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THE CHAOS KNIGHT

CHAPTER ONE: PRESENTATION

Disclaimer: Two things to say here:

I don't own any of the characters used in this story. I only write for the pleasure of being read and congratulate for what I have done. So don't sue me. But Please READ & REVIEW.

As I say in the beginning of all my stories, I'm French so my English is far from perfect. I hope to have limited the number of mistakes but I'm sure there are still a lot of them in this story. So excuse me and let me know if you see any of them so I can correct what is wrong.

"Have we just seen a man come, eliminate an enemy who seemed invincible until then, who reveals himself Pluto's son and who disappear a little bit after his astonished fight with Hotaru without any explanation ?" asked a startled Ami

"Well, I wouldn't be sure of my own eyes if Pluto was not so upset!" answered Haruka, not really sure how to take the situation. After all, her daughter has gone without a word, and her friend, who is known to control all her emotions, is actually crying her heart.

That's Michiru who acts finally. She takes a crying Setsuna into a calming hug, talking slowly to her friend. Usagi quickly joined her to give her friend some comfort. At the same time, she looked at the others. Apparently, everybody should be fine. Their wounds would be forgotten after a little time and all the Senshis had taken care to recover a little bit since the end of the fight. Now, the priority was to help Setsuna until she would be able to explain the situation.

"Let's go to my home", finally said Mamoru. "We should be better to talk than at Rei's shrine at this hour of the night."

That seemed to be the best solution so all the Senshis went in direction of Mamoru's apartment, helping each other when their injuries bothered their walk. Setsuna was still sobbing but she appeared to be a little better.

To reach the apartment was not as easy as it seems. They were all tired of their fight and even if their costume accelerated their natural regeneration, they were still in pain. That can explain why they didn't notice the shadow that followed them. But let us drop this subject for the moment. The eventual repercussions will only come a lot of time later.

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On comfortable seats at Mamoru's apartment, it's time for the sailor scouts to take a bearing. All eyes are on Setsuna, now in everyday clothes. And in every mind the same question: what could have happened between Setsuna and her son to make her so emotional?

Setsuna, in the corner of the room, is gathering her memories. And that's not easy because after all what she has come through, her relation with her son is what she is the most ashamed of. She knows that her son has forgiven her; he never was somebody to keep a grudge! No! The problem is her own mind. Since this day when Ranma decided to disown himself, she never really found peace in her mind. And now, she has to explain her shame to all her friends.

From their part, Michiru and Haruka are also uneasy. They seem to be the only one to think of the big absent of the reunion, Hotaru. Where did she go? Why? Why didn't she say a word? The two adopted parents were also a bit jealous of the look she gave to Pluto's son. It was clear the two were in love. And that reassured them a bit because, from what they have seen, they could be almost certain that their saviour of the day would make sure that nothing bad happened to their daughter. But at the same time they were afraid. The two teenagers were now in age to live by themselves and the fear to loose Hotaru to adulthood was obviously present. That way of thinking was quickly forgotten when Setsuna took finally the speak.

"I'm fine now, Usagi. Thank you!" she said after being confronted by the worrying eyes of her princess.

"Ok Setsuna, I believe you. But now I would like to understand what happened. And I'm sorry to bother you now but you are the only one who can tell us something that would make sense."

"I know!" said Setsuna. "And I need to tell you this story. It's just that I don't know how to tell you what happened."

"Well, you could begin to tell us where this man took Hotaru tonight," said Haruka

"I can't"

"What?"

"I have no idea where they are!"

"But…"

"Don't worry! Nothing will happen to them! They just need to take time together and catch up all the time they lost. After all, they didn't see each other during more than a thousand years. And to tell the truth, I'm happy for them."

"So they are in love…" said a Michiru who already knew the answer.

"Oh they are more than that."

"What do you mean?" asked a frowning Haruka

"They are soul mates"

"They are what?"

"They are soul mate"

"Ok! I guess now is the time to explain things a little better Setsuna," said a worried Michiru.

Before answering, the said woman looked at the eyes of everybody in the room. She saw a lot of emotions in their faces. Curiosity, worry, fatigue… But she also saw what she really looked for: concern. `I guess they are a bit worried about my attitude' though Setsuna before beginning her story.

"OK! The man we all saw tonight was my son, Ranma. To really understand him, I guess I need to tell you everything from the start.

My story begins 25 years before the end of the Silver Millennium. The night of a cold night of March, I gave birth to him. But you need to really understand the entire situation I was in before I can talk about him. I was not supposed to have a child. You may not remember it but Pluto was a special planet. This status came from the time gate. With his help, anybody should have been able to take control of the system. That's why its guarding was assured by only one person, a sailor scout chosen by the Queen herself. And this person was the only one who had the right to come on Pluto. Anybody else, except the Moon Royal Family of course, who came even close of the Planet, was to be sentenced of death penalty.

That's also why the title of Pluto's royalty belonged only to Sailor Pluto. She had to live alone, well on Pluto I mean. We had a family of course but we didn't have the right to invite them on Pluto. And when I speak of a family, I only mean parents and relative. As I said before, I shouldn't have kids or even a husband.

You can imagine the situation. First, you must know that Pluto's powers were permanent. The Queen was not able to take back my powers to choose another Sailor Pluto. The problem is that she knew of the danger that Ranma represented."

"I don't understand, said Usagi. How having a child could cause so many problems?"

"That's easy! In front of a power as great as the Time Gate, the Queen took some decrees to be sure that nobody would be able to influence her representative on Pluto. The main ones were to isolate her from anybody. In doing so, she was sure that nobody could blackmail Sailor Pluto to do something she refused before by kidnap her loves' one. But now, Ranma was born. And these decrees encountered their limits. The Queen couldn't just make him disappear. So she made sure that nobody knew about his origin. That explains why he didn't know me before his 15's birthday.

Another problem was that my job was too much special to let me raise my son. And his security in itself was a big problem. We couldn't make him live as any other child and let him go in school, make friends…etc"

"But what about his father?" asked Mamoru.

"Well, that's another problem. His father was also a bit special."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that his family refused to let him know who his mother was."

"What?"

"His mother was not from a noble family as his father was you see. And his family refused to see her marry him. Furthermore, they took the child and made sure his mother would not reappear."

"You mean they kill her?"

"No, nothing that extreme! If I understood well at this moment, they only left her behind and forbid her to follow them."

"Ok, I see what you want to say but what is the link with our story?" said Rei.

"Oh but there's a direct link with our story. First, Ranma's father never knew of his existence because of a direct order of the Queen Serenity herself."

"What? But…"

"Yes! I know! But as you have maybe guessed, Ranma was an accident. Neither I nor his father knew each other before the night he was conceived. It was only a one-night story. And he wouldn't have been even able to see his son because of the orders from the Queen. So, in a way, I think it was better he didn't know about him."

"I guess I can see your point. But if you tell us all this, I imagine that you will tell us you found Ranma's grandmother" said Ami.

"Exactly! I needed somebody to raise Ranma and to choose, I preferred that it was somebody linked to him at least indirectly."

"So you let her raised him?"

"Not exactly. When I made my little search on her with the Time Gate, I was surprised to find nothing."

"Nothing?"

"Yeah! The Time Gate could not find her or even give me a clue of who she was."

"You mean she was full of Chaos as Galaxia?"

"Yes and no! Let me speak and everything will be explained."

Everybody in the room blushed a little when they realized that they didn't let Setsuna talk with all their interruptions. Setsuna, seeing she had again everyone's attention, went on with the story.

"I was ready to stop my searches without hope to find her when I was surprised by the apparition of somebody in the room."

"But you said nobody could come on Pluto?"

"That's true but she was not physically present. What was in front of me was a holographic representation of Ranma's grandmother."

"Holographic representation?" Ami said, her eyes bigger than everybody had remembered her with.

"Well, she had felt the scanning of the Time Gate and wanted to know what I wanted."

"But I tough this was impossible to sense the Time Gate!" said Usagi.

"For us yes! Imagine my surprise when I learned she was Washu, also known as the Knowledge Goddess."

Author's note: Well, first thing to say: this is not the end of the first chapter. I only released this because of the fact that, for personal reasons, I won't be able to write during at least some weeks so I wanted to give this teaser for those who waited it.

Now, another thing: I only know for sure the story of Ranma