At 11:44 6/12/96 -0300, Philip Mak wrote:

I don't know why I'm doing this, but I just feel that this fanfic could 
use a... less darker ending. :) Well, here goes nothing.

Hey, why not?

On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Lizsue wrote:

(scene: The crowd, the well.)

(cut for space)

(scene: Inside the well, a few minutes later.)

RANMA-CHAN: Help! Somebody help!
KUNO:	    (is in the well with RANMA-CHAN for some reason)
           Osage no onna!* (pig-tailed girl)
RANMA-CHAN: Kuno?
KUNO:       (looks at the blood) What happened?

(Meanwhile outside the well, at another well labelled "Nannuchuan*" 
(spring of drowned girl). A man crawls out.)

MAN:        I'm CURED!... (notices his low voice) Argggh! I thought that was
           the Nannuchuan!
GUIDE:      (looks at the well) Uh-oh. That not Nannuchuan. Me 
           mislabeled it. That Nannichuan! (spring of drowned man)!
UKYOU:      If that's the Nannichuan, which well did we throw Ranchan into?
GUIDE:      (walks up to the well labelled "Nannichuan") Uh-oh. That 
           Nannuchuan!

(Back in the Nannuchuan well, we see that there was a very shallow puddle of 
water in it which RANMA-CHAN landed in. She is now permanently cursed to 
be a girl.)

RANMA-CHAN: Those bakas threw me in here to try to turn me into a man!
KUNO:       I'll save you, osage no onna!

KUNO picks up RANMA-CHAN in his arms and leaps out of the well.

KUNO:       (drawing his bokken) Why you insolent curs! How dare thee
           attempt to change my osage no onna into a man! *slash* *slash*
           *slash* *slash* *slash*

With his left arm still holding RANMA-CHAN, KUNO lashes out with his 
bokken in his right arm very fast, sending the crowd scattering. They all 
run away in fear, leaving RANMA-CHAN's baby behind crying on the ground.

KUNO:       Who's baby is this?
RANMA-CHAN: Its mine.
KUNO:       N-nani*? (What?) Oh, how it pains me to find out that my 
           osage no onna made love to another man!...
RANMA-CHAN: (grabs KUNO's head and shakes it) No no its not like that,
           I accidentally drank a pregnancy potion.
KUNO:       (picks up the baby into RANMA-CHAN's arms)
RANMA-CHAN: (looks up into KUNO's eyes with a dreamy look) Domo arigato*
           (thanks a lot) for saving me.
KUNO:       It was my duty to protect my beloved osage no onna.
RANMA-CHAN: Oh Kuno... I love you.
KUNO:       And I love you too, my osage no onna.

The two of them engage in a passionate kiss.

(One month later, in a wedding chapel. KUNO is the groom and RANMA-CHAN 
is the bride.)

PRIEST:     And do you, Tatewaki Kuno, take Saotome Ranma to be your
           lawfully wedded wife?
KUNO:       I do.
PRIEST:     (puts RANMA-CHAN's hand into KUNO's) Then let the happy couple
           be united in marriage.

RANMA-CHAN and KUNO kiss, and the scene fades out.
---

Ok I don't know what's worse, Ranma-chan dying at the bottom of the well, 
or Ranma-chan be permanently cursed to become a girl and marrying Kuno. 

Dying at the bottom of the well!  Besides, Ranma-chan doesn't seem to mind 
the curse and Kuno anymore.  But what if she got permanemtly cursed to 
become a boy after having the baby...?

Oh well. :) Comments, suggestions, flames, mallets <g> to pmak@cs.stmarys.ca.

At 01:14 6/14/96 +1000, Kun-chan wrote:

How about:

Ranma nibu no ichi: Childhood's End

AKANE: Well that does it you idiots, let's get Ranma out of the well.
Everyone saves Ranma.
RANMA: Thanks Akane, you saved me! Boy (no pun intended), do I love you!
       But I can't marry another girl!!
AKANE (goes and jumps in Drowned-guy spring): Better?
RANMA: Gasp.
EVERYONE ELSE: Gasp.
SOUN: Ok, Saotome, let's marry them off.
PANDA: (holds sign) LET'S!!
RANMA: Oh Akane!
AKANE: Oh Ranma!
AKANE: Though that should be MY kid you had there, Ranma.
RANMA: We can have more of our own! I love being preggers!
AKANE: Let's go get started!
KASUMI: Oh my!

Everyone lives happily ever after and Ranma and Akane have 6 kids.

Awww, how cute.

*ROTFL* GREAT ending to that story! Yeah, make that the REAL ending!
It's cool!

Kun-chan...

I liked both alternate endings (do these count as fanfics of fanfics?).  
They're really cute and happy.  But since "then they got married and lived 
happily ever after" has already been used a lot in fanfics, I'll probably 
stick with the original (although that's not the only reason).  Oh well.