I couldn't decide what to work on one day, so I decided to try and do a oneshot based on Mark Antony's speech from "Julius Caesar".
SCENE Graveyard, funeral. Nerima Wrecking Crew sitting in chairs, a coffin by a podium. Some with tears, all somber on the outside, but some smiling inside.
SCENE Nabiki takes the podium, and pulls out her speech.
Nabiki:
Friends,
Nerimians, Rivals, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Ranma, not
to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The
good is often buried with their bones,
So let it be with Ranma….
The noble Ryouga
Has told you Ranma was arrogant:
If it were
so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously has Ranma answered
it….
Here, under leave of Ryouga and the rest,
(For Ryouga
is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come
I to speak in Ranma's funeral….
He was my friend, faithful
and just to me:
But Ryouga says he was arrogant;
And Ryouga
is an honourable man….
He has brought Akane many times home to
Nerima,
Saving her from all manners of danger
Did this in Ranma seem
arrogant?
When that the weak have cried, Ranma has protected:
Arrogance should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Ryouga says he
was arrogant;
And Ryouga is an honourable man.
You all did
see that on his return from China,
I three times presented him a
kingly reward,
Which he did three times refuse: was this
arrogance?
Yet Ryouga says he was arrogant;
And, sure, he is
an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Ryouga spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did like him
once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn
for him?
Oh, justice! You have fled to barbaric hearts,
And
men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the
coffin there with Ranma,
And I must pause till it come back to
me.