[Ranma][FanFic] Urban Legends 3: Friday The 13th (Days 4&5)
Emperor Stephen Schlueter
are again for those who missed them.)
Day Four: The Day Jenova Fights Back
Thursday The 12th
Akane still had blood on her hands. It was Azusa Shiratori's
blood. The police had come and the body was being taken away.
Aeris and I watched the whole thing from the house.
"Looks like the Jenova conciousness is doing pretty well for
itself." said Aeris.
I nodded. "Very efficient."
"Indeed. Ranma Saotome is the ideal destroyer. Powerful even
without Jenova's aid. I don't think this was just a random killing
though."
"Of course not. Jenova wastes no time." I said "She was part of
a rebellion or something."
"It's happening again, Sukira." said Aeris "And we can't stop
it. You realize what this means, don't you?"
I nodded again. "Yes, it means we're going to have a lot of
bodies to count on Friday."
We watched Akane leave knowing full well what she was planning
next.
**********
Hinako Ninomiya was hardly prepared for what Akane would tell
her. Then again after Kuno mansion burned down last night with twenty
five people inside and Azusa Shiratori was stabbed to death along with a
billion different things that had happened in just over a month that
Hinako would be getting used to bad news.
No such luck.
"So let me get this straight." said Hinako "Kasumi and Ranma
have been killing all these people and they're planning to destroy the
planet? That's pretty feeble, Akane. Have you considered seeing the
school psychiatrist about this?"
"I'm not crazy, Miss Hinako!" said Akane "Kasumi confessed the
whole plot to me."
"And why, exactly, did she do that?"
"Because she thinks we can't stop them, that's why. They killed
Azusa just to prove it. Azusa tried to help me stop them."
"If they killed Azusa Shiratori how did they burn down Kuno
Mansion?" said Hinako "I'm presumming that you believe that they did
that too."
"One of them was after Azusa and the other took out the
mansion." Akane practically rolled her eyes "There are two of them you
know."
"Of course." mumbled Hinako.
**********
"Looks like she's asking Hinako for help now."
"So it does."
"What do we do?"
"I'll take care of it."
**********
(One.. Two..)
Somehow Akane sensed it.
(Jenova's coming for you.)
The presence. It was here. Jenova was here.
(Three.. Four..)
"Akane, what is it?"
"Better lock your door." said Akane in what sounded almost like
a trance.
"What?" began Hinako.
Akane ran over and locked the door.
"Akane, what are you doing?!" shouted Hinako.
"Five... Six..." Akane muttered under her breath. "Get your
crucifix..."
"I don't have a crucifix." said Hinako who was losing her
patience "I'm not Christian!"
Akane wasn't listening.
**********
When Ranma-Chan entered the front door of Furinkan High wearing
her black cloak with one hand hidden from sight and her head lowered
just far enough that you couldn't see her eyes all attention turned to
her. The lights in the front hallway suddenly shorted out.
One of the students warily approached her. "Ranma..?" he began.
Ranma lashed out with her clawed hand and smashed him one to the side of
the head. The
student bounced off the wall with a disturbing crunch before falling to
the ground.
"Stay out of my way." Ranma said coldly.
Everyone else immediately scrambled to get away. In the dark
shadows of the unlit front hall you could almost see the eerie glow in
Ranma's eyes. She chuckled to herself.
"It's almost too easy." she said.
**********
The lights in the hallway outside Hinako's office were
spontaniously shattering sending long trails of sparks through the air
before they hit the ground and sputtered and died. Akane had her back
pressed to the door, listening to everything that was going on outside.
Along with she sounds of sharttering glass and raining sparks was the
eerie sound of footsteps coming down the hallway.
"It's Ranma..." began Akane.
"How do you know?" asked Hinako.
*click! click* Someone was trying to open the door.
"You didn't really think I'd be dumb enough to leave the door
unlocked, did you?" shouted Akane. Maybe that rhyme would prove usefull
after all.
Not likely. Ranma's claws smashed right through the door just
above Akane's head. Small splinters and bits of wood rained down on her.
Akane immediately ran away from the door. Ranma's claws retreated from
the door. Akane watched the door intently. She was waiting for something
to happen.
She was sure she heard glass breaking.
(In case you really need an ax, please be sure to break the
glass.)
About three seconds later, Ranma was hacking away at the door and
doing a pretty good job. The door was slowly cracking and splintering.
Maybe not even that slowly.
Akane and Hinako made a break for the door to the adjoining
office. They slammed the door shut and locked it behind them and then
continued out into the hallway just as Ranma started hacking at the
second door.
They had barely started down the hallway when they ran into
Ranma.
"What took you so long?" asked Ranma.
"B--but how?" began Akane.
"What? You think I don't know how your empty mind works, Akane?"
said Ranma-Chan.
Hinako raised a fifty yen coin. "Happo-Fifty-yen Satsu!" she
obviously planned to bleed Ranma's battle aura dry.
Nothing happened.
"Are you quite finished?" asked Ranma standing there impatiently
waiting for Hinako's feeble attempts to cease.
"Why isn't it working?" shouted Hinako who was starting to really
panic now. Her special attack had never failed before.
"You want to know why?" said Ranma "It's because my energy can't
be absorbed by some simple trick." She raised one hand. "Now... If
you'll excuse me." Suddenly the swirling energy of Hinako's yen attack
burst into flames and attacked her sending her flying down the corridor.
"All too easy." said Ranma. She turned to leave. "Oh, Akane. If
you want to try and stop us you're welcome to try. We're hitting a spot
in the northern district tonight. I'd advise against it but you can go
and do whatever you want."
Ranma left down the darkened hallway.
Akane never did show up in the northern district that night.
End Of Day Four.
Day Five: The Day Everything Goes To Hell
Friday The 13th
"Do you think they'll figure it out?" asked Aeris.
"I'm not sure." I said
"Doc Tofu is tracking their attacks. But I dunno. Seems unlikely
that they'll be able to stop them without a miracle."
"True." said Aeris "You think it's gonna be the end of this burg?"
"Pretty sure." I said "Unless their are orders to intervene." "Too
bad." said Aeris "I'm gonna miss this place. And I hate being
reassigned."
"Me too."
"C'mon. Let's go get some coffee. Might be our last chance."
I shrugged and went along.
**********
Camp Crystal Lake was an American owned nature reserve in the
district to the southeast of Tokyo. It was established by an American
movie corporation in the early 1980's. It was a crowded little tourist
village for Americans who wanted to see in Japan exactly what they
wanted to see in Japan. Sort of the equivelant of Disney World. All
nicely packaged fantasy that didn't show what Japan was really like but
what Americans would expect it to be like. All the employees were Asians
though. Asians from places like New York and Chicago. Kasumi was behind
the main building tampering withe the natural gas lines. Ranma-Chan, on
the other hand was stuck bitching and complaining about the situation.
"We can't just blow up the gas lines, y'know." said Ranma-Chan,
arms folded across he chest. "We might not be easy to kill but we ain't
invincible either."
"I'm not planning on just blasting the lines." complained Kasumi
"But we want the added attention it'll bring."
"It's too easy to do it this way." said Ranma-Chan twirling the
amulet between her fingers.
"Do you have to make every kill personal?"
"Of course I do." replied Ranma-Chan smiling "It's my job."
**********
Dr. Tofu had a large map of Tokyo and the surrounding urban
districts pinned up on the office wall. There were four red pins on the
map, each at a location "Jenova" had hit.
"The only pattern is that each of the targets was in a district
just outside Tokyo." said Dr. Tofu.
"They said they were going to finish today." said Akane.
"There are at least a half dozen districts they could hit, Akane."
said Tofu "How are we supposed to know which one is next?"
Akane stared at the map for a long time before something hit her.
She picked up a black marker off of Tofu's desk and drew a straight line
between the first and secod targets on the map. Then from the second to
the third, third to the fourth. She drew two more lines one to an
unmarked area of the map and another back to the first target point.
Akane had drawn a large five-pointed star on the map. It looked just
like the one on Ranma's pendant.
"That's our pattern." said Akane quietly. The unmarked area was
labeled: Camp Crystal Lake.
**********
The entire kitchen staff of Camp Crystal Lake was dead and in
pieces by one o' clock. They suffered the misfortune of being in the one
place that had a lot of knives when Ranma went looking for her bloodlust
fix. With blood and guts and random body parts spattered about the clean
walls and floors the kitchen looked more like a slaughterhouse.
'What next?' thought Ranma eagerly as she wiped the blade of a long
cutting knife clean on her cloak 'Chainsaw a few tourists? Give a few
employees the ax? Nah. Kasumi was right. Our killing sprees are kind of
weird.' Kasumi had once described the killing as sort of an alomost
sexual sort of thing like how Anne Rice tends to portray vampires
killing or something like that. Kasumi had become more entrenched in the
relvolution recently. Ranma-Chan had a hard time picturing a sexual
aspect to the carnage she had just created. She imagined herself and
some guy (no one she actually knew) making love and then suddely she
yanks out a knife and whack! Gutted like a fish. Killed in mid-fuck.
That last orgasm was somethin' to die for. She snickered to herself
contemplating how many ways people had sex and then how many ways she
could suddenly turn the other person into a bloody disgusting pulp. Her
thoughts were now both perverted and insane with violence. She started
to think about how many guys there might be around to this new killing
procedure on. May as well give a few guys one last ride before they go,
right? Why not? It would give her an oppertunity to find out what it
would be like to be naked and drenched in blood. What fun! Ranma-Chan
smiled to herself as her sick mind went wild.
**********
Kasumi had not been a real genius at any time in her life before
now. She had never rigged any kind of fancy gadget like she was doing
now. Of course she had also never killed a man in a gorey fashion or any
fashion or masturbated at the thought of killing a man or masturbating
period. The Jenova presence had really liberated Kasumi who was now
wiring a clumsy little remote device she had built to the main natural
gas outlet.
Yes, things had definitely changed.
**********
Dr. Tofu, who previously would have practically tripped over his
own feet while drooling at the very mention of Kasumi's name, was now
planning her downfall. For the sake of God only knows how many people he
had to put his feelings aside. Akane wasn't sure he could pull it off.
SWAT teams had already started assembling to head in to the area. Police
had blocked off all the exits. It was starting to get dark early today.
Akane looked at her watch. It was one o'clock.
'Why one?' Akane thought. Then it hit her. One o'clock was the
thirteenth hour.
**********
"Where have you been?" asked Kasumi.
"Just taking a walk."
"Yeah, right. You have blood on your shoes."
"I know."
"And on your cloak."
"I know."
"And those knives you're carrying."
"I know."
"You almost missed the start of the party."
"I'm glad I didn't."
**********
Helicopters were searching the grounds with searchlights trying
desperately to find their targets. Two men with M-16 assault rifles were
poised in the doorway, ready to shoot anything that moved.
*********
Kasumi presssed a button on the gadget that she had attached to the
gas outlet. A red digital readout suddely came to life and started
counting.
01:59...
01:58...
01:57...
01:56...
01:55...
"What good is that readout anyway?" asked Ranma-Chan "Who's gonna
see it anyway?"
"The people we're about to barbeque, of course." replied Kasumi.
She looked up at the circling helicopters. "That one will be in the
right place, I think." she said pointing out a helicopter.
**********
The helicopter was flying low enough to be hitting the tops of the
trees as it patroled Camp Crystal Lake.
(One, Two)
Just then the two armed SWAT men in the doorway heard something
scratching on the bottom of the helicopter. It was a--
*scratch, scratch, scratch*
--sound they couldn't identify. It wasn't the trees. It was more
like--
(Jenova's coming for you.)
--claws. The first man leaned out a little to try and find the
source of the sound. He was suddenly yanked bodily from the helicopter
and no more that two second later was tumbling to the ground below with
trails of blood spilling out of several quick but deep cuts in his
chest. Before the second man could even look he was yanked of his feet
by gunfire from the first man's M-16. He hit the other side of the
copter and the slumped over, a bloody broken mess. The gun that had shot
him was no in the slightly bloody claws of Ranma-Chan.
**********
00:19...
00:18...
00:17...
00:16...
**********
The helicopter jostled a bit as Ranma shot the pilot and Kasumi
quickly took his place. The helicopter suddenly changed course and
headed in the general direction of Tokyo. Dr. Tofu, who was in one of
the three other helicopters, saw this and wondered what was going on. He
picked up the radio.
"Team One, this is SWAT Leader. Why have you changed course?"
"Because we don't want to be here when the rest of you get your asses
blown away, that's why." It was Ranma's voice. Akane was shocked but
wasn't for long. Doc Tofu on the other hand couldn't open his mouth for
several seconds. Just then a huge explosion ripped through the compound
burning up everything in it's path and destroying a helicopter that was
directly over the blast. Akane could here Ranma-Chan's somewhat
maniacal laughter over the radio.
"What are you doing?!" shouted Akane as she grabbed the radio from
the stunned doctor.
"We're just raising a little hell, Akane." said Ranma "Literally."
**********
Ranma and Kasumi had at least a two minute head start on everybody
else. The remaining two helicopters had to spend at least one
heart-stopping minute dodging flames in order to get away from the
compound.
"Sir," came a voice over the radio which, thank God, was not that
of Ranma-Chan "We've got reports of some serious infernos breaking out
in four other districts and they're spreading fast. '
No one needed to ask which districts the fires were in.
**********
Kasumi landed the helicopter on the roof of a large corporate
building in the center of downtown Tokyo. Ranma was unloading the SWAT
teams weaponry when she heard someone shouting: "Hold it right there!"
Ranma-Chan and Kasumi turned to see five girls dressed like some bizzare
cheerleading squad.
The middle girl, a blonde with one of the most bizzare hairstyles
in history was the one doing the yelling. They both looked at these
girls dressed in short skirted sailor uniforms and gold tiaras with a
certain dull sense of boredom. Ranma felt tempted to grumble "Now what?"
"I am Sailor Moon!" shouted the middle girl while executing various
poses "I stand for love and justice! On behalf of the moon I'll.."
"Yeah, yeah. We get the idea." mumbled Kasumi.
"Are you about finished?" asked Ranma-Chan.
"Um... yeah." said Sailor Moon.
"Good." replied Ranma. In one movement she raised the M-16 and
blasted Sailor Moon over the edge of the building. The other Sailors
peered over the edge as their leader plummeted over a hundred stories to
her death. As they turned back and assumed their previous attack
positions both Kasumi and Ranma raised their M-16s and opened fire.
********
When Dr. Tofu's helicopter arrived at the building Kasumi was
standing on the edge of the building waving her arms like an orchestra
conductor as the flames danced their way towards her from the far off
horizon. There were also four dead girls in short skirts and sailor
suits on the roof lying in pools of their own blood. He did not,
however, notice Ranma-Chan who did notice him and was aiming at the good
doctor with a re-loaded assault rifle.
"What are you doing?" shouted Kasumi.
"I'm gonna blast that guy outta the sky before they start shooting
at us, is that okay with you?"
"But..."
"Don't wimp out on me now, Kasumi, he's gonna die when the
revolution begins anyway. I'm just gonna put him outta our misery."
Meanwhile, Dr. Tofu had noticed the presence of Ranma and her really
big gun and quickly grabbed one of his own.
"Forgive me, Kasumi..." he said quietly. When Ranma saw the docor
with a gun she lost it.
"That son of a bitch!" she growled.
"Wait!" shouted Kasumi. It was too late. Ranma pulled the trigger
and Tofu was history. Nothing more than a grease spot in the helicopter.
Akane almost instantly freaked out. She grabbed the assault rifle and
hurled it at Ranma.
"Ranma! You Bastard!!" The rifle smacked Ranma square in the
forehead. She started to stumble drunkenly about.
"Ranma!" shouted Kasumi as Ranma-Chan slumped over into her arms.
"No! NO! NO!! Don't pass out on me now!! If you do the revolution is
history! We can't finish if we're not both conscious!"
It was too late. Ranma had lost consciousness. In the distance the
flames started to die off.
Epilogue:
Saturday The 14th
"I can't believe it." muttered Aeris as we walked down the street
"They beat 'em on their own."
"It was a fluke, an accident, pure luck." I said
"But I can't say I'm not glad." *SPLASH!* Someone had emptied a
bucket of water from a couple of stories up. "Hey! Watch it, ya
morons!" I screeched in the direction of whoever had dumped the water.
My voice was several octaves higher than normal and my clothes seemed
about four sizes to big. I hate it when I turn into a girl.
"Incidentally, I got word that the Angel Of Death has recovered from his
breakdown." said Aeris "Belldandy is giving us a couple of weeks off.
That means we can make poker night in Nibelheim this week."
"I hate playin' poker with your friends, Aeris." I grumbled
brushing wet brown hair out of my face "Yuffie always cheats."
"And you don't?"
"No." I was probably lying,like I'd tell you if I was.
The End...? (Probably Not)
Author's Notes: In case you were wondering, yes, there will be another
Urban Legends fanfic. I can't help but note, however, that I am not a
great fanfic writer (as The Eternal Lost Lurker never get tired of
telling me). At least, not compared to writers like Zen who can write
five billion page fanfics that never grow boring. If he is Hemingway
than I am just Stephen King. Also I noticed that some author's like
CBear put little catch phrases at the end of their fanfics. Stuff like:
Smile and have a nice day. That would not work on one of my fanfics. The
closest I could get is: Slash and hack and hope you survive to the end
of the day. Friday The 13th is not at all like the movie I named it
after except for the references to "Camp Crystal Lake" the old slashing
grounds of Jason Voorhees, star of a billion lame sequels (I haven't
seen "Friday The 13th" or it's sequels but I do know this much.) This
fanfic is more serious than the last two. The last two were more satire,
this one was more killing. I have to admit I came dangerously close to
writing some really sick lemon material in Day Five but I managed to
restrain myself. I wrote Day Five when I was in a bad mood which
might explain why I was so loose about the content. Also, for the
record, I do not hate the cast of "Sailor Moon", I just felt like doing
that. I hope somebody enjoyed this fic especially after Urban Legends
H20 which I'm pretty sure was not my finest piece of writing. Speaking
of H20 the last paragraph was a punchline that only fans of Final
Fantasy 7 would have understood. I should have mentioned that earlier.
Sorry.
Next:
Urban Legends IV: Psycho
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