Role Model
Disclaimer: I don't own the
Sailor Moon characters. Naoko Takeuchi does. But I do own the idea, as well as the
second generation of Scouts that I created, and this excludes Rini/Small
Lady/Serena because I didn't create her. ^_^ Got it?
Notes: This is set right
after the season where Helios shows up. I will use American names and spellings
because I don't know the others. And to further confuse you, I'm gonna call
Rini Serena from chapter 3 until the end. (O.o) If you can't keep up, I'll
switch it back.
Warnings: Character death. I'm not sure if there are any more, except for maybe language and some violence. Usual couples...including Amara and Michelle. And, of course, some Serena (Meatball head Serena, not cotton-candy head, as Rini is so lovingly referred to) bashing. ^_^ Oh, and I hope this doesn't come up but maybe some OOCness.
Chapter 1: Dream and Good-Bye
"Helios..." Someone was calling the young
keeper of dreams. The voice was so familiar...he had heard it only days
earlier...could it be Rini? "Helios..." Yes, it was her! He walked to where she lay, in a beautiful bed of silk
sheets and roses...still, like a porcelain doll. He reached down and hesitated
to touch her...what if she broke?
"Helios," she whispered happily. The
keeper of the golden crystal smiled. He was in her dreams. Not Pegasus, not an
illusion...him. He brushed a timid
finger across her flushed cheek and she smiled.
"Small Lady," he whispered, and leaned
closer to her.
"Helios," she repeated, not realizing that
he had answered. She was still asleep...
"Small Lady," Helios said again.
And then she realized, it was not him!
"Huh?!" She sat up straight in bed, scared
out of her wits. If it wasn't him calling her, then who was?
Uh-oh...she noticed the silhouette of a person from
the window. But it as still too dark to see whomever it was.
"Small lady," the person greeted her.
"I'm glad you're awake." Rini recognized that voice...but from where?
"Who..." she trailed off. And suddenly,
there was light. "Sailor Pluto?! What are you doing here?"
"Your mother and father want you home,"
Pluto explained. "They said that you're needed there."
"Needed there? Why?" the young princess
asked.
"They didn't tell me, but they said that it was
urgent, and that I'm to take you home tomorrow afternoon."
"Tomorrow afternoon?!" Rini repeated.
"But...but that's too soon! N-no way! Give me a few days."
"I'm sorry, Rini," Pluto apologized. Her
heart ached for the little girl...she had already been through so much in her
small lifetime... And then, she began to fade. "Tomorrow," she
reminded the young girl. "I will see you then."
Rini saw Pluto's disappearing act and gasped...not
tomorrow! It was too soon! "Pluto, wait!" she begged, a single tear
running down her cheek...and she knew that by the next day, more would be shed.
~*~
Rini didn't say a word to anyone as she left the
house that morning to go to school. And she hardly spoke to anyone there,
either. She was just trying to get through the day with as little heartache as
possible...this would not be easy. Why did her parents need her home...? Could
it really be that urgent?
Or dangerous?
She certainly hoped not...
"Rini!" She heard the call, but tried to
pay no attention to it. Everything would be easier if she just disappeared...
"Hey RINI! What's wrong?!" It was Serena. And then, Rini knew that
someone would be shedding tears...probably Serena. Definitely herself...
"Please
Serena, don't get the others involved..." she pleaded silently. But
it was no use, the girls were already steps behind the Sailor Scout of the
moon.
"Rini, why won't you wait for us?" That
was Raye...she could tell from the voice.
"Rini, please!" Serena. Rini stopped. It
only took a few moments for the Scouts to catch up with her.
"Finally," Serena panted. "I've been calling you for a while, ya
know. The least you could've done was answered!" But the reaction she got
was not the one she expected: the pink-haired girl looked at the ground, biting
her lip harshly.
"Rini, what's wrong?" Mina asked, concern
written all over her face.
"Yeah, what is it?" Lita agreed.
"Whatever it is, you can tell us," Serena
told her. "We're your friends." The did it. The tears rolled down her
cheeks.
"I-I'm so sorry," she choked. "But I
have to go home..." She looked up at the Scouts. "And I may never see
you again!" Then there was a flash of light, and Sailor Pluto was waiting
for Rini.
"Sailor Pluto!" they chorused.
"Hello, to all of you," the wise Scout
greeted. "Neo-Queen Serenity has sent me to retrieve the small princess.
She apologizes for the short notice, but says that it's urgent." And then
she turned to Rini. "Are you ready to go?" Rini nodded.
"Wait! Where's Diana?" she then objected.
"Right here!" came the small feline's
voice. She was running behind Luna and Artemis, who had come to see the
departure. Diana climbed into Rini's arms, and then onto her shoulder.
"Now, it's time to leave," Pluto said.
Rini looked sadly from Pluto to the rest of her friends and bit her lip...it
would be so hard not to cry... "Are you ready?"
"Yes...I'm ready," Rini whispered.
"Rini..." Serena trailed off.
"Bye, Serena...Raye, Lita, Mina, Amy...Luna,
Artemis...and tell Darien that I said good-bye," the small girl said as a
light engulfed her, Diana, and Sailor Pluto. And then, they were gone.
~*~
"Serenity." The voice startled the queen.
She turned and looked around...but there was no one there. Then, as suddenly as
the voice had been heard, Sailor Pluto appeared...with Rini.
"Rini! Oh, my little girl!" the queen
cried, forgetting her manners and running over to hug the daughter that she
hadn't seen in so long.
"Mother!" the young princess cried. Diana
jumped from her shoulder to go see her own parents. Then, remembering the
reason she had been brought there, she backed away from her mother and said,
"Sailor Pluto said that you needed me back here."
"Yes," said Neo-Queen Serenity.
"Why?"
"It's the Multiverse."
"But why did you need me?"
"You must take on the role of Sailor Moon to
help the Scouts...and to help train the girls," Serenity explained. She
was to become Sailor Moon...?
The girls...one thing that Rini had kept from Serena
and the others. It wasn't good for them to know about their children ahead of
time.
"Do they know that they're to become the next
Scouts?" Rini asked. Serenity nodded.
"Serenity!" The door to her chambers burst
open...Sailor Venus was standing there, out of breath and visibly hurt.
"Venus! What's going on?!"
"The Multiverse is attacking!" she
practically shouted. Serenity looked at her young daughter and nodded.
"Now?" Rini asked.
"Now."
"Okay...Moon...ummm....." Serenity laughed
and picked up a locket from her table and handed it to her daughter.
"I know that the one you used will no longer
work without Serena." She laughed...it was
a bit odd to say. "You may use this one...my mother gave it to me...long
ago. Just say 'moon crystal power'."
"Okay, mother..." And then she shouted,
"MOON CRYSTAL POWER!!"
And she was Sailor Moon.