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Lines Of Destiny

A Sailor Moon/Ranma 1/2 Crossover

By Louis-Philippe Giroux
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Thank you for all your comments! Keep'em coming!
C&C is always welcome!!! (as well as plot ideas)



Sailor Moon was created by Naoko Takeuchi and Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko
Takahashi. Please don't sue me.



Chapter 3

Ranma and Akane had gotten off the train and were looking for the exit.
Akane noted with some amusement that the young man who had been sitting
across them in the train was being hugged to death by a girl with uncannily
long meatball-type ponytails. She frowned when her subconscious decided to
replace the young man with Ranma and the girl with Shampoo.

She blinked. *Get a grip on yourself, Akane!* she berated herself. *Ranma's
married to you now. There's nothing to fear from Shampoo.*

She was quickly brought back to her senses by a growling monster that
appeared out of nowhere.



Ranma was getting off the train and he was still thinking about the article
he'd read on the Sailor Senshi. According to the magazine, there had been a
rash of monsters in this part of Tokyo, but the Senshi usually took care of
them. What he couldn't figure out, though, was why his mind wouldn't let go
of the Senshi's images. Why did they seem so familiar?

He was rudely interrupted by a monster who made its presence known by
sending people screaming for their lives. He stared blankly at the monster
for about half a second before he took a ready stance.

"I thought I left that kind of crap in Nerima..." he muttered. He quickly
shoved Akane towards a knot of girls to keep her out of danger.



Akane quickly found herself shoved towards a group of girls. She managed to
slow down before ramming into Minako. She turned around to see Ranma
approaching the monster.

"What's he doing?!" shouted the girl she'd almost collided with.

Akane let out a sigh. "The baka's proabably going to try to fight it as
usual."

A girl with oddly familiar purple eyes spoke up: "He... he can't possibly
mean to fight it alone, can he?"

Akane looked at the girl, then back at Ranma who had engaged the monster.
"You're right!" After a second, she added: "I'm going to go help him. I'm
tired of sitting on the sidelines."

Mamoru, Usagi, Minako, Ami and Hotaru and Luna all took a step back and
could not help but stare in surprise when the girl pulled out a massive
hammer out of nowhere and walked back to the fight in progress. They were
all so stunned that they never noticed that the sigil of Earth flickering
faintly on Mamoru's forehead for a few seconds.



*God that thing is ugly,* thought Ranma absently. *Even Pansuto's cursed
form is better-looking.* The monster was about two meters tall, had two
legs and six arms, and looked particularly fast. The head looked like that
of an insect, complete with a collection of eyes of various sizes.

The monster, seeing Ranma wasn't running away, decided to rush him. Ranma
neatly avoided all of the arms and managed to land a kick in the monster's
face. The moster stumbled back a step and snarled. It decided to immobilize
its target by sending a stream of glue-like substance at its prey's feet.
Ranma easily jumped over the stuff and landed on the monster's head.

"Looking for someone?" he said conversationally, while rubbing his feet on
the monster's head.

The monster responded by slicing the air over his head with four clawed
arms. Of course, Ranma wasn't there anymore. Ranma landed in front of the
monster, his face turning serious.

"All right, enough of this crap! KACHUU TENSHIN AMAGURIKEN!!!"

Ranma's fists blurred and the monster was violently thrown back against a
wall. It's body was covered in bruises but it didn't seem worse for wear.
*Mmmhh, that thing's tougher that it looks. Might as well hit it with the
heavy stuff.* Suddenly, Akane ran up to him, hammer in hand.

"Ranma, you baka! I can fight too, you know!" she said testily.

"Look, that thing ain't human, so why don't you step back and be careful,
okay?" For a split second, Ranma switched his attention from the monster to
the group of girls he had pushed Akane towards, and saw Luna. Ranma
immediately froze up in terror.

The monster saw this forced the arguing couple apart, sending Ranma
crashing against a brick wall while Akane jumped to safety. Not seeing Luna
anymore, Ranma came back to his senses and was about to ki-blast the
monster into oblivion when he saw a train coming from the other side of the
station. He smirked. *Time to hit two birds with one stone,* he thought. *I
can get rid of the monster and let Akane vent her anger on the thing.*

"Akane!" he shouted, while evading the frustrated monters' claws. "I'm
gonna blast it over to you! Aim for the the train!"

Akane turned her head sideways and saw the train coming. She turned to
Ranma and nodded, mallet at the ready.

Ranma cupped his hands and gathered his ki. "MOUKO TAKABISHA" he shouted
and a sphere of blue ki-energy blossomed forth from his hands and sent the
monster flying towards Akane, who used her ki-powered mallet to hit the
monster and send it sprawling on the track, a mere foot in front of the
train, which subsequently crushed it. The monster quickly turned into dust.

Ranma and Akane walked over to the track just in time to see the monster
being reduced to a pile of ashes.

"Nice swing Akane," commented Ranma offhandedly while dusting himself.

"It disappeared just like that?" wondered Akane out loud, before returning
her mallet to hammerspace. "What was that thing, anyway?"

Ranma pulled out the magazine he'd been reading in the train and gave it to
Akane. "I read about it in the train. Apparently, monsters attack this part
of Tokyo on a regular basis." He sighed, then chuckled: "And I thought we
were done with this kind of stuff we moved out of Nerima."

Akane frowned. "I hope this doesn't happen too often. Who usually deals
with them?"

Ranma flipped the pages of the magazine and pointed to a blurry picture in
which you could barely distinguish five young women in rather skimpy
outfits. "They do. They call themselves the Sailor Senshi..."



While Akane and Ranma were discussing the topic further, Minako, Usagi, Ami
and Mamoru were alternating between staring at Ranma and Akane and giving
each other nervous looks. Hotaru was watching them intently, as if she was
trying to figure out a puzzle.

"What the hell just happened, Ami?" asked a bewildered Minako.

Ami soon found herself under close scrutiny when everyone turned towards
her. "Why are you asking *me*? I know as much about this as you do!"

"Well, you *are* usually the one who comes up with an answer," replied
Usagi in a matter-of-fact tone.

Luna looked clearly stunned. She started scratching the Usagi's socks to
get her attention. Usagi looked down and quickly deduced from her guardian
cat's face that she wanted to speak as soon as possible.

"They're leaving!" said Mamoru.

In a rare moment of self-control, Usagi snapped out of it and started to
run towards the two. "Come on! We have to find out who they are!"

The two teenagers had left through the exit, with Usagi close on their
steps. When Usagi went through the gate, however, she was met with empty
air. "Where did they go?" she wondered out loud.



Akane and Ranma finished their conversation when they noticed that the few
people who hadn't left the station in fear were staring at them. Then the
whispers began.

Ranma looked around him and decided it wouldn't be a good idea to stay here
for long. He tugged Akane's sleeve. "Akane, I think we'd better bail out of
here. I think we may have made too much of an impression already and what's
worse, I think I saw a cat earlier. I don't want to stay here if there is a
cat around," he said nervously.

Akane frowned and gave Ranma an annoyed look. *Again with his fear of
cats!* Akane sighed. *I wish there was a way to cure him of that.* She then
looked around and saw that people were starting to throw strange looks at
them. She heard mutters of "youmas", "monsters" and "Sailor Senshi." She
nodded to Ranma, and as soon as they made their way out of the exit with
their luggage, they jumped up and kept themselves to the rooftops.



As the girls were leaving the station, the questions started flying again.
"All right, first things first," said an uncharacteristically serious
Usagi. "Ami, what exactly *was* that monster, anyway? We haven't had one of
those for a long time, now."

"According to my computer, it was a daimon. Probably a reject from a
leftover daimon egg. I'm surprised that it lived this long without being
detected," answered Ami.

"And now for the $5000 question: What do you have on the guy who trashed
it?" asked Minako.

"He's quite human, if that's what you want to know. I got a few readings on
him since I inadvertently left my computer opened when the daimon
attacked."

"So let's hear it," said Luna.

"Well, what you saw at the train station practically speaks for itself.
First of all, he's incredibly fast and agile. I'm passably sure his speed
rivals or might even surpass our own in our Senshi forms. He must have a
great tolerance to injuries, too, since being slammed in the wall merely
stunned him for an instant."

"What about that blurred punch he threw?" asked Mamoru. "He yelled
something and then I couldn't even see his arms anymore."

Ami consulted her computer and frowned. When she stopped walking and stood
there frowning at he computer, the others stopped and looked at her
strangely.

"Masaka... there must have been a malfunction... he couldn't possibly have
thrown so many punches" they heard Ami mutter incredulously.

"Ami-chan, what's wrong?" asked Usagi.

"I have some trouble with what my computer tells me. According to it, he
threw *at least* 120 punches in under 5 seconds, very probably more; the
computer wasn't calibrated to analyze something like that." said Ami in a
disbelieving tone.

All the others stared at her incredulously.

"What about the energy ball he threw?" asked Usagi, snapping out of it.

Ami sighed and started walking again. "The computer didn't have enough time
to gather enough readings for that. I'm sorry, Usagi."

"I don't think we should forget what the girl did either. How many girls do
you know pull out giant hammers out of nowhere and are strong enough to
punt monsters around like baseballs?" commented Usagi.

Mamoru shook his head and Usagi noticed it.

"What's wrong, Mamo-chan?" she asked in a worried voice.

"They were in the train with me all this time; they were sitting straight
in front of me and I didn't notice a single thing..." But Mamoru's voice
had taken an uncertain tone by the end of the sentence.

"Out with it, Mamoru", said Minako, noticing the change in tone. "What is
it?"

Mamoru took on a thoughtful look. "It's probably nothing, but the guy
looked *very* familiar for some reason. I can't help wonder if I've seen
him before somewhere."

Hotaru, who had been silent up to now, suddenly became aware of the
conversation. "You too, Mamoru?!"

Everyone stopped walking and looked at both of them. Mamoru and Hotaru were
looking at each other.

"Where do you think you know him from?" asked Hotaru first.

"I've been having strange dreams for the past few days. It's in the days of
the Moon Kingdom. I'm wearing my armor as Prince Endymion and this girl is
running towards me, but I never quite clearly see her face; only shadows.
When I saw that guy, I immediately started thinking about that girl." He
passed a hand through his hair. "I don't really know why I should connect
the both of them in the first place."

Hotaru looked at Mamoru with what looked like pity in her eyes. "You don't
remember her, do you?"

Mamoru felt a chill go through his spine. "Remember who?"

"I know who the guy reminds you of, Mamoru. He looks exactly like what your
younger sister would've looked like had she been born a man."

Mamoru froze in shock. Sister?... He had a *sister*? Was the girl in his
dream his sister?... "I had a sister?..." he said weakly. He turned to
Luna. "Why was I never told I had a sister?!" he asked in a tone that was
rapidly rising towards that of anger.

Luna found herself flinching under Mamoru's angry gaze. The worst thing was
that for some reason, she now knew about Akana, something she knew she
hadn't known even yesterday. It was quite disconcerting. How was she
supposed to explain to Mamoru that she had just *now* remembered about his
sister?

Fortunately, Hotaru quickly came to Luna's rescue before the black cat had
to explain herself. "Mamoru, there's no guarantee that she did know about
Akana. Her and Artemis' memories are a bit swiss-cheesed, remember?"

Mamoru turned to her, his cold anger fading in the light of Hotaru's
argument. "Then how is it *you* know?" he asked.

"When I was reborn after the Pharaoh 90 incident, I grew up again extremely
fast, but this time, I had most of my memories of the Moon Kingdom." Hotaru
hesitated before continuing. "There's also the fact that your sister
couldn't have been reborn in this time like us, Mamoru." Seeing his
questioning look, she went on: "Akana and I became the Sailors Terra and
Saturn on the same day; we were the last Senshi to be nominated. Akana was
supposed to be the strongest Senshi next to myself in term of raw power,
but she mysteriously disappeared two months after her nomination as Sailor
Terra. No one really knows what happened to her and believe me, they
*really* tried to find her." Hotaru paused for an instant, then continued
again. "As for me, I was sent to train far away in the system because
everyone had become afraid of me, of what I meant. They were afraid of
Saturn the Destroyer. They were all afraid, save Serenity, the Senshi and
my brother." She gave a bitter smile. "The real irony of it all is that as
it turns out, they sent me to train so far I couldn't come back in time to
destroy Metallia when she launched her attack a few months later. The Moon
Kingdom passed away because it was afraid of the one who was supposed to be
its protector."

Minako found her voice first, although Hotaru did not expect the question:
"You had a brother?"

Hotaru looked sad for a moment. "Yes, I had a brother. His name was Kanma
and he was one of the rare people who didn't flinch when speaking to me
after I became Saturn. That's the other thing I find strange in all of
this: If I didn't know any better, I would swear that the girl was my
reincarnated brother."

"How could you be sure she's your reincarnated brother?" asked Luna.

Hotaru looked down to Luna with a small smile for an instant: "You probably
wouldn't understand, but it has something to do with the way she handled
that hammer of hers. Kanma was always using hammers; he used to say
pounding things made him relax. She looks so much like he did... but I gave
up hope of my brother being reborn a long time ago." she finished with a
sad look.

"How can you be so sure?" asked Usagi, who had not taken her hand away from
Mamoru's shoulder since Hotaru's revelation. "My mother managed to send a
lot of people to the future when she used the Ginzuishou to seal Metallia
away. How can you be sure your brother wasn't one of them?"

Sad purple eyes looked up at the sky. "When I finally came back to the Moon
and found the Crystal Palace destroyed, I immediately rushed to where my
old home was and found nothing but ashes. I later found out that my home
had been the among the first areas hit by youma strikes, which happened at
least a month before Metallia launched her final strike."

Everyone was silent for a while, digesting the new information.



Further along the way, Ranma and Akane got back down from the rooftops
after being sure nobody had followed them from the train station.

"I hope you're not planning on doing this on a regular basis, Ranma. I
really wouldn't appreciate all the attention."

"Kinda strange, isn't it?" Ranma replied over his shoulder. "In Nerima,
Ryoga and I destroyed a lot of things each time we fought and no one ever
looked twice."

"They did look twice," Akane replied. "They were just too afraid of doing
anything about it."

Ranma raised an eyebrow, but let the matter drop. They soon arrived in
front of a Shinto Temple.

"This is the place!" said Ranma. He looked at Akane, took her hand and went
inside the gates.



End Chapter 3

Chapter 4

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