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Dragonmaster: Chapter 7
As soon as Mel finishes talking, Alex rushes in and unleashes his greatest attack. "Sword Dance!" With a loud yell, his arms blurs and the practice blade becomes streaks of blue light as his ki surrounds the blade. A surprised look crosses Mel's face as he sees the sudden assault. Loud sounds of wood hitting flesh is heard repeatedly. After the final blow lands, Mel is thrown across the room and Alex leaps back to his starting position.
The room becomes quiet as they see one of the four legendary heroes lying on the ground after taking a hit from a boy who just seems to be in his teens. Alex continues looking at the fallen Mel, then he hears a cheer, starting from Nall and Caine, then spreading to the rest of his friends. Relieved that he beat Mel without taking and hurt, he turns around and raises his arm victoriously. But his celebration is cut short as he hears a laughter behind him. Slowly he turns around to see what he hopes he wouldn't see, but alas, luck is a fickle mistress.
A large guffawing laughter continues to come out from the facedown Mel. Slowly, Mel pulls himself up to his feet and cracks his neck. "You got me there boy. Never thought that you had that kind of move in ya." Mel turns around and goes up to the rack holding all sorts of practice blades and weapons. Looking at it thoughtfully, he continues to say, "Looks like I might have to take it a bit seriously… What's your name boy?"
Alex is a jumble of emotions. Happy that Mel recognizes, scared because Mel just stood up after being suckered Sword Danced, and embarrassed that he's receiving a load of attention from those looking at the fight. He replies with a clear voice, "I'm Alex of Burg sir."
"Alex of Burg…" Mel mutters. With that he seems to have made up his mind about what weapon to use. He grabs it off the rack and turns around. A manic grin spreads across his face and a disconcerting light glints from his eyes. Hefted in his right hand is a wooden model of a battle axe. "Now, it's for real." With that, Mel thunders down towards Alex with the axe raised over his head.
As he reaches Alex, he comes down with a fierce swing which is blocked by Alex. Yet, even blocking, Alex's body is lifted off and pushed back a couple of feet. Alex mind races and Ranma's voice flows through his head.
During one of their practice sessions back in the day, Alex froze up and Ranma easily won the bout. Later Ranma told him, "Here, let me tell you what my pop told me. If you don't have anywhere to go but forward, and you're trapped, then staying where you are will just get you caught."
"Your dad told you that?" Alex asked surprised. "I thought that you told me he was a no good lazy bum who sold you for whatever he could get his hands on…"
"He is. He told me this when we got cornered in an alley by cops and had to fight our way out….."
With those words in mind, he lunges forward before Mel could recover his balance with another Sword Dance. Once again, his blade flashes and Mel grunts in pain, but there is one difference this time. Mel doesn't get knocked back.
Grunting from pain after taking the hits, he grabs Alex before he can jump away. With the grin still on his face, he whispers, "Gotcha." With that, he hurls Alex to a wall. As Alex tries to get up from the stunning throw, Mel gallops towards Alex and upon reaching him, smashes him with the flat of his axe.
The wind gets knocked out of him and now, Alex is flat on his back with his mouth opening and closing like a fish on dry land. He sees a spinning world in which Ranma, Luna, and the rest are shouting at him to get up. Slowly with a force of will, he manages to stand up and turn around to face Mel… who isn't there. Then he sees the axe that Mel was using drop to his side and two large burly arms wrap around his waist.
"Here's what I call Hell Mel's Surprise!" With that, Alex is lifted off his feet and suplexed into the ground. With that, the world goes black.
Ranma and the rest quickly rush to Alex's prone body. Seeing him out cold, Ranma turns around and glares at Mel. "I can't believe that you would do that because of some turkey that he ate! You stingy bastard!" With that, he throws a kick to Mel's face. As Mel takes the kick and reaches out towards Ranma, Ranma quickly somersaults backwards, out of Mel's grasp.
"You're going to have to be faster than that old man!" With that, he rushes forward with a combination of kicks and punches. Surprisingly even under this heavy assault, Mel withstands it enough to grab Ranma in a bear hug.
Slowly, Mel squeezes Ranma as he tries to explain. "Look kid. - OW!- your buddy's not really hurt or anything. I -OW! Stop that!- was just having a friendly match you see?"
Clearly Ranma doesn't see as he takes a deep breath and yells out, "Katchuu Tenshin Amaguriken!" His arm blurs as Mel's face takes a beating. Quickly, Mel drops him and Ranma uses this to jump out of Mel's reach.
Cant't use the frontal assault. Guess I'm gonna have to use THAT move on him. "Are you sure that you're Hell Mel? I could barely feel that hug at all!" Ranma taunts. He starts hurling off insults faster than they can pop into his head as he evades Mel's attack. Even though the insults aren't pretty good, combined with the inability to hit him, Mel becomes enraged and is drawn into a familiar spiral.
Mel couldn't understand how Ranma was able to constantly avoid his attacks. As he became more angry, slowly each of his attacks became heavier and heavier with power until every time his fist hit a wall as Ranma evaded, it would leave large holes.
Just as Ranma is about to finish it off, he becomes distracted by Luna shouting out, "Ranma! It's fine. Alex just woke up!" Surprised, Ranma turns around to look at his friend.
"That's grea-!" Ranma never got to finish what he was saying as Mel's fist slams into his head and he goes flying into and through the wall, exiting on the other side, down a hill, into a bear pit, in which he is smashed out of, across town and into the women's bath. Understandably, he does not emerge from this conscious, which may be a lucky thing for him considering how much pain he's in.
End of chapter 7
Author's Notes: Well, I will end that here. It just seemed like a good place to stop. Hopefully as I get on a roll, the fic will get longer and longer. Sorry that it didn't have a lot of Ranma in it, but I felt that Ranma volunteering to fight a catlike Mel would be unlike him and meeting Mel, I felt, was semi-important.
Next, to answer some points given by Bloodeaver Alpha and those who may share the same views:
1) No, I did not use a magic amulet, a botched job by one of Ranma's many enemies, nor a bored god/goddess and the reason for this varies. All of those points mentioned have been done to death and frankly is no better than saying the Ranma got there by some mysterious means in which the reader at this current point in time does not know. Especially when it might become clearer as the story progresses or may be mentioned and explained further down the line.
2) No Ranma does not go off whistling into the sunset and as you may have noticed, that chapter had many time jumps. I was rushed to get into the meat of the story without having to bore myself and the readers with Ranma freaking out about how to get home to no avail. Instead, placing a running gag of him being afraid of cats were better since it helps to explain why he won't go into cat fist.
3) Yes, I have it so that Ranma is the vicar of chaos, but not in the common sense that most people use it as. The chaos in my story involves his aura, his spirit. NOT a way to give me a convenient way to use deus ex machina, which I feel is weak writing style (ie. I need a sword. Oh look, there's this sword conveniently placed here for me to use just when I need it. :or: I'm bored and I expect an enemy to pop out right about now. "RANMA! Prepare to die!").
Yes, it did follow the script fairly heavily, and still does, and in a sense still will. I am not going to go and change the storyline so that it becomes completely different. Lunar is written so that certain events triggers the next events and so forth. If I were to change it now, no doubt Ghaleon would win with no one to stand up to him.
Just why can't there be another fledgling? The dragons have to come from somewhere. And Nall exists when Quark is still around also. So why is it that there can't be another one? (Although in retrospect, giving Ranma a dragon was a bad idea considering that it's the dragon master who will be able to control ALL of the dragon's powers. But hey, I started this 5 years ago. Give me a break.) BTW, yes I have beaten the game. Both Lunar 1 and 2. Several times.
Well that's it for the comments and answers. If anyone has more questions or comments and so forth, put it in the review and I'll try to answer it. That is all.