You know the drill. I don't own Sailor Moon or the other characters from the series. I only own the few characters in here that are my own characters.
Chapter 2
The Pure White Light Descends
A New Enemy
The darkness has been ascending upon this system for a millennium now. But an even greater darkness is coming. One that far exceeds the powers of anything mankind has ever seen. It comes from a system many light years from the Earth. Can anything stop this darkness? Only time can tell. Serena wipes the sweat from her forehead. "Overslept again?" Serena nods, still panting.
"Why can't you get to school early?"
"Some of aren't morning people Apollo!"
The professor enters the classroom. "Everyone please sit down." Everyone does. "All right, everyone please turn in their homework from last night." Everyone gets up and puts their papers on the teacher's desk. Everyone that is except Apollo. The teacher looks directly at him. "Apollo aren't you going to turn in your homework?"
"I didn't do it."
"What?"
"I didn't do it."
"Why not?"
"Mostly because I didn't feel like it."
The teacher is shocked. "After the outstanding scores you got on your tests I am rather disappointed in you. Just do it next time."
Serena turns to Apollo. "Even I did the homework. Did you forget or something?"
"No. I don't do homework. I have other things to keep me busy after school."
"Oh I almost forgot." Serena says turning to Ami and Lyta. "14 more days."
"Yes we know." They both say in unison.
Apollo looks a bit puzzled. He turns to Ami, "14 days till what?"
"Until Darien comes back from America."
"Who's Darien, and why is he in America?"
"Her boyfriend. He goes to college in America. She's been counting down the days for the past two months."
"Oh." Apollo looks at Serena. She's looking off into space, "She's probably having a daydream about him." He thinks.
The day is a normal day. At the end Serena, Lyta, and Ami begin to leave with each other like always. Ami and Lyta look around as they leave the school. "What are you two looking for?"
"Not what. Who."
"Who?"
"Where's Apollo?" Right on cue the sound of an engine starting and tires peeling out are heard. A white bike flies onto the road. The bike pops a wheelie as it speeds down the road.
"That rider looked like a professional."
"Wasn't that Apollo?"
"Huh?"
"I think that was Apollo."
"I don't know. I didn't get a good look at the driver."
"Me either."
A little while later, Mina is walking down the sidewalk by a scrap yard. She stops in front of the entrance to the scrap yard. The sound of crashing metal and metal hitting metal is a common sound that comes from most yards like this one. But the sound that Mina is most interested in is the sound of a man straining, working very hard, and yelling out. She feels a strange urge to go and check it out. "Should I or shouldn't I?" She asks herself. Finally curiosity wins. "I should." She says as she walks through the opening. She slowly makes her way to where the sounds are coming from. The sounds suddenly stop as she turns a corner. There in front of her is Apollo. He has on a muscle shirt and a pair of shorts that reach down to below his knees. It is fairly obvious that he has been working out. He is sweating slightly. Mina simply stares at him for a moment. "What is he doing?" Around Apollo are the remains of car door, engine, wheels, and other assorted automobile parts. Now he is walking around two stacks of car doors, each about four feet high, and three car doors set standing on the ground. Apollo places his sword in the ground near one of the stacks of car doors. The car doors are arranged with the three free standing ones to the right and the stacks to the left. Apollo goes to the far right and gets into a fighting stance. "He's not going to," Mina thinks to herself. "He's crazy if," Apollo attacks. The first door he punches, the second he elbows, and the third he kicks. All of his attacks make holes in the doors. Before Mina can even express her shock Apollo attacks the two stacks. He jumps into the air and brings his hand down upon the doors. The force of the impact not only shatters the door but it also causes the ground below the doors to form a small crater. Immediately Apollo is up. He grabs his sword and makes multiple slashes at the other pile of doors. Finally he stops. The stack of doors fall off in pieces as he places the sword back in its sheath. "Unreal." Mina thinks to herself.
Apollo suddenly stands erect. "Who's there?"
"Huh?" Mina walks out into view. "How did you know I was here?"
"I had a feeling I was being watched." Apollo kicks at some of the junk left over from his workout as he walks to Mina. "So Mina, what are you doing, spying on me?"
"I wasn't spying. I'm really surprised you remembered my name . . ." She thinks. "Apollo, right?"
He nods. "Your name is easy to remember. If memory serves I saw you once and awhile in London."
"You were in London." He nods. "When?"
"A few years ago."
"Really?" Mina and Apollo talk about London, Tokyo, and themselves. Apollo walks by his bike as Mina walks along side him. They slowly walk all the way to the temple simply enjoying one another's company. They finally arrive at the stairs to the temple.
"Well I guess it's time to say bye, at least for now."
"Yeah. I'll see you later." Mina walks off. "That was really nice." Mina says to herself as she walks on.
Apollo rolls his bike up the stairs. As he is putting it under the roof Rei's grandfather comes out. "Hello Apollo. Have you been training?"
"Yeah."
"What for?"
"I just like to continually improve."
"Let's see how good you are." Grandfather says as he walks into the grass.
"Huh?"
"Attack me." He says as he takes a defensive stance.
"O.k." Apollo takes off his sword and walks into grass. He also takes a defensive stance.
Rei walks outside. "What are they doing?"
Rei's grandfather attacks first. He launches a barrage of kicks and punches. Apollo dodges and blocks all of the attacks. He hops back. "What's wrong young man? Aren't you going to attack me?" Again he attacks.
"I'd rather not." Apollo says while blocking the attacks. "I might hurt you."
"I'm not that frail."
"I never said that. I'm just that strong." Again and again grandfather attacks. Finally he becomes too tired to continue.
"I'm done." He says as he falls to the ground. He looks up at Apollo, who is not even breathing hard. "You are quite good."
"So are you." Apollo stands silent for a moment. "Shot! I forgot to get something." He runs over to his bike. "I'll be back." He hops on his bike and is gone in a flash.
"Sometimes I don't know about that guy."
"That's what I usually say about you." Chad says. "But I guess girls are supposed to be that way."
"That we are." Suddenly Rei becomes aware of something evil. "What is that?" She thinks. She runs inside.
"Did I say something wrong?"
Grandfather puts his hand on Chad's shoulder. "No dear boy, she's just a bit odd."
Inside Rei is already chanting. "I sense something evil in the air. Please fire show me the face of this evil." But the fire will show her nothing. After a few minutes of meditation Rei gets up. "It won't show me anything. Why?" She says aloud. She turns and takes a parting look at the fire. Suddenly the blazing fire goes out. "What?"
"You wish to know what the evil is that is coming?" A voice says.
"What? Who are you? Where are you?" She yells.
"Do you wish to know or not?" The voice asks.
"Yes."
"Very well. Gather your allies. The evil you speak of will appear just after sunset downtown."
"Where downtown?"
"You will see." There is a blinding flash of light, when Rei's vision returns to normal the fire has returned to normal as well. "That was weird." She snaps back to reality. "I've got to call everyone."
Within a few minutes everyone is gathered downtown. The Sailors stand on the top of an apartment building. "Are you sure about this vision?" Sailor Moon groans at Mars.
"It wasn't a vision." Mars corrects Moon.
"Then what was it?" Mercury asks.
"When I was meditating the fire would reveal nothing. But out of no where someone told me. I could feel that he was very strong."
"And we should trust him because of that reason?" Jupiter has always been the skeptic of the group.
"What have we got to lose? I know I felt something evil. This is our best lead so we might as well follow up on it."
"I'm just happy to be back in our Sailor outfits. It's been kind of boring lately." Venus says with a laugh.
"Just keep an eye out for anything suspicious."
"Fine."
Sunset closes in rapidly. Sailor Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus are all looking out over the city. Mars is sitting on the roof meditating. Again she feels the presence of something evil. She jumps up. "I feel something!" The Sailors scan the city.
"Nothing!" They call back.
Mars thinks. Suddenly she gets a premonition. She looks to the sky. "There!" She yells as she points to a streaking comet.
"That?"
"It's just a comet."
"No. I feel something evil coming from it." The comet stops in midair. The white glow becomes smaller and slowly descends to the Earth.
"I've never seen a comet do that before!"
"That's because they don't." Mercury says. Mars doesn't wait for any more talking. She is off, shortly followed by the others.
The white ball of light that was once a comet is already over the city. It finally lands on a rooftop near the edge of what is considered downtown. The Sailors arrive on the roof just before the ball does. The ball lands. "What now?" Mars thinks. The light fades.
"What the hell is that?"
"I don't know, but it sure is ugly."
"We're probably ugly to it." The Sailors are commenting on the many armed, no eyed, no eared, green creature in front of them. The creature turns to them, or away from them. A few grunts and other sounds come from it. It pulls up one of its arms. On the arm is some type of device. The creature uses another arm to press a button on the thing. The device beeps as the creature becomes a green ball. Slowly the ball molds itself into a human form. When the form becomes viewable, it seems that the creature has turned itself into a green haired young girl.
"That's new."
The girl takes notice of them. "You are not the one I seek."
"Huh?"
"O.k. Who is it that you seek?"
"I seek a half-breed Guardian."
"Sorry don't know anybody like that."
"Really?" She pulls her arm up in front of her. ("Acquire targets.") (Another language) She says to the device on her wrist.
"She is talking in some weird language."
A screen appears above the device. ("Targets acquired.") A voice from the device says.
("Begin DNA and power scan.") The girl says to it.
("Beginning scan.") It says. After a few beeps it says, ("Scan complete. Target One,") It says as it shows a picture of Mercury. ("DNA scan found no genetic markers to link Primary Target with Target One. Power scan shows target to be a high level Sailor.") The picture of Mercury is replaced by one of Mars. ("Target Two: No genetic markers found. High level Sailor.") The device does the same actions for Jupiter and Venus. But when it shows the picture of Target Five, a.k.a Sailor Moon, ("Genetic markers found that link Target Five and Primary Target. Power scan indicates a low-level Guardian.")
"Not bad. You." The girl says pointing to Sailor Moon.
"Me?"
"Of course you! I am pointing to you aren't I? According to the scan I just did you are related to the half-breed Guardian I am looking for."
"Sorry I don't even know what a Guardian is."
"You don't know what a Guardian is?" Sailor Moon shakes her head no. "And the rest of you?" They all shake their heads no. ("Computer, prepare for a regional scan.")
("Radius?")
("Five kilometers.")
("Scanning will commence in ten seconds.") The computer (device) suddenly goes crazy. It begins to beep loudly.
("Computer what's going on?")
("Anomaly detected! Analysis defies projected readings. DNA scan commencing.") After a second of beeping. ("Scan complete. Primary Target identified.")
("What? What direction?") A sudden burst of light answers the girl's question before her computer can. ("Never mind.") Immediately the girl is jumping from roof to roof headed for the light.
"Should we follow?" Venus asks.
"Of course!" Jupiter emphatically answers. They are off following close behind. They all reach the rooftop with the bright light at about the same time. Slowly the light fades leaving a man.
"Ah look, the little boy has grown into a man." The girl taunts the mystery man.
The mysterious man is standing on the ledge of the building. He turns to the group that has gathered around him. He is wearing a gray cloak, with a gray cape, and a gray hood that covers his face. He hops down off the ledge. As he does so he throws back his cape to reveal a sword and sheath strapped to his side. "I was waiting for you."
Mars immediately recognizes his voice. "You were the one who told me about her!"
"Of course. I didn't want to take the chance that you'd miss this."
"Enough talk half-breed! You know why I am here! Now, give me the Sword!"
"You want the Sword?"
"Of course I do. Give it to me and I might forget I found you."
"I'm really scared."
"You should be. I could easily kill you. But if you give me the Sword I won't kill you, nor will I tell Demus where you are when I return." She says.
The half-breed (I'll just call him that for now) looks up. The spots where his eyes should be suddenly flash white, then they go back to normal. "I don't care about you or Demus!" He draws his sword. The blade looks as though it is damaged. Near the bottom, where the blade comes in contact with the handle, is hole shaped like a circle, and near the middle is a hole shaped like a kite.
"That's the sword she wants?"
"It looks broken."
"Pathetic little boy. Even if you are part Guardian you are no matched for me." A spear forms in the girls hands. She charges and attacks. The man doesn't move.
"Baka! Move!"
The man holds up one finger and stops the spear, tip first. "What?!?"
He throws the girl back. "Is that the best you can do?" The girl charges again and again. Each time the result is the same. Finally on the third attempt he grabs the spear. "Who's pathetic now?" He says as he attacks with his sword.
The girl hops back with a scream. "Curse you." She says as she holds her arm, which has been cut off just below the elbow. Her arm, with the device on it, is lying on the floor of the rooftop. It changes from a human arm, to the green arm from earlier, to nothing. The only thing left, as it disappears into oblivion, is the device.
"Curse me?" The half-breed says. His eyes flash white with anger. "How dare you! You and your master killed my mother, my father, and my people! And because you came looking for me 1,000 years ago I was unable to prevent my beloved wife's death. Now not even my only child knows me! And you have the nerve to say 'Curse me'?" He holds up two fingers. "Go to Hell." The tips of his fingers glow white. A beam of white light shots out from his fingers. It flies right through the girl. Slowly she disappears into nothingness. "Blasted Outlanders." He says as he turns to the Sailors.
"Who are you?"
The half-breed points to the computer on the ground. "I think you can use that to find out a good deal about me." He hops to the ledge. "See ya later." He says as he hops off the roof.
"Baka! This is a seven story building!" In an instant everyone is looking over the side of the building. But they can see no sign of the half-breed.
"Hey look who it is." Jupiter yells at the others. They all look over the side Jupiter's at. Everyone's surprised to see Apollo walking over to his bike with a few Coca-Colas in his hands. He puts them in the side packs, then hops on.
"I wonder what he's doing down here." Before he puts on his helmet, he looks up to the Sailors. They jump back.
"Did he see us?"
"Does it matter? He shouldn't be able to recognize us in the Sailor uniforms." The sound of an engine roaring to life, and the sound of tires peeling out signal his leaving.
Sailor Moon yawns. "Let's leave too." The others agree.
Mercury picks up the computer before leaving. "I'll have to look over this thing."
"I've got an idea!" Sailor Moon exclaims. "Apollo's a genius, right?"
"Yeah. So what?"
"He can give you some help."
"Maybe. I'll ask him tomorrow." They all go their separate ways.
