Disclaimer: I'm very creative! I admit it! I create wonderful characters and worlds, all in my mind!

Sadly, Sailor Moon, Ranma ½, and Love Hina are not any of the worlds I created. I was way to late to take that credit. Oh well… CAPPA's mine, at least!

Moon Cats: Walkabout

Chapter 4

Ichiro Hibuki was normally a reasonable man. That, and his tie to the Sailor Scouts/Soldiers, was the primary reason for his Captains shield and CAPPA command berth.

Swan shapped blimps kidnapping his partner and a civilian, however, put him into a foul mood. No pun intended.

"What do you MEAN you don't know who that was?"

Ranma Saotome shrugged. "This crap happens all the time around here. They'll probably be back soon, though."

"Why, pray tell, do you say that?"

"Cause they missed Akane."

WHAM!

"Ms. Tendo, while this time I sympathize, if you mallet one more person in my presence I WILL run you in. Got me?"

Akane Tendo gulped. "Yes… Yes sir."

They crying man, Soun Tendo, grabbed up Ranma, and shook the boy. "Ranma! You have to save Kasumi!"

"How the heck do you want me to do that? That things half way to china by now!"

"Okinawa, from the direction it flew." Hibuki sighed. He opened his cell and dialed. "Haruka? It's Hibiki. Can I borrow you and that Helicopter of yours? Some loon kidnapped Luna."
He listened. "No, not the Gaki. I actually don't think this is going to turn out to be that big a deal, for some reason, but I want to pursue the idiots before they manage to piss her off." He paused. "Great! I have to call the SDF Tracking station to confirm their heading, so I'll meet you at the airport. Bye."

He turned to Ranma. "I assume you're coming?"

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Luna awoke, again to voices.

"Neither held the sacred swan idol?"

"No, my King, but it was with them. One must be the Swan Princess!"

"Prepare the test, then. We'll see which one I shall marry, tomorrow!"

A closing, and locking, door punctuated the conversation, and Luna fell back into oblivion.

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"I'm glad you could make arrangements so quickly, Mr. Yui." Keitaro commented as the two men settled more comfortably into their seats. The Air Egypt jet had just leveled off, letting htem finally get comfy.

"Hmmm? Oh, I have a great travel agent." The white haired 'man' chuckled. "I call them Mercury Travel."

"Like the messenger god?"

"Or the computer." Artemis grinned at the other mans confused look. "So, how did you translate this tablet? It's not exactly like any other language man kind developed."

He gestured at the print outs, pictures of the tablet Keitaro had translated. The glasses wearing youth shrugged. "Luck. I stumbled across another object… hold on…" Keitaro dug about in his pack for another print out. The picture was of a clay tablet, with "scratches" that resembled the language of the moon story tablet. "Here it is. I think some merchant was teaching a son to translate the two languages. It gave me a good starting lexicon, though it wasn't quite a rosetta stone."

"You did well."

"Mr. Yui?"

"Call me Artemis."

"Okay… Artemis… if you don't mind me saying so, you seem to know something about this language."

"I've seen it before…" Artemis admitted. "It's called 'Mau'."

"When did you see it? Where?"

"A… Long time ago." Artemis replied. "In a place that… well it was destroyed in a war. It doesn't exist any more."

That was only the truth. The central city of the Mau, or Moon Cats, fell an hour before the palace it's self.

It was the language of his own people.

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Luna grunted, pushing one more time, then gave up. The heavy door was very sturdy, and as a human she couldn't make it budge. Neko-jin Luna might, but Kasumi was awake and watching.

"I'm sure Ranma will be here shortly." The girl calmly, almost cheerfully, assured her. "He always arrives in the nick of time."

"Sounds familiar." Luna sighed. She'd slept through the night, thanks to the repeated blows to the head. "I must say, you're taking this very well."

"Oh my… Shouldn't I? The fruit is wonderful, and Kirin was so nice the first time I was kidnapped."

Luna blinked, then remembered that issue of the Manga. "Oh… well…"

Suddenly the door was unbarred, and opened. Two armored guards stepped in. "It is time for the tests. You will come!"

Luna debated going for her gun, but saw twenty more guards outside. Her compact pistol, the only one she could find comfortable for her petite hands, wouldn't do much other then garuntee they'd be killed. She cursed her lack of spare ammo. Artemis had warned her…

"To hell with him." She muttered. "Take me to your leader."

"Oh, that is something we've never gotten around to saying. That's strange, don't you think." Kasumi commented.

Luna chose to ignore her, and followed the guards. They came to a throne room, where they were told to sit on a pair of swings in the middle of the room. The king stepped down from his dias. "I am King Minokous, and one of you is destined to be my bride! Let the test be done!"

The floor under both retracted, revealing a shallow wading pool. Suddenly the swings split, dumping the girls into the water.

Kasumi changed, while Luna fell gracelessly through the water, landing on the bottom, on her tail.

"And lo, the Princess's servants shall be the very swans of the sky! The black haired one is the princess!"

"We shall be wed immediately!" The king announced, looking straight at Luna.

Common sense dictates that you never drop a cat into water. While we could perhaps forgive them, since they hadn't realized Luna was a cat, Luna was not in so forgiving a mood.

"The hell we will." She stated, standing. She pulled her gun, and fired two rounds into two vases on either side of the kings throne. Then she pointed the smoking weapon at his royal head. "Let us go, or I'm going to give you a third nostril. Understand?"

The man whimpered.

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Hibuki stared at the bodies, armed and armored, littering the ground. Haruka, standing next to him, whistled.

"I couldn't have done better as Sailor Uranus." She commented softly.

She was referring to the whirlwind of destruction that was Ranma Saotome, martial artist, as he destroyed over one hundred pike men. He was unarmed, and single handedly he'd beaten them all in less then four minutes. Even more impressively, none of them looks seriously injured, just knocked out!

"You coming?" the pig tailed boy himself asked. Hibuki walked up even as the impressive martial arts master lifted his fist to the door. Rather it was to knock, or just knock it down, Hibuki would never know.

At that moment the doors swung open, and Luna walked through them while carrying the swan form of Kasumi Tendo.

"Luna! How'd you get away?" Hibuki asked.

"Like you said, Hibuki, I'm very diplomatic. Can we go home now?"

AN: Okay, it's been way to long, but here's the next chapter of the Moon Cats saga. I'm sorry it took so long, and I will try to do more very soon. Hopefully.