Wasn't this a familiar feeling? Pantyhose Taro in monster form, carrying her off into the air. Time was she'd have screamed her lungs out, but by this point it was almost mundane.
"Taro! Put me down this instant!" Akane yelled, not from fear but rather anger. "You don't have to do whatever that Oni tells you!" The commands from the mushroom didn’t last that long, no way would it force him do something as involved as this!
Then she looked him dead in the eyes and caught light of the mischief dancing in them. Oh. She forgot. Pantyhose Taro was a <i>total asshole.</i> Well, that was just great. Not much for her to do but wait for -
"Shampoo help!"
Akane put her face in her hands and wept. Shampoo, helping her? She'd never hear the end of this! Out of the corner of her eyes she could see that the Chinese bimbo was standing right where Nabiki used to have a window, hopping up to the roof and then pushing herself off like a missile. Right into the cold water that Taro tossed right into her.
"Where were you keeping that?" Akane asked. "You didn't have that a moment - "
And then she had cold water dumped over her head for good measure. Oh! That cheeky swine! He did that off his own back, no question of it!
"Nya!" Shampoo mewled, the most pathetically cute battle cry Akane had ever heard. Her momentum as a human meant that she had still kept on going, and she landed on Pantyhose Taro's shoulders with her claws out. "Nya! Nyaaaa! Mrowr!"
"I'm going to be saved by Shampoo in cat form aren't I?" Akane lamented, the water making her bangs hang dripping over her eyes. "I'm really and actually never going to hear the end of this."
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In the meantime a most bizarre battle was occurring within Nabiki's bedroom, with the room's owner unable to do much more than snap pictures, munch on popcorn and stay the hell out of everyone's way.
"Little sis sure is a lucky girl..." Nabiki mused, as she appreciated what a lifetime of martial arts training could do to a boy's body. Followed by a spike of egg induced jealousy, the image of that body embracing Akane’s. Lucky bastard.
"That's not helping!" Ranma protested, once again turning around towards the window and trying to leap out - only for a snapped finger to stop him cold.
"So unmanly!" his mother wept. Her fingers and hands moved so quickly that Nabiki thought she had learned the chestnut fist at some point. Before she knew it Ranma - male form - was clad in a pink dress with so many frills, bows and ribbons that elsewhere within Nerima a young ice skating girl stopped mid-routine to lift up her head like a dog hearing a high pitched whistle.
“I like the hat. Really makes the ensemble click.” Nabiki commented, snapping a quick picture so her sister could appreciate this later on. The flower covered monstrosity tilted slightly on Ranma’s head.
"Oh, I know he really pulls it off," Nodoka said, licking the dull edge of her sword. "Which makes it especially unmanly!"
But before she could do anything about that a ribbon lashed out, making her drop the sword on the floor. "Ohohoho! Not so easily, my dear Oni-possessed mother in law!" Kodachi tittered. "Have no fear Ranma dearest, I shall rescue you from this extremely fashionable sadist!"
The ribbon tore through the back of the dress, causing it to slide down Ranma's back and, in turn, causing Nabiki to munch on popcorn a little bit faster and take more pictures for her sister's free use later on. Yet Kodachi was not content with tearing off the dress. Oh no. Out of nowhere she produced... assless chaps, black leather trousers and a matching jacket with a broken zip. Then menacingly waved around a bottle of baby oil. Nabiki didn't even know it was possible to menacingly wave around a bottle of baby oil, but here we are!
Click click. Oh man Akane was going to love these. Maybe not the part where Kodachi's fingers were rubbing down Ranma's abs, but everything else would really get her engine going. “Hey Auntie, is that manly enough?”
"Allowing a woman to pick out his clothes!" Nodoka wailed, pressing her hand to the back of her head. "I can hardly think of anything less manly!"
Then she snapped her fingers, lunged forward again and tossed the 'manly' clothes to the side and replaced them with with yet another dress. No sooner had she finished but Kodachi had produced another 'manly' ensemble to replace it.
"Far be it from me to point this out," Kasumi said to the ceiling. "But wouldn't this be over faster if Kodachi placed one of those talismans on Nodoka's head?"
"Please Miss Tendo!" Kodachi cackled. "Let a girl have some fun!"
"My son is being used as a toy by a devious woman!" Nodoka proclaimed. "That's... Borderline I suppose? Manly in a harmful way? Oh dear, how should I judge this? Ah! Eureka!"
Then Nodoka snapped her fingers, and Pantyhose Taro stuck his other arm in through the hole he'd made earlier to grab hold of Kodachi, bodily hauling her, Akane and Kodachi back out into the sky above the Tendo compound.
"There! Now the only interference is the greedy non-martial arts girl," Nodoka chuckled. "With them gone I can perform a proper, full evaluation of how manly my son really is."
"Well, if you want," Nabiki said. She crossed her legs and absently started inspecting her fingernails. "It's just a good thing that Shampoo isn't here right now. Since Ranma is so afraid of cats, there's no telling what he might do if she had stuck around."
"Nabiki!" Ranma whined. "Don't do this!"
A wicked gleam fell over Nodoka's eyes. "Afraid of cats?" she said. Then she snapped her fingers. "Kasumi, tell me if that is true or not."
"It is," Kasumi said. "Oh my, he's deathly afraid of them. We've been working very hard to keep cats away from him since you started living here."
"Oh, how unmanly! Afraid of something so cute and innocent as a regular harmless moggy!" Nodoka chuckled. "Although I shall have to see this for myself to truly judge how unmanly this irrational phobia is. Taro, dear! Please deposit the kitty for us!"
One cat, made to order. Why, her helpful flying servant even tossed it in so that it landed right on Ranma's face. Nabiki continued inspecting her fingernails, bobbing her foot up and down. The things she had to do because of how much she adored her wonderful, beautiful sister.
"Kyaaaaaaaa! Caaaaaat!" Ranma yelled. "Getitoff, getitoff, getitoff, getitoff!" He started running around in a circle with his arms waving about, screaming at the top of his lungs while Shampoo clung to his face for dear sweet life.
"Oh, it is even worse than I feared!" Nodoka swooned. "It's so unmanly it is making my horns itch!"
"Cat! Cat! Cat! Cat!" Ranma yelled. Then after a minute or so of running around he stopped cold. "Meow." He said. Then dropped to all fours. "Nyaaaaaa!" Ranma began crawling around on the floor, while Nodoka watched in total confusion.
This was when the door to Nabiki's room was thrown wide open, revealing a badly dishevelled Akane. She spat out feathers, and Nabiki idly wondered where she had got them from. It didn't matter. Even in this state she was still stunning, still wonderful, and still worth following to the ends of the earth. A truly worthwhile Mistress for her to worship and obey without question.
"Nyaaaa!" Ranma happily yowled, leaping towards Akane for reasons that made total sense to Nabiki. Of course he would want to rub against those splendid legs, what sort of sentient being wouldn't take the chance for that kind of action?
"What... In the world...?" Nodoka gawped. Nabiki yawned, scratched herself, then stood up and gingerly scooped up a dropped talisman while Nodoka was staring at Akane petting Ranma. "Um.. I suppose behaving like a cat is technically unmanly? It's certainly not behaving like a human."
"Speaking of not behaving like a human," Nabiki said, tapping Nodoka on the shoulder and then applying the talisman directly to the forehead. "This should fix that up sharpish."
Nabiki looked down at the two of them. Aw! So cute! It almost distracted Nabiki from how much she wanted to be petted like that by Akane. "It's okay Ranma. The bad kitty is gone. Your mom's cured too, so you can calm down..."
This was when Pantyhose Taro decided to peek into the room. A bad decision. Akane looked right back at him, scowled menacingly and said "Go get him!"
"Nyaaaaaa!"
But they'd forgotten something. Now that the Oni was free from Nodoka it was going after a brand new target.
- Akane
- Nabiki
- Kodachi
- Taro
- Kasumi (again)
- Someone else
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