AN1: Well here it is, the fic that started the whole rewrite mess.

This is the rewrite of Ranma Dark Moon, and in this rewrite I'm just salvaging just the useful bits and pieces of the first few chapters, including the prologue, for once Dark Saturn destroyed Juban High, things just went to hell in that fic. Even now I wonder what the hell I was thinking at that moment. And the reason I rewrote this was, well, let us just say I had really grown to dislike my mangling of one of my better plot ideas. In my opinion of course, and since I'm the one writing this fic, well my opinion has to count for a lot then, right?

AN2: This is version 2.0. That is all I have to say about this, version 2.0 of a thrice damned rewrite.

Now on to the summary and then the disclaimer and finally the thing your truly here for, the damn fic.

Summary: There are many alternate realities in the mutiverse. And they are never supposed to meet with one another. In one reality, a horrible empire called The Luna Empire, named after its immortal leader, Empress Serenity Luna, had conquered everything there was to conquer in that reality. The Empress, hungry for yet even more things to conquer, had lost her only daughter and her only heir in the unveiling of a way to breach the walls of reality. The Princess has been lost ever since.

In another, far less brutal reality, Serenity Luna was the peace loving Queen of the Moon Kingdom, a relatively small single solar system spanning Kingdom. She had died in a last ditch effort to stop the demonic invasion of her reality brought about by another woman's jealousy over the fact her daughter was going to marry the man the bitter woman loved. With the last of her considerable power before her death, Queen Serenity Luna sent the souls of her daughter, her daughter's love, and her Senshi into the future, for this reality was not safe from that evil's power just yet.

In this same reality, while the ones who had been sent forward by Queen Serenity's final spell were just beginning to awaken to their old selves, a young male martial artist fell into the spring of drowned girl, a magically cursed spring that turns all who fall into it into a female with cold water, while hot water would temporarily turn them back.

What no one knew, or could possibly have known, was the fact that the girl who drowned in this spring and thus was the template for all of those to fall in was not a native to this reality. No, for she was Empress Serenity Luna's Daughter, Princess Serenity Luna the Second.

And in an epic battle that the boy whom was cursed to become a girl was in near those springs, he/she was partly responsible for the destruction of those said cursed springs. Yet while all the other spirits trapped in those springs were suddenly free to go to whatever type of afterlife awaited them, the dimensionally lost traveler known as Princess Serenity Luna the Second had no afterlife that she could go to, for she did not belong to this reality, and thus she had no way to get to her own reality so that she could go to her own eternal reward, or damnation in this particular case.

Thus she had little choice then but to go into the body of one of the beings that her pool had cursed, and as there were only two in her range at the time of her freedom, she decided to chose the nearer and stronger of the two, one who was more than receptive to her intrusion considering the fact that he/she was losing in a life or death fight at that moment.

(OK, that has to be a personal record for the length of a story summary for me. Pure summery without added it together with an author's note that is.)

Disclaimer: I do not own the intellectual property that is Ranma One Half or any of its associated characters, locations, items, ideas, or anything else that may be associated with it. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own the intellectual property that is Sailor Moon or any of its associated characters, locations, items, ideas, or anything else that may be associated with it. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own any of the intellectual properties that are other fictional persons, places or things. Those belong to each of their own respective copyright owners. I do not own any real person, place or thing. Those belong to either themselves, in the case of a person, or their real life true current owners in case of a place or object. What I do own is any and every original person, place or thing, used in here as well as the story its self. Those very few things are mine. And that's all that ever will be mine.

A DARK MOON RISING

CHAPTER ONE

A SUDDEN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON

In dimension Luna Empire Prime: Empress Serenity Luna's Castle: in the Empress's private quarters: early one morning a very, very, extremely long time ago

It was said in a very different reality from this one, in a play about one of the greatest conquerors ever seen on one of its many worlds, 'And when Alexander saw the breath of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.' Well at this moment Empress Serenity Luna the First, now the Empress of her entire reality, not only knew how that man must have felt, but she had taken it to its most possible extreme. For Alexander, if he had only traveled just a bit more, would have had even more lands and people to wet his sword on and fulfill his need to dominate and subjugate upon. Serenity on the other hand however, well she knew for an absolute fact that this reality held no more amusement for her, for she controlled all of it now.

Thus Empress Serenity Luna the First was in a total and utter funk that had everyone except Princess Rei, one of her nine Senshi, the Senshi of Fire and Spirit and the leader of all her other Senshi, well until she could give her daughter that role that is, and her lover, and maybe even her love as well, well, running scared and trying to build or support the inventors of a way to reach what was thought to be only a myth, yet Serenity thought it must be true, for she needed it to be true, other realities. Ones she could still conquer. And if she was right, then her thirst for blood, combat and the domination and subjugation of entire worlds would never have to end, for there were supposedly no limits to the number of alternate realities out there. Thus for the rest of her immortal life, she could do what she lived to do, and that is to conquer all that exists.

So to keep her Empress's sprits up, and to keep her away from the very busy people who were following through on her orders, and thus keeping them alive, Princess Rei was very happily keeping her Empress very, very busy.

It was during one of Rei's many cheer up attempts, which was serving her Empress breakfast in bed, that Rei got a message on her personal communicator.

Slipping out of the room as Empress Serenity dispassionately munched on her breakfast, Rei hissed "What is it!?!"

Dr. Heizia, the head scientist of The Bridge of Reality project came in to view. "We did it! The final tests have been completed. We are ready to show it to the Empress now." He excitedly exclaimed.

"You better be right and have everything ready or it will be your head if it doesn't work!" Rei hissed out and then she cut off the transmission. Straightening her uniform, Rei went to tell her Empress the news she'd been so eagerly awaiting.

Empress Serenity Luna's Castle: in the science division's research and development wing: early that afternoon

Empress Serenity had easily gotten over her small funk upon hearing the news that the Bridge of Reality was working. And everything was going so well for the main scientist for the project, well up until when showing off a random reality to the Empress and something rather tragic then happened that is.

"And here is another reality." He said. The portal of the Bridge of Reality showed a very dense jungle surrounding a vast number of small pools of water. "Now, I must warn you that the portal is actually open to this reality, so do not get too close.... " And, as he had said that one small phrase, it was as if he had cast a curse upon them all. For up in the viewing gallery, Princess Serenity Luna the Second had bent down to pick up a dropped hair clip and then she had somehow overbalanced herself. She then fell off the third story Royal viewing gallery and then she went straight through the portal while managing to pull some of the cables that connected The Bridge of Reality's with its operating computer as she did so.

The audience as a whole blinked in surprise as the portal to the other reality suddenly disappeared and took the Royal Heir with it. After she was done blinking in and with her own surprise, Empress Serenity Luna asked "Dr. Heizia, just where did my Daughter disappear to?"

The scientist just nervously laughed and told his Empress "I have no idea your majesty."

"Really?" Empress Serenity coolly asked with a single raised eyebrow.

"Yes. As I had picked a random reality to show you, and thus did not memorize its location in the time/space continuum, and since your daughter, um, unfortunately severed the connections between The Bridge of Reality and its controls, I have absolutely no idea where she went."

"I see." Empress Serenity emotionlessly replied. "Minako, he's yours." She said in a rather dispassionate tone of voice. Then turning to the other scientists that worked on the project, she said "As we can all see, this thing works. I want it repaired by tomorrow, and ready for my first campaign in another dimension. And I want a team of researchers working night and day to find my daughter. Senshi, Generals, meet me in the war room, we have a scouting party to create and conquests to plan." Seeing all the still people around her, she exasperatedly exclaimed "Well, what are you waiting for people, MOVE IT!" and with that, all her orders were put into action, starting with four guards taking Dr. Heizia into custody, and brining him to Minako's, play room, as she liked to call it.

Empress Serenity Luna's castle: in the throne room: a very, very extremely long time afterwards

A mage was escorted under heavy guard to the ruler of known space, Empress Serenity Luna the First.

"Yes?" Was all Empress Serenity Luna asked of the mage in an ice cold voice. The mage then trembled in and with fear. He was brining good news, but who knew if the Empress would take it as such after all this time. After all, her daughter had been missing among the dimensions for thousands of years. Many mages had lost their lives for trying and failing to find her, and now that he had found her, well, would he be rewarded for doing so, or punished for taking so long? Realizing that he was currently just standing there while saying nothing, and thus angering his Empress, he told her in a shaky voice

"I have found her." He sighed mentally. 'That didn't come out so bad.' He then thought to himself.

"Really? And just where is my wayward daughter then? And how did you find her, after all the other searchers have failed?" Empress Serenity Luna asked with a raised eyebrow and a now only slightly cool voice.

"The information regarding the reality she's in is on this data cube your Majesty." He told his Empress. Empress Serenity Luna nodded, and Rei, her Senshi of the Fire and Spirit, came over to him and then claimed the cube. She then took it back to the Empress and keeled before her while offering her the cube. The Empress took it, and then the Senshi of Fire and Spirit stood and retook her place at her Empress' side.

The mage then continued, after receiving a nod from his Empress to begin to do so. "As to how I found her, I will admit that I was just lucky. I was scanning several various dimensions at once, when I saw her power spike in one of them. If it was not for the battle she was in, I'm sure I never would have found her." The mage then, and slightly dumbly at that, admitted to his Empress.

"Battle do you say? I do hope my dear daughter's alright." She said while she inserted the cube into a receptacle in her throne's arm, she then called up a screen to see the data it contained within.

"Oh yes, your daughter is fine. She won her battle, although she does however look quite different now for some reason, but her energy signature defiantly identifies her as your wayward daughter."

"Hmm, yes, yes it does. And she looks so good like that as well. And this reality she's in! It is ripe for the conquering. Princess Rei," The Empress then called out.

"Yes your majesty?" Rei responded while going ramrod straight.

"Get Princesses Ami and Setsuna to do some more research on this reality. And then prepare all my Senshi and my troops for war. Oh, and call all my Generals to the throne room. You are dismissed, Princess Rei." Empress Serenity told her.

Turning to the mage the Empress said, "You are to take this cube and all the other data you have collected to Princess Ami's lab, and then explain exactly how you found my daughter to both Princess's Ami and Setsuna. You will then be at both of their disposal." She said as a guard handed the mage back the data cube.

"Yes my Empress." The Mage replied while bowing.

As the room cleared, Empress Serenity Luna the First smiled a cold and evil smile, and then she exclaimed aloud "Such an interesting new playground you have given me my daughter. In my gratitude I will let you kill your counterpart in that reality. Too bad mine is already dead. That could have been a challenge. Oh well." And then she began to laugh long and hard.

In dimension Luna Empire prospective acquisition number 472956: Jusenkyo, China: Mere moments after Ranma had saved Akane

As Ranma watched the unconscious Akane awaken, the utter relief on her face was evident to all.

"Akane! Speak to me!" Ranma cried out.

"I am not speaking to you." Akane said, and then she turned her head away from Ranma, whose heart felt like it would shatter.

Jusenkyö, China: that night: as the group from the battle at Mount Phoenix headed back for the shore

Ranma had been feeling, strange, ever since her fight with the Phoenix lord. Stronger somehow, and more comfortable as a girl then he ever had been, so it was a relief to her when the water warmed up enough to change her back into a him, 'Otherwise I might even grow to like this new feeling.' Ranma had thought with a shudder. Akane was still not talking to her, and all the others were leaving her alone as well. As she poured the warm water on the now his head, he felt, less complete then he had felt a moment ago as a she. Then the pain set in.

'Crap! Why do I hurt so much?' Ranma thought to himself. 'Well, maybe I'll feel better in the morning.' He thought while getting into his sleeping bag.

He didn't though. He felt even worse the next day. Well, at least until mid afternoon that is when a sudden rain shower got him and all the other cursed individuals wet. Akane was too busy beating up upon Ryoga's pig form, calling out, "Ryoga you pervert! I'll show you!" and everyone else was to busy watching the said beat down, to notice Ranma's look of utter relief at turning female, followed by a look of curiosity, and then one of fear.

Then Akane went after Ranma while crying out "Pervert!" and she then had no more time to think upon such things.

The Hikawa shrine: Juban, Japan: a few days later on in that same week

"Setsuna," Rei started to ask dangerously in a low, purring voice "What is happening? Galaxia was supposed to be our final opponent, so who are these guys?" Rei asked while being quite pissed off. They had just had their third fight with some mysterious enemy, soldiers leading a few Youma each, and all of their fights had been quite close.

"I don't know." Setsuna replied, surprising all present with that statement. "All I can tell you is they are not from this time line." She then told them.

"So, they are from an alternate reality of some sort?" Ami asked of Setsuna, while cocking her head to the left.

"Yes." Setsuna replied with a nod. "They have to be. It will take some time to search out their home reality to find out who and what we're dealing with, so Princess, if you will excuse me? I must get back to the search." Setsuna asked/told Usagi.

After Rei elbowed her, Usagi spoke up, saying "Um, yeah, sure. You're dismissed Setsuna. Go find out what you can." She then told Setsuna.

After Setsuna was gone, Usagi cried out to Rei "Rei! You didn't have to hit me so hard."

"Well answer her more quickly next time. She's taking this 'Usagi is the Princess.' thing to a whole new level. And she has been ever since Galaxia was beaten by you. So get yourself into that role, because right now Setsuna needs it. And soon so will the whole world." Rei told Usagi in a lecturing tone.

"Ok, fine Rei." Usagi replied with a heavy sigh.

In dimension Luna Empire Prime: Empress Serenity Luna's castle: in the throne room: at about the same time

"So," Queen Serenity began to her Generals after they had given her their debriefings "They are beating our weakest Youma? Good, very good." The Empress said with evident mirth and a cruel smirk on her lips.

"Um, your Majesty?" One of the braver Generals dared to ask.

"Yes?" The Empress asked as she acknowledged the man.

"Um, not to question the brilliance of your plan My Lady, but why do we keep sending small squads of our weakest Youma, led only by one of our most inexperienced soldiers? It does not make sense to my inferior mind, your Majesty." The brave General asked.

"Yes, I can see just how it might make your tiny brain hurt." The Empress said to him in reply with a cold smile adorning her face. "It's quite simple really. They are fodder. Fodder meant to bolster that reality's pitiful Senshi's confidence, while also attracting my daughter's attention to them and their conflict. When my daughter comes to this Juban place to see what is going on, we will then send more of our competent soldiers, some stronger Youma and a few of my Senshi themselves, to be under her direct command. Then she shall lead in the conquering of that reality. It's the least I can do for her after all this time being stuck there after all." Empress Serenity then told them with laugh.

"Ah Soon. Soon my little girl will know the joy of grinding an entire planet under her heel. I may even give her it." She then passed, cocked her head to the left, and then lightly exclaimed with a cruel laugh "Or maybe not." Empress Serenity then laughed heartily again.

"Understand now?" The Empress then asked of her general.

"Yes my Empress." He replied with a quick nod.

"Good." The Empress then said coldly, any trace of her earlier mirth now gone. "Then, no more on this subject." She told them, drawing her explanation to a close.

In dimension Luna Empire prospective acquisition number 472956: The Tendo house and dojo: Nerima Japan: a few days after Ranma had come back home

Ranma hurt. A lot. And it wasn't from being in a fight, or Akane malleting him for no good reason, or even from being forced to eat Akane's toxic, biohazard level one cooking.

No the source of his unending pain was much more frightening then even Akane's cooking could ever be. It was because he was a he at the moment.

Ranma was staring at a glass of cold water while silently debating whether or not to turn into his girl form to relive himself of this unending pain. And then, as he was racked with a wave of pain so great that he fell to the floor screaming he thought to himself 'To hell with this! I can't even move, damn it! I'm changing into a girl!' while he was pitifully reaching for the glass of cold water that was on the table next to him. As he knocked it over onto himself, thus becoming a she in the process, she then suddenly felt so much better. But then she felt something on her forehead, something like a pleasant itch, if such a thing was even possible. Going into the bathroom, to see if it was a rash or something, she was shocked to see a black glowing crescent moon with the points of the moon pointing downwards.

"Damn it! What is this thing?" Ranma asked herself. "Gotta hide it, whatever it is." She exclaimed. Looking around, she managed to find a huge bandage, which she then immediately put on.

Ranma then sat in her room and hid for a long, long time, while just thinking. A very hard thing for her to do, seeing as Ranma is a very action oriented person, and not one given to long periods of introspective thought. Finally though she sighed and said aloud

"I've really gotta talk to somebody about this. I mean I don't have a clue on what's going on or what to do about it. Well Kasumi's the only one home. The others just went off to the beach. They just left me here when they saw how much pain I was in. Why'd they just leave me like that? Kasumi stayed though, she was worried about me. I'll go talk to her." Ranma decided aloud. "I just hope she has some kinda of good idea. Or any idea really." Ranma then muttered softly to herself as she went down the stairs.

Ranma found Kasumi in the living room on the couch and she was currently watching the news. It had on it a story about those Sailor Senshi that live a few wards over and they were currently fighting some Youma. And currently, they were not doing too well. As Ranma watched the fight from over the couch with a critical eye, she snorted. 'They need some serous work.' Ranma thought 'On everything.' she continued to think as she watched a blue haired Senshi stumble and almost get impaled on a sword because of making that mistake.

As the story closed, Ranma sighed with relief. Now she could talk to Kasumi. Those girls, for some strange reason Ranma could never fathom, were Kasumi's heroines. Talking to her when they were on the news was never an option. As Ranma came around and sat down on the couch, she asked, "Kasumi, can we talk?"

Kasumi looked over at Ranma and thought 'She looks much better then he did this morning.' and then she continued to think 'Gender identification really is a fickle thing with Ranma.' Out loud though she replied with "Sure Ranma. And I must say you're looking much better then you did this morning."

"I know, and that's the problem." Ranma told her glumly.

"What do you mean by that, Ranma? How could feeling better ever be a problem?" Kasumi asked in puzzlement.

"It's only because I'm a girl right now that I feel better. If I was still a guy, I would still be in a lot of pain." Ranma told her while looking down.

"Oh my, I can see why that would be a problem for you Ranma." Kasumi sympathetically told her "How long has this been going on?" She then asked of Ranma.

"Since right after I beat that jerk Saffron. I started to, right then, feel stronger then ever as a girl, and whenever I change back into a guy, I'd feel a lot of pain. And the feeling in both forms is increasing daily." Ranma then looked up at Kasumi from her hunched over position "I'm afraid Kasumi. I'm afraid that soon it's going to hurt me too much stay a guy, and I'll have to stay a girl. At the moment, I was in so much pain I had to be a girl just so that I could move." Ranma admitted to her while she looked back down.

"That sounds horrible Ranma." Kasumi said in shock. "Is there any thing else?" She then asked with concern evident in her voice.

"Um, yeah, now that I think of it." Ranma admitted "As soon as I turned into a girl this last time, a bright glowing black crescent moon appeared on my forehead." Ranma told Kasumi.

Now Kasumi, being a fanatical Sailor Senshi fangirl, thought back to the time she saw a bright glowing white crescent moon appear on a few of the Senshi's foreheads at various times in the occasional news feed. 'I wonder if, nah, Ranma couldn't be, then again this is Ranma we're talking about here…' Kasumi thoughts then warred in her mind. Finally though, she decided to ask "Ranma, can I see this mark?"

Ranma, who thought Kasumi had asked a little strangely, agreed. As Ranma showed her mark to Kasumi, Kasumi gasped.

"What is it? What's wrong Kasumi?" Ranma asked, now very worried.

"Ranma, I think we should call Cologne and see what she knows about this." Was all Kasumi said in a very shaky voice.

"No! Not until you tell me why you acted like you did when you saw that mark!" Ranma told/semi-yelled at Kasumi in and with a little fear.

Kasumi sighed and told Ranma "Ranma, you know how I like to watch the Sailor Senshi when they're on the news?"

"Yes?" Ranma replied in a questioning tone of voice.

"Well at times they have had a similar mark, one that looks to be a mirror image of yours, which appears on them." Kasumi told Ranma.

Ranma sat there stunned. "What does this mean?" Ranma asked softly, her shoulders slumping.

"I really don't know, but I'm hoping that Cologne will." Kasumi honestly told Ranma.

"Call her then. She knows a lot. Hopefully she's got the answer to this." Ranma told Kasumi.

"I'll call her right now." Kasumi told her while going over to the phone.

After a short conversation Kasumi told Ranma, "She said for you to stay a female, and that she'd see us after she closes tonight."

Ranma sighed and replied with "Fine."

In a sub dimension of the present reality: at The Gates of Time

Sailor Pluto was having a very hard time tracking down the home reality of this new enemy. Her problem was the Gates of Time just was not meant to do something like this. It was designed to see the time line that it was in, and all other possible time lines connected to this time line up stream. Seeing another reality, a time line that went different far downstream, just wasn't what it was designed for. Oh sure, it could do it, it just wasn't a very easy thing to do with it.

After a spending a few years searching, for time IS relative, and it is especially so at the Gates of Time, she found had it. The enemy's home reality. And as she looked upon it, she swore, a lot, in many different languages, moving on from one to the next as she ran out of curse words in the current language. After she was finally calmed down enough, she whispered "They're really not going to like this one."

She then called a meeting, and then popped over to the temple when all the girls were finally there.

The Tendo house: later that day.

It had only been a few hours, but Ranma was currently absolutely bored out of her skull. "Kasumi, I'm going out for a bit. I'll be back by dark to see Cologne." Ranma finally called out.

"Ok, Ranma, but be careful!" Kasumi called back to Ranma.

"Of course!" Ranma then called back to Kasumi.

Ranma then went roof hopping for awhile, when all of a sudden her stomach growled loudly. Seeing an ice cream parlor just across the street from the roof she was on, she smiled a wicked smile, and decided to cage some free ice cream.

After her little act, Ranma had a huge bowl of double chocolate ice cream, with hot fudge, whip cream, sprinkles, a cherry on top, and three different phone numbers from three different men with three different offers for a date. Ranma took the ice cream, the numbers, while promising to think about the dates, while all the while she was silently gagging to herself.

After having demolished the ice cream, Ranma decided to walk home, rather than roof hop there, as it was a pleasant day out. And, as she walked along the street, a bucket of warm bath water was dumped out a window, drenching Ranma, turning her back into a him.

As the pain racked his body, he fell to the ground, unable to even voice a scream. A little over fifteen minutes of this silent torture later, one Tatewaki Kuno came walking down the street and saw Ranma like this.

"What is this? The foul sorcerer Saotome has been laid low by one of his own spells? Surely the heavens are rewarding me for my faithfulness, and are helping me out with my quest! I shall now end the foul sorcerer's schemes!" And with that proclamation, Kuno proceeded to severely beat Ranma with his bokken.

After a few minutes of this beating, Ryoga came walking down the street. He stopped cold at seeing the beating Kuno was giving Ranma. 'How did Ranma lose to Kuno?' Was his first questioning thought. But then as he looked closer he saw the truth of the matter. 'Something's wrong with Ranma. He's in too much pain from something else to even fight Kuno back.' Ryoga gripped his battle umbrella tightly. He was now at war with himself. On one hand, he so wanted to join in on the beating of Ranma, but on the other 'It wouldn't be fair. Ranma for some reason can't fight back. I'll beat the shit out of him, when he's able to fight. Any other way would mean nothing in the end.' Ryoga finally decided.

He then stepped up to Kuno, and blocked his bokken with his battle umbrella. Kuno looked up and said "Hark! The foul sorcerer has enslaved you too! I shall free you along with Akane and the pig tailed girl!" He cried.

"Shut up Kuno." Ryoga growled, and then he uppercutted him with his battle umbrella, sending him far, far away. Putting his umbrella on his back, he looked down at Ranma and said with a sigh "Let's get you home and find out what's wrong with you." He exclaimed while picking him up. "Now I only hope I can find the damn place." He then heavily sighed again.

Miracle of miracles, it only took Ryoga three hours, six continents and twelve countries to find the Tendo's place. He even managed to stay totally on the earth and in his own reality this time. As he entered the door to the house he called out "Hello? I found Ranma getting his ass handed to him by Kuno! And there's something really wrong with him! He needs some help!" causing Kasumi and Cologne to come rushing over to the doorway.

"What happened to him?" Kasumi said as she led them to the couch. Cologne came in from the kitchen with a glass of cold water and proceeded to splash Ranma with it.

"Ranma, I thought I told you to stay in your female form?" Cologne asked Ranma in a light, but stern voice.

"And I did. At least I did until somebody threw some warm bath water out their window." Ranma said with a sigh. She then turned to Ryoga and said "Thanks man, I owe you one. I know it couldn't have been easy for you to find this place." Ranma told Ryoga in and with gratitude.

"Yeah, well, you can start paying me back by telling me what the hell's going on. You were in so much pain that you were barely even conscious, and now you're fine? What's going on?" Ryoga asked in and with confusion.

"Well, why don't you tell him Ranma, while I do an examination of you. I have already seen enough from your male side. I'll do an in-depth look at this side. I'm pretty sure the problem lies within here." Cologne told Ranma while getting some, stuff, which nobody could recognize out of her bag.

Ryoga asked "Well?" while crossing his arms.

Ranma sighed and told Ryoga "It all started right after I beat Saffron. My girl side started to feel stronger then ever, while my guy side started to hurt to just be in. And feelings of both sides are increasing daily." Ranma told Ryoga.

"Well, shit man. I thought something was wrong when Kuno was whupping on you, but this? I'm sorry man." Ryoga exclaimed in his shock.

"Thanks." Was all Ranma said in reply.

After a long examination by Cologne, Ranma got her answers. "Ranma, Something magical's going on." Cologne started.

"NOOO, Really?" Ranma sarcastically asked back in reply. Cologne then just bopped Ranma's head with her cane as her reply to that.

"Be quiet and listen for once Ranma!" Cologne then yelled at Ranma.

"Ok, ok." Ranma muttered, while rubbing her now sore head.

"Now I don't know exactly WHY yet, but your girl form is being infused with magical energy the likes of which I've never seen before. I don't know if Miss Tendo's observations regarding the similarities between your mark and the ones that those girls in Juban have has any credit. I'd have to observe them in person to find that out, and frankly, we just don't have the time at the moment. Maybe later though." Cologne told Ranma.

"What do you mean by 'we just don't have the time'?" Kasumi asked, now very worried.

"The magical power that Ranma's female side is being infused with, is, well," Cologne stumbled verbally a bit and the she told them with a small, regretful sigh "it is quite literally killing Ranma's male side. And quite painfully at that as I have observed." Cologne turned to Ranma with a sad face and told her "Ranma we are going to have to lock you in your female form, and quickly, before your male side finally dies. I don't know what would happen if you were in your male form when it does die. You might just switch over to your female form, or more likely you could actually die from the shock. I just don't know which." Cologne told a shocked Ranma.

"My male side's going to die? Can't you do something? Anything?" Ranma cried out in a pleading tone.

"Not a damn thing Ranma." Cologne told a Ranma who then went a whiter shade of pale. "I'm sorry, but if you're going to live, I am going to have to lock you." Cologne told Ranma, whom was still white as a ghost.

"Um, how?" Ryoga then asked, seeing as Ranma was still semi out of it. "How are you going to lock Ranma?"

"I have a recipe for a potion that will lock Jusenkyo curses. It will take a day to finish, so it will be ready tomorrow night. Ranma will you take it? Your continued survival may depend on it." Cologne then seriously asked of Ranma.

Seeing the look on Ranma's face, Kasumi told her "Ranma, you really don't have much of a choice. Your male side will die, and it may take you with it. This is better then dieing, isn't it?" Kasumi asked Ranma.

Ranma looked at Kasumi, and then she nodded, saying in a tone barely above a whisper, "I'll take it."

"Good. Ryoga," Cologne said, turning to him, "I want to ask you to try to stick around and watch over Ranma until tomorrow. If Ranma becomes a male again, he would be defenseless." Cologne told a now stunned Ryoga.

"So, you want me to play bodyguard to Ranma? After all I've done to him?" Ryoga asked while being very shocked with this request.

"Today you have shown that your honor would not let you harm a defenseless Ranma. Unlike some others, you may be finally growing up." Cologne told him with a small chuckle "Will you do this for Ranma?" She then seriously asked of Ryoga.

"Sure. I'll stick around as long as I can. And I'll try real hard not to get lost too." Ryoga told Cologne seriously.

"That is all I can ask. I will see you all tomorrow." She said heading for the door while whispering, "Now how am I going to explain this one to Shampoo and the other elders?"

The Hikawa shrine: at about the same time

"So these Attacks are coming from another reality's Moon Kingdom?" Ami asked in a stunned tone of voice.

"Yes," Setsuna replied. "This Moon Kingdom went evil, and it never fell. I shall refer to it as the Dark Moon Kingdom from now on. Well this Dark Moon Kingdom's Princess, which would be your counterpart in it Usagi, had an accident in a lab, and she was then sent out of their dimension a little over fifteen hundred years ago, our time. She wound up in ours, and to stall your questions I don't know what she's been doing for the past fifteen hundred years, or even what she's doing now or even where she is as of this moment. As a being from outside this timeline, she is thus immune to any attempt of my trying to scry her in the Time Gates, which is why I never knew about her. The Dark Moon Kingdom must be having some similar trouble for some reason, for these attacks on us, are, and I hate to say this, just probing attacks, to test our strength while they try and draw their Princess here. When she finally shows up, better and more competent soldiers, stronger Youma and even some of that reality's own Senshi will be sent here, to serve under this Princess and to then start the real attacks." Setsuna told them while at the same time dropping the bomb on them.

"You mean, these are not serious attacks? We're having some of our toughest fights ever, and they're not even being serious?" Rei then yelled out in her shock and anger.

"No. No, they are not serious. Yet." Setsuna told them, emphasizing the last word.

"Well shit." Was all Rei said in reply.

"And you still can't find this Dark Usagi?" Ami then asked Setsuna.

"No. As I said, she is from another reality, and thus The Gates of Time won't lock on to her. I am sorry, but we'll just have to wait until she gets here, just like they are." Setsuna then told them.

"Well Princess, I think that it's high time that we actually started training, like I've been suggesting all along." Haruka said to Usagi.

Usagi drew herself straight and the replied with "You are right. We will spend all the free time we can training. We cannot afford lose to these evil versions of ourselves."

"Finally." Was the only reply that came from Haruka.

The Tendo house: The next day at Six fifteen at night

Ranma looked at the vial Cologne held in her hands. The vial whose contents signified the end of her manhood. "Cologne," Ranma asked, actually addressing her by her proper name at this moment, for this was that important to Ranma.

"Yes Ranma?" Cologne then asked.

"I've gotta ask, even though I don't got no choice in taking this, is this permanent? Can this be undone if we do somehow find a cure later?" Ranma asked in some fear of the answer.

"Ranma, this potion was developed by the Amazon tribe to lock our own warriors whom we had cursed ourselves as a punishment, so we have never made an antidote. I don't even know if we can make one, and to be honest, no one in the tribe will even want to try." Cologne told a Ranma whose final hope of keeping her manhood was shattered.

"Fine. I understand. Just give it to me." Ranma said with obvious reluctance in her voice and body language. But, as she grasped it, she suddenly seized up, dropping the potion, spilling it all over the floor, while she collapsed into unconsciousness.

Cologne gasped in shock, and she then she started to back away from Ranma while feeling slightly uneasy. Kasumi and Ryoga then came rushing in, but only to then suddenly stop just inside the doorway. Ryoga then gritted his teeth and slowly walked forward to Cologne.

"What happened to Ranma? And why does this room feel so, so terrible?" Ryoga asked while getting used to the feeling of the room. He no longer wanted to run screaming out of there, and was he now just, well, he was just really annoyed right now.

"Ranma's male side must have died before she could take the potion. And as to this feeling, it is coming from Ranma, her aura is changing, and it's becoming something very negative, something that induces this high level of fear in those around her." Cologne replied in a whisper.

"What will happen to Ranma?" Will she be alright?" Ryoga asked, taking Cologne's subtle cue to address Ranma in the female gender.

"I don't know. It could be Ranma will awaken just fine, but I have a bad feeling Ranma will awaken changed by the magic that has finally finished infusing into her." Cologne said in the same whispering tone. "Let us just get her into a bed." She finished.

"Let's use my bed." Kasumi said coming in from the doorway, while facing the feeling of dread that surrounded the living room. "Her futon on the floor of her room must be so uncomfortable." She said while stopping a foot from Ranma's form. Gritting her teeth, she came up to Ranma and took her by her shoulders. Ryoga then ran up and took her legs, wincing as he touched her. Cologne led the way, and they tucked Ranma into Kasumi's bed. They then sat around the room, or in Cologne's case perched around it.

They then talked of what to do when Ranma awoke, while making no real plans, because all things would depend on how Ranma would react upon her awakening.

In Ranma's mindscape

Ranma was in his girl form, and she was currently inside a void of nothingness. Well not total nothingness, for there WAS one thing here. There was a black crystal here about the size and the mass of her own body. Ranma's being was drawn to it, and, as she instinctively reached out with her right hand, and then as she touched the thing with the middle finger of that hand, she was racked with knowledge. Knowledge and a lifetime of memories that were not her own. She then screamed in pain as her mind was filled with things she had never done, pain she had never caused, feelings she had never felt. Ranma spent hours like this in her mind, fighting off the memories, trying to keep herself, herself. And in the end, Ranma was victorious over the memories that this crystal had imparted into her, keeping only the useful bits of knowledge readily accessible, and locking the things that had threatened her away in the deepest part of her subconscious that she could until she was ready to face them. Ranma knew she was only mostly successful in keeping herself, herself, but that this was as good as she was going to get.

Then Ranma went to sleep in her own mind, exhausted from her battle with the memories.

When she later awoke within her own mind, still unconscious to the real world, she stretched and said, "God was she ever a bitch." Standing up, and walking towards the light that she instinctively knew was reality, she said, "I really hope I never meet those people. I can't remember everything, but all of the people in her life were really bad. But I can't remember them, just some feelings of them. Ha, I guess most of her is fading away now. Well if I'm lucky I'll never meet these people I can't even remember. So of course I will. I'm never lucky like that." Ranma said while chuckling darkly. She knew her luck. And with that said, she stepped through the portal in her mind that led to reality.

The Tendo house: Kasumi's room: the next day: around nine in the morning

Ranma awoke feeling, strange. She knew she had just done something very important, but for the life of her she couldn't remember exactly what it was that she had done. Then, as she saw the sleeping forms of Kasumi, Ryoga and Cologne, she asked, "Hey guys, what's going on?"

As they awoke they still slightly could feel the affects of the aura Ranma was generating, though by now they were pretty much used to it. "Ranma, your male side died, and then you lapsed into unconsciousness. Then your aura started to change, and it has now I can see finished changing I can see. Do you notice what you're doing with it?" Cologne asked Ranma, hopeful that Ranma could shed some light on that subject.

Ranma closed her eyes and concentrated on her aura. It was now a mostly dark and negative thing, almost evil, but not quite there, well yet that is. But Ranma realized that she could now so easily do things she would never do before, because the very nature of her personality had changed over night. Ranma knew that before she was a mostly good person, and it came very easily to her to be that way. But now, now it seemed she was still a good person and she still wanted to do the right thing, but it would be so easy for her to do things she would never have done before. Like to hurt somebody just for fun. 'How could I even think that?' Ranma thought to herself, but she knew it was true. As she examined herself more, she knew, she absolutely knew that she was no longer a truly good person, for truly good people don't have to fight with themselves to do good things. She knew she still wanted to do good things, and that still could do good things, but it was in her nature now to, not do them as easily. And that was putting it mildly.

Then as she opened her eyes Ranma said "I'm no longer who I was. I was a good person, and now I still want to do good things, but it's like that is the total opposite of my true nature now. It's like I have an evil aura and soul, but with a good mind and heart." Ranma said while staring blankly. Then focusing on Cologne, Ranma shouted "Cologne, what the hell happened to me!"

"Ranma," Cologne began "obliviously the magical power that has been infused into you is inherently evil in nature. It speaks well of yourself that you can control it so well, and it not have it control you. I think, that in a lesser person, that the power's evil nature would have totally corrupted them. But this does not totally explain the feeling of unease around you, Ranma." Cologne told Ranma, and the rest of the room as well.

"Oh, that's the Fear Flare." Ranma said unthinkingly, as her mind was on what else Cologne had said. Realizing what she had just said, she exclaimed "Wait! How the hell did I know that? Oh shit!" Ranma exclaimed in exasperation. "I really am one now, aren't I?" Ranma asked of herself while looking disgusted.

"What Ranma? You really are a what?" Cologne asked in worry.

"I remembered something, something that I don't know how I remembered. A few magical attacks, one of which makes the Hiryü Shöten Ha seem utterly weak. I don't even want to think about the damage I can do with that one." Ranma said while slightly shivering. "I'm a magical girl now aren't I?"

"Ok, Ranma if you say so." Cologne said offhandedly, more thinking of what an attack that could make a high level Amazon technique look weak is like. Deciding she really didn't want to know, and hoping that it was never used around her she said, "Yes I think it is obvious Ranma, that you have, as you said, 'turned into a magical girl.' The Magic that killed your male side and the other subsequent happenings are proof of this. Now can you explain this Fear Flare, and turn it off?" Cologne asked.

"No I can't turn it off. I really wish I could. It's like an aura attack that's always on, to one degree or another, which makes it so every one around me is scared." Ranma said while looking down.

"That's tough Ranma. I know you don't like to scare people." Ryoga said supportively.

"Yeah, most of me hates it. But a small part of me, well, it's reveling in it right now." Ranma softly admitted to them.

"Oh, that's ok Ranma. Just don't let that part get too big and you'll be fine." Kasumi kindly told Ranma.

"I won't. Believe me, I won't." Ranma then told Kasumi with conviction.

"Well it's time for breakfast. Won't the two of you join us?" Kasumi then asked, totally changing the subject away from Ranma and her problems. As Ranma's stomach growled to the thought of food, Cologne nodded her affirmative, while Ryoga said "Your food is always appreciated Kasumi. Thanks for the offer. Um can someone lead me to the table?" he asked embarrassed. Ranma sighed and held out her had saying, "Come on, if you can watch over me for over a day or two, I can get you to your meal." Ryoga took Ranma's hand, noticing that the unease was both greater and lesser at the same time when touching her compared to last time, but how that was possible he couldn't figure out.

As they waited for the food, they had the T.V. on in the background. It was tuned into the local news station, because Kasumi wanted to hear the news as she worked. Then a story on the latest Youma attack in Juban got her out of the kitchen faster than Ranma can eat. As she was perched on the couch, enthralled by her heroines fighting, the announcer spoke "And it seems the Sailor Senshi have yet again managed to defeat this latest Youma threat, but this reporter wonders if it was too close a thing this time. See what I mean." As Kasumi watched, Cologne then a Ranma leading Ryoga came to watch as well.

As Ranma saw the fight, she knew something was wrong with the picture. "What are THEY doing here?" Ranma cried out. It was not the Senshi, though they also looked somewhat familiar to her, like a half forgotten memory. But no, it was the Youma and the Soldier that was leading them that she recognized. She somehow knew who or what they were, although only on a very subconscious level. All she knew in her foremind was the fact that they held the answers to her current problems, and she would get those answers out of them even if she had to kill them to do so! As she turned and headed to the door, Kasumi called out slightly worried by the expression on Ranma's face "Ranma! What's wrong? Where are you going?"

"To Juban!" Ranma called back from the doorway. "Those things have the answer as to what happened to me! I don't know how I know that, I just do! And they're going to tell me what's going on, or I'll massacre them!"

"Ranma, can't it wait until after breakfast?" Kasumi said, shocked by Ranma's attitude, but willing to let it slide, for now that is.

"Yes Ranma, eat. And then I'll go with you, after getting Duck-boy to clean the restaurant today while I keep it closed, and I'll bring Shampoo with us. I need to examine this with you. I'm still not sure of all that is going on, but if demons are involved, I think you'll need some help Ranma." Cologne told Ranma in an 'I'm not taking no for an answer." tone.

"You're not leaving me out of this one Saotome!" Ryoga exclaimed, then lightening the mood he said, "You can't go anywhere without your bodyguard can you?" he said while smiling all the while.

Ranma moaned, while knowing that she had lost. "Fine, fine. After breakfast. I could use the food anyways." She told them "And my bodyguard can't get anywhere without me to hold his hand, now can he?" She then exclaimed with a small laugh.

So Kasumi went back to making breakfast, while Cologne borrowed the phone to tell Shampoo they were going to Juban today, and ordered Mousse to clean the restaurant while she was gone.

And then they sat down to breakfast, with Ranma thinking "I'm finally going to get some answers, even if I have to beat them out of something."

EAN: Well here it is, the first chapter of my rewrite, and an almost total rip off of Ranma Dark Moon's beginning.

Oh, and here are a few of Dark Moon's current and basic attacks all courtesy of GenocideHeart

Fear Flare - This is a passive skill: a terror field surrounding Dark Moon will cause lesser beings to either flee her presence or drop to their knees in fear. Only strong-willed characters can shrug it off. It's semipermanently active, in that even when not fighting, Dark Moon emits a repressed aura of malice that instinctively scares whoever's nearby. It's kind of a Turn Undead spell from D&D, only in reverse.

Dead Moon Damnation - The counterpart to Moon Healing Escalation. The target will start turning to stone if struck. Knocking Dark Moon unconscious can stop the stoning process, but a fully stoned character can only be released by Dark Moon herself - or possibly by Usagi's Moon Healing Escalation itself.

Dead Moon Vortex - The counterpart to Moon Tiara Action, and Dark Moon's most commonly used attack. Unlike Sailor Moon, Dark Moon attacks by focusing negative energy through the palm of her right hand, sending a destructive vortex on concentrated negative energy at the enemy. Most enemies are outright incinerated by this attack.

Negagenesis - By far the strongest attack Dark Moon uses, it will engulf the entire area around her in a dome of destructive energy capable of pretty much annihilating any material it touches. This attack does not discriminate between friend or foe, and is only slightly less powerful than Saturn's Death Reborn Revolution, so it should be used with caution. I forgot to mention one thing about the last one makes it very dangerous. It doesn't simply destroy or kill the target - it outright negates its existence, hence the name Negagenesis. Essentially, whatever gets caught in its blast radius other than Dark Moon herself, is instantly obliterated - there's no way to revive them, because there's nothing LEFT to revive - no soul, no body, not even molecules.