Mercury Family
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Chapter 4 – Memories of the past.
Selen, Akane, Usagi, Luna, Makoto, Rei and Mamoru followed Ranma for a bit, as he guided them through some unknown plains, filled with images and sounds, from both his and her life.
That's it until they spotted a big sphere of light ahead of them. From said sphere all images and sounds were coming. But as they got closer they saw that the chaos of images and sounds did not come from a single sphere, but from three spheres at once.
Each sphere merges and split in and from each other like a heart beating. With a big sphere at the center keeping it's position, while the others move in and out of it.
"What is that Ranma?" Akane asked
"It is his soul. His, Selen and someone else soul" Rei answered.
"How did you guess?" Ranma asked
"I'm a trained Shinto Maiden; also I'm trained as a Shaman, Amazon and Sorcerer." Rei explained
"Let me guess she's the old ghoul pupil number one." Ranma deadpanned
"You're right on the spot dad." Makoto answered while shaking her head.
"How did you found this Ranma?" asked Selen.
"As you guys were fighting that thing and weakening it, I fought my fears and found the root of the fears right here feeding it self from those spheres. After touching it while fighting my fears, every thing had become crystal clear to me." Ranma answered
"What did you learn Ranma-san?" Asked Luna
"That coincidence doesn't exist. It's all a part of THE ALMIGHTY grand design, that's why soul-mates and soul-siblings will stay together forever." Ranma explained
"Err…Can you said that in Japanese please?" asked Mamoru.
"What my beloved is trying to say is that souls that share a bond like mine and his will always be together. That's why I had born as Tendo Akane in the same period that he did." Akane said
"Yes Akane you're right. But the link that I mentioned had linked me with your existence for far long than this life. For example on our previous life I and you where together like we are now, but on that time I was your father not your mother." Ranma complemented
"Wait a minute that would mean that you were King Hermes of the Mercury Kingdom. You were the fabulous god of speed and cure." Selen said awed
As if on cue Ranma invoke his power, and instantly he was wearing a mix between King Endymion's clothes and the Greek clothes of Hermes, with them been in blue and white. Seeing this transformation some spark of memory appeared on Mamoru's mind, and strangely the memory was projected to all presents to see.
Following this impulse he turns from Tuxedo Mask into Prince Endymion. His transformation calls more memories from the girls and Selen. As it was before, it was shown to everyone.
"U-Uncle Hermes?" asked Usagi as her senshi fuku become her royal princess gown
"Yes little Serenity it's me." Hermes/Ranma said
"Melina is that you?" Serenity asks looking to Rei.
"I'm here Serenity" Rei answer Serenity while fiercely hugging her
"Don't ever leave me again." Serenity whispered in her ear with tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
"Never, Neither I nor Endymion will ever leave you. Death can not split us my beloved." Rei/Melina answered back as she was also on the brick of crying out aloud
By now Mamoru/Endymion had joined Usagi/Serenity and Melina/Rei into a tight group hug. Akane looked at Ranma and promptly hug him. "I wish that we could have married this time." She whispered
"In a way we did, look over there." Ranma said pointing to crystal lying on the floor a few meters away. Akane looked at it and saw her old body inside the crystal hugging someone.
When she got close to it, she saw that her old body was naked and hugging a naked Ranma. The scene promptly made her blush. "Wait sis if you and Ranma are inside that crystal how can it be that both of you are standing here?" Makoto asked.
"Easy answered my daughter, you see those are my and your sister old bodies, what you are seeing standing before you are our minds projections." Ranma explained
"Like a g-ghost?" Makoto asked
"I'll explain later Mako-chan, this is a complex subject." He said trying to change the subject
"But where is my aunt? You said that her soul is here as well." Mamoru asked
"I'm right here nephew." Said a voice coming from the spheres
"Auntie are you inside one of these spheres?" He asked
"I am one of them, you see when it was the time for me and my brother to born from our mother Nodoka, something happened and my baby old body died before coming out of momma. But I wouldn't go into death embrace without a fight, I more then ever wished to be with my brother, so I jumped inside his body before it was too late." She explained
"Sis can you tell me, if the soul of the poor girl that drowned at Junsekyo is here?" Ranma asked
"No bro she isn't, when the spring evaporated last time she did go to heavens with that angel" Ranko said
"Angel? What angel?" Serenity asked interested.
"Well it'll be better to shown you." Ranma said before showing the event that he'll never forget.
Back at the real world only a couple of minutes had transpired, when suddenly Ranko's body started glow with a golden aura and then something had blasted out of her back and through the ceiling. Seconds later Ranko's body shifted to her male form for a brief moment and at the same time Sailor mercury body shifted to that of Akane.
"RANMA-SAMA!" Kodachi cried aloud 'So that was the final evidence, you are really living inside your sister.' She thought as a lone tear fell from her eyes
"SIS!" Nabiki yelled before a sudden thought hit her 'Oh sis you really did reborn, Ranma thank you for bringing her back, now more then ever I'm in your debt, and I hate being in debt'
At that moment Sailor Moon change into Princess Serenity, and Tuxedo Mask shifted into Prince Endymion. Not long after that Luna that had changed into a human form released the hands of the other senshis, and few by few all of them started to awake.
"U-Usagi…daughter are you all right?" Daisuke asked
"Yes dad, I'm ok." She answered
"Son what happened why did you and she changed a second time?" asked Kodachi.
"Because while in there mom we…got to a place where the souls of auntie Ranko, Uncle Ranma and Selen are. In that place any memory or thought from anyone had become an image, like a small video clip, so I and Usagi learned that we're reincarnations of a prince and a princess." Mamoru explained
"Oh my…" Kodachi said
"Hey what's up with everyone pulling my sister TM speech?" Nabiki growled
"/giggle/, that had come in hand Koda-chan, Nabs don't fret about it ok? But I'm a bit worried." Ranko said
"Worried? Why are you worried Ranma-sama?" Kodachi asked
"After so much trouble that I got into keeping that black rose ego in check, an event like this makes me worry that it'll set her free." Ranko explained
"Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Don't worry my Ranma-sama I learned too much from you to fall back to that stuck up girl that I once was. I learned from my mistakes, I saw the true joy that can exist by being humble."
"Err mother…I think that you must faster my training up a little bit." Rei said turning back to her civilian guise.
"Why so daughter?" asked her father
"The demon that we fought was sent by someone, and I have a feeling that things should not be as they are." Rei explained
"You got that feeling too?" asked Makoto as she too turn back to normal.
"Yes, I feel as if I'm to be Sailor Mars no doubt about that, but I feel that I should only awake my powers a while later." Rei said
"Strange I'm feeling the same thing. Mom could it be that your chaos factor is responsible for this?" Makoto asked
"It's highly possible, come to think about it no plan survive me the first encounter, no mater how much effort or details are applied into it." Ranko said
At that moment in a place far away and into another dimension a figure gazed upon the Tsukinos living room and was cursing and swearing for the thousand time, the person know as Ranma Saotome.
"That #!£¢ (the person that are swearing is now swearing in Orc-ish) I should have resurrected that Akane Tendo back there at Junsekyo so she would have killed him by now." The figure muttered aloud
That's when it saw Ranko turning to Ranma, and Ami to Akane.
"Blast it! Now I can't even get a legal order to keep him away from Mercury…wait how did that happened? Since when Ami and Akane are the same?...No matter, he is still a mortal and Ami-chan is a senshi, Crystal Tokyo is not before a few thousand years, I can wait until his is dead and buried….Unfortunately I'll need to wait four hundred years, oh well better enjoy the ride and the troubles that he'll got him self into." The figure wondered aloud
When it saw Sailor Moon turning into Serenity, and Tuxedo Mask turn into Endymion, said person blew up and resume swearing in many different languages, but it all resume to a very old and used phrase "RANMA SAOTOME THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"Atcham" Ranko sneezed freaking the hell out of the adults and Ami.
"Someone must be speaking about me, and funny it feels like old times when someone blamed me for everything." Ranko said while blushing a bit
"If it is Ryoga I'll make bacon steaks out of him. He got lucky to be breathing when I was done with him last time." Ami said as she rubbed her knuckles.
"When did you found out about pig-boy?" asked Shampoo.
"A bit before I reborn and when I was 10 and P-chan transformed in front me on my bath." Ami replied
"Ouch! And he is still alive?" Yuka wondered
"It is thanks to mom that he is, and that was the last time that I did give in to my anger." Ami said
"Amen to that honey, but now a certain cat owns us an explanation." Nabiki said glaring at Luna.
"Well it all started millenniums ago in an ancient kingdom…." And so Luna told them what she remembered from the Silver Millennium, her late Queen last effort and wish. Then Ranko started speaking telling them about first her memories as Hermes, then as Selen, as both memories told about the live on Mercury, his marriage with the Senshi of Ice, the birth of their daughter, his death at the hands of Metallia.
Then everyone hear Selen version as how she did managed to save the Mercury Queen by bringing her to Earth. She told how the Mercury Queen along side with other survivors of the Silver Millennium joined forces and created a huge city that later had become a kingdom, only to fall apart with the murderer of the Queen.
"Wait are you telling me that the ancient legends from witch come the origin of us Amazons, the Musk and Phoenix are in reality true, and that everything had come from the Silver Millennium?" ask an astonished Mousse.
"Yes that's what I'm saying, what is still puzzling me is how the queen was murdered and by who? Heck it was thanks to it that the kingdom fell apart." Selen wondered
"I know how and who." Nabiki answered.
"Nabs I know that you are an expert in gathering information, and frankly I wish you were there with me but that has been five thousand years ago for god sake." Ranko said and Nabiki started to smile her old and dangerous predatory smirk.
"You found the perfect host Selen my loyal friend, he is so much like you and I got a surprise for you…all of you….By the power of the ancient winds, I call forth the ETERNAL MERCURY POWER!" Nabiki yelled at the end and started to transform in front of everyone, which added more insults from the spying individual
A huge storm of glacial winds and freezing water surround Nabiki, dissolving her clothes, and creating the Eternal Mercury Fuku, mixed with a royal blue gown, it all finish with Nabiki taking a pose with the scepter of Mercury.
"Your majesty? Nabs? What a hell is going on?" Ranko asked astonished
"Simple my dear Selen/Ranma, I was hoping to live long enough for my husband and daughter to be reborn, but since I was killed, I followed the link that connects my soul to them and reborn here on this century. And if it wasn't for little Serenity over there, plus yours and my daughter transformations I wouldn't have remembered. He! He! Guess what I've always been the Ice Queen." Nabiki said with mirth
"That's an understatement Ice Breath" mutter Ranko a bit aloud
"Ice breath? /blink/ /blink/ the only person that called me that was my beloved, annoying, jerk, over confident….husband….Hermes? Is that you?" Nabiki asked aloud
"Like I told our daughter coincidences doesn't exist, and I'm starting to wonder if behind Kami-sama grand scheme there isn't a bit of Humor behind it all" Ranko grumbled
"STOP!" Yuka Yelled suddenly.
"What's up Yuka-chan?" asked Ami
"Ranma Saotome pullback your chaos level down." Yuka growled
"/Gulp/ I'll try but no promise." Ranko said
"Now what a heck is happening here? Why so much memories surges around here? Why is it that suddenly out of nowhere this huge wave of coincidences is happening? Now all that is missing to finish the day with a great chaos explosion, nonsense and clichés it's for Kodachi here to be non other then the Queen of Earth. Oh Kami-sama what did I do to deserve this?" Yuka yelled
Silence greet Yuka outburst, and many started to ponder her words since it was indeed strange that all of them would be united at this moment and that out of the blue, many of them discovered that they were people from a the past kingdom reincarnated.
"Serenity…"muttered Ranko barely aloud, but Usagi that was still on her princess form heard it. "Did you called me Se- I mean Mrs. Mizuno?" Princess Serenity asked
"Not you, but your past mother the Queen." Ranko said
"What does she have to do with all of this?" asked Yuka.
Before Ranko answered her friend her formidable senses that were now boosted with Selen's own, detect the presence of a spell, a spell that allowed whoever that did cast it to spy on them.
"She… wait a minute." Ranko suddenly stand up, start to glow and said some ancient words that only the Princess, Prince, and Luna understood. On that far away place the spy spell that allowed the figure to watch and hear what is going on is suddenly destroyed and throwing the person away a few hundred meters.
"Now that we have some privacy I can tell. Queen Serenity had come to us that day and told us, I mean me and Akane, that for me to regain my manhood I'll be facing a senshi, one that had become mad after years of loneliness. So if I'm to understand the basic function of the chaos in me, then it is that one: Someone is always dictating my life, Second: I'll always have my share of people trying to kill me, marry me or both." Ranko said
"So to surmise it all, Queen Serenity and her rouge senshi are the players of a complex chess game mixed with poker. And that we are the pawns, at last the white pieces I hope." Ranko said
"As amazing as it appear to be, I must agree with you old pal, in a way it made sense. Dear could you call the Nerima constructors to reinforce our home with adamantium, while I plot a bomb shelter?" Daisuke asked his wife
"Plot a bomb shelter? Hey Daisuke are you an engineer?" Ranko asked
"Yes Ranko I am, while Yuka is an Architect." Daisuke explained
"Shingo my brother, I hope that you can keep this a secret right?" Serenity asked
"Sis if I tried to spit the beans out, I'd end up in a sanatorium. Who would ever believe what I saw?" Shingo said
"The guys in Nerima would." Ami answered
"So I take it that our vacation is over dear." Nabiki commented
"Yeah it's pretty much over, time to get back to work and deal with all the chaos." Ranko said
"Thanks for the warning Ranko, Oh by the way my daughter is now more then ever going to take classes from you, not just her, but all of us as well." Yuka said
"All of us? Why did you say that mom?" Serenity asked
"Young lady if you are going to play super hero like Ranko did in the past, then you are up to your odangos in trouble, enemies will appear left and right, and soon or later they'll find out who you are and we will be targeted to make you surrender to the enemy demands, so all of us will take classes. Your weekends are all for training." Yuka explained dead serious
"And it is a good thing that I did graduate as a doctor, so I can take care of your wounds." Ranko said
"Why don't you come and train with us as well?" asked Shampoo
"That's not a bad idea honey, after all Ranma did learn a lot from the amazons." Daisuke said
"Where are you staying now Shampoo?" ask Yuka
"On the Cherry Hill temple, and my great grand mother is still there" Shampoo said
"And why is she staying there Shampoo?" Kodachi asked
"Oh its simple, there is this old monk who managed to defeat her, and I'm still wondering how he did it, but I saw it, he in some way paralyzed her with a piece of paper, and then next thing that I know is that Great Grandma is all over him, kissing him and calling him Airen." Shampoo said while shuddering
By now Ranko, Nabiki, Kodachi, Ami, Makoto, Mamoru, Yuka, and Daisuke chins are buried five meters deep into the ground. With supreme effort Ranko managed to speak "W-w-when did hell frozen, I mean when did that happened?"
"The day after your graduation" Shampoo said
"Nabs please make sure to mark that date on the calendar, because that's the same date of the anniversary of Akane's rebirth." Ranko said
"Now more then ever I'll be calling that day a holyday, it is filled with miracles." Muttered Ami
To be Continued.