Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Princess of the Moon ❯ Chapter 07 ( Chapter 8 )

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Notes - The very first thing I have to do before we get started is to
bow down and apologies for the amount of time it took to get this out.
Nearly two months, way to long for a fan fic chapter. My excuse is
Writers Block, I've got a major case of the dreaded disease and it has
affected every thing I've tried to do over the last little while. All of
my stories are suffering because of it.

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Princess of the Moon
Chapter 07
By Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(c)2002
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The old man sat in the middle of the stone floor with a tiny
amount of his aura flaring around him to provide light, weak didn't even
come close to describing how he felt just then. He had been in here for
some time, how long he didn't know, but it had been several years at
least. Luckily he had learned long ago how to supplement his energies
through several different ways, he could go months without real food,
though every now and then he did have to eat something. What was even
worse was that he spent more time asleep than he did awake, his energies
were so low that he barely had enough to get by at times. He looked
around and lashed out to grab one of the rats that tended to explore the
interior of the cave every week or so, he held it in his hand and cooked
it with his Ki and ate the thing.

Those two fools that had sealed him in here had taken steps that
even surprised him, because of his 'habits' Hopposai had developed a
weakness he hadn't considered when he began supplementing his Ki so many
years before. They hadn't even known about it when they sealed him in
here, just a set of lucky guesses that proved to be his undoing. They
had spent the day running though the local villages and getting supplies
in the usual way, Hopposai had always believed in the 'why pay when it's
just sitting there' style of reprovisioning and made sure his students
knew all the different ways to do so.

When he got out of here he would take steps to make sure
something like this could never happen again, but to do so would take
some time. His downfall was because of his fear of dying, everything he
did was to make sure he wouldn't kick the bucket when he hadn't even had
a chance to train an heir, those two fools had been his third try at an
heir and they had failed miserably. They had such promise in the
beginning, tons of untapped Ki potential and the kind of determined will
that suited his school to a tee. Hopposai sighed, it was his own fault
for turning them into what they were, he knew that and couldn't really
blame them for doing this to him. It wasn't like he hadn't treated them
any better than slaves at times or intentionally pushed them over the
edge of madness to accomplish his goals.

He tossed the rat bones across the cave into the small pile that
had collected over time, as it landed he heard a thunder clap and knew
it was raining again, the bone bounced and hit the large stone that
sealed his cave and was vaporized when it touched the spirit ward that
was wrapped around it. In his weakened condition there was no way he
could even touch the stone let along move it. Those idiots has sealed
him in here like an evil spirit and much to Hopposai's surprise the
damned thing actually worked, one little touch and he would be drained
of all his energy and killed a few seconds later. He could feel the
thing's power over him whenever he even considered trying to get out by
other means.

Those two idiot had made a mistake that had taken him some time
to figure out, though it was mostly just guesses. They had gotten him
drunk as gourd, tied him in a barrel of hooch and tossed him and several
of the other barrel of alcohol into the cave with a couple stick so of
dynamite. Even that hadn't been enough to really take him out for more
than a few minutes, that that damned spirit ward had been his downfall.
He hadn't even considered what it was when he woke up in a pile of
rubble and nearly leveled even more of the cave in his rage. Then he had
tapped the boulder to shatter it and found himself in a state of shock
some days later when he came to with barely enough energy to think.

Three hundred years, that was how long he had been alive and he
felt ever minute of his great age as he sat there gazing balefully at
the ward that kept him imprisoned. His Ki wasn't truly his anymore, more
like a mix of the hundreds of different beings that he had drained a
little from over the years. In the eyes of the spirits that made him
into a kind of vampire, though he didn't consider himself to be one,
those wards proved him wrong time and again. Thunder rumbled again and
he started in surprise as a few rocks were shaken loose and rained down
on his head.

"That must be one hell of a storm out there if it's producing
thunder that strong." He mumbled.

Then he looks up at the roof of the cave as he felt the build up
of power high above him in the clouds, his eyes narrowed. Because of the
ward he couldn't reach out with his aura to 'see' what was going on, but
he could feel it inside the cave. Something was about to change and he
knew it involved it him in someway, a grin spread over his face. His
eyes light up with power as his aura flares out to fill the cave, he
couldn't alter things outside the cave, but mother nature's power was a
thousand times more powerful than any ward and he could play off that
little weakness. There was a little trick he had picked up about fifty
years back, it hadn't been all that useful in a fight because it took to
long to set up and just the right conditions, but it helped with
perfecting aura control and building one's power.

His aura seeped into the rocks and he started to concentrate
even harder as he gave the rock around him a bit of a push. Over the
years he had been witness to several morons fighting battles in the rain
with live steel, for some reason some of these idiots had been struck by
a bolt of lightning and slagged their precious swords. This is what had
given him the idea for this technique, but it's slow build up and hard
to control shaping made it a pain in the ass. Outside the cave the rain
washed across the front of the cave and the rock seemed to develop a
light mist that clung to rocks, it spread out and seemed to shape itself
around the ward stone. Sweat dripped off Hopposai's brow, if this didn't
work he would be stuck here for a several more years before the could
try something like this again.

The ward flared with ethereal energy and an evil grin spread
across Hopposai's face as the felt the energy high up in the clouds sync
with his own, he clenched his fist and flared up even brighter. It was
with almost a sigh that he felt the lightning launch itself out of the
clouds, the wards were supposed to protect against even natural
disasters, but Hopposai knew he had succeeded in his goal a few seconds
later as the bolt fell of the sky and struck the ward. The stone
exploded inward and smacked him against the back of the cave, but that
wasn't enough to keep him down as he crawled out of the cave and
breathed the sweet taste of freedom for the first time in years.

"Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!" Hopposai
laughed evilly as he staggered to his feet and raised his hands to the
sky in triumph.

Only to be struck down by his own trick as another lightning
bolt hit him in the head and sent him back down, but a few seconds later
Hopposai was back up and staggering down the side of the mountain in
glee, dodging lightning bolts all the way.

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!"

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Scre ams of rage filled the night air and startled little kids
out of their sleep and set off the family dogs. A shadow like blur
laughed to itself as it ran through the shadows with what appeared to be
a huge bag on it's back. It looked behind itself and cackles as it lands
on a fence to watch some of the advancing hord of angry females close in
on him with all manor of weapons, from brooms, to small hand held rocket
launchers, baring down on it and reaches into it's bag. He pulls out
what look like a pair of silky blue panties and pats his face with them
for a second before he puts them back in his jacket and bounds forward
into the pack of angry females. He cackles happily as he catches the
surprised girl off guard by diving under her broom attack, rebounding
off the pavment, and pressing his face right beween her ample breasts.
He had relived her of her bra some time ago and was reaping the rewards
of that act now.

"Pervert!!"

"They're so firm!!!"

"Kill him!"

"So BOUNCY!!"

"Maim him!"

"SO FULLY PACKED!!

"I'll eviscerate him!!"

"HOOCHA!!!"

"Die!!

"So many pretty ladies!!"

"Aghaaaaaaaaaa!!"

"BWHAHAHAHAHAH!!"

An d so Hopposai spent another eventful night playing with assed
by a group of guys to show off their charms and well endowed assets.
This was the life, the thrill of the hunt and all the noises the girls
made as the night went on made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside. There
were nights that he hours on end doing this and laughing the whole time,
he loved his life.

He looked up when he passed a school clock tower and noted that
it was getting a little late. So he hopped up on roof where none of the
lovelies could get him, waved goodbye and bounced off. The girls slid to
a halt and glared at the bane of their existence and gasped for air as
he disappeared. They all turned on their heals and walked off, just as
Hopposai reappeared and gave them all a goodbye hug for good luck and
finished stripping them of garters, slips, and pantyhose cackling the
whole time. They screeched in rage swarmed over him like a pack of rabid
wolves, but the old man was much to fast for them and got away without
being hit, that was a good night!

Ten minutes later Hopposai landed on top of a house in the
middle of the resident district and sat down, leaning against one of the
upraised portions of the roof. He sat his sack down and pulled out a
pipe, filled it with tobacco and lit it with a burst of Ki energy from
the tip of his finger. He spent several minutes relaxing and thinking
about what he was going to do from here on out. It had only been a
couple of weeks since he managed to get free of that damned cave and
make his way into the nearest city for a quick recharge. Those two
students of his had hurt him, but he wasn't all that mad at them since
he had been using them as his own personal slaves for some time before
they rebelled and this hadn't been the first time, just the most
successful.

He would get them back, but they wouldn't know it until he was
ready to strike. The only problem was how? Should he use a demon or some
kind of rare herb mixed in with their food? There were so many
possibilities to choose from, three hundred years had given him a lot of
knowledge to call upon. The demon was out since he didn't wasn't to kill
them and they were pathetic when it came to fighting them off. The herb
idea was looking a little better, but it didn't really have his kind of
flare to it. He wanted them to know it was him when the time was right,
so something else would have to be used.

A few puffs on his pipe helped him think of a few more
possibilities, but they were all flawed in some way. He could kidnap
their wives and children and 'train' them in their place for a while,
but girls were hard to control once they knew how to defend against him.
Destroying their reputations would work, but as students of his school
that didn't amount to much either. The whole point was to defend and
fight against anything that came along, so something else would have to
be used against them. He kept coming back to their children and recalled
that Genma had a son at one time and had been planning to take him on a
training trip just before him and Soun had sealed him in that cave.
Hopposai recalled that poor Soun had been cursed with nothing but girls
for children as well. He wondered if they were still around the area and
what they were doing ten years later?

They would have only been six or so the last time he was around
and probably wouldn't remember him in any way. Could he find and use
them in his plans in some way that he hadn't considered yet? Yes, that
had a lot of possibilities and if he worked it right another chance to
find an heir for his style. So long as they had the right attitude
anyway, he didn't want to deal with any punk kids that would get in his
way whenever they could though, so he would have to be careful if he
used the plan. If he went along with it he had the necessary materials
to brainwash them if need be, so he wasn't all that worried. Now that he
had the basics of a plan he needed to find them, that would the hardest
part.

Tapping his pipe out and putting it away, he adjusted his hat
and picked up his back pack as he jumped to the street below. He hopped
along for several minutes than smirked as he spotted a telephone booth
sitting innocently on the edge of a street corner, someone inside
talking to someone. He hopped inside, booted the occupant out and into
the bushes, and opened the phone book. It took all of five minutes to
find Soun Tendo listed in Nerima, complete with his address. Genma on
the other hand wasn't in there, but his wife was. Nodoka Saotome was
registered in Jubaan and it would be easy enough to get there by train.

"Hey you old geezer, I'm going to make you pay for that!" Yelled
the guy as he pulled himself out of the bushes. "AGHAAAAAAAAAA!" Only to
find himself flying through the air above the trees as the old man
tapped his wrist with that pipe of his.

"Punk kid, respect your elders!" Hopposai yelled as he bounced
out of the phone booth and down the street.

He had never thought much of Nodoka Saotome, but she had been
the one Genma chose for his grand 'plan' and he hadn't been able to
dispute her family background. She had been the unofficial heir to their
nearly extinct Devil Hunting legacy and getting that magical and
physical potential into his son had been a great idea. Genma had asked
him for advice on the best way to pull it off and he had told him to
just have a family and not to worry about taking off and abandoning his
wife. The way Hopposai figured it, Genma would have an easy life and
free access to all the sex he wanted, a win-win situation in his book.
The old fool had ignored him though and went to his so called brother.

There was a man that Hopposai kept at a distance, for some
reason the bastard just rubbed him the wrong way. What had his name been
again? Gensa, Genshi....oh yeah, Gendo Saotome. The man was like a
spider, always moving among the shadows and pulling strings to get what
he wanted. A couple of years before the two fools had buried him in that
cave Gendo had been working for the Yakuza and others, rising among the
ranks at an impossible rate of speed. The man was a natural 'under the
table' leader and absolutely ruthless in his dealings with anyone that
even thought to cross him.

Gendo and Genma had always worked together to get what they
wanted, but Hopposai could remember the few times that Gendo had sold
out his own brother for one reason or another. Genma had never picked up
on it and gotten away because of those sealed techniques of his, but he
had also gone straight back to his brother like the moron he is, always
ready for more abuse to further his goals. Hopposai wondered what had
happened to those two after all these years and if he would have to deal
with Gendo to get is revenge on Genma? If anyone deserved to have demon
sent after them it was Gendo Saotome, the man wasn't just evil, he was
an evil to be disposed of as soon as possible.

With Nerima being the closest to his current location, he
decided to pay old Soun a visit he would never forget and see if his
skill were still up to stuff. Genma may have outclassed him in raw
talent, but Soun had his own skills that had been able to let him hold
his own against Genma in the few sparring matches they had been in.
Genma had always been one for the air and trained in it exclusively
while Soun had specialized in the ground attack version of his Anything
Goes. If the two had ever thought to mix their schools and learn from
each other they would have taken the first step the needed for him to
take them serious as students. Unfortunately their small minds hadn't
thought of it and that had ended any possible chance of him ever
continuing their training.

So much potential and all of it wasted for their own petty
goals, he had seen it happen on more than one occasion, but if they
weren't going to work together it was their own damn fault. They had
crimes to pay for and he planned to take it out of their hides the first
chance he got, hopefully they had spent the last few years training. He
wanted a challenge, not a couple of whimpering cowards, but if he
remembered right they usually fell to their knees the instant they saw
him. That little reaction would be fun to exploit too, they deserved
nothing less than the total humiliation that only he could bring them.

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Ranma stretched as she ran though her afternoon kata in the back
yard of the shrine like she did almost every day, there was a light
breeze blowing across the tops of the trees around her. Letting her mind
roam as she moved, she thought about what she would have to do later
tonight. That fool Jedite had challenged them to a duel, but she didn't
think the other girls had it in them to fight the guy. So far they had
proven they could take on the low level monsters with ease, but when it
came to the Generals the girls were lacking in the needed power. Jedite
was getting stronger with every fight as well, continually drawing on
more and more just to make sure he survived the fight. Ranma knew that
she had nearly had him during their last fight, but he had gotten away
at the last moment and she wasn't even sure how. Sure he had teleported
off the ship, but he usually created a gate of some kind and jumped
through it.

The teleport effect had been swirling flower petals of some kind
and not the expected portal, she figured that meant that he'd had help
getting away after they killed that last monster of his. A while later
he had shown up looking pissed off, healthy, and challenged them to a
fight to the death. Ranma didn't want to place the girls in that kind of
danger even if this was exactly what they were supposed to fight, they
just didn't have the skills to do it and she blamed herself for that,
she should have been training them from day one. The only person that
even seemed interested in learning from her wasn't even a Scout, but a
new friend named Makoto Kino. Ami preferred to study while she had the
chance and didn't want to learn how to fight at the moment, Usagi was a
great friend, but a pathetic fighter and it showed in her actions. Rei
was more interested in trying to find a way to throw her out of the
Shrine than learning from her, that still baffled Ranma to some degree,
as far as she could tell things weren't that bad between them.

Rei's reaction didn't really bother Ranma all that much though,
she didn't consider herself to be this mysterious princess that Ito and
Luna were always calling her. A stupid moon symbol on the forehead
wasn't enough proof in her book anyway, though she did know that it
appeared when she started to draw on her full power. Ranma had been
avoiding thinking about her situation for some time now because she
wasn't sure what to do about it. Ito had been trying to get her to
accept it since day one, but even if she had accepted being female,
being a Princess was a whole new headache she didn't want. Sailor Pluto
had tricked her by using her pride and honor against her and look where
it had landed her.

In a stupid outfit and with a set of powers that had sent her
into orgasmic bliss the three times she had transformed. Ranma thought
it must have been some 'gift' given to the princess' of the past, all it
did was make her wary of the transformation. Pluto has said that it
would get less and less over time, but transforming still bothered her.
Being reminded of the transformation set her on edge, but she was
getting better. Ignoring her situation was the easiest way to deal with
it, but every now and then she would be forcibly reminded of it, like
when she became a Sailor or had her new sex shoved down her throat by
her father. Her and Nabiki had talked about it and she knew that Rei,
Ito, and Luna were privy to the secret, but it was a secret she wanted
to get rid of. Oh, and Genma too, the bastard had no problem telling
anyone so long as it was lie that put him in a better light.

Ranma smirked to herself, the old man was an asshole though and
through because of his outdated values and plans, but he knew how to
teach someone how to fight well beyond normal and it was one of the few
things that helped her to survive what had happened to her. She had
learned to out think the old man and beat the training from hell, though
how anyone could have predicted Jusenkyo was a mystery to her. Even if
she had known how to speak fluent Mandarin when she arrived, she still
wouldn't have believed the Guide. Who in there right minds would believe
in magic, until Jusenkyo she had scoffed at the idea just like her old
man did and paid the price for it.

She was in a female body with a male mind and this was causing
her to give this fight with Jedite a different look. A portion of her
was willing to take the girls with her, but another portion, the male
portion that she was desperately trying to maintain at all costs wanted
to protect them and leave them behind where it was be safe. If she did
this though it would be like insulting them in a major way and they
trusted her to do the right thing since she was supposed to be this
fabled Princess. It was enough to make Ranma gag, she had been a loner
for her entire life, but she had learned that being female was different
than male. Girls liked to be in the thick of things, at least she did
and most everyone she had met was the same. So even now they were about
to gather out in the front room of the Shrine and get ready for their
fight with Jedite and she didn't want to take them into danger.

Even during her time on the team she had never actually taken
the girls into a fight, but shown up during the battle, letting the
others do what they needed and adding her abilities in where needed.
This situation was something she didn't like, but it came down to a few
simple facts. Keeping the fight on a one to one level was nearly
impossible because of the way Jedite had challenged them, the whole city
knew where it was going to take place and who was to be there. The
police would be there to stop anyone from even getting near the place
let alone even entering Haneda Airport, even them, because they wanted
to protect the city from the potential destruction that could be caused
by the fight. If she left the girls here and took him on alone they
would still know where to find her. Ranma just didn't know what to do,
fighting was all she knew and her father had taught her things like
tactics and how to read a situation so that she wouldn't be wasting time
during the fight. Oh sure he had other names for it, like 'don't be an
idiot and do it this way' and 'you pathetic wimp, why are you wasting
your time with that?'.

The old man had always had a flair for words that ticked her off
in a matter of seconds, but over the years she had learned to out think
the old man and adapt his training to a higher purpose. Coming to a stop
Ranma grabbed a towel and wiped the sweat off her face and arms, she
still had a hold on her Ki though. This was an area that she was having
problems with, no matter how much time spent on practice she just
couldn't master the things Cologne had shown her. Forming the energy
into different shapes was very difficult, the old woman had said she
would get it eventually and when she did she would be well on her way to
mastering her Ki. As the weeks passed she had practiced for a few hours
a day and even though she had grown more skilled in her control,
mastering the technique was still out of the question. Making even one
change more than twice gave her a head ache, doing more than that split
her concentration in too many directions to keep control.

"Ranma?" Ito, in human form, walked into the area where Ranma
was practicing and looked around. "Why are you out her in the dark, I
can barely see anything and you're always out here way into the night
practicing."

"Dark?" Ranma mumbled and looked around. "It not that dark out
here Ito, there's still plenty of light to see by."

"Ranma, it's almost ten at night and you're in the middle of the
woods where over head lightning isn't available. I can only see because
of my cat eyesight that transfers over to this form."

Ranma blinked and looked around a little more, as far as she
could tell everything was clear enough to see details. She had thought
that it was still early and was about to go in and take a shower before
everyone showed up and left for the fight. She turned to check the suns
position and had to keep a gasp of surprise to herself as she realized
that Ito was telling the truth, the sun wasn't even visible in the sky.
She knew where it was, had always known where it was no matter where she
was at the time, but this went way beyond what she thought of as normal.
"What the hell?"

"Ito, you forget that on top of being our Princess, Ranma is
also Sailor Sun and is constantly drawing her powers from it even while
untransformed." Luna said as she walked over, she was still in cat form.
"Sorry, I was running a little behind Ito and heard the conversation."

"This is because of those Sailor powers?" Ranma snapped. "I feel
like the sun is just on the horizon, providing just enough light to see
perfectly."

"You are connected to the sun and gain a lot of your energy from
it Ranma, eventually when you master the power you should be a force to
be reckoned with. It will just take a long time to adapt your body to
the full power of the transformation Sailor Sun."

"I thought I told you not to call me that Luna?" Ranma growled.

"It's your title Princess." Luna said stubbornly.

"I said I would come up with a new name, something more in
keeping with these modern times. It will still be a sun type name, but a
single word instead this ridiculous Sailor Sun crap."

"So what did you come up with Ranma?" Ito asked, trying to
distract Luna from losing her temper. Ranma had been driving the black
cat up a wall lately with her refusal to fall in line like the other
girls.

"I haven't decided just yet, but have a few in mind so I'll have
one picked out by the time I get to Haneda Airport. When will the girls
start showing up anyway?"

"They're here already, that was the reason I came out here. To
bring you in so that you could talk to the girls and come up with the
best plan of attack." Ito said.

"Oh that's easy."

"What would that be?"

"I'm going alone."

"What?" Said to voices that seemed to dislike the idea.

"I'm going there without them, the girls aren't ready to take on
Jedite alone."

"Are you insane!!" Luna yelled.

"I've defeated him three times so far, I can do it again and
this time he won't be running away."

"You need their help Ranma, you can't do everything on your own,
not in this situation." Luna snarled.

"They are not up to fighting a General, they are fine for the
lesser monsters, but Jedite is out of the question."

This was a first for Luna, she had been dealing with Usagi for
so long that she hadn't yet come up against Ranma's stubborn streak,
well except for that one time when the girl had leveled that Ki blade at
her and threatened her life. Ito had tried to explain that Ranma needed
special handling, but Luna had just huffed and figured Ito didn't know
how to deal with her charge. She hadn't thought of this though. "Ranma
you can't do this, it will hurt their feelings and cause distrust on the
team."

"How can you expect me to just take them into danger like that
Luna, they are barely trained in their powers. They spend more time
going to the park, movies, and each other's houses than they do training
how to use their powers. I work with mine on a daily basis, spending a
few hours a day pushing myself beyond my limits."

"You have to treat them fairly Ranma, at the moment they are
your personal guard and there to protect you when you need it. You many
not like that, but it's the way this is done and had been done for some
time. If you don't like the way things are done, get out there and start
training them a little at a time. They are only fourteen years old
Ranma, you're two years older than them and should know better than
this." Luna snapped.

"Since when are they my responsibility." Ranma growled.

"You are the Princess Ranma, get over it and move on to the next
problem."

"Luna, I understand that part, but you expect me to stand here
and believe that I have the right to tell them what to do because I'm
this stupid princess idea you keep harping about? Get real, this is the
real world not some imaginary Kingdom full of nobility and magic. There
are five of us counting the green haired lady, that doesn't make up a
Kingdom!"

"Lady Pluto isn't a green haired lady, Ranma." Ito said tiredly.

"Whatever! Luna, Jedite is usually out here to steal energy and
place people in the hospital, this time he is out to actually kill
them."

"He's out to kill you too!!"

"I have trained for over ten years to protect myself, I'm
willing to die in combat if need be, those girls aren't even close to
being able to make a decision like that."

Ranma was about to continue the argument when she felt a
presence enter the small glade and turned to look as Tuxedo Mask stepped
out of the shadows. His black and gray out fit cloaking him almost
perfectly, even giving him a bit of a noble out look, though he still
looked ridiculous to Ranma. "What do you want?!"

"The girl is right Princess, the Scouts were fighting this evil
off long before you showed up. It started with Moon doing it alone,
something she really didn't, and still doesn't want to do, but she is
knows that if she gives up people will be hurt."

"She doesn't talk about that time to much, just how thankful she
is to have others around her so that she doesn't have to do this alone
anymore." Luna said. She didn't trust Tuxedo Mask, but hoped he might be
able to sway the Princess from this foolhardy decision.

Mask also leveled his cane at Ranma and frowned. "Your skills
are considerable Princess, but you can not take on this evil alone. Moon
couldn't do it when she started, nor could she do it when she had the
help of the blue haired Mercury. It wasn't until Mars showed up that
that they got the needed fire power to stand against Jedite's evil, then
you showed up and made things worse."

"Excuse me?!" Ranma snarled at Tuxedo Mask.

"Jedite started to use more of his power than he did in those
earlier fights, after you showed up, he started to take more of an
interest in you and has become a lot more dangerous because of it. At
this moment the girl's can't face him as they are, but neither can you
unless you can find more power than you already possess."

"Don't you dare lecture me Penguin, I've had to suffer through
more years of hell than you can possibly conceive of to reach the level
I'm at now." Ranma snarled and clenched her fists.

"I know you can not take this man on alone Princess, he has made
plans to kill all of you and you're planning to walk into it without
back up?" Mask's tone was almost condescending in it's disbelief.

Ranma controlled her anger though will power alone, no one
implied that she was weak without paying for it, no one, not after what
she has been through. "So your saying I should just take those three
untrained and vulnerable girls into a known trap, it would be a better
idea if I just gave up my life to stop him than all of us doing so."

Mask leveled a glare at Ranma. "I have my reasons for knowing
this, if you go alone you will fail, if those girls go with you there is
a much better chance of winning."

"Princess." Ito said as she stepped forward, she had heard of
the infamous Tuxedo Mask, but hadn't ever had a chance to see or even
meet the man. His cloaking spell was enough to hide his identity from
her, just like the normal scouts, but there was something familiar about
him that she couldn't place. "In this case he is right, the team will
win if you give them the chance, or you will fail if you go alone."

"What if they die?!" Ranma yelled at Ito.

"Then they will have died doing their duty Ranma, they are
inexperienced, but it's way to late to do anything about it now. You
will need to leave within the hour and they need to be with you, or
Jedite will win."

Ranma's glare turned back on Mask and if anything, it got even
colder. "If they go you will do as you have been doing Tuxedo Mask, you
will protect them to the best of your ability."

Tuxedo Mask didn't say a word or even nod as he stepped into a
shadowed night around him and vanished. Ranma ignored him, something in
her said that he would do just as she had ordered. He always showed up
to the fights, though rarely participated in any way other than to throw
some tripe words at the girls to encourage them. Like the girls, he
seemed to depend more on his power than his skills, though she could
tell that he had a little hand to hand skill and Kendo skill from the
way he was holding the cane. She turned back to the cats and sighed.

"I hope you are right, I really don't want to lead these girls
to their deaths tonight."

"They are stronger than you think they are Ranma." Luna said.
"Let's head back to the house."

"You head on ahead Luna, I want to pick up the rest of my stuff,
I'll be in to take a shower in a few minutes."

"Okay Ranma." Luna said and walked off.

Once she was out of sight Ranma quickly collected her stuff and
put them in a gym bag she had sitting nearby. "Ito, what is your opinion
of Mask? Something was off about him, as if he was trying to hide
something."

"He's not all there."

"Huh?"

"His eyes were intense, but at the same time they were
completely blank. It was as if a whole portion of his mind wasn't
working, he wasn't all there."

"You think he's crazy?"

"Crazy?"

"Yeah, if he's not all there that means that he could turn into
a threat when he does become whole again."

"No, he's not crazy, but we don't know his motives and that
could be a problem."

"Alright, I can see that. We will have to keep a closer eye on
him for the time being, is there anyway to do that without letting him
know about it?"

"I suppose me or Luna could follow him home or something, but he
will keep pulling that disappearing trick."

Ranma shrugged. "He's using some kind of magic to mask his
movements, I'm not sure how just yet, but it would be a good idea to
figure out how he does it."

"We can check with Luna's Home Office." Ito said.

They started walking back to the Shrine. "What in the world is
that?"

"Luna has a little help she can call on every now and then, she
calls it Home Office, they have a special room under the Arcade that has
an access terminal."

"Has this place been of any help to the girls?"

"A little, according to Luna they helped to find Mercury and
Mars."

"Hmmm..." Ranma said as they arrived back at the Shrine. "I'll
join the others in a few minutes, I need a shower."

"Okay." Ito said as she transformed back into a cat and ran
inside.

Ranma followed her at a slower pace and headed for her room to
get a change of clothes and some bath supplies, she wasn't looking
forward to this fight, but at least she had a chance to get ready for
it. Her old man would have been sneak attacking her around every corner
if things had been the way they used to, she still expected it in fact,
though not as much as she used to. She just hoped that her life with old
man was over for a good long time, things had been settling down lately,
even with the Youma attacks and such. Her old man could be a thousand
times more irritating with his weird ideas for training, like shackling
a hundred kilo lead weight to her leg on a chain and forcing her to
fight with the handicap. At least Jedite could be a bit predictable and
easy to read, though not as much as he had been.

But first, she really needed a shower.

**********

The door to the run down bar opened up and in walked Gendo
Saotome dressed in an old suit that had seen better days. He looked
around the sparsely filled run down hole that his brother had decided to
use as a meeting place while they were both in the same city. His gaze
stopped on some guy across the room who was giving them 'the look'. The
one where he thought he had found an easy mark and was about to do
something stupid. Gendo's eyes bored into his from twenty feet away and
nearly knocked the man over with the look alone. The guy backed up and
paled, nearly pissing his pants as he realized that picking on this guy
would be a bad idea.

From there Gendo continued his look over of the bar until he
spotted his brother sitting in the back corner and keeping an eye on
everyone in the bar while his back was to the wall. It was a pretty
typical position for his brother Genma, the man had managed to piss off
quite a few people on his training trip and always had to be on the look
out for possible enemies coming at him for revenge. With a smirk Gendo
made his way across the bar and watched out of the corner of his eye as
the man that had thought about assaulting him scrambled away from him in
fear.

He adjusted his glasses and sat down at his brother's table and
noted the half dozen bottles of beer spread across the table and glazed
look in Genma's eyes. They hadn't talked to each other face to face like
this in a couple of years now and Gendo almost wished it could have been
a little longer. He hated dealing with is worthless excuse of a brother,
the man's stupidity was always getting him into one form of trouble or
another. Currently Genma was dressed a he always was, in a dirty and
thread bare white gi and just beginning to show his age. The scarf on
his head looked like it had seen better days as well, but that didn't
bother Gendo do much. Genma had begun loosing his hair when he turned
thirty and the last ten years hadn't been all that kind to him.

"Genma."

"Gendo."

"What was it you wanted to see me about?"

"The boy has done something stupid and managed to get away from
me."

Gendo kept a flash of anger from spreading to his face and did
what was needed to control his temper. "How?"

"He ran away."

"Why?" Gendo snapped, he had told this fool on hundreds of
occasions that treating someone as badly as he did Ranma would be a
mistake. It was one of the few things he had never been able to get
Genma to back down from.

"We were at the last training ground of the trip when he gave up
his manhood and vanished off the face of the planet."

"Gave up his manhood?"

Genma nodded drunkenly.

"How did he do that? Did he suddenly turn gay, put on a dress,
and change his name to Suzzy?" Gendo growled out. He could see finely
crafted plans crumbling around him as he sat there.

"I don't know why he did it, but he managed to get away from me
while we were finishing up our training."

"Where were you training?"

"A place in China called Jusenkyo."

Gendo nearly fell out of his chair as the name rebounded around
his head, he had heard of the place before, but he couldn't recall any
details. Only that it was one of the last places on Earth that he had
ever wanted to visit, he would need to look up more details on the place
later on. "Why did you go there, that place is more dangerous than
anything you could ever imagine."

"How in the hell was I to know what that place was?" Genma
complained and drank some more of his beer. "The place was listed as a
dangerous training ground and even had guide books printed with maps on
how to get there. I thought it would be perfect for training the boy and
inserting more of my control over him."

"Idiot!! Of all the places to take him, the name of the place
should have clued you into just how bad a place that was to take him!"
Gendo yelled.

"Oh come on, I barely understand Chinese, how was I to know what
would happen." Genma complained and drained the rest of his beer. He let
off a loud belch, farted, and passed out across the table.

Gendo's eyes lit up with hate as he gazed down at his 'brother'
and seriously considered killing the moron right then and there. Then he
sighed and backed off, Genma was the only family he had left and there
were things that he still needed to accomplish if he was to succeed with
his long range plans. He pushed his chair back and stood up to glare
down at the idiot before him for several seconds before turning on his
heel and stalking out of the bar. It was several seconds after the door
slammed that Genma's eyes opened and he sat up with a grin.

"All to easy 'big' brother." He muttered as he stood and paid
his tab at the bar. Getting the bars mad him for stealing was something
he didn't do, he liked coming back to drink with his friends.

"What was that about Saotome?" Asked the bartender as he rang up
Genma's bill.

"Just some family business."

"You be careful, that one is very dangerous and I wouldn't want
to be on his bad side."

"True, but Gendo has his uses." Genma said as he turned and took
the back way out of the bar. It just to be cautious, but even he knew
that to piss off his brother by tricking was as good a way to earn a
death warrant as anything else. There wasn't much Gendo could actually
do about it though so Genma wasn't all that worried. He had bigger
things to worry about, like finding the boy and getting him to fulfill
the pact between families, there was a huge amount of money on the line
if he pulled this off and he would be set for life.

He was about to exit the alley behind the bar when Genma felt
his danger sense start to warn him of something. With a curse he turned
around and looked into the night darkened space behind him and wondered
if his brother had seen through his play acting. He took a defensive
stance and glared into the murk around him, but only the silence could
be detected. He sent his senses out and wondered if he had made a
mistake, then he reacted without thought as a series of chains sailed
through the spot he had been standing seconds earlier. He could see the
glint of light off the blades at the end of the chains just before they
retracted into the darkness around him.

"Who's there?" He growled out.

"Just me old man." Said a whisper on the wind.

Genma snarled as he heard the voice and relaxed slightly, he had
dealt with this one on several occasions before this and he knew that
this fight wouldn't be any different than the last time. They had been
fighting each other for some years now and this guy hadn't yet come even
close to killing him no matter how much he tried, though it was always a
surprise that he tended to work alone instead of with a team. "I nearly
killed you last time, what makes you think this will be different?"

"Even a rat can sometimes have a bit of lunch, eh, rat?" Snarled
the evil sounding voice, to Genma it was a waste of time.

"I'll kill you this time, you have been bothering me for far to
long." Genma growled out and began going over his Yama Sen Ken
technique's more lethal maneuvers.

Silence greeted his statement and Genma as he stood there and
looked around, he knew he was going to have to find a better place to
fight than an alley in the worst part of town. He spun on his heel and
launched himself to a nearby roof with a grunt of effort, he was getting
to old for this kind of crap. He took off running along the edge of the
roof just as a half dozen throwing spikes slammed into the stone by his
feet and exploded, two passed within inches of his nose and shot past
his head. This didn't slow him down in any way as he looked off into the
distance to look for a better place for them to fight, they had done
this enough times to know that wherever that was, the place wouldn't
last very long. Both of them were well trained fighters, but this
bastard had been trained in ways that allowed him to keep up with him
and that little detail had always surprised him. Genma frowned as he
looked ahead made out a small area where a bit of construction was in
progress, the bare bones of a four story building, it would be perfect
for his needs and vulnerable to the Yama Sen Ken special attacks.

He was glad it was late at night though, doing what he had
planned during the day would have gotten him in a whole lot of trouble
he didn't want to deal with right now. With a speed and grace that would
have surprised even his friend Soun, Genma jumped from roof to roof with
ease, he had learned a lot of things over the years with his son that
even Hopposai hadn't ever bothered to teach him. Roof hopping was a
skill he'd had to learn after teaching his son the Neko-Ken, the little
bastard had taken to running across or over anything that had gotten in
his way. Hopposai used the roof's in his little games, but he's never
gotten around to teaching him and Soun how to do certain things, instead
they'd learned how to create their own types of attacks and work as a
team.

This is where his Yama Sen Ken and Umi Sen Ken schools had come
from, Genma hated to admit that he would never have even come up with
the schools if it wasn't for the Hopposai, but it was true non the less.
He might have even respected the old Master if he had actually taught
them less of his lifestyle and more of the Art itself. Genma was in his
early forties now and had developed a bit of a spare tire over the
years, but he was still in pretty good shape for his years on the road.
Now all he had to do was defeat this guy again and get his son back so
that his plans can get underway. He moved along quickly, using more
skill and balance than the most dedicated ballet dancer ever could.

Genma kept up the speed and used his danger sense to make sure
that his follower didn't get lucky with all those explosive spikes that
were being thrown, there was a trail of damaged roofs behind him for
several blocks that attested to his skill at evasion. He finally slowed
down a little to see if he could spot the jerk, but all was silent, then
he saw a glint of light and he launched himself off the roof just as a
dozen spikes and throwing stars flew out of the night air to hit things
all around the area. Genma dodged and weaved through the storm as best
he could, batting those that got to close out of the air with ease. As
of yet his attacker hadn't made an appearance of any kind, hell in their
last three fights he had only ever seen the guy as a retreating shadow.

With a final jump Genma reached the edge of a roof and jumped
across the distance between this and the newly framed building. He
landed on the upper part of the building's framework and instantly
flipped to the side as another series of explosive spikes slammed into
the steel work. Genma instantly started to gather his Ki as he ran to
center of the top floor along the metal I-beams, this type of attack
with the Yama Sen Ken was incredibly destructive and would take a lot
out of him, but it was well worth the time it took to get it right.
Behind him a figure dressed in black landed on the edge and looked at
him with every intention of killing him. Genma just smirked as he got a
rare look a the guy that had been trying to kill him for some time now.

He was a short man, extremely thin, and flexible as he ran along
the I-beams like a sure footed cat. Genma could feel him gathering his
Ki as well, though it still wasn't up to his standards of skill. He was
dressed as a ninja and blended in with the darkness around him almost
completely, only the large weapon on his back gave him away and even
that was nearly impossible to see. Whatever it was, he had no idea, only
that it wasn't a sword and that the handle seemed wider than it should
have been and had a large hollow ring at the very end. Genma took a
battle stance and let his Ki funnel into the building supports, if this
worked the way it did last time it would rip the whole building apart
when he struck the right spot with the right amount of Ki.

"I've got you now you bastard."

"Do you?" Genma said with a smirk.

"A non moving target is so much easier to hit and you make it so
easy to do at times." The dark figure said as it slinked it's way across
the beams and made its way towards Genma, pulling a the large object off
it's back, Genma still couldn't get a good enough look at the thing to
see what it was.

Under normal circumstances Genma would have been a little more
cautious, but dealing with a Ninja was like dealing with bugs. Kill one
and more come out of the wood work and where there was one there was
usually two or three hidden nearby as back up, though in this case Genma
couldn't find any other aura's that would indicate this. "I remember out
last fight Ninja, just how did you get away from that trap I led you
into last time? I did drop half a mountain on top of you, but like a bug
you seem to have survived."

"Pure skill asshole, you couldn't kill me if you even tried."

Genma snorted. "Luck is more like it Ninja, you picked the wrong
time to pull this crap today and I'm going to prove that statement of
yours wrong."

"You're an out of shape coward."

Genma just smiled and just looked back at his enemy as if he had
nothing to fear, he kept his face free of any thing that might have
clued his enemy into what he had planned for him. The move was almost
ready to go by then, just a little more Ki to gather and he would be
ready to make sure this Ninja never bothered him again.

The ninja stopped moving as he got in position and crouched down
on the beam about ten feet away from Genma and studied him for a second,
but it looked as if the man was just standing there without a care in
the world. Then he leapt across the distance between them, bringing that
weird weapon around to quickly behead his prey. This surprised Genma a
little as he hadn't expected the moron to do a frontal assault with the
possibility of a four story drop into the construction site below. He
backed up a little and let the last of his built up Ki enter the
structure and created a link to it so that he could set off the trap at
any point he wanted.

Then Genma twitched and kicked out to catch the Ninja in the
stomach, exploding into motion as they started to battle back and forth.
Mid air combat, just like his son, was his specialty and attacking him
in the air like this was almost like committing suicide, Genma pulled
them off the I-beams and within a split second they were falling head
first towards the ground. Ki aura's exploded from both of them and lit
up the top of the building in a yellow and red contrast that highlighted
everything around them. Genma's yellow hummed loudly over a foot from
his body, while the Ninja's was quite a bit smaller and less focused.
When his fist impacted against the ninja's chest and sent him flying
back across the I-beams Genma knew he had this fight in the bag. With a
flip Genma redirected his angle of decent and landed on a beam a couple
of floor down, he smirked and looked up to see how the ninja had taken
the hit. Only to have to suddenly dodge to the side as he found that the
ninja almost on top of him, his oddly shaped weapon came down where
Genma had been standing and sliced through the I-beam as if wasn't
there.

Genma had a split second where he could have attacked, but he
didn't move fast enough and the ninja flipped off the damaged beam and
vanished into the darkness around them. A bit of sweat dripped down his
face as the night went quiet again, he could only hear the sound of
traffic in the distance as he stood there and concentrated. He needed to
get the ninja in the right place to set off his trap, as he stood there
he noticed that it was getting harder to hold the trap ready. He cursed
under his breath and sent his senses out around him to pick up the
slightest alteration of his surroundings, he needed to have a chance to
counter attack in the right position. Reaction without thought was one
of the prime tenants of the Anything Goes school and Genma proved it by
suddenly twisting and falling off the I-beam for no noticeable reason, a
couple of dozen shurinkan slammed into the metal around him, missing him
by millimeters.

He flipped and landed on the ground with a grunt and did a stop,
drop, and roll out of the way of another half dozen mini knives that
slammed into the ground where he had landed, these exploded. Coming to
his knees, Genma flared with yellow light and slammed his fist into one
of the nearby I-beams and set off his trap a little early, he couldn't
hold it anymore. He didn't unseal the forbidden techniques for just
anyone, but this guy had become a pest that had to dealt with before the
guy got lucky. He caught a glimpse of a fast moving shadow higher up in
the building just as he set off his trap, a low level rumble went
through the entire structure a split second later.

The building started to light up with yellow energy as his
attack did it's work and he watched as entire I-beams wrenched
themselves out of their mornings and caused the whole structure to
collapse in on itself. The building was decimated in seconds and the
rest of it seemed to be lit up in an ethereal fire, while at the same
time Genma gave a mental yank and shattered the half completed floors
and he was able to protect himself from his own attack. Seconds later
the whole thing imploded on itself and came down around Genma, but
didn't seem to affect him in anyway as he swatted the I-beams out of his
way, the shattered into smaller pieces at his touch as his Ki had
destroyed the bonds that held the metal together, though there were some
close calls. He had a maniacal look on his face as he walked out of the
area and scanned the area for the mangled body of the ninja, but he
could find no sign of it.

Gasping for air, he glared at his surroundings and wondered if
he hadn't just pushed himself to far. He almost exploded in frustration,
but held his anger in check and moved out of the area when he started to
hear sirens in the distance, feelings of fatigue washed over him and he
was forced to leave the area as quickly as he could. Seconds later he
was walking away from the destroyed building like a possessed man, a
look of fear on his face and sweat dripping off his head and making his
gi stick to him in uncomfortable places. He hadn't been this tired in
several long years, even after collapsing that abandoned mine like he
had the last time him and the ninja fought. He wasn't sure why, but a
tiny part of him was telling him that he went a little to far. Then he
shook himself and smirked, almost preening with pride as he looked at
what he had done from another point of view.

He hadn't used that kind of attack since his early days when had
first created the Yama Sen Ken, and it had been about ten times more
powerful than the last time he used it. All that training over the years
with his idiot son had done him a world of good, no one could stand up
to him now except the Master and that was a fight he had no intentions
of ever having in the first place. After watching the fire burn for
several minutes Genma turned and limped off into the night, he wanted to
get back to Tendo's place before Kasumi had dinner finished. He was
really hungry after using up all that energy and he needed to replace it
and what better way than food made by Tendo's daughter?

Behind him, a couple of roof tops away a shadow moved and the
ninja staggered out of it and collapsed to it's knees. Gasping for air
and knew he surveyed his injuries now that he had a chance and knew
instantly that he was dying, he was missing his left arm and most of his
outfit was shredded beyond decency, blood flowed down his left side and
dripped all over the roof tiles, there wasn't a thing he could do to
stop the blood flow. The ninja gasped, or gargled, for air as he caught
a glimpse of Genma in the distance as he walked around a corner, the
bastard had barely been injured in the attack.

The ninja reached into it's shredded jacket and grit its teeth
in pain as he pulled out a small cell phone that was surprisingly intact
and only sported a few scratches on its case, though dialing a phone
with one hand is a pain in the ass. He carefully tapped a preset button
and waited for someone to answer. His breathing slowed and a pool of
blood had formed around him by the time ten rings had passed, then
someone answered.

"Yes?"

"I found him, engaged him in combat and failed." He gargled.

"What happened?" Snapped the voice.

"He used some kind of super powerful Ki attack to collapse the
building on top of me."

"I see, can you make it back?"

"No, I'm already dead."

There was silence on the other end for several seconds. "I see,
we will avenge you."

The ninja gargled out a laugh. "Why bother, I am but a shadow."

"You are one of us."

"Then make him suffer, he has a lot to pay for. Trace the phone
to find my body and have me disposed of."

"Of course...father."

With a gasp the ninja faded from life, only the soft crying from
the phone could be heard on the cool night air and even that soon died
off. Down in the debris of the building the Police were looking over the
crime scene and spreading out to cover every square inch of the site
when one of them found a strange looking object half buried in the
collapsed building and pointed it out to his commanding officer.

"Sir!"

"What is it Ikari?" Said a trench coated man who walked over.

"Commander Smith, I found something odd sir, it doesn't look
like any kind of construction device I've ever seen."

Commander Smith looked the object over carefully before pulling
a glove on and carefully pulling the thing out of the pile, his first
judgment on the thing was that it was... incredibly fucking heavy!
"Gods, this thing has to weigh at least 200 pounds!! I can barely lift."

"What the hell is it?" Ikari asked as he helped the commander
lift the thing and tested the edge.

"Looks like a giant snow shovel."

"The edges of it are razor sharp so it has to be a weapon of
some kind." Ikari said as he sucked on his bleeding thumb and hoped he
hadn't just screwed up the evidence to much.

"Oh nice going sergeant."

"Heheheheh."

"Good work Sergeant, now go find some more and get your gloves
on, do it properly this time, I'll get this to the car."

"Yes sir."

**********

With tired movements Rei leaned back against the wall of the
furo and stifled a yawn as she thought about her horrid day, she didn't
think it could get any worse than it already was either. She had sent
Ranma out of the house for the whole weekend with that Nabiki girl, at
least that had been the plan. Instead she had come home early this
morning and stumbled into the shrine when everyone was asleep, Rei had
been asked by her grandfather to take care of her and find out why she
was home so early from visiting her friend. That had been a trial all on
it's own because she had managed to come across Usagi as Mamoru lay into
her with his insults, Rei had been forced to listen to Usagi as she
cried over the communicator.

She was privately surprised that Usagi's wail didn't shatter all
the glass in the area every time she did that. Even weirder was the fact
that Ranma had interrupted the two and given the boy a thrashing right
out in front of everybody. Usagi had oscillated between extreme sorrow
filled with tears to cheering Ranma's actions, then back again, Rei
didn't really know how to read a girl like Usagi. Even her vaunted PSI
abilities failed her when it came to her flighty friend, weird things
just seemed to follow her around like a cloak or something. Then she
found out that she had to spend the rest of the morning cleaning out and
dusting some of the unused rooms in the shrine, that had not gone over
to well.

Normally she didn't mind, but she had about four hours sleep
because of that creep Jedite and spent half the night tossing and
turning, then Ranma, then the cleaning, then to have to spend all day in
school, she had not been a happy camper by the time she got home. Then
she had found out that Ranma had actually skipped school, SKIPPED IT,
like doing so wasn't anything big. She liked Ranma, she really did and
had proved on at least one occasion to be from the Silver Millennium so
she wasn't as mean to her as she had been in the beginning, but there
was no way that girl could be a Princess like Luna wanted them to
believe. The girl had all the feminine grace of a walrus, she didn't
know the simplest things about being a girl.

Like how to figure out one's sizes, she had no clue and just
tried things on till they fit, getting her into the Jubaan High School
uniform had been easy, getting her into one that fit correctly and
didn't ride up in places had been impossible. She hadn't even know what
a slip was, for crying out loud, everyone knew what a slip was for. They
were so obvious, but not Ranma, give her a t-shirt and jeans and she
would be ready to go to the Opera as if it was perfectly normal. Rei
sighed, her feelings for Ranma tended to go from like to dislike in less
than a second and she didn't know why. At least with Usagi she knew she
didn't like the girl all that much, but when it came to Ranma she had no
clue.

One day she was perfectly fine, acting like her normal self so
long as certain subjects like martial arts, family, and rivals were not
brought up. When they were though Ranma seemed to do a complete 180 and
turn into this arrogant jerk that could drive her up a wall, that is
what Ranma had been like this morning after she got back from Nerima, in
a bad mood and willing to 'break' anybody that got in her way. Just like
that fool Mamoru, she had been surprised when she heard that nothing
permanent had been done to the guy. Usagi hadn't really noticed, she was
to caught up trying to decided how to ask Motaki down at the arcade out
and finding a way to avoid Mamoru to do so.

Rei dragged herself out of the bath and spent a few minutes
slowly drying off with a large fluffy towel. Eventually she wrapped her
hair up and used another towel to cover her body while she went down the
hall to her room. She stifled a yawn as she heard Ranma practicing in
the distance, making enough noise to be heard at this distance was
pretty hard to do, but Ranma never failed to keep her yelling down as
she went through her martial arts training. Rei dropped her towels and
quickly got dressed in a pair of jeans and a long t-shirt, she wanted
something comfortable and serviceable if something weird happened. She
was constantly wondering about the super short skirts on their costumes,
sure they made the look good and showed off her great legs, but that
wasn't the point. She wanted to change them into something more useful,
like color coded riot gear, but Luna said the most they could do was
alter the color scheme. Like that was useful, she headed out of her
bedroom and down the hall to the front room where Usagi and Ami had
already arrived, she figured the old man let them in while she was busy.

The girls were sitting in the front room watching TV while they
waited, Rei noticed that someone had set out a plate of cookies. Though
Usagi was absently chain eating them as she sat there with a bored look
on her face, she was getting crumbs all over her a long gray skirt, cute
shoes, and a white blouse. Rei had seen the girl eat, so getting crumbs
on her shoes was preferable to the walls. Ami on the other hand

"Hi Usagi, Ami."

"Hi Rei, where's Ranma?" Ami asked, she was wearing a simple
black shirt and a pair of overalls. Rei figured they all thought that
wearing comfortable clothes would be a good idea tonight since they
didn't know what was going to happen.

"Just listen, you can hear her practicing back in the woods
behind the shrine." They all listened, but after a few seconds of total
silence Rei shrugged. "She must have finished, she'd been going at it
for some time now. I'll bet she either on her way back in or already in
the shrine somewhere getting changed."

"She certainly works hard, doesn't she?" Usagi asked.

Ito rolled her eyes when Usagi wasn't looking in her direction,
she was of Luna's opinion that Usagi needed a good and swift kick in the
pants to get her off her lazy butt and learn something instead of
sitting around commenting on Ranma's actions. "Ranma has trained in
martial arts all her life, with her Ki talents I honestly don't know if
there is a normal human in the world that could beat her. Though she
says she had met a few masters that were several levels above her
skills."

Ami nodded as she pulled out her computer. "Ranma has been a
great asset to us since she arrived. We were slowly losing against
Jedite and his Youma, but when she turned up things shifted in our favor
so much that losing those little battles would have been almost
impossible. Jedite is the only one we have to worry about and Ranma has
managed to hurt him on several occasions now."

"Ami, she may be an asset, but her arrogance gets on my nerves
even faster than some of the things Usagi has done."

"Hey!!" Usagi complained.

"Ranma is a very nice girl Rei, she doesn't respond well to
people telling her what to do or how to do it. She has a classic loner
profile and doesn't react well to authority figures, I'm not sure why
though."

"Loner my ass, she's just a jerk with a large chip on her
shoulder."

Ami shrugged and typed some more stuff into the little computer.
"Well we need her, she has managed to add over 35% to our over all power
level and increased the chances of taking Jedite out by over 40% in just
the last three battles and we still haven't seen her full power yet."

"So what?" Rei grumbled and crossed her arms.

"The fight on the ship allowed her to show us some of her
physical abilities and she wiped the floor with Jedite, this fight she
will have to use her magical abilities and if these readings are right
she should be able to do some serious damage."

"Humph!"

"It's time for all of you to get ready." Ito said as she padded
into the room and hopped up on the coffee table in front of Ami's chair.

"Yeah, we have a little while yet to get ready for this fight
with Jedite. Have you seen Ranma in the last little while?"

"I just got back from talking to her, she's in the shower right
now getting cleaned up."

"She came in while you were in your room Rei." Usagi said from
where she was sitting, she was wearing her normal stuff, . She was
petting Luna, who was sitting in her lap looking as if the world was
sitting on her shoulders, Usagi was oblivious to this.

Rei got out some food and set out some more cookies for Usagi
and Ami as they sat moved to the dinning room, though Ami kept herself
busy on her little computer. Whatever she was working on must have been
important for her to spend so much time messing with it like that. Rei
was about to ask when, of course, Ranma walked into the room drying her
hair. This would have been fine, but she was only half dressed as she
walked into the kitchen. She was wearing her normal red shirt and black
pants, but the shirt was unbuttoned and let everyone in the kitchen see
her chest, Ranma didn't even seem to have noticed as things jiggled
hypnotically.

"Ranma!!" Rei gasped in shock.

Ranma straightened up and looked back at Rei as she drank from a
water bottle she kept in the refrigerator. "What's up Rei?"

"Button your damned shirt!"

Ranma blinked and looked down, she was wearing her normal black
pants and shoes and they seemed to be in good condition, but she had
only taken the time to toss on her shirt and hadn't had time to do
anything with it and had to dry her hair before it dripped down the back
and embarrassed her again. Since she refused to wear a bra, unless she
had to, it meant that her the front was open and showing off the curve
of her ample breasts for all the girls to see. She really didn't really
see the point, but shrugged and went back to drying her hair as quickly
as she could and set things to bouncing again.

"Sure Rei, I just need to finish this off first." Ranma said
with a smirk and watched as Rei's face turned bright red.

"Y-you pervert!" Rei growled.

"Ah come on Rei, I'm just having a little fun."

"Don't worry about it Rei, were all girls here so it doesn't
matter. I think it's nice that Ranma is so relaxed with her body that
she doesn't care how she looks, I wish I was that confident about
myself." Usagi said with more than a little envy. Luna just snorted and
looked over at Ito, who just rolled her eyes again.

"Urk..." Ranma said and blushed a little, so much for teasing
Rei a little before the fight started.

"Ami don't you think that Ranma should cover herself up while
were at this meeting, we do have that fight to take care of later." Rei
asked.

The blue haired scout looked up from her mini-computer. "Huh?
What are you talking about?"

Rei slumped over with a sigh and pointed at Ranma.

"Oh, nice look Ranma." Ami said as she noticed the way Ranma was
dressed, it didn't help that Ranma was absently scratching one of her
breasts the instant Ami looked at her.

"Thanks Ami."

Everyone blinked as Ranma walked out of the room as if nothing
was wrong, Ami just shrugged and went back to working on her computer.
Though if anyone had been looking closely they would have seen the
slight blush that was on Ami's cheeks, unfortunately they were all
trying to get the image of Ranma scratching herself out of their heads.
Ranma breezed back into the room a few minutes later, she had buttoned
her shirt up. She looked a lot better and more alert than she had when
she first entered the room, though the glare she was giving Ito was
enough to make the cat start sweating.

"Are you ready for this fight Ranma, you seem a little too
relaxed?" Rei asked.

Ranma gave a start and shrugged. "I'm always ready to fight and
I owe that Jedite jerk a good beating for some of the crap he has tried
to pull lately."

"I don't want to do this!" Usagi said and cringed back as Rei
glared at her.

With an almost visible relief Rei turned to Usagi as the
complaints she had been waiting for all evening finally materialized.
"MEATBALL HEAD!! We have to do this or he will destroy the entire city
and kill millions!"

"But..."

"Don't complain to me about this!" Rei yelled back, it was a
like a stress relief.

"Usagi, we have to stop Jedite, he has already come very close
to killing several people. I'm included in that since I tend to stop
him the most, his attacks have gotten really dangerous lately as well.
He has to be stopped and hopefully the attacks will stop with him."
Ranma said as she sat down beside Ami to see what she was working on.

"From what I have seen so far, Jedite is but the first of
several people that will be attacking the coming months." Ami said as
she looked up from her computer, then nearly fell over as she found
Ranma sitting right beside her.

"What?!" Usagi squeaked and nearly passed out.

Ranma raised and eyebrow, she had been in enough fights to know
that Jedite wasn't anything more than the first round, but didn't
understand how Ami knew. "How do you know that?"

Ami adjusted her glasses and gave Ranma and evil smirk, light
seemed to reflect off the lenses with an almost audible 'shing!' sound.
"In several of our battles Jedite has claimed that he is but one member
of a group of men that are trying to control this world. That means that
after we defeat him there will be someone else to replace him."

"I hadn't even considered that." Rei mumbled to herself.

"That makes sense really, I was thinking along the same lines
myself." Ranma said.

Usagi whimpered.

"What's your problem Usagi! We've been doing this for months
now!" Rei yelled.

"Killing a Youma or two is one thing, but you want us to just go
out and kill Jedite just like that?!"

"He's evil and trying to take over the world! Of course I want
you to go out and just do him in 'just like that'!" Rei nearly screamed.
"He's trying to kill us!"

"Will you all calm down!" Luna yelled as she hopped up on the
table. "You need a plan so that you can get through this. Usagi, Jedite
will not hesitate to kill you if he gets the chance so quit complaining
and get your butt in gear."

"But I don't wanna!" Usagi Whined.

Luna sighed and hung her head.

Leaning back a little, Ranma wondered again if there was chance
she could take on Jedite by herself like she had originally decided to
do. There was a good chance, but she wasn't stupid enough to know that a
planned trap like this wouldn't have a lot unexpected things that might
happen. As much as she hated to admit it, that Tuxedo'd moron had a
point, she couldn't do this alone. Glancing over at the Usagi and Rei,
she ignored their fight and wondered if they really had what was needed
to take this guy down, Ranma had her doubts about them all, they didn't
have the right attitude for this. Though, for all their arguing, they
did make a pretty good team when they got their act together and
actually managed to carry out a plan. That usually fell to Ami when she
used that little computer of hers to find an enemy's weakness or find
the best way to win the fight.

"Do you think Tuxedo Mask will be there too?" Usagi suddenly
asked.

Ranma winced as she remembered her conversation with the guy
earlier and suddenly hopped the idiot didn't show up. She was getting
really tired of bad Haiku and roses thrown like hand spikes, it was
embarrassing. Sure they had a little power in them and a concussive wave
strong enough cause more than a little damage was released when they
hit, but they didn't help out all that much, it was more like a
convenient distraction than anything else. Though Ranma was happy that
he had been focusing his attentions more on Usagi than any of the
others, it was better for his health if he kept doing that too. She had
every intention of double punching the penguin suited idiot the instant
the took it upon himself to save her from anything.

"Of course he will show up Meatball Head, we have a date!" Rei
crowed.

Ranma sighed, why did girls do this kind of crap?

"What?!! But he's My Tuxedo Mask!" Usagi whined some more and
started to get tears in her eyes.

"I thought you had a crush on that guy at the Arcade, Usagi?"
Ami said in all innocence.

With a sigh Ranma stood up. "It's time to go, lets get this over
with shall we."

"Um, Ranma, how are we going to get to Haneda Airport?" Usagi
asked.

"I was going to roof hop, why?"

"It's on the other side of Tokyo, that's why, over forty miles
away by land." Ami said, wondering why she hadn't thought about this
before now. She blushed at her oversight.

"Then we take a car or bus." Rei suggested.

"The buses stop running at this time of night, were a good
distance from one of the all night bus stops and they said on the news
that they were stopping all bus service to Haneda Airport tonight to
keep people away while the police took care of this threat." Ami said in
return.

Ranma looked at the cats, but they just pretended to be sleeping
all of a sudden, even going so far as to pretend to snore. "Some help
you are."

Ito rolled over in her 'sleep' and absently scratched Ranma's
ankle again.

"Hey, you idiot cat!!" Ranma screeched from the ceiling. "Cut
that out!"

"Ranma, most of the trains are run by computer, I can use mine
to get into the system and get us there in a few minutes." Ami said.

Dropping to the floor, absently stepping on Ito's tail and
getting a hiss of pain from the cat, she smirking innocently. Ranma
thought it over for a second. "I don't know Ami, that might get us in
trouble."

"It's your best option at the moment." Luna said.

"Alright then, we'll have to chance it then, though coming in by
train will ruin the element of surprise."

"What kind of surprise would that be Ranma? He's bound to be
expecting us at some point tonight." Ami pointed out.

"Yeah, but he has no idea from what direction we would attack
from. Going by train will give him an easy target if he decides to
attack it while where just sitting there."

"We'll have to hope he doesn't do that and at least gives us a
chance, now let's go before we run out of time." Rei snapped and pushed
everyone out of the room in a big jumbled up group and right off the
front porch, she smirked as the pile looked up at her.

Down in the pile Ranma sighed and looked around, right into a
pair of skimpy black panties as Ami tried to untangled them and had her
foot slip as she was standing up, she sat right on Ranma's forehead,
giving the girl a spectacular view of the material and what was inside
them. "Oh my, I'm sorry Ranma."

"Ungh." Ranma said, her face bright red.

"Are you alright Ranma?" Usagi asked as she stood up and dusted
herself off.

"Gurggle...Ungh." Ranma said with a twitch and passed out.

"Oh great, now look what you did." Rei snapped as she looked
down at Ranma.

"How is this my fault, Pyro?!!" Usagi snapped. "You're the one
that pushed us out the door in the first place, this is your fault!"

"Um..." Ami tried to interrupt them.

"If you weren't such a klutz this wouldn't have happened in the
first place!"

"I tripped because someone pushed me!" Usagi yelled as she got
in Rei's face.

"YOU'RE A KLUTZ, MEATBALL HEAD!!"

"YOU'RE JUST A BIG MEANIE!!"

"HAH!!"

"Excuse me?" Ami tried again.

"CONTROL FREAK!!"

"OH, THERE'S AN ORIGINAL INSULT!!"

"QUIET!!!!!" Ami yelled and blushed as they turned to look at
her. "Thank you, we need to get going, Rei you're the strongest of us,
pick up Ranma and lets go."

"Why do I have to do it?" Rei complained and backed away a
little when Ami glared at her. "Okay, okay, I'll do it this once."

Ami forced a smile at the two of them. "Excellent, this way we
won't be late."

With a loud grunt Rei lifted Ranma over her shoulder and headed
out with Usagi helping her a little by adjusting Ranma's clothing. Rei
ignored it and whispered to Usagi. "What's up with her, she doesn't
usually act like that?"

"I have no idea, maybe we went a little to far."

Rei grunted and nodded.

As they headed down the stairs Grandpa Hino stepped out of the
shadows around the shrine with a puzzled look on his face and followed
along behind the girls, they were up to something and he wanted to know
what it was. His grand daughter was hiding something from him, she was
keeping secrets and acting weird. The only time she even acted like
herself anymore was when Ranma was around and even then it was just her
temper, she didn't like to be shown up by anyone. He was so caught up in
his thoughts and using his skills that he failed to noticed a small
shadow following him from the roof tops as he followed the girls.

**********

"So what do you think of all this?" The reporter asked lazily.

Officer Ohitori just shrugged and spent a few seconds to light
his cigarette. "I've never heard of anything like it before, we'll keep
everyone out of Haneda Airport tonight to dispel the situation."

"But what about the threat?" Another question and a series of
camera's flashed.

"The only thing I know of that could level the entire city in
fire is a nuclear bomb and there aren't any in the country so it has to
be a bluff or something else."

"Like what?"

"I have no idea, maybe arson or something and even then we have
been on high alert since last night, we haven't found anything out of
the ordinary."

"Do you think the Sailor Scouts will show up?"

Officer Ohitori scowled at said reporter. "No I don't think they
will really show up, they are nothing but urban legends that are used to
inspire little girls. I"ve never met one or heard of one and if they did
exist we would have to arrest them for breaking the law. Obstructing
Justice, Indecent exposure, and a few other things would be right at the
top of the list of things we would use to arrest them."

**********

The girls were slowly moving through the darkened streets as
they made their way to the Airport. Rei was still carrying Ranma while
Ami and Usagi followed, they all looked a bit nervous. As usual the cats
had decided to stay behind and monitor the situation from behind the
lines, that was what Usagi had said, though Rei thought they were just
being their usual selves and leaving all the heavy fighting up to them.
It had been about twenty minutes since they left the Shrine and Rei was
starting to have problems holding Ranma, her arms were getting tired.

Rei looked over at Ami to ask her for some assistance and sighed
when saw the girl pull her computer out. "What now?"

"Were getting close to the Train station, I need to break into
the main server so that I can get it to go where I want it."

"How do you know how to drive a train?" Usagi asked.

"I don't, but the computer does. I saw a documentary on it once,
they said that the guys in the engines were more for emergencies than
driving them, a large server is installed in each of the cars and allows
the electronic signals to control the trains. The all follow the same
orders from a main base station. For safety sake a computer runs them
through out the city, that way they always follow the same schedule and
are always on time."

"Um..." Usagi blinked.

"I see." Rei said.

"Good." Ami said and went back to typing, for a second there she
had thought they didn't understand, but that was a clear as she could
make it. Getting into the Rail Line's computer was harder than she had
thought it would be, but her computer was far more powerful and soon
broke through their primitive safeguards. She grinned, by the time they
reached the train station she would be able to take them wherever she
wanted, this was a part of this job she loved. She had to stifle a loud
giggle as the excitement was almost unbarible, but she had learned not
to do that around people. They gave her what she called the 'super geek'
stare and she had been trying to get away from that for several years
now.

Her computer beeped at her and showed a map of the area, there
were several moving dots converging on their location. "Move a little
faster, we have some people heading our way."

The girls started running, if they hurried they would make it to
the train station ahead of their followerd. "Who are they?" Rei asked.

"Looks like national guard units, their foot, but armed."

Usagi whined.

Ranma was still out of it from being ground zero for Ami's panty
plant, she still had the weird grin on her face as Rei lugged her
around.

A few minutes later Ami led them up a set of stairs to a large
building that belonged to the Yamanote JR Line, a circle line that
connected a good many of the districts all around Tokyo. It usually ran
day and night and had a station at the Airport, but this had been
blocked due to the threat to the whole city by Jedite. They entered the
huge building, it could hold up to a thousand people easily, and made
their way to the platform, Ami was a bit surprised when no one was there
to stop them, but shrugged it off as good luck. The train was sitting at
it's dock with all the doors open, Ami knew something was wrong when she
could tell that it's electric motors were running.

"This isn't right." Rei said as Ami stopped.

"What isn't?" Usagi asked, she was a little spooked to be in
such a large building with no one around to even talk to.

"The train is running, I haven't even had a chance to select a
train yet."

"Maybe they let it run all the time?" Usagi suggested.

Ami blinked and checked her computer again, she wasn't sure but
she had a feeling that Jedite had been expecting them to come this way.
"That doesn't feel right Usagi, this place rarely shuts down, but why
leave the train running like this with no one here to run it. The
government ordered everyone that could to stay home while this mess was
dealt with, there were even supposed to be police patrols out tonight to
make sure things didn't get turned into one giant mess."

"Luckily we dodged those guys you picked up, Ami. I don't want
to think what would have happened if they had caught us." Rei said.

"Well let's board the train." Ami said and headed for a door
near the front, to run the train she needed to be near the main computer
core.

"What should I do with Ranma?"

"Put her in a seat, there's a water counter over there on the
wall I'll grab some water and to try and wake her up." Usagi said.

"Alright, just hurry up." Rei snapped and stepped on to the
train, she dropped Ranma into seat by the door just as Usagi returned
with a cup full of water.

"Here you go Rei."

"Thanks Usagi." Rei said as the took the water, dipped her
fingers in to get them wet, and flicked some water in Ranma's face.

Nothing happened.

Rei tried a couple of more times, but Ranma was a notoriously
deep sleeper so after about five tries Rei gave up and tossed the cup of
water in Ranma's face. She surged awake in an instant, went into a
combat stance and took a swing at Rei all in the same movement. Rei
ducked and fell to the floor in shock even as Usagi got out of the way,
she looked up at Ranma and noticed that she was just then opening her
eyes and looking around. Then she glanced down at Rei and blinked a few
times, rubbed the water out of her face and smiled.

"Hi Rei."

"Um...hi?" She squeaked.

"Please don't throw water on me, it brings back a bad training
accident I went through when I was a kid."

"Another accident Ranma? Don't you have any pleasant childhood
memories?" Usagi asked.

"Not many Usagi, not many at all." Ranma snapped and walked off.

A few seconds later the train doors snapped shut and it started
to move forward, slowly picking up speed. Ami wandered back into their
car, she was reading something on her computer. "That should do it."

"How long will it take us to get there?" Rei asked.

"About fifteen minutes or so, we won't be making any of the
usual stops along the way."

"Where's Ranma?"

"She walked out of here a few seconds ago." Usagi said sadly.

"Why?"

"Meatball Head reminded her of something from her past that she
didn't want to think about." Rei said.

"She'll be alright, you know she doesn't like to talk about her
past that much." Ami said.

**********

Jedite was standing on top of the main tower for the Airport
using magic to keep the police from noticing him, he had been watching
them for some time now. He had a glass of wine in his hand and he was
sipping from it from time to time as he considered his plan to kill
these girls. This battle had been in the making since the first Scout
had shown up and started to interfere with his plans, until then things
had been going perfectly. There hadn't even been any resistance strong
enough to stop him, energy had been flowing to the Dark Kingdom in huge
amounts. Then that first one had shown up, the first one that they had
shrugged off as a useless waste of time.

Sailor V

At first she had only been an irritant that tended to get in his
way every couple of attacks, then they had wasted a bit of energy and
gotten her to leave the country on a wild goose chase. The last he had
heard, she was now chasing monsters in England. The decoy youma was
using regular criminals warped with a bit of dark energy, the girl had
even found some helpers while over there. A couple of police officers
and some moron that liked to throw around playing cards as a weapon.

Then he had been given this mission by Queen Beryl and he had
come up with several plans to take energy on an even bigger scale, after
all they had gotten rid of the only threat that had shown up. That had
been the beginning of his downfall and he hadn't even known it. He had
made so many mistakes over the last few months and had continued to make
them even after he realized them. Then Sailor Moon had shown up and
whining about having to fight and throwing his plans out of whack, she
should have been easy to fight, right? Oh no, that little girl had
foiled so many of his plans in the beginning that for little while.

For a time there is seemed that everything he tried had some
kind of connection to this girl, he would show up at someplace
completely random and get things going. Pulling in energy for days, then
just as he had gotten enough energy to send back to Queen Beryl they
would show up and destroy the whole thing. It was enough to make him
think of really blowing up the city just to kill them off for the
torment he had suffered though because of them. He had no intention of
ever being put in that pit again, death would be preferable to drowning
in that soupy death trap.

He finished off his wine in a large gulp when he received the
mental warning that one of his lookouts had spotted some girls heading
this way. He turned and opened a portal and stepped through to appear
high over the Airport. He could see all the police and national guard
that had taken up positions around the area. With a whispered spell he
reached out and touched them all, at first they had no idea what was
going on, but they quickly found themselves in the grips of the spell.
Almost as one they all staggered around and collapsed into a deep
slumber.

Then he reached out and touched the mind of the Youma he had
brought along to help him with this fight. With another gesture all the
humans he had affected vanished, leaving their clothes behind. The Youma
wasn't all that intelligent, but he made up for it with a very useful
ability to call on. "Master?" It asked in it's dry voice.

"Follow the plan I gave you." Jedite snapped.

"Yes sir."

Minutes later Jedite smiled as he saw the that the police were
back on their feet and walking around just like they had been. "This
plan is full proof, there's no way these idiotic girls can get away from
me this time. My Youma will take care of the Moon, Mercury, and Mars
easily leading them into a trap. Leaving the Red Headed Bitch to me, she
will be on her knees begging for death by the time I'm done with her!!"

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!"

**********

"... list of things we would use to arrest them."

Back at Police head quarters, Officer Ohitori's face could been
seen on the large TV screen taking up one wall as he talked to the
press. His boss was banging his head against a wall at that point and
wondering how this moron had been placed in a position of authority and
why he was answering questions like this on live TV. They gave classes
on how to do these things every few months, simple answers like 'no
comment' and 'back off there is nothing to see here'. Questions could be
answered all the criminals were caught and dealt with, he stopped
banging his head and moved to make a phone call.

"Hello?" Said a mysterious voice.

"Get that idiot off TV or heads will roll, the man is causing a
panic."

"Understood sir."

"He is to report to me before the hour is out."

"Yes sir."

Godi grunted and slammed the phone down as he rubbed his head,
he encouraged original thinking, but this was pure stupidity that could
only cause more problems than it solved. He wished he was still in
command of the Pat Labor project again, at least then he'd had a bit of
say in what happened around him them. He opened a drawer on his desk and
pulled out a bottle of red liquid, twisted the top off and took a long
pull. It was drained seconds later and slammed down on the desk with a
sigh.

"Damn it, can't I even get decent fruit juice anymore? Fucking
doctors and their new diet regulations. Humph!! Natsumi, Miyuki get in
here!!

There is a crash in the outer office, a few seconds later the
two girls walk into the office pretending as if nothing had happened.
"You wanted to see us sir?" Miyuki asked as she adjusted her long brown
hair.

"I need you to go down and get me some more drinks." Godi said.

Miyuki nodded and smiled.

"You've got to be kidding?" Nasumi snapped, she looked insulted.

"Do I look like I'm kidding." Godi said with a completely
straight face.

"We're police officers, not errand girls!!" Nasumi yelled in his
face.

"You're not doing anything of interest anyway."

"Get it yourself!!"

"I'm not allowed to leave, you are."

"...but, I'm thirsty."

"Here you go sir." Miyuki said as she sat some more bottles down
on Godi's desk.

"Thank you dear." Godi said happily.

Natsumi face faulted with a groan.

**********

"Are you feeling better Ranma?" Usagi asked, tears in her eyes.

"Yeah, don't worry about it." Ranma said with a forced smile as
she reentered the car where the girls were sitting. It was weird to be
on a train with no one else on it, something she had never seen before.

"I'm sorry I won't ask about that stuff again."

Ranma shrugged and made her way over to a seat by Ami. "How much
longer until we reach the Airport?"

"Just a few more minutes."

"Are all of you sure you want to do this?" Ranma asked.

"We've already discussed this Ranma." Rei said.

"I know, but I feel bad taking you into this fight." She refused
to look the girls in the eye as they gave her a weird look. "You've all
got power, but this will be a fight that is a lot more dangerous than
those early ones you were in, I don't wan to place you in danger."

"We have to do this as a team Ranma, Jedite challenged all of
us." Rei snapped back.

"Alright, I won't bring it up again, just be ready for anything.
Jedite is going to pull anything to win this."

Rei shot Usagi a worried glance, but saw that the girl was more
worried about Ranma than the upcoming fight. They were rounding a curve
when she felt the wave of evil that was hovering over the whole Airport.
She sat up and looked around as if she expected to fight it off that
instant. Ranma and Usagi were giving her a weird look as the came to her
feet and started to look around. Then Ami's computer started to beep and
they knew it was time to get to work, even Ranma could feel the
difference now.

"I'm picking up multiple readings just ahead." Ami said as the
train suddenly slowed to as top at a dock.

All was quiet at first, but as they moved to the doors they
could see dozens of police officers collecting on the dock to arrest
them. Ranma cursed and crossed her arms, she had no intention of
allowing these idiots to take her in this easily. She looked around as
the others sighed in defeat, outside the police closed on the train with
drawn weapons, but Ranma smirked as she saw a way out of this.

"COME OUT OF THE TRAIN WITH YOUR HANDS UP GIRLS, YOUR UNDER
ARREST!!" Called out a dry voice.

"What do we do?" Usagi whispered, she looked nervous.

"Ami, you said that you were picking up multiple readings? Could
it be that the police are possessed or something?" Ranma asked.

After several seconds of typing Ami nodded. "Yes, but those
aren't police at all. I'm reading a bunch of...sand?"

"Their like moving statues." Usagi said as she looked out the
window's nervously.

"What were you planning Ranma?" Rei asked. "I've got a plan that
might work too."

"Look how their trying to surround us, their really spread out,
I was planning on just running through them."

Rei rolled her eyes. "Your fast enough to do that Ranma, and
maybe Usagi here who has to do a three mile dash every morning, but me
and Ami aren't that fast."

"Hey!!" Usagi yelled.

Rei pulled out a batch of ofuda and thumped them against Ranma's
forehead a few times and smirked. "These should take care of the
problem."

"Ofuda? Where in the world did you get those?" Ranma asked as
she rubbed her forehead and glared at the girl.

"I'm a Shinto shrine maiden, I always carry some of these around
with me."

"Wai!!" Usagi glomped Rei's waist. "Your the greatest Rei!"

Rei's eye twitched as she gave the blonde the evil eye.
"Um...yeah."

"I know we can win this now!" Usagi crowed as she let go and
stalked off the train with a confident step. Ranma, Rei, and Ami all
looked at each other and sighed as about three seconds later they heard
Usagi scream. "WHAAAAAAAA GET'EM OFF GET'EM OFF GET'EM OFF!!" Usagi
yelled as she ran back and forth in front of the train waving her arms
in a hysterical display and pulling several of the Youma men with her in
a long chain.

"Well at least she has spirit, can't say she has brains, but she
definitely has what it takes to get through this."

"You want me to help her out?" Rei asked as she watched Usagi's
panicked flight around the whole area, running over the moving statues.

"Check that out, she's taken out over half of them already." Ami
said as she ran a scan on her computer again.

They stepped off the train a few seconds later and saw that
Usagi was laid out on top of a high pile of unmoving sand statues,
gasping for air and as usual making a scene. Ranma smiled and bounced on
over to pat the girl on the shoulder. "Thanks Usagi, that was great
work!"

Usagi moaned.

"I mean you took them all out and didn't even have to transform
or anything, even I planned on transforming before running though all of
them. Great job!"

Usagi whimpered as Rei tossed several of the Ofuda on the pile
and watched as the whole thing glowed for a few seconds before dying
with a flare of light. "Thanks Usagi, I didn't want to use up all my
Ofuda."

"Amazing Usagi, I didn't know you had it in you." Ami said
quietly as she walked over and stood next to Ranma and Rei.

With a grin Ranma pulled Usagi to her feet and patted her on the
shoulder. "Alright everybody, it's time to transform and go kick
Jedite's ass!"

"MARS POWER, MAKE UP!!"

"MERCURY POWER, MAKE UP!!"

"MOON PRISM POWER, MAKE UP!!"

Ranma didn't like to transform unless she had to, every time she
did it set in motion something she wanted to avoid. She grit her teeth
as the others looked at her in confusion and sighed as she held up her
arms and made her gold and black bracers appear. "SOL CRYSTAL POWER,
MAKE UP!!"

This feeling of pure ecstasy filled Ranma, nearly making her
eyes roll back in her head, 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 had on knee high
reddish black boots, the arm bands now decorated with little crescent
moons, and a tiara with a ruby in the center pulsing slowly with power.
Strong and fast, powerful and unstoppable enough to take on all of the
demons in Jedite's arsenal.

"Whoa!!" Ranma said with a blush, that had been even more
intense than the last time she transformed.

"Sailor Sun, are you all....EEPPP!!" Sailor Moon squeaked as
Ranma gave her this look that chilled her to the bone.

"I hate that ridiculous name."

"What do we call you then? Baka?" Mars snapped and smirked.

"Call me Starfire, it still suggests the sun and allows me to
keep some pride without using that stupid name."

"STARFIRE?!!"

"Yeah, I think it sounds cool." Starfire grinned and fussed with
her hair absently, then looked at her arm as if it had just betrayed
her.

"How in the world did you get that weird version of the fuku?"
Mercury asked as she scanned Ranma.

"When I was given the Pen it changed to these Bracers, Pluto
said it had addapted to make me a modern version of a Sailor Scout. I
like the power up, but the even this new outfit is a pain in the ass, I
hate it." Ranma muttered as she tried to pull the skirt down a little to
cover her legs.

"Are you kidding, you look great in that Starfire." Moon gushed.

Starfire shrugged. "You should know by now that I really don't
like to wear skirts."

"Don't think of them as skirts, these are like an ice skaters
outfit more than anything else. They look good and are easy to move
around in, they work." Mars pointed out, she didn't like them either,
but didn't want to admit it to the others.

"Well I still don't like them, but at least I'm not running
around in a Harem outfit or something." Starfire shuddered.

All the girls nodded.

**********

Jedite was looking down on the Scouts as they ran out of the
building and started to looking around for him, they split up just
outside the door and each headed across the field to a different landing
strip. He was in a pretty good mood considering he had just lost yet
another Youma, they had all transformed right when he was watching them
from the shadows and that had negated the magic that made up their
cloaking field. He had memorized their faces and been surprised to see
that all of them were mere children, that was a blow to his ego that had
hurt. They were barely out of diapers and they had been taking down his
toughest Youma with relative ease.

He glared at the bask of the one he wanted the most, she had
said her name was Ranko in one of their last encounters. Yet the girls
had been calling her Ranma just before they transformed and started
using their Scout names, he wasn't sure which name was the real one but
it wouldn't matter by the time this ended, she would be dead. He looked
over each of the Scouts as they ran, what would be the easiest way to
kill them and still save a bit of energy? After a few seconds he decided
to try a fun way to kill them, running them over with the very planes
they were here to safeguard.

Magic flared around his hands like lightning and soared into the
sky all over the Airport striking a dozen planes at once. They all
started up to whine as their engines built up power, he smiled as all
four girls skidded to a halt and started looking around in confusion.
"Don't stop now Scouts, we still have time to play before the time of
your deaths arrives. These are my new toys, play with as many as you
want!!" Jedite yelled out, using magic to make his voice echo all over
the Airport. He didn't care who heard him, the sleep spell would last
for several days and had an area effect of several miles, so there was
no one around but the Scouts and had excluded them from the spell.

This was a personal fight, they had caused him to much
embarressment to get off with a simple death that would have awaited
them if he had caught them with spell. He had to crush them in battle,
it was the only way to regain his favor with Queen Beryl and cement his
position among the Army once more. He laughed as the Scouts started
running from the planes, the one in red looked like she was about to
blast one of the smaller one's as it chased after her, but it was on her
before she could charge up a blase.

"Better not destoy one of those planes Sailor Mars, who knows,
the city might make you pay for it!" Jedite yelled and saw her stumble
to a stop and start cursing. "BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Down below Starfire cursed as well as she rolled out of the way
of a tire taller than she was and let the big 747 cruise by her. Staying
out of their way was easy, but there were three planes cruising after
each of them at once. That was making them hard to dodge as they came at
them from three different directions at once. After several minutes of
this and watching as Sailor Moon was nearly run over on at least six
different occasions, Starfire was beginning to seriously consider
blowing up the planes. Then her communicator started to beep and she
pulled it out in mid dodge as and idea occurred to her.

"I'm a little busy right now, what?"

"We can't destroy the planes so we need to escape them." Mercury
said to all of them.

"Escape? I just thought of a way to do that." Starfire said.

"How?!" Mars yelled.

"It takes them forever to turn around, lead them all to the end
of your strip, the very edge, and then jump up on a wing and run down
the main body of the plane. It should run right off the edge of the
landing strip and get stuck."

"D'OH!!" Said the other three girls and instantly started to do
just that.

Starfire tapped into her Ki and raced down the long pavement of
the landing strip, she was moving so fast that it was hard to tell where
she was. Up above Jedite just watched and wondered what they were up to,
it looked like they were about to give up so he sped the planes up so
that when they ran the girls over it would leave a nice looking smear on
the tarmac, he grinned. That changed in an instant though as Starfire
casually hopped up on the wing and dashed down the main body of the
plane, hopped onto a tail fin and to the ground. The plane right off the
pavement with a sickening crunch, Jedite tried to stop the planes and
get them reoriented, but the strain was incredible.

He had to land on the ground to call forth the amount of power
he needed just to stop the planes, then he heard three more crashes and
realized that they had fooled him and went red with rage. Then the
unexpected happened, something flew down out of the sky and slammed
against his shield in a show of sparks as it was disintegrated on
contact. What surprised him was that it hit with so much force that it
knocked him back several steps. He cursed and turned just in time to see
a whole wave of....roses slammed into his shield. Each of them gave off
a concussive blast that seemed pushed him back more and more.

The strain of keeping control of the planes was making it hard
for him to keep up his defenses he hadn't expected this fool to
challenge him like this. He always showed up when the blonde one was in
trouble, so why was he attacking like this, if his defenses had been
less than they were he would have been in trouble. Jedite snarled and
started crackling with electric like energy. "Tuxedo Mask."

"You won't get away with this Jedite, your Evil stops here."
Mask said as he pulled his cane and held it like a sword.

"You just signed your death warrant."

"TUXEDO MASK!!" Sailor Moon yelled, she was to far away from
them to much more than that.

Jedite materialized a sword and launched himself forward, he
hadn't expected to fight this one. Of all the Scouts, Mask was the most
cowardly, striking from the shadows and throwing flowers to distract his
Youma while the little girls did all the work. He blinked in surprise as
his sword was blocked and Mask kicked him in the gut with a powerful
kick that sent hm stumbling back again. It seemed there was more to this
idiot than he had though, but it wasn't good enough.

Tuxedo Mask crept forward and willed his cane to extend, it
slammed into Jedite's stomach and blew the air out of his lungs. He
glared into a Jedite's eyes as they turned even more insane than they
already were, the man started to grin as he slowly stood up. It was
quite obvious he hadn't done as much damage as he had though. They
yelled and slammed together again, trading blows for several seconds,
Jedite's grin stayed plastered to his face as they moved back and forth.
Then it happened, Jedite suddenly did a spin kick when Mask was over
extended and kicked him in the head.

Dazed, Tuxedo Mask stumbled back as Jedite knocked the cane out
of his hand and slammed the pommel of his sword into his head, he
dropped like a stone. Instead of killing him, Jedite kicked him in the
stomach with a magically enhanced kick and sent him flying out into the
bay. Just to add insult to injury and to keep the moron out of his hair,
Jedite fired off several blasts of dark energy. Mask landed just before
the blasts arrived, but when they hit the water they exploded and sent a
fountain of water nearly fifty feet into the air. Then he turned to look
at the Scouts at they got near enough for them to hear him.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!!" Sailor Moon screamed.

"Ooops! I don't know my own strength, BWHAHAHAHA!! Now it's your
turn, who want to go first?" Jedite asked as if he was the friendliest
person in the world.

"You'll pay for that Jedite!" Mars yelled.

"Bring it on girlly, all of your are going to die and I plan to
do it with my bare hands." Jedite snarled. "You won't have the chance to
ruin anymore of my plans."

"FIRE SOUL!!" Mars yelled and fired off a fire ball.

Jedite just sneered and batted the attack out of the air, he was
running at nearly his full power and these girls didn't stand a chance
against him. "Is that all you can do girl? For some reason I expected
more out of you, killing all my Youma and all. Shall we play some more,
I'm not quite ready to kill you just yet, you haven't suffered enough."

In a black and red streak Starfire ran forward, she had been
waiting for this fight since the challenge had been make. Ranma jumped
nearly seven foot into the air as she attacked and tried to kick Jedite
in the head, but he just spun out of the way. She landed and bounced,
this time staying close to the ground and attempted to sweep his feet,
but had to roll out of the way as he attempted to take her head off.
Then things got weird as Jedite charged up his power again and started
throwing blasts of energy at her, they exploded all over as she dodged
and twisted out of the way of everyone that came close.

"You have to do better than that Ranko, your the whole reason
for this fight and I plan on breaking you before I kill you."

"You don't stand a chance against me."

"AGHAAAAAAAAA!!!" Jedite screamed.

Starfire hopped up into the air and used one of the explosions
to cloak her presence, she hadn't had a chance to practice some of her
magical attacks yet, but Jedite was getting on her nerves. She reached
deep into her body and touched her magic for the first time since
Jusenkyo and felt it surge through her like an uncontrollable river of
power. Her aura swirled around her and lit up the area in a bright
silver glow as she locked eyes with Jedite and saw him look at her in
shock.

"SILVER METAL STARLIGHT!!"

The small ruby on Starfire's tiara flared up and started to glow
as all that power was channeled to the small jewel. Then a beam of
mercury like energy fired out as Starfire screamed in fury, it sailed
across the short distance between them and slammed into Jedite's shield.
The impact sounded like a one ton metal I-beam hitting the ground and
hit with enough force to pushed him back several feet, but Starfire's
eyes narrowed as she saw that the shield hold against the blast. She
landed glared at Jedite, that blast had been nearly twenty times more
powerful than what Mask threw with his roses, it should have gotten him
easily. Then she saw his eyes as they contacted hers and he smiled at
her evilly as the smoke and dust from his blasts swirled around him.

"Your pathetic, I expected more from you than a weak attack like
that." Jedite said scornfully and started spinning his sword again.
"Where's all your skills and power now Red, they certainly aren't
helping you out of this mess are they?"

"You haven't seen anything yet." Starfire said, that sword of
his had to go though, he had nearly had her on more than one occasion
and she knew from experience just how painful that thing could make
things with just a simple scratch. It could get through his shield and
easily get her, there had to be a limit to his power. The rest of the
Scouts came running up as she was about to attack again and Mercury
waved her computer about to get her to notice something.

"Starfire, he's using your own energies against you."

"Huh?"

Mars nodded. "When Tuxedo Mask attacked he was using some kind
force attack according to Mercury, when they hit it was like using a
baseball bat or something. You are using pure energy with that Silver
Metal Starlight attack of yours and he's using that to fuel his shield."

"Correct, we need to take him down in some way that doesn't use
magic. That ability is also why he was able to defeat my attack as
well." Mercury added.

Starfire relaxed a little as they talked, though she kept an eye
on Jedite out of the corner of her eye. "Were you able to come up with
anything?"

"I have a plan, but it will require all of us working together
to do it." Mercury said and started to explain the plan.

After a couple of minutes Starfire nodded, though she wondered
why Jedite was just standing there letting them talk as if he wasn't in
any danger at all. "That sounds like it will work, but how do we pull it
off? The timing would have to be almost perfect for it to work."

"That's why need to use teamwork for this." Mars said.

"Alright then, lets get to work and see if we can pull this off
and get out of here."

"RIGHT!" They all said.

"Besides I'm hungry enough to gnaw on a table leg or something."
Starfire said, the girls all moaned. "Heh, that can wait for later
though."

"Are you done talking yet, I'm getting bored just standing over
here doing nothing." Jedite called.

"Fine then, we'll attack." Starfire said. "GO!!"

"FIRE SOUL!!"

"SILVER METAL STARLIGHT!!"

"Oh please, come up with something better than this you wimps!"
Jedite called as he batted both blasts out of that air.

"SHABON SPRAY!!" Mercury yelled and centered the wave of fog on
Jedite and cut him off from the world.

"What is this supposed to accomplish you Twits?!!" Jedite
yelled.

Then he realized that he couldn't figure out where he was and
understood what the true nature of Mercury's attack was. It was a cover
that cast a kind of confusion on whoever it was cast on, warping his
perceptions so much that finding his way out of the fog was nearly
impossible. Luckily his shield had...taken the blast of magic for him,
though it still messed with his mind a little. He started laughing as he
realized that they had figured how his shield worked and did this on
purpose.

"I'm impressed, I didn't think you had what it took to figure it
out!" Jedite yelled.

"You ain't seen nothing yet!" Echoed Starfire's voice from all
around him, it left this silence that was almost so think he could feel
it on his skin.

To dispel the fog he had to drop is shield, it had blocked the
freezing aspect of the fog and turned the shield into low pleasure wave
that was maintain the fog. Without the shield it would lose it's focus
and quickly vanish, but would leave him open for a few precious seconds.
He banished the sword to subspace and raised his arms, several dozen
blasts of explosive energy fired out to rain down around him in all
directions. The instant the first explosion went off he dropped the
shield and started to weave a dispel magic spell.

Then he realized his mistake as Sailor Mars ran right by him and
slapped something on his back that burned by like fire and froze all the
muscles in his body. Then Starfire ran by and decked him across the
face, the other one, Mercury was a few seconds after that and she hit
him in the same way from the opposite direction and he remained rooted
to the spot. "What the hell did you do?!!"

"Hi!" Sailor Moon yelled as she ran by without touching him and
vanished from sight. "Bye!"

As the last of the fog finally dissipated enough to see he heard
the whine of an engine and his eyes tripped in size. He had put the
planes on automatic when he started fighting Tuxedo Mask, this would
make them follow and run over any of the scouts if they got too close.
Sailor Moon had just run by him like a bat out of hell, he nearly
fainted, this was going to hurt. The front of the plane passed over him
and the edge of the wheel clipped his back and nearly wrenched his spine
out of his body, it also dislodged whatever Mars had done to him and he
fell the ground.

"Damn, it didn't work!" Starfire yelled as she ran back to Jedite
and kicked him in the stomach. She concentrated and built up as much
power as she could, Mars, and Moon all ran up and charged up their
attacks as well. Jedite took this as an opportunity to crawl to his
feet, blood was running down his chin and he knew he had several broken
ribs. Then his senses noticed that someone was watching this fight, he
wasn't sure who, but knew that they were...amused.

"FIRE SOUL!!"

"SILVER METAL STARLIGHT!!"

"MOON TIARA ACTION!!"

The first two hit him in the stomach and sent him reeling, he
barely managed to duck the magically powered Tiara as it screamed right
for his neck. Then his world went dark as he felt a tug at his soul and
knew that Queen Beryl had just recalled him, he screamed in pain as all
his atoms were slowly unraveled and yanked back to the Dark Kingdom. He
appeared in the main gallery where he had met with Beryl so many times
before, it took all his remaining strength to remain standing and not
pass out right there. Her angry eyes bored into his and he knew that
there wouldn't be any more chances, he had sealed his fate and that left
him with only one option.

**********

Sailor Moon ran over to the edge of the bay where Tuxedo Mask
had been thrown in the water. "Do you think he survived?"

"I don't know." Starfire said. She didn't like the guy, but that
didn't mean she wanted him to die.

"I hope he's alright." Mars said as she stepped up next to Moon.

"Um..." Started Mercury, but she was interrupted as the water
near a dock about ten yards away from them broke and Tuxedo Mask climbed
out and coughed up a lot of water.

"TUXEDO MASK!!" Sailor Moon and Mars yelled and ran over to him.

"As I was about to say, Tuxedo Mask is over there, he has
suffered some light wounds but nothing life threatening." Mercury
finished.

Starfire crossed her arms. "Oh great, a happy ending.'

"Happy endings are always a good thing Starfire."

Humph!"

**********
The End of Book One *Jedite*

Notes - This is one huge project, I've just finished with Jedite and
have already done close to 550kb worth of work. Each of the Generals is
to have his own book as with several chapters, coming up next will be
Nephlite of course and he requires a bit of work. I have to figure out
if I want him to go after Molly, who I haven't introduced just yet, or
Ranma since they would get along with each other. Let me know how you
want it to go, but be warned if you pick Ranma it won't be Ranma
suddenly turning into a girl that likes Men, but as friends as she tries
to understand her feelings for him and why she has such weird reactions
when he is around. Let me know which would be better.

I made some mistakes during this, I know of a couple of them and plan to
fix them eventually. Shampoo is also a candidate for Nephlite, maybe a
love triangle or something. Yes I'm also bringing Cologne into this,
this story is a mix of Ranma and Sailor Moon and needs them as
characters, I plan to bring everybody in eventually it will just take
time and their parts will be a bit different than normal.

Certain parts of the Nephlite story will be mixed the Ranma one to make
them merge a little better and other parts will only be mentioned in
passing. All of the main parts are planned so don't worry about me
missing something big or skipping over it, there are only five main
episodes in this part anyway. I would also like to know if you want me
to detail more of the Dark Kingdom like I did when Jedite was in that
pit and how they treat each other.

Finally, I'm going to take a break from this story for awhile and get
recharged for the next arc. I've got writers block something major and
it has slowed me down a lot more than I expected and that means that a
lot of the fun of writing is gone, I had to force myself to put down
almost every word of this chapter and disliked most of it. Those parts
that were sillier than normal were my attempts to get over my writers
block and they worked a little, but not enough to keep it up for long.
So I need a break and will be moving on to Uncles, Replacement, and
Golden Opportunity for awhile while working on a summary for the next
chapter of Princess of the Moon.

So long for now...the part below was one of the scenes I cut from the
final draft because it was unusable.

**********
Something for fun ^_^
Typical Anime Strangeness?

In another part of the city thousands of Sailor Moon Otaku were
having a convention at a local hotel. Watching the newest episodes,
playing the video games, and ogling the scantily clad girls in action,
they were Otaku after all. They were all in an auditorium watching the
news cast about the fight. They were also memorizing the name of the
Anti-Christ and making plans to pay him a visit some time soon. This
policeman would not be allowed to arrest heir goddess in pigtails, they
had would make sure her young nubile body was there for all to see. The
worst thing was that these were thousands of full grown men dressed up
in costumes from the show. Playing with dolls, dreaming about being one
of the Scouts and fighting for Love and Justice, even the gods shuddered
at the sight.

"...list of things we would use to arrest them." Said the I
Max'ed size screen where the interview was being broadcast inside and
auditorium.

A mass growl of anger filled the air for blocks around the
hotel, employee's could be seen fleeing the structure in a state of
panic. Soon hordes of really ugly men in skimpy fuku were seen marching
to war out the front doors, brandishing well polished scepters, hand
held weapons, and other things that were best left unmentioned. Screams
of fright filled the night air as the horde made it's way across the
city in a direct course towards Haneda Airport. Singing filled the air
as they called upon their song of inspiration.

Moon Revenge

Grasping tightly to a love you've finally found your way to, you rest
gently in a brief sleep. Laying a goodbye kiss on your closed eyelid, I
left you behind in the garden of time.

Love can't continue as a mere dream But if you lust after it, it becomes
a beautiful but hollow shell. But still...

If that's what you want, then chase after me. That kiss is a red tattoo,
a tattoo that engraves a prophecy of destiny I'll know with just one
look There's a tattoo that hurts in the shape of your lips; you can't
hide it. It's Moon Revenge, wooo...

Auras drawn by each other, even when enveloped by darkness cannot be
snuffed out, and will not falter.

I can still see our parting so clearly, and it burns. Yet, I hope the
next one fate draws me to could be you again.

The deeper the love, the greedier it is I even want to bind up every
sigh you make. It's irrational, but still...

Climbing to the top of the whirlpool of light, Crimson memories are a
poisonous tattoo a tattoo that shows the chaos of the future.

When we are together, the tattoo hurts in the shape of your lips until
we shatter. It'd be nice if you'd keep holding me. It's Moon Revenge,
wooo...

If that's what you want, then chase after me. That kiss is a red tattoo,
a tattoo that engraves a prophecy of destiny I'll know with just one
look There's a tattoo that hurts in the shape of your lips; you can't
hide it. It's Moon Revenge, wooo...

There was nothing more frightening than an Otaku on the war
path. ^_^;;

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These are the Lyrics to "Moon Revenge" Here's the link to where I got
them. http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/smoon/smmonrev.htm

Yamanote JR Line - http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2017.html

I got some episode information here -
http://www.tcp.com/doi/smoon/tv.html