Disclaimer: The Ranmaverse and all of it's characters are property of the brilliant Takahashi-sama and Sailor Moon characters belong to Takeuchi-sama and I claim no ownership of them. Only the story belongs to me.
Edited on 02/11/08
"There should be a clearing that would work in the small forest outside of town." Ami replied as she pulled out her computer and pulled up a map of the forest on it. "Yeah this should be big enough." Ami said a minute later holding up her computer so Ranma could see.
"Sounds good. Why don't we pack a lunch and make a day of it." Ranma suggested with a smirk.
"You just want food." Akane called over her shoulder with a laugh as she headed toward the kitchen with the dishes.
"What's wrong with that?" Ranma shot back before sticking out his tongue at her.
"MERCURY WATER!"
"MARS FIRE!"
"JUPITER LIGHTINING!"
"VENUS ROMANCE!"
"MOON BEAM!" The scouts called out as their attacks started to appear at their hands after doing their little dances.
"Okay once you draw in enough chi, go ahead and send it toward the end of the clearing. If you have to have a focus point, go ahead and use that boulder out there." Ranma said as he pointed to it before getting out of their way.
"FALL!"
"WHIP!"
"BOLT!"
"BLOOMS!"
"ROTATION!" The scouts yelled sending or using their attacks on the boulder. When everything had died down, the boulder looked as though it had been on the receiving end of Ryoga's Bakusai Tenketsu.
"Nice." Ranma said with a smile as he looked from the pile of debris back to the girls.
"Good I was hoping to try this out." Jupiter said with a grin as she turned to the Youmas.
"Each take one?" Akane asked with a smile as she pulled out her mallet and faced the one nearest to her.
"Sure why not." Mars said with a nod as she pulled her fire whip back in front of her.
"Why am I the only one without a offensive attack?" Moon wondered out loud to herself as she backed away from the group.
"Hey it's not like any of us can do the finishing move." Mercury reminded her with a smile.
"Good point." Moon said with a grin as they began to face off with the Youmas.
"So who gets the extra?" Jupiter wondered as she looked at the extra Youma that was between her and Ranma.
"I'll grab him from now so you guys can concentrate." Ranma said with a smirk as he charged after the Youma.
"No fair." Jupiter said sticking her tongue out at him before turning back to her own Youma.
"Sailor Moon!" Akane cried out when she saw the uncontrolled Youma heading toward her. Ignoring her own for a moment, Akane jumped in the Youma's path cutting it off from Sailor Moon and as it charged at her, it punched her across the face, sending her crashing into a near by tree.
"'Kane!" Ranma cried out as he threw the Youma attacking him away and ran over to her. As he lifted her up, he noticed there was blood coming out of a small wound in the back of her head. "You're dead." Ranma said coldly as he laid her back down and turned around to the Youmas.
"Get down." Ranma warned the girls as he started to collect chi in his hands, confusing the girls by it's color. "Shishi Hokodan!" Ranma screamed out sending his ki attack at all of the Youma, the attack so powerful, that when the smoke cleared all of the Youma were gone.
"Ranma." Akane whispered as she tried to sit up.
"'Kane-chan are you okay?" Ranma asked as he turned back toward her.
"Promise me Ranma." Akane continued to whisper as she gave up on trying to sit up and instead looked up at him.
"What?" Ranma asked confused.
"Never use the Shishi Hokodan again. The last thing we need is another Hibiki running around all depressed." Akane demanded as she looked up into his eyes. Ranma thought to argue for a moment, but decided instead to just nod his head before pulling her close to him.
"If I didn't know any better I would say we found an opening." Starlite commented as she smiled at him.
"That we did. He loses control when she's hurt. If we take her out of the picture first, he will lose control of his temper and be easier to defeat." Jedite agreed before disappearing.
"Tonight Ranma, it ends tonight." Starlite vowed as she watched him for another moment before disappearing as well.
"You should be resting." Ranma said again as he tried to talk her into going and laying down. "You can't sleep but you shouldn't be cooking." Ranma said as he tried again to get Akane to leave the kitchen.
"Ran-kun I'm fine, now get out of the kitchen." Akane said a tad annoyed as she pointed to the doorway. "Out!" Akane demanded when he started to protest again. Shaking his head at her, Ranma turned and headed out of the kitchen.
"Snacks are ready." Akane said with a smile a little while later as she walked into the living room where the others were waiting.
"Quick turn that up." Serena called out to Mina who currently had the remote control. As Mina turned up the tv, the reporter who had been talking about the mall reopening after construction work, stopped when she noticed screams coming from behind her. And as the camera started to turn so you could see what was going on, Ami's computer started beeping.
"Youmas." The girls said in unison as they moaned.
"Damn there has to be at least ten of them." Mina said in disbelief as the girls started getting up and heading out.
"You two stay here and get some rest." Serena said with a smile before following the girls out.
"In case you need to get a hold of us." Ami said as she came back in and left her communicator with them before leaving.
"I really need an offensive attack." Moon said again nodding to herself as she watched the scouts engage in battle with the Youma. As she looked over at where Mars was fighting, she noticed she had stopped in mid fight and seemed to be spacing out. "Sailor Mars!" Moon cried out when one of the Youmas charged at her and knocked her back.
"I'm okay. Moon call them up, Jedite's going to attack Akane." Mars informed her as she got back up and went back after the Youma that had hit her.
"Roger." Moon replied before turning on her communicator. ((Ranma, Sailor Moon here. Sailor Mars just had a premonition. Jedite's going to attack Akane.)) Sailor Moon said into her communicator without waiting for him to respond.
((Thanks.)) Came his reply.
"You bitch!" Ranma screamed as he looked over at her and noticed that Jedite was next to her.
"Oh seems she's still alive. No worries the next blast will take care of that." Starlite said with a smirk as she started to gather energy in her hands once again.
"You know, normally when some one is stupid enough to attack her I just kick their ass. But since ya are trying to kill my wife, I don't see why I should show you any mercy." Ranma growled as he started searching the back of his mind for the thing he feared the worst. As the images started to appear in his mind, he felt himself slowly starting to turn.
Cats, cats, cats... Ranma thought to himself as he tried to ignite the over whelming fear from his memories since there were no present ones around him at the moment. Ranma smirked as he felt it working and a moment later, a low growl was heard.
"Where did all that blood come from? Neither of them look like they are bleeding." Mercury pointed out as she noticed the grass was covered in blood.
"I'll get some water, maybe Ranma can tell us." Moon told them as she headed inside and returned a minute later with a glass of cold water and threw it at Ranma-neko. He transformed into a girl, but remained in the neko form.
"What's going on?" Venus wondered out loud as Ranma-chan-neko started hissing at them.
"I don't know but we need to get Akane inside so we can make sure she's okay." Mercury insisted as she moved a little closer to Ranma-chan-neko. "Ranma, we need to bring Akane inside, can we pick her up?" Mercury asked but the only response she received was another hiss.
"We don't have time for this." Mercury said shaking her head. "SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!" Mercury cried out as she froze Ranma in place and Jupiter quickly picked up Akane and then they headed inside.
"Let's go work on dinner." The now detransformed Lita suggested as the girls started making their way out of the room.
"What in the world happened to Jedite and Starlite?" Ami wondered out loud.
"Not sure, heck we may never know since he never remembers anything when he wakes up from that." Rei reminded them with a shrug.
"And why didn't he turn back with water?" Serena added to the list of questions they wouldn't be getting answers to for a while.
"Akane? Akane I was so worried about you!" Ranma-chan cried out as he wrapped his arms around the larger girl and began crying in her shoulder.
"Shh it's okay now Ran-kun." Akane whispered sweetly in his ear as she pulled him close to herself. "Ran-kun what happened?" Akane asked after a moment.
"It's better if you don't know." Ranma-chan whispered as he held her even tighter.
"Yeah food sounds good." Ranma-chan said with half a smile as he sat up and was handed a glass of hot water. "Thanks." Ranma said after dumping the water over his head.
"No problem we changed you into a girl to get you out of the neko but it didn't work. By the way why didn't it work?" Ami asked as Lita started passing out the food.
"No idea." Ranma said with a shrug.
"Do you know how you got turned in the first place?" Serena asked after a minute.
"I turned myself." Ranma replied without looking up from his food.
"Okay what happened to Jedite and Starlite?" Rei asked after finishing off her rice.
"Don't remember." Was all Ranma answered.
Weird that's not what he said to me. But true he wouldn't remember if he was in the neko...wait did he say he changed himself?! Akane screamed in her head when she realized what he had been saying. "Ranma what do you mean you changed yourself? You can't change yourself into Neko." Akane insisted a bit confused.
"Well I did this time." Ranma replies with a shrug.
"But why Ranma, you can't control what's happening when you go Neko, why would you do that on purpose?" Akane asked even more confused, Ranma had always tried everything to stay away from changing, not just for his fear of cats but also cause he had no say in what he did or who he did it to when he went Neko.
"Just drop it 'Kane-chan, those bastards could have killed you, hell they were trying to. They deserved everything they got." Ranma said just below a shout before turning back to his food.
Why does it sound like he knows what happened? This doesn't make any sense. He turns himself and he remembers, if that's true, does that mean he's starting to master the Neko? Akane wondered to herself as she watched him out of the corner of her eye.
