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Part One: Fear and Anger
Nabiki pondered the circumstances that brought them all to this situation.
The warning signs had been obvious enough. No one had been naive enough to believe that the Worldwide Cat Exhibition could come to Nerima without provoking a crisis. Oh, they had made a valiant effort to keep Ranma separated from the felines. Nabiki had put her own best efforts into the separation, courtesy of several generous financial contributions from a variety of individuals. But everyone knew from the beginning that it was futile.
The second problem had been a bit more subtle. Oh, plenty of people noticed the lone westerner's arrival. The initial assumption was that he was yet another individual come to challenge Ranma. Thus trouble, but of a more manageable sort. When he failed to issue a challenge, and no other motivation for his presence was apparent, no one knew whether to be relieved or all the more worried.
What everyone failed to see coming was that the two problems in town would only compound one another. When the inevitable animal escape happened, the resulting cat-state of Ranma's might have been handled without significant property damage, if not for the stranger's presence. Unfortunately, an easy resolution was simply not to be. As expected from an incident in which Ranma was involved, a fight ensued.
The true surprise in all this was the capability possessed by Ranma's opponent. Nabiki had never before seen anyone capable of handling the full brunt of the cat-fist technique. Yet that was exactly what was happening here. Slashes from the cat-crazed martial artist, capable of shredding wood without even making physical contact, were hardly affecting the stranger. And the few times the cat-minded martial artist had been on the receiving end of hits, all observers could see that they hurt. Fortunately, Ranma was consistently managing to avoid nearly every rock-shattering blow.
The battle had been going on for well over a half-hour already. That was enough to give Nabiki significant pause. After all, all throughout the fight, she could tell that Ranma's cat-psyche was becoming more and more fearful of his opponent. And just as a cat is most dangerous when cornered, the more afraid cat-Ranma became, the more powerful he became. And yet it seemed that this foe was matching every increase in power Ranma underwent.
"Mmmrrrroooowwwww!" Ranma yowled as he leapt towards his opponent yet again.
"Hulk smash!" his over-large opponent responded, swinging a meaty green fist at the elusive human-feline.
Nabiki sighed. She would have to do double-duty to avoid having her family pay for property damages when this was over. At least the betting pool was healthy. However this turned out, things were going to be ugly.