DISCLAIMER: If I owned Ranma or anything else, would I actually be on here doing it for free when I could be selling the stories as manga and making lots n lots of cash?

Old Life, New Beginnings

Chapter 2

Ranma pulled the heavy, worn coat tighter around herself trying to stay warm as she watched the news report through store's window.

"Many believe with all the evidence gathered and the testimony by the owner of New Light House's ex-girlfriend will put one Sean Hunter and long time friend Hiroshi Kenshin behind bars for a very long time. Charges include, but not limited to, multiple counts of sexual assault, selling and possession of multiple types of date rape drugs, multiple charges of assault, and no less than twenty counts of premeditated murder. The girlfriend has been cleared of all connections after extensive investigation and as I mentioned is one of the key witnesses in the case against the two young men." The reporter said.

It had been a month since Ranma had left that place after what had happened and for the first time since she truly smiled. It seemed Kei truly didn't betray her and even better those monsters were going to pay for everything they did.

Feeling a little better Ranma turned and continued down the street thinking about what to do about food that night and where to sleep. The only few people that she was acquainted with had promises of warm beds and a decent meal that night due to the activities those two girls indulged in. They had tried to talk Ranma into it several times but there was no way she would sale herself off like that, there had to be better ways.

There also had to be better ways than looking through dumpsters for food or sleeping under bridges huddled under only a few patch work blankets for warmth or the small fire that she sometimes managed to build only to be forced to put it out from local authority.

To top that off she knew something was wrong with her, she couldn't figure out what it was really but she knew for a fact something was. Her ki reserves seemed messed up though there was a possibility of malnutrition but for some reason she doubted it was it. After all, why would that cause her to be locked in her cursed form.

"Human…Give me your power…" a strange voice said from behind Ranma drawing her attention. Turning around she almost fell over from all the laughing she was doing. There was some "thing" for lack of a better term standing there scantily clad with it freezing out. The scantily clad part wasn't what was so funny though, it was the fact that the thing looked like it was half vacuum cleaner and half woman.

"Halt…vacuums are for…cleaning…HAHAHAHAHA…you have got to be the stupidest looking demon I've ever seen." A new voice called out from the other side of the monster woman. The new arrival also made Ranma want to laugh from the strange hairdo and the silly looking hair style.

"Shut up meatball head, we're supposed to be distracting it." Another girl snapped next to the blonde with the funny hair.

"You're so mean Mars." The blonde whined.

"Come on, we have to get you out of here." A brunette said pulling on Ranma's arm before gasping after finally seeing the red head's face. "Ranko, what are you doing here?"

"My name is Ranma…not Ranko." Ranma said, surprised at the girls strength as her grip tightened some from the shock.

"That's not funny!" the brunette snapped.

"Stop fighting and lets go!" a new blonde with a red ribbon in her hair ordered as she joined the brunette. The three didn't have time to go anywhere though as a shockwave hit them and threw them several feet through the air to land on the ground hard. Normally something like that wouldn't even phase Ranma but for some reason it did. She hurt and was having a harder time catching her breathe than what was normal.

"Stay here." The blonde with the ribbon said as she joined the brunette in attacking the vacuum lady along with the earlier two and a blue haired one that resembled Akane in a way.

The fight wasn't going so well Ranma noticed as the woman kept sucking all of the others attacks up in her arm that turned into a vacuum hose. Ranma kept trying to figure out if it was some kind of warped dream when the woman started to fire back the girls' attacks at them.

Ranma wanted to help but she didn't trust herself right now and for once was actually thinking before acting. If she attacked the woman she might just get in their way and get one of them hurt. Everything just seemed so wrong, so off to her and it scared her.

As she continued watching her forehead started growing more and more warm. She could feel strength coming from it, returning a little of her old confidence as she started to rise. A noise stopped her though coming from the alley that she was near as a gold bracelet rolled out to her. Gently she picked it up looking at it in confusion, it seemed so familiar to her.

"Use the bracelet and help the others," a voice called from the alley, "You know what to do."

"Wha…" Ranma started to say as she stared at the bracelet. Slowly words formed in her mind, feeding from her sub-conscious like long forgotten memories. Automatically she said the words as she thought of them, whispering, "Phoenix Star Power, Make-up!"

The bracelet glowed for a few moments then a feminine voice came from it, saying, "Sol-drive activated, DNA and aura match confirmed, imprinting complete…senshi enhancements uploaded…proceeding with program."

In shock Ranma dropped the bracelet but it caught on fire engulfing her in its flames. Ranma threw her head back to cry out from the pain that her mind was saying should be there but she couldn't speak. There was no pain though, just the feeling of power as it traveled through her body as she felt weightless, spinning in the air. After what seemed like forever it stopped and the fire retreated back into the bracelet that was now on her left wrist snugly.

Looking down at herself Ranma almost fainted, all the tattered, worn clothes that she had on earlier was replaced with a red body suit with armor covering parts of her body with stuff connected to it out of some kind of sci-fi show. Ranma knew that she should be completely freaked but for some reason it gave her a sense of peace. She was Sailor Phoenix, Senshi of Sol. Ranma blanched as that thought came to her, warrior of the sun? That just sounded so weird.

Ranma noticed the monster had the five girls at a loss, their attacks just wasn't working. Deciding that those kinds of attacks wasn't working Ranma moved to join in hand to hand but teleported right before the monster shocking both of them. It was Ranma who recovered first then delivered an enhanced roundhouse to the monster throwing it back.

While the monster was getting back up the one with the funny blonde hair shouted something then pointed a scepter at the monster letting lose a very powerful energy blast. It struck the distracted monster turning it into dust, it's last words mumbling "Crap…"

"Who are you?" the blonde with the red ribbon asked. As the other girls gathered around her Ranma sighed. She didn't want to get into a fight with these girls, she wished she was anywhere else but there. A bright flash cause Ranma to look up and smiled in relief, she was now back where she had been sleeping the last few days and the strange get up was now all gone leaving her in her old clothes once again with only the bracelet as proof that it really just happened.

For once the thoughts of everything she lost wouldn't be the only thing on her mind as she tried to get some sleep. She had so much to think about over what just happened and the strange memories of winged people all over the place. So much kept trying to push its way into her mind, especially one winged man named Saffron.