A Sailor Moon / A!MS / Ranma (1/2) / some others (authorish) Fanfic
By Conner MacCleod
Memories
Very BETA.
**Chapter 1 The awakening
I woke up and looked around realising that I was not where I should be. I asked myself where
I should be and got the disturbing reply that I didn't know. I asked myself who I was and got
an even more disturbing reply, even though it was the same one. I had amnesia. I knew it
immediately, although I had no memories my basic knowledge was untouched. It didn't feel
like amnesia though, for some reason I believed that if I had amnesia I would know that I
had memories but am unable to see them. I just felt like I had no memories. It was extremely
worrying to say the least. Looking around I tried to discover where I was. My immediate
location was very easy to guess, I was in a hospital room. I was also by myself, the light
shining in through the window told me that it was daytime. I got up and opened up the
cupboard to look for some of my clothes (if I had any with me when I came in). I pulled out a
black shirt, pants, jacket, tie and trench-coat. Although not very expensive the clothes were
the things that I valued most at that time. They were *mine*. I looked down at the clip board
at the base of my bed to be greeted by a mixture of good and bad news. The clip board told me
that I was in the Juuban hospital. The Juuban hospital was in Japan, obvious from the writing.
Out of curiosity I wondered what languages I knew and was surprised to find that I could speak
Japanese, English, German, French, Indonesian, Ancient Scandanavian, Chinese and Russian. Maybe I was a linguist? The bad news was that the clip board did not hold my name, the word 'unknown' was the last thing I wanted to see. I got changed, getting a few more surprises in the process. Checking a small inner pocket I discovered that I did not have a wallet, but had three different forms of identification. All had my photograph on them, but each had a different name, birth date, address and each were printed in a different language. Well I was possibly one of three
people: Damate Okami, Conner MacCleod or Finn. I also had a sizeable amount of cash, in three
different currencies: Australian dollar, Japanese yen and English pound notes. I suddenly had
a wonderful idea, grabbing a pen from my jacket I turned the page on the clip board over.
Clearing my mind, and trying my best not to concentrate on the task at hand, I wrote something
on the paper. I looked down and was disappointed to find that what I had written was a mixture
of the seven languages that I knew. I had hoped that if I wrote, without concentrating on a
specific language, I would write in my native language. At least I knew that I was Caucasian,
although that did not rule out the possibility of being born in Japan, China or Indonesia.
I left the hospital room, knowing only a bit more about myself that when I had first awoken.
Nobody questioned my movements as I left the hospital. For the rest of the day I wandered
around the city. It was getting dark when I came to the top of a small hill. I heard the
stroke of a broom from off to my left and found it to be coming from a Shinto shrine. Thinking
that I could definitely use the help of the gods in my quest to discover my identity I passed
under the torii (The wooden gate of a shinto temple) and began climbing the steps.
An old man was standing on the upper steps, brushing the dirt away. He looked up.
"Your too late to buy any charms gaijin." He said, in a none-too polite tone.
"I'm sorry sir, I was just wishing to pay my respects and ask the gods for some assistance." I
said, looking towards the shrine.
The old man seemed taken aback by this, and stood aside saying "Everybody has that right sir,
it is not my place to turn you away."
"Thank-you kind sir." I replied.
As I entered the temple proper however, a great bell sounded near the torii. I turned around
to see the old man staring at me in horror, yet nobody ringing the bell. I was even more
surprised when a young raven haired priestess slapped a piece of paper on my forehead.
It was about this time that I had decided that I had had enough surprises for one day,
unfortunately nobody was listening. I tried to move to defend myself, but found that I was
paralysed. I looked on in horror as the old man started chanting. He was asking the gods to
destroy the evil demon that had invaded his temple! Did he mean me? 'But I'm not a demon' I
thought to myself. A dry voice in my head told me to prepare for more surprises. The old man
finished chanting, but nothing appeared to have happened. The old man and the girl looked at
me in shock. Obviously I should have been a pile of dust or something in their minds. I began
wondering how I could get free, and was yet again surprised to find that I knew how to. I knew
that if I concentrated on an extreme feeling of freedom, that I would be free. The old man and
the girl were obviously surprised to see me moving, as they did nothing to stop my attack.
'Damn them!' I thought, 'They tried to kill me'. I was not about to kill *them* however. I
slapped the priestess away with one hand and concentrated on the old man. He defended himself
from my punches but did not see my foot until the last second. I was surprised to see him fly
away, landing unconscious about four meters from me. Turning back to the priestess I found
to my horror that she was slumped up against the wall of the temple, quickly I checked her pulse and her breathing. I tied their hands together with some rope that I had found at the side of the temple and sat down to pray. Thankful that I hadn't hurt them. This was definitely my day for surprises. Whilst praying I had what could only be described as an aural vision. There were a number of voices telling me not to worry, 'they' wouldn't harm me and that all would be revealed in due time.
It was about twenty minutes before I began to hear my 'prisoners' waking up. Turning around
from my prayers I saw that the young girl was the first awake.
"I'm not going to untie you until you promise not to try and kill me." I told her.
The priestess looked at me strangely, possibly trying to find some evil intention in my words.
"They won't hurt me," I said, motioning around with my hand "so why are you asking them to?"
"You are a demon!" she yelled, her eyes filled with venom and loathing.
I couldn't help but laugh.
"Surely," I said, " I would know if I were a demon."
"Of course you are! You set off the alarm!" she spat at me.
This came as a shock to me, after all, I did see the bell ringing by itself.
I left, hearing her calling out to me but not paying any attention to what she was saying.
I was walking down the street, engrossed in thought, when I was surprised to see a girl
running towards the shrine on the opposite side of the road. What was surprising was that
she was wearing something similar to a sailor fuku, with a very short green skirt and a
green bow.
I spent that night curled up underneath a tree in a park.
**Chapter 2 Wanted by two Senshi
I woke up rather early, I could not tell whether or not it was early for me but it was
definitely early. Before sunrise early. I walked around town for approximately five hours,
familiarising myself with the landmarks. At about 10 o clock I found myself outside an arcade
and decided to go inside reasoning that I needed to have some fun. A crowd was gathered around
a young sandy haired man playing a car racing game. I stood by for about ten minutes to see
him beat everybody that challenged him. Many of the challengers were very good, but the young
man beat every one of them convincingly. At the end of each game his aqua haired girl friend
came up to him and talked to him until the next challenger sat down. After two more games I
got close enough to sit down in the second seat. I looked at the young man and smiled,
"I hope I'll be more challenge than the others." I said to him.
"So do I." Was his somewhat terse reply, "You ready?"
I selected manual transmission and the expert track and sat back, foot on the accelerator.
The race started well, at the beginning of the second lap he was ahead by just a little. I
gained the lead on the second straight. Going into the third lap we were neck and neck.
Concentrating fully on the game I was somewhat surprised to notice two things: Firstly that
there was a strange light reflecting off the screen coming from somewhere near my head, and
secondly that the young man had crashed. Taking a quick look at him I noted that he had an
expression of fear on his face, soon to be replaced by anger before being covered up in an
attempt to look 'normal'. My attention was drawn back to the game as it beeped, telling me
that I had crashed. Getting back into the race I reached top speed just as he overtook me.
I finished a close second, by about .07 seconds.
"Thank-you" I told him, "You're very good."
All he said was "Yes", while attempting to hide the tone of anger in his voice. For some
reason I had angered him and I didn't want to hang around. I left the building and decided
to take a short cut to the mall through an alleyway.
"Hold Demon!" cried a voice from behind me.
Turning around to the source of the voice I discovered it to be coming from a sandy haired
girl dressed in a sailor costume similar to the one I saw the night before, except that this
one had a yellow bow and a blue skirt. She looked strangely like the guy in the arcade, possibly a brother.
"Invited by a new age. I am the magnificent Sailor Uranus!" she cried, striking an odd pose.
"Also invited by a new age. I am the elegant Sailor Neptune!" came the cry from another sailor
suited girl with aqua hair, green skirt and blue bow standing beside her.
All I could think of was what a wonderful time I had been having lately.
"What do you mean hold demon?" I asked.
They seemed a little surprised at this. 'good' I thought.
"What makes you think I'm a demon?" I added.
"We were watching you play" said Sailor Uranus.
"That young man in the arcade, and we saw the demon mark on your forehead!" Sailor Neptune was quick to add.
"Oh" was all that I managed to say.
"Don't worry demon, we'll send you back to the Negaverse" said Sailor Uranus haughtily.
"World..... Shaking!" she cried, and a great ball of energy was sent towards me.
I was fully prepared for, and expecting, death at that point. Obviously fate had some more
surprises in store for me. I heard that dry voice in my head again, telling me to picture
the ball of energy in my mind, and to erect a barrier around myself. I promptly did this,
trusting in the knowledge that the voice's advice worked last time. I could literally feel
the energy wash over me.
I did not particularly want to stick around. (If someone is trying to kill you, it is usually
a good idea not to stay near them any longer than necessary). Turning the corner I found that
I was at a dead end. I crouched down near some barrels and tried to make myself as
un-noticeable as possible. I was ready to attack them when they came around the corner,
but even though they looked straight at me a number of times they didn't see me. Boy was
I relieved when they left! Having someone who wants to kill you, standing two meters away
from you is a harrowing experience to say the least.
After staying there for another five minutes, I slowly walked back to the crowded streets.
Remembering something that Sailor Neptune had said, I looked in a mirror in a shop window and
was (Word of the Fanfic Alert) surprised (/Word of the Fanfic Alert ;-) to see that I had a
tattoo on my forehead, and one on each side of my head next to my eyes. Each tattoo was a
vertical blue line, with a thinner line on either side. They didn't seem to be a normal
tattoos though, as they appeared to be underneath the skin. Nobody seemed to be staring at
me though, this led me to thinking that maybe nobody else could see them. Walking up to a
complete stranger, I asked her if they could see a mark on my forehead. She just looked at
me strangely said "No" and walked off. Finally making it to the mall, I shopped around a bit.
I managed to find a good backpack, and a new set of clothes. I also changed all of my currency
into Yen, having to open an account with the Bank of Japan to put all of the money in. Once
that was done, I went around to all of the real-estates in the area looking for an apartment.
After visiting three different real-estate agents and visiting four different apartments I came
across one that suited my needs. Signing the relevant documents, and handing over the money I
was told that I could move into the apartment in two days time.
I did better than the night before, I slept in a nice cozy hotel.
I spent the whole of the next day searching through the news archives in the Juuban Public
Library. I was looking for a number of things: Anything to do with strange people dressed in
sailor fuku, any clue as to my identity and any local history in general. I managed to find
information on the former and the latter, but alas no clue as to my identity. The most
interesting thing I found was the information that the 'Sailor Senshi' had been around for a
while, fighting off evil 'demons'. The records started with and article detailing two 'angels'
rescuing a computer cram class from a 'demon'. I gathered from reading the papers, that there
were ten Senshi and that they defend Tokyo from demons and other evil things. Some of the
earlier papers also mentioned a Sailor V, I didn't know whether or not she was connected as
all of the other Senshi were named after planets (with the exception of Sailor Moon and Sailor
Chibi-Moon). I finished up at about ten o clock and tried to go to sleep, but my sleep was
prevented by my thoughts. I kept going over what happened during the first two days of my
'awakening'. I kept having visions of turning into an ugly demon with horns, cloven hooves
etc... I went to sleep about ten times, waking up every half hour. The rest of the night
was spent wondering how I could keep out of the way of the Senshi.
**Chapter 3 A demon Prince and a memory
Having been awake since 4 o clock, I had a good idea of what I was going to do. I spent the
first half of the day shopping for furniture, essential electrical goods and food. The second
half of the day was spent waiting for them to be delivered. I had just finished setting the
time on the VCR when I felt a horrible pain inside my head, much worse than a migraine. I had
the horrible feeling that something was happening that shouldn't be. It was more a feeling
that someone was tampering with something that was mine. Part of my consciousness broke off
from me and I could see the Sailor Senshi battling a monster. The dry voice in my mind told
me that it was a Demon Prince, it also seemed to take great pleasure in pointing out that a
demon prince was very powerful. The other part of me noticed that they were fighting in the
Park where I spent my first night. Suddenly both parts were back together and before I knew
what I was doing I was out the door and running as fast as I could towards the park. For some
reason I was praying that I would get there on time.
I burst through the park gates, panting and looking wildly for the Senshi. I found them
almost immediately. Towering over them was the Demon Prince.
"Now pitiful mortals, you will tell me where he is. I know that three of you have had contact
with him." He boomed.
"Even if we know who you are talking of, what makes you think we'd just hand him over to you?"
asked the Senshi of Jupiter, the one that I had seen on my first night.
"Because he is my puppet! My servant!" came the reply.
I found myself screaming, at the top of my lungs "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
If you ever want to get absolutely everybodies attention, that is a good way to do it.
Rushing out to stand about ten meters away from the Demon I cried out "I am *no ones* servant!
And I am not anybodies puppet!"
****Flashback
I was out in a forest. I was about to take away the one thing I owned. My life.
Just as the knife touched my skin I heard a voice. It told me that I was about to do
something very stupid and would I like to reconsider. It told me that it had a job for me,
I was to be the body for a very important spirit. A spirit that was part Demon and part God.
It told me that I obey Kami-Sama. It seemed rather hurried at this point, as if it was about
to get caught for doing something that it wasn't meant to do. The last thing it said was
'Oops, gotta go. Have fun!'.
****/Flashback
The dry voice spoke once again and I gave myself to it. I found myself sending out bolts of
flame from my hands, encasing myself in powerful force fields and even making lightning strike
the Demon.
Just before it got sent back to Hell, the Demon cried out "No! This cannot be. You are more
Demon, you cannot kill me!"
I collapsed, and was soon surrounded by concerned Senshi. All seven of them. Three Senshi
were not anywhere near me.
"Sailor Moon, get away from him!" Cried out Sailor Mars.
"*It* is a Demon!" added Sailor Neptune
"We must destroy It!" finished Sailor Uranus.
>From off to my left came the reply "Yeah get away from him, VIG (Very Important Goddess ;-) coming through. Move it or lose it! One of my best friends is part Demon."
A young girl dressed in some kind of reddish skirt, and pinkish jacket came up to me. The
Senshi cleared a path for her, if they hadn't she probably would have hit them with the mallet
she was carrying, and she crouched down beside me.
"Gee, Urd is going to be so angry that I found you first." She said with an evil smile, before
pouring hot water from a thermos on the ground.
I began wondering what on earth she was doing when she grabbed hold of my arm and everything
went black.
**Chapter 4 YaY! I find out who i am. (No cheating now ;-)
I tried to focus on the ceiling, but couldn't so I closed my eyes again. If I was about to go
back to sleep then my plans were disrupted by the shout that came from beside me.
"Belldandy! He's awake!!"
"By the gods." I said, in a somewhat raspy voice without opening my eyes, "Theres no need to
shout."
"Oh." she said, "I'm so sorry."
I made my second attempt at opening my eyes and succeeded for long enough to see who was beside
me. It was the young girl that i had seen last, she seemed ashamed at something.
"It's ok, really." I said, as reassuringly as I could.
She visibly brightened at this and for the first time I noticed the egg shaped mark on her
forehead, and the other marks on each side of her face.
"Are you a demon?" I asked, puzzled.
"No, of course not! I am Skuld, Goddess second class, limited." she said rather proudly.
"Am I a demon?" I asked, praying that she wouldn't try to kill me as well.
"Um, sorta." she replied, putting a weird looking pair of glasses on me "See, if you look in the
the mirror over there you can see your reflection. I'm a blue shadow, coz i'm a goddess.
Humans are green shadows and demons are red shadows."
"What are these?" I asked the diminutive goddess.
"They are Skulds own See-all glasses Mk I!" she replied proudly.
I looked into the mirror and my reflection appeared somewhat nausiating. Red and blue swirled
around in the outline of my body.
"I'm red *and* blue, whats that mean?" I asked her.
"Well...." she said, apparently trying to evade the question. This only meant that I would have
to figure it out by myself (not that hard...is it?).
"I'm a demon *and* a god?" I asked in a somewhat un-surprised tone.
"Yup, a bit more of a god than a demon though." she replied.
At this moment a young lady walked into the room, with a concerned look on her face she sat down
next to me.
"I am Belldandy, are you all right?" she asked.
"Um yeah, sorta." I said, trying to get up onto my arms. I need not write what came out of my
mouth at that moment, suffice to say that it would probably make you blanch. Skuld and Beldandy
definatly did.
"Um, no." I said once the pain had passed, holding up my arms. Or at least what I thought were
my arms, they were scorched and red and they felt like they were on fire.
"Oh, you must have done that when you cast the force bolt spells. Skuld told me about that, a
friend of ours once did something very similar. All you can do is rest and let it heal on its
own." exclaimed Belldandy.
"Thank-you for this. I am wondering if you would be able to help me with a problem?" I asked
Belldandy.
"Certainly." She replied.
"Do *you* know who or what I am?" I asked, praying that a goddess would be able to give me an
answer to my problem.
"You are part demon and part god. You see, a little while ago the gods and the demons got into
a bit of an argument over..... something. Loki suggested that we make a body, put two
spirits into it: one evil and one good. The spirits could fight it out and we would have
a winner. Unfortunatly the demons decided to put more than the agreed upon amount of evil into
its spirit, Loki found out about this (although some of us believe that it was he that put
the evil in there) and told the gods. The gods put even more goodness into their spirit
and Loki bound the spirits into your body after stealing you from the other gods. Some of the
gods were rather put out by this but all Loki said was that it 'wasnt fun any more'." explained
Belldandy.
Even though I was prepared for something extremely shocking, all I could manage was a simple
"Oh".
After a little while, (Surprisingly enough it now only takes me about 1.3 seconds to get
fully functional after hearing something extremely shocking) I asked Belldandy,
"What was the argument about?"
Belldandy began looking rather guilty at that moment, and maybe partly nervous.
"Well you see, some of the demons and some of the gods had a kind of get together here on earth
, and well... The demons left without paying the bill, and the gods got a bit angry about this
and decided to play a practical joke on the demons." replied Belldandy.
"Yeah, they put out the fires in Neiflame!" added Skuld.
"It was rather regrettable."
"Hey it was Urd that suggested that!"
"Yes but out dear sister wasn't in full control of her faculties at the time." explained
Belldandy.
"She was drunk." added Skuld
My response time seemed to be getting better, only 1/2 a second ;-)
"Who is Urd?" I asked.
"Our sister." replied Belldandy, before looking at Skuld "Skuld, why don't you see if you
can give our friend here a memory?"
"Ok, I'll put all of the faqs and man pages into his memory directory. Anything else?"
replied Skuld.
"You may have to actually add him to the system, see if he has a rating or not first. Oh, and
see if you can copy the 'history' directory over."
I looked at both of them rather dumbfoundedly as Skuld ran out of the room.
Ten seconds later a large beam of bluish light burst down from the sky (heavens?;) and
systematically I began remembering things. None of them were what I could call my memories
but were more the general descriptions of the gods, goddess' and demons, general information,
and also a general history of everything going back to about the beginning of the gods. I was
also filled with a general realisation about everything at every moment, sort of as if I knew
what was happening everywhere whenever it happened. I could tell you for instance that at that
particular moment Tsukino Usagi was changing into Sailor Moon, a young man named Mamonari had
a gun pointed at his head by a beutiful blue haired girl named Aoi Karin, and William Gates the
third was in a meeting with a Maffia Boss (Can you tell that i don't like him? ;-). I also had a slight understanding of what will happen in the future. I was dimly aware of my screaming as my head was filled with an amazing amount of information in a time span of 10 milliseconds. To be honest I think I screamed for about five minutes.
When I stopped screaming I opened my eyes to see Belldandy looking at me with an expression of
worry and said something.
I just looked up at her and whimpered "How can I make it stop?", at least I think I said that.
Belldandy looked at me again, said something and then touched my forehead. She stopped, looked
up and yelled out at the top of her voice "SKULD! HOW DID YOU GET INTO MY ACCOUNT!?"
Before she had even finished Skuld came running into the room.
"I didn't! I began copying the files and then suddenly everything went really strange. I rang
up Kami-sama but his secretary just told me that he was down here, in this room!"
Skuld attempted to explain, looking at the blue light in an odd way.
The blue light started to for into a shape at the end of my bed. I recognised him instantly as
Kami-sama.
"Sir, what are you doing down here?" I asked.
"The emperor of the demons and I decided that you would have a unique position among us. This
required a bit more direct assistance than Skuld could have. You, Okami are the god of
humanity. By being part demon and part god you represent the choice humans have between good
and evil. You must make sure that humans always have this choice, you must keep the balance.
You are also the chronicaler. You must make a unique view of past, present and future from not
only the position of the gods, but that of the demons. For this I gave you a direct link to
Belldandy, Urd and Skuld. Most of the average things will be routed directly for you, so
that you must only actually write in the more important pieces of information directly. You
must keep a record, of all of the past, present and future histories of not only the gods,
and humans but also the demons."
Ha, hows this for quick reaction time...
"Oh, not the god of surprises and shocking news?" I asked him.
He laughed. I could sit here and describe this laugh to you for ten more pages, but suffice
to say that it is a unique laugh, one that you might expect to hear only once in a millenium.
"As you should have a good understanding of how everything works, I will give you a bit of a
break to adjust. I expect to you to begin work in one week and I will want a report every
month on how you are going." he told me.
"Thanks sir. Ill see you at the start of the month then." I replied as he left.
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Well, thats the end of chapters 1-4. Of course I would love to get any C&C as my
ego is not so Ranma'ish that I would even begin to think that it is perfect ;-)
I would also love to get any info on how much you liked it! This will give me incentive
to write more of it! Oh well, I suppose I should be getting on with Sailor Moon: Tetsuo Aurora.
Conner MacCleod
ley@pac.com.au
