And moving onward:

$And on to the grand finale.

Yep.

Bringing her head from out of the receptacle, Pink said, "But it's your
can."

"With your puke in it, which means you get to clean it out, but after
you
feel better."

$Such a nurturing girl.

Actually I would make either of my siblings clean it out on the spot. :)

It was Wu who said, "Are you crazy? You can't do that. Do you know what
the
penalty is for even attempting to put a ringer in a match at this level?
Especially one that's this important?"

$Does she count as a ringer?  I thought that was only a substitution
with a veteran or something.

If they try to pass her off as Link instead of Pink, she would count as a
ringer.

Through gritted teeth, Link got out, "We're not going to be discovered,
you
quivering mass of jelly. We're identical twins.

$True, even DNA couldn't tell them apart.

Really? Wasn't sure about that, though ti might be true, but I thought I
might be wrong.

"Can't
you see? This unusual challenge match? Your sudden illness in my room on
the
night of the fight, where no one else would be aware of it? Even our
being
twins so I can take your place? It all points to one thing: it's
destiny. My
destiny to kill Shampoo."

$Cuckoo.  Cuckoo.  Oh, look, it's time for her medicine.

Oh, it's a little late for that. Tranquilizer her, maybe. That would work.
But she's prettyu much snapped like a dry twig at this point. This has been
building up since long before Shampoo came along. It's just things speeded
up with the recent events.

Link felt a horrible feeling settle in the pit of her stomach, one that
had

$Ah, that should be Pink.

Whoops. The problem when using idenitcal twins with nearly identical names.

should fear for is Shampoo. The pains you said you were going to inflict
on
her were nothing compared to what I'm going do to her. I'll have her
screaming so loudly even the most bloodthirsty of fans will cover their
eyes
and ears and try to hide from the horrors I'll inflict upon her. It's
going
to be the most glorious night of my life."

$Today is not the first day of the rest of her life.

Heh. Grim humor, but appropriate.

had
the same look to his eyes that Link now possessed. Or at least he had
them
in the moments before their father put him down. The resemblance was
chilling to the core.

$Pink: Link, if you're going to take my place, remember, I don't foam
at the mouth.  Wipe your chin or something!

Hehehehehe. I can see that, somehow. Very nice. Might steal the line one of
these days.

her. The electrocution was the final straw. After that, I'd kill anyone
for
doing those things to me. Even you." Part of the glaze then left Link's
eyes. "I'm sorry. Were you going to say something else?"

Pink's jaw shut with an audible snap as she shook her head.

$Heh heh.  Good luck?

About the only thing she could say now that leaves her hide intact.

"Let's hope it passes." But all Pink could think about was a dog lying
motionless with its skull split open and its brains spilling out on the
dirt.

$Aww, it's getting darker.

Yep. Afraid so. But it was always going to end this way. Sorry if I didn't
properly prepare you for it, but this was always intended to be a serious
story with humorous bits. I think the near rape from chapter 3 would have
been a pretty clear indication of that.

Hesitantly, Snakebite cleared his throat. "Look, I know we don't
ordinarily... Is there something different about you?"

$Pink: I'm just not feeling like myself today.

Heh. That would have been a cute line.

"Go on." Pink's voice held as much ice as she could muster with the way
she
felt. She failed to drop the temperature more than a couple of degrees.

$Did wonders for her fever, though.

Heh. You're definitely in rare form today, though techinically it was a
couple of weeks ago.

"It's not that small of a ring. I've been saving up my winnings. I've
had to
leave in a hurry before, and it's always good to have a stash on hand.
But I

$hand, but    I think they'd flow well together.

Okay.

deception, or took it as a sign of mistrust since she had not informed
him
of the substitution. It was definitely in her best interest to keep her
mouth shut for the present.

$Well, Pink's not known for making the right choice.

Yep. Actually nothing but a series of wrong ones for her, of late.

The look of relief on his face was a joy to behold, making Pink's heart
soar. "No worries about that. I'm going to pop the question to her
tonight,
right after the match. Night, Sis."

$Ah, well.

And here you know things are going to go REALLY wrong.

"Where will you be watching?" Shampoo asked as she gripped one leg by
its
ankle and held it straight up, making it as parallel to her body as was
humanly possible. She showed no signs of strain at the effort.

$The bottom of her outfit, however...

Jaddo: Got to give the fans service, or it wouldn't be called fan service.

"Well I'll be. That makes sense. Perfect sense." Jaddo placed his hand
to
his chin thoughtfully. "How could you tell?"

$He's believing her?  *snort*  Heh.  I suppose I should have guessed
she'd think that.

It does make sense. That's why he believes her. The logic is quite sound,
even if it is horribly off the target. Besides, Beef gets Jaddo to rethink
things a bit with his assurances that Kiber is not gay.

"But I'm not interested in that sort of thing. I like women. Only women.
They don't even have to be pretty, just so long as they're women," Jaddo
protested.

$Picky picky.  Gotta lower your standards sometimes.

Heh. I think there are some yaoi fans that would object to referring to that
as 'lowering standards' :)

"Cheer for me." Shampoo's smile was one of total confidence, but not
with
the cocky airs she had held before arriving at Hong Kong. Jaddo noted
this

$I think you need to start a new paragraph with Jaddo.

Not sure. Will consider.

character that the big one held. There was something about the big
building
that felt as though it were a grand old man that carried the scars just
the
same as the warriors who had fought in it. The maintenance staff did an
impeccable job of keeping the place running and in top shape, but it was
obvious the building had been around for a while. Chipped plaster, small
cracks, even an area or two where the flooring might have settled a bit.

$Or in some cases, completely fallen through.  Not to mention the
bizzare electrical shorts.

Heheheehehe. Now that is a good point and oddly appropriate. Will see if I
can work the comment in there somewhere.

competition among the elite, she wondered if this too was a form of
ranking
they applied to themselves, with the richest and most powerful at the
top,
able to look down upon the others that were beneath them in every sense
of
the word.

$Sure, the view's nice, but you loose details.

Some, but not enough to spoil the view.

Turning her attention to the boxes themselves, she looked carefully at
them,
her eyes scanning until, near the top, she spotted the familiar forms of
Jaddo and Beef waving down at her. Beef made them easy to distinguish
from
the other box seats with the very large and very purple suit he was
wearing.

$Shampoo: Wow, that's definitely the second biggest grape I've ever
seen.

Not sure if I want to know what the largest grape she saw was. :)

One thing the man knew how to do was stand out in any crowd.

$Stand out?  He _was_ a crowd.

That too.

"What would he see in a broken down old man like you when he could have
his
pick in handsome young studs?" Beef asked.

"Maybe he's into that sort of thing.

$Heh.  I could just picture him later finding out that Kiber was his
bastard son, and then explaining it to Shampoo.  And then she gets it
confused, and thinks that Kiber wants Jaddo to be his 'Daddy' or
something.

Hmm. Might be something to work with there too.

"Yah, I suppose you're right," Jaddo admitted. And he did like Kiber's
company well enough. The man was witty and charming, even more likable
than
Jaddo had been at that age.

$In other words, only half the people Kiber meets want to kill him.

That sounds about right. :)

Beef understood and answered. "Morimoto's involved up to its neck in
illegal
dealings, but they somehow manage to keep one step ahead of the law and
make
a bundle in the process. Just the sort you need to keep an eye on, lest
they
insert a nice big knife in your back the moment you show it to them."

"I wonder why they're here," Kiber said softly as he continued staring
across the way.

$No doubt to contribute to the plot.

Yep. Though most of the Shadowlaw dealing with be dealt with by JK in the
mainstory.

than anyone had a right to. "It's my destiny. You're just a victim of
fate.
But then, aren't we all?"

"Enough talk!" This was completely unlike the Pink Shampoo knew.

$*snicker*

A case of not knowing how right you are if ever there was one.

Even in all the fights Shampoo had been in, from the Northman to
Watambe,
never had anyone come after her so fast and furiously.

$Those are sort of bad examples for immediate fast and furious.

Hmm. Very true. Will consider rewording that somehow.

Another kick connected with the lower spine, and for a split-second,
Shampoo
lost the feeling in her legs.

$Nerves are really interesting in that respect.  I know for a fact that
there's a spot in your chest that you can hit really hard and make your
arm go limp for a few minutes.  Found that one while fencing epee.

I've had that happen a few times when punched of falling from heights.
Neither is fun, and there's little more worrisome than seeing a limb just
hanging there as it refuses to respond to any commands, and you don't feel
any pain there.

loud
and as hard as Shampoo had ever heard. Even the bloodthirsty horde at
Hellmount could not compare with the shrieks and cries coming from the
women
and men who were supposed to represent the finest society had to offer.
In
the end, they were just like everyone else, once their masks of
propriety
were tossed aside and a little blood was thrown their way.

$That's nothing.  You should see them at an orgy.

Heh. Who knows, maybe I'll do a scene concering the decadence of some of the
nobility. :)

of relief escaped from her lips. No burns this time, but in many ways it
was
a far worse fight than the one with Watambe. It had not been decided on
tricks and illusions, but on pure power. Muscle straining against muscle
and
bone meeting bone in the most primitive of struggles for dominance.

$Nothing like a good cat fight.  A little hair pulling and such would
have helped, though.

Nah. They're too well trained for that, and it never got to that level.

A fleck of blood shot out from her lips as a soft cry of rage slipped

Not again. Never again.

$That's true.

Yep.

small and as jagged as it was. It was a poor sample of a knife, like the
poor sample Link made of everything she tried to do. Second best to Pink
in
everything. Never able to be the best at anything. Always just there,
never
on top. Just like now. Second place again. One place away from success,
which meant she was a failure, just like every other time.

$She's too competative.  I always liked second place.

For some, second place is just anothe way of saying you're a very talented
loser.

just as easily from a stab wound to the back as she would to one in the
gut.
What difference would it make where the blow landed, just so long as
Shampoo
died.

$died?  I'm not sure, though.

Nah. Don't think it's really a quesiton. More of a statement.

Now it was Link's turn to feel pain as the grip on her stabbing wrist
tightened like a vice. Trying to withdraw her own limb did no good; Link
could not move it forward or backward a fraction of a centimeter.

$Leaving the knife stuck in, unfortunately.

True, but only for the moment.

 All she
could do was feel unrelenting pain that increased geometrically by the

$Geometrically?  What, in degrees?  I think you want exponentially.

Yeah. I think you're right. Don't know what came over me. Should have
remembered that one.

apex of
its backward arc, there was a snapping noise from the bones in the back
of
the neck as vertebrae slipped from their positions and severed the
nerves of
the spinal column connecting the head to the rest of the body.

$What, no shattered jaw, no going all the way through her skull?  If
Shampoo really was that strong, she'd be picking grey matter out from
under her fingernails later.  While cleaner this way, she really should
have done more obvious damage.

I don't know, wasn't really going for gore, and it was more a case of
hitting Link at a good angle than a case of brute force say, like taking
crowbar to someone's head. Was definitely going for the clean kill.

inferiority for the first time since she had been so very little. Now
all
that was left was the unique essence that made Link what she was for
perhaps
the first time in her life. She wished it would last forever, that
feeling
of peace.

And it did.

$Aww.  Personally, I'd have preferred it if she hadn't been killed, but
had been stopped, and generally declared insane and a danger to all
around her.  Then she could run and hide, and they could cart the real
Pink off in a white jacket with long sleeves.

Nah. Was going for a more standard tragic ending than that. Sets up things
for a later time when one of the two people that wants revenge is
reintroduced.

rich
people ended up getting stepped on and punched out before the fighter
got
his hands on him. Since then, a fund was created to ensure that a
security
service provided a bunch of people called Wranglers to keep a fighter
from
going nuts and maybe assaulting everyone in the stands again."

$I think the maybe should be removed.

Yeah. I think so.

"As you wish," the two said as one. They quickly stripped off the seven
hundred thousand yen suits that were their standard outfits when they
were
on the job and switched to their more accommodating fighting gear.

$Did they rip them off or just take them off?

Take them off. The suits are expensive. It's one of the reasons she assured
them they have time.

with red piping and had his feet and hands taped up, as always. Aside
from
appearing older, he also seemed taller and heavier, and, as impossible
as it
seemed, now possessed two eyes.

$Hell of a health plan.

One of the perks for working with Shadowlaw. On the downside, there are a
lot of people out to kill you, and your bosses will kill you themslves if
suits their puposes. :)

"There," Rei said. She was a bit off balance from the daring maneuver,
and
would have been open to a counterattack from Shampoo's right had she not
already neutralized the limb by hitting the nerve cluster located there.

$Really now.  The only spot I've found, namely by getting poked there
very hard by a thin sword, that will cause an arm to go numb is
underneath the pectoral muscles.  Lasted about five minutes, but in that
time I couldn't even hold my own sword.  Fortunately, it didn't hurt
much.

Remember, this is the same world were people know Cat's Tongue and
Moxibustion points. Rei Lan employs the same knowledge in her fighting.

There was something about Sagat's eyes that bothered Jaddo. Aside from
the
fact that the left one obviously worked, and was not merely made of
glass,
the movements were odd in some way that he could not define. The eyes
moved
fast. Too fast. They darted about almost too quickly to be seen. Jaddo
did
not know what that meant, but he doubted it was good.

$I know.  He's completely wired out on caffiene.

Heh. The principles are actually the same.

her foot, and probably stood a good chance of breaking several toes
against
his skull. Unconcerned, she unleashed a second kick. What surprised
Sagat
was the amount of force she was able to get behind the kick despite the
awkward angle it was being delivered from.

$Not enough to hurt him, but certainly enough to annoy him.

Pretty much.

Shampoo grimaced. "Aren't you supposed to have lollipops or something to
give your patients?"

$Heh.  I usually ask that, too.

Heh.

tried to chew on the rock-hard substance. It was hard to tell, and as
ravenous as Shampoo was, Jaddo was uncertain she would notice if one of
her
teeth had broken.

$OMC had better have a good dental plan.

They do. If they had needed to, they'd cap her teeth. They know the value of
good image.

"Makes you want to slam your head into a table, doesn't it?" Shampoo
said
through loud crunches.

Rei Lan nodded her head in agreement.

$Heh heh.  Cute.

Thanks. Nice to know people remember what I'm referring to.

Beef said, "Ah, my dear. I might have gotten bigger, but let me assure
you
that every part of me has also grown.

$^_^

He's a big man in every sense of the word. :)

He winked and gave Rei Lan a quick pat on the butt. She seemed to
consider
the proposition for a moment before turning away and back towards Sagat.

$After all, there was a very good chance he wasn't lying.

Yep.

An aide to Kiber burst into the room. His arms were laden with a
plethora of
multi-colored items from vending machines. Almost out of breath, he
gasped
out, "I have what you asked for, Sir. Everything I could get out of the
closest machines, except for chewing gum. The only drink machine I could
find was a beer one.

$A beer vending machine?  Damn, Hong Kong IS more advanced than the US.

Yep, again. Ain't life great? :)

"Well, now, this could get interesting," Jaddo softly mumbled.

"I swear to you if you don't stop moving I'm going to give you a
proctological exam. And let me warn you, I have the biggest hands on the
medical staff," the doctor huffed.

$In a sillier world:
Shampoo: Oooh, you promise?

Or at least a more kinky one. :)

As he did so, Jaddo turned to the last occupant currently in the room, a
man
standing right next to him, arms crossed and doing his best impression
of a
statue as he remained motionless. It would not have surprised the
aborigine
overmuch if there had been a pigeon perched atop his head with how still
he
was standing.

$Heven help it if it decides to crap on him, though.

Hehehehe.

"Your eye seems to have grown back as well."

"You're very observant."

$Just goes to show you, you don't have to be verbose to get the best
lines.

Yep.

Even Beef was taken aback by the comment. "You smiled at one of my
jokes.
Surely it's a sign of the Apocalypse."

$The end of the world, certainly.

At least.

"I'd sooner give myself that procotological examine I threatened her
with,"
the doctor said. "As to the wound, well, as hard as it is for me to
believe,
that thing is healing at an incredible rate.

$Within an hour?

Yep.

Tojo looked at the man as if he had grown a third eye. So had just about
everyone else in the room, save Sagat, who seemed completely

$satisfied with finally having the two eyes nature intended.

Heh. Didn't even realize I set myself up for that one.

"Now that would be a neat trick. Now please run along and tell your
masters
they need to send a bigger lapdog next time," Kiber said.

$Jaddo: Umm, yeah, like a chihuahua or something.  Yeah.

Heh.

Once the trio had exited the room and were well out of earshot, Kiber
turned
to Shampoo. "Tell me, do you shit gold?"

$Damn the perverted thoughts.  Away from me!  Shoo!

Even I don't want to know.

say this about too many people, almost no one, in fact. but you're a
heck of
a guy. Not too many folks could have passed up that kind of a deal, but
I
thank you for it."

$"I still won't sleep with you," Jaddo added under his breath.

Heh.

"Why don't we go out and celebrate at my place? It's all on the house,"
Beef
offered. Kiber, Jaddo, and even the doctor were quick to accept.

$Beef, to the doctor: Hey, no one invited you.

Well, no one was thinking about him at the time, but Beef is a generous guy.

The others agreed and turned out the lights, allowing Shampoo her rest
as
they headed out to celebrate until the wee hours of the morning.

$Allowing Sagat to waltz in and grab her, unfortunately.

Heh. That would have changed what's been planned quite effectively.

It was a game with the highest stakes and the greatest of rewards. He
put
everything on the line in attempting to do what only one other had
accomplished in trying to catch the Tiger by her tail.

$So who was that?

The woman in the room with him now. I didn't mention her by name, but that's
who the 'Tiger' is.

Now he found himself in the private box where they had watched the match
earlier in the evening, on his knees before his mistress,

$Ah, sucking up, so to speak.

Heh. Pretty much.

did
not always mean death. There were things worse than death. He had
already
endured them once at this woman's hands. He had no desire to repeat the
experience. He would do anything to avoid that, which had been proven
many
times over as he eagerly obeyed whatever commands his mistress ordered,
no
matter how depraved or demeaning they were.

$Even to the point of wearing the crotchless chicken suit?

Tiger: On a number of occasions. I like the way everything tastes like
chicken.

Somewhere deep within Tojo a part of him seethed at how eager Rei Lan
was to
make their mutual mistress happy. Once, Rei had belonged to Tojo as
surely
as Tojo belonged to his mistress now. But the woman had destroyed that,
breaking what Tojo had with the girl he had once owned and loved.

$Loved?  And owned?  I doubt it.

To his twisted way of thinking. He sees people as nothing but objects, but
she was an object he cared about greatly. Not love in the conventional
sense, no.

our organization can't win them all. Ah well. I shall simply have to
find
something else to entertain me tonight and distract me from this
annoyance.
Now who shall I choose to help me forget? Let me see. Hmmm."

$Ugh, just had a flash of Sagat jumping up and down and raising both
hands, yelling, "Oooh!  Pick me!  Pick me!"

That is some imagery, there. :)

The woman stepped forward with feline grace and cradled Rei Lan's chin.
The
young woman who had once defeated a dozen armed fighting men in under a
minute all but melted at her mistress's touch.

$Ah, so that's why she turned down Beef.  One wonders idly who could
show her a better time.

Heh. It might be a closer contest than anyone thinks.

Again Tojo raged in a distant part of his being.

$Tojo- Raging against his being.  Well, no, really it was just a little
dissatisfaction with the size of his package.

We're not going there today.

The woman gave a sad shake of her head. "Ah yes, a pity about that. One
of
the numerous drawbacks to vertebreaker technology. Such a loss of one
so...
manly," she drawled,

$Why didn't she go for Beef way back when?

This isn't Colt Remington. The Tiger is someone VERY different from Colt.
Aside from both being dangerous and working on the wrong side of the law,
they're nothing alike.

So that was the punishment he was to endure for his failure. If there
was a
worse one that could be done as quickly with the resources at hand, he
could
not name it.

$I dunno, I could think of some pretty bad ones real quick.

'Resources on hand' being the operative word here.

"Thank you, Mistress." And the worst part of it was, he meant each word.
Each syllable.

$Each letter?

Nah. just the syllables. She can't make him mean every letter. He's not that
good a speller.

deathly ill, she would have broken his hands for the offense. Instead,
all
she could do was allow him his defilement. The shaking upset her stomach
and
for the third time in as many minutes she tried to throw up, but all
Pink
could do was give off dry heaves until it felt like her stomach would
come
bursting out of her esophagus.

$Aww.

More like 'Ewww' one would think.

and
Pink could not follow. Now Pink would have to be both while at the same
time
being alone. It was a horrible feeling, of being alone for the first
time in
her life.

No, not alone. Thomas would be there with her.

$Or not.

True.

"He didn't say anything. But if you saw his eyes, you'd have known. He's
broken, and I don't know if there's anything that can help, especially
now.
No. He's never coming back."

$The funny thing is, even if she did manage to talk to him she probably
couldn't convince him that she was actually Pink.

Oh, she knows intimate details about their relationship. She could convince
him. But he isn't around to convince and isn't going to surface for a while.

And it was all the fault of one person and one person alone. One who had
taken all of those things from her in the span of a heartbeat.

Shampoo.

$Sure, blame someone else.  It'll make you feel better.

Well, it'll give her focus in her life and keep her sanity. Guilt would
simply ruin it, even if she was largely, if inadvertently, responsible for
it.

"One for every day of the week," Jaddo said, playing along with the
joke. He
owned more than that. Not many more, but more.

$Sheesh, what a clothes hog.

I know. Five is more than enough for me. Same way with the underwear.

her life. It was proving almost as hard as leaving her home. That had
felt
like that had happened eight years ago instead of eight months ago. She
had
done so much in so little time. It was hard to believe.

$Wanh!

I feel the same way. :)

her
chest. "This might sound strange, but, I was sort of worried. I mean, I
felt
bad about killing Pink, but not as bad as thought I would have. I mean,

$I really didn't like her.  She was stupid, and annoying, and
completely deluded to think I'd ever like that loser boyfriend of hers."
Shampoo shook her head.  "Nah, I'm glad she's dead.  Why do you ask?"

Heh. She's not quite that glib about it, I did want to avoid the somewhat
standard 'angsty' results killing someone usual elicts in things like this.
I'm quite melodramatic enough as it is already, I don't need to be moreso.
Shampoo's not proud of what she did, she won't brag about it, but she won't
linger on it for too long either.

the

Imperial Arena where the two might have met. But unlike Link, there were
doubts Shampoo had about his desire to kill her. After all, the man was
a
faithless bastard that hit on other women all the time, not the sort to
swear revenge for a lost woman when he could just seduce another. How
much
could he have loved Pink if he behaved like that?

$Both him and Link are gonna be back looking for revenge, ain't they?
Bet theyt're not as dangerous as Perfume, but I bet they show up.

One of them will be. I might do a short story on them right before I set up
things in a major side story that's scheduled for some time later in the
series.

"Do you have everything packed?" Shampoo asked. Their ship's departure
was
within the next three hours, and she wanted to be certain they arrived
there
with plenty of time to spare. There was no telling what might go wrong
on th
e

$The 'e' should be with the 'th'.  I think that was a formatting error.

Yeah, in the sending.

"I'm going back to the mainland. Going to see if I can scare up some
more
fighters."

$Scare is right, with a face like that.

Heh.

care
about the most. Not that he would admit that to her, even now. It would
just
guarantee she would bawl her eyes out, and it might be bad enough to
make
his eyes get moist. He was above that sort of cheap emotional crap, he
assured himself.

$*sniff*  *sniff*

Don't look at me. I don't cry at these things either. I cheered when Bambi's
mother died. It meant venison for some hunter.

"When we first go here you didn't have any friends here either, and only
some of the people hated you, and most of them are gone. I'd say that's
a
good sign," Jaddo pointed out.

$Yeah, that she destroys the lives of people who don't like her.

Inadvertenly, and it wasn't like Link was trying to kill her at the time.
Stab her in the back, truth be known. Both view it as something Link brought
on herself.

He placed his hand next to his mouth so no one would be able to read his
lips. "When I first got to the Impy Arena, I spoke it worse than you."
He
gave her a wink.

$G'day, mate! in Japanese.  Heh.

Ohhh. Sorry I never used that one. I can't imagine what it would sound like
in Japanese. :)

Shampoo stared at him in disbelief. Then it happened. She did not want
it to
happen -she was too depressed- but it still did. A snicker slipped out.
Then

$Should you use the hyphens there?

I think so.

he
returned the gesture. He had never hugged a fighter before when they
parted
company. Given most of them, he wouldn't have wanted to. But Shampoo was
different. As different as day was to night.

$And you're not just talking skin color.

Yep.

Jaddo relented. "Okay, we'll make up stuff and pretend we had nothing
but
good times we shared."

$Sounds wrong somehow.  Maybe: had good times we shared."  ? Up to you,
but it needs something.

Will look it over again.

Having no choice but to do as she was instructed or remain standing for
her
entire sea voyage from a sore bottom,

$Oh, come on.  A dinky little ruler wouldn't even sting her.

With the right snap it could. Nuns that run school can kill a three hundred
pound linebacker with the proper snap of a ruler to the right place, you
know. It's a proven fact.

Shampoo shut her mouth and kept jogging. Despite the unexpected nature
of
what was going to be an exhausting workout, she wore a smile the entire
time. This was the perfect way for the two of them to part ways,
masochistic
as it sounded.

$Yeah!  Lets get some more kink going on!

Nah. Got a Dual! fic in mind that you might like, though. At least two fics
away from me starting work on it, however.

future tales either by myself or him. No, it's not a nice ending wrapped
up
neatly in a bow. It was never going to be. This was a tale of beginnings
for
many, rather than an ending for all. And so it has been.


$Well, that was fun.  Kinda violent note to end it on, but it was about
fighting.  And this is definitely the end of the beginning.  Yah,
definitely.  No complaints here, I had fun.  Excellent work as always.

Thanks. Had fun writing it and am very glad I saw it through to the end.
Reinstills the confidence I have in being able to complete a project. Makes
me hope I can do the same to my others as well. It's especially nice in that
JK has also finally completed another chapter. Starts to tie this in to the
main story as the Arena arc draws near.

So, whatcha moving on to next?

Next chapter of Avenging is due out after I revise it and it goes through
prereaders. It's a long one. After that it looks like an RK one shot. And
then the Dual! one shot fic I mentioned, which I just know is going to be
long . And from there any one of a number of ideas I got simmering.. People
at Newberry have encouraged me to start an idea I mentioned there. We'll see
how things turn out. It all depends on the muse.

Thanks once again for C+Cing this. As always, it's greatly appreciated. All
of the comments were humorous and thoughtful, and I always looked forward to
getting these.

D.B. Sommer



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