Magic from the Moonlight
Book I: Return of the Moon Princess

Org. writing, concept, some characters
by Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2003/20xx

Editing and continued writing
on Jan. 13th 2009
by Saturn Knight
Copyright 2009/20xx

Add. Copyrights: Sailor Moon™ and all original characters are copyright © 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation, English Language Adaptation © 1995 DiC Entertainment.

Author's note: Since English isn't my native language. Please don't flame me for grammar errors. Spelling errors… guess I'll just have to kill off my computer.

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Chapter Two

Going back to Tokyo -
Journey Begins

*** 9 years later, Tokyo… ***

The full moon shinned brightly, casting its silver-white light down on the water in the Tokyo Lake and the empty streets and ally's all over the city. The only noises heard were of a few dogs and cats barking and meowing into the night and owls sitting on tree branches on the prowl for a midnight snack.
Rei Hino sat quietly in front of the Great Fire in the meditation room at her Grandfather's old Shinto temple – a temple that had been there for many centuries and had always been in the hands of the Hino family. Rei's father was the first of many generations of the Hino family that had chosen to divert from what had become a "family tradition", namely to become a Shinto priest or priestess, and instead entered politics.

Tiny drops of sweat pearls trailed down Reis forehead as she was locked in deep concentration. Up until 5 years ago, Rei had been your "normal", average and everyday teenage girl who got up in the morning, went to school, came home again, did her chores and lived a rather normal and casual life like everyone else. That, however, had suddenly and permanently changed when a small, talking black cat had entered her life, telling her a dubious story of a wonderful and glorious kingdom, a terrible, wicked and evil queen, and beautiful princess that Rei and a group of other girls, called sailor senshi, had to find and protect from harm.

Reis initial thought had been that she had completely lost it and every ounce of common sense in her mind and body had told her that such things were simply impossible. But the reality of what the little black cat Luna told her had dawned on her pretty quickly as she had found herself the victim of Dark Kingdom - the enemy's - operations. It was on that day Rei had also met the dashing and stylish dressed tuxedo clad warrior Tuxedo Kamen, who had later been revealed to also be Rei's boyfriend of the past 4 years, Mamoru Chiba.

More senshi had been steadily found since the day Rei had been visited by Luna, and each time it was believed that they had found their lost princess, especially when Sailor Venus had showed up with her own advisor and guardian-cat, Artemis. But the image of Sailor Venus as the princess was short lived and the senshi was back to where they had always been – still searching for their missing princess.

Rei cursed under her breath. Another night with absolutely no results of any kind and she was starting to get really tired of all this searching without progress and the arrival of a new enemy did not make things any better.
"Next time Uranus and Neptune shows up, I'm going to burn them unless they help us finding this princess." She mumbled, already knowing that there was little chance of that idea working for anything other than getting herself into a fight. She stood up tiredly and walked towards the door to the fire room when a beeping sound started to come from her kimono. She reached into her pocket and took out a small minicomputer and pressed the button that was blinking, signaling who the caller was.

"Rei here, what's the trouble, Ami?" she asked tiredly. Another battle was the only thing she didn't need after 5 hours of meditation.

"Rei, we have a serious problem. There is a yoma near the mall. Uranus and Neptune are fighting it, but need help now!" Ami whispered hurriedly.

Rei nodded. "Call the others and tell them to get there also, I'll be with you as quickly as possible, Ami." The blue haired girl nodded slowly and closed the connection and peeked up from her hiding spot. "Good, the monsters are gone now… Mercury Star Power, makeup!" she yelled and was instantly engulfed in a blue light. She the pressed the call all button on her communicator. "Listen everyone; we have an attack at the mall."

"Okay!" Mako and Minako said in unison.

*** Onboard Flight 111 from Heathrow to Tokyo –airport… ***

Everything was for the most part quiet onboard Flight 111. 19 year old Serena Thomson leaned back in her seat as she looked up at the big screen and the movie that was being showed there – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – the final chapter in a 3 movie long marathon. She smiled, thinking back to a time where she herself had been living in a beautiful and glorious kingdom, not forgetting being the young and hopeful girl who was deeply in love with a real prince – the prince of Earth, Endymion. Serena sighted romantically at the memories of that time. It had been little over a month ago, following her parents decision to move too Tokyo and oversee the completion of his construction company's newest achievement, that she had been visited by her 'mother' for the first time. To begin with Serena hadn't believed a word of it and was fully convinced that her addiction to Manga reading had gotten the better of her – which she still somewhat believed in, since the only prove of it was her own dreams.

'At least mother has faith in that I will ever see him again' she thought and took a sip of her tea. 'Maybe that is why she put my parent's decision about moving to Tokyo as a good idea.' Serena looked at her uncle who sat next to her, sleeping and snoring lightly. She couldn't help but smile at the sight of him. Serena had long ago accepted both her uncle and his wife as her adoptive parents, though she did not refer to them as such, but as Uncle Mathew and Aunt Sarah.

'At least he will be closer to his company now. 'I wonder how Aunt Puu is doing and if she's still living in Tokyo…' she thought, closing her eyes, thinking about the dark-green haired woman who had been like a second mother to her.

"Mother…Queen Serenity…" she mumbled sadly, a few tears slipped down her face, as she slowly drifted off to sleep, dreaming of the past.

*** Elsewhere… ***

A lone figure stood in front of a large mirror, watching the sleeping form of Serena, smiling softly too herself. From there she had secretly watched over her daughter, following her from the moment she was born and now it was time to do something that she had dreaded since the day her daughter was reborn. Up until now, she had strived with all might only return the good and warm memories of the past but now the rest had to come, namely the unpleasant memories of the past, including the really painful once.

"You've grown so beautiful my dear daughter. I just hope that you are ready for the changes and trials there are to come in your life now that you are going back. I really wish that things could be different, that you could live a normal and peaceful life, but your friends need you badly, my dear Serenity. They need you to help them triumph over this evil." The woman whispered softly as she slowly started to fade away. "I love you, my darling Serenity."

*** Back Onboard flight 111… ***

Serena sat up abruptly, breathing heavily, sweat trickling down her forehead. She looked around, taking in her surroundings carefully as if she was making sure that this wasn't a dream. She looked out the small window next to her, seeing the tiny water drops on the window glass.

'What that was all about?' Serena thought too herself as she slowly gained normal breathing and looked up at the TV-screen, where the thousands of Riders of Rohan were charging against the Orc army in front of the White City of Men.

She looked at her uncle who was still sleeping soundly and then at her watch. Six hours remained of the flight time. 'Isn't this flight ever going to be over!?' Serena sighted. She was getting more than a little tired of sitting down. The flight had already lasted 8 hours, and was far from over.

*** Tokyo Mall… ***

Neither of the two senshi teams(inner and outer –senshi) was fairing very well against the yoma that stood in front of them and it didn't help that there was a great hostility between the two teams, which was mostly what caused the lack of winning on their behalf, rather then it was the strength of the yoma that caused too great of difficulties. Uranus and Neptune had been the once to find the daemon lurking around the mall and attack a security guard who was on patrol, draining the poor guards energy in a way neither Neptune or Uranus had ever seen before or thought possible. Ami had spotted the two Outer Senshi as they had jumped into action and called the others for backup before running to join the two older senshi in the fight, much too their great annoyance.

"Neptune!?" Uranus screamed as the attack from the yoma hit her partner head on. She turned around and glared hatefully at the yoma in front of her. "You will pay for that!" she hissed, powering up for an attack, "World Shaking!" The yoma screamed in pain as it turned to dust. The four inner senshi looked at Uranus as she fell too her knees in front of Neptune's unconscious body, shaking her. "Neptune, please wake up! Neptune!"

"We have to get her to a hospital and fast!" Mercury said, "She's loosing blood. Jupiter can you carry her?" Mercury urged. The tall senshi nodded and lifted Neptune's light body up in her arms.

"We'll meet you at the hospital," Mars said quickly. The others nodded, but Uranus stopped them. "You're not going anywhere with her!!" She cried. The four inner senshi nodded between them and Mercury and Jupiter jumped up and out through the hole in the roof, making haste to bring a still bleeding Sailor Neptune to the hospital.

"Didn't you hear me?!" Uranus exclaimed angrily.

"No, we didn't." Mars snapped. "Are you two really that arrogant!?" You're senshi of the same kingdom as we are, so start to act like you are! We are on the same side, whatever you care to realize that or not it's true."

"Stay away and do not interfere in our mission, understand!? We don't need the help of weaklings like you, Neptune and I have enough problems as it is." Uranus replied angrily.

"You know what your problem is Uranus? Arrogance and the fear of asking for help when there is something you cannot handle! You're a senshi of the Moon princess but you and Neptune are acting and behaving like little children. The more we fight between ourselves, the more the enemy is winning because we cannot agree on anything at all." Mars retorted. "And now Sailor Neptune is hurt, and you don't even want her to be taken to a hospital? And you call yourself her friend? Yeah right, some friend. The princess would be ashamed of you both!" With that the two inner senshi walked off.

"I don't care," Uranus replied as they left, "Neptune and I made a promise to each other that if one of us were to die, the other would continue the mission and prevent the Silence from coming." She finished and walked off. Once she got out of the Mall, she stopped to de-transform and looked up at the full moon that shinned brightly. "Moon Princess…" she mumbled too herself. "Queen Serenity's daughter. But where is she, if not with the Inner Senshi?"

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Well everyone, that's it for chapter 2 Hope you all enjoyed. Please leave a nice review. No flames, I write because I like what I'm writing ^_^