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From: Kenjiko2@aol.com <Kenjiko2@aol.com>
To: ffml@fanfic.com <ffml@fanfic.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 12:05 AM
Subject: [FFML][Ranma][Fic] Girl days Part Four (draft)

Well, here I go again.   I've always held that Cologne had a sense of
humor, and that Nodoka was both more and less perceptive than some

other

characters.  Thus this.

We all have to make tough decisions and stick to our beliefs, whatever
the cost...  ^_^

As ever, C&C is appreciated.

Attempts to sell my liver to the Saudi's for oil are not.

Oh, I don't know, it might be worth a minute or two on "Hard Copy"...

And I guess this sends the series definitely into the alterverse
category-- as if we didn't know that. ^_^

The real question is how deep into the alterverse category will we go?
^_^  Are we simply wading, or are we drowning?

"It's not that easy.  The Amazon Glomp happens to be a very
advanced martial arts maneuver.  You can't just push the attacker
off, except in one way, which... which I don't wanna do."

Ah, here is where we forget to take the left turn at Albequerque...  ^_^
Where are you going now?

"What?  Wait-- lemme go, what are you doing?" protested Akane as
Nabiki dragged her out of the room.  As they left, Nabiki added, "And
Ranma, don't change yet."

"Ranma, don't change yet."  <--  Be careful with loaded lines like that
one, they might go off on you....

Kasumi and Ranma stared at each other, as sounds of protest came

>from another room.  Then Nabiki returned, Akane in tow-- and Kasumi

giggled furiously, while Ranma just fell back laughing, legs kicking
in air in sheer hilarity.

Thereby proving Nabiki's point that, in that dress, Ranma couldn't help
it.  ^_^

"Tapping for three red mana.  Fireball."

Ouch!  You're a twisted individual, you know that?

At the dinner table, Nodoka sighed, and returned to her tea.
Sometimes she despaierd of her husband ever truly growing up.  She

which, mind you,  is far worse than mere despair....

(hey!  I found something to fix!  I was beginning to despaier...)

"Hey," Nabiki interjected (having just come out of hiding with
Kasumi), "You two are pretty good at this.  I have a little
proposition for you...

Run away!  Run away!

"Girls who call other girls names go to bad place."

"What-- like your room?"

"Oooh!  Akane want come Ranma's room?  Have only to ask!"

If the sight of Akane dressed like Ranma-- and ACTING like
Ranma-- wasn't enough, the sight of a Ranma dressed like herself and
TALKING like herself was.  Shampoo began to edge towards the door.
(Not the one she'd just made-- the real door.  THAT'S how rattled she
was.)

She's rattled, all right!  ^_^

Cologne wanted a son-in-law.  A daughter-in-law wasn't in the
equation.

If only Ranma knew... all that time wasted looking for a cure, when all
he had to do was give up, become a girl, and Cologne would swoop in to
fix everything.

Ranma started ticking fingers.  "Lost boy, Herb, Copycat Ken,
stupid Pantyhose monster boy, old pervert..."

Hey!  No mention of Copycat Ken allowed!  Or any other stupid anime-only
characters!  ^_^

Well, just this once... but I warn you, if place too many of them in one
place... well, you don't wanna know what will happen....

"Actually, I approve.  Becoming more accepting of 'her' female

side will make her a better husband for... whoever.  Also, should out

our

(ooh!  Two!  Two mistakes!)

Prince Midol

Gack

more fervor than the maidens of his own mystical kingdom.

Kasarikustan was, as mystical kingdoms went, less than

impressive.  The shining golden castle was peginning to peel, the

beginning

magical lake wasn't very large and somewhat cloudy, rather than clear

wasn't very large and was somewhat cloudy,

unless you mean to say it wasn't somewhat cloudy?

and crystalline, and the population was by and large very ordinary.
In fact, sub-ordinary.

(Author's Note:   The lake in question, by the way, was the
not-very-famous-at-all Lake Kipper, noted for it's truly amazing
ability to pickle herring in sixteen seconds-- not much of a magical
lake, true, but enough to qualify Kasarikustan as a mystical kingdom.
In other words, No, it's NOT another failed cure for Ranma.  It is,
however, an excellent cure for fish.)

As soon as I pick myself up off the floor, I'm going to round up a posse
and grab a rope... puns like that are a hangin' offense in these
parts....  ^_^

Midol was the greatest warrior of his kingdom.  But since his
kingdom consisted almost completely of terminally clumsy morons and
scrawny twerps that Gosunkugi could easily take four falls out of
five-- with a one fall handcap-- this didn't mean much when in a
place like Nerima, where even the ordinary passerby was quite likely
to have a dan rating in a martial art-- even if it was something as
luducrous as Martial Arts Cheese-toast-making.

I'll have you know that ten generations of my family have upheld the
noble tradition of the school of Martial Arts Cheese-toast-making!

Which leads us to the events of about thiry paragraphs up.

I was supposed to be reading backwards?  NOW YOU TELL ME!!!  I see the
truth clearly now!  It must make more sense in the other direction!

"Oh...  that sounds easy enough, in a few weeks, then."  The
prince left, swirling his cape in a dramatic fashion as it rippled in
the wind.

And if he manages to pull all that off, we're gonna have ourselves a
serious party!!!

"Ranma, if he get's the Nannichuan, that would solve a lot of

gets

problems, wouldn't it?  If he brings the Secret Horde, you can have
him arrested for breaking and entering-- the only horde Happy has is
the horde of undergarments up in his room.  And if he finds a
Phoenix's Toothm I'll be so impressed with him that I'll offer him

Toothm?  I'm not sure even the greatest adventurers could find one of
those.  ^_^

the choice of any maiden in the village, because he'll be
superhuman."

"Why?"

"Phoenixes don't HAVE teeth."

D'oh!

But is it Phoenixes, or is Phoenix also the plural, or maybe it's
Phoenii...?

It's amazing how often Akanes seems to be chased by this or that
magical prince (at least in OAV's and fanfictions, though it happens
in the series and the manga also).  I just thought that not all
magical princes had to be competent-- or after Akane. Ja ne!

    Once again, as Ranma, Akane, and Nabiki walked to school, the
strange man in the flowing red robes and the multi-colored lederhosen
appeared before them.

    "Fair Nabiki!  It is I, Prince Elron the Least, from the fabled
magical kingdom of Eastern Lower Carpistan!  Where the fabled waters of
the river L (so small, it only has one letter in it's name) can
transform any fresh water fish into a carp!  Here, I have brought for
you the bounties of my kingdom's coffers, just as you reques-uuurk."

    "Why thank you, Ranma," Nabiki said, digging greedily through the
small chest.  "Is this all?  Yuck, even the coins have carp on them.
Good grief, his kingdom must be even smaller than I thought...."


    Once again, very very funny!!!!  Although, if you could post it in
massive chunks, and not until we asked you to... well, actually, no,
you're doing just fine as is... and I'm courting the wrath of a Lurker
and a Princess of Chaos, so I'll just be on my way....

    Miko