Monster Senshi
Chapter 1. Repercussions.
Important Authors Note: I am using, for the most part, monsters from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. If you want pictures you can do a serch for the name of the monster and Monster Girl Encyclopedia. I am also desexualizing the descriptions of each monster, as that is the wrong direction for this story. If you prefer, I can place links on my profile. If I get enough requests I will.
Setsuna's eyes slowly opened, to see a badly damaged Time Gate. She stood up while gently holding her head in her hands to ward off her headache, and wincing at the myriad of cuts .
"What happened? Wait, I remember, I was trying to get rid of Ranma, and my staff exploded. I must have caused a paradox storm, and overloaded the gates. Wait a second! The SENSHI! Where are they? What happened to them?" a panicked Setsuna said. She then made her way to the Time Gates to inspect them. "Okay, no manipulating time for at least a thousand years. If I try it the gates will shatter, but I think I can use them to look at the current time stream, as long as I go gently."
Slowly she starts to manipulate the time gate. "This was a lot easier when I had my staff," she muttered darkly. She continued with, "Let's see the princess seems to be in the right place and time. Luna's on her way to meet her, and Artemis is with Venus. Michiru and Haruka are still together, so far so good. Professor Tomoe's dead… WAIT A MINUTE HE'S DEAD? WHERE'S HOTARU? FOR THAT MATTER WHERE ARE MAKOTO, AMI, AND REI? Oh, there's Rei, what's she doing in there? Not important I guess, now where are the rest, and where is the guy who started this? Oh, I see Ranma approaching a stone statue that looks a lot like Ami and an odd glowing skeleton like being in the corner. If I'm lucky the glowing skeleton will kill him."
She watched as Ranma approached the statue the statue it is oddly decorated with a bikini, with brick patterned stone bracers on each wrist, brick patterned stone slabs on the upper arms one of which has writing carved on it, and what looked like brick patterned tight leggings.
The skeleton in the corner looked at him with glowing purple eyes as he approached the statue. Her black hair moved softly in the air currents. The skeleton had pure skeletal arms and legs, but what looked like a flesh torso with bones gripping it up the sides and three small bones on her obviously small female chest, and half of her face was covered with what looked like a scary skull mask with only the eye showing. Purple fire was being emitted from her joints.
"Why the hell did pops force me to take this job," Ranma muttered, as he avoided getting close to the skeleton girl, and approached the statue while pulling a book out of his pocket. The professor wanted me to translate the writing on this statue, and to record what happens when I put my name in the proper place."
Ranma glared at the runes for a second, and then copied the runes into a notebook. He leafed through the book he was carrying, and translated the words. "lets see, I think this set of runes indicate that it's name is Ami. This set says something about being a guardian of Mercury, I think… no I think it's better translated as Mercury guardian…"
At this point Pluto's skin paled, from her normal tan to a pale white as she continued to listen in on Ranma's translation.
"This part speaks of great knowledge, and over here seems to be a bunch of personality traits. This last part reads as, 'I serve,' I guess that is where I put my name," he finished.
He took out a sheet of paper with runes on it and a small carving tool he slowly and deeply carved in his name in to the statue's arm in the ancient runes. As soon as he finished the stone arm he was holding for support softened until it felt like cool flesh and the statues blue eyes opened.
It spoke, "My name is Ami, how may I serve you master?"
Ranma backed up, turned around and ran… at least he tried to. He collided with the skeleton girl that had moved behind him and fell on her in a compromising position, his face between her small breasts. She reached down and pulled him into a kiss while thinking I like him I think I'll let him keep me. She then said in a soft voice, "you seem nice, I think I'll stay with you, my name is Hotaru."
Ranma had only one thought as his pigtail sproinged backwards, I'm going to be in a lot of trouble when I get back.
Meanwhile, Setsuna was banging her head on the floor, because she was afraid that doing it on the gates would break them. All the while she was banging her head she was screaming, "WHY!" over and over. She said it with each impact of her head. An hour later she stood up with a splitting headache and decided to see what had became of the last senshi.
Setsuna took a deep breath, half a bottle of extra strength aspirin, and a bottle of scotch, before she set the time gate on the task find the last inner senshi. When she saw the screen she groaned, and said, "Another monster, the universe must hate me. Not only that, she is in the same ruin as Ranma, the only good thing about this is that she is in the opposite direction from the exit Ranma will most likely use." Setsuna paused, and said something that is taboo to say about anything involving Ranma, in fact there were people in the Japanese government, that were trying to make a law against it. "It can't get any worse."
As she said that Makoto the Lizardman race, looked up as she heard and felt a rumbling. Rock dust fell from the ceiling for a few seconds then the tremor ceased.
Setsuna used the gate to check on what happened, and to put it mildly, cursed up such a storm that Mount Everest, would have melted from the heat of her anger, and the multilingual profanity. The stairs that she was counting on taking Ranma AWAY from Makoto had collapsed, which left the only way out, through Makoto's lair. She only stopped when a small piece of the gate fell off, and reminded her that she needed to take it easy around the gates until they repaired themselves… in about one thousand years, what's worse is that while the damage isn't retroactive it still won't be safe to try and manipulate events for nearly a century before she broke the gates.
She watched as a wax sealed jar fell on Ranma dousing him with water, the resulting girl was NOT a petite, well endowed red head. Instead a girl only a few inches shorter than Ranma with a more tanned complexion, purple eyes, and green hair stood there sighing in frustration before pulling a thermos out and dousing herself with hot water. She saw him turn toward his two followers and explain about Jusenkyo.
Ami just nodded, and said, "That's no problem master."
"Please don't call me master, Ami," Ranma said, annoyed.
"What do you want me to call you?" she responded
"Ranma is fine," he said with a sigh.
Hotaru also put her two cents in, "I also don't have a problem with being with you."
Ranma had to ask, "Don't you find this strange?" He saw them both look at him oddly. He blushed, and answered his own question, "Right, stupid question, well lets continue."
While Pluto waited for the inevitable meeting between Ranma and Makoto, she looked back in time shakily. She didn't want to know, but she HAD to know. As the years turned back, she saw that she WASN'T married to Genma, and she hadn't born his child, but he was still her son. She watched the scene play out, knowing that she couldn't change a thing. She watched as she approached a grieving woman, who had just found out she was sterile, and offered to let her use one of her eggs. Setsuna watched, as she made a contract with the woman and a man, in the presence of a notary. The contract stated that if she deemed that they were unfit to be parents that she could have him transferred to her clan, voiding any claims on his honor associated with their name. Finally she saw herself write a note and stick it on the back of the time gate.
Setsuna blinked, then walked around the gate and took the note down. The note was angry and insulting and said this: YOU IDIOT! RANMA WAS NEEDED TO TAKE DOWN A FOE THAT THE SENSHI WEREN'T READY FOR! YOU NEARLY KILLED MOST OF JAPAN, INCLUDING THE SENSHI, BY TRYING TO REMOVE RANMA! I TOOK HAD TO TAKE THIS STEP TO PREVENT THAT! WE WILL SOON MERGE INTO ONE, BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A PIECE OF MY MIND BEFORE THAT!
She looked at the note, and then set the gates to watch Ranma's life play out, needless to say she was furious at how he was treated, yes she tried to eliminate him, but she never actually tried to make his life that kind of hell. She paled as she saw the battle with saffron. "My god, the senshi weren't even active then," she said. The power being thrown around boggled her mind, considering that one of them had no magic enhancement what so ever. "If Ranma wasn't born, we would all be dead."
Shaking slightly she started to feel the merging of her new self with her old one. Dismissing it as inevitable she turned back toward where Ranma (Her Son!) was about to meet Makoto.
"What the?" Ranma said, as he entered the lair, and saw what lived there.
It was a girl, she looked about seventeen, had a fairly large chest, wearing a scaled green armor chest plate over what looked like a one piece pale green bathing suit cinched at the waste by a brown leather belt. The bottom of the chest plate was held in place by another belt. She wore green scaled metal shoulder pads to supplement her chest plate and hip guards as well all of them colored green with silver trim. She had long gloves that covered the back of her hands to just above the elbows and was secured by a belt. Lastly she has on dark green leggings that went from mid thigh, and disappeared into what looked like a pair of mid calf boots, with the part from just above the ankles down removed. A sheathed long sword of western design completed the outfit. Her hands had four fingered green scaled hands, and reptilian feet with three toes and claws.
While the clothes were odd they weren't what stopped Ranma. What stopped him was the green clawed hands which had three fingers, a thumb, claws, and scales and reptilian feet with three toes, claws, and scales, the green fan like ears, her green dragon-like eyes, and her thick lizard like tail. All of these features screamed 'not human.'
"Who are you?" she asked
"I am Ranma Saotome a martial artist that was conned into doing a job by my father. And the two following me are Hotaru," he gestured to her, before continuing, "and Ami," he finished pointing at the mentioned girl.
Ami nodded at Makoto, while Hotaru shyly waved.
"You're a martial artist?" Makoto asked, with a gleam of excitement in her eyes.
"I'm the best," He replied confidently.
"Fine, I'll lead you out, but in exchange I want a match."
Ranma nodded and thought, She looks like she could give me a good fight, this should be interesting.
Makoto lead the group through the rest of the ruins until they came out the back of them.
"We're out, now let's fight," Makoto said while drawing her sword.
Ranma nodded as he got into a fighting stance, he then said, "Ami will you call the start of the fight?"
The golem nodded, and said, "Ready, fight."
With speed and strength the original Makoto would have envied, the Lizardman dashed in, and attacked with a blinding combo with her sword. Ranma jumped over her, and kicked her in the back, using it as a spring board, and sending her into the ground.
She easily stood back up, and said, "Not bad, let's see how you handle this, IMPULSE!" As she said the word, 'impulse' a wave of power slid around the ground toward Ranma.
He easily jumped over it and yelled, "Moko takabisha!" and sending a blast of gold confidence boosted chi at her.
She frowned, and using a chi infused sword slice, dissipated the chi attack. "Using emotional chi? Pathetic."
"What about you? Your attack seems to be purely ground based; at least mine can hit something not standing still like a statue. What are you so weak, and slow that you can't hit someone that can go over it?" he responded tauntingly.
Makoto, saw red, and said, "I'll show you little man." She then attacked, hot with angry energy.
Ranma smiled, and a quick spiral later, "HIRYUU SHOUTEN HA!" A tornado springs up carrying the hapless lizard-girl up into the sky, dissipating, and dropping her unconscious to the ground.
Setsuna considered her options in regard to Ranma, while she watched the fight between Makoto and Ranma. She eventually up with five options.
Option one: Leave him where he is. Unfortunately, while this option was tempting, it wouldn't work. Leaving him in Nerima would leave the inner senshi down one, perhaps two, and there would be no Saturn when she is needed.
Option two: Take the senshi away from Ranma. She rejected this quickly, because Ami's star seed rendered any writing already on her unchangeable. Hotaru found a friendly soul after ten thousand years of isolation, and would most likely refuse to give up being close to him. Makoto, she is an unknown, and with the gates in their current condition Setsuna can't check the future. Current estimates for return of future scanning capabilities is after the war with Beryl
Option three: Since saffron has been defeated kill Ranma. This was rejected outright. The current situation proves that attempting to kill him causes more problems than it's worth. That is not even considering that he is technically her son.
Option four: Was rejected due, to the impossibility of having them performing their senshi duties without telling Ranma. Ami would need a direct command from Ranma.
Final option: Use the contract to adopt him, and bring all four to her house. This option seemed to be the only viable one. It would allow the two of the three or if she's lucky all three monster senshi to be in Juuban, allow her to try and keep Ranma under control, and allow the senshi to get training to replace or supplement the experience gained from the death busters. She has no idea yet, if the death busters will still attack without Hotaru being the host of Mistress 9. Unfortunately, she needs to buy a bigger house. The one she lives in now was meant for four people. If the outers need to live with her again she would have seven people living under one roof.
She sighed at the inevitability of her decision, and turned to the gates to watch Makoto's reaction to her loss.
Makoto opened her green reptilian eyes as she regained consciousness. Putting a hand to her head she said, "Ow, my head. What happened?"
"Are you okay? I used the Hiryuu Shoutan Ha," Ranma asked in a concerned voice.
"I'm fine. You beat me?" she responded.
"Yup, told you I was the best," he said proudly.
She smiled, and asked, "You're strong will you marry me?"
Ranma froze as his mind took stock of the situation. Okay, I have one stone girl who says I'm her master, one bone girl that wants me to keep her (whatever that means,) and one violent girl that wants to marry me because I beat her in a fight. Wait; marry me because I beat her? ANOTHER SHAMPOO? That's it, if I bring even one of these three girls home, I'll get bashed by Akane so…)
Ranma shook his head, and said, "Saotome secret technique!"
Makoto tensed, and thought, Why is he attacking me? I only asked him to marry me.
"Run Away!" the pigtailed boy finished, as he dashed off leaving a dust cloud trail.
All three girls left behind, face fault with a sweat drop on their head. This was a good trick, considering that two of them don't sweat.
The three of them look at the dust cloud, then at each other, and then the dust cloud again. The three of them then started running after the rapidly fading figure, each of them with a different yell.
"Ranma!" the golem cried out, as she took off.
"Ranma-sama!" the skeleton called out, as she was quick to follow.
"Come back here and marry me!" the lizardgirl yelled, as she over took the other two.
Ranma ran up to the professor, and handed him the paper with the translation, and said hurriedly, "Here's the translation the statue came to life, send the payment to the dojo gottagobye." He then dashed off leaving a bewildered doctor of archeology holding a piece of paper, and coughing in the dust cloud.
Just as the air cleared the three monster girls ran up to him. Makoto asked for the group, "Did you see a pigtailed boy come by here?" the confused doctor pointed in the direction Ranma ran off in, and the girls took off again.
"Last time I ever hire from THAT ward," the doctor grumbled as he sat down to read the paper Ranma gave him.
Setsuna saw the chase, and knowing Ranma's history, teleported in front of the three girls.
The three girls came to a stop. Each of them had a different thought running through their head.
She looks familiar. I think, where have I seen her before? Makoto thought.
I think I know her, but it's been so long since I have seen anybody, that it's impossible, ran through Hotaru's head.
Pluto, Ami thought upon recognizing her.
"I think it best if the three of you come with me for right now," Pluto said tiredly.
"Why is that guardian Pluto?" Ami asked.
"Because, if you go to him now you will be causing him pain. I promise that I will bring him to you three tomorrow." the time guardian said. She then thought, Only because the city office buildings are closed on Sundays.
Ami nodded, and said, "I remember you were trustworthy, I will come."
The two other girls quickly agreed as well, since they had lost his trail anyway.
Monsters taken and modified from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia
1. Skeleton
2. Lizardman
3. Golem