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The Mysterious Man was intrigued by the outer-worlder's discovery of his curses on their shoes, and vowed to make it harder on them next time. Kalshion and Katarina hadn't removed the curses, yet, so he decided to leave them alone.

That left Joe, Emeral, and his special curse.

Happosai still hadn't landed, apparently he had gone straight for a piece of his collection that had been blowing around in the jet stream and was practically in orbit now. Akane was still under the influence of her own writing, and Joe/Emeral weren't anywhere near the Tendo Dojo at the Moment. However, Shampoo was out looking for a gift to get Ranma, to make him hers.

Moments later, Shampoo walked into a shop that she had never noticed before. No one else appeared to be in the store. Shampoo thought it might be closed, but she figured looking around wouldn't hurt. She walked down several isles, not seeing much of interest, when suddenly she noticed a Jusenkyou products package on one of the shelves. Inside is a necklace with a small circular charm that resembles a spell-circle. Shampoo doesn't realize that, however, for all she cares about is the description. Her Japanese isn't overly good, so she interprets "Prevents change from cursed form when worn" as "Prevents change to cursed form when worn", and gets excited. For one, she wouldn't scare Ranma by changing into a cat, and for two, she wouldn't change into a cat period. She grabs the box, walks over to the counter, and rings the bell there.

Moments later a man seems to appear out of nowhere, speaking in fluent Chinese. A minute later Shampoo is walking out of the store smiling. "Now I see why Ranma shop as girl," thought Shampoo. "Get free stuff." Little did Shampoo know what was going to happen to here when she put on the necklace.

As Shampoo put on the necklace the shop vanished, and soon Shampoo was hit with cold water from that lady that is always cleaning the sidewalk with cold water. She instantly turned into a cat with a cat-sized necklace on. The necklace was emitting a ton of energy now that the curse had been triggered, as if the person who had cursed it was careless when doing so. In reality that had been done intentionally, to serve as a beacon for those sensitive to such things. The curse that Shampoo was under wasn't the important one; it was the dormant curse that had been placed on the necklace that was the important one. The curse that, partially due to its dormancy and partially due to its masking properties, was undetectable even by himself. To add to the problem the necklace couldn't be removed while the curse was in place.

It didn't take Shampoo long to dive into a bath full of hot water, and to her shock she was still a cat. It was then that she realized her mistake, and tried to get the necklace off. Her cat paws weren't doing it for her though, so she went looking for help. She didn't know that she currently had the directional sense of Ryoga, and therefore was lost quickly. The man hoped that Joe or Emeral would find her and try and remove the curse that was on the necklace. That was when the fun would begin, for as soon as that happened the second curse would activate and send a third curse right into their core energy. They might feel something, but wouldn't be able to pinpoint it before the curse had become one with their core energy and therefore unremovable until it was spent. The man snickered at this, and wondered who would, in the end, end up cursed with the Instant Spring of Drowned Canary curse. The curse was altered slightly, to nullify the powers of the one who had it while in the cursed form, to prevent them from communicating mentally or leaving the dimension they were in at the time. The Man only regretted that after contact with hot water in the cursed form the curse would be used up. At least whoever got it would have some trouble getting rid of it initially.

The Man was tired of seeing Happosai annoy scientists in the USA by making faces at the Hubble Telescope, so he gently pushed Happosai back towards the Tendo Dojo while he thought of what other trouble to cause. It was then that another of his curses triggered, the one he had placed on that spatula that he later discovered was owned by Ukyo. Within moments her clothes had turned into the food she was cooking with the spatula. We are talking about Ukyo; therefore it should be no surprise that she suddenly found herself wearing nothing but clothes-shaped Okonomiyaki. She kind of froze there for a minute, just before the burning heat from the Okonomiyaki that her clothes had become started causing pain. Within moments she had ripped it all off and run upstairs, embarrassed at what she had just done, in front of customers no less!

The old man had watched this, and fell out of his chair laughing. If only he had thought to make the curse trigger more then once. It was too late for that now, but he did get a good chuckle out of Ukyo trying to figure out what had just happened. A few minutes later she was back downstairs closing the shop, trying to figure out what had just happened.

10 minutes later the Man finally got up off the floor and looked back at his mirror. That idiot of a principal was preparing to use the cursed pineapple, on one of the teachers. It didn't take long for the explosion to occur, but instead of being dazed the teacher pounced on the principal and beat the snot out of him.

Half an hour later the principal was in the emergency room. He would make a full recovery, but it might take him a few days. The teacher that had beat the crap out of him couldn't figure out why he had done so, but felt good about it. The principal would not, however, remember anything that happened due to the concussion that he had received during his beating.

The Man had lost track of what had been going on, due to his laughing, so he started to catch up on what else had been going on, hoping that there had been another curse triggered to amuse him.