Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, Yugioh, or Ronin Warriors. If I did I'd be living in a mansion right now. This fanfic is for the enjoyment of myself and my readers, created as praise to these anime and certainly not meant to offend anybody. Other anime may appear in later chapters.

Author's Note: Please read so you aren't confused! There are three eras in this fanfic, two in the past and one of the present. Some present-day characters had previous lives in both or one of these past eras. They are in order: the Golden Millennium (Ancient Egypt), the Silver Millennium (Moon and Solar System), and Present Day (Tokyo, Japan). I am using the Japanese names for the past lives and the English names for the present day in most cases. There are exceptions, such as the Outers having the same names in the present as they did in the Silver Millennium. Also, Joey's sister has her Japanese name Shizuka used because obviously we can't have two Serenity's running around!

I would like to add that at this point, I am not sure if the Tenchi Gang or the G Boys are going to make it into this fic, but I am planning on it.

Warning: Yes, this is one of those 'Ranma is a girl' fics, but with a twist. You have been warned.

The Great Calescence Saga

Chapter One: Reflections Beneath A Full Moon

Things were quiet. The sun had set a few hours ago, the stars were coming out, and people all up and down the block were huddled in their bomb shelters wondering if the worst was over. Up on a roof, staring at the full moon, sat a red headed girl in a torn, muddy, burnt, slashed, bloody, and much-abused no-longer-white tuxedo. She sighed. Why can't anything ever go right in my life? she thought. Ranma Saotome, heir to the school of Anything Goes Martial Arts, fiancé and/or rival to many, and part-time girl, found himself (or at the moment herself) wondering if he'd ever make it out of Nerima alive.

Things had been going pretty well for him lately. About a year ago Ranma had realized that he would probably always be stuck with his curse, and had 'accidentally' been locked into girl form for about two months to get used to it. Within that time Ranma had realized he actually felt more comfortable as a girl. All of his fiancés felt more like friends or sisters to him than anything else. Yet another thing to keep secret from his father. Kasumi had been the first person he'd confided in, while helping her with the housework which he did as long as no one else was around to see him doing 'women's work' as his father called it. Ranma had had to do a lot of things in secret throughout his life.

His father had tried to train him to be ignorant in anything that wasn't martial arts. The way he spoke, the way he acted around women, falling asleep in school, all of it was the act Ranma put on for his father. In actuality, Ranma had lost all respect for his father after the Neko-ken training. Genma knew a lot about martial arts (although his methods of training were questionable at best) but that was it. So Ranma snuck into libraries to study as they passed through towns on their training trip, learned manners and meditation techniques among other things from the priests at shines they occasionally stayed at, and kept secret the fact that he'd taken exams at the last school he'd been at (for two weeks) and been given a high school diploma about three months before their fateful trip to a certain cursed training ground in China.

The next person to know was Dr Tofu Ono. Dr Tofu had offered an interesting solution: he would legally adopt Ranma-chan using whatever name she wanted, so if Ranma decided to stay female he'd have a family. After all, Nodoka had made it quite clear when she finally found about the curse that while she found Ranma very manly indeed, he was to do all he could to find a cure. On the up side, the seppuku contract had been torn up.

Once Ranma had a legal identity for his female side, 'Rhea Ono' had gotten a job – a modeling job. Thus bringing in the last person Ranma would have associated with when he first met her – Nabiki.

Flashback

Nabiki was laying on her bed reading manga when someone knocked on her door. "Come in." Must be Kasumi. Soun and Genma were out drinking, probably planning on how to get the schools united, and Akane was out at the movies with her friends. To Nabiki's surprise it was Ranma who came in. "Hey Nabs, can I talk with you?" Nabiki blinked. His speech was more... cultured than usual. "Yeah, what about?" she asked, wondering how much to charge to keep any secrets he might reveal still secrets.

An hour later Ranma left looking happy and Nabiki was in bliss. Ranma-chan, a model and her, 'Rhea Ono's' agent! She'd be rich! She wouldn't have to worry about money for the repairs, the bills, college, or anything else! And more importantly, Ranma saw past the Ice Queen charade she'd been using to hide her pain after her mother's death. And Ranma was willing to accept her for the person she really was. She finally had a friend.

End Flashback

Up on the roof, Ranma smiled to himself. After that, Nabiki had stopped taking pictures. She'd actually become a close friend. Slowly, she'd come out of her Ice Queen shell. It hadn't been obvious to many people, but she smiled more. Nabiki did keep up the pretense of being a mercenary around home to keep their secret. And every Saturday night while Akane was out with friends they dragged Kasumi out of the house and the three of them dressed up and went to dance clubs. Ranma was female half the time too. And who'd have thought Kasumi was a great karaoke singer?

A couple months before the battle with Saffron, Ryoga had begun to realize that most of what had happened to him was his own fault. Since then, he and Ranma had renewed the friendship they'd had in middle school and Ryoga had joined the Saturday Night Gang (when he was around). No body else noticed the change in attitudes the Lost Boy and Ranma had towards one another, because they kept up the pretense of rivalry. It made for good training, fighting against each other.

Then there was the battle with Saffron, and everything started falling apart. Ranma wondered where Akane had gotten the idea Ranma had said he'd loved her. He certainly didn't remember saying anything like that! He knew he'd shouted at her not to die, that he didn't want to see her die. It didn't mean he'd fought any less hard of course; there was no way he'd have let anyone die because of Saffron. Not even Akane. Ranma wasn't sure he even liked Akane anymore. She couldn't stop jumping to conclusions, blaming everything on him, calling him a pervert, and malleting him into LEO.

Somehow, his pops and Mr. Tendo had managed to knock him out and drag him to the alter earlier that day. Ranma didn't particularly want to get married to anyone but honor demanded this marriage and he'd have gone through with it. Luckily, Nabiki's quick thinking had broken it up. Although not even she could have predicted the absolute destruction the Fiancé Brigade would wreak, completely leveling the dojo like that! The thing that upset him the most was when he'd been standing there (held up by Pops and Mr. Tendo) he'd asked Akane if this was what she really wanted.

Flashback\/ "Akane, do you really want to get married?" The short haired girl turned to him. Dressed in a western-style wedding dress and holding a large bouquet of flowers, she certainly looked stunning. Then she scowled at him. "Of course I'm going to do this. For the family honor. You'd better not screw up my wedding Ranma!" Her wedding? He thought. Not ours? What am I, chopped liver? And then all hell broke loose. \/End Flashback

Ranma-chan shuddered, remembering Kodachi's laughter, and hoped those nice men in white coats had caught her, given her her own nice white, long-sleeved jacket, and put her in a nice white padded room for a few years. Ranma-chan realized it was full dark now. Probably around midnight. With one last look up at the calming presence of the moon, she slipped back inside through a window.

Time to get some sleep. He was lucky that summer break had just started. No school in the morning. Next Fall he'd be going to Tokyo University finally. No more taking college courses online. Which was why he'd never gotten the schoolwork done for Furikin High; he had enough homework to do for college. He had to keep sneaking down into the dojo with his laptop to do it at night to avoid his father and everyone else. Stupid panda!

On the futon on the floor a giant slightly damp panda sneezed in its sleep, and continued dreaming about food.

In another part of Tokyo, a 17 year old girl with long blonde hair pulled into buns and flowing pigtails, stared sadly up at the full moon. Juuban was quiet for once, and Serena could enjoy the stars without the whole 'fighting evil by moonlight' shtick. She sighed. What had gone wrong? Was it something she did? It always seemed to be. Everything had been perfect after the fight with Galaxia. She had been so sure that Darien would stay, that everything would be wonderful. Well he had stayed, but it wasn't wonderful.

Flashback\/ "But Darien, why?" "Grow up meatball head. Do you really think I can love you when you're always whining and crying and having klutz attacks? I'm sorry but until you can be more mature, it's over." Serena watched him walk away, silent tears running down her cheeks. She wasn't wailing and running blindly like usual. A change he didn't seem to notice at all. So it was over. Why couldn't he just love her for who she was? Instead, he'd wait for Princess Serenity to emerge. In the meantime, he left Serena all alone. \/End Flashback

Serena Tsukino, aka Sailor Moon, sat on her balcony and sobbed. Well if Darien wanted her to change then she would change! But not for him, for herself. She wasn't going to take any more of his attitude. He said it was over and this time she had to accept that. It was over!

Serena slipped back inside, determined. She had changed a lot for 'her' Darien in the last half year. She had studied hard, began to pull better grades, even got into Tokyo University starting next Fall (although she had no idea what she wanted to study).

And earlier this evening her parents had given her one more thing to worry about. Mom – no, Irene – had let slip during one of her lectures that Serena was adopted. Serena had pumped her mother for information, learning that her biological parents had been killed when she was very young, and that she had a twin brother. She didn't remember having a brother in the Moon Kingdom. Then again, she didn't have very many of her memories from the Moon Kingdom. Had Luna been hiding stuff from her again?

At the Time Gate, Setsuna Maiou, aka Sailor Pluto felt a shudder in the time stream. Going over to check it out, she gasped at what she saw. Crystal Tokyo was gone! Instead there were thousands of possibilities, all branching out from the so-called 'present'. Oh a few featured Crystal Tokyo, but they were not very likely to happen now. What could have caused this? Pluto began her research.

In a completely different part of Japan, a 17 year old young man with spiky, tri-colored hair sat at his bedroom window and stared up at the full moon. Yugi Mouto wondered when everything had gone wrong. For a while it had been great. They had gotten the Pharaoh's memories back. Although Yugi felt there was still some missing, they would be recovered in time. Yami's spirit and his had merged, creating one person, one mind, and memories of both lives available to him. The Pharaoh was part of him now, so everyone just called him Yugi. Those who didn't know the truth just thought he'd hit a sudden growth spurt, as he now looked just like Yami, but with reddish-purple eyes.

Seto Kaiba stilled denied his past life as High Priest Seth, but that was expected. It seemed like Bakura and his Yami had merged as well. This was rather scary, as the Thief King's personality had been stronger and the quiet, shy kid had disappeared pretty much for good now, only popping up occasionally in the presence of Tea who it seemed Bakura had a crush on. It was rather funny to watch the cocky and annoying thief suddenly start blushing and stuttering whenever the chipper girl smiled at him. Tea, being Tea, didn't notice.

And then, about half a year ago, everything went down the drain.

Dual Monsters had just been a card game. But suddenly, monsters from the Shadow Realm had been turning up for real. Domino had never been a city where anything of the magical nature had taken place. No one had been prepared for the chaos that was more natural to places like those two wards of Tokyo – what were they again? Oh yes, Nerima and Juuban. Now Domino got to experience the 'excitement' first hand. Buildings were destroyed, people were hurt, a few even killed. Unfortunately one of the first killed had been Mokuba Kaiba, Seto's younger brother. It had tipped Seto over the edge. He absolutely refused to help them, holing himself up for months now in grief.

The monsters which had appeared were a little like the Dual Monsters. Only these were scarier, uglier, and far too real to be a comfort. Some people found they had become 'Summoners'. Yugi and Seto were two of the strongest. Mai, Joey, Bakura, and surprisingly Tea all found they also had the power to summon Shadow Monsters and other powers that had once belonged to the Magic cards. Not all Dual Monster fanatics were Summoners, and not all Summoners were Dual Monster fanatics. Those who knew the cards already had a distinct advantage, but the others were learning fast. They had to. It was all too much like the youmas in Juuban, but the regular people – or those that were Summoners – had to defend themselves instead of relying on magical girls in indecently short skirts to save them.

Yugi wondered if this was a consequence of retrieving the Pharaoh's memories. If somehow in unlocking that stone tablet he had unleashed the Shadow Games once again from the Shadow Realm. Probably. That just made him more depressed. Turning away from the window, Yugi went back to bed.

Touyoma, Japan. A peaceful city a few miles away from Tokyo. At least, this was what the average person would tell you. Ask a small boy, two young women or the six young men who rented rooms from one of the ladies at her mansion, and they'd tell you that three years ago the city had been the battle ground for a war against an ancient evil. Evil in the form of Nether-Spirits and 400 year old Dark Warlords, their Nether Realm ruled over by the evil demon lord 'Emperor' Talpa. Or as Kento liked to say "that evil giant floating head."

Ryo Sanada of Wildfire, Sage Date of Halo, Rowan Hashiba of Strata, Cye Mouri of Torrent, and Kento Rei Faun of Hardrock – these were the Ronin Warriors. At 14 they had fought off the Nether Realm and won. The next year it had been a crazy American sorcerer who had kidnapped Sage. Then an African armor bearer with the Black Inferno armor, which brought out their armors' urge to fight, fight until there was nothing left alive. Last year they had weathered an attack by a vengeful spirit of a woman, perhaps a priestess, who had done weird things to their armor in an attempt to get them to summon Ryo's ultimate armor the White Inferno. What she wanted from that they weren't sure. Perhaps to destroy the world, perhaps to destroy themselves. But at last Suzunagi had realized the error of her ways, and had been able to rest.

They'd had peace for a while, and things took on a semblance of normal; Lady Kayura had come to stay with them (and be Rowan's girlfriend), the five young men had all lived to see eighteen and ben accepted to Tokyu University, and Anubis had been resurrected and married Mia. Okay, so the resurrection thing wasn't normal. The other three ex-warlords, Cale, Dias, and Sekhmet, had decided they'd had enough of life and had retired to police the Nether Realms. Their life energy they'd given to Kayura to use to resurrect Anubis, giving him his mortal body back and a palce in the Mortal Realm.

Now though, they could feel something building. Another threat was coming their way. The Ronins stood together in the yard, staring up at the full moon. So much they had been through together. Would they make it though this time? The black haired youth pet his white tiger, blue eyes staring upwards. Ryo knew that as long as they stood together, they could make it. On his right, blonde violet eyed Sage and the blue haired genius Rowan smiled, knowing their 'unofficial leader's' thoughts. On Ryo's left stood blue-black haired Kento, grinning at the thought of another fight. Auburn haired Cye frowned a moment, a little upset that they'd have to fight again, but then smiled. As long as he was with friends, fighting for what he believed in, to keep others like Mia and young Uli safe, it would be alright.

Finally, they turned and went back into the house.

There we go. Chapter One revised. Realized I didn't have introductions for my main cast in here before. I'm considering putting Tenchi Muyo, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Gundam Wing, and Oh My Goddess in here later as well. But they'll be much later in the story, if I can figure out how to add them in.

So how about it? Review please. Any ideas for a main villain, or shall I focus on the Shadow Monsters?