Black Moon and Silence Cast:

Team Nemesis:

Ranma Hitoshirenu (Angerona) – Effectively aged 16. For all intents and purposes she remembers being Ranma Saotome until a few months ago. Since that time events have vastly changed her. She has a male cat's soul and has accepted the fact that she is the avatar of Nemesis. In addition she has dropped her claims to Shampoo, Ukyou, and Akane. Unfortunately for her she is now attracted to Nabiki as well as her other team mates. Her cat soul seems to see them all as "his" mates.

Neherenia Hitoshirenu (N or Agent N) – Freed from her mirror prison by Wiseman Neherenia ended up signing a contract much like Ranma signed to create Ranma Hitoshirenu. Neherenia was established as an older sister and advisor (in her cat form) for Ranma. Neherenia having familial feelings for her new sister and ended up helping Ranma defeat the Black Moon contract. Technically she should not exist because she has effectively gone back in time and killed herself, however because she is the only other member of Team Nemesis who has some ability to channel Nemesis energy she is protected from paradox.

Cologne (Pallas) – Age unknown elder in the Amazon tribe, she currently acts as a grandmother figure and trainer for the Nemesis team. In addition she has received the Red Ball of Pallas which reduces her in age to about 35-40 giving her the height and speed she had at the time and freeing up her vast chi reserves. In addition it provides a disguise field and Red Amazonian battle garb. This ball provides the least amount of physical and magical protection for its owner, but then again it doesn't need to…

Kaede Tanaka (Ivy) – 16 years old, with long black hair and dark eyes. She is a bit taller than Ranma's female form. She was the previous captain of the Juuban High Rhythmic Gymnastics team, and now serves as second in command under Ranma. Kaede is a steady leader, but somewhat unsure of her feelings for Ranma.

Aiko Suzuki – 16 years old, with short obviously bleached blonde hair and dark eyes. She is about the same height as Ranma. She has a huge crush on female Ranma and has some idea that the other girl is not interested in boys. Aiko died saving her mother and father from Eudial.

Dai Sato – 15 years old, with long black hair and blue eyes. She looks a lot like Kaede except for the fact that she is even shorter than Ranma. Dai is currently suffering under the effects of Sailor Moon's cleansing attack.

Mai, Mika, and Miya Watanabe – 15 year old triplets, each has brown hair and brown eyes. They are a slight bit taller than female Ranma and will often make it a habit of being dressed alike to confuse their teachers and classmates.

Miya (Tulip) is the only one who is not cleansed and still active in Team Nemesis.

Miko is alive and still cleansed. Recently, there have been some signs that she might be recovering from what Sailor Moon and the Ginzuishou did to her.

Mai and the rest of the Watanabe family were killed by Mimette who was later defeated in combat.

Kaede and Miya are the only members still active in Team nemesis from the Juuban Gymnastics team. They currently share a green ball given to them by Neherenia. It provides protection and a form of linked telepathy.

Shampoo (Ceres) – 16 years old. She is the only fiancée for Ranma Saotome now and currently lives with her aunt Mintsu and Lilac at the Nekohanten. She and Ranma Saotome received the Blue Ball of Ceres and have been helping team Nemesis when they can.

Ranma Saotome (Horse Boy) – 16 years old. Ranma has accepted his engagement to Shampoo and now lives with his mother. He and Shampoo received the Blue Ball of Ceres and have been helping team Nemesis when they can. He has also been dubbed Horse Boy for his alias by Nabiki and the name seems to have stuck.

Nabiki Tendo (Vesta) – 17 years old. Nabiki is the information and money making side of Team Nemesis. She has created Nemesis Enterprises as a company that is in charge of their images, copyrights, and more. Nabiki received a yellow ball from Neherenia this item shields her from harm as long as she is able to concentrate on that aspect. Any time damage is done to the shield Nabiki must concentrate and focus her will on keeping the shield up. The ball also provides Nabiki the ability to see anything within a block radius and after that gives her an eagle eye view of an area with splotches of color to represent various magical effects.

Michiru Kaio (Neptune) – A budding violinist and a powerful warrior as Neptune. Sailor Pluto activated her and Uranus using their full memories of who they had been in the past. Due to a memory altering event she has recently had to deal with the fact that her current personality does not much like who she was in the past and thinks that she had previously been working for the wrong purposes and wrong reasons. Purposes and reasons that lead to the death on Haruka…

Hotaru Tomoe (Saturn) – Recently taken over by Mistress 9, but was able to fight off the invader thanks to some training by Ranma and help from Michiru.

The Sailor Scouts:

Usagi Tsukino (Moon) – After experiencing a loss of popularity in the press and losing Mamoru. She has become caught up in her own dreams of being a princess with her fairy tale prince and is desperate to change everything and make it like it used to be.

Setsua Meioh (Pluto) – Has been dealing with a number of issues relating to the time stream and is desperately trying to set it back on the what she thinks is the appropriate path. She will stop at nothing to achieve the goal of a perfect Utopia.

Rei Hino (Mars) – Caught up in Usagi's dreams and dealing with her own anger at Sailor Angerona/Ranma she is more than ready to back Usagi's plans and set everything right.

Makoto Kino (Jupiter) – Somewhat apprehensive about the actions of the group, but Usagi has never been wrong on things like this before. She will follow through.

Minako Aino (Venus) – Very much caught up in the idea that she is one of the good guys. She is convinced that the scouts are doing the right thing and that those who are opposing that must be the bad guys.

The Death Busters:

Professor Souichi Tomoe (Germatroid) – Taken over by a Daimon the Professors genius has been perverted for evil ends. He has had a few brief flashes of freedom, but afterwards was forced to do even more horrifying things.

Kodachi Kuno / Mistress 9 / Endymion – Kodachi was in the hospital recovering when Mistress 9 was escaping from Hotaru. The crazed Gymnast accepted the help of Mistress 9 and her first action was to steal Mamoru's heart crystal and infuse it into herself. While her powers have been greatly boosted by this merger her sanity is even farther gone than it has ever been before fractured into hundreds of personalities each fighting for control.

Strike – A powerful Daimon crafted by Kodachi from her brother's heart crystal. It is almost mindlessly devoted to her.

Viluy – Has successfully escaped from team Nemesis after a few encounters with them and the scouts. She is helping to bring Pharaoh 90 to this world.

Cyprine and Ptilol - The two together are considered a witch and at that have been tasked with taking care of the sailor senshi by any means. Cyprine was able to place a special gem in Pluto's staff that would allow her to spy on the girl and more.

Kaolinite - Responsible for having Germatroid turn Kodachi into another witch and for helping to craft Strike from her brother's heart crystal. She also happened upon Tarou and tricked him into becoming her servant daimon, but did make good on her promise to help him with vengeance on master Happosai who she tricked with her curvaceous body and took his heart crystal for her own. She has since removed the ancient master's perversion and given herself knowledge of his martial prowess.


Chapter 7 - The Beginning of the End

Ami Mizuno stared at the television set with blank eyes. She still hadn't heard from her mother and was concerned for her, but what she had seen on that screen demolished everything she had ever believed in.

She sighed softly and looked over to the purple haired 'nurse' who was in the room with her. The other girl looked back and said, "That not look good at all."

Ami replied, "No, it doesn't. What were they thinking? They attacked the Tokyo Police station! Even if Daimons were attacking they should have waited or something. Before this we had some type of chance to maybe explain ourselves, but now…"

She stopped and a tear ran down her cheek as she wondered exactly what she would do now that the Sailor Senshi were officially criminals. As she thought about that a dark haired woman walked into the Dr. Tofu's and said, "Ami, are you okay?"

The young girl gasped, turned to the voice and was immediately hugging her mother and crying as she said, "I was so worried about you."

The elder Mizuno hugged her daughter and smiled down at her saying, "It's okay honey. I'm alright. A nice girl named Kasumi Tendo was able to get in touch with me and she told me you were here."

The voice on the T.V said, "There you have it folks, once again we're playing the footage of Sailor Moon and her criminal gang as they attack the Tokyo police department."

That was when Ami's mother's voice became a bit darker and she said, "That reminds me. Ms. Tendo also told me a few other things dear and while I'm happy to see that you are well, I am very concerned about your activities with Sailor Moon."

Ami poured her heart out to her mother right then. Telling her everything about defeating Queen Beryl, about Sailor Angerona and the Black Moon family, and finally about how everything seemed to have changed. They had started out as champions of love and justice, they had been defenders of the city and then suddenly everything seemed so difficult. Angerona had been under some type of compulsion and no one would forgive the girl. Then Pluto, Neptune and Uranus had come around and it had been so easy to see everything as a we're the good guys and they are the bad guys sort of situation. All of that and more came out as Ami cried into her mother's shoulder.

The older woman tried to understand everything, but she couldn't quite get every detail. However, she was relatively sure that her daughter was very upset and apologetic about the way things had happened. The only thing she could say to that was, "I'm sorry honey."

The younger girl looked up and said, "Sorry for what?"

"If I had been around more often instead of at the hospital all the time I would have recognized that something was going on. If your father hadn't left me, then he would have been around for you."

"No," the girl shook her head and continued by saying, "The others had parents who were home and none of them ever found out. We were trying to be secretive, so don't blame yourself."

The older woman accepted the advice and then said, "Well I think it's time for us to be going home, don't you. No more running around in strange outfits or any of that I think."

Ami stepped back and said, "No. I'm sorry mom, but I have to do something. It's partly my fault what happened with the Senshi and I think it's my job to help be part of the solution. I'm going to help find them and bring them in."

"But, dear what about your future, you can't think that the police will just look over your activities as Mercury?"

The girl shook her head and said, "No, I guess I can't. But, I should take responsibility for my actions."

The older woman smiled and hugged her daughter again saying, "It looks like my little girl just grew up."

Ami didn't know what to say, but followed her mother as she walked out of the building. She stopped and smiled at Shampoo as she left and gave the young Amazon her phone number saying, "If you need me I'll be at that number."

Shampoo smiled and said, "Shampoo will call Ami if need her."


Angerona stood in front of the police Commissioner. The man looked at them and said, "I'm going to see if we can't put you and your team up for a medal of some type. If you hadn't been here that crazy woman, her rose bush creatures, and the sailor girls would have done a great deal more damage."

The middle aged woman wearing dark red armor that looked vaguely like something from the Illiad or the Oddyssey looked to the man and said, "Well, we didn't catch her, or the sailor girls."

The commissioner nodded and said, "That's true Pallas and it is why I am officially asking you to do what you can to find them and stop whatever they are planning next."

It was Angerona who said, "Then we will be going back to our headquarters to plan."

With that she walked out of the room and everyone else followed behind. Moments later Agent N cast a spell that brought everyone to the site of the Juuban Nekohanten and the apartments above. There they all found somewhere to relax and transform back into their civilian guises.

Then the question became one of what to do with Michiru and Hotaru, with them in addition to everyone else, the apartments were getting quite crowded. An argument was about to break out, when Ranma thought enough to step out and take a moment to teleport Nabiki in for their conversation.

The Tendo girl smirked and said, "This is an easy one. Why don't we just look into buying more space? With the numbers of orders we have been getting for Team Nemesis merchandise and tapes, we are looking at one of, if not the, hottest commodities in Japan."

Ranma looked astonished and said, "You're joking right?"

She shook her head and said, "Not at all. The broadcast news put you guys to national after the attack today. You are going to be household names quite soon and we have all the information that the news companies are going to want."

Michiru added, "I also have room in my apartment until this matter is settled," she looked to Hotaru and said, "Perhaps even longer if you like Hotaru."

The younger girl said, "That's very nice of you considering what I have done."

It was Nabiki who said, "Oh, and what did you do?"

This resulted in yet another explanation of how Hotaru had been taken over by Mistress 9 who was now, apparently, living in Kodachi's body and trying to collect the items that would be necessary to form the Holy Grail.

The red haired cat girl said, "Wait a minute here, she was at the police station today and had her rose bush critters attacking it, but she was downstairs."

Michiru nodded and then said, "It seems likely that she was trying to take the third piece of the grail from Pluto when we arrived. It is even possible that she had already taken it by that time."

Cologne said, "I have quite a bit of history knowledge and I doubt that this Holy Grail is the same one that the mythical Christ spilled his blood in considering where it came from. What is it really and how would we know for sure if she has all the pieces?"

Michiru replied with a sigh and said, "In my previous life I was a princess in the moon kingdom. Queen serenity ruled that kingdom with goodness and love, but she was betrayed by a woman named Beryl and the kingdom was destroyed. From what I remember the Holy Grail was a powerful magical item created by the blood of her husband when he died to save her life. But, that could just be a legend as well. Whatever it is it is assuredly powerful and we must find it."

"How?"

"I don't know Ranma, perhaps after we get some sleep an idea will come to one of us?"

Ranma nodded and soon after that everyone headed off to their respective rooms. The red haired girl looked to Nabiki and said, "You want me to take you to the Tendo house?"

Nabiki sidled up to the other girl and said, "I think I might prefer to stay here for the night."

Ranma looked confused and said, "We're kind short on beds though."

Nabiki grinned and walked towards Ranma's room saying, "I think we can manage to fit into yours."

Ranma's heart beat like a hummingbird in her chest. Events had gotten out of hand and she hadn't had much time to think about her relationship with the Tendo girl and now that same girl was walking into Ranma's room and planning to sleep in the same bed. Sweat trickled down her forehead as the room seemed to get hotter and hotter. Finally she made her decision and walked into her own room. Doing that had been harder than facing down prince Herb way back when she had truly been male.

Later as a naked Ranma lay drifting to sleep next to Nabiki in the same state a very feline part of his soul smiled and hoped that he would enjoy the rest of his pride as much as he had this one…


In a place of endless white a group of girls sat near a single object that stood out on the featureless plain. The green haired girl looked at them and said, "We have little time and we need to get all the pieces to the grail."

"But, we lost, how could we lose!" The blonde haired girl cried.

"Moon, we did not lose. We just had to retreat, we can still win."

The blonde looked up and rubbed her eyes, then said, "Really, how can we win Pluto?"

The green haired girl said, "Simple, we patch the Ginzuishou."

The entire group gasped at the statement and Moon said, "But, you said we needed the grail to fix it, how can we fix it if we need the grail?"

Pluto shook her head and said, "It will not be fixed, we will just patch it. We will put it together and magically seal it together, but it will just be a patch."

It was Venus who said, "Like tape."

Pluto nodded and said, "Now, if Moon will hand me the Ginzuishou and everyone else will just gather near, we can use our powers to 'tape' the artifact together."

All the girls gathered around the crystal and Pluto guided them in using their powers to create a patch on the powerful artifact. When they were done Pluto handed it to Sailor Moon and said, "See if you can sense its power now."

The young girl reached out with her power and felt the essence of immense power within the Ginzuishou. She smiled and said, "Now, we can get the grail and make everything better right?" Visions of Mamoru and herself together as king and queen while everyone in the world cheered the Senshi as heroes danced in her head.

It was Mars who said, "Shouldn't we handle Angerona and her group first?"

Pluto shook her head and said, "No, first we will use the time gate and see where the pieces of the grail have been taken while we have been here, and then we will seek them out. Once we have the grail and have fixed the Ginzuishou, Angerona and Team Nemesis will be unable to poison the world against us."

Mars nodded in agreement and Pluto moved her staff over the Time Gate using it to activate the device and ask it to show her where the witches had gone. The gem on the tip of her staff glowed and the gate showed an image…

A Girl with dark blue hair sat next to her identical twin with red. Souichi Tomoe was currently smiling the dark and twisted smile of Germatroid. Kodachi was talking to one of her many selves and her pet brother was just sitting there. A different red haired woman stood next to a dark brown minotaur like companion it was she who spoke saying, "The time is nearly come and Team Nemesis will attempt to defeat our plan, but with the grail we will easily crush them and take their heart crystals. With those crystals and the power of the grail we will be able to reshape the world."

The rest of the group seemed to agree and they exited the building with the grail in the red haired woman's hands and marched out into the streets where they and a group of Daimons started to destroy the Juuban ward. The building known as the Infinity Academy could clearly be seen not too far from where they first began to attack.

Pluto gasped and the image wavered away. It took a few moments for the girl to regain her composure and then she said, "That was a view of the future, events that may yet come to pass."

Usagi nodded and then said, "We have to stop them! In the name of love and justice we will prevail!"

"First I think we should get some sleep." The red suited girl said.

The rest seemed to agree with the sentiment and Pluto sent them on their way using the gate.


Cyprine stopped concentrating on her powers and Kaolinite smiled with glee saying, "Do you think they bought it? Will we really be able to summon Pharaoh 90 without their interference?"

The blue haired girl said, "Mistress 9 or should I say Kodachi? She is even now forming her plant Diamons as replicas of ourselves. She plans to lead the scouts and Team Nemesis into a confrontation and when Sailor Moon uses the modified crystal on Nemisis it will explode, killing any who are near."

"What about her strange infatuation with the Sailor Girl?"

"I don't recall mentioning that the explosion would happen. I assume that if she figures it out she will try and rescue Sailor Moon in some way. Then, if she is caught in the explosion, well it isn't our fault at all is it?"

The red haired woman said, "Besides I will have all the power of that old man in my hands. Even if some of them survive they will be no match for us."

Kaolinite smiled and laughed as they plotted their inevitable victory.


Ranma woke up early that morning and started practicing on the roof. She was soon met by the rest of her team and they all limbered themselves up and practiced skills that set them apart from their fellow citizens even before magical enhancements were added to the mix.

Michiru and Hotaru watched the others, but Ranma called over and said, "Come on Michiru, let's see how good your skills are. You too Hotaru, you could use some practice as well. I know you're still weak, so why not get some tennis balls and try and hit some of the combatants?"

The girls did not take much time to think about the idea and quickly joined in. When it was all over everyone had come back downstairs and was eating some cold cereal and talking quietly about their lives and the potential of stopping the Witches and their plan.

It was Nabiki, who hadn't been at practice, but instead had been monitoring multiple news feeds, she came in and said, "Hey everyone, it looks like the Witches have started something in the area near the Infinity Academy."

There were mixes of groans and happy expressions from the group as a whole, but everyone listened as Nabiki said, "From the TV it looks like all of the witches are out on the streets attacking, but I'm not so sure."

Cologne looked at her and said, "What do you mean child?"

Nabiki shrugged and said, "Something seems to be blocking the area when I try to see it using the powers of Vesta, but when I saw some of the images on TV, well they just looked wrong somehow."

It was Ranma that said, "Alright call up Ceres and Horse Boy and get them to come over as quick as they can. Neherenia, you see if you can teleport Kaede, Miya, Michiru and Hotaru over to the area okay? In the meantime Cologne and I will take Nabiki to the site on foot, and see if she can't get a better feel for the situation as we get closer."

The group nodded in agreement and Nabiki who added one last thing, "What about Ami, should we try to contact her?"

Cologne was the one who said, "Let the child make her own decision as I am sure that she will be watching the news."

Nabiki nodded and Neherenia turned on a TV and surely enough the news was indeed showing footage of the area where the witches were attacking. Everyone transformed allowing Neherenia to begin her spell that would whisk her strike team out of the room and onto the street.


Agent N, Ivy, Tulip, Neptune and Saturn arrived on the street just across from yet another large group of Rosebush like Daimons and Ivy and Tulip immediately went on the attack. Working in concert the green clad girls used empowered hoops to slice through their foes.

Neherina used her magical powers to blast her foes and Neptune attacked as well, however it was Saturn who was not sure. She watched the scene play out and could not face the idea of bringing any part of the silence down again. However, she was able to lash out with her glaive and slice anything that got too close.

The battle seemed to be going well and this strike team was mowing through the Diamons and getting closer to Kodachi and Strike when, suddenly Sailors Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Pluto appeared from a cross street.

The group of Sailor girls sent out attacks at the girls on Team Nemesis as well as the Daimon's surrounding them. Luckily enough Saturn was able to erect the Silence Wall in time to disperse the attacks.

Even so, the battle lines had become very clear. On one side were some of the members of Team Nemesis, on the second side were the remains of the Sailor Senshi, and on the third side were the Witches and their Daimons. None of them were on the same side and none of them wanted to be. When Horse Boy and Ceres ran up the block and joined sides with Team Nemesis it began in earnest.


Ami Mizuno was watching the television for the second day in a row and once again she was quite annoyed at the scene that it was showing her. Sailors Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto had once again attacked members of Team Nemesis. Sure, there was bad blood between them, but attacking first when the others were fighting Daimons? The idea was nearly preposterous and yet there it was right on the screen.

So, Ami transformed into Mercury, hoping to go to the girls who had once been her best friends and see if she couldn't talk some sense into them. But, despite her initial intentions that is not what she did. The reason behind her change in priorities was the lines of red text that were scrolling down on her Mercury Visor.

Just before departing she had made one last look at the TV screen while the Infinity academy was in view and that was when her Visor immediately registered a warning. In bright red lines it was telling her that something very bad was going on in that building; something that was using vast quantities of dark energy the likes of which she had never seen.

Her initial task forgotten, Mercury rushed out of the house and towards the academy. While she was running she pulled out the communicator Nabiki had given her and called her saying, "This is Mercury and I know you guys are out there fighting the Daimons, but there is something very dangerous going on at the Infinity Academy."

She raced along and waited for an answer when Angerona came from nowhere and landed at her side saying, "Yeah, Vesta was getting that feeling too. Why don't you come with us and we'll check it out."

Mercury nodded and Angerona used her communicator to say, "Pallas, Vesta, Mercury and I have got it covered. You guys take out the Daimons and witches as best you can from your positions. We don't want them to destroy the city."

Mercury looked to the other girl with a sad expression and so she added, "No lethal targeting of the Sailor Scouts okay? The commissioner asked us to take them in alive."

Mercury didn't grin, but she lost her momentary worry. The moment of calm was short lived however, because as the four girls came upon the Infinity Academy they could see that it too was being defended by Daimons. An attack from Angerona blasted through one of the creatures and showed that there was also some form of shield on the main building as well.

Mercury reacted instinctively and hit the area with her Mercury Bubbles Blast and Angerona looked at her and frowned saying, "I know it was useful when everyone could see through it, but how did that help us?"

The blue haired girl frowned and then said, "Maybe I can modify it so you can see through it next time. However, it is useful for the moment as it allows us to determine how best to allocate our resources."

Vesta nodded in agreement and Angerona shrugged, then said, "Well here's the deal. You and Vesta figure out how to get through that shield while Pallas and I take care of the guard Daimons."

Everyone nodded and as the cloudy mist dispersed two of the world's most powerful martial artists attacked. The Daimons hardly knew what hit them.

Author's Notes:

Sometimes seeing how good other author's are can make this process confounding. I know I'm not up to the level of Mark MacKinnon or many others that I like to read so it gets me thinking that I shouldn't post at all and add that to other concerns and it all just falls down. Still, I wrote this little bit and I'm working on it again. Hopefully you all like it and I'll be able to get a new chapter out.

Q