Knights of Moonlight and Dreams
A Sailor Moon/Ranma 1/2 fanfic
By:
the DragonBard
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e-mail me at dragonbard@hotmail.com or at dragonbard@my-dejanews.com
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Just so you know, I'm using the japanese names for the characters,
and the american names for the attacks, as most of them sound better, at
least to me. Not to mention I can't remember the Japanese names.
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It was business as usual for the weekly Sailor Scout meeting.
Usagi and Rei were arguing over the manga, as the other Inner Scouts
looked on in embarresment. Except for Ami, who was busy with something
on her Mercury Computer. The two guardian mooncats, Luna and Artemis
walked over to her.
"Is there something the matter Ami?" Luna asked. "No Luna,
but there's something I think I need to talk with the others about."
Ami replied.
"So Ami, how did your visit with your cousin go?" Makoto asked.
The other scouts, except for Rei and Usagi, turned excitedly to listen.
Ami took a deep breath. <Even with all the things that have happened to
us, I don't know how they're going to believe me.> Ami thought.
"It was very . . . strange. I've got to tell you . . ."
--------------EARLIER IN THE WEEK----------------------
Ami Mizuno knocked at the door of the Tendo family Dojo. She was a
bit nervous since it had been a few years since she had visited her
cousins. <What do I say to them?> She wondered. <Hi. Sorry it's been
so long since I visited, but I've been busy saving the world. You see I
discovered that I'm the reincarnation of an alien princess and
superhero, so I've been fighting monsters as Sailor Mercury. I don't
know why I'm here. If only . . .> Ami's thoughts were cut short as a
pretty young woman, dressed as a housewife, opened the door.
"Hello." She said with a smile. Ami's mind raced to put a name
with that face. The smile was what finally gave her the answer.
"Kasumi?" Kasumi's face became a bit puzzled, but quickly,
comprehension dawned.
"Cousin Ami! It's been so long." Kasumi said as she hugged Ami.
"Come in, we've been waiting for you." Kasumi lead Ami into the dining
room, where a panda and a man with long dark hair and mustache were
playing shogi.
"Father, Cousin Ami is here." Kasumi said. Soun Tendo, Kasumi's
father, sprang up and hugged Ami as tears ran like rivers from his eyes.
"Oh Ami, it's been so long. How is my sister's little girl?" He
cried, literally. Ami didn't remember him being 'this' emotional,
though it had been a few years.
Just then, there was a large crash from upstairs. That wasn't the
strange part (Ami had gotten used to loud noises because of her
activities as Sailor Mercury) the wierd thing was none of the people,
not even the panda, seemed to notice. <Which means that they're all
deaf, or it happens so often they don't even care.> Ami thought. She
decided to go upstairs and find out what was going on, when a young
reheaded woman flew down the stairs to land with her head on the ground.
Ami thought she muttered something about an 'uncute boy,' when a short
haired brunnette ran down the stairs, gave the redhead a look of anger,
and then walked by her to the table.
"Akane, look who just showed up." Akane turned to Ami, blinked a
moment, then grinned.
"Ami!" she crowed, as she embraced her cousin. The red-head just
looked at the two with faint interest, then turned away.
"I'll meet you in the dojo, Akane." She said.
"Who's that, Akane?" Ami asked. For a moment, she thought that
she heard Akane mutter, 'Baka jerk.'
"She's Ranko. She's staying with us for a while, with her panda."
Ami gave her cousin a strange look.
"Don't you think it's a bit odd for her to have a pet panda? I
mean, they are an endangered species after all."
"You don't know the half of it." Akane muttered, under her breath.
Before Ami could say something about that mysterious comment, she found
herself in the Tendo Dojo.
In the middle of the dojo was Ranko, looking at the pair with a
slightly impatient expression.
"Took you long enough." She said, and then motioned for Ami to
come forward.
"Come on, attack me." She said. Ami blinked. <Wasn't Akane going
to train me?> She wondered.
"Shouldn't I put on a gi or something first?" She asked. Akane
just sighed.
"You might as well do it, Ami. Otherwise the baka won't stop
pestering you." Ami blinked in puzzlement, but the old habit of obeying
the teacher quickly asserted itself in her. She used one of the most
basic attacks that Luna had coached her in, a simple punch. However,
Ranma wasn't there. She tried again, but it was like trying to touch a
rainbow, he was always in a different place then he had been.
Ami had always been in pretty good shape, especially after becoming
Sailor Mercury, but even so, she was quickly getting tired and
frustrated by her inability to strike the dodging martial artist. So
she was quite happy when her cousin called a stop to it.
"That's enough Ranko." She said. Ranko stopped in mid-dodge, a
fact that Ami found startling, and nodded.
"Not bad. Your form's pretty good, and so's your speed, for a
beginner anyway, but you think too much about the motions. They have to
be as natural as breathing, otherwise you get in a fight, and you won't
react fast enough. Believe me, that isn't good." Ranko continued on in
the same vein, quickly disecting her performance, and laying it bare.
She then motioned for Akane to come over.
"Since she's your cousin, why don't you show her some of the basics
of the Tendo style, since I don't think she's quite ready for the aeriel
combat of Saotome style."
Akane paused for a second, wondering if she should take that as an
insult, and decided to give her the benefit of the doubt.
"Ok." Akane went into a set of simple stances, while Ranko gave
comments on what was wrong with her form, and ways to improve it. Ami
heard a load thump from behind her. She turned her attention there, and
what she saw made her drop any pretentions of being in form. Even Akane
looked mildly impressed and the speed and agility of Ranko's kata.
Especially considering the fact she was literally bouncing off the walls
while doing it. What was even more impressive, was the fact that she
was 'still' critiquing her performance while doing the kata.
"Nitwit, we know you're good but you don't have to go overboard."
Akane muttered. Ranko just continued going through the kata as if she
hadn't heard. Then, when he was done, she turned to the ladies.
"Get out of the way!" She yelled. The two cousins glanced at each
other, when one of the walls shattered. Ranma and Akane were startled
by it, but not really surprised. The martial artists shifted into
battle stances, while Ami looked around, trying to find a place where
she could hide and transform.
The figure that had shattered the wall was ugly, hideous, not to
mention short and old.
"What do you want, Gramps?" Ranko yelled. Ami stared at him.
<Gramps? That thing is Ranko's grandfather?> She looked at the midget.
Whoever it was, it wsa showing a powerful energy field that Ami had no
intention of dealing with, without transforming. She reached into her
pocket, and pushed the EMERGENCY button on her communicater. <If I hit
it a few times, I may be able to hold it off until the others have a
chance to get here.> She took her attention off of the little demon for
a second, when suddenly it flew to her. Ami just a split second to
brace herself for the blow, and the likely repricusions of being hit.
She was surprised when all she felt was a gentle push. She opened her
eyes, only to find that the little monster was feeling her up, and
rubbing it's face in the space between her breasts.
Akane screamed at it. "You pervert! Leave my cousin alone!" She
slammed a fist into the creatures skull, sending it to the floor. It
looked up at her with puppy dog eyes.
"Akane-chan, why did you do that to a poor old man, who just wants
to comfort himself?"
"Yeah right, you old Freak!" Ranko yelled. Then, in a move that
startled Ami, Ranko fired a powerful energy blast, which appeared
similar to the Venus Crescent Beam, at the little old man. 'Gramps'
easily dodged it, and threw himself at Ranko, who caught him with an
uppercut, throwing him out of sight.
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"He shot a fireball?" Makoto yelled. Ami nodded.
"He told me that it was just a martial arts technique that he
learned some time ago."
"But what about the monster? Didn't you go after it?" Rei asked.
None of them had been able to get to the Tendo Dojo before Ami had given
the AllCLEAR signal on the communicater.
"Akane said that he wasn't a daimon, but just a perverted martial
artist. In fact, she told me he had taught Uncle Soun and Ranko's
father when they were younger." The Scouts shook their heads at the
fact that a human being could so easily be mistaken as a monster.
"What about that energy blast you say Ranko fired? Are you sure
it's like my Venus Crescent Beam? How can he do that?" Minako asked.
Rei got a funny look on her face.
"Grandpa said that some martial artist could focus their ki, their
spiritual and life energy, and use it as a weapon. It's something like
what I do to read fires, but it would take years of training, he said.
And he didn't think that anyone alive could do it, because the
techniques to focus that power were supposedly lost centuries ago."
Makoto got a dreamy look to her eyes.
"What I wouldn't give to be good enough to do that." She said.
Everyone sighed. While it wasn't as bad as her 'He looks just like my
old boyfriend' trance, it was still a pain. Ami attempted to answer
Minako's question.
"From the tests that I have run on our powers, and some research,
I've concluded that our powers draw on certain energies, which are
remarkable similar to those that the Negaverse steal, which from Rei's
description, is the same as ki. Especially your attacks, Mina-chan,
because they seem to be ki in a raw, but focused state. Bascially the
differences in our abilities is how it manifests. Most likely, the
Silver Millenium and Dark Kingdom, and most of our previous enemies,
have all used technology which is based on ki energy, instead of EM,
like modern technology. If this is true, than all of our weapons, and
our powers, are just a different kind of technology, not magic like
we've always thought of them. And, Ranko's skills, may be left over
from the theories that were used to create them.
"If that's true, than if we can get training from Ranko, we may be
able to improve our powers." Ami finished. Makoto was definitly for
it, while Rei considered how the skills she might learn could help as a
Shinto priestess. Minako was considering being able to fire off an even
stronger Crescent Beam, and being able to use her Senshi powers in
normal mode. Usagi was busy reading Rei's manga.
"Usagi!" Luna yelled. Usagi glanced guiltily at the group, and
hid the manga behind her back.
"So, we're learning martial arts from Ranko?" She asked. Everyone
sweatdroped while nodding their heads.
"But that'll be a lot of worrrrrk." She whined.
"Oh, stop being such a lazy cry-baby Meatball Head!" Rei snapped.
"I'm not a lazy cry-baby!" Usagi yelled, which promptly started a
tongue war. The others sighed.
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How goes it? This is it, the latest episode of Knights, and boy
did it take a while! Please send me all the C&C you can. Hopefully
this is a good sign that the other fics will get done soon. BFN!
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"To see a world in a
grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a
wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the
palm of your Hand,
And Eternity in an hour."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Lord, What Fools these Mortals Be."
Shakespeare
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