Hay everyone! Katie here with a brand new Sailor Moon story of mine (it's a big change from my usual Dragonball ones). It's about Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion's daughter Usagi, and son Motaru. It's written in Usagi's point of view.
To understand the title of this story you must think of the show Sailor Moon. Think of the whole show as a big book divided into sections, or books as you may call them, book 1 is Sailor Moon, 2 is Sailor Moon R etc. all inside one big book. Now you see that Sailor Moon 2 is like the second story. That's why it is called Sailor Moon 2.
Another note is Sailor Moon does not belong to me so don't sue.
Please read and review.
Sailor Moon 2
The Escapades of Dark Moon
By Katie
Prologue
Hi there! My name is Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity Chiba. I am the princess of the planet Earth and the Moon is Universe Milky Way, Galaxy 1. My wonderful parents are Neo Queen Serenity and Neo King Endymion. I have one brother, Prince Motaru Mamoru Endymion Chiba (he can be a total bratty 14-year-old at times). He's five years younger than I am. I am presently 19 years of age. My best friend (whom is totally wonderful) is Princess Penelope Silver Crystal Patisinolar (whom is also my second cousin). I am also at present expecting my first wonderful child.
This is my story of me and the Dark Sailor Senshi and the young soldier Eclipse and their three cat guardians.
It all starts when I am five-years-old. It has been more than fourteen years. It feels like longer. I can still hear the cries of the sailors behind me and my shoes pounding the ground as if it had done something wrong. It was glorious…
14 years ago on August 3rd 3005:
I ran down the steps of the castle.
"Hurry up you guys!" I called behind me.
"Chibi Usa!" cried Mercury. "Your mother and father will still be there. Now slow down before you trip!"
Jupiter shook her head. "Just like her mother." She sighed.
"Yes, can never wait or slow down when she wants something." Mars cut in.
Venus laughed. "But is that not what makes her a great queen?"
"Uh huh." The scouts agreed as they chased me, the active five-year-old down the steps of the castle and towards the big double doors, which lead to the place of my parents dwelling.
I reached the bottom of the steps and sprinted towards the large double doors of pinewood. I pushed them open without any trouble and ran into the large room.
There before young me was my mother, Neo Queen Serenity, lying in the large king sized bed, exhausted, with my father, Neo King Endymion, kneeling beside her. Mother had a small bundle in her arms.
"Mommy," I said quietly walking forwards. "Is that my baby sister?" I asked curiously.
"Yes and no, Usagi." Mother spoke kindly to me.
"What do you mean Mommy?"
"Usagi come here sweet heart." My father, Neo King Endymion said motioning me to come forwards.
The scouts darted into the room. They smiled at me as I walked forwards towards my mother.
My father lightly grabbed me by the waste and lifted me up onto the bed beside my mother. I looked at the bundle in her arms.
It was a baby; an almost bald baby with only a few black strands showing that is was not completely bald. I looked down at it for a few minutes than looked up at my mother.
"Mommy, what do you mean yes and no?" I asked again.
My mother smiled. She saw how young and blind my eyes were and could see that I was not yet old enough to be able to tell what she meant.
"What I mean Usagi is that yes it is your younger sibling but no it isn't your sister." She smiled. "The doctors thought wrong. This Usagi is your younger brother Motaru Mamoru Endymion Chiba."
I looked down at him.
"Hi there." I said kindly to him.
"Motaru," my mother spoke softly and weakly to the young baby in her arms, "this is your sister, Usagi Small Lady Serenity Chiba."
"Hi little Motaru." I spoke to him.
Motaru looked up at me with dark midnight blue eyes. I put my hand close to him to touch him slowly.
But before I could touch him he touched me, or more like grabbed me. He grabbed my finger tightly and pulled.
"Ouch!"
A month later:
It was no fun at the castle. I thought having a new baby would be fun, but it wasn't. All the time all I could hear is "Waaaaaa!" It drove me nuts! And what about my parents, they were always to busy with the baby to even pay attention to me.
The scouts tried to make it fun around the castle for me. Nothing worked.
My mother could tell I was upset. She could tell these types of things.
"Usagi, sweety, are you okay?" she asked me one day.
"Nothing Momma, really it's nothing." I stumbled out quickly and nervously. I didn't want my mother to know because I thought she would probably think it was silly or that I was just a jealous little brat or something.
My mother knelt down and looked in my eyes.
"Usa, I know something's wrong. What is it?"
"Its just…well…oh Momma you wouldn't understand!" I cried and tried to leave.
My mother reached a gentle hand forwards and placed it on my shoulder.
"Sweety whatever it is I want to know, even if I don't understand it. Please Usa, tell me." She said kindly.
It took me a moment to debate it in my head.
"Momma, it's that um…" I quietly murmured.
Sailor Jupiter cleared her throat. My mother and I looked up at the tall sailor Senshi before us.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything." She put in. "But dinner is ready."
My mother looked into my eyes and then looked back up at Jupiter.
"Alright Jupiter." She stood up and looked down at me. "Usa we'll continue this later."
I gulped and followed them out of the room.
My mother stopped Jupiter to talk to her and I walked right past pretending not to notice. But I surely did. I hid around the corner and listened in.
"Jupiter," my mother said softly, "somethings up with Usa and she wont tell me what it is. Can you and the other sailors make her a big bunch or sweet snacks tomorrow and spend the day with her. I'm sure she'll open up to you guys. I think she won't tell me because it's got something to do with her baby brother."
"Will do Sere. We will plan a nice day that we can have with her." Jupiter smiled and gave the thumbs up.
My momma smiled. She really was worried. I smiled at that and then walked off before they could catch up.
The next day:
The morning started out the same as always. Diana woke me at 7:30 am to welcome me to the morning. I looked around the barely lit room. Sailor Mercury hadn't come in to open to blinds yet. She wouldn't for a few minutes. So I leaned back against the pillows and Diana crawled up beside me. I could feel the eager hands of sleep pulling and nagging at me until I finally gave in and slowly started drifting off into slumber.
A moment later, right on time, there was a knock upon my door to pull me out of my half slumber. I was still in a slight gaze so I didn't answer.
Mercury knew what that meant so she slowly entered the room. She walked over to the window silently and pulled open the blinds.
My eyes were blinded. It was like someone flashing a flash light right in your eyes. I automatically put a hand to my eyes and grumbled.
"Good morning Usa. I trust you slept well."
"Yes I did Mercury, and yourself?" I asked kindly as my eyes adjusted to the light.
"I slept wonderfully Usa. Thanks for asking." She smiled at me and walked over to my closet. She pulled out my white dress with the gold top with no sleeves. I always wore it since I got back from the past. I didn't mind because I felt it was an honor because my great mother wore it when she was young. Mercury delicately made sure nothing was on it and lightly laid it out on the foot of the bed.
"Breakfast is in 15 minutes Usa so you'd better hurry." She smiled at me and exited the room.
"You heard her Diana." I giggled and pulled the pillow from underneath the slumbering kitten. She could sleep through pretty much anything. She was as lazy as me, but how she woke up at 7:30 to wake me is not to my understanding.
The kitten rolled onto the ground and shook her head.
"How come you get a nice wake up call when you doze off and I get a lousy push off the bed?" she grumbled.
I giggled.
"Because you a kitten." I giggled and picked her up and stroked her softly until she gave in.
"Alright I forgive you but next time I wont be so lenient." The kitten meowed.
I laughed again.
"Sure you wont." I placed her back down and took off my nightclothes and put on my dress. It fit perfectly to my figure, hugging me comfortably.
I brushed my hair and teeth and washed my face in my washroom attached to my room. Then I picked up Diana off my bed and exited my bedroom on the fourth and final floor of the castle. I walked solemnly down the steps and to the dinning room where we always ate breakfast. But to my surprise there were only places for my mother and father set, none for me. Then I remembered what my mother and Jupiter had said.
"Morning baby, how did you sleep?" Momma asked me.
"Just fine Momma how did you sleep?"
"Just wonderful sweety." Momma answered.
"What about you Poppa?" I asked.
"Fine sweety." He answered.
My mother looked up at me and smiled.
"Sweety you and Diana will be going out with the Sailors today. Is that alright with you?" she asked me.
I got excited. It was true. I loved leaving the castle and going around Crystal Tokyo and the surrounding parts of Japan. It was always fun.
"Yes Momma, it's just fine."
The sailors came in, first Venus, then Jupiter, then Mars, then Mercury.
"You ready to go Usa?" they asked me.
"Yes." I answered and ran to them, Diana still in my arms.
"We have a big day planned. We'll have her back by 9:00 pm." Venus said as she and the other sailors bowed.
"Very well. Usa you have fun today." Poppa said to me.
"WAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Motaru was crying again.
Momma stood up and walked over to Motaru and picked him up.
I went on tiptoes and whispered in Mercury's ear. "Let's get out of here before he really starts.
Mercury giggled. "Yes Usa. Sailors lets go."
"I will have fun today Daddy! Bu bye!" I called behind me as we all ran out of the castle.
I fling open the large double doors of the castle.
Sunlight catches a glimpse in my eyes and blinds me for a moment. I looked up and saw the most beautiful shinning sun. I quickly turn away from the blind ball of life and turn to the four women behind me.
Sailor Mercury, whose brain in only matched by her extreme beauty. Her radiance is scene by men as a gift from the gods. As I look at her I realize now why suitors line up around the planet to see her. Sailor Jupiter, her quick fighting whit and kind heart outmatch almost everyone. Her beauty is also as radiant as that of Mercury's. Her shorter cut, chestnut brown hair, hangs in a pony tale at the back of her head. Thinking now I didn't think I'd ever scene her hair down. I wondered what it would look like down but shook off the thought as I glimpsed at Sailor Mars. Her firey purple eyes and long flowing black hair, the colour of the darkest unlit night. Her hair occasionally, when caught in the right way by the sun, un-oftenly glints with a dark purple glow. It is the type of thing, which can only be scene on bright days like today. I smile at the beautiful woman and turn from the firey Senshi of fire and desire to the leader. My gaze stops on by far the most beautiful of them all, Sailor Venus. Her golden, light blonde hair (lighter than my moms) glints with the sunlight. Her slim figure and royal blue eyes, which rightly compliment her hair, make her beauty almost enough to match my mothers. But don't let her beauty fool you; her fighting skills were at one of the tops spots in the rank. I can remember at that moment wishing to grow up to be just like her.
"Where are we going first?" I asked happily.
"We're going somewhere really nice Chibi Usa. But it's a surprise." Venus smiled and ran ahead. I laughed and quizzically followed her.
***
I had a great day out with the sailors. We did so many fun things.
We went to the carnival in town, the circus, and we also went for a hike outside of Crystal Tokyo in a little forest called Ninarqua. It is such a beautiful little forest. The sailors have been taking me there since I can remember.
There's a little path that we always go up, hidden from the naked eye by branches of a long flowing Willow tree. It leads up to a plane that looks onto Crystal Tokyo. I just love lying back as the sun flies gaily overhead. I would lie there staring up at the fluffy white pieces of the sky's cotton candy fly carefree overhead. I would look up at them and imagine I was flying along with them, floating hi and free from the world's gilded cage. But then I would always look down when I was imaging being in mid air and see the sun slowly sink behind the mountains in which I lay amongst in my field. It looked like a golden pool of liquid gold falling slowly as it slowly hardened. I would always imagine that up there in the sky I would reach out and touch the sun. Let the liquid slowly seep through my fingers and fall lazily to the ground and into the sea to sleep for another night. But before it would completely leave me I would always take a handful of it and hold it in my hands. Watch it swish back and forth in my hands and bits would spill into the sea below.
But soon after I would awake from my daydream and look around me. I would see the Sailor Senshi lying there in the grass with me, still dreaming their own perfect thoughts. No matter how bad a mood I had been in before going there I would be out of it, in the perfect relaxed atmosphere I truly wished to be in.
God I miss that. I miss that spot where I used to hide from the world and become one of the clouds, the sky's beauty queens, the sky's kings.
I looked over at Jupiter. She had her eyes wide open a staring up at the sky. She usually had her eyes closed when dreaming.
"Jupiter?" I asked quietly but yet firm. "Are you dreaming?"
Jupiter turned her head to me and stared up at me with caring, yet concerned eyes.
"No." was all she said to me and she turned her head back up to the sky.
"Why not?"
"I'm thinking."
"'Bout what?"
Jupiter looked back up at me. Then turned away and stood up.
"Come with me." She said calmly, quietly, kindly and yet demanding at the same time. "Be careful not to disturb the others. They need their rest."
I nodded, stood, and followed Jupiter to the other side of the field where we could talk without disturbing the others.
We sat down on the sun-warmed grass and watched the sun dip into the sea behind the mountains. I stared at it, even though it hurt my eyes and I saw a smile come from it. I know it really wasn't there but I imagined it so. Then the sun gave one last burst of light and fell silently to sleep amongst the fishes and coral of the sea.
We sat there for a few minutes in silence, looking up at the warm pink sky. I found at that moment that I couldn't tare my gaze from the sky above. It captures me in its soft glow and held me tight as if it wanted one last hug from the eyes of those it protected before it too slowly slunk into the sea.
Jupiter broke the silence after minutes of staring.
"Your mother's worries about you Usagi." She said quietly.
"Why?"
"Something's not been right about you lately."
The sky let my eyes go and they slowly drifted down to the grass in front and below me.
"Jupiter you didn't have any younger siblings did you?" I asked knowing the answer.
Jupiter realized immediately what was wrong.
"Oh, I see." She said not answering my question. It didn't matter to me I knew the answer anyways. "Usagi you must understand, it's been a long time since your mother was in your position." Jupiter drifted her gaze down to me. "She doesn't remember exactly what you are feeling right now. But I'm sure if you talk to her she'll remember…"
"Its just Jupiter, whenever I want to talk to Mom or Dad or spend anytime with them Motaru starts crying or doing something else. I never spend anytime with them anymore and it also seems like you guys are always busy doing something and…and…" tears welled up in my eyes. "I want everything to be the way it was before."
Jupiter was surprised. She knew about the problems with me parents but she'd never thought it might be also because she and the Senshi hadn't spent any time with me.
"Oh Usagi…" she put an arm around me. "Oh Usagi…oh Usagi…"
We sat there for another minute or so in silence. The warmth of Sailor Jupiter felt nice. I hadn't felt a real hug like this for a long time.
"Usagi you must realize that things will never be like what they used to be." She looked down at me and I looked up at her with teary eyes. "Its just change that's all. We can't stop change no matter how much you want to. Change is a good thing Usagi, even if at the moment you might think that it's the worst thing that's ever happened, all changes are good in one way or another. You'll see that one day Motaru will be a very valuable change." She paused for a moment. "One day, when you really get to know your little brother, I know you'll find him a good person." She smiled. "I hope he grows up to a be like you Usagi for I know you'll grow up to be a lot like your mother but a lot like your father at the same time. Usagi just think about it, you will one day need Motaru, just as he will need you. Be strong Usagi, for if you're not strong you wont be a good sister. Just think, in a few years you'll be helping to teach him to walk, talk, run, and ride bikes." She laughed a bit. "He needs you Usagi."
I had never thought of it like that before. "He needs me?"
"Yes."
I smiled. It's nice to be needed. "Thank-you Jupiter."
End of Prologue