Ranma stared and almost stumbled over his jaw, which was suddenly located somewhere in the vicinity of his feet. He pointed a waving finger at Nabiki, indicating alternately her face, the long serpentine body that curled up on the floor behind her, the junction where Nabiki's hips seamlessly segued into her scaly new undercarriage, and her face again.
"Wha-wha-wha-! Tha-tha-that... Gah?!" he remarked, inquisitively.
"Yes, that was more or less my first reaction, as well," said Nabiki, shuffling the coils of her snake body into a more comfortable position. She was wearing the same blouse she had worn that morning, but her slacks were gone, for obvious reasons. Her new lower body emerged from the bottom of her blouse. "As it turns out, being related to Akane can be somewhat dangerous to mere mortals."
Akane cringed. "I'm sorry, Oneechan!"
Nabiki patted her on the shoulder calmingly. "Come on, sis - I told you it's not your fault. I'm sure you didn't invite anyone to transform you, and it's certainly not your fault that certain people shoot before they're sure their aim is right." A sly look came over her face. "But... if you are really set on making it up to me, I could get my camera and you could model this negligée..."
"Nabiki! I'm not posing for your photoshoots!"
"There you go, sis. Now you're back to normal."
Souun passed by once more in his aimless wandering through the house, wailing, "My baby! My poor baby!" Ranma narrowly avoided having his curse triggered by the waterworks.
"How can you act like this, Nabiki? This is not a scratched knee or something like that - this is terrible! You've been turned into a- a-"
"Naga," supplied Nabiki. "Yes, yes, a terrible fate; whatever shall I do now; skimpy black leather is just not me, and I don't have the bustline to carry it off, anyway."
"Huh?" Akane blinked.
"Never mind," Nabiki said, waving away Akane's confusion. "Come on, Akane - you've grown whiskers, been mind-swapped with a doll, been shrunk to the size of one, have a fiancée who turns into a girl and a rival who turns into a cat. Surely weird transformations are no longer able to shock you. As long as I'm still myself, I refuse to let this get to me." Nabiki crossed her arms resolutely.
At that point Kasumi came into the room, carrying one of Nabiki's skirts. She calmly threaded Nabiki's tail through it and pulled it up along the coils, as if she did this every day.
"Ah, thanks, 'Neechan," said Nabiki.
Akane blinked in confusion again.
Nabiki, noticing this, spotted a golden opportunity. "You realize, of course, that I've been naked below the waist all this time, while Ranma stared at me." She demurely crossed her hands over a patch of scaly skin that was entirely unremarkable, but just happened to be in the place, where the junction of her legs would normally have been.
Ranma gulped, as he felt the battle aura flare to life behind him.
"RAAANNMAAA..." roared the demon head that was Souun Tendou.
Deciding that running away was the better part of Anything Goes, Ranma sprinted down the hall, Souun in hot pursuit.
Nabiki, Akane and Kasumi watched them disappear.
"That wasn't nice of you, Imoutochan" said Kasumi.
"Nope. But more fun than crying my eyes out over my new looks." Nabiki fastened the skirt around her waist. "How's it look?"
"Very nice," said Kasumi approvingly. Akane just stared.
When Ranma returned, having escaped the wrath of the overprotective father, he finally found the nerve to ask questions.
"How did this happen?" he asked, gesturing vaguely at her snake tail.
"Well, someone decided to make Akane legless, but instead of getting her drunk they took the more literal approach and used transformation magic. Too bad they didn't take into account that there's more than one short-haired Tendou daughter, before they cast their spell."
Ranma gritted his teeth at the thought of someone attacking Akane like this and hitting an innocent victim in the process. As far as Nabiki could ever be called innocent, that was. "Who did this?" he asked.
(Posted Sun, 08 Feb 2004 18:41)
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