Hi All - First off thank you for reading this story - this is the first section of a long
epic by my best friend Fate Chica and myself. This is in fact the first part of the first
book of seven which we are currently in progress on. I really hope you enjoy this! Some
people may have already read this from FateChica's fanfic penname, but we're now going to
continue to post under this name, so bear with us as we slowly update the current four
books and the new chapters of the fifth! Thanks for reading and hope you like our story!
~ Destiny Babe
*Sailor Moon is the property of Naoko Takeuchi - we, however, claim the story plot as ours.
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The Mystical Warriors, Part 1
***Change Is A Good Thing***
Serena, aka Sailor Moon, stood her ground against Prince Darien. Behind her were her were
the other scouts: Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Venus. "Give me
the Silver Crystal," Prince Darien roared, a fierce snarl on his face. He had his orders:
retrieve the Silver Crystal and kill the Sailor Scouts.
"If you think I'm going to give it to you, then you need help," Sailor Moon cried.
"Give it to me, or your friends will get it." Without warning, he launched black lightning
at the unsuspecting scouts, purposely avoiding Serena. He wanted to weaken her, blackmail
her into giving him the Silver Crystal. Serena's eyes filled with tears as she heard their
cries of pain before they slumped to the ground, unconscious. It hurt her that she couldn't
do anything to protect them. Maybe she was a bad warrior. She didn't deserve to have the
Silver Crystal. But, she would do anything to keep it from Darien at the moment, hurting
him if she had to, as much as she didn't want to. Torn between protecting her friends and
not hurting Darien, Serena clenched her eyes shut and brought her hand into a fist as she
thought of the chain of events that had led to this battle.
*Flashback*
"So," Serena said to her four friends: Raye, Lita, Ami, and Mina, "What do you want to do
today?" All 5 of them leaned their elbows on the tabletop of the picnic table they were
sitting at in the park. Lita sighed, "I really don't know."
"Me neither," said Mina.
"Ditto," chimed Raye and Ami. They all participated in a collective sigh and slumped
farther into their seats. It was a dull, dreary Saturday afternoon. They had no homework
and didn't have anything to study for. Even Ami said that she didn't have to study for
anything at the moment. There were no good movies to see, no new video games at the arcade,
and they had visited all of the shops in the mall at least a dozen times. They would give
anything to have something to do. All of the sudden, they heard screams coming from the
other end of the park and the Sailor Scouts immediately wished for the boredom back. It was
better than fighting, but, they knew they had to stop the evil. They all looked at each
other and rushed over to the place of the screams. There is only one thing that could
produce screams like that, they thought, the Negaverse.
When they arrived at the place where the screams originated, they saw a youma that resembled
an octopus, a person entangled in each of its legs, with the head of a human instead of the
head of an octopus. When they looked above and to the right of the youma, they saw Prince
Darien standing (or rather floating) above the scene. They knew as well as he did that he
just wanted the Sailor Scouts, not the innocent bystanders, but if it took the help of
civilians to accomplish his goals, he would gladly use them. Serena, outraged at the scene
in front of her, called out, "Ok Scouts, Power up!" As if on cue, Raye shouted, "MARS
POWER!" The rest followed.
"JUPITER POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
"MERCURY POWER!"
"MOON PRISM POWER!" Moments later, 5 girls in sailor outfits with tiaras and short skirts
stood in front of the youma. Prince Darien smirked and shouted, "Octopi, release the
humans, fight the Sailor Scouts!"
"As you wish, my master," the octopus hissed before shooting out a liquid that looked like
black ink out of holes in its legs. The Sailor Scouts ducked as the ink flew passed their
head and hit a tree. The Scouts turned to look at the tree and it looked as if it had been
burned with acid. Outraged at the damage of nature, Sailor Mars called out "MARS FIRE
IGNITE!" as a stream of fire poured from her hand, burning the creature. The octopus
screamed in pain, its attention pulled away from the battle for a moment, and Sailor Moon
took it as her chance to kill the monster. "MOON HEALING ACTIVATION!" she cried out and the
octopus turned back into a human being. "That wasn't that hard, you Negacreep!" she yelled
at Prince Darien.
"It wasn't supposed to be hard. It was just a distraction to get you here. Now that you're
here, why don't you give up and give me the Silver Crystal?"
"NO!" Serena shouted. She would die before giving him the Silver Crystal, evil as he was.
He lowered himself to the ground, whereupon he stretched out his hand and black lightning
emanated from him hand to hit all of the Sailor Scouts, but they all stood their ground.
*End flashback*
Serena's body was trembling with rage against the man that stood in front of her. Her fists
clenched at her sides with her attempt to restrain her anger. In her right hand was her
Moon Crescent Wand, which was glowing with her rage. She glared at Prince Darien, the man
that she loved who was under the influence of the side of evil. She knew she was supposed
to love him, but all she wanted to do was make him pay for hurting her friends.
As her anger for the man standing in front of her grew, so did the light of the Silver
Crystal. Eventually, the light was so bright that it was blinding to everybody, even
Serena. With words she didn't even recognize, she cried out, "Power of the Moonlight!"
When the light faded, Serena was standing there in what seemed to be a body suit made of
silver and white. It was mostly white and on the top of the forearms stretching to her
knuckles was colored silver with the rest of her hands and arms covered in white, like
gloves. Her legs up to below her knees were silver, and there was a silver belt encircling
her waist and on her chest was a silver crescent moon, the points facing up.
Although it looked as if it was made of cloth, the light reflecting off of her outfit told
Prince Darien that is was made of metal, or at least something like it, and the Crescent
Moon Wand was nowhere in sight. He gaped at the sudden change in Sailor Moon's outfit,
looking at her from the toe, up. When he got to her face, he saw that her hair was in the
same style and her eyes glowed with hatred, her breathing heavy and labored. Raising her
face to look at him, she hissed, "You will pay for that." With those words, she called out,
"I call upon the armor of the Moonlight! Armor of the Moonlight, TO ARMS!"
Her hands, now down at her sides came up across her chest, a hand at the opposite shoulder.
Beams of moonlight shot towards her and swirled around her, blowing her hair up into the
air. The beams of moonlight surrounded her legs, arms and chest, turning into armor. When
the wind died down, she was standing there in front of a beam of light that had collected in
front of her and turned into a helmet. With gloved hands, she picked up the helmet and put
it on, her hair having been perfectly coiled on top of her head from the force of the wind.
Another beam of light shot down and created a staff, which Serena held in her hands. Her
right hand closed around the staff and she picked up the staff in and put the tip on the
ground, leaning slightly on it.
Now that the transformation was complete, Prince Darien got his first good look at her and
gasped. Her helmet was silver with two white horns coming out of the top. Covering her
torso was a silver, tunic-like piece of armor, which went no lower than her belt and no
wider than her shoulders. From her elbow down to her wrist was silver, leaving her upper
arms white from right above the elbow to right below the shoulder joint. At her wrist was a
small break in the gloves, then the silver started up again covering the tops of the hands
with silver, leaving the fingers and the palms of the hands white. From her knees down was
the same as her sub-armor, only a little more bulky than before and her knees and her thighs
were white. On the front of her breastplate was a large white crescent moon, the points of
moon facing up. The staff that she held was silver as well and about 5 and a half feet
tall. From the base, four pieces of silver metal were twisted up the staff and at the top,
they separated to hold the Silver Crystal at four points on the crystal, spaced equally
apart. The points of the silver metal were four small gems that represented the other
Sailor Scouts in red, green, blue, and orange.
As Darien looked over the new Sailor Moon, he suddenly became very scared, but he couldn't
move for he was frozen with fear. Standing up straight, she held the staff above the
ground, the crystal about a foot above her head and called out "MOONLIGHT CRYSTAL…" as
silver-white light poured into the crystal. She then pointed the crystal at Prince Darien
and shouted, "ILLUMINATION!" as a beam of light shot out, engulfing him in a white light.
Normally, the attack hurt evil, but because Prince Darien was only partially evil, it cured
his body of any negative energy.
As the light died down, Serena slumped to the ground on her knees, not believing what had
just happened. She looked down at her armor and her staff in shock. It took her a little
bit to realize that she was trembling. She had never felt so strong before. She could feel
the power as it coursed through her veins. It felt like she had entered a new state of
being. She felt like she could do anything. After a few moments of shock, she stood up and
detransformed from her armor to her sub-armor and from her sub-armor into her regular
clothes. Remembering about what had just happened, she rushed over to Darien, who was
laying on the ground unconscious. She turned him over and shook him, calling, "Darien, wake
up. Come on, wake up." Eventually, he woke up and opened his eyes, looking up at the girl
above him. Weakly, he raised his hand to her face, relieved to see the face of the woman he
loved, and said, "Meatball Head?" She nodded and with a sudden surge of strength, he was up
on his knees and hugging her as hard as he dared, tears streaming down his face. "I'm so
glad to be back," Darien said, a huge smile breaking out on his face.
"Me, too." Serena said. Separating, they looked at each other and smiled. As they looked
into each other's eyes, their smiles faded. Darien, incredibly happy to see her, slowly
leaned in and kissed her. Serena, so incredibly happy that he was back, kissed him back
with full force. As they broke apart, Darien looked around and said, "Where am I? The last
that I remember, we were in the Starlight Tower."
"We're in the park."
"Why are we in the park?"
"Because you sent a youma after us."
"Why would I do that?" Darien was aghast. He couldn't believe that he would do anything
like that.
"Because you were evil. After we found out I was the Moon Princess and I killed Zoicite,
you were taken by the Negaverse and brainwashed. You became evil and fought us to get the
Silver Crystal. I just turned you good again."
"I'm so sorry I hurt you like that."
"It wasn't your fault. You were brainwashed," Serena said like it was nothing. Darien was
about to say something in apology when the Scouts started to wake up. Darien and Serena
stood up and walked over to them, helping them to wake up. After they had all woken up,
they detransformed and flooded Serena with questions about what happened and if Darien was
good again.
"After you guys were knocked unconscious, I used the power of the Silver Crystal to heal
Darien. The only drawback is that he doesn't remember anything about being Evil Prince
Darien," Serena said.
"That's all you did. You used the Silver Crystal?" Raye asked. Serena opened her mouth to
tell them about her new armor and powers, but decided to tell them later. Instead of
telling them about her new armor, she simply answered Raye's question with, "Yes." Although
she didn't seem satisfied with the answer and knew that there was something that Serena
wasn't telling her, Raye let it slide, figuring that she would eventually let the news slip.
Then, the Sailor Scouts and Darien got up, said their goodbyes, and went home.
***
It had been a week since Darien had been turned good and Serena had been acting strange.
She was suddenly starting to take things more seriously. She was on time to school, she had
done her homework, and she was on time to Scout meetings. No one knew why except for
Serena. The reason why she had changed was because of her new power. Somehow, she had
matured when she had gained her new power. The Scouts knew that there was something that
she wasn't telling them, but she had resisted all of their ploys to get it out of her, so
they decided to wait for her to tell them.
That evening, a week later, Serena, who was finished with her homework, was staring out her
window at the stars, just thinking about what had happened to her in the last few days. I
wonder when I'll be able to tell them about my new power? I really want to tell them, but
how would I explain? 'Yeah, when you guys got hurt, I suddenly gained this armor and my
crystal is inside me and appears when I call my armor'? Yeah, that'll go over well. When
Serena had noticed that her crystal was gone when she got home the first night she had
gained her armor, she had been terrified and thought that she had lost it. As if to tell
her not to worry, the crystal appeared out of thin air and when Serena calmed down and
realized that she still had it, the crystal disappeared again and she felt a surge of power
flare up inside her. She then realized that the crystal was inside her and could be called
out when she needed it, like when she transformed.
At first, she wondered why the crystal was inside of her and not outside, like it was in her
locket, but she figured that if she had been powerful enough to gain the armor, then she was
powerful enough to hold the crystal inside of her and bring it out of herself when she
needed it. Suddenly, the communicator sounded and she rushed to pick it up. "Sailor Moon
here!"
"Serena," Mars called, "Get your butt down here. Malachite is here and he's pissed off. We
need your help!"
"Ok, I'll be right there." She looked around for Luna, but then realized that she was over
with Artemis and was probably over at the battle scene. She stood up and called out, "MOON
PRISM POWER!" and realized (and remembered) that she wasn't able to use her Sailor Moon
powers and had to use her armor. Then a smile dawned on her face. I won't tell them
about my new powers, I'll show them. And rushed out of the house, absently telling her
mother that she was leaving.
***
At the battle site, the other Sailor Scouts, Tuxedo Mask, Luna, and Artemis were standing in
front of Malachite. They had tried all of their attacks, but nothing seemed to work.
Malachite was just too strong for them. What they needed was Sailor Moon. "Where is Sailor
Moon?" Raye called, anger and panic mixed in her voice.
"What, your little leader too chicken to show up."
"Not on your life Malachite!" said Serena from behind the group. The Scouts, Tuxedo Mask,
and the cats turned to see Serena, not Sailor Moon, standing behind her. "Is this your
leader?" Malachite called.
"Serena, why haven't you transformed yet?" Luna and Raye called out. Serena simply ignored
their complaints at her and calmly (even more calmly than she thought possible) walked
through the center of the group. Now they were behind her and only Malachite stood in front
of her, looking at her from a distance of about 5 yards.
"Didn't think I'd show up, Malachite? Or hoping that I wouldn't so I wouldn't kick your
butt?"
"You helpless girl, you can't possibly do anything to me," Malachite sneered, thinking that
Serena was only a mortal girl.
"Wanna bet?" All of the sudden, Serena called out, "Power of the Moonlight!" and she
suddenly stood in her sub-armor. All of the scouts, Darien, and the cats had dropped their
jaws at the sight of Serena's skintight sub-armor. I wonder where that came from?
Everyone but Malachite thought.
"Ooh, I'm so scared at your little body suit. You're going to have to do better than that,"
Malachite said.
"The fun's just started," Serena said before putting her arms to her sides. "I call upon
the armor of the Moonlight. Armor of the Moonlight, TO ARMS!" In a quick transformation,
Serena stood there in silver and white armor, holding a staff that was holding the silver
crystal. The group couldn't have been more amazed. Except for Malachite.
"Cute light show, but still, nothing." Without warning, except for maybe a small smile,
Serena called out, "MOONLIGHT CRYSTAL ILLUMINATION!" and a beam of light hit Malachite
straight in the stomach, sending him back 30 feet. The group behind her was amazed at the
power that she just displayed. "You hurt me, you little tramp!" Malachite yelled after
standing up.
"I'm not just gonna hurt you, I'm gonna kill you!" She suddenly lifted the staff high above
her head as light began to gather inside the crystal. She then held it straight out to the
left, then turned her arms to hold it straight out to the right, gathering power as it went
along. Then she lowered the crystal to the ground, crying out "MOONLIGHT", then, with her
left hand, held it out to the right and swung it across, cutting the air and called out
"VANQUISH!" Where the crystal was a bolt of light, shaped like a crescent moon that hurled
itself towards Malachite. When it came in contact with Malachite, the power seared through
him, mortally wounding him. He called out, "I'll see you soon, Zoicite," died, and
disappeared. Serena sighed and leaned on her staff for support, moderate exhaustion
settling in from the battle. Then a sudden feeling of being stared at washed over her and
she turned around, remembering the Scouts, Tuxedo Mask, and the cats were still there and
they were speechless. "I know, pretty cool, huh?" Serena said, to break the ice. But still
they said nothing. After a few moments of silence, Serena said, "Ok, you guys are starting
to scare me." As if snapping out of a trance, they all started to ask one question. "When
did this happen?"
"It happened when I turned Darien good again."
"What do you mean it just happened?" Luna asked. Serena sighed and started to tell her
story. "Well, when Prince Darien had hurt the other Sailor Scouts, I was mad. I was so mad
that the crystal started to glow and eventually, the light was so bright that even I had to
close my eyes. I don't honestly know how it happened, but I called out, "Power of the
Moonlight" and was wearing this." She detransformed to show everybody her sub-armor.
"Then," she continued, "I called out the words that bring out my armor. Here, I'll show
you. I call upon the armor of the Moonlight. Armor of the Moonlight, TO ARMS!" Seconds
later, she stood in front of them with her full body armor on again. "I honestly don't know
how I knew what words to use, but it's like the anger inside of me woke up a part of myself
I had forgotten. I can tell you, however, that I am far powerful in this armor than I ever
was in my Sailor Moon form." After a few moments of thinking, Raye said, "Hey, if Serena
can get this new armor, does that mean we can too?"
"I don't suppose why not," Luna said.
"Hey Luna," Serena started, "Do you know anything about this armor? How come we never knew
about it before?" Silence hung in the air as Luna thought about it.
"Now that you mention it, I do remember something about these armors. Let's to back to
Raye's temple and I'll tell you about it."
"Ok," Serena said, only detransforming to her sub-armor instead of her regular clothes.
Mina noticed this and asked, "Hey Serena, why don't you fully detransform?"
"I don't know. I like this sub-armor."
"The what?"
"The sub-armor. It's kinda the official name for it. I don't know how I knew this, but I
do, so don't ask. It's just what it's called." Mina leaned in really close and said,
"Yeah, although as comfortable as it may be, I think you might wanna detransform all the way
for Darien's sake." Serena stole a glance at Darien and noticed that he was barely watching
where he was going, he was so fixed on watching her walk. Serena only giggled and whispered
back to Mina, "I'll amuse him for a little while. I'll detransform fully when I get to
Raye's temple." And the rest of the walk there was silent.
epic by my best friend Fate Chica and myself. This is in fact the first part of the first
book of seven which we are currently in progress on. I really hope you enjoy this! Some
people may have already read this from FateChica's fanfic penname, but we're now going to
continue to post under this name, so bear with us as we slowly update the current four
books and the new chapters of the fifth! Thanks for reading and hope you like our story!
~ Destiny Babe
*Sailor Moon is the property of Naoko Takeuchi - we, however, claim the story plot as ours.
You must ask permission if you want to post any of this anywhere else. Thank you*
The Mystical Warriors, Part 1
***Change Is A Good Thing***
Serena, aka Sailor Moon, stood her ground against Prince Darien. Behind her were her were
the other scouts: Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Venus. "Give me
the Silver Crystal," Prince Darien roared, a fierce snarl on his face. He had his orders:
retrieve the Silver Crystal and kill the Sailor Scouts.
"If you think I'm going to give it to you, then you need help," Sailor Moon cried.
"Give it to me, or your friends will get it." Without warning, he launched black lightning
at the unsuspecting scouts, purposely avoiding Serena. He wanted to weaken her, blackmail
her into giving him the Silver Crystal. Serena's eyes filled with tears as she heard their
cries of pain before they slumped to the ground, unconscious. It hurt her that she couldn't
do anything to protect them. Maybe she was a bad warrior. She didn't deserve to have the
Silver Crystal. But, she would do anything to keep it from Darien at the moment, hurting
him if she had to, as much as she didn't want to. Torn between protecting her friends and
not hurting Darien, Serena clenched her eyes shut and brought her hand into a fist as she
thought of the chain of events that had led to this battle.
*Flashback*
"So," Serena said to her four friends: Raye, Lita, Ami, and Mina, "What do you want to do
today?" All 5 of them leaned their elbows on the tabletop of the picnic table they were
sitting at in the park. Lita sighed, "I really don't know."
"Me neither," said Mina.
"Ditto," chimed Raye and Ami. They all participated in a collective sigh and slumped
farther into their seats. It was a dull, dreary Saturday afternoon. They had no homework
and didn't have anything to study for. Even Ami said that she didn't have to study for
anything at the moment. There were no good movies to see, no new video games at the arcade,
and they had visited all of the shops in the mall at least a dozen times. They would give
anything to have something to do. All of the sudden, they heard screams coming from the
other end of the park and the Sailor Scouts immediately wished for the boredom back. It was
better than fighting, but, they knew they had to stop the evil. They all looked at each
other and rushed over to the place of the screams. There is only one thing that could
produce screams like that, they thought, the Negaverse.
When they arrived at the place where the screams originated, they saw a youma that resembled
an octopus, a person entangled in each of its legs, with the head of a human instead of the
head of an octopus. When they looked above and to the right of the youma, they saw Prince
Darien standing (or rather floating) above the scene. They knew as well as he did that he
just wanted the Sailor Scouts, not the innocent bystanders, but if it took the help of
civilians to accomplish his goals, he would gladly use them. Serena, outraged at the scene
in front of her, called out, "Ok Scouts, Power up!" As if on cue, Raye shouted, "MARS
POWER!" The rest followed.
"JUPITER POWER!"
"VENUS POWER!"
"MERCURY POWER!"
"MOON PRISM POWER!" Moments later, 5 girls in sailor outfits with tiaras and short skirts
stood in front of the youma. Prince Darien smirked and shouted, "Octopi, release the
humans, fight the Sailor Scouts!"
"As you wish, my master," the octopus hissed before shooting out a liquid that looked like
black ink out of holes in its legs. The Sailor Scouts ducked as the ink flew passed their
head and hit a tree. The Scouts turned to look at the tree and it looked as if it had been
burned with acid. Outraged at the damage of nature, Sailor Mars called out "MARS FIRE
IGNITE!" as a stream of fire poured from her hand, burning the creature. The octopus
screamed in pain, its attention pulled away from the battle for a moment, and Sailor Moon
took it as her chance to kill the monster. "MOON HEALING ACTIVATION!" she cried out and the
octopus turned back into a human being. "That wasn't that hard, you Negacreep!" she yelled
at Prince Darien.
"It wasn't supposed to be hard. It was just a distraction to get you here. Now that you're
here, why don't you give up and give me the Silver Crystal?"
"NO!" Serena shouted. She would die before giving him the Silver Crystal, evil as he was.
He lowered himself to the ground, whereupon he stretched out his hand and black lightning
emanated from him hand to hit all of the Sailor Scouts, but they all stood their ground.
*End flashback*
Serena's body was trembling with rage against the man that stood in front of her. Her fists
clenched at her sides with her attempt to restrain her anger. In her right hand was her
Moon Crescent Wand, which was glowing with her rage. She glared at Prince Darien, the man
that she loved who was under the influence of the side of evil. She knew she was supposed
to love him, but all she wanted to do was make him pay for hurting her friends.
As her anger for the man standing in front of her grew, so did the light of the Silver
Crystal. Eventually, the light was so bright that it was blinding to everybody, even
Serena. With words she didn't even recognize, she cried out, "Power of the Moonlight!"
When the light faded, Serena was standing there in what seemed to be a body suit made of
silver and white. It was mostly white and on the top of the forearms stretching to her
knuckles was colored silver with the rest of her hands and arms covered in white, like
gloves. Her legs up to below her knees were silver, and there was a silver belt encircling
her waist and on her chest was a silver crescent moon, the points facing up.
Although it looked as if it was made of cloth, the light reflecting off of her outfit told
Prince Darien that is was made of metal, or at least something like it, and the Crescent
Moon Wand was nowhere in sight. He gaped at the sudden change in Sailor Moon's outfit,
looking at her from the toe, up. When he got to her face, he saw that her hair was in the
same style and her eyes glowed with hatred, her breathing heavy and labored. Raising her
face to look at him, she hissed, "You will pay for that." With those words, she called out,
"I call upon the armor of the Moonlight! Armor of the Moonlight, TO ARMS!"
Her hands, now down at her sides came up across her chest, a hand at the opposite shoulder.
Beams of moonlight shot towards her and swirled around her, blowing her hair up into the
air. The beams of moonlight surrounded her legs, arms and chest, turning into armor. When
the wind died down, she was standing there in front of a beam of light that had collected in
front of her and turned into a helmet. With gloved hands, she picked up the helmet and put
it on, her hair having been perfectly coiled on top of her head from the force of the wind.
Another beam of light shot down and created a staff, which Serena held in her hands. Her
right hand closed around the staff and she picked up the staff in and put the tip on the
ground, leaning slightly on it.
Now that the transformation was complete, Prince Darien got his first good look at her and
gasped. Her helmet was silver with two white horns coming out of the top. Covering her
torso was a silver, tunic-like piece of armor, which went no lower than her belt and no
wider than her shoulders. From her elbow down to her wrist was silver, leaving her upper
arms white from right above the elbow to right below the shoulder joint. At her wrist was a
small break in the gloves, then the silver started up again covering the tops of the hands
with silver, leaving the fingers and the palms of the hands white. From her knees down was
the same as her sub-armor, only a little more bulky than before and her knees and her thighs
were white. On the front of her breastplate was a large white crescent moon, the points of
moon facing up. The staff that she held was silver as well and about 5 and a half feet
tall. From the base, four pieces of silver metal were twisted up the staff and at the top,
they separated to hold the Silver Crystal at four points on the crystal, spaced equally
apart. The points of the silver metal were four small gems that represented the other
Sailor Scouts in red, green, blue, and orange.
As Darien looked over the new Sailor Moon, he suddenly became very scared, but he couldn't
move for he was frozen with fear. Standing up straight, she held the staff above the
ground, the crystal about a foot above her head and called out "MOONLIGHT CRYSTAL…" as
silver-white light poured into the crystal. She then pointed the crystal at Prince Darien
and shouted, "ILLUMINATION!" as a beam of light shot out, engulfing him in a white light.
Normally, the attack hurt evil, but because Prince Darien was only partially evil, it cured
his body of any negative energy.
As the light died down, Serena slumped to the ground on her knees, not believing what had
just happened. She looked down at her armor and her staff in shock. It took her a little
bit to realize that she was trembling. She had never felt so strong before. She could feel
the power as it coursed through her veins. It felt like she had entered a new state of
being. She felt like she could do anything. After a few moments of shock, she stood up and
detransformed from her armor to her sub-armor and from her sub-armor into her regular
clothes. Remembering about what had just happened, she rushed over to Darien, who was
laying on the ground unconscious. She turned him over and shook him, calling, "Darien, wake
up. Come on, wake up." Eventually, he woke up and opened his eyes, looking up at the girl
above him. Weakly, he raised his hand to her face, relieved to see the face of the woman he
loved, and said, "Meatball Head?" She nodded and with a sudden surge of strength, he was up
on his knees and hugging her as hard as he dared, tears streaming down his face. "I'm so
glad to be back," Darien said, a huge smile breaking out on his face.
"Me, too." Serena said. Separating, they looked at each other and smiled. As they looked
into each other's eyes, their smiles faded. Darien, incredibly happy to see her, slowly
leaned in and kissed her. Serena, so incredibly happy that he was back, kissed him back
with full force. As they broke apart, Darien looked around and said, "Where am I? The last
that I remember, we were in the Starlight Tower."
"We're in the park."
"Why are we in the park?"
"Because you sent a youma after us."
"Why would I do that?" Darien was aghast. He couldn't believe that he would do anything
like that.
"Because you were evil. After we found out I was the Moon Princess and I killed Zoicite,
you were taken by the Negaverse and brainwashed. You became evil and fought us to get the
Silver Crystal. I just turned you good again."
"I'm so sorry I hurt you like that."
"It wasn't your fault. You were brainwashed," Serena said like it was nothing. Darien was
about to say something in apology when the Scouts started to wake up. Darien and Serena
stood up and walked over to them, helping them to wake up. After they had all woken up,
they detransformed and flooded Serena with questions about what happened and if Darien was
good again.
"After you guys were knocked unconscious, I used the power of the Silver Crystal to heal
Darien. The only drawback is that he doesn't remember anything about being Evil Prince
Darien," Serena said.
"That's all you did. You used the Silver Crystal?" Raye asked. Serena opened her mouth to
tell them about her new armor and powers, but decided to tell them later. Instead of
telling them about her new armor, she simply answered Raye's question with, "Yes." Although
she didn't seem satisfied with the answer and knew that there was something that Serena
wasn't telling her, Raye let it slide, figuring that she would eventually let the news slip.
Then, the Sailor Scouts and Darien got up, said their goodbyes, and went home.
***
It had been a week since Darien had been turned good and Serena had been acting strange.
She was suddenly starting to take things more seriously. She was on time to school, she had
done her homework, and she was on time to Scout meetings. No one knew why except for
Serena. The reason why she had changed was because of her new power. Somehow, she had
matured when she had gained her new power. The Scouts knew that there was something that
she wasn't telling them, but she had resisted all of their ploys to get it out of her, so
they decided to wait for her to tell them.
That evening, a week later, Serena, who was finished with her homework, was staring out her
window at the stars, just thinking about what had happened to her in the last few days. I
wonder when I'll be able to tell them about my new power? I really want to tell them, but
how would I explain? 'Yeah, when you guys got hurt, I suddenly gained this armor and my
crystal is inside me and appears when I call my armor'? Yeah, that'll go over well. When
Serena had noticed that her crystal was gone when she got home the first night she had
gained her armor, she had been terrified and thought that she had lost it. As if to tell
her not to worry, the crystal appeared out of thin air and when Serena calmed down and
realized that she still had it, the crystal disappeared again and she felt a surge of power
flare up inside her. She then realized that the crystal was inside her and could be called
out when she needed it, like when she transformed.
At first, she wondered why the crystal was inside of her and not outside, like it was in her
locket, but she figured that if she had been powerful enough to gain the armor, then she was
powerful enough to hold the crystal inside of her and bring it out of herself when she
needed it. Suddenly, the communicator sounded and she rushed to pick it up. "Sailor Moon
here!"
"Serena," Mars called, "Get your butt down here. Malachite is here and he's pissed off. We
need your help!"
"Ok, I'll be right there." She looked around for Luna, but then realized that she was over
with Artemis and was probably over at the battle scene. She stood up and called out, "MOON
PRISM POWER!" and realized (and remembered) that she wasn't able to use her Sailor Moon
powers and had to use her armor. Then a smile dawned on her face. I won't tell them
about my new powers, I'll show them. And rushed out of the house, absently telling her
mother that she was leaving.
***
At the battle site, the other Sailor Scouts, Tuxedo Mask, Luna, and Artemis were standing in
front of Malachite. They had tried all of their attacks, but nothing seemed to work.
Malachite was just too strong for them. What they needed was Sailor Moon. "Where is Sailor
Moon?" Raye called, anger and panic mixed in her voice.
"What, your little leader too chicken to show up."
"Not on your life Malachite!" said Serena from behind the group. The Scouts, Tuxedo Mask,
and the cats turned to see Serena, not Sailor Moon, standing behind her. "Is this your
leader?" Malachite called.
"Serena, why haven't you transformed yet?" Luna and Raye called out. Serena simply ignored
their complaints at her and calmly (even more calmly than she thought possible) walked
through the center of the group. Now they were behind her and only Malachite stood in front
of her, looking at her from a distance of about 5 yards.
"Didn't think I'd show up, Malachite? Or hoping that I wouldn't so I wouldn't kick your
butt?"
"You helpless girl, you can't possibly do anything to me," Malachite sneered, thinking that
Serena was only a mortal girl.
"Wanna bet?" All of the sudden, Serena called out, "Power of the Moonlight!" and she
suddenly stood in her sub-armor. All of the scouts, Darien, and the cats had dropped their
jaws at the sight of Serena's skintight sub-armor. I wonder where that came from?
Everyone but Malachite thought.
"Ooh, I'm so scared at your little body suit. You're going to have to do better than that,"
Malachite said.
"The fun's just started," Serena said before putting her arms to her sides. "I call upon
the armor of the Moonlight. Armor of the Moonlight, TO ARMS!" In a quick transformation,
Serena stood there in silver and white armor, holding a staff that was holding the silver
crystal. The group couldn't have been more amazed. Except for Malachite.
"Cute light show, but still, nothing." Without warning, except for maybe a small smile,
Serena called out, "MOONLIGHT CRYSTAL ILLUMINATION!" and a beam of light hit Malachite
straight in the stomach, sending him back 30 feet. The group behind her was amazed at the
power that she just displayed. "You hurt me, you little tramp!" Malachite yelled after
standing up.
"I'm not just gonna hurt you, I'm gonna kill you!" She suddenly lifted the staff high above
her head as light began to gather inside the crystal. She then held it straight out to the
left, then turned her arms to hold it straight out to the right, gathering power as it went
along. Then she lowered the crystal to the ground, crying out "MOONLIGHT", then, with her
left hand, held it out to the right and swung it across, cutting the air and called out
"VANQUISH!" Where the crystal was a bolt of light, shaped like a crescent moon that hurled
itself towards Malachite. When it came in contact with Malachite, the power seared through
him, mortally wounding him. He called out, "I'll see you soon, Zoicite," died, and
disappeared. Serena sighed and leaned on her staff for support, moderate exhaustion
settling in from the battle. Then a sudden feeling of being stared at washed over her and
she turned around, remembering the Scouts, Tuxedo Mask, and the cats were still there and
they were speechless. "I know, pretty cool, huh?" Serena said, to break the ice. But still
they said nothing. After a few moments of silence, Serena said, "Ok, you guys are starting
to scare me." As if snapping out of a trance, they all started to ask one question. "When
did this happen?"
"It happened when I turned Darien good again."
"What do you mean it just happened?" Luna asked. Serena sighed and started to tell her
story. "Well, when Prince Darien had hurt the other Sailor Scouts, I was mad. I was so mad
that the crystal started to glow and eventually, the light was so bright that even I had to
close my eyes. I don't honestly know how it happened, but I called out, "Power of the
Moonlight" and was wearing this." She detransformed to show everybody her sub-armor.
"Then," she continued, "I called out the words that bring out my armor. Here, I'll show
you. I call upon the armor of the Moonlight. Armor of the Moonlight, TO ARMS!" Seconds
later, she stood in front of them with her full body armor on again. "I honestly don't know
how I knew what words to use, but it's like the anger inside of me woke up a part of myself
I had forgotten. I can tell you, however, that I am far powerful in this armor than I ever
was in my Sailor Moon form." After a few moments of thinking, Raye said, "Hey, if Serena
can get this new armor, does that mean we can too?"
"I don't suppose why not," Luna said.
"Hey Luna," Serena started, "Do you know anything about this armor? How come we never knew
about it before?" Silence hung in the air as Luna thought about it.
"Now that you mention it, I do remember something about these armors. Let's to back to
Raye's temple and I'll tell you about it."
"Ok," Serena said, only detransforming to her sub-armor instead of her regular clothes.
Mina noticed this and asked, "Hey Serena, why don't you fully detransform?"
"I don't know. I like this sub-armor."
"The what?"
"The sub-armor. It's kinda the official name for it. I don't know how I knew this, but I
do, so don't ask. It's just what it's called." Mina leaned in really close and said,
"Yeah, although as comfortable as it may be, I think you might wanna detransform all the way
for Darien's sake." Serena stole a glance at Darien and noticed that he was barely watching
where he was going, he was so fixed on watching her walk. Serena only giggled and whispered
back to Mina, "I'll amuse him for a little while. I'll detransform fully when I get to
Raye's temple." And the rest of the walk there was silent.