Ranma blinked as the wand reformed into a young girl. She was cute, with short brown hair and seemed no older than eleven or twelve at the most. "What?"
The girl smiled. "I can assume the form of my creator when you are not actively using my magic." Then she giggled and winked at him, "And considering your reputation with women, I thought using a younger body would be safer for the both of us."
Ranma blushed, and then said, "So what do I call you, and what is going on?"
The wand turned girl sighed. "I do not have a name as such. You may give me one if you wish. As for what is going on... that is a long story."
Ranma sat down on the fountain. "I'm listening."
The girl sat down beside him. "A long time ago, there was an age of magic. Those that could control magic ruled, and some of those had power likened to those of gods. It was a wild and chaotic time, until one family of wizards and wizardesses managed to take over. They managed to conquer most the chaotic factions, and brought peace to not just this world, but all that humans lived on. That was the line of Serenity, and they ruled over humanity from the moon.
"Now, like all things, there were good and bad points about the Rule of the Serenity, and like all things, it came to an end. And that is were this story really begins.
"Another sorceress, one of equal power to the current Serenity waged a senseless war against her. In the final battle that took place on the moon, the two of them came to blows themselves. So great was their power, that their fight twisted the very fabrics of reality, draining magic away from most the worlds. In the end, only earth could sustain life anymore, magic was nearly gone, the other Sorceress and her armies had been banished to another dimension, and the Moon became a blasted, lifeless rock.
"Now, while the Queen had died, there was one last member of the line of Serenity - my creator. She had never possessed a desire to rule, seeing the decadence of the court as disgusting and wasteful. But after that great, final battle, she could see that Magic was slowly dying out. This she could not allow.
"She created many wondrous things in her last few years. Places of magic - like Jusenkyo - which would sustain a trickle of Power until such a time as the Ley Lines, the power source of magic, could recover. And she created me, and the cards.
"The 52 Cards were supposed to exist as not only another source of magical power, but as a sort of safe-guard, in case something dark awoke, or that evil Sorceress escaped, or some such, before the Magic had returned. And I was charged with finding the Captor, who would return the cards to their real forms when the time was right.
"Unfortunantly, my creator did not know that Queen Serenity had her own plans. She had created two magical cats, who were charged with recreating her kingdom, 'Perfect,' this time. When they discovered the Cards, they began manipulating events, turning Time to their desires, to recreate their 'perfect' world.
"And that leads us to now. The time is almost upon us. Sometime in the near future, the Ley Lines will again be flooded with magic power. This might happen in as little as a single year, or maybe not for another decade, but it will happen. If the Cards are not in their True Forms when that happens, most of them will go crazy from the sudden surge of energy. Their human guise will shatter, and they will rampage, causing untold destruction and chaos.
"For the Cats' plans to succeed, they want that to happen. The Cards they control, (although, they do not know they are being controlled, or are even Cards...) have been protected from this event, and will react as they have been taught: they will destroy their own sisters. But that destruction would create even more havoc amongst that nature of this world, which their Cards will also try and counteract. When all is done, any surviving humans would think those Cards to be Goddesses, and will not question anything they do.
"Now, though, I have found you. We can stop their 'perfect' world from being created. We must locate and capture the other 49 cards, before the Ley Lines fully heal! It is the only way to save this world!"
Ranma looked at the girl, rather shell-shocked. Of course, this couldn't have been anything easy...
(Posted Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:25)
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