RING OF TOLTIIR VI: All strange things...
 by GreggSharp@aol.com


Happosai stepped back in disgust. There, sitting
in front of the gate of the Tendo-ke, was something that
looked so cute and cuddly that he was revolted. Happosai
made a warding gesture as the cutesy little critter
looked at him with big soulful eyes.
	"NO! Gakk! Urk! Too much, I can't take it..."
Nausea swept through the 300+ year old pervert as the
cabbit gave out a cute little "miyaaaa" noise.
	Shuddering, Happosai produced a number of his
fuse bombs and started tossing them. Even in the face
of such disgusting levels of cute, he would not let
anyone or anything keep him from getting that magic
ring.
	"Miya?" Zen dodged the fuse bombs, wondering
what the heck was going on here. Happosai couldn't
deal with cabbits? That wasn't in the manga, was it?
	As the explosions commenced, Happosai noted
the sudden crunching noise as SOMETHING landed on top
of him.
	"Ryo-oh-ki?" The dragon and Kiyone asked within
seconds of each other.
	The dragon sniffed. "No, smells like Zen."
	"Miyaa!" The cabbit sounded a little miffed. He
bathed on a regular basis, he'd say if he could speak
at the moment.
	"By the way, Carbine, what did you step in?"
	"ENOUGH!" Happosai stood up, cut and bloodied
from having a dragon use him as a landing pad. He
glanced up and saw Kiyone. "Sweet!"
	Kiyone saw Happosai coming, recognized that 
this was some sort of attack, and reacted with all the
speed that the Galaxy Police tried to instill in their
personnel. Her blaster came up and was firing at the
monster (he didn't look human to her, particularly at
the moment.)
	He was still halfway to the glomp when an 
energy bolt (currently set on setting 3, 1 being light
stun, 5 being hope-your-boomer-was-insured) struck him
in the left collarbone. The particle beam spun Happi
end over end in midair before he struck the wall. A
moment later he slid down to the ground, still leaving
wisps of smoke and a pungent odor (reminiscent of 
grilled pork) in the air.
	Kiyone was suddenly being congratulated by a
withered old woman on a stick, a small group of women
with archaic weapons, an incredibly obese middle-aged
man, and a small crowd of others who were apparently
overjoyed that she'd shot whoever this was.
	Some of the comments registered, and she
realized that she'd just apprehended some major 
criminal. She smiled herself at this, only a few days
away from Mihoshi and she'd already done the local
police a major favor.
	Life...was...good.
=================
	A week passed...

	Everyone thought it was a beautiful ceremony,
the double wedding being unusual by ANY standards, such
that it would have raised a few eyebrows even in Las
Vegas or Little Rock much less Nerima.
	Ukyou kissed Ranma enthusiastically, Kasumi 
kissed Ranma shyly, Nabiki took charge of the situation
and kissed Ranma so forcefully that it looked like the
groom was about to collapse. Shampoo kissed Ranma and
Cologne laughed and nodded over at Nadoka.
	"They make a cute couple, don't they?"
	"My son is so manly," sniffed Nadoka Saotome.
	"Remember the agreement," Cologne said quietly.
"You get one of the girls and all but one of the boys.
The Amazon village gets all the girls except one, and
one of the boys."
	"With visitation rights for each half of the
family." Nadoka nodded. "Special considerations for
trade-offs if one or the other group fails to work
out in the culture they find themselves in."
	"Pleasure doing business with you, Mrs Saotome."
	Nadoka smiled. "Likewise, Cologne."
	Akane-kun kissed Rin Su in the other ceremony,
and glared daggers at where Ranma and his new wives 
were running to the car. Rin Su, or Rinse, wasn't 
satisfied with the quick peck, and gave her husband
a kiss that left no doubt in anyone's mind who would
be the aggressor in THAT relationship.
	When Akane-kun started stuttering out about
how embarrassing that was, Rinse did the expected thing
and malletted her husband before dragging him off.
	Current bets with that relationship was how
long it would take Rinse to "break" Akane into the new
relationship. Even with Rinse having much better luck
with a love potion than Shampoo had ever had.
	"Miya!"
	The dragon translated this as "You know, THAT
never happened in any of Zen's fanfics." A small crowd
watched from just outside the doors to the dojo.
	"I always did like Shampoo," Shades chuckled.
"Nabiki'll OWN that Amazon Village before the year's
out."
	"Why do you think she's going along with it,
even after the Rings were removed? Family honor? No,
this way she gets love, attention, and a broad financial
base. She's marrying into the family of the Elders, and
Shampoo will eventually be one of the Elder Council 
herself." Dan watched Tofu Ono, who was walking rather
unsteadily over to Kasumi's location. Tofu's wife,
another of the amazons, watched him like a hawk waiting
for the rabbit to make a wrong move. "So she ACCIDENTLY
puts the wedding ring back on..."
	"You sure about this, Bui Ling, Ku Ohm?"
	"Please to draw card, Shades-san. You go to
other worlds with many strong fighters, this make for
very interesting time. With Cousin Shampoo married now,
will need to find suitable new blood for village."
	Shades had the honors this time, and a moment
later a single card fluttered to the ground. There
was no sign of the crowd which had just stood there a 
moment previously.
	Sayuri inspected the card, wondering exactly
where "Tenkai Budo-kai" was. "Well, at least with Ranma
gone, things will quiet down some."
	Both looked up at the clear sky, wondering where
that thunder had come from.
...END