--PLEASE READ THIS--
This story is a SERIES. That means there
are more chapters that come before this one.
You can start with these chapters, but I will
promise you will be confused.
The series in order goes as follows;
Don't Let Me Go: Broken Promises
Don't Let Me Go: Insanity
Don't Let Me Go: Roses
Don't Let Me Go: Apparition
Don't Let Me Go: Debauchery
and this set of chapters are
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
(it means same as, or sharing same
characteristics ^.~)
And next week watch out for....
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
I hope this doesn't make everyone
go screaming and not read my fic ::sniff::
I promise the first couple of Main titles
are not that long ^^
Patch notes: ^^
Hi everyone! Okay, we allllll know Bethany
likes cheese cubes and tiggers, WELL, what
about Patch? Patch, I'm sorry to say, does
not like cheese cubes. (Beth: =( you don't
know what's good ^.~)
Patch likes Sour Patch Kids!! So send in
your Sour Patch Kids, mmm mmm they so gooooood.
Oh and e-mail, mmm mmm, e-mail is yummilicious
too! Oy vay ^_^ this must be the cheesiest
author's notes yet. Enjoy reading everyone!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At one point or another in their lives, most
everyone wishes they could have a grand, dashing
adventure – complete with dungeons and a brave
hero to leap in and save the day. What these
pleasant fantasies leave out is the dirt, blood
and fear. And let's not even get started on
the crying need for a decent bathroom in these
places. I swear that if we get out of this
mess alive, I will never again complain about
having to clean out the ice cream freezer,
standing in line at the supermarket or slow
traffic.
-Reika.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
Chapter: 1
By: Bethany and Patch
Editor: Meara
Rated: PG 13..?
Send your: Comments,
Suggestions, Tiggers, cheese
cubes, cows and furniture (cuz
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have none) to us at Bethany212@aol.com
and Patchkhan1@hotmail.com ^_^
~~~~~~~~~~~
"We have to get out of here right now!"
Motoki whispered.
"Iie, we can't just leave her here. Who
knows what they'll do!" Reika replied. She
began looking around frantically for something,
anything, to break the casing that held the
Senshi.
Motoki grabbed onto her forearms to hold
her. "Listen to me, love, we have to go otherwise
the danger will only increase by our staying here.
I-I think I know how to get help but we can't do
it ourselves! We'll get nowhere and only put our
lives in danger. How will that help Haruka-san
then?"
Before Reika could answer, Motoki shoved her
into an alcove in one of the walls and then pressed
himself next to her. The footsteps came into the
room and the two held their breath, their hearts
racing uncontrollably.
The footsteps stopped at the tank and all
was silent for some moments. Then to the couple's
great relief the footsteps departed the room
leaving just the two of them and the entrapped
Senshi of Uranus.
"Kami," Reika breathed. "That has to be
*the* most suspenseful moment in my life ever."
"You've got that right. Now let's get out
of here, I think if we follow the sound of those
footsteps, we'll find an exit out of this hellhole,"
Motoki whispered.
Motoki began walking but stopped when Reika
didn't follow. He turned around to see her standing
next to the tank, staring at it.
"Reika, we have to go. Onegai, let's just go."
She turned to look at him, tears brimming at
her eyes. "I can't, I can't just leave knowing we're
leaving her like this, helpless, unable to defend
herself. She and the other Senshi have done so much
for us... for this world, why can't we do something
in return?"
"Because it is impossible," he replied quietly.
"Iie! Nothing is impossible! Nothing!" she
said furiously. "We will get her out of here. We
will do it!"
Motoki sighed heavily. Women, he thought.
"Alright, we need something that'll break through
that tank. Start looking."
Reika began walking away from the tank when
suddenly she tripped over something. She fell to
the floor on her knees and Motoki rushed towards
her, helping her sit up. She managed to turn
around and sit on the floor, rubbing her knees.
"Are you okay?" he asked, worried out of
his mind.
"I'm fine, I'm...." her voice died as she
stared in front of them. Motoki did the same and
gasped. A black... box had risen from the ground,
directly in front of the tank.
"What is that?" she whispered.
"I don't know, but whatever it is, I think
it might be to our benefit." He walked up to it
carefully, Reika behind him.
The surface of the 'podium' had buttons and
knobs all across it.
"One of these buttons will probably release
her," Reika said.
"I know, but which one?" Sweat formed on
Motoki's brow as his gaze shifted from each button.
Now I know what it feels like to be a member of
the bomb squad, he thought grimly. One bad choice
and it would be all over.
~~~~~
Usagi stood on the balcony of Mamoru's apartment,
the slight breeze tossing her hair lightly. The full
moon was out and she thought it coincidental that it
shone brightly at a time like this.
"I will not fail, Mother," she whispered. A
determined look crossed her face and her hand formed
a fist on the railing. She would not cry for she had
cried enough. "I will get them all back, I've done
it before and I'll do it again, however many times
necessary... I swear it."
The wind blew as if in response and she felt
her skirt press against her legs. She shivered
slightly and brought her arms around herself. The
wind blew harder and she raised her face, closing
her eyes. In that instant, a warm sensation ran
through her body and in the barest of a whisper,
she felt a kiss on her forehead. Her eyes opened
and she smiled. It was all the encouragement she
needed.
She was strong. And she would continue to
be strong, for her mother, her friends, her love.
~~~~~
The sun felt bleak and strangely cold as
Michiru sat in it's rays, wishing it could warm
her chilled body.
Many a time in the past, herself and Haruka
had given up everything - including each other -
for their mission. But now... now it was different
in Michiru's eyes. She didn't have the courage to
speak this to Haruka, but she knew that never again
could she watch Haruka put the mission first. They
would have to, but in her heart she held Haruka as
important as their Princess - was that so wrong?
Her eyes wandered inside the apartment to the
sleeping Princess. Soon they would go to battle.
Only them - Two Senshi and a senshi-in-training.
Would they come out alive? The question haunted
Michiru's troubled mind. "Oh Haruka...." she
whispered to the afternoon sun. "... I miss you."
~~~~~~~~~~
Back and forth. Back and forth. Mika knew
any moment she would scream for Lynn to stand
still while she harranged her. A thought occured
to Mika as she watched the cat. "If you stood
still, could you still tell me off as good?"
The calico cat stopped in mid-stride and
glared daggers at her charge. "Mika! How can you
sit there and say that?! Did you listen to a
word I said?!"
Mika stretched and yawned before answering.
"Hai, Lynn. Hai, I heard you drone on like a broken
record about how mad Galaxia will be at me for
telling them what I know. I heard you rant about
how disobedient I am. I covered my ears as you
screamed, yet again, about how totally irresponsible
I am - but now it's time for you to hear me." The
youth stood up and faced the cat sitting on the table,
eye to eye they stared at each other.
Finally Mika gathered up the rest of her
courage and spread her arms wide. "Tell me you
don't feel bad for Usagi, Lynn! Tell me that it
doesn't hurt you to watch her cry for Mamoru-san,
and for the other senshi! I had to tell her, there
was no other way. And I will tell my mother that
as well."
Lynn held her stare at Mika for a moment longer,
noticing - maybe for the first time - how much like
Galaxia Mika was. She turned on her heel and left the
room with a self-satisfied look on her face.
Mika watched her walk out before sitting back
down on the bed and sighing long and hard. "What
have I done now?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"How can this be?" Luna more or less stated,
rather than asked. Artemis watched her lay her head
down and sigh. Slowly he came up to her and nudged
her gently with his nose.
"We couldn't have known, Luna. But we have to
try and keep our heads about us since it has happened."
Hotaru sat in silence, her hand wrapped around
a cup of coco. Her life seemed to make more sense
in the light of what had happened. It had always,
secretly, bothered the petite Senshi of Saturn why
she had grown up so quickly. Of course, she had to
protect the Princess and restore the outer senshi's
powers... but was that her only purpose? Now, however,
Usagi needed her. *Needed* the small Senshi of Silence
to help her fight and help rescuse the others. She
felt the joy of true purpose run through her veins
and she stood. "It is time."
"Time?" Artemis asked, looking up from where
he was laying beside Luna.
"To fight this evil. Father of Setsuna's or not,
I will not forgive him for this." Her determined face
caused Luna to look up at her in a new light. She was
taking her place in the outer Senshi. No more would
Saturn be quiet and agreeable. It was, indeed, time.
"Hotaru-chan, what do we do?"
One set of human eyes and two feline looked
up at the newest presence in the room. Usagi stood,
her spine straight and her stance determined.
"We go to The Forth Dimension, there we will
find our enemy and our friends." Usagi turned her
head to look at Mika... but no, this was not the
small teenage girl with red wavy hair in odangoes.
This was a woman, tall and proud - wearing a white
fuku with gold trim, a taller version of the rod
that Chibi-Chibi had once held in her hand.
"Mika-chan?" Usagi questioned, her eyes as
small as slits as she exsamined the woman before
her.
The woman dropped to one knee and bowed
gracefully. "I am Sailor Cosmos - a reincarnation
of your ultimate form. Galaxia gave me this power
to help you out in your time of need. I am only
here to serve you, my Princess." This finished,
she pulled herself up and held her wand tightly.
Usagi stared for a moment longer before
turning back to Hotaru and Michiru. "How do we
get there?"
Michiru stood up, her petite body standing
proudly as she pulled out her hension wand. "Neptune
Planet Power, Make-UP!" In a brilliant flash of light
Sailor Neptune stood in front of Usagi, Mika and the
felines.
She brought her mirror out and looked at it for
a moment. "Submarine, Reflection!" As she pointed the
mirror out, a wave of light flashed out across the city.
Luna jumped from the table and ran to the balcony.
"There! It's showing a black air patch, what is
that?"
"That is where we can open a portal to the 4th
dimension," Mika answered, also going to the balcony
door. "I can open it with my staff. Let's go."
After Usagi and Hotaru changed into their Senshi
forms, the group took off to the park. As they rounded
the corner, Usagi stopped suddenly. "This is where
Chibi-Usa always fell when she came to this time, it
makes sense the portal would be here."
Luna looked up at Usagi, noting the wistful look
on her face. "Come Usagi-chan, Chibi-Usa will not be
born if we do not hurry."
"Hai Luna," the Princess of the Moon replied and
straightened her posture. "Well, let's go."
"Submarine... REFLECTION!" The black patch of air
once again appeared before them. Neptune held it open
with her mirror while Sailor Cosmos gathered energy on
her wand. A large light shone at the end of the wand and
Cosmos pointed it towards the patch of black air.
"Time and Space – PORTAL!"
~~~~~~~~~
They stepped into some sort of hallway. Torches dimly
lit the area. Everyone of them could *feel* the evil
surrounding them... enclosing them.
"We must be on our guard at all times," Saturn
said quietly, clutching her glaive tightly.
"Yeah, who knows what kind of ugly, bad guys they
have here," Cosmos added, looking warily at their
surroundings. "So what do we do now?"
"Sailor Neptune, can you use your mirror in any
way?" Sailor Moon asked.
Neptune lifted it to her face and concentrated but
after a few moments she shook her head in defeat. "I can't
see anything. There's just so much darkness, it's so thick
and... the evil... not even my mirror can permeate it.
Gomen ne, Princess."
Usagi's shoulders slumped slightly as she got a
sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. Kami, this
was so hard, they were so close... yet so far. She hadn't
told any of the others but she could *feel* Mamo-chan's
essence, his spirit. He was alive that much she knew and
now...he was somewhere here along with the other Senshi
and they had no idea how to find him.
Despair began to creep into her heart but suddenly
she straightened, not giving any chance to the tears that
were about to form. She was their leader and she would die
before giving up.
"We should just start walking," she began. "We'll
come upon something sooner or later, I know it."
They began walking and Usagi smiled slightly when
she heard Mika mumble, "It better be sooner."
~~~~~
"I can't believe Haruka-san is this light," Motoki
said, as he and Reika walked along the hallway. They had
pulled the naked Senshi out of the tank and covered her
in an old, musty garment they had found nearby.
"What are you trying to say?" Reika asked, mockingly
indignant.
"Nothing. Nothing at all," he replied quickly.
They continued to walk until Reika sighed, leaning
against the wall under one of the torches. "This place
seems endless," she said, frustration apparent in her
voice. "I wish some door would appear with the word 'exit'
written in big bold letters."
"I would pay any amount of money for something like
that," Motoki said, shifting Haruka in his arms, as he sat
down.
Suddenly they heard footsteps... many footsteps.
They exchanged panicked looks. They had no where to hide,
there wasn't any alcove to squeeze into and the hallways
where lit, no matter how dimly.
"Kami-sama," Reika whispered, tense. She looked
towards the sound of the approaching footsteps. Was
this it for them?
"We'll fight them, Reika, we won't surrender to
these...these youmas!" He leaned the unconscious Senshi
against the wall and then stood in front of Reika and
Haruka.
Figures approached them and Reika heard Motoki
inhale sharply. She squinted to see and when she did
so, she felt faint with relief as she stumbled to get
up.
"Motoki-san! Reika!" Usagi called their names and
ran to them, the other Senshi following closely behind
them.
"Kami, is it really you, Usagi-chan? We're not
dreaming are we?" Motoki asked disbelievingly.
"It is, it is!" Usagi replied happily, hugging the
both of them.
Suddenly Reika gasped. "Hey, I know that girl!" she
said, pointing to Mika.
"You were the one I saw at the..."
"Hai, that was me."
As they continued to talk, no one seemed to notice
Michiru. She stared at the person on the floor, the head
tucked in and tears welled up in her eyes.
Could it be?
"Mo-Motoki is that... is that...?"
Everyone stopped talking and looked at Motoki. "Hai,
it is. It's Haruka-san," he said, smiling.
Michiru slowly walked up to the figure as everyone
watched her and then went to her knees. She reached out
a hand and placed it on the cold cheek of Haruka.
"Love," she whispered. Suddenly, Haruka's eyes
opened and Michiru gasped.
They were not Haruka's eyes. They were the same
color, the shape, but something was wrong. Before Michiru
could do anything, Haruka thrust out her hand and Michiru
flew back, slamming against the wall on the opposite side.
______________
End Chapter 1.
Don't you just *hate* it when we do that? But guess what?
We got 4 chapters out this week so you don't have to send
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This story is a SERIES. That means there
are more chapters that come before this one.
You can start with these chapters, but I will
promise you will be confused.
The series in order goes as follows;
Don't Let Me Go: Broken Promises
Don't Let Me Go: Insanity
Don't Let Me Go: Roses
Don't Let Me Go: Apparition
Don't Let Me Go: Debauchery
and this set of chapters are
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
(it means same as, or sharing same
characteristics ^.~)
And next week watch out for....
Don't Let Me Go: Barrage
I hope this doesn't make everyone
go screaming and not read my fic ::sniff::
I promise the first couple of Main titles
are not that long ^^
Patch notes: ^^
Hi everyone! Okay, we allllll know Bethany
likes cheese cubes and tiggers, WELL, what
about Patch? Patch, I'm sorry to say, does
not like cheese cubes. (Beth: =( you don't
know what's good ^.~)
Patch likes Sour Patch Kids!! So send in
your Sour Patch Kids, mmm mmm they so gooooood.
Oh and e-mail, mmm mmm, e-mail is yummilicious
too! Oy vay ^_^ this must be the cheesiest
author's notes yet. Enjoy reading everyone!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At one point or another in their lives, most
everyone wishes they could have a grand, dashing
adventure – complete with dungeons and a brave
hero to leap in and save the day. What these
pleasant fantasies leave out is the dirt, blood
and fear. And let's not even get started on
the crying need for a decent bathroom in these
places. I swear that if we get out of this
mess alive, I will never again complain about
having to clean out the ice cream freezer,
standing in line at the supermarket or slow
traffic.
-Reika.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't Let Me Go: Analogous
Chapter: 1
By: Bethany and Patch
Editor: Meara
Rated: PG 13..?
Send your: Comments,
Suggestions, Tiggers, cheese
cubes, cows and furniture (cuz
I just got my own place and
have none) to us at Bethany212@aol.com
and Patchkhan1@hotmail.com ^_^
~~~~~~~~~~~
"We have to get out of here right now!"
Motoki whispered.
"Iie, we can't just leave her here. Who
knows what they'll do!" Reika replied. She
began looking around frantically for something,
anything, to break the casing that held the
Senshi.
Motoki grabbed onto her forearms to hold
her. "Listen to me, love, we have to go otherwise
the danger will only increase by our staying here.
I-I think I know how to get help but we can't do
it ourselves! We'll get nowhere and only put our
lives in danger. How will that help Haruka-san
then?"
Before Reika could answer, Motoki shoved her
into an alcove in one of the walls and then pressed
himself next to her. The footsteps came into the
room and the two held their breath, their hearts
racing uncontrollably.
The footsteps stopped at the tank and all
was silent for some moments. Then to the couple's
great relief the footsteps departed the room
leaving just the two of them and the entrapped
Senshi of Uranus.
"Kami," Reika breathed. "That has to be
*the* most suspenseful moment in my life ever."
"You've got that right. Now let's get out
of here, I think if we follow the sound of those
footsteps, we'll find an exit out of this hellhole,"
Motoki whispered.
Motoki began walking but stopped when Reika
didn't follow. He turned around to see her standing
next to the tank, staring at it.
"Reika, we have to go. Onegai, let's just go."
She turned to look at him, tears brimming at
her eyes. "I can't, I can't just leave knowing we're
leaving her like this, helpless, unable to defend
herself. She and the other Senshi have done so much
for us... for this world, why can't we do something
in return?"
"Because it is impossible," he replied quietly.
"Iie! Nothing is impossible! Nothing!" she
said furiously. "We will get her out of here. We
will do it!"
Motoki sighed heavily. Women, he thought.
"Alright, we need something that'll break through
that tank. Start looking."
Reika began walking away from the tank when
suddenly she tripped over something. She fell to
the floor on her knees and Motoki rushed towards
her, helping her sit up. She managed to turn
around and sit on the floor, rubbing her knees.
"Are you okay?" he asked, worried out of
his mind.
"I'm fine, I'm...." her voice died as she
stared in front of them. Motoki did the same and
gasped. A black... box had risen from the ground,
directly in front of the tank.
"What is that?" she whispered.
"I don't know, but whatever it is, I think
it might be to our benefit." He walked up to it
carefully, Reika behind him.
The surface of the 'podium' had buttons and
knobs all across it.
"One of these buttons will probably release
her," Reika said.
"I know, but which one?" Sweat formed on
Motoki's brow as his gaze shifted from each button.
Now I know what it feels like to be a member of
the bomb squad, he thought grimly. One bad choice
and it would be all over.
~~~~~
Usagi stood on the balcony of Mamoru's apartment,
the slight breeze tossing her hair lightly. The full
moon was out and she thought it coincidental that it
shone brightly at a time like this.
"I will not fail, Mother," she whispered. A
determined look crossed her face and her hand formed
a fist on the railing. She would not cry for she had
cried enough. "I will get them all back, I've done
it before and I'll do it again, however many times
necessary... I swear it."
The wind blew as if in response and she felt
her skirt press against her legs. She shivered
slightly and brought her arms around herself. The
wind blew harder and she raised her face, closing
her eyes. In that instant, a warm sensation ran
through her body and in the barest of a whisper,
she felt a kiss on her forehead. Her eyes opened
and she smiled. It was all the encouragement she
needed.
She was strong. And she would continue to
be strong, for her mother, her friends, her love.
~~~~~
The sun felt bleak and strangely cold as
Michiru sat in it's rays, wishing it could warm
her chilled body.
Many a time in the past, herself and Haruka
had given up everything - including each other -
for their mission. But now... now it was different
in Michiru's eyes. She didn't have the courage to
speak this to Haruka, but she knew that never again
could she watch Haruka put the mission first. They
would have to, but in her heart she held Haruka as
important as their Princess - was that so wrong?
Her eyes wandered inside the apartment to the
sleeping Princess. Soon they would go to battle.
Only them - Two Senshi and a senshi-in-training.
Would they come out alive? The question haunted
Michiru's troubled mind. "Oh Haruka...." she
whispered to the afternoon sun. "... I miss you."
~~~~~~~~~~
Back and forth. Back and forth. Mika knew
any moment she would scream for Lynn to stand
still while she harranged her. A thought occured
to Mika as she watched the cat. "If you stood
still, could you still tell me off as good?"
The calico cat stopped in mid-stride and
glared daggers at her charge. "Mika! How can you
sit there and say that?! Did you listen to a
word I said?!"
Mika stretched and yawned before answering.
"Hai, Lynn. Hai, I heard you drone on like a broken
record about how mad Galaxia will be at me for
telling them what I know. I heard you rant about
how disobedient I am. I covered my ears as you
screamed, yet again, about how totally irresponsible
I am - but now it's time for you to hear me." The
youth stood up and faced the cat sitting on the table,
eye to eye they stared at each other.
Finally Mika gathered up the rest of her
courage and spread her arms wide. "Tell me you
don't feel bad for Usagi, Lynn! Tell me that it
doesn't hurt you to watch her cry for Mamoru-san,
and for the other senshi! I had to tell her, there
was no other way. And I will tell my mother that
as well."
Lynn held her stare at Mika for a moment longer,
noticing - maybe for the first time - how much like
Galaxia Mika was. She turned on her heel and left the
room with a self-satisfied look on her face.
Mika watched her walk out before sitting back
down on the bed and sighing long and hard. "What
have I done now?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"How can this be?" Luna more or less stated,
rather than asked. Artemis watched her lay her head
down and sigh. Slowly he came up to her and nudged
her gently with his nose.
"We couldn't have known, Luna. But we have to
try and keep our heads about us since it has happened."
Hotaru sat in silence, her hand wrapped around
a cup of coco. Her life seemed to make more sense
in the light of what had happened. It had always,
secretly, bothered the petite Senshi of Saturn why
she had grown up so quickly. Of course, she had to
protect the Princess and restore the outer senshi's
powers... but was that her only purpose? Now, however,
Usagi needed her. *Needed* the small Senshi of Silence
to help her fight and help rescuse the others. She
felt the joy of true purpose run through her veins
and she stood. "It is time."
"Time?" Artemis asked, looking up from where
he was laying beside Luna.
"To fight this evil. Father of Setsuna's or not,
I will not forgive him for this." Her determined face
caused Luna to look up at her in a new light. She was
taking her place in the outer Senshi. No more would
Saturn be quiet and agreeable. It was, indeed, time.
"Hotaru-chan, what do we do?"
One set of human eyes and two feline looked
up at the newest presence in the room. Usagi stood,
her spine straight and her stance determined.
"We go to The Forth Dimension, there we will
find our enemy and our friends." Usagi turned her
head to look at Mika... but no, this was not the
small teenage girl with red wavy hair in odangoes.
This was a woman, tall and proud - wearing a white
fuku with gold trim, a taller version of the rod
that Chibi-Chibi had once held in her hand.
"Mika-chan?" Usagi questioned, her eyes as
small as slits as she exsamined the woman before
her.
The woman dropped to one knee and bowed
gracefully. "I am Sailor Cosmos - a reincarnation
of your ultimate form. Galaxia gave me this power
to help you out in your time of need. I am only
here to serve you, my Princess." This finished,
she pulled herself up and held her wand tightly.
Usagi stared for a moment longer before
turning back to Hotaru and Michiru. "How do we
get there?"
Michiru stood up, her petite body standing
proudly as she pulled out her hension wand. "Neptune
Planet Power, Make-UP!" In a brilliant flash of light
Sailor Neptune stood in front of Usagi, Mika and the
felines.
She brought her mirror out and looked at it for
a moment. "Submarine, Reflection!" As she pointed the
mirror out, a wave of light flashed out across the city.
Luna jumped from the table and ran to the balcony.
"There! It's showing a black air patch, what is
that?"
"That is where we can open a portal to the 4th
dimension," Mika answered, also going to the balcony
door. "I can open it with my staff. Let's go."
After Usagi and Hotaru changed into their Senshi
forms, the group took off to the park. As they rounded
the corner, Usagi stopped suddenly. "This is where
Chibi-Usa always fell when she came to this time, it
makes sense the portal would be here."
Luna looked up at Usagi, noting the wistful look
on her face. "Come Usagi-chan, Chibi-Usa will not be
born if we do not hurry."
"Hai Luna," the Princess of the Moon replied and
straightened her posture. "Well, let's go."
"Submarine... REFLECTION!" The black patch of air
once again appeared before them. Neptune held it open
with her mirror while Sailor Cosmos gathered energy on
her wand. A large light shone at the end of the wand and
Cosmos pointed it towards the patch of black air.
"Time and Space – PORTAL!"
~~~~~~~~~
They stepped into some sort of hallway. Torches dimly
lit the area. Everyone of them could *feel* the evil
surrounding them... enclosing them.
"We must be on our guard at all times," Saturn
said quietly, clutching her glaive tightly.
"Yeah, who knows what kind of ugly, bad guys they
have here," Cosmos added, looking warily at their
surroundings. "So what do we do now?"
"Sailor Neptune, can you use your mirror in any
way?" Sailor Moon asked.
Neptune lifted it to her face and concentrated but
after a few moments she shook her head in defeat. "I can't
see anything. There's just so much darkness, it's so thick
and... the evil... not even my mirror can permeate it.
Gomen ne, Princess."
Usagi's shoulders slumped slightly as she got a
sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. Kami, this
was so hard, they were so close... yet so far. She hadn't
told any of the others but she could *feel* Mamo-chan's
essence, his spirit. He was alive that much she knew and
now...he was somewhere here along with the other Senshi
and they had no idea how to find him.
Despair began to creep into her heart but suddenly
she straightened, not giving any chance to the tears that
were about to form. She was their leader and she would die
before giving up.
"We should just start walking," she began. "We'll
come upon something sooner or later, I know it."
They began walking and Usagi smiled slightly when
she heard Mika mumble, "It better be sooner."
~~~~~
"I can't believe Haruka-san is this light," Motoki
said, as he and Reika walked along the hallway. They had
pulled the naked Senshi out of the tank and covered her
in an old, musty garment they had found nearby.
"What are you trying to say?" Reika asked, mockingly
indignant.
"Nothing. Nothing at all," he replied quickly.
They continued to walk until Reika sighed, leaning
against the wall under one of the torches. "This place
seems endless," she said, frustration apparent in her
voice. "I wish some door would appear with the word 'exit'
written in big bold letters."
"I would pay any amount of money for something like
that," Motoki said, shifting Haruka in his arms, as he sat
down.
Suddenly they heard footsteps... many footsteps.
They exchanged panicked looks. They had no where to hide,
there wasn't any alcove to squeeze into and the hallways
where lit, no matter how dimly.
"Kami-sama," Reika whispered, tense. She looked
towards the sound of the approaching footsteps. Was
this it for them?
"We'll fight them, Reika, we won't surrender to
these...these youmas!" He leaned the unconscious Senshi
against the wall and then stood in front of Reika and
Haruka.
Figures approached them and Reika heard Motoki
inhale sharply. She squinted to see and when she did
so, she felt faint with relief as she stumbled to get
up.
"Motoki-san! Reika!" Usagi called their names and
ran to them, the other Senshi following closely behind
them.
"Kami, is it really you, Usagi-chan? We're not
dreaming are we?" Motoki asked disbelievingly.
"It is, it is!" Usagi replied happily, hugging the
both of them.
Suddenly Reika gasped. "Hey, I know that girl!" she
said, pointing to Mika.
"You were the one I saw at the..."
"Hai, that was me."
As they continued to talk, no one seemed to notice
Michiru. She stared at the person on the floor, the head
tucked in and tears welled up in her eyes.
Could it be?
"Mo-Motoki is that... is that...?"
Everyone stopped talking and looked at Motoki. "Hai,
it is. It's Haruka-san," he said, smiling.
Michiru slowly walked up to the figure as everyone
watched her and then went to her knees. She reached out
a hand and placed it on the cold cheek of Haruka.
"Love," she whispered. Suddenly, Haruka's eyes
opened and Michiru gasped.
They were not Haruka's eyes. They were the same
color, the shape, but something was wrong. Before Michiru
could do anything, Haruka thrust out her hand and Michiru
flew back, slamming against the wall on the opposite side.
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