The Golden morninng dawn wafted through the stained glass windows 
 of
      the converted church.  Four Teenaged girls rushed about the around 
the
      Cathedral turned Living quarters.  The four had moved to get away 
from
      their families and to be with The men, or other worldly beings that
      they loved.  The last month had been a learning experience for the 
group.
    They were learning the difficulties of life on their own, and had the
    relief that they no longer had to as careful with their secret, at
    least not while at home.  Ami had, Tolaris, Serena had Darein, Leda 
had
    Rei'Shead, and Mina had Maze.  Only Rei had not moved in.  She had
    stayed at the temple not wanting to drag her current love intrest 
into
    the battles that plagued the lives of the sailor scouts.  The others
    had to agree on one thing that morning.  Rei was lucky she din't have 
eight
    people to share  three restrooms with.  The small crows rushed 
through
    their early mourning rituals before school.  Leda was cooking up a
    storm in the kitchen, Serena was dragging  herself out of bed, while 
Mina and  Ami were       having    a verbal fencing match over who was 
was next in the
    shower.
        After everyone had finished breakfsst the group started off for 
Their destination,
  Juuban High, and a new potential problem.  With the attacked that had 
occured the day before,
 and the student who had been it's target.  With Ami as the only one to 
meet Ranma it was clear
 Ranma was not normal.  With a curse, a lifetime spent on the road, and
 people who appearently wanted to see him dead Ranma was a
 potential problem.
 
       At that smae moment a few blocks away.  Ranma-chan is walking down 
the street reading
   a note.  "Ranma, my time in this world is growing short.  The tribe 
has declared war on you,
 and  those they consider your family.  I have taught you all I could in 
the last months I knew
 you and hope  that it will be enough.  The only thing I ask from you, 
pass on the legacy of  my
 tribe.  Don't let my peoples lore fade   with history.  You will need 
what I have taught you in
 the time to come,   the elders have have broken the Black Seal, and and 
opened the way for
 opened the way for the armies of a dark dimension into our world."
 
         Ranma crumpled the paper in her hand.
  Worry etched in Ranma-chan's face.  Cologne had sent a massage to 
him/her.
  Considering the problems he had caused her family in refusing to marry
  Shampoo, it had to be a very severe threat for Cologne to give warning, 
and it explained the
  reasons that she had stayed to train Ranma over the course of the 
summer.  She had expected his
  action from the tribe, or at least something Ranma wasn't ready for.  
That made Ranma nervouse
  even if he wouldn't admit it.  After the battles with Saffron and Herb, 
Ranma thought things
  couldn't get any more hectic.  Destiny seemed determined to prove him 
wrong once again.
 
        Turning his Thoughts from the letter, Ranma walked through the 
gates onto school grounds
 to  start his second day at Juuban.
 
          Leda Kino, walked through the crowd of students that was Juuban 
high, searching for her
 class Leda slipt through the crowd.  she had missed the first day of 
classes as she had been
 moving her things in to the cathedral, and had wanted to be done with 
the chore of arranging her
 room, and getting things set up for the next year.  The tall Brown 
haired girl shook her head in
 dismay as she walked into her first hour class, history with Hiro 
Tanuka.  Sliiping into the
 room Leda slid into as chair as the bell rang signaling the start of her 
day,
 
          As the class progressed Leda sighed the droning from the 
instructor wearing down her
 endrance as the class progressed.  The monotony finally breaking as the 
bell rang.  Breaking for
 the door Leda managed trampling two of her classmatesin haste to escape 
the class that had only
 started her day.  Racing down the hall she tore into the home-ec room 
with blinding speed
 relieved to be in one of the few places she could find solace, a 
kitchen, or at lleast what
 passed for one.
 
        As Leda began to settle into her chair Ami pushed her way passed 
the throng of students
in the hall through the small door.  Grabbing a seat next to her friend 
Ami grinned the thought
of having her friend in this particular class with her was a bit ironic. 
 Especially considering
the skill that Leda had in the kitchen.  That with the little delima of 
having to keep an eye on
the resident martial artist would make this a most intresting year.  The 
class shuffled into the
room as the warning bell rand not wanting to be late, and much to 
everyone's suprise Ranma walked
into  the room appearntly none the worse for wear.  The only difference 
seemed to be that he had
accually worn something nearly appropriate for school.  In the place of 
the red battle shirt was
a black long sleaved shirt, and the bracers which had been so prominent 
the day before seemed to
be missing.

 
       What had changed most about the young man in Ami's eyes was the 
wary look in his eyes as he moved into the room.  The attack from the day 
befor was clearly bothering him, and he was
acting as if he expected another to occur at any momentcarefuly sliping 
into his chair oppisit
Ami, Ranma sighed with relief.  When the class finally got under way the 
students listened as Ms. Kyushiro, spoke in a high pitched, animated 
voice.  "Now class when preparing your salads you should always endeavor 
to make the dish as presentable as possible so that it will be as
appealing to the eye as possible.  Now if you're done cleaning your 
vegitable you can begin
chopping the vegitables in even piece so you can optimize the appearance 
of your dish."  As she
Finished speaking she pased by each of the small groups who were busy 
creating there dished many
They were barely getting started, at least until she reached Ami's Table. 
 The Students sitting
there were grinning at each other and when she saw the salad she almost 
fainted it was finished,
and what was more it was a sculpted floral patern that would take no 
small skill to make.  "Okay,
just who's resposible for this?"  As on the table turned to Ranma who was 
grinning sheepishly.
"Saotome School anything goese salad sculpting, so what you think?"

	The tiny woman could only stare at the dish the damp red head had 
had prepared.  
It was good, a better than any  Ms.Kyushiro had ever seen.  "Kid, I don't 
need a show off in this class,  so please don't cause any more trouble.  
You were only supposed to learn proper chopping techniques today."

	"I think I can do that,  I can only cook a few dishes after all, 
but that is why I'm here.  About the only thing I'm good with in the 
kitchen besides salad is currie so don't worry I'll be good.  Next time 
I'll even let the rest of the table do most of the work.

	As for the rest of the class they were still staring straight at 
Ranma.  In Ami's eyes what after the previous day everyone in the school 
had heard something about him.  They knew about the curse, and while many 
times it would have caused a lot of trouble with students starting fights 
with Ranma.  The attack had stopped that.  The few people who had seen 
what happened had already spread it around the school, and so far it 
seemed to be stopping any fights, but that couldn't keep up.  Ranma's 
reputation preceded him, and trouble makers were always plentiful even if 
they weren't always human.

	Suddenly a piercing screech tore the air as a small blur streaked 
through the window
landing under a table in one corner of the room before streaking into 
Ranma's open bag.  Barely makeing it to the dark confines of the bag 
before an explosion shook the room.  almost as if they were one being the 
class looked out the window.  A sight that had not been meant for the 
eyes of man towering upwards of fifty feet was tearing its way directly 
toward the school, It's three heads seemed fixed on a singular purpose 
the destruction of everything in it's path.  Barely a heart beat had 
passed before the students rushed for the exitspanicked at sight of the 
monster that was fast approaching.  Both Leda and Ami were left behind by 
the throng of students, and barely noticed yhe pigtailed girl leap from 
the window to start advancing on the monster.  Even then they paused for 
only a heart beat before raising their wands into the air, and became 
engulfed in swirling light.  As the pair leapt out the window to join the 
battle.

To be continued