Subject: [FFML] [sF] [R.5] Eyes Off: Pilot (0)
From: "Nikholas F. Toledo Zu" <niftol@i-manila.com.ph>
Date: 3/29/1998, 3:37 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Here is a concept fic in the Ranmaverse, although it might be
possible to fit it in some other universe.  I highly doubt it.
(There's a challenge of sorts to it, I guess.)  I want you guys
to fine comb this short to the manga continuity... please!

*****

(Sounds of rumbling, rolling, and a mass falling on the ground.
A small oof.  Sounds of someone standing up, maybe the person
who fell.  This person brushes off his/herself.  Silence for a
few seconds.)

Ryoga:  WHERE AM I NOW?!

Akane:  Ryoga?  Is that you?

Ryoga:  A-A-Akane?  Wh-what are you doing here?

Ranma:  Oh, geez.  Of all the people to drop by, it had to be
        Ryoga.

Ryoga:  RANMA?!  

        (The sound of someone quickly turning in place.)

        You-you lech!  What have you done to Akane?

Ranma:  I ain't doin' nuthin'!  Besides, who'd want to be alone in
        the dark with an uncute - 

Akane:  How dare you call me -

Ryoga:  RANMA, HOW DARE YOU CALL AKANE THAT?!

Akane:  Uh, Ryoga...

Ryoga:  You call her stupid names, you mistreat her... HOW COULD 
        YOU EVEN CALL HER YOUR FIANCEE?!

Akane:  Ryoga, really... it -

Ranma:  Hey!  It wasn't MY idea!  Our parents forced us into it!

Ryoga:  You can't even life up to your PROMISES?

        (A battle aura begins to glow.)

        Saotome, Take resp - !

Akane:  STOP IT, RYOGA!

(Shocked silence.  Battle aura leaves a faint afterglow imprint of
Ryoga's form.)

Akane:  Just... just stay calm.

Ranma:  What's wrong?

Ryoga:  Akane?

Akane:  Don't... aura... just... calm down.

Ryoga:  What is it, Akane?

Akane:  It's just that, I'm naked.

Ranma:  WHAT?!

Ryoga:  RANMA SAOTOME!  You... YOU...!

Ranma:  What?  I didn't do nuthin' to Akane!

Ryoga:  You DENY your being alone in the dark with Akane NAKED?!
        YOU PERVERT!

Ranma:  I DON'T take advantage of GIRLS, PIG-BOY!

Ryoga:  DIE, RANMA!

Akane:  STOP IT, THE BOTH OF YOU!

(The sound of someone's footing crumbling underfoot.  A female
scream, followed by the heavy thump of mass meeting ground.)

Ranma and Ryoga:  AKANE!

Ryoga:  DON'T MOVE!  

(A slight moan, female.)

Akane (pained):  I'm... I'm all right.  I... I just lost my 
                 footing.

Ranma:  Damn!

Ryoga:  Don't move, Ranma.  There's no telling where the ground 
        is.

Ranma:  We could feel our way...

Akane (less pained):  Look... just, just stay there...

Ranma:  Why?

Akane:  'Cause I don't want you groping me, you pervert!

Ranma:  What did you call me?

Akane:  You, you...

Ranma:  You...

(A long pause.)

Ryoga (whispered):  Where are we?

[To be continued...]

*****

Talk about your plot devices!  I figure that the "dark locked room"
scenario has been used sometime, but the dynamics above were at-ends
enough so that ANYTHING could come out of it.  It's unique enough a
scenario that no other three characters in a single anime or manga
could have as stable and explosive a situation.  (Not one with just
three people, I think.)  All this, and mostly by dialogue, too!

I'll show what I mean by "anything" in the next part.

So... what do you think?  Again, your call WILL count!

Switch (with lotsa help from goo and Scruples)
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