New Faces: The Prince And The Golden Pair
In the skies above Tomobiki, a fleet of airships can be seen flying towards Tomobiki High. On one of the ships, a young man can be seen sitting in front of an old man who seemed to be crying hysterically.
"Are-are you sure you want to do this, Shutaro?" He asked the young man. The young man, Shutaro, nodded his head.
"Yes. I'm sure, grandfather." He said. "I'm quite sure."
"Ok." The young man's grandfather said as he continued to cry hysterically.
"You be good now, do you hear?" He said. Shutaro nodded.
"I will grandfather. I promise to study hard and not to bring dishonor to the family crest." Shutaro said as he held up his family crest, a hyottoko, and placed it into a hidden pocket in his clothes, and prepared to make his departure.
"Young master." Came the voice a man dressed in a black suit. "We're nearing the drop point."
"Thank you." The young man said as he grabbed a parachute and made his way to the edge of the carrier.
"Don't forget to take a handkerchief. And some toilet paper." The old man said to his grandson as he prepared to jump.
"Farewell, grandfather." Shutaro said as he jumped off the carrier and free-fell towards Tomobiki High school.
Meanwhile, at said school, Ranma was dealing with a new headache. A group of fanatics that were obsessed with Lum. The group, called Lum's Stormtroopers, was leading them was none other than the biggest pain in his neck at this new school, Ataru Moroboshi. But what made it even harder for him was that Lum was holding onto him as he dodged the attacks of his would-be attackers.
"Lum! You're only making this worse you know!?" He said as he bobbed and weaved from Ataru's wild swipes.
"But this place is boring! Let's leave and go somewhere fun." She said with her sweet smile. Which only made things worse as Ataru got madder that the hottest girl he had ever seen was flirting with someone that wasn't him.
"HEY! Stop being touchy-feely with that guy!" He said as he took another wild swing.
Ranma sighed as he was finally getting sick and tired of all of this. He ducked under Ataru's attack and did a front sweep that took him down. He then managed to slip out from Lum's embrace and used several throws to send the rest of the stormtroopers to the ground. As he managed to throw the last of the goons, the teacher, mister Onsen, came in and was not happy to see what was going on.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" He shouted. Ranma started to panic, déjà vu all over again.
"It's not my fault!" Ranma cried. And to his surprise, not only did Lum come to his defense but so did Shinobu.
"Onsen-sensei it's true! Ataru and his pals just started attacking Ranma for no reason." Shinobu said. Lum nodded.
"Yeah. They all tried to attack my darling and he was just defending himself. And me."
"Lum-chan! Shinobu-chan! Why are you siding with him!?" Ataru whined.
"Because you're a dumbass?" Ranma offered, arching his eyebrow. Ataru growled.
"It's bad enough you took the hottest girl in town but why did you have to steal MY GIRL TOO!?" He screamed as he tried to get back to his feet. Now it was Shinobu's turn to get mad.
"I. Am not. You're. GIRL!" Shinobu said as she picked up a whole desk and threw it at Ataru with full force.
Ataru yelped and ducked under the desk as it crashed through the window. As the class watched what was happening, Ranma and a few others noticed that a parachute was falling into the very yard where Shinobu had just thrown the desk. They all ran out to the yard, except for Ranma who jumped and flipped out of the window to the ground and Lum who flew to the ground, and saw a white chute with a red hyottoko painted on it and attached to it was a young man around the same age as the students. What also caught their attention was that he had caught the desk that Shinobu threw a minute ago.
"Whoa, who's he?" Asked one of the girls. Suddenly, the boy threw the desk down to the ground, unbuckled his harness and flipped onto the top of the desk.
"That could have gone badly for someone without my reflexes." He said as he dusted himself off. Now that they got a good look at the guy, one thing the girls all seemed to take notice of was the fact that he was a very handsome young man. White uniform, slicked back black hair, blue eyes and a seemingly perfect looking face. As Ranma and a few of the boys tilted their heads at this stranger, the girls, except for Lum, all started swooning over him.
"What's going on NOW!?" Onsen said as he jogged out to the assembled group of students. Then he saw the kid they were staring at. "Oh my! Are you the new student that was supposed to be transferring in today!?"
The slicked back-haired boy looked towards the teacher as he jumped down from the desk he was standing on.
"Yes, I am. How do you do? My name is Shutaro Mendo."
And once again, the boy had gotten people talking. Ranma listened in and tried to hear what people were saying. Apparently, this kid was supposedly the son of some big Zaibatsu that had taken over the military market after the fall of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Ranma huffed, so the guy was stupidly, stinkingly, loaded with dough. That may impress some, but he was not one to be easily impressed by someone's wealth. Especially if that wealth was gained through military warfare.
Ranma may love martial arts with all his heart, but he hated war. A fight between people to test their skills was one thing, but he thought that to just start a war and then make money on the people fighting in it, no matter who they were, was just another evil in of itself. That was when he noticed Shinobu walking up to the rich kid.
"Um, excuse me, but...well, I was the one who threw that desk. I'm sorry, I didn't know that you parachuting down." She said, surprising the rich boy.
"What!? You?" He said as he took Shinobu's hand. "I can't believe...that such a delicate and beautiful young woman like you could also possess such strength. But pay no mind. No harm was done. Think nothing of it."
His words made Shinobu smile and blush. Ranma could swear that he saw hearts in the girl's eyes.
'Wow, this guy is one SMOOTH operator.' Ranma thought to himself. That's when he saw Ataru trying to get close to Shinobu only to get kicked in the crotch. Ranma and a few others winced as he went down. As Ataru tried to get back up, he got kicked in the face by Shinobu.
"That guy will never change." Ranma said to himself.
Later, after they had all gone back to class, Ranma was trying to relax but was constantly interrupted by either Ataru getting shot down by Shinobu or all the girls fawning over the new guy. He grumbled, all he wanted was for school to hurry up and let out so he could go home and do some training.
"Darling!" Lum said as she continued to float above Ranma's head. "I'm bored! Come on! Let's ditch this place!"
"Lum." Ranma said with a sigh. "Do you want me to end up a jobless bum like my idiot of a dad?" He said. Lum pouted, but she did understand.
"Not only that, but if I don't keep up with my studies and graduate, mom will probably skin me alive." He finished. That made Lum gulp. She had seen Nodoka mad before, and she did NOT want to see that motherly fury turned on her beloved darling.
"MISS!" Shutaro said as he as he jumped on top of the desk in front of Ranma and grabbed Lum's wrist.
"Please, get down! It's not safe for school girls to just be floating around!" He said with real fear for the strange girl in his voice. Lum huffed as she slipped her wrist out of Shu's hand.
"Oh, I'm not a student here. My name's Lum. I'm an alien form the planet Oniboshi." She said. Shutaro looked stunned.
"An...an alien?" He asked. Lum smiled and nodded.
"That's right!" She said as she flew around the air, mesmerizing the poor boy who was clearly star struck. That is of course, until Lum plopped down into Ranma's lap.
"And this handsome hunk is my hubby!" She said as she wrapped her arms around Ranma.
"WHAT!?" Shutaro said as his bubble was officially popped. "H-Hubby!? As in...your...HUSBAND!?"
Lum nodded her head with a big smile on her face, oblivious to the distraught look on the boy's face. Ranma on the other hand, was just sighing as he gave Lum another annoyed look.
"Lum, for the last time, we are NOT married." He said, causing Lum to give her costmary pout.
"Not yet." She said. Poor Shutaro was trying hard to wrap his head around what he had just heard.
He looked at this guy that the beautiful alien girl had called her darling. What was there to like about this guy? Shutaro was sure that he was far more handsome than this guy! With the way he wore his hair and the clothes he had on, he looked like a reject from a kung fu movie! And that look on his face! Why would a girl as beautiful as this woman like this guy anyway!? Heck, she didn't even seem interested in HIM!
Later on during class, Mr. Onsen declared that it was time to elect class president. When asked who wanted the job, Shutaro Mendo was the first to throw his hat in the ring. Ranma was on the verge of passing out from boredom but decided that maybe hearing the rich kid talk about what he was going to do as class president would be good for a laugh. Boy was he wrong.
"First off! Tardy students will be harshly disciplined! Start with order, otherwise everything else will be for not. What my method will entail, I will establish a disciplinary detention center, exclusively for our class! It will be the place tardy and rule breaking students will be punished!"
Somehow, he had a projector showcasing his idea on a screen, with Ataru playing the part of the troublemaking student being but through what looked like medieval torture devices.
"HEY! You don't have permission to use my image!" Ataru cried out. Mendo didn't listen as he continued on.
"If students wish to leave, they will go through a lie detector test! Anyone caught lying will have their tongue removed!"
"That seems a bit harsh and over kill, don't you think?" Ranma asked. But he too was ignored as Mendo kept going with his insane rule ideas.
"Further more, we'll launch extensive investigations to catch any and all school skippers! All offenders will have to face the rath of the Mendo private police! That's my plan. We well eradicate those three offenses and establish a bright new future for both our class and our school!"
'This creep almost sounds like he's related to Kuno. Seriously, what is he crazy? Those are the most ridiculous rules I've ever heard of.' Ranma thought to himself as he and the others looked at the young boy at the front of the class like he was a lunatic.
"Oh. There's one thing I forgot to say. Those rules will not apply to the ladies in our class." Mendo said, causing all the girls to sigh in relief.
"SAY WHAT!?" Cried the boys of the classroom.
"You bloody hypocrite!" Ataru shouted.
"For once I agree with Ataru! Why do they get a free pass on your stupid rules and we don't'? HUH?" Ranma asked, only for Mendo to give his charming smile as he looked towards the girls.
"It's because women deserve respect. And must be treated with kindness."
At hearing this, all the boys felt like shooting the hypocrite rich kid. Their lives were as good as finished. Unless they could find a rival candidate to run against Mendo and stop him from getting to go through with his insane all male torture ideas.
"Man. If Mendo gets his way, we might as well be dead." One of the boys said.
"Yeah, the girls will be living it up while we'll basically be put in Prison School. But without the hot chicks who run it." Said another.
"We need someone to stand up to this guy. Someone who can actually put up a fight against him and win."
"Not only that but someone who can handle any backlash we might get for opposing Mendo. But the only two like that are..." The last one to speak trailed off as he and the rest looked towards Ataru and Ranma. Ataru was superhuman enough, but knowing his lecherous nature, it was probably best to go with the martial artist.
"RANMA!" They all called out as they ran to the pigtailed boy. "WE WANT YOU TO RUN!"
"Pass." Was all Ranma said as he turned his head aside.
"Come on!" One of them said. "Besides that pervert Ataru, you're the most superhuman guy we've got!"
"Yeah! And besides that, you're way more honest and honorable than that guy. And we know you wont come up with dumb crap like Mendo is."
"Come on! Give us one good reason why you won't do it!" Another of the boys said. Ranma just gave them a bored look.
"Look guys, I'll agree that this guy is a kook. But if I became president, I wouldn't know what to do. And to be honest, I just don't want to. It'll cut into my training time." He said, then looked towards Ataru, who was taking turns glaring and growling at him and at Mendo. Then, Ataru got up and marched to the front of the classroom.
"All right, listen up. If I, Ataru Moroboshi, am elected, I will make it so that NONE of Mendo's stupid ideas get put into place." He said, causing Ranma and the other boys to be surprised by Ataru seemingly being a straight up guy.
"Who are you calling stupid you moron!" Mendo shouted out. Ataru ignored him, and his signiture lecherous grin returned.
"And also, I call dibs on all the girls in school forever!"
"NANI!?" The whole class cried out. Ataru only grinned more.
"And also, if anyone else besides me is caught hitting on any girl, then they'll be sentenced to life in detention and forced to wear a bald cap until they graduate!" He said. The class exploded in an uproar as both girls and boys started throwing whatever they could at the perverted creep. Ranma growled at the brown-haired boy.
"Alright. I get it. Count me in." He said as he got up and pushed Ataru aside so he could make his own speech.
"Ok. I really don't want to be in on all this politics stuff, but it's clear that the only two people running for office are as nutty and stupid as they come!"
"HEY!" The two boys in question said.
"So get this, if I'm made class president, I swear that I'll make this a fair classroom and make it so that those two will have no say in anything that happens, alright?" He said. The boys cheered and the girls booed.
"Alright, quiet down! Ok, who votes for Mendo?" Mr. Onsen asked. All the girls in class cheered.
"For Ataru?" No one said or did anything.
"HEY!" Ataru protested.
"And for Ranma?" All the boys cheered.
"Looks like we have a tie." Mr. Onsen said, to the dismay of Mendo and his classroom wide fan club.
"What!? How...How could I be tied with this reject from an old Kung Fu movie!?" Mendo cried out.
"Hey!" Ranma said in a huff.
"SERIOUSLY! THAT'S RIDONCULOUS!" Mendo continued to scream in an over exaggerated fasion.
"Even his reactions are ridiculous!" Ataru says. "But seriously, HOW COME NO ONE VOTED FOR ME!?"
And as for Ranma...he really couldn't care less. Mendo clenched his fist as he got up and glared at the pigtailed martial artist as he and the rest of the classroom just ignored Ataru's ramblings.
"There's only one way to settle this, I challenge you to a duel!" He said as he pointed a finger at Ranma. Ranma sighed and shrugged.
"Ok. Bring it on Richie Rich." He said as he got up.
"We shall compete in a duel using a traditional method that's been in my family for ages." Mendo said as he made a phone call. Ranma tilted his head in confusion.
"Oh? And what's that?"
*A few minutes later...*
A cannon fired a shot at a tree next to Ranma! He and everyone else gasped in shock. Except for Mendo, who was holding up an apple while standing next to the very cannon that fired.
"We'll take turns using these cannons to shoot apples off the top of our heads." He said as calmly as can be.
"HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT DEAD!?" Ataru cried out. Ranma had to agree with the pervy boy.
"Seriously!? Just how nutty is your family anyway!?" Ranma said, officially freaking out.
"Young master." Said one of the men in black. "Have you made this official by doing the right of challenge?"
"Oh right, I forgot." Mendo said as he took out a white glove.
"To make this challenge official, I shall throw this glove at you!" He said as he threw the glove...only for it to miss as Ranma effortlessly dodged.
"Missed." He said. Mendo growled and threw even more white gloves at Ranma. He bobbed and weaved and evaded each one like it was nothing at all.
"Not really good at pitching, are you?" Ranma asked. Mendo was getting even madder.
"Stop dodging you coward!" He cried out. Ranma narrowed his eyes at that last comment. He dashed forward and slugged Mendo in the face. HARD!
"I'M NO COWARD!" He said as Mendo went flying to the ground. All the boys cheered for their champion but the girls were all seeing red as they grabbed whatever they could get their hands on and started throwing them at Ranma.
"HEY! WHAT THE!? WATCH IT!" He said as he dodged their projectiles. "Seriously!? What the heck!?"
But as Ranma was avoiding the attacks of the girls, Mendo picks himself up and throws another glove at Ranma...Only for him to notice and dodge at the last moment and have the glove to end up hitting Ataru. He looked at the glove and then ran to the cannon that was meant for Ranma and grinned madly as he took aim at both him and Mendo!
"AH HA HA HA HA! Well, since I'm in now, GOODBYE MOTHER FUCKERS!" He said as he fired at Ranma.
"YIPES!" He cried as he jumped over the shot as Mendo ducked for cover. Ranma flipped in the air and landed on the cannon as he glared at Ataru.
"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" He screamed.
"Only for getting rid of you!" Ataru answered as he pulled on the back of the cannon and sent Ranma to the ground as he turned the cannon around and tried to once again aim at Ranma. Ranma cried in shock as he ran for it.
"Sheesh! I knew you were nuts but come on!" He said as he ran...only to freeze as he barely dodged another cannon shot fired at him by Mendo!
"HEY! What did you say about that glove thing!?" Ranma shouted at Mendo, who just smirked.
"Look at your shoe." He said. Ranma looked down and saw that one of those white gloves was indeed on his left shoe.
"...Oooohhhh shoot..." He said as he grinned sheepishly. "Whelp...YIPE AGAIN!"
He said as he took off running! He ran and ran, dodging this way and that as Ataru and Mendo took turns shooting at him. He jumped and flipped in the air, showcasing his incredible acrobatic abilities. Ataru and Mendo were getting tired of Ranma's constant flipping around as they tried to end his life.
"COME ON! When are you guys going to run out of ammo!?" Ranma cried as he did a butterfly twist to avoid another volley of shots. As he landed, he got an idea.
'If it worked for Bugs Bunny...' He thought to himself as he did a long and high back flip until he was in between the two nitwits with cannons.
"Come on boys! I'm right here!" He said as he stood there with his hands behind his back, smiling the whole time.
"At last!" Mendo said as he took aim and Ataru did the same.
"Goodbye girl stealer!"
And with that, the two fired! And as they did, Ranma jumped as high as he could, avoiding the cannon balls as they went straight for Ataru and Mendo respectively. They screamed as they dove to the ground to avoid the shots. They survived, but the cannons took enough damage to make them unusable. Ranma landed safely on the ground and looked to the ruined cannons.
"Whelp, that's that." He said as he dusted his hands. Mendo growled at Ranma and from nowhere, pulled out a sword. A REAL sword!
"Die you bastard!" He cried as he swiped at Ranma.
"WHOA!" He cried as he dodged the boy's swipes. "How in the heck did you get THAT into a dang SCHOOL!?"
Ranma leapfrogged over Mendo as he came in for another swing and the slicked back-haired boy ended up going for Ataru.
"Oh well, I'll be happy taking you out!" He said, only for Ataru to catch the blade of his sword in between his hands.
"Nice try dumbass!" He said as he did a near perfect throw to send Mendo flying. Ranma couldn't help but whistle.
"Hey, that wasn't half bad." He said.
As Mendo got up he went for another barrage of attacks, only for Ataru to not only dodge but to create a few afterimages to confuse Mendo. NOW Ranma was impressed, and so were the others.
"Man, when it comes to running away or just trying to escape someone, Ataru's almost godlike." Said one of the boy students.
Mendo growled and he thought that one of his strikes FINALLY hit home...only for it to be a substitution!
"Kawarimi no Jutsu!?" Mendo said.
"Ha ha! Better step it up, idiot!" Ataru said as he hopped away, only for him to run right into Ranma's foot.
"You know, if you actually trained a little more, I might consider you a worthy opponent." He said. Ataru growled at Ranma, but he wasn't paying attention as he did an axe kick to knock Ataru down as he bent backwards to avoid another swing form Mendo.
"Ok, I'm getting tired of this crap!" Ranma said as he caught Mendo's next attack and struck him in the throat before doing a pile driver move that smashed him into Ataru.
"Darling!" Came a voice from above. Ranma looked up and saw Lum flying right for him.
"Lum!?" Ranma cried out. Then he got an idea as an evil grin spread across his face.
"Say Lum," He cried out causing the blue tinted green haired girl to stop in mid air.
"What is it Darling?" She asked.
"Oh nothing, it's just that...these two have been trying to kill me all freaking day!" He said, pointing at the two struggling boys who suddenly went rigid with shock.
"HUH!?" They said.
"WHAT!?" Lum said as her hair started changing colors and electricity arced off her body.
"No wait! Miss Lum, let me explain!" Mendo tried to plead.
"Hold on! It's not what you think!" Ataru tried to say. But their words fell on deaf ears as Lum charged up her attack.
"You little CREEPS!" She cried out as she electrocuted the two downed boys. Ranma just stood back with a satisfied smile on his face as he watched the two be zapped to death. After Lum was done, she huffed and zoomed down to hug her darling.
"Darling! Schools over, come on and let's do something fun!" She said, her usual smile on her face, completely oblivious to the shocked looks from the other girls in the courtyard.
"Ok. But just one last thing before I go." He said as he untangled himself from Lum and walked to the center of the gathered crowd of students.
"Ok! Like it or not, I won! Fair and square! (The boys cheered as the girls called him a cheater) And as my first order of business as class president..." He trailed off and walked into the crowd and placed a hand on someone's shoulder.
"I hereby relinquish my title and give it to Shinobu." He said, causing Shinobu and the other students to gasp in shock. "And also, she can't give it up to anyone so no go on giving it to Mendo or Ataru so their stupid plans can't get put into effect."
And with that, he walked to Lum and smiled at her while she looked confused.
"What was that all about?" She asked with a tilt of her head. Ranma just shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
"Oh, nothing important. Shall we?" He asked as he offered her his arm. Lum smiled, flew down to the ground and took Ranma's arm.
"Let's go!" She said. And as they walked off, Shinobu was trying to wrap her head around what had just happened as Ataru started balling like a baby who didn't get his way and Mendo was overacting as he prepared to commit suicide. But the teacher stopped him.
"What...the heck just happened?" She asked.
Back with Ranma and Lum, they had just gone into a ramen restaurant and were just enjoying their time together as Ranma did his best to explain to Lum what was going on at school. Lum listened intently as Ranma recounted the events of the day.
"Whoa Darling, I didn't know Earth school politics could be so bloody and violent." She said.
"Me neither." Ranma said as he slurped up his ramen. Lum does the same, but only after adding even more chili sauce, powder and a few chili peppers to her ramen to make it more to her liking. Ranma whistled again.
"Man, I don't know if I'll ever get used to you turning your food into a spicy mess that no one but you can handle." Ranma said to his girlfriend. Lum just smiled at her boyfriend.
"Well, I can't help that Darling." She said. They both shared a laugh. Then suddenly, they heard what sounded like a bunch of girls swooning like crazy. They turned their heads and saw a bunch of girls fawning over some guy who had just walked in.
He looked like the stereotypical handsome young man. He was tall, had neatly kept brown hair, brown eyes and a swagger like he owned the world. He was dressed in a blue long sleeve shirt and light brown slacks. Ranma didn't know why, but something about this guy just rubbed him the wrong way.
"Well, I'm going to get something to drink. Do you want anything Darling?" Lum asked. Ranma shrugged.
"Um, just a coke." He said as he went back to eating his ramen.
As Lum got up and walked over to the counter to ask for hers and Ranma's drinks, the handsome looking boy saw her and had hearts in his eyes. Out of nowhere, he seemed to zoom in front of her and swept her off her feet. Ranma saw this and started growling.
'What the!? Who does that jerk think he is?' Ranma thought to himself, his blood boiling. As for Lum, she was very confused at the moment.
"Um, hello?" She said as the stranger looked deep into her eyes.
"I'm terribly sorry miss. I just got so caught up with how beautiful you are." He said. Lum just chuckled.
"It happens. But you should know, I'm seeing someone." She said as she tried to break free of the young man's one-armed embrace. But to her shock, the man was leaning closer to her!
"By way of apology, please accept this token of my affections." He said as he leaned in to kiss her...only to have a red pepper fly right into his mouth. The young man's eyes went wide as his mouth soon started to get really hot.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed as he started running around like his mouth was REALLY on fire! He ran around, screaming for water or anything cold to stop the burning in his mouth. Lum looked to her left and saw a smirking Ranma, trying his hardest to keep from laughing.
The young man finally got a glass of milk from one of the girls that was fawning over him earlier and sighed in relief. To his dismay, a lot of people were laughing at him for earlier. He growled as he looked for the culprit.
"Who did that!?" He cried.
"Yo." Ranma said from his seat. The handsome man turned to see Ranma smirking as he twirled around another pepper in his hand. The young man marched over to Ranma, glaring at him like he was the scum of the Earth.
"And just who do you think you are, friend?" He asked, the word 'friend' sounding more like a threatening insult. Ranma stopped twirling the pepper as he spoke, a trace of venom in his voice as he dropped his smirk.
"I'm the boyfriend of the girl you tried to kiss, you jackass." He said. The young man growled.
"Well, I see that the young lady might not have the best tastes if she chose a bore like you." He said.
"HEY!" Lum said as she fried the young man with lightning. "DON'T YOU INSULT MY DARLING!"
The young man fell to the ground, twitching like a dying cockroach. Ranma laughed at the sight, but as he did, the young man jumped back to his feet. He glared at the pigtailed boy, his eyes burning with what he thought to be righteous fury.
"Why you! How DARE you force this beautiful woman to attack me!" He said. Ranma shook his head.
"Dude, you bought that ticket to electric town yourself." He said. The young man growled again.
"That does it! Sir, you've insulted me one too many times this day! I challenge you to a duel!" Ranma arched an eyebrow at this declaration. This guy wanted to fight.
"You really have no idea how bad of an idea that would be for you pal." He said.
"That's right!" Lum siad. "I'll have you know my darling is a real tough fighter! He's the best martial artist I know!" She said. The young man only scoffed at this.
"Make that second best." He said cockily. "I'll have you know that I am the great Mikado Sanzenin. One half of the legendary Golden Pair. The rising stars of the martial arts Figure Skating world."
Lum looked confused and so did Ranma. He had never heard of a style called Martial Arts figure skating. But then Cherry's words came back to him, 'Beware of figure skaters'. Was this guy the figure skater Cherry was talking about? It would make sense.
"Well, whatever style you fight with, I say bring it on. I never lose to anyone when it comes to martial arts. At least not to anyone who's a walking target for sucker punches like you." Ranma said with a cocky smirk of his own.
"Well, then. Let's set the time for next week, Friday around noon at the Furikan figure skating rink. We shall duel in Figure Skating doubles, so I suggest that you find yourself a partner for your sinking ship. You'll need it. Just looking at you I can tell that you've never skated before."
With that, Mikado turned to Lum and was about to try and kiss her again.
"Until next we meet, miss." He said, only to get zapped again. After the zapping, Ranma gave the pretty boy a swift kick in the rear, sending him flying out the door. Ranma dusted off his hands as he turned to Lum.
"Come on Lum, let's get gone." He said as he paid the bill and headed off. As they walked off, Lum tilted her head towards Ranma.
"Darling, do you know how to skate?" She asked. Ranma froze in place.
"Um...No."
Once they got home, Ranma and Lum told Nodoka about what happened. To say the least, she was appalled that someone would actually try to hit on Ranma's girlfriend right in front of him, but when she heard the name of the person and the challenge that he put to Ranma, she started to get a little worried.
"I've heard of this Mikado boy and his partner Azusa. They're dangerous on the ice. Their mix of martial arts combat and figure skating may seem strange, but it's a very dangerous style. No offense son, but I fear that this time you wrote yourself a check that you won't be able to cash."
"Yeah right." Ranma scoffed. "All I've got to do is learn to skate. How hard could that be?"
Turns out, it was VERY HARD!
"AAAAHHHH!" Ranma screamed as he fell face first into the ice. He growled as he shook his head and tried to get back onto his feet, only to fall to end up in a painful split.
"Good thing I have flexible hamstrings." He said. As he tried to get back to his feet again, he heard a bunch of people cheering and gasping in surprise. He turned his head and his jaw dropped.
Lum was skating like a dang CHAMP! She was gliding across the ice like she had been doing it all her life. She moved her feet to slide along the ice and do some fancy tricks like crazy! Ranma couldn't help but whistle, his girlfriend had a heck of a lot of talents that he was still finding out about. Lum smiled as she skated over to her struggling boyfriend. She just couldn't help but show off a little bit, it wasn't every day that she found out that she was better at something than Ranma.
"Hey Lum, quick question, where in the heck did you learn to skate like that!?" He asked. Lum couldn't help but giggle at the shocked look on Ranma's face.
"Well Darling, you see, I have this friend on Neptune that's part of a race of ice women similar to what you Earthlings call Yukki Onna. She loved to freeze things and when she froze the ground or a body of water, she, me and our friend Benten liked to go skating." She said. Ranma's eyes went wide at hearing that.
"Wait, hold on. Your friend is an alien Yukki Onna? And she froze the ground and you guys went skating like in a dang Tom and Jerry cartoon?" Ranma asked. Lum tilted her head.
"Who are Tom and Jerry and what's a cartoon?" She asked. Ranma sighed, something else he had to teach Lum about.
Just as he was explaining to her, they heard a noise coming from the other side of the rink. They turned their heads and were surprised to see none other than Mikado and some cute looking girl in a pink outfit skating out onto the ice. Ranma couldn't help but notice that the two of them were arguing worse than him and Akane.
"What are those two doing here?" Lum asked in a huff, remembering how Mikado tried to steal a kiss from her in front of her Darling. Before Ranma could answer, a whole bunch of men in hockey outfits skated onto the ice and charged at the so called 'Golden Pair'.
"I don't know, but it looks like they may not make it to our duel next week." Ranma said. Sadly, Ranma would be dead wrong about that.
Mikado swung his partner, Azusa if Ranma remembered correctly, around like she was a whip. The small girl whipped around the attackers and knocked them down as they tried to charge at the pair. Letting her go, Mikado zipped around the ice like an Olympic pro, punching and kicking any poor soul that got in his path into unconsciousness.
Azusa skated down low and started knocking down anyone she came across. She jumped into the air and used impressive kicks to knock down other opponents in an impressive display of acrobatic skill. Ranma had to admit, she was almost as skilled in acrobatic combat as he was. She then skated back towards Mikado, he knocked away another foe and he took her hands in his own and once again spun her around like she was a human weapon for him to use.
When the battle was over, all 100 opponents were down for the count. Ranma and Lum were honestly impressed by the pair. Now Ranma was starting to get REALLY worried about the fight next week. Mikado saw Luma and skated towards her and tried to sweep her off her feet again, only for Lum to effortlessly maneuver around his attempt.
"Lum-san, I see that you also share the same joy that I feel in skating on the ice." He said, trying to act like a suave womanizer. Lum huffed in annoyance at the playboy as Ranma managed to get back to his feet and prepared to wallop him up-side the head.
"I'm only here to help my Darling get ready to beat you, you snobbish pretty boy." Lum said as she skated back around to Ranma and hugged him, keeping him from throwing the punch he was ready to throw. Mikado scoffed at what he was seeing. Why would such a lovely lady want to spend time with some fool when she could share a sweet kiss with him?
"Well, I suppose it's admirable for you to show concern for this young man who has no chance of winning on the ice." He was saying, but as he was talking, Azusa was trying to get his attention...by punching him repeatedly!
"At any rate...I think...That..." He was trying to say, only for him to start to get annoyed by his partner punching him over and over. And over. AND OVER!
"WILL YOU KNOCK IT OFF YOU STUPID BRAT!" He said as he turned around to face Azusa. She started to look like she was about to cry.
"Why are you so mean to Azusa? I just wanted to see the pretty Klaus and Pierre." She said, causing all three teens to look at her in confusion.
"Who or what the heck are you calling Klaus and Pierre?" Ranma asked, scratching the back of his head. Without warning, Azusa jumped up to Lum and tried to yank her horns off! LITERALLY!
"HEY! Get off! Let go!" Lum screamed as she tried to get the short crazy girl off of her. Azusa, despite her small size, had a heck of a death grip.
"Klaus and Pierre, you two are so cute! I want to take you home with me!" Azusa said as she tried to yank off Lums horns.
"I apologize for my partner. If she sees anything she thinks is cute she tries to take it home with her." Mikado said as he and Ranma tried to pry the short pink girl off of the green haired girl.
"Let go! Let go of Klaus and Pierre so I can take them home with Azusa!" The pink clad girl said in a winy voice. Ranma growled.
"Hands off you pink shrimp!" Ranma said as he chopped Azusa's hands, forcing her to let go of Lum's horns.
"OW! You big meanie!" She said as she tried to attack Ranma. He sighed, outside of fighting on the ice, this little pip squeak was more of an annoyance then an actual threat. Suddenly, the doors to the skating rink burst off their henges as the scream of an angry woman could be heard. They four teens looked towards the noise and saw one very PISSED OFF Akane Tendo starring them down, her long dark blue hair looking all messed up and he eyes looking red and puffy.
"YOU BASTARD!" She screamed as she jumped onto the ice and charged at the four teens on the ice.
"What did I do now?" Ranma asked. But to his and Lum's surprise, it wasn't the pigtailed boy she was going for...
It was MIKADO! Akane ran on the ice and threw a hard punch at the figure skating pretty boy only for him to effortlessly skate out of the way. She turned and tried to strike at him over and over again, but he managed to dodge every one of her wild strikes. Ranma and Lum tilted their heads and looked at each other in confusion.
"Um...why is she trying to knock that guy's head off, Darling?" Lum asked. Ranma just shook his and shrugged.
"Beats the heck out of me." Ranma said. But as he took a closer look at Akane trying to pound Mikado and him evading her blows while trying to sweet talk her, Ranma couldn't help but notice that Akane...was crying?
'Why's that tomboy crying like that?' Ranma asked himself. That's when Mikado managed to sweep Akane into his arms like some Cassanova and tried to sweet talk her again.
"Oh, Akane-san. Why are you trying to attack me?" Mikado asked. Akane growled and slapped him as hard as she could.
"You bastard!" She said, tears running down her cheeks as she started to pound on the pretty boy. Ranma wasn't sure what was going on, but then he heard the familiar sound.
"PWEEEE!"
Ranma's eyes went wide, and he turned to his left and saw a familiar little black piglet squirming to get out of the grip of the kleptomaniac Azusa. Ranma was shocked.
"Ryoga?" Ranma said. The piglet stopped squirming and looked towards Ranma. Sure enough, it really was P-Chan, aka Ryoga's cursed form. Ranma couldn't help but laugh.
"HA HA HA HA HA! Serves you right P-CHAN!" Ranma burst out. P-chan, aka Ryoga, clapped his hooves together and started begging for help.
"Charlotte! Come on! It's time for Azusa to take you home!" Azusa said as she tried to skate off while Ryoga tries fighting hard to free himself.
"Heheh. See ya later P-chan!" Ranma said as he started to skate off. But he heard Ryoga crying out in his pig squeal. Ranma turned back and looked at the watery eyed piglet, crying and begging his rival for help.
"Doh. I just can't stand seeing dumb animals in trouble." He said to himself as he looked towards his alien girlfriend.
"Lum, do me a favor and help me over to that pink wearing kleptomaniac." He said. Lum tilted her head at Ranma in confusion.
"Ok but why Darling?" She asked. Ranma just sighed.
"I'm going to do something I'll most likely regret, but I'm going to help Ryoga out." He said. Lum was still confused, but then she remembered Ranma telling her about Ryoga's cursed form being a pig. But now she was really confused.
"But Darling, I thought you two couldn't stand each other, why help him!? Especially after what happened last time he showed up to challenge you to a fight." Lum asked. Ranma couldn't help but sigh again.
"Yeah well, I guess I'm just TOO darn nice for my own good." He said. Now it was Lum's turn to sigh as she cracked her knuckles and then her neck.
"Ok." She said as she grabbed Ranma and threw him at Azusa. As the klepto was skating away with her new prize, Ranma skated right past her and plucked Ryoga from her grasp.
"Yonk." He said as he skated down the rink. Azusa's eyes went wide as she looked down and then up to where Ranma was skating away.
"Hey!" She screamed as she started skating after Ranma. "Give me back my Charlotte!" She screamed. Ranma turned his head to look at the girl who was chasing after him.
"Say lady, you DO know that this is a BOY pig right!?" Ranma asked as he tried to skate away from the crazy girl.
"Shut up and give her back! Give her back right now! Give Azusa back her Charlotte!" She cried out, only to trip over Lum's outstretched leg.
"WWWWOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Azusa screamed as she tripped and slid on the ice. Ranma and pig Ryoga couldn't help but laugh as the crazy girl slid into the wall of the rink.
"AAHHHH HA HA HA! Good one Lum-chan!" Ranma said before he crashed right into both Mikado and Akane.
"Oh. Hello again." He said. Akane looked up and growled as she saw Ryoga. He gulped as Akane grabbed him by the throat and threw him with all her might.
"GO TO HELL YOU PERVERTED PIG!" She screamed. Ranma, Mikado and Lum all watched as Ryoga went sailing right through the roof of the skating rink. Ranma whistled at the sight.
"Nice throw. But quick question, since when did you not like P-chan?" Ranma asked.
"That BASTARD IS RYOGA AND HE USED HIS CURSE TO SPOON ME!" Akane screamed. Ranma blinked in surprise.
"Since when did you find out?" He asked. Akane jumped up to her feet in shock.
"YOU KNEW!?" She screamed in rage, only to slip on the ice and fall right back into Mikado's arms.
"Akane-san, please, you must be more..." He didn't get a chance to finish as Akane threw the hardest punch she could at the punk's face.
"YOU BASTARD!" She said as she tried to pry herself away from the pretty boy, only to slip on the ice again and this time be caught by Ranma, who was being pulled to his feet by a floating Lum.
"LET ME GO! LET ME GGGOOOOOO!" She screamed as she fought to free herself from Ranma's grip.
"Cool it ya tomboy! Chillax!" Ranma said before he looked back to Lum. "Lum get us off this stupid ice before it gets us killed."
"Ok." Lum said as she as she dragged them back to the changing room.
"Ok, now what the heck you stupid tomboy!" Ranma said as he turned Akane around to look him in the eye, only to pause in shock as he saw her crying like crazy. Ranma started to panic, no matter what, he REALLY couldn't stand to see a girl cry. Even if it was Akane.
"N-now hang on. I didn't' mean it. Honest! I didn't mean to call ya stupid, it was a reflex, that's all! I swear!" He said, trying to stop Akane's crying. But then, she wrapped her arms around Ranma and started crying into his chest. Ranma was stunned. He looked to Lum and she just shrugged.
"Don't look at me." She said. Ranma turned back to Akane and pat her on the back.
"Um...there...there?" He was really not sure what to do at this point. Akane kept crying as she hugged him and cried harder into his chest.
"Hey...uh...? Come on, I've called you worse and you never cried like this before." He said. Akane did her best to reign in her tears.
"It's not you, baka! It's...It's..." She started to hiccup as Ranma pulled her away from his chest to look her in the eyes.
"Hey, hey, calm down. Now come on, what's bugging ya?" He asked again. Akane managed to get enough control over herself to look Ranma in the eye and tell him what was wrong.
"That...(Sob)...that jerk Midado!" She sobbed. Ranma gained a stern look of anger on his face.
"What did he do?" He said, his voice starting to deepen to an octave that almost made it sound different. Akane wiped her eyes.
"He...he bumped into me one day while I was out with some friends. He acted all nice and sweet and then he...he...he kissed me out of nowhere! I didn't know what to think of it at first but then...then...he...he..." She started to sob again as a dark look crept over Ranma's eyes.
"What. Did. He. Do?" He asked slowly.
"I...I caught him kissing another girl just down the road! I tried to attack him but he evaded my every strike! And then he had the GAUL to say that I was overreacting! He said that he was moving on to his next kiss. Some girls said that he did this all the time! He kisses every pretty girl he meets and then just...moves on to the next one like it's no big deal!"
She fell back into Ranma's arms, sobbing her heart out.
"My first kiss...my first kiss and he ruined it. He stole it! He stole it and just threw it and me away like cheap TRASH!" She cried. Even Lum was feeling bad for the girl. She may have tried to get Ranma killed at one point but to have something as sacred as her first kiss stolen by some guy who just made a habit of kissing any girl he like just cause he could, it made her mad. But before she could say anything, Ranma handed Akane over to Lum.
"Lum, hold on to Akane for a minute." Was all he said as he marched back to the skating rink.
"Darling!/Ranma!" Both girls called out to Ranma, but he didn't listen to them. He marched off like a man about to fight his last battle of a war.
"MY CHARLOTTE!" Azusa screamed as she whacked Mikado in a tantrum. "He stole my Charlotte! He stole my Charlotte! I want her back and I want her back now!"
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!" Mikado shouted back at his annoying partner. "Honestly can't you think about anything else but...WHAOAOAOAOA!"
He was cut off by the whole rink shaking as if it were an Earthquake! Then suddenly, a HUGE crack started forming right down the middle of the ice from one end of the rink towards the other! Mikado managed to gracefully jump and twirl his way out of the fissure in the ice, but Azusa was knocked down and away by the force of the small ice quake. As Mikado landed back on the ice, he turned to see the cause of the sudden fissure in the ice, one Ranma Saotome, his fist buried wrist deep in the ice.
"What in the world?" Mikado asked. Ranma pulled his wrist free of the ice and slowly stood up to look at the jerk in front of him.
"I bet you feel REAL proud of yourself, huh? Kissing every girl you come across and never staying long enough to have a REAL relationship before jumping ship to the next broad! HUH!?"
Ranma shouted as he ran onto the ice and let loose a furious barrage of attacks on Mikado. Mikado nimbly avoided the barrage of punches and kicks, but as he was starting to get to his usual rhythm, he felt a blinding pain in his gut followed by Ranma's foot nailing him in the head from a jump spinning crescent kick.
Mikado recovered just in time to avoid Ranma doing a front flipping axe kick that smashed it's way right through the ice. Mikado gulped, if that kick had hit him, he'd be in a world of hurt.
"My! Just what's gotten into you?" Mikado asked as he parried and blocked some of Ranma's attacks and tried to skate around him to get back into his usual form. As he parried and skated around Ranma's attempts to firs off kicks at him, Ranma let loose the source of his fury.
"Jerks like you are why women end up turning into man hating, lesbian, left wing, liberal psychopaths!" Ranma said as he threw another punch that Mikado managed to use against him and throw the pigtailed boy to the far side of the rink.
"Hmph. Such short sightedness. I'm only granting the women I meet the pleasure of having a kiss with the next star of the martial arts figure skating world. Each girl I kiss..."
He didn't get to finish as Ranma came at him with a flying side kick.
"YIPE!" Mikado cried as he ducked under the kick. Ranma missed his mark and started sliding out of control of the ice. As he reached the wall of the rink, he managed to kick off the wall with his feet and flew straight towards Mikado, but to Ranma, the man he was flying towards was starting to seem more like a different version of Ataru.
"Assholes like you piss me OOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFF!" Ranma shouted as he came at Mikado once again. Mikado was starting to have enough of this man who was getting in the way of his wooing of more women with his skating skills. So, he decided to finish him off with one of his favorite finishing moves.
"Dace of DEATH!" Mikado called out as he started to pirouette on one foot at fast speeds. Ranma saw this and tried to stop himself but found that the speed of his opponent's spin was pulling him right towards it!
"YYEEEOOWWWWW!' Ranma called out as he was pulled into the spinning tornado that was Mikado's Dance of Death.
"OH NO! DARLING!" Lum called out as she watched helplessly as the man she loved was being pummeled by Mikado in a fast barrage of punches and kicks in the twister that the pretty boy had turned himself into.
"RANMA!" Akane called out, genuine concern in her voice as she watched Ranma and Mikado engaged in the speedy close quarters brawl. After another few seconds, Ranma came flying out of the twister and crash landed right in front of Lum and Akane.
"Darling!" Lum called out as she and Akane picked up the fallen boy. Ranma shook his head as he tried to stand up.
"Man, that guy packs more of a punch than I thought." Ranma said as Akane helped Lum get him off the ice.
"Don't feel too bad kid." One of the guys who was previously beaten by Mikado said. "No one can beat that jerkola on the ice. Especially when he uses that Dance of Death move."
A lot of the others were agreeing with him untill Akane got all of their attention.
"What are you talking about. Ranma's the one who won this fight." She said a she pointed back towards Mikado. Everyone looked back at the pretty boy and noticed for the first time that he hadn't moved from the same position and stance he had been in since he stopped spinning.
A few of the people skated closer to Mikado and gasped in shock. Mikado's eyes were open, but there was definitely nobody at home! Mikado was literally knocked out on his feet. Azusa skated up to Mikado and tapped him a few times. When he didn't respond, she started bopping him on the head. Nothing. He was out like a light. And then she started doodeling on his face.
"Mikado...lost...?" One of the hockey guys said.
"MIKADO LOST!" They all cheered as they skated onto the ice and started beating Mikado up and drawing all over his face. As they took their well-deserved revenge, Lum and Akane helped a smirking Ranma out of the rink. Later, after Midado woke up, he noticed that he felt SORE! And then he looked in the mirror...and screamed like a little girl seeing a mouse and a cockroach having sex.
"MY FFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" He cried out as he saw all the various harsh words, comments and doodles drawn all over his once perfect face.
"RANMA SAOTOME! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS COME OUR DUEL NEXT WEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKK!"