Rat Demons, who no doubt would start getting pissed and trying to kick his ass. Whatever. "At least their not cats." he stated off handed.
It would have snorted at the remark it's host made. While no longer suffering under the catfist, Symbiot felt it was acceptable to leave the distrust for all things feline his host seemed to carry.
Taking the dermal cells while his host came out of his stupor, it began breaking down the DNA code with a vengeance. Curious, it was to find magical energies similiar to his host.
Query: Assimilate? What effect would it have on host and self? How to assimilate information to gain the best and destroy the worst?
It began it's lightning fast calculations, being a ever evolving genetic computer has it perks. Simulation results varied on differnt solutions concerning assimiliation. At least, until it considered the magic presence within its host.
Curious: Host holds many differnt traces of magical influences. Some mind boggling in its complexity, such as the curse labeled 'Chaos'. Other magic signatures, such as 'Host named: Catstounge' which the Symbiot removed, seeming to be more a risk than a boon, unknowing of the effects the magics of the phoniex pill within would have now that the Catstounge pressure point was gone.
Futher testing required before assimilation implimentation.
Gothwrain frowned at the intrusion. Now, when Gothwrain frowns its a signal to all others that shit has, or is about to hit the fan concering what had pissed the High Elder off.
"Moisha! Romeo! Kill him!" Gothwrain shouted as he tapped into the etheral stream, preparing to unleash massive amounts of goodly destruction upon the poor boy/symbiot.
Assimilation? It simply didn't have the power to do such. With out tapping into the power of the curses, it would not be alive. To assimilate would mean to cut itself off from power source, while it had a high probability of successful assimiliation and preserverance until it could reconnect with the power source it simply would not take that chance.
Survival means everything. Until it can find a perfered source of energy it could...
Query: Sensors detect massive energy source nearby. Location: 'Old Rat Dude'. Theory: 'Old Rat Dude' harnessing energy outside of body, scanning process...
It now knew how to access the 'etheral stream'. It could continue it's plans, and make Host, thus self, stronger. It would do it.
Ranma felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up, instantly moving into action as his danger sense went off. Hopping off the girl, Ranma hurriedly grabbed her leg and dragged her out of the immediate danger area.
Not a moment too soon, as a beam of fractured light vaporized the spot he and the Unknown woman had been sitting in.
Ranma was a nice guy, always quick to forgive and forget those that would seek to do him harm. However, when some one, ESPICALLY a innocent is put in the line of fire.. well.. that just pisses him off. He could understand them trying to kill HIM! Hell, everyone else seems to try. But an innocent.. oh man..
Ranma pivoted, raising his leg and kicking the other rat dude in the stomach as he tried to sneak up behind him. He didn't try and lessen the blow either, so Romeo adopted a look of shocked wonder before flying back into the wall, painfully slumping to the ground holding his injured tummy.
Moisha was a female. This, despite looking like a combination of a rat and woman, did not escape Ranma. A brutal punch to the nose dropped her out of the fight, Ranma's supposed inhibitions about hitting women gone in that instant.
Jumping high to dodge the swing from 'Old dude's' blade, the Saotome heir put distance between him and his advesary while growling out, "Stupid old man! Watch were ya blastin and swingin shit! You coulda killed some one!"
"Fool." Gothwrain said simply as he flowed into the boy, his sword crackling with eldritch menage as he channeled power from the Etheral stream directly into his blade.
Dodge, counter with elbow jab, cartwheel, Kachu Tenshi Amguriken went Ranma
Over head swing, grunt painfully, execute low swing, lightning defensive stance went Gothwrain
It was impressive the way the two flowed into each other. One second it looked as if the boy would be cleaved in twain, only to twist in the most arkward angle and counter with a jab, which the talented and exereienced Gothwrain could not defend.
Gothwrains counter came in low, and in a move that could only be designed as stupid the boy did a cartwheel, which some how defied the laws of physics when the blade missed. Gothwrain gawked as his magically enchanced vision picked up the incoming attack, and was hard pressed to defend having to rely on a rather obtuse and unknown defensive stance known as the Lightning Defense, a move developed by the Nezumi to fight the Cheetah's speed.
Despite his quickness, Ranma managed to get a few boulder crushing blows through the elders defence. Gothwrain stagger back under the assualt, thankful his regeneration was already healing the damaged sustained.
"AURA BEAM!" Gothwrain screamed, a aura of blue lightning coalesing around his figure before gathering into a focal point at the tip of his blade. The energy condesened and then fired off into a beam of destruction, slamming into the ill prepared martial artist, flinging his body across the room to crash in Gothwrain desk before slipping to the floor, motionless.
Lydia and Romeo had recovered enough by now to stand up, "Jesus *&#@ing Christ! What the &@*% happened!" Romeo just grunted, the pain in his stomach slowly regenerating away, "Some kid worked us over good.. boss..eer.. High Elder Gothwrain had to deal with him" he amended quickly.
Gothwrain wasn't convinced that the danger was over. Something.. familiar was tingling at the edge of his sense. But what could it be?
It was not impressed. Damaged sustain had been great, but hardly something to worry about. It had waited until his Host had been struck, then quickly shut down his consciousness as it went about it's grizzly work.
The DNA had been tested, examined, stripped to it's barest componets, reconstructed, tested, stripped again over and over until it felt this was the best the it could get out of the DNA until more information could be taken and assimilated.
It accessed the etheral stream, channeling the energy through its cells and it's quatum matrix. The matrix was a single cell organism designed after the Magic Matrix of the Jusenkyo curse. Using information available, It created the 'Quatum Matrix' to act as a self assmiliating and distribution node. It would need all it's ability to take care of any surprises that might pop forth from this attempt, thus the creation of the Matrix was made.
The energy entered the matrix, and if It could smile it would have - Taking off at light speed, or the equivelent of light speed to a symbiotic computer, the information within began dispersing and combing with host cell and metabolism.
Stronger, faster, and taller than any of the 'Rat people' it knew of. Let it be noted one major differnece. During its research it had detected an aversion to the metallic stone known as silver. Such a weakeness could not be allowed to remain, and thus it was removed. It did not know of the possible hell a Lycanthrope ANYTHING could bring if its weakness to silver had been taken away. Something else of note was the power Luna seemed to hold over the transformation powers of the DNA. This was alot harder to weed out, but weed out it did.
There are reasons Iceron built the inherit weakness into all lycanthropes. Only the gods know why that was, however.
It didn't care. It's host had completed the transformation with nary a hitch, its, thus self, survival probability has been raised signifigantly.
Jumping to his feat, ignorant of the fact he had been down for numerous moments, Ranma flowed immediatly into a relaxed agressive stance, "Nice shot rat boy! Lets see you try mine!"
Gothwrain balked as the kid stood up. A focused attacked like his should have left any normal human down for the count! "What the hell are you!"
Ranma summoned his aura, shimmering gold laced with pearlesent blue energy coalesed around his form. He idly noted the energy increase he was able to control. Not that he cared, it would work well with what he had planned. "MOKO"
Gothwrain dove behind Lydia and Romeo, after all it would be a shame for the High Elder of the Nezumi to die here.
"TAKA.."
Lydia blanched, "He's gonna kill every %$&#in one of us! RUN!"
Romeo whimpered.
Ranma grinned, "SUCKERS!" his aura guttering out instantly as Ranma took off running. Something occurred to him, and he shifted to half Rat/human like the other rats. He didn't think anything of it, it just felt natural.. right?
Generally Nezumi were medium in height, not gaining much in musclemass or height when in hybrid form. There prime features had always been quickness, agility, and their stealth aptitude.
Gothwrain, Romeo, Lydia, and Moisha who had just regained consciousness saw a Nezumi the likes of which they had never seen.
As tall as a any of the other were cats, with sleek black fur tinged with red and more muscles than the weretigers. One would be inclined to think he wasn't a wererat at all, but rather some algamation. They would be wrong in this regard.
The tail that popped out of his pants was obviously a Nezumi's, only the flesh looked harder and more rough than they had ever seen it. The most damning peice of evidence being the boy's face. His maw was elongated slightly like a rat, yet no buck teeth, over all features lent credit to the fact it was some type of Rat.
Ranma would have shrugged if he cared in the slightest about all that, instead he opted to make a Ryoga exit and crashed through various walls, escaping into the night.
While Gothwrain and the others were trying to figure out what the hell just happened...
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