Wild Sand chapter 2
Yu-gi-oh crossover with Ranma 1/2
by Naquiel
Disclaimer - Ranma and Yu-gi-oh don't belong to me so please don't sue.
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Chapter 2
Ranma was on the Dojo roof, thinking. It was becoming a nasty habit for him. He thought about the Duel with Kuno, earlier that night. It was... pitiful, the same for Nabiki. They had both often only used one action per turn, they didn't use either powerful enough strategies or monsters, and they had underestimated him and his deck! The only good thing that came from the battle was the completion of the collection of Blue Eyes White Dragons and his mothers pride at the duels he had fought.
Ranma fingered his Millennium Puzzle. What was he doing this for? True, he hadn't done anything yet to get more Millennium Items, but he was preparing. Why was he striving for the Godhood of the Shadow Realm: Two things, his mother's life and his curse, anything else, were secondary. True, that power would be tempting to a saint, but the power was only a tool to do those two things for him.
He sighed and shifted on the rafters. The first thing he needed to do was to get the Millennium Ring, if he could. The Millennium Ring could both point to a Millennium Item and use it; it was the connection that would activate the whole godly transformation. Ultimately, the one with the Millennium Ring had a greater chance of achieving the ultimate goal - Godhood. All the other items had a slightly stronger bond connecting them to the ring, allowing it to trace them and for them to find it.
It was in the hands of the Phionex King, Saffron, the so-called demi-god. Saffron had it for perhaps a few centuries and hadn't been activated. Well, no one could accuse the spoilt brat of being clever! But how to get the invaluable item, how! If he went, he'd be missed, so he'd need a good excuse!
Eureka, he'd say that he heard from a guy in a mysterious magic shop had told him that there was a cave worthy people could go to lose their curses, near the cursed valley, it was weird enough to be accepted at face value. No one would question it; but then again other cursed people might go after the non-existent cure. Well, he'd have to deal with it as it comes. Um, he could also say he was making it into a training journey to become better, in case he was attacked at his destination!
But, there would be a price: he would be away from his mother for a while during these precious months. But if he didn't do it there would be no way of keeping her alive at all! It was decided in Ranma's mind, with each Item he got, his Item-derived powers would grow, and more training would awaken more of his Yami side's powers. With this growth in power he could keep her alive, extend what time she had left with magic until he got all seven items and healed her entirely. After all, cancer was hated for its' tenacity, as well as it's slow way of killing, that tenacity protected it from magic as well as modern medicine. The more he thought of it, the more the plan made sense and became the better of all other options.
A switch in his mind went on and he remembered some details that he had forgotten through the fusion. The seven items each had a special power, the Ring had the ability to find and use the other Items, and the Puzzle had the ability to travel instantaneously to any place, by going into and warping the Shadow Realm. He couldn't remember the other powers of the Items off-hand, but perhaps...
Ranma groaned as he saw the tips of a ladder come to rest against the wall and figure that climbed it to come up to the roof.
"Oh hello, Nabiki," said Ranma guardedly, more than aware that Nabiki had a degree of malice in her. Just the thought of Nabiki learning of the Items and wielding one of them made a shiver run down his back.
"Hello, Ranma," said Nabiki, as sweet as honey, this immediately put Ranma on the defensive. "Tell me right now how you defeated me and how you got so good. No, ignore the first one, tell me how you got that good and where you got that deck!"
Ranma closed his eye and whispered so she had to strain to hear him, "You really want to know?"
"Yes," said Nabiki leaning further to hear him and speaking in the same volume by sub-conscious instinct.
"You really, really want to know?" he whispered even lighter so she had to lean closer.
"Yes," she was only a foot from his face, straining to hear him.
"It's a SECRET," Ranma suddenly shouted, causing Nabiki to jump back and land on her behind.
Nabiki screamed in rage and produced a mallet just like Akanes' from that unknown mysterious place where women carried things of great pain potential, and malleted Ranma laughing form. She was shocked when he didn't notice even when the shingles underneath him broke with the transmitted pressure.
Suddenly though Ranma was all business and looked at her, "I'm going on a training trip to China tomorrow. I got a hint about a place which negates the effects of the curse and I am going alone." He equally suddenly smiled and looked cheerful. "Bye, Nab-Chan. See, you bright and early." Nabiki only looked dazed, as if she had missed something, and looked at his retreating form, jumping to his window.
She looked at the broken shingles and cursed.
The next morning, Akane stomped to Ranma's room with a cold bucket of water and a cruel, sadistic smile on her face. She was shocked when she found him, up and packing away his stuff, into his bag.
She became very angry, very quickly. "What the Hell, do you think you're doing?"
"Going on a little trip," said Ranma shortly. He wasn't lying after all, to him it would be a little trip, but the training would be longer than the trip. Now, wasn't instantaneous-travel just wonderful?
This made Akane angrier. "Where?" Her Hammer-hand was twitching.
"Phionex Mountain," he said shortly.
"Why, I nearly died there!"
Maybe I'm going to try and remember that wonderful, yet unfortunately brief, time! Thought Ranma. "To find a cure for my curse," then he added, muttering. "And something else."
"What 'something else'?" asked Akane sardonically.
Ranma stiffened, he had a really loose tongue in this incarnation. "Uh, nothing. Well, maybe I'll see Saffron. I kinda feel sorry for the guy!"
Akanes eye twitched. The freak, that killed me, he feels sorry for my murderer. My property exists to protect me; I won't let My property slip away from my. I'll pound him till he can't move, yeah. Thought the demented, spoilt and just plain insane dominant segments in his mind, the few parts capable of rational reason were squashed firmly.
Akane drew her Mallet and lunged. She didn't feel the soft sound of battered flesh, but she did feel air. Ranma looked at the pitiful demented figure of Akane falling to the floor after losing her balance, due to his dodging her mallet.
Ranma shook his head, picked hp his backpack and calmly exited the room. Explaining things to his hosts and parents was easy, especially with some hastily woven lies. Only his mother had any suspicion when he had gone round to her house to talk to her, but luckily she didn't push the issue. He had used the opportunity to give his mother her brooch
By noon he was at a small town near the beach, there he got some hot water to reverse his gender-switching curse. It isn't particularly comfortable to walk long distances without a sports bra! Also while he was their he took the opportunity to duel, a few local duelists and buy a booster pack from a small, yet surprisingly well stocked, convenience store.
By five he was at the beach. He took the Puzzle from around his neck and held it so the point faced his destination, using the Rings signal to assist his aim, he pointed it to Phionex mountain, roughly. Ranma focused his power to activate the disused ability. He disappeared in a flash of multicolored light.
Hundreds of miles away, five miles from Cloud Pass, Ranma appeared in a flash of multicolored light in the center of a clearing.
Ranma opened his eyes and smiled, now he could train.
That day:
Ranma was cross-legged on a rock in the center of a large field. He was preparing to duplicate some monster attacks with his Chi and Sa.
One after one; attacks shot from his large blue and violet aura. Arrows, fireballs, gaseous streams, energy beams and balls.
This was a facet of Yami's magical ability and powers. A power well remembered, and practiced, in an attempt to integrate them in Ranma's martial artistry.
The strength of the monsters' attacks were variable within Ranma's abilities and limitations, but attacks of monsters than were more 'powerful' than his 'attack' and 'defense' power, were incapable of being used at an equal power to the original monster's attack power. The attack remained but the actual power, of the attack used by its' monster, didn't come into it unless Ranma was equal or greater in power.
However, magic cards all took an equal amount of power to be activated, relatively small, with a mere trickle of power to activate.
Trap cards took no power to have ready, but took the same as an activation cost of a magic card to trigger.
And thought-out the gradual remembering process, he practiced his Sa and Chi to uncomfortable levels; pressing himself to become better; stretching his limitations; gradually extending his power and abilities, stretching his perceptions of what was and was not possible.
Ranma smiled in the knowledge that he was surpassing both his incarnations in power, and ability.
The next day:
Ranma gradually learnt something, something that even his Yami existence was completely ignorant of. Quite out of accident, as all great discoveries are.
If a monster card was infused with Chi and Sa in a particular ratio, they could be brought into being with little or no strain, except for the cost of keeping it in existence. Not unusual of itself, it was easy to do so with pure Sa, however the difference lay in the fact that the creature could become other monster cards, once the card was selected, without wasting the energy on creating one, wasting it and summoning a new one.
A magic card could, also, be given some Chi and it would give quite extraordinary reach if used in the real world, instead of the duelist-stadium distance limit.
And finally, if one created a bridging between ones auras, magical and spiritual with the deck, one could 'see' through them, know where they are, their properties, and even activate them at a distance.
Ranma was very proud and a little surprised at the bridging ability. He had assumed that infusing his Chi into the cards would make them less liable to be broken, but after exposing them to both of his aura, he found them unbreakable, added to the other bonuses of the bridging.
Ranma's pride in his accomplishments swelled, as he felt himself become free of the blocks on his skill that had existed before the fusion.
The day after:
Ranma felt an odd tingle. It was a signal that a Millenium Item; was beginning to be activated; it had kept him up all of last night.
He ignored it and focused on channeling his power on the magic card, 'Copycat'. A duplicate of Ranma appeared beside him and they said simultaneously, "Cool."
The tingle felt worse and both of them looked up in the sky with frowns on their faces, as if it can from there.
Saffron had found the Ring; that was obvious. However, it only meant that Ranma would need to train in his dueling strategies, as well as his powers, and body.
The day after that:
Ranma looked at his small piles of cards and pondered various combos.
After a few hours, he settled on three combos, who, with any luck, would help him, cream Saffron.
And the day after that:
"Obliviate!" screamed Ranma, causing an innocent tree to cease to exist.
He wiped sweat off his brow as he breathed deeply, calming down after the rush of using the power of the Shadow Realm, Sa.
Ranma was pleased to note he was getting more powerful than he was before.
The final day:
Ranma looked back on the meadow. It was almost completely charred, frozen or charged with unnatural levels of energy, causing equally unnatural occurrences for that area. He raised an eyebrow at the lava whirlpool and scratched his neck a little at the sight of a squirrel made from lava, grow into a large 'thing' straight out of a children's TV show (the ones that cause grown men to cower,).
Ranma stretched his hand out towards the meadow from his position at the crest of a hill. He felt into the Shadow Realm and sent his will into it, bending reality in the process. He wove the magic and spiritual energy together into an unbreakable frame and activated the spell.
"Purification of Power," whispered Ranma as the spell of the Shadow Realm, reverted everything back to how it was, but created an adverse effect. A card materialized in his hand: a normal Duel Monsters card, with it's own special power.
It was a magic card, as Ranma found as he looked at it. It was a light type, designed to purify a place of anything, but in the game, it restarted the fields, removing all effects, monsters from the field and magic cards or trap cards. It even had the same name as Ranma had used for it, Purification of Power.
Ranma approached the main gate of Phionex Mountain warily, on his way to find the, um, man, Saffron, that could tell him where the Ring was, or was in possession of it or it of him. There was no way to guess what problems he would face before reaching Saffron: ambushes and traps were not above the Phionex people.
He stepped with careful paces, keeping an eye on his surroundings, probing the nearby area with Sa and radiating chi, sensing it's return and timing it, like a bat does with high-pitched sounds. He found no traps and no ambushes.
He continued on his wary way. Until he found a large chamber, with his Sa, just around a corner. He carefully followed the tunnel into the cavern.
In it he found Saffron: looking at him and smiling! The birdman smile was not nice! There was a crowd of Phionex-people around an obscured structure in the center of the cavern.
Ranma frowned and probed the structure carefully. It was a...
"Do you like my Dueling Stadium? I got it rather recently." Smirked Saffron.
"Why?" asked Ranma, already knowing most of the answer.
"Well, why not? You and I both know that to get a Millenium Item from an individual: who has one, they must lose a duel to the person who gets the Item. You have the Puzzle and I have the Ring. I have been waiting for you to come here. The Ring told me that the Puzzle has been in your possession for at least a week! I have been preparing ever since. You see, you may have defeated me in battle once before, but I want a rematch, as a duel instead, however!"
"Two questions, Saffron. How did you get your adult form, was it the Ring or the pool?"
"Why the ring of course. I encountered it in one of our vaults of ancient magical artifacts, when I was, uh, playing hide and seek." Saffron blushed.
"Ah, well. Who is the soul that's in the ring?" asked Ranma.
"I believe you know, Mutep!" Saffron chuckled.
"Oh, that guy!" steamed Ranma, narrowing his eyes dangerously at Saffron's chest where the Ring could be seen dangling. "He was one of the people who killed me!"
"Huh?" exclaimed Saffron. "What do you mean by that?" Damn, if he doesn't like the trapped soul then he might not fight for him. I would have lost my advantage, thought Saffron franticly.
"Well," Ranma cheered up, "That just means if you lose I can't destroy or capture your soul in accordance with tradition, otherwise he would be released! So, I guess I'll just have to take your item, when I win!"
Saffron smiled nastily, "After you." He waved his hand towards the stadium.
"Okay Ranma, here are the terms: loser gives up his Item to the winner and no cheating." began Saffron snidely. "The field is half wasteland and half mountains."
"Odd, but I'll go along with your game!" Ranma raised an eyebrow
"Let's Duel," the shouted simultaneously, the hoard of Phionex-people looking in curious wonder.
Saffron picked his five cards for his hand and smiled at Ranma, who ignored the pompous Phionex-'god.'
Ranma's hand had Castle of Dark Illusion (2500/2800), Dark Monster (2200/2500), Mirror Force, Sword of Dark Destruction and finally Dark Swords Man (2600/2300).
He smiled inwardly and outwardly cringed.
Saffron smiled more. He put down a monster card facedown and in defense and one magic / trap card.
Ranma responded by putting Dark Swords Man, facedown in defense. He finished his turn by putting down Mirror Force to protect his monster.
"Well, this would be a boring game if all we do is put down defense monsters!" Saffron placed another magic card down, facedown and put his monster face-up. Phionex Swordsman, (1700/1700).
The monster was a roughly humanoid Phionex with wings and a large orange broadsword.
Ranma frowned; it would be an easy kill for Dark Swordsman or Dark Monster. Some-thing just didn't feel right. He looked at his two newly drawn cards, Shuiji and Unrevealing Haze. With this combo he could bring Shuiji on to the field but keep him, and any others, disguised in the middle of a thick fog, which would even make his cards invisible to the view-screen on Saffron's side of the Stadium. In the next turn he could easily destroy the Phionex Swordsman!
He put down the two cards and a pillar of gray mist hid a newly summoned monster. Saffron cursed when he saw the mist's effects on his screen.
Saffron turned over the two magic cards, playing them: Phionex Feather, that increased his Phionex Swordsman's defense by 500, and Salamandra that raised its attack points by 800.
It was now 2200/2500, Ranma noted, equal to Dark Monster. Ranma placed Dark Swords Man (2600/2300,) down and placed another monster-card down.
Saffron smirked and put down Cyber Armor, adding another 400 attack points to his Phionex Swordsman (2600/2500).
If Ranma was slightly miffed that Saffron could juice up such a powerful card, he didn't show it.
"Now, we finish this!" shouted Ranma at his opponent. "Now I deactivate Unrevealing Haze..."
Saffron gasped as he saw that Ranma had both Shuiji and Kanejin in play. Two of the trinity! He thought. And then he saw the Dark Monster and the Dark swordsman. Two very powerful cards!
"And I'll put down these two cards. Go, Sanga..."
A third monster appeared next to the other two of the trinity. All three began to glow, till the flowed together and became a single monster.
"...To become the Gate Guardian (3750/3400). And I use polymerization on all my monsters on the field!"
The areas under the three monsters glowed white and shot up and pillars, the pillars of raging light moving slowly closer and closer until they became one pillar.
"Here is The Guardian of Darkness."
A taller version of Gate Guardian was left when the pillar dissipated; it was black, purple and dark blue. It eyes glowed white and it's form was surrounded in a thick hazy orange and yellow aura (4600/4000,).
Ranma shouted, "Guardian of Darkness, attack Phionex Swordsman with Darkness Power Intertwining!"
The monster brought its pseudo-mechanical hands together at it's chest, to hold a sphere of black and white, suddenly a beam shot out from it, a swirling blast of black and white magic that passed through the doomed Swordsman, as if it wasn't there.
Saffron looked aghast. The difference between the two monsters was two thousand attack points, as they had both been in attack mode, he lost his two thousand life-points, and therefore had lost.
Ranma stepped off his podium and walked over to the angry Saffron.
"Saffron, hand over the Ring," Ranma demanded of the 'demi-god.'
Saffron removed it and handed it over to Ranma, unwilling to face his people, to see them see him weak, to see their disappointment, to see their fear. Now that he no longer had the item, and with the source of the pool being cut off, he had no way to return to adult form, to keep his people safe, and happy, and living.
Unknown to Saffron, Ranma, saw what Saffron was feeling. It was quite obvious; the man's drive was either his pride or his people. Ranma was willing to believe it was his people that motivated this sudden depression.
Ranma took off his puzzle and took the two items in either hand.
The Ring, he saw, was a ring around a triangular center with another eye emblem inside it, the ring anchoring five pointers. He noted that the triangular shape, in the center, was the same dimensions' as a cross-section of the center of the puzzle. He was following instinct mostly as he moved the two closer together, the puzzle phased through the central shape, like it wasn't there. He released them as their portals' synchronized, causing the superimposed items to glow gold and a hundred other colors.
He heard the silent song of the power washing over and through the items into him. He could have screamed with the power raging through him from the items.
The Phionex-people and their leader could only look in shock as the stranger was enveloped in an aura of multicolored magical power, emanating from the two super-imposed eye symbols in the two glowing items; that were slowly becoming even brighter.
Ranma heard a few gasps and screams from the crowd, but didn't react to them. The power flowing into him was from both of the items, causing his limbs to become infused with magical energy and bolstered amounts of Chi and Sa and his eyes to shoot out beams of pure gold energy.
The Item quite suddenly stopped glowing as bright; instead it shone an odd clear light, like a shining distortion in reality. The new fusion of the items was identical to the Puzzle except it had a large ring connected to the downward pointing corner and the middle of opposite sides of the base. The shrunken ring used to tie the Puzzle to Ranma's neck was gone; instead there was a hole at the top of the ring for a length of thread to be passed through. The fused ring had the same pointers and in the same places. The eye emblem in the Millenium Puzzle glowed with powerful multicolored energy as it flew backwards towards Ranma's chest, where it stopped, created a thread and threaded itself throughout the hole, around Ranma's neck and knotting at the hole in the Item.
Ranma himself was still enveloped in a powerful aura, his eyes glowing with magical energy, elemental energy crackling around his lithe form.
"Saffron." He began in an unnaturally melodic voice, "Whatever I think of you, your people do not deserve to die!" He reached out with a hand and pointed at Saffron. A beam of gold flecked red energy shot from his finger.
The energy enveloped Saffron in a nimbus of red, gold and blue flames. Once it dissipated, Saffron remained, shocked and glowing with the same energy that was shot at him.
"That power will keep you in adult form for another five thousand years, I don't have enough power to give your adult form power for any longer. But know this Saffron, if you and the Phionex people wage war on the outside world or an unnecessary war on either the Musk or the Amazons, your power will go and will kill you in the process." Warned Ranma, in the same unnatural voice.
Suddenly he closed his eyes and the aura was drawn into him. He reopened his eyes and said quite cheerfully, "Bye, Saffron!"
He pictured Tokyo in his mind's eye and disappeared in a flash of multicolored light, leaving a colony of shocked Phionex-people.
Nodaka Saotome slept uncomfortably, tossing and turning. She still slept despite the danger of being awoken by the sudden flash of light.
Ranma walked over to beside his mother's bed. He tapped into the new levels of power he had been given when the two items merged and allowed it to flow from his tight constraints, into his mother, directed at the tumor.
He could feel his consciousness extending through the power to the tumor. He could also feel and sense the growth reverse its, well, growth.
He did as much as he could to heal her, and despite not being able to complete the healing and destroy the growth, he felt as if he had achieved a great accomplishment.
He smiled gently at his now peacefully sleeping mother and disappeared.
Ranma appeared in a flash of light at the edge of a tall building, overlooking most of Nerima ward.
"So, what now?" he asked himself, "I can go after any one of the items now, the Rod, the Tauk, the Eye, the Ankh or the Scales. But which one, when? In three days I have the Inter-city championships. There I'll meet the best duelists in the city; perhaps there will be someone with an Item. After all, the close connection between the game and the Items would practically assure the Items being involved somehow, if they were in the city, if not, they maybe involved in the higher levels of the championships! Yes, that would be logical to assume!"
Ranma continued to ponder, until he started frowning. Frowning, in Ranma's case is very, very bad or really irritating. In this case it was in the very, very bad category!
He scanned the city below him, sending out sensitive tendrils of Sa and Chi, finding the location of a disturbance in the layers of background magical energy, referred to as the 'lay-lines.' It was in Juuban, some powerful magical signatures were heading it's way, but what ever it was couldn't be good, and it was a martial artist job to protect the innocent, and, indirectly, to fight evils.
He vanished once again in a flash of multi-colored light.
The monster wasn't the largest they had ever faced, but it defiantly wasn't the smallest! It was eating away at the surroundings with some sort of acidic secretion, it had no body or head, it was more like a ever-shifting slug or jellyfish made of black, oily flesh. Inset in the shifting, ugly, surface were what they assumed were its faces. The only things in its path of continual destruction were seven girls in fukus, in a defensive line right in front of it.
"Stop," bellowed a gangly blonde-haired girl with two ponytails. "For disturbing the natural harmony of our city. I am Sailor Moon, and you shall be punished!" She and the rest of them took various poses.
The monster didn't look impressed.
Ranma, far up above on the roof of a nearby building, shook his head despairingly.
"Stupid girls. I guess I'll have to save them!"
Sailor Uranus decided to break the ice and attack first.
"World Shaking!" the ball of magical energy impacted into the... the 'thing' with a spray of oily flesh, but even as they looked it grew back from all of the damage.
"Um, perhaps not!" Ranma sweatdropped, at the amount of raw power, that had been used for that attack. He had disregarded them because they didn't tap into the Shadow Realm, but now he saw that they tapped into a lesser but quite powerful source of power, the planets. But, even then, as he looked at the monster, it was obvious that this, um, thing would be impossible or very difficult for them to deal with.
The sailors, at a silent command from their leader, the sailor scouts let out with their attacks simultaneously.
"Moon Therapy Kiss!" screamed Sailor Moon, to purge evil from the thing.
"Mars Flare Sniper!" shouted Sailor Mars, to fry it to a crisp.
"Shabon Spray!" shouted Sailor Mercury.
"Venus Love-me Chain!" screamed Sailor Venus, to ensnare it.
"Jupiter Oak Revolution!" shouted Sailor Jupiter throwing a ball of electrical energy at the beast.
"World Shaking!" shouted Sailor Uranus, to blow it to bits.
"Deep Submerge!" screamed Sailor Neptune, to drown it.
The attacks flew towards the monster and were neutralized.
The Moon Therapy Kiss, and the Shabon Spray, just dissipated into magical mist. The Mars Flame Sniper lost its power, and burnt itself out in the air. The Venus Love-me Chain just went right through it. The World Shaking and Deep Submerge were deflected, and the Jupiter Oak Revolution, was grounded!
The frightened Sailors attempted to fall back and come up with another plan, but the monster was destroying more and more things; and buildings.
Ranma was still on his roof; the monster hadn't reached the building yet. Ranma tried to come up with an idea to help the Sailor Scouts, but nothing came up, except...
"Heh, heh. I just got a wicked idea," Ranma chuckled like a kid with a new toy. "This is gonna to be so much fun!"
The Sailors were seeing their lives flash before their eyes as a giant tendril of black, oily flesh, lashed out at them. Until it slammed into a clear, golden barrier. The Sailors looked curiously at the barrier, as the monster at the other side screamed as it lashed out against the barrier with little or no success.
"Great move, Sailor Moon," exclaimed Sailor Jupiter.
"Uh, guys. I didn't do anything!" admitted Sailor Moon.
Then a deep voice could be heard above them from a floating figure covered in an aura of gold. He wore long black hair in a loose ponytail, held by a gold ornament, and wore an armored helm, shin guards and bracers, but under those was a Chinese silk shirt and kung-fu pants, that were quite baggy, but didn't hide his shape too much. "Halt, foul demon. I the Golden Heart of Tokyo, will strike thee down!" Lightening flash behind him for effect, despite the fact that there were no clouds.
The Sailors sweatdropped when they saw the very same figure laughing so hard he feel to the ground, continuing to laugh like a lunatic.
Finally, he managed to calm down and take the monster seriously, "Kami, you are ugly, with a capital 'ugly!'"
The monster screamed again and lashed out with tendrils at him. Once again the impacted harmlessly against a golden, clear barrier.
"Alright, time to deal with you!" Ranma drew a card from his costume's folds. "I summon the mighty Summoned Skull!" the card glowed yellow and exploded outward as a mist made of energy, it took the form of a tall humanoid demon with white bones, purple flesh and blue wings.
The sailors could do nothing but watch with a degree of awe as the Golden Heart summoned an incredible monster from a slip of paper.
"Summoned Skull attack with lightening attack!" shouted Ranma.
The demon shot incredible amounts of electrical energy at the beast; who was incapable of grounding enough of it before it was, very slowly and painfully fried.
Ranma looked at the thing, still surviving and felt a bit of pity for the tenacious beast. He reached out with his hand and turned Summoned Skull back into a card that flew into his hand, and also carded the downed monster. He released the barrier protecting the Scouts and vanished in a flash of multicolored light, leaving seven astonished Sailor Scouts.
Ranma reappeared in his room and in his normal apparel, laughing madly and rolling on the floor.
Yu-gi-oh crossover with Ranma 1/2
by Naquiel
Disclaimer - Ranma and Yu-gi-oh don't belong to me so please don't sue.
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Chapter 2
Ranma was on the Dojo roof, thinking. It was becoming a nasty habit for him. He thought about the Duel with Kuno, earlier that night. It was... pitiful, the same for Nabiki. They had both often only used one action per turn, they didn't use either powerful enough strategies or monsters, and they had underestimated him and his deck! The only good thing that came from the battle was the completion of the collection of Blue Eyes White Dragons and his mothers pride at the duels he had fought.
Ranma fingered his Millennium Puzzle. What was he doing this for? True, he hadn't done anything yet to get more Millennium Items, but he was preparing. Why was he striving for the Godhood of the Shadow Realm: Two things, his mother's life and his curse, anything else, were secondary. True, that power would be tempting to a saint, but the power was only a tool to do those two things for him.
He sighed and shifted on the rafters. The first thing he needed to do was to get the Millennium Ring, if he could. The Millennium Ring could both point to a Millennium Item and use it; it was the connection that would activate the whole godly transformation. Ultimately, the one with the Millennium Ring had a greater chance of achieving the ultimate goal - Godhood. All the other items had a slightly stronger bond connecting them to the ring, allowing it to trace them and for them to find it.
It was in the hands of the Phionex King, Saffron, the so-called demi-god. Saffron had it for perhaps a few centuries and hadn't been activated. Well, no one could accuse the spoilt brat of being clever! But how to get the invaluable item, how! If he went, he'd be missed, so he'd need a good excuse!
Eureka, he'd say that he heard from a guy in a mysterious magic shop had told him that there was a cave worthy people could go to lose their curses, near the cursed valley, it was weird enough to be accepted at face value. No one would question it; but then again other cursed people might go after the non-existent cure. Well, he'd have to deal with it as it comes. Um, he could also say he was making it into a training journey to become better, in case he was attacked at his destination!
But, there would be a price: he would be away from his mother for a while during these precious months. But if he didn't do it there would be no way of keeping her alive at all! It was decided in Ranma's mind, with each Item he got, his Item-derived powers would grow, and more training would awaken more of his Yami side's powers. With this growth in power he could keep her alive, extend what time she had left with magic until he got all seven items and healed her entirely. After all, cancer was hated for its' tenacity, as well as it's slow way of killing, that tenacity protected it from magic as well as modern medicine. The more he thought of it, the more the plan made sense and became the better of all other options.
A switch in his mind went on and he remembered some details that he had forgotten through the fusion. The seven items each had a special power, the Ring had the ability to find and use the other Items, and the Puzzle had the ability to travel instantaneously to any place, by going into and warping the Shadow Realm. He couldn't remember the other powers of the Items off-hand, but perhaps...
Ranma groaned as he saw the tips of a ladder come to rest against the wall and figure that climbed it to come up to the roof.
"Oh hello, Nabiki," said Ranma guardedly, more than aware that Nabiki had a degree of malice in her. Just the thought of Nabiki learning of the Items and wielding one of them made a shiver run down his back.
"Hello, Ranma," said Nabiki, as sweet as honey, this immediately put Ranma on the defensive. "Tell me right now how you defeated me and how you got so good. No, ignore the first one, tell me how you got that good and where you got that deck!"
Ranma closed his eye and whispered so she had to strain to hear him, "You really want to know?"
"Yes," said Nabiki leaning further to hear him and speaking in the same volume by sub-conscious instinct.
"You really, really want to know?" he whispered even lighter so she had to lean closer.
"Yes," she was only a foot from his face, straining to hear him.
"It's a SECRET," Ranma suddenly shouted, causing Nabiki to jump back and land on her behind.
Nabiki screamed in rage and produced a mallet just like Akanes' from that unknown mysterious place where women carried things of great pain potential, and malleted Ranma laughing form. She was shocked when he didn't notice even when the shingles underneath him broke with the transmitted pressure.
Suddenly though Ranma was all business and looked at her, "I'm going on a training trip to China tomorrow. I got a hint about a place which negates the effects of the curse and I am going alone." He equally suddenly smiled and looked cheerful. "Bye, Nab-Chan. See, you bright and early." Nabiki only looked dazed, as if she had missed something, and looked at his retreating form, jumping to his window.
She looked at the broken shingles and cursed.
The next morning, Akane stomped to Ranma's room with a cold bucket of water and a cruel, sadistic smile on her face. She was shocked when she found him, up and packing away his stuff, into his bag.
She became very angry, very quickly. "What the Hell, do you think you're doing?"
"Going on a little trip," said Ranma shortly. He wasn't lying after all, to him it would be a little trip, but the training would be longer than the trip. Now, wasn't instantaneous-travel just wonderful?
This made Akane angrier. "Where?" Her Hammer-hand was twitching.
"Phionex Mountain," he said shortly.
"Why, I nearly died there!"
Maybe I'm going to try and remember that wonderful, yet unfortunately brief, time! Thought Ranma. "To find a cure for my curse," then he added, muttering. "And something else."
"What 'something else'?" asked Akane sardonically.
Ranma stiffened, he had a really loose tongue in this incarnation. "Uh, nothing. Well, maybe I'll see Saffron. I kinda feel sorry for the guy!"
Akanes eye twitched. The freak, that killed me, he feels sorry for my murderer. My property exists to protect me; I won't let My property slip away from my. I'll pound him till he can't move, yeah. Thought the demented, spoilt and just plain insane dominant segments in his mind, the few parts capable of rational reason were squashed firmly.
Akane drew her Mallet and lunged. She didn't feel the soft sound of battered flesh, but she did feel air. Ranma looked at the pitiful demented figure of Akane falling to the floor after losing her balance, due to his dodging her mallet.
Ranma shook his head, picked hp his backpack and calmly exited the room. Explaining things to his hosts and parents was easy, especially with some hastily woven lies. Only his mother had any suspicion when he had gone round to her house to talk to her, but luckily she didn't push the issue. He had used the opportunity to give his mother her brooch
By noon he was at a small town near the beach, there he got some hot water to reverse his gender-switching curse. It isn't particularly comfortable to walk long distances without a sports bra! Also while he was their he took the opportunity to duel, a few local duelists and buy a booster pack from a small, yet surprisingly well stocked, convenience store.
By five he was at the beach. He took the Puzzle from around his neck and held it so the point faced his destination, using the Rings signal to assist his aim, he pointed it to Phionex mountain, roughly. Ranma focused his power to activate the disused ability. He disappeared in a flash of multicolored light.
Hundreds of miles away, five miles from Cloud Pass, Ranma appeared in a flash of multicolored light in the center of a clearing.
Ranma opened his eyes and smiled, now he could train.
That day:
Ranma was cross-legged on a rock in the center of a large field. He was preparing to duplicate some monster attacks with his Chi and Sa.
One after one; attacks shot from his large blue and violet aura. Arrows, fireballs, gaseous streams, energy beams and balls.
This was a facet of Yami's magical ability and powers. A power well remembered, and practiced, in an attempt to integrate them in Ranma's martial artistry.
The strength of the monsters' attacks were variable within Ranma's abilities and limitations, but attacks of monsters than were more 'powerful' than his 'attack' and 'defense' power, were incapable of being used at an equal power to the original monster's attack power. The attack remained but the actual power, of the attack used by its' monster, didn't come into it unless Ranma was equal or greater in power.
However, magic cards all took an equal amount of power to be activated, relatively small, with a mere trickle of power to activate.
Trap cards took no power to have ready, but took the same as an activation cost of a magic card to trigger.
And thought-out the gradual remembering process, he practiced his Sa and Chi to uncomfortable levels; pressing himself to become better; stretching his limitations; gradually extending his power and abilities, stretching his perceptions of what was and was not possible.
Ranma smiled in the knowledge that he was surpassing both his incarnations in power, and ability.
The next day:
Ranma gradually learnt something, something that even his Yami existence was completely ignorant of. Quite out of accident, as all great discoveries are.
If a monster card was infused with Chi and Sa in a particular ratio, they could be brought into being with little or no strain, except for the cost of keeping it in existence. Not unusual of itself, it was easy to do so with pure Sa, however the difference lay in the fact that the creature could become other monster cards, once the card was selected, without wasting the energy on creating one, wasting it and summoning a new one.
A magic card could, also, be given some Chi and it would give quite extraordinary reach if used in the real world, instead of the duelist-stadium distance limit.
And finally, if one created a bridging between ones auras, magical and spiritual with the deck, one could 'see' through them, know where they are, their properties, and even activate them at a distance.
Ranma was very proud and a little surprised at the bridging ability. He had assumed that infusing his Chi into the cards would make them less liable to be broken, but after exposing them to both of his aura, he found them unbreakable, added to the other bonuses of the bridging.
Ranma's pride in his accomplishments swelled, as he felt himself become free of the blocks on his skill that had existed before the fusion.
The day after:
Ranma felt an odd tingle. It was a signal that a Millenium Item; was beginning to be activated; it had kept him up all of last night.
He ignored it and focused on channeling his power on the magic card, 'Copycat'. A duplicate of Ranma appeared beside him and they said simultaneously, "Cool."
The tingle felt worse and both of them looked up in the sky with frowns on their faces, as if it can from there.
Saffron had found the Ring; that was obvious. However, it only meant that Ranma would need to train in his dueling strategies, as well as his powers, and body.
The day after that:
Ranma looked at his small piles of cards and pondered various combos.
After a few hours, he settled on three combos, who, with any luck, would help him, cream Saffron.
And the day after that:
"Obliviate!" screamed Ranma, causing an innocent tree to cease to exist.
He wiped sweat off his brow as he breathed deeply, calming down after the rush of using the power of the Shadow Realm, Sa.
Ranma was pleased to note he was getting more powerful than he was before.
The final day:
Ranma looked back on the meadow. It was almost completely charred, frozen or charged with unnatural levels of energy, causing equally unnatural occurrences for that area. He raised an eyebrow at the lava whirlpool and scratched his neck a little at the sight of a squirrel made from lava, grow into a large 'thing' straight out of a children's TV show (the ones that cause grown men to cower,).
Ranma stretched his hand out towards the meadow from his position at the crest of a hill. He felt into the Shadow Realm and sent his will into it, bending reality in the process. He wove the magic and spiritual energy together into an unbreakable frame and activated the spell.
"Purification of Power," whispered Ranma as the spell of the Shadow Realm, reverted everything back to how it was, but created an adverse effect. A card materialized in his hand: a normal Duel Monsters card, with it's own special power.
It was a magic card, as Ranma found as he looked at it. It was a light type, designed to purify a place of anything, but in the game, it restarted the fields, removing all effects, monsters from the field and magic cards or trap cards. It even had the same name as Ranma had used for it, Purification of Power.
Ranma approached the main gate of Phionex Mountain warily, on his way to find the, um, man, Saffron, that could tell him where the Ring was, or was in possession of it or it of him. There was no way to guess what problems he would face before reaching Saffron: ambushes and traps were not above the Phionex people.
He stepped with careful paces, keeping an eye on his surroundings, probing the nearby area with Sa and radiating chi, sensing it's return and timing it, like a bat does with high-pitched sounds. He found no traps and no ambushes.
He continued on his wary way. Until he found a large chamber, with his Sa, just around a corner. He carefully followed the tunnel into the cavern.
In it he found Saffron: looking at him and smiling! The birdman smile was not nice! There was a crowd of Phionex-people around an obscured structure in the center of the cavern.
Ranma frowned and probed the structure carefully. It was a...
"Do you like my Dueling Stadium? I got it rather recently." Smirked Saffron.
"Why?" asked Ranma, already knowing most of the answer.
"Well, why not? You and I both know that to get a Millenium Item from an individual: who has one, they must lose a duel to the person who gets the Item. You have the Puzzle and I have the Ring. I have been waiting for you to come here. The Ring told me that the Puzzle has been in your possession for at least a week! I have been preparing ever since. You see, you may have defeated me in battle once before, but I want a rematch, as a duel instead, however!"
"Two questions, Saffron. How did you get your adult form, was it the Ring or the pool?"
"Why the ring of course. I encountered it in one of our vaults of ancient magical artifacts, when I was, uh, playing hide and seek." Saffron blushed.
"Ah, well. Who is the soul that's in the ring?" asked Ranma.
"I believe you know, Mutep!" Saffron chuckled.
"Oh, that guy!" steamed Ranma, narrowing his eyes dangerously at Saffron's chest where the Ring could be seen dangling. "He was one of the people who killed me!"
"Huh?" exclaimed Saffron. "What do you mean by that?" Damn, if he doesn't like the trapped soul then he might not fight for him. I would have lost my advantage, thought Saffron franticly.
"Well," Ranma cheered up, "That just means if you lose I can't destroy or capture your soul in accordance with tradition, otherwise he would be released! So, I guess I'll just have to take your item, when I win!"
Saffron smiled nastily, "After you." He waved his hand towards the stadium.
"Okay Ranma, here are the terms: loser gives up his Item to the winner and no cheating." began Saffron snidely. "The field is half wasteland and half mountains."
"Odd, but I'll go along with your game!" Ranma raised an eyebrow
"Let's Duel," the shouted simultaneously, the hoard of Phionex-people looking in curious wonder.
Saffron picked his five cards for his hand and smiled at Ranma, who ignored the pompous Phionex-'god.'
Ranma's hand had Castle of Dark Illusion (2500/2800), Dark Monster (2200/2500), Mirror Force, Sword of Dark Destruction and finally Dark Swords Man (2600/2300).
He smiled inwardly and outwardly cringed.
Saffron smiled more. He put down a monster card facedown and in defense and one magic / trap card.
Ranma responded by putting Dark Swords Man, facedown in defense. He finished his turn by putting down Mirror Force to protect his monster.
"Well, this would be a boring game if all we do is put down defense monsters!" Saffron placed another magic card down, facedown and put his monster face-up. Phionex Swordsman, (1700/1700).
The monster was a roughly humanoid Phionex with wings and a large orange broadsword.
Ranma frowned; it would be an easy kill for Dark Swordsman or Dark Monster. Some-thing just didn't feel right. He looked at his two newly drawn cards, Shuiji and Unrevealing Haze. With this combo he could bring Shuiji on to the field but keep him, and any others, disguised in the middle of a thick fog, which would even make his cards invisible to the view-screen on Saffron's side of the Stadium. In the next turn he could easily destroy the Phionex Swordsman!
He put down the two cards and a pillar of gray mist hid a newly summoned monster. Saffron cursed when he saw the mist's effects on his screen.
Saffron turned over the two magic cards, playing them: Phionex Feather, that increased his Phionex Swordsman's defense by 500, and Salamandra that raised its attack points by 800.
It was now 2200/2500, Ranma noted, equal to Dark Monster. Ranma placed Dark Swords Man (2600/2300,) down and placed another monster-card down.
Saffron smirked and put down Cyber Armor, adding another 400 attack points to his Phionex Swordsman (2600/2500).
If Ranma was slightly miffed that Saffron could juice up such a powerful card, he didn't show it.
"Now, we finish this!" shouted Ranma at his opponent. "Now I deactivate Unrevealing Haze..."
Saffron gasped as he saw that Ranma had both Shuiji and Kanejin in play. Two of the trinity! He thought. And then he saw the Dark Monster and the Dark swordsman. Two very powerful cards!
"And I'll put down these two cards. Go, Sanga..."
A third monster appeared next to the other two of the trinity. All three began to glow, till the flowed together and became a single monster.
"...To become the Gate Guardian (3750/3400). And I use polymerization on all my monsters on the field!"
The areas under the three monsters glowed white and shot up and pillars, the pillars of raging light moving slowly closer and closer until they became one pillar.
"Here is The Guardian of Darkness."
A taller version of Gate Guardian was left when the pillar dissipated; it was black, purple and dark blue. It eyes glowed white and it's form was surrounded in a thick hazy orange and yellow aura (4600/4000,).
Ranma shouted, "Guardian of Darkness, attack Phionex Swordsman with Darkness Power Intertwining!"
The monster brought its pseudo-mechanical hands together at it's chest, to hold a sphere of black and white, suddenly a beam shot out from it, a swirling blast of black and white magic that passed through the doomed Swordsman, as if it wasn't there.
Saffron looked aghast. The difference between the two monsters was two thousand attack points, as they had both been in attack mode, he lost his two thousand life-points, and therefore had lost.
Ranma stepped off his podium and walked over to the angry Saffron.
"Saffron, hand over the Ring," Ranma demanded of the 'demi-god.'
Saffron removed it and handed it over to Ranma, unwilling to face his people, to see them see him weak, to see their disappointment, to see their fear. Now that he no longer had the item, and with the source of the pool being cut off, he had no way to return to adult form, to keep his people safe, and happy, and living.
Unknown to Saffron, Ranma, saw what Saffron was feeling. It was quite obvious; the man's drive was either his pride or his people. Ranma was willing to believe it was his people that motivated this sudden depression.
Ranma took off his puzzle and took the two items in either hand.
The Ring, he saw, was a ring around a triangular center with another eye emblem inside it, the ring anchoring five pointers. He noted that the triangular shape, in the center, was the same dimensions' as a cross-section of the center of the puzzle. He was following instinct mostly as he moved the two closer together, the puzzle phased through the central shape, like it wasn't there. He released them as their portals' synchronized, causing the superimposed items to glow gold and a hundred other colors.
He heard the silent song of the power washing over and through the items into him. He could have screamed with the power raging through him from the items.
The Phionex-people and their leader could only look in shock as the stranger was enveloped in an aura of multicolored magical power, emanating from the two super-imposed eye symbols in the two glowing items; that were slowly becoming even brighter.
Ranma heard a few gasps and screams from the crowd, but didn't react to them. The power flowing into him was from both of the items, causing his limbs to become infused with magical energy and bolstered amounts of Chi and Sa and his eyes to shoot out beams of pure gold energy.
The Item quite suddenly stopped glowing as bright; instead it shone an odd clear light, like a shining distortion in reality. The new fusion of the items was identical to the Puzzle except it had a large ring connected to the downward pointing corner and the middle of opposite sides of the base. The shrunken ring used to tie the Puzzle to Ranma's neck was gone; instead there was a hole at the top of the ring for a length of thread to be passed through. The fused ring had the same pointers and in the same places. The eye emblem in the Millenium Puzzle glowed with powerful multicolored energy as it flew backwards towards Ranma's chest, where it stopped, created a thread and threaded itself throughout the hole, around Ranma's neck and knotting at the hole in the Item.
Ranma himself was still enveloped in a powerful aura, his eyes glowing with magical energy, elemental energy crackling around his lithe form.
"Saffron." He began in an unnaturally melodic voice, "Whatever I think of you, your people do not deserve to die!" He reached out with a hand and pointed at Saffron. A beam of gold flecked red energy shot from his finger.
The energy enveloped Saffron in a nimbus of red, gold and blue flames. Once it dissipated, Saffron remained, shocked and glowing with the same energy that was shot at him.
"That power will keep you in adult form for another five thousand years, I don't have enough power to give your adult form power for any longer. But know this Saffron, if you and the Phionex people wage war on the outside world or an unnecessary war on either the Musk or the Amazons, your power will go and will kill you in the process." Warned Ranma, in the same unnatural voice.
Suddenly he closed his eyes and the aura was drawn into him. He reopened his eyes and said quite cheerfully, "Bye, Saffron!"
He pictured Tokyo in his mind's eye and disappeared in a flash of multicolored light, leaving a colony of shocked Phionex-people.
Nodaka Saotome slept uncomfortably, tossing and turning. She still slept despite the danger of being awoken by the sudden flash of light.
Ranma walked over to beside his mother's bed. He tapped into the new levels of power he had been given when the two items merged and allowed it to flow from his tight constraints, into his mother, directed at the tumor.
He could feel his consciousness extending through the power to the tumor. He could also feel and sense the growth reverse its, well, growth.
He did as much as he could to heal her, and despite not being able to complete the healing and destroy the growth, he felt as if he had achieved a great accomplishment.
He smiled gently at his now peacefully sleeping mother and disappeared.
Ranma appeared in a flash of light at the edge of a tall building, overlooking most of Nerima ward.
"So, what now?" he asked himself, "I can go after any one of the items now, the Rod, the Tauk, the Eye, the Ankh or the Scales. But which one, when? In three days I have the Inter-city championships. There I'll meet the best duelists in the city; perhaps there will be someone with an Item. After all, the close connection between the game and the Items would practically assure the Items being involved somehow, if they were in the city, if not, they maybe involved in the higher levels of the championships! Yes, that would be logical to assume!"
Ranma continued to ponder, until he started frowning. Frowning, in Ranma's case is very, very bad or really irritating. In this case it was in the very, very bad category!
He scanned the city below him, sending out sensitive tendrils of Sa and Chi, finding the location of a disturbance in the layers of background magical energy, referred to as the 'lay-lines.' It was in Juuban, some powerful magical signatures were heading it's way, but what ever it was couldn't be good, and it was a martial artist job to protect the innocent, and, indirectly, to fight evils.
He vanished once again in a flash of multi-colored light.
The monster wasn't the largest they had ever faced, but it defiantly wasn't the smallest! It was eating away at the surroundings with some sort of acidic secretion, it had no body or head, it was more like a ever-shifting slug or jellyfish made of black, oily flesh. Inset in the shifting, ugly, surface were what they assumed were its faces. The only things in its path of continual destruction were seven girls in fukus, in a defensive line right in front of it.
"Stop," bellowed a gangly blonde-haired girl with two ponytails. "For disturbing the natural harmony of our city. I am Sailor Moon, and you shall be punished!" She and the rest of them took various poses.
The monster didn't look impressed.
Ranma, far up above on the roof of a nearby building, shook his head despairingly.
"Stupid girls. I guess I'll have to save them!"
Sailor Uranus decided to break the ice and attack first.
"World Shaking!" the ball of magical energy impacted into the... the 'thing' with a spray of oily flesh, but even as they looked it grew back from all of the damage.
"Um, perhaps not!" Ranma sweatdropped, at the amount of raw power, that had been used for that attack. He had disregarded them because they didn't tap into the Shadow Realm, but now he saw that they tapped into a lesser but quite powerful source of power, the planets. But, even then, as he looked at the monster, it was obvious that this, um, thing would be impossible or very difficult for them to deal with.
The sailors, at a silent command from their leader, the sailor scouts let out with their attacks simultaneously.
"Moon Therapy Kiss!" screamed Sailor Moon, to purge evil from the thing.
"Mars Flare Sniper!" shouted Sailor Mars, to fry it to a crisp.
"Shabon Spray!" shouted Sailor Mercury.
"Venus Love-me Chain!" screamed Sailor Venus, to ensnare it.
"Jupiter Oak Revolution!" shouted Sailor Jupiter throwing a ball of electrical energy at the beast.
"World Shaking!" shouted Sailor Uranus, to blow it to bits.
"Deep Submerge!" screamed Sailor Neptune, to drown it.
The attacks flew towards the monster and were neutralized.
The Moon Therapy Kiss, and the Shabon Spray, just dissipated into magical mist. The Mars Flame Sniper lost its power, and burnt itself out in the air. The Venus Love-me Chain just went right through it. The World Shaking and Deep Submerge were deflected, and the Jupiter Oak Revolution, was grounded!
The frightened Sailors attempted to fall back and come up with another plan, but the monster was destroying more and more things; and buildings.
Ranma was still on his roof; the monster hadn't reached the building yet. Ranma tried to come up with an idea to help the Sailor Scouts, but nothing came up, except...
"Heh, heh. I just got a wicked idea," Ranma chuckled like a kid with a new toy. "This is gonna to be so much fun!"
The Sailors were seeing their lives flash before their eyes as a giant tendril of black, oily flesh, lashed out at them. Until it slammed into a clear, golden barrier. The Sailors looked curiously at the barrier, as the monster at the other side screamed as it lashed out against the barrier with little or no success.
"Great move, Sailor Moon," exclaimed Sailor Jupiter.
"Uh, guys. I didn't do anything!" admitted Sailor Moon.
Then a deep voice could be heard above them from a floating figure covered in an aura of gold. He wore long black hair in a loose ponytail, held by a gold ornament, and wore an armored helm, shin guards and bracers, but under those was a Chinese silk shirt and kung-fu pants, that were quite baggy, but didn't hide his shape too much. "Halt, foul demon. I the Golden Heart of Tokyo, will strike thee down!" Lightening flash behind him for effect, despite the fact that there were no clouds.
The Sailors sweatdropped when they saw the very same figure laughing so hard he feel to the ground, continuing to laugh like a lunatic.
Finally, he managed to calm down and take the monster seriously, "Kami, you are ugly, with a capital 'ugly!'"
The monster screamed again and lashed out with tendrils at him. Once again the impacted harmlessly against a golden, clear barrier.
"Alright, time to deal with you!" Ranma drew a card from his costume's folds. "I summon the mighty Summoned Skull!" the card glowed yellow and exploded outward as a mist made of energy, it took the form of a tall humanoid demon with white bones, purple flesh and blue wings.
The sailors could do nothing but watch with a degree of awe as the Golden Heart summoned an incredible monster from a slip of paper.
"Summoned Skull attack with lightening attack!" shouted Ranma.
The demon shot incredible amounts of electrical energy at the beast; who was incapable of grounding enough of it before it was, very slowly and painfully fried.
Ranma looked at the thing, still surviving and felt a bit of pity for the tenacious beast. He reached out with his hand and turned Summoned Skull back into a card that flew into his hand, and also carded the downed monster. He released the barrier protecting the Scouts and vanished in a flash of multicolored light, leaving seven astonished Sailor Scouts.
Ranma reappeared in his room and in his normal apparel, laughing madly and rolling on the floor.