uk05797@mik.uky.edu (greg gross) My first fanfic. Enjoy! Send all comments to UK05797@mik.uky.edu The Scene is on the Tendou Dojo...Ranma is sitting in the living room watching television. What he is watching is a Japanese subtitled vresion of Fistful of Dollars. He is also stuffing his face with potato chips. (On the TV...Clint Eastwood takes 2 shots to the chest by a man with a rifle and gets up after each shot....he throws aside his poncho to reveal that the had a stove lid tied near his chest) Ranma: Whoa....not a bad idea...(Watches intently) (Eastwood pulls guns with lightning speed and shoots the man and his cronies) Ranma: BOOM! Right in the heart! Five of 'em too! Cool! Akane: RANMA! Ranma nearly jumps out of his skin as Akane storms in the room and grabs him by his collar Akane: Have you been picking on P-Chan again? I can't find him anywhere! Ranma: Why are you blaming me for that pig? I've been watching this movie most of the day! Akane looks over to see the TV Akane: Fistful of Dollars? Since when did you watch dumb Gaijin westerns? Ranma: They're not dumb! And besides, I haven't seen any Kawaiikune ladies in them likeI do in real life everyday. Akane:......Why you....... Usual reaction: Akane hammers Ranma something fierce and punts him into space.... Akane: Baka.... Akane then sees that another movie called Hang 'em High is coming on and sits down to watch it. Meanwhile, Ranma is almost out cold in a nearby alley where he has landed. Ranma: ....oooOOOwww...Stupid girl....why can't she be like those ones in the movies....at least they don't cause men serious injury on a regular basis......oooohhhhh.... Ranma passes out and a strange figure approaches, Stranger: Good point...in fact...why can't EVERYTHING be like that... The screen goes white.......... Napalm Studios Presents a story by nathan lowery RANMA 1/2 ------------------ ELSEWORLDS ----------------------- On A Pale Horse All characters Copyright 1995 Rumiko Takahashi and Shogukakan (Author's note: This fanfic combines Ranma 1/2 and one of my favorite genres: WESTERNS. Enjoy) 1934: The scene is on a rather large house. Children are in the yard playing in the summer sun while an old man with Silver hair in a pigtail and round glasses rocks on a rocking chair smoking a pipe. Little Girl: Grandpa! A SD Kawaii little girl with short black hair runs over to the old man who smiles and bends down to catch her in mid run scooping her up into his arms. Old Man: What's the matter sweetie? Little Girl: Manto and Justin said I can't play Cowboys and Indians with 'em and they hate me AND I WANNA PLAY TOO.... Old Man: Hush, hush, (He gives a slight chuckle) why won't they let you? Little Girl: They called me kawaiikune and tomboy! They say I'm too good! Old Man: Huh? Little Girl: They say I'm supposed to be the helpless schoolmarm who gets robbed by bandits! But I wanted a gun too so I could shoot the Injuns! Old Man: (Gives a slight laugh) They're wrong.....girls weren't always helpless back in them days. And the Indians weren't always the bad guys either...(gives a slight frown of rememberance) sometimes more than most... Little Girl: Huh? what are you talking about granpa? the old man gets up with the little girl on his shoulders and walks into the house. His wife yells to him from the kitchen. Woman: Ranma! Come here for a sec would you? (Yep you guessed it....the old guy is Ranma...then his wife must be....) Ranma: Coming Akane, just playing with Michiko.. Ranma walks in the kitchen with Michiko on his shoulders, and Akane is standing above the stove cooking something..she gives Ranma a kiss on the cheek and one for Michiko too. Akane: Guess what we're having for dinner! Ranma: (Sniffs) Wouldn't be curry would it? Akane: How'd you guess? Ranma: Cause before you got better at cooking I'd never smell it cause I was busy running away from it...but after 35 years I reckon I can tell by now (winks) Akane: (playfully pokes Ranma and smiles) Hush up, you! (Looks to MIchiko) And how is Grandma's little girl? Michiko: Grandpa was telling me about the cowboys and injuns! Akane: Oh he was, huh? Michiko: Yeah! I wanna be a cowboy too when I get big! Akane looks at Ranma with a "What have you been filling her head with" look, in which Ranma responds with an "I'm innocent don't hurt me look". Akane: Did you know your Granpa was a cowboy? Ranma: (embarrassed) Now Akane, let's not get into that.... Michiko: (cute little eyes wide) YOU were a cowboy Grandpa? Akane: Yes he was! (turning to Ranma) Why don't you go show her some of those old pictures in the attic while I finish dinner, okay? Ranma: (sighing) Well......oh what the heck...can't see no harm in it.. Michiko: YAY! My granpa was a cowboy! Ranma smiles and runs up the attic with Michiko on his shoulders....Akane just smiles....thinks for a moment in rememberance and goes back to her cooking UP in the attic, Ranma opens a chest and shows an old picture to Michiko. The picture is of a stout, handsome young man with black pigtailed hair wearing a black riders coat holding a pistol against his chest. Also in the picture is a dainty looking wo man wearing a very nice outfit and a nice pretty hat....she also holds a pistol. Michiko: Wow.....is this you and Grandma, Grampa? Ranma: Yep...this is when I was a courtin your Grandma....40 years ago...I was...a cowboy I guess..but we didn't call em that...they are better called...gunslingers Michiko: I wanna hear about it! What was it like? Ranma: Well....back around before the turn of the century.... 1894: the setting is in a small nameless town in California... A young girl with Red hair in a pigtail wearing a red poncho is running in the rain down a dirt road....behind her we can see a huge grizzly bear giving chase. The bear whaps her in the back....sending her sprawling into the dirt. She gets up and pulls out a Colt .45 and points it at the bear. Girl: Damn you! How many damn times I gotta tell you! I ain't courtin no girl like this! The bear growls and moves towards her...the girl cocks the hammer on the gun Girl: Pickin my fiance like that! You old coot! I oughta blow your head off just for that alone! The bear keeps coming toward her Girl: Stop it! I'm going back to them springs in Arizona! You can stay like that forever for all I care you old coot! The bear rushes her....with lightning reflexes the girl pulls the trigger and snaps three times with no effect...she face faults and is quickly knocked out by the charging grizzly. People in the street are gawking at what just happened. The bear looks around and gives a mean growl. Everyone gets back to what they are doing as the bear hoists the girl onhis back and walks off. As he walks he checks the chamber of the revolver. T hree bullets left...if she had snapped it one more time, she would have shot him. The bear breathes a sigh of relief and luck and walks on... Meanwhile...the scene turns to a building in the east end of the town. The sign reads: Tendo Gym and Training Hall. A Messenger is walking to the front door which is open. Messenger: Telegram! Telegram for Coach Soun Tendo! A muscular man in his mid 30's with long black hair tied back and a moustache comes to the door. Soun: I'll take that, boy, thanks. (He gives the boy a dime for a tip) Messenger: Thanks mister! (Runs off) Soun open the telegram and reads it....he is soon weeping for joy.... The telegram reads: WESTERN UNION 7 March 1894 Attn: Coach Soun Tendo, Tendo Gym and Training Hall AM RETURNING WITH RANMA FROM TRAINING IN ARIZONA AND POINTS BEYOND.....STOP....WILL BE STOPPING YOUR WAY SOON......STOP......AM EXPECTING YOU TO UPHOLD ILL BE STOPPING YOUR WAY SOON......STOP......AM EXPECTING YOU TO UPHOLD YOUR END OF PROMISE...STOP...SEE YOU SOON....STOP GENMA SAOTOME Soun dances for Joy and runs through the dojo... Soun: Ranma's coming! Ranma's coming! Soun: (yelling) Nabiki! In a room we see a cute girl of about 17 reading a book on finance and business strategies. Nabiki: Coming! Soun: (Yelling) Kasumi! Come quick! In the kitchen,,,there is a beautiful lady of 19 wearing an apron making food Kasumi: Coming father! Soun: (Yelling once more) Akane!....(no answer) Akane!.....Hey! Anyone seen Akane? Out back we see bottles lined up against a wooden fence. One by one the bottles shatter..as they have just been shot up. We see a young girl wearing tomboyish clothes holding a smoking gun. Nabiki: Tsk, tsk...just as I thought, Akane.. Akane: What do you mean, Nabiki? Nabiki: No wonder boys don't like you in a "normal" way...you spend your time fighting in the gym and shooting up bottles with your six-shooter. Akane: (Looking slightly annoyed) Hmf! Unlike you, big sister...I hate boys! Nabiki: (sighs) Oh well...anyway...father wnts you to come to the living room...he called all of us.. Akane: ? I wonder what's up... END PART ONE. Part two coming soon. WATCH FOR IT. Please direct all comments to uk05797@mik.uky.edu Also coming soom from Napalm Studios.. RAMEN 1/10 (Hentai spoof of Ranma 1/2) Ranma 1/2: The final episode (a speculated ending to the Ranma 1/2 series.) Thanks to all who encouraged this. It took a 3 month sabbatical from writing and art and even (GASP) Anime, but now I'm back into it and work on our parody dub of Ranma 1/2 is now resumed. KENTUCKY FRIED ANIME (coming Summer 1995) Lata! NATE. The setting: The Tendo Training Hall, California The year: 1896 We hear some conversation from the inside of the hall...then all is quiet...then suddenly.. "FIANCEE????" Napalm Studios Presents RANMA 1/2 WESTERN On A Pale Horse written by nathan lowery PART 2: Perfect Strangers The three sisters were sitting there in shock. Well wouldn't you if you had just been told that you were now engaged to someone you never met? Kasumi, the elder, and by far the most mature for her years, had a look of surprise on her face. Nabiki, considered by most to be the craftiest person in Nerima, California, had a look of mostly skepticism. And finally Akane, who was very very pretty, but had a temper so bad it was said that even Jesse James couldn't compare to her, had a look of utter disgust and anger on her face. Soun just looked calm. He was doing the right thing, he thought, though he had kind of wished he had told them before, to save them due surprise. No matter. The training hall's future depended on this. He had to do it. "So let me get this right", Nabiki started, "You and your training buddy from way back decided to join your two families by marrying one of us off to his son." "That's correct, yes." Soun replied. "Though we've never seen him." Nabiki retorted. Soun looked trapped. "Well what's wrong with it? I mean, the Hendershot's daughter has been engaged since she was five years old? What's so bad about knowing that you'll have someone waiting for you?" "It would be fine if we actually knew him daddy." Nabiki then began to think and then gave a slight look of surrender. Then gave a slight look of interest. "Is he...a nice guy at least?" Kasumi joined in, also interested. "Is he older than me? I have no time for younger men." Akane mumbled under her breath, "Is he EVEN a man?" Nabiki and Kasumi looked at Akane. "What?" Akane asked. Soun just lit his pipe and chuckled. Blowing a small cloud of white smoke from his nose he looked at his daughters. "I don't know." he said. This garnered a puzzling expression from all three. "You don't KNOW?" Nabiki asked. "I've never seen him," Soun said, looking at his daughters. The strange grizzly bear walked on the moist dirt roads, carrying the girl on his back. He came upon some gentleladies walking along, holding umbreallas. They looked at him strangely. "Oh my," one of them said. The grizzly pulled out a sign and a charcoal pencil. He began to write on it before them. When it was finished, it read, "Pardon me, good ladies, but can you tell me where the Tendo Training Hall is?" They looked like Abraham Lincoln had been shot right in front of them. Imagine! A panda who wrote signs! "Um....it's that way" one of the pointed it out. The grizzly went on his way, leaving the two ladies dumbfounded. KNOCK KNOCK! "Kasumi," Soun said, "Would you go and see who that is?" "Yes, father." said Kasumi, as she went to the door. Akane just sat there in disbelief. How could he do this?, she thought to herself. He may have been her father, but he had no right to arrange how her or any of her sisters should marry for that matter. Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud "EEEK!" from Kasumi. The Tendos stood up, startled. What they saw was Kasumi running in the room, followed by a huge grizzly bear. The bear was carrying a young girl in men's clothes, who was screaming and kicking. "LEGGO DAMMIT! C'MON! YOU'RE SCARIN EM! LEGGO!" The bear put her down. Right in front of the bewildered family. She stood there, being examined by the four. Wearing a pair of black boots, and leather pants and a shirt, which were clearly made by Navajos from the looks of the design. Her wet red hair, pulled neatly in a ponytail, which poked out from the back of her thin brimmed hat. Soun looked at her, with a bit of disbelief. "You...you wouldn't be..." The girl tilted her hat and looked at the others and Soun a bit sheepishly.. "I'm Ranma Saotome...sorry about this." TO BE CONTINUED. Author's notes: Whew! This was a long time coming alright. Sorry about the delay in posting this, but I had to get a new internet provider, and it looks like I'll be sticking with this one actually. Another thing: If this may seem like it's too much like the actual Ranma 1/2, well that's because it is, with some minor changes by me to give it an old west feel. I have recieved good comments about this so I'll keep writing. By the way, this is a 5 part story. ON A PALE HORSE is only the first chapter of my Ranma 1/2: WESTERN series. The next one will be called GUNSMOKE, and I guarantee you it will be completely original. Send all comments to my new address: nlowery@iglou.com And I'm out...be watching for part 3, which will hopefully be a bit longer:) NATE!