[Episode 201179] [Episode 201179]The instant the she picks up one of the blank cards, Nabiki knows that she's just made a big mistake! The tingle that goes through her hand just screams 'magical' to her senses... Instinctively, she attempts to drop the card, but it seems to be glued to her hand! In fact she can't move a muscle. She attempts to shout out a warning to the others, but it's just a fraction of a second too late coming out... They've also picked the cards up, and by the looks on their faces, Nabiki knows that they've also realised the danger! Now ordinarily, Nabiki is not one to panic blindly. This is one of those rare times... She knows that this is far beyond the usual level of weirdness. She's never encountered anything like this before anywhere! Not only that, but since Nokoda had demanded that everyone else leave the dojo alone for the entire night, it'll be morning before they're missed... 'This is not good, not good at all!!! Who knows where we're going to end up? They won't have a clue of where to start looking! Wait, Nokoda did seem to be grinning as she was talking to us... Did she plan this somehow?' are the thoughts running through her mind as she sees Ukyou, Kodachi, Shampoo and her sisters slowly disappear in a glow of rainbow-coloured light before her own body fades away in a similar glow.
'I knew it was too good to be true... Things had been too peaceful around Nerima for the past week! We should've expected something like this would happen... Oh well, time to go to work,' Ranma sighs to himself as he observes what has happened below him... He starts to leave the dojo to find Elder Cologne so she can figure out what has happened here, so he can go and rescue the girls from whatever mess they're in this time. But he freezes up as he gets the same feeling as before starting up again, but surrounding him this time... 'Well, looks like I'll have to work this one out with Nabiki's help on site,' is the last coherent thought he has before he also vanishes!
At the same time, Nokoda pauses and looks up from her preparations to talk with Soun, Elder Cologne, Ukyou's father and Principal Kuno in the morning... 'Well looks like they're all on their way. Ranma did just what I expected him to! Time to send off that message to my old acquaintance; she'll be sure to lay down the law and keep all the girls in line until they return home... Hopefully she'll also be able to cure my son's ignorance of the facts of life that Genma never bothered to teach, as well his phobia. Curse you Genma and your "shortcuts",' she growls! 'Your foolish quest to make a perfect martial artist has partly succeeded... Sure Ranma's an expert at fighting, but he has no concept of anything else that he'd need to run a successful dojo! Not only that, but he fears an animal he used to love a lot. But with my friend's help, he should recover and become better than he was.'
'He's not the only one who will be learning something. The girls will also find out how just they really feel about him. They'll have to face the mirror and take a hard look at themselves and how they treat others. Some of them may have to make choices that will require a great deal of personal sacrifice. Whether or not they can make that choice, will prove their worthiness to marry him... By the time they come back, either they'll all be willing to share him or some will have dropped their claim!'
She finishes writing up the letter and places it into an envelope. Onto the envelope she inscribes a strange mystical symbol... It looks like a magic circle with a pink wand in the middle. The envelope then vanishes in a cloud of white smoke! She exhales: 'Well off it goes. I sure hope my friend can straighten the girls out on how to threat my son properly... Otherwise, they'll regret it!!!!'
Location: unknown at this time...
"What a lovely day for a walk today! Isn't that right, my little Zu-zu," Dark Magician Girl or better known to her co-workers and friends as Mana coos to her walking companion. She was quite happy today, not only had her 'Master' yesterday had given her three whole months off starting that day, he had thrown in a present for her to play with for that length of time... It had been a year since she had gotten some time to herself. Not only that, but she was looking to seeing some of her friends. It had been a long while since they'd met for pleasure... 'It was also very kind of 'Master' to give me a present! Sure, my gift wasn't exactly willing but that's beside the point,' she smiled to herself. Since she had the free time, she decided to change out of her normal clothes and go with something a little 'different' today. The way she's dressed is very much like the picture on the card that Ukyou found in the restaurant's attic! Her companion's answer to the question is a low growl of irritation. Mana smirks a little and turns to face her companion: "What's wrong? Not so funny now, is it, when you're the one on the receiving end! That'll teach you to mock others... After all, one of your friends was in a similar situation a few years back! During it and for a week after, you did do nothing but tease him about it... Consider this a bit of karmic revenge!"
It was a strange brown and white-coloured 'thing' that glared back at Mana. It had the face and muzzle of a dog but it had what appeared to be a brown wig on top of its head with the dog ears poking out through the wig. A pair of brown eyes stared back at Mana from the creature's face. But in these eyes, there were sighs of intelligence far beyond normal a normal dog's, closer to a human's! And the expression in those eyes is 'stormy', to say the least... 'It', on closer examination turns out to be actually a girl wearing what appears to be a seamless latex outfit with no zipper or visible way to take it off. She is stuck crawling around on hands and knees because of a length of chain connecting each ankle to its thigh, with her hands in the form of paws. This is due to the gloves of the suit actually being mitts that are forcing her hands into fists. A false tail is protruding from her tailbone with the freedom of motion of a real one. Currently, it's swishing angrily!
Around the neck of "Zu-zu", a dog collar is tightly fastened; it's just tight enough to ensure it won't come off, but not interfere with her breathing. A lead is clipped on to it. Mana has a firm grip on her end... Also on the collar, a black metal pet tag with the Millennium eye set into it in gold on one side is attached. On the other side of the tag, it's inscribed with Mana's address and contact symbol with a "If found please return to:" preceding it. Mana's contact symbol is a magic circle with a wand in the middle! "Zu-zu" is trying to get away from Mana but she's not having much luck, since Mana has such a firm grasp of the lead... That doesn't stop "Zu-zu" from growling at Mana and struggling to break free. At first Mana lets her struggle away, finding it amusing. Eventually however, she gets tired of "Zu-zu's" misbehaving! She then concentrates her magical energy into her free hand which starts glowing...
"Zu-zu" sees this and starts to re-double her efforts to break free. Moving quickly before she loses either her grip on the lead or concentration, Mana taps "Zu-zu" in a spot just above her tailbone. The reaction is instantaneous: "Zu-zu" collapses in a heap right there. She starts moaning and whimpering, but it's hard to tell whether it's from pleasure or pain! "Now stop struggling, or do I need to increase the intensity?" Mana asks, while wearing a frown and charging her hand up again.
Hearing the response of a whimper while "Zu-zu" shakes her head rapidly, Mana sighs and releases the power in her hand: "It's your own fault really, that you're in this mess... You really shouldn't have tried to cheat in our match. The game always knows if you do! And then trying to renege on the stakes by running away, not one of your better ideas... It only got worse when you tried to use 'Master's' affections towards you to try and get off the hook... I am surprised however that he gave me permission to do anything that I wanted to you, but I'm sure not complaining about it!" Mana mentally smirked, remembering her new "pet's" face when she heard the news ... Composing herself, she continued on. "You may be stuck like that until 'Master' collects you, but that won't be for another three months... Then again, you may not be! You'll just have to behave yourself... Can you promise me that?"
When "Zu-zu" nods her head and raises her right paw in what appears to be a symbol of 'I promise!' Mana sighs... "That'll have to do, for now! Now, let's get home and... Wait, what's this?" As she's saying this, the letter that Nokoda had signed and sent off has now just materialized in front of her. "For me? I wonder who it's from... Master just left and Sensei just wrote yesterday," Mana wonders as she takes and opens the letter. As she reads through the letter her expression kept changing. First she shows surprise, then shock and anger before finally settling to a mischievous smirk... "Well, well! I just received a letter from an old friend of mine. Looks like we'll be having some more guests soon... Not only that, but I'm going to be running a little series of games and lessons for them! I'll probably need your help to keep them in line though... Let me just change your outfit to something a little less confining first!"
With a simple gesture on Mana's part, "Zu-zu's" outfit changes to a plain black, full-body cat-suit with attached stiletto boots. She makes to stand up quickly, but pauses when she realizes that she's now wearing shackles around her ankles, which will make running very difficult. As she gets up carefully, she notices that her hands are bound to her waist by a pair of cuffs attached to a belt. This means that while her hands are able to grab stuff, the range of motion is limited... Her features remain hidden behind a thick hood built into the suit, which now also covers her hair. Both her speech and sight are still impeded due to the mask having only pinholes for her to see out and a fully inflated inflatable gag with a breathing tube in the middle to allow her breath in through her mouth... Finally the collar is still fastened around her neck, with the attached lead remaining in Mana's hand! "MMMPH," she complains as loudly as she can, motioning to the lead and her restraints.
"Sorry, but you're still not off the hook! The leash and bindings remain until I say so," Mana grinned, waving her first finger at her travelling partner. They then hear a loud angry shout coming from a few meters away. "Oh, that must be them now! The letter did say that one of them had a hair-trigger temper... Let's go, I have to meet everyone and explain things to them before that person does something foolish!" Mana and "Zu-zu" start off at a brisk walk towards the commotion.
A few feet away (roughly the same time)...
"RANMA quit molesting my sister like that! What where you doing in the dojo anyway... You were spying on us, weren't you, you baka! Knowing you, this is probably all your fault somehow," Akane screams as she leaps towards a cowering Ranma. As he had been transported from the rafters in the dojo, this had meant he ended up in mid-air on arrival to here, wherever here is. Then he had the really bad luck to land, in what could be considered a perverted position by a paranoid person, on top of Kasumi! He instantly got off her and helped her, both of them blushing at the embarrassing position they had been in.
But Akane had caught sight of his arrival and his landing on Kasumi. She had instantly jumped to the wrong conclusion, thinking he had been groping her... Going into her anti-pervert mode, she had whipped out her mallet! Ukyou, Shampoo and Kodachi had tried to stop her, but she just shook them off. Even Nabiki's words, normally quite effective at cooling her sister's rage down, just didn't get through... Akane's rage-fuelled leap towards Ranma then was interrupted by the last person she expected! Kasumi stepped between Akane and the target of her rage, much to her shock. "Kasumi, why are you standing up for that baka? He was molesting..."
SMACK!!!!
Everyone is now staring at Kasumi in shock, after seeing her give Akane a slap to the face, while thinking 'What's gotten into her?'... Kasumi takes a few seconds to calm down, visibly shaking with barely suppressed rage, much to everyone's shock! When she finally speaks up, it's a harsh tone she takes. "NO, he was NOT molesting me! It was just a bit of bad luck with his landing, that's ALL... And he didn't hurt me at all! As for why he was in the dojo, I wouldn't blame him..." Seeing Akane is about to start protesting, she cuts her off: "Remember what happened at his mother's house when you all showed up? You girls ended up destroying the whole house! He just feared that something like would happen again and was keeping an eye on the situation to ensure it wouldn't get out of hand..."
Akane looks towards Nabiki, hoping that she would back her up in saying that it was the other girls' fault that Nokoda's house got trashed. But her heart sinks when she sees Nabiki nodding in agreement with Kasumi! Catching Akane's betrayed look, Nabiki decides to elaborate: "You've got to admit Akane, that when you girls meet up somewhere and/or try to claim Ranma, massive destruction and co-lateral damage always seem to follow... Sure it also happens to Ranma with his rivals, but he at least tries to keep it down and never uses his most powerful techniques indoors. You girls, on the other hand, keep going all out and don't think of your surroundings! Besides, if you had used your mallet on him, we'd have been separated from our best fighter..." Seeing Akane scowl, she sighs, "Look Akane, I know you think you're a good fighter, but Ranma is just much better than you! And since we don't know where we are at the moment, it would be much too easy to get lost... So we need to stick together until we get home safely!"
Ukyou than speaks up. "Besides sugar, if it's anyone's fault that we're in this mess, it's mine! I should have thought something funny was up, the instant I found these cards... When has any item that we've found in the attic of any building in Nerima, ever been safe? But just I ignored all the warning signs... I was over-confident, hoping since things had been so quiet on the weirdness front recently; we'd be okay for a while longer! Guess I was wrong, huh? So," she finishes, wearing a sheepish grin, "anyone got any bright ideas on how we can get out of this mess!" Dead silence greets her statement as almost everyone ponders this question. Akane is still silently fuming away that she can't 'punish' Ramna, blaming him for getting the girls into this mess despite what Ukyou just said...
Just then, a voice that none of them recognize speaks up: "I can help you with that little detail!" Turning around to where the voice came from, they're all shocked to see what appears to be a real-life version of the card that Nabiki and Ukyou were looking at just half an hour earlier... And she's not alone; with her is a figure that's the same size. The silent figure is dressed in a plain black bodysuit with a mask covering their facial features. She, for it has to be a female due to the curves on their body, has handcuffs on her wrists attached to her waist. Shackles also travel between her ankles, limiting her steps to a slow walk. She is being led by Mana who has a lead attached to a collar strapped around her neck... Seeing the stares at both her and companion, Mana laughs embarrassedly: "Oh, how rude of me not to introduce myself, where are my manners? My name's Mana and this here is "Zu-zu"... Welcome to the Fetish Realm, we'll be your guides for your stay here!"
"FETISH REALM!?!?!" is the response from our travellers...
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