Wild Silver - Volume One - Chapter One
                                  by 
                   Francis Bourque <fbourque@abacom.com>

                   Homepage: http://fbourque.anifics.com


Standards' disclaimers applied.
This is a Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon XOVER with possible
cameo from other series.

Ranma 1/2 is a property of Takahashi Rumiko and
Sailor Moon is a property of Naoko Takeuchi.
I don't own any of their characters or series.

I would appreciate all commentaries about my fanfic.

      Begun: 12th July 2000       
Last Update: 20 April 2001           

Version 1.1 (WP8)

I wanted to thank my two pre-readers:

 James Merritt <j.merritt1@home.com> and

 John Surber <john.surber@uleth.ca>.  

And also, thank to James Merritt who had edited Volume One, 
Prologue to chapter Two, correcting what WP8 hadn't caught.

Their supports were greatly appreciated because I tend to have better
ideas when I can discuss them with others.



Chapter One: "Life, thousand of years ago!"

[Moon's Palace, Silver Millennium]

"Serenity!  It's a girl!" the Med Magi announced to her Queen.

"We would hope so!  We never have boys in our lines." replied
the Queen, happy to be rides of so much extra weight.

"So true my Queen." the Senshi of Pluto said from behind her. 
She had just appeared as was usual for her.

"Trying again to surprise us?" Serenity asked her old friend 
from her bed.

"I always tried though I don't know when I will succeed." said Pluto  
while smiling at the baby in her Queen's hands.  

She frowns a little but let it be for now, she just took a peak 
at her future and would have made a double face-fault if she didn't 
have perfect control over herself.

"This child is already destined for great things.  
 I would recommend to my Queen to teach her all about 
 being a proper Princess and to be a Lady before 
 her seventh birthday is to happen."

"We will." said the Queen, not one to ignore any recommendations 
from the Guardian of the Time Gate.

'I wonder where the red hair came from' Serenity thought to herself,
comparing it with her pink one from before she became Queen and
her hair had turned silver.

Pluto had just disappeared through a portal while her Queen 
was lost in thought.

The only one who witnessed Pluto departure was the baby who giggled 
at the 'trick', already more aware than a newborn should be.


[Later at the Time Gate]

"Now, what could have caused this mess." the Senshi of Pluto 
was talking to herself, a sign of old age, but with her being 
the Guardian of the Time Gate, was not a surprise.

With the help of the Time Key she was viewing recent events in detail.

In the center of the portal, we could observe what had happened in 
Nerima in another dimension.  Pluto didn't have the power to 
change the outcome that happened there but at least she hoped to 
understand the mess better.

After she saw the wish result, Pluto waves with her Time Key to 
continue forward.  

Now she observed Chaos itself, trying to change the wish purpose 
to have Ranma-chan take the place of the soul destine to give 
life to Serenity's daughter just a few seconds before it could 
take hold.

Pluto was in shock.  Chaos, somehow, was able to change destiny 
on a scaled Pluto was forbidden to correct and the power of the 
Serenity's was already bonds to Ranma.  

For better or worse is still unknown. 

Worse of all, Ranma was immune to her time's sense by his chaotic 
nature when the magic of his curse had merge completely together 
with Ranma.

'I will have to wait for thing to stabilize, there is too much 
 chaos right now' the Guardian of the Time Gate thought after 
she became aware of a severe headache cause by the splitting 
of her timeline a couple of month ago when Ranma's soul modified 
the timeline so much to force a split.

A timeline would remain stable only if one could ultimately correct
the anomaly without doing too much changes themselves.  
                                        
If not correct, its result in a split where the original timeline
remains unchanged and the split timeline show the result of the
alteration.

She just happened to be in the alteration.  
She got thought a dozen of such change and had remained in the mainline
but not this time.

She had even detected time travel on the astral plane, which was even
harder to correct.  

Physical plane was a pain, and astral plane was out of her jurisdiction.

[Earth, Palace of King Endymion.  Four years earlier]

"Endymion!  Here's our son." his Queen present King Endymion a 
baby boy of a few days old, thin blue-black hair could be seen 
on his head.

While the two rulers of most of Earth were playing with the small boy,
Pluto was observing all this from the future, trying to understand how
a mess like that could have happened.  

For her, it had been more than a year before her time's sense became
stable again and what she had discover since didn't please her at all.

'What a mess!' she thought not for the first time 
'At least the headaches are gone' 


[Moon's Palace.  Seventh birthday of Princess Serenity] 

"What a tomboy you made, Serenity!" Rei, Princess of Mars teased
the Moon Princess.  

They were playing in a garden near the Moon's Palace and Serenity,
who had her red hair in twin pigtails, had climbs in a tree.

"I'm not!" Serenity said from her perch.

"You are!" Rei replied from the ground.

"I'm not, I'm not, I'm not!" 

"Yes, you are a Tomboy!" said Rei in her teasing mode when dealing
with her best friend, though she would deny it if one were to point
this out.

"WAAHHHHHHH, you are so mean!" 

"And you are a Tomboy!" 

"I'm a man dammit!" Serenity yelled at last.

"That's a new one.  You are a Tomboy, but a man?  
 Not from where I'm standing," 

Rei decides to tease her friend full out "though I could be mistaken,
 I had never played with boys before."

"Did I just say something stupid?" the Moon Princess asked Rei,
too confused to do anything else.

"As usual." Rei could not pass the change to tease her.

"I think I need a break" began Serenity, fainted and dropped 
from the tree a significant number of meters, to the ground 
compose of herbs and humus.

They were under the Palace's windows of their respective 
mothers and Princess Serenity had yelled loud enough to 
be heard by them.

They both teleports to joined their daughter after Serenity 
had dropped.

"What happened?" asked the Moon's Queen to Rei.

"I don't know.  One moment she was yelling about being a man.  
The next she was confused, fainted and dropped from her perch 
on that tree." replied Rei to them.

A portal was heard opening behind them.  From it, Pluto's Senshi 
was seen walking out and went to kneel down at the side of 
Princess Serenity and put her hand on her forehead for a few seconds.

The two Queens and the young girl didn't know what she was doing here
but say nothing until Pluto stood up and announced:

"The event I talk to you about at Princess Serenity birth will take
place shortly.  Take her to her room and remain with her.  
Only you three could be there when she awakens, no one else, 
especially not a moon cat."

With that said, she opened another portal and went through it.  


[Time Gate]

'Normally I wouldn't intervene but there are way too many possibilities.
 Some when they talked about what the Princess said, another, where a
 servant heard all what was said, gossips about it and used somehow 
 to bring Serenity down.  With so many others alternative and 
 too many outcomes'

'This Ranma really got on my nerve and I'm supposed to protect her' 
thought Pluto's Senshi in frustration.


[Princess Serenity's Bedroom]

"Why Pluto asked us to be the only ones to await for Ser recovery?" 
asked Rei.

Princess Rei was just a little older than Princess Serenity.  
At seven she was on the way to become one of the best fire 
priestesses and later Mars's Senshi if she so wishes.
 
"We don't have any idea about that.  Pluto is always so mysterious." 
replied Rei's Mother to her child.

Queen Serenity was at the side of her daughter, who was on her bed 
still unconscious.  

"Be well my daughter" the Queen pried, too low to be heard.
Rose seemed to be the predominant color in Princess Serenity's 
bedroom but the Queen didn't seem to notice her surrounding at all.
She was anxious to learn of the changes Pluto envisioned 
seven years ago.


[Mindscape of Princess Serenity]
                              
Memories long forgotten were playing in her mind.  
Images of a fight with a boy with a yellow bandanna 
and a red umbrella he used to fight.  Another boy 
wearing a white robe was using what could be better 
describe as all except the kitchen sink in his fighting style.  
After those two simultaneous fights than a pigtail boy was winning 
even with such odd, the same boy later was seen battling again 
a being with wings, dodging fireballs big enough to obliterate 
him if they'd connect and later freeze and shatter the wing's being.
Briefly, a girl with blue-black hair appears and soon all become 
clear to her.  This dream was crazy, no way around it.

Except maybes the last image.  

Akane seemed to be the girl's name.  

She just didn't know how she knew that name either.

She didn't have the time to think further when another dream began.
The fact she could think in a dream so clearly was unusual for her, 
but she didn't have a choice it seemed, because other images and 
memories were playing in her mind at high speed, trying to put a 
lifetime of memories in her.  

She was able to resist a little, but nearly all the memories of one 
'Ranma Saotome' were remembered in the end.


[Princess Serenity's Bedroom]

Princess Serenity was gradually regaining consciousness.

'ooh, what hit me?' Ranma thought.  
'Its Ranma right?' he thought in alarm.
'Who's Serenity then?'
'I'm Serenity'
'its stupid, I never play with other girls like that'
'Ukyou maybe but I thought she was a boy at the time'
'I'm a Princess.  That's a new one.  Only girls are Princess anyway'
"Oh Shit!" she yelled, now totally awake and in shock after realizing
she was a girl, which wasn't a good thing for Ranma who had been locked
as one more often than he cares to think about.

"Serenity . . . " her mother protested the use of such language but 
stops when she realizes her daughter was finally awake.

"Hello mom," said Ranma to her mother.  Ranma had all the memories and 
skill of Princess Serenity in addition to her own as Ranma Saotome, 
Master of the Anything Goes School of Martial Art and she wasn't a 
happy camper.  

'Where Akane' Ranma thought in panic.

"Are you well?" her mother asked.

"I think so, but I'm very hungry right now." replied her daughter.

"Ok, but first, could you explain your comment of this afternoon 
about being a man?" Queen Serenity asked curiously because she sure 
couldn't ask Pluto about it.  

'One never knows with children, they invent such silly games at time'
the Queen thought while waiting a reply, which was taking way too long
to come.

Ranma, with a bit of worried, was thinking: 'if I tell her the truth, 
 but she would think I took over her daughter's mind, but if I lie, 
 she would immediately know about it.   My last option is the Saotome 
 Secret technique from Pop, but Mother is too powerful for me to get 
 away with it.  Maybe,  . . .  oh oh!  She's waiting.  I can't delay 
 much longer' 

Ranma paused and resumed after using the Saotome Secret Technique 
revised nine fake a headache:  'Wait a minute here, I thought of her 
 as Mother, maybe I can just tell her the true, just not all of it.  
 At least she won't insist for me to commit seppuku.  I hoped?!'
 
"Mom, I seemed to have awakened some memories from a past life," 
the Princess began hesitantly and finished more confidently when 
she thought of what to say next: "I think I will be all right after 
 a good night of sleep."

Her Mother was curious to know whose memory but she had seen enough 
case of it to be able to wait a night longer and replied to her 
daughter: "Ok Princess.  We will talk further about it tomorrow."

Ranma cringed to be called 'Princess' while the Moon's Queen and 
her two guests left Princess Serenity to rest and got out of 
her room and began to talk about this new situation with Rei 
making comments from times to times.


In her room, Ranma was thinking very hard:

'Ok, the first thing is I don't want them to call me Princess, 
 Serenity or Ser.  But Ranma is out too.  Too masculine.  
 Ranko maybe?!  The Meaning of 'Wild Child' wouldn't please Mother, 
 except than she doesn't understand Japanese and if no one else 
 speaks it around here, which I doubt, that should pass easily.  
 Nothing can go wrong!' 

"Ha!  I should know better than tempt fate!" she said out loud.

As Ranma, he had encountered even more problems after saying something
stupid like that.

While reluctant, Ranma was looking around of herself to make sure
nothing was about to go wrong, she decided than the end of the world
could wait until tomorrow and go back to sleep.  

That much thinking and the event of the day had exhausted her.


[Queen Serenity's Royal Suit]

Rei's Mother was talking to Queen Serenity about said event while
they were both sit on a cozy couch like old friends.


"Your daughter had seemed a little out of it after she had awakened
 tonight.  Why do you think Pluto warned you and why I didn't knew
 about it?" Rei's Mother asked.

"We didn't deem necessary to warned you or anyone else.  
 The warning was only to help in the upbringing of Serenity 
 without saying much about anything else." 

"And what of those memories she claimed to have?"

"You know as We know than memories of past lives are awakened 
 as need by Senshis or Knights and, in fact, is one of their 
 powers as Avatar."  Serenity replied.

"Yes, but not at seven years old."

"The times to come will be trouble.  Pluto warned me about it."
explained Serenity.  

"We will have to get ready for troubles then.  Could I impose
 and let my daughter remained on the Moon for a year or two?  
 Our daughters seemed to like each other and would enjoy the times
 they can spend together here.  I will be able to get Mars ready
 more easily that way." asked the Queen of Mars to Queen Serenity.

"We would like that.  Our daughters would, no doubt, jump in joy
 to hear this.  I wish you a safe return home and keep me informs
 of your progress." 

"Thank.  Good nights my friend." Rei's Mother replied informally to
close their little talk.

While the Queen of Mars was taking her leave, Serenity was thinking
about those new memories her daughter had remembered that day.

She was worried more than she let anyone know.  

That wouldn't be the first time than old memories would take control
over one so young.  She would have to see the extent those memories
affect her daughter before taking any actions one-way or the other.



[Morning, Moon Palace]

In the garden behind the Palace, Ranko, who has awaken early,
was practicing her basic kata.  There is really no way she could
jump ten meter or more for some of them so she had to keep to the
basic for now.

After she finished her workout, Ranko decided to practice some of her
special technics.  

Some guard was watching her from a distance partly for security reasons
and also in awe.  The Royal family had never practiced martial art and
it's a shock to him to see one who seems already good at it.

The guard didn't think he would be need as much if the Princess was
already that good.

 When suddenly . . . 

"Could you join me in my practice by sparing with me?" Ranko requests
from the guard.  He was startled because she said it from behind him
when she was at least a hundred meters in front of him not too long ago.

Evidently, Ranko was practicing one of the Saotome Secret technics of
the 'Umisen-Ken' to disappear by hiding one Ki.

This technic didn't need much Ki, which made it perfect to practice
with.

"Princess, I can't do that." said the Guard while trying to calm down.

"Could you call me Ranko, please?" asked Ranko while trying
to look kawaii.

The Guard gulped and replied: "That not proper to use anything else
 than your title, Princess Serenity."

"Please, at least when we aren't in an official situation?!"
pleaded Ranko, kawaii looks two hundred percent higher.

"You win, Ranko." the Guard's guard dropped before his princess
pleading looks.

"Yatta!" Ranko exclaimed and added as an after thought: 
"could you notify the other guards of this change, please?!" 
Ranko asked and turns the kawaii looks again.

'At least now I can make use of all the weapons a girl body has 
 to offer' thought Ranko when she saw the effect of her antic, 
but sad when she thought of her previous mother.

The Guard saw the sad look pass over Princess Serenity face 
and planned to change it.  

He replied to Ranko: "Ok Ranko, I will do so." with a smile on his face.

"Now, about this sparring match!" Ranko announced and went to a zone 
of the garden wide enough to this activity.

"Ranko, are you sure?  I can easily hurt you?"

"Yes I'm sure and we won't go for strength but skills mainly.  
 Don't put to much power behind your moves and I will do the same." 
Ranko explained to him after he positioned himself at a good distance
for sparring.

Ranko knew very well her body wouldn't be able to withstand the
full power of a punch and intend to change it fast.


While they were warming up, Ranko's Mother was talking to Rei 
in the throne room.

"Rei, how would you like to remain here for the next year." 
Queen Serenity asked Rei, who was trying very hard to keep her
composure in front of the crow, mainly compose of Senshis, 
Guards and guests.  

"I... would like that" Rei replied, unsure of herself.
               
'Where's my mother anyway' thought Rei.

"We are certain you will like to keep Princess Serenity companies."
the Queen smiled and turned to other matters.

"yes" replied Rei, and seeing as she was dismissed, walked out of there.

Queen Serenity, after Rei went out of the door, asked her advisor, 
a black cat with a yellow crescent moon on her forehead who's named 
is Luna, about general's affairs in the kingdom with a simple sign.

"My Queen." Luna bows, as much as a cat could do such a thing 
and began her report: 

"On the moon we have received the usual protests.
 On Earth, there seemed to be some dissensions in the population, 
 they are mainly objections to our commercial politics with the 
 outside of Pluto's orbit.  From the Kingdom of Mercury to Pluto, 
 nothing of interest to report today." Luna concluded.

"Very well.  Keep an eye on Earth.  We will wait to see what develops.
 We won't do a thing if we don't need to.  Better to let them govern 
 themselves." the Queen ordered casually.

"If there is nothing else,  We need to go see our daughter." she added.

When Luna seemed to want to follow, the Queen commanded: "No Luna, We
 will go alone and resume your duty."

"Yes, my Queen" the black cat replied, bowed and went on her way.


[In the Garden]

The Queen was walking in view of the Royal Garden when she saw 
one of the Guard assigned to her daughter, assaulting his charge.

She starts to run, frantic to arrive in time.

"What's the meaning of this?!" ordered the Queen when 
she arrives near them.

That stop them short of each other and Ranko, after regaining
her breath, exclaimed to her mother: 
"Mom, we were just practicing my martial art!"

Such lack of manner stops the Queen short, looking at her daughter 
like a lab specimen, trying to determine what species Ranko was from.

The Guard, for his part, was afraid for his life.  He had been very
careful while sparring with the Princess but the Queen didn't seem
to think so and the delay for a reaction didn't help any.

Finally Queen Serenity asked: "What martial art?"

Ranko, after finally remembering she didn't knew any Martial Art, 
decides to smile and look pretty for her Mother.   

That didn't work, but she tried anyway.

After an uncomfortable minute of indecision for Ranko, hell for 
the Guard and worried for Queen Serenity, Ranko replied:

"Mom, we need to talk" and added, not receiving any replied: 
"Privately."

                                             
 A little later in the Queen's private chamber.

No need to say it's magically seal against spies.

"Now, daughter,  We wanted to know all about it." asked Queen Serenity
to her nervous daughter.

'How can I explain I made a stupid wish and I reincarnated as 
 her daughter' Ranma said out loud, not noticing at first 
her little error.

"WHAT!" 

'Mother seemed upset now' Ranma absent mindedly observe, 
too much in her own thought to panic.  yet.

"You possessed my daughter then" the Queen began and added after taking
a decision: "only one thing to do, cleansing my daughter from evil!" 
she finished high enough to get Ranma out of his thought, just in time
to dodged the first silver blast.

"HEY!  WHATDYA DO THAT FOR?!" Ranma yelled from the ceiling, 
twenty meters high.

To say she didn't remain here long was an understatement when her 
mother blast another attack her way.  

Now she was on the wall, stuck there like glue, yelling: 
"STOP THAT, THAT'S HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH POSSESSION!"

Queen Serenity stopped short from shooting another silver blast
of pure moon power, even stronger than the last two.

"It's not?  What was it then?" she asked her 'daughter?', 
wishing to know how her daughter could have adhered on a 
wall like that.  

Or the ceiling for that matter.

"I just received all the memories of one Ranma Saotome, 
 age twenty-two, Grand-Master of the Anything Goes School 
 of Martial Art." Ranma said quickly in hoped not to be 
'Cleanse' or kill because of a little misunderstanding.

"And I have also all my own memories about being your daughter." 
Ranma added as an after thought.

'Stupid curses anyway, nearly got myself kills, again' Ranko thought
in disgust.

'A classic cases of reincarnation?' the Queen pondered on this.

'And I had never been prone to jump to conclusion like that before.  
 What is happening to me' Queen Serenity asked to herself, 
worried than she was becoming evil, which sent shiver down her spine.

After Ranma had land near her mother, ten meters was near enough for 
her anyway, she asked, worried: "Mom, are you ok?"

After a minute of silence, her mother hesitantly replied: 
"We think so," and added: "We will have to monitor you for the next
 while.  At seven, to have memories from someone of twenty-two 
 reawakening in you, could erase or supplant your own memories 
 if we are not careful." 

"Don't worry.  I'm fine.  Those memories don't even come close
 to what I have learned as a Princess.  And anyway, I was a man
 last time."

For some reason, the Queen face-fault.

"That hurt!" she exclaimed, not in the habit to do such things.

"I know that far too well.  I hope not to use it too often either."
Ranko replied, now that she decided thinking/switching/juggling between
names or gender like she did, was not healthy.

And 'Ranko' was also an alias for her before, and its should work
just as well now too.
                    
"And could you call me Ranko, I'm more likely to reply to that name than
Princess or Serenity?" 

"Ranko?  What it's meant?" her Mother asked curiously, 
not being able to translate it.

"That means 'Wild Child'." her daughter replied, who had calm down 
now than her mother had stopped trying to 'cleanse her'.  

"We will have Luna examine you.  She's the mind specialist and 
 should have more information about what happened." Queen Serenity 
replied after accepting for now the name's change.

Ranko, got scared and took a step back, looking like she had just see
her worse nightmare.

"What is the matter,  . . .  Ranko?" her mother asked, with a
hesitation on the name, after she saw Ranko looking frightened
for some unknown reason.

Ranko was shacking for a while and her mother walked to her and 
took her in her arms to try to calm her.

"You can talk about it to me, you know." told a mother to her
shacking daughter.

"I, it's thee ca, ca, CAT thing" said Ranko after she recovered the
ability to speak.  

"Luna?  We don't understand.  Are you afraid of a mind scan?" 

"Nooo, the ca, CAT!  Idontwannaseeher"

"Oh my!" her mother said.

Blinking a couple of times, Ranko asked: "Are you related to Kasumi?"

"Kasumi?"

"I guess not then" Ranko replied to her own question.

'stupid, stupid' she thought.

'At least I don't think of cats anymore' 

Ranko shivers and thought: 'Hard not to think of something you don't
wanna
think about'

"We will warn Luna to use her human form.  But she won't appreciate 
 it at all." Queen Serenity announced, Las of all those revelations, 
she thought: 'Wild Child: That suit her' and took a deep breath.

She just didn't know yet how much she was right.

[End of Chapter One]

[Author's notes]

For those who wonder why Queen Serenity had jumped to conclusion in
the 3/4 of chapter One, it was just one of the effect Ranma had
on others which make them jumped to conclusion more easily then
usual.  Its could be called a curse or just an inerrant part of Ranma.

Queen Serenity shouldn't be caught again by it either, she's too
on guard against those kind of reactions after that incident.
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