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The Replacement

Chapter 03 - Venus Love Beam...blush!

Warning-this chapter contains scenes of the scouts running around naked

or in various stages of undress...

By C. Rose

ertle2@msn.com

(c)2001

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"A better kind of armor?" Ranma mumbled as he tried not to look at the ridiculous outfit this Tuxedo Mask person was wearing. He looked like he was made up to go out to a wedding or a dance, not wade into a fight to kill demons and monsters. "What kind of armor are you talking about here?"

Vulcan waved his hand and a stone nearly the size of a small mountain appeared between him and Ranma. There was this feeling of strength and power suddenly filling the room that Ranma instantly recognized as a magical aura. The stone glowed a bright blue and seemed to fill his soul with a feeling of peace and contentment, but there was also this promise of power that he found very tempting to ignore. It had taken the place of Tuxedo Masks image, it's image alone was enough to fill him with wonder. It was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen, and it was calling to him.

"What do you think?" Vulcan asked, eyebrow raised.

"I've never seen anything quite like it before, but what does this have to do with the armor you were talking about?"

"That is the Star of Vulcan, or Vulcan's Soul, the last remaining piece

of what was once my very own planet. It's rubble is now known in this modern age as an asteroid belt. This is the only survivor of the cataclysm that destroyed the planet millennia ago, it has been waiting for the perfect

warrior to represent it in battle and among the other Scouts. I will be forging your armor out of it's magical properties."

"How will I compare to the other Scouts, will I be able to match them

or keep up with them during a fight?"

"Yes, like the asteroid belt, your abilities are spread all over the

place, each growing in power every time you practice them or use them in battle. You will also have an edge that Tux Boy doesn't, he was a reborn Prince of Earth and not a Scout, and so he never really had much in the way of power. It takes a female soul to be a Scout and with your curse you have the needed soul to access the powers of Vulcan. Every Scout has a male counterpart represented somewhere, you will be both halves in one body and the ultimate fighter for the rebirth of the Moon Kingdom."

"That all sounds very good, but you have yet to tell me the down side

to this?"

"Foolish mortal, the price as you call it, is to bind yourself to

Serenity's destiny and make sure it comes to pass. This will give you

near immortality and all the problems and benefits that go along with

that. That blonde girl will be the Queen of the Earth one day and must

have a strong King by her side, whether it is you or Tux Boy doesn't

matter in the end so long as she is able to ascend the throne one day and fulfill many, many prophesies. She will bring about the next evolution of mankind and a thousand years of peace and prosperity for the entire planet. The price is a never ending battle that you and the Scouts will handle time and again just to make sure that the world stays at peace, war and blood shed will be on your shoulders so that others will not have to do it!"

Ranma smirked, he liked the sound of that more than he liked. "Agreed!"

Vulcan nodded and smiled as Ranma felt his being filling with power

beyond anything he had ever encountered. Images and knowledge filled his mind faster than he could assimilate it and he fell to his knees in

shock and passed out, his body vanishing from sight. As a bright blue light seemed to come from his very skin and turn him into a living star for several seconds. As the light faded away Ranma's body was gone.

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Ranma's eyes snapped open and he gasped out in shock and realized that he was now awake. That had been one weird dream. He lay there for several seconds trying to get his bearings before he noticed something out of place, the ceiling was closer than it should have been. This thought woke him up with a start and he found himself hovering several feet off the bed in his t-shirt and boxers.

'What the hell?!' Ranma thought just as whatever was holding him up

gave out and dropped him. He hit the bed with a loud grunt and the end

of the bed collapsed with a crunch of metal. Ranma bounced off the edge and landed on his face at the foot of the bed, he groaned in pain.

Crawling to his feet, Ranma shook his head to clear it of the impact

shock, Usagi and Makoto came running into the room in a panic.

"Ranma, are you...Eppp!" Usagi said and froze, Makoto didn't even get any words out of her mouth as she ran into the room and copied Usagi. Their eyes doubled in sized and they turned bright red as they looked down Ranma's body, taking in his well muscled frame and god like beauty. They went lower and gasped at his...size...DROOL!

Both girls were flushed and their eyes were riveted to something behind

him, Ranma thought and turned around. There was nothing there except a pair of his boxers hanging off the side of a dresser. There was nothing

unusual about...this wasn't his room, why would a pair of his boxers just

be hanging there like that? He looked down to see himself hanging

freely, there was a weird sound behind him and he spun around in

combat crouch, ready for anything. Completely forgetting he was naked from the waist down.

Usagi and Makoto were staring up at him awe, right at his...thing. They

were drooling and glassy eyed, Rei and Ami had walked in while he was looking around and they were staring at him too, both were flushed and speechless, their eyes glued to his...thing. Ranma's mind worked fast, faster than it ever had before in fact as he went from confused, to

shock, to Amaguriken speed dressing with a little scream.

"It's so..." Usagi said, little hearts in her eyes.

"Yeah..." The girl's echoed.

Ranma went from being almost naked to fully clothed in the blink of an

eye and glared at the girls. To bad the outfit he had borrowed from that Tenchi guy was nearly ripped to shreds. There wasn't much left to hid his dignity, then he glanced over at the girls and wondered two things. Who had undressed him and how he could wake up with his boxers on and then have them suddenly vanish between the ceiling and the floor.

Then he glanced over at the girls again, they were all blushing and lost in this daze like world that had captured them completely. He edged his way around the girl's and out of the room as silently as he could, they

didn't budge in the slightest. Ranma's stomach growled loudly, letting

him know that it needed food, now. It was the perfect distraction he needed to get away from the girls and head headed down the short hallway. He looked around for few minutes and eventually found the kitchen, it was a little small, but good enough for his tastes. He raided the refrigerator and made up a large sandwich, it lasted for all of five seconds before he started making up another one.

Eventually the girl's found him in the kitchen and they all tired to

talk to him at once, failing miserably as their eyes went glassy and they giggled a lot. Ranma could hear his mom going on about him being so damned manly and for once agreed, even Ukyo hadn't reacted like this the few times she had seen him naked. Akane had screamed and ran, while Shampoo had snuck into his bed that first night for quick feel. Then he noticed his just how bad his clothing was and shuddered as he suddenly recalled what had happened to him, getting beat up by a stupid monster wasn't fun. He had failed to even protect the girl's...

"R-Ranma..." Started a blushing Usagi.

"Usagi, I'm sorry I failed you, I need to find a way to get some more

power or better techniques. I won't be of much help if I'm nearly killed

in every battle." Ranma said, thinking of his dream.

"Ranma...you didn't fail, no human can fight those things no matter how

strong they are." Usagi said, she was still blushing. She couldn't look

Ranma in the eye, just thinking about what she had seen made her heart

race and she blushed even more. Her mind had already filled the sight under things to see a few more times with a request for better details.

"T-that's right Ranma, these things are far stronger than a normal

human, you can't be expected to even hurt them with out magical powers." Ami said as she donned her glasses and pulled out her computer, she wanted to scan the hunk...er, Ranma. His curse fascinated her and now that she had met him in both forms she wanted to know more about him, how he worked...how big he was. Blush, were in the world did her mind come up with these odd thoughts. At least she didn't voice it out loud.

"We work as a team to defeat these things Ranma, not one on one like

you tried to do, and even then we have trouble defeating these things

from time to time." Rei said as she fiddled with her fingers and failing

in her attempt not to blush, her heart was beating far faster than it

usually did. She had never actually seen a naked man before and it was making her feel weird.

Usagi nodded.

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Back in the bedroom Ranma had woken up in, Makoto was doing something to relieve her growing desire, she was holding his boxers in her hand and grinning in such a way that most of her friends would have been worried about her. He didn't look like her old boyfriend Freddy, he outclassed that bum in every way she could see. She finished stealing his underwear, he had forgotten to put them on when he dressed, and snuck out of his room. If Usagi thought she wasn't going to try and grab this hunk, she had better think again.

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Ranma watched at the girl's stuttered their way through various things

and looked deep inside himself. Even after over two years he still found girls to be a total enigma, they just didn't' make sense to him no matter how much he tried to understand them. Then he noticed something that and it surprised him quite a bit, his aura had changed and was far more focused than it had ever been and he nearly gasped out loud at the

amount of strength that it held. He searched his memories and found that he had an intimate knowledge of over twenty different styles of martial arts, sixteen of which he didn't even recognize. Of the Ki attacks, he found five new attacks, but to learn them was going to mean a lot of training. His body had the knowledge and the potential, but he would have to be the one to learn how put that knowledge to use.

That dream had been real? Then he must have those powers that guy had mentioned to him, but how was he to use them. He didn't even feel all that different, but there was something just out of reach and he knew that if he stretched out in just right way, he could just touch it. Finishing off his second sandwich with a few quick bites, he smiled at Usagi and headed out of the kitchen. "Usgai, where did you guys bring me?"

Usagi blinked and giggled nervously. "Were at Rei's temple, Ranma."

He nodded and turned to Rei. "Is there anyplace I can practice my Art?"

"Your martial arts?" Asked the still flustered dark haired beauty.

"Yep."

Rei gulped and nodded, she motioned for him to follower her and soon

led him out back, behind the shrine and to a small clearing that was sectioned off from the rest of the grounds. She pointed out the area and explained that was where her grandfather practiced all the time. "Just out there."

"Thanks Rei, I should just be a few hours or so. I need to work out some sore muscles and get in today's practice." Ranma said and smiled at her and walked out to the small area and started to warm up.

"Gah!" Rei said, her knees weak as she staggered back to the temple.

"Usagi, where did this hunk come from?!" Rei yelled.

"I've already told you everything Rei." Usagi said.

"I've never seen a man that handsome in my life." Sighed Ami.

"I'll say." Makoto said as she walked into the kitchen. "Where is he

anyway?"

"He's out back practicing his martial arts." Rei said as she slumped

down into a chair, she had never had a man affect her like this before.

"Oh my god!!" Usagi said a she looked out the window, she was watching Ranma as he bounced all over the yard. The other girls crowded in behind her and watched in awe.

"Usagi is this what you did to him with that Senshi Seed?" Rei asked.

"No Rei, this is his skill in the Art, as he calls it." Ami said and

held pointed the her computer. "I've had that scanning him for several

minutes now and it is picking up extra energy in him, but nothing a

regular human couldn't do if they trained hard for a few years. The

computer says he knows how to use his Ki or life force energy to do

things like this, it was well documented in the Silver Millennium. Remember when he fired those balls of energy at the dog creature yesterday? That was an example of his Ki."

"His Ki? Like what I use in my fire readings?"

"Somewhat, but what he's doing is a thousand times more powerful. This used to be somewhat more common back when the Silver Millennium still existed in the ancient days, but over the years has been almost totally forgotten because of modern technology, the deaths of masters who knew how to train people to use it, and several other less known reasons."

"Look at that, he's making thirty and forty foot high jumps like it was

nothing, and he just hangs there for a few seconds moving at those

incredible speeds." Rei gasped. "If he's like this now, what will he be

when that Senshi Seed is activated?"

"Um...actually, the seed is already activated." Usagi said quietly, her

eyes glued to Ranma, she was breathing a little heavier than normal.

"What?" Said Ami, looking at her computer.

"I felt it last night when we were discussing Ranma, I forgot about it

until now."

"So what happened?"

"He accepted the powers of the planet Vulcan."

"What planet Vulcan, there is no planet Vulcan Meatball Head?!!" Yelled Rei.

"It's an asteroid belt now, out beyond Mars, or something."

"Where did you learn all this?" Rei growled out.

"The crystal told me." Usagi said as she pointed at her locket. "It

showed me his dreams and what he did."

Suddenly all the girls jump to their feet as they hear a loud crash of

pottery. Artemis fly's by the kitchen door in white blur, hits the

kitchen tile, loses his footing, and yowled as he skidded across the floor

and into the wall with a thud. "Run girls, run!" He yells just before

heading out the back door and disappearing into the bushes along the

side of the Shrine. They hear a loud giggling as Minako stumbled into

the kitchen, there are shards of pottery in her hair and her eyes

are a little maniacal.

Then they all notice that she is clad in only a towel that is

threatening to fall to the floor. She breezed past them all, still

giggling, and stepped out the back door. The girl's followed behind her as

she locked onto Ranma as he practices and calmly walked towards him, her eyes still a little wild. As she drew closer it was obvious that Ranma

hadn't seen her yet, though Minako did drop into the clipped grass and

crawled towards him in a combat crawl. This was a little difficult in a

towel and the other girl's blushed when they caught a glimpse of

something naughty.

Then gasped as she pounced on Ranma and tackled him. "What a MAN!" She yelled and started to rub herself against him, letting the towel fall away.

"Help!" Ranma yelled as he tired to get out of there, but Minako's had

a grip of steel as she clutched his leg and drooled. Usagi, Rei, Ami,

and Makoto rushed forward to pull her away, but she wouldn't let go.

"Mine!!" Minako yelled.

The girl's pulled harder and finally drug Minako off Ranma, but she

took his sweat pants with her, ripping them off and destroying them completely. They all froze in shock as a second glimpse of what Ranma had to offer and the girl's all blushed, their eyes glazing over again.

Makoto fingered the boxers in her pocket and smiled sweetly, she

stepped forward, caressed Ranma's leg, and smiled at him. The girl's all moaned and pounced on him, but he screamed and was ten yards away in the blink of an eye. He headed into the temple, ducked into the kitchen with the girl's hot on his heels.

'I hate my life.' Ranma thought as he ran for it and completely failed to notice the sudden reddish glow that the girls were giving off for a few brief seconds when they touched Minako.

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Ten minutes later, Ranma was sneaking down the temple stairs. She was a girl again and had borrowed some clothes from Rei's room using the Umien-ken techniques. She was wearing a shinto outfit that she had modified as quickly as she could, Rei was taller than she was and that meant that the thing was tight in some places and baggy in others and she had been forced to make some quick alterations using the belt. She was barefoot, but figured that it was better than being attacked by all those girls, they were giving her the creeps. Ranma shuddered and caught a quick glimpse of yellow out of the corner of her eye and jumped straight up just as Minako tried to tackle her again. She landed and grabbed Minako before she tumbled down the stairs, tapped her sleep point, and laid her in the bushes a few feet away.

"What the hell is with these girls?" Ranma asked herself as she made her way through the trees off to the side of the shrine.

All was quiet as she rested against a tree and tried to figure out what

was happening, but didn't get much of a chance as Rei blindsided her

with a bucket of hot water and a lecherous grin. She had unbuttoned her shirt to let her red bra show. Ranma backed away in fear. Now male, in a dress, he had very few options left so he turned to run...and ran right into a topless Makoto. She was twirling his boxers on her finger and had this look in her eye that sent a chill down his spine.

"Come to me you gorgeous hunk, I can't wait any more." Rei gasped out and undid her bra, and made a grab for him as she giggled.

"Don't listen to that hussy Ranma-hunk, I want you so bad I had to

start early." Makoto said and caressed her nipple, she moaned.

He jumped straight up, spun on a branch and used it as a spring board

to the next. He vanished out of the area with the two girl's chasing after

him yelling strange comments. A few seconds later he spotted the shrine

again and landed on top of the gate and took a few seconds to look around. It was quiet now, far to quiet in his opinion. He jumped off the gate just as Sailor Mercury landed, and for just a second their eyes met and could see that hers were filled with a level of lust that even Shampoo had never been able to achieve.

"Don't run Ranma, I just want to make you feel good!" Mercury yelled.

"Don't wanna!" Ranma yelled back as he bounced off the roof and

continued to run. Mercury jumped after him, giggling quietly, her eyes

glazed and sparkling.

She stopped for a second and fired a blast at him, but he dodged and

watched as it hit a tree. It was engulfed in a white fog that crystallized

the entire thing in milliseconds, he didn't have time to stop or adjust

his angle as he slammed into it feet first and felt it shatter the

instant he hit it. It threw his timing off and he crashed to the ground

and the crystallized shards rained down around him. Several of the pieces were large enough to cut or pierce him when they hit, so he was covered in cuts as he dug himself out a few seconds later.

"Ooops! Didn't mean to use that much power." Mercury said as she landed on him, quickly kissed him, and reached down the front of the shrine maiden outfit to grasp his manhood. She stuck her tongue in his mouth and blinked as Ranma suddenly rolled them over and he vanished right out of her arms. "Don't go! I need you to scratch a special itch of mine you stud!"

Ranma shuddered, these girl's were crazy, that's what they were. A

little voice in the back of his head was telling him something different

though, but he was ignoring it though. It was telling him that there was

evil in the area and that it was affecting most everyone. He landed from

his jump and vanished into the trees, Mercury hot on his tail. She was

flushed and gasping for air as she ran, her blue hair glistening in the

sun light.

For the third time he skidded to a halt in the front area of the

Shrine, looking around desperately for a way to escape. Mercury tackled him from behind, wrapped herself around him, and started to kiss all over his ears and neck. Each one more passionate than the last. She vanished as a topless Makoto tackled her off of him with Rei's help half a blink later. The two girl's were even more scantily clad now, wearing only their panties, socks, and shoes. It was too much and Ranma grabbed his nose to keep the blood in, for once he felt like a pervert.

He slid to a stop as he finally spotted Usagi dressed as Sailor Moon,

she looked out of it. Her eyes were glazed like the others and she was

breathing a lot harder than she should have been. Ranma gulped and

backed away, in the back round the scouts were fighting each other tooth and nail. "U-Usagi? Are you alright?" Ranma stuttered out.

"I need you...Ra-n-ma." Usagi said seductively, smiling bright enough

to darken the sun.

Gulp. "Now lets talk about this Usagi, t-this doesn't have to happen

like this."

"Oh no, studmuffin, your going to be pleasing all of us tonight."

Ranma starts to sweat, he looks around nervously when the other girls

stop fighting and crawl over to him. There was this look in their eyes

that said about the same thing Usagi had said, he backed up some more. His danger sense was screaming at him to fight back, but he couldn't bring himself to hurt them. Words filled his head and he back flipped to the top of the Shrine in a graceful arc, he yelled out the words in mid flip.

"VULCAN KNIGHT SENSHI, MAKE UP!!"

Ranma felt his aura surge with power and expand out in a flash of bight

blue light that seemed to shred the outfit he was wearing. When it receded, he had landed on the roof dressed in a blue version of the outfits that Jedite and the others had worn, a cape of blue and a white inner lining, a blue face mask that covered his eyes and cheeks,

but left his hair wild and free, and a small blue glowing jewel on left

breast of his outfit. It pulsed in time with his heart beat and he could

feel it's strength and power. As the mask finished forming he noticed that each of the Scouts had this pink aura covering them as they stared up at him hungrily. They seemed to be breathing it in too.

'That had to be what was causing them to act this way', he thought after a couple seconds thought. 'But how in the world do I get them back to normal?' He had several attacks he could use to subdue them, but none of them seemed to be what he needed to cure them of this odd behavior. Most of the attacks were offensive anyway and strong enough to level buildings just like the girls below him could. Suddenly his mask turned into a TV and a small list of information begins to scroll down one side of his vision, little details on each of the Scouts, their powers, and how to counter them if needed.

Down on the ground all the girl's are looking up at him with little

hearts in their eyes, drool running off their chins. They all squeal and

jump around in joy, Moon and Mercury jump up onto the roof and move to grab him. Ranma spins and taps Mercury in the chest with the toe of his boot. She drops to the roof tiles instantly asleep with a blush on her cheeks and a perverted grin. Moon doesn't even react as Ranma

reaches out and snags the crystal off her chest and tapping her sleep

point. This point was little different than the one that Happosai normally used, this one would put them to sleep until he countered it or two weeks go by for it to wear off. He catches her and picks up Mercury before jumping to the ground.

"Muffin!" Rei yelled and glomped him.

"Mine!" Yelled Minako as she just appeared, rubbing her naked body all over him and purring.

"Come here you giant Stud." Makoto says, swaying her hips in Ranma's face, he shuddered as he taps all three girl's sleep points in quick succession. They drop in a pile around him and tries to think of something to do with them while dragging a perverted thought to the back of his mind and beating the hell out of it. He wished he had thought of using that little trick earlier, but he had been too panicked to think straight.

Ranma laid Usagi out on the ground and checked the information in his

visior again, it details an ability of Usagi's that will help all of them get better. He has no idea how the thing knows this, but so far it's helped him quite a bit so he decides to use the device's suggestion. For it to work he will have to get Usagi to work the crystal, but how can he do that? He shrugs and decides to see just how gone the girl's really are. He taps the counter point and shakes Usagi awake, she opens her eyes and they fill with hearts.

"Yes!" She yells and glomps him.

"Usagi, listen to me!"

"Take those pants off, I want you all to my self." She kissed him and

ran her tongue over his lips. Ranma shudders as a chill of desire flows

down his spine, it takes all his will power to keep his cool.

"Usagi, calm down and think! I need you to use your healing attack."

"Kiss me!"

"No!"

"Make love to Me!" Usagi said, her eyes smoldering.

Ranma changed tactics and hoped she wouldn't take it personally.

"Alright, but only after you cure yourself and your friends of this

problem Usagi."

Usagi squeals, suddenly kisses him like he had never been kissed in his life, and jumped up. She grabbed the crystal out of Ranma's hand and fired a blast of energy into the sky. "Moon Healing Escalation!!" It rained healing energy down on all of them for several seconds before some of them moaned, sat up, and shook their heads as the world started to come into focus again. Moon dropped to her knees and started to cry. "What have I done?" She whispered.

"Are you all better now Usagi?" Ranma asked.

Sniffle. "Yes, now that this horrid attack is over with."

Ranma unhooked his cape and draped it over the naked girls, his mask was showing that the pink energy was now gone. Whatever it had been seemed to have been destroyed with Usagi's attack, hopefully it wouldn't cause anymore trouble. "Let's get the girl's inside Usagi, I don't think they want to wake up in the front yard while dressed like this."

"Alright."

Within a few minutes all the Scouts were inside and laid out across

Rei's bed. Once inside they had all quickly fallen asleep, so Ranma and Usagi made their way over to the front room and sit down on the couch. They had detransformed once inside so Ranma had taken the time to pour some cold water on himself, that shrine maiden outfit just wasn't for a guy. Usagi had giggled at him for a few minutes when she saw him.

"Do you know what happened?" Ranma asked.

"It's Minako's fault, I talked to her a little while ago when you

ducked out of the room to grab some cold water. She woke up for a few seconds."

"So what happened?"

"She was taking a bath when she had this flashback of her previous life

and realized that she had this new power. She really is the Scout of

Love you see, she fired off this Love Beam attack by accident in the bathroom. It bounced off the mirror and bounced back to hit her in the chest, she then noticed you beginning your practice and went into this super lust mode. The attack is supposed to be used on a large number of individuals to distract them with overwhelming...um, need. She was lucky she had that towel on before she fired that beam too, otherwise she probably would have jumped you even quicker."

"Did she get you girls with it too?"

"No, we touched her and it affected us too. Nothing would have happened, I think, if she hadn't ripped your pants off like that, it was to much to take after what had happened earlier." Usagi blushed.

"Ah...well I've got a problem now, I need new clothes." Ranma muttered, turning a little red.

"You can always borrow ours Ranma, that outfit looks good on you, even better than it did on Rei."

Ranma blushed. "Thanks, I think."

Usagi just giggled and kissed him on the cheek, blushing even more.

"Thanks for not giving into what we wanted to do to you Ranma, it means more than you know." Usagi giggled again. "Though it may have been a lot of fun!"

Ranma blinked, stared at Usagi, and had to grab his nose before he fainted.

Usagi giggled some more and ran to the kitchen to finish off Makoto's

cookies and muffins. She had found out what so many other girl's had

found when dealing with Ranma in either form. It was fun to tease him,

mercilessly, and at every opportunity that popped up. Her and the others were going have to come up with some ideas on the subject, though she did have to admit that having Ranma around was a lot more fun than...whatshisname.

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To Be Continued...Maybe...

Note - Why did I write up this chapter? Well I actually ran into a wall

just after deciding what to so with Ranma's new costume and I needed

some thing to get through my mental block and a slightly hentai chapter

just seemed to be the way to go. It also seemed to fit in with Ranma's

unique ability to turn totally normal situations into the most insane

thing that could happen, hence Minako pulling his pants off ^^;

The costume had to fit in with the SM cast without being to flashy or

calling to much attention to him while he was helping the girls. So I

used the uniform that Endymion's generals used, Jedite and so forth, but

I added the cape and mask to give him a more menacing personality while

he was fighting. I will be giving him some special gadgets to use as

weapons with his more modern outlook on things, he will also have to

take up some weird weapon just to fit the image of TM in some ways.

We'll see what I come up with...his cursed form transformation will be

some thing new as well...maybe...^^