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I don't own Ranma 1/2 or SM. Someone else does.
Send all questions, comments, etc. to: gourrina_chan2@yahoo.com
1) I have added something in the previous chapter not much but a
little bit of rewrite.
Red Moon
A Ranma 1/2 / SM crossover
Chapter two
**
**
Minako Aino was angry, never she had felt such anger as she stormed
into the oldest senshi's aka Sailor Pluto's or rather Setsuna
Meiou's
clinic. Keeping her anger in check she patiently waited for Setsuna
to instruct her surprise patient to leave the room. As soon as the
patient had left the room, Minako walked towards Setsuna and punched
her straight in the face. The punch was so hard that the older woman
fell from her chair and flew towards the nearest wall.
Setsuna felt confused, but years of emotionless training weren't
just
for show. She kept her cool facial expression and asked the inner
senshi leader casually, "What bring you here Minako? I doubt you
came
all the way from Juuban here just to punch me."
Minako grinned coldly, "Don't put on the `I-don't-know' act with me
Pluto, I already gave you a chance to explain yourself when Ranko
and
Hibiki-sensei disappeared last week. I want you to tell me now. How
much do you know about this Sailor Chaos and what is her connection
with Ranko and Hibiki-sensei?"
"I-I don't know what you are talking about Minako?" That comment
earned Setsuna another punch from Minako. This punch managed to
knock
the older woman towards the wall.
"Don't you give me this shit Pluto! Last time you did this the
silver
millennium was destroyed. If I can prevent it I would not let
another
one of my friend die anymore, do you hear me Pluto!"
"Die? What you mean by die? Who died?" for the second time within
the
month since she had shut down the time gate, Setsuna was startled as
she began to feel something was really wrong.
Minako studies the older woman intensively, looking for any clue she
might be telling a lie but she could hardly see any expression other
than sincere surprises she sighed, "Look at this." With that she
pull
out a newspaper from her sub space pocket and dropped it in front of
the older woman.
As Setsuna read the paper her eyes nearly popped out of their
sockets
as she saw what the newspaper had clearly written: `Famous
Politician's daughter Rei Hino murdered in hidden alley' below the
headline a big picture – `Sailor Chaos rules forever' written with
the fire senshi's blood found beside Rei's corpse.
"God, t-that bitch! She murdered Rei!"
"Good, it seems like you know who this so call bitch is, now tell me
who is this Sailor Chaos!"
"I-I'm sorry Minako, but I can't… I really can't." The older woman
couldn't take it anymore as tears began to gather on her eyes but
the
green haired woman held the tears on her eyes firmly not willing to
let them drop, as if she would fail if she cried. The senshi of
time's action somehow confuse the senshi of love since she knew that
Pluto was well known for her emotionless mask but if she cried like
that than something serious was wrong about the whole situation.
Suddenly Minako felt another presence due to her years of training,
and the worst of all - it is the type of presence that made her
blood
chill, immediately she put on a ready stance and met up with a brown
haired girl that slowly submerged from the shadows behind her.
"Hi, P-chan do you like my writing? Ahha, I see Venus is here too! I
believe we haven't meet before, let me introduce myself. I am Sailor
Chaos." Looking at the headline newspaper, Sailor Chaos smirked
cruelly, "Wow, it seems like you beat me here to inform P-chan, so
what is your opinion on how I killed Mars? Isn't it artistic?"
"You BITCH!" Minako reach for her transforming rod immediately,
however before she could shout out the transformation words she felt
an icy cold hand on her neck as Sailor Chaos was already behind her.
"I strongly suggest you to do otherwise Venus. After all, a
transformed Sailor Mars was no match for me. What makes you think
you
are better than her? So put down the silly rod since I don't want to
end my amusement so fast, if you want to die please wait for your
turn." The dark senshi chuckle at her private joke as she slowly
melded into the shadows behind Minako, "One last advice before I
leave, tell all your friends that I will see you guys next month and
one of them is going to die, so I suggest stick together more, after
all you folks don't have much time left." With an insane laugh she
left exactly way she came.
**
Silver Millennium
Moon Place
**
"Hibiki-sensei are you sure about this?" asked Haruku in a timid
voice in their hiding place. She knew her sensei ware fearless, but
stealing the Ginzuishou was not something to joke about.
"Yup, I am sure, today is the perfect day for us to get the
Ginzuishou, what is better time than the moon princess fourteenth
birthday party?" reply Ryouga confidently. He than turn toward his
radio and spoke to his partner, "Ranko have you found the target?"
"Yep, but it seems like the crystal is within the ball room… I still
think this isn't a good idea Ryouga."
"Hey, we just need to utilize the crystal and open a tiny portal for
us to get home, trust me! When did my plans fail before?"
"Well, I just have a bad feeling about this. I mean after all this
is
the Moon palace that rules the system if our information is
correct."
"Don't worry so much. Now here is the plan: I will create a
distraction at exactly three hundred minutes starting from now,
disguise is highly recommended for you to sneak into the ball. Over
and out from Hibiki."
**
Unknown to them, another side of the palace a raven hair woman was
observing them carefully. *How ironic, the crystal barrier wants to
seal the past crystal. Hmmm . . . might as well play along with
this,
after all, the master didn't say anything about not having some fun.
*
The raven hair woman used the special talisman her master gave her;
she began creating a youma that would suit the situation.
**
Ranko Saotome was getting annoyed. Every time she walked near to the
crystal, someone would drag her to the side and asked her question
she couldn't answer, *who was this silver haired woman I `borrowed'
my clothes from, some sort of celebrity? * After spending what
seemed
like hours of entertaining those weird women, Ranko sighed as she
finally reach the crystal and picked it up. Suddenly a pair of hand
touched her shoulders, causing the disguised red haired woman nearly
flip and punch the person that dared to touch her. But somehow she
managed to hold herself and turn to face a brown haired woman
wearing
a green dress and greeting her warmly, "There you are! How is life
Se-
chan?"
"Err…well I am getting very annoyed…" reply Ranma without thinking.
*Shit! What am I talking about? *
"Annoyed? That the good old Se-chan. Hmmm…Se-chan did you recently
went for work out? I mean your shoulder muscles seem to be very
firm."
"Really? Ah…well I err… *Think. Saotome. Think. Hmmm…Rapist! Yeah,
it
always a good reason for work out back home. * Well . . . it isn't
every safe now of days so I guessed I should work out more." To
Ranko's surprise the brown haired tall woman freaked out and yelled
for a few more ladies in the ball to come forward. * Ok, that wasn't
exactly the way I supposed it to get along. *
For the next hours she had been bombard with question about her
safety by the few other woman. *This is bad, how could this silver
hair chick deal with all these weirdoes, damn I must be in hell. *
Just when the girls were cornering Ranko, an exposition interrupted
them - leaving a relieved Ranko behind as the other girls ran
towards
the cause of the explosion. Ranko sighed in relief as she walked
towards the crystal camber. When she reached the small pole where
the
crystal was stored she could help but smile, "Finally, the god damn
ticket back home."
"Impressive, even with all the spells I used I still couldn't detect
any hint of disguise spell on your crescent moon mark. It is as if
you were a pure Royal Luna bloodline. How is this possible? I don't
really recall having any cousin or sister?"
The sudden burst of sound immediately startled the red haired girl
as
she jumped and latched onto the ceiling. She held onto the ceiling
with her toes and turned around. She managed to see the silver
haired
chick she `borrowed' clothes from standing there smirking in a way
that remarkably similar to her own. "Who are you?"
"You don't know who am I and yet you have the guts to come into my
palace and steal my family heir groom? I presume you are one of
those
infamous Nerima Crews who sent this note to me?" The silver haired
woman held out the note in her hand showing Ranko their trademark
silver card as she asked in amusement.
"You mean you are THAT Queen Serenity?" asked Ranko in disbelief as
she took off the silver fake hair revealing her beautiful scarlet
hair.
"Of course, who do you think I am?" the older woman mused at the
imposter odd behavior.
"But, but you are so young? I thought they said the Moon Queen is a
six hundred years old hag?"
"Old hag?" The moon queen narrowed her eyes as she used a commanding
tone, "Where did you hear such rumors?"
"Well, a inn keeper from Venus told us about that."
"Venus? I wonder why I am not surprised you heard such rumors from
that planet." The moon queen expression slowly turn back to serious
as she questioned Ranko, "Why do you want to steal the crystal? I do
pride myself for judgment of character and I doubt you want the
crystal for rewards."
"Steal? Hey, we was just borrowing it for a while . . . We sort of
need it to open a door way so we can get back home."
"Home? Where are you from?"
"Earth, but not exactly this earth, this is because in my Earth
magic
is only a legend." *Well, not exactly, but she doesn't need to know
THAT. *
"I see . . . so how did you come here?"
"The trouble is I am not entirely sure about how we got here, all I
know is I got this fuzzy image about a green haired chick in a fuku,
then the next thing I know I was at the room of a half dressed
tomboy
calling herself Queen Uranus."
The moon queen smiled in amusement as she realized why her old
friend
Queen Uranus get all worked up whenever the topic is involved with
the Nerima Crews. "What do you mean by green haired chicken wearing
fuku? Is that some sort of youma?"
"Er…no, well what I mean is a green haired woman wearing a fuku."
"I see . . ." *Green haired senshi? I wonder if this girl here is
talking about the missing Pluto? * The silver hair queen deducted
logically at the given detail.
"So I want to know - can we get this crystal and go home?" Ranko
asked lamely.
"Maybe but . . ." She was cut short when another explosion was
sound.
Ranko frowned as she muttered something about stupid pig boy don't
know what is called damage control. She bowed in an odd way to the
queen as she said, "Queen Serenity I know I am not really in the
position to ask you this - but we really want to go home. Maybe we
can talk this over tomorrow or something like that? I think that
explosion was my friend calling for me and I got to . . . huh?"
Ranko
sixth sense immediately picked up danger as she jumped out of the
way
while taking the surprised silver haired woman with her. Just like
she had predicted a large figure burst though the wall and rammed
straight towards the direction where they had been standing just a
moment ago.
"Ryouga? Why for kami's sake are you bashing the wall?" as she
indicated a handsome raven haired man with a simple pony tail behind
his back who jumped out from the ruins and glared at Ranko.
"Shut up Saotome. Thanks to those fuku chicks that youma just got a
lucky shot in." Replied the annoyed Bandanna boy.
"Whatever P-chan." Ranko smirked.
"Youma, how is this possible? How could this cursed creature
penetrate my shield?" The Queen asked in surprise, as she never knew
anything evil could penetrate the holy power of the crystal.
"Well my dear Queen Serenity, remember this nothing is perfect as
there is something called weakness in everything." Answered a newly
arrived voice. It belonged to a woman with raven hair floating just
above a green youma that looked like a hybrid between a goblin and a
werewolf with nine tails behind it. The Queen could clearly see that
all her inner and outer court senshi excluded the missing Pluto and
the still not awakened Sailor Saturn were beaten as they all had
been
hang like a display doll by the youma with its tail. The guards were
forced to fight with swords once their Queens were beaten to
unconsciousness - as their power lamps all were reduced to display
toys since their lamps drew power from their respective Queen.
Needless to say those guards without lamps were all just mere
pushovers.
"Who are you?" The Queen barely managed to hold her temper as she
saw
her friends being tortured like that, but managed to ask calmly
while
she took her time to gather more power from the crystal to perform a
powerful attack.
"Hmm…interesting question - and I always wanted to say this after
that spider man movie. Well, who am I? I am Metallia, the Mistress
of
the Dark Kingdom. And this is . . . " "Thorn." The Youma completed
her sentence.
"Yeah and I am the guy who will kick your ass." Replied Ranko as she
released a Ki blast towards the raven-haired woman. To Ranko's
surprise the blast was absorbed and even boosted the youma's power
making it stronger and more powerful. The youma wanted to follow on
attacking but it was stopped by it's mistress.
"My dear Wild Child, a message from my mistress. She said that you
better learn what you need as fast as possible to entertain her
since
each month one of your dear senshi will die if you don't return your
timeline."
"What do you mean by that?" asked Ranko, but somehow deep within her
heart she felt worried - it was not that kind of worry she always
felt for the innocent but a type of worry that involved some people
who were really close to her. The type of friends she would risk
everything for.
Matallia did not answer - the raven haired woman just smiled and
left
one last sentence hanging in the air before she teleported out of
the
palace. "Now that… is a secret."
"Why you! Hey!" As the red haired girl avoided yet another blow from
the monster.
"Stop talking there Ranko and focus on the battle!" Yelled Ryouga.
He
had dropped all his Ki attacks and switched to more primitive
hand-to-
hand combat.
"Can't a guy get her rest for a moment?" Said Ranko as she picked up
the space sword with a smirk on her face. Much to Queen Serenity's
surprise, she lit it up.
"If my memory served me right, yesterday you dragged me into that
bar
to prove your manliness because I said you became more and more
ladylike." Said Ryouga as he dodged the tails while taking advantage
of an opening and gave the youma a round horse kick, sending it
towards the other side of the wall. The youma screamed in pain "Damn
you HUMAN! I shall enjoy sending you to hell!"
"Naw, already been there. I rather send people there than going
there
myself." Mocked Ryouga. Like practiced, he immediately ducked and
Ranko jumped forward using Ryouga as a stepping stone and managed to
destroy a tail, releasing Sailor Mercury. Suddenly Ryouga saw a
smirk
on the youma's face and immediately acted without hesitation. Using
his inhuman strength, Ryouga grabbed Ranko's leg in mid air and
threw
her backwards much to the red haired martial artist annoy, but
unfortunately Ryouga couldn't do the same to himself as he was
caught
of guard when the youma's blood spilled. Some of it managed to hit
Ryouga – this left Ranko who was just standing up to see a good
portion of Ryouga flesh burn off.
"RYOUGA!!" Like a broken dam, the familiar sensation she felt while
Saffron incinerated everyone she cared for returned and the crystal
she always kept within subspace came out due to it's mistress's
subconscious summoning. The crescent moon symbol on her forehead
flared proudly like trying to show off to the world `here I am'. At
the same time a silver aura enveloped her entire body. Ranko raised
her hand upwards and grabbed the crystal that was floating, causing
the crystal to glow brighter as she prepared for the fatal attack
she
had used during her battle with the Phoenix God.
*That crystal! How could that possible?" The Moon Queen immediately
summoned the Ginzuishou - and like usual the crystal appeared before
her, but somehow it looked as if it was disappearing. *Masaka! If
the
crystal has such an effect plus the green haired woman she is
talking
about, could she possibly be . . .* Like usual she turned towards
her
senshi of wisdom and she saw the similar reaction as she gasped
after
she scanned the red haired girl. The Queen gave her wise friend a
confirming nod, telling her to report everything to her once this
was
over.
Ranko used a cold tone that she never knew she was capable of
using. "I will never forgive anyone for hurting my friends, and
always remember: NOBODY hurts my friends and lives to see the next
sunshine! Moon Cosmos . . ." however, to her surprise before she
could finished the sentence Thorn smirked as he used a spell to
intercept her attack just like her mistress had planned, "Silent
howling." Immediately no voice could be heard as Ranko's power was
stuck half way without the focus it need to release its energy. As
result the energy was forced to return and the feedback energy hurt
the wielder from within. Ironically just after the spell wore off a
piecing scream could heard from Ranko's lips as the red haired girl
fell down and vomited blood from the inner energy clash.
"Not so strong and mighty anymore, eh, little Moon Brat?" Mocked the
youma.
Out of reflex Ranko want to insult back, but she was too tired and
pained to reply, until finally she embraced unconsciousness. For the
first time in her life as martial artist she was defeated.
**
When she regained consciousness, she found herself sleeping in the
softest bed she had ever slept in. She sat up to find that her blood
spilled dress was all changed into a comfortable soft silk . . .
well
at least she thought it is a silk, since the dress seemed like a bit
more than the silk clothing she had worn before this. As her long
trained senses could tell her that it was somehow warming her,
despite it's thinness.
Suddenly she recalled, *The Youma! Ryouga! * As she was about to
jerk
up from the bed, she was held back by a familiar sense of peace. To
prove her point she reached out with her senses - she could no
longer
find the sense of darkness present anymore.
She scanned across the room to examine her situation. The room was
way larger than the Tendo Dojo; it had a plain simple bed that she
was sitting in and a made up table on the far left end of the room.
On the opposite there was a large closet where ten idiot Panda she
knew would fit in. In front of her view there was a finely crafted
wooden door that had exactly the same symbol like the annoying mark
on her forehead. Then she notices a girl near to her age with orange
red hair, dressed in a typical servant girl's uniform cleaning up
the
room.
Like water in the middle of a dessert, Ranko grabbed the servant
girl
and questioned her. "Where is Ryouga? Is he all right? What happen
to
the youma?" she blurted out.
"Calm down princess. Mr. Hibiki is perfectly fine. Queen Mercury
tended to his wound. As for the youma, Mr. Hibiki managed to defeat
it using the Royal symbol hanging on the wall, cut the youma into
half after your highness distracted the youma by fainting in front
of
it." The girl calmly pushed Ranko's hand away as she kneeled down
formally in front of the now relieved redhead.
"Princess Serenity, the Queen wants to see you."
Ranko frowned as she looked left and right finding there is no one
else beside her. Confused she asked "Excuse me, did you call me
Princess?"
TBC
Until next chapter . . .
Author footnotes:
I must say this story has less grammar mistake is all thank to my
pre-
reader so all those who read this please bow and thanks to the
goddess `Ranko' class 1, category pre-reader, unlimited. ^_^
I don't own Ranma 1/2 or SM. Someone else does.
Send all questions, comments, etc. to: gourrina_chan2@yahoo.com
1) I have added something in the previous chapter not much but a
little bit of rewrite.
Red Moon
A Ranma 1/2 / SM crossover
Chapter two
**
**
Minako Aino was angry, never she had felt such anger as she stormed
into the oldest senshi's aka Sailor Pluto's or rather Setsuna
Meiou's
clinic. Keeping her anger in check she patiently waited for Setsuna
to instruct her surprise patient to leave the room. As soon as the
patient had left the room, Minako walked towards Setsuna and punched
her straight in the face. The punch was so hard that the older woman
fell from her chair and flew towards the nearest wall.
Setsuna felt confused, but years of emotionless training weren't
just
for show. She kept her cool facial expression and asked the inner
senshi leader casually, "What bring you here Minako? I doubt you
came
all the way from Juuban here just to punch me."
Minako grinned coldly, "Don't put on the `I-don't-know' act with me
Pluto, I already gave you a chance to explain yourself when Ranko
and
Hibiki-sensei disappeared last week. I want you to tell me now. How
much do you know about this Sailor Chaos and what is her connection
with Ranko and Hibiki-sensei?"
"I-I don't know what you are talking about Minako?" That comment
earned Setsuna another punch from Minako. This punch managed to
knock
the older woman towards the wall.
"Don't you give me this shit Pluto! Last time you did this the
silver
millennium was destroyed. If I can prevent it I would not let
another
one of my friend die anymore, do you hear me Pluto!"
"Die? What you mean by die? Who died?" for the second time within
the
month since she had shut down the time gate, Setsuna was startled as
she began to feel something was really wrong.
Minako studies the older woman intensively, looking for any clue she
might be telling a lie but she could hardly see any expression other
than sincere surprises she sighed, "Look at this." With that she
pull
out a newspaper from her sub space pocket and dropped it in front of
the older woman.
As Setsuna read the paper her eyes nearly popped out of their
sockets
as she saw what the newspaper had clearly written: `Famous
Politician's daughter Rei Hino murdered in hidden alley' below the
headline a big picture – `Sailor Chaos rules forever' written with
the fire senshi's blood found beside Rei's corpse.
"God, t-that bitch! She murdered Rei!"
"Good, it seems like you know who this so call bitch is, now tell me
who is this Sailor Chaos!"
"I-I'm sorry Minako, but I can't… I really can't." The older woman
couldn't take it anymore as tears began to gather on her eyes but
the
green haired woman held the tears on her eyes firmly not willing to
let them drop, as if she would fail if she cried. The senshi of
time's action somehow confuse the senshi of love since she knew that
Pluto was well known for her emotionless mask but if she cried like
that than something serious was wrong about the whole situation.
Suddenly Minako felt another presence due to her years of training,
and the worst of all - it is the type of presence that made her
blood
chill, immediately she put on a ready stance and met up with a brown
haired girl that slowly submerged from the shadows behind her.
"Hi, P-chan do you like my writing? Ahha, I see Venus is here too! I
believe we haven't meet before, let me introduce myself. I am Sailor
Chaos." Looking at the headline newspaper, Sailor Chaos smirked
cruelly, "Wow, it seems like you beat me here to inform P-chan, so
what is your opinion on how I killed Mars? Isn't it artistic?"
"You BITCH!" Minako reach for her transforming rod immediately,
however before she could shout out the transformation words she felt
an icy cold hand on her neck as Sailor Chaos was already behind her.
"I strongly suggest you to do otherwise Venus. After all, a
transformed Sailor Mars was no match for me. What makes you think
you
are better than her? So put down the silly rod since I don't want to
end my amusement so fast, if you want to die please wait for your
turn." The dark senshi chuckle at her private joke as she slowly
melded into the shadows behind Minako, "One last advice before I
leave, tell all your friends that I will see you guys next month and
one of them is going to die, so I suggest stick together more, after
all you folks don't have much time left." With an insane laugh she
left exactly way she came.
**
Silver Millennium
Moon Place
**
"Hibiki-sensei are you sure about this?" asked Haruku in a timid
voice in their hiding place. She knew her sensei ware fearless, but
stealing the Ginzuishou was not something to joke about.
"Yup, I am sure, today is the perfect day for us to get the
Ginzuishou, what is better time than the moon princess fourteenth
birthday party?" reply Ryouga confidently. He than turn toward his
radio and spoke to his partner, "Ranko have you found the target?"
"Yep, but it seems like the crystal is within the ball room… I still
think this isn't a good idea Ryouga."
"Hey, we just need to utilize the crystal and open a tiny portal for
us to get home, trust me! When did my plans fail before?"
"Well, I just have a bad feeling about this. I mean after all this
is
the Moon palace that rules the system if our information is
correct."
"Don't worry so much. Now here is the plan: I will create a
distraction at exactly three hundred minutes starting from now,
disguise is highly recommended for you to sneak into the ball. Over
and out from Hibiki."
**
Unknown to them, another side of the palace a raven hair woman was
observing them carefully. *How ironic, the crystal barrier wants to
seal the past crystal. Hmmm . . . might as well play along with
this,
after all, the master didn't say anything about not having some fun.
*
The raven hair woman used the special talisman her master gave her;
she began creating a youma that would suit the situation.
**
Ranko Saotome was getting annoyed. Every time she walked near to the
crystal, someone would drag her to the side and asked her question
she couldn't answer, *who was this silver haired woman I `borrowed'
my clothes from, some sort of celebrity? * After spending what
seemed
like hours of entertaining those weird women, Ranko sighed as she
finally reach the crystal and picked it up. Suddenly a pair of hand
touched her shoulders, causing the disguised red haired woman nearly
flip and punch the person that dared to touch her. But somehow she
managed to hold herself and turn to face a brown haired woman
wearing
a green dress and greeting her warmly, "There you are! How is life
Se-
chan?"
"Err…well I am getting very annoyed…" reply Ranma without thinking.
*Shit! What am I talking about? *
"Annoyed? That the good old Se-chan. Hmmm…Se-chan did you recently
went for work out? I mean your shoulder muscles seem to be very
firm."
"Really? Ah…well I err… *Think. Saotome. Think. Hmmm…Rapist! Yeah,
it
always a good reason for work out back home. * Well . . . it isn't
every safe now of days so I guessed I should work out more." To
Ranko's surprise the brown haired tall woman freaked out and yelled
for a few more ladies in the ball to come forward. * Ok, that wasn't
exactly the way I supposed it to get along. *
For the next hours she had been bombard with question about her
safety by the few other woman. *This is bad, how could this silver
hair chick deal with all these weirdoes, damn I must be in hell. *
Just when the girls were cornering Ranko, an exposition interrupted
them - leaving a relieved Ranko behind as the other girls ran
towards
the cause of the explosion. Ranko sighed in relief as she walked
towards the crystal camber. When she reached the small pole where
the
crystal was stored she could help but smile, "Finally, the god damn
ticket back home."
"Impressive, even with all the spells I used I still couldn't detect
any hint of disguise spell on your crescent moon mark. It is as if
you were a pure Royal Luna bloodline. How is this possible? I don't
really recall having any cousin or sister?"
The sudden burst of sound immediately startled the red haired girl
as
she jumped and latched onto the ceiling. She held onto the ceiling
with her toes and turned around. She managed to see the silver
haired
chick she `borrowed' clothes from standing there smirking in a way
that remarkably similar to her own. "Who are you?"
"You don't know who am I and yet you have the guts to come into my
palace and steal my family heir groom? I presume you are one of
those
infamous Nerima Crews who sent this note to me?" The silver haired
woman held out the note in her hand showing Ranko their trademark
silver card as she asked in amusement.
"You mean you are THAT Queen Serenity?" asked Ranko in disbelief as
she took off the silver fake hair revealing her beautiful scarlet
hair.
"Of course, who do you think I am?" the older woman mused at the
imposter odd behavior.
"But, but you are so young? I thought they said the Moon Queen is a
six hundred years old hag?"
"Old hag?" The moon queen narrowed her eyes as she used a commanding
tone, "Where did you hear such rumors?"
"Well, a inn keeper from Venus told us about that."
"Venus? I wonder why I am not surprised you heard such rumors from
that planet." The moon queen expression slowly turn back to serious
as she questioned Ranko, "Why do you want to steal the crystal? I do
pride myself for judgment of character and I doubt you want the
crystal for rewards."
"Steal? Hey, we was just borrowing it for a while . . . We sort of
need it to open a door way so we can get back home."
"Home? Where are you from?"
"Earth, but not exactly this earth, this is because in my Earth
magic
is only a legend." *Well, not exactly, but she doesn't need to know
THAT. *
"I see . . . so how did you come here?"
"The trouble is I am not entirely sure about how we got here, all I
know is I got this fuzzy image about a green haired chick in a fuku,
then the next thing I know I was at the room of a half dressed
tomboy
calling herself Queen Uranus."
The moon queen smiled in amusement as she realized why her old
friend
Queen Uranus get all worked up whenever the topic is involved with
the Nerima Crews. "What do you mean by green haired chicken wearing
fuku? Is that some sort of youma?"
"Er…no, well what I mean is a green haired woman wearing a fuku."
"I see . . ." *Green haired senshi? I wonder if this girl here is
talking about the missing Pluto? * The silver hair queen deducted
logically at the given detail.
"So I want to know - can we get this crystal and go home?" Ranko
asked lamely.
"Maybe but . . ." She was cut short when another explosion was
sound.
Ranko frowned as she muttered something about stupid pig boy don't
know what is called damage control. She bowed in an odd way to the
queen as she said, "Queen Serenity I know I am not really in the
position to ask you this - but we really want to go home. Maybe we
can talk this over tomorrow or something like that? I think that
explosion was my friend calling for me and I got to . . . huh?"
Ranko
sixth sense immediately picked up danger as she jumped out of the
way
while taking the surprised silver haired woman with her. Just like
she had predicted a large figure burst though the wall and rammed
straight towards the direction where they had been standing just a
moment ago.
"Ryouga? Why for kami's sake are you bashing the wall?" as she
indicated a handsome raven haired man with a simple pony tail behind
his back who jumped out from the ruins and glared at Ranko.
"Shut up Saotome. Thanks to those fuku chicks that youma just got a
lucky shot in." Replied the annoyed Bandanna boy.
"Whatever P-chan." Ranko smirked.
"Youma, how is this possible? How could this cursed creature
penetrate my shield?" The Queen asked in surprise, as she never knew
anything evil could penetrate the holy power of the crystal.
"Well my dear Queen Serenity, remember this nothing is perfect as
there is something called weakness in everything." Answered a newly
arrived voice. It belonged to a woman with raven hair floating just
above a green youma that looked like a hybrid between a goblin and a
werewolf with nine tails behind it. The Queen could clearly see that
all her inner and outer court senshi excluded the missing Pluto and
the still not awakened Sailor Saturn were beaten as they all had
been
hang like a display doll by the youma with its tail. The guards were
forced to fight with swords once their Queens were beaten to
unconsciousness - as their power lamps all were reduced to display
toys since their lamps drew power from their respective Queen.
Needless to say those guards without lamps were all just mere
pushovers.
"Who are you?" The Queen barely managed to hold her temper as she
saw
her friends being tortured like that, but managed to ask calmly
while
she took her time to gather more power from the crystal to perform a
powerful attack.
"Hmm…interesting question - and I always wanted to say this after
that spider man movie. Well, who am I? I am Metallia, the Mistress
of
the Dark Kingdom. And this is . . . " "Thorn." The Youma completed
her sentence.
"Yeah and I am the guy who will kick your ass." Replied Ranko as she
released a Ki blast towards the raven-haired woman. To Ranko's
surprise the blast was absorbed and even boosted the youma's power
making it stronger and more powerful. The youma wanted to follow on
attacking but it was stopped by it's mistress.
"My dear Wild Child, a message from my mistress. She said that you
better learn what you need as fast as possible to entertain her
since
each month one of your dear senshi will die if you don't return your
timeline."
"What do you mean by that?" asked Ranko, but somehow deep within her
heart she felt worried - it was not that kind of worry she always
felt for the innocent but a type of worry that involved some people
who were really close to her. The type of friends she would risk
everything for.
Matallia did not answer - the raven haired woman just smiled and
left
one last sentence hanging in the air before she teleported out of
the
palace. "Now that… is a secret."
"Why you! Hey!" As the red haired girl avoided yet another blow from
the monster.
"Stop talking there Ranko and focus on the battle!" Yelled Ryouga.
He
had dropped all his Ki attacks and switched to more primitive
hand-to-
hand combat.
"Can't a guy get her rest for a moment?" Said Ranko as she picked up
the space sword with a smirk on her face. Much to Queen Serenity's
surprise, she lit it up.
"If my memory served me right, yesterday you dragged me into that
bar
to prove your manliness because I said you became more and more
ladylike." Said Ryouga as he dodged the tails while taking advantage
of an opening and gave the youma a round horse kick, sending it
towards the other side of the wall. The youma screamed in pain "Damn
you HUMAN! I shall enjoy sending you to hell!"
"Naw, already been there. I rather send people there than going
there
myself." Mocked Ryouga. Like practiced, he immediately ducked and
Ranko jumped forward using Ryouga as a stepping stone and managed to
destroy a tail, releasing Sailor Mercury. Suddenly Ryouga saw a
smirk
on the youma's face and immediately acted without hesitation. Using
his inhuman strength, Ryouga grabbed Ranko's leg in mid air and
threw
her backwards much to the red haired martial artist annoy, but
unfortunately Ryouga couldn't do the same to himself as he was
caught
of guard when the youma's blood spilled. Some of it managed to hit
Ryouga – this left Ranko who was just standing up to see a good
portion of Ryouga flesh burn off.
"RYOUGA!!" Like a broken dam, the familiar sensation she felt while
Saffron incinerated everyone she cared for returned and the crystal
she always kept within subspace came out due to it's mistress's
subconscious summoning. The crescent moon symbol on her forehead
flared proudly like trying to show off to the world `here I am'. At
the same time a silver aura enveloped her entire body. Ranko raised
her hand upwards and grabbed the crystal that was floating, causing
the crystal to glow brighter as she prepared for the fatal attack
she
had used during her battle with the Phoenix God.
*That crystal! How could that possible?" The Moon Queen immediately
summoned the Ginzuishou - and like usual the crystal appeared before
her, but somehow it looked as if it was disappearing. *Masaka! If
the
crystal has such an effect plus the green haired woman she is
talking
about, could she possibly be . . .* Like usual she turned towards
her
senshi of wisdom and she saw the similar reaction as she gasped
after
she scanned the red haired girl. The Queen gave her wise friend a
confirming nod, telling her to report everything to her once this
was
over.
Ranko used a cold tone that she never knew she was capable of
using. "I will never forgive anyone for hurting my friends, and
always remember: NOBODY hurts my friends and lives to see the next
sunshine! Moon Cosmos . . ." however, to her surprise before she
could finished the sentence Thorn smirked as he used a spell to
intercept her attack just like her mistress had planned, "Silent
howling." Immediately no voice could be heard as Ranko's power was
stuck half way without the focus it need to release its energy. As
result the energy was forced to return and the feedback energy hurt
the wielder from within. Ironically just after the spell wore off a
piecing scream could heard from Ranko's lips as the red haired girl
fell down and vomited blood from the inner energy clash.
"Not so strong and mighty anymore, eh, little Moon Brat?" Mocked the
youma.
Out of reflex Ranko want to insult back, but she was too tired and
pained to reply, until finally she embraced unconsciousness. For the
first time in her life as martial artist she was defeated.
**
When she regained consciousness, she found herself sleeping in the
softest bed she had ever slept in. She sat up to find that her blood
spilled dress was all changed into a comfortable soft silk . . .
well
at least she thought it is a silk, since the dress seemed like a bit
more than the silk clothing she had worn before this. As her long
trained senses could tell her that it was somehow warming her,
despite it's thinness.
Suddenly she recalled, *The Youma! Ryouga! * As she was about to
jerk
up from the bed, she was held back by a familiar sense of peace. To
prove her point she reached out with her senses - she could no
longer
find the sense of darkness present anymore.
She scanned across the room to examine her situation. The room was
way larger than the Tendo Dojo; it had a plain simple bed that she
was sitting in and a made up table on the far left end of the room.
On the opposite there was a large closet where ten idiot Panda she
knew would fit in. In front of her view there was a finely crafted
wooden door that had exactly the same symbol like the annoying mark
on her forehead. Then she notices a girl near to her age with orange
red hair, dressed in a typical servant girl's uniform cleaning up
the
room.
Like water in the middle of a dessert, Ranko grabbed the servant
girl
and questioned her. "Where is Ryouga? Is he all right? What happen
to
the youma?" she blurted out.
"Calm down princess. Mr. Hibiki is perfectly fine. Queen Mercury
tended to his wound. As for the youma, Mr. Hibiki managed to defeat
it using the Royal symbol hanging on the wall, cut the youma into
half after your highness distracted the youma by fainting in front
of
it." The girl calmly pushed Ranko's hand away as she kneeled down
formally in front of the now relieved redhead.
"Princess Serenity, the Queen wants to see you."
Ranko frowned as she looked left and right finding there is no one
else beside her. Confused she asked "Excuse me, did you call me
Princess?"
TBC
Until next chapter . . .
Author footnotes:
I must say this story has less grammar mistake is all thank to my
pre-
reader so all those who read this please bow and thanks to the
goddess `Ranko' class 1, category pre-reader, unlimited. ^_^