It's just a little bit frightening...

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Ranma is the middle of the grounds, in the middle of a very elaborate kata.

Man, those kicks are fast as lightning.

It's very fluid, advanced work. The kata ends with a chop that manages to fell a small oak tree.

He clears, breathes, and bows.

Any comments from the peanut gallery?

Comments

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Took me over ten years to get that good, but man, it's worth it!

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

That's amazing! I guess that's why they hired you, right? Because you're strong?

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Must be. If there's martial arts in it I can win it.

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Absolutely?

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

I always win. If I lose, I win the rematch.

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

That's a good way to think about things.

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

S'allways worked for me.

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Anyway, um, have we met?

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Don't think so. Ranma Saotome. Who are you and what are you in for?

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I'm Nanami Lucia! Nice to meet you! I don't have any special talents like yours, but I do have things I'm good at and ways I can fight, so I'm doing my best to be useful.

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Good. We got an odd bunch here, and most of them couldn't fight outava wet paper bag. Sometimes I wonder about the Senior Council.

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Well, you don't need to just be able to fight to do some good, right?

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but there are some people here who... well, I don't get it. I mean I'm all for doctors and cooks and people like that getting in, but...

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

But?

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Carmen Sandeigo got in. Do I need to go on?

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I guess that's one part of it...

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

You a martial artist? Or have you got the weirdness for fighting?

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what you mean by weirdness, but I guess there isn't much weirder than the way I fight, so I'll go with that.

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

Alla the mages and cyborgs and whatever that are just flat out impossible back home.

[Like you're one to talk Mr. Mokou Takabisha. |: ]

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I'm not a mage or a cyborg, but I'm probably impossible to you, too.

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

I ain't gonna even ask.

[Mermaids. My God.]

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's just rude!

(Well, she doesn't look like a mermaid right now! \o/;)

[kenpo-ichiban.livejournal.com]

How is it rude to not ask about that? Overreacting much?

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I am not overreacting. *pout*