Ranma Half Moon chapter 107 "A Revolutionary Transfer Student" part 2
Author's note: This episode happens during the Sailor Moon episode 41 "I won't run from love anymore! Ami and Mamoru's show down".
Author's note: The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse (Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku) is the fight entrance music used in Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Nishimura Reika patiently brushes dust off of a trilobite fossil. The hot African sun beats down on her helmeted head. However, she is oblivious to such hardships, such is the passion that she has for paleontology.
Suddenly, a pebble falls from the top of the rock she is working on. A small animal out here under the hot sun?
A large shadow blocks the sun for Reika, surprising and scaring her. None of my coworkers would ever stand on a rock. Reika looks up to see a terrifying figure. Who is this, a thief? "Who are you?"
"Nishimura Reika, I have been looking for you. Or, should I say, Rikokayder, one of the great seven monsters?"
Oh no! This person is from Dark Kingdom. How did he track me down a quarter way around the planet from Tokyo? Reika's memory of being Rikokayder had been the subject of many nightmares for her. Being a monster had been a horribly traumatic experience for her.
"Time to come home." Endymion uses the black crystal to absorb Reika.
Endymion smiles. "Two to go."
From a portal some twenty feet up, Kunzite smiles. Well, nothing suspicious so far.
...
Ranma-kun stows his books in his locker. Normally he would look forward to a fight, but this situation filled him with a strange sort of dread. What was wrong with Michiru? It's not like he had that much respect for her. After all, she definitely seemed like a loose cannon. But challenging him to a duel?
Ranma-kun approaches the stairs leading to the school's roof. He does a double take. Haruka's fan club must be really energetic because the they have decorated the stairs with thousand of roses.
Ranma-kun walks up the stairs in silence, his senses signaling danger with every step.
He reaches the roof and is shocked to find that there are already dozens of people there, sitting on bleachers that had not been there the day before.
"You have arrived. Please have this sword." Haruka curtsies to Ranma-kun and hands him a wooden sword.
Ranma-kun gulps when he finally recognizes Haruka, who now wears a long red ballroom gown and tiara.
"And, here is your rose." Haruka pins a rose to Ranma-kun's shirt. "May the challenger be brought forth!"
"Absolute Destiny Apocalypse! Absolute Destiny Apocalypse! Birth records, baptismal registry, death records ..."
Michiru Kaiou hears the loud music from the bottom of the stairs. It's time. Michiru smiles at all the Haruka fans who are now lining the stairs as she ascends. Haruka wasn't kidding about this being a school where the students go all out.
Ranma-kun's eyes narrow when he sees Michiru enter the rooftop area. He sees she is now dressed in a strange boy's uniform, rather than the normal girl's uniform she wore earlier.
"The challenger has arrived! Please take this sword and rose." Haruka sets up Michiru for battle.
"The rules are simple, remove the rose from the chest of your opponent."
Ranma-kun faces Haruka and salutes. "Understood."
"The winner, of course, gets the Rose Bride."
Ranma-kun raises his eyebrow. What was Haruka talking about? This was totally weird. But, a challenge is a challenge.
"Understood." Michiru turns and faces Ranma-kun, holding out her wooden sword for Ranma-kun to touch with his sword.
Ranma-kun gets into a fighting stance and touches Michiru's sword with his. "Ready."
"To bring revolution to the world, begin!"
Ranma-kun deftly dodges Michiru's first lunge. He tries a counter but Michiru regains her composure and blocks. Michiru lunges again. Ranma-kun smiles, knowing that the sword missed him by at least six inches.
"Match!"
Michiru steps back.
Ranma-kun looks at Haruka in surprise. Then he looks at his chest and to his horror sees that the petals of the rose are now gone.
"I am sorry, classmate Ranma. I am afraid that I am not your fiance anymore."
Haruka, Michiru and all of Haruka's fans leave the rooftop area.
Ranma-kun looks at the wooden sword. What the heck? She never got close enough to me to win. Something weird is happening.
Light snow falls. It is going to be a cold night. If I knew what was going on, I might even think this snow was symbolic.
...
Urawa Ryo looks at the phone booth and looks away. After several rounds of this, he finally gathers his courage. Pulling his heavy coat tight, he makes the call that he has been dreading to make.
"Mizuno."
"Ami, this is Ryo."
"Ryo, I haven't heard from you is a while, what ..."
"Ami, turn on your television set, now."
"Okay." Ami turns on her set to see a story about the disappearance of artist Yumemi Yumeno. "Oh, no!"
"I feel that the other ones are being gathered as well. Please be careful. You're in great danger."
"Where are you?"
"Sorry. Please stop Dark Kingdom." Ryo hangs up. I can't ask Ami to protect me. After I nearly killed her as a monster, I can't put her in danger again.
Ryo adjusts his coat. Well, time to face the music. My being able to see the future is a pain.
Ryo walks out of the phone booth, right past Makoto.
What? Is that the boy that Ami saved from being a monster? Makoto looks over her shoulder at Ryo, but before she can follow him, her communicator beeps.
"Makoto."
Luna's face appears on the communicator. "Sailor Jupiter please come to the Hikawa Shrine at once."
Makoto sees Ryo blending back into the crowd. "Roger." Makoto has a bad feeling about this.
...
Ami drops to her knees in tears. She had so wanted to climb Mount Fuji with her classmates, but she was being left behind.
"Ami, are you okay?"
Ami looks up at her classmate, Rei. She has always admired Rei with her style and beauty. Ami has always wanted to be like Rei, but what could she do? She was only a normal girl. "You should go ahead."
"Are you sure?"
"Please, go ahead without me! I would only slow the rest of the class down!"
Rei shrugs. "Okay, but if you keep falling behind, we might have to call for the rangers to come get you." Rei runs off ahead.
Ami sobs. Why did things always have to be so hard?
Usagi sniffles. This manga was so sad!
To Be Continued