The Sailors of Nerima: A Nabiki's Heartache Omake / Parody Part 2
A Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction by Ryo_Oki
"ryo_oki@pacbell.net"
Disclaimer: Warning this is a very silly parody of my Nabiki's
Heartache story. This is set in a "slightly" different universe
that that of the main story. What happens here will have no
baring on the original story or its later chapters.
DISCLAIMER PART 2: This series will incorporate many anime, sci-fi movie, manga
and other series inside jokes. This is not to be read by the humor impaired or
'canon' mongers. You will only be confused.
That night after the evil pervert general was defeated, Shampoo, Nabiki,
and Ranko-Neko were in Ranma's room at the Tendo Dojo. Ranko-Neko was lying
on a towel as Shampoo and Nabiki brushed her fur. The sounds of loud purring
echoed throughout the room.
"How much longer do we have to do this, my hand is cramping up?", Nabiki
complained.
"You the one who wanted to know how much fur Ranma... Err Ranko-Neko had,
now you know.", Shampoo said. "Beside it not like we could use hairdryer. Ranko
end up looking like giant poof-ball if we do that."
Nabiki had an image of Ranko Neko, fur sticking out in all directions, run
through her mind and began to snicker.
"Anyway I don't want to do this again anytime soon. Next time we take
Ranko into the furo, it will be in her untransformed body. I don't even want to
think about how much shampoo we had to use, and they were all different 'flavors'.
Strawberry, orange, cherry. She smells like a fruit salad now.", Nabiki said.
"Oooohhhhh, does that mean you think I'm yummy?", Ranko-Neko said as she
got up off the towel and sauntered over to a now zoned out Nabiki.
Nabiki saw Ranko-Neko walking toward her, quite furry, and quite naked.
Higher brain functions were rapidly falling off line.
"Must keep control, must keep.......", Nabiki stopped her mantra as she
felt Ranko neko sit down on her lap, put her arms around her and slowing begin
to nibble her neck with her small fangs. "Oh well control is overrated anyway.",
Nabiki thought briefly before she began to respond more actively to Ranko-Neko's
advances.
"Ahem.....AHEM....STOP THAT ALREADY!!!!!", Shampoo shouted as she pushed
her two friends apart. "If you keep doing that you have to back to furo to
clean up again. You want to spend 3 more hours combing down Ranko-Neko.",
Shampoo said to Nabiki.
"That doesn't sound so bad.", Ranko purred as Shampoo glared at her.
Nabiki began to shiver slightly and looked scared.
"What's wrong Nabiki?", Ranko-Neko asked while putting her hand on
Nabiki's shoulders.
"I don't know. For some reason whenever I am near you in your Sailor
form I have to continually fight to prevent my self from glomping onto you
and start doing horribly etchi things to you. It scares me that I lack
self-control at times like that.", Nabiki said.
I feel the same way Nabiki.", Ranko said, as she noticed a the scared
expression on Nabiki's face be replaced by a wide smile. I do love you in
whatever form I am in, but being in this form somehow magnifies my feelings
for you Nabi-chan.", Ranko-Neko said while starting to blush.
"I wonder why that is?", Nabiki said.
"Perhaps I can answer that.", a voice said from the window.
Everyone turned around to see Ryoga jump in through the window. Ryoga
looked like he was about to say something more, but upon looking at a still
naked Sailor Neko he 'eeped' one, grabbed his nose, and fell forward.
"How pathetic, still no self control.", Nabiki said as Sailor Neko
quickly dressed so that they could talk to Ryoga without him continually
fainting.
"So can you tell us why we seem to so lustful around each other whenever
Ranma is in his Sailor-Neko form?", Nabiki asked.
"Well the quick answer is that both of you were lovers in a previous life
during the time of the Silver Star Kingdom.", Ryoga said.
"Oh, reincarnated lovers, how romantic, and appropriate for this genre.",
Shampoo said with a smirk on her face.
"What's the long answer?", Nabiki said.
"Well you see it all began when.....", Ryoga's voice faded out.
A young woman with short brown hairs sits in a crystal gazebo out in the
middle of an ornate garden. She is dressed in a light blue gown with white accents.
The frown on her face and tears in her eyes are a marked contrast to the
otherwise peaceful scene that we see.
"Princess.... Princess!!!!", a voice calls out causing the young woman
to look up.
Running toward the princess is a young woman who is wearing a knee length
blue and white maids outfit. She has bright blue eyes and very bright red hair.
What is most striking about her though are the 2 cat like ears on top of her head
and the long striped tail that is flying out behind her as she runs.
"Princess, why are you way out here alone? Everyone has been looking for
you.", the catgirl said as she ran up next to the princess.
The princess looked up at the catgirl, who gasp as see the tears and
sad look on her princess's face.
"Princess....Corrine, why are you crying?", the catgirl said as the
pulled the smaller girl onto her lap and stroked the back of her head as the
princess cried into her shoulder.
"What happened at the palace earlier? What did your father say?", the
catgirl asked.
"I....I...am sorry Rani, I couldn't ask him, not after what I saw and
heard.", Princess Corrine said.
"What happened Corrine, please tell me. Was it something your father
did?", Rani-Neko said.
"I overheard father arguing with my older sister.", Corrine said.
"Princess Misty??", Rani-Neko asked.
"Father had found out that she was in love with the local herbalist. A
Cathian by the name of Tifue Uno. Father was very angry. He told her that he
would never allow her to marry one of those animals. He said that they were
better off as slaves or pets.", Corrine said.
"My sister had to threaten to banish him from the kingdom. He laughed at
this idea until she reminded him that she was the acting queen until mother
returned and that she did have the power to carry out her threats. Father did
not take that well and walked off saying some very degrading things about
your people Rani.", Corrine said.
"You know that many people feel the same way as he does. They think we are
just animals for them to do with what they will.", Rani said.
"I don't think that way. Even though you have been my servant since we were
both little girls, I always thought of you as a friend and now....more.",
Corrine said.
"What do you mean princess?", Rani asked feeling nervous for some reason.
The princess got off of Rani's lap stood over her then leaned in, giving
the shocked Cathian a gentle kiss on the lips.
"What I mean is that I Princess Corrine, of House Serendipity, love you
Rani, of clan Saotome, with all my heart.", Corrine said as tears of joy began
to fall down Rani's cheeks.
"I love you as well Princess Corrine and always will.", Rani said while
pulling the princess close to her and kissed her passionately causing both of
them to emit a bright pink aura.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up.", Ranko-Neko exclaimed. "You mean to say that
Nabiki used to be a princess and I was some sort of catgirl servant. To top that
we were in love with each other. Sounds like you have been reading too many
romance novels P-Chan."
"It is the truth, and stop calling me P-Chan, pussy-cat.", Ryoga said.
"What are these 'Cathians' that you mentioned Ryoga?", Nabiki said.
"They were a race of genetically altered cats. They originally came from
several feline species, and were created to be docile servants, companions,
and unfortunately, even slaves. They were stronger, faster, and more durable than
humans, but they were also very weak-willed and influenced by whoever 'owned'
them. Ranko-Neko is an example of a Half-Cathian, not a pure breed.", Ryoga said.
"You mean they could.....", Shampoo started to say.
"Yes, for whatever reason, the scientists that created them, made the
Cathians genetically compatible with humans, elves and atlanteans. They never
said exactly why they did it. Personally I believe that were just a bunch of
dirty old men and women who had cat girl and boy fetishes, but that's just my
opinion.", Ryoga said.
"This compatibility, combined with their natural 'cuteness' and empathy
toward humans, led to a lot of Half-Cathians being born. This did not please
a lot of people, including your father, Princess.", Ryoga said to Nabiki.
"Princess.. Does that mean I am related to this Queen Serendipity you
met earlier?", Nabiki asked Ryoga.
"Um....yeah it does. Didn't I mention it earlier.", Ryoga said.
"No you didn't.", Nabiki said.
"If many people like marrying cat people, why there none left today?",
Shampoo said.
"They were never welcomed on Earth. Many on Earth were against any form
of genetic manipulation for any reason. They seemed to think that we had no right
'to play god', or some other such foolishness.", Ryoga said. "So when the kingdom
fell, and only Earth remained, all of the other races died out, or in the case of
a few that fled to Earth, hunted down and killed. That is why there are so many
legends around the world of elves or faeries hiding from mankind."
"So why are here now Ryoga? I am assume it was not to peep on Ranko-Chan.",
Nabiki said sarcastically.
"I came to warn you that although you defeated on the Dark Star Kingdom
Generals, there are still a few left, not to mention Queen Berylium's consort,
'The Panda Man'. You can expect to see the next one in a couple of days.",
Ryoga said.
"I wonder who the next one will be.", Nabiki said.
Before anyone could answer, the door to the room began to slide open.
Ryoga quickly changed into Luna-P and hid under the bed. Ranko neko was about
to change back when the door fully opened and in stepped Akane. She took one
look at Ranko, got a glazed look in her eye, and shouted out, "KITTY", while
glomping on the very surprised Ranko.
"Oh dear, I was hoping this wouldn't happen.", Nabiki said.
"What's wrong? Why violent girl act stranger than usual?", Shampoo said.
"Well, you how Ranma used to be scared of cats?", Nabiki asked Shampoo,
who nodded in reply.
"Well Akane has the opposite problem. She has always been a little
obsessed about them. Unfortunately she has also never been a very gentle person.
We had to give away many pets when we were young because Akane was too rough
with them.", Nabiki said as she watch her sister practically squeeze the life
out of poor Ranko neko.
"Ohhhhh, you are so cute, and that is such a pretty dress you have on.",
Akane said Ranko-Neko as she swung her back and forth. "I am going to hug you,
and squeeze you, and call you Georgina.", said a nauseatingly sweet sounding
Akane.
"Akane, she doesn't belong to you, so why don't you put her down.",
Nabiki said.
"Who's is she?", Akane said while holding onto Ranko, like someone who
was trying to prevent a toy from being taken away.
"She.....belongs to Shampoo, yes that's it. Now give her back.", Nabiki
said in frustration to how childish her sister was behaving.
"What if I don't want to?", Akane said.
"Then I will have to call Kasumi and she will punish you like when you
were younger and took things that didn't belong to you.", Nabiki said, then
start to smile at the thought of Kasumi having to give Akane a spanking.
Akane opened her eyes wide then set Ranko-Neko down. Ranko-Neko
immediately jumped into Shampoo's lap and started to purr, hoping that Akane
would get the hint.
"Fine, I really wasn't interested in her anyway.", Akane said as she
stomped out of the room and slid the door shut behind her.
"That was....weird.", Shampoo said.
"I think I will have to speak to Kasumi again about increasing the
dosage of Akane's medication.", Nabiki said.
Two days later in the secret lair of The Panda Man, the being in
question was walking back and forth in front of yet another collapsed
monolith. It was obvious from his body language that at the moment he was not
a happy mammal.
"Stupid boy. To be defeated in battle is one thing, but to be defeated
in such an embarrassing fashion is intolerable. If he were not dead already, I
would kill him myself.", the Panda said, like looking at a pile of dust that
used to be a duck shaped monolith. "I hope others do not follow in his
footsteps.", the Panda Man thought as he remembered what happened earlier
that day.
Ranma and Nabiki were walking out of the Cat Cafe. There shift had just ended
for the day and they were glad to get out of those horribly short false sailor
outfits that Cologne made them wear.
Onna-Ranma was walking hand in hand with Nabiki when she suddenly felt
herself slam sideways into Nabiki. Her arms were now pinned to her sides. Both
Ranma and Nabiki soon noticed that they were encircled by what appeared to be
piano wire, lots of piano wire. As they were trying to get free, they heard yet
another familiar but unwelcome voice.
"So Saotome I have finally have you and your witch of a fiancee at my
mercy. Now I will be able to make Shampoo mine, and all you will be able to do
is stand there and look foolish.", Mousse said.
Ranma looked over at Mousse and almost started to laugh. The so-called
weapons master was wearing a set of dark robes, black cowboy boots, and a
large black duck helmet, that strangely resembled a child's training potty.
"Considering how you are dressed I would it is obvious who looks foolish.",
Nabiki said.
"Silence fools!!! Simple creatures such as you can not possibly understand
my greatness.", Mousse said.
"More likely he is not getting enough air in that helmet of his and its
making act more stupid than usual.", Onna-Ranma said.
"For that you shall be punished.", Mousse said as he fired a beam of black
energy though the cable holding Onna-Ranma and Nabiki, causing them to scream
in typical anime fashion.
The screaming attracted the attention of a certain purple-haired amazon, who
was not happy at seeing her friends being attacked.
"Stupid Mousse, why you attack friends and wear stupid clothes?", Shampoo
said while charging at Mousse and slamming him into a wall with one of her
bonborries.
"Ah Shampoo, you have come to see me destroy these two fools, so that
we may then be together.", the deluded duck boy said.
"Shampoo kill you if you harm friends.", Shampoo said.
"Ah how terrible!! Those two perverts how clouded your mind, but
never fear I shall free you, then you can show your love to my righteous self.",
Mouse said.
"Shampoo think you spend too much time with stick boy. Make you sound as
stupid as he does.", Shampoo said.
"Do not fear my love I shall make you come to your senses.", Mousse says
as he lets out a glowing black blade on a chain, fly into Shampoo, who manages
to mostly get out of the way, but still leaves a large gash on her left side.
Shampoo and the others now recognize the black energy signature as
belonging to the Dark Star Kingdom.
"So Mousse sold soul to evil dark lady, in hopes to get power. Stupid
Mousse no realize that you now cast out of tribe for pledging self to
evil demon.", Shampoo said.
"Now Shampoo no have to hold back any longer.", as she pulls a small
crystalline rod from our of nowhere.
"Amazon Star Power Makeup"
"No ,it can't be. Shampoo is one of those accursed Sailors and I have to...
Urk....", Mousse tries to finish his thought as he witnesses Shampoo's clothes
explode off her during the transformation sequence. His helmet falls off
showing his eyes rolling back into his head, and blood now gushing from his nose,
before he collapses to the ground and seems to disintegrate before
everyone's' eyes.
The cable holding Onna-Ranma and Nabiki together vanishes and they join
Shampoo as she looks at a small pile off ashes on the ground that are next to
a silly black plastic duck helmet.
"That was pathetic. The idiot actually died of a nose bleed because he
saw you naked Shampoo.", Onna-Ranma said. "I guess he thought you were Nymph.",
Ranma said.
"So Ranma think Shampoo look as good as forest spirit?", Sailor Amazon
said as she walked up and put her arms around the little redhead.
"Ahem, behave yourselves, we are in public. Besides you two aren't going
to be doing anything to each other, unless I am there as well.", Nabiki said
in a sultry tone of voice.
The Panda continued to massage his temples in hopes of preventing the
headache he knew he would get if he continued to think about the stupidity
of his formal underling.
Perhaps a change of tactics was in order. He could send out the next
two of his generals at once, but one of them continued to act more unstable.
The Panda looked over a printout concerning one of his generals.
"She must not regain her memory. With her power we could defeat that
silly bitch Serendipity, but if she awakens she could destroy us all easily.",
the Panda thought to himself. "It would be far better for us, if the "Orchid"
never remember who she actually was. I shudder to think what she would do to
her 'dear brother' if she regained control.", the Panda thought.
Later that night, in Ranma's room at the dojo, Luna-P had, at Ranma's
request, assembled the scouts there for another meeting.
"So why is it you wanted to meet tonight Ranma?", the talking black
pig said.
"Earlier you talked about how me and Nabiki used to...be quite close
in our past lives, but if I was a slave then, how did I become a Sailor
like Nabiki was.", Ranma asked.
"Well you see, in order to first be a Sailor, you first had to be trained
in magic, something which was not normally taught to Cathians. Princess
Corrine had been secretly teaching you basic spells, in order to better
protect her, or at least that is what she told you. Personally, I think she
just want to spend more time with you.", Luna-P said as Nabiki blushed for
some reason.
"Now as to how you became a Sailor, well you see it all started when...",
Luna-P's voice trailed off.
(Yet another flashback sequence... I'm fond of them as you can tell ;)
Princess Corrine and the Cathian girl Rani were in the throne room of
the Silver Star kingdom talking to Queen Serendipity, or rather Corrine was
talking, Rani was shaking so bad, the Queen wondered in the poor girl would
collapse at any moment.
"So what is that you wished to ask of me daughter?", the Queen asked
already having an idea where this conversation was going.
"Mother, for the past couple years, you and father have been 'hinting'
that I should find someone to marry before my time comes to rule the kingdom.
Well I have found such a person and would like your blessing.", Corrine said
as she reached over and took hold of Rani's hand.
The queen arched an eyebrow and thought, "Hmmm....Both of my daughters have
chosen Cathian mates. I wonder if I am missing out on something."
"Do you love my daughter, Rani of the clan Saotome?", The queen asked.
"Ye....yee..yes your majesty. I have loved her for so long now. I ask you,
would you please give us your blessing.", Rani said while trying to stop
shaking so bad.
"You have my permission, daughter-in-law, as long as you promise to
love, trust, and respect her as for as long as you live.", the queen said.
Rani looked up at the queen, tears flowing from her big blue eyes and
said, "Thank you your majesty...I...I... don't know what else to say."
Princess Corrine walked over and hugged her friend, no fiancee now.
Both smiled at each other and were about to thank the queen one more time
when a voice shouted out, "Stop this atrocity at once!!"
All eyes turned toward the voice, which came from the rapidly approaching
Sou'nde Ten'do'sen, king of the Silver Star Kingdom.
"It is bad enough our eldest daughter wants to marry her pet, but I will
not stand for our chosen heir marrying one as well, especially a female!", the
angry king exclaimed.
"It is not your decision father. Rani and I love each other and mother
has given us her blessing.", Princess Corrine said.
"Never!!! Besides I have already made other arrangements that will ensure
the prosperity of our kingdom and peace between the Dark Star kingdom and our
own.", the king self-righteously said.
"I never gave consent to this 'arrangement' and I especially did not give
you permission to make deals with my twisted sister's kingdom, husband.", a very
angry Queen Serendipity said as she began to emit a bright white and silver aura,
causing the king to back up quickly.
"Now dear it is for the best if our little girl marries their heir, then
both our kingdoms will benefit.", the king said.
"You expect me to marry that incestuous bokken waving fool. I would rather
die first.", the Princess said.
Rani growled from beside Corrine and moved closer to her.
"Quiet cat, or I will have you put to sleep.", the king almost growled at
Rani, who began to tremble and hide behind the princess.
"Leave her alone father. I will not have you threatening the woman that I
love.", the Princess said as she look down at where she had hit her father.
"Oh what a worthless child I have raised to show such disrespect toward
her father.", the king began to weep profusely.
"You brought it upon yourself husband. I shall permit no attacks
upon out daughter-in-law. Now as to your ridiculous suggestion of who our
daughter should marry, you are overlooking one small detail. The son of my
sister happens to be Corrine's first cousin. My sister may not mind having
a bunch of inbred cretins on her side of the family, but I will not allow
it on mine.", the Queen said.
"You are also overlooking the fact, father, that my 'dear cousin' and
his sister are quite close, if you know what I mean, and their mother doesn't
even mind.", Corrine said.
The Queen took this opportunity to turn quite green and say, "That sounds
like something that she would not mind. Kami-sama knows I had to fight off
her advances when I was younger. Her husband...Atri, Atari....something like
that, is just as big if not bigger pervert that she is. I shall never allow
any of my children to degrade themselves by being a part of my sister's
family."
"If that is your final decision, then we have nothing more to say.", the
king said as he stormed out of the throne room.
Mother, why is father being so unreasonable, he never used to be this
way?", a very confused Princess asked her mother.
"I wish I knew dear, I wish I knew.", the Queen said sadly.
As Luna-P ended that part of the story, he was amused by the fact that
everyone was now looking at him with their mouths' hanging open.
"Jeeze, and I thought pops was a rotten father.", Ranma said in disgust.
"Shampoo feel sorry for Nabiki's ancestor to have such bad father. He
lucky he was not Amazon. Bad things happen to fathers who try and hurt their
daughters.", Shampoo said.
"He sounds almost like daddy in a way.", Nabiki said as the others turned
to look at her. "I remember when we were young there was a very nice Korean
couple living nearby. Father forbid us to play with their children, saying that
they were inferior and that we shouldn't be near them. I have heard him say
similar things about the Amazons at times, especially you Shampoo. If father
was not kept in line now by Lilac, I doubt he would let you come into the house as
much as he does."
"So crying man think he better than Amazons, maybe he need to be taught
lesson.", Shampoo said.
"Tempting, but we have more important things to deal with now.", Ranma said.
"Personal grudges will have to wait until we can drive off of destroy
Queen Berylium's forces permanently.", Luna-P said.
Across Nerima in a well known and equally well avoided mansion, a young
girl in a black leotard, is rolling on her bed in agony as memories of two
lives and personalities war within herself. On her forehead one can briefly see
the kanji for 'orchid' flash into being before being covered by a black star.
"No...no I don't want to kill anymore....please stop....I don't want anymore
to die because of me...", the woman says in her sleep as tears roll down her eyes.
Outside the door the woman's room a small mousey looking men in a black
bodysuit overhears the woman and runs off to tell his master before the woman
fully 'awakens'.
The little man runs into another room and house and stops suddenly, almost
running into the person that he is seeking.
"Master, you must come quickly, your sister is 'awakening.", the little
man says.
The man curses under his breathe, grabs an odd purple necklace from
a drawer within his desk and races off to his sister's room.
When the man gets to the room in question, he unlocks the door and
quickly steps inside. The young woman is now sitting up and staring at the
man with a look of total hatred on her face. Her form in glowing black and the
orchid symbol is once more present on her forehead.
"You will pay for what you have done to me fool.", the woman says to the
man.
"Tsk..Tsk... Dear sister have you not learned your lesson yet.", the man
says and holds up a glowing purple crystal necklace.
The woman's eyes lose their black glow and a purple 'haze' seems to form
within them. Her look of hatred changes to a look of happiness or love for the
man now in front of her.
"You were saying dear sister", the man says.
The woman looks confused for the moment, then says, "I was just saying how
much I care for you and love you brother dear."
"That is very sweet of you sister dear, now why don't you start to prepare
dinner for us all tonight.", the man says.
"That sounds like a wonderful idea.", the woman says far too cheerfully,
as she runs out of the room leaving her smirking brother and now sad looking
servant behind.
Back at then Tendo Dojo, Luna-P suddenly stiffens then falls over with a
horrified look on his face, much to Ranma's discomfort.
"Everything all right in there P-chan?", Ranma says knocking on Luna-P's
head.
"What wrong with pig-boy?", Shampoo asks.
"Looks like he's in shock.", Nabiki says.
"No....to early....Shouldn't be here yet...Not ready...", Luna-P whispers.
"Snap out of it P-chan.", Ranma said as he slapped the pig several times
across the face.
Luna-P's eyes came back into focus and wiggled out of Ranma's grasp, after
trying to bite him.
"So are you going to explain what that was about?", Nabiki said.
"I wasn't going to tell you this until later, but now it looks like I have
no choice. I have just felt the awakening of the final member of our group,
Sailor Orchid, the Sailor of Love and Destruction.", Luna-P said.
"Um... Love and destruction.. Isn't that sort of an oxymoron?", Ranma said
as everyone stared at him.
"That's sort of out of character for you isn't it.", Nabiki said.
"Hey, it's not my fault most fanfiction writers make me out to be an
uneducated, uncultured moron, while making Akane out to be some sort of perfect
goddess. I am simply a victim of prejudiced bad writing, that's all.", Ranma
said.
"You realize what you have just said may offend many of our readers out
there, and they'll probably accuse you of doing the same.", Nabiki said.
"Yeah..so...", Ranma said.
Nabiki look at Ranma for a minute then replied, "Okay do what you want."
"Ahem.... If you two are now done breaking the fourth wall, I would like to
here a little more about this 'Sailor Orchid'. She sounds quite familiar to me.",
Shampoo said without her usual sing-song accent.
"She was a princess of Saturn and very powerful. Most people, even the other
Sailors tended to stay away from her, except the Princess of Jupiter. They were
quite close and even died fighting together, when the kingdom fell. There were
rumors that they were more than friends, but then again there were rumors like
that about all of the Sailors, so who's to say if was true or false.", Luna-P
said in a melancholy voice.
"Who was the princess of Jupiter?", Shampoo asked.
"You already know the answer to that.", Luna-P said.
"Amelia-chan...", Shampoo whispered as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"You are starting to remember her...Lina-san.", Luna-P said as Shampoo
looked at him with a stunned expression before fainting.
Back at a certain mansion, a young woman wearing a black leotard, is
busy preparing food for her 'beloved brother' when she stops and gasps in shock
as the purple glaze in her eyes fades briefly. She manages to briefly whisper
out, "Lina-san!", before the glaze returns to her eyes, and she continues her
task unsure of what she was just thinking a minute ago.
A young girl, about 8 years old with shoulder length red hair, is walking
aimlessly through the royal palace, on the moon. From the expression on her
face she is feeling, bored, disgusted, or both.
"Stupid lazy boys, not Lina's fault that Lina have scar on face. No need to
make fun of Lina, Lina only want to have friends.", the young girl says as she
looks back at the four unconscious boys her age.
She continues to wander through the palace, becoming more and more disgusted
with what she had seen and heard. Everyone seemed to spend all their time bragging
about their wealth or what new 'toy' they had acquired, that is unless they were
busy trying to make their rivals look bad. Lina doubted that had even heard of
honor, much less practiced it.
As she entered yet another passageway, she noticed a door partway open. Soft
blue and purple light leaked out into the hallway. She could hear quiet movement
in the room, but could not see anyone.
Opening the door to get a better look, Lina saw a young girl her age, with
long black hair sitting on a bed, staring off into space.
"Why you sit in dark room by self?", Lina asked the girl, who fell
off the bed in surprise when Lina spoke to her.
"Who....who are you?", the young girl asked Lina.
"Name is Lina, princess of Jupiter", Lina said proudly.
"You are an amazon of Jupiter?", the girl asked in awe, much to Lina's
surprise.
"You sound like you admire amazons, not make fun of us like stupid nobles
here do.", Lina said as the young girl was trying to understand the young
amazon's crude speech.
"I do admire your people. I heard that they are strong and noble, not weak
and hated like me.", the girl said.
"You hide in room because you is hated?", the young amazon asked.
"Father said I should stay here, because people feel scared when I am
near them.", the young girl said with a sad tone in her voice.
Lina looked the young girl up and down and could not figure what people
found scary about her. This girl was so small and timid, an amazon baby
would not be scared of her.
"Why are they scared of you?, Lina asked.
"They are scared because I am to be the next queen of Saturn when I grow
up. That means I will have to become the next Sailor of love and destruction,
Sailor Orchid.
Now it was Lina's turn to be impressed. She looked at the young girl and
said, "Lina is very impressed. Sailor Orchid is very strong warrior, very
powerful. Amazons respect such power."
"You don't think I am a freak or a monster?", the girl said.
"No, Lina think you just shy girl who believe what foolish adults say
too much.", Lina said with a grin on her face. "Would you like to be Lina's
friend?"
The young girl looked at Lina warily, but with some hope in her eyes.
She hoped the amazon girl was sincere. It wouldn't be the first time someone
asked to be here friend, only to turn around and trick her.
"I would like that, if you really mean it.", the girl said.
"Lina mean it, but before we can be friends, Lina must ask you one
question.", Lina said.
"What is it?", the girl asked warily.
"What is your name?", Lina asked.
"It is Amelia.", the girl said with a small smile on her face.
"Would Amelia like to explore palace with Lina. Be more fun that sitting
in dark room.", Lina said.
"I would like that.", Amelia said as she grabbed onto Lina's hand and they
walked out the door together.
As they entered the light of the hallway, Lina noticed how pale and
fragile Amelia seemed to be. She would definitely have to get her new friend
to spend more time outside.
Amelia walked beside her new friend and noticed the scar on Lina's face.
She could do something about it, but she didn't want her friend to think badly
of her.
"Um....miss Lina, I noticed the scar on your face....and I...could help
you if you like.", Amelia said shyly.
"What do you mean.", Lina said.
"I can heal people. I know it sounds weird, but I can get rid of your
scar if you want.", Amelia said, as Lina opened her eyes wide.
"Amelia can do such nice thing for Lina?", Lina said.
"You don't mind or think its weird?", Amelia asked as Lina shaked her head
back and forth.
Amelia stepped up to Lina and put her hand on Lina's face. Her hand began
to glow covering first the scar, then Lina's whole body.
As the glow faded Amelia walked Lina up to a mirror in the hallway. Lina
was shocked, not only was the scar gone, all the little imperfections she
used to have were gone as well. Her skin was as smooth as if she had never
once stepped outside in the wind or in the heat. Her hair felt like silk and
even the calluses she used to have on her hands from constant sword practice
were gone as well.
"Thank you....Amelia-chan. I look pretty again.", Lina said as she hugged
her friend who blushed in response.
Three years have past and we see an eleven year old Lina practicing
martial arts with a now much healthier looking Amelia. They have also
started to learn the magic that will be necessary for them to fulfill their
new duties as Sailors in a few years. It was also during this time in their
lives that they first met Queen Serendipity's daughter, Corrine and her
catgirl friend, Rani.
Lina was particularly fascinated by Rani, because the amazons had never
felt the need to have servants or slaves, as the Cathians were used for on other
worlds. To them having to rely on others in such a fashion was a sign of weakness.
The four girls became close friends over the years, much to the shock of some
who wanted nothing to do with the Sailor of Saturn or Princess Corrine's 'pet'.
They stayed close for 3 years until the time came for three of the girls to leave
for the academy where they would be taught how to access their powers for the
first time. It seems Rani, not being a Sailor, or even human was to be left
behind on the moon.
The girls had just turned 14 and Corrine and Rani had told Queen Serendipity
how they felt about each other, much to the displeasure of the king. Rumors were
also circulating about the Princesses of Jupiter and Saturn being close.
When the time came for the three princesses to leave for the academy, a huge
crowd of well wishers were at the space port to see them off. It was supposed to
be a happy time for all involved, but two members in the royal party looked quite
unhappy.
"But , why can't she come with us, she would make a perfect Sailor as well.",
Corrine said.
"Are you mad daughter? Such a position is only open to humans and royalty
at that. It would not do to have some commoner, or worse, some pet be put in
such a position. It would be a disgrace to our kingdom.", the king said while
looking down his nose at Rani.
"I keep telling you, SHE IS NOT A PET. SHE IS GOING TO BE MY WIFE.", Princess
Corrine yelled a the top of her voice, stunning all those within earshot.
"Oh my did you here that?"
"Cool"
"How horrible!"
"About time."
"Heh, just like aunty, right mommy?"
"Shhh dear, someone will here you.", several voices from the crowd were
heard to have said.
"Oh my poor daughter disgraces her family, just like he sister. What did I
do to have such worthless children.", the king cries as the rest of the royal
party looks at him in disgust.
"Lina only see one disgrace here, and that weak whining father of poor
moon princess. Lina feel very sorry for queen to have to weak husband, but
that what happens when you chose inbred royalty instead of strong warriors to
be rulers.", the princess of Jupiter said.
"As if a barbarian like you would know anything about proper culture and
breeding.", the king said.
"You will not speak to my beloved in such a fashion!", a very angry
princess of Saturn said with flames dancing in her eyes.
The king took one look at the scary princess and jumped back squeaking
like a little girl while hiding behind his wife.
"Must not mallet husband in public...Must not mallet husband in public.",
the queen silently said to herself.
As the three princesses boarded the transport, the king excused himself
and walked off saying that he had duties to attend to, leaving Rani and the
queen alone to watch the princesses depart.
The queen looked over at her daughter's friend and she supposed lover,
and saw tears flowing from Rani's eyes.
"You love my daughter that much.", the queen said, making the question
sound more like a statement.
Rani only nodded, being unable to say anything at the moment.
"Would you like to go with her?", the queen asked while looking at Rani's
now confused expression on her face.
"It doesn't matter now, it is already too late.", Rani said as she heard
transport's engine begin to 'wind up' and the craft began to move forward.
"You still have time.", the queen said as she gestured toward the transport
and one of the side hatches popped open.
"The craft will have to stop and see why the hatch is open. If you hurry
you can make it through, before the crew closes it.", the queen said to Rani,
who had a grateful expression on her face.
Rani made it to the open hatch in time and jumped through, just as the
ground crew reached the transport to inspect the hatch.
"Well now this should make for trip.", the queen giggled to herself.
Inside the transport, Rani was not very happy. As the craft finally
took off she was bounced around far too much for her liking. Her poor little
rear end would be sore for a week.
As she made her way over to where she saw what looked to be blankets, Rani
noticed a strange odor in the compartment. As she traced the smell, she
noticed it was coming from underneath the blankets. Moving the blankets aside
she noticed a small electronic device with a tube of green liquid attached to it.
Her mouth went dry as she realized what the liquid was.
"Platicine, who could have put this here. If I don't get rid of this, the
whole craft will go up in one large explosion.", Rani thought as she
gently picked up the device and carried to a nearby airlock.
She braced herself before opening the outer doors of the airlock, hoping
what the transport was not too high yet. As the door slid open she noticed the
transport had just circled the field and now had begun to climb. She tossed out
the device toward what looked like an old abandoned factory.
"Hopefully no one is in there.", Rani thought as she closed the airlock.
Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location, several unsavory looking
characters were talking to a cloaked figure.
"So did you do as I asked.", the cloaked figure said.
"Yeah it was easy, nobody ever checks the stuff once it is already
loaded in the transport. They only search it when the passengers drop their
junk off.", the largest of the thugs said.
"Are you sure everything is in order.", the cloaked figure said.
"Relax, it was a simple job. What could possibly go wrong.", the thug
said as several of his underlings twitched and wished that their boss would
stop saying things like that. It wasn't healthy to tempt fate.
As the cloaked figure began to leave everyone began to hear a loud
whistling sound.
"Huh what's that?", several of the thugs seem to say at once.
A loud crash was heard above and a small object landed in front of
everyone. It looked very familiar..
"Oh #$*@#", everyone said shortly before a bright flash blinded them.
A searing heat and concussion wave ended all trace of their thoughts and their
bodies as well.
The last sight we see is the hood blowing off the cloaked man revealing
someone who looked very much like Sou'nde Ten'do'sen.
Back at the spaceport, the queen sees and hears a large explosion off in
distance. She should feel nervous about this, but for some reason a sense of
relief washes over her.
The concussion wave from the explosion rocks the transport as it was
leaving causing an already sore catgirl to be flung across the cargo hold and
into a ventilation shaft where she landed with a loud, "Miyyyyaaaahhhhh".
As the horrible sound echoed throughout the ship the passengers and
crew froze, all of them wondering where the ghost was and how had the ship
suddenly become haunted.
Corrine, Lina, and Amelia noticed the sound seemed to be quite close to
them and were surprised that after the sound had faded, a loud thumping noise
could be heard right below their feet.
A heating vent in the floor suddenly flys off and embeds itself in the
ceiling. This is followed shortly there after by a large furry form jumping
up into the room.
Before anyone can react to this perceived threat, Corrine finds herself
glomped on by the intruder into her room. The intruder is indeed quite furry
and is purring?!?
"Princess Corrine, glad to see her Rani-chan, yes?", the catgirl asks.
"How did you get here? Why are you here!?!", the princess says a little
too forcefully as she watches the catgirl climb off of her and look at her
with a pout of her face and tears forming in her eyes.
"You no like like Rani anymore? Rani only pet and plaything she guess,
not wife and lover like she hoped.", the depressed cathian said.
"No, no, no, thats not it at all.", Corrine said while waving her arms
up and down rapidly. "I was just surprised to see you that's all. I don't
think of you just as a plaything."
"Okay, Rani forgive husband.", Rani.
"Husband??", Corrine said.
"You say you want Rani for wife, so that mean you be husband. Even mama-san
agree and let Rani onto transport.", Rani.
"You mean your mother let you on here?", Corrine said.
"No silly, queen let Rani on plane. Open door with magic. She say that if
Rani to be good wife and protect princess, then Rani must be sailor too like
stong husband is going to be.", Rani said.
"Sometimes I wonder about my mother.", Corrine said in a low murmur.
"Queen seem nice to Lina, but think she missing a few bonborries from
weapon rack if you know what Lina mean.", the princess from jupiter said.
"But Rani-san, you just can't show up at the academy, you need the
proper papers and sponsor. If you just walk in as you are we will all get in
trouble.", the young princess of Saturn said.
"That no problem. Queen give Rani everything she need. Even put luggage
in subspace pocket for Rani.", The catgirl said as she pulled a few official
looking documents and holodisks from out of nowhere.
"Great, my mother is a closet computer hacker.", Corrine said in a
sarcastic tone of voice.
"Queen very good. She like teaching lesson to little 'script kiddies'
who try and break into palace's network.", Rani said. "Rani very tired now
though. Have very long day, dealing with baka king, long run to transport,
and having to get rid of bomb."
"What bomb?", the other three girls say excitedly.
"Rani find bomb in cargo area. Throw outside so no one get hurt,
especially husband and friends.", Rani said.
"Hmmmmm, so that is why the craft was shaking so much earlier. The
shockwave from the blast was responsible.", Corrine said.
"If Rani get rid of bomb, then Rani save Lina, so Rani now honorary
amazon. Much honor involved. Great-grandmother be very happy to have new
amazon. We never had catgirl amazon before.", Lina said.
The rest of the short flight to the academy was uneventful. As they
exited the transport though, things picked up.
As she exited the transport, Rani could feel several sets of very
unfriendly eyes upon her. As she looked round, not only did she appear
to be the only Cathian here, but the only non-human as well. She
subconsciously moved close to Corrine and held onto her arm, eventhough she was
was at least a foot taller than the princess and about 50 pounds heavier.
"What is that doing here.", an annoying effeminate voice said.
Approaching the disembarking princesses was a small overdressed
man and two larger, somber looking men dressed in what appeared to be some
sort of guard's uniform.
"Who, or rather what are you?", Corrine said.
"I am the dean of admissions for this academy, and her kind are not allowed
here.", the little man said while pointing at Rani.
"She has permission from the Queen to undergo Sailor training. You will not
interfere.", Corrine said starting to glow silver.
"You wouldn't dare assault me.", the little man said.
"Maybe nice princess Corrine wouldn't, but Lina have no such problem.",
the princess of jupiter said as she looked down at the administrator she just
squished like an insect.
"That was...excessive.", Amelia said quietly.
"Old amazon saying, Where logic fails, force prevails.", Lina said with
a grin on her face.
"I trust you two will behave yourselves.", Corrine said to the two larger
men.
The two men looked at the four glowing girls, then at their squished boss,
and decided that a coffee break was now in order, and quickly fled the area.
"Here are her records, lose them at your own risk.", Corrine said as the
tossed the papers next to the little man who had managed to peel himself off
the ground.
The four girls spent three years at the academy. During that time they made
many new friends, even Rani. They found out that not everyone judged a person by
their species. A couple of younger guards even flirted with Rani from time to time,
much to her embarrassment.
Lina and Amelia, were umong the few married students during their last year
there. They were married in a traditional amazon ceremony, much to the
administrations' annoyance. Having a couple hundred amazons roaming around the
campus tended to disrupt daily activities. On the bright side many amazons found
willing husbands.
Corrine and Rani waited till they were back on the moon to get married, but
during the ceremony the Dark Star kingdom attacked and life for everyone
changed for the worse from that time on.
Shampoo sat up with a gasp and noticed her two friends and one black pig
stareing at her with concern in their eyes.
"What happened Shampoo?", a very concerned Ranma asked.
Shampoo explained what she saw in her dream. How all of their past
incarnations met and worked together. How they became closer than most families
were too each other, then finally about how she and Sailor Orchid's ancestor
died fighting the Dark Star Kingdom.
"I remember knowing that I was dying. I could all the wounds I had, but could
feel none of them. I thought I had failed. The kingdom had fallen to that bitch
queen Berylium, and I had even become separated from Amelia-chan.", Shampoo began
to speak without her usual accent.
"I saw several large explosions in the sky, and knew my love with still
alive. She had grown so powerful in the past few years. She could destroy a
planet if she wanted to, but at the same time she was so kind and gentle
toward me and those that she cared about. I suddenly felt a surge of panic
and noticed that something was falling out of the air toward me. It hit the
ground hard and made a crater 5 meters wide.", Shampoo continued.
"I somehow managed to drag myself to that crater, knowing what was
inside, but still trying not to look. As I looked over the side, I saw her...
My beloved, laying there barely breathing. I dragged myself down to her and
collapsed next to her. We both knew that we were dying, and that couldn't
be avoided, but if we were to die that day, our last moments would be spent in
each others' arms. The last sight I remember seeing is the face of my beloved
before my eyes closed forever and darkness claimed us.", Shampoo said while
barely choking out the last few words, with tears now streaming down her face.
Ranma picked Shampoo up and put her in his lap. Shampoo through her arms
around Ranma and began to cry again into his shoulder as he stroked the back of
her hair.
"You may have lost her once Shampoo, but you heard P-Chan over there, she
is alive again. Me and Nabiki will help you find her.", Ranma said.
Outside the door a certain 'uncute tomboy' was trying to listen to what
everyone was saying as she peeked through the keyhole in the door.
"What are they doing in there. Sounds like they are telling some sort of
silly story.", Akane thought to herself.
Akane tried to get up as she noticed that everyone had stopped talking,
but she ended up tripping over her own feet. As she grabbed the doorknob
to steady herself, she turned it causing the door to open with her falling
into the room and onto a small but soft object.
"Would you mind getting off me?", the object asked.
Akane jumped away from what she landed on and noticed that it was a very
familiar samll black pig.
"Much better.", the pig sadi before he realized who was in the room with
him.
"P-chan.....you can talk?", Akane said as she fainted..
"Oh dear, this might complicate things a bit.", Luna-P said as he looked
at the unconscious form of Akane.
(Authors Note:)
Well this ends part 2 of the omake for Nabiki's heartache, which has strangely
taken on a waffy as well as a silly aspect. Oh well, any good anime fanfic needs
to have a certain amount of romance in it, even silly fics.
Once again this is not part of the main stroy line of Nabiki's heartache, so
no one has to worry about the story taking such a strange turn. I am still working
on the Second chances as well as another fic where......gasp.....Ranma and Ryoga
are actually, not only pleasant toward each other, but they are actually quite
friendly toward each other, and no I don't mean that in any etchi way you
hentais :
Hope you enjoyed this part of the omake. I will probably start part 3 in a few
days. I need to spend more time doing other things instead of just writing.
Til, later
Ryo Oki (ryo_oki@pacbell.net)
Sept, 1 2002
A Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction by Ryo_Oki
"ryo_oki@pacbell.net"
Disclaimer: Warning this is a very silly parody of my Nabiki's
Heartache story. This is set in a "slightly" different universe
that that of the main story. What happens here will have no
baring on the original story or its later chapters.
DISCLAIMER PART 2: This series will incorporate many anime, sci-fi movie, manga
and other series inside jokes. This is not to be read by the humor impaired or
'canon' mongers. You will only be confused.
That night after the evil pervert general was defeated, Shampoo, Nabiki,
and Ranko-Neko were in Ranma's room at the Tendo Dojo. Ranko-Neko was lying
on a towel as Shampoo and Nabiki brushed her fur. The sounds of loud purring
echoed throughout the room.
"How much longer do we have to do this, my hand is cramping up?", Nabiki
complained.
"You the one who wanted to know how much fur Ranma... Err Ranko-Neko had,
now you know.", Shampoo said. "Beside it not like we could use hairdryer. Ranko
end up looking like giant poof-ball if we do that."
Nabiki had an image of Ranko Neko, fur sticking out in all directions, run
through her mind and began to snicker.
"Anyway I don't want to do this again anytime soon. Next time we take
Ranko into the furo, it will be in her untransformed body. I don't even want to
think about how much shampoo we had to use, and they were all different 'flavors'.
Strawberry, orange, cherry. She smells like a fruit salad now.", Nabiki said.
"Oooohhhhh, does that mean you think I'm yummy?", Ranko-Neko said as she
got up off the towel and sauntered over to a now zoned out Nabiki.
Nabiki saw Ranko-Neko walking toward her, quite furry, and quite naked.
Higher brain functions were rapidly falling off line.
"Must keep control, must keep.......", Nabiki stopped her mantra as she
felt Ranko neko sit down on her lap, put her arms around her and slowing begin
to nibble her neck with her small fangs. "Oh well control is overrated anyway.",
Nabiki thought briefly before she began to respond more actively to Ranko-Neko's
advances.
"Ahem.....AHEM....STOP THAT ALREADY!!!!!", Shampoo shouted as she pushed
her two friends apart. "If you keep doing that you have to back to furo to
clean up again. You want to spend 3 more hours combing down Ranko-Neko.",
Shampoo said to Nabiki.
"That doesn't sound so bad.", Ranko purred as Shampoo glared at her.
Nabiki began to shiver slightly and looked scared.
"What's wrong Nabiki?", Ranko-Neko asked while putting her hand on
Nabiki's shoulders.
"I don't know. For some reason whenever I am near you in your Sailor
form I have to continually fight to prevent my self from glomping onto you
and start doing horribly etchi things to you. It scares me that I lack
self-control at times like that.", Nabiki said.
I feel the same way Nabiki.", Ranko said, as she noticed a the scared
expression on Nabiki's face be replaced by a wide smile. I do love you in
whatever form I am in, but being in this form somehow magnifies my feelings
for you Nabi-chan.", Ranko-Neko said while starting to blush.
"I wonder why that is?", Nabiki said.
"Perhaps I can answer that.", a voice said from the window.
Everyone turned around to see Ryoga jump in through the window. Ryoga
looked like he was about to say something more, but upon looking at a still
naked Sailor Neko he 'eeped' one, grabbed his nose, and fell forward.
"How pathetic, still no self control.", Nabiki said as Sailor Neko
quickly dressed so that they could talk to Ryoga without him continually
fainting.
"So can you tell us why we seem to so lustful around each other whenever
Ranma is in his Sailor-Neko form?", Nabiki asked.
"Well the quick answer is that both of you were lovers in a previous life
during the time of the Silver Star Kingdom.", Ryoga said.
"Oh, reincarnated lovers, how romantic, and appropriate for this genre.",
Shampoo said with a smirk on her face.
"What's the long answer?", Nabiki said.
"Well you see it all began when.....", Ryoga's voice faded out.
A young woman with short brown hairs sits in a crystal gazebo out in the
middle of an ornate garden. She is dressed in a light blue gown with white accents.
The frown on her face and tears in her eyes are a marked contrast to the
otherwise peaceful scene that we see.
"Princess.... Princess!!!!", a voice calls out causing the young woman
to look up.
Running toward the princess is a young woman who is wearing a knee length
blue and white maids outfit. She has bright blue eyes and very bright red hair.
What is most striking about her though are the 2 cat like ears on top of her head
and the long striped tail that is flying out behind her as she runs.
"Princess, why are you way out here alone? Everyone has been looking for
you.", the catgirl said as she ran up next to the princess.
The princess looked up at the catgirl, who gasp as see the tears and
sad look on her princess's face.
"Princess....Corrine, why are you crying?", the catgirl said as the
pulled the smaller girl onto her lap and stroked the back of her head as the
princess cried into her shoulder.
"What happened at the palace earlier? What did your father say?", the
catgirl asked.
"I....I...am sorry Rani, I couldn't ask him, not after what I saw and
heard.", Princess Corrine said.
"What happened Corrine, please tell me. Was it something your father
did?", Rani-Neko said.
"I overheard father arguing with my older sister.", Corrine said.
"Princess Misty??", Rani-Neko asked.
"Father had found out that she was in love with the local herbalist. A
Cathian by the name of Tifue Uno. Father was very angry. He told her that he
would never allow her to marry one of those animals. He said that they were
better off as slaves or pets.", Corrine said.
"My sister had to threaten to banish him from the kingdom. He laughed at
this idea until she reminded him that she was the acting queen until mother
returned and that she did have the power to carry out her threats. Father did
not take that well and walked off saying some very degrading things about
your people Rani.", Corrine said.
"You know that many people feel the same way as he does. They think we are
just animals for them to do with what they will.", Rani said.
"I don't think that way. Even though you have been my servant since we were
both little girls, I always thought of you as a friend and now....more.",
Corrine said.
"What do you mean princess?", Rani asked feeling nervous for some reason.
The princess got off of Rani's lap stood over her then leaned in, giving
the shocked Cathian a gentle kiss on the lips.
"What I mean is that I Princess Corrine, of House Serendipity, love you
Rani, of clan Saotome, with all my heart.", Corrine said as tears of joy began
to fall down Rani's cheeks.
"I love you as well Princess Corrine and always will.", Rani said while
pulling the princess close to her and kissed her passionately causing both of
them to emit a bright pink aura.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up.", Ranko-Neko exclaimed. "You mean to say that
Nabiki used to be a princess and I was some sort of catgirl servant. To top that
we were in love with each other. Sounds like you have been reading too many
romance novels P-Chan."
"It is the truth, and stop calling me P-Chan, pussy-cat.", Ryoga said.
"What are these 'Cathians' that you mentioned Ryoga?", Nabiki said.
"They were a race of genetically altered cats. They originally came from
several feline species, and were created to be docile servants, companions,
and unfortunately, even slaves. They were stronger, faster, and more durable than
humans, but they were also very weak-willed and influenced by whoever 'owned'
them. Ranko-Neko is an example of a Half-Cathian, not a pure breed.", Ryoga said.
"You mean they could.....", Shampoo started to say.
"Yes, for whatever reason, the scientists that created them, made the
Cathians genetically compatible with humans, elves and atlanteans. They never
said exactly why they did it. Personally I believe that were just a bunch of
dirty old men and women who had cat girl and boy fetishes, but that's just my
opinion.", Ryoga said.
"This compatibility, combined with their natural 'cuteness' and empathy
toward humans, led to a lot of Half-Cathians being born. This did not please
a lot of people, including your father, Princess.", Ryoga said to Nabiki.
"Princess.. Does that mean I am related to this Queen Serendipity you
met earlier?", Nabiki asked Ryoga.
"Um....yeah it does. Didn't I mention it earlier.", Ryoga said.
"No you didn't.", Nabiki said.
"If many people like marrying cat people, why there none left today?",
Shampoo said.
"They were never welcomed on Earth. Many on Earth were against any form
of genetic manipulation for any reason. They seemed to think that we had no right
'to play god', or some other such foolishness.", Ryoga said. "So when the kingdom
fell, and only Earth remained, all of the other races died out, or in the case of
a few that fled to Earth, hunted down and killed. That is why there are so many
legends around the world of elves or faeries hiding from mankind."
"So why are here now Ryoga? I am assume it was not to peep on Ranko-Chan.",
Nabiki said sarcastically.
"I came to warn you that although you defeated on the Dark Star Kingdom
Generals, there are still a few left, not to mention Queen Berylium's consort,
'The Panda Man'. You can expect to see the next one in a couple of days.",
Ryoga said.
"I wonder who the next one will be.", Nabiki said.
Before anyone could answer, the door to the room began to slide open.
Ryoga quickly changed into Luna-P and hid under the bed. Ranko neko was about
to change back when the door fully opened and in stepped Akane. She took one
look at Ranko, got a glazed look in her eye, and shouted out, "KITTY", while
glomping on the very surprised Ranko.
"Oh dear, I was hoping this wouldn't happen.", Nabiki said.
"What's wrong? Why violent girl act stranger than usual?", Shampoo said.
"Well, you how Ranma used to be scared of cats?", Nabiki asked Shampoo,
who nodded in reply.
"Well Akane has the opposite problem. She has always been a little
obsessed about them. Unfortunately she has also never been a very gentle person.
We had to give away many pets when we were young because Akane was too rough
with them.", Nabiki said as she watch her sister practically squeeze the life
out of poor Ranko neko.
"Ohhhhh, you are so cute, and that is such a pretty dress you have on.",
Akane said Ranko-Neko as she swung her back and forth. "I am going to hug you,
and squeeze you, and call you Georgina.", said a nauseatingly sweet sounding
Akane.
"Akane, she doesn't belong to you, so why don't you put her down.",
Nabiki said.
"Who's is she?", Akane said while holding onto Ranko, like someone who
was trying to prevent a toy from being taken away.
"She.....belongs to Shampoo, yes that's it. Now give her back.", Nabiki
said in frustration to how childish her sister was behaving.
"What if I don't want to?", Akane said.
"Then I will have to call Kasumi and she will punish you like when you
were younger and took things that didn't belong to you.", Nabiki said, then
start to smile at the thought of Kasumi having to give Akane a spanking.
Akane opened her eyes wide then set Ranko-Neko down. Ranko-Neko
immediately jumped into Shampoo's lap and started to purr, hoping that Akane
would get the hint.
"Fine, I really wasn't interested in her anyway.", Akane said as she
stomped out of the room and slid the door shut behind her.
"That was....weird.", Shampoo said.
"I think I will have to speak to Kasumi again about increasing the
dosage of Akane's medication.", Nabiki said.
Two days later in the secret lair of The Panda Man, the being in
question was walking back and forth in front of yet another collapsed
monolith. It was obvious from his body language that at the moment he was not
a happy mammal.
"Stupid boy. To be defeated in battle is one thing, but to be defeated
in such an embarrassing fashion is intolerable. If he were not dead already, I
would kill him myself.", the Panda said, like looking at a pile of dust that
used to be a duck shaped monolith. "I hope others do not follow in his
footsteps.", the Panda Man thought as he remembered what happened earlier
that day.
Ranma and Nabiki were walking out of the Cat Cafe. There shift had just ended
for the day and they were glad to get out of those horribly short false sailor
outfits that Cologne made them wear.
Onna-Ranma was walking hand in hand with Nabiki when she suddenly felt
herself slam sideways into Nabiki. Her arms were now pinned to her sides. Both
Ranma and Nabiki soon noticed that they were encircled by what appeared to be
piano wire, lots of piano wire. As they were trying to get free, they heard yet
another familiar but unwelcome voice.
"So Saotome I have finally have you and your witch of a fiancee at my
mercy. Now I will be able to make Shampoo mine, and all you will be able to do
is stand there and look foolish.", Mousse said.
Ranma looked over at Mousse and almost started to laugh. The so-called
weapons master was wearing a set of dark robes, black cowboy boots, and a
large black duck helmet, that strangely resembled a child's training potty.
"Considering how you are dressed I would it is obvious who looks foolish.",
Nabiki said.
"Silence fools!!! Simple creatures such as you can not possibly understand
my greatness.", Mousse said.
"More likely he is not getting enough air in that helmet of his and its
making act more stupid than usual.", Onna-Ranma said.
"For that you shall be punished.", Mousse said as he fired a beam of black
energy though the cable holding Onna-Ranma and Nabiki, causing them to scream
in typical anime fashion.
The screaming attracted the attention of a certain purple-haired amazon, who
was not happy at seeing her friends being attacked.
"Stupid Mousse, why you attack friends and wear stupid clothes?", Shampoo
said while charging at Mousse and slamming him into a wall with one of her
bonborries.
"Ah Shampoo, you have come to see me destroy these two fools, so that
we may then be together.", the deluded duck boy said.
"Shampoo kill you if you harm friends.", Shampoo said.
"Ah how terrible!! Those two perverts how clouded your mind, but
never fear I shall free you, then you can show your love to my righteous self.",
Mouse said.
"Shampoo think you spend too much time with stick boy. Make you sound as
stupid as he does.", Shampoo said.
"Do not fear my love I shall make you come to your senses.", Mousse says
as he lets out a glowing black blade on a chain, fly into Shampoo, who manages
to mostly get out of the way, but still leaves a large gash on her left side.
Shampoo and the others now recognize the black energy signature as
belonging to the Dark Star Kingdom.
"So Mousse sold soul to evil dark lady, in hopes to get power. Stupid
Mousse no realize that you now cast out of tribe for pledging self to
evil demon.", Shampoo said.
"Now Shampoo no have to hold back any longer.", as she pulls a small
crystalline rod from our of nowhere.
"Amazon Star Power Makeup"
"No ,it can't be. Shampoo is one of those accursed Sailors and I have to...
Urk....", Mousse tries to finish his thought as he witnesses Shampoo's clothes
explode off her during the transformation sequence. His helmet falls off
showing his eyes rolling back into his head, and blood now gushing from his nose,
before he collapses to the ground and seems to disintegrate before
everyone's' eyes.
The cable holding Onna-Ranma and Nabiki together vanishes and they join
Shampoo as she looks at a small pile off ashes on the ground that are next to
a silly black plastic duck helmet.
"That was pathetic. The idiot actually died of a nose bleed because he
saw you naked Shampoo.", Onna-Ranma said. "I guess he thought you were Nymph.",
Ranma said.
"So Ranma think Shampoo look as good as forest spirit?", Sailor Amazon
said as she walked up and put her arms around the little redhead.
"Ahem, behave yourselves, we are in public. Besides you two aren't going
to be doing anything to each other, unless I am there as well.", Nabiki said
in a sultry tone of voice.
The Panda continued to massage his temples in hopes of preventing the
headache he knew he would get if he continued to think about the stupidity
of his formal underling.
Perhaps a change of tactics was in order. He could send out the next
two of his generals at once, but one of them continued to act more unstable.
The Panda looked over a printout concerning one of his generals.
"She must not regain her memory. With her power we could defeat that
silly bitch Serendipity, but if she awakens she could destroy us all easily.",
the Panda thought to himself. "It would be far better for us, if the "Orchid"
never remember who she actually was. I shudder to think what she would do to
her 'dear brother' if she regained control.", the Panda thought.
Later that night, in Ranma's room at the dojo, Luna-P had, at Ranma's
request, assembled the scouts there for another meeting.
"So why is it you wanted to meet tonight Ranma?", the talking black
pig said.
"Earlier you talked about how me and Nabiki used to...be quite close
in our past lives, but if I was a slave then, how did I become a Sailor
like Nabiki was.", Ranma asked.
"Well you see, in order to first be a Sailor, you first had to be trained
in magic, something which was not normally taught to Cathians. Princess
Corrine had been secretly teaching you basic spells, in order to better
protect her, or at least that is what she told you. Personally, I think she
just want to spend more time with you.", Luna-P said as Nabiki blushed for
some reason.
"Now as to how you became a Sailor, well you see it all started when...",
Luna-P's voice trailed off.
(Yet another flashback sequence... I'm fond of them as you can tell ;)
Princess Corrine and the Cathian girl Rani were in the throne room of
the Silver Star kingdom talking to Queen Serendipity, or rather Corrine was
talking, Rani was shaking so bad, the Queen wondered in the poor girl would
collapse at any moment.
"So what is that you wished to ask of me daughter?", the Queen asked
already having an idea where this conversation was going.
"Mother, for the past couple years, you and father have been 'hinting'
that I should find someone to marry before my time comes to rule the kingdom.
Well I have found such a person and would like your blessing.", Corrine said
as she reached over and took hold of Rani's hand.
The queen arched an eyebrow and thought, "Hmmm....Both of my daughters have
chosen Cathian mates. I wonder if I am missing out on something."
"Do you love my daughter, Rani of the clan Saotome?", The queen asked.
"Ye....yee..yes your majesty. I have loved her for so long now. I ask you,
would you please give us your blessing.", Rani said while trying to stop
shaking so bad.
"You have my permission, daughter-in-law, as long as you promise to
love, trust, and respect her as for as long as you live.", the queen said.
Rani looked up at the queen, tears flowing from her big blue eyes and
said, "Thank you your majesty...I...I... don't know what else to say."
Princess Corrine walked over and hugged her friend, no fiancee now.
Both smiled at each other and were about to thank the queen one more time
when a voice shouted out, "Stop this atrocity at once!!"
All eyes turned toward the voice, which came from the rapidly approaching
Sou'nde Ten'do'sen, king of the Silver Star Kingdom.
"It is bad enough our eldest daughter wants to marry her pet, but I will
not stand for our chosen heir marrying one as well, especially a female!", the
angry king exclaimed.
"It is not your decision father. Rani and I love each other and mother
has given us her blessing.", Princess Corrine said.
"Never!!! Besides I have already made other arrangements that will ensure
the prosperity of our kingdom and peace between the Dark Star kingdom and our
own.", the king self-righteously said.
"I never gave consent to this 'arrangement' and I especially did not give
you permission to make deals with my twisted sister's kingdom, husband.", a very
angry Queen Serendipity said as she began to emit a bright white and silver aura,
causing the king to back up quickly.
"Now dear it is for the best if our little girl marries their heir, then
both our kingdoms will benefit.", the king said.
"You expect me to marry that incestuous bokken waving fool. I would rather
die first.", the Princess said.
Rani growled from beside Corrine and moved closer to her.
"Quiet cat, or I will have you put to sleep.", the king almost growled at
Rani, who began to tremble and hide behind the princess.
"Leave her alone father. I will not have you threatening the woman that I
love.", the Princess said as she look down at where she had hit her father.
"Oh what a worthless child I have raised to show such disrespect toward
her father.", the king began to weep profusely.
"You brought it upon yourself husband. I shall permit no attacks
upon out daughter-in-law. Now as to your ridiculous suggestion of who our
daughter should marry, you are overlooking one small detail. The son of my
sister happens to be Corrine's first cousin. My sister may not mind having
a bunch of inbred cretins on her side of the family, but I will not allow
it on mine.", the Queen said.
"You are also overlooking the fact, father, that my 'dear cousin' and
his sister are quite close, if you know what I mean, and their mother doesn't
even mind.", Corrine said.
The Queen took this opportunity to turn quite green and say, "That sounds
like something that she would not mind. Kami-sama knows I had to fight off
her advances when I was younger. Her husband...Atri, Atari....something like
that, is just as big if not bigger pervert that she is. I shall never allow
any of my children to degrade themselves by being a part of my sister's
family."
"If that is your final decision, then we have nothing more to say.", the
king said as he stormed out of the throne room.
Mother, why is father being so unreasonable, he never used to be this
way?", a very confused Princess asked her mother.
"I wish I knew dear, I wish I knew.", the Queen said sadly.
As Luna-P ended that part of the story, he was amused by the fact that
everyone was now looking at him with their mouths' hanging open.
"Jeeze, and I thought pops was a rotten father.", Ranma said in disgust.
"Shampoo feel sorry for Nabiki's ancestor to have such bad father. He
lucky he was not Amazon. Bad things happen to fathers who try and hurt their
daughters.", Shampoo said.
"He sounds almost like daddy in a way.", Nabiki said as the others turned
to look at her. "I remember when we were young there was a very nice Korean
couple living nearby. Father forbid us to play with their children, saying that
they were inferior and that we shouldn't be near them. I have heard him say
similar things about the Amazons at times, especially you Shampoo. If father
was not kept in line now by Lilac, I doubt he would let you come into the house as
much as he does."
"So crying man think he better than Amazons, maybe he need to be taught
lesson.", Shampoo said.
"Tempting, but we have more important things to deal with now.", Ranma said.
"Personal grudges will have to wait until we can drive off of destroy
Queen Berylium's forces permanently.", Luna-P said.
Across Nerima in a well known and equally well avoided mansion, a young
girl in a black leotard, is rolling on her bed in agony as memories of two
lives and personalities war within herself. On her forehead one can briefly see
the kanji for 'orchid' flash into being before being covered by a black star.
"No...no I don't want to kill anymore....please stop....I don't want anymore
to die because of me...", the woman says in her sleep as tears roll down her eyes.
Outside the door the woman's room a small mousey looking men in a black
bodysuit overhears the woman and runs off to tell his master before the woman
fully 'awakens'.
The little man runs into another room and house and stops suddenly, almost
running into the person that he is seeking.
"Master, you must come quickly, your sister is 'awakening.", the little
man says.
The man curses under his breathe, grabs an odd purple necklace from
a drawer within his desk and races off to his sister's room.
When the man gets to the room in question, he unlocks the door and
quickly steps inside. The young woman is now sitting up and staring at the
man with a look of total hatred on her face. Her form in glowing black and the
orchid symbol is once more present on her forehead.
"You will pay for what you have done to me fool.", the woman says to the
man.
"Tsk..Tsk... Dear sister have you not learned your lesson yet.", the man
says and holds up a glowing purple crystal necklace.
The woman's eyes lose their black glow and a purple 'haze' seems to form
within them. Her look of hatred changes to a look of happiness or love for the
man now in front of her.
"You were saying dear sister", the man says.
The woman looks confused for the moment, then says, "I was just saying how
much I care for you and love you brother dear."
"That is very sweet of you sister dear, now why don't you start to prepare
dinner for us all tonight.", the man says.
"That sounds like a wonderful idea.", the woman says far too cheerfully,
as she runs out of the room leaving her smirking brother and now sad looking
servant behind.
Back at then Tendo Dojo, Luna-P suddenly stiffens then falls over with a
horrified look on his face, much to Ranma's discomfort.
"Everything all right in there P-chan?", Ranma says knocking on Luna-P's
head.
"What wrong with pig-boy?", Shampoo asks.
"Looks like he's in shock.", Nabiki says.
"No....to early....Shouldn't be here yet...Not ready...", Luna-P whispers.
"Snap out of it P-chan.", Ranma said as he slapped the pig several times
across the face.
Luna-P's eyes came back into focus and wiggled out of Ranma's grasp, after
trying to bite him.
"So are you going to explain what that was about?", Nabiki said.
"I wasn't going to tell you this until later, but now it looks like I have
no choice. I have just felt the awakening of the final member of our group,
Sailor Orchid, the Sailor of Love and Destruction.", Luna-P said.
"Um... Love and destruction.. Isn't that sort of an oxymoron?", Ranma said
as everyone stared at him.
"That's sort of out of character for you isn't it.", Nabiki said.
"Hey, it's not my fault most fanfiction writers make me out to be an
uneducated, uncultured moron, while making Akane out to be some sort of perfect
goddess. I am simply a victim of prejudiced bad writing, that's all.", Ranma
said.
"You realize what you have just said may offend many of our readers out
there, and they'll probably accuse you of doing the same.", Nabiki said.
"Yeah..so...", Ranma said.
Nabiki look at Ranma for a minute then replied, "Okay do what you want."
"Ahem.... If you two are now done breaking the fourth wall, I would like to
here a little more about this 'Sailor Orchid'. She sounds quite familiar to me.",
Shampoo said without her usual sing-song accent.
"She was a princess of Saturn and very powerful. Most people, even the other
Sailors tended to stay away from her, except the Princess of Jupiter. They were
quite close and even died fighting together, when the kingdom fell. There were
rumors that they were more than friends, but then again there were rumors like
that about all of the Sailors, so who's to say if was true or false.", Luna-P
said in a melancholy voice.
"Who was the princess of Jupiter?", Shampoo asked.
"You already know the answer to that.", Luna-P said.
"Amelia-chan...", Shampoo whispered as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"You are starting to remember her...Lina-san.", Luna-P said as Shampoo
looked at him with a stunned expression before fainting.
Back at a certain mansion, a young woman wearing a black leotard, is
busy preparing food for her 'beloved brother' when she stops and gasps in shock
as the purple glaze in her eyes fades briefly. She manages to briefly whisper
out, "Lina-san!", before the glaze returns to her eyes, and she continues her
task unsure of what she was just thinking a minute ago.
A young girl, about 8 years old with shoulder length red hair, is walking
aimlessly through the royal palace, on the moon. From the expression on her
face she is feeling, bored, disgusted, or both.
"Stupid lazy boys, not Lina's fault that Lina have scar on face. No need to
make fun of Lina, Lina only want to have friends.", the young girl says as she
looks back at the four unconscious boys her age.
She continues to wander through the palace, becoming more and more disgusted
with what she had seen and heard. Everyone seemed to spend all their time bragging
about their wealth or what new 'toy' they had acquired, that is unless they were
busy trying to make their rivals look bad. Lina doubted that had even heard of
honor, much less practiced it.
As she entered yet another passageway, she noticed a door partway open. Soft
blue and purple light leaked out into the hallway. She could hear quiet movement
in the room, but could not see anyone.
Opening the door to get a better look, Lina saw a young girl her age, with
long black hair sitting on a bed, staring off into space.
"Why you sit in dark room by self?", Lina asked the girl, who fell
off the bed in surprise when Lina spoke to her.
"Who....who are you?", the young girl asked Lina.
"Name is Lina, princess of Jupiter", Lina said proudly.
"You are an amazon of Jupiter?", the girl asked in awe, much to Lina's
surprise.
"You sound like you admire amazons, not make fun of us like stupid nobles
here do.", Lina said as the young girl was trying to understand the young
amazon's crude speech.
"I do admire your people. I heard that they are strong and noble, not weak
and hated like me.", the girl said.
"You hide in room because you is hated?", the young amazon asked.
"Father said I should stay here, because people feel scared when I am
near them.", the young girl said with a sad tone in her voice.
Lina looked the young girl up and down and could not figure what people
found scary about her. This girl was so small and timid, an amazon baby
would not be scared of her.
"Why are they scared of you?, Lina asked.
"They are scared because I am to be the next queen of Saturn when I grow
up. That means I will have to become the next Sailor of love and destruction,
Sailor Orchid.
Now it was Lina's turn to be impressed. She looked at the young girl and
said, "Lina is very impressed. Sailor Orchid is very strong warrior, very
powerful. Amazons respect such power."
"You don't think I am a freak or a monster?", the girl said.
"No, Lina think you just shy girl who believe what foolish adults say
too much.", Lina said with a grin on her face. "Would you like to be Lina's
friend?"
The young girl looked at Lina warily, but with some hope in her eyes.
She hoped the amazon girl was sincere. It wouldn't be the first time someone
asked to be here friend, only to turn around and trick her.
"I would like that, if you really mean it.", the girl said.
"Lina mean it, but before we can be friends, Lina must ask you one
question.", Lina said.
"What is it?", the girl asked warily.
"What is your name?", Lina asked.
"It is Amelia.", the girl said with a small smile on her face.
"Would Amelia like to explore palace with Lina. Be more fun that sitting
in dark room.", Lina said.
"I would like that.", Amelia said as she grabbed onto Lina's hand and they
walked out the door together.
As they entered the light of the hallway, Lina noticed how pale and
fragile Amelia seemed to be. She would definitely have to get her new friend
to spend more time outside.
Amelia walked beside her new friend and noticed the scar on Lina's face.
She could do something about it, but she didn't want her friend to think badly
of her.
"Um....miss Lina, I noticed the scar on your face....and I...could help
you if you like.", Amelia said shyly.
"What do you mean.", Lina said.
"I can heal people. I know it sounds weird, but I can get rid of your
scar if you want.", Amelia said, as Lina opened her eyes wide.
"Amelia can do such nice thing for Lina?", Lina said.
"You don't mind or think its weird?", Amelia asked as Lina shaked her head
back and forth.
Amelia stepped up to Lina and put her hand on Lina's face. Her hand began
to glow covering first the scar, then Lina's whole body.
As the glow faded Amelia walked Lina up to a mirror in the hallway. Lina
was shocked, not only was the scar gone, all the little imperfections she
used to have were gone as well. Her skin was as smooth as if she had never
once stepped outside in the wind or in the heat. Her hair felt like silk and
even the calluses she used to have on her hands from constant sword practice
were gone as well.
"Thank you....Amelia-chan. I look pretty again.", Lina said as she hugged
her friend who blushed in response.
Three years have past and we see an eleven year old Lina practicing
martial arts with a now much healthier looking Amelia. They have also
started to learn the magic that will be necessary for them to fulfill their
new duties as Sailors in a few years. It was also during this time in their
lives that they first met Queen Serendipity's daughter, Corrine and her
catgirl friend, Rani.
Lina was particularly fascinated by Rani, because the amazons had never
felt the need to have servants or slaves, as the Cathians were used for on other
worlds. To them having to rely on others in such a fashion was a sign of weakness.
The four girls became close friends over the years, much to the shock of some
who wanted nothing to do with the Sailor of Saturn or Princess Corrine's 'pet'.
They stayed close for 3 years until the time came for three of the girls to leave
for the academy where they would be taught how to access their powers for the
first time. It seems Rani, not being a Sailor, or even human was to be left
behind on the moon.
The girls had just turned 14 and Corrine and Rani had told Queen Serendipity
how they felt about each other, much to the displeasure of the king. Rumors were
also circulating about the Princesses of Jupiter and Saturn being close.
When the time came for the three princesses to leave for the academy, a huge
crowd of well wishers were at the space port to see them off. It was supposed to
be a happy time for all involved, but two members in the royal party looked quite
unhappy.
"But , why can't she come with us, she would make a perfect Sailor as well.",
Corrine said.
"Are you mad daughter? Such a position is only open to humans and royalty
at that. It would not do to have some commoner, or worse, some pet be put in
such a position. It would be a disgrace to our kingdom.", the king said while
looking down his nose at Rani.
"I keep telling you, SHE IS NOT A PET. SHE IS GOING TO BE MY WIFE.", Princess
Corrine yelled a the top of her voice, stunning all those within earshot.
"Oh my did you here that?"
"Cool"
"How horrible!"
"About time."
"Heh, just like aunty, right mommy?"
"Shhh dear, someone will here you.", several voices from the crowd were
heard to have said.
"Oh my poor daughter disgraces her family, just like he sister. What did I
do to have such worthless children.", the king cries as the rest of the royal
party looks at him in disgust.
"Lina only see one disgrace here, and that weak whining father of poor
moon princess. Lina feel very sorry for queen to have to weak husband, but
that what happens when you chose inbred royalty instead of strong warriors to
be rulers.", the princess of Jupiter said.
"As if a barbarian like you would know anything about proper culture and
breeding.", the king said.
"You will not speak to my beloved in such a fashion!", a very angry
princess of Saturn said with flames dancing in her eyes.
The king took one look at the scary princess and jumped back squeaking
like a little girl while hiding behind his wife.
"Must not mallet husband in public...Must not mallet husband in public.",
the queen silently said to herself.
As the three princesses boarded the transport, the king excused himself
and walked off saying that he had duties to attend to, leaving Rani and the
queen alone to watch the princesses depart.
The queen looked over at her daughter's friend and she supposed lover,
and saw tears flowing from Rani's eyes.
"You love my daughter that much.", the queen said, making the question
sound more like a statement.
Rani only nodded, being unable to say anything at the moment.
"Would you like to go with her?", the queen asked while looking at Rani's
now confused expression on her face.
"It doesn't matter now, it is already too late.", Rani said as she heard
transport's engine begin to 'wind up' and the craft began to move forward.
"You still have time.", the queen said as she gestured toward the transport
and one of the side hatches popped open.
"The craft will have to stop and see why the hatch is open. If you hurry
you can make it through, before the crew closes it.", the queen said to Rani,
who had a grateful expression on her face.
Rani made it to the open hatch in time and jumped through, just as the
ground crew reached the transport to inspect the hatch.
"Well now this should make for trip.", the queen giggled to herself.
Inside the transport, Rani was not very happy. As the craft finally
took off she was bounced around far too much for her liking. Her poor little
rear end would be sore for a week.
As she made her way over to where she saw what looked to be blankets, Rani
noticed a strange odor in the compartment. As she traced the smell, she
noticed it was coming from underneath the blankets. Moving the blankets aside
she noticed a small electronic device with a tube of green liquid attached to it.
Her mouth went dry as she realized what the liquid was.
"Platicine, who could have put this here. If I don't get rid of this, the
whole craft will go up in one large explosion.", Rani thought as she
gently picked up the device and carried to a nearby airlock.
She braced herself before opening the outer doors of the airlock, hoping
what the transport was not too high yet. As the door slid open she noticed the
transport had just circled the field and now had begun to climb. She tossed out
the device toward what looked like an old abandoned factory.
"Hopefully no one is in there.", Rani thought as she closed the airlock.
Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location, several unsavory looking
characters were talking to a cloaked figure.
"So did you do as I asked.", the cloaked figure said.
"Yeah it was easy, nobody ever checks the stuff once it is already
loaded in the transport. They only search it when the passengers drop their
junk off.", the largest of the thugs said.
"Are you sure everything is in order.", the cloaked figure said.
"Relax, it was a simple job. What could possibly go wrong.", the thug
said as several of his underlings twitched and wished that their boss would
stop saying things like that. It wasn't healthy to tempt fate.
As the cloaked figure began to leave everyone began to hear a loud
whistling sound.
"Huh what's that?", several of the thugs seem to say at once.
A loud crash was heard above and a small object landed in front of
everyone. It looked very familiar..
"Oh #$*@#", everyone said shortly before a bright flash blinded them.
A searing heat and concussion wave ended all trace of their thoughts and their
bodies as well.
The last sight we see is the hood blowing off the cloaked man revealing
someone who looked very much like Sou'nde Ten'do'sen.
Back at the spaceport, the queen sees and hears a large explosion off in
distance. She should feel nervous about this, but for some reason a sense of
relief washes over her.
The concussion wave from the explosion rocks the transport as it was
leaving causing an already sore catgirl to be flung across the cargo hold and
into a ventilation shaft where she landed with a loud, "Miyyyyaaaahhhhh".
As the horrible sound echoed throughout the ship the passengers and
crew froze, all of them wondering where the ghost was and how had the ship
suddenly become haunted.
Corrine, Lina, and Amelia noticed the sound seemed to be quite close to
them and were surprised that after the sound had faded, a loud thumping noise
could be heard right below their feet.
A heating vent in the floor suddenly flys off and embeds itself in the
ceiling. This is followed shortly there after by a large furry form jumping
up into the room.
Before anyone can react to this perceived threat, Corrine finds herself
glomped on by the intruder into her room. The intruder is indeed quite furry
and is purring?!?
"Princess Corrine, glad to see her Rani-chan, yes?", the catgirl asks.
"How did you get here? Why are you here!?!", the princess says a little
too forcefully as she watches the catgirl climb off of her and look at her
with a pout of her face and tears forming in her eyes.
"You no like like Rani anymore? Rani only pet and plaything she guess,
not wife and lover like she hoped.", the depressed cathian said.
"No, no, no, thats not it at all.", Corrine said while waving her arms
up and down rapidly. "I was just surprised to see you that's all. I don't
think of you just as a plaything."
"Okay, Rani forgive husband.", Rani.
"Husband??", Corrine said.
"You say you want Rani for wife, so that mean you be husband. Even mama-san
agree and let Rani onto transport.", Rani.
"You mean your mother let you on here?", Corrine said.
"No silly, queen let Rani on plane. Open door with magic. She say that if
Rani to be good wife and protect princess, then Rani must be sailor too like
stong husband is going to be.", Rani said.
"Sometimes I wonder about my mother.", Corrine said in a low murmur.
"Queen seem nice to Lina, but think she missing a few bonborries from
weapon rack if you know what Lina mean.", the princess from jupiter said.
"But Rani-san, you just can't show up at the academy, you need the
proper papers and sponsor. If you just walk in as you are we will all get in
trouble.", the young princess of Saturn said.
"That no problem. Queen give Rani everything she need. Even put luggage
in subspace pocket for Rani.", The catgirl said as she pulled a few official
looking documents and holodisks from out of nowhere.
"Great, my mother is a closet computer hacker.", Corrine said in a
sarcastic tone of voice.
"Queen very good. She like teaching lesson to little 'script kiddies'
who try and break into palace's network.", Rani said. "Rani very tired now
though. Have very long day, dealing with baka king, long run to transport,
and having to get rid of bomb."
"What bomb?", the other three girls say excitedly.
"Rani find bomb in cargo area. Throw outside so no one get hurt,
especially husband and friends.", Rani said.
"Hmmmmm, so that is why the craft was shaking so much earlier. The
shockwave from the blast was responsible.", Corrine said.
"If Rani get rid of bomb, then Rani save Lina, so Rani now honorary
amazon. Much honor involved. Great-grandmother be very happy to have new
amazon. We never had catgirl amazon before.", Lina said.
The rest of the short flight to the academy was uneventful. As they
exited the transport though, things picked up.
As she exited the transport, Rani could feel several sets of very
unfriendly eyes upon her. As she looked round, not only did she appear
to be the only Cathian here, but the only non-human as well. She
subconsciously moved close to Corrine and held onto her arm, eventhough she was
was at least a foot taller than the princess and about 50 pounds heavier.
"What is that doing here.", an annoying effeminate voice said.
Approaching the disembarking princesses was a small overdressed
man and two larger, somber looking men dressed in what appeared to be some
sort of guard's uniform.
"Who, or rather what are you?", Corrine said.
"I am the dean of admissions for this academy, and her kind are not allowed
here.", the little man said while pointing at Rani.
"She has permission from the Queen to undergo Sailor training. You will not
interfere.", Corrine said starting to glow silver.
"You wouldn't dare assault me.", the little man said.
"Maybe nice princess Corrine wouldn't, but Lina have no such problem.",
the princess of jupiter said as she looked down at the administrator she just
squished like an insect.
"That was...excessive.", Amelia said quietly.
"Old amazon saying, Where logic fails, force prevails.", Lina said with
a grin on her face.
"I trust you two will behave yourselves.", Corrine said to the two larger
men.
The two men looked at the four glowing girls, then at their squished boss,
and decided that a coffee break was now in order, and quickly fled the area.
"Here are her records, lose them at your own risk.", Corrine said as the
tossed the papers next to the little man who had managed to peel himself off
the ground.
The four girls spent three years at the academy. During that time they made
many new friends, even Rani. They found out that not everyone judged a person by
their species. A couple of younger guards even flirted with Rani from time to time,
much to her embarrassment.
Lina and Amelia, were umong the few married students during their last year
there. They were married in a traditional amazon ceremony, much to the
administrations' annoyance. Having a couple hundred amazons roaming around the
campus tended to disrupt daily activities. On the bright side many amazons found
willing husbands.
Corrine and Rani waited till they were back on the moon to get married, but
during the ceremony the Dark Star kingdom attacked and life for everyone
changed for the worse from that time on.
Shampoo sat up with a gasp and noticed her two friends and one black pig
stareing at her with concern in their eyes.
"What happened Shampoo?", a very concerned Ranma asked.
Shampoo explained what she saw in her dream. How all of their past
incarnations met and worked together. How they became closer than most families
were too each other, then finally about how she and Sailor Orchid's ancestor
died fighting the Dark Star Kingdom.
"I remember knowing that I was dying. I could all the wounds I had, but could
feel none of them. I thought I had failed. The kingdom had fallen to that bitch
queen Berylium, and I had even become separated from Amelia-chan.", Shampoo began
to speak without her usual accent.
"I saw several large explosions in the sky, and knew my love with still
alive. She had grown so powerful in the past few years. She could destroy a
planet if she wanted to, but at the same time she was so kind and gentle
toward me and those that she cared about. I suddenly felt a surge of panic
and noticed that something was falling out of the air toward me. It hit the
ground hard and made a crater 5 meters wide.", Shampoo continued.
"I somehow managed to drag myself to that crater, knowing what was
inside, but still trying not to look. As I looked over the side, I saw her...
My beloved, laying there barely breathing. I dragged myself down to her and
collapsed next to her. We both knew that we were dying, and that couldn't
be avoided, but if we were to die that day, our last moments would be spent in
each others' arms. The last sight I remember seeing is the face of my beloved
before my eyes closed forever and darkness claimed us.", Shampoo said while
barely choking out the last few words, with tears now streaming down her face.
Ranma picked Shampoo up and put her in his lap. Shampoo through her arms
around Ranma and began to cry again into his shoulder as he stroked the back of
her hair.
"You may have lost her once Shampoo, but you heard P-Chan over there, she
is alive again. Me and Nabiki will help you find her.", Ranma said.
Outside the door a certain 'uncute tomboy' was trying to listen to what
everyone was saying as she peeked through the keyhole in the door.
"What are they doing in there. Sounds like they are telling some sort of
silly story.", Akane thought to herself.
Akane tried to get up as she noticed that everyone had stopped talking,
but she ended up tripping over her own feet. As she grabbed the doorknob
to steady herself, she turned it causing the door to open with her falling
into the room and onto a small but soft object.
"Would you mind getting off me?", the object asked.
Akane jumped away from what she landed on and noticed that it was a very
familiar samll black pig.
"Much better.", the pig sadi before he realized who was in the room with
him.
"P-chan.....you can talk?", Akane said as she fainted..
"Oh dear, this might complicate things a bit.", Luna-P said as he looked
at the unconscious form of Akane.
(Authors Note:)
Well this ends part 2 of the omake for Nabiki's heartache, which has strangely
taken on a waffy as well as a silly aspect. Oh well, any good anime fanfic needs
to have a certain amount of romance in it, even silly fics.
Once again this is not part of the main stroy line of Nabiki's heartache, so
no one has to worry about the story taking such a strange turn. I am still working
on the Second chances as well as another fic where......gasp.....Ranma and Ryoga
are actually, not only pleasant toward each other, but they are actually quite
friendly toward each other, and no I don't mean that in any etchi way you
hentais :
Hope you enjoyed this part of the omake. I will probably start part 3 in a few
days. I need to spend more time doing other things instead of just writing.
Til, later
Ryo Oki (ryo_oki@pacbell.net)
Sept, 1 2002