Prince of the Planets Section 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Ranma1/2
Author's Notes: Well I am definitely glad to see the number of hits and positive reviews that this story has generated in such a short time. Hopefully this new and improved version of The Prince of the Planets is even more enjoyable to my readers. Enough of that, Lets get on with the story
Ranma Saotome woke up in the morning after having a good night's rest, which was still something new to the martial arts prodigy. As he was getting his clothes on Ranma thought about how lucky he was to have such an understanding mother. After all, how many mothers would just accept the idea that their son is a reincarnated prince whose previous mother has been reincarnated and is running around as well like it's the price of rice at the market? Sure Nodoka was a little worried for him and whether he still considered her to be his mother. But after telling her that she would always be his mother, Nodoka was fully supportive of him and didn't let the fact that his previous mother's reincarnation was out there was well get to her. After thinking about it for a moment, Ranma just smiled and thought that finally karma was staring to pay back the debt it owed him.
Ranma quickly ran down the stairs and barely managed to stop himself from sprinting across the hall. Ranma arrived at the table and sat down right when Nodoka was placing his breakfast plate on the table. The two of them just sat around the table for a few minutes having small talk as they ate their breakfast. After Ranma was done eating and was about to get up, Nodoka said to him, "Wait Ranma. This letter came in the mail for you yesterday." After saying that, Nodoka pulled an envelope out of her dress and handed it to Ranma.
Ranma quickly torn open the envelope and skimmed through the contents of the letter before smiling. Nodoka, on seeing his smile, asked Ranma who the letter was from and what was in it. At this Ranma smirked and said, "It's a letter from Ryoga. I sent him a letter a few days ago with some information I found about emotional Chi from that book you gave me. Ryoga may be a bit pig-headed at times, but he is my friend and needed to know about the dangers of his emotional based Chi attack. This letter says that he's gotten my information and is glad that I sent it. Also, he says that he's found some monks that can help him with his direction problem. I glad that he's able to cure at least one of his curses. I wish could cure one of mine, even if it was only the crazy luck curse I seem to have. Finally we'll be able to have a duel on time for once."
Nodoka just smiled at the happy look on Ranma's face as he told her about the letter. She had seen his eyes light up when he mentioned having a duel with Ryoga. If there was one thing that she knew without a doubt, besides the fact that Ranma loved her, was that he absolutely loved a challenge. Ranma didn't care what the challenge was, it was the testing himself against others that Ranma loved about the challenge. If the challenge in question just happened to be a martial arts contest; that was even better in her son's book.
Nodoka then glanced at the clock on the wall and seeing the time said, "Ranma its time for you to leave. You don't want to be late for your first day at the new school do you? After all, it wouldn't do to have a bad first impression now that you have a fresh start to school." Ranma nodded his head showing that he didn't want to be late just before he got up from the table. Ranma then grabbed his school books and lunch before he headed out the door leaving Nodoka alone in the house with a smile on her face.
Ranma was walking on the fence on his way to school when his eyes caught sight of two blonde pigtails ahead of him. Ranma then hurried up his pace a bit till he caught up to Usagi. Ranma startled Usagi, causing her to drop her books all over the sidewalk and fall down on her rear, when he said, "Hey Usagi." Ranma felt a little guilty about causing her to fall over and, after flipping over her head and landing on the ground in front of her, started to pick up her scattered books for her. "So sorry Usagi, I honestly didn't mean to startle you." Ranma uttered as he hurriedly gathered up her books for her in an attempt to apologize.
Usagi sat there where she had fallen on the sidewalk blinking her eyes as she looked on at Ranma as he scrambled to get her books for her. At first Usagi was angry that he had caused her to fall down and spill her books, but seeing him collect her books made it impossible to keep angry. She came out of her thoughts when she saw Ranma hold out a hand to help her up. Usagi gave Ranma a bright smile as he helped her up and then gave her back her books before he returned to the fence. The two of them then started walking to the high school.
After a minute of walking together in silence Usagi, without breaking her stride, decided to ask Ranma a question, "Ah Ranma, why are you walking on the fence?" At this Ranma just shrugged his shoulders and replied, "One of the few things I agree with my old man about is to turn everything that you can into training. By walking on the fence I'm practicing my balance and coordination. Besides, it's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it."
Usagi thought about what Ranma had said for a few minutes. Usagi had to admit that it did look like fun and she could see how it would do what Ranma said it trained him for. She then asked, "Ranma, do you think that you can teach me to walk up there like you?" Ranma thought about it for a second before he said, "Sure. But ah, I think we should wait till tomorrow." At this Usagi inquired, "Why should I wait till tomorrow to learn how to walk on a fence? Why don't you want to teach me now?" Ranma then had a nervous chuckle in his voice as he replied, "Well yes, we could start now. However I don't think you want to flash you panties to everyone." When Usagi heard Ranma's reason she blushed and nodded her head in agreement.
About a minute after Ranma had told her why he wasn't going to teach her how to walk on the fence, Usagi said in a very uncharacteristically quiet voice, "Thank you Ranma." Ranma when he heard Usagi say this; turned his head to pay especial attention to what she had to say. Usagi then continued on talking in a quiet voice, "In all the commotion Friday and Monday, I didn't get to tell you how grateful I am to you for protecting me and my family from those robbers. I got so nervous when that one robber started talking-" At this point Usagi was interrupted by Ranma who said in a firm tone that didn't allow for any debate, "If they had so much as touched you, I would have killed them. Still, your welcome just the same Usagi."
Usagi was looking up at Ranma and clearly saw face. When he mentioned the robbers, his face became hard and Usagi could see that he would have indeed killed the robbers if they had touched her. However, as soon as Ranma had uttered that line, his face returned to the easy going attitude that Usagi had come to associate with Ranma. Silently Usagi thought about the changes in Ranma's personality. Suddenly a thought crossed her mind when she realized that the Jovian Paladin had used a similar voice when he had seen her attacked. For a brief second Usagi contemplated the idea that Ranma could be the Jovian Paladin before the thought vanished from her mind as the school building came into view.
The two of them walked into the school courtyard together and entered the building to go to their classrooms which, for some reason, were the same room. Neither of them noticed the surprise in the local gossip queen's (Minako) eye when she spotted the two of them walking together. Although Ranma and Usagi weren't holding hands, Minako was determined to grill her friend about where this new hunk came from. After all, as the senshi of love it was Minako's duty to ensure that destined love (Usagi and Mamoru, her and Ranma) happened!
Ranma would have preferred it if he could just sit down in a seat in class without any fuss, but that was not to be. Apparently the teacher of the classroom liked to announce to the class when new things happened that were of note, and a new student in the class was something of note in the teacher's eyes. Tapping his desk with his pointer, the teacher got the attention of the slightly rambunctious students. He then, in a slightly boring voice that made the students wish for another hour of sleep, said very officially, "Good day class. Today I have the pleasure to welcome a new student to this fine school and who will be joining us for the rest of the year. Please come in, Mr. Ranma Saotome."
Ranma walked into the classroom and started to mentally berate himself for his outfit choice. When he had gotten up in the morning he had decided to go with tight jeans, a black wife beater tee-shirt, and his Maoist cap. Now, while he may have liked how he looked in the outfit, it seemed like the girls of the class liked his outfit to. Even the blue haired girl in the back of the class the Ranma figured was some type of bookworm was sporting a fine blush after taking a glance at him.
This was so not what Ranma had wanted on his first day of school. He had wanted to just get into school, learn his lessons to prove to himself that he could do more than just martial arts, and get by without causing too big of a stir. Unfortunately, he seemed to have amassed a fan girl following of almost every girl in the class. This, from the rather pathetic glares of death being shot his way, was not earning him any friends from the guys of the class.
Apparently the teacher was completely oblivious to the new friction in his classroom, because the teacher just smiled and said, "Well now then Ranma, why don't you pick a seat and sit down so that we can begin class?" Ranma dumbly nodded his head as he searched over the desks in front of him for a rather safe location to sit down in. He quickly spotted an empty seat next to Usagi which only had two other people sitting next to it. One of these was a red haired girl and the other was a rather short haired boy with thick coke bottle glasses. Besides the fact that these three were the only ones sitting by the seat, it was also on the last row to the far left. Ranma quickly, and to the complaints of several girls, moved to that seat and sat down for class.
It was lunch time and Minako was quite annoyed. First that hunk had walked in with Usagi this morning. Then it seemed like her luck was about to go her way when the teacher told the very fit boy to find a seat. After all, she was a very pretty girl and there was a seat right next to her that was open. But he had to ignore her and go sit down by Usagi! Yes, it made sense to her that the boy may want to sit by someone that he knew, however Usagi already had a boyfriend!
Looking out over the cafeteria Minako had been hoping to find out where that hunk Ranma was so that she could sit next to him. Then they would get to talking, he would soon enough be falling for her charms, and she would have landed herself one hunk of a boyfriend! However for some reason Ranma seemed to have missed the memo and wasn't getting with the program.
After looking for him for a few minutes, Minako huffed to herself and walked over to where Ami, Makoto, and Rei were sitting and having their lunches. Sitting down, her annoyance plan to see, Minako let out a sigh of exasperation. As she put her lunchbox on the table, Minako suddenly noticed that someone was missing. "Hey, where did Usagi go to?" Minako inquired honestly because normally Usagi could be found sitting with the rest of the scouts. Ami looked up from her sandwich and said after swallowing, "I think that she's sitting with that new boy Ranma."
Minako banged her head against the table and with annoyance in her voice said, "Why does she get to sit with the beef special!! She already has a boyfriend; she shouldn't be hogging them all like snacks!" Makoto, who for some strange to her reason had not been drooling over Ranma, narrowed her eyes at the blonde. With hardness rarely heard in her voice by any of her friends, Makoto said, "Grow up Minako! Besides for your information, I found out on Friday at the meeting from Luna that Mamobaka dumped Usagi just after our little 'after school' field trip. Also, Luna told me that Ranma happens to be the son of an old family friend who recently came back after spending several years with his father."
This news surprised Ami who, like Minako, had thought that Usagi and Mamoru were still dating. However, what surprised the girl genius even more was how Makoto was acting about Ranma. She had honestly pegged Makoto as being next in like with Minako in trying to date the, admittedly very good looking, young man. Not wanting her questions to go unanswered, Ami inquired. "Makoto, why are you acting like this? I would have thought that, you know, you would have wanted to date Ranma yourself."
At this two other inquiring eyes turned towards the first senshi of Jupiter. Makoto shrugged her shoulders and said, "I don't know. It just feels I don't know how to exactly put it, wrong to me to want to go out on a date with Ranma. Besides, I was over at the Tuskino home on Saturday and heard that Ranma was the one who first found out about Usagi and Mamobaka breaking up. I don't know what happened as Auntie Ikoku was pretty tight lipped and Usagi's father was still quite upset, but Ranma apparently said something that helped Usagi get over the jerk."
Minako now felt terrible at how she had acted. Although she still wanted Ranma to go out on a date with her. In fact hearing that Ranma took the time to cheer Usagi up was a major plus in her book. However it was obvious that Usagi needed a friend to help her get through this particular problem and Ranma, who had never met Mamoru, was the best choice for the job. She would just wait until Usagi got over the breakup and then she would get Ranma to notice her.
After school was over, the inner scouts were all peacefully walking over to Rei's family shrine. However, their peaceful walk ended when they heard the sound of people screaming. The girls quickly made a dash to a secluded area and, after a quick light show, came out in their Sailor Scout uniforms. The Sailor scouts came out onto the battle field to notice that same red haired girl drawing something out of a person's chest while a daemon that looked like a Freddy Kruger want-a-be was wreaking havoc all over the area.
Getting into their usual poses, Usagi shouted out, "Don't you dare attack the peaceful citizens of this city! I am Sailor Moon and in the name of the Moon I will punish you!" The daemon just smirked at the Sailor Scouts and yelled out. "You may have won against my predecessor, but I'm far more powerful than that fool ever would dream to be." His 'hands' then started glowing in an ominous black color before he shouted out, "Kruger Chaos Claws!"
The Scouts all saw two large black shadowy claws shoot out of the daemon's hands and fly towards them. All of the Scouts quickly dodged the attack and saw the claws sink into the car behind where they were. The car turned pitch black in color before it promptly exploded. Luckily, no one was caught in the shrapnel from the explosion.
However, things were not going too good for the daemon as the all Scouts immediately launched their attacks at the daemon. Although it managed to escape from the attacks, the daemon was wounded by a glancing blow from a 'Mars Burning Madelia'. The daemon scowled as it looked at its now burnt and useless left arm and back to the now smirking Scouts.
The Daemon then thought back on the attack and said with a sadistic grin on his face. "You may have wounded me Sailor scum, but you'll never win. Your attacks are too slow to catch me unless you attack me from all sides." At this the daemon let out a horrible laugh as it said, "But if you do that, you'll have to worry about the civilians getting caught in the attack as well. How many are you willing to sacrifice to take me down? Can you handle losing one, ten, or a hundred? How many people's lives will you trade to 'punish me in the name of the Moon? "
A pit grew in the bottom of the Scouts stomachs as they realized that the daemon was correct. All of their fights previously had been on the enemy's territory or the enemy was slow enough that they could hit it without worrying about casualties. Usagi really didn't like where this was going. She had sworn that she would use her powers to protect the people of this city, not use them to end people's lives. Silently she sent up a prayer begging the gods to send her some way of stopping this creature without killing anyone else.
Apparently the gods were watching out for her when she saw someone jump down in front of her from somewhere behind her. Usagi turned her head and saw that the person was none other than the Jovian Paladin. With a concerned look in his eye, the Paladin softly asked her, "Hello there Princess Serenity, what can I do to help you?" Usagi had to fight down a blush that was starting to form on her face; Tuxedo Mask had never asked what he could do to help her in a battle before.
Luckily, from Usagi's point of view, she was able to fight down her blush and turned to face the inquiring prince. Quickly and with her worry evident in her voice Usagi said, "That monster's too quick for us to hit it with our attacks, can you do something to keep it from moving as quickly?" On hearing this request from Usagi, Jovian Paladin just smirked and said in a friendly voice, "Your wish is my command, Princess. I'll keep that monster from moving and then you'll get rid of it. Just like what we used to do in the palace to get candy from the kitchen."
That last statement caused a small smile to appear on Usagi's face. She suddenly remembered several incidences where Prince Nephelite distracted the palace guards while she would sneak into the kitchen to steal a snack for the two of them. Usagi shook her head, now was not the time to be having flashbacks of her previous life! She watched as Nephelite's reincarnation pulled his left hand back and the fingertips of that hand started to glow. With a smile on his face, Ranma rapidly pushed his hand forward and shouted out, "Jove's Joust!" Out of each of his fingertips flew a small bolt of lighting, each about a foot long and half an inch wide.
The bolts of lightning flew at tremendous speed towards the daemon, where they speared its hands, legs, and chest. Nephelite turned to face Usagi and said, "There you go princess, one daemon ready for removal." Usagi nodded her head and then got down to business. With one quick use of her Moon Spiral Heart Attack Usagi destroyed the daemon completely.
Usagi looked on the sight of the battle and sighed in relief that no one had died. Suddenly she remembered that the red head with the daemon had taken something out of a young girl's chest. Usagi and Ranma hurried over to the young girl who was lying down on the ground. Ami was hurriedly scanning the girl and said to Usagi. "This is very bad. If we don't get that crystal back into this girl in the hour, she will die."
Ranma saw the look on Usagi's face and determined even more than he already had to get that crystal back. Reaching out with his improved Chi senses Ranma looked around before he shouted out, "Come quickly! I can sense that the witch was heading off in that direction." The Scouts saw where he was pointing at and started running in that direction. However, Ami and stayed behind wanting to monitor the girl's condition.
The five reincarnated warriors form the Silver Millennium ran along the streets following Ranma's lead. They stopped a few minutes latter when they saw two girls in Sailor Scout uniforms holding the crystal that the witch had made off with inspecting it like it was a diamond to be evaluated. Usagi shouted at the girls, "What do you think your do?! A girl will die if she doesn't get that back within her soon."
The blonde girl with short hair just scoffed at Usagi and said, "Get out of here little girl. Leave the decision making to the true fighters." Just after she said that, Sailor Uranus found Ranma's knee crashing into her spine. Without stopping for a second, Ranma flipped over Uranus and brought her head crashing down into the cement so hard that the cement cracked.
Neptune looked on in shock as the, unknown to her, man so savagely attacked her lover. She saw the blood bleeding down from Uranus' eye sockets and mouth as Uranus' unconscious body was held up by Ranma who was holding Uranus by her hair. Ranma then threw Uranus away like she was a piece of trash.
Neptune wanted to avenge her lover and was about to attack the youth. However, Ranma got into her face and had a hand that crackled with lighting raised to her throat. Neptune felt as he grabbed the crystal and casually tossed it to Makoto. Looking into his eyes Neptune felt that she was looking into the eyes of a very large and enraged tiger. In a voice that froze her blood Neptune heard Ranma say, "Listen well and remember well; Senshi of Neptune. If you or your foolish lover EVER so much as utter one word of disrespect towards the Moon princess, or so casually disobey her commands, run. Run away and hope that I never find you because when I do, unless the princess pardons you for your offence, I will kill you."
Ranma then lowered hand and gave a final glare to Neptune before saying, "Remember your place, Sailor Neptune. You are but the servant of the royal family of the Moon. That means that you WILL follow the commands of Princess Serenity, who fights to protect this city as Sailor Moon. Tell Uranus to remember that and remember her place. If she acts up, I will spay her to calm her down."
When Ranma finished his speech, Sailor Neptune ran towards where she had seen Uranus go sailing. Anyone who would look at the nervous girl would swear that she was running like the hounds of hell were after her. Ranma turned around to face the remaining Sailor Scouts. Rei and Minako were shocked that the handsome prince could be so savaged to a Scout. Makoto was torn at seeing how her son had handled the situation. Usagi was sad that her little friend had grown up to be so vicious and wondered what could have caused him to act like that.
The five of them all silently walked back to where Ami was staying with the girl. Makoto quietly placed the heart crystal back into the lying girl's body and was relieved to see color returning to the girl's cheeks. Once everyone was sure that the girl would in fact make it, the Scout's turned to face Ranma. Rei spoke her mind and said, "What the hell was that for back there Paladin! Those were fellow scouts who you just attacked and threatened with death. So what's your excuse for acting like that?!"
Ranma, now that he had calmed down, was a little ashamed that he had acted like that. However, he was only ashamed that he had acted in anger and not at his actions as a whole. Ranma turned to face the angry priestess and said, "Sailor Uranus was openly defying and insulting the princess while also knowingly endangering a civilian's life. The punishment for such an unforgivable act back in the Millennium would have been her immediate execution involving her being publicly striped naked, bound in barbed wire, and thrown into an acid vat!"
At this every scout's face showed their shock at the thought that the Silver Millennium having such a barbaric punishment. Rei was the first to regain her ability to speak as she said, "W-what the hell are you talking about!" At this Ranma realized that the scouts apparently did not have their full memories of the Silver Millennium like he did and only had an idealized vision of it.
Shaking his head, Ranma said in a soft voice to explain it to the girls whose world views suffered such a radical shock. "When the Silver Millennium was set up 16,000 years ago by Queen Selene I, certain rules were set up for the various then noble houses. One of the laws that Selene I wrote was that 'Should a warrior of noble birth, with full control of their faculties, knowingly disobey the lawful orders of the Royal house and as a result deliver grievous injury to a civilian; then that noble shall suffer the ancient punishment of the traitor's death bath.' That punishment in the 6,000 year history of the Silver Millennium has only been delivered three times and all times it was on a senshi of Uranus."
It was at that moment that Scouts realized the day dream that they had unknowingly created. What did the really know about the Silver Millennium? All they had were their powers and the knowledge that they had been princesses of various planets with Usagi as their soon to be ruler. They knew nothing about the customs, laws, history, or beliefs of the kingdom whose memory they had sworn to protect. Each of them vowed then and there to try to find out everything they could about the Silver Millennium."
Usagi turned to look at the Jovian Paladin and saw the concern in his eyes. He knew far more about the kingdom then she did and apparently fully believed in at least some of their laws. However, it was obvious that he was also influenced by today's laws and his present life's experiences. She could see the kind soul within the Paladin that was concerned for the pain the Scouts were going through.
Usagi spoke up to end the trouble between Ranma and Scouts by saying, "Thank you for bringing this my attention Jovian Paladin. I want you to know that from now on, that particular law of my ancestor is forever rescinded. In the future, you are to bring any relevant laws that I, do to our resurrection, may have forgotten before you enact their punishments."
Ranma then got on his knee before Usagi, and while bowing his head said, "You have the bond of in my blood, the oath of my honor, and the eternal servitude of my soul, princess Serenity. Never doubt for a second that your orders will not be obeyed." With that Ranma left the Scouts to themselves in the street.
Author's notes:
Some people may be shocked at the punishment I have Ranma details. I would like to draw their attention to the fact that many kingdoms for a long time had nasty death penalties for treason towards the crown. For example, until 1814 it was on the books that the full punishment for treason in England was to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. http://en. fully describes this nasty process. I am NOT in any way trying to demonize the Silver Millennium. I am just trying to base some of its social conditions off of the European Kingdoms due to the fact that the kingdom's architecture and shown dress is European in style.
In the next chapter-
Ranma confronts himself and goes to Nodoka for advice about his actions; Uranus and Neptune get waked on the head by Setsuna and her staff; Ryoga comes to town, and the cats get grilled by the inners. All of this is happening while the Death Busters continue to work.