Part I
    Usagi felt her hands slipping, the vortex was pulling her in! She looked desperately to her friends. They too were hanging on for dear life to the support cables of the bridge. She felt Luna’s claws dig into her shoulder. "Sailor Moon! Sailor Scouts! Pool your powers together and you can beat this thing!"
    Usagi pulled her face around to look at him. "Would that work?"
    Tuxedo Mask shrugged, "Sure, why not?"
    Usagi looked towards the swirling vortex. The Nega Moon strobe was burrowing towards the other dimension, no way she could let them risk themselves. She made a hard decision. She grabbed Luna by her scruff of her neck and put her behind a metal bar. The cat screamed. "Usagi! What are you doing!"
    She gritted her teeth. "I can’t let you and the others suffer, I’m going in!", she let go of the cable and let herself be sucked in.
    "No!", the scouts shouted.
    Tuxedo Mask screamed, "Usako! No!", a silver dome surrounded the vortex and disappeared. The pull abated. The scouts ran towards the hole, it was empty save for a shattered strobe.
 
    Usagi found herself several feet in the air and rapidly descending. "OOOHH SHIIIITTT!"  She landed in a very shallow pool. "Wooof!", she managed as the air was driven from her lungs by the force of the impact. She faded into unconsciousness.

    Usagi came to with a hand waving before her face. "Hey? You OK?"
    She groaned, "Ohh, ouch! Anybody get the number of that bus?"  She wiped a hand over her face, her hand met with unfamiliar features. She tossed the idea as due to her recent impact. The man who was kneeling before her wore a tour guide’s uniform, with a hat labeled, Jueysenko Springs Tour Guide.
    Usagi hauled herself up with her staff. Staff? She didn’t own a staff! She looked at her now very strange hands. "What the hell!" she yelled. She stretched a hand before her face, it was a golden tan in color and now had long, bony, and very sharp nails. She began to chew on her lip and quit that in a hurry, she felt along the insides of her mouth and found that she now possessed overly long and sharp canines. She looked down to her body and found her Fuku had disappeared, and was replaced by a sleeveless top that only covered her breasts, and not that well.  Upon further survey she found she now wore a loin cloth whose tails dangled to her black booted feet, She also found she now had a very short, very slick fur coat. She tried to take a step when she found yet another little addition. "A tail?" She screeched. Her screech sounded uncomfortably like a cat when you step on it’s tail.
    The tour guide touched her arm. "You may wish to come with me. We have a full length mirror you may wish to use." Usagi nodded numbly. She was still aware enough to take careful note of her surroundings. The tour guide pointed out the names of the springs as they passed. Two particularly stuck in her mind and she memorized them, The Spring of Drowned Woman and the Spring of Drowned Man. She couldn’t place why, but she sensed someone out there wanted to know this information quite badly.
    The Guide stopped and pulled down a branch on a tree, the trunk flipped open and revealed a full-length mirror.
    Unfortunately, for Usagi’s now doubled height, it cut off her fore head, but most of her was shocking enough. She was at least six feet now. She was covered in a short coat of golden hair. At her hip she now had a small leather pouch filled with something. Her boots were zipped up, and she had a light armored shoulder guard. She wore leather supports on both wrists with small metal plates woven in. She felt a new flexibility in her limbs. She also found her ears to be sharply pointed with tufts of hair on the tips. She looked to the guide, "What in hell happened to me?" she demanded.
    HE looked at his feet, "You fell in a cursed spring, that is your new form, when you are splashed with warm water you will change back to your old self. That particular spring has never been fallen into before, we guarded it to make sure, but you just fell out of the sky. We are truly sorry, but there is no way to undo the curse. You’ll have to live like this."
    Usagi nodded, she been a princess on the Moon, died, been reborn, turned into a girl who threw magical head gear at monsters from another world who wanted to kill her and take over the universe, and on top of all that, her love life was a mess. Why not this?, Usagi groaned, "Got any warm water, I’m not really up to learning to walk with this tail." she whispered.
    The guide patted her shoulder and ran off. Usagi looked to the sky, it was several shades darker than her native sky, but just as pretty. In almost no time the Guide returned and asked her to brace herself. She felt the warm water splash onto her face, somehow she got the idea she was getting the kid gloves treatment from this guy for some reason. She looked back to herself. She was once more Usagi Tsukino.
    The guide blinked, "You’re gonna have it tougher than I thought!"
    Usagi swallowed, "What is the quickest way to Tokyo?" she asked.
    The guide paled, "You’re from all that way? Well we can get you passage on a boat to Japan. This is China."
    Usagi groaned, "I was wondering where that thing spit me out."
    The Guide sweat dropped, "What thing?"
    Usagi sighed, "I trans-dimensional vortex I was trying to destroy before it sucked all of Tokyo into this dimension. At least there is a Tokyo here!"
    The Guide nodded, "I have seen such things, they seem to be attracted to this place, it must have been meant for Tokyo if it managed to open up there."
    Usagi sighed, "Why me?" she moaned.
    The Guide sat beside her, "All things are meant to happen, maybe you will be blessed by this day?" he tried.
    "All things are meant to happen. Why are they always meant to happen to me!"  The Guide hurriedly left to make arrangement for travel.
 
    It was two weeks before Usagi left, she waved a tearful goodbye as she left in the Taxi, during the time that she had stayed with them, she had acted as a temporary Tour Guide, she had memorized all the springs and their curses.  Now had to face the world. She had found that all the tour guides had curses as well, Yoshiro for example turned into a pink and white cat. Shika, a blonde beauty from America, became a very bosomy red head. Usagi herself wouldn’t have minded such a curse, but was as happy as one could be with her curse. After much experimenting on her own she had found that if she transformed as a cat woman, she would be normal Sailor moon, only twice as flexible.
    Usagi disembarked from the plane and into Tokyo National Airport. She caught a map of Tokyo from some weirdo who was throwing them at people. As for as she could tell, her old district of Juuban was now Nerima. She hailed a tab and used her meager funds to go there.
    She stopped in the location of her house. Now there was a building called Tendo Dojo. She sighed, she hadn’t known what she had been expecting, but she hadn’t found it. Suddenly out of the door exploded a giant panda chasing a boy with black hair. They were headed straight for her! Before she could scream the panda up ended a pail of cold water over both their heads. "What did you do that for?", Usagi screamed at the Panda. She looked down at her now very stretched clothing. The panda blushed, it is a known fact that pandas can’t blush, but this one was trying.
    The boy, now a girl attacked the Panda, "Why in hell did you do that?"
    Usagi found herself being ignored. Wading into the battle she separated the two fighters. The girl and the Panda were now very aware of her presence. "Now why in hell did you activate my curse you bumbling excuse for a teddy bear?", she screamed at the cringing bear.
    Obviously it wasn’t about to answer. Usagi swore as she fished out her thermos, she’d taken to carrying around. "Stupid bear." she muttered and turned to the girl. "I’ve got some hot water, I suspect you're under such a predicament as I. Maybe we have the same cure?"  Another difference between her cat form and her other, was her cat form was much better spoken.
    The boy/girl nodded. "I never saw a curse like yours." she took the thermos and dumped a third of it on her head, another she dumped onto the panda, she now a he, handed the rest to her. "What’s your name?", he asked.
    Before she could think she answered, "Orlin Cari and you?"
    The boy nodded. "Ramna Soatome." he bowed. Usagi smiled then upended the thermos over her own head. Usagi shook out her pigtails. Ramna jumped, "Your hair changed!"
    Usagi nodded, "And my name, now I’m Usagi, Tsukino Usagi."
    Ramna nodded. "You change names with forms, wish I’d thought of that, I have to use Ramna Chan or Ranko." Usagi laughed a little, then looked at Genma. "You have some explaining to do." she said in icy tones. The man seemed to try and burrow into the ground.
 
    Usagi sat at the table, Soun and his family, along with Genma and Ramna stared intently at her. "So Usagi, we really must find a way to apologize for Genma’s rude behavior." Nodoka insisted.
    Usagi blushed, "No! Really, you’ve done enough!"
    Soun scoffed, "No, really. Do you have a place to stay."
    Usagi found herself between a rock and a hard place. "Well I , Um, well…" she stuttered.
    Soun slapped his hand down on the table. "Well then! It’s settled, you’ll stay with us until you have a place to stay!"
    Usagi paled. She found the girl, Akane staring at her. She looked to her, "Is something wrong?", she whispered to the girl, while Soun and Kasumi were arguing over where she would stay.
    Akane blinked, "Why?"
    Usagi shrugged, "You’ve been staring at me ever since Genma and Ramna brought me in."
    Akane blinked, "I’m sorry, I was just wondering how you would react to living in Nerima? It’s pretty strange here."
    Usagi sighed, "Well, I’ve been through so many weird things that there’s nothing Nerima can do to scare me." she whispered.
    Akane blushed, "You’d be surprised, hey! Wanna be friends?"
    Usagi blinked at Akane’s forward nature, "Well, I, sure!"
    Akane grinned. "Dad! Usagi can stay in my room!"
    Soun looked to his daughter, "Thank you Akane, We’ll bring in a cot."
    Akane waved her hand, "No! Usagi and I can get it!", Akane clamped onto Usagi’s wrist and dragged her off.
 
    Usagi pulled on a pair of Akane’s pajamas. "Thanks for letting me borrow some of your clothes." she said to Akane.
    Akane smiled, "No prob! We’re so similar in size that you can borrow one of my school uniforms. We’ll enroll you in school tomorrow!" Akane chirped.
    Usagi took a deep breath, "What’s the story between you and Ramna, Nabiki says you two are engaged, but you fight like cats and dogs."
    Akane blinked, "I, uh, well… it’s like this. Ramna and I are in a forced engagement. Father and Genma want their families to be joined, so I got stuck with marrying the jerk. Thing is if he wasn’t so mean to me, I could find myself liking him a lot!" she sighed, "What about you? Any old boyfriends left behind in China?"
    Usagi blushed, even though she knew Mamo-chan no longer loved her she still loved him with all her heart. "No, there’s no one", a tear threatened to slip down her cheek, Usagi rubbed her eyes to hide it, "I’m beat! I’m going to turn in!" she snuggled down into her cot. "’Night, Akane-chan." she whispered.
    Akane giggled, "’Night Usa-chan." And they both fell fast asleep.
 
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