No response.
Ravenous slammed an obese fist against the console, "God damn son of a bitch!"
"Beep. Get your ass out of bed NOW!" Ravenous typed into the console, he paused for a moment, before adding, "Beep. Get your ass out of bed NOW! Or I'll hit the shiny red button!" so typing, Ravenous held his hand out over a large red button that read 'Instant Bowl Movement' on an 'Akane made indestructible cracker'.
The response was slow in coming, but it came. "Beep. Activating Brain.. Suppressing sense of Tact.. Chaining libido... revving up martial arts knowledge... nothing else left to start up. Beginning activation sequence."
Ravenous chortled, wobbling its ten-ton body (from its perspective) to a big lazy boy chair. Sitting down, he leaned back as if he was getting ready to go to sleep, instead he opened his mouth, his jaw dislocating and allowing him to spread his mouth wider for what was about to come.
A previously unnoticed hole in the ceiling began to shimmer..
***
"Wha!?" Ranma groaned, coming awake as his stomach let off a LOUD grumble. Smacking his ry lips together in hopes of getting moisture to them, he pushed himself out of bed and began to look around the room bleary eyed.
The room itself was about as big as the Tendo's guest room, and just as sparse. Aside from small dresser near the closet, and the western style bed, the room was pretty much empty.
Sparing the bed a glance, Ranma sighed. Damn bed. He thought futons were the height of luxury back in Nerima. One freaking night in the Diggers household and that had been proven wrong. Hell, the bed was so damn comfortable he had trouble GOING to sleep, which wasn't something he had problems of doing in the past. After all, sleep was an escape from the pain of Genma's training in the early days, later becoming the only true solace he could find from the loonies of Nerima. Well.. unless they attacked him in his sleep, which wasn't really as often as people thought it was. Oh well.
Ranma grumbled, sparing the clock on his dresser a glance. "5:10? What the hell did I get up for!"
"ROAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
Ranma sweat dropped. That just came from his stomach. "Kami. Maybe I should feed you.."
***
Ravenous smirked.
***
Ranma spared the kitchen clock a glance as he finished building the Leaning Tower of Tuna sandwich, a monstrous sandwich nearly three feet in height that leant slightly to the right.
5:30
Ranma shrugged, a familiar tingle of danger over coming him for some reason. There was something about the time that scared him, something he had at the very back of his mind that was trying to warn him about something. Failing to come up with a reason why, he turned towards his masterpiece. As he was about to dig in, a memory from last night's dinner came to the fore.
***
Dinner, the previous night.
Ranma ate with the manners of an ill-mannered country bumpkin. The difference being he did it the Saotome Style, meaning eat as fast as you can, what you can with total disregard to manners or anyone else present at the table. Food was flying in all directions as he sucked in the food, his face smeared with food that he had failed to get in his mouth.
Theodore blinked and stared, forgetting to chew the tiny bit of food he managed to get in his mouth before Ranma started. To bad he didn't get to eat anything else after Ranma noticed he wasn't guarding his plate.
Jonathan blinked and stared while pondering how the hell it was possible for the guy to fill his mouth, swallow, and repeat the process within only seconds of the first action.
Brittany was eating like a baby, and thus she was eating more cleanly than Ranma was.
Gina watched her friend eat curiously at first, and then she tried to mimic him.
Julia blinked and stared in disbelief. Slowly her features shifted to a frown, then to a scowl, followed by a glare, and in the end became a snarl when she noticed Gina copying him. "RANMA!!! HOW DARE YOU TEACH MY GIRL TO EAT LIKE A PIG!"
Ranma stopped, his face covered in food with a long noodle hanging from his mouth. He tried to talk with his mouth full. "Waa Rooga goo ta dua wioth it?"
Gina giggled, food flying from her still full mouth as she tried to copy Ranma's silly technique of talking with ones mouth full, "Thos fon!"
Julia had steam pouring out of her ears. "RAAAAAANNNNNNMA!"
***
Ravenous frowned when that memory hit the brain. "Bitch."
***
Ranma shivered. Julia got real pissed at him after that debacle. Geesh, she acted like she never seen any Variants to the Saotome eating style before! That couldn't be right though, she was a martial artist, or at least she moved like she had some training.
Slurping his fingers after finishing his meal, Ranma realized what was so important about the time. Julia was a martial artist. She liked to get up at 6:00 to practice. She was also pissed at him because of Gina. She threatened to get revenge.
Glancing at the cloak.
6:05
Well, if he hurried back to his room, maybe Julia wouldn't find him?
"Good morning, Ranma." that singsong voice of his hostess echoed behind him. There was a tangible sharp hint of danger in her voice, one that promised pain for the pig tailed martial artist.
"Lets spar, Ranma." Ranma chuckled weakly, turning to see the woman. Yep, just as he feared. She was decked out like yesterday, with a real sword sheathed at her hip, and was currently eyeing him in such a way that he felt she was burning holes through his body.
"Sure!" he answered lamely. It figured he'd get into a fight with Julia already. All he wanted to do was eat damnit! Was that so much to ask for?
***
Ravenous laid in his lazy-boy, covered in tuna and small strands of bread. He burped.
The whole in the roof stopped shimmering as the last of this mornings 'parse' breakfast finished spilling out.
And all was right in the world of Ranma Saotome's stomach. He pointedly ignored the computer console as it started flashing with "WARNING! WARNING! PISSED OFF FEMALE UNIT IN VICINITY! WARNING! BRACE FOR IMPACT!"
***
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