Well, this idea came to me while I was receiving some C&C for my
ranma-angel fic. Consider this the flip-side.
    By the way, the normal timeline is basically screwed up in this
story. Consider this a very very alterniverse story. Yes, Ranma's a
demon...


A demon's story
Prologue
By: Sining (shihlin@pacific.net.sg)

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine. I'm just borrowing them.


 In the timeless plane where angels and demons lived, there was a
commotion at a large mountain better known as Mount Pheonix.

 "SAFFRON!!" Ranma yelled as he punched another angel aside. "SAFFRON
YOU COWARD! COME OUT AND FACE ME!!" he roared as yet another angel came
up to try and stop him. Grabbing hold of the angel's spear, he snapped
it before shoving the angel into the side of the mountain, leaving him
alive but injured.

 "Who are you? And how dare you intrude on One's land," a voice spoke
from above him. Ranma turned up to see Saffron looking down on him
imperiously, his long white wings fully expanded and held out to the
side of him.

 "Damn you Saffron, you BASTARD!! You killed off several of my friends
and you HAVE the nerve to ask me what I'm doing here!?! They didn't even
do anything to you!!" Ranma yelled at the floating Saffron.

 "So? They were demons. Now be gone before I decide to finish you too,"
Saffron said coolly, his expression not changing a whit as he looked
down at Ranma from where he was, high in the sky.

 "......" Ranma's fists clenched tightly, as his demon wings spread
unfolded themselves. The ground around him started shaking as dark
energy gathered around him, as he started to shake in rage. "They. Were.
My. FRIENDS!! I'm going to avenge them and kill you, you arsehole!"
Ranma yelled as he looked up at Saffron, energy crackling around his
demon-form.

 "Ranma, stop!" Kima yelled as she interposed herself between Ranma and
Saffron, effectively blocking Ranma. "I can't let you do that!"

 "...Get out of the way Kima, or I'll kill you along with that
arsehole!" Ranma said, sending shivers through her spine at his tone of
voice. He sounded like he would do it too and yet she refused to move.

 "No! If you want to get to Lord Saffron,  you'll have to get through me
first!" Kima yelled as she braced herself, bringing her sword to bear on
Ranma.

 "So be it," Ranma said harshly. Kima could have sworn that his eyes
flashed amber-gold before he seemed to blur as he rushed at her. Kima
gasped at his seemingly-new found speed and before she could even raise
an arm for defence, he had rudely shoved her aside as he went after his
true target; Saffron.

 Saffron watched all this with a disinterested look on his face, even as
Ranma neared him. Lazily raising one hand, he turned it so that his palm
was facing Ranma. Seconds later, an enormous flare of energy erupted
from his hand; so large that it managed to bury Ranma completely within
it.

 Saffron smirked insolently as he continued on with the energy-flare.
That should have taken care of that impudent demon. To his surprise
however, Ranma suddenly sprang out of the flare, mere inches away from
him, and savagely upper-cutted him.

 *H..how!?* Saffron thought in numbed shock even as his head snapped
back from the force of the blow. *Even if he hadn't been killed by that
blast, he should have at least been forced back...* Saffron realised
then, as spots of pain bloomed in him, that Ranma was continuing the
attack.

 "ENOUGH!" he yelled with anger, the first time he had shown any other
emotion except reserve. And he summoned up his own energy; energy as old
as the mountain he called home.

 Ranma felt something hit him, slam into him so hard that he was sent
reeling away from Saffron. As he finally managed to glide to a stop, a
crackling bolt of energy crashed into him and slammed him into the
ground. Grimacing he staggered up, clutching his ribs as he did so.
Judging from the pain that shot through him, he guessed he must have at
least cracked a few of them; if they hadn't been broken already.

 Looking up, he saw Saffron floating in the air, a luminous sphere of
fire surrounding him as his form crackled with energy.

 "I AM SAFFRON, LORD OF MOUNT PHEONIX!! YOU SHALL FEEL MY WRATH
DEMONSCUM!!" Saffron roared, consumed with anger as he looked down at
Ranma. Almost immediately bolts of fiery-red energy started detaching
themselves from him and arcing towards Ranma.

 Without a word, Ranma began dodging the hail of energy, spreading his
wings and taking flight as he did so. Impatiently, he waited for a
moment's respite in the flurry of energy-bolts that were headed his way.

 Finally, opportunity knocked. "MOUKO TAKABISHA!" Without a moment's
hesitation, Ranma launched a ki-blast towards the hovering angel.

 Saffron watched with a twisted smirk as the ki-blast hit his shields,
only to disappate into green smoke which in turn disappeared after a
while. "Is that the best you can do?" he said disdainfully as he looked
back down at Ranma.

 Only Ranma wasn't there anymore.

 Suddenly he had a dreadful feeling in the pit of his stomach and he
looked up, even as a shadow fell over him.

 Ranma slammed the heels of both feet into Saffron, hitting him so hard
that his armour finally cracked and that Saffron was sent hurtling
towards the ground. Even as Saffron struggled to regain control of his
flight, Ranma swooped down and grabbed him by the neck before sending
the both of them into; and through, the mountain side.

 The mountain trembled slightly as the fight continued within it, ending
only when Ranma was blasted out of the mountain side into the air.

 Still reeling slightly from the effects of the blast, Ranma managed to
stabilise himself in the air so that he was just hovering there as he
looked at the other figure which had burst out of the mountain after
him.

 Saffron looked mighty pissed off, his hair flying messily around him as
he stared at Ranma with eyes of hatred.

 "Heh, you can't fight very well in close-combat can you?" Ranma
taunted, smirking as he wiped away a trickle of blood from his chin.

 "You dare injure One's person!! I will kill you!" Saffron yelled as
energy started to blaze so brightly around him that it looked like he
was on fire.

 *C...crap, is this his true power??* Ranma thought as he felt the sheer
amout of energy the angel in front of him held. Almost immediately he
began gathering his own energy.

 "DIE RANMA!" Saffron yelled as he released a gigantic ball of energy
and sent it hurtling towards Ranma.

 Even as Ranma tried to erect some sort of shield around him, he knew
that it wouldn't be of much use. There was simply too much energy. His
shields held against the ball of energy for a few moments before they
sizzled and died.

 And he felt pain collide into him like a raging tsunami as the ki-ball
slammed into him.

 ----

 Ranma didn't know how long he had been falling...it seemed like an
eternity. The last thing he remembered was the blast of energy that had
nailed him, then pain... It felt like every part of his body was on
fire. He tried to block the pain from his mind but he couldn't, he
didn't have the strength and the pain was too much. It was like trying
to stop the flow of the ocean.

 Suddenly he felt himself crashing into something; hard. He felt a few
more bones snap from his impact and tasted dirt in his mouth. He tried
to stand up, to move for a few seconds but he just couldn't. It was like
his body wouldn't obey him and finally he gave up and succumbed to the
sweet darkness.

Authors Notes: Ah well, yeah Ranma is a demon. Saffron's an angel,
although not a very angelic one as you can see. Certain Ranma characters
will be demons while others will be humans. If you really want to find
out more, read the next chapter.

Sining
http://members.xoom.com/Sining

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