By: LadyTurquoise
Rated: R
Author's Notes:
Here's the second part of my story, A Twisted
Engagement, Thank you to those of you who did review my story but there
were a lot of ppl who didn't. As I said before, the more reviews I get
the quicker I will get these parts out to you. Those of you who are authors
know just how important reviews are to an author. But anyways I hope you
enjoy my story.
Okay I do not own Sailor Moon people like the amazing
Naoko Takeuchi, DiC (who has totally screwed up Sailor Moon), Kodansha,
and a bunch of other ppl do.
A Twisted Engagement
By: Lady Turquoise
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"Go ahead and laugh! I'll make him mine yet, and destroy the Sailor Senshi in the process! The thing that my sister Beryl never succeeded in doing!" yelled the woman, laughing evilly at the thought. "Nephridite!"
"Yes Princess Lyra?" asked Nephridite. Nephridite had long violet hair. She was beautiful, she had been kidnapped and brain washed years ago by Lyra. She had been a princess in another galaxy that Princess Lyra had conquered. She had shown great power in her magic and strength. Now she had become Lyra's number one general.
"Nephridite I want you to go down and make friends with the Sailor Senshi. Gain their trust. Then attack and take them down." said Lyra.
"Yes, ma'am" said Nephridite.
"Now go. I know you will not disappoint me," said Lyra with a small smirk. "Oh and do not hurt Damion. He belongs to me."
Nephridite bowed and walked away to go prepare herself for the task at hand. She thought of her old lover as she walked to her chambers. He had been controlled by Beryl and destroyed by her as well, well at least by Zoisite, one of Beryl's generals. But it had been Beryl's order to destroy him. "Nephrite." she quietly cried out to herself. Lyra had told her that the Sailor Senshi had corrupted him and led him to defy Beryl and that was why he had been killed. "I will avenge his death! I will destroy the Sailor Senshi!" she said with determination, while her dark brown eyes boiled with hatred.
Later on at Hikawa Shrine everyone had come
back to relive their time when they would come here all the time to talk
about senshi business. It had been their meeting place. Now it was where
Chad and Rei lived and worked. Grandpa had died a year ago and left the
temple to them.
Now they all sat around in one of the open
areas talking about the old times, telling stories of old battles.
Chad, Andrew, Ken, and Greg all sat listening
to their wives talk. When they had married the girls, the girls had told
them that they were the Sailor Senshi, that is all except for Greg who
already knew about the girls because of his unique ability to foresee the
future.
Just then a woman around their age walked
into the temple and walked over to them.
"Hello, I was just wondering if one of you
could help me. You see I'm a little lost and I just moved here from America,"
said the young woman.
Everyone looked at her; she had a slim figure
and had a fair complexion. Her long light violet hair traveled around her
body as the wind blew through it.
Rei stood up. "Here let us introduce ourselves,
I'm Rei and these are my friends, Usagi, Mamoru, Ami, Greg, Makoto, Ken,
Minako, Andrew, Haruka, Michiru, Joanna, Damion and this is my husband
Chad," she said pointing to each one of them as she introduced them.
"Hello." said everyone.
"Hello, my name is Aurora." she said.
"So what exactly did you need help with?"
asked Ami.
"Oh, well you see I have no friends or family
or anyone that I could turn to, to help me find my way around here. What
I was wondering is if you could find it in your hearts to show me around
for a couple days. You see you're the first people who have even listened
to me."
"Sure we'll help you," said Joanna. Joanna
knew what it was like not to know anybody and to have come from a different
country, since she had moved to Tokyo from America after finding out who
she was and what her destiny was.
"Oh thank you so much!" said Aurora.
While all of the others went up to talk to
her and get to know her a little better Haruka stood in the background.
"Something about that woman just doesn't seem right to me." Haruka thought
to herself.
"Haruka don't be rude, come over and introduce
yourself." called Michiru.
Haruka walked over to Aurora but vowed that
she was going to keep an eye on her.
Back at the Negaverse Lyra is sitting there
watching Nephridite lay down her trap for the senshi. She laughed wickedly,
"Those senshi's own trusting nature will be their downfall!" she sat imagining
having Damion at her side, ruling together over the Universe.
"Oh my prince you once chose that little bitch
over me, but you won't be so quick to choose her once you see who has the
most power!"
She sent a mental note to Nephridite. "Nephridite,
when you do put down your trap I want you to bring Joanna back to the Negaverse
with Damion. I want her to experience the pain that I went through, and
then I will take care of her."
Back on Earth the scouts had just shown Aurora
home and were all walking back home themselves.
Joanna and Makoto were talking about what
all had happened lately, something they did every night.
Damion had gone home early saying something
about being tired and wanted to get some sleep. Joanna had pointed out
that he had slept in that morning and that it was only 7:00 and they hadn't
even had any dinner yet. He had just made some excuse saying that he would
just get something to eat before he went to bed.
"So when do you think that he will ask you?"
asked Makoto.
"I have no idea, but I've been thinking about
it and well I'm not going to worry about it. He will ask me when he asks
me," said Joanna. "Well this is my place I'll see you guys later," said
Joanna as she went up the stairs to the penthouse apartment that she and
Damion shared.
Makoto and Ken watched her go up. Ken put
his arm around Makoto and she looked up at him. "I really hope that Damion
asks her soon," said Makoto.
Ken just leaned down and kissed her. "Don't
worry, he'll ask her." said Ken. "If I know Damion he's just waiting for
the right time to ask her."
Joanna unlocked the door to the apartment and
stepped inside. She gasped as she walked inside. The room was dimly lit
by candles all around the room, there was soft romantic music playing,
and blue tipped white rose petals lay covering the floor and furniture.
There were two glasses of champagne sitting on the end table. There was
also a gourmet meal with delicately lit candles over on the table. She
stood in shock as she looked around the room.
Damion walked into the room holding a white
rose. He was wearing a tuxedo and he looked great. It was all Joanna could
do to keep from having her jaw drop to the floor.
Damion walked slowly over to her and gave
her the rose and led her over to the table, pulled out her chair and took
her hand and seated her. He then took his seat right across from her.
"What? When? How?" asked Joanna.
Damion laughed. "Do you like it all?" he asked.
"Very much so." said Joanna.
They ate their dinner, which was stuffed lobster
and rice pilaf, with a side of broccoli.
After the dinner Damion, being the gentleman
that he was, helped Joanna up and led her into living room where he sat
her down on the sofa and got down on one knee in front of her.
Joanna gasped. He had gone through all this
trouble just make this night absolutely perfect, and it was all for her.
"Joanna I will love you forever. You are my
destiny, my one true love; I could not stand to live without you. You are
my sun, my earth, and my entire universe," said Damion taking out a ring
box and opening it. "Joanna will you marry me?" and with that Damion took
the ring out of the box and placed it on her ring finger.
Joanna just looked at Damion with tears in
her eyes. She looked down at the ring; it was a diamond mounted next to
a sapphire of equal size. Both of the stones were cut to look like roses.
The leaves surrounding the gems were of silver and mounted on a silver
band.
Joanna looked back up at Damion and leaned
over and softly whispered through her tears of joy yes into his ear.
Damion jumped up and picked Joanna up in his
arms and spun her around and then put her feet back down on the ground
and kissed her passionately with all that he had in him.
The next day Joanna is out shopping with all
the girls. They had invited Aurora to come along but she declined saying
that she had something to do that day.
"So do tell, just why are you so happy today?"
asked Makoto looking over at Joanna.
Joanna held up her hand with her engagement
ring on it and said, "You tell me."
"Oh my god!" screamed Makoto. "He didn't!"
"He did." said Joanna smiling.
Just then all of the other came walking over
to Joanna and Makoto. "Hey what was the "oh my god" about Mako-chan?" asked
Rei.
Makoto held up Joanna's hand, "This is what
that was for!"
All of the girls burst into screams. "Okay,
first place we go today is the bridal store!" said Minkao.
Joanna burst out laughing. "You heard her,
let's go!"
With that all of the girls booked it for the
bridal store located in the mall.
Joanna and the others walked into the store
and looked around at all of the beautiful gowns that lined the walls.
"Okay first things first. Let's look for Bride's
Maid's dresses," said Ami.
"Oh my gosh, do you remember my Bride's Maid's
dresses?" asked Makoto.
"Yeah, they were horrible!" said Minako.
"Oh Minako, you're the one to talk, you had
the good dress!" said Usagi. "All because you were Maid of Honor."
The girls all burst out giggling.
"Come on you guys, if we want to even look
half decent this wedding we had better not let Joanna pick on her own."
said Rei smiling, with a hint of laughter in her purple eyes.
"Now Rei you know I would never put them in
hideous dresses. Now you maybe..." joked Joanna.
"Very funny." said Rei swinging her black
hair back over her shoulder, still laughing.
"Anyways, I've already got all of your dresses
picked out," said Joanna.
"What are they?" asked Hotaru who had grown
into a beautiful 16 year old.
"Well what I was planning on is that, I can't
really put you all of you in the same kind of dress. Each one of you is
too much of an individual for that. Also the same color is kind of dull,
so... I want all of you to wear your dress from the Silver Millenium,"
said Joanna smiling. "What do you guys think?"
Everyone looked at each other. Only Joanna
could come up with an idea like that. It was perfect. Everyone loved their
dress from the Silver Millenium and it would look great, all of the colors
mixed together. "WE LOVE IT!" screamed everyone.
"Good, I'm glad you guys like it," said Joanna.
"Now onto my dress." she said smiling.
They all walked over to where the wedding
dresses were. There were so many to choose from.
"Mako-chan, you and I are around the same
size," said Joanna. "I think to cut down on time that both of us should
try on these dresses, while these guys can be the judges."
"Okay, cool." said Makoto. With that Joanna
threw a pile of dresses into Makoto's arms, and then picked up a pile of
her own, and both walked into the dressing rooms.
Two hours later, Joanna and Makoto are still
trying on dresses and modeling for the group, when Joanna walks out in
a beautiful floor length dress. The bottom of the dress had an intricate
design of spirals and was covered by another skirt that split in the middle
to show the underskirt. The top of the dress was a corset type and was
covered by rhinestones, the sleeves were transparent and flared and stopped
at the elbow.
"I really like this one you guys." said Joanna.
"It's amazing! I love it, it looks so good
on you." gushed Minako excitedly.
"You look gorgeous," said Usagi agreeing with
Minako.
"Okay so we are getting this one right?" asked
Joanna.
"Yup, that dress was made for you Joanna,"
said Haruka.
"Thanks Haruka. Okay let me go change out
of this." said Joanna smiling, it was rare to get a complement from Haruka.
Just then Makoto walked out in yet another
dress, looking like she is about to drop.
"Mako-chan you can go change back into your
clothes, I picked one out." said Joanna twirling around. "Do you like it?"
"Like it? I love it! And thank god, I don't
think I could have tried on another dress even if my life depended on it."
laughed Makoto.
Later on after Joanna had paid for the dress
which had turned out to be on clearance, all of the girls had started walking
over to the cafe` to get something to eat, when Aurora ran up to them.
"Hey guys. Do you mind if I join you for lunch?
My treat." said Aurora. "This is too easy." she thought to herself. "Already
they trust me. I thought it was going to be harder than this."
Nephridite had spent most of the time that
day in the Negaverse planning what she was going to do to carry out her
plan of the destruction of the Sailor Senshi, and now that Princess Lyra
wanted Joanna alive instead of dead that was going to change her whole
plan. Joanna was one of the most powerful of the scouts. Many times Rei
and some of the others had tried to get her to become leader but she had
always declined saying that Usagi was the one and only true leader. Nephridite
had also gone over to Nephrite's mansion, which he had owned under his
alias, Maxfield Stanton. She had sat there and cried for a good hour. She
missed him so much. She found his old Star Crystal. She had held it in
her hands and closed her eyes and had wished that Nephrite could be here
to see the destruction of the ones who had been the means of his destruction.
Nephridite looked over at the giggling group
of senshi, how foolish they were, and what was that that Joanna was carrying?
Nevermind that now, just smile and fit in.
They all walked into the cafe` and sat down
at their booth, it was just big enough to fit all of them, since the guys
never came here with them.
The waitress came over to their table and
saw the big bunch there, "Oh great, why do I always have to get this table?"
mumbled the tired waitress. She slapped a smile on her face and took out
her pad and paper, " Hello, my name is Yohko and I'll be your waitress
today. Can I start you guys out with drinks?"
"Yes, I'll have some green tea," said Setsuna.
"Iced tea," said Michiru.
"Soda." said Haruka.
"Same for me." said Makoto.
"Same here." said Usagi.
"Lemonade." said Ami.
"Same here." said Hotaru.
"Iced tea," said Joanna.
"I'll have a soda as well," said Minako.
"Green tea." said Rei.
"I'll just have some water," said Aurora.
The waitress scrambled to write all of the
drinks down. "Can I get you and appetizer or a salad?"
"No thank you," said everyone at once.
The waitress let out a small sigh of relief
and rushed off to the kitchen.
"Aw the poor woman. I don't think that she
is quite used to handling this big of a table," said Michiru laughing.
"I think you're right Michiru," said Joanna.
"Naturally. Did you actually think that I
might be wrong?" said Michiru with a serious face.
All of the girls burst out laughing. Ever
since Joanna had joined the group so many years ago, everyone had seemed
a little livelier. Or at least a little more nuts.
The waitress came back with their drinks and
set them down in the middle. Everyone grabbed their drink and thanked the
waitress.
Everyone secretly wished that Aurora hadn't
shown up for the lunch because they had been planning on doing a little
Senshi meeting there. It had been a long time since an attack but that
didn't mean that it was over. This was only the calm before the storm.
All Joanna knew was that if the Negaverse decided that they were going
to attack during her wedding that she would single handedly rip out every
single one of those Negatrash's hearts and feed it to the rats.
"So who are you going to get for the reception?"
asked Rei bringing Joanna back to the living.
"I'm not sure yet," said Joanna. "I was hoping
that maybe I could get Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten to do it. I haven't seen
those guys in so long."
"Yeah I know what you mean. I would be great
to see those guys again," said Minako sighing.
All of the senshi nodded in agreement.
"I'll call them up tonight." said Joanna.
Haruka sat there with a frown on her face.
It was a well-known fact that her and Seiya did not get along.
"Oh my gosh! Haruka I'm so sorry, I completely
forgot. Would you mind if they came?" asked Joanna worried about her friend.
"That's okay Joanna," said Haruka. "They are
your friends and they can come just so long as Seiya doesn't get in my
way."
"I'll make sure that he doesn't get in your
way," said Joanna. "We all will."
Everyone nodded in agreement with Joanna.
Meanwhile back at the Negaverse Princess Lyra
was in a rage. "That bitch! Who does she think she is! Damion is mine!
No matter, she'll never get the chance to marry him. I'll make sure of
that." she wickedly planned. "She has him under a curse and once he realizes
what she truly is he will be mine, FOREVER!"
The girls and Aurora were walking over to the
movies to go see the new movie that had just come into theaters, it was
based on the Sailor Senshi and they wanted to see just how accurate it
was.
Nephridite had just gotten a message from
Lyra that it was time to attack.
"Hey guys, can we stop for a minute?" asked Aurora.
"Sure Aurora, what's wrong?" asked Hotaru.
"Nothing is wrong, I just need to destroy
you." Aurora said sinisterly transformed into Nephridite, Princess Lyra's
head general.
"What!?!" screamed the senshi.
"Senshi transform!" yelled Setsuna.
MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER!
MARS CRYSTAL POWER!
JUPITER CRYSTAL POWER!
VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!
URANUS CRYSTAL POWER!
NEPTUNE CRYSTAL POWER!
SATURN CRYSTAL POWER!
PLUTO CRYSTAL POWER!
MOON ETERNAL POWER!
UNIVERSE ETERNAL POWER!
"We are the Sailor Senshi!" yelled all of
the girls.
"It won't do you any good! Just give up and
save yourselves the pain!" yelled Nephridite. "For I am Princess Lyra's
head general, Nephridite! And you will pay for what did to Nephrite!!!!!
I'll make sure of that!" With that Nephridite blasted all of them with
her energy ball.
Jupiter and Uranus were hit dead on, they
were slammed up against a wall and you could hear the sickening crack of
bone as they hit. Both coughed up a huge amount of blood before they went
unconscious.
"Nephrite? What about Nephrite?" asked Sailor
Moon.
"Don't act as if you don't know Sailor Moon!
You were the reason he was destroyed! You turned him against Beryl and
in doing so sentenced him to death!"
"No Nephridite, it was his own choosing and
by deciding to leave Beryl he was able to let go of the hate in his heart.
It was what he wanted."
"Why should I believe you! Lyra told me that
you could not be trusted." And with that she sent another blast of energy
at Sailor Moon and knocked her against the wall next to Jupiter and Uranus
in a bloody heap.
"SAILOR MOON!" yelled Mars. "MARS FIRE IGNITE!"
yelled Mars shooting her fire at Nephridite.
She jumped easily out of the way and blasted
at Mars and caught her in the ankle. "Ha ha ha ha this is too easy!"
"Oh yeah well try this!" yelled Neptune. "DEEP
SUBMERGE!"
Nephridite's blast and Neptune's meet in the
middle and exploded in a brilliant flash of light.
"STOP ALL OF THIS NOW NEPHRIDITE!!!!!" yelled
a voice.
"Wha...? Who's there?" asked Nephridite.
A form stepped out of the shadows.
"NEPHRITE!" gasped Mercury. "It can't be.
You're dead."
"I was but I managed to escape from my prison
in the Negaworld. Nephridite's wish to bring me back to Earth was the help
that I had needed to bring me back."
"But...." stumbled Nephridite. "I thought
that
you would want to see me destroy those who destroyed you."
"Nephridite, they did not destroy me. Zoisite
and Queen Beryl did. The Sailor
Senshi helped to deliver me from Beryl's grasp and for that I am forever
in their debt." said Nephlite. "Nephridite, the fighting against the Sailor
Senshi must stop. The Negaverse is our true enemy. It is a world of hate.
No love can survive in the Negaverse. I for one am willing to fight alongside
the Sailor Senshi to defeat the Negaverse. Are you willing too?"
Nephridite looked at Nephlite with tears in
her eyes. She was torn between the man she loved and between her tie to
the Negaverse. Lyra never treated her bad and was quite a good leader,
but deep down in Nephridite's heart she knew the answer. Lyra was only
out for herself. And she only wanted Damion because he was strong, powerful
and handsome, not because she really loved him. But that signal from her
heart was too faint to be heard. "I'm sorry Nephlite, I love you but I
can't desert Lyra like that. You may have been able to betray Beryl but
I can't betray Lyra, I hope you understand." and with that she conquered
up another blast and sent it hurtling towards Universe who was standing
there watching to drama between Nephlite and Nephridite.
Universe stood there in shock, she couldn't
move, this was it, this couldn't be how it would end, it just couldn't!
Nephridite laughed as she saw Universe standing
there like a deer caught in a pair of headlights, the blast was only strong
enough to severely hurt her, not to kill her, Lyra still wanted her alive.
Universe closed her eyes and mentally cried
out her good-byes to all of her friends, and to her love.
Just then she was whisked out of the way of
the blast and set back down out of the way. "How dare you! In the name
of the celestial body of the Universe you will pay!"
"Ha ha ha ha. I've been waiting for you to
show up!" said Nephridite. She sent a blast at him that was too quick for
him too move out of the way. The blast surrounded him and he collapsed.
Universe saw what Nephridite had done. "You
bitch!! UNIVERSE ULTIMATE LIGHTNING SURROUND!!!!!!!!!"
The lightning surrounded Nephridite and left
her severely burned.
Universe then scrambled over to where Universe
Knight lay hurt and bleeding but was intercepted by Nephrite. He sent a
blast at her and then picked up Nephridite and teleported to the Negaverse.
Universe transformed back into Joanna and lay on the ground shaking and
bleeding. Venus rushed over her and tried to stop the one giant gash on
Joanna's thigh. "SATURN!!! Quick! I need your help."
Saturn rushed over to where Venus was trying
unsuccessfully to stop Joanna's bleeding. "Stand aside Venus, let me take
care of this. You go look after Usagi, Haruka, Makoto, and Damion." With
that Saturn placed her hands over Joanna's wound and closed her eyes and
began to heal it.
Minako looked over at Setsuna, Michiru, Ami,
and Rei. They were already looking after Haruka, Makoto, and Usagi. She
rushed over to where Damion lay unconscious. She leaned over him and put
her forefingers to his throat. He was still alive but barely. Minako herself
was never one for doctors but he needed a doctor. Well she refused to set
foot in a hospital so; she was going to get Ami to look after him. Besides
Ami was better than any doctor she knew of. "Ami! Come quick!" yelled Minako
Ami rushed up to where Minako was sitting
with Damion. "How is he Minako?"
"Not to good. His pulse is really weak," said
Minako.
"Here let me look at him." said Ami. She did
a quick check-up on him and then stood up. "We need to get him back to
his apartment. But until we can get him back to there just stay with him
and talk to him. It should be able to keep his mind functioning." With
that Ami put her hand on Minako's shoulder. "It'll be okay. I promise you."
Don't you just hate those kind of endings! I'll try to get the second
chapter out as soon as possible! And again thank you for all of you who
reviewed my story! I love ya all! Ja Ne!