One hour challenges are evil. I get weird ideas and every now and again I
give in
to temptation and actually write one. Here's the second such offering...

Closer To You
A Ranma Spamfic by Rakhal Stormwarden

Ranma 1/2 and all the characters within was created by Rumiko Takahashi, and
is
used without permission. No disrespect is intended by my use if these
characters
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Angela came across John sitting in the common room at college. He was
reading
one of those silly comic books again. "What do you see in those comics?"

"Just look at her" he said, pointing at a cute girl in the story he was
reading.
"That's Akane, she's the fiancee of the lead character in this story. I wish
there
was some way I could get close to her. That other girl is Ranma, the lead
character.
She's really a boy, but she's really cute as well. Would be fun to get close
to her
as well!"

"You're weird, you know that, don't you?" Angela opined, rapidly losing
interest
as she wandered off to the coffee machines.

John spent another 2 hours there, rapidly reading the three volumes he'd
brought
and then headed off back to his dorm, brain still going a mile a minute,
images of
Akane floating around in his head. And onna-Ranma as well, somewhat to his
embarassment.

Back at his halls of residence, he went quickly to his room and tumbled into
bed.
Early lectures tomorrow morning, it wouldn't pay to be late...

----

John woke up suddenly. Something had changed, but he wasn't quite sure what.
His
body refused to respond to him, in that customary lethargy experienced when
one
starts awake. But then again there seemed to be something more to it. He
seemed
different, and it was totally dark. Where was he? What had happened? He
couldn't
feel his arms, his legs or even his head, there just seemed to be a general
awareness
spread over an area. He could feel his sides pressed up against something
hard, and
if he concentrated, he could force that area of awareness to extend up and
touch
something smooth and hard above him.

Suddenly there was a light, as that roof was suddenly removed. Above him was
the
face of his dreams. Akane was looking down at him!. For a moment
he was struck dumb, then he tried to reach out to her, to say something. But
only
a gentle burp came out. Reaching out worked better, but Akane only frowned,
as she
reached down with a wooden spoon and pressed his arms and head back down
again.

Finally John recognised what had happened to him! He'd been reincarnated as
some
sort of food monster! Desperately he lunged for freedom, but to no avail.
His
goddess was well prepared from that, grabbing a food tenderising mallet and
whacking
him, bringing the darkness back...

A while later, awareness slowly filtered back, just in time to hear Akane's
voice
saying "Carrot Surprise! Eat up."

Things had changed again. Now he was
lying on a plate with a fork stuck in him. Pain radiated through his
gelatinous
body making it hard to think, but he could see not only Akane, but Ranma
too, in
girl form. Both she and Akane were even more beautiful in real life than
they were
on the printed page, if only he could call out to them, let them know that
he was
there.

A cold horror slowly descended on him, as he finally realised what was
happening.
Ranma was tearing him apart, ripping chunks of his body off, and bearing him
towards
her mouth on the fork. He struggled frantically, squirming on the fork,
winning himself
a brief reprieve as Ranma looked at Akane, hoping that there was some way he
could
get out of eating this.

Akane's glare sealed Johns fate with an awful finality as Ranma's mouth
closed about
him and the final darkness fell.

He had finally got his wish. He could ask to be no closer to Ranma than
this...

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