Mousse (AST)

**Mousse** also known as **C-chan** and **Selene** is a male Chinese Amazon who seeks the heart of Shampoo and Kasumi.

## History

Mousse is desperately in love with Shampoo, and has been since they were both three. After overhearing his mother say how wonderful it would be if he could marry Shampoo one day, he proposed to her. Of course, even all those years ago Shampoo was someone of great importance in the village, being the probable heir to Cologne, while Mousse's family branch had been weakened considerable over the last several generations due to their issues with vision. No doubt his mother had thought at the time that a marriage between them would have been a great way to overcome this. However neither one of them understood that at the time Mousse just asked her to marry him, and Shampoo not knowing what that meant agreed. It wasn’t until later after her grandmother explained to her what happened that she recanted.

Mousse has been doggedly pursuing her ever since convinced that Cologne was tainting Shampoo’s view of him. When Mousse was 14 in a cruel and hypocritical attempt to win over Shampoo, he befriended Frost a young albino who was training to become a mage. He was hoping that she could fix his eyesight. He revealed his plans to a couple of boys who asked him why he was going with Frost unaware that she was behind him having made the potion to cure his eyesight and wanting to surprise him. With out a word she dropped the potion vial letting it shatter on the ground and walked away.

Mousse met Kasumi and Genma on the road to Jusenkyo while polishing his fighting skills in an effort to impress Shampoo. However, as unfortunately was all too common for him at the time, on his way home he had misread several signs and gotten himself headed in the completely wrong direction. Kasumi noticed his frustration and asked if he need assistance.

It was a rare thing for a Mousse to have a gesture of kindness from a member of the opposite sex. Naturally he was not about to turn that help down, and since Kasumi was headed his way they traveled together for that time. They separated at the crossroads to the village and the springs. Not long after Mousse left Kasumi's company, he had arrived at the village and had learned of the dangerous nature of Jusenkyo. At the time he couldn't learn exactly what that danger was, but he knew Kasumi was heading there so he had rushed there to warn her. After all, she was a rare sort and Mousse felt a kind of obligation to at least try and warn her.

Unfortunately, once he arrived and began his search for Kasumi, he soon walked right into one of the springs, unaware what it would do to him. That had been the spring of drown cat. Of course, not knowing the exact nature of the curse at the time, Mousse was quite panicked. When he heard Kasumi he could only think to rush to her for aid, jumping into her arms, unaware of her phobia at the time. The result was all too obvious. Kasumi screamed out in panic, tossed Mousse into the air and ran off. Unprepared for that kind of response, Mousse could not alter his trajectory sufficiently to land on the ground, and instead ended up in the spring Kasumi had been standing next to at the time, probably considering it as a means to a cure, namely spring of drown girl.

By the time he made his way back to the village Shampoo had already left to track down Kasumi. Knowing that Cologne would try something and seeing this as an opportunity to get both Shampoo and Kasumi he made his way to Japan.  After making it to Japan Mousse in his cursed form jumped onto Ukyo’s face to protect Kasumi when the former broke into the Tendo home to attack the later. Prying her off of her face Ukyo threw her at Kasumi who threw her in the air as she screamed in terror. When she found herself in Akane’s room she was thrown out of the window by a frightened Akane. She wondered around the rest of the night in a daze before collapsing in the dojo the next morning.

Akane took her to the vet to get check up and was forced to leave her at the shelter due to Kasumi’s fear of cats. When she came to she had no memory of who she was or what happened, she only remembered C-chan because Akane kept calling her that. When she finally recovered and realized where she was and tried to escape only to be shocked when Artemis told her it wouldn’t work.

C-chan spent her time in the shelter alternating between a growing sense of hopelessness and trying to remember exactly who she was. Her only saving grace was Artemis, but even that was short lived as his every escape attempt ended in failure and did nothing more then cause the workers there to become more cautious. Which is why she was ecstatic when Akane came to visit her.

Akane eventually got Nodoka’s permission to adopt C-chan and took her home. That night she slipped away from Akane while she slept, and returned to rescue Artemis. Being in the dark building triggered a flash of memory but she brushed it off. Artemis thanked her unfortunately it proved to be too late as Minako, Usagi and Luna arrived at that moment to retrieve him. Seeing he was safe C-chan was about to return home only for Luna to call her a common alley cat. Walking back she whacked Luna’s head into the ground with her paw before walking off again.

C-chan tried to get near Kasumi as the name seemed vaguely familiar and she hoped seeing her would jog her memory. Unfortunately, Akane was determined not to let that happen. She had done a very efficient job of keeping C-chan completely away from Kasumi.

Realizing that she would never recover her memory as long as she stayed locked up in Akane's room for most of every day. C-chan came to the conclusion that she would have to run away. She was planning to during one of her and Akane’s daily visit to the park until Nodoka informed Akane that she had chased away a tom cat trying to sneak into her bedroom. Hearing this C-chan decided that it was best to stay a little longer at least until after she was no longer in heat. Mousse’s memories were finally restored once she met Shampoo causing her to immediately begin working out her plans for the future. Hoping to make up for lost time.

When a cat snuck into Akane’s room C-chan didn’t hesitate to attack and pin it to the ground, still remembering Nodoka’s warning. Relieved to see it was Artemis she let him up. Using a Ouija board she told him that she had regained her memory, and asked him about Jusenkyo. Unfortunately he had never heard about Jusenkyo, but he did agree to teach her how to talk. They agreed to meet the next day.

During the Charlotte Cup Mousse is up in rafters behind the audience. He made his presence known after the Goodbye Whirl preventing Mikado from finishing a prone Kasumi and distracting him long enough to give him a chance to recover. While Mousse was effectively able to keep him too busy to mount an effective attack. He got cocky once Mikado started performing the Dance od Death and ended up knocking himself out.

The match would soon come to a close with Kasumi and Ukyo's victory, allowing Shampoo to question Mousse. Finding out he and Kasumi knew each other, Shampoo quickly denied any relationship with the boy. Mousse explained to Kasumi that he learned that something called the Phoenix Pill would cure her unfortunately Cologne had it. Going back to the restaurant they were greeted by Cologne.

She challenged Kasumi on behalf of Ukyo who Cologne had given the pill to. While Mousse was ready to just gang up on Ukyo and take it Kasumi knew te match had to be one on one. However, during the skating match it had been revealed that Ukyo knew the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken, meaning Kasumi did not like his odds of victory.

When Mr Hiro took Kasumi to a mountain ski lodge to help him take his mind off of things Mousse followed them. Cologne had also gone there as well, because she felt that something was amiss. Kasumi left as the two argued where it is revealed that Mousse in manipulating Kasumi. He knows that if he cures Kasumi of the cat tongue point and marry her he’s get Shampoo in the process.

Making their way to the lodge Dr. Tofu turned out to be there as well and explained he had brought Frost to the mountains. Shampoo and Cologne both recognized the name, although Dr. Tofu was surprised they had not known she was in Nerima. They quickly explained that Frost was likely a danger to Kasumi and everyone split up to find Kasumi before Frost could. They would ultimately fail, although did managed to keep Kasumi away from Frost long enough for Shampoo to arrive and explain matters to Frost properly. Frost would then use her magic to cancel out the effects of the cat tongue point, curing Kasumi.

Later, a hotspring Mousse’s only thought was his chance at Shampoo had finally arrived. He didn’t waste any time appearing before Kasumi the next day to inform her that she is now a full Amazon and thus had to obey their laws which included the Kiss of Marriage. Mousse tried to convince Kasumi to marry him stating that it would restore Shampoo’s status. Kasumi needed time to come t terms with what he told her so agreed to meet him later.

Before he could go to the meeting he was stopped Artemis, having forgotten about their speaking lesson, however Mousse quickly brushed him off. Though he had to make sure the cat didn’t follow him. Kasumi arrived at the meeting along with Shampoo and Cologne. When Kasumi told him no he accused the elder of twisting her like she did Shampoo, but Kasumi informed her that it was Shampoo’s decision alone. In response Mousse challenged her to a fight, but proved be no match for Kasumi.

When he regained consciousness he found himself alone with Frost. She once again tried to convince him to leave Shampoo alone but he ignored her. He had discovered Akane’s crush of Tofu during his time as C-chan and in an attempte to help her had sent the letters to get the two together. Of course, it didn't turn out as well as planned. How was he to know at the time that Kasumi and Ranma would have a date at the same place? Mousse had planned on just watching out for Akane that night, but when he saw Ranma with Kasumi, he just couldn't contain himself.

He and Ranma exchanged a number of colorful insults until Mousse finally lost his cool at being called a "girly little wimp" and initiated an attack. Kasumi tried to put a stop to it only to be attacked by Ukyo. Ranma held his own against Mousse tagging him with a hit and run strategy, keeping the other boy off balance. With Mousse doing little more then destroy his tux. It wasn’t until Akane decided to intervene that Mousse gained the upper hand. Her distraction allowed him to ensnare Ranma with several sets of bolas. Luckily before Mousse could capitalize on this he ended up being blindsided by Shampoo giving Ranma the chance to knock him out.

When Herb showed up at the dojo to demand that Kuno and Ranma give up their claim to Kasumi. Mousse was quick to change back so that he could join in the fray. When Kasumi and Shampoo showed up Mousse attempted to convince her to choose him, but she once more refused. Akane ended up taking C-chan with her when she went to the beach location of Kasumi’s restaurant. When she saw that Luna there she tossed her head up in disregard of the other cat, and instead headed to a nice shady spot to watch Kasumi and Shampoo discreetly while making small talk with Artemis.

Upon learning about the love pills Mousse discreetly took the pill that Shampoo had obtained when everyone was distracted by the fight between Kasumi and Haruka. However before he could feed it to Kasumi he was intercepted by Frost and had it taken from him.

The next day at school Mousse would approach Shampoo and attempt to get her to agree to the marriage, but would be rebuffed. When he refused to drop the issue, Takeshi Ayagami stepped in and quickly defeated him. Shampoo found the boy's particular style interesting, but ultimately left, leaving Mousse defeated on the ground. He was found by Frost who once again called him out for his obsession with Shampoo. He tried to walk away but Frost didn’t let him.

A frustrated Mousse told Frost that there was nothing she could do to stop him from winning Shampoo’s love. Going so far as to blame her for it, stating that if she had just fixed his eyesight he and Shampoo would already be married. Frost would then offer Mousse a cure for his sight issues to prove to him this was not his problem with getting Shampoo to accept him. Mousse would recklessly accept.

One drinking the concoction Frost made for him, Mousse would be confronted by Frost who after revealing that she had fallen into the spring of drowned twins would force him to admit he was C-chan. However, this was only the start of his troubles as he quickly learned they had tricked him into agreeing to become their familiar. Combined with the magic of the Chiisuiton and threatening to use the love pill, Mousse was now trapped in his cursed cat form, effectively enslaved to Frost.

Mousse spent all night going through the five stages of grief finally reaching the last stage of her trip through denial, namely desperation. Frost was woken up through their connection and reminded him that there was nothing he could do to escape. He had a glimmer of hope for a second when he reminded her about Akane, but she wasn’t worried as Akane had no way of knowing exactly when C-chan became her familiar so she’d tell her she sent her ahead to look in on Kasumi.

As Frost was thinking up a name to call Mousse she explained how she got her curse and how it worked. He in returned explained how he got his.  She finally decided to call him Selene much to his disgust. He finally realized how bad things were when he stopped responding to Mousse, causing Frost to rephrase her rules to him.

In the days following, Mousse would make contact with Artemis and get the Sailor Senshi involved. Naturally they were shocked that she could now talk. After being examined by Ami it was determined that she had been transformed into a Mau. However, unable to truly reveal the full nature of his situation, he told them Frost cover story after revealing his name to be Selene. She was happy when Artemis remembered that she asked him about Jusenkyo.

Though was still forced to lie about her curse stating that she just remembered the name. The fact that they she had the same energy pattern as Herb made them suspicious so they decided to confront Frost. They only came to meet Frost in their Senshi form, and would eventually agree to help out with the repair of the Kaisuifu by providing energy.

The confrontation with Akane finally came while initially angered at the thought that Frost was trying to steal her pet. She quickly forgot about it when C-chan began talking to her. Mousse repeated the cover story to Akane. Frost let Akane keep Mousse stating that she’ll lonely need her every now and then. This shocked Mousse, but Frost had no ulterior motives, while making sure Mousse knew that Akane would find out his true identity if he tried to take liberties with his position.

When Akane went to the hot springs after the school was close due to the chaos unleashed by the returning principle Mousse was basically forced to stay with Frost. Mousse’s only comfort during this time was his fantasies of revenge against Frost.  Mousse also decided to research this new status of hers now that she could read the magical scriptures within Frost's magic tomes and had discovered that being a familiar came with a number of abilities.

As Mousse was studying them a tearful Shampoo showed up at the clinic and approached Frost, accusing Kasumi of raping her. Naturally this infuriated Frost who set out anew to kill Kasumi. Mousse by contrast was left bewildered which only grew once he noticed that Shampoo’s sudden disappearance. She tried to get Frost to calm down and realize that something was wrong, only for her to order Mousse to stay there so he couldn’t protect Kasumi. Not willing to accept things as is Mousse went to confront the crying Shampoo only for her to transform into Frost and tell a concerned Tofu that everything was fine. Realizing that Frost had been tricked Mousse tried to call Kasumi to warn her but was too late.

Luckily Frost returned with Kasumi and Ranko to confirm her story and when she found Shampoo gone she demanded that a worried Mousse tell her where she was. After being told that Kasumi was alive he explained how Frost had been tricked. Frost, assuming the worst, panicked and attempted to leave but was convinced once more to stay by Dr. Tofu. For the first time in a long time Mousse felt a certain sense of power as he was the only one who could confirm Frost’s story.

However this power was short lived, when Cologne came to confirm Frost story she revealed that she was already aware of his curse. Mousse though angry at Cologne for refusing to help him told the truth about what happened. Cologne’s contemplation of this revelation was interrupted by Mousse wanting to know what she was going to do about Frost. Cologne wasn’t Mousse’s keeper, he had made his bed and now had to live with it. Though she did advise him to get on Frost’s good side by telling her he had told Cologne the truth.

Mousse had fallen into a routine sleep over at the Tendo's, come over to Tofu's and be  Frost’s familiar. Which was why he was esthetic when he returned to the clinic to find that she had fixed the Kaisuifu. Since Frost had never ordered her not to Mousse attempted to cure himself only to discover that while it had been repaired physically, it hadn’t been repaired magically.

Frost had been sleeping off her exhaustion from the effort she told Cologne who had come to check up on things that she would be finished in about three months. Frost told him she could get it done faster if she had Sailor Moon’s help. This prompted Mousse to head to the girls' dormitory where she was caught by Luna sneaking in. after explaining to a confused Luna how she changed into a human she asked her if she new Sailor Moon, having realized that Ami, Minako, Makoto, and Usagi, were the Sailor Senshi. Luna could not hide her anxiety at the question, and just told Mousse not to tell anyone.

Mousse told her about the Kaisuifu and while she didn’t promise anything she agreed to tell the senshi her request. With that out of the way Mousse asked Luna why she seemed to hate her, and realizing that she was jealous of Artemis, assured her that she had no interest in him. After Akane showed her the Happo-Fire Burst scroll which Ranma gave to her after growing frustrated in trying to decipher Happosai’s handwriting. Selene was able to determine that it was magically encrypted. However she couldn’t read it as the script used was a type of concealment magic so Akane took it to Frost.

Akane asked her to come just in case Frost didn't wish to help, and despite knowing that she had little influence with Frost, couldn't really convey that to Akane. The best she could do was hide and hope that Frost ignored her. While Frost was easily able to break the spell the handwriting on the scroll was still horrible. Frost went back to her work telling Akane to leave, before she did Akane asked her why she was so angry all the time, pointing out that she made it see, like everyone was a burden to her.

Frost initially took this as argument about Tofu, but Akane just wanted to know what she had against men. Frost just told her to ask Selene and Akane decided it was time to drop the matter and left. As they walked back home Mousse told Akane about what happened between him and Frost. Needless to say she was disgusted about what Mousse had done. Mousse tried to defend his actions by saying that he didn’t mean what he said, but that didn’t make anything better Akane even pointed out that he still cruelly used her. This prompted Akane to ask Selene why Mousse was so hung up on Shampoo.

Due to her experience with Kuno Akane didn’t buy for a second that Mousse was in love with Shampoo. Mousse was left contemplating all he had been doing with his life, as Akane kept poking holes in his reasoning for his actions. Though that was quickly forgotten as he began to panic once Akane pointed out how much Selene seemed to know about Mousse. Luckily she brought his line about liking to hear both sides. Akane was left with the impression that Mousse was in love with the idea of Shampoo and not the girl herself.

Mousse had an epiphany when Akane pointed out that to really be in love with the person and not the idea, you should really know about that person, and Mousse didn’t strike her as knowing a whole lot about Shampoo. Selene opened her mouth to argue only to realize that Akane was right, she then realized that she knew Akane so well that merely her scent, or the way she walked was enough to identify her without fail.

Since there conversation Mousse had been at war with himself, going back and forth between denial and acceptance. He was briefly distracted when Kasumi and Shampoo being kidnapped by Hotel La Bac, but only so much as to go from being depressed by Akane’s words to being depressed about her current situation and how it completely precluded her from helping in any way. However, that same distraction also served to reorder her thoughts on the matter. Having realized there was a very real chance that she would never see Shampoo again alive when she was kidnapped, Mousse had cast her mind back to the last conversion they had. Even now, those words stung, and stung even more now that she truly understood the feeling behind them.

Finally accepting what Akane said to heart Mousse went back to talk to her. she found her cleaning the dojo while angrily complaining about Ranma. In her efforts she hadn’t noticed Mousse’s presence so she willed herself into human form to help. Naturally Akane was shocked when a woman she never seen before sudden appeared in the dojo. She said she didn’t need any help when Mousse explained who she was but she insisted.

Still not admitting who he was she claimed that she had talked to himself. This made Akane worried, realizing that they hadn’t seen him in a long time she wondered if he was planning something. Selene was quick to absolve her of this notion, and claimed that she re-laid what Akane said to him. This just made Akane more nervous which is why she was so surprised when Selene told her that Mousse agreed. Not conveying just how hard it was to do so.

The reason she had come there was to ask Akane if it was for him to change and make things better with Shampoo. After a lifetime of harassment Akane was skeptical not to mention that it was a lot easier to say you want to change then to do. However all Mousse cared about was the fact that no matter how hard she still believed that it was possible. Akane started to wonder why he wasn’t jealous of Kasumi. This caused Mousse to realize that he never really thought of Kasumi and Shampoo as a couple in love.

With that revelation he had to fight the feeling of jealousy that started to creep up. This was less maturity and more pragmatism, as becoming jealous at this point would only reconfirm not only Frost's low opinion of her, but also prove that he cared only for the obtaining the image of Shampoo rather than the real her. Mousse’s mind was once again placed in war with itself. Kasumi was the competition, but Shampoo cared for her. the thought of moving on and letting Shampoo live her life was  a very unpalatable thought to Selene. So the conclusion she came up with was to wait until she got her real body back. Leaving the thought of what she would do if didn’t know Shampoo well enough to rival or beat Kasumi for another time.

When Frost went out to eat with Tofu and his mother Mousse took the opportunity to look over Shampoo's complete life history magically recorded in a book. He was discovered doing this by Siren, who called him out for mystically stalking Shampoo and asked him when he was going to get over his obsession. Mousse tried to protest that he wasn’t stalking before realizing that Siren knew he was C-chan.

Ignoring Mousse’s growing fury at this revelation Siren tried to figure out how Frost had tricked him. She figured it out upon realizing that Mousse wasn’t wearing any glasses. Examining the spell it turns out that despite clearing his vision Frost bypassed his eyes completely. This means that since they aren't doing any work anymore, they'll soon grow even weaker than they were. If Mousse loses the spell for any reason, he'll be left practically blind. Mousse told her where Frost was.

Upon learning that the Kaisuifuu was being fix Mousse reminded Frost of her promise, which Frost countered that she’d only said she’d consider it. Realizing that she used the Chiisuiton to trap him Siren took pity on the transformed boy and convinced Frost to unlock him.

Later after Siren let Frost call it a night while she finished securing the school Mousse asked her what an anti-voyeur rule was. It took him a while to figure out that its invocation meant that Shampoo and Kasumi had become intimate with each other. While initially upset Mousse’s confidence returned upon realizing that they still needed a husband. Then he remembered the love pill Frost made him swallow and quickly hung his head once more.

Later Frost as Frost as at the center of her great spell, laying down the last set of symbols, Siren's attention was to the outside. Mousse took notice of this, and having no current task, walked over to the archmage to ask her what was wrong. She informed him that they’ve run afoul of a pack of kitsunes, and last she heard, they had confronted Kasumi, Shampoo, Ukyo and Ranma. Kasumi and Ranma were in their hands. Mousse was ready to rush towards their aid even though Shampoo and Ukyo had managed to escape, and Kasumi and Ranma were merely being held. However Siren stopped him pointing out that he was no match for the kitsune in his current state.

This caused the cat to start blaming Frost for making him like this. Siren put a stop to this as well by pointing out that given their magical nature his fighting technique would be of little use against them even when he was human. At this point all they could do was wait. They were interrupted by the sudden arrival of Jasmine. The Grand magus asked if there was any trouble only for Siren to tell her that everything was fine. This surprised Jasmine who had sensed a powerful entity, as she tried to figure out what was going on she spotted Eyebright walking towards them.

Telling Siren not to interfere unless her barrier is attacked Jasmine walked forward to meet the man. As she was explaining to a confused Mousse who Eyebright was Siren set up another barrier behind her so that Frost wouldn’t become aware of what was going on. Eyebright had learned about Herb being trapped in his cursed form and demanded that Jasmine hand him over. When she refused stating that Herb was under her protection he pulled her a phantom realm to battle. Knowing that she couldn’t just attack a high ranked member of the Musk without them being a direct threat Siren followed Jasmine’s order not to interfere.

However having lost contact with all her sentries at the restaurant, she quickly realized that this was just a distraction. Mousse was ready to rush towards Shampoo’s rescue, but it was too dangerous to move under these circumstances, so that would just have to place their faith in the hands of Cologne and the other elders.

After Shampoo invited Frost and Selene to a talk with Makoto and her friends, Mousse confronted her demanding she keep her promise. Frost who had been waiting to see if Herb had any weird reactions agreed. Producing the kaifish, she unlocked Mousse’s curse. As the newly restored Amazon male looked himself over in a mirror, Frost reminded him that he was still her familiar. Seeing that the Mousse symbol was still there, a frustrated Mousse told her to at least remove the love pearl.

Frost once again said that wasn’t apart of the deal, but this time Mousse pointed out that now that he was human, it could activate and she would be the most likely target. Realizing that he was right she agreed. Mousse starting to depart only to tell him that he was naked.

Mousse thought up a plan to learn all he could about Shampoo and prove himself superior to Kasumi by comparing notes as it were. He confronted her during lunch and after brushing off her questions about his whereabouts and glasses, he asked her various questions about Shampoo. However, in less than a minute Kasumi had, without even realizing it, completely gutted his strategy by showing the fundamental flaw with it. He had learned nothing but useless trivial. Sure he might know the exact movie Shampoo likes the most, but had no idea why. Thanking Kasumi Mousse left just as suddenly as he arrived.

Trudging down the street he found himself back to Tofu's. he quickly realized that Frost must have summoned him. Concluding resisting was pointless he proceeded into the doctor's office, although very quickly catching an ongoing conversation between Frost and Shampoo. Seeing Mousse confirmed her suspicions that he was C-chan. Before he could ask how she knew she reminded him about her spirit sense.

Frost finally relented in freeing Mousse. Still in a bit of shock over the whole situation, Mousse was rather surprised as Frost walked over to him and touched his forehead. A quick incantation and he felt suddenly lighter, as if a weight he did not even know was there had been removed from him. He was still technically her familiar as she couldn’t change that without removing the eye magic, but the enchantment was gone.

Shampoo gave one last look at Frost, sighed and left without further word. Mousse left a putting Frost and headed after Shampoo. He thanked her and when he asked her why she helped his she told him that she had, had enough of such magic. She then asked him if Akane knew. While she knew that C-chan could talk and take human form she didn’t know she was Mousse. Seeing Shampoo frown Mousse informed her about his memory lose and that he didn’t deliberately try to take advantage of Akane.

She asked him what he would do now but he didn’t know, seeing her leveled glare he told her that she didn’t have to worry about him. He had a lot of time to think about foolish he’d been in the past. Shampoo asked him if he liked Akane causing him to realize that he did. However she liked Tofu and he’d rather help her with that, than try to make something work that has no realistic chance. Seeing that he had indeed matured Shampoo offered him a place to stay at the restaurant. Mousse declined thinking it was best to stay elsewhere.

Early morning in Nerima saw Akane on her way to school, or more accurately on her way to Dr. Tofu's. When she saw the sign saying that Tofu would be back in a half hour she was about to leave before noticing Mousse coming out from the back. Before she could leave Mousse told her that Selene had told him what she said about him and Shampoo and that he agreed with her.

Akane blinked in surprise at this, but after a moment nodding approvingly and congratulated Mousse on his mature decision to stop pursuing Kasumi and Shampoo. Seeing Akane deflate at this and all too aware of what topic she was worried about, Mousse told her that it didn’t mean you give up prematurely when there are just some bumps in the road. The two smiled at one another which quickly turned to horror as a downpour of water came over the hedge next to the road, dousing Mousse.

Akane assured the woman who accidentally splashed them that they were fine, while Mousse froze in shock at the fact he hadn’t changed. He managed to out that he was fine when she began to grow worried. Telling him to say goodbye if he decided to leave heading off. As she left, Mousse watched her go just long enough not to draw attention then immediately rushed off. Not two minutes later he barged into Tofu's clinic, shouting Frost name causing her to initially believed that had finally come for revenge.

It turns out that in some monumental stroke of luck, the other magics Frost cast on Mousse fixed the trigger mechanism on the curse magic giving him control over the change. Sadly this was a billion to one shot so she wouldn’t be able the others curse. While she would see if she could duplicate the process she told Mousse not to tell anyone as it was unlikely she would succeed. Since Shampoo was the only one who actually knew about his curse it was decided that he should tell her otherwise she’d get confused if she saw him get splashed and not change.

Mousse headed to another nearby examination room with a full length mirror to test it and sure enough he could now change between four forms, male and female cat, and human. The change didn’t even feel draining. As he contemplated this and redressed he once more took note of the medallion.

It was pretty quiet while Frost was gone with nothing much of interest happening. What excitement there was was dealt with easily enough. Tatewaki took Kasumi, Shampoo, Ranma, Herb, Kodachi, Ryoga, Akane, Ranko, Mousse, Lemon, Nabiki and Tsubasa on a boat trip and were lost at sea when a storm hit. They ended up shipwrecked on a remote island, and after making shelter they started to make repairs only to discover that the ships radio equipment got knocked out in the storm. As they were trying to figure out what to do the girls started disappearing. First Kodachi, then Lemon and Nabiki, and then Akane they as well as many other women were taken by Prince Toma and his chief retainers Sarutoru, Torristan, and Wonton to be potential brides. They were eventually rescued by Frost and Tofu who took them home after Ranko defeated Toma for Akane’s affection.

Mousse was doing inventory when Frost woke up. He informed her that he was staying there and after informing Tofu that she would be busy throughout the day she told Mousse, who had been staying in one of the clinic rooms that he could stay in her pocket dimension. While initially suspicious Mousse agreed to see it, giving her a chance to finally ask what she’d missed since she’d been away. Mousse told her what he knew, mostly about the senshi.

After hearing that there was no reaction to his transformation she told him he no longer had to wear the medallion. Mousse asked Frost if she could replicate his cure, but she told him that it was fluke cause by numerous different variables working together at the same time. Not the least of which is that you had to have Moon Kingdom genes. She revealed to Mousse that she had been adopted into the clan. This caused her to start expressing her fears about her above average magical knowledge, and her mysterious birth. While she was unwilling to draw the thought to its conclusion, Mousse was easily able to figure out that se was afraid that she was Sedna. She admitted that he was right, but since they had nothing to confirm the theory like senshi armor, or a special power all she had was her fears. He also suggested that she simply ask the Ascended, but her evasive answer told him that she was afraid they’d say no. He was smart enough not to say so out loud however.

She changed the subject to ask if anyone suspicious asking about Lemon. Seeing his confused look Frost realized that he was never told about Lemon’s kidnapping. Mousse agreed to help her set up some sentry spells. She went to the restaurant hoping that Usagi was there so that she could repair her armor. Knowing how packed the placed got during this time Mousse decided to accompany her. As he led her toward the back entrance he asked how she could forget he wasn’t there when Lemon was kidnapped. It turns out that time moved differently in Jasmine’s pocket dimension. To everyone else Frost had only been gone for her it had been nearly two years. Once Mousse introduced her to the staff he was no longer needed so headed back to the clinic.