They say that when Akane was barbequing nobody survived to tell the tale. And so as the brave but stupid heroines rushed at the dragon intent on proving the folklore false their dreams where shattered as well as their bodies. Akane was a dragon, and like most dragons she let her fire do all her talking. When it all was over the few would be rescuers still remaining watched in horror as Akane stepped over their fallen comrades smirking at them.
"You know that fairy tale about the sleeping beauty?" She told them in an overly friendly tone her cloven tongue darting out now and then as little smoke rings shot out of her nose. "It's a lie! It's all a lie!!"
Sasami and her preteen friend took this revelation better than expected, but Minako was a different story. Falling to her knees the Senshi of love clutched her ears tears streaming down her face as she kept on telling herself that dragons never told the truth. Defeated in combat by herself Sailor Venus was engulfed in a small cloud of smoke only to reappear as a small child no older than four. Hotaru, Sasami and Yohko slowly started edging away from the cruel beast which was watching them with a crooked smile. Meanwhile Skuld was trying to help Her oldest sister to her feet plagued by indecision as neither of her sisters where there helping her, telling her what to do.
"The story about Dragons eating little girls however, is true." The red almost scarlet Dragon confided to the three last obstacles in front of her, directing her burning eyes at them and baring razor sharp teeth to prove her point. Akane always had been good at Anything Goes Intimidation. Knowing this from personal and first hand experience Ranma was about to yell this to Sasami and the others when the Demon hunter beat him to it. Shifting her stance her weapon casually slung over her shoulder Yohko grinned cockily, unsuccessfully covering a laugh with her free hand.
"Oh come on Akane.. who do you think you are fooling? You ain't no killer!" She let the hand covering her mouth drop to her shoulder now openly grinning at Akane. "All you have done so far is play house.. You have transformed the people that might have cared for you into dolls and other playthings. Why?"
Her poise changing the huge uncute dragon glared at the red-head unable to keep up her charade of being something more than just another pissed of Dragon. Something about the girl in front of her just made her angry. Maybe her red hair and the way she dressed had a part in it, but in the end it was her cocky arrogant idiotic attitude that finally made Akane loose her concentration. In an attempt to crush Yohko with her sheer weight Akane leaped at the Devil hunter only to find herself glide over the cliff missing the woman by a mile as Yohko easily flipped over her huge bulk and landed behind her. With a horrendous splash the terrible terrible Tendou dragon disappeared into the lava lake that had replaced her labyrinth leaving Sasami and Hotaru unharmed as they brushed off their clothes. Poor Akane never had learnt how to swim.
Clapping her hands together three times Yohko Mano offered a silent prayer for Akane as she strolled up towards the glass casket. Her legs felt wobbly and she had a hard time making it there, not because she was particularly tired but because at some level the girl still couldn't believe it. She had won.. she had finally won a boys love and.. Yohko didn't even have time to appreciate the boys handsome looks before the ground suddenly shook. Falling against the casket she toppled it, watching in horror as it glided out into the lava lake that was now surrounding the small platform she and the others where on. The red dragon Akane was not a happy hammer... uh camper!
"You dare to not go all out against me!!!" the red fiery dragon bellowed spewing angry fire hotter than the lava around her as she climbed atop the floating platform almost toppling it in process. Safe to say Yohko didn't know what the hell the infuriated dragon was talking about. Gripping her weapon tightly she quickly listed the things in her favor and what not. The first list was to short for her liking, and the later was to long. In her favor she had her good looks and.. uh well seeing as she really didn't want to hurt Akane, not much else.. and the down side? Well, Akane wasn't affected by the lava but Yohko was. Akane was huge and could scorche the remaining platform easily. Yohko had to keep the younger girls safe, Akane only had to crush them.. and finally as if all that wasn't enough the platform was sinking and.. Where the hell was Skuld anyway?
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Sitting on top of the now open casket Skuld was trying to wake Ranma by shaking him, only it didn't work. She could travel through water, not lava and most of her inventions still were on that quickly sinking platform. Having been pushed off of the platform herself when the casket had crashed into her she had hung on for dear life and was now trying everything and anything to rouse the sleeping 'prince'. Her only adjective being to get the hell off of the floating death trap and saving her sisters she did something she would never have though of had she not been sitting up late and watching the documentary about emergencies. Grimacing she took hold of Ranma's nose, pried his jaw open and pushed her lips against his. Now I don't know if you can actually call this a kiss, after all what she really was doing was resuscitation, but I guess that tecnically it was valid. Opening his eyes Ranma stared into Skuld's eyes, and she stared back into his... Despite Mihoshi's claims of the contrary, it was not love at first sight.
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Somewhere between a rock and a hard place a lone figure crumpled to the floor only to bounce back to their feet and grab the sides of the viewing pond in anger.
"NOOOO! Roasted Kittens! Why did it have to be HER!!?
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(Posted Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:24)
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