just started typing. this came out.
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And from the darkness, there came a great roar, and the beast lumbered out,
towards Ranma.
Ranma had been warned about this in a dream, but he didn't believe that when
the dream had originally come. He had dismissed it as a side effect from
eating Akane's cooking. But now, the dream had come true, and the huge
thing had Akane.
"Come on, you fire-breathing freak! Give me back Akane!"
That's when he noticed what he was holding in his right hand...claw...thing.
It was Akane.
"AKANE!!!" Ranma jumped for its wrist, moving entirely too quickly for the
large dragon to block, and struck, making the large reptile drop his
fiancee.
He dove after her, as if to catch her, when the beast roared and swept its
tail at Ranma. He avoided it, but almost missed catching Akane as a result.
"Ranma!" Screamed Akane as she hurtled towards the ground.
The twenty foot drop wouldn't kill her, but it sure would hurt, especially
with the injuries she already had.
Ranma caught her and landed a little more heavily than he would have liked
to, but he had saved Akane nonetheless.
"Ranma..." Akane's eyes brimmed with tears as she buried her face in his
chest and started to cry.
<Wha...?> thought Ranma. <Akane's never cried like this before, even when
things a hundred times as scary as this dragon have attacked her.>
the dragon's tail came out of nowhere, it's razor-sharp scales glistening in
the sun.
Ranma jumped back and landed on a rock. Setting down Akane, he said "Akane,
wait here. I'm gonna..."
Then he noticed something. Akane was only a torso. She had passed out from
the fright, and had been bisected by the dragon's tail when Ranma was
preoccupied with Akane's crying.
Ranma just stood there, stunned, as the dragon finished the job,
dismembering him and his fiancee. No trace of the two were ever found, but
the dragon continued to feed on otherwise happy people, never growing tired,
and never ceasing to hunger.
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This fic represents the futility that is life. No matter what anyone does,
the dragon always gets everyone. No one can escape it, as it comes in many
forms. Age, love, lust, friendship, pride, everything concievable. No one
is safe, and no amount of skill or determination or force of will or any of
that crap can save you from the pain and suffering that is existence. Not
even Ranma, the best martial artist in Nerima (save happosai and Cologne),
could escape the dragon. The dragon is forever. The dragon is eternal.
The dragon always has been and always will be. The dragon is life, and life
is pain.
"Love is suicide"
-Smashing Pumpkins "Bodies"
"I just want something i can never have"
-Nine Inch Nails "Something I can never have"
"Erase me. Kill me."
-Nine Inch Nails "Eraser"
"I should've stayed in bed"
-Soundgarden "Fell on Black Days"
"Nothing seems to kill me
no matter how hard I try
nothing's closing my eyes"
-Soundgarden "Blow up the Outside World"
"So as I write to you
of what is done and to do
maybe you'll understand
and won't cry for this man
because Low Man is due."
-Metallica "Low Man's Lyric"