“Well,” Jane spoke in her most seducing voice as she lowered herself onto her husband with a wicked smile, ignoring the last part of his question. While not the most endowed woman that Ranma had ever met the fact that she was currently nude and still had a killer figure was enough to get a rise out of his manhood; which caused her to grin even more devilishly. “I was thinking that-” But whatever the dragon in human form was going to say was quickly cut off as the door on the other end of the room banged open to admit another woman.
“Okay, just what the heck are you doing now?”
“NO WAIT! IT’S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE I SWEAR Ak-oh, it’s, uh, you Six,” Ranma said as he cut the usual routine short upon recognizing the intruder to the guestroom. Unlike Ranma’s other ‘wife’ Six was actually dressed in a set of pajamas that were covered with tiny, cute dark orange dragon designs in a light blue backdrop.
“What’s got you so uptight?” Jane grumbled to her co-wife as she slowly slid under the sheets of the futon the three of them shared. It still appalled the dragon that Ranma wouldn’t let her go out to get them all a real bed… and a few other things that this room needed to take it out of the spartan classification of sleeping arrangements. Then after noticing Six glare at her bare chest, Jane rolled her eyes and quickly materialized a purple nightgown for herself that wasn’t transparent in the right places. “There, happy?”
“I still don’t see how you can delight in torturing him like that,” the other dragon mumbled as she joined Jane in the bed, leaving space for Ranma between them. Then, turning her attention back to the boy backed up against the wall, she put on a smile equal to anything Kasumi had ever done and patted the empty spot on the futon. “Sire, we’re ready for you, and I think Jane’s ready to apologize, right?”
“For what? Wanting to have sex with my husband?” Jane deadpanned. Then, seeing Ranma was still panted against the wall, the dragon just rolled her eyes in defeat. “Come on dearest, once again, your other darling wife has managed to ruin my mood.”
Seeing that Jane had calmed down, Ranma let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding and slowly approached the two smiling dragons and climb in-between them before they both snuggled closer and drew the covers over him. “Uh, is the door-”
“Sealed with a spell,” Jane assured him with a roll of her eyes. As if anything would of happened even if Akane walked into the room. Personally, the dragon didn’t see why Ranma just didn’t let her or Six kill the girl if she was so annoying to him. They were dragons for crying out loud, crushing humans that pissed them off was what a dragon did.
A few seconds later Ranma was sound asleep. With Ranma unconscious and unable to protest, Jane quickly dissolved her clothes and cuddled closer to her new husband like her co wife.
“You know, you never really answered my question earlier,” Six mumbled.
“About what?” Jane asked as he looked down at Ranma’s sleeping face. She did have to admit, he was pretty cute when he was like this… for a human anyway.
“You know damn well what I mean,” Six grumbled. “Why are you always so damn grabby with him? I know you’re not attracted to him, physically anyway, so why are you always crawling all over him and pushing for sex? And don’t give me that crap about liking it either, you hated having to submit to Fauntleroy and that Herb kid.” The last name made Jane shudder with revulsion, and brought up the memories of just how she had ended up with a human for a husband.
It had all started about three weeks ago when their first husband Fauntleroy had learned about the possible hidden location of one of the great enigmas, the one that controlled the metamorphosis circle of spells. After that, he had abandoned his plan to raid some human stronghold in search of a lair guardian in hopes of finding something much greater in power. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what they did, just not in the way they had planned. They found Herb.
Although only possessing the tiniest amount of dragon blood in him, the thing was that the breed of dragon Herb came from was very old and powerful, and long thought wiped out by the other dragon clans because of their rater… psychotic nature and devastating power. Luckily it seemed that the fact he was only the tiniest part dragon had made him substantially weaker than a real Imperial Jade Dragon, and somewhat sane. But in the end, after the four of them ended up battling each other, Fauntleroy and his wives had been defeated thanks to the fact that Herb and their former husband got too close for them to help him, and Fauntleroy himself had actually traded Jane and Six in return for his own life and freedom.
Jane couldn’t begin to describe the amount of betrayal she felt that day. Back when they had come upon the spell trove of Dreadwing, Fauntleroy had been willing to share with them instead of just taking the unimaginable power for his own; and they would have had it too if it hadn’t been for those Diggers girls coming along. Back then he had the chance to just cast them off, and instead chose to make them his equals. But when it really came down to it, Fauntleroy was a dragon through and through. Jane didn’t really know why she was so surprised, that’s what dragons do after all, covet themselves above all others.
So Jane and Six went with Herb. Part of her wanted to think it was just because of dragonic law, or maybe a chance to find the enigma herself so that she could rub it in Fauntleroy’s face before she crushed him under her foot after using it to become a fully-grown platinum dragon. But the truth of it was, after finding out just how little the only person she had ever loved could throw her away so easily, Jane had really stopped caring what happened to her. She simply sunk into a depression.
The next two weeks had been a nightmare. Although being married to Fauntleroy had made her a bit of a masochist, as all female lesser dragon-kin were after years of abuse, it had definitely not prepared her for having to sleep with Herb. Although Fauntleroy had been in human form for years now, his pride as a dragon had pretty much made her and Six safe from experiencing sex as a human. That had not been the case with Herb. In fact, because of his limitations the only way he could even try to breed with their of the dragons, as impossible as it was, was when they were in their current forms. Of course Herb hated hearing that, and telling him only resulted in harsher beatings and longer nights in that bastard’s arms.
It took a little less than a week for Six to crack, and Jane would of followed not long after if the boy she was laying next to hadn’t come along.
Ranma was apparently an old… acquaintance of Herb’s that he had met about half a year ago. Even now Jane wasn’t sure if Ranma didn’t like the guy, or was his friend. Ranma had come back to China looking for a way to cure his curse after winning enough money for a one-way airplane ticket in some martial arts tournament. Apparently he was under the effect of the same kind of magic that Fauntleroy had been seeking; only instead of turning into some supreme monster or dragon like Fauntleroy had intended to use the spells for, he turned into a girl like Herb did.
Of course when Ranma showed up Herb had shown him his latest acquisitions, saying he may not of had as many as Ranma, but Jane and Six were of better quality. After meeting one of Ranma’s harem-in-denial, Jane finally got what that comment meant. It had taken Ranma awhile before he actually found out that that the two other dragons were little more than slaves, and after that realization combined with his own sense of mochoism he tried to get the two dragons out of it by challenging Herb to a fight. The look on Ranma’s face after winning and getting his ‘prizes’ still made Jane giggle to herself on occasion, and she still knew Ranma hadn’t figured out Six’s name was actually a number in another language.
After they were free of Herb, it took about two and a half seconds for Jane and Six to talk Ranma into letting them check out Jusenkyo for his supposed cure. It was there she and her co-wife had found what they were looking for: the enigma of metamorphosis, one of the ten most powerful magical artifacts ever created. With it, both Jane and Six had used the artifact to change their species from lowly brass dragons, the next to lowest level on the dragon henchry, to platinum dragons, the kings and queens of the mountain.
With their own mission accomplished, Six had decided to try using the enigma to remove the transformation magics placed on him, but ended up with nothing. Whatever diluted bit of power that had seeped up from the ground and into that oversized bath seemed to have become altered to such a point where it wouldn’t even respond to its creator.
The enigma was then hidden away again after Jane used it to turn Herb and those musk cronies of his into something small enough to step on while in a human form. Six had gotten the other dragon to agree to that after demonstrating that despite their new species, they still had a ways to go before either of them could carve out a sizeable kingdom for themselves. Dragon powers and magic may have been instinctive, but both of the girls knew it took awhile to get used to them.
Six had gone after him for some foolish sentimental reasoning of her own, promising to pay Ranma back for what happened and her inability to help him with his problem, while Jane had followed because… well… what Ranma did just wasn’t done! If a dragon ended up owing a human anything, said human was then bestowed treasures, power, women, victory over his enemies, or at least some cheap knickknack like a scale or tooth just to commemorate the event. She had actually gone after him for a week, demanding Ranma asking for something other than ‘just being left the hell alone’ and calling it even. By the time Jane had resorted to hinting at sexual favors to see him blush and stammer, she had finally figured out why she was following him around.
The truth of it was, Ranma had the same thing that Jane had seen in her first husband that had made it worth sticking around for, plus some other things that were just plain fun to have in someone she was interested in. The boy never bossed her around without a few exceptions, and he was afraid of her enough not to try anything stupid. Plus he was just plain fun to tease, Fauntleroy would of never put up with half the stuff Ranma seemed to.
So right before she flew him and Six back to Japan, Jane had told him she had decided to marry the boy. There were stories of dragons and humans getting together for a short time, until the human died of old age that is, so it wasn’t like the thing was unheard of. Of course Ranma had protested, but what did platinum dragon care about her husband’s wants?
The thing she didn’t expect was that Six did the exact same thing. She had actually thought it was a wonderful idea. Over the past two weeks of actually walking across China Six had become good friends with the boy, and saw the same qualities that Jane had discovered days before the more forceful dragon did.
“He’s just fun to play with,” Jane told the other dragon in human form as she reached back to curl his pigtail around her finger. “But seriously, can you ever imagine me getting away with half of this stuff if we were still with Fauntleroy?”
“Of course not, you actually respected him enough not to act so childish,” Six grumbled with a frown as she gently pulled Ranma closer to her body. “This boy gave us our freedom and you act as if he is some kind of… pet! If you’re not going to act like a proper dragon then maybe should just take him up on that offer to leave.”
Jane frowned as she watched Six pull Ranma’s unconscious body even further away from her own, and rest the boy’s head on her chest. “So you can just demean yourself by coddling him?” Jane replied. “I choose to stay with the boy until my debt was repaid, same as you, and if I must be stuck with a human, then he isn’t going to be some spineless wimp that won’t even fight back when he’s getting beaten into the ground by some brainless little bitch.” As soon as the words left her mouth Jane could see Six about to growl in anger; of course she managed to stop herself for fear of waking her husband, but it had the desired effect.
“Just because he has to learn to stick up for himself doesn’t mean you have to be the one to teach him,” the other dragon mumbled. “And since when is coming onto him supposed to teach him that anyway? He hates it when you do that!” She still couldn’t believe the way Jane flaunted herself in front of him.
“Just another thing he needs to learn,” Jane shrugged. “And it looked like to me that he couldn’t wait to come inside me.” Although if he ever did, Jane didn’t know if she would try to refuse, or simply allow Ranma to hurry up and get it over with. He wasn’t nearly as big as Herb, but it would probably hurt just as much. But the fact that he was refusing her made the challenge more than worth it.
“You must have been blind not to notice the look of panic on his face!” Six exclaimed.
“Oh please,” Jane rolled her eyes. “That was just because he thought that little… tomboy was going to pop out of somewhere and try to kill him. You know damn well I wouldn’t of let that happen. Besides, I was more focused on something around his middle than his face, and it certainly looked ready to me.”
“Well… okay, you have a point there… I guess,” Six admitted. Ranma’s manhood certainly had looked ready for… intercourse when she had walked in. Six would be the first to admit that physical relations as a human still confused the hell out of her, even though she knew all the mechanics behind it.
Deciding to give it a rest for the night, the girl with the short hair looked over to her co-wife and sighed. “Look, let’s just give it a rest for tonight and go to sleep. Ranma’s going to that school place tomorrow, and I intend to accompany the boy if Akane is going to follow him there.” Which she would, in the two days she had know the little brat Six had barely let seen her let the dragon’s husband out of her sight, and reduced herself to spying more than once. She still didn’t understand why her sire kept the girl as part of his harem if she caused him so much trouble. Heck if he didn’t want to get rid of her, Six was more than willing to do it for him. She owed him that at the least.
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