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Dimensions of Time
Set during the Usagi/Mamoru breakup, which was in R (I think. No see anime for awhile now.;_;). What if Usagi's power created an alternate dimension, where events ran differently than in the anime or manga? Here's Aquafire's rendition of this. Will eventually encompass the rest of Sailor Moon S, SuperS, and maybe even StarS!
So far, I am seeing an S alternate dimension.
At least, I think it's S. yes, has Chibi-Usa in it.
~*~*~*~
The house was enormous! Usagi stood in the foyer in sheer amazement at the lofty ceilings, spiral staircases to the upper levels, and the beautiful paintings on the wall, especially one painted by a certain talented artist she knew, namely, Becky. It was a painting where she and Mamo-ch. Mamoru- san had posed for, where Mamoru-san was handing her a Star Locket. The memory of the event back on the moon stirred a few more memories in her mind. She had been getting these nostalgic hits more and more often as of late.
"Otousan, we are staying at this mansion?" Usagi asked. Her father nodded tiredly.
"My employer owns about ten of these, so whenever they send someone over, they stay in one of these places," her father replied, rifling through an American newspaper.
"Kakoii ne." Usagi said. "Otousan, onegai, can I explore the upstairs?" Her father smiled at her. He hadn't seen her this spirited since before that boy broke up with her.
"Go ahead, Usagi," he replied, digging for something in his luggage, and watched as Usagi sprinted up the stairs with unnatural grace.
"How odd. am I dreaming, or was Usagi's hair silver?"
~*~
As Setsuna watched, she chuckled to herself. Her Queen was dancing in front of a full length mirror in preparation for her first day of school. She seemed so happy and carefree, even though it had only been three months since the awful events in Tokyo. Setsuna then noticed that Usagi's hair was silver streaked already, which surprised her immensely. The silver coloring was never in the hair of the Serenity she knew. Perhaps it indicated newfound strength and wisdom. After all, the Silver Millennium's Queen Serenity was very wise in the affairs of the universe and was quite skilled in protecting what was dear to her.
"Perhaps," Setsuna said, contemplating her earlier thought before turning her attention to the alternate time stream. "It looks like Small Lady's going to appear soon as well."
~*~
A few weeks later.
"I couldn't believe how much homework Daram-sensei gave us today!" Bunny Tsukino cried out, stretching out her arms. Her new best friends Mira Sanders and Linda Garrison laughed as they watched her prance about Bunny was only one of the smartest yet kindest teens in their entire school, which made her very popular, but she was always just Bunny to them. They loved to play with Bunny's long, waist length hair which rippled naturally in waves with all of the silver streaks. Needless to say, the guys at their middle/high school, Rosenton High School, loved and adored Bunny.
"You still talk like that, Bunny?" Mira joked. Usagi didn't mind the American translation of her name at all. It was cute and fluffy, really, but what mattered was keeping her last name. It's what made her. well, her.
"Sorry!" Bunny apologized. "Force of habit, you know?"
"Either way, let's move on to other matters, shall we?" Linda poked in. "What did you two think of that new transfer student, Matt? Isn't he just the dreamiest?"
"You're telling me!" Mira replied earnestly. "Those deep blue eyes that seem to pull you in and tell you that there's a story behind them. dreamy!!"
This description of the new boy sent a shockwave of emotion through Usagi. She froze where she was on the sidewalk.
"Mamo-chan, will you always love me?" Usagi asked as she gazed into his eyes. Those eyes that never failed to pull her into their infinite depths. Mamoru kissed her lightly.
"Always and forever."
"Bunny? Hey, Bunny!" Mira yelled at her, snapping Bunny out of her trance.
"Eh? Sorry Mira, I got sidetracked," Bunny apologized sincerely. Then a thought blew through her mind. "Hey!! Are you both going to the Homecoming Dance tomorrow night?"
"Oh my gosh, is this the one where the guys dress up all nice, well, nicer than baggy pants and t-shirts?" Linda exclaimed. "Of course I'm going! Bunny, Mira, who are you two going with?"
"Bunny, can I borrow one of the guys in your fan club?" Mira asked with puppy-eyes. They weren't jealous of the attention either, nor did it make Bunny all stuck up.
"Sure! I think you should go with Jason!" Bunny cried out. "You guys look soooooo cute together! I guess I can go with Travis, and Linda, d'you want to go with Ryan?"
"Jason's the cute short haired blond one, right?" Mira said excitedly. "Of course!"
"And Ryan's the one with the long blond hair?" Linda said, amused. "I'm game. You only get the most popular guy in the school, the only one with the long, sexy white hair."
"It's a gift," Bunny snickered. "I'm going home to check my mail now, AIM me when you get home, you guys!" she cried, waving as she ran up the long driveway to her house. Her dad's car wasn't in the way, which wasn't anything new. Dad was always busy with something at the office, but she didn't mind.
"Good afternoon Usagi-san," Janie called out from the front doors. Janie was the Japanese housemaid, but Bunny preferred to treat her as a friend and equal, more than just a lowly maid.
"Hii Janie!" Usagi cried out, glad to be away from the english language stuff for awhile. "Anything interesting happen while I was out?"
"Of course Usagi-san, your little sister came today on an airplane from Tokyo," Janie said, smiling as she waved a pink haired girl in. The moment Usagi laid her eyes on the girl, she felt this tug at the Ginzuishou she secretly kept underneath her blouse in a locket. The girl's sugar-pink hair was done up in two odangoes like her old style, only the seemed more. pointy somehow. When the girl saw Usagi, she gave a light curtsy.
"Konnichiwa Usagi-san," she said politely. "Watashi wa Chibi-Usa desu." Usagi, thanks to some etiquette lessons that her father paid for, replied just as courteously.
"Konnichiwa Chibi-Usa-chan," Usagi replied. "Janie, we'll go retire upstairs in my quarters." Janie bowed as the pair left.
~*~
Setsuna had felt it time to inform Sailors Uranus and Neptune of the alternate timeline of the events happening. Somehow, the time stream was telling her that it needed to be done, although her appearance to Usagi was still some time in the future. Tenou Haruka hadn't let her in the house until Kaiou Michiru let her in. Haruka had never been one for trust. None of the Outer Senshi were, really.
".and that's the whole story, Haruka," Setsuna said to the blond woman in front of her. "Our Princess has became so strong in this timeline that it's amazing! She is as powerful as she is in the true timeline in the era known as the Heart Snatchers time."
"Our princess did that?" Michiru sighed in awe. She wrapped an arm around Haruka's waist as Haruka stroked Michiru's aqua hair softly. Setsuna chuckled.
"Well, just be glad you don't have to watch all of the crazy exploits of our chiisai-hime all the time," Setsuna said smugly. "She is just. so powerful in this timeline, relying on her own inner strength to win. You two should appear in about two weeks, when the Dark Moon truly appears. Be aware and ready to fight by then." She then disappeared in a flash of light. Haruka and Michiru shielded their eyes until the light faded.
"Shall we go train now, Ruka?" Michiru teased with a giggle. Haruka smiled. We'll be ready Setsuna. You can count on it!
~*~
"And so," Chibi-Usa laughed, "I pied my mom in the face, and I got her friends with cake icing!" Usagi laughed heartily. The two had been trading stories back and forth for over half an hour. However, a flash of energy shot through Usagi's subconscious. An enemy about a mile away in the local park.
"Uhh, gomen nasai Chibi-Usa-chan, I have something I have to do!" Usagi cried, sprinting out of the room so fast she was a mere blur. Chibi-Usa stared after her.
"Meow, is it safe now?" a voice piped up from within Chibi-Usa's left pigtail.
"It's safe, Diana," Chibi-Usa replied. The small gray kitten hopped out of the pigtail with a flourish.
"I could feel it when your 'sister' was in the room," Diana said. "The true power that your mother, Neo-Queen Serenity, possesses. The power of the Ginzuishou. She's the one we're looking for."
"So she's Sailor Moon then." Chibi-Usa said thoughtfully. She took Luna- Pi, a round ball in the shape of a cat, out of her backpack. Pressing the crescent moon, the ball levitated into the air a bit.
"Small Lady, is Usagi the one you were seeking?" a voice beeped out from the ball.
"Yes Puu, Usagi's the one," Chibi-Usa replied. "I need her help so badly to save Mama. I have to follow her!"
~*~
"Moon celestial crisis power!" Usagi yelled in a thick grove of trees. As usual, a driod had appeared, and was terrorizing the whole neighborhood. However, this struck Usagi as very strange, seeing as she had beat Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia, the forces who controlled the Negaverse. Didn't she? This had to be the 8th time in the last three weeks that enemies had appeared, and Usagi was getting tired of it, even if the battles were horrendously easy.
"I know you're here, Rabbit!" a woman dressed in a dark purple jumpsuit yelled. Her long purple hair was held up with a matching bow, and she was hurling purple lightning bolts everywhere.
I have to stop her before someone gets hurt! Usagi thought feverishly. The henshin ribbons melted into her senshi suit, complete with blue skirt and red bows. Her compact which held the Ginzuishou had evolved awhile ago into a golden star locket framed by a larger, gold heart. The skirt itself was blue with streaks of yellow and red across the lower fringe. Her hair no longer crammed itself in that awful odango-style, but instead flowed freely into her gold and silver cape. The tiara had evolved as well, growing sleeker and replaced by a silver crescent moon center.
She did not realize it, but Chibi-Usa had been spying from behind a tree, Diana and Luna-Pi in tow. She saw the whole thing, but wasn't in the least bit surprised at it.
"Mama normally keeps her hair up in odangoes, the same as mine," Chibi-Usa mused at Diana. "But she told me once she didn't like the odango style, and willed her henshin to be different than when she was Sailor Moon of Tokyo. But if that's Mama, where's Papa?"
Meanwhile.
After quickly disposing of the droid, Usagi heard a voice shout out.
"Rabbit! There you are!" the woman cried, pointing to a tree behind Usagi. Chibi-Usa screamed in fright. "I, Catzi, will capture you for the glory of the Dark Moon! Violet lightning!" However, her cripping attack was blocked!
"What?!" Catzi screamed. She whirled around. "Who are you?!"
"I'm amazed that you Dark Moon scum don't know me by now," the newcomer scoffed. "After all, I've been the one tearing apart your dark minions for the past few weeks."
"So you're the cause of all of our advance soldiers disappearing?! Who do you think you are?!" Catzi practically screamed. The transformed Usagi contemplated this.
"I am the pretty suited soldier Sailor Celestia," she commanded, holding a long scepter in one arm (think of that manga pose for Cosmos with Chibi- Chibi at her side). At the top was the shape of a silver moon, while wings sprouted from its sides and the phases of the moon ran down the glittering shaft. "I am the heiress to the Moon Kingdom, and will be the instrument of your downfall." Pointing her scepter at Catzi, she fired a warning beam of moonlight that grazed Catzi's arm.
"How dare you, you bitch!" Catzi yelled, firing a bolt of dark lightning at her foe, but was knocked senseless as the bolt richocheted off of an invisible barrier and struck her back. Her scream echoed through the deserted park. Her entire body floated down to the earth slowly.
"Do you repent, Catzi?" Celestia asked. Catzi didn't look skewed at all.
"Never! Rubeus, my love!" she called. A man with flaming red hair appeared through a dark portal a few feet away. Her eyes brightened as she saw him appear. "Rubeus! Help me get rid of this pest so we can take Rabbit to Prince Diamond!" She attempted to join hands with him, but he blew her back with just a wave of his hand. She fell to the ground with a resounding thud.
"Rubeus? What's going on?" Catzi pleaded softly, pulling herself to her feet. "We swore we would complete this mission together!"
"I did no such thing, you pathetic excuse for a member of the Dark Moon," Rubeus said coldly with eyes like ice. "You and your three annoying sisters should just do what you're told and die afterwards. I don't even know why I put up with you incompetent fools." In a flash of dark energy, he disappeared. This left Catzi completely demoralized. Chibi-Usa was stunned. This was the face of one of her pursuers?
"Kill me," Catzi muttered. Celestial didn't think she understood her correctly.
"Pardon?"
"Kill me," Catzi sobbed. "I have nothing to live for now! I am pathetic, worthless, a weakling that my darling Rubeus didn't even want! Just kill me!"
Sailor Celestia just looked at her pityingly before walking slowly over and reaching out for Catzi's hand. Catzi just shook uncontrollably with fear and anguish.
"Please don't worry," Sailor Celestia said. "Everyone has hardships and wishes to die sometimes, but hope must always be in the heart." She wondered vaguely why she could say these words after the betrayal that her once-best friends committed against her, but she kept it to herself and went on. "Although you believed that Rubeus loved you, he never did. The look in his eyes told me all I needed to know about him, that he was just using you. If you want, I can rid you of your past, and you can come live with me. We have lots of room at my house. You can get a job, live a normal life. Don't you want that? A chance at a new existence?"
"But what about my sisters?" Catzi sobbed. "They don't know what Rubeus is!"
"We'll try to turn them for the better, I promise," Sailor Celestia smiled. Catzi's sobs quieted as she smiled in return.
"Please, help me."
Celestia smiled softly, then raised her staff high. "Upon my staff, cleanse this soul of the former evils upon it," Sailor Celestia chanted, holding the staff with two hands while her eyes were closed. "Celestia Purifying Light!"
Catzi felt herself be lifted up as a feeling of warmth swept through her body It was comforting, like the embrace of a loved one. In that bright, shining light, Sailor Celestia smiled. It felt good to relieve Catzi of her pain, but what of her own? The painful past stung her heart like thousands of wasps, like acid destroying her mind. But she had to stay strong to protect her loved ones, her father, her American friends, and Chibi-Usa. For some reason, she had felt a peculiar energy emanating from the lithe child.
The light faded as Catzi's rebirth was completed. She was just a normal woman now, dressed simply in dark slacks and a purple blouse. Unconscious, but normal now. Celestia slipped a card into her hand which contained not only her phone number but also her address so she could find it easily. Celestia began to walk back home, tired but happy for Catzi.
Speaking of Chibi-Usa.
"Mama?"
~*~*~*~
If you couldn't guess, here's the list of the Generals. They'll play a role later on in the story, but not quite yet.
Jason-Jedite Ryan-Zoicite Travis-Kunzite/Malachite Kyle-Nephrite (not mentioned yet, sorry Nephrite fans!)
The next one will be up as soon as I can write it, because from past of ch 3 on out, it's all from my mind!
Disclaimer applies.
~*~*~*~
Dimensions of Time
Set during the Usagi/Mamoru breakup, which was in R (I think. No see anime for awhile now.;_;). What if Usagi's power created an alternate dimension, where events ran differently than in the anime or manga? Here's Aquafire's rendition of this. Will eventually encompass the rest of Sailor Moon S, SuperS, and maybe even StarS!
So far, I am seeing an S alternate dimension.
At least, I think it's S. yes, has Chibi-Usa in it.
~*~*~*~
The house was enormous! Usagi stood in the foyer in sheer amazement at the lofty ceilings, spiral staircases to the upper levels, and the beautiful paintings on the wall, especially one painted by a certain talented artist she knew, namely, Becky. It was a painting where she and Mamo-ch. Mamoru- san had posed for, where Mamoru-san was handing her a Star Locket. The memory of the event back on the moon stirred a few more memories in her mind. She had been getting these nostalgic hits more and more often as of late.
"Otousan, we are staying at this mansion?" Usagi asked. Her father nodded tiredly.
"My employer owns about ten of these, so whenever they send someone over, they stay in one of these places," her father replied, rifling through an American newspaper.
"Kakoii ne." Usagi said. "Otousan, onegai, can I explore the upstairs?" Her father smiled at her. He hadn't seen her this spirited since before that boy broke up with her.
"Go ahead, Usagi," he replied, digging for something in his luggage, and watched as Usagi sprinted up the stairs with unnatural grace.
"How odd. am I dreaming, or was Usagi's hair silver?"
~*~
As Setsuna watched, she chuckled to herself. Her Queen was dancing in front of a full length mirror in preparation for her first day of school. She seemed so happy and carefree, even though it had only been three months since the awful events in Tokyo. Setsuna then noticed that Usagi's hair was silver streaked already, which surprised her immensely. The silver coloring was never in the hair of the Serenity she knew. Perhaps it indicated newfound strength and wisdom. After all, the Silver Millennium's Queen Serenity was very wise in the affairs of the universe and was quite skilled in protecting what was dear to her.
"Perhaps," Setsuna said, contemplating her earlier thought before turning her attention to the alternate time stream. "It looks like Small Lady's going to appear soon as well."
~*~
A few weeks later.
"I couldn't believe how much homework Daram-sensei gave us today!" Bunny Tsukino cried out, stretching out her arms. Her new best friends Mira Sanders and Linda Garrison laughed as they watched her prance about Bunny was only one of the smartest yet kindest teens in their entire school, which made her very popular, but she was always just Bunny to them. They loved to play with Bunny's long, waist length hair which rippled naturally in waves with all of the silver streaks. Needless to say, the guys at their middle/high school, Rosenton High School, loved and adored Bunny.
"You still talk like that, Bunny?" Mira joked. Usagi didn't mind the American translation of her name at all. It was cute and fluffy, really, but what mattered was keeping her last name. It's what made her. well, her.
"Sorry!" Bunny apologized. "Force of habit, you know?"
"Either way, let's move on to other matters, shall we?" Linda poked in. "What did you two think of that new transfer student, Matt? Isn't he just the dreamiest?"
"You're telling me!" Mira replied earnestly. "Those deep blue eyes that seem to pull you in and tell you that there's a story behind them. dreamy!!"
This description of the new boy sent a shockwave of emotion through Usagi. She froze where she was on the sidewalk.
"Mamo-chan, will you always love me?" Usagi asked as she gazed into his eyes. Those eyes that never failed to pull her into their infinite depths. Mamoru kissed her lightly.
"Always and forever."
"Bunny? Hey, Bunny!" Mira yelled at her, snapping Bunny out of her trance.
"Eh? Sorry Mira, I got sidetracked," Bunny apologized sincerely. Then a thought blew through her mind. "Hey!! Are you both going to the Homecoming Dance tomorrow night?"
"Oh my gosh, is this the one where the guys dress up all nice, well, nicer than baggy pants and t-shirts?" Linda exclaimed. "Of course I'm going! Bunny, Mira, who are you two going with?"
"Bunny, can I borrow one of the guys in your fan club?" Mira asked with puppy-eyes. They weren't jealous of the attention either, nor did it make Bunny all stuck up.
"Sure! I think you should go with Jason!" Bunny cried out. "You guys look soooooo cute together! I guess I can go with Travis, and Linda, d'you want to go with Ryan?"
"Jason's the cute short haired blond one, right?" Mira said excitedly. "Of course!"
"And Ryan's the one with the long blond hair?" Linda said, amused. "I'm game. You only get the most popular guy in the school, the only one with the long, sexy white hair."
"It's a gift," Bunny snickered. "I'm going home to check my mail now, AIM me when you get home, you guys!" she cried, waving as she ran up the long driveway to her house. Her dad's car wasn't in the way, which wasn't anything new. Dad was always busy with something at the office, but she didn't mind.
"Good afternoon Usagi-san," Janie called out from the front doors. Janie was the Japanese housemaid, but Bunny preferred to treat her as a friend and equal, more than just a lowly maid.
"Hii Janie!" Usagi cried out, glad to be away from the english language stuff for awhile. "Anything interesting happen while I was out?"
"Of course Usagi-san, your little sister came today on an airplane from Tokyo," Janie said, smiling as she waved a pink haired girl in. The moment Usagi laid her eyes on the girl, she felt this tug at the Ginzuishou she secretly kept underneath her blouse in a locket. The girl's sugar-pink hair was done up in two odangoes like her old style, only the seemed more. pointy somehow. When the girl saw Usagi, she gave a light curtsy.
"Konnichiwa Usagi-san," she said politely. "Watashi wa Chibi-Usa desu." Usagi, thanks to some etiquette lessons that her father paid for, replied just as courteously.
"Konnichiwa Chibi-Usa-chan," Usagi replied. "Janie, we'll go retire upstairs in my quarters." Janie bowed as the pair left.
~*~
Setsuna had felt it time to inform Sailors Uranus and Neptune of the alternate timeline of the events happening. Somehow, the time stream was telling her that it needed to be done, although her appearance to Usagi was still some time in the future. Tenou Haruka hadn't let her in the house until Kaiou Michiru let her in. Haruka had never been one for trust. None of the Outer Senshi were, really.
".and that's the whole story, Haruka," Setsuna said to the blond woman in front of her. "Our Princess has became so strong in this timeline that it's amazing! She is as powerful as she is in the true timeline in the era known as the Heart Snatchers time."
"Our princess did that?" Michiru sighed in awe. She wrapped an arm around Haruka's waist as Haruka stroked Michiru's aqua hair softly. Setsuna chuckled.
"Well, just be glad you don't have to watch all of the crazy exploits of our chiisai-hime all the time," Setsuna said smugly. "She is just. so powerful in this timeline, relying on her own inner strength to win. You two should appear in about two weeks, when the Dark Moon truly appears. Be aware and ready to fight by then." She then disappeared in a flash of light. Haruka and Michiru shielded their eyes until the light faded.
"Shall we go train now, Ruka?" Michiru teased with a giggle. Haruka smiled. We'll be ready Setsuna. You can count on it!
~*~
"And so," Chibi-Usa laughed, "I pied my mom in the face, and I got her friends with cake icing!" Usagi laughed heartily. The two had been trading stories back and forth for over half an hour. However, a flash of energy shot through Usagi's subconscious. An enemy about a mile away in the local park.
"Uhh, gomen nasai Chibi-Usa-chan, I have something I have to do!" Usagi cried, sprinting out of the room so fast she was a mere blur. Chibi-Usa stared after her.
"Meow, is it safe now?" a voice piped up from within Chibi-Usa's left pigtail.
"It's safe, Diana," Chibi-Usa replied. The small gray kitten hopped out of the pigtail with a flourish.
"I could feel it when your 'sister' was in the room," Diana said. "The true power that your mother, Neo-Queen Serenity, possesses. The power of the Ginzuishou. She's the one we're looking for."
"So she's Sailor Moon then." Chibi-Usa said thoughtfully. She took Luna- Pi, a round ball in the shape of a cat, out of her backpack. Pressing the crescent moon, the ball levitated into the air a bit.
"Small Lady, is Usagi the one you were seeking?" a voice beeped out from the ball.
"Yes Puu, Usagi's the one," Chibi-Usa replied. "I need her help so badly to save Mama. I have to follow her!"
~*~
"Moon celestial crisis power!" Usagi yelled in a thick grove of trees. As usual, a driod had appeared, and was terrorizing the whole neighborhood. However, this struck Usagi as very strange, seeing as she had beat Queen Beryl and Queen Metallia, the forces who controlled the Negaverse. Didn't she? This had to be the 8th time in the last three weeks that enemies had appeared, and Usagi was getting tired of it, even if the battles were horrendously easy.
"I know you're here, Rabbit!" a woman dressed in a dark purple jumpsuit yelled. Her long purple hair was held up with a matching bow, and she was hurling purple lightning bolts everywhere.
I have to stop her before someone gets hurt! Usagi thought feverishly. The henshin ribbons melted into her senshi suit, complete with blue skirt and red bows. Her compact which held the Ginzuishou had evolved awhile ago into a golden star locket framed by a larger, gold heart. The skirt itself was blue with streaks of yellow and red across the lower fringe. Her hair no longer crammed itself in that awful odango-style, but instead flowed freely into her gold and silver cape. The tiara had evolved as well, growing sleeker and replaced by a silver crescent moon center.
She did not realize it, but Chibi-Usa had been spying from behind a tree, Diana and Luna-Pi in tow. She saw the whole thing, but wasn't in the least bit surprised at it.
"Mama normally keeps her hair up in odangoes, the same as mine," Chibi-Usa mused at Diana. "But she told me once she didn't like the odango style, and willed her henshin to be different than when she was Sailor Moon of Tokyo. But if that's Mama, where's Papa?"
Meanwhile.
After quickly disposing of the droid, Usagi heard a voice shout out.
"Rabbit! There you are!" the woman cried, pointing to a tree behind Usagi. Chibi-Usa screamed in fright. "I, Catzi, will capture you for the glory of the Dark Moon! Violet lightning!" However, her cripping attack was blocked!
"What?!" Catzi screamed. She whirled around. "Who are you?!"
"I'm amazed that you Dark Moon scum don't know me by now," the newcomer scoffed. "After all, I've been the one tearing apart your dark minions for the past few weeks."
"So you're the cause of all of our advance soldiers disappearing?! Who do you think you are?!" Catzi practically screamed. The transformed Usagi contemplated this.
"I am the pretty suited soldier Sailor Celestia," she commanded, holding a long scepter in one arm (think of that manga pose for Cosmos with Chibi- Chibi at her side). At the top was the shape of a silver moon, while wings sprouted from its sides and the phases of the moon ran down the glittering shaft. "I am the heiress to the Moon Kingdom, and will be the instrument of your downfall." Pointing her scepter at Catzi, she fired a warning beam of moonlight that grazed Catzi's arm.
"How dare you, you bitch!" Catzi yelled, firing a bolt of dark lightning at her foe, but was knocked senseless as the bolt richocheted off of an invisible barrier and struck her back. Her scream echoed through the deserted park. Her entire body floated down to the earth slowly.
"Do you repent, Catzi?" Celestia asked. Catzi didn't look skewed at all.
"Never! Rubeus, my love!" she called. A man with flaming red hair appeared through a dark portal a few feet away. Her eyes brightened as she saw him appear. "Rubeus! Help me get rid of this pest so we can take Rabbit to Prince Diamond!" She attempted to join hands with him, but he blew her back with just a wave of his hand. She fell to the ground with a resounding thud.
"Rubeus? What's going on?" Catzi pleaded softly, pulling herself to her feet. "We swore we would complete this mission together!"
"I did no such thing, you pathetic excuse for a member of the Dark Moon," Rubeus said coldly with eyes like ice. "You and your three annoying sisters should just do what you're told and die afterwards. I don't even know why I put up with you incompetent fools." In a flash of dark energy, he disappeared. This left Catzi completely demoralized. Chibi-Usa was stunned. This was the face of one of her pursuers?
"Kill me," Catzi muttered. Celestial didn't think she understood her correctly.
"Pardon?"
"Kill me," Catzi sobbed. "I have nothing to live for now! I am pathetic, worthless, a weakling that my darling Rubeus didn't even want! Just kill me!"
Sailor Celestia just looked at her pityingly before walking slowly over and reaching out for Catzi's hand. Catzi just shook uncontrollably with fear and anguish.
"Please don't worry," Sailor Celestia said. "Everyone has hardships and wishes to die sometimes, but hope must always be in the heart." She wondered vaguely why she could say these words after the betrayal that her once-best friends committed against her, but she kept it to herself and went on. "Although you believed that Rubeus loved you, he never did. The look in his eyes told me all I needed to know about him, that he was just using you. If you want, I can rid you of your past, and you can come live with me. We have lots of room at my house. You can get a job, live a normal life. Don't you want that? A chance at a new existence?"
"But what about my sisters?" Catzi sobbed. "They don't know what Rubeus is!"
"We'll try to turn them for the better, I promise," Sailor Celestia smiled. Catzi's sobs quieted as she smiled in return.
"Please, help me."
Celestia smiled softly, then raised her staff high. "Upon my staff, cleanse this soul of the former evils upon it," Sailor Celestia chanted, holding the staff with two hands while her eyes were closed. "Celestia Purifying Light!"
Catzi felt herself be lifted up as a feeling of warmth swept through her body It was comforting, like the embrace of a loved one. In that bright, shining light, Sailor Celestia smiled. It felt good to relieve Catzi of her pain, but what of her own? The painful past stung her heart like thousands of wasps, like acid destroying her mind. But she had to stay strong to protect her loved ones, her father, her American friends, and Chibi-Usa. For some reason, she had felt a peculiar energy emanating from the lithe child.
The light faded as Catzi's rebirth was completed. She was just a normal woman now, dressed simply in dark slacks and a purple blouse. Unconscious, but normal now. Celestia slipped a card into her hand which contained not only her phone number but also her address so she could find it easily. Celestia began to walk back home, tired but happy for Catzi.
Speaking of Chibi-Usa.
"Mama?"
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If you couldn't guess, here's the list of the Generals. They'll play a role later on in the story, but not quite yet.
Jason-Jedite Ryan-Zoicite Travis-Kunzite/Malachite Kyle-Nephrite (not mentioned yet, sorry Nephrite fans!)
The next one will be up as soon as I can write it, because from past of ch 3 on out, it's all from my mind!