Neriman Newbie

Chapter 7
Skating at the Speed of Jason

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Disclaimers, while often pointless, can be necessary. But I don't care really.

A man runs into a bar and says to the barender, "Give me twenty shots of your best single malt scotch, quick!"
The bartender pours the shots, and the man drinks them, one at a time, as fast as he can.
The bartender says, "Wow. I never saw anybody drink that fast."
The man says, "Well, you'd drink that fast if you had what I have."
The bartender says, "Oh my God. What is it? What do you have?"
The man says, "Fifty cents."
- Drew Carey.

Notes: [] Denotes the worldly english language.
** Denotes signs, if there are any.
At some point this will denote Chinese. Once someone who speaks Chinese comes into the story.
{} Denotes thought. All thought is conducted in the person's native language, so if someone read's my mind, they probably won't figure out shit.

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"Akane, let's take a rest!" One of Akane's friends called out on the ice.

"Alright!" Akane called back then headed off the rink.

"The skating team?" Akane repeated as she ate some rice.

"Yeah, you could be our school rep in no time." Her friend said.

"Hmmmmm. Oh! I forgot P-chan in the rink!" Akane realized.

"You mean your pet piggie?"

In the rink...

Ryoga looked left and right trying to find out just where Akane had went. Then a pair of skates stopped right infront of him, "Charlotte!" A high pitched feminine voice cried out. "Does widdle Charlotte wanna go home with mommy?" The probably a twelve year old girl said to the Eternally Lost Boy.

As Ryoga tried to get away the agravatingly annoyingly stupidly female cliched brat picked him up by his bandanna and bopped him on the head. Somehow knocking him out. Right then a blur began to approach the twit from the other side of the rink. The girl hugged Ryoga to her cheek saying. "You're so cuuuute!"

The blur reached her and she found her covered in twelve feet worth of ice scraped off the top of the rink. The black piglet was pulled out of her hands and the blur bolted away from her before she could tell who it was. She began to chase after it shouting out 'Charlotte' but it reached the end of the rink and jumped clear out before she'd moved a single meter.



"So... you're asking... what this girl is to me?" Ranma asked looking at a picture of him when he was got into the rink for the Rythimic Gymnastics Tournament.

"Quit playing dumb Ranma." One of his buds said, "Don't try to tell us there's no connection."

"Don't know her." He said simply.

"She used your name man!" "She has the same pigtail as you." "She's as good a fighter as you!" "She's your twin sister! Or a cousin right?!" "We don't care just introduce us to her!"

Ranma jumped clear over one of the guys at the table and tipped his hat. "Ridiculous."

"It's bad enough you've got Akane!" One of them shouted while pointing at Ranma accusingly. "At least give us a piece of SOME action man!"

"That's... moronic!" Ranma shouted "First off, who'd want to 'get to' a girl like Akane... who's a total zero in sex appeal?!"

The door behind Ranma opened up immediately and Akane emerged. "RANMA!" Akane shouted.

"YOW!" Ranma shouted back and backed away from the door, Akane stomped up to him and kept pace. "Wh-wh-wh-what? You want to fight?" He replied keeping his arms out infront of him incase of attack. It was then he noticed that Akane was crying, and stopped in his tracks. "T-there's nothing to cry about! I mean, who am I to judge if you..."

"Find P-chan!"

"...Have sex ap-- ...P-chan?"

"The poor piggie disappeared at the skating rink." One of Akane's friends said. "He was kidnapped! There were witnesses!"

The door opened once again. "One for lunch!" a deep voice called out.

"Tell me. Does the victim have any distinguishing features?" Ranma asked looking at a small black bundle held in someone's arms.

"Don't play games with me!" Akane cried out.

"What's that over there?" Ranma pointed at a tanned muscular person wearing baggy jeans, a black short sleeved shirt that said 'Canada Kicks Ass' on the front, and Oakley's sunglasses.

"J-Jason?" Akane said.

"It was a girl who kidnapped P-chan though wasn't it?" Akane's friend said.

"Oh, Akane, Ranma, and co. What luck. I was bringing Ry-er P-chan to you." He said and handed Ryoga to Akane.

"But weren't out on the rink?" Ranma asked.

Jason shrugged, "I was. But not anymore, I'm really hungry right now." He said then walked over to the counter and paid for a bowl of ramen.

The door opened again and a high pitched voice cried out "Charlotte!" and the annoying brat ran up to Akane and tried to pull P-chan from her. "Give me back my widdle Charlotte!"

A pair of gentle hands then pushed Akane and Azusa apart. "I assume this is yours." A young man said indicating the pig.

"Y-yes."

"Forgive my companions rudeness." The guy said.

"That's okay, thank you." Akane replied.

The guy sat down in a chair and Azusa began beating on him and shouting for him to give Charlotte back. "Her hobby is... collecting things." She was now using a pan. "When she finds something cute... She names it on the spot and takes it home."

"Isn't that illegal?" One of Ranma's friends said.

"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" Azusa bantered as she smashed a chair over the guys head.

"Pleeeeeeease?" She asked, holding up a table with tears coming out her eyes.

"Would you cut it out you idiot?!" He shouted at her.

Azusa turned an angry glare on Akane. "I challenge you!"

"So! You want to fight me, hm?!"

"Pah, nothing so nasty! This challenge is skating." Azusa said holding up her skates. "If I win you give back my widdle Charlotte!!"

One of Akane's friends spoke up. "Aha! Now I remember! They're Kolkhoz High School's Champion Freestyle Skating pair!"

"I'm Azusa Shiratori."

"I'm Mikado Sanzenin."

"Akane, you shouldn't try to outskate these two." "They're the best of the best." Akane's friends said. A snort came from behind them where Jason was sitting and eating a bowl of ramen.

"So what if they are?!" Akane replied angry(As usual).

"If you're going to back dow-own, do it now-ow!" Azusa taunted. Laughter erupted from behind Akane's friends now.

"Me? Back down? You're the theif!" Akane replied. After that both the girls began to comfort the pig in Akane's arms.

"I'm sorry, it seems my partner has caused you trouble." Sanzenin said. "By way of apology..." he trailed off and pulled Akane's face close to his. The moment was stopped as a fishcake flew onto his cheek. Slowly Sanzenin peeled the fishcake off his face and then leaned on the table that Ranma was glaring at him from while at the same time looking bored. "I've recieved your message of challenge. The match will be one week from today. The site will be our school Kolkhoz High."

"Oo, goodie, that challenge is so cute!" Azusa blurted out and tried to grab it from Sanzenin. "Fran