"For the hand and assorted body parts of Ranma then," agreed Rei.
"Uhm, waitaminute, guys, this is getting way too serious," tried Ranma. "Can't we all be friends?"
Ranma looked at the battleaura surrounding Rei and wondered if this was going to be one of the special manuevers she'd talked about. He might have to go in and rescue her though. No way was she ready for Shampoo. Though that battleaura...
Shampoo looked at the battleaura, the dispassionate gaze of doll-girl, and knew fear. Was this why great-grandmother had forbidden her to fight the doll-girl? She met the doll-girl's gaze and had this sudden image of her body going splut into red goo. NOT good.
Rei had several qualities not normally found in a Ranma protaganist. One being that she researched things. She spent two hours a day practicing the martial arts because she had determined that was her role within this setting. As the heir to the school, anything less than perfection was not acceptable. She had also determined that Shampoo had a barbarian's ethical structure, which was to say that Western morality had little to no place within it. To that extent she had checked Chinese bookshops and finally found an old copy of Chinese Amazon Law.
Red eyes flicked at a barely perceptible flicker. The Elder was present, drawn by the challenge flare of battleaura. Good. Everything was in place.
Shampoo had used the moment of inattention and leapt forward, her sword out for a quick killing blow. Fear causing her to take the chance and strike in front of Ranma.
Rei blocked, her hand striking the sword and shattering it with a precise blow. As she had predicted, the sudden shift in weight allowance threw Shampoo off. Shampoo was skilled enough that she would recover in 0.04 seconds - but that was just enough time.
Rei grabbed the outstretched arm and pulled Shampoo out of alignment, chambering one leg in the same motion. She kicked out, channelling her force precisely and using both her own pull and Shampoo's momentum to combine with the kick.
Rei's shiny black shoe heel imbedded into Shampoo's stomach. Rei released Shampoo's arm at the moment of impact, swinging back to balance herself, while chambering for a throat-spear using a fist in the Serpent style grip.
Shampoo had been realizing that doll-girl had been practicing when her breath had exploded from her and it had felt as if her insides had turned to soft liquid pulp. Moving with mechanical precision, the doll-girl moved and another explosion and Shampoo could feel her windpipe being nearly crushed. Shampoo managed to deflect part of the blow at the last second, but surprise and pain were slowing her.
Rei moved behind and lashed out as Shampoo staggered, catching the base of the skull with a palm strike. As the Amazon champion began to fall, Rei was there to capture and pin her opponent.
Ranma stared. Damn! He'd known that when Rei set her mind to doing something, she could be frighteningly single-minded, but the emotionless way she was beating the crap out of Shampoo was beyond what he had considered.
Her legs locked in place to pin Shampoo's arms to her sides, and her weight on the bruised area causing Shampoo to have trouble fighting for breath and from passing out from the pain, Rei thought it time for stage two.
"I have studied Amazon Law," said Rei. The rest she said in Chinese (Mandarin, Joketsuzoku dialect - though she was hardly fluent she had foreseen this possibility and practiced it) for the benefit of her audience. "(You challenged me, you attacked me, I have defeated you. Under the ruling of Kolukremu Versus Mei Fang, I take):"
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