For all you impatient people, here's chapter 6! 
	Anyone who cares, I'll be posting chapters 1-5
on r.a.a.s today.


 
 
Chapter 6
 
[Park, Afternoon]
 
(In slow-motion, we see a weak and battered Akane jumping
 to a healthy and deadly Shampoo. Ranma is in the background,
 frantically jumping over the huge crowd just watching the fight
 calmly. Just as Ranma has reached the stage by now, 
 Shampoo's bonbori is but a few inches from Akane's head)
 
Ranma: STOP!!!! (Gives a final jump to where
 Shampoo is. His body collides with hers before
 Shampoo's bonbori smashes Akane)
 
Shampoo: (Angry, with Ranma on top of her)
 Ranma stop interfering!
 
Ranma: Not until you promise to stop trying to kill
 Akane!
 
Akane: (Dusting herself off) Ranma....
GET OFF OF SHAMPOO!
 
Ranma: I just saved you, Akane! Don't I get any
 thanks?
 
Akane: I don't need your help, Ranma! I can fight
 this bimbo just as anybody can! (The crowd starts
 booing)
 
Shampoo: What wrong?
 
Male1: What's with all the talking? We want to see
 action!
 
Crowd: YEAH! ACT-ION! ACT-TION!
 
Ranma: Hey, stop that! The idiot here was nearly
 killed here!
 
Female1: Hey, he's the one that started all the talking!
 
Female2: Hey, I recognize him! He's the one that's
 always running on my roof.
 
Female3: Isn't he the one that always has tons of women
 chasing him?
 
Female2: My god, it is! I wonder what sort of freak he is.
 (All of the crowd is talking now)
 
Ranma: Keep your nose out of my business!
 
Male2: Let's get him off the stage!
 
Crowd: Yeah! (Multiple men start taking a hold of
 Ranma's limbs)
 
Ranma: Whaddya think you're doing?! (As Ranma
 tries to shake off all the men grabbing at his arms
 and legs...)
 
Shampoo: (A glint in her eyes) Lets finish fight.
 
Akane: (Voice dead serious) Fine with me.
 
Ranma: (Tries again to separate from all the men
 again once he sees what's Akane and Shampoo
 are doing, but without success) C'mon, you two!
 Enough is enough!
 
Akane: I'm only going to stop.... Until that bitch leaves
 Japana FOREVER! (Runs to Shampoo)
 
Shampoo: (Coolly) I no stop until Akane *dead* (Jumps)
 
Ranma: Shampoo, don't be crazy! DON'T YOU DARE
 LAY A FINGER ON HER!! (Too late. Shampoo uses
 her bonbori and hits Akane's head _HARD_. Akane
 staggers, and sinks to her knees) AKANEE!! LEMME
 GO, SHE NEEDS HELP! (In a fit of anger and worry
 Ranma manages to shake off everybody off him)
 
Shampoo: (About to attack again) Stay away, Ranma!
 (Hits Akane again one more time; and this is it for her.
 She slumps over. As Shampoo is about to strike again...)
 
(Ranma actually kicks Shampoo off stage. He then runs
 to Akane)
 
Ranma: Akane, yo! Wake up! (Baps his palm gently on
 her face) C'mon, Akane... (To crowd) Somebody call a
 hospital! 
 
Shampoo: Groom not happy? (Ranma turns to look at her.
 When Shampoo looks at Ranma she freezes; in Ranma's
 eyes is a mixture of blind fury, sadness and hatred. In fact,
 if Shampoo wasn't a girl or Akane needed help, he probably
 would have killed her, or at least beat her into a bloody pulp)
 
Ranma: (Acid dripping onto his voice) Shampoo.
 I'll-I'll deal with you later.
 
Shampoo: (This scares her) AIYAA! Shampoo
 sorry, she not know upset Ranma so much!
 
Ranma: (Ignoring Shampoo now, paying all of his
 attention to Akane now. He puts her head on his lap, 
 and holds her hand) Wake up, Akane! Please!
 (Akane's eyes flutter slightly. She just looks at 
Ranma)
 
Ranma: Akane, you idiot! I told you to stop the fight!
 
Akane: (Weakly) Ranma... promise me something...
 
Ranma: (This throws him off) Eh? 
 
Akane: Before I... I... go, please promise me this...
 
Ranma: (Shaken) Akane, no! You're not thinking!
 You can't...
 
Akane: Please, Ranma...
 
Ranma: (His eyes by now are wet) Anything, Akane!
 Just don't die on me!
 
Akane: Ranma...
 Think of me... think of me fondly.
 Remember me once in a while, please promise me you'll try.
 We never said our love was evergreen or as unchanging as the sea.
 But if you can still remember, stop and think of me.
 
Ranma: What are you talking about! I could never
 forget you, Akane.
 
Akane: (Smiling weakly) Thanks. But Ranma, go
 ahead and marry someone else I want you to be
 happy.
 Think of all the things we've shared and seen,
 don't think of all the things that might have been.
 Recall does days, look back on all those times,
 think of the things we'll never do.
 If you ever find a moment, spare a thought for me.
 There will never be a day when I won't think of you. 
 
Ranma: (Shaking her slightly) Akane, hang in there!
 The paramedic's will be here soon enough!
 
Akane: (Closing her eyes) It's been good knowing you.
Good bye, Ranma.
 
Ranma: (Tears flowing easily now) AKANE, NO!
 (She is no longer breathing, so he checks her pulse.
 His heart nearly stops) WHY?!!?!?!?!? WHY HER,
 OF ALL PEOPLE?!?! OH, AKANEE!!!!!! 
 
[The scene fades with Ranma holding her hand,
 crying without shame]


	
	It'll probably lighten up soon, but I couldn't
make Akane's death happy and joyful. It's kinda like
not carying at the end of 'Charlotte's Web' (What?
You didn't cry? Everybody I know that cares in the least
for reading did)
 	To those of you noticed, in Akane's last
few sentences is almost compleltly taken out of 'The
Phantom of the Opera' the song 'Think of me'. In
fact, it was this song that 'inspired' me to write
this. It struck me as something as Akane might say
while dieing, as I listend to my sisters soundtrack.
I couldn't bear having her die, so I arranged it
so that she wasn't totally dead. And a couple of months
later, I sat myself down long enough to write chapter 1.
	I'll start my rambling now before I bore
you all to death. That is, if I haven't already. ;)


	Isabel Arantes