Hi all,

I just want to say....

YEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!  I HAVE JUST FINISHED MY LAST FINAL AND WILL BE 
NOW GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!  YEAH!!!!!!!!!

(Ahem) Now that I got that out of my system, on to TRIO chapter 16.

				    TRIO:
				 WOE BRINGER
				   Part 2

	Usagi took the last of the dust pans contents and placed them in the,
 now full, waste basket.  "Guess I better take this out before Susan 
starts glaring at me again."

	She pulled out the bag inside the basket and carried it outside, 
where she threw it in the dumpster.  Suddenly, a voice above her said,
 "FunnyInevertookyouforthemanuallabortype."

	Usagi looked up and saw Turbo sitting on the ledge of the next 
building.  "Who the heck are you?"

	"I'mTurbo.  FastestmemberoftheEclipseSyndicateandyoucan'tcatchme."

	All Usagi had been able to understand of Turbos hyper speak were the 
words "Eclipse Syndicate".  So she placed a hand on her broach and 
cried, "MOON CRYSTAL POWER!  MAKE UP!"

	Usagi transformed into Sailor Moon and leaped up onto the roof that 
Turbo was sitting on.  "Let's make this quick," she said, "I'm 
expected back inside.  MOON PRINCE..."

	The next thing she knew, Turbo was nearly a block away.  
"Heyoverhere girlie," he taunted, "I'moverhere.  
Comeandgetmeifyouthinkyourfastenoughbutyou'renotsoyou'llneverbeabletoc
atchmebutyoucantryifyouwant."

	Sailor Moon started to leap off in pursuit.

	Elsewhere....

	"And now," Ranma-Seer thought to himself, "to draw Great Sayaman 
into the trap."

	He walked over to a pay phone and from what he had seen of Ranmas 
memories as their souls had passed each other, he dialed the phone 
number for his house.  "Yes?" came Gohans voice.

	"Gohan," Ranma-Seer said in a panicked voice, "there's a monster by 
Central Park!  I'm on my way there and I think I'll need some help!  
Think Great Sayaman could lend a hand."

	"I'm certain of it," Gohan replied, "I'll meet you there."

	When Gohan hung up he didn't hear Ranma-Seer scream into the 
receiver, "SUCKER!"

	Back at the house....

	Gohan slipped on his ring and pressed the jewel, becoming Great 
Sayaman and flew out the back door.  He zipped across the sky as he 
headed for where "Ranma" had told him the monster would be.  When he 
arrived he looked down and was revolted by the sight of it.  It was 
at least seven feet in height, raptor like in appearance with a thick 
coat of black fur covering it, long sharp teeth and a long tail with 
glistening white spikes on the end of it.  He landed in front of the 
creature and yelled, "Hold it!  This is as far as a beast like you 
goes.  For I am Great Sayaman and I will not let harm befall these 
people."

	The creature looked at him for a second and then slowly, hesitantly, 
it said, "Gohan...."

	Sayaman gasped, how did this thing know his name???  Not to mention 
the fact that its voice, though distorted, sounded almost as if it 
was Ranmas.

	"You're my friend," the beast continued, "but get the hell out of my 
way!"

	"Since when have I ever been friends with a monster?!"

	"You don't recognize me?  Ha!  I'm not surprised.  That doesn't 
matter though.  Get out of my way!"

	"I can't do that."

	"Last warning!  Get... out... of... my... WAY!!!"

	"I've already told you!  I can't do that!"

	The creature snarled and then, with an ear splitting roar of rage, 
it charged into Sayaman and sent him flying backwards the entire 
length of the block.  Sayaman crawled out of the small crater his 
impact had caused and thought, "This thing is as strong as I am... 
maybe even stronger."

	"I don't want to hurt you Gohan but I will if I have to," the 
creature said, "I'm after Seer and nothing is going to stop me!"

	"Okay," Sayaman thought, "this thing is strong.  Let's see how much 
it can take."

	Sayaman cupped his hands to his side as he let his energy grow, 
"KAME.... HAME..."

	Suddenly, Trunks (in Super Saya-Jin mode) came out of nowhere and 
tackled Great Sayaman, disrupting his attack.  "Gohan," Trunks yelled,
 "don't do it!"

	"What are you DOING?!" Sayaman roared, "if I don't stop it, that 
creature will tear this city apart!"

	"Listen carefully," Trunks explained, "I know this is going to be 
hard to believe but that... thing... is Ranma!"

	"WHAT?!!  That's impossible!  I just talked to him a few minutes 
ago!"

	"It was Seer, pretending to be your friend."

	Sayaman unsteadily got back to his feet and faced the creature.  
That feeling of absolute trust he had felt the last time he had met 
Trunks was as strong as ever and that was the only reason he was 
about to do what he was going to do.  He licked his lips and said 
uncertainly, "Is... is that... you Ranma?"

	"Ding, ding," Ranma-Woe Bringer replied sarcastically, "our 'great 
leader' gets it right in one."

	"I never said I was your 'great leader'."

	"Well, you've certainly acted like it sometimes."

	"Ranma... what happened to you?  How did you get like this?"

	"That bastard Seer did this to me!  Now, I'm gonna kill him and 
anybody who tries to stop me!  Including you and your little 
protector!"

	Trunks raised an eyebrow, "How do you figure that I'm his so-called 
'protector'?"

	"You match the description Gohan gave," Ranma-Woe Bringer snorted, 
"some protector.  YOU help Gohan with Magico!  Your partner helps 
Usagi when she was attacked without her broach!  Where were you when 
*I* needed you?!  How come, when they were threatened you came 
running but you let ME get turned into THIS?!!!"

	Trunks lowered his head as he said, "I wish I could tell you."

	"Save it," Ranma-Woe Bringer snarled, "GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!"

	"To paraphrase Gohan, we can't do that."

	"THEN DIE!!!!!!"

	His rage now fully in control, Ranma-Woe Bringer charged the two 
Saya-Jin warriors and they were forced to jump out of the way.  
Trunks drew his sword, while Sayaman powered up to Super Saya-Jin and 
they rushed at Ranma-Woe Bringer.  Trunks was hit by a swift fist and 
Sayaman felt the full force of a shattering snap kick.  The two back 
flipped away several feet and both of them each threw a small ki ball.
  Ranma-Woe Bringer opened his mouth and shot a full force blast of 
his rainbow colored mouth beam.  The attack destroyed the ki balls 
and still had more then enough power to blast the two warriors into 
and through, the side of a nearby building.

	The martial artist turned monster fired again and brought the 
building down on top of them.  After a slight pause, Ranma-Woe 
Bringer began to move off, in search of Seer once more.  Suddenly, 
Sayaman and Trunks blasted out of the rubble and attacked once more.  
Sayaman grabbed hold of the monsters tail while Trunks aimed a sword 
strike at Ranma-Woe Bringers legs, meaning to disable but not to kill.
  Sayaman found holding the tail to be an impossible task however and 
he was thrown into Trunks.  The two collapsed into a pile and Ranma-
Woe Bringer continued past them.

	Sayaman got up and looked at the scene on front of him.  Ranma-Woe 
Bringer was facing off with a pair of police officers.  The two 
officers were trying to be brave but it was apparent that they were 
scared spitless.  Ranma-Woe Bringer opened his mouth and blasted the 
patrol car that was parked nearby.  "Do I even have to say it?" he 
snarled, "GET OUT OF MY WAY!!"

	"W-w-what n-n-now?" the first officer said.

	"When a creature that can blow up a car says to get out of its way," 
the other officer said in a strangely calm voice before yelling, "GET 
OUT OF ITS WAY!"

	The two officers ran away.  Sayaman ran in front of Ranma-Woe 
Bringer and the two locked hands and started to grapple.  "Ranma stop,
" Sayaman pleaded.

	"No," was the reply.

	"Please.  If you don't stop, you're going to kill a lot of innocent 
people.  Do you want to have to live with that?"

	"I don't give a fuck about anything anymore!"

	"I don't want to hurt you."

	"News flash!  You CAN'T!!!"

	With that, Ranma-Woe Bringer tossed Sayaman into the sky and hit him 
with a full force mouth blast.

	In another part of the city....

	Ranma-Seer stood on a roof top, he knew that he would attract Ranma 
in that fashion.  That was the very nature of the spell he had used.  
When a soul was forced into another body, it got a 'signal' from its 
original body and an all encompassing rage filled the now displaced 
being and once it began its search, nothing short of death would stop 
it.

	He smiled to himself, using his mystical sight, he discovered that 
the fight between Sayaman and Ranma was in full swing and Sailor Moon 
was still chasing Turbo.  It seemed as if nothing could go wrong and 
soon the Eclipse Syndicate would be victorious.

	On the other side of the city the fight is on....

	Turbo was toying with her.  Sailor Moon hated to admit it but it was 
true.  If he had really wanted to leave her in the dust he could have 
done so a long time ago.  However, he would stop every few seconds 
and taunt her to keep on chasing.  "I wonder," she thought, "could 
this be a trap?"

	Turbo grinned under his mask.  A grin which was quickly wiped away 
when he heard a whispered, "Dead Scream."

	He looked up to see a red energy ball flying at him and had enough 
time to groan, "Uhohroadblock," before it hit him.

	He was sent flying and impacted into the side of a building, leaving 
a human shaped impression as he slid to the ground unconscious.  
Sailor Moon looked up in the direction the attack had come from and 
saw a woman who was dressed similar to her, but she had a black dress,
 a black bow and a long staff with a red globe on top.  She had tan 
skin with long dark green hair and ruby red eyes.  "Who are you?" she 
asked.

	The woman replied, "Time is of the essence.  I am here to see that 
it is not wasted.  For I am the guardian of time... Sailor Pluto."

	"Thank you Sailor Pluto.  I'm..."

	"You are welcome Sailor Moon."

	"Hey, how did...."

	"I am sorry to cut you off like this, but we can not waste a single 
second.  Your friends are in serious danger."

	"What's going on?"

	"Follow me.  I will explain on the way."

	Back at the battle.....

	Sayaman stumbled out of the new crater that had been formed from his 
crash landing.  His costume was practically shredded and he had to 
pause for a few minutes to teach himself to breath without coughing.  
He knew he had been unconscious but he wasn't sure for how long.  He 
saw a path of destruction leading away from where he was and the 
sounds of battle came to his ears as Trunks continued to try to stop 
Ranma-Woe Bringers rampage.

	He shakily flew back towards the fight and saw that Trunks had been 
getting the worst of it.  He watched as Trunks charged Ranma-Woe 
Bringer and Ranma-Woe Bringer dodged.  The sequence repeated itself 
several times and at that point Sayaman noticed they were moving in a 
spiral pattern.  "TRUNKS!" Sayaman cried, "Don't follow him into the 
spiral!!!"

	Too late.

	As soon as Trunks missed his latest blow, Ranma-Woe Bringer shot an 
uppercut to the sky and cried, "HIRYUU SHOTAN HA!!!!!"

	The whirlwind, more powerful then it had ever been, sucked Trunks 
inside of it and threw him up into the sky, out of sight.  Sayaman 
flew at Ranma-Woe Bringer but the man turned monster spun around and 
cried, "KATSU TENSHIN AMAGURI KEN!!!"

	"AAAAARRRGH!!!" Sayaman cried as the powerful fists crashed into him 
again and again.

	Ranma-Woe Bringer snaked his tail around and began to crush Sayaman 
within its coils.  "You leave me no choice Gohan," Ranma-Woe Bringer 
said without a trace of remorse, "I'm going to have to kill you."

	"Stop," a new person said, "you do not want to do that."

	Ranma-Woe Bringer turned to face the new comer but did not release 
his tails grip on Sayaman.  "I don't care about anything anymore," he 
growled, "except killing Seer."

	The new person was Sailor Pluto. "That is not true," the time 
traveling Senshi replied.

	"Get out of my way," Ranma-Woe Bringer increased the pressure on his 
tail, causing Sayaman to scream in pain, "or I'll kill him."

	"RANMA DON'T!!!" Sailor Moon yelled as she raced down the street, 
tears in her eyes and she placed a hand on his fur covered chest.  
"My god," she whispered, "what happened to you?"

	Ranma-Woe Bringer looked up and started.  The angry look that was on 
the monstrous features vanished, replaced by one of confusion.  "What.
.." Ranma-Woe Bringer stammered as he staggered back several steps, 
"what am I?" he cupped his head in his hands, "Oh my god.  Gohan... 
what have I done?"

	Sayaman pulled himself to his feet and said, "Ranma?  Are you 
yourself again?"

	"Noooo," Ranma-Woe Bringer moaned, "I... I really am a monster!  I...
 I nearly killed you and I would have hurt so many people and Trunks..
. oh god.  He could be dead and I wouldn't have cared at all."

	"Do not worry about it," Sailor Pluto said, "he is a lot tougher 
then you give him credit for.  I am certain he is fine."

	"I could use a senzu now though," Sayaman said as he groaned from 
the pain that came from every inch of his body.

	Sailor Pluto let out a small grin and pulled out one of the magical 
beans from one of her pockets.  "Thanks," Sayaman said as she handed 
it to him.

	Pluto replied, "You are going to need your full strength if you want 
to win this upcoming battle."

	"What do you mean?"

	"To get Ranma back into his body, we're going to have to get Seer, 
who is in Ranmas body, here and then let Sailor Moon heal them."

	"You can do that?" Sayaman asked as he looked at Sailor Moon.

	"According to her," Sailor Moon indicated Pluto, "I can."

	"Unfortunaly," Sailor Pluto continued, "only you and I can go after 
Seer."

	She stopped the super warrior's question with a raised hand and said,
 "The reason being that, Ranmas intense rage is not natural but part 
of the spell which placed him into that body to begin with.  Somehow, 
Sailor Moon seems to cancel it out by her very presence.  I had 
thought we would have had to find a way to restrain him but now that 
will be unnecessary."

	Sayaman nodded and turned towards Sailor Moon.  "Keep an eye on him,
" he said, "we'll be back as soon as possible."

	Sailor Moon nodded and replied, "Good luck."

TO BE CONTINUED.....