"Oh! Tragic! Guide not happy to see Ugly Bunny again!"
"Ugly Bunny?" exclaimed Genma. "What in the name of the gods is that thing!?" He pointed at the admittedly ugly rabbit treading water in the pool.
"Story of that pool is tragic... but not so tragic as any other pool! Five years ago, ugly abnoxious bunny come and pester Guide's daughter with plunger. Guide get angry. Guide finally catch bunny by ears and throw into uncursed pool! Bunny drown in minutes!"
"I thought you said that the story was tragic..."
"IS tragic! Tragic for Guide's daughter. She hate bunnies now."
Genma had to raise his eyebrow at this. As the Guide continued talking, explaining how Jusenkyou curses worked, Genma glanced over at the freak of nature, just to check on it. He had to double-take. The bunny was carrying an empty bucket. Using said bucket, it got a large sample of the Cursed Spring from which it emerged. Then, out of nowhere, it pulled out a sign that Genma couldn't read.
In perfect Chinese kanji, it read: "Where is the Spring of Drowned Man?"
Noticing that the Guide wasn't paying attention to it, it yelled. Well, it tried to. It sounded more like Scooby-Do trying to say "Over here!", but while drunk. And being hit with a sack of kittens. Miserable, soggy kittens. Miserable before they were soggy or in the sack. With fleas. And ticks. In other words, it's yell was more nerve-grating than a thousand nails on a thousand chalkboards.
Both the Guide and Genma had to cover their ears. But the Guide finally did notice the bunny's sign. The Guide pointed to a Spring several meters away. The bunny looked, and it's eye twitched, for no reason that Genma or the Guide could discern. Then the bunny ate the sign.
Genma was suprised. So was the Guide. And apparently, so was the ugly lagomorph. It shrugged.
Then the bunny walked over to the Spring of Drowned Man, and pulled another bucket out from behind its back.
"What is it doing?" asked Genma.
"Guide not know."
After filling the bucket with water from the Spring of Drowned Man, the bunny carried it over to the first bucket and set it down. Then it pulled a LIT campfire out of thin air and set it down. Without getting burned. Then it pulled a cauldron large enough to comfortably fit two Genmas inside, and set it on top of the fire. Then it dumped both buckets into the cauldron. Which somehow filled the cauldron to the brim.
"Why did it just do that?" prodded Genma.
"Guide hate repeating himself."
Within seconds, the water in the cauldron was boiling. Then the bunny jumped in.
Both Genma and the Guide facefaulted.
Ranma came out of the cauldron... Well, it looked mostly like Ranma. Instead of human ears, he had bunny ears. Also, his hair was a pale pink, and his eyes looked as though they were chronically bloodshot.
"BOY! Why did you do that?" screamed Genma.
"To tell you the truth, Pops, I have no idea." PING! [2:44:42]
"Why eye twitch when look at Spring of Drowned Man?" asked the Guide.
"It was right next to the Spring of Drowned Girl."
The Guide was thoroughly confused. Why did the boy ask where the Drowned Man was when he knew where Drowned Girl was located? How did he even know about the Spring of Drowned Girl?
"Guide have headache. Going to take nap in hut."
"Goodnight then," replied Ranma.
"Boy! You look gi--"
WHAM, WHAM, WHAM! WHAM!!!
Genma was now bleeding profusely from various places on his bald head, and Ranma was putting away the spiked mace he had pulled from... somewhere. Ranma then pulled out a free-standing, full-body mirror, and a glass of water. He reviewed the way he looked in both forms, then pulled out a hot teakettle, and turned himself back into his Wererabbid form.
He realized that he'd never be human again. Unless...
But did he want to change it?
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