--PLEASE READ THIS--
This story is a SERIES. That means there
are more chapters that come before this one.
You can start with these chapters, but I will
promise you will be confused.
The series in order goes as follows;
Don't Let Me Go: Broken Promises
Don't Let Me Go: Insanity
Don't Let Me Go: Roses
Don't Let Me Go: Apparition
Don't Let Me Go: Debauchery
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
I hope this doesn't make everyone
go screaming and not read my fic ::sniff::
I promise the first couple of Main titles
are not that long ^^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
Chapter: 1
By: Bethany and Patch
Rated: PG 13
Editor: Meara
Send your commetns, suggestions,
etc. to us at Patchkhan1@hotmail.com
and Bethany212@aol.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bright torches barely lit up the large,
hollow walk way. The eerie glow of orange flames
danced against the ceiling, and on the faces of
four frightened Senshi.
Sailor Saturn turned on her heel, glaive in
hand. "Who's there?" she demanded. Her eyes
narrowed and her mind repeated her attack's words
over and over in her head, ready to spill from her
mouth, should the need arise.
The response was an exhalation of breath and
a small giggle. "Hotaru-chan?" Slowly the figure
came into the light and all four Senshi gasped.
"Minako-chan?!" Sailor Moon rushed forward,
but was stopped by Mika's hand going out and pressing
softly, but firmly, against her shoulder.
"No Sailor Moon, it could be another clone,"
she whispered.
"She is not a clone." The new voice was soft,
but with a quiet authority that sounded as if she
had once known great respect. Again, out of the shadows,
a figure emerged. She was tall, but not overwhelmingly
so - as the tall Senshi of Jupiter usually was. The
torch cast a glow over her, showing greenish highlights
with gray mixed in at her temples and streaked throughout
her mass of long hair. Soft hazel eyes, with wisdom buried
in their depths, found and locked with Mika's. "This is
the true Leader of the Royal Court of Princess Serenity,
Princess Venus."
Minako instantly straightened as her full title was
spoken. A pride that was hers long ago making her stand
taller and prouder. Sailor Moon broke away from Mika's
grip and rushed over - hugging Minako tightly.
Michiru gave a small smile before turning back to
the old woman. She blinked once, her eyes growing larger.
"Where did she go? Who was she?"
Minako hugged Usagi back tightly before regaining
her composure. "That was Koboe. She helped me regain my
energy and come to help you."
"But why?" Mika questioned, doubts floating through
her mind as she too searched the hall for the woman who
had disappeared.
"We have to find the others, I'll explain on the
way," Minako went over to help Mika carry Uranus. As
the five started, once more down the hall, Minako explained
how the Mother of Time fit in with everything that had
happened over the last couple of years.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The God Chronos walked into the dark room, his
eyes holding a light of insane eagerness that bordered
on a line somewhere near bloodlust. His remaining victim
remained chained to the wall, head hanging limply.
Everyone else had been used, the clones had been made
and everything was working according to plan. Now this
man was the only one left.
"Ah, the famous Earth Prince, know to so many to
be so strong and so bold, hanging like a weakling on my
walls!" He let out a harsh laugh at the irony of it. He
would soon achieve his goal... it was so close.
He slapped Mamoru across the face a few times.
"Open your eyes Earth Prince, I want you to be wide
awake for this."
Mamoru slowly opened his eyes and groaned, feeling
completely disoriented. He lifted his head slightly,
groaning again at the sharp pain in his neck. His eyes
focused on the figure in front of him and he inhaled
sharply as his vision cleared.
"You!" he whispered harshly. "I know you from
somewhere. Who are you? What do you want?"
"Ah, Earth Prince, don't you know that curiosity
killed the cat? Be patient and you will get your
answers in due time." He smiled, enraging Mamoru.
"Bastard! What have you done with the others?"
"They are in good hands. You will join them soon
Earth Prince," he hesitated for a moment and his smile
turned almost feral. "Actually we can begin right now."
"Nani? What are you going to do?"
"You'll see Earth Prince." Chronos stretched out
his hand towards Mamoru's head, his eyes gleaming.
Mamoru tried to avoid Chronos' hand, turning his
head back and forth. But it was to no avail. He felt
his hand touch the skin of his forehead and in the next
instant, felt an incredible rush of energy surge through
him.
The intensity of it became so great, it turned
painful and Mamoru closed his eyes and gritted his
teeth against screaming out loud. He heard Chronos'
laughter, a mocking sound that he tried to block out.
The pressure became too intense and as hard as
Mamoru tried he could not stop the hoarse cry that
tore from his throat.
~~~~~~~~
Usagi suddenly felt a sharp pain at the back
of her head and fell to her knees. She grabbed her
head and hunched over, stopping the scream that
threatened to erupt from her.
"Sailor Moon!" The Senshi surrounded her, fear
written on their faces. They could not lose their
leader... their savior. Not now, not ever.
"Usagi-chan, are you okay? Say something!"
Mika urged, kneeling next to her.
Usagi could not say anything for a few moments.
It was as though her brain had been frozen as
tumultuous emotions rocked within her.
"Mamo-chan," she whispered, tears escaping her
eyes. "He's in pain, I can feel him and I can't help
him!" she cried. She now knew what he felt whenever
she transformed or got injured in a fight. But Kami,
this felt so much worse!
"Usagi-chan, don't give up hope," Minako began,
putting an arm around her. "We now know that we have
an ally, she helped me and I know she'll protect
Mamoru-san."
~~~~~~~~
Chronos was enjoying this show of pain and torture
but something else struck him as wrong. He knew something
was missing, he should have had it by now... what was going
on?
"Where is your Golden Crystal, Earth Prince?" he
hissed.
Through the haze of pain, Mamoru heard Chronos'
voice but refused to acknowledge. The fool didn't
deserve even that. Instead he concentrated on his and
Usagi's link. He was awake now and he used his entire
being to focus in on Usagi so that maybe there would be
a chance in her finding him.
"Damn you, where is the Golden Crystal?!" Panic
laced Chronos' voice. This weakling had to have the
Crystal. If it were destroyed then the Prince wouldn't
be alive. "No! I must have the Crystal! What have you
done with it, boy?" Chronos increased the energy flow
and Mamoru was forced to cry out again as the shock
took hold of him.
Finally Chronos snatched his hand away and took
a step back, fury emanating from him. "It is not possible!
You must have the Crystal. No one could have taken it...
no one!" He thrust out his hands and would have ended the
Prince's life right there until a thought occurred to him.
Of course... he knew who had taken it. The anger
within him curled up again at the thought of the person
who had snatched his goal just when it was in reach. A
snarl left his throat and he whirled around, walking out
of the room and completely forgetting Mamoru. His thoughts
were now on this person, the one whose life he'd make
miserable. He would make her pay.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Black and empty. Those were the eyes that stared
at the clones of Jupiter, Mars and Mercury. Slowly the
Senshi of Pluto, brainwashed by her father, walked back
and forth in front of her audience.
"They are here and we must find and destroy them.
I want Sailor Moon alive. We must have the Silver Crystal
that she holds to finish our mission."
"Which is...?" Jupiter asked. She ran her hands
over the tight green body suit and made a face of disgust.
It was tight in one too many places and she wondered,
not for the first time, why they couldn't just wear the
fuku's that the Senshi did.
"To take over the universe you idoit!" Pluto
bellowed, her face angry.
A small, fat man came into the room. His face and
body was covered in open wounds and blood dripped from
his eyes and lips.m "Excuse me, I have news."
Pluto turned on her heel and glared at the sight
before her. "Richie, what do *you* want?"
"Twentyth Century Tokyo is almost ready and the
Senshi are in wing three. There are five of them."
"Five?" Pluto repeated, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"They must have help... but who?" She quickly dismissed the
thought with a wave of her hand and continued. "No matter,
they can be easily disposed of. Jupiter, Mars - take wing
three and capture the Senshi at once. Mercury, come with me.
We have to oversee the Earth side of this."
As the Senshi clones and Richie left the room, a
woman came from the shadows and removed the hood from
her head. "My daughter, what has he done to you?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Empty again." Hotaru again rested her glaive at her
side and closed the thick door. "How many rooms does this
place have?"
"It feels endless, ne?" Usagi commented. They moved
down to the next set of doors. Hotaru turned and opened it.
She looked back out with a delighted smile on her face.
"Hurry! I found Haruka!"
The five Senshi rushed in the room and quietly closed
the door behind them. Just beyond the door the hall way came
to an end. Around the corner two clones turned and started
down wing three. "Check every room, they must be here
somewhere," Mars said, opening doors.
Inside the room, Michiru ran to the wall where the
body of Haruka was bound up by her hands and feet. "Haruka,
Haruka wake up!" she whispered, using a hair pin to undo
the chains holding her up.
Mika helped Michiru lay Haruka's cold body on the floor
and Usagi and Minako brought the clone over to lay on top
of its origonal.
"Voices, we must hurry!" Hotaru advised from the door,
holding her glaive up. She bit on her bottom lip as the
energy clone rejoined Haruka's body. It was taking longer
than expected, or perhaps it was merely her imagination.
Hotaru smiled as she remembed Michiru once telling her
'A watched pot never boils'. Instictively, she removed her
eyes from Haruka's body and concentrated on the door she
was guarding.
~~
She looked over, one lap to go and someone was on
her bumper. No time to lose, she would have to floor it
and hope she made the curve.
With timed movements, Haruka pressed harder on the
gas petal and glanced in her rear view. "Dammit!" she
cursed. "How is he keeping up?"
Refusing to believe someone was a better driver
than herself, she moved closer to the bend and pressed
harder on the gas petal.
The sounds of cheering filled her head, she wanted
that medal so bad. She could taste blood in her mouth
where she bit her lip in concentration.
Finally the finish line was in sight. She glanced
once more in her mirror and blinked hard. "Where the hell
is he?!"
Suddenly the car swerved and she felt the jar of
impact as her car slid towards the wall. The opposite car
was against her passenger side, causing her to crash. Any
moment the car would burst into flames....
Any moment it would all be over. As the flames blew
up around her, the car passed over the finish line.
~~
"Haruka! Haruka, please! Wake up!" Michiru begged.
The energy clone had joined with her body, but still
nothing. Tears slipped down Michiru's face. "You can't
die!! YOU CAN'T!"
Sailor Moon stood just to the left, her face crumbled
up in disbelief. This wasn't supposed to happen! She felt
a sob deep in her throat. "No," she croaked. In response to
her heart ache, the crystal on her chest rose from it's
broach and a pure white light filled the room.
Across the room Hotaru put her weight against the
door and placed her glaive through the handles as Mars
and Jupiter beat on the opposite side. She wasn't sure
how long she could hold them off. She just hoped it was
long enough.
Mika, Michiru and Minako covered their eyes from
the blinding light. When if finally died down, there
was a small moan from Usagi's throat as she fell to the
floor - dressed in her Princess gown.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"... residents are advised to stay in doors until
the government can control the youma's destroying the
city. At this hour the Senshi are still missing, authorities
suspect that they may already be dea--"
Kenji flicked the television off and threw the control.
"That's bull, they are not... they are alive." His eyes looked
the room over. Ikuko sat on the couch, her eyes wide and
unblinking.
The silence almost became deafening. Just as Kenji
moved to reassure his wife, again, there was a small scratch
on the door. At first it was so faint that neither was sure
they actually heard it, until it came again.
Shingo left the bottom of the stairs, where he had
been sitting, and opened the door. Three felines came in;
one black, one white, and one calico.
"Luna, have you heard anything?" Ikuko asked immediately,
trying to ward off the weird feeling that came with speaking
to a cat and expecting it to answer you.
"Gomen nasai Tsukino-san, I have not," Luna replied
and padded into the living room. She jumped on the arm of
the couch and sat straight, her tail curving around her feet
regally. Artemis sat in the floor beneath her and directed
his attention to Kenji.
"Has the news had anything of interest to say?"
"No," Kenji sighed. "They say that they are... but
they aren't. I know they are alive."
"Two weeks," Ikuko cried, her tears returning once
more. "They have been gone so long."
The brown, black and white cat sat at Ikuko's feet
and purred reassuringly. "They have help. We were
contacted by someone who, I'm sure, is helping them. And
according to the data we recieved from the portal they
used, they are in a temporal nexus."
"Which means..?" Kenji waved his hand in front of
his face, indicating he knew nothing of their 'time portals'.
Luna picked up, noting Lynn probably had no idea
how to explain what she was trying to say. "There is a
place, where time stands still. That is all I can tell
you of that. As far as Usagi can tell, she has been
gone no more than a couple of hours, at the most. Although
to us, it has been weeks."
"Time stands still," Ikuko whispered. "There is so
much of our world we know nothing about. Man thought he
knew this world we live in so well, when actually - we
know next to nothing."
Luna and Artemis nodded in agreement.
The pounding of feet above them caused both humans
and feline to look heavenward. Kenji rose from his seat.
"I need to speak to Shingo."
"Are you hungry?" Ikuko also rose from her seat. "I
believe we may have some cat food in the kitchen."
"If you don't mind," Artemis replied, following her
into the kitchen. "I would like some fish and chips."
For the first time in two weeks, Luna and Lynn broke
a smile as they, too, headed for the kitchen.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-End Chapter 1.
Eek! Sorry there is only one chapter out this week minna-san,
I got really busy ^^;;
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we must bow down to Meara, the master of editing skills ^_~
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This story is a SERIES. That means there
are more chapters that come before this one.
You can start with these chapters, but I will
promise you will be confused.
The series in order goes as follows;
Don't Let Me Go: Broken Promises
Don't Let Me Go: Insanity
Don't Let Me Go: Roses
Don't Let Me Go: Apparition
Don't Let Me Go: Debauchery
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
I hope this doesn't make everyone
go screaming and not read my fic ::sniff::
I promise the first couple of Main titles
are not that long ^^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
Chapter: 1
By: Bethany and Patch
Rated: PG 13
Editor: Meara
Send your commetns, suggestions,
etc. to us at Patchkhan1@hotmail.com
and Bethany212@aol.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bright torches barely lit up the large,
hollow walk way. The eerie glow of orange flames
danced against the ceiling, and on the faces of
four frightened Senshi.
Sailor Saturn turned on her heel, glaive in
hand. "Who's there?" she demanded. Her eyes
narrowed and her mind repeated her attack's words
over and over in her head, ready to spill from her
mouth, should the need arise.
The response was an exhalation of breath and
a small giggle. "Hotaru-chan?" Slowly the figure
came into the light and all four Senshi gasped.
"Minako-chan?!" Sailor Moon rushed forward,
but was stopped by Mika's hand going out and pressing
softly, but firmly, against her shoulder.
"No Sailor Moon, it could be another clone,"
she whispered.
"She is not a clone." The new voice was soft,
but with a quiet authority that sounded as if she
had once known great respect. Again, out of the shadows,
a figure emerged. She was tall, but not overwhelmingly
so - as the tall Senshi of Jupiter usually was. The
torch cast a glow over her, showing greenish highlights
with gray mixed in at her temples and streaked throughout
her mass of long hair. Soft hazel eyes, with wisdom buried
in their depths, found and locked with Mika's. "This is
the true Leader of the Royal Court of Princess Serenity,
Princess Venus."
Minako instantly straightened as her full title was
spoken. A pride that was hers long ago making her stand
taller and prouder. Sailor Moon broke away from Mika's
grip and rushed over - hugging Minako tightly.
Michiru gave a small smile before turning back to
the old woman. She blinked once, her eyes growing larger.
"Where did she go? Who was she?"
Minako hugged Usagi back tightly before regaining
her composure. "That was Koboe. She helped me regain my
energy and come to help you."
"But why?" Mika questioned, doubts floating through
her mind as she too searched the hall for the woman who
had disappeared.
"We have to find the others, I'll explain on the
way," Minako went over to help Mika carry Uranus. As
the five started, once more down the hall, Minako explained
how the Mother of Time fit in with everything that had
happened over the last couple of years.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The God Chronos walked into the dark room, his
eyes holding a light of insane eagerness that bordered
on a line somewhere near bloodlust. His remaining victim
remained chained to the wall, head hanging limply.
Everyone else had been used, the clones had been made
and everything was working according to plan. Now this
man was the only one left.
"Ah, the famous Earth Prince, know to so many to
be so strong and so bold, hanging like a weakling on my
walls!" He let out a harsh laugh at the irony of it. He
would soon achieve his goal... it was so close.
He slapped Mamoru across the face a few times.
"Open your eyes Earth Prince, I want you to be wide
awake for this."
Mamoru slowly opened his eyes and groaned, feeling
completely disoriented. He lifted his head slightly,
groaning again at the sharp pain in his neck. His eyes
focused on the figure in front of him and he inhaled
sharply as his vision cleared.
"You!" he whispered harshly. "I know you from
somewhere. Who are you? What do you want?"
"Ah, Earth Prince, don't you know that curiosity
killed the cat? Be patient and you will get your
answers in due time." He smiled, enraging Mamoru.
"Bastard! What have you done with the others?"
"They are in good hands. You will join them soon
Earth Prince," he hesitated for a moment and his smile
turned almost feral. "Actually we can begin right now."
"Nani? What are you going to do?"
"You'll see Earth Prince." Chronos stretched out
his hand towards Mamoru's head, his eyes gleaming.
Mamoru tried to avoid Chronos' hand, turning his
head back and forth. But it was to no avail. He felt
his hand touch the skin of his forehead and in the next
instant, felt an incredible rush of energy surge through
him.
The intensity of it became so great, it turned
painful and Mamoru closed his eyes and gritted his
teeth against screaming out loud. He heard Chronos'
laughter, a mocking sound that he tried to block out.
The pressure became too intense and as hard as
Mamoru tried he could not stop the hoarse cry that
tore from his throat.
~~~~~~~~
Usagi suddenly felt a sharp pain at the back
of her head and fell to her knees. She grabbed her
head and hunched over, stopping the scream that
threatened to erupt from her.
"Sailor Moon!" The Senshi surrounded her, fear
written on their faces. They could not lose their
leader... their savior. Not now, not ever.
"Usagi-chan, are you okay? Say something!"
Mika urged, kneeling next to her.
Usagi could not say anything for a few moments.
It was as though her brain had been frozen as
tumultuous emotions rocked within her.
"Mamo-chan," she whispered, tears escaping her
eyes. "He's in pain, I can feel him and I can't help
him!" she cried. She now knew what he felt whenever
she transformed or got injured in a fight. But Kami,
this felt so much worse!
"Usagi-chan, don't give up hope," Minako began,
putting an arm around her. "We now know that we have
an ally, she helped me and I know she'll protect
Mamoru-san."
~~~~~~~~
Chronos was enjoying this show of pain and torture
but something else struck him as wrong. He knew something
was missing, he should have had it by now... what was going
on?
"Where is your Golden Crystal, Earth Prince?" he
hissed.
Through the haze of pain, Mamoru heard Chronos'
voice but refused to acknowledge. The fool didn't
deserve even that. Instead he concentrated on his and
Usagi's link. He was awake now and he used his entire
being to focus in on Usagi so that maybe there would be
a chance in her finding him.
"Damn you, where is the Golden Crystal?!" Panic
laced Chronos' voice. This weakling had to have the
Crystal. If it were destroyed then the Prince wouldn't
be alive. "No! I must have the Crystal! What have you
done with it, boy?" Chronos increased the energy flow
and Mamoru was forced to cry out again as the shock
took hold of him.
Finally Chronos snatched his hand away and took
a step back, fury emanating from him. "It is not possible!
You must have the Crystal. No one could have taken it...
no one!" He thrust out his hands and would have ended the
Prince's life right there until a thought occurred to him.
Of course... he knew who had taken it. The anger
within him curled up again at the thought of the person
who had snatched his goal just when it was in reach. A
snarl left his throat and he whirled around, walking out
of the room and completely forgetting Mamoru. His thoughts
were now on this person, the one whose life he'd make
miserable. He would make her pay.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Black and empty. Those were the eyes that stared
at the clones of Jupiter, Mars and Mercury. Slowly the
Senshi of Pluto, brainwashed by her father, walked back
and forth in front of her audience.
"They are here and we must find and destroy them.
I want Sailor Moon alive. We must have the Silver Crystal
that she holds to finish our mission."
"Which is...?" Jupiter asked. She ran her hands
over the tight green body suit and made a face of disgust.
It was tight in one too many places and she wondered,
not for the first time, why they couldn't just wear the
fuku's that the Senshi did.
"To take over the universe you idoit!" Pluto
bellowed, her face angry.
A small, fat man came into the room. His face and
body was covered in open wounds and blood dripped from
his eyes and lips.m "Excuse me, I have news."
Pluto turned on her heel and glared at the sight
before her. "Richie, what do *you* want?"
"Twentyth Century Tokyo is almost ready and the
Senshi are in wing three. There are five of them."
"Five?" Pluto repeated, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"They must have help... but who?" She quickly dismissed the
thought with a wave of her hand and continued. "No matter,
they can be easily disposed of. Jupiter, Mars - take wing
three and capture the Senshi at once. Mercury, come with me.
We have to oversee the Earth side of this."
As the Senshi clones and Richie left the room, a
woman came from the shadows and removed the hood from
her head. "My daughter, what has he done to you?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Empty again." Hotaru again rested her glaive at her
side and closed the thick door. "How many rooms does this
place have?"
"It feels endless, ne?" Usagi commented. They moved
down to the next set of doors. Hotaru turned and opened it.
She looked back out with a delighted smile on her face.
"Hurry! I found Haruka!"
The five Senshi rushed in the room and quietly closed
the door behind them. Just beyond the door the hall way came
to an end. Around the corner two clones turned and started
down wing three. "Check every room, they must be here
somewhere," Mars said, opening doors.
Inside the room, Michiru ran to the wall where the
body of Haruka was bound up by her hands and feet. "Haruka,
Haruka wake up!" she whispered, using a hair pin to undo
the chains holding her up.
Mika helped Michiru lay Haruka's cold body on the floor
and Usagi and Minako brought the clone over to lay on top
of its origonal.
"Voices, we must hurry!" Hotaru advised from the door,
holding her glaive up. She bit on her bottom lip as the
energy clone rejoined Haruka's body. It was taking longer
than expected, or perhaps it was merely her imagination.
Hotaru smiled as she remembed Michiru once telling her
'A watched pot never boils'. Instictively, she removed her
eyes from Haruka's body and concentrated on the door she
was guarding.
~~
She looked over, one lap to go and someone was on
her bumper. No time to lose, she would have to floor it
and hope she made the curve.
With timed movements, Haruka pressed harder on the
gas petal and glanced in her rear view. "Dammit!" she
cursed. "How is he keeping up?"
Refusing to believe someone was a better driver
than herself, she moved closer to the bend and pressed
harder on the gas petal.
The sounds of cheering filled her head, she wanted
that medal so bad. She could taste blood in her mouth
where she bit her lip in concentration.
Finally the finish line was in sight. She glanced
once more in her mirror and blinked hard. "Where the hell
is he?!"
Suddenly the car swerved and she felt the jar of
impact as her car slid towards the wall. The opposite car
was against her passenger side, causing her to crash. Any
moment the car would burst into flames....
Any moment it would all be over. As the flames blew
up around her, the car passed over the finish line.
~~
"Haruka! Haruka, please! Wake up!" Michiru begged.
The energy clone had joined with her body, but still
nothing. Tears slipped down Michiru's face. "You can't
die!! YOU CAN'T!"
Sailor Moon stood just to the left, her face crumbled
up in disbelief. This wasn't supposed to happen! She felt
a sob deep in her throat. "No," she croaked. In response to
her heart ache, the crystal on her chest rose from it's
broach and a pure white light filled the room.
Across the room Hotaru put her weight against the
door and placed her glaive through the handles as Mars
and Jupiter beat on the opposite side. She wasn't sure
how long she could hold them off. She just hoped it was
long enough.
Mika, Michiru and Minako covered their eyes from
the blinding light. When if finally died down, there
was a small moan from Usagi's throat as she fell to the
floor - dressed in her Princess gown.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"... residents are advised to stay in doors until
the government can control the youma's destroying the
city. At this hour the Senshi are still missing, authorities
suspect that they may already be dea--"
Kenji flicked the television off and threw the control.
"That's bull, they are not... they are alive." His eyes looked
the room over. Ikuko sat on the couch, her eyes wide and
unblinking.
The silence almost became deafening. Just as Kenji
moved to reassure his wife, again, there was a small scratch
on the door. At first it was so faint that neither was sure
they actually heard it, until it came again.
Shingo left the bottom of the stairs, where he had
been sitting, and opened the door. Three felines came in;
one black, one white, and one calico.
"Luna, have you heard anything?" Ikuko asked immediately,
trying to ward off the weird feeling that came with speaking
to a cat and expecting it to answer you.
"Gomen nasai Tsukino-san, I have not," Luna replied
and padded into the living room. She jumped on the arm of
the couch and sat straight, her tail curving around her feet
regally. Artemis sat in the floor beneath her and directed
his attention to Kenji.
"Has the news had anything of interest to say?"
"No," Kenji sighed. "They say that they are... but
they aren't. I know they are alive."
"Two weeks," Ikuko cried, her tears returning once
more. "They have been gone so long."
The brown, black and white cat sat at Ikuko's feet
and purred reassuringly. "They have help. We were
contacted by someone who, I'm sure, is helping them. And
according to the data we recieved from the portal they
used, they are in a temporal nexus."
"Which means..?" Kenji waved his hand in front of
his face, indicating he knew nothing of their 'time portals'.
Luna picked up, noting Lynn probably had no idea
how to explain what she was trying to say. "There is a
place, where time stands still. That is all I can tell
you of that. As far as Usagi can tell, she has been
gone no more than a couple of hours, at the most. Although
to us, it has been weeks."
"Time stands still," Ikuko whispered. "There is so
much of our world we know nothing about. Man thought he
knew this world we live in so well, when actually - we
know next to nothing."
Luna and Artemis nodded in agreement.
The pounding of feet above them caused both humans
and feline to look heavenward. Kenji rose from his seat.
"I need to speak to Shingo."
"Are you hungry?" Ikuko also rose from her seat. "I
believe we may have some cat food in the kitchen."
"If you don't mind," Artemis replied, following her
into the kitchen. "I would like some fish and chips."
For the first time in two weeks, Luna and Lynn broke
a smile as they, too, headed for the kitchen.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-End Chapter 1.
Eek! Sorry there is only one chapter out this week minna-san,
I got really busy ^^;;
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