Chapter 2: An Enemy
that is You
Ami sighed as her mother came in the room, "Ami are you okay? Rei, Makoto, Minako, are you girls okay?"
"We'd be better if we weren't chained down," Rei muttered.
Dr. Mizuno smiled, "I take that as a yes."
"Mom who brought us here?" Ami asked.
"We're not sure, but the nurse who found you swears she saw a tall man in a cape and top hat running away from the door, and when she found you there were rose petals lying as a bed for you to lay softly on. Whoever it was I owe them a lot."
The others exchanged satisfied glances, of course, who else would it have been?
"It's not important though, what is important is finding out what happened to you four and finding and catching whoever did it," Dr. Mizuno grew angry.
They all shifted uncomfortably.
Ami looked up sweetly, "I don't remember what happened."
The others caught on and played along shaking their heads looking at one another for answers.
"What?" Dr. Mizuno asked curiously, "Not at all?"
They all shook their heads, "I wish I did, but I can't remember a thing, the last thing I remember is leaving the house to go get an ice cream with Chibi-usa," Ami lied.
"You must have blocked out all the bad memories, I suppose it's better that way, I don't want to dig them back up. It could hurt your health," Dr. Mizuno looked disappointed, she wanted justice for her daughter and her friends.
Don't worry mom, we'll get them, I'll get them for you, Ami promised her mother silently.
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"Dark Senshi? Helios do you know something about the enemy?" Mamoru asked.
Helios nodded, "A long time ago in the Silver Millenium," Helios began.
Mamoru sighed silently, every time he heard the words Silver and Millenium in the same sentence he cringed. Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion would be wed whether he wanted it or not. Again he looked up at the moon, he wished he could destroy it, destroy the future. Why couldn't he live his own life?
"When the senshi were not needed and everyone was happy, the senshi themselves were not. They were unneeded, but yet Princess Serenity insisted on them staying in the palace with her at all times. She wouldn't let them lead their own lives, wouldn't let them be themselves. They began to get hateful towards their Princess and they created replacements of themselves so they could leave, Princess Serenity would never know. But something went wrong, the clones became their own people, they consumed the hate in the senshi's heart and grew on it. They evolved so much so that they were their own people, they no longer looked like the senshi or were anything like them. They were their own, an evil senshi. They soon created their own weapons and they each took on names, Sailor Mercury's clone was known as Seaharmony, Sailor Mars' was known as Firesnake, Sailor Jupiters' was Nightdragon, and Sailor Venus' Sunlash," Helios explained.
"That still doesn't explain Sailor Moon's clone," Mamoru told him, trying to find anyway out of this horrible truth, the senshi weren't like that, they couldn't. Though it did sound amazingly like something Usagi would do, she kept him prisoner.
"Princess Serenity made a clone of herself to free herself from the senshi that she held prisoner, they followed her everywhere and when she wanted to be alone it was nearly impossible, her clone grew too, and eventually it found the other's in the Dark Senshi, and they gave her a name and the most powerful weapon of all. Sailor Moon's clone was given the name Blackpearl, and the weapon she carries with her is known as the Dark Opal Wand. It has sucked up so much magic and power in the past years that it can equal and possibly overpower the strength of the Silver Imperium Crystal.
With the combined strength of all the senshi and Princess Serenity they were able to bottle up the Dark Senshi in a small box, the Dark Box. They hid it on earth, somewhere no one would ever open it, but apparently someone has," Helios finished his story.
"These Dark Senshi, is there a way to defeat them?" Mamoru asked growing afraid for the senshi and for himself.
Helios nodded solemnly, "There are three ways to defeat them."
"How?" Mamoru asked cautiously he didn't like the look on Helios' face.
"The senshi must destroy themselves and the clones will be destroyed with them. You could try and overpower them, but that would be hard and dangerous. They have spent a long time in solitude their power growing more and more each day. It might not even be possible anymore. The last thing you could do would be to revive the Ocean's Rose."
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Dr. Mizuno insisted on giving each girl their own room. They needed rest now, not talk and Ami lay in her bed wide awake. Her side felt like there were a thousand knives jabbing in it again and again and again, and her shoulder was no better. Suddenly she felt a current flow through her and Setsuna's presence surrounded her. "Setsuna?" she whispered quietly.
Sailor Pluto appeared in front of her, "In your past you and the other Inner Senshi made a horrible mistake and now it's come back to haunt you. Ami there is so much more about your past that you don't know, but will soon learn. For now you must be healthy to fight so I want you to take this," Pluto waved her time key and a small sapphire with the symbol of Mercury engraved on it appeared in midair, "It can only gain enough strength to heal you once a day so be careful, and good luck," Sailor Pluto wished her well as she disappeared.
The stone landed on her bed and carefully she picked it up. As soon as the stone touched her fingers water surrounded her and she came out fully transformed and healed. Her outfit was no longer torn or dingy and the small stone was placed properly in her tiara. She smiled and whispered a quick thank you to Sailor Pluto. Quickly she wrote her mother a note:
Mom~
I know this may sound strange, but I'm completely healed. I'm
going to be gone a few days, please don't worry. I'll be able to explain soon I
hope.
I
love you and will see you soon
She left the note on the bed and jumped from her window, she had to find Usagi.
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"Stupid cast," Rei reached down to itch her cast, when two crows flew through the window, "Phobos? Deimos?" she asked happily.
They landed on her bed and dropped a small ruby with her symbol engraved into it on her lap. It was attached to a note in Ami's handwriting:
This is a healing stone. Touch it and it will heal you, but it only works once a day so be careful, meet me at Usagi's as soon as you can.
Rei didn't waste any time, she picked up the stone and fire engulfed her. She came out healed and transformed her new jewel firmly placed in her tiara.
"Thank you, Phobos, Deimos, thank you," she told them as she jumped out the window. She ran through the streets headed for Usagi's. The two crows squawked their good byes and good lucks.
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"If the senshi die, the Dark Senshi die, so wouldn't it be if the Dark Senshi kill the true senshi they will be killed as well?" Mamoru asked Helios.
"Only if they kill themselves will the others be killed as well," Helios explained.
"That leaves only one plausible choice. So what is the Ocean's Rose and how can we revive it?" Mamoru questioned.
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Makoto slept silently when Sailor Neptune gently shook her awake. When she saw who had awoken her and looked to her other side and saw Sailor Uranus her eyes grew wide, "How?" she questioned.
"We don't have time to explain all we can do is give you this," Uranus held out her hand and inside lay a small emerald with Jupiter's sign cut into it.
"It is a healing stone, it only works once every twenty four hours though, so be extremely careful. Your new enemy is you, only more powerful," Neptune spoke quickly.
"Your past in the Silver Millenium will come back to destroy you, and the rest of the Inner Senshi, you must revive the Ocean's Rose," Sailor Uranus told her as they faded away.
"What's the Ocean's Rose?" Makoto demanded as they disappeared.
When they didn't answer she grabbed the stone, immediately she was in a giant ball of thunder, when it let her out she was healed and in her outfit, ready for battle. She looked in the mirror, her new stone was placed in her tiara.
She jumped out the window, she would find the other senshi somewhere around Usagi's she guessed. When she hit the ground Luna came from under the bushes, "Jupiter! You too! Wonderful, they all were going to Usagi's," Luna told her. Jupiter nodded and ran toward Usagi's house.
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Minako tossed and turned trying to get to sleep, something was going on, and she couldn't get up to see what it was.
"Minako, I have something for you, something important," Artemis jumped onto her bed.
"Artemis," Minako smiled.
"I was sent to give you this," Artemis lay a small yellow sapphire with her symbol scratched into it. "It is a healing stone, it will provide you with enough power to heal all your injuries once every twenty-four hours, but only once."
"Do you know about the new enemy?" Minako inquired.
Artemis nodded solemnly, "They are the Dark Senshi, Seaharmony, Firesnake, Nightdragon, Sunlash, and Blackpearl, they are you, your clones. You made a horrible mistake in the Silver Millennium and created them, now you must destroy them. Revive the Ocean's Rose," Artemis told her before he jumped out the window.
"How?!" Minako demanded, but it was too late. She grabbed the stone and a wave of love hit her giving her its strength. When it let go she was healed and transformed.
She gently touched her tiara, her new stone was still warm.
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Something lead Sailor Mercury to Mamoru's apartment, maybe her sense for Usagi was leading her there, it was very possible. She went up and knocked on his door.
Slowly Mamoru got up to answer it, when he opened it his heart stopped, Mercury.
"Mamoru, is Usagi here?" she asked quickly.
Mamoru shook his head, "How, did you get better?" he inquired astounded.
"Sailor Pluto gave me a healing stone, and told me some about the enemy, but I don't know enough, I was wondering if Usagi knew anything we don't."
"I doubt she does, but I do, come in," Mamoru opened the door so she could get in.
"Thank you," she bowed quickly and walked in.
"Sailor Mercury," Helios bowed.
"Helios," she bowed back.
"Tell us what you've learned and we'll fill in the gaps," Mamoru instructed her.
"Today, when we fought I gathered some data about the new enemy, they're human, or at least as human as we are. And then when Pluto gave me my stone, she said that the new enemy was a mistake of our past, but there was more about my past that she didn't have time to explain," Sailor Mercury told them what she knew.
"A mistake, yes, human yes, but more than that," Helios told her.
"Helios you know about them?" Mercury asked.
Helios nodded, "It all started in the Silver Millennium," he began.
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Sailor Mars jumped up onto Usagi's balcony and tapped gently on her glass door.
When no one answered she muttered, "I should have known better," and jumped onto the roof and knocked on Chibi-usa's window.
Chibi-usa woke up right away and opened the window for her, "Sailor Mars, how did you get better?"
"All the senshi are better, we all received healing stones," Mars pointed to the stone in her tiara.
"Wow, I suppose you're here for Usagi right?" Chibi-usa asked looking glum.
She nodded, "Why so down?" she asked.
"Helios didn't come today, he hasn't come to see me since, and I'm worried. Maybe he's mad at me," Chibi-usa looked to her crystal ball Helios had given her.
"I doubt that," Mars told her.
Just as Chibi-usa looked away, Helios appeared in the ball, "Small maiden," he said softly seeing her, "Good, Sailor Mars, where are the other senshi?"
"Helios!" Chibi-usa squeaked happily.
"They're on their way," Mars told him.
"Tell them to meet Mamoru and I at his apartment, we need to speak to you. And small maiden, I am truly sorry I did not come today," Helios apologized.
"It's okay as long as you're not mad," Chibi-usa told him as Sailor Mars called all the senshi and told them what Helios had told her.
"I could never get mad at you," he told her and was gone.
Chibi-usa smiled, dazed.
"Ready to go wake up the rock?" Mars asked Chibi-usa smiling.
Chibi-usa nodded laughing.
They walked downstairs and into Usagi's room.
Mars tapped her on the shoulder, but she didn't move.
"Watch and learn," Chibi-usa said smiling wickedly. She jumped onto the bed and then jumped onto Usagi.
Usagi screamed sitting up, "Why you," she began.
"No time for that, we've got to get to Mamoru's the rest of the senshi are going to meet us there," Mars began, "Hurry and transform."
"How?" Usagi began, looking at Sailor Mars startled.
She glared back at her and Usagi and Chibi-usa held up their hands, "Moon Cosmic Power Makeup!" they shouted transforming. When they were fully transformed they all ran outside jumping from Usagi's balcony and running toward Mamoru's.
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"They're on their way," Helios told Mamoru and Sailor Mercury.
"Good," Sailor Mercury shook her head, "But I still can't believe we'd want to abandon the Princess like that."
"You felt you weren't needed," Helios told her.
"Princess Serenity always needs us, whether she's in danger or not, we were so foolish."
Mamoru sighed, if the senshi were on their way that meant Sailor Moon was too.
"Mamoru? What's wrong?" Sailor Mercury felt his distress, and had the overwhelming urge to try and help.
"Nothing," he lied, "You senshi are just too hard on yourselves. Look at what Princess Serenity did, she held you captive, and then made another clone to get away from you," it was so luck Usagi, selfish. He told himself not to be hard on himself, but somehow he couldn't get over the growing hate he had for her.
"You shouldn't speak of her in that tone," Mercury told him.
"What's wrong Prince?" Helios asked worried, "Lately you've been so distressed."
"It's nothing, don't worry about it, it won't affect me forever," Mamoru assured them. I hope, he told his mind looking at Sailor Mercury.
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In the future, King Endymion was worried, he knew what he was facing in the past, though he had never faced it. If they were to bring back the Ocean's Rose, Crystal Tokyo might never be the same.
"I have to prevent this, for Chibi-usa. I can't let them revive her, ever," he told himself.