No chars belong to me. Warning bad language -------------------------- For whom I once was -------------------------- Terra stood tall about the thousands of demons facing him, behind him thousands of soldiers stood their ground, ready to die for their respective kingdoms. Heh it didn’t matter who you were out here, from Mercury to Pluto all men were the same no matter where you were born. Terra may have had status on the inside but out here on the fringes he was a soldier like all others, albeit a much more powerful soldier as being a Senshi granted him access to magic and mana beyond his belief he was none the less a soldier. Terra was the first-born child of the kingdom of earth and they’re by first to become the Senshi. Though thought never to be possible to have a male Senshi but it was true, he was living proof. They all said he was impossible he mused. He knew why he was a Senshi, for all power there was a counter balance of power. On one side we have the light warriors Senshi poweraful female, he was as strong as them and a dark warrior but he was male, the perfect opposite. He smiled this didn’t mean he was evil hell any Senshi warrior could be evil; he only commanded dark powers while the others controlled light powers. The difference between light and dark power is potency. Dark power is more potent than light power in terms of strength but when it comes to light, darkness can never reach the same levels of power that light could ascertain The two armies charged each other, claw met steel in a blood bath of gore, and soldiers swung their swords feverishly at the demons before them while demons swung their demonic claws at the humans before them. These battles occurred often on the fringes and one side would soon retreat. Neither side would ever really gain any ground. One day humans would force the demons back while the next the demons would force the humans back. A scythe flashed with dark powers and five demons fell dead, heads missing. Terra loved this place, battle was his domain, he never felt more alive than in the heat of combat where life and death move hand in hand, he smiled as three more demons charged him, they would die like all others... Ranma awoke with a sigh he had that dream again. The dream of himself as a warrior on a great battlefield covered in demons and people, a dream where he fought daily against things that would rip a man to shreds, he wanted to be there, this place in his dreams why? Lately Ranma found no challenge in Nerima. The only few would prove a challenge for him were Cologne, Happosai, Genma, and maybe Ryouga given the right conditions. But lately Cologne’s speed was becoming easier to follow and her tactics were the same all the time. Happosai was quick and his ki mastery was good but Ranma was catching up in ki mastery as well so everything the old pervert could throw at him Ranma was able to counter. Genma was still the challenge Ranma had though, most people thought Genma a glutton, slow, pathetic, useless, worthless, and lazy fighter. But Ranma knew better, he trained with his father for ten years and knew all his tactics and Genma would be able to take down Happosai if he really wanted to. Ranma remembered a saying once said "If they believe you deaf, they will talk." Ranma knew his father meant if people believed you couldn’t fight they would ignore you and an ignorant fighter was already defeated. Looking at the bright moon outside his window he longed to return to his dreams of fighting. Ranma didn’t know where this desire for combat came from but he knew he felt a lot better about his current situation because he was usually pretty depressed about it, 3 fiancés, a psycho gymnast, and battles everyday for some reason or another, he used to fell like he wasn’t going to make it threw all of it, now it was bearable simply because he longed for the combat. Only problem was now was Akane’s temper, battles he could win, girls he could not. Ranma had no way of handling Akane, given he never helped the situations but would it be so much to ask for if Akane listened to him instead of waving her big mallet? "Oh well, still enough time to get some shut eye." Ranma thought to himself before lying down and returning to his dreams. The next morning Ranma awoke to a nice cold bath delivered to him by an angry Akane. "What’d ya do that for?" Ranma shouted at Akane. "We’re going to be late for school if you don’t get up now." Akane yelled back. Ranma blinked "Its summer, we don’t have school." Akane was stunned into inaction until her mind caught up to her and she just said "Jerk." And left the room. Ranma sat up and removed her shirt, water fell from her body as she stood and rung out her shirt. Ranma was really getting tired of this. Breakfast wasn’t for a while thought Ranma so she’d get in some practice, gathering her things she got up, changed and left for the dojo. Still in his girl form Ranma bathed in the increased speed he acquired in the smaller more agile body. As she went through the complex kata she lost herself in the dance that was the art. Her invisible opponent bobbing and weaving about her blows as the two fought for what seemed like hours, days, years, time had no meaning when in combat, but the fight ended when there was a call. "Ranma, breakfast will be ready soon." Nabiki called from the entrance of the dojo. Completing the kata Ranma stopped and nodded to the older girl. Lately Nabiki had been much nicer towards Ranma she used to think that Ranma was just a big dumb, insensitive, freeloading jock that was wasting his time with martial arts. But after several incidents she had completely changed her views. The first was when a customer from Furinkan had attacked her for her excess pictures of Ranma’s girl form, Ranma had shown up and slammed him into a wall, when the boy had shown Ranma the pictures Ranma simply said; "I am stalked day and night by people with far more skill than her do you honestly think I’m stupid enough to not know when Nabiki is around?" The boy looked at the picture than back at Ranma "But..." Ranma continued, "I also know where the money goes, now if you ever touch her again I’ll break you." Ranma released the boy who quickly ran off. This to Nabiki was a clear indication that Ranma knew about the pictures she took and when she took them but did nothing to stop it. She knew he hated those pictures yet he did it to help her with the money problems. The second and final thing incident was his activities in China. What she thought he had wasted his time on was what had saved her sister. Akane wouldn’t be here in Ranma hadn’t been able to fight and kill a god. Saffron was a superior opponent and Ranma had only a small chance of winning yet still Ranma fought on avoiding death at every turn in an attempt to save Akane’s life, no one could say that. After those incidents Nabiki was willing to be nicer to Ranma though she still took pictures and made plenty of money off him she would never outright try to make his life hell in the process. She no longer sold information on him to Ryouga, Kuno, or Mousse and she never tried to trick Ranma into dates with his other fiancés. She also knew that Ranma secretly put money into her bank account as a form of rent. Where he was getting this money she didn’t know, she tried several times to follow him late at night when he would slip out but each time he had evaded her spies with practiced ease. She figured he had a nighttime job which could explain his sleeping in class. Nabiki was shaken out of her thoughts as Ranma passed by her, leaving for the furo before breakfast. Meanwhile... Deep within the fortress of time which protected the Gates of Time themselves Sailor Pluto, guardian of the time gates sat and watched her computer screen, there was a energy reading, a dark reading one of which she hoped never to see again. "They’re back." Back in Tokyo Juuban district, a fight had broken out, but not just any fight this was a fight between the soldiers of love and justice against the forces of evil and it didn’t look good for the soldiers. The daemon had again healed itself with no sign of it stopping. "This is getting tiresome." The daemon Saciel taunted, knowing full well that his opponents couldn’t keep up to the pace he was setting. Laughing to himself, he smiled as another one of the girls fell to the ground. Saciel was a daemon, he was tall standing at nearly 7 ft, though mostly humanoid in appearance he had reverse jointed knees, humanoid claws for hands, two bone spikes protruded from his elbows, while he had leathery bat type wings from his back but he had yet to use them, and last his skin had a greyish tone to it and was as hard as steel though flexible as rubber. "Sailor Venus!" Cried Sailor Moon as she watched in horror as the daemon had grabbed her arm and throw her to the ground in from of him and kick her a fair distance away. Sailor Mercury rushed over to her fallen comrade to find her trying to get up without much success. Sailor Mercury ran up to her; "Hold still you have a dislocated arm, I’ll set it back but this will hurt." Sailor Venus nodded and Sailor Mercury began tending to the dislocated bone with Sailor Venuses arm. With a cry of pain Sailor Mercury forced the bone back within its socket. Sailor Venus rose to her feet and thanked the blue haired Senshi than joined the fray once more. "VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN" The chain in question shot forth from her hand and latched around a surprised Saciel’s leg fully ensnaring it within its power. Holding the daemon in place the Senshi of Venus shouted to her comrades "DO IT NOW!" not wasting anytime the Senshi of the moon charged her "Rainbow Moon Heart Ache’ attack and fired it towards the daemon, unfortunately the daemon had more than enough strength to haul the young blond girl off her feet and throw the girl with amazing accuracy into the leading Senshi saving itself from the vicious attack that was about to be let loose upon it. "Back for more are we blondie? Well this time I’ll take that whole arm off." A blast of orange energy hit his side as three more Senshi arrived on the scene. "Not so fast daemon, now you have to deal with us as well." Saciel rubbed his side where the blast had hit and smiled "Well if that’s all ya got then I’ll be glad to." The battle raged on from there with the outter’s fighting the daemon hand to hand. Sailor Uranus swung for the daemons head hoping to disorient the daemon only to find it duck under the blow and deliver an uppercut which sent her flying into a world of pain. She stood up to see Saciel charging at her when Sailor Saturn intervened "SILENCE WALL" she shouted Saciel fully expected an attack but finding nothing he continued his charge, until he ran head first into the magical barrier set up by Saturn. "Ouch, Oh shit that hurt, damn what the hell was that?" Saciel walked around a bit to clear his head while he swore at the wall the hurt him this much. "I’m gonna have a headache after this." The rest of the Senshi were stunned. First an outer attack had barely fazed this daemon and then it slams into a wall and is actually more hurt by that than the attacks they had put it through and the outer attack that was more powerful than their own. The scout then prepared to attack again when there was a burst of black light. When the Senshi looked on they saw something that scared them all. A second daemon had appeared, this one looked more like a werewolf than anything with metallic claws and silver fur it stood on two legs. It turned towards the daemon and said; "Saciel, Armisael requests an audience with you." Saciel nodded and vanished in a black light. The daemon Bardiel turned to face the Senshi, bowing he said; "Ladies, I’d love to stay and chat with beings as beautiful as yourselves but I really must be off." With that he to vanished into the black light from which he came. The Senshi stood stunned, had a daemon just called them ‘beautiful’? All the Senshi had regrouped and were now at Rei’s Temple to combine their resources and information. "So what were those things? No normal daemon is that strong." The inner Senshi nodded, "It shrugged off our best attacks and healed itself with ease. The only thing that really hurt it was slamming head first into the silence wall." "That is very odd. Have you seen Setsuna lately?" Ami or Sailor Mercury as she is in her Senshi form inquired to Haruka or Sailor Uranus. "Well, not exactly but Michiru found a note left by Setsuna this morning and it read." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru Go to Rei’s temple after the battle today I will explain there. Setsuna. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "So Setsuna will be coming here?" Asked Minako. "I’m already here." Said a voice causing everyone to jump. Setsuna smirked inside herself, as she just loved waiting for the most inopportune time to show herself. But now was not the time for such small things "Ok, I know your all wondering who it was you just fought." They nodded. "The beings you just fought were daemon’s, but not just any daemons these are called ‘Chaos daemons’. These ones in particular are very powerful. The leader of this band is called Tabris, once long ago there was total peace through out our system. But then the demons came, with them came a rift in space and time we called the Negaverse. The Senshi went out there to fight the demons but could not manage alone. Great armies were amassed to fight the demons; out there the solders called the place ‘Fringes’. Anyways these soldiers fought with Senshi against the hordes of demons that roamed the blasted lands, but one day during a regular clash between armies a group of 17 daemons appeared and watched the battle. They didn’t seem to pose a threat as they watched human and demon clash. The human side began to lose the fight and the demons pushed forward it was then that the 17 daemons made their move, you could almost see the surprise as these 17 daemons took on the demon army and decimated it. It turns out that these 17 daemons did not seek to kill humans or demons they simply liked to fight. They sometimes fought with us or against us and few times they fought both human and demon together. "How did they become so powerful?" Asked Ami. "That, I cannot tell you. I have said all I can but be warned when fighting these daemons use extreme caution and forget about anything around you and their destruction is top priority. If they seek a battle here they will fight anything and everything in their attempts for combat." With that Setsuna vanished into the time stream again. Though she hadn’t exactly been completely honest with them she would not let them be divided because of who Tabris really was. She hurt. A lot. Tabris had betrayed them. Or was it the other way round? The days of the silver millennia, Sailor Jupiter was panting she had been fighting for three hours straight and was really getting tired. She couldn’t last much longer and the demons seemed to flow like a never-ending river of hellish proportions. Another thunderbolt and she watched, as the demons seemed to slow in fear, what was going on? She looked up in time to see him; amongst the others he came with them to fight along side them. She didn’t know weather to be happy or scared that he was here. He stood there talking to his daemons in a language she could not comprehend. She looked over his human body with lusty eyes as his physic was perfect and his body was a well-tuned machine of both strength and power, while also combining speed and dexterity. His hands were covered in an unknown metal that made metallic claws and currently his massive ebony wings were folded on his back, she wished to have him hold her in her arms as they flew across Jupiter the sunset in the background. Sailor Jupiter was shaken out of her dream as he pointed in her direction and the daemons nodded. Sailor Jupiter was worried now, she had seen the daemons in action before but if they were here to fight her she doubted she would leave the battlefield. That was when she saw them begin attacking the demons around her and thanked Serenity for the blessing. She then witnessed something no one had ever seen before, a demon had escaped the slaughter that was they’re forces and charged at him. Sailor Jupiter was about to call out a warning when she saw him cock his head to the side. There was a flash and what she saw stunned her. A daemon had charged him and he cocked his head, as the demon came in range his wings fanned out and he spun around, his wings sliced through the daemons neck severing its head completely leaving no blood on the wings he folded his wings and smiled. Sailor Jupiter grew in courage and approached the daemon lord. "Um... Hi, I’m Sailor Jupiter it’s nice to meet you. May I ask a question?" He nodded to her delight, he understood her language she was happy for this maybe later she would ask him out before the others did. Looking into his deep red eyes she knew of only one other with eyes like this, Queen Serenity’s former bodyguard. She now understood how such eyes could be enticing. She continued; "Are you Tabris?" He nodded and with that his wings fanned out and he called to his daemons and the pack left the battlefield leaving only a few demons behind for the humans to finish. The war was on, sides had been taken, life was hell, the chosen combatants had taken up their stances and each threw attack after attack while trying desperately to defend their own. Defences broke and fell like bricks while attacks where rendered useless by either side. What was this war? It was no war it was breakfast at the Tendou’s. Ranma and Genma finished their meal in the usual fashion of ‘War time’. "That was very good Kasumi." Genma complimented. "Thank you Mister Saotome." Kasumi replied with a smile™. Ranma agreed and Kasumi thanked him as well. Akane however reacted differently "Oh so you’ll eat Kasumi’s cooking but not mine." Ranma looked towards his fiancé; "Well I wouldn’t exactly call it cooking, really I mean look there it is leaving the house." Said food was in fact slithering out the doorway leaving a small slime trail, it waved goodbye as it leap over the wall which was a feet considering its size and the distance it had to cover. Kasumi smiled "Isn’t that nice it waved goodbye before it left." She then got up and got a mop. Akane’s eye twitched and she did what came natural. "RANMA NO BAKA!!" *CRASH* Ranma admired the blue sky as he watched it pass, judging by his trajectory he would land right in the woman’s side of the public bath house. Like he didn’t know what was going to happen. He curled and prepared for a quick leap out of the water and back through the hole he was going to make. As Ranma impacted with the roof he was suddenly overcome with anger. Something was fuelling him with anger and he knew what it was. Akane. Every time he did anything she pulled the hammer, she was like Ryouga, the two were made for each other, both were strong and angry and blamed him for EVERTYTHING. Ranma impacted with the water and leapt out at a blinding speed, only a trained martial artist could track his movements and at that moment Happosai knew that it was not a good time to bother the boy. He’d seen that look before, when Ranma killed Saffron. He’d hate to be the poor fool who earned this side of Ranma. Ranma walked back to the dojo with an aura of dark power all around him. He entered the gates and Akane looked at him; "Back for more pervert." She swung again *Crash* Akane reeled back quickly as her mallet exploded into splinters of black flame. She looked into the eye’s of her fiancé and could only think of all the times she had hit him and him letting her, against Ranma in a straight fight she wouldn’t last two seconds. She prayed for him to forgive her but he didn’t look like he would anytime soon. Ranma loomed over Akane like a dark shadow, the dark flames still engulfed his hands, and spoke two words but with those words he struck a blow to her she could never defend against. "I’m leaving." His voice was filled with ice and he never showed any of the pain he felt. Walking past Akane, Ranma was greeted by everyone. They had seen what happened Nabiki shot daggers from the eyes as she just witnessed Ranma literally attack Akane, he would pay. Soun and Genma tried to jump Ranma but met unconsciousness quickly. Kasumi on the other hand looked at Ranma and said; "I would like to talk to you alone." Ranma felt like he was walking into a minefield now. Kasumi sat in the guest room as Ranma packed his belongings and prepared to leave his life in Nerima. Kasumi spoke first; "You know Ranma I should be very angry at you for what you did, but I’m not. Actually I’m amazed you dealt with it as long as you have. If it were me in your position I’d have left long ago." Ranma turned and faced the eldest Tendou daughter, "I know I seem like a simple house maid who takes care of everything but know that I only do this because it has to be done and it hurts me to watch it my life fly by and I can do nothing about it except smile and wave. What I’m trying to say is I know what you’re going through, having something forced upon you and being unable to do nothing about it though mine case isn’t as extreme as yours I just wanted to say I’m sorry." Ranma stood and watched as Kasumi began to cry were once sat a person he saw a person of great strength and endurance he now saw a person whom had fought her own wars and had never thought Kasumi to be in his position, Ranma hugged the elder Tendou and the two stood there for what seemed like hours. Finally Kasumi stopped and said, "Ranma I’ve come to a decision, I want to go with you, to be with you, we can settle the pact. Please?" Kasumi’s eye’s pleaded for him to accept, Ranma looked into Kasumi’s eye’s and it was at that moment he saw several things, He saw Kasumi as a woman, he saw just how beautiful she really was and thought to himself, "How could I have missed that?" Ranma nodded much to her delight than said, "My life is a dangerous one, with weird things happening to me all the time, and will you love me through all of that?" Kasumi just looked at him, "I have until now haven’t I?" Ranma smiled and the to kissed for the first time, Ranma was always being kissed by girls but for the first time he returned it and he felt so much better. The news came like a bombshell to Tendou household. Ranma had packed as did Kasumi, she much like Ranma never had very many possessions because for her they were more things that could have gone to her family that she believed needed more. Kasumi stood there with Ranma, her backpack hefted. "We are leaving together, today I have shown Ranma my true feelings and he has accepted them we are to be married at our disposal and you will not interfere." In Kasumi’s eye’s showed a power, a determination, and a dare to all to stop them. Ranma to showed this look as he spied his father and Akane. No one said anything and Ranma and Kasumi left the Tendou dojo without looking back. Authors BS First chapter complete (Yeah!) The original plan was for this to be a Setsuna/Ranma match up but that changed after I wrote the one shot entitled ‘Last words’. This is a revised version of the original ‘For whom I once was’ I had wrote about three chapters when I said "Naw I don’t like the way this going." And I scraped the idea. Now I have this done and I like the idea of how its gonna go. I’m hoping to make a fairly long story out of this and I have decided that I’m going to only work on two fics at a time so I can keep the chapters coming to you and you don’t have to wait a year or two for the next chapter. J Suggestions and denunciations will be looked at carefully and taken into consideration because I want to make something you like not something you hate. But if your going to flame me please tell me why you did it cause I want to know so I can be careful to avoid such things in future fics. If ya find any grammar mistakes or spelling errors tell me please even now I’m still finding them as I finish the chapter and look back at it. The next authors BS won’t be so long. Chapter 2 contains: - Kasumi and Ranma make their way to the Juuban district - An encounter with a demon - Fight’s (of course) - And anything else I can’t think of right now. Ryanko@antisocial.com/ "You never mind and you don’t need this." – Disturbed <>