Thyth wrote:
"Excuse me, is this the Masaki shrine?" Tenchi
turned from his sweeping to face the speaker. It was
a gaijin girl with short brown hair, glasses and
wearing a turtle neck.
He immeadiately
immediately
thought it was odd that so many
gaijin had come to the shrine,
But Tenchi, once a series becomes popular, everyone wants to SI in it. :)
especially in light of
a lot of recent events. He could only imagine the
rumors floating about this place.
Hopefully none of them involved the real thing that would get him in
trouble: the marijuana fields. 'Carrot patches' indeed. Like Ryo-Ohki could
eat that many carrots. Still, the cover story worked well as Tenchi and his
grandfather rolled in the money
He couldn't help
but hope
help hoping
that the two girls of this odd group didn't
suddenly develop a liking for him.
"Yes it is, are you tourists?"
"Well actually we're here to solve the mystery of
the Shrine,
don't think Shrine should be capitalized here
" the speaker was a tall blonde gaijin with
some kind of orange scarf.
"What mystery?" Tenchi asked, genuinely confused.
"Well all
Well, all
the locals told us this place was being
terrorized by a demon that was released from the
shrine," this time it was the red head that was
talking.
And is one of this a group a dog? :)
"Oh, you mean Ryoko." The gaijin seemed surprised
by his casual comment.
"Roko?" Tenchi blinked, the dog had just talked.
This shouldn't surprise him for more than a second.
"Wait a minute," Tenchi snapped. "I'm not this
fluent in English!"
"Oh don't worry about it," the blonde gaijin waved
that aside. "It seems like everywhere we go everybody
speaks English."
Hehehehe. That is a good point. No matter what country they were in,
everyone was fluent in English.
"Ryoko's...hard to explain."
Tenchi: Master of the Understatement
"Yeah, ret's ro," Tenchi arched an eyebrow and
stared at the dog.
"Actually he seems embarrased," the brown haired
girl noted. "Maybe HE'S behind whatever pranks have
people thinking there's a demon up here."
Tenchi: Nah. The creepy old guy that runs the shrine would be a better
suspect.
"ITS A MONSTER!!!" the tall skinny one called out
running for hiding.
"I'M NOT A....what language am I speaking?" Ayeka
break the Aeka part into the next paragraph since that is where she speaks.
We can figure out who's talking with just the dialogue line above.
appeared out of the house in time for the comment
about a monster.
"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!! They have you pegged right,
Ryoko!! You are a...wait a minute, what language ARE
we speaking?" Ayeka looked confused for a moment.
"English," Tenchi answered. "Don't ask me how
we're speaking it."
Mihoshi suddenly appeared. "You're speaking it with your mouths, silly.
Even I can see that."
"Hey, hey, everybody calm down," Tenchi said.
"Excuse me, I don't know your names."
"Uh, Fred Jones," the blonde said. "This is Daphne
Blake, that's Velma Binkley, that's Shaggy and the dog
is Scooby Doo."
"Scooby Dooby Doo," the dog agreed nervously.
Shouldn't he have jumped into Shaggy's arms when Ryouko first appeared out
of the blue?
Ayeka and Ryoko looked at each other before staring at
the dog in confusion.
"Okay, well I'm Tenchi, and the two girls you just
called a monster and a banshee are Ryoko and Ayeka."
"THAT'S the demon from the shrine,"
shrine?" (Sounds to me like it's being phrased as a question.
"What wire? Anyway, I'm Ryoko, a space pirate and
Tenchi's my boyfriend!"
"Oh an
Oh, an
Alien, we've heard that one before," Fred
laughed. Ryoko glared at him as AYeka
Ayeka
gave her own
reaction to Ryoko's introduction."
stray quote mark
"Why you reprehensible woman! I am destined to wed
Lord Tenchi and
Tenchi, and
you know it,"
it." Ayeka
"Wait a minute, he has TWO wives," "Daphne"
drop the quotes around Daphne
and queens to take two spouses," Ayeka explained. "At
first it appeared I would have to take two husbands,
but since Lord Tenchi is the most eligible to take
the...." Ayeka paused and turned to face a mirrored
thoughtful expression on Ryoko's face. Tenchi began
to look very nervous.
"So why are you two fighting over him if you can
both marry him?" Shaggy asked.
"Yeah why are we?" Ryoko asked.
"Oh no," Tenchi whimpered.
So much for his plan to keep Aeka and Ryouko distracted fighting each other
while he figured out how to run off with Washuu and Mihoshi.
"Let me guess," Fred started. "You were playing
them off of each other so they wouldn't press you for
a commitment until you were older."
"And I would have gotten away with it, if it
weren't for you meddling kids,"
WAHAHAHA! Perfect place and delivery for the line.
Tenchi paused.
"Actually this is something of a relief, why'd I say
that?"
"Oh every body
everybody
does," Velma said. Daphne was
eyeing Fred closely and analysing
analyzing
Amusing little piece.
D.B. Sommer