Episode 3

The Mysterious Sleeping Illness!

In the Dark Kingdom Jadeite was kneeling before Queen Beryl, who was looking pissed. "Jadeite, what of the energy we are to give to our great ruler?" She asked. Jadeite simply replied with a smirk on his face, "Queen Beryl, please give us a little more time. Everything is going as planned." "Is that so? It had better work this time." Queen Beryl said disbelievingly. "Yes. We had some interruptions before, but this time I am working secretly with my minion Flowa." Jadeite said as his smirk grew more pronounced. Queen Beryl gave a small evil chuckle before saying, "Very well, it is all on your shoulders keep that in mind." Before Jadeite disappeared he said. "Yes, my lady."

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Usagi was trying to tune out the distraction caused by the radio, while hanging upside-down and polishing her sword at the same time. Naru was sleeping over again and hugging her pillow tightly as she listened to the radio. "'My old diary was full of you. And my diary now is full of the past. I want to see you. I want to see you one more time. I want to tell you my true feelings.' This was sent to us from Haruna the dreamer from Juubangai"" "Wait a minute isn't Haruna our teacher's name?" Usagi asked while paying attention to what she was doing. Naru nodded her head without making a sound. "Well, I hope she finds the person she's writing about." "We're sharing everyone's love letters on this show. For those who's letters are read, we will send a flower broach that makes love come true." "I want a flower broach." Naru said laying down on the bed. "Naru-chan, you do know that the broach is probably just some silly trinket and not something that can make love come true." Usagi said a

s she put her sword back in it's sheath and started doing pull-ups.

"#10 Midnight Zero, #10 Midnight Zero. I want your love to blossom. I'll be back tomorrow. This is J-Dite." The radio program ended. "I know, but still." Naru said as she put her pillow on top of her head. "Usagi-chan, Naru-chan. You two should probably go to bed, you don't want to oversleep." Luna said lecturing them "All right." Usagi said. "Naru-chan, you can take the bed tonight." Usagi the untied her self and dropped down to the ground which she landed on her feet. She then got in the futon on the floor and turned off the radio. "Awwww. Do we have to?" Naru asked. Luna then directed a glare towards Naru. "Fine, fine. Bed time." She then got under the covers and fell asleep. Luna then went over to the wall and jumped up and turned off the lights. "Good-night girls." Luna said before leaving.

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"Wow, a sleeping illness that won't let you wake up once you've fallen asleep. I want to get that and rest for a while." Sakura read from her newspaper. She had slept over at the Tsukino's again. "What are you talking about? If you got that then we wouldn't be able to have sex during the night." Ikuko said as she served the families. "Just kidding dear. I wouldn't want to miss our sexual nights even for some good sleep." Sakura said closing up the paper and giggling. "That's true honey. So when do you think we should get married?" Ikuko asked in her love's ear. "Most likely in a few months." Sakura said. Usagi then coughs to get their attention. "You two are acting too sweet. It's starting to give me a tooth-ache. I gotta go or I might be late for school." Usagi then gets up and goes off to school. "Let's go Naru." Usagi said. "Right." Naru responded

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Usagi sits in her desk and looks around. She sees that the teacher isn't here yet. "Hey Naru-chan, where's Haruna-sensei?" "Looks like she's not here yet, Usagi." Naru said. "It's unusual for Haruna-sensei to be late. Now Usagi-san, will you go on a date with me?" Umino-baka asked. "I hate guys!" Usagi said as she conked Umino-baka on the head. Just then the door opened and in walked Haruna-sensei looking very tired. She then stumbled when she got to her desk. Most of the class face-faulted at that. "Let's see I'll take roll call now." She said as she opened the attendance book. She then dropped the book. "Actually today will be self study. Just study whatever you want." Usagi noticed that Haruna-sensei's energy seemed to be sucked into the flower broach that she's wearing. "Today I'm just... So, so sleepy." Haruna-sensei then puts her head down to sleep. "Usagi-san, what could be wrong with Haruna-sensei?" Umino-baka asked looking to her. "Don't ask me Umino-baka. How should I kno

w." Usagi said scowling at him for trying to hit on her again.

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Luna was walking down a deserted street. "I hate it. Usagi-chan won't listen to me when I tell her that some of the things she does are too dangerous. She's probably being scolded by the teacher right now. Serves her right." A door opened and she saw a man with dirty-blond hair in work-man's clothes. "Hey, we meet again Luna-chan." said the worker, Motoki. Motoki, has seen Luna many times and knows about her ability to talk. "Hello Motoki-san. It has been a while." Luna said. "You're not with Usagi today?" He asked as he scratched her head. "No, she's in school right now. I swear Motoki-san, she doesn't listen to me when I try and tell her that she's going to get killed before we can find the princess, if she continues to mess around with all of her ninja stuff." "Well, she is a fairly skilled ninja. Hey, you want some milk? I'll go in and get some." He said as he got up. "Usagi-chan could use some niceness training from Motoki-kun." Luna thought. She then saw an ambulance going by

. "I wonder what's happening?"

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The ambulance arrived at Juuban High and some paramedics went in. They then carried Haruna-sensei out on a stretcher. "I wonder what's wrong." One student asked. "She won't wake up no matter what we do. It shouldn't be that exhausting to be a teacher." Usagi said. "This sounds like the disease that mom was reading about in the paper. Remember Usagi-chan?" Naru said. "Hey yeah, your right." Usagi said.

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"Mr. President, we got more letters addressed to Midnight Zero." said a mail-room worker at the radio station. "Again? Why do we get so many responses for a show that doesn't exist?" asked the president of the radio station. "What should we do?" asked the worker. "Never mind. Just put it away somewhere." replied the president. "Good grief." said the worker. "I'll take care of those." said a red haired female worker who was wearing a flower broach, just like the one that took Haruna-sensei's energy. "Oh really? Thank you." replied the president. "No problem." replied the female worker.

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Usagi and Naru were walking down the street. "Naru-chan, I can't believe you listen to something like Midnight Zero." Usagi said in a sotto voice. "Well, I have sent in many love letters, but none of them have been read yet." Naru said. "Really written to whom?" Usagi asked curiously. "No one in particular, just a future boyfriend." Naru replied. "Isn't that kinda presumptuous? I mean it's so impersonal if you don't know who your writting about." Usagi said sagely. "I guess your right Usagi-chan, I just really want one of those flower broaches." Naru said. "Yeah well, you should not get a boyfriend just to get a broach, besides I think something weird is happening with those broaches." Usagi said. "What do you mean weird?" Naru asked. "Haruna-sensei's broach appeared to be sucking out her energy." Usagi said. "Oh no, what if Midnight Zero is being run by the Dark Kingdom?" Naru asked shocked. "It just might be. I'll go snoop around and see what I can find." Usagi said. "Okay. I'm g

oing to be at the house cause I already sent today's letter." Naru said. "Alright, just please if you get a broach from them just destroy it. Bye nee-chan." Usagi said as she ran towards the studio.

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"Hello miss, may I help you?" asked the secretary. "Yes, I have some complaints about a program of yours, can you direct me to Midnight Zero?" Usagi said. "Well, I'm sorry miss, but we don't have a program called Midnight Zero." replied the secretary. "That's strange my nee-chan listens to it on this station. maybe you could listen to the radio tonight and check." Usagi suggested. "Sure, especially since we get so many letters for it even though we have no knowledge of it," said the secretary, "what's your complaint anyway?" "Well, my teacher's letter was read on the air, and when she got the flower broach their giving to everyone whose letter got read on the air, she got very sleepy, not like her at all. I also asked the hospital about it and only the people with those broaches got the sleeping sickness." Usagi said. "Well, that is suspicious. Well, we'll have this matter looked into." the secretary said. "Okay, bye." Usagi said.

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Usagi put her book-bag down on the bed and then collapsed onto it. "Usagi-chan, what's wrong." Naru asked. "The secretary said there wasn't a program called Midnight Zero." Usagi said. "Well, it's almost time I'll tune the radio in." Naru said. Once the clock reached midnight the radio turned on. "Good evening, it's time for Midnight Zero." "Well, looks like midnight Zero does exist." Naru said. "That's strange, something else should be on at this time." Luna said as she looks at the newspaper. "The first love letter we will read comes to us from Naru who lives in Juubangai." "Woah." Naru said.

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"So, this is the flower broach that you wanted nee-chan?" Usagi asked. "Yeah, but we have to get rid of it." Naru said as she put the broach on the table of their room. "Allow me." Usagi said as she started to form handsigns. "Tsukikage no Yaiba!" she said as the blade of moonlight formed around her hand. She then sliced down and through the broach. "We have to get to school now or we'll be late." Naru said. Usagi, having just finished putting her hair up to cover her ears nods, "Right, let's go."

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A group of schoolgirls surrounded Naru and started to ask her questiions about the broach. "Well, I would show it to you, but I forgot it." Naru nervously lied. "Darn." said the girls. "Wait, I have one." said one of the girls, Kimiko. She put on the broach and her energy was sucked into the broach, and she started to fall asleep. Usagi and Naru each put their hands on Kimiko, but had a little bit of their energy drained as well. Both Usagi and Naru collapsed onto the floor.

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Usagi looked around and saw a huge castle in the midst of a war torn landscape. She also saw a princess that looked alot like her running towards one of the fallen figures. The figure that the princess was running towards looked like a girl, so Usagi followed. "Mars, don't go please. I can't live without you." The princess said. "I'm sorry Serenity, but I'm dying." said the girl, Mars. Mars had long black hair and violet eyes, she was wearing a seifuku which made her a Sailor Senshi. "Mars, please I've told you to call me by my first name, love." Serenity said. "I'm sorry my love, but I keep on forgetting since we're trying to keep our relationship a secret. I love you, Usagi, now and forever." Mars said as she died. The princess Usagi stood up and drew her sword, which she used to cut her hair short. Usagi then could tell that this was her past life during the Silver Millennium.

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Usagi and Naru woke up when Luna screamed in their faces. "It's a good thing you two woke up look," Luna said pointing at the bed across the room, Kimiko was in the bed sleeping, "The broach has sucked out her energy, she's not in danger of dying, but that's only cause you two knocked the broach off of her." "Naru, Luna, you two stay here while I check out the radio station." Usagi said right before she transformed and faded from sight. "USAGI, HOW DARE YOU LEAVE ME BEHIND AGAIN!!" Luna screamed. "She'll do it to you again and again and again. Usagi's the kind of person who'd do these missions by herself." Naru said.

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A swirl of energy formed in front of Jadeite as he collected the energy from the girls wearing the flower broaches. "We've gathered quite a bit now." said the lady who picked up the Midnight Zero love letters. "It seems like the experiment was a success. Flowa, I never thought that young women with dreams of love would have so much energy. The flower broach puts girls to sleep and absorbs their dreams of love. This broach that you created is very useful. It's about time for Midnight Zero."

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"It's time for Midnight Zero." Jadeite said into the microphone. Suddenly a gash appeared in the broadcasting equipment. "What's going on here?" Jadeite angrily yelled. Flowa then changed into her true form. She had purple skin and brown hair, she was also wearing a single-strap blue-green female toga. "So, your the ones praying on girl's dreams. It's time for you to die. So says Sailor Moon." Usagi said as she faded back into sight. "So, you're Sailor Moon, you're a demon?" Jadeite said confused when he saw her ears and tail. "Hanyou actually. Tsukikage no Yaiba!" Flowa dodged and tried to hit Usagi with a breath weapon. "A breath weapon? Tsukikage no Tate!" Usagi then rushed in ready to cut her, but Flowa jumped back and started laughing. "Looks like your attacks are short range only, but my long range attack will beat you, huh where did you go?" Flowa then started looking around in a panic. "Here's my long distance attack! Tsukidon: Ranpuryudan!" Usagi yelled as she finished her

hand signs from above Flowa. She shot out a punch and a dragon made from solidified light charged at Flowa and crushed her in it's jaws turning Flowa to dust.

"You're next. Tsukikage no Yaiba!" Usagi said as she charged at Jadeite. Jadeite frantically dodged knowing that while a cut from the blade wouldn't kill him it would hurt badly, unless the cut hit a vital organ. He retreated to the roof and jumped a long distance away. "Take this! Tsukidon: Ranpuryudan!" She shot the dragon at Jadeite, but he created an escape portal and jumped through it. The dragon crashed onto the roof and demolished a few empty rooms. "Damn he got away. I'll get him next time though."

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"So he got away, huh?" Luna said resting on Usagi's bed. "Man, it's rare that anyone can get away from your Ranpuryudan. This guy must be strong." Naru said laying down on the couch. "He is, but I'll get him one day. No one messes with my friends and family and gets away with it." Usagi said resting on the ceiling. "The Dark Kingdom is going to be trying to find out who you are and then they will kill you." Luna said still not used to Usagi's ninja abilities. "Just let them try. I'll kill them all!" Usagi declared as she jumped down and landed next to Luna on the bed. "Night Naru, Luna." Usagi said right before she fell asleep.