Spells R Us: Nerima Chronicles

Spells R Us: Nerima Chronicles is written by Gregg Sharp (additional alternate endings by Nicholas W. Leifker and Scott K. Jamison) and began online publication on March 7th, 1999.Post at FFML - Retrieved 16-06-2024 It was completed on March 13th, 1999.Post at FFML - Retrieved 16-06-2024
==Description==
==Plot==
===Chapter 1: Candy Candy===
A cursed Akane, trapped in the body of a stubby-tailed black cat, tries to enter the Tendo household, only to be caught by Kasumi. After some charades, and discovering that she can't change back into a human with hot water, she manages to start communicating with Kasumi and Nabiki. She learns that the same magic that transformed her has apparently retroactively warped reality so that she never existed. In this version of Nerima, Ranma and Nabiki are engaged - and quite happily, at that. Nabiki has pursued the Tendo School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts, and is also an aspiring mangaka, producing an amateur historical action-romance series she calls "The Sword and the Rose". Nabiki promises to take Akane to discuss her condition with Cologne in the morning.
The next morning, Akane eavesdrops on Nabiki and Ranma, piecing together how different this version of her sister is. What she hears makes her wonder if maybe the "real" Nabiki Tendo may secretly be jealous of her and Ranma, but is distracted when she discovers that P-chan is Ryoga.
Once Akane calms down, she, Nabiki and Ryoga head to the Nekohanten, where Akane discovers that Nabiki has ended the threat of Shampoo by getting herself formally recognised as Shampoo's Amazon sister. During this revelation, Nabiki mentions that the last trial she undertook to attain this rank involved horrible visions of a world in which she was a "minor supporting character".
With Shampoo added to the group, they track down the shop where Akane was cursed: Spells R Us. Along the way, Akane also learns that Nabiki in this timeline is bitter enemies with Ukyo; the latter was left implicitly scarred after one of her bomb attacks went horribly wrong, and her true identity as Ranma's unknown fiancée is still a mystery - everybody believes her to be a boy, and she won't come clean about it. 
===Chapter 2: More Akane Eye-openers in "Kid in a Candy Store"===
Having reached the Spells R Us shop, Akane, Nabiki, Ryoga and Shampoo enter and are greeted by the shop's infamous wizard owner. Nabiki takes charge of trying to bargain with the wizard for Akane to be cured, but is warned that this will entail setting the timeline back to the way it was before, with the wizard clearing up exactly how different things will be. Meanwhile, Shampoo tries to buy some of the wizard's transforming candies, thinking they could be useful to break Ranma and Akane's curses. Nabiki starts to hesitate, wondering if maybe restoring the timeline would be the right thing to do, but Akane jumps up on the counter and bites into a candy.
Only she eats a candy that turns her into a boy. In the resultant timeline, Ranma and Nabiki are still engaged, but Akane, here called "Akira", is the one being pursued by Shampoo and Kodachi. Meanwhile, Ukyo is still chasing Ranma. Kasumi has also become a martial artist herself and has two undetailed would-be suitors of her own.
After being fully acquainted, Akira returns to Spells R Us and considers whether or not to try and use another candy.
===Chapter 3: A Fistful of Akanes===
:This chapter showcases multiple endings based on Akane/Akira's choice at the end of the previous chapter.
*In ending #1, Akira decides that this timeline is better for everyone and selflessly leaves the shop without trying to alter history again. She then snaps back to "reality", and discovers the events of the previous chapter was a vision quest she underwent as part of her own trials to be adopted into the Chinese Amazons. 
*In ending #2 (by Nicholas W. Leifker), Akira eats an unidentified candy that basically resets her into the role of , with Shampoo taking the role of .
*In ending #3, Ranma and Nabiki arrive, and they end up buying a wish for Ranma. However, when he unwisely wishes to "return everything to normal", reality resets into a timeline where, shortly after Ranma arrived, the still-hostile Akane found out about and contacted Nodoka. This resulted in her forcing Ranma and Genma to commit seppuku for Ranma's Nyanniichuan curse. 
*In ending #4, Akira buys an enchanted copy of Beauty and the Beast. Which turns Ranma into "Beauty" and Akira into "The Beast".
*In ending #5, Akira eats an unidentified cookie that retcons Akane into being the 11-year-old adopted Scandinavian daughter of Soun, who has taken over the housework and given Kasumi the chance to pursue her dreams. Meanwhile, Nabiki and Ranma are happily engaged.
*In ending #6 (by Scott K. Jamison), Akira eats a Baby Ruth candy and is turned into a baby Akane.
*In ending #7 (by Scott K. Jamison), Akira transforms himself into Usagi Tsukino, resulting in a mashup of Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon where now she combines her old love dodecahedron with Ranma with the twin hassles of a) Usagi's life (and terrible reputation), and b) most of the Sailor Senshi chasing Ranma too.
*In ending #8, Akira retcons himself from being Akane Tendo into a girl called "Juliette Forbes", a fiancée of the "Genma made a promise he never meant to keep" variety.
*In ending #9, Akira manages to think and gets a magical VHS tape that rewinds history, allowing Akane everything to as it was before she entered the Spells R Us shop. A perfect ending... except she now remembers how much happier Nabiki, Kasumi and Ranma were in both the timeline where she never existed and the one where she was Akira Tendo, leaving her to bear that guilt and self-loathing forever.
==Notes==
*Followed by Zen Blend, also by Sharp.
*A collection of "Additional Endings" was also posted.
*MSTed by John Alan Riggs: Chapter 1Retrieved 05-11-2023 03/05/99
==FFML Posting History==
*1 07/03/99
*1 - "Additional Scenes" 09/03/99
*2 11/03/99
*2 (revision) 11/03/99
*3 13/03/99
*"Additional Endings" 30/03/99
==RAAC Posting History==
*Story & "Additional Endings" 31/08/99
==See Also==
==External Links==
*Spells R Us: Nerima Chronicles & "Additional Endings" at Fanfiction.net - Retrieved 23-01-2016
*Spells R Us: Nerima Chronicles & "Additional Endings" at Mediaminer.org - Retrieved 23-01-2016
*Spells R Us: Nerima Chronicles & "Additional Endings" at the Internet Archive record of Studio Asynjor - Retrieved 23-01-2016
==References==
Category:1999