His orders had come from a highly placed one of the drow, so even when the drow in question looked a little different, he knew better than questioning the orders. He liked his skin where it was, thank you.
Just stand here and wait for a contact, occasionally whipping or beating on these stupid elves.
So far all he'd seen so far was some pig, but that couldn't be what he was looking for. Ah well. He was getting hungry. Maybe he'd just slice this one elf girl's leg off. She didn't need it anyway.
Wham!
Ryoga flicked his umbrella to the side as the really really ugly monster guy fell over. "Maybe this was one of the monsters Ranma was talking about? Curse you Ranma! You missed one! I..."
The Lost Boy noticed the elf women. The darn near naked elf women. The chained up looked pretty damn cute for being foreigners, he hadn't met Akari yet in this timeline, frightened elf women. Oh and a pixie and whatever that other gal was. But they were pretty cute too!
Naturally Ryoga thought back to a conversation he'd had with Ranma just yesterday.
"Ever have one of those days, P-chan, when you saved a couple of girls from monsters and then they followed you everywhere?"
"Curse you Ranma!" Ryoga yelled. "Now you're involving me in these... uhm sorry." He'd noticed the cringing elves, a couple looked like they'd been beaten recently. Looked like loud noises were cause for alarm. How to get them to stop cringing? "Oh I know."
Ryoga went around, breaking chains and removing handcuffs, which had the effect of calming down the girls.
"There you go," Ryoga declared. "Uhm, why are you all looking at me like that?"
Everyone wanted to hug their hero, and more than one wanted to check out all those tight muscles.
What a pity that he seemed to faint halfway through it.
The idea of Kodachi leaving Gymnastics practice early? Unheard of! That she was distracted the whole time through had been noted though, and more than one of the girls expressed the hope that it wasn't something she had done.
Kodachi sighed as she scanned the shelves of the library. Elves.
Ever since that battle with the giant spider, she'd felt "off" somehow. Many of the things that had seemed so important just the day before had dwindled in importance. Having been unconscious for a large amount of the fight, Kodachi could only come to one conclusion.
It had been the elves. So graceful and precise, with that otherworldly beauty. Even her own grace and poise seemed but a guttural echo of how they turned every movement into something of beauty.
The elves had fought alongside her against a very demon from Hell. How trivial was a concern for an upcoming match against another women's school compared to such as that?
Yet it was odd that in a way she felt better than she had felt in years. Cleansed somehow. The elves again?
Those odd cheerleaders throwing magic about. The spider-thing. Her Ranma-sama leaping to the fray.
Had she kept her eyes closed all her life, blinded to the greater struggles around her?
Turning away from the books, which seemed to deal with yousei strictly within the Japanese mythos, Kodachi decided a visit to those elves might be necessary to settle the questions and doubts sifting through her head.
Tatewaki Kuno was having a hard time of it as well.
"Sasuke!" The scion of House Kuno commanded.
Popping up from a floor panel, the bucktoothed ninja saluted. "You called your eminence?"
Dropping down from where'd suddenly found himself clutching the ceiling, Kuno coughed into his hand and regained what composure he could. "The battle last night, Sasuke?"
"I'm sorry, Master Kuno, but I was doing the laundry last night," apologized Sasuke.
"Yes, I understand that," said Kuno, waving the point off. "There were five girls in figure skating costumes, save that they had no skates upon their feet. They did fight with impressive skills and their countenance was most fair to look upon."
"Maybe they were combat cheerleaders? I've heard of those," mused Sasuke.
"Perhaps indeed," said Kuno approvingly. "Their uniforms bore vague resemblence to sailor style seifuku such as are worn at many a girl's school."
Sasuke started writing this down. "Five girls. Skating or cheerleading costumes, sailor style. Martial artists."
"Get me the names of these paragons of beauty, and perhaps a set of 8x10 pictures," said Kuno, dismissing the diminuitive ninja.
Sasuke sighed. "Might I draw on the Kuno family funds?"
Kuno nodded. "Yes, you may have to go to Nabiki on this. You may draw 1000 yen."
Sasuke winced. That might cover names, he'd have to go get the pictures on his own. A ninja's work is never done.
"Great grandmother! I back!" Shampoo proclaimed as she leapt through the door.
"Good child, in the meantime I want you to not fight those elves son-in-law has." Cologne inspected the contents of a pot, not looking up at Shampoo. "The same with those cheerleaders."
"Why for? Is obstacle?" Shampoo asked.
"What is my first duty as matriarch?" Cologne asked.
"Is for good of tribe," said Shampoo, knowing this by heart.
"Son In Law has two elves who have sworn him fealty," said Cologne, lowering the heat on the sauce. "Last night they fought a monster."
"Yes, is so," said Shampoo, still not seeing the point.
"It looks like son-in-law is about to engage in an Epic Quest," said Cologne. "Different rules apply to those."
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