Ranma opened his mouth and said, “Huh? She’s right there!”
Hearing Ranma say that caused Theo, Gneiss, and Julia to sit up straight at attention. Ranma could SEE her?
Pouting a little, Britanny looked around the room. “Where, daddy? I don’t see momma Julia anywhere.”
Raising an eyebrow, Ranma had to admit he was confused as hell. “Now Brit, don’t go playing games. You know she’s right there!” Ranma said sternly as he pointed.
Looking over at the empty chair, Britanny blinked her eyes cutely. “But daddy, that’s just an empty chair.”
“Eh?” Ranma asked as he blinked his eyes. He looked over at Julia and asked, “Julia, what the hell’s going on here?”
Just staring at Ranma, Julia cautiously spoke out, “R-Ranma?”
“Yeah, Julia?” Ranma asked, surprised by Julia’s sudden shyness. “What’s the problem?”
Theo and the young girls watched as Ranma seemed to stumble backwards a bit, tentatively placing his arms forward as if he had wrapped them around something.
However, Ranma was just surprised. He literally had Julia leap out from her chair and hug him for dear life. “Ranma! Ranma, Ranma, Ranma!” Julia repeated, just overwhelmed that someone from earth could see her.
Patting Julia’s back, Ranma was a little off-balanced. Julia had always struck him as a strong woman. To have her just jump him and start blubbering... It was something he wasn’t prepared for. “Woah, woah! Take it easy, Mrs. Diggers,” Ranma began calmly. “As you can see we’re fine, and you’re all right.”
“They,” Julia chocked out. “They can’t see me!”
Blinking his eyes, Ranma asked, “Can’t see you?”
“My family can’t see me!” Julia sobbed out her response.
The rest of the Diggers and Britanny could only watch, as Ranma seemed to be having a one-sided conversation. Gneiss had explained to Theo and Gina that no one from earth could interact with Julia whatsoever due to the curse. Yet, here Ranma was, apparently doing just that. Could it have been their minds playing a trick on them?
They knew it wasn’t so. Ranma’s shoulder began to become wet, as if someone was crying. The very thought alone broke Theo’s heart, the thought that he couldn’t interact with his wife.
Gneiss stroked his beard. This was perplexing. “Ranma, that is your name, right?” He began slowly. Seeing Ranma nod his head in an affirmative action, Gneiss asked, “You’re actually communicating and interacting with Julia?”
“Yeah!” Ranma snapped, getting a little frustrated. “Just what is wrong with that?”
“But you’re from earth, right?” Gneiss asked. This might have been a possible cure they were looking for.
“Yeah, but not this one,” Ranma said off-handedly. At the look Gneiss gave him, Ranma shrugged his shoulders, though not slackening his grip around Julia any. “What’s the big deal?”
“Ranma,” Theo interjected. “There’s a lot we need to talk about.”
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Scratching his head, Ranma asked, “So let me get this straight,” Ranma started slowly. “Julia is under the effects of some really bad curse, which’re making her invisible to anyone from earth, and the can’t hear or touch her either?”
“Yes, Ranma,” Theo said with a sigh.
“And so you now believe me about being brought here from another dimension,” Ranma started again. Seeing the people nod, he continued, “And because I ain’t from this earth, I am not affected like the others, and can see and interact with Julia?”
The answer Ranma got was Julia slugging him in the side of the head. “OW! WHAT’CHA DO THAT FOR!?”
Sweat-drops were about with the others in the room. “I think that answers your question,” Gneiss said in an embarrassed tone. “Too bad really,” Gneiss sighed. “I was hoping this could have been the stepping stone to a possible ‘cure’. And since you’re not of this Earth Realm, I don’t think we could apply your aural traces to others of this Earth Realm.”
“Well, sorry to burst your bubble,” Ranma said apologetically. Sighing, he said, “But who’s idea was it to make a spell without a cure?”
Gneiss chuckled lightly. “You can thank Balthazar. You see, we were hoping that we could evict the Questing Dragon from the realm permanently, with no chance of him returning.”
“And instead, you get a spell designed to keep Julia from ever returning to her family,” Ranma dead-panned. “God damn, this is why I HATE magic.”
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