Subject: [FFML] [Ranma][Raging demon2][Dark]
From: Ryoga P Hibiki
Date: 3/14/2000, 1:14 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

	Raging demon.

	Part two, 

The vanishing.

Akane Tendo shifted through her underwear drawer and frowned as she found
nothing but rolled up balls of socks. "Again?! I hate him!" she muttered
in frustration. She shivered slightly as the room seemed strangely cold
to her. A familiar uncomfortable feeling tingled at the base of her spine
causing goose bumps to rise on her skin as she glanced around nervously.
"There's something in my room."
	Unknown to her, two red glowing eyes watched from the shadows of her
closet through a small crack in the door. Instantly she spun around just
in time to miss them as they faded into oblivion.
	"Nothing," she muttered under her breath as she continued to scan the
room. "I know someone was watching me." She quickly placed a shirt on and
zipped up her skirt before moving over to the window. It was open and a
slight breeze wafted through the room cooling the space out on the
unusually warm day. Her eyes fell onto the neighbor's yard where Dan was
napping in a lawn chair lazily with a melted glass of iced tea in his
hand. "You animal!"

	Dan awoke with a sharp pain on his head as he jumped up and looked on
the ground to see a shoe lying next to him, he quickly dove behind the
chair as a volley of objects hurled towards him. After a large dumbbell
clanked to the ground next to him he dared to peer around the seat. A
long shadow formed behind him and he slowly turned to see Soun standing
over him with a scowl on his face.
	"So, peeping on my little Akane eh?"
	"What?! No!" retorted the boy in shock as he tried to understand what
was happening to him.
	"Then what are you doing?!" screamed the girl as she charged over the
wall with a bamboo training sword in her hands.
	"Takin a nap! I've been here all day!" cried the boy defensively.
	The most unexpected person came to his aid. "He's not lyin, I've seen
him," said Ranma as he joined them.
	"B-but, I felt eyes on my body! He's the only one who could have!"
retorted the girl as she realized she might have made a mistake.
	Genma poked his head over the wall, he had been attracted by the
commotion. "The master isn't back yet, it's too early for him to be home
from his rounds."
	"But..." Akane was rapidly loosing steam, her anger faded dramatically
as she noticed a few scattered magazines and a pitcher of ice tea sitting
on a small table beside the chair. He would have been facing the wrong
direction anyway.
	"Maybe someone did peep Akane, but it wasn't him," said Ranma curtly.
	"Are you admitting to it?" snapped the girl as she turned on him
instantly with a renewed anger.
	"What? No! Why would I want too peep on a stupid..." he was promptly
silenced by the young girl's rage as she punted him back over the wall.
	"That's the spirit son!" called Soun proudly with a vain hope that he
had been peeping.

	A few moments later in a grimy looking alleyway Happosai cheerfully
collected his wares from a clothes hanger that was draped out of a window
on one of the adjacent buildings. "Poor dearies, hanging you in such an
unpleasant place! I've got the perfect place for you at home."
	He almost didn't notice the shadow move below him, a figure cloaked in a
long dirty brown shroud waited patiently for him to jump down. Happosai
turned slightly and smirked.
	"Whaddaya want?"
	"Happosai, I challenge you," said a decidedly feminine voice from
beneath she shroud. It was not a pleasant sound though, despite the
delicate tones of a woman's speech it was rough and almost seethed with
anger.
	"Sorry girly, I got places to be!" snapped the old man as he started to
bound away. He had no doubts this woman wished to reclaim his property
from him. She probably mistreated her panties terribly and he would never
allow them to return to her.
	The figure did not move or speak, it simply held up a frilly white pair
of underwear and remained motionless. Happosai turned and stopped his
retreat.
	"A pity, if you had won, I would have given you these," replied the
woman in an emotionless monotone.
	"Well, why didn't you say so before?! Are they yours?" quipped the old
man as he dashed forward and attempted to take them from her. He missed
as the woman sidestepped both his grab and his attempt to grope her. He
stopped and stared at her carefully, a sudden doubt forming in his mind
as he noticed the locks of dark red hair falling from inside the hood of
the dirty cloak. 
	The woman's eyes began to glow red as a small smile could be seen
through the shadows of her shroud. "No, these belong to Akane Tendo."
	"Akane you say?" snapped the old man in disbelief, he could not believe
his luck.
	"Her favorite pair," replied the woman calmly, no emotion was in her
voice and her smile had long since vanished.
	"Sweeto!" cried the old master as he jumped forward.

	Outside the alleyway a the distinct sounds of battle emanated, passers
by merely walked around the area just outside the alley ignoring the
fight as if nothing was happening. After a few moments, a single flash of
light could be seen for the space of a second, and only silence and a
single dog bark in the distance could be heard.

	Kimiko Noruko opened her window and inspected the empty clothesline in
frustration. "Damn! Again?" she muttered angrily as she leaned out and
looked around with a frustrated glare in the hopes of finding someone who
might have seen. "When I find the pervert who's doing this..." What she
saw on the ground she didn't expect, a single white spot on the almost
black surface of the ground in the alley.
	A few moments later she was on her knees looking at the pair of panties
that was halfway submerged in a puddle. Neatly written on the inside of
the undergarments was a name. "Akane Tendo."
	She sighed and turned away from them, apparently she wasn't the only
victim of this pervert and it comforted her slightly, she almost
suspected someone was stalking her.
	Behind her back two red eyes glowed as they watched her leave. "Only a
few more to go." The woman glanced back and hurriedly left the alley as
she felt a strange discomfort around her.

	Several hours later...

	Ryoga Hibiki looked out across the field. "Where am I?" The sky had
grown dark and lightening streaked across the sky. "Great, it's gonna
rain, I'd better find shelter soon."
	"Not for a few more hours," said a voice calmly. Ryoga felt a chill run
down his spine as he slowly turned to face the imposing figure standing
over him on a boulder. His skin was darkly tanned and he was dressed in a
purple dogi with a black belt tied across his waist. His aura glowed
madly as his eyes burned red. 
	"Who are you?" asked the boy looking unimpressed with the man.
	"I am power made flesh, feel how weak you truly are," replied the thing
without moving.
	"What? I may be a lot of things, but weak isn't one of them!" retorted
the lost boy as he took up a fighting stance.
	"We shall see," replied the thing simply.
	The wind blew hard across the field as Ryoga struck out at the rock the
man was standing on. "Bakusai Tenketsu!"
	Akuma leapt into battle once again.

	"Where's Ranma? He said he was coming with you," asked Dan as he sat
down at a small ice cream shop near the Tendo Dojo.
	Ranma waltzed into the store with a smirk on her face as she sat down
with Akane cheerfully. "Hey Akane, who's your friend?" 
	The other girl rolled her eyes and sighed. "Ryo, this is Ranko. My
cous-"
	"Hey Ranma, you're late," replied the boy looking her dead in the face.
	The pair both gave him shocked looks. "How did..."
	"I thought it was common knowledge around here," replied the boy simply.
"Besides, unlike some people, I'm secure enough in my manhood that I
don't need a sex change to eat ice cream." He picked up a small glass of
water from a nearby table and dumped it over his head revealing his own
curse. She was a brown haired girl with short cut hair and deep green
eyes.
	"You've..." started Ranma as she looked at the girl in front of her in
shock.
	"Been to Jusenkyo? Sure, I don't mind though, it's useful more times
than it hinders me," answered Dan with a shrug.
	Ranma turned red and Akane found the situation strangely funny for some
reason; that is until Ryoga staggered into the restaurant.
	He was beaten badly, bruises covered his face, his clothing was ripped
and torn, and his arm hung limply at his side broken badly. "H-hello
Akane." It was all he could manage before he passed out on the spot.

	He awoke a few moments later in the arms of a strange girl with green
eyes. "Who?"
	"He's awake, give him some room!" cried the girl as she waved the small
crowd back. "Couldn't find a doctor could you?"
	"Who are you?" he repeated as he looked around in a daze. "Where am I?"
	"Is he all right?" asked Akane as she kneeled down next to Dan.
	"No, his arm is broken, pretty badly too from the look of it," replied
the girl simply.
	"Oh man, Ryoga. What happened?" whispered Ranma as she noticed the
condition of her rival.
	The lost boy gave a small laugh as he passed out again.

	He awoke in Dr. Tofu's clinic a short time later. He was almost covered
in bandages and his arm was in a heavy cast. "Who brought me here?" he
wondered out loud as he recognized his surroundings.
	"I did," replied a female voice causing Ryoga to turn his head in shock.
	Dan sat next to him with a board expression on her face.
	"Thanks," replied the boy simply as he turned away in embarrassment. 
	Dan remembered something suddenly and turned to look at Tofu, who was
sitting nearby with an elderly patient. "Hey, can I get some hot water, I
kinda forgot I was a girl."
	Tofu looked at him with an expressionless stare and shrugged. "Sure."
	Ryoga stared at him in disbelief after he changed himself back. "What,
you didn't think your little group was the only Jusenkyo cursed people on
the planet did you?"
	"Where's Akane? Wasn't she there?" asked the boy as he dismissed the
matter.
	"She went home, I had to stay until you woke up or she wouldn't leave,"
replied Dan. He looked at Ryoga's questioning glare and continued. "I'm
the Tendo's next door neighbor."
	Hibiki merely nodded and frowned as he turned towards Dr. Tofu as he
approached them. "Ryoga, this is the most brutal thing I've ever seen!
Who did this to you?"
	The lost boy seemed to tense up suddenly as he hung his head. "I-I met a
demon."

	The next day.

	Ukyo Konji stood in the courtyard of Furinkan high in a deserted corner
waiting patiently for Ranma to arrive. She liked this little place in her
morning, before the insanity began where she could just sit in peace and
quiet for a while. Her musings were interrupted as a cloaked figure
appeared before her standing silently, but imposingly over her. The nasty
weather that had been prominent over the past few days only served to
strengthen the effect as lightening rumbled in the distance, it would not
rain for a while yet, but the clouds where overcast and darkened the sky
already.
	She stood up immediately and held her spatula ready, "Who are you? What
do you want?"
	"A challenge," replied the figure as it removed the cloak revealing a
heavily tanned red haired man. He put his fists up and snarled at her.
	Ukyo stepped back in shock and turned to run away, she had no desire to
fight with this weird stranger. He appeared in front of her and she
stopped cold stepping away in shock.
	"Hibiki escaped me, you will not be so fortunate," replied the man as he
glared at her.
	"Who are you? What do you want with me?" she growled as she pulled the
spatula from her back and took up a defensive stance.
	"I am power made flesh, and it is not you I want," replied the man
calmly as he stepped forward.
	"Stop right there you delinquents!" cried a familiar voice as Miss
Hinako jumped between them in all her childish glory.
	Akuma looked down at her with his expression unmoving as his aura burned
brightly around him. Konji found herself sighing in relief despite
herself. From the looks of him it would not have been an easy battle.
	The little girl smiled as she saw the power of the man in front of her,
she would likely remain in her adult body for quite some time, without
waiting for an explanation or reason she raised her coin up at him.
"Happo fifty yen satsu!" Long tendrils of dark energy flowed into the
ring of the coin as the man stood there unmoving, seemingly unfazed by
the attack.
	Ukyo smiled as she waited for Hinako to work her magic, it was short
lived as the teacher seemed to burst into flames screaming in pain. The
young girl fell to the ground inside the black flames clawing desperately
at her hand in an attempt to dislodge the coin from her grip. The sound
she made was inhuman as she writhed on the ground and continued to scream
louder and louder.
	"None may take the power of Akuma," replied the man as he focused his
attention on Ukyo again.
	"Akuma?" her eyes went wide as she realized what she was facing. "A
demon? I've dealt with worse!"
	"Not likely," replied the man as he raised his leg up and put his fists
forward; he glided across the grass towards her before vanishing. She
felt a massive pair of cold hands on her back and suddenly Ukyo realized
that the fight was already over.

	Hinako could see and hear, but not much else as her body slowly and
painfully drained itself of the dark energy she had so foolishly
consumed. She saw the thing vanish and reappear behind Ukyo and could do
nothing to warn her, her screams died in her mouth long before she could
ever hope to warn her. There was a devastatingly bright flash of light
that blocked the pair from view, when it subsided the man was standing
with Ukyo over his shoulder. He slowly turned towards her and spoke.
	"Tell them I'm coming for them."
	Hinako understood what he meant, tears ran down her face as she watched
helpless on the ground as he vanished taking the girl with him. Her large
battle spatula and bandoleer lay on the ground where they had once stood.

	"You jumped off a cliff to get away?" cried Ranma in disbelief.
	Ryoga sat at the table in the Cat Cafe glaring at the boy angrily. The
Amazons sat opposite him with Dan sitting next to Ryoga calmly with Akane
sitting on the other side; Ranma paced back and fourth angrily around
them. The other Tendos, Genma, and Mousse sat at a nearby table listening
intently.
"You'll see when you meet him. He moves like nothing I've ever seen
before, you don't stand a chance against him Ranma," spat the lost boy in
retort.
	"We'll see about that pig!" retorted the pigtailed boy bitterly.
	"You just don't understand," replied the lost boy as he turned away with
a solemn look on his face.
	"Why am I here anyway? It's not after me!" snorted Ranma angrily 
	"You think not?" snapped Cologne.
	Ranma froze and slowly turned towards her. "I'll get him for what he did
to Ukyo, I swear it."
	"Boy, you do not understand what is happening here, that thing attacked
Joketsuko in the night. Many died, including Lin Lin and Ran Ran, as well
as Shampoo's father." The elder eyed him coldly with a look Dan had never
seen her direct towards the boy before. "Not only that, but many others
have gone missing mysteriously as well. China is in an uproar right now,
Herb is gone, as well as his two wards."
	"What does that have to do with me?" snapped the pigtailed martial
artist coolly.
	"The list goes on Ranma, not only Ukyo, but Gambling king, Konatsu,
Happosai, Kirin and all seven Lucky Gods Martial artist, Taro,
Shinnosuke, Kima, even Saffron has been reported missing; although I
doubt he's dead," said Dan as he read some of the names on the list out
loud.
	Akane froze and looked at him. "Shinnosuke? What happened to him?"
	"I'm sorry Akane," replied the boy as gently as he could.
	"Yes, all these and many others defeated and vanished," said Cologne as
she looked at the shocked Ranma. "Do you still believe this has nothing
to do with you?"
	"All your old enemies," said Dan coolly.
	"Yes, it is safe to assume that he is the ultimate target in this little
game," replied the old woman calmly.
	"I saw this today, it was on a wall. I didn't think much of it until I
heard about this," said Akane as she held out a missing poster with
Mikado Sanzenin and Azusa Shiratori's photo on it. The girl was an
emotional wreck at the moment, but relatively calm.
	"Ranma, I am sorry Shampoo ever brought you into our lives," snapped the
old woman in frustration as she glared at him hatefully. "Had I know you
angered a demon this powerful I would never have allowed Shampoo to chase
you."
	"What?" said the boy in shock.
	"You say this beast calls itself Akuma?" said Dan interrupting the pairs
bickering suddenly.
	"According to the teacher yes," replied Cologne, she seemed relieved to
be off the subject.
	"No, it can't be, Carrot you bastard! What have you brought here?" he
whispered quietly.
	"You know something," said Cologne as her eyes narrowed.
	Dan frowned, it would take a little creativity, but he could give them
an idea of what they where facing. "Yes, I've heard stories of a being
called Akuma. He lives only for battle, destroying anything in his path.
His power stems from the same style of Karate that I use, a sealed move
that has long since been destroyed can summon the power of a demon into a
man's body. It's called the raging demon, a long time ago a foolish man
unsealed the power and became Akuma, he murdered his own brother to prove
his power and has since traveled the world in search of an opponent
strong enough to oppose him."
	"How old is this legend?" asked the old woman as everyone else in the
room stared at him in shock.
	"I don't know, I thought it was just a story, I learned about it when I
was training," it was a white lie, but he really didn't want to go into
the whole story about how he was brought here.
	"This becomes more serious than I had once thought," replied the old
woman as she gave Ranma a sidelong glance. "Perhaps he comes for a worthy
opponent in Ranma?"
	"Why fight everyone else then?" asked Dan in confusion.
	"I don't know," it was all Cologne could say.

	The next morning Ranma sat in his desk at school, it had been decided
that nothing should change for the time being. They had no leads, and
nothing to go on. All they could do was wait for this demon to make the
next move. The pigtailed boy looked up and frowned as Kuno charged into
the room towards him with his bokuten held over his head.
	"Ranma Saotome! What have you done with my sister?" roared the boy
angrily.
	Dan sat in a seat nearby and stood from his chair staring the kendoist
down. "The demon took her Kuno."
	"Demon? Such lies! Surely you don't expect one such as I to be fooled by
such a fantastical story!" replied the boy as he diverted his attention
away from Ranma. 
	"I don't care if you believe me or not," replied Dan calmly as he sat
back down again.
	"Ranma Saotome, is this true; speak the truth or I shall be forced
to..."
	"Yea," Ranma looked the boy dead in the eyes as he said this.
	"Liar! I know you have used your dark sorcery to..." Kuno was cut off as
the lights in the room cut off suddenly. He turned his head and saw a
cloaked figure standing in the hallway with two red glowing eyes.
	"Ranma!" cried Dan as he stood up and rushed towards the door. Kuno beat
him out into the hall by a hair and the classroom door slammed shut.
Ranma was at Dan's side as he struggled to pull the door open. "It won't
budge!"
	"Fine we'll just go through it!" screamed Ranma in anger as he slammed
his fist into the wall only to hear the crunch of his fist hitting the
now impenetrable plaster. Loud crashes and screams could be heard from
the hallway as the two boys worked desperately against the door that
sealed them in the room. The other students watched the scene in a
mixture of shocked horror and amusement.
	"What is this, some kind of joke Ranma?" asked one of the boys as he
walked up to the pair. The pigtailed boy gave him a single look and he
backed off instantly. "What the hell?"
	Suddenly an explosion could be heard in the hallway causing all present
in the room to scream in terror as Ranma and Dan flew back as the door
finally gave way.

	The hallway was completely destroyed, lockers where mangled and crushed,
and tiles lay in pieces across the floor; the ceiling was in even worse
shape. Lying neatly on the ground in the only undisturbed place in the
whole hallway for yards was a wooden bokuten. "Oh, man," said Dan with a
sigh as he respectfully lifted the object up in his hands.
	"That bastard! How dare he..." Ranma fumed as he completely demolished
one of the few remaining lockers in the hallway.
	"He had to be playing with Kuno to do all this, he could have taken him
out easily. Still, this could work for us, he's getting bold, and
careless now," said Dan with a hard determined look on his face.

	A few moments later Kuno woke up, he was standing on a stone floor in
the middle of a darkened cave, he was also chained to the floor. Sitting
on a throne above him Akuma rested lazily watching him carefully.
	"Vile knave! What is it you want with me? Surely I shall slay such a
demon as yourself," he cried angrily with fear clearly showing in his
features.
	"I want nothing from you," replied the thing calmly.
	"Then why?" 
	"Simple, for the truth," replied Akuma with a small chuckle.

	"The young Dan's story does not sound familiar to me, it could be true
with these events, but I've never heard of such a beast," said Cologne as
the meeting at the Tendo home continued.
	"I believe it, that thing couldn't be anything but a demon," snapped
Ryoga bitterly.
	"You're just mad because you lost pig boy, So his eyes glow, big deal,"
replied Ranma lazily.
	"Shut up Ranma, you haven't fought with it!" snapped the boy in retort.
	"What's the big deal, he kidnapped Saffron, so what. What's he now, six
months old? I took the guy out when he was fully-grown! I can handle
this," snapped the pigtailed boy confidently.
	"He is correct, we must assume that this being is as powerful as he
says, Happosai would not have lost easily," said Cologne. "I'm afraid I
agree with the young Hibiki."
	"Well, I think we should stick together, we'll have a much better chance
of beating him as a group. I certainly don't want to face him down alone
unless I have too," offered Dan as he looked out across the Tendo's yard.
"No one goes anywhere alone."
	"A good plan, we'll stay here," said Mousse sternly. Shampoo blinked and
looked at him in surprise.
	"Agreed," said Cologne.
	"What?" Soun turned around and looked at them in disbelief.
	
	Akane sat in the furo and sighed, "What a night." The water seemed to
relax her muscles completely as she put her head back and thought about
the events that had ripped their lives apart.  She snapped her head up
suddenly and frowned, the door to the changing room slowly closed her
into the room. She stood up in panic as her heart stopped cold when the
lights flickered out leaving her in total darkness. "Ruh-Ruh-Ranma!"
	"No one can hear you," replied a voice from the shadows. She didn't even
have to turn to know that the burning eyes where there behind her. 
	"N-no." Akane opened her mouth to scream, but the sound just died in her
throat as sheer terror overtook her.

	Ryoga sat across from Cologne with a few cards in his hand. "Got any
threes?"
	"Go fish," replied the woman lazily. The plan was a good one, but it had
its downside. "Shampoo, go check on the Tendo girl."
	"Aiya! Let pig boy go!" snapped the Amazon in irritation.
	"Shampoo, all of us must work together, besides he'd never come back if
I sent him," replied the elder calmly.
	A moment later Shampoo's surprised scream sent the three boys running up
the stairs towards the bathroom. Cologne sighed heavily. "It is as I
feared, she'd been up there entirely too long."
	Soun walked back into the room with Genma a moment later with a haunted
look on his face. "Has anyone seen Kasumi?"
	Cologne whirled around in shock and stared at him. "Damn! How could I be
so foolish!? The other Tendo daughter? Nabiki had not been seen for some
time yet either. She pogoed up into the middle daughter's bedroom and
opened the door with the two men standing behind her. "Damn!"
	Soun fell to his knees in shocked horror. "M-my little girls!" he began
to wail sending a river of tears down his face as he pounded on the
floor. "My babies! They're gone!"
	"He's been here the whole night!" snapped Dan angrily as he put his fist
into the wall. Cologne jumped out the window of Nabiki's room with an
angry look on her face and jumped onto the roof of the house. The men
followed her into the bedroom. 
	"Where are you going?" cried Dan, the window slammed shut in his face.
"No! The old woman!"
	"Everyone outside! We can still get to her in time to help if we hurry!"
cried Mousse as he rushed out the door and jumped over the rail into the
living room. All the others save Soun and Genma followed immediately. 
	They stood out in the yard as Cologne landed on the ground next to them.
"What happened?" she asked impatiently.
	"The window closed on us, we thought he might be up there with you,"
said Dan as his voice tensed up.
	"It was just a cat," snapped the old woman in frustration. "Where is
Hibiki?"

	Ryoga found himself standing in the bathroom, he had lost the group as
they ran outside when he landed in the living room and found himself
standing here again. "I was sure this door led outside." He frowned when
he realized his voice was shaky. He raised his good hand up and stared at
it with a slowly growing anger as he watched it shake. He had never been
terrified so much in his life, he swore disgusted at himself and turned
around looking for a way out of the room so he might rejoin his comrades.
"I do not fear death! I will face this like a man!" He turned towards the
door he had entered from. It closed in his face putting him in complete
darkness.
	"Too little, too late Hibiki," said a cold dark voice from the shadows.
	Ryoga smiled in spite of himself. "At least I'll die like a man."
	"So be it," said the voice.

	Not ten feet away Ranma slumped to the ground and hung his head as the
stress finally began to tear down his mental defenses. Akane was gone,
but he refused to believe she was dead until he saw her body. "I'll save
you, I swear it!" He turned towards the others and threw his hands up in
the air. "We've got to do something! I'm going to look for her!" he
turned and started towards the doorway with a determined look on his
face. 
	"Where!? We have to find out where he is first! Running around on your
own won't help matters!" snapped Dan angrily as he grabbed the boy by his
arm and turned him around.
	"Neither will sitting here waiting to die!" retorted the boy as he
punched him in the face.
	"You are both right," agreed Cologne as she stepped between them. "We
will organize a search for Akane Tendo tonight as well as the other Tendo
sisters, but going off alone is not an option."
	"I can take care of myself," snapped Ranma as he turned away from them.
"Hey," Mousse stood up with an odd expression on his face. "Do you hear
something?"
	Dan tilted his head and gasped. "Ryoga!"

	Ranma growled angrily as he looked at the remains of the bathroom.
Bandannas littered the walls and where impaled in almost everything. A
single bamboo umbrella leaned against the wall undisturbed in the chaos.
	Dan lifted it up cautiously and frowned when three little dolls hung
from little nooses from the tip. One that looked like Cologne, one that
resembled Mousse, and a little cat doll. The Cologne doll had a number
one printed on it, while Shampoo and Mousse had a two and a three
successively.
	"That smug bastard is naming his targets!" growled the boy in disgusted
anger.
	"It seems I shall be the one to face him next," said the old woman with
a heavy sigh.
	"Not if I have any say in the matter!" snapped Ranma as he rushed out of
the room and rushed out of the house into the night.
	"Damn you!" snapped Dan bitterly as he walked out of the bathroom and
sat himself down at the table. "It wasn't supposed to be like this!"
	"I no want die like this," muttered Shampoo as she sulked at the table
with him. 
	Dan wanted badly to comfort her, but he knew there was probably nothing
he could do to stop this thing until it challenged him personally, and
even that was uncertain.

	TBC...

	Next time, the few remaining Ranma crew defend themselves as best they
can against Akuma as it becomes painfully aware that he has some sort of
plan from all of this. 
	Dark secrets are uncovered and an even more dangerous Ranma grows
desperate in his attempts to find his lost fianc�e and her family.
	Trust me, you're definitely not expecting the ending to this one.

	BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!

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