Heh. Tannim and I are doing 2 little sidestories for our "To the End of the 
Moon (And Over the Edge)" and this is mine... If you've followed along (the 
whole 2 chapters we've put out at the time of writing this) you'll understand 
where I'm coming from... maybe. And if not.. well.. hopefully this'll be 
humerous enough to get you interested. 
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Disclaimer: I don't Own Ranma. I don't own Sailor Moon. And I don't own 
anything of much monetary value. Just things of sentimental value. So please 
don't take my pathetic attempts at crowd-pleasing as a target for a Copywrite 
infringement case...
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Setsuna stood at the Gates of Time, watching as her Princess and fellow 
Senshi battled menace after menace. Suddenly, her Princess was ambushed. By 
her own parents! And sent to... 
"Nerima." Setsuna frowned. The Chaotic energy there was so thick the Magical 
Time gates actually displayed it as a purple whirlwind that affected 
everything it touched. And at the heart of this whirlwind, unknowingly 
stirring it, feeding it, and nurturing it, was one Ranma Saotome. 

Setsuna thought for a minute about what she knew of the magical energy that 
filled Ranma's life. Due to its Chaotic nature, it had little effect on 
Nerima at some times, and caused huge amounts of property damage at others. 
Because Ranma and most of the other people in Nerima were martial-artists, 
and not magic-users, there wasn't much in the way of magic to feed the 
cyclone. However, when magic did present itself, unless it was very well 
crafted (like the Jusenkyo curses), it would often go awry almost 
immediately, always yielding unexpected results.

With Usagi there, now, however, things would change. Usagi's magical nature 
would begin to feed the Chaotic storm, and pretty soon, Nerima would see 
things even their hardened spirits would have thought possible. And people 
would start to wonder why.

Setsuna considered how to retrieve Usagi carefully. She risked fueling the 
cyclone just by teleporting there, but if she had to ride a train, or drive, 
Usagi would probably fuel it just as much in the time it took to get there. 
With a sigh, she stood, and went to the Time Gate, calling her staff from its 
sub-space dimensional pocket, and traveling to Nerima.

Suddenly, mid-teleportation, something happened. The tornado had already fed 
off of Usagi from the little time she'd had there, and Setsuna's entrance, 
and the Temporal Magic flare-up attracted the empowered Chaos like a moth to 
a candle flame.

Setsuna wasn't sure what happened, but suddenly she was back at the Time 
Gate.

She looked herself over to see if anything was wrong, and, finding nothing, 
she sighed. That's when it happened. As she sighed, a small, flat cloud, 
shaped like a mushroom flew out of her mouth, and faded a moment later. She 
then felt her right eye twitch, and she took a deep breath to calm herself. 

"Something very odd has happened." She muttered, turning to the Time Gate to 
see if she could scry what was wrong. Instead, she saw.. nothing. The Gate 
showed blackness... though the surface rippled, as it always had. Setsuna 
blinked... and then jumped.

She'd jumped because, as she had blinked, there had been an almost-cute <Poit>
 noise to go along with it. Here eyelid twitched again. She quickly did what 
she could to calm herself, and then turned back to the Gate. Blink <Poit>. 
She scowled, and summoned her staff. It came, and, after looking it over, she 
decided it was unharmed. 

With another sigh (and another cloud, which made her blink, inducing the <
Poit> which started an eye-twitch) she decided to try to teleport. This time, 
she decided to try for her apartment.

A few moments later, she appeared in her bedroom, and she sighed with relief. 
Of course, the cloud appeared. Seeing this out of the corner of her eye, 
Setsuna then moved towards the mirror. Reaching it, she looked herself over, 
and fortunately, found nothing wrong visibly. So, she decided to see what was 
going on. She sighed. The cloud appeared. In reaction, she instinctively 
blinked. The <Poit> sounded. Her eye twitched in annoyance, and she felt 
vaguely uneasy... and that's when she saw it. A HUGE drop of 'I hope that's 
not sweat, I'll dehydrate myself in a matter of minutes' dripped down the 
side of her head, before fading away. Setsuna Face faulted. 

"Owwwwww" She said aloud. Nobody responded. She climbed to her feet, and 
checked the mirror again, knowing she'd find a bruise forming over half her 
face. Nothing. She sweatdropped again.  She blinked <Poit> in response. 
Hearing the noise made her eyelid twitch. Finally, she sighed in 
resignation.. once again forming a cloud. 

With that done, she spun on her heels, and Teleported to Rei's Temple to give 
the girls the bad news.
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Authors notes: Flames are fine. I expect them. C&C too.. though pointing out 
typos and grammar errors probably wont result in much, since this is going up 
as-is. And yes... I AM still working on Trials of the Heart. This is just a 
way to keep myself from getting rusty at doing non-serious stuff. Peace out! 

-Kagato



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