River of Tears

Episode 01: "Day 01: In Tears"
By: The Crystal Knight
Rated: PG-13 (T = Teens ages thirteen and up.)

Notes: This is an idea I had one morning while walking home.
My friend Shar gets credit for giving me a good title. This
series takes place after Sailor Stars, Enjoy!

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it was the dead of night. The wind blew violently. two new villains
had arrived from the future to make sure Usagi Tsukino didn't become
queen of Crystal Tokyo. One of the villains looked like a humanoid
snake with horns on her head and the other looked like a humanoid
bull with a single horn on his head. The female villain's name was
Viperina. She was deadly and evil and anyone who crossed her path
would died instantly once her venom had touched them. She also
had the ability to cause despair, sadness and misery just by glowing her
yellowish green eyes at the intended target and they would be under her
spell forever.

Usagi on the other hand, was a happy girl and loved her friends. However,
her happiness would soon end abruptly. Viperina and her henchman Bullokron
hated the future queen and decided to place Usagi under a powerful spell
of tears in which, once Usagi was under that spell, she would shed tears
forever and in thirty days, if the spell wasn't broken at the end of thirty
days, she would die a cruel death. Viperina appeared in Usagi's room and
she was invisible. Luna felt something awful, but saw no one. Viperina
shone her eyes on Usagi while she slept and after a few minutes of shining
the light on Usagi, Usagi was under Viperina's spell and there was no way
to break it. Viperina vanished from Usagi's room knowing that Usagi couldn't
do anything.

Usagi woke up the next morning feeling sad and in silent tears. She didn't
know why she cried. She felt sad for no reason at all. She felt so depressed.
She took her time getting dressed in her school uniform. Once she was dressed
she went down stairs and didn't bother to say anything to her dad, mom, or
her brother. She put on her shoes, grabbed her bag and left the house in tears.
She slowly walked down the street not in any hurry to get to school. As far as
she was concerned, she felt that the world didn't love her and she was just a
waste of valuable space. Naru was headed to school as well and saw Usagi sad and
crying. Naru walked to Usagi and spoke to her.

"Usagi, what's wrong?"

Naru asked in a calm voice and Usagi looked up at her and spoke.

"I am a failure. A waste of space. What's the use of me living? I might as well
find a nice cold freezing creek to die in and maybe I can find some misery in
dying in agony."

Usagi spoke harshly about her living and wasting up valuable space. Naru tried
to comfort Usagi and she answered her.

"Usagi, you're a good friend. Everyone cares for you. You aren't a failure
or a waste of space. Everyone loves you. Don't give up hope Usagi."

Naru tried hard to comfort Usagi, but this amplified her sorrow further. Usagi
no longer listened to Naru and continued walking to the school. In insider herself,
she felt like no lone truly loved her and life wasn't worth living. She made it to
the school and the teacher was surprised that Usagi was on time, but Usagi never
answered a word to the teacher and quietly smoothed out her skirt and sat down on
the chair of her desk. Everyone saw that Usagi was very sad for some reason. At lunch
time, Makoto, Ami, and Minako noticed that Usagi was very sad. They had never seen
her like this. They called out to her, but she ignored them. She didn't care. She
had never stopped crying. Her eyes was starting to feel sore from all the continuous
crying.

After school, the Senshi met at the Hikawa Shrine to discuss with the Outer Senshi
and with Mamoru, Luna and Artemis of why Usagi would be so suddenly depressed.

"We saw Usagi at school and she was so sad. She was always in tears. She had
mumbled something like she was waste of space and that no one loved her."

Makoto explained to Luna. Luna flickered her ear for a moment and spoke.

"I did feel some terrible eerie presence this morning in Usagi's room, however
I couldn't see the presence of the villain."

Luna gave her thoughts about Usagi's sudden wave of sadness.

"Maybe, there was something recorded in a book from the time of the Moon Kingdom
about what Usagi is going through."

Artemis pondered out loud to everyone.

"That may be a possibility."

Ami and Luna spoke up at the same time.

"What do we do? We got to cheer up Usako. I don't like seeing her sad."

Mamoru stated to everyone.

"I know." Minako started and then continued, "let's try and spoil her and
let her know that she is well loved by all?"

Minako suggested to everyone. Luna's eyes lit up in happiness.

"That's a good idea everyone! Let's try to find a way to spoil Usagi and
make her feel happy and well loved."

Luna gave a command to everyone. Usagi made it back home and like that morning,
Usagi said nothing to her parents or to Shingo and went straight to her bedroom
and laid on her bed. She continued to cry with no rest in sight and as she saw it,
she saw no hope and she continued to cry until she fell asleep.

Next Chapter: "Day 02: No Hope"

THIS EPISODE WAS COMPLETED ON: 02/19/2016

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