Yawn! Already 10 p.m.! And I have to feathers outside tomorrow at 6:15 a.m.

Well I hope you like it!

Your Akanefan!

(Yawn)



Love's first kiss or a strange kidnapping

Chapter 1



Explanation of symbols:

* …… * = thoughts

<<… >> = verbatim speech



It was a wonderfully sunny Saturday in Tokyo. Akane, who, as always, woke up to the first ray of sunshine that came through her window, was just putting on her clothes and was listening to the weatherman on the radio promise sun till you drop, also for Sunday, when suddenly her door flew open and P-Chan followed closely by Ranma stormed into the room. "I'll get you Ryoga," yelled Ranma. Akane grabbed P-chan and hugged him to her bosom, causing P-chan to blush. Then she shouted: "Just leave poor P-Chan alone for once and anyway, what do you always talk about Ryoga, you pervert!" "Oh, you have no idea, macho woman!" Shouted Ranma.And so the morning quarrel between Ranma and Akane flared up, which ended with Akane giving Ranma one with her always ready mallet and screaming: "When I woke up this morning I was looking forward to the day, but you ruined everything again, pervert! "Since Ranma was still passed out, he couldn’t give her any opposition, so she left. When everyone was having breakfast later, there was still an icy silence between Ranma and Akane and no one wanted to look at the other. Since the crazy director of the Furikan Oberschule had introduced a special school day, they had to go to school today for once. There was still an iron silence on the way there. * That sucker! Jerk! Jerk! Jerk! Why does he just have to be like that all the time. I was really looking forward to today! I thought maybe we could go to U-Chans Okonomiakys and have an Okanomiaky. * thought Akane. She quickly turned her face away so that Ranma couldn't see that tears ran down her cheeks at the thought of their argument that morning.But she quickly got a grip on herself again and wiped away the tears. Meanwhile Ranma thought: * That macho woman! Why does she always have to protect Ryoga? Maybe I should tell her who "P-Chan" really is! That pervert! He always crawls into Akane's bed as a "cute" piglet! I don't even like to think about it! * At school Akane and Ranma had to beat up Kuno again because he really wanted to go out with Akane. "I didn't ask for your help," Akane said. "That had nothing to do with you either, macho woman!" Said Ranma. The school day went as usual but Akane was still so angry with Ranma after school that she went a different way than him. All the way, she had the dull feeling that she was being followed, but when she turned she saw no one. Suddenly a dark shadow appeared behind her and before she could react she was grabbed from behind. She thrashed out, but she had no chance. A smelly rag was pressed over her mouth and shortly afterwards she lost consciousness.The kidnapper or one of the kidnappers carelessly dropped the rag soaked in chloroform, not thinking that anyone could track him down.

When Akane was still not home that evening, Soun Tendo began to worry what should mean that he was walking around the house crying and yelling "Akane! Akane!". Ranma was also worried, but he didn't show it and just said: "The macho woman will be back by tomorrow." But when Akane wasn't there the next morning he went to look for her. Since he also knew the way Akane had gone and was lucky that the street cleaning had not yet been there, he finally found the rag soaked with chloroform and, what terrified him, a large blood stain. * Akane! Now I couldn't even tell you that .. that .. that I love you! *, he thought. After it was clear that Akane had been kidnapped and Soun Tendo could only sit sobbing in front of the family altar and pray that Akane was still alive, Ranma suddenly shouted: "I will save you, Akane!"

Suddenly Ryoga stormed in and shouted with tears in his eyes, "Me too, Akane"

The chaos was complete when Kuno rushed in and wanted to save Akane as well. After Ranma had gotten rid of shampoo and ukyo, who of course immediately sensed their chances of having an affair with Ranma, they interviewed several residents who lived in houses in the immediate vicinity of the spot where the chloroform rag had been found was. They finally got lucky with one of the people, he described a young man about 17 years old who was said to have been about 1.80 tall, blond hair and blue eyes. Allegedly he was wearing a blue knitted sweater and dark blue jeans. He should have been pushing around strangely the whole time and mumbling the following: << Tomorrow it's going to Tsaotswe. Hopefully the girl I'll get before that. >> said the man to them. He himself happened to be standing on his high hedge during this time so that the stranger did not notice him and he could hear the murmur.After thanking the man, they first went home and looked for Tsaotswe in the world atlas, but couldn't find the city. So that day there was an oppressive silence in the Tendo's house. When Ranma was in bed that evening and was still thinking about Tsaotswe, the answer to the riddle suddenly shot through him like an arrow! Tsaotswe: you just had to rearrange the letters! Tsaotswe = Taosstew! This was a monastic town in China that had long been considered lost, he had only heard of it on television by chance. Allegedly every century a young girl was sacrificed there for the legendary dragon Taos by the Taosting order so that it would not get angry and destroy the earth. He suddenly understood what this meant and shouted: "Akane". In the middle of the night he drummed everyone up and explained the situation to them. While Soun Tendo suffered a nervous breakdown, the others got ready to go. Since there were no more ferries to China that evening, they took the first ferry the next morning, but the day before they had found out about the location of the lost city.Several days of the calm crossing began. On the penultimate day of the trip, when everyone was already asleep, men came into each cabin of the three and drugged them. Ranma, however, noticed the men and wanted to defend himself, but he received a hard blow on the head and collapsed unconscious. The others were lucky, because since they did not move, they were only anesthetized with a cloth soaked in chloroform. Ryoga's and Kuno's last thoughts, which both woke up just before they passed out, were: * What's going on? Who's there? * Then they too slumped unconscious. It should remain her final thoughts for a long time because she would remain unconscious for a very long time. Suddenly and for no apparent reason, a glass broke on the table of the remaining tendos. Shortly after Kasumi had said: "That can't mean anything good." A vase fell down and also broke, followed by another glass. Soun Tendo was on the verge of a second nervous breakdown.

*Where am I? * were her first thoughts. Then she remembered. The man, the stinking rag. She got up and looked around. It appeared to be in some kind of metal cage. But she collapsed unconscious from the stress of the past two days. When she woke up again, she didn't know how many hours she had passed out, but there was a man in front of her. Suddenly she recognized him! It was the same man who had drugged her. When he wanted to serve her food, she slapped it out of his hand and shouted: "Where am I? Where did you take me? And what do you want from me, you pigs !!!!!" The man said in a calm voice, Akane only made angrier: "Quiet girl. You don't scold me, eh? I explain to you. You sacrifice for Taos so that he doesn't destroy the world." Akane shouted angrily: "Who the hell is Taos? And why are they talking so funny ? "" Taos is a mighty dragon. He will destroy the world, if not get a young girl every hundred years.This century you young girl. I speak strangely for you because I speak Chinese and not Japanese well. Be happy It is a great honor to be an offering to Taos. "" I'm not damn happy though! Because I don't necessarily want to die! "" Why aren't you happy? You can get food when and what you want. You get beautiful clothes and you are treated well. "" I still don't want to die you idiot! "Apparently it got too much for the man and he disappeared. Angry and sad, Akane slumped in her cage. * Now I can't even tell you that .. that .. that I love you, Ranma *

Meanwhile, Ranma was the first to wake up from unconsciousness. * Where did the men take me * were his first thoughts. He tasted salty blood on his lip and colored veils swam in front of his eyes, but then the picture cleared and he recognized where he was. He was on board the big diving bell that he had always admired on board the ferry and that the captain of the ferry had told him that it had been a family property since time immemorial.In spite of everything, it was a very modern model for diving bells because instead of two bench seats there was a solid floor with a door in the middle to let any divers through. Ranma saw Ryoga and Kuno lying next to her, still unconscious. Suddenly he noticed that the pressure was increasing. When he looked outside, he was shocked to see that they were already at a depth of about 20 meters. What frightened him even more, however, was the fact that the seabed was still far away from them, and the diving bell was not held by anything, but steadily sank and the pressure increased. * You pigs! So that's what you thought! Let me and the others be flattened by the enormous pressure in the depths of the sea! Not with me! It would be laughable if I didn't get out of here. * he thought angrily and tried to open the door on the floor, but apparently the men had considered this too and welded the door.Ranma hit the door with a violent Amaguri-Ken attack in anger. This was not up to the immense force of the attack and gave in with a groan. Ranma ripped the door off its hinges and used