RANMA 1/2  - FULL SALVO! 


EPISODE 1 : ENTER SALVO - IT'S COLD COMFORT!


	By Paul "Happy Hentai" Ervi.  All characters portrayed
in this fanfic (save mine, who is copyright of P-P-P-Chan
Productions) are TM and copyright of Rumiko Takahashi and
Viz Video Inc., all rights reserved.  Based on the incomparable
world of Ranma 1/2.


CHAPTER 6:  The days ahead....


	"THEY WHAT!?", Ranma-chan exclaimed.  "The old
mummy and my darling Shampoo have gone to side themselves
with Salvo.", Mousse explained.  "Why would they do that?",
asked Akane.  "They plan to use him to somehow get you and
Akane to split up and then get Ranma to marry Shampoo!",
Mousse said, on the verge of tears.  "But we're not engaged!",
shouted Akane.  "Our parents decided...", began Ranma-chan. 
"I'll never allow it Ranma Saotome!", shouted Mousse, crying. 
"Huh?", replied Ranma-chan.  "You'll never get my Shampoo!",
Mousse shouted as he leapt towards Ranma-chan.  Ranma-
chan just simply put up her foot and stopped him in mid-flight. 
"If you're finished", Ranma-chan said calmly, "Would you mind
telling us how they plan to 'split' Akane and me up?"  "Ifn don
nowin.", said Mousse from underneath Ranma-chan's foot. 
"Pardon?", asked Ukyou.  "I said 'I don't know'", Mousse said
after Ranma-chan removed her foot from his face, "They left
before I could find out where they were going.  But they might
have gone to Cologne's spice hut."  "Cologne's spice hut?",
Ranma-chan asked, one eyebrow cocked.  "It's where the
dried-up old monkey keeps her magic Chinese herbs.", Mousse
explained.  "So she's probably planning to drug you again,
Ranchan.", Ukyou said with disgust.  "At least I don't have to
resort to magic or bribes to get Ranchan to love me.", she
thought with a smile.  "Ranma, we have to stop them!", Akane
exclaimed.  "Why?  What do you care?  I thought you said we
weren't engaged?", Ranma-chan said.  "We're n-not", Akane
stammered, caught off guard, "I'm just worried about my
pendant, that's all."  "Sure.", Ranma-chan said.  "Hey, where did
Ryouga and Nabiki go?", Ukyou asked.  Both Ryouga and
Nabiki had left the table without anyone noticing.  "No time for
that", Ranma-chan said, "We're going to confront Salvo and
make sure that this is a fair fight!"


	Nabiki looked around the hallway to her room before
closing the door.  "Okay, Nabiki, what's did you want to see me
about?", Ryouga asked.  "How would you be interested in a
business proposition?", Nabiki said with a smile.  "A business
proposition?", Ryouga said with annoyance, "You know I don't
have very much money.  Besides, I'm not Kuno.  I won't stoop
to buying pictures of Akane.  I'll win her love on my own....", he
added, a dreamy look in his eye.  "Sure", Nabiki said rolling her
eyes, "Look Ryouga, this deal won't cost you a cent."  "Huh?",
Ryouga said.  Nabiki had an evil smile on her face.  "This deal
will be profitable to both of us.  You want to defeat Ranma,
right?", she asked.  "Of course I want to defeat Ranma!  It's the
only thing on my mind!", Ryouga shouted.  "Well then, all you
have to do is assist Salvo in the fight and Ranma will be
defeated.", Nabiki explained.  "I don't need that gaijin's help to
defeat Ranma!", Ryouga exclaimed.  "Ryouga", Nabiki started,
trying to be patient, "He wouldn't be helping you, you'd be
helping him.  Salvo can't do it on his own.  And if you beat
Ranma, then nothing could stop you from getting Akane." 
Ryouga stopped to think about that.  (Dreamspace:  Ryouga
and Akane run to each other, Ryouga wrapping his arms around
her as she cries into his chest.  "Oh Ryouga!", Akane says,
"Ranma lost to Salvo!  He let me down!  He doesn't love me,
and I don't love him......not anymore."  "Don't worry Akane",
Ryouga smiles, "You don't need that cad anymore.  From now
on I'll give you the love you deserve."  "Oh Ryouga.....", Akane
says as she leans her face closer to Ryouga's.  Their lips are
about to touch.  Back to reality.)  "You're right!", Ryouga said
ecstatically, "If help Salvo beat Ranma, then Akane would lose
her love for Ranma and she would love me!"  "What an idiot",
thought Nabiki, "Oh well, at least he'll do it.  And now that I've
given Salvo the edge he's sure to win."


	"Now what!?", Salvo said annoyingly as he walked
towards the front door of his store, "How's a guy supposed to
train with all these interruptions!?"  "Can I help you?", he asked
as he opened the door.  "WHERE'S MY SHAMPOO!",
shouted Mousse as he leapt through the door.  Salvo promptly
threw him into the wall.  "What did you do that for?", Mousse
groaned.  "I could ask you the same question.", Salvo said as he
peeled Mousse of the wall.  "Where are they?", Ranma said,
walking through the door.  Akane and Ukyou followed behind
him.   "Where is who?  And why did you just barge in here?",
Salvo said, angry.  "Shampoo and the old ghoul.  We know they
were here.", Ranma explained.  "Yeah, they were here.  But I
asked them to leave.", replied Salvo.  "Sure you did", Ukyou
commented, "So just what were you three planning to do to
Ranchan?"  Salvo looked hurt as he stared at Ukyou.  "I don't
understand what you're talking about.", Salvo answered.  "You
were planning to cheat in the fight, weren't you?  That's low! 
And to think I trusted you once!", Akane accused.  "What!?  I
never planned on cheating in the fight.  I fight fair!", Salvo shot
back angrily.  "But Shampoo and Cologne came here, you said
so yourself."  said Mousse.  "Yes they did come here earlier, but
when they asked me to cheat in the fight I told them no and
asked them to leave." Salvo explained.  "Sure you did!  I'm not
falling for your cons again." Akane replied.  "Just hand over
whatever stuff they gave you and we'll leave", Ranma said, "We
agreed on a fair fight."  That was all Salvo could take.  "Look, I
don't know what you people have against me, but I'm telling you
for the last time I did not take anything from them!", he shouted,
"I'm tired of being accused of things I didn't do!"  Everyone
backed away from him, stunned.  "It tempted me to cheat when
they came in, after all, that pendant is important to me", Salvo
said, calming down, "They even tried to trick my into cheating. 
But I agreed on a fair fight Ranma, and I stick to my word." 
Ranma, Akane, Mousse, and Ukyou just stood there, quietly. 
"Then Shampoo isn't going to help you?", Mousse piped up after
a while.  "No.", Salvo said, ashamed he had lost his temper,
breaking his own rules.  "Then that means she won't trick Ranma
into marrying her and she can be mine!", Mousse cried as he ran
through the window at the front of the shop, "I'm coming
Shampoooooo!"  "Salvo, we're sorry we....", Ranma began. 
"Save it.", Salvo said, turning his back to them.  "Huh?", Ranma
said, dejected.  "I didn't ask for much when I moved here to
Nerima.  I just wanted to make some friends and get that
pendant, but instead I get accusations, challenges, and people
just trying to use me for their own means.", Salvo said, his voice
sounding hurt.  Ukyou and Akane looked shocked.  "Hey, you
were the one who demanded to Akane give up that pendant 'or
else'!", Ranma countered, "And you challenged me!"  "True, and
the challenge still stands", Salvo replied, "I guess the first part of
my plan is destroyed, so I might as well complete the second
half, getting that pendant."  "I can't let you get it.", said Ranma. 
"Then you better be prepared for a fight", Salvo answered,
"Now please leave my store", he said as he walked towards the
back of the store.  "C'mon.", Ranma said as he, Akane and
Ukyou left.



	"Shampoo can't believe Salvo turn down offer!",
Shampoo said angrily, "And after Shampoo went to all that 
trouble to make self pretty so to distract him!  How he resist?" 
Shampoo picked up one of the Nekohanten's tables and threw it
against the wall in frustration.  "Calm down, grand-daughter! 
Destroying the Nekohanten won't solve our problems!  Now,
the boy obviously has a fondness for girls......", Cologne began. 
"Is pervert...", Shampoo mumbled.  "But he does seem to have
a strong willpower where honor is concerned", Cologne
continued, ignoring the remark, "Fear not, grand-daughter.  If
Salvo will not accept our help willingly, then we'll just have to
give it to him anyway, with or without his consent."  "How we
do that, great-grand-mother?", Shampoo asked.  "Leave that to
me.", Cologne said with an evil smile.  Suddenly the front door
burst open as a white streak sped towards Shampoo.  "At last
I've found you!  I love you ShampUGH!", Mousse grunted as
Shampoo promptly elbowed him to the ground.  "Hmph!  Some
boys never learn!", she said as she walked into the kitchen.


	The days steadily sped by as the two combatants
prepared for their fight.  Each trained in their usual fashion:
Ranma trained in the dojo with Akane, learning how to dodge
various projectiles and learning how to avoid quick surprise
attacks in order to counter anything Salvo might throw.  At times
Akane and Ranma would head down towards the local ice rink
so Ranma could practice how to stand on ice, in case Salvo
froze the ground.  Often Mikado Sanzanin, one of the famous
Golden Pair, the district's skating champions, would try to kiss
Akane, a move that would often result in him getting flattened by
Akane's mallet (the other member of the Golden Pair, Asuza
Shiratori, would then run up the mallet shouting, "Oh that mallet
is so cute!  Marlene! Marlene!").  Nabiki had advertised the
fight and somehow managed to rent grounds for the fight to be
held on.  Salvo remained in his shop, practicing his technique by
destroying various blocks of ice and then reforming them using
the Freezing Point technique.  He was more private now, feeling
that no on trusted him, so he shouldn't even bother trying to talk
to anyone....but he wanted to talk to Ukyou so much.  But how
could he explain to them why he needed that pendant so much? 
He vowed that he would get it, no matter what.  



	The day before the big fight.  Ukyou had just finished
opening her store.  "Well' I should be able to do some good
business today.  I need to make some more money after those
tickets of Nabiki's drained my supply.  But it will be worth it,
when I get to see Ranchan kick Salvo's....", she thought as she
heard someone enter her store.  "Irrashi mase!  How can I help
you...... Salvo!", she said with surprise.  "Hi, Ukyou", Salvo said
with a small smile, "I came here to ask...."  "If you've come here
to ask me to help you defeat Ranma, forget about it", Ukyou
said as she turned her back to him, "Don't you have enough
allies?"  Salvo just slumped, tired of people always accusing him
before he could explain.  "Ukyou....", Salvo began in a soft
voice, one that caused Ukyou to turn around, "I came here to
ask if I could.... uh.... borrow.... um.....your....your broom!", he
laughed nervously all of a sudden, "My, uh, store is very dirty
and I,  uh..."  "Borrow my broom?", Ukyou asked, confused. 
Salvo looked at her for a second, then dropped his head down. 
"Who am I kidding?", he said to himself, "I might as well just say
it."  "Say what?", Ukyou asked.  "Ukyou..... The real reason I
came here was....", Salvo said, gathering up his courage, "was....
to ask you if you would do me the honor of going on a date with
me, uh, after the fight?"  Ukyou just stared at him,
dumbfounded.  "You.....came to ask me on a date?", Ukyou
asked, disbelieving.  "I know that I'm fighting your friend Ranma
and all, but want you to know that my heart is not really in it.  I
want the pendant, not Ranma's head.", explained Salvo, "But I
also wanted you to know that I liked you from the very first time
I saw you, and I don't want our friendship to end because of
one fight with your friend."  "Uh-huh.", Ukyou murmured,
"Akane told me that this guy is a con artist.  Could he be trying
to use me the way he tried to use Akane?", she thought to
herself.  "Well, what do you say?  Will you go out with me?",
Salvo asked a gleam in his eye.  "I...I'm really flattered Salvo,
but I can't....you see....", Ukyou began.  "I see.  Ranma is more
than just a 'friend', isn't he?", Salvo interrupted, looking
somewhat down.  "We're engaged", Ukyou explained, "And I
love him, that's why I can't...."  "It's all right....", Salvo said with
a fake smile, "I guess I should have figured.  Sorry to have
bothered you.  Bye.", he said as he left through the front door. 
"I guess he was sincere.  Maybe we're wrong about him, maybe
he isn't a criminal, but how can I be sure?", Ukyou thought. 
Salvo continued to walk towards his store.  "All right, Ranma
Saotome!", he thought to himself, "First you take my pendant,
now the woman I love!  How many fiancees do you have
anyway?  No matter.  Now I am after your head!  Tomorrow is
the day that I crush you like an ice cube!  For the pendant......
and Ukyou!"


	"Ready Ranma?", Akane said as she got into fighting
stance.  "Anytime you are Akane.", Ranma said with a smile. 
"All right then!", Akane shouted, running at Ranma.  She
delivered a flurry of kicks and punches that Ranma dodged
quickly.  Suddenly Akane pulled out a bucket of cold water and
threw it at Ranma.  Ranma tried to block but ended up getting
drenched by the water.  A soggy Ranma-chan stood there,
fuming.  "Whad'ja do that for!", she shouted.  "You can't block a
cold attack, it'll only sap your strength", Akane explained,
"You've got to dodge it."  "Oh.", Ranma-chan said.  "You
should know that Ranma.  Do you know what's at stake here? 
You can't afford to lose.", Akane said.  "Hey, no problem
Akane.  That pendant wouldn't be any safer if it was glued to
your neck.", Ranma-chan boasted.  "Well it better be.  I really
like this pendant, and I don't know what I'd do if I lost it.",
Akane said looking away.  That scared Ranma-chan, probably
for the first time in her life.  "Oh no.  Could Ryouga have actually
been right?  Could Akane really stop liking me if  I lose?  Oh,
who cares if she stops liking me, I don't.....do I?", she thought. 
"No way is Salvo going to beat me.  I'll do anything to beat him,
don't you worry Akane!", Ranma-chan declared.  "Gee, aren't
you enthusiastic!  I didn't know you cared so much, Ranma",
smiled Akane.  "What! I don't...I mean.....who would care
about a tomboy like you!", Ranma-chan yelled.  That wiped the
smile of Akane's face.  "Why you......and after I agreed to help
you too.  Why do you have to be such a jerk?!", Akane shouted
back.  "Hey, I didn't ask for your help, you macho chick!",
Ranma-chan countered.  "Well fine then!  Do it by yourself, you
pervert!", Akane shouted as she threw the bucket she was still
holding into Ranma-chan's face.  It landed with an
unceremonious thud.  "Y-you are so.....uncute!", Ranma-chan
mumbled from beneath the bucket.  "Hmph!", Akane said as she
lifted her nose in the air and left the dojo.  "With your help or
without, Akane, no way am I going to let Salvo separate us",
Ranma-chan thought to herself as she sat alone in the dojo.  It
was night now, with the stars emerging to cast their glow on the
Tendo dojo.   "I can't let him win!", Ranma-chan said, clenching
her fist.  Akane sprawled out on her bed.  She couldn't sleep,
her mind was on the fight tomorrow.  "You'd better not lose
Ranma.  That pendant you gave me was the first really nice thing
you ever did for me, and I don't want to lose it to some criminal
who wants to sell it on the black market.  Oh Ranma.....don't
lose...... please!", Akane thought as she finally drifted to sleep.