Angripper School Of Martial Arts. As they were gaijin, some Nordic type, obviously they lacked the discipline and innate Japanese racial superiority to utilize their chi.Anything Goes Martial Arts, Tendo School. Anything Goes was founded on a lack of discipline and panty raids. Also unlikely to produce anything of value.
Beatdown Martial Arts & Dance Hall, Shag School It was hard to take rock-n-roll martial artists seriously, but they were marginally more likely than the first two.
Martial Arts Carpentry, Ryuki School. A martial arts style practiced as part of martial arts construction and repair. Definitely a possibility and a stronger agent would be dispatched soon.
Fast Food Martial Arts - it was more likely they'd found out that salt repelled zombies than to believe a martial arts style based on french fries and fried chicken could be able to attain chi mastery.
Housekeeping Martial Arts - the sight of his zombie bikers being driven off by pretty young girls in maid outfits wielding brooms and kitchen appliances had been humiliating. Another possibility.
Old West Martial Arts - weren't guns illegal? And how in the world had someone gotten a six-shooter to fire what seemed to be hundreds of rounds?
There were others, but the number of silly styles being soundly crushed were many many more than those remaining. Other styles, such as the Hibiki style of Bando, had nobody at their home to defend the dojo from attackers.
Still, the nice thing about zombies was that they were pretty much inexhaustible. As soon as they finished one (or were driven off) they started on the next.
Cologne didn't pay attention to the two fathers. She'd hit their paralysis points or she'd have to deal with their nonsense and interruptions.
"So, Ranma, you must realize that you're not really practicing Anything Goes. This new style you're developing has little in common with Happosai's schooling."
"Yeah. It's not so much Saotome style of Anything Goes - it's more Ranma style of Whatever Works," agreed Ranma. While he'd taken a great deal of pride in being the heir of the Saotome School -this was sufficiently different that it was quite a marked departure from what he'd learned before. The book's techniques were fairly set and rigid, and he was adding his own flexibility to them. So it was Ranma style as he reinvented himself and combined the static of the book's chi mastery with the adaptability and chaos of the Anything Goes. He'd already decided this though, and the thought of how it would torque his father's shorts had just been an added bonus.
"So what is chi mastery?" Kasumi asked as she watched lines of energy, it was too calm to call it battleaura, flow from Ranma into Shampoo (who looked ready to melt into a purring little puddle despite being in human form) as he treated her wounds.
"Chi or ki is life force, Miss Tendo. A typical martial artist uses it to enhance their strength or speed," said Cologne as she went into 'venerable sensei' mode. "Ranma's Mouko Takabisha and Ryouga's Shishi Hokoudan are both more advanced chi attacks. There is also chi in the environment around us. Light chi is found most readily in places of great beauty. When you visit a beach or find a glade in the forest, part of the uplifting feeling you get is from white chi reacting with your own. As another example, a dark foreboding place that causes you to feel nervous or depressed for no other apparent reason is strong with dark chi."
"Sounds like the Force," said Nabiki. "You know, 'Star Wars'?"
"Where do you think Lucas got those ideas, if not from Eastern philosophy and legend?" Cologne shook her head and began filling her pipe.
"What is that, anyway? It's not tobacco?" Nabiki was wondering if maybe it was some Chinese secret formula.
"Hmmm? Oh just a blend of herbs that soothes the throat and helps replenish chi quicker, nothing special," said Cologne in reply. "Ah. In any case, Ranma is embarked on the path of a White Chi Mage, which means:"
(Posted Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:58)
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