Disclaimer: Look at Chapter one! ^.~

A/N: I noticed many people thought I had Ranma a little OCC in the first chapter. Well, I just want you all to picture that if you were so depressed as to kill yourself, wouldn't you jump up at the chance of being with someone who loved you for you and not as a prize like Ranma?

But I'm glad you all noticed the way I had him jump up to our mysterious vampire friend like that. Makes me feel proud someone wanted to criticize me to make me a better writer! Thank you for the comments everyone! Glad to know some people noticed too, that there weren't many Ranma vampire stories.

Hope you like this chapter! Bye!

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I awoke to the smell of ramen. I opened my eyes and stared at an unfamiliar ceiling-which caused me to jump out of bed with a million thoughts running through my head. The most prominent being which fiancée had finally dragged me into bed with them using a new type of drug. But before a full state of panic sat in, I noticed the silk sheets on the bed which was a blood red color, it had felt very soft and slippery when I had been in the bed, and the old Chinese carpets under my feet. My internal panic calmed somewhat since I knew even Kodachi didn't have enough money for some of the Chinese carpets under my feet, and she had a lot of money up in her mansion!

I noticed the warm breeze coming from the left of me and that’s when I realized I didn't have my customary red Chinese shirt and black pants on. This caused the panic to swirl up again in me; I was almost naked, (I still had boxers on), in a strange house that obviously had enough money to afford having Chinese carpets that looked very old lying around the house like the cheap stuff you buy in stores.

My stomach growled at me for attention and I relaxed a little as I caught the smell of the food again in the breeze. I sat on the bed and picked up the bowl of ramen on the dresser and the chop sticks that were next to it while still keeping a guard up for anyone who might step into the room.

I began to recall, as I chowed down on the best ramen I've ever had, the strange boy I met last night. Something about him seemed off, very wrong like he didn't belong somehow in the scheme of things.

Last night I remembered I was a wreck. I was probably more depressed then I had ever been realizing the hopelessness of my life in general. I had wanted to end it all after the horrible day I had ever had. As I ate my food, I thought about the terrible things that led up to the meeting on the bridge and maybe the answer to why I was here now.

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Pops threw me into the koi pond several times this morning. I was very tired, having to fight off an enthusiastic Kodachi who had snuck into my room for me to 'make her a woman' tonight. That had kept me up all night will horrible nightmares of a paralyzed and drugged me marrying the psycho gymnastics girl that laughed happily (with that shuddering, bone-chilling, skin crawling laugh) while dragging me into bed. During sparring with pops, I still shuddered at the thought of that dream, it was one I never hoped to have again in my entire life or else I'd end up in the mental ward of a hospital. Hell, that image would drive anyone over the edge!

To make it worse, Akane was cooking this morning and I had a very bad feeling about this "food" since I had heard her earlier in the morning pounding it back into the pot. So I had, of course, refused to eat the toxic waste she dared to call food and she pounded me into the ground with that damned mallet that always seemed to come out of no where.

After I had pealed myself off the floor, I had little time to grab my book case and grab an apple to eat before I had to leave. I raced to school and stumbled upon the True Blunder the local village idiot. He stated I was an enemy of all women and that today he would get his revenge for the gods were shining on him--yadda yadda, same ol' same ol'--which caused me to become late when I finally pounded the samurai wannabe into the sky.

I managed to do okay in school without getting drained by the local chi vampire that was my teacher until lunch came around. Just like it had been for two years; my other two fiancées bombarded me with lunch offers. Shampoo had smashed through one of the walls in the lunchroom while Ucchan came towards me. All the while, Akane had come up to me with the lunch she made and then all three fiancées started a huge fight. It ended with half the cafeteria demolished and me pounded into the ground-again. I still haven't figured out how it always ended up me getting beat up in fights when others start it but I shoved that thought away as I got up from the floor.

School was called off for the rest of the day because the construction crew had to repair the damage in the school before Monday classes. I was sure Nabiki had phoned them as soon as the fight had broken out, it was well known that the "Nerima Wrecking Crew" always demolished things on daily bases. Our district construction workers were very happy and well-paid men considering the amount of damaged that needed to be repaired every day between the smashed walls, broken pipes, bombs craters, and destroyed walls.

I tried to get some time to myself to relax for a bit. But the fiancée bargaid would have none of it and I was bombarded again with the food, and date offers. I think they had ruined all beautiful women for me even though many men considered me very lucky. I mean, wouldn't most people get sick of well atoned women throwing themselves at you--just begging to be taken into bed and do it all night--everyday? I got fed up with them after I saw the fifth mini-battle spatula hit the dojo wall. I yelled at them to stop it.

To make a long story short, I was pounded into the koi pond by the Tendo fiancée and changed into a girl which did not help my mood at all. For the rest of the day I did the one thing I've always hated my father for, I ran way. I wasn't being a coward in any way, I just couldn't take it anymore. The stress was building up on me and killing me slowly from everything that was happening to me. I didn't care anymore, fuck honor, I wanted out. I hated the way my life was and I was willing to end it all there if no one tried to stop me. My whole life was a mess no one would want to live in.

I came to a bridge and spent most of the day there thinking about my life until sunset. That was when I was about to jump off the bridge into cold water to change me into a girl. I wanted to die weak like a woman, for no man would run away from responsibilities. But then strange boy showed up. I had felt his presence like distinct electricity up my spine.

His power was awe-inspiring but even then I felt he was out of reach so to speak. He was untouchable in a way I couldn't understand. My instincts were wild, telling me this thing was unnatural but at the moment I wasn't listening.

Sometimes, I could read a person's aura. It was different then feeling chi, I could actually see colors around a person sometimes without a battle aura flaring up. And as I was lost in my depression, I felt worthless like a nothing being that was more trouble then I was worth. But I felt and somewhat saw the love of the boy rolling off him in waves. His aura was radiating love.

It was comforting, it was a feeling I don't remember ever having. Being on the road, I had never truly bonded with my father despite our blood relation. My mother, I could barely remember her and since seeing her for the first time as a guy a few months ago, I haven't felt much love from her. It was mostly duty and honor, things that were used against me by my own flesh and blood.

And a person, whom I don't even know, loves me.

I can't explain the feeling it gave me, that someone loved me not like a prize, but for me. I didn't care at all that I didn't know him, I just wanted to feel love. So against all my screaming instincts, I took his cold, hard, stone hand when he offered it.

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I stared down at my empty bowl of ramen after I sorted through my memories. It still didn't explain how I had gotten here in this rich, fancy house to begin with. I strained to remember anything at all but all I remembered was a warm, safe feeling that washed over me after I took the boy's hand. Being in such a place and how the boy showed up at exactly the right time made me suspicious.

Now that I wasn't as depressed as I had been, I knew I could be in danger at this very moment. It was a bad idea to go with the boy, now I had to worry about explaining my absence to the Tendos and pops.

I put down the bowl of ramen and left the rice alone. I got up and hunted around for my clothes but I couldn't find them anywhere. But I found a pile of clothes with a hat. I rolled the idea around in my mind of putting them on. I decided if I wanted to get out of here; I couldn't very well do it in my boxers.

I put on the clothes given to me. I found out they were a green, long-sleeve, Chinese shirt with golden clasps that button down the middle, and a pair of green kung-fu pants with black kung-fu slippers that fit me perfectly. The hat was just my size and matched my outfit too, as it was green with a golden star on the front. I spotted a mirror to my right and curiously I walked over to look into my reflection.

A handsome, Japanese boy stared back at me with warm blue eyes dressed in a green silk traveling outfit. The outfit clung to his body in all the right places showing off his lean figure and the fading sunlight caused his face to have an almost other-wordly look.

"Angelic" could be used describe the reflection staring back at me.

I had to admit, I looked delicious. I shook the those thoughts in my mind, reminded myself that I just needed to dress in these clothes to escape. I noticed the door that left me an exit in my room and it looked like an old stone door. I realized if I didn't want anyone to know I had gone for a while, then I had better leave through the window. The Breaking Point would wake any one up if I had used it.

I ran over to the window and opened it wider and jumped up onto the ledge. My eyes widened when I saw the steep drop of a rocky siding of a mountain of some sort. Now I wasn't afraid of heights, since my school is primarily based on aerial attacks, but the sight of the drop would cause any man to fall to his knees at the sheer size of it. I might of been the best martial artist of my generation but even a jump like that would kill me.

Adding to the fact that I couldn't see any land around out at sea. I really didn't want to freeze my ass of swimming in the sea as a girl to find any hope of land. Swimming to Japan from China was okay, since I knew where the hell I was going but I didn't know here and I didn't want to drown.

It looked like I was stuck until someone came to get me to show me where the hell I was and what I was doing here. I pouted as I sometimes do in my girl form and sat on the comfortable bed in wait for what was to come to me.

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A while later I woke up a second time today to the smell of food. I hadn't realized I had fallen asleep in my boredom but apparently I had. While I was asleep, it seemed someone had came into my room and took my old dishes away and put more food there. I was angry that I missed my chance to escape but I got over it when I ate the food that had been laying there. I had dirty rice, an American dish that had a certain type of rice that was mixed in with chopped meat. Even though the food was really greasy, it was good.

I was content for a while with the food in my stomach so I stared up at the ceiling looking at the blocks of cement the building was made of. I guessed it was an old gai-jin castle from the style but I wasn't sure since I didn't really pay attention in class to know that sort of stuff.

I noticed the sun was going down when I looked out the window and I sat up. It was a nice sunset, the rays of light were glinting off the ocean water making it sparkle nicely. I chuckled as I thought of what Nabiki would think if I had said any of that to her. She would be so shocked that me, the jock, would be able to say something like that out of my mouth. Then she would probably ask me who the heck was I and where was the Ranma she knew that was the complete idiot.

That thought sobered me instantly. Even in my imagination, the people I knew insulted me and my intelligence. I tried to think of something else so that I wouldn't fall into the depression that had almost taken me over yesterday. Thinking of something else didn't help me much a few minutes later so I got up from bed and in my new outfit I was sporting, I did my kata.

The room was fairly big so I was able to do most of the exercises I normally did when I needed to think of something else. I made sure I didn't break anything or destroyed the carpet or something. I relaxed into the familiar movements and closed my eyes in the sensation of body movement.

Punch. Kick. Jump. Kick. Kick. Punch. Jump.

The panic I had felt earlier when I woke up the first time subsided in my mind and the tense waiting of someone to come get me melted away. I focused on my center and felt peace crawl up on me. It was a wonderful feeling of peace, I hardly got it anymore with the chaotic life I led. If I wasn't moving and the fact I was in bed all day, I would have fallen asleep again.

Suddenly the door open and I sharply jerked out of my kata to stare at the person who opened the door and I adjusted my hat so it wasn't falling off my head. It was that boy that loved me, the one who confused me.

"I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself, Ranma." The brown, long, curly hair boy said in slightly old-form Japanese. He smiled at me politely and I noticed he was dressed in some old fashioned clothes I hadn't noticed last night with my mind-crushing depression. His smile showing me his sharp, white fangs. "My name is Armand."

My heart jumped into my throat suddenly as I saw his glass-like fingernails and fangs in the candlelight from the hallway. Then the full realization of what he was startled me and frightened me at the same time.

Oh shit..

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I mean and cruel for leaving you with such a cliffhanger, I know. ^.^ I hope you like Chapter Two of "The Wild Tale" story. I hope you enjoyed it as I worked very hard on it! Please review me with comments! ^.~

-AlantisB