Magic Squire Rayearth
A Ranma ½ & Magic Knight Rayearth X-Over.
By Tomas Megerson.
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Chapter 2
Monsters, Weapons, and Fiancée

Ranma gazed down at the approaching castle. From the altitude that
the griffin was coming in at he could tell that it was pretty run down.
He could also tell that it was fairly large. The giant pond didn't make
him very comfortable, but he resolved to stay as far away from it as
possible. Off to his side he could see Ryoga casting the pond a similar
glance of apprehension. Mousse wasn't showing any signs of worry, mostly
due to the fact he was facing the wrong way.

The griffin made a smooth landing outside of a giant wall that
surrounded the inner building. Everyone disembarked from the bird and
moved around to inspect the area a bit. Ranma, lost in thought, didn't
notice as Ryoga's famed luck kicked in and he seemed to vanish in mid
stride. No one else took notice of it either.

Heading towards the wall, Hikaru was the one who asked the all-
important question. "Is this where we'll find Presea-San?" The griffin
answered with a few chirps and the nod of its head. Umi and Fuu moved
over to huddle by Hikaru, while Ranma walked over and grabbed Mousse just
before he could enter the forest.

Umi looked at the imposing wall. "Is this the right place?"

Hikaru looked back at Ranma only to notice something wrong. The
griffin was gone, vanished without a trace. The others gave a surprised
start at how quietly the bird had disappeared. Ranma only did so because
he thought nothing that large could sneak away from him. Umi started to
panic while Fuu took the analytical approach. "It appears all we can do
is go forward."

Hikaru gazed at the wall again. "But there isn't an entrance."

Ranma approached the two and shrugged his shoulders. "That's no
problem for us. Hey, P-Chan, get over here and use the breaking point."
When Ranma got no response he turned and swore softly to himself.

Umi, Fuu, and Hikaru looked around and not seeing Ryoga began to
worry.

"Where is he? Where did Ryoga go?"

Ranma sighed at the problem. "Don't worry, Fuu, Ryoga's got the
worst sense of direction in the world. He just got lost. He'll probably
show up again before too long. Come on, let's go."

Umi got an annoyed look on her face. "So would you mind telling
me how we are supposed to enter?"

Hikaru gave her a smile. "Well, how about we try knocking?"

Ranma shrugged his shoulders and walked up to the wall. "Sounds
like a good idea to me."

Umi blinked at him like he was crazy. "What!?"

"KATCHU TENSHIN ARMAGURIKAN!" Under the force of Ranma's hundreds
of punches the entire section of the wall collapsed. Behind it a
passageway was revealed. Ranma blinked as he looked at his hands. "Wow,
that's a lot stronger than normal, just like my Mouko Takabisha was
earlier. I wonder what's going on?"

Hikaru walked up next to him. "Well, lets go on in!" Ranma and
Mousse, who had found his spare glasses and was actually using them,
walked confidently through the tunnel with the Magic Knights close behind
them. Both of the Neriman's were on guard against the thought of any
attack. None came, however, and as they entered a rather large courtyard,
the two relaxed slightly.

The group approached a rather large wooden door. With out a
thought to what was going on, Fuu called out. "Hello, is anyone home!
We're sorry to be intruding!"

She might have continued had Ranma not covered her mouth with his
hand. He whispered tersely into her ear. "Be quiet. Who knows what's
around here. We have to be cautious."

Hikaru ignored his words and pushed against the door. It creaked
loudly as the door swung open. Ranma and Mousse immediately went on guard
when they saw something approach from the darkness.

"Excuse me, but can you tell me how to get to the Forest of
Silence from here?"

Ranma sighed as he relaxed. "Hey, P-Chan why'd you run off?"

Ryoga looked at him with his eyes filled with rage and
recognition. "Don't call me P-Chan! Prepare to die Ranma!"

He never got to move as Hikaru got between them once again.
"Don't fight, please. We have to save Cephiro. We need you're help!"

Ryoga looked down at the girl who was almost in a state of tears
and his anger washed away. "Uh, well, uh, sorry, uh, Hikaru. I'll try
not to do that again."

Ranma looked at him. "Good, so see anything interesting in there,
P-Chan?"

"DON'T CALL ME P-CHAN!"

"Sorry, sorry, sheesh. Well, anything good in there Ryoga?"

"Not really, I only think I saw one or two halls. Well, shall we
go in?" He promptly started heading away from the door. Ranma grabbed
his arm and dragged him the correct way through. Mousse just shrugged
and followed them while the girls recovered from a simultaneous face-fault
and hurried to catch up.

After a few minutes of wandering through the halls, the group
happened into a rather large study. The chair was turned around and
papers where flying every which way from it. Ranma gave it a look that
said 'what the hell' while Hikaru stepped slightly forward. "Uh, are you
Presea-San? We're here because Cleff-San told us to come." The chair
slowly turned around to reveal...... a strange looking rabbit like
creature. Ranma almost choked at the sight of the immensely cute thing.
"Oh, uh, Presea-San..."

IT was then that Ranma's danger sense kicked in. He dove to the
side just as a large cage dropped around the others. He stood up, once
more dropping into a fighting stance, which immediately left when he
watch a beautiful blonde women begin to laugh at her own cleverness.

"Ha ha ha ha, You sure fell for it Mokona. You always get away
with making a mess of my study. Now what would be a fitting punishment
for you? Shall I pull on your funny ears to see how far I can make them
stretch? Or perhaps it would be even better if I hung you upside down in
the front hall?"

Ranma grew a rather large sweat drop at this point, along with the
others. Unlike them, however, he was in a position to act. "Uh, how
about you start by letting my friends out?"

The blonde looked over at him and shook her head. "No, no that's
much to nice. Maybe I should..." She took another look at him, and then
at her chair, from where the white rabbit who was identified by her as
Mokona was still throwing papers into the air. She turned back to Ranma
"I always thought something inhabited this place. Who would have thought
it was a group of mischievous children."

"HEY, I'M A MAN! NO ONE SAYS THAT RANMA SAOTOME IS ANYTHING LESS
THAN A MAN AMONG MEN!"

The blonde was taken aback by the sudden outburst of the only one
outside the cage. She took a good look at him for the first time and had
to agree with him. Judging from his looks he was most definitely a man,
or at least close enough for it to count. A slight blush came over her
face as she took in his good looks. Then the name he used reached her
mind. "Did you say Saotome? Are you related to a Genma Saotome?"

Ranma became extremely weary at that point. He had seen that
look in her eyes and heard that question many times before. He was about
to actually lie about it when Hikaru chose the wrong moment to jump in.
"Yes, and he's also the greatest martial artist of his generation!" She
was proud to display the knowledge she had of him. Her brothers were
going to be so upsets that she got to not only meet him, but spend time
with him as well.

The blonde grew excited at that news. "Then he didn't lie!
You really did come when I need you the most! Father's last words were
that you'd come to help me! You're going to save Cephiro, aren't you?!"

"Well, uh yeah, I uh guess. Um, who are you?" Ranma was
completely confused. How this woman went from wanting to torture the
rabbit to overjoyed over his appearance, he had no idea.

"I'm Presea, your fiancée."

Ranma looked to the sky for a moment before he let out a
frustrated scream. "OYAJI, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THIS YOU STUPID
PANDA!" Large sweat drops formed over the heads of everyone who didn't
know Ranma's past, meaning the Magic Knights and Presea. Even Mokona had
a sweat drop. Mousse looked at him in disbelief while Ryoga began to
snicker. Ranma gave the Nerimans a disgusted look before he turned to
his newly found fiancée. "So, what'd pops get outta this? Please don't
tell me it was a boll of rice and a couple of pickles."

Presea blinked before shrugging. "No, it was for some petty
crimes. Stealing food or something. He promised that if he was let go
he'd send his son to the castle if anything bad happened. To make him
keep his word my father made him engage his you to me, that way you'd
have a reason to come."

Ranma sighed and rolled his eyes "Better than the rice, not by
much, but a bit." He was going to go one about all of the other things
that it was better than (yatti, amazons, curse, violent tomboy, perverted
masters, and yeti riding bull with crane and eel), but it was this moment
that Mokona decided that the people in the cage where friends and went to
join them.

The white rabbit like thing went straight up to Hikaru and
started to speak. "puu, puupuu, puuuuu."

Hikaru looked at Mokona and knelt down in front of him. "Oh, how
cute. So you're called Mokona?"

Fuu had a look on her face that practically scream she was about
to make an observation that no one would like. "Even though we have
nothing to do with this problem, the fact that we entered without
permission means that she can keep us in this cage if she likes."

Umi was the one that had the most outrage to this statement.
Hikaru was too cheerful to care, Ryoga figured that she would be too weak
to harm him any, and Mousse knew that she would have to disarm them
first, and that would take years when she reached him. Ranma was in a
conversation with her trying to figure out just how is old man had gotten
on to Cephiro. So was it any wonder that Umi was the only one to get
upset. "What! Are you kidding me! This entire thing is Ranma's fault!
If he hadn't destroyed that wall we never would have come across that
passage! None of this would have happened if this was Tokyo!"

Ranma glanced over at the cage. "Would you mind keeping it
down? I'm trying to figure out how the hell my old man got here to get
me engaged. Shish, you are so uncute."

"WHAAAT!!! HOW CAN YOU CALL ME UNCUTE YOU JERK!"

Now it was Presea's turn to look over at the cage. "Don't scream
at my fiancee like that. I still haven't decided what I'm going to do
with you yet. You don't want your situation to get any worse." It was
then that she noticed Mokona in the cage with the others. She started to
talk softly to herself. "What? There's no way they could be this young.
But, Mokona seems so happy with them." She then looked at the people in
the cage. "You then, are the magic Knights."

Hikaru nodded. "That's right. My name is Hikaru Shidou." Umi
and Fuu moved to stand next to the normally bubbly red head.

"I am Umi Ryuuzaki"

"And I am Fuu Hououji."

Presea looked over at Ryoga and Mousse while raising an eyebrow.
"There are only supposed to be three Magic Knights. Who are you?"

Ranma coughed "Well, they sorta came with me, Presea. The one
with the bandanna is Ryoga and the one in the robes is Mousse. Pig-boy
and Duck-boy respectively."

"RANMA!!!" the two other cursed martial artists screamed at the
same time. Once more (gee, it seems this is going to happen a lot)
Hikaru got in the way before a fight broke out.

"Please don't fight. There's no reason for it. I'm sure
Ranma-san just teases you to show that he likes you. Please don't
fight!" Tears welled up in her eyes. The fight stopped immediately as
the boys were ashamed at having made her cry again.

Presea turned to Ranma. "Is that really why you say things like
that to them?"

"Nope. I do it because they both loose focus so easily that it
makes it even easier to beat the hell out of them then it normally is."

"Ah, use your opponents anger against them. They become blind
with rage and it makes your fight shorter. You're very good at this sort
of thing."

"Heh, I'm the best."

Ryoga and Mousse just stared at each other as the truth finally
hit them in the face. Whenever they had to deal with Ranma, they were
their own worse enemy.

The door chose that moment to blow open. Ranma took one glance
at the monster, grabbed Presea, and pushed her through the other door in
the room. "Stay in here, we'll take care of this!" He then turned to
the beast. There really wasn't any point for him to do so, however.

The moment the monster crashed through the door, Ryoga took
action. He yanked the bars of the cage apart and rushed the thing with
his index finger extended. "BAKUSAI TENKETSU!" The beast promptly
exploded, covering the room in mud. The girls starred in shock while
Mousse calmly walked out of the cage and Ranma opened the door to let
Presea back in.

The blonde took a long look at the mess her study was in. "Just
who is going to clean this up?"

Ranma pointed to the Lost Boy. "Ryoga blew the thing up, so he
gets to clean it up."

Presea turned her gaze to Ryoga, who was holding his hand behind
his head and looking rather sheepish. "Is this true?"

"Ah, well, um, say, that Cleff guy told us that you would have
weapons for us. Can we get them now?"

"Don't try to change the subject on me! Did you cause this
mess?"

"Well, um, Dammit Ranma! This is all your fault!"

Ranma looked at Ryoga with anger. "My fault! How is this my
fault!"

"You're the one that dragged me here! Anything that happens is
YOUR FAULT!"

"Watch it Pig-boy! Who the hell was it that attacked me while I
was at Tokyo Tower for no damn good reason!"

"RANMA BECAUSE OF YOU I'VE SEEN HELL! PREPARE TO DIE!!" Ryoga
moved to make good on his threat, only to be confronted by a sword to his
throat. Attached to the sword was Presea.

"Don't you dare even think about hurting my Ranma. I promise you
a world of pain if you try. Now then, you will clean this up later, got
it." Ryoga nodded and Presea put her sword away. Now then, follow me.
Lets get you all some weapons, okay." She headed through the door that
Ranma had pushed her through before and the others followed. Before long
they had entered Presea's armory. Mounted on all of the walls was an
impressive display of weaponry. It seemed like she had everything from
throwing stars to a cannon in the center of the room. Mousse's eyes lit
up at the assortment. "There, choose any weapon you like." Mousse began
to grin. This was his type of place.

Fuu also began to smile. "You are simply too kind to provide us
with weapons like this."

Ranma snorted at that, though. "Pheh, weapons, who needs them.
Weapons are a handicap. They only make you weak. Take the weapon away
and your opponent is helpless."

Presea's eyes widened. "But Ranma, how could you fight with out
a weapon. There are so many dangerous monsters that you can't touch.
You would be forced to run away from them."

"So I'll hit 'em with a Ki blast, no problem. I don't need no
weapon to fight. Hell, even Mousse knows that weapons are a weakness.
Why do you think he carries so damn many. He knows that they can simply
be taken away." Ranma looked up at Presea only to regret everything that
he just said.

Tears began to form in the eyes of the newest member of the Ranma
Fiancee Club. "But, Ranma, you need to have a weapon to battle some
creatures. There's no way for you to beat them with out one. Please,
for me, just take a weapon."

Ranma began to stutter. If there was a single great weakness in
Ranma, it was that he couldn't stand to see a girl cry. "Ah, don't cry
Presea. Please, don't cry. I'll take a weapon, okay, just stop crying.
Please, you can even chose if want, but stop crying."

"You will?" He nodded and her tears instantly stopped. "Alright,
just close your eyes and concentrate. The weapon that suits you most
will come to your hands." A loud banging on the door was heard. "Hurry,
something's trying to break in!" Presea moved to the cannon as the
other's closed their eyes. In Hikaru's hands, a sword appeared. Umi
gained a rapier while Fuu received a bow. A giant war hammer
materialized in Ryoga's hands. Neither Ranma nor Mousse got a weapon,
however. Both were grinning, though.

"Ha, I told you I didn't need no weapon, didn't I. Even your
magic weapons agree." Ranma was thrilled that he didn't get one. It was
good to be right, after all.

Presea, however, looked around the now barren room. Every single
weapon was gone. Even her cannon that she had aimed at the door
disappeared. "What in the world..." Just then the door blew open.

Mousse raised one hand and fifteen spears shot from his sleeve,
impaling the mud creature. Ryoga lept forward, his new war hammer
slamming into the thing's head. He smiled in satisfaction as the head
sailed out of the room, only to splatter against the wall. The body
dropped to the floor with a thud.

Ranma looked at the monster for a moment and then turned to his
sometimes ally. "Hey, Ryoga, ain't that the same thing you blew up with
the Bakusai Tenketsu earlier?"

He looked down at the body before giving a small nod. "Yeah, I
think you're right, Ranma. Wonder how..." It was then that the entire
group watched as it pulled itself back together.

"Everyone out now!" Ranma herded the girls through the door
while dragging Ryoga along by the arm. "Ryoga get them out side, I'll
deal with that thing once we're out of the building."

"How do you expect to do that, Ranma! Even the Breaking Point
didn't work!"

"I'm not going to destroy it, Ryoga, just send it on a little
trip." Ryoga's eyes widened as he came to realize just what Ranma was
going to do. It had been used on himself enough times.

As the group exited the building, Ranma dove behind one of the
pillars and began to gather in his Ki. He'd only have one shot at it, so
he had to make it count. The monster came lumbering out of the building
only to stop when it didn't see any of its prey in the yard. Ranma to
the hesitation to make his move. He had learned long ago how to use this
technique without his opponents aid. It had allowed him to defeat
Natsume, Kurumi, and even Kirin. Now it would defeat a mud monster.
Ranma rushed in as close as he could before launching an uppercut to the
sky. "HIRYU SHOTEN HAAAA!!!"

The tornado that formed was more powerful than anything Ranma
could have imagined. Almost immeadiately he lost control of it as it
expanded to over twenty feet in diamater. He was sucked into the raging
winds, and knock out with in seconds. After lasting for almost 15
seconds, the strongest Ki attaack of the Nerima Wreking Crew dissapated
and Ranma dropped through the roof with a couple of walls caving in on
him. Of the mud moster, nothing could be found.


Author's notes: Well, this turned out totally different from
what happened in the anime, huh. I like it a lot more though. Okay,
how many out there thought that Hikaru was going to beat it. Now let me
count those hands. Anyway, I've gotten some good response about this
story, which makes me glad I've chosen to write it. Anyway, hope you
enjoyed it.