Sailor moon
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Court of Stars
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Chapter 2: Princesses of Sun and Earth.
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Kotori came around hours later to find herself lying in a strange bed, in what looked like a disused room of some apartment. A quick look at the window confirmed that it was nighttime and the buzzing of the electric street lamp was a low hum as its light splayed across the wall in an arc, illuminating neat piles of stacked moving crates that the owner had yet to unpack. She sat up and her head snapped around to watch the door as someone entered.
"Dante?" Her tone was incredulous as she recognized the silvery haired boy who had become her friend during the day. Dante looked at her when he saw she was awake and smiled kindly.
"Kotori," he nodded to her in greeting, "how are you feeling?" The blonde girl made a face of confusion, as she looked around.
"I feel fine but why am I here and what happened? I was in my garden and the next thing I know I'm here........." she trailed off and looked Dante in the eye. He gave a mental sigh as he endeavored to explain under her confused and accusing stare.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to bring you into this so soon........." he muttered under his breath then started his tale. "Hundreds of years ago there was a kingdom on the moon ruled by a beautiful queen named Serenity. The people of the other planets all loved her and the moon and aligned together under her guidance to bring about the perfect world. This time was known as the silver millennium." A flicker of recognition kindled deep inside Kotori's mind, so tiny she didn't notice it but it was there. "But even in peace this perfect world wasn't defenseless. Each of the planets in the solar system gave up a princess to go to the moon palace and protect the queen and her heir. These princesses where given a new title, they became the sailor senshi." Kotori finally made the connection in her mind but didn't voice it as she hung on Dante's every word.
"But one planet didn't have a princess, instead the king and queen gave up their only son and heir, Prince Endymon, to be wedded to the moon princess as their contribution to the alliance. But years later disaster struck and the evil Queen Beryl rose up at the head o a horde of evil youma and destroyed the moon kingdom and its people." Kotori covered her mouth with her hands as if to muffle her gasp of shock, the story had swept her up and she wouldn't be able to turn away until the very end. Dante continued, "But with the last of her strength Queen Serenity used her power and that of the imperial silver crystal to send her daughter and the members of her court forward through time to be reborn in a place where they would be needed most. But one member of the princess's court wasn't sent along with them. Two young girls, who had been in the process of becoming the senshi of earth and the sun didn't count as a part of the moon kingdom and they where left behind in the final minutes of the battle, the last standing defenders of the silver millennium........." Kotori lowered her hands from her face.
"So what happened to them, the two girls?" She asked in a small voice, almost as if she feared the answer. Dante looked at her with flashing golden eye's as he continued with the tale.
"It wasn't their time to die." He answered simply, "Other kingdoms existed in the stars that litter space and their power finished the job of Queen Serenity making the two senshi with enough power to throw themselves into the future behind the princess except these two where only the beginning of another era, they had been made the senshi of the stars instead of the senshi of the planets and with the destruction of the moon kingdom they where destined to lead in the new ruler of the earth but one of the planetary senshi, Sailor Pluto, saw the opportunity to change the line of succession and now she aims to recreate the moon kingdom in earth with the princess as her puppet on the throne and the Sailor senshi to make it happen, but it's my mission to stop her an awaken the senshi of the stars." Kotori tipped her head in confusion at what he'd said.
"So what does this have to do with me?" She asked her stare turning accusing once again. Dante smiled faintly.
"Because you are the first of the star senshi and the true heir to earth's throne, Sailor Terra!" He waved a hand to emphasize his words as Kotori stared at him numbly. She opened her mouth and tried to form the words of denial, that she couldn't be a sailor senshi but the words wouldn't come. Dante didn't wait for her to answer, he held up his hand toward Kotori and began to glow as a small green sparkle gathered before his palm and solidified into the shape of a small crystal star with a marble sized emerald in the center engraved with the symbol of the earth. He gabbed it out of the air and placed it in Kotori's limp grasp. "Believe it Kotori, you are the princess of earth and we both have work to do." Kotori just nodded numbly as she stared at the crystal pendant in her hands and got the feeling that nothing was ever going to be the same again.
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A/N: Now I have to admit that I kinda started to cross this over with Ranma ½ so I hope you don't mind, although only Ranma and maybe Ryoga will be mentioned because I'm too lazy to write about his life in Nerima. But in any case I've decided at the last minute to include his girl side, Ranko, as sailor Sun, after all the sun is a star isn't it? Oh and while I remember, there's a bit of a Yoai warning to be said here to.
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Somewhere in the time stream, standing before the gates of time a certain guardian of time frowned at the disturbance she read in the future. The symbol of earth had appeared in the gates before vanishing from view; Sailor Pluto sifted through the time stream for changes and found hundreds of smaller ones dotted through out the space between now and crystal Tokyo. Her shining ideal future still lay secure in the main time stream and as yet the changes had yet to affect the moon-controlled city, but the image of the symbol of earth confused the senshi of time. It indicated either a new senshi surfacing or a new power had entered the struggle for the ownership of the purity chalice that she had been told about by her future self. Pluto opened the gate in time to talk with herself in crystal Tokyo but they didn't work. A boy with silvery blonde hair like queen serenity's appeared in the gate way and held up a finger, waving it in a disapproving manner but the half smirk on his face told her he was more amused than disappointed. Then he spoke.
"My, my, Sestauna. This really won't do, we can't have you trying to look into the future can we. What would my mother say if she knew that you where manipulating the future like this. I would imagine she'd be disappointed." His smirk grew wider as he saw the green haired woman on the other side of the gate begin o realize just who she was facing. Her eye's went wide and her mouth went slack before she recovered herself and went to one knee, one arm across her chest.
"Your highness! I'd forgotten, forgive me for not recognizing you sooner." She was cut off by Dante's harsh bark of laughter.
"Ha! If I wanted you to recognize me you would have seen me before I had to stop you from manipulating the time stream." He leveled a cold look down at the kneeling woman. "I have no doubt that you have already seen the beginning of the effects of the princess of earth's return, her acceptance of her powers will be made public soon enough anyway. Your ploy to put my sister on the throne of earth won't work either; I will see to it that the proper ascension protocols take place. The silver millennium ended with the death of my mother and the age of stars has already begun." On the ground Sailor Pluto glared up at the prince. Dislike, almost to a point of hate smoldered in her red gaze. Dante smirked.
"Just so, I think it would be in my best interests to cut your link to the gates of time." He grinned at Pluto's horrified expression. "I wouldn't want you to try behind my back." With that he vanished from the gates, behind him Sailor Pluto felt a pull in the pit of her stomach as she was hurled out of the time stream and into her room at the outers house, her ability to manipulate time gone but as she looked around her she knew that she'd have to work harder, but there was still a chance that crystal Tokyo would still exist, but first......... she had to get Dante and the princess out of the way.
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A red haired girl almost glided down the main shopping strip in Juban, she carried a paper shopping bag in her arms and there was a wide smile on her face as she darted toward a shop. "Hi Mrs. Kobashi!" She chirped to the old woman beside the door. The little old woman became alert suddenly from her staring match with the pole across the street and smiled a crinkly and friendly smile up at her.
"Well hello to you to Ranko dear, but you really must call me grandma. Mrs. Kobashi makes me sound old." Ranko put a had to her mouth to cover a giggle of amusement. 'Grandma' grinned at her little joke. "So Ranko-chan, how is Ryoga today?" She asked about Ranko's usually eternally lost husband. "Has he turned up from his last trip yet?" Ranko smiled brilliantly, something that made the guys passing by melt.
"Very funny, oba-san, Ryoga came back this morning; he was having trouble with his sense of direction still unfortunately but with the ki teleporting trick we discovered he found that if he gets lost he can just tune in on my energy signature and teleport to my side." The old woman smiled; ah young love could do wonders to people. "Well, I have to go, oba-san, it's my turn to cook." Ranko flashed another smile and bowed before she darted up the stairs set into the wall nearby. They lived in an apartment above the store that Mrs. Kobashi's family owned. They rented it from them for a few reasons. One, it was cheap and with only Ranko working it was just the right price, two, it was in a busy central area that would make them hard to track and three, renting or buying anything bigger would draw attention from Nabiki and her cronies that neither had the tine to deal with now that they where settling into a routine. Ranko got up to the apartment and changed from her yellow sundress and into a pair of black slacks before she let the energies of her curse shift around her body before she became a he.
Ranma let out a long breath, it was nice running around in his girl form but it was always good to return to his male form after a long day. He moved with catlike grace out to the tiny lounge room and kitchen, his ki sense picking up Ryoga as he locked on to his Aura and the apartment. Ryoga had never really had a bad sense of direction to start with. On the day they'd skipped Neriema Ryoga had accidentally gotten them lost to Juban before Ranma had noticed the ki manipulation technique he was using and he had been using it unconsciously for years, screwing up his sense of direction with the constant changes in hemispheres and time zones. The energy in the room charged for a minute before the swirl of Ryoga's forest green aura appeared, bringing his husband with it. Ranma smiled and turned away to start the food only to hear a crash behind him and he chuckled. Turning his head to the side he caught Ryoga's playful glare for laughing. He smirked again and began to cook, finishing in record time.
"Heh, it looks like you're getting the hang of it Ryoga." He grinned cheekily at the lost boy. "But I think you need to work on your landings a bit." Ryoga got a weird look on his face as he tried to look hurt and laugh at the same time. He quickly got up and hugged Ranma from behind, whispering seriously in his ear.
"Ranma, I accidentally ended up in Neriema today." Ranma heard this and froze. Ryoga felt him tense, "Ranma, I saw no one that we knew and I was alone when I teleported." Ever so slowly the smaller martial artist relaxed. Ever since they'd left the wreaking crew behind they'd been careful to try and hide their tracks. They didn't want the fiancé's coming along and tearing them apart. It was still unfinished business and until they'd found a way to sort it all out they didn't dare go back.
"I hope we never have to run again." Ranma said finally. "I like it here, even if I do have to go around as Ranko Hibiki." A slightly surprised expression crossed Ryoga's face before he finally got the joke. Ranma laughed along with him and went back to his work until there was a knock at the door. Ranma looked up at Ryoga wide eyed as he brought him a t-shirt. Quickly turning back to Ranko she pulled it over her head and Ryoga finally answered the door. A deliveryman stood outside on the landing, his face was covered by a ball cap and wisps of silvery blonde hair stuck out from under the edges.
"Can I help you?" Ryoga asked warily, eying the man for any sign of an attack and he showed none.
"I have a delivery for Ranko Hibiki." He said clearly in a soft voice. "I need her to sign for it." He held out a clipboard and a pen non-chalantly and Ranko came over to sign it. The deliveryman smiled slightly as he handed her the package and swiftly left the building with a nodded goodbye. After shutting the door Ryoga looked over at where Ranma stood at the counter, back in male form. The brown paper wrapped package lay open before him and inside it, nestled in a bed of silky material was a large crystal cut into the shape of a star with an orange glass marble embedded into the center. On it was engraved the image of a sun. Ryoga picked it up and turned it over in his hands.
"Whoa!" he let out a low whistle and handed it to Ranma. "I wonder who sent it?" he asked aloud, not really expecting an answer. "I can feel a power coming from that thing when I touch it." Ranma nodded in agreement his eyebrows furrowed in concentration.
"Its harmless enough." He confirmed placing the crystal star back in its box and covering it over, but the question of who sent it still hung in the air. It couldn't have been Kuno, they specifically avoided his investigators and it wasn't an artifact from the Amazons......... So who was it?
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Eeep! I'm starting to think that bit was a tad confusing. Heeheehee although, so is the idea that I'd make it a Ranma and Ryoga pairing. (Don't they just look so cute together? ^__^)
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/
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Court of Stars
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Chapter 2: Princesses of Sun and Earth.
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Kotori came around hours later to find herself lying in a strange bed, in what looked like a disused room of some apartment. A quick look at the window confirmed that it was nighttime and the buzzing of the electric street lamp was a low hum as its light splayed across the wall in an arc, illuminating neat piles of stacked moving crates that the owner had yet to unpack. She sat up and her head snapped around to watch the door as someone entered.
"Dante?" Her tone was incredulous as she recognized the silvery haired boy who had become her friend during the day. Dante looked at her when he saw she was awake and smiled kindly.
"Kotori," he nodded to her in greeting, "how are you feeling?" The blonde girl made a face of confusion, as she looked around.
"I feel fine but why am I here and what happened? I was in my garden and the next thing I know I'm here........." she trailed off and looked Dante in the eye. He gave a mental sigh as he endeavored to explain under her confused and accusing stare.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to bring you into this so soon........." he muttered under his breath then started his tale. "Hundreds of years ago there was a kingdom on the moon ruled by a beautiful queen named Serenity. The people of the other planets all loved her and the moon and aligned together under her guidance to bring about the perfect world. This time was known as the silver millennium." A flicker of recognition kindled deep inside Kotori's mind, so tiny she didn't notice it but it was there. "But even in peace this perfect world wasn't defenseless. Each of the planets in the solar system gave up a princess to go to the moon palace and protect the queen and her heir. These princesses where given a new title, they became the sailor senshi." Kotori finally made the connection in her mind but didn't voice it as she hung on Dante's every word.
"But one planet didn't have a princess, instead the king and queen gave up their only son and heir, Prince Endymon, to be wedded to the moon princess as their contribution to the alliance. But years later disaster struck and the evil Queen Beryl rose up at the head o a horde of evil youma and destroyed the moon kingdom and its people." Kotori covered her mouth with her hands as if to muffle her gasp of shock, the story had swept her up and she wouldn't be able to turn away until the very end. Dante continued, "But with the last of her strength Queen Serenity used her power and that of the imperial silver crystal to send her daughter and the members of her court forward through time to be reborn in a place where they would be needed most. But one member of the princess's court wasn't sent along with them. Two young girls, who had been in the process of becoming the senshi of earth and the sun didn't count as a part of the moon kingdom and they where left behind in the final minutes of the battle, the last standing defenders of the silver millennium........." Kotori lowered her hands from her face.
"So what happened to them, the two girls?" She asked in a small voice, almost as if she feared the answer. Dante looked at her with flashing golden eye's as he continued with the tale.
"It wasn't their time to die." He answered simply, "Other kingdoms existed in the stars that litter space and their power finished the job of Queen Serenity making the two senshi with enough power to throw themselves into the future behind the princess except these two where only the beginning of another era, they had been made the senshi of the stars instead of the senshi of the planets and with the destruction of the moon kingdom they where destined to lead in the new ruler of the earth but one of the planetary senshi, Sailor Pluto, saw the opportunity to change the line of succession and now she aims to recreate the moon kingdom in earth with the princess as her puppet on the throne and the Sailor senshi to make it happen, but it's my mission to stop her an awaken the senshi of the stars." Kotori tipped her head in confusion at what he'd said.
"So what does this have to do with me?" She asked her stare turning accusing once again. Dante smiled faintly.
"Because you are the first of the star senshi and the true heir to earth's throne, Sailor Terra!" He waved a hand to emphasize his words as Kotori stared at him numbly. She opened her mouth and tried to form the words of denial, that she couldn't be a sailor senshi but the words wouldn't come. Dante didn't wait for her to answer, he held up his hand toward Kotori and began to glow as a small green sparkle gathered before his palm and solidified into the shape of a small crystal star with a marble sized emerald in the center engraved with the symbol of the earth. He gabbed it out of the air and placed it in Kotori's limp grasp. "Believe it Kotori, you are the princess of earth and we both have work to do." Kotori just nodded numbly as she stared at the crystal pendant in her hands and got the feeling that nothing was ever going to be the same again.
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A/N: Now I have to admit that I kinda started to cross this over with Ranma ½ so I hope you don't mind, although only Ranma and maybe Ryoga will be mentioned because I'm too lazy to write about his life in Nerima. But in any case I've decided at the last minute to include his girl side, Ranko, as sailor Sun, after all the sun is a star isn't it? Oh and while I remember, there's a bit of a Yoai warning to be said here to.
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Somewhere in the time stream, standing before the gates of time a certain guardian of time frowned at the disturbance she read in the future. The symbol of earth had appeared in the gates before vanishing from view; Sailor Pluto sifted through the time stream for changes and found hundreds of smaller ones dotted through out the space between now and crystal Tokyo. Her shining ideal future still lay secure in the main time stream and as yet the changes had yet to affect the moon-controlled city, but the image of the symbol of earth confused the senshi of time. It indicated either a new senshi surfacing or a new power had entered the struggle for the ownership of the purity chalice that she had been told about by her future self. Pluto opened the gate in time to talk with herself in crystal Tokyo but they didn't work. A boy with silvery blonde hair like queen serenity's appeared in the gate way and held up a finger, waving it in a disapproving manner but the half smirk on his face told her he was more amused than disappointed. Then he spoke.
"My, my, Sestauna. This really won't do, we can't have you trying to look into the future can we. What would my mother say if she knew that you where manipulating the future like this. I would imagine she'd be disappointed." His smirk grew wider as he saw the green haired woman on the other side of the gate begin o realize just who she was facing. Her eye's went wide and her mouth went slack before she recovered herself and went to one knee, one arm across her chest.
"Your highness! I'd forgotten, forgive me for not recognizing you sooner." She was cut off by Dante's harsh bark of laughter.
"Ha! If I wanted you to recognize me you would have seen me before I had to stop you from manipulating the time stream." He leveled a cold look down at the kneeling woman. "I have no doubt that you have already seen the beginning of the effects of the princess of earth's return, her acceptance of her powers will be made public soon enough anyway. Your ploy to put my sister on the throne of earth won't work either; I will see to it that the proper ascension protocols take place. The silver millennium ended with the death of my mother and the age of stars has already begun." On the ground Sailor Pluto glared up at the prince. Dislike, almost to a point of hate smoldered in her red gaze. Dante smirked.
"Just so, I think it would be in my best interests to cut your link to the gates of time." He grinned at Pluto's horrified expression. "I wouldn't want you to try behind my back." With that he vanished from the gates, behind him Sailor Pluto felt a pull in the pit of her stomach as she was hurled out of the time stream and into her room at the outers house, her ability to manipulate time gone but as she looked around her she knew that she'd have to work harder, but there was still a chance that crystal Tokyo would still exist, but first......... she had to get Dante and the princess out of the way.
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A red haired girl almost glided down the main shopping strip in Juban, she carried a paper shopping bag in her arms and there was a wide smile on her face as she darted toward a shop. "Hi Mrs. Kobashi!" She chirped to the old woman beside the door. The little old woman became alert suddenly from her staring match with the pole across the street and smiled a crinkly and friendly smile up at her.
"Well hello to you to Ranko dear, but you really must call me grandma. Mrs. Kobashi makes me sound old." Ranko put a had to her mouth to cover a giggle of amusement. 'Grandma' grinned at her little joke. "So Ranko-chan, how is Ryoga today?" She asked about Ranko's usually eternally lost husband. "Has he turned up from his last trip yet?" Ranko smiled brilliantly, something that made the guys passing by melt.
"Very funny, oba-san, Ryoga came back this morning; he was having trouble with his sense of direction still unfortunately but with the ki teleporting trick we discovered he found that if he gets lost he can just tune in on my energy signature and teleport to my side." The old woman smiled; ah young love could do wonders to people. "Well, I have to go, oba-san, it's my turn to cook." Ranko flashed another smile and bowed before she darted up the stairs set into the wall nearby. They lived in an apartment above the store that Mrs. Kobashi's family owned. They rented it from them for a few reasons. One, it was cheap and with only Ranko working it was just the right price, two, it was in a busy central area that would make them hard to track and three, renting or buying anything bigger would draw attention from Nabiki and her cronies that neither had the tine to deal with now that they where settling into a routine. Ranko got up to the apartment and changed from her yellow sundress and into a pair of black slacks before she let the energies of her curse shift around her body before she became a he.
Ranma let out a long breath, it was nice running around in his girl form but it was always good to return to his male form after a long day. He moved with catlike grace out to the tiny lounge room and kitchen, his ki sense picking up Ryoga as he locked on to his Aura and the apartment. Ryoga had never really had a bad sense of direction to start with. On the day they'd skipped Neriema Ryoga had accidentally gotten them lost to Juban before Ranma had noticed the ki manipulation technique he was using and he had been using it unconsciously for years, screwing up his sense of direction with the constant changes in hemispheres and time zones. The energy in the room charged for a minute before the swirl of Ryoga's forest green aura appeared, bringing his husband with it. Ranma smiled and turned away to start the food only to hear a crash behind him and he chuckled. Turning his head to the side he caught Ryoga's playful glare for laughing. He smirked again and began to cook, finishing in record time.
"Heh, it looks like you're getting the hang of it Ryoga." He grinned cheekily at the lost boy. "But I think you need to work on your landings a bit." Ryoga got a weird look on his face as he tried to look hurt and laugh at the same time. He quickly got up and hugged Ranma from behind, whispering seriously in his ear.
"Ranma, I accidentally ended up in Neriema today." Ranma heard this and froze. Ryoga felt him tense, "Ranma, I saw no one that we knew and I was alone when I teleported." Ever so slowly the smaller martial artist relaxed. Ever since they'd left the wreaking crew behind they'd been careful to try and hide their tracks. They didn't want the fiancé's coming along and tearing them apart. It was still unfinished business and until they'd found a way to sort it all out they didn't dare go back.
"I hope we never have to run again." Ranma said finally. "I like it here, even if I do have to go around as Ranko Hibiki." A slightly surprised expression crossed Ryoga's face before he finally got the joke. Ranma laughed along with him and went back to his work until there was a knock at the door. Ranma looked up at Ryoga wide eyed as he brought him a t-shirt. Quickly turning back to Ranko she pulled it over her head and Ryoga finally answered the door. A deliveryman stood outside on the landing, his face was covered by a ball cap and wisps of silvery blonde hair stuck out from under the edges.
"Can I help you?" Ryoga asked warily, eying the man for any sign of an attack and he showed none.
"I have a delivery for Ranko Hibiki." He said clearly in a soft voice. "I need her to sign for it." He held out a clipboard and a pen non-chalantly and Ranko came over to sign it. The deliveryman smiled slightly as he handed her the package and swiftly left the building with a nodded goodbye. After shutting the door Ryoga looked over at where Ranma stood at the counter, back in male form. The brown paper wrapped package lay open before him and inside it, nestled in a bed of silky material was a large crystal cut into the shape of a star with an orange glass marble embedded into the center. On it was engraved the image of a sun. Ryoga picked it up and turned it over in his hands.
"Whoa!" he let out a low whistle and handed it to Ranma. "I wonder who sent it?" he asked aloud, not really expecting an answer. "I can feel a power coming from that thing when I touch it." Ranma nodded in agreement his eyebrows furrowed in concentration.
"Its harmless enough." He confirmed placing the crystal star back in its box and covering it over, but the question of who sent it still hung in the air. It couldn't have been Kuno, they specifically avoided his investigators and it wasn't an artifact from the Amazons......... So who was it?
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Eeep! I'm starting to think that bit was a tad confusing. Heeheehee although, so is the idea that I'd make it a Ranma and Ryoga pairing. (Don't they just look so cute together? ^__^)
Don't forget to review!
Cya ^__^\/