Author Notes: Hi Minna! Sorry this chapter took a bit longer to get out, I've been busy
failing exams... Anyway, thanks for all the reviews, they make me happy!
Things start to heat up in this chapter (finally!) and I think I'll have the story wrapped up
in two more chapters.
By the way, sorry about the Usagi weight jokes in this chapter, I've just been watching a
lot of Super-S lately, and it's rubbing off ^_^;
Oh, and even though no one bothered reviewing 'Sailor Centauri' despite my repeated
plea's otherwise, how about checking out my new fic 'Dark Serenity' I know it's
undisciplined to start something new while still working on this, but the idea was just
begging to be implemented.
Moon Squared chapter 4
Zoicite reflected on his recent encounter with Beryl. "I'm such a pathetic excuse for a
human being..." He berated himself, remembering how he had begged her to give him
another chance.
'The old me would never have begged for anything from her.' he thought vehemently.
Remembering his life before Beryl was a tricky subject. Whenever he tried to concentrate
on it, his head would start to pound until he couldn't focus. What he could recall was that
he was a brave and noble warrior, in the service of some... someone... even now he
started to feel the familiar pain in his mind.
Zoicite knew one thing for sure. The old Zoicite wouldn't recognise the cowardly wretch
he had become.
'I have to get the remaining Nijizuishou fragments, not to mention the one Tuxedo
Kamen stole... but how?' he considered his problem. Getting the fragments would be a
lengthy process, and he wasn't sure how long Beryl's patience would hold. 'Perhaps if I
killed the Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen she would be happy enough to give me time
to get the remaining fragments...' he considered that option, but even then he realised it
was easier said than done.
'I just have to lure them into a trap that would be impossible to escape...' already he was
scheming various ways of ensnaring his prey. Sooner or later, he would have the perfect
plan...
His plotting was interrupted when he sensed a group of youma approach.
"We can help you Zoicite-sama."
***
Usagi sneezed!
"Bless you Usagi." Luna murmered sleepily from her position at the foot of Usagi's bed.
"Oh, someone must be talking about me..." Usagi muttered as she rubbed her nose.
Turning to look at her clock, she saw it was ten minutes till eight. 'I can probably stay in
bed for another fifteen minutes...' she thought as she got comfortable once more. "Just
fifteen minutes..." she said sleepily as she snuggled against her pillow...
At twenty minutes past eight Ikukko came in to wake her daughter up. Seeing her
sleeping there with the cat she had recently adopted, Ikkuko couldn't help but smile. 'She
looks so adorable when she's asleep... just a shame she sleeps so much!' "Usagi, wake
up!" She roused her daughter.
"Huh..." Usagi raised her head off the pillow "Mama? What time is it?"
Ikkuko sighed "It's twenty past eight. I've been calling you since eight o clock."
"Wah!" Usagi shot out of bed, sending Luna flying with a startled meow "I am SO
LATE!!"
***
Meanwhile, two years later, Usagi had been unceremoniously turfed out of Rei's when
they discovered Setsuna was already gone and they didn't need to find the exact date she
had come from.
Ami had walked her home, promising to come pick Usagi up for school the next day, and
Usagi entered her house, filled with the same worries her elder counterpart had about her
parents noticing the differences in their daughter.
She needn't have worried on that score, Kenji and Ikkuko both greeted their daughter
without noticing anything different.
Usagi entered her bedroom, which was still recognisable, even Luna sleeping on her
pillow was the same. The little red haired girl sleeping with Luna was entirely new.
"Do I have a little sister? She looks older than two." Usagi said thoughtfully as she went
over to examine the little girl. Aside from the hair colour, there was a definite
resemblance to herself as a young girl - she even had odango's!
Luna woke up and sleepily looked at Usagi "Hello Usagi." the cat yawned "How was
your day?"
Usagi chuckled "Didn't anyone tell you?"
"Tell me what?" Luna replied, feeling mystified, and annoyed at the possibility that she
had been left out of something.
Usagi sighed and explained events as best as she was able to understand them. Which
wasn't very well. Nonetheless, Luna got the gist of it.
For her part, Luna was getting a definite headache. This could hardly be considered good
timing given how complicated the current situation already was.
Her explanation finished, Usagi decided to get some answers of her own. "So anyway,
who's she?" She pointed at the still sleeping Chibi Chibi.
"That's Chibi Chibi." Luna explained "She's a mysterious girl who showed up one day,
and everyone in your family thinks she's your little sister."
Totally ignoring the strangness of the situation, Usagi's eyes lit up "Sugoi! I always
wanted a little sister! I bet she's way nicer than that worthless brother of mine!"
Chibi Chibi decided to wake up at this point, looking up at Usagi, she said her usual
catchphrase "Chibi chibi?"
"Kawai!" Usagi exclaimed, gathering the little girl up in a big hug.
"Chibi chibi!" Chibi Chibi squealed happily.
Usagi sweatdropped as she noticed a definite pattern "Is that all she says?" She looked at
Luna.
Luna slumped her shoulders "So far."
Usagi set her 'little sister' down as she started to investigate the rest of her room. The first
stop was her closet "Wow! I have so much more clothes!"
Then her desk. "Wow! I've done my homework!"
Then her nightstand. "Wow! I have a picture... of...." She trailed off as she looked at the
picture of herself smiling brightly with Mamoru and Chibi Usa. "Why is there a picture
of me and Mamoru-baka?!" She angrily demanded Luna.
Luna shrank away "Er... you see... he's your boyfriend..."
"Nani!!?" Usagi exclaimed in shock. But when she looked at the photograph, she
couldn't help but think something about it seemed... right. "Who's the little girl in the
picture?" She asked more thoughtfully.
Given Usagi's previous reaction, Luna decided to play it safe "That's your cousin, Chibi-
Usa." she lied.
"Oh." Usagi accepted that statement. For a moment. "But both my parents are only
children!"
Luna braced herself as she prepared to tell Usagi the truth.
***
"Ugh." Usagi tugged at her junior high uniform "This thing is so tight around the waist."
She griped to Ami and Makoto whom she was having lunch with.
The other two girls both sweatdropped.
"So, Usagi" Ami tried to change the subject "You said you've been getting an average C
grade in high school, how come you couldn't answer one question in any of today's
classes?"
"Ahahaha!" Usagi put a hand behind her head and laughed nervously "You see Ami-
chan, all the things you learn in high school aren't studied in junior high, and vice versa.
So aside from studying for the entrance exam, you don't have to do any work at all in
junior high."
Ami grimaced. She certainly couldn't say she approved of that sentiment.
"Usagi!" Umino yelled out as he came over.
"Oh, konnichiwa Umino." Usagi greeted her nerdy friend.
Umino leaned in to whisper conspiratorily to Usagi "Listen Usagi, I just want to thank
you for giving Naru-chan and I some time alone yesterday. That was really nice."
Usagi grinned "Since when did you call her Naru-chan?" She emphasized the honorific.
Umino started going over the top in his usual inimitable style "Yesterday was like a date!
I want to exchange diaries with her! I want to meet her mother!"
Ami and Makoto looked on, seemingly aghast.
"Umino!" A familiar voice yelled across the school grounds.
"A-ah Naru-chan!" Umino stuttered deleriously.
Naru marched over and grabbed him "What are you doing pestering Usagi-chan? You
said you were having lunch with me!" She dragged him away, pausing to wink at Usagi.
"Naru-chan..." Umino repeated as he allowed himself to be dragged off.
Ami and Makoto sweatdropped. "What just happened?" Makoto asked.
Before Usagi could respond, Ami's communicator beeped. She took it out and was
greeted by a panicked Rei "There's five youma at my school!" She exclaimed "They feel
really powerful, I need you guys!"
***
Usagi, Ami and Makoto met Rei by the gates of her school. "I'm glad you're here!" Rei
greeted them "The staff and students are all being drained of energy. There's five youma
and Zoicite here... I don't know if we can handle this..." She seemed uneasy "I can sense
their evil power... it's worse than anything before."
"Okay everyone, henshin!" Usagi ordered them.
"Mercury Power... Make-UP!"
"Mars Power... Make-UP!"
"Jupiter Power... Make-UP!"
"Moon Eternal... Make-UP!"
The four girls ran into the school grounds to be met by Zoicite and the five youma.
Sailor Moon immediately halted. These youma were all too familiar to her.
"Welcome sailor girls." Zoicite greeted them "The DD girls and I have prepared a special
surprise for you." A hemisphere shaped energy barrier sprang up around the Sailor
Senshi.
"Nani!" Sailor Mars exclaimed angrily "Fire... Soul!!" She attacked the barrier, but the
flames were absorbed with no visible effect.
Sailor Jupiter decided to give her attack a try, charging up with immense amounts of
electricity, "Supreme Thunder!!!" She released a maelstrom of lightning, which likewise
had no effect.
Zoicite laughed "That barrier is impenetrable, you'll never get out." He gloated as the
barrier began to contract around the Sailor Senshi.
Sailor Mercury tapped furiously at her miniature supercomputer as she desperately
searched for any possible weakness. "I can't find a weakness!" She finally said shakily.
"Help us Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" Mars pleaded to no avail.
Sailor Moon finally broke from her stupor. These were the youma that had killed her
friends at the North Pole. She hadn't even been able to use one attack against them. This
time it would be different. She summoned the Eternal Tier "Starlight Honeymoon
Therapy Kiss!!" Waves of pink energy hit the barrier and it dissipated with no effort.
Zoicite stepped backwards "How did you do that?!" He demanded, before turning on the
youma "You said we could make the barrier impenetrable!" He screamed angrily.
The DD girls seemed unphased "So we get a challenge?" One of them said nonchalantly.
Sailor Moon focused a different kind of energy into her Eternal Tier. Once it had been
the Moon Kaleidoscope, and before that it had been the Spiral Moon Heart Rod. She had
never tried using an old attack through it, because it would have been pointless, but there
was no need for overkill here. "Moon Spiral Heart Attack!!" She yelled causing a
massive pink heart to envelop the school, dusting the five most powerful youma of the
Dark Kingdom in an instant.
Zoicite was badly hurt, but still a long way from death. "No... no..." He shook his head in
denial, 'it wasn't meant to be like this!' was all he could think.
Eternal Sailor Moon advanced on him "Stealing the energy of students who want to learn
so you can trap the pretty sailor suited fighters? I can't forgive this!" She did her poses
"In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"
Zoicite screamed as he blasted her with all the energy he could muster. He might as well
have been spitting against the wind for all the good it did him. As his energy reserves
depleted, he slumped to his knee's in defeat. "Forgive me Kunzite... forgive me..." He
sobbed.
Sailor Moon paused. She actually felt sorry for him like this, and in spite of her frequent
speeches claiming otherwise, she was quite the forgiving soul. But the decision was made
for her as Zoicite suddenly vanished.
The other three senshi slowly walked over to her "I don't believe it." Was all Mars could
say.
"Two years certainly makes quite the difference." Mercury said, shaking her head with
disbelief.
Moon looked up to the sky 'Two years does make a difference... but how can the me
from this time fight Galaxia?' she thought as the consequences of her temporal switch
started to sink in.
***
Zoicite suddenly found himself before Queen Beryl. To say she was furious would be
like saying the surface of the sun was a bit warm. "Five!" she hissed "Five of my most
powerful youma!!"
Zoicite winced. He was done for and he knew it. If he was lucky she'd just kill him...
otherwise there was always the forever sleep.
"I ordered you to get the nijizuishou fragments, not send my personal youma to their
deaths!" She bellowed "How dare you sacrifice them like this for no gain!"
Kunzite suddenly teleported in "Beryl-sama-" He began before Beryl spun on him.
"Silence!" She screamed loudly enough that the cavern trembled slightly. "One word,
just one from you, and you will share his fate!"
Zoicite looked at Kunzite through tear rimmed eyes, his expression pleading with his
lover to keep silent.
Kunzite hung his head, though his entire body was trembling with a mixture of fury and
fear.
"Do you have anything to say in your defence?" Beryl asked Zoicite.
Zoicite considered his response. About the only excuse he could come up with was that it
had been the DD girls who had helped him on their own initiative. But Jadeite had tried
the same defence after Thetis died, and he didn't want to remind her of Jadeite, lest he
recieved the same punishment. "No Beryl-sama." He said at last.
Queen Beryl's eyes narrowed. She pointed her index finger at Zoicite and a lance of dark
energy shot out, striking him through the heart. Zoicite cried out in pain before falling
backwards. "Get this garbage out of here." She said dismissively.
Kunzite immediately grabbed Zoicite and teleported away.
"Why couldn't you have just followed orders..." Kunzite said sadly as he gently placed
Zoicite on a raised platform in an isolated cavern. Tears were running down his cheeks,
but he didn't care.
"I..it's...okay..." Zoicite wheezed painfully "As... long as... I... am with you..." He tried to
raise his hand to wipe away Kunzite's tears, but was too weak. Kunzite, seeing his intent,
took his hand and placed it against his cheek.
"Oh Zoicite..."
Zoicite coughed "My last... wish... is..." speech was becoming harder now, and his
breathing was ragged "I want... to die... pretty..." He smiled weakly at Kunzite, then
stopped breathing.
Kunzite wept harder as he used his powers to make flowers bloom all around the person
who had been so much to him. Comrade, friend, soulmate, lover. Zoicite had been all
these things to him. And now he was gone.
"I will avenge you." Kunzite swore "Or die trying."
***
"Well, we've passed the point of no return now." Sailor Pluto observed Zoicite's death
through the time gate. "She's changed history too much for it to be fixed by just switching
them back."
"Although funnily enough, his actual death wasn't that different. Just the timing of it."
The other Pluto commented.
"Hilarious." Her counterpart retorted dryly.
"I crack me up." The second one broke into a wide grin.
***
Ami rang the doorbell to the Tsukino home as she had promised to take Usagi to school,
seeing as Usagi was unfamiliar with going to High School.
Shingo opened the door and immediatly blushed on seeing Ami. "Ohayou Ami-san!" He
greeted her cheerfuly.
Ami smiled politely "Ohayou gozaimez Shingo-san. I'm here to take Usagi to school.
May I come in?"
"Baka Usa-" Shingo checked himself when he remembered that Ami liked Usagi "My
sister is still asleep. Come in, and I'll wake her up."
"Thankyou." Ami stepped in and took her shoes off as Shingo ran up the stairs to Usagi's
room.
Ikkuko stepped out into the hallway "Oh hello Ami-chan." She greeted the girl she
regarded as the best influence her daughter could have "Are you here to walk Usagi to
school?"
"Hai Mrs Tsukino." Ami bowed.
"Well in that case would you like to have some breakfast with us while you wait for her
to get ready?"
Ami was about to say that she had already eaten, but then she caught a whiff of the
delicious cooked breakfast Ikkuko had prepared for her family. Ami's usual bowl of
cereal just didn't compare. "Yes please." Ami smiled brightly.
Kenji greeted Ami as Ikkuko escorted her into the kitchen and offered her a seat. Ami sat
down and dug into the food offered. "I can't believe Usagi doesn't wake up earlier when
she has this food on offer." Ami praised Ikkuko's cooking.
Ikkuko sighed. "Usagi loves sleeping and eating. Sadly she prefers sleeping in the
morning and eating at night."
Shingo overheard their conversation as he came in and sat beside Ami "Usagi normally
just has a piece of toast as she runs out the door." He informed her "She should be ready
in a few minutes."
They made general small talk about school and such for a few minutes before Usagi
walked in wearing her high school uniform, seeming very uncomfortable about
something. She quickly took a seat before greeting everyone and eating some breakfast.
Ami checked the clock on the wall. There was plenty of time till school, but Ami liked to
arrive early, and sensed that Usagi wanted to talk to her about something anyway. "Shall
we go now Usagi-chan?"
"Hai!" Usagi nodded, and carefully got out of her seat before leaving with Ami.
As they walked out of the door, Ami turned to Usagi "Is something bothering you
Usagi?"
Usagi seemed ready to cry "This skirt is so wide Ami-chan! I feel like it's going to slide
right off!"
***
Author Notes: That's enough for now. It's 3am and I'm tired. No more exams so the next
chapter won't take too long to write. *yawn* Anyways, keep reviewing, it always
brightens my day!
Oh, I suppose you want a preview of the next chapter? Well, let me put it simply...
GALAXIA ATTACKS!! And you thought I was just leaving the fourteen year old Usagi
in for comic relief... ha!
failing exams... Anyway, thanks for all the reviews, they make me happy!
Things start to heat up in this chapter (finally!) and I think I'll have the story wrapped up
in two more chapters.
By the way, sorry about the Usagi weight jokes in this chapter, I've just been watching a
lot of Super-S lately, and it's rubbing off ^_^;
Oh, and even though no one bothered reviewing 'Sailor Centauri' despite my repeated
plea's otherwise, how about checking out my new fic 'Dark Serenity' I know it's
undisciplined to start something new while still working on this, but the idea was just
begging to be implemented.
Moon Squared chapter 4
Zoicite reflected on his recent encounter with Beryl. "I'm such a pathetic excuse for a
human being..." He berated himself, remembering how he had begged her to give him
another chance.
'The old me would never have begged for anything from her.' he thought vehemently.
Remembering his life before Beryl was a tricky subject. Whenever he tried to concentrate
on it, his head would start to pound until he couldn't focus. What he could recall was that
he was a brave and noble warrior, in the service of some... someone... even now he
started to feel the familiar pain in his mind.
Zoicite knew one thing for sure. The old Zoicite wouldn't recognise the cowardly wretch
he had become.
'I have to get the remaining Nijizuishou fragments, not to mention the one Tuxedo
Kamen stole... but how?' he considered his problem. Getting the fragments would be a
lengthy process, and he wasn't sure how long Beryl's patience would hold. 'Perhaps if I
killed the Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen she would be happy enough to give me time
to get the remaining fragments...' he considered that option, but even then he realised it
was easier said than done.
'I just have to lure them into a trap that would be impossible to escape...' already he was
scheming various ways of ensnaring his prey. Sooner or later, he would have the perfect
plan...
His plotting was interrupted when he sensed a group of youma approach.
"We can help you Zoicite-sama."
***
Usagi sneezed!
"Bless you Usagi." Luna murmered sleepily from her position at the foot of Usagi's bed.
"Oh, someone must be talking about me..." Usagi muttered as she rubbed her nose.
Turning to look at her clock, she saw it was ten minutes till eight. 'I can probably stay in
bed for another fifteen minutes...' she thought as she got comfortable once more. "Just
fifteen minutes..." she said sleepily as she snuggled against her pillow...
At twenty minutes past eight Ikukko came in to wake her daughter up. Seeing her
sleeping there with the cat she had recently adopted, Ikkuko couldn't help but smile. 'She
looks so adorable when she's asleep... just a shame she sleeps so much!' "Usagi, wake
up!" She roused her daughter.
"Huh..." Usagi raised her head off the pillow "Mama? What time is it?"
Ikkuko sighed "It's twenty past eight. I've been calling you since eight o clock."
"Wah!" Usagi shot out of bed, sending Luna flying with a startled meow "I am SO
LATE!!"
***
Meanwhile, two years later, Usagi had been unceremoniously turfed out of Rei's when
they discovered Setsuna was already gone and they didn't need to find the exact date she
had come from.
Ami had walked her home, promising to come pick Usagi up for school the next day, and
Usagi entered her house, filled with the same worries her elder counterpart had about her
parents noticing the differences in their daughter.
She needn't have worried on that score, Kenji and Ikkuko both greeted their daughter
without noticing anything different.
Usagi entered her bedroom, which was still recognisable, even Luna sleeping on her
pillow was the same. The little red haired girl sleeping with Luna was entirely new.
"Do I have a little sister? She looks older than two." Usagi said thoughtfully as she went
over to examine the little girl. Aside from the hair colour, there was a definite
resemblance to herself as a young girl - she even had odango's!
Luna woke up and sleepily looked at Usagi "Hello Usagi." the cat yawned "How was
your day?"
Usagi chuckled "Didn't anyone tell you?"
"Tell me what?" Luna replied, feeling mystified, and annoyed at the possibility that she
had been left out of something.
Usagi sighed and explained events as best as she was able to understand them. Which
wasn't very well. Nonetheless, Luna got the gist of it.
For her part, Luna was getting a definite headache. This could hardly be considered good
timing given how complicated the current situation already was.
Her explanation finished, Usagi decided to get some answers of her own. "So anyway,
who's she?" She pointed at the still sleeping Chibi Chibi.
"That's Chibi Chibi." Luna explained "She's a mysterious girl who showed up one day,
and everyone in your family thinks she's your little sister."
Totally ignoring the strangness of the situation, Usagi's eyes lit up "Sugoi! I always
wanted a little sister! I bet she's way nicer than that worthless brother of mine!"
Chibi Chibi decided to wake up at this point, looking up at Usagi, she said her usual
catchphrase "Chibi chibi?"
"Kawai!" Usagi exclaimed, gathering the little girl up in a big hug.
"Chibi chibi!" Chibi Chibi squealed happily.
Usagi sweatdropped as she noticed a definite pattern "Is that all she says?" She looked at
Luna.
Luna slumped her shoulders "So far."
Usagi set her 'little sister' down as she started to investigate the rest of her room. The first
stop was her closet "Wow! I have so much more clothes!"
Then her desk. "Wow! I've done my homework!"
Then her nightstand. "Wow! I have a picture... of...." She trailed off as she looked at the
picture of herself smiling brightly with Mamoru and Chibi Usa. "Why is there a picture
of me and Mamoru-baka?!" She angrily demanded Luna.
Luna shrank away "Er... you see... he's your boyfriend..."
"Nani!!?" Usagi exclaimed in shock. But when she looked at the photograph, she
couldn't help but think something about it seemed... right. "Who's the little girl in the
picture?" She asked more thoughtfully.
Given Usagi's previous reaction, Luna decided to play it safe "That's your cousin, Chibi-
Usa." she lied.
"Oh." Usagi accepted that statement. For a moment. "But both my parents are only
children!"
Luna braced herself as she prepared to tell Usagi the truth.
***
"Ugh." Usagi tugged at her junior high uniform "This thing is so tight around the waist."
She griped to Ami and Makoto whom she was having lunch with.
The other two girls both sweatdropped.
"So, Usagi" Ami tried to change the subject "You said you've been getting an average C
grade in high school, how come you couldn't answer one question in any of today's
classes?"
"Ahahaha!" Usagi put a hand behind her head and laughed nervously "You see Ami-
chan, all the things you learn in high school aren't studied in junior high, and vice versa.
So aside from studying for the entrance exam, you don't have to do any work at all in
junior high."
Ami grimaced. She certainly couldn't say she approved of that sentiment.
"Usagi!" Umino yelled out as he came over.
"Oh, konnichiwa Umino." Usagi greeted her nerdy friend.
Umino leaned in to whisper conspiratorily to Usagi "Listen Usagi, I just want to thank
you for giving Naru-chan and I some time alone yesterday. That was really nice."
Usagi grinned "Since when did you call her Naru-chan?" She emphasized the honorific.
Umino started going over the top in his usual inimitable style "Yesterday was like a date!
I want to exchange diaries with her! I want to meet her mother!"
Ami and Makoto looked on, seemingly aghast.
"Umino!" A familiar voice yelled across the school grounds.
"A-ah Naru-chan!" Umino stuttered deleriously.
Naru marched over and grabbed him "What are you doing pestering Usagi-chan? You
said you were having lunch with me!" She dragged him away, pausing to wink at Usagi.
"Naru-chan..." Umino repeated as he allowed himself to be dragged off.
Ami and Makoto sweatdropped. "What just happened?" Makoto asked.
Before Usagi could respond, Ami's communicator beeped. She took it out and was
greeted by a panicked Rei "There's five youma at my school!" She exclaimed "They feel
really powerful, I need you guys!"
***
Usagi, Ami and Makoto met Rei by the gates of her school. "I'm glad you're here!" Rei
greeted them "The staff and students are all being drained of energy. There's five youma
and Zoicite here... I don't know if we can handle this..." She seemed uneasy "I can sense
their evil power... it's worse than anything before."
"Okay everyone, henshin!" Usagi ordered them.
"Mercury Power... Make-UP!"
"Mars Power... Make-UP!"
"Jupiter Power... Make-UP!"
"Moon Eternal... Make-UP!"
The four girls ran into the school grounds to be met by Zoicite and the five youma.
Sailor Moon immediately halted. These youma were all too familiar to her.
"Welcome sailor girls." Zoicite greeted them "The DD girls and I have prepared a special
surprise for you." A hemisphere shaped energy barrier sprang up around the Sailor
Senshi.
"Nani!" Sailor Mars exclaimed angrily "Fire... Soul!!" She attacked the barrier, but the
flames were absorbed with no visible effect.
Sailor Jupiter decided to give her attack a try, charging up with immense amounts of
electricity, "Supreme Thunder!!!" She released a maelstrom of lightning, which likewise
had no effect.
Zoicite laughed "That barrier is impenetrable, you'll never get out." He gloated as the
barrier began to contract around the Sailor Senshi.
Sailor Mercury tapped furiously at her miniature supercomputer as she desperately
searched for any possible weakness. "I can't find a weakness!" She finally said shakily.
"Help us Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" Mars pleaded to no avail.
Sailor Moon finally broke from her stupor. These were the youma that had killed her
friends at the North Pole. She hadn't even been able to use one attack against them. This
time it would be different. She summoned the Eternal Tier "Starlight Honeymoon
Therapy Kiss!!" Waves of pink energy hit the barrier and it dissipated with no effort.
Zoicite stepped backwards "How did you do that?!" He demanded, before turning on the
youma "You said we could make the barrier impenetrable!" He screamed angrily.
The DD girls seemed unphased "So we get a challenge?" One of them said nonchalantly.
Sailor Moon focused a different kind of energy into her Eternal Tier. Once it had been
the Moon Kaleidoscope, and before that it had been the Spiral Moon Heart Rod. She had
never tried using an old attack through it, because it would have been pointless, but there
was no need for overkill here. "Moon Spiral Heart Attack!!" She yelled causing a
massive pink heart to envelop the school, dusting the five most powerful youma of the
Dark Kingdom in an instant.
Zoicite was badly hurt, but still a long way from death. "No... no..." He shook his head in
denial, 'it wasn't meant to be like this!' was all he could think.
Eternal Sailor Moon advanced on him "Stealing the energy of students who want to learn
so you can trap the pretty sailor suited fighters? I can't forgive this!" She did her poses
"In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"
Zoicite screamed as he blasted her with all the energy he could muster. He might as well
have been spitting against the wind for all the good it did him. As his energy reserves
depleted, he slumped to his knee's in defeat. "Forgive me Kunzite... forgive me..." He
sobbed.
Sailor Moon paused. She actually felt sorry for him like this, and in spite of her frequent
speeches claiming otherwise, she was quite the forgiving soul. But the decision was made
for her as Zoicite suddenly vanished.
The other three senshi slowly walked over to her "I don't believe it." Was all Mars could
say.
"Two years certainly makes quite the difference." Mercury said, shaking her head with
disbelief.
Moon looked up to the sky 'Two years does make a difference... but how can the me
from this time fight Galaxia?' she thought as the consequences of her temporal switch
started to sink in.
***
Zoicite suddenly found himself before Queen Beryl. To say she was furious would be
like saying the surface of the sun was a bit warm. "Five!" she hissed "Five of my most
powerful youma!!"
Zoicite winced. He was done for and he knew it. If he was lucky she'd just kill him...
otherwise there was always the forever sleep.
"I ordered you to get the nijizuishou fragments, not send my personal youma to their
deaths!" She bellowed "How dare you sacrifice them like this for no gain!"
Kunzite suddenly teleported in "Beryl-sama-" He began before Beryl spun on him.
"Silence!" She screamed loudly enough that the cavern trembled slightly. "One word,
just one from you, and you will share his fate!"
Zoicite looked at Kunzite through tear rimmed eyes, his expression pleading with his
lover to keep silent.
Kunzite hung his head, though his entire body was trembling with a mixture of fury and
fear.
"Do you have anything to say in your defence?" Beryl asked Zoicite.
Zoicite considered his response. About the only excuse he could come up with was that it
had been the DD girls who had helped him on their own initiative. But Jadeite had tried
the same defence after Thetis died, and he didn't want to remind her of Jadeite, lest he
recieved the same punishment. "No Beryl-sama." He said at last.
Queen Beryl's eyes narrowed. She pointed her index finger at Zoicite and a lance of dark
energy shot out, striking him through the heart. Zoicite cried out in pain before falling
backwards. "Get this garbage out of here." She said dismissively.
Kunzite immediately grabbed Zoicite and teleported away.
"Why couldn't you have just followed orders..." Kunzite said sadly as he gently placed
Zoicite on a raised platform in an isolated cavern. Tears were running down his cheeks,
but he didn't care.
"I..it's...okay..." Zoicite wheezed painfully "As... long as... I... am with you..." He tried to
raise his hand to wipe away Kunzite's tears, but was too weak. Kunzite, seeing his intent,
took his hand and placed it against his cheek.
"Oh Zoicite..."
Zoicite coughed "My last... wish... is..." speech was becoming harder now, and his
breathing was ragged "I want... to die... pretty..." He smiled weakly at Kunzite, then
stopped breathing.
Kunzite wept harder as he used his powers to make flowers bloom all around the person
who had been so much to him. Comrade, friend, soulmate, lover. Zoicite had been all
these things to him. And now he was gone.
"I will avenge you." Kunzite swore "Or die trying."
***
"Well, we've passed the point of no return now." Sailor Pluto observed Zoicite's death
through the time gate. "She's changed history too much for it to be fixed by just switching
them back."
"Although funnily enough, his actual death wasn't that different. Just the timing of it."
The other Pluto commented.
"Hilarious." Her counterpart retorted dryly.
"I crack me up." The second one broke into a wide grin.
***
Ami rang the doorbell to the Tsukino home as she had promised to take Usagi to school,
seeing as Usagi was unfamiliar with going to High School.
Shingo opened the door and immediatly blushed on seeing Ami. "Ohayou Ami-san!" He
greeted her cheerfuly.
Ami smiled politely "Ohayou gozaimez Shingo-san. I'm here to take Usagi to school.
May I come in?"
"Baka Usa-" Shingo checked himself when he remembered that Ami liked Usagi "My
sister is still asleep. Come in, and I'll wake her up."
"Thankyou." Ami stepped in and took her shoes off as Shingo ran up the stairs to Usagi's
room.
Ikkuko stepped out into the hallway "Oh hello Ami-chan." She greeted the girl she
regarded as the best influence her daughter could have "Are you here to walk Usagi to
school?"
"Hai Mrs Tsukino." Ami bowed.
"Well in that case would you like to have some breakfast with us while you wait for her
to get ready?"
Ami was about to say that she had already eaten, but then she caught a whiff of the
delicious cooked breakfast Ikkuko had prepared for her family. Ami's usual bowl of
cereal just didn't compare. "Yes please." Ami smiled brightly.
Kenji greeted Ami as Ikkuko escorted her into the kitchen and offered her a seat. Ami sat
down and dug into the food offered. "I can't believe Usagi doesn't wake up earlier when
she has this food on offer." Ami praised Ikkuko's cooking.
Ikkuko sighed. "Usagi loves sleeping and eating. Sadly she prefers sleeping in the
morning and eating at night."
Shingo overheard their conversation as he came in and sat beside Ami "Usagi normally
just has a piece of toast as she runs out the door." He informed her "She should be ready
in a few minutes."
They made general small talk about school and such for a few minutes before Usagi
walked in wearing her high school uniform, seeming very uncomfortable about
something. She quickly took a seat before greeting everyone and eating some breakfast.
Ami checked the clock on the wall. There was plenty of time till school, but Ami liked to
arrive early, and sensed that Usagi wanted to talk to her about something anyway. "Shall
we go now Usagi-chan?"
"Hai!" Usagi nodded, and carefully got out of her seat before leaving with Ami.
As they walked out of the door, Ami turned to Usagi "Is something bothering you
Usagi?"
Usagi seemed ready to cry "This skirt is so wide Ami-chan! I feel like it's going to slide
right off!"
***
Author Notes: That's enough for now. It's 3am and I'm tired. No more exams so the next
chapter won't take too long to write. *yawn* Anyways, keep reviewing, it always
brightens my day!
Oh, I suppose you want a preview of the next chapter? Well, let me put it simply...
GALAXIA ATTACKS!! And you thought I was just leaving the fourteen year old Usagi
in for comic relief... ha!