Notes: Well I had the next chapter of reconstructing oneself was ready to be proof read but I didn't like it so I scrapped it and will probably get it ready later. Redefining honor chap 10 is with one of my awesome proofreaders and will be posted soon. Oh, I do not own Ranma, sailor moon or Excalibur.

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Pluto was irritated; her irritation was the result of seeing a small glitch with the time gates. She had looked into the future and seen crystal Tokyo as usual, but something was amiss. For the life of her she could not figure it out, the vision the gate showed her seemed off. So here, she was searching the future for a problem that she did not know about.

She had been asleep dreaming about crystal Tokyo when she was rudely interrupted by a large concentration of magic going off. The last time she had felt anything close to that was around ten centuries ago. Unfortunately, she had never paid attention to that event because it was too early to start the manipulation of crystal Tokyo.

The time gates are fickle about how you can use them, due to an order from Serenity the first who had them built in the latter years of her rule. The order was meant to limit the amount of "Seeing" that the guardian could do, that way free will would not be hindered. Sailor Pluto disagreed with this because it limited the best possible outcome for her work.

Around four hundred years ago, the gates had shown her the rebirth of the sailor senshi as well as the moon princess. Since then Sestsuna had been painstakingly working on creating Crystal Tokyo. In her opinion, that was the best outcome, sure billions would die and only a selected few would be allowed to live. It was for the best, humanity would survive and everyone would be happy forever while the reincarnation of Princess Serenity ruled over all.

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Ranma woke with a groan, slowly regaining his senses he realized that he was not in his room. The early morning sun shined down on him without restriction and he could feel the ground on his back. As he became more aware of his situation, he also realized that his neck hurt worse than a hundred mallet strikes with his head coming in a close second. Grunting in displeasure Ranma struggled to his feet.

"Oh my Ranma, are you alright?"

Ranma tried to turn his head but was stopped as he nearly fell over from pain. After regaining his balance he said, "I'm not sure Kasumi, I think I slept wrong or something."

Kasumi took a few steps forward, looked at Ranma, and stared at him attentively.

Ranma shifting uncomfortably under kasumi's gaze said, "I'll be fine Kasumi."

Kasumi grabbed Ranma's hand and said, "Nonsense Ranma, you should go see doc Tofu before your father gets up and wants to spar."

Sighing in frustration Ranma said, "Ok Kasumi, I'll go. I just hope that the doc is up already."

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Ranma walked slowly down the street, if you call stumbling every other step walking. His head was bent at a slightly unnatural angle from his head becoming lodged in-between the rocks he accidentally used as pillows last night. He had tried to adjust his neck by himself to no avail.

His thoughts though were not on his current predicament but on the events of last night. He thought, "Ok, so I am the reincarnation of King Arthur. I have an extremely powerful sword that I need to keep hidden because more loonies are going to be after me."

"I feel completely different than what I felt yesterday. It feels like I am seeing things in a new light. Yesterday I was almost warming up to the idea of spending the rest of my life with Akane but now as I look back on it I fail to see how I ever had deep feeling for her. I mean we are both immature, she hits me a lot and fails to trust me. I am not much better though, I insult her often even though some of it is well dissevered on her part. Wait a minute I slept next to the Koi pond last night and didn't get wet."

Realizing that he had not yet turned into a girl, Ranma started to get excited. He was about to do a series of back flips when his sudden movements aggravated his misaligned neck. So instead he started to happily chant, "Never going to be a girl again, not today, tomorrow or the next day." Seeing the ladle lady standing at her door carefully watering the concrete, Ranma stepped up to her, did his best attempt to bow at his eternal tormenter, and said, "You have been a worthy opponent, but as of today our fight is over."

The elderly woman blinked at him and just smiled. Ranma was about to continue on his way when he saw her take her ladle and reach it into the pail. Still smiling the woman said, "Isn't that nice."

Then splash.

Ranma felt the familiar tingle of her curse wash through her body and wanted to curse the Kami for her distress. After spending a minute attempting to glare daggers at her nemesis (It is hard to glare when your target is giving you the I am so innocent my shit don't stink look) Ranma bowed and said, "Touché." She then took off in a huff and continued on her way stumbling towards doc Tofu's clinic.

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Tofu was busy polishing a very familiar looking metal skullcap lost in his thoughts. He was busy thinking about the past and his failure to his friend/king. He knew that the past was not completely his fault, the whole getting tricked by Morganna, imprisoned, then finally escaping his imprisonment only to fail at banishing Morganna. There were more failures now though, a lot can happen in ten thousand years. With a sigh, he placed the skullcap on his skeleton Betty and waited for his first patient of the day.

Ranma stumbled into Tofu's clinic, calling out Ranma asked, "Hey doc, you in here?" While he waited for a response, he took the time to glance around the room. His eyes wandered from the various charts to the desk, after awhile they finally settled down upon the doc's resident nurse, good old Betty. He was about to shift his gaze once more when his eyes caught sight of a rather familiar looking skullcap. Blinking in disbelief, he stumbled forward to examine it closer.

"Ah, Ranma what can I do for you today?"

With his eyes still locked upon the object on Betty's head he replied, "Oh right, Doc I kinda passed out near the koi pond last night and used some rather large rocks as pillows. Now, I have a really stiff neck and can't seem to adjust it by myself."

Tofu took a few steps forward while he tracked Ranma's gaze, with a slight smirk he asked, "Something look familiar?"

Ranma was only halfway paying attention; the skullcap reminded him of his dream of his past. He knew that this was more than a coincidence. Still ignoring the doctor as his neck was realigned he asked, "Where did you get that?"

"Hmmm, get what? Oh, you must mean Betty, I got her years ago. Picked her up in England."

Ranma not realizing that his neck had been restored to pristine condition said, "No not Betty, that skullcap."

Tofu smirked; he had been waiting for this moment for centuries. Moving to where he could look the young martial artist/former king in his eyes he non-chalontly said, "Probably the same place you got your sword."

Slightly dazed Ranma responded with, "You pulled that out of the koi pond?"

Literal sweat drops could be seen flowing from the chiropractor's neck. Composing himself he said, "No, not the koi pond. "

Coming to his senses, Ranma flicked his wrist and summoned Excalibur. Exchanging glances between the sword, the skullcap and the doc he quietly asked, "Merlin, is that you?"

The newly recognized wizard truly smiled for the first time in centuries, the last time was when he spoke to Arthur the night before the battle. With obvious mirth in his voice he said, "Yes Arthur or rather Ranma as you are called in this life, it's me Merlin." As he spoke, his form shimmered lightly, revealing a European looking man with the same features as Doc Tofu.

Overcoming his shock and disbelief Ranma rushed forward and gave the man a warm embrace. (Arthur and Merlin had a father-son type relationship in the movie.) Slightly embarrassed of his show of emotion Ranma pulled back and asked, "What now? The sword called out to me for a reason and I am sure that you chose to reveal yourself because of it and since I am not born of English decent in this life there must be a reason."

Merlin smiled and thought, "This is amazing, and already just remembering parts of his former self has changed so much of him. He is still the same Ranma, but now he has secondary memories that will only augment his abilities and not change the core person underneath, by much anyway." Taking in a deep breath, Merlin motioned Ranma to follow him into his office. After poring some tea and making sure Ranma was comfortable he said, "I am not fully aware of why parts of your soul have been awaken but I know of some things that must be done."

Locking eyes with his old friend Ranma asked, "What must I do?"

Returning his friends gaze he said, "Well, right now there are several things that you might want to do, nothing that you must do though."

"Ok."

After taking a sip of his tea Merlin said, "First I think I need to give you a history lesson." Seeing Ranma nod he continued, "I went to face Morganna after I left you all those years ago; I had meant to weaken her enough so that your son would slay her. Well your son did manage to wound her almost fatally but Morganna had just enough power left in her to survive. With the last of her energies she managed to summon forth the dragon one last time and escape."

Ranma jerked forward and said, "You mean she is free and running around somewhere?"

Merlin sighed and continued, "Yes she escaped. However, her escape was not without consequence. She wound up imprisoning herself as she had done to me. It took her almost seven centuries to reach the world of the living once more. I know this because it took me almost as long, the thing is though our magic has been severely weakened and takes time to undo the damage done by long incarceration." Holding up his had to stall any comments that were coming his way Merlin said, "Let me continue this story uninterrupted."

Ranma nodded.

"When I first learned that Morganna had escaped her prison I was still too weak to do anything to her so I sent Percival instead." Seeing that he was about to be interrupted Merlin once more held up his hand. Once he was positive of Ranma's silence he said, "Yes, Percival lived. You remember sending him questing to find the grail. Well it turns out that because he had been wounded he drank from the grail before delivering to you. That small drink gave him immortality. Now back to the story. I sent Percival out to defeat Morganna, I am not aware of all the details but he was defeated but not killed. You see out of all your knights, Morganna hated Percival the most. While almost all of your other knights betrayed you or died, Percival defied her. He did not succumb to her trickery and he escaped his death because the grail called out to him. Therefore, three hundred years ago I sent Percival to seek out Morganna so she would be defeated once and for all. It should have been easy, with her diminished magic's but she had allies. These allies were able to overcome Percival, what they did next backfired on them though."

Taking a moment to let Ranma digest this information Merlin took a sip of tea, seeing Ranma start to get a little impatient he continued, "In short they used one of their many potions to turn him into what he was not. Where once he was young looking he was now shriveled and old. His pure heart became perverted though not evil. In many ways he became a monster, although he never killed his allegiance was no longer to you. The good thing was though; he was not on their side either. Their plan backfired on them, once he awoke from their treatment he managed to escape and loot their village. He stole many magical artifacts and martial arts techniques and journeyed here to Japan to form his own school of martial arts." Seeing understanding dawning in Ranma's eyes he continued, "Yes, Percival is Happossi. I know it is shocking but that is what happened. I have tried over the years to undo the damage unsuccessfully. Now though I think we have a chance, my magic is still not at one hundred percent but combined with you and the strength of Excalibur we might have a chance."

Ranma was sitting quietly contemplating Merlin's story after a few minutes of silence he said," Basically you need me to draw upon the strength of Excalibur."

"Yes but it is more than that. We need to get him away from Nerima, away from Cologne."

At the mention of Colognes name Ranma tensed and asked, "Why do we need to get him away from Cologne/"

Tofu sighed and said, "Because Cologne is Morganna and even though Happossi is not her ally she does not want him to be restored. Especially now with you once again wielding Excalibur. She probably already knows that you have awakened part of your soul and more allies for you would hurt her chances of stealing the sword for herself."

"But how would she even wield the sword, she would have to be of the Pen Dragon line to wield it."

Merlin sadly sighed again and said, "Not necessarily, any mage trained in the arts of Avalon can hold Excalibur but only those of the Pen Dragon line can wield it to its fullest capacity. There is one other small problem though; if you have awoken then your former son has also been awoken. Cologne would probably seek him out so she can use him once more."

Ranma sighed it seems that things were going to get interesting very soon. Shaking his head he asked, "Can't you just find him and point him out to me, I mean you knew I was coming surely there must be away."

Merlin shook his head and said, "No, the only reason I knew you were coming is because I sensed Excalibur awaken last night. This morning I called upon the dragon to show me what happened, it will be some time before I can do so again. Partially because we need to take care of Happossi first, and I am nowhere near full strength. For some time now I have been devoting a large part of my magic to other uses."

"What other uses?"

"Right now that is the least of your worries, don't worry though I will tell you soon enough. Right now we need to plan a few things."

Ranma nodded his head in understanding and said, "You mean like: Freeing Percival, Keeping the sword away from my wicked half sister, Dodging attempts from my son to take Excalibur."

Merlin nodded and said, "Yes that and more. We also need to take care of your situation at home."

Ranma snorted and said, "Yeah good luck with that. Pops has my life so screwed up I can only commit ritual suicide."

Merlin shook his head and said, "No you have more options, but first let me ask you something? What are your feelings towards all of your fiancées?"

Ranma silently contemplated for a few minutes before saying, "Well I really don't love any of them. The funny thing is, is that last night before I went to sleep I would of probably married Akane. Now though I do not seem to like her that much. I guess having happy memories kind of gave me a clue to how relationships are supposed to work. I know that we are both to blame for our problems as well as our fathers but I just do not see myself with her in the future. Uchan I still view as a friend, actually I am seeing her as more of an acquaintance now. I do not think that I need to mention Shampoo or Kodachi. It's weird how my perspective has just shifted overnight."

Merlin nodded with sympathy and said, "Often when people remember their past lives their personalities shift, usually combing all of their past experiences that they remember. Though most of the times these memories are absorbed slowly and merge even slower, for some reason your memories were unlocked all at once, that caused your personality so shift. If you noticed, you are talking better, thinking more coherently and you seem to of gained some height and mass. The latter probably happened when you claimed Excalibur. Now that we have your feelings sorted out about you potential suitors what do you think of the others."

Ranma's face took on a dark look for a moment before he said, "Well pops I think I want to kill, that's disturbing because in this life I have only killed once and that was to save Akane. Mom is pretty high on my shit list for many reasons. Primarily for letting pops take me on that trip, but also for her harping on manliness as well as her obscure sense of honor. Mt. Tendo, I just want to beat senseless for putting his family through so much. If he had only grown up and recovered after the death of his wife his daughters would not be so messed up. Nabiki I understand and hope that she can have a chance at happiness, though I am no longer willing to let her run all over me. And kasumi makes me kinda sad because of all she has had to miss out on." As he said Kasumi's name he noticed that Merlin did not go crazy, looking at him oddly he asked, "Hey Merlin, why didn't you go all crazy when I said Kasumi's name?"

Merlin grinned and said, "Well before your memories came back to you I could not risk getting close to her because I feared that I might not be paying attention when you were restored." Seeing confusion on Ranma's face he clarified, "It takes a lot of effort for me to constantly use my magic. If I had allowed myself to get distracted then I might not have noticed you reclaiming Excalibur. Therefore, even though I have feelings for Kasumi I knew that my duty to you came first, so I just acted like a loon so we would not get too close. Now that you r memories have awoken I can start to slowly draw my magic back and then can see if I am able to pursue a relationship with her."

Ranma nodded and asked, "So what do we do now?"

Merlin grinned and said, "Well first we move you out of the Tendo's. Once we get you moved out I should have the paperwork ready to put you in my own clan. That solves most of your problems, with the exception of the amazons. We will not be moving far though, for some reason I feel we must go to Juban. Once there we should be able to restore Percival without interference." Looking at the time Merlin's for shimmered again and he said, "I think you might want to get going if you want to catch breakfast before school."

Ranma looked at the clock and was about to rush off when he was stopped by a hand on his arm. Looking at his old friend he asked, "Something else wrong?"

Tofu just shook his head and said, "No anything's wrong I just wanted to tell you to stop by here after school so I can make some last minute plans."

Ranma nodded his head and said, "Sure thing doc, I'll be here after school, it just depends on when I can lose the rest of the crew." With that said Ranma took off in an attempt to catch breakfast before he had to go to school."

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I know that Ranma is out of character but I hope that I explained that well enough if not let me know. In addition, there are some gaps and holes in the plot but I will be doing my best to weave everything together in later chapters because I have already divulged a lot of the plot before hand I really think it is necessary for me to leave the gaps in this chapter. But if I miss something and you want me to elaborate let me know. Thanks, oh, I am taking a mini vacation so I might not post anything for a while; it just depends because I am leaving Thursday.