Tender Loving Care
The giant beast bellowed, and waved its arms menacingly at Ranma.
Ranma's face scrunched up in irritation, "Hey, ya Jerk! You should be grateful!" The monster apparently didn't think so, as it started to flail more violently while snorting steam.
"You're such an ingrate! You got your name change! What more did you want?" It grew more agitated, stomping it's foot in emphasis.
"Ranma, you understand what that thing's saying?" Ryoga asked incredulously.
"Well, it *has* been a long while since you last saw me," Ranma drolled, "among some of the languages I learned was Yeti riding Ox while holding a crane and eel in each hand."
"Oh, that makes perfect sense then." Ryoga replied. The beast let out a furious roar, and then squatted down in preparation for flight.
"Uh oh," Ranma mumbled, "Ryoga, hold this for me, would ya? Looks like he wants to have a private discussion."
"Oh, sure," Ryoga complied, taking the end of the rope that Ranma was holding. After it was handed over, Ranma bounded onto the top of the sign, and then onto a rooftop. Ryoga was rocked by the gale that the monster generated as it flew past. The lost boy almost pitied Ranma, and then looked at the object in his hand.
"Wait a minute..."
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"Well, I guess you're really gonna show me who wears the pants in this family, huh?" Ranma chuckled, running along the rooftops as he was chased by the humongous demon type creature. The beast screeched, as it slammed its fists through obstacles in its path, slowly gaining on the pigtailed boy. Fortunately for Ranma, his zigzagging kept the flying creature from being able to catch up with him. Ranma laughed as he ran, he hadn't had this much fun in ages. Unfortunately, he was going to need to loose the flying monkey before he caught up with him.
"Huh?" Ranma looked up in time to feel a drop of moisture touch his nose. Suddenly, 'she' was staring up into a rain shower, "Oh great, now I'm gonna be soaking wet!"
The colorful mace slamming into the chimney by her face told her that was the least of her problems.
"DIE!!!!!" Shampoo screamed, flailing her weapons at a furious pace, intent on crushing the redhead's skull. After loosing the redhead the first time in their chase, she had given the order to split up so that they may cover more ground. It looked like her idea paid off.
"Uh... Oh..." Ranma voiced in concern, this was getting slightly serious, "Shampoo, can we continue this at a later time?"
"YOU I KILL!"
Ranma rolled her eyes, and replied calmly, "I'm afraid you don't have a choice." With that, Ranma bent over backwards, allowing a meaty apelike fist to pass just barely over her nose.
Shampoo skidded along the wet rooftops, occasionally smashing into a chimney before falling to street level.
The giant amalgamated creature bellowed once again in rage at missing it's target.
"So you do care for me after all!" Ranma-chan exclaimed with glee. She leaped out of the way of the creature's 'reply'.
"You're really being childish about this, you got the name change you wanted, can't you just be happy about it?" Ranma was forced to jump away from another fist, "Well if that's the way you feel about things, I want a separation!" Ranma barely controlled herself as the creature's eyes became severely bloodshot, and steam jetted from its ears.
"I know, I know, it'll be hard on us both, honey, but we'll be all the stronger for it," Ranma cracked up laughing as she jumped off the roof, leaving the yeti-eel-ox-crane screaming it's loudest in rage.
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Everyone in the Tendou Household jerked at the inhuman scream.
"That was..." Rouge started to say.
"Only ONE person can get him that ticked off," Happosai stated grimly. Rouge dumped some cold tea onto her head, sprouting four more arms and beginning to radiate a golden light. Once she transformed, both the demon woman and the ancient martial artist dashed out of the house.
"Have fun you two," Genma stated from his game of Shogi with Soun.
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Ranma dashed into a narrow alley, donning a blanket that someone had left out to dry, unaware of the rain that was to happen spontaneously that day, and came out on the other side, just in time for a the massive beast that was pursuing her to pass over. Ranma walked up to a payphone and dialed the emergency number.
"Hello? Yes, I would like to report a large wild flying monkey, it seems pretty hostile. Huh? Yes, I'll hold.... Hello, Animal control? Yes there is a flying monkey in this area that's... Oh? You've already heard the reports? You'll be down here soon? Okay, you may want to hurry, it seems dangerous, and it's doing a lot of property damage, okay, b-" Ranma was cut off by a large great sword.
"Ranma..." The stone gray haired Amazon slurred out as if it were a horrid taste on her tongue.
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"Xian Pu, Xian Pu, wake up!" Mao Lin lightly slapped her leader in the chin. Shampoo started to stir.
"You're swinging the boulders a bit harder than normal for this training, don't you think Great Grandmother?" Shampoo slumped back to the ground, earning a sigh from her comrade.
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The rain had finally stopped, not that it mattered to Ranma too much at the time.
Ranma was back to running, now from several Amazon girls that joined the chase. As fulfilling as this had been, the redhead was beginning to tire of it.
::FWOOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!!!::
Ranma blinked, and turned around to see a smoking pile of women, "Huh?" Her instincts kicked in, and she dodged a bolt of flame aimed for her, "HEY! You could hurt somebody with those!"
"RANMA! YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR YOUR IMPUDENCE!!!!" the Goddess yelled down, readying a large fireball set to scorch a good twenty-meter radius.
She was not given a chance, as a massive fist swatted the Hindu Goddess to the ground. In her place now hovered a raging flying creature, wearing a dogcatcher's net around it's head.
"That's twice you saved me, dear!" Ranma replied sweetly, the creature gave no reply, instead reading it's fist to make some human jelly.
"HAPPO FIRE BURST!!!!"
The beast stood with it's fist ready, and puffed out a cloud of smoke before falling over.
"Gramps!" Ranma called out, boy was he ever glad to see him!
"Don't interfere, you little puke! Ranma's ours!" Happosai wound back, "HAPPO FIRE BARRAGE!!!!!"
Ranma looked dumbly at the explosive heading towards him, when a gray haired blur appeared before him.
"HAPPO FIRE BARRAGE RETURN!" Happosai started to back pedal away from the projectiles heading back towards him.
"Now, young lady, it is time for you to answer for your crimes against the Amazon nation," growled the old woman, bringing her iron cane to ready.
"Oh come on! It was just a harmless prank! Nobody lost an eye or nut'n!" Ranma replied indignantly, ignoring the massive cluster of explosions that sounded in the distance. The roof under them shattered, sending both Ranma and the old woman flying in opposite directions.
"WHERE ON EARTH AM I... oh, excuse me, miss, can you tell me where I am?" Ryoga asked the rather cute redhead with a soaked shirt..."
"Huh, Ryoga? You okay?" Ranma asked, a bit concerned for her friend.
"RANMA! DIE!!!!" Several Amazons descended towards Ranma-chan in a circle. Ranma leapt straight up, just barely missing the circle of weapons striking him down. The redhead descended upon an Amazon's head lightly, then leapt away.
"After her!" the elder shouted.
Ranma ended up in a run down part of the city, and then dashed into an open window of an apartment building. Ranma was grateful to find a steaming kettle on the stove, and dumped it over her head. She ignored the stunned apartment owner, and walked back to the window to look out. The Amazons had gathered at street level, and looked surveyed the area.
"She disappeared somewhere here!" Shampoo stated darkly in Mandarin.
"Ooh, lookie what we have here, boys!" a gaudy looking punk stepped out from an alley, grinning.
"We are none of your concern, boy, do not interfere with us," the Amazon matriarch replied coldly to the young man.
"But you see, it is our concern, since you're on our territory, that makes it our concern," Several men of varying sizes stepped out into the open.
"Are you attempting to intimidate us?" The old woman asked curiously, but not without a little bit of mirth.
"Intimidate? Oh noooooo!" the leader of the gang replied sarcastically, "We're just sooooo happy that we got dates for tonight! Right boys?" The rest of the gang cheered.
"We don't have time for this," the old woman turned away towards the leader of the hunting party, "Shampoo, gather everyone so that we may find an area to stay for the time being, we know the girl stays in this area of Japan, we'll set up a base of..."
"Listen, you old bitch, you and your whores ain't goin' nowhere until..." The glare directed towards the punk showed him that he had just overstepped his limits.
"Deal with them," The elderly woman replied in harsh Mandarin. The punks gulped as each woman pulled out weapons, and noticed that many more of them were standing on the roofs of surrounding buildings.
Ranma cheerfully watched the carnage.
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"You... how DARE you interfere with us!" Ashura growled towards the beast. The creature poured warm water over its head, allowing it to change back into a young man. He then handed the gourd over to the Goddess, so that she may upend the rest over her head.
"Give it a rest, Rouge, the right to pound femboy into the ground is MINE!"
"Is that how you usually treat your 'wife', Pantyhose Saotome?" Rouge cooed with a smile. Tarou glared at the woman.
The giant beast bellowed, and waved its arms menacingly at Ranma.
Ranma's face scrunched up in irritation, "Hey, ya Jerk! You should be grateful!" The monster apparently didn't think so, as it started to flail more violently while snorting steam.
"You're such an ingrate! You got your name change! What more did you want?" It grew more agitated, stomping it's foot in emphasis.
"Ranma, you understand what that thing's saying?" Ryoga asked incredulously.
"Well, it *has* been a long while since you last saw me," Ranma drolled, "among some of the languages I learned was Yeti riding Ox while holding a crane and eel in each hand."
"Oh, that makes perfect sense then." Ryoga replied. The beast let out a furious roar, and then squatted down in preparation for flight.
"Uh oh," Ranma mumbled, "Ryoga, hold this for me, would ya? Looks like he wants to have a private discussion."
"Oh, sure," Ryoga complied, taking the end of the rope that Ranma was holding. After it was handed over, Ranma bounded onto the top of the sign, and then onto a rooftop. Ryoga was rocked by the gale that the monster generated as it flew past. The lost boy almost pitied Ranma, and then looked at the object in his hand.
"Wait a minute..."
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"Well, I guess you're really gonna show me who wears the pants in this family, huh?" Ranma chuckled, running along the rooftops as he was chased by the humongous demon type creature. The beast screeched, as it slammed its fists through obstacles in its path, slowly gaining on the pigtailed boy. Fortunately for Ranma, his zigzagging kept the flying creature from being able to catch up with him. Ranma laughed as he ran, he hadn't had this much fun in ages. Unfortunately, he was going to need to loose the flying monkey before he caught up with him.
"Huh?" Ranma looked up in time to feel a drop of moisture touch his nose. Suddenly, 'she' was staring up into a rain shower, "Oh great, now I'm gonna be soaking wet!"
The colorful mace slamming into the chimney by her face told her that was the least of her problems.
"DIE!!!!!" Shampoo screamed, flailing her weapons at a furious pace, intent on crushing the redhead's skull. After loosing the redhead the first time in their chase, she had given the order to split up so that they may cover more ground. It looked like her idea paid off.
"Uh... Oh..." Ranma voiced in concern, this was getting slightly serious, "Shampoo, can we continue this at a later time?"
"YOU I KILL!"
Ranma rolled her eyes, and replied calmly, "I'm afraid you don't have a choice." With that, Ranma bent over backwards, allowing a meaty apelike fist to pass just barely over her nose.
Shampoo skidded along the wet rooftops, occasionally smashing into a chimney before falling to street level.
The giant amalgamated creature bellowed once again in rage at missing it's target.
"So you do care for me after all!" Ranma-chan exclaimed with glee. She leaped out of the way of the creature's 'reply'.
"You're really being childish about this, you got the name change you wanted, can't you just be happy about it?" Ranma was forced to jump away from another fist, "Well if that's the way you feel about things, I want a separation!" Ranma barely controlled herself as the creature's eyes became severely bloodshot, and steam jetted from its ears.
"I know, I know, it'll be hard on us both, honey, but we'll be all the stronger for it," Ranma cracked up laughing as she jumped off the roof, leaving the yeti-eel-ox-crane screaming it's loudest in rage.
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Everyone in the Tendou Household jerked at the inhuman scream.
"That was..." Rouge started to say.
"Only ONE person can get him that ticked off," Happosai stated grimly. Rouge dumped some cold tea onto her head, sprouting four more arms and beginning to radiate a golden light. Once she transformed, both the demon woman and the ancient martial artist dashed out of the house.
"Have fun you two," Genma stated from his game of Shogi with Soun.
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Ranma dashed into a narrow alley, donning a blanket that someone had left out to dry, unaware of the rain that was to happen spontaneously that day, and came out on the other side, just in time for a the massive beast that was pursuing her to pass over. Ranma walked up to a payphone and dialed the emergency number.
"Hello? Yes, I would like to report a large wild flying monkey, it seems pretty hostile. Huh? Yes, I'll hold.... Hello, Animal control? Yes there is a flying monkey in this area that's... Oh? You've already heard the reports? You'll be down here soon? Okay, you may want to hurry, it seems dangerous, and it's doing a lot of property damage, okay, b-" Ranma was cut off by a large great sword.
"Ranma..." The stone gray haired Amazon slurred out as if it were a horrid taste on her tongue.
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"Xian Pu, Xian Pu, wake up!" Mao Lin lightly slapped her leader in the chin. Shampoo started to stir.
"You're swinging the boulders a bit harder than normal for this training, don't you think Great Grandmother?" Shampoo slumped back to the ground, earning a sigh from her comrade.
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The rain had finally stopped, not that it mattered to Ranma too much at the time.
Ranma was back to running, now from several Amazon girls that joined the chase. As fulfilling as this had been, the redhead was beginning to tire of it.
::FWOOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!!!::
Ranma blinked, and turned around to see a smoking pile of women, "Huh?" Her instincts kicked in, and she dodged a bolt of flame aimed for her, "HEY! You could hurt somebody with those!"
"RANMA! YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR YOUR IMPUDENCE!!!!" the Goddess yelled down, readying a large fireball set to scorch a good twenty-meter radius.
She was not given a chance, as a massive fist swatted the Hindu Goddess to the ground. In her place now hovered a raging flying creature, wearing a dogcatcher's net around it's head.
"That's twice you saved me, dear!" Ranma replied sweetly, the creature gave no reply, instead reading it's fist to make some human jelly.
"HAPPO FIRE BURST!!!!"
The beast stood with it's fist ready, and puffed out a cloud of smoke before falling over.
"Gramps!" Ranma called out, boy was he ever glad to see him!
"Don't interfere, you little puke! Ranma's ours!" Happosai wound back, "HAPPO FIRE BARRAGE!!!!!"
Ranma looked dumbly at the explosive heading towards him, when a gray haired blur appeared before him.
"HAPPO FIRE BARRAGE RETURN!" Happosai started to back pedal away from the projectiles heading back towards him.
"Now, young lady, it is time for you to answer for your crimes against the Amazon nation," growled the old woman, bringing her iron cane to ready.
"Oh come on! It was just a harmless prank! Nobody lost an eye or nut'n!" Ranma replied indignantly, ignoring the massive cluster of explosions that sounded in the distance. The roof under them shattered, sending both Ranma and the old woman flying in opposite directions.
"WHERE ON EARTH AM I... oh, excuse me, miss, can you tell me where I am?" Ryoga asked the rather cute redhead with a soaked shirt..."
"Huh, Ryoga? You okay?" Ranma asked, a bit concerned for her friend.
"RANMA! DIE!!!!" Several Amazons descended towards Ranma-chan in a circle. Ranma leapt straight up, just barely missing the circle of weapons striking him down. The redhead descended upon an Amazon's head lightly, then leapt away.
"After her!" the elder shouted.
Ranma ended up in a run down part of the city, and then dashed into an open window of an apartment building. Ranma was grateful to find a steaming kettle on the stove, and dumped it over her head. She ignored the stunned apartment owner, and walked back to the window to look out. The Amazons had gathered at street level, and looked surveyed the area.
"She disappeared somewhere here!" Shampoo stated darkly in Mandarin.
"Ooh, lookie what we have here, boys!" a gaudy looking punk stepped out from an alley, grinning.
"We are none of your concern, boy, do not interfere with us," the Amazon matriarch replied coldly to the young man.
"But you see, it is our concern, since you're on our territory, that makes it our concern," Several men of varying sizes stepped out into the open.
"Are you attempting to intimidate us?" The old woman asked curiously, but not without a little bit of mirth.
"Intimidate? Oh noooooo!" the leader of the gang replied sarcastically, "We're just sooooo happy that we got dates for tonight! Right boys?" The rest of the gang cheered.
"We don't have time for this," the old woman turned away towards the leader of the hunting party, "Shampoo, gather everyone so that we may find an area to stay for the time being, we know the girl stays in this area of Japan, we'll set up a base of..."
"Listen, you old bitch, you and your whores ain't goin' nowhere until..." The glare directed towards the punk showed him that he had just overstepped his limits.
"Deal with them," The elderly woman replied in harsh Mandarin. The punks gulped as each woman pulled out weapons, and noticed that many more of them were standing on the roofs of surrounding buildings.
Ranma cheerfully watched the carnage.
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"You... how DARE you interfere with us!" Ashura growled towards the beast. The creature poured warm water over its head, allowing it to change back into a young man. He then handed the gourd over to the Goddess, so that she may upend the rest over her head.
"Give it a rest, Rouge, the right to pound femboy into the ground is MINE!"
"Is that how you usually treat your 'wife', Pantyhose Saotome?" Rouge cooed with a smile. Tarou glared at the woman.