Everyone turned to look at the blonde Wererat as she continued to speak, "I don't #@$#$# want to go back to the clan. But, just where will I and my friends go?"
Raphiel frowned, he hated seeing Lydia so depressed, "Well, you can always come and live with me if you want?"
Lydia blinked as she looked at the Werecheetah, "Huh? You mean that?"
Raphiel nodded, "Yeah, you can stay with me until you can get back on your feet."
"Thanks."
Moshia frowned, "Like, what about me, Romes and his girl?"
Penny shrugged as she finished eating what was on her plate, "I don't see why you three can't stay with me."
Akane blinked, "Really?"
Penny nodded, "Yeah. I can help you three find a place of your own and help you get on your own two feet."
"Wow! Like, thank you."
Penny waved it off, "Don't worry about it."
Ace blinked, "Yo, dat's really nice of you girlie."
"Well, you know. Besides, I have another reason as well."
Gina muttered, "I thought so."
"I figured they can help watch Charlotte when I'm not home."
Charlotte had a huge smile on her face, "YAY! More friends!"
Everyone chuckled at the Harpie's antics and went back to eating.
After a while Mousse had a thought come to him, "You know what? I kind of wish that the Phoenix people were as nice as Charlotte there."
Ranma, Ryoga, Akane, and Shampoo all nodded enthusiastically.
Ryan blinked, "Phoenix people?"
Ranma shrugged, "They look a lot like Charlotte, just that her claws are different. The biggest difference is that they have low tolerance for people without wings, or landlings as they call us." Ranma then shook his head, "I bet they have less now."
Ryoga rolled his eyes, "Well, you did kill their God-king you know."
"True, but who threw that ten ton boulder between us?"
"Yeah, but you were the one who hit him in the head with it."
Mousse chuckled, "Yeah, Saffron's powerful, fast, can hit hard, but he can't take a mere ten tons to the face."
The NWC chuckled at that, while the rest just blinked at that, though Mumsey and Julia had to respect people, who weren't raised on Jade, that could withstand forces like that.
Theo hummed, "Yesterday someone mentioned something about Jusenkyo curses, just what are those?"
Cologne spoke up, "I believe I have the most expirence with them, so I'll speak. Jusenkyo curses are a water-based curse. You see, in China, near my village, there is a training ground called Jusenkyo. There are over one hundred pools there and each one has a bamboo pole sticking out of it. Each pool has a tragic story as an animal, creature, spirit or person fell into a pool and drowned. Now everytime someone comes in contact with water from a spring which already had something drown in it, they change into that form whenever they get hit with cold water, and back when hit with warm water. Ranma here turns into a girl when splashed with cold water. Genma turns into a Panda, Shampoo turns into a cat, though that may have been neutralized with her turning into a Werecheetah, I'm not too sure. Mousse turns into a duck and there is a person by the name of Pantyhose Taro who turns into a Yeti riding Bull carrying Crane and Eel. He later went back to Jusenkyo and dunked some water from the Spring of the Drowned Ocotpus to his back, which gave him tenticles and the ability to shoot ink from his fingers."
Cologne hummed, "Oh, yes, I nearly forgot, there is a young woman by the name of Rouge that was dunked into the Spring of the Drowned Ashura, now that is a nasty spring."
Theo nodded, "Can these curses be cured?"
"Normally? No. Jusenkyo decides when a person can get cured. Jusenkyo has a semi-sentinence that allows it to choose who gets cursed and who doesn't. If Jusenkyo doesn't want you near it, then you won't even be able to get to the pools."
Theo nodded, "I see."
Britanny blinked as she listened to that conversation, "How does someone get the name Pantyhose Taro?"
Nodoka hummed, "That seems like something that Happosai would do."
"Is so, old pervert name monster boy after pantyhose. Monster boy dislike name very much, gets very angry when people call him that."
Gar shook his head, "I swear, it seems like whatever magic that didn't go to Jade during the Great Exodus you guys have expirenced.
Nabiki shrugged, "Could be bro."
Thropan hummed, "How many people know about the magic that you've expirenced? And is there anymore on Earth?"
Kasumi blinked, "Well, the neighbors know, but they tend to ignore what goes on around them. There's a bunch of other magic out there in other places."
Konastu scratched his head, "Kasumi-Sama, do you mean those girls in short skirts in Juuban? My they are positively scandulous."
Carla sweat-dropped, "By any chance, are you a guy or a girl?"
"Guy."
"Okay, but you seem to have feminine qualities, why is that?"
"Sugah, he was raised as a femine girl. He's also skilled as a Kunouchi."
Luan and Carla giggled at that oxymoron while Tirga blinked, "A male female Ninja?" He then scratched his head, "Um, that didn't sound right I think."
Everyone had a laugh at that. After calming down a bit, everyone went back to eating for a while until a thought came to Julia, "Say, you all chuckled at the thought of being hit by a ten ton boulder."
Ranma nodded, "Yeah, so? Ryoga tossed that ten ton boulder between me and Saffron from fifty yards away I think."
"I thought it was sixty."
"Shampoo thought forty."
Julia shook her head, "Anyway. I wanted to know, among you fighters, just why and how you trained."
Ranma and Ryoga spoke at the same time, "Everywhere and anywhere on Earth, for over ten years."
Shampoo shrugged, "In village at home."
"I spent ten years by the sea training against the hard crashing waves."
"At home and in the surrounding villages in China."
Akane frowned, "The man that helped bring me into this world trained me for a bit, but after mama died, he stopped training me, so I'm mostly self-taught."
Kodachi hummed, "My mother trained me in the basics of gymnastics while the school I attend allowed me to train in rythmic gymnastics."
"My step-mother and step-sisters trained me in Ninjitsu."
"I'm three hundred years old." Cologne then smirked as everyone turned to look at her, "Hey, she did ask didn't she?"
Julia and Mumsey nodded, the Giant woman spoke up next, "But just why?"
Ranma shrugged, "To be the best of the best."
"I trained because I kept getting lost and people picked on me. Plus it allowed me to survive on my own."
"I trained by the sea to get revenge on Ranma."
"Shampoo train for same reason as Ranma, to be best of best."
"I trained because of my bad eyes and everyone picked on me. Plus I wanted to show the elders that men could fight as well as women, since the Amazon nation is a female-dominated society."
Colonge shook her head, "Well, you are better than most. But don't let that praise go to your head duck boy."
"I trained because my family made me."
"I trained to be the heir to my family's art."
Kodachi shrugged, "I had nothing better to do."
Julia nodded, "I was just curious is all."
Onoli scratched his chin in thought as he looked at Sheila, "You'll be needing maternity leave when you get back. Do you need anything else?"
Sheila frowned in thought, "Well, a bigger place really. I mean, I am having Ranma move in with me, and Nodoka too."
Onoli nodded, "I'll put word in to the Main Guard to let them know."
Romeo patted his stomach as he prepared to go and get more food, "This is really good." Everyone agreed at that.
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