-1Disclaimer: I do NOT own Sailor Moon, Ranma ½ or Slayers. This Work of Fiction is purely for the enjoyment of others and is not meant to invade upon the Copyrights of the creators of these two Universes. Finally suing me would be pointless because I don't have anything you'd want.
Timeline: The Ranma series is three months after the failed wedding attempt and the Sailor Moon Universe is after the final story arc, about a month or so.
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A Solar Kingdom
Chapter One: A New enemy; An Escape from Chaos
Nerima, early the next morning:
Hino Ryu looked through the window of Nerima's premier Martial Artist. I can't believe I didn't recognize her. He thought as he gazed upon the sleeping red head, Twenty thousand years of waiting, always keeping an eye out and I miss her when she finally returns. I just hope she can forgive me for what I'm about to do. But it's the only way to get her out of here.
With that thought he leaped from the roof to the ground. He barely made a sound as he landed. He looked around to make sure no one was watching him. Good their all- His thoughts cut off as he saw a light go on in the Eldest Tendo's bedroom. He frowned. Damn it. I just hope the old hag over in the Nekohanten is stone drunk, otherwise she'll easily be able to pick up what I'm doing. He thought angrily.
His right hand began to glow and he wrote a complicated glyph in the air before him. It glowed momentarily before flashing brightly once and disappearing, along with Hino Ryu. Moments later the porch door slid open to reveal the eldest Tendo daughter, Kasumi. She looked around. Odd, she thought, I thought I saw something out here. Must have been Grandfather, gag, Happosei. She managed to stop herself from frowning. Instead she smiled and went back into the house. She never noticed that the door shut itself a few moments later.
Somewhere…
Pluto stared at the Time Gates. This HAD to be a bad dream. A REALLY bad dream. Crystal Tokyo did not just go from ninety-eight point seven percent certainty to less then ten. Pluto adjusted the time gates hoping it was just an error, they did occur from time to time when the stream became slightly turbulent. Nothing, the adjustments did nothing. Frowning, and slightly panicky, Pluto began to search the time stream for the cause of this… discrepancy.
Nerima, Tendo Dojo, Breakfast time…
"Akane would you mind waking Ranma up?" Asked Kasumi from the kitchen.
"Alright Oneechan." Akane called back as she headed up the stairs. She pushed open the door to the Guest Bedroom and spotted Ranma on his futon. What she saw next to him made her freeze up. Her mind, in an attempt to analyze the situation for once went through a checklist.
Red headed martial artist: check
Futon: Check
Beautiful Chinese bimbo with purple hair and speak impediment: Check
Conclusion: Ranma seduced Shampoo and slept with her, while a girl. Ranma is a pervert.
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"RANMA!" Screamed Akane as she malleted the unfortunate Martial Artist in LEO (Low Earth Orbit for those new to FanFiction). She somehow managed to miss Shampoo who was snuggled up to Ranma's side with an arm around him.
Shampoo pushed herself up and looked around. "Aiyah what Shampoo doing in Airen's Bedroom?" She asked looking confused. She spotted the hole in the ceiling and Akane with her mallet and came to the correct conclusion. "Why Kitchen Destroyer hit Airen?" She asked.
Akane just glared at Shampoo before storming out of the room. She slammed the door so hard that it went into the wall and got stuck.
"Aiyah. Kitchen Destroyer mad. Though that not new." Muttered Shampoo before smashing a hole in the wall and heading for the Nekohanten,
Hino Ryu watched as Ranma went flying out of the Tendo Residence. He sighed. He hated doing this to the poor boy but Hino Ryu knew that by itself the situation would never reach the point where Ranma would want to leave. But lately it had been getting close. All it needed was that last little push, one day of absolute hell, and Ranma would be out of there.
"Looks like part one worked." He said and looked upwards at the branches of a tree over head. On the branch directly above him sat two hawks. "Is the rest of the plan ready?" He asked. They nodded. "Good. I'll take it from here." With that the two hawks took flight and left. "I just hope I don't have to intervene." He murmured as he set out after the flying Martial Artist.
Ranma Saotome came to somewhere near the apex of her flight over Nerima. Oh great looks like the Tomboy couldn't wait for me to wake up this morning before smashing me with that damn mallet of hers. She thought.
(Now lets take a slight detour from the story. Some of you maybe wondering why Ranma's a girl right now. Simple, he was too tired the night before to bother with changing back and just fell asleep while a girl. Now lets get back to your regularly scheduled Fanfic.)
Why does she keep doing it? Why? She wondered, I don't know how much more of this chaos I can stand. Gravity decided that she had defied it long enough at that moment and chose to reassert its power over her. She fell straight into a clump of trees in a park. She crashed through the branches with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Her flight came to an end when she crashed into a tree trunk too strong for her to break through. She fell to the ground in a heap and lay there for a little while.
Ten minutes later she managed to gather up enough strength to push herself up. She winced as pain shot up her left arm. Definitely broken. She thought cradling it lightly. She looked around. "Now where the hell am I?" She said out loud.
"Ranma? What are you doing in Osaka." Said a voice from behind her.
She turned around. "Ryoga… I don't think this is Osaka, then again she might have malleted me that far this time." She said when she spotted the bandanaed lost boy.
He pulled a rather large Red umbrella from his backpack. "What did you do to Akane?" He demanded.
"How the hell should I know! I went to sleep last night and woke up flying through the air. I didn't have time to do ANYTHING!" She shouted at him.
Ryoga stared at her for a few moments. "RANMA PREPARE TO DIE FOR WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE DONE TO AKANE!" He shouted and swung his umbrella at Ranma.
Ranma ducked under the wild swing and drove an uppercut straight into Ryoga's chin with her good arm. Ryoga flew back a dozen or so feet before his progress was halted by a tree. He picked himself up and charged at Ranma again.
"Damn it… Ryoga what the hell is wrong with you!" Growled Ranma as she dodged his attacks. It was almost all she could do not to scream from the pain in her arm. She could feel the bones rubbing together.
"JUST SHUT UP AND DIE!" Ryoga shouted back and threw a handful of bandana's at her. She managed to evade most them but received a nasty cut along her right thigh.
I can't take this right now. With my arm broken I can't use most of my special moves. I've got to end this right now. Thought Ranma as she tried to keep out of range of Ryoga's umbrella. Tried being the word of choice. She took a blow in the stomach that sent her through the tree she'd hit the first time. "Alright this ends now!" Hissed Ranma. She brought up her good arm. With a cry of "MOKO TAKABISHA!" a beam of blue ki lanced out of her hand and took Ryoga in the stomach. He went flying back crashing through at least a dozen trees before coming to a stop. He didn't get up.
Ranm pushed herself up and limped over to him. As much as she hated it when he tried to kill her she didn't want him dead. After checking for, and finding, a pulse she turned and limped out of the trees.
"Well everything appears to be going as planned." Said Hino Ryu as he watched the lost boy being blasted through nearly fifteen trees. Ryu watched as Ranma walked over to check on her fallen opponent. "Such ability to forgive. Amazing after what she's been through." He murmured, "She cares about what happens to her opponents even when they have done nothing to deserve it from her." As Ranma began to limp away he followed in the shadows.
Shampoo wandered into the Nekohanten ten minutes after leaving the Tendo's. 'Shampoo where have you been!' Asked Cologne the moment she entered the restaurant.
'I went to sleep last night in my room and woke up on Airen's futon.' She said.
Unfortunately Mousse over heard this, but instead of his usual antics he just slipped out of the restaurant with an unusual look in his eyes.
Ranma sat down on a bench near a fountain in the park she had landed in. She was tired of all these fights. Day in, day out. She never had a chance to rest. "I need to get out of here." She said cradling her broken arm.
"Saotome." Said a voice behind her.
"Hello Mousse." She said when she turned around, "So what did I do this time? Look better then Shampoo? Speak Japanese better? Oh I know I walked better." She added sarcastically.
"Ha ha ha. No Saotome. You kidnapped Shampoo last night and had your way with her." Growled Mousse.
Ranma just stared in dumbfounded amazement. "What are you talking about?" She asked, "I ain't done NOTHING with Shampoo."
Mousse smirked. "You lie Saotome. I heard it from her own mouth. Unfortunately for you I have something I've been wanting to use on you." He said in a tone that was totally unlike his usual one. It made Ranma slightly nervous..
Mousse raised his hands above his head. "Darkness beyond twilight," He began, "Crimson beyond blood that flows," A red glow began to form between his hands.
Ranma's eyes went wide. He was using magic, and dark Magic if the feeling he was getting was any indication.
"Buried in the stream of time is where your power grows," Ranma began backing away. She wasn't scared of anything but she'd had too many bad experiences with magic to ignore.
"I pledge myself to conquer all the foes who stand Before the mighty gift bestowed in my unworthy hands Let the foes who stand before me be destroyed by the power you and I possess."
Ranma looked around but realized there was no way he could get away with her wounds. She flared her aura hoping it would take the brunt of the damage.
"DRAGON SLAVE!" Shouted Mousse and a red beam shot from his hands toward Ranma. It hit Ranma and Exploded. As the explosion blossomed outwards both Mousse and Ranma were knocked unconscious.
When Hino Ryu heard the first words he knew which spell the boy was casting, and it filled him with dread. He turned and started to run as fast as he could. The blast from that spell would be enormous. "Damn it. He's not supposed to know magic. Let alone the most powerful spell in Black Magic." Said Hino Ryu as he ran.
He felt, as well as heard, the spell go off. He turned and looked. Where there was once a park there was now a giant crater over five hundred meters across. At the very bottom center was a charred female form. About fifteen feet away lay another body also extremely burnt.
"No… no not now. He wasn't supposed to know magic." Despaired Ryu as he gazed upon the devastation.
"Oh dear this does look bad doesn't it?" Said a voice behind Ryu.
Ryu turned. He saw a bishonen young man with dark purple hair. He was wearing a grey white tunic and grey pants. A brown cloak was held in place by an amulet with several garnet coloured gems in it.
"Xellos." Said Ryu disgust clear in his voice, "What are you doing here?"
"What's with all the suspicion? Must I have a reason to visit the greatest source of chaos outside the monster race?" Asked Xellos innocently.
"You always have a reason." Said Ryu, "Now what is it, and before you say that is a secret let me warn you that I will hurt and maim you if you do."
Xellos looked him in the eyes and gulped. There wasn't much that could make one of Hino Ryu's kind as angry as he was now. Xellos came to the conclusion that it would be best if he… disclosed his reasons instead of keeping them to himself. "Well… I came to see if the Mousse boy had found the scroll for the Dragon Slave that I left for him." Said Xellos and he took a step back.
Ryu had begun to generate a bright red battle aura. "You gave an untrained mortal with a mental instability a scroll for the DRAGON SLAVE!"
"Please its not like the boy was able to cast a Dragon Slave powerful enough to kill Ranma. Besides I consider it levelling the playing field." Said Xellos calmly.
"Normally I'd agree with you on this Xellos. But Ranma was NOT in very good condition when she was hit. A broken arm and being tired from fighting the Hibiki boy. Plus do you even realize what you might have just ruined?" Hissed Ryu grabbing the collar of Xellos' shirt. Xellos managed to shake his head. "I have reason to believe that Ranma is th-" He cut off as he heard sirens in the distance. "We'll finish this later Xellos. Don't think I've forgiven you." With that Ryu vanished.
Xellos fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes. He was gasping for breath. What the hell is he talking about? What did I ruin? Maybe it's something I can turn to my advantage. He smiled and vanished.
Minutes later the first paramedics were on the scene and carting the two barred bodies - which were, amazingly enough, still alive - to the hospital.
Cologne looked up from her cooking. She had felt an extremely large discharge of energy nearby. 'Xian take care of the restaurant. There is something I need to investigate.' She said before hopping out the door on her cane.
She arrived at the 'park' in time to see Ranma and Mousse being loaded into the ambulance. She recognized them by their auras. Their's something off with Mousse's aura. She thought and examined it more closely. What she saw managed to startle her. A thin line of Black was entwined with what she could normally see, and the line of black gave her a sense of evil. She expanded her senses to include the entire crater and shuddered. The whole crater reeked of black magic. "No… It can't be. He didn't." She mumbled, "I must investigate this more." With that she turned and hopped back towards the Nekohanten.
"OW!" Cried Xellos as he was pinned against a wall by Ryu. They had met again a few minutes later and Ryu had dragged Xellos into an alley.
"Alright I'll tell you what you went and ruined back there." Said Ryu, "Have you ever wondered how Ranma's been able to learn martial arts so quickly? In fact I myself noticed a while back that when dedicated his learn curve rivalled that of Sailor Sol."
Xellos paled even while going blue in the face from lack of oxygen, the result was an interesting sky blue. Xellos knew who Sailor Sol was. Even feared her. The Senshi of Battle had been responsible for turning back many attempts by the monster race to establish control over her kingdom during the silver millennium. "Air!" Gasped Xellos clawing at the hand that had him pinned to the wall. Ryu loosened his hold slightly.
"Do you see where I'm going with this Xellos?" Asked Ryu. Xellos shook his head. "Well I did a bit of investigating and when I took a close look at Ranma's soul I found a soul curse."
"A soul curse. Even the Monster Race doesn't use those." Said Xellos trying to pry off Ryu's vice like grip.
"I know that. It would appear that it was applied to hide a certain person from us." Said Ryu.
"Who?"
"Sol." Was all Ryu said.
Xellos stopped struggling. "Ranma is Sailor Sol? Interesting." He said.
"Now listen and listen good. You do anything to Ranma and I'll be coming after you personally. I've been looking for her for too long to let anything happen. Am I clear?" He asked. His eyes were blazing with a hidden fire.
Xellos nodded. "Wouldn't dream of it." He said.
Ryu released Xellos' neck. "Good because the only way to lift that barrier that's keeping you from going back to your dimension is if you keep on Solaris's good side." He told Xellos and vanished.
Xellos stared at the spot where Ryu had been standing. "Like I needed reminding." He muttered dryly before disappearing.
Pluto slumped to the ground. She'd check and double check so many times it wasn't funny. But the fact was that there was no error. The scary part was that the chances of Crystal Tokyo coming about were slowly decreasing even as she sat there.
"How is this possible?" She thought out loud, "I should have seen something that would cause this. Unless… No. Impossible they can't be here." She stared at the gate for a moment longer before shutting it and locking it down. "This will be of no use if it is them, and will in fact be a liability." She told herself. She really didn't like having to lock it down but there wasn't much choice. "I better tell the princess. She won't be happy about this." Pluto said before opening a portal and stepping through.
An ambulance pulled up to the emergency entrance of Juuban General Hospital fifteen minutes after leaving the park. The back doors were thrown open and the bodies of Mousse and Ranma were placed on gurney's and rolled into the emergency ward.
Saeko Mizuno looked up from her charts as the door open. It had been a rather slow night for once, and she had been wondering when something would happen. She gasped when she saw the two figures being rolled it. She ran over and hurried to keep up. "What happened?" She asked.
"We're not sure. They were found in a park in Nerima. What was left of it anyway. Instead of the park we found a giant crater maybe half a klick wide. Maybe more. At the bottom of it were these two. The girl had third degree burns over seventy percent of her body, and second degree ones over the remaining thirty percent, broken left arm and several nasty cut along the legs and arms. The Male has third degree over only ten percent, second over fifty, and first degree over forty percent. Knowing Nerima it was probably some Martial Arts challenge." Said the Paramedic.
"Martial Arts? Martial Arts didn't do this!" Said Mrs. Mizuno.
"Obviously you don't know Nerima. It has the highest per capita ratio of super powered Martial Artists, slightly above average martial artists and strange Martial Arts styles then anywhere else on the planet. Add the regular dabbling in magic by some inhabitants and regular invasions of strange creatures. Trust me this could easily have been a Martial Arts Fight gone wrong. Especially if these two are who I think they are." Replied the other Paramedic.
"And who are they?" Asked Mrs. Mizuno.
"I'm pretty sure the female is the local numero uno of the Martial Arts food chair. Mr./Mrs. Ranma Saotome. Her gender officially listed as Aquatransexual. This is due to a Chinese cures. Ranma, if the rumours are correct was born male. Turns female with cold water, male with hot. I'd recommend you avoid hot water until she's better. The male I'm sure is Mu Tzu. Or Mousse. A Chinese Amazon. He's part of the grouped of super powered Martial Artists that cause most of the fuss over in Nerima with their fights called the Nerima Wrecking Crew, or NWC for short. Most of their fights are internal and focus on Mrs. Ranma over here. I'd say one of her Rivals finally managed to get her." The Paramedic told her.
"I'll be dealing with the Girls case. I want you to get me as much information as you can since you seem to know so much. Go through official and unofficial channels, but I need the info and I want it as unbiased as possible. For some reason I don't think she has many real friends." Said Mrs. Mizuno.
"I'll see what I can do. No promises though." He said.
"Thank you." Replied Mrs. Mizuno and she ran off to help with the preparations.
Hino Ryu looked through the glass into the operating room. It had been five hours since she went in. Five hours. If she dies then Xellos is dead! On second thought maybe I should just kill him? He thought then discarded it outright. Annoying the Monster might be but he had his uses. Ryu stood there and watched as the doctors began to clean up. From what he could tell they'd succeeded. But would this be enough to get Ranma to leave Nerima? He hoped so.
"Sir, can I help you?" Asked a nurse.
Ryu turned to the woman. "I saw what happen to the girl earlier and I wanted to see if she was alright. Few could have survived what that boy unleashed." He said.
"I used to live in Nerima. So what did Mousse do?" She asked.
"He unleashed a spell called the Dragon Slave. I'm not sure how he knew it. It's the most powerful spell in Black Magic. Black magic just means it draws power from a monster of some sort. It does not mean that the spell corrupts people." He added hastily when he saw the look upon her face.
"I do hope Mrs. Saotome survives. She went out of her way once to save me from a stray blast from one of her rivals. Those people have no idea of how to keep people safe. They really only care about themselves. Only Mrs. Saotome here ever pulls her attacks or goes out of her way to make sure innocents aren't hurt in those fights of theirs." Said the nurse, "You should tell the police what you know."
"I can't seem to find any." Replied Ryu calmly.
"They should be outside the Mu Tzu's room waiting for him to wake up." She said.
"Thank you." Said Ryu with a bow. He headed off in the direction that the woman had indicated.
Ryu looked into Mousse's room. He really couldn't blame the boy for his actions. With Mousse the phrase 'Blind to reality' took on greater meaning. This blindness, both physically and mentally, made him easy to manipulate. Xellos had seen this and used it. I should go and see if Ranma is alright. He thought before leaving Mousse alone again.
When Ryu entered Ranma's room his face grew extremely worried. Ranma was wrapped up in bandages and her left arm was in a cast. Her hair was gone, completely burnt away. He walked up to her side and sat in a chair next to her. He looked around to make sure he wasn't being observed. Seeing that he was alone with Ranma he put his hands out over her head. With one glowing hand he carved a rune into the air. It flared after a moment. Ryu's eyes glazed over.
Ranma looked around. The place she was in was dark. That's all she could tell. No walls, no ground, no sky. Just darkness. Yet for some reason she could see herself perfectly. "Where am I?" She asked to no one in particular.
"Your mind of course." Said a voice behind her.
She whirled around immediately falling into a ready stance. She saw a man in his mid thirties with strawberry red hair that was pulled up into a ponytail. He was wearing what looked like silver armor. "Who are you? What do you want?" Demanded Ranma.
"Easy. Easy. My name is Hino Ryu. As for what I want. Well I've been looking for you for a long time. Several thousand years in fact." Ryu Replied.
"So did my ancestor sell me to you or something?" Asked Ranma.
Ryu just stared at Ranma incredulously. "Uh… No…" Ryu said slowly. Guess I should just get this over with. He thought. "It's just I have reason to believe that you may be the Reborn Princess of the Solar Kingdom." He said.
It was Ranma's turn to stare at the man like he had two heads. "I'M A GUY!" She shouted.
"Oh really? That soul curse says otherwise." Replied Ryu.
"Soul Curse?" Asked Ranma confused.
"This," Said Ryu gesturing at the blackness around them, "is the result of a Soul Curse. A Soul Curse activates after death cursing the soul with whatever it does for the entirety of its next life. I sense a female Soul in you Ranma. I didn't notice it at first because of the strength of the Curse."
This sent Ranma reeling. Him a girl? No it couldn't be possible. This had to be a trick. Maybe by Cologne? If she couldn't get him to marry her great-granddaughter then maybe she was aiming to at least get 'Her' into the tribe. "No. Your lying. I'm a guy. I have to be." The last part came out in a whisper.
"What do you mean you HAVE to be a guy? Your one of the few people actually given a choice. But when I say Princess, that doesn't just mean fancy dresses and parties." Said Ryu.
"What do you mean?" Asked Ranma. Somehow she didn't think she'd like that answer.
"Back thousands of years ago the entire solar system was colonized. Each planet sustained populations of their own. They were united under the rule of one Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom. But it wasn't just the planets which had people living on them." Ryu told her.
"What people were living on aster- um… those rock things." Said Ranma.
"Asteroid, and no. People did not live on those unless they were mining them. No, what I a referring to is the sun. Have you ever heard of a sunspot Ranma?" Asked Ryu.
"Um… Colder spots on the sun?" He said hesitantly.
"Well at least you know the theory this world as, and it is good to know that the illusion still works after all this time. No, they are not cold spots on the sun. They are continents that move about the sun. They don't melt because of the magics used to protect them. These magics also allow people to live on them. Or allowed people to. I am afraid the only creatures that live on them anymore are the wildlife, phoenixes, Dragons and various monsters left over from the fall of the Silver Millenium as the time period was known."
"People living on the sun? You expect me to believe this?" Asked Ranma.
"Whether you believe me or not I does not matter. What matters is that the Princesses of the various planets, and the Solar Kingdom, were what we know now as the Sailor Senshi." Said Ryu.
Ranma didn't respond for a moment and Ryu didn't elaborate. After running the information through her brain several times Ranma said, "So you mean I'm supposed to be one of those girls that run around in those really, really, really short skirts that would make even the old pervert faint from a nosebleed?"
"There is one more thing. Before you ask how they lived so long they didn't. They died, along with you, when the kingdoms fell. Queen Serenity managed to gather your souls and send them forward. This act used the last of her life force. The rest of the Senshi were reborn along with you in this age." Said Ryu.
"Either your really good at acting or your serious." Replied Ranma.
"Look there is a simple test. If you don't turn out to be her the Senshi will still have need of help. And in any circumstance think of this as a way to escape the Chaos that is your life in Nerima. Even if you aren't her, I'll still help you." Said Ryu.
"So now your offering an Escape from Chaos?" Asked Ranma.
"Yes I am."
Authors Note: I'd like to thank those of you who reviewed the Prologue. The encouragement is always good. Now I think I'll address a few things people saw fit to ask or point out.
AMG: I don't know whether or not to add it. I'm still thinking about it.
Summary: Your right it is a lot like those other ones, and not on purpose I assure you.
Slayers and Xellos: Yeah yeah I know. Ranma SM Crossover. The only character from slayers to appear in more then name in this fic will be Xellos. I also couldn't resist the number of spells that Slayers has to offer. So many and so many the blow things up. That in my books is a good combination.
Well that's all for now.