Disclaimer: the only thing in here that belongs to me is me and I’m not sure I want even that much. Warning: This ficette was inspired by too much Ranma 1/2 fic, an MKR binge and distinct Sentinel withdrawl, in addition to unhealthy amounts of GW shounen-ai fic teasing. Please do not read any further if you suufer from hallucinations, motion sickness or reality. This was actually an e-mail I wrote to a friend of mine over Thanksgiving break, explaining why the third chapter of Upon Awakening wasn’t done yet. Explanations: Jim and Blair are the main characters of The Sentinel. Umi, Hikaru, Fu and Ferrio are all from MKR MKR is Magic Knights Rayearth, an anime Ranma and Ryougu are from Ranma ½ A chi attack is basically an attack where you blast someone with your life energy. Happens a lot in some animes. Y’know, when I started writing these things, I thought they were cute. Now I’m starting to scare myself. Enjoy, guys! Happy Holidays! ________ A deranged brown-haired lunatic runs onto the screen, giggling like a lunatic and screaming "kawaii!! at the top of her lungs. After her runs a young man, approximately 28 years old, with long curly brown hair and an exasperated expression on his face. "majik, you little idiot! Get your butt back in authorspace before you start scaring the neighbors!" The deranged lunatic spins around and sticks her tongue out before taking off again at an even faster pace. We suddenly realize she is wearing ice skates - although there is no ice to be seen. The man scowls. "Idiot." Another man appears and joins the first. "Leave her alone, Chief," the taller, slightly older man advised. "She'll come back once the giggle fit wears off." "Huh." The younger man crosses his arms and huffs. "You know how long it takes her to calm down sometimes, Jim." He shook his head mournfully. "And here I thought we'd finally kicked her off the MKR high and convinced her to write again." Jim shrugs helplessly. "Well, what are you gonna do? She did write a few pages." "She hates them." "She always says that." "This time she means it." "She *always* means it." “But this time she *means* it means it!” Jim doesn't have much to say to that, so he remains silent. "She's almost ready to send it to the beta-readers, but she's half afraid they'll forget they *are* the beta-readers." The younger man shrugs. "And to top it off, she's *this* close to starting even more new fics! If she starts them, she'll never finish!" Jim smirked. "She has finals in two weeks, Blair. She's not about to finish any of her stories until after Christmas break." Blair's eyes go wide. "Then there's short term..." Jim nodded, a little sadly. "You've heard her complain about how many hours a week she'll be working." "Ah, but look on the bright side, minna!" the deranged lunatic's head and shoulders suddenly pop out of thin air as she beams at them. "I'll have to work on my fics just to keep from going insane! It'll all work out, ne? I'm even working on a Christmas one! I'll have to finish that!" Blair glowers at the girl. "You said the same thing about the Thanksgiving fic." She blinks. "I did?" "MAAAAAAAJJJJJJIIIIIKKKKKK!!!!!!!" "Ah!" majik dodges as Blair lunges at her. "Oi, baka! I can't bloody well finish the story if you kill me, now can I? Jim, love, call him off!" Jim shrugs and chuckles. "Sorry. In this plane of reality, *he* gets to be the Blessed Protector." "He's gonn KILL ME!" majik screeched as she raced by, Blair hot on her tail. "So finish the story and maybe he'll stop," Jim suggested off-handedly. "Maybe?!?!?! Fat lot of help you are you lousy- OW! Blair! All right, all right! I'm sorry, Jim! Now STOP PULLING MY HAIR!!!!" Unnoticed in all the confusion, three young girls and a teenage boy appear at Jim's side. The redhead looks on with enthusiasm, while the fawn-haired girl looks worried. The third girl pushes a strand of long blue hair away from her face and scowls at the spectacle before her. "And we're supposed to work with this?" The teenage boy looks equally skeptical. "They're gonna kill each other." The redheaded girl looks instantly upset. "Oh no! They wouldn't!" "They wouldn't," Jim assures her. "majik knows I'll kill her if she does anything harmful to Blair." For a moment there is a thread of steel in his voice and none of the four newcomers doubt his sincerity for an instant. "So why did you bring us here, anyway?" the young man demanded. "This hasn't got anything to do with us." "On the contrary," Jim contradicted. "majik's already working on an AU story for you guys. It's a long story, but Fu gets to be a princess and I think Ferrio gets killed off in the beginning." "NANI?!" the fawn-haired girl turns to him, shock and worry written on her face. "She wouldn't!" "Fu?" the boy asked, surprised at her sudden outburst. Fu blushes and looks away. "Nothing. I just-" "You were worried about me!" "Well-" "You were!" He beams at her. "Of course I was! I'd be worried about anyone!" "Sure you would." "Ferrio, really!" Fu crosses her arms and turns a little, still blushing fiercly. The other two girls have been watching this like it was old hat. "An AU, hmn?" the blue haired girls asks. "I'm not sure I like that. Writers tend to think that those two letters give them permission to do whatever they want to us! Is majik like that?" Jim deliberately doesn't meet her eyes. "She's not as bad as some.Really, Umi, you won't have too much to worry about with her." " 'Too much'?" Umi repeated. "How much is not 'too much'?" "Um-" sudden movement caught his eye. "Look out guys, they're coming back around!" "You're not going to get out of answering that easily!" Umi shouted. "Umi-san! Hikaru-san! Look out!" Umi and Hikaru looked up - just as the the deranged lunatic plowed right into them. They snapped into chibi mode as soon as they hit the ground and scampered away before Blair could step on them. Jim sighed and scooped up the two Magic Knights." "I think we've all had enough for tonight. Come on, kids, I'll walk you back to your dimension. *majik!*" he called over his shoulder, "you'd better not damage him, you hear me?" "You're worried about *him?!*" majik shrieks as she runs past yet again. "I'm the one in fear of her life here!" "Good, keep it that way" Jim says. "I'll be back in a few minutes, Chief. Keep yourself entertained until then." "Not a problem!" Blair calls back. He skids to a stop and flexes his hands once. majik also stops and looks back at him. Blair flexes his hands again and grins at her. "That anime kick you went on really paid off," he tells her with a smile. "The Streetfighter guys and Ranma and Ryouga got together and showed me a few tricks. You *do* know what a chi attack is, don't you?" He draws back his arms, hands starting to form a sort of cup where blue-white light is starting to form. majik whimpers. ___ Oyasumi, minna-san!