Suggested changes: {before : after}
On Tue, 06 May 2003 00:48:38 -0700 Christopher Olsen
<christopherolsen28@hotmail.com> wrote:
Misty looked down, seeming considerably embarrassed. "Neither did you,
Kasumi..." The half cat girl started to stretch, brushing against her
husband lightly, and a shiver went through her whole body. "Ah..." She
moaned lightly, starting to {role : roll} over onto him automatically when she
stopped, her eyes going wide in surprise. "Oh my..."
Both girls blushed, Ranma's wife flushing only slightly, while in
contrast, the younger Akane turned a spectacular shade of scarlet that
matched her name. "Yes{: ,} Auntie" They intoned together, blushing further at
the stereo sound of their combined voices in the tiled furo room.
"Yes{: ,} Mother." Akane Saotome answered, smiling and nodding at her younger
twin.
"Yes{: ,} Auntie." Akane Tendo answered a moment later, smiling gratefully
back.
Nodoka smiled beneficently at the two girls and finished getting out,
picking up a towel and drying herself off as she walked away. "I'm sure you
two have lots to talk about." She said, nodding to them cheerfully. "I'll
see you both at breakfast!" Humming to herself, visions of grandchildren
running through her head, the diminutive Saotome {Matriarch : matriarch} departed.
Akane shook her head. "Of course not... I hate it... but...." She sighed.
"But I won't stop you from doing it again...." She raised an eyebrow.
"{Provide : Providing} it's your other self and not YOU that's sleeping with my husband,
that is."
"My place?" Minako hesitated, then nodded. "Sure, Artemis and Luna won't
mind being cats for one night a week... I can change into Akane
before I go to bed, and leave my window open... my parents never come in my
room...."
I wonder where they would go though. They can't stay in the same room
as Ranma.
"What sort of trap, Sensei?" Ukyo asked, looking curious. She wasn't the
only one, and the young teacher was finding the attention slightly
unnerving, especially as he was about to suggest a plan that could get them
all killed.{:
} Johnathon frowned. "Well... the idea is to get her to attack,
and then counterattack. It's simple enough in concept... it's the execution
that's tricky." We want her attack to fail, and ours to succeed, but she's
smart enough to avoid us when we're in a large group like this, and she's
too dangerous to handle one on one." Everyone nodded in agreement, glancing
at each other thoughtfully, and Johnathon laughed nervously. "So we have to
get her to think she can attack us successfully, then hit her by surprise."
The whole plan was insane, but despite that obvious fact, it was the best
one anyone could think of. Johnathon's initial explanation had
gotten a storm of incredulous questions, but he had managed to field them
all, apparently gaining confidence with each answered problem. In theory,
the idea behind Johnathon's plan was pretty good. She and the other Senshi
were the ace in the {whole : hole}. While Mara had shown great
power, she, like all the demons and monsters before her, had failed to
penetrate their disguise fields. As "Rei Hino" she was just one more
unremarkable student out of hundreds at the school, as were all the others.
It had been Nabiki who had come up with the answer to the final problem,
that is, what to do with Misty. The half-cat girl couldn't be left alone in
the Tendo home without risk, but she couldn't come to school in her
condition either. Nabiki had suggested sneaking her into the school clinic
and declaring a quarantine to keep everyone out. A quarantine would also
explain the face mask and nose plugs Dr. Tofu would be wearing to protect
him from Misty's {Pheromone : pheromone} cloud. Dr. Tofu had given Misty a sedative and
Ranko and Ranma had slipped the sleeping
cat-girl into the clinic with surprising ease. She rested quietly in the
clinic's one bed, the curtain drawn and the covers up, with Kasumi
watching over her and Dr. Tofu in the room beyond to ward off the curious.
Even Mamoru Chiba had shown up, posing as Johnathon Dwire's
teaching assistant, which had solved the problem of Johnathon having to
teach classes that held none of the others as students.
"It's all going to fall apart." Rei gloomily forecast to Nabiki during
their first break period. "Someone's going to screw this up and they're
going to find out we're not supposed to be here."{:
} Nabiki shrugged.
"Maybe... I don't like this plan much either, but can you think of something
better?"{:
} "Better than you being bait for a demon in the middle of a crowd
of civilians?" Rei rolled her eyes. "There has to be a better way!"
Nabiki shrugged. "Just kill this time. Set the odds at two to one against
the demoness losing. Hmm... and three to one against at least one magical
girl showing up to fight her."{:
} Sakura blinked. "You mean besides Ranma?"
"I {saw, he : saw. He} got split into two people, huh?" Sakura looked curious.
Nabiki's exchange with Sakura was a very nice way to introduce Rei to
the facts of Furinkan life. I could practically hear her jaw dropping.
"A demoness." Nabiki corrected. "And after Happosai, Pantyhose Taro, the
Ghost Cat, giant carnivorous plants, {Bird People : bird people}, random escaping {Oni : oni},
{Vampire : vampire} teachers, cursed swords...." Rei waved her hands in surrender.
"Enough! Enough! I get the idea." She blinked. "Wait...
vampire teachers?"
Johnathon frowned. "I know... this is too complex to keep up for long...
maybe it's best if you all go back to your own schools tomorrow... if
there's trouble you can always teleport here...."
I'd think they'd be very cautious about teleporting even if they
thought they could without Ami.
Artemis shook his head. "No, we had to break off our search last night
when Luna started...." He blushed. "Well... we think it was some sort of
magical attack. We've been hiding out ever since, just in case we were being
watched... but it seems like { however : whoever} cast the spell wasn't interested in
seeing whether or not it worked. We came here this morning when we were sure
no one was observing us.