Chibiusa's Diary
(Super S)
Author's Note: This diary-esque story takes place over the course of the Super S series and is in Chibiusa's point of view. I will use elements from both the dub and subtitled versions, along with a little imagination, so please read and review! Enjoy!
i>"The forest is weeping. Our crystal forest is weeping. If you can hear me, if you can hear me at all. Please, come to the forest. I have traveled all night long just to see only…you." /i>
I was sleeping peacefully one night, dreaming of happy things when all of a sudden I was awakened slowly by streams of light pouring in through my window. I moaned and fluttered my russet red eyes open, still laying in my bed.
Then I found myself running down the empty street in Tokyo, panting a little as I took a deep breath, asking the question outloud.
"Who is that? Who is calling my name?"
I heard nothing back, sadly and only had the silence of the streets and empty buildings to answer me back. My head looked up ahead as I ran, eyes panning across the sky, silently marveling at the wash of colors that it was displaying. Pastel blues and pinks splattered across the expanse, making it seem more dream-like than ever. I saw the moon floating in the sky and blinked at it, wondering why it was not the silvery-white color tonight. Instead it had changed to a more orange-red in hue.
Slowly, I made my way into the forest at the end of my journey, or were they at the end of the street? 'I don't ever remember this being here.' I thought quietly to myself. I kept turning my head every which way to take it all in. This was no ordinary forest. Everything was so…beautiful, a spectrum of clear pastel colors greeted me again, just like the sky. Crystals protruded from around the trees, a sort of crystallized bush and the ground looked like it was made of glass. There was nothing like this back in Crystal Tokyo, at least not that I knew of. Then my eyes widened as I looked straight ahead of me, staring through the floating beads of light. Standing in the middle of this forest was a beautiful white horse with large feathery wings and a golden horn on its forehead. I had heard about a creature such as this before from a book I read but I couldn't put my finger on what it was called.
"Is it real?" I asked myself, blushing slightly as this winged creature turned its head and looked directly at me. A strange pang went through me. I felt as though I had been seen more clearly in my life than ever before. I had to get closer to it, so I walked forward until I was no more than mere inches from it. I stretched out my hand towards it, asking, "Can I touch you?" As it bent its head lower, I questioned it further. "It's still night. Why is the sky so weird and beautiful?"
The creature didn't even respond to my question that I asked. Then, suddenly, a golden light covered my outstretched hand; that very light traveling over my body, changing me into my royal gown, the moon symbol emblazoned on my forehead. I kept my hand out to it, my eyes felt like they would spill over any minute. Suddenly, things all went back to normal and I looked around noticing that the creature was gone and that the light had returned to the forest again.
"Where are you? Are you the one that called out to me?" I cried out, a bit disappointed that the creature would have left so soon but also hoping that he had heard it if this creature didn't leave.
"Please don't tell anyone about our encounter!" The voice pleaded with me, soft and baritone in nature.
I whipped my head around to look behind me….only to be startled by seeing the face of Usagi! What was she doing here? Had she heard the voice too?
"Sleepy-head, wake up! What were you dreaming of?" Usagi yelled at me as I sat up in bed, getting my bearings back after what I had just experienced.
"What? It's just a dream…" I replied sleepily, turning my head away from Usagi again. Her head popped up over my shoulder as she quickly started talking to me.
"Chibiusa, get up! We have to hurry and go meet the girls! They've all left already!"
I didn't say anything in response, but merely raised my arm in response, groaning a reply.
There were tons of people already at the spot when we arrived! People were gathering on this hilltop, staking out a good spot for this event called an 'eclipse'. They all had either tiny pieces of glass in their hands or special sunglasses to view the eclipse safely. I took my place next to Ami and sat there quietly, surveying the crowd before turning back to her to peer at the book she was diligently reading from.
"The sun, the moon, and the earth will soon line up. You won't be able to see the sun because it will be hiding behind the moon."
Now that was interesting, I thought quietly and turned my head to look at Unazuki-san as she continued the explanation a bit further.
"When the sun is completely hidden by the moon, that is what we call a solar eclipse."
"Wow really?" I exclaimed, smiling a bit more at her. Unazuki nodded her head back to me with the same smile.
"Yeah, the sun is hidden behind the bright moon. It gets really dark and scary and you don't know what will happen then. Hehe." Usagi told me, trying to make the whole situation seem more scarier for me.
"Usagi! You shouldn't lie to little kids like that! Telling such false stories isn't good for kids!" Rei told her, shooting Usagi a glare.
I let out a sigh. "Don't bother about it Rei. I don't believe a word Usagi said. In fact, half of the time I don't pay attention to some of the things she says anyway."
"What do you mean by that?" Usagi asked me, but I simply shrugged my shoulders and said nothing. I could hear Rei chuckle a little over her shoulder. She understood exactly what I meant. Then she let out a small gasp of surprise as Usagi started to talk to her again. "What is it Rei? Did I say something wrong?"
"Do you believe in scary things?" Rei questioned.
"I..oh…" Usagi responded, trailing off into something incoherent.
I sighed in annoyance, shaking my head inwardly. Those two always seemed to be fighting. I wondered how they could ever get along for more than five minutes. I opened my eyes and turned my head up to the sky, my mind drifted back to what happened last night…in my dream that seemed so real. I saw the creature in my mind's eye again, standing at the center of that forest.
"Hey, whatcha thinkin'?" Unazuki asked, shaking me out of my daydream.
"Huh, what?" I managed to get out, a bit flustered that I was caught daydreaming. I felt my cheeks grow hot in embarrassment.
"Are you daydreaming? Are you…worried about something? Aha, I wondered. Are you thinking about someone you've met. Maybe a boyfriend?" Unazuki paused for a moment, smiling at me in that mischievous way.
At the mention of that, everyone in the group was listening, leaning in to hear the good details.
"Listen, Chibiusa. You shouldn't be doing things that would make your mom and dad upset, ok?"
Motoki turned around and cried out, "You should talk! You're talking about yourself in every way, you know that?" He grinned at his sister playfully.
"What!" Unazuki cried out, her green eyes widening.
"Mom's been worried sick about you because you've been coming home late from your job!" Motoki responded, still grinning. He acted like he knew something about it.
"Oooh, mind your own business Motoki." Unazuki shot back.
We all leaned in closer to hear if she would say why she was coming home so late, but we were interrupted from any sort of answer by Mamoru.
"Hey, girls, it's about to begin!" He said and picked up his pair of special sunglasses, and the rest of us grabbed either a piece of viewing glass or sunglasses and put them to our face, or on, depending on what you had. The crowd that was gathered followed suit as well. I picked up the piece of glass and held it up to my face, turning my gaze to the sun. It only took a few seconds before the sun slowly started to eclipse along with throwing the entire city into semi-darkness. The eclipsed sun had a sort of blue wavy flame around it, which was pretty cool. It wasn't that scary like Usagi had said it would be but instead it was strangely beautiful and calm….and then it was over! Just like that! We all got up to leave, but Usagi was still at the same spot she was in at the beginning, staring at something in the sky.
"Usagi! What are you doing still standing there? We're leaving!" Rei yelled at her.
"No wait, I'm coming!" Usagi called back and ran after us. I couldn't help but giggle a little bit. She's such a space cadet.
Later on, Usagi took me out to the Fruits Parlour Crown for sodas, which was nice of her to do. I smiled at Unazuki and said my thanks as she sat down our sodas on the table.
"Here you go."
"Thanks." I said politely and quickly took a sip. Usagi launched into her barrage of questions, not wanting to waste any time.
"Thanks. So how's it going?" Usagi questioned, leaning a bit on the table.
"What do you mean?" Unazuki answered back, looking a bit nervous. Why was she nervous?
"I'm talking about this 'boyfriend' of yours, the one that Motoki-kun mentioned."
"Huh?" I quipped softly, looking up at Unazuki to see her reaction. Her body jumped a little and her eyes flickered over to me as if she was afraid to say anything.
"Please Usagi, I shouldn't say anything in front of Chibiusa." She said, gripping at the empty tray in both hands.
"Oh so it's like that now? Can't say it in front of Chibiusa?" Usagi shot back, grinning like a cheshire cat. This piqued my interest even more and I got to my knees on the cushy bench, still glancing upwards at her.
"Usagi, please don't…" Unazuki trailed off, leaning down to glare at Usagi warningly. I caught sight of a teal colored locket hanging loosely around her neck. I reached up and grabbed it, pulling it to my sight and opened it up without asking for permission. I smiled as I saw the picture inside of some handsome, blond haired boy with olive green eyes.
"Is this photo inside your locket a picture of your boyfriend?" I asked with a grin. She latched onto my smaller hands, trying to pry them away from the locket.
"Give that back Chibiusa!"
"Time to give it back Chibiusa, that's not yours you know!" Usagi yelled at me. I completely ignored both of them. My interest was in the picture of the boyfriend that Unazuki was trying to hide.
After a few minutes, we all calmed down and I eventually let the locket go, watching it swing back to Unazuki and her shutting it with a snap. She motioned for me to scoot over so she could sit down and began to explain things to us.
"He's not really my boyfriend per say. We've been in some situations before this but he hasn't opened his heart to me or expressed his love for me."
I told her, "Just because you're a girl doesn't mean you have to wait for a prince to come along on a white horse. You can go out and find Prince Charming yourself. It's up to you to find the right boy. When you meet, you'll both know if you're meant to be together." I couldn't help but think how funny that sounded coming out of me but since that dream I had last night, my perspective on things changed a little. More than I even knew.
"When did you get so realistic, Chibiusa?" Unazuki questioned, gazing at me. I opened my eyes to look at her, then over at Usagi.
"Have you been getting into mom's books again? Or is it my romance novels? How do you know so much about love?"
I shook my head quietly, giggling to myself, deciding it best not to say anything that would warrant more questions from them.
What had transpired in my dream was still bothering me later that night as I asked Usagi to come outside and help me look for something. She gave me a calm look and agreed to it, following me outside. I took off ahead of her, running down a set of stairs and stopped in the middle of a sidewalk that I thought would lead me to the forest. It looked a little familiar, but maybe that was just my feelings.
"Chibiusa, why are we out here so late? Why did you ask me to come out here with you?"
I stood there with my hands at my sides, still glancing down the way. "Usagi, are there any forests near a big lake somewhere in the city?"
"A forest with a big lake nearby?" She paused for a minute, and I could feel my breath catch in my throat, awaiting her answer. "No I don't think there is. Where did you get an idea like that?"
"Oh nothing. No reason, sorry." I replied sadly then looked up as the sound of a scream and a whip cracking pierced the crisp night air. Looking over at Usagi, I nodded and we took off in the direction of the scream. When we got there, we realized it was Unazuki!
"Oh no, Unazuki!" Usagi yelled out.
"Who's that strange guy who's with her?" I asked her, worry crossing over my face. She set her jaw, clenching one hand into a fist as she stared straight ahead.
"I don't know, but we have to step up and do something Chibiusa." She told me, gripping onto her locket. I nodded and did the same as we called out our henshin phrases.
"Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"
"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!"
Lights and hearts swirled and flashed around us, changing us into our Senshi fukus before we ran out just as he walked forward towards Unazuki, chuckling evily.
"Finally. This is a dream mirror, a mirror of your dreams if you will and with it I can see into your beautiful dream, and find out if he is hiding in it."
"Stop right there!"
He turned around and looked right at us, scowling in our direction. "What! Who are you?"
Sailor Moon's face took on a look of determination, and I beamed a little bit more, following her as we made our introduction speeches.
"We are Sailor Senshi!"
"Agents of Love and Justice!" I called out loudly, watching as Sailor Moon went through her posing, pointing her index finger at this guy.
"I am Sailor Moon!"
I ran up besides her and mimicked her hand gestures with ease. "And I'm Sailor Chibi Moon!"
"And in the name of the Moon…" Sailor Moon began, to which we both finished the sentence with, "…We will punish you!"
"Well, well. What do we have here? A couple of annoying pumpkins." He growled at us, and then focused his gaze at the ground. I watched as his shadow elongated itself, a strange symbol flickering to life at the top. "Come out Karakuriko!"
What came out of the shadow was a doll-like monster, and looked more like a marionette puppet or like one of those wooden human figures that I saw in art class. It twisted its head around once, chanting "Goody, goody…" a few times before coming to a rest, blue eyes focused on us.
"That is one crazy looking monster." Sailor Moon commented, and I silently nodded my head, sharing in her thoughts. Then out of nowhere it seemed, one of the dolls legs came out and sidekicked Sailor Moon off her feet, which didn't bother me much, seeing as how clutzy she was anyway. Then the doll's hands came up and dragged her into the air.
"Oh no, Sailor Moon!" I cried out, just before turning my head and getting knocked over by the torso section of the doll. It pinned me to the ground and I could only watch in disdain as Sailor Moon was carried high into the air, coming face to face with the doll's head.
"What are you doing!" She cried out, staring at it before it opened its mouth, a sharp shining sword sticking out of it. It shot out, determined to pierce right through Sailor Moon but she swiftly dodged it, one after another, moving from side to side in mid-air.
"Sailor Moon!" I cried out again, still struggling with the dolls torso pinned to me.
The guy laughed hard, watching with glee as the sword continued to try and slice through her. "You think you can dodge it all day?" He asked. I grumbled, clenching my hands into fists, trying to think of some way to help out. But then, a red rose flew through the air and knocked the doll on the side of the head and out of the sky as it clattered to the ground, rose petals scattered around it.
"You who disturb the night for your evil ways must be stopped! I am Tuxedo Kamen!"
I breathed a sigh of relief, smiling upwards at him as he stood on the lamppost. "Tuxedo Kamen!" I could hear Sailor Moon say it along with me, in the same grateful tone that I did.
"Huh? What's with the whole vampire tuxedo outfit you've got going on there?"
I saw Tuxedo Mask shift ever so slightly on the lamppost, his gaze fixed on this guy ahead of him. "How dare you speak to me like that! My rose thorns shall pierce through your evil."
The guy clutched part of his whip in one hand and stared up at Tuxedo Kamen calmly, cocking his head slightly to one side. "All right, I challenge you to battle."
Both Sailor Moon and myself watched on quietly as the two of them fought on, whip against the delicate rose and cane that he carried. Then in one smooth move, Tuxedo Mask knocked the whip out of the guy's hand with his cane as it wrapped around his shadow that was cast on the tree behind him. His cane pointed at the guy's neck, he glared at him again.
"The game is over."
"I think your wrong." He said with a laugh, as the whip behind him glowed with a soft purple light. What was going on, I wondered.
"What?" Tuxedo Kamen muttered quietly, his whole body seeming to freeze like a stone. I watched as he struggled to move forward but couldn't. "Can't move.." He grunted out, his jaw tight as he struggled with the binding he had been put under.
"Tuxedo Kamen!" Sailor Moon and I cried out at the same time, the same look of panic crossing our faces.
"I tied your shadow to the tree. You won't be able to move!" He cackled and walked away, bidding him good-bye as he turned to walk back to Unazuki again.
I looked up for a moment again, seeing Sailor Moon continue to struggle valiantly with the doll's hands that were holding her up in the air as I continued to struggle with my half of the doll. 'Man this thing is heavy!' I thought, gritting my teeth as I tried to push it away. I could just hear Unazuki begin to scream in pain as this guy actually stuck his head inside of the mirror, looking for something important to him. He brought his head back out, a frown on his face. Apparently, he didn't find what he was looking for after all.
"Whoa too bad, sure is a beautiful dream but he's not in it. I've got no choice." He paused, one hand on his hip.
I blinked. Who was this 'he' and why was he looking for 'him'? Why would 'he' be hiding in a mirror of all places?
"I've gotta get rid of anyone who has beautiful dreams, because he could still come back and hide in them." I saw him turn back again and call for Karakuriko. "Come Karakurko, get rid of all of them!"
"Glad to be of service." It answered back before disappearing, only to reappear in front of Sailor Moon again. I shrieked in surprise as a hand popped out of the empty hole of the torso, stretching out its long fingers before a set of red claws appeared, pointing down at my face.
I had to do something, but being stuck to the ground left me with no options. I shut my eyes and cried out inside my mind for help. "I've got to do something. Please can't somebody help us!" I asked, praying that someone…anyone…would come.
Then a bright light shone down from the sky and blasted away the doll's head and torso, setting us both free. The same light floated down to the ground as I got up finally from the ground.
"What's that?" Tuxedo Kamen questioned, his voice filled with quiet awe.
The light suddenly disappeared as it got closer to the ground, revealing our savior. It was the creature that I had met in my dreams! It had come to save us!
"It's him! Pegasus!" The guy cried out, more out of shock than anything.
I ran over to where Sailor Moon was standing as it floated down to the ground, standing there calmly before flicking its head in our direction, sending a shower of energy our way that filled us both, transforming us into new fukus!
"Both of them have been transformed into Super Senshi!" Tuxedo Mask exclaimed.
"Hey come on! Karakuriko, finish them now!" The guy ordered harshly, and I watched with wide eyes as the top part of the doll sped towards us, joined by the other missing parts it had lost during the battle. A flash of light caught my attention, and I swiveled my head to look up at Super Sailor Moon just as a wand appeared out of this light. It had a long pink shaft at the top, topped by a small red crystal. The bottom part, the handle, was red and surrounded by two curved handles, giving it sort of the appearance of a heart. At the center was a large red circle emblazoned with a golden crescent moon. It was a new weapon for Sailor Moon!
She shut her eyes tightly as the wand began to glow, before she opened them again, staring at the wand. No time for daydreaming, we had a monster to destroy!
"Sailor Moon!" I chirped to her, my gaze serious as she looked back at me, nodding in agreement. She got to one knee, drawing the wand backwards, winds whipping up around us as I placed my hands on her back, lending her power and helping her to defeat this monster.
She tensed her body and shouted, jabbing the wand forward again, a bright pink ball of energy flying out of it and hitting the doll straight on, causing it to shatter into a million tiny pieces of mirror fragments. A swirl of smoke was all that was left of it, as it rose up out of the shadow, the symbol and the shadow itself flickering away.
"Oh no!" He cried out, gritting his teeth. "Well I'm out of here." The guy said and leapt backwards into a ring of flame, disappearing from sight. When he was gone, the mirror went back into Unazuki and Tuxedo Kamen was freed.
"What was that?" Tuxedo Kamen said, upon hearing the neigh of the creature in front of us. It had its head lowered, looking at us.
"How beautiful!" Super Sailor Moon exclaimed as she looked at it, her voice full of wonder. Then it disappeared into a flash of golden sparks, just as we were about to say our thanks. That's when we looked down at ourselves and noticed that we had changed back into our regular forms. "We're back to who we were." She finished, staring down at herself in shock.
We ran over to where Tuxedo Kamen had Unazuki cradled in his hands tightly. "She just fainted but she'll be all right."
The sky started to flash in these different colors as his parting words from my dream came back to me. "Please, don't tell anyone about our encounter."
"I knew it wasn't just a dream." I whispered, still gazing at the sky.
"Chibi Moon, do you know anything about what just happened?" Sailor Moon questioned, her hands on her hips, looking at me for an answer.
My head turned away as I looked down, responding as best as I could. "Well, no I don't Sailor Moon."
She didn't say anything else to me afterwards, so I breathed a sigh of relief as we watched the sky above us.
'I hope to see it again.' I thought quietly.