Ranma ½ belongs To Rumiko Takahashi, Viz video and others. Any other works belong to their respective people as well. I don't own any of this so just sit back and enjoy the tale, oh and don't sue me please that would be bad.

Note: Where Necessary our Ranma will once again be referred to as Ranko so as to keep confusion to a minimum.

Chapter 13 –Parley?

Sailor Sol and her two charges appeared in a coi pond. They came up spluttering water, but alive. "Is uh everyone okay?"

The pink haired senshi of the moon looked ragged, but said, "I'm fine. How about you Saturn?"

"I think I am functional."

Sol surveyed the area and knew she recognized the pond from somewhere. They were in what would normally be the Tendo's yard, the building in front of him looked almost the same as he remembered it, but the property was different. Instead of a dojo behind the building there was a small inn. She looked up at the title and read "Maison Ikoku". She snorted and said, "Alright guys, lets get out of here and we'll go find Nabiki Tendo. We still need more information on these Death Busters and considering recent events I don't think it is safe for any of us to travel alone."

Sol then looked around, seeing no one looking she transformed into his regular female form. "Also it's probably best that we get rid of the transformations. That way the sailor girls who attacked us won't know who we are."

After transforming Beryl looked extremely happy, but Hotaru fell asleep almost immediately. Ranma picked her up and carried her as she and Beryl walked off. Before heading to Furinkan from the former Tendo residence they decided to get something to eat.

They entered a small Chinese food place called the Gou Hanten that was when Ranma had the surprise of his life. A waitress with short purple tresses and a patch over one eye greeted them and asked them to find a seat. Ranma followed her in a state of shock and sat down with Beryl and Hotaru. The waitress left menus and walked away. "It can't be, Nabiki said that a village was destroyed, but it's her."

"Who Ranko-San?"

"Shampoo."

The waitress was back at that moment with some water and tea. "Customer know name? How you do that? I no see you here before."

Beryl saw Ranma's unease and covered for him saying, "A friend of ours comes here all the time and speaks about your wonderful service."

"Oh, well Shampoo get order now. What you want?"

The three ordered and Shampoo was about to leave and get left to get their orders. "Thanks Beryl you are a life saver."

"How do you know her?"

Ranko winced and said, "I'm somewhat of an honorary Amazon." She pulled out her book of Amazon lore. "It kinda happened in another time, so she won't remember me, but believe me Shampoo and are connected."

Hotaru looked at Ranko and smiled a knowing smile saying, "You really do help people in need don't you Ranko?"

"Yeah, I do. I wonder though do you guys think she can give us more information on those death busters?"

When Shampoo returned with their meals and was about to go Ranma said, "Wait, Shampoo before you go I need to talk with you."

Shampoo looked at the red haired girl. Then she said, "What pointy eared girl wish to tell Shampoo?"

"Were you part of the Amazon village of Neuchiezu?"

The purple haired girl pulled out a Bonbori. "How you know my village! You have red hair maybe you evil Ranma boygirl in disguise?"

Ranma pulled out his Amazon book of lore and said, "No, I'm Ranko Hibiki honorary Amazon. So named by elder Cologne."

The bonbori was still raised. "Why shampoo no recall who you are." Then she spoke in Chinese, "If you really are a tribe member what is the real outsider rule."

Ranma pulled out his amazon book of lore and read from it, "If an outsider woman defeats you in combat she must become one with the tribe. If she runs you must hunt her down and determine if she should be killed or if she is worthy of becoming part of the tribe. If an outsider man defeats you must take him for a husband, but only if he will make a worthy member of the tribe." Ranma remembered her surprise when she had originally read the book of lore and the somewhat different Amazon laws and techniques, but she did come to understand why outsiders would not be told of the real rules.

The purple tresses girl smiled and switched back to Japanese. "Honorary Tribe sister Ranko I have much to tell you. Eat and I will return again with elder Lilac."

Shampoo returned carrying an old crone who looked similar to cologne, but with jade green hair and grey eyes. The crone said, "I am lilac, the last elder of the Amazon people. The last daughter of the amazons tells me that an honorary tribe member still lives. Is this true?"

"Yes, I am an honorary tribe member."

"Very well then I will tell you what has happened. Four people arrived at our village during the annual tournament. One was a panda, the other a red haired girl who was shorter than you and without elven features, the other was a short girl with curly, yellow hair and orange eyes and finally there was a tall green haired girl. They saw the competition taking place and ate the first prize. When Shampoo came to complain the yellow haired one took a crystal from her heart that made her go unconscious. That was when elder Cologne came and challenged the girl named Mimete for her granddaughter's life and prize.

The battle was long, but Cologne prevailed and when Mimete tried to destroy the crystal she was killed. Cologne placed the crystal back in her grand daughter's heart and she was revived. She then told the outsiders to leave, but they did not. Instead they attacked and killed Cologne. The rest of the village joined in and attacked the outsiders, but they were too powerful. They would seem to tire out, but then they would use a dark energy blast, steal heart crystals and devour them. That would make them more powerful and they would continue their killing. Still as Amazons we fought on. We started to drive them into the bath area and the girl and the panda changed into a young black haired man and older bald man respectively. I think they were named Ranma and Genma Saotome.

The slaughter at our village continued, but when the green haired witch named Viluy took Shampoo's eye and blasted her hard enough to send her into Jyusenkyo one of our tribe members named Mousse killed her. At that point Genma and Ranma took Villuy's black heart crystal and summoned up a spell of great destruction. The only reason I only survived because I was able to leap into the village well as they were casting it and even then I felt the affects of the spell permanently ripping my chi reserves from me. When I finally climbed to the top of the well my village was gone and the evil outsiders were gone."

Everyone who was listening to Lilac sat in stunned silence until Beryl said, "Somehow you followed them and came to Japan though. How?"

Shampoo then told them that Jyusenkyo had turned her into a bloodhound and that was how they tracked them to a seaport. At the port they were able to give descriptions and were told that the group went to Japan. They reached Japan and finally found enough information to get to Tokyo. Here they had heard of other witches named Kaolinite, Eudial, Cyprine, and Ptiliol recently, but little was known about the Pandaman Genma or his son Ranma.

Ranko then explained her own situation to Shampoo and Lilac telling them that they too were searching for the death busters and a way to defeat them. She told Shampoo that they were currently staying with the Tendo's and that they would contact her again when they had a plan of attack. Shampoo agreed and gave them their food free telling them to come back again anytime.

Leaving the restaurant Beryl said, "Perhaps it is unnecessary to visit Nabiki Tendo again as we have quite a bit of information now and I would much prefer to work on seeing if the senshi know anything about my generals. Along with Shampoo, they would be very useful in combating the death busters as well. After all our information suggests that there are at least five members left alive"

"Five?"

"Ranko, before you rescued us from Uranus and Neptune we were attacked by a strange Panda. Hotaru destroyed it."

Ranko looked a bit sad and then said, "I'm glad you survived." Then he looked at the mostly exhausted Hotaru and said, "Uhm maybe we could find your generals tomorrow."

They group traveled back to the Tendo apartment and sacked out there eating some food and resting for the nest day. Little did they realize the conflict they were about to get into.

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Ryouga was walking towards his part time job at the crown arcade in Juuban with a special communicator that had been given to him by Makoto. Even though he had already known her secret it was nice to know that she had been willing to trust him with it. Plus, she had given him the communicator. He smiled again as he looked at it and thought of his Mako-Chan.

Before his arrival at the arcade he saw Ranma wearing a dark black outfit and walking next to a woman with red hair in three pony tails and red eyes. The two of them were right next to a young girl in an office outfit. He recognized Eudial almost immediately, even though her outfit had changed from red and black to just black, and ran towards his friend knocking him over. "Ranma look out!" He pulled the pig tailed boy away and continued, "She's an evil witch looking for heart crystals. She might try for yours."

Ranma looked at Ryouga and said, "You don't say." Then he did a double take and looked at Ryouga who was wearing his crown arcade shirt and blue jeans. "Don't I know you from somewhere?"

Eudial was busy pulling out her gun and taking the office lady's heart crystal when Ryouga didn't realize what Ranma had said "We've got to stop her, come on Ranma." Then Ryouga pulled out his communicator and hit the alarm.

Ranma backhanded the communicator out of Ryouga's hand and said, "We can't have any of that now can we?" Then he struck Ryouga with the chestnut fist and sent him flying. He then looked to Eudial and said, "Does it have a talisman?"

Eudial studied the crystal as a voice said, "Supreme Thunder!" She was electrified, and dropped the crystal. A voice said, "Office workers are the back bone of our country harming them is a great evil. In the name of the moon I will punish you."

Eudial growled at this and saw that Jupiter and Sailor Moon were standing next to each other and she knew that the other sailors were not far away. So, she summoned a Daimon. "Ranma, use the merge technique and take them out."

Ranma glowed with black energy and merged with the Daimon making it into armor that he could wear and then he attacked. He fired twin beams of dark energy at girls and then sped in and attacked. Jupiter and Moon. They were overwhelmed with punches and kicks that were laced with dark energy. They were unable to put up any defense and were pummeled mercilessly. Just as unconsciousness started to come in they were saved when Ranma was tackled by Ryouga. The two boys went down in a heap wrestling for dominance, until Ranma came out on top with Ryouga under him. "Now I remember you. You're that Hibiki boy; you had some sort of grudge against me. Why aren't you dead? I'm sure I killed you."

Ryouga pushed up and sent the two high into the air. The two traded punches and kicks. "Damn it Ranma I don't want to hurt you!"

Ranma's black Daimon armor extruded four extra arms and Ranma said, "But, I want to hurt you. You know I learned this maneuver from watching an old crone in China; I've modified it a bit for new circumstances. Kachu Tenshin Amagurikan!"

Ryouga was once again pummeled by the chestnut fist this time by four sets of hands. It knocked him out and sent him flying once again. Ranma turned towards the other two senshi he had hurt previously and saw that Mercury, Venus, and Mars had appeared and were helping their friends to stand up. He threw some blasts of dark energy at them and then said, "Behold a new Daimon technique, the old crone that used this shouldn't have shown it to me. Splitting cat hairs!" Ranma's form became three, four, five, and more. The multiple Daimon images then surrounded the senshi and fired beams of destruction at them. The Senshi returned fire, but were unable to hit Ranma as he blasted them again and again with his dark power. It ended when Mercury was able to cast her shabon spray and cover their retreat into the air. A few images followed them and continued to battle the senshi in single combat.

Meanwhile the main Ranma appeared next to Eudial and said, "Talisman?"

"No."

"Good, give me the crystal."

He was handed the crystal, but unable to do anything with it as he was struck by a world shaking. It knocked him over and caused him to drop the crystal. He eyed the two additional senshi and said, "How many of you idiots are there?"

Uranus and Neptune said naught and attacked again. He dodged the attacks and fired his own blasts. Then he went in and knocked Uranus into Neptune tripping them both and giving him an opportunity to work them over with punches and kicks. The two Senshi were able to untangle themselves and get up, but not before they had suffered some serious damage. Uranus was limping on a broken leg and Neptune was having trouble breathing with her broken ribs.

Ranma smiled an evil smile and picked the heart crystal up again. "You girls want it? You'll have to come and get it."

Eudial stood next to him and whispered, "Come on let's go. It doesn't have a talisman."

"I know that, but I want to see them suffer."

Meanwhile the inner senshi were slowly defeating the Daimon duplicates. Tuxedo Mask came and assisted Moon and Jupiter so that they could defeat one. Then the three looked on as Neptune and Uranus attacked Ranma again. This time Ranma was able to grab them both using his extra arms. He held them close and was slowly squeezing the life out of them. An extra arm came from his back holding the heart crystal. He slowly brought the heart crystal to his mouth and whispered to the girls he was holding.

Moon and Jupiter couldn't fire for fear of hitting their allies, so they ran towards the milieu as fast as possible. As they passed Ryouga he opened his eyes and saw them, he got up and started running with them. This time he pulled out his lightsabre and ran with them. They saw that they would all be too late.

Then, Sailor Pluto appeared suddenly and blew Ranma's Daimon hand up and the heart crystal that it was holding with her dead scream. Ranma looked annoyed and dropped the two semi-conscious sailor girls that he was holding. He quickly grabbed Eudial and said, "All the Daimon copies are gone and that stupid senshi had to interfere with my fun. Come on, we'll have to try again some other time." The two then disappeared.

The group gathered at the body of the office lady in front of them and looked on sadly. With her heart crystal destroyed she would die. Moon looked to Pluto and said, "Why?"

"It was necessary. We all do what is necessary to ensure the future of crystal Tokyo."

Then she disappeared along with Uranus and Neptune. Leaving the rest to mourn over the loss. Ryouga stared at the dead girl and said, "I don't know why you didn't turn into sun or what happened Ranma, but if I hadn't treated you like a friend she might have lived. The next time we meet it must be as enemies."

He walked away with the rest of the girls arm in arm with Jupiter and a sad look on his face.

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Ranko and the two girls left after breakfast the next day. Deciding to use the train to get to Juuban instead of walking they knew it would take longer, but in the long run it would help save Hotaru's energy just in case. As they were riding the train a man holding a cup of coffee spilled it on Ranko and changed her into male form.

"Ranko-san you're a boy now."

"I know Hotaru, but there ain't no reason to change back now. We're seeing Ryouga and he knows me in both forms. Besides I'd like to be a guy for awhile okay?"

Hotaru nodded and Beryl just stood very close to him. Seeing this Hotaru also pushed in close making Ranma rather uncomfortable for the trip.

The three arrived in Juuban and did some light practice near Juuban high while they waited for the lunch bell. When they saw Ryouga come out the three approached him without hesitation.

Ryouga was at lunch when he saw Ranma in his male form approaching with two girls. One had grayish pink hair and was very curvy and the other was younger with black hair. He didn't recognize them from the previous battle, but he pulled out his lightsabre anyway and said, "What do you want Ranma!"

"Whoa Ryouga what's gotten into you? I'm just here with Beryl here looking for the sailor scouts. She tells me that they might have some info on her generals."

Ryouga started to back down a bit. Then Sailor Moon suddenly landed next to Beryl and said, "Moon Healing Escalation." The healing energy surrounded her form and Beryl smiled an evil smile as she collapsed to the ground and screamed as if in pain. "Help me Ranma, she's killing me!"

Ranma didn't think twice and slammed into Sailor Moon. Knocking her to the ground as well and stopping the spell. That was when Ryouga attacked Ranma and the three went rolling along in the grass. Sailor moon was thrown out of the melee and landed next to beryl as the two boys fought on. A blue lightsabre flashed again and again, but Ranma was able to avoid the blows. "Come on Ryouga she attacked for no reason. Why have you joined her side?"

"Don't tell me about joining sides Ranma, you killed that girl in cold blood."

"What girl?"

Neither opponent was really listening at this point and the fight continued on as Ranma pulled out his own alien forged Katana and started blocking Ryouga's blows. They traded slashes and swipes in the air and on the ground.

The other sailor girls arrived and were about to attack when Beryl pulled Sailor Moon's hair and lifted her up and held her close. With one hand on Moon's unconscious neck she then looked at the other sailors girls and said, "Oh no, girls I don't think there will be any attacks today understand?"

The other girls stopped and Hotaru gasped and said, "You can't take hostages!"

"Why not!"

"It's wrong Beryl-san; if we take hostages we're no better than they are." The girl looked into Beryl's eyes with innocence and trust almost pleading. Beryl turned and looked away unable to face her and said, "Oh come on look there are four of them over there. Do you think we can defeat them without taking hostages girl? Mistress nine would understand."

Hotaru looked perplexed and then her eyes went vacant for a moment as her voice said, "Give the girl to me. Give me the heart crystal."

Beryl was about to do so, but some twinge insider made her hesitate. That hesitation cost her because although the senshi were unsure of what to do a new arrival did. Tuxedo Mask came to the rescue. He hit Beryl with a magical rose loosening her grip and giving him a chance to grab the unconscious Moon away from her.

Blasts of energy came down of the spot where Beryl had been standing, but she was already gone. She had jumped into the air and with a wince shouted, "Moon Prism Power makeup!" Once again her body spun around and her black dress was replaced by a white and pink sailor suit. Complete with elbow length white gloves and a pink bow. She had a golden tiara placed on her head and a short white and pink skirt that barely covered anything.

Then finishing her transformation she looked over to where Ranma and Ryouga were fighting and concentrated saying, "Pink Sugar Heart attack" hearts encompassed the two boys, but only hit Ryouga as Beryl concentrated and continued the stream of power saying, "of death and destruction."

The rest of the sailor scouts and Tuxedo Mask were stunned by the transformation. Black lady had never used sailor powers and now she was. Plus, she was using them in ways that had not previously been envisioned. Even with his lightsabre the attack was too much for Ryouga, he passed out.

Then Beryl looked to the stunned scouts and said, "I want my generals. Where are they?"

"Generals, are you talking about Beryl's generals?

The grayish pink haired girl grinned and said, "The same, I am Beryl and I want my generals."

Once again the sailors were stunned by the revelation.

Tuxedo Mask was first to speak and said, "They are safer with me and away from you."

"Safer in little gems? Do you take them out and play with them for your amusement boy! Give me my generals!"

Sailor Jupiter sent a supreme thunder at this point and the other scouts attacked. Ranma had not heard the conversation, but he stopped walking towards Beryl and trying to figure out what was going on. Instead he just saw the scouts attack and his mind blanked. He was a girl and then suddenly he was Sol. No, trigger phrase, nothing she was Sol and all she could see were the enemies. Then she attacked.

"Gravity Web!" The senshi were pulled together by an invisible, but sticky web of gravitational force. They looked up at the source and saw Sailor Sol hovering in the air with fiery wings and flames licking all across her costume. Ranma was not himself anymore he was Taya and she was accessing powers of the eternal form, powers that she had not mastered, but knew about. She looked at the Senshi who were stuck in her gravity web. "I give you a chance one that you did not give to me. Give us the generals and stay out of our way. Do not make me destroy you."

She then flew down to beryl and Hotaru she looked back at the Senshi and said, "You have until tonight. Meet us here with the generals, if you decide to betray us know that I and my allies will not go down as easily as I did the last time."

The gravity web slowly lost its strength as Sol flew down to her friends and teleported away.

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Ami had the mercury computer out and was showing everyone details and data from both fights of the day. She pointed to the screen showing a Male Ranma with extra Daimon arms with the Red haired Eudial. "From all public records this seems to be Ranma Saotome and from what I have gathered he is a member of the same groups that Kaolinite and Eudial are from. From observation it seems that they are stealing heart crystals in an attempt to find something called talismans."

The screen blinked and showed another black haired male with a pig tail. On the screen he suddenly changed into a female and then again into a fiery winged Sailor Sol. "This is another Ranma most likely Hibiki. We ran into him in the company of two other girls." The screen shifted and showed a picture of Beryl. "The first is this woman who looks much like Black lady, but calls herself beryl and acts as if she is Beryl. My best theory is that somehow Queen Beryl is possessing Chibi-Usa."

The screen changed again showing a small black haired girl. "According to records this is Hotaru Tomoe she is the daughter of a Suichiro Tomoe. I am not sure what she is doing with Ranma and Beryl, but there are some news reports that suggest Sailor Sun was at her house. From this and the fact that Sun suggested she had allies I am surmising that she might be Sailor Saturn."

The screen then went on to show a picture of Uranus and Neptune. "These are the sailors Uranus and Neptune they are also looking for talismans and seem to be using the same tactics as do the other girls."

Once again the screen flashed a picture and on it was Sailor Pluto. "Sailor Pluto, she showed up in the fight yesterday. She seems to be on the same side as Neptune and Uranus, but has given us advice and warning in the past."

The screen turned off and Ami continued, "All in all it seems as if we have four separate groups: First is ourselves, Second is the witches and Ranma Saotome, Third is Beryl, Ranma Saotome, and possibly Saturn, and Fourth is sailors Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto."

The dark blue haired girl then peered over her glasses and looked at Ryouga, "From what our new friend and Jedi Padawan Ryouga here has told me it is possible that his friend and Brother Ranma Hibiki is actually one of the two Ranmas that we have seen. He believes that the second Ranma we met today is most likely his friend."

"Yeah, uhm that's right." Ryouga blushed as he became center of attention. "Ranma and I are from another world and at one point we met you all. That's when Ranma became Sailor Sol and I was his uhm well guardian animal I guess."

The group stared at him. "Well I became a big pig when hit with cold water; it seems to have gone away, so I guess I'm not his guardian animal anymore. Still, in that world Sailor Sol was betrayed and murdered by the senshi who looked a lot like you guys. I think memories of that are affecting him."

Usagi cried, "That's so saad what can we do?"

"Give it a rest meatball head."

"Don't be so mean to me Rei."

The two continued to argue until Ami said, "Excuse me, but we don't have much time and from the information I have about Beryl she will not be helping Ranma or Saturn to be friendly towards us."

"Mercury, I have the generals in my possession they were my friends in a previous life. Is it possible that Beryl could do anything with them?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't know and there is no record of anything like this in my archives."

Minako said, "Maybe we could give them the stones as a gesture of goodwill? Then as a return gesture ask them to take a healing escalation from Sailor Moon?"

The group agreed and then Usagi said, "Now it's time for ice cream!" Without further ado they were off.

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Beryl, Saturn and Sol were sitting on Titan looking at Saturn. Hotaru had transformed the moment they arrived and they were all enclosed in a large bubble made of Plasma. Sol still had her fiery wings and flames all along her body. "What now?"

"What do you mean Ranko-San?"

"I'm just thinkin out loud. What do we do if the girls attack instead of helpin' us?"

"That is when we must fight Ranko-San."

"I agree with Hotaru, we give them a chance to help and see what they do."

"Alright, I guess so, but what was up with the girls and you? It's like you guys know each other or somethin?"

"It is long and difficult, but we had a misunderstanding when I first arrived on earth. That was when my generals were destroyed and taken away. I should not have left you in the dark, but I was ashamed of running away." Beryl looked contrite afterwards and stared at Ranma with puppy dog eyes.

"It's alright Beryl, just shoulda told me is all."

Beryl smiled and gave the Sol a large hug saying, "Thank you Ranko you are the best."

Ranma blushed and said nothing as Hotaru also hugged him close and said, "I also thank you for bringing me here to see my planet as we discussed strategy Ranko-San."

The three sat there close for awhile and stared at the Planet Saturn.

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Later that evening the inner Sol, Saturn, and Sailor Beryl were once again at the Juuban field waiting for the inner senshi. The senshi arrived and walked forward with Sailor Moon in the lead. She held the stones in her hand and said, "We will give you these stones, but I must ask that you be healed."

Sol looked at her with some malice and said, "No one will be cleansed here today Serenity. Especially not by you and your Ginzoushou."

Moon was taken aback, but made a decision. She held the gemstones in her hands and gave them to Sol saying, "We do not seek to hurt you. We are defenders of love and Justice, not tyrants. I give you the generals as a gesture of goodwill."

Sol took the gems in her hands and said, "Very well there will be peace between us for now Sailor Senshi, but I will continue to be watching." She gestured to beryl and gave her the gems and then she teleported the three girls away again.

Tuxedo Mask held on to Sailor Moon's shoulder and said, "I hope you did the right thing."

"Me too." The blonde haired girl replied, "Me too."

Authors Notes: I'd really like to thank all my reviewers. You've helped me a great deal in fixing a number of writing problems and story difficulties. I hope you'll stick with me for awhile longer. This arc of the story has at least two or three chapters left and the next world promises to be exciting as well especially since our heroes might just be taking people with them. I don't know where or how this will end, but I promise to make it as exciting as possible when it does.

Anyway thanks again. You guys are the reason I keep writing. Until next time.

Extra Note: The difference between MS word's spell chack and Corel's is apparently major. I probably still have some doozies in here, but I'll remember it for the furture.