Ranma's Travels
(A Ranma One Half / Multi crossover)
By Ammadeau
Roy.Fokker@UNSpacy.org
http://Ammadeau.tripod.com/fanfiction.htm

World 7: Oh My Goddess

	Ranma couldn't believe that his luck was changing.  
Regaining conciseness, he feared the worse that he was once again 
trapped in an alien dimension for a week, away from his friends 
and family.  Sometimes it was fun sure, but he'd rather that it 
happened less often now that his life had reached manageable 
levels.
	Just as he was getting into a small fit of depression, he 
noticed a young woman pass him with silver hair and Ranma knew 
only one person that had that hair color.  "Ryoko!" he shouted and 
started to run up to her, but surprisingly she didn't turn around or 
even stop.  It had to be her, she was about the same height, wore 
the same style clothes, and moved the way she did regardless of the 
fact that she usually flew instead of walked.  Had she not heard 
him? "Ryoko!" he said again as he finally reached her and put a 
hand on her shoulder to stop her.
	The woman that turned around was definitely not Ryoko. 
While there were a number of similarities, the tanned skin, gayjin 
features, and marks on the face gave it away.  "What do you think 
you're doing?" she said in a tone that if Akane had used he'd be 
flinching already.
	"Um, I'm sorry," Ranma said, hiding his hands behind his 
back.  "I thought that you were someone else."
	"Obviously," Urd said, feeling her anger fade as she started 
to look over the boy.  All he had done was mistake her for 
someone else.  He looked to be about seventeen with rough good 
looks combined with a very muscular physique piqued her interest.  
But there was more than that, a tangible aura of power hung around 
him at a level that she had never sensed in a mortal before.  This 
was someone she should check out with the Yaggsil system.
	"And who is this Ryoko anyway?  Your girlfriend?"
	Ranma laughed a little at that.  Ryoko belonged heart and 
soul to just one person, and it wasn't him, "No, she's just a friend of 
mine.  You look a lot like her, from the back at least."
	"Oh, and is she pretty?"  Urd asked, running her fingers 
through her hair as she gave her generous assets a playful bounce.  
She smiled at Ranma's slight blush.
	"Yes, she's very pretty.  She's also arrogant, stubborn, prone 
to jealousy, and has a real bad temper.  But she's a good friend."
	Urd thought it was ironic that she had heard people describe 
her in just this way, even her own little sister.  She decided that she 
liked this person, whoever he was.
	"You seemed awfully happy to see someone who is just a 
friend.  Are you lost?"
	Ranma scratched his head.  "Yeah.  How did you guess?"
	"Oh, I have my ways," Urd replied mysteriously.  "If you 
need to use a phone, there's one at the shrine that I live at.  It's only 
down the street."
	"That's very nice of you, miss . . ."
	"Urd, just call me Urd.  I didn't catch your name."
	"It's Ranma, Ranma Saotome."
	'Wild horse?'  Urd thought as she smiled, 'This one is going 
to be very interesting.'

	"I'm home!" Urd shouted as she entered the living room, 
Ranma following some distance behind her.  He was happy that he 
met someone friendly right away, but he was starting to feel that 
Urd was a little too friendly.  In much the same way that Shampoo 
was.  'If she starts saying woo da ni,' Ranma thought, 'I am out of 
here.'
	"Welcome home, sister," Belldandy replied from the 
kitchen where she was busily preparing lunch by hand.  She could 
have used magic, but enjoyed the process of making food too much 
to rush it along.  Besides, they needed to keep their magic in 
reserve in case Mara showed up.  The demon first class had been a 
little too quiet lately.  She was likely to visit soon.
	Urd looked around for the phone, but it seemed to have 
disappeared.  "Sis, where's the phone?"
	"Oh my, I'm afraid that the phone is broken.  Skuld was 
trying to fix it, but something happened and the phone exploded.  
Keiichi went out to buy a new one."
	"That's okay," Urd told Ranma with a smile, "You can use 
the phone in my room.  It's a lot more comfortable there anyway."
	Ranma didn't like the way she stressed 'a lot' or how she 
purred like a cat at the end.
	"Oh, Urd," Belldandy called out to he sister again, "The 
phone in your room isn't working either."
	"How did that happen?"
	"Skuld wanted an example when she worked on the phone, 
so she took yours apart to see how they worked.  I'm afraid that 
your phone was caught in the explosion."
	Urd said a few choice words under her breath that a good 
goddess shouldn't have known.  "Where's the brat now?"
	"She had to leave suddenly.  She didn't explain why."
	To Urd, the reason was all too obvious.
	"Urd, would your friend like to stay for lunch?  We're going 
to eat when Keiichi comes back with the phone anyway."
	"So how about it, Saotome?" Urd asked as she turned to 
face her new guest.  "Hungry?"
	"I don't want to impose."