"I don't believe those perverted Stalfos..." Ukyo muttered.
"Why are you so angry?" Link wondered. "You made sure those bindings of yours were very tight, right? They couldn't have seen THAT much..."
Ukyo winced. "You think I should happy about that? It's not like those bindings are comfortable or something..."
"But why are you worried about them?" Navi asked. "I mean, you didn't even have your breasts for a long time now..."
"Still a girl has to keep her pride," Ukyo insisted.
Tatl smirked. "A concept that Tael would never understand."
The violet fairy boy sighed. "Those snide comments... you don't know how I missed them, sis!"
"Can we keep going now?" Ukyo snapped. "I don't want to waste the whole day talking about my boobs or Tatl's snide comments."
And she opened the door.
"Well, are you finally here? I started to think you wouldn't be able to make it."
"And here we have she-ghost number two..." Tatl muttered as she saw the blonde Poe in the pale blue cheerleading uniform.
"That's an... interesting outfit," Navi commented.
"Isn't it?" the ghost smiled with pride. "I wash it every day."
"So, I don't suppose you can give us that torch just like that?" Link asked in a hopeful voice.
Mariko wagged her finger. "Now that would be too easy, would it? Veran would be disappointed if I just gave it to you. You have to EARN it!"
"How did all those creeps get into Ganondorf's service?" Ukyo sweatdropped.
"That's a tragic tale..." Mariko sniffed. "But if you have to know, I can tell you, I think..."
"No, that won't be necessary," Ukyo said hastily.
But the cheerleading ghost wouldn't listen. "Years ago, I was just one of the many handmaidens of Princess Kodachi... I was born in a common peasant's family, but my heart always longed to be near my beloved one... Kuno-sempai!"
Tatl groaned. "I already know it, this is going to be corny..."
The Poe sighed. "Ever since I saw his handsome face, I longed to be at his side, but alas, it couldn't be done! So I had to choose the next possible thing, and that was to work as a handmaiden in the princess' service... Still, I could see him every morning, when he and the other members of the guard were doing their morning routine training in the courtyard." She smiled. "I always have been standing on Princess Kodachi's balcony, while the princess herself was having breakfast with her family. My job was to keep the room clean... but in the end, I always ended up cheering my handsome Tatewaki and his men on with my lovely pom-poms..."
Link raised an eyebrow. "Pom-poms?"
"My mops, if you have to know!" Mariko grimaced. Then she sighed again. "Every day I was standing ready, cheering them on and hoping that one day, Kuno-sempai would finally notice me... But in the end, this turned out to be my downfall."
"What happened?" Navi asked. Ukyo gave the blue fairy an annoyed look. She wasn't supposed to be entertained by their enemy's story...
"One day, it had to happen," Mariko said in a melodramatic voice. "I slipped... and fell down. And when I regained consciousness... I woke up like this. And I had to work for two ugly crones that loved to boss me around..." She pouted.
"What a sad story..." Navi sniffed. Ukyo sighed. "Are you quite finished?"
"But that was not the end!" Mariko said in an excited voice. "Could you believe my joy when I found out that my beloved would be one of my new masters? True, I still had to serve the same mistress as before, but at least she doesn't seem to remember me..."
"What is she talking about?" Tatl whispered to her brother.
Tael shrugged. "Dunno."
"And now, I am here, to do my duty as a servant of the cunning Lady Veran and the powerful Lord Onox... and that is the reason why I shall never give this flame to you."
Mariko grabbed the torch, twirled it around like a baton and cheered:
"Gimme an M! Melodramatic!
Gimme an A! Acrobatic!
Gimme an R! Resolute!
Gimme an I! In love!" Another sigh.
"Gimme a K! Keese!"
"That doesn't make any sense..." Tatl murmured.
"Gimme an O! Oh so modest! What's the word?"
And then she threw the torch up into the air, caught it and chanted:
"MARIKO! MARIKO! MARIKO!"
Upon hearing a weird noise, Ukyo turned around her head... and saw how Link was banging his head against the temple wall.
"Why?" he asked. "Why? Why does ever monster I have to fight turn out to be a loony? Why?"
Ukyo frowned and looked back at the blonde ghost. "You are a dim-witted bimbo!"
"Like, that's so rude!" Mariko pouted. "How could you say such a thing?"
"Because it's true?" Ukyo shrugged. "You actually make that Azusa girl we met on our way here seem intelligent."
"You take that back!" Mariko shouted. "I'm not like that stupid little twit!"
"Ah, but you do know what they say about blondes, right?"
"What?"
Ukyo smirked. "All blondes are morons!"
"Hey!" Link said in annoyance.
"It's a scientifically proven fact," Ukyo said "Live with it!"
Mariko frowned. "You're mean! I'm not stupid and I'm gonna prove it to you!"
"Oh? How so?"
"I'll... I'll think of something. Hey, just ask me to do anything and I'll do it."
Ukyo smirked. "I bet you can't even do the normal things any Poe would be able to do."
"I can too! See? I can float and stuff!"
"You can't even float through walls!"
"I can too!"
"Oh yeah?" Ukyo reached into Link's bag and pulled out the bottle Azusa gave to him. "I bet you can't even get into this bottle!"
Mariko giggled. "Oh, that's all? You're making this too easy!"
And she turned her body into a blue flame and zipped right into the bottle.
"See?" her high-pitched voice shouted from within. "I told ya I can do it."
Ukyo smiled. "Now that's impressive... moron!" And she corked the bottle.
"H-hey! No fair!" Mariko banged her little fists against the glass. "Lemme out of here! We Poes can't fly through glass!"
"If you were so smart, you would have seen that trap a mile away... dimwit!" Ukyo sneered and put the bottle into her pocket. A muffled voice continued to shout insults at her coming from within.
"Just ignore her," Ukyo told her friends as she picked up the torch. She lighted the bigger torch that was standing in the corner of the room with the blue flame and nodded in satisfaction. "There! That should take care of the torch in the entrance hall as well."
"Ukyo..." Tatl muttered as she stared at her friend with new-found respect. "That was INGENIOUS!"
"Thank you!" Ukyo grinned. "Shall we go on?"
"I still don't think all blondes are morons..." Link muttered as he followed her.
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