******  ******  ******  ******  ******

        [A sign is placed in front of the camera.]

Sign: This Space for Rent.

        [End of commercial.]

        ******  ******  ******  ******  ******

        "Okay, now on to Ryu versus Gara." C-chan declared, her right eye 
twitching dangerously.
        "Hello, room service?  Yeah, I'm going to need a tub of Jell-o sent 
to Miss Arisugawa's room.  Courtesy of.... hmmmm, Urd.  Oh, and charge it 
tooooooooooo Thor Odinson." ????? said.
        ????? zipped out of the room.

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        The audience began hearing the song "The Beginning is the End is the 
Beginning" by the Smashing Pumpkins as Ryu entered via the blue doors.  He 
walked down the ring, stopping occasionally to wave or sign an autograph 
despite himself.  He leapt into the ring and tightened his belt as he stood 
ready for his opponent.
        "Enter the Tekken" the ending song for Tekken 3 began playing.  
Smoke suddenly appeared from one side of the arena.  After it disappeared 
into the opposite side of the arena, Gara was seen kneeling on one knee, 
with his back toward his opponent and his right hand was gripping the sheath 
of his sword.  Beside him stood his escorts, Dark Schneider on the right, 
Arshes Nei on the left.  Gara got up, feet together, and raised the sheath 
above his head.  Slowly, he removed the sword it's casing.  The Marasame 
gleamed as the lights of the room struck it in that ultra-cool fashion.  He 
threw away the sheath and turned around, his sword in his right hand.  Gara 
grinned at his opponent.
        Ryu glared back.  Marvin took Robo's bet.  Shao Khan finished his 
Snapple and started on a Wendy's frosty diary.
        "AAAAAAGGGGGHHH!!  BRAIN FREEZE!!" Shao Khan yelped as he clutched 
his head.
        The fighters leapt at each other, Ryu dodging the Marasume blade and 
hitting Gara with a Shoryuken, followed by a Shinku Hadoken, sending the 
Ninja Master flying backwards.  Or so Ryu thought.  Ryu barely dodged in 
time as Gara slashed at him from behind.  Ryu got Gara with a spring 
sidekick to the jaw, sending the Ninja against the ropes.
        The Ninja Master slashed Ryu's leg off at the knee.  Only to get a 
Shinku Hadoken point-blank.  Gara growled as he watched his sword clatter to 
the ground behind him, outside of the ring, his right arm attached.  He 
leapt at Ryu managing to stand on his one good leg and powering up for 
another blast.  Gara did what he could.  He grabbed Ryu's dismembered leg 
and threw it at Ryu, catching the martial artist off-guard.
        Gara seemed to vanish, but when Robo appeared in front of Gara's arm 
and Marasume and held out an arm to stop something, it became apparent as to 
where he was.
        "I'm afraid that if you leave the ring, you will be disqualified." 
Robo told the invisible Gara.
        Gara cursed the robot as Ryu powered up and blasted him out of the 
ring.  At least he landed in the lap of a cute anime girl, who would later 
fall in love with him and they would have little baby ninja boys and girls.
        "That is a disgusting thing to watch." Arshes Nei said.
        "Yeah, let's go get Yohko and do it 'til sunrise." Dark Schneider 
suggested.
        "Oh, Darshe..." Arshes said, hugging the ultra-mage.
        "Dammit!  Why do my Shinku Hadokens always seem to do that whenever 
I use them to finish off an opponent and yet I can't get a girlfriend that's 
near my age?!?!" Ryu demanded angrily.

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        "That's something I don't think I'll touch with a ten foot pole." 
C-chan said.
        C-chan turned around to make sure no one else was in the announcer 
booth, then pulled out a rifle magazine and unfolded the two yard long 
centerfold.
        "Ooooooooh baby...." C-chan drooled.
        Then, C-chan noticed the camera was still on.
        "Ummmm, onto the fight between Onna-Ranma Saotome and Kim Kapwan." 
C-chan declared.
        She resumed her drooling.

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        Pat Benatar's song "Fire and Ice" began playing over the speakers.  
Kim Kapwan, his wife and his two kids walked down to the ring.  Kim leapt 
into the ring and shot his family a thumbs-up.
        "One Winged Angel", Sephiroth's final theme from FFVII played 
hauntingly. As Onna-Ranma entered the ring, the crowd is awed by her beauty. 
With her, she carried an aura of darkness that can't be seen with the eyes 
yet is clearly there.  To some, it only made her that much more beautiful.  
She emotionlessly swept her eyes across the crowd, then turned the 
soul-piercing gaze to her opponent.  Nodding, she acknowledged the last 
minute information about her opponent from Nabiki and assumed a ready 
position.
        Syithe, Nabiki and Marvin the Martian stood in her corner.  
Although, Marvin got distracted by the discussion by Marvin the Robot and 
Robo.  The Martian shuffled over to the two robots and began exchanging 
opinions on robots vs. androids.
        "AAAAAAAH-ACHOO!!" Shao Khan sneezed, having caught a cold from the 
frosty diary.
        Kim leapt at Onna-Ranma only to find that she was already gone.  He 
spun around in time to block a vicious kick.  He replied with a series of 
lightning fast kicks.  She dodged with ease and vanished again.  Kim leapt 
into the air to try and find her.  Only to get kicked down to the mat.  
Onna-Ranma descended on him, but he rolled out of the way and managed to 
catch her with a solid side kick to her left kidney.  She stumbled, 
clutching her kidney.  Kim leapt at her, launching another series of 
lightning fast kicks.
        Onna-Ranma staggered as she felt the kicks, but something within her 
filled her with energy.  She blocked Kim's remaining kicks and slammed him 
into the mat.  She followed it with a shiatsu strike to his left shoulder 
blade, disabling his legs.  She rolled him over and pinned him under her 
foot.  At the count of three, victory was hers.

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        "Wow.  She's fast." C-chan commented.
        She looked left and right.  Suddenly, someone slipped into the tower 
and sat down next to her.
        "A-kun!" C-chan said, surprised.
        "Hey.  I would've been here earlier, but the some of the fighters 
that already lost are leaving." A-kun said.
        "Do you know where ????? went?" C-chan asked.
        "No, but during the break, I could look for her." A-kun said.
        "Thanks for coming up here.  It's a little awkward just making 
comments to myself." C-chan said.
        "No problem.  Well, everyone, those are all the fights for today.  
I'm A-kun." A-kun began.
        "And I'm C-chan saying 'Good Fight'..." C-chan continued.
        "And 'Good Night.'" A-kun finished.
        "That was fun." C-chan said.
        "Wasn't it though?" A-kun inquired.

        ******  ******  ******  ******  ******

        "Well, we'll be back again in the future for Round 5, but again, 
don't hold your breath." A-kun said.
        "Yeah, these things are hard to write, no da." C-chan added.

        TO BE CONTINUED IN ROUND 5


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        Apologies to those who did NOT get to do their finishing moves or 
their victory signs due to physical or mental inabilities.

        Anyone who is confused as to how someone can appear on someone's 
team, then someone else's should remember that there are a lot of elseworlds 
out there.

        Signed, ????? and C-chan
        And part-time writer, A-kun

        To contact any of the three people above, contact A-kun at 
akun15@hotmail.com

        GOOD NEWS!  If you've missed the previous Rounds, The Official Anime 
Death Tournament Webpage will be up soon!  It will be on A-kun's webpage at 
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/3968/index.html and under Fanfics!


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