Hey, again! Thanks to all who reviewed! You know I can't get enough of 'em! Oh, heehee, Corey, if for some odd reason you are here at fanfictioin.net and reading this fanfic, this chapter's for you, because I've now been inspired by your anger toward us today, when we took your hat (heehee! ^.^;;). So yeah, this one's for you, Bunny-chan!
BIG PS— thank you SOO much Tanya, for letting me cry on your shoulder!!! Cheers, and this one goes out for you!!! ~^_^~
Anyways, down to.... the other stuff.
Disclaimer: yeah, I don't own dbz or sm, or right now, my room would be full of all their stuff.
And so, please don't sue, because the only thing I'd give you if (you did, which you wouldn't) is Corey's hat. But then he'd come and kill ya, cuz he loves his hat. *giggles*
"..."- speaking
'...'- thinking
*...* - emphasis on a word
{...} - author's note
~*~ - scene transition
Ages:
Usagi- 17
Gohan- 18
Inner senshi- 17
Outer senshi- 19
Skyler- 10 (oh, I forgot, she is MY character!!!)
PS- the raised rating is for all the gore and stuff. yuh.
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11 pairs of cold heartless eyes stared menacingly at Usagi. 11 of Usagi's long-dead friends now stood in front of her, glaring at her.
Usagi's eyes widened. "Guys...? But... but... I thought you were all dead! You've all been dead for over a year! I saw you all die!!!"
Sailor Uranus smirked. "We were dead, 'Princess,' but obviously, as you can see, now we are not."
"We've come to seek revenge for our own deaths, because you did not protect us," spoke up Sailor Mars.
"What?" Usagi was confused, and saddened, by all of this. It was too much at once.
"But guys, you all know I tried to protect you! I tried as hard as I could!" By now she was in tears.
"But *DID* you end up saving us?" asked Sailor Star Fighter.
"No," Sailor Jupiter answered for Usagi. "We were killed. But you lived on."
"So now, as Haruka said before, we have come for revenge," stated Sailor Neptune.
"But... but... but..." Usagi was on her knees, sobbing. "Please! I tried! I tried, guys!"
"But it didn't help," replied Sailor Venus.
Usagi looked up. Her best friend... Even though Usagi saw she also had that evil look in her eyes, she denied that she was one of them. But now she knew that she was. "Minako..."
"What." Her eyes narrowed.
"Minako, you're not one of *them*? Tell me you're not!"
"Sorry, Usagi-chan, but I am." She laughed evilly.
"Why are we wasting so much time?" the quiet Sailor Saturn asked, impatience in her voice.
"Ah, yes, I guess we are." Sailor Uranus drew her Space Sword and pointed it at Usagi, who was still on the ground.
"No," Usagi begged, "No! No! Please! What... what's happened to you guys! You aren't the same people I knew and cared about!"
"No, we're not," Sailor Mercury whispered, before releasing her attack on Usagi.
"No!" Gohan dived in front of Usagi, even though he knew the attack wouldn't hurt her in the least.
Sailor Mercury laughed. "Heh, heh, fine, now he's out of the way!"
"Not quite." Gohan got up after the slight fog cleared, not harmed in the least.
"What?!" Sailor Mercury was puzzled. 'That attack should have frozen him!'
Gohan looked over his shoulder at Usagi, who was still lying on the ground in tears. She was unharmed {duh!}. "You do NOT hurt Usagi like that. That is the WORST thing you could do to her. She tried her best to save you, she gave up her LIFE to save you! And is this how you repay her? Come back to kill her?! I do *NOT* think so!!!" Gohan immediately started to build up his energy. "Ka....."
"What the hell?" Sailor Mars felt the power building.
"Me....."
"That energy is incredible!" Sailor Pluto, who had been quiet until now, exclaimed.
"Ha....."
Sailor Uranus smirked. "Nothing we can't beat."
"Me....." By now the energy he held in his cupped hands was uncomprehendable. In his hand he was holding more energy than all of the senshi had combined.
"Uranus.... World..... SHAKING!!!" She let loose her attack, which had most of her energy poured into it.
"HAA!!!!!!!!" Gohan let loose the attack on the senshi.
"Nooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Usagi screamed, leaping up off the ground, trying to get ahead of the attack.
"Usagi!!!!!!!!! No!!" Gohan cried, seeing Usagi jump ahead of his attack.
The attack hit her left arm and leg, and burned the end of her hair. She screamed out in pain.
"Usagi!" 'Oh my God, what have I done! Usagi, no!' He ran over to where she lay, her leg and arm torn and bloody. She was shaking and flowing tears.
"Gohan, it hurts, so bad! Gohan, make the pain go away!" Usagi managed to whisper through her tears.
"Oh, Usagi, why did you jump ahead of my attack, then!" Gohan asked, looking over her injuries. 'Man, she's even more banged up than she was when she first landed in this world!'
"Because, Gohan.... beacuse, even if they WERE evil, they were my friends! Didn't you see it in their eyes! They were posessed! Something *made* them act the way they did!" She cried out in anguish. "Nooo! No! No! Gohan! Gohan-chan!" She cried, beating his chest with her one good fist. She collapsed and sobbed into his gi. "No..." she moaned. "They were my friends...." "Yaten, Taiki, , Setsuna, Haruka, Michiru," she whispered, naming each of them, "Hotaru, Setsuna, Ami, Rei, Makoto..... Minako.... she was like a sister to me..."
Gohan let all this sink in. 'Oh, no! What have I done! Kami-sama, Gohan, you are a baka! You just murdered all of her friends, right in front of her eyes!' "I'm.... I'm sorry, Usagi-chan. I don't know *how* I'll be able to forgive myself for this."
"Usagi... chan? You called me Usagi-chan!" she managed a half-hearted smile.
"Yeah. But I am *really* sorry, Usagi-chan. If you never want to see or hear from me again, I'll understand."
"Silly Gohan-chan, you were just looking out for me. I forgive you," Usagi sort-of laughed, but it turned into a hacking cough. "Ah, I'm okay," she said, calming her coughs.
The dust finally cleared, revealing a horrible sight. Gohan stared wide-eyed, and Usagi nearly fainted: The bodies of the senshi were strewn in bloody heaps, some of them nearly unrecognizable. But a very faint, very hoarse voice was heard from among the corpses.
"Usagi...."
"What? Gohan-chan, did you hear that?"
"Yes, I did." Gohan recognized Sailor Venus's ki, although it was almost not even there.
"Usagi-chan..."
Usagi struggled to get up. "Gohan, Gohan! One of them is still alive! Gohan, come on, we have to help them!" Usagi tried to get up, but collapsed, because her left leg was completely crushed. "Gohan, help me! Help her!" Usagi grew hysterical in her need to be able to get up.
Gohan got up and picked up Usagi. "Usagi, it's Sailor Venus, who's still alive." He stepped between the torn corpses and limbs strewn across the ground.
Usagi's head pounded— the smell of the burnt bodies was too much for her to bear. She hurled over Gohan's arm onto the ground.
Gohan saw that {obviously}, and felt sorry for her. But he understood. The stench *was* just... it was horrible. It was unblearable, and smoldering, and crushing. He, too, started to get a headache from it. But he still walked towards where he could feel Sailor Venus's ki coming from. Once he finally got there, the sight was even worse than the smell that filled the air.
There was Sailor Venus, lying in a bloody, mangled heap on the ground. Her own blood, and that of the other senshis', had pooled around her. Her dirtied hair was splayed around her head, almost as if framing her bloody face. Her right eye was swollen shut, and she could barely keep the other open. Where her skin was not covered with either dirt or blood, it was charred from the heat of the blast. Sailor Jupiter's lifeless hand was still clutching Sailor Venus's arm; Sailor Venus didn't have the energy to shake it off. "Usagi-chan... I am sorry..."
Usagi struggled from Gohan's hold and fell to the ground. She dragged herself, using her one good leg and arm, over to her companion's side. "Minako..." A tear trickled down her face and landed on her friend's cheek. "No.... No. You are *not* going to die. Gohan and I will help you, nurse you back to health. Right Gohan?" Usagi looked up at him, tears staining her cheeks.
Gohan saw the desparation and love that filled her eyes. "Of course," he whispered.
Usagi placed her hand on Venus's. "Well nurse you back to health, you'll be all right. Come on, Minako." She put her ear to her friend's breast. "See, your heart is still beating. You have life in you yet."
Minako managed a smile, but it pained her face to keep it that way. "Usagi-chan, look, everyone is dead. I have nothing left, with our world completely destroyed, all of our friends now dead..."
Usagi looked at Minako. "Our world... it's gone?"
"Yes," Minako whispered.
More tears threatened to spill from her crystalline blue eyes. But she hugged her friend as best as she could. "But *you* are here, and we have *this* world to protect. You are here, I am here. Gohan is here, too." She looked up at Gohan. "He, too, has suffered many losses, but look, he is still here, protecting his Earth. Minako, don't you see, you can start a new life, here! I already have!" Tears spilled down her face at the sheer emotion with which she was talking to her friend.
"Usagi-chan, do you think so? I can start a new life here?" Sailor Venus closed her eye, it was too much trouble to keep it open.
"Yes, yes, Minako! Of course! Minako, if you come back with me and Gohan, then we can get you cleaned up and bandaged, and then when you are well again, then you can also start training! Minako, we could lead wonderful lives here! Minako! Minako!"
"Hmm," she murmured, trying to listen to her friend's words.
"Minako, don't give up on me, come on, think of the time's we'll have together! Minako, Minako... Minako? Minako?! Oh my God! Minako! Minako!!" She grabbed her friend's hand and shook it furiously. "Minako! Listen to me! Minako!" The hand slipped from hers and fell to the ground, lifeless. "Minako! Minako!!" She collapsed over her best friend's body and sobbed. "Minako... Minako... Minako... But you said you'd come back with me, Minako...."
Gohan just stood there, a look of mixed horror and sadness on his face. Usagi's last living friend, who was so close to starting a new life in his world, had just died, Usagi clutching her hand. All of Usagi's plans for her new life just washed away. 'Oh, Kami-sama, hae mercy on Usagi-chan, do not take her last living friend, I have killed all the others already. Hasn't she suffered enough? Does she even *deserve* to suffer?' A lone tear found its way down his cheek.
Usagi looked up at Gohan, her eyes puffy from all the crying. "Gohan," she whispered faintly, "Gohan, we have to help her! We have to! Gohan..." she broke down again, the shock of her friend dying hitting her again in a giant wave.
Gohan knew that she was dead, too. She was emitting absolutely no ki whatsoever. Gohan walked over to Usagi's side and kneeled down onto the blood-soaked ground. "Usagi," he said, stroking her head, "She's dead. You have to accept this, we can't bring her back to life, Usagi."
The girl clung to his arm and cried into his sleeve. "I know, Gohan, I know," she whispered. "And that's the part that hurts."
Gohan kissed the top of her head. "I'm sorry, Usagi-chan. This was all my fault. I wasn't thinking. I just wish there would be some way that I could fix this. But—"
"There isn't. I know."
A light rain started to fall over them, but neither of them noticed the droplets that hit their faces. A streak of lightning shot through the sky.
But it didn't last just split second— it grew. It spread across the sky, but then refocused on a central point, not quite exactly above the two people in the field. Gohan looked up, shaking Usagi and motioning her to do the same.
"What is that?" aske Usagi.
"I don't know," Gohan replied, not tearing his eyes from the point of light.
Suddenly, the light turned into a small portal, and through it came a girl with angel's wings. She stretched them open and hovered, looking down at the field in horror. She had chin-lengh blonde hair with black streaks in it, and she had light, fluffy bangs. She had on a dark blue and gold fighting gi that had been modified to suit a girl. She had cerulean blue eyes that looked like they had seen more than any 10-year old should. And now she was looking down at the scene on the field in complete shock. "Oh, Kami-sama..." Her eyes scanned over the bloody corpses and she saw Gohan and a badly injured Usagi sitting on the stained ground below. 'Kami-sama, she's in HORRIBLE state!' she thought to herself as she floated slowly downward. "Hey, hey there, do you need help?" she ased Gohan and Usagi.
Gohan stared at the young girl with angel's wings. 'Her eyes... they lok familiar... but from where...' "Ah, no, that's all right. Who are you, and why are you here?"
Usagi just stared at the girl with a blank expression on her face. She was still in shock from seeing all her friends die before her eyes.
"Gomen," she said to Gohan, but not stopping her surveillance of the destruction she was standing amidst. "But I cannot tell you my name, not yet. But I am here because I need to be. I have been sent upon to help you and your companion."
"How? Who sent you?"
"Again, I cannot tell you just yet. I will, though, when the time is right.
"Now," the girl continued. "Excuse me, but would you move slightly out of the way?" she asked, kneeling on the ground by Sailor Venus's body.
Usagi, who was still in a daze, absentmindedly tugged on Gohan's arm, as to tell him to comply.
Once they had moved a couple feet away from the dead senshi's body, the girl placed her index and middle finger of her right hand upon her forehead, on which a black star and gold crescent-moon symbol appeared. She lightly placed her left hand, in the same fashion, on the forehead of Sailor Venus. The girl shut her eyes and concentrated for a second, and then faintly at first, but growing in intensity, the venus sign appeared on the other girl's head. Then suddenly a golden-silver glow appeared in the hand of the girl and traveled through her fingers into Venus's forehead, then spreading and eventually covering her whole body. Now that the transfer was complete, the mysterious girl opened her eyes and the symbol disappeared once again from her forehead. The glow in Sailor Venus's body also died down, and when it was gone, her breathing was heard.
"Oh my God," Usagi slowly whispered. "Oh my God..." She crawled over to her friend's side and touched her hand to her chest, feeling the heartbeat. "Oh my God. She's alive!" Tears, this time of joy, trickled down her cheeks. She turned around and stared at the girl who had just given Sailor Venus's life back to her.
The girl stared right back at Usagi with cerulean eyes.
"My daughter," Usagi suddenly said, still staring at the girl. "You are my daughter."
"What?!" Gohan looked at Usagi.
"She," Usagi pointed a finger at the girl standing before them, "She is my daughter."
"Yes," the girl replied calmly, "You are right."
Gohan looked at the girl, then back at Usagi. 'That's right! Her eyes! That's where they look familiar from! They are the same eyes as Usagi's!'
"I suppose that now I can tell you my name. My name is Son Serenity Usagi Skyler Sakura." She smiled at her future parents.
Gohan's eyes went wide. He was shocked speechless. He turned and looked at Usagi.
Usagi just grinned right back. "Well, then I suppose you know who we are, right?" She asked her newly recognized future daughter.
"Yes," she laughed. "But please, call me either Skye or Skyler, as everyone else does."
"Of course, if you wish," Usagi also laughed.
Skyler walked over to where her future mother was lying on the ground. She placed a hand on her forehead, causing the star and moon symbol to appear on it again. She placed her other hand on her mother's forehead, causing the crescent moon to appear on it. Skyler again transferred some of her energy to Usagi and healed her injuries.
Usagi stood up and hugged her future daugher. "Thank you, Skye. Gohan, would you mind taking hre back to your house? Maybe she would like something to eat, or rest. I have something I need to take care of," she said, glancing around her.
Gohan snapped out of his trance-like state. "Oh, sure. Skyler, is it? Okay." He flared up his ki and took off a little slower than normal, not wanting to make Skyler work hard to keep up with him. But she flexed her wings and flew up into the sky, easily keeping pace with him.
Usagi watched them fly off until she could no longer see them. Then she turned and looked around her. 'God, this is horrible! But I have to do this,' she thought to herself. She walked over to where Sailor Jupiter lay. She touched her forehead in the same manner as Skyler had done before to Sailor Venus, then touching her own. A greenish energy flowed from her friend to her own body, merging with her own. She picked her way carefully around the bodies, doing the same to each of them, each time gaining new powers. Finally, she was finished all except for Sailor Venus. 'No,' she thought to herself, 'She's still alive. I have no need to take her powers if she still can use them herself.' She walked carefully back to Sailor Venus, and cradled her carefully in her arms. She stood up and looked around a final time at all her friends. "Goodbye," she whispered. "Goodbye, my friends." The crescent moon on her forehead glowed and she watched as her senshi's bodies faded from view. "Goodbye..."
{This is a good place to end my chapter, but I don't want to, I told myself this chap'd be longer.}
"So you're... our future daughter?" Gohan asked, taking a bite of his dinner.
"Yes, I am. As I said earlier, my full name is Son Serenity Usagi Skyler Sakura."
"And you don't have any other siblings or anything, do you?" Usagi asked, grinning.
Skyler glanced at Gohan and grinned. "As a matter of fact, I have—"
Gohan's eyes grew wide as plates. "What?!"
"None," she finished, laughing. Usagi joined in the laughter, seeing her daughter's joke, even though Usagi didn't originally mean it that way.
Gohan tried to glare at the two giggling girls, but he couldn't keep a straight face. He, too, started to laugh.
After the laughted died down, the three once again started to eat the food that had been laid out on the table. Gohan paused to notice that Skyler had the same eating habits as himself and Usagi. But it wasn't that she ate sloppily and like a pig {no, neither do Usagi or Gohan}, she just ate steadily and a lot.
After all the food was gone, Skyler thanked Gohan for the meal and helped to clear the dishes off the table.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of washing them. Usagi, you might as well show her around the house," Gohan said, walking into the kitchen, carrying in the last of the dishes.
"So what exactly brings you here, Skye?" Usagi asked as she was walking up the stairs.
'She calls me Skye, no-one else, just like my real mother does.' She smiled, but then her expression grew serious. "Actually, I came to warn you about a danger you will be facing in the future. It has already attacked my time, but we have it contained, at least temporarily."
Usagi looked at her future daughter with sympathetic eyes. "How horrible... "
"Yes. Father nearly died trying to hold it off." She looked down at her feet. "But Mother saved him. You two are such a loving couple and care for each other very deeply."
Usagi looked away from her daughter and blushed slightly, smiling. "So how long do we have?" she asked, just as they arrived at her room. "I guess you can sleep in here."
"Thank you. Let's get resettled, then I'll tell you. Is that alright?" Skyler asked, stepping inside the room.
"Sure."
Usagi went to the big closet and pulled out a mat, some blankets, and many pillows {I like pillows! ^.^;;}. She set them up on the floor next to her bed, leaving space in between the two. "Do you have anything with you? I didn't see you bring anything with you."
"That's because I used capsules," she answered, pulling a case out of a pocket at her belt. She picked one out and tossed it onto the floor, revealing a trunk full of clothing (mainly fighting gi's). She tossed another one, this time causing another trunkful of personal belongings to appear. She pulled out one last one; this time it was a pack of survival gear (like knives, a canteen, a bow and arrow, a smal tent, etc.).
"The gear can go in the closet, along with your clothes," Usagi said, already hanging some of the clothes up. "You can do what you want with your other belongings."
"Okay, thanks." Skyler first tossed her pack of survival gear in the closet, then opened up her trunk of personal belongings. The first thing she took out was a package wrapped in brown paper. She carefully unwrapped it, revealing a velvet-bound photo album. She caressed it with her fingers and laid it aside. The second thing she took out was a doll, a beautiful doll made to resemble her grandmother, Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom {aaw! I want one of those! Hmm... maybe I'll make one... ^.^;;}. She hugged it, kissed it, and put it aside along with her photo album. She reached inside the trunk for a heavily-packaged item. She unwrapped it carefully, and when she pulled it out of its wrappings, a bright light filled the room.
"Woah!" Usagi cried, blinded by the sudden light. She stumbled and fell onto her bed, her eyes squeezed shut. "What is this light?"
Skyler wrapped both hands around the shining object, to lessen the light it was emitting.
Usagi cracked an eye open, to see if it was still to bright to look. When she saw that Skyler was covering the shining object, she opened the other eye. "What is that?"
Skyler didn't take her hands from around the object until the shine died down to a faint glow. She took one hand from around it, letting Usagi see what it was.
"It's... it's the ginzuishou!" Usagi stared at the crystal in her daughter's hand.
"Hai, it is." Skyler pressed her other hand on it again, and it instantly transformed into an intricate tiara. She placed it upon her own head. "This, believe it or not, is the safest place to put it, the safest place to keep it. It emits no ki when in this form."
"I see," Usagi said, staring at the ginzuishou-tiara. 'She's right, it *doesn't* emit any ki anymore! I wonder how that works...'
Skyler took her belongings and set them on her mat, shoving the trunk against the wall.
"Now," she said, sitting crosslegged on her mat, "I will tell you my story."
~*~
Okay! Yay! See, I *did* make this chapter a lot longer! ^_~;;V Well, anyways, review please! Do you like my character, Skyler? Well, anways, I'm open for suggestions, and if ur gonna flame me, well, I'll just roast marshmallows with them. Heh. ^.~—V So anyways, R&R! Lots and lots!
ja ne, Tsu
BIG PS— thank you SOO much Tanya, for letting me cry on your shoulder!!! Cheers, and this one goes out for you!!! ~^_^~
Anyways, down to.... the other stuff.
Disclaimer: yeah, I don't own dbz or sm, or right now, my room would be full of all their stuff.
And so, please don't sue, because the only thing I'd give you if (you did, which you wouldn't) is Corey's hat. But then he'd come and kill ya, cuz he loves his hat. *giggles*
"..."- speaking
'...'- thinking
*...* - emphasis on a word
{...} - author's note
~*~ - scene transition
Ages:
Usagi- 17
Gohan- 18
Inner senshi- 17
Outer senshi- 19
Skyler- 10 (oh, I forgot, she is MY character!!!)
PS- the raised rating is for all the gore and stuff. yuh.
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11 pairs of cold heartless eyes stared menacingly at Usagi. 11 of Usagi's long-dead friends now stood in front of her, glaring at her.
Usagi's eyes widened. "Guys...? But... but... I thought you were all dead! You've all been dead for over a year! I saw you all die!!!"
Sailor Uranus smirked. "We were dead, 'Princess,' but obviously, as you can see, now we are not."
"We've come to seek revenge for our own deaths, because you did not protect us," spoke up Sailor Mars.
"What?" Usagi was confused, and saddened, by all of this. It was too much at once.
"But guys, you all know I tried to protect you! I tried as hard as I could!" By now she was in tears.
"But *DID* you end up saving us?" asked Sailor Star Fighter.
"No," Sailor Jupiter answered for Usagi. "We were killed. But you lived on."
"So now, as Haruka said before, we have come for revenge," stated Sailor Neptune.
"But... but... but..." Usagi was on her knees, sobbing. "Please! I tried! I tried, guys!"
"But it didn't help," replied Sailor Venus.
Usagi looked up. Her best friend... Even though Usagi saw she also had that evil look in her eyes, she denied that she was one of them. But now she knew that she was. "Minako..."
"What." Her eyes narrowed.
"Minako, you're not one of *them*? Tell me you're not!"
"Sorry, Usagi-chan, but I am." She laughed evilly.
"Why are we wasting so much time?" the quiet Sailor Saturn asked, impatience in her voice.
"Ah, yes, I guess we are." Sailor Uranus drew her Space Sword and pointed it at Usagi, who was still on the ground.
"No," Usagi begged, "No! No! Please! What... what's happened to you guys! You aren't the same people I knew and cared about!"
"No, we're not," Sailor Mercury whispered, before releasing her attack on Usagi.
"No!" Gohan dived in front of Usagi, even though he knew the attack wouldn't hurt her in the least.
Sailor Mercury laughed. "Heh, heh, fine, now he's out of the way!"
"Not quite." Gohan got up after the slight fog cleared, not harmed in the least.
"What?!" Sailor Mercury was puzzled. 'That attack should have frozen him!'
Gohan looked over his shoulder at Usagi, who was still lying on the ground in tears. She was unharmed {duh!}. "You do NOT hurt Usagi like that. That is the WORST thing you could do to her. She tried her best to save you, she gave up her LIFE to save you! And is this how you repay her? Come back to kill her?! I do *NOT* think so!!!" Gohan immediately started to build up his energy. "Ka....."
"What the hell?" Sailor Mars felt the power building.
"Me....."
"That energy is incredible!" Sailor Pluto, who had been quiet until now, exclaimed.
"Ha....."
Sailor Uranus smirked. "Nothing we can't beat."
"Me....." By now the energy he held in his cupped hands was uncomprehendable. In his hand he was holding more energy than all of the senshi had combined.
"Uranus.... World..... SHAKING!!!" She let loose her attack, which had most of her energy poured into it.
"HAA!!!!!!!!" Gohan let loose the attack on the senshi.
"Nooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Usagi screamed, leaping up off the ground, trying to get ahead of the attack.
"Usagi!!!!!!!!! No!!" Gohan cried, seeing Usagi jump ahead of his attack.
The attack hit her left arm and leg, and burned the end of her hair. She screamed out in pain.
"Usagi!" 'Oh my God, what have I done! Usagi, no!' He ran over to where she lay, her leg and arm torn and bloody. She was shaking and flowing tears.
"Gohan, it hurts, so bad! Gohan, make the pain go away!" Usagi managed to whisper through her tears.
"Oh, Usagi, why did you jump ahead of my attack, then!" Gohan asked, looking over her injuries. 'Man, she's even more banged up than she was when she first landed in this world!'
"Because, Gohan.... beacuse, even if they WERE evil, they were my friends! Didn't you see it in their eyes! They were posessed! Something *made* them act the way they did!" She cried out in anguish. "Nooo! No! No! Gohan! Gohan-chan!" She cried, beating his chest with her one good fist. She collapsed and sobbed into his gi. "No..." she moaned. "They were my friends...." "Yaten, Taiki, , Setsuna, Haruka, Michiru," she whispered, naming each of them, "Hotaru, Setsuna, Ami, Rei, Makoto..... Minako.... she was like a sister to me..."
Gohan let all this sink in. 'Oh, no! What have I done! Kami-sama, Gohan, you are a baka! You just murdered all of her friends, right in front of her eyes!' "I'm.... I'm sorry, Usagi-chan. I don't know *how* I'll be able to forgive myself for this."
"Usagi... chan? You called me Usagi-chan!" she managed a half-hearted smile.
"Yeah. But I am *really* sorry, Usagi-chan. If you never want to see or hear from me again, I'll understand."
"Silly Gohan-chan, you were just looking out for me. I forgive you," Usagi sort-of laughed, but it turned into a hacking cough. "Ah, I'm okay," she said, calming her coughs.
The dust finally cleared, revealing a horrible sight. Gohan stared wide-eyed, and Usagi nearly fainted: The bodies of the senshi were strewn in bloody heaps, some of them nearly unrecognizable. But a very faint, very hoarse voice was heard from among the corpses.
"Usagi...."
"What? Gohan-chan, did you hear that?"
"Yes, I did." Gohan recognized Sailor Venus's ki, although it was almost not even there.
"Usagi-chan..."
Usagi struggled to get up. "Gohan, Gohan! One of them is still alive! Gohan, come on, we have to help them!" Usagi tried to get up, but collapsed, because her left leg was completely crushed. "Gohan, help me! Help her!" Usagi grew hysterical in her need to be able to get up.
Gohan got up and picked up Usagi. "Usagi, it's Sailor Venus, who's still alive." He stepped between the torn corpses and limbs strewn across the ground.
Usagi's head pounded— the smell of the burnt bodies was too much for her to bear. She hurled over Gohan's arm onto the ground.
Gohan saw that {obviously}, and felt sorry for her. But he understood. The stench *was* just... it was horrible. It was unblearable, and smoldering, and crushing. He, too, started to get a headache from it. But he still walked towards where he could feel Sailor Venus's ki coming from. Once he finally got there, the sight was even worse than the smell that filled the air.
There was Sailor Venus, lying in a bloody, mangled heap on the ground. Her own blood, and that of the other senshis', had pooled around her. Her dirtied hair was splayed around her head, almost as if framing her bloody face. Her right eye was swollen shut, and she could barely keep the other open. Where her skin was not covered with either dirt or blood, it was charred from the heat of the blast. Sailor Jupiter's lifeless hand was still clutching Sailor Venus's arm; Sailor Venus didn't have the energy to shake it off. "Usagi-chan... I am sorry..."
Usagi struggled from Gohan's hold and fell to the ground. She dragged herself, using her one good leg and arm, over to her companion's side. "Minako..." A tear trickled down her face and landed on her friend's cheek. "No.... No. You are *not* going to die. Gohan and I will help you, nurse you back to health. Right Gohan?" Usagi looked up at him, tears staining her cheeks.
Gohan saw the desparation and love that filled her eyes. "Of course," he whispered.
Usagi placed her hand on Venus's. "Well nurse you back to health, you'll be all right. Come on, Minako." She put her ear to her friend's breast. "See, your heart is still beating. You have life in you yet."
Minako managed a smile, but it pained her face to keep it that way. "Usagi-chan, look, everyone is dead. I have nothing left, with our world completely destroyed, all of our friends now dead..."
Usagi looked at Minako. "Our world... it's gone?"
"Yes," Minako whispered.
More tears threatened to spill from her crystalline blue eyes. But she hugged her friend as best as she could. "But *you* are here, and we have *this* world to protect. You are here, I am here. Gohan is here, too." She looked up at Gohan. "He, too, has suffered many losses, but look, he is still here, protecting his Earth. Minako, don't you see, you can start a new life, here! I already have!" Tears spilled down her face at the sheer emotion with which she was talking to her friend.
"Usagi-chan, do you think so? I can start a new life here?" Sailor Venus closed her eye, it was too much trouble to keep it open.
"Yes, yes, Minako! Of course! Minako, if you come back with me and Gohan, then we can get you cleaned up and bandaged, and then when you are well again, then you can also start training! Minako, we could lead wonderful lives here! Minako! Minako!"
"Hmm," she murmured, trying to listen to her friend's words.
"Minako, don't give up on me, come on, think of the time's we'll have together! Minako, Minako... Minako? Minako?! Oh my God! Minako! Minako!!" She grabbed her friend's hand and shook it furiously. "Minako! Listen to me! Minako!" The hand slipped from hers and fell to the ground, lifeless. "Minako! Minako!!" She collapsed over her best friend's body and sobbed. "Minako... Minako... Minako... But you said you'd come back with me, Minako...."
Gohan just stood there, a look of mixed horror and sadness on his face. Usagi's last living friend, who was so close to starting a new life in his world, had just died, Usagi clutching her hand. All of Usagi's plans for her new life just washed away. 'Oh, Kami-sama, hae mercy on Usagi-chan, do not take her last living friend, I have killed all the others already. Hasn't she suffered enough? Does she even *deserve* to suffer?' A lone tear found its way down his cheek.
Usagi looked up at Gohan, her eyes puffy from all the crying. "Gohan," she whispered faintly, "Gohan, we have to help her! We have to! Gohan..." she broke down again, the shock of her friend dying hitting her again in a giant wave.
Gohan knew that she was dead, too. She was emitting absolutely no ki whatsoever. Gohan walked over to Usagi's side and kneeled down onto the blood-soaked ground. "Usagi," he said, stroking her head, "She's dead. You have to accept this, we can't bring her back to life, Usagi."
The girl clung to his arm and cried into his sleeve. "I know, Gohan, I know," she whispered. "And that's the part that hurts."
Gohan kissed the top of her head. "I'm sorry, Usagi-chan. This was all my fault. I wasn't thinking. I just wish there would be some way that I could fix this. But—"
"There isn't. I know."
A light rain started to fall over them, but neither of them noticed the droplets that hit their faces. A streak of lightning shot through the sky.
But it didn't last just split second— it grew. It spread across the sky, but then refocused on a central point, not quite exactly above the two people in the field. Gohan looked up, shaking Usagi and motioning her to do the same.
"What is that?" aske Usagi.
"I don't know," Gohan replied, not tearing his eyes from the point of light.
Suddenly, the light turned into a small portal, and through it came a girl with angel's wings. She stretched them open and hovered, looking down at the field in horror. She had chin-lengh blonde hair with black streaks in it, and she had light, fluffy bangs. She had on a dark blue and gold fighting gi that had been modified to suit a girl. She had cerulean blue eyes that looked like they had seen more than any 10-year old should. And now she was looking down at the scene on the field in complete shock. "Oh, Kami-sama..." Her eyes scanned over the bloody corpses and she saw Gohan and a badly injured Usagi sitting on the stained ground below. 'Kami-sama, she's in HORRIBLE state!' she thought to herself as she floated slowly downward. "Hey, hey there, do you need help?" she ased Gohan and Usagi.
Gohan stared at the young girl with angel's wings. 'Her eyes... they lok familiar... but from where...' "Ah, no, that's all right. Who are you, and why are you here?"
Usagi just stared at the girl with a blank expression on her face. She was still in shock from seeing all her friends die before her eyes.
"Gomen," she said to Gohan, but not stopping her surveillance of the destruction she was standing amidst. "But I cannot tell you my name, not yet. But I am here because I need to be. I have been sent upon to help you and your companion."
"How? Who sent you?"
"Again, I cannot tell you just yet. I will, though, when the time is right.
"Now," the girl continued. "Excuse me, but would you move slightly out of the way?" she asked, kneeling on the ground by Sailor Venus's body.
Usagi, who was still in a daze, absentmindedly tugged on Gohan's arm, as to tell him to comply.
Once they had moved a couple feet away from the dead senshi's body, the girl placed her index and middle finger of her right hand upon her forehead, on which a black star and gold crescent-moon symbol appeared. She lightly placed her left hand, in the same fashion, on the forehead of Sailor Venus. The girl shut her eyes and concentrated for a second, and then faintly at first, but growing in intensity, the venus sign appeared on the other girl's head. Then suddenly a golden-silver glow appeared in the hand of the girl and traveled through her fingers into Venus's forehead, then spreading and eventually covering her whole body. Now that the transfer was complete, the mysterious girl opened her eyes and the symbol disappeared once again from her forehead. The glow in Sailor Venus's body also died down, and when it was gone, her breathing was heard.
"Oh my God," Usagi slowly whispered. "Oh my God..." She crawled over to her friend's side and touched her hand to her chest, feeling the heartbeat. "Oh my God. She's alive!" Tears, this time of joy, trickled down her cheeks. She turned around and stared at the girl who had just given Sailor Venus's life back to her.
The girl stared right back at Usagi with cerulean eyes.
"My daughter," Usagi suddenly said, still staring at the girl. "You are my daughter."
"What?!" Gohan looked at Usagi.
"She," Usagi pointed a finger at the girl standing before them, "She is my daughter."
"Yes," the girl replied calmly, "You are right."
Gohan looked at the girl, then back at Usagi. 'That's right! Her eyes! That's where they look familiar from! They are the same eyes as Usagi's!'
"I suppose that now I can tell you my name. My name is Son Serenity Usagi Skyler Sakura." She smiled at her future parents.
Gohan's eyes went wide. He was shocked speechless. He turned and looked at Usagi.
Usagi just grinned right back. "Well, then I suppose you know who we are, right?" She asked her newly recognized future daughter.
"Yes," she laughed. "But please, call me either Skye or Skyler, as everyone else does."
"Of course, if you wish," Usagi also laughed.
Skyler walked over to where her future mother was lying on the ground. She placed a hand on her forehead, causing the star and moon symbol to appear on it again. She placed her other hand on her mother's forehead, causing the crescent moon to appear on it. Skyler again transferred some of her energy to Usagi and healed her injuries.
Usagi stood up and hugged her future daugher. "Thank you, Skye. Gohan, would you mind taking hre back to your house? Maybe she would like something to eat, or rest. I have something I need to take care of," she said, glancing around her.
Gohan snapped out of his trance-like state. "Oh, sure. Skyler, is it? Okay." He flared up his ki and took off a little slower than normal, not wanting to make Skyler work hard to keep up with him. But she flexed her wings and flew up into the sky, easily keeping pace with him.
Usagi watched them fly off until she could no longer see them. Then she turned and looked around her. 'God, this is horrible! But I have to do this,' she thought to herself. She walked over to where Sailor Jupiter lay. She touched her forehead in the same manner as Skyler had done before to Sailor Venus, then touching her own. A greenish energy flowed from her friend to her own body, merging with her own. She picked her way carefully around the bodies, doing the same to each of them, each time gaining new powers. Finally, she was finished all except for Sailor Venus. 'No,' she thought to herself, 'She's still alive. I have no need to take her powers if she still can use them herself.' She walked carefully back to Sailor Venus, and cradled her carefully in her arms. She stood up and looked around a final time at all her friends. "Goodbye," she whispered. "Goodbye, my friends." The crescent moon on her forehead glowed and she watched as her senshi's bodies faded from view. "Goodbye..."
{This is a good place to end my chapter, but I don't want to, I told myself this chap'd be longer.}
"So you're... our future daughter?" Gohan asked, taking a bite of his dinner.
"Yes, I am. As I said earlier, my full name is Son Serenity Usagi Skyler Sakura."
"And you don't have any other siblings or anything, do you?" Usagi asked, grinning.
Skyler glanced at Gohan and grinned. "As a matter of fact, I have—"
Gohan's eyes grew wide as plates. "What?!"
"None," she finished, laughing. Usagi joined in the laughter, seeing her daughter's joke, even though Usagi didn't originally mean it that way.
Gohan tried to glare at the two giggling girls, but he couldn't keep a straight face. He, too, started to laugh.
After the laughted died down, the three once again started to eat the food that had been laid out on the table. Gohan paused to notice that Skyler had the same eating habits as himself and Usagi. But it wasn't that she ate sloppily and like a pig {no, neither do Usagi or Gohan}, she just ate steadily and a lot.
After all the food was gone, Skyler thanked Gohan for the meal and helped to clear the dishes off the table.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of washing them. Usagi, you might as well show her around the house," Gohan said, walking into the kitchen, carrying in the last of the dishes.
"So what exactly brings you here, Skye?" Usagi asked as she was walking up the stairs.
'She calls me Skye, no-one else, just like my real mother does.' She smiled, but then her expression grew serious. "Actually, I came to warn you about a danger you will be facing in the future. It has already attacked my time, but we have it contained, at least temporarily."
Usagi looked at her future daughter with sympathetic eyes. "How horrible... "
"Yes. Father nearly died trying to hold it off." She looked down at her feet. "But Mother saved him. You two are such a loving couple and care for each other very deeply."
Usagi looked away from her daughter and blushed slightly, smiling. "So how long do we have?" she asked, just as they arrived at her room. "I guess you can sleep in here."
"Thank you. Let's get resettled, then I'll tell you. Is that alright?" Skyler asked, stepping inside the room.
"Sure."
Usagi went to the big closet and pulled out a mat, some blankets, and many pillows {I like pillows! ^.^;;}. She set them up on the floor next to her bed, leaving space in between the two. "Do you have anything with you? I didn't see you bring anything with you."
"That's because I used capsules," she answered, pulling a case out of a pocket at her belt. She picked one out and tossed it onto the floor, revealing a trunk full of clothing (mainly fighting gi's). She tossed another one, this time causing another trunkful of personal belongings to appear. She pulled out one last one; this time it was a pack of survival gear (like knives, a canteen, a bow and arrow, a smal tent, etc.).
"The gear can go in the closet, along with your clothes," Usagi said, already hanging some of the clothes up. "You can do what you want with your other belongings."
"Okay, thanks." Skyler first tossed her pack of survival gear in the closet, then opened up her trunk of personal belongings. The first thing she took out was a package wrapped in brown paper. She carefully unwrapped it, revealing a velvet-bound photo album. She caressed it with her fingers and laid it aside. The second thing she took out was a doll, a beautiful doll made to resemble her grandmother, Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom {aaw! I want one of those! Hmm... maybe I'll make one... ^.^;;}. She hugged it, kissed it, and put it aside along with her photo album. She reached inside the trunk for a heavily-packaged item. She unwrapped it carefully, and when she pulled it out of its wrappings, a bright light filled the room.
"Woah!" Usagi cried, blinded by the sudden light. She stumbled and fell onto her bed, her eyes squeezed shut. "What is this light?"
Skyler wrapped both hands around the shining object, to lessen the light it was emitting.
Usagi cracked an eye open, to see if it was still to bright to look. When she saw that Skyler was covering the shining object, she opened the other eye. "What is that?"
Skyler didn't take her hands from around the object until the shine died down to a faint glow. She took one hand from around it, letting Usagi see what it was.
"It's... it's the ginzuishou!" Usagi stared at the crystal in her daughter's hand.
"Hai, it is." Skyler pressed her other hand on it again, and it instantly transformed into an intricate tiara. She placed it upon her own head. "This, believe it or not, is the safest place to put it, the safest place to keep it. It emits no ki when in this form."
"I see," Usagi said, staring at the ginzuishou-tiara. 'She's right, it *doesn't* emit any ki anymore! I wonder how that works...'
Skyler took her belongings and set them on her mat, shoving the trunk against the wall.
"Now," she said, sitting crosslegged on her mat, "I will tell you my story."
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Okay! Yay! See, I *did* make this chapter a lot longer! ^_~;;V Well, anyways, review please! Do you like my character, Skyler? Well, anways, I'm open for suggestions, and if ur gonna flame me, well, I'll just roast marshmallows with them. Heh. ^.~—V So anyways, R&R! Lots and lots!
ja ne, Tsu