By: LadyTurquoise
Rated: R
Author's Notes:
Here's Chapter 2! Yay! Thank you all for reviewing
and sticking with my fic! Cutie2017 in answer to your question I haven't
made Joanna higher than Usagi in the Silver Millenium, in fact I have made
them equals. Anyways hope ya enjoy this newest installment of A Twisted
Engagement......and don't forget the popcorn!
I do not own Sailor Moon *grumbles* Although the
amazing Naoko Takeuchi does! Oh and a bunch of other companies do too.
A Twisted Engagement
By: Lady Turquoise
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"How is she?" asked Michiru, who had just walked over to them. She had a tear stained face from crying over Haruka who was still badly hurt from the impact.
"She'll be okay if I can just get this wound to shut. But I don't think that my powers are strong enough for that." said Hotaru.
"Here," said Michiru, putting her hands on Hotaru's shoulders. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the powers deep within her and lent Hotaru the power that she needed to heal Joanna.
The power surged though Hotaru's hands and healed Joanna fully. Joanna sat up and looked at Hotaru and Michiru. "Oh my friends, thank you." and she hugged both of them. "How is Damion?"
"He's not good," said Michiru. "Ami just told me. We need to get Usagi, him, Haruka, and Makoto back to the apartment."
Joanna's eyes filled up with tears, and she got up and ran blindly up to where Damion lay.
Hotaru got up as to go with her but Michiru put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Let her be."
Hotaru nodded in showing that she understood.
Joanna reached where Damion was with Minako.
She fell down on her knees beside him and cried on his chest.
Minako got up silently. She knew that this
was a time for Joanna to spend with Damion. She would go down and help
with Makoto, Usagi, and Haruka.
"Oh Damion. I'm so sorry, that I could not
protect you," said Joanna through her tears. "This is all my fault. How
could I have let this happen to you."
She sat there crying for at least 5 minutes
before she knelt down and picked him up and made her way down to the others.
"We need to get back to the apartment," said
Joanna still holding Damion with tears in her eyes. She crashed back down
to her knees. "How could this have happened?"
Michiru ran over to Joanna and stood
her up and held her in a hug as she cried on her shoulder.
Setsuna walked over carrying Haruka. "We had
better go. That is if we want to get them back before nightfall." She rested
her hand on Joanna's shoulder. "It'll be okay. Time will tell."
Joanna looked up at Setsuna. She was so wise
and so comforting at the same time. Joanna pulled herself together and
picked up Damion again and started walking with Setsuna. Michiru went over
and picked up Makoto with the help of Hotaru and they joined Joanna and
Setsuna, and Minako picked up Serena and caught up with the others while
Ami helped Rei up and then kept her steady while she walked.
When they had all finally gotten back to the apartment,
Joanna went into the bedroom and laid Damion down on the bad and then went
back out into the living room to help the others.
She had them lay the others on the couches
that were in the living room. Hotaru got to work on healing them.
Rei who had been hurt not nearly as bad as
the others refused to let Hotaru work on her until all of the others were
healed.
Hotaru got to work on Haruka, Makoto, and
Usagi. Just then Mamoru came in the door with Greg, and Andrew right behind
him. Mamoru rushed over to Usagi's side and held her close.
Andrew walked into the bedroom where Damion
lay. "Hey man how's it going?" he asked weakly. It was strange to
see Damion like this; he had always been the strongest one.
Joanna walked into the room and walked past
Andrew in almost a daze. She was not taking this well at all.
Andrew just stood there watching her as she
gently caressed Damion's face and whispered sweet things into his ears.
She then leaned over and kissed him sweetly on the lips and got back up.
She walked past Andrew but as she did she put her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry he'll be alright, I'm sure of it."
Andrew was astonished. Here she was, Damion,
her fiancée, had just been attacked and was in a sleeplike state
that he could not come out of and she was comforting HIM! It was just like
Joanna. She always thought of others before she thought of herself.
Back in the living room Hotaru was still trying
to heal the others. She coughed up and little blood and collapsed. Joanna
caught her and held her. "Oh Hotaru, please be okay I couldn't bear it
if anything happened to you too." said Joanna whipping the blood from her
mouth.
Hotaru came to again and looked at Joanna.
She sat up, "Joanna, don't worry it's just a little side affect from healing
everyone."
Joanna looked relived a little but inside
they all knew that her heart was breaking. Never had Joanna experienced
a pain so deep as this. Her love had just been seriously hurt and she couldn't
do anything.
"Hotaru. Is it possible to heal a broken heart?"
asked Joanna.
Hotaru looked at her and shook her head. "I'm
sorry Joanna but a heart must heal itself."
Mamoru walked over to Joanna and hugged her.
Joanna couldn't help but think of Damion as Mamoru hugged her. It wasn't
Mamoru hugging her, it was Damion. Everything about Mamoru reminded her
of Damion. His smell, the way that he held her, his comforting words, it
was all Damion.
Mamoru could feel Joanna's hot tears
falling on his shoulder. She wanted to be strong, he could sense that but
inside of her she was in turmoil. Her emotions were flipping every way
imaginable. It was the same way that he felt when his Usako got hurt or
was sick and there was no possible way for him to help her. He looked over
at Usagi still lying on the couch. There had been no change in her. If
only he had been able to get there in time to save her. He needed Joanna
right now about as much as she needed him.
Usagi, Haruka, and Makoto still had not come
out of it. Their vital signs were better but they had hit that wall hard
and Hotaru just didn't have anything left in her. Instead of risking Hotaru
too they decided that it would be best if they took them home and then
finish healing them tomorrow when Hotaru had more strength.
Setsuna carried Haruka out to her car and
laid her down in the back and then stepped back as Michiru gunned the engine
and drove off.
Minako and Andrew and Ami and Greg took Makoto
and Rei home and tried to think of a way to explain what had happened to
Lita, to Ken.
The rest of them went home and Joanna found
herself all alone in the big apartment with Damion lying unconscious in
the bedroom. She felt utterly helpless. There was nothing in all of her
powers that could allow her to help him in someway. Damion was the one
and only man that she had ever loved with all of her heart and soul. Now
that he was in this state and she didn't even know if he would pull though
she felt as if her whole universe was crashing down around her. She needed
someone to talk to.
She walked over to the phone and sat looking
at it for a minute debating whether or not she should make the call. She
finally decided that if she didn't talk to someone soon she was going to
have a nervous breakdown.
She dialed the number and listened to it ring
for what seemed like eternity. Finally someone on the other end of the
phone line picked up.
"Hi, Mamoru, it's me, Joanna." said Joanna
trying to hide the shakiness in her voice.
"Joanna, hi, what's wrong?" he asked. Joanna
could sense some shakiness in his voice as well.
"I just need someone to talk to. I keep going
over and over in my mind about what happened and I keep thinking that he's
not going to pull through and." finally Joanna lost it and broke down crying.
"It's okay Joanna, it's gonna be alright."
Mamoru wanted to reach out and hold her and comfort her and help her feel
that everything was going to be all right.
He looked around at his empty apartment. Ami
had insisted that Usagi stay over there so she could monitor her situation
though the night. "Joanna, I'm coming over. Will you be okay until I get
there?"
"I should be." Joanna choked back her sobs
for a minute. "Mamoru?"
"Yes?"
"Will this madness ever stop? Will we ever
have peace? Will we ever be able to live our lives not worrying about when
the next attack is going to be?"
"I don't know Joanna, I just don't know."
said Mamoru wishing that he could give Joanna a better answer than that.
She needed to hear something that would give her hope, she needed it especially
now. "Joanna, I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Okay Mamoru." said Joanna and with that she
quietly hung up the phone.
A few minutes later Joanna was startled by
a knock on the door. She quickly got up and answered the door. Mamoru stood
in the doorway; he looked just like she did, like he had had his heart
ripped out.
"At least Usagi isn't as bad off as Damion
is." Joanna thought to herself but immediately wished that she hadn't thought
that. No matter how injured Usagi was she still wasn't able to comfort
Mamoru or be of any help.
"Come in." she said quietly. She watched as
Mamoru walked in and sat down. She sat down next to him. "How's Usagi doing?"
"She doing as well as would be expected after
being slammed into a wall. Ami says that she will pull out of it in a few
days, especially with Hotaru there to help her. Any change in Damion?"
"No change. It's still like he's not even
there. His pulse is really weak and it's almost as if his soul has left
his body." Joanna felt a hot tear run down her cheek.
Darien saw the tear too. He immediately put
his arms around her and stroked her back. He knew how hard this was for
her. She was always supposed to be the strong one, just like Makoto and
Haruka, and now that Haruka and Makoto were hurt she had to carry everyone's
pain to help them but inside she was screaming in pain.
Joanna looked up at Mamoru. "Damion?" she
whispered to herself. The weight of the stress soon took her over and she
fell into a deep peaceful sleep in Mamoru's arms.
In the morning Mamoru woke up to discover that
he still held Joanna tightly in his arms. He gently got up and laid her
head down on the couch. Her cheeks were still wet and tear stained from
last night. He looked down at her; she was amazing holding everyone's pain
and her own inside of her.
He never knew what possessed him to do it
but in the next few minutes he had leaned over and kissed her tenderly
on her sweet lips.
Joanna's eyes slowly fluttered open while
Mamoru kissed her. She slowly put herself into the kiss. The kiss was so
soft so completely perfect. "Just like Damion's." thought Joanna. She closed
her eyes again and imagined it was Damion who she was kissing. It wasn't
hard at all; Mamoru and Damion were so much alike.
Mamoru was surprised when Joanna started to
put herself into it, but at the same time he was also surprised when he
found himself enjoying the kiss.
Just then Joanna's scout communicator which was
still laying on the coffee table went off. Joanna and Mamoru jumped away
from each other at the sound of it. Joanna walked over to it and opened
it up. There a picture of Ami showed up.
"Joanna, you've got to get here quick, I just
picked up some Nega activity over by the arcade."
"That's right by me. I'll take care of it
Ami, you just get here when you can." With that Joanna hung up the communicator.
She turned to Mamoru who was trying to pull himself together. "No need
for that Darien, you might as well just transform into your tuxedo. Ami
picked up some Nega energy just a few blocks away from here." With that
Joanna took out her transformation pen. "UNIVERSE ETERNAL POWER!"
Mamoru took out a rose and transformed into
Tuxedo Mask, when he wass done he looked up and saw the door wide open.
"Joanna must have already gone after them." With a flash of his cape he
was out the door too, looking for where Joanna went.
Universe was running far ahead of Tuxedo,
her anger and determination pushing her farther on. She was going to blast
that bitch's face as soon as she saw her. She could already feel the lightning
building up inside of her ready to erupt when she called on it. Just then
she came to a stop as she saw Nephridite and Nephlite whom she figured
had been brainwashed yet again over to the Negaverse. She slowly crept
behind a bush and watched them, her power still building to a point that
she had never attempted.
Tuxedo walked up behind Universe and put his
hand on her shoulder only to jump back in surprise. He looked down at his
hand, which was now covered in sparks.
Universe looked behind her at Tuxedo who was
now staring in shock at his hand. "I would recommend that you not do that
again, I'm building up my energy to a level I have never tried before and
I can feel the lightning building in every fiber of my body."
Before he could say anything she pulled him down
next to her by his cape. She quietly put a finger to her lips and pointed
to Nephridite and Nephrite. She gave him the sign to stay here and she
slowly got up and made her way unforeseen to a nearby area.
"I wish those damn scouts would show up soon."
said Nephridite blasting another building.
"Patience my love, they will come soon and
then we can defeat them and then the Negaverse shall rule the world," said
Nephrite.
"Fat chance of that happening, that is so
long as I'm around! I am Sailor Universe and if you think that you are
going to destroy the sailor scouts then you are badly mistaken! If anyone
is going to destroy anyone I will destroy YOU! Prepare to be dusted!"
"Ah finally, where is your little Universe
Knight?" Nephridite said with a little laugh.
Universe could feel the hate building up inside
her pushing her energy to the limits. "You bitch! Tell me what you did
to him! Or else!"
"Or else what? You can't destroy me." laughed
Nephridite.
"Oh yeah, you wanna bet. UNIVERSE!!! THUNDERSTORM!!!!!
LIGHTNING!!!! INCINERATE!!!!!" The blast erupted out of her body and surrounded
Nephridite and Nephlite. The power just kept coming, from her love for
Damion, her hatred for the Negaverse, her love for her friends, for ruining
what was supposed to be one of the happiest times of her life.
Tuxedo covered his ears as the thunder blasted
around him and the terrifying screams coming from the generals. Universe
showed no signs of letting up either; the power just kept flowing from
her hands. Finally she collapsed weak from the drain on her energy. Tuxedo
leapt out and held Universe in his arms, she was so weak.
The dust and lightning subsided. Nephridite
and Nephlite lay next to each other on the verge of death. "Universe, *cough*
thank you *cough* you saved me from *cough* Princess Lyra's control. *cough*
I'm so sorry for everything that I have *cough* done to you." Universe
nodded. She watched on as Nephridite and Nephrite, two long lost lovers
gripped hands and slowly died. They would now be together for all of eternity
to never be bothered again by evil. Their worries were over, but Joanna's
and the other's had just begun.
The others arrived just in time to see the
last of Nephridite and Nephrite's bodies turn to stardust and slowly rise
into the sky. Universe who had de-transformed, unable to stay in her scout
form was still being held in Tuxedo's arms. She was unconscious; all of
the scouts rushed over to her and Tuxedo Mask.
"What happened?" asked Michiru, the first
one able to regain her voice.
"She built up more energy than I ever thought
was imaginable inside of her body and let it all flow out of her in one
of her strongest attacks." said Mamoru detransforming.
Ami looked up from her computer. "Her life
signs are weak but only because she totally exhausted herself in that one
attack. A good day or two of rest and she should be back to normal. I'm
just trying to figure out where to put her, there are no more spare beds
at my house, and someone has to stay at her place to look over Damion."
"I'll do it," said Mamoru standing up still
holding Joanna. "I was going to stay there anyway, it's just too lonely
at my place without Usagi there."
All of the girls nodded. Michiru would have
done it but she still needed to be with Haruka. Mamoru and Joanna shared
a close friendship and plus it would keep his mind off of Usagi, looking
after Joanna and Damion.
"Do you want us to come with you Mamoru?"
asked Michiru worried about her friend.
"No I got it. You guys go home and relax;
something tells me that this isn't over yet. We still have Lyra to deal
with." With that Darien walked off carrying the unconscious Joanna in his
arms. He looked down at her. "Oh why did you have to go and do that?" but
in the back of his mind he knew that it had been the only way and once
Joanna got an idea in her head it was hard to stop her. Even if he had
known that she was going to do what she did there was no way that he could
have stopped her.
Ami stood over Usagi with her medical bag on
the table. "Oh Usagi, you just have to be okay!" said cried out.
Greg came over to her and put his arm around
her, "She'll be okay, if I know Usagi, she'll pull through this."
Ami buried her face into Greg's chest. "It's
just I feel so helpless right now, I can't do anything for Damion and the
things that I can do for Usagi and the others aren't working."
Over at the temple Chad was following the limping
Rei around. "Rei please sit down and rest! You don't need to be up sweeping
and cleaning, I can do that."
"Chad I'm tired of sitting around and doing
nothing just cause my foot hurts a little! Just leave me alone, I'll clean
if I want to!"
"But Rei the only reason I'm doing this is
because I love you."
Rei's eyes softened a little as she looked
at Chad. "Oh I'm so sorry Chad, it's just with my friends being hurt and
there being no way that I can help them I feel so out of place."
Chad walked over to her and held her in his
arms. "It's gonna be okay, I mean come on when have things never worked
out right?"
Rei smiled up at him. "You're right."
Chad looked at her in surprise. "You said
I was RIGHT?!?"
Rei stuck her tongue out at her and handed
him the broom. "Here you go, you can enjoy being right while you sweep
the whole temple, I am going to go do a fire reading."
Chad stood there watching Rei walk away with
a slight limp. "How did I know that was going to happen?" he asked himself
chuckling a little.
Ken sat on his bed next to Makoto and stroked
her soft brown hair. "Oh Mako won't you come back to me? I miss your cooking,"
he said laughing a little at the joke he had just made. "Well at least
I can still make jokes."
Michiru sat in the living room with Hotaru
who had just got done with her nap.
"Michiru I think that I'm ready to try again, but
I am going to need more power than just what I have."
"I'll call everyone to come over and we can
all gather or power together to help you."
"Sounds good, until then though I'll be in
the bedroom working on Haruka."
Five minutes later all of the senshi but Damion
were located at Michiru's apartment, all of them were hopeful that Hotaru
could heal Makoto, Haruka, and Usagi.
They all transformed and focused their energy
on Hotaru.
Hotaru placed her hands gently on Serena and
concentrated hard on her wounds.
She sat there like that for a long time. "Damn!" yelled Hotaru all
of a sudden making everyone jump. "Lyra has some sort of block on them!
I can't get through to heal them."
"Well like what kind of block?" asked Rei.
"She has put a block on their spirits. I can
heal them but with the block there their bodies are rejecting being healed."
"Is it the same thing that they have on Damion?"
asked Joanna sitting up from her place on the couch. Mamoru had made sure
that she followed Ami's orders to not walk around and to stay in bed. He
had wanted her to stay at home but she would have none of that.
"In a way it is and in a way it's not." answered
Rei. "I did a fire reading last night, and the fire told me that Damion's
mind has been blocked as well as his spirit."
Minako looked over at Mamoru and gave him
a weak smile; "Well at least for once it isn't you."
Meanwhile back at Joanna and Damion's apartment
Lyra herself immerged from a portal. "Finally I have you, I will take you
back to the Negaverse and release your mind from that girl's grasp." She
gently picked up Damion and stepped back into the portal after leaving
a little note on the bed where Damion had lain.
Mamoru and Joanna arrived back the apartment
and Mamoru laid Joanna down on the couch.
"Mamoru, I know there is probably no change
in Damion but something just doesn't feel right, could you go check on
him?" she asked looking up at Mamoru with those eyes that he just couldn't
say no to.
"Sure, I'll be right back." With that Mamoru
walked back into the bedroom, he gasped as he looked at the bed. Nothing!
Damion wasn't there in place of him was a note, it was addressed to Joanna.
Joanna sat thinking about the stage of events
that had happened in the last couple of days. Minako had been appointed
temporary leader since both her and Serena were out of commission for awhile.
She looked up as she heard footsteps approaching the couch.
Mamoru was white as a ghost. She looked at his trembling
hands as he handed her the letter. She looked quizzically back at him and
his eyes urged her to open the envelope.
She gently tore the top and slid the letter out.
Sailor Universe,
I have taken Damion back to the Negaverse
to be with me and take his rightful place by my side to rule over the Universe
with me as King. As for you I offer you the rank of general to lead an
army against Earth and destroy the Sailor Senshi. If you choose not to
accept this then I will be forced to destroy you along with all of your
friends. You have 24 hours to decide what you will do. See you then.
Princess Lyra
Mamoru looked down at Joanna whose hands had gone
numb and dropped the letter on the floor. "Joanna, what's wrong?"
Joanna looked up at Mamoru; no words could
come out of her mouth. She pointed shakily to the letter, which now lay
on the floor.
Mamoru leaned over and picked up the note
and read it to himself. A small gasp left his lips as he read the letter.
He looked back at Joanna who was now deep in thought. "Joanna," he said
softly and full of pain for his friend. He looked at her eyes as she looked
back up at him. Her eyes were full of anger, sadness, and determination.
"Mamoru, I'm going to join them, don't try
to stop me. Don't worry about me either, I am too strong to be taken over
completely and this is the only way that I see of possibly getting Damion
back. I don't care if it kills me but I am going to get Damion back!"
"Joanna! No you can't! It's too dangerous!"
Joanna took her hand and slowly stroked Mamoru's
face ignoring his comment. "Mamoru," she said in almost a whisper. "There
is a good chance that I will probably not come back from this alive but
you have to promise me that if you can not stop me then you have to destroy
me."
"Joanna I can't do that! I love you! I don't
think I could live without you."
"Mamoru, you and I are not meant to be, you
and Usagi are as am I and Damion are. You can live without me but you have
to promise me that if Lyra turns me to evil that you will destroy me."
Mamoru nodded in understanding and a few tears
in his eyes. "But why you?"
"It was meant to be." she gently kissed away
his tears and looked deep into his eyes and pleaded with him to let her
go and realize his true destiny again.
Mamoru was overwhelmed with emotions, first
Usagi, then Damion, and now Joanna! But he looked down at Joanna and saw
the pain and fear in her eyes and knew that this was the only way for things
to return to the way that they were.
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