Ranma watched Sabertooth climb back up the cliff yet again, as she pretended to swim off. Hiding among the rocks, she spent an entertaining quarter of an hour just listening to the man cuss as he struggled back up the cliff, and a boring twenty minutes following that listening to him repeat himself.
‘Heh. He looks like a drowned dog.’
He had been thinking of leaving, but why? He had everything he needed here. Training opportunities like this group didn’t come along every day. They had powers and abilities that actually pushed his limits.
‘I wonder if he smells like one?’
Lately he had felt like things were slowing down. Ryoga and Mousse weren’t really putting their hearts into fighting him anymore. Kuno was a joke. Akane and the rest of the fiancées were driving him nuts in between the half hearted battles that did occur with the guys.
‘Gods he’s slow. Next time I’m picking someone who can climb decently as a witness. This is takin forever.’
Happosai had told him that even he needed a break every once in a while, and since he had no hentai activities planned Ranma couldn’t really spar with him. He had offered to bring him with him for the Victoria Secrets Summer Jubilee held in Milan (apparently he was one of their secrets) when he checked the latest designs for flaws, but Ranma really hadn’t been that interested.
‘Man I’m hungry. I used up a lot more ki then I usually use.’
Cologne had been the most helpful, giving him hints abought Amazon techniques and forgotten martial arts lore. She wouldn’t train him in the arts themselves tho’. She said that it would be a lot more satisfying to see what he came up with without knowing the techniques themselves.
‘Maybe a ki blast would speed things up? Nah, they have to think I’m gone for this to work.’
He had to admit she was right abought that. He had developed a dozen or so techniques that had been quite entertaining. Not that useful in combat mind you, but quite entertaining. Apparently only when he was really pushed did he come up with useful combat techniques. The rest of the time he developed interesting non-combat techniques.
‘Man I’m hungry. Is that a shark down there?’ Taking a deep breath Ranma slid beneath the waves.
His attempts at learning the ‘Splitting cat’s hair’ technique, from just what he remembered of it the first time had been fun. He hadn’t even come close to the original, but then his could move like the original couldn’t, not to mention it didn’t have to be an image of himself. Toma had taught him quite a bit without knowing it.
‘Hey, that is a shark.’
He could make one image without too much trouble but beyond that he would have to sit still and concentrate for it to work. Not real useful in combat. Plus anyone with the slightest amount of Ki sense could see it was a fake if they tried.
‘Mmmm, Shark meat.’
Cologne had taught him a trick she had come up with after facing martial arts ventriloquists. Using a Ki resonance technique you could not only throw your voice but duplicate practically any sound you could think of.
The water churned and took on a pink tinge as bits of flesh floated to the surface.
That had been a fun week. Between the two of them they had caused enough trouble that the Ghost Busters had been called in. Spengler had made them promise not to do it again and Bake-Neko had been captured, but all in all it had been fun.
‘Needs soy sauce. I wonder if they have tuna in these waters?’
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