Title: "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"
Author: Helene
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Naoko does. And no, this does not affect me at all. I do not wish to
own it, I do not dream about owning it, I don't even like Mamo-chan... Yep, denial is wonderful.
AN: This is the first fic I'm posting, so PLEASE R&R. Do slant it and spare me the long hours of typing:)
Prologue.
The setting sun was casting a golden glow over the lake, the flowers were closing their
petals preparing for the night and a slight breeze was whispering soothingly into the trees...
To cut the long story short, it was yet another evening in Juuban park.
And since it had after all been the notorious Juuban park, the evening was
far from being peaceful.
- Sailor Moon, hurry up, I can't hold it any longer!
- Right. Moon Healing Escalation!
Nothing happened.
- Its evil energy level surpasses the healing power of the Moon Wand. However, Mars should be
able to diminish it by an Anti Evil Charm, and then Moon power should prove quite sufficient.
- Evil Be Gone!
- Moon Healing Escalation!
As it was the second time Sailor Moon used her most powerful attack, its force drove her to her knees.
Unfortunately, it had come too slowly, and before turning back to a retired judge, the youma managed
to throw a dozen of books in the direction of the thoroughly drained champion of love and justice and shout:
"You are now to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth".
The horrified scouts, aware that the distance, separating them from their nearly fallen leader, was too big
for them even to attempt shielding her from the attack or carrying her out of its range, could do nothing
but yell: "Jump, Sailor Moon, jump!"
The kneeling girl had been so weakened that she was unable to do anything except lifting her head to stare
at the heavy objects that were soon to collide with her prone body.
The collision didn't come (not that she was really expecting it, too). A crimson rose pierced the ground right
before Sailor Moon, preventing the books from hitting her. No speech ensued, though, and the scouts realized
that their mysterious protector was not going to make an appearance.
"Thank you, Tuxedo Mask", - Sailor Moon managed to mouth before her friends came to and attacked her with the
routine "Are you all right", "Gosh, that was about terrifying" and "Jeez, Meatball Head, could you be any slower?"
"Of cause I could", - answered the girl musingly, her face setting into a thoughtful expression, that felt unusual,
and, frankly speaking, quite uncomfortable for her to wear. "...just like high heels or those annoying
G-string..." - she continued in her head, distracted by the unpleasant tenseness of her forehead and cheek muscles.
"Serena, Jupiter to Serena, roger!"
"She doesn't read you, Lita", - volunteered Mercury, and, wait a minute, was it mischievousness in her voice?
"She is off in La-La-Land again", - disgustedly delivered... well, you know who.
"Meatball Head", - she proceeded to yell right into Sailor Moon's ear. "Weren't you going to say something?"
"Oh, yeah, sorry Mars. I was just reflecting on your question about my attack speed. You know, if I were forced
to perform the third one, it would probably come so late as to let the youma escape it".
That had three sets of jaws drop open onto the lush glass of the park clearing and got three sets of minds
contemplate lack of comfort, G-string underwear and high heeled shoes.
"Hey, now what did I say?" The hilarious sight of her friends' confusion had thankfully allowed Serena to relax
her face into a much more familiar and infinitely better feeling mug of indignation. "In fact, I was talking
Scout business, and what I had to say was actually quite grave. Think about it, what if there HAD been the need
for another "Moon Healing Escalation?"
Not surprisingly, Raye was the first to answer, as, firstly, it had been a matter of retaliation and for once
she remembered not to disgrace the Scouts' team by another public tongue fight, and, secondly, when she came
to think of it, her Mars uniform high heels had not been that bad.
"Jeez, there was no need to make you Meatball brains suffer such exertion for my sake, you know.
Why did you, anyways?"
"I... I just had to... After all, it is the truth"
"We had better call it a night, girls; it's a school day tomorrow, and we can not afford to loose any more
sleep", - advised the ever reasonable Sailor Mercury (aren't you all just LOVE this particular cliche:)
"Wait a sec, Ames. I think we are forgetting something important here. Why did the Negacreeps turn this man
into a youma? They did no seem to do this before unless the victims had been Rainbow Crystal
carriers", - asked Sailor Jupiter.
"I had definitely felt evil emanate from him", - told Sailor Mars. "And it took us much more energy to
handle it. May be he was another general in disguise, just like Nephrite?"
"You are wrong, Mars, you are actually wrong". Sailor Moon started jumping gleefully.
"I never thought I'll get to see the day! I've healed him, haven't I? And that means he is human!"
"But an evil one at that" - added Jupiter.
"Makes sense, you know. He IS a lawyer, after all".
At that, the scouts quickly bid each other good bye and left the deserted park.