An odd fic by Nicky Townsend
Nichan16@AOL.com

Some notes: I've had this story laying around for quite a while. There
are sections when one of the character's explains some thing that happened
before this fic, but that only becuase that charactes is from some books 
that not everyone has read, so I thought it might help eveyone understand
why he is where he is. Also I've made promises to people that i will write 
a sequel...one day. Send C&C to the adress at the top of the page. Flames will
be deleted. In other words...if you don't like it don't tell me.

Discalimer:
The vampires in this are copyrighted to Anne O�Brian Rice. Ranma 1/2 
belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz Communications, Inc. In other 
words... It�s not mine.


			The Vampire Ranma
                            part 2

The next night couldn�t come fast enough for Ranma. And yet somehow he 
knew that he should savor these last moments of daylight  If Lestat was 
truthful, he might not ever see it again. The sunset was beautiful from the 
roof. He watch the sun make it slow decent from it�s lofty peak, tinting the 
sky lilac, and leaving pink and silver rings on the clouds,until it had all
but 
disapeared. As promised, after the sun set, Lestat appeared a few feet behind 
him. The sun had only just dipped below the horizon, and the sky was still 
red, fading into deeper tones of purple �So have you said your goodbyes to 
the light, Ranma?�

Ranma wasn�t surprised that Lestat was standing behind him  A crooked 
smile twisted his mouth.�Yeah, I guess you could say that. I have to give up  
everything, don�t I?�

Lestat sighed � For the most part. Most mortals will think your a monster. 
That girl Akane might not care, she might even want to be with you forever. 
Then again, she may go mad, and scream and scream and scream until her 
voice doesn�t work anymore. That is one reason some of �us� call the 
making of a new vampire �The Dark Trick�. Because you won�t know if 
your suited to immortality until you�ve lived by yourself for a hundred years 
or so. I won�t lie to you. I know from past experience that lying to the new 
ones is a bad idea. In the scope of some of us, my life of over two hundred 
years, is the blink of an eye. The oldest of us is past six thousand. But they
don�t talk much. The act of taking blood will upset you for along time, most 
likely. My favorite of my fledglings couldn�t take human life for almost 
twenty years, but he was horribly depressed and full of guilt by nature. I 
love him all the same though. I have seen many things that I shouldn�t have, 
things that no one who has a material body still should see. Until recently, I
was mute on the floor of my home in New Orleans. Because of something I 
saw.  However you get to watch the course of humanity develop. The oldest 
of us lives only to keep record of her mortal family�s progress threw the 
multiple mellinia. Do you still want it, after all that I�ve just said to
you?�

Ranma was silent for a long while, thinking again on the consequences and 
the benefits. The only unknown now was Akane. He was sure he could 
handle the rest. Without turning �Do you have any advice about Akane?�

�From her dreams last night, I can say that she loves you. My advice? 
Disappear for two to three weeks then come back and talk to her and see 
what she will do. If she wants to come with you, bring her, or I will do it if
you want. She might be stronger if I were to do it. If she wants to live her 
life but wants to see you every once in a while, be content. At least she 
didn�t go crazy and doesn�t think that you�re a monster. At worst she could 
go stark raving mad or become a religious fanatic. But your Akane reminds 
me of someone I met once. Her name was Pandora. She�s two thousand 
years old and she�s the sanest of us I�ve yet to meet.�

Ranma nodded. �Okay. Do it. But where?� Ranma felt a blow hit his head 
with surprising force.  Darkness quickly swallowed him and then 
unconsciousness.

				**********************

Ranma awoke twenty minutes later. He found himself  in the rugged 
mountains of the Bayankala Range that surrounded... Jusenkeyo? How did 
he get here? Then he saw Lestat standing there on the one of the bamboo 
poles that juted out of all the springs. �Don�t fall in!� Ranma screamed

�Oh, like this you mean?� Ranma watched in horror as Lestat PURPOSELY  
fell into a spring. A few seconds later, he jumped back out onto the pole 
again, still in his original form. �See? No problem�

Ranma stared at Lestat, wide eyed. He was still human. In form anyway. 
�Why are you teasing me like this?�

�Who�s teasing?�

Lestat leapt off the pole at Ranma, and pined him to the ground. �I�m not 
teasing you�, and sank his fangs into Ranma�s neck and began to drain him .  
Ranma thrashed for awhile, until he heard Lestat�s voice in his head. 
*Relax* The voice said. *It will be less painful to remember if you did not 
struggle, enjoy it. Can�t you feel the euphoria?* Ranma felt like he was 
floating, even as his limbs got colder and started to go numb, he began to 
see things that he knew weren�t real .*Take comfort in your hallucinations.* 
His body had no feeling what so ever. Feeling? Yes. Something was running 
over his lips into his mouth. He swallowed. It was hot and rich and 
delicious�He licked it off of his lips and began to suck from the source. 
The substance burned his stomach, like he remembered sake doing. The 
burning in his stomach spread to the rest of his body, and slowly the feeling 
began to return, not stopping at what his senses used to be, but much more 
intense, his skin alive all over with the feeling of his silk clothing
rubbing, 
and Lestat�s weight. Lestat��Stop. I have no more blood for you!� The 
source was pulled away. The ecstasy faded. Ranma opened his eyes.

�Look at the world, Ranma. Look with your new eyes.�

As Ranma stared into the darkness, outlines became clearer, more defined 
then he ever though it could be. Shapes, colors, and patterns that he didn�t 
know existed appeared. The wind rippling over the water of the springs 
engrossed him. Then he noticed the texture of Lestat�s suit. Lestat pushed 
him away when he tried to take the coat off for closer inspection. �If you 
like my suit that much, I�ll by you one just like it. But you need to stop
that 
for now. There is far more to your power then just your enhanced sight.�

Lestat quite casually floated a few feet in the air, and did a little
somersault, 
then stayed suspended in a position exactly like he was lying on a couch. 
Ranma watched all of this, wide eyed.

�How do you do that?�   

�Because I want to.  Simply wish that you can, and if I�ve made you strong 
enough, you will.� Lestat willed himself forty feet higher in the air. �Come 
to me, if you can�

Ranma found himself floating next to Lestat. �Hey, this is really cool!�

�I guess you could say that. Now follow me. I have a few people that I�d 
like you to meet.� When Lestat dissapeared above the clouds, Ranma 
panicked. *If he can do it, I can.* With that, Ranma was once again next to 
Lestat, but this time he was thousands of feet above the earth.

�Lestat, where are we going?�

�To Paris, to see my friend David. I must tell you about him first� They 
were moving at a rather alarming pace,(at least to Ranma anyway) but he 
could still make out what Lestat was saying to him even over the rush of the 
wind.�Vampiricly speaking, David is only a few years old. In human years, 
he is past seventy, but his body looks only six or seven years older then 
yours. You see, the body he is in now is not his real body, he aquired it by 
accident, and it realy was all my fault. Some human asked to switch bodies 
with me, and reason had left me, so I agreed. Then he wouldn�t give it back! 
I had to have my old human friend, who was the head of a psychic 
orginization  based in Amsterdam, help me get it back. This is how it went. I 
got my body back, obviously, but David ended up in the young human body 
I was barrowing and the body theif ended up in David�s real body. Then I 
accidentaly killed David�s real body, so he was stuck in  the beautiful young 
body he has now. This was no problem to him of course, being used to this 
sort of thing, after all it was his perfession! Then I decided to be mean and 
make him a vampire, or at least he�ll tell you I was just being mean. Maybe I 
was. What ever the case, it�s too late now!� Lestat went into another one of 
his hysterical laughing fits, which, Ranma decided that he was prone to. It 
was realy strange to see someone rolling around on the floor, pounding on 
it, an cluching their sides, when there was no floor to pound or roll around 
on. Thank God that there were no planes flying by, half of the passengers 
would have gone mad!
     
�So�why are we gong to see him?�

�So he can yell at me for making another one!�


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Paris wasn�t nearly as far as Ranma had originaly thought. It only took them 
an hour to get there. As soon as they touched down in the suburbs, Lestat 
insisted on finding better clothes for him because the ones that he was 
wearing were now stained with blood.

After raiding the shopes of several of his aquentences, (and leaving a more 
the nesecery ammout of money next to the register) Lestat had Ranma 
dressed like any respectable vampire should be. Ranma steadfastly refused 
to wear a suit, so he ended up in a collarless white silk shirt, a pair of
black 
slacks,and loafers. They also located a pair of Okley E-wire sunglasses and 
a pair of very thin black kid-skin gloves. Ranma was shocked when he 
looked into a mirror in the shop. His eyes now looked like saphires. His 
nails shone like little bits of glass. He understood now why Lestat wore 
gloves. Lestat appreared behind him.

�What do you think?�

�I think Akane is going to keel over and die when she sees me�hey whatja 
do that for?!?�
 
Lestat held the tie that kept Ranma�s hair back �I will not let someone with 
such lovely hair tie it back like that. It is an absolute disgrace!� Lestat
pulled 
a comb out of one of his numerous pockets and combed out his hair. Okay, 
it looked better down now, then when he was human. Human? *That�s right! 
Remember! Your not human anymore!*

�Does you friend know that we are coming?�

�Of course not! He thinks that I�m glued to the floor of my cathedral back in 
New Orleans. Didn�t you wonder why my skin was so dark? It�s from trying 
to commit suicide several years ago. But it was fading. David will tell you 
that I was totaly autistic. I didn�t move from my cathedral floor whether it 
was night or day, and I layed under the rose window so that it�s light shined 
on me. It took that daily pain to bring me back to myself��Lestat trailed 
off.

�Kami, man, what happened to you?�

�I met the imbodiment of evil. The pseudo-Chistian Devil. I saw hell. I saw 
heaven. I saw God. I saw everything�

�I don�t know what to say.�

�What could you say? It happened. There was nothing you possibly could 
have done, even if you did know me then. I brought an icon home on 
accident. Jesus Christ, Himself, gave it to me. The Veil of Veronica. It was 
taken from me and put on display. My gift from God was stolen. One of my 
oldest friends, one of the first vampires I met, saw it . On fire with his
faith, 
and then totaly convinced that he was evil, he exposed himself to the sun. 
He was ashes in seconds�That was why I was mute for so long. I stated a 
religious revival! Me of all people! A human girl that I knew was an 
evangelist. She went into churches all over New York, proclaiming �The 
Dark Angel has sent me a sign! Look and see the face of Christ!� She was 
the one who took my gift.� Lestat was silent for a long time. �Well! That�s 
enough out of me! Shall we go now?� Ranma, stunned at Lestat�s abrupt 
change of mood, followed without a word.