Little Shack

Chapter 13

By VICCOLOVE

Disclaimer: Blah…Blah…Blah…I wish.

Authors Note: Hey guys I'm back, I promised I would be. I hope you haven't given up on this story. I had to force myself to sit long enough to write this chapter, so I really hope you like it.

Akane's scream echoed throughout the forest. As soon as it reached Ranma's ears, he froze in place, forgetting the fight he was currently involved in with Ryoga.

"Where's Akane?" Ryoga asked out loud.

"Yeah, where's my beloved Shampoo?" Mousse followed

Ranma on the other hand, didn't say anything, but he was asking himself something along those lines. He wondered where everybody was. Most importantly, he was worried what was happening.

Akane's screamed his name with so much urgency; he could hear the pain, her suffering in her voice, her desperation.

He knew she was in trouble.

But…Shampoo and Ukyo wouldn't have dared to do anything to Akane. They just couldn't have.

He wanted desperately to run after her, to help her out, to find out what was going on. But where was she?

Closing his eyes, he tried to sense her presence. If they were close enough, he was sure to spot them by sensing their auras.

He tried to concentrate, summoning all of his patience, but his nerves were betraying him.

Shampoo looked at Akane with big, crazy eyes.

Akane couldn't even recognize her anymore. Her usually flirty eyes were empty of reason; they were full of hate and resentment. And all of those feelings were towards her. She couldn't believe that someone could hate her so much to the point of wishing her dead. What had she done in her life to deserve so much suffering?

Shampoo smiled evilly, shuddering from the pleasure she felt as the sword slowly went in deeper.

Akane shut her eyes tightly as the pain became more then she could handle, sweat started to run down her face, drops hitting the ground below.

All of a sudden the pain stopped.

Shampoo had stopped pushing the sword.

Opening her eyes, Akane saw her dark expression and knew something was going through Shampoo's mind.

"I want to enjoy this" Shampoo told her. But she didn't want to kill her pray so fast. She wanted to take her time. She wanted Akane to suffer more.

"I make Ranma happy now" She stated "He and I get married and have children"

Finally…the battle of more then two years was ending with her victory over violent girl.

She had won.

She had finally won.

Akane watched Shampoo in terror. This was the end, she was going to die and there was nothing that she could do about it.

Ranma had passed the point of simply being nervous; he was now panicking out of control.

He had stood in silence despite the other boys talking to him.

And then he felt something. He was able to sense 3 auras.

One was very strong.

The second was faint but stable.

The third was weak.

He felt his heart fall to his feet. The third aura, it was her, it was Akane. There was no mistake, it was her.

His panic turned to rage.

"There" he yelled and started to run as fast as he could. From what he could tell, they were a few miles away.

"Please be ok" he kept whispering to himself.

Ryoga and Mousse followed behind.

A few minutes later he spotted something ahead, it was them, he had found them.

But the sight that greeted him was something he had only dreamt about in nightmares.

Shampoo was standing over Akane with a sword in her hands.

In that one instant he forgot about his beliefs, he was blind with rage. He forgot that Shampoo was a girl; he forgot Shampoo was one of his suitors. He forgot he had cared about her as a friend at one point.

She was hurting Akane, she was HIS enemy.

With all the energy that he could muster he yelled "Shi Shi Hokodan". A ball of energy radiated from the palms of his hands.

"Ranma STOP!" Mousse yelled, witnessing one of the most powerful "Shi Shi Hokodan" that he had ever seen. But Ranma didn't listened. He let all his fury consume his thoughts and acted without considering the consequences. He didn't care what happened to Shampoo.

Shampoo was able to protect herself by using some kind of invisible shield that Ranma had never seen, but she was still pushed a few miles away by the brute force of the attack.

"Shampoo!" Mousse yelled as he ran towards her.

Ranma took advantage of the time and ran towards Akane. Ryoga was already with her. Looking at his surrounding he spotted Ukyo not far away from where Akane was laying.

It seemed that Ukyo was unconscious but she seemed to be ok. "Ryoga, can you go check on Ucchan" he asked wanting to confirm that Ukyo was ok.

It hurt him to see her that way but at the moment Akane required his attention.

He looked at Akane on the floor so helpless, and weak. His heart almost stopped, he was so worried about her.

Akane was clutching her stomach tightly.

"Akane?" Ranma called her.

"You came" Akane told him with a weak smile

"Of course I did" he said as he knelt beside her. "Let me see Akane" he instructed her but Akane wouldn't take her hand away from her stomach.

"Akane please, let me see how bad it is" he begged. He watched her face intently, her eyes were so full of pain, and tears were running down her face.

He tightened his fists trying to stop himself from throwing himself at her and beg her not to leave him.

But Akane wasn't listening to him; she didn't want him to see how bad it was. She wasn't even sure herself how bad it was, but form the pain she was feeling she knew it was BAD.

Ranma placed his hand on top of hers and forced her to expose her stomach. He felt her hand wet, looking at it, he realized it was soaked in blood.

He stared dumbly at her wound; there was a cut in her stomach. It was probably barely a couple of inches wide but judging from the blood flowing from it, it was probably deep enough to be scared about.

"Everything is going to be ok" he assured her "I'm taking you into town, where going to a hospital" he informed her. He was getting ready to pick her up when he felt something flew his way.

It was a small knife; he caught it with his bare hand.

He looked in the direction which the knife had come from, Shampoo was walking towards them.

Her battle aura was so big that she seemed to be floating in it. He watched Mousse follow her asking her to stop all this nonsense. But, much like Akane had noticed, Ranma knew Shampoo wasn't herself anymore.

At the moment Shampoo was a lethal weapon of mass destruction. She wasn't going to let anything come in between her desire to kill Akane.

Akane watched Ranma stand up. "Ranma please, let's just go" she told him.

"No Akane. This has to end here. I can't have her hurting you anymore" his voice was serious, cold. Akane had never known Ranma could feel so much anger towards anyone.

"Ryoga, can you take Akane and Ukyo" Ranma requested. Ryoga simply nodded, he just couldn't deny helping Akane.

"Make sure that Akane's ok" he told Ryoga. Ryoga picked up both girls up and carried them both as best as he could.

Akane didn't want to leave Ranma. "Please Ranma, just come with us" she insisted, but Ranma didn't even answer her anymore. He could hear her crying and calling him, but he willed himself to forget about her for that moment. This had to be done.

Shampoo watched in horror as her enemy had gotten away from her once more.

"Fine. If I can't have you. No one can" she told Ranma as she started running towards him, ready to attack.

Ranma got into his usual fighting stance. He waited for her to be close enough before he let out another "Shi Shi Hokodan". This time, it wasn't as powerful. His rage was affecting his concentration and Shampoo was able to avoid it easily enough.

Ranma and Shampoo now faced each other again. They were silent.

"You know I can't let you hurt Shampoo" Mousse stood in front of Ranma, warning him.

"Stupid duck-boy, get out of way. Just wasting my time" Shampoo scolded him

"Oh my dear Shampoo, you know I can defend you as my future wife" Mousse told her dreamily.

"I not your future wife" she snapped at him angrily. "I only for airen" she said looking seductively at Ranma "But if airen not want me then he can be with no one else" she threatened.

"Look Shampoo. I always told you that I didn't want to be your fiancée but you have always been too stubborn to understand it" he tried to reason with her

"No. You no understand. Amazon law says you my airen. YOU too too stubborn to understand" she disagreed with him.

"But Shampoo, I want to be your fiancée. Marry me and forget about Ranma. We can go home" Mousse interfered.

"Look Shampoo I don't want this to get out of hand. Why don't you just listen to Mousse and go home"

Shampoo was getting tired of Mousse; he was always butting into her life without her consent. The only good thing he was good for was to clean the restaurant. He was such a klutz in everything else. She was going to have to get rid of him first.

Or better yet…

Ryoga was having a very difficult time with both Akane and Ukyo.

Akane had passed out; he was getting desperate because she was losing a lot of blood.

And on top of everything, it was so difficult to find a way out of this god forsaken place. Ryoga kept running, "Wasn't I just here?" he asked himself annoyed. He cursed himself for having such a bad sense of direction.

Fortunately for him, Ukyo had regained consciousness just in time to stop him from going around the same tree again.

"You jackass, it's that way" she told him pointing north. Her body ached; she wasn't able to stand up on her own. She was leaning on Ryoga, but at least, this made it easier on Ryoga.

With Ukyo's help Ryoga was able to find the right way.

"Mousse…" Shampoo almost purred. "You right. Come" she ordered seductively.

Mousse walked towards Shampoo with a goofy expression on his face.

Shampoo smiled at him, "Mousse help?" she asked.

"Of course my dear Shampoo"

Shampoo approached him and stood dangerously close; she turned to Ranma and smiled. Looking back at Mousse, she leaned and locked her lips to him. Mousse stood frozen in pure bliss, his dreams finally coming true.

Ranma stood shocked, he didn't understand what was happening.

Once Shampoo backed away, Ranma noticed something different about Mousse.

His eyes we glowing blood-red.

"What did you do to him?" Ranma asked Shampoo but she didn't respond.

Shampoo frantically waved her hands in the air, Ranma looked at her in a trance, trying to figure out what was happening. Why wasn't she attacking? Hadn't she just threatened him?

But his attention was directed to the wrong individual, a second later after Shampoo waved her hands, Mousse started an attack. Multiple weapons flew out of his sleeves at the same time, chains, knifes, among others.

But Ranma wasn't prepared to block or avoid all of the weapons. After everything that they had already gone through, his reflexes weren't 100%. He gave a scream of pain as he felt a knife cut his upper left arm. He lost balance as the chains tightly wrapped around his legs, almost to the point of tearing his skin; Mousse pulled them to knock Ranma to the floor.

Mousse looked at Ranma on the floor, his face emotionless but his eyes radiated hate, Ranma could see all of Shampoo's evilness through Mousses eyes.

Ranma stared at Mousse dumbfounded. He had fought Mousse countless of times, he knew all of Mousses' techniques and attacks, but this time it was different. Mousse didn't posses his usual clumsiness, or his good heart. Ranma secretly refused to believe that Mousse would want to hurt him on purpose, although he realized Mousse wasn't in control of his actions at the moment.

Ranma heard Shampoo's evil laugh in the background and even though he couldn't see her, he knew she was approaching.

He felt helpless. He was trapped by Mousse and couldn't even think of a way to get out of the mess.

Mousse was getting ready to attack his enemy, while he was pinned down on the ground. This was his chance to finish the job, to fulfill his master's wishes. But before he could complete any attack he found Shampoo standing beside him, placing a hand on his shoulder to prevent him from going any further.

"If Ranma WAS good boy, this no happen" Shampoo spoke in her broken English. "All you had to do was marry Shampoo this last chance" She said kneeling down, running her hand down his chest.

"Never. I would never marry someone like you" Ranma told her with revulsion

Shampoo's expression twisted into a scowl, furring her eyebrows in frustration and disbelief. Why was Ranma being so stubborn? Why couldn't he see that she was the better choice? She was the only one for him. But she was tired too. She had given him, chance after chance, and he had just blown her off every time. Well, she wasn't about to beg anymore, she had her pride. Enough was enough.

"Mousse, get out of way" She ordered. She was going to finish Ranma by herself, she didn't need anyone to do it for her.

Ranma hissed as the chains around his legs and arms loosened, and he stood up shakily. "Good, this is my only chance" he thought

So that's it for this chapter. Hope it didn't …(I) disappoint you too much. And don't worry; I already started the next one so it shouldn't take me that long…crosses fingers. And please guys no flames I know this chapter was not as good as it should be but I really tried, I deleated it and reworted about 5 times and it was really driving me crazy.

TTFN!