Rating: PG! I like to keep 'em clean! (For now anyway.)
By: Wyvern - japeena@hotmail.com
Hi there loves! Okay, got part three done and out! Yay! So, I would like to thank you guys (the people reading) for coming back for more! *^-^* I'm still a bit of a novice at this, so I would love to hear some suggestions that could improve my work!
Thanks to all of my friends! I love you guys!
********All standard disclaimers apply. I WOULD write them out....but....suddenly...so........lazy......*snore********
Enough all already! On with the story!
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The walls pulsed with a new energy. A raw, excited power that had all of the youma giddy with it. Blood was boiling, adrenaline pumped through their veins. A heady feeling buzzed through them, leaving them restless and itching for satisfaction.
They felt something was coming. They knew that there was going to be a new kind of darkness brought into their realm. And each and everyone of them couldn't wait.
~*~*~
Makoto punched her knee and watched it jerk up. It was starting to feel slightly numb, but she really didn't notice. The kind of tingle that came from every hit to the nerve was interesting. "I wonder what that nerve is called?" she mused.
She looked towards the bed, where Mamoru still rested. Wrinkling her nose, she stopped pounding on her knee and crossed her legs. "I wish he would wake up." She cracked one of her knuckles, smiling at the 'pop' it made.
"That's disgusting." Makoto turned around in her seat to the door, where Rei stood with a smirk.
"What is?"
The firey brunnette pointed to her fist and grimaced. "What do you think?"
Makoto chuckled and turned back around. "Not my fault if you're a wimp," she shrugged, watching her friend as she came around into sight.
"Yeah, whatever you say," she replied. Her voice was distant, her eyes locked on the figure on the bed. "No change, huh?"
"Iie. He's still out of it. But apparently his internal injuries are almost healed."
"Nani?" she asked sharply. "That doesn't make sense, he had a punctured lung. Those take at least a couple months to repair."
She held up her hands in defense. "Hey, don't shoot the messenger!" She shrugged again and stood. "I'm just telling you what the doctors have been saying."
"So he's really doing that well?"
She nodded. "Seems like it." With a sigh she moved over to the chair and picked up her jacket from the back. "All it's a matter of now is him waking up."
Rei mirrored her friend's sigh and walked towards the door. "Want to get some lunch?"
"Sure! But why don't we stay at the hospital. It could be easier, and then if Ami-chan or Minako-chan pop in, we could meet up."
The priest-ess grimaced and stuck out her toungue. "Eeeeww....Mako-chan! Hospital food?"
With a laugh, Makoto slapped her on the back. "You seem to be feeling better."
"Yeah. I think it was a kind of shock for awhile." Her face fell slightly, but perked up with a smile. "We need to keep a positive image, at least for Mamoru if not ourselves."
"That's the spirit! Now let's go!"
With a dry smack of her lips, Rei followed her friend. "I can't wait."
~*~*~
Ami sat at her desk, twirling a pencil between two slender fingers. In front of her was a Calculus Text book, but her mind was not on the work. She was thinking back to the fight.
"Princess!"
"Usagi!"
"PRINCESS!"
"Princess!"
"Iyaaaa!"
She shook her head, clearing it of the screams. It had been a week now, and still they hadn't seen her. "What could Beryl possibly want with Usagi? She wondered, then smacked her fore-head with a palm. "Baka, she wants the Ginzuishou." A wash of worry arose, making her chest feel tight. "What if they have it? We would all be lost if Beryl was in possesion of it."
"No," she decided. "That can't be it. They can't have it or else they would have acted by now. And...wasn't it the Ginzuishou that transported us from the void to the hospital?" That just left one question. "Who DOES have it?"
She put down her pencil and sighed. Pushing out of her chair, she walked out of her bed-room door and into the living room. Flopping down on the huge egg-plant leather corner couch, she reached behind her and picked up the phone. "I'm in the mood for a talk," she thought, while punching the number pad.
After a few rings, a high, dry voice spoke over the line. "Moshi moshi."
"Hi, Minako-chan!" There was sharp bang on the the other side that made Ami jerk her head away from the reciever. "Hello?"
~*~*~
"Artemis."
The cat snored behind his paws, curled up at the desk chair. He paid absolutely no attention to the girl lying on the bed with her feet facing the ceiling, legs high up in the air.
"Artemis, you know what?"
Snore.....
She didn't seem to notice his lack of interest, and continued. "I have big feet." She gazed at her socked feet, wiggling her toes a little bit. "I wonder what size my Venus heels are?" she mused.
The phone meowed on the table beside her bed. It was in the shape of a kawaii little cat, and instead of ringing, it would meow insistently until the receiver it held in two paws was picked up. Minako sighed and reached over, but found she couldn't reach the phone. "Bah, baka cat must of moved it." She swung her legs down and sat on the edge of bed, finally able to reach the phone. "Moshi moshi."
"Hi, Minako-chan!" a cheery voice said.
Minako dropped the receiver, hitting the floor with a clatter. Artemis snapped his eyes open and grumbled before turning around in the chair and tucking his head back down.
Minako muttered a couple of mild curses and fumbled to pick up the phone. Ami? Calling HER? On her own initiative? This was certainly a first. She could hear Ami trying to figure out what happened on the other end. "Eh....Hi Ami-chan!" she replied carefully. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing! I just felt like talking!"
This time, Minako just managed to hang on. "Okay! Eh....Ami-chan?"
"Hai?"
"Eh....doushite?" A tiny sweat-drop appeared on the receiver.
"Just because! What, I can't call one of my new best friends when I fell like it?" she chirped happily.
"Hai hai," Minako put in quickly, "demo....you just never have....before!"
"I know, I'm usually too busy for phone chat, but today I'm in the that kind of mood!"
Things began to sink in, and Minako smiled. "Sugoi! So, what do you want to talk about?"
"I don't know!" came the happy reply.
The blond dead-panned. So it WASN'T a blue moon after all.
~*~*~
Beryl ran a loving hand over the girl's head. It was a golden expanse laid out beneath her, a river of soft hair. Two crystal eyes fluttered up to her face, a smile appeared on the perfect little lips. She was so beautiful. The perfect child.
"Beryl-momma?" she asked.
"Hai?"
"When is it going to be my turn?"
"Soon. In fact," the Queen looked up. "Kunzite!" The general teleported to her, bowing in respect. "Kunzite, you will show your new apprentice around today. I want her out and about very soon."
He straightened, his sliver eyes locked on a new figure. A small gasp escaped his lips. "This is she?" he asked in an incredulous tone. Sitting beside his Queen was a six year old girl. Her large blue eyes sparkled mischievously beneath a shower of blond bangs. She was a lovely little girl, but still....little.
To his slight surprise, Beryl gazed warmly down on her. "Hematite, this is Kunzite," she purred. Looking back up at him continued, "Kunzite, I want you to quickly show Hematite how to teleport. She knows the rest."
"Ano...Queen Beryl, she is very, very young."
"Ah." Beryl pet the girl on the head, who looked up with a smile. "Hematite, would you choose a better age?"
"Un!" she squeaked happily. In an instant, the small girl became a beautiful maiden of four-teen. "Is this better?"
Beryl nodded. "Good. Now go with Kunzite and then report back to me when you're ready. I want today to be the day."
The girl, Hematite, stood, letting fold upon fold of the black dress she wore fall down from around her long legs to the floor. Kunzite noted that is was the same design and cut as Princess Serenity's, except that where that had been white gold, there was now black and silver.
Her once young hair-style of two odango-shaped buns were replaced by a long thick golden braid that reached to the floor. Black ribbons inter-wove in the golden mass, like-wise two were tied to each wrist; the ends of the ribbons left to hang freely.
Where there had once been a golden crescent moon, there was a silver. All that had been Princess Serenity was gone, now replaced by the creation named Hematite.
She stepped down from the slightly raised dais of Beryl's throne, and grace-fully walked over to where Kunzite stood. For a moment, she stared into his eyes, boaring into them. He didn't flinch however, didn't look away. The contest continued, until her face transformed with a look of pure glee, and she latched onto his arm.
He grunted slightly as she tugged on it and buried her face into his uniform sleeve. "This is going to be so much fun!" she giggled. "I just know we're gonna have a blast!"
With a look of desperation, he searched for help from his Queen. She just smirked and waved a hand. "Go." Hematite giggled and squeezed tighter. Kunzite groaned.
~*~*~
"Mo kiing? I woo of fo--" Makoto stopped and gulped down her bite of lunch. "I would have thought they'd have been freaking by now."
Rei shook her head. "Nope. It looks like...well.." she looked up to her friend for support. Makoto picked away at her back teeth with a finger, blinking innocently as she waited for her friend to continue. "Eh.....well.. ..they don't seem to remember Usagi at all."
"Rei held up her hands against the shower that her friend sent down to her face in her tirade. "Just what I said!" she snapped. "Usagi's family has no memories of her at all!" she lowered her voice slightly as the other girl calmed and sat down. Picking up a napkin, she continued while wiping her face. "When Ami-chan and I went to their house, we had to pretend we were selling something to get in! Mrs. Tsukino had no idea who we were!"
"Really?"
"Un. And do you know what's weirder?"
"Nani?"
"When she let us into the living-room Ami said she got a chance to look around, while I gave this little sales to Usagi's mother about chocolate, and all of the pictures of Usagi were gone! In the family pictures, there was only Shingo!"
"Kyaaaa...." Makoto breathed. "That IS weird!"
"I know. Demo," she stopped and down-cast her eyes, "it's scary too. Could this mean that we're never going to see Usagi again?"
"Makoto stood up straight in her chair, her eyes clouding over. Finally, after a few confusing moments on Rei's part, she shook her head. "I don't think so. What did Ami-chan think?"
"Well, she thinks that somehow the Ginzuishou is still working."
The tall girl blinked. "How's that?"
Rei sighed. "Baka Mako-chan! She thinks that the Nega-verse doesn't have the Ginzuishou, and it instead is still out there helping us!"
"Mo," Makoto snorted. "That's quite the theory. How did she come around to that?"
"You know! In the void-" Rei wiggled her fingers for emphasis "-we were magically transported to the doors of the hospital. And now, her family has been protected from any grief or worry by Usagi's disappearance, since they have absolutely no memory of her!"
"Ooooooohhhh....that makes sense! Demo...where IS the Ginzuishou then?"
Rei shrugged. "That's something Ami can't figure out."
"Great." Makoto picked up her sandwich and took another large bite. "Tha husth gwea."
~*~*~
"IYA! Don't do-" Hematite exploded in a cloud of smoke. Kunzite coughed and sighed. "-That."
"Ooops," she blushed. "Gomen ne."
"You need to be more careful!" he snapped.
"HEY!" she barked right back. " I SAID I was SORRY!"
He rolled his eyes, looking to the ceiling in a silent plea for patience. "All right, all right. Try it again, but this time, go slowly." She sucked her lip in and nodded.
It had taken a little while, but Kunzite had figured out that Hematite's method of teleport was through smoke. Kunzite had a black wave that would circle around him, Zoisite would use flower petals, which hadn't been Kunzite's idea but that was just the way things worked out, and now it seemed that Hematite would use smoke.
She closed her eyes and let her arms fall free at her sides. It took a few moments, but after a small period of time a small wisps of smoke appeared at her feet. It slowly began to spiral up her skirt, growing and thickening in the process, until it covered her head as she was no longer able to be seen behind the screen. Suddenly, it exploded in a small puff, taking all of her with it.
Kunzite sighed. "About time," he muttered.
~*~*~
Hematite blinked her eyes open, and to her delight found that she stood in front of the throne. "Beryl-momma! I did it!"
"Well done. Do you feel confident that you can do it by yourself?" she asked.
The girl nodded empathetically, a grin plastered onto her features. "Does this mean I can go out?"
Beryl thought for a moment, but nodded and smiled. "Hai. However, I would like you to go under a different guise."
Hematite blinked in confusion. She suddenly became three years old. "Like dis?" the tiny girl squeaked.
"Iie." The toddler became a haggard old woman, her hair stark white.
"This?"
Beryl laughed. "Iie, iie. Not as Hematite, at any age." The girl became a teenager once again, her face reflected her puzzlement. But soon, her face opened up in a glory of comprehension.
"OH!" Her image wavered for a moment, and instead of the new Nega-verse servant, stood Sailor Moon. "Like this."
The Queen nodded. "Hai. Like that."
~*~*~
"Hee hee hee..." she giggled. Looking through that window, she could see the bed-room. All neat and proper, barely an object out of place. The only signs that a person had been living there in the past few months was a light on the desk as still on, overlooking a thick text book and pencil.
Sailor Moon faded into the room and looked around. "Very blue," she observed. Walking out the door, she peered down the hall-way. Not a soul to be seen. But, she thought she could hear someone talking in another room. With a large grin, she set out for the origination of that voice.
This mission should be fairly quick. Her job was to corner Sailor Mercury, do her best to get the Ginzuishou from her, then get rid of the pest. Hopefully, but going through all of the Senshi that way, she would have to run into the crystal.
Beryl-momma had told her to visit the homes of all of the Senshi. That information was there at Sailor Moons disposal, though she couldn't actually say why. She didn't remember much past a certain point, but she did know the location of the Senshis alter-egos. And that was all that really mattered, wasn't it? Plus, she got to pretend she was a stealth agent.
Humming a song that popped into head that seemed to fit the mood, she reached what had to be the living-room. Peering around the door, a blue head rested on a huge couch within. A twisted cord ran from the person's hand to the table. The girl chatted with someone on the other end of the phone line, often going silent for a fairly long period of time while the person on the other end babbled away.
"Enough waiting," Sailor Moon grumbled. She walked out from the door and stood next to the table. Raising a gloved finger, she pressed down on the hang-up.
"Eh...Minako-chan?" the girl asked. So it had been Venus she was talking with. She would have to be next then. "Hello?" The blue head turned around, and two deep eyes caught two crystal ones.
"Hi there Sailor Mercury!" Sailor Moon said cheerfully.
Two blue brows knit together rather comically, her face a mask of confusion. "Usagi-chan?"
With a grin, the blond shook her head. "Nope!" Leaning down so that she stood an inch away from the girls face she said, "Guess again."
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Dun dun dun! So, like it? That's great! If not, please keep in mind that flames are only appreciated if they are entertaining. *^-^*
Japanese words used: (I'm not going to repeat the same from before, k?)
Doushite?=Why?
Mo!=(Kinda like:)Geez!
Baka = Stupid/Silly
Moshi moshi = the way to say "hello" over the phone
Un! = (I got this from Megs! ;) ) A spunky way to say "yes!"
Demo = But
Sugoi! = Awesome!
Gomen ne = (I'm) Sorry
Kawaii = cute
Hope I didn't miss any! If there are any questions, just e-mail me and I'd be GLAD clear anything up! I just BREATH from feed-back! Arigato!
P.S. Remember waaaaay back in Part 1 when I told you all about the song that goes with this? When do you guys want to see it? In the last part? Integrated with the last parts? I'm a bit confoosed on that one, so drop me a line with any suggestions! Spanks!
~Wyvern