Gasps could be heard all through
out the palace of Roshtaria. Princess
Rune, Londs, and Dr. Strellbaugh discussed
the new revelation that the Eye of God
was moving. The Eye of God was moving
unusually fast considering how huge it was.

	"In what direction was the Eye of
God last seen moving?" Rune asked Londs and
Dr. Strellbaugh.

	Londs and Dr. Strellbaugh looked at
each other nervously before looking back
to Princess Rune. The short old doctor
stroked his beard before speaking up.
"We believe the Eye of God is moving in
the last seen direction the four
priestess' and the travellers from Earth
were going which we comfirmed from
Makoto's last sent letter. You remember
what Makoto last said in his letter?"

	Rune nodded. "Yes, something about
the four priestess' taking them to the
Forbidden Island to research the rumor
about the Bugrom Empire...you don't mean?!"

	Londs and Dr. Strellbaugh nodded.
"We believe the Eye of God is heading
toward the Forbidden Island."

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	"MOUKO TAKIBISHA!!!"

	"RRRAAAAHHHHH!!!"

	"F-finally. I won." Ranma was
getting very tired. He had been using
his ki attacks which had drained him
a lot. Even though, after a while of
training on the new world, he had
figured out that he could use his ki
attacks more often, he was still tired.
Ki attacks took a lot out of you.

	Nephrite looked dead on the
ground, but somehow, his heart was still
beating. His mind was off somewhere in
his head being unconcious.

	Ranma looked around to the other
battles. He and Nephrite had been off
in their own little world. Miz had
been knocked unconcious, Afura was
seriously injured and was laying down
next to Miz. Jinnai's bugrom soldiers
had been defeated long ago, so he
himself had fled off to somewhere. Ura,
Nanami, Fatora, and Alielle were watching
the battle while taking care of the
fainted Makoto. He fainted a little
while after his contact with Ifurita.

	Shayla and Lita were still trying
to help out the others in the battle,
though Shayla had a two broken ribs
and Lita's shoulder bone had been
cracked. The only real fighters were
Mr. Fujisawa, Ryoga, Taro, Kyoto,
Ifurita, and Kalia.

	Ryoga was angry. Which obviously
isn't very unusual. First of all, he
found out that Kalia and Ifurita were
extremely strong, stronger than Ranma
and he found this out the hard way.
Second of all, the only way he had
actually survived was getting lost. When
he came back he saw that all of the
priestess' had nearly been completely
beaten, which made him pissed since he
thought it was his fault. The good side
of this was that Kalia and Ifurita were
getting a little tired. Their battle
against each other were starting
to wear on them, though it was obvious
that Kalia was winning. Another good
thing was that Ryoga had a lot of energy
left.

	Mr. Fujisawa managed to survive
from his extreme power increase when
Miz got hurt. That and when his alcohol
and cigs were burnt to a crisp when
Kalia returned fire with quadruple
elemental attack she had absorbed.
That's when he started to glow green.
His speed and strength were heightened
drastically by his new aura.

	Taro was in fairly good condition,
but he could not stand another all out
attack from Kalia. And this was when
he was in his cursed form! He decided
he might as well finish the battle in
human form and therefore poured his
last thermos of warm water on him.

	Kyoto had was nowhere to be
seen in battlefield.

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	Kyoto was hiding behind
some tree because he was mysteriously
being weakened. It got worse as
the battle went on. He could
use neither his spell or ki attacks.
At he beginning of the battle, he
took the sword Orochi and attacked
Kalia early in the battle. The sword
cut through her defensive with ease
and defended against her attack with
hardly any pressure. Sometime during
the battle, the sword disappeared and
that's when he started to weaken.

	He looked up his hiding spot.
"What the hell is that?" A moon or
huge sphere was heading toward them.
As it got closer, his felt more
restless and the ball seemed to be
growing larger and larger. "I-is
that the Eye of God?" He managed
in a hoarse voice. Kyoto slowly
crawled out of his hiding place.

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	"STO~~~~OP!!!"

	Everybody halted their battle
and looked toward the source of their
distraction.

	"Kyoto? Where have you been!?"
Taro growled angrily at him. Then
he saw how fatigue he looked and
looked confused. (What the happened
to him?)

	Kyoto pointed up toward the
rushing sphere. "Look! The Eye of God
is coming!"

	No matter how much they wanted
to discard the notion as ludicrous,
they couldn't ignore the massive
structure coming toward them.
Everybody cried out in surprise.

	The Eye of God stopped its
movement right above them. The
hole at the bottom was being covered
by a large and growing black ball
of energy. Lightning crackled and
spurt out from the hole. The ground
shook like an 7.9 earthquake.

	The three concious priestess'
gasped. "How can this be possible!?"
Afura asked in a surprised tone.

	"More importantly, HOW CAN
THIS BE HAPPENING!?" Lita added
on.

	"If the Eye of God fires
without the guidence of the princess',
the we'll all be killed!!" Shayla
stated.

	Ranma glanced at Ryoga, Taro,
and Kyoto before speaking. "Then go."

	The priestess' turned to look
over to Ranma. "What?! We couldn't
do that!" Lita replied. "We couldn't-"

	Ranma cut her off. "You just
said we'd all be killed, right?"
Shayla and the others nodded. "Then
there's no choice. Go on without out
us! Leave me, Ryoga, Taro, and Kyoto
behind."

	Mr. Fujisawa spoke up. "Hey!
I can't leave you guys! As the eldest
of the group, I should be left behind!"

	"No! Don't ya want to be with Miz?"
Ranma asked. Mr. Fujisawa hesitated.

	"I don't remeber putting my life
in your hands Ranma," Taro muttered,
but didn't object any further.

	Makoto joined the discussion.
"We won't leave you dehind Ranma.
Besides, we would probably never make
it in time to get out of range."

	Ranma looked at the priestess'
for confirmation. They nodded.
"What are we going to do? We all
can't just die."

	"I know how."

	Everybody turned the attention to
Kyoto.

	"I've learned a new wind spell
which should help. It's weak since I just
learned it, but Afura should be able
to amplify the power. It would take
you out of range faster and be a
shield."

	Afura shook her head. "I'm not
exactly up to full power."

	"I might be able to fix that.
Here, give me your hands," Kyoto asked
calmly. "I won't do anything." He
motioned for her to sit down and she
did, wondering what he was going to do.

	Afura gave Kyoto her hands after a
moments hesitation. Kyoto joined them with
his own, gripping them gently. Kyoto
closed his eyes and began to concetrate.
His brow creased and sweat rolled down his
forehead. A white aura surrounded his body,
the aura slowly began to flow from his
hands to hers.

	Afura's eyes got wide. Everybody
looked at the spectacle in awe. "Wh-what
are you doing? How are you doing this?"

	"Ki manipulation..." Ranma said to
himself, then to Kyoto. "Your going to
give her your energy, aren't you?"

	Kyoto's head moved slightly in
confirmation. The aura around Kyoto began
to fade around him and brighten around
Afura. Finally, he let go off her hands
and fell back on the ground in exaustion.

	"Wow! I feel a whole lot better!"
Afura said, testing her arms and legs.

	The rumbling grew worse, the black
sphere got larger.

	"Go now! I'll cast it when your
on board!" Kyoto ordered them. "We have
to stay here because the barrier won't
grow large!"

	Seeing that they weren't going to
get anywhere in argueing and that time
was running out, Nanami, Fatora, Alielle,
Mr. Fujisawa, Afura, Shayla, Miz, Ura, and
Makoto left for their ship.

	Once they were on board, Kyoto
started concetrating once again. He
moved his open hand to point toward their
ship. "I hope Afura can manage this....
Rey Wing!!"

	A bubble of air appeared around
Afura. Afura put her hands on the bubble
and enlarged it so it fit the size of the
ship. Soon, their figures became distant
spots on the sea.

	Kyoto fell back onto the ground,
more tired than ever before.

	"Lita!? You stayed?!" Ranma cried
out in disbelief.

	"Of course! I came in here with
you guys and I'm not about to let you
leave alone!" Lita pouted.

	"Hey! What about those demon-gods?
Where did they go??" Ryoga asked while
looking around.

	Taro shrugged. "Must've run off.
They'll probably end up killing each
other."

	Kyoto's necklace brightened, almost
hurting your eyes by looking at it.
"Here it come!" Kyoto yelled while looking
up.

	The dark ball didn't shoot off like
a bullet, instead it just enlarged itself
as large as the island and engulfed the
entire island. Not only that, but mile
long radius of everything around it.

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	"Lita? Where's Lita?" Shayla asked
in worry.

	"Oh no...she must've stayed back!"
Afura answered sadly.

	"Oh no! Here it comes!"

	Afura got ready, forcing all of her
power onto the Wind Shield.

	The massive sphere grew at an extremely
fast rate, so it reached their ship in no time.
The sphere rammed up against the ship, hitting
the wind shield. Their ship seemed to bounce
off the large dark ball, sending them flying
out of range of the sphere.

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	The sphere sucked up the five people
in the black pitch. Now that they were
flying inside, it seemed more like hole or
gape in the dimension. The hole was began
to shrink, taking everything up into the
darkness. Right before the hole shrunk on
them, Kyoto's necklace flashed like a flare,
blinding everyone. They disappeared into
somewhere else. Unfortunate for the unconcious
Nephrite, he wasn't taken into the light
flare and was sucked up into the nothingness.

	When the hole was gone, all that was
left a huge crater in the sea, water
filling in the empty earth from the sides.
A hovering ship sailed safely beyond
its reach. The Eye of God was returning to
its original place in the air.


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Next Episode on The Catalysts:

Taro, Kyoto, Ranma, and Ryoga find themselves
on a new planet which has 10 times normal
gravity! Not only that, but almost all of its
inhabitants have a power level far stronger
than Taro's cursed form! And what will they
do when they run into a bunch of huge King Kongs
and an alien who is said to be the strongest
being in the universe?

"Am I Weak? A Time Before Z"

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[Author's Notes]

C&C accepted!

Here's my slightly modified tranlastion of
Taro's new move:

Taro's Special Move: Hisumodan
			  (Jade Fire)

You might have noticed a slight change in
Nephrite's personality, which I thought was
necesarry. I plan to cross with all of my
favorite animes: Dragon Ball Z, Slayers,
Tenchi, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Oh! My Goddess!,
Yu Yu Hakusho, and _MAYBE_ Pokemon. I also
plan to cross with all of my favorite video games:
Xenogears, Final Fantasy 7, Darkstalkers 3,
Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Trigger, and
Starcraft. Actually, now that I look at it, it's
probably more of a dream I have. I hope to
accomplish this, but that's a pretty long list!

Most likely I will come back into the
Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 Dimensions soon for
the aftermaths of what happened when Ranma,
Taro, Ryoga, Lita, and Nephrite dissapeared.
And perhaps when I'm bored I'll write a side-story
on what happened to Ushiro, Gairin, and Kenji.

Also, thanks to my pre-reader Tue!

by Demon-God Entity aka. Tristan Wright
[animex_ryo@hotmail.com]






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