*Note: The game this character is going to be played
in hasn't started yet...so I've been working on her
character by writing these little fics....Ryoko
Saotome is Ranma Saotome's sister, nearly 22 years
younger than her more famous brother...and both are as
yet unaware of the other for reasons I left up to the
Gamemaster...Ryoko was assigned the random parental
quirks of honorbound and cowardly...now on with the
story*
Ryoko grunted as she ran into something that had
appeared in here way. Looking up, and up, and up,
and up she found herself staring at the rather ugly
face of the local schoolyard bully. Ryoko's
instinctual response was to run for the hills. After
all, she couldn't think of anything better to do and
the Saotome school of Anything Goes final attack was
run until you could think of something else.
"Karate girl," he said and smiled. Ryoko laughed
nervously and tried to back up. "You have today's
money?"
"Well, you see," she thought back to her mother's
talk to her yesterday. "I don't have any money
today." She showed the giant her bag lunch.
"I'm sure you have some," he said, smiling,
cracking his knuckles.
"I....I don't want to have to fight you," Ryoko
swallowed gripping her bokken tightly. The bully
laughed and punched forward, Ryoko dodged easily.
"There has to be an easier way to settle our
differences."
"Yeah, you can give me the money and I leave you
alone." The smaller girl unwrapped a rope from
around her waist and sped around the giant, leaving
him
tied up.
"But, you see," Ryoko swallowed as she watched
the angry giant strain against the rope. "I don't
have any money today....and..." the rope snapped,
Ryoko's eyes popped and she hastily dodged another
clumsy attack.
"Stand still!"
Ryoko considered running again, but her mother had
been quite clear on that point. The bully's big
fist came back again and she slashed upwards cringing.
She was terrified. Here she was fighting, and
probably about to get REALLY hurt. The fact that
she could dance around this bully all day without
difficulty did not occur to her. The potential pain
of getting hit did.
Along with this, however, the fact that NOT
fighting would be seen as a shameful thing was
almost on the same level. She had been lectured for
an hour on cowardice already.
At the moment though she was only consciously
thinking of hitting before that punch could move
forward. As her bokken moved forward she screamed
and shut her eyes.
*FWOOSH*
"What the..."
*THUD*
Ryoko cracked open an eye to see a charred giant
laying on the grand in front of her. There was a
comical pained expression on his face and he coughed
out a smoke cloud. She felt a heat source somewhere
nearby.
"Uh oh," Ryoko muttered, glancing at her sword.
It was wrapped in flames. "AAAAAHHHH!!!" The flames
burst higher and Ryoko dropped the bokken, instantly
the flames were gone. The bokken thumped onto the
bully's head.
"Ugh."
"Sorry," Ryoko gasped. Oh this was bad, he was
going to be REALLY mad when he finally woke up.
She kicked at the sword nervously, and when it
didn't burst into flames reached down to pick it up,
expecting the bully to attack at any moment. She
needn't have worried. She gripped the sword and
nothing happened.
Ryoko glanced around cautiously for a moment, and
then ran for the school building, descending to
normal level of anxiety.
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"Caffeinated Kender? What's that, a berserk spell?" -
Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
Signed
He of Too Many Names (Thrythlind/Thryth/Luke/Hyperbole/Pika/Pooka)
http://members.aol.com/thrythlind/snake.html
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