You would think that avoiding dangerous situations and involuntary hassards would be an easy thing. Just keep your eye on future and predict what your current actions will effect that future. Simple right? Well, that's what I thought. And for 16 years it worked, then everything came crashing down on me faster than Genma after eating a little too much of Akane's special bean surprise.
By the way, my name is Ranma Gerad. Yep, Ranma. I still think it's weird that my German parents gave me a Japanese name. But supposedly I do have some Asian blood, but it doesn't get talked about much within our family. If it turned out to be true, I'd think that would be pretty cool. I'm your typical teenager, sorta. I have dark hair and dark eyes. my hair is pretty long and I've always kept it back into a braided pigtail. I've always done it, kinda like instinct. Ever since I was little I've had a knack for martial arts, so I train often. I really don't know why, I don't aim to make anything out of it, but I guess everyone needs to be able to defend themselves.
It all began on a typical boring summer day. Yeah, boring for me that is. While other teenagers were our with their friends, I was stuck at home. Not much of a life, huh? Anyway, back to the story. I was out for my usual morning walk when all of a sudden this guy attacks me for no reason at all!
"I've finally found you, after all of these lifetimes..." the mysterious boy announced. "Today you will die!" he exclaimed and swiftly attacked Ranma with a kick directed to Ranma's torso.
Flipping backward, Ranma landed absent-mindedly on the tar of the freeway. "What're you thinking?! Who are you?" asked Ranma as he attempted to right the confusion swirling around in his brain.
"Silence! I know that your body may not remember me, but I doubt that your spirit doesn't!" roared the other boy heatedly.
Ranma thought for a moment and then snapped his fingers. "Oh!" Then he returned to silence and then smiled and pointed at him. This went on for another few minutes, and during this time the boy's anger grew larger.
"Enough of this nonsense!" he interupted and began attacking Ranma fiercely with a melee of different attacks: punches, kicks, his head. Eventually Ranma had enough and hopped up on to a tree branch.
Groaning, Ranma said, "Look, I have no idea what I could have possibly done to you to make you this mad."
Smirking, the angry boy nods, "Yes, perhaps you don't know now. But maybe the name Ryouga Hibiki rings a bell!"
Soemthing deep inside Ranma suddenly snapped at that moment. That name did ring a bell, but where had he heard it before? All of this just didn't make sense.
"Would you believe that in a previous life we were natural born rivals?" Ryouga began, still hot with anger, "That I trained my entire life to defeat you? And when that life finally came to an end, I trained many other lifetimes, sometimes not knowing why I'm training, just to meet you again. Today. Today I shall defeat you, Saotome!"
Suddenly a girl with short black hair and sparkling blue eyes appears on Ranma's brain. Wait a sec, who is that girl? She looks really familiar. Ranma shook his head of the thought, and then smirked.
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(Posted Wed, 30 Jul 2003 05:49)
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