Shadow Veiled Senshi
(Ranma/Sailor Moon X-over)
By Shad4c
Disclaimer: Ranma and Sailor Moon belongs to other people. Not me. This is
purely done for entertainment purposes and no profit is made from it in any
form.
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Chapter 3
Unravelling Visions
Ranma slowly rose in the early morning and started on his morning routine. Get
up, get dressed, warm up with a couple of kata to wake up fully and then stuff
himself with whatever he could find. Such is the life of a Saotome. So far he
had reached the 3rd stage of this 4 stage process, but now his mind roamed
backwards towards last night, slowing his kata.
Why was it that he could never have NICE, quiet, normal dreams like everyone
else had. It was always nightmares of some type or another, ever since he'd
gotten to Nerima...well ever since the Cat Fist actually but while living at the
Tendos they had diversified. This was the last thing he needed, Tokyo in flames,
a classic evil villain laugh 101 in the background (slightly different from the
crazed martial artist laugh 101 he was used to hearing) and a couple of girls in
fukus. He'd came here to sort things out...wait...those fukus looked a little
familiar...I wonder....
GROWL!!!
Ranma's stomach protested the interruption in the normal flow of things in the
only way it could. This brought his mind back to the important things for a
Saotome (i.e. eating) and he proceeded to set about dealing with it. Strange
dreams could wait no matter how real they seemed.
At the same time over in a certain temple in Juuban, Rei Hino, shrine priestess
and Sailor Mars, sprung awake at the end of the dream. She pulled herself out of
bed and dressed quickly. She shivered slightly despite the warmth of her
bedroom, she was thinking back to the dream, the vision really for that was what
it had felt like. She sat down heavily on her bed, the emotional weight bearing
down on her overwhelming, for a moment.
It was meant to be over, the enemies, the youma, the battles...all of that was
to have ended with Galaxia. With that Rei squared her shoulders as her fiery
spirit roared back up from despair, they were the Sailor Senshi, champions of
love and justice, they'd fought and won in the past and they would so so again.
With a determined frown she reached for her senshi communicator to call the
others for a meeting.
"Meatball Head better not be late this time". muttered Rei, as she used the
communicator to call her princess.
At the Gates of Time Sailor Pluto is already scanning for the enemy she never
predicted. Nothing could be allowed to threaten Crystal Tokyo thought the Senshi
of Pluto grimly as she scanned even harder.
About midday the Senshi, both Inners and Outers, were assembled together at Rei'
Shrine. They seated themselves in a rough circle around the room, lounging on
the various chairs. So far nothing had been done as Ami and Hotaru read, Luna
and Artemis lay on the table watching Rei, Minako and Makato chatted, Haruka and
Michiru snuggled and Usagi read Rei' Manga. Rei surveyed the group that had
assembled together and decided it was time to start the meeting with or without
Setsuna. Besides if she didn't then Usagi would probably decide to take that
manga home and she hadn't even read it yet!
"Ahem!" Rei loudly cleared her throat gaining the attention of all the senshi,
even Usagi after a good long glare at the blond haired girl that had her
scrambling to attention.
"Now, I called you all here since I had a vision last night" Rei prepared to
continue then only to be interrupted by Haruka.
"What you saw the face of your next boyfriend" she smiled at her joke. Rei
glared back at her.
"No...I saw Tokyo in flames...bodies everywhere....a horrible laugh floating in
the air". Rei shut her eyes as she forced herself to remember. The pain in her
voice sobered Haruka and the others, causing Usagi to get up and put an arm
around the raven haired senshi for comfort.
All the senshi turned their minds inwards as they faced up to the fact that the
battles they had thought finished had started again. Silence reigned for several
minutes before Luna spoke up again in a quiet tone.
" Rei is their anything else you can remember about this vision, anything at
all".
The Inner Senshi looked appalled at this while the outers listened harder as Rei
pulled herself together, smiling gratefully at Usagi. She took a deep breath
before continuing.
" Only one thing" Rei started, the others crowded closer " I..I wasn't alone. I
don't know who else was there, all I saw of them we're colours. One was white,
green and black, the other was white, black and silver. I didn't see anything
else but...I sensed they were seeing the vision like I was, that they were not
part of it".
As she finished, Rei looked apologetically around at the other senshi, receiving
smiles in reply.
"Well there's not much we can do at the moment except wait and prepare
ourselves. You girls had best go home and do anything you need too. I have a
feeling that we're going to be pretty busy in the near future". Artemis spoke
with confidence as he strolled over to Minako and allowed her to pick him up as
the senshi rose and followed his advice.
As Rei sat in the empty room she wondered to herself, where was Setsuna...and
who were the other two watchers. She then stood and went about her duties for
the day with a grimmer air about her then she'd had lately.
As the Senshi were filing out of the meeting with new worries on their mind,
Ranma had finish practising in normal form for the day, having spent all morning
in it and was about to try out his new powers again. He called on the powers
with the battle cry...
"NEMESIS CRYSTAL POWER".
...Triggering his transformation into Sailor Nemesis. She stood there for a
moment, eyes closed. With the transformation came not only the power but a
slightly greater clarity of mind, with this clarity the dream of the night
before, returned to haunt her.
Its vividness, the raw sense of evil and danger, it was so strong that she could
almost taste it. Whatever it was, she would probably have to deal with it when
it came, the thing that caught most of her attention was the others in the
dream...the others watching what she was.
Who were they?
What were they doing in her dream?
The flashes of red, white, green and black she'd caught before the dream stopped
didn't give her much to go on.
Ah, well knowing her luck she'd find out sooner then she wanted to anyway so no
point worrying about it. Better to test out her new abilitys more.
She walked up to a huge nearby boulder and punched it as hard as she could,
totally destroying it with the force of the blow. She blinked and looked at her
hand for a moment stunned, even Ryoga couldn't have done that without the
Bakusai Tenketsu. She then took a stance and punched as fast as she could, a
small sonic boom rocked the area as her fist completely shattered the sound
barrier. The local wildlife scattered at this while Nemesis was unaffected by
the noise. She opened her fist and stared at it again. The Old Ghoul would
totally freak. Thought Nemesis, NOTHING was that fast without using ki to boost
their movements. Heh, an image of Nemesis challenging Cologne to a Chestnut Fist
duel with her enhanced speed flashed through her mind, that would show her. Then
a flash behind her eyes sent her back into her memories.
I'm running through the latest of the techniques that my Sensei, the Elder
Nemesis, has shown me while said person looked on. The holo-training room is set
to neutral so nothing but gray walls and sparkling energy crystals can be seen,
bar the large control panel by the doorway.
As I finish the technique and turn to my Sensei she nods and strides, for she
moved to purposely for it to be called walking, over to the control panel. Once
there she hits a button and a large metal rectangle with handholds appeared. She
then hit another button on the console and my own weight pressed me down, she
must have increased the gravity in the room. She nods towards the block.
"Pick it up"
I look at her and then back at the block before stepping forward and crouching
down to grip the block. Once I had a good hold I lifted with all my might, which
because of my training is considerable. Even so I only JUST managed to lift it
before being forced to drop it again. Almost crushing my foot in the process!?
Looking back at Elder Nemesis I saw her nod and gesture at the block again.
"Now transform and lift it"
I blinked at that and did as she told me, chanting my transformation phrase and
becoming Younger Sailor Nemesis. I then went back to the block and lifted it
with ease before putting it back down.
Feeling like an idiot for not doing this before I again turned back to my
sensei. She was smiling sympathetically.
"Why didn't I tell you to do that the first time? It was easy in Senshi form
wasn't it". She spoke softly, watching as I nod. "I did that for a reason, the
senshi form doesn't give you any extra speed or strength despite popular belief.
What it does is multiply your existing levels of speed, strength and endurance.
If you could lift that in normal form then you wouldn't even feel it as a Senshi".
She watched as I took this in before continuing.
"Since your in Senshi form........."
Nemesis blinked as she returned to reality before smirking and getting back to
testing the limits of her physical abilitys.
8 Hours Later
After a grawling 8 hours of training Nemesis felt like she had a fairly good
idea of where she was at physically. Now for the next stage.
She dropped into a defensive stance and reached inside of herself for her power.
During the battle with Saffron she had tapped it, and levelled a good strip of
land along with Saffron in the process. She was hoping for something a little
less destructive this time so she drew on the smallest amount of power she
could, feeling it rise up and take form into what she somehow knew to be her
weakest attack.
Arms moving of their own accord her hands balled into fists, index and little
finger pointing out. Her right hand came up parallel to her face on its
left-hand side while her left hand was held in front of her right elbow, fingers
pointed off to her side. She then snapped her right arm forward so it was
pointing at her target while quickly pulling her left arm diagonally back across
her body. As this happened she released her attack at a boulder with the cry of.
"DARK DRAGON LIGHTNING!"
A mass of black lightning shot forward and smashed into the rock, breaking it up
and scorching the pieces.
Well it was a little better thought Ranma, still have to work on my control
though. Thinking about the attack an errant thought summoned the Void Lance into
her hand, as it caught her eye it triggered another flashback.
I stand in a small clearing in one of Earths Great Forests watching as my Sensei
casts her basic Senshi attack, the Dark Dragon Lightning. I watch as it breaks
and scorches rocks in the area. Elder Nemesis then speaks to me.
"It's time you see another of the Void Lances powers" she spoke, summoning the
Talisman before setting up for another Dark Dragon Lightning. "It can act as a
lens, enhancing the power of any of our attacks".
She then unleashed a Dark Dragon Lightning through the Void Lance. Instead of
breaking and scorching the rock it vaporised it before my eyes. As I gawked my
Sensei turned and stared grimly at me.
"Such is our power"
Nemesis shook her head before glancing at the Talisman in her hand and repeating
the movements of the Elder Nemesis from her memories. A massive amount of black
lightning shot from the horizontally held blades of the Talisman before
vaporising an innocent rock.
Exhaling slowly Nemesis glanced down at the weapon with new respect before
deciding to call it a day, de-transforming Ranma went for something to eat.
GROWL!!!
A Saotomes stomach is never satisfied.
Elsewhere a blond haired man stands in a darkened room with a glowing ball
infront of him, slowly collecting the scraps of power leftover from his deceased
mistress. Meanwhile, a green haired Senshi continued to scan for a threat she
never foresaw, determined to stop it.
Authors Note
Well this is chapter 3 I hope you liked it, by the way thanks for the e-mails,
keep them coming! I know I said there would be action but it just doesn't fit in
with the story yet. The training room is a cross between DBZ's gravity room and
Star Treks holodecks. See you next chapter!
I'd like to thank my pre-readers:-
Goku Goku
Gerold Jordan
Staumkinar 'Puck' Silverbreeze
(Priest of The Church of Time and Chaos)
Please send constructive comments (Flames will be used to heat my room) to
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