Prior to the original wererat betrayal of Iceron was working on a new kind of super wererat based off of the nastiest breeds of rat around... The kind that would thrive on battlefields by eating the dead and the ones that could live is sewers. The reason for this was so that Iceron could make a SUPER wererat!
Iceron research had gone quite well. He even got as far as to create the "matrix" of the new breed of wererat and was prepared to create a new army. For where the wererats were stealth assassins, the dire wererats would have been terror troops; up and close combat...
However, the wererats rebelled against Iceron before he could put the Dire Wererat Matrix to use. Having his fill of rats, and wanting to kill the existing ones, Iceron locked the potion away.
However, there was a legend. One day, a wererat birthed from the original magics that created all weres would come forward and save them from Iceron’s vengeance.
Then, 10,000 or so years later, Genma got his grubby mitts the potion. And Genma didn't bother to read the label and still gave the potion to his newborn son.
Genma turned his son into mega rat... He freaked, and tried to have him cured. Most the mage he found managed to do was seal his son's claws from spreading lycanthropy.
What else do you expect from Genma-baka, the Eternal Martial Arts Idiot?
He then wrote a seppuku letter and made Ranma sign it before Nodoka found out her little boy could transform into a mouse and try and kill him
So the trip was all about hiding his screw-up. Genma would 'train' Ranma to be 'human', beating Ranma if he went into his hybrid or animal forms. So Ranma basically abandoned his hybrid form, (reluctantly as it was his new natural body) and had no training in anything about his nature...
Until sometime during his teenage years, when Ranma met two girls and one boy who were studying under the same martial artist whom Genma was looking to have Ranma learn from....
Ranma and the two girls grew rather close very quickly. Ranma was a "hunky" affection-starved ratboy, and the girls were two rather "cute" affection-starved ratgirls... So Ranma basically dated them both... They were each other's first loves, (and fucks). Ranma considers them the only girls who ever like him as him, literally... The other people don't even KNOW the "real him".
The male wererat liked Ranma, but was jealous as all hell of him. (Wouldn’t you?)
However, as usual, Genma had taken Ranma away. He felt those girls were softening up his son, and that his son should continue to train to be a great martial artist. (Or so he says, but he really did not want people to know his son wasn’t even human!)
And so the training trip continued as always... The fated trip to Jusenkyo and the village of Joketsuzoku... The harassment, rivals, and fiancees once he actually stoppe din Nerima...
And through it all, Ranma had to keep the secret that he was a powerful wererat...
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One day, Ranma was walking through the outskirts of Nerima, having been put on an errand, Ranma was getting some needed item for a friend of his. And of course, Ranma was happy to do it. Got him out of the center of Nerima for a bit, and broke the monatony of his day...
However, as Ranma was taking a short-cut through a public park, Ranma came across an unexpected sight...
There was a cheetah-like woman fighting three rat-like people. "They gotta be weres..." Ranma thought. Though he was surprised a little. Usually weres like himself tried to lay low. So why were these four using their hybrid forms in such a public place?
Still, Ranma came to a realization quickly. The three wererats! He knew them! Romeo! Lydia! Moisha! His friends he hadn't seen in years!
It was then the werecheetah grabbed Lydia by the collar of her outfit with one hand and drew her other fist back, in preparation to punch Lyd's lights out.
"Oh hell no!" Ranma growled. Even though he knew he wasn't supposed to, Ranma shifted to his second hybrid form. Unlike more weres, he had four forms. His first hybrid form was like any other wererat, only black-furred. The other was like a wererat in the Lunar Rave. Ranma was still black furred, but VERY rat-like, and standing at seven feet, he was as tall as the werecat.
Britanny was about to punch the little foul-mouthed Rat's lights out when she felt a large hand grasp around her palm. She looked back and frowned, although she had to supress a shiver. That was one big mother-f*cking rat! "Aw great! Another one of these evil rats! Stop trying to kill me already!!!" Britanny yelled.
Ranma was going to crush the werecheetah's fist, when he realized she called him evil. And kill? What the heck was going on!? "Evil? Kill? Now hold on!" Ranma stated firmly "We are not evil! And these three would never kill! Right guys?"
Moisha, Lydia, and Romeo look nervous. However, that was stopped as Lydia realized who Ranma was. "HOLY @#$%! Ranma!?"
Ranma smiled pleasently. "Pleased to meet you again Lyds."
It was then Ranma was surprised as Moisha lunged at him and hugged him. "Ranma! Like, it's so good to see you!"
It was then that Britanny dropped Lydia. And in turn, Ranma let Britanny's fist go.
Ranma looked around at everyone gathered, and shifted to his 'weaker' hybrid form, which was the same height as his human form, although a little slimmer. "Okay, since everyone has calmed down a bit, can someone tell me what the hell is going on?"
"She's going to kill us all!" Lydia, Moisha, and Romeo all screamed out at the same time!
"HEY!" Britanny shouted back. "I AM NOT!"
Ranma scratched the back of his head. "Ooookay... Can someone really explain what the hell's going on?"
Wasting no time, the Wererats went into explanation of the Prophecy of their clan's seer, that a lone werecheetah would be the downfall of the clan, and there would be mountains of wererat corpses and rivers of blood...
Ranma was rather unimpressed.
"Are you serious?" Ranma asked. Seeing the wererats shake their heads, Ranma frowned more. "That is the BIGGEST load of SOB I've ever heard! No single werecat can kill an entire clan!"
"But the seer..." Romeo tried.
"So, what about him?" Ranma asked. "Look, so some dumb seer says a werecat is supposed to kill all wererats, right? Is there any proof this can happen or this werecheetah is going to be the one?"
"Britanny! My name's Britanny!" Britanny said.
"Okay." Ranma said. "Any proof Britanny's gonna be the one?"
"Well..." Romeo began. "The seer said it wasn't going to be just any werecat! It was gonna be a werecheetah!"
"And she's the last one!" Lydia said.
Moisha whimpered. "Like, I don't wanna die!"
Ranma looked at his three friends seriously. "Look, you guys... Did she even know wererats existed before you guys started stalking her?"
Lydia blinked her eyes. "I have no @#$%in' idea..."
Ranma frowned a bit more. "Something doesn't smell right about this... This prophecy doesn't make sense to me..."
Britanny, who had been overhearing all this, and mostly stayed quiet, finally broke into the conversation fully. "Yeah! I mean, you guys think I'm supposed to eat you!? I'd never do that! And I only learned of you little guys once Brendan revealed wererats helped him kill my clan!"
Ranma nodded his head at hearing that. "See? She has no interest in killing rats... If this prophecy says she's supposed too kill us all..." Ranma left it hanging and frowned. "I smell a rat, and I don't mean that kindly!"
Romeo's jaw was gaping. "B, but Gothwrain said..."
"Bingo!" Ranma stated simply. "Gothwrain sounds like the type who'd captialize on such a thing..."
Britanny blinked her eyes... She had heard that name before. "Gothwrain..." Britanny mumbled. Her eyes then widened as it came to her. "Gothwrain... He was the one that orchestrated the genocide of my people!"
Ranma nodded his head. "Yep... This smells like a set-up."
"Set-up?" Lydia asked.
"Yeah." Ranma said. "Hey Lyds, didn Gothy get a lot of praise for engineering the genocide since he was 'saving' the clan?"
Lydia blinked her eyes once, then twice as she thought about it. "Well... Yeah. I guess. I wouldn't really know... I wasn't born then."
Ranma frowned more and his brows furrowed. "Hmmm... This all sounds too convient..."
Everyone considered what Ranma was saying and forwned. This was a very serious matter. For once the wererats were considering what was the truth... And Britanny was beginning to realize the wererats were being played for saps.
Still, before more could happen, a few trees in the park were bowled over as Gina and Brianna came up in a Ginamobile!
"Don't worry Brit! Backup has arived!" Gina exclaimed.
Brianna released a bunch of Peebos from the trunk. "Go get those rat, guys!!"
"PEEBO, HO!" The litle Peeebos cheered.
Britanny waved her arms. "GUYS! HOLD IT! The rats aren't the bad-guys!"
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