Feline\'s Mate

In the garden, Genma-panda was flashing fangs and inches-long claws at a strange lion-like man. Soun was before his two eldest daughters, a protective gesture unusual for the normally crying man. Akane was before another man, tiger-like this time, in an aggressive stance.

“Who are you? What do you want to do with my daughters?!”

A masked man advanced. He was tall, even taller than Soun with wide shoulders and a lean but strong built. A warrior.

“Your daughters? These pitiful creatures? Don’t mock me. As if I wanted a weak thing like these as mate! No, who I want is… Him.”

He pointed to Ranma who observed the things from afar as the newcomers weren’t aggressive and, to be truthful because he didn’t want to fight so soon after what happened sooner.

He looked at the man with wide eyes. It was a first: a -man- coming for him?! He took a stance, his familiar infuriating smirk on his face.

“And what do you want from me?”

The stranger, to the shock of everyone, was within Ranma’s personal space and gazing down at him in a matter of seconds.

“What I want is you.” And in a move so swift that it was invisible to all, he bit deeply into his throat. The man’s attack has been so unexpected that Ranma couldn’t react.





During his lunge, his hood had been thrown back, exposing a handsome face with sharp golden eyes and long blond hair, black marks and long tail marking him as a cheetah-like man.

The others gasped, horrified as they saw the blood on the man’s lips and coating Ranma’s slender neck. Ranma slumped unconscious against the man and was easily hefted bride-like into strong arms. He looked at the Tendo and snarling Saotome.

“Now, I’ll go. I have what I came for.” He smiled, it wasn’t a good smile. He extended long golden feathered wings, hidden till now under the large black cloak.





“Stop here, demon!”

Happosai and Cologne took in the scene: Ranma limp and motionless in the demon’s arms, blood dripping from his neck and the demon’s wings unfurled and ready to take flight.

“Why have you come here? What Ranma has that is so interesting for a powerful demon like you to be interested in?”

The demon smirked.

“Well you see, I’m becoming old, I’m in need of an heir… I need a powerful and beautiful mate.”

Akane decided to let herself known while trying to pass past the growling lion-man glaring at her.

“But it’s stupid! Why do you want him? He’s not even that powerful… And he’s a boy!!”

The demon snorted, looking at the girl with disgust on his disdainful face.

“Now, he’s almost as powerful as the elders… And as him being a boy, it’s not really a problem. I’ll have my heirs.”



Seeing Cologne become ghastly white, the others knew that Ranma will surely be in danger soon.

With a final laugh, the demon and his acolytes disappeared in a swirl of purple smoke and golden feathers with their prize.

“Things always get interesting around that boy…”





They looked at the aged grandmaster of the Anything Goes and saw his tight features and shaking hands. Then, they heard an ominous growl and turned as one toward the panda.

“(Who was this monster?! What the fuck does he want with my son?!)”

Saotome Genma was snarling, the vicious questions on the signs making all the people present stare and take a step back. They had never seen him so… wild before.



The grandmaster and the elder looked at each other with a questioning glance: was Genma finally becoming more in tune with the curse? Pandas could be dangerous beasts when endangered or angered… A question made them look up from their inner musings.

“Yes, why this obviously powerful beast wants Ranma?” Nabiki looked at her youngest sister “normally, these things happen to ‘Kane, not Ranma!”

Ignoring the glare coming from her sister and the reproachful look from Kasumi, Nabiki stared at the two elders.

“I’m afraid that a term used by Saotome-san answers your question, young Tendo.”

Kasumi ported a hand at her mouth, the two other sisters paled even further while Happosai nodded his head grimly.

“You… you mean that he means to… with Ranma?” Asked the blue haired girl.

“I’m afraid so.” Soun fainted. Genma was foaming at the mouth with rage

“(We need to find Ranma! Demon or not, I won’t let my son be used like that!)” Long fangs were bared threateningly.

“Indeed, we must rescue son-in-law before that youkai does anything to him. He said that he wanted to have heirs and it should be impossible as Ranma is male, even with the Nannichuan…”

The little crowd looked relieved but Nabiki still looked uneasy. There were always “but” in these kinds of explanations.

“But son-in-law came to me a month ago concerning pains and we discovered that his curse was… mixing, merging for lack of better term, with his natural body. So unfortunately if this damned demon beds him, there is a probability that he’ll end bearing youkai children…”

“Oh my God…” Kasumi’s reaction was mirrored by all the others, some with more… ire than hers.

“We must absolutely find him before this could happen! I‘ll go search Shampoo, Mousse and Ryoga at the Neko Hanten.”

This said Happosai took to the rooftops like a bullet.

‘I won’t let my heir be used as a broodmare by a fucking demon!’

Cologne turned toward the Saotome elder and the Tendos.

“Try to find as many combatants as possible, we’ll need all the help we can find.” They all nodded and left the Tendo dojo.

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Lord Yasha of the clan of the Great Feline demons gazed at the boy sleeping on the gold and silver silk sheets of the King-size bed in the royal chamber, his servants had stripped the young man of his Chinese clothes and had replaced them by beautiful garments made of fine black silk with sapphire blue bordering. It made the already beautiful boy even more gorgeous: his peach skin looked paler, almost glowing, his dark hair and sooty lashes darker compared to his light complexion.

A long clawed finger brushed glossy midnight hair and caressed a high cheekbone. It was a miracle that he has found such a beauty among these foolish humans: he had been on the surface because an human had defeated Saffron, the Lord of the Phoenix, and he had been curious, as all felines were, and had wanted to see who had accomplished such a feat.



He had been really surprised as he caught the scent of a powerful individual possessing feline’s demon blood and internal energy so strong that he felt it even where he was, several kilometers away.

Tracking the scent, he had landed before a traditional dojo and, to his utter joy, has found that the strange scent smelling of the feline’s blood as been that of a fertile male. It had shocked him as very few male demons were able to give birth but it also overjoyed him as the children from male bearers were always much stronger and powerful than normal children.



His prayers to the Great Demon Goddess had been answered so he wouldn’t let this chance pass by.



He had entered the ground with two of his personal guards Shenlong a tiger demon and Guado a lion demon without hassle. (As his bodyguard were known to stop him from entering anywhere and everywhere...) And when his target has been near, he had almost lost it here and there: his scent was heavenly powerful with a deep, strong hormonal flavour meaning that he was fertile and ripe for taking, the underlying scent of blood accompanying this was thick and oh so delicious to his feline taste… Anyone with an acute nose must have become half crazy near him… and it was understandable.



As the young man took an offensive stance, he rushed past his guard and bit deeply into that long smooth neck. Heaven.

He remembered looking at the pathetic humans and thinking how hilarious it was to see them trying to stop him. As if they could do anything! The rest was a blur, only the delicious form in his arms was important.



Coming back to the present, he keeps on staring at his “prey”.

“Sir?” Kyubi a kitsune stood at the entrance of the beautifully decorated room. He was a demon mage, one of he best in all the hhhhhhh. He had come from his clan at his demand, even with the rivalry between the Felines and Canis species.

“The preparation can begin as soon as you, my Lord and your intended are ready.”

“Very well, Kyubi-san. We need to do it as soon as we can before these humans come and annoy us.” He caressed Ranma’s soft cheek.

“I’m sorry of asking this ceremony this quickly. I know that to awake one’s blood is a difficult and long process...”

“Do not worry, Sir. I’m the best mage here and it’s an honour to help someone as great as you… And your intended possesses a pure heart, noble spirit and remarkable beauty that we, Kitsune appreciate particularly in an individual. It’s a joy to awake great blood in a being like this one, my Lord.”

Yasha smiled at the Mage and gazed back at his soon to be mate.

“Indeed, he merits this inheritance. These humans did nothing but harm to this pure soul. He merits having another life.” He turned back toward the Mage.



None of the men had remarked the two sapphirine slits looking at them through thick lashes nor the crystalline tears slowly rolling down soft temples to be lost among dark blue hair.



Saotome Ranma has heard during these last twenty minutes more praises and respect/worry that he has heard these last two years he passed at the Tendo dojo. Irony made them be uttered by demons, who were supposed to be cruel and vicious. Irony is a bitch. He didn’t want to hear anything anymore so he happily embraced the darkness of unconsciousness swallowing him. He didn’t want to hear these demons show more humanity than most of these persons he had called “friends” and “family”.



Yasha, Lord of the Felines took the young braided man in his muscled arms and cautious as not to jolt his precious burden, went accompanied by his two loyal guards, Kyubi and the Royal Mages, toward the ancient ceremonial room deep into the dark mansion.

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