[To Thrythlind: That was mainly responding to John; I wrote in response to your post for story reasons. ^_^ ]
[To everyone who doesn't know: Lian Xing is from the playstation espionage action series "Syphon Filter".]
"I suppose I should get Kodachi some help," said Ranma. She'd decided to call her that until she found out she had another (non-moronic) name.
"Okay. I'll take you there," replied Lian.
Ranma picked up the unconcious pokewomon and followed.
}==={
Nurse Joy looked up when she heard the door opening. She saw a red-haired girl (who she, not being an idiot, guessed was a female tamer) with a FairyCute fluttering ahead of her.
Then she looked a bit further down, and saw a Rosygirl who was in the most horrible condition she had ever seen-
At this point, Lian decided she'd better speak up, lest Ranma say something that gave Joy the wrong (or right) idea about the situation.
"We found this pokewomon lying in the road about ten blocks from here." (Technically true.) "She doesn't seem to belong to anyone," (Also technically true.) "But she's in really bad shape. Can you help her?"
One of her worries assuaged, Joy replied "Of course," and gestured to Ranma to follow her into the next room.
}==={
Ranma waited in the main room while Nurse Joy worked on Kodachi. Everything she said was reassuring, but Ranma could tell from her expression that the outlook was grim.
Lian had flown off and gotten Ranko and Shampoo to come back with her to the Pokecenter, thus making the author's life simpler, since now everyone was in the same place.
Several hours passed.
Finally, Nurse Joy emerged.
"There's good news and bad news," Joy said. "The rosygirl -Kodachi was her name, you said?- will be fine. With proper treatment she should regain full health in a day or so." She sighed. "But we can't save the baby. The combined stress was too much for it."
Ranma sighed herself. Sure, it was probably the child of a moron. But still, it was itself entirely innocent. It wasn't right for it's life to have ended before it had a chance to make anything of it.
If someone hadn't already paid for it, someone would have ended up doing so very shortly.
Joy interrupted Ranma's reverie. "Would you like to use one of the rooms here while her treatment finishes?" she asked.
"Ah... sure," Ranma replied.
}==={
Ranma plopped down on the (very large, she noted) bed. Shampoo and Ranko joined her, while Lian fluttered around the room.
"I still wish you hadn't killed those two," Lian finally said. "Kodachi's pokeball must have been modified for her to get pregnant; they normally supress fertility. Those two couldn't have been smart enough to do it, and I can't imagine why they'd want it done, but maybe they could have given us a lead."
Ranma shrugged. It had seemed like the best idea at the time, but somehow saying that didn't seem like a good idea right now.
Lian herself wasn't sure why she was getting so vehement about this. The League would catch up to whoever it was eventually, so there wasn't any need for her to get involved.
... But the League obviously *hadn't* caught up quite fast enough for some people. And this was just about the nastiest thing she'd seen since leaving OSI. Someone had to do something about it *now*, and she was the one on the scene. Besides, there was nothing stopping her from keeping her ears open for word of Soul Edge.
Soon...
(Posted Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:34)
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