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Ranma 1/2: Shampoo's Quest
Part of the Dragon's Dawning Fanfic Series
by Wesley Bridges and Samuel Gonhue
based on the characters by Rumiko Takahashi

Episode 2: The Shrine of Lost Tears
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	The morning came to late as Shampoo awoke from her camp just 
	outside the town of Longzitou (Dragon's Head). She quickly
	dressed and stepped outside into the chilly morning air as the
	sun just began to peak over the distant horizon. After watching
	the sunrise, she packed her things and dashed off to her next 
	location on the map called: "Griffon's Landing". She did not	
	know exactly where it was, but hoped the map would lead her in
	a matter in which she could easily find it.

	Almost a full day behind Shampoo, Mousse, too, awoke early to attempt
	to gain some ground on her before she reached her final
	destination. He packed his things and moved through the rolling
	hills toward the town of Longzitou.

	Trudging through the tall grasses of the southeastern plains, Shampoo
	looked ahead as the sun began to set behind the mountian 
	shilouettes upon the western horizon. Determined to get to 
	Griffon's Landing before dark, she continued onward pushing her
	tiring limbs through another stretch of plain.

	Mousse was having similar problems. Tiring legs made him think
	to take the next several stretch by air. His duck form was small
	and his gear was not the easiest to carry for long periods of
	time, but the thought of catching up with Shampoo willed him 
	forward. As nighttime fell, he landed outside of the small 
	township, Longzitou.

Mousse:	(thinking) Finally here. Shampoo I'll catch up with you soon.
	I promise.

	Trudging on a staff provided to her by her sisters, Shampoo
	reached the top of a hill overlooking all of what she had just	
	traversed. She had pushed herself much further than a regular
	hiker would dare, and it was beginning to take its toll. She
	looked around the hilltop and came upon a strangely shaped 
	rock formation.

	The rocks piled high upon themselves looking almost like a
	roost, of some sort. Along the bottom of the rock, jutted several
	talon-shaped formations formed by the strange wind and rain
	currents formed by the towering rocks.

Shampoo: (thinking) This is Griffon Peak?

	Shampoo looked at the map and again at the formation and 
	determined that yes, she was indeed at her first landmark. Glad
	to finally be able to rest, Shampoo set up her encampment and 
	reviewed her path to the next landmark, somewhere in a
	mountain chasm.

	As the sun rose in the eastern sky, Mousse emerged from his 
	tent and stretched in the light breeze. He packed his things,
	and walked into the small town of Longzitou to see how far
	behind Shampoo he really was.

	Shampoo looked up at the morning sky and quickly gathered her
	equipment. She looked to the distant, yet looming mountians	
	where her second destination awaited her. With her staff in 
	hand, and a refreshed body and mind, she began her next day
	of travel.

	Longzitou was busy in the early morning for a small city. 
	Merchants were bustling around, setting up their booths for
	their wares, people were walking and chatting in the pleasant
	setting of the town.

Mousse:	(walking to a merchant) Excuse me, I am looking for my beautiful
	Shampoo. Have you seen her?

Merchant: Do I look like a psychic? What does she look like?

Mousse:	(taking out a photo) Well, I have a picture of her right here.

Merchant: Does she carry a lot of weapons?

Mousse:	Not normally, but I suppose she could be carrying some.

Merchant: Yeah I've seen her...

Mousse: You have?! (placing his hands on the merchant's shoulders and
	staring him in the eyes) Where? You must tell me!!!!

Merchant: Calm down! She passed through here about a day or so ago. If...

	Mousse leaves the town running along the path shown on the map.

Merchant: ... you hurry you might catch her. (sigh) Kids...

	Shampoo had left the grassy terrain of the plains for a while
	now as she hooked through a chasm through a small, isolated
	range of mountians. The chasm walls towered several hundreds of	
	feet above her as she continued to her destination.

Shampoo: (thinking) Soon Shampoo get Heart of Golden Tear, and then have
	 Ranma all to her own self!

	The thought energized Shampoo as she though of all the... happy
	possibilities of things to come when she returned to Tokyo. As
	she turned a corner in the chasm, a large stone buiding almost
	appearing as though it was carved in the pass towered in 
	front of her. The building looked like it could easily be a 
	shrine or temple of some sort.

Shampoo: (thinking) Aiya! If Shampoo going to keep going, Shampoo must
	 go in shrine.

	Shampoo walked to the doors of the temple where she found
	some words engraved on the side of the doorway.

Shampoo: (reading) Shrine of Lost Tears. This is what map say is second
	 landmark! 

	Eagerly, Shampoo opened the door and stepped into the darkness
	beyond them.

	Mousse had never remembered running so hard for so long before
	in his life. He was breathing hard, but was making up ground
	faster than he would have thought. He took a breather by a small
	pool of water where he cooled off before continuing. Diving
	into the pool, he changed into his duck form and waded for a
	short time, then he grabbed his pack and flew onwards.

	A short time later, he took another small rest at a large rock
	with strange talon-like rocks carved from erosion. He recognized
	the landform as Griffon's Landing from the legend. He had made
	it to his first landmark, and hoped to gain more by the time
	night fell. He looked at the afternoon sun, then to the 
	mountains that now seemed much closer than ever before.

	Shampoo walked through the shrine, her footsteps echoing in the
	eerie silence. The halls were lit only by braziers and the
	fire danced around with the long shadows. The hall in front of
	her soon opened into a small room with stairs going up to a
	landing with a door with a sign reading "Exit" on it. Eagerly,
	Shampoo began walking up the stairs, but as she stepped on the
	landing, she triggered a pressure plate causing her to fall
	into a large pit opening up underneath her.

Shampoo: AIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

	Shampoo hit the bottom of the pit with an audible thud. She got
	up on shaking knees rubbing her aching legs and backside.

Shampoo: (thinking) Shampoo need be more careful next time.

	As she recovered from her fall, she looked around the room
	she fell into. It was roughly the same size as the last, with
	a corridor leading to her immediate left, the door she had seen
	before, led in front of her. Gathering herself up, she walked 
	into down the corridor available to her.

	As Shampoo continued forward, the corridor transitioned from
	rough, and square to much more smooth and rounded. She carefully
	observed her new setting and the craftsmanship of the tunnel
	she had just entered.

	The tunnel itself was roughly 10 feet in diameter with no bricks
	in the walls themselves, but some bricks in the flattened floor.
	Each appeared to be hand carved with figures of some sort of
	ancient tale or something. Shampoo walked carefully down the 
	the tunnel, and eventually came to a section where slits were
	carved all around the tunnel.

Shampoo: What these strange grooves for?

	Shampoo looked at them closely, but found nothing odd about them.
	Continuing down, she carefully walked over each groove and
	watched for anything unusual. A sound of scraping stone startled
	her and she swung around. As she did, her staff came down on a
	loose brick causing it to give way.

	Rumbling and mechanical sounds filled the passage breaking the
	silence. Large disc-like stones rolled through the grooves across
	Shampoo's way.

Shampoo: Aiya! So that what grooves are for. How Shampoo get through
	 tunnel now?

	Shampoo studied the stone discs and eventually picked up on a 
	pattern. After taking a few breaths, she darted through and	
	got passed the first several series of stones only to get 
	interrupted by another group on a different pattern. More 
	observation allowed Shampoo to get through the remaining discs
	and continue on her search for a way out of the shrine.

	Beyond the disc trap, Shampoo walked into a large room where
	a stalactite hung high above a small pool of water. From the
	stalactite, drops of water dripped down into the cloudy pool.
	Shampoo approached the pool with curiosity. As she looked in the
	pool, the waters became clearer.

	The waters showed a scene where Shampoo had come back to Tokyo 
	and was making her way toward the Tendo Dojo. As she arrived, 
	Ranma wasn't there, but she was invited to stay until his 
	return. After a few moments, the door opened, and Shampoo 
	launched herself on Ranma, who hugged her back, making Akane 
	rather jealous.

Shampoo: Stupid girl! Only Shampoo have Ranma now!

	Shampoo was filled with so much joy, she began to cry. Tears
	fell into the pool. The scene grew cloudier as Shampoo was now 
	visualizing her wedding day. Shampoo was standing tall and 
	proud at the alter on her tribal lands with all her sisters
	and friends from Tokyo in the crowd watching her. She stood
	beside her tall, handsome groom, and as the ceremony progressed,
	the waters dimmed and became cloudy once more, as more tears
	fell.

	Shampoo then had a thought. Was Mousse following her? She had 
	suspected him to, but wasn't so sure. The pools cleared as now
	she saw Mousse as a duck flying over Griffon's Landing. She 
	wiped her tears away no faced with annoyance and rage, as she
	did, though, one fell into the pool causing it to cloud and
	then grow dim.

	With new excitement and eagerness to press on, Shampoo got up
	and darted out the wider corridor behind the pool. Upon exiting	
	the corridor, she entered another large room with large statues
	forming several rows in the room with a stairway leadin up in its
	center. In all her joy, Shampoo ran to the staircase. As she
	neared the first set of statues, bolts of electricity arced
	from the two statues giving Shampoo a nasty jolt.

Shampoo: Aiya! Is another trap! Why these stupid people have so many
	 stupid traps?

	Wiser from her past experience, Shampoo walked to another
	pair of statues and placed her staff between them. Electricity
	zapped the staff, and she withdrew it. She continued down the
	row until one pair didn't zap the staff. Cautiously, she walked
	through unscathed. She walked down repating the process, but as
	she continued, another pair zapped her as she walked down the
	row.

Shampoo: Aiya! Stupid Statues!

	Shampoo took out a polearm Ling-Ling had insisted that she 	
	bring along and held it in front of her as she walked through
	the maze of invisible walls. After hours of wandering through
	it, Shampoo reached the stairway. She walked up the stairway
	and exited the shrine from a door just beyond the mountainous
	chasm, and hurried onward.

	As Shampoo wandered for nearly a day through the shrine, Mousse
	had rested only a few hours away from the shrine. He gathered
	his things and rushed the hike to the chasm. Soon he, too, 
	approached the looming shrine carved within the mountain.

Mousse: I.. I made it! According to this map, all I need to do is
	get beyond that shrine to get to the path towards the next
	landmark! What is the best way to proceed?

	After a couple of minutes pondering the situation, Mousse
	pulled out his canteen and doused himself with water.

Mousse:	(thinking) I need to make up as much time as I can, so I'll
	fly over it!

	After gathering his bag and belongings, Mousse circled around
	gathering altitude to fly directly over the shrine and to 	
	the opposite side where he landed to give his wings a rest.

	While he was resting, a man clad in warrior garb walked down
	the path towards the shrine while hunting. Seeing a duck near the
	shrine, he prepared himself for a relatively easy catch.

	As Mousse was just getting ready to continue, the warrior came
	from the bushes and approached. Mousse looked at the warrior
	out of curiosity at first, that is until the warrior threw a
	spear landing several inches from him.
	
	Mousse was now mad, and didn't care about being a duck to enter
	combat.

Warrior: Drat, I missed! Oh, well I can take him with blowdarts and my
	 knives.

	A barrage of daggers embedded themselves in the trees near the
	warrior.

Warrior: Huh?! Where did...

	The warrior looked as Mousse charged flying at the warrior. As
	he drew near, he launched several chains at him.

Warrior: Where did those chains come from?!

	The warrior fought vigilantly against the barrages of chains,
	and daggers, but soon could not take anymore. In a last fit,
	Mousse threw several barrages of his daggers at the Warrior
	completely pinning him to a nearby tree. Confidently, Mousse
	gathered his things and continued on his journey to find Shampoo.

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End Episode 2.

Preview Episode 3:

Lung-Lung: Ling-Ling...
Ling-Ling: What is it Lung-Lung?
Lung-Ling: Another strange package arrive on doorstep.
Ling-Ling: What this one say?
Lung-Lung: Trailer Episode 3.
Ling-Ling: Maybe we read it?
Lung-Lung: Ok.
Ling-Ling: You can start this time.
Lung-Lung: Big sister Shampoo finds third landmark!
Ling-Ling: Aiya! She get captured by wierd man from... don't know this
	   word.  
Lung-Lung: You right, what is word?
Ling-Ling: Hey, when blind-boy come into story?
Lung-Lung: Don't remember him being in story, Ling-Ling.
Ling-Ling: Maybe he try rescue big sister?
Lung-Lung: Maybe. He succeed?
Ling-Ling: Don't know. Doesn't say.
Lung-Lung: Maybe we find out in Episode 3: Big Trouble from Down Under.
					 
Ling-Ling: Zaijain.

Notes:

Longzitou: Long= Dragon, zi=of/possession, Tou=head. Lit: Dragon's Head

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