[FFML] [multi x-over][fic]Marriage Wishes 5

"Now remember," the mini-Urd said. "We don't want to
interrupt them, that might be bad at this point."
Ryouga was struggling not consider that thought,
clamping his nose closed.

"You actually think we're going to have any control
over this fight?" Jiro asked.

"Does the term speed bump mean anything to you?" Aki
added nervously as they took perches on the roofs
around Ucchans.

"Hey," mini-Urd said. "I looked up your files, you
survived pissing off Lina Inverse, and you think
you'll have troubles here?"

"Lina Inverse isn't a first class greater demon," Aki
said.

"No, but she's been involved in killing two," Urd
said. The elder Hibikis blanched.

"Ruh...really?" Aki asked timidly.

"About that tea..." Jiro added. Aki glared at him.
"Let's just be very careful when we get it."

"Who's Lina Inverse?" Ryouga asked curiously.

"She's not in this reality," mini-Urd said. "So don't
worry about it."

"Okay," Ryouga said nervously.

"And my other me said she was going to get
reinforcements, right?" the mini-urd sounded nervous.

******

"Why, Urd-chan," Kodachi purred into the phone. "Of
course I'll come, what do I care about demons with a
Goddess in my...corner?" She smirked and then frowned
in confusion. "Why do you sound so small?"

******

"Well that answers the question of how far I got, I
suppose," Urd said, somewhat embarrassed after ending
the call.

"Oh, Akane!" a gasp came from upstairs. Speaking of
how far some one was getting. The mini-Urd fought
down the urge to go up and take notes, and instead
went back to the phone. Why couldn't Ukyou have two
phones?

******

Nabiki blinked and looked at the phone for a moment in
confusion. Some had just demanded that she bring "the
WHOLE file" to "two blocks from Ucchans." They also
had asked what she was doing at the Dojo anyway.

The funny thing was, that Nabiki felt a definite urge
and desire to obey. You'd almost think that she were
talking to divinity or something.

"Uhh, I gotta go Kasumi," Nabiki said, as she went up
to her room to grab her files. "I'll be back later."

"All right," Kasumi said brightly. "Have fun!"

******

"What's this about demons?" Ranma asked nervously as
Urd was dialling a long number on the Nekohanten
phone.

"Since Urd-sama seems to be otherwise engaged,"
Cologne said. "I shall explain. Greater demons often
come down to Earth to offer a wish to a mortal, they
seem to choose almost at random, good, evil, weak,
strong, there seems to be little to it."

"Well," Ranma said. "I don't remember making any
wishes."

"Yes, Peorth," Urd said. "I want the WHOLE file down
here, and YOU with it to answer any questions."

"The phrasing was that you are the center of a demonic
wish," Cologne said. "Not that you made one. In any
case, a demonic wish gives the wisher what he asks for
word for word, but ruins their life and often lives of
those around them in the process. Often times, they
encourage the mortals involved into corrupt behavior
that eventually leads them to hell. At rare times a
mortal will actually call a demon to them and sell
their soul for a wish. Which is what I believe
happened in Shampoo's case. My daughter was known to
dabble in such things which is why she eventually
died." Shampoo flinched at that, never having heard
of such a thing before.

"So you're saying it was a demon last night that made
Shampoo do that?" Ranma asked. Urd nodded as she hung
up the phone.

"That's right, lover," Urd said, amused as Ranma
flinched. "There was a whole slew of demons
whispering in his..." she smirked at the statement.
"Ear last night. Curse Akane, curse Ukyou, curse all
the Tendos, and then while the rest were arguing she
got cursed and Aitvaras followed him to your landing
put the pressure point idea in his head. I wasn't
there completely, and it's not like I could compete
with all of them anyway, so I just waited until he
left and told Shampoo exactly what he was doing."

"Aiya," Shampoo said. "And Shampoo try to stop, but."

"It was too late for that," Ranma said. "So who are
all these wishes 'targeted' on anyway, and what do
they got to do?"

"That's what Peorth is going to tell us when she gets
here," Urd said. At which point the phone rang. Urd
blinked and picked it up. "Hello? Who is...got
it...it's worse than you think."

"What was that?" Cologne asked as Urd hung up the
phone.

"That was me," Urd said. "We got demon problems
already."

******

As for the demons. Most of them weren't in any
particular condition to be aware of the problem at
hand.

******

Tisiphone stood in Hell, wondering just exactly how
she had gotten there. She scratched her head and
looked around curiously.

"Congratulations, Tisiphone," a demon passing her
said, coming out of the main office. The woman looked
familiar, but she passed by so quickly that Tisiphone
wasn't given a chance to identify her.

"EHHHHHH??!!" Tisiphone asked, confused, trying to
track the fading voice in the teems of the demonic on
the streets of Hell.

"Demon First Class, Tisiphone!! Report to the main
office!!! NOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!" Tisiphone cringed
and swallowed as she turned to face her punishment.
Whatever it might be.

******

"He's certainly bound for greatness now," Aitvaras
said drunkenly to the rather scared person standing
across from him.

In his drunkness he had sort of reverted back to his
"natural" black cat form. Black cats did not often
drink enough to put twenty men under a table, and even
more rarely spoke in anything considered intelligble
sounds afterwards.

In fact, the scared young man was realizing, black
cats rarely spoke at all. He was a little drunk
himself, but he figured it was probably because most
cats were shy.

"Well, sort of wanted to be hero and great mage like
in the stories you know?" he asked. The cat looked the
man over for a moment. "I'd like to see new worlds
I'd guess."

"Well, Mr. Liquer," the cat smiled, yes smiled. "This
is your lucky day."

"This should cover his tab," a woman said at the bar,
just out of the demon's earshot. "Keep him
entertained."

******

"NOW where is that boy?" Ays grumbled as he returned
to scanning the world for his charge.

As a wind demon he was certainly capable of moving
quickly, unfortunately, he was also pushing a small
storm system ahead of him. So by the time he "found"
Ryouga, the Lost Boy was a Lost Girl and Ays continued
travelling ahead, not recognizing his prey.

Getting fed up, Ays began to search in a little more
detailed manner.

As for where the rain storm came from?

A woman smirked grimmly as she shook the rain from her
coat.

******

As for Megaera and Alecto.

"You got this coming, little sister!" Megaera growled
before unleashing a wave of dark destruction. Alecto
teleported away, letting the wave through and opening
a hole the street behind her former position.

"Your little tricks won't help when I've torn your
guts out!!" Alecto retorted in a raspy, hissing voice.
Appearing behind Megaera in her Fury aspect, claws,
snakes for hair, bleeding eyes, the works.

There really was no need to help further here.

"Amateurs," a woman said bluntly as she watched the
display for a few seconds in disgust.

******

"Great," Ryouga said, trying to wring out her clothes
without taking them off. "I'm a girl again."

"Very healthy one too," the mini-Urd said.

"Yeah, you're going to be a load of fun," another
mini-Urd said as it landed to next to the other. In a
moment the two merged and there was again just one
mini-urd. "In either form."

Ryouga responded in his...errr...her normal manner.
She fainted as her nose started to bleed.

"Have to cure him of that," the mini-Urd said.

"Excuse me!" Aki snapped. "Teasing my son is fine and
dandy, but NOT while we're looking to face two
FIRST-class greater demons!!!"

"We need all the help we can get," Jiro confirmed.

"Don't worry," the mini-Urd said. "Help is on the
way." At that point a certain high pitched laugh woke
up Ryouga just in time to see Kodachi land.

"Oh dear, Urd-chan," Kodachi said, surprised as she
crouched down to look at the mini-Urd. "This is
certainly a trick that you will have to teach me. It
would make stealth so much easier."

"Uhhhh..." the mini-Urd said. Kodachi's face moved to
look over at the Hibikis.

"Ohh, who is this?" Kodachi asked. "If I read the
aura right," she glanced to Urd for a moment as if
checking with a teacher. "Then that is Ryouga!"

"Aki and Jiro Hibiki," mini-Urd said. "Meet another
of your future daughter-in-laws, Kodachi Kuno."
Ryouga was lacking a verbal response.

"She's a little..." Jiro started.

"Strange." Aki finished, which, coming from her was
saying quite a bit.

"I am pleased to meet you father and mother-in-law,"
Kodachi said. "I would like to assure you that I will
do my best to be the perfect wife and husband to all
of my soon-to-be spouses. And I certainly have the
resources to provide for us. Actually, my family has
the resources to provide for well over fifty families
for over a lifetime."

"You mean you're rich," Aki said.

"I own the moon," Kodachi said, not joking at all.

"Welcome to the family!" Jiro and Aki declared
together loudly, welcoming arms almost knocking Ryouga
off the building.

"Up there on the roof!" Ranma's voice called out from
below. In a moment he was standing there with them,
quickly followed by Shampoo, Cologne and Urd. "What's
going on no...Ryouga?"

Ryouga on the other hand worked through his confusion
long enough to identify Shampoo.

"SHAMPOO!!!" Ryouga snapped coming face to face with
the surprised girl...or would that be cursed boy in
girl form now, anyway. "WHERE'S THE NANNICHUAN!?!!"

"Shampoo HAD Nannichuan!" Shampoo said. "Until
stupid...green...haired...girl...spill on her..."

"Spilled on..." Ryouga turned pale. "You're the guy I
ran into last night."

"You mean that what happened is RYOUGA'S fault?" Ranma
asked.

"Realize you are speaking to a future wife," Cologne
reminded Shampoo before she decided to go a rampage
against Ryouga.

"Husband," Aki corrected.

"Whatever," Urd said as she recombined with the
mini-Urd. Kodachi watched impressed. Urd acquired a
small knowing smile and looked toward Ucchans. "My,
my, aren't they having fun. And how did I call Peorth
twice?"

"Ehhh?" Ranma asked confused.

"I really do need to learn that trick," Kodachi
purred.

"Speaking of marriages," Cologne said, pulling a spray
gun and producing a change in Ranma. Ranma glared at
her. "Get on with it."

"Get on with what?" Aki asked suspiciously.

"Oh, this will be entertaining," Urd promised. "Just
some Amazon laws require this to be girl-girl first,
or there are some legal problems that could result in
somebody's death otherwise."

"Ehhh?" Jiro responded.

"Ummm...about this marriage thing," Aki weighed being
related to a goddess, in law anyway, and these strange
laws she was hearing about. "Whatever, as long as he
doesn't disagree. I guess it is something of a male
fantasy."

Ryouga was still frozen in shock at hearing the
nannichuan was spilled when Ranma walked forward
toward her. She didn't notice the wicked smile on
Ranma's face as she considered a little light payback
for the Lost GIRL's accidental involvement in last
night's events.

Ryouga barely heard the whispered "wo ai ni" as Ranma
came with in a hair's breadth from Ryouga's face. The
warning was trying to work it's way through the shock
when Ranma's tender, subtle approach suddenly exploded
into something a little more...active. First she
pulled Ryouga's head down to meet her own, and it
progressed from there.

Ranma was, of course, a technique sponge, though
usually it had to be connected to martial arts somehow
for her to pick it up quickly. Still she did somehow
manage to get enough of Urd's kissing technique down
that, considering the shock she was already in,
Ryouga's brain was restarted and crashed several times
in a few brief seconds.

Everybody sweatdropped as the kiss continued, Ranma's
hands roaming in some...interesting places as Ryouga
clutched back at her, at first reflexively and then
apparently responding. Though the watchers sort of
doubted that Ryouga was truly aware of what she was
doing.

The Hibikis began anxiously looking anywhere else as
their "son" started to buck strongly. It only lasted
a few seconds before there was a muffled cry.
Ryouga's eyes rolled back in her head as she fainted
away from Ranma, a rather surprised and happy
expression on her face.

"That," Cologne said, highly embarrassed. "Is the
first time I've seen the Kiss of Marriage come with
its own consummation." Ranma smirked triumphantly as
she set the swooned Ryouga on the ground and then
washed her hand on one of the fainted girl's many
bandannas.

"Oh my goddess," Aki said, confused.

"Did we just WATCH our son lose her...his virginity?"
Jiro asked.

"Aiya," Shampoo gasped. Kodachi blinked in surprise
and seemed to be drooling.

"Not bad for a beginner," Urd noted. "You certainly
have something to work with here. Probably only
worked that well because she was unbalanced at the
moment."

"Yeah," Ranma said. "Well that's all he OR Shampoo,"
the purple-haired girl twitched. "Are getting from me
for at least a week, so he'd better enjoy it...."
Ranma froze and her eye began to twitch. "I. Did.
Not. Just. Say. That."

"RANMA-DARLING!!" Kodachi waved. "Over here!
Ranma-darling!!" Ranma twitched, maybe he should have
done Kodachi first.

"Hey," Ranma said, suddenly. "Look, there's Nabiki.
Damn, she should get out of here before things get
rough." Ranma went down to talk to the girl and warn
her away.

"And HERE comes Peorth," Urd said. "Finally to get
some answers."

******

"What are doing here, Nabiki?" this red-haired girl
asked her, landing from a jump about three-stories
tall.

"Excuse me?" Peorth asked. "I think you got me mixed
up with someone."

******

"It took you long enough," Urd said appearing in front
of Nabiki. Nabiki looked up and for the first time in
her life felt like kneeling in prayer and begging for
mercy.

"Sorry," Nabiki said nervously. "It took a little
while to gather everything up."

******

"Whatever, Nabiki," Ranma said. "What're are you
doing here?"

"Wait, you're Saotome aren't you?" Peorth asked.

"Yeah," Ranma said irritably. "There's going to be
some bad stuff going down Nabs, you should..."

"I'm not who you think I am," Peorth said. "Urd asked
me to come."

******

"Uhhh," Urd said, retreating from using that small
spark of divinity in her yelling. She sometimes did
it out of habit when talking to other deities.

As the divine force impending her to obediance
vanished, Nabiki found herself shaking her head loose.

"Huh," Urd said. "You're not Peorth."

"Somebody called me here," Nabiki said. "Can I assume
it was you?" She sounded annoyed...and intrigued.

"Ahhh," Nabiki said, snapping. "This explains the two
phone calls."

******

"Wait," Ranma said, looking at the scroll "Peorth" had
shown her. "THIS is the wish contract."

"That's right," Peorth said. "I assume you're going
to show me where Urd is hiding now?" Ranma palely
pointed to the roof he had jumped down from as she
considered what she had just seen on that scroll.

"She's up there," Ranma said woodenly. "Give me a
moment." Peorth was about to counter the offer when
she was quickly picked up and deposited on the roof.

"WHY!!! If you weren't tagged for possible
ascension!!!" Peorth fumed as she straightened herself
out and saw Urd arriving with...herself.

"Ahhh," Nabiki said, then pointed. "Peorth?"

"Nabiki?" Peorth said pointing back at the mortal.
"Well this explains things, somewhat."

"You'd think they'd notice the head-markings though,"
Nabiki added. Then she corrected herself. "Maybe not
Ranma."

"HEY!!" Ranma snapped.

"Whatever," Urd snapped. "Now, could you please
explain to us the FULL data on what is happening?"

"Well, first," Peorth said. "Here is your wish
contract." She handed the over as she started looking
for the file. Urd opened the scroll casually, not
expecting it to be about six feet long.

"Erk," Urd said. "What did I miss?"

"How very...interesting," Kodachi said as she started
reading it next to Urd. Cologne, Shampoo and the
Hibiki's looked like they would be swallowing their
tongues soon.

"WHAT?!!" Nabiki screeched as she came to certain part
of the scroll.

"Ranma-chan...." a slowly awakening Ryouga muttered.

"Ranma," Cologne said in shaky voice. "Let's get this
overwith before the demons come."

"Demons?" Nabiki snapped in confusion and concern,
turning her head right around to see Ranma's face.

"Wo ai ni," Ranma said. "Sorry about this." And
then, of course Nabiki was treated to a teaser of what
was currently frying Ryouga's brain.

"Ranma-sama!" Kodachi whined. "I'm still here."

"Gotta go," Ranma said apologetically.

"Hai, hai," Nabiki said blinking.

Urd was smiling mischievously, if that girl thought
THAT was something...well just wait until it was her
turn. Nabiki blinked and sat down on the roof.

"I'll just sit here," Nabiki said firmly. "And try to
figure out what's going on until I wake up."

"Well, finally," Kodachi sighed. "Ranma-sama I was
beginning to think that you'd..."

"Kodachi, be quiet," Ranma said. "Wo ai ni."
Kodachi's kiss was comparatively simple to Nabiki's
even, much less Ryouga's.

"That's IT?!!!!!" Kodachi gasped.

"Yeah," Ranma said. "We need SOMEBODY in fighting
condition."

******

"And now, finally, oneesan," Alecto hissed through
what remained of her breath. "You will fall before my
might."

"Not if you're wiped from existence first,
imoto-chan," Megaera gasped.

The condition of the terrain matched that of both
demonesses perfectly. It was absolutely, completely
and totally wrecked. It looked as if Tokyo Tower had
been destroyed yet again.

Which was probably because Tokyo Tower had been
destroyed yet again.

A small crowd had begun to appear around the
squabbling sisters, and the collective sweatdrop was
intense indeed.

"I think that should about cover it," one woman said
in the crowd, checking her watch. She gathered breath
and screamed. "Urd's at Ucchans!!!"

Both demons stopped their catfight and stared at each
other before screaming in a girlish manner that most
certainly did not go with their fearsome appearance.

"Amateurs," the woman muttered again as they vanished.
"Total amateurs."

******

"Here they come!" Urd shouted suddenly.

"I can't interfere in this," Peorth said. "Sorry."

"I think we got enough for them here," Urd said.
Peorth nodded and vanished away into the security
camera over a nearby ATM machine. Ryouga snapped
awake and was suddenly facing the same way as the
goddesses.

"Errr," Ranma said as she felt the approach suddenly.
It was something dark, evil...pitiful. Though she was
thinking of it pitiful more like in the manner of
seeing someone suffer that didn't know they were
suffering.

"Make that pathetic," Ryouga said aloud, showing that
his own thoughts mirrored Ranma's.

"How dare you interfere in our business, Norn!"
Megaera said weakly, trying to catch her breath.

"Leave now!" Alecto added, her command having very
little power as she currently looked as if she had
been squeezed flat and then re-inflated. "Before we
dine on your liver for the remainder of eternity."

"Wow," Urd said. "I wasn't expecting you guys to beat
on each other THAT badly. Incidentally, Heracles
freed Prometheus, remember?"

"These are the big scary demons you gathered us all to
fight?" Aki asked, pointing to the sky.

"This is rather," Jiro searched for the right word.
"Anticlimatic."

"Just as well," Cologne said. "We had a climax
earlier."

"I think there've been several happening at Ucchan's,"
Urd said. Ranma looked confused, Ryouga looked
embarrassed (especially at the mention of her own
situation) but not on the verge of fainting for once.

"SILENCE!!!" Megaera demanded. "Now face the combined
fury of the furies!!!" She reared back, face angry,
until she noticed that Alecto wasn't joining in.
"WELL!!! Are you going to combine our powers to crush
these insects?"

"Ummm," Alecto said, for once tired enough that her
"eternal fury" was for the moment spent. "Don't we
need Tisiphone for that?" Megaera face faulted. Out
of the air. About seventy feet straight down.

"That looks like it hurt," Kodachi said, smirking as
she looked over the edge.

"Now," Ranma said, cracking her knuckles. "Are we
still going to go through with this?"

"Errr," Alecto said. "AHHH!!! Ummm...I've got a date
with Baal!! Sorry, sis! Gotta go!!" Then she
vanished in a puff of noxious fumes.

"Why you..." Megaera gasped. "Leave me here to face
them all by myself, you little...." Megaera blinked
strangely. "BAAALL!!?!?!!? That THREE-TIMING
BASTARD!!! I'M his mistress!!!! Just for THAT I'm
telling Tisiphone about about it!!!" Then she was
gone.

"That was really...." Ryouga said, sweatdropping.

"About par for this town," Ranma said wearily.

"Hai," Ryouga said.

"Okay," Urd said. "Ranma, I think you need to go
speak to Ukyou and Akane now. They should be
finishing up."

"Yeah, yeah," Ranma said. She paused. "What are they
doing over there anyway?" Then she jumped down to the
street.

"It is amazing," Cologne said. "He can remain
clueless even after Shampoo, you, Ryouga, Nabiki and
Kodachi."

"That WASN'T a dream," Ryouga asked. "I mean
NIGHTMARE!! Nightmare!!"

"Yeah," Nabiki said at last from her seated position.
"You looked really frightened while you were passed
out with that silly looking grin."

"Excuse us," Aki said a slight blush on her face. "I
think we'll be getting home for the night, it's been
tiring. Make sure to invite us to the weddings."

"Yeah," Jiro added. "Things to do." Then both
teleported away.

"Well Ryouga-chan," Urd said smirking. "If I'm not
mistaken, that's your little brother or sister in the
process of being conceived just now." That short
circuited Ryouga's already many-times stressed brain,
and she fainted again.

"Excuse me," Nabiki said standing up. "I think I
should go warn some people. Can someone give me a
ride?" She was answered by a couple of leering smirks
and frowned irritably. "Not that kind of
ride....well...not yet..."

******

"That was," Ukyou struggled for the words as she got
dressed.

"Yeah, really," Akane said also getting dressed now
that she was again a she. "Do you think we should say
anything to anybody?"

"I don't know," Ukyou said. "This is pretty big. But
it's not like we're going to be able to hide this
curse anytime soon." Akane nodded.

"Well," Akane said. "With any luck, Ranma will come
in, kiss us each saying 'Wo Ai Ni' and start to say
something about being an Amazon now..."

"Just before we double team her you mean," Ukyou said.
"Amazon style."

"And then give her a surprise," Akane added smiling
firmly. "You know, actually, I doubt we'd let him get
past 'sorry bout this.'"

"Oh," Ranma said. "You guys are up here, wow, Ukyou,
you and Akane been working out up here?" Ukyou and
Akane stared at him in surprise for a moment. Ranma
got nervous for some indescribable reason. "Anyway.
I gotta do something..."

At which point Ranma kissed each of them quickly in
turn before either could hit her, saying "Wo ai ni."
Then Ranma pulled back away from them a couple of
feet.

"Sorry 'bout this," Ranma started, whatever else she
had been about to say was cut off as Akane was
suddenly kissing her passionately and apparently Ukyou
was at his back, and her hands were somewhere very
personal.

Ranma's thoughts as they carried her to the bed were
along the lines of. "I'm I ever going to get sex as a
guy?!?!!??"

******

Mara was in Hell...and she didn't remember how she'd
gotten there.

"Demon First Class Mara!!!! OFFICE!!! NOW!!!"

Mara cringed at the sound of the voice, then
straightened her back. She had been caught, but she
was knew that was going to happen.

She walked proudly into the central office of hell,
ignoring the black sent her way. What did she care
about them, she was going to be wiped from existence
in the next moment. What did she care what any of
them thought.

"Well," Hild said angrily. "You managed to not only
scuttle five other demon wishes and insure your
children have a good life."

"Don't forget I tricked you into helping me," Mara
said. "Where is Tisiphone anyway?"

"SILENCE!!!" Hild roared. "Not only have you allowed
this one Goddess to embarrass five other demons, but
you have abandoned your own post as well!!"

"Oh," Mara said, unconcerned. "Is something happening
at the Norn's place?"

"Belldandy and Keiichi are consummating their
relationship!!" Hild snapped angrily. "You MAY still
have time to interrupt it."

"Why bother?" Mara asked. "Skuld will get in the way
as usual."

"She isn't there," Hild growled. "Now, about your
job."

"Just kill me and get it done with," Mara said. That
would be what happened, demons were too dangerous to
leave alive if they turned on hell. Too many became
gods when they were left alive.

"Your death will be among the most..." Hild began.
And then Mara was lunging at her, powering up a
charge. She noted the bodyguard oni moving to
intercept her. "NOO!!! THAT'S WHAT SHE WANTS!!!!"

It was too late as several of the oni's spears
intersected in Mara's body. Then all it required was
for Mara to not allow her body to heal. She smirked
once triumphantly before her body vanished in a flash
of darkness.

Hild growled but watched, satisfied as the darkness of
Mara's soul began to sink to the ground, heavily. She
was satisfied until the darkness peeled off a sphere
of golden light that slowly began to rise out of the
palace.

"NOOO!!!" Hild screamed as she watched the true
escape taking place. She began to up her power to do
the impossible, kill a soul. When a stately Japanese
Goddess appeared to take hold of the soul.

"I'll take that," she said. "We have somewhere to put
her." With that the woman began to quickly fade away.

"COME BACK HERE GODDESSS!!" Hild roared.

******

Urd gasped as she felt like some part of her and been
torn away. She'd heard of that feeling from other
gods. Her other half was dead at the hand of a mortal
or demon.

Mara was dead.

Urd's shoulders slumped.

"Is something the matter, Urd-sama?" Kodachi asked.

Ryouga and Shampoo had escorted Nabiki home. They
were the only two she was willing to go with at the
moment, though she hinted she was interested later.
After she had thought things through thoroughly.

"Kodachi," Urd said sadly. "I need to tell you about
your mother."

"What would you know about that?" Kodachi asked.

"Because I just felt her die," Urd said sadly.

******

Belldandy looked down at her Keiichi as slept soundly
after their...activity. She smiled and brushed at his
bangs. Skuld might be a little unhappy though. Best
not to tell her about it, or Urd, since that would be
essentially the same thing.

"I have a little news," a woman's voice said.
Belldandy looked to see a Japanese Goddess at her
door, holding a small box.

"Izanami-sama," Belldandy said formally, standing up
without disturbing Keiichi. She bowed, a little
embarrassed by the situation the other goddess had
caught her in. "This is...rather...unusual."

"It is," Izanami ascented. She held out the box.
Belldandy looked down and felt was inside. "She took
death over her children's suffering, even refusing to
interfere here." Belldandy blinked and took the box
curiously.

"Who is..." Belldandy looked down and opened the box.
In a moment she was bathed with white light that
quickly faded away into her. "Mara. Oh dear, Urd!?"

"Is fine," Izanami assured her. "Mara was killed by
some oni in Hild's office." She approached Belldandy
and gently laid a hand on the other goddess's stomach.
"Perhaps this lifetime she'll be given a better
life."

"Oh dear," Belldandy gasped, placing her mouth to her
hands.

"Well," Izanami said stepping away. "It was either
you or Urd's menagerie. And for once in her
existence, I think Mara deserves a relatively peaceful
life."

"I don't suppose that will be possible with those six
mortals in particular, not to mention Urd," Belldandy
said with a laugh.

"Oh, you haven't heard?" Izanami said.

******

"There's more than forty names on here!!!" Ranma said.

"Forty-six, including us," Urd said. "And most likely
we'll meet them before we know who they are."

"We already know some of these people," Akane said.

"I know one," Urd said. ~I guess I'm Keiichi's
sister-in-law in more ways than one.~

"Wow," Ukyou said. "That's going to be one hard
sleeping schedule to work out."

"I suppose," Urd said, rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"That when your mother said 'you all,' Ranma, that
she was thinking a little more broadly than I was."

"Well, consider this," Peorth said. "Pretty much
everybody on this list is being considered for some
important things. Some of you are looking at future
divinity, and the rest are all soon to be einherjar or
valkyries."

"And how am I supposed to invite people girl-girl,"
Ranma complained. "If some of these are guys?"

"The nyannichuan is still around," Ryouga noted. "By
the way Ranma..."

"Ryouga," Ranma said. "I am not doing anything else
with you for at least a week, and I explained why.
Besides, I still have to finish bringing Kodachi,
Nabiki and Urd into the family."

"You make it sound like work?" Urd said, mildly
insulted.

"I'm just wondering when I get to be the guy," Ranma
said testily. "I'll probably forget about it
quickly."

"Ahhh," Urd said, smirking. "Well, let's see what we
can do after the 'bringin in.'" She smirked
seductively. Ranma swallowed nervously and eagerly
all at once.

"Hey, Ryouga" Akane said after watching Urd for a
moment. "Ukyou and I can help." She glanced to
Ranma. "You only did with her as a girl right?"

"Yeah," Ranma said. "So?"

"So," Akane said, sharing a look with Ukyou.

"In some ways," Ukyou said. "He's still got a cherry
to be picked."

"Errr...." Ryouga said nervously.

"Just give up now, Ryouga," Ranma said.

******

Epilogue: two years later.

******

"Well, guys," Akane said gesturing around her. "What
do you think?"

They were inside the main hall of what used to be the
Kuno estate. Which was the center of the surrounding
area, collectively known as the Saotome colony for
those that knew to look beyond all the marriages and
knew that it was one mass family. Between Kodachi's
and Tatewaki's resources, Nabiki's financial expertise
and the various talents of the associated people, they
had done very well for themselves.

"Not quite what I was thinking," Sayuri admitted.

"What," Akane asked. "Were you expecting wall to wall
sex?"

"Well," Yuka said. "Yeah."

"Kind of why we were surprised to see you at college,"
Hiroshi added.

"Actually," Akane said. "A lot of us go to college.
It's not like we're all one tracked minds here, and
there's enough people around that someone interested
in a little action can find someone else interested in
the same."

"Oh hi, Akane," a woman said in accented Japanese as
she passed by. She had short black hair and dark
skin. She was carrying a bag of peanuts. "How was
school?"

"Fine, Ukyou and Nabiki still have a final to do
though," Akane said. "What's that, Rally?"

"Ranma said he wanted peanuts," the woman said,
rolling her eyes. Yuka identified the accent as
American this time.

She gestured behind her as she said it. Akane,
Sayuri, Yuka, Hiroshi, and Daisuke looked back to see
a brown-haired woman, about Akane's age, with a long
pony-tail, and Kasumi also bringing in bags of
peanuts.

"Nobody thought to make sure just one of you was
going," Akane said. "Did they?"

"Well," the brown-haired woman started to say,
scratching the back of her head.

"Ummm," Kasumi said, flushed. "Excuse me, Akane, we
should be along. Makoto, Rally, I think we should
bring Ranma her peanuts."

"Right," Rally said. "Better get to him, before the
mood swing starts."

"Uh," Hiroshi said as they watched the three women
walk away. "What was that?"

"That was why Ranma skipped this semester," Akane said
with a smirk. "You know how a fraternal twin happens
right? The mother has two eggs in her body at the
same time and they're both fertilized by different
sperm." The four visitors nodded.

"Yeah," Yuka said. "We all took biology."

"Well," Akane said, still smirking. "Those would be
father's one, two and three of Ranma's fraternal
triplets."

"KASUMI!!!????" Daisuke gasped.

"Strip poker tournament," Akane said. "Ranma
lost...several times."

"Hey wait!" Sayuri said. "I thought there was no more
Nannichuan."

"KASUMI!???!!" Daisuke repeated.

"Well," Akane said. "To make the marriage thing work
legally, we all needed two identities. So Urd worked
something out she saw in another timeline or
something, she talks weird sometimes. So anyway, she
made it possible to spread the curse, sort of like a
virus, just not so that it will get out of control."

"Okay," Sayuri said. "How is that?"

"KASUMI!???"

"I'll tell you later," Akane said, smiling.

"So is Ranma stuck as a girl now or what?" Hiroshi
asked.

"Nope," Akane said. "But if he changes to a guy, the
girl body and baby go into stasis so it just makes
things take longer. He staying right now until the
babies are born."

"KASUMI!!??!"

"Oh," Yuka said. They were walking further into the
building. "So how many children are you expecting?"

"Well," Akane said. "I'm pregnant, but I've been
having a little too much fun with my male side for it
to show yet."

"Who's the father?" Hiroshi asked weakly.

"KASUMI!!!!??!"

"Ranma, of course," Akane said dreamily. "And let's
see. Nabiki is carrying Kiyone's child." She
shivered. "That is going to be one scary kid. Ukyou
is carrying my child." She said that as dreamily as
she mentioned carrying Ranma's child. "And Urd
apparently is having a kid with Kodachi. Ryoko is
having Setsuna's baby. Ummm...Natsume and Ayako
formerly of the Tendo and Mano clans are going to have
a kid...let's see...there's three others, but I can't
remember them off the top of my head. Fortunately
that stasis thing gives us SOME control over when
things happen."

"Uh huh," Hiroshi said. "So is this everybody?"

"Almost," Akane said, smirking secretively again.

"Hey, Akane," a cheerful looking girl in a Megumi Tech
shirt said.

"Megumi and Ranma," Akane said, snapping her fingers.
"Damn, should have remembered my child's own
half-sister." Sayuri and Yuka blinked, surprised, the
girl wasn't showing at all.

"Yep," Megumi said cheerfully. "So this is them?"
The four noticed they were suddenly two other people
around them. Including someone they recognized as
Shampoo's male form.

"Hai," Akane said. "Shampoo, Ayeka, Megumi. These
are my friends." She turned to them. "You know, I'm
really glad you four thought this place was going to
be just sex all the time."

"Huh?" Sayuri said. "Why." At which point Akane
squirted Hiroshi and the still stunned Daisuke, who
both turned to girls.

"Because it means that's what you were expecting to
get," Akane said. "And since Ranma is indisposed to
this at the moment and the Amazons allow stand-ins for
these situations." She smirked and then the last four
people on the list received their Kisses of Marriage.

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

There you go people...and now let's see a list of the
cliches made fun of...

typical cliches made fun of so far

a) Amazons allow multiple marriages

This is wrong, even in the anime (which is done quite
a bit more poorly) Cologne told Lin Lin and Ran Ran
that Ranma was already taken.

b) all the characters are or can become bi-sexual

Quite wrong, maybe one or two of them. Of them all,
only Nabs seems to lean towards non-straight at
all...and that's just glimpses here and there

c) mysteriously appearing nannichuan and nyannichuan

It is quite obvious that it isn't THAT easy to get a
hold of Jusenkyo water...this includes other
convenient sex-change methods

d) Urd as bi-sexual

Wrong, she never shows any interest in girls in the
manga

e) It can be learned who a demon or god's doublet is

Wrong, Belldandy and Welsper are a special case. Most
demons and gods have no idea who their doublet is.

f) The doublet system is only triggered by direct
conflict between demon and god

Wrong, any demon killed results in a god killed

g) Belldandy and Kasumi are practically identical.

Wrong. They are similar. Belldandy is a lot more
outspoken than Kasumi. Belldandy's hair ranges in hair
color from grey, to silver, to brown depending on how
the light hits it. Kasumi is better able to keep her
cool than Belldandy. Kasumi is unlikely to punish
somebody in easily identifiable ways. By the way, if
Skuld isn't around (like in the early Manga) then Urd
and Belldandy fight just as much as Skuld and
Urd...Belldandy grows up when her baby sister is
around...Urd doesn't

h) Demons are stuck by their wishes...

They are under no obligation to give a wish.

i) The craziness of the Ranma universe is due to evil
and sinister forces beyond their control.

Unless you count Takahashi-san....no.

j) "Urd is a slut"

Incorrect...Urd is loose...and might be somewhat
free...but in the comic she leaves someone because he
keeps putting other things above her...so it's
unlikely for her to share

k) Ranma marries everybody

Yes, Ranma, and everybody else, marry
everybody....^_^...well almost...

l) Ranma have sex as a guy? Heaven forbid

m) Ranma the hyper-fertile

n) Gods surviving the death of their bound Demon

IT DOES NOT HAPPEN!!!!

o) Akane as the virgin hunter

p) blase parents

really people

q) big huge build up, with little follow through in
the end

(That's a joke a couple of levels folks...^_^)

r) Nabiki/Peorth similarity...

I don't know how many have described Peorth to me as
"Nabiki, but a Goddess"

s) Ranma, and others, destined for greatness

If you can think of others tell me...

=====
"Caffeinated Kender? What's that, a berserk spell?" -
Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
"God has to have a sense of humor, it's the only explanation for sex." - my father
"I have to write a how-to paper for class, so I'm writing a paper on how to be psuedo-evil." - my brother

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