Ranma 1/2: Ranma of Grayskull Crossover: Masters of the Universe By: Dani Yanega yanega@mindspring.com (please respond to this e-mail address) http://www.mindspring.com/~yanega/index.htm Mirror site: http://www.ranko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm Chapter Eleven Ranma slowly walks out the of castle doors into the over grown courtyard. She surveys the area and sees that most of the wall around the castle has fallen. She may leave a two foot high wall to block off the castles courtyard. She gets ready to take flight when she stops, information surges through her mind. A smile crosses her face. She closes her eyes searching for what she wants her smile grows wider. "SPIRIT WINGS!" Jagar and Karamer watch with surprise as a pair of ghostly white wings appear on Ranma's back. The ancient king of Eternia and the first sorceress of Grayskull watch as she takes off heading toward Castle Grayskull. They smile with pride as she uses one of the more advance spells of the Spirit Weaver as if she has been doing it all her life. When Ranma disappears into the distances the two spirits morph into wisps of mist and rejoin the other spirits. /*\*/*\ Ranma soars over the landscape doing dives and loops in her exuberance at her first true home. A home that is hers and no one else's. She suddenly stops in mid air her head lowered to her chest. Her pigtail moving slightly in the wind created by her spirit wings. She stares sadly at the ground as she realizes she would give almost anything to have her mother with her. She sighs and slowly flies onward. She is about thirty miles from her new home when her spirit wings begin to fade. She forces them for as long as she can to get an idea of what her limit is. They finally wink out at thirty two and three quarter miles. Ranma drops from thirty feet. She lands lightly not even raising a cloud of dust in the loose dirt. She looks around at where she is a smile on her face. She prepares to summon her Phoenix wings when her danger sense kicks in. Ranma jumps to the side doing a tuck and roll. An energy blast hits the ground where she was a moment ago. When she comes out of the roll she pushes with her feet shoots up into the air. She flips with a slight twist so when she lands she is facing the direction of the shot. In the air hovering in front of her is a large strange bird with red and gold plumbs. The bird seems familiar to her but she can not place it. On the back of the bird sits an ape like man with red fur and long fangs. Behind him sits a woman in a black leotard and purple cape. On her head she is wearing a cap that covers her full head with flatten spikes bursting from it. In her hand is a wand made of a birds claw holding a white glowing globe. "Well, well the sorceress' guest finally steps out side the protection of Grayskull." The woman sneers at Ranma aiming the wand at her and letting a bolt loose at her. Ranma says nothing but smiles at the two. She recognizes them from description given by He-Man and the sorceress. She stands in a casual stance, staring at the pair. She gives them the wide eyed frighten little girl shtick, glad for all the practice she had with disguises. The woman throws her head back and laughs with victory. She does not see Ranma's eyes narrow or the snarl appear on her lips the beast does. "Man and I thought I left that crazy gymnast back home!" Ranma states as she beings to glow, her two attackers watch with confusion as the blast nearly reaches her. "PHOENIX SOUL ABSORB!" Ranma shouts as the magic blast hits her golden shield, the two energies mix and mingle and slowly form a beach ball size sphere in Ranma's hands. "PHOENIX SOUL RETURN!" Ranma shouts completing the two step process the massive orb heads back toward the sender. "EEP!" Was all Evil Lyn gets out before she disappears leaving Beastman to take the attack alone. The bird they are riding recognizes her destiny in front of her and tries to break the hold of the _man_ still riding her. Beastman holds on and works to keep the bird under control. He pushes his mental control over the bird farther until he rains her in and tries to get out of the way of the incoming blast. The furry man stares at the in coming blast he realizes his fight with the bird has cost him precious time. He dives from the back of the bird letting it take the ball of energy. The blast shoots past the bird completely missing it. Beastman hits the ground headfirst and is in a daze from his fall of fifteen feet. His hold on the strange bird is broken and it flies behind Ranma. Beastman starts to get up and begins to reconnect his control over the bird. The red furred man freezes with wide eyes when Ranma disappears from view only to reappear behind the minion of Skeletor. The pain Beastman feels is worse then anything Skeletor or He-Man ever did to him. Ranma punches Beastman down his back and as she walks around him still punching, she lands over 1400 punches all over the furry man. Ranma's eyes widen with surprise at her increased speed not quite sure what happen but will think about it later. She ends her barrage with a round house kick to Beastman's jaw sending him into a rock formation some thirty yards away. While Beastman slowly slides down the rock unconsciousness a welcome relief to the pain. Ranma goes to the strange bird. She does not understand it but she feels drawn to it. She knows she has seen this type of bird before but she can not remember where. Ranma stands twenty feet from the bird her head tilting to the side while she smiles tentatively at it. The bird walks up to the redhead and stares into Ranma's eyes. Ranma leans back slightly when the bird looks deep into the cat shaped eyes of the martial artists. [Is that bird smiling at me?] Ranma wonders as the bird steps back a step then caresses Ranma's cheek with the side of its head. Ranma giggles as the fluffy feathers on the birds head tickles her cheek. Ranma begins to examine the bird to make sure it is not hurt. She is afraid it might have been hurt by her attack. Neither the bird nor Ranma notices as Evil Lyn appears on the rock formation that Beastman is _sleeping_ against. Evil Lyn aims her wand at the pair knowing she can't give a warning or the redhead will avoid her attack. It is killing her not to be able to gloat as she releases a massive fireball at the pair. Ranma's attention is so fixed on the bird that she does not sense the incoming doom. It is at this scrutiny that she remembers what type of bird it is. "By the Kami-sama _your_ a Phoenix!" The bird nods but it is last as they hear the maniacal laughter behind them. Ranma does not even get the chance to turn when she and the Phoenix is engulfed in the magical fire of Evil Lyn's spell. The witch's laughter grows as she watches the two burn. Their screams music to her evil heart. Beastman is awaken by the torturous screams and watches with terror at the spectacle before him and the trouble he and Evil Lyn are in when the Phoenix rises from her ashes. /*\*/*\ The sorceress prepares her spell over the locket she has taken from Ranma. She can not wait till the young girl returns and she can present her with this new gift. She knows the girl misses her mother and this will help ease her pain of homesickness. The sorceress pauses in her work, thinking of her own daughter. Although she was able to help Man at Arms raise her daughter, her duty as sorceress prevents her from taking her rightful place as Teela's mother. Being around the energetic Ranma is nice and brings back memories of Teela's training with Duncan, but Ranma's presence only reminds her of what being the sorceress of Grayskull has cost her. A tear slowly travels down her face as her heart wrenches at not being able to claim her daughter. She is going to make sure Ranma's mother does not have to go through that torture again. Ten years apart is enough. ***Flashback*** The sorceress looks frantically for her guest but can not find her anywhere inside Castle Grayskull. She then turns to the castle for help in finding her missing guest. "Spirit of Grayskull, where is Ranma?" She waits in the center of her throne room. The room is some fifty feet square and looks like a cave as its walls are gray and roughly sculpted out of the rock of the castle. "She sits on top of my skull!" Comes the reply, the sorceress takes a moment to figure out what the castle's spirit means. She then smiles and heads toward the window. She raises her arms showing her cape of feathers that give her the appearance of having wings. She then disappears only to reappear behind Ranma sitting on the top of the castle over the door. The part Ranma is sitting on looks like the skull of a man and the door is its mouth. "Ranma why are you sitting up here by yourself?" The sorceress asks her as she sits next to the young martial artist. "I always think better when I sit on the roof." Ranma tells her with a shrug as she turns her gaze toward the strange starry sky. "What kind of things do you think about?" She asks curious about her young guest. "*SIGH!* When I was back home I tried to figure a honorable way out of the mess pop got me into. Now I just wonder if anyone misses me now that I’m gone." She doesn't look at her hostess, she does not want to see the pity she knows is there. "Ranma tell me what your feeling?" The defender of Castle Grayskull asks her guest. Ranma sighs again, lowering her head, as if trying to collect her thoughts or debating if she should tell her new friend. She then turns her gaze back toward the star filled sky and tells the sorceress everything. Ranma can not believe that she is telling this woman everything, including things she has tried to keep hidden even from herself. The sorceress listens, and Ranma is grateful that the woman does not say anything. She once looks toward the sorceress while telling her about her life and is surprised to see the woman staring straight ahead her eyes fix in the distance. She was seeing but not seeing as the haze over the woman's eyes causes her to shudder. When Ranma finishes she waits for a response from her silent companion. She feels the woman move and turns to see the magical woman staring at her. The smile on her face is sad and wistful. Ranma can see the pain in her eyes for the life she lead but there is something more there. Ranma leans forward and wipes a tear from the woman's face. The sorceress reaches out and takes holds Ranma in a tight embrace. Ranma at first stiffens for fear she has found another fiancée, but the feeling she is getting is that of a mother for her child. Ranma slowly releases the barriers that she has around her emotions and lets herself feel the emotions she has for so long kept hidden deep inside her. She wraps her arms around the woman who has opened her heart and home to her and lets her anguish poor from her. /*\*/*\ The sorceress can feel Ranma stiffen when she takes the young redhead in her arms. She then slowly begins to caress her fire red hair, her own emotions raging and in turmoil from the horror tail she has just heard. She can feel Ranma's defenses go down and is surprised and happy when the young martial artist trusts her enough to not only return the embrace but to allow her emotions the release they have needed for more then an decade. The sorceress holds the crying girl tightly, gently sway them as she continues to rub the young girls back. The sorceress begins to shed her own tears for the pain this child has been through, and for the pain her mother has had to endure in her absence for ten years and now for losing her again. She thinks of her own child the daughter she can not claim for fear of the danger it will put her in. The sorceress wonders though if it should be Teela who decides if she wants to know. Teela is a warrior and a very good one. The sorceress' tears flow even harder as she can not bring herself to put her child in that danger, or Castle Grayskull, because she knows if it comes right down to it, she would sacrifice Grayskull to save her daughter. Ranma pulls back slightly and looks into the eyes of hostess she sees pain overflowing in the woman's eyes. The pain though is old pain and one that she has noticed there before. Ranma cocks her head slightly looking quite cute, and childlike. The sorceress smiles motherly at her. "What is wrong? Why are you in so much pain?" The sorceress is surprised that Ranma is so perceptive, from her life history it is not one of her strong suits. The sorceress thinks for a moment, she is unsure if she should say anything, but she needs someone she can talk to, to confide in and Ranma has shown her trust in her. The sorceress decides to return the favor and tells Ranma everything about how she became the sorceress to the giving up of her daughter to protect her. Ranma listens, she keeps her eyes locked firmly on the face of the older woman. She watches the emotions that crosses her face, and understands each one as she has felt them all. When the sorceress finishes the sun is coming up in the horizon and the two residents of Castle Grayskull hold each other in a loving embrace of mother, daughter and best friends. ***End Flashback*** /*\*/*\ The sorceress' eyes harden to steel as she thinks of the story Ranma has been telling her of her life on earth. She is glad that none of those people are here for she knows she would not be able to control herself and would attack those that have hurt the young girl. She pulls herself from the depressing thoughts and puts her mind back to the task at hand. The locket is open in front of her, laying on a stone workbench. She begins to cast the spell, causing the blue sapphire in the locket to glow. She reaches out with her senses and using the love that Ranma has for her mother which is symbolized by the locket, the sorceress makes a tentative connection with Nodoka's locket. The strain of the distance builds but she continues on knowing this will help the Mystic Warrior adjust to her new home. The sorceress makes the connection to the other locket of love and pushes the magic into it. She is about to call out to the mother of Ranma Saotome when her concentration is broken by the cry of anguish and a large explosion in the distance. She puts down the locket and runs toward the only window in Grayskull. She does not have to use magic to see the fireball in the distance. {ADAM! Quickly something terrible is happening halfway between the Valley of Mists and Grayskull, and Adam Ranma is near there!"} The sorceress uses her mental connection with prince Adam in order to get help for her friend. {We're on it sorceress we are just pulling up no..BY THE ANCIENTS!"} The shock and anguish in Adam's mind washes over the sorceress like a tidal wave. {ADAM! WHAT IS IT!} Any further communication is cut off as Grayskull begins to shake and the bottomless trench around the castle begins to glow. A wall of light shoots up from the trench then slowly lowers down until it is gone. The sorceress falls to her knees her heart wrenching. Her tears begin to fall as she fears the worse has happened to the young girl who she prays is their salvation. /*\*/*\ Adam and Duncan pull up in a land rover some thirty yards away from the scene. They arrive just in time to see Evil Lyn fire a fireball at Ranma and strange red and yellow bird. Their eyes widen with shock and anguish as the fireball consumes Ranma and bird. Adam jumps from the rover and runs behind a twenty foot high rock formation. He quickly looks around seeing know one he pulls his sword from behind his back. Cringer cowers in the back of the Rover as Adam raises his sword and shouts. "BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL!" Tendrils of lightening shoot out from the sword swarming around prince Adam. He beings to glow with a bright white light with faint colors mixed in. Adam transforms, he grows from his 5" 8" to 6' 2", and his skin darkens to a light to medium tan color. His body bulks up with bulging muscles. His clothes change as well. From his lavender shirt and dark purple loin clothe type pants, to a brown fur loin cloth and boots. Across his bare chest in iron gray is an 'x' with a square at the intersection with a red 'H' in the middle. He brings his sword down in front of him and holding it vertical with the ground. One hand on the hilt and the other on tip of the sword he completes the incantation. "I AM THE POWER!" The light glows brighter as he pushes the sword farther from him. He then points the tip of the sword at Cringer in the back of the rover. The green and gold striped tiger cowers as it is hit with the power surging from the sword. The animal glows with the same bright light that transformed prince Adam. As the transformation completes, Cringer has grown three times his normal size and now wears a red helmet that covers his face that stops his nose and a red saddle. Battlecat stands tall and roars out his battle cry. He then jumps from the rover pausing only long enough for He-Man to climb aboard and charges Evil Lyn and Beastman, revenge glowing in his golden eyes. Duncan follows behind them on foot his wrist blasters ready for the coming fight. He shoots a blast at Evil Lyn knocking her from her perch, thus stopping her insane laughter. Evil Lyn tumbles into Beastman's lap onto her stomach. She pushes herself up slightly and stares at He-Man and Duncan with rage and glee. "You are to late! Skeletor will reward me handsomely for destroying your little Mystic Warrior before she could do anything." Evil Lyn began to laugh at the rage and desperation in the faces of Ranma's friend. Her gloating is cut short by an explosion from behind them. She turns her eyes widen with fear. She raises her hand to use her wand to escape but the glowing ball glows no more as it is broken, probably from the fall. Evil Lyn stares with wild desperation at what is happening behind her unable to untangle herself from the grip of Beastman to escape. /*\*/*\ Beastman is staring transfixed at the burning remains of Ranma and the Phoenix, his fear growing. He knows the Phoenix will rise soon and not only be young again but stronger and more powerful then before. That was why he chose that particular bird. She was old and weak and easy to control. When she is reborn she will destroy them both. "OOFF!" Comes from Beastman as Evil Lyn lands in his lap, he looks down to her then up in the direction she is looking. The presence of He-Man seems to make Beastman happy as he knows he will protect them from the Phoenix, that is until he sees the rage burning the eyes of the protector of Grayskull. The explosion draws his attention to the burning bodies of Ranma and the Phoenix. His eyes widen as a column of fire shoots over thirty feet into the air and spins like a tornado in the spot where Ranma and the Phoenix died. /*\*/*\ He-Man, Duncan and Battlecat turn to the sound of the explosion they watch in awe as the tornado of fire rises to well over thirty feet in the air. They marvel at a site neither has ever seen. He-Man turns a quizzical gaze to Man at Arms, his eye brow raising with an unasked question. Then he hears Duncan's whisper. "The Phoenix!" Duncan looks to He-Man his eyes wide with scientific curiosity as returns his gaze to the plumb of fire. "That bird with Ranma when we arrived it was a Phoenix. An ancient myth of Eternia and I believe of the queen's home planet as well. It is a bird of great beauty and had the power of fire. When it dies it rises from its own ashes and return more then twice as strong as before!" Duncan tells his friend, He-Man turns back staring in awe. The foursome gasps as a screech turning to a scream comes from the fiery pillar. They stare in frightened awe when they see a shape rise up the center of the blazing fire storm. Suddenly a pair of wings made of fire spread out of the storm they stretch out some fifteen feet on either side of the fire storm. "That wing span has to over sixty feet!" Duncan states his hands going over a sensor device he is using to take readings of the phenomena. "The pillar is a little over thirty feet across as it is and the parts of the wings showing extend almost fifteen feet past the edge of the fire." Duncan continues. Their attention is drawn back to Beastman and Evil Lyn as they scream in pain. The two men and cat turn to see tendrils of fire from the funnel surge toward the two minions of Skeletor. He-Man starts to head toward them to protect them when Evil Lyn erects a shield to protect herself. The fact Beastman is being protected is because Evil Lyn is still in his lap. The two men watch while Beastman and Evil Lyn are bombarded with the snaking tendrils of fire. When they see the two trouble makers eyes widen even farther. He-Man and Duncan turn back to the fire and stumble into each shock evident on their faces. /*\*/*\ Princess Adora walks out onto the balcony of the throne room. She is looking for her wayward brother as he promised her he would visit Etheria with her. King Randor tells her he is with Duncan and should be back by now. She looks over the valley below the castle and smiles at the view of the kingdom her father rules over. "Adora, Adora! I can't find him anywhere!" States a small creature floats up to her. It is about two feet long and wears a red robe that covers its whole body, the long sleeves end at the wrist of a pair of blue hands. There is a large black 'O' in the center of its chests. Its face is cast in shadows as blue ears poke out of the large rim of a red hat that comes to a relaxed point. A pink scarf is wrapped around its neck covering the small creatures mouth. "Thank you Orko. I wonder where he is? It is not like him to break a promise to me." Adora looks out towards Grayskull worry on her face. Adora suddenly finds herself on the ground as the shock wave of an explosion hits them. Orko is blown to the other side of the balcony the railing stopping his flight as he plows into it. Adora rises, her mother and father appear on the balcony with her. "By the Ancients! What was that?" The King of Eternia asks while helping his daughter to her feet. "I don't know father, but is was powerful!" Adora tells him as she wipes off her closes. "Oh, my Lord! Look over there toward Grayskull!" Queen Marlena points in the direction of the center of the universes magic. The small group of people stares in wonder as pillar of fire shoots skyward. While her family is staring at the phenomena, Adora sneaks out. She makes her way to the stable and to her horse Spirit. She looks around and finds no one. She then pulls out her sword which looks very much like her brothers. It is two feet long and made of a silver alloy. It is nearly four inches wide at the hilt and attaches to a curled cross bar. The only difference is the bluish white gem stone at the base of her sword. "What is wrong Adora?" Her horse asks her while watching her pull out her sword. "We are needed Spirit!" Is all she tells the animal as she raises her sword over her head. "FOR THE HONOR OF GRAYSKULL!" A transformation very much like her brothers begins around her. As she changes she grows from her 5' 9" to a 6' 2" inches, much the same as her twin brother. Her blonde shoulder length hair grows to the middle of her back and her red body suit with white collar and cuffs changes to a white mini dress with no straps. She wears a gold elongated diamond shaped belt the longer part rising between her breasts. A gem matching the one on her sword is in the middle of the belt. Wings expand from the sides of her belt covering her breasts. On her head as a tiara with an elongated diamond shape, the same gem in its center and the shorter point resting on her forehead. A black choker adorns her throat which has a gold cape attached to it. "I AM SHE-RA!" Completes her incantation, as she flips the sword so the gem is facing her steed. A blast of white light with pale colors streaking through it hits the horse causing him to transform onto Swiftwind her winged Unicorn. Swiftwind rears back on his hind legs as the transformation completes. When it is done She-Ra mounts her Unicorn and he takes off out the door of the stable, taking flight toward the pillar of fire.