Ryu was walking over to his friend's house on the day it happened. It had been a particularly good day - he got a lot of writing done, gotten all of his tests in school exactly right, and was going over to Ryn's house to have a really good gaming session.
And then...
One thousand years earlier, Queen Serenity began to cast the spell that would send the Silver Crystal and the Sailor Senshi into the future. Right as she finished it, there was a surge of universal chaos energy that flowed into her body, magnified the spell slightly, then dissipated.
Of course, Serenity didn't know that. As far as she was concerned, everything had gone perfectly.
Back to Ryu, he heard a funny noise starting to surround him. No one else on the street seemed to hear it, and his cell phone was only registering normal background noise. Ryu put his hand on the katana sewn into his pant leg and partially unsheathed it.
A storm started brewing above Ryu, and again no one on the street noticed. Suddenly, a black gyrating portal appeared beneath his feet, and he fell in.
* * *
Luna watched as Serena, again, broke into a deafening cry. This time, she hadn't seen a small dip in the sidewalk and tripped on it. The result was an unexpected downpour of tears and ear-splitting wails.
Even though it was impossible to hear anything except Serena within a half-mile radius of her, Luna's magical senses picked up something about a block away. Knowing that she wouldn't be missed for the next few minutes, Luna decided to check it out.
The disturbance was coming from a warehouse wall. As Luna concentrated on it, she could sense the powers of the Negaverse coming from it. It was a portal trying to form, but failing.
Luna knew that if it was a portal from Queen Beryll, the energy matrix would have formed perfectly and some sort of monster emerged. Luna focused her own energy and made a lunar flip, forming a matrix amplifier.
The portal materialized on the brick wall, and a very distressed human male stumbled out of it. He was fairly tall, about six feet, with short dirty blonde hair, and emerald green eyes. He had blue jeans and a blood red short sleeve shirt with a lean build. In his right hand was a hand and a half short katana covered with an ominous purple liquid.
"What. The hell. Was that?" He said. He was out of breath, frantically looking around, but generally relieved.
Luna was astounded. No human had ever survived being inside the Negaverse for any period of time. This person had obviously been in there for a very long time, and didn't even have a scratch. Luna had to take a minute to collect herself before she was able to speak.
"That was called the Negaverse. I... believe we have something to talk about."
"A talking cat? I've seen weirder things. My name is Ryu, and I appear to be at your service." Ryu wiped his sword with a special cloth a sheathed it, then kneeled before Luna.
* * *
"Luna? I've heard a lot in my sixteen years. There have been people accusing me of being a dragon, an alien, a spy... but a prince from a civilization on the moon a thousand years in the past that was destroyed by an alternate universe is stretching it." Ryu resumed sharpening his katana. He was moderately perturbed about what he had just been told.
"It's true! We didn't expect to find any of the princes here, but only someone from the Lunar Kingdom could ever survive in the Negaverse!"
Ryu sighed. "I am vaguely familiar with the Senshi storyline. What do you want me to do?"
Luna became slightly nervous. "Well, optimistically you would join the current group, but there may be... problems with that."
"What kind of 'problems'?" Ryu cocked an eyebrow and slowly moved his hand back towards the katana.
Luna developed a huge sweat drop. "Well, like I said, we weren't expecting to find any princes here, so... I only have equipment for female Senshi."
All of the color drained from Ryu's face. His head dropped, and the sword clattered on the floor. "I have been in worse situations. Go ahead."
Luna's sweat drop, gratefully, disappeared. She gathered some of her energy and performed another lunar flip, this time materializing Serena's locket, but upside-down.
Ryu picked it up, pulled a length of small chain out of his pocket, and made a necklace.
"Don't you want to try it out?" Luna asked.
"I will when, one, no one could see me, and two, when the need arises. For now, I need to take up residence." Ryu took out his cell phone and slid it open to reveal a keyboard. He started typing rapidly, then nodded. "There's a vacant studio about two miles from here. I've got it isolated... done." He pinpointed the address on GPS and mapped a route, then put away the phone. "Ready."
This time it was Luna's turn to cock an eyebrow. "And that's legal how?"
"Because it used to be my house. And they will find it difficult to prove otherwise as of three years ago." Ryu started walking.
"Technology is scary." Luna said, following him closely.
* * *
Queen Beryll sat on her throne, tired of her worthless minons being unable to gather the energy needed to unleash the Negaforce.
Just as the queen was about to summon her servant working on the Sailor Senshi, she got a strange signal. A rift had formed in the Negaverse, letting a single life form out. Beryll tracked this person onto Earth, where she was surprised to find the he was yet another subject of the moon kingdom. Even better - this prince seemed to have more energy than any of the other Senshi.
Beryll called one of her favorite servants forward. "Herudite! Reveal yourself!"
"Yes, my master!" Herudite faded into view. She was the polar opposite of Ryu, long black hair, red eyes, boring gray uniform. "What do you want, your majesty?"
"I have found a new source of energy on the miserable planet Earth. You are to find this Lunar Prince and suck every last joule of energy you can out of him!"
"Of course, majesty." Herudite faded from view.
(With an energy source that powerful, we can release the Negaforce ahead of schedule!)
* * *
Serena looked around her room and noticed something wrong. In fact, there were two things wrong. Firstly, she was doing her homework willfully. And second, Luna wasn't there pestering her about homework.
Serena got on her communicator and called Mina. "Hey, Mina? Have you and Artemis seen Luna lately?"
"No, we haven't seen Luna since you tripped two days ago. Don't tell me you lost her?"
Meanwhile...
"Luna, I've been on patrol for two hours. I don't think anything's going to show up tonight." Ryu said. He and Luna had been wandering around, trying to sense anything related to the Negaverse. The only thing they got, however, was a cold feeling of rejection.
"Then you should at least practice your Sailor abilities! You're not going to do much good to the scouts if you're still a rookie."
"You mean the powers that may or may not work for me because I'm not a girl? Yeah, I'll get right on that."
Right as Ryu finished talking, He and Luna passed a particularly dark alley. It was so dark that both of them doubled back to gave another look.
"You getting it too?" Ryu asked.
"Yes. Let's go!"
Ryu placed his hand over the katana, and started walking slowly down the corridor. There was definitely an evil presence here. Ryu unclipped the handgrip of the katana, ready for anything.
(Arise, my monster! Capture that boy and take his energy for the Negaverse!)
Ryu jumped back and instantly drew his katana as the unnatural shadows in the alley began to swirl and congeal into a coherent mass. The result was a green, four legged creature with seven unequal eyes, massive sharp claws, and an aura of pure evil.
"Ryu! Now's the time to transform!"
"Not quite." Ryu said. "Unlike Serena and the others, I actually have combat experience." With that, Ryu launched himself at the monster.
Ryu did three sword slashes at it's head, scraping an eye and causing two deep wounds on it's neck. He then somersaulted in the air, landing behind it and lining up for another attack.
"Dragonsword... strike fear into the enemy's mind! Bahamut Slash!"
Ryu's katana began glowing a bright white. He made two arcs with the sword, and just as the monster found him, made a massive swing with the katana, loosing a giant blade of energy!
The monster was thrown backward and slammed into the fire escape from one of the buildings. It fell to the ground, tried to get up, and fainted.
Ryu twirled the sword three times in his hand, then sheathed it. He looked very smug with himself.
(That's interesting.) Luna thought. (Ryu can use some of his lunar powers even in human form.)
"Ha ha ha ha ha! You put on a very interesting show, boy!" Herudite materialized out of the shadows released from the monster's body. "I was expecting you to transform, but I see now that I must force you to do so!" She sent a ball of energy at her creation, which reformed very rapidly and doubled in size.
"And I was looking forward to a peaceful night." Ryu said. "The optimists are disappointed most."
"Ryu! Do it now!" Luna shouted.
"Alright, already! Moon Prism Power!"
Ryu raised his hand, all five fingernails sparkling in the moonlight. His skin turned multicolored, and his body spun twice. The locket sprouted several rose-colored streamers which wrapped around Ryu's torso, forming the base fuku. More streamers went around his arms as Ryu crossed them over his head and made white elbow length gloves. A second set of streamers went on his legs, forming knee length rose boots with two inch heels.
A blue mini skirt formed around Ryu's waist. He threw his head back, and a small crescent moon symbol appeared briefly on his forehead, quickly replaced by the jewel of a gold tiara. A pair of crescent moon earrings formed, and Ryu opened his eyes and back-flipped, then struck a pose as a huge crescent appeared behind him.
Luna's sweatdrop reappeared. (That's... a little more disturbing than I thought it would be.)
Ryu examined his new body. All of his freckles below the neck and leg hair had been removed, and he felt a signifigant decrease in mass. He was still male, though.
"Hmm. I look forward to running some DNA tests on this form soon."
"Unfortunately, you won't get that chance! Prepare to start serving the Negaverse, you crossdressing brat!"
"Hey! I didn't choose to do this! Blame the universal chaos energy for that!" Ryu shouted. He reached for his sword, but found nothing but empty air. "Hey! Where'd my katana go!?"
Now it was Luna's turn to shout. "Look out, Sailor Moon-San!"
As Ryu was searching for his blade, the shadow monster had taken the initiative and melted into the ground, then reformed behind Ryu! He barely had time to dodge and avoid turning into a confused stain on the concrete. "No matter! You're still no match for me, even without the Dragonsword!"
Ryu grasped the tiara on his forehead, letting it flicker once before pulling it off. He drew his arm back, and made the tiara start spinning magically. He pulled his arm back in front of him, did a pirouette, and prepared to throw it.
"Moon... Tiara... Magic!"
Ryu let the tiara fly straight at the monster. It impacted, shattering it to bits. He jumped and caught his weapon, doing another somersault and landing gracefully on his feet despite the footwear.
"Is that all you've got, negascum?"
"As a matter of fact, no!" Herudite sent another dose of energy at her monster, revitalizing it yet again. "You can't hit both of us with that one piece of plastic!"
Ryu looked at the tiara in his right hand and got an idea. "You're right." He focused his magical energy into the piece, and duplicated it: each with half of the red jewel of the original.
Ryu repeated the move with one of them. "Moon Tiara Magic!"
The tiara once again flew toward the monster and obliterated it. However, as Herudite started laughing again, Ryu threw the second one!
"Tiara Magic!"
Herudite gasped as she saw the white frisbee coming at her. She was even more distressed to see that Ryu had redirected the other one at her too! With nowhere to go in the alley, she took the full force of both attacks!
Herudite screamed as her atoms ripped apart and teleported back to the Negaverse. She shouted at Ryu, "My name is Herudite. You were lucky, we'll meet again!" She screamed one more time as her body completely vanished.
Later that night...
"So, how did I do as a 'rookie' Sailor Senshi, Luna?"
Ryu and Luna had returned to his studio, where they had a large victory dinner after the successful battle. Ryu was still eating - Luna, however had a much smaller stomach.
"Well, let's see." Luna said. "You started your mission as a Senshi, defeated a Negaverse monster without even transforming, reinvented an attack more than a thousand years old in less than a minute, and defeated one of Queen Beryll's henchmen on your first try. I'd say you did splendidly!"
Ryu chuckled. "I have a lot more reinventing to do before I'll be comfortable as a Senshi. Thanks for your support back there."
"It's part of my mission."
* * *
"Herudite! Explain to me how you could have failed against a teenage boy!" Queen Beryll was extremely upset. Het best servant had been defeated by some kid seemingly without effort!
"Your majesty, it was simply a small error on my part. I didn't predict that the boy could use Senshi powers that good right away. It will not happen again."
"For your sake, Herudite, I hope so. You are dismissed."
"Your majesty, I have something else to report. It may be another way to collect energy for the Negaforce."
"Go on."
"Before he attacked me, the boy shouted something about the 'universal chaos energy' bringing him here. I don't know what he meant, but maybe you do?"
Beryll was intrigued. "Unfortunately, I too know nothing about this 'chaos energy'. I will look into it though. For now, you are to continue to collect energy from 'Sailor Moon-San', as well as find out what chaos energy is. Now go!"
Herudite bowed, then faded from view.
Author's Notes:
Let's pretend we have a time machine. Go WAYYYYY back, ten years ago, when I was six. I was writing my first fanfic at that point. This is a MAJOR rewrite of that story. On the plus side, my english ten years ago wasn't that bad.
So, where will Ryu go from here? Will he eventually join up with the Sailor Scouts? Or will he just be a freelancer of justice?
That's up to Serena.
Sorry about the update drought. Writing should pick up again in summer - school and too many ideas often are a bad idea.