"Just the fact that she's been rejecting you for the past eleven years means nothing, I guess," said Cologne drily.
"So what did he do?" Akane asked, not trusting either of the unbound Amazons.
"A good question," admitted Cologne. "What did you do to him?"
"I bought a scroll from the Cursed Antique Shop, a spell that should have summoned a demon to devour him entirely. For some reason it only worked in reverse and sucked Ranma into hell itself!" Mousse smirked at them. "Not that I'll ever tell you that."
"Why is he telling us this?" Nabiki asked.
"Ancient Amazon technique," said Cologne. "The Loose Tongue pressure point. He'll tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
Nabiki shuddered at such a horrible fate.
"I shall have to research this," said Cologne after a few moments. "If the spell did put son-in-law into the infernal regions, it will not be easy to retrieve him. Even if he survived."
"Oh come on, this is Ranma, he can handle an oni," scoffed Genma.
"No, I meant real demons. Not puffed up wannabes. Creatures of such fell power that they could sink Japan beneath the waves before you could say that you were just a cute little panda," replied Cologne. "Creatures which could ignore your physical prowess and rip your soul from you as easily as you could devour a light snack. As he is, Ranma wouldn't last a full minute against a true demon. I'll let you know if I can trace him down."
"How do we know you won't go off and rescue Ranma on your own?" Akane demanded.
Cologne chuckled. "Because, Akane Tendo, if Ranma is there I fully expect it will mean my life to recover him. And if I die there who will bring Ranma back?"
"So uhm, what does your group actually do?" Ranma asked, wondering what kind of mess he'd gotten involved with now. The weird thing was that he recognized these girls. Okay, there were differences. None of the original characters had had pointed ears, but they looked just like the characters in one of Nabiki's manga!
What he didn't know was that these were Analogues, people of one timeline who grew up in another timeline. Similar but not the same. (Mainly to provide an immediate reference to the reader as to physical appearance and some aspects of personality while allowing aspects of both to be tweaked however authors want to.)
All Ranma knew was the Companye Of The Silver Rose, based out of Silverymoon or something, were dead ringers for the girls from:
(Posted Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:16)
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