I don’t own Ranma ½ or any of the other Animés in this story.

 

 

               Setting:  Jusenkyo, Qinghai Province, China.

               Jusenkyo has seen better days.  The pools are more or less gone.  They’re magical waters have been mixed together, forever complicating their curses.  The earth around the cursed springs has been decimated.  Ranma stands near the center of the Cursed Springs.  His Chinese shirt has long since been ripped to shreds.  He is bleeding from the cuts that cover his body and looks very tired.  His white angelic wings hang limply at his back.

His opponent is a demon.  It stands nearly ten feet tall.  Its face looks very much like Pantyhose’s.  Its skeleton-like wings extended from its black muscular body like the bones have been ripped out of its body.  Ranma looks upon the face of his opponent and growls in anger.  “Doomsday!”  He screams out.  “I will not allow you to win!”

               The demon grins confidently and chuckles.  “And what will you do?  You have already lost.”

 

               Normally the view of the Earth from space invokes feelings of peace.  Our world seems so still and quiet from outer space.  But not now.  Now a black spiraling cloud is spreading across the Earth from China.

 

               Doomsday continues speaking, “Soon my darkness will completely cover the Earth and every human will return from whence they came,” It points to the ground, some 30 feet below it, “The Earth itself.”  It looks at Ranma, an evil grin on its face.  “I wonder what you will turn into?  A tree perhaps?  Or maybe a flower, maybe grass, or perhaps an animal?”

               <”Damn it!  How do I beat this time?”> Ranma thinks.

               <”I do not know,”> Legend answers.  <”He’s taken all of your attacks and hasn’t been effected by them.”>

               <”Is it hopeless?”>

 

               The wind around the Amazon village slowly picked up over the last few hours.  Everyone came outside as soon as the black cloud appeared in the distance.  “It is over Jusenkyo,” Cologne informs everyone present.

               “He’s really doing it,” One of the men says in astonishment.  “Damn it!”  He cries out as he slams his fist into the ground.

               “Doomsday is let loose his powers,” James says.  “We have failed.  All these years of planning for nothing!  The human race is about to be wiped out!”  He falls to his knees giving in to his fate.

               “No!”  One voice cries out.  They all turn to the voice.  The own of the voice continues.  “Ranma will win.”  She says confidently.

               “Shampoo?”  James asks.

               Shampoo pulls little Serenity closer to her.  “Ranma will win!”  She repeats herself.

               “That’s right!”  Genma chimes in.  “My boy won’t lose to some demon!”

               “You’ve got to be kidding,” James says sadly.  “Even if he is the chosen one, he doesn’t have the tools to win.  He’ll…” He stops speaking as he feels a hand on his shoulder.

               “Just you watch.  My Ranchan will beat that demon,” Ukyo assures him.

               “Ranma can’t die until I’ve beaten him,” Ryoga says.

               “I agree!”  Mousse says.

               Shampoo looks at everyone.  They all nod in unison.  “Have faith in Ranma.  He’s never let anyone down before, and he’s not about to start now.”

               James shakes his head at everyone.  “Your faith in him is amazing.”

 

               <”NO!”> Ranma cries out in his mind.  <”I won’t give up!  I’ll fight on…even if it kills me.  But no matter what I won’t lose anyone!”>  His blue aura flares up.  “Serenity will not join her mother this day!”  He screams out as he begins gathering all his ki.

               <”That’s it Ranma!  Gather all over your ki, all your magic, all your rage, all your confidence, all your depression, draw power from every source you can find!”> Legend yells out excitedly.

               Ranma smiles.  “What are we going to name this attack?”  He asks jokingly.

               Legend laughs.  <”Who cares?  Just use it.”>

               Ranma allows himself to laugh.  <”Legend?”>

               <”Yeah, Ranma?”>

               <”I…I just want you to know that you…you’re my best friend.  I don’t know what I would have done without you.  I…I just…”>

               <”Don’t talk like that Ranma.  You’ll survive, right?”>

               <”No, I don’t think I will.”>  Ranma turns his head back to Doomsday.  “See you on the other side Legend.”

 

               <”So he’s gathering all his strength for one last attack?  I guess asking him to die quietly is just too much to ask,”> Doomsday thinks.  He places his hands together in front of him and begins gathering power for the counter attack.  A basketball sized sphere of black energy slowly grows in his hands.  “Thinking of committing suicide?”  Doomsday asks Ranma.  “That is a kamikaze attack you’re preparing there.”

               “I know.”  Ranma confirms as gray mist-like energy spirals flow into his right fist.  A gray ball forms around his hand as the energy continues to gather.

               “Is that so?”  Doomsday smiles as he senses the power he holds.  “Die!”  He cries out as he lets go of the ki, that is now about as large as a medicine ball.

               Ranma screams out as he lets loose will everything he has.  <”God in heaven, please let this work.”> He begs with tears coming from his eyes.

 

               All eyes in the Amazon village turn to Jusenkyo.  The amount of ki coming from the area suddenly increased to a level that even the untrained could sense it.  “My God!”  Cologne says.  “How could someone have that much power?”

               Little Serenity tugs at Shampoo’s shirt as a reflex.  “You feel it too, huh little one?”  She asks the infant.  Shampoo turns back to Jusenkyo and says the name of the man she loves, “Ranma…”