A thousand years ago a kingdom fell and its princess fell from the moon

into a cursed spring.



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"What did I turn into?"  Young Ranma Saotome turned to the guide.



"Is very strange.  Nothing ever happen to anyone who fall in that spring."

The guide was wrong.



"Hah pops, you turn into a panda but I got off lucky!"  Ranma was also

wrong.



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"Hey you kids,"  Ranma jumped from the fence he had been running on, "what

are you doing with that--- CAT!?!"



"Geez, he's weird."  The first little boy backed away from Ranma.



"Yeah."  His friend agreed as they ran away.



"What's the matter Ranma?"  Akane Tendo walked up to him.



Luna pawed away her bandaid and leapt onto the fence.  She felt very

strange vibrations here.



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"A talking CAT?!?"  Ranma backed into the corner of his room.



"Didn't you hear me?"  Luna demanded as she walked towards him.  "Your

friend Hiroshi is in very big trouble and you have to save him!"



Ranma's mind couldn't handle the concept of a talking cat and so it

retreated deep within itself.  Normally the nekoken would take over at

this point, but now another personality asserted itself.



Ranma's features flowed away as his red silk outfit flowed into the dress

of the princess who now wore them.



"Luna!"  Princess Serenity held out her arms to pick up her dear friend.



"Your highness?"  Luna studied the face of the princess.  There could be

no doubt.



"What happened Luna?  The last thing I remember is the attack by Queen

Beryl...  I died, didn't I?"



"Yes, but no time to explain now.  The Dark Kingdom is on the move again

and we have to stop them!"



"Have you summoned the senshi Luna?"



"Uh, I don't know where they are at the moment."



"Very well, we shall make the attempt, please fetch the Imperial

Crystal...  Wait, didn't mother use that against the seven shadows?"



"I sorry your highness, but I don't know where it is."



"What are we to do Luna?"



"I do have one item that might help.  Remember that transformation prism

you got when you where six?"



	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb

    Any sufficiently cool technology is indistinguishable from religion.