SAliorStar9: You guys wanted a sequel. So here it is; the sequel to the 'Digital Light of Hope' fic. So please be a dear and review.
Timeline: Sailor Moon R, and will span over Sailor Moon R, S, Super S and Stars.
Disclaimers: I do not own the animes. But I do own the pairing, I hope.
Fic Summary: Continuation of the 'Digital Light of Hope' fic.
Prologue: The Return of the Sailor Senshi
"I'm going to be late again! I'm leaving!" Usagi wailed, rushing out of her house.
"Usagi! You forgot your bag!" Shingo retorted, bringing his sister's bookbag as the pig-tailed blond fell over her feet.
"That hurts!" Usagi sobbed.
"Hey, Usagi, you crybaby!" Shingo called out to his sister.
"What?" Usagi demanded, running over to her annoying brother.
"Don't cause problems for me." Shingo chided, handing over her bag.
"You're so not cute!" Usagi fumed, sticking out her tongue at her brother.
"Oh, this is no time for that. Need to hurry!" she caught herself and hurried off to school.
"It's been two months since Usagi and the SAlior Senshi lost their memories." Luna remarked, sweatdropping at her charge.
"Everyone's completely gone back to being normal girls." Artemis added.
"Yes, they have." Luna agreed.
"Hey, Luna." Artemis started.
"Huh?" Luna blinked.
"Why don't we also..." the white cat suggested, blushing.
"What are you doing?" Luna retorted.
"Pervert!" she scolded, giving him a scratch on the face, causing the white cat to scream in pan.
In school...
"Go stand outside" Ms. Haruna shouted at the late Usagi.
"Then, Mizuno-san, please take care of it." Ami's homeroom teacher instructed.
"Yes." Ami replied and stepped out of the classroom.
"Are you being punished again?" she asked Usagi, wiping the blond's tear away with a handkerchief.
"You're that whiz girl in Class 5." Usagi noted. "I wish that cold-hearted Ms. Haruna could be more like you."
"Who is cold-hearted?" Ms. Haruna demanded, sliding the door open.
"Mizuno Ami-san, correct?" the teacher asked, exiting the classroom.
"Oh, yes." Ami replied.
"Nothing good will happen to you if you get involved with Tsukino-san." the teacher advised.
"Hey! Are teachers allowed to say things like that?" Usagi demanded.
Ami gasped when the bracket of water toppled over Ms. Haruna, soaking the teacher.
"Tsukino-san!" Ms. Haruna exploded.
"I'm sorry." Usagi sweatdropped. "This is depressing."
That night...
"I can't eat anymore... can I have another one?" Usagi slept talked, when a stream of light shone through the window, waking both Usagi and Luna up.
"What? Is it morning already?" Usagi inquired groggily.
"It's an earthquake!" she panicked when a come streaked across the sky, crash-landing onto the street.
On the street...
The green plant-like pod glowed before floating up and disappearing into an empty apartment unit.
"What in the world happened here?" Artemis wondered outloud as he and Luna looked down at the crater, a crowd of people gathering around the hole.
"Say, I have a bad feeling about this." Luna admitted.
"What?' Artemis turned to his companion as the camera then focused on Rei and Minako.
"Tsukino-san?" Ami inquired.
"What? Oh, Mizuno-san." Usagi blinked.
"Good evening." Ami greeted the blond.
"Wow, I guess even a smart girl like you can't resist rubbernecking!" Usagi beamed.
"Watch what you're doing?" she glared at the person pushing her.
"Sorry, someone pushed me from behind." Makoto apologized.
"You're that Hercules girl who just transferred over." Usagi noted.
"You didn't need to add that 'Hercules' bit." Makoto deathpanned.
"You're scary..." Usagi stammered.
Huh? It's weird. She blinked. When the three of us are together, I feel kind of, nostalgic.
"Wow!" she beamed, noticing the poster she just stepped on. "Snack foods at 80% off? I'm definitely going there!"
"If you keep eating sweets, your body will become a dumpling too." Mamoru pointed out.
"That obnoxious voice sounds familiar..." Usagi turned a side-glance at the college student.
"Hey, dumpling head!" Mamoru greeted her.
"I thought so!" Usagi fumed. "Why do you always call me that!?"
"I just don't want a dumpling head to get a dumpling body." Mamoru replied.
"Mind your own business!" Usagi retorted.
"I am. I'm just telling you the truth." Mamoru replied.
"That's it!" Usagi exploded.
In the now occupied apartment unit...
"This planet is full of high quality energy." Ali chuckled.
"Our difficult journey here was worth it." Ann agreed.
"What are you thinking, Ann?" Ali asked.
"Ali, I'm thinking of you, of course." Ann replied. "How about you?"
:About you, of course." Ali replied. "I cannot find words to describe your beauty."
"Really?" Ann smiled.
"The hero Pegasus fell in love with the beautiful Andromeda and he risked his life to protect her from monsters. I wish I could be like Pegasus." Ali replied and started playing on his flute as Ann leaned her head on his shoulder.
The next morning...
"Everyone, allow me to introduce your new classmates." the principal began as two students stood in front of the assembly square. "Seijuro Ginga and Nastumi Ginga. Seijuro is in ninth grade and he is the older brother, while Nastumi is in the eighth grade and she is the younger sister. Please be nice to them."
"Sure." the students chorused.
"He's handsome!" Usagi beamed, with hearts in her eyes. "Such a nice name."
"But Seijuro Ginga sounds too cheesy to be true." Umino remarked.
"Not it's not!" Naru and Usagi retorted.
"It's a perfect name." Naru cooed, with hearts in her eyes.
"Yeah, he's gorgeous!" Usagi agreed.
Ami frowned when a flash of recognition passed by her, the two new students were emitting the very same energy the pod from the night before.
Looks like Sailor Mercury is back in action. She thought.
In class later...
The students were gathered around Nastumi.
"So Nastumi, you just came back from another country." Umino remarked.
"Yes." Nastumi replied.
"That's a returning student for you." Usagi noted.
"So you speak English fluently." Naru commented.
"Hey can you say something to me?" Usagi inquired.
Nastumi let out a series of 'Fera'.
"Huh?" the rest of Usagi's class were confused. Massive sweatdrops all around.
"She's weird." Naru remarked as Usagi let out a nervous laugh.
Then, a flute melody sounded through the entire school.
"What's that?" Naru asked. "It sounds beautiful."
Nastumi frowned as she recognized the melody.
"Mesmerizing..." Usagi was taken in by the music.
"What a nice melody." Naru agreed.
Ali, your bad habit is starting up again. Ann warned mentally.
"Wow!" most of the female school population were drawn in by Seijuro's music.
"He's so cool." Usagi beamed.
"Okay then, then I have to do something for Naru, too!" Umino decided.
"Stop it, Umino!" Naru fumed, grabbing Umino's recorder and knocking him on the head with it.
Just then, Seijuro stopped playing, his attention turned to the straight-faced Ami
The crowd of girls parted as he walked towards the blue-haired girl.
"Finally, I have met the Andromeda of my heart." he spoke as Ami frowned at him
"Excuse me..." Naru blushed.
"Naru, be careful." Umino warned, placing himself before the girl..
"Umino!" Naru fumed.
Bowing slightly at the blue-haired genius, Seijuro added, "Please allow me to play a song that describes my feelings for you. Galaxy Fantasy Impromptu No. Five. Beautiful Andromeda's Miracle."
"What?" Umino, Naru and Usagi turned to Ami.
"Ginga-san." Ami replied smoothly.
"Yes?" Seijuro asked.
"I'm taken." the girl answered plainly, showing him the ring on the thread necklace around her neck.
"Oh?" Seijuro acted surprised.
"By the way, you might want to pacify your sister." Ami added.
Seijuro then saw what Ami's last sentence meant when he noticed a very angry Ann glaring at him.
Ali! Ann mentally hissed.
Oh, Ann. Ali realized.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Nastumi asked.
"No, nothing." Seijuro replied, returning to class.
After school...
"You need to keep things like that to a minimum." Seijuro advised his 'sister'.
"That's my line, Ali." Nastumi retorted.
"I know how you feel, but we're just brother and sister in public." Seijuro replied.
"You always start looking at other females right away." Nastumi accused.
Then, her attention was drawn away when she saw Mamoru walking past, his eyes trained on a book.
He is my ideal man. She thought, her cheek turning red.
"Please believe in my love." Seijuro added. "There is no way I could love someone as much as I love you."
Then, he stopped when he realized that Nastumi was nowhere beside him. Turning back, he saw his 'sister' trailing after Mamoru like a love-sick schoolgirl.
After walking past Sakio Heights, Mamoru dropped his book and Nastumi was about to get his book for him when suddenly she felt weak and she quickly leaned against a lamp-post.
Energy... I need energy... she thought painfully.
"Ann?" Seijuro had by then caught up with her.
That night...
There she goes again. Luna sweatdropped as Usagi was gushing over the phone to Naru about Seijuro. But, why do I feel somewhat uneasy?
That night, in their apartment, Ali had turned back to his original form and was playing his tune on his flute, a branch of the Makaiju lifting the unconscious Ann up.
"In my heart are the joys and uncertainties of wandering from planet to planet." he told his lover as he continued to play, using the Makaiju to heal Ann.
"What's wrong?" Ann asked, after noticing that the Makaiju had wilted.
"It seems that the life energy we need to survive is running low." Ali replied.
"But this planet is overflowing with life energy." Ann noted.
"Look." she added as images of life forms appeared before them.
"This species has especially fresh energy." she remarked, the images concentrating on humans.
"After wandering everywhere, we have finally found our sanctuary. This is our paradise." Ali commented.
Drawing out some cards, he added, "Ann, please pick the best Cardian for this operation. You can predict the future better than anyone else in the universe."
"Oh my." Ann smiled and lifted out a card.
"The beauty of flowers is short and fleeting, but the strength of their lives..." Ali remarked, looking at the card Ann had picked.
"Stealing energy from flowers is a waste of time." Ann commented. "We must steal from humans. And the energy of young women in love is especially potent."
"What a pity. Can't we steal it from men?"Ali inquired.
"Ali." Ann frowned.
"Okay, we'll do it your way." Ali replied.
"That's my Ali." Ann chuckled.
"Come forth, Cardian. My loyal servant, Vampire." Ali called out and started playing his flute.
"Vampire!" the Cardian declared its presence after being summoned.
Less than half an hour later, a scream was heard in an alley.
"What?" both Luna and Artemis gasped.
"Vampire..." the Cardian muttered, draining a girl of her energy.
"Vampire!" it declared and jumped off to find its next victim.
"I can't breathe..."
"This is..." Artemis exclaimed when the two cats arrived on scene.
"Someone stole her energy..." Luna realized. "Looks like our worries turned out to be true!"
"What now?" Artemis turned to his companion. "Do you want to revive everyone?"
"No way! We can't do that!" Luna protested. "They just became normal again."
"Then we have no choice." Artemis admitted. "We have to resolve this by ourselves.", but not before another scream alerted them.
"Vampire!" the Cardian declared, taking its next victim.
"What's going on?" Naru inquired opening the window.
"What's the matter?" Usagi asked over the phone.
"Vampire!" the Cardian now turned its attention to Naru.
"Huh? What?" Usagi pressed.
"Vampire!" the Cardian leapt at the stunned Naru.
"Shabon Spray Freezing!" the newly revived Sailor Mercury fired her ice attack at the Cardian.
"Naru, close the window!" the ice Senshi warned.
"Sailor Mercury?" Luna was surprised at the appearance of the ice Senshi.
"I'll hold him off! Revive Sailor Moon!" Sailor Mercury instructed.
"Right!" Luna nodded and took off.
"But how...?' Artemis was astonished.
"We'll talk about this later." Sailor Mercury told the white cat, saving him from the Cardian's vines.
Putting the cat down, the ice Senshi leapt over the Cardian.
"Icycle Rain!" she sent her ice attack at the Cardian in mid-air
"Vampire!" the Cardian swatted her icicles away.
Back n Usagi's room...
"Usagi!" Luna looked at the blond.
"Holy cow! Why is Luna talking?" Usagi panicked.
"Oh! It's a dream." she tried to calm herself.
"I have no choice!" Luna decided. "Usagi, please forgive me! Please become Sailor Moon again!"
With that, the black cat's crescent moon mark shot a beam onto Usagi's forehead.
Usagi closed her eyes, remembering the final battle against Queen Beryl, the deaths of Tuxdeo Kaman and the Senshi.
Who... who am I? No! I don't want to fight anymore! Usagi wondered. I just want to be normal. Just normal... no!
"Usagi." Luna approached the revived Moon Senshi. "Usagi!"
"Luna..." Usagi looked at her guardian. "So, we can talk to each other again."
"Usagi! You remember now!" Luna beamed.
Usagi nodded.
"The people in the city are in danger!" Luna informed her. "Usagi, please transform now and help Mercury!"
"Okay!" Usagi nodded.
"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Usagi called out her henshinn phase.
Back in the battle...
"Thanks a lot!" Sailor Moon remarked from on top of a roof. "I just became normal again, and you just had to drag me back into the fight without my permission!"
"You're so inconsiderate!" she retorted.
"Vampire!" the Cardian looked at the newcomer.
"I'm the Sailor Senshi of love and justice, Sailor Moon!" Sailor Mon declared. "In the name of the moon, I will punish you!"
"Vampire!" the Cardian released its vine at her, causing Sailor Moon and Luna to jump away.
Turning towards Sailor Moon, the Cardian tried to entangle her with its vines to no avail.
"Shabon Spray Freezing!" Millennial Sailor Mercury released her ice bubbles, this time at the Cardian's feet and freezing it feet-first.
"Sailor Moon!" the ice Senshi turned to the Moon Senshi.
"Right!" Sailor Moon nodded.
"That's it." she looked at the frozen Cardian, taking off her tiara. "Moon Tiara Action!"
"Vampire!" the Cardian cried out, the magically-charged frisbee flying towards it. "Cleansing!" and changed back into its card form, and the picture on the card turned black.
"Artemis! Are you okay?" Luna asked.
"Yeah..." Artemis replied.
"Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury. I didn't know there were someone like you on this planet." Ali's voice interjected, as a hologram of him and Ann appeared above the Senshi.
"Who are you two?" Sailor Moon inquired.
"A member of the wandering nobility of the universe, Ali." Ali introduced himself.
"Likewise, Ann." Ann added.
"So you are the ones controlling that monster." Millennial Sailor Mercury remarked.
Ann laughed, "What we did today was just the beginning."
"That's right." Ali agreed.
"For the record, what do you call your monsters?" Millennial Sailor Mercury asked.
"Cardians." Ali replied and the two disappeared.
"Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, those guys..." Luna voiced out.
"Sailor Moon?" she blinked at the tearing Moon Senshi.
Goodbye to the ordinary Usagi. Sailor Moon wondered as the episode ended.
SailorStar9: Phew, now that's done. Read and review.