Endymion In Which Setsuna Explains, a ranma fanfic

Sorry ya'll been out on a trip. Went to DC, and when I got back, my computer crashed and hadda fix it. Piece of shit. Cost me 80 to get a new mobo. Got this chapter out though.

Chapter 3: In Which Setsuna Explains

Haruka moaned and attempted to opened her eyes as the sun shined bright light though the windows. She felt sore all over, especially down there, but it was a good kind of soreness. Her eyes snapped open as she felt something warm poking her in her thigh, and was about to punch the pervert she was in bed in, when last nights events returned to her head. She smiled, reached down, and gave the thing a friendly squeeze. Ranma groaned, and that woke up Michiru, who opened her eyes, and blinked blearily for a moment, and looked up at Haruka. Haruka then spoke in a awed tone of voice.

"We caught him, didn't we. After all these years, we've finally caught the Wild Horse. It's a pity he cured the curse though."

Michiru could only giggle, even through the weird taste in her mouth. She wondered if Haruka had it too.

"Let's wake everyone up and shower. I'm sticky all over, and I have a funny taste in my mouth."

She then thought for a second. "And we are REALLY late for school."

Ten minutes later

After rushing to get cleaned and dressed, all the Outers have left the building, leaving Ranma in bed. As the sound of Haruka's sports car faded away, Dyn walked back to Setsuna's room, where Ranma was sleeping.

Hopping onto the bed, he padded over the covers, which were crusty, and stopped in front of Ranma, who was semi asleep.

*poke poke poke poke poke* "AHHHHH!!" The cat leaped back in fright as Ranma's eyes suddenly shot open.

He sat up in bed, and searched about for the shackles the Outers were using on him last night, an found them missing.

'Damn! She took them with her, or hid it somewhere. Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk.'

He suddenly found himself EXTREMELY sore, and fell over holding his abs.

Dyn blink in shock as he watched Ranma fall over the side of the bed. He wasn't worried, of course, since Ranma could fall off of a building and get up without a scratch. He could distinctly hear muttering from where Ranma was.

"Note to self: Too much endurance training is bad."

The cat sweatdropped.

After taking a shower, and taking a bath, Ranma a Dyn decided on a battle plan for the day. Ranma needed a place to live, and fast.

So, Ranma, with Dyn draped on his shoulders, set out to find himself a place to live. He had, of course, a few requirements.

The dream home was: somewhere near Juuban High School, where he will be going.

Somewhat close, but not to close to the Outers, although he didn't dislike their attentions, it was tiring, great training that it is. It also got kinda weird when Setsuna started calling him master, though she had reason for doing so. Plus the ingrained fear of violent tomboys still resided in him, although just barely.

Preferably with great big open spaces where he could train

Close to several important locations: Such as Tsukino Residence, Cherry Hill Shrine, Makoto's apartment, the Mizuno residence, and Minako's place, as well as Juuban General Hospital.

Close to food.

With this list in mind, he set out to find his safe haven. After picking up several brochures at nearby realties and a newspaper, he found two good places to go to. One was a inn called Hinata-sou, in the Hinata prefecture not far from here. The other was a temple not far away, however, the only school in that district was a Nekomi Tech, and he wanted to go to Juuban High.

He roof hopped the five or six miles it took to get outside of the suburban area he was in, and into the Hinata prefecture. He noticed the calming and peaceful aura the area exhibited, and smiled. He stooped on top of the roof of a large wooden building. and began scanning around for Hinata-sou.

"Damn it! I can't find it anywhere!" He looked at the address on the ad, and glanced around."

Dyn decided to add his wise remarks. "Uh, Ranma. We're on top of it."

"........I knew that...."

He hopped down to the courtyard, where he found a woman with a cigarette in her mouth carrying some boxes out of the inn. She glanced up at him, keeping her cool, although slightly startled.

"Are you Ms. Urashima?"

"What if I am?"

Ranma smiled, "I found the ad you posted for the sale of this place. I would like to buy it from you."

Haruka Seta, formerly Urashima, stopped and placed the box on the ground to appraise the young man in front of her. 'Hmm, couldn't be more than 18 or 19. Stance is loose, a martial artist. A high caliber one. Kind of gaunt, a little dehydrated maybe. He could probably make use of this place. I'm leaving tomorrow anyway, might as well se...no, he has to be able to survive the chaos in this place. A little test, yes.'

"Hmm....I'll sell it to you if you have any special abilities, or special characteristics."

"Special abilities?"

"Yeah, like being able to heal quickly (like immortal Keitaro), special unbelievable martial arts moves, talking or flying pets, non avian, super lucky ditzyness, being able to cut though something without -"

"Talking pets? Mrow?" Dyn spoke up as he raised his head from where he was at Ranma's shoulder. "Do I count?"

Haruka blinked. 'So there really are a species of talking cats, Kuro wasn't the only one. hmm.'

Ranma scratched his pigtail nervously, "Uhh, is that good enough, Urashima-san?"

Haruka turned around "Follow me, I'll give you a tour of the Inn. And it's Mrs. Seta now, but you can call me Haruka-san."

(If you haven't noticed by now, this is the Hinata-sou of Love Hina. If you haven't watched it yet, do so, then read it. The manga is much better than the TV series. It is, in my opinion, one of the best manga of all time. I don't know why, but it is. Oh yeah, I can't seem to remember Seta's last name, or maybe Seta is his last name.)

The two humans stepped back out of the inn, Dyn was still exploring. The reason? "I must explore. Cats are very territorial you know. I just have to."

Ranma said. "Thank you very much. I'll have the money wired to you this afternoon."

"Thanks. I'll need it to buy some things tomorrow morning."

"If I may ask, what happened to the previous residents?"

"They all moved out to this place in the middle of the Pacific, called the Kingdom of MolMol. One of the residents was the princess of MolMol, and the inn's manager and his wife, along with the other residents, moved there to dig up the ruins in the area. He's an archeologist" Haruka dropped her cigarette butt, and stamped it out, while pulling another out of her pocket.

"Wouldn't the residents split up?"

Haruka smiled. "No, we've all lived together for so long, that it's like one big happy family. In fact, I'm about to fly out to MolMol tomorrow, but I'm waiting for my husband to finish off some last minute details at the University. He's a professor there."

"Ahh, I see."

"So? Are you going to move in immediately?"

"Yep, I gotta get away from the place I'm currently at." Ranma sweatdropped.

"I see. Some kind of bad situation?"

"Depending what you call bad. Lets say its a mix of heaven and hell, and leave it at that."

"Is it the reason why you seem a little...dehydrated?"

".......that's...personal...."

"I see. All right then. I'll be packing things up at the tea shop down there. It's also part of Hinata-sou, so if you want, you can start a business there."

"Maybe I will. Thanks a lot, Haruka-san."

"I'll be goin now, if you got any questions, come down and ask me."

"No problem."

She turned to leave, then stopped and turned around.

"Almost forgot. Hinata also has a beach cafe. I'll give you directions to it later. We usually have run it in the summer to pay for repairs, but you can do whatever you want with it." She turned back around and started down the stairs.

Ranma waved as she left, and turned around, reaching into his pocket as he did so. He pulled out a single black colored earring, and poked it onto his ear lobe. Oddly enough, there was no blood. "Open channel to Ryoga."

Suddenly, Ryoga's voice sounded though his ear. "Yea, what is it."

"Hello to you too. I just bought a place, and I need you to wire some money to this account. I'm sending you the papers now." Ranma pulled out the relevant papers out of his pocket and glanced at them for a second. "You get that?"

"Yea, no problem. So your not gonna stay with your lesbian friend? She kick you out or somthin?"

"Shut up pigboy. She remembered she wasn't always lesbian. She was Ranma-deprived in this life too. Anyways-" "So, "Ranma-deprived" is a word now, I wonder how many people are "Ranma-deprived," lemme se-" "Shut the he-"

He cut himself short as Dyn bounded out of the building and up to him, obviously excited about something.

"Ranma! this place has a underground system already built in. And it's HUGE. I think it was some kind of lab at some point. This can be converted to a pretty good base easily."

"Good job Dyn." Ranma bent down to scritch the talking cat, who purred.

"Ryoga, ya there?"

"Yea."

"Dyn says that this place can be converted real easy. Get it done. Make it a base for my personal use, and have it supply a regiment as well. I'm pretty sure that there are transporter fields around here already."

Ryoga seemed to yawn. It sounded kind of weird coming from the inside of his mind. "Only place where there aren't fields are remote parts of the Artic. We'll finish setting those up tonight."

"Good."

"I'm sending the crews over. Where did you want the regiment to be based?"

"Juuban."

"I'm pretty sure that Juuban already has a couple hundred of our people. I'll relocate some companies in other areas to base under your Inn. I assume that you don't want an PDC around your place?"

"Nope, but you can build one in the mountain behind the place. In fact, just have the base built under the hills, but have an entrance going in from Hinata-sou."

"Alright." Suddenly, multiple portals with electricity arcing around them appeared out of the air of the courtyard.

"The crews are here. Later."

"Out." The presence faded out.

Meanwhile at Juuban High School

"I CAN'T BELIEVE RANMA STAYED WITH HARUKA AND MICHIRU AND SETSUNA LAST NIGHT!!"

Minako was yelling, something she didn't do all that much....most of the time....I think.....

"Ranma said last time he stayed with Setsuna, she tied him down." Ami added.

"Who knows what happened this time." Makoto actually suspected it was something that involved an exchange of body fluids. She was actually quite right, and understating, but she doesn't know that, yet."

"YEAH! Who knows what those perverts did." Usagi chipped in her ten yen.

Again, Setsuna spoke up from behind Usagi. "Actually, I do."

"AGHHH!!!!!! Dontscaremelikethat! *GASP GASP*

"SETSUNA! What happened at your house last night! TELL US!"

"The four of us, Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru-chan," several gasps "and myself, of course," the green haired woman gave a sultry smile, "were quite sore when we woke up this morning. It seems that riding horses can do that to you."

"WHAT!" "HOW!" "Horses?" "Was it good?"

Two of the four present Inners GLARED at Minako, who had asked the last question. The other was just confused. However, had normal glares been beams as strong as laser pointers, these would have vaporized her.

Setsuna coughed. "Ehem. In order, we took turns with Ranma last night, without him complaining, too much; I brought some special chains; I meant Ranma; and yyyeesss, it was the best. Three thousand years of abstinence can do that to you, you know."

Ami raised her hand. "Wouldn't Ranma just break the chains?"

"They were special ones made for the express purpose of catching Ranma back in the Silver Millennium. The chains have special magic keyed to Ranma, so that he wouldn't be able to break them unless a Senshi, or a member of the Royal Family released him."

The Inners looked stunned at this. Setsuna was giving information freely. There were no flying pigs, the sky wasn't falling, and no Armageddon situation was reported recently. Maybe Ranma was a good influence on her. Then, what she said began to take hold on their minds.

Surprisingly, Usagi came to a conclusion first. "Does this mean that Ranma was part of the past?"

Setsuna smiled again. "I'll explain at the shrine after school. Don't be late." She turned to leave.

Minako asked a quick question. "How did you abstain for three thousand years?"

Setsuna turned her head and gave her a blank look. "Lack of good men, a few pictures, and lots of batteries. Plus a couple hundred years of experience before that."

"........I see......."

Minako decided that questions were kind of embarrassing, and she made an observation instead.

"Hey Setsuna, you're a bit bowlegged."

"I noticed." The greenhead waddled away as the rest of the girls stared.

After School, at Cherry Hill.

All the Senshi were present, with the exception of Setsuna. The moon cats were also present. Grandpa Hino was off doing God doesn't want to know what.

Minako and Makoto were trying to get the details of the night before from the Outers, with Ami trying to listen in discretely. The Outers, sitting on stacks of soft cushions, only gave vague answers, enjoying the superiority they had against the Inners. As for Usagi and Rei, Rei was also trying to get details until...

"Give me back my Manga, Meatball Head!"

"WAH! Rei is so mean!"

Yep, you get the point.

As she stepped backwards away from where Rei was, she felt someone grab her shoulders. "Ahem."

"AHHHHHH! STOPDOINGTHAT!" *GASP GASP* "big deep breaths..."

"Setsuna! You're here!"

"Now, shall we get started?"

She sat down on a stack of cushions that one of the others had thoughtfully prepared as all the Senshi gathered around her, seating themselves, and/or positioning themselves comfortably.

Setsuna began.

"All of you are here to learn about our mutual acquaintance, Ranma. It is not a coincidence that every one of the Senshi knows him. As you all already may have hypothesized, Ranma was part of the Silver Millennium. Not only that, but he, like myself, still has all his memories. I believe that when he detected his, how to say, servants, were reincarnated, he came to investigate and met your current selves."

"We were his servants?" "I thought we were sailor soldiers!"

"All will be explained as the story progresses."

"His story was recorded down, although incorrectly, and is better known as the Legend of Endymion."

"Isn't that Mamoru's name?" Haruka asked.

"Not his original one. No. You see, Mamoru had his name changed to Endymion, for a purpose which I will tell you later. It too is part of this legend."

"In Latin legends, Latin being an offshoot of the Moon Kingdom's language, Endymion was a young man, loved by the moon. Of course, that was only partially correct. Ranma was the young man, and Endymion, the original one, was something else. Endymion was dearly loved by the Royal Court, that much is true, but for a different reason than one might think. You see, there are two Endymions. The false Endymion was a playboy that renamed himself. The one referred to by the legends, or rather, the real Endymion, was a cat."

The moon cats sat up at that. Gasps of shock emitted from all of the Inners, while the Outers, who have already met Dyn, with the exception of Hotaru, nodded knowingly.

"Oh my God!"

"No kidding?"

Setsuna made a placating gesture with her hands. The Inners gradually settled down.

"Yes, The real Endymion was a cat, much like the Luna and Artemis, who were moon cats. However, Endymion was special. In the several different orders of moon cats, Luna and Artemis were of the highest, as not all moon cats were able to speak or think consciously. Most could only meow, like earth cats. At that time, the highest order of moon cats were able to assume a humanoid form, if only for a short period of time. However, when Endymion revealed his special ability, he became the sole member of the order he himself was. He had the special ability to sprout wings. I believe the modern fantasy creatures called "kittyhawks" were based off of him."

"Does that mean he could fly?"

"Most of your questions will be answered as I tell the story. Please be patient."

"Oh, sorry. heehee."

"You must be asking yourself, "Where does Ranma come into this?" The boy you know as Ranma first appeared to the Moon Kingdom about twenty years before its fall. As you may have realized, the Great House of Serenity, or the Royal Family, was not the only Great House in the system, as most, if not all the people believed. In fact, it was not even the only government in the Sol System."

"This might sound unbelievable, but our Earth has another moon."

Everyone looked shocked, even the moon cats although less so.

"How?!" "There's only one Moon up there!"

"That is what the Moon Kingdom thought as well. Do you not realize? The Black Moon Family had to have come from some where. What the Moon Kingdom did not know was that the Black Moon specializes in their own brand of magic, combined with what is now called martial arts, to form their own styles of fighting. Their greatest asset, however, was their near divine technologies. Their technologies allows them to create fields of invisibility, which hides them from prying eyes, of the norm, or of magical nature. The entire Black Moon was believed to be covered in such, thus rendering the Black Moon is invisible. The Black Moon also ruled many planets, and each is covered with it's own fields. I believe that there may be five or more other planets in this system, with their own moons, that are currently ruled by the Black Crescent, or rather, the Eclipse, as it is also called."

"However, these fields had a slight weakness. It seemed that large amounts of chaotic energy disrupts the field. It was not much of a weakness, but it allowed me, Guardian of the Time Gates, to see something that had astounded me."

"Back during the Silver Millennium, the Sailor Senshi were the elite soldiers of the Moon Kingdom. There were no others that could match us, we were the best. Such feelings made us arrogant, and, I may dare to say, somewhat trigger happy, much like Haruka is." Said Haruka blushed.

"Every five thousand years, a solar event causes beings with Chaotic energy within them to suddenly receive a large amount of Chaotic energy added to their current stores. Those that cannot contain it die, literally exploding. Others, with proper training, become powerful almost to invulnerability for this period of time. On the day that this happened, I was standing guard before the Gate. As the energy influx took place, Chaotic being suddenly appeared before me, with such power and potential that he could, by himself, destroy the Kingdom one day. Luckily for us, or unluckily, he did not combust. I teleported to the location I had seen, in order to eliminate him."

*flashback*

Setsuna materialized in the air, above a short haired young man who seemed to be training in some form of combat.

She launched a green ball of energy at him, but he tilted himself unconsciously to one side, and it missed him. He continued to leap about, not even noticing the Senshi, nor the attack.

*Voice in Setsuna: When I appeared, I immediately attacked the young man. He had evaded my attack, and did not even seem to notice my presence. I slightly angry, and puzzled at the same time. I was ignored by what I thought was a common man, instead of him getting on his knees at my presence, a Sailor Senshi. That was when my mana ball hit a tree.*

The energy ball the man had dodged hit a nearby tree, creating a large explosion. That shook the man out of his trance. He looked up to see a woman floating in the air, and smiled. "I think you should come down here, 'cause I can see up that short dress of yours."

*As you can imagine, I was furious. I was a Sailor Senshi, to be feared and respected. The arrogance the man had to look up my dress. I do admit that having a short skirt as a uniform seemed rather unfeasible, but he had the gall to comment on it. Again, I attacked.*

With a scream of rage, Sailor Pluto hurled ball after ball of energy towards the man, who was still staring up her skirt. The energy impacted him. Setsuna shielded her eyes. When the light died, she looked down at her work.

*The man seemed to be knocked over, and was sitting on his rump. I could not believe it. How was it that he was still alive, and not even scratched. He stood, and leapt towards me, fifteen meters up in the air, and attacked. Then, I began to understand the power that I was dealing with.*

Ten seconds later, the green haired woman was shooting sphere after sphere of energy at the hyperactive grasshopper that was bouncing in the air around her, and she was missing various parts of her uniform.

*It seemed that every time he attacked, he would take an item of clothing. By this time, I had lost my boots, my gloves, and my tiara, and was in the process of losing my skirt when I teleported back to the Gates in order to escape. As he was trying to remove my skirt, I inadvertently had a passenger back to the Gates.*

Setsuna materialized at her quarters at the Gates, with said passenger still holding onto her skirt. As soon as they fully materialized, the man continued to travel forward, skirt in hand, landed on the bed Setsuna used for long vigils, bounced off, and ran into a laundry hamper, containing various items of unwashed clothing, most noticeably the unmentionables that were scattered about him. He stood up, a pair of panties on his head, and wrinkled his nose

"A few questions for ya. Where are we, and what's with all these clothes? And why does it smell all musky?"

*end Flashback*

"bwaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THAT'S THE FUNNEST THING I HEARD IN MY LIFE!" Haruka had fallen over and was howling on the floor. Michiru, Hotaru, and Ami were giggling, and the rest of the Senshi were snickering.

Setsuna blushed.

Everyone stopped laughing to stare at her, and started laughing again.

"SHE BLUSHED! BWAHAHA-"*fwapfwap*

Everyone sweatdropped as Setsuna reached over with the Time Staff, which had materialized in the air, and smacked Haruka in the back of the head, who fell over clutching her head.

".....that hurt.....a lot..."

"Ahem. Now. After I had taken care of the situation, I decided that if I could not kill him, I would at least bring him to someone who could. A few hours later, we were presented to the Queen.

*Flashback*

'Man, what is with all of the short skirts?'

The man was standing in the throne room in front of Queen Serenity. The eight Sailor Senshi, as well as Princess were also present, and seated in smaller thrones. Various aristocrats stood about. Sitting in various positions around the audience chamber were moon cat advisors.

*Of course, he was arrogant in front of the queen as well.*

"Well then, young man, who are you?" The queen was slightly puzzled by the man, as he emitted much chaotic energy, as well as lacking the aura of a Moon Kingdom citizen.

"Who am I? Who are you?" was the rather arrogant reply. The throne room, which had chatter going on here and there, suddenly became completely silent. The Senshi leapt out of their seats.

The Senshi of Mars yelled furiously. "Watch your tongue, young man, unless you wish to lose it! Show proper respect to the Queen."

The said young man looked down at himself, then at her, then at himself, and stated, "Hmm...if I am a young man, then you must be an old hag!"

"WHAT!" Mars leapt down from the raised dais that held the thrones, and the occupants of the lower plane all back away to the walls. "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!"

"Well, actually, I'm pretty sure I'm the same age as you, if not older."

"I'll have you know that I am over one hundred fifty years of age!"

"I'm four hundred somethin, goin on five, big deal." "WHAT!"

The queen was chuckling to herself at the man's actions, unnoticed by everyone, everyone that is, except for a black cat that was sleeping under the throne. It stretched itself, yawned, and crawled out to watch the show, sitting down by the queen's side, as her fingers draped over the throne and stroked his head.

"Hey!" the man snapped his fingers "I got a question for ya. Why do ya'll have such short skirts? Are ya'll tryin to flash the world? I tried to ask that one green hair chick," He waved a hand in Setsuna's direction, who stiffened up in shock at his arrogance, as he dismissed her like so, "but she wouldn't tell me. Uncute tomboy."

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!"

Of course, the sailors were quite enraged at his actions and speech, and attacked him.

*The Senshi repeated my mistake in attacking him, as he again showed his skills of evasion. He did not fight back. Well, that is, until Venus attacked with her chain."

With energy, fire, water, dirt, the kitchen sink, and almost everything else flying around, the other people in the room had to take cover behind various plants and such scattered in the room. "Hey! Your gonna hit somebody with those things, and it ain't gonna be me!"

"Venus Love Me Chain!" He grabbed the chain as it passed by him. "Thanks, I needed this!"

"Hey!" Jerking it from her hand, he leapt toward the nearest Senshi, which happened to be Mars. There was a blur of movement, and a "Eek!"

Thirty seconds later

The eight Senshi were hogtied to each other with the long chain, kneeling down towards the queen, with Ranma sitting on Mar's back. They attempting to scream at him, but all had difficulties speaking past the skirts in their mouths. The Queen sweatdropped at the scene. No one could see it, because it was behind her head, with the exception of the cat, but it was too busy sweatdropping to notice. The various people that had stood up from their cover were sweatdropping. Some of the more lecherous were leering, but you can't blame them, can you?

"So! I'm-HEY!"

*The Princess, appalled at the Senshi's condition, transformed and attacked him. Back then, even only with a henshin stick, and without the Silver Imperium Crystal, the princess was still a force to be treated with caution. However...*

"Moon Tiara A-"

Her target blurred, and there was a quick "Umph!" from the princess, who also blurred, and the man reappeared, in the process of seating himself on princess, who was tied and gagged with her long pigtails. She looked more uncomfortable than the other girls, more than likely due to the fact that there was less hair than there was chain, and the lack of material was compensated by the lack of even slight looseness in the "ropes."

"So, like I was sayin, I'm Ranma, who are you?"

The Queen was marveling at his power as he took down her Senshi, and was currently sitting on her daughter's back. When he introduced himself, she decided to make introductions, as different plans swirled about in her devious head. How can Serenity have a devious head? She's a politician. It comes with the job.

"I am Queen Serenity of the Kingdom of the Moon. My daughter, the Princess Usagi, is currently under you. And your prisoners," She gestured towards the bound Senshi, "are the Sailor Senshi. I am pleased to meet you acquaintance, Ranma." She chuckled lightly. "Although I don't believe that I can say the same for my daughter and for my Senshi." 'He's strong enough. Not too bad looking. What about in the brains department? This will require some thought, and a few tests.'

The members of the court smiled and chuckled to each other, as they realized that this Ranma wasn't hostile.

*Ranma seemed to have made a great impact on the Court, especially on a certain cat.*

The black cat which was watching from the side of the throne, now bounded out towards Ranma.

"I'm Endymion! You can call me Dyn. Let's be friends!"

*Endymion, who entered the court a few years ago, had a self appointed position as a advisor to the Queen. He was, at that time, only high level moon cat, and had yet to reveal his wings. Ranma had impressed him so much that he decided to become Ranma's advisor for life.*

"Sure, why not." Ranma bent down and pick Endymion up, and scratched the cat under the chin as it purred. "I could always use a new friend."

*End Flashback*

The Senshi were all shocked.

Minako became a Master of the Obvious. "That must have been embarrassing."

Makoto echoed her. "Yea."

Setsuna took a sip of tea to wet her throat, and to keep her self from blushing at the memories. Then she remembered. "There should be pictures and recordings of many of the events in the computer servers on the Moon, and on Mercury. They were well protected and reinforced, and could not have been destroyed. Ranma also received a copy of each of the relevant images, and I believe that he still has them."

"Oh no..." "I gotta see it to believe it...I think. Then again, I don't want to."

Setsuna continued the story.

"Well, Ranma was invited to stay at the palace by the Queen, and received his quarters, which were next to those of the Senshi. You can imagine that we were not all that happy about it."

*Flashback*

"WHY!" Haruka of Uranus was practically screaming. A few minutes ago, the Queen had invited Ranma to stay at the palace, and had him assigned quarters next to the Senshi. After he was led away to his quarters, and the courtiers had left, the Senshi implored their queen to rethink her decision.

"Why can't he stay at the Guest Quarters? Way on the other side of the palace? I'm sure there are dozens of rooms that he may use." Michiru of Neptune always had a more level head than her comrade at arms and in arms.

"My decision stands. Ranma will be staying in the Royal Wing of the palace."

"WHAT IF HE'S AN ASSASSIN HERE TO KILL YOU!" Haruka was desperate. She did not want this Ranma anywhere near her.

"I doubt that putting him in the Guest wing will even hinder him if he decides to make an attempt on my life. You were quite helpless against him. What makes you think a few hundred meters of walking will be any different."

The Senshi all blushed in rage and embarrassment at the mention of their defeat. Haruka had to seal their fate with another declaration.

"WE WEREN'T READY!"

"If that is true, then won't you challenge him? I shall allow use of the Palace courtyard in two days time. That should give the nine of you," the princess, who was also part of the complaining group, jumped slightly, "more than enough time to prepare. If you should win, I will have Ranma moved to the Guest Wing. If you should lose...I will indenture you to him for three lunar cycles."

(one lunar cycle is bout a month.)

The Senshi, including the Princess, conferred amongst themselves. Then turned to face the Queen.

"DONE!"

*Our arrogance blinded us. We believed that Ranma had only been "lucky." We did not believe the fact that we were outclassed, and it lead to our utter defeat at his hands.*

Two days later

Many people have gathered in the arena like courtyard of the Palace, most noticeably the Queen, the Senshi, and the two Royal advisors Luna and Artemis. Suddenly, a yell sounded from above, and they tilted their heads up to search for the source of the noise. Ranma, carrying a coiled length of rope in one hand, and a panicky Endymion in the other, dropped down from the upper stories. Just as he was about to hit the ground, Ranma did a little flip, and landed lightly on his feet and set Endymion on the ground, who streaked away, muttering something about learning how to fly.

"Hey! Sorry I'm late. I was eating breakfast."

"No need to apologize, Ranma. You've made it in time for the match, although I do wonder if it is wise to eat before a fight." Serenity smiled at him.

Ranma scratched the back of his head, where he had developed a slight itch. "Uh, you never did tell me what this was about anyway."

"No need to bother with the details. A challenge is a challenge, after all."

"True. Well, lets get this started. I promise not to hurt them too much, even if they are all a bunch of uncute tomboys."

Ranma walk out to the middle of the improvised arena and waited as the Senshi arranged themselves in a circle facing inwards with him in the center.

Serenity called out. "The rules are, the side to have all members subdued by surrender, incapacitation, and knockout will lose. There will be no lethal attacks, and there will be no permanent injuries. Are we agreed?"

She received confirmation from both sides. "Then we shall begin."

She stepped back and sat down on the seat that was brought out and waved to one of the nearby ministers.

The minister held up a golden coin with a pair of clashing swords embossed on it, and threw into the air.

It spun a few times before it hit the ground. As it did, a golden dome shot up and covered the arena, preventing anything from getting out, protecting the audience.

"World Shaking!" "Moon Tiara Action!" "Deep Submerge!" The Senshi broke the rule on no lethal attacks rather quickly. The minister was about to call a halt, but stopped when Serenity held out her hand, her eyes still on the battle.

Three attacks headed towards the center of the large arena, where their enemy used....to....be.

"Crap! Where'd he go?" The more trigger happy girls searched around with their eyes, hoping to get a glimpse of their target. The attacks impacted the opposite walls, nearly hitting the Senshi nearby.

"HEY! WATCH IT!" Sailor Jupiter shook her head to clear it of the ringing.

"SORRY ABOut....that..." When Moon turned around to apologize, Sailor Jupiter had vanished."

Clothed in a field of invisibility, Ranma held the hogtied Jupiter in his arms as he debated where to put her.

He decided to make another field and hang it on the ceiling of the dome. He was glad that he had the ropes enchanted, or else the struggling Senshi would have snapped the ropes like string. He didn't want to knock her out, as it was a policy of his not to hit girls.

A few seconds later, the invisible Jupiter was hanging on the ceiling. A few seconds afterwards, she received company in the form of Sailors Venus, Saturn, and Neptune, all bound and gagged as she was. They struggled ineffectually and could only watch as their friends were picked off one by one, in rapid succession.

Moon tripped fired off a random attack in a random direction, and was shocked to see it impact something in the air as she looked up. A voiced spoke close to her ear a second later.

"You did not just shoot a giant pink heart at me."

The girl on the ground eeped as she too was picked up and captured.

The four remaining Senshi were panicked, and had a good reason to, as over half of their allies had disappeared. Pluto, who was standing next to Uranus, was franticly searching for her elusive opponent when she heard Uranus give a scared yelp, and turned just in time to see her friend engulfed from behind by an invisible curtain. She launched a swirling ball of magic at where Uranus had vanished, but did not hit anything but the opposite wall. Now thoroughly frightened, though she would not admit it, she ran up to the edge of the dome, where she turned around, back placed against the wall, and glanced franticly around too find some trace of Ranma. All she needed was a distortion in the air, a slight sound, anything!

She was suddenly lifted up by her hair. "You probably couldn't hit the ground if it wasn't for gravity."

The last remaining Senshi, Mercury and Mars, had maneuvered themselves to the center of the arena. They were cautious, and scared. Standing back to back, they spoke to each other, while glancing right and left.

"We're the only ones left."

"It hasn't been more than two minutes." Ami couldn't believe that the Sailors were going to be defeated so easily.

"STUPID CHEATER! SHOW YOURSELF!" Rei couldn't take it anymore, and yelled. "COWARD!"

"No one calls me a coward and gets away with it." The two girls whirled around towards the voice, to see Ranma drop his invisibility at the edge of the dome.

"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!"

"Mercury Blast Ice Freeze!"

The two beams lanced out to strike Ranma, but collided with each other mid way and canceled each other out.

"HUH?"

"Ice, or rather, Water and Fire are opposite elements. Didn't your mothers tell ya?" Ranma explained, almost conversationally.

They quickly recovered their wits and tried again, alternating.

"Mars Flame Sniper!"

The beam of fire engulfed the steadily approaching Ranma in flames, but he continued walking through the attack, emerging after it passed, unfazed.

After repeated attempts of attacks, and backing up against the wall, Ranma was four meters away, and was tensing in order to attack, when the two girls finally broke and fell on their knees. Their very unsteady knees.

"I yield myself to you." "I surrender."

Ranma smiled widely, and lifted them up. Smiling into their questioning gazes, he turned around, and jumped thirty meters up to the roof of the dome, leaving the two girls behind. He seemed to pluck something off of the ceiling, and landed down at the center, where he picked up the coin the minister threw.

The dome collapsed into a ball of energy and dissipated.

The crowd was stunned. The Sailor Senshi, the most elite soldiers of the Kingdom, were defeated in mere minutes by this man, and he made it seem like he was playing with them. No one could believe their eyes, yet the knew the truth inside their minds.

Dyn ran across the courtyard, and hopped up his shoulder as Mercury and Mars took up positions slightly behind the man. "That was great Ranma! How'd you do that!"

He reached over his shoulder to stroke the cat. "It wasn't much." He set Dyn down as Serenity approached with the moon cats in tow.

"That was quite impressive, Ranma, but where are your Senshi?"

'My Senshi?' He dismissed the phrase as a slip of the tongue.

"Presenting, the Sailor Tomboys!"

Ranma reached both arms out to his side, and pulled as if removing a cloth, and with a flourish and a bow, revealed the neatly tied Senshi, arranged in the order of their capture, in a row, nearly identical to the position they were in only two days ago. However, this time, Ranma was creative this time around, and used shibari. The girls weren't exactly pleased, considering the circumstances, although the greenhead at the end seemed to be getting off on it.. All had their hands and feet tied together behind their back, mashing their breasts against the ground.

The Queen, as well as Mars and Mercury, sweatdropped at the sight of the plight of the struggling Senshi. Dyn just fell over laughing his furry head off, and Luna and Artemis dropped their jaws in shock.

"Well now, Ranma, it seems like you have won yourself some servants today."

"................................WHAT!" Ranma looked surprised, and somewhat nervous at the glares he was receiving from the Senshi laying on the ground.

"Those were the terms of the challenge. If you had lost, you would be moved to the Guest Wing of the Palace. If you had won, then the Sailor Senshi agreed to be your personal servants for the next three months."

"YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THAT!"

Giggling slightly to herself at Ranma's expression, she answered. "You never pursued the subject. Well then, I'll leave you to enjoy your new maids."

"I DON'T NEED NO MAIDS!"

"What's is the matter? Do you feel like they are not good enough? I'm sure any other man would love to take your place, they are very beautiful young women, after all. Or is it that they not attractive enough for you?" 'Seems relatively innocent. Not a playboy. Good.'

Ranma could feel the burning stares on his back increase in intensity when the Queen said what she did.

Ranma thought of a bright idea. "Wow, doin this to yer own daughter. What kind of mother would sell out their daughter to another man? What did she do to deserve this?" He felt one of the death rays*cough* stares on his back lessen for a second, as if the Princess was confused at his actions.

Serenity turned around as she was about to enter the Palace. "Oh, I think that it will be a beneficial experience for her, after all, how can she serve the people if she has never served anyone before. I do believe that all my Senshi, now your Senshi, need to learn a little humility." Turning, she entered the Palace, leaving Ranma outside with the Sailors. "I'll have some of their things moved to your quarters." 'Lets see what happens now.'

He turned around himself, and took in the sight of the seven struggling Senshi. He then got a bright idea, and produced a long pole from...somewhere...and passed it through the arms and legs of the girls on the ground.

Mars and Mercury jumped when he motioned for them to pick up the ends of the pole, and followed him as he walked up the steps to the Palace. The small procession seemed to resemble a hunting party having a fruitful day after a boar hunt.

Ranma summed up his thoughts in a sentence and a word.

'What the hell am I gonna do? Shit."

*End Flashback*

The girls picked up their jaws after viewing the last image, and collected their thoughts.

"Hmm... I wonder what serving Ranma would be like?" Makoto wondered aloud. Then realized what she said, and blushed, until she noticed several of the others thinking over her words.

"At first, the idea of Sailor Senshi serving someone else other than the Queen horrified us, especially if the someone else was a man, but gradually, he knocked us off our high horses, and taught us to be less arrogant and to have a better attitude, it was during these three months that we began to see what kind of man that Ranma was. However, the living arrangements were pretty bad at first."

*Flashback*

They had moved some of the Senshi's things to Ranma's quarters. Of course, with Ranma being the only occupant of the few rooms that where part of his quarters, where were the Senshi to sleep? There were futons scattered around the large bedroom where Ranma was sleeping currently, and the Senshi were arguing over how "Elite" soldiers should not have to sleep on the floor.

"Well, you "elite" soldiers didn't stand up to me all that well? Dija? Besides, I ain't giving up my bed."

"That thing could hold fifteen people! If you slept on the ground, then the nine of us can sleep on the bed!" Makoto of Jupiter protested.

Said bed could easily hold twice that number, but Ranma didn't want to sleep on the floor. So he thought of a great idea to stop the arguments.

"How this. I'm goin ta sleep on the bed, and you guys, girls, can sleep on the floor, however," He held up a hand to stop the rising wave of protests, "if you wanted ta sleep on the bed, feel free to do so. But I gotta tell ya that I twist and turn a lot, though."

"Pig! What makes you think I'll sleep with you!"

"Pervert!"

"Well then," he smiled broadly, "that's the end of that. I get the bed, and you get the floor." He paused, as if in thought. "Oh, and I think you should all treat me with more respect, from now on, you will address me as Sir."

"What!" "NO WAY!"

"That's "What! Sir." and "No way! Sir." to you."

"ARGH!"

"Like I said. It's "ARGH! Sir." or maybe you would prefer "Master?"

"No Sir!"

Later

"Who gets to bathe first?" Ami wanted to soak in the bath after a long day.

"I do, what did you think? These are my rooms, of course. You can draw the bath for me though, I'm not all that good with those knobs yet."

"Why!" Ami, although normally sweet tempered, seemed to irritated at his tone of voice.

"Why who?"

"Why....Sir. Asshole."

"Yer supposed to be my maid, remember? And I heard that."

".......Sigh....."

A few days Later

*Still, We did get our revenge on him, but ended up digging our own graves, all due to one simple question."

It was the end of the day, and Ranma and his "servants" retired to their rooms to get cleaned up for bed, when Ranma brought up something he's been wanting to ask for a while.

As the other Senshi were taking their baths, those who had finished, namely Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Pluto, sat around with Ranma in the anteroom of his quarters. Dyn was already asleep in the bedroom.

"What is it with you guys and your uniforms anyway? The skirts are way to short. Why not trousers?"

Venus was about to retort when Mercury spoke up.

"He has a point there. Why do we have such short skirts for our uniforms? I do not think it wise for us to be flashing anyone who happens to be there when we fight. Besides, we are soldiers right? Shouldn't we wear armor instead? The Lunar Guards do."

The others paused for a second, and thought about it.

"I do believe she's right." Pluto though out loud.

Ranma snapped his fingers. "I can't believe I forgot." He got up and cleared off the table in front of him, then blurred is arms as he began materializing what seemed to be an endless supply of items out of his pockets. The Senshi's jaws dropped and their eyes grew big as weapons ranging from the smallest needle to a three meter long energy cannon were set on the table, and on the ground. Also, equipment, armor, and other supplies were set down. Each item had arcs of electricity running over it, floating in the air for a few seconds before dropping, the electricity dispersing.

After a half a minute, Ranma finally pulled out what seemed to be a formfitting black jumpsuit out, as well as a pair of baggier trousers much like his own. (Think pure black EVA plugsuits, without all the wrist attachments and plastic things sticking out.)

"Here we go. I found 'em." He materialized several more pairs of pants, and a dozen jumpsuits.

"How did you do that!?" Ami breathed out in a shocked tone of voice.

"do that who?"

"Make things appear. Sir." She was to amazed to care about the honorifics.

"Do what?"

"Sir. I think she is asking how you made all this," Setsuna waved a hand towards the things piled up on the table and the carpet "appear out of thin air."

Ranma blinked. "You've never heard of subspace pockets before?"

"No. What you have done is unheard of." Ranma seemed to be waiting for something. "...sir."

"Oh, it seems that your technology is more oriented towards magic than ours is. Either that, or you may be behind. Back home, even small children can do this."

No one could dispute that statement even though they wanted to.

Minako then thought of something really important.

"Hey Ranma, where did you come from anyway?"

"......."

Minako sighed in exasperation. "Where did you come from, sir?"

"I can't tell you, but I can say its not part of your Moon Kingdom."

"Do you not wish to go back, sir?" Ranma smiled at the Venusian catching on to the honorifics.

"Nah, I like it here. It's fun! especially with all the easy fights." The girls growled at him. "Besides, I don't really want to return to my duties all that quickly anyway. I'll go back when I feel like it, or if my family comes to get me."

The four girls hoped that was soon. They weren't sure if they could take a week of this, much less three months.

"Anyways. Why don't you try these modsuits on? I'm sure there much better than your skirts." He handed each of them a jumpsuit.

The girls were skeptical, but willing to try after he proved that their skirts were impractical. Rei held hers up against herself. "Sir. I'm not really sure this will fit me." the others also voiced their concerns.

He smiled. "Don't worry. They are magically adjusting. All you have to do is put it on, and zip it all the way up, it will automatically adjust to your sizes."

Again, the girls were shocked, but not as much so. The magically adjustment also applied to their Senshi fuku, but these adjustments were very rare, and for Ranma to pull a dozen sets of clothes with these adjustments was quite unusual.

As they stood to go change, Ranma picked up the rest of the suits, and handed them to Minako.

"Give these to the rest of the Senshi when you go in."

She nodded, and ran off to catch up to the others, who had gone ahead.

Ranma sat down to wait, tapped his feet, and picked up a energy submachine gun from the stack on the table. He moved the rest off to the side and began to disassemble and clean it.

'This might take a while. Why do girls always take so long to dress?'

*End Flashback*

End Chapter Three

Well. Some of the past has been revealed. Actually, I think the next one or two chapter may be Setsuna telling the story of the past, but I might decide to cut it short. If anyone has any funny scenes, tell me and I may or may not use it, depending on the smoothness of the scene.

Oh. Also, if anyone has any Omakes, send em. If I receive more than five, then I'll make a dedicated chapter for 'em.

I received some objections to Ranma getting all of the Senshi, and here I'll say:

Come on, it is entirely possible, besides, how do you think one girl will be able to handle the Wild Horse. So the circumstances are a bit odd, it is a fanfic after all!

Also, I might revise this chapter slightly in the future, cause this one was written in a rush.

Oh, and if anyone has good ideas for scenes on Ranma getting the inners, feel free to post them in your reviews. I might use them.

Chapter Four teaser

"OOHHHH! MASTER! PLEASE!" A moan sounded from the bed.

Everyone winced.

"You think it's bad, that's my mother up there."

Ami, who was next to her, patted Usagi on the back. "There there, at least Ranma's the one on top now. The first day was pretty bad."

The blond shivered. "Don't remind me. Who thought she'd use the Ginzuishou on him."