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The end in the beginning ch. 9
Usagi POV
After the main courses are done and over with, I'm feeling full as Mamoru looks as he appears to be patting his stomach almost as if trying to use the movements to speed up the break down process as we both go to excuse ourselves to use the restrooms. As we exit out and off, I feel glad to be moving around and hopefully making some of this food we just ate digest a tiny bit faster though I know it won't be by much.
After a quick use of the washroom as I make sure I look pulled together before I leave back out and run into Mamoru. Once he sees that I'm alone as he is as there's no one in the small hallway in the back he can't help but give me a loving kiss. "This evening is turning out better than I thought it would." He tells me, grinning as I giggle, "And how did you think it would go?" I asked as his scratches the back of his head in slight mirth.
"Honestly, interrogation to the third degree." I can't help but actually laugh at that, "Really? Is that what you took my father for?" purposely baiting him as he sees right through it and smiles in reflection of it. He kisses me again, "Your fathers a respected man in his field…so yes." I can't help but smile and laugh a bit again as I pull him in and kiss him this time, my arms wrapping around his neck as his slip to my waist.
If it's one thing for sure between us is that it's hard to calm each other down now that we've slept together and been sleeping together for a while now. Mamoru had a point when we first got intimate, it's hard to control yourself with the one you're not only sexually attracted to but also in love with. Never mind being fated or soul mates from a thousand years ago, we fell in love then and again in this life.
We love each other dearly and we weren't pushed together, if anything people back then as well as a few now were trying to pull us apart. We didn't let them though, we fought hard and won and that is what makes a difference. Especially as I slowly get pushed out of sight of my parents not that they were looking for us but all it would take is a backwards glance to spot us kissing as we are.
He pushes me towards a slightly more inconspicuous corner as our kiss intensifies. Point of Mamoru's words is that it's hard to constantly remember WHERE one is when your kissing your lover. Boyfriend. Girlfriend, husband, wife, whatever with as much passion as what was building between us. It's hard to maintain that control especially when a very prominent part of you, like the one that Mamoru is beginning to sport is currently rising to attention and wants more of what I have to offer.
We can't help but get a little lost in each other as my leg lifts up to wrap around his leg, hooking him in and pulling him closer as he gently pulls my head to the side and nibbles on my neck. Just as one of his hands reaches down and massages my rear, making me grind my pelvic bone into him we hear screams begin to emanate from the restaurant. Our affections are immediately put on hold as our passion dies off.
The one sure fired thing that is good for putting out a passionate fire, is when there are innocents in danger…or a child's cry, but only one of those was the case right now. We quickly disentangle from each other as we go to see what's causing the chaos. Our instincts react as we slip into protective mode to assess the situation. Another busted out window as the creature from before is making its way into the restaurant.
I hit the communicator on my wrist as were still in the back of the building near the back exit. I was now wishing there were people in the back to so they could leave out now, or at least closer to it so we could try to direct them out the back door to safety and have less people in the way of the monster. The monster itself looked a little smaller in size but still just as aggressive as before as it started to flip tables and push people back from the entrance preventing them from escaping.
It was clearly trying to round them up as we were going unseen in the back hallway. Well unseen for now. The small hallway wasn't really closed off, the entrance to it was at least five feet wide for people to have easy access to the restrooms or to flee in case of emergency if needed. Once we backed up enough it would be perfect for us to transform and take care of the monster while the girls – and that's when the call from them came in, "Usagi we need your help, were under attack."
Mercury's starling words came through as Mamoru looked to me with slight worry etched across his face. It was rare for there to be two attacks at once but not unheard of since the enemy usually didn't want to waste the power or the energy in doing so, preferring to keep that in reserves since we tended to destroy them. "Yeah so are we." I tell them as a table slams into the wall and door frame nearest to me.
Mamoru pulls me away from it, but the damage is maintained towards the wall which now has a sizable dent in it and the frame. The sound of it breaking and splintering off causes me to barely hear what Mars has to say now, "Apparently." I merely look at the communicator with a slight glare before responding, "It looks like the same monster that attacked us at the hot springs to." I tell them.
I make sure to push the communicator closer to my mouth to avoid anyone form overhearing us back here, "So does this one and its strong to." I hear blasts being issued out from both Mars and Jupiter as I hear the monster scream, but it doesn't sound dead as it just cries out again in rage at being attacked. "Venus is already trying to keep it down with her 'love me chain' but its nearly broken through it."
I hear more power attacks being called out as Jupiter calls out, "The thing won't stay down." That's when I hear crashing on our end of things as I see that its now targeting my family…again. My eyes narrow, "So, both monsters look the same, I wonder, do you think it split itself into two or something?" it wouldn't be the first time an enemy has done that with us but usually the power dynamic changes with it.
"Who cares? We need to kill this thing!" Mars snapped as I could hear her shooting fire from her hands. "It matters if the power distribution is different or the same. Try to use a combination of attacks on it rather than individual ones. Mercury analyze it for the weakness maybe this one has the same one." I gently order them as civilian time is over, were in battle mode now.
"Mars use your fire with my ice, we can burn and freeze it at the same time." Mercury shouts before Jupiter jumps in, "When we kill this monster we'll head over there, but if you can get over here first it'd be helpful." I hear her shout out an attack and hear the monster scream out in pain, "Are there any civilians?" I ask hoping that there aren't any, it was bad enough there were easily two dozen in here.
I didn't want there to be any casualties. "Yeah I was leaving the restaurant when the attack happened down the block." I did a quick calculation of where they were from me, "Your easily thirty minutes away from me. Look just get it away from the general populace and try to head towards the park, it should be fairly open." I suggest as she remarks, "Working on it now." she tells me.
The call ends as Mamoru gets my attention, "Usagi I'll get your parents out, you go transform, use the back door." I nod knowing that we must hurry and get people to safety. People tend to panic and not do as they should in dire situations. I go to move from my stance in hiding until we both sense something materializing from behind us. Just what we need, another monster coming in for the attack.
Since when do they attack like this and why here? It doesn't make any sense. That's when she appears. Somehow, I already know she's the one responsible for all of this. With dark near raven like hair that's wavy and shiny going down her back to the hourglass figure she has to the outfit that speaks for itself in revealing detail without revealing to much skin I know somehow that THIS is the mysterious princess.
She regards us with a look of calmness that speaks of nothing but being in control and right now she is which is something we need to remedy. She seemed ALMOST regal in a sense. Cold though, very cold and even though I don't recall her at all she seems familiar to me. Like how Nehellenia did though I have almost no memory of her from my past life either, though she seemed to remember me.
I would later find out I was too young to remember her as a child on the moon, but it was highly suspected that she was responsible for many deaths possibly even my moon fathers. This woman though, she had that cold presence Nehellenia did. As if there wasn't a care in the world, yet she held her head high and looked nearly bored with the events going on behind us in the dining area.
She looked to Mamoru, looked him up and down as if admiring him, "You haven't changed much my prince." both of our eyes narrowed at that, "Good to know." she smirked, "I don't know who you are but - " she cut him off with a shush, "All in good time my prince and without any distractions." before either of us could talk she rose her hand and flicked her wrist sending Mamoru flying cleanly over her head and back into the exit door, breaking the lock as he crashes through it.
"Mamoru!" but my reaction timing to the shock of it all was too late. I cursed myself for that, just because she looked familiar didn't mean she was. "Relax." We both look back to see him getting back up only to be blasted at and this time temporarily knocked out by the dumpster he was slammed into around back. His head hitting it with enough force to render him out of this fight…for now.
I see how she looks at him. Tenderness in her eyes as she softens up to him. I can't help but feel a slight sting of annoyance that, yet another enemy has the hots for MY prince, yet I suppose it makes sense. Mamoru was and always will be a handsome and wonderful man that can inspire most on even his worst days, "MY prince is just taking a little cat nap. He'll be okay." She speaks as if he's hers and that just grates on my nerves.
That's when I hear the people outside crying for help. I turn around, taking my eyes off her temporarily, not a good idea but I need to assess the situation so I can figure out what to do. I can't help but cringe as it does more damage but seems to not be draining anyone or taking anything from them, which is good but also bad as I have no idea what she or this creature really want in this.
"It appears we meet again princess." That strikes me as I look back to her, "Again? I'm sorry have we met before?" I ask, trying to recall her as my instincts were apparently right, I did recognize her, but from where, when and why is she only now showing up? "It appears as if not all your memories are intact." She spoke with such ease about the past that while I wanted to ask her about how she knew me in the past my defenses were up on whether to ask her trust her enough to believe her words.
"I don't know who you are or what you're talking about, but I -" she just cuts me off with her laughter. Something that sounds more like someone with a stick up their ass. Not even delusional laughter, just the type that comes from someone who thinks their better than others and it's unnerving. "Spare me the denial on who you are princess Serenity." Now I swallowed hard as she called me by my past name.
Something that was rarely known about me by any enemy unless you knew about my past of who I was. Even the dark moon clan didn't connect the dots till later and my future self was their 'enemy' till Diamond came around. How did she know let alone have such power to see and know me without even being around me? I could see the smirk widening on her face. It was a tad creepy, yet I didn't let her see that she was eliciting a response.
"What?" she then really looks at me, "Oh did you really expect your glamour to work on me? Please. Seeing though that is the least complicated thing I've had to do recently." Now I was curious, but I still had people to watch out for. "I mean after all, they may see you as Sailor Moon, or 'Eternal Sailor Moon'…" she mocks a bit as she points to the people in danger from her monster.
"But I see you for who you really are, the one you were in the past." Despite her words I still cannot place her in the past. I can tell she notices me trying to figure her out. She cocks her head to the side, "You really don't remember me do you." Even with her in front of me I can't remember meeting her, or recalling her at all, yet she is seeming familiar and she seems to remember me. "Nevertheless, we'll do meet and greets later, right now you have people to save." now I felt stuck.
"So, go on save them Eternal Sailor Moon." there's a mocking in her tone that gets to me as I clenched my fists together. I do need to transform to save them but there's not much of a way to do that without exposing who I am. The moment I shout out my words to transform all eyes will be on me. I go to duck into the restroom only to have her use her powers to bolt both it and the other one.
They're both completely blocked and there's only the exit behind her to use and with the way she's acting I highly doubt I'll get past her to do it. Especially de-transformed without powers as I am now. I can hear diners try to make a break for it only to get tossed aside, getting hurt in the process. I can hear others calling for emergency services to come help them. I can't help but feel guilty that I'm trying to AVOID them seeing me transform and in doing so is causing them further harm.
That's when I see my parents and brother pinned into a corner, the table we once ate at now overturned as my dad was behind it, trying to use it to fend off the creature as he kept demanding, "Stay away from my family!" in between yelling at it while the creature simply demanded, "Where is she?" I wondered if it was asking for me. Recalling it did attack me at the hot springs.
"Oh, that's right, you can't transform in front of them unless you want to expose yourself." I can see the smile on her face as she then eggs me on in a mocking tone, "What no last-minute daring ploy to save them available to you?" My body was filled with anxiety, adrenaline and rage for this as I turned back around and still seeing no way to transform without alerting people up front to who I am.
I can't help but snap back, "Who the hell are you? Why would you attack innocent people?" her face is calm and actually smiling making me want to slap it off her face. I think Makoto once deemed the type of expression as 'punch-able' and now I got what she meant, "I'm the prince's rightful princess to be on the throne beside him." Her tone is so factual that I make a mental note to talk to Luna about this later.
At this point denying who I am would be counterintuitive and going along with it could prove to be beneficial to extract more information from her so against my better judgement I let the words fall out. "Listen lady, I don't know WHO you are, but Endymion and I were set to marry in the past before things were blown to bits." Recalling the time when Beryl decided to create the war that ended both of our kingdoms for her own selfish gains.
That's when I see her expression shift back and forth. From anger and understanding to disgust as she looks at me, "Yes Beryl did get a bit ahead of herself back then." Making me realize she KNEW who Beryl was. The way she spoke of her she KNEW what had happened in the past. I can't help but wonder what else she knows about the past. She speaks as if the past was merely a few years ago rather than a millennia ago.
"Granted destroying two kingdoms isn't an easy task to accomplish especially when you're really trying to overturn the one and take over to give them a worthwhile ruler, but at least she managed to get rid of the white moon kingdom...though it would have been better had she wiped out the population entirely and NOT have left any survivors. She did half of what I wanted to get done, done." That's when she looked to me.
A near smirk on her face, "So, points for that I guess." She expresses and while her words sound disappointed, they also sound bored. I was completely outraged by her attitude towards the Lunarians. I was one of the few left of my people and I was damned proud to be a Lunarian so to hear her talking as if she wished we were wiped off the global map was incredibly insulting and pissed me off to no end. There wasn't even rage within her words, just disappointment that Beryl didn't 'finish' the job.
I had to stay focused though, and NOT let her hateful words get to me, there was more to this than a petty rivalry and her need to make an entire race extinct. She had more of a plan here and I needed to find out what that was. I did however have a strong feeling that Mamoru was going to be a large part of it. "It shouldn't have BEEN something to accomplish." I tell her, reigning in my temper as I did.
"No, your right, one thing we can agree on." She admits bleakly, "No it should have been take over the Terrian kingdom, give them a proper ruler, one who used the power correctly and destroy the moon kingdom, but she became overly ambitious and let her obsession with Endymion and power consume her. Instead of killing you and yours she got everyone killed or sealed off into this new world." She seemed to think on it a moment.
"They've forgotten about us all. About how things used to be…how things were meant to be…I do plant o make them remember when the timing is right." I could see the cogs in her brain working that out. I can't help but arch a brow, "Isn't that what you're doing here? Obsessed with MY prince and the need for power?" I asked her as she purses her lips a bit. She actually looks insulted now.
"I'm not obsessed..." she made it sound like being described that way was beneath her and to be honest from the way she was acting I did actually believe her as she tutted at me for it, "Just claiming what's rightfully mine. Endymion was never hers, NOR yours." she looked down at me as I grit my teeth, "After all he was promised to me. Just as I was promised to him." a hint of a smile was etched on her face.
"I was trying to work a way to get rid of you both. Two birds one stone, then he and I would have been married and the kingdom of earth would have been mine to rule as I so felt. Yet Beryl couldn't handle that her position in life prevented them from being together and tried and failed to use her sorcery to get and make him hers. You may have temporarily succeeded but I promise that I will save him from your sorcery as well."
I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall now. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how she felt that way. I had no power to make anyone love me. Elsewise when I had that small-time crush on Motoki I would have had him. It's a little disconcerting to even think about that. Yet it was true at the time. "Trust me I'm not using anything; he and I love each other." She rolls her eyes looking upset at my words, but I need to see if I can get through to her. There has to be a way to reach her, right?
"We were in love back then when our kingdoms were talking to each other. We didn't expect it, it just sort of happened. We were in love when I came down to visit earth and when he came to visit the moon. Just because I'm Lunarian does mean that I did something to make him fall in love me. We don't hold that kind of power, nor would we want to. It just happened." I tell her or try to explain to her.
I want her to see that she's wrong about her viewpoint of me. I'm not the enemy that she thinks I am. That's when I see her face twist into pure rage, "Your still spouting lies." I nearly back up a step as she seethes in her rage, "More lies. Stop lying. You are a blasphemous creature that shouldn't even be on this planet! This is MY PLANET!" her face twists into hatred as she glares at me. Other than with Beryl or even Nehellenia, I've never seen someone look at me with such vile hatred before.
Though now that this mystery woman is here most of those that hated me with this much venom were people who hated where I come from…who I am and the power that I hold. Beryl hated me because of my relationship with Endymion, and it didn't help that I was a princess from another planet who was accepted by his parents to marry him. Nehellenia hated me due to my being from the 'white moon' and my mother's daughter as she put it which made me more curious on her past with my own mother.
Wiseman simply wanted me dead, sure he hated me, since I was the one who banished him to Nemesis in the future, though it wasn't like I DIDN'T have reason to being that he was using his powers to murder people and turn them so he could create chaos in the future, but he never looked at me with such borderline soul twisting hate that I cringed at the sight of it. He was soulless in his pursuit of 'nothingness' and wanting 'silence' which really was just code for wanting death to surround him.
Stupidity is what that was. In death there's nothing to rule over or kill. It's one of the reasons I truly believe he was short several large marbles in his brain otherwise wanting a deathly wasteland was a foolish pursuit and would gain the person who created it nothing in return. Nothing happens in a wasteland of death. Eventually he would die himself as one cannot sustain themselves on nothing indefinitely.
As for this mystery woman, she seems to reign in her emotions and slips on a carefully cool mask of indifference which puts me on edge as she says, "As for the attack, I'm not attacking them, he is." Her attitude is chill and unimpressed as if she doesn't hold a care in the world that her monster is currently hurting people just behind me. Thing is I've seen our previous enemies do a lot.
I've seen enemies relish in the pain of others, even bask in it or look like they were having fun with it as they take what they want, but never look at the damage as if it were nothing to them. "The why you ask, proof that the secret of the senshi, your secret…" emphasis on your I could tell that she nearly spat it out, "Is above all. Even at the expense of innocents." I wanted to shout that that wasn't the truth.
To tell her that it was a secret for a very real very problematic reason. However, before I could even speak, she is she gave her command out in a simply tone that broke no room for arguments, "Kill them all. Let them see the truth that Sailor Moon's secret is above their safety." there was no anger, no malice in it. It was as if she were ordering food from the restaurant. Regardless of whatever Luna, the girls, Artemis or Haruka and them thought I had to save these people.
Fine it was a trap, but I couldn't NOT help them, and I couldn't go up against the monster in my human form...right? I had to find a way to transform without being seen. The doors were still bolted shut thanks to her and even though I tried to conceal myself in some form from anyone that could see me the hallway was barely five feet and the entry way was incredibly open exposing me in great vivid detail. Making me also realize that Mamoru and I were less hidden than we thought we were.
Way less hidden and possibly gave some people paying attention a show that was definitely NOT meant to be seen. "Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide…" he voice sounds almost sing song as she watches me scramble about trying to pry open a door which wouldn't budge and trying to find at least a broom closet but nothing all the while she's standing there watching me as if she were gloating.
I can't go through the front door as the creature is there and I'm growing more frustrated and irritated especially as I try to get past her, but she merely flicks her wrist and throws me back further out than I was before, by the one broken table that was thrown near me by the wall. I'm not exactly a match against her de-transformed as it were, and I highly doubt that she'd be willing to fight a fair fight with me. Many times, we've tried that with enemies in the past and they ALWAYS cheat.
It was clear now that SHE wanted me exposed. I was her main target for elimination. Now I find out she wants Mamoru and feels he's HER prince. It doesn't help that he's temporarily out of commission so he can't deal with her while I transform to help the innocents in here and get people to safety. That's why she sent out that other monster. That way the girls couldn't come over and help.
Their stuck dealing with a monster to so that she can have me exposed here. I think about calling the outer senshi but realize we never actually gave them communicators. A huge oversight on our part now that I regret not thinking about before. I go for my phone, hoping I can get a call out to Haruka only for the mysterious princess to move her hand and toss it from my grip with minimal ease.
"No cheating." She tisks. That's when I saw that while people were trying to fend it off and fight the monster, seeing that it was all of them versus it alone, it hadn't really try to take anything from the people there, unlike previous enemies that had a goal in mind to either steal something from them or cause pain but now with her new orders it was obviously trying to go in for the kill, a tactic to get me to transform in front of them all. Starting off with my family.
That's when it begins to spray this weird goop that coats the table and begins to burn it and anything else the goop touches. I can see the smell of burning wood as it singes it. The nearby tables and chairs are burning along with it. I turn my head partially around to face her as I try to figure out a way to handle this, but I have a feeling that I'll have no other choice but to give her what she wants.
"So, you're willing to risk the innocent lives in here just to what expose me? Why?" I demand of her, trying to reason with her in hopes that she has a conscious. Hoping that she'll see this destruction as pointless. "What good are we to people if were exposed to the public? What your doing is creating chaos and that will only hurt the people, not help them. That's NOT something a 'princess' would do." I tell her.
Though I have a hard time saying 'princess' without grimacing. She sure doesn't act like any princess I've ever met before, and I've not only met and fought alongside several but become allies with others. She's not like any of them. That's when she looks at me with an almost dull sense of agitation. "You really don't see your fault in this." It's a statement to her, not a question as she looks at me pensively.
"The hell is that supposed to mean there are people under attack. If I'm your target in this then deal with me, attack me NOT them!" I demand of her. I'd rather be attacked and broken than to lose an innocent life or let someone get seriously injured. I won't risk people getting hurt but at the same time I'm running out of options and time and I have a feeling that that's what she's counting on.
"You really don't get it do you." She steps forward once. "You're the monsters who came onto our planet with false promises and devious intent." Her gaze turns on me, as if I've caused her great pain and suffering just by merely existing on this planet. "How the hell have we done that." I can't help but try to figure out where she gets these ideas from when she just got to our planet…right?
"All we've ever done is fight for the people. Fight for this planet. Fight to protect the innocent and help those who've been corrupted be free of that negative energy that took over them in the first place." I snap back, frustrated and feeling backed into a corner as it were. "We never had false promises. We -" she cuts me off again, "You're doing now what your mother did back then…" it's rare when I hear someone refer to my moon mother. She was a gracious and exceptional woman.
I love my mother, both with all my heart, she devoted her time and energy into not just her kingdom but her family as well. She was a true and just Queen that made me want to emulate her, to look up to her so that I could be a fair and kind ruler to. Yet not one to be walked over. So, for her to refer to my mother she was treading a dangerous line that I wouldn't take if she so much as put her in a negative light.
After all I was her only living relative, in the timeline, that was able to defend her. "Wafer thin line." I nearly growled in warning. I expected a smirk from her, yet what I got was anger instead, "Much like your mother did all that time ago, you spread your lies of peace and love when all you really want is to take from me again." There was that message again, "I never took anything from you." I snapped at her.
She shook her head as if trying to keep her calm towards me, "You took from me once a long time ago. I won't let that happen again. You deserve all of what happens next to you." I can't help snapping out, "I refuse to listen to your self-serving, poisonous lecture on what you THINK happened back then." She loses her anger for all of a moment as I yell at her, "I won't let you hurt innocent people because of some twisted visual you have of us. We are good people who fight for the safety of earth."
It's her calming voice that says, "Whatever makes you sleep better at night, and enjoy those nights while you can." Before she looks out on the floor. I see my family about to take a hit that they won't survive. I send a 'sorry' out to everyone close for what I'm about to do but I can't NOT do something simply to keep my own secret a secret. I see the attack coming as I run in, grabbing a random turned over chair and hit the creature with it on its back.
I have to give it a shot. It tries to hit at me several times. Shooting its goop at me as I dodge and duck the small blasts aimed at me as I then use the opportunity to get it distracted from the rest of the people here. Trying in vain to give the people to see a chance and run out. I notice a few go for the door and while some make it out the monster's tail swooshes back and hits the rest to stay inside.
It strikes out against me again. With its tail this time as it slams into my backside. I barely land far enough away and use the momentum to keep going. I dodge the one blow only to get hit with another as I get hit hard enough to send me over a table that is overturned as I land hard on a broken chair. I grunt from the pain as it shoots up my left side as I roll off of it. Had I NOT been a senshi all this time those many ducks and dodges I had to perform to AVOID getting hit by that thing wouldn't have been possible.
Instead I'm just managing to survive. I grab the leg off a chair that's broken as I jump up, using the broken table with all of what I have in me in this form and slam it into its head hoping that the jagged screws in it with do some type of damage. It takes a moment to bat it away from its head. Clearly it wasn't deep enough in to do it any real serious harm as I try to make my way over to find another weapon to use.
"Enough playing around." I hear her say as it takes one two, then three swings at me. I duck the first two but the third hits me dead center as I get thrown hard enough against the wall to put a dent in it. My body can't take too much damage in this form. Anyone else would be in a near coma by now from the damage sustained by the hits but since I'm not fully human, I can take a decent pounding.
However, my family is seeing the damage I'm taking, and their own protective parental instincts take over. I grumble internally to myself that their seeing this as while it looks badass to have my parents see me fighting and not getting instantly pounded on and managing to fight it off…somewhat, I'm also thankful they haven't seen what I've truly been through over the years with what I've had to do.
My father might have banned me from leaving the house and made me live in a bubble wrap ball going forward for added protection. "You leave my daughter alone!" my father shouts. The monster turns back to him and starts to look like it's going to jump for them. I try to hit the monster again, fists and kick this time but barely does anything as the tale wraps itself around my neck and squeezes.
"This'll work to." I hear her mutter as I begin to lose my breath and sight. I blink away the tears as I resign to what I know needs to happen next. The monsters too strong to take on in my civilian form, so I pull out my broach and whisper out the words that I know by heart. The light shines brightly and forces the monster to loosen its grip on me, forcing it back away as I feel the power washing over me.
The power also prevents it from hurting anyone else as the monster tries to attack them only to get blocked by the bright rays coming from me. It almost acts as a shield of sorts. Reminding me of when Mamoru and I found out about who we really were. Same effect, the transformation saved them from the attack same as it saved Mamoru and myself from getting burnt alive by Zoisite in the elevator.
Its take mere seconds later before the glow dies down, the monster had backed out of sheer self-preservation alone. I see my family look at me along with many others. At this point I don't even bother to introduce myself; time is of the essence as I pull out my scepter as it tries to attack me now. Good I'd rather it come after me than them. Only now I'm full of rage and adrenaline as I power up my attack and slam it into the creature.
I pour the anger and frustration into the attack as the creature falters back and looks badly damaged from the attack. Mortally wounded really. Singed even as I hear a near quiet chuckle from the back. I look towards her and see the glimmering smile on her face as she looks like the cat that got the canary. "Like I said enjoy...it will be the last things you ever enjoy in life." Before she shimmers out, disappearing before anyone else can really get a good look at her while I'm here in the middle of the restaurant.
The creature looks to me, its irritation is known yet it knows it's going to be dead soon. For once as much as I want to kill it, I want to see it suffer for the lives it took on that plane. "You won't win." it tells me as it falls to a kneeling position. I walk forward towards it a few feet but nothing more, "I won't let evil win." I tell it, "She will win. It's what she does. She will get what she wants and you will be destroyed." It tells me.
I can sense it's done now as it doesn't try to attack me or anyone anymore at this point. Before it disintegrates it says, "I am more than one and he is still alive." Recalling that the girls were dealing with a monster of their own I realize I only got rid of half of it. That's when my communicator goes off. Now isn't the time but I need to know the girls are safe to as we need to talk about what the hell just happened.
I pull it open, "You beat it?" I ask hoping that they did. "No, strangely enough it vanished a few moments ago. It was almost gone to, we had it dead to rights when it disappeared, Mercury is doing a scan of the area but nothing. Did yours vanish to?" Mars asks me as I sigh in response realizing what happened. "I destroyed it." it's not a victory though. Not really. Not as I look around at all the faces of the people around me.
Those that have seen our family come in here for years. Those that hardly know me at all. I breath in and out heavily as things are unearthly quiet inside before Mars asks, "That's a good thing why do you sound so glum about it?" I look away from the people in there. My voice lower as I talk to her, "Because it was a distraction technic." I tell her, my voice solemn and calm as I know that the mystery woman won this round.
"What do you mean? What happened?" she asks, worry now in her voice. Before I can give her a meet up place that won't be tracked down any time soon I hear my father speak up, "What is going on?" his voice is torn between relief that the creature is dead, anger that I'm a senshi that kept this all from him, from them, and sadness that this is what my life is. I see the dread on his face as he helps mom up.
"Moon are you okay?" Genuine worry in Mars voice as I tell her, "We need to have an emergency meeting later on tonight. You know where." I cut the call before she could ask anything further knowing I had a load of people in here to deal with. After taking notice that other than some bumps and bruises no one looks seriously injured and I hear emergency responders on the way.
I know I need to leave as I take a glance around and see the absolute shock and unease on the faces of people around me, who were looking at me like they'd never seen me before. The reporter I see in the corner, who's looking stricken with shock herself at being at the epicenter of an attack looks unable to even formulate words as I look back to my family and how are reacting to this sight.
I see their expressions of utter shock, slight hurt and…to my worse fear from my father, horror, and I know why. Their normal, still in school, still living at home daughter is actually a sailor senshi who fights against the forces of evil. Well my mother has a worried look on her face along with being slightly hurt by the concept that I kept this from them all, dad is horrified and also looking upset at what just happened for obvious reasons and reasons I may not even be aware of just yet while Shingo just looks at me in shock.
Nothing like having your brother look at you with a muted expression of 'no way' and 'that's my sister' before finally managing to get the words, "Holy crap." Out. I had a feeling those words were on many minds in here as I slowly backed up from them all. I suddenly felt like an outsider in a world that wasn't meant to be mine. That mystery woman's words echoing through me as I look at everyone.
"How?" the owner asks as he finally started to look around before taking to notice the state of his restaurant. Guilt floods further through me that there was more damage caused by my attempts to hurt the creature in my civilian form rather than transforming right away. I decide I need to get to safety and talk to the girls and get Mamoru to safety to. I back up further aiming to go pick up Mamoru on my way out.
I gave the slightest bow to the owners as I said, "Sorry." And once I saw the responder's lights flashing rushed out of there as fast as possible while picking up Mamoru along the way, using my senshi strength to get him out of there. He seemed groggy at best but still there was a LOT of damage control to do and very little time to do it in. I wasn't even sure right now on how to clean this mess up that she created.
I jumped and ran all over, making sure to keep him safe and myself light on my feet as I helped him up and out of the way of people going to the scene to either take statements or pictures or who knew what else. I could only hope that this didn't turn out to be something bigger and that it was containable, yet I knew deep down it wasn't. Haruka warned us and for good reason and now I'm the first to get picked off.