Texas Tournament: Day One in the Big House
RNRPG: The Texas Tournament: Day one in the Big house
It was early in the morning in Texas, which translated to
late evening for
those still on Tokyo time. But the main Ranch house was busy.
the regular
staff and those who were scheduled to fight later in the day
were milling
around and causing as much chaos as possible given their
limited resources
and time constraints. The American staff was amazed at how
much food the
Nerimites ate.
Shortly after dawn while most everyone was either considering
a nap or was
still asleep, Silk came in carrying Kodachi. One of the
judges was following
them and walked up to the Poster and marked it to read:
Alex VS Terry Bogard
Akane VS Johnny Cage
Happosai VS Robert Garcia
Ranma VS Ken Masters
Ryuu VS Andy Bogard
Ryouga VS Paul Phoenix
Keisuke VS Jim King
Kodachi VS Silk ------------------- Silk
Fujiko VS Ukyou
Brush VS Perfume
Mimiku VS Rinse
The tournament had begun. But that didn't stop the rest of
the world from
turning. "What's for breakfast?" Silk called to whomever was
in the kitchen
as she laid Kodachi on a couch in the 'living room'.
"Anything good left?"
Happosai came bounding into the room at that moment. He was
happy and
looking very smug. He had come out of his match without his
opponent even
touching him.
He grabbed a marker and crossed Robert Garcia's name off of
the list. "You
can call him Toast from now on. "
He smiled at the Heir to the founding school. " I see you
have done well for
yourself Silk-Chan."
Silk finished pressing some pressure points on Kodachi's
forehead, to insure
that the unconsciousness became nothing more then natural
sleep. "Fighting
Kodachi during one of her bouts of insanity is more a test of
patience and
restraint then of particular skill, Happosai."
Silk went into the kitchen and discovered that breakfast was
just getting
over, and almost no food was visible on the table. She glared
at those who
were sitting and picking their teeth with the Texas sized
tooth picks
provided. "How do you expect to be able to fight when you're
loaded down
like overgrown ducks?" she asked sarcastically as she took a
small square of
toast. the last piece. She looked for some butter. Even it
was gone. "ARG!"
Happosai smiled at his protege and double checked on Kodachi.
Sometimes
Happi wished he could do something to help the girl.
Happi leapt upon Silk's shoulder, and whispered in Silk's
ear. "I didn't
want to be weighed down by a heavy breakfast either... so a
stole a bunch of
the breakfast food and stashed it in the bunkhouse."
"Why didn't you say so?" Silk grinned. She headed out to the
guys'
bunkhouse, intent on getting some food. She was hungry enough
that she
didn't care what might be going on in the bunks at this hour.
"Where?" she
asked Happi.
"I hid it under my bunk, surrounded by pretties.. no one
would ever find
it." Happi smiled as he whispered his response.
As the two entered the Bunkhouse a stocky Chinese man was
putting away his
bags. He whirled to face the possible foes. Then he smiled at
the woman and
the old man.
"Hello, I'm looking for Jim King." The man smiled and both
Silk and Happi
recognized his as Jackie Chan. "I'm supposed to be his wild
card fighter."
"That was quick," Ryuu stated as he walked into the bunkhouse
dragging along
an unconscious Andy Bogard, "Someone might want to tend to his
wounds or
he'll be in serious pain later on." Ryuu looked over at the
supposedly good
martial artist Jackie Chan and smirked. "Feh," he thought,
"The guy isn't
even generating a chi aura. Either he's very good, or most
likely he's not
as good as he's known to be. How often can you practice
while rehearsing
for movies?"
Ryuu tossed Andy onto an empty bunk and headed for the
kitchen to make
something to eat.
****
In the main house Kodachi finally woke up. Someone had placed
an ice pack on
her face. She sat up and probed her face gingerly. All Silk
had done to her
was bloody her nose, nothing had been broken.
It was true that she had lost, but losing to her friend
didn't seem so bad.
The side effect was that the other Kodachi was knocked
senseless for a while,
she was her own person for a bit.
Silk and Happosai came back to the main house fully laden
with food. Silk
offered Kodachi a Danish from the heap of breads and fruits
they'd stacked
on the coffee table while she munched on a nectarine. "How's
your head?" she
asked, "I'm pretty sure nothing was broken, just bruised."
Kodachi gingerly took the offered Danish and began to eat
it just a
little bit. "I'll be alright, Silk. Just a bruise across the
face. Thank you
for not hurting me too badly."
Silk nodded. "I knew that you weren't yourself." she said,
reaching out, she
touched Kodachi's face and the bruise and pain disappeared.
But the Other
Kodachi didn't wake up. The trio munched in silence for a
moment when a loud
crash was heard, followed by what sounded like thunder, and
finally the
sound of water flowing. A yelp from the kitchen moved all
three to
investigate. The kitchen faucet was spraying water all over
the place, then
abruptly stopped, though the pipe echoed with the sound of
rushing water.
"What the hell is going on?" Silk demanded of one of the
cooks.
"Mr. King and one of your friends is fighting in the
basement. They just
broke the water main!" the man shouted back as he tried to
close off the
pipe which was still occasionally spurting water into the
air.
Happosai made the mistake of stepping into the kitchen at
that moment. With
predictable results. A dripping Happi-Chan stood still in the
kitchen. She
never expected to get splashed in the ranch house.
"Am I magnetically attracted to water?"
Keisuke dragged the big Texan by his ankles as he trudged up
the stairs to
where everyone was waiting. He looked like hell. He was
completely soaked,
cut, bruised, bloody, and just plain whipped. Jim King, on
the other hand,
was in even worse shape. His clothes were scorched, his hair
was frizzled,
and he looked like he just peed on a 100000000000000 megavolt
generator. He
was fried. Keisuke huffed as he slammed the Texan down. "I
need a rest." he
said, falling into an easy chair and passing out.
Silk had to agree as she tried (and failed on the first
attempt) to lift Mr.
King onto a nearby couch. She decided she could tend him just
as well on the
floor. With the help of a first aid kit and voltmeter she
soon had him
wrapped up and on his way to a quick recovery. His hair was
going to take a
few days to go back to normal, though. The servants (three
really big guys)
hauled him off to bed.
As she started on Keisuke's wounds, Silk was glad they only
had one fight
per day; It looked like she would be playing medic for the
duration. "Wakey
wakey, lover boy." she said when she had worked her way up to
cleaning the
cuts on his face. She noted that the alcohol in the first aid
kit needed to
be replaced. "You messed yourself up good this time."
Happi-Chan looked over Silk's shoulder while munching on an
apple. She
winced when she saw how much punishment Keisuke had taken.
"Oh my.. are you
sure he won?"
"He was still walking, your student was out cold and staying
that way for a
good long time. Keisuke should be waking up any moment now."
Silk said as
she wiped the last of the blood from her friend's face.
The door opened, and a werewolf and a catwoman came in,
carrying Terry and
Alex, to set them on a pair of bunks. "Well, that was
anti-climatic. They
knocked each other out."
"My word.. they are really taking this tournament serious!"
Happi chirped in
as she set about to helping Silk.
Jackie walked in and sat down at a free chair. "They really
pounded each
other out there!"
Silk could hardly argue as she went to restore some chi
levels and heal the
worst of the wounds the two had inflicted on each other. When
she was
finished this time her face was starting to look drawn. "how
many more?" she
asked softly.
As some of his ki was restored, Alex awakened. He saw Silk
working on the
slowly-recovering Terry, then remembered the last moments of
the fight, and
groaned. "Just great. No clear winner. But it was a good
workout." He
grinned at Terry. "Want to do it again sometime?"
"Perhaps later." Came Terry's pained reply. "You know,
you're almost as
tough as Wolfgang Krauser."
Keisuke smiled, trying to disguise the stinging sensation he
was getting as
Silk tended to his cuts and bruises. "Thanks Silk. I owe you
one." He
glanced over at Terry and Alex. "Glad to know I'm not the
only one who got
messed up." he said grinning.
Silk sighed as she fell into a recliner near Keisuke. "Not
the only one to
get messed up, but the only one who gets healed the next
time it happens."
Silk's glare at Alex and Terry was almost tangible.
"Thanks for the recharge, Silk." Alex wasn't looking in
Silk's direction at
the time, but he could feel her glare and cringed slightly as
he looked over
at Keisuke and Terry. "Nope, you're not man." Alex then
replied to Terry,
"I've got to say, you're one of the toughest natural humans
I've ever
fought. We're going to have to do this again sometime."
Fujiko decided at that time to walk in. She looked okay with
the exception
of a small bruise on the side of her face. "Well, that was
interesting...Did any of you hear about supper arrangements?
Right now, a
bag of tortilla chips and a huge bowl of four-alarm salsa
sounds really,
really good right now, but I don't want to spoil my dinner if
they are about
to serve it." Fujiko asked, showing a Cheshire cat smile.
Ryuu entered the bunk carrying a big bag of junk food. That
was when he
noticed the terrible shape the others were. "Damn," he said
to Keisuke and
Alex, "What'd you guys do? Walk into a meat grinder?" Ryuu
glanced at the
tournament listings. "So, who am I fighting next?"
"Fujiko-San, I believe they will not be serving dinner for a
while,
Keisuke-San and Jim-San trashed the plumbing." Kodachi
smiled a bit at
the Red Head. "It also seems like you and I are the only
tournament losers
that didn't get the bean jam beaten out of them."
Terry and Alex both said, "Who lost?" Now that he was
conscious, Alex started
using his own ki to heal his injuries, using Silk's
technique. "Well, first
priority: food." John brought Alex some of the food that
Happi had stashed
away. As Alex began to pack away the food, he said, "That was
a good fight."
Silk snatched some of the food before Alex could eat it all
and munched it
down. then she looked at the clock, doing a few mental
calculations. "It's
morning, they won't be serving lunch for a while, and the jet
lag is
starting to get to me. I'm going to sleep. Wake me if anyone
looks like they
need immediate medical attention. Otherwise, I'll hurt anyone
who wakes me
up before local noon." the healer walked off, slowly, with
the careful
precision of someone who is drunk but is firmly convinced
that they aren't
drunk. It took a while.
"Okay...I'm off to the mini-mart, then. See ya around."
Fujiko said as she
quickly sped off in search of her food.
Happi hopped up and landed unsteadily next to Silk putting
one hand on her
shoulder. "Are you going to be alright, Silk-Chan?"
Silk over corrected for the sudden weight increase on one
side, re-corrected
and finally ended in a kung fu stance called a twisted horse
before she
answered, "I'll be fine... Don't worrrrrry about it." her
voice was thick,
and she rolled her r's unintentionally.
Happi wasn't buying it. "I'll help you get to the bunkhouse."
She responded
with all seriousness.
"You're no fun, Happi." Silk sighed, stepping very carefully
towards the
bunkhouse. "Slow, isn't it?" she giggled, "but no otherrrr
way to do it."
"Actually, there is," Alex said from behind the duo. A quick
thought later,
Silk was floating into the bunkhouse and being set down on a
bed. "Go ahead
and sleep it off. I'm going to go and workout with John and
Felicia. Have a
pleasant nap." Alex then took off, to meet up with his
friends.
Silk was not going to blow up for the indignity of being
summarily floated
to her room, but she was pissed that Alex had taken her
healing, thanked her
only when she reminded him, then gone off to play while she
slept off the
drain it had cost her. --if I'm going to be drained.-- she
fired off a
single anger powered chi net that hit Alex in the back and
pulled him to the
ground. "Thank you but no thank you. Arrrrrogant Jack ass."
she took back
the chi that she had given him (no more and no less), leaving
him in pretty
much the state he'd arrived in, minus the injuries. She
instantly felt
better. "Since you obviously have enough energy to go play
with your
friends, I'll take mine back now. Have a nice nap." she
mimicked his tone as
she walked away, leaving him to lie where he was until his
chi returned.
Alex slowly got up, and shook his head. "Man, that wasn't
happy good.
Crrrrazy girl," he muttered to himself as Silk saw John
running up to Alex
and dragging him off to the desert, giving him a full
critique of the fight,
and what he was going to have to do to make up for toying
with an opponent
instead of putting him down quickly. Even Silk cringed at the
mention of
some of the drills that the werewolf told Alex he was in for.
Silk laughed as she shook her head at Alex and his werewolf
'friend' who
apparently was going to put him through a hell workout. She
went back into
the main house, looking for Terry, another one who had taken
advantage of
her abilities with no thank you. She found him in the kitchen
trying to find
something to eat. She put a hand on his shoulder, "I'll be
taking back
what's mine now." she whispered in explanation before taking
back most of
the ki she'd given him. She wasn't pissed at him, so she left
him enough to
remain standing. She felt wide awake now, and went looking
for the others
who had finished their fights.
Happi-Chan had to laugh at the antics of her student. No one
messes with the
heir to the founding school and gets away with it. She was
proud of the way
Silk handled the situation.
"Hello? Hello? Hey, anyone there?" A loud banging came from
one of the
closets in the building before it was blown of its hinges by
a slightly
irate Ryouga Hibiki carrying a nicely singed Paul Phoenix.
Ranma strided in proudly, dropping the battered Ken Masters
into a nearby
bed and went to get a glass of water. He saw Ryouga carrying
in his
opponent. "Heh heh." he laughed at Ryouga when he saw the
shape of the
fighter he was carrying. "Good job, Ryouga. Maybe I'll see
you in the next
match. Then again, you could luck out and be paired with
someone else." he
smirked at him and downed his glass of water.
Kodachi smiled, she always liked it when her darling Ranma
won in any
martial competition he competed in. "Ranma-Sama." She called
as she walked
over to Ranma offering him a glass of juice. "I hope to see
you win the rest
of the tournament."
Ranma took the glass of juice and sipped slowly. "Thanks
Kodachi. I hope to
see me win too." he said grinning.
About that time, Johnny Cage walked back into the Ranch
house. He was gently
Cradling an Unconscious Akane and gently sat her on the
couch. Akane didn't
appear to be injured except for being slightly singed.
Johnny flashed on of his Hollywood smiles at the group.
"She'll be okay,
she's pretty tough for a young girl."
Silk finished on the food she'd managed to scrounge from the
kitchen as
Ryouga and Ranma came in, and noticed when Akane was carried
in by the
arrogant American who's name she didn't know. she checked
the list and saw
that almost all the fights were complete.
Alex VS Terry Bogard ----------- Double KO
Akane VS Johnny Cage ------------ Cage
Happosai VS Robert Garcia ---------- Happosai
Ranma VS Ken Masters ------------ Ranma
Ryuu VS Andy Bogard ------------ Ryuu
Ryouga VS Paul Phoenix ----------- Ryouga
Keisuke VS Jim King --------------- Keisuke
Kodachi VS Silk ------------------- Silk
Fujiko VS Ukyou ------------------ Ukyou
Brush VS Perfume ---------------- ________
Mimiku VS Rinse ------------------ ________
Only two fights remained in the first round, and there was
much speculation
as to would be fighting who in the next set of fights.
Perfume entered the house at that point. her Naginata was
covered in frost
in it's holder on her back. She was helping a shivering and
blue frost
covered Brush into the house.
How was she to know that her Naginata was capable of
reflecting spells at
their casters.
Meanwhile, Alex was being drilled in speed attacks and other
techniques by
John, who was on Alex's case like a drill sergeant on buck
privates. "So,
you had the gall to hold back on that guy. And look where it
got you. Now,
it's time to get busy, you! If you think you've been
training before,
you're going to love this. You're going to learn how to use
your other forms
speed in your normal body. It's a from of ki manipulation.
Here's a
demonstration..." The werewolf began to attack at a speed
never seen by
anyone present, moving fast enough to leave a trail of
after-images behind
himself at first then he began to go even faster. Alex was
being forced to
constantly speed up, or get knocked around by the werewolf.
"You gotta move
faster, Alex. Get going!"
Just then, the door to the big house opened, and Mimiku
stepped in, followed by Rinse. Both looked ragged and a
little worse for wear, but their match was over with. Mimiku
looked about the room, "Well, what's all the hub-bub?"
"Just waiting for you two to finish." Happi-Chan shouted as she made a few more
entries on the board.
Meanwhile a Bruised and frazzled looking Jim King came back downstairs. He moved
some of the names around on the match up board. "Hey Yall! This here is
tomorrow's fighting list.
Silk VS Ryuu
Ranma VS Ryouga
Keisuke VS Happosai
Ukyou VS Perfume
Johnny Cage VS Mimiku
To be Continued