Notes - This story has been revised from what was originally posted some months ago. The original version was a total mess that didn't make much sense if one looked at it too closely. Over the next few weeks this story is going to be edited and rewritten into a far better story. Feel free to send me comments on this or any of my stories, I always like to hear from people.
Due to the size of this there is a good chance that I will probably miss a mistake here and there. Let me know if any major one's are found. Check out my site to find out which chapters are edited and ready to be sent out.
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Strange Days
Chapter 09
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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The old man sat behind his desk and didn't look up as Zepher. He never looked up when he was mad. He gestured to a spot in front of his desk and Zepher and Black Razor appeared in a burst of black smoke. They appeared to be nervous and sweating profusely, but they weren't scared, they were here to do a job and fear didn't enter into the plan, at least which is what they told themselves.
"Zepher?"
"Master?"
"Why isn't Pluto dead or under our control?"
"I don't know master, I sent the host to her and it bonded to her as it was supposed to do, but..."
"But..."
"I lost contact with it when it merged with Pluto. I have since failed to contact it, and, um...Pluto has been acting very weird."
"How so?"
"It is hard to explain sir, it is like she has been turned to our side like we had hoped, but she is still trying to do her duty to the Queen. She is becoming deranged and unpredictable enough that it is impossible to understand what is going on with her, I have no idea why this is happening."
"I see."
Zepher started to tremble. He had never heard that tone in his Master's voice. It was colder than ice and he somehow knew that he was just one step away from being killed. He was soldier and he knew that he was expendable in favor of the plan...he was in deep shit. "S-sir?"
The old man took out another form and began to fill it out as he seemed to think. "Black Razor, I am handing the plan over to you for now. Do not fail me or you will be killed, do you understand?"
"Yes sir." She answered, mentally sighing in relief.
"Razor you are dismissed, I want at least one or two of the Scouts out of commission by the end of the week."
"Easy enough." Razor bowed and vanished.
"Master?" Zepher asked hesitantly.
"Zepher, you are beginning to make mistakes. You have never been this sloppy, what is going on?"
"There are to many unpredictable variables sir. In this last fight I sent out a prototype Youma that was pretty much immune to all the Scouts attacks. It was going well until Mars was nearly beat to death, she did something, I don't know what it was sir, but she managed to fire off an attack that was 100 times more powerful than anything she has ever used before. The force of the attack severely damaged the Youma's protective armor and allowed the Outer Scouts to finally finish it off several minutes later."
"There have been several attacks on this planet already Zepher and each has been repulsed by the Scouts. You did take this into account?"
"Of course sir, I planned on a possible 20 to 30% increase in strength from the scouts as the fights continued, it was predicted that Sailor Moon would achieve her Galactic transformation during the battles."
"...and..."
"The Scouts achieved their Super forms even before Galaxia showed up, these are supposed to be the highest form they can achieve so higher forms were not taken into account. All information points to them attaining anything higher as impossibility, sir."
"Alright I will accept that for now, the perfect plan rarely ever survives contact with the enemy anyhow. Now on to other business, how is that other project coming?"
"It's finished sir. We have collected enough life energy to contact Him
sir."
"Excellent. Proceed with the second phase of the plan."
"Yes sir." Zepher vanished in a puff of smoke.
The old man looked up and grinned evilly as he sat back in his chair and laughed. It echoed off the unseen ceiling as he stood up, stretched, and took his glasses off. Red demonic eyes washed out over the dark chamber and he too vanished, in a burst of black lightning. This was going to be easier than he thought it would and it was all because of Amy Lee, it was too perfect.
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Amy was concentrating as she hovered a couple inches above the ground in a one legged crane stance. She had one leg lifted, the other extended downward with her toes pointed straight down. There was a visible aura of power humming around her as she hovered over a single spot.
She had been this way for 2 hours now. She had her hands by her waist and was cupping a small ball of colored Ki in each hand that shone brighter than most stars, blue in the left hand and green in her right, every few seconds it would pulse and send out a bright flash of light.
Watching from the roof, Ranma had been paying close attention to his new friend ever since she crawled out of bed the week before. She had dragged herself to the kitchen and tiredly made herself a huge breakfast that she wouldn't share with him. It had been 4am when she did it and she had finished off enough food to give even him pause.
She had then gone back to bed, slept the whole day, and gotten up at the following day and looked as if nothing had ever happened to her, even her hair looked like it was perfectly normal. Ranma knew better, he could feel it in her Ki, she was different now, more focused and deadly than ever before.
In a lot of ways it reminded him of the new technique his father had shown him a few weeks before, 'The Ascension of the Dragon God'. He had been adding it's complicated forms into his fighting style over the last few weeks whenever he was alone and had time teach himself and improve upon what he had been shown.
Amy had also explained why the technique type was so dangerous, it super charged the body and allowed it to channel massive amounts of Ki from everything around him. Earth was so full of life that he could power up to incredible levels of power through practice.
Still, there were draw backs to the technique. The kinds of things that made Cologne fear the technique. If one used it too often or tried to use to much energy, they could actually burn themselves out or kill themselves in a massive explosion.
The human body easily adapted to the power according to Amy, but it was like body hardening techniques, he had to build up his resistance slowly. Amy knew of the breaking point technique and told him to learn it since it would help him immensely, the stronger his body the more energy it could channel. In keeping with his promise to Cologne, he had told her he was going to learn the trick and had her show him how a few days ago.
He picked it up in about 9 hours, Akane's Mallet had finally come in handy for something it had seemed, and Cologne had nearly fainted from shock, Ranma thought it was a bit simple to do. It seemed the average time for a 'male' to learn the technique was 3 weeks of broken bones and massive bodily damage. Women usually took a week because they trained harder than men. Ranma had snorted and asked how many of her tribe had survived a ten year training trip with his old man.
Ranma also had to laugh at their reaction. After all she didn't know that he had been given over 40 years of memories while he was unconscious at Tofu's place. 40 years of combat training, schooling, and best of all, Magic training under some of the strongest Mages of the Moon Kingdom. His body had adapted over that last few weeks as he came to terms with his new skills and trained in their use. This had affected him in a number of ways that he hadn't quite gotten over yet, he had been a...girl...no a woman in one of his past lives. She had been an experienced fighter, deadly martial artist, a war wizard of some skill, and something that made Ranma blush. She had been a Mother, over 4 times, and a bit of a pervert that liked to flirt.
These memories had been something he didn't want to think about, but his dreams were filled with her feelings and thoughts as they wound their way though his now male being. His innocence had been obliterated that first night as he remembered not one but 2 honeymoon nights filled with sex, sex, and even more fantastic SEX. Ranma shuddered, for some reason he just couldn't forget them.
There were other things though that he was grateful for and wouldn't give them up without a fight, the experience of hundreds of battles, over 20 different styles of Martial Arts that had been lost for centuries, and his increased knowledge of the female body. All he had to do was train the skills into this current body and with how easily he learned things he was well on his way to having most of them down by now. Though he still had a long way to go before he mastered them again, but he had time so it didn't matter all that much.
He lifted his hand and held it out before him and concentrated, chanting under his breath in a language lost to time long ago. A pink light flared around his hand and small ball of light formed and hovered there. The magic he had remembered and a good portion of it wasn't all that useful, but there were a few spells available that could be used in combat.
Most of it would have been used only in a life or death situation though since the spells would kill most anything he used them against. He wouldn't be able to break his curse since his knowledge was limited to combat situations or minor stuff, but he really didn't mind much anymore, he had accepted his curse with the return of his memories as a natural part of himself. Ranma felt the Ki in the air shift and turned to watch as Amy powered down and landed softly.
She was an enigma (he had remembered his schooling too) that had proven to him that she didn't care what form he was in because she liked him and had encountered things in her life far more alarming than his curse.
Ranma jumped down off the roof of the clinic and waved at Amy, she smiled and waved back. "Are you done?" He asked.
"For now, I need to find a challenge soon or my skills are going to deteriorate. I used to have access to a small valley uninhabited valley back home that I had protected by powerful magic spells. They kept it from being leveled and destroyed while I practiced. It took months to set them up so that any battles fought there could take place without to much worry. Now that I'm stuck here I have to find something else to with."
Ranma shrugged. "I don't know about you but, I could do with some food."
"Always thinking with your stomach I see." Amy said with a grin.
"A true martial artist must always keep up their strength." Ranma said, imitating Genma's voice.
Amy giggled, "True, lets go over to that American place."
"Sure."
They walked off the clinic property and headed out, both of them thinking about ways to help the Doctor get the place repaired. Ranma also noticed that he was a little nervous as he walked with Amy and didn't want to access his past life memories to find out why. He knew he wouldn't like the answer. He had found himself drawn to Amy lately, in ways that scared and intrigued him, the way her hips moved when she walked to the way her hair smelled. It was getting a bit embarrassing really and he wanted to stop before she noticed his interest.
"Ranma...?" Amy asked.
Ranma just walked on as if he hadn't heard her.
"Earth to Ranma! HELLO!?"
They continued along in silence for several minutes with Amy trying to catch his attention. Then she snorted, pivoted, and punched him right in the jaw, sending him into a nearby wall.
"What the hell did you do that for?" He gasped as he pulled himself to his feet and glared at her.
"For being so quiet and ignoring me, just like a man with his head in the clouds." Amy stated calmly, snickered, and burst out laughing. "I wanted to ask you some questions, but you were practically zoning me out and wouldn't even respond to me when ever I tried to ask you a question."
"Oh." Ranma said and shook some of the dust out of his hair.
"Will you answer some questions?"
"Sure, I guess."
"That was eloquent. Okay, what happened to you when you were hit by that blast?"
"Um...I don't want to talk about it..."
"Come on Ranma, you've changed, your aura is nearly 50 times more powerful now and you're trying to hide it, badly I might add. You used to move like a powerful animal on the verge of attacking. Now you're even more fluid and you are also emitting an sphere of magical power that you never had before, where did you pick all this up? What happened to you?"
"You can tell all that?"
"I am trained to notice things like this." Amy said smugly.
"Sheesh, alright I'll tell you, while I was out cold and stuck in that bed, something decided that I needed to have some memories back. It also released several things from my life that I had blocked out over the years, these memories came back..."
"That's not all, no one gains a magic aura over night Ranma."
"...I also had all the memories of a past life come back to me, from a time when I was a warrior, a war mage, and a...woman." Ranma said quietly and blushed.
"Oh ho! I should have expected something like this." Amy crowed and laughed.
"What!?" Ranma gasped.
"This is another dimension for me, remember, I have encountered things like this before while performing some of my past missions. At first I thought things were mainly revolving around you and those who knew you, but then I found the Sailor Scouts. If I recall things right, the few times I have encountered two such groups like this and with such powerful destinies backing them up while in the same dimension, they have almost always been connected to each other in one form or another."
"Oh?" That would explain a few things, Ranma thought.
"Yep, now that I think about it, I am almost surprised you're not running around in one of those cute little numbers the Scouts wear, after all you are absolutely adorable as a girl and a powerful fighter."
Ranma shuddered as he visualized herself in one of those...Hopposai Specials.
"What was that for?"
"Just thinking of Hopposai."
Amy giggled and nodded that she understood, then pointed at their destination in the distance. Then they stopped when they noticed the smoke rising into the air, the eatery was engulfed in flames. They also noticed that there were a number of girls wearing 'Hopposai Specials' running around in front of the building. Amy sighed and crossed her arms, and gaining Ranma's attention.
"Well if that isn't convenient." Amy muttered.
"No kidding, it looks like I get to show you something else that I learned to do."
"Oh?"
"Like them, I was reborn as a magic warrior and was given the ability to transform."
Amy sighed again. "See what I mean about the two destinies crossing over with each other?"
Ranma smiled and shrugged. He held out his hand and a beautiful sword appeared in his hand. He looked around, stepped into a nearby alley, and held the sword high. "GUARDIAN KNIGHT GALACTIC POWER!" Ranma cried out, his voice amplified by the magic flowing into his body. His blue aura surged around him and flared to incredible levels as the wind picked up and lashed at his clothing. He suddenly burst out in a pure white light that filled the alley and nearly blinded Amy. As it died down, a female Ranma stood there floating above the ground, her sword pointing to the side and her whole body humming with power.
She was wearing white leather armor with the symbol of the Moon Kingdom on the well formed breast plate, a short skirt with the skirt slit up the sides and showed off her great legs, they were covered in cream colored pantyhose. Amy also saw that she was wearing a pair of knee high white boot similar to Sailor Moons and Saturn's mixed together, and finally she had on a fluttering cape adorned with a large symbol of the moon on her back. Ranma-chan was giving off an impressive display of power as she stood there and Amy actually had to resist a sudden urge to run over and smother the stunning woman in kisses.
"You're female."
Ranma looked down as she landed lightly on her toes, smirking pettily. "Ah $&%#!" She cursed, then shrugged it off and came back over to Amy, shaking her head. "I'm not really surprised, I was female the last time I wore this get up and since I can turn female I guess the magic decided to make me use this form whenever I transformed. At least I don't have to worry about anyone recognizing me in this form, like the Scouts it has a disguise field. Only those who see me transform will know me."
Amy nodded as she circled around Ranma and inspected her closely. It was a beautiful sight to the sex starved girl. "That wasn't bad actually. Guardian Knight, huh? If we are going to help them, I guess I need to have a costume too. Let me copy this one, except in red and black."
"You can do that?"
"Now that I have attuned myself to this dimension I have most of my more useful abilities back again and I don't have to worry about running out of power like did before." Amy said as she extended her left arm before her and Ranma saw that the blue crystal inset into the bracer was beginning to pulse and glow with power.
It spread out across Amy's body and her clothing morphed into a pure red version of Ranma's uniform, there was black trim along every edge made to look like black fire. Her aura pulsed and Amy's hair suddenly lengthened down to her waist in a shower of red waves, her red eyes glowed and turned a bright green. Amy looked herself over, wiggled her hips in the revealing skirt and winked Ranma.
Ranma bushed when she was caught looking at Amy's legs. "Um...sorry."
"Don't worry about it, I don't mind in the least."
"Well..."
"Do you know all of your abilities as a Guardian Knight?"
"No, there are some odd gaps in my memory for some reason, but I do know that this is level 3 of 5 transformations. That means that I have 2 more power ups beyond this. My 13 years of martial arts training is what allowed me to start out at this level. Well I think that's the reason." Ranma grinned sheepishly. "I am the best after all."
"Lets go, Guardian Knight." Amy said and took off towards the battle by jumping to the roof of a nearby building. Ranma quickly followed, her eyes were drawn to Amy's legs again and she found herself unable to look away again. She decided to distract her thoughts by talking instead of looking.
"Do you have any Idea of what we might encounter?"
"I have fought several of these monsters so far, they are usually pretty strong, but against the Scouts especially. They seem to have been created to counter the Scout's powers, we should have the advantage of surprise since neither the bad guys or the Scouts will recognize us." Amy yelled out as they jumped across an alley, they could see the fight getting closer and closer.
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The Youma was close to 20ft tall and was made out of iron girders it had absorbed from a construction site a few blocks away. It had molded then into a humanoid shape, quite like a large iron golem. It seemed to have a kind of shadow warping ability as it could barely be seen while standing next to the building, only its yellow glowing eyes were visible and they seemed to promise death on a monumental scale.
Sailor moon and Mercury were the first one's on the scene and led in with their attacks, even they knew when they did or didn't have time for a speech. Far to many monsters had used her speeches as an excuse to attack her while she was occupied.
"MOON SPIRAL HEARTACHE THERAPY KISS" Sailor Moon called out and launched her attack. The giant pink heart careened into the Youma and exploded, it just blinked and scratched it's chest as if trying to understand what kind of threat a giant pink heart was.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY" Sailor Mercury yelled out milliseconds later and aimed at the monster's legs. They were encased in Ice by the time she was finished, but just as it was about to fall over it's huge shadow hands hammered down and shattered the ice as easily as breaking balsa wood. She had to dive for cover as large chunks of ice flew at the two of them. "Sailor Moon duck!"
She gasped as she saw the ice flying towards her, dove to side and rolled out of the way and breathed a sigh of relief. Then gaped as she found herself in the path of the monsters descending foot as it tried to crush her, she hated the big ones, they were always a problem. She whimpered and covered her head as she caught the sight of Mercury scrambling to get to her. It was obvious that she would never make it in time.
Sailor Moon was hit in the back, hard, and found that she was flying at Mercury, who caught her instinctively and looked at the scene before her in shock. They both saw a girl in white armor crouched at the feet of the giant foot. She had bright red hair and was glowing with a blue aura of power. Then she noticed that she had the symbol of the Moon Kingdom on her cape. Then they saw another red haired girl, she was wearing the exact same thing, except in red and etched in black flames. She was glowing with a blue aura of power as well and looked even more dangerous than the one in white.
Setting Sailor Moon down, Sailor Mercury brought out her computer and scanned the two new girls. The girl in white was radiating Moon Kingdom energy like a miniature sun, on par with the Silver Crystal. The girl in red wasn't even registering properly, the scans kept bouncing off her. Sailor Moon drug herself to her feet and scowled at the two girls that had saved her. One of them had kicked her in the back and it hurt!
The two girls were running around the monsters feet, each doing a different kind of attack. White moved like a cat and was suddenly hopping up the things body, landed on its arm and ran along this. She pulled out a sword and swung in an arch a few feet from the head. "KNIGHT SLATHER HERALD!" It burst into flames and a wave of white fire shaped like a crescent moon leaped out to strike the monster's head. The impact was devastating as it sliced the Youma's head almost in half, the girl flipped off the things shoulder and yelled for her partner to fire.
"NOW!"
The one in red placed herself between its legs, brought her arms above her head and brought her wrists together and opened her palms. She glowed with power as an aura formed around her and seemed to hum for several seconds... "NOVA CANNON!" Her aura exploded outward and flared around her body for several feet in all directions, cracking the cement around her from the force of the blast. The monster roared in pain as its legs were instantly shattered in several spots and looked down just as a massive beam of power fired out of the girl's hands.
Most witnesses were blinded by the attack's light, but they could hear the Youma screaming within the inferno, there was the sound of something tearing, and an explosion that leveled the American restaurant. It was almost strong enough to blow Moon and Mercury off their feet, but they managed to stay upright and stare at the mess around them.
Sailor Moon was in shock. That blast had been on par with some of the attacks she performed using the Silver Crystal to amplify her power. There were spots in front of her eyes, but she was aware enough that she could tell that the girl in white armor was kneeling in front of her. Moon looked her over and wondered who she was, where someone like this could come from...and who the other one was.
"Sailor Moon what are you doing...here..." Luna said as she ran up to the girl.
Ranma was about to greet her princess, when she saw the "....c-c-c- c-c-at!!!!" She screamed and ran out of the area in a white blur.
Amy saw this and fell over laughing as Ranma ran right into a nearby wall and knocked herself out, creating a human shaped impact hole before sliding to the ground. Amy, still giggling and shaking her head, jumped over to her friend and slung her over her shoulder. She waved to Sailor Moon as she walked off.
"WAIT?!" Sailor Moon yelled out.
Amy stopped and gazed at the girl. "What's up?"
"Who are you?"
"I don't really have a code name, but if you must call me something, then call me, Nova. This..." Amy indicated Ranma, "is Guardian Knight."
"We have a number of questions that need answered." Mercury said, coldly.
Nova shook her head, Ranma would have to contact the Scouts at a later date and set up a normal meeting to reveal herself to her Usagi. "I am not allowed to answer anything without Guardian Knight here being conscious, well meet later, you pick the place."
"Do you know Juban High School?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Sure, we'll be there at 11PM tonight...just don't bring the cats with you."
"Um...ok." Said Sailor Moon, she looked a little confused.
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To Be Continued...
Due to the size of this there is a good chance that I will probably miss a mistake here and there. Let me know if any major one's are found. Check out my site to find out which chapters are edited and ready to be sent out.
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Strange Days
Chapter 09
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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The old man sat behind his desk and didn't look up as Zepher. He never looked up when he was mad. He gestured to a spot in front of his desk and Zepher and Black Razor appeared in a burst of black smoke. They appeared to be nervous and sweating profusely, but they weren't scared, they were here to do a job and fear didn't enter into the plan, at least which is what they told themselves.
"Zepher?"
"Master?"
"Why isn't Pluto dead or under our control?"
"I don't know master, I sent the host to her and it bonded to her as it was supposed to do, but..."
"But..."
"I lost contact with it when it merged with Pluto. I have since failed to contact it, and, um...Pluto has been acting very weird."
"How so?"
"It is hard to explain sir, it is like she has been turned to our side like we had hoped, but she is still trying to do her duty to the Queen. She is becoming deranged and unpredictable enough that it is impossible to understand what is going on with her, I have no idea why this is happening."
"I see."
Zepher started to tremble. He had never heard that tone in his Master's voice. It was colder than ice and he somehow knew that he was just one step away from being killed. He was soldier and he knew that he was expendable in favor of the plan...he was in deep shit. "S-sir?"
The old man took out another form and began to fill it out as he seemed to think. "Black Razor, I am handing the plan over to you for now. Do not fail me or you will be killed, do you understand?"
"Yes sir." She answered, mentally sighing in relief.
"Razor you are dismissed, I want at least one or two of the Scouts out of commission by the end of the week."
"Easy enough." Razor bowed and vanished.
"Master?" Zepher asked hesitantly.
"Zepher, you are beginning to make mistakes. You have never been this sloppy, what is going on?"
"There are to many unpredictable variables sir. In this last fight I sent out a prototype Youma that was pretty much immune to all the Scouts attacks. It was going well until Mars was nearly beat to death, she did something, I don't know what it was sir, but she managed to fire off an attack that was 100 times more powerful than anything she has ever used before. The force of the attack severely damaged the Youma's protective armor and allowed the Outer Scouts to finally finish it off several minutes later."
"There have been several attacks on this planet already Zepher and each has been repulsed by the Scouts. You did take this into account?"
"Of course sir, I planned on a possible 20 to 30% increase in strength from the scouts as the fights continued, it was predicted that Sailor Moon would achieve her Galactic transformation during the battles."
"...and..."
"The Scouts achieved their Super forms even before Galaxia showed up, these are supposed to be the highest form they can achieve so higher forms were not taken into account. All information points to them attaining anything higher as impossibility, sir."
"Alright I will accept that for now, the perfect plan rarely ever survives contact with the enemy anyhow. Now on to other business, how is that other project coming?"
"It's finished sir. We have collected enough life energy to contact Him
sir."
"Excellent. Proceed with the second phase of the plan."
"Yes sir." Zepher vanished in a puff of smoke.
The old man looked up and grinned evilly as he sat back in his chair and laughed. It echoed off the unseen ceiling as he stood up, stretched, and took his glasses off. Red demonic eyes washed out over the dark chamber and he too vanished, in a burst of black lightning. This was going to be easier than he thought it would and it was all because of Amy Lee, it was too perfect.
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Amy was concentrating as she hovered a couple inches above the ground in a one legged crane stance. She had one leg lifted, the other extended downward with her toes pointed straight down. There was a visible aura of power humming around her as she hovered over a single spot.
She had been this way for 2 hours now. She had her hands by her waist and was cupping a small ball of colored Ki in each hand that shone brighter than most stars, blue in the left hand and green in her right, every few seconds it would pulse and send out a bright flash of light.
Watching from the roof, Ranma had been paying close attention to his new friend ever since she crawled out of bed the week before. She had dragged herself to the kitchen and tiredly made herself a huge breakfast that she wouldn't share with him. It had been 4am when she did it and she had finished off enough food to give even him pause.
She had then gone back to bed, slept the whole day, and gotten up at the following day and looked as if nothing had ever happened to her, even her hair looked like it was perfectly normal. Ranma knew better, he could feel it in her Ki, she was different now, more focused and deadly than ever before.
In a lot of ways it reminded him of the new technique his father had shown him a few weeks before, 'The Ascension of the Dragon God'. He had been adding it's complicated forms into his fighting style over the last few weeks whenever he was alone and had time teach himself and improve upon what he had been shown.
Amy had also explained why the technique type was so dangerous, it super charged the body and allowed it to channel massive amounts of Ki from everything around him. Earth was so full of life that he could power up to incredible levels of power through practice.
Still, there were draw backs to the technique. The kinds of things that made Cologne fear the technique. If one used it too often or tried to use to much energy, they could actually burn themselves out or kill themselves in a massive explosion.
The human body easily adapted to the power according to Amy, but it was like body hardening techniques, he had to build up his resistance slowly. Amy knew of the breaking point technique and told him to learn it since it would help him immensely, the stronger his body the more energy it could channel. In keeping with his promise to Cologne, he had told her he was going to learn the trick and had her show him how a few days ago.
He picked it up in about 9 hours, Akane's Mallet had finally come in handy for something it had seemed, and Cologne had nearly fainted from shock, Ranma thought it was a bit simple to do. It seemed the average time for a 'male' to learn the technique was 3 weeks of broken bones and massive bodily damage. Women usually took a week because they trained harder than men. Ranma had snorted and asked how many of her tribe had survived a ten year training trip with his old man.
Ranma also had to laugh at their reaction. After all she didn't know that he had been given over 40 years of memories while he was unconscious at Tofu's place. 40 years of combat training, schooling, and best of all, Magic training under some of the strongest Mages of the Moon Kingdom. His body had adapted over that last few weeks as he came to terms with his new skills and trained in their use. This had affected him in a number of ways that he hadn't quite gotten over yet, he had been a...girl...no a woman in one of his past lives. She had been an experienced fighter, deadly martial artist, a war wizard of some skill, and something that made Ranma blush. She had been a Mother, over 4 times, and a bit of a pervert that liked to flirt.
These memories had been something he didn't want to think about, but his dreams were filled with her feelings and thoughts as they wound their way though his now male being. His innocence had been obliterated that first night as he remembered not one but 2 honeymoon nights filled with sex, sex, and even more fantastic SEX. Ranma shuddered, for some reason he just couldn't forget them.
There were other things though that he was grateful for and wouldn't give them up without a fight, the experience of hundreds of battles, over 20 different styles of Martial Arts that had been lost for centuries, and his increased knowledge of the female body. All he had to do was train the skills into this current body and with how easily he learned things he was well on his way to having most of them down by now. Though he still had a long way to go before he mastered them again, but he had time so it didn't matter all that much.
He lifted his hand and held it out before him and concentrated, chanting under his breath in a language lost to time long ago. A pink light flared around his hand and small ball of light formed and hovered there. The magic he had remembered and a good portion of it wasn't all that useful, but there were a few spells available that could be used in combat.
Most of it would have been used only in a life or death situation though since the spells would kill most anything he used them against. He wouldn't be able to break his curse since his knowledge was limited to combat situations or minor stuff, but he really didn't mind much anymore, he had accepted his curse with the return of his memories as a natural part of himself. Ranma felt the Ki in the air shift and turned to watch as Amy powered down and landed softly.
She was an enigma (he had remembered his schooling too) that had proven to him that she didn't care what form he was in because she liked him and had encountered things in her life far more alarming than his curse.
Ranma jumped down off the roof of the clinic and waved at Amy, she smiled and waved back. "Are you done?" He asked.
"For now, I need to find a challenge soon or my skills are going to deteriorate. I used to have access to a small valley uninhabited valley back home that I had protected by powerful magic spells. They kept it from being leveled and destroyed while I practiced. It took months to set them up so that any battles fought there could take place without to much worry. Now that I'm stuck here I have to find something else to with."
Ranma shrugged. "I don't know about you but, I could do with some food."
"Always thinking with your stomach I see." Amy said with a grin.
"A true martial artist must always keep up their strength." Ranma said, imitating Genma's voice.
Amy giggled, "True, lets go over to that American place."
"Sure."
They walked off the clinic property and headed out, both of them thinking about ways to help the Doctor get the place repaired. Ranma also noticed that he was a little nervous as he walked with Amy and didn't want to access his past life memories to find out why. He knew he wouldn't like the answer. He had found himself drawn to Amy lately, in ways that scared and intrigued him, the way her hips moved when she walked to the way her hair smelled. It was getting a bit embarrassing really and he wanted to stop before she noticed his interest.
"Ranma...?" Amy asked.
Ranma just walked on as if he hadn't heard her.
"Earth to Ranma! HELLO!?"
They continued along in silence for several minutes with Amy trying to catch his attention. Then she snorted, pivoted, and punched him right in the jaw, sending him into a nearby wall.
"What the hell did you do that for?" He gasped as he pulled himself to his feet and glared at her.
"For being so quiet and ignoring me, just like a man with his head in the clouds." Amy stated calmly, snickered, and burst out laughing. "I wanted to ask you some questions, but you were practically zoning me out and wouldn't even respond to me when ever I tried to ask you a question."
"Oh." Ranma said and shook some of the dust out of his hair.
"Will you answer some questions?"
"Sure, I guess."
"That was eloquent. Okay, what happened to you when you were hit by that blast?"
"Um...I don't want to talk about it..."
"Come on Ranma, you've changed, your aura is nearly 50 times more powerful now and you're trying to hide it, badly I might add. You used to move like a powerful animal on the verge of attacking. Now you're even more fluid and you are also emitting an sphere of magical power that you never had before, where did you pick all this up? What happened to you?"
"You can tell all that?"
"I am trained to notice things like this." Amy said smugly.
"Sheesh, alright I'll tell you, while I was out cold and stuck in that bed, something decided that I needed to have some memories back. It also released several things from my life that I had blocked out over the years, these memories came back..."
"That's not all, no one gains a magic aura over night Ranma."
"...I also had all the memories of a past life come back to me, from a time when I was a warrior, a war mage, and a...woman." Ranma said quietly and blushed.
"Oh ho! I should have expected something like this." Amy crowed and laughed.
"What!?" Ranma gasped.
"This is another dimension for me, remember, I have encountered things like this before while performing some of my past missions. At first I thought things were mainly revolving around you and those who knew you, but then I found the Sailor Scouts. If I recall things right, the few times I have encountered two such groups like this and with such powerful destinies backing them up while in the same dimension, they have almost always been connected to each other in one form or another."
"Oh?" That would explain a few things, Ranma thought.
"Yep, now that I think about it, I am almost surprised you're not running around in one of those cute little numbers the Scouts wear, after all you are absolutely adorable as a girl and a powerful fighter."
Ranma shuddered as he visualized herself in one of those...Hopposai Specials.
"What was that for?"
"Just thinking of Hopposai."
Amy giggled and nodded that she understood, then pointed at their destination in the distance. Then they stopped when they noticed the smoke rising into the air, the eatery was engulfed in flames. They also noticed that there were a number of girls wearing 'Hopposai Specials' running around in front of the building. Amy sighed and crossed her arms, and gaining Ranma's attention.
"Well if that isn't convenient." Amy muttered.
"No kidding, it looks like I get to show you something else that I learned to do."
"Oh?"
"Like them, I was reborn as a magic warrior and was given the ability to transform."
Amy sighed again. "See what I mean about the two destinies crossing over with each other?"
Ranma smiled and shrugged. He held out his hand and a beautiful sword appeared in his hand. He looked around, stepped into a nearby alley, and held the sword high. "GUARDIAN KNIGHT GALACTIC POWER!" Ranma cried out, his voice amplified by the magic flowing into his body. His blue aura surged around him and flared to incredible levels as the wind picked up and lashed at his clothing. He suddenly burst out in a pure white light that filled the alley and nearly blinded Amy. As it died down, a female Ranma stood there floating above the ground, her sword pointing to the side and her whole body humming with power.
She was wearing white leather armor with the symbol of the Moon Kingdom on the well formed breast plate, a short skirt with the skirt slit up the sides and showed off her great legs, they were covered in cream colored pantyhose. Amy also saw that she was wearing a pair of knee high white boot similar to Sailor Moons and Saturn's mixed together, and finally she had on a fluttering cape adorned with a large symbol of the moon on her back. Ranma-chan was giving off an impressive display of power as she stood there and Amy actually had to resist a sudden urge to run over and smother the stunning woman in kisses.
"You're female."
Ranma looked down as she landed lightly on her toes, smirking pettily. "Ah $&%#!" She cursed, then shrugged it off and came back over to Amy, shaking her head. "I'm not really surprised, I was female the last time I wore this get up and since I can turn female I guess the magic decided to make me use this form whenever I transformed. At least I don't have to worry about anyone recognizing me in this form, like the Scouts it has a disguise field. Only those who see me transform will know me."
Amy nodded as she circled around Ranma and inspected her closely. It was a beautiful sight to the sex starved girl. "That wasn't bad actually. Guardian Knight, huh? If we are going to help them, I guess I need to have a costume too. Let me copy this one, except in red and black."
"You can do that?"
"Now that I have attuned myself to this dimension I have most of my more useful abilities back again and I don't have to worry about running out of power like did before." Amy said as she extended her left arm before her and Ranma saw that the blue crystal inset into the bracer was beginning to pulse and glow with power.
It spread out across Amy's body and her clothing morphed into a pure red version of Ranma's uniform, there was black trim along every edge made to look like black fire. Her aura pulsed and Amy's hair suddenly lengthened down to her waist in a shower of red waves, her red eyes glowed and turned a bright green. Amy looked herself over, wiggled her hips in the revealing skirt and winked Ranma.
Ranma bushed when she was caught looking at Amy's legs. "Um...sorry."
"Don't worry about it, I don't mind in the least."
"Well..."
"Do you know all of your abilities as a Guardian Knight?"
"No, there are some odd gaps in my memory for some reason, but I do know that this is level 3 of 5 transformations. That means that I have 2 more power ups beyond this. My 13 years of martial arts training is what allowed me to start out at this level. Well I think that's the reason." Ranma grinned sheepishly. "I am the best after all."
"Lets go, Guardian Knight." Amy said and took off towards the battle by jumping to the roof of a nearby building. Ranma quickly followed, her eyes were drawn to Amy's legs again and she found herself unable to look away again. She decided to distract her thoughts by talking instead of looking.
"Do you have any Idea of what we might encounter?"
"I have fought several of these monsters so far, they are usually pretty strong, but against the Scouts especially. They seem to have been created to counter the Scout's powers, we should have the advantage of surprise since neither the bad guys or the Scouts will recognize us." Amy yelled out as they jumped across an alley, they could see the fight getting closer and closer.
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The Youma was close to 20ft tall and was made out of iron girders it had absorbed from a construction site a few blocks away. It had molded then into a humanoid shape, quite like a large iron golem. It seemed to have a kind of shadow warping ability as it could barely be seen while standing next to the building, only its yellow glowing eyes were visible and they seemed to promise death on a monumental scale.
Sailor moon and Mercury were the first one's on the scene and led in with their attacks, even they knew when they did or didn't have time for a speech. Far to many monsters had used her speeches as an excuse to attack her while she was occupied.
"MOON SPIRAL HEARTACHE THERAPY KISS" Sailor Moon called out and launched her attack. The giant pink heart careened into the Youma and exploded, it just blinked and scratched it's chest as if trying to understand what kind of threat a giant pink heart was.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY" Sailor Mercury yelled out milliseconds later and aimed at the monster's legs. They were encased in Ice by the time she was finished, but just as it was about to fall over it's huge shadow hands hammered down and shattered the ice as easily as breaking balsa wood. She had to dive for cover as large chunks of ice flew at the two of them. "Sailor Moon duck!"
She gasped as she saw the ice flying towards her, dove to side and rolled out of the way and breathed a sigh of relief. Then gaped as she found herself in the path of the monsters descending foot as it tried to crush her, she hated the big ones, they were always a problem. She whimpered and covered her head as she caught the sight of Mercury scrambling to get to her. It was obvious that she would never make it in time.
Sailor Moon was hit in the back, hard, and found that she was flying at Mercury, who caught her instinctively and looked at the scene before her in shock. They both saw a girl in white armor crouched at the feet of the giant foot. She had bright red hair and was glowing with a blue aura of power. Then she noticed that she had the symbol of the Moon Kingdom on her cape. Then they saw another red haired girl, she was wearing the exact same thing, except in red and etched in black flames. She was glowing with a blue aura of power as well and looked even more dangerous than the one in white.
Setting Sailor Moon down, Sailor Mercury brought out her computer and scanned the two new girls. The girl in white was radiating Moon Kingdom energy like a miniature sun, on par with the Silver Crystal. The girl in red wasn't even registering properly, the scans kept bouncing off her. Sailor Moon drug herself to her feet and scowled at the two girls that had saved her. One of them had kicked her in the back and it hurt!
The two girls were running around the monsters feet, each doing a different kind of attack. White moved like a cat and was suddenly hopping up the things body, landed on its arm and ran along this. She pulled out a sword and swung in an arch a few feet from the head. "KNIGHT SLATHER HERALD!" It burst into flames and a wave of white fire shaped like a crescent moon leaped out to strike the monster's head. The impact was devastating as it sliced the Youma's head almost in half, the girl flipped off the things shoulder and yelled for her partner to fire.
"NOW!"
The one in red placed herself between its legs, brought her arms above her head and brought her wrists together and opened her palms. She glowed with power as an aura formed around her and seemed to hum for several seconds... "NOVA CANNON!" Her aura exploded outward and flared around her body for several feet in all directions, cracking the cement around her from the force of the blast. The monster roared in pain as its legs were instantly shattered in several spots and looked down just as a massive beam of power fired out of the girl's hands.
Most witnesses were blinded by the attack's light, but they could hear the Youma screaming within the inferno, there was the sound of something tearing, and an explosion that leveled the American restaurant. It was almost strong enough to blow Moon and Mercury off their feet, but they managed to stay upright and stare at the mess around them.
Sailor Moon was in shock. That blast had been on par with some of the attacks she performed using the Silver Crystal to amplify her power. There were spots in front of her eyes, but she was aware enough that she could tell that the girl in white armor was kneeling in front of her. Moon looked her over and wondered who she was, where someone like this could come from...and who the other one was.
"Sailor Moon what are you doing...here..." Luna said as she ran up to the girl.
Ranma was about to greet her princess, when she saw the "....c-c-c- c-c-at!!!!" She screamed and ran out of the area in a white blur.
Amy saw this and fell over laughing as Ranma ran right into a nearby wall and knocked herself out, creating a human shaped impact hole before sliding to the ground. Amy, still giggling and shaking her head, jumped over to her friend and slung her over her shoulder. She waved to Sailor Moon as she walked off.
"WAIT?!" Sailor Moon yelled out.
Amy stopped and gazed at the girl. "What's up?"
"Who are you?"
"I don't really have a code name, but if you must call me something, then call me, Nova. This..." Amy indicated Ranma, "is Guardian Knight."
"We have a number of questions that need answered." Mercury said, coldly.
Nova shook her head, Ranma would have to contact the Scouts at a later date and set up a normal meeting to reveal herself to her Usagi. "I am not allowed to answer anything without Guardian Knight here being conscious, well meet later, you pick the place."
"Do you know Juban High School?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Sure, we'll be there at 11PM tonight...just don't bring the cats with you."
"Um...ok." Said Sailor Moon, she looked a little confused.
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To Be Continued...