New Tomboy

Part Six

By Philip Weigel

The Disclaimer is in the first two parts.

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His eyes snapping open, Tirga sat up with a scream. He then noticed he was in a room with a lot of people; most of those he recognized were beating on two human men. He brushed his forehead to get some wood chips out of his hair. "Damn, what a crazy dream. I dreamt that I turned some girl into a Weretiger and that I got her pregnant."

"You did." Onoli said, causing Tirga to jump up onto his feet. Tirga was about to make a break for it, but Onoli latched onto the back of Tirga's shirt with his coat. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Me?" Tirga asked, trying to act all innocent. "I just remembered that it is an Edge Guard's duty to check on any situation, and there WAS a riot last night at that bar. It's best to check it out so that..."

"Oh my, isn't he such a caring man, willing to do his duty?" Kasumi said happily, obviously unaware of the playboy her 'fiancé' is.

Sweating as he stared at Kasumi, he couldn’t help but chuckle. "You're Kasumi, right?"

"Yes Tirga-san." Kasumi said. Smiling she then walked up to him and hugged him. "I promise to be a dutiful wife to you, and I'll make sure our child grows up happy and healthily and, oh, look, you're so overcome with happiness you're crying."

Nodding his head, Onoli said, "Now Tirga, you will have a whole new set of responsibilities when you get married. You are going to have to come home earlier to spend time with your family, you will have to save up your money so that you can pay for what the family needs, you will have to clean up your act, and stop chasing after women once you're married to show your loyalty to your wife and to be a good role-model for your future children, and. ."

Tirga just broke down crying some more.

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Ryoga limped wearily into the room panting and sighing like a man that had spent weeks, even days, tramping through wilds never before seen by man. One might even think that he had been caught in a landslide or herd of wild boars or some other such catastrophe.

The person making that assumption would be accurate.

Ryoga didn't realize he was walking into the Tendo estate, he thought he was coming to a travelers rest stop, actually, or maybe a teashop. He was mildly confused when he came across some cat-people talking about marriage, but passed it off until he recognized Kasumi's mildly altered voice.

"Kasumi?" Ryoga blinked. Kasumi turned toward him with a radiant smile.

"Oh, hello Ryoga-kun," Kasumi responded. "I'm sorry, I should have met you at the door."

"What happened to you?" Ryoga asked.

"Oh, I'm a Weretiger now," Kasumi said politely. "I don't look plain at all any more do I?" She smiled ecstatically.

"No," Ryoga said.

"Oh and this is my new fiancé, Tirga-san! Isn't he handsome?"

"I guess..." Ryoga said, looking to the tiger-man with the pained expression. Ryoga felt vaguely like he should be yelling "Tirga prepare to die!!" to give the tiger-man a punishment for daring to touch the pure Kasumi Tendo, but since Kasumi seemed so happy he'd let it pass.

"And the best part is..." Kasumi was speaking in a low voice. "I'm going to be a mother! And an aunt too, when Akane has her litter!"

"Huh?" Ryoga asked, getting dizzier. "Akane?"

"I think you might be telling him a little too much for him to grasp at the moment," Onoli warned.

"Oh! And Ranma is going to be a father too!" Kasumi declared loudly, attracting attention from the other room now. Ryoga's mind launched onto that statement.

After a few moments of twitching in shock, Ryoga, being the hotheaded, slightly delusional, powerhouse with the patience of a firecracker thought about what Kasumi had just told him.

"R, RANMA KNOCKED UP AKANE!?" Ryoga screamed out in rage and grief.

"Oh no Ryoga. You misunderstood. Ranma is not the father of Akane's..." She didn't get to finish as Ryoga pushed past her.

Looking down the hall, the others saw Ryoga coming at them. "I wonder what he's upset about now?" Ranma said, having a few ideas on what P-Chan was currently thinking.

"RANMA! PREPARE TO..." Ryoga was saying, just about as he was going to run past Julia, who held out her arm. The others just stared and cringed as Ryoga landed with a loud...

*THUMP*

"Not now kid, we're busy." Julia said, as she diffused the situation.

"Great reflexes Mrs. Diggers." Ranma commented.

Looking down at Ryoga, Gar said, "I wouldn't try to get up if I were you."

Ryoga just coughed a response, the wind being knocked out of him.

Akane then walked over to Ryoga and grabbed onto him, in a manner that she had done to Kasumi earlier. "Oh Ryoga, it was awful! I woke up and I found out I had slept with some Wererats, and not only did that turn me into a Wererat too, but the male Wererat made me pregnant!" Akane wailed.

"Yeesh, get over yourself." Moisha said.

Blinking Ryoga asked, "So Ranma didn't sleep with Akane?"

"No!" Came a sharp reply from around the table.

"... Really? Then how is Ranma a father?"

"Ryoga..." Ranma said. "Look at me. Now, look at Sheila here. We look like a cute couple, don't we? Well we are, and she's my new fiancée!"

"Hello." Sheila said, waving at Ryoga with one hand while her other arm was wrapped around Ranma's waist.

"Then, who..." Ryoga asked.

Pointing over at Romeo, Britanny then answered, "You can thank Romeo over there."

"Um... Hi?" Romeo squeaked out.

"... ROMEO, PREPARE TO DIE!" Was the battle cry as he then lunged at the Wererat, who was now running around the backyard once again, this time being chased after an angry sometime-pig instead of a Wererat.

"That wasn't nice Britanny..." Strype said to his wife.

Shrugging her shoulders, Britanny said, "He had it coming."

"I better call Dr. Tofu..." Kasumi said. "Poor Romeo-kun might need it. And father and Mr. Saotome will need it too."

"I wouldn't be too sure about that last one..." Nodoka said, as she was polishing her katana.