The alarm went, startling the girl. She groaned and rolled over, finally, fully awake from the noise she slammed her fist onto the snooze button and got up. She slipped in her contacts, she had always envied Makoto's eyes. The phone rang, she reached for the portable at her bedside table.
"Moshi moshi, Chiba Usagi here," she said, making the bed.
"Morning Usagi-chan, it's Bulma. Could you come over? Gohan says that you have something to –ow- explain to me. One sec, quit it! Sorry, well are you coming?"
"Hai, just let me get dressed, I'll be over in a little bit."
"Ja!"
Usagi hung up and slipped on a sundress, it was a beautiful day outside, she really wanted to see if this place had any parks. She took a bus to the Brief's and rang the doorbell.
Vegeta opened the door. Usagi paled. "I-Is Bulma there?"
He shot her a nasty look, "yeah she's here."
"VEGETA!" the familiar, demanding voice of the scientist almost broke Usagi's ear drums. She flinched and got inside. "Well, I'll leave you two alone, ja." She said politely and ducked into the living room. 'He really doesn't know does he,' Usagi thought. It was probably better that he didn't.
"Konban wa Usagi," Gohan said, sitting on the couch with a bald man watching TV.
"Who's your friend Gohan?" she asked, waving at the man.
"I'm Kururin, I'm a friend of Gohan and his father." Kururin shook her hand delicatly, Usagi wasn't ready and gave somewhat of a firm squeeze. The man winced slightly.
Usagi excused herself to the ladies room, pausing to whisper something in Gohan's ear. "Gohan, what I told you yesterday, please don't repeat that."
"Hai Usagi, I won't," Gohan said with a smile before turning to watch TV again.
"Won't what?" Kururin said, a wicked grin forming. "Are you two?"
"IIE!"
"Well by the way she smiled at you—"
"Kururin!"
"I'm just saying," Kururin muttered. "She probably does have something for you. The way she smiled and acted." He jabbed his friend with his elbow, "ask her out somewhere."
Gohan turned to his friend, "think she'd want to?"
"Sure."
"Thanks man," he clapped him on the back.
"Um Gohan," Usagi said re-entering. "Is Bulma back from, you know," she jerked her head sideways towards outside where Vegeta and Bulma were bickering. "She called me over."
"Bulma just needs to blow some steam, here have a seat."
Usagi sat down beside them, a few moments later Bulma came in, she was shaking in anger. "Bulma-chan are you alright?"
"Hai Usagi-chan, come with me upstairs okay?"
"Okay," Usagi followed Bulma upstairs.
"Gohan tells me you're quite a fighter, he says you held up to Vegeta. I told Goku, you remember him, that it would probably be a good idea to train you. You'll have to work without that little toy that 'morphed' you."
Train? Bulma wanted her to train? As in become a fighter? Something clicked in inside her brain, ChibiUsa had told her that to time travel a time key was not needed, just a will to go somewhere so powerful, clean and pure, the time key was just an accessory. If she went back to her dimension and went back in time, she could defeat the youma, save the sailor soldiers and kill the youma's master. "I'll do it!"
"I thought you would Usagi, first let me explain. Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta are saiya-jins, they come from a planet Vegeta…"
"I understand that now Bulma, gomen for explaining it to me," Usagi said. It had taken more than an hour to explain.
"Usagi, I believe you have some explaining to. You come out of nowhere with a high ki and you can stave off Vegeta. Please tell me how you do it?"
"Bulma-chan, I can't tell you much except that in another world I was a great fighter along with other senshi of the planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The headquarters was on the moon, all of the planetary senshi met there."
"Which one were you?"
"What makes you think I am a senshi?" she asked with a smile.
Bulma sweat dropped, "it's a little obvious."
Usagi ignored her. "I was Sailor Moon, the leader."
"Oooh! That's so cool, a senshi from the moon. So what do you fight?" She asked in rapt interest.
Usagi let a smile escape, "I'll leave that for later. Don't tell anyone it's me okay? Some of the enemies may have followed, I don't think so, but just incase." Usagi prayed this wouldn't worry her.
"Oh no problem, Goku'll kick his butt for you," Bulma said with a grin. "When he gets his little monkey-butt in action there won't be any problems. You would train just fine with Gohan, you can start tomorrow."
"Thanks Bulma-chan."
"No prob Usagi, whip him into shape, give him a challenge."
Usagi lay in bed that night, the same dreams haunted her. She saw all her friends die again, then the monster turned on her Mamoru. "IIE!" she screamed, breathing heavy. She sobbed for a few moments then went outside to look at the moon. It was so peaceful Usagi felt she could have fallen asleep without her nightmares. She took out the crystal, watching it flare up in the presence of it's source. She took out the golden crystal, holding it to the silver. Usagi let out a shriek of surprise as they melded. She said the first words that came to her mind.
"Moon Eternal! MakeUp!"
Instead of her regular fuku it was a mixture of silver and gold. Her wings were no longer an elegant silver but had a glint of gold to them, her blonde hair glittered. She slipped out of her balcony, the night breeze caressing her. Maybe she should go to that planet. It was nice and quiet there, Vegeta wouldn't return again would he? Eternal Sailor Moon decided to take her chance. "Ginzuishou, take me back to the planet."
Vegeta was out training he noticed a flare of ki coming from Tokyo, a burst of pure gold and silver streamed through the sky like fireworks, going a few feet before erupting into a million different pieces that made the glittering kaleidoscope of colors. Wind pushed his hair back, his tenshi-hime.
The eternal senshi stood on the cliff, as usual, it was raining. This would become her secret place, she told herself. Only she would know about it, only she and Vegeta. She sat down, imagining that she could form a ball with her energy without using the crystal. It would be a light pink, she decided. It would be powerful yet radiate calm and serenity. It would be used to rid the universe from the grip of death.
Eternal Sailor Moon opened her eyes, it was fun to make believe. But thank god there was no grip of death right now. She looked up to see coal black eyes. Without thinking she threw her hand and the imaginary sphere forwards. She heard swearing, she realized by looking at a dust covered Vegeta that such a sphere really did exist.
"What the hell did you do that for?" He said, wiping blood from his face.
"Gomen, I'm so sorry!"
Vegeta looked into the apologetic blue eyes of the princess or queen. They were eyes that could render a man useless, eyes that could shine with every emotion at once. Eyes a man could get lost in. "It's okay," he blurted out. He was very lost at the moment. She had hit him in surprise, he flexed his jaw, she really must have been surprised. "How did you learn to make a ki blast?"
"A ki blast?"
How could a person be so ignorant of their power? "Yes a ki blast, it's pure energy that you use to blow something or someone up."
"I didn't mean to."
"It's not a bad thing, Miss um."
"Call me um Serena," Eternal Sailor Moon said, stretching out her hand. She had become a little bit brighter around him. She was convinced that he would have hurt her already if he had meant to. She just prayed he didn't hurt her as Usagi.
"Serena. I'm Vegeta, but Gohan probably already told you." 'Damn, I can't believe I used the brat's real name!' Vegeta's mood turned sour for a moment.
"Vegeta-sama," she stretched out a gloved hand.
"Serena-san," he took hers. It didn't feel rough and calloused like his or any of the other fighters, it was smooth and soft.
"Just Serena is fine, Vegeta-sama. Do you come here every day?" The rain had settled to a gentle stream.
"Hai Serena," Vegeta stood up. "I would like to teach you how to fight, not with that magic stuff, physical combat and flying and ki blasts."
He watched her brows furrow. If she developed a fighting type here close to his what would Gohan say? But if she did fight with him, the way he fought it could prove useful. To know both of their skills and tricks could enhance her powers a great deal. She would only need to mask her skills until she came to the right sensei before letting it all loose.
"If it's not a problem, I'm afraid I'm a bit of a klutz," Eternal Sailor Moon blushed furiously.
Vegeta smirked, this could prove interesting. "Not a problem, show me what you've got."
The girl blinked, "huh?"
"Fight me, I need to see how far you are," the prince said.
"Oh." Eternal Sailor Moon charged up an attack.
Vegeta picked up her tier with super speed. "Without this," he said, putting it into his pocket.
"The tier!" she shouted going forwards to try and retrieve it.
"This tier thing, you aren't going to get it back until you can get it yourself. Then your training will be over," Vegeta said firmly.
Eternal Sailor Moon frowned, she wanted her tier back. Her ki spluttered to life, she clenched her fist. "Starlight Moon Therapy Kiss!"
The blast flew towards Vegeta who dodged it easily. To the princess it appeared to go right through him. She gulped, completely abashed. Vegeta threw a blast at her.
The senshi took to the sky, looking scared as the blast followed her. She flew down to Vegeta, a light bulb clicking on. "HHHEEEEELLLLPPP!!!"
Vegeta thought he had put to much oomph into it and prepared to get rid of it. The senshi flew directly at him, screaming as she went. Just in the nick of time she did a barrel roll past him, smiling as the blast hit him. "Gotcha," she said.
Vegeta threw the ki blast away with a roar of power, his hair flashed blonde, his eyes turned aqua. Eternal Sailor Moon's eyes widened, she spluttered as he flew towards her, dealing her an uppercut that sent her flying. 'No fair,' she thought, her enemies just let her use her magic, not hand to hand combat.
The princess regained her stance and lept forward, Vegeta didn't have the heart to hurt her, and boost her esteem by letting her hit him. It was harder than he thought, he was surprised that she had thrown her body weight into it. It was like she had been fighting her entire life. He had to know where she came from.
"FINAL FLASH!" he roared above her, the blast was a small one, but it rendered her unconscious. Vegeta dropped out of super saiya-jin and walked next to her, he could still feel her ki. He remembered seeing her use her crystal to heal. He picked it up, feeling it's immense power. This was more than just a tiny girly trinket. He watched as a golden crystal fell out of it and into his palm, it vanished into his body. Vegeta felt a lurch of power as his body absorbed it.
"That's mine give that back! Moon Tiara Magic!"
A spinning disc hit his hand, he dropped the pure white crystal. It hit the ground and shattered into a million different pieces. The girl's eyes widened in fear before they became hollow and deadened. She fell backwards, her transformation reversing. Vegeta stared at the tenshi, she was in a light blue nightgown, her blonde hair down and scattered across her. The rain had already left her sopping wet.
"Serena?" he bent down to the ground, what had he done? His eyes reflected the golden crystal as he ran his hands across her face. "Kuso," her ki was fading at an incredible speed. He brushed a strand of hair from her pale face.
His ebony eyes reflected a spasm of gold. His hair flashed golden as he powered up, trying to give her some of his power. The transfusion didn't work, he swore, her ki was leaving twice as fast. "Kuso." A thought struck him. She had used the crystal to heal Gohan, and a part of the crystal had fallen into him.
He searched deep below him for the golden trinket. The power was nowhere to be found. "Come on," he whispered, holding the teenage girl in his arms. "Come on dammit." He found a power in his heart, deep inside a secret chamber was an ever burning flame, there was no blood there. Instead there was his life force, the burning fire. It roared alive as it burned furiously. In the center of the blazing flame was the golden crystal.
He reached out to it, prepared to give up everything for it's healing power. The crystal remained frozen. "Come on," a golden insigna appeared on her forehead, the glowing moon became even brighter, as bright as the prince's lifeforce. Her ki kicked back to life as the ginzuishou regrouped. Her hair went back into it's odd style, her sky-blue eyes opened. She was wearing a low cut dress with silver loops on it.
"I have to go," she said, picking up the crystal.
'Damn you Vegeta, you blew it again! You almost killed her!'
Princess Serenity turned around, "it wasn't your fault, I just have to go." She picked up the brooch that held the ginzuishou. "Moon Eternal! MakeUp!" Lights swirled around her as she transformed. She appeared again with wings. "I'll come back tomorrow for more training," she promised. She shut her eyes, concentrating on the ginzuishou.
Vegeta let a genuine smile escape as she dissapeared. She wasn't angry at him at all. He submerged his depressing feelings from the previous mountains and went back to the saiya-jin pod.
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