Subject: [FF] [R.5] Onnama Saotome Hibiki Chapter 1
From: "Nikholas F. Toledo Zu" <niftol@i-manila.com.ph>
Date: 9/2/1997, 10:20 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Hmmph.  Well, apparently, either Doug has disappeared into the mists
of Internet non-access or is held hostage by mind-eating xenophiles, 
while I and few others have no idea what to make of the story on
http://142.227.43.9/student/cisn/larked/onnama.htm.  Bummer.

Unfortunately, I did ask to continue it - way, way back when I first got
this addy.  Now, it is time.  So Doug, unless you really think I should
not continue it (or if any of you guys think that I shouldn't), please
don't hesitate to say so.  I'm also planning to post a mirror of the
Onnama page, if I could finagle some webspace my way...

Again, from that below URL, Doug speaks...

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Please remember that this is fanfic project.  It has no bearing on the 
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well, I do *not* claim any rights to anything here.  It all belongs to 
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Onnama Saotome Hibiki
created and written by Douglas Larke
edited, textifacted and posted by Nikholas "Switch" F. Toledo

Chapter 1

	"No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
	The rain pelted down heavily on the ragged form of a young boy 
kneeling in the rain, his clothes in tatters and his body covered with 
blood.  His black hair hung heavily over his blue eyes, as if trying to 
shield its owner from the bloodshed that surrounded the boy.  In the 
boy's arms rested the limp, torn body of what was once a young girl.
	"Why?!?" screamed the young boy, "why!?!"
	"Because I wished it," said the dark figure in front of the young 
boy.  "All these pathetic fools thought they could defeat me, but none 
could.  Even you, the great Ranma Saotome could not fell me.  Although 
I'll admit you gave me a good fight, it seems all for naught.  Now I 
shall kill you like I killed all your family and your friends."
	Ranma's head sunk in despair as he remembered the deaths, every one 
burning a hole in his soul as he recalled how each one met their fates, 
some of them sacrificing to defend another, who would later die anyways.  
Shampoo, Ryouga, Kunou, Tsubasa, Ukyou, Mousse... all made the ultimate 
sacrifice so that the ones they loved would stand a chance to survive.  
It seemed now like they had died in vain.
	And it wasn't just fighters that died.  Anyone who was any way 
involved with the Toukyou Mafia died.  He never understood why Nabiki and 
Kasumi had to go down like that; they weren't combatants, and they 
definitely didn't deserve to die.  Although, he still had no idea what 
that ball of light was that protecting her and Nabiki for a while.  Was 
it his imagination, or did it seems to come from the hands of... Kasumi?  
And what became of his mother?  The darling woman who he had barely even 
had a chance to know?  Did she make it?
	Ranma shook these thoughts out of his head as he looked at the 
figure that loomed over him.  These people died... but it would not be 
for nothing....  If they died fighting, then so would Ranma, in tribute 
to them all.
	"I must admit, however," the figure concluded, "the girl you're 
holding was the most pleasure to kill.  She fought like a dog in heat 
while I killed her, angrily resisting my every attempt to take her life 
away, but when her body finally broke, when her neck finally snapped like 
a twig, it was also beautiful to watch that strength flow out of her eyes 
like warm blood...."
	A loud screech pierced throught the air.  It was Methusdan's last 
mistake.  Memories of Akane began flooding Ranma's mind: their first 
meeting, the times he saved her life, and she his, the marriage, the 
first night they made love and how she had felt....
	"Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed the young boy as all restraint 
and memory of past wounds fled from his mind.  Ranma summoned up all the 
hurt, the loss of his father, friends, mother, and his wife, and formed 
into one last blast of chi, which gunned straight at...
	Methusdan was too busy gloating in his victory to notice the ball 
of chi, and barely had a chance to recognize what it was that was coming 
towards him before his body was hurled through five feet of brick and 
shrapnel by the the large chi blast that scored a direct bulls-eye on his 
chest.
	"Take that, you bastard!" screamed Ranma, his eyes glowing red from 
intense hatred.
	But Methusdan was not listening anymore.  He had taken a lot of 
damage in his past fights, even more so from his last battle with the 
young Saotome, and he had no strength left to combat this last blast.  
His body slumped down, bereft of life.
	Ranma almost began to shout in victory, but then he remembered the 
body that was at his feet now.  Ranma fell to his knees in despair, 
lifted Akane's body to the sky, and screamed, "why?  Why did all this 
have to happen?"
	"I don't know, son..."
	Ranma spun and around to see his mother standing before him, 
radiating more chi than he had sensed off any one person before.  Beside 
her stood a man in a plain white robe with a rice farmer hat covering his 
head, hiding his eyes.
	"Mother!  You lived!  How?????"
	"All will be explained soon, son.  Your victory has saved our 
world, and now your friends' and family's spirits can be returned to 
their bodies, so that they may return to their lives.  But first, allow 
me to introduce you to my little brother, your uncle Raiden-kun..."
	Ranma automatically assumed the Takahashi finger pose...

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Pretty short?  Well, standby for chapter 2.  C&C and ideas will gladly
be accepted.  Flames will be, too.  (Heck, it isn't even mine, and I'm
planning to write the rest of it...)

Confused yet?  Oh, you'd better fasten your seatbelts...

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