strength.
"Time to come with me, little boy."
"I'd... rather... die..." Ranma wheezed.
"That *can* be arranged..."
Just then, a disc of light, cut through the night-time sky, and a voice
called out clear as a
cloudless sky:
"STOP RIGHT THERE!"
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A Crossing of Destinies (part 1)
by Chibi Acky
email: xela@selphie.nu
disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon both belong to their owners.
:)
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A beaten and bloodied Ranma Saotome had never felt so bitter in his
entire life as he did
staring Seeker down, on his own territory. Casting a hopeful
glance up to the direction of
the voice, Ranma almost missed dodging another kick Seeker let fly
towards his stomach.
However, his enemy didn't seem to mind, and instead, directed his attention
towards the
new voice.
"Come out, come out where ever you are..."
"Under the protection of the time-space star, the guardain of time,
Sailor Pluto!" The tall,
green-haired senshi was perched upon the Tendo's cobble stone fence.
Her slender form
was shilloutted by the dark night-time sky. Her talisman's deep
garnet-colored stone
glittered in the light of the full moon.
"Under the protection of teh silent star of revolution, here I am, Sailor
Saturn!" Saturn,
wtill mangled with ehr torn fuku, held her glaive in a determined grip.
She had managed
to squeeze past the shocked and astonished stares of the Tsukin, Saotome,
and Tendo
families.
"Beautiful as always, my dears!" Seeker smirked with his eyeless
face, "Bu tthe brightest
of you all is still missing... oh, Serenity.... where are you?"
Ranma manged to pull himself
up into a strong fighting stance in front of Ukyou, who had just begun
to wake up from
the slumber she had been in because of Seeker crashing her into a wall.
"Ugh... Ran-chan...?"
"It's okay, Ucchan..." He helped the weak girl to her feet. Ukyou
swayed, and her grip on
Ranma's arm was almost deadly. Ranma had never seen her so frightened
in his life.
"They came," She whispered in awe, "The Senshi will save us, right?"
Ranma didn't answer.
"Right here." A voice finally answered from one of the many gargantuan
branches that
spread from the sagacious tree that had been planted in front of the
dojo.
Usa-chan?!> Ranma thought frantically. His head snapped
up in the diretion of the large
tree.
"With the blessings of the Moon, the star of Love and Justice, the soldier
of sanctity,
Sailor Moon!" AMaxingly enough, the girl jumped from the tree
without killing herself,
and in fact, it was even rather graceful. She let out a little
smirk at Seeker's surprised
face, "Hello, Darling. It's been a while, hasn't it?" She
jabbed.
"Usagi-chan!!" Ranma and Ukyou shouted simultaneously. Usagi
favored them with a
slight wave, but kept her face serious.
"Ranma, bring Uyou inside!" She shouted, whipping back around
to face Seeker. Ranma,
deciding against angering his cousin - the Sailor Senshi - half carried
the wounded
okonomiyaki chef into the house, much to her protests.
"Listen to me, Ran-chan!" She paused, "Seeker just about killed
us- even you! You're
practically the world's best martial artist!" he set her down on the
ground, not even
bothering acknowledge the looks from the room's other occupants.
"I know." He said simply, with an uncharacteristically grim expression
plastered on his
face. He turned and left without another word.
I see... Ran-chan... I know how much you love her, but what about
us? If you get killed,
you'll break my heart too.>
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Ranma had never felt quite so... helpless in his life, as he did watching
his cousin and the
other Senshi.
"... back in your original form, I see." Seeker circled around
Sailor Moon in a hawk-like
manner. Sailor Moon firmly held her ground. It was true,
Usagi had noted with mild
distress... and when she had tried to transform, she found herself
back in her original form.
"Get away from her!" Saturned pouned the bottom of her glaive
into the dewy grass.
Ranma was a little taken back by the look in her eyes.
So cold...>
"Dead Scream!" Was the mere whisper from Pluto. Ranma, who
had never before
witnessed a Senshi's powers, nevermind a Senshi in battle at all, stood
in mild amazement,
appreicating the power and sheer beauty of it all.
"Silence Wall!" Saturn threw up a protective wall, shielding both
her and Usagi from
Pluto's blast. Seeker was sent flying back, nearly at Ranma's
feet. Seeing this as his
oppertunity to strike, Ranma held his foot to Seeker's flabby throat,
"Where is Akane?!"
Ranma shouted, "Tell me!"
Seeker just gave him a toothless grin as he grabbed Ranma's anke and
twisted.
Fortunately, Ranma allowed himself to be spun with the his ankle and
landed a few feet
away, dropping into another stance.
"Not bad." Sekker mumbled, digging into the leather pouch at his
side, "And seeing how
I am utterly outnumbered, I thought I might invite a few new friends..."
Taking one look at Usagi's facial expression when Seeker pulled out
four twinkling
crystals in the shapes of stars, Ranma knew that something wasn't right.
... the hell is going on?!> He thought in bewilderment, his
blood running cold at the
sight of them floating dazily in Seeker's palm.
"Chaos! I call upon you! Gather your strength! Give
birth to new Senshi!" All three
senshi made a dive towards the starseeds, and each and everyone of
them missed. There
were four blinding flashes of light, red, orange, green, blue, and
Usagi, remembering this
from a not-to-distant memory, nearly broke down into tears all over
again.
Ranma, utterly bemused, watched as the four Inner Senshi stepped from
their
corresponding lights. "Hey Usagi-chan, aren't these your
friends...?" He asked, coming
to flank her side.
"No." Usagi replied, a look of eternal sadness in her eyes, "These
aren't my friends." She
let out a shaky breath, "He has their starseeds... he's corrupted them
with chaos... these
aren't... my friends..." Her voice trailed off uncertainly.
"Very good observation, Princess!" Seeker turned and snapped Mercury's
neck, leaving
the blue haired soldier to lay with her vacant eyes staring into nothingness.
The hair on
the back of Ranma's neck stood up on their ends.
"What the hell did you do that for?!" He shouted angerily, "What
in the hell is wrong with
you?"
"You want the match to be fair, don't you?"
"Not at the expense of another's life!" Pluto cried. She had seen this too many times.
"Oh, but I do suppose you know what will happen next, don't you Time
Guardian?" He
reached over and grabbed Venus' long golden hair.
"Don't do this." Pluto pleading, stepping in front of Saturn,
as if to block her line of
vision. But he did have *every* intention of it, *every* intention
of making them suffer.
He pulled out his long dagger at his side, and with the flick of his
wrist, Venus was down
with an angry red stream of blood flowing from her neck.
At this point, Ranma was beyond disgusted, and when he turned to see
how his cousin
was taking it, he found her, staring straight ahead. Her body
had seemingly locked itself
up, and when she spoke, it was barely above a whisper, "So this...
instead of making us
fight them, you're going to massacre them infront of us?"
"Who said anything about a massacre, I'm just bringing about a glorious
revolution!" He
began to laugh insanely, and Ranma tensed up ready to pounce, but Usagi
held an arm out
infront of him, "Who are you?"
"Me? A bounty hunter. I just carry-out the missions."
His shallow face was almost
completely unlight, even with the light of the full moon, "And you,"
He said in a eeire
voice, "Are my mission."
"And so are the priests, and prietesses... the Prince, and the princess'.
You're all apart of
my mission." He paused, raising his sword, "And my mission is
to DESTROY YOU
ALL!" Making a clear dive towards Saturn probably wasn't his
wisest choice, because in
turn, she made a clear slice down his center with her glaive.
"Mission?" Usagi was utterly confused as Ranma crouched beside
her, "The Priests and
Priestess'? What are you talking about?"
Pluto felt her heart drop into her stomach at the ghastly grin Seeker
was giving her, "You
didn't tell them, Guardian of Time?"
"Setsuna-mama?" Hotaru turned her innocent eyes towards the totally
stiff Pluto, "What
have you been keeping from us?"
Clutching her Time staff, Setsuna replied in an angry voice, "Don't
try and turn the tables
on me, Seeker, you know as well as I do that distirbing the timeline
is breaking a taboo."
"Taboo-shamoo, Setsuna my dear." Stepping back, he reached into
his pouch again
pulling out the a familiar golden crystal, "So, if I were to bring
*him* back, and kill
*her*... would that be the end of everything? Couldn't the galaxy
survive without the
Messiah?"
"Don't..." Usagi whispered, clutching at her heart, "Please...
I don't want to see him
hurt...." Tears threatened to spill out of her eyes. Ranma,
not understanding who "Him"
was, as usual, immediately jumped to conclusions.
"After all he's done to you, how can you not want him hurt?! Huh?"
Ranma shouted in
his cousin's face, "What the hell is going on?!"
"Well, if he's all for it, then I say, welcome back Endymion!"
"NO!" Usagi screamed, but it was already too late. The golden
light shimmered and
expanded as a shadowed figure stepped through. His armor, immpeccable,
and his eyes a
vacant black.
"Endymion-sama... kill them."
With his cousin sobbing, his new allies looking ready to rip Seeker's
heart out (or lack
there-of), Ranma, as usual, was confused. "Someone want to explain?"
Ranma swept his
eyes over the group.
The dark haired man with the empty eyes just nodded, unsheathing his
sword and pointing
it directly at Sailor Moon. "USAGI!" Saturn cried, "MOVE!"
She knocked the shocked
girl out of the way, nearly taking out a chunk of her shoulder.
Saturn cursed under her
breath, motion for Setsuna to go ahead and do something, "Pluto, you
and I will deal with
Seeker."
Pluto merely nodded.
"And me?" Ranma asked.
"Don't get in the way."
Ranma had the dencency to look offended as he stepped back out of the
line of fire. He
glanced over to see how his cousin was fairing...
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"Mamo-chan..." Usagi mumbled, backing away from the tip of his
sword,
"Mamo-chan..."
He didn't reply, and only swung his sword down upon her. She turned
out of the way,
causing the tip of his sword to catch on her fuku, riping it.
"Listen to me Mamo-chan! This isn't you! WAKE UP!"
She cried pleadingly, "Please...
Mamo-chan..." Tears were already blurring her vision as he knocked
her roughly to the
ground with the bottom of his cumbrous sword.
"USAGI!" Ranma cried out sharply, "Don't let him just kill you!"
He had to literally hold
himself back from killing the man.
"I-I... I can't do this again, Ran-chan, I can't kill him..."
Usagi stuttered, grasping her
scepter to his chest.
"Princess! Get it together!" Saturn shouted from where she
and Pluto were, "This isn't
Endymion, this isn't *your* Endymion!"
She's right... this... this isn't my Mamo-chan, I know this trick!>
Mustering up enough
courage to stand on her wobbily knees, she found the sharp stone tip
of her true, her only,
love's sword pointed directly at her heart. She looked up, time
seemingly slowed as the
tears dissapeared from her eyes. This has happened
too many times...>
"As long as it's you Endy..." She whispered, shutting out the
visions from her eyes. His
cold eyes, his vacant face, everything was gone in the blink of an
eye.
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"Hey, isn't that...?" Shingo began, eyeing Endymion warily.
"Yes. I do believe it is." Ikuko shut her eyes, trying to block out the terrifying scene.
"Um... well... shouldn't she be like... oh I don't know... running into
his arms and
embracing him?" Shingo raised an eyebrow, "Instead of pointing
a sword at her heart?"
"THAT'S IT! GOD DAMMIT!" Kenji made a lunge for the door,
before both Soun and
Genma tackled him to the floor, "I knew that kid was BAD NEWS!"
"Oh sure, Dad, that's why you invitied him into our home and had Mom
cook him
breakfast." Shingo mumbled, peeking out the window.
"That's before I knew he was evil!"
Everyone just remained silent.
Please God, just save my daugther...> Ikuko thought pleadingly,
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So this would be the final blow to end everything? Usagi looked
to her right, Seeker
grinning viciously above the unconcious bodies of Saturn and Pluto.
To her left, was
Ranma, who was still screaming for her to get up, even though he didn't
make a move to
counterattack any of Endymion's moves.
Usagi cried out in pain, clutching her chest as Seeker finally pulled
the Chaos Blood Stone
from his pouch, dangling it from afar. The Silver Crystal flared
to life, nearly burning her.
He walked closer, and closer, until he finally came to stand behind
Endymion. Ranma was
still to petrified for his cousin, to move.
So Usagi did the only thing she could do, she stared into Endymion's
cold eyes, and began
to cry, "Mamo-chan... this isn't you! Wake up Mamo-chan!"
Still no response or
movement from him.
"Alright Mamo-chan, just as long as it's you, and only you... Endy....
I love you. Even if
you kill me... I'll still love you, for who you used to be."
Usagi squeezed her eyes shut,
waiting for the inevitable blow to come.
But it never did.
The pain was gone as she opened her eyes. The sword had been removed
from her heart,
and was now pointed at Seeker, with the Chaos blood shattered into
a thousand pieces.
The pieces began to ooze, as if turning back into real blood, before
seeping into the
ground.
Endymion had his sword plunged into Seeker, a dangerous look in his
now clear eyes.
Seeker, who's skeleton-like face had never shown emotion before, was
hunched over in
pain, hissing something violently to Endymion.
"Mamo-chan...?"
Ranma finally had the courage to step forward, flanking his cousin from
the rear.
Endymion turned around, just as Seeker took out the Golden Crystal
again, looking ready
to crush it.
"Usako..." Endymion whispered as he became part of the wind.
"NO!" Usagi cried, jumping to her feet, her hands frantically
running through what was
left of his faint golden glitter.
But he was already gone.
"That's it... no more..." Usagi clutched her crystal in her hand,
"Ranma, remember that
bright white light thingy you did at Ukyou's resturant?"
"Yeah..." Ranma wondered about what she was getting at.
"See this crystal in my hand?"
"Yeah..."
"Aim it at it."
"THE CRYSTAL?!" Ranma nearly collapsed, "Won't it break or something?!"
Usagi pondered for a moment, tapping her chin thoughtfully, "Hmm...
probably not."
Both grinned a little bit.
"Ready Ran?"
"Ready, Usa."
"Moon.... crystal... POWER!"
"MOKO TAKABISHA!"
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*Moko Takabisha is only one of Ranma's special attacks, and uses chi energy.
Okay, I *have* to stop there. This part is only 8 pages long,
but it took me over three
months to finish. I can't write anymore at this point, because
I can't find my stupid
notebook that held the rest of the plot line. The next part won't
be out soon, but it won't
take another three months to finish.
Thanks for understanding!
Chibi Acky
PS If I don't get more than five reviews, I most likely won't
finish this. I have like four
other stories, and I'm rapidly losing interest in this story.
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