Where Angels Lose Their Way

By: Amber

Chapter 9

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The Princess is sleeping on a bench in a park. She is wearing different clothes: a black mini skirt and black spaghetti-strapped shirt with a blue jeans jacket. She is now in the world we know, where in it is the Sailor Moon we know and love, right after Alan and Anne left, and right before Chibi Usa came. OK, wakey, wakey Princess of darkness.

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The princess woke up, stretched and yawned. It was the first dreamless sleep she had ever had. She awoke feeling genuinely refreshed. *Wow! I feel great!...wait a second. Where am I?*

The princess looked down and noticed she was sleeping on a park bench. There weren't many people in the park, just a few joggers. She could see an ice cream shop not too far away through the trees. She stood up and stretched again.

She remembered what Sailor Pluto had said. She was going to go to another world, where all of the same people existed, except many of the relationships she had known were different. This world also, Pluto had said, was about a year ahead of her world.

The Princess had been confused on how any of this could help her until Pluto mentioned her other self. She had told her to find her and learn from her. *How in the world am I suppose to find someone in such a big place? For all I know she could be on the other side of the world.*

As the princess was deciding her next move, something ran into the back of her causing her to fall face first onto the leafy ground. She had twigs and leaves in her hair and her mouth; needless to say, she wasn't very happy. She got up and turned around very quickly, thinking she was going to face an enemy, only to see a petite blond haired girl on the floor next to her.

The girl rubbed her head, which she'd fallen on, and started mumbling about how that evil bench always seemed to move into her way. The girl was wearing a short pink skirt and a blue tank top. She got up and brushed herself off, and finally noticed it wasn't the infamous bench that had gotten in her way.

"Ohm gosh! I am so sorry about that! I didn't see you!"

But the princess wasn't saying anything. She just stared awestruck at the girl in front of her. It was her! Everything was the same except for the color of her hair and eyes.

At that time, the other girl seemed to notice what the princess found so fascinating. "Wow! You look just like me, how totally cool!"

The princess found her voice by that time, "um...hi..."

"What's your name? My name is Serena. Do you live around here? I was on my way to meet my boyfriend; you have to come meet him! He'll be totally freaked out."

The speed at which this girl spoke was amazing. *Well, I guess it wasn't that difficult to find her after all.* "My name....my name is," she hesitated a second, and then said the first name that came into her head, "Misty! Yeah, that's my name. I'm new in town, kinda lost actually."

"Well, I'd be glad to show you around Misty. First, come meet my boyfriend. You'll love him; just don't get any ideas, we're meant to be."

The two girls walked through the park, with Serena talking a mile a minute. She was coming up with plans to freak out her friends using her newfound twin. Misty (We'll just call her Misty now I guess) was amazed in the difference in their personalities. *So this is what I would be like if I lived in this world... happy. It's not fair.* Cherry found herself liking Serena more and more. She even could see the girl's perkiness was rubbing off on her.

The pair finally arrived in a part of the park where there was a beautiful lake. Row boats with couples in them were sprinkled all over it. "There he is," whispered Serena whispered pointing to a man facing the other direction. He hadn't seen them yet. "Darien!" Serena yelled waving frantically.

The man turned around smiling holding a big bouquet of red roses. When the princess saw him, all the color rushed out of her face. Darien also looked predictably surprised. *I can't do this... I can't face him, even though this Darien doesn't know what I did.*

Darien moved closer to the girls and handed Serena the flowers, looking back and forth between the two. "Now this is freaky... Ah, it's nice to meet you miss. I'm sorry for my original reaction, you just look so much like Serena."

Serena burst out laughing. "Darien this is my twin, Misty, Misty, this is my boyfriend Darien."

Darien reached out his hand to Misty, but she couldn't force herself to take it, she couldn't take any of this anymore. The tears started forming in her eyes, she couldn't look at him in the face. "I'm sorry," she said, "I have to go..." with that, she took off in the other direction running at full pace.

"Wait! Misty!" Serena yelled after her. "Was it something I said?" she asked Darien.

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Misty, the Princess of Darkness, Princess Serenity, what ever she's called, is walking down the street, one of the busy streets in Tokyo, feeling sorry for herself. A rainstorm starts, but the princess doesn't care. Begin Princess:

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*What am I doing here? I don't belong here. They have their own lives... and I'm still EVIL; I can feel it still inside of me. I don't want to ruin Serena's life, and I especially don't want to ruin Darien's life.*

"Help!" a little girl screamed from somewhere nearby. "Help me please!"

Cherry forgot all her troubles and ran down an ally, towards the screaming girl. She came to a playground that was empty except for a little girl and gigantic ant monster.

*OH no! I have to help this girl, there is only one way I can do it.*

She turned into her princess of darkness form. "Stop right there!" She said to the ant monster.

"A mean green lady with wings turned my mommy into an ant, and now my mommy is trying to eat me!" the little girl cried.

The Princess of Darkness shot her black ray at the ant monster. The ant monster cried in pain. "Run!" the princess said to the little girl.

The little girl ran out of the playground with the giant ants attention on the princess.

The ant lunged at the princess catching her arm in its jaws. The princess cried out in pain.

Tap tap tap! ----{@

Just then a rose hit the ant right on it's forehead where there was a glowing jewel. As soon as the jewel was hit, the monster turned back into the girl's mother with the princess of darkness's arm in her mouth, and a flower sticking out of her forehead. (it wasn't in very deep).

"Um...sorry about that," the woman released the girls arm. "Did you see where my daughter went?" she asked while blushing and taking the rose out of her forehead. (happens all the time).

The princess pointed queasily toward the street and the woman ran off.

The princess of darkness wanted to disappear more than anything. Before she could Tuxedo Mask walked out of the shadows of the building.

"Thank you for helping me," she said not looking at him.

"Who are you? You look familiar to me," he said.

She glanced up quickly and back down again. "It's not important. Just please...leave me alone."

"You're hurt," he said noticing her arm where the ant had bitten her. "I'm not going to leave you if I don't know you're ok."

She sighed and sat down on one of the swings in the park. "Why do you love Princess Serenity?" she asked in no more than a whisper.

He looked a little surprised by her question but then sat down near her on another swing. "I love everything about her," he said.

"Then, what would make you stop loving her?"

"Nothing ever could."

"Even if she betrayed you?"

"No. I know she would never do that unless she thought it was the right thing to do, and I trust her judgment more than anything. And I know she feels the same thing for me. Even when I was brainwashed she still loved me, just as I would still love her."

She wasn't able to ask any more questions because there was a large flash of light in the distance.

"Sailor Moon," Tuxedo Mask said as he jumped off his seat in the swing. "Let's go." He said directing his attention towards the princess, implying he wasn't going let her off the hook.

*Sailor Moon? I don't remember a Sailor Moon in my world,* the princess thought.

She flew, and he jumped from rooftop to rooftop, towards the flashing lights. As they got closer, they could hear the Sailor Scouts all screaming and yelling.

"Oh no! We may be too late," Tuxedo Mask, said as they reached the clearing.

The four sailor scouts were in a circle and to the side was a large, green winged monster that looked like a praying mantis. The Mantis monster was lying on the floor apparently knocked out.

"Serena," Tuxedo Mask yelled as he ran over to the circle.

*Serena? I'm.... Serena's Sailor Moon? A Sailor Scout?* The princess just stood back and watched as he ran toward his love. The circle opened allowing him to see her. He held her in his arms and started rocking her back and forth with tears forming in his eyes.

"Serena? Serena wake up!" Sailor Jupiter pleaded.

"The mantis monster flung a green ball of energy at Mars but Sailor Moon jumped in front of it. Mars was then able to surprise the mantis with her fireball attack, that's why it's out right now," Venus informed him.

"Serena..." Darien pleaded with tears falling down his face.

"...Darien..." Sailor Moon said with her eyelashes fluttering open.

"Watch out!" The forgotten princess of darkness screamed as the mantis got up and lunged at the group with drool running down its chin. She ran to the mantis and rammed into it knocking it off its course. Then, when she had it on the floor she shot two dark bolts of light out of her hands that were holding it down, and vaporized the mantis monster.

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(I know what you're thinking, "mantis monster?" I had to come up with some sort of bad guy! :-P)

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