"Awakening of the Dragon"
A
Fusion Tokyo
story
by
Shaule Sachs
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Version 1.1
Author Notes:
(1) "Fusion Tokyo" will be, I hope, a series of interconnecting
crossover stories between various Anime/Manga series and my original
work of "Adventures of Zaxxon Hunter."
(2) 'Ranma 1/2', 'Sailor Moon', 'Bubblegum Crisis', 'Ah My Goddess',
'Devil Hunter Yohko', and 'El-Hazard: The Magnificent World' were not
created by me and I claim no rights to them. I am using them solely
for the entertainment of their respective fans.
(3) The character of Zaxxon Hunter, Highlords of Atlantis, and such
are mine. Please do not use without my permission. For the record,
Zaxxon Hunter and my net-handle of "Zaxxon" are not the same... This
is not a self-insertion fic.
(4) Conventions that shall be use....
Words between // // are to be considered italicized.
Words between * * are to be considered bold.
Emphasis will be shown as bold words.
Thoughts will be shown as italicized words.
Telepathic communication will be shown between /* */.
(5) Comments and Criticism are alway welcome, if helpful.
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Ranma had come to a sad conclusion just a few moments ago. He was
not going to win this fight. He was just not strong enough. But he
was determined not to give in. After all, Akane's life was at stake...
but he was fighting a demon. A creature not of this world. A creature
without the limitations of mortals... one that had lived for over
thousands of years, if its words were to be believed.
A flood of memories stormed through Ranma's mind as he dodged the
demon's fists. How the twenty-foot tall demon had come to the Tendo
Dojo, saw Akane fighting Ranma.... Okay, they were not "fighting"
exactly.... Ranma had just insulted her cooking so she was beating
him up with that mallet of hers. One look at Akane and the demon said,
"Yes... You are the One."
So saying the demon flattened her with his large palm and then
grabbed her and ran off. Ranma had immediately pursued. The demon had
ignored him the whole time he ran after it. It had continued to ignore
him as it set Akane on some kind of stone altar in a cave finally
giving Ranma sufficient time to set up a 'Moko Takabisha.' The ki-ball
that struck the demon only made it decided to finish him off to avoid
further distractions.
Since releasing the 'Moko Takabisha,' Ranma had been on the
defensive. The demon moved too fast to give him time to set anything more
powerful up. His 'Amaguriken' only gave the demon time to swat him away,
although he did notice that where his 'hundred punches per second' landed
there were bruises, but bruises only. The maddening thing was that he
could feel the power in the cave... only he did not have the time to
collect it into a 'Hiryu Shoten Ha Revised.'
Ranma was afraid that even his most powerful technique was not
enough. Of course, it was academic since he could not set it up.
Unable to think of anything else, he asked the demon, "So why do you
want such a uncute, tomboy like Akane, anyway?"
The demon paused, and thought about it a moment, and finally
answered if, "Since I'm going to *kill* you anyway.... I simply want
her power."
"Power?" Ranma replied as he dodged another of the demon's fists.
"What power? The only power Akane has is to make perfectly good food
toxic...."
"Hahaha.... Foolish mortal," the demon stated. "It is a wonder
how you hu-mans survived without your Highlord guardians..."
'What is he talking about?' Ranma thought to himself. Out loud, he
said, "Huh?"
The demon spoke in a soothing voice, "Why don't you just give up?
You don't stand a change against me..."
"Right," Ranma replied unconvinced.
"You don't know who *I* am," the demon replied with a laugh. "I
*am* Taque."
"Tak? So?" Ranma replied. He knew he was in trouble with a
capital 'T.' The thought formed in his head, 'Nothing I do even phases
this demon... What am I going to do?'
/*You need to relax, Ranma*/ a voice spoke directly to his
mind.
"No.... *Taque*.... One of three demons responsible for bringing
*down* the *mightiest* of the human kingdoms!" Taque stated proudly.
"And which /kingdom/ is that?" Ranma inquired. /* Who are you?
Can you help me? */ Ranma asked the voice.
/* I'll explain later... */ the voice answered. /* Just do as I
show you. */
"Why the Moon Kingdom!" the demon exclaimed. "Do you not know
your own species' *History*?"
"Never heard of it!" Ranma simply stated. "What kind of name is
that? Moon? Kingdom? Next thing'll let me it was on the Moon!"
Surprised, Taque replied, "Well... It was! Even the Dark Kingdom
and the Negaverse could not defeat it!"
"The Dark? Kingdom... Nega... verse? Now I really believe that
you're making this up..." Ranma said.
"A thousand of your *years* the Moon Kingdom stood... until I,
the great Taque, the grand Trin, and the unstoppable Tichve came and
leveled it," Taque boasted.
As Taque went on about how he and the other two demons tore
through the Moon Kingdom's soldiers, Ranma did as the voice told him
to. He reached deep within himself, deeper than he had ever gone
before, and he found something. Up until now, he had collected the ki
he needed from his surrounding but this time what he was going to do
would come solely from him. He was surprised at the amount of energy
he found in himself.
As Ranma jumped into the air, he formed a ball of ki-energy
within his hands that were in front of his chest, and at the apex of
the jump he raised the ki-ball at Taque with a scream of, "Terra
Dragon Fire Strike!"
The ball floating between his hands formed into a dragon's head
and blew ki-fire at Taque. Taque's eyes opened wide as he said,
"Impossible! All Sailor Senshi are female..."
'Huh?' Ranma thought as he saw the ki-fire consume Taque
completely.
Ranma after he regained his breathe ran to where Akane was. He
noted all the injuries and the blood covering her. He knew that he had
taken too long with the Demon. There was not enough time to get to the
nearest hospital over three hours away running. So he did the only
thing he could. He cradling her body as her life slipped away as she
struggled to breath. All the while thinking of the things he wished to
tell her...
/* It's not too late, Ranma, */ the voice in his mind said.
"What?" he replied. He had forgotten about the voice in his
grief.
/* Set her back now, */ the voice in his head said. "I'll take care
of her," the voice said out loud this time.
Ranma turned around and saw a strange man walk towards him after
he set Akane back down on the altar.
The stranger straighten out Akane's body with her hands crossed
over her chest giving the impression that Akane was just sleeping
instead of dying.
"What can you do..." Ranma began but was stopped as he was the
stranger's right hand glow.
As the stranger's glowing hand passed over Akane's body, Ranma
could see that Akane was no longer laboring for breathe and that the
color was returning to Akane's face.
"Sit down, Ranma," the stranger said softly, "it will take some
time to fully Heal Akane Tendo. In the meantime, I'll try to answer
some of the questions you must have..."
Ranma sat down and looked at the stranger. His first impression
was that the stranger was a gaijin simply because of his size. There
are not that many Japanese men that stood six feet tall or had the
color white as their hair color. But this stranger did. The stranger's
brown eyes looked on with amusement as Ranma studied him. But the
stranger spoke and acted like a old-fashion samurai. Ranma always
tried to identify where his opponents came from in hopes of
understanding thus defeating them. But Ranma saw none of the usual
characteristics that could identify the stranger's origins. As his
eyes moved down, he noted that the stranger was wearing white armor
that completely covered his body from the neck down. There was a blue
belt with various objects attached at the stranger's waist. The white
was broken by the black boots and a sword belt that secured a sword
to the stranger's back. The handle of the sword rested over the
his right shoulder.
The outfit, for some reason, made Ranma picture a sailor's
uniform. His question was simply, "Who are you?"
The stranger laughed and replied, "Start with the hard ones....
Okay. The simply answer, for now, is I'm Sailor Sol."
"Sailor Sol?" Ranma asked confused. "Like Sailor V... and Sailor
Moon?"
"Kind of," Sailor Sol replied. "As the star Sol gives the various
planets their light... I give the Sailor Senshis their power."
"Okay..." Ranma answered not sure he understood but that was have
it usual was for him.
"What was that demon..." Ranma began.
"Taque... the demon's name was Taque," Sailor Sol inserted when
he saw that Ranma had already forgotten the demon's name.
"Right," Ranma continued. "What did Taque mean with all that he
said.... about the Highlord guardians, Moon Kingdom, and History?"
"Hmmm... That's a little complicated," Sailor Sol stated. "The
answer to that question will take some time. But we have nowhere to go
at the moment so.... The best to start, I suppose, is the beginning.
"In the beginning, there was the Source and I mean *the* *Source*
of Everything. I suppose, others would have other names for the Source,
such as the Creator or God, but let's not complicate things. It'll be
efficient for now.
"To continue... From the Source came Creation with Creation being
the entire cosmos. What the entire cosmos consists of... Mulitverses,
Omniverse, and the like... isn't important right now. All that is
important is that while in one sense Creation happened in an instant...
there are six //parts// to it. Each part is called a //World// or a
//Realm.//
"The Highlords of Atlantis, as they were to be called by humans,
came from the First Realm of Creation. As such, they are the closest
and the most powerful beings in Creation after their parents the
Primal Ones. The Primal Ones you probably know better as the seven
elements, Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Spirit, Space, and Time. The first
four being female and the last three male. Well... The Highlords are
descended from the Primal Ones.
"As it came to pass, over seventy-five thousand years ago, the
Highlords settle down together. There, the Highlords studied High
Magic and other Arts. Over time, various people heard of them and
their powers and sought them out... for various reasons. The ones that
came to learn, to study, and to grow became known as their Disciples.
Together all twelve Highlords, the numerous Disciples, and the
Disciples' families created the first city-state to be called
'Atlantis.' Again, over time, other people came to hear of Atlantis
and the wise Highlords and began to follow their example of living in
peace. So, by default, Atlantis became the capital city of the entire
world as everyone saw the wisdom, kindness, and understanding the
Highlords showed.
"After about three thousand years had passed the oldest,
strongest of the Highlords, the one called Zaxxon, created a pocket
dimension in the fabric of the universe and filled it with a portion
of his energies... his magic. He allowed his Disciples to *tap into*
this 'Plane of Power' to help with their magic spells.
"Soon these mortals and their descenents could perform High
Magic, similar to but not on the same scale, as the Highlords
themselves could. Those that used the High Magic of the Highlords and
especially those that could use the Highlord Zaxxon's Plane of Power
began to change. At first, these changes were subtle and went
unnoticed but people began to realize that those who touched the High
Magic were live longer, never grew old, or got sick. Basically, they
had become Immortal and they began to help their shorter-lived
brethren with their powers. And things were good.
"But with everything, there is a beginning and an end. For reason
of their own, the Highlords, left the Earth Realm sometime over fifteen
thousand years ago. Before they left, each of the twelve Highlords gave
Humanity twelve Objects of Power. To you, the important one was the Pool
of Shape.
"Anyway... after they left, there came the 'Great Disaster.' What
happened was that all the ice that had acuminated on the Poles became
too much. So, with all that weight, the tectonic plates moved as one
turning the arctics into tropics and vice-er-versa. Atlantis which was
in the tropics became Antarctica.
"And yet, the people survived the tectonic displacement. Saddest
part of the 'Great Disaster' was the last of the recorded wisdom of
the 'Council on High' and all their other important records and
teachings.
"Of course, life went on. Other civilizations rose and fell, trying
to take Altantis's place. Even stealing its name from time to time but
never truly succeeding.
"One of the direct-descendants of one of the Disciples
re-discovered the Plane of Power by accident. Unprepared, he unleashed
its power in a chaotic burst of raw energy. The Second Great Change,
as it was called, gave those with the genes, access to the Plane of
Power is passed on through heredity or earned in ones own right, great
powers and abilities.
"Only this time, without the Highlords to counter-balance them
and to show them their place... those changed began to think of
themselves as gods. Thus giving the rise to the world various
pantheons, such as the Norse, Greeks, Egyptian, and Asians. For
a while, about five hundred years... various people worshiped them.
"Anyway, getting back to History.... while the High Magic could
only be used by these new gods, other people began to develop their
own magic based on the stories of the Highlords' teachings. What they
created was called Low Magic since it only affected the intended
target nor could it reach very far.
"When Low Magic became popular and stable, various people began
to study it, to learn it, and to grow from it thus giving birth to
what was called the Golden Millennium. Not that it lasted only a
thousand years... actually it lasted about twelve hundred, fifty
years. But I digress... Through Low Magic and the Objects of Power
that remained, it was possible to settle the various planets in the
solar system. Thus giving Humanity more 'elbow room' as it were. And
brought to an end the Golden Millennium, an era of Study and
Understanding."
"But what does that..." Ranma asked impatiently.
"I'm getting to that," Sailor Sol answered. "I realized I'm
telling you a lot things... but you'll need to know the background in
order to understand. As I was saying... Humanity had settled the other
planets of the solar system. First with the Moon, which is a planet in
its own right, and then Mars, Venus, and spreading out from there.
Over time, each planet developed its own characteristics and culture.
"There were the usual problems with settling new territories and
all the energy and magic that went into the settling of the solar
system didn't go unnoticed. The Devils of the Fourth Realm took note
of it. They wished to take the Objects of Power that the Highlords
created. But only those with High Magic could defeat the Devils.
"So these champions of Humanity fought the Devils and after five
long years convinced them to return to their native realm.
Unfortunately, a lot of these champions, chosen solely on the basis of
genetics, were killed off. Most in suicide runs taking some Devils
with them.
"Noticing the decline of champions and the poor skills they had,
each world began to train those with the power of High Magic. These
trained soldiers became known as the Sailor Senshis. Each world would
give its name to the chief senshi of that world the others would be
called 'knights.'
"In fourteen years time, the various people began to associate
the Sailor Senshis with the Highlords... And in remeberence of the
Sailor Senshis' sacrifices and the Highlords, the people made their
Sailor Senshi their planetary leaders.
"Two years after assuming the Throne, Sailor Moon, now Queen
Serenity, for various reasons of her own, made the Moon Kingdom into a
matriarchal society."
"A what society?" Ranma asked.
"A matriarchal society... a society in which only a woman can
rule. Like the Amazon society, Shampoo and Cologne grew up in,
which, incidentally, are the descendants of the survivors of the Moon
Kingdom.
"Anyway, after twenty so odd years of the Sailor Senshi becoming the
leaders of their planets, it become obvious that a central, unifying
government was needed for the solar system. Since Terra choice to
distance itself from the other colonies, they chose the next oldest
world, the Moon. To show their loyalty and willingness to follow Queen
Serenity of the Moon, the other Sailor Senshis surrendered their Power
Crystals to her. With the help of the Court Mages, Queen Serenity
combined the crystals with her own and created the Imperial Silver
Crystal, the 'Ginzuishou.'
"With the solar system united, except Terra, under Queen Serenity,
peace came to the system thus beginning the Silver Millennium, an era of
Peace and Good will. At the beginning of the Silver Millennium, Queen
Serenity decreed that only woman could be Sailor Senshi. Why? You'll
have to ask her. Most thought it was ridiculous, after all most of the
Champions that won against the Devils were male and only the Moon
Kingdom had some 'troubles' with highly placed males but none save
the Council of Elders on Terra cried foul when Queen Serenity used the
Pool of Shape to turn the then male, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, and
Sailor Uranus into female versions of themselves."
"What? That sounds like Jusenkyo..." Ranma screamed.
"Thought you be interested and yes, it is related," Sailor Sol
said. "I'm getting to *that* soon.... Anyway, Mercury and Mars
excepted their change, while Uranus, while still loyal to the Moon, tried
to use magic to undo it. But since the Pool of Shape was created by the
Highlord Vattaz, it was impossible to undo. The best Uranus was able
to do as attain an androgynous state, a state with both male and
female characteristics.
"Life continued on, Queen Serenity took a mate and had a daughter,
of course. The Queen named her daughter after herself, as was the custom
of the Moon Kingdom. At the same time, the Champion of Terra received
his second child, a son who was named Gaea. As it happens, it
was Gaea who inherited the Power of Sailor Terra. The first son,
Endymion, went on to become the First Knight of Terra... an older, and
to Terrains, a more important position than Sailor Terra. While Queen
Serenity was not //thrilled// with the *male* Sailor Terra, she didn't
wish to anger Terra with the change of their Sailor Senshi, so while she
publicly //tolerated// him, she avoided him as much as socially possible
without giving any obvious offense. She also tried to confuse the idea
when she would by 'mistaken' referring to Sailor Terra in the female form
instead of the proper male version. Since Gaea thought little of the Moon
Kingdom, it didn't bother him.
"You should understand that the power of the Sailor Senshi was
directly proportionally to the age and size of their world. In other
words, Terra, the oldest and the homeworld, made Sailor Terra the strongest
of the Senshi, with Sailor Saturn, the largest of the colonies, next in
strength. Since Sailor Terra was so powerful, Gaea was able to
//share// his power with his older brother, Endymion, and still be as
strong as the other Senshi. Endymion, while not powerless in his own
right, accepted the gift both to avoid offending his younger brother
and to use it as a link to help the Senshis and Terra.
"At this time, the Inner worlds' Sailor Senshis had, following
Queen Serenity's lead, passed on their powers to their oldest female
children who were then brought to the Moon Castle so they could
protect the young Princess and learn from the 'best' in the system.
"Towards the end of the thousand years, Queen Beryl of the Dark
Kingdom, which is a part of the Negaverse ruled by Empress Metallia,
invaded the solar system in a move to expand her borders. For the
first time, almost four hundred since the transfer of power from
parent to child, these new Sailor Senshis had a challenge. Queen Beryl
sent an expeditional force. To surprise their enemies and have a
chance to study them, the Negaverse forces opened a portal outside the
solar system to attack the Sailor Senshis. Queen Beryl had sent a
small force but they were defeated by the Outer Senshi, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Unfortunately, Pluto took some serious
injuries, thus weakening the Outer Senshi, who's duty it was to defend
the system from attacks from without, leaving the Inner Senshi to
defend/police the system itself.
"And now we come to Taque... The Negaverse, a separate plane from
Earth, borders Hell, so when Taque, Trin, and Tichve offered their aid
to Queen Beryl, she accepted since she knew of their reputations. So
with the three demons and the entire Dark Kingdom army, Queen Beryl
invaded the Moon Kingdom by opening a portal on the Moon surface this
first, thus catching everyone by surprise.
"Queen Serenity, in pride, arrogance, or something else, refused
to call in the Outer Senshi or Sailor Terra. As it happened, Prince
Endymion, who had been on the Moon, at the request of the Moon
Princess, tried to help but being a man, he was, for the most part,
ignored. To make a long story short, the combine might of the three
demons and the Dark Kingdom was enough to overpower the Moon Kingdom's
defenses.... But before the demons entered the throne room, Queen
Serenity used the Ginzuishou to send her daughter and the Inner
Senshis to the future, where they would be safe and could defeat, if
necessary, the Dark Kingdom. She also sent Prince Endymion to the
future too, after casting a love spell over him so he would protect
her daughter. Once that was accomplished, Queen Serenity sacrificed
herself to destroy the three demons and the Dark Kingdom's army.
"She succeeded in destroying Tichve and most of the Dark Army.
To take care of the what remained of the Dark Army and the other two
demons, Sailor Terra called in the Outer Senshi and together they
finished off the Dark Army and imprison the other two demons.
"With the lost of the Ginzuishou, Queen Serenity, and the Inner
Senshis, the colonies began to break up... literally. Sailor Terra did
his best to save as many as he and the Outer Senshi could by creating
a portal to another world but the Magic that made the system habitable
was falling too fast to save everyone. Fortunately, the Highlords made
themselves known, saved those that they could, and returned everyone
to Terra. Going with the Council of Elders' decision, the Highlords
'erased' the knowledge about High Magic and the Colonies. This
happened about two thousand years ago. That is also the reason why few
people believe in magic these days.
"As for the Pool of Shape, if you haven't guessed, it was
corrupted during the Dark Kingdom's invasion and when it returned to
Terra, it became Jusenkyo, the Land of Cursed Springs. The Highlords
//disappeared// again and the Outer Senshi helped Sailor Terra to
defend Terra. They continued the tradition by passing their powers on
to their children. The Outer Senshi to the eldest female child and
Sailor Terra to whichever child is the strongest."
"But why did Taque go after Akane?" Ranma asked seeing that
Sailor Sol's tale was coming to a close.
"Taque was awakened by the Ginzuishou, which Sailor Moon has
recently used here on Terra, and he wished to take revenge on Sailor
Terra," replied Sailor Sol. "Of course, the power of Sailor Terra had
been passed on since the Fall of the Silver Millennium two thousands
years ago. So, Taque sought the great-grandson of the Sailor Terra that
trapped him. Since Taque knew only of the Silver Millennium
civilization, in general, and what the Dark Kingdom knew about the Inner
Senshi, in particular, Taque assumed, as many of the citizens of the
Silver Millennium did, that Terra also followed the laws of the Moon, so
Sailor Terra should have been female... and Akane does have a high
ki-level."
"So Taque thought Akane was Sailor Terra?" Ranma asked in wonder.
"Yep..." Sailor Sol replied. "And his mistake cost him, his
life."
"What about..." Ranma begin but stopped as he noticed that Akane
was coming around.
"If you want to know more, ask your mother, Ranma," Sailor Sol
said before disappearing.
"What?!!?" Ranma exclaimed.
Upon awaking, Akane looked around, looked at Ranma, and asked
hesitantly. "What happened?"
"Oh Akane..." Ranma cried seeing that Akane was fine. "I was so
worried that..."
"What the matter with you?" Akane asked confused.
"You were so near death..." Ranma began.
"Baka! If I was so close to dying, then why am I in a *cave*?" Akane
replied. "Let's go home, Ranma."
"Okay," Ranma said with a smile. "I'll met you there... There's
something I have to do first."
[ === End of Part 1 === ]