ehnnn.. I think that you're kinda missing the whole point of what AMS is
about and how the characters grew and changed over the last 166 chapters of
the story.

Bell isn't just a goddess with super powers...she also is NOT a martial
artist... and doens't like it when people fight.

You gotta look at the root of what AMS is all about... and also what Ranma
is about to see what I mean.

For AMS...  it's who she is and who Keiichi is  that makes their
interactions with those around them so special

You kinda end up with a choice though in your fic idea they way you present
it.

The first choice is having Bell and K1 never having met... but ... if you
start it out with her never having met Keiichi... then she loses a ton of
who she is... Don't get me wrong.. the anime is fun for AMS... but the manga
is the canon for the characters.... That said what Bell has learned and the
person she has become are due to her being with K1.She'd never be the same
person with Ranma.  Frankly the original Bell would have just seen that
Ranma was also engaged to the other fiancees and gotten him married off to
one of them and hot footed it out of there.

Keiichi was a different matter entirely. Initially Bell wanted OUT of the
wish... and she was pretty upset about it all at the start. In fact.. if you
read the first few manga you get the sneaking suspicion that she's
deliberately making life tough for him and zapping him as payback for his
wish. She has this secretive little smile that just makes it plain that
she's not as innocent as she wants him to think.

But ultimately, he was patient, and kind and accepting of her... tons more
mature than Ranma is capable of being... and that self sacrificing and kind
sweet nature of his is what won her over... In fact it wasn't until the Lord
of Chaos story arc where Bell got freed from the wish that she finally told
him that she stayed because she loved him.

Not impugning Ranma's character... but Ranma could never win her heart..
he's too immature... and frankly too focused on the hear and now and too
prone to insult and taunt others to bring out the gentle loving side of
Bell.

Now the second choice seems more likely to me... Having the story pick up at
the end of the Ranma manga following his first year in Tokyo with the
Tendos... and having Bell and K1 having been together for a while might be a
good idea.  If you have her being ripped away from Keiichi.. you have the
whole angst issue and Ranma's feelings of utter guilt and horror at ruining
her relationship with Keiichi right off to play with. .. good fodder for
story too.

Anyway... heres the thing...

When Belldandy showed up in the AMS! manga.. she was far far more prone to
violence than she is now... tossing power bolts around like crazy at Urd.
Over time Keiichi and her have mellowed each other and his quiet
determination has led to her picking up cues from him and becoming more
determined and solid than she was originally. If you have her show up like
she was originally... Ranma would be instore for a lot of charcoaling. Plus
she'd just get more determined to get out of there.

Oh.. and that whole promise thing in the anime as kids...it never happened
in the manga.

Anyway, I'd say that the best option might be for you to have it pick upwith
Keiichi about to propose to Bell at the temple...and havig her tell him with
a smile that she has to go off to grant a wish but will be right back. .He
is left at the temple working up his nerve... when something happens...

When Ranma fell in the pool... and he was given his curse... he was also
like the 1 millionth person to fall in a Jusenkyo pool ... and as a special
gift of the Kami... he was given a wish also. But it was not an  immediate
gift Noooo, he  gets it one year later (to the day) that he fell in the
pool...that way he had to live with the curse for at least a year before he
could wish it away. So, suddenly 1 year later (the events of the Ranma 1/2
manga all occured in 1 year) and he finally gets to make his one wish..too
bad that  he doesn't even  know that he has one. This is when the Jusenkyo
guide shows up and tells him about it in front of everyone at the Tendo's.

Hmm think about that carefully... Ranma with a wish.. how would Genma take
to that idea?... or Ryoga?... or Shampoo? or Ukyo?

Genma would want it for himself.

Ryoga maybe tells Ranma that for all the wrongs he's done to him that if he
wishs Ryoga's curse gone... that he'll finally forgive him (maybe Ranma asks
him what it'll take to get him off his back before this)

Shampoo.. Ukyo... well it's pretty obvious what they want... for ranma to
wish that all the other engagements (except their own) were broken.

This leads to a huge free for all... Classic Ranma 1/2 madness.

Everyone trying to get a piece of Ranma... trying  to make him make his wish
for them...

That's when he makes a thoughtless wish in the heat of the moment the way it
has gotta be for dramatic humor and impact... if he actually made a
thoughtful wish .. well.. that'd be totally out of character for him.

Seeing how wonderfully sweet and kind  Belldandy is to him while he's been
trying to cope with the situation and while she is busy defending him from
all the people that just want a piece of him..... he yells at all his
fiancees and everyone else when he gets completely fed up and says something
like: "Damn it, people!... All that you guys want me to do is give you what
you want, isn't that right?  Pop.. you just want me to wish your curse
gone.. you don't care about what I want..... whaddabout my curse, huh?... I
can't wish mine and your's gone at the same time...  now can I?" ect ect
ect...and finally at the end of his tirade he says somethign like "Ya know..
I wish.. I really just wish  that I had a someone as nice and sweet as
Belldandy is in my life... maybe as a fiancee or something...insteada
nothing but a buncha bakas. like you all are being."

BAM!!!!

All that stuff about being the best martial artist.. ect ect ect... he
wouldn't wish for that... and frankly powering him up is a bad idea.. he's
already plenty powerful.. why would you insist on giving him more? Plus, he
already thinks he IS the best.

Suddenly Bell's engaged to Ranma..

Of course Akane goes Ballistic...

And Bell goes back to the Temple.. in shock and horror.. where  Keiichi asks
her to marry him finally.. and..she bursts into tears as  the truth comes
out of what just happened.. GASP!

Suddenly everyone is trying to do damage control and get things back to how
they should be.

Keiichi is trying to figure out how to get Bell back.... Maybe by defeating
Ranma in combat (Urd brings in a special trainer for Keiichi)

***
Cloaked figure:*appears in crackle of thuder* Urd, I am here... where is
this fool of a mortal that I must train to pay my debt to you.
Urd:*looks up from watching TV* Ares... babe, long time no see... going for
the dark and mysterious warrior look now I see.
Ares:Well, it's all the rage you know... it's either that or the bishonen
look.. and frankly when I see one of those nancy boy types...  all I want to
do grinde their bones to dust and smash them over my knee so that  I can
hear their spines snap.
Urd:.. ummmmm.. riiiight.. well... yeah.. well Keiichi's out in the garden
working out... lifting rocks.
Ares: The short kid I saw when I came in?
Urd:*nods*
Ares:Yer kiddin.. right?
Urd:nuh uh
Skuld:*running in and then out of the room* Keiiichiiiii... Come here... I
want to try this on you.. it's my Skulds own Mr Muscle's mark 4... just try
this on and I just _know_ that we'll get you in shape before you can
say...*voice fades away*
Ares:Oy vey!
***
The Ultimate force forces Keiichi to somehow or another get engaged to
Kasumi to fulfill his original wish to have Bell with him forever (living at
the Tendos?)

Bell is trying to figure out how to get reunited with Keiichi without
breakign the wish..

Ranma is getting pounded by Akane for picking up another fiancee.

Shampoo is stunned.. and horrified becuase great grandmother has said that
she no can marry Ranma now because standing in way of Goddess is bad for
Amazon tribe... ... heh.. so she is trying to figure out how to get Ranma
out of his engagement to Bell.

typical Ranma 1/2 scrambles begin.

*the way out is to have Ranma marry someone else of course...

The thing is... Ranma and Bell together... sorry... it just doesn't work.

Sorry.. Keiichi is 10 times the MAN that Ranma will ever be... Ranma may
have martial arts and such backing him up.. but he' an emotionally stunted
character with little forethought.

Bell is simply too mature for him to be able to handle IMO... and the other
fiancees would find themselves completely outclassed in every way shape and
form if they tried to stack up to her. The truth is.. Cologne would be
falling all over herself to get out of Bell's way ( she is a goddess
afterall) and Ukyo is already so gender confused that she'd see that
competing against her in any womanly  arena as completely impossible for her
to win.

Personally I think that Ranma wishing to be turned into the best martial
artist ever is just plain wrong to do..

He'd be more likely to wish his curse gone and that'd be the end of that..

So IMO you gotta make Ranma's wish be a spur of the moment thing.. and that
means it has to be natural... Ranma has this curious physical defect.. his
mouth generally says whatever he is thinking without filtering it first.

I just don't think he'd spend a lotta thought making it some ultra big
powerful wish like what you're discribing.



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