Hi!! Here is yet another chapter of Love's Ways. Sorry it took so long! I hope
you all enjoy it! That's basically it. Okay, see ya!!
Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing. Both series belong
to their rightful owner(s) and creator(s). Enjoy the story!! =0)
(*****) - Author's Notes
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Love's Ways
Chapter 4 - Cassandra
Author: Krys Yuy
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At Quatre's mansion......
Raye groaned as she awoke. She opened her eyes and looked around the
unfamiliar room. To her right was a bed that contained Amy. Across her and Amy's
beds were Lita and Mina. She was the only one awake at the moment.
"What happened?" she asked herself.
Then everything that had occurred hit her full blow. Serena being the Moon
Princess. Queen Beryl attacking and knocking her out.
'Where is Meatball Head?' Raye thought, panicking. 'No.. no.. we... she.. she
has to be here!!'
A moan came from Amy. Raye turned toward her blue haired friend. Amy
sat up in the bed.
"Where are we?" Amy asked her.
"I don't know," Raye answered.
Some more groans came from across the room. Mina and Lita awoke and sat
up. All four teenagers just kind of stared at each other, looking from one familiar
face to another.
Mina suddenly had tears in her eyes. "What happened to Serena?" she asked
timidly.
"We don't know," Amy said. "All I remember is apologizing to her and then
blacking out."
"What could have gone wrong?" Lita asked quietly. 'Serena.... where are
you?'
*****
'Where am I?' Serena thought as she awoke. She looked around and found
herself in a very dark room, lit with only candles and torches. She tried to move but
found herself bound to a table.
"So you're finally awake," a voice said.
Serena turned her head to be faced with the cold stare of Malachite. She
shuddered but tried to be brave. "What did you do with my friends? What are you
going to do with me?"
Malachite laughed coldly. "Oh, my queen left your friends to fend for
themselves. As for you..." He had an odd gleam in his eye. "We're turning you to
our side."
Serena gasped in horror. "No! I won't let you!!"
The last dark general smirked. "And how are you going to stop me, little
princess?" he asked sarcastically. "You are still too weak and there is no one here to
help you."
Serena slumped her head in defeat. There was no way she could escape. Her
friends had no idea where she was and would not make it in time. 'What's going to
happen?'
"Queen Beryl has ordered me to take care of this little task," Malachite
informed her. He cupped his palms and dark energy started to gather. Suddenly,
without warning, it sped towards her.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Serena screamed as the energy began to flow through her
system and mind, slowly, painfully erasing her memory of her loved ones. Turning
her to their side, she tried to fight it but was too weak. 'It's no use... I won't be able
to fight it much longer. I'm sorry, my friends, for what they're going to make me do.
Please forgive me....' Before the last of her memories were erased, she yelled out one
word, or rather, name. "Heero!!!"
*****
Heero woke up with a start. He had heard Serena scream his name. He
looked around and found himself in his room at Quatre's mansion. He sat up in his
bed quickly. 'Where's Serena?' he thought, worrying. 'What the hell happened?'
Heero rushed out of his room and advanced towards the large living room.
There, he found his fellow pilots on one side with Serena's friends on the other. He
wondered about how they had gotten there. However, he didn't waste his time with
matters that were unimportant.
(AN: The pilots had informed the Senshi of what had happened. They had
detransformed unconsciously while on their way to Quatre's mansion, so everyone
knew their identities, except for Heero.)
Heero rushed to the Gundam pilots and fiercely asked them, "Where is
Serena?"
Quatre looked up at him sadly but didn't say anything. Duo just turned
away. Wufei and Trowa just said nothing from their position on the couch. Raye,
Lita, Mina, and Amy were whispering amongst themselves and didn't hear what he
had asked his co-pilots.
Heero was now getting angry and really starting to panic, though his face
didn't show it. "I said," Heero gritted through his teeth. "Where is Serena? What
happened to her?" He took out and pointed his gun at them. "TELL ME NOW!!!"
he roared.
"Now, Heero, buddy, don't over react," Duo stated. "Let's ta-"
"Over react?" Heero interrupted with his eyes blazing. "How can I not over
react when you won't tell me where the girl I love is?!" 'Great, now the whole world
will know,' he thought.
All the pilots were stunned for a moment. The 'Perfect Soldier' had actually
fallen in love!! Was it even possible?
Quatre stood up and spoke to Heero gently. "Heero, please calm down.
You're disturbing our guests."
Heero turned towards Serena's friends to see their surprised looks. He
reluctantly put his gun away. "Please, just tell me where she is," he requested, trying
hard not to yell.
Wufei stated as he looked his leader in the eye, "They took her."
"WHAT?!" Heero screamed as his rage was again let loose by those three
little words.
Trowa spoke quietly. "She was taken away by Queen Beryl, whoever that is,
and we could do nothing. Regular weapons did not work against her."
Heero shook his head in denial. This couldn't be happening to him. Just
when he was so close to actually opening up and showing emotion. Just when he had
found the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, she was taken away in
the same day. His sanity was truly being tested. "There must have been something
you could have done. Anything..." he muttered desperately. "I should have
protected her!!" His voice level was again rising considerably. "I should have been
there! I gave up too easily."
"Please, Heero," Quatre said. "We'll get her back, I promise."
Heero started to back out of the room. "You don't understand! I love her! I
NEED her!!" With those vows said, he ran out of the room to try to find some way
to get Serena back.
"Why do I get the feeling something big is going to happen?" Lita asked.
*****
Queen Beryl looked up from her floating orb to her general, Malachite.
"What is it you have to report?"
The general bowed respectfully to his queen. "I have finished the *ahem*
'modifications' on Princess Serenity, my queen."
The evil queen nodded her approval. "Where is she?"
Malachite turned his head slightly toward the lurking shadows. A figure
stepped forth. She had on a tight black dress with spaghetti straps that went down
to just above her ankles. Two long slits traveled all the way to her thighs, revealing
an incredible amount of flesh. (Similar to Black Lady's dress in the manga) Blood
red high heels matched her nails and crystal earrings. Her throat had a choker that
was deep ebony. Her usual golden hair was now pale and cut past her shoulders.
Her sparkling sapphire eyes were now dull and hard. They flashed red as her gaze
fell respectfully (yeah right) on her queen.
"Does she have a new name?" Queen Beryl asked, studying her new minion
closely.
"My queen," said Malachite, bowing slightly. "I'm proud to introduce your
new general, Cassandra."
"You have chosen her name well," the queen complimented. "Now as for
you..." She turned toward the pale blond. "I have your first assignment. I want you
to gather more energy for the Negaforce and please get rid of those annoying
Senshi!!"
Cassandra bowed before Queen Beryl. "I will not fail, my queen."
"You better make sure of that. Three of my generals have promised success
but now two are dead and the other in eternal sleep. You and Malachite are now the
only ones who can bring the energy that Metallia needs. Now.. go!"
Cassandra eyes flashed yet again as she disappeared in a flurry of cherry
blossoms.
*****
At Quatre's mansion....
Amy's communicator beeped suddenly, disturbing all in the room.
"What is that noise?" asked Wufei.
"Just our communicators," Amy said matter-of-factly, while turning on the
com./calculator. "Mercury, here."
"We need the Sailor Senshi at the local shopping center!! Hurry!!!" Luna's
urgent voice broke through the air. The com. link died out.
"Well, you heard Luna," Mina said, jumping up.
Lita pumped her fist into the air enthusiastically. "Lets go kick some ass!"
Duo grinned and winked at her. "Now, that's my kind of girl!!"
Lita heard this and blushed brightly. However, she remember what they had
to do and raised her green power stick into the air. "Jupiter Power!" Her teammates
followed her example.
"Mars Power!!"
"Venus Power!"
"Mercury Power!!"
The four Gundam pilots in the room had to shield their eyes from the energy
and light that emanated from the power sticks. Lightning, fire, light, and water
disappeared in the next instant, leaving the Inner Senshi in their wake. The pilots
gaped at the Senshi as they noticed just how short the girls' skirts were.
"Wow...." Duo drooled.
"Idiot," Wufei and Raye muttered at the same time, under their breath.
"Guys, come on!" Mina reminded them. "We have to get to the location
Luna told us!!"
Everyone nodded and quickly left. The boys getting their Gundams and the
Senshi teleporting, not noticing the lone figure following them.
*****
Cassandra laughed as her band of twenty youma sucked the energy dry of
the common pedestrians. Something was tugging at the back of her mind as she
continued to watch all this. She dismissed it quickly, though wondering about this
guilty feeling she was having. Suddenly, a voice rang through the air.
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!!"
Cassandra tried in vain to see through the fog but dodged just in time to miss
a ball of fire. The fog cleared and she glared at the nuisances. "So... you're the Sailor
Senshi? Don't look so tough to me."
Mars glared at the new general. "Who are you, anyway? Another of Beryl's
minions?" 'Why does she look so familiar?'
"It doesn't matter who I am," she replied evenly. "But can you handle this
many youma?"
"No," Jupiter replied. Cassandra smirked but it faded as four Gundams
appeared, starting to attack her followers. "But they can."
"Fine, I'll deal with you myself." Cassandra created a ball of energy and sent
it soaring towards Mercury and Mars. They dodged seconds before the blast was
going to hit them.
Venus powered her attack. "Venus Crescent Beam Smash!!!"
The beam of light headed for the general but fizzled out as she raised her
hand toward the energy. She smirked and taunted, "Please tell me that's not all you
got now, is it?"
"Why you-- Jupiter Thunder Crash!!"
"Pathetic." Cassandra sent the energy flying back to its wielder who got
knocked to the ground.
"Nothing's working!"
"Haven't we been through this already?"
The Gundams had finished off the youma and were now seeing if the Senshi
needed any assistance. They finally got a good look at what was going on.
"Umm... that slit is very high, don't you think?" Duo asked from the cockpit
of Deathscythe. (He has a one track mind, doesn't he? Lol!! ^_^ Just kidding!!)
Quatre just nodded, while blushing furiously. "I think it needs to be
lowered." He then turned his attention back to the scene before him because she was
again speaking.
"Just face the facts," Cassandra sneered. "You can't win this." An emotional
pain tore through her, though she didn't know why as she threw two blasts of dark
energy, hitting the Senshi squarely. "Now, I'll... finish you... off." It took some
difficulty for her to say those words.
Trowa studied their enemy from his Gundam in his silent way. 'That voice....
hair.... eyes.... dull... emotionless..." His eyes widened in recognition as he figured
out who the new general really was. "Guys... that's Serena!!"
"WHAT?!" the other three pilots exclaimed in surprise.
Just as a deadly blast was going to be released yet again, a whisper was
carried through the air. "Dead Scream."
End of Chapter 4 - Cassandra
Coming Soon - Chapter 5 - Awaken
Cliffhanger!! Heh... heh.... heh.. Sorry, for all of you fans out there! I know
how much you guys hate it but I just had to do it. Yeah and I know that some of you
didn't want her to be brainwashed... but what can you do about it?? My other fics
are being worked on right now. My home page will definitely be up on October 12,
my birthday!! Hurrah!!! I will give out my address then. And yes, the pilots will get
their memories back soon, so don't bug me about it!! Okay, remember to review or
e-mail me at TrueLve@aol.com if you have any suggestions or comments. Please, no
flames!! And here is a preview of the next chapter:
The woman held a large staff shaped like a key. Her magneta eyes held
mystery, wisdom, and age that no human woman could experience. Her gaze was
intense and secretive. Finally, she spoke on statement to the silent Senshi and pilots.
"It's time." With that said, she rose her staff into the air as her garnet orb blinked
and blanketed the group in a red light, leaving no trace of them.
What is it time for? What will happen to Cassandra.. umm.. I mean Serena?
Where is Heero? Will any one of them finally learn the truth? Find out next time!!
(Yeesh, that sounded really corny.) Anyways, ja ne!! Always, Krys =0)
you all enjoy it! That's basically it. Okay, see ya!!
Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing. Both series belong
to their rightful owner(s) and creator(s). Enjoy the story!! =0)
(*****) - Author's Notes
*********************************
Love's Ways
Chapter 4 - Cassandra
Author: Krys Yuy
*********************************
At Quatre's mansion......
Raye groaned as she awoke. She opened her eyes and looked around the
unfamiliar room. To her right was a bed that contained Amy. Across her and Amy's
beds were Lita and Mina. She was the only one awake at the moment.
"What happened?" she asked herself.
Then everything that had occurred hit her full blow. Serena being the Moon
Princess. Queen Beryl attacking and knocking her out.
'Where is Meatball Head?' Raye thought, panicking. 'No.. no.. we... she.. she
has to be here!!'
A moan came from Amy. Raye turned toward her blue haired friend. Amy
sat up in the bed.
"Where are we?" Amy asked her.
"I don't know," Raye answered.
Some more groans came from across the room. Mina and Lita awoke and sat
up. All four teenagers just kind of stared at each other, looking from one familiar
face to another.
Mina suddenly had tears in her eyes. "What happened to Serena?" she asked
timidly.
"We don't know," Amy said. "All I remember is apologizing to her and then
blacking out."
"What could have gone wrong?" Lita asked quietly. 'Serena.... where are
you?'
*****
'Where am I?' Serena thought as she awoke. She looked around and found
herself in a very dark room, lit with only candles and torches. She tried to move but
found herself bound to a table.
"So you're finally awake," a voice said.
Serena turned her head to be faced with the cold stare of Malachite. She
shuddered but tried to be brave. "What did you do with my friends? What are you
going to do with me?"
Malachite laughed coldly. "Oh, my queen left your friends to fend for
themselves. As for you..." He had an odd gleam in his eye. "We're turning you to
our side."
Serena gasped in horror. "No! I won't let you!!"
The last dark general smirked. "And how are you going to stop me, little
princess?" he asked sarcastically. "You are still too weak and there is no one here to
help you."
Serena slumped her head in defeat. There was no way she could escape. Her
friends had no idea where she was and would not make it in time. 'What's going to
happen?'
"Queen Beryl has ordered me to take care of this little task," Malachite
informed her. He cupped his palms and dark energy started to gather. Suddenly,
without warning, it sped towards her.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Serena screamed as the energy began to flow through her
system and mind, slowly, painfully erasing her memory of her loved ones. Turning
her to their side, she tried to fight it but was too weak. 'It's no use... I won't be able
to fight it much longer. I'm sorry, my friends, for what they're going to make me do.
Please forgive me....' Before the last of her memories were erased, she yelled out one
word, or rather, name. "Heero!!!"
*****
Heero woke up with a start. He had heard Serena scream his name. He
looked around and found himself in his room at Quatre's mansion. He sat up in his
bed quickly. 'Where's Serena?' he thought, worrying. 'What the hell happened?'
Heero rushed out of his room and advanced towards the large living room.
There, he found his fellow pilots on one side with Serena's friends on the other. He
wondered about how they had gotten there. However, he didn't waste his time with
matters that were unimportant.
(AN: The pilots had informed the Senshi of what had happened. They had
detransformed unconsciously while on their way to Quatre's mansion, so everyone
knew their identities, except for Heero.)
Heero rushed to the Gundam pilots and fiercely asked them, "Where is
Serena?"
Quatre looked up at him sadly but didn't say anything. Duo just turned
away. Wufei and Trowa just said nothing from their position on the couch. Raye,
Lita, Mina, and Amy were whispering amongst themselves and didn't hear what he
had asked his co-pilots.
Heero was now getting angry and really starting to panic, though his face
didn't show it. "I said," Heero gritted through his teeth. "Where is Serena? What
happened to her?" He took out and pointed his gun at them. "TELL ME NOW!!!"
he roared.
"Now, Heero, buddy, don't over react," Duo stated. "Let's ta-"
"Over react?" Heero interrupted with his eyes blazing. "How can I not over
react when you won't tell me where the girl I love is?!" 'Great, now the whole world
will know,' he thought.
All the pilots were stunned for a moment. The 'Perfect Soldier' had actually
fallen in love!! Was it even possible?
Quatre stood up and spoke to Heero gently. "Heero, please calm down.
You're disturbing our guests."
Heero turned towards Serena's friends to see their surprised looks. He
reluctantly put his gun away. "Please, just tell me where she is," he requested, trying
hard not to yell.
Wufei stated as he looked his leader in the eye, "They took her."
"WHAT?!" Heero screamed as his rage was again let loose by those three
little words.
Trowa spoke quietly. "She was taken away by Queen Beryl, whoever that is,
and we could do nothing. Regular weapons did not work against her."
Heero shook his head in denial. This couldn't be happening to him. Just
when he was so close to actually opening up and showing emotion. Just when he had
found the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, she was taken away in
the same day. His sanity was truly being tested. "There must have been something
you could have done. Anything..." he muttered desperately. "I should have
protected her!!" His voice level was again rising considerably. "I should have been
there! I gave up too easily."
"Please, Heero," Quatre said. "We'll get her back, I promise."
Heero started to back out of the room. "You don't understand! I love her! I
NEED her!!" With those vows said, he ran out of the room to try to find some way
to get Serena back.
"Why do I get the feeling something big is going to happen?" Lita asked.
*****
Queen Beryl looked up from her floating orb to her general, Malachite.
"What is it you have to report?"
The general bowed respectfully to his queen. "I have finished the *ahem*
'modifications' on Princess Serenity, my queen."
The evil queen nodded her approval. "Where is she?"
Malachite turned his head slightly toward the lurking shadows. A figure
stepped forth. She had on a tight black dress with spaghetti straps that went down
to just above her ankles. Two long slits traveled all the way to her thighs, revealing
an incredible amount of flesh. (Similar to Black Lady's dress in the manga) Blood
red high heels matched her nails and crystal earrings. Her throat had a choker that
was deep ebony. Her usual golden hair was now pale and cut past her shoulders.
Her sparkling sapphire eyes were now dull and hard. They flashed red as her gaze
fell respectfully (yeah right) on her queen.
"Does she have a new name?" Queen Beryl asked, studying her new minion
closely.
"My queen," said Malachite, bowing slightly. "I'm proud to introduce your
new general, Cassandra."
"You have chosen her name well," the queen complimented. "Now as for
you..." She turned toward the pale blond. "I have your first assignment. I want you
to gather more energy for the Negaforce and please get rid of those annoying
Senshi!!"
Cassandra bowed before Queen Beryl. "I will not fail, my queen."
"You better make sure of that. Three of my generals have promised success
but now two are dead and the other in eternal sleep. You and Malachite are now the
only ones who can bring the energy that Metallia needs. Now.. go!"
Cassandra eyes flashed yet again as she disappeared in a flurry of cherry
blossoms.
*****
At Quatre's mansion....
Amy's communicator beeped suddenly, disturbing all in the room.
"What is that noise?" asked Wufei.
"Just our communicators," Amy said matter-of-factly, while turning on the
com./calculator. "Mercury, here."
"We need the Sailor Senshi at the local shopping center!! Hurry!!!" Luna's
urgent voice broke through the air. The com. link died out.
"Well, you heard Luna," Mina said, jumping up.
Lita pumped her fist into the air enthusiastically. "Lets go kick some ass!"
Duo grinned and winked at her. "Now, that's my kind of girl!!"
Lita heard this and blushed brightly. However, she remember what they had
to do and raised her green power stick into the air. "Jupiter Power!" Her teammates
followed her example.
"Mars Power!!"
"Venus Power!"
"Mercury Power!!"
The four Gundam pilots in the room had to shield their eyes from the energy
and light that emanated from the power sticks. Lightning, fire, light, and water
disappeared in the next instant, leaving the Inner Senshi in their wake. The pilots
gaped at the Senshi as they noticed just how short the girls' skirts were.
"Wow...." Duo drooled.
"Idiot," Wufei and Raye muttered at the same time, under their breath.
"Guys, come on!" Mina reminded them. "We have to get to the location
Luna told us!!"
Everyone nodded and quickly left. The boys getting their Gundams and the
Senshi teleporting, not noticing the lone figure following them.
*****
Cassandra laughed as her band of twenty youma sucked the energy dry of
the common pedestrians. Something was tugging at the back of her mind as she
continued to watch all this. She dismissed it quickly, though wondering about this
guilty feeling she was having. Suddenly, a voice rang through the air.
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!!"
Cassandra tried in vain to see through the fog but dodged just in time to miss
a ball of fire. The fog cleared and she glared at the nuisances. "So... you're the Sailor
Senshi? Don't look so tough to me."
Mars glared at the new general. "Who are you, anyway? Another of Beryl's
minions?" 'Why does she look so familiar?'
"It doesn't matter who I am," she replied evenly. "But can you handle this
many youma?"
"No," Jupiter replied. Cassandra smirked but it faded as four Gundams
appeared, starting to attack her followers. "But they can."
"Fine, I'll deal with you myself." Cassandra created a ball of energy and sent
it soaring towards Mercury and Mars. They dodged seconds before the blast was
going to hit them.
Venus powered her attack. "Venus Crescent Beam Smash!!!"
The beam of light headed for the general but fizzled out as she raised her
hand toward the energy. She smirked and taunted, "Please tell me that's not all you
got now, is it?"
"Why you-- Jupiter Thunder Crash!!"
"Pathetic." Cassandra sent the energy flying back to its wielder who got
knocked to the ground.
"Nothing's working!"
"Haven't we been through this already?"
The Gundams had finished off the youma and were now seeing if the Senshi
needed any assistance. They finally got a good look at what was going on.
"Umm... that slit is very high, don't you think?" Duo asked from the cockpit
of Deathscythe. (He has a one track mind, doesn't he? Lol!! ^_^ Just kidding!!)
Quatre just nodded, while blushing furiously. "I think it needs to be
lowered." He then turned his attention back to the scene before him because she was
again speaking.
"Just face the facts," Cassandra sneered. "You can't win this." An emotional
pain tore through her, though she didn't know why as she threw two blasts of dark
energy, hitting the Senshi squarely. "Now, I'll... finish you... off." It took some
difficulty for her to say those words.
Trowa studied their enemy from his Gundam in his silent way. 'That voice....
hair.... eyes.... dull... emotionless..." His eyes widened in recognition as he figured
out who the new general really was. "Guys... that's Serena!!"
"WHAT?!" the other three pilots exclaimed in surprise.
Just as a deadly blast was going to be released yet again, a whisper was
carried through the air. "Dead Scream."
End of Chapter 4 - Cassandra
Coming Soon - Chapter 5 - Awaken
Cliffhanger!! Heh... heh.... heh.. Sorry, for all of you fans out there! I know
how much you guys hate it but I just had to do it. Yeah and I know that some of you
didn't want her to be brainwashed... but what can you do about it?? My other fics
are being worked on right now. My home page will definitely be up on October 12,
my birthday!! Hurrah!!! I will give out my address then. And yes, the pilots will get
their memories back soon, so don't bug me about it!! Okay, remember to review or
e-mail me at TrueLve@aol.com if you have any suggestions or comments. Please, no
flames!! And here is a preview of the next chapter:
The woman held a large staff shaped like a key. Her magneta eyes held
mystery, wisdom, and age that no human woman could experience. Her gaze was
intense and secretive. Finally, she spoke on statement to the silent Senshi and pilots.
"It's time." With that said, she rose her staff into the air as her garnet orb blinked
and blanketed the group in a red light, leaving no trace of them.
What is it time for? What will happen to Cassandra.. umm.. I mean Serena?
Where is Heero? Will any one of them finally learn the truth? Find out next time!!
(Yeesh, that sounded really corny.) Anyways, ja ne!! Always, Krys =0)