AN: IMPORTANT! MUST READ IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER!
Ok, I'm going to tell you something, and that's why it's been so long to update this fic. I had trouble with the first scene that should have been in this chapter. I now can see that it just won't be written the way I want/need it to be written, so I'll just skip it. It actually came to me earlier that I needed to skip it, but then it was how to skip it. No creativity in this one, I'm just jumping forward in time here. And if I ever do get the scene to pop into my head complete, I'll do a flash back on it. What was the scene? It was Ranma as Peace accepting to become the Senshi of the Sun, then the process of becoming it by magical infusion and then finally the training needed to master the powers of said Senshi. Ok, in all reality I'm skipping what should have been the entire chapter two and this should have been chapter three, but I can't write chapter two no matter how hard I try, so skippage time! Sorry about this, but I just could not write that chapter the way it needed to be written. So if this fic was ever going to be continued I needed to skip ahead. This chapter starts a week after Ranma has been accepted as Sailor Sun and the other Senshi have also passed in their private training. There is to be a party latter this night to get the new Senshi introduced to each other, for all training and other things was done separately, and then an introduction ceremony to the entire kingdom the next morning. It is now noon and the party starts at six PM. Ok, you are now caught up. On with the fic already in progress.
THE ETERNAL SUN
CHAPTER TWO
EXPLANATIONS AT THE END OF TIME
Lunar Castle: Peace's room
Peace was alone in her room waiting for her Mother Tranquility help her get ready for the party. Her Mother was turning into a good one, for they actually seemed to not only get along as individuals, but seemed to have developed a slight but growing Mother/Child caring bond. While this may have been introduced by their secondary set of memories, Peace did not care, for she had a Mother who was truly caring of her, if not a little weird a times. Then again, being stuck in a timeless void for endless eons at a time and having that happen frequently at that, could make you act just a touch weird.
Her Mother came in the room alone and signaled for silence. Pulling out her time staff, she opened a familiar portal. They were headed back to the end of time. Peace ran through after her Mother.
The end of time: by the Gates of Time
"Urgh! That past self of mine is a stuck up, suspicious, narrow minded bitch!" Sestsuna yelled in her anger and frustration.
"You know, I think you're the only being ever who can call her self a bitch and still be talking about someone else. So what's going on Mother Setsuna?" Ranma asked. When they were alone like this, Ranma still liked to call Setsuna Mother, yet at the same time she wanted to be called by her true name as to not forget it, so Ranma came up with this compromise, one which Setsuna liked and approved of.
"Ugh." Setsuna said "It's just at that point and time in that history, I was so wrapped up in the idea of the creation of Crystal Tokyo, that anything that didn't lead to it or was detrimental to it's creation I distrusted and tended to kill on sight." Setsuna said shaking her head.
"I have just spent the last few weeks popping in on the self I have of the time I took you," Setsuna began when Ranma asked
"If time stopped when I left, how?"
"Time stopped about two minutes and four seconds after you left. My past self was luckily at that time at the Gates of Time trying to see what had happened after coming to where we had taken you from. It takes time for time to completely stop." Setsuna explained to Ranma.
"Anyway she was pissed at that moment, for her realities time had stopped. She blamed me, and while it was slightly my fault, she would not listen to a thing I said or suggested. I had to call in the ghost of the Queen Serenity of that reality."
"And how did Aunty Set take care of your obstinate past self?" Ranma asked referring to the ghost of Queen Serenity as she liked to be called by Ranma. She visited them al lot when they were at the Gates of Time at the end of time.
"I basically browbeated her into submission. Very easy for me in truth, since I had to do it so often in the past. She was always way too high strung." Serenity said coming into exsitance behind Ranma.
Ranma said "Hi Aunty Set! So, I have to worry about the young Setsuna that I'll meet at the party being very high strung and a true bitch or something?" Ranma asked.
Setsuna turned red with embarrassment, while Serenity laughed and said "Well as I remember it took a few years of her duty trying to safeguard time for her to get so high strung, so maybe you can change that. I always thought is was because the Senshi were separated in to four groups, the Inner Senshi, Mercury, Venus, my daughter Moon, Mars and Jupiter being them as the Guardians of the Solar System itself, and the Outers, who were divided into three sub groups, Saturn as the determent, Neptune an Uranus as the outer guard of the system and our first line of response to invasions from outside forces, and Pluto, who was guarding time it's self and the eternal stability of our empire. And stop blaming your self Setsuna, it was not your fault that you could not see the fall of the Moon Kingdom." Serenity told Setsuna when it looked like she was about to speak.
"That division of grouping and sub grouping them some how separated them into groups that would stay together. So Pluto and Saturn were left alone. If you can, I would like to see you change the fact that the Senshi tended to stay with their groups. I hated to see Pluto and Saturn so alone." Serenity asked of Ranma.
"Do you know what group I'll end up with Mother Setsuna?" Ranma asked Setsuna.
"If it goes according to the plan that Queen Serenity just approved of, you are alone as well in your own group. Before we had two groups with sub groups. Now we'll have three groups. Your group will be named the End Group. And while Saturn is our public deterrent, you'll be like our wild card. We will be telling everyone you exist and that's it. We will not tell them what your powers our. We hope for them to worry more about you then anyone and then try to find the info we've hidden on you. That way we can find spies, and if they do find out what you're capable of, we hope they leave us the hell alone. We're playing a dangerous game with that." Setsuna admitted while shaking her head.
"Yeah, they might not like seeing a report that I can make Saturn's ultimate attack of destroying a whole planet seem pale by comparison. What are Queen Serenity's military advisors, idiots?" Ranma asked.
"I always thought so." Both Serenity and Setsuna said as one. Then they looked at each other and laughed.
"So why did you bring me here Mother Setsuna?" Ranma asked curiously.
"Because we, Serenity, My past self and I found a way for you to halt the collision of our now separate realities." Setsuna said.
"Oh really, how?" Ranma asked.
"For every second you spend in the life of Peace, you must spend an equal time in your original reality. The problem was getting the realty where you have taken over for Peace, and for simplicities sake we will call it R2 with your original reality being R1, well getting R2 to wait for you while you were in R1. but with the help of my past self and Queen Serenity, we were able to make a spell to cover all of R2 that mimics the natural effect that R1 has taken." Setsuna said.
"So you're like casting a time stopping spell on all of R2? Whoa!" Ranma exclaimed thinking of the power such a spell needed to have to work. She had learned a lot on magic in the past few weeks.
"In actuality, all we are doing is using the natural ability of R1 and Shifting it over to R2 when you are in R1" Setsuna admitted, even though a spell like that took a hell of a lot of casting power behind it.
Ranma, still impressed asked "Ok. But do you know why that R1 has such a thing where I'm concerned?"
"Well as near as we can figure it Ranma, every reality at points creates a focal point. That is a being that changes that reality for better or worse. Because you shouldn't exist in R2, the original Peace should, and she was the focal point of that time, we had to some how transfer your focal pointness from R1 to R2, because R2 doesn't truly see you as Peace, thus will not accept you as a true focal point for that reality, even if you do manage to do what Peace should have, R2 will probably never see you as a focal point. But I could be wrong. But at least for now, you are not seen as such." Setsuna explained to Ranma.
"Ok, then why am I a focal point of R1?'Ranma asked.
"WE can not figure that out." Serenity told Ranma. "We just know you are.
"Oh." Ranma said in reply. Then she asked "So, what happens now?" Ranma asked.
"I call my past self here, and she takes you to R1 for about a little over a month, and then calls me to take you back to R2. Ready to go now?" Setsuna asked Ranma.
Sure Mother Setsuna, but I'll miss this you." Ranma said, hugging Setsuna.
"That's ok. Just help out my past self and the other Senshi of that time period, and try not to kill my past incarnation for being a bitch. I hate time paradoxes you know." Chuckling and disengaging herself from Setsuna, Ranma said "I'll try. Probably I'll just pound on her for a while." Ranma said while they all chuckled.
"Ok, I'm calling her now." And the Setsuna went to the Time Gates too phone herself.
AN: Next Chapter Ranma goes home, but can she truly go home again?