The Art____Chapter 9 
         by GreggSharp     Metroanime@aol.com
  Ranma 1/2 created by Rumiko Takahashi, AMG created
by Kosuke Fujishima, Gold Digger owned/created by
Fred Perry.
  i don't have money so don't sue me, hire me and we
can BOTH make money. This is the "cut to the chase
scene" version. Tanoshimate!
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		The Art 9
	"What do you mean I missed the end of the
world?"
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	She had witnessed much in the years since
the Tendo and Saotome clans had merged. The "Second
Impact" and the rise of a new world order.

	Wormwood's impact had destroyed the Amazon 
Village of Shampoo's birth, while Nerima and the rest of
Tokyo now were claimed by the ocean.

	Kasumi watched as the Third Impact occurred.
Quiet descended on the world. Closing her eyes, she
could sense the two survivors off in the distance.

	All the pureblood humans, save two, were gone.

	Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langley Soryuu. Not the
most auspicious of beginnings, she supposed, though 
there were certainly worse choices.

	In terms of raw power, skill, and experience,
Kasumi Tendo was the current reigning world power.
She nodded, the meek had inherited the Earth.

	Turning, now that another prophesy had been 
fulfilled and could now be discarded, Kasumi went to 
awaken the others. The crystalline caves of Tintagel
were ready to release their cargo.

	Kasumi paused, looking at the raised biers,
each with a different figure on them. The preparations
had been extensive and based on other prophesies.

	Her husband, the mage Ranma Saotome. Her fingers
traced the crystalline coffin over his face. They had 
come here when Wormwood had been imminent. She could
remember the wedding, amusing because Tatewaki Kuno had
taken one look at some of the wedding guests and might
well still be running to this day.

	The couple who slept while holding hands just beyond Ranma, Nabiki and the
werepanther Johnathon. Akane Tendo and the wereboar Ryouga Hibiki. The small
crowd of Chinese Amazon refugees, and the others. All 
were those that humanity would have branded "different" 
or "outsider."

	Now it was THEIR turn.
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	The Great Dragon surfaced. It had all gone as
he had foreseen. Now things would be Different. Now,
maybe at last, humanity would break the old pattern.

	At least it wouldn't be boring.

THE END?