Disclaimer: No, I do not own Sailor Moon. Just thought I'd let you know that. ^.^ Another thing: I am not anti-Mamoru. I'm just a HUGE fan of Seiya and Usagi, that's all. I know that Mamoru and Usagi are meant to be together, but one can dream right?
Author's li'l note: This story takes place at the beginning of Sailor Stars. The REAL beginning. (ep. 173) Please don't shoot me for butchering the storyline. *gets down on her hands and knees* Please? You can e-mail any comments or death threats to odangoprincess@yahoo.com.
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Behind the Scenes:
Chapter One: Meetings
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I never imagined it would happen. Me. Seiya Kou. In love. I guess I've always been a sucker for romance, but not when I had a mission to accomplish. Nothing interrupted my mission to find my princess. After all, she was the one I chose to live for, right? The one I pledged my life to...But I never thought I would meet somebody like her. She was a klutz, a crybaby. She was the strongest person I'd ever met. Odango...
I guess I should start at the beginning...start when fate first sent me to the blue planet Earth...
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Yaten plops down on the floor and sighs. "Another one! Another planet gone to that...that THING!" he says, frustrated. Taiki sits down next to Yaten and nods his head. "And no sign of the princess...When will we find her? There aren't many planets left in this galaxy that SHE hasn't completely destroyed." Taiki was usually levelheaded about everything but he had to admit it was getting frustrating. He and Yaten are talking to each other about their frustrations of not being able to locate HER when suddenly a fist slams down on the table in front of them.
"Enough!" Seiya yells at his 'brothers'. "Simply yelling at each other about it isn't getting us any closer to finding her! We need to stay focused on the mission or else Galaxia will win. SHE is the only one who can stand against that evil Queen."
"How can you be so sure she's even alive?!" Yaten yells at his leader. He knew he was stepping out of line, but he didn't care. He knew Seiya was just as frustrated as they were; he felt that. Seiya was just too damn stubborn to admit it.
"Yaten, have you felt her death?" Yaten hesitates. "Well?"
"No. But, she was very far away. And I've been feeling the stars fading left and right. I may have missed it. She could be dead. You just don't know it!" Yaten felt like crying.
"She is alive. I know it. We WILL find her." Seiya says, determined. Yaten saw the determination and hope in his 'brother's' eyes and sighs in resignation. He honestly didn't know how his leader could have so much faith. Especially after all the devastation they'd seen.
"Where are we going to this time and why are we in this form? It is SO uncomfortable!" Yaten immediately falls back into his complaining mode.
"We are heading to the planet Earth," Seiya states matter-of-factly; "we need to attract the women of the planet. I have a very strong feeling SHE is there. It is our final hope." He looks down momentarily. Yeah, sometimes it got to him, too. He inhales sharply and looks up at them smiling. "I know she is there. Now we must get going to this blue planet." They transform into their senshi forms and fly off.
"I have heard that the legendary Sailor Senshi are on this planet," Maker comments as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
"Yes. They will have many hardships ahead of them if Galaxia comes to this planet. But, we cannot get involved. We are there for one reason and one reason only: to find our princess. They have to protect their own planet." Fighter states and sighs sadly. More fighting. Why did it have to be this way? She shakes her head to clear it of those thoughts and concentrates on the thought of her princess. They would find her here on this vast planet....
"Tokyo, here we come." Fighter mutters under her breath.
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Meanwhile, two lovers look up as three shooting stars are spotted in the sky. "I have a bad feeling. The fighting is not over yet."
"Yes. And we may lose this time."
"I don't care. As long as I'm with you. We could go to Hell and back for all I care."
"Baka, Haruka. I thought we've already been there. Let's go someplace nicer this time."
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"Hey, did you hear? The Three Lights are coming to Tokyo!" an enthusiastic blonde girl states and slams the magazine she was reading on the table in front of three other girls. Ami peeks up over the top of her book and looks at the magazine. She blushes when Rei sees her peeking at the two-page spread of the Three Lights. Rei says enthusiastically: "Yeah! I can't wait to see their opening concert!"
"Who are the Three Lights?" asks a (for once) quiet Usagi.
Three girls get up in her face from all different sides of the table. "YOU DON'T KNOW THEM?!" They all scream at her. She shakes her head, tiny sweat drops appearing all around her face.
"Baka, Usagi! You don't know anything! They're-" Rei starts.
"-Like THE HOTTEST idol group in all the world!" Minako finishes enthusiastically.
"Minako-chan, maybe you're exaggerating just a bit." Makoto says...and instantly regrets it, for she now has three girls trying to strangle her. "Okay, okay! Gomen!"
Minako, however, doesn't let her hands drop from her friends' neck. "Say it, first, Mako-chan," she says with an evil look in her eyes.
"Okay..." she manages to whisper out. "The Three Lights are THE HOTTEST idol group in all the world." Minako gets stars in her eyes, drops Makoto, and plops back down in front of her magazine.
"I know! Aren't they just the greatest?" She looks at everyone around her and sweat drops. "What?" They all mutter nothing and go back to talking about the idol trio, paying no attention to the fact that EVERYONE in the crown parlor is staring at them strangely. Minako once more turns starry-eyed and sighs deeply, gazing at nothing. "I love Seiya. He's so wild!" Makoto agrees with a "We like that right?" and a "Mmm...Hmm" of agreement.
"I love Yaten...With his unapproachable beauty and his no-nonsense personality. He isn't as immature as Seiya..." She gets the same dreamy look as Minako as both Makoto and Minako agree with the "We like that right?" and the "Mmm...Hmm" of approval.
"Well..." comes the quiet voice of the girl with her nose stuck in a book. "I like Taiki. He's the smartest of the group and is the most mature of them all." Minako, Rei, and Makoto agree with the usual phrase: "Mmm...Hmm" Then, Minako sighs dreamily and states: "I love them all!" Then they turn to Usagi, finally acknowledging their princess' presence. "Usagi-chan, which one do YOU like?"
"Mamo-chan, she says quietly." They give her the 'I'm disappointed in you' look and sweat drop. But, then they notice the tears dripping down Usagi's face.
"What's wrong, Usagi-chan?" Minako asks.
"Mamo-chan is going to the USA tomorrow to study at Harvard and he won't return for a long time!" She cries harder. They all try to quiet the girl down- an impossible task. Rei finally loses her patience (what else is new?).
"Baka Usagi! Why didn't you stop him?"
"Don't you understand, Rei? I can't keep him from going for his dream! He wants to be a doctor and that's one of the top medical schools. I can't stop him!" She continues to cry even louder this time. Rei sees her point and backs down. After a while, Usagi calms down a bit, smiles, and stands up. "I promised to see him off with a smile. I said I'd be all right, but really...I'm not sure I can take it. I'll see you later guys." She walks out of the crown parlor, shoulders slumped in sadness. The girls watch her leave with saddened expressions. They knew this would be hard on their princess. Rei says to the other girls in a moment of kindness: "She's being very mature about this. We should be supportive of her." The other girls nod in agreement.
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Usagi and Mamoru are at the airport. Mamoru had already told her that he would not have time to answer all her messages. She had (surprisingly) understood and said she didn't mind. She would write everyday. As he gets ready to board his plane, he pulls out a box and tells her to open it. She does so and gasps when she sees the contents. A ring.
"Mamo-chan!" she exclaims happily as she slips it on her finger and hugs him tightly. He smiles.
"Will you wait for me, Usako?"
"Of course!" What kind of silly question was that? Of course she would wait for him!
"Good." They kiss, but are interrupted a moment later by the flight announcer calling for all passengers to board the flight. "That's my flight." he says and they walk toward the flight gate. They look up as they hear a commotion. "Must be some pretty popular people to be creating such a commotion," he comments. She giggles and they continue on. Somebody walks past her and Mamoru and she glances back over her shoulder as she feels a strange emotion. A young boy with blue eyes hidden behind dark glasses and with dark hair glances at her as well, a stunned look on his face. They both continue on, Usagi instantly forgetting about the whole thing. She sees Mamoru's plane take off with a sad smile. *Goodbye Mamo-chan.* she thinks. *I almost feel as though I'm watching my best friend go away. It's strange. I was sad when he first told me he was leaving, but now...I realize it's not that bad, not having him around.* She shakes her head. *What am I thinking? Of course I will miss Mamo-chan a lot. He is my love. It probably just hasn't sunk in yet, that's all...I hope...*
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Mamoru was staring at a photo of him, Usagi, and Chibi-usa while sitting on the plane. Why didn't he feel sadder about leaving his destined wife? Perhaps it was the anticipation of heading to a university in a different country. Perhaps it would sink in that he would not see his overly cheerful girlfriend for a VERY long time once he got to the USA...*I feel so stupid for giving her that ring! I should have given it to her when I got back or earlier! Now she'll think that...No, wait, she doesn't think too deeply about these things. She'll probably just think it was a meaningless gift like always...* He sighs at the thought. He wasn't sure if he even loved her in this life like he did in his last one, but he would never tell her that. *What is that light?* He was observing this odd golden light flying toward his window. Before he knew it, there was a stabbing pain in his chest and this golden seed appeared in front of him. Before he passed out from the pain, he spotted his assailant. A women, possibly a senshi, dressed all in gold armor. She was laughing at him, mocking him. He couldn't quite make out the words; it was getting so cold and dark. It sounded like she was saying: "Another star seed for my collection. Now all that's left are the earth's senshi..." *Usako...* was the last thought he had before the darkness welcomed him in its embrace...
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*What was that strange feeling I felt when I passed by that girl?* Seiya was sitting on a bench outside the trailers where they were having interviews with Itsuki Alice and thinking about the girl he had seen at the airport. *That energy...It felt almost like HER.*
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"Hey, wait for me!" Usagi cried as she watched her friends disappear into the extremely large crowd of people waiting to see the Three Lights and Alice. "Guys!" she began wailing. "It's not fair! I can't make it through these crowds!" *Whine, whine, whine. That's all she ever does.* Luna thinks as she shakes her head from atop Usagi's shoulder. "Maybe there's room down here..." Usagi mumbles and begins to walk down the line of people. "Hey!" she spots trailers. "Luna, look!" the cat looks to where Usagi points. "No admittance beyond this point! This must be where they rest!" she says enthusiastically and starts to sneak toward the trailers.
"Hey, didn't you read the sign? From here, there's no admittance." A voice comes from behind her. She turns around, surprised. He looks surprised as well.
*It's that girl from the airport!* he thinks. He's absorbed in his thoughts so only catches the last part of her really long apology. "Oh, it's you. So you've found me!" He cuts her off.
She looks slightly surprised, but then finally recognizes blue eyes and black hair. *Should I let him know I remember who he is? Nah! Can't let out that I'm not as much of an airhead as everyone thinks, can I?* She takes on a bewildered expression.
"What do you mean?"
"We met at the airport, remember?" He says, slightly annoyed. He couldn't have been the only one who felt that strange emotion...could he?
"Am I SUPPOSED to remember you? I met no one at the airport today." Hah! She was doing well. Total airhead was probably the thought going through his head at the moment. Of course she knew him! Not only from the airport, but also in that magazine that Minako had been drooling all over the other day as well. But, she couldn't let on that she actually noticed her surroundings once in a while. It would damage her reputation. And then she might actually have to learn something at school. She grimaces at the thought.
"You don't recognize me?! I'm Seiya Kou." He says, agitated. Honestly! Did she live under a rock?
*So this is the one called Seiya. The 'wild one'* "Ah, I get it!" she says turning slightly away and looking at him from the corner of her eye. "This is a new way to approach girls, isn't it?" He collapses to the ground with sweat drops appearing everywhere. *Good! He's falling for it! I wish I had a camera to take a picture of THAT expression. It's classic!*
"I think she really does live under a rock," he mutters under his breath.
"What?" she asks, curious. *Did he just say that I live under a rock?*
He recovers easily, jumps up from his position on the ground, and salutes to her. "I said nothing. I must leave, but I hope we meet again, Odango. Ja!" He leaves the scene, barely hearing her,
"Only Mamo-chan can call me that! My name is Usagi!" She sighs, slightly annoyed. "What an impossible guy!"
"But, he was pretty good-looking though." Luna comments. "Hmmph!" is all Usagi replies with. *He is pretty hot...I guess.* she thinks to herself. She decides that she can sneak into the resting area now that the 'impossible guy' is gone. She begins walking around the trailers, but stops dead in her tracks when she hears a shrill scream. "Oh, no!" She runs in the direction of the scream and peeks around one of the trailers. She gets a large sweat drop when she sees a tiny mouse-woman dressed in what appears to be a senshi fuku holding a black glass diamond shaped object and standing in front of an unconscious Itsuki Alice. "Luna, what IS that?"
"Usagi-chan, don't ask questions! Just transform!"
Another large sweat drop. "Oh, right! Moon Eternal...Make-up!" Seconds later, Eternal Sailor Moon stands between Alice and the mouse-like senshi. She goes through her customary speech and adds to the end that she won't let this woman harm Alice. The other 'senshi' introduces herself as well.
"I'm Sailor Iron Mouse. I have no use for such a weak star seed and I have no desire to stay here and chat, so for now....deal with my farce! Ja!" She disappears in a telephone booth and a bewildered Sailor Moon turns to Alice, who now has vines wrapping around her. Seconds later, Sailor Moon and Luna find themselves dodging Alice's attacks. "No, way! This can't be! You are Alice-chan?"
"I am Sailor Pretty!"
"Sailor? You are a senshi like me?"
"Sailor Moon, stop jabbering and fight her!"
"But, Luna this is Alice! I can't just fight her!" Both Sailor Moon and Luna get very large sweat drops on the sides of their heads as they just keep dodging Sailor Pretty's attacks.
"This is getting us nowhere. We must do something!" Luna yells. Just as Sailor Moon and Luna are backed into a corner, a golden laser beam hits the farce, making it fall to the ground in front of Moon.
*Another senshi? This day gets weirder and weirder!* "Who are you?" Sailor Moon asks of her savior, who has now landed in front of her as well. The senshi clad in black doesn't answer, only prepares for another attack on her enemy. But the girl with the wings jumps between the two with her arms extended at her sides.
"What are you doing?! Get out of my way! She must be destroyed!" The girl with the long black hair pulled into a ponytail yells.
"No! That is Itsuki Alice, an ordinary woman! We can't kill her!"
"It is too late. I'm sorry for her, but we can't fix it. She must die. Now get out of my way," She says menacingly. The blond one refuses to move. "Move!"
"No!"
"Are you a sailor senshi or not? You have a duty to protect this planet and you won't even kill one farce?"
"I have a duty to protect this planet, yes, and that means not hurting innocent people! Who are you to say such things to me anyway?"
"I am Sailor Star Fighter. I come from a far away galaxy and I have seen what this enemy can do to a planet. You will perish if you think that you do not have to fight!"
"No! Nothing gets solved by fighting! People only get hurt and I refuse to let that happen!" she has tears running down her face and her moon symbol flashes brightly.
*What is this light? Could it be...*
"I will save her." Sailor Moon says determined and a scepter suddenly appears in front of her. "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" she yells as Sailor Pretty tries to get up to attack again. She is caught in the pink light and is turned into her old self. Sailor Moon turns around and sees the senshi in black walking away from her. "Wait!" The girl only stops, but does not turn around. "Thank you for saving me..."
"I was only trying to stop the farce, not save you." the girl comments flatly. But, when she turns to the blond senshi, her eyes soften at the look in the other girls' eyes. *Innocence. She knows nothing of the fight, does she?* "If this is how you fight this enemy, you will never win. You kill whatever monster opposes you or you will perish."
"I was always taught that you should try to heal somebody, not kill them. There is always some good left in every enemy." she says, almost sadly.
"If you believe that, then you are an even bigger fool than I thought."
"I believe that with all my heart."
"It's your funeral." the girls states and walks away. Sailor Moon watches with a sad look in her eyes. *That senshi must have been through a lot to feel that way about life...* she catches a glimpse of two more people dressed similarly to 'Sailor Star Fighter' from the corner of her eye and wonders who they are. She shrugs it off when they disappear from view seconds later. She de-transforms and heads back to the crowd of people waiting to see the Three Lights. Only now there isn't a crowd of people to go back to. Her friends walk up and ask what happened to her. She thinks about it for a moment and then shrugs. How would she explain the enemy being sailor senshi, innocent humans being sailor senshi, and her possible savior being a sailor senshi? It was just too weird! All her friends get giant sweat drops on their head when they hear that she doesn't know what she was doing for the last hour. She just laughs. Luna looks cross...
Meanwhile, Fighter detransforms back to Seiya and walks into the Three Lights' apartment where he is met by an angry green glare. "What?" He asks as Yaten shoves him into the wall once he shuts the front door.
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Somehow I feel like I just copied and pasted the original story onto this pater.-_-' I'm sorry if this just seems like the original storyline right now. I'm sorry if it's boring. I hope (no I really hope) that the story will be more interesting for you guys in the next chapter. Again death threats (or maybe a comment) can be mailed to tweeky@gundamwing.org. 'Kay, bye.
Author's li'l note: This story takes place at the beginning of Sailor Stars. The REAL beginning. (ep. 173) Please don't shoot me for butchering the storyline. *gets down on her hands and knees* Please? You can e-mail any comments or death threats to odangoprincess@yahoo.com.
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Behind the Scenes:
Chapter One: Meetings
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I never imagined it would happen. Me. Seiya Kou. In love. I guess I've always been a sucker for romance, but not when I had a mission to accomplish. Nothing interrupted my mission to find my princess. After all, she was the one I chose to live for, right? The one I pledged my life to...But I never thought I would meet somebody like her. She was a klutz, a crybaby. She was the strongest person I'd ever met. Odango...
I guess I should start at the beginning...start when fate first sent me to the blue planet Earth...
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Yaten plops down on the floor and sighs. "Another one! Another planet gone to that...that THING!" he says, frustrated. Taiki sits down next to Yaten and nods his head. "And no sign of the princess...When will we find her? There aren't many planets left in this galaxy that SHE hasn't completely destroyed." Taiki was usually levelheaded about everything but he had to admit it was getting frustrating. He and Yaten are talking to each other about their frustrations of not being able to locate HER when suddenly a fist slams down on the table in front of them.
"Enough!" Seiya yells at his 'brothers'. "Simply yelling at each other about it isn't getting us any closer to finding her! We need to stay focused on the mission or else Galaxia will win. SHE is the only one who can stand against that evil Queen."
"How can you be so sure she's even alive?!" Yaten yells at his leader. He knew he was stepping out of line, but he didn't care. He knew Seiya was just as frustrated as they were; he felt that. Seiya was just too damn stubborn to admit it.
"Yaten, have you felt her death?" Yaten hesitates. "Well?"
"No. But, she was very far away. And I've been feeling the stars fading left and right. I may have missed it. She could be dead. You just don't know it!" Yaten felt like crying.
"She is alive. I know it. We WILL find her." Seiya says, determined. Yaten saw the determination and hope in his 'brother's' eyes and sighs in resignation. He honestly didn't know how his leader could have so much faith. Especially after all the devastation they'd seen.
"Where are we going to this time and why are we in this form? It is SO uncomfortable!" Yaten immediately falls back into his complaining mode.
"We are heading to the planet Earth," Seiya states matter-of-factly; "we need to attract the women of the planet. I have a very strong feeling SHE is there. It is our final hope." He looks down momentarily. Yeah, sometimes it got to him, too. He inhales sharply and looks up at them smiling. "I know she is there. Now we must get going to this blue planet." They transform into their senshi forms and fly off.
"I have heard that the legendary Sailor Senshi are on this planet," Maker comments as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
"Yes. They will have many hardships ahead of them if Galaxia comes to this planet. But, we cannot get involved. We are there for one reason and one reason only: to find our princess. They have to protect their own planet." Fighter states and sighs sadly. More fighting. Why did it have to be this way? She shakes her head to clear it of those thoughts and concentrates on the thought of her princess. They would find her here on this vast planet....
"Tokyo, here we come." Fighter mutters under her breath.
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Meanwhile, two lovers look up as three shooting stars are spotted in the sky. "I have a bad feeling. The fighting is not over yet."
"Yes. And we may lose this time."
"I don't care. As long as I'm with you. We could go to Hell and back for all I care."
"Baka, Haruka. I thought we've already been there. Let's go someplace nicer this time."
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"Hey, did you hear? The Three Lights are coming to Tokyo!" an enthusiastic blonde girl states and slams the magazine she was reading on the table in front of three other girls. Ami peeks up over the top of her book and looks at the magazine. She blushes when Rei sees her peeking at the two-page spread of the Three Lights. Rei says enthusiastically: "Yeah! I can't wait to see their opening concert!"
"Who are the Three Lights?" asks a (for once) quiet Usagi.
Three girls get up in her face from all different sides of the table. "YOU DON'T KNOW THEM?!" They all scream at her. She shakes her head, tiny sweat drops appearing all around her face.
"Baka, Usagi! You don't know anything! They're-" Rei starts.
"-Like THE HOTTEST idol group in all the world!" Minako finishes enthusiastically.
"Minako-chan, maybe you're exaggerating just a bit." Makoto says...and instantly regrets it, for she now has three girls trying to strangle her. "Okay, okay! Gomen!"
Minako, however, doesn't let her hands drop from her friends' neck. "Say it, first, Mako-chan," she says with an evil look in her eyes.
"Okay..." she manages to whisper out. "The Three Lights are THE HOTTEST idol group in all the world." Minako gets stars in her eyes, drops Makoto, and plops back down in front of her magazine.
"I know! Aren't they just the greatest?" She looks at everyone around her and sweat drops. "What?" They all mutter nothing and go back to talking about the idol trio, paying no attention to the fact that EVERYONE in the crown parlor is staring at them strangely. Minako once more turns starry-eyed and sighs deeply, gazing at nothing. "I love Seiya. He's so wild!" Makoto agrees with a "We like that right?" and a "Mmm...Hmm" of agreement.
"I love Yaten...With his unapproachable beauty and his no-nonsense personality. He isn't as immature as Seiya..." She gets the same dreamy look as Minako as both Makoto and Minako agree with the "We like that right?" and the "Mmm...Hmm" of approval.
"Well..." comes the quiet voice of the girl with her nose stuck in a book. "I like Taiki. He's the smartest of the group and is the most mature of them all." Minako, Rei, and Makoto agree with the usual phrase: "Mmm...Hmm" Then, Minako sighs dreamily and states: "I love them all!" Then they turn to Usagi, finally acknowledging their princess' presence. "Usagi-chan, which one do YOU like?"
"Mamo-chan, she says quietly." They give her the 'I'm disappointed in you' look and sweat drop. But, then they notice the tears dripping down Usagi's face.
"What's wrong, Usagi-chan?" Minako asks.
"Mamo-chan is going to the USA tomorrow to study at Harvard and he won't return for a long time!" She cries harder. They all try to quiet the girl down- an impossible task. Rei finally loses her patience (what else is new?).
"Baka Usagi! Why didn't you stop him?"
"Don't you understand, Rei? I can't keep him from going for his dream! He wants to be a doctor and that's one of the top medical schools. I can't stop him!" She continues to cry even louder this time. Rei sees her point and backs down. After a while, Usagi calms down a bit, smiles, and stands up. "I promised to see him off with a smile. I said I'd be all right, but really...I'm not sure I can take it. I'll see you later guys." She walks out of the crown parlor, shoulders slumped in sadness. The girls watch her leave with saddened expressions. They knew this would be hard on their princess. Rei says to the other girls in a moment of kindness: "She's being very mature about this. We should be supportive of her." The other girls nod in agreement.
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Usagi and Mamoru are at the airport. Mamoru had already told her that he would not have time to answer all her messages. She had (surprisingly) understood and said she didn't mind. She would write everyday. As he gets ready to board his plane, he pulls out a box and tells her to open it. She does so and gasps when she sees the contents. A ring.
"Mamo-chan!" she exclaims happily as she slips it on her finger and hugs him tightly. He smiles.
"Will you wait for me, Usako?"
"Of course!" What kind of silly question was that? Of course she would wait for him!
"Good." They kiss, but are interrupted a moment later by the flight announcer calling for all passengers to board the flight. "That's my flight." he says and they walk toward the flight gate. They look up as they hear a commotion. "Must be some pretty popular people to be creating such a commotion," he comments. She giggles and they continue on. Somebody walks past her and Mamoru and she glances back over her shoulder as she feels a strange emotion. A young boy with blue eyes hidden behind dark glasses and with dark hair glances at her as well, a stunned look on his face. They both continue on, Usagi instantly forgetting about the whole thing. She sees Mamoru's plane take off with a sad smile. *Goodbye Mamo-chan.* she thinks. *I almost feel as though I'm watching my best friend go away. It's strange. I was sad when he first told me he was leaving, but now...I realize it's not that bad, not having him around.* She shakes her head. *What am I thinking? Of course I will miss Mamo-chan a lot. He is my love. It probably just hasn't sunk in yet, that's all...I hope...*
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Mamoru was staring at a photo of him, Usagi, and Chibi-usa while sitting on the plane. Why didn't he feel sadder about leaving his destined wife? Perhaps it was the anticipation of heading to a university in a different country. Perhaps it would sink in that he would not see his overly cheerful girlfriend for a VERY long time once he got to the USA...*I feel so stupid for giving her that ring! I should have given it to her when I got back or earlier! Now she'll think that...No, wait, she doesn't think too deeply about these things. She'll probably just think it was a meaningless gift like always...* He sighs at the thought. He wasn't sure if he even loved her in this life like he did in his last one, but he would never tell her that. *What is that light?* He was observing this odd golden light flying toward his window. Before he knew it, there was a stabbing pain in his chest and this golden seed appeared in front of him. Before he passed out from the pain, he spotted his assailant. A women, possibly a senshi, dressed all in gold armor. She was laughing at him, mocking him. He couldn't quite make out the words; it was getting so cold and dark. It sounded like she was saying: "Another star seed for my collection. Now all that's left are the earth's senshi..." *Usako...* was the last thought he had before the darkness welcomed him in its embrace...
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*What was that strange feeling I felt when I passed by that girl?* Seiya was sitting on a bench outside the trailers where they were having interviews with Itsuki Alice and thinking about the girl he had seen at the airport. *That energy...It felt almost like HER.*
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"Hey, wait for me!" Usagi cried as she watched her friends disappear into the extremely large crowd of people waiting to see the Three Lights and Alice. "Guys!" she began wailing. "It's not fair! I can't make it through these crowds!" *Whine, whine, whine. That's all she ever does.* Luna thinks as she shakes her head from atop Usagi's shoulder. "Maybe there's room down here..." Usagi mumbles and begins to walk down the line of people. "Hey!" she spots trailers. "Luna, look!" the cat looks to where Usagi points. "No admittance beyond this point! This must be where they rest!" she says enthusiastically and starts to sneak toward the trailers.
"Hey, didn't you read the sign? From here, there's no admittance." A voice comes from behind her. She turns around, surprised. He looks surprised as well.
*It's that girl from the airport!* he thinks. He's absorbed in his thoughts so only catches the last part of her really long apology. "Oh, it's you. So you've found me!" He cuts her off.
She looks slightly surprised, but then finally recognizes blue eyes and black hair. *Should I let him know I remember who he is? Nah! Can't let out that I'm not as much of an airhead as everyone thinks, can I?* She takes on a bewildered expression.
"What do you mean?"
"We met at the airport, remember?" He says, slightly annoyed. He couldn't have been the only one who felt that strange emotion...could he?
"Am I SUPPOSED to remember you? I met no one at the airport today." Hah! She was doing well. Total airhead was probably the thought going through his head at the moment. Of course she knew him! Not only from the airport, but also in that magazine that Minako had been drooling all over the other day as well. But, she couldn't let on that she actually noticed her surroundings once in a while. It would damage her reputation. And then she might actually have to learn something at school. She grimaces at the thought.
"You don't recognize me?! I'm Seiya Kou." He says, agitated. Honestly! Did she live under a rock?
*So this is the one called Seiya. The 'wild one'* "Ah, I get it!" she says turning slightly away and looking at him from the corner of her eye. "This is a new way to approach girls, isn't it?" He collapses to the ground with sweat drops appearing everywhere. *Good! He's falling for it! I wish I had a camera to take a picture of THAT expression. It's classic!*
"I think she really does live under a rock," he mutters under his breath.
"What?" she asks, curious. *Did he just say that I live under a rock?*
He recovers easily, jumps up from his position on the ground, and salutes to her. "I said nothing. I must leave, but I hope we meet again, Odango. Ja!" He leaves the scene, barely hearing her,
"Only Mamo-chan can call me that! My name is Usagi!" She sighs, slightly annoyed. "What an impossible guy!"
"But, he was pretty good-looking though." Luna comments. "Hmmph!" is all Usagi replies with. *He is pretty hot...I guess.* she thinks to herself. She decides that she can sneak into the resting area now that the 'impossible guy' is gone. She begins walking around the trailers, but stops dead in her tracks when she hears a shrill scream. "Oh, no!" She runs in the direction of the scream and peeks around one of the trailers. She gets a large sweat drop when she sees a tiny mouse-woman dressed in what appears to be a senshi fuku holding a black glass diamond shaped object and standing in front of an unconscious Itsuki Alice. "Luna, what IS that?"
"Usagi-chan, don't ask questions! Just transform!"
Another large sweat drop. "Oh, right! Moon Eternal...Make-up!" Seconds later, Eternal Sailor Moon stands between Alice and the mouse-like senshi. She goes through her customary speech and adds to the end that she won't let this woman harm Alice. The other 'senshi' introduces herself as well.
"I'm Sailor Iron Mouse. I have no use for such a weak star seed and I have no desire to stay here and chat, so for now....deal with my farce! Ja!" She disappears in a telephone booth and a bewildered Sailor Moon turns to Alice, who now has vines wrapping around her. Seconds later, Sailor Moon and Luna find themselves dodging Alice's attacks. "No, way! This can't be! You are Alice-chan?"
"I am Sailor Pretty!"
"Sailor? You are a senshi like me?"
"Sailor Moon, stop jabbering and fight her!"
"But, Luna this is Alice! I can't just fight her!" Both Sailor Moon and Luna get very large sweat drops on the sides of their heads as they just keep dodging Sailor Pretty's attacks.
"This is getting us nowhere. We must do something!" Luna yells. Just as Sailor Moon and Luna are backed into a corner, a golden laser beam hits the farce, making it fall to the ground in front of Moon.
*Another senshi? This day gets weirder and weirder!* "Who are you?" Sailor Moon asks of her savior, who has now landed in front of her as well. The senshi clad in black doesn't answer, only prepares for another attack on her enemy. But the girl with the wings jumps between the two with her arms extended at her sides.
"What are you doing?! Get out of my way! She must be destroyed!" The girl with the long black hair pulled into a ponytail yells.
"No! That is Itsuki Alice, an ordinary woman! We can't kill her!"
"It is too late. I'm sorry for her, but we can't fix it. She must die. Now get out of my way," She says menacingly. The blond one refuses to move. "Move!"
"No!"
"Are you a sailor senshi or not? You have a duty to protect this planet and you won't even kill one farce?"
"I have a duty to protect this planet, yes, and that means not hurting innocent people! Who are you to say such things to me anyway?"
"I am Sailor Star Fighter. I come from a far away galaxy and I have seen what this enemy can do to a planet. You will perish if you think that you do not have to fight!"
"No! Nothing gets solved by fighting! People only get hurt and I refuse to let that happen!" she has tears running down her face and her moon symbol flashes brightly.
*What is this light? Could it be...*
"I will save her." Sailor Moon says determined and a scepter suddenly appears in front of her. "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" she yells as Sailor Pretty tries to get up to attack again. She is caught in the pink light and is turned into her old self. Sailor Moon turns around and sees the senshi in black walking away from her. "Wait!" The girl only stops, but does not turn around. "Thank you for saving me..."
"I was only trying to stop the farce, not save you." the girl comments flatly. But, when she turns to the blond senshi, her eyes soften at the look in the other girls' eyes. *Innocence. She knows nothing of the fight, does she?* "If this is how you fight this enemy, you will never win. You kill whatever monster opposes you or you will perish."
"I was always taught that you should try to heal somebody, not kill them. There is always some good left in every enemy." she says, almost sadly.
"If you believe that, then you are an even bigger fool than I thought."
"I believe that with all my heart."
"It's your funeral." the girls states and walks away. Sailor Moon watches with a sad look in her eyes. *That senshi must have been through a lot to feel that way about life...* she catches a glimpse of two more people dressed similarly to 'Sailor Star Fighter' from the corner of her eye and wonders who they are. She shrugs it off when they disappear from view seconds later. She de-transforms and heads back to the crowd of people waiting to see the Three Lights. Only now there isn't a crowd of people to go back to. Her friends walk up and ask what happened to her. She thinks about it for a moment and then shrugs. How would she explain the enemy being sailor senshi, innocent humans being sailor senshi, and her possible savior being a sailor senshi? It was just too weird! All her friends get giant sweat drops on their head when they hear that she doesn't know what she was doing for the last hour. She just laughs. Luna looks cross...
Meanwhile, Fighter detransforms back to Seiya and walks into the Three Lights' apartment where he is met by an angry green glare. "What?" He asks as Yaten shoves him into the wall once he shuts the front door.
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Somehow I feel like I just copied and pasted the original story onto this pater.-_-' I'm sorry if this just seems like the original storyline right now. I'm sorry if it's boring. I hope (no I really hope) that the story will be more interesting for you guys in the next chapter. Again death threats (or maybe a comment) can be mailed to tweeky@gundamwing.org. 'Kay, bye.