Chapter 3

An/ Happy birthday Serena and Rini. In honor of their birthday here is a new chapter.

Disclaimer: i do not own Sailor Moon.

The next day was beautiful and sunny. Serena was on her way to the Cherry Hill Temple, smiling at people she passed and watching the birds and butterflies fly by. She thought about what her friends said about the charms there that helped with love, and she decided that she might as well try one with hope that Endymion would remember her someday. She couldn't wait to have her prince back with her. She missed him so much. She looked at the golden locket around her neck and opened it. As she looked at the picture of her and Endymion in a loving embrace, she became ridden with longing. She hoped that they could be together like that again one day.

Lost in her thoughts, she failed to see the two people walking towards her until she bumped into them.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Serena said.

She stared at the two girls in front of her. One of the girls looked to be about her age and height, with light brown hair and big amber eyes. She had a smile on her face, and what looked like recognition in her eyes. The second girl was probably a few inches taller than Serena, but also looked to be the same age with light blonde hair up in a golden barrette and light green eyes. A warm smile was on her face.

"That's okay," the girl with the light brown hair said. "That locket must be very important to you to keep you so lost in thought." A knowing tone was in the girl's voice.

"Yes...it is," Serena replied, tucking the locket back into her shirt. "I'm Serena, Serena Tsukino. Nice to meet you!" She held out her hand to the girl.

"My name is Stacey Silver," the brown-haired girl said, taking Serena's hand.

"And I'm Lilly Gold. Were you going to the temple?" the other girl asked.

"Yes." Serena said, "I've heard that the charms there are very good, and I was going to get one."

"We were just going up there too, so why don't we go together?" Stacy said.

"Sure, why not?" Serena said, and she and the girls went up the temple stairs.

At the Cherry Hill Temple, Justin Hino was sweeping up the temple grounds. He looked around him, his bright blue eyes lighting up as he saw his two best friends, two black crows. His golden blonde curls were blowing in the wind along with his priest robes as he continued to sweep.

"Just another day at the temple, isn't it guys?" he said to the crows. He paused when he heard the sound of girls laughing.

"Oh look at the cherry blossoms Stacy, aren't they beautiful?" he heard someone say.

"Looks like more giggling teenage girls here to buy love charms," he grumbled. "I'd better go tend to them." He sighed.

He had just reached the charm stand when he felt someone hug him and say:

"Jadeite, oh my god I can't believe it's you!"

Confused as to why this mysterious girl was hugging him, the blonde boy said:

"Uh...hi. Who are you, and why did you call me Jadeite?"

Serena instantly let go and once again cursed herself for forgetting that only she had her memories of the Silver Millennium, and she cursed herself again as she remembered that Stacey and Lilly were with her. Thankfully, they were looking at the charms and didn't seem to notice anything. Serena exhaled in relief. She didn't want her new friends to think she was a freak. She then looked at Jadeite and said,

"I'm sorry, I must have mistaken you for someone else."

"It's fine. What can I get you?" Justin replied.

Serena, Stacey, and Lilly each bought a few charms and then stayed to talk Justin for a while. They were all laughing at a joke Justin was telling them when they heard a voice above them.

"Wow, I hate to break up this little party, but I've come to take your energy."

The four people looked up and saw Kasei coming out of a dark portal with a youma behind her.

Stacey and Lily looked at each other and then nodded and they slipped away from Serena and Justin.

Serena looked behind her and realized saw that Stacey and Lily had left. While Justin's attention was on the raven-haired girl, Serena slipped away and called Zack on the communicator Luna had given them.

"Zack, it's Serena. Sailor Mars has shown up again. Come to Cherry Hill Temple right away!"

"On my way!" she heard Zack say.

Serena took out her broach and transformed. She relished in the feeling of her transformation, and when she was done, she went back to the fight. Justin was throwing a sutra at the youma, and didn't notice her.

"Sailor Moon!" Luna yelled, coming up the temple staircase and into the clearing.

"Luna! It's Kasei, she's back and she's attacking Justin, who's really Jadeite!" Serena said, a tear threatening to fall from her eye.

"Right!" Luna said. The black cat ran towards Justin, who had just been thrown into a tree.

"Justin! Take this pen and push the red jewel on top, it will turn you into General Jadeite, hurry!" she said and ran off.

Justin looked at the golden pen with the red jewel on top and the symbols of Mars and Earth below the jewel. He didn't know if he could trust a talking cat or if the blow he had received in the head by the monster was making him see and hear things, but he decided to take the cat's advice and push the jewel. It couldn't hurt, right?

As soon as he pressed the jewel, Justin was surrounded by light and flames, and in just a few seconds, Justin Hino had turned into General Jadeite, second in command of Golden Prince Endymion's Shittenou and Guardian of the West.

Justin looked down at his new outfit: a grey uniform with red embroidery and a flowing cape attached to his shoulders, and a sword and scarab were strapped at his waist.

He looked out at the fight and saw two sailor-suited girls. One of the girls was fighting the monster,

and the other one was a floating sailor-suited girl that seemed to control the monster. For some reason, the floating sailor girl looked familiar to him, and Justin felt his heart skip a beat as he looked at her. The sound of the blonde sailor scout yelping as she was slammed to the ground snapped Jadeite out of his stupor, placing his attention back on the task at hand.

Sailor Moon had tried attacking the monster, but it was too big and wouldn't budge at her kicks, and her tiara appeared useless as it froze in midair. She tried once more to kick it, but the youma swatted her away like a fly. She fell to the ground hard. The youma then threw what seemed like a million fireballs from its mouth and aimed them at Sailor Moon. She waited for the burning sensation that was sure to come, but at the last second she was carried away by a pair of strong male arms. She opened her eyes and saw Tuxedo Mask carry her to safety.

"Are you alright, Sailor Moon?" he said, in that deep voice Serena loved so much. She snuggled up to him and said:

"Yes thank you for saving me."

A small smile played at the man's lips as he set her gently down.

At this time, Jadeite was busy fighting the youma with his flaming sword. He managed to injure it, but the youma threw fireballs from its mouth and managed to graze his shoulder as he tried to jump out of the way.

Sailor Moon came back to the battle and tried her tiara one more time. Thankfully, this time she was successful, and youma was no more.

"Yes! You're moon dusted!" Sailor Moon cheered.

"How dare you, Sailor Moon!? You ruined my plans again; time to die!"

Kasei shot a massive amount of white-hot fire at Sailor Moon. The blonde soldier was too preoccupied with the idea of one of her best friends shooting at her that she couldn't jump out of the way in time. Tuxedo Mask, who was busy tending to Jadeite's burnt shoulder, looked up just when Sailor Moon was about to be burnt to a crisp. Sailor Moon squeezed her eyes shut, but opened them when she felt herself being enveloped in golden light as a golden barrier came between her and the flame, shooting it back at Kasei.

Kasei disappeared and avoided the flame, but Sailor Moon was more shocked at having a golden barrier in front of her as it started to shimmer away.

She wanted to know who put up the barrier. She knew all too well that only members of the Royal Family of Earth could use golden energy, and she knew Tuxedo Mask didn't do it. Since her prince didn't have his memories, he couldn't tap into his power. She knew that the Golden King and Queen had died when Beryl took over the Earth, so there was only one person left: Endymion's little sister, Golden Princess Lizzette.

She never knew what happened to her. The last time she saw her, she was in the palace safe room with Selene. She had always thought that she and Selene had died when the Silver Millennium fell, but based on the golden barrier, it didn't look like she died. Sailor Moon looked everywhere to find the source of the energy, but there was no one in sight.

Tuxedo Mask, Jadeite, and Luna were sitting a few feet away with surprised looks on their faces. For now, Sailor Moon decided to forget the subject and talk to Luna about it later. She walked over to Jadeite and Tuxedo Mask and said, "Are you okay Jadeite?"

"Yeah," he hissed, "but this burn really hurts."

"Don't worry, now that you have awoken as general, you have advanced healing. By tomorrow, you'll be as good as new!"

"Okay, but...what was that?"

"I'll answer that in a moment." Sailor Moon turned towards Tuxedo Mask and hugged him.

"Thanks again for saving me, Tuxedo Mask."

"No problem, Sailor Moon. So long." He gave her a two-fingered salute before jumping up into the trees, vanishing from sight. Sailor Moon closed her eyes, focusing on sending a message to her love.

"Please set me free again."

She hoped with all her might that this and all the messages she'll send to him from now on will aid him in remembering her soon.

She sighed and turned to Jadeite with sad eyes.

"I bet you have a lot of questions..."

He nodded. "Actually I just want to know why I'm dressed this way, and what happened. I already know who you are ,Serena."

Sailor Moon was shocked. "How did you know who I am?"

"Easy. You look like Serena and you called me Jadeite today, so it's not hard to put two-and-two together. And I sensed something about you earlier, and I still sense it when you're here now."

Sailor Moon blinked a few times,

silently scolding herself for letting her identity become so

obvious. "Oh... well, to answer your questions, I'll tell you the story of our past."

She spent the next few minutes telling the story of the Moon Kingdom, and how Jadeite had severed the Golden Prince of Earth. She told him that now, his mission was to find the prince and his princess, and defeat Beryl and her minions. She also told them about how Beryl had brainwashed the princess's guardian soldiers, though she didn't tell him that he married one of them. Once the story was done, Jadeite said:

"So basically, I'm a reincarnated Earth General who protected a prince, and now I have to find him and my princess to defeat the witch that destroyed our lives?"

"Yeah, that's pretty much it," Sailor Moon said, surprised he was taking this so well. "And you're not alone, there is one other person that fights with us."

"That would be me," Zoicite said, as he as he jumped down from the tree above them.

"Sorry I'm late, but I was taking an exam at cram school and couldn't get out of it. It looks like the fight is over."

"Yeah it is. Look, there's someone I want you to meet. Zack, this is Justin Hino, also known as General Jadeite. Justin, this is Zachary Miller, also known as General Zoicite."

The two shook hands and greeted each other.

"So, do you want to fight with us?" Sailor Moon asked Jadeite.

Jadeite hesitated, tilting his head back and letting the sun beat down on his face. He took a deep breath before saying, "Sure. It could give me a break from being here all the time."

"Welcome to the team, General Jadeite," Luna said, handing him a communicator.

"Here, take this." Sailor Moon handed Jadeite a red satin glove with a salvia petal stitched on;it was the glove Kasei had dropped when she and the girls had left Endymion's birthday ball in such a hurry.

Flashback

Suddenly, a beeping sound came from the girls' watches. They looked quickly and panicked when they learned that Serenity's clone magic was disappearing. Serenity called the Senshi and they all started running away. Time for goodbyes was very limited.

"Sorry, but I have to go now. I had a great time," Kasei said to Jadeite.

She left so fast, that she left something behind.

"Duchess Rei!"

But it was too late; the mysterious girl had already run up the stairs and disappeared from the ballroom.

Jadeite looked at the glove she had left behind. Had she done it on purpose as a way to let him know she'd be back?

He looked at the red velvet glove in his hand. It had the leaf of a Salvia flower stuck to it; probably from the corsage that Rei wore. He hoped to see that beautiful Salvia again, for he liked her personality and pyrokinetic heart.

End Flashback

'He probably doesn't know what the glove means to him now, but he will someday,' Sailor Moon thought. Jadeite looked confused.

"Why are you giving me this? It's a woman's glove...what use is it to me? And speaking of women, that woman that attacked today looked familiar to me, why is that?"

Sailor Moon looked at him with a pitiful expression.

"I can't answer that right now, just hold on to that glove, and someday you'll understand." Sailor Moon gave him a comforting smile before standing and brushing the dirt from her uniform. "I'll see you guys tomorrow!" She quickly detransformed and left.

"Wow...what was all that about?" Jadeite said, as he put the glove and communicator away.

"I don't know," Zoicite replied, shrugging his shoulders. "She did the same thing to me when she gave me this." He showed Jadeite the blue harp. "All she told me was to hang onto it, but I don't know why."

Jadeite shrugged in response and stood, wincing slightly from his burns. "There must be a reason, but for now, I guess I'll see you around. I have to put away the charms and close up shop."

"Alright, see you."

The two boys detransformed and walked in separate directions.

Past a few cherry trees, two girls were watching as the two boys went their separate ways; one with silver hair and crystal blue eyes wearing a silver dress and another girl with chocolate brown hair and midnight blue eyes wearing a golden dress.

"What were you doing Lizzette?!" the silver-haired girl hissed. "Thank you for protecting Serenity, but we are not supposed to reveal ourselves yet! Now I think Serenity knows we are here! Remember, her mother gave her back her memories, so she knows about us."

Lizzette looked at the her partner angrily. "I know, but I had to do something! My brother was busy attending to his general and Serenity was too distracted to jump away from the attack Sailor Mars threw at her! We need her to stop Beryl, because she is the only one able to use the Silver Crystal to its full extent! I also did it for Endymion, even if he doesn't remember Serenity right now. The bond between them is still there, so he would feel something if she dies, and I don't want Endymion to go through that pain. That's why I did it. And relax, even with her memories, Serenity doesn't know we're still alive. She must think we died along with everyone else when the Silver Millennium fell. Now, let's go home. We have homework to do."

Lizzette faded away, and in her place stood a girl with pale blond hair and light green eyes.

"All Right," her partner said, transforming into a girl with light brown hair and amber eyes.

The girls left the temple, wondering what the next day would bring.

A/N: Sorry for the late update guys, but if any of you have been or are in college, you know it's a lot of work, and I'm taking summer classes so I can't promise an update to this story soon, but I'll try. Looks like we me

t one of the mysterious girls from the last chapter, but who is the other girl, and what are the intentions of these two girls? To find out, keep reading and reviewing!

See you later!

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