By: LadyTurquoise
Rated: R
Author's Notes:
*Cries* Okay guys I'm getting just a little depressed I mean I've only
gotten 10 reviews out of around 375 hits and well it kinda bums an author
out a little when that happens. So please please please review my stories
it would mean so much to me if you would. Anyway here's Chapter 3.
Disclaimer:
I do now own Sailor Moon but Joanna is my own character.
So you ppl from DiC can't touch her! lol actually u can use her if ya want
u just gotta give me rights to her. hehe =)
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A Twisted Engagement
By: Lady Turquoise
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"I have." said Joanna with a fierce determination in her eyes.
"And what is it?" asked Lyra who was not one who liked to be kept waiting.
"I have decided to join you."
"Good, now please come with me and we will begin the process of turning you fully to the side of the Negaverse."
Joanna walked calmly over to Lyra and looked at her with hatred in her eyes. "You will never turn me completely evil." she growled in barely a whisper in Lyra's ear.
Lyra smiled and teleported them both to the Negaverse.
Joanna looked around as the arrived in the Negaverse. The first thing she saw was Damion, he was in the process of having his memory erased.
Lyra noted where Joanna's gaze was and walked over to her. "You might as well forget about what you had with him on Earth, he will be mine once I finish erasing his memory."
Joanna remained quiet planning her actions for saving Damion and returning to Earth to help destroy Lyra.
Lyra gently waved her hands in front of Joanna's face and Joanna collapsed onto the floor.
When Joanna woke up she was in the same machine that Damion had been in and she was having her memory erased. She focused her whole body and mind on keeping what was good and pure inside of her, fighting as hard as she could to keep it from being erased.
Mamoru after finding out what Joanna had decided
to do had moved back into his own empty apartment, his wife gone, his best
friend gone and Joanna, what exactly was Joanna to him, a friend? A lover?
it didn't really matter anymore because he knew what lay ahead. He had
been taken over by the Negaverse and he knew that he and the others would
have to destroy Joanna soon or a later, and no doubt he would also have
to destroy Damion, that was not a task that he was looking forward to.
"Damn!" He shouted out inside of his apartment and punching the wall at
the same time.
Luna walked into the room that Mamoru was
in. "Poor Mamoru, he's had to go through so much," thought Luna. As quietly
as she could she walked over to Mamoru who had tears streaming down his
face and rubbed herself up against his legs.
Mamoru looked down at Luna through his tears.
"Luna." he said through sobs that racked his body. He gently leaned over
and picked up the black cat. "Luna, Lyra has Joanna and Damion." he managed
to say.
Luna looked up at him and gasped. "WHAT?!?"
she screamed when Mamoru told her that piece of disturbing news. "Mamoru
tell me the whole story, and don't you dare leave any part out!"
Mamoru sighed and retold every detail, every
horrifying detail, from when they were first attacked to the letter to
Joanna's leaving.
At the temple Rei and Chad were almost barreled
over by Luna with Mamoru not far behind her running up the steps. "Rei!
Call everyone here. It's and emergency!" yelled Luna gasping for air.
Rei wasted no time in calling all of the senshi
over to the temple. She took out her communicator and pressed the all call
button. "Ami, Minako, Michiru, Setsuna, Hotaru, Joanna! Get over here quick!"
she screamed through the communicator. Rei looked over at Luna, "Luna!
Joanna's not answering!"
"Rei, I know, that's part of the reason for
this meeting," said Luna.
Rei was shaken up considerably, not Joanna
too; no, she could take care of herself, right?
Chad saw how utterly distressed his wife was
and went and put his arms around her and just held her, after all the years,
it was as if he could read her mind. "I'm sure it will be fine." he whispered
in her ear.
Soon everyone ran up the steps to the temple
and rushed over to Rei.
"What is it Rei?! What's a matter?" said Hotaru
worriedly.
"I don't know, ask Luna she's the one who
had me call you guys over here."
Six expecting eyes turned to where Luna and
Mamoru were standing.
Mamoru looked down at Luna. "It's okay, I'll
tell them." He then turned to the
Senshi who had been Usagi's and his friends since it seemed an eternity.
"You guys may want to sit down for this."
All of the senshi sat down on the steps as
Mamoru began the horrible story of what had happened.
As Mamoru finished six pairs of eyes looked
at him in shock.
"What are we going to do?" asked Michiru quietly.
"We are going to do exactly what Joanna wants
us to do!" said Setsuna. "We are going to stand by her decision and if
the worst does come then we destroy her and the Negaverse, just as she
requested." The others started to object but Setsuna raised her hand. "Look,
I've known Joanna a lot longer than any of you guys have! She means a lot
to me! She's one of my best friends! But at the same time I know that when
she puts her mind to something it's going to get done and there's no stopping
her, no matter how much we may disagree. If I know her I think I know what
she is planning on doing. She'll be fine, she can take care of herself,
at least I hope." said Setsuna as tears that were welling up in her eyes
began to fall on the concrete.
Setsuna had a point and if Joanna was going to succeed in whatever
she planned on doing then she would need their full cooperation with this,
even if she was in the Negaverse.
"I think that we should call the Starlights
just in case." said Michiru.
Everyone agreed and they soon got up and walked
back to their houses dreading that fact that they may have to kill TWO
of their best friends.
In the Negaverse Joanna had just woken up and
was no longer in that damned machine. She had managed to hold onto those
important memories that she would need to complete her mission. Just at
that moment Lyra walked into the room with Damion in full armor, just like
what he had worn in the Silver Millenium.
"Ah, you're awake," said Lyra. "How are you
feeling?"
"Okay I guess, but I have a really bad headache.
Where am I?"
"Your in the Negaverse, your home. We rescued
you from the grips of our enemies, the Sailor Senshi." lied Lyra.
"Who am I? I don't seem to remember anything,"
said Joanna playing along with Lyra's plan.
Lyra smiled, "You are the head general for the Negaverse, General
Joanna."
"And you and he are?"
"I am your princess, Princess Lyra, and he
is your prince, Prince Damion. You will listen to everything that we tell
you to do."
"Yes my princess." said Joanna bowing to Lyra.
"It's a good thing I was an actress for awhile or I would never be able
to pull this piece of bullshit off." Joanna thought to herself.
Damion looked at the young woman, something
about her stirred something within him, he didn't know what though. He
sighed to himself and let that feeling pass.
Joanna thought that she saw a look of recognition
cross of Damion's face as he stood looking at her, but it was only for
a moment and then he resumed his cold stare.
"Joanna, I want you to go down to Earth with
Damion and destroy the senshi, until they are gone we cannot begin our
takeover." said Lyra.
"Yes, my queen." said Joanna bowing once more
to Lyra.
Lyra walked out of the room and left Damion
with Joanna to prepare for the battle against the scouts.
"Lyra may have great confidence in you but
you still have yet to prove yourself to me." said Damion coldly.
His words almost made Joanna shiver. "Don't
worry I will prove myself worthy and a thousand times over." Joanna hissed
back just as coldly. She saw a look of surprise cross over his face for
a moment before he regained his regal posture.
"Very well, I will leave you to get dressed
and prepare yourself for the battle, we leave from here to go to Earth
in two hours." He said and turned on his heel and walked out of the door.
Joanna watched his back as he left. "Don't
worry Damion, I'll free your mind from this, if it's the last thing I do,
I swear it!" she whispered to herself.
She turned and went over to her closet, it
had a few outfits in it, a gown which she guessed was for formal affairs
inside of the Negaverse, a nightgown for sleeping, a couple outfits for
regular wear, and of course the all to familiar general's suit. Every general
had their own variation to their suit, it seemed her's was no different,
it was a pale blue with dark blue trim. She remembered how Nephridite had
looked in the suit and shook her head. "No way am I going to look like
that!" She took the suit off of the hanger and looked at it. "I'm sure
Lyra wouldn't care if a made a few adjustments to this damn thing."
An hour later Joanna was standing in front of the
full-length mirror in her room admiring herself. She had left the top few
buttons undone showing off a lot of her bust which what still fairly big,
even with the restraints, she had left her hair down, it was the way which
she usually wore it now that she had grown up, and it flowed around her
body in waves. She did her make-up applying blue lipstick, pale foundation,
dark blue eye shadow and black mascara and black eyeliner. By the time
she was done it looked as though she really had been taken over by the
Negaverse. She grinned at herself in the mirror and then frowned. "I hope
I know what I'm getting myself into."
Joanna didn't have anymore time to contemplate
because Damion had just walked in the door.
"You're early!" screamed Joanna trying to
keep up the act, it wasn't easy though, yelling at Damion was never easy.
She saw Damion wince a little at her harsh tone but then he straightened
up.
"I can be early if I want to bitch! You are
under my command, got that! You have no right to tell me when I should
be anywhere! Now are you ready or not!?!"
"I am ready but that isn't the point! You
said that you were going to be back in two hours! It's only been a little
over an hour! I was going to sit and meditate and get my body ready for
the fight! But I guess that is out of the question now because of some
fucking arrogant asshole who can't tell time!" Joanna was just a little
pissed at being called a bitch. "And finally no one and I mean no one calls
me a bitch!" With that Joanna pushed her way by Damion, or at least tried
to.
Damion grabbed hold of the woman's arm as
she walked by. "You have spunk and a sharp tongue, but that will get you
into trouble." he hissed to her.
Joanna just spit in his face. "Let go of me
now or you will wish you had never been born!" She ripped her arm from
his grip and walked out to the teleportation area.
Damion stood there with his jaw practically
on the floor. He wiped the spit from off of his face. This was something
completely new to him, he could usually get a passive response from people,
especially women, but not this woman, she was going to be a handful, he
was sure of that. He was now regretting the fact that he had volunteered
to further her training and help her to destroy the Sailor Senshi, although
by what he had seen of her now he really didn't think that she needed any
help. With that he walked over to where the teleporter and Joanna were.
The Sailor Senshi were sitting in a circle
at Cherry Hill Temple. They were all trying to figure out what they were
going to do and all of them hoping that Joanna had been able to fight the
brainwashing.
Just then three familiar faces walked through
the gates of the temple.
"It hasn't been this quiet in here in... in...
in.... hum I don't remember it ever being this quiet.," said Seiya
"No kidding." said Taiki. "I wonder what's
going on."
"Well then let's stop talking and go find
out," said Yaten.
The three of them walked over to seven depressed
senshi and two depressed cats.
"What's going on here?" asked Seiya. "Where's
Joanna, Damion, Usagi, Haruka, and Makoto?"
The scouts looked up at the Starlights with
tear-filled eyes.
"Minako? What's going on?" asked Yaten.
Minako cleared her throat and wiped the tears
from her eyes and stared at the three of them. "Maybe I should start at
the beginning."
"Please do." said Taiki.
Minako and the others proceeded to fill them in
on what had happened in the last week, from Damion and Joanna's engagement,
much to Seiya's disappointment, to Joanna and Damion's joining the Negaverse.
Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten all sat there with
their mouths hanging wide open.
"How could you let her do that!?!?" an enraged
Seiya practically yelled at Mamoru.
"Man, you know how Joanna is! Once she decides
to do something there's no stopping her!" he yelled back. "Besides you
have no idea how hard I tried to get her to reconsider." he said softly.
"Well there's no way in hell we are going
to lose her or Damion to the Negaverse!" said Seiya. "I refuse to lose
one of my best friends! Those Nega-creeps are in for an ass kicking they
will never forget! No one messes with my friends!" he said pounding the
table in front of him.
All of the other senshi cringed, they all
knew how Seiya got when someone messed with his family and friends, they
almost felt sorry for the Nega-creeps.
Ami looked up from her computer, "Guys, you're
not going to like this but I'm picking up some Nega-energy readings coming
from the park, and" she paused for effect,
"Joanna and Damion are there."
"Well then let's go." said Seiya.
Taiki put a restraining hand on his brother's
shoulder. "Seiya you know as well as any of us just how powerful Joanna
and Damion are. We are going to have to extremely careful, especially since
Usagi, Mako-Chan, and Haruka are out of commission for the moment."
"Taiki's right, we are going to have to be
extremely careful at all times. We still don't know if Joanna has been
turned over to the side of the Negaverse or not," said Rei.
Seiya nodded, and looked at the others. "Then
what are we going to do then?"
"Well if Joanna isn't taken by the Negaverse
I'm sure she will find someway of letting us know," said Michiru.
"Yeah, there's no way that she wouldn't let
us know," said Hotaru with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
"Come on guys, let's go!" said Yaten and Mina,
getting impatient at waiting while they're friends might be in need of
help.
"Let's go kick some Nega-ass!" yelled Seiya. "FIGHTER
STAR POWER!!" MAKER STAR POWER!! HEALER STAR POWER!! MARS CRYSTAL POWER!!
VENUS CRYSTAL POWER!! MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER!! NEPTUNE CRYSTAL POWER!! SATURN
CRYSTAL POWER!! PLUTO CRYSTAL POWER!!"
"MAKE-UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled all
of the senshi at once.
Mamoru quietly pulled out a rose from under
their jackets and transformed in Tuxedo Mask.
Once they all had finished their transformations
they all took off for the park at top speed.
When the scouts arrived at the park they hid
behind the bushes that lined the area. It took Neptune, Healer, Maker,
and Tuxedo Mask to hold down Fighter down.
"Seiya! Calm down we can't just rush in there
without a plan," said Mars.
"Oh shut up Pyro before I blow out you fire!" replied
Fighter who was still struggling to get free.
"Guys! Quiet!" hissed Mercury. "They'll hear
us!"
Everyone looked out to where Joanna and Damion
were waiting. Joanna was wearing a general's, or at least a modified version
of a general's suit and a very revealing one at that, and Damion was in
his armor.
"Okay so what are we gonna do?" asked Fighter
finally settling down.
"It won't work if we fight them outright.
You forget that Joanna and Damion used to be on our side, they know how
we think." said Mars. "Plus we can't trust Joanna, even if she hasn't been
turned over to the side of the Negaverse right now, she has to make Lyra
believe that she has been turned over to the side of the Negaverse and
if she doesn't attack us when we attack them then Lyra is gonna want to
know why and all chances of us winning and getting Joanna and Damion back
are gone."
"Mars is right," said Neptune.
Fighter stood up and walked out into the open
while no one was looking, she was tired of just sitting around and not
doing anything. She got close enough so she could hear Joanna and Damion
talking, or should I say arguing.
"STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!" she heard Joanna
yell.
Fighter sighed, "Joanna! Over here! If you're
looking for a fight then I'm ready!"
Joanna looked down at one of her best friends
and she could have sworn that she saw her wink at her. "Sailor Star Fighter
so nice to see you here, I wish we had more time to talk but I'm afraid
that I have to kill you now."
"Fine with me, that is if you can." With that
Fighter struck her attack pose and leapt in the air and did a roundhouse
kick across Joanna's face.
Joanna wiped the blood from off of her lip
and looked back at Fighter and growled. She then sent a mass of dark energy
at her.
Fighter just barely missed being turned into
a fried Sailor Senshi.
Just then a sword almost came down on her
head before she moved away. She turned around and saw Damion standing there
with his sword in his hands. He raised the sword in the air, Fighter prepared
for the final blow but it never came Tuxedo Mask had moved in and was now
fighting Damion's sword off with his cane. Just then Fighter felt a tightness
at the back of her head that soon turned into pain. She realized that while
she had been watching Damion and Tuxedo Mask, Joanna had come over and
was now holding her about three feet in the air by her hair. Fighter watched
as Joanna summoned her lightning sword now black and evil and prepared
to strike her. Just then a wave of water from a well-positioned attack
from Neptune hit Joanna straight in the back.
Joanna was washed under and tumbled over and
over, when the water had subsided she lay there on the ground taking in
slow gasping breaths.
Damion was having a hard enough time of his
own fighting off the rest of the Starlights and Tuxedo Mask but soon he
too faltered and fell to the ground in defeat.
Joanna lay there watching her surroundings
she knew what was going to happen next she knew it. She couldn't let that
happen, not yet. She took out a small black ball and tossed it in the middle
of everyone. It exploded and left the area covered in a thick smoke that
only she and Damion could see through. She made her way over to Damion
and took his hand and they both teleported back to the Negaverse. They
landed with a thud at Lyra's feet.
Lyra looked down at them. "Good thinking Joanna.
But next time though I urge you to take some Youma with you to wear out
those damn senshi and then you may kill them one by one as they start to
tire and fall."
"Yes my princess." said Joanna bowing. She
then left and went to her chambers to change and to think some things over.
Joanna walked into her room walked into the
bathroom and splashed some water on her face. "The nerve of him!" thought
Joanna to herself. She looked up as her hands were resting on her face
and looked into the mirror, there on her left hand was her beautiful engagement
ring, she instantly melted. Reminded of her true mission of why she was
here. She kissed the two gems that intertwined on the ring. "I can't let
the evil in this place get to me," said Joanna to herself.
Just then Joanna heard her door creak open.
She walked back out into her bedroom and saw Damion standing there. "Can
I help you?" she asked.
Damion looked up and saw Joanna standing there
with a towel in her hands and her face dripping wet. She was beautiful,
but wait what was he thinking he loved Lyra, didn't he? A sparkle on her
left ring finger caught his eye. "What is that on your hand?"
Joanna looked down at it and he saw her cheeks
turn a slight pink. "Oh this, oh it's um just a um ring." she stammered.
"Can I see it?" he asked.
She reluctantly nodded yes and slipped the
ring off of her finger and held it out for him pick it up and look at it.
He reached out and went to pick it up but
when his hand came in contact with the ring a bright light engulfed the
two of them. When the light had dimmed Damion was staring at Joanna with
tears in his eyes. He walked over to her and put his arms around her.
Joanna was somewhat surprised. "Damion?"
"Oh Joanna I'm so sorry."
Just then Joanna got what was going on. The
ring was a symbol of their undying love for each other and by touching
the ring his memories and the life that he once knew were restored. Joanna
stroked his hair and told him that it was alright.
They kissed passionately with every fiber
of their being, all of it was put into that kiss. Just then both of them
seemed to realize where they were.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Damion
whispered to Joanna.
"We are more than likely going to have to
fight our way out."
"How did I know you were going to say that."
"Well don't just stand there, transform! UNIVERSE
ETERNAL POWER! MAKE-UP!!!" yelled Joanna turning into Eternal Sailor Universe.
"UNIVERSE POWER!!" yelled Damion and transformed
into Universe Knight.
Universe looked over at him; "Ready to go??"
Universe Knight laughed. "Ready and waiting."
"Then lead the way."
Universe and Universe Knight both walked out
and into the hallway of the Negaverse that lead to the teleporters.
Well what did ya think? Review this chapter! PLEASE!!! I need to know
what ur thinking. I hope to get the next chapter out as soon as possible.
Ja Ne!!!!