Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Ranma Vs. Krueger ❯ It Begins ( Chapter 1 )

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Disclaimer: Justin D. Hurkman (otherwise known as JDHGamer) does not own the rights to either Freddy Krueger, Nightmare on Elm Street, or the Ranma 1/2 series and any of his characters. While this SHOULD be quite apparent to the reader already, there is a need to disclaim this to avoid any legalities. With that said, enjoy the fan fiction that is about to unfold.

THE TEXT FADES TO BLACK

He Text Fades to Black

Red text on a black background:

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." Chuang

After a moment

THE TEXT FADES TO BLACK

Soon after, new text replaces it:

"Kung Fu this, bitch!" Freddy Krueger The text also fades out.

WE FADE INTO…

EXT. 1428 ELM STREET

An attractive looking half-Asian, half-Hispanic girl with medium brown hair is busy painting the previously yellow front door blue.

GIRL

You know, Juton, this door was originally blue, then it was painted red for the longest time, until just recently it was painted yellow. Of course, now that we own the place it's back to blue. Nothing better than the original, that's why I say.

Juton, a tall Caucasian guy with brownish-blonde hair cut Harry Potter hair-style, a goatee and glasses, stands next to her.

JUTON

Dimi-Chan, why did we buy this place anyway, and what makes you think that we can make a profit by renting it out for so cheap?

DIMI-CHAN

Just trust me, Juton…this is going to be a lot of fun!

Her cell-phone rings. She stops painting and takes the call.

DIMI-CHAN (CONT'D)

Hello, Dimi-Chan and Juton's rent-a-place-for-dirt-cheap, how may I help you? Oh, the place on Elm Street! What a coincidence, I'm there right now, painting the front door and stuff. Yeah, whoever previously lived here decided to chip off some of the paint with a quarter or something. But that shade of yellow was pretty ugly anyway. So, when're you guys coming over? Temporarily?! Oh, you'll pay the full month's rent, stay for about a week?...should be long enough…Oh, I meant long enough to justify paying a full-month's rent! Okay, so I can expect you guys then? Alright, cya!

She puts the phone back in her pocket.

DIMI-CHAN (CONT'D)

(Going back to painting) See, I told ya I'd find someone!

JUTON

But just a month's rent?!

DIMI-CHAN

Oh, trust me, it'll be worth it!

JUTON

So who are these guys, anyway? Why are they only staying for a week?

D-CHAN

A family from Japan, their kids are about to get married and they want a place to go for their honeymoon.

JUTON

From Japan? They're going this far to go on a honeymoon?

D-CHAN

They said it was cheaper than most of the fancier hotels they could find, and they knew they wanted it to be somewhere in America so they figured they'd just rent a house.

JUTON

Dimi-Chan, I love you, but you always get strange and crazy ideas like this that I can't understand!

D-CHAN

Well, I love you too, Juton.

Juton just sighs as we pan up and fade out, the main title appears:

Ranma Vs. Krueger

WE ZOOM INTO THE V.S. WHICH SERVES AS A WINDOW INTO THE NEXT SCENE…

INT. BOILER ROOM

We're looking down a corridor. The corridor is lit with a flickering flame-like red light.

The names of the actors appear during this time.

Moving into the frame is the back of someone's head. He seems to have black hair pulled into a pony tail. In the shadows, it's difficult to decipher many other details.

We begin to follow him, always from behind, never entirely revealing who he is.

Suddenly, there's a high-pitched scrapping sounds-metal against metal, almost like nails on a chalkboard. We cut to its source (no pun intended), a hand wearing a glove with metal claws.

We cut back to the shadowy guy, looking around for the source of the noise.

It keeps getting louder and louder until…

INT. BEDROOM -- NIGHT

Ranma wakes up, panting.

After calming down, he looks toward the other side of the bed, did he wake h-? The area is vacant.

RANMA

Akane?

His attention is suddenly drawn to a pile of white blank sheets of paper and a red-colored pen lying next to it on a corner at the end of the bed.

He begins to move to it, curiously, but suddenly his hand reaches out and grabs the pen, as if it were some kind of reflexive motion.

With just the one hand, the cap is removed.

Ranma stares at his hand, bewildered. Suddenly, it seems to have a mind of its own. Ranma is too shocked to even attempt to regain control as the hand starts writing something on the top sheet of paper, in nearly blood-red ink:

1, 2, Freddy's coming for you… After a moment, the hand flings the first sheet of paper to the floor, and starts writing something on the next sheet, Ranma just continues to stare at it:

3, 4, better lock your door… Once again, after giving Ranma enough time to read it, the sheet is quickly discarded and the twisted rhyme continues on the next page:

5, 6, grab your crucifix… Another moment, and the pattern continues yet again:

7, 8, gonna stay up late… On the next sheet of paper, the rhyme concludes:

9, 10, never sleep again… A longer pause, and then the paper is violently removed as well. Now a new message is written:

Hiya, Ranma!

NEXT PAGE:

The name's Fredrick, but you can call me Freddy!

YET ANOTHER PAGE:

I'll be your psychotic dream killer for the evening!

ON THE NEXT PAGE:

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Suddenly Ranma's hand goes into overdrive, as Freddy's maniacal laughter begins to echo throughout the room. Page after page of this laughter is dictated, until the pile of papers quickly dissipates into nothing. During this, Ranma's expression changes from wonderment to a semblance of terror.

As soon as the last page hits the floor, topping off the rather huge pile, Freddy's laughter suddenly stops.

After a nervous moment, Ranma starts to relax, but in a horror cliché, just before the pile of papers starts to rustle and move about, and are soon lifted to form a whirlwind, a sandstorm of papers.

Ranma watches as the papers come together to form the ugly and scared face of whom he can only guess is Freddy Krueger.

It grins evilly.

To Ranma's surprise, it starts to speak.

FREDDY

Watch out, I'm about to give you one hell of a paper cut!

The face's mouth puckers up and with a mighty breath the papers swarm towards and around Ranma, who begins to struggle.

As he flops around, he suddenly sees Akane next to him on the bed, looking VERY pissed off, probably because while he was struggling, he landed right on top of her.

AKANE

Ranma, you hentai! Get off of me!!

Looking around him all the pieces of paper are apparently gone. He is now seriously confused.

RANMA

Uh…sorry Akane…I had a nightmare or somethin'…OW!

One of Ranma's fingers has a small, but apparently deep cut, it's bleeding pretty badly considering its size.

AKANE

(her expression quickly changing) Ranma, you're hurt!...how did you get that?!

As if to answer the question, a single sheet of paper slides off Ranma's back.

Akane picks it up.

AKANE (CONT'D)

(off paper) 1, 2…Freddy's…coming for you?

A bit of recognition can be heard in her voice. She forgets that Ranma is still lying on top of her as she looks at the paper with a mixture of confusion and fear.

RANMA

Are you okay, Akane?

AKANE

(snapping back to her normal self) I will be once you get the hell off me you pervert!

Ranma complies, almost reluctantly-ALMOST.

RANMA

Now if I was a normal person, having gone through completely normal experiences. I'd find this to be strange, unusual, and really creepy. Not being that kind of person, however, I just find it to be really creepy.

AKANE

(almost not needing to ask) Why?

RANMA

In my nightmare, I was attacked by a swarm of papers…that was one of them. Plus, I've got this deep paper cut…is there something wrong, Akane? You're not looking at me like I'm crazy, but you don't look like you firmly believe me either.

AKANE

No, no, Ranma-it's nothing.

RANMA

C'mon, Akane-we're "married" now, the least we can do is not keep secrets from each other. Sure, our parents forced us into this, and we did agree not to do anything during our wedding night, to hardly acknowledge this stupid thing at all, except for being forced to share a room, and this bed, but-Akane (cutting him off): Really, Ranma, it's nothing. We should just get some sleep.

RANMA (CONT'D)

I'm not sure if I want to go back to sleep. Remember those weird stories about this house?

AKANE

I'm sure this house is just like every other house in Springwood, only the rent is so cheap that your father choose this house over a fancy hotel for our "honeymoon".

RANMA

You wonder why it's so cheap?

AKANE

Oh, c'mon Ranma-it'll be over in less than a week and then we'll be back and COMPLETELY safe in Nermia.

RANMA

If we can survive that long…

AKANE

Ranma, what happened to your unbreakable self-confidence?

RANMA

I meant "we", as in all of us, as in I'm sure I'll pull through but what about everyone else?

AKANE

Ranma you baka, I'm too tired to grab my mallet, just go to sleep.

Ranma says nothing more and we

FADE TO BLACK

FADE IN:

INT. KITCHEN -- MORNING

Kasumi is fixing breakfast, but as she's doing it, there's a high-pitched screeching noise.

Kasumi looks around, there's no one who could be making that sound to be seen, so she turns back around to return to her cooking, but the bacon's caught on fire!!

KASUMI

Oh my!

She leaps away.

FREDDY

If you can't take the heat…

He jumps out of nowhere right in front of the oven.

FREDDY (CONT'D)

…don't let Freddy cook the meat!

Kasumi screams and runs off to her room.

Freddy just grins evilly for a second before pursuing her.

WE CUT BACK TO…

INT. RANMA & AKANE'S ROOM

They've finally gotten back to sleep, and then there's a loud scream from downstairs.

They jolt back awake, and run through the door and downstairs to

INT. LIVING ROOM

Genma and Soun are playing CLUE.

SOUN

In what room did you say?

Another scream.

GENMA

Sounds like it's coming from Kasumi's.

SOUN

No, I meant in the game.

GENMA

The ballroom.

SOUN

(checking) Ha! It was the Billiard Room, and it was Mrs. White, not Professor Plum!

GENMA

Dammit!

Kasumi screams yet again.

INT. HALLWAY, 1ST FLOOR

Nabiki walks sleepily to see why her older sister has woken her up with her screams.

INT. KASUMI'S ROOM

Nabiki opens the door and sees Kasumi thrashing around in her bed, her eyes shut, but pulsing in a state of R.E.M.

Suddenly, Kasumi's body is lifted up off the bed in mid-air, clinging to the wall.

Suddenly, Nabiki's fully awake!

She quickly runs to her sister and screams at her.

NABIKI

WAKE UP DAMMIT!

With a small shake, Kasumi wakes up, and now prone to natural laws, falls back into her bed.

NABIKI (CONT'D)

What the hell was that?!

KASUMI

A-a m-man…his face-OH HIS FACE!! And his sweater…OH MY!

Kasumi is too shooken-up to say anything else as Ranma rushes into the room, with Akane not too far behind.

RANMA

We heard her screaming, what happened?!

NABIKI

(calmly) Freddy Krueger is what happened.

INT. KITCHEN -- LATER

Fortunately, it seems that Kasumi was well enough to make breakfast, and now everyone's eyes are on Nabiki, all except for Genma and Soun's, since they're too busy eating. Now we are about to enter the big back-story exposition scene. Bear with me.

NABIKI

Freddy Krueger was a child-killer, and a rather vicious one at that. He eventually was caught, red-handed even, but the cops were too damned stupid to remember that they needed a search warrant if they wanted anything they found to be admissible in court. So, thanks to America's lovely "justice" system, he was a free man despite the undisputable evidence.

RANMA

Wait a second, how do you know all this?

NABIKI

Researched it off the internet after I heard the rumors. Now, the parents of Springwood, of course wouldn't stand for it. Those whose children had not yet been killed particularly wanted to see this, and I mean it literally-bastard put to justice.

AKANE

So his parents weren't married? What does that have to do with anything?

NABIKI

His mother was a nun, and he has a hundred maniac fathers, long story. Moving on, the parents went to the factory where Freddy worked and burned the place down. Now what exactly happened to him in that fire is unclear, but some have theorized that three ancient "dream demons" sought him out, knowing that Freddy was the most vile and twisted human ever to exist. They gave him immortal life and the ability to haunt and kill people in their dreams.

RANMA

Shit, that sounds like a plot from a crappy horror movie.

NABIKI

That's what I thought too, until this all started happening. There were a lot of incidents of people's dreams being haunted, particularly people living in this house. It also seems that the authorities in this town have been trying to cover it all up, blocking out the web sites from the library computers, and even managing to shut down some of them, mostly the ones that were locally run. I never thought I'd see the day when it would be easier to access pornographic material than to find information on a guy who kills people in their dreams.

SOUN

(taking a brief pause from his eating) Me, neither.

GENMA

(also taking a short break from his eating) So what do we do to avoid this guy?

NABIKI

There are pills you can take to stay away, coffee, caffeine products, although it's not really full-proof or healthy, and you're still bound to eventually succumb to sleep, anyway. Then there's hypnocil.

RANMA

Hypnocil?

NABIKI

A pill that prevents you from dreaming. Not yet approved by the FDA, although it's been around for over a decade. It's experimental still, only used in special clinics. I can get it off the black market, but there are certain side effects…and a price.

GENMA

Impotence?

NABIKI

No.

GENMA

Good, I may yet have grandchildren.

RANMA

POPS!!

GENMA

You can't tell me you haven't done it yet!

AKANE

Well, I most certainly can!

NABIKI

Guys, please! The side effects are primarily caused by the fact that the R.E.M. stage of our sleep cycle is so important to our mental health. At one hospital near this town, several patients ended up in a kind of coma from being put on the drug for too long. Of course, it's also not legal if I get it off the black market, and it'll cost a lot of money. Caffeine is much more cost-effective.

RANMA

But from what you're saying, not very "staying awake" effective. Plus, I'm not a coffee person.

NABIKI

Coke, Pepsi?

RANMA

Not even a caffeine person either. I like Root Beer, but they've pretty much drained the caffeination from every brand of that product.

NABIKI

Well, it's never too late to start drinking coffee.

AKANE

Why do we even believe in this guy in the first place?! Dreams aren't real, they're all in our minds!

WE CUT TO

INT. SPRINGWOOD ART MUSEUM -- DAY

KUNO

If only dreams could become one with reality, slipping free from the claustrophobic confines of our minds. If dreams were reality, no one could be left unsatisfied, so hollow, so alone, so unable to move. Oh, blocked by a wall tears, a barrier of intolerable pain and suffering. The complete and utter cruelty that is called reality! Oh, why did she leave me to wed that villain?! Whatever happened to my glorious red-haired pig-tailed goddess?! Oh, woe is me! How can I possibly go on living without either or both of them?! Why has fate dealt me such a punishment?!

We pan around to see a small audience, most of which has fallen asleep. A drunkard bum in the front row claps enthusiastically before falling over in the chair.

Kuno just stays kneeled on the stage, sobbing.

INT. OFFICE OF A LARGE CORPORATION BASED IN SPRINGWOOD -- DAY

Ukyo is sitting across from a big cooperate-type guy.

UKYO

What?!

CORP GUY

We think that calling the entire chain Ucchan's would seem, for one, self-centered, it wouldn't have as broad of an appeal. Secondly, you can't possibly be at every restaurant, running each place-that as I understand, was the original intention of the name. You ran the place, cooked the food, hence-Ucchan's. Since becoming a chain of restaurants would make this impossible, and since cloning technology hasn't quite become a reality yet, a name-change seems to be in order.

UKYO

C'mon, there's gotta be some alternatives!

CORP GUY

Well, you could become a mascot, a sort of spokesperson for the chain-an ICON, so to speak. Your image would grace every sign, and a cardboard cutout of your likeness would greet every customer. However, you couldn't actually "run" any individual restaurant in the chain, which you have made it clear you want to do. So for us the whole iconic thing would be great, but for you, it might be better to change the name.

UKYO

What about some kind of compromise, the iconic thing, and I get to run one of the restaurants, maybe promote it as a kind of tourist attraction, the one Ucchan's where "Ucchan" actually runs the place.

CORP GUY

That would be far too risky and dangerous. It's either one option or the other, I'm afraid.

UKYO

Isn't risk supposed to be part of the game?

INT. RECEPTION ROOM -- MOMENTS LATER

The door to the office is shut in Ukyo's face. She just barely manages the flip the corporate guy off in time.

The receptionist stares at her, a bit shocked.

UKYO

Hey, don't take it so personally, it's not your boss is a spineless asshole.

INT. LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT

Nabiki takes another sip of coffee

NABIKI

(obviously wired) So what if Akane convinced everyone that my story was bullshit? When they die, I'll be the one who inherits all the money! ...What are you thinking, Nabs?!... Sure, a few lies here, a few covertly take photos there, a bit of gossip-and why did I just call myself Nabs? ...Anyway, I've NEVER sunk so low as to use death for a profit! ...Now is a good a time as ever to start!-NO! I can't think that way! Bad Nabiki! Bad! Damn, I need some sleep, but-NO! I must stay awake! But this is so BORE-ING! AHHHHHHGG!!!

She then sees a stack of board games sitting on a shelf.

NABIKI (CONT'D)

Hmmmm…

TRANSITION TO

Nabiki, halfway through playing a game of Monopoly (it seems that this "movie" has a promotional tie-in with Parker Brothers) against herself.

NABIKI (CONT'D)

(very tired, with forced enthusiasm) Haha! That'll teach me not to land on Boardwalk again!

Nabiki nearly nods out, but quickly catches herself and wakes up.

Weird, is it just her or has the room gotten larger? Or maybe she's gotten smaller.

EXT. HUGE MONOPOLY BOARD

It seems that she is now no taller than the pewter game pieces on the board. We pan up to see a "Nightmare on Elm Street Monopoly" logo printed in the center of the board.

We cut back to Nabiki, and out of nowhere, a pair of dice nearly crash into her, and she ends up landing on her face on Baltic Avenue.

We hear Freddy's voice from above as his clawed finger gently picks Nabiki up from the back of her shirt and moves her across the board.

FREDDY

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9! Oh, I love this game! I always rack up the most cash!

Nabiki's set down on a space with a bunch of hotels, a lot more detailed than the actual game pieces, there are lights and everything, and loud music playing. As she stares at them, she's nearly run over by the car-shaped game piece as it literally speeds past her.

FREDDY (CONT'D)

Those damn teenagers think they can just speed around in their fancy hot rods! Anyway, my turn-again! The beauty of playing against yourself is that you always win! Of course, you always lose too, but who gives a flying fuck?!

He rolls the dice again, this time Nabiki's a little more ready.

FREDDY (CONT'D)

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12! Uh-oh! Look where we landed! Go directly to Freddy's World, do not pass go, do not collect $200! Ahahahahahaha!!!

Suddenly, a kind of chute opens in the game board. Nabiki falls through it and lands in a boiler room. That's right kids, Freddy's Boiler Room.

INT. BOILER ROOM

Nabiki slowly gets up and looks around.

NABIKI

So much for staying awake.

She then looks down and sees the back of a photograph.

She picks it up and looks at it.

It's a picture of her nude-taking a bath.

NABIKI (CONT'D)

What the? Who took these?!

She sees a trail of these photographs going around a corner. She follows the trail, picking up the photos as she goes.

The trail ends in front of a flame-filled boiler.

She flips through the photos, and it's like a flip-book, each photo seems to have been taken sequentially after the last.

Suddenly, the figure of Freddy Krueger enters the frame, moving closer and closer to the bathing Nabiki with each photograph. Then suddenly he looks up-at the real Nabiki!

We go to a side shot where Nabiki is looking at the last photo.

Then Freddy's claw comes right out of the picture and through Nabiki's skull.

Freddy's head soon comes out of the photo as well.

FREDDY

Some cultures believe that photographs can capture your soul…you really should' a listened to them!! Ahahahahahaha!!!

With that, Freddy pulls Nabiki with him into the photo and it falls to the ground. We look down at the photo to see Nabiki, bathing in blood, with her face sliced open.

To be continued…

Author's Notes: Wow, I just wanted to write until the first "death" scene, and discovered that it's 13 pages!! Well, I've got it all written out in a composition book, so you can expect another installment or two by tomorrow. Until then, please review, or send your comments to deejaygamer@yahoo.com

Revision Notes: Now in script format the chapter is 28 pages! Screenwriters sure waste a lot of paper just to use "standard" script formatting. Anyway, I've also changed a few typos and such, and I hope I've caught them all, if you see anything else, please point it out in a review or e-mail me about it.

Thanks!