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Volume 12 (Light Peach Cover)

The Roar of Heaven: Ryouga wanders in to find Akane with her clothes torn and the still-weakened Ranma without his shirt on, and makes the conclusion that Ranma forced himself on Akane. The resulting battle aura coming from Ryouga as a result almost knocks over the pig-tailed martial artist, and Cologne now sees that Ryouga is no longer holding back his full power. Ranma intends to use Ryouga's extreme anger to fuel the power for the incredible "Hiryu Shoten Ha", or "Heaven Blast of the Dragon" technique. It's too bad that Cologne forgot to teach Ranma the final step in the dreaded technique! Ranma is left to fend for himself against the raging Ryouga, and now must figure out the final move before he's killed...

The Great Rematch: Having finally learned the "Hiryu Shoten Ha", Ranma is now ready to face Happosai. Cologne reveals that the true secret of the technique is that is uses temperature differences - the heat of the opponent's aura and the cold of the user's - to create a tornado much like an ascending dragon. Ranma and the training party now leave the moxibustion mountain in order to seek Happosai, who had first placed Ranma into his weakened state. Armed with his new technique, Ranma ambushes Happosai on one of his panty raids, ruining his spoils for the day. An angry Happosai now begins to fuel his anger, and Ranma gets ready to use his new technique, in a fight in which Ranma's strength is at stake...

St. Happosai: Happosai angrily attacks Ranma, and it looks like the old man is finally playing into his hands. However, at the last moment, Happosai pulls back, refusing to attack Ranma. Upon further questioning, it is found that Happosai already knows the secret of the dreaded "Hiryu Shoten Ha", a result of it being used on him by Cologne while they were both young. Now Happosai resolves not to use his battle aura against Ranma, essentially making Ranma's attack useless. Despite Ranma's best attempts to anger the elder martial artist (including burning his entire underwear collection) Happosai does not budge an inch. Despondent, Ranma runs out of ideas..until he figures out a surefire way to bring out Happosai's aura...

Burn, Happy, Burn: Ranma challenges a calm Happosai to a final duel, and this time Ranma decides to bring out the heat of Happosai's aura by showing him pictures of his girl-form dressed in lingerie, a step that would not have been taken had Ranma not learned how to take humiliation during his training. The trick works, and Happosai's "lust-aura" fills the battlefield with unprecedented engery. Unfortunately, Mousse, Kunou, and the Principal decide to attack Ranma at this time as well. Still angry over being ganged up on earlier when he was defenseless, Ranma unleashes the Hiryu Shoten Ha on all four of his opponents. However, he finds out soon after that Akane was accidentally caught up in the twister...

The Paper Chase: Akane had gotten caught in the Hiryu Shoten Ha twister in order to get the moxibustion map which had fallen off of Happosai during the battle. This map, when utilized was the key to getting Ranma's full strength back. A horrified Ranma jumps into the tornado to save the spinning Akane, who is quickly running out of air. At the last moment, Ranma is able to get to and save Akane, but not before the map blows away into pieces. Briefly depressed over his loss, Ranma resolves to at least save Akane, as the two plummet to the ground below from high above...

Ranma Reborn: Ranma ane Akane appear to be falling to a fatal end, until Happosai unwllingly saves them with a Happo Daikarin which buoys their falls and slow it down. However, a flying Happosai manages to catch them a few feet from the ground, running all of them into the fence surrounding the battle area. The group hits the ground safely, but the map is now all in pieces. When assembled, the map is missing an essential piece which is the key to recovering Ranma's strength. A despairing Ranma runs off, resolving to train to get his strength back, and Akane offers to go with him to carry his stuff. Howeer, at the last moment, Cologne is able to perform the moxibustion required to lift the weakness, the final piece having been found on Happosai. A rejoicing Ranma, his strength finally restored, happily destroys anyone and anything in his path for the next couple of weeks...

Who Will Bell the Cat?: Shampoo returns from China, having brought with her a legendary bell for Ranma. Wearing a bell herself, she points out that whoever has the two bells between them is destined to be a couple. However, this assumption turns out to be dreadfully wrong as the spirit of a giant ghost cat turns out to be imbedded into the bell! Ranma's extreme fear is evident as he wildly strikes the cat, who cries easily over its wounds. Having been spurned by Shampoo, who according to the Ghost Cat was to be her bride because of the bell she wears, the Ghost Cat angrily resolves to come back and duel Ranma for her, much to the ailurophobic Ranma's horror...

Kitty Takes a Bride: A horrified Ranma now has to face the Ghost Cat in a duel. Luckily for him the Cat makes the mistake of taking over Genma's body, giving Ranma the ability to attack the Ghost Cat without being afraid of it. During the battle, Ranma hurts SHampoo's feelings, and in a fit of anger, SHampoo throws Ranma into the koi pond. The Ghost Cat, seeing a "new bride", attacks the doubly horrified female Ranma, causing her to release the latent "Cat-Fist" inside her. Badly bruised and beaten by the feline-like Onna-Ranma, the Ghost Cat leaves, defeated. The next day sees the Ghost Cat at Furinkan High, offering little bells to high school girls...

Swim Like a Hammer: Akane is depressed over not being able to swim a stroke, and so the Principal, of all people, offers to train her. The Principal subjects Akane to a brutal swimming test of deadly proportions - with a boulder strapped to her back, Akane must out swim a shark. The Principal, however, is the one to be knocked into the water, and Akane jumps in to save him. However, Akane's "hammer" like swimming gets her nowhere, and Ranma has to jump in at the last minute to save Akane from the shark. Akane resolves to face the second of the Principal's test, much to his glee and Ranma's protests.

Courage Under Water: Akane faces a number of schemes by the Principal in order to get her to swim, including dressing her in swan and mermaid suits. However, Akane fails to learnt o swim,a nd is about to depart when Ranma jumps in front of her, encouraging her to continue. The rest of the crowd present, including the principal show their agreement, and Akane consents to try one more time. But it turns out that the "hammer girl" Akane cannot even swim with a life preserver in place...

Step Outside: Genma turns up missing during a training trip of his and Ranma's, and now a worried Ranma goes to look for him. Unfortunately, he finds Genma (in panda form) in a very lazy situation, far from the tenets of training that Genma had told Ranma about. It appears that the wealthy woman of a house found Genma-panda and tried to use him to get her "sickly" son Yotaro to go out and play. But Genma-panda has ended up just as lazy as the son and has ended up lounging around the house freeloading all week. An angry Ranma tries to take Genma away but then is obligated to help the little Yotaro go outside. However, the boy proves unwilling to go outside, despite Ranma's best forceful efforts, and makes the conclusion that the boy is lazy rather than sickly. Dragging enma-panda with him, Ranma runs away from the house followed by Yotaro, who has finally went outside in order to try and take back his pet "Kumihachi". Yotaro's mother is overjoyed, but Ranma ends up exhausted after running all the way from the beach to the Tendo dojo, the boy in following him all the way there without getting tired...

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