Ponies And A Half

Furinkan was a section of the Nerima Ward of Tokyo, it was peaceful and calm unlike a nearby section…which will go unnamed. Oh, what the hell! Tomobiki. It was a peaceful day despite the rain. However, the peace was destroyed by a panda fighting two teenage girls. The third one walked on shyly behind.

"Is that a panda?" asked a young woman.

"Why is it fighting girls?" asked a man.

"Hey it's a Kung Fu Panda!" said a teenaged boy.

"Oh god no! The madness of Tomobiki is spreading!" yelled an old man. The old man promptly suffered a heart attack. The shy third girl ran over to him to help him.

However, most people just ignored the fighting. They did not know this was the start of an age of weirdness( as the old man predicted.)

"You could've just waited!" said one girl as she punched the panda. She had blue eyes, red hair tied into a very short pigtail, and wore traditional Chinese clothing.

"But no…I had to do this engagement now!" This girl punched the panda right in the face; he staggered, but then countred. The girl blocked it with ease.

The Panda held up a sign that said, "But the honor of both schools…"

The second girl kicked the panda. She had long black hair with pink streaks in it that was mostly worn down, purple eyes, and for some odd reason her hands were glowing purple. Also she looked very Japanese, but didn't speak like one.

"WE HAD A DEAL! You should've brought us," said the second. She swung her fist at the panda, who quickly busted out another sign.

"How did you even get here so fast?" signed the panda.

"Do we really have to explain?" asked the second one as she gave the panda an uppercut, sending him flying.

The panda blinked, "No… I guess not," it signed, "And what am I going to tell Soun?"

"The truth," said the first girl as she delivered a sharp kick to the panda, knocking it into a wall.

The panda looked at its two opponents. While the second girl wasn't nearly as skilled as the first, he still felt the pain from those aura covered hands. The panda needed a way to get to its location while bringing only the redhead.

The panda looked around as the two girls surround him, and seemed to show worry on his face. Each of the girls cracked their knuckles and smirk. Suddenly, the panda noticed a tall light pole, grabbed it, and did a Neo-style spin around it, kicking the four girls as he did so; the boy who had made the Kung Fu Panda joke yelled, "RIP-OFF!".

The panda quickly bonked the pigtailed girl on the noggin with the light pole, knocking her out. Hefting her on his shoulder, he gave the other girls a raspberry, and ran for it!

The black haired girl shouted,"DAMMIT! IF ONLY RAINBOW DASH WAS HERE!" No way could she keep up with him.

Before she could make to start a voice shouted," WAIT!"

She whirls around saying,"WHAT!"Looking behind him and not seeing what she was looking for she continues with," YOU ASSHOLE!"

The Asian boy with the glasses, brown eyes, and short silver hair shrugs and says,"They're at the mall right now. Just so you know, I have a tracking device for him." Looking around, he notices something,"Where's Ryoga and them?"

The third aforementioned girl had sea blue eyes, long pink hair a shade lighter than fuschia, and wore a yellow turtleneck sweater depicting three pink butterflies on it, as well as a pink skirt. Around her arms was a black piglet that wore a yellow bandanna with small black chevrons. It gives an angry squeal.

"Where are the other two?"

More squeals. The third girl with pink butterflies begins to whisper in the boys ear. After a while, a reaction.

"WHAT!?"

A sad long squeal.

"HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET LOST IN AMAZON!? AND THAT THEY ARE STUCK THERE ABOUT TO BE SACRIFICED!? MOST IMPORTANTLY HOW DID YOU GET BACK HERE WITHOUT THEM!?"

Rapid angry squeals, indignant at the false accusations.

"Fine... Fine... Not your fault... I know. Sheesh... I'm surprised you're not famous yet.

Handing the girl with the black hair, he disappears in a flash of silvery smoke with two girls reappearing behind coughing in the smoke.

The first had violet eyes, and dark indigo hair with two streaks colored pink and purple. She wore jeans, a white blouse, and a purple sweater vest over it, which depicted a hot pink star surrounded by five smaller white ones.

The second had cyan eyes, fuchsia pink poofy hair, and wore a cotton candy pink dress that depicted three balloons (two blue, one yellow) on the skirt. Her figure was, "bouncy," for lack of a better term.

Looking around," Where are we?"

The black-haired girl mutters," He's good." Then the four(five counting the sentient pig) set off to find the dojo.

At the destination, a man in his forties gathered his three daughters to discuss something important. He had shoulder length hair, a mustache, and wore a brown gi. His name was Soun Tendo, and he was the owner of the Tendo Dojo of Anything Goes Martial Arts.

Kasumi was the eldest, a gentle homemaker with long brown hair kept in a ponytail.

Nabiki was the middle sister, an extremely greedy young woman who ran several black markets in school as well as ran the school's betting system. She had shoulder length brown hair.

The youngest was Akane, the only one training in the family art and a tomboy. She had long blue-ish black hair which she usually wore in a low ponytail. All three sisters had brown eyes.

Soun was telling them about Ranma, the son of his old training partner Genma Saotome. And one of them would enter an arranged marriage with him. While Kasumi and Nabiki seemed interested, Akane wasn't. She hated boys. Then again, who can blame her when she gets mobbed by a bunch of them every day because they wanted to date her?

That was when they heard someone yell "Put me down!" from down the hall.

"Oh, is that him?" asked Nabiki.

"Genma!" cried Soun in joy.

Both of them went to welcome their guests. In came the panda carrying the redhead.

"Daddy? Is that your friend?" asked Nabiki in a sarcastic tone.

Soun was in a state of panic, clearly not expecting him. "I have no idea what a panda is doing here."

All that Kasumi could come up with was an "Oh my…" as the panda placed the girl on the floor.

"You wouldn't be…," said Soun.

"I'm Ranma Saotome…" said the redhead. "Sorry 'bout this."

Before Soun could hug Ranma and call her son in law, the panda suddenly went flying into the air.

"My spine!" signed the panda as he crashed into the wall and collapsed.

Everyone sweat dropped… then looked at the rainbow haired girl who apparently made the panda fly; her leg was moving down from a kicking position. The girl smirked.

"Nice one, Ran," said Ranma.

"No problem," replied the rainbow haired girl. Apparently, Ran was her name. The two high-fived at Ran's handiwork.

"You two wouldn't happen to be sisters, would you?" asked Nabiki.

"No," replied Ran with a shrug. "I just happen to have a similar name."

"Her name is based on the English word 'ran'," said Ranma.

"The one who gave me that name thought it would be a good pun."

"You don't mean your parents, do you?", inquired Akane. She was confused, and it showed.

"Never mind."

"So…where are the others?" asked Ranma.

"Right here," said the silver haired boy as he seemingly appeared from nowhere. If you noticed the small silvery smoke that came with his appearance, you would think of that blue guy who teleports in X-Men.

This surprised the Tendos (save for Kasumi for some reason), although Ranma and Ran didn't react similarly.

"How did you do that?" Akane wanted to know.

"When you get as old as me, then you can pick up a few things." This earns a slap on the head from a black haired girl with a book.

"Is everything all right?" asked the fuchsia haired girl…popping out from…somewhere…and scaring the Tendos again (and again with the exception of Kasumi).

"Is she your student?" Akane asked the silver haired boy.

"No…" he replied. "I have no idea how she does that."

"We all decided to stop questioning it a long time ago…" said Ran.

"By the way… Who are you?" Akane asked

Before any of the newcomers could answer, a voice came.

"Hello, is everyone here?" it said.

That was when the rest of their companions arrived.

"Sorry for entering like this." apologized the indigo haired girl.

"Now what is going on here?" asked Soun.

"By the way, daddy…" Nabiki cut in.

"Yes?"

"Ranma is a girl." Nabiki then poked one of Ranma's breasts to prove her point.

"Please don't do that," said Ranma.

Soun fainted… maybe it was the panda, maybe it was the fact the boy he always waited for was a girl… either way he went down.

"Oh my," said Kasumi.

"Is he all right?" asked the girl in the yellow sweater.

"He's just being overly dramatic." assured Nabiki.

"I am in a lot of pain, please someone help me," signed the panda as he lay on the wall he was kicked into.

As the silver haired boy walks over, he smiles sadistically and says," Don't worry", cracking his knuckles,"I'm a certified doctor."

The panda signs,"Help." As the Silver Doctor begins his work.

Sometime later… Soun had regained consciousness, but he wasn't moving as he broke down to tears.

"Some fiancé this turned out to be," snarked Nabiki as she poking Ranma's breast once again. "How can we marry her…"

"He told me he had a son," lamented Soun.

The indigo haired girl was about to say something when the silver haired boy silenced her with a shake of the head. Albeit he seemed to be holding back laughter.

"Now's not the time," he whispered. Then he had to use the bathroom for reasons other than the common 1 & 2 and the slightly less common 3.

The indigo haired girl nodded, knowing that someone else would have to explain everything.

Just then, Kasumi came into the room with tea for everyone. "So you are Ranma's friends?" she asked.

"You could say that," replied the first purple haired girl.

"The rest of us are just traveling with Ranma until we can find our way back home," explained the indigo haired girl, "We're also helping hi...er, her... with a problem."

"It's a really, really, really super long story," said the fuchsia haired girl so as to stop any questions.

"If someone only read the book correctly…" muttered Ran.

"I did read it correctly!", retorted the indigo haired girl. "I just put too much power into it!"

"Please stop fighting," whispered the girl in the yellow sweater. Ran quickly walked up to the indigo-haired girl, not happy at all.

"Yeah, everything's over and done with," said Ranma as she broke up what might've become a heated argument. "Besides it's already been a month."

"Fine…" muttered Ran as she turned away.

"You should introduce yourselves, girls," suggested the silver haired boy as he took a sip of tea.

The six girls took the hint.

"I guess I should reintroduce myself," said Ran. "Ran Issanni."

Kasumi giggled, then said, "Sorry. It's just that you told us your parents named you Ran based on the English word… Which means you have the need for speed." Everyone of the room sat in silence at the incredibly bad joke. In the distance, a cricket chirped.

"I made the same joke when I first heard it!" said the fuchsia haired girl. "Oh, I'm Momo Mochi!"

"My… my name is Chiyo Onbin," the girl in the yellow sweater whispered, although it was loud enough for the family to hear.

Momo then turned her head to the piglet Chiyo was holding. "Oh, the piggy's name is Ryoga," she then said. The pig oinked a hello.

"I am Belle Perle," said the second purple haired girl, the one who was very stylish.

"You're from France?" asked Nabiki.

"Um… yes…" Belle looked like she was lying as she said that.

"You're from America, right?" Akane asked the blonde girl.

"Um...yes," she replied nervously. "Alex Jackson."

" Zhang Tatsuya," the silver haired boy bows," thank you for having us. Oh and call me Zhang."

"And I'm Hikaru Hakumei," introduced the indigo haired girl.

And you're all going to be staying here?" inquired Nabiki.

"If you don't mind," said Zhang.

"Why?!" cried Soun.

"You know… I'm not sure if we can afford all of you," said Nabiki.

"Once we get settled in, you don't have to worry, darling," assured Belle.

"Really, how?"

Belle pointed to her dress, which was very beautiful, white, and had a mark depicting three blue diamonds on it. "I made this myself," she explained.

Nabiki blinked as she admired the dress. "Really? That's impressive." Already, she was thinking of buying something similar.

"Also, you are speaking to the world's second best investor," Zhang proclaims proudly.

Nabiki who is the world's first says," I'm the first." As she leaves, Zhang shrugs and says," Well, I always wondered who was the first."

"So…" Akane spoke up looking at Ranma, "I guess you and Ran study martial arts."

"Yeah," Ran answered for her.

"Do either of you want to spar?"

Zhang says,"I will."

Akane looks at the skinny boy with no muscles, no threatening aura, and above all lack of discipline says," Are you sure?"

"No I'm not sure. Why else would I volunteer to fight a flat chested girl?" The silver haired boy jokes with a straight face.

Akane smiles as a black aura emanates from her."Oh I don't know."

Zhang smiles as he sweats in the back uncontrollably, thinks, My luck with woman is as bad as ever. That's good. I would have begun to think the world liked me.

"Um… can you tell me a place where I can have some privacy?" Hikaru asked the Tendos.

"Sure," offered Kasumi as she then led Hikaru out of the room.

Meanwhile, Akane pointed most of their visitors to the Dojo so she could get ready.

"Why, a daughter?!" Soun continued to cry.

"What a drama queen," sighed Belle, earning her a look from Alex, Ran, Momo, Chiyo, and Ryoga, the latter of which oinked in disapproval.

Hypocrite, the other four thought.

In the dojo, the visitors waited for Akane to change into her gi.

"Are you ready?" the youngest of the Tendos asked, who then noticed Ranma, Ran, Alex, and Momo watching. For some reason, Momo had a box with red and white stripes holding popcorn...

"Where did she get the popcorn?" she thought out loud.

Ranma, Alex, and Ran shrugged. It was best not to know.

She shook her head and paid attention to Zhang. And the spar began.

Akane yelled "Take this!" She charged towards Zhang with a punch; Zhang just ducked it, and hit her with a trip, saying, "You're too rushed calm down."

Akane fumed, and simply went berserk; SZhang simply dodged, blocked, or deflected every move. Akane eventually fell down on one knee, panting. She then screamed, "DARN IT!" Going for a roundhouse kick, Zhang simply leaped over her, and tapped her in the back, knocking Akane down for the count.

"Zhang wins.", as the silver haired boy does a very badly timed victory dance.

Akane says with a scowl, "This is the first time I lost."

"You mad?"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry."

"Why didn't I fight Ranma?" Zhang already taking in the fact that she hates boys, motions at Ranma to get out.

Akane then shouts," I want a rematch without you dodging."

Zhang says," Ok..."

5 Minutes Later

A body lays twitching on the floor. Akane then kicks the body over to the wall and points at Ranma.

"I want to fight you!"

Ranma says arrogantly," Sure."

Momo still munching the popcorn says," Ooh this is going to be good."

Ran says,"This is going to be bad."

Zhang who is still twitching says," Pass the popcorn Momo."

5 Minutes Later(Again)

Akane who is graciously accepting defeat this time, says,"I'm happy."

Ranma asks," Why?"

"Because you're a girl." Glares at Zhang." And not a boy.

So saying she leaves.

Ran mutters,"This is bad."

Ranma agrees and says," Yes it is."

"Sexism is alive and well..." Zhang said. Strange looks. "What? Its true!"

Only Momo are laughing.

"What?"

"Nothing."

Meanwhile, in another room… Hikaru sat alone, her hands glowing with a purple aura. Floating in-between them was a vial of water. Her eyes were closed as she concentrated on the vial. Just then, the door to the room opened. Hikaru lost her concentration and dropped the vial, but she caught it before it could fall to the floor.

"Isn't that vial supposed to unbreakable?", asked the person who opened the door.

That person was a middle-aged man in a white gi, he wore glasses and a bald cap.

"Yes, but you still broke my concentration," replied Hikaru.

"I'm going to explain about myself and Ranma. But I'm leaving it up to you and your friends to explain your thing."

"I understand." Hikaru sighed.

"By the way, why are you still a human? Isn't your magic stronger as…THAT?"

Hikaru glared at the man. "I found it easier to analyze the water in my cursed form, even if my magic is weaker."

"I see. But remember the deal; you cure us and we provide you with a place to stay."

"I know, I know. You don't have to remind me." Hikaru let out another sigh.

"I'm going to explain it to Soun." With that, he slammed the door behind him.

As the man left, Hikaru sighed. I'm having second thoughts on helping that jerk... Ranma, though... At least Ranma was a friend.

Upstairs, Kasumi led Chiyo to the bathroom.

"Thank you for letting us…I mean me take a bath.", Chiyo said as she avoided Kasumi's gaze.

Kasumi smiled at the shy girl, "It's no problem at all." She then went downstairs to the kitchen to prepare dinner as she was expecting a lot of people.

"By the way, besides Ranma and Shampoo, the other girls are vegetarians," Zhang notified her, appearing out of the front door, sipping a cup of tea.

"Really? Why?"

"You'll see." Zhang then gave a crazy grin. "Oh, and I would expect one more guest. One who doesn't eat pork."

Kasumi blinked, unsure what Zhang meant.

In the dojo, Akane watched Ran and Ranma have their own spar. To say those two were on a different level as her would be a complete and utter understatement. She could barely see Ran's movements, almost a blur. Meanwhile, Ranma was using any advantage she could get to counter Ran's pure speed.

"No wonder that's her name," Akane whispered. She then turned to Momo, who was now eating out of a bag of cookies. "Where did you get those?"

Momo shrugged, "I don't know."

"It's best you don't know.", said Alex as she also watched the spar. "I've known her for years and I don't know where she gets her snacks… or those other things about her…"

Akane sweat dropped, not wanting to know what that meant.

Akane also says," And was Ranma that good."

Zhang who again appears this time with two cups of milk, says,"Yes."

Before Akane says anything he says," I'm sorry."

Giving a glass of milk to Momo, he takes a cookie and dips it in.

As it dissolves so does Akane's animosity to Zhang.

After the spar,(which Ranma won by catching Ran off guard, using her speed to knock her into the wall.), Akane went into the kitchen, where Kasumi was preparing the food. "Kasumi, is the bath ready?" asked Akane.

"Chiyo is using it," said Kasumi.

"Do you think she'll mind?"

The girl was very shy, and she barely said anything, Kasumi thought, unsure. "I don't know…" she responded.

"Maybe this will allow her to open up more."

Kasumi sighed and—in the end—didn't stop her youngest sister as she decided to go upstairs to join Chiyo in the bath.

In the bathroom… there was a naked teenaged boy and a yellow Pegasus that was 4 feet tall. She had a marking on her flank depicting three pink butterflies. Neither was looking at each other and both were blushing.

"You can look at me if you want," said the Pegasus, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about."

"I know," responded the teenage boy who was wearing the bandana the pig was wearing (though on his head instead of his neck), "But… it's just that…"

That was when the door opened and in walked a naked Akane. She stared at the odd sight, blinking her eyes. She then closed the door… just as the boy got a nosebleed that shot out like a geyser.

"Oh no… oh no… what am I going to do?" cried the Pegasus.

Meanwhile, Akane put the top of her gi, left the bathroom area, walked down the stairs…then finally screamed. Almost everyone in the building came to see what was wrong with her.

"Akane, what's wrong?" Kasumi asked.

"There's a naked man and a horse with wings in the bathroom!" she cried out.

"He's naked?" gasped Momo, "That must mean he'll need his clothes!"

And with that, Momo ran up the stairs. Akane looked at Momo and decided it would be best to ignore her. If she wanted to clothe a strange horse obsessed psychopath, it's her own fault.( Its called a horse fetish).

"Are you sure you weren't seeing things?" Kasumi asked.

"Maybe there's a gas leak," said Nabiki.

"I swear it! I saw a yellow horse with wings!" insisted Akane, "And a naked man!"

"The term is Pegasus," corrected Ran, seemingly defensive about it.

"I don't care what the term is! There's something strange going on in the bathroom."

"Well since you saw one them, I don't have to have Hikaru explain it, then." said the strange man, who was holding a copper kettle. He eyed Ran… as if he wanted revenge for something. Something that involved a flying kick to the spine.

"You don't think he's angry about what happened earlier?", asked Alex.

The man threw that kettle at Ran.

"I think that answers your question." Said Ranma giving a half lidded stare at the man.

The four Tendos stared at Ran… well at where Ran stood. Much like the Pegasus that was in the bathroom, there stood another, who was now in Ran's clothes. However, this one was sky blue and had a rainbow mane.

"That's it!", yelled the Pegasus, who took off and tackled the man. As the two fought, only the Tendos watched in surprise; everyone else acted like it was nothing.

"Rainbow Dash! Please take off your clothes!", scolded Belle. "I don't want you to ruin my hard work!"

Ranma sighed and said, "Hey… A.J., Twi, Zhang… you want to help me with the rest of the hot water? Because I think we're going to need a lot to explain all this."

"Of course," agreed Alex.

"Fine…" muttered Hikaru.

"I think I should help with Akane," said Zhang.

"What do you mean help with Akane?" asked Ranma.

It was then they noticed Akane had fainted.

"That would probably be a good idea," agreed Hikaru with a sweat drop.

That was when the Pegasus from the bathroom along with the boy (now with tissues in his nose) and another, well…for lack of a better term…pony came down the stairs.

(In this universe HASBRO does not exist yet. But if it does all rights to HASBRO!)

"Well it seems like everyone found out," said the new pony. Her coat was cotton candy pink, her hair was hot pink and poofy, and she had a marking on her flank depicting three balloons.

Soun did what he usually did: cry. Sure, he could handle what Genma had told him about the curses, but he still had no idea what the two from China and these girls…were… And indeed, the seemingly normal lives of the Tendo Family ended that day.