For If We Shadows Have Offended... DEAL WITH IT!
A Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon crossover... with certain other elements...
by Shea McIntee (deus_ex_mach42@hotmail.com)
Chapter 2
Ranma whistled a cheery tune as he sauntered down the street in a bustling Tokyo. It was nice to be in the mortal realm; so many things to do, so many people...
So much fun waiting to happen. He smirked as he looked around for someone to play with.
'Always play with their minds...'
No one seemed to stand out.
'Hmmm... maybe I can see what there is to do when you're bored around here...'
As he strode down the sidewalk, bits of magic floated from his fingers. Here, an alleycat's fur suddenly changed color to pink, with a red bow around it's tail and an immense look of disgust of it's face. There, a American tourist with a long black beard suddenly noticed that he now had a shorn stripe running down it's middle. A woman gaing into a mirror with a serious expression and fiddling with her hair on the corner of the intersection while waiting for the light almost dropped the mirror in shock when her reflection stuck it's tongue out at her. Ranma grinned as a little girl whining to her mother for some ice cream suddenly found a large cone of chocolate ice cream in her hand, much to the mother's startlement and the child's glee.
Puck was right; the mortal plane was so much FUN!
He stopped as he walked by a medium-sized building with a sign reading 'Crown Arcade' on the front. He opened the door and walked in. There were a few people around; mostly teenagers.
'Hmmm... let's find some amusement here...'
He took a glance at the customers. There were a few couples, potentially entertaining, but often dangerous to mess with; he didn't want to actually hurt someone... just tease, confuse, harass, and bewilder. There was a group of about five teenage girls sitting together; there was something about them that rubbed him funny... he shrugged. He'll look into it later.
The was an older guy, early twenties, behind the counter; probably in charge here. There were a couple of individuals just sitting and eating, and a few playing on some video games. He ducked behind a plant near the entrance and faded out. It wouldn't do to be seen.
He walked up, invisible, behind a young boy playing at a fighting game, with a couple of friends looking on, and inspected both him and the screen. Mortal Kombat XXXXII... what to do...
He grinned. As the boy executed some bizarre finishing move to the under-dressed and obviously-"talented" female opponent, he made a small gesture, and covered the screen with a small illusion. As the huge fireball roared across the screen and passed through the girl, leaving a blackened husk, what the boys saw was that same fireball pass through, leaving the figure unaffected... except for the crisping of what little garments remained, giving them quite an eyeful.
The boy's friends, after getting over their shock, starting pleading with the still-stunned player.
"That was sooo COOL!"
"Yeah! How'd you do that?"
"I-I-I don't know."
"Oh, come on! Tell us how you did it!"
Ranma snickered and walked away, towards the group that attracted his attention earlier. He paused behind a small potted plant and shifted into a small brown-colored bird with blue feather-tips and flew the rest of the way towards the table, and landed on a small black cat sunning itself.
To his shock, it raised it's head and glared at him, muttering.
"If that bird does anything on me, I'm going to have flying chicken for dinner."
To his further surprise, the girls present at the table just giggled a little; obviously this was nothing new to them.
Hmmm... talking animals... could be from Fae, but he couldn't detect any trace of that. They might be enchanted humans or enchanted animals, but humans enchanted into animal form generally couldn't speak, and enchanted animals usually didn't know how to.
That left... hmmm... Guardians, perhaps. Spirits sent to guide a Hero, oftentimes in an animal shape.
If so, that meant that there was a Hero around here somewhere... and where Heroes were, fun, excitement, and really wild things usually followed. That was, after all, why Sidhe were attracted to them.
Hmm... let's see. There were five human girls, fairly young. Possible hero material, maybe; guardians often were involved in raising potential heroes. There was this guardian in the shape of a black cat; so traditional, that... he wondered if any guardian had ever tried a non-traditional form. A buzzard, say, or perhaps a baby seal. But no, they always liked cats and dogs and birds. Hmmm... there's another cat, white this time, sprawled next to this one, maybe another guardian; in which case there was probably more than one hero.
He delicately probed at the black cat's mind. He could use more information here...
And he jerked his head up and was unceremoniously dumped as the cat somehow propelled itself to it's feet and whirled it's head around, looking for something.
Great. Make that a TELEPATHIC Guardian. Next idea...
As the cat muttered something about false alarms, the other cat raised it's head and made a snide under-the-breath comment about females and "that time," for which he got his ears clawed. Maybe this one?
He settled down on his new perch (the white cat's side) and tried again.
Success! This one wasn't a telepath.
'Hmm... let's see...'
He rummaged around a rather untidy mind, with holes and dark areas abounding. Some sort of mental damage, perhaps. No, not a single hero here, but a whole group, of 10 or so in total, calling themselves the Senshi. Hmmm... definite potential there. Enemies that used dark magic; expected, really. Interesting... World-class threats... typical...
He disengaged himself and started thinking, flying to a nearby plant to think things over. There was potential here somewhere...
Author's Notes: I decided that this makes a good stopping point.... Let me know what you think! (Nudge, nudge) deus_ex_mach42@hotmail.com
Ummm... not quite sure what's next exactly: most of what I have is a rather lengthy list of fun to nasty things that could happen, esp to certain overly-serious people (read targets). This may, after a while, delve into more series if this works well, dealing with Ranma's encounters in other worlds. Also, soon I'll be involving some of the Nerima cast... Genma's not out of the picture yet! (Think much gratuitous panda-bashing...) I'm not sure if I'll be having any match-up in this fic... probably not, though. Enjoy!
A Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon crossover... with certain other elements...
by Shea McIntee (deus_ex_mach42@hotmail.com)
Chapter 2
Ranma whistled a cheery tune as he sauntered down the street in a bustling Tokyo. It was nice to be in the mortal realm; so many things to do, so many people...
So much fun waiting to happen. He smirked as he looked around for someone to play with.
'Always play with their minds...'
No one seemed to stand out.
'Hmmm... maybe I can see what there is to do when you're bored around here...'
As he strode down the sidewalk, bits of magic floated from his fingers. Here, an alleycat's fur suddenly changed color to pink, with a red bow around it's tail and an immense look of disgust of it's face. There, a American tourist with a long black beard suddenly noticed that he now had a shorn stripe running down it's middle. A woman gaing into a mirror with a serious expression and fiddling with her hair on the corner of the intersection while waiting for the light almost dropped the mirror in shock when her reflection stuck it's tongue out at her. Ranma grinned as a little girl whining to her mother for some ice cream suddenly found a large cone of chocolate ice cream in her hand, much to the mother's startlement and the child's glee.
Puck was right; the mortal plane was so much FUN!
He stopped as he walked by a medium-sized building with a sign reading 'Crown Arcade' on the front. He opened the door and walked in. There were a few people around; mostly teenagers.
'Hmmm... let's find some amusement here...'
He took a glance at the customers. There were a few couples, potentially entertaining, but often dangerous to mess with; he didn't want to actually hurt someone... just tease, confuse, harass, and bewilder. There was a group of about five teenage girls sitting together; there was something about them that rubbed him funny... he shrugged. He'll look into it later.
The was an older guy, early twenties, behind the counter; probably in charge here. There were a couple of individuals just sitting and eating, and a few playing on some video games. He ducked behind a plant near the entrance and faded out. It wouldn't do to be seen.
He walked up, invisible, behind a young boy playing at a fighting game, with a couple of friends looking on, and inspected both him and the screen. Mortal Kombat XXXXII... what to do...
He grinned. As the boy executed some bizarre finishing move to the under-dressed and obviously-"talented" female opponent, he made a small gesture, and covered the screen with a small illusion. As the huge fireball roared across the screen and passed through the girl, leaving a blackened husk, what the boys saw was that same fireball pass through, leaving the figure unaffected... except for the crisping of what little garments remained, giving them quite an eyeful.
The boy's friends, after getting over their shock, starting pleading with the still-stunned player.
"That was sooo COOL!"
"Yeah! How'd you do that?"
"I-I-I don't know."
"Oh, come on! Tell us how you did it!"
Ranma snickered and walked away, towards the group that attracted his attention earlier. He paused behind a small potted plant and shifted into a small brown-colored bird with blue feather-tips and flew the rest of the way towards the table, and landed on a small black cat sunning itself.
To his shock, it raised it's head and glared at him, muttering.
"If that bird does anything on me, I'm going to have flying chicken for dinner."
To his further surprise, the girls present at the table just giggled a little; obviously this was nothing new to them.
Hmmm... talking animals... could be from Fae, but he couldn't detect any trace of that. They might be enchanted humans or enchanted animals, but humans enchanted into animal form generally couldn't speak, and enchanted animals usually didn't know how to.
That left... hmmm... Guardians, perhaps. Spirits sent to guide a Hero, oftentimes in an animal shape.
If so, that meant that there was a Hero around here somewhere... and where Heroes were, fun, excitement, and really wild things usually followed. That was, after all, why Sidhe were attracted to them.
Hmm... let's see. There were five human girls, fairly young. Possible hero material, maybe; guardians often were involved in raising potential heroes. There was this guardian in the shape of a black cat; so traditional, that... he wondered if any guardian had ever tried a non-traditional form. A buzzard, say, or perhaps a baby seal. But no, they always liked cats and dogs and birds. Hmmm... there's another cat, white this time, sprawled next to this one, maybe another guardian; in which case there was probably more than one hero.
He delicately probed at the black cat's mind. He could use more information here...
And he jerked his head up and was unceremoniously dumped as the cat somehow propelled itself to it's feet and whirled it's head around, looking for something.
Great. Make that a TELEPATHIC Guardian. Next idea...
As the cat muttered something about false alarms, the other cat raised it's head and made a snide under-the-breath comment about females and "that time," for which he got his ears clawed. Maybe this one?
He settled down on his new perch (the white cat's side) and tried again.
Success! This one wasn't a telepath.
'Hmm... let's see...'
He rummaged around a rather untidy mind, with holes and dark areas abounding. Some sort of mental damage, perhaps. No, not a single hero here, but a whole group, of 10 or so in total, calling themselves the Senshi. Hmmm... definite potential there. Enemies that used dark magic; expected, really. Interesting... World-class threats... typical...
He disengaged himself and started thinking, flying to a nearby plant to think things over. There was potential here somewhere...
Author's Notes: I decided that this makes a good stopping point.... Let me know what you think! (Nudge, nudge) deus_ex_mach42@hotmail.com
Ummm... not quite sure what's next exactly: most of what I have is a rather lengthy list of fun to nasty things that could happen, esp to certain overly-serious people (read targets). This may, after a while, delve into more series if this works well, dealing with Ranma's encounters in other worlds. Also, soon I'll be involving some of the Nerima cast... Genma's not out of the picture yet! (Think much gratuitous panda-bashing...) I'm not sure if I'll be having any match-up in this fic... probably not, though. Enjoy!
