The battle did not go well. Shun found the wolves too quick to hit with her Valkyrie Smash. Wolves were fast, and the hunger of these wolves drove them to be even faster. Then began a merry chase scene where the wolves would try to eat Shun, and Shun would escape by the skin of her teeth.
This is not a good way to conduct a battle if you are the Valkyrie.
Shun had to think. She had to run. And she did run. She ran back to Greenwood dorm where she started.
But help was on the way.
Shinobu watched Mitsuru put various odds and ends into a trash bag. Stuff they didn't need anymore. Trash that somehow never made it into the trash can. One thing about this plan was that their dorm room, and the dorm rooms of all the other Greenwood residents, were never cleaner.
"Yo, Shinobu. A little help here," Mitsuru griped.
Shinobu gave a gentle smile. "You seem have everything well in hand. I'll go check on the other rooms." With that, he stepped out of the room. He heard Mitsuru groan as he shut the door behind him.
He strolled unhurriedly up the hall, checking on everyone. Furusawa. Takeshi. 'Brother' Kinichii and his small chapel. Everyone. And everyone was in on this dorm-wide spring cleaning project, organized by none other than Shinobu himself.
He wasn't class president for his good looks—well, not chiefly, at any rate.
See, the walls of the Greenwood dorm were very thin, and Shinobu happened to have his ear close when Hermod snuck into the dorm. (Read: he was listening through the common wall with a stethoscope.) No sooner had Hermod given Shun the rundown of the wolves that he had formulated a plan.
After making his rounds, he looked out the nearest window for a second. Then, as if spotting something, he smiled. Again, unhurriedly, he made his way to the dorm's PA room.
"To all students. Please quickly bring your trash to the roof of the building."
After running all over town and returning to the place whence she started, Shun was no closer to a solution to her wolf-problem. Instead, she was screaming her head off.
Shun had tried her best to come up with a solution. She'd even used Hermod as bait, but they didn't seem interested in the little runt. However, all seem to end with the conclusion that she would be eaten and digested.
"Crap!" she declared, running as fast as her stiletto heels could carry her. "Crap, crap, crappity, crap!" she elaborated as she sped down the remaining blocks towards Greenwood dorm.
"Still nothing?" asked Hermod, although it didn't really sound like a question.
"Not a blasted thing!!" Shun wailed. "I'm gonna die, aren't I?"
Hermod shook his head. "The way you're going, looks like it," he said regretfully. He did not look forward to spending Odin-knew-how-many days in the DVD, waiting for another sucker potential Valkyrie to pick him up.
As they approached Greenwood, Shun spotted a whole mess of people on the roof, lead by none other than the unflappable Shinobu. She stopped screaming.
"Now," came Shinobu's calm voice.
"SOUUU-REEE!!" came the mighty yell of two-hundred-odd students shouting as the air around Greenwood dorm became filled with many, many trashbags.
One of the wolves blinked. "<What are these humans thinking of?>" it asked in wolf-speak. "<Do they really expect us to eat out of their hands?>"
"<NUMMY!>" shouted the other wolf, snatching the garbage bags out of the air and—forgive me—wolfing them down.
The first wolf gave a mental sigh. "<Guess so,>" it remarked, watching the other wolf gobble down whatever was in front of him.
The garbage bags were cleaned up very quickly. Shun saw Shinobu wave once more, and a small, "Sou-re!" came from above. From the rooftop flew a barrel full of brown gunk.
Shun blinked at the barrel. "Isn't that the lunch-pot?" she asked.
"*GROWL!*" *CHAWMP!*
And down it went down the gullet of a greedy wolf. It licked its chops, scanned to a stunned Shun. It grinned, and approached menacingly.
"Isn't it the Three Stooges' turn to make lunch today?" she asked.
As if in answer, the wolf suddenly stopped in its tracks. It whined, appearing to shrink visibly as it stood before Shun, and looking very ill as it blue coloring paled.
"What the...?!" Hermod sputtered, quite puzzled. "Such a thing would be only a snack to him! He shouldn't be filled."
The pale wolf let out a foul-smelling belch. It then went back to looking miserable.
Shun flinched back in revulsion, then grinned. "Looks (and smells) like it ate something that didn't agree with it. The cooking of the Three Stooges tends to do that," she quipped, drawing back her warhammer with both hands before bringing it smashing down. "VALKYRIE SMASH!!"
*WHAMMO!* "*YIPE!!*"
With that, the pale blue wolf vanished into thin air.
"And that's that!" said Shun with a smug look on her face...
...which disappeared as she felt something hot and wet on her shoulder, and a scorching breath at her back. She slowly turned to find the other wolf still staring at her, mouth and stomach growling. "Oh yeah. You didn't have any of the Three Stooges' cooking did you?" she asked nervously.
"*Grrr...*"
"Didn't think so..."
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