"Flesh... Bone..."

Ellf Productions Presents

"Bound together by the oddest magickal
incantations..."

A fanfic by Peter Gallagher

"This book is where it began oh so long ago..."

Based upon the original characters created by Silicon
Knights and 
Rumiko Takahashi

"My name is Doctor Edward Roivas, I am a clinical
psychologist, I am
also dead..."

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Eternal Darkness: Sanity Halved
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"This is not my story, nor is it even the story of the
Roivas family.  
It is the story of humanity..."

A book sat upon a shelf, seemingly made up of skin,
and it had a rune 
on the sash holding the book closed.  The book
expanded to take up the 
full field of vision.

"Like it or not, believe it or not as you will.  Your
perceptions will 
not change reality, but simply color it..."

The view panned out to reveal a young woman with
blonde hair holding 
the book in her arms and staring at it.  She closed
her eyes and tears 
ran down her face.

"The Guardians grow restless... their time once again
near..."

The woman put down the book, and it disappeared into
thin air.  The 
woman then developed a determined look upon her face
seeing the book's 
disappearance.

"Their attention shifts from my Granddaughter,
Alexandra Roivas, to my 
Grandson, Ranma Saotome.  This is one aspect I had not
prepared for..."

The view shifts to the book once more.  The book opens
to a page that
has writing and a photo of a group of women following
what appears to 
be a little gnome with a bag that has women's
unmentionables in it.

---------------------------------------------
Prelude: Hey, is it Time for the Parade Again?
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The picture transformed from an old-fashioned
photograph to a full 
color motion.

"What a haul! What a haul!"  The old gnome cackled
with glee as he ran 
away from the ladies.

A pigtailed young man walking on the fence while he
was eating an apple 
spotted the gnome.  He furrowed his brow and tossed
the red fruit at 
the old man.  The apple struck the man's leg, causing
the man to trip. 
With the man prone upon the ground, the women quickly
caught up to the 
old geezer.  They began to stomp repeatedly on the old
man's head,
causing a dust cloud to form.

The youth continued to balance on the beams of the
six-foot high fence. 
He walked along towards a complex that from the view
housed two 
buildings while being surrounded by a large wall.  The
view shifted 
from the youth to the wall, on which a yellow sign
sat.  The sign read, 
in Kanji "Tendo Musabetsu Kakuto Ryu Dojo.  Guests
please enter through 
the front gate.  To challenge the owner, please enter
through the rear 
gate."  Then the view focused back on the youth, now
on the ground and 
next to the wall.  He eyed the wall, and he casually
tensed the muscles 
in his legs and leapt.  The youth cleared the wall
with ease, landing 
on a clothesline on the other side.

"Oh hello, Ranma-kun!" Came from a young woman dressed
in rather 
conservative manner.

"Afternoon, Kasumi-san."  The pigtailed boy replied. 
"Oh, are you 
doing the laundry?  Let me make it easier for you. 
Gomen nasai."


Ranma quickly jumped off of the wires that made up the
clothesline.  He 
smirked at Kasumi and took an extravagant bow.

"Oh my, Ranma-kun, that was very nice." Kasumi
applauded.

"Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all month." Ranma
grinned widely, 
baring two rows of teeth as he did.

Kasumi tittered at this response.  Suddenly a purple
blur hopped over 
the fence, it was the old goat from earlier.  The
man's face was 
covered in shoe prints and bruises.

"RANMA! How dare you do that to your Master!"

The pigtailed boy glared at the old man.  "Master, my
ass, Hentai!  You 
ain't my master, Happosai!  Especially after that
stunt you pulled at 
that farce of a wedding.  You drank my cure, you old
freak!"

"My, Ranma-kun, such language.  There's no reason to
be so harsh on 
Grandfather Happosai, is there?"  Kasumi said, gazing
at both Ranma and 
Happosai.

"So, that water that I thought was sake was Nannichuan
was it?  Then I 
guess it's a good thing I drank it then.  Because
otherwise I wouldn't 
be able to do this!"  As Happosai pronounced his last
word, he lunged 
at Ranma, knocking him into the koi pond that resided
in the yard.  
Instantly, the boy's black hair changed to fire-engine
red, he lost a 
few inches, and gained a few curves. Ranma had changed
into Ranma-chan.


"What'd ya do that for you old freak?" Ranma seemed to
blur out of the 
water and appear in front of the old man, seething.  

"Why? So I could do this!"  Happosai sprung at Ranma's
ample bosom and 
attempted to latch on.  However, Ranma, knowing of
Happosai's dirty 
tricks, tensed and quickly moved her fist to smash the
pervert into the 
ground.

"You ain't gonna do that anymore, hent-urk!" Without
warning, Ranma was 
hit in the head by a thrown statue, and fell to the
ground.

"Sorry Ranma, I meant to hit Happosai."  A cute girl
with short black 
hair wearing a yellow gi and a white headband.

"You klutz! Can't you hit anything right?"  Came from
Ranma as she 
stood up.

"What did you call me Ranma?"

"A klutz! An uncute, built-like-a-brick, tomboy
klutz!"

"RANMA!" The girl's face was turning red and
contorting in anger.

"And another thing-" Ranma raised her fist to point at
the girl as a 
purple blur went by her hand and a quiet "Here you
go." was heard. 
Ranma looked at what was in her hand and paled.  It
was a bra.

"RANMA NO HENTAI! So you were helping Happosai!"

"No, no Akane it's not what you think!"

"What I think? What else could it be besides what I
think?  Ranma no 
Hentai!"  Akane reached behind her back and a large
wooden mallet 
formed from nowhere.  Ranma quickly started to back
up.  A movement 
caught her eye.  It was Happosai.  The purple clad
ancient martial 
artist started running out the front gate.  Ranma
snarled and took off 
after the pervert.

"Come back here you old freak!"

Akane blinked twice, growled and raised her mallet. 
"RANMA! Come back 
here and take your punishment like a man!"
She immediately began to run after the two of them.

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A boy wearing a yellow shirt, black pants, a yellow
spotted bandana and 
a large backpack was walking along the street trying
to read a map.

"Let's see, if I take a right here, I'll end up in
Hokkaido, and a 
left, I'll end up in Osaka.  I think that's near
Nerima."

The young man clutched the map to his chest and closed
his eyes.

"Don't worry Akane my love! Soon the two of us will be
together and I 
will defeat Ranma once and for all!"

The young man turned as he heard a girl's voice shout,
"Get over here, 
old man!"  Suddenly a light weight was felt on his
head and it 
propelled off of it shortly afterwards.  Then a
heavier weight was 
placed on his head briefly and then more strongly
pushed off. This 
caused the boy to fall to the ground.  He could see a
girl in a red 
chinese shirt and black pants heading off behind him. 
A brief moment 
passed and he was then trampled by another girl, one
wearing a gi and 
carrying a large mallet.  This girl stopped and came
over to the boy.


"Oh, I'm sorry Ryoga-kun, I didn't see you there." 
She then took off 
again.

Ryoga climbed to his feet.  "That was... That was
Akane chasing Ranma 
and Happosai.  The two of them must have done
something to her."  Ryoga 
tensed and began to run after the girls and the
geezer.

"RANMA! PREPARE TO DIE!"

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Outside a shop that had a sign which read "Ucchan's
Okonomiyaki" in 
kanji, a boyish brown-haired girl with a baker's peel
strapped to her 
back began painting on a sign which read "Specials."

"Let's see here..."  She poked it a bit hard, and a
muffled grunt was 
heard from within the sign.  A feminine head poked out
of the top of 
the sign, and arms stretched out of the side of it. 
The sign raised 
from the ground and revealed two legs.  The girl
growled "TSUBASA!", 
and in one fell swoop, pulled her peel off of its
hook, swung it with 
the speed of a cheetah and grace of a gazelle, and
struck the 
cross-dressing disguised boy, sending him flying.

"Ukyo-samaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Just then, Happosai, Ranma, Akane, and Ryoga ran past
the girl's shop, 
oddly enough, in the direction Ukyo hit Tsubasa.


"Ran-chan..." Ukyo sighed.  Then she gasped.  "I need
my specials 
sign... Konatsu help me run after Tsubasa!"

"Right away Ukyo-sama." Another feminine male, dressed
as a kunoichi 
appeared from nowhere, and both took off after the
group.

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Another restaurant, labelled in Kanji as the
Nekohanten, had three 
people within its walls.  One, a purple haired girl
was going around to 
various tables and placing flowers on them.  Another,
a young man with 
long black hair and thick glasses was staring at the
girl with purple 
hair as he swept the restaurant.  In the restaurant's
kitchen, an 
amazingly old woman was stirring some ramen in a large
pot.  The group 
of people passed quickly by the front of the
restaurant, easily seen by 
its current occupants.

"Airen!" Came from the purple haired girl.  "Hibachan,
Shampoo go to 
take Airen on date now, okay?"

The elderly woman (if you can call her that) smiled at
the girl.  "Of 
course child, go see if muko-dono will take you out on
a date today."

"Alright, Shampoo go now, baibai!"  As she headed out,
the boy got up 
and grasped the plant by the door firmly.

"Shampoo! Go out on a date with me and not that loser,
Ranma!"

Shampoo sighed and shook her head before going out the
door.  "Stupid 
Mousse."  She took off after the group of people.

Mousse lowered his glasses and released his hold on
the plant. "I'm 
coming Shampoo!"  He went out the door and took off
after the group.

The elderly woman sighed and shook her head.  "This
day will not end 
well." (Ah forget it, the old lady is Cologne if you
didn't know 
already.)

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In the courtyard of a greatly large mansion, a young
man dressed in 
kendo robes, holding a bokken, was striking at a
wooden dummy that had 
a pigtail pinned to the back of it.

"Soon, Saotome, soon you will be defeated by me..."
The young man 
posed. "The Blue Thunder of Furinkan High, Kuno
Tatewaki."

"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! Why dear brother, you must
face the facts, you 
will never defeat my Ranma-sama!
OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!"

"My dear, twisted sister Kodachi, if the foul demon
Saotome were to wed 
you, I would be able to free my two loves from his
grasp.  The fierce 
tigress, Tendo Akane, and the fiery goddess, Osage no
Onna."

Suddenly, both Akane and Ranma-chan ran by the front
gate of the 
mansion, easily eyed by both of the Kunos.

"Ah, my Osage no onna and Tendo Akane, they've come to
profess their 
love for me.  Wait for me my loves!"  Kuno took off
running after them 
shortly followed by Ryoga, Tsubasa, Konatsu, Ukyo,
Shampoo, and Mousse.

"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! I'll make them tell me where my
Ranma-sama is!"  
Kodachi then leapt after the group.

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Happosai was followed by Ranma who was followed by
Akane who was 
followed by Kuno who was followed by Ryoga who was
followed by Tsubasa 
who was followed by Konatsu who was followed by Ukyo
who was followed 
by Shampoo who was followed by Mousse who was followed
by Kodachi.  The 
lot of them passed by a group of students wearing
Furinkan High School 
Uniforms.  The students shrugged and began to run
after the group as 
well.  Ranma looked behind her and gasped.

"This is all your fault old man!  Look at what you did
again!"  Ranma 
quickly caught up to Happosai and picked him up while
she was still 
running.  She faced him back towards the rest of the
entourage.

"Can't you let an old man have his fun?"

Ranma sharply answered, "NO! Not if it's ecchi!"  She
continued to run, 
and suddenly her face brightened.  While still
running, she lifted her 
leg and sharply drop kicked Happosai into the horizon.
 She tensed her 
muscles and leapt to the rooftop of a building, fell
into a strange 
stance, and her form faded from sight.  The remaining
people, martial 
artists and non, kept running until they too faded
from sight.

The, currently female, pig-tailed martial artist once
again appeared, 
sitting ontop of the roof of the building next to the
one she jumped on 
to.

"I think this area is close to mom's house, I oughta
go drop in and say 
'hi.'"

Ranma then rose to her feet and leapt to the ground. 
The scene froze 
on her frame begining to run and faded into the same
old picture style 
from as before.  The picture scaled down to reveal
some words.

*************
Chapter Ended
*************

The book then closed and the sash fell upon it once
more.


A. N.  Wow, after two whole weeks of writing, I
finally finished this 
chapter of my new fic.  The major Eternal Darkness
stuff happens in the 
next chapter, such as the Tome being found.  Just a
reminder, I do not 
own any of the characters in this, nor do I own the
magickal powers in 
this.  That is reserved to Takahashi-sama and the
Silicon Knights.

I almost didn't write an Author's notes for this one,
but hey, it 
needed to be done.  All C&C can go to
ellfangor8@gmail.com.



		
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