Fwoosh!
Akane, Yuka, and Sayuri all blazed with auras at Kuno. Yuka went so far as to check the settings on her pistol. Sayuri still had the assault rifle she'd gotten in Jurassic Park, but unlike Yuka was neither enthusiastic or skilled with regard to it. Akane still had a candelabra of some kind that she'd grabbed back in that Silver Millenium ballroom.
Kuno blinked. Surely the fair Akane and her two peasant handmaidens could not upset with his excellence! It must be that they were so tired from their ordeal that they were confused.
Wham!
Removing her candelabra from Kuno's head, Akane motioned for the little yellow bear to speak what was on his mind.
"We should have a party perhaps? It has been quite a while since Christopher Robin came by," pointed out Pooh.
"Actually, it's been a bit over a hundred years since Christopher Robin visited," said Owl with a hint of despair.
"A hundred years?! Oh, wait a minute. I get it," said Sayuri. "In the original stories, Christopher Robin visited while he was a child. When he grew up he stopped visiting, didn't he?"
"Indeed," admitted Owl. "That is my very deduction. Are you some scholar or philosopher of your people?"
Sayuri blushed, not used to praise. The Japanese school system, and for that matter society, was not particularly praise-oriented.
"They seem to be eating most of the Thousand Acre Wood," pointed out Mister Rabbit as he gestured past the group.
Akane turned at all the munching noises. "Well, I guess the whatever they are -"
"brachiasaurs," supplied Sayuri. "The triceratops and anklyosaur and stegosaur all appear to mainly be interested in bushes and shorter plants."
"-I guess they got hungry," guessed Akane.
"They don't eat honey, do they?" Pooh asked with some concern.
"I wouldn't think so," said Sayuri.
"Ish thish Furinkan?" Ryoga asked of a tree.
The tree didn't reply.
"And so, Kodachi, you are now a member of the tribe," proclaimed Cologne.
"How nice," said Kodachi, giving Shampoo a sultry look. Actually having someone who cared about her, and who was treating her regularly with kindness - it was having a healing effect on her psyche.
"Is so," said Shampoo. "What you say, Spat... excuse - Ukyo?"
"MFFFFFFF!"
Sighing and pulling out an ostrich feather, Shampoo regarded the trussed-up chef. "Is very sad. Now must try convince co-wife to submit through ancient Chinese Torture."
Kodachi picked up her own feather and started twirling it as Cologne left. "Ancient Chinese torture? How intriguing. What is it called?"
Shampoo loomed menacingly over the struggling Ukyo. "Is the ancient Tickle Pink technique. Shampoo demonstrate."
"MFFFFFFFFFFF!"
Cologne shook her head. "Children these days. I wonder if Miss Kuonji figured out she could always say no and get out of the whole thing?"
"MFFFFF! AAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIEEEEEEUUUUUU!"
"Guess not," said Cologne as she went downstairs.
Ranma-chan drummed his fingers against the armrest. Okay, he could have tried to swim to America and find Akane. It was taking him twelve hours on a flight, so he could guess how many days it would take to swim there.
Dull, dull, dull.
Hardly anyone else on the flight spoke Japanese, it having been Nabiki's arrangement and even the flight crew didn't speak the language. Nor did they speak English, which he could have understood some of.
No, he had to catch a flight on Air Iran. Yech. He had to go as a woman in Least Class. Double yech. And as he was Ranma-chan at the moment, getting pretty darn tired of being eyed a like a piece of choice meat at the market by boys, girls, old men, and even members of the flight crew.
But it was the boring bit that was really proving to be a problem.
That and apparently there was no "Girl's Room" on this flight.
Meanwhile, back in the Thousand Acre Wood:
(Posted Sat, 02 Aug 2003 14:41)
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