I reread my old "Crystal's Destany" story and I still love the idea..though I hated where it went. So I have decided to rewrite it. It probably won't be the same. Somethings though I shall keep pretty similar. Though if you did read the original a few key things will change. I'll be using the Japanese names from now and out on any new fan fiction I start to write on sailor moon. If you haven't seen Sailormoon (the anime) unedited in it's original Japanese with english subtitles I urge you to do so! After I watched all the episodes of Sailormoon (yes all 200 plus movies) that way I lost all love of the english version. The voice acting sucks (especially in S and SuperS) and the fact they made Haruka (Amara or Uranus) and Michiru (Michelle or Neptune) cousins creeps me out.
For any of you worried about my past stories, do not fear. I will not change the names to japanese. This is only on newer stories. Though I once again urge you to watch the anime in Japanese.
The Crystal's Destiny
Chapter 1
Not Normal
Where ever light touches a shadow is cast.
It was raining, no it was storming. The cascading raindrops hurring to the ground as if they needed to be there. It almost stung her skin as she kneeled there, hunched over, her eyes watching the dark figure in the alleyway drawing nearer to the group of teen girls who seemed to be looking for trouble. The woman could hear bits and peaces of their conversation with the older man in the middle of the group. She didn't have to actually hear what was being said to understand what was going down. The teenagers, whom some of them looked nervous, where trying to buy some illegal substance from the man. The woman hunched over watching them could tell that some of the girls where new to this by the way they kept moving around and glancing in every direction afraid of being caught.
They where gonna be caught alright...
...but not by Serenity's police.
She was going to have to use it again. It hurt everytime she did but her training in anything else couldn't stop the shadow feeding off their trouble. If those girls knew what was only a few yards away from them...Shaking her head she stood up slowly, getting ready to attack. If she could do this without alarming the teens and man, the woman smirked, she'd treat herself to a night on the town, away from this. Closing her eyes she began to search for IT. Forcing IT to the surface feeling the familiar wave of nausa and light surround her. As quickly as she had triggered it the light faded only leaving her and her transformation.
Taking off she landed soundlessly behind the shadow, deeper into the alleyway then she really wanted to be. In transformation she had found she could move almost angelicly, quietly, and gracefully. It was inhuman and she knew it. In her hand formed an odd crystal stick that began to stretch out as she willed it to the length she needed. With quick movements she forced the shadow creature away from the girls and farther in the alleyway, pinning it to a wall as it hissed in her ear. Glancing over toward the girls she saw no one looking toward her, no one freaking from a sound. Smirking she turned quickly letting the creature go for a second then smashing the rod in the back area that she'd consider it's "head" knocking it back on the ground soundlessly but with quick inhuman reflexes it was back up, surrounding her arm...trying to feed off her.
"...shit..." She hissed quietly moving her arms around trying to remove her arm from the dark..the blackness that was the shadow demon. Swinging her other hand around she tossed the rod to it, impailing the shadow, twisting the rod causing the black to wriggle and squrm as if it where in some sorta pain but the woman figured it didn't feel pain..only energy and the lack of. After a few more seconds of it the shadow seemed to disappear, as if it where fog that was retreating from a warm morning. Then and only then did the woman know it had been defeated.
Slowly letting her guard down she looked over at the group, still talking as if nothing had happened only a few yards from them. She wanted to laugh but knew if she did that the drug dealer would attack her.
A wave of nausa almost overcame her senses, causing a hand to fly up to the side of her head. She had a hard time staying in this transformation for very long. Quickly once she regained her barings the woman jumped back up on her post and then away from there.
Landing on a balcony she released the trigger causing her transformation to disappear, leaving only her zapped energy and nausa in it's place. There just had to be a better way of fighting those creatures.
Though her mind didn't linger there long as she thought about the promise she had made herself: A night on the town.
Shaking her head, causing her wavey red locks to fling about her she looked at the time and the door.
A night of dancing was in order.
Chapter One
"I guess princess Serenity is having a ball in a month," A co-worker gossiping about the palace was heard as she sat down in the office break room. "It's her and the Queens birthday then. I guess all the royalty are going to be coming into Tokyo again."
Such idle gossip really didn't make the woman jump and cheer. To her the royal families where just lazy asses hogging up all the power. If they where here to protect Tokyo, like stories of yor, then why the hell where they not destroying those shadow demons! It pissed her off.
Frowning she stood up and walked away from the table without as much as a word spoken to the chatters who just continued on in their conversation like she had never been there to begin with.
The womans name was Sorano Tsukino. She had been living in Crystal Tokyo for about 30 or so years. Once she had lived in the United States, where mind you she had been born, but when she was 7 or so her parents moved them all to Japan and Crystal Tokyo since her father's company had moved him but right after the move and getting their official citizianship both her parents and little sister had been killed in a car accedent while she was at school.
Sure the adoption centers in Japan where the best in the world, some say that it was the Kings idea, but she didn't get adopted and ended up just leaving on her 18th birthday. That was fine for her, Sorano didn't want to deal with her past life anymore. There had been a great effort in her part to try and move on and the adoption center was the last of her obsticals to finally be free of it all.
Many of times Sorano had thought of moving back to America but everytime she thought of that her life would get a bit hectic and there would be no time for idle thoughts like that. Her job kept her busy as a graphic designer. That was most of her hectic life since she didn't date nor party.
Well work and this odd power she found she had not to long ago was her hectic life. It was during an attack of one of those shadow demons upon herself that she triggered it. THATs why she's so pissed at the royals. If they had actually been doing their jobs she wouldn't have this problem and could have a life but who was she to complain. If she really didn't like them she could move to the United States again and be free of at least their faces for a while.
Yawning she found herself back at her desk finishing up a 16 page layout for a manga magazine that had asked her to help out. Her boss and nearly shit himself when he had heard she had been asked to do it...well thats what she had heard around the office, that and the fact that her boss had been trying for YEARS to get that manga magazine to use their designers for layout purposes.
Well at least she had gotten a nice raise in the process. She figured he didn't want her to sell out and go directly to them to work, which she was still slightly tempted to do. Layouts came easy to her, especally the way the head art director wanted them to look. Sorano was pretty sure if she worked for the magazine she'd be paid at least two hundred or more yen then working here. Then again to get to the magazine's main office would require a lot of time and effort while the design agency's office was right down the street from her appartment...so she was a bit lazy.
Lazy when it came to work. When it came to those monsters she couldn't be lazy...not with those lazy royals sitting on their asses watching it all. Sorano was sure that at least one of the nine or so royals had some indication of the attacks but there was no word about it in the newspaper or on the tv or even on the web.
Was she doing THAT good of a job! Sorano killed one or two a day of those creatures and she was sure there where more of them and stronger ones too. It was just logical! Maybe she should give those royals a piece of her mind. A big giant piece of her mind that included her foot in their asses.
She slightly giggled thinking about herself kicking the queen and found it more amusing then she thought humanly possible. Ok so she wasn't a very happy person at all. She also found it hard to forgive people. That was just how she had to grow up.
...and now those royals where having a birthday ball..even with those mosters running around Crystal Tokyo, the supposed safest place in the world!
She'd much rather try and take a thug down in New York.
Reaching over she took a sip of her coffee saving her document quickly and leaning back taking a small break at her desk because of the gossip in the break room. Closing her eyes she leaned back just letting herself calm down from her emotions.
At least in this freakish city she could be 37 and not look a day over 21. That was probably the only reason why she had stayed in Crystal Tokyo after she had turned 18. So she was a little vaine. Very little compared to the senshi of love who was always making up some new make-up product or modeling in nearly nothing. So the venus chick was nearly a goddess...it didn't mean Sorano wanted to see her breasts plastered all over her vision. This week that damn woman was trying to sell some sorta purfume that supposetly was gonna help you find your soul mate.
..soul mate...yeah right...
If everyone had a soul mate then why the hell did all the senshi minus the queen and king have no husbands! Where they all just lesbians?
A frown came upon Sorano's features thinking about it bitterly. She wasn't racist mind you, they all could be lesbians and she really didn't give a damn. It's just the irony of it all. The court of Serenity and the queen and king themselves had been living longer then anyone of the citizans of Crystal Tokyo and yet Sorano had never seen a picture of any of them with a male counterpart that seemed to be sticking around. They had the best chance of anyone of finding their "soul mate" compared to the rest of Tokyo and yet no one seemed to have one!
Wiether or not Sorano liked the senshi and the royals they where always being talked about, always in the papers, always on the news, always on billboards. She couldn't get away from them. Maybe that's why she was always thinking bitterly about them. Cuz they where always taunting her.
Taking a deep breath she leaned toward her computer again deciding to try and forget about it and finish work. Then she could go home and rest a bit before she'd be alerted somehow that another demon was walking about.
All in a days work.
Yawning Sorano was walking down the street trying to get to her appartment in the overcrowded street that was infront of her work and appartment building. With a coffee in one hand and her computer bag in the other she tried to stear clear of the people not wanting to drop either. Glancing toward a store front she noticed some woman trying to sell that new perfume and frowned once again thinking about the senshi again. Sorano just wanted to scream. Where they THAT important anyway! She was the one defeating the monsters!
As she chewed at those thoughts angerly Sorano found herself in front of the store, in front of that woman, and in front of that purfume.
The woman smiled quickly stating that it smelt great and would help her find her soul mate, so claiming the senshi of love.
Backing away Sorano waved her hands lightly trying not to spill her coffee or drop her bag telling the woman she didn't want to try any of it. Nothing that came from the palace interested her in the slightest. That's when someone hit her from behind, probably just rushing through the crowd, causing her to fall forward into the saleswoman and the bottle of perfume!
Both of them fell to the ground in a big hep, causing Sorano to spill her coffee and the saleswoman to drop the perfume...
...all over the front blouse of Sorano!
Very pissed of Sorano stood up trying to brush off the stench of "love" from herself but finding it futle. Turning around, ignoring the appoligies from the salewoman, she was about to storm off when she bumped into someone, almost crushing her nose into their chest!
Frowning she looked about about to give the person a piece of her mind but was caught off guard by a set of violet eyes staring back down at her. Blinking Sorano found herself without words and on top of that for some odd reason nervous!
"..Are you ok?" The man asked, pinning his nose due to the stench of the perfume.
"..y..yeah..." She stammered out not thinking.
"Good." Was all he said then leaving her there, heading passed her into the crowd dumbstruck at what had exactly happened.
Blinking a few more times she finaly realized what exactly had happened and turned bright red, quickly rushing home, not caring if she ran through the crowd now..most of them gave her room anyway due to the fact she smelt horrid.
All that was on her mind though was how stupid she felt. Like some school girl who bumped into some hot school hunk. She wasn't 16 anymore! She didn't want to deal with those situations. There had never been any situations to really deal with before though. Maybe that's why she sucked at the thing called love.
A few hours later (and much scrubbing plus she had to throw away that blouse) she sat on another fire excape looking down into the shadows that was an alleyway. The woman really wanted to have some sorta life other then work and fighting evil but as things set, without the help of the senshi, she had no time for anything else, much less that man that she had bumped into...him and his violet eyes just kept haunting her mind.
Shaking her head she began to trigger her transformation. There was another shadow demon down there and only herself to kill it. At least she had this to take her frustrations out.
Once her transformation was complete and the dizzienss/nausa passed she dove down there, this time there was no humans around so she could be as noisey as she wanted. Sorano could kick the creatures ass for even trying to find a victim! For causing her nights to be shot and herself to do this odd transformation.
Someone had to pay and with the senshi not there, it mine as well be the shadow demon.
This time she willed a rose to appear and threw it not the creature after sending it flying with a few good kicks. Those creatures never where much trouble to her, not in her angrey state as she was in. The creature hissed and died once the crystalized roses flew through and landed in the wall behind it, sticking as if it where made of clay. Walking over to the wall she touched the crysal roses and they seemed to melt into her fingers which also gave off a shimmer of crystal.
That's when her mind sensed another demon coming for her. It had been waiting in ambush. Sorano didn't have the time to turn around, much less call up another rose!
Feeling it's darkness wrap around her chest she tried to let a scream or shout out somehow but found her voice had no energy. Her eyes where drupping and she didn't seem to beable to stand anymore. This is what the shadow demons had power of. They where almost like vampires in that sense.
Trying to struggle she found her vision growing blurry and was about to give up hope when she felt the creature pull away from her, dropping her on the ground, her transformation already faded (when the shadow demon had surround her she had lost control of it) leaving her weak and also nausious. Her head turned toward the entrence of the alleyway Sorano was sure she saw a man's figure but as weak as she was, that's all she could make out. Her lack of energy overcame her and she passed out.
A blue kingdom with Earth stood before her.
A blaze of fire fed off of it.
Then a feeling of shatters and pain surrounded her standing there in the water.
That's when light began to surround her; red, orange, green, deep green, deep blue, baby blue, crimson red, violet, and white.
She was death and yet she was life...
Jumping up, causing sheets and blankets around her to fly about. Blinking looking around the room Sorano realized she wasn't at her appartment. Actually the way the walls and the ceiling where and the mats on the floor she thought she was some temple. How the hell did she get here! Not only that was running through her mind, she wondered what the hell that dream was about!
Hearing a quiet patter of a pair of feet near the door across from her she looked up meeting a pair of violet eyes gazing down at her. It was the man she had run into in some temple garb, holding a tray of something in his hands.
"I see your awake." The man muttered, his voice of no emotion. It seemed almost icey cold. Sorano could swear that the room grew a few degrees colder when he had muttered. It made her want to shiver but this wasn't her place and she had no clue as to how she got to his house/temple.
"..yeah.." She muttered nervously dropping her eyes to the floor feeling those odd butterflies in her stomach again. Why the hell was she acting like a teenaged girl with this man!
She was so busy fighting with herself Sorano didn't notice the man kneel down beside her and pull a themometer from the tray and shove it in her mouth without much warning causing her to loose her thought process and turn her head toward the man again. He had tossed fine black hair that held a blue gleam in the light of the hallway. The man seemed really calm and collected, probably beause he was some temple priest or something.
A loud beep came from the thermometer and the man pulled it out looking at the tempature that it read.
"..What does it say?" She asked leaning toward the man who just shook it standing up.
"You're fine," He said leaving her in the room wondering what the hell was going on! This man seemed to frustrate her with the fact he didn't speak at all.
Removing the blankets from herself she continued to sit on the bed looking toward the door wondering what the hell he was doing now. Her eyes started to stray away from the door, looking in the room that she ws in. There wasn't much in the room, a closet, a small end table, and a few framed pictures on the wall.
Slowly Sorano stood up walking over toward a picture, still not leaving the room and looked at it. It was an older picture of six people and a baby. Must be some sorta family herlom, Sorano thought turning her head seeing a shadow in the doorway. It was the man again. His face still emotionless as he stared at her through the doorway without saying a word.
"..where did you find me?" Sorano finally got the courage to say looking at the man fully turned around toward him.
"In an alleyway," He stated taking a step in the room. "And you didn't have any identification on you. Did you have a purse or something?"
Sorano shook her head. She never went on those fights with identification just in case those mosters could read her ID and then attack her place of work or people she cared about but then again Sorano didn't have many friends and she could care less if her work got attacked. It just ment one free day off.
"..purses are a bother that time of night." Sorano said trying to make some sorta excuse why she wouldn't be walking around Crystal Tokyo without some identification. "I'm afraid of muggers anyway. If I'm not caring a purse then they have nothing visable to try and take."
He seemed to accept that as he turned his back toward her and waved his hand for her to follow him.
Walking behind him, he brought her to a gathering room. The place seemed really old, Sorano noted as she looked around the living quarters. It looked like something that came right out of the history books about before Crystal Tokyo and the big freeze before then. She noticed a small tea kettle and cups set on the table. That must have been what he was doing when he left her alone a few moments ago.
That's when Sorano started to grow nervous. She didn't consider herself very elegant when it came to such ceremonies and he seemed the picture of elegance. Just the way he moved even was very beautiful. Maybe that's why Sorano seemed to be tripping over herself when ever she saw him. Kneeling on the pillow across from him she watched him as he picked up the small little tea pot and poured tea in both the glasses. His face didn't change or waver as he did so.
"It's not polite to stare," He muttered causing the woman to loose her stance quickly looking away, blushing perfusly.
"I'm sorry..." Quickly she said bowing her head trying to apoligize. It was nerve racking being around this man! Ok so Sorano tended to be a bit anti-social but she had the ablitiy to funtion with other people pretty well!
That's when she heard something that threw her off completly..a light chuckle. Sorano turned her head to see the man sitting there laughing at her! He was laughing..at her! O god, could this get any worse! Sorano was inwordly freaking out due to this man and he was just laughing.
"..I'm sorry," He finally said after his light laughter had come to an end. "..your just really interesting to watch. I couldn't help myself."
The woman stopped freaking and blinked at him for a second. So he WAS human. That made her feel a whole lot better seeing some emotion on his features. She began to laugh at the whole situation. Normally she could keep her cool around people she didn't know but this was just totally wacked.
Her mind began to wander back to the alleyway as she sat there trying to drink her tea without making any sounds. She didn't need him laughing at her again.
...Sorano remembered the monster...and the energy..then the shadow of some man. Blinking she looked at the man across from her closely. Was he the one that appeared and saved her? There where stories of temple priests having some sorta power over evil spirits. If he was strong enough it would be a piece of cake to kill that creature. Maybe she could get some help in it, so she had some sorta life...not to mention grow closer to him.
...where did that thought come from!
That's when he began to chuckle again watching her.
"..Hino Ryu," The man had said setting his tea cup down.
"Huh?" Sorano blinked wondering what he was saying.
"..my name is Hino Ryu," He muttered dryly again.
"Ahhh! I'm Tsukino Sorano," Bowing her haid she said that.
"Tsukino?" The man known as Ryu said. Sorano nodded.
"Why? You know my grandparents or something?" She laughed.
"I don't think so, just the name sounds familiar, that's all," He said taking another sip of his tea. "..So how did you get in that alleyway? Do you remember?"
She was caught off guard by that question though she figured it probably would have came.
"I think it was muggers. I can't recall." She laughed nervously. "I was walking home from a club and the next thing I knew I was at your place." Now she really didn't want to be there, even though Hino-san was attractive. "How long have I been out?"
"..when I found you till now it's been about two hours." He said taking another sip.
"Ahh!" She said feeling the familiar monster vib. Why the hell couldn"t those monsters take a night off with everything. She was with a very handsome man enjoying herself. Shaking her head she just wanted to ignore it and continue to smile at him.
"...Is something wrong?" He asked breaking her thought process.
"..no..I just remembered...I've got something to do tonight," She lied standing up. "I'm really sorry for troubling you and thank you for helping me. Maybe I'll stop by tomorrow." Turning she rushed to the door grabbing her shoes and slipping them on.
Ryu stood up following her to the door confused as hell on why the woman was rushing out.
"Are you sure you know where your going?..At least let me call you a cab." But she was out the door before he could finish that. Somehow that woman seemed to make him loose his composure. He had noticed when she had bumped into him. Never had he asked anyone who bumpted into them if they where ok. Normally he glared at them and walked away.
Walking to the door Ryu sighed shaking his head and shutting the door once he didn't see her anymore.
Running down the alleyways toward the creature she triggered her transformation again, this time feeling the odd heart shaped wip appear in her hands. She really couldn't control her weapons all that much but she used what she was given throwing it toward the Shadow Demon who was attacking a couple.
The wip snapped through the creature causing it to die instantly. So she was good with this weapon, better then that cane and those blasted roses. Sometimes she'd transform and somehow she wouldn't have a weapon. Sorano didn't understand what she was suppose to do then. Her transformation in many ways was still a mystery to her.
Bending down she felt the pulse of the couple and picked one of them up. It was a trip to the hospital for them.
A lot of the time Sorano wished she was just a normal woman in a normal town with a normal life.
First of all welcome back to all the fans of the series! If your new then thanks for reading! There are a few things I want to clear up here (mainly the drastic differences between the two stories) since it is the first chapter of a rewrite. If you where a true fan to the first series I am sorry things have changed so drasticly but my intentions in the begining of the first story was to have this a bit darker. Somehow it lost it's darkness by the fifth chapter and became a bubbly new senshi story.
In the first story Sorano (named Shiera in the first one) was around 16. This story she is MUCH older as I have pointed out. She is 37 but doesn't look a day over 19. In the anime if I remember correctly when Serenity and Endymion took power their crystals (The Golden Crystal in the manga is Mamoru's crystal found in the SuperS books) caused all of Crystal Tokyo to have a much longer life span. Yes she is a very bitter woman now. Shiera was cold and shy but not as bitter in the other story.
I wanted this story darker then most of my stories, partly because I want to write a darker story, and partly because the main character is about because of death. For you readers of the original you understand that comment but the new readers I'm leaving that as it's worded not to give away what exactly Sorano is. As dark as I wanted it the crystal's destiny the way it had been written was to happy. To happy to fast.
Also more then likely I will not be having to much with the senshi's children (unlike before) because in the manga Chibi-Usa's court was to be the Amazon Quartete. At least the senshi's children not senshi themselves. There isn't much out there about the senshi's place in crystal tokyo and their supposed children's place. It's all assumed that since Chibi-usa will inherit the moon thrown so with the senshi's children and be her court. For some reason unknown to us because the all mighty N.T. decided not to explain there is nothing about the court senshi's children. And since i'm trying to be as close to the series as possible the only court chibi-usa will indeed have will be the amazon quartet (if indeed chibi-usa had senshi of the planets she would have brought them with her when she came back in the Stars arc of the manga with the quartet). It's to early to say if I'm gonna bring in any of the other senshi's children as main characters/side characters besides Rei's son. I don't want to many made up characters anyway. The way I see things is if you bog down the story of sailor moon with 15 original characters, all main characters more so then the originals, you loose the sailormoon feel to the story.
If you have any questions and comments please leave them in the reviews (or email me with the topic as "On I tend to not open emails from people who just have a topic of "Hi" or no topic at all if I don't know you). If you wish to flame please explain why in your flame. I'm always trying to improve.
And before I confuse you enough this is a mixture of the anime and manga (though it'll probably be more of the manga but there is one key thing in this story that is only from the anime, you'll see later on though).
Please review before you go and as always thanks for taking the time to read one of my stories!