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"Awakening of the Dragon"
A
Fusion Tokyo
story
by
Shaule Sachs
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Author Notes:
(1) "Fusion Tokyo" will be, I hope, a series of interconnecting
crossover stories between various Anime/Manga series and my original
work of "Adventures of Zaxxon Hunter."
(2) 'Ranma 1/2', 'Sailor Moon', 'Bubblegum Crisis', 'Ah My Goddess',
'Devil Hunter Yohko', and 'El-Hazard: The Magnificent World' were not
created by me and I claim no rights to them. I am using them solely
for the entertainment of their respective fans.
(3) The character of Zaxxon Hunter, Highlords of Atlantis, and such
are mine. Please do not use without my permission. For the record,
Zaxxon Hunter and my net-handle of "Zaxxon" are not the same... This
is not a self-insertion fic.
(4) Conventions that shall be use....
Words between // // are to be considered italicized.
Words between * * are to be considered bold.
Emphasis will be shown as bold words.
Thoughts will be between ' '.
Telepathic communication will be shown between /* */.
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It was a nice afternoon at the Hikawa shrine in the Minato Ward
of Tokyo. It was that time of the week when the Sailor Senshi got
together simply to spend time together. Present were Usagi Tsukino, Ami
Mizuno, Rei Hino, Makoto Kino, and Minako Aino. The world knew them
better as Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and
Sailor Venus, respectively. In addition, Usagi's advisor, Luna and
Minako's advisor, Artemis, both intelligent cats were present too.
"I think it's neat that there's four more Senshi," Minako said.
"They were called the Outer Senshi," Luna informed the girls.
"Their jobs were to protect the Moon Kingdom from attacks from outside
the solar system, thus allowing you five to protect the system
itself."
"I seem to remember that they didn't get come in-system that
much," Usagi replied.
"Of course not," Artemis answered. "They were on-call twenty-four
hours a day, seven days a week... They didn't get the chance."
"Oh..." Usagi sighed.
"Strange, isn't it?" Ami spoke up for the first time.
"Strange? What's strange?" Rei asked.
"Huh?" Ami responded. Realizing she spoke out loud, she said, "I
think it's strange that of all the planets, only Earth doesn't have a
Senshi."
"Huh?" Rei replied. "What about Tuxedo Mask... Mamoru. He could
be Earth's Senshi.... I even remember that before the Queen sent us to
the future, while Prince Endymion was fighting the Negaverse's Army,
I *saw* the Earth's sigil on his forehead. Just like how our brighten
when the Princess is in danger."
"Don't be silly," Minako responded. "He can't be... All Sailor
Senshi are female. Luna told us so... Besides he isn't powerful enough
to be a Senshi."
"Ha," Makoto replied. "He isn't powerful enough... then how do
explain how Prince Endymion, when he was brainwashed into working for
Queen Beryl, was able to defeat us... time and time again."
"That was skill, not strength, Jupiter," Artemis answered. "Still
Mercury was a point... While my memory is still sketchy on the Silver
Millennium... Now that you mention it, I think I recall Queen Serenity
commenting on a Sailor Terra once or twice. Luna... Do you remember
anything."
"Hmmm.... It's possible, I suppose," Luna replied.
"How do we find her?" Usagi asked excitedly.
"She'll probably find us," Makoto replied softly.
"What Mako-chan?" Minako asked.
"I said, she'll probably find us," Makoto said. "Just like the
Outer Senshi found us..."
"Maybe..." Ami replied. "And it was a very good thing they did."
There was a moment of silence as the girls thought about how far
over their heads they had been. To attack someone in their own throne
room.... Had the Outer Senshi not appeared when they did... the Inner
Senshi didn't want to think about it.
"Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep," sounded throughtout the
room breaking the silence.
Everyone saw looking around for the source of the noise when all
of a sudden, Usagi bolted up.
"Oh boy... I almost forgot," Usagi screamed.
"Forgot what?" the rest asked.
"I'm suppose to pick up my cousin and his friend at the train
station in an hour," Usagi replied.
The gang decided to join Usagi at the train station as she waited
for her cousin and his friend to appear.
To pass the time as they waited for the train to arrive, Rei asked,
"So... Who's this cousin of your?"
"His name is Ranma Saotome, his father is my father's older
brother," Usagi replied absently since her thought were elsewhere.
"Saotome... I thought your family name is Tsukino," Minako asked
confused.
"It is," Usagi answered. "When my Uncle married, he took his
wife's family name to preserve her line. It was one of the conditions
to their marriage."
"'Preserving her line?' Isn't that a bit old-fashion," Makoto
asked.
"Yes, it is. And Auntie Nodoka can be very traditional at times,"
Usagi said with a little laugh.
"When was the last time you saw your cousin?" Ami asked.
"About a year ago," Usagi replied. "It was before he went on
another training trip into China."
"Training trip?" both Rei and Makoto responded at the same time.
"Yep," Usagi answered.
Curious, Minako asked, "How long as he been training? And in what?"
"Ranma has been training in his family's style of Martial Arts
since before he could walk," Usagi said proudly.
"How old is he?" Makoto asked quickly... Too quickly for Rei's
taste since she wanted to ask that too.
"Oh.. he's seventeen years old now," Usagi replied. "He's
staying with us... until he can get his own place, he says, since both
Juuban High School and NIT are close by."
"Ah..." Ami replied wisely. Seeing the blank looks on the others,
she added, "He must have lived in the Nerima Ward. Didn't you guys
read the morning newspaper article on the School Board's decision?"
"Huh?" the others asked.
"Furinkan High School was completely destroyed by some type of
monster," Usagi continued to help Ami out. "The School Board didn't
think they could get it rebuilt in time for the school year, so they
divided up the Furinkan student body and sent them to schools in the
other neighboring wards."
"Oh," came the reply.
"Was it a youma that did it?" Makoto asked. She actually missed
all the youma that the Sailor Senshi had fought.
"No..." Ami answered. "From what I can gathered from the news and
the 'Net, I don't think so. My computer thinks that the monster was
an actual demon."
"Demon?" Rei said in surprise. "How was it stopped?"
"No one's sure," Ami replied. "Three mysterious arrows killed it.
After a group of martial artists had weakened it."
"A group of *martial artists*?" Minako asked.
"Yep," Usagi answered with a nodded. "Nerima is the capital of
martial artists... outside of China."
"Maybe, Mako-chan, you should move there," Minako joked.
Seriously with a slight dreamy expression in her eyes, Makoto
answered, "Maybe I should."
"So what does your cousin look like," Ami asked.
"Look like," Usagi repeated. "Ummm.... Hmmm.... Like that!"
So saying Usagi ran up to Ranma and hugged him.
Akane Tendo was not having a good time. She was worried about
both her older sisters. Kasumi had been missing for the entire two
weeks since Nerima became a disaster area but both Ranma and her father,
after coming back from the Saotome's house, had said there was nothing
to worry about. Which was typical of Ranma but very strange to hear
from her over-emotional father, who was remaining atypically calm about
it. Four days later, Nabiki, the middle Tendo daughter, had gone off
to college earlier than Akane thought she would and though she had
only said 'good-bye' to her, she had spent a *huge* amount of time
with Ranma. She wasn't jealous of her own sister, but... why did she
spent so much time with him? Okay, it was really fifteen minutes...
but she only spent fifteen seconds with her.
The train ride was bumpy, slow, and uncomfortable. Ranma
wouldn't talk about his meeting with his mother, why he seemed
different, or why he was now carrying the Saotome family katana with
him. And to top it all off, not fifteen *seconds* in the Minato Ward,
and already there was a girl, about fifteen years old, glomping onto
him like Shampoo used to. What's more, unlike Shampoo's glopping, he
was *smiling* and *enjoying* himself.
"RANMA..." Akane began.
"Akane," Ranma began without noticing Akane's anger. "I would
like you to meet my cousin, Usagi Tsukino. Usagi meet Akane Tendo...
my girlfriend."
Akane calmed down slightly with Ranma's admission that she was
his 'girlfriend' and that the girl was family. Still she would have
liked to be introduced as his iinazuke. But after the disastrous,
failed wedding ceremony two month ago, they had both agreed that, if
they got married it would become they wanted to and not become of
their fathers. To this end, Akane ended the 'engagement' their
fathers started and Ranma had made certain that none of the other
fiancees had any claims either. Cologne had dissappeared after talking
with Ranma's mother. Shampoo had remained behind running the
Nekohanten alone... with Mousse. Shampoo also stated that she was
giving up on Ranma loving her. Shampoo did want to remain 'friends'
with Akane and Ranma. Ranma had accepted everything at face value
while Akane thought it was just other of Cologne's tricks. Cologne had
reappeared just in time to be seriously injuried by the Demon Trin.
Ukyou, Ranma's other former-fiancee, took the news well since she
had come to realize that Ranma did not love her as an iinazuke but as
a sister. She understood that Ranma was in love with Akane and not
with her. For compensation, he forced his father to 'adopt' Ukyou,
making her his legal-sister. Being Ranma's sister, Ukyou realized, was
best she could hope since he wouldn't marry her.
Usagi with a smile on her face and an outreached hand said to
Akane, "Nice to meet you."
They walked over together towards a group of four girls. Picking out
each Usagi introduced them, "Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Rei." Each of the
girls had a dreamy expression on their faces. Usagi simply said, "See
ya later, Mom said to bring home as soon as they arrived. Byeee."
"Will they be all right?" Ranma asked Usagi as they and Akane
walked up the steps to her house. Akane rolled her eyes at Ranma's
naivete.
"Oh... They'll be fine," Usagi answered referring to the state
her friends were in when they left them at the train station. As she
entered the house she said, "I'm home and I got Ranma and his
girlfriend."
Both Ranma and Akane winced at that, for different reasons, and
followed Usagi in.
"Supper is ready, dear," Ikuko Tsukino, more commonly known as
Usagi's mother, responded from the dining room. "You, Ranma, and
'Akane,' that's her name?, go wash up first."
"Okay, Mom," Usagi replied. She lead all of them to the wash room
and then showed them the dining room. Ranma sat down next to Usagi and
Akane sat between Ranma and Usagi's mother.
Akane had always wondered from which side of his family Ranma got
his huge appetite from. However, seeing Ranma's uncle and cousin eat,
the answer became obvious.
After supper, Usagi showed Ranma the spare bedroom where he would
sleep and showed Akane her room, since she would be staying with her.
Akane told Usagi that she wanted to talk to Ranma alone, Usagi giggled
and left them alone in spare bedroom.
Akane began, "So how much does Usagi and her parents know..."
"Huh?" Ranma asked not understanding. "About what?"
"You baka," Akane answered back. "Everything! Your training...
Your curse... Our failed engagement... Me! Everything!"
"Oh..." Ranma said. Sighing he continued, "Well... You know how
cheap Pop is..."
Akane nodded for him to continue.
"So between training trips," Ranma said. "We would stay at Cousin
Usagi's place... since we couldn't go home. It was the one constant in my
young life. I was six when we first came here. Pop had just 'trained'
me in the Neko-ken... and he needed a place to stay while I 'got over'
the 'accident.' And since he hadn't seen his brother for such a long
time..." Ranma shrugged. "We used to come here after each of our training
trips... Usagi seemed to enjoy the stories we would tell. Pop's were wild
exaggeration.... Mine were closer to the truth."
Ranma smiled at the memory.
"And you taught her a few things too," Akane added smuggly. "Like
the Saotome Martial Arts Style of Eating."
"Hey, with our fathers," Ranma replied with a laugh. "She needed all
the help she could yet. The last time we saw her was before we left
for Jusenkyo. I don't think Pop said any about our 'engagement' but
since *you* nulled it..."
"Okay..." Akane responded with a yawn. She got up, headed for the
door, and before she walked out of the room she said, "See you
tomorrow."
The next day, Usagi showed Ranma and Akane around the Minato
Ward. They stopped off at the Hikawa shrine. Upon seeing Rei, Usagi
said, "Hi, Rei."
"Hi, Usagi," Rei responded. "Hello Ranma... Hi 'Akane'..."
"Hello Rei," both Ranma and Akane replied.
"The others are inside," Rei said. "We're just hanging out. What
to join us?"
"Sure..." Usagi replied wondering if it was a good idea or not.
Once inside, the three newcomers sat down, and Makoto passed a
large bowl of cookies around. Both Usagi and Ranma both took the same
large amounts of the cookies, even ate them in a similar manner. The
others couldn't help watching Ranma and Usagi's synchronized eating
with a touch of awe.
To break the silence, Ranma said, "These are good cookies...
Where did you get them from?"
"I made them," Makoto replied proudly.
"Wow..." Ranma said. "Beautiful and she can cook."
"Ranma..." Akane hissed.
With heart-shaped eyes Makoto said, "Thanks."
"So where were you when the 'demon' destroyed your school," Ami
asked curiously.
With a slight blush Ranma answered, "Chasing another demon."
"You mean to say, it really was a demon?" Rei asked quickly.
"At least that what he called himself," Ranma replied with a
shrug. "Of course, he also said that he was over two thousands years
old and that he helped destroy something called the 'Moon Kingdom.'"
"What?!?" all the girls screamed.
"The demon said it, not I," Ranma responded with another shrug.
"Like there could have been a kingdom on the Moon... Moon, of all the
places. I mean the chances of that are the same as cousin Usagi being
an actual princess."
"Hehehehe," Usagi, the Moon Princess, replied too quickly. "*Me*
a princess...."
Usagi's giggle was forced but only Ranma and Akane couln't tell.
"Is that were Sailor *MOON* comes from?" Akane asked Ranma.
"How should I know?" Ranma answered with a question.
"Did Sailor Sol mention anything about a 'Moon Kingdom?'" Akane
asked sweetly.
"Huh?!?!?" the girls and Ranma asked.
"Who's Sailor Sol?" the girls demanded of Ranma.
"Someone who helped me in my fight against Taque," Ranma said.
'Sailor... Sol?' thought Usagi. Unlike the others who found the
idea ludicrous, she didn't see it as an impossibility. In fact, it
seemed to stir up some *old* memories. Flashes of her mother, Silver
Millennium Queen Serenity, had talked about 'Sailor Sol,' a Dragon,
the full Planetary Circle of Sailor Senshi, and some other things,
something about a prophecy or future danger popped into her mind. But
it was gone before she could figure out what it meant.
"You defeated a full-fledged demon?" Rei asked incredibly.
"Yes," Ranma replied confidently. After an elbow from Akane, he
added, "Okay... Sailor Sol helped defeat the demon... using me as a
channel for his power."
"*His* power?" Minako asked noticing the male pronoun.
"How?" Rei added curious.
"It was simple..." Ranma said off-handedly. "It was like the time
I faced Saffron... All I had to do was gather up the energy in the
cave for a 'Hiryu Shoten Ha Revised.' Only this time, the energy came
from Sailor Sol instead from all around."
"I wonder if there's a Sailor Earth?" Akane wondered outloud
when she saw a magizine article that was laying between Rei and Ami.
Rei and Makoto stopped their attempts to get more information out
of Ranma and stared at Akane like everyone else was.
"I was wondering that very thing this morning," Ami replied
hoping to enter into a conversation with Akane.
Without thinking, Ranma said, "Of course, there is."
At everyone's strange look, he added, "I mean... There are Sailor
Senshi for the others world but Earth... So there must be a Sailor
Terra too."
Only Usagi noted that Ranma had called the Senshi from Earth,
'Sailor Terra' instead of the talked about 'Sailor Earth.' She also
noted that 'Terra' sounded more correct than 'Earth,' for some
reason.
Ranma and Akane excused themselves to go see their new High
School and to go apartment hunting. They told Usagi that they would
meet her back at her house. Once they left, the girls turned on Usagi
with their questions.
"Sailor Sol? Have you ever heard of such a thing..."
"He's could be making it up..."
"He couldn't have defeated a *real* demon only..."
"Is he single?"
Usagi waited for the other to calm down and said, "Ranma
wouldn't lie... Lying isn't very honorable, and Ranma's one of the
most honorable person I know."
"But a male Senshi..." Minako asked.
"Sailor *Sol*..." Ami added. "That's not a planet, it's a *star*."
"Luna! Artemis!" Usagi called out.
The two cats walked in the room and joined the circle of girls.
Minako asked both of the newcomers, "Do you two know anything
about a Sailor Sol?"
"Hey, isn't 'Sol' another name for the Sun?" Artemis responded.
"Yes, it is," Ami answered. "It is also my understanding that the
Sailor Senshi were named after the colony they protected. Was there a
colony on the Sun?"
"Of course not," Luna said without hesitation. "While the Silver
Millennium's magic was great... It wasn't that great."
"My memory of the Silver Millennium was never that great,"
Artemis said. "Do you, Luna, remember anything about a Sailor Sol?"
In a soft dream-like voice, Princess Serenity spoke, "I remember
my Mother, the Queen, once or twice, spoke of a 'Sailor Sol.' Yet She
didn't speak of that Sailor Senshi as She spoke of the others. She
spoke the name with both fear and awe in Her voice... something I
rarely heard from Her."
The rest were spellbounded by their Princess... and a little
afraid. Usagi seemed to change completely when the Moon Princess took
her over.... They knew that Usagi and the Moon Princess were one and
the same, like their civilian identities and their sailor senshi
identities... but it still spooked them when the 'Moon Princess' shows
up. Most of them felt they should be bowing or something...
With a tired sigh, Usagi reverted back into her civilian identity
and said, "I... I remember there's more... but I guess I'm more tired
than I thought."
"That's okay..." Makoto replied. "You tried."
The others nodded in agreement.
"Luna?" Usagi asked.
"Yes..."
"Doesn't Ami's computer have some of the History of the Silver
Millennium in it?" Usagi asked.
Sweat drops appeared on both Ami and Luna as Rei said, "Why
didn't I think of that!"
Ami pulled out her computer, started a search on the words
'Sailor' and 'Sol' that appeared together in the vast database, and
then said, "I don't know how long this will take... There's a lot of
information for it to go through."
"That's okay," Usagi replied. "We're making an attempt..."
"Hello," Mamoru said as he walked in. When he saw everyone staring
at him, he asked, "Am I interrupting something?"
"Not really..." everyone said too fast.
"Oooo-kay..." Mamoru replied. To Usagi, he asked, "Can we talk
alone?"
"Oooo...." the Sailor Senshi minus Usagi went.
"What do you want to talk about, Muffin," Usagi inquired hopefully.
Mamoru shook his head, calmed down a bit, and responded,
"About... The Silver Millennium... You... Me... possibilty that I had
a sibling then... The Moon... Terra... that sort of thing...."
"Huh?" everyone replied.
'Is he remembering more than he //should//?' Luna asked herself.
"You have a *brother*?" Rei and Makoto asked. Both had slight
dreamy expressions on their faces.
"*Had*," Mamoru replied angrily. Even though it had been eighteen
years since his parents had died, he still hadn't gotten completely
over it. There were times, quiet times, he wished they were still
alive... then he could have had either a younger brother or sister by
now. But all he had was himself and the then single Aunt who raised
him. But by the time he started high school, the Aunt had married, she
no longer had time for him, so once more, he was on his own. Realizing
he had spoken too harshly, he said more gently, "In the Silver
Millennium..."
"Oh..." both Rei and Makoto with a sigh. Both were interested in
Mamoru, but Usagi had first dibs, but if he had a brother who was as
good-looking...
"No..." Usagi began. "I don't seem to recall you having any
sisters or brothers... back then. But, then again, I couldn't tell
you anything about your parents back then either."
"Oh," Mamoru sighed. "I had to ask..."
"Why do you have to ask?" Rei wanted to know.
"I had a dream..." Mamoru began.
"Not one of *those* dreams..." Usagi interrupted angrily. It was
because of a dream that Mamoru had once broken up with her. It something
she didn't want to happen again.
"No, not like that," Mamoru answered quickly. "It was more of a
forgotten memory coming back... But I can only recall the basic detail
of it."
'He'll have to _watched_ more closely now,' Luna thought.
"Ohh... Okay," Usagi replied, not one hundred percent certain.
"What were you discussing before I got here," Mamoru asked
curiously.
"Oh... Did I tell you my cousin Ranma is in town," Usagi began.
"No..." Mamoru replied.
"Well, he is," Usagi continued. "He and his girlfriend are stay
with us since his high school was destroyed."
"Nani?!?!" Mamoru exclaimed. Jokingly, he said, "What... he lives in
Nerima?"
"How did you know?" Usagi asked innocently.
The others who realized Mamoru was joking gave Usagi a weird
look.
"Nerima is such a dangerous place, even the Negaverse wouldn't go
there," Makoto informed everyone.
"Too many martial artists," Minako replied with a slight disdain.
"And that's a *bad thing*," Makoto, who considered herself a
martial artist, asked chillingly.
"No..." Minako said evenly. "But it's the reason why there are so
many fights and battles there."
"Hmmm...." Makoto replied wondering if she should be offended or
not.
"He came with his girlfriend, who goes to the same school," Usagi
continued. "They'll be going with us to school. Weeelllll... Not
exactly since they'll be seniors while we'll be freshmen..."
"Hey, Mamoru-san," Minako began. "You're from Earth of the Silver
Millennium time."
"Terra," he corrected.
"Anyway," Minako continued. "Do you know anything about a Sailor
Earth?"
While Luna was watching him, Mamoru replied, "Hmmm.... Not
really... Besides, I was busy as First Knight of Terra... I... I
didn't get out much back then."
"I'll say," Usagi responded. "I had to send the entire Royal
Guards to find you..."
Everyone was looking at her strangely so Usagi replied, "What?"
"If I had an younger brother or sister," Mamoru said getting the
discussion back on course. "He would have been Sailor Terra..."
[ === End of Part 3 === ]
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