DISCLAIMER: I do not own Sailor Moon or any characters related. It is all by Naoko Takeuchi.
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Chapter One
It was a beautiful, warm summers' afternoon in Crystal Tokyo. Neo-Queen Serenity and her husband, King Darien strolled with their young daughter, Rini, and behind them, the palace loomed magnificently. Members of Serenity's court entered the palace as they pleased; the next meeting was not until the next night. All was peaceful. Suddenly, dark, evil clouds engulfed the bright blue sky and it started to hail. Crystal Tokyo became a city of screams as everyone scrambled to find shelter. This was one of many sudden storms that appeared out of the blue. Rini screamed as a bolt of lightning struck near her tiny foot. Serenity gasped as a mysterious cloaked figure glided towards them, unaffected by the hailstorm. The figure stretched out its arms and its hands started to glow purple. Serenity gasped again as a powerful blast of purple energy surged towards her, Rini and Darien. She reached for the Imperial Silver Crystal, but it was too late. For a fleeting moment before she slipped away into darkness, Serenity thought she saw a familiar piece of metal upon the figure's forehead…
Serena Tsukino gasped as her alarm clock went off. What a strange dream, she thought. But she was catapulted out of her thoughts by her black talking cat and guardian, Luna.
"Serena!" Luna cried. "Wake up! You are going to be late again!" Luna's large red eyes were bright and alert as she heaved off Serena's bedcover.
"Alright Luna, I'm coming, I'm coming." Serena yawned and stretched. Stupid school. Why can't it start at a reasonable time, say, eleven? Mondays were the worst. She always stayed up way too late on a Sunday night watching her favourite TV show, Sailor V or on the phone to one of her friends. Serena was like most teenagers, except for one small thing, rather, one big thing. She was not only a fifteen year old year nine student, but she was also the crime-fighting, super heroine Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon's role was to fight crime and defence love, justice and peace and also to find the Moon Princess. Things took a turn for the best when she discovered that she was in fact the Moon Princess. Sailor Moon was the leader of a team called the Sailor Scouts. Then she remembered something that made her grin and poke a finger at Luna.
"But Luna, you're forgetting something. It's a public day off today, remember?"
"You were supposed to meet the girls at Rei's temple, remember?" Luna replied.
"What for?" Serena whined, yanking at the hair-ties in her long, blonde pigtails. "There haven't been any signs of bad guys for months."
"We're going there to discuss Scout business, now hurry up and get dressed. You have two minutes before I'm shoving you out the door." Luna said, her head held high. She left the room so that Serena could get changed.
Five minutes later, Serena was out the door in record time. She huffed and puffed as her and Luna raced to the bus stop. At the bus stop, Serena was happy to see that her friends were already there. Lita Jenkins turned her head and waved at Serena.
"Hey Lita!" Serena cried as she ran full speed towards her brown-haired friend. Like Serena, Lita was also a Sailor Scout. Lita became Sailor Jupiter, a shocking pro at electrical martial arts.
"Hey Serena, and about time too." Lita greeted Serena. Serena greeted her other friends, Ami Anderson and Mina Minako. They too were Sailor Scouts. Super-smart strategist Ami became Sailor Mercury, master of freezing ice attacks. Mina, a flirty and vivacious blonde, became the cool, love-defending Sailor Venus. Like Serena, Mina had a guardian too, the white cat, Artemis.
"Rei is waiting for us at the temple." Ami said with her delicate voice. "The next bus should be arriving any second…" as if on cue, the bus pulled up at the stop and the girls filed on.
At the temple, Rei Hino, aka the fiery Sailor Mars rushed up to Serena and the girls, obviously annoyed.
"What took you so long?" Rei fired at Serena, but Ami cut in before Serena had the chance to retaliate.
"Rei, please, it wasn't her fault. The bus was late. We were all late too." She insisted. Rei calmed down and nodded.
"So why are we here, anyway?" Mina asked.
"Central Control said there was a new enemy to look out for." Luna answered. "I'm not sure what exactly we're looking out for, but I do know that it could be anyone."
"Do you remember Anne and Alan?" Artemis asked. The girls nodded.
Anne and Alan were two villains who disguised themselves as humans. Serena understood what Artemis was trying to say. It could be anyone, even those you least expect.
Rei sighed. She dropped the broom that was in her hand and sat of one of the stone steps.
"Just when we thought things might turn around for us. I mean, we defeated those Nega-slimes from the future. We saved 30th Century Crystal Tokyo. What more can we possibly do?" Rei let out another exasperated sigh.
"I agree with Rei." Ami said, nodding. "But we need to find out as much as possible about our new enemy. Who is he? Where did he come from? Why is he here?" Ami continued, deep in thought. She whipped out her tiny personal computer and started typing away. "I'll start searching on my computer."
"That's a good idea, Ami." Luna said. "But don't narrow it down to just male enemies. There a plenty of horrible female ones out there too."
Serena shuddered as she remembered back to their fight with Queen Beryl.
"That's right." Mina said. "Is there anything else we need to discuss, because I should really get back to my…uh…homework." She tried suppressing a giggle but it didn't work. They all knew what she was really saying. She wanted to get back to perving on that really hot new guy at her school.
"No, there isn't. Serena, shouldn't you be getting back to your homework that's been piling up on your bed for the past two weeks?" Luna said, throwing Serena a knowing look.
"Oh, Luna! You know I'd much rather hang out with my friends…" Serena glanced at Rei, who started sweeping. She then glanced at Mina, Lita and Ami who all pretended they were busy. "Oh, you guys are so mean!" She stuck her tongue out at them and she and Luna left the temple.