BISHOUJO SENSHI SAILORMOON
~MIRAI~
PART II: DREAM STATE
by: Komillia (komillia@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: Sailormoon belongs to Takeuchi Naoko and Kodansha, not me.
Although most of the characters in this fanfiction are original and
created by me.
Some Japanese words I use:
konnichi wa = good afternoon
arigatou = thank you
demo = but
hai = yes
tadaima = I'm home
okari nasai = welcome home
minna-san = everyone
ne = hey
onegai = please
gomen nasai = I'm sorry
* * * *
"Hey Sakura-san, there's a phone call for you!" someone
shouted.
"I'll be there in two seconds!" Chie called back. She put down
a folder on the desk, then she walked over accepted the phone her
colleauge was holding out. "Arigatou," she said to him as he left.
"Hello, this is Sakura Chie."
"Konnichi wa, Chie-san," Tomo's voice said.
"Oh, hello Tomo," Chie replied, sitting down on a chair.
"What? Are you calling from school? .... I see. Tomo, it's really
getting busy here at work, but I'll just call Hikaru and tell him to
give you a ride. Okay? Okay, bye."
Chie hung up and then dialled the phone number back home.
* * * *
"I made breakfast, lunch and dinner two days in a row, now
it's your turn," Yasha said, crossing her arms.
"And the three days before that, I cooked," Hikaru pointed
out. "So, technically, it's still your turn."
"What about last week? Who cooked the entire week?"
"And the week before that? Who did the cooking while you were
'occupied with your paintings'?"
"At least I have a job," Yasha spit out. "Unlike you."
Hikaru opened his mouth to answer, but the telephone's ringing sound
interupted their converstation. Yasha reached for the phone that was
standing that hung on the wall, but Hikaru got it first. Her dark eyes
narrowed, but she didn't say anything.
"Hello, this is Hikaru," he answered.
"Hikaru, it's Chie," the voice in the phone said. "Look, Tomo
missed the bus home. It's getting a little busy over here, Akira and
Kenji need to depend on _me_ to get a ride home, so could you pick up
Tomo from school? I already told her that it was alright."
"Sure," Hikaru replied, smiling as he looked at Yasha. "It's
alright. Just let me take care of it, bye."
He hang up the phone with a satisfied grin on his face. "Why the happy
face?" Yasha questioned. Hikaru opened a cabin and took out the car
keys.
"Someone has to pick up Tomo from school since she missed her
bus," he told, putting his shoes on. "Have fun cooking!"
Meanwhile, Usagi sat on the porch reading one of Chie's books. She
didn't have anything special to do, since Tomo was in school. She
stopped reading for a while and took time to think about her current
situation. She had been extremely lucky to not be found by NSS
supporter, even more lucky that she had been saved by Sailor Senshi.
She didn't think that she would have survived if it wasn't for Tomo's
healing powers, or the fact that Tomo fought Morpheus for her. She
owned Tomo and the others a lot. One fact that surprised Usagi a lot
was that Chie told her that they had been transformed all the time. It
was better that way since sometimes there was no time to transform
when an enemy appeared. But that had explained why Usagi had sensed
something strange around Tomo the first night.
Usagi thought. Her thoughts
went to her mother and the other Sailor Senshi in the Moon Kingdom. I
wonder how they are all. Mommy must think that I'm dead as well... If
there only was a way to contact them.
* * * *
"Arigatou for driving all this way, Hikaru," Tomo thanked when
she got into Hikaru's car.
"It's nothing," Hikaru answered. "As a matter of fact, you
kind of saved me.
"How?" Tomo wondered, closing the door and putting her seat
belt on.
"I was supposed to make dinner tonight," Hikaru told and
started driving. "Of course, I tried to get away but Yasha wouldn't
let me. Then Chie called and I managed to escape from the house."
Tomo smiled as well as Hikaru, but then she added: "You shouldn't make
Yasha that angry when you really care about her."
"Me? Care about Yasha? Don't make me laugh, Tomo-chan."
"I can tell that you do," Tomo said. "Why else would you pick
so many fights with her and no one else?"
Hikaru didn't answer that question, instead he decided that it was the
right time to chance to subject of the converstation. "Did anything
fun happen in school today?" he asked.
Tomo nodded and smiled. "I got an A+ on a test," she told. But after
that her smile died away. "But something bad happened too.
Miyazawa-sempai asked me out and I don't know how to turn him down
gently, so I said that I would think about it."
"Why?" Hikaru wondered. "If you don't like him, just let the
guy know."
Tomo shook her head. "It's not that I don't like him, because I do.
Miyazawa-sempai is really nice and smart, he makes me laugh a lot. But
his father is a NSS supporter... and I... am Archangel."
Hikaru managed to take a quick glance at Tomo. She was staring out
through the window. Her green eyes which were normally friendly and
happy, had a sad look. Hikaru knew Tomo too well to not understand
what she was talking about. Though he hadn't been as young as Tomo
when he had discovered his powers, he understood. Both Chie and Yasha
had discovered their powers at a young age, but at that time the
demon attacks and the NSS situation hadn't been as serious as it was
now.
"I wished that I could say yes," Tomo continued. "But if
something would happen to Miyazawa-sempai because of me... then... I
would never forgive myself."
Hikaru thought and smiled
faintly towards the young girl. "Tomo-chan, don't look so sad. As soon
as we get home, pick up the phone and tell him that you like him too
and that you want to go out with him."
"Demo..." Tomo began but Hikaru shook his head and picked up
something.
"Here," he said, handing his celluar phone to Tomo. "Do you
know his number?"
"Hai, but Hikaru, what if..."
"Just call him right now," Hikaru cut off. "I know that this
may come out cheesy, but you're still young and neither of us wants
you to give up things that any normal kid would take for granted. We
don't want you to live so seriously, that part comes when you're grown
up like us. Go ahead, call him."
Tomo was silent for a while, then she smiled gratefully towards Hikaru
and began to dial the number.
* * * *
"No real details around king Endymion's death has been
reported. There are many rumors, such as that the accident was planned
by NSS or that Sailor Senshi sabotaged the plane to frame NSS. We went
out to ask some people of Crystal Tokyo to see what they think about
thi..."
Yasha frowned. She turned from her soup to the radio. "NSS makes me
sick," she muttered and shut off the radio. She glanced at Usagi,
before the news Usagi had been chopping vegitables and now she was
staring into nothing. Yasha opened her mouth to say something, but due
to the lack of words she could say she didn't. Instead she continued
with the soup. After a while Usagi began to chop the vegitables again,
but this time a bit slower. A another few minutes passed before they
heard the front door being opened and Hikaru's voice was heard.
"Tadaima, sweetie!"
What surprised Usagi was that Yasha didn't shout anything back. She
turned around to look at Yasha, only to see that Yasha's hair was
growing quickly as it had when Yasha had been Sailormedusa. Just like
last time her hair was floating and moving, moving out from the
kitchen and into the hallway.
"Yasha-san, what are you doing?" Usagi wondered. Yasha didn't
answer her, she smiled mysteriously and continued with her soup.
"Hey Yasha, let me down!" Hikaru called from the hallway but
Yasha didn't bother to answer him. Before Usagi knew it Hikaru had
been dragged into the kitchen. Yasha's hair shortened and grew back
into it's original length.
"Okari nasai," Yasha greeted without looking at Hikaru but he
could see that amused smile on her lips.
"You just had to do that, didn't you?" he said.
"What happened to you?" Usagi asked Hikaru.
"She," Hikaru began and looked at Yasha. "Used her powers to
make her hair grow. Then it wrapped itself around me and dragged me
across the hallway."
"You can use your powers even if you're not transformed?"
Usagi questioned and finished chopping the vegitables. But that wasn't
what she was really thinking of. If any normal person would have gone
into the mansion and seen Tomo flying or Yasha's hair grow like that,
that person would have been convinced that he or she belonged in a
insane asylum. Yasha tasted her soup first, then answered Usagi.
"No," she replied. "I am still in my Senshi form, so are the
others. We can never be sure of when a demon appears, sometimes there
aren't time to transform. Chie and Diana taught us to be transformed
as often as we can. Besides, some of our powers are really useful
outside battle. I'll need those vegitables now, Usagi."
Usagi handed over the plate with the vegitables and Yasha poured them
into the soup. Tomo walked into the kitchen, still dressed in her
school uniform. Her lips held it's usual friendly smile, but her eyes
were beaming with nothing but pure happiness.
"Tomo-chan, you look really happy today," Usagi pointed out.
"She's got a date with a guy," Hikaru answered in Tomo's place
and sat down at a chair. "And it's all because of me."
"If you set her up with one of your friend then I would
strongly advise her to not go," Yasha murmured.
"Iie, Yasha-san," Tomo said. "Hikaru-san hasn't even met
Miyazawa-sempai yet." She walked over to Yasha. "The soup smells good,
will the others be home for dinner today?"
"Unless something happens at the hospital. I didn't make
dinner for seven people just for nothing."
* * * *
"There was this weird guy at the restaurant today," Kenji told
as they were all sitting by the dining table and eating. "He changed
his orders at least ten times and after when he got his meal he
claimed that he was food poisoned by the chef."
"You're not the only one who had a rough day at work," Chie
replied, passing over the bowl of rice to Akira. "People chose today
to get sick and injured."
Usagi picked up her chop sticks and began to eat as she listened to
the others' converstation.
"So, Tomo... I heard something about a date."
"Hikaru-san, did you have to tell everyone about it?"
"Just wanted everyone to be happy for you."
"If she wanted to annouce the news, I am sure that she would
do it by herself."
"You're just angry because you have to cook."
"Today was your turn to good."
"Not."
"Yes, it is!"
Usagi
thought.
Her thoughts went once again to her own family and her father. Nearly
two weeks had passed since she had been found by Hikaru and Yasha. She
had still not been able to get the accident off her mind. That is, if
it was an accident. Usagi didn't show her sadness, it was at night she
cried the tears for her father and mother.
"Morpheus wasn't as persistant as he used to be," Usagi
suddenly heard Kenji saying. Usagi continued to listen to the
converstation. They were openly discussing enemies and demons. It was
one of the possitive things with living together with only Senshi.
Usagi remembered living with her mother's family in the past. She had
used her Luna-P to convince her grandparents that she was actually
their niece instead of their granddaughter from the future. But making
up excuses was something that wouldn't be neccessary when living in
Chie's house.
Usagi thought.
"I wonder what they're up to," Chie said. "It's very usual
that they give up this quickly as he did last time."
"Maybe he got scared of us," Hikaru suggested. "After all, we
were six against one with swords and everything around his neck."
"Maybe..." Chie murmured. "But we should be really careful, in
case they are up to something big. Especially you, Usagi."
"Me?" Usagi said, which was the first thing she had said since
they had started eating.
"I hate to be blunt, but you are the only one here who can't
transform," Yasha pointed out.
"Yasha, you're always blunt," Hikaru informed. "That's just
the way you are."
Yasha glared at him, Usagi nearly smiled at the thought of how many
times Hikaru and Yasha exchanged glares at one day. "Just as you
always have a habit of annoying people," she replied.
"Please don't fight again," Tomo pleaded. When hearing her
saying that, both Hikaru and Yasha got quiet and started eating.
During the last weeks Usagi had noticed that Tomo was probably the
only one who managed to make Hikaru and Yasha stop fighting. As if
Kenji had read her thoughts, he said:
"With people like you, Tomo, there would be peace."
"Let's get back to the subject." Akira had also been silent
for a long time, now he spoke with a strong touch of seriousness.
Everyone expected him to say something about the enemy, or bring up a
new theory about them, but instead it was something else... "Who's
doing the dishes today?"
* * * *
Usagi thought about her parents that night, as she had done many
nights before. She thought of her earliest years with parents, her
trips to the past and then the many years that had passed since she
had come back after the defeat of Nepherenia. There had been many
rough times, but they had always survived. All of them. But not now.
The demons had showed up over thirty years ago, at that time she had
simply assumed that it was going to be alright. The Sailor Senshi
would fight the demons, find out whoever was causing this and then
destroy him. She had even thought that when the Sailor Senshi had
became so desperate that they had to send some of their descendants to
train for battle on Mars.
Usagi remembered Ami's daughter, Masami, and Rei's
granddaughter, Yuri. They had both trained on Mars, for several years.
Even little Sakurai, Makoto's youngest. She had only been five years
old when she became a Senshi. Everyone in that team had been sent to
Earth to battle the leader of the demons. But only Sakurai and two
others had survived. Their battle against the evil had been in vain,
the three others had perished. Even then, Usagi had failed to realize
that the danger was a lot stronger than she had believed that it was.
The team which she could have been chosen to lead had lost, now she
wondered if the same thing was eventually going to happen to the team
that Chie lead. She also wondered if it was going to happen faster now
that she was staying with them. After all, she was the princess and
last time they had transformed to save her, to protect her.
Usagi thought as a tear ran
down her cheek.
She remembered it as if it was yesterday, but a whole month had passed
since it had happened. She remembered walking in the Moon Palace, on
her way to see her parents.
* * * *
"Endymion, please, I beg you... Don't go back to Earth..."
Usagi stopped right infront of the door as she heard her mother's
voice. She knew exactly what her mother was talking about, after all
she was going to Earth by herself.
"Serenity, you know that I have to. There are certain matters
to be taken care of."
"Why can't you send someone else?"
Usagi knew that this was diffinately not a good time to go and talk to
her mother. She turned around to walk away but hestitated. Though she
knew that it was wrong, she continued to stand in the hallway,
listening to her parents' converstation.
"Because I have to. The relationships with Earth are so
strained, Serenity... Peace between the Earth and the Moon Kingdom
rely on me negociating with the NSS leaders."
"They won't listen to you, I know that from experience. I...
I'm afraid that something will happen to you... and Chibiusa if you
two go back to Earth."
"Serenity, nothing will happen. I can assure you that. I will
protect Chibiusa from getting harmed."
There was silence for a while, Usagi wondered if it was the end of the
discussion. But then Usagi heard Serenity, for the first time in a
long time, raise her voice.
"Don't you see that it's not just Chibiusa that I'm worried
about?! It's YOU too! You are my husband, I dread what will happen the
moment you set foot on Earth, even Rei doesn't feel good about this!"
Usagi could hear her mother sobbing. "Why can't this just end...?
Everything... I'm so sick of NSS and of thousands of demons showing up
just about everywhere... In the old days, we fought hard but we always
won. Against Beryl, the Black Moon Family, Galaxia... all our enemies.
I really thought that it was all going to end when we sent the Victory
Team to the Earth. But we lost. And I don't know for how long I can
take this anymore."
* * * *
"Good morning, minna-san!" Tomo called cheerfully when she
entered the dining room. Everyone said or murmured a good morning to
her. The moment that Tomo eyed the people around the table, she
noticed that someone was missing. "Ne... where's Usagi-san?"
"She's not up yet," Chie told. "I don't blame her though.
After all, it is Saturday."
"But that's weird..." Tomo began and sat down on her seat.
"She's usually up before me."
Yasha looked as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't and
continued to sip at her tea. They continued to have to breakfast in
silence, which was something really rare. Usually they would be
talking about different things, Yasha and Hikaru would end up
fighting. Tomo wondered if it was something that she didn't know
about, but she didn't think that the others would keep things from
her. Maybe it was because Usagi wasn't up yet... After everyone had
finished breakfast Usagi was still not up.
"I'm going to see if she's still asleep," Tomo said and headed
out from the dining room. She went up the stairs and knocked on the
door which was closest to the stairs, that room had been given to
Usagi. "Usagi-san, are you awake?" There was no answer. Tomo waited
for a few seconds, then knocked on the door again. "Usagi-san?
Everyone has already had breakfast." Again, there was no answer. Tomo
frowned. "Usagi-san?" She put her hand on the doorknob and quietly
opened the door. To her surprise, the bed was neatly made, everything
was cleaned. But the room was empty, Usagi was gone.
Tomo immediately ran down the stairs, almost stumbling but she
regained her balance. At first she ran into the dining room, only to
discover that everyone had left. Instead she ran into the kitchen,
where Chie was doing the dishes.
"Chie! Usagi is missing!"
"What did you just say?!" Chie asked, turning off the faucet.
"Usagi is missing," Tomo repeated. "I checked her room, she's
not there."
"And no one has seen her this morning either," Chie murmured,
drying her hands with a towel. She complete ignored the pile of dishes
that waited to be washed. She walked out to the hallway. "Everyone,
Usagi is gone!" The others soon made their way to the hallway,
everyone almost asking the same thing: "What do you mean Usagi is
gone?!" And after that the discussion began.
"Where could she have gone?" Chie pondered.
"Anywhere," Kenji answered. "But why would she just take off
like this?"
"It could have been the radio," Yasha said suddenly. Everyone
turned to her. "Yesterday we heard rumors about king Endymion's death
on the news. I didn't see the look on her face but even I can tell
that she was saddened by it."
"But that still doesn't tell us where she went," Akira pointed
out.
"Crystal Palace perhaps," Hikaru suggested. "She was born
there and she did grow up there."
"Would she really do that?" Kenji wondered. "The Crystal
Palace is heavily guarded and no one without special permission and
authority is allowed to enter."
"I don't think Usagi would go there," Tomo replied. "But where
else could she be?"
"We'll just have to split up and look," Chie decided. She
closed her eyes and a wave of energy came over her, transfroming her
to Sailorishtar. The others did the same thing and were also
transformed. Ishtar opened her eyes and at her team. "Ares, Archangel
and Medusa. You three go look for Usagi in the outer parts of Crystal
Tokyo. Odin, Hermes, you two will go with me and look on other
possible places."
"Got it."
* * * *
Usagi walked slowly up the stairs that led to the top of the hill. It
had taken a long time for her to get there, but luckily Chie's mansion
wasn't that far away. At first she had thought of going to the Crystal
Palace, but she remembered the last time she had gone there. It was
the day when Endymion was going to negociate with the NSS leaders. She
had taken a walk around the palace, but somehow she didn't feel glad
to be there. And she knew why. The Crystal Palace was no longer her
home.
But the hill was still the same, Usagi realized that when she
reached it's top. Even so long time had passed, the hill hadn't
changed. It was here her parents and the Inner Senshi had greeted her
when she came back from her first visit in the past. It was here they
used to take her for picnics when she was little. Usagi smiled to
herself and she walked on the soft grass.
she thought and sat down.
* * * *
"Any luck?"
"No," Medusa answered through the communicator. "Did we ever
consider the size of Crystal Tokyo before we went looking?"
"She probably knows Crystal Tokyo better than we do," Ares
Knight told Ishtar from his own communicator. "After all, she has
probably been around for just as long as Diana. If not longer."
"Just keep looking," Ishtar answered. "How's Archangel doing?"
Medusa looked up in the sky. "Fine, I suppose," she replied. "But I
don't think even she has spotted Usagi yet. How is it going with you
and the others?"
"We haven't seen her either. We'll de-transform and head
downtown to see if she's there. If you still haven't found anything by
12.00 a.m., meet us back at the house."
"Got it."
Ishtar nodded briefly before the image of her disappeared from the
communicator. Medusa turned to Archangel, who came floating down from
the sky.
"What did Ishtar say?" she wondered.
"They'll look for her downtown," Ares told. "If we haven't
found anything, we would all get back to the house at twelve. Did you
see anything?"
Archangel shook her head. "No, I didn't. But I have a feeling that
she's not very far away."
* * * *
Gomen ne sunao ja nakute, yume no naka nara ieru...
She dreamed that she was back, living her best moments in her life.
The past, the Moon Kingdom... Neo-Queen Serenity, king Endymion,
Usagi, Mamoru... Pegasus... Helios. She would wait for him, she had
always waited for him.
And she remembered, the day she turned sixteen.
"Congratulations Usagi!"
"Small Lady... or do you prefer Usagi now?"
She remembered when Sailorpluto had asked her that question. The day
Usagi had turned sixteen she had stopped calling her Puu, instead she
was either calling her Sailorpluto or Setsuna. Why, she hadn't known.
But Sailorpluto, Usagi hadn't seen her for a long time.
* * * *
Morpheus smiled to himself as he showed up on the hill. Usagi was
lying there, asleep and dreaming about sweet things. She wasn't even
aware of that he was standing there.
Morpheus thought and bent down on his
knees. He pushed away a few hair straws from Usagi's face. Suddenly an idea struck his mind
and a twisted smile came across his face.
He waved his hand over Usagi, the dreamy look on her face changed and
showed fear and insecurity. Morpheus then stood up and snapped his
fingers. A small dark cloud appeared before him and images of Usagi's
Usagi's dreams were shown to him.
he thought and watched the
young woman's tormented dreams.
* * * *
"Usagi!" Archangel whispered suddenly, opening her large eyes.
Something was wrong. She flew lower and eventually floated down to the
ground. Ares and Medusa stopped walking as they saw her.
"What is it?" Medusa asked.
"I felt something strange," Archangel told as her boots
touched the ground. "Usagi is somewhere nearby, it's not a feeling I
have. I know that she is near. I felt something evil and it's
affecting her. We have to help her!"
"But where?" Ares demanded. "We have to know where she is to
help her."
Archangel looked around, turning around several times and looking
towards different directions. "I'm not really sure," she finally said.
"But I think... I think she's somewhere around... there."
Archangel pointed towards a place just a little outside Crystal Tokyo,
where there were green hills. Medusa recognized that place, she
remembered that it used to be a popular place for families to have
picnics there.
"Those hills?" she asked. "Archangel, are you really sure
about this?"
"I don't really know..." Archangel murmured, staring off at
the direction towards the hills. "It's just... I don't know what it
is... Maybe I'm just imagining it all."
Ares ran his gloved hand through his already ruffled hair. "Let's just
go to those hills and see if Usagi's there," he suggested. "It's not
that we have something to loose."
"Nothing but time," Medusa pointed out. "The enemy could have
gotten Usagi while we were looking on the wrong places."
"Don't be so negative, Medusa," Ares scolded softly. "After
all, there is a slight chance that the enemy hasn't gotten her and
she's just sitting on the hill unharmed."
"So are we off?" Archangel asked. When Medusa sighed and then
nodded, Archangel jumped and her wings carried her up in the air.
* * * *
"Still nothing?" Chie asked in disbelief.
"I checked malls, restaurants, libraries and everything else,"
Akira told. "She's not anywhere."
Chie looked into the crowd of people walking on the pavement. It was
possible that Usagi was somewhere around them, but because of the
amount of people they could have missed her. But still... Chie
silently cursed at her inability to do anything else than just go
around and look for Usagi the way "normal" people did. But what else
could she do? She couldn't call the police and tell them that the Moon
Princess who survived the transporter crash had run off. And unlike
the others, Chie's only powers were attacks and beams. She didn't have
flight ability like Archangel, which was really handy in situations
like these. But she was their leader and made all the important
decision. They trusted her to make the right decision, they trusted
her to lead them. And she would rather die than to admit that she
didn't have a clue about what to do now.
"So, what do we do know?" Kenji wondered.
Chie asked herself. She sighed in
frustration as she remembered something.
"Let's look for another while," she decided. "She might be
here."
* * * *
Usagi ran and ran on an endless road. It was all dark around her. The
only thing that she could see was the road. And the road never seemed
to end no matter how much she ran. At the end she was exhausted, she
sat down on the road, taking deep breaths.
"Where am I?" she asked no one in particular. "What is this
place?"
"Welcome to reality, princess."
The sudden answer made Usagi tense. She got up and looked around but
there was nothing different. Just the road and the darkness around
her. No sun, no sky, no wind, no grass. Just the road and the
darkness.
"Where are you?" Usagi demanded, turning around as she heard
the voice laugh softly. "Who are you?"
"So many questions... so many answers..." the voice said. The
voice probably belonged to a female. The voice was so soft and calm.
"Why so many questions now, princess? Is it because of your father's
death?"
"Why..." Usagi began but she didn't really know how to
continue. "My father has nothing to do with this? Who are you?"
"Who I am does not matter... It is who you are that matters."
"Who I am?" Usagi whispered. "I am... me. Tsukino Usagi,
Neo-Princess Serenity... Sailormoon."
She heard a snort. Now the voice came from behind her. Usagi turned
around and listened.
"Sailormoon? I don't think so. What have you accomplished as
Sailormoon? Nothing. Sailormoon was a soldier of love, who fought for
justice. When did you fight, princess? Only in your childhood. Now,
you are nothing more than the daughter of Neo-Queen Serenity, claiming
to be a warrior of justice."
"How dare you?!" Usagi yelled. "How dare you say such things
about me?!"
"It is the truth... isn't it? The Victory Team... The team you
were supposed to lead but you didn't. One by one they all perished,
those who survived the Earth died in another way. And where were you
the day when Hotaru died?"
Upon hearing that name, Usagi's eyes softened. She remembered.
"Hotaru..." she whispered, slowly sinking down on the road again.
"Hotaru... is gone."
"At least she fought, she fought unlike you. You are weak as
Sailormoon, you can't even transform."
"That's not true!" Usagi called, with tears in her eyes. "The
only reason why I can't transform is that I don't have my brooch!"
"Then why didn't you fight when you still had it?"
* * * *
Morpheus smiled to himself as he was watching Usagi's dream, or to be
correct, her nightmares. "This is getting interesting," he said.
"Stop this at once, Morpheus!" a voice suddenly called.
Morpheus frowned at the disturbance and the cloud in front of him
disappeared. He looked upwards the face Archangel floating above the
hill.
"I figure that you would show up sooner or later."
"Stop whatever you are doing to Usagi and let her go!"
Archangel demanded.
"Or else what?" Morpheus asked lightly. "Is little Archangel
going to give me a punishment from the heavens?"
"I would rather prefer a punishment from hell."
Morpheus turned around and saw Ares and Medusa standing behind him.
Medusa smiled evilly towards the enemy.
"I thought you learned something last time we met," she said.
"Never pick on our Archangel or Usagi."
In the corner of his eye, Morpheus saw Archangel reach down to the
ground and walking over to Usagi. She tried to wake Usagi up, but it
was all in vain.
"It's no use," Morpheus told. "Once she's trapped in that
nightmare, she won't get out. She'll be like that forever."
"I don't believe you," Archangel retorted. She gently shook
Usagi to wake her up. "Usagi-san, Usagi-san, wake up!"
"I told you that it was no use."
"Whatever you did to her... you are going to pay for it," Ares
hissed. He held out one hand and a flame appeared on his palm.
"Blaze!" he called out, throwing it on Morpheus. He dodged it, but the
flame was headed right for Archangel and Usagi. Archangel saw it in
time, she carried Usagi's body and jumped up in the air to avoid the
flame. Ares instantly knew that Medusa was glaring at him.
"Watch it, will you!" she yelled. "You could have hurt them!"
Luckily for Ares, Medusa then directed her anger towards Morpheus
instead of him. "You're dead meat, Morpheus! Poison Arrow!"
Meanwhile, Archangel floated down to the ground, gently setting Usagi
down on the soft grass. "Usagi-san, please wake up!" she pleaded but
Usagi didn't even seem to react.
Archangel wondered.
* * * *
I am a coward.
The voice had finally left Usagi alone, but she no longer needed the
voice to feel quilty. Usagi shut her eyes tightly.
"Onegai..."
Usagi opened her eyes. Was it just her imagination? The voice sounded
so familiar, where had she heard it before? She couldn't really
remember. It wasn't the voice she had heard before, that she knew.
"...Usagi-san..."
There was the voice again. Usagi thought.
"No one, because you are a coward."
That was the first voice she had heard. Usagi recognized that. But
who... did the second voice belong to?
"...Wake up..."
Usagi's eyes widened as she realized who's voice it was. "Tomo?" she
whispered to herself. Was it really Tomo's voice? But why would Tomo
call on her?
"Onegai Usagi-san, wake up."
Usagi thought. She stood up, looking around. She saw the
same thing, the road and the darkness. She suddenly realized
something. She had been on the hill, thinking about her family and
the Sailor Senshi. And then she had fallen asleep.
And so the darkness shattered.
* * * *
Archangel's eyes widened with happiness as she saw Usagi's eyes
blinking and slowly opening.
"Usagi-san, you're awake!" she called out. Usagi rubbed her
eyes at first, but then she sat up. And when she did that, Archangel
gave her a tight hug, nearly choking her. "I'm so glad that you're
awake!"
"Tomo... You're choking me..." Usagi managed to say. Archangel
quickly released Usagi.
"Oh, gomen nasai!" she apologized. "I'm just so happy!"
"FLAME THROWER!" they suddenly heard Ares call. Both Archangel
and Usagi turned their attention towards Ares, Medusa and Morpheus. A
huge beam of fire was shot at Morpheus, again he dodged it and shot
his own dark blasts at Ares. Medusa frowned, her hair grew quickly and
wrapped itself around Morpheus' leg to stop him from getting away.
"Do you really think that you could use your hair to stop me?"
he laughed. When Archangel saw that he was about get away from
Medusa's grip. She flew fowards, grabbing Morpheus' arms from behind
and tightly holding them.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Morpheus hissed. He pulled to
try to get away but Archangel was determined to not let him go.
"You gave Usagi nightmares," she said darkly. "I will not
forgive you for that."
"Neither will I."
Morpheus looked forwards and saw Medusa with an arrow aimed towards
him. Her lips made a cruel smile and Morpheus knew that he was living
his last moments.
"Say goodbye to this world and good day to hell."
With that, she released the arrow. Archangel released Morpheus' arms
and backed away herself and Medusa's hair released Morpheus' arm. It
happened right before the arrow's edge touched Morpheus' skin.
* * * *
Chie impatiently drummed her fingers against the table. She glanced at
the clock for probably the twelveth time in a minute. Akira and Kenji
sat across her, also waiting for the others.
"They are late," Chie finally said, breaking the silence.
"Half an hour late."
"Half an hour isn't really that much," Kenji pointed out.
"Unless something happened to them," Akira added. Chie got up
from the chair and walked out from the room.
"That's it," she muttered. "Now I'm going to look for them,
too."
Akira and Kenji followed her into the hallway and to the front door.
"Perhaps we should wait just another few minutes," Kenji suggested.
"They could simply have been delayed."
"I can understand if Hikaru is a little late," Chie began as
she put her shoes on. "But Yasha is very punctional, she would never
be late no matter what happened or who she was with."
Chie was about to open the door and go out when she heard the lock
being unlocked and then the door opened. She breathed a breath of
relief when she saw that it was Hikaru, Yasha, Tomo... and Usagi.
"You're back!" Chie whispered.
They all stepped inside and Usagi tried to smile towards everyone.
"I'm sorry that I just took off like that," she apologized. "I just
started to think about my parents then... I'm sorry, that's not an
excuse."
Chie smiled back towards Usagi. "It's alright," she said softly. "We
all have our moments, don't we? Just don't do it again."
In Chie's smile Usagi didn't just find support. She also found the
same smile that Minako had.
Finally, the second chapter is finished! At first I didn't really know
how to write it (I had all the events written down on a notepad), but
I hope that you liked it! If you want to comment this fanfic, please
e-mail me!
Komillia (komillia@hotmail.com)
17 November, 2000
~MIRAI~
PART II: DREAM STATE
by: Komillia (komillia@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: Sailormoon belongs to Takeuchi Naoko and Kodansha, not me.
Although most of the characters in this fanfiction are original and
created by me.
Some Japanese words I use:
konnichi wa = good afternoon
arigatou = thank you
demo = but
hai = yes
tadaima = I'm home
okari nasai = welcome home
minna-san = everyone
ne = hey
onegai = please
gomen nasai = I'm sorry
* * * *
"Hey Sakura-san, there's a phone call for you!" someone
shouted.
"I'll be there in two seconds!" Chie called back. She put down
a folder on the desk, then she walked over accepted the phone her
colleauge was holding out. "Arigatou," she said to him as he left.
"Hello, this is Sakura Chie."
"Konnichi wa, Chie-san," Tomo's voice said.
"Oh, hello Tomo," Chie replied, sitting down on a chair.
"What? Are you calling from school? .... I see. Tomo, it's really
getting busy here at work, but I'll just call Hikaru and tell him to
give you a ride. Okay? Okay, bye."
Chie hung up and then dialled the phone number back home.
* * * *
"I made breakfast, lunch and dinner two days in a row, now
it's your turn," Yasha said, crossing her arms.
"And the three days before that, I cooked," Hikaru pointed
out. "So, technically, it's still your turn."
"What about last week? Who cooked the entire week?"
"And the week before that? Who did the cooking while you were
'occupied with your paintings'?"
"At least I have a job," Yasha spit out. "Unlike you."
Hikaru opened his mouth to answer, but the telephone's ringing sound
interupted their converstation. Yasha reached for the phone that was
standing that hung on the wall, but Hikaru got it first. Her dark eyes
narrowed, but she didn't say anything.
"Hello, this is Hikaru," he answered.
"Hikaru, it's Chie," the voice in the phone said. "Look, Tomo
missed the bus home. It's getting a little busy over here, Akira and
Kenji need to depend on _me_ to get a ride home, so could you pick up
Tomo from school? I already told her that it was alright."
"Sure," Hikaru replied, smiling as he looked at Yasha. "It's
alright. Just let me take care of it, bye."
He hang up the phone with a satisfied grin on his face. "Why the happy
face?" Yasha questioned. Hikaru opened a cabin and took out the car
keys.
"Someone has to pick up Tomo from school since she missed her
bus," he told, putting his shoes on. "Have fun cooking!"
Meanwhile, Usagi sat on the porch reading one of Chie's books. She
didn't have anything special to do, since Tomo was in school. She
stopped reading for a while and took time to think about her current
situation. She had been extremely lucky to not be found by NSS
supporter, even more lucky that she had been saved by Sailor Senshi.
She didn't think that she would have survived if it wasn't for Tomo's
healing powers, or the fact that Tomo fought Morpheus for her. She
owned Tomo and the others a lot. One fact that surprised Usagi a lot
was that Chie told her that they had been transformed all the time. It
was better that way since sometimes there was no time to transform
when an enemy appeared. But that had explained why Usagi had sensed
something strange around Tomo the first night.
Usagi thought. Her thoughts
went to her mother and the other Sailor Senshi in the Moon Kingdom. I
wonder how they are all. Mommy must think that I'm dead as well... If
there only was a way to contact them.
* * * *
"Arigatou for driving all this way, Hikaru," Tomo thanked when
she got into Hikaru's car.
"It's nothing," Hikaru answered. "As a matter of fact, you
kind of saved me.
"How?" Tomo wondered, closing the door and putting her seat
belt on.
"I was supposed to make dinner tonight," Hikaru told and
started driving. "Of course, I tried to get away but Yasha wouldn't
let me. Then Chie called and I managed to escape from the house."
Tomo smiled as well as Hikaru, but then she added: "You shouldn't make
Yasha that angry when you really care about her."
"Me? Care about Yasha? Don't make me laugh, Tomo-chan."
"I can tell that you do," Tomo said. "Why else would you pick
so many fights with her and no one else?"
Hikaru didn't answer that question, instead he decided that it was the
right time to chance to subject of the converstation. "Did anything
fun happen in school today?" he asked.
Tomo nodded and smiled. "I got an A+ on a test," she told. But after
that her smile died away. "But something bad happened too.
Miyazawa-sempai asked me out and I don't know how to turn him down
gently, so I said that I would think about it."
"Why?" Hikaru wondered. "If you don't like him, just let the
guy know."
Tomo shook her head. "It's not that I don't like him, because I do.
Miyazawa-sempai is really nice and smart, he makes me laugh a lot. But
his father is a NSS supporter... and I... am Archangel."
Hikaru managed to take a quick glance at Tomo. She was staring out
through the window. Her green eyes which were normally friendly and
happy, had a sad look. Hikaru knew Tomo too well to not understand
what she was talking about. Though he hadn't been as young as Tomo
when he had discovered his powers, he understood. Both Chie and Yasha
had discovered their powers at a young age, but at that time the
demon attacks and the NSS situation hadn't been as serious as it was
now.
"I wished that I could say yes," Tomo continued. "But if
something would happen to Miyazawa-sempai because of me... then... I
would never forgive myself."
Hikaru thought and smiled
faintly towards the young girl. "Tomo-chan, don't look so sad. As soon
as we get home, pick up the phone and tell him that you like him too
and that you want to go out with him."
"Demo..." Tomo began but Hikaru shook his head and picked up
something.
"Here," he said, handing his celluar phone to Tomo. "Do you
know his number?"
"Hai, but Hikaru, what if..."
"Just call him right now," Hikaru cut off. "I know that this
may come out cheesy, but you're still young and neither of us wants
you to give up things that any normal kid would take for granted. We
don't want you to live so seriously, that part comes when you're grown
up like us. Go ahead, call him."
Tomo was silent for a while, then she smiled gratefully towards Hikaru
and began to dial the number.
* * * *
"No real details around king Endymion's death has been
reported. There are many rumors, such as that the accident was planned
by NSS or that Sailor Senshi sabotaged the plane to frame NSS. We went
out to ask some people of Crystal Tokyo to see what they think about
thi..."
Yasha frowned. She turned from her soup to the radio. "NSS makes me
sick," she muttered and shut off the radio. She glanced at Usagi,
before the news Usagi had been chopping vegitables and now she was
staring into nothing. Yasha opened her mouth to say something, but due
to the lack of words she could say she didn't. Instead she continued
with the soup. After a while Usagi began to chop the vegitables again,
but this time a bit slower. A another few minutes passed before they
heard the front door being opened and Hikaru's voice was heard.
"Tadaima, sweetie!"
What surprised Usagi was that Yasha didn't shout anything back. She
turned around to look at Yasha, only to see that Yasha's hair was
growing quickly as it had when Yasha had been Sailormedusa. Just like
last time her hair was floating and moving, moving out from the
kitchen and into the hallway.
"Yasha-san, what are you doing?" Usagi wondered. Yasha didn't
answer her, she smiled mysteriously and continued with her soup.
"Hey Yasha, let me down!" Hikaru called from the hallway but
Yasha didn't bother to answer him. Before Usagi knew it Hikaru had
been dragged into the kitchen. Yasha's hair shortened and grew back
into it's original length.
"Okari nasai," Yasha greeted without looking at Hikaru but he
could see that amused smile on her lips.
"You just had to do that, didn't you?" he said.
"What happened to you?" Usagi asked Hikaru.
"She," Hikaru began and looked at Yasha. "Used her powers to
make her hair grow. Then it wrapped itself around me and dragged me
across the hallway."
"You can use your powers even if you're not transformed?"
Usagi questioned and finished chopping the vegitables. But that wasn't
what she was really thinking of. If any normal person would have gone
into the mansion and seen Tomo flying or Yasha's hair grow like that,
that person would have been convinced that he or she belonged in a
insane asylum. Yasha tasted her soup first, then answered Usagi.
"No," she replied. "I am still in my Senshi form, so are the
others. We can never be sure of when a demon appears, sometimes there
aren't time to transform. Chie and Diana taught us to be transformed
as often as we can. Besides, some of our powers are really useful
outside battle. I'll need those vegitables now, Usagi."
Usagi handed over the plate with the vegitables and Yasha poured them
into the soup. Tomo walked into the kitchen, still dressed in her
school uniform. Her lips held it's usual friendly smile, but her eyes
were beaming with nothing but pure happiness.
"Tomo-chan, you look really happy today," Usagi pointed out.
"She's got a date with a guy," Hikaru answered in Tomo's place
and sat down at a chair. "And it's all because of me."
"If you set her up with one of your friend then I would
strongly advise her to not go," Yasha murmured.
"Iie, Yasha-san," Tomo said. "Hikaru-san hasn't even met
Miyazawa-sempai yet." She walked over to Yasha. "The soup smells good,
will the others be home for dinner today?"
"Unless something happens at the hospital. I didn't make
dinner for seven people just for nothing."
* * * *
"There was this weird guy at the restaurant today," Kenji told
as they were all sitting by the dining table and eating. "He changed
his orders at least ten times and after when he got his meal he
claimed that he was food poisoned by the chef."
"You're not the only one who had a rough day at work," Chie
replied, passing over the bowl of rice to Akira. "People chose today
to get sick and injured."
Usagi picked up her chop sticks and began to eat as she listened to
the others' converstation.
"So, Tomo... I heard something about a date."
"Hikaru-san, did you have to tell everyone about it?"
"Just wanted everyone to be happy for you."
"If she wanted to annouce the news, I am sure that she would
do it by herself."
"You're just angry because you have to cook."
"Today was your turn to good."
"Not."
"Yes, it is!"
Usagi
thought.
Her thoughts went once again to her own family and her father. Nearly
two weeks had passed since she had been found by Hikaru and Yasha. She
had still not been able to get the accident off her mind. That is, if
it was an accident. Usagi didn't show her sadness, it was at night she
cried the tears for her father and mother.
"Morpheus wasn't as persistant as he used to be," Usagi
suddenly heard Kenji saying. Usagi continued to listen to the
converstation. They were openly discussing enemies and demons. It was
one of the possitive things with living together with only Senshi.
Usagi remembered living with her mother's family in the past. She had
used her Luna-P to convince her grandparents that she was actually
their niece instead of their granddaughter from the future. But making
up excuses was something that wouldn't be neccessary when living in
Chie's house.
Usagi thought.
"I wonder what they're up to," Chie said. "It's very usual
that they give up this quickly as he did last time."
"Maybe he got scared of us," Hikaru suggested. "After all, we
were six against one with swords and everything around his neck."
"Maybe..." Chie murmured. "But we should be really careful, in
case they are up to something big. Especially you, Usagi."
"Me?" Usagi said, which was the first thing she had said since
they had started eating.
"I hate to be blunt, but you are the only one here who can't
transform," Yasha pointed out.
"Yasha, you're always blunt," Hikaru informed. "That's just
the way you are."
Yasha glared at him, Usagi nearly smiled at the thought of how many
times Hikaru and Yasha exchanged glares at one day. "Just as you
always have a habit of annoying people," she replied.
"Please don't fight again," Tomo pleaded. When hearing her
saying that, both Hikaru and Yasha got quiet and started eating.
During the last weeks Usagi had noticed that Tomo was probably the
only one who managed to make Hikaru and Yasha stop fighting. As if
Kenji had read her thoughts, he said:
"With people like you, Tomo, there would be peace."
"Let's get back to the subject." Akira had also been silent
for a long time, now he spoke with a strong touch of seriousness.
Everyone expected him to say something about the enemy, or bring up a
new theory about them, but instead it was something else... "Who's
doing the dishes today?"
* * * *
Usagi thought about her parents that night, as she had done many
nights before. She thought of her earliest years with parents, her
trips to the past and then the many years that had passed since she
had come back after the defeat of Nepherenia. There had been many
rough times, but they had always survived. All of them. But not now.
The demons had showed up over thirty years ago, at that time she had
simply assumed that it was going to be alright. The Sailor Senshi
would fight the demons, find out whoever was causing this and then
destroy him. She had even thought that when the Sailor Senshi had
became so desperate that they had to send some of their descendants to
train for battle on Mars.
Usagi remembered Ami's daughter, Masami, and Rei's
granddaughter, Yuri. They had both trained on Mars, for several years.
Even little Sakurai, Makoto's youngest. She had only been five years
old when she became a Senshi. Everyone in that team had been sent to
Earth to battle the leader of the demons. But only Sakurai and two
others had survived. Their battle against the evil had been in vain,
the three others had perished. Even then, Usagi had failed to realize
that the danger was a lot stronger than she had believed that it was.
The team which she could have been chosen to lead had lost, now she
wondered if the same thing was eventually going to happen to the team
that Chie lead. She also wondered if it was going to happen faster now
that she was staying with them. After all, she was the princess and
last time they had transformed to save her, to protect her.
Usagi thought as a tear ran
down her cheek.
She remembered it as if it was yesterday, but a whole month had passed
since it had happened. She remembered walking in the Moon Palace, on
her way to see her parents.
* * * *
"Endymion, please, I beg you... Don't go back to Earth..."
Usagi stopped right infront of the door as she heard her mother's
voice. She knew exactly what her mother was talking about, after all
she was going to Earth by herself.
"Serenity, you know that I have to. There are certain matters
to be taken care of."
"Why can't you send someone else?"
Usagi knew that this was diffinately not a good time to go and talk to
her mother. She turned around to walk away but hestitated. Though she
knew that it was wrong, she continued to stand in the hallway,
listening to her parents' converstation.
"Because I have to. The relationships with Earth are so
strained, Serenity... Peace between the Earth and the Moon Kingdom
rely on me negociating with the NSS leaders."
"They won't listen to you, I know that from experience. I...
I'm afraid that something will happen to you... and Chibiusa if you
two go back to Earth."
"Serenity, nothing will happen. I can assure you that. I will
protect Chibiusa from getting harmed."
There was silence for a while, Usagi wondered if it was the end of the
discussion. But then Usagi heard Serenity, for the first time in a
long time, raise her voice.
"Don't you see that it's not just Chibiusa that I'm worried
about?! It's YOU too! You are my husband, I dread what will happen the
moment you set foot on Earth, even Rei doesn't feel good about this!"
Usagi could hear her mother sobbing. "Why can't this just end...?
Everything... I'm so sick of NSS and of thousands of demons showing up
just about everywhere... In the old days, we fought hard but we always
won. Against Beryl, the Black Moon Family, Galaxia... all our enemies.
I really thought that it was all going to end when we sent the Victory
Team to the Earth. But we lost. And I don't know for how long I can
take this anymore."
* * * *
"Good morning, minna-san!" Tomo called cheerfully when she
entered the dining room. Everyone said or murmured a good morning to
her. The moment that Tomo eyed the people around the table, she
noticed that someone was missing. "Ne... where's Usagi-san?"
"She's not up yet," Chie told. "I don't blame her though.
After all, it is Saturday."
"But that's weird..." Tomo began and sat down on her seat.
"She's usually up before me."
Yasha looked as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't and
continued to sip at her tea. They continued to have to breakfast in
silence, which was something really rare. Usually they would be
talking about different things, Yasha and Hikaru would end up
fighting. Tomo wondered if it was something that she didn't know
about, but she didn't think that the others would keep things from
her. Maybe it was because Usagi wasn't up yet... After everyone had
finished breakfast Usagi was still not up.
"I'm going to see if she's still asleep," Tomo said and headed
out from the dining room. She went up the stairs and knocked on the
door which was closest to the stairs, that room had been given to
Usagi. "Usagi-san, are you awake?" There was no answer. Tomo waited
for a few seconds, then knocked on the door again. "Usagi-san?
Everyone has already had breakfast." Again, there was no answer. Tomo
frowned. "Usagi-san?" She put her hand on the doorknob and quietly
opened the door. To her surprise, the bed was neatly made, everything
was cleaned. But the room was empty, Usagi was gone.
Tomo immediately ran down the stairs, almost stumbling but she
regained her balance. At first she ran into the dining room, only to
discover that everyone had left. Instead she ran into the kitchen,
where Chie was doing the dishes.
"Chie! Usagi is missing!"
"What did you just say?!" Chie asked, turning off the faucet.
"Usagi is missing," Tomo repeated. "I checked her room, she's
not there."
"And no one has seen her this morning either," Chie murmured,
drying her hands with a towel. She complete ignored the pile of dishes
that waited to be washed. She walked out to the hallway. "Everyone,
Usagi is gone!" The others soon made their way to the hallway,
everyone almost asking the same thing: "What do you mean Usagi is
gone?!" And after that the discussion began.
"Where could she have gone?" Chie pondered.
"Anywhere," Kenji answered. "But why would she just take off
like this?"
"It could have been the radio," Yasha said suddenly. Everyone
turned to her. "Yesterday we heard rumors about king Endymion's death
on the news. I didn't see the look on her face but even I can tell
that she was saddened by it."
"But that still doesn't tell us where she went," Akira pointed
out.
"Crystal Palace perhaps," Hikaru suggested. "She was born
there and she did grow up there."
"Would she really do that?" Kenji wondered. "The Crystal
Palace is heavily guarded and no one without special permission and
authority is allowed to enter."
"I don't think Usagi would go there," Tomo replied. "But where
else could she be?"
"We'll just have to split up and look," Chie decided. She
closed her eyes and a wave of energy came over her, transfroming her
to Sailorishtar. The others did the same thing and were also
transformed. Ishtar opened her eyes and at her team. "Ares, Archangel
and Medusa. You three go look for Usagi in the outer parts of Crystal
Tokyo. Odin, Hermes, you two will go with me and look on other
possible places."
"Got it."
* * * *
Usagi walked slowly up the stairs that led to the top of the hill. It
had taken a long time for her to get there, but luckily Chie's mansion
wasn't that far away. At first she had thought of going to the Crystal
Palace, but she remembered the last time she had gone there. It was
the day when Endymion was going to negociate with the NSS leaders. She
had taken a walk around the palace, but somehow she didn't feel glad
to be there. And she knew why. The Crystal Palace was no longer her
home.
But the hill was still the same, Usagi realized that when she
reached it's top. Even so long time had passed, the hill hadn't
changed. It was here her parents and the Inner Senshi had greeted her
when she came back from her first visit in the past. It was here they
used to take her for picnics when she was little. Usagi smiled to
herself and she walked on the soft grass.
she thought and sat down.
* * * *
"Any luck?"
"No," Medusa answered through the communicator. "Did we ever
consider the size of Crystal Tokyo before we went looking?"
"She probably knows Crystal Tokyo better than we do," Ares
Knight told Ishtar from his own communicator. "After all, she has
probably been around for just as long as Diana. If not longer."
"Just keep looking," Ishtar answered. "How's Archangel doing?"
Medusa looked up in the sky. "Fine, I suppose," she replied. "But I
don't think even she has spotted Usagi yet. How is it going with you
and the others?"
"We haven't seen her either. We'll de-transform and head
downtown to see if she's there. If you still haven't found anything by
12.00 a.m., meet us back at the house."
"Got it."
Ishtar nodded briefly before the image of her disappeared from the
communicator. Medusa turned to Archangel, who came floating down from
the sky.
"What did Ishtar say?" she wondered.
"They'll look for her downtown," Ares told. "If we haven't
found anything, we would all get back to the house at twelve. Did you
see anything?"
Archangel shook her head. "No, I didn't. But I have a feeling that
she's not very far away."
* * * *
Gomen ne sunao ja nakute, yume no naka nara ieru...
She dreamed that she was back, living her best moments in her life.
The past, the Moon Kingdom... Neo-Queen Serenity, king Endymion,
Usagi, Mamoru... Pegasus... Helios. She would wait for him, she had
always waited for him.
And she remembered, the day she turned sixteen.
"Congratulations Usagi!"
"Small Lady... or do you prefer Usagi now?"
She remembered when Sailorpluto had asked her that question. The day
Usagi had turned sixteen she had stopped calling her Puu, instead she
was either calling her Sailorpluto or Setsuna. Why, she hadn't known.
But Sailorpluto, Usagi hadn't seen her for a long time.
* * * *
Morpheus smiled to himself as he showed up on the hill. Usagi was
lying there, asleep and dreaming about sweet things. She wasn't even
aware of that he was standing there.
Morpheus thought and bent down on his
knees. He pushed away a few hair straws from Usagi's face. Suddenly an idea struck his mind
and a twisted smile came across his face.
He waved his hand over Usagi, the dreamy look on her face changed and
showed fear and insecurity. Morpheus then stood up and snapped his
fingers. A small dark cloud appeared before him and images of Usagi's
Usagi's dreams were shown to him.
he thought and watched the
young woman's tormented dreams.
* * * *
"Usagi!" Archangel whispered suddenly, opening her large eyes.
Something was wrong. She flew lower and eventually floated down to the
ground. Ares and Medusa stopped walking as they saw her.
"What is it?" Medusa asked.
"I felt something strange," Archangel told as her boots
touched the ground. "Usagi is somewhere nearby, it's not a feeling I
have. I know that she is near. I felt something evil and it's
affecting her. We have to help her!"
"But where?" Ares demanded. "We have to know where she is to
help her."
Archangel looked around, turning around several times and looking
towards different directions. "I'm not really sure," she finally said.
"But I think... I think she's somewhere around... there."
Archangel pointed towards a place just a little outside Crystal Tokyo,
where there were green hills. Medusa recognized that place, she
remembered that it used to be a popular place for families to have
picnics there.
"Those hills?" she asked. "Archangel, are you really sure
about this?"
"I don't really know..." Archangel murmured, staring off at
the direction towards the hills. "It's just... I don't know what it
is... Maybe I'm just imagining it all."
Ares ran his gloved hand through his already ruffled hair. "Let's just
go to those hills and see if Usagi's there," he suggested. "It's not
that we have something to loose."
"Nothing but time," Medusa pointed out. "The enemy could have
gotten Usagi while we were looking on the wrong places."
"Don't be so negative, Medusa," Ares scolded softly. "After
all, there is a slight chance that the enemy hasn't gotten her and
she's just sitting on the hill unharmed."
"So are we off?" Archangel asked. When Medusa sighed and then
nodded, Archangel jumped and her wings carried her up in the air.
* * * *
"Still nothing?" Chie asked in disbelief.
"I checked malls, restaurants, libraries and everything else,"
Akira told. "She's not anywhere."
Chie looked into the crowd of people walking on the pavement. It was
possible that Usagi was somewhere around them, but because of the
amount of people they could have missed her. But still... Chie
silently cursed at her inability to do anything else than just go
around and look for Usagi the way "normal" people did. But what else
could she do? She couldn't call the police and tell them that the Moon
Princess who survived the transporter crash had run off. And unlike
the others, Chie's only powers were attacks and beams. She didn't have
flight ability like Archangel, which was really handy in situations
like these. But she was their leader and made all the important
decision. They trusted her to make the right decision, they trusted
her to lead them. And she would rather die than to admit that she
didn't have a clue about what to do now.
"So, what do we do know?" Kenji wondered.
Chie asked herself. She sighed in
frustration as she remembered something.
"Let's look for another while," she decided. "She might be
here."
* * * *
Usagi ran and ran on an endless road. It was all dark around her. The
only thing that she could see was the road. And the road never seemed
to end no matter how much she ran. At the end she was exhausted, she
sat down on the road, taking deep breaths.
"Where am I?" she asked no one in particular. "What is this
place?"
"Welcome to reality, princess."
The sudden answer made Usagi tense. She got up and looked around but
there was nothing different. Just the road and the darkness around
her. No sun, no sky, no wind, no grass. Just the road and the
darkness.
"Where are you?" Usagi demanded, turning around as she heard
the voice laugh softly. "Who are you?"
"So many questions... so many answers..." the voice said. The
voice probably belonged to a female. The voice was so soft and calm.
"Why so many questions now, princess? Is it because of your father's
death?"
"Why..." Usagi began but she didn't really know how to
continue. "My father has nothing to do with this? Who are you?"
"Who I am does not matter... It is who you are that matters."
"Who I am?" Usagi whispered. "I am... me. Tsukino Usagi,
Neo-Princess Serenity... Sailormoon."
She heard a snort. Now the voice came from behind her. Usagi turned
around and listened.
"Sailormoon? I don't think so. What have you accomplished as
Sailormoon? Nothing. Sailormoon was a soldier of love, who fought for
justice. When did you fight, princess? Only in your childhood. Now,
you are nothing more than the daughter of Neo-Queen Serenity, claiming
to be a warrior of justice."
"How dare you?!" Usagi yelled. "How dare you say such things
about me?!"
"It is the truth... isn't it? The Victory Team... The team you
were supposed to lead but you didn't. One by one they all perished,
those who survived the Earth died in another way. And where were you
the day when Hotaru died?"
Upon hearing that name, Usagi's eyes softened. She remembered.
"Hotaru..." she whispered, slowly sinking down on the road again.
"Hotaru... is gone."
"At least she fought, she fought unlike you. You are weak as
Sailormoon, you can't even transform."
"That's not true!" Usagi called, with tears in her eyes. "The
only reason why I can't transform is that I don't have my brooch!"
"Then why didn't you fight when you still had it?"
* * * *
Morpheus smiled to himself as he was watching Usagi's dream, or to be
correct, her nightmares. "This is getting interesting," he said.
"Stop this at once, Morpheus!" a voice suddenly called.
Morpheus frowned at the disturbance and the cloud in front of him
disappeared. He looked upwards the face Archangel floating above the
hill.
"I figure that you would show up sooner or later."
"Stop whatever you are doing to Usagi and let her go!"
Archangel demanded.
"Or else what?" Morpheus asked lightly. "Is little Archangel
going to give me a punishment from the heavens?"
"I would rather prefer a punishment from hell."
Morpheus turned around and saw Ares and Medusa standing behind him.
Medusa smiled evilly towards the enemy.
"I thought you learned something last time we met," she said.
"Never pick on our Archangel or Usagi."
In the corner of his eye, Morpheus saw Archangel reach down to the
ground and walking over to Usagi. She tried to wake Usagi up, but it
was all in vain.
"It's no use," Morpheus told. "Once she's trapped in that
nightmare, she won't get out. She'll be like that forever."
"I don't believe you," Archangel retorted. She gently shook
Usagi to wake her up. "Usagi-san, Usagi-san, wake up!"
"I told you that it was no use."
"Whatever you did to her... you are going to pay for it," Ares
hissed. He held out one hand and a flame appeared on his palm.
"Blaze!" he called out, throwing it on Morpheus. He dodged it, but the
flame was headed right for Archangel and Usagi. Archangel saw it in
time, she carried Usagi's body and jumped up in the air to avoid the
flame. Ares instantly knew that Medusa was glaring at him.
"Watch it, will you!" she yelled. "You could have hurt them!"
Luckily for Ares, Medusa then directed her anger towards Morpheus
instead of him. "You're dead meat, Morpheus! Poison Arrow!"
Meanwhile, Archangel floated down to the ground, gently setting Usagi
down on the soft grass. "Usagi-san, please wake up!" she pleaded but
Usagi didn't even seem to react.
Archangel wondered.
* * * *
I am a coward.
The voice had finally left Usagi alone, but she no longer needed the
voice to feel quilty. Usagi shut her eyes tightly.
"Onegai..."
Usagi opened her eyes. Was it just her imagination? The voice sounded
so familiar, where had she heard it before? She couldn't really
remember. It wasn't the voice she had heard before, that she knew.
"...Usagi-san..."
There was the voice again. Usagi thought.
"No one, because you are a coward."
That was the first voice she had heard. Usagi recognized that. But
who... did the second voice belong to?
"...Wake up..."
Usagi's eyes widened as she realized who's voice it was. "Tomo?" she
whispered to herself. Was it really Tomo's voice? But why would Tomo
call on her?
"Onegai Usagi-san, wake up."
Usagi thought. She stood up, looking around. She saw the
same thing, the road and the darkness. She suddenly realized
something. She had been on the hill, thinking about her family and
the Sailor Senshi. And then she had fallen asleep.
And so the darkness shattered.
* * * *
Archangel's eyes widened with happiness as she saw Usagi's eyes
blinking and slowly opening.
"Usagi-san, you're awake!" she called out. Usagi rubbed her
eyes at first, but then she sat up. And when she did that, Archangel
gave her a tight hug, nearly choking her. "I'm so glad that you're
awake!"
"Tomo... You're choking me..." Usagi managed to say. Archangel
quickly released Usagi.
"Oh, gomen nasai!" she apologized. "I'm just so happy!"
"FLAME THROWER!" they suddenly heard Ares call. Both Archangel
and Usagi turned their attention towards Ares, Medusa and Morpheus. A
huge beam of fire was shot at Morpheus, again he dodged it and shot
his own dark blasts at Ares. Medusa frowned, her hair grew quickly and
wrapped itself around Morpheus' leg to stop him from getting away.
"Do you really think that you could use your hair to stop me?"
he laughed. When Archangel saw that he was about get away from
Medusa's grip. She flew fowards, grabbing Morpheus' arms from behind
and tightly holding them.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Morpheus hissed. He pulled to
try to get away but Archangel was determined to not let him go.
"You gave Usagi nightmares," she said darkly. "I will not
forgive you for that."
"Neither will I."
Morpheus looked forwards and saw Medusa with an arrow aimed towards
him. Her lips made a cruel smile and Morpheus knew that he was living
his last moments.
"Say goodbye to this world and good day to hell."
With that, she released the arrow. Archangel released Morpheus' arms
and backed away herself and Medusa's hair released Morpheus' arm. It
happened right before the arrow's edge touched Morpheus' skin.
* * * *
Chie impatiently drummed her fingers against the table. She glanced at
the clock for probably the twelveth time in a minute. Akira and Kenji
sat across her, also waiting for the others.
"They are late," Chie finally said, breaking the silence.
"Half an hour late."
"Half an hour isn't really that much," Kenji pointed out.
"Unless something happened to them," Akira added. Chie got up
from the chair and walked out from the room.
"That's it," she muttered. "Now I'm going to look for them,
too."
Akira and Kenji followed her into the hallway and to the front door.
"Perhaps we should wait just another few minutes," Kenji suggested.
"They could simply have been delayed."
"I can understand if Hikaru is a little late," Chie began as
she put her shoes on. "But Yasha is very punctional, she would never
be late no matter what happened or who she was with."
Chie was about to open the door and go out when she heard the lock
being unlocked and then the door opened. She breathed a breath of
relief when she saw that it was Hikaru, Yasha, Tomo... and Usagi.
"You're back!" Chie whispered.
They all stepped inside and Usagi tried to smile towards everyone.
"I'm sorry that I just took off like that," she apologized. "I just
started to think about my parents then... I'm sorry, that's not an
excuse."
Chie smiled back towards Usagi. "It's alright," she said softly. "We
all have our moments, don't we? Just don't do it again."
In Chie's smile Usagi didn't just find support. She also found the
same smile that Minako had.
Finally, the second chapter is finished! At first I didn't really know
how to write it (I had all the events written down on a notepad), but
I hope that you liked it! If you want to comment this fanfic, please
e-mail me!
Komillia (komillia@hotmail.com)
17 November, 2000