Historian’s Note: Now that Mistress Maji’s team has met MoonPrincess, a magical girl who can hop dimensions, they don’t have to stay trapped in the World of Shoujo anymore! The only problem is, they don’t know which dimension they need to go to in order to find their missing friend Akane. With help from the black mage Yui Kurokami, our heroes are trying to learn how to harness the magical powers of materia, in the hopes of restoring MoonPrincess’ memory of the mysterious location Akane got transported to. But can they really pull it off?

The sun rose over the World of Shoujo, illuminating the landscape and casting a pretty pastel glow over Mistress Maji and her teammates, each sleeping soundly in his or her own sleeping bag. Well, except for Possum, who had decided that he slept more comfortably when hanging upside-down from a tree branch, and Babbit, who had sleepwalked over to Nut and was now using his face as a pillow.

“Rise and shine!” Yui Kurokami called out, rousing his new students from their peaceful slumber, “Get some breakfast into your tummies, and then prepare to immerse yourselves into the wide wonderful world of materia!”

“I hate morning people,” Mistress Maji muttered to herself, rubbing the sleep from her eyes and trudging over to the breakfast that had been set out for everyone. Evidently she hadn’t rubbed enough sleep from her eyes, because she accidentally stepped in a bowl of oatmeal.

Meanwhile, Nut nearly ended up having Babbit for breakfast, as he yawned so wide that he nearly swallowed the little white bat. “Well, how was I supposed to know that dumb bat was sleeping on my face?” Nut asked as his teammates laughed and Babbit indignantly flew off.

Unconcerned because they knew that hunger would make Babbit come back, the rest of our heroes began to have breakfast. Ranma was of course still very worried about Akane, so he quickly gulped down some cereal and waited impatiently for everyone else to finish eating. MoonPrincess, Richard, and Ken ate eggs and sausages at a more leisurely pace, while Mistress Maji and Bonehead favored fruit and toast. Possum had a stack of pancakes in front of him, and was struggling to pour chocolate syrup onto them from a bottle bigger than he was. The bottle tipped over, and Possum stared in dismay as the contents spilled out all over the ground. However, the chocolate-loving part of his brain (and that was a big part) finally decided that this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, and so he began to happily lap up the spilled chocolate syrup (conveniently forgetting about the pancakes).

Amuro and Yui Kurokami looked up from their food in time to see what Possum was doing, and sweatdropped. “Strange friends you have,” Yui Kurokami remarked.

“You get used to it,” said Amuro, laughing nervously.

“Speak for yourself,” Nut groaned from a short distance away, having just noticed a hungry Babbit making his return.

“Beans?” Babbit called out, noticing what Nut was eating, “Does that mean you intend on providing the musical entertainment for today? That’s awfully nice of you, but I don’t know if we’ll enjoy the smell.”

Nut was about to make a sarcastic reply, when suddenly six swirling jets of black smoke sprang from the ground behind him in a hexagonal pattern. “That wasn’t me!” Nut wailed, blushing furiously as Babbit doubled over in laughter.

“Oh, don’t worry about the smoke,” Yui Kurokami said cheerfully, “That’s just The Man With No Name. I used to call him ’No Name’ for short, but I got the feeling he didn’t like that, so now I just call him Wizard31. He follows me around sometimes when I’m teaching people how to use materia.”

“You mean he’s one of your students?” asked Ken.

“Nah, he just likes to watch,” Yui Kurokami laughed, “Wizard31 doesn’t need magic lessons from me! You know Slane, from ’Record of Lodoss War’? Well Wizard31’s magical power is 100 times stronger than that!”

“And of all the physical forms he could have chosen, he wanted to look like black smoke?” asked Mistress Maji, raising an eyebrow.

Yui Kurokami laughed heartily. “Oh no, that’s just how he teleports away.”

“Away?” said Ken, “But we didn’t see him teleport in!”

Yui Kurokami grinned. “He doesn’t usually let people see him come in unless he wants them to. He probably left because he had other business to attend to... but I’m sure he’ll be back soon enough. Who knows, maybe he’ll even make himself visible to you folks! Anyway, finish up your breakfast so we can get started, okay?”

The rest of breakfast went quickly for our heroes. Conversation was practically nonexistent, possibly because they weren’t accustomed to the idea that an unseen observer could be with them at any time. (There’s probably a “Big Brother” joke in there somewhere, but the authors of this bio aren’t that desperate yet.) Before long, our heroes were seated in a circle around Yui Kurokami, listening intently as he began the first lesson.

“Now, Mistress Maji tells me that she already explained to you that materia is compressed power,” said Yui Kurokami, holding up one of the shiny little balls that Amuro had found, “and that having a certain kind of materia allows you to use a certain kind of power. That’s very important. For example, you can cast fire magic as long as you have fire materia in your possession, but if you aren’t carrying that materia, you don’t have that power anymore. It’s not like magicite, where you retain whatever magic you’ve learned from it.”

“What’s magicite?” asked Richard.

A giant flowerpot appeared out of thin air and smashed itself over Richard’s head. “I don’t like interruptions!” Yui Kurokami declared, “If you have a question, you should raise your hand first! Now come up here, Richard, you’ve just volunteered for my first demonstration. MoonPrincess, you come up here too.”

Richard and MoonPrincess nervously got up and stood next to the magic teacher. Yui Kurokami held up the shiny green ball again and said, “This is transform materia. It’ll allow you to magically transform someone into a toad. Here, let me show you.” The little ball began to sparkle, and suddenly Richard yelped as he began to shrink and turn brown.

“Croak!” said an unhappy Richard-the-toad.

“There, you see?” said Yui Kurokami, “It’s very simple. While holding the transform materia, just imagine your opponent turning into a toad, and there you go! You can use this materia to change your opponent back to normal, too. It’s also important to remember that this spell is fairly easy to counter, and therefore probably won’t work against very powerful opponents unless you catch them by surprise.”

The ball sparkled again, and suddenly Richard was back to normal. Yui Kurokami then handed the materia to MoonPrincess, saying, “Here, now you try it. Transform Richard into a toad again.”

“WHAT?!” Richard shouted, only to end up with an entire tea set being smashed over his head.

“Okay, I’ll give it a try,” said MoonPrincess, holding the materia tightly and closing her eyes. She concentrated as hard as she could, until she sensed that something had happened. She opened her eyes, but was disappointed to see that Richard was still standing in front of her in human form. “Darn, what did I do wrong?” MoonPrincess said, dismayed.

“Croak,” was the response she got.

“Huh? ’Croak’?” said MoonPrincess. She looked behind her, and instead of seeing Yui Kurokami, she saw a toad!

“Um... MoonPrincess?” said Richard, “I think we have a problem.” He gestured to where their teammates had been sitting, and MoonPrincess saw that everyone had been turned into toads! As if that wasn’t bad enough, the toads seemed pretty angry with MoonPrincess... No wait, that wasn’t an angry kind of look in their eyes, it was... hentai!

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!” MoonPrincess exclaimed, as the crowd of lusty toads pounced on her, “GET THEM OFF!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Hang on!” said Richard. He was about to move closer, when suddenly a dark figure blocked his way. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!” he shouted.

The newcomer was a large, muscular man dressed in a tunic, pants, and cloak the color of night, much like his long black hair. He was as dark and imposing as a tall mountain stone... in fact, he looked very much like a statue carved from stone, except for the paler face. But the stern features of that face only added to the severe “You do NOT want to mess with me” aura that he had about him. Richard realized that this man must be Wizard31.

Without saying anything, Wizard31 gestured towards the toads with his hand. There was a bright flash, and suddenly MoonPrincess found her teammates glomping onto her instead of toads.

“Oh my, what came over me? How embarrassing,” said Amuro, quickly letting go. Everyone else followed suit.

“Um... thank you,” MoonPrincess said to Wizard31. But all he did in response was turn around and walk a short distance away.

“Well, in all my years of teaching, that has never happened to me before,” Yui Kurokami said casually, brushing himself off.

“I’m really sorry,” said MoonPrincess, “I don’t know what went wrong.”

_If you continue to fear your memories, it will only get worse,_ a male voice said inside MoonPrincess’ head. She gasped and looked over at Wizard31, who appeared to be watching them silently. Who had said that? Was it him?

“Well, MoonPrincess, shall we try that again?” asked Yui Kurokami, interrupting her thoughts.

Before she could respond, her teammates all shouted “NO!!!”

“Alright, how about trying a different materia, then?” Yui Kurokami suggested.

Everyone nodded vigorously, causing MoonPrincess to sweatdrop. That was when she heard the male voice speaking inside her head again, _If you keep trying to block out your bad memories, the lemon sickness within you will only get worse. Did you really think you could simply run from your past by partially erasing your memory? When are you going to tell your teammates the truth?_

MoonPrincess nervously glanced over at Wizard31 again. A question formed on her lips, but it died when a plastic pink flamingo appeared out of nowhere and conked her on the head.

“Hey, quit daydreaming!” said Yui Kurokami, picking up his flamingo and making it vanish back into thin air, “We don’t have time to waste! What, do you want this materia stuff to drag on for 15 bios?”

Everyone shuddered at the thought, including the authors of this bio. ^^