Due to some wierd ideas I've been throwing around in my head, I 
decided to re-write my original attempt at a revenge.

I hope you like my newest attempt...Also, sorry about the 
lateness..it was finished on Halloween, but this was the first chance 
I've had to send it in.

P.S.  I suggest all good authors to give this a try as well...

P.P.S.  There are quite a few spoilers in here for all of my stories, 
so if you don't want the stories to be ruined...I suggest not reading 
this.

                Revenge on Shadow, version 2.

    Looking at what little I got, recently, from the mailing
list, I notice that something is amiss.  Something that is just
not right.
    Something is happening to all the other authors out there.
    Shrugging my shoulders, I mutter, "It's only stories, right?
Nothing is really going on...I'm not in any danger."
    The faint creaking of my bedroom door announces that someone
has entered my room without knocking...again.  "Who's there?" I
call, being too engrossed in reading my mail to even consider
looking at who's trying to be rude.
    A voice that I never expected to hear answers, "Sorry for the
wait...I was just at that guy that wrote Transitions' place...you
know how much time flies when you're having fun."
    Whirling around, my startled gaze falls on two unlikely
occupants of my room.  One Ranma Saotome, and one Akane Tendo.
    Raising my hands, I ask, "Come on...what did I do to you to
warrant any sort of revenge now?" Not unnoticed, a bead of sweat
works it's way down the side of my face.
    Akane was the first to speak up, "Well, you made a murderer
of me...not to mention playing with my emotions and making me a
pedophile, as well...not to mention..." the bead of sweat
collects more of it's sisters on it's merry little way, "making
me a LESBIAN!!!"  I have this nice oak dresser sitting right
beside my door.  Make that, I used to.  The two halves of my
dresser fall to the floor with a loud crash.
    "Errrr..." I mumble.  I hope to all the gods and kami and
anything else out there that that isn't going to happen to me.
    Ranma chooses to speak up now, "And what you did to me?
Making me into a child, making that same child grow up in two
days <major spoiler here> and making it so that I'm female for
life in TWO stories...not to mention me being engaged to Akane
AND Ucchan...and marrying them BOTH!"  My nice bedstand becomes
no more.  The sweatdrop finally falls, followed closely by three
of it's sisters.
    "I can explain..." I mumble, hoping that they don't want to
kill me.  A glimmer of hope runs through me when I remember that
last year, the Ranma crew was dousing all of the authors with
water from nyannichuan, or some reasonable facsimile thereof.
    Noting that my face changes, dread runs through me when Ranma
says, "Oh, no...we're not going to give you something that you'd
like...or anything that you'd want.  We're going to see what we
can do to you that would REALLY make you suffer."  With that,
Akane sits at my keyboard, and starts running through my
computer.
    "Wh...What are you doing?" I ask tremulously.
    Akane replies as she runs through my mail messages, "Everyone
knows you're a computer nerd...and all computer nerds keep their
fondest memories, most wanted items, and worst nightmares in
their computer.  Therefore..." I groan in despair as Akane pulls
up message after message.  After a while Akane comments,
"Although it might take me a while before I find anything...don't
you know how to clean your mail?"
    Minutes pass, then hours.  I'm about to nod off, when Akane
shouts, "Ah, hah!  Found it!  Now...Heres what we should do,
Ranma..."  Looking over Akane's shoulder, I groan as I notice one
of the messages that I sent out ages ago, to all the FFML
regarding how I had "found" myself.  I sigh, hoping that Ranma
will at least make it quick.
    Ranma materializes two buckets of water and heaves one at me.
    A quick splash of water later, my fondest dream comes true.
I'm finally female, after being trapped as a male for so long.  I
cover myself, revelling in the feel, knowing that it will be gone
shortly.  All of a sudden, I hear a female voice that I have only
heard in my mind before...
    "Hi, Shadow!" Comes a voice from my doorway.
    I don't even need to look to know who it is when I hear Ranma
turn around and then scream, "C...c...c....CAT!!!!"
    I look up to see Cat covering her ears, a wet male Ranma
trying to climb a drenched, now male Akane.  Akane mutters,
"Dolt," as she pounds Ranma into my floor with a super
dimentional mallet.
    Cat wryly says, "Yes, that's my name...no need to shout it to
the world, you know,"  Turning her attention back to me, Cat
asks, "Hey, Shadow, when you going to actually let me find that
coin?  Running around the world looking for a mithril coin gets
kind of boring after a while, you know..."
    Smiling, I happily tell Cat, "I think I'll let you find it
next chapter, kay?  In thanks for what you did here..."
    Cat smiles, "Thanks!  I'll just take the trash out so you can
get back to your work..." Saying this, Cat grabs Ranma by the
shirt, Akane by the hand, and with Akane screaming madly, steps
towards a dimentional portal.
    As they pass through the portal, I can hear Cat saying,
"Well, at least you can't blame Ranma for being a pervert
anymore...he's fully male now.  By the way...you're kind of
cute...  " Cat's giggle is the last thing I hear from the portal
as it closes.
    Sighing in relief, I start working on chapter 14 of Dragon's
Eye View.

*****

    Hours later, my parents come home and ask me, "Where did
Colin go?  And who are you anyways?"
    Grinning like a madwoman, I turn around to tell my parents
the most interesting story yet...
Shadow Dancer
Shadow-Chan
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Imagination is a Pegasus,
Wild and free,
Never to be tethered,
Tamed by you or me.
(c) Apr 17, 1997, Shadow Dancer