Dark Side of the Moon
Chapter 3
Rating: G
by: Eowyn (sailoreowyn@bioushosenshi.com)
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailormoon, just love the story. So don't sue me, please!!! 0:-)
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Black Moon Family's Fortress
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"What? Where am I?"
"So, you woke up. It's about time!"
"Who are you? Where am I? What is this place?" She was in a dark room. The spot that she was sitting on was lit, but she couldn't see anything that was out of the circle of light.
"I am called the Wise Man, and this, Rini, this is your new home."
"How did I get here?" Rini demanded. After all, the last thing that she could remember was being in Serena's arms while she was running from Diamond. Then Serena fell and something hit them. She didn't remember what happened next.
"Why, Sailor Moon left you. After you were knocked unconscious, Sailor Moon dropped you on the ground and ran off to the palace. So Diamond, seeing how unloved you were, took pity on you. He thought that you would be much happier here, with us. Here you will be loved and appreciated. We would never leave you alone Rini." Wise Man said in as sweet as a tone as he could muster. He was, after all, not accustomed to lying in a nice voice.
"I don't believe you! Serena wouldn't do that to me! She wouldn't leave me to be taken by you creeps! I'm outta here!" Rini stood up and started walking. However, when
she tried to step out of the circle, she was knocked down to the ground. "What is this?" She said, sitting up and rubbing her head.
"That was a force field. We can't have you running about the palace until we are sure that you'll be a good little girl." Wise Man told the girl and floated closer to where she was sitting.
"Yea right! You just don't want me to escape!" Rini yelled at the ghostly figure.
"That's not true Rini. I care about you. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you!"
"You lie! You don't care about me! But it doesn't matter what you do. My friends will be here to save me. They wouldn't leave me here with *you*!" then Rini turned her
back to Wise Man.
"You poor thing! You think that the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask are going to save you! Turn around, I'll show you what they are doing." Wise Man said. Then he
looked to his crystal ball and whispered something to it, making the image in it project onto the air.
Rini turned around and was shocked at the scene she saw. The Scouts were all there and Tuxedo Mask. They were all laughing about something. Then Sailor Mars spoke up,
"Man, Serena, it's about time you got rid of that spore! She was such a pain!"
"Yea, Serena," it was Sailor Jupiter, "I'm so glad she's gone. She was *so* annoying!"
"She was!" Sailor Venus joined in, "Always wanting something or complaining about something."
"Not to mention," added Sailor Mercury, "all of the times she got into trouble."
"I just couldn't take her anymore, "Serena said, "I knew that if I carried her I would never make it back. So, I just dumped her!" she finished her sentence with a laugh.
"And it's a good thing you left that fungus behind." Tuxedo Mask said, coming up behind Serena and putting his arm around her, "After all, if you hadn't left the annoying
thing behind, I might not have ever seen you again." Then he leaned down and kissed her. After that, the picture faded away.
"See," the Wise Man said turning to Rini, who was now crying her eyes out, "None of them love you! They thought that you were just some annoying thing that got in the way!"
"That's not true! They love me! That was all a lie! You just made that up, I don't believe you!" Rini said. Actually, she wasn't sure if he had made it up. The Sailor Scouts always saved me before, they had to save me from this, didn't they?
"Poor thing! You still don't get it! They were lying to you the entire time! They never truly loved you! They were never there for you! Think back, don't you remember all of the times they left you alone and by yourself. They never really loved you, did they."
"Maybe that was my fault." Rini said quietly to herself, but the Wise Man heard her.
"What do you mean? Surely if they were truly your friends they would have forgiven you of anything that you did wrong. Come here and tell me, I won't hurt you." Then Wise Man deactivated the force field.
Geez, maybe he isn't so bad. Rini thought. My friends never tried to help me with my problems. They always told me to go away. I'm going to talk to him. Then Rini
hesitantly walked out of the circle of light and sat down next to where the Wise Man was hovering. She told him about how she wished she could be more like her mother. How she was always causing trouble and how her mother was so well respected and so lady like. So to solve her problem she went and got the Silver Crystal. She thought that by
using it, she would be more like her mom. Instead, the crystal disappeared as soon as she touched it She was so scared that she started to run away. Her mom went after her, and that's when she had to be put into the quartz crystal because of the attack on the palace.
"I understand now! You blame what happened to your mother on yourself! Well I'm not like your other friends. They were mean and cruel to you weren't they."
"Yes, they were. They never loved me, I was always alone!" As Rini remembered times when her parents hadn't been there for her. She remembered when her friends had been to busy to be with her.
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(Flash Back)
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This is so cool! Rini thought to her self, running through the palace. I just have to show Mommy and Daddy! Were would they be? Hmmmm... Oh yea! They said that they were have a meeting with the Scouts today! Cool! Then I can show everyone my new trick at the same time! Rini ran to the hall where meetings with the Scouts were held. She was so happy and excited when she got there that she burst into the room, throwing manners into the wind and jumping onto the table that everyone was seated at. "Mommy! Daddy! Scouts! Look at what I just learned to do!!" She took out a deck of cards and started to do a trick when she noticed a silence had filled the room. She looked up from the cards and turned to her parents who both had their arms crossed and didn't look pleased at their daughter.
"Rini, how many times have I told you that these meetings are very important!" her mother said. "I told you at breakfast today that we weren't to be disturbed while we were with the Scouts! Now, go to your room until your Father and I are finished here."
Rini had completely forgot about what her Mom said that at breakfast. She turned to her Dad for help but he still looked at her with a stern face. So, putting her cards back in
her pocket and mumbling an apology, Rini walked out of the hall hanging her head and taking small, sad steps.
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(End of Flash Back)
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"They were so mean to me!" Rini cried. "I just wanted to be with them, but they are always doing more important things."
"I'll help you get back at them for being so mean to you, if you want." Wise Man said, hoping that the girl would take the bait.
"You would do that! You would help me?!" Rini said, clearly amazed that this was the terrible Wise Man that her Mommy and Daddy had talked about.
"Of course I would help you! Your friends were so mean to you, leaving you alone, never loving you. I would never do that to you!"
"Ok! What do you want me to do?"
"Just take a step closer." As Rini did this, Wise Man started chanting and dark energy built up around Rini. Though you could no longer see her, you could hear her
voice. Instead of the young voice of an innocent girl, it was the evil cackle of a grown adult.
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The Crystal Palace
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"Mercury, did you and the cats find that youma's weakness?" Jupiter asked.
"Yes. We thought that if it was hit a number of times in the same spot it could be destroyed." Mercury said, double checking the information that Luna and Artemis
had given her.
"All right, we need to take care of Serena." Venus said, taking charge of the situation. She surveyed their immediate area and found what she was looking for. About 30 yards away there was a small group of trees in a courtyard that could be used for cover. "Tuxedo Mask! Pick Serena up and carry her to those trees." He started to do this when Venus got an idea. "Wait, before you go, could you pick a spot on that youma and throw a rose at it so we have something to aim at?"
"No problem Venus." Tuxedo Mask took a rose out of his subspace pocket and threw it right at the center of it's chest. "He's all your girls!" With that he picked up Serena and ran for the trees.
"Ok guys, time to take care of Godzilla." Venus said. "Mercury, some cover please."
"Of course! Mercury Bubbles, Blast!"
" Thank you! Venus Love Chain, Encircle"
"Jupiter Thunder Dragon!"
"Mars Firebird, Strike!"
"Shining Aqua, Illusion!"
The girls kept it up for a while. Switching attacks and dodging energy bursts. Eventually the youma went down.
"Finally! I thought it would never end!" Mars said, thankful for their success.
"I know," said Venus, who was a little upset, "If Serena had been here, it would have be 'moon dusted' way sooner."
"Don't worry! She'll be fine, she's strong!" Jupiter said, comforting Venus. "Let's go see how she's doing!"
The girls all agreed and ran over to the trees. When the approached, Serena was just waking up. Mercury bent over her, immediately pulling out her computer. "Serena, can you hear me?"
"Amy? Scouts? Darien? What happened?" Serena said sitting up and grabbing her head. As the fog that seemed to cloud her mind disappeared, it all came back to her. "Rini!Where is she? What happened? Did you guys save her?" Everyone looked away, tears in their eyes.
"No Serena, I'm sorry, but we just weren't fast enough!" Darien finally said.
"Your kidding, *right* ! You did *not* let that creep take our daughter! I can't believe this! I'm going to save her, Silver Crystal or not!" Serena started storming off in
the direction of the Black Moon Families' fortress.
"Serena stop!" Mercury called after her. "You're not strong enough! Diamond gave you more negative energy! If you go to their strong hold then he'll capture you too!!!"
"But don't you see! I *have* to save her!" she continued marching, until Endymion appeared in front of her.
"Sailor Moon, Serena, I know how you feel. Serenity felt the same way, and now she is trapped in that crystal coffin!" He stopped to collect himself. Every time he
thought of Serenity, he got upset.
"Besides, if you go there now, you won't be able to help her." a mysterious voice said.
Everyone looked around, trying to find the voice."Who are you, show your self!" Serena called out.
Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of the Time Gates appeared before the group of people. "You must go back to the past to save Small Lady now."
"Why would we go to the past if she's here!" Serena argued, tired of being delayed in her rescue.
"It's because she isn't in this time anymore." Pluto explained. "A few minutes ago, several people went through the Time Gates. I would have stopped them but they used an
old passage that I thought was blocked off. By the time I got to them, it was to late. One of these people was Small Lady, I know because I can always sense her presence."
"Fine, if she's in our present, then let's get going." Serena said as she ran towards the Time Gates in the palace. The Scouts and Tuxedo Mask followed with Luna and Artemis on Mercury and Venus' shoulders.
Endymion and Pluto watched as the group ran off. "Endymion, I'm worried." Endymion turned to her and saw a look of distress on the normally emotionless face.
"What's the matter?"
"It's Sailor Moon. Endymion, she doesn't fit the time stream!"
"What are you saying?!"
"I'm saying that unless things change with Sailor Moon quickly, the world you see around you will no longer exist, starting with Small Lady." With this, the woman walked away, leaving a very confused and worried King Endymion behind her.
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"Serena!" Mars called, a little winded but keeping up. The scouts were running through the palace, with Serena very far ahead. " Aren't you going a little fast? Wait for
us!"
"I can't!" she looked over her shoulder as she ran. "You let Rini get captured! I was attacked so the responsibility fell to you." She looked at everyone, but her gaze rested on
Tuxedo Mask. "Because of you, I must save her, and I won't let *anyone* slow me down!" With that said she ran off even faster.
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Hello minna!
How's everyone doing? Gosh, I know it's been ages since I updated last, I'm SO SORRY!!! I hope you guys still read my story! I started working this summer and my free time nose-dived. School hasn't gotten into full swing yet, so I figured that I would post some chapters before I got buried in books. Dorm life is interesting. My roommate seems to know everyone, and well, I know no one. ^_^ Such is life. But it's awesome that I *finally* have someplace for all my anime posters. ^_^ the people hear must think I'm a freak lol ^_^;. So, let me know how you guys think the story is going, send me some mail, I *love* mail. And I'll have the next chapter up in a few. I swear! ^_^
'til next time!
Eowyn *^_^*
Chapter 3
Rating: G
by: Eowyn (sailoreowyn@bioushosenshi.com)
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailormoon, just love the story. So don't sue me, please!!! 0:-)
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Black Moon Family's Fortress
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"What? Where am I?"
"So, you woke up. It's about time!"
"Who are you? Where am I? What is this place?" She was in a dark room. The spot that she was sitting on was lit, but she couldn't see anything that was out of the circle of light.
"I am called the Wise Man, and this, Rini, this is your new home."
"How did I get here?" Rini demanded. After all, the last thing that she could remember was being in Serena's arms while she was running from Diamond. Then Serena fell and something hit them. She didn't remember what happened next.
"Why, Sailor Moon left you. After you were knocked unconscious, Sailor Moon dropped you on the ground and ran off to the palace. So Diamond, seeing how unloved you were, took pity on you. He thought that you would be much happier here, with us. Here you will be loved and appreciated. We would never leave you alone Rini." Wise Man said in as sweet as a tone as he could muster. He was, after all, not accustomed to lying in a nice voice.
"I don't believe you! Serena wouldn't do that to me! She wouldn't leave me to be taken by you creeps! I'm outta here!" Rini stood up and started walking. However, when
she tried to step out of the circle, she was knocked down to the ground. "What is this?" She said, sitting up and rubbing her head.
"That was a force field. We can't have you running about the palace until we are sure that you'll be a good little girl." Wise Man told the girl and floated closer to where she was sitting.
"Yea right! You just don't want me to escape!" Rini yelled at the ghostly figure.
"That's not true Rini. I care about you. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you!"
"You lie! You don't care about me! But it doesn't matter what you do. My friends will be here to save me. They wouldn't leave me here with *you*!" then Rini turned her
back to Wise Man.
"You poor thing! You think that the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask are going to save you! Turn around, I'll show you what they are doing." Wise Man said. Then he
looked to his crystal ball and whispered something to it, making the image in it project onto the air.
Rini turned around and was shocked at the scene she saw. The Scouts were all there and Tuxedo Mask. They were all laughing about something. Then Sailor Mars spoke up,
"Man, Serena, it's about time you got rid of that spore! She was such a pain!"
"Yea, Serena," it was Sailor Jupiter, "I'm so glad she's gone. She was *so* annoying!"
"She was!" Sailor Venus joined in, "Always wanting something or complaining about something."
"Not to mention," added Sailor Mercury, "all of the times she got into trouble."
"I just couldn't take her anymore, "Serena said, "I knew that if I carried her I would never make it back. So, I just dumped her!" she finished her sentence with a laugh.
"And it's a good thing you left that fungus behind." Tuxedo Mask said, coming up behind Serena and putting his arm around her, "After all, if you hadn't left the annoying
thing behind, I might not have ever seen you again." Then he leaned down and kissed her. After that, the picture faded away.
"See," the Wise Man said turning to Rini, who was now crying her eyes out, "None of them love you! They thought that you were just some annoying thing that got in the way!"
"That's not true! They love me! That was all a lie! You just made that up, I don't believe you!" Rini said. Actually, she wasn't sure if he had made it up. The Sailor Scouts always saved me before, they had to save me from this, didn't they?
"Poor thing! You still don't get it! They were lying to you the entire time! They never truly loved you! They were never there for you! Think back, don't you remember all of the times they left you alone and by yourself. They never really loved you, did they."
"Maybe that was my fault." Rini said quietly to herself, but the Wise Man heard her.
"What do you mean? Surely if they were truly your friends they would have forgiven you of anything that you did wrong. Come here and tell me, I won't hurt you." Then Wise Man deactivated the force field.
Geez, maybe he isn't so bad. Rini thought. My friends never tried to help me with my problems. They always told me to go away. I'm going to talk to him. Then Rini
hesitantly walked out of the circle of light and sat down next to where the Wise Man was hovering. She told him about how she wished she could be more like her mother. How she was always causing trouble and how her mother was so well respected and so lady like. So to solve her problem she went and got the Silver Crystal. She thought that by
using it, she would be more like her mom. Instead, the crystal disappeared as soon as she touched it She was so scared that she started to run away. Her mom went after her, and that's when she had to be put into the quartz crystal because of the attack on the palace.
"I understand now! You blame what happened to your mother on yourself! Well I'm not like your other friends. They were mean and cruel to you weren't they."
"Yes, they were. They never loved me, I was always alone!" As Rini remembered times when her parents hadn't been there for her. She remembered when her friends had been to busy to be with her.
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(Flash Back)
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This is so cool! Rini thought to her self, running through the palace. I just have to show Mommy and Daddy! Were would they be? Hmmmm... Oh yea! They said that they were have a meeting with the Scouts today! Cool! Then I can show everyone my new trick at the same time! Rini ran to the hall where meetings with the Scouts were held. She was so happy and excited when she got there that she burst into the room, throwing manners into the wind and jumping onto the table that everyone was seated at. "Mommy! Daddy! Scouts! Look at what I just learned to do!!" She took out a deck of cards and started to do a trick when she noticed a silence had filled the room. She looked up from the cards and turned to her parents who both had their arms crossed and didn't look pleased at their daughter.
"Rini, how many times have I told you that these meetings are very important!" her mother said. "I told you at breakfast today that we weren't to be disturbed while we were with the Scouts! Now, go to your room until your Father and I are finished here."
Rini had completely forgot about what her Mom said that at breakfast. She turned to her Dad for help but he still looked at her with a stern face. So, putting her cards back in
her pocket and mumbling an apology, Rini walked out of the hall hanging her head and taking small, sad steps.
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(End of Flash Back)
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"They were so mean to me!" Rini cried. "I just wanted to be with them, but they are always doing more important things."
"I'll help you get back at them for being so mean to you, if you want." Wise Man said, hoping that the girl would take the bait.
"You would do that! You would help me?!" Rini said, clearly amazed that this was the terrible Wise Man that her Mommy and Daddy had talked about.
"Of course I would help you! Your friends were so mean to you, leaving you alone, never loving you. I would never do that to you!"
"Ok! What do you want me to do?"
"Just take a step closer." As Rini did this, Wise Man started chanting and dark energy built up around Rini. Though you could no longer see her, you could hear her
voice. Instead of the young voice of an innocent girl, it was the evil cackle of a grown adult.
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The Crystal Palace
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"Mercury, did you and the cats find that youma's weakness?" Jupiter asked.
"Yes. We thought that if it was hit a number of times in the same spot it could be destroyed." Mercury said, double checking the information that Luna and Artemis
had given her.
"All right, we need to take care of Serena." Venus said, taking charge of the situation. She surveyed their immediate area and found what she was looking for. About 30 yards away there was a small group of trees in a courtyard that could be used for cover. "Tuxedo Mask! Pick Serena up and carry her to those trees." He started to do this when Venus got an idea. "Wait, before you go, could you pick a spot on that youma and throw a rose at it so we have something to aim at?"
"No problem Venus." Tuxedo Mask took a rose out of his subspace pocket and threw it right at the center of it's chest. "He's all your girls!" With that he picked up Serena and ran for the trees.
"Ok guys, time to take care of Godzilla." Venus said. "Mercury, some cover please."
"Of course! Mercury Bubbles, Blast!"
" Thank you! Venus Love Chain, Encircle"
"Jupiter Thunder Dragon!"
"Mars Firebird, Strike!"
"Shining Aqua, Illusion!"
The girls kept it up for a while. Switching attacks and dodging energy bursts. Eventually the youma went down.
"Finally! I thought it would never end!" Mars said, thankful for their success.
"I know," said Venus, who was a little upset, "If Serena had been here, it would have be 'moon dusted' way sooner."
"Don't worry! She'll be fine, she's strong!" Jupiter said, comforting Venus. "Let's go see how she's doing!"
The girls all agreed and ran over to the trees. When the approached, Serena was just waking up. Mercury bent over her, immediately pulling out her computer. "Serena, can you hear me?"
"Amy? Scouts? Darien? What happened?" Serena said sitting up and grabbing her head. As the fog that seemed to cloud her mind disappeared, it all came back to her. "Rini!Where is she? What happened? Did you guys save her?" Everyone looked away, tears in their eyes.
"No Serena, I'm sorry, but we just weren't fast enough!" Darien finally said.
"Your kidding, *right* ! You did *not* let that creep take our daughter! I can't believe this! I'm going to save her, Silver Crystal or not!" Serena started storming off in
the direction of the Black Moon Families' fortress.
"Serena stop!" Mercury called after her. "You're not strong enough! Diamond gave you more negative energy! If you go to their strong hold then he'll capture you too!!!"
"But don't you see! I *have* to save her!" she continued marching, until Endymion appeared in front of her.
"Sailor Moon, Serena, I know how you feel. Serenity felt the same way, and now she is trapped in that crystal coffin!" He stopped to collect himself. Every time he
thought of Serenity, he got upset.
"Besides, if you go there now, you won't be able to help her." a mysterious voice said.
Everyone looked around, trying to find the voice."Who are you, show your self!" Serena called out.
Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of the Time Gates appeared before the group of people. "You must go back to the past to save Small Lady now."
"Why would we go to the past if she's here!" Serena argued, tired of being delayed in her rescue.
"It's because she isn't in this time anymore." Pluto explained. "A few minutes ago, several people went through the Time Gates. I would have stopped them but they used an
old passage that I thought was blocked off. By the time I got to them, it was to late. One of these people was Small Lady, I know because I can always sense her presence."
"Fine, if she's in our present, then let's get going." Serena said as she ran towards the Time Gates in the palace. The Scouts and Tuxedo Mask followed with Luna and Artemis on Mercury and Venus' shoulders.
Endymion and Pluto watched as the group ran off. "Endymion, I'm worried." Endymion turned to her and saw a look of distress on the normally emotionless face.
"What's the matter?"
"It's Sailor Moon. Endymion, she doesn't fit the time stream!"
"What are you saying?!"
"I'm saying that unless things change with Sailor Moon quickly, the world you see around you will no longer exist, starting with Small Lady." With this, the woman walked away, leaving a very confused and worried King Endymion behind her.
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"Serena!" Mars called, a little winded but keeping up. The scouts were running through the palace, with Serena very far ahead. " Aren't you going a little fast? Wait for
us!"
"I can't!" she looked over her shoulder as she ran. "You let Rini get captured! I was attacked so the responsibility fell to you." She looked at everyone, but her gaze rested on
Tuxedo Mask. "Because of you, I must save her, and I won't let *anyone* slow me down!" With that said she ran off even faster.
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Hello minna!
How's everyone doing? Gosh, I know it's been ages since I updated last, I'm SO SORRY!!! I hope you guys still read my story! I started working this summer and my free time nose-dived. School hasn't gotten into full swing yet, so I figured that I would post some chapters before I got buried in books. Dorm life is interesting. My roommate seems to know everyone, and well, I know no one. ^_^ Such is life. But it's awesome that I *finally* have someplace for all my anime posters. ^_^ the people hear must think I'm a freak lol ^_^;. So, let me know how you guys think the story is going, send me some mail, I *love* mail. And I'll have the next chapter up in a few. I swear! ^_^
'til next time!
Eowyn *^_^*