Being eaten alive too, as a fact.
Even though those Magical Shops are actively hunted down to be destroyed by various divine and supernatural entities (a whole squad of the Yggdrasil World Computer debuggers where assigned to the task, among others), some of them still showed up there and there to plant seeds of chaos.
It would be no surprise for many peoples that the landing spot for the passed out Jim would be the Nerima ward in Tokyo, Japan. This place has long been a well-known chaos vortex, and some stupid gaijin bringing a Hentai plant to a public park shouldn't look so weird compared to some of the common events around there.
And of course, two of its most renowned inhabitants were to be the natural focus of said happening.
"RANMA NO BAKA!!!!"
This shout, from those who didn't guess, came from a raven-haired girl brandished a big wooden mallet, which she intended to use lovingly to bash the love of her life, significant other, insensitive yet so endearing .... that jerk she got stuck with as a fiancé - or rather fiancée, since she's actually pursuing a redheaded girl.
"RANMA, YOU STAY HERE! How dare you discard the sushi I made for the picnic without even trying them!"
"Because I have no death wish, you stupid tomboy!" answers the pigtailed, cursed martial artist while dodging Akane's blows and giving her the raspberry. "The devil only knows what kind of stuff you put into those, and what they would do to my stomach! What I'm sure off is that sushi aren't supposed to look - and smell! - like they've spent three months among garbage...."
"Why you... I'll kill you for that, you jerk!"
Too busy from the chase, both girls paid no attention to the strange new plant that adorned the park. The plant did, however. Though its tendrils hadn't reacted fast enough to the fleet-footed Ranma-chan, they did, however, managed to catch the slower Akane.
"What the... AAAAAAAH!!!"
Ranma screeched to a sudden halt when hearing Akane's frightened scream. Turning around, she watched in disbelief her reluctant fiancée being lifted into the air by some strange plant, looking a lot like some overgrown tropical carnivorous plant.
"RANMA! HELP!" yelled Akane, as the green tendrils lashed around her arms and legs and held her in a crucified (and spread-eagle) position.
"Geez... what this girl gotten herself into again? And of course, it's up to me to save her, as usual... she sure forget quick she was angry at me when in trouble..."
Ranma wondered briefly where this thing came from. Maybe Link and Pink were back in town, and this is there way of saying hello. Still, from Akane's discomfort, it's unlikely that vegetable is friendly. Now Ranma...
Thu Aug 1 13:11:32 2002