There are some things you should know before reading my story. This
is the first fanfic I've ever written in my entire life so please be
nice. Another thing, my story takes place sometime during the Supers
series. However, Serena and Darien are still not together. Darien is
still having nightmares about Serena dying. Don't get mad at me. I
don't like it either, but that works best for my story. Last thing is
that this is a first of many books that I am writing. Book 1: The
Forgotten Past is one story all on its own. This is not part 1 of
whatever. Please understand that. I have already started Book 2:
Memories of the Past. It's a sequel, but a story all on its own as
well. Thank you for your patience in reading my little note. Hope
you like my story. Oh! One more thing! The ending is pretty sad.
Thought I should warn you. The rating is PG for drama.
THE FORGOTTEN PAST
By: Moonbunny83
6/19/01
E-mail: moonbunny83@hotmail.com
Sailor Moon created by:
Naoko Takeuchi
New characters belong to me.
BOOK 1
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
"Darien . . . mmm . . .," Serena Tsukino mumbled in her sleep.
"I'd be happy to marry you . . . please come back to me . . ."
She stretched in her bed and fell on the floor. And yet, she kept
on sleeping.
"Serena!" Reenie yelled in Serena's ear. "Wake up. The
other scouts need Sailor Moon." Reenie placed both hands on the
slumbering blonde and started shaking her, frustration clearly
etched in her expression.
"Unh . . . mmm . . . leave me alone, Moonbrat. Even in my
sleep, you steal my love away from me . . .," Serena whined. She
raised a hand a struck Reenie on the head. Reenie stumbled on
the floor, shocked and slightly out of focused. Her pixie face
turned bright red and she stood back up, ready to retaliate. But
before she could reach the dozing Serena, she felt a resistance
against her feet. She looked down and saw Luna, her sharp teeth
pulling on Reenie's bunny-printed pajamas. Once she saw that she
got the little girl's attention, Luna started talking.
"Reenie, wake her up. We don't have much time. The other
scouts are losing quickly."
"What do you think I've been doing for the last thirty
minutes? And all I get for my efforts is a smack on the head!"
Reenie shouted angrily. She took deep breaths and started counting
to ten inside her head in an attempt to calm herself down. Once
she got her composure back, she turned her attention to Serena
and tried yet again to wake her up. "Come on Meatball Head! Wake
up! Sheesh. You can sleep through World War III." Desperate times
call for desperate measures, as they say. So, after deciding that
it was for her Moon Mama's own good, Reenie snatched a half-filled
glass of water from the bed stand and dumped its contents on the
unsuspecting Serena.
Luna sighed, quietly watching the mother-daughter antics.
"And to think they still act this way in the 30th Century Crystal
Tokyo. A cat can only take so much."
"Huh? What?" Serena gasped. Her long pigtails now clumped
limply on her face.
"About time, Ditzoid! Let's go! The others need our help."
Reenie grasped a pink heart-shaped compact and threw it into the
air. "Moon Prism Power!"
Serena, still sitting on the floor, cried out angrily. "Did
you just call me Ditzoid? Like Meatball Head wasn't bad enough?
Who's been teaching you? I bet all my candy stash that it's a
certain Fire Princess!" Serena stopped and muttered, "Just wait
till I have a one on one chat with Raye." She slowly stood up,
her face dripping wet. One drop fell on her eye and she remembered
what woke her up. She faced Reenie and asked incredulously,
"You dumped water on me?"
Reenie finished her transformation and retorted back.
"So what if I did? It worked, didn't it?"
"You'll pay for that, Moonbrat!" Serena growled. Reenie
stuck her tongue out and as usual, this resulted in a tongue war.
Luna, the mediator, cuts in. "That is enough! While the
two of you are standing here bickering, the others are holding
onto their lives!"
Both Serena and Reenie immediately ceased and stared at Luna
sheepishly. "Sorry!" They apologized.
"Luna, it is the middle of the night so could you, maybe
lower your voice just a bit?" Serena whispered. "I don't want
my family to wake up from all the racket you're causing."
Reenie nodded in agreement.
Luna's tiny shoulders fell in defeat. 'They really are
of the same blood,' she thought to herself. Luna sighed and
addressed Serena. "Transform now."
Serena nodded and yelled, "Moon Cosmic Power!" She
transformed in record time amidst a swirl of pink ribbons.
"Sailor Mini Moon, time to join the scouts." And with that
said, Serena jumped out of her window with a smaller replica of
herself close at her heels.
"Finally," Sailor Mini Moon muttered.
Luna stayed behind, watching the two disappear into the
night with a worried frown carved on her whiskered face. "Good
luck you two. I have a terrible feeling about this. Something
is going to happen. I just know it and I'm afraid you may not be
strong enough to overcome it, Serena," the black feline whispered
to herself. "If anything happened . . . oh! This is all my fault.
I should have told her everything about her past. When I restored
her memories, I held back something important. Something that can
make a difference between life and death," Luna sobbed. She stared
at the moon against the dark backdrop that was the sky and cried in
anguish, "Why, Queen Serenity? Why did you make me keep something
like this from your own daughter? Why did you order my silence about
Hunter? About her own husband?!!!" Luna stopped yelling and turned
eerily quiet. She sniffed and continued, "I cannot keep this to
myself any longer. Please forgive me, my Queen. I must tell Darien.
I must. He may be the only hope we have." And with that, she
jumped out the window and ran towards Darien's apartment. Ran
like the very devil was hot at her paws.
ELSEWHERE . . .
"Mars . . . flame . . . sniper!"
"Jupiter . . . oak . . . evolution!"
"Mercury . . . aqua . . . rhapsody!"
"Venus . . . love and beauty . . . shock!"
Fire, lightning, water, and love all combined to create a
sphere of energy. The sphere grew and grew, superb power emanating
around and through it. Then it was suddenly hurled across the field,
flying with rapid speed to its target, a smirking man with long,
silver hair that goes down a bit past his muscular shoulders. He
wore a full body armor, complete with a sword in its sheath. His
eyes are quite piercing with their green orbs sparkling with menace.
He was of medium height with the looks of someone around his twenties.
He is a good-looking man and the scouts would have swooned if not for
the circumstances at hand. The energy orb continued on and without
the slightest movement visible to the naked eye, he avoided it,
causing the surge of energy to crash into a nearby tree. The tree
was lifted away from its roots and was sent flying - - a tree no
more, but splinters of wood. Then into dust. Then into nothing.
The scouts stood speechless, now fear creeping into them
with a vengeance. Their mouths agape, shocked is an
understatement to what they are feeling now. That was their
last chance of survival and it was all for naught. They have
given it their all and nothing was left within them any longer.
The foul taste of defeat was sneaking itself slowly, so very
slowly. Everything now rests on Sailor Moon's shoulders as Mars,
Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus fell onto the ground, their life
energy sucked out, one by one. In the silence of darkness,
only a menacing laugh could be heard as Venus tried to pick
herself up, but to no avail.
"Sailor Moon . . . where are you? Serena . . .," Raye
whispered as she drew her final breath.
"I'm so sorry . . . Serena . . .," Amy gasped as she
finally fell into oblivion.
"Princess . . . we failed you . . . please, forgive
us . . .," Lita cried out softly, finally deciding to give up.
Mina heard their final words as she saw her fellow scouts
surrender their precious lives. "Mars, Mercury, Jupiter . . . no!
Don't give up, please. We have to protect the Princess," Venus
sobbed out.
"They're dead," a voice flatly declared. "It's no use
crying over them. You'd be joining them soon enough."
Venus sharply turned her head and asked in despair,
"Who are you?! What do you want from us?!" She slumped on the
ground, her breath staggering, blood pouring out of her mouth.
"Who I am is no concern of yours. What, or rather, who I want
. . . is my wife."
"Your wife," Venus cried dubiously.
"Yes, my wife," the silver-haired man repeated, looking
intently at Venus as if she were a child with difficulty of
understanding. "You have the looks of her. At first I thought
. . . but, never mind. I cannot see the resemblance any longer."
"What are you talking about?!"
"Must I repeat myself once more? This is becoming rather
exhausting," he sighed deeply and went on. "Look around you,
Sailor Venus. You are the only one left breathing. Unfortunately,
like I said before, you would eventually join them yourself. You
do realize that you are to blame for these regrettable events.
If only you had agreed to my conditions earlier, then maybe, just
maybe, mind you, your so-called friends would still be alive,"
he paused dramatically and continued. "Alas! You decided to be
uncooperative and now you must deal with the consequences.
However, I am not such a terrible man as to not give you a second
chance. Save yourself, Venus and tell me where you have my wife
hidden." He stared at her with narrowed eyes and waited.
Venus, frustrated, let out a loud roar. "Aaaahhhhhhh!
How many times do I have to tell you that I have no idea who
your wife is, let alone where she is!!!! Why don't you just . . ."
Venus was cut off when she heard a familiar voice and sighed with
relief.
Sailor Moon, after surveying her surroundings, concluded that
three of her friends were only unconscious, not dead. Her face
turned hard as she stared at the over-confident man. "How dare you
hurt my friends?" She yelled across the park, her voice full of
venom. "Just who do you think you are? I am Sailor Moon and in
the name of the moon, you shall pay for all the suffering you have
caused!"
Sailor Mini Moon, not to be left out, ran in front of Sailor
Moon and introduced herself. "And I am Sailor Mini Moon! In the
name of the future moon, you shall die a painful death!"
"My, my . . . impressive. But not quite impressive enough,"
the man said in a bored tone.
"Sailor Moon!" Venus exclaimed. "Get out of here. There's
nothing you can . . . Aaah!" Venus screamed as she was thrown
clear across the park by an unseen force.
"Sailor Venus! No!" Sailor Moon yelled, anguish deep in
her voice. "No! Stop it! Please, I'm begging you! Stop it!"
She sobbed as she started running towards her fallen friend.
Mini Moon grabbed her arm, trying to stop her, a pleading
tone in her voice, "Sailor Moon, don't! You heard her! We
should . . ."
"No!" She stared at Mini Moon, tears streaming down her
face, unchecked. "How could you even suggest such a thing?
She was your friend, too! What am I saying? She IS your friend.
She can't die. They can't die!" She sobbed, now hysterically.
"Let me go!" She pulled away sharply and Mini Moon had no choice
but to let go.
"That is quite enough!" A loud voice thundered. "You can
stop right there. I grow weary from all this nonsense." He
released his hold on Venus and turned his attention to Sailor
Moon. "I advice you to . . ."
Sailor Moon, still in despair for her friends, interrupted.
"Advice me to what?" Steel creeping into her voice, she advanced
towards the man that had caused her such indescribable pain in
a matter of minutes.
Mini Moon, quietly watched as Sailor Moon seethed with
anger. She slowly backed away at a safe distance, making sure
the man cannot see her, all the while giving her a full view
of every expression on his face. She stopped abruptly when
something wet and furry met with her legs. She looked down
and gasped at what she saw. Blood, so much blood. The metallic
stench was suffocating. She peered down closer and cried out
softly in surprise at what she had discovered. "Artemis . . .
oh, Artemis . . ." She bended down and checked the once white
cat for any signs of life. She noticed a slight rising as
Artemis tried to breathe with much difficulty. Tears streamed
down her face from joy as she gingerly picked the cat up and
carefully pulled him close to her chest. Mini Moon stood up,
now returning her attention at the danger that surrounded her.
She realized Sailor Moon was talking quietly, still quite far
from the man. She strained to hear what Sailor Moon was saying.
"You will not escape here alive," she said with surprising
calm.
"What? No tears from the great Sailor Moon?"
"Who are you?!"
"I have already been asked that question by dear old
Venus. And just like your dead friend over there, it is none
your busin . . ." He stopped all of a sudden as Sailor Moon
drew to a halt only a few feet away from him. From there, the
moonlight radiated a glow against her face and what he saw made
him lose his composure. "Huntress," he whispered softly.
Sailor Moon stared at the man like he was crazy, which in
truth, he was. "What did you just call me?"
"You don't remember me? What have they done to you, my love?"
She immediately stopped crying, her anger finally getting
the better of her. "Don't remember you?! I've never met you in
my entire life!! And don't call me your love!!" Sailor Moon
protested. The man swallowed up their distance in a wink of an
eye and she suddenly found herself in his arms. "Let me go!"
She tried to pull away, but her resistance only made him hold her
tighter.
He buried his face in her hair, tears falling down his
face with happiness. "I have finally found you, my love."
"I told you not to call me that!!" Sailor Moon muttered
against his chest.
Mini Moon stared incredulously at the spectacle unfolding
in front of her. She cannot understand why this man suddenly
became so nice. And he was hugging Sailor Moon!! Another man
was hugging her Moon Mama!! This made her despise the man even
more. She was about to give that awful man a piece of her mind
when the bundle she carries stirred. "Reenie . . . "
"Artemis? Ssh. Don't talk. Save your energy."
"Reenie, you must listen to me. That man . . . he will
kill you as well if he sees you. Stay hidden right here and
just watch and listen. "
"But Artemis, he's got my Mama!" Reenie cried in protest.
"I know. But you must stay alive to save everybody.
Prom - . . . promise . . . me . . . that . . . please," Artemis
pleaded, his energy quickly being extinguished.
"Artemis, stop hurting yourself!" Reenie said in a scolding
tone. "That man killed Raye, Amy, Lita, and Mina!!" She cried.
"He might do the same thing to Mama! I can't just stand here and
watch!"
"He will not kill her. That I am sure of." Artemis
stopped to clear his chest with the pain. "Promise me, Reenie!"
He persisted.
"But . . ."
"Trust me and promise me!"
Reenie sniffed in defeat and finally gave her promise.
'I'm so sorry, Mama,' she thought sadly.
"Now, keep yourself hidden and watch."
"Alright." She gave her attention back to Sailor Moon and
the Man.
Sailor Moon is really starting to get nervous. She kept
on trying to pull away and the Man kept on trying to hug her
even tighter. Finally, she stopped struggling and sighed, tears
once again streaming down her face. 'Mini Moon!' she thought.
'I've completely forgotten about her. Please stay away Reenie.
Don't let him see you! Get away from here!' she ordered inside
her head, hoping that Mini Moon has somehow heard her. After
all, she is her daughter. 'Darien . . . Tuxedo Mask . . . where
are you? Save me from this madman, please . . .' her lip
quivered as tears started flowing once again.
"Huntress, oh Huntress," the madman whispered in her hair.
He released her from his tight hold but kept his hands grip her
shoulders gently. Using his right hand, he lifted Sailor Moon's
chin and stared down at her, wiping away her tears at the same
time. 'You haven't changed at all, my love. You are still the
same woman I fell in love with all those years ago,' he said to
himself lovingly. It didn't last long as he started having bitter
thoughts. 'All those years ago when he stole you from me! When
they all stole you from me . . . erasing your memories . . .
erasing your love for me. Even your reincarnated self is unaware
of the betrayal . . .'
Sailor Moon impatiently interrupted his thoughts. "Let go
of me!" The man, surprise clearly seen on his face, did let go.
Taking advantage of this, Sailor Moon quickly stepped back
several feet. As she did so, she changed back to her normal self
without her knowledge. Only her normal self was not Serena but
Princess Serenity. She gasped out loud when she found herself
wearing a white flowing gown with sheer long sleeves in which she
cannot remember ever wearing on the moon. "What?" She looked at
the Man. "How did you . . .?"
"It wasn't such a hard task. I merely thought of you
wearing your wedding dress and here you are. Wearing your
wedding dress," he added, stating the obvious.
". . . My wed . . . wedding . . . d-dress?" Serenity
stuttered.
"Yes, your wedding dress," he explained patiently. "The
one you wore to our wedding."
" . . . Our . . . wed . . . ding . . .," she whispered
with horror. She stood there, absorbing what she has just been
told. "I married YOU?!" she cried disbelievingly and stared at
him with disgust.
"Don't look at me like that! Yes. You married ME. I
understand that you cannot remember me, but you soon will.
That I promise you, Huntress."
"But, I don't even know you! And why do you call me that?"
The man sighed, trying to regain his slowly dissipating
patience. "My name is Hunter, SERENITY. I gave you the name
Huntress a long time ago, during our past life when we were
childhood friends."
"We were childhood friends back on the moon?" Serenity
whispered.
"Yes. We were the best of friends. But everybody thought
it inappropriate. They wouldn't allow it," he said, resentment
slithering in his voice.
"Why?" She asked, finally thinking the possibility of
knowing this man.
"Why? Because I didn't belong."
"You weren't of royalty?"
"No," Hunter answered, anger apparent in his voice. "I
was merely the son of your chambermaid."
"My chambermaid?" she paused, thinking. "Myra . . ."
"Yes. You do remember me!!" he said happily.
Serenity sadly shook her head no. "I'm sorry, but I don't
remember Myra having any child."
Hunter quietly bowed his head, thinking. He blurted out
without warning, startling Serenity in the process, "You're not
afraid of me, are you my love?"
"No, but I still cannot forgive you for what you have done,"
Serenity said between clenched teeth, the death of the scouts
returning to her.
Hunter suddenly felt remorse, but it only lasted about a
second or two. "I wish I could tell you I was sorry. But I'm not."
At this, Serenity mouth dropped open in revulsion. Seeing this,
Hunter immediately explained. "Once you got your memory back about
their betrayals, you'll understand. I promise."
"I don't think so," she flatly said. She added quickly,
"They would never betray me."
"Why don't we find out?"
"What are you saying?"
"I can help you remember everything. All you have to do
is come back with me to the past. During the Silver Millennium."
Serenity started thinking about his request then shook
her head as if to clear it. 'What am I doing? Am I actually
giving this whole thing a thought? And why not? I can't see
why not. My friends . . . they're all gone and it's all my
fault for not getting here sooner . . . Darien pushed me away . . .
My own family is starting to regret having me as a daughter . . .
Luna, oh Luna. Even she has given up on me. Reenie . . . she
doesn't deserve a meatball head like me as her mother. She'd
be better off without me. They'd all be better off without me,'
she thought sadly. 'He really seems to love me,' she ponders,
staring at Hunter with confused, depressed eyes. 'Maybe, I
should . . .' "Fine. I'll go with you," she decided quietly.
"You have no idea how happy I am to hear you say that."
Hunter looked at her and continued. "Ready to go?" He held
out his hand.
"Yes." And with that, she took the hand offered and
disappeared into the night along with him with no trace
whatsoever.
DARIEN'S APARTMENT
"What are you telling me, Luna?" Darien asked the feline
gravely.
Luna gulped nervously. "I'm saying that Serena is
married to another man."
Darien stared at her for a few minutes. Luna started
sweating bullets. After a while, he looked away, stood up and
punched the wall. His knuckles came back bloody. Though the
wall was left in a much worse condition. "You knew all of this
and you still let her go?!"
"She has the right to know!" Luna quickly defended
herself.
"But she belongs to me!" Darien insisted.
"If I remember correctly, and I do I assure you, you gave
her up without a second thought," Luna pointed out angrily.
Darien turned around and faced Luna which caused her to
gasp. Tears ran down his haggard face, his eyes were bloodshot.
It was obvious that he hasn't had much sleep lately. "The
nightmares . . . the nightmares I had, the nightmares I still
have . . .," he whispered. Luna raised an eyebrow (if cats do
indeed raise eyebrows) questioningly. "The nightmares told me
to let her go if I wanted her to stay alive," he said as an
explanation. Luna nodded in understanding.
"So you still love her?"
"I never stopped."
Both of them turned quiet, nothing they can think of to
say at the moment. All of a sudden, the door to the apartment
banged open as Mini Moon ran in.
"Reenie!" Darien exclaimed. He gathered the little girl
in his arms, the last link he has to Serena. Reenie tries to
catch her breath as she was smothered by a desperate Darien. She
hugged her father back and burst into tears. "Reenie?" Darien
asked worriedly, letting go just enough to see her tear-streaked
face.
"Darien! It was terrible!" Reenie sobbed uncontrollably.
A movement between them caught their attention. Looking down
at her arms, Reenie gasped. "Artemis! Oh, I'm so sorry!" She
carefully placed the badly injured cat on the floor.
"Artemis!" Luna cried in anguish once she got a good look
of her blood-soaked friend. She ran to his side and purred.
Darien quickly treated the cat and wrapped him in blankets to
cease the trembling. With that done, he gave his full attention
back to Reenie who had returned to her normal self during the
treatment.
"Tell us everything that happened. From the beginning."
"It was terrible!" Reenie sobbed. "All the scouts are dead!"
"From the beginning, Reenie," Darien pleaded.
"Alright," she took deep breaths and started telling the
events that led to so much suffering. "It all started when Luna
woke me up and told me about a fight at the park. I tried to
wake up Serena. You know her. It was so hard. And then when
she finally did wake up . . ." she continued on with her story,
describing everything she saw in surprisingly explicit detail.
She told them that by the time she and Sailor Moon came to the
scene, only Venus was left alive. But that didn't last long.
When she got to the point where Hunter hugged Serena, or rather
Serenity, Darien broke down in tears. He finally realized his
mistake. The mistake of letting her go over some stupid dream.
Reenie ended with Hunter and Serenity vanishing hand in hand.
"I've lost her. I've truly lost her," Darien murmured
to himself.
Reenie, realizing an important fact, asked, "Darien, why
didn't you come?"
Darien looked at her in agony then turned his head away.
"I didn't feel her," he said quietly. "I didn't feel anything."
Luna, tears covering her entire face down to her whiskers,
whispered the ghastly truth. "The scouts are dead. They are
truly dead. And Serena . . . Princess . . . I'm so sorry . . ."
If that wasn't bad enough, Reenie started to dematerialize.
"Darien! Luna! Help me!"
Darien spun around to find his only link to Serena half-gone.
"Reenie!" he yelled. "No! Don't you leave me, too!" He tried
to grab her hand but could only grasp the air in front of him.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Luna wailed uncontrollably and joined Darien in tears.
"What have we done? What have we done? We have lost. The
future now ceases to exist."
END BOOK 1
Sorry for the sad ending and ending the story like that.
Don't worry, this is only the first book of my many books
on this series. So fret no longer . . . And don't get mad at
me!! I thought I ended it at the perfect moment. Now you'll
have to read all my books to get the ENTIRE picture. Hehehe. ;)
So, how'd you like it? Good, bad, don't care? Please send me
comments, suggestions, questions, but please no flames. Nobody
likes them. Thank you for sticking with me to the very end.
(This end anyway.) *^_^*
is the first fanfic I've ever written in my entire life so please be
nice. Another thing, my story takes place sometime during the Supers
series. However, Serena and Darien are still not together. Darien is
still having nightmares about Serena dying. Don't get mad at me. I
don't like it either, but that works best for my story. Last thing is
that this is a first of many books that I am writing. Book 1: The
Forgotten Past is one story all on its own. This is not part 1 of
whatever. Please understand that. I have already started Book 2:
Memories of the Past. It's a sequel, but a story all on its own as
well. Thank you for your patience in reading my little note. Hope
you like my story. Oh! One more thing! The ending is pretty sad.
Thought I should warn you. The rating is PG for drama.
THE FORGOTTEN PAST
By: Moonbunny83
6/19/01
E-mail: moonbunny83@hotmail.com
Sailor Moon created by:
Naoko Takeuchi
New characters belong to me.
BOOK 1
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
"Darien . . . mmm . . .," Serena Tsukino mumbled in her sleep.
"I'd be happy to marry you . . . please come back to me . . ."
She stretched in her bed and fell on the floor. And yet, she kept
on sleeping.
"Serena!" Reenie yelled in Serena's ear. "Wake up. The
other scouts need Sailor Moon." Reenie placed both hands on the
slumbering blonde and started shaking her, frustration clearly
etched in her expression.
"Unh . . . mmm . . . leave me alone, Moonbrat. Even in my
sleep, you steal my love away from me . . .," Serena whined. She
raised a hand a struck Reenie on the head. Reenie stumbled on
the floor, shocked and slightly out of focused. Her pixie face
turned bright red and she stood back up, ready to retaliate. But
before she could reach the dozing Serena, she felt a resistance
against her feet. She looked down and saw Luna, her sharp teeth
pulling on Reenie's bunny-printed pajamas. Once she saw that she
got the little girl's attention, Luna started talking.
"Reenie, wake her up. We don't have much time. The other
scouts are losing quickly."
"What do you think I've been doing for the last thirty
minutes? And all I get for my efforts is a smack on the head!"
Reenie shouted angrily. She took deep breaths and started counting
to ten inside her head in an attempt to calm herself down. Once
she got her composure back, she turned her attention to Serena
and tried yet again to wake her up. "Come on Meatball Head! Wake
up! Sheesh. You can sleep through World War III." Desperate times
call for desperate measures, as they say. So, after deciding that
it was for her Moon Mama's own good, Reenie snatched a half-filled
glass of water from the bed stand and dumped its contents on the
unsuspecting Serena.
Luna sighed, quietly watching the mother-daughter antics.
"And to think they still act this way in the 30th Century Crystal
Tokyo. A cat can only take so much."
"Huh? What?" Serena gasped. Her long pigtails now clumped
limply on her face.
"About time, Ditzoid! Let's go! The others need our help."
Reenie grasped a pink heart-shaped compact and threw it into the
air. "Moon Prism Power!"
Serena, still sitting on the floor, cried out angrily. "Did
you just call me Ditzoid? Like Meatball Head wasn't bad enough?
Who's been teaching you? I bet all my candy stash that it's a
certain Fire Princess!" Serena stopped and muttered, "Just wait
till I have a one on one chat with Raye." She slowly stood up,
her face dripping wet. One drop fell on her eye and she remembered
what woke her up. She faced Reenie and asked incredulously,
"You dumped water on me?"
Reenie finished her transformation and retorted back.
"So what if I did? It worked, didn't it?"
"You'll pay for that, Moonbrat!" Serena growled. Reenie
stuck her tongue out and as usual, this resulted in a tongue war.
Luna, the mediator, cuts in. "That is enough! While the
two of you are standing here bickering, the others are holding
onto their lives!"
Both Serena and Reenie immediately ceased and stared at Luna
sheepishly. "Sorry!" They apologized.
"Luna, it is the middle of the night so could you, maybe
lower your voice just a bit?" Serena whispered. "I don't want
my family to wake up from all the racket you're causing."
Reenie nodded in agreement.
Luna's tiny shoulders fell in defeat. 'They really are
of the same blood,' she thought to herself. Luna sighed and
addressed Serena. "Transform now."
Serena nodded and yelled, "Moon Cosmic Power!" She
transformed in record time amidst a swirl of pink ribbons.
"Sailor Mini Moon, time to join the scouts." And with that
said, Serena jumped out of her window with a smaller replica of
herself close at her heels.
"Finally," Sailor Mini Moon muttered.
Luna stayed behind, watching the two disappear into the
night with a worried frown carved on her whiskered face. "Good
luck you two. I have a terrible feeling about this. Something
is going to happen. I just know it and I'm afraid you may not be
strong enough to overcome it, Serena," the black feline whispered
to herself. "If anything happened . . . oh! This is all my fault.
I should have told her everything about her past. When I restored
her memories, I held back something important. Something that can
make a difference between life and death," Luna sobbed. She stared
at the moon against the dark backdrop that was the sky and cried in
anguish, "Why, Queen Serenity? Why did you make me keep something
like this from your own daughter? Why did you order my silence about
Hunter? About her own husband?!!!" Luna stopped yelling and turned
eerily quiet. She sniffed and continued, "I cannot keep this to
myself any longer. Please forgive me, my Queen. I must tell Darien.
I must. He may be the only hope we have." And with that, she
jumped out the window and ran towards Darien's apartment. Ran
like the very devil was hot at her paws.
ELSEWHERE . . .
"Mars . . . flame . . . sniper!"
"Jupiter . . . oak . . . evolution!"
"Mercury . . . aqua . . . rhapsody!"
"Venus . . . love and beauty . . . shock!"
Fire, lightning, water, and love all combined to create a
sphere of energy. The sphere grew and grew, superb power emanating
around and through it. Then it was suddenly hurled across the field,
flying with rapid speed to its target, a smirking man with long,
silver hair that goes down a bit past his muscular shoulders. He
wore a full body armor, complete with a sword in its sheath. His
eyes are quite piercing with their green orbs sparkling with menace.
He was of medium height with the looks of someone around his twenties.
He is a good-looking man and the scouts would have swooned if not for
the circumstances at hand. The energy orb continued on and without
the slightest movement visible to the naked eye, he avoided it,
causing the surge of energy to crash into a nearby tree. The tree
was lifted away from its roots and was sent flying - - a tree no
more, but splinters of wood. Then into dust. Then into nothing.
The scouts stood speechless, now fear creeping into them
with a vengeance. Their mouths agape, shocked is an
understatement to what they are feeling now. That was their
last chance of survival and it was all for naught. They have
given it their all and nothing was left within them any longer.
The foul taste of defeat was sneaking itself slowly, so very
slowly. Everything now rests on Sailor Moon's shoulders as Mars,
Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus fell onto the ground, their life
energy sucked out, one by one. In the silence of darkness,
only a menacing laugh could be heard as Venus tried to pick
herself up, but to no avail.
"Sailor Moon . . . where are you? Serena . . .," Raye
whispered as she drew her final breath.
"I'm so sorry . . . Serena . . .," Amy gasped as she
finally fell into oblivion.
"Princess . . . we failed you . . . please, forgive
us . . .," Lita cried out softly, finally deciding to give up.
Mina heard their final words as she saw her fellow scouts
surrender their precious lives. "Mars, Mercury, Jupiter . . . no!
Don't give up, please. We have to protect the Princess," Venus
sobbed out.
"They're dead," a voice flatly declared. "It's no use
crying over them. You'd be joining them soon enough."
Venus sharply turned her head and asked in despair,
"Who are you?! What do you want from us?!" She slumped on the
ground, her breath staggering, blood pouring out of her mouth.
"Who I am is no concern of yours. What, or rather, who I want
. . . is my wife."
"Your wife," Venus cried dubiously.
"Yes, my wife," the silver-haired man repeated, looking
intently at Venus as if she were a child with difficulty of
understanding. "You have the looks of her. At first I thought
. . . but, never mind. I cannot see the resemblance any longer."
"What are you talking about?!"
"Must I repeat myself once more? This is becoming rather
exhausting," he sighed deeply and went on. "Look around you,
Sailor Venus. You are the only one left breathing. Unfortunately,
like I said before, you would eventually join them yourself. You
do realize that you are to blame for these regrettable events.
If only you had agreed to my conditions earlier, then maybe, just
maybe, mind you, your so-called friends would still be alive,"
he paused dramatically and continued. "Alas! You decided to be
uncooperative and now you must deal with the consequences.
However, I am not such a terrible man as to not give you a second
chance. Save yourself, Venus and tell me where you have my wife
hidden." He stared at her with narrowed eyes and waited.
Venus, frustrated, let out a loud roar. "Aaaahhhhhhh!
How many times do I have to tell you that I have no idea who
your wife is, let alone where she is!!!! Why don't you just . . ."
Venus was cut off when she heard a familiar voice and sighed with
relief.
Sailor Moon, after surveying her surroundings, concluded that
three of her friends were only unconscious, not dead. Her face
turned hard as she stared at the over-confident man. "How dare you
hurt my friends?" She yelled across the park, her voice full of
venom. "Just who do you think you are? I am Sailor Moon and in
the name of the moon, you shall pay for all the suffering you have
caused!"
Sailor Mini Moon, not to be left out, ran in front of Sailor
Moon and introduced herself. "And I am Sailor Mini Moon! In the
name of the future moon, you shall die a painful death!"
"My, my . . . impressive. But not quite impressive enough,"
the man said in a bored tone.
"Sailor Moon!" Venus exclaimed. "Get out of here. There's
nothing you can . . . Aaah!" Venus screamed as she was thrown
clear across the park by an unseen force.
"Sailor Venus! No!" Sailor Moon yelled, anguish deep in
her voice. "No! Stop it! Please, I'm begging you! Stop it!"
She sobbed as she started running towards her fallen friend.
Mini Moon grabbed her arm, trying to stop her, a pleading
tone in her voice, "Sailor Moon, don't! You heard her! We
should . . ."
"No!" She stared at Mini Moon, tears streaming down her
face, unchecked. "How could you even suggest such a thing?
She was your friend, too! What am I saying? She IS your friend.
She can't die. They can't die!" She sobbed, now hysterically.
"Let me go!" She pulled away sharply and Mini Moon had no choice
but to let go.
"That is quite enough!" A loud voice thundered. "You can
stop right there. I grow weary from all this nonsense." He
released his hold on Venus and turned his attention to Sailor
Moon. "I advice you to . . ."
Sailor Moon, still in despair for her friends, interrupted.
"Advice me to what?" Steel creeping into her voice, she advanced
towards the man that had caused her such indescribable pain in
a matter of minutes.
Mini Moon, quietly watched as Sailor Moon seethed with
anger. She slowly backed away at a safe distance, making sure
the man cannot see her, all the while giving her a full view
of every expression on his face. She stopped abruptly when
something wet and furry met with her legs. She looked down
and gasped at what she saw. Blood, so much blood. The metallic
stench was suffocating. She peered down closer and cried out
softly in surprise at what she had discovered. "Artemis . . .
oh, Artemis . . ." She bended down and checked the once white
cat for any signs of life. She noticed a slight rising as
Artemis tried to breathe with much difficulty. Tears streamed
down her face from joy as she gingerly picked the cat up and
carefully pulled him close to her chest. Mini Moon stood up,
now returning her attention at the danger that surrounded her.
She realized Sailor Moon was talking quietly, still quite far
from the man. She strained to hear what Sailor Moon was saying.
"You will not escape here alive," she said with surprising
calm.
"What? No tears from the great Sailor Moon?"
"Who are you?!"
"I have already been asked that question by dear old
Venus. And just like your dead friend over there, it is none
your busin . . ." He stopped all of a sudden as Sailor Moon
drew to a halt only a few feet away from him. From there, the
moonlight radiated a glow against her face and what he saw made
him lose his composure. "Huntress," he whispered softly.
Sailor Moon stared at the man like he was crazy, which in
truth, he was. "What did you just call me?"
"You don't remember me? What have they done to you, my love?"
She immediately stopped crying, her anger finally getting
the better of her. "Don't remember you?! I've never met you in
my entire life!! And don't call me your love!!" Sailor Moon
protested. The man swallowed up their distance in a wink of an
eye and she suddenly found herself in his arms. "Let me go!"
She tried to pull away, but her resistance only made him hold her
tighter.
He buried his face in her hair, tears falling down his
face with happiness. "I have finally found you, my love."
"I told you not to call me that!!" Sailor Moon muttered
against his chest.
Mini Moon stared incredulously at the spectacle unfolding
in front of her. She cannot understand why this man suddenly
became so nice. And he was hugging Sailor Moon!! Another man
was hugging her Moon Mama!! This made her despise the man even
more. She was about to give that awful man a piece of her mind
when the bundle she carries stirred. "Reenie . . . "
"Artemis? Ssh. Don't talk. Save your energy."
"Reenie, you must listen to me. That man . . . he will
kill you as well if he sees you. Stay hidden right here and
just watch and listen. "
"But Artemis, he's got my Mama!" Reenie cried in protest.
"I know. But you must stay alive to save everybody.
Prom - . . . promise . . . me . . . that . . . please," Artemis
pleaded, his energy quickly being extinguished.
"Artemis, stop hurting yourself!" Reenie said in a scolding
tone. "That man killed Raye, Amy, Lita, and Mina!!" She cried.
"He might do the same thing to Mama! I can't just stand here and
watch!"
"He will not kill her. That I am sure of." Artemis
stopped to clear his chest with the pain. "Promise me, Reenie!"
He persisted.
"But . . ."
"Trust me and promise me!"
Reenie sniffed in defeat and finally gave her promise.
'I'm so sorry, Mama,' she thought sadly.
"Now, keep yourself hidden and watch."
"Alright." She gave her attention back to Sailor Moon and
the Man.
Sailor Moon is really starting to get nervous. She kept
on trying to pull away and the Man kept on trying to hug her
even tighter. Finally, she stopped struggling and sighed, tears
once again streaming down her face. 'Mini Moon!' she thought.
'I've completely forgotten about her. Please stay away Reenie.
Don't let him see you! Get away from here!' she ordered inside
her head, hoping that Mini Moon has somehow heard her. After
all, she is her daughter. 'Darien . . . Tuxedo Mask . . . where
are you? Save me from this madman, please . . .' her lip
quivered as tears started flowing once again.
"Huntress, oh Huntress," the madman whispered in her hair.
He released her from his tight hold but kept his hands grip her
shoulders gently. Using his right hand, he lifted Sailor Moon's
chin and stared down at her, wiping away her tears at the same
time. 'You haven't changed at all, my love. You are still the
same woman I fell in love with all those years ago,' he said to
himself lovingly. It didn't last long as he started having bitter
thoughts. 'All those years ago when he stole you from me! When
they all stole you from me . . . erasing your memories . . .
erasing your love for me. Even your reincarnated self is unaware
of the betrayal . . .'
Sailor Moon impatiently interrupted his thoughts. "Let go
of me!" The man, surprise clearly seen on his face, did let go.
Taking advantage of this, Sailor Moon quickly stepped back
several feet. As she did so, she changed back to her normal self
without her knowledge. Only her normal self was not Serena but
Princess Serenity. She gasped out loud when she found herself
wearing a white flowing gown with sheer long sleeves in which she
cannot remember ever wearing on the moon. "What?" She looked at
the Man. "How did you . . .?"
"It wasn't such a hard task. I merely thought of you
wearing your wedding dress and here you are. Wearing your
wedding dress," he added, stating the obvious.
". . . My wed . . . wedding . . . d-dress?" Serenity
stuttered.
"Yes, your wedding dress," he explained patiently. "The
one you wore to our wedding."
" . . . Our . . . wed . . . ding . . .," she whispered
with horror. She stood there, absorbing what she has just been
told. "I married YOU?!" she cried disbelievingly and stared at
him with disgust.
"Don't look at me like that! Yes. You married ME. I
understand that you cannot remember me, but you soon will.
That I promise you, Huntress."
"But, I don't even know you! And why do you call me that?"
The man sighed, trying to regain his slowly dissipating
patience. "My name is Hunter, SERENITY. I gave you the name
Huntress a long time ago, during our past life when we were
childhood friends."
"We were childhood friends back on the moon?" Serenity
whispered.
"Yes. We were the best of friends. But everybody thought
it inappropriate. They wouldn't allow it," he said, resentment
slithering in his voice.
"Why?" She asked, finally thinking the possibility of
knowing this man.
"Why? Because I didn't belong."
"You weren't of royalty?"
"No," Hunter answered, anger apparent in his voice. "I
was merely the son of your chambermaid."
"My chambermaid?" she paused, thinking. "Myra . . ."
"Yes. You do remember me!!" he said happily.
Serenity sadly shook her head no. "I'm sorry, but I don't
remember Myra having any child."
Hunter quietly bowed his head, thinking. He blurted out
without warning, startling Serenity in the process, "You're not
afraid of me, are you my love?"
"No, but I still cannot forgive you for what you have done,"
Serenity said between clenched teeth, the death of the scouts
returning to her.
Hunter suddenly felt remorse, but it only lasted about a
second or two. "I wish I could tell you I was sorry. But I'm not."
At this, Serenity mouth dropped open in revulsion. Seeing this,
Hunter immediately explained. "Once you got your memory back about
their betrayals, you'll understand. I promise."
"I don't think so," she flatly said. She added quickly,
"They would never betray me."
"Why don't we find out?"
"What are you saying?"
"I can help you remember everything. All you have to do
is come back with me to the past. During the Silver Millennium."
Serenity started thinking about his request then shook
her head as if to clear it. 'What am I doing? Am I actually
giving this whole thing a thought? And why not? I can't see
why not. My friends . . . they're all gone and it's all my
fault for not getting here sooner . . . Darien pushed me away . . .
My own family is starting to regret having me as a daughter . . .
Luna, oh Luna. Even she has given up on me. Reenie . . . she
doesn't deserve a meatball head like me as her mother. She'd
be better off without me. They'd all be better off without me,'
she thought sadly. 'He really seems to love me,' she ponders,
staring at Hunter with confused, depressed eyes. 'Maybe, I
should . . .' "Fine. I'll go with you," she decided quietly.
"You have no idea how happy I am to hear you say that."
Hunter looked at her and continued. "Ready to go?" He held
out his hand.
"Yes." And with that, she took the hand offered and
disappeared into the night along with him with no trace
whatsoever.
DARIEN'S APARTMENT
"What are you telling me, Luna?" Darien asked the feline
gravely.
Luna gulped nervously. "I'm saying that Serena is
married to another man."
Darien stared at her for a few minutes. Luna started
sweating bullets. After a while, he looked away, stood up and
punched the wall. His knuckles came back bloody. Though the
wall was left in a much worse condition. "You knew all of this
and you still let her go?!"
"She has the right to know!" Luna quickly defended
herself.
"But she belongs to me!" Darien insisted.
"If I remember correctly, and I do I assure you, you gave
her up without a second thought," Luna pointed out angrily.
Darien turned around and faced Luna which caused her to
gasp. Tears ran down his haggard face, his eyes were bloodshot.
It was obvious that he hasn't had much sleep lately. "The
nightmares . . . the nightmares I had, the nightmares I still
have . . .," he whispered. Luna raised an eyebrow (if cats do
indeed raise eyebrows) questioningly. "The nightmares told me
to let her go if I wanted her to stay alive," he said as an
explanation. Luna nodded in understanding.
"So you still love her?"
"I never stopped."
Both of them turned quiet, nothing they can think of to
say at the moment. All of a sudden, the door to the apartment
banged open as Mini Moon ran in.
"Reenie!" Darien exclaimed. He gathered the little girl
in his arms, the last link he has to Serena. Reenie tries to
catch her breath as she was smothered by a desperate Darien. She
hugged her father back and burst into tears. "Reenie?" Darien
asked worriedly, letting go just enough to see her tear-streaked
face.
"Darien! It was terrible!" Reenie sobbed uncontrollably.
A movement between them caught their attention. Looking down
at her arms, Reenie gasped. "Artemis! Oh, I'm so sorry!" She
carefully placed the badly injured cat on the floor.
"Artemis!" Luna cried in anguish once she got a good look
of her blood-soaked friend. She ran to his side and purred.
Darien quickly treated the cat and wrapped him in blankets to
cease the trembling. With that done, he gave his full attention
back to Reenie who had returned to her normal self during the
treatment.
"Tell us everything that happened. From the beginning."
"It was terrible!" Reenie sobbed. "All the scouts are dead!"
"From the beginning, Reenie," Darien pleaded.
"Alright," she took deep breaths and started telling the
events that led to so much suffering. "It all started when Luna
woke me up and told me about a fight at the park. I tried to
wake up Serena. You know her. It was so hard. And then when
she finally did wake up . . ." she continued on with her story,
describing everything she saw in surprisingly explicit detail.
She told them that by the time she and Sailor Moon came to the
scene, only Venus was left alive. But that didn't last long.
When she got to the point where Hunter hugged Serena, or rather
Serenity, Darien broke down in tears. He finally realized his
mistake. The mistake of letting her go over some stupid dream.
Reenie ended with Hunter and Serenity vanishing hand in hand.
"I've lost her. I've truly lost her," Darien murmured
to himself.
Reenie, realizing an important fact, asked, "Darien, why
didn't you come?"
Darien looked at her in agony then turned his head away.
"I didn't feel her," he said quietly. "I didn't feel anything."
Luna, tears covering her entire face down to her whiskers,
whispered the ghastly truth. "The scouts are dead. They are
truly dead. And Serena . . . Princess . . . I'm so sorry . . ."
If that wasn't bad enough, Reenie started to dematerialize.
"Darien! Luna! Help me!"
Darien spun around to find his only link to Serena half-gone.
"Reenie!" he yelled. "No! Don't you leave me, too!" He tried
to grab her hand but could only grasp the air in front of him.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Luna wailed uncontrollably and joined Darien in tears.
"What have we done? What have we done? We have lost. The
future now ceases to exist."
END BOOK 1
Sorry for the sad ending and ending the story like that.
Don't worry, this is only the first book of my many books
on this series. So fret no longer . . . And don't get mad at
me!! I thought I ended it at the perfect moment. Now you'll
have to read all my books to get the ENTIRE picture. Hehehe. ;)
So, how'd you like it? Good, bad, don't care? Please send me
comments, suggestions, questions, but please no flames. Nobody
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(This end anyway.) *^_^*