DISCLAIMER: I am borrowing from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Negima, Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon. Buffy is Josh Whedon's. Negima is Ken Akamatsu's. Ranam ½ belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Sailor Moon is Naoko Takeuchi's. I might through in other series later and will disclaimer those as I come to them.

Intro

Most stories are written within a specific universe where things are either allowed to happen or not happen as the author sees fit. Some place them as a real world event and operate within those confines. Others branch out so that the laws of physics are changed to suit the needs of the story. What if you were to combine drastically different universes? Then you would have a new universe both like and unlike its parents. In this story four universes become one. This story takes place after the Ranma ½ crew retrun from Phoenix Mountain and after Season Seven of Buffy as all the Potentials in the world awaken as Slayers.

Akane

Akane sat alone in the dojo, staring at her family shrine. She did not know how long she had been sitting there, or when she had even arrived. She did not remember the last time she had eaten or slept. It didn't really seem to matter anymore.

Six months ago she had been just another high school kid, albeit one who had a bad habit of getting kidnapped by weird princes and having a fiancé who could level mountains. In fact six month ago that's what had happened. They had just returned from China after Ranma had leveled Phoenix Mountain because he thought she was dead. He had killed a god because of that, had he not? So why was she sitting here six months later contemplating cutting out her own heart just to make the pain stop?

A month after their return from China, she had gone into Ranma's room to find him packing.

"Another cure quest?" she had asked. She had only been curious. The resentment and sarcasm that would have normally accompanied those words was gone, disappearing in the aftermath of China when she could feel his love for her reaching out to her and calling her back from death.

"No," he hesitated, "no, I'm leaving with Shampoo. I'm going back to her village with her."

"Why?" Akane asked. "They need more help against those Phoenix Mountain guys?"

"No, I'm going to marry her." Ranma stared intently at the floor.

"What!?"

"I'm going to marry Shampoo, Akane. I'm sorry." He brushed past her and headed out the door.

Akane sank to her knees, despair crashing into her. She sat there for a long time. Finally she sobbed out "Why?" but Ranma was long gone.

Kasumi eventually found her since she hadn't come down for dinner. No matter what she tried she couldn't get Akane to respond. She called her father to help get Akane to bed. Then they all went down stairs and worried.

'What could have happed?" wondered Nabiki.

"I don't know, "Kasumi said worriedly. "When I found her she wouldn't respond to anything. I even slapped her." She admitted shamefaced. "Oh, also all of Ranma-kun's things are gone."

"Are you saying that baka ran out on my sister?"

"We don't know anything of the sort, Nabiki."

Upstairs Akane could hear the droning of her family's voices. ~Something's wrong. There's gotta be. They must be blackmailing him. He wouldn't tell me because he wouldn't want me to be hurt. ~ Akane got up suddenly and started throwing clothes in a bag. After a few minutes she closed the bag and listened. It sounded like everyone was still talking downstairs. She quietly opened her window and jumped out onto the roof. She then made her way roof top to roof top toward the Cat Café.

The Café was dark when she arrived, but it was late so that didn't worry her, Nor did the out of business sign on the front door. As quietly as she could, she broke the lock on the door and opened it slowly. The place was completely empty. She was too late. Despair threatened to engulf her again, but she fought it down. She had planned for this, sort of, and it wasn't like she didn't know where they were going.

It had taken Akane two months to get to China. She had just reached the outskirts of Jusendo when she saw Ranma step out of a house. She was about to run to him when she saw him extend a hand to someone inside. It was Shampoo, far advanced in pregnancy. It was obvious that she was a lot farther along than a couple of months. The way her belly distended, Akane guessed she was closer to seven or eight months pregnant.

Akane ran. She ran until her lungs were on fire and her legs felt like blocks of wood. She splashed through a shallow pool and somehow her breathing eased. She felt like she was running on four legs instead of two. She didn't care she just kept running. Away from what she had just seen, away from the sense of utter betrayal, but her mind would not let the image go. It was all she could see.

By some miracle she made it home. She had no idea how. Her eyes were drawn to the family shrine, her mother. Anytime she went to sleep or looked away the image of Ranma and Shampoo came back so she continued to stare at the shrine for days on end and in the meantime, her family worried.

*Wow that was a lot darker than I meant it to be. If we were looking at post Phoenix Mountain though, it had to be something huge to permanently break up Ranma and Akane. *

**Second edit: Corrected some spelling errors and removed the part about Moose. It didn't really forward the story line any and this chapter is already dark enough. For first time readers PLEASE CONTINUE READING! It does get better give me at least through chapter 2 before you call it a wash. **