Alright People, I have been getting a few complaints that my plot is over done. Well if any of you have read TENKUU you would know that it has not been done, just because I started it out the same as other writers does not mean that it is at all the same as other stories. What I want to see is a flamer actually read past the first chapter before you review me. SUCK IT UP! Just because the same plot was done more than once does not mean that the rest of the story is bad. How bout this plot that is done over and over and yet is a box office hit or a best seller. Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy miraculously get Girl back. Or reverse it! Girl meets Boy, Girl loses Boy, Girl gets boy back. AND YET THEY ARE MAJOR HITS. So Just because you think it was done over a million times does not mean that the fic itself will not be good. Lots of people are getting tired of the phrase "This plot has been done so much." How bout something else for once like "You should work on your writing skills, or make your characters more believable."
I have read some of the work of you flamers, and I have to say for what a big fuss you make over other peoples work maybe you should look at your own work and try to fix it first.
But I am taking your words to heart and I have written a fic that is not a betrayal, it does not focus on Usagi and for that matter she is barely in it. So I hope any who read this has fun.
A Guardian Angel
He was killing her. His large hands were so tightly wrapped around her neck that they were turning white. Her hands were clawing at the man's arms and hands trying to break his steel like grip that they had on her. Tears slid down her cheeks as her life flashed before her eyes. Her frantic lungs began to slow; her rapidly beating heart which almost burst began to stop. Her eyes slid up and her lids began to close. A golden light appeared and all the pain started to float away. The monster grip that was around her neck disappeared, the pain in her lungs and heart faded.
A warm hand touched her face, "Open your eyes Jupiter." Her dark green eyes slowly opened then shut again quickly, the light that surrounded the person above her was so bright it was like looking directly into the sun. "You are safe now; I shall always be here to protect you." Jupiter opened her mouth to ask him who he was but nothing came out. "Your voice shall return soon." The hand caressed her cheek and softly ran threw her hair, "You need to wake up now."
The buzz of the alarm clock tore Makoto out of her dream and back to reality. Her horrible, lonely reality. Yawning, she reached over to turn off the alarm clock only to find it gone.
"Damn it." Makoto forgot that she moved the alarm clock to the other side of the room so she would actually get up and be on time for school. After turning of the alarm, Makoto went into her usual routine. 50 push-ups, 50 sit-ups, 10 reps of 25 pound weights, 15 minutes on the treadmill, and finally a 15 minute cool down yoga session. After the very long and hard workout, Makoto took a long, hot shower, followed by a breakfast of rice, eggs and fruit. Her lunch she made the night before so Makoto didn't have to deal with it. After getting changed and pulling her hair back into the high ponytail that she always wears. Makoto had just enough time to grab her homework and run out the door.
During school the usual things occurred. Minako, a blonde haired, blue eyed girl that could have been a model but would rather play volley ball, and Usagi, who also had blonde hair and blue eyes but always wore it in two buns with a long stream of hair falling down from both, eyed all the boys up and down. Ami, a blue haired girl who would rather read than go to the movies, she may seem to be a stick in the mud some times she knew how to let lose, ignored the two and focused on her next big test. And Makoto felt like an outsider. True she had friends; she had four of the best friends ever. But they all had families to go home to. Boyfriends to hold them when they felt down. Makoto however, had nothing. No family to talk to when she got home, no mother to teach her how to act, no father to be over protective of her when a boy comes over, no brothers or sisters to fight with but deep down she would kill for them. No boyfriend to hold her and tell her everything was alright. The only person that truly knew Makoto was Makoto.
"Mako, are you alright?" Coming out of her own thoughts, Makoto smiled down at her smart friend Ami, who, would one day show the world how brilliant she was.
"I am fine Ami. I am just thinking about the test."
"I know, I hope I do okay. I have been studying for a week strait."
"Don't worry Ami, you will do fine. Just don't over work yourself. You do know that there is another test coming up next week."
"Oh my gosh! I completely forgot about that one." Usagi left Minako and joined the two with a sad face.
"Minako said that I shouldn't look because I already have a boyfriend." Makoto laughed while Ami patted Usagi on her shoulder.
"Well that is true, plus you two should be focusing on the other things like the test that we have today and next week."
"I hate finals!" Usagi whined, just as the bell rang, letting all the students know that it was time to get back to class.
After school, and after Usagi and Minako's detention. The four girls headed to the local arcade to meet up with the final girl in their group. Rei. She was a miko who was rather easy on the eyes, with her long black hair and bright but dark eyes, any man would do whatever she wanted. The four girls entered the arcade just in time to see Rei beat Usagi's high score on the new Sailor V Game.
"Rei how could you!" Usagi cried as she ran over to her friend, "I worked forever to getr that score!"
"Yup!" Rei said smugly, "And I just beat it!" Usagi and Rei started bickering and the others started to laugh. Ami calmed the two down and they all sat down at their usual table in the corner.
Her legs burned as she ran into the empty, dark park. Jupiter quickly turned around and crossed her arms.
"Supreme Thunder!" The ball of lightning flew towards the monster and exploded on contact. Dust filled the air and Jupiter gave a sigh of relief. As the smoke cleared, a growl filled the air, Jupiter held her breath as the monster stepped threw the cloud of smoke, swearing under her breath, Jupiter began to power up and she prepared to use her strongest attack. Holding her arms up, she began to spin. Green spheres shot up and formed a large ball above her hands. Smirking, the monster stood tall and waited for the oncoming blast.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!" This time there was no smoke, or none that Jupiter could see, but that could have also been because the monster dodged her attack and slammed her into the ground. It's large, scaly hands with long dagger-like nails, wrapped around her small neck and began to squeeze.
The thing was killing her. Its large hands were so tightly wrapped around her neck that they were turning white. Her hands were clawing at the monster's blue, hairy arms and hands trying to break its steel like grip that the monster had on her.
Tears slid down her cheeks as her life flashed before her eyes. Her frantic lungs began to slow; her rapidly beating heart which almost burst began to stop. Her eyes slid up and her lids began to close.
A golden light appeared, she knew that this was supposed to happen, but why was she still scared? Why did she still think that she was going to die? And just like her last few dreams all the pain started to float away. The monster grip that was around her neck disappeared, Jupiter could hear a harsh voice swear in the distance; a soft, calm voice answered the harsh one. The voices seemed to stop when a bright light flashed in front of her eyes. The pain in her lungs and heart faded just as her fear of death faded.
A warm hand touched her face, "Open your eyes Jupiter." Her dark green eyes slowly opened then shut again quickly, the light that surrounded the person above her was so bright it was like looking directly into the sun. "You are safe now; I shall always be here to protect you." Jupiter opened her mouth to ask him who he was and this time she actually spoke.
"Who are you?" The man smiled, his green eyes glowed with what must have been love.
"I, my dear Makoto, am your guardian angel." Sitting there for a moment, Makoto stared at him; she bit her lip to keep herself from laughing.
"You? You are my guardian angel? You!" Her voice went from laughter to anger. "If you are my angel then why the hell did my life turn out this way! Why am I like this!"
His soft eyes remained the same as he answered her.
"Because you choose to be this way, you choose your own path." The hand caressed her cheek and softly ran threw her hair, pulling away from him she glared at the so called angel.
"Get away from me."
"You need to wake up now."
Shaking her eyes awake, Makoto tried to focus on her teacher but her mind was elsewhere. She hated her dream; it was suppose to be perfect. The perfect dream; the perfect guy. It figures, nothing in my life is perfect, why should my dreams be any different.
"Kino-san!" Jumping about five feet into the air, Makoto looked up to see her very angry math teacher. "Kino-san, since you would rather daydream in my class then listen, she will now help me pass out this pop quiz that I have just decided that you all shall take."
Looking down at Makoto, her teacher smirked and dropped a pile of papers on her desk. "And if anyone gets less than 65 you will fail my class and have to repeat it next semester." Brushing her blonde bangs out of her face, Makoto's teacher headed back to the front of the room. "And you can all thank Kino-san for your predicament." Shit, not only do I constantly screw up my life now I am screwing up other people's life!
"Makoto! I can't believe you! I failed! Now I have to take the class all over again!" Usagi cried, actually she had been whining for the past 3 hours, and all of her anger was towards Makoto. Well you couldn't really call it anger because Usagi never really got angry, she was more disappointed. "I was passing! Ami was helping me! Now I got to do it all over again!" Breaking into tears, Usagi turned and ran away, most likely to her boyfriend's apartment. As she walked down the halls of her school, Makoto noticed a few students staring, whispering and glaring. Holding her head up high, Makoto waited till she got home to cry.
She had been having these dreams for months now. It was the same thing over and over. Some things changed but for the most part it was always the same. Since she hadn't been sleeping well lately, Makoto went from healthy and happy to thin and depressed. Her skills as a great warrior had diminished and the senshi were not calling upon her to help them fight anymore. Makoto needed help, she needed sleep.
After school, she headed to the shrine where Rei lived. Knowing that the miko would be there she didn't have to call. Once she entered the shrine, Makoto spotted her fiery friend at once. Smiling weakly, Makoto headed towards the happy miko.
"Mako!" Rei dropped her broom and ran towards her. After giving Makoto a hug, Rei frowned. "Mako, what is wrong, why do you look so awful?" Smiling down at her dark haired friend, she knew that she made the right decision.
"So, you have had the same dream every night?" Makoto nodded, "I need you to help me. I don't know how to stop it." Frowning, Rei looked into the fire, "It sounds like a premonition, but I have never had one as severe as the one that you seem to be having." Getting up, Rei left the room without saying a word, she did not return for several minutes. When she did return, Rei had a sleeping bag, pillow and a tray of tea with her.
"Drink this, it will help you sleep. Once you are asleep, I will try to figure out this dream that you are having and hopefully by the time you wake up I will have an answer for you."
Makoto thanked her and drank the tea that Rei provided. Laying out the sleeping bag, Makoto fell asleep just as her head hit the pillow.
Upon waking up, Makoto felt slightly better, she had the dream but it felt like it wasn't happening to her, it was happening to someone else. Looking over at Rei, Makoto sighed. She had fallen asleep while reading the fire. Bringing the sleeping bag and pillow over to her. Makoto lied Rei down and covered her with the blanket.
Makoto didn't know what time it was but she did not mind walking home, it would give her time to think.
As she walked down the empty street, Makoto felt like she had been here before. It was dark, so dark that she couldn't even see her hand that was right in front of her face. A shiver climbed up her spine, Makoto had a bad feeling about the wind that blew past her. Hearing a crackling in the bushes, she began to run. The rustling became louder and a howling scream filled the silent night's air. As she ran threw the park, Makoto knew that if she didn't do something soon she would die.
"Jupiter Crystal Power!" Bright green lights broke threw the darkness, changing Makoto into the powerful warrior of Jupiter. Just before the light died down, Jupiter saw what was chasing her, and it scared her. It's eyes were sickly yellow and it was covered in pale blue scales. Its mouth was permanently open with large fangs awaiting blood. Her blood.
Even thought it was tall and bulky, the monster moves were quicker than lighting. Before she even realized what was happening, it attacked her and knocked her to the ground. Getting up slower than she wanted too, Jupiter knew that she was no match for this thing. Raising her hands up, Jupiter let out an attack that flew into several different directions, hoping that even one ball hit the thing; Jupiter began to run and didn't look back.
Her legs burned as she ran deeper into the empty, dark park. Hearing the thing behind her Jupiter quickly turned around and crossed her arms.
"Supreme Thunder!" The ball of lightning flew towards the monster and exploded on contact. Dust filled the air and Jupiter gave a sigh of relief. As the smoke cleared, a growl filled the air; Jupiter held her breath as the monster stepped threw the cloud of smoke, swearing under her breath when she saw his blue body step threw the smoke. Gritting her teeth, she knew that she could not out run this; she would have to fight or die trying.
Jupiter began to power up and she prepared to use her strongest attack. Holding her arms up, she began to spin. Green spheres shot up and formed a large ball above her hands. Smirking, the monster stood tall and waited for the oncoming blast.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!" This time there was no smoke, or none that Jupiter could see, but that could have also been because the monster dodged her attack and slammed her into the ground. It's large, scaly hands with long dagger-like nails, wrapped around her small neck and began to squeeze.
The thing was killing her. Its large hands were so tightly wrapped around her neck that they were turning white. Her hands were clawing at the monster's blue, hairy arms and hands trying to break its steel like grip that the monster had on her.
Tears slid down her cheeks as her life flashed before her eyes. Her frantic lungs began to slow; her rapidly beating heart which almost burst began to stop. Her eyes slid up and her lids began to close.
A golden light appeared again, but this time she did not want it to show up. Jupiter did not want to talk to this man or for that matter have her life indebted to him. The thought made her angry; her anger gave her enough power for one final attack.
Grabbing the monsters fangs she smirked slightly, her face turning white, her eyes growing dark, she knew that it would take them both.
"Supreme Thunder!" Electricity flew from her hands into his mouth. Along with the silvery white attack, a golden one appeared as well. No! her mind screamed just before she blacked out. The monsters body had dissolved and all that was left were the cooling hands that were wrapped tightly around her neck. Jupiter pried the hands off of her and in the process got deep scratches on her neck. Looking up she say him. The man who plagued her dreams, the one she seemed to love and yet hate so much. Glaring at him, she helped her self up, despite the fact that he held out his hand. Dusting herself off, she finally got a good look at him. "Why are you here?" Tilting his head, the man gave her a very confused look. Blinking a couple of times, he gave a nervous laugh.
"I don't know." Rolling her eyes she began to walk away, turning her head back towards him, Jupiter hissed. "Don't follow-" Everything became blurry; her eyes rolled to the back of her head and Jupiter fell into darkness.
To Be Continued...