It hadn't happened, she considered in her running roof-skipping journey, due to Shampoo's pride. Mizuru knew all about pride, although she'd never bothered showing much as Mousse. For now, her main worries were whether to sneak in and offer herself to Ranma in private, or to announce herself and risk dying at the edge of Nodoka's blade before she could even attempt expiation for her guilt in the whole affair. Seduction and stealth didn't even cross Mizuru's mind, as she knew full well the hash Shampoo had made of those methods in the course of her deception.
She arrived at the rooftop alongside the Saotome residence and heard a distinctly raucous 'talk', so she settled down and got binoculars to watch. One odd benefit of this course of action was that as the Chiisuton powder's effect spread into and locked Mizuru's current form for a time in its own right, it also made the curse fully active. And it happened that Mizuru's family only bad bad vision in the men of the bloodline, so her vision was already 'decent' and improving steadily. I really could kick myself in the not currently present jimmy for not trying this earlier! played across Mizuru's mind as she watched the scene unfold:
Nodoka storming about the main sitting room, snarling like a tigress about to make the kill. Genma pleading and sweating, looking towards the door and blustering about 'the boy' so obviously even Mizuru's inexperience allowed her to read his lips, each behavior phasing into the other faster and faster. It was obvious he wanted to do a fade, but take Ranma (and maybe Nodoka, though Mizuru doubted it) with him.
I wonder what's about to catch up with Fatman this time? Then again, Nabiki was telling about getting rid of Genma. She likely told Genma about his crimes just before the police showed. Doubtless so he'd cause this scene in hopes of keeping Nodoka off guard. As she made this analysis of Nabs' tactics, Mizuru saw Genma start to lose his temper and make a move on Nodoka. Start to as he never finished getting off his knees before Ranma was there.
Gods.. He's.. Oh, gods! Mizuru had thought her admiration of Ranma when she was Mousse was mixed with a form of love before. Now the open-minded Amazon realised that the only things preventing her trying to be Ranma's bitch were not wanting to disturb Shampoo and masculine uncertainty in regards to taking it from a guy. Mizuru was still the same person, but she found her body had NO qualms about drooling while the shirtless Ranma (freshly erupted from the furo) beat the mortal shit out of Genma Saotome, all the while yelling about his dishonor and his dismissal from the clan loudly enough Mizuru heard it clearly.
Before Mizuru could grow dazed from her newfound desires, however, she saw something that outright terrified and exalted her to witness. Ranma fired three punches to knock Genma out of the door, the yard, and the property (in that order). The first shot was coated with a orange-red chi fire that was not the same as Saffron's divine flames, but definitely of spiritual origin to the perception of the weapons mistress and black magic witch.
The second punch had more of Ranma's anger behind it (as he paced the still-aloft Genma and 'juggled' the Fatman) as it hit, the flames that erupted and seared the rotund jerk being a purplish hue this time, feeling totally wrong somehow yet bent to Ranma's will regardless. That one shocked and scared Ranma a bit, as he realised he'd ignited the old bamboo hog twice now. His third shot launched Genma towards the canal, but his desire to put out the former Saotome evidenced itself in a blue 'fire' which sucked up heat to the point that a light frost was on Genma's no longer burning body, and the air chilled around Mizuru where she watched with awe and no small attraction. Genma was cold enough on the outside he actually made the canal water fog for a few seconds after he hit, floating down the gentle stream as a sleeping scorched panda after surfacing. As he was in no obvious danger of drowning, Mizuru decided to jump down and approach the somewhat annoyed but satisfied martial artist and his speechless mother.
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(Posted Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:46)
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