As it hit the floor from where he'd tossed it, a switch clicked on and it began humming and vibrating.
Ranma's eyes got big as he stared at it.
"Ranma! What are you doing in my room?!" Akane had stopped at the door and noticed Ranma staring at. "What do you think you're doing with that, you pervert!" Grabbing her trusty shinnai, Akane prepared to pound Ranma.
Ranma stopped it with one hand, almost as if he wasn't paying attention. "Akane. Perverts need to be punished, right?"
"YES!" Akane answered, trying to free her shinnai.
Ranma blinked and slowly turned to face her. "Perverts can't be forgiven. Perverts must be hurt. Right?"
"YES!" Akane twisted and turned. "Just hold still and accept your punishment!"
Ranma blinked. Perverts had to be punished. Perverts needed to be pounded on. Perverts were wrong and evil. Akane had THAT in her sock drawer. Akane was a pervert. Therefore...
"you pervert"
"What was that Ranma, don't you start with me!" Akane finally twisted her shinnai free and lined up her shot.
Don't hit girls. Perverts must be pounded. If a girl was a pervert, then...
"DIE PERVERT!" Foom!
Akane stared. It was the Mother Of All Mallets. A thick wood handle led up to a dull black metal head emblazoned on the side with a legend proclaiming it weighed 500kg. Very impressive. Ranma was taking aim with it. At her. Hmmmm. Waitaminute. "EEK!"
Akane had leapt backwards and now eyed her steel wastebasket, formerly 500cm tall, currently 2cm and resembling a metal frisbee. There was now a large circular indentation in her floor and she could tell that the space she had formerly occupied had been within that very circle. "RANMA! YOU IDIOT, LOOK WHAT YOU'VE..."
Akane realized she'd jumped backward again just in time.
"DIE PERVERT!" Ranma said, tears forming in his eyes. Betrayal. How sad.
"EEK!" Akane said, leaping for the hallway.
Section of hallway - gone.
Zoom! "HELP! RANMA THINKS HE'S ME!!!" Akane dashed down the stairs, being closely pursued by a mallet swinging Ranma.
Nabiki wondered when someone was going to dig her out. She'd been driven into the ground, and while she wasn't hurt (somehow), she couldn't move.
Dull, dull, dull.
She dimly heard the lawn sprinklers come on.
A group of elven "buskers" played an odd swirling melody in the grand ballroom.
"Oooooooh," ooohed Sailor Moon at the various elegant gowns and costumes of the various dancers.
A short little hobbit looked up at the various girls in short skirts. "Are you sure you wouldn't prefer some nice gowns? We have some excellent seamstresses on hand."
"Hah! A transparent ploy, you'll get us to change out of our Senshi uniform, then you'll make a play for our undefended underside!" Uranus proclaimed. Neptune nodded
Five young girls glared at Sailor Uranus.
"Wait a minute! Where's Saturn?!" Pluto exclaimed.
"She's talking to that..." Mercury began, but Uranus and Neptune were already en route
"Everyone's so short," complained Jupiter at seeing all the elves and such.
"The ogres are tall," Venus indicated. "Those elves are cute though. OOooooooh! That one just smiled at me!"Zip!
Saturn had changed to Hotaru Tomoe sometime after the ball had started.
"...really?" Hotaru said. "My parents are a lot like that too."
"You're kidding. Really?" The stone ogre rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Maybe it's something about having both parents in the military."
Hotaru looked down shyly. She hadn't been able to make many friends. Somehow she'd just seemed to hit it off with this guy. Who apparently was about her age, but HUGE in comparison. "Maybe you're right."
"Hey, you want to check out the fountain? All this dancing and court stuff isn't my style," said the stone ogre. "They've got it ringed by fae lights of different colors so that as the water splashes it runs through all the colors reflected."
Hotaru smiled and blushed harder. Would this be her first boyfriend?! Maybe they could hold hands in the moonlight or something! "Sure, Rokk. That would be nice..."
"HANDS OFF HER, YOU MONSTER!" CRUNCH
The music and dancing came to a stop as everyone looked towards where Sailor Uranus had just punched a child (almost as tall as her and nearly three times as broad) in the face. Said child blinked, looking puzzled.
"AAAGGHHHHHH!" Sailor Uranus held her broken hand and danced around slightly.
"I thought Senshi transformations protected us from things like that," mumbled Mercury to Pluto.
Pluto frowned. "Generally we use magical attacks against monsters. Physical attacks against magical creatures are generally not as effective."
Two dark shadows appeared over Sailor Uranus.
"You're calling my boy a monster?" A fully grown stone ogre asked Sailor Uranus.
Sailor Uranus responded...
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