The eighth chapter! They're flowing easier, because Kyoto is easier to write, there's more details for Kyoto :3 Also, while waiting for the December reboot, I highly recommend Cinder, the first book in the Lunar Chronicles, especially for Moonies. This author is a fan of Sailor Moon herself, and I keep on relating the book to Sailor Moon XD It's really good! I just got it from the library a couple days ago, and I'm already :D Thanks to Puffgirl1952 for "Lunar Crescent Moon Chain Encircle" and "Gaze of the Sun Incinerate"! Be sure to catch her upcoming fanfic, "Great Princess Selena, Goddess of the Moon Volume 1: The Great Princess Rises"! ^_^ Sailor Moon is owned by TOEI Animation and Naoko Takeuchi! :D
I'm walking home from my job through some back alley, (so cliche, I know XD) when I come across Miss Tsukamoto. "Oh, Tsukamoto-san! What are you doing out so-"
"You can fool Haruko, but you can't fool me. I won't let you become the popular one. I won't let you take it from me after I crawled for so long!"
"I'm sorry? I never intended to take anything-"
"Shut up!" she yells. What's with her? I never did anything to her.
"You're not even pretty!"
"You're not worth anything!"
"You're retarded!"
"What's up with your hair? So last season!"
"Trying to be like Sailor Moon? Wow, what a wannabe!" I'm not trying!
Miss Tsukamoto pushes me down. "Let's get her, girls!"
"Yeah, Arisa!"
I've never been jumped before, but I can tell you now, it's not fun. These girls look thin and helpless, but they're really strong. This isn't like in the animes where punches and kicks don't hurt. (If you've seen Fairy Tail, think Gray, Natsu, and Erza :D It's highly recommended if you haven't :3) These blows are real. They hurt. It's gonna leave a mark or two.
After a few minutes of this, I hear an alto voice call from behind them, "Hey! Get the hell away from that person!" The voice sounds kinda familiar...
"This doesn't concern you! Go away!"
"Any injustice is our concern!" Another, higher pitched, female voice says.
"Why don't you beat it before we get you, too?!"
The alto voice laughs. "Try me!" she says. She must've done something, because suddenly the girls who were beating me up get very frightened. I couldn't tell what she did.
"Uhhh, hey, guys, I gotta great plan! Let's book it!"
"G-g-g-good idea, Miyuki!"
"Fine. But this isn't the end of it! We'll be back for this girl!" The girls run off. I slowly sit up, groaning and wincing.
"Oh my God, Akira! Look!" the soprano voice says, and runs towards me. I look up. Akira-san and Haruko-san?
"Damn, aren't we just the best protectors in the world? Sorry, Blondie! We'll make sure it doesn't happen again. I swear to you."
From the park just outside the alley, we hear a huge explosion, screaming girls, and an evil laugh bursts out through all the noise.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! You'll never make it out now!"
"Usagi-san! You need to transform!"
I nod. "Right!" I pull my brooch from my skirt pocket. "Moon Supreme Power! Make... UP!"
~Jose's POV~
I see a group of girls running away from the alley I thought I saw presumably Sailor Sun and Sailor Earth go into just a few minutes before, and Sailor Moon about 15 minutes before. This is my chance!
Using my lightning magic, I make a bolt shoot the girls. This particular lightning is harmless; of course I don't intend to hurt them. It makes a large explosion, though, which sends them flying outwards in different directions. They land softly, but even so, they scream. Tch. High school girls.
I fake laugh manically, hoping to catch the attention of the Celestial Trio. Sure enough, the storm in shortly after.
"Hey, you! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Sailor Earth calls.
I look and see the three of them, Sailor Moon at the front and Sun and Earth at her flanks, in warrior mode. Perfect!
"Who are you?!" I say, an angry look on my face.
"Guardian of the silver light brightening the ink sky, I'm Sailor Moon!"
"Guardian of the golden light enveloping us in its warmth, I'm Sailor Sun!"
"Guardian of the blue star that cares for us daily, I'm Sailor Earth!"
"In the name of the Moon, you're punished!"
"Hahahaha, a challenge! Bring it, women!" I really have nothing against women. I just want to agitate them.
It worked. "WHAT'S THAT?! I'M SORRY, I MUST BE HEARD OF HEARING! Element: Rock! Quaking LANDSLIDES!" Sailor Earth punches the ground and it rises, like a mutant snake moving just under the ground at a really fast pace. But, not fast enough. I dodge the blow with no effort at all.
"What?! I missed?!"
"Too slow! Too slow! Missed me, missed me, now you gotta kiss me!"
"Tch! I wouldn't kiss you to save my own life!"
"Moon Tiara ACTION!"
I yawn and dodge it the first and second time it came around. "Nice try, but still too slow for Jose Yuki Sapphire!"
Sailor Moon grits her teeth.
"Try this on for size! Solar FLARE!"
I can see from above a large fire ball falling from the sky. Too slow, too slow, too slow! I neatly dodge, of course. When Her Majesty the Queen gave me this job, I didn't expect them to be so slow! They should really work on this!
"WHAT?!" Sailor Sun screeches.
Then, suddenly, the Moon glows brighter than usual, and their symbols replace their tiaras for a second. They look shocked.
"Oh! Of course!" Sailor Moon says. "Lunar Crescent Moon Chain ENCIRCLE!" She holds her hand up and suddenly a chain made of silvery white crescents appears. She grabs it and lashes it at me, like a whip, but it all happened so quickly that I didn't have time to dodge. Damn, it hurts! I fly back and land on my ass, which hurts, too. Then, she starts dancing around with the staff she's holding, saying "Lonely Moon Heart ACHE!" A bunch or silver crescents come out of it and hit me, as if the whip weren't enough. It sounds gay (I guess that's okay, I mean, they're female warriors) but it hurt!
"Gaze of The Sun... INCINERATE!"
I suddenly burst into flame. "GAH, WHAT IS THIS HELL?!"
"Damn, Sun! He's still human! Element: Water! Aqua FORCE!"
I fall down to the ground, no doubt charred like a fish. The water hurt, too. I compose myself and stand. "Alright, you may have won this one, but I won't go so easy next time! Prepare yourselves!"
~Usagi's POV~
"Geez, what a weirdo!" Akira says as we walk home.
"But, we have no idea his real strength. It seemed like he had a lot of potential that he wasn't showing," Haruko says.
"I think we'll be okay with our new powers. We can get stronger, too. That'll be good, right?" Because I promised Mamoru. My beloved Mamo-chan! Oh, how I miss him! I should try to write him tonight. I won't tell him about getting jumped, though. I don't want to make him worry.
"Daaaaamn! This house is huge!"
"Here you are, Usagi-san! Is it okay, so late?"
"I think so." Lie. I knew what was waiting for me beyond that door. I check my watch. Holy crap, it's past eleven! "I'll see ya tomorrow, guys!" I hope.
"O-okay. See ya!"
"Later, Blondie!"
I run up the walk and carefully open the door, slide in, and shut it as quietly as possible.
But, to no avail, of course. Grandmother was waiting for me. Crap.
"Ah? Obaa-sama! May I ask what it is you are doing up so late?"
"Why are you so late? I thought your shift ended at 9. It's 11:30." Craaaaaap.
"The shift ran late-"
"Why are you dirty? Why must you disgrace me with such an appearance?" Craaaaaaaaaaaaaap. "And why would the shift run two and a half hours over?" Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap! "Huh? You gonna answer me?!" She slaps me in the face so hard, it sends me to the floor.
For the second time that night, I get beaten. After a little while, she picks me up and shoves me into the stairs leading up to the second floor, above that, the attic-or, excuse me, my bedroom.
"Go to bed. I don't wanna look at you right now. I'm sick of you. You'd better come home on time tomorrow, got that?"
I nod quickly. "Yes, I understand. I swear that will never happen again!"
"Good. Get out of my sight."
I nod again, and scurry up the stairs, to the attic door-sorry, my bedroom door, to open it, pull out the ladder, climb up and close the door again. Closing the door is more complicated, because of the ladder and the angle. Opening it quietly in the morning is hard, too.
"Welcome home- what happened to you?!"
"The girls don't like me, Grandmother doesn't like me, and I battled earlier." I calmly change into my pajamas, suppressing winces. I lay my uniform flat on the ground by my futon.
"Wow, big day! Are you okay?"
"Had worse. I've been dead before, a couple times."
Luna frowns. "This place will ruin you, I can tell already." I open another can of tuna and place it on the floor for her. I practically cleared the supermarket of them, knowing that tuna was her favourite fish and that she might have to eat it for a while.
I reach for my duffel bag and pull out my journal left over from the Manga-Drawing club and my favourite pink pen.
"My beloved Mamo-chan," I write. "It's only the second day, but I miss all of you so much already. A lot happened today. I found Sailor Sun and Sailor Earth, who happens to be your younger sister! You don't remember her, do you? She remembers you, even though she was two when the accident happened. She said you shielded her, and because of that, she came out unharmed. She didn't say it, but I can tell she wants to see you from her tone when she spoke of you. She tried to hide it, but it couldn't fool me. She can see the future, and Sailor Sun can know when someone's lying. They're really special! Sailor Sun's civilian name is Taiyono Haruko, and Sailor Earth's is Chiba Akira. She looks so much like you, it's scary!" I tap the pen against my mouth.
"What're you writing?" Luna asks.
"A letter." She walks over and reads. "You found Sailors Earth and Sun?!"
I hesitate. "Well, technically, they found me."
"I didn't know they existed!"
"'For every celestial body, there is at least one soldier,' right?" Luna told me that long ago.
"Well, I suppose, but..."
"Then you shouldn't be so surprised."
"It's surprising every time we meet 'someone' new."
"I guess."
I continue writing.
"We had a battle today. This guy name "Jose Yuki Sapphire, he spoke weird and had this weird accent I couldn't place. It was weird. He was fast though. He dodged all our plain attacks. Then, we got new attacks. Haruko-san set him on fire! Luckily, Akira-san has the power of the elements, so she put him out, because he's human. He never attacked us though. He attacked some passersby, but we couldn't see what he used.
"Also, I found out that the girls at my school, St. Agatha's Catholic School for Girls, (just the kind of school Grandmother would have us go to; Shingo's is St. Luther's Catholic School for Boys) excluding Akira-san and Haruko-san, don't like me very much. As a matter of fact, I don't think they like me at all." I don't write what they did. I wouldn't want him to worry.
"Grandmother doesn't like me either, even less than I thought. She blames me for my father's death, while sympathizing with Shingo. She absolutely adores him.
"These aren't 'Rei' dislikes. They're for real. I've only just gotten here, and they hate me so much! Can you believe it?
"At least I've still got Luna, and now I have Haruko-san and Akira-san. They're really nice to me, but I feel like they're just being polite, haven't yet shown their real personalities. I haven't shown mine, either, so I guess I can't blame them. I hope we get that comfortable.
"It's really scary moving to a brand-new place, you know? Scared of what's gonna happen, if people are gonna like me or not (which, they don't), scared if I can make it, scared if I come back to Tokyo, and everyone's already moved on. You know?"
I tap the pen against my mouth again. "What about you? How's life going so far? I know it's only been a few days, but I feel like a lot might've changed in the time I haven't seen you. A silly question, I guess.
"I feel like it's been forever since we met at the train station. I miss you already. I can't believe I have three more years left of this.
"It's late, so I can't right a lot. Sorry! I'm very tired!
"I love you!
"Your Usako"
I tear out the page and the perforation. I dig out the box of pink envelopes I brought. I place the letter in and seal it. I write out the front, and then realize I don't have any stamps. Darn it! Maybe Haruko-san has some at her house. On the back where the envelope comes to a point, I draw a big heart and color it in. I place it on my uniform and lay down in my futon. It feels sooo much more comfortable as compared to last night. It's like clouds.
~Luna's POV~
"Good night, Usagi-chan!" I say, worried about her.
She yawns, "'Night, Luna..." She quickly falls asleep. That was easier than I thought.
I place my paws on her torso and pray this works. I close my eyes and whisper, "Moonlight Healing!" I know it was supposed to hers, but maybe I can make it work, too.
Sure enough, my crescent glows, and a mysterious wind blows through the small attic room. (Heh heh. A "light in the attic". XD "A Light In The Attic" is a poetry book by Shel Silverstein. He writes weird poetry, but it's good. He also wrote "The Giving Tree", "Falling Up", and "Where The Sidewalk Ends" I know, I'm a dork XD) Her bruises and scrapes slowly disappear in the soft light.
"Sleep tight, Serenity." I smile slightly at her. Poor Usagi! I can't believe a girl so cheerful and kind has to go through this kind of abuse. Those girls will regret this after the Eternal Sleep. (that's what I call the 1000 years that the world was unconscious, only saved by the Silver Crystal and Neo Queen Serenity) Usagi wouldn't make them pay, but I'm know Mamoru and the Guardians would. If only we could be together at this moment. This place will definitely ruin the brightness of the moon. I look out the window. Already, the moon's light is dimmer than last night's.
"Mamo-chan..." I hear from behind me. I turn and see Usagi's face looks frightened. "I'm... sorry... Please... No! Sorry... Sorry... Sorry... sorry..." her voice fades and her face relaxes. Something tells me it's gonna be a loooooong three years. Be prepared, Usagi. It's going to be a rough ride.
That's the last chapter before the time skip! I really can't believe how short that was. Don't worry, I'll post a bunch of different endings I have in store :3 Tell me what you think! :D Fun Fact For Ya: Haruko's name is my own pun. "Taiyo" means "sun", and the name "Haru" can also mean "sun". It's lame, I know. I mean, come on. Her name means "Sun's Child of the Sun". Kinda. I'm lame, I know, so stop talking about it XD But seriously, read Cinder! It's really good! The Lunar Chronicles! Lovely! Also, in no way do I promote abuse. I think it's horrible that people can beat someone else up and feel good about it. My brain just tends to go in a dark direction sometimes ._. I'm listening to Sailor Moon soundtracks and songs now :3 It's awesome :D I've had Moon Revenge stuck in my head a lot lately c: Review, review, review! I mean it! This story has been up for over a month now, there's like 700 views, but only 10 reviews :| C'mon, guys! I'm beggin' ya! =_= Especially this one, it's so long, and it's the climax! T^T
