Wearing a top hat and spinning a black cane, Jones begins to tap-dance,...

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"Nabiki and I will cover this point," Kasumi offered, pointing to the easternmost  point on the map. "If you and Athia-san will cover this point, Aunty."

    Athia nodded her agreement. "That seems prudent to me. What shall we do if this is not a simple ravener attack, however? What if this is the 'Ravener King' that assaulted Nabiki?"

    "No prob," Nabiki waved. "I got him once and I'll do it again if I have to!"

    "You injured him, but he hurt you badly, Nabiki," Ryouga cautioned. "Maybe I should go with you, just in case."

    "Hmm..." Soun wondered aloud. "We could make an outing of it. You and I could accompany your wife and her companion, Saotome."

    "Hrmmm. It *is* a martial artist's duty to protect the world from monsters, Tendou."

    Nodoka sweatdropped as the evening's preparations rapidly ballooned.

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    "Sharpened stakes, huh?" Ukyou asked appraisingly.

    "Hai," Shampoo said quietly as she used a machete to take the corners off another short stick. "For tonight. Great-grandmother say maybe we need them."

    "Hmm..." Ukyou wondered aloud, looking around at the back of the store room at the Nekohanten. "I wonder what all the garlic is for."


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The nameless girl ran, making a beeline for a convenience store she had seen on their way over. By the time she got to it, however, the store had closed. She ran down the street, desperately looking in every direction for a phone. Seeing an apartment building, she ran up to it, hoping that someone would let her use a phone. She was running so hard and was so focused on Ranma's instructions that she didn't recognize the evil until she was almost upon it.

    Happosai was raiding some poor girl's laundry line for drying pantyhose when he spied the girl run up. He sniffed once and grinned evilly. He stuck his tongue into the air just to make sure. Giggling lecherously, he stuffed the last of the pantyhose in his sack and leapt down in front of her.

    "You!!!" the girl yelped, startled by the tiny man's presence. She skidded to a stop and almost fell over.

    "You... Oh, my! I *never* forget a pair of pert bosoms, and what do my old eyes see but yours bouncing along. Where are you running off to, girlie-girl?"

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I get mail daily now for people wanting to know when the hell the next chapter of THE CLAN or Ranma's Apartment is going to be out. I feel so loved, even when the letters are rude!

(Rude fan letters? Jeez! Of all the...)

Ch 19 is finished, and will go to my pre-readers this week. Expect an FFML post at the end of this week or the next. Ch's 20 and 21 aren't far behind. They should be around pretty quickly as well.


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C. Jones - guilty@furinkan.net
http://www.furinkan.net

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I get full-motion streaming video and sound, I listen to
radio and steal, steal uh, you know, my music through MP3,
like everybody else does. I write the laws that say it's
illegal, and I do it anyway.

            -Senator Bob Kerrey (D) Nebraska