Another Crystal Tokyo
A/N: Hiya readers! I have a brand new story for you to read.
I've been thinking about doing a Sailor Moon and Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover for a while now, and this is an idea I've been having for a while now.
Two things before the story begins:
First, Sailor Moon-wise, this story officially starts at the end of the Stars season then skips ahead to Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Battle City.
And second, for things in the two Animes to line up, I'll be messing with the timelines a little. Just to the point where Duelist Kingdom and Battle City are about 5 or 6 months apart and to where the Silver Millennium existed during ancient Egypt.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon nor do I own Yu-Gi-Oh!
With all that out of the way, please read on.
Prologue: It begins
5000 years ago
Oceanic blue eyes gazed up at the Earth with longing. The owner, a girl of about 16 with long golden blond hair tied into two buns, sighed and leaned against the railing of the balcony. She had fallen in love with a king from the blue world; a man who went by the name of Atem.
The pair originally met about three years earlier when Atem's father—Pharaoh Aknamkanon—visited the Moon Kingdom to forge an alliance with her mother. While his father was speaking with the Moon Queen, Prince Atem had been left to wander the gardens under the watchful eye of the Queen's Maurian advisors. It was there that he quite literally ran into Princess Serena, who at the time was trying to escape her tutor, the Sailor Scout and Princess of Mercury. After apologizing to the young prince and explaining why she was running, he helped her climb into a tree to avoid Sailor Mercury and had even lied when the scout had asked if he had seen her.
Having escaped her teacher, Serena had climbed down and thanked the young prince for his help. In response, the prince had chuckled and commented that he often wanted to do the very same thing when it was time for his lessons. After properly introducing themselves, the pair had opted to stroll through the gardens together. By the time the two monarchs had finished their discussion and located their children, they found that the prince and princess had become friends. When asked if she and Atem could see each other again, the two monarchs were quite pleased as they had been discussing arranging for their children to marry once they were of age.
Over the course of the next year and a half, the two constantly met on both the Moon and in Egypt as they got to know one another. They didn't know when exactly, but sometime during that year and a half the two teens had started falling in love with one another. To say that their parents were thrilled would have been an understatement as it made the union even more likely to be accepted by the teens.
About a two years and five months after they met, the two heirs finally confessed their feelings for one another in the exact same spot that they had met. When word had gotten to their parents, the monarchs were over the moon and had informed their children about the discussion they had had the day they had met. Unsurprisingly, the duo had been a little annoyed that they had planned it behind their backs but were thrilled that their parents approved of their union. That night, the Moon Kingdom celebrated with the grandest party that the universe had ever seen—though the engagement had yet to be made official.
Five months after the celebration Pharaoh Aknamkanon fell ill and died. As soon as the news reached the Moon, the princess raced down to Earth to comfort her friend—the Moon Queen only minutes behind her. When the funeral took place days later, the Moon royalty and the planetary scouts were in attendance to say farewell to the beloved pharaoh. As the only heir to the Egyptian throne, Atem was crowned Pharaoh a week later.
It had been three months since Atem's coronation and she hadn't seen him since. While she knew that he loved her, she still felt lonely. That feeling of loneliness was only amplified as she found her beloved away from her on this the night of her birthday ball. With only a few hours left until the end of the festivities, she felt a little worried that he would not show.
"How did I know I'd find you here?"
Turning to face the speaker, the princess found herself face to face with the prince of Elysion, Prince Darien. The Terran Prince was officially both hers and Atem's best friend. Ever since Atem had been crowned Pharaoh, he had asked their friend to watch over the princess in case anyone tried to use her to get to him. Being the ever faithful friend, Prince Darien had accepted Atem's request and visited the Moon Kingdom frequently to help protect the princess.
Princess Serena rolled her eyes at the question. "Because this place has the most beautiful view of the Earth?" she asked.
The prince gave her a dry look at the response. He nodded his head at the blue world, "You're thinking about Atem again, aren't you?"
Princess Serena nodded. "I was hoping he would come for my birthday ball, but so far he has yet to arrive."
Sighing, Prince Darien placed a hand on her shoulder. "There's still time for him to show," he reminded her. "But right now you've got a ballroom full of guests wondering where the birthday girl is—it's rude to keep them wondering."
Begrudgingly the princess nodded in agreement. It was her birthday and the ballroom was filled with guests that had shown up to celebrate the occasion yet here she was moping. Looking up at the Earth once more, she asked, "How long do you think we have until Venus comes and drags me back to the ball?"
Prince Darien chuckled at the question. "I left the ballroom about 10 minutes ago at the request of your cousin," he replied. "Considering that I haven't returned yet, I wouldn't be surprised if she was on her way here right now."
Fearing that her friend was right, Princess Serena reluctantly tore her gaze away from the world and nodded. "Then I think it'd be best if we left before she catches us here."
Smiling, Prince Darien bowed to the birthday girl and extended his arm. "Then may I have the honor of escorting the birthday girl back to the party."
Princess Serena giggled at the motion and curtsied in response. "You may," she conceded.
Accepting the prince's arm, the two friends walked down the halls of the marble palace toward the ballroom. After a few short minutes, the duo descended into the marble and stained glass, grand ballroom. At the base of the entry stairwell stood an arch with a banner hanging from it to welcome the guests. For the occasion, the ballroom had been draped in elegant tapestries of silver and gold with crescent moons sewn into them. In the center of the room stood a table overflowing with gifts for the princess. In the corner of the room, a full orchestra played while the guests danced around the central table.
Once through the arch, Prince Darien turned to the princess and offered his hand. "May I have this dance?" Getting a nod and giggle in return, the raven haired prince led the princess onto the floor where they melted into the dancing masses.
At the edge of the room, a quartet of girls dressed in the garb of the Sailor Scouts stood watching as their princess danced with the prince of Elysion. To say that the girls were thrilled to see their princess smile would have been an understatement as they had been worried by her melancholy behavior these past few months. They knew how in love she was with the Egyptian Pharaoh and that it was hard for her to go so long without seeing him. Thankfully, they knew that her behavior was going to a 180 when she unwrapped her gift from her prince.
After a few minutes, the orchestra ceased their playing and the dancing crowd stopped to applaud. During the applause, Queen Serenity descended into the room and nodded to the four Sailors. Nodding to the monarch, the four Sailor Soldiers walked toward the crowd.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for our princess to open her presents!" Sailor Mars announced.
"So let's give a round of applause for the birthday girl, Princess Serena!" Sailors Jupiter declared. saying the princess' name with the other inner scouts.
At the announcement, the room broke out in applause. Blushing, Princes Serenity smiled and waved to her guests as she approached the central table, but not before Prince Darien kissed her hand. Reaching the table, Princess Serena turned to her guests and bowed respectfully. "Thank you all so very much for attending and for your presents," she stated. "I honestly don't know which one to open first."
"I have a suggestion," Sailor Venus said, moving through the crowd. Reaching her cousin, she extended a scroll of papyrus bound by a gold ribbon. "Why not open your prince's present first?"
Unable to contain her excitement, the princess snatched the scroll out of her cousin's hand; earning chuckles from the guests. Tearing off the ribbon, she quickly opened the scroll to read the letter from her prince.
My Dearest Serena,
Happy belated birthday my love. I apologize for my absence these last few months, they have been insufferable without you. I wish I could have stepped away from the palace if only for a few minutes so that I could visit, but things have been a bit hectic since my father passed and I am still adjusting to my position as Pharaoh. Thankfully, things are starting to settle down and I should be able to sneak away at least once a week. Effectively beginning next week, we shall be able to spend time together again.
But before we do, I'd like to give you your birthday gift. Your present is long overdue and I believe that it is high time we made our relationship official. So please, turn around.
Reaching the end, the princess swallowed and turned around; gasping at the sight before her. Kneeling on the ground before her was her beloved in all his glory, dressed in a long white tunic with a long violet cape and golden bands on his calves and wrists. Nestled in his black, crimson, and golden hair was a gold crown that looked like the wings of a bird with an eye dead in the center. With eyes filled with love, the Pharaoh smiled at the princess.
"Princess Serena," Atem began, his crimson gaze locked with her blue gaze. "You are my very best friend and the only woman I shall ever love." Out of nowhere, he produced a gold ring bearing a beautiful piece of lapis lazuli. "Will you do me the honor of becoming the next Queen of Egypt?"
Serena was silent for a few moments as she processed the question. After a few moments, her eyes filled with unshed tears and she pounced on him with a screech of, "YES!" sending the both of the sprawling on the ground.
Chuckling at his fiancée's reaction, the Pharaoh helped her up before he slipped the ring on her finger and kissed her. Instantly, the ballroom was filled with a thunderous applause at the engagement. As soon as the two broke apart, they found themselves surrounded by their friends as they congratulated them on their engagement.
It was in that moment that Atem realized something was wrong: the four Outer Sailor Soldiers were among their friends. While it could have meant nothing, the four warriors never left their posts—especially Sailor Pluto—unless ordered to by the Moon Queen. The presence of the four scouts could only mean one thing: something dangerous was beginning transpire.
Present Day
A boy with black, blond, and violet spiky hair and amethyst eyes nervously watched the news with his grandfather and his best friends. Though not ones to be able to sit through the news patiently, the teen and his friends made an exception on this day. The day itself had started off lovely, but it only lasted a few hours when ominous dark clouds had flooded the sky and blocked out the sunlight. The day only got worse and streaks of red lightning began tearing through the sky and people started collapsing with glowing diamond-like objects popping out of them before vanishing. It was then that the people of the world were ordered to stay indoors for their own safety.
Of course that didn't stop the news from broadcasting that the origin had been located—how they managed to stay hidden and unaffected by the events as to broadcast the events, was beyond them. They had been surprised when they turned on the news to find that the origin was the Juban District of Japan, but even more surprised with what was going on. Within the district, a Sailor Moon was fighting to save the planet with a trio of Sailor Scouts who had been identified as the Sailor Starlights.
Originally they had thought that Sailors Uranus and Neptune were to blame for the current state of the world, but that idea had been quickly doused when a scout calling herself Sailor Galaxia had killed them—so it seemed—for betraying her in favor of Sailor Moon. It was during the battle with Sailor Galaxia that the buildings had been destroyed. For a brief moment, they had thought it was all over when Sailor Moon was down and she was covered in ribbons of pink light, but she had managed to get back up when a small Sailor Scout seemed to transfer her energy to the world's most famous scout and transformed into a sword. Sailor Moon had accepted the sword and sported a white dress that made her look like a princess as well as sprouted wings.
Now they waited, anxiously to see how the battle would play out. So far Sailor Moon was reluctant to fight Sailor Galaxia—whose appearance had changed so that her golden armor and pink skin turned black and grey, making her look like a demon from hell complete with wings. When Sailor Moon finally got a hit in, it was unintentional and short-lived as Galaxia had shattered the sword with her own. The sword transformed back into the small girl for a moment before she vanished, leaving Sailor Moon to fight alone.
They hardly had time to worry when it seemed that the two were discussing something that the cameras were unable to pick up on. When Sailor Moon finished talking, the ribbons from earlier reappeared for a moment before vanishing to leave the soldier of love and justice naked—something that they would have looked away from if the world weren't about to end and it didn't look like it was going to be important for some reason. Spreading her wings, the sailor soldier flew at Galaxia with a flower-like crystal glowing on her chest. Galaxia retaliated by unleashing a dark energy stream that stopped Sailor Moon for a little while before the crystal released a large amount of light to dispel the darkness and caused millions of those diamond objects to appear all around her and Galaxia.
In response to the light show, the inverted pyramid that hung from the tri-haired teen's neck began to glow as well. As the light from the crystal was so bright, it took a little bit before it was noticed.
It was a teen with shaggy golden blond hair and honey colored eyes that noticed the glow. "Hey Yugi, what's goin' on with yer Millennium Puzzle?" he asked with a Brooklyn accent.
At his friend's question, Yugi's gaze shifted to his puzzle and widened in alarm when the puzzle began to shake in addition to the glow. "I don't know, but I think Sailor Moon's crystal is causing this!" he screeched.
His friends started falling over one another as they moved to turn off the TV. Before they could even reach the TV, the glow and the shaking from the puzzle intensified. Scared of what was going on, Yugi removed his puzzle and threw it across the room. The puzzle had barely soared two feet from its owner when it stopped midair and just floated there.
The TV all but forgotten, all eyes were on the Millennium Puzzle as the shaking became more pronounced. After a moment, the puzzle ceased its glowing and shaking, and the group to let out a sigh of relief. Their relief was short-lived when the Egyptian eye on the puzzle began to glow a moment later, and the puzzle was engulfed in a pillar of golden light. From within the pillar, the group could make out a human-like figure forming inside of it. The group had no idea how long the event lasted, but eventually the glow faded away. The glow gone, the group could clearly see the figure and shocked who it was.
Standing with the Millennium Puzzle around his neck was a 16 year old boy who looked almost identical to Yugi, but his spiky hair was tipped with crimson rather than violet, his hair featuring golden bangs and streaks while his eyes were crimson and he stood a few inches taller than Yugi. The teen looked a bit disoriented as he looked around the room. After a moment or two, the teen's gaze fell on the five peering over the couch. As soon as his eyes found Yugi, they widened in shock before they looked over his body.
"Y-Yami?" Yugi gasped.
Gripping the rope holding the puzzle around his neck, Yami fixed his gaze on Yugi. "Yugi, how do I have my own body?"
Yugi looked surprised by the question. "You mean you do that yourself?" he asked.
Yami shook his head. "If I had, I wouldn't have asked," he commented.
Yugi shrugged in response. "Then I have no idea," he replied. "But I think Sailor Moon had something to do it."
At the mention of the warrior, all eyes flickered back toward the TV where they found the battle to be over and Sailor Moon the victor. While the invisible TV reporter babbled on about the victory, the camera showed Sailor Moon crying into the chest of a man who looked like a prince while the eight other Sailor Scouts floated around them with smiles on their face.
As he watched the girl cry, Yami felt a surge of anger rush through along with a sense of betrayal. Registering the emotions, Yami found them being quickly replaced with confusion. Why would he feel angry and betrayed by the scene when he had no idea who those people were? Yet at the same time, he couldn't help but feel as though he knew them somehow. Yami was pulled out of his reverie a few moments later when the man drew his cape around the soldier and the group of ten vanished into thin air.
"Looks like the Earth owes Sailor Moon another thank you," a brunette with his hair shaped like a fin said.
The brunette girl beside him nodded. "Ra knows we'd all be dead by now if she and the Sailor Scouts weren't around."
"Who were they?" Yami asked.
Hearing his voice, the group remembered the teen's mysterious appearance. Unfortunately for them, the only person who could explain how the Spirit of the Millennium Puzzle gained his own body, was someone who was thousands of miles away from them. Even if they were able to travel to the Juban District, they would have no idea who to go to. Reluctantly, the group decided not to question how it happened and to just go with it.
Standing, the girl walked toward Yami. "That was the soldier of love and justice, Sailor Moon," she replied.
"And her allies, Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn," the blonde added.
"And the guy, Joey?" Yami asked.
Joey shrugged. "Not sure," he replied.
"Maybe it was Tuxedo Mask," the girl commented. "He's been absent from the news for a few months and maybe that was his new outfit."
"But why would he not wear a mask, Téa?" the fin headed teen countered.
Téa shrugged. "Maybe it got destroyed, Tristan."
"Where are they from?" Yami asked interrupting the conversation.
Knowing where he was going with the question, Yugi offered the former spirit a sympathetic smile. "We live in America and they live in Japan," he replied. "You'd have to take a long plane ride across the ocean just to be within the same country as them. Add the fact that no one knows who they truly are and your chances of finding them are slim to none."
That last comment annoyed Yami. He had hoped to meet the superheroes in hopes of understanding why he felt the way he did when he first saw them. From what Yugi said, the heroine also had something to do with how he got his own body. The only person who could help him understand things was the one person not even Seto Kaiba could unmask.
Seeing Yami's angry look, the group could assume he wanted answers from the Sailor Scouts. Téa sighed. "I'm guessing from that look, that you wanted to speak with them?"
Yami nodded. "If what Yugi said is correct then this Sailor Moon may be the only person who knows how I now have my own body," he ground out.
Joey placed his hand on his friend's shoulder. "Maybe after my sister's operation I can use what's left of the prize money from Duelist Kingdom to score us a ticket there," he offered.
Yami and the others looked surprised by the offer. "Seriously?" he asked.
Joey grinned in response. "Sure," he said. "The only reason I have the money is because of you and Yugi, so it's the least I can do." He blushed and added, "Plus I'd kinda like to try and meet the Sailor Scouts." That last part earned laughs from the whole room.
Yugi turned to his grandfather and gestured toward Yami. "Can Yami stay with us?" he asked.
The old man shrugged in response. "I don't see why not," he said. "He's lived here for the past few years, only now he'll sleep in the guest room rather than the Millennium Puzzle."
Grinning at the news, Yugi grabbed Yami's hand and tugged him toward the hall. "C'mon Yami, let's go get you settled in!"
Yami was surprised by Yugi's strength as he found himself unable to break free. Relenting, he turned to smile at Solomon. "Thank you grandpa!" he yelled.
Chuckling at his grandson's response, Solomon pulled a credit card out of his overalls and handed it to Téa. "Yami's gonna need some clothes if he's gonna live here," he said. "Just don't go crazy, okay?"
Nodding, Téa followed her two friends with Joey and Tristan right behind her.
A/N: What did ya'll think of the first chapter of my new story?
The flashback was simply there to establish the relationships between Serena and Darien and between Serena and Atem during the Silver Millennium.
Sorry if the characters seemed a little OOC in this chapter; I'm still pretty new to writing fanfiction.
I have to say that this chapter was kinda hard to write, simply because I had to recap what happened in the battle with Galaxia. It is also 100% true—if you didn't already know—that Serena was naked when she the battle with Galaxia ended (If you don't believe me, then look it up on youtube). So please don't accuse me of trying to make it pornographic in any way.
Also, I know that Galaxia took the Star Seeds of all the innocent when she obtained the Princess Kakyuu's Star Seed but as this is AU, just assume that she didn't steal them all.
Since I gave Yami his own body before Battle City began, you can expect it to go a slightly different way.
The next chapter will fast forward a few months, and it will also feature the Sailor Scouts.
Until then, I implore you to leave me a review!