Once upon a time there lived a prince, called Mitsui, who was cold to everybody and loved nobody. The only thing that he cared for is basketball. One stormy night a knock came from his front castle door. There outside in the pouring rain was the cutest buxomous red-head the prince had ever seen.

"Please can you let me in, kind sir. It's raining out here and I'm cold and wet."

But even despite her *ahem* assets and charms, Mitsui has no intention of letting her inside.

Then she said in a low tone, still looking at him flirtatiously whispered, "If you must know, I'm the sorceress, Ranma. I can grant you any wish you want if you let me in."

"If you are a sorceress, then why are you pleading to be let inside. You can just magic your way into this castle with of without my permission," Mitsui stated.

The redhead stopped fluttering her eyelashes and growled, "Alright! I have enough of this! It's pourin' out here and I'm cold so let me in or I'll throw you to the nearest Jysenkyo spring before you can even say ... aahhh! ... KUNO!"

Mitsui looked behind her and there was a young man in a blue and black kendo suit, carrying a boken, demanding with a hurt expression on his face, "My pig-tailed goddess! Who is this peasant?!"

"I am the owner of this castle so I don't think that makes me a peasant!" said Mitsui angrily.

"Ah! So I see that thou art gracious enough to lend us shelter for the night!" said Kuno regally, "Come on my pig-tailed godess. Let us take up on his offer."
Wrapping his arms around the girl's shoulder he said, "How I have searched for thou! I thought I have lost thou when thou tried to run away from the rain!"

"Get you hands offa me!" cried the girl pushing the young man away, "I was not running away from the rain, I was running away from you, ya pervert!!"

"Oh, thou art always playing hard to get! Thou don't have to do that to play for my affection. However I do find it exciting in a relationship."

"I am not having any kind of relationship with the likes of you!"

Saying so she began kicking the young man black and blue (kinda like the colour of his clothes, only more painful) with Mitsui as the befuddled spectator, when she suddenly felt something itch at the back of her red chinese-styled tunic.

"Ouch! What is it…" she reached back and to her surprise it a red rose whose thorns were pricking at her back. It was one of the roses that Kuno had offered to her a few hours before and apparently one of it had managed to slip in her shirt when she tried to hurl the bouquet back to the him a few seconds after he gave it to her.

"Ah, my goddess! So thou have accepted my declaration of love! I have faith in thy acceptance as who could resist my charms and riches," said Kuno happily reaching out for her yet again.

"Ya sick, demented.. grrrr…TAKE THIS!" with that Ranma-chan knocked the young man through the roof of the castle and into orbit. Keeping Kuno in view she quickly chanted a spell and aimed it to the boy but at that moment Mitsui chose to step into the line of fire to look at the flying kendoist.

"Wow! I never thought anyone could fly so high bef…" he stopped suddenly when he felt something hit him and he fell into darkness.

When he came to, he looked into a pair of worried blue eyes belonging to the red-head.

"Ouch… what happened?" the prince said rubbing his head. His voice sounded funny, more gruff, and his head feels…

"Wh-what happened?"

"Uh…" the girl laughed nervously, "Y'see I was aiming for that Kuno jerk but then you got in the way and… well…"

"Wha…"

Ranma-chan whipped out a mirror and put it in front of the prince's face.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO MEEE!!"

"Now, don't get excited…"

"Don't get excited? I'm a freak of nature for God's sake and you tell me not to get excited! Alright! I'm damned pissed off!"

"Hey! The spell can be broken…"

"How?!"

"You gotta find someone who can love you without minding the look that you are in," said Ranma-chan.

"That's it? Wait a minute - that might be a problem because I rarely go out of the castle walls and the people outside would never believe that I was once a good looking guy," said the prince stroking his furry chin.

(NOOR: Yeah…*sigh* *dreamy eyed*

HANAMICHI: *gag*)

"How about you? You've seen me before I turned into this. Think you can love me? Anyway, this is your fault!" accused the prince.

"Hey! You were the one who were in the way! Anyway, I'm a guy and I already got three fiancées to think about!" said Ranma-chan.

"You're a what?"

"Long story… Hey let me try another spell. Lemme see…" saying so, she licked her lips in concentration before she let out another blast of spell. Unfortunately at that time the servants were running to see what the commotion was all about and they got hit instead. A good thing too because the prince wouldn't want to be a candelabra or a clock.

"Oppsie…" laughed Ranma-chan nervously, "Let's try again". Before the prince could stop her, she threw another spell but this time it aimed at another group of servants and they instantly became a chinaware set and an oven.

"Stop! Stop! You're making this worse!" cried out the prince.

"Well… I'm just learning…"

"Oh great! Zapped by an amateur," groaned Mitsui.
"I hope there is no time limit to get someone to fall in love with me?" the prince asked dryly.

"Well…"

"Spit it out," demanded the prince.

"Umm… you have gotta find someone before the last petal of this rose fall. If you can't, then you're a beast for good," answered the girl meekly.

There was silence as they looked at the already crushed rose in the girl's hand. At once the servant plucked it out of her grasp, lest she get clumsy with it (I mean, everyone in the castle got a taste first hand what her wayward spells did) and placed it in a glass cage they found nearby.

"This is just PEACHY! Never mind! I don't care if I want to be a beast or a person anyway. I rarely go out so…" said the prince finally. The servant tried to protest but he only glared at them fit to kill. By the time the servants had walked back to their post duties (albeit grumbling which can be heard), the redhead had already disappeared…

~end prologue~