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Chapter 11 – The power of fire
"Get out of here!" Princess Rei yelled "If you don't leave this instant I will call the guards."
"I thought the great warrior of Mars won't need help to show me how hell feels like." Jadeite mocked the now dumbfounded Princess.
"How? When?" was all that left Rei mouth but her mind was racing to find the answers she knew she didn't have.
"It wasn't hard at all." Jadeite laughed "The four fearless sailor senshi, the princess's defenders. You are always there, always looking over her shoulder what to do. Your cover story is that you are friends…"
"It's not a cover story." Rei exclaimed "We are friends. We are like sisters."
"That is why she wanted to run away yesterday after you left her safely in her room?" Jadeite shot back.
"What?" Rei asked shocked again by the information she was just given "That can't be true."
"Yes it can. It is true. Actually she was the one who strengthened my belief that the four princesses' of the inner planets are the famous sailor senshi."
"You are lying."
"Why would I lie?" Jadeite asked back "I came here to help you."
"Help me?" Rei laughed "How could you possibly help me?"
"Don't laugh, Rei." Jadeite shook his head disappointed "I wanted to talk to you about what your supposed friend and sister feels, but I see that you changed back to your old self."
"I…"
"Good bye Rei."
"Wait…Jadeite." Rei took his hand "I love her but our duty is to protect her."
"You can protect her from the evil forces, but she is dying inside."
"She has everything she wants. Why would she be unhappy?"
"She has no friends…she feels you stay with her, besides her only because of your duty."
"That is what we want her to believe." Rei whispered almost inaudibly "That was our plan from when we took the oath…to keep her away from us."
"Why would you do that?" it was now time for Jadeite to be shocked "I mean if you care about someone you want to be near that person."
"You know the truth now…" Rei went to the window of her chamber to look outside "The most important thing in the Universe is under our protection. We won't be able to do our job as we are supposed to if we get side tracked by feelings."
"She is a human being not a thing." Jadeite corrected her "Besides the feelings are already there."
"You can't understand."
"No. You don't understand Rei. You are using the same excuse to keep her away from you as you use with me. You know what? I think you are only afraid of your own feelings."
"It's not an excuse." Rei lost her temper and now stood only inches away from him. "It is safer for her if we are not close to her. The enemy might use that against us. And concerning you…I already told you I am not suppressing my feelings because I don't have any feelings…" she was interrupted by Jadeite's lips crushing her own. She wanted to push him away, to throw him out of her room, but her body and heart wanted to stay in his arms. As suddenly as it all started it ended too.
"Your mouth can lie to me, my beautiful phoenix, but your body and heart can not." Jadeite said and left the room.
"Why?" Rei asked no one in particular while tears were making their way down her cheeks. "Why did I have to meat him?"
Rei awoke with a feeling of total emptiness; she felt her heart would brake every time she thought of the memory. "I wonder if that is the reason why the princess doesn't want anything to do with us?" She whispered as she knelt in front of the sacred fire "if my dreams are memories, and I believe they are, then why were we acting like some bitches with a person who cared about us and we cared about?" It all started to make sense in the last couple of days. She had a dream almost every night. She even had memories of her childhood from Mars. The only thing she couldn't remember after she woke up was the face of her princess and lover. The information in her dream really helped her in her struggle to communicate and read the signs of the sacred fire. Even her powers as a sailor senshi were grater than the other girls' power. Only Sailor Moon was more powerful then her. "I wonder why in all my memories there are only four inner scouts? Why don't I have a single memory with her?" her one sided conversation was interrupted by a strange beeping noise that came from her bedroom. Rei was on her feet and in the bedroom in only a few seconds. "This is Rei."
"It started." Came the voice of Luna from the small device she was holding in her hand. "We picked up negative energy near your shrine. We are on our way. Wait for us."
"I understand." Rei replied running down the steps from the shrine "Oh my God."
"What happened?"
"It is a …monster." Rei responded in a whisper "it attached a small group of people. Hurry."
"Don't do anything rash. We are on our way." Luna ended the conversation.
"Mars Planet Power! Make Up!" Rei yelled and her body was engulfed in fire and bright red light. When the light show ended the warrior of Mars was standing in her spot. Sailor Mars wore a tight white blouse, her skirt was blood red, the bow on her chest dark purple, the one on her back was dark red in the middle and softened to yellow at the edges, mimicking the burning fire, she also had silver ribbons that went down to her ankle; her glows were white with red edgings; she wore blood high heels; her choker was also red.
She jumped out of her hiding place and approached the youma. "Fire soul!" she yelled out her attack which hit the youma head on. She was one of acting and ask questions later. She was disappointed to see that her attack didn't damage the youma much. It was still standing on its feet starring at her. She was so stunned of the little affect her attack had on the youma that she never saw the attack heading her way. She was hit by the attack and thrown a few feet back in to a tree. She couldn't stand up, her whole body hurt…all she could do was watch as the youma approached her to give the final shot.
To her astonishment the youma stopped when a light brown haired man appeared from nowhere.
"Wait!" the man dressed in a gray suit ordered "I want to ask her a few questions."
"Who are you?" he turned towards Sailor Mars who looked at him with horror filled eyes.
"I am Sailor Mars, defender of justice." She replied as confidently as she could "May I know who you are?"
"So…you are a sailor senshi." He laughed "I expected you to be a little stronger. If all your team is as strong as you are, this will be easier than we planned."
"How do you dare?" Sailor Mars yelled "Burning Mandala!" She was sure her attack will hit its target but in the last minute the hateful man disappeared only to appear even closer to her.
"You are not the same…"
"Silver Moon Shock!" Sailor Moon came running up to the strange trio. Her attack destroyed the youma and threw the man a few feet away from her friend. She didn't want to harm him but didn't know if he could be trusted. From what she knew maybe Luna and Artemis were right and it was all a trap. What happened in the next minute nobody expected. The man disappeared from where he was lying on the ground only to appear behind Sailor Moon and together with her to float up high in the sky. The other three sailor senshi arrived to witness this.
"Mars!" Mercury yelled "Are you okay?"
"Yes…I am fine. He got Moon. We have to get her down from there somehow."
"How?" Venus asked while she searched for possible answers "if we attack we will hit her too."
"The buildings are not high enough for us to get close to them." Jupiter looked around.
While the four inner senshi were searching frantic for an answer a few feet away from them three senshi were holding back a forth. "She needs help." Uranus tried to free herself from the restraining hands of her team.
"Just wait a few more seconds. He sent the message a year ago. Maybe he wants to tell her something, like what are Beryl's planes." Neptune said
"We were instructed to interfere only if absolutely needed." Saturn added, but it was obvious that it wasn't of her liking to just sit back while her princess was in the enemies hands.
While everyone was arguing Jadeite was high in the sky together with Sailor Moon. "Why doesn't she remember?"
"I didn't give back their memories." She responded simply "I didn't want them to remember you guys and relive everything she went through on the Moon when they had to fight you."
"I understand." He nodded "You have to be careful. There will be a lot of attacks."
"Why don't you stay with us?"
"I can't yet." He whispered "I will contact you so we can talk more, but right now attack me so it seems you escaped." Sailor Moon only nodded and in the next moment the early morning was lightened up with silvery white light. All that could be seen was Sailor Moon falling back down to the ground and the enemy disappeared.
"Oh my God! Are you alright?" Mercury ran to Moon.
"I am fine. Don't worry about me." Moon tried to reassure her friends "How is Mars?"
"She has an ugly wound on her right leg. I think we should contact my mother. She could help us."
"That is not necessary." Luna interfered "Go and take care of her, Sailor Moon."
Sailor Moon only nodded and made her way towards her injured friend. "Stay still for a second. It won't hurt at all, I promise." She smiled to Mars and placed her hands on her injured legs. At first nothing happened but than Moon's hand started to glow, the glow transferred from her hand to Mars's leg and after a few minutes it disappeared leaving Mars's leg as good as new.
"Wow." Jupiter touched Mars's leg not believing at first her eyes. "Why didn't you tell us you can do that?"
"We were still training her." Luna replied quickly "We wanted to make sure she could handle it before we made it official by telling you."
"A little heads up would have been nice." Venus said "Anyway…who was that guy anyway?"
"He is one of Queen Beryls general." Artemis explained.
"They are our primary enemy's now." Luna took over "But the Princess wishes..."
"Talking about the princess…when are we going to meet her? In this life I mean." Mars interrupted the guardian.
"Given the situation I don't think it will be possible. It is to risky for her to contact you now. Don't forget she is the primary target of the Dark Kingdom."
"She is in contact with you guys." Mars argued "We could go to one of your meetings too."
"There are no face to face meetings." Artemis snapped "She contacts us only when she finds it necessary."
"That is not fair." Mars snapped back at the two cats "We have to do exactly what she wants without any explanations. How do we know she is alright and not in the enemies hand?"
"Are you questioning us?" Luna approached Mars "Do you think we work for the enemy?"
"No…Luna, of course not. I only want to make sure…"
"I think we are all tired." Mercury interrupted her "Maybe we should go home and try to sleep a few more hours."
"Yes. That would be the best solution." Moon nodded "Venus we should go together."
"Sure. Artemis, come on."
"Before we leave." Artemis suddenly said "Now you know how powerful the enemy is. Please be careful in the next battle. We don't want for anyone to get hurt. Don't underestimate them." He waited until all the girls nodded then jumped to Venus' shoulder. When both cats were secured on their mistresses' shoulder the girls took off running towards their home.
"I think we should wait for Artemis to arrive." Usagi said after she closed the front door behind her.
"How did you know we were here?" Uranus asked stunned.
"I had the best teachers." Usagi smiled "Why are you still transformed?"
"We wanted to make sure it was over with youmas for tonight before we detransformed." Saturn said.
"You can calm down there won't be any other attacks until nightfall." Usagi said confidently.
"How can you be sure?" Haruka asked
"I am sure, because Jadeite told me." Usagi said "Luna you will inform Artemis later, because I have to explain it to them now."
"Okay. Go ahead." Luna nodded
"He broke free of Beryl's mind control, he wants to help us. He held up the youma until I got there. If not I think Rei would have been seriously hurt."
"Why didn't he stay here?" Setsuna asked
"He didn't exactly explain it. We didn't have the time to talk about things. He said he will contact me later."
"Are you sure we can trust him?" Michiru asked "It could be a trap."
"I am sure we can trust him." Usagi told the others "There might be a change of plans."
"What kind of changes?" Hotaru asked
"Well…the enemy sent stronger youmas than I anticipated. If needed, and by that I mean if you see that the girls are in immediate danger, you can interfere. We will say that the princess sent you to help us with the enemy."
"So we can finally fight?" Haruka asked eager
"Only if the girls are in a no way out situation and I can't get to them in time."
"You spoil all the fun."
"I am just taking safety measures while trying to stick to the plan."
"Was Rei's injury dangerous?" Ikuko asked
"Not dangerous, but she was loosing a lot of blood. She is fine now. I healed the wound."
"This general…which one is he?" Kenji asked
"He is general Jadeite." Usagi responded "He was Rei's lover in the past."
"And you say that he remembers the past?" Kenji waited until Usagi nodded then stood up "I have to tell her grandfather this. I am going over there." Before anyone could do anything he was out the door.
"You better be kidding me." Usagi sighed "I wonder how they will react when all five of them are going to be around at all time." After the statement everyone in the room burst out laughing. That was the sight that Artemis arrived to witness.
She was standing on the balcony looking up to the planet of Earth, wishing she could be there too. "I miss you my love." She whispered into the silent night.
"I miss you too my beautiful phoenix." Princess Rei suddenly turned to face the love of her life "I thought you were coming next week."
"I couldn't take it anymore without you."
Rei sat up in her bed looking around confused, searching for the man from her dreams.
"I will go crazy if this keeps on." She shook her head and got out of bed.
"Rei!" she heard her grandfather calling out her name
"Yes." Rei said when she stepped inside the kitchen "Are you feeling okay?"
"I am fine. Why do you ask?"
"Well…you overslept…again. You only have ten minutes until classes start."
"Oh…Thanks for packing my lunch. See you later." She yelled back after she ran out the door.
After school the girls went to their favorite hang out, the Crown.
"I really hope we will have a peaceful night tonight." Makoto sighed when they were seated at a table. "I don't know how much of this we can take."
"Yeah…I know what you mean." Usagi said between two sips of coffee "We had an attack every single night for…"
"The last four months." Ami interrupted "I thought they will take a break or something."
"Yeah…that would be nice. I mean it was hard while we were on vacation but now it seems impossible to keep up with them."
"Speaking of vacation…did you explain to Mamoru what happened that day?" Rei suddenly asked.
"Yes. He was very understanding." Usagi said "Did you guys have any trouble at home?"
"I didn't, but mom sure asked a lot of times if I was okay." Ami said and everyone else nodded "She isn't used to me sleeping over the alarm clock."
"The same here." Rei added "It is very hard to do my usual chores with the battles" and the dreams… she finished in thought.
"That Jadeite is really strong." Venus suddenly said.
"I am afraid to think how powerful Beryl is if her general is so strong." Makoto added.
"Yeah and what about black boy?" Minako asked "He showed up to help us for a couple of weeks then disappeared."
"You mean he showed up to help Usagi." Rei laughed "I wonder who he is…"
"Enemy or allay…" Ami finished for her friend.
"I think he is an allay." Usagi said confidently "he helped us when we were in trouble."
"You just don't forget you already have a boyfriend…" Minako winked at her cousin.
"I won't don't worry." Usagi laughed "We should go. I don't know about you guys but I have a tone of homework and if they keep their schedule the attack will start in a few hours." The girls all nodded and stood from their seats to follow their friend to where Motoki was to say good bye.
Unfortunately for them the battles continued on daily bases giving them only a few hours of sleep. For Rei it was even worst because of her dreams. She usually had only two or three hours of sleep per night resulting in her getting more tired with every passing day.
The dreams like the battles became more and more fierce every night. She had a lot of her memories back, almost everything from the time she was a little girl and came for the first time to the Moon up until she was 21 and was planning her wedding. The only things she couldn't remember was five men' and her princess' face and the night they died.
Some of her memories she dream about two times but these memories just wouldn't come to her. She was absolutely sure that they were blocked by something or someone. By now she already knew that Luna, Artemis and the Princess had secrets before them. She knew she was a princess too, she knew she could be even more powerful if she only had one item in her possession, but like other things she knew this item existed but didn't remember what it was. She only hopped she will find it in time.
She was standing alone in the woods in the middle of the night "I must be crazy…" she whispered to no one in particular "Or suicidal at least…"
"You are non Princess." Someone from the shadows replied "Thank you for coming." Jadeite stepped out in to moon light.
"Why did you call me out here?" Sailor Moon took her fight stance.
"You don't need to fear me, Princess…Sere. You know I wouldn't hurt you."
"Jadeite…" Sailor Moon approached him and took his hand into hers "Why don't you stay here with me. I am now sure you remember everything."
"Yes I remember, but I hope I will find out more of Beryl's plan before revealing the truth. My time is short there. You will know when I will need help."
"I understand…just be careful."
"I will be…I am." Jadeite reassured her. "Why didn't you give back their memories?"
"I will, once you and your friends will be cleansed of the dark energy and I will prove my self to them."
"You already proved yourself…"
"I still need time." Sailor Moon argued.
"That is not true and you know it." Jadeite shot back "You want to stay in this situation because you are afraid of what they might say or do when they will remember."
"We are not here to discuss my decisions. As you pointed out we have limited time." Usagi changed the subject "Do the others know?"
"Unfortunately not." Jadeite shook his head "Does the Prince remember?"
"I am fighting and not locked in my room." Sailor moon laughed.
"Good point." Jadeite laughed too for a few seconds then became very serious "Listen carefully. Beryl wants to find the seven rainbow crystals…"
"That is already taken care of. I have them and set a protective barrier around the hosts so she won't be able to find them."
"That is good news. But the attacks won't stop. She wants to gather as much energy as possible to awaken Metallia."
"I can't let that happen. Tell me where the headquarter is and I will go and…"
"You are not strong enough yet…" Jadeite took her hands in his "Fight every night and be careful, she can't find out you are the princess."
"I will. Just promise me you will join us if things get out of control." Sailor Moon pleaded.
"I already have to keep a promise to someone, so don't worry. I won't get myself killed."
Before Sailor Moon could say anything Jadeite disappeared. She just stood there for a few more seconds then suddenly whirled around "I thought I told you I wanted to come alone."
"Yes you did." Uranus stepped next to her "Did you really think we would stay at home while you go to a meeting with a possible enemy?"
"He is not an enemy." Sailor Moon shook her head "The good in this is that now I can go home and sleep. I don't have to tell you how it went. Coming, Luna?"
"You have good instincts." Luna approved
"I don't need instinct when it comes to you guys." Sailor Moon laughed "I know you too well." After she finished her sentence she just disappeared.
Jadeite appeared in his chamber inside the Dark Kingdom and went straight to the fire burning in the fire place "I am sorry Sere, but she needs to know…" he bent over the fire place and whispered something in the ancient language of magic, when he looked up in to the fire the image of the sleeping Rei appeared in front of him. He knelt down before the fire, closed his eyes and started to concentrate on the memory his love once shared to him. He only hopped that their power will be enough to break the seal placed upon Rei.
In his mind a balcony started to take shape. On the balcony stood two figures, two women…
"What should I do?" Princess Rei asked.
"You already know the answer to that question." Princess Serenity replied calmly "You love him. There is only one thing to do."
"But…the oath." Princess Rei argued "If I accept these feelings…"
"Don't you dare." Serenity snapped. She marched over where her guardian was standing and whirled her around. "I already lost your friendship because of that oath, I won't let you throw away this opportunity life was so kind to offer you."
"You didn't loose my friendship; we only thought you will be safer this way."
"Just keep saying that to yourself…" Serenity replied harshly "Look at me." She commanded when the other girl just kept looking down to the ground. After a few seconds Rei was looking in to the eyes of her Princess, into the eyes of Serenity, in to the eyes of…
"Usagi!" Rei screamed as she shot out of bed. She was breathing heavily, her whole body was shaking. "I can't believe this. I was right. We were right. Usagi is the princess." She exclaimed before she lost consciousness and fell to the hard and cold floor of her bedroom.
In his chambers Jadeite opened his eyes and crawled to his bed "I hope you find the power to forgive me my love." He whispered before he fell asleep.
"Rei! Wake up!" Rei felt two gentle hands shacking her shoulders. She opened her eyes to find the worried face of her grandfather starring back at her. "Thank the Gods. I was so worried about you."
"I don't know what happened." Rei said but in the same instance everything came back to her…the dream…the truth. "Usagi is the Princess." She exclaimed and started to climb out of bed "I am going to show her how hell feels…lying to us…all this time." When she couldn't get out of bed she realized that her grandfather was holding her back "Grandpa, please. Don't worry. I am fine. I just need to go and find Usagi.
"I will call her. Stay in bed."
"You don't understand…I need to speak to her about things that can't wait."
"I said you stay in bed and I will call her." Her grandfather said sternly and stepped to the phone "Good morning, Kenji. Tell Usagi to get here as fast as she can…Rei remembered."
It was the last statement that got Rei's attention. "What did you just say?" but what happened next got her even more confused: Usagi appeared in her bedroom out of thin air.
"Could you leave us alone please?" Usagi addressed grandpa Hino who just nodded and left the room after he looked at his granddaughter one more time.
"What is going on here?" Rei yelled "And how the hell did you get here?"
"I teleported." Usagi calmly replied "if you calm down I will explain everything."
"Calm down?" Rei shook her head "You expect me to calm down after everything that happened in the last few seconds?"
"I know it's hard…"
"You want to explain things?" Rei interrupted her "Why don't you start with the fact that you hid from us that you are the princess."
"I think it would be better if I gave you your memories back and talk after that. What do you think?"
"I have my memories…"
"You don't remember everything." Usagi interrupted her.
"Okay. What do I need to do?"
"Nothing. Just relax." Usagi said while she closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes she was wearing her princess dress and the moon symbol was shinning on her forehead. She put her hand on Rei's forehead and started to chant in the ancient moon language. In the next second the symbol of mars appeared on Rei's forehead and she lost consciousness.
Usagi left the room to find grandpa Hino sitting on the floor right before Rei's room.
"Grandpa Hino, what are you doing sitting on the floor?"
"I was waiting for you." He breathed out after a few seconds of silence "Do you think she will forgive us for lying to her?"
"I was the one who lied to her, who lied to each of them." Usagi put her hand on the older man's shoulder to comfort him. "You only did what I asked you to do. You did me a favor…and her too…even if she won't admit it."
"She will be very angry…when do you think she will wake up?"
"I don't know…it make take a few hours."
"We should go and have breakfast while we wait for her to awaken" Grandpa Hino said.
"I don't want you to worry about me. I can wait here or outside."
"Non sense. Come on." Grandpa Hino took her hand and pulled her towards the kitchen.
They were already at their second cup of coffee when a very angry Rei burst through the door.
"Serenity!" she exclaimed "What were you thinking?"
"Rei…"
"No. Don't you dare to say anything." Rei interrupted her "You lied to us. You played us. You could have gotten hurt!"
"Rei!" Usagi snapped "Why are you upset? Because I lied to you or because I fought alone all this time?"
"You are the Princess…"
"Don't." Usagi stood from her chair "I will ask you one thing and please answer me sincerely. Do you consider me a friend?"
"Of course!" Rei exclaimed "You know I consider you my sister, but that doesn't change the fact that you are the princess and that I am your guardian."
"You're wrong in one thing." Usagi gave Rei a cup of coffee "You are not my guardian anymore, the oath died together with us on the Moon…don't bother." She quickly said when Rei took out her transformation pen "I won't accept your oath to protect me."
"You can't do that!" Rei yelled "We won't allow you…"
"Excuse me? You won't allow me? For your information I don't need you to allow me anything. I am a senshi and the most powerful if I might say so myself."
"When the girls will find out the truth…"
"The outers already know the truth…" Usagi replied forcefully "They accepted my decision. Concerning the others…they won't find out yet, understood?"
"They have the right to know."
"You have to choose a path, Rei." Usagi shook her head. This was the last thing she wanted to do, but Rei didn't give her any other choice. "You can accept my decision, or you can choose to live a normal life without fighting. If you choose the second option I could…"
"You would be capable of taking away my powers?" Rei asked shocked of what she was hearing.
"It would brake my heart, but yes I would be. You have time to think. I honestly did all of this to prove to you that we could be friends or even sisters not just princess and guardians."
"Usagi, wait." Rei called out to her friend but she was already out of the door walking towards the stairs that led to the busy streets.
"What are you waiting for? Go after her." Grandpa Hino told his granddaughter who ran out the door the next second.
"Wait…Usagi!"
"Rei, I already told you…"
"No. Please listen to me." Rei hushed her friend "When I started to have those dreams, that showed me the past…I saw from a different point of view the happenings. I couldn't believe how despicable we were with you. You have to know that we suffered too. It all started out with a plan to keep you safe…it just got out of control as the years passed. I don't want to make the same mistake again."
"Rei…"
"But I will always want to defend you. Not because of the duty or the oath this time around, but because of our friendship."
"I want to protect you too." Usagi pulled the raven haired girl in to a hug "Thank you."
"You have to tell me everything. From the beginning and no secrets."
"I promise." Usagi smiled "Do you remember when we first met? After the car accident? That was when I remembered. Shingo was badly injured and I was very desperate so I…" The two friends walked to a tree and sat down under its shade to have the conversation. They stayed there for a couple of hours sometimes arguing, sometimes laughing.
"Don't you mention him." Rei exploded when Jadeite and his comrades came into the discussion. "I swear to you I will kill him with the first occasion I have."
"You don't understand…I left this information to the end because I knew how you would react."
"What do you mean?" Rei yelled back with tears flowing from her eyes "I trusted him and he betrayed me. For God's sake he killed me."
"I know." Usagi calmly said while she wrapped her friend into a tight hug "But he was under Beryl's power. He brainwashed him."
"What?"
"He was controlled by her."
"He still is fighting on her side." Rei argued.
"Rei…he already broke the spell Beryl cast on him. He was helping us all the time. Do you remember the first fight?"
"Yes, he wanted to kill me and took you hostage."
"No. He stopped the youma from hurting you. He talked until I arrived to help. And he didn't take me hostage he gave me information."
"Why doesn't he stay then?"
"He will…soon. He just wants to find out Beryl's plans."
"You can't aspect me to just forget and forgive…"
"I don't aspect that…just promise me you will hear him out when the time will come."
"I …"
"He loves you and you love him. Even if you don't want to admit it." Usagi said softly "I have to go now. Get some rest, okay?" Rei only nodded but stayed in place. Usagi gave her another hug and teleported back to her house where she fell in bed and buried her face in the pillow.
"I can't, I just can't forgive and forget everything…" Rei thought to herself. A few days have already passed since she had all her memories, but she still couldn't think of Jadeite as her lover…maybe a comrade…but definitely not like a lover…and this fact hurt very much. The feelings were there, but her mind couldn't accept the risk of getting hurt once again. It didn't help either that she had to fight the same man every night. Although she trusted Usagi and tried to remember during every battle that technically Jadeite was a spy working for them…putting his life in danger to help them, she wanted to show him how hell feels.
"Rei. Venus to Mars…" Minako laughed when Rei suddenly turned towards her.
"What?" Rei asked still a little spaced out.
"I swear you start to act just as strange as Usagi." Minako shook her head "Is something wrong?"
"No." Rei replied "I am just tired. That is all."
"You are telling me?" Makoto interrupted "I don't know how much of this I can take. I am tired like I didn't sleep for weeks."
"Technically that is correct." Ami nodded "We have every night a youma to take care and they become stronger with every fight. I am really amazed that our parents don't say anything."
"Yeah…our grades are let's just say worst than last year. We are lucky that we have our final exams in two years and not the year it comes." Makoto said.
"You are very optimistic." Usagi said "We don't know when we will be able to defeat Beryl…"
"Don't say that." Ami exclaimed horrified
"I hope I am wrong and everything will be settled as soon as possible, but…"
"Are you girls in some kind of trouble?" Motoki asked from behind Rei.
"Motoki!" All the girls exclaimed.
"No of course not." Usagi responded quickly but her shaky voice gave her away.
"Why don't I believe you?" Motoki sat down at their table and lowered his voice "If you have any kind of problems, I mean any kind…it doesn't matter what, I will help you. Just trust me."
"We trust you." Rei said not able to look into his eyes "but we don't have any kind of problems. Believe us."
"I would like to, but you all changed very much…" Motoki was interrupted by the beeping sound coming from Ami's bag "What is that?" He asked looking around on the white faces on the five teenagers. He watched as Ami took out of her bag a small blue thing that resembled a notebook only ten times smaller. She opened it, only nodded towards the girls and suddenly they all stood from their seats. "Sorry Motoki, we have to go."
"Where? What is going on?" Motoki asked standing in front of them.
"It was my agenda." Ami lied "We have to be at Michiru's place in fifteen minutes."
Motoki nodded and stepped to the side to let them pass. "They really think I bought that? They are up to something and I will find out what!" He thought while he followed them from distance. They were in a hurry, running all the way until they arrived to a kindergarten. Motoki froze in place when he saw what was going on. A brown haired man wearing a gray uniform was floating just above the trees, and a monster or…something was attacking the small children gathered behind the teachers who were trying to protect them with their body, but were failing miserably. He read about these monsters in the newspapers and heard of these attacks, but he never believed it. He thought it was only a myth, a bad joke, but now the proof was right in front of him. He saw the girls running in to an alley for cover he thought so he followed to make sure they will get out of danger as soon as possible. As he turned the corner to the alley he heard and saw things he never thought to exist.
"Moon Prism Power!"
"Mercury Planet Power!"
"Mars Planet Power!"
"Jupiter Planet Power!"
"Venus Planet Power!"
"Make Up!" They called out together and their body was engulfed in light, water, fire and lightning right before Motoki's eyes. Just before the transformations ended Motoki hid behind a dumpster so the girls wouldn't see him when they ran out of the alley to fight yet another youma. He just stood there and watched as his friends, the girls he considered his sisters fought the monster, put their life in danger to protect the children and teachers who were attacked.
"Bubble Spray!" Mercury covered in fog the yard of the kindergarten. When the fog dissipated the five senshi were already standing in front of the civilians in fighting stance with attacks prepared.
"Moon Tiara Action!" Sailor Moon threw her tiara charged to maximum towards the monster.
"Supreme Thunder!" Sailor Jupiter attacked from the other side of the monster hopping it will be enough to defeat it, but for her disappointment it only weakened it. The enraged monster started to throw dark energy attacks around not carrying who it hit. Motoki looked on terrified as the girls jumped in front of the attacks to protect the children who were still in the area, afraid…nowhere to hide. The attacks never stopped, it just continued on…the girls were all on the ground wounded…Motoki couldn't take it anymore. He jumped out of the safety of his hiding place and ran towards Sailor Venus to whom an attack was approaching fast.
"No!" Sailor Mercury screamed "Motoki stay back." But he didn't listen to her. He jumped in front of Sailor Venus ready for the pain but it never came. He looked to Sailor Venus confused.
"Sailor Moon used the shield to protect us." Sailor Venus said and pointed to towards Sailor Moon who was standing in front of the children her hands stretched out beside her body emitting a pale silvery white light. Her closed eyes suddenly opened "You son of a bitch…You attacked innocent children…that is too low even for you and your scum bag friends." Sailor Moon said with a low menacing voice "Silver Moon Shock!" She called out her attack after she lowered the shield. The monster was destroyed but Sailor Moon too fell to her knees.
"Moon!" Mars was beside her friend in seconds
"I am fine, don't worry about me."
"You are exhausted." Jadeite laughed as he came to stand a few feet away from them.
"You!" Mars exclaimed "Mars! Flame Sniper!" she had the fire arrow in hand within seconds, but she didn't have the opportunity to use it. Someone else beat her to it. An evil energy attack hit Jadeite right in the chest. He fell back to the ground, having power only to take a sitting position to look around. "Nephrite." He whispered.
"You failed to many times." Said a man with long chocolate brown hair. "Queen Beryl decided she doesn't need your services anymore. I will take over your tasks."
"Nephrite!" Usagi screamed "Don't do something you will regret."
"Shut up Moon bitch." He laughed "Don't worry. As soon as I finish him, you will be next." He turned away and shot an energy attack towards Jadeite. Sailor Mars in a seconds time saw all the beautiful memories she had with Jadeite and realized that she couldn't let him get hurt. Her heart won the fight over her mind. "No!" her body was emitting a strong red glow which Sailor Moon recognized like the real power of the Mars senshi "Mars! Flame Phoenix" fire shot forward from her hand, but only lasted for a few seconds.
A/N: Sorry for the cliffhanger, but I think you already figured out what will happen next... or maybe not? I am just a little mean right now...