Red Eyes Fury chapter two
Disclaimer: I don't Ranma ½ and if you keep bugging me about it I'll sue you back.
Note, even though the rest of this fic could probably be considered PG this chapter is definitely PG-13.
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Ranma dodged the girl's sword once again and tried to leap behind her. She saw him jump however and retaliated with a fist full of throwing stars. Ranma dodged most of them but caught a few and shot them right back. The girl gasped as the deadly shirikens were sent hurtling towards her and tried to get out of the way but failed. One nicked her on the arm and she grabbed it to stop the bleeding. Another came down and cut off the broach holding her traveling cloak in place and tore it off. Ranma landed on the ground and stared at the cat ears coming out of the top of her head. He looked at her back and saw a tail growing out from the base of her spine through a hole in her clothes. She still had her face turned away but he was pretty sure he knew who it was. He lunged foreword and dodged the sword swipe before pressing a sleeper point on her neck. She grew limp as unconsciousness took over and he grabbed her before she hit the ground. Getting a good look at her face he threw her over his shoulder and sighed.
"Oh Shampoo, what did they do to you?" He heard sirens coming in the distance so he leaped up and started roof hoping towards home.
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Shampoo opened her eyes and tried to sit up and but was overcome with dizziness and fell back. She noticed that she was on a futon in a small apartment and that her cloths had been loosened so she could sleep more comfortably. There was a hissing sound and something imbedded itself in the floor boards next to her. Somebody started to speak in mandarin.
"Poison tipped throwing knives? That's a pretty low thing for an Amazon to do." Shampoo glared daggers at him with her red eyes but with her new cat features it just came off as cute.
"Who says that I'm still an Amazon? The disowned me because I couldn't get you and then gave me this new curse as punishment." Ranma face softened a bit at this as he sat down and handed her a cup of tea.
"You were nicked and I had to use one of my antidotes, but it will be a few hours before you're going to be able to move. Now why do you have those cat features and why do your eyes look like mine. Shampoo remained silent and didn't even look at Ranma as she drank her tea. After finishing it she started to take off her shirt. Ranma immediately began to freak out.
"Whoa! What are you doing!" she glared at him.
What does it look like? It's obvious that the only reason you brought me here was for sex so I'm getting ready. I'm just the 'little Amazon slut' remember! You said that before you broke my nose!" Ranma winced.
"I'm sorry Shampoo, I wasn't in my right mind when that happened. Believe me, I would never hurt you like that again." Shampoo growled at this and slapped him across the face.
"You say that now but it's your fault that I'm like THIS!" Ranma grabbed onto his cheek and stared at the blood Shampoo's nails/claws had drawn. He looked up at her.
"How about you start at the beginning."
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Shampoo walked nervously into the council of elder's meeting room. All of the leaders of the village and the strongest warriors were assembled to hear her fate. After coming back in defeat and without Ranma a second time she had been placed on the tribes version of probation and lost all status in the village, including being her great grandmother's heir. She had been forbidden to enter her family's ancestral home and now lived on the edge of the village in a small house by herself. The fact that she had been called in front of the council was not a good sign. She sat down on the chair facing the half circle of elders and nervously waited. The head elder, Lotion, spoke up.
"Shampoo do you know why you were forced to leave your hunt for Ranma?" Shampoo shook her head.
"It is true that our laws require you to marry the man that beats you in a fight but we also have conditions for them being allowed into the tribe. Do you ever wonder why we never honor any victories that the Musk make? It is because they are a hazard to our tribe and their genes would represent a danger to our future generations. If the council deems an outsider to be to dangerous then he is not held to the marriage law. Elder Cologne, will you take over?" Cologne cleared her throat and spoke.
"I watched the fight Ranma was in before he disappeared and I came to the conclusion that he has been consumed by red eyes fury." Several elders perked up at this and started whispering. Cologne ignored them and continued.
"I know that all of you know of the Shi Shi Hokodan and how it is fueled by depression and negative emotions. Red eyes fury is similar since it also uses negative ki but instead of a martial arts techniche red eyes fury is more of a disease. If a person keeps their anger inside for to long it begins to feed on it and back up. It soon spreads to the victims core energy where it waits for the right moment to burst out. Most normal people release it in a homicidal rage and become temporarily insane, but I'm sure that you have met Ranma know that he is most definitely not normal. Since Ranma and for that mater all martial artists have such an extensive awareness of their energies they will soon be completely infected with negative emotions. Usually the victim will die from all of the pain afterwards or they will go insane. From the way Ranma appeared I thought he would to, but we just received word from one of our spies on Phoenix Mountain that he is still alive and actually saved their kings life." The audience started an uproar but Lotion motioned for silence.
"As those of you who study such thing will know, the Red Eyes Fury is something that is passed down through the parents and the tribe could easily be destroyed by a descendant of Ranma. Normally Shampoo would be forgiven since she didn't know, but there has been a new development." Lotion hopped forward on her cane and placed a spirit ward on Shampoo's forehead. Suddenly there was a dark red glow inside Shampoo's body and a transparent ball of red ki could be seen through her chest. Some of the older warriors grew grim while the younger ones gasped. Shampoo was a little unnerved to see such a thing inside of her but remained still. Lotion removed the talisman and took her seat.
"One of the other reasons that those with the Red Eyes Fury are banned from our village is because repeated exposure to the victim, especially physical contact, will cause their ki to become tainted as well. We thought that since Ranma had died he had only had it temporarily but since Shampoo has now been infected it is obvious that has been dormant inside of him. Now that Shampoo has the condition the council has decided that she is too much of a danger to tribe and must leave." This brought gasps from several of the audience and sad looks from others. Shampoo fell to her knees and started to sob. Two sympathetic warriors carefully picked her up and carried her out to save her any more humiliation.
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Shampoo looked one last time at the village and started walking down the trail to a nearby government settlement. But when she was within sight of it she felt something hard break over her head. Something wet trickled down over her body but she didn't have time to worry about that as soon she was racked by incredible pain. Her skin felt like it was on fire and her head felt like it had been split open as well as her fingers and toes. It soon became to great and mercifully knocked her out.
When she came to Shampoo winced as the noise of night insects rumbled through her head. She reached up to the sides of her face to cover her ears but to her horror she couldn't feel them. She moved her hands upward and felt two flat fury pieces of skin standing erect on the top of her head. With a scream that sounded like a yowl she clenched her fists but instantly regretted doing so as something sharp pierced them. She pulled down her hands to see that her fingernails had elongated and become like claws and her arms were covered in light fur. Her breathing began to increase as panic started to set in but she fought to remain calm. Trying to focus on something else helped so she looked around for the person who had done this to her. Every amazon learned tracking at a young age and she soon found the marks of who had done this to her. The boot print was obviously amazon but when the person had gone they left a small hole in the ground like the kind a walking stick makes. She started to panic again but this time as she realized who had done this to her.
"Grandmother.why?"
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Shampoo wandered among the bamboo groves near Jusenkyo. She had been on her own for two weeks now and her life at the village was becoming a distant memory. Mouse had tried following but some scouts had dragged him back. She would have pummeled him into the ground except that besides mixing her curse, Cologne had also used the Xi Fan Goa to erase away all of the Amazon techniques she had learned. Right now she would barely be a challenge to Akane right now. Suddenly she heard a whirring sound and screamed in pain as a dart struck her arm. She looked up into a tree and saw a man dressed in Musk clothing and fox hide cap drop down.
"Is that a woman Lemon?" a powerful looking man wearing a bear's hide on his shoulders picked up the unconscious girl and slung her over his shoulder.
"Maybe Jelly, she's wearing Amazon cloths so most likely. Let's take her back to Lord Herb and find out.
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Shampoo sat dejectedly in the room she shared with her new husband. Herb had recognized her as the future matriarch of his mortal enemies and thought it was a great joke to make her the wife to one of his head generals. Basil had been descended from many different powerful animals and possessed all of their abilities. Unfortunately he also possessed all of their humanity and intelligence. She heard him come into their private apartment and take off his armor. He walked into the bedroom where Shampoo was and she could tell from his breath that he was drunk. She whimpered as he pushed her back onto the bed
"Please, leave me alone!" Basil laughed a drunken laugh and smacked her across the face.
"Be quiet, no one cares about you any more. Just quit resisting and accept it." Shampoo felt something snap inside her mind and glared up at him. He backed away in surprise when he noticed that her eyes had turned red.
"Your right, I have been resisting it. This thing inside of me was the reason that I was banished, the reason I was cursed, and the reason I was your little toy." Basil's drunken mind somehow realized that he was in danger and he started backing up. " But I've quit resisting it and now you're going to pay for what you've done to me." Shampoo lunged forward and grabbed him by his arm and twisted it behind his back. Basil tried to fight back but was surprised to find that he couldn't. His arm was pulled back even further and he screamed as his ligaments and tendons snapped. Shampoo's eyes glowed blood red as she bit down on his neck. Basil screamed and thrashed about in pain but his resitence slowly became less and less and his body seemed to pale.
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Ranma stared at Shampoo.
"You were able to drain a person's ki so soon? It took me over a year to master that." Shampoo still had her back to Ranma but nodded. ______________________________________ ______________________________________
Shampoo dropped Basils dried up corpse on the ground and turned to leave. It looked like he had been put through a dehydrator and turned into human jerky. Shampoo put her clothes back on and held her hand, palm foreword, towards the door. A ball of scarlet energy collected till she shot it foreword. It crashed into the door and against the wall on the other side. Walking through the hole she saw several guards come running towards her, weapons drawn and yelling for her to halt. She leaped forward and started slashing with her claws leaving trails of light where they had been. Looking down she picked up a sword one of the formally whole solders had been carrying and thrust it through her belt. Heading in the direction of her former home she didn't notice that her eyes had gotten darker.
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Ling Ling walked along the battlements on guard duty watching for any suspicious movement on the outskirts of the village. A report had come in six months ago from their spy in the musk government that Shampoo had been captured and married off to one of Herb's generals. Many warriors had wanted to go and rescue her but the council had forbid them to do so. But four months ago the spy had reported that she had escaped and seen with blood red eyes. The elders had become very worried about this since she might come seeking revenge and doubled the guard patrols around the city. Suddenly Ling Ling felt someone grab her from behind and cover her mouth. She was lifted over the wall and carried into the nearby woods where she was roughly thrown down. Ling Ling looked up and saw a person wearing a hooded robe standing a few feet away with her back to her. She franticly groped around for her spear but the figure moved quickly and grabbed it before she could reach it and snapped it in half.
"Who are you!?" The stranger slowly lowered her hood and Ling Ling saw cat ears growing out of her purple hair.
"Don't you recognize your sister Ling Ling?" Ling Ling gasped and embraced her from behind in a hug.
"Where have you been sister? Lung Lung and I were so worried." She was surprised to find Shampoo pushing her away irritably.
"Don't try to hug me Ling Ling, after everything I've done I don't deserve your love. I've come to give you this warning. Tomorrow at sundown I am coming for revenge and there will be nothing left of this village when I am finished." Ling Ling gasped but Shampoo took a scroll made from tree bark out of her robes and tossed it on the ground.
"Give this to the elders and then get yourself and your sister out of the village." She turned to leave but Ling Ling grabbed onto her arm to stop her.
"Sister what happened to you?" Shampoo froze and slowly turned her head. Ling Ling fell back when she saw two glowing red coals where Shampoo's eyes should be.
"Pure hell." With that said Shampoo walked off and disappeared into the darkness.
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The elders frowned as shampoo's letter was read and re-read to them. Ling Ling had brought it to them around midnight and they had convened an emergency meeting.
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Hello Cologne, I know you know about me getting captured by the Musk. What you don't know about is the hell I've had to go through. When I was with the musk I was raped nearly every day, I was forced to eat the scrapes my "Husband" left for me and beaten if I was ever rebellious. Our tribe has high values on femininity and life and for two whole months that was the only thing that kept me from giving in to the madness in my head. But I finally succumbed and it was the madness that allowed me to escape. Afterwards I almost killed myself for the acts I had done but the madness wouldn't let me. I have been in training for the past four months, learning to adapt to my new curse and forcing myself back to sanity. I now have full control over the Red Eyes Fury and its power is greater then any thing I've ever seen before. But that doesn't erase the fact that you abandoned me when I needed you the most. The fact that you put your tribe ahead of me hurts more then any thing the Musk could have done. It also proves that the Amazon laws are long over due for revision. I will be coming at sundown tonight to end yours and every elder's life in the village and I will hunt you down if you try to run. Those who wish to leave can go. But those that remain to defend your dying views will die themselves. Prepare yourself for the end Cologne.
Shampoo.
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The elders started to bicker among themselves about the authenticity of the letter. But Lotion motioned them to be silent.
"Apparently Shampoo is still alive. This letter is signed with her blood so we have to consider her a threat to the village. Now we must decide on a course of action. Do we try to reason with her or do we try to stop her. If she truly has gained control of her condition then the later option does not look very appealing." There was silence until Cologne spoke up.
"This is all my fault so I will try to correct it. From the way she writes I would guess that she is going to make it obvious when she will come and I will try to talk her out of it. If that doesn't work then we will have to be forced to kill her." Lotion nodded.
"That will most likely be the case so we had better rest up. The sun is starting to rise now." Cologne looked out a window at the rosy light beginning to show on the clouds and became puzzled.
"Lotion doesn't the sun rise in the east?" Unsure of what she meant by this Lotion nodded her head.
"Then why is it shining in through a window facing west?" Lotion hopped over to the window and blanched. Even for her old eyes she could make out the outline of a person standing on a hill wrapped in a red aura. Turning back to the council she spoke.
"I believe it is time we gave the evacuation order."
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All day the people of the village could see the red light shining off of the nearby hill like a smoldering Volcano. Families began to pack up their most precious belongings and a trail of people began to head towards the south. About mid afternoon a person could be seen walking towards the glowing figure.
"Hello Shampoo." Silence.
"Sister, won't you please reconsider your actions? Can't you find the compassion in your heart not to kill anymore?" Shampoo shot out her finger and a beam of red light pierced through the empty folds of Ling Ling's shirt. Ling Ling blanched as she patted out the fire on her clothes but stood her ground.
"Take you sister and leave the village. I swore I would have my revenge on the amazons and that is all I have left to live for. You have no idea the hell I've been through." Ling Ling looked her straight in the eyes.
"I can't take my sister and leave because she can't walk. She and I went looking for you a week after you left and were attacked by the Musk. Lung Lung sacrificed herself so that I could escape and get help. When we finally arrived they had beaten her and left her for dead. Her spine was broken and she can't move from her bed without excruciating pain." Shampoo's eye twitched but she didn't move.
"When we tried to kill Ranma you gave us the kiss of death in order to protect him because you loved him." Ling Ling reached up to pull Shampoo's face closer to hers and gave her a kiss on the lips.
"I love my sisters and I will die to protect the ones I love. You taught me that lesson a long time ago. If you try to attack the village I will be among the ones you will fight and I will be among the ones you will kill." Ling Ling turned around and started walking back to the village with out looking back. If she had she would have seen two lines of water coming from Shampoo's eyes and running down her face.
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Shampoo looked the burning buildings around her and lowered her sword. She had been fighting for over an hour and she had only demolished a third of the village. Suddenly a group of warriors sprang from behind a house and charged at her yelling battle cries. She closed her eyes and surprised her enemies by jumping towards them. Trails of light were seen were her sword passed and the sickening smell of blood filled the air. Bodies fell and were dead before they hit the ground.
"How can you do such things to your Amazon sisters?" Shampoo whirled around and glared at her most hated enemy. Cologne continued.
"The elders had hoped to reach a peaceable agreement with you but you have declared war on us and we cannot let you live." Several of the elders appeared out of no where with various weapons drawn. They started to attack all at once but Shampoo dodged and took them out one by one. After thirty minuets only Cologne and Lotion were still able to fight and Shampoo was winded. Cologne grew grim.
"I am sorry that it has come to this Shampoo, but we can not let you run lose like this any longer." She charged forward with her cane pulled back and threw it pointy end first towards Shampoo's heart. Shampoo knew she couldn't dodge it but at the last moment something heavy slammed into her and knocked her out of the way. There was the sound of flesh and organs being torn and a scream of pain rang through the air. Shampoo looked down and became sickened to see Ling Ling with the cane protruding out of her chest. With a howl of rage a ball of anger fuel ki grew in her hand and flew towards the two elders. The last thing Cologne ever saw was her former great granddaughter cursing her name. Shampoo knelt down and tried to pull the staff from Ling Lings abdomen but stopped when she cried in pain.
"Don't bother, I'm too far gone to save so let me die in peace." Shampoo was crying uncontrollably as she hugged the dying girl.
"Why did you do that?! We were enemies damit!" Ling Ling smiled as her eyes started to glaze over.
I told you I'd die to save the ones I love. An Amazon always keeps her word." She shivered and Shampoo could feel her life force dripping away with her blood.
"Shampoo, please take care of Lung Lung for me okay? And tell her I'm sorry for not being there for her any more." Shampoo nodded.
"I promise." Ling Ling smiled and stiffened before going limp. Shampoo sobbed and then howled in anger, sadness and despair. From several miles away the refugees saw a huge explosion of blood red light where the vilage used to be. When they returned the next day they found that half of the village was destroyed. Buildings were knocked down or burned and there was a crater seventy five feet in diameter. Inside was a mound of dirt with a cane sticking out from the head. But the biggest loss was realized when the bodies were found. All but three of the elders had died and no one could find the body of Lung Lung in the wreckage of her house.
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To say that Ranma was stunned at Shampoo's story was the understatement of the year. Suddenly he heard the sound of his apartment door being opened and a familiar female voice could be heard.
"Ranma, are you home?" He realized that Shampoo still hadn't put her shirt on and they were both sitting on his futon. The door knob to his room slowly turned and Ranma could say only one thing.
"Oh Shi.."
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Authors Notes
Sorry this took so long but when I was writing this chapter last week I threw out my whole story line since it was to boring and created this instead. Who is the girl coming into Ranma's room? You just have to wait. I realize that this chapter was a little dark but I've been feeling depressed this week and this really helped me get it out of my system. But I promise you that the next chapter will be much more humorous. I'm going to work this week on another chapter of Ranma, King of Games, and maybe post a Ranma/Trigun crossover I've been working with. C&C are welcome at animeprime1@hotmail.com
Ja Ne
Disclaimer: I don't Ranma ½ and if you keep bugging me about it I'll sue you back.
Note, even though the rest of this fic could probably be considered PG this chapter is definitely PG-13.
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Ranma dodged the girl's sword once again and tried to leap behind her. She saw him jump however and retaliated with a fist full of throwing stars. Ranma dodged most of them but caught a few and shot them right back. The girl gasped as the deadly shirikens were sent hurtling towards her and tried to get out of the way but failed. One nicked her on the arm and she grabbed it to stop the bleeding. Another came down and cut off the broach holding her traveling cloak in place and tore it off. Ranma landed on the ground and stared at the cat ears coming out of the top of her head. He looked at her back and saw a tail growing out from the base of her spine through a hole in her clothes. She still had her face turned away but he was pretty sure he knew who it was. He lunged foreword and dodged the sword swipe before pressing a sleeper point on her neck. She grew limp as unconsciousness took over and he grabbed her before she hit the ground. Getting a good look at her face he threw her over his shoulder and sighed.
"Oh Shampoo, what did they do to you?" He heard sirens coming in the distance so he leaped up and started roof hoping towards home.
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Shampoo opened her eyes and tried to sit up and but was overcome with dizziness and fell back. She noticed that she was on a futon in a small apartment and that her cloths had been loosened so she could sleep more comfortably. There was a hissing sound and something imbedded itself in the floor boards next to her. Somebody started to speak in mandarin.
"Poison tipped throwing knives? That's a pretty low thing for an Amazon to do." Shampoo glared daggers at him with her red eyes but with her new cat features it just came off as cute.
"Who says that I'm still an Amazon? The disowned me because I couldn't get you and then gave me this new curse as punishment." Ranma face softened a bit at this as he sat down and handed her a cup of tea.
"You were nicked and I had to use one of my antidotes, but it will be a few hours before you're going to be able to move. Now why do you have those cat features and why do your eyes look like mine. Shampoo remained silent and didn't even look at Ranma as she drank her tea. After finishing it she started to take off her shirt. Ranma immediately began to freak out.
"Whoa! What are you doing!" she glared at him.
What does it look like? It's obvious that the only reason you brought me here was for sex so I'm getting ready. I'm just the 'little Amazon slut' remember! You said that before you broke my nose!" Ranma winced.
"I'm sorry Shampoo, I wasn't in my right mind when that happened. Believe me, I would never hurt you like that again." Shampoo growled at this and slapped him across the face.
"You say that now but it's your fault that I'm like THIS!" Ranma grabbed onto his cheek and stared at the blood Shampoo's nails/claws had drawn. He looked up at her.
"How about you start at the beginning."
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Shampoo walked nervously into the council of elder's meeting room. All of the leaders of the village and the strongest warriors were assembled to hear her fate. After coming back in defeat and without Ranma a second time she had been placed on the tribes version of probation and lost all status in the village, including being her great grandmother's heir. She had been forbidden to enter her family's ancestral home and now lived on the edge of the village in a small house by herself. The fact that she had been called in front of the council was not a good sign. She sat down on the chair facing the half circle of elders and nervously waited. The head elder, Lotion, spoke up.
"Shampoo do you know why you were forced to leave your hunt for Ranma?" Shampoo shook her head.
"It is true that our laws require you to marry the man that beats you in a fight but we also have conditions for them being allowed into the tribe. Do you ever wonder why we never honor any victories that the Musk make? It is because they are a hazard to our tribe and their genes would represent a danger to our future generations. If the council deems an outsider to be to dangerous then he is not held to the marriage law. Elder Cologne, will you take over?" Cologne cleared her throat and spoke.
"I watched the fight Ranma was in before he disappeared and I came to the conclusion that he has been consumed by red eyes fury." Several elders perked up at this and started whispering. Cologne ignored them and continued.
"I know that all of you know of the Shi Shi Hokodan and how it is fueled by depression and negative emotions. Red eyes fury is similar since it also uses negative ki but instead of a martial arts techniche red eyes fury is more of a disease. If a person keeps their anger inside for to long it begins to feed on it and back up. It soon spreads to the victims core energy where it waits for the right moment to burst out. Most normal people release it in a homicidal rage and become temporarily insane, but I'm sure that you have met Ranma know that he is most definitely not normal. Since Ranma and for that mater all martial artists have such an extensive awareness of their energies they will soon be completely infected with negative emotions. Usually the victim will die from all of the pain afterwards or they will go insane. From the way Ranma appeared I thought he would to, but we just received word from one of our spies on Phoenix Mountain that he is still alive and actually saved their kings life." The audience started an uproar but Lotion motioned for silence.
"As those of you who study such thing will know, the Red Eyes Fury is something that is passed down through the parents and the tribe could easily be destroyed by a descendant of Ranma. Normally Shampoo would be forgiven since she didn't know, but there has been a new development." Lotion hopped forward on her cane and placed a spirit ward on Shampoo's forehead. Suddenly there was a dark red glow inside Shampoo's body and a transparent ball of red ki could be seen through her chest. Some of the older warriors grew grim while the younger ones gasped. Shampoo was a little unnerved to see such a thing inside of her but remained still. Lotion removed the talisman and took her seat.
"One of the other reasons that those with the Red Eyes Fury are banned from our village is because repeated exposure to the victim, especially physical contact, will cause their ki to become tainted as well. We thought that since Ranma had died he had only had it temporarily but since Shampoo has now been infected it is obvious that has been dormant inside of him. Now that Shampoo has the condition the council has decided that she is too much of a danger to tribe and must leave." This brought gasps from several of the audience and sad looks from others. Shampoo fell to her knees and started to sob. Two sympathetic warriors carefully picked her up and carried her out to save her any more humiliation.
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Shampoo looked one last time at the village and started walking down the trail to a nearby government settlement. But when she was within sight of it she felt something hard break over her head. Something wet trickled down over her body but she didn't have time to worry about that as soon she was racked by incredible pain. Her skin felt like it was on fire and her head felt like it had been split open as well as her fingers and toes. It soon became to great and mercifully knocked her out.
When she came to Shampoo winced as the noise of night insects rumbled through her head. She reached up to the sides of her face to cover her ears but to her horror she couldn't feel them. She moved her hands upward and felt two flat fury pieces of skin standing erect on the top of her head. With a scream that sounded like a yowl she clenched her fists but instantly regretted doing so as something sharp pierced them. She pulled down her hands to see that her fingernails had elongated and become like claws and her arms were covered in light fur. Her breathing began to increase as panic started to set in but she fought to remain calm. Trying to focus on something else helped so she looked around for the person who had done this to her. Every amazon learned tracking at a young age and she soon found the marks of who had done this to her. The boot print was obviously amazon but when the person had gone they left a small hole in the ground like the kind a walking stick makes. She started to panic again but this time as she realized who had done this to her.
"Grandmother.why?"
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Shampoo wandered among the bamboo groves near Jusenkyo. She had been on her own for two weeks now and her life at the village was becoming a distant memory. Mouse had tried following but some scouts had dragged him back. She would have pummeled him into the ground except that besides mixing her curse, Cologne had also used the Xi Fan Goa to erase away all of the Amazon techniques she had learned. Right now she would barely be a challenge to Akane right now. Suddenly she heard a whirring sound and screamed in pain as a dart struck her arm. She looked up into a tree and saw a man dressed in Musk clothing and fox hide cap drop down.
"Is that a woman Lemon?" a powerful looking man wearing a bear's hide on his shoulders picked up the unconscious girl and slung her over his shoulder.
"Maybe Jelly, she's wearing Amazon cloths so most likely. Let's take her back to Lord Herb and find out.
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Shampoo sat dejectedly in the room she shared with her new husband. Herb had recognized her as the future matriarch of his mortal enemies and thought it was a great joke to make her the wife to one of his head generals. Basil had been descended from many different powerful animals and possessed all of their abilities. Unfortunately he also possessed all of their humanity and intelligence. She heard him come into their private apartment and take off his armor. He walked into the bedroom where Shampoo was and she could tell from his breath that he was drunk. She whimpered as he pushed her back onto the bed
"Please, leave me alone!" Basil laughed a drunken laugh and smacked her across the face.
"Be quiet, no one cares about you any more. Just quit resisting and accept it." Shampoo felt something snap inside her mind and glared up at him. He backed away in surprise when he noticed that her eyes had turned red.
"Your right, I have been resisting it. This thing inside of me was the reason that I was banished, the reason I was cursed, and the reason I was your little toy." Basil's drunken mind somehow realized that he was in danger and he started backing up. " But I've quit resisting it and now you're going to pay for what you've done to me." Shampoo lunged forward and grabbed him by his arm and twisted it behind his back. Basil tried to fight back but was surprised to find that he couldn't. His arm was pulled back even further and he screamed as his ligaments and tendons snapped. Shampoo's eyes glowed blood red as she bit down on his neck. Basil screamed and thrashed about in pain but his resitence slowly became less and less and his body seemed to pale.
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Ranma stared at Shampoo.
"You were able to drain a person's ki so soon? It took me over a year to master that." Shampoo still had her back to Ranma but nodded. ______________________________________ ______________________________________
Shampoo dropped Basils dried up corpse on the ground and turned to leave. It looked like he had been put through a dehydrator and turned into human jerky. Shampoo put her clothes back on and held her hand, palm foreword, towards the door. A ball of scarlet energy collected till she shot it foreword. It crashed into the door and against the wall on the other side. Walking through the hole she saw several guards come running towards her, weapons drawn and yelling for her to halt. She leaped forward and started slashing with her claws leaving trails of light where they had been. Looking down she picked up a sword one of the formally whole solders had been carrying and thrust it through her belt. Heading in the direction of her former home she didn't notice that her eyes had gotten darker.
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Ling Ling walked along the battlements on guard duty watching for any suspicious movement on the outskirts of the village. A report had come in six months ago from their spy in the musk government that Shampoo had been captured and married off to one of Herb's generals. Many warriors had wanted to go and rescue her but the council had forbid them to do so. But four months ago the spy had reported that she had escaped and seen with blood red eyes. The elders had become very worried about this since she might come seeking revenge and doubled the guard patrols around the city. Suddenly Ling Ling felt someone grab her from behind and cover her mouth. She was lifted over the wall and carried into the nearby woods where she was roughly thrown down. Ling Ling looked up and saw a person wearing a hooded robe standing a few feet away with her back to her. She franticly groped around for her spear but the figure moved quickly and grabbed it before she could reach it and snapped it in half.
"Who are you!?" The stranger slowly lowered her hood and Ling Ling saw cat ears growing out of her purple hair.
"Don't you recognize your sister Ling Ling?" Ling Ling gasped and embraced her from behind in a hug.
"Where have you been sister? Lung Lung and I were so worried." She was surprised to find Shampoo pushing her away irritably.
"Don't try to hug me Ling Ling, after everything I've done I don't deserve your love. I've come to give you this warning. Tomorrow at sundown I am coming for revenge and there will be nothing left of this village when I am finished." Ling Ling gasped but Shampoo took a scroll made from tree bark out of her robes and tossed it on the ground.
"Give this to the elders and then get yourself and your sister out of the village." She turned to leave but Ling Ling grabbed onto her arm to stop her.
"Sister what happened to you?" Shampoo froze and slowly turned her head. Ling Ling fell back when she saw two glowing red coals where Shampoo's eyes should be.
"Pure hell." With that said Shampoo walked off and disappeared into the darkness.
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The elders frowned as shampoo's letter was read and re-read to them. Ling Ling had brought it to them around midnight and they had convened an emergency meeting.
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Hello Cologne, I know you know about me getting captured by the Musk. What you don't know about is the hell I've had to go through. When I was with the musk I was raped nearly every day, I was forced to eat the scrapes my "Husband" left for me and beaten if I was ever rebellious. Our tribe has high values on femininity and life and for two whole months that was the only thing that kept me from giving in to the madness in my head. But I finally succumbed and it was the madness that allowed me to escape. Afterwards I almost killed myself for the acts I had done but the madness wouldn't let me. I have been in training for the past four months, learning to adapt to my new curse and forcing myself back to sanity. I now have full control over the Red Eyes Fury and its power is greater then any thing I've ever seen before. But that doesn't erase the fact that you abandoned me when I needed you the most. The fact that you put your tribe ahead of me hurts more then any thing the Musk could have done. It also proves that the Amazon laws are long over due for revision. I will be coming at sundown tonight to end yours and every elder's life in the village and I will hunt you down if you try to run. Those who wish to leave can go. But those that remain to defend your dying views will die themselves. Prepare yourself for the end Cologne.
Shampoo.
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The elders started to bicker among themselves about the authenticity of the letter. But Lotion motioned them to be silent.
"Apparently Shampoo is still alive. This letter is signed with her blood so we have to consider her a threat to the village. Now we must decide on a course of action. Do we try to reason with her or do we try to stop her. If she truly has gained control of her condition then the later option does not look very appealing." There was silence until Cologne spoke up.
"This is all my fault so I will try to correct it. From the way she writes I would guess that she is going to make it obvious when she will come and I will try to talk her out of it. If that doesn't work then we will have to be forced to kill her." Lotion nodded.
"That will most likely be the case so we had better rest up. The sun is starting to rise now." Cologne looked out a window at the rosy light beginning to show on the clouds and became puzzled.
"Lotion doesn't the sun rise in the east?" Unsure of what she meant by this Lotion nodded her head.
"Then why is it shining in through a window facing west?" Lotion hopped over to the window and blanched. Even for her old eyes she could make out the outline of a person standing on a hill wrapped in a red aura. Turning back to the council she spoke.
"I believe it is time we gave the evacuation order."
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All day the people of the village could see the red light shining off of the nearby hill like a smoldering Volcano. Families began to pack up their most precious belongings and a trail of people began to head towards the south. About mid afternoon a person could be seen walking towards the glowing figure.
"Hello Shampoo." Silence.
"Sister, won't you please reconsider your actions? Can't you find the compassion in your heart not to kill anymore?" Shampoo shot out her finger and a beam of red light pierced through the empty folds of Ling Ling's shirt. Ling Ling blanched as she patted out the fire on her clothes but stood her ground.
"Take you sister and leave the village. I swore I would have my revenge on the amazons and that is all I have left to live for. You have no idea the hell I've been through." Ling Ling looked her straight in the eyes.
"I can't take my sister and leave because she can't walk. She and I went looking for you a week after you left and were attacked by the Musk. Lung Lung sacrificed herself so that I could escape and get help. When we finally arrived they had beaten her and left her for dead. Her spine was broken and she can't move from her bed without excruciating pain." Shampoo's eye twitched but she didn't move.
"When we tried to kill Ranma you gave us the kiss of death in order to protect him because you loved him." Ling Ling reached up to pull Shampoo's face closer to hers and gave her a kiss on the lips.
"I love my sisters and I will die to protect the ones I love. You taught me that lesson a long time ago. If you try to attack the village I will be among the ones you will fight and I will be among the ones you will kill." Ling Ling turned around and started walking back to the village with out looking back. If she had she would have seen two lines of water coming from Shampoo's eyes and running down her face.
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Shampoo looked the burning buildings around her and lowered her sword. She had been fighting for over an hour and she had only demolished a third of the village. Suddenly a group of warriors sprang from behind a house and charged at her yelling battle cries. She closed her eyes and surprised her enemies by jumping towards them. Trails of light were seen were her sword passed and the sickening smell of blood filled the air. Bodies fell and were dead before they hit the ground.
"How can you do such things to your Amazon sisters?" Shampoo whirled around and glared at her most hated enemy. Cologne continued.
"The elders had hoped to reach a peaceable agreement with you but you have declared war on us and we cannot let you live." Several of the elders appeared out of no where with various weapons drawn. They started to attack all at once but Shampoo dodged and took them out one by one. After thirty minuets only Cologne and Lotion were still able to fight and Shampoo was winded. Cologne grew grim.
"I am sorry that it has come to this Shampoo, but we can not let you run lose like this any longer." She charged forward with her cane pulled back and threw it pointy end first towards Shampoo's heart. Shampoo knew she couldn't dodge it but at the last moment something heavy slammed into her and knocked her out of the way. There was the sound of flesh and organs being torn and a scream of pain rang through the air. Shampoo looked down and became sickened to see Ling Ling with the cane protruding out of her chest. With a howl of rage a ball of anger fuel ki grew in her hand and flew towards the two elders. The last thing Cologne ever saw was her former great granddaughter cursing her name. Shampoo knelt down and tried to pull the staff from Ling Lings abdomen but stopped when she cried in pain.
"Don't bother, I'm too far gone to save so let me die in peace." Shampoo was crying uncontrollably as she hugged the dying girl.
"Why did you do that?! We were enemies damit!" Ling Ling smiled as her eyes started to glaze over.
I told you I'd die to save the ones I love. An Amazon always keeps her word." She shivered and Shampoo could feel her life force dripping away with her blood.
"Shampoo, please take care of Lung Lung for me okay? And tell her I'm sorry for not being there for her any more." Shampoo nodded.
"I promise." Ling Ling smiled and stiffened before going limp. Shampoo sobbed and then howled in anger, sadness and despair. From several miles away the refugees saw a huge explosion of blood red light where the vilage used to be. When they returned the next day they found that half of the village was destroyed. Buildings were knocked down or burned and there was a crater seventy five feet in diameter. Inside was a mound of dirt with a cane sticking out from the head. But the biggest loss was realized when the bodies were found. All but three of the elders had died and no one could find the body of Lung Lung in the wreckage of her house.
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To say that Ranma was stunned at Shampoo's story was the understatement of the year. Suddenly he heard the sound of his apartment door being opened and a familiar female voice could be heard.
"Ranma, are you home?" He realized that Shampoo still hadn't put her shirt on and they were both sitting on his futon. The door knob to his room slowly turned and Ranma could say only one thing.
"Oh Shi.."
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Authors Notes
Sorry this took so long but when I was writing this chapter last week I threw out my whole story line since it was to boring and created this instead. Who is the girl coming into Ranma's room? You just have to wait. I realize that this chapter was a little dark but I've been feeling depressed this week and this really helped me get it out of my system. But I promise you that the next chapter will be much more humorous. I'm going to work this week on another chapter of Ranma, King of Games, and maybe post a Ranma/Trigun crossover I've been working with. C&C are welcome at animeprime1@hotmail.com
Ja Ne