Princess of the Moon 00
 
 
Notes-There are many different ideas out there that have been used to change 
or alter Ranma's fate in some way. The idea that he is stuck as a girl is 
one of them, it is one that I both like and dislike equally. It is a good 
thing if it helps Ranma to grow out of his shell and makes him happy in some 
way, but bad because it has a tendency to ruin the entire idea of what Ranma 
1/2 is. I debated on this idea for several days before deciding to do it, 
but it had to still be Ranma in some way and that meant that I had to replace 
some of the elements that I took away by turning him female permanently. To 
that end, like most of my other stories, this is a SM crossover and that 
will be used to make a new back drop for this story. It is set during the 
first season with Jedite and the other generals so that I can build a bit of 
history for her. 

What does this mean for the rest of Ranma's history, rivals, and 
girlfriends? It will be altered to fit the new circumstances as best as one 
can without destroying it entirely. This mixed in with Sailor Moon is going 
to cause some true chaos in everything . It will also mean that certain 
characters will be OOC as some like to say, I will keep the basic 
personality traits that make them who and what they are though. 


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Princess of the Moon 
Prologue 
By C. Rose 
(c)2001 

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'Panda no baka' went through Ranma's mind as the guide tried once again to 
pour hot water over her head. She sighed as the wanted transformation did 
not take place, it looked like she was going to be a girl for the rest of 
her life now. She sat dejectedly on the little stool in the guide's hut, 
anger and depression written on her face. They just had to come here, it was 
a great training ground, yeah right she thought. She watched as the guide 
poured hot water over the panda and he transformed back into her father, an 
aura of anger formed around her as she glared at the old man and made him 
cower against the back of the hut. 

Ranma just couldn't believe this was happening to him, just what Kami had 
he pissed off to deserve this? She had been having a perfectly normal fight 
with the asshole that was her father and knocked him into a spring, 
perfectly fine. Then she had finally heard the guide shouting out a warning 
just as this giant panda jumps out of the pool, it's body glowing with chi, 
and back hands her clear across the small valley where she smashes into a 
wooden fence that was being used to block off several springs. These were 
the ones that were far worse than the regular ones, these were the monster 
springs, the mind altering springs, and the permanent springs. 

Splash down had been a shock of cold water and an intense feeling of 
numbness as it spread through her body and altered her. Spring of Drowned 
Girl, Ranma has surfaced and shaken her head and wondered what had happened. 
She could tell that something was off right away, just standing had been a 
chore when she realized that her sense of balance was off, lower than it 
should have been. Then the second part of her new curse, Panda no Baka, had 
hit her and altered her whole world. Her outlook had changed just slightly, 
but enough to let her know that she had no way to go back to what she was. 

The guide was as apologetic as he could get, bowing to her and trying to 
tell them that he had tried to warn them. Ranma didn't blame the guide, she 
remembered ignoring the little man when they arrived. She was a girl now, 
forever, but that wasn't the whole problem. If she could change back and 
forth she might have been more forgiving, but could feel this feeling inside 
of her that she couldn't place. As a man she had never felt anything like 
this, it was power, she was sure of that, but what kind was a total mystery. 

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you old man?" Ranma snarled, 
her eyes burning with a silver light. 

Genma screamed like a little girl and fell to his knees in his patented 
'Crouch of the Wild Tiger' and started whimpering and begging for her 
forgiveness. Ranma didn't know it but she was blazing with massive aura and 
reminded him of some of the masters escapades in the past. Her new form was 
breathtaking to say the least, a little taller than her old male one, a 
dancers lithe body, a set of large breasts, and red hair that had burst out 
of it's customary pig tail and grown before their eyes until it reached the 
back of her calves. It was waving in the power of the aura she was putting 
out and making her drop dead gorgeous, the power nearly blasting him off his 
knees even as he cowered before her. 

"Well?!!" Ranma yelled. 

"I-I-I..." Genma gibbered as Ranma growled and kicked him with the full 
power of her aura behind it. With a grunt of pain, Genma was sent flying 
through the roof of the hut and far into the sky on a flight that would last 
some minutes and end in a village of Amazons some miles away who where even 
them just beginning get into their yearly Martial Arts Tournament. All the 
women were wearing their armor and weapons as they heard a scream and looked 
up into the sky. Genma fell out of the sun and impacted the table holding 
the feast of food that had been prepared for the winner, they were not 
happy. They took much satisfaction in making their displeasure known to the 
unconscious man that had interrupted them. 

Back at the springs Ranma had taken both packs and emptied them on the 
ground to search for anything that she might need. She rummaged around until 
she found what she was looking for, her father's money belt and the money it 
contained (stolen of course). She also set aside her father's scroll case, 
Tanto, and several books. She then spent the next several minutes examining 
her new body, and decided that there was only a few ways she could survive 
this without going insane. Oh, she was mad right now, but had done something 
like this in the past when she was subjected to the Neko-ken, she had barely 
survived that because she had tried to hold all the pain and fear inside 
her. Luckily that old lady that had helped her had been smart enough to 
teach her some special ways to deal with it. This curse could be hated and 
rejected like she did with the Neko-ken, or she could accept it, adjust, and 
move on with a laugh. It would serve the old fart if she never came back to 
him, all his plans were dead now, the perfect revenge she figured. She 
grinned, the old fart had started to talk in his sleep lately, it had been 
quite an education learning about how he thought of her. 

There were some good qualities she was just beginning to realize, the 
transformation had altered her mind and implanted a large amount of 
information. A good amount of it was shocking the hell out of her, 
everything she didn't want to know about girls was there, it made her 
shudder when she realized once again that this to was permanent. There was 
also information on skills she had never heard of, like how to talk one's 
way out of a fight and lots of information on math, science, even a bit of 
magic lore. The last would have to be looked at carefully, maybe she could 
find a cure for being turned into this..freak. Ranma felt herself starting 
to cry and forced herself to stop, she would stay in control because she was 
a man no matter what she looked like. 

She had no intention of ever obeying the panda again, what little trust she 
had felt for him before coming here was gone. Ten years on the road had 
taught her enough martial arts to survive without the old man and she wasn't 
going to give it up now that she was missing some vital parts, and the first 
order of business was getting herself back up to fighting trim in this new 
body. The lack of proper balance was driving her up the wall, to even get a 
portion of her edge back she was going to have to retrain her body in 
everything she could remember. 

Digging back into her pack, Ranma decided that she needed to put something 
else on and pulled some of her good clothes out. She cursed this new body as 
she lost her balance and fell over when she pulled her gi off and tossed the 
top off into the trees, her new tits bouncing free and giving the guide a 
free show. He wisely kept his mouth shut and admired the red headed beauty 
as she moved. She then pulled on a red silk shirt, arm bracers, and black 
pants. She had no feminine modesty so didn't even thing twice about stripping 
out of her wet boxers and putting on some dry ones right there in front of 
the hut. 

Off on the other side of the springs a bandana clad boy was overlooking the 
springs when he was hit in the head by a gi top. He growled about idiots and 
turned to teach the upstart a lesson in manners when he saw Ranma. His eyes 
widened into saucer plates and he gaped at the girl's beauty as she changed 
clothes, but when he saw the whole show and fainted when blood exploded out 
of his nose, visions of perfect breasts bouncing, rounded cheeks curved just 
right, and all the poof he needed to know that she was the natural red head 
of his dreams. Luckily he fell backwards and landed on his back, otherwise 
he would have landed in one of the springs. 

After having all that hot water dumped on her in a futile attempt to change 
her back, her hair was very wet and plastered to her back, it was just how 
she liked it when she needed to tie it up. Pulling it back tightly, she 
started to use the string to section in off into five inch segments, but 
there was so much there that she had to force it into the shape she wanted 
and after about half an hour she had a super long braided tail that hung 
down to below her waist. Ever the martial artist, she tied a small throwing 
star into the end of it so she could use it as a weapon if she needed to. 
She finished and called out for the guide, but he was just sitting on a 
large rock smoking his pipe. 

"Guide!" Ranma yelled, waving her hand in front of his face. 

The guide screamed and fell off the rock with a loud thump. "Yes Mr. 
Customer?" He asked, bowing low in apology, also to hide his blush. 

"Where is the nearest place I can get some training in without being 
hassled? I don't want to deal with people right now." 

The guide sweated and was tempted to send her to the Amazon village, but 
her little display of power earlier had frightened him. He may have taken an 
oath to send those most likely to be good stock to the village, but even he 
knew when someone could very well take their anger out on him. He pointed 
off in the direction the customers had used to enter the valley. "Off that 
direction is replacement for this training ground, two day travel if walk. 
Much better challenge than this cursed place." 

Ranma nodded and headed back over to the packs and stuffed anything in his 
that he might have need of. He took all the scrolls and most of his pops 
money, though he did leave him enough to buy a meal or two, like he would 
use it for that. "The panda is likely to return, do not tell him where I 
went, he went to far this time and I am breaking all ties with him." Ranma 
told the guide. 

With that Ranma shouldered the heavy backpack and headed out looking 
pissed, her foot found the one root in a three mile radius that was sticking 
above the ground by several inches to trip over and she smashed into the 
ground face first with a howl of shock. Climbing to her feet she staggered 
off complaining about being top heavy and being turned into a klutz all in 
one fell swoop, "Panda no Baka!" Ranma yelled out. She then walked on for 
several more minutes before she saw a man passed out on the edge of a cliff 
over looking the valley, there was blood all over his shirt, but a giant 
grin on his face. She wandered over to see if he was alright, that was a lot 
of blood to lose as well. 

"...so round and perfect...hehehe..." He giggled at whatever was going 
through his mind. 

She felt this urge to kick the pervert over the hill, but refrained when 
she realized she knew him from somewhere. That bandana and those fangs were 
very familiar, but she just couldn't place them right off the bat. She 
shrugged and dragged him off into the forest and away from the cliff, 
hopeful he would avoid the springs. When she went to retrieve his pack she 
got her first shock, it was heavier than hers, by almost ten times as much, 
it explained his well muscled arms and back. She looked him over jealously, 
just that morning she had been blessed with as similar build, but now it was 
gone. Though she did seem to still possess much of her skills and power as a 
girl, she just hoped she would be able to compensate for it by the time she 
reached Japan again. 

Something about this situation felt wrong to her and she decided to leave 
before her cursed existence caused her even more problems, the last several 
years had been nothing but constant fighting and training, most of the 
problems had stemmed from her father in one way or another too. She grabbed 
her pack and set off out of the area, leaving the Lost Boy to wake up alone 
and blushing down to the tips of his toes as he headed west, left the area 
and half an hour later was over looking an ice field in the middle of 
nowhere. He had been here several times in the last weeks and used his 
special gear in his pack to keep warm while he trudged the ten or fifteen 
minutes to the nearby jungle and settled down for the night. 

The next several weeks Ranma spent getting her edge back, retraining her 
new body to flow through kata designed for a male body. At first her 
wanderings and training had been total hell as she tripped an fell every ten 
feet, her balance so messed up that she had to spend an entire day just 
learning how to walk properly. After that most every thing else quickly 
returned as she adapted it, she even made a delightful discovery. Her speed 
had always been pretty good, now she could blur from sight a she practiced. 
At night she read through the scroll the panda had in his pack and found 
several of them pretty easy to learn, though she would half to change the 
main reason for the moves to put the to decent use. Why the old fart had a 
technique for stealing panties in his possession, but it could work on other 
things as well. He even had a Ki charged speed attack that could push her 
speed to astronomical heights, she figured once she mastered it she could 
throw over 500 punches in a few seconds flat! 

Why the hell he hadn't been teaching her these she didn't know, but figured 
it had something to do with his always holding back information, even when 
she needed it for a fight or just survival. Ranma's training took on an 
obsessive quality as she moved across China and avoided most towns she came 
across, she had found a number of wanted posters of her father and her old 
male half and was glad she had ditched the old man. He would have turned her 
in if could get away with it, taking the money and running as fast as he 
could. Finally she reached the coast and over looked a small fishing 
village, it was just what she needed right then. She set up camp out in the 
woods and filled out several post cards she had found in the old man's pack, 
they were all the same, so she figured he had just grabbed a bundle for a 
rack somewhere and pocketed the lot of them. She thought the panda on the 
front was a great omen for the old fart, a kind of forewarning that he hadn't 
even known about. It made her grin evilly. 

She spent a few hours after that practicing her Ki control and was thrilled 
when she pushed her punching speed up to over ninty per second, but she was 
disappointed in the down side to the technique. For her speed, she lost a 
good amount of the power to her punches and wasn't able to do much damage 
yet, but the scroll said to keep at it until the force of her blows 
returned. After that she filled out a couple of the post cards, one that the 
idiot had planned to send to some guy named Tendo with an extra couple of 
lines about his killing his son in a training accident and his curse. Ranma 
figured it would be good for a couple of laughs when he showed up at their 
door as a giant panda. The second was to his mother, letting her know about 
the accident, her parting of ways with the panda (he just had to let her 
know about that) and that he had no intention of killing herself now that 
she had lost her manhood so was giving up the Saotome name. 

It was a bit harsh, but she figured that any one that would let her suffer 
through the tortures of training that Genma had put her through didn't 
deserve more than that. The Seppuku contract in the old farts bag had been 
an eye opener and made her so mad that it had burst into flame while in her 
hands. It had also been the final thing she needed to cut her losses and 
ditch the old fart, may he become a panda fuck toy for some lonely monkey. 
She was putting some thought into changing her name completely, but wasn't 
sure if it would do any good. Even if she changed it, someone would 
eventually track her down and figure out who she was and she had no 
intentions of getting married to some boy just to keep her secret safe. She 
had changed, but not that much, girls still turned her head as easily as 
they always had, no matter how much the old man had tried to beat the 
reaction out of him. 

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It was about midnight several days later when Ranma reached the coast of 
Japan and waked ashore glowing a bright red as she used her aura to dry her 
clothing. Several of the couples on the beach ran away in fear, screaming 
something about a demon. Ranma ignored them as she made her way into the 
city, scaring the crap out of everyone that saw her. Since Ranma didn't have 
a mirror, she couldn't see what she looked like, but a cat hiding in a 
nearby alley was watching her intently and gasped as she saw the small 
silver crescent moon on the girl's forehead, tears poured down the cats face 
as memories filled her head. 

Luna ran out of the alley to catch her princess, but had to dive in as the 
girl turned to look at her and screamed in fear. Luna spun around to protect 
her princess, but found nothing out of the ordinary, she looked back and 
blinked. The red headed girl was over half a mile way and accelerating, 
screaming in fear about...cats! What was going on here, the princess had 
never been afraid of cats before, dragons yes, cats no. She ran after her, 
but knew it was hopeless in the end, the girl was just to fast. Luna heaved 
a sigh and pulled out her communicator, having your own subspace pocket was 
very handy, and hit the all call non-emergency button. 

"What is it Luna?" Ami Mizuno asked, wiping sleep out of her eyes. Soon 
all the other girls except Usagi were listening in. 

"I just saw the Princess!" 

"What?!!" Yelled three very wide awake girls. Rei and Ami looked shocked 
beyond belief, Usagi would have complained about losing sleep, but she was 
asleep, so didn't say anything. 

"I was in this alley when I felt this strong aura heading my way and I hid, 
a few seconds later this tall red head walks by, she was glowing a bright 
red and had the Royal Crescent Moon symbol on her forehead. Just the sight of 
it brought back a large chunk of my missing memories." 

"Where are you Luna, we'll meet you there." Said Ami. 

"I'm afraid that something weird happened and she ran off screaming." Luna 
said nervously, if not for that crescent moon she would have been a little 
suspicious of the girl and thought she was a member of the Dark Kingdom. 

"What do you mean, Luna?" Rei asked as she squinted at Luna. 

"She seems to be afraid of cats for some reason, took one look at me and 
ran off in a panic." 

"Luna, can you describer her a little better?" Ami asked as she typed in 
her mini computer. 

"Sure, she was about 5'10, 115 pounds, blue eyes, in incredible shape, and 
had this long red hair that was tied back in a long pony tail that reached 
down to below her waist. She was wearing a red silk Chinese shirt, black 
pants, and was bare foot. She also had this strange grace that only the 
Princess could have used as she walked." Luna was a trained observer and an 
adviser to the Princess when she showed up, she had to know her job. "She 
was also carrying this large backpack and glowing a bright red." 

"Glowing?" Rei asked. 

"Yes, I'm not sure why, but she didn't seem to be in any danger and there 
were no Youma about that I can sense." 

"Luna you said a backpack, is it possible that she wasn't born in Japan, 
but possible China? She was wearing Chinese clothing." 

"She looked Japanese to me Ami, so I don't know." Off in the distance is 
large explosion and Luna picks up the telltale signs of a Youma on the 
rampage again. "Looks like I spoke to soon, there's a Youma attack a few 
blocks from here." 

Usagi?s communicator beeped and signaled that she had received the message 
and would be in the area as soon as she could. Luna wondered what had woken 
the girl up, usually a bomb couldn't do it. She took off for the battle so 
that she could help the girl's fight it, they were still so green she even 
hated to send them out. It took her several minutes to reach the fight, but 
she looked around the corner of a building and gasped as she spotted Jedite 
laid out on the ground across the street, a familiar back pack on his 
chest. The she took in the Youma and gasped. 

Her princess was fighting it with her bare hands and using skills that she 
didn't remember her ever using. There was that bright red aura around her 
again and she seemed to be using it to increase her speed and power a 
thousand fold. The Youma was one of Jedite's usual kind, sorta female with 
odd powers, this one seemed to be able to use electricity as a weapon as it 
fired blast after blast at the Princess. The girl was unlike anything Luna 
could remember as she dodged at speeds that even the Scouts couldn't match, 
she slowly made her way forward every few seconds until she was in the 
thing's face and... 

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Gasping for air as she leaned against the building, Ranma hoped she had 
lost that damned cat. Ever since the stupid Neko-ken training the things 
seemed to follower her around like she was cat nip or something. She just 
hoped she didn't lose it before she found a way to cure herself of the 
blasted fear, if she didn't, she feared what she would do. As soon as she 
calmed down again she paled and looked around to see this thing walking down 
the street, it was vaguely female and dressed in this red and yellow costume 
covered in little black lighting bolts, it was giving off this aura of 
evil...no that was coming from above it. 

She looked up and spotted this blonde haired man hovering arrogantly as he 
survayed the area. He hadn't seen her yet, but knew it wouldn't be all that 
long before he did. Something deep inside her clicked and Ranma knew she had 
to defeat this guy, he was evil and a traitor to boot. She examined the 
situation and decided the guy was leaving himself open in his arrogance, a 
sneak attack would take him out quickly enough and allow her the time she 
needed to take out the monster. She slowly pulled her pack off her back, 
spun it a couple of times and threw it at the blonde. It arched up and 
impacted right in his chest and sent him slamming into the building and to 
the ground, she smiled as her super heavy pack landed on him and knocked the 
wind out of him. 

The monster gaped at her boss and didn't react as Ranma ran up and punched 
her in the head and sent her reeling, then she had to take several kicks, 
punches, and combos before the girl backed off. The monster straightened and 
looked at Ranma, anger evident in her eyes. "Who the hell are you?" 

"Ranko." Ranma said, figuring a fake name could be used after all. 

"Die, Ranko!!" The monster yelled and started to fire off blasts of 
electricity, but Ranma just grinned and dodged them easily. The speed 
technique had gotten easier and easier to do since he learned it, she had 
even gotten to the point that she could use some force in the blows now and 
this was good time to test just how much! She weaved forward though the 
thing's pathetic attack and began. Her arms vanished form sight as she used 
the thing as a punching bag, completely overwhelming it's total lack of 
resistance, she finished it off with a punch to the jaw and heard a loud 
cracking sound. The monster fell into a pile of dust at her feet that glowed 
for a few seconds before vanishing. 

Ranma blinked and shrugged, less mess to clean up. "That was easy, I 
thought it would put up a better fight than that." Then grinned as she saw 
the blonde starting to stand back up, he was holding his head and looked 
righteously pissed off, Ranma smirked at him. 

"Who the hell are you?" 

"I take it you and your monsters use the same speech writer?" Ranma asked 
innocently. 

"Who are YOU!?" Jedite yelled. 

"No one that matters idiot, if were going to fight, bring it on. I figure 
you won't be as well trained as the stupid monster I just took out, 
blondie." 

Luna giggled quietly. 

Jedite growled and fired off a blast of dark energy, but Ranma dodged it 
and was in front of him before he could even gloat about his powers. She 
punched him, in the stomach, as hard as she could and grinned evilly as 
Jedite fell to his knees and coughed up some green blood. He looked up at 
her in fear just before she kicked him in the back and sent him sprawling, 
Luna was in awe of her speed and power. Ranma stalked forward and Jedite 
panicked, he jumped into the air and vanished through a black portal. 

"I'll be back!" He yelled as he vanished. 

"Read enough comic books, you moron?" Ranma muttered to the now empty area 
and went to reclaim her pack. "Are you going to come out now, or am I going 
to have to come up there?" Ranma called out and looked to the roof of a 
nearby building. Luna noticed Mars and Mercury had been watching the fight, 
Moon was there, but she was asleep again. 

"May we come down and talk?" Mercury asked. 

"Go ahead." 

The scouts jumped the three stories to the ground and landed easily 
enough, this impressed Ranma quite a bit, but she started to snicker as they 
got closer and fell to her knees a few seconds later. The Scouts stopped and 
looked at each other in confusion, Moon let off a loud snore from the roof. 
"What's wrong?" Mercury asked. 

"How can you walk around in public in those outfits, I've never seen 
something so stupid in all my life." Ranma laughed out, rolling around now. 
"I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those get ups." 

"These are our uniforms, they are the very height of fashion and magical 
protection!" Mars yells out. 

"But...Bwahahahahaha...s-sure Thumbalina, then you go out and perform swan 
lake, right? Bwahahahahah." By this time Ranma had tears rolling down his 
face and it was getting harder to breath. "...and w-what's the one on the 
roof? Is she some kind of Snorlax or something?" 

Mercury blushed at that, Usagi's mom had forced a valium down the girl's 
throat at dinner and she hadn't been very coherent since. "Um...heheh...can 
we talk about what where here for?" 

Still gasping for air, Ranma couldn't stop herself from giggling at the 
girls a little more before she calmed down enough to talk. "What did you 
want to talk about?" 

"Um...well...we...thought you might be one of us and came to find out." 
Mercury said quietly. 

"You've got to be kidding me?" Ranma said. 

"No, one of our...friends saw you earlier and said she saw pretty good 
proof that you could be the girl we have been looking for." Mars said. 

"And who might I be, if I am the one your looking for?" 

"The Princess." Mars said, with a straight face. 

Ranma lost it and started laughing again, she was rolling a few seconds 
later. "Sorry girl's, I don't have time to play dress up right now." Ranma 
said as she snickered, rolled to her feet and shouldered her pack. "Maybe we 
can play again some other time, Bye." She jumped over them, rebounded off a 
building and jumped to a nearby roof and vanished before they could even 
come up with a wave goodbye. 

"Luna how can that girl be our Princess?!" Yelled Mars, who was impressed 
with the jump the girl had made. 

The cat came running up, trying not to giggle at the girls. "She had a 
silver crescent moon on her forehead, that makes her a very good candidate 
since only those of the Royal Moon Family have it on their heads." 

"I can't believe for a second that this girl is the Princess, she is rude, 
mean, insulting, and doesn't even know how to dress as a girl, let alone a 
princess." 

"I disagree Mars." Mercury said as she looked at her computer. 

"Why?" 

"That girl is nearly Sailor Moon's equal in power according to this and 
hasn't even tapped her full powers yet." 

To Be Continued... 


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Princess of the Moon 
Chapter 01 
By C. Rose 
ertle2@msn.com 
(c)2001 
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When she woke up, Ranma crawled out of her tent and began her early morning 
streach and work out, us usually lasted about three hours, so it was nearing 
8am by the time she finished up. She grabbed a pan out of her pack inside 
the tent and walked over to the lake that was the main attraction of the park 
she had slept in and used it to dump several pans of water over her and 
to get rid of her sweat. Several of the guys out jogging nearly dropped dead 
from shock as she did this, it had her wet silk shirt clinging to her curves 
in a very interesting manner, Ranma didn't even notice as she dried her hair 
with a towel that had seen better days. 

She had a lot on her mind as she thought about that fight the day before 
and those weird girls who had said she was some kind of princess. Ranma 
snickered to herself again, if they only knew that I had used to be a guy, 
they wouldn't have even tied that. She would have dismissed them entirely, 
but that three story jump those two girls had made was nothing to sneezed 
at. That kind of skill took years of practice to learn, whoever they were, 
they were very strong and talented. A few months ago she might have 
dismissed them as useless since they were female, but being stuck like this 
full time had force the true reality down his throat on a daily basis, 
girl's were not weak unless they wanted to be. Every other girl he'd met in 
China as she traveled around had been a decent fighter and she had spent 
several days camped in certain places as she challenged female fighters 
around the area and learned from them. 

Those fights had the most fun she'd had since the change and she had 
mastered several special attacks and even a couple of Ki attacks to add to 
her arsenal of growing special attacks. Now these girls were looking to try 
and get her to join their team, if it wasn't for that uniform, she may have 
been tempted, but as it was maybe she could get them to fight her on a one 
on one basis to see how good they were. She picked up and packed her stuff 
as she thought all this through and wondered where to go from here. Without 
her family she was Ronin and didn't have very many options. 

She was in the Juban district if she remembered right, maybe she could find 
a part time job and make some money before settling down somewhere. While 
making her way out of the park, Ranma noticed the local truancy officer 
heading her way, a scowl on his face. School, she didn't need to deal with 
that right now. Ranma hopped up on wall, waved the officer, and ran for it 
down the fence line, between buildings, across a couple of canals and up 
onto the roof tops until she reached the business district. If that guy 
actually managed to follow her through all that, she would go to school just 
for his skills alone. About five minutes later he hadn't shown up so she 
figured she was in the clear. 

A bit of wandering brought Ranma to a bus stop and a set of stairs that led 
up to Hikawa Shrine. The name sounded familiar to Ranma and after a few 
minutes though she recalled that they had traveled through this area a few 
years ago, they had stopped at the Shrine for a few hours before moving on 
in the middle of the night. Ranma snapped her fingers remembered a set of 
scrolls in her pack she had been learning from, they specialized in mediation 
techniques that she had been using to gain control over her Ki and that 
damned Neko-ken of hers. She had the techniques down, so figured that 
returning them would restore some of her tarnished honor. 

With those techniques she had learned how to review her life from different 
perspectives, she couldn't believe the sheer number of time her idiot father 
had tricked her into stealing something by turning it into a game, or the 
people she had hurt without knowing it. Ukyo, her old friend had been 
surprise had had her so angry that she had destroyed several trees with her 
fists before she calmed down. Relieving that little problem was going to be 
a pain in the ass, but her renouncing the Saotome name had solved a number 
of problems for her and placed them back where they belonged, at the panda's 
feet. 

The stairs were a good training exercise, Ranma ran up them in two minutes 
flat. It took most normal people five minutes to do it normally, as she hit 
the top, she saw a dark haired girl about to come down and flipped over her 
in a daring acrobatic way. The girl was so surprised she fell down in 
surprise, Ranma just smirked as she landed. 

"Good morning, do you know where I can find the head priest?" Ranma asked 
the girl. She was very pretty, but there was this cruel glint in her eyes 
that disturbed her a little. The girl was wearing a school uniform of gray 
plaid and had dropped her book bag, her skirt had hitched itself up in the 
fall and her white panties were showing. 

"Just who the hell do you think you are, this is shrine, not a gym or a 
battle ground. You just don't go around scaring people like that, get out of 
here and go away!" Rei yelled, her face turning red as she notices her 
skirt. 

"I just stopped by to see the head priest, you caught me by surprise there 
and I didn't have time to react much, so I flipped over you." 

"Humph!!" Rei said, grabbed her bag and ran down the stairs. She stopped 
just out of sight and wondered why the red head was here of all places. She 
ran into the trees at the side of the stairs and made her way back up so she 
could keep an eye on the girl, at the same time she pulled out her 
communicator. 

Ranma just giggled as the girl left. 

"May I help you cutie?" Asked an old bald man, with a lecherous grin as 
she looked her over. 

Ranma glared at him until he backed down. "Yes, I need to return something 
to you." 

"What would that be?" The old man asked, his eyes glued to her tits. 

"A couple years ago my idiot father passed through here and stole something 
from you, I was just going to return them to you." 

"Stole..." The old man's eyes brows rose for a second, them his eyes turned 
to stone and in a totally different tone of voice he said a name. 
"Genma...Saotome." 

"I see you know the idiot, I figured you would." Ranma handed over a small 
bundle of scrolls. "These are yours I believe." 

"Um..." 

"That's my good deed for the day, now I must be off." Ranma said and 
started to walk off. 

"Wait!" 

"What?" 

"Are you Ranma Saotome?" 

"Not any more old man, not any more." 

"Why did you return these, what about the other stuff your father stole?" 

"That is the only thing I can remember him taking, what are the other 
items?" 

"He also took a hundred thousand in yen out of our savings, most of the 
silverware, and the sacred texts." 

"He probably sold them somewhere, he had this habit of ditching me for 
days on end to do odd jobs and such, while I was training in one technique 
or another. At least that's what he said he was doing, but I have my doubts 
now." 

"I may be old, but I remember Ranma Saotome quite well and you are not 
him." 

"Ever hear of Jusenkyo?" 

"No, what is that?" 

"The cursed springs training grounds, it's a nasty place. Pops and I picked 
up a curse there, it is because of that place that I no longer travel with 
the idiot." 

"A curse can not turn someone into a totally new shape, now why are you 
trying to help those two thieves?" 

"Believe what you will, I returned what I could of your property, if your 
going to get mad about it, that's your problem, not mime. I renounced the 
the family name when I was cursed. Good day." Ranma said and turned to walk 
off again. 

"Wait!" 

"What!?" Ranma growled. 

"Thank you for showing that there is someone in your family that holds 
honor." 

"Old man, I renounced my family name so it no longer matters. I gave up 
everything when I did it, I'm not even a man anymore because of those 
springs. Still, here's some good news for you, pops picked up a curse 
himself and now turns into a giant panda with a splash of cold water. If you 
ever see him again, just toss a cup of water on him and laugh." 

"Will you tell me more of this curse of yours and this Jusenkyo?" 

"Why?" 

"These scrolls are prized possessions for Shinto Temple like this and cost a 
fortune to replace. I still haven't had a chance to get new ones and my 
granddaughters training has suffered for it. Also, the seals on these have 
been forced open, that means that someone has seen the techniques within, a 
I right?" 

"Yes, though it was open when I took them from the old fart, I used the 
techniques to help cure me of some problems that I had developed over the 
years." 

"Like what?" 

"I'd rather not talk about it." Ranma said with a shudder. 

"The main thing these techniques teach is Ki control and I can tell just 
from looking at you that you have mastered the techniques. Your body is over 
flowing with Ki, I can feel it and I've never met anyone as strong as you. 
How is it you have achieved this much skill?" 

"My martial arts school is called 'Anything Goes' and my pops has taught me 
in it for over ten years now. I have learned the majority of several other 
schools as well, this has given me a major advantage in a fight. Still, I 
think my dunking in that spring knocked something loose in my mind because 
accessing my Ki became much easier after I turned female, I can do Ki 
attacks and Ki defenses quite easily now." 

"That's amazing, can you show me?" 

"Well, nothing fancy, but I can call up a Ki ball with no problems." 

"A ball of Ki, you can't be that strong even with what I'm...seeing..." The 
old man's eyes widen to dinner plates as Ranma glares at him and holds up 
her hand. Red sparks of light begin arching from finger to finger for 
several seconds before collecting at the palm of her hand and pull into a 
small ball of red energy. 

"C-can you teach me how to do that?" 

"It takes emotion." 

"Emotion?" 

"I read though those scrolls of yours and several other I have and all of 
them described two ways to access Ki and use it. There is your way, which 
focus' all your energy into a point and you use it manipulate your fire 
readings and such. The second is scoffed at for being a short cut and not as 
powerful as the first way. This is the short cut, it uses one's strongest 
emotions blended together to form a desired effect." Ranma concentrates and 
the ball flares for a second and shrinks down into a tiny pinprick of light 
bright enough to cause Ranma to be cast into shadows. 

"Wha..." 

"This is your way, with me focusing everything I have into my hand. It is 
ten times as strong as the Ki ball, but not as useful and a lot harder to 
control. I can feel your strength old man and you have a lot of experience 
using your Ki in this way, but none in the other. You need to practice both 
or they can't work with each other, there has to be a balance." Ranma said, 
she figured that if the old man picked up the technique, it would help him 
to forgive the Saotome family for it's crimes. "Will that help to pay back 
some of what the panda did to you?" 

"Indeed it will, I can already see uses for both techniques." 

"Excellent, then I'll be off." 

The old man grinned again and sidled up close to her. "You wouldn?t happen 
to want to be an acolyte would you?" 

"Nope, I have to find a job and find a place to stay, but thanks for the 
offer." 

"The job does pay you know?" 

Ranma stopped and looked at him over her shoulder. "How much?" 

"Enough to help you out, so long as you stay here and help. I also want you 
you to teach me and Rei how to use that second method you just showed me." 

"For how long?" 

"Say, six months?" 

"Can I use the woods to practice my martial arts?" 

"Sure, we even have practice dummies and other materials for you to use." 

"Agreed." 

********** 

Ice cream, it was the one thing Ranma loved above the Art, but not by much. 
She loved to eat it by the bowl or dish, or even in a cone if it was large 
enough. After getting a place to stay and even a job, she figured it was 
time to spend a little of her cash and celebrate a little. So she was 
walking down the street licking a giant ice cream cone with a big grin on 
her face. She loved ice cream, as a guy it was unmanly to eat, unless the 
old man sole a pint or two and decided to share with her at the time. 

The old man, grandpa as he wanted to be called, wanted her to get back in 
school. All she had to do was pick out one of the schools in the area, but 
had suggested Juban High as a good place to start, then the catholic school 
his grand daughter went to, or another just a bit further up the road from 
there. She couldn't even remember the last two's names and figured the 
Juban High would be a good place to start. She arrived at around 9am and 
wasn't surprised to find the gates locked up tight to keep the students 
inside to learn. She didn't know it, but she was already making an 
impression on the male half of the students as she stood there, they had 
noticed her and swarmed to the windows for better look. 

Ranma was in her usual clothing, black baggy pants and red silk shirt, but 
had added a black hair band and bows to her hair to give it a better look 
for a girl. She also had on red arm bands and sunglasses to give her a 
mysterious look. With an easy kick, she flipped over the gate and sauntered 
into the school. Since the gate was over fifteen feet high and had been 
designed to keep the students from climbing it, the jump was breathtaking 
since she did it without dropping her ice cream. 

She strolled down the halls until she located the office and walked inside. 
The secretary looked up in surprise as she entered. "Where is your uniform 
young lady?" She snapped. 

"Since I'm here to register, I don't have one yet." Ranma snapped back. 

"Alright, here fill out this paper work." Ranma took half an hour to fill 
in the blanks and let the lady do her job. She sat down, leaned back, and 
was instantly asleep. 

"Mrs. Ranma?" 

"What?" Ranma asked without opening her eyes. 

"What is your family name?" 

"Its..." Uh oh, Ranma thought, she hadn't planned on this. "...Ranma 
Masaki. Yeah." 

"Mazaki?" 

"Yep." 

The secretary gave her a weird look, shrugged, and made up a folder and 
handed her some papers to sign. "Am I to assume you are currently on your 
own?" 

"I'm staying at a local Shinto Temple while I'm in school, after that I 
don't know." 

A tall lady with long green hair walked into the room and handed a folder 
to the secretary. "Here is Miss. Misaki's school records Mrs. Taki." 

"Thank you Mrs. Meioh, where were they I didn't find them in the incoming 
students files." 

"Miss. Masaki is one of my students, I was over looking her file and making 
some notes." 

"Huh?" Said Ranma, totally lost at this point and wondering who this woman 
was and how she knew she needed to help. 

"Come along Ranma, my name is Setsuna Meioh, I'm going to be your school 
counselor." 

"Um...alright." She stood and followed the tall woman to a set of offices 
several doors down. 

As they entered she closed and locked the door and motioned for Ranma to 
sit down. "Every now and then someone comes here and makes friend, I won't 
mention names Miss. Masaki, but your friend has requested that we let you 
get set up in a new life." 

"Wha..." 

Setsuna smiled and handed Ranma large envelope. "In there is everything you 
will need to get set up in your new life, identification and such set up 
under your new name." 

"How did..." 

"Your new friend is worried about you and arranged everything ahead of time 
and apologizes for any problems that may arise from this help." Setsuna 
handed Ranma her class schedule and escorted her out of the room, talking 
nonsense and lying through her teeth even as she pushed the confused girl 
out into the hall and shut the door in her face. "Thank you and good luck at 
the uniform store Ranma, I'll talk to you tomorrow." Slam. 

"Huh?" Ranma said and blinked a few times. 

'What the hell was that about?' Ranma thought as she went over to the 
stairs and sat down. She dug into the envelope and found to her surprise a 
wallet, male version, filled with about 50,000 yen, a student ID with her 
picture on it and the name she had just made up on the spot. There was also 
a library card, and a bank book registered to her, it had a 500,000 yen 
balance. There was also an ATM card and a check book with everything made 
out to her. Every bit of it looked legal. 

She also found a note addressed to a Ranma Saotome and paled in shock. 

Ranma Saotome: 

This may come as a shock to you, but you don't need to panic. The Sailor 
Scouts set this up and would like for you to forgive them for any pain or 
fear their offer caused you. Everything in this packet is legal and yours 
free of charge, we will be contacting you again to explain in more detail 
what the others messed up yesterday. 

Your friend 

Ranma sighed, this was getting weirder than usual and she had thought she 
was used to weird. What could all of this mean? Those girl's had said she 
was a Princess of all things and that was impossible, she was born a boy and 
transformed into this shape. If anything she was a prince under a curse, and 
even that was a bit far fetched. She had grown used to this female body over 
time and could live with it if she had to, but this crap about her being a 
Princess was a little weird. She would have to give those girls the truth 
just to get them off her back, a guy couldn't be a Princess. 

She put the stuff away and pulled out the last item, the address of the 
uniform shop and just what she had to get. To her surprise there was even 
some sizes written down for her, she recognized them as her bust and waist 
sized and blushed a little. Even after all these months she still wore her 
boxers and no bra, but they were a required part of the uniform so she had 
to wear them or get in trouble. Standing up she ran outside and jumped on 
top of the fence, looked at the address, and ran in the right direction 
while on top of the fence. 

The place was located a couple miles away so Ranma arrived in about ten 
minutes, still on top of a fence, she had just jumped over the various 
intersections. She looked the place over and wondered why she was feeling 
this weird foreboding the closer she got to the place, but shrugged it off, 
it was probably nothing of interest to her. It was decent looking place and 
Ranma headed inside and looked around, a sales lady headed over way and 
smiled as she saw a sale. Ranma smiled back and handed her the card. 

"I'm starting at Juban in the morning and need a couple of uniforms." 

"Lets step into the changing room and let me see if these sizes are correct 
and I'll get your uniform for you." 

"Thank you." 

Several minutes later Ranma was blushing as the sales lady held up a pair 
of white and yellow boxers, her eyebrow twitching. 

"Um..." Ranma started. 

"Let me get you some proper underwear and I won't ask why your wearing 
these." 

"..." Ranma said, still blushing as she stood there in the nude. 

The uniform was a blue skirt with a white top, a blue neck tie and was the 
most mortifying thing Ranma had ever put on. She felt stupid and wanted to 
burn the thing, her new panties were itchy and bra was pinching her in 
places she wanted to forget about. Of course that was her opinion, to the 
sales lady she was nodding and smiling at the gorgeous girl in front of her 
who looked like she had been born to wear that skirt. Her legs were 
perfectly proportioned and her but was just the right size to drive all 
thoughts out of any male that saw her, the lady smiled. This one was 
perfect, she was just a tomboy waiting to bloom, then Ranma itched her 
crotch and farted, ruining the image. The red head smiled and giggled a 
little as she adjusted her breasts by lifting them and adjusting th bra. 

"H-how is the fit?" 

"A little snug, but nothing I can't live with, though the bra is a bit to 
frilly for my tastes." 

"Oh, I thought it was perfect for you." 

"I don't wear them all that often, my idiot father trained me in the Art 
for over ten years, he treated me as a boy for the whole time so I don?t' 
have much experience with these things. I'd rather wear a boy's uniform if 
you have one, that's what I did at the last school I was at." 

"With that body?!" The sales lady said, sighing at the stupidity of a man 
that would hide this magnificent creature. 

"Yeah, can you believe it?" Ranma said, oblivious to the sales ladies tone. 
She adjusted the panties thought her skirt and sighed in relief even as the 
lady twitched. 

"I can tell you have never worn this type of stuff before, you need some 
practice." 

"Oh?" 

"The more you adjust your underwear, the more attention you will draw to 
yourself and what your adjusting. You will also need to keep your legs 
closed, a skirt hikes up when you sit down and you could accidentally flash 
your panties to some unsuspecting man when you don't want to." 

"I didn't know that, but I have a way to keep it from happening so don't 
worry about it." Ranma said, covertly looking at the pile of clothing that 
had been brought in. The PE shorts would solve a lot of problems if she wore 
them under the skirt. She adjusted the cuffs on her shirt and decided she 
would be putting her Martial Arts Sewing to use tonight to solve some 
problems with the outfit. "Is there a jacket that goes with this?" 

"Yes, though it costs extra." 

"Get me one, make it a size bigger than it needs to be, I'll be making some 
adjustments to it." 

"It's against school rules to make to many alterations." 

"I'm a martial artist ma'am, I need something I can fight in. The 
alterations will not be noticeable on the outside of the clothing." 

The jacket was in as bad a shape as the skirt and the shirt, all of it was 
to constricting to be used in combat. She had a lot of work to do tonight if 
she was going to be ready by morning. Suddenly there is a scream from 
outside the small room and Ranma runs out in her new uniform to look around, 
she spots the sales lady just as she collapses at the feet of this thing 
standing over her. It is about seven foot high, covered in scales and 
female, differently female. The giant tits and large bra are a dead give 
away. 

Blushing furiously, Ranma gets in a set stance as she looks in her 
direction and grins with pointed teeth. The dark energy wafting off the 
thing nearly knocks Ranma off her feet and makes her mouth go dry, but the 
excitement of a fight kicks in and has her more than ready. "So are you like 
the stupid electric monster I destroyed a yesterday?" Ranma says and smiles 
evilly. 

"YOUR the one that killed Electrica? For that you get to die now, as 
painfully as possible, I'm Silky Doll and your dead!" The monster woman 
yelled, her large breasts bouncing wildly. 

Ranma found her eyes glued to the large bouncing objects and blushed an 
even brighter shade of red. "Um..." 

Silky Doll raised her arm and fired off a beam of light that Ranma dodged 
without even thinking about it, she couldn't stop blushing. Doll screamed 
and ran forward and threw a punch at Ranma, but she twisted, grabbed Doll's 
arm, and threw her over her shoulder and through the front door. It exploded 
outward in a shower of splinters as Doll flew across the street and slammed 
into a wall, Ranma came running out of the destroyed door. Her blush was gone 
as she started to get more into the fight, she would have to be careful if 
she continued this fight. That thing was a very good looking monster and 
Ranma was reluctant to take it out because of that. 

The pointed teeth were a good distraction though, they would allow her to 
keep her mind out of the gutter while she fought. There it was across the 
street, Ranma didn't think she had thrown it that far, she hopped up on a 
car and jumped across the street. She was cursing as she landed, her skirt 
had billowed up as she came down and flashed her new white panties to 
everyone in the smal crowd that was swiftly gathering. The loud gasp of male 
hormones was something she didn't need to deal with right now, so she got in 
fighting stance and let he aura flare up around her. 

Sensing an opening, Ranma ran forward and started to beat on the monster at 
super speed, several loud bangs are heard as she breaks the sound barrier 
with her punches and kicks. For Silky Doll, she is unable to react fast 
enough and soon falls to dust, releasing the energy she had gathered 
earlier. Ranma smirks and wonders how many of these wimps she will have to 
take out, no matter how pretty they were. 

"How dare you interfere again!" Yelled a male voice from above her. 

Ranma rolled her eyes, looked up a Jedite and smiled at him, the crowd 
vanished as quickly as it had formed. Jedite floated down to the ground, his 
eyes glinting with hatred as he looked Ranma over. "Hello blondie, what is 
it this time?" 

"I will teach you the meaning of pain as I kill you!" Jedite yelled and 
launched forward. 

Stepping forward, Ranma broke through Jedite's defenses and hit him in the 
face with a straight arm to th jaw, kicked him in the balls, and body 
slammed the man into the concrete so hard it shattered around him. The 
difference this time was that Jedite was prepared for the girl's fighting 
ability, so his magic deflected most of the damage. He jumped to his feet 
and fired out several blasts of energy, Ranma dodged and weaved as fast as 
she could, but wasn?t' fast enough to get out of the line of fire fast 
enough. A large blast caught her in the chest and exploded, blowing the body 
back several yards, she landed in a heap but was able to roll to her feet. 
Her clothing was shredded and her bra was showing through some of the tears 
and rips, the skirt was now a weird looking mini skirt. Ranma could feel the 
blood running down her leg from the cut she had taken on her upper thigh, 
her grin was a mile wide and was enough that it frightened Jedite more than 
he was able to admit. 

To Be Continued... 
********** 

Notes - This story is going well, but a little slow since it is not one of 
my main ones, it is just an idea I'm toying with at the moment. I may cross 
this with Tenchi, but at the moment I don't know, well see how things work 
out in the future. For anyone familiar with my stories, I like to get a lot 
of fighting done, this story is no exception. If I write the whole thing 
out, I will probably take it clear though the death of Beryal and Metalia, 
the main history will be very changed as I go along. There will also be 
plenty of lite hentai parts, after all Ranma is to new at being a girl to 
cover up thing he used to care less about. 

Notes - Setsuna is a kind of helpful background character that is there to 
make sure things go as they are supposed to, the inners don't even know she 
exists yet and those that do can be counted on one hand. 


********** 
Princess of the Moon 
Chapter 02 
By C. Rose 
ertle2@msn.com 
(c)2001 
********** 

For the first time in months, Ranma had come across a guy who was willing 
to fight her tooth and nail, the fact that he wanted to kill her didn't 
matter in the least. It just meant that they would be fighting that much 
harder, Jedite was this evil bad guy with magical abilities and a lot of raw 
power at his disposal. Ranma knew she could beat him, she just wanted to see 
what he had to offer. She had already taken him down once and that had been 
too easy. 

Ranma ignored the fact that he had already gotten in good blow and sliced 
her leg open somehow, it was just a flesh wound and nothing to worry about. 
The pool of blood at her feet meant nothing to her as she limped to the 
side, circling the blonde idiot. "What's the matter, that all you got?" 

"What is your name girl?" Jedite growled. 

"You may call me Ranko, Master of the School of Anything Goes Martial 
Arts." 

"I am Jedite, General of Queen Beryl's army's and soon to be King of 
Earth." 

"Well J-chan, you have to actually defeat me first and your track record 
isn't so hot." 

Jedite screamed and rushed forward, throwing a punch that Ranma barely 
ducked. She blinked a few times and reevaluated Jedite's skill, he may be 
dependent on his magic, but he has learned to use it effectively. His speed 
is nearly equal to her own now, but Ranma just dodged and weaved. Second 
rule her idiot father had taught her, never show your true strength even in 
a major battle. Ranma's leg came up and hit Jedite right in the chin and 
sent him flying back, she didn't give him time to get very far though as she 
spun around kicked him in the side and booted him into a nearby building. 

He impacted with a cry of pain, face first, and slid down to the ground 
moaning. Jedite's mind, though filled with pain was confused, this girl was 
breaking through his magical defenses as if they didn't exist. Even Sailor 
Moon had been helpless before his force fields and power blasts, but this 
Ranko was seemed to know something he didn't. Jedite crawled back to his 
feet and decided that this girl was going to be dead by the time he was done 
with there. "Alright, you've pushed me to far girl." 

"Ohh, I'm shaking in my sneakers here." Ranma taunted. 

Jedite held out his hand and a sword and shield appeared, a blazing aura of 
power formed around him and his uniform shifted to a more stately style with 
a cape that billowed with the aura he was producing. The sword glinted in 
the sunlight and burst into black fire. "Die bitch!" He growled out, his 
eyes blazing with fury. 

Ranma crouched down and burst into a blazing blue aura and studied her 
opponent, he kept surprising her. She could feel his power now, but is 
wasn't the evil he had been producing before, but a pure kind of power that 
the Scouts used. Where in the world had he learned this from, she thought. 
Growling deep in her throat, Ranma's aura turns red and flares out a couple 
of feet even as she launches forward. Jedite does the same and leads in with 
the sword, leaving black and silver after images as it moves. Side stepping 
the sword, Ranma kicks Jedite several times, but his armor is tougher than 
it looks and isn't damaged. 

The sword blurs in a dizzying pattern of death as Ranma weaves in and out 
of the man's defenses, but she is distracted and gets hit in the face with 
the shield sending her stepping back. Right in the path of Jedite's sword as 
it slices her upper arm open, making her gasp in pain. Then it spreads 
quickly and fills her body, Ranma staggers back and falls to her knees as 
her head flares as if it is about to explode. She screams in pain and falls 
over clutching her head, tears of pain dripping off her cheeks. 

"This is one of the famous Pain Blades we used to defeat the Moon Kingdom 
originally, they haven't seen the light of day in centuries, but it looks 
like their power is still very effective, eh, bitch? Can't talk, I'm not 
surprised, these things have brought the most powerful of fighters to their 
knees, right where you are." 

"Ahhh..." Ranma said. 

"Now what should I do with you? You are going to die, but how shall I do 
it, a limb at at time, or months of endless torture...Bwhahahahahahahaha!!!" 

Through her haze of pain, Ranma had one thought, this man is an absolute 
idiot! He had me down and stands there to gloat? Ranma groans and reaches 
for her full strength and her aura flares out again, this time it is edged 
in a blue band of confidence and she slowly raises to her feet, her crescent 
moon flaring brightly and making her aura even bigger. The pain is more 
than she has ever had to endure, but the flare of her aura seems to bleed 
the dark attack off and within seconds it is down to tolerable levels. 
Jedite is still laughing as she moves to uppercut him with the force of 
semi, lifting him into the air and dropping him like a sack of potatoes. The 
sword drops and shatters as it hits the ground, it soon vanishes like those 
monsters he was summoning. 

"A crescent moon..." Jedite gasps and goes pale, trying to crawl away. 

Ranma continues her attack by kicking him into the air and using it as a 
free floating punching bag, punching and kicking the idiot until his entire 
body is black and blue, his eyes are rolled back in unconsciousness, and she 
is sure of victory. She is about to put him down for the final time when 
Jedite's body vanishes out of her hand in a swirl of cherry blossoms. 

Ranma's eyes narrow and she relaxes, looking around for where Jedite had 
gone. Something inside her is telling her that he was teleported away, but 
what that thing is, she has no idea. Then she senses something and her head 
snaps around to look at a nearby roof top and spots a tall green haired 
Sailor Scout holding a weird looking staff. She jumps down and walks over, 
calmly assessing the situation and smiling at Ranma. She pulls a mirror from 
behind her back and holds it up for Ranma to see the bright silver crescent 
moon glowing on her forehead. 

"What is that?" 

"That is the mark of the Royal Family of the Moon, Ranma, only those of 
that family can have that mark and your display of power just now proved 
that you are a member of that family. That marks you as a princess of the 
moon, you have royal blood in you Ranma and it is beginning to adapt to the 
power that is within you, making you stronger in every way." 

"I am not a Princess lady, I am a man, I was born a man and will always be 
one." 

"Do you think I didn't look at your past Ranma Saotome, I am the Guardian 
of Time, I can watch anything that has ever happened or will be. You were 
given this form for a reason, you don't have to act like a Princess as you 
understand them Ranma. NO matter how you act or dress, you are a Princes of 
the Moon Kingdom. You make what kind of Princess you will become, not what 
others think you should act like. The Scouts need your help with Jedite and 
the others that will eventually follow him in the years to come. Please 
Ranma, if you don't help, eventually the Scouts will be killed and the world 
will suffer under the heel of whoever it was that killed them. They are all 
that stands between peace and the destruction that the elements of evil that 
will try time and again to take this world." 

"Is that supposed to sway me, to make me take up a fight that is none of my 
business?" Ranma snapped. "What if I do help, then what, do I dress up in 
these stupid costumes and let all the perverts in the nation look up my 
skirt all in the name of love and peace?" 

"There is a magical field around those that wear this uniform Ranma, you 
could meet your father dressed like this and he wouldn't recognize you." 

"Yeah, he would be to busy trying to look up my skirt or chasing me 
around for a quick feel." Ranma grumbled. 

Pluto sighed and held up a Sailor Scout Pen with the symbol of the sun on 
it. "This is one of the only Sailor Scouts that was destined to never appear 
Ranma, Sailor Sol or Sun. When a girl takes up one of these pens and 
transforms into their Sailor Identity, the transformation multiplies their 
best assets, your strength would be incredible, as would your speed, and 
your Ki attacks would be strong enough to level entire city blocks if you 
used all the power available. Just imagine the amount of good you could do 
with that at your disposal." 

"A powerful toy is not enough to make me just drop my beliefs you know." 

Pluto stepped back and bowed and opened a large door that hadn't been there 
seconds before. "Then look upon the Gate of Time and see the possible 
futures that may come to be if you don't help us Ranma." 

The door opened to show a barren land scrape devoid of even plant life, the 
sky was almost pitch black, the light coming from a tiny pin prick of 
something high in the atmosphere. Pluto pointed to it. "That is what will 
happen if the Silence is brought to pass just a few years form now." The 
scene shifted again and showed Jedite and another man with long white hair 
pulling girls out of a line up of half naked girls, the surroundings looked 
like a labor camp of some kind. "This is a year form now, just a few short 
months before the Silence takes place, notice the girl being held by Jedite, 
that is someone you know, yes?" 

"...Shampoo?" 

"Her and the village are vaporized in one shot when they refuse to bow down 
to Queen Beryl?s rule, only the girl's between fifteen and twenty are 
allowed to live and that is as you see them." 

"You said these are only possible futures?" 

"Yes, there are hundreds of possibilities to choose from, some like this, 
others where they were more lucky. It all depends on choices Ranma, will you 
accept this pen?" 

"I don't know..." 

"I can offer one more incentive Ranma, when you take up the mantel of 
Sailor Sol it will make you whole again. That means that your fear of cats 
will vanish and you will be able to learn how to control the true Neko-ken." 

"I-I...sigh, alright I accept." 

"Here, take it and say what is already in your heart." 

"Huh, I don't know about this..." Ranma hesitated. 

"You accepted Ranma, that was a promise to help the others wasn't it?" 
Pluto said. 

Ranma reached out and took the pen from Pluto, he had a strange feeling 
about this, and they both gasped as it turned into light fragments and 
formed around her arms as a pair of gold and black bracers. "W-what the 
hell?!" 

A surprised Pluto kept her face straight and replied. "You are the first 
new Scout to be born in over ten thousand years Ranma, it is adapting to you 
and making you a modern version of a Sailor Scout. Can you feel the power in 
your veins?" 

"I can...it's..." 

"Say the words Ranma." 

"SOL CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!!" 

This feeling of pure ecstasy filled Ranma and she moaned as she was lifted 
into the air, the bracers flare with a blinding light, when it recedes Ranma 
is clad in a fuku unlike any have ever seen before, reddish black leather 
body suit, a red and black skirt, a green front bow and a white back bow 
with the ribbons trailing nearly to the floor. She has on knee high reddish 
black boots, the arm bands now decorated with little crescent moons, and a 
tiara with a ruby in the center. This feeling was filling Ranma's soul and 
she shuddered a little as she nearly came right there, what ever it was she 
felt wonderful. Strong and fast, powerful and unstoppable enough to take on 
all of the demons in Jedite's arsenal. "Whoa!!" 

"See what I mean?" 

"This may be a little much..." 

"What do you mean?" 

"This could become addicting if I let it." 

"That is always the same with the first transformation, it is the power 
adapting itself to your body. The fact that you have royal blood in you is 
probably what is making it so pleasurable for you, the transformation is 
very intense." 

"Okay, I could get used to this." Ranma said and suppressed a moan and 
shuddered a little. "Hey wait a minute, it's broad daylight here, why 
haven't we been seen yet?" 

"I am the Guardian of Time Ranma, I made us just about a half second ahead 
of normal time, so everything is stopped until I start us up again." Pluto 
said with a hint of arrogance. 

"Is there anything else I need to know?" Ranma asked. 

"As a Princess you will be receiving a cat adviser." 

"Ca-ca-cat?" 

"Your fears should be gone Ranma..." 

"Almost completely, but there is this feeling left over...I don't know how 
to describe it." 

"It's just reflex Ranma, you'll get over it in time. I'll send you a cat 
adviser as soon as I can." Pluto said, the girl didn't need to know that one 
had been sent for already and would be arriving inside a week. It had to 
come all the way from the Retreat, fairy cats were made to be such good 
companions too. With that thought, Pluto stepped into the gate and vanished 
in a swirl of fog. The course of time resumed and Ranma found herself above 
Tokyo bay, she screamed as she fell the twenty feet into the water, cursing 
green haired women all the way. 

AT the Time Gate Pluto laughed at her water logged friend. 

********** 

It was midnight when the guard dozed off to sleep and he opened his eyes 
and looked around carefully. For the first time in months the time was ripe 
for him to try again, they were getting lazy in their patrols. They must 
have thought him beaten or cowed, but he would never give up his freedom 
again, not after the Master. He raised an arm covered in fur and let his 
mind wander deep into untouched territory to call up a skill he hadn't 
touched in fifteen years. At first he couldn't remember the techniques, but 
after days of trying he had finally recalled them. His arm snapped out and 
hit the guard in the back of the head, she fell to the ground with a loud 
clatter. 

Snapping the bamboo door off it's string hinges, the escapee vanished from 
sight as it high tailed itself out of the cursed village of Amazons. Curse 
that ungrateful son of his and his dishonorable ways, he had worked to hard 
over the last few years to see his dreams destroyed like this. Genma Saotome 
raced along, his panda body running on it's hind legs like some well trained 
circus bear. Spears, arrows, darts, and a whole plethora of other objects 
were thrown at him as he raced along, dodging the pathetic Amazons attempts 
to capture him. Genma laughed, or growled in joy as he ran over a hill and 
vanished from sight. 

The Amazons stopped chasing the giant cowardly panda and laughed. "Do you 
think letting him go was a good idea, it only took him a whole three months 
to finally try and escape, I was beginning to think that he was retarded or 
something, I only left the cage door open every night for weeks." Said 
Perfume. 

"True, and he still broke it when he escaped." Shampoo said. 

"Do you think he will find Ranma for us?" 

"Yes, he is the girl's father, he will find her eventually." 

"Then let us go, the idiot doesn't even know how to cover his tracks when 
he runs. I'm bored already. Are you sure you have everything you need?" 

"Oh yes." Shampoo said and pulled a large sword out of nowhere, moon light 
glinted off the blade, giving it an evil look. A half mile away a panda saw 
the girl's at the top of the hill, the sword, and the reflected light and 
ran for his life. 

********** 

-A Day in the Life of Ryoga the Wanderer- 

Ryoga was knocking snow off his boots as he looked around the jungle he 
found himself in, not ten minutes ago it had been snow so bad he had been 
having trouble seeing. Then he had jumped over this large crack in the ice 
and landed in this jungle, how the snow survived here he had no idea. All he 
did now was that some thing was calling him, but whenever he focused on it, 
he remembered his most prized memory of a topless girl smiling at him. 
(Ryoga's memories have always been a little delusional). He was still 
looking for Ranma, but felt it wasn't as important as it had been two years 
ago. Their trail had dried up completely and he had no idea where to look 
now, but that girl who was haunting his dreams kept popping up. 

She had traveled all over China studying with various masters and priests, 
if the rumors were true, she had learned how to user her chi. Ryoga wanted 
to ask out...er..challenge his mysterious beauty, but had no way to find her 
with his sense of direction. Then one day he had been thinking about her and 
felt her far away and he had run towards where he felt her, crossing 
jungles, cemetery?s, mountains, cities, and lakes until he had become 
totally lost. It must have taken half an hour at least, at one point he had 
felt he was close, but had lost it when he tripped and fell in that lake. 
Some Americans had pulled him out, but since he didn't know English very 
well they had taken him to the nearest port. When he had stepped off the 
little walkway down to the docks he had turned back to thank them, but ended 
up tripping and getting a face full of snow. 

Where the hell that came from he had no idea, maybe it had snowed when he 
wasn't paying attention. Americans always were a bit weird, maybe it was 
because of that weird weather. Now he was in a jungle, it looked familiar 
for some reason as he walked. Suddenly there was a doorway ahead of him 
between a couple of trees and he went through, maybe they had a phone he 
could borrow or decent directions. He walked out on stage and noticed that 
there were a lot of half naked men running around and a totally naked girl 
chained to a wall, she was screaming in some language he didn't know. With a 
shrug Ryoga batted the men of the stage into a crowd he hadn't noticed and 
shattered the wall the girl was chained to. 

She wrapped her naked body around him and tried to kiss him, but he 
couldn't see anything with his eyes close and what he was feeling was 
tempting enough. He could feel the blood going to his nose while he carried 
her off the stage and tried to ask her for directions to Juban. Eventually 
he gave up and sat her down and waved goodbye, he missed the sad look on her 
face as she slumped down, naked, on the beach. The sign in the background 
said 'Welcome to the Bahamas'. 

(Note-I just had to put this in here, it just fit for some reason...heh) 

********** 

Akiko was not having a good day, she had thought it was going to be such a 
good day too. She had woken up early, fixed herself breakfast without 
screwing it up and even managed to get to school on time for a change. She 
had spent most of the day finishing off her homework and fantasizing about 
some of the guys in her class, just a typical, normal day. After school she 
had ran home and quickly changed into her casual clothes to go and meet her 
friends for a lazy afternoon walk through the mall. That was when the 
problems began, after a couple of hours her friends had headed on home, but 
there were still a few things that she needed so she decided to stick around 
and get them on her own. 

For some reason she had known that something was going to happen, but had 
ignored it, figuring she was just being silly. On the way home from the mall 
she had decided to take the long was and get a good look at the ocean before 
bed. She had been walking along the sidewalk, just along the beach that 
bordered the ocean, when three boys had come out of nowhere and dragged her 
down to a secluded part of the beach to have their fun with her. Now 
normally she would have been more than happy to help them out, but they had 
to start hitting her for no particular reason and that just pissed her off. 
She struggled for several minutes trying to find a decent leverage to throw 
the idiots off, they weren't even that good in the first place. Then the 
most amazing thing happened, the first of the three boys who was currently 
on lookout, let off a short scream and vanished. 

The amazing thing was that none of the boys seem to notice when he 
vanished, but Akiko had noticed a reddish black blur just milliseconds 
before he vanished. She was a little board so she didn't have anything else 
to do, all she really wanted was for the moron above her to finish what he 
was doing. She struggled a little more and caught a second vanishing act at 
the corner of her eye, as the second of the three boys vanished, but this 
time the last of the three took note and jumped to his feet. Just in time 
to see a tall red headed woman wearing a Sailor Scout fuku appear out of 
thin air and kicked him across the jaw with a spinning kick that launched 
him back over a dozen yards to land in the water at the edge of the beach. 
Akiko was a little amazed that he didn't get back up, then realized that the 
kick must have very powerful to have thrown him that far. She shrugged and 
hoped he got out of the water before he caught a cold or something. 

Akiko sat up and stretched the kinks out of her back before looking up at 
her savior. She had witnessed the regular Sailor Scouts on more than one 
occasion as they dealt with the various monsters that roamed around the area 
lately. None of them had looked anything like this one, there was an aura 
of power around her that could be felt more than a could be seen. She had 
long red hair that fell down her back, to well below her thighs, it had been 
braided tightly and tied back with a small black bow at the top of her head. 
The girls body suit seemed to be made out of a reddish black wet leather 
design that made her attractive body even more gorgeous to look at. 

"Are you alright?" Asked Ranma as she stood above the half naked Akiko. 

"Oh sure." Akiko said as she stood up and adjusted her clothing. "I've 
had this happen to me a few times in the past, so it's become somewhat 
boring really. I mean those guys didn't even doing anything of interest, it 
was boring and not really very original or stimulating." Akiko shrugged and 
dusted her skirt off. 

"Um...sure..." Ranma said, she looked a little confused. "Would you like 
me to help you home?" 

"No thanks." Akiko said as she went over to where the guys had piled their 
closed and stole their wallets. "Those guys owe me some new clothes and 
need to replace the groceries that they destroyed when they grabbed me." 
Akiko said as she stripped every last bill out of the three wallets and 
started to start counting it out. "Look at this, cheep bastards, this isn't 
enough to cover what they ripped or destroyed." 

Ranma edged away from the strange girl and resisted the urge to sweatdrop, 
she waved goodbye and with a couple of large jumps was soon running across 
the rooftops of the Juban district. As she ran, Ranma's thoughts turned to 
the green haired Sailor Scout that had called herself the Guardian of Time. 
Because of her, Ranma knew that the next few days and possibly weeks were 
going to be very interesting if she survived them. Sure she had taken on 
Jedite and a couple of his goons and beaten him somewhat easily, but she 
also knew that he was an intelligent being and would adapt to her skill in 
any way that was needed to defeat her. As a martial artist and a student of 
that idiot Genma Saotome, she knew that the upcoming fights were going to be 
more dangerous than ever and that she couldn't afford to underestimate 
Jedite. No matter how bad a fighter he was, he must have done something to 
have earned his current place as head of the invaders troops. 

The same could be said for her heat father, he was a thief, a glutton, a 
liar, and a whole slew of other questionable titles. Still the old fart was 
possibly one of the top 50 fighters in the entire world no matter how 
cowardly and stupid he was. Ranma figured that she would place Jedite in the 
same category as her retarded father, he would adapt and learn whatever was 
necessary to defeat her and accomplish his mission. Of course, she also 
thought she might be giving Jedite a little too much intelligence, but it 
was better to overestimate his skill than to underestimate it. A little 
while later, after running at a near sprinting pace for over an hour, Ranma 
reached the park that was only a few blocks away from the shrine that she 
was staying at. She wasn't even tired when she landed in the middle of the 
park and looked around, but the park was surprisingly empty. Ranma wasn't 
sure how to detransform, but after several minutes of thinking about it she 
concentrated and managed to pull all of her newfound power into her body. 

Her uniform flared with a bright red light and then vanished within her, 
Ranma noticed almost instantly that if she concentrated she could feel the 
power boiling just below the surface of her Ki. The two powers seemed to be 
mixing together and working in concert with each other, and the more she 
concentrated the quicker they seemed to merge together. Walking over to a 
nearby tree, Ranma sits down and begins to meditate in the way that Cologne 
had taught her back when she had visited their village. The old bat had 
been very impressed with her level of training and skill and had inducted 
her as an honorary Amazon. She hadn't really wanted to go along with 
Cologne's idea because she didn't agree with a good number of the strange 
laws that they practiced. It had only been through sheer luck that she 
hadn't gotten into trouble with any of the Amazons before then. Shampoo had 
been a different matter, but she didn't want to dwell on that very much. 

Ranma performed the mental techniques that Cologne had suggested and 
quickly entered a meditative trance. From there she spent the next two 
hours going over all of the events that had taken place in the last 24 
hours, she did not like what she was seeing at all. She also had the 
distinct impression that she had been tricked in some way, but she just 
couldn't put her finger on exactly how it was accomplished. Her swim back to 
the islands had been surprisingly boring considering how far out she had 
been, it reminded her of her first swim from Japan to China and he idiot's 
idea of training during the swim. The Saotome School of Martial Arts had 
several techniques that allowed them to fight while underwater, she recalled 
having to perform them while hovering in the water about thirty feet below 
the surface with the old man sitting on his raft up above and eating dinner. 
If that hadn't been enough, she found that he wanted her to do this several 
times a day in shark infested waters. Panda no Baka! 

Cologne had taught her this one move called the Shark Fist, it was 
particularly interesting technique that allowed a fighter to hold her hand 
in such a way as to throw a punch that sent out a shark shaped blast of 
water at her opponent. She had been wanting to test the technique out on 
the old man ever since she learned it, but fighting in the water was 
actually a very rare occurrence so she doubted that would ever happen. As 
she continued to meditate another question came into her head and this one 
she still couldn't fully grasp. 

What exactly was it about her transformation into a girl that made the 
Sailor Scouts think she was a Princess? Sure, that lady had tried to explain 
to her, but for all she had said it still didn't make a whole hell of a lot 
of sense. There was just no way that she could be a Princess since she had 
been born as a man and raised as one. Every day of her life her father had 
beat into her head that the girls were weak and useless. That opinion had 
been altered drastically over last few months, but certain ways of thinking 
were almost instinctual for her and getting around the fact that she had 
once been a man was simply impossible for her to forget. 

Ranma stood and stretched, even after two hours of meditating she still 
hadn't seen a single soul within the park. It was a little strange even to 
her, but figured that since she couldn't hear people screaming in terror or 
sense any kind of dark presence nearby with her new powers, it must have been 
something else. The walk out of the park and down the street to the shrine 
stairs took her about ten minutes and another three to run up the stairs at 
full speed and taking them three the time. She stopped at the top and took 
a few minutes to relax before hitting inside, but stopped with her foot just 
inside the door when her danger sense when off and alerted her to a presence 
nearby that was watching her very intently. 

"Who's out there?!" Ranma asked loudly. 

"I was wondering when you would notice me." Said a distinctly female 
voice. 

"You've been watching me for all of thirty seconds, I've been on high alert 
all afternoon and I would have noticed you no matter how much you try to 
conceal your presence." Ranma snapped. 

The voice cackled several seconds before subsiding into quiet giggles. 
"You're right, I just wanted to see how you would react and to see if the 
information I received about you was entirely accurate. From what I've seen 
so far you are far more powerful than you look." 

"Please come out where I can see you." Ranma said as she looked at the 
bush where the voice was coming from. 

"I'll warn you ahead of time, I'm a fairy cat." Said the cat as its 
stepped out of the bushes and padded its way over to where Ranma was 
standing. "You may call me Ito." 

She froze at the mere mention of the word cat and started to shiver as it 
stepped out and walked over to her. The fear of cats may have been taken 
care of, but the basic reaction to a cat was still very much ingrained into 
Ranma's mind. Ranma found that it took every ounce of her control to keep 
from running at the first glimpse of the large feline. It certainly wasn't 
of any particular breed that she recognized because of its red fur, but it 
certainly could not have ever been mistaken for a common house cat. Ito was 
a very large cat that could have easily been mistaken for a small bobcat, it 
had bright red fur and a crescent moon symbol upon its forehead. 

"Hello Ito, I take it that your that cat the green haired lady told me 
about?" 

Ito sweatdropped. "Green haired lady?" 

"The only thing she called herself was a Time Lord or something, never 
actually gave me her name." 

"She is Setsuna, Sailor Pluto, and the Guardian of Time. NOT a Time Lord!" 
Ito said arroganly. 

"Whatever." Ranma returned with a smirk. 

"Lady Pluto is to be honored for her sacrifices and her power!" 

Ranma blinked. "Who is Lady Pluto?" 

"Growl...Sailor Pluto is also the last living Princess of the Kingdom of 
Pluto. She is royalty in every way of the word." 

"Lots of strange titles for some green haired chick." Ranma muttered under 
her breath. 

"Green haired chick!" Ito snapped, her red fur standing on end. 

"So tell me about yourself Ito." Ranma asked suddenly. 

"Grrrr...I am to be your adviser, companion, and guardian if anything goes 
wrong." 

"Why?" 

"All Royalty is given the option of having a Farie Cat as an adviser, it is 
an honor and a privlege." 

"So your like a talking pet?" 

"What?!!" 

"Oh I know, I need to get you a scratching post, some cat food, a collar, 
tags, shots...etc, etc..." Ranma said ditz like, her eyes sparkling. 

Ito was starting to get mad and was putting off an aura of anger, she 
didn't see Ranma hide her smirk as she continued to list the things she 
would have to have done to have a pet. She sweat dropped and hissed in fury 
as Ranma listed giving her a flea bath, and popped her claws when she 
mentioned house training. Ito pounced on Ranma's ankle in righteous fury, 
or tired to. Ranma eeped and vanished as if teleported, Ito sailed through 
the after image of Ranma and slammed into the side of a tree with a loud 
thump. She slid the ground painfully, thinking that the first rule of all 
Fairy Cats had been broken fairly easily. Never hurt or attack one's 
companion, Ito groaned and added an amendment, unless they deserved it. 
Ranma peaked at Ito from her position in the tree branches and giggled, her 
fear of cats was truly gone. She hadn't been scared in the least little 
bit, just reacting as she always did around a cat and even that would be 
gone in a little while. She hopped down and hesitantly picked up the red 
fur ball as she fought off her flee reaction to a cat. This was going to take 
some time, she concluded. 

Ranma hopped down and picked up the large red cat and wondered what she was 
going to fo with it. She cradled it as she carried it back to the shrine, so 
was lost in thought when she finished climbing the stairs. Which normally 
wouldn't have mattered, but she was still fighting her instincts when 
dealing with a cat. 

"Hello Miss. Ranma!" 

Ranma screamed and jumped to the top of the shrine, gasping for air she 
turned and saw that Rei's grandfather had walked out of the shrine. He was 
rolling on the ground laughing at her. 

"Hello yourself." Ranma said, icily calm. 

"What are you doing here?" 

"You did offer me a place to stay didn't you?" 

"I don't mean that, most everyone in town is over at the new carnival that 
opened up yesterday." 

"This is the first I've heard of it, is that why the park is empty today?" 

"Yep, your the first good looking girl I've seen since yesterday." The old 
man sighed as if the world was coming to an end. 

Ranma glared at him. "Why did everyone go to this place?" 

"Free food." 

"Free food? You don't say, sounds like a place I have to check out." Ranma 
said and turned and ran down the stairs in a cloud of dust. 

Gramps shrugged as he stood back up and smiled, he stood there pretending 
to look at a non-existent watch. He was counting under his breath and 
looked up at where Ranma had vanished a few seconds before, to see the 
energetic red head bounce back up the stairs. "3-2-1..." 

"Hey old man, where is this place?" Ranma yelled from the top of the 
stairs, rubbing the back of her head and giggling nervously. 

"At the edge of the district, about ten miles from here." 

"Thanks!" Ranma yelled and bounced off into the trees. 

********** 

The place was called Dream Land, it had to be the stupidest name she had 
ever heard in her life. Ranma gagged a little at the sight of the park 
itself, it was all castles, romantic rides, and cute animals. Just a few of 
the things she avoided if she could get away with it, but the alure of free 
food was just to tempting to pass up. She was about to make her way across 
the giant parking lot when she heard something weird. 

"Mommy, mommy! Why is that girl on top of that bus, she's cute, can I go up 
there too, pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!" Said this 
little boy down below. 

Ranma groaned and sweatdropped as she realized she had been standing on top 
of a tour bus full of guests for the park. There were several family's that 
had just disembarked and were gaping at her in an annoying way. Then it got 
worse, all the commotion attracted the bus driver and he stepped into view 
and glared up at her. Ranma tried to look as innocent as she could, eyes 
wide, sparkling, and a little giggling could work wonders she'd found. 

"Hey you, on top of the bus, you owe me some money. I don't let anyone 
freeload on my bus!" Yelled the driver as he climbed up on the bus, not 
fooled in the least. 

"Drat!" Ranma yelled as she launched off the bus, to the top of a nearby 
car, and to another bus that was just driving by. She landed and waved good 
by to ranting driver of the other bus and grinned, this time she would get 
off before it stopped. Ten minutes later Ranma stepped into the park, she 
had almost decided not to go when she found out just how much a ticket cost 
to get in, she was nearly broke. Luckily there had been a young guy working 
the line she chose, he had given her a discount when she smiled at him and 
blinked her eyes. Boy's were idiots, she had found out pretty quickly 
during her trip across China after ditching her father. 

The park was even worse inside, though she did see some things she liked as 
she wandered around. There were these robotic animals running around with 
little kids on them, their parents in the back round laughing at them. A 
lady dressed up as a robotic princess of some kind or another was controlling 
the animals with a control disguised as an apple. For some reason the scene 
gave her the creeps so she avoided the unnatural thing easily. She could feel 
the princess thing watching her as she walked away from the sickening cute 
scene. Ranma continued to explore around the park for an hour or so before 
she found the free food, it was candies and cakes at a nearby castle. She 
shuddered and wondered why something like this was so...damned cute. Still, 
she suppressed her gag reflex and headed inside just as they were closing 
the doors, slipping in just behind a blonde girl with the oddest hair style. 
She had a friend with her that looked a little familiar, but Ranma blinked 
as she realized that she had encountered the girl at the temple the day she 
came by to drop off those scrolls...two or three days ago. 

"Are you here for the free candy too?" Usagi asked the red head that had 
slipped in with them. 

"Yep, I can never pass up free sweets." Ranma said with a grin. She had 
found out early that she had sweet tooth in this new body, things like candy 
and suckers were great, chocolate was to die for, and she could eat ice 
cream by the barrel full. 

Usagi giggled and nodded. "I can believe that! I'm Usagi Tsukino and this 
is my friend Rei Hino." 

"We've met." Rei said. 

"Ranma Saotome, martial arts extraordinaire." 

"Ohhhh! Martial Arts, that is so cool!" Usagi said, she looked as spaced as 
she sounded too. 

Rei rolled her eyes, but after what she witnessed when the girl had toasted 
Jedite with her bare hands, she was willing to believe it. 

Ranma giggled at the girl's facial expression. "Yep, I'm the best there is 
too." 

"So what kind of candies and junk food do you think were going to find 
here?" 

"Probably the usual stuff..." Ranma said, but trailed off as the hallway 
was beginning to fill with smoke. "...what's going on?" 

"Huh?" Asked Usagi as she just started to notice the smoke. 

"I sense danger here!" Rei said, looking around franticly. 

"I do to, but nothing to bad." Ranma said, she could feel something evil 
nearby, but it was pathetically weak. 

"What do you mean my that?! It's practically dripping off the walls!" Rei 
yelled in Ranma's ear. 

Ranma winced and backed off, this girl had a real problem with being nice 
it seemed. She lashed out at whoever seemed to be a good target for her 
temper, even at the temple she had yelled at her for startling her that way. 
It seemed she wasn't all that nice of a person, well, Ranma decided not to 
go that far. Maybe she had a good reason for being so... 

"Hey Usagi, why is your friend such a grouch?" Ranma asked loud enough for 
all of them to hear, she grinned innocently. 

"WHAT?!!" Rei yelled. 

Usagi blinked as she was distracted from the smoke filling the hallway. 
"For as long as I've known her, I thing she just likes to be mad at people." 
Usagi said helpfully. 

"USAGI!!" Rei yelled, her friends pig tails trailing away behind her from 
the power of the yell. 

"Well she is a good friend too, though she tends to get a little vocal." 

"I noticed that the other day too when she yelled at me for running up the 
temple steps." Ranma said, watching Rei out of the corner of her eye. 

Rei growled. "You nearly ran me down!" 

"I missed you by a mile when I flipped over you." 

"You nearly took my head off with that stunt!" 

"Oh please, I haven't messed up a flip like that since I was eight years 
old and that was because the old fart had greased the rocks I was using to 
practice on." Ranma stated and folded her arms across her chest and nodded 
superiorly. 

"W-why y-y-you arrogant piece of sh..." Rei turned red and her battle aura 
started to form up when she was interrupted by the appearance of the robotic 
princess. 

"Hah, like your any better Miss. Temper Tantrum." Ranma yelled right back. 

"Ex-cuse Me, but I-I would like t-o..." 

"Shut up!" Ranma and Rei yell out and punched the thing, in the face, at 
the same time. 

With a deafening clang the would be robotic princess is hit with enough 
force to dent it's metal body, it fly's back and crashes though a wall. It's 
body is cracked and shattered where Rei and Ranma had hit it and it's 
illusion flickers on and off, going from super cute princess to this really 
ugly brown and green mockery of the princess. It would have been really 
scary if it hadn't been imbedded in a wall with the occasional spark going 
off. 

"Now look what you did you tomboy!" Ranma yelled. 

"I'm not the one that hit it so hard idiot!" Rei countered. 

"Picky, picky!" 

"Y-you...you...you..." Rei growled and punched Ranma in the face, only to 
see her smile suddenly and cock her head to the side so that her fist misses 
by mere millimeters. 

"That all you got?" Ranma asks with a smirk. 

"Wow!" Usagi says, her eyes wide. 

"H-how did you do that?" Rei gasps. 

"Just reflex really, ten years on the road with my old man learning the Art 
and you could do it to." 

"Ten years..." 

"Yep, you've got potential at this you know, just the right amount of anger 
and violence. This was a lot of fun Rei, we have to do it again sometime. I 
haven't had a decent argument since I ditched the old man a few months ago." 
Ranma said with a beautiful smile. 

Rei blinked in confusion. 

"Let's go and grab some of that candy." Ranma said, turning to go back down 
the hall. Usagi right on her heels. 

"You aren't going anywhere." Says the princess as she climbs back to her 
feet shakily. She opens her mouth and this red mist gushes out and quickly 
fills the hall, it starts to make all of them a little dizzy. Ranma had 
tensed at the sound of her voice and spun around just in time to get a face 
full of the red mist, she staggers down the hall a ways and leans against 
the closed doors to the main hall. 

Ranma shakes her head and tires to clear it of the strange hallucinogenic 
effect it seems to have. Down the hall she hears the girls and realizes that 
she had accidentally left them behind. She staggers back up the hall just as 
there is this red and white flash of light that temporarily blinds her, but 
her senses suddenly pick up two very power full sources of power that seen 
oddly familiar. This needs looking into, Ranma thinks and concentrate and 
uses her Ki to clear her mind. 

For a few seconds it seems to be working and she sees this odd mockery of 
the robotic princess floating above the floor holding a glowing apple, but 
her mind can't hold the image and she finds herself in this meadow. She sees 
some movement off in the distance and sees one of the Scouts she had met the 
other day when she fought Jedite, Sailor Mars. She didn't recognize the 
other one, but assumed it was the one that had been asleep on the roof, 
Sailor Moon. The princess was handing this wreath of flowers to Moon when 
Mars yelled and grabbed it out of the princess' hand, yelped and snatched her 
hand back. Ranma gasped as the wreath turned into a snake as it hit the 
ground and turned to stone. 

Mars looks at her fingers as they turn to stone, it is obvious that she is 
in shock, but Ranma has other ideas. They need help, but stops before she 
even moves as Mars curses the princess and holds out her stone covered arm, 
her eyes close and she suddenly bursts into a fire like aura and mumbling 
the Shinto chant used to focus their concentration in meditation. To her 
amazed and relieved eyes, Mars' arm turns back to normal and she sighs in 
relief. 

"Your alright!" Moon yells. 

"We need to get out of this..." Mars snarls back. 

Ranma looked around the area, but couldn't find any sign of Usagi or Rei 
anywhere in sight. She was beginning to worry about them when something 
occurred to her and she took a closer look at the Scouts. At first Ranma was 
amazed when her mind refused to even detail the faces of the girls, but she 
used all her will power to see what she needed to see. The crescent moon 
flared to life on her forehead again and suddenly she could see Usagi and Rei, 
plain as day, dressed up as Sailor Scouts. Ranma nearly fell on her butt in 
shock, she did gape in total confusion though and missed the princess 
transform into her Youma form. 

"I'm your dream dolly, do you want to play?" Says the Youma. 

Mars brings up her hands to fire off a blast when Moon runs forward and 
pulls off her Tiara. The Youma opens it's doll like mouth and fires out more 
red mist, completely enveloping the two scouts. Ranma gasps as the the 
Scouts take on this slack jawed look for a second, their eyes light up and 
Ranma is relieved that they shook off what ever was affecting them. Then to 
her amusement, the two girl's suddenly grab a couple of brooms from nowhere, 
straddle them and begin to hop around like a couple of little kids riding 
horses. 

'Now I can put them completely under my power.' Thinks the Youma as it 
raises it's apple. 

Ducking behind a nearby tree, Ranma is about to transform when she spots 
two things that make her hesitate. The first is this total moron in a full 
tuxedo, top hat, and a mask that just ran into the room from somewhere. He 
reaches into his cape and Ranma tenses, but he pulls out a red rose and she 
shakes her head at the stupidity of this idiot. She hated his fashion sence, 
and now she had to save him from his own stupidity. He suddenly threw the 
rose and to Ranma's surprise she could pick up the magical enchantment as it 
was thrown like a hand held throwing spike. The damned thing actually flyies 
out and knocks the apple out of the Youma's hand, it's enough to 
actually impress Ranma for all of half a second. Then the idiot opens his 
mouth and spouts off this drivel to encourage the girls. 

"Don't let her get into your dreams Scouts!" Tuxedo Mask yells and runs 
off. For some reason this actually helps the girl's get their focus back and 
they turn to confront the Youma again. Ranma face faults as the illusion 
falls to reveal the Scouts riding the brooms. They both turn red, drop the 
brooms, and jump back in embarrassment. 

The second thing Ranma notices is this blue haired girl staggering down the 
hall form the main room where the free food was supposed to be. She stops 
and pulls this pen out of nowhere and holds it up. Ranma's eyes narrow as 
she yells "Mercury Power, Make-Up!" and transforms into Sailor Mercury. 
Ranma didn't know her name, but she had a feeling she would know it soon 
enough. Mercury runs past Ranma's hiding place and the Scouts confront the 
Youma. Ranma witnesses Mercury lay down a fog bank while Mars and Moon 
combine this frisky attack and blow the monster away. 

That had been something Ranma hadn't been expecting, the attack must have 
tripled in power when they combined like that, she realized. Then the 
monster turned to dust and castle faded away around them, it must have been 
part of the monsters powers or something. She slipped away in the confusion 
that followed and was surprised to find Usagi, Rei, and a blue haired girl 
all standing off to the side and watching the police go over the now empty 
lot where the castle had been. Ambulances had been called to take care of 
the thirty or so victims of the attack. 

"Usagi!" Ranma called. 

The girl screamed and jumped five feet in the air, flailed around, and 
landed on Rei. This took the girl down and she tripped Ami and they all went 
down in a pile. Ami's skirt rode up as she was pulled down Ranma got a 
pretty good look at her blue panties when she landed on top of Rei. Ranma 
blinked several times before falling over laughing, the great Sailor Scouts 
were a bunch of untrained, clumsy girls. 

"Stop laughing!" Rei yelled. 

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Usagi cried. 

Ami just blushed and pulled her skirt down as far as it would go. 

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" 

To Be Continued... 

********** 

Note - Now were getting somewhere, the next story will be the love cruise 
episode and is going to be nothing like the original and what I'm planning 
to with Titus is just plain evil. Comments on this chapter are wanted, I 
especially want to know if you like the way things are going or not. I want 
feed back on this one, I plan on doing the next episode, but after that it 
is up in the air because I don't know if this should be continued past that. 
So please email me and let me know.... 


********** 
Princess of the Moon 
Chapter 03 
By C. Rose 
ertle2@msn.com 
(c)2001 
********** 

The rain is coming down pretty hard by the time the early evening has 
fallen over the Nerima district. The large panda walks tiredly down the 
deserted streets lugging a rather large back pack. The panda is walking on 
it's hind legs, head down, and shivering from the cold rain. It large 
stomach growls as it passes a small yati, it's owner is manning the grill, 
staring wide eyed at the large and dangerous animal that stops and glares at 
him. Then sweat drops as it's mouth opens and starts to drool, he gulps and 
backs away slowly as the panda steals several bowls of spiced ramen. The 
panda pats it's stomach, growls and turns to walk away, but lets off a 
massive fart a few steps later. The yati owner stares at the empty bowls of 
ramen in shock and falls over as the smell hits him. 

"Damned thing knew how to use chop sticks." 

About ten blocks away and thirty minutes later, the panda stops in front of 
a large wooden gate and pushes his way through. The loud creek of old and 
wet timber echoes over the entire compound and alerts the occupants that 
they have a visitor. Kasumi smiles and gets up to see who is at their door, 
but stops in mid step as a giant panda stalks it's way into the front room 
and looks over the startled family. It whips out a wooden sign with writing 
on it. 

*Can I have a glass of hot water, not boiling?* 

"Daddy, since when do panda's know how to write?" Asked Nabiki. 

Soun, shakes his head in shock as he considers running for his armor and 
family sword. He was expecting his old friend Genma Saotome, not an escaped 
panda from the circus. "I have no idea, I suppose we should call the pound 
or the zoo or some thing." 

*Don't call anyone, the hot water will be fine and it will explain all you 
need to know.* The panda signs. 

"Here you go Mr. Panda-chan." Kasumi says as she hands the panda a large 
bowl of hot water. 

*Thank you, Kasumi.* 

"Daddy, it knows my name already!" 

The panda pours the hot water over his head and growls in pain as the 
boiling water does it's work. The panda shrinks down and an older man in a 
white gi and a scarf on it's head takes it's place. "Thanks for not 
panicking Soun old buddy." Genma says. 

Soun, Kasumi, and Nabiki all faint from shock. 

"They took that better than I thought, well while they are indisposed I'll 
just help myself to dinner." Genma sits down and smiles at the one girl 
still conscious. "Do you mind if I have some of this? I haven't eaten in 
days." 

Akane shakes her head and faints. 

"Good old Soun, always had such a good spread of food on the table. Ah how 
I've missed those days." Genma said for anyone pretending to be unconscious 
before eating every bit of food on the table in about two minutes flat. He 
lets off a titanic belch and pats his stomach as it digests the snack. 

"Oh I dreamed Genma stopped by..." Soun mumbled as he sat up and rubbed his 
head. 

"I did!" Genma says, looking the table over for more food. 

"Genma?! B-b-b-b-but w-what happened t-to you? Where you really just a 
panda?" Soun yells, the girls begin to wake up slowly. 

"That was me alright, picked up a nasty curse in China while training the 
boy, I wish I had never taken him there." 

"Where is Ranma, we can have the wedding tomorrow if he wants to wait that 
long!" Soun said as he looked around for Genma's son. 

"I'm afraid the boy is lost my friend." Genma says sadly. 

"WHAT?!!" Soun yells and wakes up the girls. 

"Ranma is missing, I know he is somewhere here in Japan, but I have no idea 
where to even start looking." 

"Genma, we have to find him at all costs!" 

"I know, but he's been missing for several months now." 

"Daddy what are you talking about?" Nabiki asks as she sits up, leans 
against the table, and notices that all the food is gone and that there are 
several pieces of rice sticking to the stomach of the man in the white gi. 
She looks at the empty bowls, enough to feed all of them easily, and glares 
at this Genma. He starts to sweat. 

"Yes daddy, please tell us what is going on." Kasumi says, glancing at 
Genma and then the table and smiles. 

Akane just glares, she hadn't had a chance to dig in yet. "..." 

"I figure now is as good a time as any to tell you about the agreement me 
and Genma here made before any of you were born. You see we made a deal that 
we would unite our families and since I had all daughters, Genma here has 
been teaching his son martial arts for over ten years now to prepare him for 
a marriage to one of you." 

Kasumi blinks a few times and sighs as she goes into the kitchen. 

Nabiki perks up. "Is he cute?!" 

Akane snarls. "I Hate Boys!!" and stalks out of the room, up stairs to her 
room and slams the door so hard it shakes the floor boards, some dust falls 
from the ceiling to cover Genma. 

"Oh dear." Kasumi says as she comes back out and sets out small bowls of 
food for everybody. Genma inhales his so fast that it is empty by the time 
she takes her hand away and hands a bowl to her father. 

"So your saying that we have to get married no matter what, is that it?" 
Nabiki tries again. 

"Only if Ranma was to pick you." Genma states, eyeing her food. 

"Ranma is to unite our schools of martial arts Nabiki, I was hoping that 
one of you three girls would marry him and continue the schools." 

"But father we've never met him and from what your friend here has said, 
Ranma is missing." 

"We'll find him one way or another, the schools future depends on it!" Soun 
declared as he stood up and posed nobly. Genma grins and jumps to his feet 
too, the two grown men link arms and spin around in a circle. "We will 
implement operation 'Find the Groom!" They two old men chorused and ran out 
the front door. 

"Oh My, father hasn't had that much energy in years!" Kasumi said, handing 
Nabiki a proper bowl of food. 

"Kasumi, I'm surprised, you didn't offer this to Genma?" 

"He did eat everything else sister." 

"I don't like him one bit." 

"He seems to be a bit rough around the edges doesn't he?" Kasumi said and 
dug into her own food. 

"I HATE BOYS!!" Akane screamed from her room, stomped down the stairs in 
her gi and headed to the dojo. 

"That reminds me, has Doc. Tofu gotten over his little problem yet?" Nabiki 
asked with a smirk. 

Kasumi sighed and shook her head. "I can't believe one little kiss did that 
to him, I mean it was totally innocent. Wasn't it?" 

"Well you did stick your tongue in his mouth Kasumi and he was raised in an 
old fashioned environment and all. He wasn't prepared for a modern type girl 
like you to take the first steps, unless you did something else you didn't 
tell me about?" 

Kasumi blushed and started to quickly grab the dishes, there were so many 
to clean tonight. 

"Kasumi?" 

"..." 

"Kasumi?" 

She was distracted by her father and Genma-panda running through the back 
yard with the push cart, talking excitedly about the best ways to subdue a 
run away groom. Nabiki rolled her eyes and tried to think of a way to earn 
some money off this, she decided not to press Kasumi for details just yet. 
She got up and headed into the dojo where Akane was obliterating large 
cinder blocks with her fists, or tossing them in the air and shattering them 
with her hands and feet. 

"Akane?" 

"I can't believe that ass wants us to marry some boy out of the blue, we've 
never met him." 

"I don't think it will be that bad Akane, it is a great meal ticket to free 
money and free food for the rest of your life. What's to complain about?" 

"You've got to be kidding?!" 

"Why should I, he may be major league cute or something and dumb jocks are 
so easy to play with." 

"Boys are idiots and perverts!!" Akane yells and crushes a block with her 
foot. 

"Suit yourself Akane, but I'm not about to burn my bridges before I have 
all the information." 

"The world doesn't revolve around boys Nabiki!" 

Nabiki shrugged, this could be perfect, especially with her little problem. 
"Whatever Akane." 

In the distance they can all hear Soun yelling Ranma's name at the top of 
his lungs as they search for Ranma. Nabiki rolls her eyes again, she should 
have known better than to think her father would have good idea for once. 
She would put this Ranma's name out on the network in the morning and what 
kind of fish she hooked. This could be fun she thought, throw out a line and 
reel in a husband to use and control for the rest of her life. She smiled 
cruelly, her eyes glinting with evil ideas already. 

********** 

It was 4am when Ranma rolled out of bed and complained that she missed 
sleeping on her stomach, one of the few things it seemed girl's couldn't do 
because of their breasts. Laying on them actually hurt, which confused her 
since she had endured the Bakusai Tenketsu when Shampoo trained for it. 
Though it wasn't as effective as she would have liked, Cologne had said it 
took time for the near total invulnerability to take effect and that meant 
practicing it for hours on end. Something she hadn't had time to do since 
arriving in Juban a few days ago, she was hoping to stumble across a quarry. 
She had found that those were the best places to practice and earn a little 
money too. 

Of course she had been helping to fight off the creatures being sent by 
that blonde moron Jed-something or another. Blondie fit him better, the 
arrogant jerk, she had proven to be his match before she became one of the 
Scouts. Luckily it seemed they didn't need her help all the time, the fight 
with that princess thing over at the amusement park had proven that they 
were not totally useless. Only that they needed help in other areas, like 
how to actually fight or walk or even breath for that matter. They were 
depending on their magical powers completely, how did they think to win if 
they came up against something that could neutralize that power? Of the 
three girls, she figured Rei, was the most trainable and the easiest to 
reach, the next was the blue haired girl since she seemed to possess a keen 
mind and thought of defense before the rest of the team even attacked. 

Lastly was Usagi, Sailor Moon, the cry baby and scared little girl. Ranma 
was worried about her the most. The other two were very mature for being so 
young, but Usagi was totally off the wall for a fourteen year old girl. At 
sixteen Ranma had endured more in her life than most do in a life time and 
her life was bound to get worse and worse as time went on due to the magic 
of Jusenkyo. In the past few months she had been forced to do a lot of soul 
searching and it had brought out a number of things she hadn't liked. 
Cologne had helped her to grow into a somewhat normal girl, but her male 
attitude was something that was etched right into her soul and she couldn't 
become a true girl if she even wanted to. The old bat disagreed, but the 
price to do so was so repulsive that Ranma couldn't even think about it. 
Then there had been that little biology lesson during that first month, 
Ranma shuddered. Definitely to much to pay. 

She trudged over to her closet and put on her workout clothes, spandex 
shorts, a sports bra, and a tight t-shirt. How something so female could 
make her feel so comfortable was amazing, she had borrowed a similar out fit 
from one of her friends at the Amazon Village and spent several hours of 
hard practice marveling at the sturdy construction of the strange material. 
Ito, a talking cat of all things, was sprawled out on the floor by the 
window and almost reminded Ranma of her father after a drunken binge at the 
local bar. She decided not to wake up the newest oddity in her life and made 
her way out of the room. Ranma yawned as she stepped out into the back area 
of the shrine and headed into the woods around the place. The temple was at 
the top of a large hill in the center of the district, this in turn bordered 
a large park used by all the local fitness obsessed. Ranma had found it the 
day before when Rei took them home through the park instead of up the 
stairs, the girl's had been to tired to climb all those steps so instead 
chose to make her way up the slow incline to the park instead at three times 
the distance to reach the shrine. 

Ranma reached the main trail of the park, it was a little over eight miles 
long around the entire thing according to Rei. She fell into her special way 
of breathing and was soon sprinting along at an incredible pace, passing 
dozens of runners along the way. Several men saw her, started to drool, and 
tried to keep up with her, but they quickly lost interest when she kept up 
the brutal pace she had set. Even more face faulted when she lapped them a 
half hour later and moving at the same brutal pace, she grinned as some of 
them groaned. On her third lap of the park she focused and sent her Ki into 
her legs and was soon moving faster than an Olympic sprinter and ran the 
eight miles in an impossible twenty minutes flat! After cooling down for 
several minutes she searched around and soon found a secluded spot between 
the shrine and the park and started to go through her newest kata, still 
pushing her body to it's fullest. 

The small black cat that was watching from the bushes was frozen in awe as 
she saw the impossible done like it meant nothing. Thirty foot jumps, while 
untransformed, and a hang time of several second while kicking and punching 
at speeds beyond anything she had ever seen. Luna would have sworn that she 
was possessed by a youma or something if she hadn't witnessed this girl 
punch Jedite so hard that he collapsed to his knees. The pain in his face 
had been to real to be faked and he had tried a couple of more times to get 
revenge, but this Ranma was proving to be stronger than him. Then there was 
her senses, they were picking up nothing but Silver Millennium energy from 
the girl, tons of it. Luna continued to watch as Ranma went through a dozen 
or more very complicated kata in midair before landing on one foot with more 
grace than an Olympic gymnast. 

Focusing inward, Ranma called forth her aura and focused her Ki. It burst 
forth easily, much easier than it ever had. Her aura was now a pure white 
with yellow and blue flecks of energy flowing around like small lightning 
bolts. What startled her was the sheer amount of power she was feeling and 
realized that her magic had mixed into her Ki energies and amplified them. 
"Oh great, like I wasn't strong enough before, now it's at least five times 
stronger than what it was a few days ago. I hadn't even had time to master 
my old strength and now I have to put up with more?" Ranma muttered to 
herself. 

For the next half hour Ranma ran through her control exercises, 
creating balls of energy and holding them in place with her mind alone, 
moving them around slowly in certain patterns, and forcing them to reshape 
themselves into different shapes like squares and triangles. She failed of 
course, but got a lot closer than she had the last time she tied that super 
hard training. The old woman's demonstration had looked so damned simple, 
but to actually do it was a strain she hadn't considered before. She had 
nearly pushed herself into unconsciousness before she had collapsed from 
stress of manipulating pure energy with her mind alone, it was a challenge 
so she was still trying to get it even after all these months. Ranma stopped 
and knelt down, sweat dripping off her like water, she gasped for air as her 
body slowly returned to normal and she reigned in her Ki and suppressed it 
for safety sake. 

It was pushing 7am when Ranma decided to head inside and take a bath, she 
used her towel to wipe the sweat of her face and waved to Rei as she was 
sweeping the front walk way. The girl glared at her and snapped the top of 
her broom off, then stared at it in shock. Ranma just smirked as she entered 
the bathroom and got ready for the day, her workout had been pretty intense 
this morning and her muscles were actually sore. She was just relaxing in 
the furo when Ito sauntered in and glared at her. 

"What?" Ranma muttered. 

"Why didn't you wake me up?" 

"You just looked so restful sprawled out on the floor like that." 

"I'm supposed to be your adviser, how can I do that if you ditch me?" 

Ranma shrugged. "Okay cat, advise me." 

"We need to get you trained in your new powers so that you can help out the 
other Scouts." 

"Do you know who they are?" 

"No, but there is supposed to be another farie cat around here somewhere 
who can get me caught up." 

"Then your in luck Ito, for I found you." Said a female voice. 

Ranma and Ito turn to look at a black cat walk into the furo and sit down. 
It was a normal sized house cat, black with a crescent moon on it's 
forehead. "Who are you?" Ito asked. 

"Luna." 

"The only Luna I know died centuries ago." Ito snapped. 

"I was put into suspended animation for this job, Queen Serenity made sure 
I would survive to do it." 

"Suspended animation? Isn't that dangerous for us to do, I seem to remember 
something about the process having some kind of effect on our minds." 

Luna sighs. "My memory is total Swiss cheese, I only remember bits and 
pieces." 

Ranma stares at yet another talking cat and knows that it isn't telling the 
whole truth, how, she had no idea. Her new senses were telling her things 
that were hard to process, she had been trying to deal with the increased 
range of her senses ever since the change had taken place. One of them was 
this ability to 'see' magical auras, and Luna's was very different than 
Ito's aura. "Luna, both of you are farie cats right?" 

"Yes we are." 

"Then why is you aura so much different than Ito's aura?" 

"What do you mean by different Ranma?" Ito said, looking at Luna and 
narrowing her eyes. 

"Ito your aura is a yellowish red and seems to be normal for what I 
understand of them, but Luna's is almost gray and streaked with dozens of 
different color." 

"Can you still transform Luna?" Ito asked. 

"Transform?" Ranma and Luna asked. 

"You don't remember how to transform Luna, that is surprising, but your 
aura seems to have been altered to keep you from doing it." 

"I don't know what your talking about." 

Ito shrugged her shoulders and shifted, her body shifted and grew in a 
matter of seconds into a good looking red head girl. She had a simple white 
dress on, Ranma had no idea where it came from, and smirked down at Luna. 
The silver crescent moon on their heads glowed and some thing seemed to pass 
between them as they glowed. Ranma sat there in the furo and watched in 
fascination as Luna suddenly glowed, a piece of her aura flared and 
shattered, and Luna shifted into her human form. 

Where Ito was good looking, Luna was stunning, she was barely over five 
foot and had thick black curls of hair that ran down her back. She had a 
form fitting yellow dress with petty coats and a fantastic body. Ranma 
wondered why it was suddenly so warm in the bathroom, but shook it off. Luna 
stumbled around a little and leaned against the wall for support. Ranma 
noticed suddenly that both girl's were growing more good looking by the 
second, to ignore it she finished soaking and grabbed her towel to dry off. 

Rei chose that exact time to step into the bathroom to let Ranma know that 
breakfast was ready, so she got a good look at Ranma's fantastic nude body 
as she was drying off and two other girls watching with interest. She 
blinked and growled as she stalked over to Ranma, grabbed her by the arm and 
twisted. "YOU PERVERT, I WILL NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH DOING PERVERTED 
THINGS IN MY BATHROOM!!" Rei screamed. 

Luna and Ito blinked in confusion. 

"Huh?" Ranma got out. 

"I DON'T WANT YOUR SICK PERVERTED WAYS IN MY HOME!" 

"What are you talking about?" Ranma asked as she stood up and unconsciously 
broke Rei's grip on her arm. "These are friends Rei, they were just here 
to..." 

"You pervert!" Rei slapped her. 

"What's going on?" Rei's grandfather yelled from the bathroom door, luckily 
it was closed. 

"Rei's throwing a hissy fit Gramps." Ranma called, sticking her tongue out 
at Rei. 

She pales and backs up a few steps. "I am not!" 

"You two stop playing around, you need to get to school okay?" 

"Sure Gramps!" Ranma called out. She stepped closer to Rei and looked her 
in the eyes and grinned. "I think I finally figured out what you were 
thinking Rei, I wasn't sure at first, but now I am." 

"W-what?" Rei squeaked. 

Luna and Ito just watched in fascination as Ranma leaned in close and 
rubbed herself up against Rei and smiled, purring a little. Rei blushed and 
backed up against the wall, trying to stay away from Ranma. "I know the 
truth now Rei, you can't hide it from me anymore." 

"I-I don't know what your t-talking about!" 

Ranma dropped her towel to the floor and Rei blushed even harder if it was 
possible. "I know your interested in me Rei." She whispered, leaning in for 
a kiss, sparkles in her eyes. "But I'm not really interested right now, 
maybe in a few months I'll change my mind cute stuff." Ranma says suddenly 
and steps back and shrugs, grinning in a knowing way. 

Ito and Luna face fault. 

"WHAT?!!" Rei yells out and punched Ranma with all her might to send her 
flying back into the furo with a giant splash. Then stomped out of the room, 
slamming the door behind her. Bubbles come to the surface where Ranma's face 
was plastered to the bottom of the furo, her legs hanging off the side in a 
decidedly inappropriate manor. 

********** 

Breakfast was a quiet affair for Ranma a she breezed through her cereal and 
eggs. Rei glared at her and spent all her time keeping the table between her 
and Ranma. Ranma smiled at her and went out of her way to make suggestive 
motions as she ate and had Rei blushing a solid red by the time she 
finished. She started with hers cereal and lapped the milk out of the bowl 
like a cat and smiled at Rie, licking her lips and letting a little drip off 
her chin. From there she moved on to more and more suggestive things until 
Rei grabbed her stuff and fled the temple as soon as she could. She was 
still blushing as she ran down the stairs and wondering why visions of a 
naked Ranma were still in her mind, the feel of her breasts as she rubbed up 
against her, and the smell of her hair...Rei had to stop at the bottom of 
the stairs and bang her head against the wall for awhile to clear it. 

"Mommy, why is she doing that?" 

Rei twitched while still resting her head against the slightly cracked 
wall. 

"Don't look at the crazy girl, honey." Said a mother as they edged around 
Rei. "You don't want to end up like her, do you?" 

"Hey!" Rei yelled. 

They ran for it. 

Ranma snickered from the steps as she waved at the seething Rei and jumped 
to a nearby roof and took off. Rei screamed and ran after her, but Ranma 
soon lost her and enjoyed the morning run. Running in a skirt was a pain, 
but she always wore a pair of shorts under the skirts to keep the boys from 
peaking. She dropped out of the sky and landed beside one of the boys who 
were always scooping out the girl's as they entered the grounds, he screamed 
and turned to run, but ran right into a wall knocking himself cold. This was 
only her fourth day at Jubaan High and she was surprised to see that she had 
already acquired a reputation for not tolerating the boys trying to make the 
move on her. She had even had to go so far as to beat one unconscious when