1985

In a gloomy pub in Tokyo, a viridian haired beauty was having a drink, she was celebrating the fact all her plans were working. She had had almost ten thousand years to perfect her plans and ensure every possible problem was covered, they were perfect. Later she would curse this thought, and want to go back in time to beat Murphy to death, it had invited fate to bitch slap her.

A large balding, slightly fat, man that moved with a grace that should only be seen in cats walked in to the bar, he wasn't celebrating, in fact he was depressed. He could find no woman he could stand long enough to marry and produce an heir with. He would (for a little while) thank fate for bone he was tossed tonight. His thoughts turned unbidden to his friend Soun, with his wonderful wife, a daughter and another child on the way.

Hours and many bottles of sake later, the two were giggling together, as they told each other stories of their pasts, luckily Genma wouldn't remember any of Setsuna's stories in the morning. After giggling and flirting for a while, decided to move to the nearest hotel. The next morning painful groans were the first sound heard, the sun had woken Setsuna painfully, she sat up with her hand over her eyes, she tried to remember what she did last night.

"Oh shit!" She said as she remembered, she looked around and found no one, but did find a note.

"Last night was good, but you're not what I'm looking for in a long term relationship. Signed Genma Saotome"

A month and a half later found Setsuna at the time gates, she had been feeling ill for a while, after checking with her doctor she found out she was pregnant, this was both good and bad, good that she had an heir and therefore could eventually retire, she was the longest serving Pluto by 5000 years, on the other hand she wished she could remember that night. When it came to being pregnant the gates were a blessing and a curse, time flows strangely at the gates, you can't grow older physically but you can still improve your skills, physical abilities and you can heal, this means the pregnancy can't progress when at the gate.

She had looked at the past of her "partner" and found out he was a petty thief, a bad con artist and a good martial artist, but his presence in the gates matched his chosen profession of thievery, he was very difficult to find. The chaos energy he gave off is what made him so difficult to track, he was by far the largest chaos generator she had ever meet (Happosai was a close second), this made him difficult to track in the present because the chaos energy produces a slight warping of the timeline around the generator and also made his future impossible to track because the time gates detect hundreds of equally possible timelines.

When she did find him, he was just getting out of lunch with his old training partner, Soun Tendo, there he spent the entire lunch bemoaning his lack of an heir and elaborating on his future plans for said heir. She waited just outside the bar he had been in with Soun, in civilian form but with her time key in case she had to persuade him, when he left she followed him home.

"Genma!"

"What?"

"You will be coming with me for our marriage ceremony."

"What? NO!"

"You gave me a child you will marry me, or will I have to persuade you?" she said with an evil grin, whilst indicating her staff.

"What? You couldn't touch me; you're just a weak weapon using little girl!"

"Would you like to prove that?"

"Fine!"

She leapt forward doing a diagonal spin to bring the staff down with her full weight behind it; Genma slid backward, and had to block a kick at his midsection. Going quickly into a series of strikes ending in a spear thrust at his diaphragm, Genma, who was slightly drunk at the time, was surprised at the speed and ferocity of the woman he was fighting, but that didn't stop him from parrying all the attacks, twisting past the spear thrust he brought his left heel up and round in a spinning heal kick. Setsuna ducked under the kick, flicking the butt of her staff up into the side of Genma's left knee causing him to stumble giving Setsuna enough time to do a slashing strike on his upper arm, causing it to snap. Spinning round Setsuna swept his legs out from under him, while he was in the air she struck downward sending him into the ground hard, she struck three more times, breaking his left collar bone, right floating rib and left knee cap. Noticing Genma was no longer conscious Setsuna stopped 'Maybe I went to hard? Nah!' she thought to herself, leaning down she did a quick healing spell on his knee cap (he has to stand at the wedding after all) she left the rest to heal the natural way. After getting the rest of the breaks set and providing painkillers for him, thanks to a doctor friend of her (Dr Mizuno), she took him to a Shinto priest named Hizuren Hino at Cherry Hill Shrine to have the ceremony that day. Seven months later she gave birth to a son, Ranma, Genma was ecstatic about having a son and heir, Setsuna was slightly confused because it was usual for planetary royalty lines to have female first children, it is not unheard for son's to be born first, but it was rare.

1990

Setsuna was annoyed, angry, at Genma who had left, taking her son with him, leaving a seppuku pledge. It had Ranma's hand prints on it, and she was supposed to take that as his agreement, it was obvious he didn't understand what it was for. She might hold Genma to it to stop him doing anything stupid. Sighing she teleported herself to the time gates to track Genma, "Bloody royal lockouts!".

1991

It was Ranma's sixth birthday and Genma was passed out drunk.

"Do you want to learn something cool?" said Setsuna kneeling down at his level.

"Yeah!" shouted Ranma, jumping up and down.

"Ssshhh! We don't want to wake your father. I'm going to teach you magic" said Setsuna giving him a practice wand. "Now I want you to hold this wand and say the words, Practe Bigi Nar, Ardescat, and concentrate on creating a small flame."

"Practe Bigi Nar, Ardescat" said Ranma focusing on the end of the wand. Nothing happened, slightly put out he looked at his mother.

"You need to focus on the idea of creating the flame"

"Practe Bigi Nar, Ardescat" a tiny flame was produced that disappeared instantly.

Ranma kept practicing and produced bigger flames until Setsuna was happy, then she gave him other basics: Vente (wind), Lux (light), Flugora (lightning) etc. He was told to continue practicing when his father wasn't looking.

1994

At nine Ranma was quite well versed in the basics to medium level magic in multiple fields and types of magic, including the basics of planetary magic. He had low level spells for all the elements, because his mother said specialising in one or two over all the others would cause problems later on. He had just mastered his first planetary attack spell "Pluto's Dark Hail" which was invoked with the chant "Pluto past, present and future. Time, Space and Death. Let your power flow around me, let your power flow through me and gather to my hands. Pluto's Dark Hail!". This spell was very much like the Sagitta Magica (magic arrows); it fires a variable number of small missiles of temporal energy that rapidly age anything they come in contact with. He has also learned large number of different styles of martial arts some quite esoteric, for both armed and unarmed forms.

"As your birthday present this year I'm going to teach you a new medium level spell, the Flagarantia Rubicans (Red Blaze) the chant is 'Ever-burning Fire of Purification, Lord of Destruction and Sign of Rebirth, Spring Forth from My Hand and Throttle My Enemy! Red Blaze!'".

AN: in this fic there are multiple ways to use magic magi/wizard/wiccan/colchian etc, as well as types including planetary from the silver millennium. I refuse to believe the planetary magic spells the scouts can use are the two or three attacks shown in the anime/manga of Sailor Moon. I will be giving spells in English so that I can create my own where needed.