Umm, my repost before I final post something on the RAAC. I fixed a few
grammar errors and added a few words. Tell me what you think.
"Shampoo!!" I yelled as I ran up to her.
"Mousse, I busy delivering food, go bother someone else!"
She said with an annoyed tone in her enchanting voice.
"But Shampoo, I saved up for five months to buy you this
gift. It's your birthday you know..."
"If gift not from Ranma, no want." She said as she seized 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 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
I went over to Nekohanten to have some lunch and to forget
about the incident with Shampoo today. Of course, this was a
bad place to go since Shampoo worked there. Then why do I go
here? I don't know; I think it's an impulse or something. As I
went in, the smell of Chinese food filled the air, with sounds of
cooking and eating. 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 screamed popping out of nowhere.
"But my shift doesn't start for another hour." I told her.
"It doesn't matter, hurry up and wait on those tables." She
said pointing at the tables with hordes of hungry people hanging
off of it.
"But I never waited on tables before. All you made me
do is cleaning."
She smacked me on the head with her blasted cane. "Stop
arguing and do it, or else we'll splash cold water on you and
cook YOU for dinner!"
"Alright, alright," I grumbled as I went over to the table
with a bunch of teenagers. "Ok, what do you want to order?"
"Um, it's about time." That pimply faced teenager said
without looking up from the menu. "Anyway, I would like kung-pow
chicken and dumpling soup. My friend here would like egg fu young
and chap- chay"
I tried writing everything down, but I couldn't see my
writing, yet I tried my best to write as legibly as I can.
I took the order and gave it to Cologne. She looked at it
for a second and shoved the note into my face and screeched,
"Mousse!! I can hardly read this! Do you know how to write a
simple order you no good 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 blind boy!! where's my food??!!" Someone yelled.
Blind boy? Lucky for him, he was a customer; I would have
beat him on the spot if he wasn't. "Uh, coming sir!" I said as I
took the plates of food and walked 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 which lowly scum tripped me. It was Ranma; the one
who is also after my beautiful Shampoo.
"Ranma!! why did you do that??!!" I yelled to him as I
punched his face. Unfortunately, it was not Ranma, it was on e
of our 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
is infested with blind, stupid chinks. They should burn this
place down."
After that incident, most of the customers left. On the
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 whimpered in between the
beatings.
"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 will 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
pathetic weakling like you, we shall give you one more chance.
We shall let you live, for now, but if we see your ugly face
again, we won't hesitate to kill you."
"No wait, I did not mean it like this!!" I pleaded.
"<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. Of course, I knew that feeling will disappear. I will
always love Shampoo again. That is the worst curse you can have,
loving someone who doesn't love 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.
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 banishment from them was
a good thing, I was free; I now have the time to train and become
skilled once more. I came close of beating Ranma in our first
encounter, but later on, he won easily every time we fought.
That must change, I must start training immediately.
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 a 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, Ranma and I had a little confrontation 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. 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. 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 learn them. I decided to
go to my homeland China first. But how do I get there? I don't
have any money to get a plane nor a boat.. I was pondering on it
till I bumped into somebody.
"Watch where you're going!" That 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 side 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 my marvelous attack. Tembatsuu~~~ da da
dadadadadadadadadadaDADADADADADADADADADADADADA!!!!" Kuno said as
he kept thrusting his bokken with great force, but all he was
hitting was thin air as I safely jumped out of the way even
though the pain on my ribs made me slower, but when I turned
around, 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, and a chain came out of my sleeve and
wrapped around Kuno's throat. I then did a skipping side kick
that made him crash through a stone fence.
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 said as I dropped to my knees, 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?" Ryouga said looking at the horizon.
"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?." Ryouga asked me.
"Cuz you need to get there and I need to improve my
skills."
"Uh, sorry," he said as he got up. "I don't have time to
fight you, I need to start looking for the Dojo."
"Why? Are you scared of me porky? Comeon, 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 stuck 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, and 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 that you give up before I
seriously hurt you."
Now that really pissed me off, I threw a couple of knives
which he dodged easily, which I expected he would, and while he
was dodging, I caught him off guard with a chain that shot out of
my shoe that wrapped around his neck; I then dragged him towards
me.
"Come here!" I yelled, as I threw an uppercut to his chin,
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, through some parked cars.
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 broke them again. That really did it, I was getting
hurt and needed to do something. I decided to blast that punk
out of my sight. I took out my bombs and threw them at him. The
bombs hit Ryouga, exploded unexpectedly, 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!!" And the ki blast 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, 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, flipped me over,
and did a back breaker and spun me through the ground.
"That hurt!" I screamed as got up and leaped toward him.
"That's the whole idea, Mousse." Ryouga took out his
umbrella and knocked me out of the sky. Then he threw the
umbrella, which dug into my stomach while I was still falling.
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 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?" I said quietly 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
to rain and all I did said 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.
---10 hours later---
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
the weight of my 30 cm thick glasses, it was slowing me down
further. After a few more hours, I couldn't go any farther, I
looked down and saw land. I decided to land there and rest for a
while. 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,
but it wasn't. It must be in Korea. I heard that they had a
martial art called Tae Kwon Do and some others. 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. The stuff they were showing kinda 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 after 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.
"First, I must test your skills, spar me." he said getting
in a fighting stance. I had to wear this stupid padding, but
nevertheless I bowed to him, jumped up, and threw six chains from
my sleeve. Kim blocked every one and yelled, "Nuri Cha-gii!!" as
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. As I slowly got up, he side kicked me in
the face and back swing kicked me away. I can see that this guy
was good.
After a few more minutes, I was staring at the ceiling for
the third time. This guy kicked hard, and he kicked fast. 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 and he hit
hard and fast. 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. 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 taught
me 5 kicks: front, side, roundhouse, back, and back swing kick.
They said I have to throw at least 1000 of these by the end of
the week. I also 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. The
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 ask her if I can
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 what they are, 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>" Lau
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 got 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 ran to her at full speed. All of a sudden, a
ball of chain came out of her sleeve and hit me on the side of my
face. "What the?" I said bleeding from my nose.
"<Like 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 chani that had a knife stuck at the end, and it
lodged into my leg. No, it went through my leg and the
chain wrapped around my ankle and knocked me down.
I desperately took out my explosive eggs and threw it at
her; it exploded on her sleeve and cut the chain that was wrapped
around my leg.
I then got up, 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
while gasping for air.
I looked at him; he had this suspicious look on his face.
"I know what you need." Gel said breaking the silence.
"Here is a map for you. 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 meekly said 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 charged at the blind man with full speed. However, in
a flash, the old man Chan attacked me and knocked me out.
A few minutes later, 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? You're 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 around the knuckles 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.
"<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, however, was not in one piece anymore either.
It was split 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 edge of the opening of the pot, then I
want you to walk around on the edge. 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 rabbits 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 the food
back.
I wandered around the woods for about three 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 lose 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 Shampoo's face;
beautiful, and sweet. However, after a few seconds, my mind
drifted towards defeating 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 them
all. I only excel on 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.> "
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; actually,
I think Mr. Choi studied under Shokaku. I don't know, it's been
a long time since I last saw them. Well anyway, if you want
someone here that'll teach you about pressure points, 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
ferocious 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 unfortunately."
"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 and 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 then threw more bombs, any
explosives that I can find: dynamite, Plastic bombs, gunpowder,
grenades, shells, cannonballs, firecrackers, my favorite egg
bombs, and anything that explodes.
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.
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 half part of the Amazon tribe,
and the curse I received was the `Amazon Curse.' So, I was
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."
She agreed, but 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, always 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 Thai 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 the saying, 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 Thai
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
Thai 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
of those, I can beat Ranma. I could beat Shampoo, but she is too
beautiful to hit. Only if I can figure out some way.
Well, I stayed a lot longer on Thailand than I suspected,
but I trained hard and with the fierceness I saw from the Thai
boxers. I still practiced my Tae Kwon Do kicks, my kung
exercises, and my hidden weapon technique. After hours of
practice and headaches, I finally was able to focus on Shampoo's
face for a whole thirty-six seconds. I tried focusing on other
stuff like a black pig, for example, but that was harder since I
was used to practicing only on Shampoo's face. Also, the
callouses on my knuckles were getting bigger and soon I was able
to break down walls like Ryouga. My ribs finally healed and
stronger bones replaced it. My concentration, speed, power,
focus all improved. The next day, I decided to go back to Japan.
I flew for fourteen straight hours to Japan; fortunately, my
training helped me gain the stamina to fly that long.
I finally arrived at Japan. Actually, it was Okinawa, not
exactly in mainland Japan. Yes, the home of Karate, Okinawa.
However, I was not interested in Karate, but I trained here alone
for a few more days and started towards Japan again.
I reached Tokyo and went into an Aikido dojo. I asked them
if they knew any famous Aikijutsu master. The Sensei there
mentioned all these names but none of them rang a bell.
"How about Morihei Ueshiba? Or Kenji Tomiki?" The Sensei
there asked me.
"Sorry, don't know who any of them are." I told him. The
Sensei looked somewhat offended by that remark; however, he did
tell me this old Aikijutsu dojo he knew. I thanked him and went
towards there.
I went into the dojo and asked the Sensei there about famous
Akijutsu masters. Still, no luck. I decided to forget about
remembering his name and start taking classes there. I asked him
about the style of Aikijutsu he taught.
"This style? It is the Takeda-ryu Aikijutsu." Sensei told
me.
"Wait," I said as Takeda rang a bell. "Ta-ke-da?"
"Yes."
"Can you name some famous Masters the name of Takeda?"
"Well, let me see, Takeda Soemon, and um Takeda Sokaku..."
"That's him!!" I screamed with excitement.
"That's who?" The Sensei asked me.
"Takeda Sokaku, do you know where he is?"
"Sorry kid, he's died on April 25, 1943."
"Oh, well, see ya." I said as I was leaving disappointed.
Gee, dead for around fifty years... Master Chan must be real
old then. Oh well, I guess I will go to that Aikido place.
"Okay, line up!" The Sensei said, who's name was
coincidentally, Takeda. "We shall pair off, the black belts,
naturally go with the Kyus. Teach them well, after that, some
Randori."
After all the black belts went with the kyus, I was
fortunate to have the master as my partner.
"Remember, the aim of Aikido is not to hurt your opponent.
This art is always flowing and circular. The attacker is called
the Uke and the defender, the one who is doing the techniques, is
called the Nage. First, before I teach you anything, you must
learn the Ukemi. This will greatly reduce your injury rate."
Takeda said and he asked, "Do you know any Ukemi?"
I answered, "No, I don't."
"Well, first, go down to one of your knees, then put your
forearm flat on the ground in front of you. Now, row forward.
Good, you must remember to row on your shoulder. This will help
your rowing technique. Remember, you must flow with the
technique and never resist it. This will help your reduce of
injury."
"Yes sir."
I practiced my falling techniques for the remainder of the
day. I watched as the black belts do Randori. Two black belts
came out in the middle of the dojo and waited for the
instructions. Takeda told them to do a simple technique called
the shisho nage. It was a simple throw, yet it was flowing and
beautiful. Another technique they did, which I forget the name
of, was the Uke grabbed the guy from behind, the Nage ducked
down, under the arm, grabbed his arm, and took him down. The
flow of Aikido looked very nice. Then more randori continued...
I went to that school for a year and a half, and I finally
quit. I still trained my earlier arts in between classes. I
also somehow got letters from Rei Rei on how she loved me and
such. I wrote back also, saying that I still need to finish my
business. Unfortunately, every time I write the letters, I was
always thinking of Shampoo not Rei Rei.
I arrived at Nerima, and boy it still looked the same. The
same smell, look and, sound. I finally mastered the bat fu
technique where I needed no eyes to see, and it took me only
about two years. I tested it out by fighting a couple of thugs
while I was walking over here.
The bat fu worked fine. I now could think about anything
for more than two minutes. I looked around and decided where to
go first. It has been about three years since I left. I decided
to go to Nekohanten. I shaved my hair before I went in and took
off my glasses and got some contacts. The contacts were terrible
since they don't make them that thick, but I had to do this so
they won't recognize me.
As I went in, Shampoo, as beautiful and lovely as ever
greeted me. "Welcome to Nekohanten!!" She said cheerfully.
As I saw her again, my heart started to beat and all the
good memories started to flood my mind again.
"Excuse me Mr. weird customer, you want table or not?" She
said with her sweet voice.
"Uh, no, came for the bath room." I nervously said.
"Oh, go follow the hall and turn left."
"Thank you."
As I walked to the bath room, I heard Cologne mention how
familiar that guy was. I couldn't I decided. I wanted to
challenge her to love me, but now, after seeing her, I couldn't
see how I can hurt her. I cried in agony in the bathroom stall.
All these years of training, gone to waste? I remembered,
Ranma. If Shampoo sees me defeat Ranma, she will know how strong
I am. I quickly left Nekohanten, found some place, and started
training again. A whole year passed till I finally decided how
to get Shampoo to see me beat Ranma. My hair even grew back. I
wrote a letter to Shampoo on how I loved her and I'm going to
marry her at this abandoned field. Of course, I signed the name
as Ranma. I wrote a letter to Ranma on free food, all you can
eat at the abandoned parking lot. I set the times for 12:00 AM
next Saturday.
Saturday, they finally came. Ranma brought all his family
along for the free food. Shampoo came running joyously for her
love, or she thought.
"Okay, where's the free food?" Ranma called out along with
his panda.
"Ranma, I marry you! You confess your love for me yes?"
Shampoo said as she hugged Ranma.
"Will you cut it out?"
It was time for me to come out and stop this fiasco.
"Ranma! Shampoo!" I hollered out to them.
"Mousse? Is that really you?" Shampoo asked me.
"Yes Shampoo, I came to defeat your ahem, fiancee. So you
will love me instead."
"Oh, is that it? Mousse, weak Mousse, get beaten by Ranma.
Go ahead."
"Hey Mousse, how ya been?" Ranma asked me trying to be
friendly.
"I'm going to fight you, and then I will marry Shampoo."
"Hey, that's fine by me. I just came here for the food."
"Ranma! Get ready to die!!!" I yelled as I got into my
fighting stance.
"Ranma, make quick and hurry up and beat Mousse, so you can
confess your love for me." Shampoo said getting impatient.
"When did I say I was going to..." Ranma was about to say
after I kicked him.
"What the hell?" Ranma said feeling his jaw, "Mousse,
you'll pay for that."
"Whatever." I said as I threw away my glasses.
"You... You just threw away your glasses. Are you trying to
insult me Mousse?"
"If you want to think that, Ranma."
I ducked down and sweeped him. As he landed on the ground,
I immediately jumped on top of him and started to pound on his
face.
"What? Oww, how did owww, he become this fast??" Ranma
said as his face was being pummeled.
Ranma grabbed me and tried to throw me down. I easily did
my ukemi and got up. I then threw my naginata out of my
sleeve towards him. Ranma barley dodged my attack as my naginata
ripped a part of his sleeve, drawing blood. I quickly went near
him and did a side kick to his abdomen and quickly followed that
with a knee bash to his chin, while at the same time, an elbow
strike thrust to the back of his head. I then grabbed his hair
and threw him a couple meters away. Ranma got up dazed as I
threw my chain with claws attached at the end. Ranma ducked
under the chains, but unfortunately for him, I twisted my wrist,
the chain came back, and stuck to the back of Ranma's back.
"Hmmmm, this might be Ranma's greatest match yet." I heard
Genma say.
"Mousse, you got better now," I heard Shampoo say with her
melodious voice, heh Shampoo... You will be mine soon.
"Oh my, he looks so serene fighting with his eyes closed."
I think that was Kasumi who said that.
"Mousse!! I didn't want to uses this!" Ranma said bleeding
from his nose, arm, and back. "Anything goes martial arts final
attack!!!" Ranma yelled in frenzy.
"Run away!!" Ranma yelled as he turned the opposite
direction and started to run.
"Oh no you don't!!" I yelled to him as I threw ten chains
from my sleeve and caught him.
I dragged him towards me, slowly. I was enjoying this. Of
course, I can't get cocky, must stay focused and....
"Kaishu Tenshin amaguriken!!"
That was my cue I focused in on one of his fists, grabbed
it, then flipped him over in an Aikido arm scissor lock. I
pulled at his arm. I can hear and feel this was giving him lots
of pain, so I pulled more. I felt the arm snap. I let go of the
arm and Ranma sprang up howled in pain, grabbing his arm.
"Ranma, tell me that I've won, and there will be no more
pain." I told him. "You want to get rid of Shampoo right?
Well, tell me that you lost, and your pains will be no more."
"Mousse," I heard Ranma weakly, "I would love to get rid of
Shampoo, but I never never never ever will give up on any type of
martial arts combat. You must kill me to win."
"Okay Ranma, if you wish." I really didn't want to do this,
but I had no choice, if I was going to have Shampoo, I have to
defeat him.
I charged at him, but he was ready for it and punched me in
the gut. I felt the pain but wasn't significant; however, he
kicked me in the leg. As I buckled to one knee from that attack,
he kicked me in the jaw. Ranma then grabbed my head with his
good arm, brought it up, and knee bashed my head a few times and
tossed me away. Ranma then jumped up and tried to stomp me. I
quickly dodged it by rolling away. Ranma charged at me again; I
got ready and threw a roundhouse kick toward his head. Ranma
tried to block it, but he blocked it with the arm I broke. Ranma
screamed in pain and retreated. I tried to do a sliding tackle
but missed. Ranma then grabbed the back of my hair and head
butted me on the bridge of my nose.
I felt my nose to see if it was bleeding, it was not. I did
a jump crescent kick, dropped down, and sweeped him. As I was
about to stomp on his face, he sprang up on his good arm and mule
kicked me in the chin.
I got up angrily, bleeding this time, and toned my three
fingers to his throat and grabbed it with my three fingers:
index, middle, and thumb, thus a dragon claw. I choke slammed
him, picked him up again, and squeezed harder. Blood started to
drip from Ranma's neck. I told him last chance. Ranma says
never.
I put my head down and thought for a second. I needed to
know if my love for Shampoo was more important, or if saving
Ranma's life was. True, I hated Ranma, but I would not go as far
to kill someone. Besides, I never killed anyone before.
I put everyone at suspense for about five minutes till I
finally met my decision. "Ranma.... I know you hear this alot,
but... Prepare to die!!!!" I yelled as I was about to squeeze
the life out Ranma, Shampoo called to me.
"Mousse, I see you strong as Ranma now, you be stronger than
me. Ranma no right to marry me, you are more than qualified for
me to marry. Shampoo said.
Was that really shampoo who said that? I couldn't believe
it, I let go of Ranma and ran towards Shampoo to hug her. She
had her arms out to receive me. It was like slow motion. I was
running towards her then she moved out of the way. I wondered
for a split second till I heard, "Moko Takabishia!" And it blew
me away.
My back was burnt by the attack as I got up slowly and
walked to Ranma. Ranma was thanking Shampoo for that distraction
while he was able to gain enough confidence to throw that blast.
"Ranma!! Shampoo!!! That was a dirty trick!!" I yelled
furiously.
Then Shampoo, grinning, tells me, "What you talking about
Mousse? There no rules in fighting." Then she ran up to me,
took out her bon bonri and struck me in the stomach. I had no
idea why I couldn't dodge that attack. Maybe because it was
Shampoo who was attacking and didn't want to hurt her by
counterattacking or maybe because Ranma's Moko Takabishia
slowed me down, or probably both. I fell to my knees and Shampoo
stomped on my head and left laughing. The other people slowly
started to leave the last I saw was, I think, Kasumi or Nabiki
Tendo.
I woke up the next day as I felt the sting on my back. I
couldn't believe it, after all these years of training, I was
defeated by a simple trick. I don't know how to feel about
Shampoo, right now, I feel angry at her. Of course, that will
soon change. I hate this curse, this damn curse called love. I
don't know why everyone has to get it. Oh well, since I will
probably love Shampoo again tomorrow, I must start my training.
I sat down and closed my eyes. I was thinking of a little, brown
mouse. After about one minute someone interrupted me. I got up
to kick the crap out of him for breaking my concentration, but it
was the mail man.
"Are you uhhhh, Mousse?" The postal worker asked me.
"Why yes I am." I told him impatiently, for I was still
enraged about my interruption.
"Thank God, It was hell looking for you, here a mail from
China."
"Thank you,"
I looked at the letter and it was from some one I don't
know. I opened and looked at it. It was from Master Gel.
"Mousse, you fool, my daughter was killed. You know, the
one you promised to marry? Well, she was killed by the demon
that once possessed her. Somehow, the demon was still alive.
Don't bother to come here, if you want revenge that is. I
already killed the demon, no thanks to you. Oh, the sad part is
that Master Chan finally died at the ripe old age of 115. Chan,
he was a great teacher, he might even thought me a few tricks.
Again, no need to come, his funeral is over. I even smuggled it
out of the Communist's hands and buried him in a secret place. I
did the same thing with my daughter. Oh well, that is all.
signed,
Gel"
I looked at the letter, crumpled it up, threw it away, and
laughed. I never promised her that I will marry her or did I? I
thought about it for a few minutes, the letter that is. I found
out that she was the only girl that actually liked me,
heck even wanted marry me. I wondered what Shampoo will do if I
died? Probably nothing. Nothing...
"Shampoo!!!!" I yelled as I felt the rage and grief inside
me. "I'm going to make you love me if it's the last thing I do!"
I ran towards Nekohanten at my top speed. I broke through
the Nekohanten door and scared the costumers away. "Mousse! You
idiot, you scare costumers away like you did few years ago."
Shampoo said angrily.
"Shampoo, I love you. I want you to love me too, and if I
need to defeat you to do it, so be it." I said.
"Whatever." She said as she took out her bom bonri's out of
nowhere and hit me with it. I flew through the wall of
Nekohanten into the next building's wall, making a little crater
on the wall. she then jumped kicked me into the wall, thus
making the crater into a hole. She then picked me up by
the collar of my robes to do some more damage. I got myself
together and grabbed her wrist, turned my body 180 degrees toward
my right side, then threw her down. I then raised my foot to
stomp on her beautiful face, but as I saw he face with my inner
sight, it was still beautiful. I couldn't do
it. She took that chance, grabbed my foot and tripped me. I
landed safely, brought my legs up, then mule kicked her in the
chest. I could sense her pain as she was thrown back to
Nekohanten. I ran towards her whispering that I'm sorry, but she
threw a table at me. I broke it with my fist easily;
instinctively, I did a flying side kick towards her. The foot
landed on the spot, the side of her face.
I smelled blood flying and heard her scream. She was thrown
back a couple of meters, crashed into a few chairs and tables,
and landed hard on the floor. She tried to get up. I went over
to her to cause her more damage but again when saw her, I
couldn't think of hurting her again.
She suddenly got up and did some dragon punch type of attack
towards me while I was distracted. Her punch landed square under
my chin. I bit my tongue as my mouth was forced closed and
tasted blood. I felt my tongue to see if was bitten off, luckily
it wasn't. Although the cut was about one centimeter deep. I
got up then she threw a left cross at me, I dodged it with ease
and front kicked her, she blocked the kick and counterattacked
with a leg sweep, I jumped over her sweep while she did a high
back kick towards my face, and I managed to dodged that by doing
a back flip in the air and did a side kick as I landed, she
dodged that and tried to trip me, I hopped over her leg, and I
shot a ball and chain out of my sleeve, it hit her on the abdomen
and she fell. I wondered where Cologne was anyway.
I threw a straight right which it missed but hit the wall
behind her that shattered. I then ducked, spun twice crouched,
then got up and did a jump back swing kick and, with the opposite
leg, a jump ax kick in the air immediately after my first kick.
Both kicks hit the mark as she was hit twice in a row and made
her drop. She tried to get up and I stomped on her back. She
made a loud scream.
After that, I couldn't understand why I did that. I was
going to defeat her, but not seriously hurt her. While I was
pondering, she kicked me in the groin, leg tackled me, and bashed
my head into the ground. I got up by instinct and felt her
roundhouse kick coming towards me. I grabbed the kick, grabbed
her collar of her shirt, tripped her base leg and threw her down.
Then with her leg still on my arm, I grabbed the other leg, and
turned her over for a Boston crab.
"Shampoo," I called out to her. "I don't want to hurt you
anymore, if you say you give up and say I won, you'll relieve
both of our pains."
"Shampoo not defeated yet." she said in great pain.
I then sensed someone coming into Nekohanten. It felt like
Ukyo.
"Omigosh! Someone is raping Shampoo!!" Ukyou said taking
out her spatulas. "Let go of her you pervert!"
Ukyou threw about five or six spatulas at me. I let go of
Shampoo and safely leaped put of the way. I threw my ropes and
tangled her up.
"What are you doing Ukyou!!??" I yelled at her in frenzy.
"I was trying to defeat her so she will marry me!! Besides, why
are you saving Shampoo? You hate her!! What are you doing at
Nekohanten anyway?"
"Wait, are you Mousse? Mousse honey! wow you look great, I
haven't seen you in a long time. Sorry about the attack, I just
came here to borrow some flour for my okiminiyaki. Besides she's
not my enemy, she is..." Ukyou started to say when I sensed
someone charging towards me.
I instinctively back kicked and hit Shampoo and felt her
ribs breaking apart. She disgorged blood and was sent flying
crashing through some chairs and tables making a loud clatter.
Ukyou and I looked shocked at what I've done. I couldn't believe
it, I kelt down and said, "All I wanted her to love me, I didn't
want to kill her!!" I cried in shame.
"You didn't." I heard someone say. "Mousse, you know you
loved her, but you lost control from your master's death and from
the death of the only girl who loved you. You were confused to
what to do. You wanted to defeat her, but didn't want to hurt
her, afraid to lose someone who loved you again. Well, I looked
into Shampoo's heart Mousse, she does like you, but not in a
affectionate way. She just tolerates you around that's all. So
forget about her, there's still more fish to catch."
"Who are you?" I cried out.
"Ummm, Ukyo remember?"
"I know that, but that other voice,"
"What other voice Mousse honey?"
"Mousse, over here, behind you." The voice said again.
I turned and looked, it was Master Chan.
"I.. I thought you were dead!" I said.
"I'm not dead Mousse, are you okay?" Ukyo asked me.
"Ignore her, look Mousse, I am dead. In the other world,
Mr. D gives you one more chance to talk to the one you most want
to talk to. I still figured that you still needed help. So I
came and to help you. Being dead, I get to look at the past,
present and future. And believe me, Shampoo doesn't love you."
"Who's Mr. D?"
"Forget about him Mousse, listen to me, look for other
women. There is one who will love you. But be warned, Shampoo
will tear that love apart again. So stay away from Shampoo at
all costs, especially when you get a girl friend or get married."
"Who is that?"
"I can't tell. Find out yourself. Look, my time is almost
up, so bye."
"Wait, where's Rei Rei?"
"Oh she's talking to someone famous, that's what most people
do anyway. I guess people wanted to meet their favorite
celebrities in their life time, but they can't do it when they
are alive so they take their last chance to meet them. Well, so
long."
"Bye Master Chan."
"Mousse, who are you talking to anyway? Who is this Master
Chan? Are you okay Mousse?" Ukyo asked me.
I ignored her, all of a sudden, Shampoo hit me with
something. I felt my mouth go numb, then blacked out. Last I
heard was, "Shampoo beat Mousse."
Curse her, I shall have her... someday...
-Fin
Author's Note:
This fanfic took me a year!! A whole freaking year to
complete!! This was my first fanfics I wrote. I lost interest
in it and started writing my "Personalities" Fanfic. But I
regained my interest in it and finally made myself finish it.
This used to be called Depression, but I changed it to Obsession.
I know that sounds like some Calvin Klein perfume or something,
but I felt Depression sounded like a Ryouga's title. Besides,
Mousse was obsessed with achieving Shampoo's love. Please,
please, please send C & C. I don't care if you read this ten
years from now, send all comments and criticisms!! I need them.
Piccolo@cyber.atlanta.com and Yinyang@altered.com are my E-mail
addresses.
I also actually did some research for this!! Think of it, I
actually researched for this stupid fanfic I wrote. Here are
some books I used to help me. (This is not a formal Works Cited
Page okay!?)
_Kung Fu: the art, Philosophy and (I forgot the third sub title)_
written by some Chinese guy and this American guy. (Sorry I just
browsed through this book at my book store, so I can't remember
the name and author) This book is for the "Kung" Concept and
training methods.
_The Martial Arts Sourcebook_ by John Corcoran, for a brief
summary of the styles and who created what.
_Martial Arts for Beginners_ by Ron Sieh for the Aikido
terminology and a brief look at the styles.
_The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar_ by Roald Dahl for the mind
training of the inner sight.
Mousse, Shampoo and other related Ranma characters (c) 1996
Rumiko Takashi/Shougkukan Inc./Kitty/Fuji TV.
Kim Kaphan, and the other Koreans (c) 1996 SNK Inc. all rights
deserved
Rei Rei, Chun Li, Bison, Vega and other SFII characters (c) 1996
Capcom Co., Ltd.
Pai Chan, Lei Chan, Shun Di and others (c) 1996 SEGA., Ltd
Lei Wu Long and other Tekken characters (c) 1996 Namco Co., Ltd
Chan, Gel, Mr. D (C)Bile Studios. 1996 NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT
PERMISSION!
Gel is pronounce "Jel." Why I spell it Gel? Because my brother
created him like that. Read his Gel fanfics by Stupid Crap Co.
Oh yea, my Master, J.S. Lee for most of the Philosophy in this
fanfic. (What Philosophy? Well, I tried to put them in there, I
promise!)
That X'ian Puu thing, somebody gave me that idea, but I don't
know who. Tell me so I can give you credit for my final draft.
Again, please E-mail me at Piccolo@cyber.atlanta.com for C&C. I
know there are grammar errors okay? So don't flame me on that.
The C&C on content and the fight scenes are what I'm looking for,
Thanks.