Thanks to reviewers:
saveme57
inufan155687: Uranus has not awakened as of yet….but it's coming up
CaseClosed621: for the outer scouts, who are awakening on their own (which I think they did in the anime at least), the transformation pens come to them. Luna and Artemis must give them to the inner scouts but the outer scouts are more independent.
TsukiyoTenshi
Phenitial
loveinthebattlefield
Ariel Night
This might be the last chapter for a while bc I shall be very very busy, so forgive me if I don't update soon enough!
I still don't own sailor moon. :(
Darien stared at the dark object in his sister's hand. It was similar to the one he'd seen the cat give to Sailor Venus before she first transformed. He had no idea the girl's civilian name, but he knew he'd seen her before. Then a similar wand had been given to another girl, who then became Sailor Mercury.
"Darien?" Hotaru said, by now right in front her slightly shocked brother. "I think Trista's a scout too. She wasn't surprised when I told her about my dream. I saw her in them too, as Sailor Pluto. She didn't say though, and I didn't ask. But I know you've been fighting with Sailor Moon, I don't remember her from the dreams… You have to have some contact with the scouts though, right?"
"Just Sailor Moon," Darien softly replied. He looked up into Hotaru's anxious violet eyes, seeing her desire to join in on the fight that shouldn't even be hers. "I don't want you involved in this."
"But-"
"I mean it, Hotaru. You could get hurt."
"And you won't?"
Darien leaned down, placing his hands on her shoulders and forcing her to look directly into his eyes. "Promise me, you won't use that or contact the other scouts."
"No. I have to, Darien. Like you have to be Tuxedo Mask and guard the princess."
"What…"
"I don't know who she is. But I think I have to find her." Hotaru's gaze turned distant for a moment. "Before we lose her again."
"Again?"
"Remember when I told you about my dreams? It was the princess who died, but I didn't see her. I saw the queen, and I saw you…"
"Me?"
Hotaru nodded. "You were there. But you weren't from the moon kingdom like the rest of us. You were from Earth. The only one who survived when the negaverse took over the planet. You got away and sought refuge on the moon."
Darien leaned back against the counter, his mind struggling to remember a past life when he could barely remember the first few years of this life.
Hotaru sighed. "But I can't see you well, I don't know if I didn't know you in that life. Or if someone is blocking me from remembering. I worry the princess is responsible. If she is, I will not know much more until she wants me to."
"The princess? Who is she?"
"The Moon Princess. That's all I know. She died in our last life, because the negaverse attacked."
"The princess died? How?"
"I don't know. I see a bright light, and that's the end. Everyone died, except the Queen. And to save us, she used the rest of her strength to send us into the future where we will finally be able to destroy the negaverse and bring peace to the universe once more."
"You can't seriously believe this," Darien said.
"Why not? You do. You still call for the princess in your sleep. Isn't that why you became Tuxedo Mask? To help a princess?"
"Serena!" Mina shouted, banging on the door. "Come on! Open the door!"
Luna slowly awakened, seeing the bed was made and silence filled the small apartment. A moment later Mina came into the room, staring at the neat bed that hadn't been slept in for some time now.
"Luna, where is she?" Mina asked.
Luna shook her head. "I never heard her leave."
Mina sighed, sitting on the bed beside the black cat. "It's okay, Luna. I'm gonna meet with Amy in a couple hours. Are you going to join us?"
"I think I'll go looking for Serena," Luna replied.
"Luna-"
"Don't start, Artemis," Luna snapped, interrupting him.
The white cat's eyes widened in surprise. He blinked twice before looking to Mina.
"You don't think Serena's in trouble, do you?" Mina quietly asked.
"What sort of trouble could she possible get into?" Artemis asked. "And you said yourself that she disappeared every so often. Maybe she needed to clear her head."
Mina bit her lip, but seemed accept that answer. "Come on."
"Deep submerge!" Sailor Neptune shouted.
The youma ducked out of the way as the attack neared it. "Gotta do better than that!"
Sailor Neptune quickly moved, agilely avoiding being harmed by the youma's counter attacks. The young woman was just about to get the upper hand of the battle when it multiplied. The second appeared right in front of her, causing the new scout to fall back. The two separate creatures became one again, towering over Neptune.
"Deadly scream!"
The youma turned to the new arrival, and Neptune quickly jumped to her feet.
"Deep submerge!" she shouted, repeating her attack.
Defeated by the combined attack, the youma crumpled to dust. Neptune looked around, finding herself once again alone.
"No," Sailor Moon whispered.
"Something wrong?" a voice asked.
Sailor Moon turned, startled by the slightly familiar voice. "Sailor Pluto."
The two stared at each other for a moment before Sailor Pluto stepped closer.
"Strange how you're the only Sailor Scout I do not remember," Pluto said. "Yet you were the first to awaken. The question is: whose side are you on?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You also don't seem pleased to see the other scouts awakening. If you didn't look so familiar to me I'd say you were most definitely from the dark kingdom."
"I'm not," Sailor Moon said. "I'm going to stop them."
"Alone? Is that why you're against awakening the others?"
"Yes. There is no need for anyone else to get involved."
"If that was true no one would be awakening. If you were even able to destroy the dark kingdom alone, why have you not done so already? Instead, you waste your time fighting the countless monsters thrown at you."
"I'm building up my strength. I'll be ready to take them on soon."
"I doubt that. You don't seem to be able to handle any battles well without your Tuxedo Mask. If I didn't know any better I'd say he was the only reason you were even still alive."
"I can handle myself, with or without Tuxedo Mask," Sailor Moon snapped. "And I don't need the other scouts. Just stay out of my way."
"I was told not to interfere unless I had to, but something tells me I should be stopping you."
Sensing the hidden threat, Sailor Moon tensed even more.
"However, I also realize you were here because you knew there would be an attack," Sailor Pluto continued. "For that, I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Don't make me regret it. If I find the slightest hint you are with the negaverse, I will you stop you!"
Sailor Moon watched as Sailor Pluto turned and left without another word.
Amy and Mina sat across from each other at the arcade. The blue haired girl seemed distant as Mina rattled on about what she'd learned in the past couple days.
"Amy, are you even listening?" Mina asked after noticing her friend's behavior.
"Of course," Amy quickly replied, refocusing on the situation at hand.
"You're usually not this out of it," Mina noted. "Are you sure you're alright?"
Amy nodded. "It's just my friend Greg hasn't been to school in a few days."
"Friend huh?" Mina asked, smiling.
Amy blushed and looked down. "I'm worried because he's just as studious as I am, he's never missed class before."
"A friend of mine has been missing for about a week now," Lita said, approaching their table. "Sorry. I stopped in and couldn't help but overhear."
"You don't think those monsters have anything to do with their disappearances, do you?" Amy asked.
"There's more than just a couple kids," Andrew said, bringing Mina the milkshake she had ordered. "I heard downtown by the Hikawa shrine people have been disappearing by the busload. The six-o-clock bus to be exact."
The girls exchanged glances.
"Isn't that where Raye…" Mina didn't finish her sentence.
"She might know more about it," Amy said. "We should go talk to her."
Mina nodded in agreement. Lita sighed as the two got up and ran off.
"What got into them?" Andrew wondered aloud.
Lita frowned. That's a very good question, she thought.
There were now two others, Jadeite realized as he glared into the room. Two more who would compete to please their queen and destroy the sailor scouts once and for all. If he were given just a bit more time he would most certainly succeed in gathering the energy he needed. He already some people gathered, all he had to do was draw more energy from them. If Sailor Moon hadn't gotten in his way, he would have had the energy he was required to capture long ago.
Jadeite clenched his hands into fists. "I have no choice but to kill her, so why can't I? Tuxedo Mask was no stronger than I am, so why did I let him come so close to killing me?" He suddenly paused, coming to another realization. "Why does Sailor Moon refuse to kill me?"
Queen Beryl suddenly smiled wickedly from her post beside the first man. "Nephrite, you have awakened."
Nephrite rose and kneeled before Beryl. "Yes, my queen. I am your loyal servant, Nephrite. Reborn to serve only you."
Jadeite growled and disappeared, returning to earth before he was seen by Beryl. Taking a public bus before it could be claimed by its rightful driver, he made his way towards the Hikawa shrine.
Raye looked up from her chores long enough to see another group of children ushered away from the shrine by frightened parents. It had been happening more frequently, ever since the bus began disappearing. Raye herself had been blamed by classmates and others. The shrine had never looked so abandoned.
"Raye! Raye!"
"What are you doing here?" Raye asked as Mina and Amy ran up to her.
"We need to know whatever you can tell us about the six-o-clock bus," Mina said.
Raye angrily threw the broom down. "Are you going to accuse me of having something to do with it as well?"
"Of course not! We need to know!" Mina replied.
"It's bus stop right outside the shrine, you passed it as you walked in," Raye answered.
Mina nodded. "Can you tell us anything? Don't you sense anything from it?"
"Of course I do!" Raye shouted. "I sense the same dark energy I sensed when Serena's family died! And when those monsters attack innocent people! I can't exactly say that though, can I? Then I'd definitely be the one who's kidnapping everyone!"
"We're not saying it was you, Raye," Amy said, hoping to calm the priestess down. "It's just that we know you'd know something more than others."
"It's almost time," Mina noted. "We're getting on that bus."
"Are you crazy?" Raye demanded. "When you get on that bus you don't get back off!"
"We have to figure out who's behind the kidnappings!" Mina called over her shoulder as she dragged Amy to where the bus was just arriving.
The doors opened and both girls stepped on, looking at the bus driver, whose face was hidden beneath his hat.
"Good evening," he greeted them.
His voice sounds so familiar, Mina thought as she and Amy took a couple seats.
Raye watched her two friends board the bus and suddenly discarded her broom again to follow them. "Idiots!"
So, not to spoil or anything I'm using Greg because he's the one who stands out the most when I think about Amy's crush. Same with Ken and Lita. It's fanfiction, so making minor characters major is totally allowed. I also might be altering their personalities a bit, since I really don't remember them all too well.