New Tomboy

Part Four

By Philip Weigel

The Disclaimer is in the first two parts.

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Before anybody could move the backyard was suddenly filled with four other people, a male Werejaguar, an older man, and two women apparently in their mid-twenties.

"Sorry it took so long," Gina said. "We had to deal with another situation first." Then everybody noticed the stand off, going on. Everybody turned to look at the newcomers and latched onto Gar. A sudden thought entered into the heads of most of the fiancée brigade that stopped them cold.

That thought being... "Maybe Ranma slept with him?"

Kodachi of course didn't know about Ranma's female side, so she wasn't slowed down.

"Stand down so that I might properly punish this low-born harlot!" Kodachi demanded. Reminded of their original intent the girls returned to readying weapons...

"This is a few more people than my normal methods can handle, Theo," Julia said, simply. The mage nodded and focused his energies resulting in a bright white flash that covered the soon to be combatants as he shouted.

"MEGIDO FLARE!!"

The white glare left everyone in a rather calm state, not really interested in fighting at all. There was of course some anger, but everyone was at least ready to talk now.

"Well, this should hold them for a few minutes at least." Theo said. Looking around, Theo took sight of the effects of the Megido Flare.

Theo could see the major 'threat', the trio of female Werecheetahs, (quite a surprise to all of them there) seemed 'placated'. They were sitting down as if drained of energy. Though the Werecheetah in the leotard did keep laughing.

Noticing a Wererat in the house, Theo could see that she was down on the floor and, sleeping? "I guess the Megido Flare calmed her down so much it worked as a sleeping spell..."

Finally looking over at Sheila, Raphiel, and the new male Jagwere, Theo could see that they weren't as tense as before. "Are you three all right?"

"We're fine. Thanks Mr. Diggers!" Raphiel said.

Moving up to his sister, Gar stood before her. He looked back at Ranma, then Sheila, then Ranma, then at Sheila again. "Is he?"

"Yes Gar." Sheila said. "This is Ranma."

Scratching the back of his head for a few moments, Gar finally said, "Well, I guess he's not too bad..."

Narrowing his eyes, Ranma asked, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Ignoring Ranma, Gar turned back to look around. He couldn't believe that there were so many Werecheetahs. "And all of them psychos. None of them could match Britanny's beauty or grace..." He thought forlornly. Though he had to admit, the one with the spatula and the one with bonbori were kind of cute.

Suddenly, Nabiki jumped off the roof and looked around. "So, it's safe now, right?"

"Yes Nabiki... They're all calmed now..." Ranma said.

Nabiki turned and looked at Gar. She smirked. "Well hello handsome. And who are you?"

Looking Nabiki up and down, Gar then asked, "I take it you're the other one that slept with my sister?"

Blinking Nabiki asked. "You're Sheila's brother?"

"Yes, I am Gar."

Before anything else could be said, two forms came downstairs from the top floor, two female Wererats wearing bathrobes.

"Okay, this has morning has been..." She stopped and looked at all the Werecheetahs gathered. "THERE'S %$#@ING MORE!? %#&@!!!"

"Hey, like maybe we should get Romeo out of that little, you know, pond-thingy." Moshia said, as she pointed to Romeo who was floating in the koi pond. She blinked as she saw Julia Brigand-Diggers lift him out. "Oh, like, never mind."

Looking around, Kasumi decided that she wasn't being the proper hostess. She walked up to the three Diggers and asked, "Would you all like some breakfast?"

"No thank you. Though I wouldn't mind a cup of tea." Theo said.

"Nothing for me, thank you." Julia said, as she shook Romeo like a towel to dry him off.

"Thanks for the offer but I'm not hungry right now... I've got a few things on my mind right now..." Gina said.

"Oh? Is there anything I could help you with?" Kasumi asked.

Gina smirked slightly, yet sadly. "Not unless you know how to deal with coming to terms with being pregnant."

"Oh dear." Kasumi said.

Blinking in shock, Sheila asked, "YOU'RE PREGNANT!? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!?"

Sighing, Gina answered, "Well dad checked us all. It seems that whatever that thing was that went off, it was not only a very powerful aphrodisiac, but a fertility drug as well..."

Raphiel blinked then asked, "Who's the father?"

"Either Ryan or Thropan, I'm not sure." Gina said as a matter of fact. Sheila continued to stare at her. "What?"

"YOU SLEPT WITH THROPAN!?" Sheila asked in utter shock.

"I couldn't help it. None of us could as we were all under the effects of whatever that stuff was." Gina said.

With a thought, Raphiel then added, "Well, if it is Thropan, look at it this way. He also likes to make inventions too. Maybe he could help you out with that too."

Blinking, Gina asked, "Thropan's an inventor?"

"Yeah. Though his devices are magical powered so that they are legal to use on Jade." Raphiel said.

A sudden thought occurred to Ranma. "Wait you said that that thing that pops and Mr. Tendo used was a fertility drug as well, right? Does this mean some of the girls here could be..."

Nabiki's fur stood on end. "Oh Kami-sama NO!"

"It is very possible." Theo said. "Though I won't know much later until your bodies have fully settled I can feel that there is a secondary life-force now beginning within a few people here."

"How many?" Nabiki asked.

"Well..." Theo began. His eyes were then glowing with a golden light and he looked around. When his eyes went back to 'normal', he spoke, "There are at least three future mothers here."

"WHO?" Nabiki asked, starting to feel really nervous. Lord knows that way Ranma went at it last night that his 'boys' could probably 'swim' very easily.

Frowning slightly at this girl’s irrational fear, Theo talked to Nabiki first. "You can relax dear, for the moment, I do not see another life-force inside you. At least at the moment, I can say you're not pregnant."

Nabiki nodded her head. She vowed to herself to make sure to use protection at all times from now on.

Looking at Kasumi he said, "You dear, I can see there is a life growing within you."

"Oh my..." Kasumi said.

Staring at Kasumi with wide-eyes, Sheila then couldn't help but smile. "Look at it this way. You might be the first person to actually 'catch' Tirga."

Looking at Akane, Theo said, "The Wererat over there, I can also see is with child."

Lydia smirked. "Well, looks like Romeo $#%@ed himself over this time..."

"Wow! Can I be, like, 'Auntie Moshia'?" Moshia asked.

Smiling, Nabiki added, "At least this means her focus will be taken off of me."

"Sheila..." Theo began, looking at the petite Jagwere. "From what I can see, there is another life growing inside you. You are going to be a mother."

"WHAT!?" Sheila asked. She didn't know what to make of this situation.

Slapping himself on the face, Ranma groaned for a moment. Then, he started to chuckle. "On the bright side, now mom will stop asking me for grandchildren."

Looking to his side, Ranma could see that Sheila was very nervous. He sighed as he realized that was his fault. He put his arm around Sheila and smiled lightly. "Hey don't worry, we'll get through this. I'll make sure that I can be a good father..."

"You mean that?" Sheila asked and Ranma nodded.

"Well, at least the boy has SOME honor..." Gar said.

"If I were you Gar, I wouldn't be one to make snap judgments." Julia said, to which Gar blushed.

"You think those girl I slept with could be pregnant?" Raphiel asked.

"Possibly." Theo said. "I haven't picked up on it yet. I should know by tonight or at least tomorrow morning when I check again."

"So, how did I end up growing spots?" Nabiki asked. They were collecting the various calmed Werecreatures and helping them to sit around the table, or at least near it, there were a lot of people around. The Wererats, the three born ones, were being kept in the center of it since Julia and Theo wanted to talk to them later and didn't want them escaping.

"There seems to be a residual amount of magic held within that koi pond," Dr. Diggers said. Kasumi blinked and looked to the pond.

"Oh, the pond?" Kasumi asked. "It's actually sort of a spring, we couldn't afford to keep it filled otherwise." Ranma twitched at the mention of the word spring.

"So, basically," Nabiki said. "All those times Ranma and the rest of the Jusenkyo lot fell into the spring that it absorbed of the Jusenkyo curse or something."

"Perhaps," Dr. Diggers said, making a mental note to check up on Jusenkyo curses later. "And do you use the water for anything other than the pool?"

"Yes," Kasumi said. "It is our own private water source...we use it for everything in the house."

"Including drinking," Nabiki said. "And practically everybody that was affected is over here at some point in the week for some reason or another."

"I'd say you're resistances to magic might have been a little lowered," Theo said.

"Either that," Julia said, looking over all the new weres and the number of small scratches that she could see alone. "Or it was just the sheer number of infections you had to resist..."

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Consciousness did not come easily for the Weretiger. Tirga had felt many variations of Sheila's 'Kapowie' before. There was her classic Kapowie, the Kapowie x10, the Kapowie x20, Ice Kapowie, Ultima Kapowie, the Ragnarok Kapowie, and the one Tirga hated the most, the Nut-Shot Kapowie.

When he did gain consciousness, Tirga realized he was in a hole of some sort. "Damn, she really has a temper..." He muttered to himself. Getting out of the hole, Tirga saw that there was others circled around a table in what must have been the living room. He recognized Gina, Julia, Theo, Gar, Raphiel, and Sheila, and there were a whole bunch of other Werefolk that he had no clue as to who they were. "Did I miss something?" He asked.

Smiling, Tirga watched as a Weretigress got up from the group and walked over to him. She bowed to Tirga slightly. "It is good to see you are awake Tirga-san."

Blinking, Tirga asked, "Do I know you?"

Pouting slightly, the Weretigress said, "How could you not remember me after what we did last night? It's me, Kasumi."

"Oh, right, right." Tirga said. He then blinked. "Hey, since when were you a Weretiger?"

"Since you slept with her." Gar said.

Blinking, Tirga said, "Odd, I would have sworn I was set up so I wouldn't inflict anyone."

"Apparently, it seems the water here has reduced the household's resistance to magic, making it easier for infliction to occur."

"Oh." Tirga said, not really understanding. He then watched as Sheila walked up to him, a huge smile on her face. "What's with you Sheila?"

Smiling in a somewhat evil manner, Sheila said, "Congratulations Tirga... You're a daddy!"

"WHAT!?" Tirga asked. He looked over at Kasumi, who smiled sweetly and nodded her head.

Those that looked at Tirga saw his eyes widen and his jaw drop, then sweat appear over his brow, then his face turn an interesting shade of blue. Tirga then fell backwards and landed with a loud thud.

"That wasn't very nice Sheila." Kasumi said, pouting slightly.

"Believe me, it's the least he deserved." Sheila answered.