SMST 5B: Journey to Adventure! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, ST and other genres belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Part 25
Meanwhile, back in the "present"…
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING-!
The morning bell rang, as the Youkai Academy prepares for…"Family Day". Usagi was actually looking forward to getting to the parents of her students, as a strategy of how to deal with her students.
"Welcome to the homeroom for 'Year 2, Class I' students," Usagi said pleasantly to the parents, as they entered the class. "And enjoy your stay…"
"Hey, Moka-chan, I bet you're glad that your mother is here today…and every other day," Tsukune said.
"Well, I guess so," Moka-chan replied. She then looks at Usagi before looking away.
"What?"
"It's just that I never knew that I would always forget that I had a mother, Tsukune-kun."
"Moka, I'm sorry that the rosario I had placed on you resets both your mind and body every time it is on around your neck, but you know how difficult your…other self can get," Usagi said.
Moka-chan looks up. She starts to cry.
"Please don't leave me, Mother!" Moka-chan said, as she gloms unto her mother. "I don't want to ever forget you-!"
All of the parents turn toward the scene.
"Eh," Usagi said, mildly embarrassed by her daughter's open display of angst. She then pats Moka-chan back.
"Er, it will be just find, Moka…"
Tsukune smiles. He wished he could have his own parents visit him, but…
"So, our you two and Kokoa going to spend time together today?" Tsukune said before-
"Tsukune, duck," Usagi said, as she continued to comfort her daughter.
"Huh-?"
BOOM!
Kokoa delivers a direct hit, as she slams her giant, spiked mace into Tsukune's head.
"Urk-!"
"Mind your own business, Tsukune!"
Rokoa then turns towards her sister and stepmother.
"Moka-chan is not 'Big Sister'!" Rokoa yells. "If I see Moka-chan, I'll smash her too bits! Humph!"
"Why is she being so mean to me?" Moka-chan laments.
"Give her time, Moka," Usagio said gently. "Give her time…"
'Any more time, and I'll die!' Tsukune said, as he rolls on the floor dazed…
A short time later…
"So, you are Mizore's mother," Usagi said nervously, as she cleared her throat.
"Yes," said the ice woman named 'Tsurara'. She was dressed in a traditional, white kimono.
Usagi turns to the succubus vixen with equal apprehension.
"And you must be Kurumu's mother."
"Yes," Ageha said cheerfully, while keeping an eye Mizore's mother. "Say, you look very familiar…"
"I concur as well," Tsurara said.
"Well, you know what they say," Usagi said, as she laughed it off. "Well, let's get started…"
First up was Physical Education. While Usagi was calling the tennis match between players, she noticed Tsurara and Aghea scheming with their daughters behind the bleachers.
"Point goes to Moka-chan!" Usagi said, as she picked up the funnel horn and called out the play, while sitting on a high chair next to the net.
"Ah!" Yukari yells in frustration.
"You can do it, Yukari!" Moka said with encouragement.
As Usagi sits down her bullhorn, she sees Tsukune being lured behind some trees. Unfortunately, she stopped paying attention to the match itself.
"Teacher, look!" said one of the students.
"Hmm?" Usagi said, before she got smacked in the head by a tennis ball.
WHAM!
"Ow!" Usagi cried out, as she held her eye.
"Mother!" Moka-chan cried out.
"Sorry, teacher!" Yukari said, as she prostrated herself.
"It's…okay," Usagi winced. "Ow…"
Usagi would later learn that Mizore and Kururu's respective mothers had goaded them being more aggressive with Tsukune. Actually, this means Mizore would put the freeze—literally—on Tsukune on one hand, while Kururu tries to seduce with her big "boobs" on the other. Luckily for Tsukune's health, Moka and Yukari intervened before things got out of hand…
Next up is Literature, a class that Usagi also teaches…
"…And according to the author Koizumi Yakumo, standing between humans and youkai—among other supernatural forces—is the phenomenon known as 'The Magical Girl'," Usagi said with a knowing smile, as she writes on the board. "Most famous are the Sailor Scouts, as led by powerful 'Moon Princess' known as 'Sailor Moon'."
"Huh," said the ogre Saizun. "I heard that this 'Sailor Moon' was as clumsy as she was smart, and that the only reason why she won her fights was in spite of herself."
"Oh, really?" Sailor Moon said, as she growls slightly.
"But I think she is beautiful as she is kind," Moka-chan said. "I remember her saving my life from youma, when I lived in the human world…"
Usagi blinks for a moment…
'Of course!' Usagi thought to herself. 'It happened early in my career…'
FLASHBACK!
"We should go get a charm, Moka-chan!" said a classmate, as a group of girls stopped by Cherry Hill Temple.
Young Moka tugs at her rosario as she looks up at the ancient temple, located in the heart of the Juuban District, in the city of Tokyo.
"I don't know…"
"It'll be fun!" said the girl. "Maybe you'll be able to get good luck? And besides, we still need to wait for the bus, right?"
Young Moka-chan closes her eyes, before opening them.
"Okay!" Young Moka-chan said with a smile. "Let's do this…"
Unfortunately, dark forces had compromised the temple for a nefarious plan…
"Ah!" Young Moka-chan screamed, as she cowered in the corner by a man dressed in a charcoal-gray, European-style uniform. "Leave me alone!"
Jadeite, one of the dark generals of the so-called "Nega-verse", clinches his fist.
"I don't know how you managed to stay awake, but I sense a powerful, dark energy from you, little girl," Jadeite sneered. "I want that power!"
"Yahhhhhh-!"
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" yelled a familiar voice.
Jadeite and Young Moka-chan both turn to face a sailor-suited girl with an unusual hairstyle. Right next to her were two other girls, and a black cat with a Crescent moon mark. The other girls had the same type of sailor suit, though with different color schemes.
"YOU," Jadeite sneered.
"It is I, 'Sailor Moon'!" said meatball-headed girl.
"And I am 'Sailor Mercury'!" said shorthaired, blue-haired girl.
"And I guess I'm 'Sailor Mars'," said the longhaired girl.
"Not a guess, but a fact," said the cat. "You ARE 'Sailor Mars'."
"Hey, I'm new at this, you know!" Sailor Mars countered.
"Anyway, in the name of Love and Justice…WE WILL PUNISH YOU!" Sailor Moon said.
"We shall see, Sailor-fools!" Jadeite sneers, before jumping off the bus through a nearby window.
"He's getting away!" said the talking cat.
"Yes, we know, Luna," Sailor Moon said. "But I want to make sure that the people are okay first…"
Young Moka-chan sees Sailor Mercury uses some sort of device to scan everyone on the bus…
BEEP-BEEP!
"Wait," Sailor Mercury said, as she points to Young Moka-chan. "There's something unusual about this child. Wait, she's not human."
"We should eliminate her!" Luna said. "She could be a youma!"
"Nonsense," Sailor Moon said, as she crouches in front of Young Moka-chan. "She's too cute to be a youma."
As Sailor Moon smiles gently, an image of an older version of Sailor Moon appears. She never knew her real mother was, other than the fact that she was a powerful youkai in her own right…
"But-" Luna protested.
"No," Sailor Moon insisted, as she glances over towards the black cat. "She is just as innocent as everyone else. And besides, she was practically being attacked when we got here."
"Humph!"
Sailor Moon returns her attention back to the little girl.
"Don't worry, I'll always will protect you from the monsters. Deal?"
Young Moka-chan smiles, as she nods her head.
Eventually, Jadeite was defeated, and everyone was freed from his clutches. That would be the last time Moka-chan would see of Sailor Moon, not realizing that Sailor Moon was really her mother…
And Sailor Moon did not realized that she had met her daughter the first time, long before she had given birth to her…
END FLASHBACK!
"Teacher?" asked Tsukune, as she notices that Miss Usagi was tearing up.
"Mother?" Moka-chan asked.
"It's…nothing,' Usagi replied with a sniff. She wipes away her tears.
"Now, moving on…"
Meanwhile…
With construction of "New Tokyo" moving at a brisk pace, work was easy to find. After all, MBI was shelling billions of Yen to get the project done. One of the reasons why Nabiki Kuno, in the capacity of head of acquisitions within the Mishima Zaibatsu, was because she was interested in how two people could amass a fortune over night, and a major conglomerate just as fast. However, upon learning that Usagi and Ranma had an indirect connection to a MBI project called "The Sekirei Plan" sparked her curiosity even more. She wanted to wait until she had gotten enough information about this plan before confronting them on it. As a result, Nabiki would use Ranma, who was also curious about the Sekirei Plan, to get more information about this plan.
In the mean time, as a part of his cover, Ranma took a construction job for a new highrise…
"Going to pick now!" Ranma said, as he sang while swinging his pickaxe. In the course of his long life, he has done construction work—and other labor intensive endeavors—before.
TING!
"Master got me working-!"
TING!
"Someday Master going set me free!"
TING!
And then, the lunch alarm sounds.
BLUUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGGGGH!
"Awesome!" Ranma said, as he casually tosses the pickaxe into a steel column, with the axe stuck straight in.
TONG!
Some of the workers who saw that were shocked at this feat of strength and power.
"LUNCH!" yelled the foreman.
Soon, Ranma sits down next to this young guy, as he opens the lunch box Miya had made for him.
"Hmmm," Ranma said, as he ate some sushi. "Just like Kasumi used to make-"
"GROWL!"
Ranma looks up. He could have sworn that he heard a growling sound…
"GROWL!"
He turns towards the source: the young man who was sitting next to. He appeared ravenous…
"Yo," the young man said, as he stared at Ranma hungrily.
"…"
"Can I have a, well…?"
"Here, have some," Ranma said, as he presents his box of food to the young man.
"I'll just have the rice cakes, if you don't mind," the young man said, as he ate the confection. "Hmmm, tastes familiar…"
"So…you anything ELSE?" Ramna said with annoyance.
"Naw, I just need something that hits the spot…"
"Do tell."
"So, you're a student?"
"Transfer, from Nakomi," Ranma said.
"Ah, a tech-genius," the young man said.
"And you?"
"Technically a sixth year student…though things haven't been going well financially."
"So I noticed-"
"Hey, Seo!" said a familiar face.
The young man turns towards the source of the noise.
"Uh-oh," Seo said, as he gets up. "Sorry about this-"
Running at tremendous speed, one of the so-called Lightning Twins comes running up, and performs a flying spin kick into Seo's face.
BAM!
"Arrgh!" Seo said, as he crashes into pile of pre-cut wood.
BAM!
"You shouldn't be bumming food from perfect strangers, Seo!" Hikari yells.
"Or do we have to pound this point some more?" said Hibiki, as she walks up behind her twin sister.
"No, I got it," Seo said, as he rubs his head. "Ow."
Hikari turns towards Ranma.
"My apologies for our demented friend," Hikari said with a bow before she and Hibiki realized an important fact.
"Apologies accepted," Ranma replied with a smile.
"Huh?" Hibiki said. "It's YOU!"
"Yes, yes it is."
"You have some gall showing up with your Sekirei!" Hikari said, as she knocks over Ranma's lunch.
Clatter!
"Hey, I was eating that!"
"Really, Hikari-chan," Hibiki said, as she hands over some bread rolls to Ranma. "Sorry for my sister's temper. And excuse our Ashikabi for being a leech."
"Eh, right," Ranma said, as he accepts the roll. "Thanks…"
Seo grabs the twins' "boobs" from behind.
"Hey!" Hibiki yells.
"Stop touching us like that!" Hikari interjects.
"It's not everyday one meets another Ashikabi on friendly terms!" Seo said proudly, before-
ZAAAAAAARRRRRK!
Not liking being manhandled, the Lightning Twins give Seo a shock!
"Arrrgh!"
Seeing that Seo was not in any danger, Ranma didn't intervene.
'It's interesting seeing this from a different perspective,' Ranma thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Ranma and Usagi continues to tell their story of how they faced…the Mummy…
1926 CE: Cairo, Egypt.
As Usagi's body is wrapped in prepared bandages, in the traditional manner of the gods of ancient Egypt by handmaidens, the high priestess, Nia, turns towards Ranma.
"I was not aware that the former wife of Lord Sobek was subsequently married to another," Nia said.
"Well, this is the first time I heard about this," Ranma said. "All I knew was that she and a mutual friend of ours lived in Africa for eons, before we saw each other again."
"I see. Are you shocked about this revelation?"
"You know, I shouldn't be, since there have been times when we have been separated."
"Ah," Nia said, as she turns towards her handmaidens and their preparations. "If you want, I can give you one of my handmaidens for comfort."
"What?" Ranma said shockingly.
Nia turns towards Ranma with a slight smile.
"The Handmaidens of Sobek are fertile and comely. We could use fresh blood in our tribe."
"I'll think about it…"
Soon, Usagi's sarcophagus was sealed with a special rote.
CHUNK!
Ranma touches the sarcophagus gently. The design work was already preplanned, so the design was shaped in the form of his wife.
"Do not fret, husband of Iusasset," Nia said. "This sarcophagus will suspend the flow of Time for her, while you retrieve both the Book of the Dead and the Book of Amon-Ra."
"Why both books?" Ranma asked.
"The priest you speak of as the cause of this predicament had stolen Iusasset's immortality with the Book of the Dead. You will need to use that same book to take back your wife's immortality, and you will need the Book of Amon-Ra to restore her life-cycle."
"Alright," Ranma said, as he takes one last look at his wife sarcophagus. "If I'm not back-"
"We'll take care of her," Nia said. "After all, we do worship the goddess."
Ranma nods, before taking off back to the surface of the streets of Cairo…
Tbc.