Hopefully that is a compliment, the artificial intelligence replied.
"Oh, yeah, it is. 'Xcept..."
What?
The pigtailed boy frowned as he looked at the fuzzy little canine with the small pointed ears. "He's alone with my Pop."
Do not be concerned. Watch.
"If ya say so..."
Genma was sitting on a big slab of stone as he looked down at the puppy warming itself by the fire. He had not been listened to by the boy, and now his son expected him to do the right thing with the stupid mutt. Fortunately for him, he had more than enough brain power to figure out how to deal with such matters. "The boy should know better than to keep an animal for any other reason than what is neccessary. But luckily he has his father to make the right decisions when he won't."
The dog just cocked his head at the fat bellied human and made an interrogitive sound.
"I'm sure that there will be some family that will pay top dollar even for a mutt like you. If they don't, then a shelter will do just as well, and they don't need big explainations. And there are all sorts of characters looking for dogs for bets. Besides, if that fails, I've heard some rumors about Korean delicacies..."
"Hura?"
"But don't you worry... Even if I have to make your hide into mitts, you won't be sacrificed in vain."
"Raf?"
"C'mere!"
"Bark!" the dog barked, obviously disagreeing with the stupid father's idea, dashing foward as Genma lunged for him. That left the dog standing a few feet away while the human was lifting his face from the ground and spitting dirt.
"That was just a lucky move... You're just a dumb dog. What can you do?"
"Woof!"
"You won't be a challenge..," Genma declared, deciding to simply bend down, reach out, and grab the dog. He managed the first two quite well, and thought that he had the third well in hand since the dog was between him and the fire. In that... he was wrong, and that was proven rather conclusively when Ranma's father grabbed the pot in which he'd been boiling water for supper. Instead of getting a ball of fuzz, he grabbed onto a hot metal edge, dunking his fingers into steaming water. The result was what might just be expected in such a case.
"YOWTCH!" came the fat man's scream of pain as he held his hands up and speedily backed away from what had burned him in multiple ways... right into a tree. His first clue that he had done that was when he smacked his broad bottom onto the trunk, and by the time that registered, he was having to deal with the stars flashing before his eyes from smashing the back of his head in the same manner. When he steadied himself from that, he wound up kneeling with his fingers already blistering from the reaction to his previous... folly.
And standing right in front of him was the damn dog, looking as if it was grinning at him.
Growling under his breath, he tried to crawl, using the heels of his hands for balance, quickly over to the canine cause of chaos he'd set his sights on. It was clumsy, and probably not the best action, but it was the best that he could do at the moment. He even managed a savage grin as he got closer to the dog, which seemed to be having trouble keeping the distance far, what with its short legs.
That was before it turned slightly, and let him slam his face into the rock he'd been sitting on only moments earlier. More than likely, he broke his nose when he did that, but it was only one part in a face that was severely bruised at the moment. Unfortunately, as he tried to curse past a mouth with an aching jaw, he rolled onto his back... and stuck his leg into the fire.
Needless to say, his gi pants were quickly aflame. He howled in terror, and then proceeded try and shake it off. When that didn't work, he attempted to bat at it with his still burned hands. Yelping at the pain such an action would cause, he managed to smother the flames out before they stretched over all his clothing. This time he actually snarled as he took a look at the dog, and carefully rolled over to avoid the previous incident with his 'sitting' rock.
Ranma's pet merely trotted away, almost as if he didn't have a concern in the world.
Oddly enough, that was likely the case, since Genma had forgotten one important detail about his camp site. That came back to haunt him, as he started to roll down the hill that they'd set up on top of, and bounced over stones, bushes, saplings, and other assorted 'goodies'.
By the time that he landed at the bottom, he was at the very least dazed, and likely to pass out right where he was.
It was about that time that Ranma returned, and his dog happily bounced into his arms to lick him in welcome. "How're ya doin' boy? Have fun while I was gone?"
"Arf!" the dog responded, and returned to washing his boy's face with his tounge.
"Yeah, yeah... I love ya too, and I missed ya. But where's Pop..?"
"Ruff!"
"Hmm? Lemme see, where could he..," Ranma blinked as he looked down the hill and saw his father laying there, completely out of it. "Guess he really wanted a nap. Wierd place for it though."
"Arf!" the dog said in seeming agreement while:
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