Somewhat Halloween-themed, it hasn't changed much from the Writing Hour
last Sunday. Enjoy, if it makes any sense to you.


PINK HAIR
A Ranma 1/2 mystery fusion

    A loud commotion outside the front door drew the attention of the
Tendo family as they sat around the dining room table discussing their
immediate future. "Ah!" Soun exclaimed joyfully. "That must be them
now!"
    "For your sake, Ranma had better be incredibly handsome, smart, and
sexy," said Nabiki as she stood up and left the room to answer the door.
    Akane sat in her place and grumbled. "Well, I'M not marrying him."
    Kasumi sighed wistfully. "I wonder what sort of person Ranma is."
    Nabiki's scream echoed through the house. "Hey, everybody! You'd
better come and see this!"
    The rest of the family got up and ran to the foyer, where the
strangest sight of their lives greeted them. Nabiki cringed on the far
side of the room, unable to take her eyes off the spectacle just outside
the open doorway. The giant panda waving a sign that read [HELP!] in
hastily scribbled letters was weird enough, but the creature that held
the panda helpless in its voluminous locks was even stranger....
*************************************************
    "Come on, Kuno!" shouted Ranma, leaping to the windowsill. "Let's
take this outside!" With that, he threw himself off the sill and out
into the courtyard.
    "Hey, this is the third floor, you idiot!" shouted a voice from a
nearby window.
    "Don't worry," assured another voice. "The pool's down there to
break his fall."
    "Pool?" Ranma immediately began to flap his arms and legs, but it
was useless. He landed in the pool with a massive splash, and Kuno
followed shortly.
    Once in the water, the kendoist grappled blindly for his opponent,
but his hands closed on a pair of what felt like perfectly formed
breasts. 'Wonderful,' he thought to himself. 'Surely, this is the woman
for me....'
    The students watching from the windows didn't see the woman in the
pool, however. Instead, the water quickly took on a pink hue, and giant
pink bubbles covered its surface, as if someone had poured an entire
tanker full of bubble bath solution into the pool. The students watched
and waited as the minutes passed, but neither Ranma nor Kuno surfaced.
However, someone - or something - did finally emerge from the mass of
bubbles....
*************************************************
    Kasumi screamed and ran from the room, covering her eyes to avoid
looking at the naked form. Akane took a fighting stance and prepared to
defend herself if necessary. However, it proved futile. No sooner had
the woman outside deigned to notice Akane's presence than she opened her
mouth and spat out a long pink strand that quickly wound itself around
Akane, wrapping her from head to toe in a pink cocoon before she could
react. Nabiki finally gathered the presence of mind to get to her feet,
but as she turned to run, the pink hair wrapped around her ankles, tying
them together in an instant.
    The woman floated into the house, carrying the panda with her, and
closed the door behind her to cut off the girls' screams from the
outside world.
*************************************************
    The back door burst open, and the purple-haired girl charged through
the opening, leveling one of her bonbori at the people seated around the
table. "Where pink hair girl?"
    Ranma paled. "Shampoo, trust me, you don't want to fight her!"
    Shampoo's hands clenched on the handle of the bonbori until her
knuckles turned white. "Girl what defeat Shampoo, I kill!"
    "I think this should be interesting," said Nabiki, picking up her
glass of water and flicking it, sending the contents spilling all over
Ranma's front. Ranma had just enough time to turn and glare at her
before the change took effect.
    Shampoo's eyes widened as Ranma's alter ego stood up, murder in its
eyes. "You... you die now..." she stammered. The strand of pink hair
that wound around her throat quickly cut off any further words she might
have had on the subject. Ryoga curled up in a corner and rubbed the red
mark on his throat that marked his own first - and hopefully last ever -
encounter with the monster. But Shampoo didn't have a sharp blade in her
belt to cut herself free with as he had....
*************************************************
    Soun finally recovered from his shock and stepped forward. "Now, see
here, Madam! I must demand that you relinquish my daughters this
instant!"
    "MMMMMMMMMMPH!" Akane tried to scream in warning, an act made very
difficult by the fact that her mouth was covered with hair.
    "Daddy, save yourself!" croaked Nabiki, barely able to get the words
out through the stranglehold that the hair had on her throat.
    "It's all right," Soun assured his daughters. "I won't be distracted
by her pert breasts and well-rounded hips... oh, damn that training from
Master Happosai!" While he lifted his arm to wipe the drool from his
lips, the hair quickly tied him up and left him helplessly bound on the
floor before returning its attention to the girls.
*************************************************
    Principal Kuno smiled broadly as he pulled down the screen that
outlined his new dress code. "We have de buzz cuts fo' de kahunas, and
de bowl cuts fo' de wahines!"
    The entire student body groaned in unison. "That's not fair!"
shouted a brave girl in the back.
    "Do me hear de sound of de first volunteer?" asked the principal,
cupping a hand to his ear.
    Akane poked Ranma in the ribs. "Hey, Ranma, if he wants hair to
cut...."
    "I'm way ahead of you," Ranma whispered back, making his way toward
the back of the auditorium, where the double doors would lead to a
convenient chilled water fountain....
*************************************************
    Minutes later, the family had gathered around the table once again,
this time to offer a baleful greeting to their guests, a bald man and
his son, who sported an innocent black pigtail that belied the deadly
nature of the hair they had seen in his previous form.
    "It's a good thing you threw that hot water at us, Kasumi," said
Genma.
    "It was the only thing I could think of to defend myself," replied
Kasumi. "But I don't understand what happened. How did the two of you
become a panda and..."  - she shuddered at the memory - "that?"
    "Well," explained Genma, "it began when Ranma and I were training in
China. We went to a place called Jusenkyo, and Ranma fell into a pool
called... now, what was it again...?"
*************************************************
    Pantyhose Taro cackled as the first raindrops fell from the sky.
"Well, it's time, Saotome. I hope you're ready to see what the magic of
Jusenkyo has done for me!" Dense fur began to grow all over his body,
thankfully covering him completely before his bulging muscles tore his
clothes apart. His bulk shot upward, towering over Ranma as he
transformed into his monolithic cursed form, while a pair of comically
diminutive wings sprouted from his back. "THERE," he said as the
transformation finished. "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF TH- WHAT? WHAT HAPPENED
TO YOU?"
    Ranma's own cursed form stared blankly back, its open mouth
revealing what appeared to be a third eye that also gazed lifelessly
upon the beast known as Pantyhose. Several long strands of pink hair
shot out of its center, binding Taro's arms and legs.
    "HA! FOOL! DO YOU THINK TARO CAN BE STOPPED BY MERE HAIR?" He roared
mightily and swung his arm down, tearing it free of its bonds in the
same motion that brought it crashing down where Ranma had been. But the
woman was already out of the fist's path and well out of Taro's reach.
He turned to face her, but the thousands of additional invisible threads
that had wound around him while he was distracted stopped him in his
tracks. He tugged at his arms and legs, but the sheer mass of hair had
become too strong for even his incredible strength to break. He screamed
in terror as the crushing pressure increased until it was too much for
his body to bear....
*************************************************
    "Ah, that's right!" announced Genma, slamming his fist into his palm
triumphantly. "The Spring of Drowned Monomakia!"

RANMA 1/2 PINK HAIR: HERE'S RYUNMA!

Acknowledgements:

Ranma 1/2 and all related characters are the creation of Rumiko
Takahashi.
Brigadoon is the creation of Nozomi Watase. Ryunma did not appear in the
original manga, and is therefore the creation of Yoshitomo Yonetani,
Takahiro Kimura, and the other people responsible for the Brigadoon
anime.


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it himself.

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