Author's Note: Sailor Moon DOESN"T belong to me!
This is my first story, and I know it'll probably suck. Don't forget to comment!
Chapter One
"Where is that girl?" Rei asked with a hint of viciousness in her tone. She scanned the Crown, hoping to see her friend's long ponytail somewhere, or watch her come up and say a lame excuse for being late. "She was supposed to meet us here fifteen minutes ago!" "Don't worry, Rei. She'll make it," answered a very tired Ami. As soon as those words were said, a girl with two odangos on the top of her head popped up with a huge smile on her face. "Hey, minna! Gomen for making all of you wait for me!" she announced with a smile on her face. "Where were you?" inquired a very annoyed Rei. "It doesn't really matter, since she's already here," Makoto broke in, "besides, we weren't really planning anything, just a little get together." Rei sat down, a bit grumpily, muttering something about how the future queen should be a bit more on time. Everyone laughed at those words, even Usagi. "Even as Neo Queen Serenity, I doubt I'll be on time," Usagi managed to choke out between giggles. As soon as she had stopped laughing enough to talk, she called out, " Hey, Motoki! Could I have a triple vanilla strawberry milkshake, please?" "Coming right up!" A few minutes later, Usagi was taking big gulps of her milkshake and sharing random chatter with everyone else about how they were going to spend their summer and when they thought the Starlights would come back to visit (they had left a few months ago). Rei and Makoto started to make fun of how Minako and Ami fell in love with Yaten and Taiki, and they joked about how Seiya would chase after Usagi like a lovesick puppy. Not long after this, the girls were all either laughing or blushing furiously. A few hours later, the girls disband and each heads for their own home. Soon, everyone Is frantically studying (even Ami was looking ever her notes and sets of problems; Usagi was planning on studing but never got to it, seeing as she just fell asleep after eating a big slice of cake when she got home) for their last few weeks of school, and for their last few exams. Little did they know, they would all end up meeting each other again in the same dream…
In the dream…
"Where am I?" Minako asked herself, getting up from the ground. "Ugh. What a headache!" She curiously looks around at her very dark and ominous surroundings. She saw a little tuft of dark-ish aquamarine. "Ami?" Ami's head suddenly shoots up in surprise and fright. "Who's there?" she asks a bit aggressively. "Don't worry. It's just me." "Oh! Minako, don't do that to me! Anyway where are we?" "I don't really know…" Both girls look around, hoping for some sort of sign when they see a brown ponytail behind a couple of rocks, and a few strands of black hair a few boulders back. "Hey, Ami, isn't that Mako-chan and Rei?" "Yeah! I think so!" They slowly walk up and see their friends unconscious on the ground a few feet away from each other. Ami runs to Rei while Minako drops down next to Makoto. They start to pick up their friends and shake them. "Rei! Wake up!" "Mako-chan! Are you all right?" Both girls groggily get up. "Where are we?" Makoto mumbles, staring at the world around her. "We're not really sure… but that's not the problem right now. Where's Usagi-chan (how they know that she's in the dream is a mystery to me…)?" Ami asks the others. "Usagi-chan!" "Usagi, where are you?" "Wait! Look over there! I think that's her!" All heads suddenly turn towards the hill that Rei was pointing at, and they see Usagi, no, Princess Serenity, as she was in the princess's dress, on the ground. "Usagi!" They all cry out and run to where their unconscious princess was leaning on a column with her back against it. "Usagi!" "Are you okay?" "Wake up! Please!"
The princess's eyelids start to flutter and she sees all of her comrades looking at her with worry and fear. She stares at them curiously for a minute before speaking. "Hey minna. Why did you henshin?" The girls look at Serenity with a 'what-are-you-talking-about' look before looking at each other, and to much of their surprise, they had all henshined. "That's weird. I don't remember transforming." Sailor Jupiter ,Mako, said. "And you were all wearing normal clothes when I found you." Sailor Venus, Minako, pointed out. "Hmmm…. and how did Usagi become Princess Serenity…?" Sailor Mercury, Ami, wondered out loud. "I don't know how I transformed into Serenity, but if I henshined, shouldn't I have turned into Eternal Sailor Moon instead? I usually don't change into Serenity unless I'm, or we're, in some cases, in a lot of trouble and I have to call on the power of the Silver Crystal or it's a life or death situation, or something like that." Serenity pointed out.
"So we're in trouble?"Venus half screamed. I don't think so, at least,"Jupiter started," but we should watch out for anything suspicious." The senshi all nod and then walk away to look for any signs of where they were. "Hey, minna. I think I found something…" Mercury whispers. The others quietly walk over and look at what she was pointing at.
They see three people talking together a few feet away from them, two of them have matching outfits but in different colors, while the other is like a shadow, melting in with the darkness surrounding him. There are bodies of dead people all around them. "I can teach you how to fully use your powers," the shadow whispered to the girls, one weeping silently at the death of their planet, the other half listening to what the shadow-like man had to say ,as well as half comforting the other.
"What powers? What are they talking about…?" Sailor Mars, Rei, starts, but is quickly shushed by the others when the dark man starts up again.
"There is no use in staying here. In your current conditions, neither of you will be able to revive your planets. Leave with me, and I will teach you how to master your abilities. The girls consulted together with some kind of telepathic connection, and after a few minutes, the one who was comforting confidently stood up and said," Okay, I'll join you." The other came up shakingly and also nodded in consent. "Then it's settled! One more thing though. We must leave this desolate place. There is no need to stay on this planet anymore where there is so much pain and death." The girls just nod. They all leave in rays of light, out to somewhere else in space, the shadow-like man leaving first in a very dark ray, while the two girls follow after in a red and yellow ray…
"WHAT exactly was THAT?" Mars suddenly bursts at the others, still a bit angry about the shushing. "Um… I don't think we were supposed to hear that…" Jupiter puts in. "This isn't just a normal dream, is it?" Venus asks. "NO, DUH!" Everyone screams at her while Venus sweatdrops. "Okay, okay! No need to yell at me about it!" she said back, with a slightly hurt expression on her face that disappeared after a second. "But how did we all end up in the same dream?" "I don't know…" Mercury says pulling out her computer and starts to type on it furiously.
"Okay," she starts after a few moments of silence and keys clicking, "the only thing I'm sure of is that we're all still asleep, but we're not exactly in a dream, neither are we actually on Earth anymore…" Everyone sweatdrops at what Ami said. "Ummm...would you mind explaining that to us, Mercury?" Serenity says, scratching her hair with a little sweatdrop on her head. "Okay…um... I'm not exactly sure, but I think that we really are asleep, but our consciences are here, on this planet that isn't Earth. And I'm also guessing that since we're asleep in our human forms, our consciences took on the form that we weren't using, that is, our henshined forms."
"But that still doesn't explain how my conscience took on the form of Serenity instead of Sailor Moon." Serenity points out. "I know, but I'm still not exactly sure what's happening right now, so I don't have all of the answers." "Okay… how about we meet tomorrow at the Crown at three and talk about this some more then?" "Sure." Jupiter answers. "Should we call the outers?" Serenity asks. "I don't think we should tell them about this until after we figure out what's happening or until they somehow happen to find out or something." Mars says. Serenity's face falls a little, but the others don't really notice. "Okay, so tomorrow at the Crown without the outers, right?" Venus clarifies. "Yep." "See you then." "Bye!" "Good night!" Everyone fades away to their own bodies back on Earth.
The next day at the Crown…
"WHERE is that Usagi?" Rei half screams after waiting for ten minutes at their usual table. "And I thought she would actually be on time for this meeting. What was I thinking then?" Makoto says, exasperated at her friends usual tardiness. "Oh. Here she comes." Ami says.
"Hey minna. Sorry for keeping you waiting." Usagi runs in panting. "You're late." Makoto points out while moving to take a sip of her smoothie. "Gomen nasai!" "Ugh! Usagi, couldn't you at least be on time for this meeting?" "Gomen, gomen! Anyways, I ran into Mamo-chan on the way and I had the brilliant thought of inviting him to listen. Besides, this may also concern him, seeing as how his body reacts to the Earth's condtion," Usagi explains. "Oh. Well, at least you have a good reason to be late, I guess. But why are you ten minutes late? When did you leave your house?" Rei persists. "Ummm…" Usagi gets a really sheepish look on her face. "About three-oh-five-ish." Usagi gets a sweatdrop. Rei looks as if she's about to yell some more, but Ami interrupts,"Guys, she's always late, so how about we start the meeting be first telling Mamoru about the weird dream and forget about Usagi's absence?" "Um…thanks Ami-chan? Was I supposed to be thankful, or offended by that?" Usagi looks at her friend angrily. "Um... what are you talking about? What weird dream?" Mamoru puts in, confused. "I'll start, since I came back to consciousness first?" Minako says. " When I woke, the only thing I saw was a really dark planet with dead bodies and a lot of destroyed buildings and stuff. That's about when I found Ami." Minako said. "I'll take over from here," Ami says," We walked around and saw Rei and Mako-chan near some other boulders not too far away. When we got them to wake up…" "I found Princess Serenity on top of a hill, slumped next to a broken column." Rei interrupts. Ami lookd a bit annoyed at being interrupted, but allowed Rei to continue. "Once we got her to wake up, we had all somehow mysteriously henshined." Makoto finshed for Rei. "Wait, did you say Princess Serenity? Don't you mean Usako? And how did you all henshin mysteriously" Mamoru put in. "Nope," Ami answers," she was Princess Serenity, complete with silver crystal and white gown." "Well, what about the henshining?" Mamoru persisted. Ami explains her theory to him. Mamoru had more questions, but said," Continue." The quintet recall how they saw the three other figures talking not so far away and repeated what they heard from the conversation the trio had. "This is really weird. Should we call Setsuna and ask her if anything is going to happen in the future?" Mamoru suggests. "We've decided beforehand that we weren't going to add the outers to this since we weren't aware of their presence in the dream." Minako explains. "Don't Haruka and Michiru have Usagi's number? If they know something that might affect the future or if Setsuna tells them something important, they'll be sure to call their princess and warn her." Rei states. "What if they've been told not to tell us?" Makoto add, nervously. "Haruka will call anyways. You all know that if her princess is in trouble, she won't hesitate to do anything that might keep Usagi safe. I don't know about you guys, but it seemed really obvious to me that Haruka doesn't just flirt with Usagi only because it makes her blush like crazy." Ami pointed out. Everyone stared at her and she looked away, with a pink tint appearing on her cheeks. "How do you know that?" Minako asks suspiciously. Ami blushes even more at the question. They all suddenly burst into laughter and Ami's statement was quickly forgotten as the group plunged back to the conversation about the trio and what the dream might have to do with their future.
Meanwhile…
About the same time; at Haruka's mansion…
The outers were all seated on the couch discussing Michiru's and Haruka's careers, as a famous violinist and racer. Michiru and Haruka were seated next to each other on one of the couches, Hotaru and Setsuna on the next. They each had a cup of tea in front of them on the table. Michiru had been requested to do a joint concert with another violinist in America. Haruka was thinking about going for another national championship in racing, but this time, it was only a hour away from their mansion. "It would be a great experience for you to be in America." Haruka said with a smile, though there was a hint of sadness in her eyes that only Michiru detected, and so she replied," I don't have to go…" "You should go! It'll be great for you and for your publicity." Setsuna interrupted. "Well… okay, fine. But do you really need another trophy? I'm always the one who has to dust them off." Michiru teased. Haruka smiled back before answering," Well, it has been four years, and no monsters have shown up, and my racing's getting a little shabby, so I thought that another race would help me get back in shape, and it'll be nice if we could go after our own dreams and lay off being a senshi for a few days…" She was suddenly cut off as Hotaru shot up out of her seat. "Hotaru! What's wrong?" Setsuna jumped up and asked, extremely worried. The other two also jumped up as well. Hotaru's eyes were widened with fear, but then suddenly went blank as she stared off into space, not noticing the other's worried glances. She started to speak:
Two evils are coming,
Something we cannot defeat alone,
Soon, darkness will ravage the solar system,
Revenge will be sought out on the galaxies,
Death and blood will spill on the world,
Everything is about to change…
They see a vision of two girls, both in matching outfits, standing next to each other with the different galaxies in their hands. They see a close up of different scenes of Earth with people screaming or dead. They see a lot of blood. Suddenly, the scene switches to show each of the senshi in turn. They're all dead. The three share a frightened, worried, and confused glance at each other before looking back at the scene. Lastly, the scene shows a lonely Princess Serenity with her staff on the ground, crying on her knees with her head in her hands. "Koneko…" Haruka whispers. "Princess…" Setsuna and Michru say. Once again, another glance is exchanged. The scene abruptly disappears and they returned back to the familiar surroundings that was Haruka's living room.
All eyes watch the little black haired girl as she finishes showing them what she had to share. Her eyes turn purple-violet once again as she falls back suddenly into Setsuna's arms. The three share a quick glance before Setsuna carries the exhausted girl back to her room and returns to collapse on the sofa. Michiru and Haruka were already seated.
"What was that?" Michiru whispers softly, but loud enough for the others to hear. "I think that was a prophecy." Setsuna answers, a bit louder than the volume Michiru had used. Haruka stood up and said to them," I'm gonna go call Koneko and the others to tell them about this…" "No!" Setsuna interrupts. "Gomen, but we're going to have to keep this a secret until we can figure out what's going on and what that prophecy meant." Setsuna ordered. Haruka sat back down a little frustrated, so Michiru put her arm around her lovers and said," Don't worry, Ruka. We'll figure it out. Besides, I think Setsuna's right, in a way. We don't need them worrying about this. They should live their own lives." she reasoned. "But what if they can help us with this…?" Haruka tried to contradict. "How could they possibly know about this?" Setsuna countered in a very menacingly calm voice. She hated it when Haruka was so stubborn. Michiru put her head on Haruka's shoulder and sighed. Setsuna and Haruka often got into arguments. "Alright." Haruka growled as she stood up and stalked towards her bedroom. Michiru and Setsuna both rolled their eyes and they knew that the same thought was rolling through their heads. Haruka is so stubborn!
Later that night…
Haruka had requested to be alone for a while, and the others would have left her alone even if she hadn't asked. Actually, they wanted to stay away from her until the winds stopped raging outside. That's when they knew that she had gone out of her bad mood and that it was safe to talk to her again. Besides, they couldn't get to her even if they wanted to. Haruka locked her room when she slammed the door shut. They couldn't hear her from the lower floor, so they thought the frustrated girl was just sulking in her bed. After an hour of nothing but rattling windows from the roaring winds outside, Michiru left to go get ready for bed, and Setsuna followed her example. Soon, the whole house was sound asleep in their own rooms. Or, at least they thought…
Haruka had been sulking, as they expected, but during her sulking time, had come up with a plan that would probably earn a really long lecture from Setsuna about following directions and how dangerous it was if she didn't listen and just did things her own ways. Michiru would just ignore her for the most of the day, or at least try to. Who knew what she would try when she wanted to gain back Michiru's trust? She did something new each time, just to keep Michiru surprised. It ranged from a really fancy meal at a restaurant, to other things, usually at night… Anyways, Haruka was planning something, but it wasn't how to distract herself during the lecture, or how to please Michiru the next day. This plan was how to get to her Koneko without the others finding out. She finally noticed her cell phone on the counter of her unnecessarily large dresser, in front of the large mirror. A plan suddenly sprouted up in her mind. She went to the door and listened for any sounds of the others. There didn't seem to be anyone in the hallway, so she quietly opened the door, wincing when she heard the loud squeak, and looked around for the others. They girl's doors were opened, and the lights were closed. Haruka slipped from her room down to the others, to check to see if they were really asleep. After checking all of the bedrooms, she breezed across the hallway back to her own room where she proceeded to lock the door and pick up her cell phone to promptly call her princess.
After a few rings, Usagi finally picked up. "Hello?" She looked at the clock. 2:00 A.M. Who is calling me this early? "Koneko?" "Haruka? Why are you calling me so early in the morning? Aren't you supposed to be asleep?" Usagi wondered. "Listen. I'm gonna whisper because I've been banned from having this conversation for now…" Haruka started, but was interrupted by Usagi's questions. "What do you mean banned…?" "Just listen. I don't think I can tell you right now, so can you meet me tomorrow?" Haruka whispered. Usagi, sensing the urgency in her Wind Senshi's tone, immediately answered yes. Haruka then proceeded to give Usagi the address of a fancy restaurant where she was supposed to arrive at no later than 12:15 for lunch. Of course, knowing about Usagi's usual tardiness, gave her the time fifteen minutes earlier, hoping she wouldn't be that late. "Oh, and Koneko?" Haruka asked. "Yes?" "Don't tell anyone about this." Haruka said. "Sure." "I'm serious. No one." Haruka warned. "Okay, okay. I promise I won't tell anyone." Usagi said hastily. They said their good nights and hung up. Usagi flopped backwards on her bed and wondered what Haruka had to say that was so important that she couldn't say over the phone. She sat frustrated like that for about five minutes before shortly falling asleep. On the other hand, Haruka sat down on her bed and smiled to herself, thinking about how badly her lecture would be and what she would have to do to win back her lover's trust…
And that's the end of chapter one! Tell me if you hate it, like it, you get the point.
Just a couple of comments from me…
The story is just starting, and eventually, the Starlights will come back, so don't worry. If you're a fan of UsagixMamoru, give my story a chance, and comment about it. Don't be too harsh. If you're a fan of UsagixSeiya, than keep reading and give me comments about how the story should end! The story will take a couple thirty chapters to write, so I don't really know how the story will end. Anyways, thanks for reading, and I hope you like the rest of the story!