Ranma carefully set Nabiki down. “I thought you were feeling a bit sore?”
“Yeah, well riding piggyback isn’t helping matters any. I think I’ll walk.”
Ranma rolled his eyes as Nabiki examined the different paths and tried to decide which was the best way to go.
“The Labyrinth solution is to keep one hand on the wall and eventually you’ll get out, but that takes a lot longer than luck alone would…” Nabiki muttered.
Ranma sighed and looked around, seeing nothing but dirt paths, a lot of trees, and a stone table that he hadn’t noticed before with a bottle on it that read ‘drink me’.
Feeling a little thirsty he picked up the bottle and pulled out the cork, sniffing it to make sure it wasn’t alcoholic.
“Mmmm, cherry flavor,” Ranma muttered, after downing the entire bottle of Dr Henry Jekyll’s springtime elixir (We’ll make you feel like a new man!) and noticing how relaxed he felt.
The sounds of the forest slowly fell silent around the two, as a softly chanted ‘kill-kill’ seemed to emanate from all around them.
“That can’t be good,” Nabiki worried aloud, as she noticed the change.
Ranma just shrugged. He’d had enough people yelling about killing him that it sounded rather soothing. ‘Much nicer than pigboy yelling in my ear anyway.’
Out of the shadows stepped a large figure wearing a hockey mask and wielding a bloody machete, who slowly stalked towards them.
“Ranma, do something!” Nabiki screamed, when she realized the pig tailed martial artist was just standing there and had made no move to attack.
“Why should I?”
“Because he’ll kill us!” Nabiki screeched.
“Nah, I’m way too tough for him to kill and look at how slowly he’s moving. I can avoid anything he can dish out and have time for a nap,” Ranma dismissed her concerns as unimportant.
“What about me?!”
“What about you?” Ranma snorted derisively.
“Aren’t you going to protect me?”
“Nah, I don’t feel like it.”
Nabiki just stared at him, stunned speechless.
“I mean, just a while ago you raped me while I was unconscious and you’ve been threatening to stain my honor by claiming I raped you if I don’t obey you. You’ve put my life in danger with your stunts and scams so many times I don’t even bother to keep track anymore and that’s not mentioning all the times you’ve put others in danger. Personally I think the world will be better off without you in it. I know my life certainly will be.”
Nabiki began to sweat. This was bad. Her favorite patsy wasn’t following the script and he’d laid out all her harmless games in such a way that even the psycho killer was looking at her like she was filth. ‘I’m not that bad, am I?’
“Besides,” Ranma turned and his right arm shot out, demolishing a fifty foot oak tree like it was nothing before continuing, “I’m pretty sure he isn’t stupid, just homicidal.”
A huge sweatdrop formed on the side of the killer’s mask, before he reluctantly nodded and began a slow advance on Nabiki’s position.
“This can’t be happening!” Nabiki moaned, as she slowly backed away.
“It’s funny,” Ranma mused, “you claim to know the value of everything, yet you have deliberately made yourself worth less to me alive than dead. I never thought a smart girl like you would do something so boneheaded, but I guess we live and learn. Well, I will anyway.”
Nabiki broke and ran into the forest, screaming her head off with the killer in hot… well, more like lukewarm really, pursuit.
“Remember to look back occasionally to see how far he is behind you!” Ranma called out helpfully, before choosing one of the paths at random and merrily skipping along it, wondering why he felt so free.
Ranma’s path leads him to…
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