Craft
Chapter 1
By Lady Ashke
This is my first Fanfic and so be gentle with me. There will be many chapters in this story. I'm a very slow writer though so you'll have to be patient.
'-----' Indicate thoughts.
Several of the characters here belong to Naoko Takeuchi creator of Sailor Moon, not to me.
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Tripping around the room Serena tried to desperately gather her stuff. It was the first
day in school in a new town (not that you can really call Tokyo a town), and she was
going to be late. Her hair was impeding the search by being in the way as usual,
Serena had long blond hair which she kept in two buns on either side of her head. But
somehow it still managed to get in the way
"Damn, damn, damn" She chanted to herself.
" You know if you had set the alarm last night you wouldn't have this problem"
said a superior sounding voice from the vicinity of the floor.
Serena saw red.
Very slowly she turned to her cat Luna, the one from whom the
offending voice had come. " Luna" she said very slowly " exactly whose fault is it that I
didn't set the alarm?" forgetting about being late for school Serena started ranting at
her cat." Tell me who was it that wouldn't leave me alone until I purified the house?,
For Goddess knows what reason considering I KNOW you can sense spirit's and evil
and neither were present." She paced back and forth in front of the shamefaced cat.
" Who made me sneak around the house so my parents wouldn't catch me doing it?
And another thing you are supposed to be a Guardian of a Witch not her pet cat."
At this last bit Luna blushed, thankful that because of the fur, blushing
didn't show on a cat. It was true she was supposed to be a Guardian. But both
Serena's mother and grandmother had been normal women and not witches so Luna
had been dormant for too many years. When Serena had shown her magical
powers Luna had finally awakened. 'but most of my powers are still asleep' she thought
to herself, and she was stuck in the body of a cat until her powers were completely
awakened.
Before Luna had the chance to try and salvage what little dignity she had left a voice
came from downstairs " Serena!! you're gonna be late for school if you
don't hurry up".
Forgetting about how she was still waiting for an answer from Luna, Serena quickly
gathered the rest of her stuff and bounced down the stairs. Grabbing a piece of toast
as her impromptu breakfast, she ran out the door after saying good bye to her family.
Running down the street Serena thought of her words to her cat or rather the word
Witch. Serena came from a huge family. Even though she was from one of the
weakest branches she had somehow been born a powerful witch. That wasn't all
though. Every generation in the Crafter family there was one girl that held immense
power, The Craft Witch. This generation the tittle had fallen to Serena Crafter. Not that
anyone else in the family knew of this. Luna had decided that until Serena could better
control and use her power it would be better if no one knew about her, that included her family not knowing of her powers.
If the Matriarch found out about her then she would be taken away from her current life and have to do whatever the Matriarch told her. There was also the fact that every Craft Witch before her for the last seven generations had died before she reached her sixteenth birthday, Serena's sixteenth birthday was in six month's. Even if she didn't want to she was still the Craft Witch and there was nothing she could do about it.
It was fun being a witch. There was so much that ordinary people missed about the
world, all because they could not see. Serena smiled still running. She was no longer
mad at Luna. Luna after all did try her best it was just that she sometimes got on
Serena's nerve especially when she would recite the Rede. So what if the she wasn't
supposed to used her magic selfishly, which I don't Serena reminded herself, it was
just that Luna thought she used it frivolously, which she also didn't do.
She finally made it to her new school. Smiling she stood in front of the school plaque, CROSSROADS JUNIOR HIGH, at that moment the late bell ran.
" Goddess I'm so LATE!!" Serena screamed and quickly ran inside.
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Darien Shields was bored. A young man in his early twenties with black hair and silvery blue eyes. He was tall and athletic looking, although most girls would translate this comment as meaning that he had broad shoulders and a cute tush. A college student studying Botany, at that very moment there was nothing for him to do. His best buddies, which consisted of Keith Summers, Zachary Bedos-Reznak, Jared SaDiablo and Jared's cousin Nathan Yasleni were busy elsewhere and he simply could not think of anything to get rid of his boredom.
He had come to the rose garden, his favorite place in the world, thinking that maybe the beauty of nature would calm him. But for the first time ever the sight of roses had failed to soothe him.
Idly he began to wonder if he would ever fall in love. To one day meet a perfect girl, look into her eyes and know that she was the one the person he was destined to be with. And he would no longer be a……
'Whoa there, what am I thinking I have more than enough time to find a girl. What's wrong with me, it's not like I don't have any girls interested in me. God knows they swarm me like locust.'
'True' he replied to himself 'but none of them is the one.'
'The one what?'
'The one who can make you happy you dolt!'
'Who are you calling a dolt?'
'I'm calling myself a dolt, dolt!!!'
This last comment snapped Darien out of his melancholy, realizing that the voice in his head was right and he had been talking to himself. " Great, just great, now I'm talking to myself".
'Not really I'm your conscience. '
'What!'
'I'm your conscience just here to tell you that you are sub-consciously ready for marriage.'
'WHAT!!'
'Or is it that you're ready to fall in love?'
'Who are you? You can't possibly be my conscience!'
" Well it was worth a try and see how you would react"
The last statement did not come from his head but from the ground. Darien was quite startled and quickly looking down saw a small white cat with a strange crescent shaped bald spot. To Darien's trained eye the cat was clearly magical, he also realized that it had been the cat in his head and that no he was not really going crazy. Meanwhile the cat continued it's amused soliloquy.
"I can't believe you actually fell for the whole I'm-your-conscience-here-to-tell-you-to-get- married-already, Goddess I haven't used that one in a while. But I'm glad to see it still works." The white cat chuckled to itself some more and then looked at the source of his amusement, and soon to be reluctant companion.
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Amy Mizuno hated being late to school.
Chapter 1
By Lady Ashke
This is my first Fanfic and so be gentle with me. There will be many chapters in this story. I'm a very slow writer though so you'll have to be patient.
'-----' Indicate thoughts.
Several of the characters here belong to Naoko Takeuchi creator of Sailor Moon, not to me.
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Tripping around the room Serena tried to desperately gather her stuff. It was the first
day in school in a new town (not that you can really call Tokyo a town), and she was
going to be late. Her hair was impeding the search by being in the way as usual,
Serena had long blond hair which she kept in two buns on either side of her head. But
somehow it still managed to get in the way
"Damn, damn, damn" She chanted to herself.
" You know if you had set the alarm last night you wouldn't have this problem"
said a superior sounding voice from the vicinity of the floor.
Serena saw red.
Very slowly she turned to her cat Luna, the one from whom the
offending voice had come. " Luna" she said very slowly " exactly whose fault is it that I
didn't set the alarm?" forgetting about being late for school Serena started ranting at
her cat." Tell me who was it that wouldn't leave me alone until I purified the house?,
For Goddess knows what reason considering I KNOW you can sense spirit's and evil
and neither were present." She paced back and forth in front of the shamefaced cat.
" Who made me sneak around the house so my parents wouldn't catch me doing it?
And another thing you are supposed to be a Guardian of a Witch not her pet cat."
At this last bit Luna blushed, thankful that because of the fur, blushing
didn't show on a cat. It was true she was supposed to be a Guardian. But both
Serena's mother and grandmother had been normal women and not witches so Luna
had been dormant for too many years. When Serena had shown her magical
powers Luna had finally awakened. 'but most of my powers are still asleep' she thought
to herself, and she was stuck in the body of a cat until her powers were completely
awakened.
Before Luna had the chance to try and salvage what little dignity she had left a voice
came from downstairs " Serena!! you're gonna be late for school if you
don't hurry up".
Forgetting about how she was still waiting for an answer from Luna, Serena quickly
gathered the rest of her stuff and bounced down the stairs. Grabbing a piece of toast
as her impromptu breakfast, she ran out the door after saying good bye to her family.
Running down the street Serena thought of her words to her cat or rather the word
Witch. Serena came from a huge family. Even though she was from one of the
weakest branches she had somehow been born a powerful witch. That wasn't all
though. Every generation in the Crafter family there was one girl that held immense
power, The Craft Witch. This generation the tittle had fallen to Serena Crafter. Not that
anyone else in the family knew of this. Luna had decided that until Serena could better
control and use her power it would be better if no one knew about her, that included her family not knowing of her powers.
If the Matriarch found out about her then she would be taken away from her current life and have to do whatever the Matriarch told her. There was also the fact that every Craft Witch before her for the last seven generations had died before she reached her sixteenth birthday, Serena's sixteenth birthday was in six month's. Even if she didn't want to she was still the Craft Witch and there was nothing she could do about it.
It was fun being a witch. There was so much that ordinary people missed about the
world, all because they could not see. Serena smiled still running. She was no longer
mad at Luna. Luna after all did try her best it was just that she sometimes got on
Serena's nerve especially when she would recite the Rede. So what if the she wasn't
supposed to used her magic selfishly, which I don't Serena reminded herself, it was
just that Luna thought she used it frivolously, which she also didn't do.
She finally made it to her new school. Smiling she stood in front of the school plaque, CROSSROADS JUNIOR HIGH, at that moment the late bell ran.
" Goddess I'm so LATE!!" Serena screamed and quickly ran inside.
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Darien Shields was bored. A young man in his early twenties with black hair and silvery blue eyes. He was tall and athletic looking, although most girls would translate this comment as meaning that he had broad shoulders and a cute tush. A college student studying Botany, at that very moment there was nothing for him to do. His best buddies, which consisted of Keith Summers, Zachary Bedos-Reznak, Jared SaDiablo and Jared's cousin Nathan Yasleni were busy elsewhere and he simply could not think of anything to get rid of his boredom.
He had come to the rose garden, his favorite place in the world, thinking that maybe the beauty of nature would calm him. But for the first time ever the sight of roses had failed to soothe him.
Idly he began to wonder if he would ever fall in love. To one day meet a perfect girl, look into her eyes and know that she was the one the person he was destined to be with. And he would no longer be a……
'Whoa there, what am I thinking I have more than enough time to find a girl. What's wrong with me, it's not like I don't have any girls interested in me. God knows they swarm me like locust.'
'True' he replied to himself 'but none of them is the one.'
'The one what?'
'The one who can make you happy you dolt!'
'Who are you calling a dolt?'
'I'm calling myself a dolt, dolt!!!'
This last comment snapped Darien out of his melancholy, realizing that the voice in his head was right and he had been talking to himself. " Great, just great, now I'm talking to myself".
'Not really I'm your conscience. '
'What!'
'I'm your conscience just here to tell you that you are sub-consciously ready for marriage.'
'WHAT!!'
'Or is it that you're ready to fall in love?'
'Who are you? You can't possibly be my conscience!'
" Well it was worth a try and see how you would react"
The last statement did not come from his head but from the ground. Darien was quite startled and quickly looking down saw a small white cat with a strange crescent shaped bald spot. To Darien's trained eye the cat was clearly magical, he also realized that it had been the cat in his head and that no he was not really going crazy. Meanwhile the cat continued it's amused soliloquy.
"I can't believe you actually fell for the whole I'm-your-conscience-here-to-tell-you-to-get- married-already, Goddess I haven't used that one in a while. But I'm glad to see it still works." The white cat chuckled to itself some more and then looked at the source of his amusement, and soon to be reluctant companion.
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Amy Mizuno hated being late to school.