A sneak preview to the end of My Untitled Story....


      "Nabiki!"  Ranma shouted as he clutched her limp bloodied body, as her life flowed away 
before him.  "Who did this?  Who did this?"  he cried as he carefully pressed her head into his 
chest, cradling her, and tried to absorb her last moments.  Nabiki, her eyes beginning to glaze 
over, looked up at Ranma.  Even in her last moments towards death, she managed a faint smile.

      She whispered.  "Ranma... I...."  Her body started to convulse violently and her eyes 
completely glazed over, the spark that Ranma always saw in her eyes, extinguished...  Ranma 
bursted into tears, and still held Nabiki's body close to him, ignoring her warm blood, bathing 
him in red.  Carefully, laying Nabiki down on the ground, Ranma carefully closed her eyes, and 
stared at her.  His mind constantly churning.  `Who could have done this?  Who?  I'll kill the 
bastard that did this...I should have been here to protect her...'

     His mind flashed back to an hour ago...
***
     Ranma dashed to the closed gates to the park, the very same park where he and Akane, about a 
week ago kissed...  He snapped his head back and shouted: "Hey Akane, Nabiki, Ukyou.  Hurry up!  
I think the murderer ran here..."  His mind thought about finding Shampoo's body, and his 
emotions hardened.  Not that he had grown to love Shampoo, but he had always thought of her as a 
good friend...

      The three girls finally caught up to Ranma.  "So what do we do now?" asked Ukyou.  "This 
park is so huge, that person could be running anywhere..."  

      "Why don't we split up?"  Akane suggested.  Ranma shook his head.  "I don't think...eh...." 
 Akane did her cute look, in an attempt to win Ranma over to her idea.  Ranma's pulse quickened 
and he began to stutter.  After a few seconds of this treatment, his initial resistance to the 
idea degraded.  "Aw, ok...  But as soon as you see that bastard, holler out loud and run.... 
Don't try to fight him.  Ok?"  Everyone nodded, and ran off into the night...
***
      Ranma woke out of his flashback when he heard a scream, it was Akane.  Panicking, he 
sprinted into the direction of that scream.  "Akane?  Akane?  Are you ok?"  Ranma cried out.  He 
stumbled over a bush, crashed into trees, and finally found Akane, her hands covered with 
blood...

     The sight of blood on Akane's hands was enough to make Ranma panic.  "Akane!  Are you ok?  
Where are you cut?"  Akane whimpered as she looked at the blood over her hands, and she pointed 
at a shadowy figure that lied against a cast iron fence.  Ranma cautiously approached the figure 
and looked at him.  He was completely covered in black, in his hand was a very sharp knife, and 
apparently, the person died when his body was pierced by the many spikes on the fence.  Ranma 
carefully took of the person's hood, and gasped in surprise.

     "Kuno Kodachi!  So she was the murderer!"  Ranma shook his head in disbelief.  Sure she was 
insane, and sure she beated up people...  And true she did cheat, and loved to make poisons...  
But murder with a knife?  That doesn't make sense...


      Another person was crashing through the bushes.  "Ran-chan!  Akane! Are you all right?"  At 
the sound of Ukyou's voice, Akane's crying face almost hardened slightly...  Ranma didn't notice. 
 He shouted back.  

      "Utchan!   Don't come any closer... I don't think you want to see this..."  Ukyou broke 
through the last barrier of bushes and other vegatation that protected her from this ghastly 
sight.  The instant she appeared, she saw the broken body that lied across the fence, blood 
slowly drizzling down the iron bars.  Ukyou, dizzy started to swoon, but Ranma managed to catch 
her.

      He spoke.  "Utchan!  Wake up!  Wake up!"  Ukyou's eyes fluttered open from her faint and 
she said.  "So I guess you really care about me...."  She did not giggle...  Frustrated at 
Ranma's apparent like of Ukyou, Akane screeched in anger.  Her eyes dripping with murder....  She 
charged Ranma and Ukyou, and out of nowhere, grabbed a knife, and stabbed Ukyou many times.  

       Ranma stood there paralysed by the events that unfolded before him...  Ukyou's body shook 
with every impact of the blade into her back.  Her blood painted her shirt like spilt ink.  
Akane's face, twisted in an evil grimace, as her hand flashed back and forth.   Ranma managed to 
move.

       He shouted, "Stop!"  And he knocked the knife out of her hands.  Ukyou collapsed on the 
ground, her body lifeless before she impacted and became one with the ground, never again to 
rise.  Ranma on the verge of tears, whispered...

       "Akane, how could you?"  In his mind, pictures of him and Akane slowly burned away...  
Akane still had a murderous look in her eyes...  "Well, Ranma, it doesn't take a genius to 
understand why I became this....  It was you....  You loved Nabiki didn't you?  You also loved 
Shampoo didn't you.... Well how about Kodachi?  You probably did, you unfaithful piece of 
sludge!!!"

     Akane's face quickly morphed from the murderous look to her normal look.  "Well, that set me 
thinking, you know.  And after awhile, I came to a conclusion...  You seemed to like women who 
were cold hearted and merciless.  I mean, look at how you latched yourself to Nabiki...   She was 
such an exploiting manipulative person, and yet you loved her.   So I decided to become a cold, 
heartless person.....   The funny thing is that I like it."  Her face flashed an evil grin at 
Ranma, that sent chills down his spine...

     "So I said to myself..."  Akane began to pace slowly, calmly back and forth, " How can I win 
back Ranma?  And suddenly I had a revelation,  an inspiration sent down from God himself."  Her 
voice began to edge on the verge of insanity.  "Immediately, I arranged a pact with Kodachi, and 
thus the murdering started...  Although, Kodachi probably didn't know what my final plans were 
for her."  Akane disdainfully nodded her head in the direction of Kodachi's body, which was still 
slung over the fence.

     Ranma was completely speechless, his mind caught in such a storm, that he could not think 
what to do.  He could not feel what was the right thing to do.  He could not deduce what was the 
right thing to do.  The only thing left for him was honor.  And his intents, placed on himself  
emotional agony that only increased as moments passed.  Slowly, almost unwillingly, he turned to 
Akane, and he charged her...  He wanted to avenge the death of Ukyou, his childhood friend.  He 
wanted to avenge the death of Nabiki, who did not deserve to die.  He wanted to avenge the death 
of Akane, her fair and beautiful face, now completely twisted to evil.

      Ranma managed a scream as he charged Akane.  He broke into martial art forms, and easily 
knocked back Akane.  Akane flew backwards, and crashed onto the tree.  Her face filled with pain, 
tears trickling down her face.  That face was enough to shatter Ranma's anger and desire for 
revenge.  For a moment, his heart melted.  He approached her, concerned...

      "Akane, are you alright?"  He placed his hand on his shoulder, was surprised at Akane's 
tenacity, and tried to take a step back.  As soon as his hand landed on her shoulder, she 
immediately pulled out a short dagger out of nowhere, and swung it at Ranma.  Ranma dodged 
backwards, but not fast enough, the knife scratched him across the chest.

      Akane looked at him, her face filled with a crude parody of tragedy.  "You're too filled 
with honor.  See, your honor had enough strength to overcome love...  Goodbye Ranma..."  Her face 
turned into a sneer.  "Well, Ranma, it will probably comforting for you to know, that this blade 
here has a very powerful poison...  You'll die very painfully in....about a minute...  See, it's 
already starting..."

      Ranma cringed as he felt a burning sensation in his chest.  A salty liquid frothed into his 
mouth and trickled down his lips.  Instinctively, his hand touched his lips.  He brought his hand 
infront of his face, his range of vision gradually diminishing.  It was blood...  Something 
trickled down from his nose, and landed on the floor in front of him...  It too was blood....  
His vision gradually attained a taint of red.  Collapsing forwards onto the ground, Ranma lied 
there, death immiment, hemorraging out of his mouth, eyes, and nose...

      He heard Akane walk off.  She shouted back.  "It was a shame to waste you, but your honor 
was your downfall.  Perhaps I'll have Ryoga.  As far as I can tell, it'll be easy to corrupt 
him..."  She laughed as she left, leaving Ranma behind, in his own pool of blood.

F I N 

Author's Notes:

(1) First of all, the story was a complete JOKE.  I just wrote this up because I'm pissed off at 
all of the midterms I have to take, and this story allowed me to dump my anger off.  I feel 
better now....

(2)  This is not the real ending to the story I'm currently writing!  The real conclusion will 
come, once I get inspiration.

(3) For those still reeling in the poorly constructed horror that I have written here, you can 
stop reeling, this is not the real ending to my story...

(4) Chapter 5 will be coming soon, Chapter 4 rewrite is almost done...