Ranma-chan blinked her eyes. "DNA Samples? You mean blood?"
"Yes. Blood is the most classic case of a DNA sample." Talon answered.
Seeing the rather blank look on Ranma's face, Erwin sighed. "Is something wrong, 'Miss' Saotome?"
"Well, the thing is, I know A LOT of fighters, but I'm not one to just go out an hurt them." Ranma said.
"And who said you'd have to hurt them?" Talon asked. "In some cases, if you can't get any samples, you'd have to draw blood. But otherwise, you can gather saliva, hair, skin, semen, or ovum samples as well. Basically anything that includes a person's DNA."
Ranma visibly relaxed at hearing this. "Ah, okay. So I won't hanve to hurt some of my friends. That's a load off my chest."
Ionis smirked and looked over Ranma's shoulder. "Too bad you can't get the real load off your chest, huh? Your back must be killing you, baby."
*POW*!
Pee Wee smirked as he saw Ionis reel back from the elbow strike to the gut, and fall down coughing. "Now that he had coming."
Ranma-chan smirked a little. "You'd be surprised how often I hear that."
"I'm sure." Talon said. "Now before I send you out with Daishi and Zelda, I do have one request."
"Oh?" Ranma-chan asked, raising an eyebrow. "What's that?"
"Well, you see, 'Miss' Saotome..." Talon began, in almost a bored tone, "I need one teensy-weensy, insignificant, incredibly minor thing from you."
"What is it you need?" Ranma asked.
"Well, you see, I need a DNA sample from you." Talon said.
Ranma-chan automatically went into a defensive stance. "Nuh-uh! No way! You ain't taking my blood!" Ranma said in no uncertain terms.
Talon wanted to laugh at his employee's antics. "And who said I'd need to draw blood. I already told you, Saotome. I can get DNA extractions from other facets of the human body-"
*SHING*!
"-Such as hair." Talon said. He opened out his palm, and Daishi dropped a red pigtail into his open hand.
Ranma-chan would have sworn her heart jumped into her throat. She didn't even see the ninja move. She tentatively moved her hand to the back of her head... And felt short hair in the back. "YOU FLAKEY JERK! THAT WAS MY HAIR!!!"
"Don't worry, 'Miss' Saotome. You shall be handsomely compensated for your 'donation'. As well as for the donations of other DNA samples you can collect for me." Talon said in all seriousness.
Ranma-chan calmed down a little. She glared down at her 'employer' dangerously. Oh, it had better be worth it, if he didn't want her to kick his ass. "How much?"
"For your sample, two-thousand dollars, American." Pee Wee answered. "As for the prices of other samples, it shall depend on how powerful and skilled the fighters are, and if they are human or not."
Ranma-chan was shocked. "You're seriously going to give me two-thousand bucks for my pigtail you took?"
"Of course." Lord Talon answered. "You can expect to get that money, along with the money for the other samples you shall collect AFTER your first mission."
A large smile appeared on Ranma's face. This little kid was going to give her two-thousand bucks, AND more for samples of people she knew. And she wouldn't neccesarily have to hurt these people either. Find a discarded comb, cut a hair sample, or something! If she got enough, she could pay off Nabiki and be able to live comfortably for awhile.
Still smiling, Ranma-chan extended a hand to Talon. "Kid, you've got yourself a deal!"
"Very good!" Talon said, and shook hands with teh aqua-transexual. "However, please refer to me as 'Lord Talon'. Don't call me 'kid'! I hate that!"
"Sure thing kiii... Er... Lord Talon." Ranma corrected herself.
Withdrawing his hand from Ranma's, Talon called out, "Daishi! Zelda! I want you two to follow Ranma and offer your assistance! Make sure that she can get me new DNA samples!"
Bowing, Daishi said, "Consider it done, Lord Talon."
Zelda, who had been sitting down at a table, and arm-wrestling with Link, stopped what she was doing, and stood up form her chair. "Yeah, yeah. Let's get this done."
Ranma looked over the two who would be helping her. The ninja that would be cutting her hair, and some bald chick. "Eh... No stranger than some of the people you can find in Nerima..."
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