Wild Charon

[WG_Writer]

I don't know if I posted this here in prologue form, but I cannot find it. Here is a fic I started but It died at this stage, I have no direction to take this story as yet, and want to get Siren's Calling Arc 1 done first, then get to other fics, but that said, I wrote this initally about 6-8 months ago, but ended up holding out. Some of You have seen it, so I figured I would post it now and get it overwith.

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Ranma was written by Takahashi Rumiko and published as an anime by Kitty Films - Fuji TV and Viz Communications, Inc.

Sailor Moon was published as an anime by Toei Animation and Geneon Entertainment

They own their own characters and other such trademarks, only characters that I make are owned by me.

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Prologue – That makes sense… Wait!

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Ranma was running down the street, like Cerberus was behind him, which actually might have been a good description. He rounded a corner and a moment later glanced back only to see Ukyo come round followed by Shampoo and Akane, together they were carrying something that was sixty-five percent food. They lost points since Akane’s food wasn’t, and Shampoo’s was probably drugged.

He tried zigzagging around, up and down side streets without success. They were more persistent today as things had been escalating since the failed wedding. Sure Akane was less violent, but that was a bad thing. It forced Ukyo and Shampoo to step up their attempts; this in turn made Akane uneasy and more insistent on proving that she could compete with the other two. It was reaching fanatical proportions, and Ranma was certain that both Ukyo and Shampoo were well past the point of reasoning about his dreams of the future.

Ranma almost wished Akane was violent again, almost. If she were then he wouldn’t be in this mess, or so he believed. He looked up as he heard a laugh and, not for the first time, he wished he was unable to identify that laugh, but Kodachi’s it was. He dodged her ribbon, which she hoped to snare him with, and kept going towards the park. He hoped when he got there he could escape and they would give up and go home.

As he passed Kodachi called out, “My dear Ranma-sama, surely you appreciate finer things than this peasant food. Come and we can dine in at a place worthy of us.”

Shampoo didn’t even stop; she just pulled out her bonbori and nailed Kodachi in the back of the head while she was distracted. She called out, “Sorry Crazy, Ribbon Girl, but Arien eat only with Shampoo.”

Akane had stayed out of the fight so far, and so did Ukyo, but both were still in the hunt. Ranma remembered events after he returned from his fight with Herb. At first things had continued as they had before. But then came the swimsuit competition that some corporation held, and, to make matters worse Nabiki, had somehow made him grand prize, or rather a date with him. He still hadn’t figured out how she managed that.

There were about a hundred girls there and everyone seemed to leer at him, or make kissing faces and that really pissed the fiancées off. He was almost certain that the dozen top contenders who dropped out did so because of threats from Kodachi and Shampoo. Others were disqualified, and numbers were narrowed as it progressed. In the end only eight made to the final round: Akane, Ukyo, Shampoo, Kodachi, and four others.

Most people expected Akane or Shampoo to win, some even expected Kodachi just because she was rich. However, in the end, it was Ukyo who won. Ukyo enjoyed her date with him because she managed to pick locations that avoided water, fiancées and rivals. This had the unfortunate side effect of causing the fathers to insist that Akane get a date as well, and four ruined dates later here he was running as all four tried to get him to date them, or try their "food".

Ranma focused more on where he was and realized he had made it to the park. After a quick search he found a tree that met his needs and hid in it. He then watched what happened from the safety of his hidden haven.

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The girls arrived at the park and their search for Ranma degraded into a four way free-for-all. Since the Herb incident they all trained and were able to do some decent collateral damage.

Ranma watched as at first Akane, Ukyo and Shampoo worked together to beat up Kodachi, but then Shampoo turned on Ukyo, and Akane and Ukyo started working together to beat up Shampoo. They were winning until Akane slipped and hit Ukyo with a punch Shampoo redirected.

Things got worse when Kodachi recovered and attacked Shampoo, this left Akane and Ukyo to fight it out. As Ranma watched the fight from his hidden perch, he was impressed by Akane's prowess. She was doing far better then he would have given her credit to do. The Shampoo and Kodachi fight was mostly ignored by Ranma, for him Akane and Ukyo were his only real interests here, not that he would admit it, even in his own thoughts.

It was when Ukyo and Akane started fighting dirty that Ranma jumped down to try and put a stop to things. But none of the girls noticed him at first until Ukyo deflected a mallet strike into Ranma with her spatula.

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Meanwhile in Juban a Senshi meeting was taking place in the Outer's home. Since there was no new enemy it was part of their regular get together to chat and update each other on what was happening in each other’s lives. Most of the inners were just enjoying their middle year of high school, and still, unfortunately, suffering under the legendary, “Sailor Senshi may not have a boyfriend, unless he is an enemy or about to be killed,” curse.

It was only by luck that Mamoru survived to date, actually. There had been at least five major events since Galaxia where the universe seemed to be doing its best, and still failing, to kill him off. Hello Kitty still gave him nightmares from the second attempt.

Minako had seven boyfriends in the last five months who turned out to be Youma in disguise. She wasn't sure what pissed her off more, that they were leftovers from Beryl or that there were only the seven Youma. She guessed that since they were male Beryl kept them for other purposes. Currently she was talking to Ami about the eighth boyfriend or rather potential one, and wanted to be sure this one was human.

Usagi was tending to Mamoru’s most recent bruise; he had been hit by a car, of all things. The worst of it was he was on a roof of a five story building just inside Nerima at the time.

Hotaru was watching TV, since the rest of the Senshi were in mindless chatter mode, and she had no interest. She recently celebrated her 16th birthday, but still didn’t see what the others did in getting a boyfriend. She currently was watching a news report out of Nerima, apparently there was a major gang fight of some sort since there were about a dozen fighters, oddly most were girls. That was when the camera panned to a boy in Chinese clothes who was trying to stop the fighting; Setsuna’s reaction was anything but expected when an obese man appeared on the screen.

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The Guardian of Time was sipping her tea and casually watching everything that went on around her. There was, after all, little need for her to do anything at the moment. There were no major threats coming, and nothing seemed to warrant her involvement. She looked at the TV when she heard Minako and Makoto talking about a cute guy on it, and at first she shrugged off what she saw.

She looked at the television and saw a brawl between four girls, and a boy who seemed to be trying to stop the fight. She felt sorry for him when four other boys showed up and two of whom attacked him while the third seemed to be defending one of the girls. It was an apparent near free-for-all. But when two grown men showed up on the scene she stood up and took a good look at the fat one.

She easily recognized the fat, useless, troublesome, tub of lard, that dared to call himself human. When the camera's microphone managed to pick up something he said, she reacted. All she heard was, "Ranma, how can you..." She needed no more proof. She needed no more evidence. But now she knew where they were, and with that tidbit of information she could track them.

She crushed the handle of the teacup that she was holding and said simply, “I’ll kill him.” With that she jumped backwards and transformed mid leap. Before she landed she disappeared through a portal to the time gates.

The time gates could not ‘see the future.’ mostly because there was so much to look at that it was all it could do to open a portal to a specific time in the future. However, she could watch the past. And that was her intent.

When she disappeared the Senshi panicked. It was totally out of character for their, friend the mistress of the gates of time, to act so emotionally, and act with so much hate. Even Galaxia and the betrayal of Uranus and Neptune had no such effect. But now she just scared them silly with that stunt.

Usagi was channeling her Serenity persona when she made a quick decision, “Hotaru, where is that report coming from?”

Nobody blinked; she was maturing into that persona a lot lately, so Hotaru was quick to respond, “In Nerima, Nerima Prefecture Park”

“Let’s go.” She transformed and waited for the others to do so as well. Then when everyone was ready they teleported without another word.

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Shortly after the mallet strike, which was about ten minutes into the fight, things seemed to slow down a little. Akane and Ukyo stopped fighting, violently. They were now fighting over who should tend to Ranma's wound. Kodachi and Shampoo were still fighting and had yet to take notice.

It was just when Shampoo and Kodachi seemed to be losing steam when yells were heard, and Ranma, poor Ranma, knew that he had just been dumped out of one frying pan, and into a bigger one.

“Ranma Saotome, prepare to Die!” “How dare you attack Shampoo, Ranma! I’ll kill you.” “Release the fair ones and fight like the man you profess to be, you foul sorcerer!” Ryoga and Kuno both jumped out of nowhere and started attacking Ranma. Mousse, however, was attacking Kodachi.

The fight progressed for a few minutes more until something new was added to the mix, which caused even Mousse to pause and look: A mailbox running on a pair of very feminine legs was charging the group. As it got closer Tsubasa jumped out of it and shouted to Ranma, "Release Ukyo, Ranma! She is mine to love!"

The thing that stunned everyone was not the fact Tsubasa was there making this decree, it was the fact he was wearing the weirdest armor any of them ever saw. He was wearing some kind of weird looking armor, stylized so he still looked like a girl, it had a flame thrower built in with the nozzle attached to his wrist, and he kept shooting it randomly up into the air as he stood trying to look imitating, and failing badly. Unfortunately for Tsubasa, the only thing he could intimidate like that would be himself. He then aimed a strange looking gun at Ranma, the gun being on his other wrist, and shouted, “Die Ranma!”

The threat would have been serious if fire had come out of it, however, instead of fire, out came flower petals, pushed forward by gentle gusts of air from a small fan. Ukyo attacked him, saying, “You got them backwards, you jackass, can’t you get anything right? And how many times do I have to say,” she brought her spatula back, “Go Away!” Ukyo got good distance on him and the fights resumed.

Things got worse again when Soun and Genma happened upon the scene. Soun tried to break up the fighting and got hurt for his trouble, though all he got was a black eye from Shampoo. However Genma started laying into his son, and whining about him not doing the right thing and marrying Akane, which led to Ukyo attacking him with Shampoo and Kodachi moving to help.

Eventually Ryoga got lost, the Kunos were defeated and knocked out, Shampoo dragged Mousse back to the Nekohanten, and Ukyo left for her restaurant, leaving Ranma and Akane to walk home. Ranma was impressed by Soun’s behavior but would not say anything to Akane, since he felt she would take it the wrong way. Soun however had to take Genma to the Hospital for injuries; apparently his arms were hurt along with his jaw.

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Ranma and Akane walked home in silence, for Akane it was a good thing. What Ranma didn't know was the reason she stopped being so violent was because she had finally sorted out her feelings for Ranma.

She loved the idiot, she could admit that, but it wasn’t the way her father hoped. She loved him like she loved Nabiki, or Kasumi. More of a brother sister love than a married couple love. She then saw Ranma get splashed and growl about it, and thought to herself, 'make that sometimes sister sister love.’ She giggled at that.

Ranma looked at Akane and tried to sound hurt, by now he was used to this kind of thing, it was more annoying than anything. Everyone around the area knew about the curse, except the Kuno siblings. Like his father, though, he did enjoy making others feel bad about their choices by feigning being hurt worse then he was, “Oh poor me, my Fiancée giggles at my distress.” If only he were a better liar it wouldn’t have sounded so melodramatic, and wouldn’t have maked Akane giggle more.

Akane finally stopped giggling and continued her trek home with Ranma. She wanted to tell Ranma how she felt, but was worried; what if she was wrong, what if it was true love and not the love of a sibling. She feared that if it was indeed more romantic type of love that she would push him away. Then she would be worse off. She would have gone from being unsure to being sure but too late.

Then there was family honor to be considered, her father and Ranma’s father both insisted that they marry and she wasn’t sure she wanted that. Unfortunately it was family honor that called for it so she had no choice.

Choice is what it boiled down to, she had no choice but to marry Ranma, her sisters made that clear, even the fathers put that responsibility on her. Nabiki proved that she wasn’t better for Ranma and made his life hell during that time she was engaged to him. Kasumi, well, nobody crossed Kasumi, ever. It just wasn’t done.

As much as she wanted to just tell Ranma to go and marry Ukyo, she couldn’t do that either. Ranma would be hurt, she would damage her own honor, her family’s honor, and possibly Ranma’s, if he was hurt enough to actually do it. Sure Ukyo would be happy, but what about herself.

Ranma was fence walking next to her now that they were next to the canal, and Akane was annoyed at him. She mused it was more a matter of her father not doing his job in teaching her anything beyond enough to teach beginner classes, after all she was a girl, and Ranma was the guy. Her father was so old fashioned that he couldn’t even see when he was hurting her.

On a moment’s whim she kicked the fence and knocked Ranma into the canal, too bad she forgot he was there.

“What did you that for ya, uncute Tomboy?” came the indignant response as Ranma got back on top of the fence.

Akane blushed and replied, “Sorry Ranma, I forgot you were there.”

Ranma countered, “With your Gorilla like strength you have to be more careful.”

Akane Yelled back as Ranma took off running, “Ranma! Get back here you Jerk!” Sure she mused he was a jerk, but she was her friend too.

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Pluto stood before the time gates, coaxing them to show her what she wanted to know. It was a hard thing to do, the time gates cannot show the future at all, but they can open up to the most likely future, just enough to allow time travel. Technically they can’t show the past either, but they can lock on to their own past and show the past that way. This is more along the lines of opening a door and looking through to see what is happening on the other side.

Another design of the gates does not allow it to show three types of people: chaos generators, members of the Plutonian royal family, and members of the Lunar royal family. The latter two were intentional during construction, mostly out of concern for the, next generation, that the gates not be used for over parenting.

Most chaos generators were just people who were low on morals, and easily persuaded. This was not usually a bad thing as it led to enormous amusement at times and annoyance at other times. Genma useless fat tub of lard Saotome was a large chaos generator, and not because of his ‘big bones.’

She peered through looking for Genma, and Ranma. She owed the tub of lard a Dead Scream up his useless, lying ass. To track the two of them she had given them special watches. Since neither could be tracked by the gates, and she had a great need to track them, she put a 'here I am' enchantment on the watches so she could find them. But Genma pawned them off when she wasn’t looking.

She decided to try a different approach this time, she remembered where the fight was and followed Akane home with the gates, and Ranma by proxy. She saw them walking like friends, but they didn’t seem that close. She did overhear them talking about their engagement, and it reminded her about the pledge Genma left for her when they left.

When they left…

That stung her in ways she couldn’t count. It was due to some foreigner trying to create a time machine, he created a paradox that made the gates unstable for months. Because of that she was unable to even follow them from the point they left the house. She couldn’t even look back to that point now. She could travel there, but then that type of thing was akin to jumping off a train blindfolded, she would have been fatally hurt, more likely than not.

But now that she had him targeted she could roll back the time the gates were showing her. She had to move the gates manually through time, a skill she perfected over her time as guardian, instead of simply locking on and running a ‘life and times’ showing, her inability to lock on to either prevented that. And when she saw his life first hand, to put it mildly, she was pissed.

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Pluto teleported onto the wall surrounding the Tendo compound, unseen by the inmates, whose attention was taken by the usual fight at the table. She smirked evilly. She knew how all the characters in this little drama would act, having seen it play out several times in her viewing of the past.

She took a deep breath and screamed, “Saotome, prepare to die!!!” then fired a dead scream at Genma.

Genma smiled for a moment, it sounded like another lost fiancée had found his son, at least he hopped that was why he recognized that voice.

Ranma had jumped up into a ready stance, not his usual, ‘not a stance’ stance, but his ‘you interrupted my eating so I will kick your ass fast’ stance. He just registered the fact the energy blast was directed at his father and he came to a decision, ‘Screw this, she is after pops, not me. I’m not cleaning up another mess if I can help it.’

After the attack hit, Ranma sat down, which he was about to do anyway, though not quite as hard as he did after hearing her yell, “For what you did to our son, prepare to suffer eternally…”

Genma, after he recovered sufficiently, realized who had blasted him, got into a ready stance then immediately went into the 'Crouch of the White Tiger'. And everyone was shocked beyond words.

Then Genma started pleading, “Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I thought I was just doing what was best for the boy.”

Nabiki is the first to recover and said, “Figures, although I would have thought a different magical girl would have been more likely”

Pluto approached the pair stopping in front of them. She looked at Genma with an intense glare that made him back off by several feet. Pluto then looked at Ranma softly and crouched to cupped her hand to his cheek and said, “I will explain later son. First I need to… talk, to your… other parent.”

Pluto stood and walked over to where Genma was now kneeling and glared at him again. “Genma, I saw everything.” She paused for a moment before continuing. “I thought long and hard about what I was going to do to you.” Actually this was a lie, she was making it up as she went along. She smirked, Nabiki recognized it as Ranma’s trademark, ‘I am so going to kick your ass,’ smirk.

Pluto then spoke in an evilly charming voice, “I decided to do this in chronological order.” She pulled out a piece of paper Genma recognized. She saw the recognition in his eyes and dropped the smirk, “Well, I see that you recognize the seppuku pledge you made promising that you would return with Ranma as a man among men.”

This made everyone, even Kasumi, glare at Genma, although she hid it behind a cup of tea. Pluto’s smirk returned as she dismissed the time staff and rolled up the pledge, “I am going to return this piece of crap from where it came from, and I am not talking orally.”

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Ranma chased his mother through Nerima, they were fast approaching the border to the next ward. It was all he could do to keep up, he would never mention it to another living soul, but, given his mother’s abilities, he doubted that, if he had to inherit her powers, that his whining would be too much more then he was required to maintain his self image. He hoped that he would be able to have those abilities as a guy instead, but would be happy with standing over Akane in her battle Dougi while in an outfit like his mothers, in girl form of course.

As the trio ran, half roof hopping, half ground running, they passed the Senshi in their civilian forms. However, Pluto was so focused on beating her husband that she didn’t notice them, but she did see him transform into a Panda when splashed.

Ranma was close behind her, and she could hear him yelling for her to not kill his father. She knew she wouldn’t, he wasn’t worth it, she, however, mused, ‘Although I won’t kill him, I will Punish him, and damn it, I only got past Ukyo when he bolted, I still have the neko-ken and another 8 years of his stupidity to punish him for.’

Usagi was just coming out of an ice cream parlor with the inners and Mamoru. Usagi had a large ice cream cone, and Mamoru was upset that he ended up covering everyone. Rei turned from her ice cream cone to the odangoed blonde, and said, “Great ice cream shop meatball head, but we still need to find Pluto. So where is she?”

Nobody said anything before or after she answered. Before she answered, it was because they didn’t want to be involved in the fight, but after the answer it was because they were stunned by the answer and what they saw.”

Usagi answered without looking at Rei or her ice cream, “Um, she’s right there.” Everyone looked where she was looking and, sure enough, saw Pluto.

She was chasing a fat guy in a faded martial arts outfit, and was firing Dead Screams at him randomly. They seemed low power, but the guy didn’t seem weak enough to be taken down by one. But that was when they saw a boy their age chasing her, he was yelling to his mother for her to not kill his father. Then it clicked, but before they could say anything they saw the man get splashed with water from a fire hydrant broken by a Dead Scream. They were shocked when the man turned into a panda and kept going, then Pluto passed through the stream unaffected, followed by the boy who turned into a girl, who adjusted her clothes and continued the chase.

A local girl saw the shock on the apparent ‘out of towners’ and asked, “You aren’t from around here are you?” With the dead looks she shrugged and walked off.

Usagi sniffed her ice cream and asked the others, “Did you all just see Pluto chasing a man, followed by a boy calling her his mother and begging her to not kill his father. Then the boy turn into a girl and the father into a panda?”

The others could only nod; after a moment Usagi recovered fully and ate her ice cream as fast as she could. She would have recovered faster and finished her rocky road faster but she was waiting for Rei to transform her clothing into something frilly and pink since that was more likely in her book.

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Ranma was sitting in the shrine and was more than a little uncomfortable with the number of females around him. He just knew that one was a fiancée, he was too unlucky for him to not be engaged to one of them. He then focused on his mother and asked the question that bothered him since this mess started, “So… Mom… Why pop?”

Although the question was asked poorly, Setsuna knew what he wanted to know. She only hoped that he would take it well, otherwise she might lose him again. She had prepared for this and decided to tell as much as she could, “It all started around seventeen years ago during a minor temporal event. It was nothing major; it just prevented time travel to that period of time. The problem was that it left me slightly weakened, nothing that would be easily noticeable, but just enough for it to happen.”

As she was talking she noticed that she had everyone’s attention. She continued, “Since it was my first vacation in several hundred years, I decided to go get drunk. The place I chose was known for weird people and martial artists who frequented so I did not feel totally out of place.”

Artemis was getting bored at this point and interrupted, “So you got drunk and slept with his father when you couldn’t think straight?”

Setsuna smacked her face with her hand, just as Luna smacked Artemis for his bluntness.

Ranma blinked for a moment and asked, “So I am the result of too much sake?”

Setsuna nodded but before she could say anything else Ranma interrupted, “Thank the Kami, I was worried that he won you over with his personality. You had me worried a moment.”

Everyone could only stare, then thinking about what they knew of his father they agreed, it was better to be the result of their mother getting plastered, rather than having their mother fall in love with Genma.

Setsuna hugged Ranma with teary eyes and almost fainted when Ranma asked the next question, “What about this seppuku pledge that you mentioned though?”

His mother released the hug and looked at him and answered, “Just one of your father’s ideas,” she snorted, “don’t worry about it.”

After a few more mother/son moments it came time for introductions. Each of the girls told him their name and Senshi identity, despite it not really being needed. Then it came to Hotaru, “I’m Hotaru, also Sailor Saturn, and your fiancée.” She finished with an, ‘I’m so cute I could kill all life on this planet and you wouldn’t stop me,’ smile.

Haruka looked at her daughter and was the first to ask, “Run that by us again?”

Hotaru smiled and looked at her ‘papa’, “Back in the Silver Millennium my mama and Setsuna-mama made a pact with Queen Serenity to join the houses.”

Ranma looked up after smacking his head into the table, “Sake again, mom?”

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Author’s Note

Time period:
Sailor Moon – After Galaxia
Ranma – Alternate universe. It takes place shortly after the Herb – Mt. Hori fight, however, obviously, his mother never showed up where she did in the manga/anime.

[Light02]

I don't know what's worse, the fact I can see this happening or that I'm pictureing Setsuna as a Cheap Drunk.

[Dumbledork]

Hehehe, this is rich. Me likes. Can't wait for more. But even drunk how could anyone choose Genma (even if he doesn't look like he does now in the flashback episode and actually was thin and had hair).

[Atlan]

Reminds me of True Heritage, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2951537/1/

Still good though.

[Lioconvoy]

Very interesting. However you mention a failed wedding? Did that happen sooner in that reality? Or am I seeing things? It's late so it could be the later. ^^;

[WG_Writer]

Very interesting. However you mention a failed wedding? Did that happen sooner in that reality? Or am I seeing things? It's late so it could be the later. ^^;

>.< two revisions, preread by prereaders twice and a flaw that big got missed by everyone... worst of all missed by me...

I will have to correct that...

[Heaven's Deamon]

Aren't their memories of the Silver M. supposed to be blury? Maybe you could have Hotaru seem uncertain when she says and act cute in a shy way.

"Well, I think I remember something about a pact between my mama and Setsuna-mama about joining the houses"

Or something like that......

[Tuisto]

That's good, really a riot... though with Ranma being Pluto's kid... one has to wonder if there's a magical fuku in a certain redheads "future"... And then Hotaru... oh my...

YOu should continue this one... some "time"...

[WG_Writer]

Aren't their memories of the Silver M. supposed to be blury? Maybe you could have Hotaru seem uncertain when she says and act cute in a shy way.

"Well, I think I remember something about a pact between my mama and Setsuna-mama about joining the houses"

Or something like that......

It wasn't so much just a memory of the Silver M. as much as being reminded. read her declaration again...

[deathgeonous]

Funny stuff. I do hope you chose to contine this. Just change all mentions of Herb to Saffron if you truely are puting this after the failed wedding.

[Lioconvoy]

I think he chose Herb for a reason, and it sounds like I caught something from a previous version of the story. Nice to know I wasn't seeing things.

[WG_Writer]

Right, the revelation arc where Nodoka learned the truth occured between the Herb arc, and the Saffron arcs, I basically intended to have it occur around that time, but I got much of my manga timelines messed up.

here are the important events in the manga that happened:

Konatsu: occurred as it did in the Manga
Herb: Occurred as per manga
Umisenken: Obviously Nodoka or Setsuna never showed, actually It would have hapened a week or two later as there was nothing to lead him to the dojo as fast.
Saffron: Did not happen yet, and I see no reason to have it already happen... although a senshi/Saffron fight would be amusing to see, power he has, but all fall before the all powerful 'Giant Pink Heart' <of doom>.

Further Ranma didn't seal the techniques, but simply hates them, so they may as well be sealed. I had also had my own interpretation of the Umi for this story, but I will not go into it here.


The biggest problem with this story is what to do with it. I really like it as a start, but it is like my other story, "A Sun is Born" and has no where to go from here.

[ranger5]

Bwhahahah. Loved it! I always do (regarding your stories) at least so far.

I'm not so sure that there's nowhere to go with it. I see lots of possibilities. After all Ranma hasn't changed (yet) be interesting to see how Pluto encourages him to grow. The "Old fiancees" are still there ... depending on what you do with the Amazons I can see them even more determined to "catch" Ranma. And I don't think that (canon wise at least) there is any doubt that Shampoo does love Ranma. Same with Ukyo. Though (especially with U-chan) there may be some questions about their "stability".

Definately possible fun with the Curse and a fuku in Ranma's future, or a dual Knight/Senshi depending on form. With all the ways (s)he could react to either options. I've only seen it done a time or two and never for more than a single chapter that I recall, but perhaps Ranma's feeling of duty to help others (and yes the manga is full of those) another twist would be a "permancy risk" to the senshi role. Each time (s)he accepts the transmformation it increases the likelyhood that the curese will be permanent. (I have/had an idea along those lines but (as you all know) haven't done anything with it... or unfortunately with Tomboy either.)

Just a note for those that care, I AM still plotting Tomboy... but unfortunately the longer I go without writing the easier it is to work on the idea, but without writing. That and I've done the next chapter 3x without being happy with it. I'm almost to the point of writing it, correcting and just posting it... at least here to get some feedback to see if the direction makes sense and the writing is acceptable.

Then there's a question of just how valid a Silver Milenium promise is now. Can anyone see the other Inners & Possibly the Outers deciding that perhaps they too have a shot at Ranma. Especially if it will help them avoid the "Usagi Harem" fate that canon apparently has for them. Maybe even creating a Ranma Harem (g) after all if the Queen says it's okay ... it's okay.

Or perhaps Haruka is all for Hotaru getting together with a man that's also a girl... (g) a nice twist from the usual response.

[nova]

it is a good story to read and wonder what happens next.

[Zwzn]

I like it so far. i hope this doesn't end up with Ranma stuck as a girl.