Zen Blend

Zen Blend is written by Gregg Sharp and was published online on April 27th, 1999.Post at FFML
==Description==
==Plot==
Akira Tendo tries to find a magical item in the "Spells R Us" shop to revert back to being Akane Tendo. He settles for taking an item called "Zen Blend", and then suddenly vanishes. The wizard is very surprised, only to realize he has been joined by the Elder God of Chaos, . Originally, the Zen Blend would have swapped out Akira Tendo for the fanfic writing self-insert character "Zen", making him into Soun's third child and only son. However, with Toltiir's intervention, it instead resulted in the Tendo family being visited by a powerful mystic being at the funeral for Mrs. Tendo. The story then switches focus to the new timeline.
In this new timeline, Kasumi is capable of talking to the dead and has become a powerful , and Akane has eagerly pursued the path of an ascetic Zen mystic; Akane is insistent that Nabiki will follow her footsteps, but Nabiki has remained the "normal one" of the Tendo family, and wants nothing to do with the life of hardship and denial that Akane has embraced. Thus, when Ranma Saotome arrives, Nabiki eagerly volunteers to take up the engagement, having decided that even if he is "rough around the edges", as the spying spirit of her dead mother and Akane's mystic foresight has reported, he cannot possibly be worse than being forced into the role of a Zen warrior-nun!
Akane, meanwhile, quickly makes an enemy of Ranma by bluntly declaring that he is spiritually flawed due to Genma's own failed teachings, and that he cannot hope to be cured of Jusenkyo until he has managed to rebalance his spirit and bore the capricious spirits of Jusenkyo. He challenges her to a fight, and she defeats him effortlessly. She gives Nabiki a few nudges of advice on how to fully ensnare Ranma's heart and have a happy life with him, then leaves Nabiki to get to know her new fiancé better. Outside, she reveals some of the future to Kasumi.
It ends with some exposition by the author expanding on the backstory of the Tendos in this alternative universe.
==Notes==
*Sequel to Spells R Us: Nerima Chronicles, also by Sharp.
==FFML Posting History==
*Story 27/04/99
==RAAC Posting History==
*Story 03/05/99
==See Also==
==External Links==
*Zen Blend at Fanfiction.net - Retrieved 23-01-2016
*Zen Blend at the Internet Archive record of Studio Asynjor - Retrieved 23-01-2016
==References==
Category:One Chapter Story
Category:1999