Ranma Half Moon chapter 123 "A Tomorrow Never Known" Part 5
Author's note: This arc happens around the same as Sailor Moon Episodes 45-46 and is the last arc of season one.
A young girl with bright red hair tied in a braided ponytail practices her dance moves with two other girls.
Suddenly one of the other little girls pushes the red head. "Good grief, Ran Ran, you're hopeless."
"But Tyn Tyn, I haven't been doing it for as long as you guys."
The third girl throws her nose up in the air. "But, that's only natural. Venus Mountain girls get proper training from an early age. We don't spend our time hunting wild animals in the jungle like some people we know."
"You might like hunting, Sen Sen, if you tried it."
"Mountain girls aren't barbarians like the Amazons."
Ran Ran gets in Sen Sen's face. "What did you say?"
Tyn Tyn smirks. "Sen Sen might have a point. After all, almost all of the Amazons who come to the mountains to learn, go to Jupiter Mountain to study Martial Arts. We don't usually see Amazons up here. Did you come here because you were bad at fighting?"
Ran Ran's ears become red. "You wouldn't dare say something like that if you didn't know that I would get kicked out if I rearranged your face."
"Girls! That's enough of that!"
The three girls turn their heads in sorrow. "Yes, sensei."
Their teacher, Ai Ai, the Princess of Venus, a beautiful blond young lady with an enviable body, looks at them sternly. "I might be considered an eccentric by the other mountain kingdoms, but my word is pretty much the law around here and my word is that whether we are Amazon, Earth, or Mountain, we are all the same and must learn how to get along."
"Yes, sensei."
...
Ran Ran, now a couple of years older looking, comes into the former Princess, now Queen's bedchamber. "You called for me, your highness?"
The Queen sits up on her ornate bed. "Yes, Ran Ran. I have trained you in dancing and singing for several years now. However, there has always been a burning question in the back of my mind. Why did you come here? Why didn't you go to Jupiter Mountain and learn to fight like the other Amazon girls?"
"Because fighting was boring for me. Everything came to me too easily, and I wanted a challenge."
"Is that so?" Queen Ai Ai jumps up throwing off a blanket that had covered her before. She is dressed in a fighting outfit. "Would it be a challenge to fight me?"
Ran Ran falls to her knees and bows. "But, you are my teacher, and a Queen."
"As a Queen, I can order you to fight. Now stand up and show me what you got."
Ran Ran reluctantly stands and strikes a fighting pose.
Queen Ai Ai charges Ran Ran and attacks. Ran Ran effortlessly parries her attacks and eventually ties up the Queen in an unbreakable hold.
"All right. You may stop fighting now."
Ran Ran jumps off of Queen Ai Ai and bows deeply. "I hope you are not hurt."
"I am fine. Happy, in fact to find that you are so strong a fighter. But," Queen Ai Ai winks, "I was expecting to find you this strong."
"Why?"
"Sham Sham is the leading student of Queen Jupiter. However, I heard a report that someone mentioned your name to her and she turned bright red and made a face."
Ran Ran touches her index fingers together. "Well, I did probably have something to do with that."
Queen Ai Ai giggles. "I thought so. Ran Ran, I have big plans for you. I would like to hire you as an intelligence agent and train you to be a leader."
"For you, I would do it."
"My goodness, an Amazon who sounds more loyal to me than most of my mountain subjects."
Ran Ran turns red.
"But, it is okay. Your loyalty makes me happy. So happy, in fact, that I want you to join me in bed tonight. In order to truly deliver pain must also learn how to deliver pleasure, and, I have much to teach you."
Ran Ran looks shocked. "But, Queen Ai Ai. What about your husband, King Art Art?"
"The King is a good man. He is a good leader and a good administrator. I believe he will help me bear many children and be a good father and role model. But, he also knows that the touch of a woman is much greater than the touch of a man. Now, will you join me?"
"Yes, Queen Ai Ai."
...
Queen Ai Ai, now slightly older, watches three of her students perform a dance while several of her other students play ancient musical instruments. "Jun Jun, a little more forcefully, please. That's better."
She suddenly hears a knocking at a door in the back of the chamber. "Take a break, guys. I'll be right back."
She slips out the door to a dark narrow hall where Ran Ran awaits on her knees, looking at the ground. "What is it?"
"It is bad, Queen Ai Ai. As we feared, the five kingdoms of the earth are organizing for an all out assault."
Queen Ai Ai nods. "I can't believe this. After so many years of peace."
Ran Ran nods. "Our preliminary intelligence was also correct in suggesting that Queen Beryl was the one provoking the war as revenge over the infidelity of her fiancee, Endymion, with the Princess of the Mountain of the Moon."
"This is ridiculous! I know Queen Beryl. I know she spent many years striving for peace and even lost her husband in the great war. This just isn't her."
The messenger starts sniffling.
"What's wrong?"
"I might have had a hand in creating this problem. Endymion and I, well, we sort of..."
Queen Venus smiles and pulls Ran Ran to her feet. "He's a man of great charisma and power. I'm sure you weren't the only one. It's not your fault, what's happening."
The messenger bursts into tears and throws herself into the Queen's arms. "Queen Ai Ai-sama!"
The Queen of Venus tenderly holds her quivering intelligence agent. "Look, this war is not going to end well. You should go back to the Amazons. That army isn't going to be picky about who they try to kill."
"No, I belong to you. If I die defending you, I will still be happy."
Queen Ai Ai smiles. "I'm glad to see that you still prefer me to Endymion."
The messenger blushes.
"But, you are still the fastest and most skilled intelligence agent I have. I will still need you to report on their troop movements."
The messenger nods.
"Now, we both have our jobs to do. You need to go."
The messenger nods, looking lost.
Queen Ai Ai tenderly kisses Ran Ran.
Ranma-ko wakes up. Minako, Haruka and Michiru surround him. "Where am I?"
Minako smiles. "Kind of a holding area. Sailor Warriors don't get to pass on after they die until the battle is over."
"I'm ...?"
Haruka sadly nods.
To be continued!