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"A FIANCE!?!" Akane tendo was already not having a good day now her dad was trying to pawn her and her sisters off like a set of fish meat. She's this close to just letting shark drake take a bite out of him. The poor guy needed a snack anyways. She put so much effort into not getting recognized dark blue flannel, men's skinny jeans, tying her hair back in a way she never did and boom instant pretty boy but not even one of those thugs she trashed had a number! Worse, she had to run back to the house before it started to storm, cutting her search short.
"Akane?" Honestly, they weren't even any good "Akane?" The god damn hentai horde gives her a better challenge back when they were allowed to duel her then that, what she wouldn't give for a decent challe- "AKANE!" Oh, she spaced put hard didn't she and she was already pacing around the room. "Sorry dad I think the bloodlust got to me for a second".
"We get Akane you'll die if you stop moving no need to add to the stereotype" the middle daughter of the tendo family snarked, honestly Nabiki wasn't too happy about this engagement either. Running the betting of school duels and her own underground dueling were what kept the household in the green. Barely! Hopefully Akane lost her temper and threw out whatever riffraff their dad had invited to their home, and they would be gone in a week. Still the Saotome name did sound familiar, she had better look into it later.
"Oh, I hope he's older, younger men are just so immature," sighing Kasumi Tendo the eldest daughter rested her hand on her cheek. Clad in a conservative dress and apron with long flowing hair, one could easily mistake her for one of her dragonmaid monsters, without the draconic features of course. Two more mouths to feed, that would be hard with the groceries she bought, but she’d figure it out.
Sighing, the Tendo patriarch placed his head in his hands, his impressive mustache drooping to reflect his mood. His daughters were never this disobedient when their mother was around! But alas hopefully with Genma and his son they could win some local tournaments and start bringing more money into the dojo. His late wife's savings were only going to last so long after all.
"LET ME GO YOU RAT BASTARD! I'LL FUCKIN SKIN YOU! YOU HEAR ME YOU DAMN FLEA RIDDEN PANDA!"
All the gathered Tendo's swung their heads toward the high pitch scream coming from their house. "That must be Ranma!" Soun rushed to his feet almost tripping on his gi, his daughters right on his heels. All skidded to the stop as an unbelievable sight appeared in front of them.
A looming 6-foot-tall panda clad in a martial arts gi and round spectacles lumbered into the hall carrying a petite screaming figure.
'That's Ranma? Way shorter than I imagined hell I make a better guy than him' Akane snorted to herself as the panda set the trashing boy down, 'Wait guys don't have F cups.... That's a girl!’
As the rest of her family freaked out Akane took the time to time to look at the pink haired girl twirling her hair in front of her way to shy for the loud cursing she just screamed, red jacket, pig tail that was tied at the top with a yellow ribbon, a bracelet with a weird purple stone, a vaguely hi tech looking shield thing strapped to her wrist. Jackpot!
"Hey, do you want to go check out the dojo?" Akane offered to the girl scratching the panda's face. Hopefully this girl wouldn’t be too mad once she was done with her, and they could be friends.
"Oh, uh sure? I'm Ranma Saotome by the way, sorry ‘bout this," Ranma muttered softly as she followed what she assumed was a boy taller than her with soft features.
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"So, you're a duelist, right?"
Akane called out after watching the pig tailed girl pace around the room for a bit. Honestly, her new friend reminded her way too much of a cat hell her weird bracelet was clinking like a bell as she walked around. She was even sniffing the air!
"Huh?" The ensuing head tilt and blank stare were way too cute then they had any right to be. Ugh she's not into girls she's not into girls she's not into girls. "I mean it's kind of weird looking but that's a duel disk, right? Custom made I'm guessing must have been a fortune".
Ranma perked up at that, honestly her duel disk was a point of pride she earned the damn thing, "actually uh it was a gift, there was this older lady from when I was a kid that helped me out after pops' lesson weren't stickin' an she gave me her ol’ disk n jacket".
"Oh, uh cool guess it's lucky you're so short so it still fits" Akane nodded along honestly the jacket was really cute it probably would've been a neat crop top on anyone else. But on the petite girl in front of her it looked close to a fashionable Slifer red uniforms of one of the fancier duel schools minus all the school insignias.
"HEY, who ya calling short pretty boy, I don't need criticism from a guy that looks like he walked out from one of Xian pu's magazines" Hissing Ranma turned bright red her pig tail trashing around like an enraged cat's tail. It’s not her fault she lost a foot while in girl mode; it’s everyone else for being freakishly tall!
"How does your shampoo read magazines? Wait- HEY I'm a girl you damn bimbo!" Enraged Akane attempted to tower over the shorter girl to prove her point.
"Bimbo!?" Ranma practically screeched shoving her face to be nose to nose with Akane "That's it let's go tomboy this bimbos gonna knock you the hell out".
"Fine by me let's duel! Duel disk set! Duel gazer online!" After walking to the opposite side of the dojo, Akane's dark blue duel disk shifted to its full tablet form as she slapped it on her wrist. It released the slots for her monsters and spells, placing her fin shaped duel gazer on she noticed Ranma’s set up was comparatively simpler.
Shoulder raised, the hissing girl simply lifted her left arm up and flicked her wrist. The strange shield like disk emitted a lot hum then in a blink of the eye a blade like solid black with a blue outline display came to life. Then she tapped the little claw mark tattoo by her right eye, and it glowed for half a second.
"Duel!" Both shouted in unison.
Akane Tendo: 4000 Life Points
Ranma Saotome: 4000 Life Points
"Damn a tattooed duel gazer to?" Akane muttered then she mustered up all her bluster and yelled "Alright proper ladies first and joining us from the depths of the ocean to kick things off is Lantern shark in attack mode!"
Swimming up from a small pool of water that had suddenly gathered a sleek black shark with a silver metallic under belly (1500/900).
"Since I normal summoned Lantern shark its effect allows me to special summon from my hand a level 3, 4 or 5 water monster in defense mode so buzzsaw shark make a spla- wait are you drooling!?"
Sure enough, the pinkette had stars in her eyes while a long line of drool came out of her mouth. God there really wasn't anything up in that head of hers was there.
"What? Oh shit- I mean no of course not uh anyways bring out your next mea- I mean monster yeah monster hehehe" Ranma trailed off giggling and rubbing the back of her head looking for to sheepish for someone planning on EATING Akane's monsters.
"You know their holograms- ugh whatever buzzsaw shark stop hiding! Was there an update to the augmented reality system, my monsters have never been this expressive before.... Anyways I'm activating its effect, targeting Lantern shark. I'm now able to special summon another fish monster with the same level but a different name so another buzzsaw shark in defense mode! However, as a drawback for this effect I'm not allowed to activate the effects of this second buzzsaw."
Poking its head out from the water on the floor of the dojo, a black headed with a red body shark with rectangular fins with buzzsaws in the front that started to rotate spat out a jet of water where a second identical monster emerged. (1600/500)
"But these monsters won't stay on the field for long because I'm going to use all three to build the overlay network!" Thrusting her hand high into the air Akane channeled her ki to flow in a relaxed state. Her monsters became crimson motes of light and joined together in the golden spiral galaxy typical of xyz summoning. "Since all of these monsters can be treated as level 3 or level 5 when xyz summoning in addition to their normal level 4, I xyz summon! Rank 3 Shark Ceaser!"
A massive 7 foot-long 3 feet tall purple shark with a large golden crest shaped like the head of a great white and purple teeth roared to life with 3 blue orbs of light flying around it ( 1800 /2000).
"I'll activate its effect by detaching one overlay unit I can place a shark counter on Ceaser. Then I'll set two cards face down and end my turn." Smirking as Shark Ceaser ate one of its overlay units Akane took the left most and right most card in her and set then in the two ends of her spell and trap zone. ‘Alright, even if she somehow gets around drowning mirror force, Torrential tribute should keep my life points safe and with armored shark, I can make a follow up play after her turn. Yeah, I've got this one in the bag'
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"Juskenkyo! What terrifying magic! Why it almost reminds me of the master's old shadow games," Soun exclaimed holding his chin in one hand as he watched his old training partner return to human form.
"Yes, yes it's quite insidious indeed old friend" Genma stated shaking off the last bits of water clinging to his dirty gi "But we have a much bigger problem than my ungrateful son's girl curse".
"No, you can't mean!"
"I do" nodding solemnly the light caught Genma's glasses giving his solemn statement more gravity "The boy has found a rival, the biggest threat to an engagement. Quite a pretty one at that."
Back in China a purple haired amazon sneezed.
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'SHARK MEAT SHARK MEAT SHAR- oh shit it's my turn. Damn this guy- er girl I guess has no poker face she keeps smirking at her face downs, ah well I'd feel bad for beating up a girl but well I'm a girl now ain't I', a feral grin passed over Ranma face as he drew his card for turn.
"Let's start by making sure I ain't got any face downs to worry about so I'll activate mystical space typhoon targeting the face down on the right," a tornado emerge from Ranma's duel disk rushing towards Akane's side of the field blowing away her set trap and shattering it while blowing around Akane's hair.
'Even the wind feels real, what the hell's going on? This girl, she has one, doesn't she? It's the only explanation! A number monster!' Akane stiffened and set into a much more serious stance.
"Next up I activate fire formation - Gyokkou targeting the left-over set card, so long as it's on the field you can't activate that set card and all my beast-warrior monster gain hundred attack points."
A spectral wolf and tiger made of blue flames shot out of the spell card that was no hovering by Ranma’s side of the field and jumped into Akane's remaining face down leaving traces of blue flame all over.
"Then I'll activate another fire formation this time Fire Formation - Tenki which adds any level 4 or lower Beast-warrior monster from my deck to my hand. It also gives my beast-warrior 100 attack points" two birds made of yellow flames this time rammed into Ranma’s duel disk and jutted out a card that he caught.
"I add lunalight golden leo to my hand and I'm immediately normal summoning her" A young anthropomorphic girl with golden fur in a purple corset with a red ascot and a golden crescent shaped mask jumped up from out of nowhere. Landing in front of Ranma, she grabbed his deck from the slots on duel disk. Rifling through it until she stopped and picked up a card to shove into Ranma’s face.
"When golden Leo is normal or special summoned, she lets me add a Lunalight monster from my deck to my hand. But I gotta discard a card after I do. An she thinks I should take Lunalight crimson fox to my hand. Don't mind if I do and I'll immediately discard her." Taking the card offered to him by his monster Ranma slid it into the graveyard slot where the disk auto accepted the card while golden leo shuffled the deck and put it back into the disk.
"What was the point of that? Just thinning out the deck isn't going to win you the duel," Akane huffed, reddening as she saw how Ranma's monsters hung off of him as golden leo took to leaning on the shorter girl's shoulders tail wagging around.
"Relax tomboy I gotta plan don't you worry. As chain link one I'll activate golden leo effect which lets me add a lunalight monster back to my hand after it goes to the grave. Then as chain link two crimson fox will use her effect when she's sent to the grave by a card effect. I can target one monster on your field and make its attack points zero," Smirking Ranma snapped his fingers at Shark Ceaser and crimson anthropomorphic fox girl with a mask similar to golden leo leapt from a black hole in the ground. Slashing the large shark, she left a gapping crimson wound then backflipped and returned to a card form that Ranma caught between his fingers.
"Stop calling me that!! Shark Ceaser, no!" Akane screeched, getting progressively redder that changed into a sudden paling as she watched her monsters attack points drop. ( 1800 /2000) -> ( 0 /2000).
"Let's wrap this up I activate polymerization and fuse two of monster in my hand!" Throwing his arms to either side of his body, Ranma aligned his ki with his monsters and began the summoning chant necessary to bring out his monster.
"Crimson fox that props through the darkness, Emerald wings that fly over the night sky! Spiral into the moon's gravity and become a new art! Fusion summon! Beautiful Beast that fights in the moonlight! Level 7 Lunalight Cat Dancer!"
Ranma slammed his palms together as from the swirling vortex that had formed from his spell, a voluptuous 7-foot-tall woman with pale purple skin and flowing pink hair in a two-tone leotard with red at the top and dark blue at the bottom accented by flowing light blue ribbons. The only other notice that she wasn't a normal human were the two cat ears at the top of her head sauntered out onto the field . ( 2400 /2000) -> ( 2600 /2000).
Akane would have screamed pervert as soon as cat dancer strutted out to the field, but a different thought was occupying her mind. The flirtatiousness, the lack of shame, the pink hair, the way the duel was coming to life. It all made sense, it wasn't a number. Hell, it wasn't even an xyz monster, the typical extra deck method used in Japan. She’d only seen fusion from international pro matches; they really did go to China. Only one thing could explain everything; She couldn't believe it. "Dude did you just summon your mom?"
"What!?" The twin looks of disbelief and hunched up shoulders were not helping the enraged cat duelist case.
"I mean it's the only explanation for why you act like a cat and a bimbo!" In a brilliant reversal of the Saotome-foot in mouth technique Akane slammed her fist into her palm grinning like she had solved one of life's greatest mysteries. It all made sense this girl was some kind of monster given life, maybe a runaway science experiment, no what about a vengeful spirit come to haunt her family. Wait no the Saotome’s brainwashed a monster they found to offer her as a fiancée that must be it!
Trembling in rage Ranma spoke with just enough volume to reach Akane at the other side of the dojo. "I activate cat dancers' effect by tributing another Lunalight I control cat dancer can attack all your monsters twice. They aren't destroyed by battle for the first attack which means you lose Tomboy," The pink hair girl took the time before starting her battle phase to pull down her eye lid and blow a raspberry at her opponent.
"Why you!! Ha wrong thanks to Shark Ceaser effect it'll gain 1000 attack points during the damage step, and I'll be left with enough life points to turn around this duel!" Akane immediately shouted out a retort. Tragic backstory be damned she wouldn’t lose to this girl.
"Heh thanks for letting me know tomboy then in that case I'll use Lunalight purple butterfly effect to increase cat dancer attack by thousand till the end of my turn." Smirking as he slid the last card in his hand into his graveyard and practically preened.
"Wha- HEY that's a cheating!"
"It's anything goes tomboy now battle! Luna light cat dancer attack Shark Ceaser due to her effect you take 100 points of damage!"
Now clad in a purple glow cat dancer jumped into the air with an assist from golden leo and launched one of her hoops at Akane ( 2600 /2000) -> ( 3600 /2000).
Akane Tendo: 4000 Life Points -> 3900 Life Points
"At this instance Shark Ceaser gains a thousand attack points!" ( 0 /2000) -> ( 1000 /2000)
Raking her claws across Ceaser, Cat dancer added to the gash already across its belly.
Akane Tendo: 3900 Life Points -> 1300 Life Points
"Cat Dancer one more time! Attack!”
Shattering Shark Ceaser with an uppercut Cat Dancer leaped over and pushed the top of Akane's forehead with two of her fingers knocking the shark duelist to the ground.
Akane Tendo: 1300 Life Points -> 0 Life Points
Winner Ranma Saotome!
"That's what you get! I'm prettier, I'm smarter, better built and I'm a better dueli- Ack!"
Ranma’s boasting was cut off as worn as with a feral scream Akane tackled him to the ground, both now locked in a much more childish competition.
"You little-" "HEY watch the hair would ya" "You watch where you're touching pervert!" "You jumped me an now ya' complainin!"
After a while Ranma eventually wins their impromptu scuffle and pins Akane to the ground. However, due to his currently petite stature it looks like he was straddling the taller girl. "Haha! Ranma Saotome always tops!"
Sliding the door open Kasumi popped her head in "Akane, Ranma I just finished dinner come- Oh My!" Flushing red, she mustered up the sternest expression she could. "Young Ladies! I understand you're engaged but it is far too early for these kind of activities! You just met!"
Twin shrieks of embarrassment almost blew her away. "WHO'D WANNA SLEEP WITH THIS BIMBO/TOMBOY!!"
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Gazing up at the stars Ranma sighed to himself now back in his black-haired lanky birth form laying down on top of the Tendo's roof, "Damn, wha'ta shitty day".
"Hey! Boy Gender, I need to talk to you for a bit" Nabiki raised her voice enough to let her presence known but not enough to alert her sisters as she climbed onto the roof of the house.
The panda was worthless, but she had just gained a new investment, beating Akane was no joke especially so handily.
"Wha' do ya want Nabiki?", honestly Ranma wasn't a fan of the middle sister. She seemed way more like a shark than her sister, but he didn't need any more trouble after the shit show that was dinner. 'Kane had not taken that he was a guy well at all.
"Aw relax Ranma baby, I got an offer for you" smirking the demon queen of Furinkan high laid out her deal, "there's a couples tag duel coming up in a while, you need to earn your keep and since you beat Akane in one turn let's enter an make some green".
"Ugh fine I ain't a freeloader, but 'Kane don't seem like she'd be down now that she knows I'm a dude" Sitting up Ranma offered his agreement grimacing as he kept to himself that their decks didn't really mess well either.
"Leave that to Kasumi big guy, Akane got her own problems to work out long as you can keep your ego in check, we should be fine. If not worse comes to worse, I'll enter with you" Grinning Nabiki grabbed Ranma's hand to shake marking the first but not last deal with the devil he would make.