"Yes, stud-muffin?" Leeana said as she placed another blanket on Ranma's lap.
"Er... Could you stop doing that, please?" Ranma asked nicely. "I mean, I've already got five blanket, three pillows, and I've already eaten twenty bags of Zardonian airline peanuts..."
Asrial, who was watching this out of the corner of her eye growled slightly as she held onto Jeremy's right side, trying to keep him warm. "Why doe she keep paying attention to Ranma? Doesn't she know that Jeremy could use those?"
And indeed he could. Using a few volcanoe pearls to make a small, low-powered fireball, Mimi had manages to free Jeremy Feeple from his icy prison. Of course, he was still pretty chilled, and the one, very thin blanket he had over him wasn't doing much to help warm him up.
Ichikoo, who was holding onto Jeremy's left side, nodded in agreement to what Asrial said. "Yeah. Poor, poor Jeremy is chilled to the bone."
The three watched as Ranma stood up from his seat, holding the blankets. He walked over to them and slowly wrapped two of the blanket around Jeremy, and then the other three around Jeremy, Asrial, and Ichikoo. "There. With your combined body heat and the blankets, he'll be feeling better in a little while."
Asrial nodded her head. "Thank you, Ranma."
Ranma just shrugged it off. "Don't mention it. I must admit though. I'm curious as to who all of you are."
"Oh?" Asrial asked. She blinked as she came to a realization. "That's right. Besides Dog Supreme and Leeana, you doin't know who any of us are. Well, I'm Princess Asrial Salusia, princess of the Salusian Empire."
Ranma nodded his head. "Well, pleased to meet you, princess."
Feeling Ichikoo move one arm around Jeremy so she could nudge her in the shoulder, Asrial continued. "The kunoichi here is Ichikoo. The poor, sweet guy between us is Jeremy."
"Hello." Ranma greeted.
Looking around, Asrial continued with, "The other three are also friends of ours. The mercenary, Arnie."
Arnie raised his gun and smirked. Ranma nodded his head and smirked back.
"There's the witch, Mimi."
Mimi smiled pleasently from where she was sitting and nodded her head. "Greeting."
Ranma smiled and bowed slightly. "Pleasure to meet you."
Asrial then finished with, "And last, but not least, our cross-dressing sushi chef, Sammi."
Sammi pointed a ginzu knife. Ranma couldn't help but smirk. It seemed cross-dressing Japanese chefs were everywhere.
Starting to feel better, Jeremy managed to ask, "So, Ranma, what brought you to Quagmire? And why do you need to go to Atlanta?"
Ranma shrugged his shoulders. No harm in telling them the truth. "Rats."
"What do you mean?" Ichikoo asked.
"Rats." Ranma repeated. "Large, dangerous rats."
Everyone blinked. Most people thought of one occurence almost immdeiately. "Evil Rats from Dimension X!!!" More than one person said.
Ranma raised an eyebrow. "Eh?"
"Of course!" Asrial said. "Rats from dimension X are a large, dangerous breed! Those must be the rats you're after!"
"Uh... Okay..." Ranma said, unsure of where this was going. Oh well. They didn't have any qualms about him killing rats at least.
"Oh, dear Ranma darling!" Leeana said in a Kodachi-like manner. "Risking your life to go after those dangerous rats!" Her eyes shinign with determination, she continued, "Well, don't worry! I promise to give you the help you need! With the machinery in the bay, I can get a few more Combat Bots up and running. You will have the power of the Zardonian Empire on your side!"
Ranma blinked. He couldn't help but smile as these people wanted to help him. "Hey, thank you, Miss Leeana."
Smiling, Leeana said, "Please, Ranma darling, call me your 'one and only'."
Ranma blinked his eyes in surprise. "Er... I'll have to think about that..."
Jeremy, who was starting to feel better stood up. "I'll help you too, Ranma. I am Jeremy Feeple, son of the great Bob Feeple, 'the man who killed large rats'. He was the one that started the 'Extreme Rat Exterminators' devision of the US government's pest control. I want to help you in any way I can!"
Standing up as well, Asrial said, "Well, if Jeremy's going to help, then I'm going to help as well."
"Me too!" Ichikoo said as well.
"I guess I shall accompany you as well." Mimi added.
"I guess this could be some fun." Arnie said.
"Well, since I'm here, I might as well help." Sammi said.
Smiling, Ranma nodded his head. "Thanks, you guys."
"No problem, Ranma darling." Leeana said as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "Now, off to Atlanta, where we shall hunt those large, dangerous rats!"
"Amen to that!" Ranma said.
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(Posted Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:45)
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