Chap one. Over the Edge
Serena was running to Rei's temple. She was late, she was late for another scout meeting, but this time she had an excuse.
It all began when her father's office went out of business. He became so depressed when he couldn't find a job, so he turned to drugs. Her mother, sick of her father's habit turned to alcohol. Relatives from the U S had come and gotten Sammy. She was the only one left who could take care of the house so they didn't take her. The only thing that kept her off the edge was her friends and Darien.
"Almost there," she said as she rushed to the meeting.
She had a block left when she heard the voice of Darien, she smiled thinking he was late too, and they could make it there together. She was a corner away now, when she heard Rei.
She stopped in her tracks, 'uh oh, he wasn't late they were looking for her.'
She hid behind the steps to the shrine when they came into view. Her breath caught in her throat, when she saw them. They had their elbows connected, and Rei had her head on his shoulder. Serena shook all thoughts out of her head, they're just being friendly, but that thought vanished when Darien kissed Rei and she didn't resist.
Stopping they looked down the road then kissed again more passionate this time.
"Come on Darien," Rei said, "that klutz isn't here yet; I don't know why you just don't break it off with her now."
"I don't know why either," he replied putting his arm around her waist, and walked up the steps to the shrine.
Walking awkwardly from behind the steps she plopped down on a bench, thinking about what just occurred.
What the two just didn't know was that they pushed her closer to the edge.
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She didn't know how long she sat there, but when she came to her senses, it was raining, hard. Still a little trebly, she walked up the steps slowly to the shrine at least she had the other scouts.
"This is the last straw. She is two hours late," She heard Rei yell.
"This is not the way a leader should act," Ami said quietly.
"That's not the way for anyone to act," Mina put in.
"I know what you mean; she's clumsy, loud, obnoxious, greedy, dumb, and weak. I'm surprised she has lasted this long in battle," Lita counted out on her fingers.
Soaking wet, Serena slammed the door open, startling everyone. She stood there looking like a drowned rat.
If looks could kill, everyone in that room would be dead. She had a look that clearly said she heard it all. She was not sad or mad, or angry. She was outraged.
"YOU FOOLS, AFTER ALL THAT I'VE DONE FOR YOU, JUST TO GET STABBED IN THE BACL!" With every word said, her aura grew. They all saw it flying madly around her, as an invisible wind blew.
"ME, THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD BEFRIEND YOU BATCH OF MISFITS, WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD!" Her eyes flashed wildly at them all.
"We would have been fine without your help, as we are now. We all feel that you should give up your job as sailor moon, and let Rei continue as leader, and you can have your wish to be a normal teenager," Luna stated, like that would settle her down.
"Yeah so hand over the scepter, wand, communicator, pen, and crystal," Rei got up the courage to say.
"The Crystal? How am I supposed to be princess without that?"
"Serena, we do things to change the future everyday. So you don't know if you will be the princess or not," Darien spoke up from his corner.
For the first time, Serena turned her eyes to him. Not looking at the others, she asked if they felt the same. They all nodded yes.
Her aura going down and the wind slowing Serena bowed her head sadly not saying a word. Rei feeling like this was her chance, stepped up to Serena and grabbed her broche with the crystal.
At touch, Rei was knocked back into the mirror unconscious by a blast of energy as Serena's aura returned stronger along with a hurricane wind, whipping everything around. Serena's head slowly raised back up her face filled with complete fury, hatred, and disgust. There was a bright light coming from Serena, looking closely they could tell her clothes had changed into the white dress, and the crystal was shining brighter than ever.
"YOU INSOLENT FOOLS YOU DARE DEFY ME! I WHO ALWAYS SAVES THE GALAXY WHEN YOU HAVE ALL DIED! I THE PRINCESS AND FUTURE QUEEN OF THE MOON! I THE RULER OF THIS GALAXY!" Serena yelled in a voice not her own.
"HOW DARE YOU, MY COURT, MUTINY AGAINST ME?"
With every word, the wind blew harder and her aura grew. Serena's wings appeared,
"I SHALL GIVE UP THE POSITION OF SAILOR MOON, BUT I AM AND FOREVER WILL BE THE PRINCESS, AND THE CRYSTAL IS MINE, but you keep these!" Before them the pen, wand, Communicator and star necklace appeared.
They watched as they fell to the ground (except Rei who was unconscious) and when they looked back up the wind stopped, the light disappeared, and Serena was gone. They had pushed her over the edge. Now she was gone from all there lives.
FOREVER
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Serena sat on the hilltop looking over the city, as the rain pelted down. She was now soaked to the bone, but she didn't care. The hate and anger she had felt were now replaced by pain, betrayal, sorrow, and sadness. Her clothes were now back to normal, her glow was now replaced by a dull dark light. She was crying, drowning in her own thoughts; she didn't notice the presence behind her, watching her, feeling sorry for her.
"Your friends hurt you bad huh?" a sympathetic voice said behind her.
Startled, Serena turned around and met a pair of knees, looking up she saw the strangers face.
It was a girl. She was a little older than Serena, about 2 years older. She was dark skinned. She was 6ft tall and had curves to match. She had on tight black pants. On one side, they were regular pants leg, the other side were short shorts, and she had on some dark green, almost black, combat boots. Her shirt was a forest green tank top with no sleeves and one bare shoulder. Her hair was up in a long, high, tight, braided ponytail, it ran all the way past her waist. She had a black band around the leg with the shorts, and had on a loose black belt that wasn't in any loops.
Serena who had finally found her voice answered the beautiful girl standing in front of her,
"Yes," she sobbed tears running down her face. "But I don't have any friends, I don't have any family, I'm alone on this planet, in this universe, all alone." she sobbed her voice getting silent with every word.
The girl bit her lip; she couldn't help, but do what she decided to do next.
"Well, she began putting on a cheerful smile, now you do." The girl then retch her hand out to help Serena up.
"Hi, my name is Nyla, Nyla Ferine." Nyla said introducing herself.
Accepting Nyla's hand, Serena stood up, "I'm Serena Tsukino."
"Well, since you are alone here on this planet why don't you come with me? I need a good partner."
"Partner- what-do- you- do?" Serena asked in between sobs, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Well, ahem...I am a universal bounty hunter, and I was passing by this solar system when my computer got a major power reading, and it led me to you, and I was watching you to make sure you weren't a criminal."
"Well you can see now that I'm not, I was the protector of this planet, but it has some others now." she said starting to cry again.
"Um…Umm, well anyway if you come with me you won't have to stay here you can travel the universe, see exotic planets and have fun catching bad guys." "It'll be like you're protecting the universe instead of just one planet and no pressure because it's fun and not really hard." Nyla said trying to change the subject before she started to cry.
Calming down Serena thought, 'if I stay, I'll have to put up with their taunting and endure the pain of seeing them, but if I leave I can travel, I'll be with a friend, and still get to protect.' She thought and thought she didn't even notice when the rain had let up.
Nyla was losing doubt of having a companion, she thought about the lonesomeness of being alone. She was already giving up, when she heard the words that perked the rest of her life up.
"Where's your ship?"
"Yeah, yeah she laughed as she jumped in the air for joy as her hair did." (It's not alive)
Grabbing Serena's hand she put her watch to her mouth and said, "Nyla Ferine, Shining star, coming aboard." A bright light engulfed them both, as they were teleported.
Serena had closed her eyes when the light came, and when she opened them she was in a totally different place, her and Nyla were standing on a white platform.
The room they were in was as big as half a house. It had a metal electronic door. There were two metal, floating balls, in front of a giant screen that now was showing earth. Off behind it to the side was a bar, and in the back of the room were seven, baby blue capsules.
"This, Nyla said, is the control room"
Jumping off the transport platform, she walked over to the metal balls, "and these are the controls."
Stopping in front of the doors, she turned around back to Serena, who was still standing there on the platform, "Come on, you need to get out of those wet clothes. Follow me"
Looking at Nyla again, she saw that with light, she could see that Nyla's hair was purple, and her eyes were blue-green with a dark yellow eyeball.
Shakily walking over to Nyla, Serena followed her through the door. They walked down many halls, and passed many doors with Nyla occasionally saying where they led. "This is the bathroom, the infirmary, prison ward, arsenal, training, kitchen, entertainment, lab, my room, and finally, this will be your room."
They walked through that door. Inside was a bed that was off the floor attached to the wall. There were shelves under it to keep it supported. If you climbed on the bed there was a shelf in front of you and one behind you. There was a little level were you could get off the bed and sit in and look out a window. There was a roof over the bed, but it was high enough so that she wouldn't hit your head. There was a platform, only smaller than the transporter in the control room. There was an electric sliding closet. Other than that, the room was bare. Nyla had gone over to the platform and stood beside it.
"Serena I need you to stand here," she said pointing to the platform.
Serena walked over to the platform. Standing on it, she started shivering from the wet clothes.
"Now what?" she said looking at Nyla.
"Oh, say your name, and then say change."
"Okay…umm… Serena, change." There was a wall of blue light surround Serena. Then a huge gush of wind started to blow from underneath her somewhere. When the wind stopped, the walls came down. As soon as the walls were down, she jumped off the Platform.
Her eyes were as wide as saucers now, "What was that?" she asked Nyla who was laughing.
"It just did what you told it to do."
Now that she thought about it, her clothes and hair felt weird and she wasn't cold anymore.
"Where's a mirror?" she asked.
Nyla didn't say anything, she just walked over to the closet pressed a green button and it opened up to reveal a large mirror. Serena walked over to it and gasped at what she saw. She had a completely different outfit on and her hair was in a different style.
She had on black, short shorts that were laced on the sides to show off her thighs. She had on a black, sleeveless shirt with the back out that tied around the neck, and ending with a v shape around the torso showing off the side of her stomach. She wore black knee high boots like her old sailor outfit. She also wore hand gloves with the back out. Her hair was down with a skinny braid laid on top of it. She had on a purple lip-gloss, and purple eye shadow, but it was light purple. Therefore, in other words she looked gorgeous.
"Wow, I like your suit for a bounty huntress!"
"This is my outfit for a bounty hunter." Serena said getting the feel of it." Well I like it."
"JACK! JAAACK!" Nyla yelled.
She had taken Serena into the lab to get her equipment.
"So, who's Jack again?" Serena asked looking at a Giant aquarium, which was used as a wall, which held many different fish.
"Okay, now Jack is a super genius criminal scientist, who I captured 3 years ago and he has been living here because they wouldn't pay me for him," she said all this very slowly while searching around the lab for jack.
"And who are they?" she asked looking at some bottles with a swirling colored water inside.
"The space police." Nyla said straightening up from looking inside a cabinet.
"Oh."
"Where are you jack? Jaa-ahhh," she screamed when she had turned around to come face to face with two lavender eyes.
"Where have you been? Oh, never mine. Serena this is Jack. Jack this is Serena my new partner. In addition, she needs some equipment. So, could you hook her up?" she said while giving Jack big puppy dog eyes.
Jack was tall, and thin. He had round shaped glasses and mid way long brown hair in a loose ponytail. He had on blue tights, and a blue long-sleeved tight fitting shirt.
"Well," he said putting his arm around Nyla, "looks like I get to travel with two beautiful women now. Uh hope you don't mind Serena, but Nyla and I have special relationship going on." He said his arm inching slowly down Nyla's shoulder.
Nyla smiled at Serena then elbowed Jack in the gut. She pulled a knife out her belt, grabbing Jack by he hair she put the knife to his throat.
"Cut the crap and just get the equipment."
"Okay, anything for you beautiful, you know I like it when you get feisty." Straightening himself up from that near death experience, Jack walked over to a door and went inside.
"Pervert," Nyla said when he was gone, "he was lying you know."
"I kind of assumed that." Serena said laughing."
"I'm back." Jack said as he came with a small box in hand. Setting the box on a table full of tools and little electronic inventions, Serena and Nyla crowded around him to see inside.
When Serena and Nyla left the lab, Serena and Nyla both had new equipment.
Serena had a band like the one around Nyla's leg which when you held your palm near it, a gun would materialize in it. She got a belt, which held an extra gun, a knife, smoke bombs, explosives, a gun, handcuffs, an electric teaser, and a metal pole that expanded when pulled out the belt, and when encountering something it would blow it up, which only she got. And she got some extra guns to hide in her clothing.
Nyla got an electric whip
And they both got a watch. Not just any watch it was a disguise watch, it also was a compass, tracker, sleeper (releases a gas that puts people to sleep), communicator, satellite contactor, and mini television.
In her room, Serena put all her things up. "Nyla, is this the only thing I have to wear?" Serena asked as she started to get sleepy.
"What? On, no. see the platform is for clothes of all occasion just stand on it say your name and say sleep. Simple as that." Nyla answered also starting to get sleepy.
"Oh, okay." Quickly following Nyla's direction, Serena was now in some short shorts Pajamas and a short shirt that showed her stomach when raising her arms. She slipped under the covers.
Nyla who had been in the room the whole time started to leave when she heard Serena say in a small voice, "Thank you."
Serena who was starting to fall asleep-heard Nyla whisper.
"I should be thanking you."