-Author's Notes-Hi all! This is my second fan fic. Yea! Okay, few minor notes
here: words within '* *' mean a telepathic conversation, ' ' is thoughts, and ___ is a time lasp (going from one point in time to another). With that said, on with the story! Send all e-mails to pchan@pernet.net.
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Sailor Senshi Chronicles
Part I: The Revelation
Chapter I
Greetings
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Normal. Abnormal. Average. Weird. What's the difference? We're all the same
is you look hard enough. What is normal anyway?
These words ran in Usagi's mind. It had been nearly a year since she
defeated Choas. She and her friends had been living peacefully since. Things
were going smoothly for everyone. Yet Usagi felt that something was about to
happen. Something that would change their peaceful lives, forever. She sighed
as she looked up at the full moon from her window. 'I hope I'm imagining
things again.'
Usagi thought again about the words that went through her mind. Even
though they caused her to think, they weren't her words. She recalled someone
else saying them, a long time ago...
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A black mist sped through deep space, invisible. It searched for something,
anything that it could use as a body. It needed a shell. Suddenly, it felt
something. No. Four things. This was better than it expected. Two of the them
was near the blue planet called Earth. The other two were in the Negative
Space next to it. Racing ahead, it laughed to itself. The bodies were
seemingly dead. But there was an extremely small bit of life left in them.
Along with power.
It reached the bodies. It stretched out tendrils and grabbed two in
real space. Then it opened a small portal and reached inside it. It felt the
others. Careful as not to damage them any further than they already were, it
pulled them out of the portal. Covering them, it gave it's own energy to
them, replenishing their life force. As they grew stronger, a mark appeared
on their foreheads. The mist grinned. The mark was a black crescent moon.
They were almost fully healed of their fatal injuries, but that was not
enough. They needed more power in order to survive what was in store for
them. The mist looked through time, looking for a power source. Then it found
one. An unlimited power source. The mist laughed again. Things were going
better than planned. Now it could have its revenge on the protectors of the
Moon, as well as the Betrayer.
And those of the Black Moon wold do so.
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"Usagi-chan! Pay attention!" Usagi heard Makoto hiss as she poked her in the
back with her pen.
Usagi straightened up as their homeroom teacher announced they were
getting a new student for the remainder of the year. Usagi only half
listened. She hadn't gotten much sleep the other night. Mostly because of a
strange dream that had been haunting her ever since things returned to
normal. At first it had been extremely vague, but lately the dream had become
clearer. A girl with long black hair in a ponytail on top of her head and
deep, clear blue eyes was talking to her about something, but her words were
somewhat slurred together and unintelligible. When the girl talked, all Usagi
heard was, 'help'...'they've'...'brother'...'protect...Crystal from
evil'...'killed'....'coming.' Usagi could only guess at their meaning. She
recalled what the girl looked like. When she did, she could've sworn she
could see the girl right there in her classroom. It took her a minute to
realize that she was.
She was standing at the front next to the teacher, who was saying,
"This is Kara. She's transferred here from America to finish her studies in
her native land. I want you all to make Kara feel welcomed here, understand?"
"Hai, sensei," the students chorused.
Usagi just stared at Kara as the newcomer made her way towards her seat
next to Usagi. When she reached it, her eyes locked onto Usagi's. Something
happened in that instant. Usagi saw something appear in her mind. She saw a
girl whose face was shielded by shadows. The girl raised her hand into the
air. Dark blue and green lights surrounded her form. The lights cleared
revealing the girl now suited in a Senshi fuku with a blue-green collar and
skirt. The bows were white as were her lace up boots that stopped mid-thigh.
A brilliant green crystal was in the middle of the bow on her chest and
glittered with power. In the girl's hand was a tall white staff that was
tinted blue. At the top of the staff was a symbol. It was a hollow circle
with a pair of intersecting lines. The sign of Earth. The girl started to
raise her head into the light, but at the moment, Kara broke her graze away
from Usagi and the image disappeared abruptly. Usagi did not notice, however,
that Kara's blue eyes flickered to green for a second as she glanced back in
Usagi's direction.
'What the heck was that?' Usagi thought. 'A Senshi? But...it couldn't
be. We've recovered all of them.....Haven't we?'
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"Wake up!!"
The four still bodies jerked awake at the sound of the voice. As they
sat up, they looked around. They were in a strange, black room. As far as
they could tell, they were the only ones there. Then they noticed who the
others were.
Dimando was the first to speak. "Rubeus?! Esmeraude?! Saffiru?!"
"How the heck--" Rubeus said looking at himself, "I thought I died!!"
"A shame you didn't, Rubeus," Esmeraude said coldly as she stood up.
Rubeus glared at the green haired woman with hate. "You better watch
what you say, Esmeraude," he cautioned.
To this, she replied, "Hey! I beat your sorry butt once, and I'll do it
again!"
"Oh yeah?!" Rubeus challenged as he also stood.
Saffiru was quick to act. "Settle down the both of you! We don't have
time to fight!"
"There's always time!" Esmeraude and Rubeus said in unison.
"I agree with Saffiru." Dimando stood. "We can't fight right now. Save
it for later. Much later."
Reluctantly, they both nodded.
"Where are we?" Esmeraude said surveying the room they were in. "And
how did we get here?"
"And how come we aren't dead?" Rubeus added.
"That'sss becaussse I sssaved you!" a voice hissed from all direction
at once.
They all whipped around, trying to find the source of the voice.
"Who are you?!" Dimando shouted.
A chilling laughter filled the room as a black cloud appeared in front
of them. "Namesss are not important now," the cloud said, "what isss
important isss the job I have for you."
"'Job'?" Rubeus repeated. "What sort of job?"
Again, the cloud laughed. "I think you'll enjoy the job quite well. But
firssst, you can't do anything in the ssstate your in."
"Eh?" they all said at once.
"Your powersss I mean. When you were attacked, your powersss were,
ssshall we sssay, dessstroyed. But I can give you more power, beyond your
wildessst dreamsss."
"Sound tempting," Esmeraude purred.
"But what is the job you want us to do?" Saffiru didn't trust this
creature quite yet.
The cloud suddenly filled the entire room, blinding the four. "The job
I want have for you to do," the cloud whispered evilly, "is dessstroy the
Moon Princesss and her protectorsss. Along with the Betrayer..."
When Dimando heard this, he started to object, but when he opened his
mouth to speak, a part of the cloud dove upon him. It did the same with the
others. Slowly and painfully, the cloud began to fill them with its own
power. Of course it didn't hurt itself. It laughed as the four members of the
Black Moon screamed in pain at the tremendous amount of energy it was
supplying them with. Then it was finished. The four were suddenly enveloped
with a black light.
When the light cleared, they stood in silence. Their clothes were now
solid black. Esmeraude's jewels were gone. She now had a silver ornamental
snake that wrapped up and around her upper left arm. The head rested near her
neck, its eyes were green gems. Rubeus had a serpent that curled down his
lower left arm to his hand where its head sat in his palm. The eyes were
red. The bottom part of Saffiru's right arm had a circling, and slightly
thick, boa shaped silver ornament whose eyes were dark blue ones, the head in
his palm also. Dimando's upper right arm held a dragon that had glittering
white eyes, its head sat atop his shoulder. They stared at the ornaments as
the cloud reappeared.
"Thessse are what connectsss you to your power," it explained. "Your
current power is over two hundred-fold what it usssed to be, and it ssshall
increassse daily now that I have located an excellent power sssource for
usss. Firssst though, we need to get it."
They all grinned wickedly. All thoughts they had now were of getting
more power and crushing the Moon Princess and the Senshi.
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A black light shot from space and struck the Crystal Palace of Crystal Tokyo.
The light caused a tremor to shake the massive building. Inside, Chibi-usa,
now 17, rushed down the halls towards the training room. She burst through
the two double doors and stopped suddenly. The room was filled with black
light. Chibi-usa could barley make out the forms of Sailor Mars, Mercury,
Jupiter, and Venus, who were trying to get to the center of the beam of
light.
'Wait!' she thought. 'Someone's missing! Someone's not here!' When she
realized who it was, she gasped and her eyes widened. "Iie!!" she shouted as
she rushed into the room. She joined the Senshi in trying to get to the
center of the light. She pushed with her hands against the light, but a
strong force was keeping her and the others from penetrating it.
"Small Lady!" a voice from within the light yelled. "Stay back! All of
you! They just want me! Stay back or else you will be killed!"
"Iie!" Chibi-usa said as the light began to return into the air. "You
can't go! You can't!!" Tears began to roll down her cheeks as she screamed,
"IIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!"
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Mamoru suddenly gasped. He stumbled and grabbed the wall beside him to steady
himself. His breathing turned heavy and his heart beat faster than usual. His
hand pressed the area of his chest over his heart. An aftershock of the pain
that had erupted in him was centered there.
"What was that?!" he gasped between breaths. 'It--,' he thought, '--it
felt like--part of me disappeared.....No--like it was ripped away.'
'*Help....me....*'
Mamoru jerked his head up at the sound of the voice. "Nani?!" he said
as he turned to see if he could find the owner of the voice.
'*Help....me....Edymion-kun....help....onegai....*'
He sensed something behind him. He whipped around. No one was there. He
shook his head to clear his thoughts. "That was weird," he muttered. "That
voice. I've heard it before. But from where?" Then he remembered where. "The
Moon," he whispered. "It was someone from the Moon."
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"Excellent work," the cloud complemented to the four. They stood once again
in the black room.
"Why don't we just kill her?" Saffiru said. "We could gather the power
once she dead."
"NO!!!" the cloud said quickly. Calming itself, it said in a lower
voice, "When ssshe'sss alive the power is greater. When ssshe'sss dead, the
power vanissshesss."
Esmeraude grumbled something about not knowing why they couldn't kill a
bratty girl *after* they gathered the power and in doing so they'd save
energy.
The cloud glared its hollow red eyes at her. She shut up instantly.
"And anyway," the cloud said, a grin forming under it's eyes, "the
'treatment' I have in ssstore for her will make death ssseem better."
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"Are you sure, Usagi-chan?" Ami asked her friend.
Usagi nodded. "Hai. I saw an image another Senshi. I don't know why,
but I think she's real and that there might be others somewhere." She sighed.
This was frustrating. It was their lunch break at school and Usagi had asked
her friends to meet her at a place in the courtyard hardly anyone went to.
She had quickly told them what she saw earlier.
"You think this Kara girl is one of them?" Makoto asked.
"She might be. I felt something about her. Like I knew her or
something. I'm not sure though."
"What about you, Ami-chan?" Minako asked the blue haired girl. "Did you
feel anything?"
Ami shook her head. "Iie. But I did have my computer on stand-by. It
might have picked up something." She reached into her 'pocket' and retrieved
her Mercury computer. She flipped the top open and began to type. Soon she
stopped as the computer beeped for a moment. She scanned her readings before
saying, "Well, according to this she has more inner power than a normal
person. Her physical power is above average even though she doesn't look like
it--"
''Normal'...'average...'' Usagi thought, 'it's those words again.'
"--Other than I can tell she seems to be a regular girl. But then again
so do we when we aren't transformed."
"So she might be a Senshi, but she might not?" Minako asked.
Ami shrugged as she placed her computer back in its place. "Who knows?
But we should keep an eye on her."
Just then, a loud voice said, "Well, well, well, what do we have
here?" The voice belonged to a boy in their class, Masato. Masato was the
delinquent of the grade, to say the least. He was a ways off from the Senshi.
He had cornered Kara against a tree, a wicked look on his face. "If it ain't
the new girl," he sneered.
"Leave me alone, you jerk!" Kara said as she tried to get away.
Before she could, he grabbed her by her shoulders. "I don't think so,
girlie," he said. He pushed her back up against the tree, hard. Something
popped out of her collar. A small silver necklace with a pendant in the shape
of a circle that had two intersecting lines in the center was around her
neck.
Usagi gasped slightly when she saw it. 'The sign of Earth! It's the
same one the Senshi had on her staff!'
Masato snorted at the sight of it. "What's with this?" he said,
releasing one shoulder to grab the necklace.
"Let go of it!" Kara ordered.
"No." A grin spread across his face.
"I'm warning you--"
"Ha! What can a girl do? You're all weaklings!"
Makoto grew angry at that particular comment. She cracked her knuckles,
thinking, 'I could do plenty.'
"Let--" Kara grabbed her necklace by the chain, "--go!" She kneed him
between the legs. The sudden pain caused him to release her shoulder and lose
his grip on the necklace. She punched him in the stomach. He doubled over.
Taking her chance she hit the back of his neck, knocking him out. He fell to
the ground unconcious and slightly twiching.
She pushed back her ponytail, as she said, "Never make me tell you
something more than once."
Then she saw out of the corner of her eye Usagi and the others. They
stood there looking from Kara to Masato then back again.
Usagi was the first to speak. "Uh--Hi, Kara."
"Hi..." Kara looked at the ground. "Sorry about that!" She quickly
began to flee the scene.
"Oi! Matte!" the other four said as they chased after her.
When they caught up to her, she turned to face them, a nervous look on
her face.
"We won't hurt you, Kara," Usagi said, "We just wanted to talk to you."
"Talk to me?" Kara sounded genuinely surprised. "Why?"
Makoto couldn't help but smile as she said, "Well, you're the new kid.
We want to get to know you. Plus anyone who doesn't think twice about beating
the crap out of Masato has got to be okay."
Kara slightly blushed. "He had it comin'."
"Tell me about it."
"Anyway," Minako said, stepping up to Kara. "My name Minako. This is
Makoto, Ami, and Usagi."
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"Are you sure, Lady?" Diana asked nervously.
Chibi-usa nodded detremindly. "I'm gonna see if I can find help." The
pink-haired teen stood before the Gates of Time. The Time Key around her neck
on a chain.
"I'm sure Sailor Moon can handle it with her Senshi."
Chibi-usa looked down at the grey cat beside her and smiled. Diana had
grown a lot in the past few years. She was about the same age as Luna was
when she first met Usagi. She bent down and scratched the cat's furry head.
"I know. But they might be after her past-self too. And they might not even
know who it is. Hey, I don't even know who she is! Yet I have to be there to
make for sure no one is hurt or killed during a battle. If she is in the past
and something happens to her, it could mean severe consequences for the
furture. Dai jo bu. I'll be back."
Chibi-usa stood up and adjusted the back pack she was carrying. "Tell
Mom and Dad not to worry. Terran's with me."
Diana sighed as she hung her head a ways. "That *will* worry them."
"I heard that, Diana. Besides, he could be of some help. Sayanara!"
Chibi-usa waved as she stepped through the Gates.
Diana watched as slowly the mist surrounded her form and she could be
seen no more. She sighed again before looking up at the void above her. She
closed her eyes and silently prayed, 'Onegai. Watch over Lady and Usagi-sama.
This foe will not be defeated easily. I can tell.'
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"Where'd you get that necklace, Kara-chan?" Usagi asked curiously.
It was after school. Usagi, Minako, Makoto, and Ami along with Kara
were headed to the arcade. Of course Ami was going to study while the others
would be wasting their coins on video games.
"Eh?" Kara looked down at her necklace and picked up the pendant that
was on it. "I don't know now that you mention it."
"You don't?" Ami said looking up from her book.
Kara shook her head. "I've had it since before I could remember."
'That's kinda a lie, Kara' she said to herself.
Her first memory was *of* someone giving her the necklace. She had
dreams about the memory sometimes. She could see a boy, older than her,
handing her the necklace. His voice echoed in her mind, "Keep this with you
at all times, Hime. It will help you in times of trouble."
'Why does he call me 'hime'? Doesn't that mean 'princess'?' she
pondered as she stared at the pendant.
"Kara-chan! Come on!"
Kara snapped her head up. She unconciously had stopped walking. "Ah!
Hai!" she called as she sprinted to catch up with them, her necklace falling
back into her collar.
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"How much longer?!" Dimando said impatiently.
"A moment more, Dimando. A moment more," the cloud replied, sweeping a
part of itself over a panel of controls. It beeped for a few seconds before a
huge purple ball appeared behind a glass sheild connected to the panel. The
large ball pulsed slightly. Saffiru, beside the cloud, punched a few buttons.
The ball glowed, as did the eyes on the silver ornaments. They each felt
energy surge into them.
"Whoa!" Rubeus exclaimed.
"That brat had that much power?" Esmeraude said, amazed.
"That wasss only a sssample," the cloud said. "When you need more it
will come to you."
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"This thing is rigged!!" Minako and Makoto both shouted at the same time.
Ami looked at them over the top of her book and sighed. "Not again."
"Okay," Matoko said reaching into her pocket and bringing out a coin,
"One more time!"
"Man! I got killed *again*?! This ain't my day!" Kara sighed. She
glance at her watch and gasped. "I gotta leave guys! I'm late for something!
I'll see ya tomorrow! Sayanara!" She waved as she rushed out the doors.
"Man, she's fast!" Usagi exclaimed.
Just then, Luna, Artemis, and Rei came in. "Ohiyo!" Rei greeted.
At once they knew something was up. "Okay," Minako said as she stood
up. "What happened?"
Rei quickly glanced around to make sure no one was listening before she
said in a hushed tone, "I got a call from Mamoru-san. He says he thinks
something's happened in the furture."
"Nani?!" they choursed.
Luna stepped up and whispered, "I checked it out and sure enough,
someone was pulled out of time in the Thirtieth Century. I don't know who,
though."
"We can't talk openly here," Artemis said. "Let's head over to the
Temple."
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"Aw, shoot! Now I'm lost!" Kara groaned. She looked around but found nothing
familar. "Where's that stupid temple?!" She reached into her pocket and
pulled out a newpaper clipping. It was advertising about a place called
Hikawa Temple that needed some extra help. She had called the place that
morning saying that she'd drop by to see if she could get the job. "I'm sure
it's around here somewhere," she mumbled to herself as she turned a corner.
She was so deep in thought she didn't see the person who was also turning the
corner untill she bumped into him, sending them both to the ground.
"Ah! Gomen ne! I didn't see you!" Kara replied as she sat up. The man
did the same.
Kara stopped her apoligy when she saw him. She heard voice in her mind
say, "I'll be with you for eternity. I'll never leave you. Never." She shook
her head, trying to clear her thoughts.
"It's all right," the red haired man said as he stood. Kara found
herself studying him as he did. He was tall and masculine. He was dressed in
a full black attire of jeans, shirt and jacket. Even his shoes were black
along with the gloves he wore. He had on a pair of black sunglasses.
'Is that a fashion statment or what?' she thought.
He extented his left hand to help her up. Kara slowly nodded as she
took his hand and he helped her up. She felt a hard bump in the center of his
hand.
"Gomen," she said again, looking at the ground. Something about this
guy made her nervous.
"It's okay, kid." He walked passed her and continued on his way. Kara
turned and looked at him as he walked further and further away. She felt her
face grow hot as her cheeks reddened a bit.
He looked back and saw her staring at him. When he did, she suddenly
choose to run out of there. He could've sworn he'd seen her some where
before.
A voice boomed in his head, 'Rubeus! Where the heck are you!?'
He groaned inwardly. 'None of you business, Esmeraude!' he replied.
'You're supposed to be guarding the Brat!'
'Saffiru is. So get off my case. Besides,' Rubeus grinned wickedly, 'I
was sent here to do something.'
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"Say that again?!" Makoto shouted.
"The Negaverse is back," Luna repeated. "They are the ones who took
whoever it was from Crystal Tokyo."
Ami thought about that for a second before turning to Mamoru, who had
met them at the Temple, "And you say you felt it?"
He nodded.
"Then it must had been someone tied to Earth in some way."
"Do you think it was Chibi-usa?" Makoto asked.
Mamoru shook his head. "If it was then Usako would have felt it too.
Besides, whoever it was, had a strong link with me. But I don't know who it
could be."
Just then, the sky suddenly turned red and a circle opened in the
clouds above the stairs leading to the Temple.
"What the--?!" Rei started. But a sudden burst of wind and a bright
flash of pink light cut her off. Then the sky returned to normal and the wind
died down.
Usagi knew what had happened. "Someone just time jumped!" she
exclained.
Before anyone could reply, she rushed over towards the Temple stairs to
see who it was. There, halfway up the stone steps, was Chibi-usa. She was
sparwled out on the steps. As they reached her, they saw that she had landed
on top of someone, knocking them unconcious.
"Kara-chan?!!" Usagi gasped when she realized who it was Chibi-usa had
used as a landing mat.
"I gotta work on my aim," Chibi-usa moaned as she rubbed her head.
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NEXT: Chibi-usa's back! But so is the Black Moon. What is the strange cloud's
true motive? Who is the Betrayer it seems to be slightly obsessed about? Is
he (or she) connected to the Moon? Who was it that Usagi saw? Will she be
revealed?
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So, what do you think so far, readers? Please tell me!
-Anaconda-
Translations:
iie--no
nani--what
onegai--please
dai bo ju--it's all right, I'm all right, ect.
oi--hey
matte--wait, hold up
hai--yes, yeah
hime--princess
sayanara--goodbye
gome ne/gomen--sorry
here: words within '* *' mean a telepathic conversation, ' ' is thoughts, and ___ is a time lasp (going from one point in time to another). With that said, on with the story! Send all e-mails to pchan@pernet.net.
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Sailor Senshi Chronicles
Part I: The Revelation
Chapter I
Greetings
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Normal. Abnormal. Average. Weird. What's the difference? We're all the same
is you look hard enough. What is normal anyway?
These words ran in Usagi's mind. It had been nearly a year since she
defeated Choas. She and her friends had been living peacefully since. Things
were going smoothly for everyone. Yet Usagi felt that something was about to
happen. Something that would change their peaceful lives, forever. She sighed
as she looked up at the full moon from her window. 'I hope I'm imagining
things again.'
Usagi thought again about the words that went through her mind. Even
though they caused her to think, they weren't her words. She recalled someone
else saying them, a long time ago...
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A black mist sped through deep space, invisible. It searched for something,
anything that it could use as a body. It needed a shell. Suddenly, it felt
something. No. Four things. This was better than it expected. Two of the them
was near the blue planet called Earth. The other two were in the Negative
Space next to it. Racing ahead, it laughed to itself. The bodies were
seemingly dead. But there was an extremely small bit of life left in them.
Along with power.
It reached the bodies. It stretched out tendrils and grabbed two in
real space. Then it opened a small portal and reached inside it. It felt the
others. Careful as not to damage them any further than they already were, it
pulled them out of the portal. Covering them, it gave it's own energy to
them, replenishing their life force. As they grew stronger, a mark appeared
on their foreheads. The mist grinned. The mark was a black crescent moon.
They were almost fully healed of their fatal injuries, but that was not
enough. They needed more power in order to survive what was in store for
them. The mist looked through time, looking for a power source. Then it found
one. An unlimited power source. The mist laughed again. Things were going
better than planned. Now it could have its revenge on the protectors of the
Moon, as well as the Betrayer.
And those of the Black Moon wold do so.
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"Usagi-chan! Pay attention!" Usagi heard Makoto hiss as she poked her in the
back with her pen.
Usagi straightened up as their homeroom teacher announced they were
getting a new student for the remainder of the year. Usagi only half
listened. She hadn't gotten much sleep the other night. Mostly because of a
strange dream that had been haunting her ever since things returned to
normal. At first it had been extremely vague, but lately the dream had become
clearer. A girl with long black hair in a ponytail on top of her head and
deep, clear blue eyes was talking to her about something, but her words were
somewhat slurred together and unintelligible. When the girl talked, all Usagi
heard was, 'help'...'they've'...'brother'...'protect...Crystal from
evil'...'killed'....'coming.' Usagi could only guess at their meaning. She
recalled what the girl looked like. When she did, she could've sworn she
could see the girl right there in her classroom. It took her a minute to
realize that she was.
She was standing at the front next to the teacher, who was saying,
"This is Kara. She's transferred here from America to finish her studies in
her native land. I want you all to make Kara feel welcomed here, understand?"
"Hai, sensei," the students chorused.
Usagi just stared at Kara as the newcomer made her way towards her seat
next to Usagi. When she reached it, her eyes locked onto Usagi's. Something
happened in that instant. Usagi saw something appear in her mind. She saw a
girl whose face was shielded by shadows. The girl raised her hand into the
air. Dark blue and green lights surrounded her form. The lights cleared
revealing the girl now suited in a Senshi fuku with a blue-green collar and
skirt. The bows were white as were her lace up boots that stopped mid-thigh.
A brilliant green crystal was in the middle of the bow on her chest and
glittered with power. In the girl's hand was a tall white staff that was
tinted blue. At the top of the staff was a symbol. It was a hollow circle
with a pair of intersecting lines. The sign of Earth. The girl started to
raise her head into the light, but at the moment, Kara broke her graze away
from Usagi and the image disappeared abruptly. Usagi did not notice, however,
that Kara's blue eyes flickered to green for a second as she glanced back in
Usagi's direction.
'What the heck was that?' Usagi thought. 'A Senshi? But...it couldn't
be. We've recovered all of them.....Haven't we?'
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"Wake up!!"
The four still bodies jerked awake at the sound of the voice. As they
sat up, they looked around. They were in a strange, black room. As far as
they could tell, they were the only ones there. Then they noticed who the
others were.
Dimando was the first to speak. "Rubeus?! Esmeraude?! Saffiru?!"
"How the heck--" Rubeus said looking at himself, "I thought I died!!"
"A shame you didn't, Rubeus," Esmeraude said coldly as she stood up.
Rubeus glared at the green haired woman with hate. "You better watch
what you say, Esmeraude," he cautioned.
To this, she replied, "Hey! I beat your sorry butt once, and I'll do it
again!"
"Oh yeah?!" Rubeus challenged as he also stood.
Saffiru was quick to act. "Settle down the both of you! We don't have
time to fight!"
"There's always time!" Esmeraude and Rubeus said in unison.
"I agree with Saffiru." Dimando stood. "We can't fight right now. Save
it for later. Much later."
Reluctantly, they both nodded.
"Where are we?" Esmeraude said surveying the room they were in. "And
how did we get here?"
"And how come we aren't dead?" Rubeus added.
"That'sss becaussse I sssaved you!" a voice hissed from all direction
at once.
They all whipped around, trying to find the source of the voice.
"Who are you?!" Dimando shouted.
A chilling laughter filled the room as a black cloud appeared in front
of them. "Namesss are not important now," the cloud said, "what isss
important isss the job I have for you."
"'Job'?" Rubeus repeated. "What sort of job?"
Again, the cloud laughed. "I think you'll enjoy the job quite well. But
firssst, you can't do anything in the ssstate your in."
"Eh?" they all said at once.
"Your powersss I mean. When you were attacked, your powersss were,
ssshall we sssay, dessstroyed. But I can give you more power, beyond your
wildessst dreamsss."
"Sound tempting," Esmeraude purred.
"But what is the job you want us to do?" Saffiru didn't trust this
creature quite yet.
The cloud suddenly filled the entire room, blinding the four. "The job
I want have for you to do," the cloud whispered evilly, "is dessstroy the
Moon Princesss and her protectorsss. Along with the Betrayer..."
When Dimando heard this, he started to object, but when he opened his
mouth to speak, a part of the cloud dove upon him. It did the same with the
others. Slowly and painfully, the cloud began to fill them with its own
power. Of course it didn't hurt itself. It laughed as the four members of the
Black Moon screamed in pain at the tremendous amount of energy it was
supplying them with. Then it was finished. The four were suddenly enveloped
with a black light.
When the light cleared, they stood in silence. Their clothes were now
solid black. Esmeraude's jewels were gone. She now had a silver ornamental
snake that wrapped up and around her upper left arm. The head rested near her
neck, its eyes were green gems. Rubeus had a serpent that curled down his
lower left arm to his hand where its head sat in his palm. The eyes were
red. The bottom part of Saffiru's right arm had a circling, and slightly
thick, boa shaped silver ornament whose eyes were dark blue ones, the head in
his palm also. Dimando's upper right arm held a dragon that had glittering
white eyes, its head sat atop his shoulder. They stared at the ornaments as
the cloud reappeared.
"Thessse are what connectsss you to your power," it explained. "Your
current power is over two hundred-fold what it usssed to be, and it ssshall
increassse daily now that I have located an excellent power sssource for
usss. Firssst though, we need to get it."
They all grinned wickedly. All thoughts they had now were of getting
more power and crushing the Moon Princess and the Senshi.
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A black light shot from space and struck the Crystal Palace of Crystal Tokyo.
The light caused a tremor to shake the massive building. Inside, Chibi-usa,
now 17, rushed down the halls towards the training room. She burst through
the two double doors and stopped suddenly. The room was filled with black
light. Chibi-usa could barley make out the forms of Sailor Mars, Mercury,
Jupiter, and Venus, who were trying to get to the center of the beam of
light.
'Wait!' she thought. 'Someone's missing! Someone's not here!' When she
realized who it was, she gasped and her eyes widened. "Iie!!" she shouted as
she rushed into the room. She joined the Senshi in trying to get to the
center of the light. She pushed with her hands against the light, but a
strong force was keeping her and the others from penetrating it.
"Small Lady!" a voice from within the light yelled. "Stay back! All of
you! They just want me! Stay back or else you will be killed!"
"Iie!" Chibi-usa said as the light began to return into the air. "You
can't go! You can't!!" Tears began to roll down her cheeks as she screamed,
"IIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!"
___
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Mamoru suddenly gasped. He stumbled and grabbed the wall beside him to steady
himself. His breathing turned heavy and his heart beat faster than usual. His
hand pressed the area of his chest over his heart. An aftershock of the pain
that had erupted in him was centered there.
"What was that?!" he gasped between breaths. 'It--,' he thought, '--it
felt like--part of me disappeared.....No--like it was ripped away.'
'*Help....me....*'
Mamoru jerked his head up at the sound of the voice. "Nani?!" he said
as he turned to see if he could find the owner of the voice.
'*Help....me....Edymion-kun....help....onegai....*'
He sensed something behind him. He whipped around. No one was there. He
shook his head to clear his thoughts. "That was weird," he muttered. "That
voice. I've heard it before. But from where?" Then he remembered where. "The
Moon," he whispered. "It was someone from the Moon."
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"Excellent work," the cloud complemented to the four. They stood once again
in the black room.
"Why don't we just kill her?" Saffiru said. "We could gather the power
once she dead."
"NO!!!" the cloud said quickly. Calming itself, it said in a lower
voice, "When ssshe'sss alive the power is greater. When ssshe'sss dead, the
power vanissshesss."
Esmeraude grumbled something about not knowing why they couldn't kill a
bratty girl *after* they gathered the power and in doing so they'd save
energy.
The cloud glared its hollow red eyes at her. She shut up instantly.
"And anyway," the cloud said, a grin forming under it's eyes, "the
'treatment' I have in ssstore for her will make death ssseem better."
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"Are you sure, Usagi-chan?" Ami asked her friend.
Usagi nodded. "Hai. I saw an image another Senshi. I don't know why,
but I think she's real and that there might be others somewhere." She sighed.
This was frustrating. It was their lunch break at school and Usagi had asked
her friends to meet her at a place in the courtyard hardly anyone went to.
She had quickly told them what she saw earlier.
"You think this Kara girl is one of them?" Makoto asked.
"She might be. I felt something about her. Like I knew her or
something. I'm not sure though."
"What about you, Ami-chan?" Minako asked the blue haired girl. "Did you
feel anything?"
Ami shook her head. "Iie. But I did have my computer on stand-by. It
might have picked up something." She reached into her 'pocket' and retrieved
her Mercury computer. She flipped the top open and began to type. Soon she
stopped as the computer beeped for a moment. She scanned her readings before
saying, "Well, according to this she has more inner power than a normal
person. Her physical power is above average even though she doesn't look like
it--"
''Normal'...'average...'' Usagi thought, 'it's those words again.'
"--Other than I can tell she seems to be a regular girl. But then again
so do we when we aren't transformed."
"So she might be a Senshi, but she might not?" Minako asked.
Ami shrugged as she placed her computer back in its place. "Who knows?
But we should keep an eye on her."
Just then, a loud voice said, "Well, well, well, what do we have
here?" The voice belonged to a boy in their class, Masato. Masato was the
delinquent of the grade, to say the least. He was a ways off from the Senshi.
He had cornered Kara against a tree, a wicked look on his face. "If it ain't
the new girl," he sneered.
"Leave me alone, you jerk!" Kara said as she tried to get away.
Before she could, he grabbed her by her shoulders. "I don't think so,
girlie," he said. He pushed her back up against the tree, hard. Something
popped out of her collar. A small silver necklace with a pendant in the shape
of a circle that had two intersecting lines in the center was around her
neck.
Usagi gasped slightly when she saw it. 'The sign of Earth! It's the
same one the Senshi had on her staff!'
Masato snorted at the sight of it. "What's with this?" he said,
releasing one shoulder to grab the necklace.
"Let go of it!" Kara ordered.
"No." A grin spread across his face.
"I'm warning you--"
"Ha! What can a girl do? You're all weaklings!"
Makoto grew angry at that particular comment. She cracked her knuckles,
thinking, 'I could do plenty.'
"Let--" Kara grabbed her necklace by the chain, "--go!" She kneed him
between the legs. The sudden pain caused him to release her shoulder and lose
his grip on the necklace. She punched him in the stomach. He doubled over.
Taking her chance she hit the back of his neck, knocking him out. He fell to
the ground unconcious and slightly twiching.
She pushed back her ponytail, as she said, "Never make me tell you
something more than once."
Then she saw out of the corner of her eye Usagi and the others. They
stood there looking from Kara to Masato then back again.
Usagi was the first to speak. "Uh--Hi, Kara."
"Hi..." Kara looked at the ground. "Sorry about that!" She quickly
began to flee the scene.
"Oi! Matte!" the other four said as they chased after her.
When they caught up to her, she turned to face them, a nervous look on
her face.
"We won't hurt you, Kara," Usagi said, "We just wanted to talk to you."
"Talk to me?" Kara sounded genuinely surprised. "Why?"
Makoto couldn't help but smile as she said, "Well, you're the new kid.
We want to get to know you. Plus anyone who doesn't think twice about beating
the crap out of Masato has got to be okay."
Kara slightly blushed. "He had it comin'."
"Tell me about it."
"Anyway," Minako said, stepping up to Kara. "My name Minako. This is
Makoto, Ami, and Usagi."
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___
"Are you sure, Lady?" Diana asked nervously.
Chibi-usa nodded detremindly. "I'm gonna see if I can find help." The
pink-haired teen stood before the Gates of Time. The Time Key around her neck
on a chain.
"I'm sure Sailor Moon can handle it with her Senshi."
Chibi-usa looked down at the grey cat beside her and smiled. Diana had
grown a lot in the past few years. She was about the same age as Luna was
when she first met Usagi. She bent down and scratched the cat's furry head.
"I know. But they might be after her past-self too. And they might not even
know who it is. Hey, I don't even know who she is! Yet I have to be there to
make for sure no one is hurt or killed during a battle. If she is in the past
and something happens to her, it could mean severe consequences for the
furture. Dai jo bu. I'll be back."
Chibi-usa stood up and adjusted the back pack she was carrying. "Tell
Mom and Dad not to worry. Terran's with me."
Diana sighed as she hung her head a ways. "That *will* worry them."
"I heard that, Diana. Besides, he could be of some help. Sayanara!"
Chibi-usa waved as she stepped through the Gates.
Diana watched as slowly the mist surrounded her form and she could be
seen no more. She sighed again before looking up at the void above her. She
closed her eyes and silently prayed, 'Onegai. Watch over Lady and Usagi-sama.
This foe will not be defeated easily. I can tell.'
___
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"Where'd you get that necklace, Kara-chan?" Usagi asked curiously.
It was after school. Usagi, Minako, Makoto, and Ami along with Kara
were headed to the arcade. Of course Ami was going to study while the others
would be wasting their coins on video games.
"Eh?" Kara looked down at her necklace and picked up the pendant that
was on it. "I don't know now that you mention it."
"You don't?" Ami said looking up from her book.
Kara shook her head. "I've had it since before I could remember."
'That's kinda a lie, Kara' she said to herself.
Her first memory was *of* someone giving her the necklace. She had
dreams about the memory sometimes. She could see a boy, older than her,
handing her the necklace. His voice echoed in her mind, "Keep this with you
at all times, Hime. It will help you in times of trouble."
'Why does he call me 'hime'? Doesn't that mean 'princess'?' she
pondered as she stared at the pendant.
"Kara-chan! Come on!"
Kara snapped her head up. She unconciously had stopped walking. "Ah!
Hai!" she called as she sprinted to catch up with them, her necklace falling
back into her collar.
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"How much longer?!" Dimando said impatiently.
"A moment more, Dimando. A moment more," the cloud replied, sweeping a
part of itself over a panel of controls. It beeped for a few seconds before a
huge purple ball appeared behind a glass sheild connected to the panel. The
large ball pulsed slightly. Saffiru, beside the cloud, punched a few buttons.
The ball glowed, as did the eyes on the silver ornaments. They each felt
energy surge into them.
"Whoa!" Rubeus exclaimed.
"That brat had that much power?" Esmeraude said, amazed.
"That wasss only a sssample," the cloud said. "When you need more it
will come to you."
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"This thing is rigged!!" Minako and Makoto both shouted at the same time.
Ami looked at them over the top of her book and sighed. "Not again."
"Okay," Matoko said reaching into her pocket and bringing out a coin,
"One more time!"
"Man! I got killed *again*?! This ain't my day!" Kara sighed. She
glance at her watch and gasped. "I gotta leave guys! I'm late for something!
I'll see ya tomorrow! Sayanara!" She waved as she rushed out the doors.
"Man, she's fast!" Usagi exclaimed.
Just then, Luna, Artemis, and Rei came in. "Ohiyo!" Rei greeted.
At once they knew something was up. "Okay," Minako said as she stood
up. "What happened?"
Rei quickly glanced around to make sure no one was listening before she
said in a hushed tone, "I got a call from Mamoru-san. He says he thinks
something's happened in the furture."
"Nani?!" they choursed.
Luna stepped up and whispered, "I checked it out and sure enough,
someone was pulled out of time in the Thirtieth Century. I don't know who,
though."
"We can't talk openly here," Artemis said. "Let's head over to the
Temple."
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"Aw, shoot! Now I'm lost!" Kara groaned. She looked around but found nothing
familar. "Where's that stupid temple?!" She reached into her pocket and
pulled out a newpaper clipping. It was advertising about a place called
Hikawa Temple that needed some extra help. She had called the place that
morning saying that she'd drop by to see if she could get the job. "I'm sure
it's around here somewhere," she mumbled to herself as she turned a corner.
She was so deep in thought she didn't see the person who was also turning the
corner untill she bumped into him, sending them both to the ground.
"Ah! Gomen ne! I didn't see you!" Kara replied as she sat up. The man
did the same.
Kara stopped her apoligy when she saw him. She heard voice in her mind
say, "I'll be with you for eternity. I'll never leave you. Never." She shook
her head, trying to clear her thoughts.
"It's all right," the red haired man said as he stood. Kara found
herself studying him as he did. He was tall and masculine. He was dressed in
a full black attire of jeans, shirt and jacket. Even his shoes were black
along with the gloves he wore. He had on a pair of black sunglasses.
'Is that a fashion statment or what?' she thought.
He extented his left hand to help her up. Kara slowly nodded as she
took his hand and he helped her up. She felt a hard bump in the center of his
hand.
"Gomen," she said again, looking at the ground. Something about this
guy made her nervous.
"It's okay, kid." He walked passed her and continued on his way. Kara
turned and looked at him as he walked further and further away. She felt her
face grow hot as her cheeks reddened a bit.
He looked back and saw her staring at him. When he did, she suddenly
choose to run out of there. He could've sworn he'd seen her some where
before.
A voice boomed in his head, 'Rubeus! Where the heck are you!?'
He groaned inwardly. 'None of you business, Esmeraude!' he replied.
'You're supposed to be guarding the Brat!'
'Saffiru is. So get off my case. Besides,' Rubeus grinned wickedly, 'I
was sent here to do something.'
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"Say that again?!" Makoto shouted.
"The Negaverse is back," Luna repeated. "They are the ones who took
whoever it was from Crystal Tokyo."
Ami thought about that for a second before turning to Mamoru, who had
met them at the Temple, "And you say you felt it?"
He nodded.
"Then it must had been someone tied to Earth in some way."
"Do you think it was Chibi-usa?" Makoto asked.
Mamoru shook his head. "If it was then Usako would have felt it too.
Besides, whoever it was, had a strong link with me. But I don't know who it
could be."
Just then, the sky suddenly turned red and a circle opened in the
clouds above the stairs leading to the Temple.
"What the--?!" Rei started. But a sudden burst of wind and a bright
flash of pink light cut her off. Then the sky returned to normal and the wind
died down.
Usagi knew what had happened. "Someone just time jumped!" she
exclained.
Before anyone could reply, she rushed over towards the Temple stairs to
see who it was. There, halfway up the stone steps, was Chibi-usa. She was
sparwled out on the steps. As they reached her, they saw that she had landed
on top of someone, knocking them unconcious.
"Kara-chan?!!" Usagi gasped when she realized who it was Chibi-usa had
used as a landing mat.
"I gotta work on my aim," Chibi-usa moaned as she rubbed her head.
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NEXT: Chibi-usa's back! But so is the Black Moon. What is the strange cloud's
true motive? Who is the Betrayer it seems to be slightly obsessed about? Is
he (or she) connected to the Moon? Who was it that Usagi saw? Will she be
revealed?
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So, what do you think so far, readers? Please tell me!
-Anaconda-
Translations:
iie--no
nani--what
onegai--please
dai bo ju--it's all right, I'm all right, ect.
oi--hey
matte--wait, hold up
hai--yes, yeah
hime--princess
sayanara--goodbye
gome ne/gomen--sorry