Hiya, fanfic readers! Welcome to my fanfic, a crossover between my two most favorite anime, Sailor Moon and Fushigi Yuugi! (Don't worry, Sakura, I still love you.) Anyway, this is my first crossover, so bear with me! Although this is set after the Galaxia battle, I only used the Inner Scouts. And I'm not very sure of the attacks of Sailor Moon during the Stars season... And let's pretend that Miaka decided to finish school before marrying Taka, k?
(Oh, and my title's really lame!)

Scouts in the Mysterious Play (Prologue)
By: Eternal Flame

"10 more minutes!"

A blue-haired girl was in a classroom, bent over an exam paper with an intense look of concentration on her face. She was taking another practice exam, (Serena: ANOTHER ONE?!?!?) and had just finished. Chewing lightly on the eraser on the pencil, she began checking over it.

Not too far away, another shorthaired, blond girl was checking over her exam. Her fingers were nervously playing around with the edge of her skirt. She lightly bit her lip anxiously.

"Time's up! Please put your pencils down and stay seated as I come around to collect your papers," the man in the front said.

Sighing heavily, Yui, the blond girl, looked around at the other students around her. She looked at the blue-haired girl.

"She looks familiar... Oh, yeah! She came to all the other practice exams I've taken, too! Wow, Miaka's going to flip when she hears that there's another girl that takes as many exams as I do! I'll talk to her later."

The man in the front interrupted her thoughts as he said, "We will have your scores up in an hour. Please stop by to see your scores."

All the students pushed out of their chairs, and chattered with friends as the walked out into the hallway. Yui ran to catch up to the other girl, and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Hi! My name is Yui! I think I recognize you from all my other practice exams!"

The girl turned around to face her. "Uhh... you know, I think you're right! I have seen you in all my practice exams, too! My name's Amy Anderson. My friend, Serena, is going to freak out when she hears that there's another girl that takes as many practice exams as I do!"

Yui giggled. "That's exactly what Miaka would do! Oh, there she is now! Miakaaaa! Over here!" Yui waved her arms to attract Miaka's attention.

She bounded over. "So, how was the exam? It must have been easy for you, right?"

Yui smiled. "Miaka, you expect too much from me! No, it was hard! Oh, meet Amy Anderson. She's been to all my other practice exams, too!"

Miaka gasped loudly. "WHAT?!?!?!?!? There's actually another girl that takes as many practice exams as Yui!"

Amy and Yui merely laughed. "Hey, there are my friends! Come on, let's go meet them!" Amy said excitedly.

Both group met halfway. Serena, Raye, Mina, Lita, and Darien were all there.

Amy wasted no time to introduce everyone to everyone. "Hi, you guys! This is Yui and Miaka. And this is Serena, the girl I was telling you about, Raye, Mina, and Lita. Oh, and that's Darien, Serena's boyfriend."

Yui explained to them, "Amy and I have been to all the same practice exams. That's how we met!"

Mina and Serena's eyes widened. Mina whispered to Serena loudly enough so everyone could hear, "I told you there'd be someone that took as many exams as Amy! You owe me 10 yen!"

Amy giggled and said, "See, Yui? I told you Serena was like Miaka!"

Raye smiled. "I bet that Miaka can't eat as much as Serena!"

Serena, Lita, Mina, and Darien nodded their heads vigorously.

Miaka retorted, "No one can eat as much as I can! Right, Yui?"

Lita quickly said, "Hey, there's a delicious tea shop just around the corner! We can talk and eat there, then come back for Amy and Yui's scores!"

Serena looked down at her stomach. "Good idea, Lita! I'm hungry!"

Darien said amazingly, "But, but I just took you for a hamburger at McDonalds 10 minutes ago!"

Serena looked at him, and simply said, "Darien, that was 10 minutes ago. I thought you knew me more than that!"

Yui laughed and said, "Don't worry, I'll treat you all."

Raye sighed patronizingly, "Yui, you'll regret that."


Many plates and cups later, Miaka and Serena were still frantically trying to outdo eachother. Everyone in the restaurant stared wide-eyed at them. Their friends just tried to ignore the flying bits of food and talk. (But, it's kind of hard to ignore a piece of chewed beef landing in your hair.)

Mina screamed at them furiously, "EAT SLOWER!!! YOU TWO ARE EMBARRASSING US!!!"

Both girls ignored her, and continued to gobble down whatever was edible.

A teal-haired man approached the group. "Hi Miaka and Yui!"

Miaka and Serena paused, and looked up. Serena had a spoon halfway to her mouth, and a slice of cake in the other hand. Miaka was in the middle of slurping down a noodle. Miaka immediately jumped up when she heard the man's voice.

"TAKA!!! Why are you here?"

Taka replied, "I applied for a job here a few days ago, so now I'm a cashier. I had a feeling that you'd visit sometime or another." Miaka hugged his arm tightly, so tightly that Taka had to grit his teeth.

Yui said to the others, "Taka is Miaka's boyfriend, and has been for a long time."

Serena immediately grabbed Darien around the neck, and glowered at Miaka and Taka. "Well, Darien's been my boyfriend since 2 years ago! Ha! See if you can beat that!"

Sweatdrops appeared on everyone's heads.

Raye commented, "Serena, I never knew you had that streak of stubbornness."

Amy checked her watch, and said to Yui, "It's about an hour now. Do you want to go back?"

"Sure! Taka, can you ring us up? I'll pay."

Lita looked at her uncertainly. "Yui, are you really sure? I mean, we can pay part of it, too."

Taka came back with a receipt in his hand. Yui looked at it, looked up at Lita, looked back down at the receipt hesitantly, and said, "Uh...I don't think I have enough money."


Taka walked back to the school with them. Miaka was the first to get to the sheet of paper tacked onto a board. Reading it quickly, she exclaimed to the others, "Yui and Amy have the highest scores! Both have perfect 500's! It's a miracle!"

Amy and Yui smiled at each other, and high-fived.


Suddenly, Miaka gasped. A look of horror flashed across Miaka, Yui, and Taka's faces. They glanced at each other, terrified. Yui said quickly to the others, "Uh... I just remembered that I need to pick up something at the library. Right, Miaka and Taka?"

They both nodded quickly, and with rushed good-byes, they ran off into the crowd of people on the sidewalk, towards the local library. The girls and Darien blinked and stared off after them. Raye had a troubled look on her face.

"That was so rude! We were getting along fine, then they just sped off!" Mina huffed.

"Yeah, and I thought that they were pretty nice, too!" Lita added.

Serena moaned, "Miaka and I never finished our eating contest.

Darien sighed, and replied, "Serena, that's a contest that will never end."

Raye said nothing. Images of what she had seen in her fire readings that morning flashed through her mind. An ancient Chinese palace... a bandit...shadows of terror and evil...poor villages being destroyed...all in a place that she knew couldn't exist in this modern time. And she sensed evil, terrible evil, more powerful than any villain they, as Scouts, had battled before. Yet she sensed nothing wrong in Tokyo. What did it mean? Did something go wrong in her fire readings? And...she sensed that Yui, Miaka, and Taka knew what and where that evil was.

She said quietly, "You guys, I don't think it had anything to do with rudeness or anything like that."

Mina asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, um, I could be wrong, you know...but I've been getting these weird fire readings lately. There's this ancient Chinese village and palace being destroyed by these shadowy monsters, and, and then I see a giant red phoenix, then a bandit and a monk fighting off the monsters..."

"What does that have to do with Miaka and them?" Amy asked.

"Hold on, Amy. I'll get to that. You see, I haven't sensed any evil around here for a while, so I thought I must have been wrong. That's why I didn't tell you guys. But, did you see that look of dread on those three's faces? I sort of sensed that they know where that place I saw was, and they knew something was wrong. They could be in trouble..." Raye trailed off.

Lita looked worried. "Are you sure about all this? Something didn't go wrong while you were meditating, right?"

Raye said sharply, "I've never made a mistake before!"

Serena turned towards the direction where Miaka, Yui, and Taka ran off. "So you're saying that we should follow them?"

Raye nodded.

"Ok, let's go."


The group pushed past people, Darien leading the way. Serena looked genuinely concerned. She thought, "Miaka was so nice! I really hope Raye was wrong this time; I don't want them to get into any trouble!"

They arrived at the library breathless, but Serena quickly regained her breath and went inside. She caught a glimpse of Taka's teal hair around the corner.

"Come on! We're close!" Serena whispered to the others.


Miaka pulled a dusty, old book off a shelf in a dark, deserted room. Blowing off the dust, she set it on a table where Yui and Taka were.

"I feel really bad about leaving them like that..."

Taka said impatiently, "Yeah, me too, but we have more important things!"

Yui sat on the floor, thinking hard. Looking up at Miaka, she said, "Suzaku pulled you into the book last time, right?"

Miaka nodded her head.

"Well, that was when Konan was in danger, right? If Konan was in serious danger now, wouldn't Suzaku pull you in again?

Pause.

Taka bit his lip. "Well, all three of us couldn't have just imagined that feeling. We have to try to get in somehow!"

Miaka opened the book to the first page, and stared at it, as if expecting some miracle to occur. Taka looked at it from over her shoulder. Yui held the other side.

Miaka whispered in a desperate tone, "Please, Suzaku! Let us in!"

Suddenly, a blinding red light filled the room, and Miaka, Yui, and Taka disappeared.

Seeing the light through the window of the door, Serena screamed. Darien thrust open the door, and they saw Miaka, Yui, and Taka bending over a book, then they disappearing from sight.

"NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" Serena screeched.

She grabbed the book just as the light was fading away. The others hastily crowded around her.

A second later, the book fell to the ground, open to the first page. There was no trace of anyone in that room.




Like it so far? I, personally, am very proud of it. ^_^ Coming up next: The confused girls (and Darien) find themselves in an ancient Chinese village! What happened?
I do not own Sailor Moon or Fushigi Yuugi. Sailor Moon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi, Toei Animation, and Kodansha. Fushigi Yuugi belongs to Watase Yu, Shogakukan Inc., and...I don't know the animation company.
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