(*Beta...really!!C&C appriciated..*)
Natsumi, The Magical Girl Epsiode 2
Business was slow at Ucchan's today, but Ukyou was still hard at
work in her restaurant. Coming to Nermia over the weekend was an
important business conference, and Ucchan's was a just a block
away from the conference. Ukyou expected to make quite a bit of
profit from this weekend, and she owed it all to BFC , who was
sponsring the conference.If it wasn't for the BFC she would be
struggling to make a profit, but with BFC exceuctives eating
here, espically Mine, she was making more money than she had ever
made at Ucchan's.
"Mail Ukyou-san!!"
"Hai!!" Ukyou began to look through the mail, and found out that
her mail was, as always, mostly bills. But there was one thing
that caught her eye, a invitation addresed to her to attend the
martial art's cooking competation this weekend. "All right, at
last I can show Ran-chan that I'm the best fiancee for him!...
Wait a minute...Oh no!!" Ukyou cried out. The contest was to be
held this weekend, the weekend of the business confrence. Ukyou
sighed, she couldn't afford to close Ucchan's this weekend.
"Oh man...Why can't thing's ever work out for me?!"
>From across the street Mine continued here stake out of Ukyou.
When she first started her plan she needed some way to get closer to her
attended target, and after a few weeks of watching
Ucchan's she at last had found away to complete phase one of her plan.
Soon she would be one her way to acheving supreme power
for her and the BFC.
Richard Beaubien
Presents
Natsumi, the Magical Girl
Epsiode 2: Cestnut's and Chop Suey, Natsumi can cook!!
It was your average day at the Tendo dojo, which meant a couple
of thing's. One was that Ranma and Akane were in the middle of
their usual afternoon argument. Also it meant that Nabiki was
once again plotting to blackmail the major corperation's in the
world. However, unlike most normal days where Kasumi usually
would be doing some house work, instead Kasumi was busy visitng
her family shrine.
"Mom, please help...I don't know want you want me to do...I want to be
Natsumi...yet I can't...can't.." Kasumi manged to mutter in between her tears.
Nabiki noticed Kasumi crying and started to walk down towards her.
"What's up Kasumi?"
"Nothing much...Just paying my respects." Kasumi said as she
wiped away her tear's. Nabiki however didn't believe Kasumi as
she knew something was wrong, and more importantly she knew what was wrong
with Kasumi. "It's Natsumi isn't it?"
"Well...Yes it is. I don't know if I can do this Nabiki. I'm not the
superhero type...I can't do this ...I'm sorry mom!!" Kasumi
cried as she started to hug Nabiki.
"Onnechan, it's allright!!I know you can do this, I've alway's
had faith in you."
"Nabiki-chan..."
"And I'm sure Mom know's that you can do this, or else she
wouldn't have given you such power.." Nabiki whispred to Kasumi,
trying to hold back her own tear's. For most of her teenage
year's Nabiki thought she had come to terms with her mother's
death, yet during the past few weeks she had discovered that
she had not delt with her mother's death. She was still brought
to tears when she recived her business set, which meant
she had a weekness. And if she had a weekness she could be hurt,
hurt like she was when her mother died.
"Nabiki-chan?"
"Ahh...I've gotta go do some work Onnechan.." Nabiki blurted out as she
started to move away from Kasumi. She needed a diversion
so Kasumi couldn't see her a cry, she couldn't let people know
she could be hurt like before. Fortunetly Akane just happend to
provide such a diversion.
"Kasumi-onnechan!!Guess what, I've been invited to attend a
martial art's cooking contest this weekend. At last I'll show
everyone that I'm a great cook, just like Mom said I could be..."
"That's great news Akane!!" Exclaimed Kasumi, showing no signs of the tears
she had earlier.
"Yeah, and you'll win too Akane.." Ranma muttered as he apperead out of
nowhere.
"Really Ranma.." Akane looked lovingly at Ranma. It was as if all was right
with their relationship.
"Yeah, your cooking is already classified as a lethal weapon so ..." Ranma
said without thinking, which was a shame because if he thought things
through he wouldn't have been hit by a hammer with a velocity of over 100 m/s.
"Ranma no Baka!!!" Nabiki just sighed, at least somethings
stayed 'normal' around here. And if things went according the
norm, they would have their usual unwanted vistor pop in right
about....
"Nihao Ranma!!"
"Oh man Shampoo..."
"Why are you here Shampoo.." Akane asked with a hint of venom in her voice.
"None of your Business violent girl. Shampoo here to tell Ranma
that she will win cooking contest for him.."
"Not the martial art's cooking contest!?"
"Why yes, once Shampoo win it Ranma sure to marry her!!"
Shampoo yelled through the microphone that apperead out of
nowhere. "Oh no, I'm going to win this contest Shampoo..."
Akane replied in a voice of confidence.
"Ha, violent girl lucky if Judges even survive food..."
"You Bimbo, I'll show you cooking!!!"
The two girl's had a grim derteminaton on their face that
immediately told Ranma that the 2 girls were about to fight.
Ranma just sighed, maybe he should enter the tournment afterall, just to
prevent these two from destroying the contest. He did
after all recieve a invitation for a 'Ranko', but he was going to ignore it.
Yet with Akane and Shampoo in this contest, he had to go to prevent major
property damage, and to also show them that Ranma Saotome is the only person
that can win these insanely stupid martial arts contests.
Kasumi started to head to the kitchen to avoid the impending
crisis, and also to make some sandwiches for the combatents.
She started to slice some bread when Nabiki came into the kitchen.
"There are some Sandwiches on the counter Nabiki-chan.."
"No thank's Onnechan. I came in here to ask you question..."
"What is it?" A curious Kasumi asked her younger sister.
"Would you enter this cooking contest as Natsumi? "
"What!?" Kasumi didn't know what to make of the question .
"Why?"
"2 reason's. One, it will give you an oppurtunity to train for
any more Youma attacks.." Nabiki then waited for a dramatic pause. "Two,
it'll be a great marketing oppurtunity..."
A huge bead of sweat apperead on Kasumi's forehead. It seemed
like the only thing Nabiki thought about was money, but then
again she was right about one thing, she could use the training.
"All right I'll do it."
"Thank you Onnechan!!I'll take care of the details!!" Nabiki
yelled as she ran out of the kitchen. If thing's worked out she
could make a killing in marketing and Kasumi would pick up the
self confidence she needed. Nabiki started to smile, she had a
plan that could make her some money and it wouldn't hurt
anybody in the process.
Kasumi just stood in the kitchen, wondering if she could handle
this. She turned to look at the family shrine when she thought
she heard her mother's voice. "You can do it Kasumi, I know you
can..."
Kasumi sighed, "I hope your right mother...I hope your right."
****
Lunch at the BFC is like lunch at every other other corperation in the
world.People would gather togther and discuss business,
or perhaps discuss the fate of their favorite sports team. And
usually that's what happens at the BFC, expcept for the superiors
of the corperation. Oh sure they would get togther at lunch and
discuss business. But the business they would discuss would not
be the usual business or money and how to make it, rather they
would discuss a much more sinster enterprise. Such a meeting was
happening today at the BFC involving Mine, a younger Youma, and
their immedite superior.
"My lady, I would like to know why she has been given the
authority to go ahead with this silly 'Martial Art's cooking
contest'?" Mine asked as she hurled an acid look towards the
younger youma.
"Mine, she has provided a rather good plan to get us some Martial artist's
without attracting suspicion to the BFC like the first plan did."
"Using a dummy corperation, Sabre 2000 knifes, we will lure the
best of Nerima's martial artist into a trap they can't escape
from, my little cooking contest. Ha!!" The younger youma
exclaimed in voice that radiated confidence. Mine, however,
didn't share the younger youma's feelings of confidence. "It
sounds like your typical 'bad guy' setup for a trap, do you
really expect it to work?"
The younger youma was about to respond to the accusations
when their superior motioned her to stop. "Enough in-fighting,
were on the same team here. Mine, my decision stands to let her
go ahead with this trap. I will not tolerate any more questioning of
my decison's. My decisons are made for the best intrest of
the company and the 'Master Vison' BFC has for the future. Do you
understand Mine.."
"Yes My lady.."
"Good, I hope we won't have this problem in the future. As for
the other plan, I see no reason why it should not go ahead. If it works
the BFC shall have the best natural resources in the world. If it fails
than the failure will have to be accounted for, with the usual penalties
for wasting company resources."
The younger youma froze at the mention of those last words. She
knew the price of failure, and she did not want to pay such a
severe price. " I won't fail you My lady.." the youma stuttered
as she dissapered from the office.
"Well Mine, any other questions?"
"No my Lady, I'll be going now." Mine than bowed to her leader
as she started to leave the office, hiding the slight smile that was
on her face. What the younger youma didn't know was that
Mine knew about her plan from the begining. And that Mine in fact,
had wanted her to go ahead with the plan. It would after all
lead to total failure, and the elmination of another potential
adversary. And the one person Mine needed to complete phase 1
one of her plan would be left out of this snafu because of the
business conference she scheduled for this weekend. With this
conference, Ukyou Kounji would be hers for the taking.
****
It was the day of the cooking contest, and it seemed like the
whole of Nerima was there to enjoy this spectle. Certainly
it helped to have an announcer yelling:
"All right people, Sabre 2000 presents the best of the best, the
greatest of the greatest!! It's the martial art's cooking contest!!!
Get your tickets now as the contest begins in under two hours!!!"
And the public did line up to get the tickets, not supecting the whole
setup to be your average youma trap. But the announcer
didn't care, for if this plan worked the BFC would have enough
power to make everyone here into their slaves.
The competitors also didn't suspect this to be a trap, but they
were more pre occupied with more important thing's. Akane was
thinking of ways to make an edible chow mein, Shampoo was
thinking of ways to hurt Akane and win Ranma's heart, and Ranma
was thinking of ways to keep the property damage to a minimum.
Yep, they were so busy thinking of these things that they missed
any signs pointing to a youma trap, which was supposed to mean
smooth sailing for the youma. However it wasn't...
"What do you mean Ukyou hasn't shown up yet!!" The youma yelled
at her underling. If Ukyou didn't show up, she would not have the
four martial artisits that she promised to bring her boss. And
her boss would consider this to be a failure, with it's usual
penalties. "I need another Martial artist right now, find me one
or else face the consquences!!!"
Nabiki let a slight grin appear on her face as she overheard the
last statement. It seemed that she now had the perfect way to
get Natsumi into this little contest. "Excuse me, but I may be
able to help you find another martial artist..."
"You can?!"
"Trust me..." Nabiki replied in a voice that did every thing but
encourage a feeling of trust.
"Just bring her here!!"
"Okay.." Nabiki yelled as she turned the corner and entered the
ladies room. In there was Kasumi waiting for the signal. "All
right were in, but how are you gonna change into Natsumi?"
"Like this Nabiki...Love power TRANSFORM!!" Sudenly a starnge
glow envloped Kasumi. Her outfit dissolved away as energy
moved up and down her body. A lemon yellow skirt formed around
her waist, and a lime-green top apperead above it. A bright
yellow bow, boots of the same colour and white gloves finished
off the ensamble as the broach settled into the center of the bow.
"Well let's go Nabiki.."
"Well that would work...I just have one more question.."
"What is it Nabiki?"
"Can I use your transformation scene of the Hentai market?"
A large bead of sweat appeared on Natsumi's forehead. "Nabiki!!"
"Okay, Okay...we'll stay with the kid's market..It's more
lucrative anway.." Nabiki muttered as she and Natsumi started
to walk out of the restroom. Natsumi looked down to her sister
with a loving look in her eye. Even though she did almost
anything for money, when the chips were down Nabiki would
always pull through for her family. After all Nabiki did do that
creative book keeping that kept the family in the black ever
since Ranma started to live at the dojo. And right now Nabiki
had the grim look of determination that told everyone to not
cross her or her family or else they would face the consquences.
The youma was of course the target of this gaze. But she
didn't catch the gaze. Nope, she was busy looking at the fighter
Nabiki had brought for her, and started to curse fate for
bringing her a magical girl. "It's okay your in.." the youma
muttered in a defeated voice. She started to wonder if it was
too late to start a less stress free job, something like hostage
negotiations.
"Thanks alot.." Nabiki then hugged Natsumi , and than
whispered, "Do your best!!" Natsumi started to smile,
and then proceded to the main arena where the contest
would be held. She still had her doubts as to whether she
would succed or fail. But with Nabiki and her mother supporting
her, Nastumi felt like she could do anything.
The youma, however, thought she could do nothing right. Her
perfect plan would be ruined by this magical girl. But there was
still one way to save face in front of her boss. She could
eliminate this pest of a magical girl, and would bring home
three martial artists plus a magical girl to her boss. Then
she would prove once and for all that she was the best
Youma in the BFC, and that she deserved to be promoted.
A nervous smile appered on her face, today would either be her
greatest victory or her greatest defeat.
****
The arena was packed with spectators awaiting the contest. The
arena was packed for two reasons, one was the usual high level
of combat that people know and love in Nerima. The second reason was
the fact that the crowd would in fact judge this event which meant one thing,
free food. Maybe that was the reason why the
majority of the crowd looked like college students. But the
crowd was excited no matter what age group they were from, and
it took the hissing of the PA system to silence the crowd.
"Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Martial art's cooking
contest. Let us introduce the four compeitors, first from the
Tendo Dojo, Akane Tendo!!" Akane walked to a round of applause
, although some of the audience turned blue at the thought of
eating Akane's infamous cusinie.
"Our next competitor hail's from China, please welcome Shampoo!!"
Shampoo walked out to the arena to another defining round of
applause. The people that had turned blue started to perk up at
the prospect of eating Shampoo's world famous Ramen. The people
there for the martial arts began to salivate at the mouths. Akane and
Shampoo usually produced fights that blew away most
martial arts film's, even some of Jackie Chan's greatest.
"Our third competitor hail's from the Tendo Dojo, please
welcome Ranko Tendo.." The arena became dead quite as
Ranma-chan enetered. If the fight fans weren't already drooling,
they were now. With Ranma-chan in this contest they were
guaranteed a fight they would remember for the rest of their
lives. Those in the audience that knew of Ranma, Akane, and
Shampoo were also antcipating a great fight, espically with
the bad blood between these three formidable martial artists.
"And our final competitor is Natsumi!!" The arena was
rocking with noise as Natsumi entered, but it wasn't
applause for her. Rather the crowd was busy debating
which of the three martial artists would survive the
impending show down. Only four people payed attention
to Natsumi, one of whom was Nabiki, The other three
were her competitors.
"All right let's begin!!" The announcer said as the youma took
her place in the crowd. The four competitors immeditly began
to procede to their kitchens to plan their strategy. Akane
looked over to the mysterious fourth competitor and decided
not to attack her unless she absloutly had too. For some wierd
reason this Natsumi remined her of Kasumi. She also decided
to stay away from Shampoo for the time being and focus on
Ranma as her first target. After all she'd never be able to live
throught the embarassment of Ranma winning a cooking contest
over her.
Ranma-chan was also thinking about startegy. She too didn't
want to attack Natsumi, though not for the same reason's as
Akane. Ranma-chan wanted to wait and see what skill this girl
had before they had to fight. She also wanted to stay away from
Shampoo as Ranma knew Shampoo would try to hug her at any
moment, which would lead to the usual mess of problems. So that
only left one option open for her, and that was Akane Tendo.
Shampoo's startegy session was much simplier. She knew she had
to elminate two people, one of them being Akane Tendo, the other beging
this Natsumi person. And Shampoo would take care of
Natsumi first, so she could spend the remainder of her time
plotting the defeat her main rival, Akane Tendo.
Natsumi was not planning attack strategy though, rather she
was the only person of the 4 competitor who was actually
cooking something. She had already completed a miso soup when
she heard something moving behind her. She just manged to duck an incoming
Bonbiri, and started to move into a defensive stance as
she prepared for another attack. In front of her stood Shampoo in
an attack position, ready to strike.
"You give up, so Shampoo no have to hurt.."
"I'm sorry, I can't give up!!"
"Then I attack!!!" Shampoo suddenly sprinted towards Natsumi with
her remaining Bonbiri in her hand. Natsumi just stood there
as Shampoo ran towards her with the bonbiri ready to strike.
But Natsumi was able to move out of the way as Shampoo reached her,
and was able to grab her wrist and flip Shampoo onto her back.
Shampoo was able to recover immeditly and readied herself for
a counter attack. Natsumi once again had a defensive stance, but
she also began to think. She wondered how she was able to do
such a move, she had never studied martial arts before except
when she was a little kid. However, Natsumi's falshback was interupted
as Shampoo ran in with a spining side kick that Natsumi was able to duck.
The crowd was loving the fight between Nastumi and Shampoo. They
didn't expect this newcomer to be such a good martial artist,
but she was putting up a great show against Shampoo. Nabiki was
yelling at the top of her lungs, as she hoped Natsumi would
show Shampoo who was the better fighter. But Nabiki was also
wondering how Kasumi picked up this level of martial arts skill.
The broach would definitly not give her this level of martial
arts skill. No, this skill could only come from years of training,
training Kasumi never had.
The youma was also enjoying the fight, although for different
reasons then the crowd. She enjoyed seeing this magical girl
squirm as she tried to fight off Shampoo's attacks. Unfourtently
Natsumi seemed to be doing a decent job of defending her self.
But still the youma had her advantge, with Natsumi distracted by
Shampoo she could start her attack now and take all 4 competitors by surpirse.
And Natsumi would go down to a bitter defeat.
****
"Aiya!!!" Shampoo yelled as flew towards Natsumi trying to
perform a drop Kick. But she didn't make it there, instead her
path was obstructed by a millions of giant chow mein noodles.
She and the other 3 competitors were immeditly surronded by
the tasty yet deadly dish.
"I see your all ready for the final showdown...Well I'm not ready to
dissapoint!!!" The youma yelled as she began her
transformation. She landed in front of the encicled Natsumi and
began to laugh the usual evil-youma laugh. "I see your all tied
up at the momment..But don't worry!!You'll be dead soon, and the
others..well let's just say they will have a career change soon!!
Now prepare for the youma final attack!!!Take out food Nightmare!!"
Suddenly millions of take out dish's began to appear around the
youma. The hungry crowd began to drool at the tasty dishes, but
Nabiki ignored them. She was more concerened about Kasumi and
what these dishes would do to her. But she didn't have to worry, as a
sphere of green energy surronded Natsumi. In a matter of
minutes the chow mein noodles that had surronded Natsumi were
gone. The youma looked on in shock as Natsumi prepared for
another attack. "Cooking should be an actvity of enjoyment, not
an act terror. And I won't have you use cooking to further your
acts of evil. In the name of love I'm Natsumi, the magical girl"
Bright green energy falred around Nastumi as she prepared
to attack. The youma didn't try to escape, afterall this
death would be far less painfull than the one she would
experience at the hands of the BFC "....love power Strike *NOW*"
The energy engulfed the youma, and slowly it started to dissapear
into nothingness. Natsumi collapsed onto the floor, exhausted.
She once again began to wonder if she could handle the job of
saving the world. After all she did fall into a stereotypcial
youma trap, and she was the one who was supposed to protect
people from these traps. However this train of thought was
interrupted by the sight of Shampoo running towards her. She
prepared herself for an attack, but was suprised by what Shampoo did.
"Thank you Natsumi-san, you save Shampoo so Shampoo no
attack." Natsumi immeditly let out a huge sigh of relieve. She
really didn't want to fight Shampoo right now. She really didn't
want to do anything, but the crowd had different ideas. They
started to cheer and clap, and asked her to do an encore.
Some guys even asked her if they could date her. Natsumi
just sighed as she started to leave the buliding. She wasn't
sure she was ready to be a hero but she was sure of one thing,
she really didn't want to be an idol.
Nabiki, of course, was happy. Natsumi would be the marketing
tool she would use to achive financial succes. Nabiki had
visions of mutal funds dancing in head when she rembered
something, something important. She remebered a news article she
read a few months ago about Sabre 2000 and a company that
had recently purchased all shares of Sabre 2000. And that
company was BFC, the company that was involved in the
first youma attack. It was hell of coincidence, and Nabiki knew
that there was no such thing as coincidence in the world.
****
Ukyou sighed. The bussiness conference that was supposed
to make her a mean profit, had in fact made her little more than
a lousy 5 yen piece. It seemed like there wasn't even a
conference in town as nobody came to Ucchan's at all. Well
one person did, but Ukyou knew she could of done something
more productive if she went to that contest, she could of won
the love of her finacee Ranma Saotome.
"What's wrong Ucchan?" Mine asked in a vocie of feigned concern.
"I thought today would be a great business day so I brushed off
some personal plans. But it turned out that I was wrong so..."
"Well I'm sorry to hear that. Perhaps I can make the day a better
business day for you. How would you like to join the BFC in a
joint venture to make a restuarant chain?"
Ukyou beamed, at last she had a way to achive the finical success.
"Yes I would love to!!!"
"Great, come back with me to the office and we'll work out the
paper work!!" Mine replied as she tried to hold back her
laughter. Phase one of her plan would soon be complete, as
soon as she turned Ukyou Kounji into a youma....
End of epsiode 2
Ja ne!!
Richard Beaubien
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Mizuno Ami-chan forever!!!