"[Sure is.]"
"That's kinda long."
"[For humans to say it, I guess it is.]"
"Can I call ya something else then?" the young man then asked. "I can't keep calling ya by your name each time. It'd take too long."
"[Hmmm.]"
"Like if we were walking down the road or sumthin', and some bird-brained Chinese Amazon, who's blind as a bat, was walking down the other way-"
"[Zubats aren't blind.]"
"They're not? Uh, okay. Blind like a mole?"
"[Digletts and Dugtrios act like it sometime, but those critters can still see, even if takes stomping your hoof right on their noses to make 'em stop digging holes where you sleep at night.]"
"Whatever, it was just an expression," said Ranma, as he fumed. "Like I was sayin', if this idiot of a Chinese Amazon, who keeps forgettin' he owns eyeglasses for a reason, was running around looking for someone and noticed you and me were there on the same road as him, he might all of sudden start shouting somethin' about a girl named Shampoo being his and her being too good for me. Then he'd go on about me cheating on her by flirting there on the road with another girl-"
"[Hold it there, sugar]" the Ponyta interrupted. "[You? Cheating on his woman? With me?]"
"It's complicated," groused Ranma. He hadn't planned on going anywhere near the subject of Amazon wives and Japanese fiancees. Still a touchy subject with him. Especially since it'd lead him to thinking about how he got here. "And he's stupid like that."
"Anyways," he continued, "I'd yell out to ya to get out of the way. But since your name's so long and all, by the time I get done saying it, the blind idiot had already started firing off spears and throwing daggers and shuriken and stuff." Ranma paused and glanced up at the fiery pony in front of him. "And you'd be kinda awkward to carry in my arms while jumping out of the way."
"[Sugar,]" the Ponyta began, "[I must have misheard you.]" Peering sideways at its new Trainer, it continued. "[I certainly didn't just hear you imply that this gorgeous creature standing in front of you, with her dainty frame, her supple coat, and her graceful hooves, was fat. Did you, sugar?]"
Ranma blinked. And blinked some more. And made a guess at the appropriate answer to that convoluted message laden with verbal pitfalls. "Uh, yes?"
By the way the eyes lit up on the Pokemon's face, Ranma figured out he gave the wrong answer.
An hour later, a newly-inducted Pokemon Trainer and his first Pokemon were resting on a field pocketed by patches of slightly burnt grass and stretches of badly-scuffled ground. The Ponyta was laying down on its side, its legs laid out, while the human was leaning against its back. The filly made for a warm pillow for its Trainer's head.
"Hey, uh, 'Dances on Clover Blossoms in Spring'."
"[Hmm?]"
"How about if I call ya 'Ukyou' instead? You kinda remind me of her. Me and Ucchan used ta mess around like this all the time."
"[Hmm.]"
The pair continued to lie there peacefully as the afternoon wore on. Now that all was quiet again in the field, some Sentret started rising out from the clumps of vegetation they had hidden in earlier to peer at the two. In the orange skies overhead, flocks of Pidgeys made their way back to their evening roosts in the surrounding forest.
"[Sugar?]"
"Hmm?"
"[It's alright with me.]"
"Hmmm."
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(Posted Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:12)
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