Hi all and welcome to a trip into the odd and bizarre (namely my mind...-...) In no way do I own Ranma ½ or Sailor Moon, so no monies or profit are being gained from this, just a small mental exercise to gain some semblance of sanity (or not).
The Pluto Pool
by Talonhunter
Time: End of the Silver Millennium...
Pluto was near death. After everything they had done, and it still wasn't enough. Sure Serenity had assured that the others would survive, but after the fall the rouge remnants had found a way to breach the dimensional barriers that protected the gates of time. It was a nasty fight, but had cost the time senshi dearly. So it was with great pain one Setsuna Meioh once again was at the gates of time contemplating if this was her only option. Scanning the time streams and getting closer to death, the once senshi of Pluto activated the final protocol. The time gates slowly started to close. 'I hope this works.' was her final thought as she stepped thru the gate and into...
Time: Somewhere 100 plus years near our own...
Near the cursed springs in a remote valley in China, the elder canidate Ku Lon, was gathering samples for her tribe, Hearing a splash, she decided to investigate. Upon nearing the unnamed pool, Ku Lon saw a green haired woman floating near the bank. Taking the coil of rope from her subspace pocket, the Amazon expertly caught the woman under the arms and drug her to the marshy shore. Using her enhanced senses, she could see the woman was dead, but maybe... Ku Lon used her advanced fu to feed her Ki to the woman. The woman slowly came back from death, but it was all Ku Lon could do not to fall down that tunnel of darkness with her. 'I need to get her to the village.' she thought. Picking up he woman, Ku Lon received a shock. Temporal magic's played along her nerves, almost causing her to black out. "I am Amazon, I will not succumb to this." she cried and found herself just outside the hut she shared with her young daughter and sister, carrying the woman with her. 'How did I get here?' she thought just as Es Pah and Lu Fah came out.
"Sister Ku Lon, Who is this you bring, an outsider to keep the Bloodline strong?" Es Pah asked.
"No, sister. She fell into an uncursed spring, though it may be so now. I drew her out and have fought the blackness to keep her anchored here, but I fear it may not be enough. Call the elders and healers here, I do not think she can go much longer and to move her may shorten that time." Ku Lon said.
"Lu Fah, get the healers" Es Pah said, " I will gather the elders." then turning back to Ku Lon," do not endanger yourself any further than needed, sister." and with that she was gone. Lu Fah having already left.
"I won't sister." Ku Lon said quietly to the now distant back of Es Pah. Bringing the woman into the hut, the now very tired Amazon sat watch over her charge. Sitting in a meditative pose, Ku Lon hardly noticed the green haired woman wake up. Her groan of pain startled the Amazon. "Rest and do not move. A healer is on her way" Ku Lon said in Mandarin.
Setsuna Meioh awoke to a world of pain. Groaning She thinks to herself, ' It didn't work.' when she hears the voice speak to her. 'What dialect was that, Mandarin? I thought the Amazons would be extinct. I must be in the past.' she thought before the coughing fit began.
Ku Lon was by her side in an instant, trying to increase the ki flow. "Please relax, I can only help you if don't push yourself"
Pluto sighed," It's too late for me, for I am to gravely hurt. Even an eternal form can only take so much."
"Eternal form? Are you of the old empire then" Ku Lon looked back in shock. A equally shocked Pluto stared.
"What do you know of the old empire?" Pluto asked forgetting to speak in Mandarin.
"You speak in the old tong quite well for one so young." Ku Lon said with a slight accent to the silver age speech.
Pluto only snorted at that, which caused her to start to cough again. When she stopped, she said, " I am far older than I look.", then noticing her companion, she saw that she was older than she first appeared. Maybe she could still be alright. "Are you an elder of your tribe?"
Ku Lon straitened up at that.' This woman knows of us?' then she answered truthfully. "Not yet, but soon. I was completing the last rite when you splashed down at the springs."
Pluto relaxed at that. 'So I did make it.' Then turning her thoughts back to the Amazon at her side, She thought now there might be a chance.
Ku Lon saw the shift in the senshi's body and asked, "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
Peering deep into Ku Lon's violet eyes, she sees the spark of one who has the gift, (or curse as it were) to see beyond the limits of ones own time and limitation set by mortality. 'Maybe a custodian for a while then?' she thought, for there was not time enough to teach her everything to the gates. "Perhaps there is. This body is too injured to maintain guardianship of the power I wield. Another could do this, but at a cost."
Ku Lon frowned at that, trying not to get angry over what many would consider an insult in her tribe. "We of the Joketsuzoku Amazons would undertake this stewardship, we have always respected the court of the moon kingdom ant the house of Serenity. How shall we serve?"
Setsuna looked to her soon to be custodian of time. 'Now for it' she thought. "It can only be served in and as a memory, the future must be protected and those who would one day be her guardians must be allowed to remember these teachings. Can you, Ku Lon of the Joketsuzoku Amazons protect and serve these terms?"
Outside, Es Pah and the elders overheard this. Es Pah moved to step inside, but the tribal chief held her back. "This is her trial, Es Pah, she must face it alone."
"But elder, she asks too much, even for one such as her." Es Pah cries quietly.
"This may be, but Ku Lon's actions here today will set the path SHE must walk, and she alone must do this" the elder spoke. Es Pah cried for the fate of her sister.
Ku Lon sat back and reflected on the words of the time senshi. To serve in this way is a high honor no mater how it was stated, but, those words were spoken the way they were to show the gravity of the situation. Drawing herself up, as much as she could while maintaining her link to Setsuna. "I Ku Lon, of the Joketsuzoku Amazons, will protect and serve to those terms." She said.
Setsuna then began to create her spell. "Ku Lon, place your hand out." Ku Lon did so. Pulling her time key from stuff space, she continued. "Take hold of my staff and learn the cost of duty then." To which Ku Lon replied, "the cost to serve is an honor."
As she takes a hold of the staff, she once again feels the dance of temporal energies, but this time it filled her entirety. She couldn't help but cry out as the powers washed over her. With a blinding flash time seemed to stop for Ku Lon and Setsuna. 'The memories, oh Kami there are so many' was the last thought Ku Lon had in her old life.
Setsuna felt the power leave as her body began to shut down and heal. "I have done all I can, the rest is up to you now." She said as she passed the last of her powers to Ku Lon. Just as the light faded from her eyes.
Moments later Ku Lon opened her eyes. 'What has happened?' she asked herself. Rushing over to a reflective surface, the younger looking Amazon saw her eyes. 'No, this wasn't how it was suppose to happen!' she thought, and the woman, once known as Setsuna Meioh, Sailor Pluto the guardian of time, looked back to her old body now starting to fade as the energies that once moved it no longer resided. "NO!!!" she cried as the last wisps of light that formed her faded into nothing. 'I am so sorry Ku Lon, I did not intend for this to happen. I will honor you in whatever means I can every day.' A sound outside the hut caused her to turn towards the entry and see the village elder, Skru Shii entering.
"So the body has returned to wince it came?" she asked.
"Yes Elder, It could no longer maintain it's connection to this period." Setsuna/Ku Lon replied.
" I see and your task is now before you. Be well in it Elder Ku Lon" Skru Shii said and with that, she turned and left.
Stepping out the door she saw Lu Fah holding a weeping Es Pah. Lu Fah looked to her mother and asked "Why is Es Pah weeping?" To which Ku Lon could only reply "The outlander did not make it, and the loss of any warrior was reason to grieve."
Next chapter preview
Time: 3 weeks ago
Yells are heard across the valley of the springs…
Keeyaahh!!!
splash
gromph
Smack
Aaahhh!!!
spash
"Wha'dja do that for, baka panda!"
3
2
1
"Aaahhh!"
Mister customers fall into springs, need to go see Amazons immediately.
A/N… Now onto some responses...I dont normally post inside my stories, but I think this story bears it out
everling... considering the chaos that surounds the pool, I think the odds would even stump Ami, but we will see
pspinler and Hawk426 ... thaks for the tip, sometimes I forget how this works and run with it. Like I said before though, I lost my beta eader and ...I know its a excuse.( this from a journalism and computers major who dropped out to become a truck driver when things got booooring... - )
ZeroX1999 ... It could happen, but not the way you think...(insert diabolical evil laugh here)
sorry this took a while to fix, but I lost the original and the back up had some… ah errors… as it were. This was originally going to be a one shot, but now I like the flow so far. More soon to come