Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Blood That Binds ❯ Discovery ( Prologue )
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Blood that Binds
Chapter one: Discovery
Disclaimer: okay if you don't know these characters belong to their respective companies, me saying it isn't going to help anything.
Over in the district of Jubann in Tokyo there is a street that is empty of most forms of people. This wasn't because of the normal Jubanian curse of a youma attack, but instead it was due to a heavy rain falling like a grey curtain over everything in sight, and as is normal, most things don't like to get soaked. While most things couldn't appreciate the pure joy of walking unprotected through a cold shower the black haired youth that had just entered the street could and was walking happily letting the water wash over him. He was of an average height, lean but muscular build, wearing a red silk shirt and black pants. His hair, in a pigtail in the back, was plastered against his face though it could do nothing to hide his smile.
Yes, this was the one and only, formerly aquatransexual, Ranma Saotome. He was feeling the high of finally being able to go out in the rain after a couple years of having to cover up and worry about changing genders. He had finally found his cure, if rather unconventional, and now he was taking full advantage of his new freedom by enjoying the rain.
Ranma was walking on one of the ever present fences he used for balance looking up at the sky as the water poured down. Having stopped for a second Ranma took a deep pull of air into his lungs and sighed slightly wistfully.
"Wish you all could see me now. Think of it, walking in the rain without turning, something I would've given almost anything else for... I won't let you down."
A final sigh escaped his lips as he flipped forward onto one hand and then down onto the ground to continue his walk. Suddenly in the distance he saw an explosion a few blocks over. This being Ranma, he was running towards the explosion before the dust could settle. The closer he got to the area, the worse looking the walls became. At about a block away from the explosion there were large body sized impressions in the sides of buildings and huge chunks of concrete missing from the street. Soon enough he came upon a scene involving things he thought were myths.
* * *
"Moon, move your butt before it gets ahold of you!" came the shout from Mars as she fired off one of her signature flame attacks against what they originally thought was a generic monster of the week. Only lately that statement was wrong on two accounts.
First, there is no more "of the week". They're luck if it was one every other day if not more. The old days of the senshi getting a break between youma were long gone. These days it was rare, but some times they could get as many as three attacks in one day.
Second, and possibly worse, this monster was far from generic. For the past month new monsters had been appearing out of nowhere and instead of the regular scare and collect so many of their former foes had used, these seemed to delight in causing pain and suffering. The didn't seem to need an energy source as far as the senshi could tell, but just wanted to cause trouble. And they were getting stronger. MUCH stronger. The first one was dispatched by a lucky shot from Mercury, and each subsequent youma had taken more and more firepower to stop. Saturn even had problems taking them out with her useable attacks when she had a clear shot, and normally the monster had to be taken down by not just Moon, but most often Moon and two other senshi working to combined their power.
This youma seemed to have uped the stakes a bit himself.. So far out of all the senshi only Jupiter had been able to get off a quick shot at it and that had cost her. It didn't even seem to feel the attack as it grabbed the surprised warriors hands, swung her like a rag doll and threw her right into Uranus. That proved to be bad for the restuarant behind them as they rocketed through side wall collapsing the storefront. Mercury was over there looking for them in the rubble but they hadn't been heard from since.
Sailor Moon stumbled as she dodged another strike letting out a small eep as she scrambled backward. As she picked herself back up she glanced over at the storefront to see a battered Jupiter climb out of a pile of bricks and then turn to help Mercury pull Uranus out of a similar pile. Unfortuently that gave the Youma just enough time to send a fist her way that she couldn't dodge on such short notice.
Out of nowhere came a cry of "NO!", as Mars hurtled infront of her absorbing most of the blow with a loud crack of ribs meeting and yielding to a fist as large as her chest. Tears brimming in her eyes Moon caught Mars and fell back onto her butt clutching her friend. Another fist came hurtling their way as she started to close her eyes for the end...
Suddenly out of nowhere a bright ball of energy slammed into the beast from the side throwing it's fist wide as a cry of "MOUKO TAKABISHA!" echoing through the plaza they were fighting in.
* * *
Ranma arrived on scene to see nine rather badly beat up were nine Sailor Senshi facing off against a 10 foot tall bull like creature. It was extremely muscular, like an overdone bodybuilder, and apparently was kicking the hell out of the Senshi.
He watched as one of them with long pony tails in her hair fell backward to avoid a punch by the monster that likely would've broken a couple of Ryoga's ribs. She then seemed to get distracted looking over to the side somewhere and didn't see the creature rear back for another punch. Fearing for the girls life he quick charged a chi blast even though he knew that unless he was somehow granted a small second's interruption he would be two late to save the girls life. Suddenly luck was on his side as a red skirted girl threw herself infront of the monsters fist, and by the sound of it taking serious damage in the process, but giving him the moment he needed to finish charging.
Without hesitation he shot the chi out of his hands with a cry and bolted forward running as fast as he could after the ball of energy.
* * *
Moon could only stare in surprise as a young man dressed in a red shirt and black pants, soaked by the rain, came running in after the ball of energy that knocked the beasts fist aside. With a slight aura around him he seemed to blur slighty as meaty smacks sounded from the beasts flank definitly pissing it off as it let out a loud bellow.
Moons heart soared with renewed hope as the man seemed to be able to hold the monster at bay long enough to for Jupiter to get back into the battle and join him in physically combating the monster. She stood back up supporting Mars with one arm just in time for her eyes to go wide and her hand to cover her mouth in horror as the monster backhanded both the man and Jupiter into seperate walls. Jumping as hard as she could she removed Mars and herself from the monsters reach as quickly as she could wondering what to do next.
* * *
Ranma woke to see a senshi in a blue skirt with a visor come over to his side. She knelt beside him and started to help him up, "Sir you really shouldn't be here it's dangerous! Please leave before you get hurt."
Ranma merely smirked at her as he got on his feet, "Nah, I can handle this thing, it just caught me off guard. No problem"
Just as it seemed the senshi was about to continue trying to trying to get him to leave a ball of rolling black energy erupted from the clenched fist of the creature and plowed into her back. Ranma looked on in helpess horror as the light seemd to bleed from her eyes as she slumped forward onto him and shimmered slightly returning to her street clothes. He Easily supported her weight getting a good view of her rather severly burnt back that thankfully still rose and fell in shallow breaths. Checking for and finding a weak but steady pulse Ranma started to set her down on the ground when he got a good look at her face..
"Ami?"
Getting anxious Ranma shook her gently to wake her while memories of a young girl from his past flittered through his mind. He had never expected to see her again, especially not after so long but it he couldn't deny it was her. Not getting any response he gently laid her down on the ground, removing his shirt to use as a pillow for her head and stood.
Hatred in his eyes he turned to the monster that had unleashed the attack that downed the woman infront of him.Suddenly a feeling like liquid ice running through his veins setting nerves ablaze flew threw his body as something inside him snapped. His normally electric blue, but now pulsing red and black aura seemed to catch light around him like a flame doused with lighter fluid, throwing shadows everywhere. Everything seemed to slow down and stop as everyone and everything took notice of the man standing in their midst in a corona of power.
All sound stopped save for the pattering of rain as it hit the ground, and four words spoken so low and quiet they were almost silent, yet everyone there, senshi and youma alike heard them.
"you..."
In almost slow motion Ranma seemed to take a step twoard the monster, everything still frozen
"Hurt..."
Time seemed to pour back into the sceen like molasses, everything but ranma moving slowly but gaining speed
"My..."
Most of his aura seemed to crawl up his skin to his fists solidifying as he moved closer and closer to the monster till there was but a breath beween them
"SISTER!"
With the last syllable still echoing in the air the silence was shattered with the thunderclap of Ranma's fist introducing itself to the monsters gut in a strike so strong, there was an indendation left after the second of contact that each punch took. What followed where strikes from Ranma that slowly drove the Youma back near a building and left the Senshi gaping in shock. They were faster than anything Ranma had produced with the amaguriken, and stronger than anything Ryouga had ever thrown at him. It seemed as if Kami-Sama himself had lent his divine fury to Ranma's blows as for every strike that let itself be heard a flash of lighting seemed to hightlight the blow. To everyone watching from the sides it seemed as if the strobing effect of the lighting was trying to highlight the most powerfull blows Ranma produced
Then he decided to get fancy...
Having the Youma backed up against a building Ranma Let out a cry of "Kachu Tenshin Amagruiken!" and proceeded to pummel the monster with an unknown number of strikes. Each one successfully breaking through any feeble defence the monster tried to throw in the way. When he finally stopped punching the monster would've fallen to it's knees if it had not been for Ranma holding it up. With a growl he tossed it into the air at least five feet and with an almost lazy upper cut a whirlwind was called up around them lifting the Youma in the center even further into the sky.
From the outside of the whirlwind the senshi, clinging to whatever they could and Sailor Moon keeping Ami on the ground with assistance from the wounded Mars, could barely make out the figure in the middle standing with his arms by his side and the youma wildly flailing in the middle of the tornado. Suddenly the Red and black light returned in full force lighting everything within the twister and showing Ranma cupping his hands in front of him.
"Kouyruu no tenbatsu!"
Small pulses of light shot out of Ranma's cupped hands in rapid succession. Each small ball like pulse was drawn to the side of the twister and trailed up through it towards the youma. After a few seconds passed it seemed as if the balls had formed a constant stream. As if taking it's cue the tornado exploded outward throwing energy wildly around the plaza but strangely not harming any of it's current guests. The only thing left over where the tornado had stood was a small crater with Ranma standing in the middle. He slowly climbed out walking over to where Sailor Moon was holding onto Ami with a completely shocked expression on her face.
Kneeling next to them, Ranma gently reached out and traced one of Ami's cheeks as a tear slid down one of his, "Ami... Sis, I've missed you."
Then Ranma fell forward onto the ground and passed out.
Authors Notes: Well think I'm going to do a bit of a rewrite and flesh the story out a bit, hopfully improve on it a bit. To the guy on Media Miner that wanted me to include Ranma in his cursed form in here: nope, not gonna happen. been done before many times, and I think Ranma is a strong enogh character to not depend on his "downfalls" for comic relief. To anyone else out there that wants to give me a review, go for it I like CONSTRUCTIVE critisim. now, telling me to "change a few things in your plot" isn't. If your going to say something like that you might as well go ahead and write your own story as changing my plot makes it no longer my story. Hope everyone likes it, Some sort of feedback would be greatly appritiated. Send it to: Granderwishes@yahoo.com
Oh and Kouyruu no Tenbatsu would hopefully be roughly translated as "Divne wrath of the Rain Dragon"
Chapter one: Discovery
Disclaimer: okay if you don't know these characters belong to their respective companies, me saying it isn't going to help anything.
Over in the district of Jubann in Tokyo there is a street that is empty of most forms of people. This wasn't because of the normal Jubanian curse of a youma attack, but instead it was due to a heavy rain falling like a grey curtain over everything in sight, and as is normal, most things don't like to get soaked. While most things couldn't appreciate the pure joy of walking unprotected through a cold shower the black haired youth that had just entered the street could and was walking happily letting the water wash over him. He was of an average height, lean but muscular build, wearing a red silk shirt and black pants. His hair, in a pigtail in the back, was plastered against his face though it could do nothing to hide his smile.
Yes, this was the one and only, formerly aquatransexual, Ranma Saotome. He was feeling the high of finally being able to go out in the rain after a couple years of having to cover up and worry about changing genders. He had finally found his cure, if rather unconventional, and now he was taking full advantage of his new freedom by enjoying the rain.
Ranma was walking on one of the ever present fences he used for balance looking up at the sky as the water poured down. Having stopped for a second Ranma took a deep pull of air into his lungs and sighed slightly wistfully.
"Wish you all could see me now. Think of it, walking in the rain without turning, something I would've given almost anything else for... I won't let you down."
A final sigh escaped his lips as he flipped forward onto one hand and then down onto the ground to continue his walk. Suddenly in the distance he saw an explosion a few blocks over. This being Ranma, he was running towards the explosion before the dust could settle. The closer he got to the area, the worse looking the walls became. At about a block away from the explosion there were large body sized impressions in the sides of buildings and huge chunks of concrete missing from the street. Soon enough he came upon a scene involving things he thought were myths.
* * *
"Moon, move your butt before it gets ahold of you!" came the shout from Mars as she fired off one of her signature flame attacks against what they originally thought was a generic monster of the week. Only lately that statement was wrong on two accounts.
First, there is no more "of the week". They're luck if it was one every other day if not more. The old days of the senshi getting a break between youma were long gone. These days it was rare, but some times they could get as many as three attacks in one day.
Second, and possibly worse, this monster was far from generic. For the past month new monsters had been appearing out of nowhere and instead of the regular scare and collect so many of their former foes had used, these seemed to delight in causing pain and suffering. The didn't seem to need an energy source as far as the senshi could tell, but just wanted to cause trouble. And they were getting stronger. MUCH stronger. The first one was dispatched by a lucky shot from Mercury, and each subsequent youma had taken more and more firepower to stop. Saturn even had problems taking them out with her useable attacks when she had a clear shot, and normally the monster had to be taken down by not just Moon, but most often Moon and two other senshi working to combined their power.
This youma seemed to have uped the stakes a bit himself.. So far out of all the senshi only Jupiter had been able to get off a quick shot at it and that had cost her. It didn't even seem to feel the attack as it grabbed the surprised warriors hands, swung her like a rag doll and threw her right into Uranus. That proved to be bad for the restuarant behind them as they rocketed through side wall collapsing the storefront. Mercury was over there looking for them in the rubble but they hadn't been heard from since.
Sailor Moon stumbled as she dodged another strike letting out a small eep as she scrambled backward. As she picked herself back up she glanced over at the storefront to see a battered Jupiter climb out of a pile of bricks and then turn to help Mercury pull Uranus out of a similar pile. Unfortuently that gave the Youma just enough time to send a fist her way that she couldn't dodge on such short notice.
Out of nowhere came a cry of "NO!", as Mars hurtled infront of her absorbing most of the blow with a loud crack of ribs meeting and yielding to a fist as large as her chest. Tears brimming in her eyes Moon caught Mars and fell back onto her butt clutching her friend. Another fist came hurtling their way as she started to close her eyes for the end...
Suddenly out of nowhere a bright ball of energy slammed into the beast from the side throwing it's fist wide as a cry of "MOUKO TAKABISHA!" echoing through the plaza they were fighting in.
* * *
Ranma arrived on scene to see nine rather badly beat up were nine Sailor Senshi facing off against a 10 foot tall bull like creature. It was extremely muscular, like an overdone bodybuilder, and apparently was kicking the hell out of the Senshi.
He watched as one of them with long pony tails in her hair fell backward to avoid a punch by the monster that likely would've broken a couple of Ryoga's ribs. She then seemed to get distracted looking over to the side somewhere and didn't see the creature rear back for another punch. Fearing for the girls life he quick charged a chi blast even though he knew that unless he was somehow granted a small second's interruption he would be two late to save the girls life. Suddenly luck was on his side as a red skirted girl threw herself infront of the monsters fist, and by the sound of it taking serious damage in the process, but giving him the moment he needed to finish charging.
Without hesitation he shot the chi out of his hands with a cry and bolted forward running as fast as he could after the ball of energy.
* * *
Moon could only stare in surprise as a young man dressed in a red shirt and black pants, soaked by the rain, came running in after the ball of energy that knocked the beasts fist aside. With a slight aura around him he seemed to blur slighty as meaty smacks sounded from the beasts flank definitly pissing it off as it let out a loud bellow.
Moons heart soared with renewed hope as the man seemed to be able to hold the monster at bay long enough to for Jupiter to get back into the battle and join him in physically combating the monster. She stood back up supporting Mars with one arm just in time for her eyes to go wide and her hand to cover her mouth in horror as the monster backhanded both the man and Jupiter into seperate walls. Jumping as hard as she could she removed Mars and herself from the monsters reach as quickly as she could wondering what to do next.
* * *
Ranma woke to see a senshi in a blue skirt with a visor come over to his side. She knelt beside him and started to help him up, "Sir you really shouldn't be here it's dangerous! Please leave before you get hurt."
Ranma merely smirked at her as he got on his feet, "Nah, I can handle this thing, it just caught me off guard. No problem"
Just as it seemed the senshi was about to continue trying to trying to get him to leave a ball of rolling black energy erupted from the clenched fist of the creature and plowed into her back. Ranma looked on in helpess horror as the light seemd to bleed from her eyes as she slumped forward onto him and shimmered slightly returning to her street clothes. He Easily supported her weight getting a good view of her rather severly burnt back that thankfully still rose and fell in shallow breaths. Checking for and finding a weak but steady pulse Ranma started to set her down on the ground when he got a good look at her face..
"Ami?"
Getting anxious Ranma shook her gently to wake her while memories of a young girl from his past flittered through his mind. He had never expected to see her again, especially not after so long but it he couldn't deny it was her. Not getting any response he gently laid her down on the ground, removing his shirt to use as a pillow for her head and stood.
Hatred in his eyes he turned to the monster that had unleashed the attack that downed the woman infront of him.Suddenly a feeling like liquid ice running through his veins setting nerves ablaze flew threw his body as something inside him snapped. His normally electric blue, but now pulsing red and black aura seemed to catch light around him like a flame doused with lighter fluid, throwing shadows everywhere. Everything seemed to slow down and stop as everyone and everything took notice of the man standing in their midst in a corona of power.
All sound stopped save for the pattering of rain as it hit the ground, and four words spoken so low and quiet they were almost silent, yet everyone there, senshi and youma alike heard them.
"you..."
In almost slow motion Ranma seemed to take a step twoard the monster, everything still frozen
"Hurt..."
Time seemed to pour back into the sceen like molasses, everything but ranma moving slowly but gaining speed
"My..."
Most of his aura seemed to crawl up his skin to his fists solidifying as he moved closer and closer to the monster till there was but a breath beween them
"SISTER!"
With the last syllable still echoing in the air the silence was shattered with the thunderclap of Ranma's fist introducing itself to the monsters gut in a strike so strong, there was an indendation left after the second of contact that each punch took. What followed where strikes from Ranma that slowly drove the Youma back near a building and left the Senshi gaping in shock. They were faster than anything Ranma had produced with the amaguriken, and stronger than anything Ryouga had ever thrown at him. It seemed as if Kami-Sama himself had lent his divine fury to Ranma's blows as for every strike that let itself be heard a flash of lighting seemed to hightlight the blow. To everyone watching from the sides it seemed as if the strobing effect of the lighting was trying to highlight the most powerfull blows Ranma produced
Then he decided to get fancy...
Having the Youma backed up against a building Ranma Let out a cry of "Kachu Tenshin Amagruiken!" and proceeded to pummel the monster with an unknown number of strikes. Each one successfully breaking through any feeble defence the monster tried to throw in the way. When he finally stopped punching the monster would've fallen to it's knees if it had not been for Ranma holding it up. With a growl he tossed it into the air at least five feet and with an almost lazy upper cut a whirlwind was called up around them lifting the Youma in the center even further into the sky.
From the outside of the whirlwind the senshi, clinging to whatever they could and Sailor Moon keeping Ami on the ground with assistance from the wounded Mars, could barely make out the figure in the middle standing with his arms by his side and the youma wildly flailing in the middle of the tornado. Suddenly the Red and black light returned in full force lighting everything within the twister and showing Ranma cupping his hands in front of him.
"Kouyruu no tenbatsu!"
Small pulses of light shot out of Ranma's cupped hands in rapid succession. Each small ball like pulse was drawn to the side of the twister and trailed up through it towards the youma. After a few seconds passed it seemed as if the balls had formed a constant stream. As if taking it's cue the tornado exploded outward throwing energy wildly around the plaza but strangely not harming any of it's current guests. The only thing left over where the tornado had stood was a small crater with Ranma standing in the middle. He slowly climbed out walking over to where Sailor Moon was holding onto Ami with a completely shocked expression on her face.
Kneeling next to them, Ranma gently reached out and traced one of Ami's cheeks as a tear slid down one of his, "Ami... Sis, I've missed you."
Then Ranma fell forward onto the ground and passed out.
Authors Notes: Well think I'm going to do a bit of a rewrite and flesh the story out a bit, hopfully improve on it a bit. To the guy on Media Miner that wanted me to include Ranma in his cursed form in here: nope, not gonna happen. been done before many times, and I think Ranma is a strong enogh character to not depend on his "downfalls" for comic relief. To anyone else out there that wants to give me a review, go for it I like CONSTRUCTIVE critisim. now, telling me to "change a few things in your plot" isn't. If your going to say something like that you might as well go ahead and write your own story as changing my plot makes it no longer my story. Hope everyone likes it, Some sort of feedback would be greatly appritiated. Send it to: Granderwishes@yahoo.com
Oh and Kouyruu no Tenbatsu would hopefully be roughly translated as "Divne wrath of the Rain Dragon"