New Tomboy

Part Fifteen

By Philip Weigel

The Disclaimer is not here, it is at the beginning, go and look.

A.N. Wow! Long project huh? Heh, now that that's out of the way, let me say that the Crund Mountains, which are going to be mentioned in this chapter, are made up. They do not really exist on Jade.

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Consciousness returned to the Wererat-bastard Elder, and he was soon wishing that he didn't when his eyes focused. He was tied down up VERY well; the knots were impossible to loosen. He could feel his connection to the Ethereal Stream was cut off, meaning he couldn't use his magic. What REALLY was scaring him was the fact Werecats of all kinds SURROUNDED him.

Five Werecheetahs, one of which was Britanny Diggers, four Jagweres, two Weretigers, and one Werelion and one Werepanther. Also in the group was, of course, Theodore Diggers, his wife Julia, a large Barbarian woman who his informants had discovered was Julia Diggers mother. The other two Diggers girls, and he also saw the Kryn, who was the Werecheetah’s husband, Ryan Talbot the martial artist, his three ex-subordinates, another female Wererat, and well a slew of people whom he did NOT have on file.

And they were ALL glaring daggers at him and he was unable to do anything. For once in his life Gothwrain felt fear, a fear for once he couldn't drown out with his power which he had become accustomed too shove his worries away from him.

"Well, what are you going to do with me?" Gothwrain demanded.

"We're still figuring on which way is proper for sending you to Hell." Theo responded in a voice full of disdain, venom, and hatred. If there was ANY being he truly wanted dead despite his belief against unnecessary killing that was Gothwrain.

Gothwrain just smirked. "Oh really? Gonna do what you should've done at the Werecheetah massaCURMPH!" A foot firmly inserting itself into his face twisting around his muzzle cut off Gothwrain.

"Saotome-Bad Habit-Technique Insert foot into mouth!" Ranma said none-too-kindly as he shut Gothwrain up.

"You HMPOGH insolent WAGH Were GAMGH CAT!" Gothwrain exclaimed between bits of a foot being twisted in his mouth.

"Aw put a sock in it ya rat bastard." Ranma snarled, and pulled his foot back, only to slam it back into Gothy's face leaving a nice fat imprint.

Gothwrain snarled then noticed Moshia, Romeo, and Lydia were looking at him with glares something they had never done before.

"Is it true what you said back there, about killing our parents?" Romeo asked for once showing a great deal of spine and venom in his voice.

"And if it is?"

"YOU #$%^&*ING BASTARD!" Lydia lunged at Gothwrain or tried too but Raphiel held her back. " LET ME $%^&$ GO!"

"I have only one question, why do you hate us Werecats so much? It’s been hundreds if not thousands of years since a Werecat has hunted Wererats. Your clan was so secretive your very existence was barely noted, and except for a handful no one on Jade knows about Wererats." Onoli asked looking the elder Wererat in the eye.

"Why not? You Werecats were designed to hunt and kill our kind!" Gothwrain sneered.

"Sounds like outdated BS to me." Nabiki said. "Bullshit you use to your advantage."

"WHAT?!" Gothwrain exclaimed, not accustomed to being contradicted.

"I mean, not ONCE have myself or any of the Werecats here had an insane urge to kill or eat any of the Wererats here. It seems with time the 'urge' to kill Wererats you so preach about has faded." Nabiki said in her calm business voice.

"Much like the loyalty enchantments your kind held to Iceron faded with time." Thropan said, as he was well versed in Lycanthrope history.

"Your nothing but a bully Gothwrain, one who clung to an ancient paranoia that serves your clan no purpose, but it HAS served your own. I'm sure the Werecheetah massacre gained you much recognition and a promotion in power or two." Theo stated.

Britanny who had her arm bandaged and treated for silver burns walked forward and stared down at Gothwrain, growling.

"You, you were the one who got that bastard Brendan to help kill off my clan, you had them murdered when we were no threat to you, you monster." With that Britanny gave Gothwrain a solid punch to the jaw, and stepped back trembling in anger.

"And one more thing..."

Gothwrain looked up as Strype reared his fist back, his arm glowed and fire engulfed his arm and boy did the punch he threw HURT! "YYAAAAAAAAAGH IT BURNS!"

Strype retracted his arm and powered down. "That was for threatening my wife you slimy bastard!"

"Dr. Diggers what do you intend we should do with this rat?" Cologne asked curious.

Theo smiled an almost sadistic grin. "I have a punishment already planned. As they say here in Japan, sayonara Gothwrain."

Gothwrain blinked and suddenly vanished from the yard.

"Theo where did you send him? The Undead Realm?"

"Oh no I teleported him 50 feet over the snowy Crund mountain pass in Jade. You see at the base of the valley there's a LARGE surface deposit of silver that spreads out for at least 50 miles. The ground while snowy is littered with silver if the fall doesn't do him in the silver surely will."

"Teddy my boy I'm proud of you! You actually extracted a proper punishment to some evil being!" Mumsey laughed.

"Well Mother-dearest if there was any being who so earned my utmost ire, it was Gothwrain."

Meanwhile in Jade a flash of light illuminated the sky over the Crund Mountain valley and a being fell from the sky, but his screams were not of the fall, but of the burning silver he fell on. His body burst into flames as if made of gasoline.

He burned and burned until nothing but smoking char laid across the silver fields leaving no trace of Gothwrain.

(----)

Back at the Tendo yard, Lydia glared at where Gothwrain was before he was teleported out and away. Emotions, powerful and unknown emotions erupted in her, tears started falling down her face and she broke down into sobs. This surprised everyone around; they thought she was angry with Gothwrain. "B-b-bastard! @#$%in' BASTARD! ROT IN HELL!!" With that Lydia fell to the ground crying, or would have if Raphiel hadn't stopped her and hugged her to him. It surprised some people when Lydia turned around, hugged him back and cried into his shoulder.

Moshia frowned; she couldn't stand to see her friend like that. Sure, she acted like Gothwrain in some aspects, bullying them around when on a mission, but for the most part Lydia just wanted to be a normal kid. She walked up to Lydia and hugged her from behind. "Shh, it'll, like, be okay."

Romeo went over and put a hand on Lydia's shoulder, "You going to be all right?"

Lydia shook her head and just kept crying into Raphiel's shoulder.

Now Raphiel may be child-like in many aspects and a bit of a dunce, but he had enough sense about him to tell when someone was in emotional pain and he did what he could to alleviate that pain. He looked at the sobbing Wererat, "Can you tell us what's wrong?"

"That bastard killed my parents, he told me that he saved my life from Were hunters and because of that I, *sob* I did everything he asked me to. I would've died for him." She shuddered as she remembered everything that Gothwrain had made her do. Raising her and her friends to kill someone they had never met before. She endured losing her friends who had been 'killed in action’; mainly because doing whatever Gothwrain ordered made her feel important. Gothwrain had probably killed many of her friends off as well when they failed on what they did. He nearly killed her, Romeo and Moshia off today, if it hadn't been for that old woman and that Jagwere, she didn't think that she'd be alive right now.

Séance frowned as he took in Lydia's memories through her aura; he had a hard time controlling that 'day-dream' ability of his. He looked at Dr. Diggers. "Master Diggers, there's something that you should know."

"Yes, Séance?"

Séance jerked his head in the direction towards the house. Theo followed him. "Yes Séance? What is it?"

Séance sighed, "Well, it's about Lydia. She's lost and confused right now."

Theo nodded and sighed, "I figured as much, considering what Gothwrain told her before and what she knows now."

"So what should we do with her and her friends now?"

Theo shook his head, "I'm not sure, maybe invite them to Atlanta for a while, at least till they can get on their own feet." Séance nodded at that.

(----)

Meanwhile Gina had taken Thropan and Ryan into the house to talk.

Ryan looked at her, "How can that be? I always thought that cross-breeding between a magical and non-magical race was near-impossible."

Thropan shook his head, "Not completely, just very hard." He sighed, "To tell the truth I wasn't trying to become a father. This is just so unexpected."

Gina nodded, "No kidding." She slumped a bit, "I'm going to be a mother soon, not that I mind, it’s just I wanted to wait a bit." She narrowed her eyes, "Stupid old men." Both Ryan and Thropan nodded at that.

(----)

Ranma was at the picnic table outside and winced as Sheila applied more ointment and bandaged his hand a bit more, "It wasn't that bad. Not as bad as Britanny got anyway."

Sheila shook her head, "I don't care. Silver burns are very serious, even minor ones. 'Sides it's the least I can do for you after you and my brother saved me."

Ranma just smiled at her, "Hey, I would've done that for you no matter who it was that grabbed you." He then whispered for her, "No one gets to grab you but me."

Sheila blushed crimson and whispered affectionately, "Pervert."

Ranma put his hands over his heart, "You wound me Shechan. You make it sound like it's a bad thing."

Sheila giggled at that, "Just as long as you don't go and steal underwear I won't care what we do in private."

Ranma blinked innocently, "You mean like these?" He then held up a pair of light blue panties.

Sheila blushed tremendously, "Eeeek!" She quickly snatched them and put them in her pocket, "How'd you do that?" She didn't know how he could've done that, she was wearing pants and he hadn't taken her pants off, she was sure of it.

Ranma shrugged and said "Happosai taught me. I just never used the trick before. As for how, well, now that is a secret."

(----)

Pee Wee was standing by the house; now that everyone's attention was elsewhere he could escape and rebuild his forces. He was about to reach the door when he ran into something large. He looked up and up and up until he saw Onoli looking at him. "Er, I was only going to go for a walk."

Onoli frowned, "I don't think so. Not only did your people attack civilians, but you also attacked the Edge Guard members and even kidnapped one, on top of that, they're my friends, so I don't think that you'll be going anywhere."

Erwin was going to ask what he meant when he felt a tap on his neck and he slumped forward. "Children have no respect for anything anymore."

Onoli bowed to Cologne, "Thank you elder. I would've had to actually use harder methods to stop him."

Cologne waved it off, "Think nothing of it. The child should be glad that I don't just erase his memory."

Julia blinked when she heard that, she had come upon the scene seeing Erwin trying to escape, "What do you mean you can erase a person's memory?"

"It's more along the lines of altering a person's memory, but I can do it. Why do you ask?"

"Hold on a sec there. Brianna!"

Brianna blinked as she looked at her mom and shrugged and went over to where Julia was, "Yeah mom?"

"What is this Talon boy's, err, 'hobbies' like?"

Brianna frowned, "He messes with a person's genetics to make them stronger, tougher, faster, and more flexible. I think Daishi's the only one he didn't do much work on, save that time when Brit nearly killed him."

"So what is it that you want me to do?"

Julia smirked, "After all the problems he's caused my family I really have wanted to cause some problems for him."

Onoli blinked, "Erase his memory?"

"More along the lines of making him forget his DNA manipulation abilities."

(----)

Tirga sighed as he sat down on one of the benches. He was thinking about the last couple of days and how his life had been tossed inside out because of a bag of dust.

"A penny for your thoughts?"

Tirga looked at who was talking to him and blinked when he saw Genn, "Just thinking about how one bag of dust can turn one's life around."

Genn blinked, "That's rather deep, coming from you that is."

"Hey!" Tirga looked indignant.

Genn just giggled at him. She looked around and saw that Lydia was being comforted by Raphiel, her two friends, Gar and the new Weretiger, Kasumi, if she remembered correctly. "So what are your plans Tirga?"

"Besides having Kasumi move in with me, not much right now." He looked over to where that old woman, Onoli, Brianna, and Julia were standing around that kid that had sent those two ninjas to attack them, he shook his head at that kid's stupidity, his body guards were still in the dojo, he saw Mrs. Brigand walking over to where Julia was and Dr. Diggers and Séance going to talk somewhere. He then glanced over to where Sheila and Ranma were at and blinked when he saw Ranma hold up a pair of light blue panties that Sheila quickly snatched away from him, "What a pervert."

"You're one to talk you know."

"Shut up Genn."

Genn just giggled some more.

"What are you two talking about?" Genn and Tirga looked at Nabiki, who had come over to join them.

"Not much. Just pointing out to Genn that the new Jagwere is rather perverted."

Nabiki blinked as she sat down, "Ranma?" Tirga nodded, "Well, I'd say he's a minor pervert at worst. Though maybe his being bedded actually has something to do with him acting a bit more perverted, I don't know."

Genn looked at her, "Oh?"

"Yeah, I mean, he's had girls throwing themselves at him for years and he's all but ignored their advances. But since most of them were wearing very little. ." She trailed off.

Tirga blinked, "What? And why would he just ignore them?"

"Maybe because he would've been married immediately. So he's never acted on his hormones at all for the last two years."

Genn nodded, "That probably would cause him to act that way."

Tirga shrugged, "Whatever. This doesn't bother me anyway."

"Mad about losing Sheila huh?"

Tirga winced, "Yeah, I'm upset alright."

Genn shrugged, "It's your own fault you know. If you had just given up chasing those other girls around so much, she would've been yours in an instant." Tirga looked at Genn surprised, "Don't look like that, she really liked you. It's just that she didn't want to end up as another notch on your bedpost."

Tirga winced, "Yeah, I guess that's my fault."

(----)

Shampoo looked at the other two girls, "So what now?"

"Don't know sugah. I gotta admit, being a Werecheetah is going to be different, that's for sure."

"Indeed. I do so hope my father never finds out about this." Seeing Shampoo look at her, Kodachi elaborated, "My father has a thing for giving people haircuts, could you imagine what he'd do to me now that I've got fur all over my body?"

Shampoo winced, "Still, not as bad as when Shampoo go home. Face possible dishonor and outcast."

Ukyou blinked, "But I thought that the Kiss of Marriage was dropped?"

Shampoo nodded, "Was dropped, but still may lose some face for not bringing home Ranma sooner."

"What about being an outcast?"

Shampoo sighed, "Shampoo not most popular person in village, act more arrogant than stick-boy and Ranma at times."

Ukyou and Kodachi blanched at that, "T'would be a bad thing."

"No kidding."

"Yes, Shampoo not always liked in village, some villagers no like Werecreatures of any type. Do math." Ukyou and Kodachi winced.

(----)

Nodoka was sitting beside the dojo just thinking about how the winds of life had changed again. "Auntie?"

"Hmm, oh yes Akane, what is it?"

Akane sat beside the older woman, "So what do you think about what's happened lately?"

"Not much, not now anyway. I'm feeling a bit legarthic at this point."

"Legarthic?"

"You know the feeling you get when you're overwhelmed by something, and then you have time to calm down and think about it?"

"Oh, that.”

"Yes, that. So what are your feelings?"

Akane was silent for a long time, "I don't know really."

"Hmm, I see. Well, I guess this would be confusing wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, I've got so many questions though, like will I be a good mother?, will Romeo leave me? And many other things, it's so confusing."

"Life generally is Akane-chan, all you can do is go with the flow of life and try to make the best of it."

(----)

"But Penny!"

"No!"

"Aw, c'mon!"

"I said no!"

"Why not?"

"Because you won't stop eating those peanuts if you start."

Ace was trying to hold three-dozen bags of peanuts while Penny was trying to keep Charlotte away from them.

(----)

Strype was fussing over his wife while they sat down by the tree that the Wererats were using before Gothwrain showed up. "Are you sure your arm is okay Brit? Jetta once told me that silver burns your soul, not just your body." He spoke as he checked out her injured left arm.

"Well, okay, I'll admit, it really hurts. And that cut was pretty deep, I'm probably going to have a scar there." Brit frowned at that, she didn't like the thought of anything marring her looks, but she could handle it.

Strype pulled Brit into a hug and he started nuzzling her cheek, "It could be worse you know."

"I know, I know." Brit nuzzled him back, tears rolling down her face.

(----)

Luan looked at Carla, the two of them were sitting on top of the roof, "So."

"What?"

"What do you think about what happened today?"

"I don't know what to think. Congrats on your engagement to Gar."

Luan winced, "You liked him too huh?"

"Duh. What's not to like? He's a nice guy, good looking, good fighter, and other things."

"You know, from the descriptions of the natives of the area, that Ranma character is similar to Gar in many ways."

"Yeah, he's just younger and doesn't have a sister."

"Mmmhmm."