Daughter of the Dragonlines Chapter three: Dreams, Revelations and Warriors Reborn
By: John deGraffenreid
Author's note: Well here we are ladies and gentleman, chapter three of the revised Daughter of the Dragonlines. I've gotten a lot of positive response on this story, and it's very encouraging. The same disclaimer applies here as elsewhere. I don't own Ranma 1/2 or Sailor Moon. So please don't sue me ok? If you have a problem with shoujo-ai then move on. If you like Akane or Ryouga then this story isn't for you. If you feel like writing me, please do. Flames will be shared with my army of undead rabid weasels.
A note about the guys in this story. I've gotten a couple of reviews asking if I had something against guys based on the way Ryouga, Mousse and Mamoru have acted so far. I have some very valid reasons for this. For starters both Ryouga and Mousse hate Ranma. They'd like nothing better than to see him suffer for any imagined slight against them. Secondly if anyone thinks that Mousse doesn't really see Shampoo the way I portrayed then that's your right. However it's been my experience that when someone obsesses over another person and gets rejected; they tend to become hostile in the extreme. I realize that there a lot of OOC issues here but I've said from the start that there would be.
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It was night in Tokyo, and peace settled over the land, well except in the cities of Juuban and Nerima. In Juuban a young redhead by the name of Ranma Hino was tossing in her sleep. The atrocities that her father put her through coming back to haunt her when she couldn't fight them off. She was in the pit again; it was always the pit. The glowing eyes and demonic yowling scaring her witless. She felt the claws as they sunk into her child like flesh. There was no way to get out, she screamed for her father to let her go. She hurt; the cats were going to kill her. A stern voice came from outside the pit.
"Foolish boy, stop whining like a pathetic little girl. This technique will make you invincible; sure you might die; but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Now hurry up and learn the Neko-ken and show me you're worth training." It was always the same speech. It was burned into her memory, and it was a debt that was long overdue in being paid. For now, however, the terror was upon her. There was no way out, the hissing and yowling grew more and more demonic in nature until she could hear nothing more. She cried out again, hoping against hope that someone would finally rescue her from this hell. She was about to curl into a ball and succumb to the terror when she heard another voice.
"Shhhh my child, its all right. I'm here now, no harm shall come to you." She knew the voice; it had spoken to her before. Since before Jusenkyo she had heard the voice. It was soft and feminine, comforting her in the dark times before she could trounce her lazy, panda man father. She felt arms envelop her and untie her arms and legs. The cat/demons stopped and bowed before this person, who for the first time ever was making herself known. Ranma turned and looked upon the face of her savior, seeing an older version of herself.
She was tall, about 6' actually, with long flowing red hair. Her blue/green eyes flashed with inner fire. All in all she had the look of a hunter, one who commanded respect. She wore hunter's leathers and carried no weapon. She smiled at Ranma and extended her hand.
"Hello Ranma." She said, "Its nice to finally meet you face to face."
"Who, who are you?" the newcomer smiled sadly and shook her head.
"Ranma, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but I'm you. Well a part of you anyway."
"No way I'm a, a gu...." Ranma tried to assert her identity but found in difficult for some reason.
"Ah ah Ranma. You can't lie here, least of all to your self. You know you were never happy with that "Man Above Men" crap. Besides you should have expected me sooner. Guess all that malleting slowed me down a bit."
"What do you mean?" Ranma was looking confused now. "I don't remember anyone telling me I was gonna turn into a girl." As she finished Ranma suddenly remembered the old warrior woman that had trained him just after Jusenkyo.
"I see you remember now." The image said. "I'm sorry Ranma." Ranma shrugged and chuckled to herself.
"Not your fault. I should have known this was going to happen. Why can't I ever catch a break?"
"Actually Ranma this is for the best."
"How can you say that?" Ranma nearly yelled. "I was raised a boy!"
"And you hated every minute of it didn't you?" Seeing Ranma lower her eyes and nod the woman continued. "Ranma that technique you learned, the Fist of Artemis, was never meant for men to learn."
"Then why?" Ranma yelled. "Why is it me? Why is it me that always gets stuck with these things?"
"Because your father is an idiot." The woman said. "He was told that boys couldn't learn the Fist of Artemis. Only women who had been forcefully put through the Neko-ken could learn it." Ranma perked up at this. "I see you're beginning to remember. That's good. Your father, not really believing that there was anything that men couldn't do better than women used your curse to try and get a technique he had no business trying for in the first place. You see the Fist of Artemis is supposed to merge with the Neko-ken so that the victim's fear of cats is removed."
"Then why am I still afraid of them?"
"That's where things get complicated." The woman said. "You see, it has been happening, albeit very slowly. Every time you changed, or were locked into this form it happened a little bit at a time. Eventually you would have started to gain a female perspective on things. Your preferences wouldn't have changed, so don't worry about that; but you would no longer consider yourself to be a man."
"Is there anyway to stop it?" Ranma asked.
"No Ranma, I'm sorry. I wish there was something I could do." Ranma shook her head,
"Don't. It wasn't your fault. It was panda no baka. I really should have seen something like this coming. It is fairly typical for my life. Could you at least tell me your name? I feel a little weird talking to you and not knowing."
"My name in Anasazi. I was a warrior a long, long time ago. Thank you for accepting what you're becoming Ranma. There are more revelations in store for you this night. We'll talk more when everything is revealed." With that Anasazi faded away and Ranma's mind was assaulted by images of another life.
FLASH!
She is a small child being held by her mother. A woman of exceptional beauty, with long, flowing blonde hair; dressed in a pink (blech) dress and white cape and boots. Her father stands to the side, his blazing red hair and fiery eyes belying the power that flowed through his veins. Others stand around them but are obscured by shadows.
FLASH!
She is a young girl, learning the martial arts from a black haired woman dressed in a white sorcerer's outfit. To the side stands a blue skinned man wearing a similar outfit, carrying a sword at his side. She is happy that they'll be visiting new training grounds.
FLASH!
She is wearing the armor her grandmother had forged for her. The talismans within it augmenting her already formidable chi reserves and manipulating abilities. She is standing with her family in front of a king and queen. They look decidedly unhappy about something. The next thing she knows, her family is being sent away, something about being traitors to the earth sovereign. It was only her own connection to the dragonlines themselves that had kept them from trying to kill her family.
FLASH!
She is standing before a beautiful queen with long, flowing white hair tied into two odongoes and ponytails. Her aura projects kindness and tranquility. For the first time in a long time it appears as though she has a friend. Around the queen are her daughter and the Sailor Senshi. One in particular catcher her eye. She has lavender hair, also with two odongoes tied into it. Her uniform is black where the others' is white; with a dark purple skirt and boots and a platinum tiara with a black stone in the center.
FLASH!
She and Charon are training the Senshi to be better fighters. Saturn in particular has grown close to the lovers and adopted them as her sisters.
FLASH!
The kingdom is falling and Charon must go to fight alongside her queen. She nods as she kisses her lover farewell, hoping against hope that the battle will end well.
FLASH!
She stands alone on a cliff overlooking a series of pools in China. Her enemy's generals have caught up to her. She is badly wounded and out numbered. With her reserves finally depleted and her lover dead she smirks at her attackers preparing for one final battle. It is mercifully short as a rumbling rocks the land causing her to fall into one of the pools and......
Ranma found herself back where she had started, the strange woman looking sadly into her eyes. She moved closer to her as she began to talk.
"I'm sorry Ranma. I wish I could have come right out and told you." Anasazi said.
"Told me what? That I'm a reincarnated warrior from some time in the past?" Ranma said. "Don't worry about it. I don't like it but there's nothing I can really do about it." Anasazi nodded and held out a dragon shaped medallion.
"Here Ranma. This is for you, our power is going to be needed again. Will you accept this responsibility?" Ranma sighed and nodded.
"I've never backed down from a fight in my life. Besides it's the duty of a Martial Artist to protect those that can't protect themselves." Anasazi smiled.
"Thank you Ranma. I'm sorry that it had to come to this; but you won't be alone in this fight. The Sailor Senshi will there to help you as will one other." Ranma thought for a moment.
"You mean Charon?" Again Anasazi nodded. "She looks really familiar but I just can't seem to place it." At this another voice made itself known.
"I'm hurt beloved. Imagine not remembering the identity of your soul mate." Ranma turned to see Shampoo stepping out of the shadows. "I should be very upset with you, but I'm not." She smiled at Ranma causing her to blink before speaking.
"Shampoo? I mean Xia-chan? Oh oh Kami-sama! I remember everything." Anasazi smiled. Ranma turned back to her. "I accept this responsibility Anasazi. Its time I faced my destiny as the martial artist I was born to be." Anasazi nodded and slowly faded away as she merged with Ranma's dream self. Ranma felt the flood of memories return at full strength, more intense than the images that had flashed across her mind. The shock of all those memories returning all at once woke Ranma with a start, next to her Shampoo awoke as well.
"Shampoo, did you have the same dream I did?" Ranma asked hesitantly.
"Hai. That I did Ranma. What do you think we should do?" Ranma smirked; it was reminiscent of her old trademark smirk. The one she always got when she was about to learn a new technique.
"Well I think we ought to head to the park to try out these new abilities. Since its night we have the best time to do this with out being seen." Shampoo nodded and stood to get dressed; Ranma did the same and was naked before she realized that she was in the same room as another girl, who was also nude. Ranma turned beat red and turned around quickly, closing her eyes.
"I didn't see anything!" Shampoo giggled and embraced Ranma from behind.
"Ranma, I love you dearly, but it's ok for you to see me naked. After all you saw me plenty of times in my old life." Shampoo kissed Ranma's neck and went back to dressing as Ranma calmed down and did the same. In moments the two were roof hopping their way to the park. As they left a disgruntled Rei glared at their retreating forms.
"It's about bloody time those two woke up. Now maybe I can get some sleep." With that Rei turned to go back to bed when the Senshi alarm went off on her watch. Whimpering quietly she answered the alarm only to hear Makoto yelling for the others to come the park. She and Minako had been attacked by a youma while on their way home from a movie.
At the park Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter found themselves in a bad situation. Makoto had just called for help when the youma had intensified its attacks. It was a reptilian type creature wearing a modified version of samurai armor. It laughed off the Senshi's attacks as it effortlessly threw the two girls into a nearby tree. As it was about to attack again, Ranma and Shampoo arrived and hid in the shadows. Nodding to each other they knew what had to be done. Taking the dragon amulet from around her neck Ranma held it in the air, like it was second nature to her. Shampoo did the same with a black henshin crystal wand that she took from a sub space pocket. The words came back to them as if they had spoken them the day before.
"ANCIENT DRAGONS OF THE TERRA EMPOWER ME WITH THE STRENGTH OF AGES!"
"CHARON CRYSTAL POWER MAKE UP!"
After their transformations were complete Shampoo stood wearing a black fuku and gloves with a dark purple skirt, boots, platinum tiara with a black stone in the center and a dark purple ribbon over her skirt. Ranma stood in green armored boots, breastplate, backplate, and bracers. A circlet of jade adorned her brow, pauldrons covered her shoulders and a red cape flapped in the breeze. They nodded to each other and launched into action.
Venus and Jupiter readied themselves for the attack they knew would kill them. They were only happy that they had found each other when they did. At least this way they could die happy. The youma snarled at them and raised its katana for the killing blow when something unexpected happened.
"Shadow Wall!" a cry came from nowhere as a wall of darkness surrounded the wounded Senshi and a woman with lavender hair stepped from the shadows wearing a black and purple version of their own uniform. "Don't worry." She said. You'll be alright now that Sailor Charon and Anasazi are here." They could only nod at Charon as another figure made itself known as the youma bellowed in frustration.
"Creature of darkness, you have two options. Leave here and live another day; or stay and die where you stand." The creature chuckled for a moment before speaking.
"My master has ordered the deaths of these two and their friends. I WILL kill them and drink their blood from their severed heads. Face me if you will warrior, I will grant you a quick death for your bravado." With that Ranma stepped from the shadows in her new armored form. Venus and Jupiter were baffled, they had never heard of this warrior. She was no match for that creature if the Sailor Senshi couldn't take it. They tried to get up but were unable to, due to the wounds they had already received. Charon shook her head.
"It's going to be alright. Just watch and enjoy the show." The two Sailors were confused. Right up until Anasazi launched into her attack. She struck like lightning, the youma was clearly fighting at its top form; Anasazi however was blocking each attack effortlessly.
"If that's the best you can do I'll just end this fight here and now." She said with deadly calm. Leaping backwards a bit she raised her arms toward the youma. "Farewell monster. Your master will be joining you shortly. Dragon Beam!" As she called out her attack an intense beam of energy gathered between her outstretched hands and erupted at the youma; burning it to a cinder. Just as the youma was disintegrated the other Sailors arrived. They were on the defensive until Venus and Jupiter told them what happened. Sailor Moon was the first to step forward.
"Thank you for helping our friends. Please tell us who you are." Anasazi/Ranma smiled.
"We will tell you, just not tonight Princess. If you need to know about us ask Rei she'll be able to tell you everything you need to know. Charon, its time we left." Shampoo nodded and the two warriors stepped into the shadows, disappearing completely. Usagi turned to ask Rei what the new comer had meant by what she had said when she saw everyone looking at Pluto. She turned to the eternally stoic Senshi of Time only to see tears in her eyes and a single word escape her mouth.
"Onee-chan."
To be continued......
Next time: Its time for family reunions and the past to be revealed and the enemy attacks again. Training begins and Luna has a fit about the new warriors.
One last note I do know how the Japanese system works for entering high school but I just didn't want to deal with it. Purists please forgive it, but I'm just lazy like that. Ja ne all.
By: John deGraffenreid
Author's note: Well here we are ladies and gentleman, chapter three of the revised Daughter of the Dragonlines. I've gotten a lot of positive response on this story, and it's very encouraging. The same disclaimer applies here as elsewhere. I don't own Ranma 1/2 or Sailor Moon. So please don't sue me ok? If you have a problem with shoujo-ai then move on. If you like Akane or Ryouga then this story isn't for you. If you feel like writing me, please do. Flames will be shared with my army of undead rabid weasels.
A note about the guys in this story. I've gotten a couple of reviews asking if I had something against guys based on the way Ryouga, Mousse and Mamoru have acted so far. I have some very valid reasons for this. For starters both Ryouga and Mousse hate Ranma. They'd like nothing better than to see him suffer for any imagined slight against them. Secondly if anyone thinks that Mousse doesn't really see Shampoo the way I portrayed then that's your right. However it's been my experience that when someone obsesses over another person and gets rejected; they tend to become hostile in the extreme. I realize that there a lot of OOC issues here but I've said from the start that there would be.
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It was night in Tokyo, and peace settled over the land, well except in the cities of Juuban and Nerima. In Juuban a young redhead by the name of Ranma Hino was tossing in her sleep. The atrocities that her father put her through coming back to haunt her when she couldn't fight them off. She was in the pit again; it was always the pit. The glowing eyes and demonic yowling scaring her witless. She felt the claws as they sunk into her child like flesh. There was no way to get out, she screamed for her father to let her go. She hurt; the cats were going to kill her. A stern voice came from outside the pit.
"Foolish boy, stop whining like a pathetic little girl. This technique will make you invincible; sure you might die; but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Now hurry up and learn the Neko-ken and show me you're worth training." It was always the same speech. It was burned into her memory, and it was a debt that was long overdue in being paid. For now, however, the terror was upon her. There was no way out, the hissing and yowling grew more and more demonic in nature until she could hear nothing more. She cried out again, hoping against hope that someone would finally rescue her from this hell. She was about to curl into a ball and succumb to the terror when she heard another voice.
"Shhhh my child, its all right. I'm here now, no harm shall come to you." She knew the voice; it had spoken to her before. Since before Jusenkyo she had heard the voice. It was soft and feminine, comforting her in the dark times before she could trounce her lazy, panda man father. She felt arms envelop her and untie her arms and legs. The cat/demons stopped and bowed before this person, who for the first time ever was making herself known. Ranma turned and looked upon the face of her savior, seeing an older version of herself.
She was tall, about 6' actually, with long flowing red hair. Her blue/green eyes flashed with inner fire. All in all she had the look of a hunter, one who commanded respect. She wore hunter's leathers and carried no weapon. She smiled at Ranma and extended her hand.
"Hello Ranma." She said, "Its nice to finally meet you face to face."
"Who, who are you?" the newcomer smiled sadly and shook her head.
"Ranma, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but I'm you. Well a part of you anyway."
"No way I'm a, a gu...." Ranma tried to assert her identity but found in difficult for some reason.
"Ah ah Ranma. You can't lie here, least of all to your self. You know you were never happy with that "Man Above Men" crap. Besides you should have expected me sooner. Guess all that malleting slowed me down a bit."
"What do you mean?" Ranma was looking confused now. "I don't remember anyone telling me I was gonna turn into a girl." As she finished Ranma suddenly remembered the old warrior woman that had trained him just after Jusenkyo.
"I see you remember now." The image said. "I'm sorry Ranma." Ranma shrugged and chuckled to herself.
"Not your fault. I should have known this was going to happen. Why can't I ever catch a break?"
"Actually Ranma this is for the best."
"How can you say that?" Ranma nearly yelled. "I was raised a boy!"
"And you hated every minute of it didn't you?" Seeing Ranma lower her eyes and nod the woman continued. "Ranma that technique you learned, the Fist of Artemis, was never meant for men to learn."
"Then why?" Ranma yelled. "Why is it me? Why is it me that always gets stuck with these things?"
"Because your father is an idiot." The woman said. "He was told that boys couldn't learn the Fist of Artemis. Only women who had been forcefully put through the Neko-ken could learn it." Ranma perked up at this. "I see you're beginning to remember. That's good. Your father, not really believing that there was anything that men couldn't do better than women used your curse to try and get a technique he had no business trying for in the first place. You see the Fist of Artemis is supposed to merge with the Neko-ken so that the victim's fear of cats is removed."
"Then why am I still afraid of them?"
"That's where things get complicated." The woman said. "You see, it has been happening, albeit very slowly. Every time you changed, or were locked into this form it happened a little bit at a time. Eventually you would have started to gain a female perspective on things. Your preferences wouldn't have changed, so don't worry about that; but you would no longer consider yourself to be a man."
"Is there anyway to stop it?" Ranma asked.
"No Ranma, I'm sorry. I wish there was something I could do." Ranma shook her head,
"Don't. It wasn't your fault. It was panda no baka. I really should have seen something like this coming. It is fairly typical for my life. Could you at least tell me your name? I feel a little weird talking to you and not knowing."
"My name in Anasazi. I was a warrior a long, long time ago. Thank you for accepting what you're becoming Ranma. There are more revelations in store for you this night. We'll talk more when everything is revealed." With that Anasazi faded away and Ranma's mind was assaulted by images of another life.
FLASH!
She is a small child being held by her mother. A woman of exceptional beauty, with long, flowing blonde hair; dressed in a pink (blech) dress and white cape and boots. Her father stands to the side, his blazing red hair and fiery eyes belying the power that flowed through his veins. Others stand around them but are obscured by shadows.
FLASH!
She is a young girl, learning the martial arts from a black haired woman dressed in a white sorcerer's outfit. To the side stands a blue skinned man wearing a similar outfit, carrying a sword at his side. She is happy that they'll be visiting new training grounds.
FLASH!
She is wearing the armor her grandmother had forged for her. The talismans within it augmenting her already formidable chi reserves and manipulating abilities. She is standing with her family in front of a king and queen. They look decidedly unhappy about something. The next thing she knows, her family is being sent away, something about being traitors to the earth sovereign. It was only her own connection to the dragonlines themselves that had kept them from trying to kill her family.
FLASH!
She is standing before a beautiful queen with long, flowing white hair tied into two odongoes and ponytails. Her aura projects kindness and tranquility. For the first time in a long time it appears as though she has a friend. Around the queen are her daughter and the Sailor Senshi. One in particular catcher her eye. She has lavender hair, also with two odongoes tied into it. Her uniform is black where the others' is white; with a dark purple skirt and boots and a platinum tiara with a black stone in the center.
FLASH!
She and Charon are training the Senshi to be better fighters. Saturn in particular has grown close to the lovers and adopted them as her sisters.
FLASH!
The kingdom is falling and Charon must go to fight alongside her queen. She nods as she kisses her lover farewell, hoping against hope that the battle will end well.
FLASH!
She stands alone on a cliff overlooking a series of pools in China. Her enemy's generals have caught up to her. She is badly wounded and out numbered. With her reserves finally depleted and her lover dead she smirks at her attackers preparing for one final battle. It is mercifully short as a rumbling rocks the land causing her to fall into one of the pools and......
Ranma found herself back where she had started, the strange woman looking sadly into her eyes. She moved closer to her as she began to talk.
"I'm sorry Ranma. I wish I could have come right out and told you." Anasazi said.
"Told me what? That I'm a reincarnated warrior from some time in the past?" Ranma said. "Don't worry about it. I don't like it but there's nothing I can really do about it." Anasazi nodded and held out a dragon shaped medallion.
"Here Ranma. This is for you, our power is going to be needed again. Will you accept this responsibility?" Ranma sighed and nodded.
"I've never backed down from a fight in my life. Besides it's the duty of a Martial Artist to protect those that can't protect themselves." Anasazi smiled.
"Thank you Ranma. I'm sorry that it had to come to this; but you won't be alone in this fight. The Sailor Senshi will there to help you as will one other." Ranma thought for a moment.
"You mean Charon?" Again Anasazi nodded. "She looks really familiar but I just can't seem to place it." At this another voice made itself known.
"I'm hurt beloved. Imagine not remembering the identity of your soul mate." Ranma turned to see Shampoo stepping out of the shadows. "I should be very upset with you, but I'm not." She smiled at Ranma causing her to blink before speaking.
"Shampoo? I mean Xia-chan? Oh oh Kami-sama! I remember everything." Anasazi smiled. Ranma turned back to her. "I accept this responsibility Anasazi. Its time I faced my destiny as the martial artist I was born to be." Anasazi nodded and slowly faded away as she merged with Ranma's dream self. Ranma felt the flood of memories return at full strength, more intense than the images that had flashed across her mind. The shock of all those memories returning all at once woke Ranma with a start, next to her Shampoo awoke as well.
"Shampoo, did you have the same dream I did?" Ranma asked hesitantly.
"Hai. That I did Ranma. What do you think we should do?" Ranma smirked; it was reminiscent of her old trademark smirk. The one she always got when she was about to learn a new technique.
"Well I think we ought to head to the park to try out these new abilities. Since its night we have the best time to do this with out being seen." Shampoo nodded and stood to get dressed; Ranma did the same and was naked before she realized that she was in the same room as another girl, who was also nude. Ranma turned beat red and turned around quickly, closing her eyes.
"I didn't see anything!" Shampoo giggled and embraced Ranma from behind.
"Ranma, I love you dearly, but it's ok for you to see me naked. After all you saw me plenty of times in my old life." Shampoo kissed Ranma's neck and went back to dressing as Ranma calmed down and did the same. In moments the two were roof hopping their way to the park. As they left a disgruntled Rei glared at their retreating forms.
"It's about bloody time those two woke up. Now maybe I can get some sleep." With that Rei turned to go back to bed when the Senshi alarm went off on her watch. Whimpering quietly she answered the alarm only to hear Makoto yelling for the others to come the park. She and Minako had been attacked by a youma while on their way home from a movie.
At the park Sailor Venus and Sailor Jupiter found themselves in a bad situation. Makoto had just called for help when the youma had intensified its attacks. It was a reptilian type creature wearing a modified version of samurai armor. It laughed off the Senshi's attacks as it effortlessly threw the two girls into a nearby tree. As it was about to attack again, Ranma and Shampoo arrived and hid in the shadows. Nodding to each other they knew what had to be done. Taking the dragon amulet from around her neck Ranma held it in the air, like it was second nature to her. Shampoo did the same with a black henshin crystal wand that she took from a sub space pocket. The words came back to them as if they had spoken them the day before.
"ANCIENT DRAGONS OF THE TERRA EMPOWER ME WITH THE STRENGTH OF AGES!"
"CHARON CRYSTAL POWER MAKE UP!"
After their transformations were complete Shampoo stood wearing a black fuku and gloves with a dark purple skirt, boots, platinum tiara with a black stone in the center and a dark purple ribbon over her skirt. Ranma stood in green armored boots, breastplate, backplate, and bracers. A circlet of jade adorned her brow, pauldrons covered her shoulders and a red cape flapped in the breeze. They nodded to each other and launched into action.
Venus and Jupiter readied themselves for the attack they knew would kill them. They were only happy that they had found each other when they did. At least this way they could die happy. The youma snarled at them and raised its katana for the killing blow when something unexpected happened.
"Shadow Wall!" a cry came from nowhere as a wall of darkness surrounded the wounded Senshi and a woman with lavender hair stepped from the shadows wearing a black and purple version of their own uniform. "Don't worry." She said. You'll be alright now that Sailor Charon and Anasazi are here." They could only nod at Charon as another figure made itself known as the youma bellowed in frustration.
"Creature of darkness, you have two options. Leave here and live another day; or stay and die where you stand." The creature chuckled for a moment before speaking.
"My master has ordered the deaths of these two and their friends. I WILL kill them and drink their blood from their severed heads. Face me if you will warrior, I will grant you a quick death for your bravado." With that Ranma stepped from the shadows in her new armored form. Venus and Jupiter were baffled, they had never heard of this warrior. She was no match for that creature if the Sailor Senshi couldn't take it. They tried to get up but were unable to, due to the wounds they had already received. Charon shook her head.
"It's going to be alright. Just watch and enjoy the show." The two Sailors were confused. Right up until Anasazi launched into her attack. She struck like lightning, the youma was clearly fighting at its top form; Anasazi however was blocking each attack effortlessly.
"If that's the best you can do I'll just end this fight here and now." She said with deadly calm. Leaping backwards a bit she raised her arms toward the youma. "Farewell monster. Your master will be joining you shortly. Dragon Beam!" As she called out her attack an intense beam of energy gathered between her outstretched hands and erupted at the youma; burning it to a cinder. Just as the youma was disintegrated the other Sailors arrived. They were on the defensive until Venus and Jupiter told them what happened. Sailor Moon was the first to step forward.
"Thank you for helping our friends. Please tell us who you are." Anasazi/Ranma smiled.
"We will tell you, just not tonight Princess. If you need to know about us ask Rei she'll be able to tell you everything you need to know. Charon, its time we left." Shampoo nodded and the two warriors stepped into the shadows, disappearing completely. Usagi turned to ask Rei what the new comer had meant by what she had said when she saw everyone looking at Pluto. She turned to the eternally stoic Senshi of Time only to see tears in her eyes and a single word escape her mouth.
"Onee-chan."
To be continued......
Next time: Its time for family reunions and the past to be revealed and the enemy attacks again. Training begins and Luna has a fit about the new warriors.
One last note I do know how the Japanese system works for entering high school but I just didn't want to deal with it. Purists please forgive it, but I'm just lazy like that. Ja ne all.