The Delightful Hulkusagi! – By DS Wynne


Disclaimer: Sailor Moon, Ranma ½ and other genres belong their respective owners.

Note: This is a multi-genre story.


Part 7: "The Gray Moon!" (II)


The next day…

"…And so, I want you to be sure to have your materials ready for your presentations on Friday, students!" bubbled the presently young Miss Hinako Ninomiya. " And don't be late with your assignments…or ELSE."

Due to some weird technique of a martial arts discipline, Miss Hinako—a homeroom teacher of Nerima Prefecture's Furinken High School—has to absorb "life energy" in order to become—and stay—physically mature. This is in addition to her being a "basic" martial artist in her own right, a role that Miss Hinako has embraced to help her further her so-called mission as a disciplinarian. Usually, Miss Hinako initiates her disciplinary ventures whenever one of her students, martial artist extraordinaire Ranma Saotome, causes trouble. Well, trouble tends to come to Ranma, in the form of martial arts challenges but, to Miss Hinako and everyone else in the class, everything tends to be Ranma's fault anyway…

"And be sure to consult with your partners," Miss Hinako says. "I WILL be grading both your scholastic work and your ability to work in tandem in unison…"

"Well, I guess I'll be working with Ranchan, then," said Ukyo Kunoji (female cross-dresser, okonomiyaki cook and cute fiancée to Ranma Saotome).

"Ha, I don't THINK so," replied Akane Tendo (angry girl, dedicated martial artist and uncute fiancée to Ranma Saotome). "Ranma is working with ME…"

Akane turns towards Ranma's seat.

"Isn't that right, Ranma-"

"ZZZzzzzzz," Ranma replied, as he continued his nap.

"Well, it looks neither one of us will working with Ranma," Ukyo said.

"Want to bet of that?" Akane said. She then returns her focus towards Ranma.

"Jerk!" Akane yells. "Wake up-!"

While Akane was yelling at Ranma, the martial artist was dreaming…

Ranma was on some sort of dreamscape that appeared to be a salt flat that ran for eternity.

"Usagi!" Ranma yells, as he scans the area. "Usagi-!"

"Over here!" Usagi waved in the distance. "I'm here-!"

Ranma sees his wife, and begins to run towards her.

"I'm coming!" Ranma said, as he continues to run towards Usagi. And then-

RUUUUUUMMMMMMBLE!

The ground beneath his feet shook, as a crevasse opens up, separating Ranma from Usagi.

"Usagi, wait-!"

"Ranma, help me-!"

Ranma suddenly wakes up violently.

"USAGI!" Ranma yells. Quickly, consciousness slowly seeps into his mind, as Ranma realizes that he was in his homeroom class…with everyone in class looking at him strangely.

"Er, sorry?" Ranma said.

Akane squints her eyes.

"WHO is 'Usagi'?" Akane asked suspiciously.

"Yes, I would like to know as well, Ranchan," replied Ukyo.

"Um…OH! I was dreaming of the great comic book series that I JUST got into, called 'Usagi Yojimbo', and I dreamt I was palling around with him, just before an ambush. Yeahhhh…"

The girls merely looked at him speechless.

"…"

"Regardless, you shall be punished for disrupting the class, Mister Saotome!" Miss Hinako said, as she took out a 100-yen coin from "pocket space". "HAPPO 100-YEN SHIATSU-!"

As Miss Hinako began to draw energy from Ranma, in an effort to weaken him as a form of punishment, Ranma sits down in his seat. He then turns Akane and Ukyo, who were amazed that Ranma was not displaying any of the debilitating effects of Miss Hinako's attack.

"So, what did I miss?" Ranma asked.

"Ranma, you're not feeling ANYTHING?" Akane asked.

"Errrrrrrr!" Miss Hinako said, as she matured into her adult body. However, she was feeling the stress of trying to hold all of Ranma's energy.

"Why won't you go DOWN?" Miss Hinako growled.

"No, I'm feeling fine."

"What about Miss Hinako?" Ukyo asked, as she looked over at a panting Miss Hinako.

"Teach?" Ranma replied. "Well, she'll eventually reach her limit, and she have the equivalent of a sugar rush-"

KLOMP!

"Miss Hinako!" Akane cried, as she and the other students went over to Miss Hinako's prone form.

"Huh, told ya," Ranma said, as he turns his attention back to Ukyo. "Anyway, the good news is that it will be a month before she tries that again, on account of the fact that she's full."

"So she'll stay in her adult form until then?" Ukyo asked.

"Yep."

"Oh. Well, fine."

Pause.

"So…who's going to be your partner?" Akane said with a menacing frown. "And you better choose correctly."

"Yes, Ranchan," Ukyo said, as she took out her mini-spatulas, which she uses as the equivalent of throwing kunai. "Choose correctly."

Ranma performed a big sweat technique. It wasn't that Ranma was afraid of being hurt, but he was afraid of hurting either girl's feelings. So, the martial artist did the next, best thing…

"Hey, isn't that Shampoo?" Ranma said, as he points at the classroom door.

"Where?" Akane said, as she turns her head.

"I don't see that bimbo," Ukyo said, as she looks in the direction of the Ranma's finger. She then turns her head back towards Ranma.

"Ranchan, I don't see Shampoo-"

Ranma was gone.

WooooWOoowoooo…

"…"

"Ranma!" Akane yells. "You JERK-!"

As Ranma leans on a railing on the room of the high school, he chuckles a bit. Since picking up his old life, the martial artist has been reveling in its absurd nature. Still, in all seriousness, Ranma knew that he would have to deal with the ramifications of the truth behind his recent behavior. Still, he doubts that anything could muck things up for him at the moment, other than some awful dream.

'Maybe I should check up on Usagi," Ranma said. "It's been a while since we had a chance to hang out at least-"

"Hold it!" yells a disembodied voice.

"Huh?" Ranma said to himself, as he skidded to a halt. "What the-?"

POOF!

A teenaged geek (wearing a wizard's cap, a dark cloak, an embroidered vest over an elegant shirt, slacks, and comfort shoes) appears in front of Ranma…while floating on a cloud.

"At last I found you!" said the young man.

FWOOSH!

A white-haired girl wearing a white/gold Sailor fuku (with a golden lighting bold etched in her red broach, which was bound by a ribbo) lands near the young man, after flying through the air.

"Akihito, you were suppose to let me KNOW that you found Dad," the girl said angrily.

"This was too important to wait, Willow," the young wizard replied. "If we don't act soon, daylight will never come."

Ranma folds his arms. He and his wife had sent their children, Willow (short for "Willamina") and Akihito, to receive advanced training to the Illuminati University (a trans-dimensional university for high magic and super-science), so that they could be better prepared to fight evil as "Sailor Marvel" and "Aki the Tengu" (respectively). Sailor Marvel, upon saying a magic word based upon one of her mother's alias (i.e. "Lady Shazam"), the would-be "World's Mightiest Magical Girl" possesses the grace of Selene, the strength of Hippolyta, the skill of Ariadne, the fleetness of Zephyrus, the beauty of Aurora and the wisdom of Minerva. Unlike her older brother Akihito, Sailor Marvel was the "monster hunter" of the two, which was not really all that different from what her mother does for a living anyway, and was an enthusiastic practitioner of her father's martial arts style…

Willow's older brother Akihito was an inspiring young wizard who wanted to follow in his mother's footsteps as a magic user. In fact, he hoped to learn even ancient Lunarian magic, which was his mother's heritage. Out of all Ranma and Usagi's children, Ranma was the most concerned about his son Aki, since he was the complete opposite of his father (being non-athletic and an "otaku"). Still, Ranma loved his son, and accepted his geekdom and a form of self-expression, considering his own upbringing…

Upon achieving their twelfth birthday, Willow and Akihito were accepted as students to the prestigious

The tuition, although expensive by mortal standards, was affordable to the kids, due to the fact that their parents were alumni (or, as it is properly known, "illumni"). It was here that Ranma and Usagi had advanced their own understanding of their existing skill set, which is why creating and destroying planets was easy to them. And they were not the only ones, as fellow students to IoU (the "o" is SECRET), who learned to do the same thing…

"Aki, Willow," Ranma said. "Why are you two not in school?"

"Aki thinks that Mom is in trouble, Dad," Willow said. "I told him that Mom could take care of herself."

"And I'm telling you, she IS," Aki said. "Dad, you know my studies focuses on Lunarian magic, right?"

"Yeah, the girly stuff."

"Dad, we've been over this MANY times. Just because Lunarian magic is primarily a discipline used by magical girls, that doesn't mean that ONLY magical girls can use it…OKAY? And besides, you use it all the time."

"Yeah, as 'Sailor Helios', NOT normally. Heck, I rarely use any type of magic NOW."

Pause.

"Oh, my son…WHY HAVE FORSAKEN YOUR FAMILY HERITAGE?" Ranma cried.

"Jeez, Dad," Willow said. "You're almost as bad as Mom, when it comes to melodramatics…"

"Hey, this is called 'tough love', you know."

"Anyway, Dad," Aki said, as he rolls his eyes. "I was practicing my warding spells, using Lunarian magic of course, and had a vision of Mom being stuck on the other side of some wasteland. Dad, she was calling for you for help."

Ranma frowns. That was exactly the dream he had earlier.

"Okay," Ranma said. "We should-"

"THERE you are!" said Akane, as she and Ukyo arrive onto the roof. "You got a lot of nerve leaving like that."

"Not now, Akane," Ranma said. "I'm busy."

"WHAT?" Akane yelled.

Meanwhile, Ukyo observes the scene before her. They looked like…superheroes, like Sunfire, Karate Kid, Tokyo Rose and Dr. Light (II).

"Ranchan, who are these people?" Ukyo asked.

"They are probably Ranma's 'buddies', I bet," Akane said. She then focused on Willow.

"And who are you?"

"Um, I'm Ranma's…cousin," Willow said, remembering that her parents didn't want anyone to know that they had kids…yet.

"Oh, a 'cousin' huh?"

"Yes. We're real close, as my brother is as well."

"Hmmm…"

"Um, we have to go," Aki said.

"Right," Ranma said. "We have a FAMILY matter to take care off-"

"Wait, just WHERE are you going?" Akane demanded. "With the floozy and the geek?"

"Hey!" the siblings say in unison.

"Don't call Willow a floozy!" Ranma yelled.

Silence.

"Excuse me?" Aki said. "What about me?"

"Oh, sorry. And don't call Aki a geek, Akane. They are family, and I don't like it when my family gets insulted."

Akane was taken aback by the forcefulness of Ranma's declaration, or the fact that he was serious about it.

"Um, can we come along, Ranchan?" Ukyo asked.

"No, this is something that I got to handle myself," Ranma said. "And I don't want to put the two of you in harms way."

"Come on, let's go!" Aki said. "I feel the Fates aligning themselves towards certain doom."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Willow said. "Let do something-!"

"Oh, NO," Akane said, as she steps forward. "You're not going anyway until you-"

"Look, I got to go," Ranma said. "Tell Kasumi to hold dinner for me."

With a squat, Ranma leaps into the air…and continues to go up, up and way.

"Wait up!" Aki said, as he flies away on his cloud.

"Hey, don't leave me behind-!" Willow said, as she flew after her brother and father.

"Weirdoes," Akane said, as she folds her arms.

"Um, Akane?" Ukyo asked.

"Yeah?"

"Since when can Ranchan fly…?"

Tbc.