She had grown up as any werecheetah did, with loving parents and the insatiable happiness of a child cared for. She had grown, she had learned, she had been happy. Happy, until the werewolves brought utter destruction to her species. She hadn't been present during the assault, belonging to the only family who had decided to abandon the clan itself to remain on Earth, while the rest of them traveled to the Retreat with the werewolves.
She herself had wanted to go with her friends, with Cyan and Xerses and their beautiful baby. Honor, however, demanded she stay with her already dying parents. Besides, she was convinced Cyan would send some one back after her parents had died to bring her to the retreat.
Traveling to Japan, she and her parents had simply assumed everything had gone according to plan. After all, there was never any news about a string of murders where the exodus was taking place, so how on earth were they suppose to know any different?
Nodoka had been relatively young then, growing up in Japan with her dying parents. At the age of nineteen her wonderful parents made a horrible, at least that's what she thoroughly believed at the time, choice concerning their daughters future. They engaged her to marry a man, a man by the name of Saotome Genma.
She was, understandably, furious with her parents for daring to dictate her life for her. Who wouldn't be? A week later she had been married to the lout, on their wedding night he had been pulled away, thankfully, before he could even consummate the ritual for some martial arts training.
Thankful for at least this small reprieve, Nodoka decided she needed to just get out. Get out of the house that was now her home; get out of the honorable and dutiful daughter routine she had played a part in since she was born. She, put simply, needed to go wild for a few days to calm her frazzled nerves.
That was where she met him. Dominic De'Marc, a traveling British man staying in Japan for a few days due to certain complications on the home front. It was lust at first sight as far as Nodoka was concerned. So, after three days full of orgasmic bliss, she discovered why she had lusted after him in the first place.
He was a species of were known as a smilodon, or better known as a Saber tooth weretiger. He had told her about his race, not because he loved the girl or any such silly notion, but simply because he some how discovered she herself was a werecheetah.
He never did explain how he knew she was one, only that he did. The reason she had found herself attracted to the man was quite simple. The boon, or curse depending on how you viewed it, of the were-smilodon breed was unconscious control of pheromones. It wasn't over powering to the point of forcing some one into submission to his desires, but it was just enough to garner a lot of unwanted attention.
With normal, every day humans the effect was hardly noticeable. If the smilodon was male, and other males picked up on the pheromones, the most that would occur would be a notion of anger or jealously, unless they were gay of course. That brought a whole different set of problems. On human females the effect was mildly greater than on males, while most women would find the man attractive and.. alluring, they never tended to do much more then try to get to know the man better.
Dominic had explained about one extreme case in his family history, about a female smilodon who had overactive pheromones. She had lived a very interesting life. Females in droves hated her, often times making her life a living hell. While males expressed interest in her by the dozens. In the end, she simply chose one man and escaped to a tropical island, where she spent the rest of her life in the throes of passion and pumping out babies with the man she loved.
She never wanted to return to that life again, and was happy for the exclusion. At least, that's what Dominic said.
The pheromones, however, affected werecreatures differently. It basically took the base effect of a normal human who had been affected by the pheromones, and often times multiplied them. The catch, however, was it only worked on werecats of the opposite sex. So, if a male weresmilodon met a trio of traveling male werecreatures, they wouldn't be affected. If it were a trio of female werecreatures, then the male could find himself being mauled by suddenly horny females.
That was the main reason Smilodons had stayed on Earth during the time of the great Migration to Jade. Most werecats left the Earth, meaning the smilodons could live their lives in at least relative peace, well.. when one considered the absolute hell of hiding from other were-cats as opposed to just having to be careful around normal humans. Anyway, that's besides the point.
After their breif meeting, Dominic had returned to Britain, his time in Japan over.
Nodoka had returned back to her life, back to her home, back to her cold honor and for the most part put Dominic behind her. She didn't discover until after Ranma's birth, when she had tried to at least let the real father know, that Dominic had been killed. Murdered in his sleep when a group of feminists decided to deal with the 'womanizing pervert'. Oh well.
Since her parents had died three months before Ranma's birth, Dominic joining them as well, Nodoka did the only thing she could think of concerning Ranma's heritage. The Japanese would not like a 'nail' like Ranma to stick up in their conformity; such a presence would only invite discord and chaos. Or so she had reasoned at the time.
So she had his heritage locked away, sealed by the power of a local mystic. It shouldn't have resurfaced until the mystic, or Nodoka herself unlocked his powers. They had though, during that titanic struggle with Saffron over the remains of eastern Nerima. Where her son had fought with everything he had to save those he loved, where he died just as he came into his heritage.
Well, that's what everyone else thought. Nodoka had a conversation with Cologne not long after the battle; she was relieved to know her son had been sent to Jade. As far as Nodoka knew, Jade was a place of magic and intrigue, where creatures such as herself and her son would be accepted with not even a blink of the eye. She was also giddy at the prospect of Ranma meeting some attractive were-cats, maybe even Cyan's daughter? Oh! That would be so nice.
Grandbabies!!!
If only she knew..
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