Authors Note: So, this the first chapter I'm hoping it raises alot of questions, cause that's what first chapters are supposed to do, um this series will be about fourteen chapters, with an epilouge and not including the prolouge, so enjoy ^.^
Summary (for now): There is a duplicate moon hidden beneath the shadow of the old and it is tired of waiting and hiding. It wishes to live too, it wishes to have what they have at any cost.
Warnings: Violence, sort of gore (more later), some cursing, yuri and het and...I can't think of anything else yet. Oh yea, they may be out of character but I tried really hard.
Disclaimer: This is not my story or characters, any original characters are a figment of my imagaination and not used to steal the true author's books or ideas ^.^
Side Notes: This is supposed to be a continuation of the series, as in after season five and the battle with chaos...um yea.
**Begin Reading Now
"Are we ready yet?" Rin tapped her foot impatiently and turned to the other's both Aiko and Midori looked away, Teiko just looked blank.
"The…well it's like this…um…you see…" Aiko stuttered out nervously until Teiko butted in with a roll of her eyes.
"Dumb and dumber have lost our queen."
"Thank you Teiko" Midori said sarcastically "And we did not lose her…she's just hiding"
"Uh-huh, I hate to say I told you so Teiko but—" She held up her hand
"Yes, Rin we are well aware of our…leaders capabilities but I assure you she's not as stupid as she seems, she's probably—"
"I'm not stupid!"
"—just hiding behind the throne again."
"Oops…hehe, hi guys" Rin rolled her eyes and grabbed Kogitsune's hand and dragged her towards the white circle on the wall, which was slowly but surely shrinking.
"Time to go, we have everything."
"B-but Rin, I don't wanna go I—" Teiko moved swiftly beside Rin and shoved the young queen forwards into the hole, she gave a startled shout and disappeared, Teiko followed after her voice lingering.
"Hurry up!" Midori snorted and followed muttering to herself about showoffs.
"Ready Rin?" Aiko asked Rin gently grabbing her hand.
"No, I'm expecting failure from our Mistress of Disaster." Aiko giggled and dragged Rin into the hole quickly a small squelching sound as it closed completely echoed through the empty room.
"I don't understand Rei, I know the fire never lies but why would Usagi attack earth? Let alone attack us?" Makoto said brushing the sleeping Usagi's hair back, after hearing the full story of Rei's vision she had collapsed in tears and cried herself to sleep knowing that their peaceful year was gone.
"I don't either…but I don't make what comes in the fire, I just see it, so we have to be prepared for the worst!"
"Not necessarily," Ami said while looking at her small computer "I've been monitoring Usagi's sleeping patterns, as of the late she had bad dreams, she asked if I could help and I agreed, it shows that at the same time every night…her mind…leaves"
"What?" All gasped not comprehending; Ami sighed and set her glasses on the nightstand turning towards them.
"It seems as if all conscious thought leaves her mind, there's nothing there yet…yet she says that is when she's having the nightmare, Rei you remember when we first met the outer scouts? We thought Saturn meant the end, totally, but we were wrong. Not so much as we misread what was happening as we didn't know the full meaning; I have a strong feeling it's a very similar situation."
"Yea Ami's right guys…" Minako said smiling a little "We all know and love Usagi, we know her almost too well, and Pluto would have warned us if the future was in danger, we have to trust in her." She said softly smiling at Usagi's sleeping form.
"I suppose." Rei said anxiously
"Don't worry so much Rei, everything will work out for the best." Rei nodded, but couldn't help but fear the worst.
Pluto stared in shock, two futures? It wasn't possible, it would destroy everything! Two futures couldn't exist and unless one was destroyed they would both disappear. She clutched the time key in her hand; she would not let it be theirs! Not after everything they had done to save it, it just couldn't.
She teleported quickly to Uranus, she had to warn them, they had been breached straight to earth, straight to Usagi!
"Kogitsune!" All four women sighed, no matter how many times they called, their queen wouldn't answer. It was as if she had—they shook their heads they refused to believe that she had died going through and they had live.
"We should just sit and think we don't even know where we are." Midori said, staring at the odd green landscape before turning to the others.
"No, we should continue with what we started, it's not our fault she got lost, I mean she's the only one who would get lost in a fucking transport? Who the hell does that?" Rin shouted in annoyance and worry, Aiko sighed and spoke softly tugging at the grass.
"We can't stay here Midori, we have to move, if anyone catches our presence before we're established here we have a lot of explaining to do."
"The chances of us getting found are slim, I did all the necessary calculations, so she can't have landed far, for all we know she transported directly to the crystal, statically speaking we—"
"Oh shut up with your statistic Tokei, your statistics flung our Kogitsune into random sectors for all we know!" Midori snapped
"We're getting nowhere, we need to get to work then look, it's our only option, and we have to trust that she's okay." They agreed with Aiko reluctantly and got up to leave, hoping their queen wasn't dead.
"TOKEI I HATE YOU!" Kogitsune screamed disgruntled as she hid in a park, behind a fountain, avoiding people at all costs. She stared hopelessly at her tattered clothes and pulled fruitlessly at the knots in her hair.
Once shoved through the transport doorway she had landed in the middle of a street with cars screeching wildly all around her, she had darted to the sidewalk only to be ambushed by numerous people and forced into some sort of vehicle. When she was let out the locked her in a room and connected her to tubes, she had waited internally panicking till they left and humped out a window only to get caught in a thorn bush then seen by the same people who forced her into the car, so she'd ran and ran till she was so tired she could barely see and fell into the fountain where she now sat.
"I hate this planet, studying all about this stupid place and I still don't understand anything" she muttered viciously as she yanked at her hair "I don't see why we had to come to this stupid planet!" she glared at her reflection, yes it had been her idea but what good would it do without her crystal? Besides she didn't have the same powers they had, she couldn't do anything on her own.
"If I had my crystal I could…but I don't." She sighed and tilted her back to the sky, it was late now, and she had no place to go. She shivered and wrapped her arms around her body, maybe she would feel better after some sleep, she walked towards an empty bench and paused noticing a jacket, she shrugged and slipped it on over her clothes and then carefully slipped the wet clothes off from under it.
"Mmm…much better," she yawned and stretched out on the bench "not the most comfy but you'll have to do."
Usagi woke but stayed pretending to be asleep; she knew they were all counting on her but what if what Rei has seen was right? What is it came true?
"So that's the plan then?" Makoto said nodding and standing.
"Well's there's not much else we can do, I mean, we don't even know that there is an enemy here yet, so we just have to wait and see."
"Alright…I don't like it but—"
"You worry too much Rei!"
"And you worry too little Minako." Rei replied dryly to which Minako smirked and pranced out of the room, followed by Makoto and Amy who both smiled reassuringly.
"…Rei-chan?"
"Usagi?" She spun to face the now awake princess and sat on the edge of the bed carefully and nodded for her to continue.
"Do you really think I would…you know…to everything?"
"I think…I think you should go on a date with Mamoru-san, that always helps you feel better, besides like Minako said we can't do anything till whatever it is appears"
Usagi nodded but wasn't reassured by Rei's words, she had a feeling there was more Rei wanted to say but she was never one to say everything right away, unless she was angry. Usagi stood slowly and left quietly, leaving Rei to think by herself.
"I feel like I haven't grown at all…like when I first started…" Usagi muttered to herself as she walked to Mamoru's house "I don't know what to do next."
Usagi sighed, she wished Luna was here but Luna and Artemis had gone on a much deserved vacation and wouldn't be back for another few months. It was by her convincing that they were gone, and now they were needed and they weren't here.
"Maybe I should get in touch with Michiru-san…just in case."
Mamoru walked swiftly back to the park, it was only a quick backtrack with a slow as Usagi was sometimes he had no trouble believing he would still get there before her, all her needed was his jacket, he had forgotten it last night. He had planned to call Usagi for a date there later anyways but Rei had called saying she was already on her way to his house so they had a change of plans.
As he approached the bench he thought about what Rei had told him on the phone he didn't believe for one second that Usagi would do anything to hurt them but Rei's vision was unnerving to say the least, after what he had felt last night as well. The earth had felt like, for only a second, that it had been ripped neatly in two, the pain had left him awake almost all night, he knew something was coming.
As he approached the bench he noticed a strand of hair hanging from the bench where he had sat and a body in his jacket. He stared wondering if her should just leave until he seen the bruises on her wrists and legs, changing his mind he moved toward her slowly.
"Hey" He shook her gently and paused and she simply yawned and rolled over, falling off the bench in the process, his arm shot out to catch her and he froze. She wasn't wearing anything under the jacket! In shock he pulled his hand back, and then cursed as his other arm shot out to catch her again and met the ground harshly.
By now Kogitsune was awake and not happy; she woke to some weird man staring at her like she was from another planet. She inwardly scowled; new people to the castle always seemed to have issues entering her chambers without asking.
"What are you doing?" She spoke slowly as if to a child, the man frowned and spoke back in the same tone.
"I could ask you the same thing, your sleeping on a bench!" That was right, a bench, by herself, she hadn't found anyone. She was lost on earth; without her crystal and she was scared she might die without it and them…
He didn't know what to do, as soon as he steadied her and removed his arm she had curled up and began to cry, a nervous feeling ate at the pit of his stomach, what is she was a victim of some sort of crime? He rubbed her back gently at a loss and spoke softly.
"We can go to wherever you need to, ok?"
"N-no! Leave me alone…go away…I…I'm fine."
"Yea, it looks like it." She jerked away from him and stuck out her tongue childishly before standing in a huff.
"I'm perfectly capable on my own!" His face turned slightly red as he looked away pulling her jacket closed around her and then dutifully kept his eyes on her face.
"My name is Chiba Mamoru, I live nearby, I can take you there for…proper clothes and then you can call someone to pick you up, ok?"
She hesitated before nodding and waited till he turned and then she ran, in the complete opposite direction. She remembered Teiko's warning quiet vividly now, never follow a stranger people on earth were not always noble and no one would know who she was or care. She ran ignoring his shouts after her and hoped that whichever way she was running would lead her to back to them.
Teiko stared around their new apartment without much feeling, the other girls seemed impressed by it's simple glamour but she wasn't, it was a step down from the palace so it wasn't much to look at in her eyes and they still had more important matters to deal with like how to get the crystal for their mistress and how to find her for that matter.
"I have been scanning the area where we should have landed and seconds before she landed, it's strange it's like nothing I've seen before, a time warp ripped open, it pulled her from us but at the same time the warp is showing as having opened after we transported…I don't understand." Teiko sounded so angry and frustrated that Midori bit back her retort about how she wasn't so smart anymore and simply sat in the middle of the empty room.
"So…we don't know where she is? At all? There's no way to—" Aiko sounded on the verge of panic, but they were all thinking the same thing, by now they sound have felt her presence or found her, they had been counting on Teiko…but if even she didn't know where Kogitsune was…
"I didn't say that!" Teiko snapped before continuing "I just meant it's going to be much harder than before to find her but…if we can get the crystal that's here first we have a better chance because we can use it to locate her and she can make a new crystal with the one here."
"So we just get the crystal that's here?" Aiko said shakily and Midori quickly pulled the girl down for a hug and nodded agreeing with Teiko.
"Yea, so we got our work cut us for, huh?" Rin was silent through the discussion, she was remembering what they refused to voice, they could only live so long as the princess and crystal were in constant contact with them, the air from this planet would kill them if not. She stared at her pale skin that just the day before had been a nice gold color and the veins throbbing though menacingly. They only had about a week maximum to find the princess, if she wasn't dying already!
Mamoru shook his head slightly, she was probably just a runaway, but the look on her face when she'd cried had reminded him so much of Usagi he'd wanted to kiss the sadness from her face. He sighed and unlocked the door to his apartment only to be attacked by a bundle of blonde pig-tails.
"Usagi?"
"Mamo-chan…" She spoke breathily and just held him breathing deeply, her whole body shook unevenly, he wrapped his arms around her and stepped awkwardly with her and closed the door.
"What happened?"
"It's Setsuna…she came to see you, someone's here…and Rei's vision, even Hotaru's back! Mamruo what if I…I don't want to Mamo-chan!" She sobbed unable to completely tell him what happened, but he could feel her pain as sharp as if it were his own.
"Usagi…it's alright…"
"Mamruo-san…we need to talk." He looked up in surprise to see the outer senshi sitting quiet comfortably in his living room, Michiru was on the phone speaking rapidly with who he guessed to be the other Senshi, Haruka sat nearby glaring out the window, Hotaru and Pluto looked sad and very serious.
He steadied Usagi with one hand and lead her to the last couch and sat with her, allowing her to hid her face in his chest and cry whatever was wrong out.
"What's going on?"
"I told you! Saturn's here…awake again! All the scouts are—"
"Rei, now is not the time we need to be composed for Usagi's sake, from what Michiru told me the vision you saw…Setsuna said she saw something similar but clearer, something about two futures…" Minako sounded frustrated and a little scared.
"Right…composed." Rei muttered irritably and stopped running once they reached Mamoru's building, the others stopped behind her breathing heavily, they had all ran to get there from the arcade as soon as Michiru had called.
"I…I don't wanna go in" Ami said voicing what they didn't want to say "I don't want to fight anymore…Why…?"
"We don't have a choice Ami, we never did" Makoto said with a soft sigh, "We chose to protect her and our future…always no matter the cost." Then she entered the building letting the others follow.
Kogitsune stopped running when she realized she reached the end of the park and sat with a thump, watching the world go on just past the edge of the small park. It seemed so heartbreakingly familiar, something she didn't want to remember, so she stood and quickly walked out, smiling, she had just become a part of what she had watched.
She adjusted the jacket, first some clothes, then she would look up her friends and find the crystal, it would work…it had to, for their sake and for hers.
"Usagi? I thought you went to Mamoru's house." Kogitsune stopped in surprise, the person was obviously speaking to her, but he had her name wrong.
"Oh..I'm sorry, you looked so much like her I thought you were—anyway my name's Shingo." He held out his hand with a friendly smile and Kogitsune took it nervously, he looked much safer than the pervert in the park.
"Mines…Kogitsune."
"Nice to meet cha', so you live around here." He spoke easily with her and he relaxed her, like she'd known him all her life.
"No…I'm lost actually." Shingo took in her appearance more carefully and his eyes widened before he masked his surprise she caught it and took a step back, he held up his hands cautiously and spoke slowly.
"I can take you to my parents house if you want, we can get you cleaned up." She threw up her hands in annoyance.
"Why does everyone want to take me to there house?" Shingo's eyes widened before he laughed and grabbed her wrist gently.
"Come on."
"So what your saying is there already here, it's set in motion?" Setsuna nodded and Rei clenched her fists angrily and slammed them onto the table.
"So we just wait around for something to happen to her?"
"No, we wait till they strike then we see what we can do from there." She replied with the same even-paced tone, inside though she was just as worried as the others. It had been so sudden, none of them was ready.
"By then it's too late!" Rei practically growled, Setsuna's control snapped
"Well what do you propose we do?"
"I…I don't know." Rei sat back down heavily allowing Ami to rub comforting circles on her back while she thought about what to do.
"Well here's what we do know," Haruka spoke calmly and just as frustrated as the rest "whatever it is it already here, it's after…Setsuna?"
"I think…Usagi, but I'm not sure, because whatever it was looked like Usagi but it wasn't her" She let out a sigh and got up walking towards the window "and it's coming tomorrow I can feel it."
All shivered and tried to see where Setsuna was looking and dreading the next day.
She stared into the house standing by the door, it was…lived in looking. A small hallway to one side and stairs to the other, doors lining the hall and leading to the small living room with a tv. She poked at it briefly before hearing Shingo snicker, she spun and fell.
"Oh…"
"Here, these are my sisters but they should fit you, you're about the same size." He said tossing them to her, she caught them and nodded.
"Thank you, I guess."
"The bathrooms over there," he jerked his head towards the stairs then continued "when you're done you can use the phone if you want."
She smiled briefly and darted towards the bathroom, when she closed the door behind her she paused, who would she call? She didn't even know what their assumed names were; let alone how to use a phone!
"I'm stuck here then…" She sighed and pulled on the clothes, they fit almost perfect and for some reason that irked her. She tugged at them briefly before stepping out and going back to where Shingo was, she hoped her would be able to tell her something.
"So…what do we do now?" Shingo turned to her in surprise
"Well…what do you want to do?"
"I don't know…I'm…I have amnesia!" She said with a smile, it was the perfect excuse, but Shingo just laugh and shook his head.
"If that's what you want to go with then I'll agree, so since you have 'amnesia' where are you going to stay?" She paused, she knew he didn't believe her but as long as he didn't push her for questions maybe she could stay there.
Shingo watched the girl carefully, it was obvious to him she was in some sort of trouble and he really wanted her to stay till his parents got home and could give her more help but he was afraid to say anything in case she thought he was trying something perverted. So he waited for her to make a decision.
"…How…How do you say," she paused some speech patterns were different here "the time?"
"Haha…it's actually kind of late, it's about four, why?" He said standing to close a window.
"I—" She didn't finished her sentence because she was interrupted by a coughing fit, she covered her mouth and tried to smoother them but they got louder.
"Hey, hey what's wrong?"
"Wi-window…" She gasped, the air, it was like someone had locked out all the air, she couldn't get anything into her system, she panicked and shoved him away stumbling to the window and shoving it open.
"Ahhh…don't ever close the window!" She snapped and glared, his eyes widened and were glued to her hand, she followed his gaze "Shit…"
"You—You coughed up blood!"
"I'm sick?"
"I can see that, you have to go to the hospital!"
"NO!" She know remembered what that horrible building was called "I mean…no, I just, earlier I'm kinda clumsy I fell into the street and a car just bumped me—"
"You were hit by a car? Why aren't you still there? You could have internal bleeding!"
"I don't!" She said sounding oddly insulted "I just need…look, please, just let me stay here secretly" she pleaded falling to her knees and crawling towards him to grab his hand and pull it toward her "I'll do anything, just for one night and I'll be gone tomorrow, I promise…please?"
Shingo looked away quickly, this girl was crazy! Did she even know what she was doing? How she sounded? He knew she was trouble; he sighed and pulled his hands away from her chest, running one quickly through his hair. He was going to regret this later he just knew it. He glanced at her quickly and regretted it, he could see straight down her shirt, and didn't she even realize he was a guy? He vaguely wondered what had been worse, the clinging clothes or the fact that earlier she had been only wearing a jacket.
"Alright, fine. Come with me, you can stay in my room." A smile light her face and she flung her arms around him in a hug.
"Thank you, thank you! I'll pay you back" He groaned, it was gonna be a long night.
Hotaru stared out the window her face blank, she had for a second thought she recognized the presence, it felt like one she had silenced years, many years ago. It wasn't possible though, if she had silenced it, it couldn't be awakened again…not by itself.
"Hotaru?" She turned and smiled reassuringly at Setsuna.
"Don't worry it's safer if we're together, it was a good idea to all stay here for the night."
"I must really be falling apart for it to be that obvious…I had just been so sure, so sure that chaos was the last…"
"We make mistakes, we're born to fight, we're human no matter what…pardon the expression."
"No, you're right…I just had wished for something different for all of us…especially you Hotaru, I know it weighs heavily on you each time you have too—"
"It is my duty, I do it without fail, without regret…don't forget, I'm not like all of you, I will do what is necessary bar the consequences."
Setsuna bowed her head "So I have seen."
Both turned away from each other, Setsuna wondered briefly though if that was a warning, a warning that this time there was nothing they could do and not for the first time if Hotaru could know even more than she did.
Hotaru frowned as she thought; if something had escaped her, one little thing she didn't think she could re-seal it away. Not for good then again nothing had ever lived after her silence glaive, not to her knowledge, not with Sailor Moon and the crystal.
End Reading Now**
Authors End Note: And there it is, I tried hard, I know it's not super long, but I firgure to much at once is annoying, no? Well review if you kinda like, pretty please, thank much for reading!