Ranma Half Moon chapter 92 "Hearts On Ice!" part One
Author's note: This episode happens during the Sailor Moon episode 39 "Paired With a Monster?! Ice Queen Makoto".
Kunzite draws his sword and strains to see in the bright sunlight. Endymion stands in front of him, looking smug and superior. They stand in the middle of clearing with many trees and bright flowers around them.
Kunzite's blood boils. Kunzite's eyebrows scrunch together in anger. How dare Endymion look down on me as inferior? Kunzite charges toward Endymion and swings his sword.
Endymion effortlessly dodges the blow and pushes Kunzite down.
Kunzite lies on the ground in shock. How could my attack have failed so totally? Suddenly, he hears clapping.
"Kunzite-sama, that was awesome. No one else has ever been able to get that close to hitting Endymion-sama."
Kunzite turns around to see Zoisite sitting by a patch of flowers under a sakura (cherry blossom) tree. Zoisite does not have the scar on his face that Tuxedo Kamen had inflicted. Zoisite looks strangely different and is wearing a school uniform instead of his normal clothes.
But what is Zoisite doing here? Why is referring to Endymion with an honorific as if Endymion is his superior? And where is here? This isn't Dark Kingdom. This looks a lot like earth.
But, in any event, I cannot accept Zoisite's praise for a failed mission. Kunzite raises up and charges Endymion again, but Endymion easily dodges and pushes Kunzite down again.
"Not giving up?"
Kunzite stands up. "A battle is meaningless without the victory. I am a proud warrior. I will continue to attack you head on."
Endymion smirks. "Is that so? I wonder about that."
"Go for it, Kunochi!"
Kunzite wakes up in his bed, covered with sweat. It had been a nightmare. What could this mean? And why did Zoisite call him by a strange name?
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Mio Kuroki walks up with a start. She puts on her robe and her monster face slippers and walks over to the sliding doors of the balcony of her apartment. She sees her pet has retrieved the present that she had laid out.
Mio smiles. It won't be long now before I can capture it again.
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Makoto beats the cookie dough with a spoon while Ami chops up some fruit.
"Thank you for teaching me how to cook." Ami looks radiant in a frilly apron.
Makoto imagines flowers swirling around Ami's head. Makoto blushes. "It's nothing."
"It is something. Fighting, studying, cooking, these are all ways that we can shine from within."
"I guess you can look at it that way."
Ami smiles coyly. "If you want, when it gets done, I can lick one of the cookies and then you can eat it. It will be like an indirect kiss." Ami makes a kissy-face. "Then you'll really be shining from within."
Makoto's nose gushes blood.
Makoto wakes up with a start, covered with sweat. Had she told Ami too much when she talked about shining from within? Had she opened a door that she might not be emotionally ready to go through?
Makoto calms down. We're both Sailor Warriors. We have responsibilities. But it would be cool if she could really demonstrate to Ami what shining from within was all about. But how?
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Minako tosses in bed. Four people stand in front of her, their faces hidden in shadow. Minako can tell that three of them are female, one is male.
One female wears glasses, another has a braided ponytail, and the other wears a police uniform.
Then a tide of shampoo bubbles engulfs the four, and they vanish.
Minako wakes with a start. What could this dream mean? It seems like she dreams this dream every night, but forgets all the details by morning.
Minako falls back asleep.
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Ranma-kun walks down the hall of his high school. Suddenly he feels a bump on his leg.
"Hey, watch where you're going, it's bad enough you and your friend made me like this."
Ranma-kun turns and sees Kuno in a wheelchair, heavily bandaged. Involuntarily Ranma-kun takes a step back and bumps into someone.
"Do you mind? Haven't you done enough damage?"
Ranma-kun turns to see Ryoga who has several of his limbs in casts and is walking with the help of a walker.
Ranma-kun turns away and notices that all the students of the school seem to be trying to recover from serious trauma damage.
Ranma-kun awakes from the nightmare, looking horrified.
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Haruka approaches the entrance to a swank old fashioned looking club. She wears men's clothes and tries to give off a lady's man aura.
She enters and sees that the club clientele are all female. Some of the clientele like her, others dress like flappers. There is a band playing in the back of the club, styled to look and sound like one of the big bands from the Nineteen Twenties in America.
Haruka looks around. She sees on one side of the band is a large balcony overlooking the bay.
Haruka goes over to the balcony and notices that the club had set up a swing so that clients could swing over the edge of the balcony to get a better view of the bay.
On the swing, Haruka notices Ranma-ko who swings slightly looking sad. Haruka makes a masculine cool gesture and notices that Ranma-ko responds to it with a smile.
Haruka walks over to Ranma-ko. "Is your heart grieving tonight? That's love, lovesickness. But, it's okay. I know that when you saw me, you fell in love. And, we're both here now. So, let's dance."
Haruka extends her hand.
Ranma-ko smiles and stands up, reaches for Haruka's hand.
Haruka wakes up with a start. She looks over to the picture by her bedside of her and Michiru making stupid faces together.
Haruka play-punches herself in the head. "Baka." But Ranma did look pretty low when she saw her friend hurt. I do need to do something about it.
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Kunzite stands in the presence of Queen Beryl. After that horrible dream, he had gotten up and looked over some old intelligence reports from long ago about the Moon Kingdom.
"You may approach the throne."
Kunzite smiles. This plan would definitely work! "My queen. In the Moon Kingdom, ice skating was the most popular pass time. The Princess of the Moon was known for her passion for ice skating. I have a plan to use this lure out Sailor Moon."
Queen Beryl smiles. This is a deliciously evil plan.
"What sort of nonsense is this? Shouldn't a proud warrior face his enemy head on instead of using a silly trap?"
The hairs on Kunzite's neck stand up. It figures that Endymion would stick his nose into my business, but why is he saying things that were in my dreams?
"A battle is meaningless without victory. A victory that I would have had several attempts before if there wasn't a certain somebody who kept interfering with my plans."
Endymion smirks. "Is that so? I wonder about that."
Kunzite snarls and flexes his muscles at Endymion.
Endymion snarls back.
Queen Beryl smiles. If they are so ready to rend each other limb from limb, perhaps they could translate some of this hostility to the Sailor Warriors. "Enough. Kunzite. I like the plan. Go ahead."
To Be Continued