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Here is a repost of Obsession. This is the story that will
show Mousse as he never was before... enjoy.
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Prologue
I was walking around Nerima to look for Shampoo, after a few
minutes I finally found her, on her bicycle, delivering food.
"Shampoo!!" I yelled.
"Mousse, I busy delivering food, go bother someone else!"
She said.
"But Shampoo, I saved up for five months to buy you this
gift."
"If gift not from Ranma, no want." She said, as she took my
gift, the one I worked hard to save up for, and threw it in the
gutter.
"Shampoo!" I whined, but it was no use. She was gone. I
retrieved my gift from the gutter and looked at it, covered in
bile and mud. I threw it on the ground in disgust as I left.
Bile Studio Presents:
Obsession
by Jang Choe
Chapter 1
I went over to Nekohanten to get some Lunch and to forget
about the incident with Shampoo today. Of course, this was a
bad place to go since Shampoo worked there. As I went in, the
smell of Chinese food filled the air; and there was a lot more
people in Nekohanten than usual. "Mousse!! Why are you late? We
have work to do!" That old, dried up mummy said popping out of
nowhere.
"But my shift doesn't start for another hour." I
pleaded.
"It doesn't matter, hurry up and wait on those tables." She
said pointing at the tables with masses of hungry people.
"But I never waited on tables before. All you guys made me
do is cleaning."
She hit me on the head with her blasted cane. "Stop arguing
and do it, or else we'll turn you into a duck and cook YOU for
dinner!"
"Alright, alright," I said as I went over to a table with a
bunch of teenagers. "Ok, what do you want to order?"
"Um, it's about time, anyway I would like kung-pow chicken
and dumpling soup. My friend would like egg fu young and chap-
chay" That pimply faced teenager said without looking up from
the menu.
I tried writing everything down, but I couldn't see my
writing, yet I tried my best to write it down.
I took the order and gave it to Cologne. She looked at it
for a second and shoved the note to my face and said, "Mousse!! I
can hardly read this! Do you know how to write you idiot?"
"An idiot huh?!" I mumbled to myself.
"Forget it, just go clean those dishes; after that, you can
clean the restrooms."
"That slave driver, she doesn't even pay me minimum wage and
she makes me do all these crap."
"Hey hair boy!! where's my food??!!" Someone yelled.
Hair boy? Lucky for him, he was a customer; I would have
beat him on the spot if he wasn't. "Uh, coming sir!" I took the
food and walk towards the table. All of a sudden, some obnoxious
punk stuck his foot out, tripped me, and made me dump all of the
ramen onto some guy's lap.
"You clumsy dolt!!" The guy yelled as he jumped up from the
scalding, hot ramen.
"I'm sorry, I'll clean it up." I said as I slowly looked
back to see what lowly scum tripped me. It was my enemy Ranma;
The one who took my beautiful, darling Shampoo.
"Ranma!! why did you do that??" I said to him as I punched
his face. Unfortunately, it was not Ranma, it was a customer.
"Why did you do that for?? Maybe you need new glasses you
stupid chink!." The guy said, bleeding from his mouth, "I'll
never come here again, and I'll tell my friends that this place
has crazy waiters! They should burn this place down."
After that incident, most of the customers left. That same
day, Cologne and Shampoo beat me for losing all those customers.
"Mousse, you dumb as brick. Why you do stupid thing like
that?" Shampoo scolded at me with her beautiful voice.
"I thought he was Ranma." I said.
"Shampoo love Ranma, no you, nor anybody else." Then she
started talking in Mandarin, "<Whoever can't defeat me, cannot
have me. It is the code of the Amazon. You know that Mousse,
and you never have defeated me. And I, as an Amazon, only marry
strong men, not a pathetic weakling like you.>"
"Who cares about the code of the Amazon Shampoo?" Then
Cologne hit me with her cane and said angrily, "You never say
that!! The code of the Amazon is sacred!! No one shall speak
about it like this and get away with it. We should punish you by
death Mousse; but seeing that it is a waste of time to kill a
weakling like you, we shall give you one more chance. We shall
let you live, but if we see your ugly face again, we won't
hesitate to kill you."
"No wait, I did not mean it like this!!"
"<Too bad Mousse, you disgrace me and my Amazon warriors. I
always hated you for being weak, but I hate, no loathe you
more!!>" Shampoo said angrily, turning her gorgeous face away
>from me.
"Now get out of our sight." Cologne said to me, whacking her
cane across my head.
"That decomposing mummy, I otta... and Shampoo, I never
realized that you hated me that much. You know, I shall get my
revenge some day. I will prove to you, Cologne, and to that
Ranma that I can defeat you and anybody else!" I yelled
as I tramped out the door of Nekohanten, never to come back.
I never felt like this before in my life. I never hated
Shampoo like this. Of course, I knew that I will never get over
Shampoo. I will always love her again. That is the worst curse
you can have; love is the worse curse you can have, especially
when the person you love hates you. But today, that did not
matter; my mind was only filled with the obsession to find a way
to prove to them that I am strong.
Chapter 2
I figured out it has been a long time since I last
practiced. It was because Cologne worked me to death at that
restaurant. Now, I realized, that this exile was a good thing, I
was free; I have now time to train and become skilled once more.
I came close of beating Ranma when I first met him, but later on
he won easily against me. Every fight it seems his victory over
me is getting easier. That must change. Now, I must start
training.
Two days passed since my exile. Unfortunately, I met Ranma
and my emotions took over again.
It was around 3:00 pm, and there was Ranma and I fighting
again . "Curse you Saotome! Stop running away!" I yelled as I
chased Ranma across the street while the bystanders were just
staring at us like we were some crazy fools or something, but
this was as normal day in Nerima. There were always somebody
that was chasing Ranma, whether it was the fool Ryouga, Shampoo,
Kodachi, or me. I almost caught up with him when all of a sudden
he turned and side kicked me in the ribs; it was too fast even
for me to dodge. I felt my ribs cave in and move by itself.
"I am sick and tired of fighting you Mousse; you're too
easy, and you chasing me around all the time is getting
monotonous." The freak Ranma told me while I was on the ground
whining in pain.
"I will fight you Ranma and one day defeat you for stealing
my beautiful Shampoo." I tried to say but couldn't. After a few
hours, Ranma left, I tried to get up but my ribs hurt so much
that I barely got up. I then threw up blood. After a few more
hours I managed to crawl my way to Dr. Tofu's clinic.
I knocked the door of the clinic and yelled for Dr. Tofu.
After a few minutes, he opened the door and saw me, blood soaked.
"Well, what happened there Mousse?" Tofu asked me as he
helped me in.
"Well, me and Ranma fought again and I think he broke my
ribs." I said painfully.
"Let me see here," he said as he examined me. "Oh my, he
really got you didn't he? See? Some of the ribs even broke the
skin."
"I'll get him for this." I whispered as he painfully
inspected me.
"Will you quit!? This hurts!!" I yelled
"Hey, I just need to push the ribs back in."
"Ow, OWWW!!! What kind of doctor are you huh? Stop making
the pain WORSE!!"
"You wimp, there, that wasn't so bad was it not? Now, this
is a lot worse than your normal fractures, So it might take
quite a while to heal." Tofu said as he bandaged me up.
"Don't tie it too damn tight OWWW!!!"
"Stop squirming, you're the one that's making the pain
worse."
After a few more hours, I finally left his clinic and tried
to think of a way to beat Ranma.
After a long time in meditation, I decided what to do. I
decided to go to different countries and train. That way, I can
be exposed to a lot of different types of styles, and I can maybe
learn them. I decided to go to my homeland China first. But how
do I get there? I was thinking about it till I bumped into
somebody.
"Watch where you're going!" The somebody said.
"Wah? Who are you?" I asked, trying to focus my eyes.
"I am the great `Blue Thunder' Tatewaki Kuno!"
"Hey, I remember you, your that idiot that got us stranded
us in that island."
"How dare you ridicule me!? Methinks I needst to teach thee
a lesson!"
Heh, this guy might be the first guy to test my skills
before I train. "Okay, punk, get ready to die!!!!" I yelled as
I leaped towards him. I nailed him square in the jaw with a
wicked flying kick.
But it looked like Kunou didn't even felt that kick. "That
feeble attack cannot hurt the great Tatewaki Kuno!!! Now get
thee ready for mine attack. Tembatsuu~~~ da da
dadadadadadadadadadaDADADADADADADADADADADADADA!!!!" Kuno kept
striking his bokken, but all he was hitting was thin air as I
safely jumped out of the way. Although, the pain on my ribs made
me slower. The house in front of him was gone, the sheer force
of his strikes blew the house down. People watched in awe, even
I was impressed, a little.
"Curse you damn it! Stay still!!" Kuno said as he charged
towards me striking his bokken wildly. This was pathetic, true
he is a skilled swordsman but when it came to weapons, I am king.
I flicked my wrist, a chain came out of my sleeve and
wrapped around Kuno's throat. I then pulled my mallet out and
batted him halfway across town.
I told myself he was too easy and walked away. All of a
sudden Kuno came charging back and whacked me with his wooden
sword.
"For what reason ye think that thou hast won? Tatewaki Kuno
doth not surrender easily. Now fiend, prepare to die!" The
bleeding, bruised Kunou said.
I quickly wrapped him in chains and threw him into the walls
of the houses; after twenty-six whacks, he was finally knocked
out. That was an easy task, but I still needed to think of a way
to get to China.
Ouch, I realized that fight didn't do much good to my ribs.
I guess I need to be more careful next time.
I wondered around and looked for a place to sleep. During
the last two days I wondered around without any sleep, thinking
about the banishment from Shampoo and Cologne. I was tired, dead
tired.
"Hello Mousse," I turned, it was Ryouga. "Hey, Ryouga,
where are you trying to go now?" I asked.
"To the Tendo Dojo, I always seem never to find it. Can
you take me?"
"No, I need to find some place to sleep. You know any
place?"
"Well, I will always turn myself as a pig and go to Akane,
but I usually just pitch a tent and sleep in there."
"Where do you get the tent?"
"In my back pack, why do you think I carry it around all the
time?"
We sat down and sat in silence for a few minutes till I
broke the silence. "Hey, you've been fighting as long as I have,
can you tell me some ways that you train?"
"No, you wouldn't tell me where the dojo is so why should
I?"
"OK fine, I don't need your help anyway."
We just sat there for a few more minutes before I broke the
uncomfortable silence again.
"Hey, if you do beat me in combat, I will take you to the
Tendo dojo."
"Huh, why?." he asked me.
"Cuz you need to get there and I need to improve my
skills."
"Uh, sorry," he said as he got up. "I need to start
looking for the Dojo."
"Are you scared porky? Come, win and I'll help you with
your problems."
"I don't know..."
"Come on, come on."
I begged him till he said yes.
"All right, here goes." Ryouga said.
Ryouga suddenly grabbed me and threw me, I landed hard on
the concrete ground. I looked at Ryouga and saw a stupid looking
smirk on his face.
"What's wrong Chinese man? Now I know why you need to
train. Haha."
That pissed me off, I threw barrages of long chains and
ropes with sharp blades at the end. Surprisingly he dodged all
of em, but I was too smart for him as I spat out a dart out of my
mouth. It lodged into his arm.
"You think this toy can hurt me Duck boy?" he said as he
took out the dart and threw it on the ground. "You need to do
much better than that, now I suggest you just take me to the dojo
before I really hurt you."
Now that really pissed me off, I threw a couple of knives
which he dodged easily, which I expected he would, and I caught
him off guard with a chain that shot out of my shoe and wrapped
around his neck; I dragged him towards me.
"Come here!" I yelled, as I uppercut him hard. "I always
wanted to do that." I said to myself as Ryouga was getting up,
still smiling. "Yawn, you call that a punch?"
Unluckily for him, the chain was still around his neck, so I
pulled the rope in and spun him over my head like a lasso and
threw him across the street.
I think he felt that.
"You will pay for that!" Ryouga said, then he tore the
chain away from his neck and threw his bandannas at me. I
blocked all of it with ease, but I suddenly heard, "Bakushi
Ten-Ketsu!!" and I was pummeled by hundreds of pieces of
concrete; which some of the pieces even hit my ribs which
probably became broken again. That did it, I am going to blast
that punk out of my sight. I took out my bombs and threw them at
him. The bombs hit Ryouga and blasted him 100 meters through
someone's house. I threw more bombs and blew up the house.
That was the end of him, or that's what I thought; I
heard, "Shishi Hoko-Dan!!" Something blew me across the street,
through some cars, and into the ground. I slowly got up and
looked to see who did that, it was Ryouga, bleeding, no shirt,
and panting hard. I also saw some bloody bodies around the
street; it was probably some foolish bystanders that got in our
way. The street was half destroyed and I looked at myself.
Ryouga's blast did some considerable damage to me, especially to
my ribs.
"Give up Mousse? or I have to hurt you more?"
"Never!!!" I got up but Ryouga grabbed me and did three back
breakers and threw me on the ground.
"That hurt!" I screamed as I leaped toward him.
"That's the whole idea, Mousse." Ryouga took out his
umbrella and knocked me out of the sky. Then he grabbed his
umbrella, threw it at me, and before I landed onto the ground,
the umbrella dug into my stomach. The force of the umbrella in
my stomach slammed me into the ground. It even made a little
crater when I landed.
"brrgh!!" I yelled as I threw up blood.
Ryouga walked towards me with an idiotic grin on his face.
I got up painfully, dusted myself, and threw all the 1563 chains
and ropes I had hidden in me with all my might. They all wrapped
around Ryouga and squeezed him.
"Give up porky?" I said as his face became pale, "What's
the matter? Not enough blood to your head?" Then I played with
him like a yo-yo. That boy's body was bouncing on the hard,
concrete ground like a basket ball with blood flying everywhere.
Unfortunately, Ryouga somehow freed his right hand and yelled
something that blew me half way across town. I came staggered
back and tried attacking him, but all of a sudden it started
raining and all I did was quack. It seemed that he too had
turned into a pig, but he disappeared. It didn't matter cuz just
I figured out a way to got to china, by flying as a duck.
---After 10 hours----------------------
Man, I flew for ten hours and still not in China; I thought
this would be easy but my wings are getting tired and because of
these weight of the lenses on my stupid glasses, it's slowing me
down. After a few more hours, I couldn't go any farther, I
looked down and saw land. I decided to land there and rest.
After I landed, I happened to find a boiling kettle of water...
I regained my human form and looked around town. The signs were
neither Chinese nor Japanese. It look kinda like Japanese, it
must be in Korea. I heard that they had a martial art called Tae
Kwon Do. I decided to find more about it, but I didn't know
what the signs said so it was no use. After wandering around
like Ryouga and bumping into things, I saw something like a
stadium. So I snuck in and watched. It looked like Karate but
more emphasis on the kicks. This had to be Tae Kwon Do; I
carefully tried to watch.
In a few minutes, this guy kicked his opponent in the face
and knocked him out. That guy's pretty good, I decided to talk
to him when he leaves. Then I heard the announcer said, "nee,
Kim Kaphan ii iigutsupnida!!" "What the hell were the saying?" I
asked myself. I realized it was going to be hard trying to
communicate with this guy. I didn't know Korean, and I'm sure he
didn't know Chinese nor Japanese.
Everybody was cheering for Kim Kaphan as he left. So I went
to follow him.
"Um, Koniichiwa." I managed to say after I caught up with
him.
"Noe nun mo ya?" he said.
"Eh, Nihao!" I said again.
"Yaa, Hanguk mal hae. Nan jun guk mal mot al aa dul o."
"Punk! I said hi!!" I finally said out of frustration.
"<Hey, you speak English?>" he said.
"<Yea...>" I said.
"<Well, what do you want?>"
"<I saw your moves, and it was great. Um.. can you teach
me some of you kicking techniques?>"
"<I know they're great, but I don't want to teach you.>"
"<Why not>???!"
"<Cuz I'm too busy, now get out of my face.>"
Now I had to use the big guns. "<Pleasssee!!!
pppplllleeeaaasssee!!!!!>" I said on my knees.
"<Man, get away from me!>" and he ran away.
I wasn't going to give up, I chased him all through town,
begging him. I followed him everywhere: his house, shopping, do
jang, movies, ect. Finally he agreed to train me. Kim told me
to come tomorrow at his do jang for some tests. I couldn't wait.
Chapter 3
"First, I must test your skills, spar me." he said getting
in a fighting stance. I had to where this stupid padding, but I
bowed to him and jumped up and threw six chains from my sleeve.
Kim blocked every one and yelled, "Nuri Cha-gii!!" and he kicked
me out of the air. Even though I landed on my foot, the kick
stunned me. Suddenly, he came charging. I ducked under his
punch but he suddenly brought his leg up and smashed it on the
back of my head. After that, he side kicked me in the face and
back swing kicked me away. I can see that this guy was good; I
jumped in the air did a couple of flips and yelled, "Taka Zume
Ken!!" and try to make contact with him but all he did was stick
his foot out and shoved it into my face.
I got up and threw my chain; he jumped out of the way, but I
flicked my wrist and it wrapped around him. "Now I got you." I
said to him as I tangled him up more. I took out my mallet and
batted him away. That guy suddenly came back and started kicking
me, I dodged most of them but ones that hit, hit hard. I felt my
ribs go again and he finished me off. I stood up bleeding and
said, "You win," and fell. When I woke up, I saw six faces
looking at me. One of them was Kim Kaphan and the others were
some other Koreans.
"<Hello, bud, these are my colleagues, Dragon Kim is that
guy that looks like Bruce Lee, that chick is Youngmee- a fourth
degree in Tae kwon do, that fat guy is Chang, and that Freddy
Kouger wannabe is Choi. We're gonna help you train- for one week
though, and you're outta here ok? When I sparred you, you seemed
to be good with weapons but sucked with hand to hand. Well,
we're gonna put you through hell this week to make you a better
fighter. Now iirosut>!"
The week was hell, first every day they made be do push ups
while Chang, the fat ass, hit me with his ball and chain. Then,
after that, they made me do stupid sparring drills. Then they
helped me stretch to improve my flexibility and they only thought
me 5 kicks: front, side, roundhouse, back, and back swing kick.
I needed to get up at 6:00 AM and train till 10:00 PM with only
three bathroom breaks and no lunch.
-------------------week later-----------------------------------
After the week has passed, they congratulated me on how well
I've improved. Thanks to them, my stamina went up as well.
Next day I flew to China. I finally saw my homeland, it
was still same as usual. It was in the early morning, around
5:00AM. While I was there, I decided to do some sight seeing. I
went to the famous great wall of China, no one was there of
course at 5:00 in the morning, but there was a girl there, seemed
to be training. I decided to go to her and train with her.
All of a sudden, I fell. My ribs, it started moving again.
Must have been all that fights and training with those Koreans.
Then I passed out.
I woke up and saw myself lying on some sheets. I got up and
looked around. No one was in the room with me. I wondered if I
was captured by communists. Nah, they wouldn't give me this much
comfort.
"Nihao!"
I almost jumped a whole meter before I turned around and saw
who it was. "<Geeze Miss you scared me.>"
"<Well, take it easy, your ribs are in bad condition.>"
I looked at her face, she had two pigtails; from what I
could make out of, it was not a bad face. Of course, nothing can
come close to beauty than Shampoo. I mean... geeze, it's so hard
trying to forget her.
"<Well, why are you here?>" she asked.
"<Come again?>"
"<You are not around here, I never saw you before. I
usually know most people in my small village.>"
"<Small Village? I just saw the Great wall!>"
"<HUH? the Great Wall is a hundred miles away.>
"<sorry, my vision is not that great.>"
"<so, why are you here?>"
"<I'm in training>"
"<Oh? well, my father is a great martial artist and so is my
friend.>"
"<oh? who's you're friend?>"
"<Chun Li, she was a little pissed when Ken beat Vega first
(M. Bison in the US- JWC) So, she is a little on the moody side.
But she's cool.>"
"<Who's Vega?>"
"<Anyway this Kangshi is terrorizing our town, and we are
trying to stop it. Hey, can you help us defeat it?>"
"<a what?>"
"<A Kangshi, ya know, you're Chinese. You are Chinese
aren't you? You have a perfect accent and everything.>"
"<Yea I'm Chinese, but Kangshis are only a myth.>"
"<No, they are real, you'll see.>"
"<By the way, what is your name?>"
"<Pai Chan, and yours?>"
"<Mousse>"
"<You just go by Mousse or you have a last name?>"
"<Sorry, I'm so used to the Japanese pronunciation. My name
is Muu Suh.>"
"<You lived in Japan? How long did you live there?>"
"<For a few years. I went there to find my love, X'ian
Puu.">
"<You're love? For how long?">
"<Actually, she doesn't love me. It's because she's an
Amazon and her great grandmother, Ko Long. Ko Long always tries
to keep me away from her...>"
After a few more minutes of chatting, her father came in. I
looked at him, he too had a pigtail, but he also had a mustache.
"<Pai, I'm home.>" Her father said gruffly.
"<So? how did it go at the restaurant?>" Pai said.
"<Bad as usual. Who's that? Someone you beat up?>"
"<This is Mu Suh; he is on a training expedition. Suh,
this is my father, Lau Chan.>"
"<Hello,>" I said to the mean looking father.
"<HA HA HA, anyway, Pai, you know the Kangshis are coming
tonight, we must get ready.>"
"<Can I help?>" I asked them.
"<No, your weak stay here and we'll take care of them>" Pai
said to me sternly.
"<Well, whatever, they are only myths anyway.>"
"<Hmmmph? a myth? Well, come with us and we'll show you
that they are not.>" Lau said.
Well, I guess I get to go along with them. There were a few
people at the sight where the Kangshis are supposed to come. Pai
introduced me to them; they were the only strong people in China
that can help ward them off. "<Ok Suh, here is my
friend Chun Li, here's Shun Di, Lei Wu Long, and ...>" I didn't
really pay attention to her.
"<Here they come!!>" Some guy said as I looked.
"<Well, well, they are real, I guess I was wrong,>" I said
sarcastically.
I look through my 5 cm thick glasses. They did look like
Kangshis, but there was only one of them. I asked the group
where the rest are. They said that she is the only one left. I
said ok.
"<HOHOHO, I shall let one of you challenge me. If he
doesn't beat me, I will have to kill you all,>" The phantom said
to us.
I wondered how she'll kill all of us if one of us loses. I
was thinking out loud and that Phantom heard me.
"<Well, they automatically die as a default,>" She said.
"<And since you are so curious, you can fight me.>"
<No!>" Pai said.
<That's right,>" Chun Li said, "<You never did that to us
before. You let us all attack you.>"
I told them that it did not matter. I shall try my best to
win.
"<OH HOHOHOHOHO. Mighty brave of you little man, now come
on.>"
"<Someone get the parchments with the spells written on
it,>" I told the group as I got ready to fight.
I carefully watched her. After years of combat and with my
deterioration of my sight, I learned to use my other senses to
guide me. But it never always did work. No matter, I ignored
the pain in the ribs and got in a fighting position. I made the
first move, I leaped at her at full speed. All of a sudden, a
ball of chain came out of her sleeve and hit me. "What the?" I
thought.
"<Liked my hidden weapon technique? I was a master of it
before I died.>" She said reeling the chain back into her
sleeve.
Hidden weapon technique huh? Well, I am the best there is at
it besides my Sifu Gel. "<Let's see how good you are!>" I said
as I stepped back and launched 34 chains and ropes at her with
blades and weights attached to them.
I caught her by surprised; she still managed to dodge and
block all of them, but she was stunned by that attack. I took
that chance and attacked again, this time I hit her.
She smiled and said, "<Well, I see you know that technique
also.>"
She threw a knife at me and it lodged into my leg. No, it
went through my leg and the knife went around my ankle and
tripped me.
I took out my eggs and threw it at her; it exploded on her
sleeve and cut the chain that was wrapped around my leg.
I then kicked her square in the jaw and punched her three
times in the stomach. She just stood there like nothing
happened, and I became horrified. She took her hand and wrapped
it around my throat and squeezed it. I passed out.
I woke up and looked around. I think a couple of hours has
passed since the sun was rising. I saw the four Chinese, they
were all laying on the ground. I came up to them, and found that
they were dead.
"It was my fault." I said to myself. "I killed them!!" I
became enraged; I screamed; but i knew nothing will make them
come back alive.
"What's wrong Mousse?" Someone said in perfect Japanese
with a hint of Cantonese.
I turned around to see who that was.
"Haven't seen you in a few months, after I tried to kill
you,"
I tried to see who he was; I cleaned my glasses and looked
again.
"Always the blind fool," he said as he kicked my glasses
away.
"Hey!" I said to the stranger. "Why did ya do that for?"
All of a sudden, he kicked me in the stomach. "I am your
master Gel!! Now bow to me student. You are pitiful, I saw the
whole match between that girl and you. You are more pitiful than
I last met you. Get up!! I can see you need special training
>from me."
"Will you train me to beat her master?" I said weakly.
"Of course!! She was my best student, but I killed her by
overtraining her. She now visits me once in a while, hopping
around like a fool. I told her that I'll find her a suitable
challenger. I couldn't find anybody. So, I guess you'll do. But
it doesn't matter; get up, we have a lot of work to do."
For three months, he trained me through everything. From
the basics to more advanced stuff. However, this was all the
same to me, I never learned anything new. But for the next five
months, he trained me hard. I even trained after the training.
Besides, I did not want to forget the stuff I learned on Korea.
"I'm surprised, I though you'll be dead right now. Well, I
might as well give you credit. You have improved a little when I
last saw you. A little I remind you."
"Thank you master." I said as I bowed to him.
Gel kick me in the neck and yelled, "I told you a million
times, never take your eyes off of you opponent!"
"I'm sorry." I said as I gagged and clutched my throat.
I looked at him; he had this suspicious look on his face.
"I know what you need." Gel said breaking the silence.
"Here, a map. This map will show you to the great kung fu master
Chan's house. Tell him I sent you."
"Why do I need to.."
"Don't argue!! Now go!!"
"Yes sir.." I said meekly as I ran as my feet could take
me.
After 10 days, I found the hut the old master was staying.
I found out why master Gel sent me to him- he was blind.
"<Hel.. Hello.>" I managed to say to him.
"ZZZzz.."
"<Hello.>" I said a little louder.
"Zzzzzz."
"<HELLO!>" I yelled. Nothing seemed to wake him up. I
took a stick and hit him a couple of times.
Suddenly he grabbed and threw me down.
"<That's what you get for trying to hit a poor old blind
man!>" he screamed in rough Mandarin.
"<Sir, I came for your help.>" I said as I got up.
"<Eh? how can I, a blind old man, help you?>"
"<Well, I need training and master Gel..>"
"<Gel? Gel? I know him, he is my best friend. I remember
when we used to train together. But my sight has grown worse.>"
"<Yea, can you train me?>"
"<Sure sure, but I only train blind people. You blind?>"
"<Almost.>"
Then he smiled, "<Close enough, come on. I'll teach you a
technique that I made up when I found my sight was getting worse.
The bat- fu.>"
I looked at him dumbfoundly. "<Duck- fu?>"
"<I said BAT-FU!! you deaf also?>" Then he laughed. "<Yes,
the Bat-fu. It's a stupid name, but it is effective for the
blind. You know a bat is blind, so I decided to make a style out
of it. One bad thing about this style is that it only works
when you fight. If you're not fighting, you can't `see'
anymore.>"
"<Ho.. How do you `see'?>"
"<Oh, you will learn that. Come, lets test you out. Attack
me.>"
"<O.. Okay.>"
So I charge at the blind man with full speed. However, in a
flash, the old man Chan attacks me and knocks me out.
A few minutes late I woke up and tried to attack Chan again.
This time, I used my weapons; but that did not help. I was
thrown back by some hand technique and was kicked in the stomach.
"<Give up sonny?>" Chan taunted at me.
"<Yeah.>" I said in pain.
"<Gee, I thought you would provide more of a fight than
that. I guess you are not worthy enough for me to teach you.>"
"<NO!>" I yelled at him, swung my arm around, and three
chained blades darted out of my sleeve toward him.
Chan avoided all of them and jumped up in the air. I tried
to tag him with my weapons but I missed and he burrowed his knee
into my shoulder. That powerful move dislocated my shoulder and
I fell to one knee.
"<Already giving up?>" The blind man said as he yawed and
scratched his neck.
I staggered up and threw a side, roundhouse, side, back,
back, axe, tornado, and back hook kick combos to him. Chan was
able to dodge all of em except the last move, but it did not even
faze him. Then he smiled and said, "<Ok, you actually touched
me. I guess that means you qualify. Here, let me relocated your
shoulder.>"
"<Ow ow ow OWWWW!!>" I screamed in pain as he painfully
rejoined my shoulder. After that, he put some ice with some
herbs to stop the swelling.
"<Mousse, tomorrow we are going to break your knuckles.>"
Chan suddenly said as he put the ice and some medicine he made
>from some roots.
"<What? Your crazy, break my knuckles!!!?>" I screamed at
him in terror.
"<Yes, that way it will flatten out your knuckles. When it
heals it will be flat and hard. You know if you break your
bones, it comes back stronger. When it finally heals, we can
start building the callouses for the perfect iron fist.>"
"<You're crazy old man!!>" I yelled as I stood up to run
away.
Chan grabbed me by the leg and threw me down.
"<Don't you want to see without your eyes?>"
"<Ye.. yes sir.>" I weakly said to him as I thought of
Shampoo and that vile Ranma.
Chapter 4
"<Ok, time for your training. See that rock?>" Chan said as
he pointed at a big granite rock hung somehow by a rope. "<Punch
it as hard as you can>"
"<Okay..>" I said as I got into my horse stance.
I threw my punch as hard as I could. At the same time, he
pushed the rock towards me. The opposite forces of my fist and
the rock collided with a huge sound. After the smoke cleared
away, I felt a sharp pain in my hand. My hand was bleeding very
badly. The rock was not in one piece anymore either. It was
broken in half.
"<By the smell of the blood, I see you broke your knuckles.
Good good. Now for the other hand>" Laughed Chan.
After I broke both of my hands, he bandaged them up and took
me to this place with a well and a large ceramic pot.
"<I want you to fill this pot with water. After that, I
want you to stand on the opening. Then I want you to walk around
the opening. If you fall, I will just hit you with my stick.>"
"<Yes sir.>" I said not knowing what his plan was.
"<This exercise will give you the lightness of a
butterfly.>"
"<Yea, butterfly..>" I mumbled.
I got on top of the pot and tried to keep my balance. The
thickness of the edges were about three centimeters, I think.
After I knew I had my balance, I tried to walk around the top. I
fell. One of my legs went inside the pot and the other outside
the pot. That hurt. It hurt bad. Chan's stick that hit me on
the head didn't even hurt me at all because of this excruciating
pain between my legs.
"<Get up and try again!>" Chan screamed at me sternly. I
obeyed and did this for a couple of hours till sundown.
Chan then took me to his house and told me to hunt some
food. I reluctantly obeyed and went outside. In a few minutes,
I caught two rabbits and started to the blind man's hut. All of
a sudden, the moon was covered up by the clouds.
"Gee, it is really dark." I said to myself as I tried to
walk straight without bumping into things. As I walked along, in
the dark, I sensed someone. It was a feeling that everyone has.
You know, the feeling someone is behind you or something. Well,
I turned just in case; it looked like a cloaked figure. I really
didn't get a good look since it was too dark and it punched me in
the stomach.
I dropped like an ox and laid there for a while, while it
was kicking me in the head. It took the foods I caught and
started running. I tried to follow him but I bumped into a tree
and broke my nose.
I cursed at it for using that dirty trick to steal from me.
How dare it use the dark to take advantage of me? I promised
myself that I would beat the crap put of it the next time we
meet.
I staggered back to the hut and went inside.
"<Mr. Chan, I broke my nose.>" I said to him.
"<Oh, that's too bad, but it is not my fault. So, did you
get anything?>" Was all he could say.
I explained to him what happened; so he chastised me for
that and made me go look for the cloaked figure and get my food
back.
I wandered around the woods for about five hours till I gave
up. I was freezing; the blood from my broken nose was dried and
frozen. However, the cold air lessened the pain of my nose.
It was around 3:00 AM till I started back. Chan was
sleeping, snoring loudly. I went to my bunk to sleep but I
tripped over something and landed on my nose. The blood started
flowing again, and as I tried to hold my nose, I felt around to
find the thing that tripped me. It felt like a piece of bone, a
rabbit bone in fact.
Next morning was same as usual. I walked on top of the pot,
and did some other training. Chan put some medicine made out of
herbs on my nose and told me to be careful next time. We started
training on the bat fu. Chan told me that if your eyes are
covered, you can use any part of your body that is exposed to be
your second "eye." So, if I cover my eyes but not my hands nor
any other parts of my body, I will be able to see with my eyes.
"<What bullshit>" I told him.
"<What?>" Chan said to me in a scary tone of voice.
"<You don't believe this? No wonder you loose fights. No
patience and ambition.>"
Well, I decided to try it. I mean, what have I got to lose?
Besides, if he can do it, so can I.
Chan told me to think of something, anything and think about
it for more than a minute. This seemed easy, but it was not.
The first time I tried it, I thought of my Shampoo's face;
beautiful, and sweet. However, after a few seconds, my mind
drifted towards killing Ranma.
"<So it is not so easy as it seems huh?>" Chan said to me.
"<It took me 15 years to concentrate on one thing for more than a
minute.>"
"<15 years!!?>" I yelled in surprise. "<I can't train for
that long.>"
"<Well, that's too bad. Skills don't come easily, you need
years of practice and patience before you can master any skill.
This particular skill is called `kung.' Kung is a skill that
takes years to learn. There are many kungs you can learn but
none of them are easy.>"
"<Do you know any other kungs?>"
"<Yes, in fact, the exercise you do with the pots is a
training for a certain kung. It will help you become lighter on
your feet. This will help you develop your stealth.>"
"<Is there any other kungs that you know?>"
"<There are many, too many that even I cannot learn all. I
only know those two. However, I know the training methods of
some of the others. If you want to know them, I can tell you;
but you need to promise that you're going to practice them every
day for at least 30 minutes a day.>"
I promised. So day after day, I practiced the pot
exercises, the blind exercises, and the new technique of dragon
claw.
"<How is the dragon claw useful.>" I asked one day.
"<If you go to Japan, there is a man named Takeda Shokaku.
This man is the master of Aikijitsu. Mr. Takeda will help you in
the pressure points. Or if you wish, go to Korea and look for
Young Shul Choi. This man is the master of Hapkido and he too
can tell you many pressure points. Both Mr. Takeda and Mr. Choi
are very close friends, and they have studied together. If you
want someone here, you're out of luck since I don't know any
eagle claw masters.>"
I stayed with Chan for a couple of months and then I finally
left. During those months, he taught me alot of stuff. Along
with some basic moves, he taught me some other tips for the
martial arts. For example, Chan will suddenly say, "<Tension
will eat away your stamina. Always be relaxed and calm,
especially when you're fighting.>"
I went back to the village and my master gel came to greet
me in his usual fashion.
"So, did you learn anything new all those months or did you
forget them all like you always do?" Gel asked me.
Before I could answer him, he took me to his place and
immediately trained me. Gel taught me some more advanced hidden
weapon techniques and, of course, perfected my basics. In about
a month, I was about to leave; however, Gel stopped me.
"Where do you think you're going?" gel asked me in a mean
manner.
"I think to Russia, I can train there for a while." I said
to him.
"No, remember the promise I made to Rei Rei? I told her
that I'll find a suitable fighter for her. And you're the only
one alive to do it unfortunalty."
"Why can't you fight her master?"
"She knows that I can beat her. She's afraid that she is
going to lose. She wants to win."
"So what happens if I beat her?"
Then Gel's eyebrows perked up. "You know, I have no idea."
So I decided to stay for a few more days. Gel said that
she is coming in two days. Master Gel helped me train during
those two days. I wondered why fighting her was so important to
him.
Two days passed, and it was around 11:00 PM. Rei Rei
appeared, hopping towards us. Her long arms were in a longer
sleeve, hiding many, dangerous weapons.
"Well, master Gel, find a formidable opponent for me?" She
said with her pale lips.
"I don't know if he's formidable, but I found someone." Gel
told her as he pushed me to her.
"Hey, remember me?" I asked her meekly.
"Ho Ho Ho, You?!" She said pointing her long finger at me.
"Yea, well, get ready." I said as I got into my fighting
stance.
She too positioned herself into her fighting stance. We
both looked at each other in the eye for what it seemed like an
eternity. This is the time that I prove myself and Master Gel
that I am a good fighter. If I can beat her, I am coming closer
to beating Ranma.
We just stood there, waiting till one of us made the first
move. I waited. I waited some more. My patience was wearing
thin. I was about to attack her when I remembered Chan's words.
Chan told me to be calm and patient when it comes to fighting.
So I breathed deeply and waited some more.
Finally, I had enough, I threw out my chain, with three
pronged blades, with extreme accuracy and speed. I aimed it
towards her face. Unfortunately, she quickly ducked under, with
the blades coming a hair of a centimeter over her, and grabbed my
legs with her huge, sharp gauntlets.
She grabbed and straightened my left leg with both of her
arms, raised me and my leg up above her head with incredible
strength, and slammed my leg into her knee. My knee bent
sideways. I heard the big crunch, later came the pain. I rolled
on the ground trying to grab my leg in pain. But every time I
touched it, it felt like it was ripping off.
I look at her pale, purple-blue face. It was a very bored,
this- is - way- too- easy, look. She was crossing her arms
looking down at me, wringing in pain. Swiftly, before she could
react, I used my right arm to jump out of the way while my left
arm reached into my robe to get some bombs. I threw the bombs at
her, but she leaped out of the way. I threw more bombs to where
she was going to land. I got her. I threw more bombs, any bombs
that I had. Dynamite, Plastic bombs, gunpowder, grenades,
shells, cannonballs, firecrackers, my favorite egg bombs, and
what I can find inside my robe that was explosive.
The explosion was so great that I and including Gel was
thrown back from the heat and sound waves. A big fire with the
radius of 10 meters formed. I thought I won. But I remembered
that this is the undead I'm fighting. The undead! How am I
supposed to beat something that is undead, untiring, and
unemotional.
I didn't know what to do, I reached into my robe for more
bombs when she appeared in front of me, covered in soot. She
grabbed me by the collar and held me while she decided what to
do.
I felt around my robes for something to defend against her.
I found something. I took it out and stuck it on her forehead.
She dropped me and became frozen.
"Well, I guess you defeated her huh?" Gel said to me.
"Yeah, yes I did sir." I answered to him weakly. This was
disappointing, I defeated her by some cheap method. I'll never
find out if my skills are good enough yet. It didn't matter
because I was blacking out.
Chapter 5
It felt like I was in a dream. Black everywhere, I couldn't
see anything. I felt a chill on my forehead, am I dying? I
realized that my eyes were shut. I tried to open them, it did
open, slowly. As my vision began to focus, actually it never
focuses. So I tried to look for my glasses.
I got my glasses and looked around; I saw two people; it
looked like Sifu Gel and Rei Rei. It was Gel and Rei Rei.
"Well, Mousse, you finally awoke," Gel said to me in his
usual strict tone.
"Yes, Yes sir, but where am I?" I asked him dazed.
"You are at Thailand, we had to bring you here since there
weren't good hospitals in China. Besides, those Commies would
never let you into their hospital."
"Well, Mousse, you defeated me. I thank you, I was cursed
by a demon and the only way to cure me was to defeat me. Now,
thanks to you, I am cured." Rei Rei suddenly spoke to me.
"Why didn't master Gel defeat you?" I asked her.
"Because the curse also said that only nonrelatives can
break the spell. And since this is my daughter, I had to make
you do it." Gel interrupted.
"Oh, thank you master, for taking me to this hospital."
"Shut up, I brought you here since my now uncursed daughter
begged me to. If it weren't for her, you would be rotting on the
fields, or burned by the Communists."
"Oh, Okay, thank you Rei Rei."
"Don't mention it, you can repay me by marriage." She said.
I was surprised, "What!? You can't be serious!!" I said in
shock.
"No, it is quite true, I am part of the Amazon tribe, and
the curse I received was the `Amazon Curse.' I was also destined
to marry the one who broke my spell, thus the one who defeats me.
Now, I must marry you. Actually," She paused and looked at me
in a funny way. "I.. I kinda want to marry you."
"But.. But.." I tried to explain about Shampoo, but I
couldn't break her heart. Rei's beauty was almost as good as
Shampoo's but I couldn't marry Rei, I love Shampoo. "Look, let
me finish this business first then I will come back to marry
you."
I lied. I would never come back. I would always go to
Shampoo, I can't think of anyone else, I will, for some reason,
love Shampoo. It doesn't matter if Shampoo mistreats me all the
time, it doesn't matter.
"Sure, Mousse, I can wait." She said with a nice smile.
Suddenly, Gel said, "Mousse, you still want to learn to
fight? Well, you're in Thailand, home of Muay Tai Kick Boxing.
If you want to learn to fight this is the best place in the world
to learn. Just remember though, it is the person, not the art
that makes you the winner. Don't go learning any more styles
after this, it doesn't help if you know thousands of techniques
but don't have the knowledge when to use them effectively.
Remember, always quality not quantity,"
"Yes.. Yes sir."
I stayed at the hospital for two more days till I finally
left the hospital. I thought about looking for a Muay Tai place,
but I thought about what Master Gel said. I decided to go back
to Japan. I thought about learning one more art. Not Muay Tai
but Akijutsu. So, I decided to go back to Japan and train
with... with whom?! I tried to remember the guy's name Master
Chan recommended. Oh well, I'll probably remember it later.
Before I left, I decided to go see this Muay Tai, just to please
my curiosity. I found an arena and went in for a peek. I had
to sit in the front row so I could see all the intensity. The
first match came up and it was some guy against some guy. I
think one of the guy's name was Bruce and the other, Joe
something. They both had ropes tied to their heads. The match
started and boy they were fierce. Elbows, knees, shin kicks
every where. Geeze, they sure were looking for trouble and knew
where to find it.
I really didn't know what was going on, however. My bad
vision kept me from seeing the main action. So, I left the arena
in disgust. Although I couldn't see their technique, I was
inspired by their will to win and fierceness. If I had that much
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