Title: Prince of the Planets
Ranma ½ Sailor Moon Crossover
Idea: What would happen if Ranma was the reincarnated son of Sailor Jupiter and Nephrite?
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: After Herb but before they face the Orochi. Please note that Nodoka knows about Ranma's Curse (he wrote a letter to her explaining it all to her). In Sailor Moon it is after the Death Phantom but before the Death Busters.
Notes- I will try and not make the characters of Ranma in cardboard characters as often happens and I will be drawing from the Magna Ranma and T.V. Sailor Moon more for both sources. I don't own either series.
"Rememberwhoyoureally are!" Ranma suddenly shot up wide awake as he suddenly woke up from his dream. Ranma blinked a few times before he spoke, "Remember who you really are? Why on earth would I dream about something like that?" Giving his head a good shake, Ranma then got out of bed avoiding his panda of a father and started changing into one of his Maoist uniform clothes.
Looking out the window to see the sun just starting to come up while he buttoned his shirt Ranma said the words from his dream once more out loud to himself. For the past two weeks he had been waking up to those same words in his head and it was starting to drive the gender-blender nuts. Giving up on trying figuring out what the words meant, Ranma headed over to the dojo to practice some of his less used fighting stances. After a good 40 minute workout, Ranma was called to the breakfast table by Kasumi.
Although Ranma was focused on eating so that it looked like he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings, he actually was paying attention on a subconscious level. Kasumi was happy as she normal was at this time of day. Nabiki was grinning in a way that showed that she had a money making plan in her head. Soun was focused on the paper as always while Ranma's own father was doing a marvelous impression of a do-do bird for a Panda eating. Akane for some reason looked anxious and also looked like she was trying to hide her anxiety.
Once breakfast was over everyone but the two oldest Tendos were out the door. Genma was meandering his way to his job with Dr. Tofu. Nabiki was racing ahead of Akane and Ranma to school, probably to collect bets on what would happen when Ranma tried to get to class. Finally Ranma and Akane were both walking to school at a more casual pace with Ranma on the fence. For some reason Akane wasn't trying to talk to Ranma as they walked to school so it was an uncomfortable 10 minutes for Ranma.
Soon enough the school gates were in view and Ranma smirked at what he saw headed his way. It looked like today the insanity of choice was kick the Kuno bird as Kuno was charging at Ranma with his bouken raised the delusional boy was spouting drivel. Ranma casually leapt into the air towards Kuno's charging figure. Ranma then gave Kuno a kick to the side of his head before following up with his other foot that hit Kuno under the chin. This one-two combo of Ranma's sent Kuno flying into the air and into the dumpster across the street. As Kuno soared into the air a few students pulled out number cards showing that they thought that the flight only deserved an average grade.
Ranma heard Akane mumble "showoff" as she headed into the classroom. Praying to all the gods that he knew of, Ranma held his tongue from saying the sharp insult that was forming because he didn't want to break a promise to his mother. Ranma was having, unknown to the residents of the Tendo home, a decent relationship his mother although it was long distance relationship. With the help of Dr. Tofu to explain the curse, Ranma and his mother had an almost daily correspondence. Nodoka had originally wanted Ranma to come right home, but Ranma had convinced her to stay at the Saotome home and not visit him at the dojo.
Although not his area of expertise, Ranma had come to realize the pressure cooker that was his life in the Nerima nut farm. Even the low level chaos that he faced during a 'normal' day was slowly wearing him down. Ranma didn't want his mom showing up because he needed her as a safe place for when the next big misadventure came to town. Nodoka agreed with her son's worries and had told him in many pages how happy she was that he was able to read the situation.
The classes for that day were relatively boring for Ranma. However, Ranma had the sense not to appear bored in class. This was more than what the 8 dumb drained saps in the front seats could say for themselves. However, Ranma was definitely on edge near the end of the school day due to the fact that his danger sense had been sounding a Def-com 1 alert all day. Ranma started walking home and was a third of the way there when he realized that Akane wasn't walking with him. Worrying about her safety, Ranma hurried back to the school at full speed. However, when he turned the corner to see the school, Rama happened to glance in an old ally way. Ranma saw a sight in that ally way that turned his blood cold.
There in the ally way was Akane playing a game of tonsil hockey with her 'friend' Sayuri. As if to add further insult to injury, the top buttons of their respective blouses were undone. Ranma looked on the scene for a minute trying with all his will to drive it from reality. Seeing that what was going on in front of him was not a figment of his imagination, Ranma ran away as fast as he could. Akane and Sayuri were so into each other that they never realized that Ranma had seen them.
Ranma ran as fast as possible so that he could get away from vision he had seen while tears formed in his eyes. Ranma eventually came to an empty part of a park. Once at that spot, Ranma let out a soul piercing primal yell of pain. Falling to his knees Ranma looked to the heavens and with tears in his eyes cried out. "Why? It's not fair. What have I done to deserve this?!"
Slowly Ranma's heart hardened and a cold fury started to burn within his wounded heart against Akane. Ranma's teeth were clenched as his words forced their way out, "T-that no good excuse for a whore! Doesn't honor mean anything to her? I work to try and make the family pact work out and what does she do? She throws it all in my face! I ignore the advances of Shampoo and Uyko because our family pact is the oldest and she goes gallivanting around for the other team!"
Ranma then raised a fist into the air while shouting out, "As the heavens as my witness I, Ranma Saotome heir to the Saotome branch of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts, vow that I will never support this farce of an honor pact. I declare a blood feud between my heirs and Akane Tendo along with her heirs. No aid will come to her or her line until honor has been satisfied so I vow."
His rage then left Ranma's heart, leaving only cold logical calculation behind in its place. Although normally considered a tad slower than the average person in most intellectual pursuits, Ranma's mind was now operating under battle conditions. Genma's barbaric training methods had funneled and refined Ranma's intellect into that of a tactician surpassing the likes of Alexander or Caesar. The reason why Ranma was considered slow in the head was do to the fact that Ranma been unintentionally trained to only used that mind of his for martial arts. While this might not have been a martial arts fight, Ranma was able break the mental blocks in order to use the razor sharp intelligence that he had when under battle conditions in order to look at the situation ahead of him.
Quickly analyzing the situation at hand along with all possible variables that he could think of, Ranma came up a plan. First, he would sneak into the Tendo home to get his things. Next he would leave a note telling the Tendos of his intentions and what he had seen. Step three was to go into the mountains to train for a week or two on some of the techniques he had observed from his opponents and that he was thinking about adding to his usual line-up. Fourth, head to his mother's house & transfer to a school around there.
Ranma speed-blurred as he ran, headed in the direction on the Tendo dojo. When he got there, he found no one was home. Silently thanking the kami for his good fortune Ranma headed up stairs and grabbed all of his things. Next, he raided the pantry for canned foods that were close to expiration date so he could have a few days' supplies. After Ranma had collected his provisions he wrote his letter to the Tendos. Just as he was about to leave, an idea for a going away 'gift' came to Ranma's mind. Ten minutes latter his angry and frankly childish goodbye 'gift' was done and Ranma hurried out of town.
Shock, Shock was all that was compensable to Nabiki, Kasumi, Soun, Genma, and P-Chan as they entered the front door. All over the walls were written insults and obscenities against all of the inhabitants of the house in general and Akane in particular. Slowly the gang made their way through the disaster zone that was the house until they got to the dining room where Soun and Genma almost had heart attacks. The Tendo dojo sign was broken in 5 pieces and Ranma's letter was sitting in the center of the five pieces.
Nabiki was the first come out of her shock at the sight, with cold furry she grabbed the letter and read it. The expressions on her face changed to calm, shock, and finally anger as she yelled out, "Akane you stupid numbskull!" Nabiki's shout brought Soun out of his shock. Soun's face was illuminated with anger as he turned to face Nabiki and demanded. "Why are you insulting your sister at a time like this?" Nabiki just glared at him and said, "Because this whole mess is her fault! Listen to this:
'Dear Tendo Family,
This is a notice to the rest of you that the Tendo-Saotome marriage agreement has been dissolved due to the complete unfitness of the Tendo participant. Akane Tendo has proven her unworthiness on the following charges. The first charge against her is that, she has not achieved the skill level needed to be a master of the Tendo school of Anything Goes. This fact shows that she is unable to pass on the Tendo school as is stated under the 'unite the schools' clause of the marriage agreement. The second and far more serious charge against Akane Tendo is that it has been discovered that, while aware of the marriage agreement, Akane Tendo has entered into a romantic and personal relationship with one Sayuri Amino.
Given that Akane has broken the pack, I Ranma Saotome officially declare a blood feud between Akane Tendo and myself. This blood feud is to be carried on by our heirs until ether her branch of the Tendo family is extinct, or they have made restitution for the crime against my line's honor. However, under no circumstances is this restitution to be delivered by the producing of a spouse for my line as I refuse to allow the Saotome bloodline to be polluted by the dishonorable Tendo line of Akane Tendo. Please note that the now instated Saotome-Tendo blood feud does not extend to previous generations and it does not extend to one Kasumi Tendo and one Nabiki Tendo. Nor does this feud extend to their heirs and my heirs. With this being the case, I however refuse to allow the mingling of my line with their lines until the line of Akane Tendo makes satisfaction.
Sincerely,
Ranma Saotome, family heir and heir to the Saotome school of Anything Goes Martial Arts.'"
Soun fell to his knees and covered his head in shame with his hands. His dreams had been destroyed by his little girl and left that dream as a nightmare. Ranma had just decreed that the Saotome and Tendo families would not be joined in his lifetime and Soun, for the life of him, could honestly not bring himself to blame the boy. Soun had always assured himself that the family pact would be fulfilled no matter how many girls chased after Ranma because he knew how important Ranma held honor. Oh the boy wasn't above tricking an opponent or taking advantage of something coming up in a fight but those were basic tenets of the school.
Yes, Ranma was not at fault even if his romantic ability was only that of a ten year old. Soun knew that the boy had tried his hardest to make the Tendo-Saotome engagement work. Little Akane would learn the seriousness of her crime against the family, of that Soun knew without a shred of doubt. Akane should have never done what she had because a martial artist like she proclaimed she was would never go against honor in such a fashion. Once Soun was through with her, he was sure Akane would regreat the day she ever decided to so carelessly break the honor of the Tendo family. Soun looked up and turned his gaze to the front door, which was now opening to reveal Akane coming in the door with her blouse messed up.
About twenty or so miles into a forest a good distance away from the special wards of Tokyo, Ranma was busy setting up his campfire next to his tent that he had just put up. Once Ranma had the fire going, he put on a pot of water so that he could have some soup. While he was cooking the food Ranma started talking to himself to think about what he should do for the next 2 weeks.
"Okay, what am I going to train in besides my normal daily exercises? With the limited time I have, I should focus on the skills that are hard for me to learn in a city environment. Let's see, Ryoga's Breaking Point Technique would certainly toughen me up a good deal so I'll make that a priority to learn. If I put weights on my arms and practice the Chestnut Fist I'm sure that I'll get stronger and faster at the same time. That makes my new Chestnut Fist training a must, but not as important as the Breaking Point Technique training. What else do I should I learn on this trip?"
Ranma then thought for a few seconds before a light bulb went off in his head and an idea came to him. A bright smile on his face, Ranma shouted out as he snapped his fingers, "What a second! Mom sent me that book on meditation and Chi techniques I can look at that and practice my Moko Takabisha! Yea and when I'm done, those nuts in Nerima won't be able to touch me- except maybe Happosai or Cologne." With a smile on his face, Ranma finished cooking his evening meal.
After wolfing down the soup, Ranma pulled out the book Chi usage for Dummies that his mother had gotten him. After looking at the table of contents Ranma turned to the section on Chi attacks are started to read. With gusto one wouldn't think about with the words 'Ranma' and 'book' together.
Chapter VII: the use of Chi in attacking your opponent
As opposed to the internal use of Chi (see Chapter VI: Chi flowing from within); the external use of Chi can be quite dangerous. Regardless of whether a person gathers Chi from within themselves or takes it from the environment around them one must precede with caution.
The easiest and safest method of external Chi use is to infuse The Chi into an object like a sword or a kunai. This allows a person greater control over the weapon or object while strengthen that said object. There are numerous examples of this method; the most common example is of people using wooden swords to stop or even cut through a steel sword.
After the infusing of Chi into objects, the next step of external Chi manipulation is the external use of Chi without any other object with it. Commonly these types Chi techniques are directed either towards forming an energy blade, an energy shield, or a Chi projectile of some sort. The Chi needed for such techniques must be either filtered through an emotion or must be summoned in the pure and raw from within.
Of the two methods of harnessing Chi for external attacks; the quickest, easiest, and most dangerous method is the emotional filter. The use of emotion easily focuses and magnifies the Chi of a person so that the user can quickly summon it to attack with; especially if the user only has a small amount of Chi to work with. However, as easy this method may be to perform, it should never be used. The constant and repeated use of emotional Chi, especially in the quantities as is needed to make an attack, will damage a person's soul in the form of cracks to their heart crystal. This damage shows itself at first in the form of the person taking on the personality traits of their preferred emotion. With continued use of emotional Chi, the damage to the heart crystal proceeds to such a point that either the person gets themselves killed or the heart crystal explodes killing the person and leaving massive damage to the surrounding area.
The harder and safe method is to use pure Chi. Although pure Chi is far more potent compared to the same amount of emotional Chi, it is also far harder for a person to collect and bend to the person's will. However, as hard as it is to start using pure Chi, the rewards are tremendous. The usage of pure Chi has none of the side effects of emotional Chi and at the same time mastery of it will increase a person's lifespan.
Ranma stopped reading there as the rest of the chapter told how to meditate and gather the energy needed. Ranma thought about how glad he was that he now knew of the dangers of emotional Chi when a thought struck him and caused his blood to go cold. Ranma then uttered his realization out loud. "Damn it! Ryoga doesn't know about the danger that comes with using emotional Chi!" Ranma ran over to his backpack and wrote a note that was to be mailed to Ryoga telling Ryoga of the danger. In the morning Ranma planed to run to the nearest town and mail the letter to Ryoga as a first class priority. Ranma then spent the rest of the evening meditating before going to bed.
When Ranma woke up that morning he quickly ran into town and mailed the letter to Ryoga. After the letter was mailed, Ranma picked up some rope before heading back up to his campsite for the week's training. Ranma then constructed a crude swing system that he tied a large bolder to. This swing system allowed Ranma to push the rock away from him, thus sending the rock back at him so he could practice the breaking point technique. When lunch came around three and a half hours latter it was a black and blue grinning Ranma around the campfire.
In the middle of eating his meager lunch Ranma thought about his earlier training. In his mind he spoke to himself. "Okay, I've got the breaking point almost down. Now if I do it for an hour or so every day then by the end of the two weeks I'll be able to take getting hit by a truck and I'll not be hurt too bad. Now then, after I have an hour of the Chestnut fist and then I'll work on coming up with a new Chi attack to replace the Moko Takabisha. After that it will be evening katas before hitting the sack so I can repeat my training schedule tomorrow."
After his hands had cooled down from being in the fire for so long, Ranma was standing away from his camp preparing to try a pure Chi attack. Slowly over several minutes Ranma managed to coax the Chi into his right closed fist. When the strain of holding the energy there became too much for him Ranma quickly brought the hand straight up and level with his chest. He then instantly opened his closed fist while shouting "Moko Dan Ha!" (Fierce Tiger Bullet Defeat). With this scream a basket ball size mass of white energy erupted from Ranma's fist and flew towards a large rock about a hundred meters away.
While the rock was struck and exploded from the Moko Dan Ha; Ranma was falling to his knees panting in exhaustion. Ranma grinned looking at his handy work and said the only thing that came to his mind before he fainted from exhaustion "Amazing." While Ranma would have only had a person look at his handy work; if someone was to come on to this sight one would have seen something far more intriguing. On Ranma's forehead briefly glowed with a dull deep green light the symbol for Jupiter.
A week after Ranma left the Tendos; Ryoga was sitting in a bare room with a letter from Ranma in front of him waiting to be opened. At first Ryoga had wanted to kill Ranma for what the 'dishonorable coward' had done to his beloved Akane's home. However, hearing Nabiki read that letter and watching Soun chastised Akane made Ryoga stop and think. Soun had told Akane that for no reason was she allowed the privilege of being able to continue using the Tendo school of Anything Goes. Furthermore, Soun told her that he was going to transfer her to a military academy to see if she could learn some honor there.
Hearing Akane yell about how unfair it was and that she had done nothing wrong broke Ryoga's dreams about her. Ryoga had, even though it was slightly warped, a sense of honor. However warped that honor was, it was still important to him. Not being able to be with his parents often had left Ryoga with only his honor and his martial arts to be proud of; thus hearing and seeing Akane breaking her and her family's honor so carelessly had left a gaping whole in his heart.
Not wanting to see Akane or be near her as "P-Chan", Royga had taken off as fast as possible trying to get lost. Two days ago he had stumbled across this small monastery and had been taken in by the kind old monks who cared for the place. Ryoga had spent his time at the monastery up until now talking with the monks about honor and his family curse. Luckily for Ryoga two of the older monks were psychics who could diagnoses and help treat the family curse, but not his Jusenko curse.
Apparently the Hibiki direction curse was actually a malformed and mutated inherited psychic ability. They had told him that his family had the ability to naturally teleport where ever they wished to go to. However there were problems with how this ability had formed. The psychic and chi energy used for this unique ability were all funneled into the teleportation process without any energy used for the control part of the ability. This meant that the Hibiki family were able to teleport all over the world but also that they had no control over where they went or when the ability was activated.
Luckily for Ryoga those monks were able to repair his ability to where he could completely control it. Although Ryoga would now only be able to go 30 km maximum in one go and would have to rest afterwards, Royga was extremely happy. Ryoga thought back to yesterday as he tested out his ability and found that short distance bursts required only a short rest period afterwards meaning that Ryoga could possibly work it into his fighting style.
Now however Ryoga's attention was back on the letter in front of him. Deciding that Ranma was enough of a friend that it would be only polite to read the letter, Ryoga picked it up and broke the seal. Unfolding the letter Ryoga read what Ranma had to say and then thanked the gods for having a friend like Ranma. The letter was:
Hey Ryoga,
How's it going man? You might or might not know it but I've officially broken off the engagement with Akane as she was running around with behind my back with Sayuri. Now don't go off on a tangent but I have not been running behind Akane with Shampoo, Uyko, or bur- Kodachi. Just thought you should know about it and for your information she still doesn't know about your curse though you should tell her soon before she finds out on her own.
More importantly I found some facts that you should know. WHAT EVER YOU DO DON'T USE THE SHI SHI HAKODAN! I found out that using emotional Chi attack's hurt the user leading them to either be killed by others or causing them to combust without warning. From what I read neither of us are in danger of exploding yet but don't do it again. Eventually the damage we've done to ourselves will heal itself. I'm working on a pure Chi attack which I found will not have negative effects to us. Hope you come up with one as well and I hope we can fight when that happens.
Your friend,
Ranma Saotome.
Ryoga put the letter down and smiled as he thought about what Ranma had written. Even though Ryoga had been a poor friend, Ranma was willing to warn him about a problem and still considered him a friend. Well far be it for him, Ryoga thought, to ignore a warning like that. A smirk crossed Ryoga's face as he spoke, "You just watch it Ranma, because next time we meet I'll cream you in a fight."
Mousse was quietly packing his backpack as he prepared to leave the Cat Café. The fallout from the 'Akane' episode was felt and still being felt by all the members of the NWC. Kuno was spouting about how 'the foul sorcerer Saotome' had fled from his 'righteous blade'. Although Mousse smirked when he thought about how the village idiot couldn't seem to register that Akane had now forced to come 'out of the closet', but then that made the fool a little more entertaining. Yuka had distanced herself from Akane and Sayuri to keep from being considered a lesbian as well. Uyko was apparently in shock that Ranma hadn't moved in with her.
However, the most important person to Mousse and the reason for his leaving was Shampoo. She was demanding that they go and look for Ranma every five minutes or so. It had gotten so bad that Cologne had been forced to lock Shampoo in a cage while in her curse form in order to get some sleep. Mousse had at first hoped that Shampoo would come to him for comfort. After all, he was her oldest and truest friend. However she had been harder and meaner towards him as of late. This had FINALLY broken through to Mousse that Shampoo would never like him.
Realizing that his only reason for staying at the Cat Café was a fool's quest; Mousse had stayed up all night thinking about his options. After his mother had died when he was 13 Mousse never really had a good life in the Amazon village. Although the elders would respect his hidden weapon's style of martial arts and his proficiency in it; the young girls of the village unanimously held him in distain. They thought that only they could be great martial artists and that the men from the village couldn't be their equal. Mousse knew that if he could keep his glasses on during the fight he could easily match one of them or take out a few more if he wasn't worried about his opponents living after the fight.
Knowing that going back to China and the Amazon Village was unacceptable for him, Mousse planed on how he could live in Japan. First he would do- get some contacts and then train for a bit in order to get used to fighting with the contacts. After say a week of training he would take the money that he had and open his own dinner. He knew he had the skills needed to run one sense he had observed Cologne run everything that he hadn't had to do which wasn't much. Cologne had in a surprising moment of generosity given him a book containing several Amazon techniques that he didn't know along with a good deal of cash telling him that she wished him well. She had told him that although she didn't always act it she did genuinely care about Mousse. Also, just in case she needed to reach him or he needed to reach her, Cologne gave Mousse her private phone number. With his pack packed, Mousse gave one last glace to Shampoo's room before he quietly exited the Café and walked out into the morning sun.