That is how this fairytale begins.
It opens up in a meadow somewhere in the middle of China. It was one of those usual meadows what with the flowers, the bees, the various wild animals romping around, (since this was before that whole bambei fiasco the animals had yet to learn that just because you were cute animals in a animated show didn't mean you weren't going to get whacked) and other assorted creatures. But most of them weren't really important.
But there was one animal in the meadow that morning that WAS important, and his name was Bob, Bob the butterfly. Now, as far as butterflies went Bob was pretty high on that 'I'm proud to be a cutesy winged insect' scale.
Why do you ask? Well that's simple. You see, Bob's Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-(insert a lot more greats here)grandfather Ed was single handily responsible for sinking a Persian fleet off the coast of Greece when he woke up one morning and sneezed. Which in turn created a gust of wind that picked up momentum and eventually got some clouds together to form this nice big storm right when those wacky Persians were going to invade and take over Greece, therefore screwing us here in 2003 because well, a good part of our culture comes from the Greeks including this crazy idea they cooked up called democracy.
Anyway, as to why Bob was so important, well, he was about to do it again. He woke up one morning and as was the custom among his family, stuck his head into the nearest flower full of pollen, and sneezed.
The air from the sneeze gushed out, racing along in the sky. But unlike most of Bob's sneeze winds, this one quickly got a boost from a previous wind and travel on. On it went past the meadow and through and over the mountains gathering storm clouds, and sightseeing in that typical Wheel of Time opening wind kind of fashion.
It traveled until the wind was now one of those big ass thunderstorms that you just really hate cause that fry your computer, scare your dog, and create softball sized hail that smashes your car windows and just plain @#$%! piss you off.
Anyway, the thunderstorm, now calling itself Jerry, come to a stop over this nice little area of Japan, right over part of a forested area that would one day be known as Tokyo Japan to be exact. Then seeing a nice little forest when it could happily shoot lightening bolts and maybe blow some stuff up, Jerry quickly rained down, well rain, but he had some thunder bolts too!
(Posted Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:05)
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