Thoughts from the author
Jo Hall
May 2002
E-mail : jolyhall@yahoo.co.uk
Sitting on buses is very dangerous, it gives you time to think to dream and think about doing things you know you shouldn't do. Like starting to write fan fiction for Sailor moon half way though a degree course on Psychology. But I was thinking about a Buffy, Angel, Sailor moon, and number of other TV programs and in my twisted way began to see a common theme. Different groups are engaged in a battle to prevent the take over of our world by forces from another dimension, each has powers appropriate to deal with what they face.
One partially boring trip on the University bus (They were digging up the road again.) Began to think about Stargate SG1 episode "Worm Hole – Extreme" and one line in it that when something like this :-
Jack : "And we are letting this go ahead!"
Hammond : "Yes because is gives the USAF deniability."
What about other characters? Wouldn't having TV series, comic books, films give you a large amount of deniability? What would you think if the Sailor Senshi put the idea of Sailor moon into Naoko Takeuchi's mind? What if the adventures seen on TV had a basis in truth? If that is so, what are Tuskino Usagi, Mizuno Ami, Hino Rei etc doing now?
It all started when they were 14 and at the end in episode 200 Usagi, said she was 16. In the first year of high school.
Another 10 minutes (we moved about 30 meters) from these random thoughts came this short time line :-
1989 : September : Usagi is called as sailor moon
1991 : (May?) : Final battle with Galaxia
1991 : June 30 : Usagi's 17th birthday
1991 : September 7th : start final year of high school
1991 : Naoko Takeuchi produces the first Sailor V manga
1992 : (Jan) Naoko Takeuchi starts drawing Sailor moon and is rapidly picked up for amine
1992 : May 22 Graduation from high school
1992 : September : College and further adventures in the young-adult world.
My assumption is that the Japanese school system is based on the American system, with a long summer break and long terms separated by short holidays.
Ok we have a time line, now where do we want the senshi to be? Assuming Usagi and friends were 16 in 1991 this means in Y2000 they would be 25, Mamoru 29, Michiru & Haruka about 27-28 (Could not find a clear age for the two of them) and Hotaru would be (Physically) 21.
I have in my mind a number of differing stories largely following one characters growth and change though these nine years. So all these stories are the thoughts of senshi the day before a dinner party/meeting called by Setsuna. In these stories I make reference to Jeff Branchs stories "Blood on the Moon" and "The Frankenstein Syndrome"
These can be found at be found at Moon Dragons Lair at http://www.geocities.com/daman13187/moondragonslair.htm
Or at Jeffs own page http://www.geocities.com/scribeofthemoon/
Reading these is not necessary but would be helpful for you, (the fact there damn good stories as well) They also do not quite fit into the continuity I am working for but the stories do give some idea of what I am looking for.
My thanks go to Fluffy and Warwolf for their beta reading skills. This is my first serious attempt at Fanfic so I hope everyone out there cuts me some slack.
And Finally
Sailor Moon and all related characters are the property of Takeuchi Naoko, Toei Animation and DIC. I do this strictly for entertainment purposes, not copyright infringement. Thanks Naoko for producing such interesting characters and letting us all play with them.
I will put them back in the toy box when I have finished.
A Moons Tale
Rating : PG (Swear words and implied sexual relationship,
just to be on the safe side)
Author : Jo Hall - May 2002
Prologue
My name is Tuskino Usagi, I am 25 years old, I work for the Ford motor company as an assistant to the Director of personnel for our Japanese factory's and associated company's. I am married to a wonderful man Chiba Mamoru and we live in a two bedroom flat in the Jubblan district of Tokyo. It is April 15 2000 the day before the Tokyo Triathlon. Today I train lightly, eat my 5000 cals in carbs and protein and tomorrow morning, I race. Then at night Mamoru and myself go to Makoto & Ami's for a meal with our friends.
And feel these with be the last normal day for my friends and me! Perhaps normal is too strong a word for it, but normal for us is very different than any one else.
Setsuna left a message with Ami to call everyone together. Makoto took it as an excuse to cook a large meal for everyone, which myself and Mamoru agreed whole heartily too. But Setsuna is not known for her party going. She rarely comes way from the time gate and Osiris without very good reason.
And what that reason is frightens me.
For nine years the Sailor Senshi have lived their lives, built up new friends and relationships. In the last year I have become Sailor moon twice in anger, once to defeat an Demon summoned by black magic, which killed its summoner and threaten to kill many others. The other time was to point out to a group of Russian mafia our bit of Tokyo does not have organised crime in it for some VERY good reasons.
Our world changed after I defeated Galaxia back in 1991 and it has now started to change again.
I guess I am not making much sense. I suppose I should begin at the beginning.
