End of Days

Co-written: Moon Mage Goddess and The Goddess Jynx

This chapter written by:

The Goddess Jynx

Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is owned by the genius Naoko Takeuchi. However, the two original characters are myself and Sandreline. They are not to be taken, used, or copied without our permissions, or you will feel our wrath, blah blah blah….yadda yadda….and now—the story.

Chapter 2: Untitled.

(Well…that's kind of a loaded question.) The fiery redhead replied tersely as a paper airplane flew past her head. "Are you serious? A paper airplane? What are you—five?" She asked in disbelief as she faced the perpetrator. "Next person who decides to return to the playground days is gonna eat their airplane. Got it?"

The nerdy boy who'd thrown the airplane swallowed deep and nodded.

"Now…where were we? Ah yes. My name is Jynx Terra. In English, that's J…Y….N…throw that and you die….X…." she wrote the letters on the board in cursive as she said them. "Now, this is an advanced English class, so I expect you all to speak only in English. Do you understand?"

"Hai!"

"Excuse me?"

"Er…..yes!"

"That's better." (I could kill for a chai tea latte right now.) She muttered silently as her best friend down the hall giggled in reply.

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Lunchtime didn't quite come fast enough for Jynx. The two sister-like figure were sitting out in the school courtyard at a picnic table as they ate their lunches. "I swear to myself—why do they always give me the delinquents?" Shoving a piece of octopus sushi into her mouth, she glared at nothing in particular. "It always happens like this."

Sandreline paused to look at her friend. "Um…they were probably thinking that you're a psychologist. Psychologists know how to work with all kinds of people…particularly people who need special help."

"Well, that's just crazy!"

Sandreline burst out laughing. "Oh, how funny." Glancing across the courtyard of their school, she eyed the group of girls from her classroom. "She's smarter than they give her credit for."

Jynx paused with her chopsticks halfway towards her mouth. "Huh?"

"The princess."

Jynx nodded as she place the next piece of sushi in her mouth, which was an interesting sight seeing as her hand had to go up and down with her head. "I figured. What do you suppose they're talking about?"

"Us, most likely."

"…Wanna find out?" Jynx grinned wickedly at her silver-haired friend. With that, she whistled softly, and out of no where a small, orange-breasted finch landed beside her on the table, tilting its head inquisitively. "Do mommy a favor, sweetie? Go find out what they're talking about." The bird nodded and flew off towards the girls in question.

Sandreline rolled her eyes. "If you keep doing that, someone is going to notice. The Mars princess is highly attuned towards these types of things. You even got on me for that."

"I'm only talking to a bird. Not exactly calling up a hurricane."

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"Did you see that?" Minako gasped.

"Phee vat?" Usagi asked with her mouth full.

Minako turned to Usagi and gave her a look. "You know I don't like it when you talk with your mouth full." She turned and subtly pointed towards the table where the two new teachers were sitting. "I think the redhead just talked to a bird."

Usagi blinked and swallowed the hunk of food in her mouth. "So? We talk to cats."

Minako rolled her eyes. "But, that's not exactly normal."

"Gee, thanks." Usagi said sarcastically.

"Oh, you know what I mean."

A few feet away, a partly orange colored bird landed.

Minako turned to give Usagi the 'I told you so' look.

Usagi stared at the little bird for a moment as the bird blatantly stared back. "…no. It HAS to be coincidence. Stop looking for trouble."

Minako pouted indignantly. "I'm not looking for trouble!"

A delicate and graceful hand calmly turned a page in a book. "We don't need to look for trouble," Ami commented without glancing up. "Trouble is quite talented at finding us."

Usagi glanced over at Ami, who proceeded to set her book down and turn to her laptop. Using one hand to type on her laptop and the other to pick up her sandwich and take a bite, she began humming a sound. That particular ability of Ami's always seemed rather pesky to Usagi, who could barely sing and walk at the same time.

Out of the corner of her eyes, Usagi faintly registered the bird taking flight again.

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Reaching down for her backpack as the bell rang signaling the end of lunch, she blinked.

"Has anyone seen my backpack?"

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Jynx blinked and sighed, watching the group of super-powered girls meander out of the courtyard and back into the building, the long-haired blonde complaining about her missing backpack. "You are always misplacing that thing!" Minako commented as she shook her head.

The bird landed softly on Jynx's outstretched hand. She didn't need the bird to tell her that the girls were previously talking about them. But at the moment…that didn't particularly worry her.

"Not this time! I swear—I put it right there! I remember!"

"Well, you must not have…" Minako's voice trailed off as the girls walked beyond hearing distance.

Jynx turned slightly. "You don't think…"

"I'd rather not." Sandreline stared glumly at her half-eaten plate of food.

"But you do."

The silver-haired goddess nodded ever so slightly. "Yes. I believe I do."

A soft breeze blew a strand of red hair into Jynx's face as she stared off into the distance at something unseen.

"…It's here."

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"Have you seen my red shirt?" Mamoru asked his blue-eyed girlfriend. "I left it out on the balcony, but it's not there. Maybe it blew away."

Usagi shrugged. "Maybe," she absently replied as she set her purse on the counter.

As soon as school was out that day, she had immediately made her way through town and headed straight towards Mamoru's place, excited about the date they had that night. Mamoru was taking her to a knew Italian place that was said to have the best pasta in the entire city. Well, Usagi would be the judge of that.

"Hey, Mamoru—you're still coming to my graduation, right?"

Mamoru smiled softly at Usagi. "Of course I am. I wouldn't miss it for the world."

"But don't you have a final that night?"

Mamoru rolled his eyes as he shrugged on a blue shirt. "Yeah, but I've already got a perfect score in that class. Besides—I'm good friends with the professor. He agreed to let me take it in his office the day before." He ran his fingers through his hair, one of the few people who seemed to never need a comb.

Usagi smiled giddily at her wonderful prince. "How did I become blessed enough to be yours?" She reached her arms around Mamoru and laid her cheek against his back. She felt a chuckle rumble through him.

"You? No—I think it's me who's been blessed by you." He took a hold of her hand and kissed her fingers. "So, are you ready to go to dinner?"

Usagi grinned. "Yes, please!"

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Rei stared deep into the fire the burned brightly before her, searching for a sign of what was to come. The two new players in this whole game were worrying her to no end. It wasn't necessarily that she thought they were evil, because she really didn't. It was simply the fact that she felt a hidden power in them, stronger than anything she'd ever felt. Why would they want to hide that? Most people with power tend to exercise that power whenever they could.

A log in the fire popped. Rei blinked. "Hmm…"

"What is it you're looking for?" Rei glanced up as her grandfather stared down at her from the other side of the fire. "Perhaps I could help."

Rei smiled and wiped a thin sheen of sweat off her brow. "Nothing in particular. Just making sure everything is ok."

"Really" Her grandfather raised an eyebrow. "You don't usually break into a sweat with everyday scrying. What are you really looking for?"

Rei sighed heavily and lowered her eyes to look into the fire again. "Grandpa…you know that feeling you get when trouble is on the horizon? It's not necessarily that you actually see something, it's more like…this nagging feeling in the pit of your stomach."

"Ah…" Her grandfather sighed and nodded knowingly. Taking a deep breath, he seemed to be preparing himself for a deep, wise lecture. "……Nope. No clue what you're talking about."

"GRANDPA!" Rei sweatdropped and threw one of the pillows meant for kneeling on.

He ducked as he headed out. "Happy scrying!"

Rei rolled her eyes and chuckled. "What a weirdo."

Suddenly, she blinked. "Grandpa? Did you take my notebook?" She scrambled off the floor and rushed after her grandfather. "I thought I left right here…"

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"Ya know…even with graduation so close, I still find myself thriving off of weekends. In fact, I think I need them more than I used to," Usagi commented as she and the other Inner Scouts sat around a table in the arcade eating pizza on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

Rei rolled her eyes. "You are so never going to make it through college."

Usagi sent a dark glare over to Rei. "Just because I like weekends doesn't mean I'm not gonna be a good college student!"

Rei snorted sarcastically. "Yes it does."

"Does not!"

"Does too."

"Does not!"

"Does too."

"DOES NOT!"

"QUIET!" Luna screeched at the two girls. "When will you two grow up? All you do is fight and argue like a couple of kids! I am sick and tired of babysitting you!"

Usagi pouted. "I'm not a kid…"

"No, of course not," a male voice interrupted. "And that pout is complete proof of that fact."

Usagi turned her pout onto Mamoru. "What? You're supposed to be on my side…I can't believe you."

Mamoru leaned over kissed the pout right off her lips. "You know I'm always on your side."

"Mmm…" Usagi murmured happily. "Buy me ice cream and I'll believe you."

"What? Now I have to buy your love?"

Usagi giggled. "No, not my love. That you get for free."

Rei and Minako glanced at each other and rolled their eyes, both thinking the same thing. How corny…

"Okay, okay—chocolate, vanilla, or both?"

Usagi thought this question over. "Hmm…I'm feeling daring today. Lets try vanilla mint with sprinkles and nuts."

Mamoru chuckled and muttered under his breath, "Why does you daringness always cost me more money?"

"Hmm?"

"Nothing. I'll be right back." With a smile and quick kiss on the cheek he was off, leaving Usagi to wonder just what he'd said as the others snicker quietly.

"Hey wait…did anyone see where my purse went to?" Makoto blinked as she glanced around her chair. "I just set it down here not two seconds ago…"

A shadow moved out of the corner of Luna's eyesight. Blinking, she turned to her right. Nothing. What the… she thought in confusion. Hmm…probably just someone's shadow. Shrugging it off, she jumped up onto the table and took the moment of purse confusion to steal a drink from Usagi's soda.

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"Did you see that?" Jynx stared at the group of girls in the arcade across the street from the coffee shop her and Sandreline were sitting in.

"No. See what?" Sandreline asked as she glanced up from the newspaper article she was reading.

"A shadow…"

Sandreline felt her stomach drop. "A…shadow? You mean…them?"

"Yeah……wait…are you reading the newspaper?" Jynx stared at her adoptive sister in awe.

"Yes."

"…Why?"

Sandreline gave her a Look. "I'm looking for the signs."

Jynx inhaled sharply. "You don't think they'd already be showing up…do you?"

"Based on what you just saw over there…I'd say it won't be long."

Jynx nodded solemnly. "…Do you think they're ready? Do you think they can handle this?"

"Ready or not, they are going to have to."

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And that's the end of chapter 2. Do you guys like it so far? Moon Mage Goddess and I are having some serious fun planning this one out. You guys are in for a total blast.

The next chapter will be by her, so look out for it!! Yeah, yeah….she writes faster than I do. But I finally found some inspiration to make me sit down and finish this goddamn thing—I promised myself when I finished this chapter, I could start the last HARRY POTTER BOOK!!

…who thinks they're all gonna die? I think they're all gonna die. J.K. Rowling is totally gonna pull a CLAMP and kill everyone.

Yup. That's how it's gonna end.

Tata!
Jynx