The Aftermath

Hotaru glanced out the window and grabbed her knees. She was thinking how long it has been since she had the warm summer breeze brush up against her skin. Shutting her eyes she inhaled deeply and let it out with a long sigh. Her expression was so unobvious not even a psychic could see it. She finally let out a small smile towards the glaring sun.

Then came a searing pain, the same pain she had felt years ago…….the burns from a fire.

Chapter 1: Moonstruck

"I wonder what we can do today!" Rini yelled on the other line.

"I haven't an idea Rini, whatever you want to do today I'm up for it." Hotaru mumbled.

"Fine, then lets go see a movie at four today!" Rini shouted.

"Okay, as long as you can control your yelling." Hotaru replied matter-of-factly.

"See you then!" Rini yelped and then hung up.

Hotaru set down her phone in her room. She didn't feel well today and often starting going through dizzy spells. Her father practically lived in the lab in the basement of her house. Seeming as if she had nothing to do other than go see a movie with Rini, her only friend, she decided that it would be best to stare out the window. She gazed idly out her giant window and gasped loudly.

Someone was watching her. The woman looking at her from outside was dressed funny in a Sailor-like top where a brooch was attached at the center of top. From the brooch expanded a bow of a purple velvet. From the bottom of the top protruded a black mini-skirt and knee-high black boots. Hotaru noticed that on the skirt of this mystery woman where a chain of silver keys, and that she held a key shaped staff with a heart shaped top. In the top rested an orb of an extrodinary milky purple.

The woman looked up at her with purple eyes, making Hotaru flinch. The woman had a tan skin tone and finely glossed dark red lips. With a small smile the woman levitated into the air and began to fade into the azure sky. It was an amazing site to behold, yet Hotaru was gifted with her own ability to perform weird powers. She could heal simple wounds and was always incased with a barrier to protect her from harms way.

During the early afternoon Hotaru packed a picnic for lunch at the park. Walking as though she traveled down the road a long time ago she arrived at the park with such ease she almost forgot about time. Setting her basket down by the lake she began to scourge through her basket for her sandwich. A few minutes past and her lunch was going fine until she got very dizzy. Being far away from other people at the park she was completely helpless. After a while the dizzy spell became one of her seizure like attacks and she suddenly lost her grip on the earth.

In her dreams………..Hotaru was a different person, she was happy, and wore nice clothes that didn't hide the burns that she no longer had. She was dressed almost similar to the woman who was watching her except she appeared in a bluish shade. She had a tiara on and a choker and brooch with a sharp diamond on the choker and brooch. She looked at her hands and saw she was wielding a Glaive. Before her stood the Earth in it's bounty when the unimaginable happened. As if she knew what to do Hotaru used her Glaive in a motion in which the end of it dropped…….and before her the earth was destroyed yet a small light signified it's rebirth……….

Hotaru woke out of her dream and leaned against the Sakura tree. She had small beads of sweat dripping down her cheeks and her face was very pale. The sun was almost sinking in the sky and something was going on at the lake. A dark looking monster with six eyes and a black star on it's forehead.

"MOON FRISBEE!" called a voice while a golden object swirled through the air and sliced the monster in half. Hotaru looked on the hill and the hero Sailor Moon was standing valiantly. Hotaru could have sworn she smiled at her then turned and walked away. Hotaru looked at her watch it read 3:40 she ran into the city leaving behind her basket.

Later that evening……Bunny was walking to the same part of the park she killed the daimen at, where she found a basket. She picked it up and walked home……