On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Ken Arromdee wrote:

    The young man lifted his hands, and threw out a multitude of chains and
ropes.  Ranma and Ukyou each leapt over them without effort, but they wrapped
around his real target: the pig.  He reeled Charlotte in and held up the
chains, then started to answer Ukyou.
    "My name is Mousse!" announced the strange young man while removing his
mask.  "And you must be Ukyou Kuonji, he said, while looking at Ranma.  "I
captured your fiancee, Ranma Saotome.  If you want her back, I'll be waiting
at the Chinese festival at 7 in the big tent.  I challenge you, Ukyou, to a
duel!"  He tossed Ukyou and Ranma a ticket, then vanished.
    Both Ukyou and Ranma were dumbfounded.  Finally, Ranma spoke up.
    "Well, at least we got a free ticket."

HEH :)

The genius of Mousse at work :)

    Ranma and Ukyou pushed aside the flap of canvas and entered.  The show
had already started.  First, a few acrobats did some stunts, one even riding a
unicycle, but Ranma was singularly unimpressed.  "I could do that, Ucchan."
Next, two Chinese girls did a magic trick where a six foot tall pear tree
appeared out of nowhere from beneath a sheet.  Ranma recognized the girls as
Pink and Link, and the "trick" as not being exactly the kind of magic one would
expect in the show.  She and Ukyou waved at them, and they waved back and

Why wouldn't you expect it?

    Mousse ignored Ranma anyway, telling his tale to Ukyou instead.  Ranma
sat down and listened.

Heh.

    "Ran-chan?"  Ukyou carefully approached the seemingly insane Ranma.
"What's happened to you?  Why are you acting like that?"
    Ranma recovered, slowly.  "Oooh, what hit me?"  He glanced at his own wet
body and Ukyou's, realizing that Ukyou seemed a bit taller.  "Ucchan, did we
both...?"

Doesn't Ranma normally have a harder time recovering once he snaps?

    Ranma, not missing a good opportunity, began to cry fake tears.  "Ucchan...
not wanting to save me...  I hate you!"  Ranma turned and ran.
    Mousse shouted out "I've done what I came for.  I don't think you two are
ever going to get together again after this.  Bye!  I may never see you again!"
Ukyou muttered something unintelligible about rationalizing a won fight out of
a lost one.  Mousse continued, "Oh, and don't worry about the water.  It's
cheap imitation water that only works once."
    Ranma, halfway to the door, and Ukyou, facefaulted.

Why bother to tell them that?
 

    Later on, Ranma (along with an irate sign-using panda dragged by the neck)
explained the Cat-Fist to Ukyou, who was a bit confused by the whole incident.
"I still don't understand, Ran-chan.  The book says not to stick you in a pit
with a horde of angry cats and fish sausages strapped to your back, because 
it never works.  So how come you _did_ manage to learn the Cat-Fist from
that treatment after all?"

Did you mean to stop here with her question unanswered?

This just seems like a bit of an odd ending.

Also, what happened to Ryouga?  Did he just run off somewhere and get lost
after Mousse's assistant let go of him?


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
naru@sailormoonfan.com
rhea@tass.org

http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html

"But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly
in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.  When that
happens, it's the end of the world....For this time, it will be God
without disguise;  something so overwhelming that it will strike either
irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be
too late then to choose your side...That won't be the time for choosing;
it will be the time when we discover which side we have really chosen,
whether we realized it before or not.  NOW is the our chance to choose the
right side.  God is holding back to give us that chance.  IT won't last
forever.  We must take it or leave it."
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, final paragraph.