Hello again, everyone! *Does happy jigg* Summer is awesome. Except that I
can't see my samurai-koi. (No one tell him I called him that, okay?
Arigato!) Anyway, welcome back.
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"Hai, of course." she said. "She's my musume, I have to go." (Musume= daughter.)
"Are you ready to go now?" Ookami asked. She nodded, but then something occured to her.
"Just two things before we leave, alright?" she asked. Ookami nodded. Usagi turned around and kissed Hiiro. The tender kiss deepened, and the two were *engaged* for longer than the others expected.
"Okaasan, stop, please!" Ookami begged, covering his eyes. Usagi giggled and pulled away, smiling at Hiiro.
"What else do you need to do?" her son asked. Usagi's gaze rested on his eyes once more.
"Can you take off your hood?" she said, a request laced through the question. Ookami shook his head.
"Once we get to the future. You aren't supposed to know who... my father is yet." he finished, not looking at Hiiro. Duo scratched his head.
"I think we all know who it's gonna be." the braided one said as Ookami opened his dark portal once more. Usagi stood next to her son in front of the black mass of energy. Ookami motioned for Usagi to step through. Just after she did, he stepped halfway in and replied to Duo's comment.
"Time is slippery. You never know what may happen. My advice to you: Show up, pay attention, and don't be attached to the outcome." he said before disappearing through the portal.
"Where am I?" Usagi wondered aloud, otherwise silent as she looked around. The portal flickered slightly, and Ookami emerged from it. The energy then vanished.
"Welcome." he said. "I am sorry I had to lie to you. It was essential, however, to get you here. I need to explain some things to you."
"You mean, I'm not going to see my daughter?" she asked.
"I can't explain the future, you should know that as well as anyone. All I can say is we're not exactly in the future. We're simply in another dimension that has been transformed into something familiar to you to allow you to be comfortable with the stay here." Usagi glanced around again. It appeared that they were standing in the training room Usagi reconized from her days as Princess Serenity in the Silver Millenium. She smiled, remembering the times she had tried to spar with Rei or Haruka.
"Why am I here?" she asked, sitting down cross-legged on the padded part of the floor. Ookami sat with her.
"Do you remember when the pilots asked you to destroy that piece of Gundamium alloy?" he asked, and, seeing her nodd, continued.
"Then you must also remember how drained you were after you managed to do it. You see, OZ has gotten their hands on some of this metal, and are encorperating it into their mobile suits. You must train the Ginzuishou to use your energy more wisely, then you can help them destroy these new enemies and achieve peace."
"Will you be helping me?" she asked.
"Hai." he replied, walking over to a pedastal in one corner. He pulled some clothes out of thin air and allowed her to change. She now wore a pair of black stretch pants, soft-soled black shoes (they're like jazz shoes, if any of you take dance), and a light blue thin cotton tank top that fit tightly enough not to show anything off.
"So are we concentrating only on training the Ginzuishou or are we also doing some physical training as well?" she asked as she rejoined him in her new attire, stuffing her clothes in her subdimensional pocket as she spoke.
"We'll be doing a bit of both. The mind cannot work without the body, and vise versa." he said. "We'll first start on doing little things using the Ginzuishou's power. I'm sure you're not aware of this, but using the Crystal's power to do things like help your hair to dry faster was actually a round-a-bout way of training it." Usagi nodded in understanding.
"Do you mean that every time I use it, it grows stronger?" she asked.
"Hai. It feeds off your energy and doubles it's own, making it a little easier each time. But I can teach you how to do other things as well. You should have gone through this training much earlier, but with the complications it became hard to find a moment in Time when I could bring you here."
"You mean...?" she let the question trail off. He smiled, and nodded.
"I've been watching you since your first birth on the Moon. I've been waiting to train you, and we're cutting it pretty close. The Time when these skills will come in very handy is drawing near." he said as he dragged a couple of targets into the center of the room. Since he was occupied, he didn't see her confused and then thoughtful face.
"Alright. I'm going to train you to use your Sailor Moon and Eternal Sailor Moon powers without having to transform. Therefore, you will have less chance of revealing your identity." he explained.
"How will that give me a lesser chance of being discovered if I use them while everyone can see who I am?" she asked.
"Take your tiara for example. You can use the Ginzuishou to make it invisible, therefore no one will know exactly who used it. Hopefully, anyway."
"Oh." Usagi said. He gestured to the targets.
"Tiara. Whenever you're ready." She gave him a confused look.
"How? I'm not transformed." He glared at her.
"Focus." he said simply. She closed her eyes and concentrated. Almost instantly, she could feel her tiara floating just above her right hand. When she opened her eyes, she saw it there. She drew back her fist and flung it forward with an air of grace that came from practice and natural ability. The tiara flew forward and hit each target, two targets were hit in the front and the other three were hit from behind. The tiara's movements were guided by almost invisible twitches of Usagi's right hand. The tiara came flying back to her and she caught it perfectly.
Ookami nodded.
"Very good." he declared. "But you forgot part of the instructions. This time, make it invisible." She nodded, and brought the tiara out again. She concentrated for a moment and it disappeared, though she could still feel it's presence above her right hand, and it still destroyed the new targets. After Usagi caught it and made it disappear, she turned to Ookami for praise. Instead, he simply nodded and moved new targets out.
"Now, when you fought as Sailor Moon, you usually finished off the youma. The other Senshi had attacks that weakened the enemy. You also have a lesser attack like that, you just need to learn it." he said, placing a hand on her forehead.
"Call out 'Shugotenshi ki!'." he commanded. She nodded, and he stepped away.
"Shugotenshi KI!" she cried. Without thinking about it, her fingers moved on their own. Her thumb and index fingers stuck out, shaping what a child might use as a gun. She had two 'guns', one on each hand. Almost without thought, silver bolts of energy shot out of her fingertips and hit the targets dead-on.
(AN: About the 'gun' thing. In the TV series, when Mars does her Flame Sniper attack, she puts her hands together and points her index finger and thumb towards her target. This is what Usagi is doing, only she does not put her hands together. Sorry if that was confusing! Also, shugotenshi ki means guardian angel energy, though I was using it more as guardian angel's energy. Oh well, same difference!)
She smiled and ceased her attacks.
"How was that?" she asked. He nodded, and she rolled her eyes.
"You did well." he said, seeing her look. "Do it again, and this time, make them invisible." She nodded, a jokingly mocking look in her eyes. He smiled as she pulled back her last three fingers again and began shooting off energy bolts that the two of them could feel but not see. When she stopped, she had another of her trademark confused looks on her faced.
"What is it?" he asked.
"See, that time I didn't call out 'Shugotenshi ki', yet it still worked. Why is that?" she asked. He was silent for a moment.
'She's even more powerful than I thought.' he concluded, glancing at her.
"You can access the power by just thinking the attack phrase. It makes it easier to sneak attack an enemy." he explained. He didn't bother to tell her that very few people had enough power to do so. "No one is sure the real significance of saying each phrase, but it seemed to work, and it doesn't work when you don't say them."
"Oh. Now what?" she asked.
"Now we'll move on to other things you can do. For instance, did you know you can fly?" he retorted. She simply looked at him.
"Yeah, I can as Eternal Sailor Moon, remember?" she replied. He grinned.
"I meant you have the ability to fly without transforming to Eternal form." They spent ten more minutes discussing how to do this, and how to make the four-foot long wings invisible. Then Usagi started to try it.
"Wait." he commanded. She looked up at him.
"After this, you'll fall asleep. It happens every time an angel first uses her wings."
She gave him a confused look.
"Angel?" she asked. He nodded.
"Not in the heavenly sense. Angel is a term we used to use for someone with the amount of power you have. Are you more familiar with 'tenshi'?" Ookami asked, mentioning the Japanese word for 'angel'.
"Hai!" Usagi said, smiling. She raised her eyebrow, remembering something she had thought of earlier. "You're not my son, are you?" she asked. He turned away from her.
"Iie." he replied.
"I didn't think so. You couldn't be, if you were watching me since my birth on the Moon. Who are you, then? And don't lie this time." She warned him. He smiled softly, and if she had seen his eyes at that moment she might have reconized him. But, since his back was turned, she didn't.
Slowly, he turned around and pulled back his hood. Oddly enough, the shadows that blinded her from the sight of his face lingered for a moment even as the light hit his face.
Usagi's eyes widened in shock and delight as the shadows disappeared and his face was revealed...
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ANNOUNCEMENT- (I hope everyone will see this.) I'm starting an author-alert of my own. If you want to be emailed whenever this or my other stories are updated, include your email IN YOUR REVIEW (even if you are a member at ff.net). I'll add you on and you'll know about the new chapters as they are posted!!
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"Hai, of course." she said. "She's my musume, I have to go." (Musume= daughter.)
"Are you ready to go now?" Ookami asked. She nodded, but then something occured to her.
"Just two things before we leave, alright?" she asked. Ookami nodded. Usagi turned around and kissed Hiiro. The tender kiss deepened, and the two were *engaged* for longer than the others expected.
"Okaasan, stop, please!" Ookami begged, covering his eyes. Usagi giggled and pulled away, smiling at Hiiro.
"What else do you need to do?" her son asked. Usagi's gaze rested on his eyes once more.
"Can you take off your hood?" she said, a request laced through the question. Ookami shook his head.
"Once we get to the future. You aren't supposed to know who... my father is yet." he finished, not looking at Hiiro. Duo scratched his head.
"I think we all know who it's gonna be." the braided one said as Ookami opened his dark portal once more. Usagi stood next to her son in front of the black mass of energy. Ookami motioned for Usagi to step through. Just after she did, he stepped halfway in and replied to Duo's comment.
"Time is slippery. You never know what may happen. My advice to you: Show up, pay attention, and don't be attached to the outcome." he said before disappearing through the portal.
"Where am I?" Usagi wondered aloud, otherwise silent as she looked around. The portal flickered slightly, and Ookami emerged from it. The energy then vanished.
"Welcome." he said. "I am sorry I had to lie to you. It was essential, however, to get you here. I need to explain some things to you."
"You mean, I'm not going to see my daughter?" she asked.
"I can't explain the future, you should know that as well as anyone. All I can say is we're not exactly in the future. We're simply in another dimension that has been transformed into something familiar to you to allow you to be comfortable with the stay here." Usagi glanced around again. It appeared that they were standing in the training room Usagi reconized from her days as Princess Serenity in the Silver Millenium. She smiled, remembering the times she had tried to spar with Rei or Haruka.
"Why am I here?" she asked, sitting down cross-legged on the padded part of the floor. Ookami sat with her.
"Do you remember when the pilots asked you to destroy that piece of Gundamium alloy?" he asked, and, seeing her nodd, continued.
"Then you must also remember how drained you were after you managed to do it. You see, OZ has gotten their hands on some of this metal, and are encorperating it into their mobile suits. You must train the Ginzuishou to use your energy more wisely, then you can help them destroy these new enemies and achieve peace."
"Will you be helping me?" she asked.
"Hai." he replied, walking over to a pedastal in one corner. He pulled some clothes out of thin air and allowed her to change. She now wore a pair of black stretch pants, soft-soled black shoes (they're like jazz shoes, if any of you take dance), and a light blue thin cotton tank top that fit tightly enough not to show anything off.
"So are we concentrating only on training the Ginzuishou or are we also doing some physical training as well?" she asked as she rejoined him in her new attire, stuffing her clothes in her subdimensional pocket as she spoke.
"We'll be doing a bit of both. The mind cannot work without the body, and vise versa." he said. "We'll first start on doing little things using the Ginzuishou's power. I'm sure you're not aware of this, but using the Crystal's power to do things like help your hair to dry faster was actually a round-a-bout way of training it." Usagi nodded in understanding.
"Do you mean that every time I use it, it grows stronger?" she asked.
"Hai. It feeds off your energy and doubles it's own, making it a little easier each time. But I can teach you how to do other things as well. You should have gone through this training much earlier, but with the complications it became hard to find a moment in Time when I could bring you here."
"You mean...?" she let the question trail off. He smiled, and nodded.
"I've been watching you since your first birth on the Moon. I've been waiting to train you, and we're cutting it pretty close. The Time when these skills will come in very handy is drawing near." he said as he dragged a couple of targets into the center of the room. Since he was occupied, he didn't see her confused and then thoughtful face.
"Alright. I'm going to train you to use your Sailor Moon and Eternal Sailor Moon powers without having to transform. Therefore, you will have less chance of revealing your identity." he explained.
"How will that give me a lesser chance of being discovered if I use them while everyone can see who I am?" she asked.
"Take your tiara for example. You can use the Ginzuishou to make it invisible, therefore no one will know exactly who used it. Hopefully, anyway."
"Oh." Usagi said. He gestured to the targets.
"Tiara. Whenever you're ready." She gave him a confused look.
"How? I'm not transformed." He glared at her.
"Focus." he said simply. She closed her eyes and concentrated. Almost instantly, she could feel her tiara floating just above her right hand. When she opened her eyes, she saw it there. She drew back her fist and flung it forward with an air of grace that came from practice and natural ability. The tiara flew forward and hit each target, two targets were hit in the front and the other three were hit from behind. The tiara's movements were guided by almost invisible twitches of Usagi's right hand. The tiara came flying back to her and she caught it perfectly.
Ookami nodded.
"Very good." he declared. "But you forgot part of the instructions. This time, make it invisible." She nodded, and brought the tiara out again. She concentrated for a moment and it disappeared, though she could still feel it's presence above her right hand, and it still destroyed the new targets. After Usagi caught it and made it disappear, she turned to Ookami for praise. Instead, he simply nodded and moved new targets out.
"Now, when you fought as Sailor Moon, you usually finished off the youma. The other Senshi had attacks that weakened the enemy. You also have a lesser attack like that, you just need to learn it." he said, placing a hand on her forehead.
"Call out 'Shugotenshi ki!'." he commanded. She nodded, and he stepped away.
"Shugotenshi KI!" she cried. Without thinking about it, her fingers moved on their own. Her thumb and index fingers stuck out, shaping what a child might use as a gun. She had two 'guns', one on each hand. Almost without thought, silver bolts of energy shot out of her fingertips and hit the targets dead-on.
(AN: About the 'gun' thing. In the TV series, when Mars does her Flame Sniper attack, she puts her hands together and points her index finger and thumb towards her target. This is what Usagi is doing, only she does not put her hands together. Sorry if that was confusing! Also, shugotenshi ki means guardian angel energy, though I was using it more as guardian angel's energy. Oh well, same difference!)
She smiled and ceased her attacks.
"How was that?" she asked. He nodded, and she rolled her eyes.
"You did well." he said, seeing her look. "Do it again, and this time, make them invisible." She nodded, a jokingly mocking look in her eyes. He smiled as she pulled back her last three fingers again and began shooting off energy bolts that the two of them could feel but not see. When she stopped, she had another of her trademark confused looks on her faced.
"What is it?" he asked.
"See, that time I didn't call out 'Shugotenshi ki', yet it still worked. Why is that?" she asked. He was silent for a moment.
'She's even more powerful than I thought.' he concluded, glancing at her.
"You can access the power by just thinking the attack phrase. It makes it easier to sneak attack an enemy." he explained. He didn't bother to tell her that very few people had enough power to do so. "No one is sure the real significance of saying each phrase, but it seemed to work, and it doesn't work when you don't say them."
"Oh. Now what?" she asked.
"Now we'll move on to other things you can do. For instance, did you know you can fly?" he retorted. She simply looked at him.
"Yeah, I can as Eternal Sailor Moon, remember?" she replied. He grinned.
"I meant you have the ability to fly without transforming to Eternal form." They spent ten more minutes discussing how to do this, and how to make the four-foot long wings invisible. Then Usagi started to try it.
"Wait." he commanded. She looked up at him.
"After this, you'll fall asleep. It happens every time an angel first uses her wings."
She gave him a confused look.
"Angel?" she asked. He nodded.
"Not in the heavenly sense. Angel is a term we used to use for someone with the amount of power you have. Are you more familiar with 'tenshi'?" Ookami asked, mentioning the Japanese word for 'angel'.
"Hai!" Usagi said, smiling. She raised her eyebrow, remembering something she had thought of earlier. "You're not my son, are you?" she asked. He turned away from her.
"Iie." he replied.
"I didn't think so. You couldn't be, if you were watching me since my birth on the Moon. Who are you, then? And don't lie this time." She warned him. He smiled softly, and if she had seen his eyes at that moment she might have reconized him. But, since his back was turned, she didn't.
Slowly, he turned around and pulled back his hood. Oddly enough, the shadows that blinded her from the sight of his face lingered for a moment even as the light hit his face.
Usagi's eyes widened in shock and delight as the shadows disappeared and his face was revealed...
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Ten reviews for the next chaper!!!!!! PLEASE review, or I might be cruel enough to stop.