Disclaimer:

The characters in this story aren't mine. They are the property of Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of Ranma ½ and Takeuchi Naoko, the creator of Sailor Moon. This is a totally non-profit bit of prose also known as a fanfic. I am writing this for the enjoyment of other fans and myself. If Takahashi Rumiko or Takeuchi Naoko say they don't want their characters used in this way it will be deleted immediately. Anywho... onward into the story.

A little bit of background:

This is a crossover story between Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon. The story takes place sometime after the end of the Shishi Houkoudan story line in volume 20 of the original Ranma ½ manga (Viz has reorganized the volumes making them larger, and I have no idea what volume it is by their numbering.) As for the Sailor Moon storyline it takes place somewhere during the anime storyline of Sailor Moon S before Eudail died. I really don't know a lot about Sailor Moon so it's going to be difficult to be sure I make everything fit. However, with the help of the many websites on the subject, and a little luck the story line will hopefully seem correct. Okay on to the story... for real this time.

Lost in the Moon Light

By: Eric Evans

Chapter 2: Second Chances

A black cat with a crescent moon marking her forehead was walking down a street in the Juuban district near Tokyo mumbling to herself.

Luna was not having a good day. The Senshi had called her to help them decide what they should do. After listening to the story they told her about a daimon roaming the city she had convinced them to go searching for it. As the girls split up Luna went to do some searching of her own. However she hadn't found anything by the time a call came over her communicator from Venus and Jupiter. Hearing that the two girls thought they had found the daimon she quickly began to make her way to where they had said they were, but she didn't get far. She made it about a block before she was chased by a large scary dog only to be rescued by the most annoying little kid she had ever met. Not only that but she had almost been ran over by a garbage truck when she finally managed to escape. In the end she had missed the entire fight and the girls had called her wondering where she was since they needed to talk with her again. Once she caught up with the girls she explain why she had been late and had been made fun of by Usagi for it.

What was even worse however was the story the girls had told her about their fight. They had hoped she could clear some things up, but she was as astonished as they were. After hearing the entire story from each of the girls she had left telling them she needed to check some things. The truth was she wanted to see the battlefield herself. From what the girls had said the entire place was in shambles after their run in with the impossibly strong boy. Crushed mailboxes, bent light posts, crumbling walls and pitted streets where what the girls had described to her. Although she expected they were exaggerating she still wanted to see for herself.

As she turned the corner to the place the girls had fought earlier she found that what the girls had described to her was not very accurate. In fact the damage was far beyond anything she could have imagined. Most noticeable was the huge crater in the middle of the street as well as several crumbling walls.

Luna studied the various damages carefully trying to reconstruct the battle in her mind from what the girls had told her. After a bit of work she had more or less went through the entire fight. As she finished she was left in the middle of the large crater that was obviously formed by what the girls had described as his final attack.

She studied the ground where the monstrous boy had obviously been standing when he did his final attack marveling at the power such an impact must have taken before something caught her attention. Blood? It's at the center of the crater…. It's from that boy… so they did hurt him. As she continued to study the large blood stained spot she realized that there was a trail of blood leading from there towards the end of the street.

At the end of the street, remembering what Ami had said, she quickly found her way to the roof of the building and followed the morbid trial. She leapt from house to house as the bloodstains continued.

After several hours of leaping from building to building Luna was exhausted. When she had started she had occasionally been forced to find an alternate route to the next roof. Although she could leap exceedingly well even for a cat she had her limitations, and as the night wore on and after several near misses she had to climb down and back up more and more often as her energy was nearly spent.

She came to yet another edge and sighed. Well, it's pretty close might as well jump. Backing up Luna dashed to the edge and bounded across the chasm and land safely on the other side, but shook her head. Oh… what am I doing? I can't keep this up much longer. She sighed again and decided she should keep going a little longer since she had already come so far. The truth is that she had already told herself that several times.

As she began again she realized that she could no longer see any blood. She looked around confused hoping to spot the red trail she had been following long ago having stopped wondering how much blood a person could loose before they just ran out.

She walked back to the ledge she had just leapt to and stared across the alleyway at the roof she had just come from. She could see the blood from there and was puzzled by the trails sudden end. Then she realized there was one other place that he could have gone to from there. Luna lowered her gazed to the alley below. It appeared vacant so she positioned herself over a dumpster and leapt down.

She quickly once again found more bloodstains but they didn't lead anywhere. Instead they seem to pool in one spot. He must have stopped here and healed himself…. Luna cursed under her breath. While the girls had been quite adamant against the idea she still thought that the boy was probably a daemon of some sort or at the very least some sort of evil general. She had hoped that he would lead her back to its master or their base of operation, or if nothing else, where he lived assuming the girls where right. It would have been nice to have had the upper hand on the enemy for once, but her hopes quickly died as she realized she had no way to knowing where he had headed. With a sigh Luna began looking around for any clues.

She quickly found several bloodied and burnt rags as well as some gauze that smelled of disinfectant some of which were also soaked in blood. Luna decided to look around a bit more, and quickly spotted a pile of garbage covered by a wool blanket. Luna grinned to herself thinking perhaps the boy had tried to hide something there.

Luna walked to one end of the blanket sunk her claws into it and drew it back so she could see what was underneath. What she found was not at all what she had expected. She was scared out of her wits by what she saw under the blanket, a boy staring back at her. Although she was petrified with fear as soon as she had seen the boy she unconsciously triggered the emergency beacon on her communicator. Soon the girls would show up to help and all she had to do until then was stay alive which from Luna's point of view seemed quite impossible. Oh god! I can't possibly run after searching all evening! I'm dead….

Luna was shaking in fear when she finally steeled herself. She couldn't let herself die with out even trying not when the Moon Princess still needed her. Think like a cat! Think like a cat! "Meow…?"

As the boy spoke for the first time she realized how tired and pale he looked in the moon light, "Oh, hey kitty… you cold or something?"

Still shaking with fear Luna meowed once again, and watched as the boy tried to sit up but fell back to the ground clutching his side in pain.

Luna watched as the young man pulled off the woolen blanket to look at his side, and felt sick as she realized the red ichor covering the side of his shirt was half dried blood.

"Damn… it already soaked through the bandages. I thought it would have stopped bleeding by now…." The injured young man turned his attention back to the cat standing in front of him, "Well, there's nothing I can do about it right now. I already used all of my bandages. So you hungry kitty? I could really use the company."

Luna stared at the bleeding boy laying in front of her completely confused as he dug in his pack. Can this really be the man they described? His wounds seem to match… but he seems harmless… a bit strange talking to cats, but still… not at all what I expected from someone who could take on the Sailor Senshi with his bare hands. The image of an angry, scarred, brute of a man that could bend light poles and smash rock, and that would attacking anything that got in it's way was suddenly brushed out of her mind when she realized that a piece of jerky was being held out to her.

"C'mon kitty. It's good. It's… uhhh… turkey I think…." He raised the piece he had in his other hand to his mouth and tasted it. "Uhhh… well, I don't know but it's good anyway…."

Luna held back her urge to laugh at the puzzled look on the boy's face and meowed once again leaning over to sniff the proffered meat noticing that his hands where also bandaged before she gingerly pulled it out of his hand to nibble on. Hmmm… I don't get it… he seems friendly, but I'm certain that the huge pack with the umbrella strapped to the top is exactly like the girls described, and his injures fit almost perfectly what I would have expected. It has got to be him…. Why does he have a huge pack like that anyway…?

The bandana-clad boy shook his head as if to clear his vision, "Damn… I think I'm gonna black out…. You don't mind keeping me company for a while do you, kitty? I don't think I can go back to sleep right now with my side aching, so I could really use someone to talk to…."

Although Luna hated pretending to be a cat she meowed once more and stared at him intently as she continued to nibble on the jerky. This is just to strange… but still it couldn't hurt to stay for a bit. I might learn something from him at the least….

The tired looking boy smiled slightly at her and began, "Don't guess you're gonna do much talking, huh?" He sighed, "Well, you know… I've had a really bad day…. Not only have I not been able to find the Tendo residence for the last week even though I'm pretty sure this is the Tokyo area, but then this red lady says something about stealing my heart and shoots me with some sorta ray gun. I'll tell you what kitty, I thought I was done for right then. It felt like that crystal thing was sucking the life right outa me." Luna's eyes widened. Heart… crystal…? Could the red lady have been Eudail? It does seem an appropriate description of her, an evil lady in red with a big energy weapon, but… surely the girls would have recognized her…. The boy continued, "I was gonna try to catch her but two more girls came running after me. Those girls were monsters, they just yelled out some stuff and attacked me. What's worse, after I had just about finished taking care of those two, two more showed up, then another one a little later." I can't believe it. His story fits exactly, but it doesn't sound like he knew who they were…. "It's scary to think there are people like them just running around attacking people…. I wonder how many of those… Sailor Senshi or whatever it was they called themselves, there are."

Luna stared at the boy dumbfounded. There was no more denying it. The boy in front of her was the one the girls had fought, and what was worse it seemed the girls had been the ones who had been wrong. The thought of the Sailor Senshi attacking innocent people sickened her. Though it was true that the fanged boy had gotten away alive if he hadn't been quite so strong they would have killed him. Luna felt like she was going to throw up. I can't leave him like this. We have to help him, explain the misunderstanding and get him into a hospital. Luna looked up at the boy's face considering what she should do next when she noticed his expression. He was frozen, staring, eyes wide at… something at the end of the alley.

Luna turned and was surprised to see the Sailor Senshi standing in the nearby street. Oh, that's right I turned on my homing beacon. Well, that will make this faster, I just have to get the girls to apologize, and get him to a hospital as soon as possible. Luna let out a load meow.

Ryouga froze as he noticed the Sailor Senshi standing in the adjacent street. Damn! How did they find me?! Maybe they won't see me if I lie still, and don't make any sound…. Ryouga's plan however died quickly as the cat that had been keeping him company let out a load meow. The girls all turned towards him and his eyes locked with the orange clad girl. Oh god, oh god, oh god! What now?! He blinked. Wait, didn't I break her nose? He shook his head. No time for that now! He leapt to his feet slipping one hand through a strap on his backpack and the other hand scooped up his feline companion. Grabbing his blanket in the same motion he wrapped it around himself and the black cat like a cloak.

The Sailor Senshi were surprised to see him and staggered back as he leapt up. Using the opening he was given Ryouga charged down the alleyway and into the center of the startled girls before bounding to the rooftop at the other side of the street.

Makoto was the first to recover, "T-that was the guy from before!"

"That bastard! He has Luna!" Rei added.

Tears were welling up in Usagi's eyes, "But, why would he take Luna…?"

Ami was trying to sort the influx of new information, and kept quiet.

"We had better hurry and follow them!" Minako interjected anxiously.

"Venus is right we don't have time for this we have to save Luna," Usagi said with determination.

They all nodded their assent and sprang to the rooftops in pursuit of their black feline advisor and her captor.

Luna struggled out from under the blanket that was wrapped around her and looked up at her wanna-be savior.

"Damn!" he winced from the pain in his side, "How can they be completely healed already?! I'm screwed…."

Luna sighed. This isn't going to be nearly as easy as I had hoped…. It seems he isn't as injured as I had assumed.

She felt something sticky against her side and ducked back under the makeshift cloak to take a look. The inside of the cloak as well as the boy's side and her were soaked in blood. Oh god! How can he keep going?! Argh! What am I going to do?

Luna didn't have any time to think however, "Sorry for getting you into this kitty." The almost weak looking incredibly strong young man leapt short of the next building and landed on the fire escape, " I couldn't just leave you back there they might have blasted you, but you'll be safer if you're not with me."

Luna was roughly dropped to the fire escape floor as the boy bound to the top of the building and continued to the next out of her sight.

As the Senshi continued their pursuit they saw the cloaked figure in front of them drop below the roofline.

Rei was the first to react, "Damn, we're gonna lose that bastard if we don't hurry!"

Ami corrected, "No, I can track him with…." She was interrupted as they watched the boy once again leap to the rooftops and head in a different direction.

"There he is!" Makoto yelled out the obvious.

They all changed direction to follow the lost boy, but Ami glanced back the other direction, "Wait, I'm still getting Luna's signal from back the other way."

Every one looked at her unsure what to do. Usagi spoke up, "Mercury, go check it out. We'll keep after this guy."

Ami nodded and bound the other way. As she closed on the signal she glanced back at her friends worry covering her face. They where already nearly out of sight.

She neared the area the beacon was coming from and slowed down to look around. Remembering how the boy had went below the roofline for a short time Ami looked down towards the alley below. It didn't take long for her to notice the red and black form of a cat laying unmoving on the fire escape of the far building. Oh my god! No, no, no...

Sailor Mercury activated her communicator as she leapt across the chasm to their downed advisor, "Girls, I found her, but she's not moving and she's covered in blood!"

She could hear their collective gasp over the intercom, but Usagi was the first to respond, "Oh god... please take care of her Mercury! We have to get this guy... He has to be stopped."

"Right, I'll call you as soon as I know more, you all be careful" Mercury said as she landed on the fire escape and put away her communicator.

As Ryouga continued his rooftop sprint he could feel his energy running low. The blood loss was taking its toll. He pushed himself onward, but he knew his own limitations all to well and he could feel the Sailor Senshi starting to close in on him as his pace diminished.

Great… I can't out run them, I'm too tired.… Now what? Ryouga looked around as he ran for any advantage he could use. Guess I'm gonna have to try and lose them on the streets, he thought as he leapt down between two large buildings into an alleyway.

Sailor Jupiter was the first to point out the obvious, "He jumped down to the streets! We are gonna to have to hurry or we're gonna lose him!"

"No way he's gonna get away!" Rei said, picking up her pace.

The quartet quickly closed on the alley the fleeing boy had escaped into. They quickly spread out to find him.

Unfortunately for Ryouga, he had run in a complete circle around the building. While it might have been a good tactic to lose the Senshi had he planned it, it only managed to get him caught that much quicker as he hadn't bothered to hide as he thought the girls were still a ways behind him. He heard a girl shout and looked up only to see the green skirted Senshi pointing directly at him.

He made it to the end of the alley and into the street only to find the other three girls waiting for him. The forth Senshi jumped down lightly to join her friends.

Ryouga was stuck. He knew running back down the alley way would only make him an easy target, and he had very little chance of surviving against four of the magical girls at once even had he not been about to pass out from blood loss. Crap… no where to go now, but there's no way I'm going down with out a fight!

The girls watched as the cloaked boy let the blanket slip to the ground. He pulled the umbrella from atop his pack and tossed the pack to the side with a thunderous rumble, and pulled himself into a ready stance. He raised his umbrella in front of him and crouched as if ready to strike. His head was cocked towards the Senshi his face shrouded in shadow hiding the resigned look on his face, but the moon light glistened off of the dampness that covered the side of his shirt.

Minako gulped recognizing the blood, "I uhhh… guess he's wounded, so… this shouldn't be to hard, huh?" She said uneasily not feeling right about attacking the injured.

Sailor Moon began her speech, "I don't know who you are, but you will pay for what you have done, so that no one else will suffer! For love and justice, I am the pretty, sailor-suited fighter Sailor Moon."

"Sailor Jupiter."

"Sailor Mars."

"Sailor Venus."

"On behalf of the moon we will punish you!" Sailor Moon finished.

"Uhhh… pretty sailor-suited… yeah, whatever…. You want me? Fine, but you're gonna wish you hadn't messed with Hibiki Ryouga!" Despite having said that the boy didn't seem to want to start the fight.

The girls looked at each other a bit confused, but began to charge their attacks. Rei was the first to attack, "Burning Mandala!" The blood covered boy quickly dodged to the side avoiding the fiery ring and ignoring it cutting through part of the building behind him, he charged at Rei who quickly fell back leaving him in the middle of the Senshi.

Makoto began her attack as Usagi charged hers, "Sparkling Wide Pressure!"

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!"

The tired bandana-clad boy jumped over the sphere of electricity only to find himself being surrounded by ribbons of magical hearts. The boy spread his arms and shouted, "Shishi Houkoudan!" and the hearts dissipated from the blast. Usagi and Rei both winced feeling the effects even from the severely-weakened marital-artist's attack. The lost boy managed to land on his feet but staggered from dizziness leaving him open to Minako who hesitated, "Venus Love-Me Chain!" The chain wrapped itself around the weakened impossibly strong boy.

Makoto started to attack, but realized their communicators where beeping and quickly backed off of the attack and pulled it out concerned about Luna.

Rei had recovered enough to see the opening and quickly charged her attack, "Burning Mandala!" The ring of fire shot strait towards the struggling boy. It took all the lost martial artist had to force his umbrella open before the attack hit. The umbrella deflected the attack though it was a bit charred around the edges and blackened all over. Rei growled annoyed having seen her attack stopped by an umbrella.

Usagi took a deep breath finally clearing her mind, and prepared her attack along with Rei, however they were interrupted by Makoto, "Everyone! Listen, it's Ami!" The three girls quickly turned to her to listen.

Ryouga had no idea what they where doing, but he wasn't going to just stand there until they were ready to finish him off. If they managed to fire many more of their energy attacks he doubted he could survive. Concentrating his strength Ryouga strained against the chains that bound him. He gritted his teeth and his face contorted with strain.

The orange clad girl noticed he was doing something and gasped. This is it, now or never! He unleashed all of his remaining strength against the chains forcing his arms away from his body. His wounds screamed at him to stop as he could feel more blood soaking into his shirt. His arms ached from the strain and burned as the chains dug into them. Blackness began closing in on his eyes and the world began to spin. He shouted in agony but concentrating on his anger and suffering Ryouga forced his heavy ki against his bonds. "I'm not…." in a last rush of strength Ryouga was silhouetted by his own power as he roared "I'm not… finished yet!" The magical chain shattered.

The girls stared in awe at the boy whose shirt was now almost completely soaked with blood. He felt sick to his stomach. He had used too much power, and he didn't have anything left. Ryouga staggered backwards barely able to stand and his vision going black. He backed right into a wall and crumpled onto his hands and knees his head drooping not having the strength to raise it. He laughed quietly to himself tears in his eyes, "Okay, now I'm finished," he squeaked out only load enough for himself to hear.

The Senshi stared aghast at the boy. Ami heard the noise, "Makoto? Makoto, what's going on? Makoto?"

Jupiter remembered her communicator, "Oh, Ami, how is Luna?!"

"Luna is fine she just got knocked unconscious when she was dropped"

Usagi, Rei and Minako had all gather around Makoto when they heard her talking, seeing the boy more or less incapacitated, and they all gave out a sigh of relief at the news.

"But I thought she was covered in blood," Usagi said to Ami still a bit worried.

Luna appeared on the screen, "That's right I am, but it's not mine. It's that boy's. Everyone, listen! You have got to find that boy, but don't attack him. You all where right, he is innocent and we need to get him medical attention right away!"

They all visibly whitened at her remarks and turned to look at the boy who they where surprised to see was once again more or less standing leaning heavily on the wall.

"What's wrong?" Luna asked confused by their reactions.

Usagi spoke up, "But we already caught him, and had a fight, Luna…."

Luna gasped, "Oh no, is he still alive?!"

Usagi nodded, "Yeah, but he's hurt pretty bad…."

"Okay," the black cat on the communicator said visibly relived, "We need to get him medical attention quickly, and explain the misunderstanding…."

"Should I use my Moon Healing Escalation on him?"

Luna thought for a second, "Yes, but you will still need to get him to a doctor quickly, I think he had lost a lot of blood."

Usagi looked ready to cry, "Even more now…. We'll do what we can."

"Right, Mercury and I will be there as soon as we can." the image of the black moon cat disappeared

Usagi turned to the wounded boy who was standing on his own once again glaring at them clutching his side, but ready to continue fighting. Usagi was fighting back tears not being able to stand the thought of them attacking an innocent person, "We're so, so sorry, we made a horrible mistake, please, let me heal you."

The moonlight showed the confusion on his face, but there was no chance he was going to drop his guard, "A mistake, huh?"

The others stood silently watching the boy with the umbrella as Usagi nodded, "Yes, we thought you were a monster attacking innocent people…."

He almost laughed at her comment, "Heh, a monster… maybe I am… but you're the ones attacking people with out any reason!" he yelled at Usagi whose tears he ignored.

"That's why…" Minako spoke up to support their leader, "that's why we want to use Sailor Moon's magic to heal you."

"We're afraid you won't make it if we don't do something," Rei added.

"And it's all our fault so we feel really bad…." Minako chimed in.

The bandana-clad boy was silent for a second, "And you expect me to just stand here while you use another one of those energy attacks?! No thanks."

"Well… but your…." Minako started, but was interrupted by the angry boy.

"I'm what, too weak to stop you? I might be, then again I might still have enough strength to take all of you on." He bluffed hoping they wouldn't notice how much blood was now soaked into his shirt.

The Senshi looked at each other. They where at a loss. Usagi broke the silence reassured by her friends' attempts, "Is there any way we can convince you we don't mean you any harm?"

He quickly answered, "How about leaving and not coming back?"

Usagi shook her head, "But we can't just leave you like this…."

As the lost boy was about to respond Ami bounded from the rooftops to join her friends with Luna in her arms.

"What you still haven't healed him?!" Luna admonished.

"But, he won't let me!" Usagi whined. "He thinks we still want to kill him."

The orange and black clad boy was afraid he had lost far too much blood as he was sure he had heard the cat talk.

Ami bowed deeply to the injured black haired boy, "I'm sorry we did this to you, and I doubt there is anything we can do to make it up to you, but please let us heal your wounds and take you to a doctor."

Her sincerity tore at the boy's heart. He didn't know what to say. They all stood in silence, "I… I don't want you using your magic on me… but… but if you wanna take me to a doctor…."

Ami smiled at him softly.