By: stefani teee a.k.a. Koneko ^Å^

© Tale Spinners inc.

Koneko-chan says!

Anybody who reads any of this should know something first. I don't own Sailor Moon or Dragonball Z/GT or Escaflowne!! NO I DON'T! Shocking isn't it? I wrote the story, the plot's all mine... yada, yada, just exclude the characters from SM, DBZ, and E. Yes, I know that, Usagi's supposed to fall in love with Endymion, and Rei with Jedaite or Yuiichiru, Hitomi with Van... blah, blah, blah. But anyway, none of you better sue. I'm broke at the moment so all you'll get from me is a dime if you're lucky. So if you're smart don't bother.

Hopefully… it's good enough for your tastes. I HAVE touched it up a bit if any of you are returning to read this a second time. (Or third, or fourth, or hundredth! Not that I'm hinting… J) Yes, I know the other one's still up on ff.net so don't mention it. Compare the two for all I care, see how bad one or the other (or both) is.

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Restoring the Crystal

(Prologue)

Five female warriors dressed in sailor fukus, a medley of colors, stood in a straight line facing off against an ugly, drooling, *slimy* youma. Each girl represented a specific planet, all except the blonde leader in the middle. She represented no known planet. She represented the most important of all… to them at least. The moon. Sailor Moon and her senshi had arrived. She stood there for a minute, tall and regal. Then, "I am Sailor Moon, the champion of love and justice!" as she said this, she began making different poses, time stopping as she did so, freezing the youma in its tracks. She ended by saying, "And in the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" Obviously, despite her heroic efforts to look sophisticated when doing this, a backdrop of stars, moons, sparkles, and various discus-like satellites, not to mention a long speech in the middle of the park can look quite ridiculous, no matter what they show on TV. (K: Sure they know about the TV series! Who wouldn't when it's all about them?! Of course… they're not to happy with the showing of their personal (or lack thereof) lives.)

The other four then introduced themselves, also striking different poses as they yelled out their titles.

"I am Sailor Mercury!" yelled Ami. She had short glistening blue hair and her blue sailor fuku warned others that she was truly the Senshi of Ice.

"I am Sailor Mars!" yelled Rei. She had long raven-black hair with highlights of violet, her red sailor fuku pronouncing to the world, the Senshi of Flames.

"I am Sailor Jupiter!" yelled Makoto. She had semi-long hair that would have reached the small of her back had it not been tied up into a ponytail. Her green sailor fuku told of her power as the Senshi of Strength.

"I am Sailor Venus!" Minako, the fourth girl had her blond hair pulled back by a red ribbon, her orange-gold fuku radiated her strength as the Senshi of Love. They were the legendary Sailor warriors, the Inner Senshi.

The youma had been watching them call out and pose, powerless to interrupt until the last words faded into the cold night air. When they finished, it snorted, "My GOD I thought you girls would never stop TALKING! I came here for a fight… and if you're not going to give me one, I'll just go and destroy Tokyo to my heart's content." He was more than a youma. Hell, he could TALK. He could say more than his own NAME like most of them do… to the senshi anyway, it was different to actually understand a youma.

"METEORA!!" Then again…

Apparently his vocabulary was very limited… maybe to those few words. With that being said, the black youma charged at the girls, with lightning fast speed, surprising in the slow-looking youma. Claws tore at the senshi, ripping fukus, hacking strands of hair (that pissed them off as they surveyed the damage of their new split ends) letting them fall to their knees for a moment. And he watched them fumbling for safety pins to hold the fukus together while muttering, "Cheap Sailor fuku material…" to themselves while he buffed his black claws. Then he faced Sailor Moon who backed away a step, before bursting into loud wailing. "WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I don't wanna do this!!!!" she wailed clutching her wand, "I don't wanna be turned into a scratching post!!"

Sailor Jupiter hauled herself up, wincing at the wounds she'd received, her blood already staining the torn abdomen of the sailor fuku. "You're going to pay, you hear that? Supreme… Thunder!!!" The little lightning rod thingy appeared from her tiara and the obvious display of lightning[1] crackled and blasted itself towards the youma. The youma looked quite bored as seemed to grab the lightning ball and toss it into the sky. Later, scientists would wonder at the sight of a ball of lightning flying from the earth, impacting into the moon and creating a sizable crater. Jupiter barely had time to curse when Meteora walked up to her and quickly hog-tied and gagged the green-clad giant. (K: *Shrug* Hey, she is tall. And Jupiter fans, I don't hate her.)

"Let me try," Mars leapt up, "Burning Mandala!" An even stronger black one spat out by her adversary engulfed the enormous fireball. It hurtled straight towards her with hard impact. Mars crumpled to the ground, groaning from the burns on her body. (K: Ow… talk about having your own power turned against you…) She fell, lying very, very still.

"Let's double-team it, Mercury!" Venus told her. (K: She's smarter than she looks, all you people who think blondes are ditzes.) "Crescent…" began Venus. "Shabon…" also began Mercury. "Beam!"

"Spray!" they both shouted their final words, completing their attacks at the same moment, blue ice magic spiraled around the beam of pure love energy.

"METEORA!!!!!" growled the youma, his sharp, knife-like claws elongated, slicing right through their energy, the chain's links broke, smashed and disappeared, the blue ice magic destroyed, becoming shards that instantly melted, none touching the youma. With a flick of his wrist, his claws swiped a pathway through the air, the force of his blow carrying further than his actual hand, ripping the sailor fukus of the two senshi, and across the skin beneath. Blood appeared in horizontal lines and spilled down, dyeing their fukus an unnatural crimson. The fell back, their hands grasping their wounds, dyeing their white gloves the same shade. They struggled to stand but another blow from the immensely strong youma knocked them backwards, sending them flying into the trunks of two trees. They didn't move again.

"METEORA!!!!" the tone of the youma could be safely dubbed as mocking. The youma finally faced Sailor Moon, who had been running from one of her fallen comrades to another until Venus and Mercury fell. She turned, her eyes filled with tears. "HOW DARE YOU!" she shrieked, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO THEM?!" she yelled, bringing out her Spiral Moon Wand. "You'll pay for this," she spat, "my friends are all I have left! I CAN'T EVEN DEPEND OF LOVE NOW!!" she yelled, betraying her grief and taking a firm stance, she chanted the words that would begin her most powerful attack. "MOON HEALING ACTIVATION![2]" she channeled her energy at the youma. The youma looked on, unafraid. "METEORA!" holding up both hands, he let the pink energy hit him in a dead-on blow, he seemed to push and, it suddenly shot into the opposite direction, straight back at Sailor Moon, aiming for one thing.

She gasped as she felt her broach lift up, as if to shield her with its magic. But, as it did so, the full force of her energy… and the youma's slammed into the broach, destroying it completely… a bright light erupted… and the ginzoushou inside it… shattered into nothing but bits of dancing light. She knew then this was no youma from the Dark Kingdom, this youma wasn't even from Earth or anything close to it. It held power, and the obviousness of this should have struck her in the beginning. Seven flashes of light erupted from her mangled broach, shooting into the sky and becoming nothing but flickering stars for moments before vanishing into the night sky. The ginzoushou was gone, the Rainbow Crystals missing.

Time stopped suddenly, Sailor Moon found herself bathed in a warm red light as she and her fallen comrades were transported into a shimmery, cloudy floor. Usagi, had de-transformed without her broach. She instantly knew where she was, at the gates between dimensions, where Sailor Pluto guarded the Gates of Time. Her friends of the outer senshi would be so disappointed in her, after they'd trusted her as their queen.

Sailor Pluto appeared, pushing back her dark green hair away from her face, fixed her garnet eyes on the resurrected Lunarian Princess. In her hand, she held her lavender-colored key staff.

Usagi looked towards Sailor Pluto dazedly and asked, "What happened?" Pluto smiled calmly, although the situation was desperate, and replied. "The youma you were fighting was too strong. The Crystal shattered with the energy you were exerting combined with the youma's dark energy. You had no chance against it…" How like Pluto, always the blunt one.

"B-but what can I do? I can't fight it now! I don't have a clue of what to do Setsuna-san!" Usagi whimpered, her big blue eyes beginning to fill with tears and Pluto immediately continued talking to prevent a flood. Forcing an unconcerned smile she said, "In that dimension and time-frame you can't, but I can transport you to a time where you can and also where you can gain the Imperial Silver Crystal back in your own dimension. When you do get there, you will have to train hard as well, to raise the power level you have so you can beat that youma. But you must go alone… the others will follow soon enough when they are stronger. Are you brave enough to attempt this?"

Usagi, thinking of her friends suddenly looked determined. "After Mamo—ru-san left me… all I have left are my friends and my family. I can't let them live like this. I'll go." Pluto noted the despair in the face of the other girl's. "Be warned, you have gotten used to the immense power of the ginzoushou in this dimension. Don't forget that this ginzoushou is the one that still allows you to use any of your magic in the other dimension. Those fragments are the Rainbow Crystals but in that dimension, they will merge with something much like the Rainbow Crystals called the Dragon balls. Find these mystical objects and you will surely be able to retrieve your crystal… and a wish… who knows? Maybe, you're destined to make Mamoru-san fall in love with you again? Or maybe it'll be for someone else." Pluto swung her staff over the Gates of Time, opening it. Sailor Moon walked into the glowing light, and stepped into oblivion.

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Welllllllll… first chapter done. All of you have GOT to love me for fixing it. Come on, it was my first fanfic and I know it was lame… just be patient okay? I'll fix it all soon enough! Patience! Patience… (yeah right, screw patience, I don't care okay? You'll find this up as soon as I figure out how to replace this with the other one without erasing all my wonderful reviews!!! oceangirl168@hotmail.com okay? And yes, it is set in First Season with obvious changes with the relationship between the Inners and Outers.

[1]= Why in the world do they use thunder when what appears is lightning? How about 'Lightning… Crash!'? It works much better in my opinion… and it fits a bit more than the other…

[2]= I have completely forgotten whether or not this is what she says in Japanese. I myself only saw First Season in English dub, here in Canada.