Well, here's the challenge: write a dark-fic without
a Talking Heads song, er, without Sax and Violins, er, I mean
without sex and or extreme gore/violence/death.

And just to show that it can be done, here's my entry...:

Hmmm.....maybe I'll just try this....


It was a dark and stormy night.  Then a knock came at the door.

"Oh my! Ranma, would you please answer the door, I'm busy here in the
kitchen!"   Called Kasumi from her favorite room in the house.

"Sure thing Kasumi!"  Ranma sprang up from the spot on the floor where he
had been watching a rerun of El-Hazard: Wanderers.  He ambled over to the
door and opened it.  As he opened the door, a dark mist flowed into the
hallway, seeming to suck the brightness out of the nearby lights.  A tall
figure wearing a robe and clutching a sycthe in a bony hand stood in the
open door.

"Ranma Saotome, I've come for you...." droned the figure in an unearthly voice.

"Oh, a challenge?  No problem.  Now or later?"   Asked Ranma in a bored voice.

"I've come to take you now......"  the voice droned on.

"Okay.  Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!"  Ranma called out his attack and landed
three hundred and fifteen punches on the robed figure in under twenty
seconds.  The robe collapsed into itself like a bag of broken bones, the
sycthe landing on top.  A moment later it dissappeared with a dark flash.
The mist in the hallway also dissipated and the lights resumed their former
intensity.  "Hmmm....not much of a challenge."  Ranma closed the door and
walked back into the living room to finish watching his show.

"Who was it Ranma-kun?"  Asked Kasumi as she entered the living room.

"I don't know," replied Ranma honestly.  "Just some guy in an old robe and
some kind of farming tool came to challenge me.  Didn't set any records."

"Oh, that's nice.  Time for dinner everyone!"



Okay, maybe that's not exactly dark, but it was kinda fun to do real quick!

Later!


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