1 Chapter 1 - The Journey Begins

Note: I wrote this forever ago! I just had some old fans beg me to put it up. I'm really proud of this so please R/R but don't flame me!

The universe is huge. Not even the most skilled scientist can tell if other planets, or even other galaxies exist. That¹s the way God meant it to be. We¹ll probably never know if other galaxies or other life forms exist. At least not in the real world. But in an imagination, well, that¹s a different story.

*A universe fades away, a kingdom gone*

"Who's there!?"

*A visitor from afar, our only chance.*

"What do you mean by a 'visitor from afar'?"

*Don't waste time, help us.*

"Who are you, tell me!"

*Help us!*

Darien shot up like a bullet. "That dream again! Who is talking to me? I wonder what they mean by 'a visitor from afar'. What can they mean?"

"Arggh!" Darien hit his nightstand with his fist, "How can I help you if I don't know who you are!?"

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"Darien, hello, are you there?" came Serena's voice over the phone.

"Oh, sorry Serena, I kinda zoned out for a while."

"I kinda noticed. Oh well, so are you gonna come watch the eclipse tonight with me and the girls, we're meeting at the temple."

"Sure, but I can't stay long, I haven't been getting much sleep lately."

"I'm sorry, so I'll see you tonight?"

"Yeah, I'll see you tonight."

"Bye."

"Bye."

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"Serena, I thought you said Darien was coming." said Rei tapping her foot impatiently, "It could be starting soon!"

"He'll be here, Rei. He would go as far as brave the Northern Arctic

Plains just to see my absolutely perfect face!" Serena stated with a pose.

"Oh brother, you know, you really are a meatball-head!" argued Rei playfully as she tossed a muffin at Serena.

"Come on you two," said Mina, "You're getting a little too old for this!"

"Look who's talking!" said Lita in defense for her quarreling friends,

"You're the one that can't go to bed at night unless you have your 'blankey'!"

"Hey!" said Mina, "Leave Pooky out of this!" she reached for a muffin, but was too late, one came flying right at her and hit her on the face.

"Hey Darien!" said Ami looking up from her book on 'Nuclear Physics',

"Come on in!"

"Is it safe?" he joked as he walked into the spare room where the girls were.

"Hi Darien!" Serena jumped up and ran over to him. "I'm so glad you came! You can sit by me when we go up on the roof!"

"Serena!" said Luna as she entered the room, "Why didn't you tell me you were coming here!"

"Sorry, mother, I guess I figured that you knew I'd be here!" said Serena still clinging to Darien.

"Well, I thought you were going downtown with Molly and Melvin!" said Luna as she jumped onto the table and started chowing down on muffins.

"I don't think so, I thought they should be alone. The eclipse is so romantic, don't you think, Darien?" Serena puckered up and leaned towards her boyfriend.

"Uh," said Darien while sweating it out, "I think the phone's ringing!"

Then he ran into the hallway.

"Man!" thought Serena as she snapped her fingers in disappointment, "He got away again!"

"According to my calculations, the darkening should happen in approximately one minute." said Ami while typing away on her mini-computer.

Darien returned from answering the nonexistent phone "Um, wrong number."

"You're hopeless!" said Lita as she and Mina chuckled to themselves as they all climbed up the ladder on the side of the house to get to the roof.

"I planned it so we'll get a perfect view, you guys." said Rei as she found a spot and sat down.

"Here we go, everybody, put your sunglasses on, now, in counting 10-9-

8-7. . ." started Ami as the others chimed in.

"6-5-4-3-2-1!" With that, the sky faded to total darkness.

"Look!" said Serena, "I can see the outline of the sun!" The moon was directly in front of the sun, and the world was dark.

"What's that sound?" asked Rei as she stood up. "Did anyone else hear it?"

"I did." said Darien as he stood up as well.

"What sound?" asked Serena.

"A sort of whizzing sound like a car driving by." said Ami as she stood up.

"It came right over us!" said Lita as she pointed towards the eclipse.

"I think it's headed that way!" Then, a large explosion lit up the darkness directly where Lita was pointing.

"This looks bad, you guys!" said Mina, "We'd better go check it out!"

"Hurry and transform!" said Artemis, "Luna and I will stay here and see if we can find more about it from Central Control!"

"Let's go, scouts!" said Serena.

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When they arrived, smoke was rising from a small crater in the ground. They decided to keep their distance until they found out what was going on. News crews started appearing, and the local police were trying to clear out the people gathered around the pit.

"Go home, folks. There's nothing to see here. It's just a comet or something." said a very annoyed police officer.

But he was proven wrong as a figure in a dark cape and hood flew out of the smoke and pinned the officer to the ground. The figure grabbed his collar and pulled his face close to it's own. It mumbled something the scouts couldn't hear. The sky was getting lighter.

"Don't just stand there, Sailor Moon, that guy needs our help!" shouted

Venus as she followed the others off the building they were on.

When they got to the ground, the police officer was clutching his collar trying to loosen it so he could breathe.

"I said where is the Princess of the Moon!" shouted the figure. But when the struggling victim didn't answer, the attacker threw him to the ground and turned around to face the crowd. "Tell me where the Moon Princess is or you'll all end up like him!"

"How dare you come during one of the most romantic times to threaten a local police officer. I won't let you ruin this moment!"

The figure turned around, but the night shaded it's face.

"I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Justice!"

"We're the Sailor Team!"

"And I am Tuxedo Mask"

"On behalf of the Moon,"

"On behalf of Mercury,"

"On behalf of Mars,"

"On behalf of Jupiter,"

"On behalf of Venus,"

"And for the sake of the people of earth,"

"We'll punish you!" the group shouted as if on cue.

"Don't make me laugh!" said the figure as it jumped off into the night.

"Follow him!" shouted Tuxedo Mask as he ran after the figure. But their search was in vain, for the figure had disappeared without a trace. "Visitor from afar." thought Darien as the streetlights came on.

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That night, Darien's dream was different.

*A new evil has appeared*

"What are these pictures of destruction?"

*A planet well known*

"This is awful, there's people dying everywhere! Do something!"

*I can't, you must save us*

"Me?"

*Help, please.*

"Woa," Darien sat up and clutched his sweat-drenched pillow. "I think the destruction of earth is coming. It's still so unclear! I'll bet the person in the cape last night knows something about this!"

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"Come in, Ami." Came a shaky voice from Ami's wristwatch.

"Yes Serena, this had better be important, I'm in the middle of a class on the C++ code for creating computer programs!" said Ami as she stooped over her wrist communicator.

"Major important, that creepy figure showed up again and it is terrorizing some people in a local grocery store!" said the voice on the other line.

"OK, I'm coming, but this better not effect my grade, my mom will kill me if I bring it down any more than I already have!"

"What's your grade?"

"A 99.8%! My mom's already mad about it, and I'm grounded."

"I feel your pain." said Serena as a giant sweat droplet crept down the side of her head. "Let's go!"

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"Stop right there, you ultimately creepy monster!" shouter Sailor Moon at the battle scene.

"Me?" the figure turned around, but its face was still shaded.

"Yeah you!" shouted Sailor Mars, "Stop pestering innocent civilians!"

"I'm glad you showed up." said the figure as a smile seemed to creep across his face.

"I'll bet you are!" said Sailor Jupiter as she moved to the front of the group. Then, the scouts were swept off in a whirlwind.

"What's happening?" asked Venus as she tried to fight the wind.

"We seem to be trapped between dimensions!" said Mercury as she slid her visor in front of her eyes.

The sound of an evil laugh filled a small room as the scouts finally hit the ground. "Now that I've got you all alone, I need to ask you something."

"Look," said Tuxedo Mask, "Can't we talk this out man-to-man?"

"Man-to-man!?" said the figure as it ripped of it's cape and hood, "Do

I look like a man to you!?" Standing in front of them was a girl about the same age as the scouts. She had long, wavy, brown hair and purple-colored eyes. She was wearing a dress that was the same color of her eyes. It was long and had spaghetti straps on top.

The whole group gasped.

"Well," said Jupiter, "What do you want to ask us?"

"I thought that since you all are associated with planets, and she. . ." she pointed to Sailor Moon, ". . . she is associated with the moon, so maybe you can tell me where the Moon Princess is."

"Somehow," thought Darien to himself, "she seems familiar."

"Why must you find the princess?" asked Mars as she walked up next to Jupiter.

"I need her help." said the girl as she sat down on a small chair.

"What, you came here, and terrorize people just to ask for help!? No offense, but that seems strange!" said Mars in an angry tone.

"Just find her, OK!?" shouted the girl as tears welded up in her eyes.

"Is there something you need to tell us?" asked Sailor Venus quietly.

"I need her help or my friends are going to die!" the girl said as her tears started to fall. "I've tried to be brave, I tried everything I could, the princess is my last hope!"

"Why do your friends need help?" asked Sailor Mercury as she closed her computer.

"My universe is being destroyed. The evil forces are working their way to my planet. I need help to save my universe!" The girl was on her feet.

Sailor Moon walked over to her, "Why do you need the Moon Princess?"

"I was told she was the only one who could help save my universe. You see, like her, the universe is under my control alone. My mother and father were killed recently and while my mother was dying, the only thing she could say was 'Go to the earth, your only chance is the princess of their universe. I'm counting on you, my darling. I know you won't disappoint me. I love you.' but I have disappointed her. Every second that I am away, more people could be dying. I don't know what to do because I'm new at this. I'll have to be leaving soon. The enemy has given me one saros to find help. A saros is the time between two eclipses, 18 years and 11 1/3 days."

"You're going to be here for 18 years!?" asked Sailor Jupiter in disbelief.

"No, in my universe, a saros is exactly 1 year. The enemy thinks I can't beat them no matter who is on my side. I will be leaving in a year. If you find the princess, will you let her know I need to talk to her? Please, you're my only hope, you're the only hope for my people." the girl turned, walked through the wall, and disappeared.

Then, the group fell back into the grocery store. It was almost as if the girl had stopped time.

"Come on, Sailor Moon," said Venus, "you have to find her and tell her the truth."

"How do I know it's safe!?" asked Sailor Moon as she blinked back some scared tears.

"It's safe." said a voice behind them. They turned around and Darien was walking towards them. "She's come to me in my dreams. I recognize her voice. For the past couple of weeks, I've had the same dream. Someone was saying 'Help, a visitor from afar, the only chance for survival, a new evil appeared'. I always thought that we were the people that needed help, that our galaxy was going to meet its end. I thought that a visitor from afar was the person that would cause the end of the world." he paused and looked at Sailor Moon.

"The visitor from afar is Sailor Moon, and she needs help. Now I realize that she needs a visitor from afar to save her universe. This is for real, Sailor Moon. Please help her; do it for me."

"Darien's right." said Luna as she and Artemis walked up. "We both can remember communicating with a different galaxy. Our galaxy didn't communicate with the other one very often. But it there is another galaxy. I know we can count on you, Serena." Luna's eyes fogged up as Serena ran to her and picked her up. Then she turned to her friends.

"I'll do it. I'll do it as though I was doing it for our universe. I'll miss you guys." with that, she set Luna down and walked off. Her Sailor outfit slowly faded into her school uniform as she disappeared.