Aliens among us! The senshi divided.
" Dare?" Hotaru asked angrily pointing her glaive at the person.
Sailor Saturn leveled her gaze at the figure as it drew back its black hood revealing shoulder length ice blue hair. A wing fell over her right eye falling even with the rest of her hair. Her brilliant silver eyes flashed at the sailor making her feel very nervous.
'What weird language is she speaking in?' Hotaru wondered, ' and what is she saying?'
The girl seemed to hesitate for a moment, as if she didn't want to tell the small girl in front of her anything. Then she said in perfect Japanese:
" Watashi no namae wa Hoshino Tentei."
She bowed, then straitening, searched Hotaru's surprised face.
" You speak Japanese?" the frail sailor asked.
" I speak many languages fluently," the imposing girl replied disinterestedly.
" What do you want?" Hotaru questioned, becoming suspicious again, " And why did you attack me?"
" Oh, I am sorry," Tentei said not sounding the least bit so, " I sensed power, yours, and I decided to attack first and ask questions later. No offense, you understand, I always have to be on my guard."
Hotaru nodded shifting her weapon to her right hand.
" You may put that away, I am of no harm to you," Tentei said with a wave of her hand.
To her surprise, the senshi found herself sheathing her glaive.
" How did you do that?"
" Do what?" the strange woman asked innocently.
" Nothing, never mind," Hotaru mumbled irritably.
They stood in silence, an awful scowl on Hotaru's face as she glared at Tentei, who seemed to have forgotten her presence. Finally, unable to stand it any longer, Hotaru turned to exit the clearing.
" Wait!" the other girl called after her urgently, " Please!"
" What?"
" What is the date? The computer on my ship was damaged in the landing and I am trying to fix it, but I really need to know."
" It's September 6."
" What year?"
" 199"
The blue haired girl looked as if she was having trouble breathing. Her face twisted with emotion, she looked confused, scared, and sad all at the same time. She staggered off in the direction of her ship and Hotaru followed after worrying but not wanting to. As she drew closer, she noticed a piece of the fuselage was off and various tools were scattered on the grass. Hoisting herself into the craft, she looked around for the pilot.
In the front was the cockpit, and the two chairs in front of the blinking panel were both empty. Turning toward the rear, the purple senshi saw a door leading to another part of the ship. As she approached the doors, a computerized voice spoke:
" Place your hand on the panel and look into the camera."
Just noticing the hand-shape on the wall, Hotaru put her hand on it and looked into the nearby camera.
" Retinal and palm scan complete, enter Sailor Saturn."
' Weird,' she thought as she stepped over the threshold.
The door had slid open revealing a short passageway. There were four doors, two on each side. Walking past, the voice announced to her what they contained.
" Engine room: restricted access, galley, stateroom, cargo hold."
' Where could she be?'
She decided to check the galley first, food always made Usagi feel better; maybe that's where Tentei was. Putting her hand on the panel, the door slid open to reveal a neatly organized kitchen. It was deserted.
' Oh well, she got to be here somewhere, I'll just keep looking.'
The stateroom door opened at her touch and inside was an elegantly furnished traveling room with a window in the roof for gazing at the stars as they drifted by. This room was empty too, and with only two other rooms to check, Hotaru headed to the cargo hold.
The darkness in this expansive room was illuminated by a single light that hung from the middle of the room. Boxes, crates, and trunks crowded the hold and she had to weave her way through them to reach the small light. She turned in a circle, underneath the light, wondering which path of boxes to check first. Hotaru heard the sound of a lid being shut and made her way over to it.
She found her, on the lid of a trunk, a picture frame hugged to her chest. Concerned for the girl, she sat down on it next to her and waited for her to speak.
After a short pause, the taller girl sighed deeply and turning to Hotaru asked, " Do you have a family in this life?"
Taken aback by the strange question, she nodded, " Yeah, it's just me and my dad though."
" The only family I knew is dead now, it's been so long..." she looked at the picture with a sadness in her eyes.
The picture was of two women. They sat with their arms wrapped around each other and smiles on their faces. It was easy to tell that they were sisters, but they were as different in their beauty as night and day. The one on the left had hair dark as night that flowed over her shoulders in long waves. It was done up into two ponytails with two buns on top of each. Her eyes were a sad dark purple, the color of the ocean at night, but the picture did not seem to do them justice as sparkles of other colors could be seen swimming in those plum pools. The other had hair of shining lavender that fell into a glistening puddle in her lap. It was done in two pigtails with a single bun on each, and sweet silver eyes that looked strikingly familiar.
Hotaru drew in a quick breath, 'Queen Serenity-sama?'
" My mother and my aunt, they're dead now and I have no one."
Hotaru turned shakily toward Tentei, " This is your mother?"
" Yes, the one on the right, the one on the left is my aunt Gwenhwyfar."
Hotaru was in disbelief, " That can't possibly be your mother, That's Queen Serenity-sama."
Tentei suddenly rose to her feet, " If you do not believe me, then I am not sure I know who you are. What is your name?"
" Tomoe Hotaru," she replied standing up, fists at her sides.
" You go by a different name now, I am sorry, I forgot you are in another lifetime now. Forgive my rashness."
" What do you mean a different lifetime?" Hotaru asked suspiciously, this girl knew too much.
" When I knew you, it was during the Silver Millennium. Your name was Aveta then and you were Sailor Saturn."
With a shock, Hotaru realized she knew that name; it had been hers a long time ago.
" How can that be, the Moon Kingdom was destroyed, everyone was killed."
Tentei looked shocked, " Destroyed?"
" Yes, the night of Princess Serenity-sama's party, we were caught by surprise."
" Then my mother has been dead all this time? How did you all end up here on Earth?"
" Queen Serenity-sama was the only one who survived the attack, she used the Imperium Silver Crystal to send us and Queen Beryl to the future, killing herself. Now we fight our enemies on Earth, preparing for the future of Crystal Tokyo when Usagi-chan will fulfill her destiny."
Tentei looked sharply at Saturn, " Who is this Usagi?"
" The reincarnation of Princess Serenity-sama of course."
Tentei seemed to stiffen at this and her eyes narrowed.
" So," she smirked, " my good-for-nothing sister is to create a new time of peace? How touching."
Hotaru didn't know how to respond to this. Thoughts raged in her head as the silence lengthened. Who was this girl to say such things? And was she really who she said she was?
Usagi's "sister" rose and returned the photograph to a nearby trunk. Faced away from her former friend, she wiped a silent tear from her cheek and made her way out of the cargo hold. Sailor Saturn followed her outside and found her picking the tools up off the ground. She moved to help but Tentei brushed her aside. The girl had gone back inside the ship when it suddenly vanished. Just as quickly, she reappeared and seemed to walk on air down to the ground.
" Cloaking device," she explained as a mechanical sound announced the door was closing, " I can't have any stupid Earth humans discovering my UFO, now can I?"
She chuckled quietly as she shouldered a pack and strode towards the trees.
" Where are you going?" Hotaru asked.
" I have a score to settle with your Usagi-chan, and I don't need you interfering Aveta," she replied hotly and suddenly vanished.
" Cloaking device," Hotaru mocked as she de-transformed and flipped open her communicator.
" Usagi-chan, I think we've got a problem..."
As she walked through the streets of Juuban, Tentei received many weird looks. Her strange clothes and the computer she held in front of her were enough to make some turn and run, thinking another strange attack had come. She paid them no mind but continued following the signal on the screen. Although under a new name, her sister's aura still had the same vibrations, due to the tie with the ginzuishou.
" Foolish Earth humans," she muttered, " Why do they run like scared little children? Don't they know the Sailor Senshi will come and save them? Useless fools, it's a wonder my sister and her friends lasted this long."
Tentei stood in the center of the street, deep in thought as her computer showed a blip on the screen in the shape of a crescent moon.
" I have you dear sister," she sneered, heading towards the source of energy.
" Yawwn...What do you mean we have a problem, Hotaru-chan?" Usagi was lying on her bed doing her homework for once.
" Um...What I mean is that I bumped into some strange girl in a UFO who claims that she is your sister and is on her way to kill you right now."
Usagi was silent for a second then burst into insane laughter, " Y-You got m-me good there for a second, Hotaru-ch-chan!"
" No, I'm not joking! I'm serious, and I'm coming over right now and calling the others."
" Okay what ever makes you happy," the blonde rolled her eyes, " You always were the most paranoid, next to Haruka of course."
The communicator blipped off and Luna jumped up next to her mistress and began nuzzling her side.
" Oh, hello, Luna."
" Who was that on the communicator?" she purred.
" Oh, it was just Hotaru-chan, she said some strange girl told her that she was my sister and now she is coming over to kill me. Isn't that funny? Any way, Hotaru is coming over right away and calling the others."
For the first time, Usagi looked away from her math homework and at Luna. A look of bewilderment and terror twisted her features. Her claws were digging into Usagi's bedspread and it looked as though she were going to rip it.
" Luna-chan? Luna, what is wrong with you?"
" Usagi-chan, I had hoped for and dreaded this meeting since your reawakening. Your sister has come back from a supposed death and has come for her revenge."
" Sister? Revenge?" Usagi was flabbergasted, " Luna, what are you talking about? I was an only child, I had no brothers or sisters, so how could one come back from the dead?"
" You do not know, because I did not tell you," Luna hung her head, " I feared it would bring you more pain. You had already had so much and this was in the past and we had thought her dead."
" You thought wrong, Luna-sensei."
The two turned at the voice and beheld a tall blue haired girl in a tight- fitting black body suit and glittering silver cape. Her silver eyes glared coldly into the surprised blue ones. Usagi was astonished, the face she was looking at was her own, but different. Twisted somehow, it was the face of a survivor of terror. The face of someone who had dealt badly with life's curveballs.
" Princess Gwenhwyfar-sama!" Luna gasped.
" In the flesh you worthless fur-ball. Who else did you expect anyway," the tall girl sneered, resting her hand lightly on something concealed at her hip.
The black cat sucked in her breath, " The Sword of the Savior! Usagi, quick teleport out of here, you cannot fight her in such close quarters!"
" But Luna, I'm not transformed and I can't teleport without the others!"
" Just do it!" Luna screeched.
All the while, the stranger was advancing on the pair, sword unsheathed, " Stay for just a little while longer dear sister, I only want to have a little fun with you. Come now, it won't hurt, much."
With a terrified scream, the girl grabbed the cat and the pair vanished from the room.
Enraged, the black sword stabbed down into the floor, cleaving the downstairs ceiling in two, " You cannot hide forever! I will find you!"
" Where are we Luna?" Usagi breathed.
" Don't you recognize it? We're on the Moon!"
Usagi stared in wonder at the marble pillars and tinkling silver fountains. The air smelled of flowers and a fresh breeze blew from the nearby sea. Lush green grass grew along path and stately trees made their harmonious soughing sounds.
" But this can't be the Moon! Where are the ruins, where is all the dust?"
Luna's blue eyes twinkled, " Don't you remember all those years ago when you fought Metallia? You resurrected the Silver Millennium, soon to become the Crystal Millennium when you ascend the throne."
" Yes, I remember, but this is no longer a dead kingdom, this is a living, thriving globe! Is this what our world looked like before?"
The cat nodded, " The Moon was a beautiful and happy place then, and you recreated another piece of that when you used the power of the cauldron to defeat Chaos. when the new Millennium begins, this Moon, this whole System will be ready to be repopulated!"
" Repopulated? You mean all the planets? Even Jupiter and the other gas planets?"
" I'm surprised you know that much about astronomy, Usagi-chan. But what the scientists do not know, is that a protective shell of gas only shields those planets. Most of what our civilization built still remains, there may even be some survivors waiting for the glorious return of peace!"
Usagi looked around gleefully, " Let's explore!"
" Damn this useless machine!" Tentei threw the delicate computer into the street where it broke with a crash into a thousand pieces.
She looked around menacingly at the few nearby people who quickly hurried on. With a smirk at the ground she turned on her heel and headed back towards Usagi's house.
" No matter, I should have known tracing her the old-fashioned way would be more effective."
" They aren't here," Hotaru said with despair.
" Thank you Captain Obvious! We can see that; what we don't know is where she went."
Hotaru's nerves were shot and she was just about to reply in a very uncharacteristic manner when the air above Usagi's bed twisted and rippled. In the blink of an eye, their leader and Luna were standing on the bed.
" To the Moon of course!" she replied gleefully, " It was great! You guys should see it! It's just as it was a thousand years ago, only better!"
" How'd you get there by yourself, and untransformed?" Ami asked bewildered.
The blonde shrugged her shoulders and looked at Luna.
" That is small compared to everything else she has done. You all should know by now that the power of the ginzuishou is unmatched. When you use the Sailor Teleport, it is Usagi-chan's power that transports you all."
Meanwhile, the said champion of justice was mimicking Luna behind her back impatiently, " Come on you guys, detransform so I can tell you all about it!"
Coming through the gate into the grounds of the Tsukino residence, Tentei suddenly went into convulsions. Falling heavily to the ground, her hands scrabbled vainly at the paving and grass. She ceased to breath until a loud crack sounded and she lay still.
" What was that?!" Makoto jumped in the middle of Usagi's story.
The girls looked out the window and saw a figure slumped in the front yard.
Hotaru and Usagi gasped in unison, " That's Tentei-san!"
As they watched the figure shakily pushed itself up and rose to a standing position. The girl looked wearily up and spotted them at the window, waving cheerfully at them. They all looked at each other, incredibly confused, when, suddenly, the girl collapsed again.
" We can't just sit here, we have to do something!" Minako wailed, " She is your sister after all Usagi-chan!"
Usagi hesitated for a second, but then nodded and led the way down the stairs.
" Be careful girls, it may be a trick of some kind," Luna cautioned.
Ami checked her vital signs, " Her heart rate is quick but steadily returning to normal. She is out cold but otherwise unhurt."
" Right, let's get her inside."
Tentei woke suddenly clutching at her chest, the pain that always underlay everything suddenly stimulated to fever pitch. She looked around confusedly and spotted a familiar figure asleep on a nearby chair.
" Princess Maia!"
Ami, a book open in her lap started awake as Usagi entered the room. Seeing the alien girl had awakened, the odangoed girl slowed her approach.
" Princess Serenity? What are you doing here? Where am I and what are you wearing?"
Usagi looked down at her bunny slippers and turned pink, " Um...er, they're my slippers, we don't wear shoes in the house.
Ami scrutinized the girl, " You don't know where you are? What's the last thing you remember?"
" Going into hyper sleep when my ship went out of control while leaving the Moon Kingdom. Why do you look at me as if I am a stranger?"
" Because you are, this is Earth in the 21st century, the Moon Kingdom was destroyed a Millennia ago."
Tentei looked distraught at this, " Then why are you all here? Are the others here as well? Aveta and Immana?"
" Who are you talking about, and why did you call me Maia?"
" Why, cause that's your name silly, and what do you mean you don't know. Why they are the crown princess' of Saturn and Uranus!"
Hotaru had been listening in the next room and she now came in, " When you landed here in your ship you asked all the same questions and I gave you the same answers. Then you went off threatening to kill Usagi."
" Aveta! You're here!" the girl ran to Hotaru and hugged her warmly.
Surprised, Hotaru pulled away, " You called me that earlier, but seemed to hate me. What are you playing at?"
" Playing at? What do you mean, this is the first I have seen you in, so Maia says, a thousand years! And who is Usagi?"
" I am," the said person stepped forward, a look of confusion on her face.
" Sister? Are you in another lifetime? Did mother send you all here?"
" Yes, when we were all killed, she destroyed herself to give us a new future on Earth."
" Earth! We're on Earth! No wonder I am not feeling well. I have always hated this planet."
A look of hardness came into her face as she said this and her voice turned sharp and cold. Usagi drew back in alarm, but a second later, the look was replaced by one of confusion.
" Why do you pull away from me sister?"
" I don't believe she realizes what is happening to her," Usagi mused later when Tentei had fallen asleep.
" Me neither," Hotaru agreed, " Earlier she gave me the name Hoshino Tentei, but now she seems to have no remembrance of that and insists that her name is Gwenhwyfar."
Ami looked up from her computer, which she and Luna had been intently studying, " She could have a split personality."
The girls turned in her direction, " A split personality?"
" Yes, she could have, in essence two personalities living inside of her, neither aware of the other, or, if they are aware, repressing the knowledge. This usually happens as a phenomena to block out certain terrible incidents such as rape or a terrible accident where a loved one is killed."
" Or she could be possessed by something evil."
Usagi looked reproachfully at the younger girl, " You don't always have to be so suspicious Hotaru. It's been two years since the battle with Chaos and nothing has happened!"
" I know, but you thought I was good and it turned out I was possessed."
" That was different, Hotaru-chan."
She didn't look convinced.
" I think she is evil and needs to be destroyed, sister or no."
" Rei! How can you say that? She is obviously under the influence of something she can't control."
" I don't believe that Usagi-chan and I will not have you be put in jeopardy for someone we have no connection to."
" If she is my sister, then she is of royal blood and your princess, that sure seems like a connection to me!"
" Stop being so hard headed, Usagi-chan. The girl is obviously dangerous!"
" Mako-chan, you too? You sound like Haruka-san!"
Makoto just "hrumphed" and looked away, " I have to agree with them Usagi, as leader of the inner senshi, I order you to stay away from the girl and let us deal with her."
Usagi's eyes burned with fury. She rose to her feet and started yelling at full force. In a split second, where once Usagi stood, there was now an enraged Princess Serenity.
" I am the one whose life is being threatened and I alone stand between her and your unjust death sentence! Good or bad she's still a person and my sister! I will not let you sacrifice her for my sake you will do as I command!"
The three were adamant. " I'm sorry Usagi, we will not obey you."
" Dare?" Hotaru asked angrily pointing her glaive at the person.
Sailor Saturn leveled her gaze at the figure as it drew back its black hood revealing shoulder length ice blue hair. A wing fell over her right eye falling even with the rest of her hair. Her brilliant silver eyes flashed at the sailor making her feel very nervous.
'What weird language is she speaking in?' Hotaru wondered, ' and what is she saying?'
The girl seemed to hesitate for a moment, as if she didn't want to tell the small girl in front of her anything. Then she said in perfect Japanese:
" Watashi no namae wa Hoshino Tentei."
She bowed, then straitening, searched Hotaru's surprised face.
" You speak Japanese?" the frail sailor asked.
" I speak many languages fluently," the imposing girl replied disinterestedly.
" What do you want?" Hotaru questioned, becoming suspicious again, " And why did you attack me?"
" Oh, I am sorry," Tentei said not sounding the least bit so, " I sensed power, yours, and I decided to attack first and ask questions later. No offense, you understand, I always have to be on my guard."
Hotaru nodded shifting her weapon to her right hand.
" You may put that away, I am of no harm to you," Tentei said with a wave of her hand.
To her surprise, the senshi found herself sheathing her glaive.
" How did you do that?"
" Do what?" the strange woman asked innocently.
" Nothing, never mind," Hotaru mumbled irritably.
They stood in silence, an awful scowl on Hotaru's face as she glared at Tentei, who seemed to have forgotten her presence. Finally, unable to stand it any longer, Hotaru turned to exit the clearing.
" Wait!" the other girl called after her urgently, " Please!"
" What?"
" What is the date? The computer on my ship was damaged in the landing and I am trying to fix it, but I really need to know."
" It's September 6."
" What year?"
" 199"
The blue haired girl looked as if she was having trouble breathing. Her face twisted with emotion, she looked confused, scared, and sad all at the same time. She staggered off in the direction of her ship and Hotaru followed after worrying but not wanting to. As she drew closer, she noticed a piece of the fuselage was off and various tools were scattered on the grass. Hoisting herself into the craft, she looked around for the pilot.
In the front was the cockpit, and the two chairs in front of the blinking panel were both empty. Turning toward the rear, the purple senshi saw a door leading to another part of the ship. As she approached the doors, a computerized voice spoke:
" Place your hand on the panel and look into the camera."
Just noticing the hand-shape on the wall, Hotaru put her hand on it and looked into the nearby camera.
" Retinal and palm scan complete, enter Sailor Saturn."
' Weird,' she thought as she stepped over the threshold.
The door had slid open revealing a short passageway. There were four doors, two on each side. Walking past, the voice announced to her what they contained.
" Engine room: restricted access, galley, stateroom, cargo hold."
' Where could she be?'
She decided to check the galley first, food always made Usagi feel better; maybe that's where Tentei was. Putting her hand on the panel, the door slid open to reveal a neatly organized kitchen. It was deserted.
' Oh well, she got to be here somewhere, I'll just keep looking.'
The stateroom door opened at her touch and inside was an elegantly furnished traveling room with a window in the roof for gazing at the stars as they drifted by. This room was empty too, and with only two other rooms to check, Hotaru headed to the cargo hold.
The darkness in this expansive room was illuminated by a single light that hung from the middle of the room. Boxes, crates, and trunks crowded the hold and she had to weave her way through them to reach the small light. She turned in a circle, underneath the light, wondering which path of boxes to check first. Hotaru heard the sound of a lid being shut and made her way over to it.
She found her, on the lid of a trunk, a picture frame hugged to her chest. Concerned for the girl, she sat down on it next to her and waited for her to speak.
After a short pause, the taller girl sighed deeply and turning to Hotaru asked, " Do you have a family in this life?"
Taken aback by the strange question, she nodded, " Yeah, it's just me and my dad though."
" The only family I knew is dead now, it's been so long..." she looked at the picture with a sadness in her eyes.
The picture was of two women. They sat with their arms wrapped around each other and smiles on their faces. It was easy to tell that they were sisters, but they were as different in their beauty as night and day. The one on the left had hair dark as night that flowed over her shoulders in long waves. It was done up into two ponytails with two buns on top of each. Her eyes were a sad dark purple, the color of the ocean at night, but the picture did not seem to do them justice as sparkles of other colors could be seen swimming in those plum pools. The other had hair of shining lavender that fell into a glistening puddle in her lap. It was done in two pigtails with a single bun on each, and sweet silver eyes that looked strikingly familiar.
Hotaru drew in a quick breath, 'Queen Serenity-sama?'
" My mother and my aunt, they're dead now and I have no one."
Hotaru turned shakily toward Tentei, " This is your mother?"
" Yes, the one on the right, the one on the left is my aunt Gwenhwyfar."
Hotaru was in disbelief, " That can't possibly be your mother, That's Queen Serenity-sama."
Tentei suddenly rose to her feet, " If you do not believe me, then I am not sure I know who you are. What is your name?"
" Tomoe Hotaru," she replied standing up, fists at her sides.
" You go by a different name now, I am sorry, I forgot you are in another lifetime now. Forgive my rashness."
" What do you mean a different lifetime?" Hotaru asked suspiciously, this girl knew too much.
" When I knew you, it was during the Silver Millennium. Your name was Aveta then and you were Sailor Saturn."
With a shock, Hotaru realized she knew that name; it had been hers a long time ago.
" How can that be, the Moon Kingdom was destroyed, everyone was killed."
Tentei looked shocked, " Destroyed?"
" Yes, the night of Princess Serenity-sama's party, we were caught by surprise."
" Then my mother has been dead all this time? How did you all end up here on Earth?"
" Queen Serenity-sama was the only one who survived the attack, she used the Imperium Silver Crystal to send us and Queen Beryl to the future, killing herself. Now we fight our enemies on Earth, preparing for the future of Crystal Tokyo when Usagi-chan will fulfill her destiny."
Tentei looked sharply at Saturn, " Who is this Usagi?"
" The reincarnation of Princess Serenity-sama of course."
Tentei seemed to stiffen at this and her eyes narrowed.
" So," she smirked, " my good-for-nothing sister is to create a new time of peace? How touching."
Hotaru didn't know how to respond to this. Thoughts raged in her head as the silence lengthened. Who was this girl to say such things? And was she really who she said she was?
Usagi's "sister" rose and returned the photograph to a nearby trunk. Faced away from her former friend, she wiped a silent tear from her cheek and made her way out of the cargo hold. Sailor Saturn followed her outside and found her picking the tools up off the ground. She moved to help but Tentei brushed her aside. The girl had gone back inside the ship when it suddenly vanished. Just as quickly, she reappeared and seemed to walk on air down to the ground.
" Cloaking device," she explained as a mechanical sound announced the door was closing, " I can't have any stupid Earth humans discovering my UFO, now can I?"
She chuckled quietly as she shouldered a pack and strode towards the trees.
" Where are you going?" Hotaru asked.
" I have a score to settle with your Usagi-chan, and I don't need you interfering Aveta," she replied hotly and suddenly vanished.
" Cloaking device," Hotaru mocked as she de-transformed and flipped open her communicator.
" Usagi-chan, I think we've got a problem..."
As she walked through the streets of Juuban, Tentei received many weird looks. Her strange clothes and the computer she held in front of her were enough to make some turn and run, thinking another strange attack had come. She paid them no mind but continued following the signal on the screen. Although under a new name, her sister's aura still had the same vibrations, due to the tie with the ginzuishou.
" Foolish Earth humans," she muttered, " Why do they run like scared little children? Don't they know the Sailor Senshi will come and save them? Useless fools, it's a wonder my sister and her friends lasted this long."
Tentei stood in the center of the street, deep in thought as her computer showed a blip on the screen in the shape of a crescent moon.
" I have you dear sister," she sneered, heading towards the source of energy.
" Yawwn...What do you mean we have a problem, Hotaru-chan?" Usagi was lying on her bed doing her homework for once.
" Um...What I mean is that I bumped into some strange girl in a UFO who claims that she is your sister and is on her way to kill you right now."
Usagi was silent for a second then burst into insane laughter, " Y-You got m-me good there for a second, Hotaru-ch-chan!"
" No, I'm not joking! I'm serious, and I'm coming over right now and calling the others."
" Okay what ever makes you happy," the blonde rolled her eyes, " You always were the most paranoid, next to Haruka of course."
The communicator blipped off and Luna jumped up next to her mistress and began nuzzling her side.
" Oh, hello, Luna."
" Who was that on the communicator?" she purred.
" Oh, it was just Hotaru-chan, she said some strange girl told her that she was my sister and now she is coming over to kill me. Isn't that funny? Any way, Hotaru is coming over right away and calling the others."
For the first time, Usagi looked away from her math homework and at Luna. A look of bewilderment and terror twisted her features. Her claws were digging into Usagi's bedspread and it looked as though she were going to rip it.
" Luna-chan? Luna, what is wrong with you?"
" Usagi-chan, I had hoped for and dreaded this meeting since your reawakening. Your sister has come back from a supposed death and has come for her revenge."
" Sister? Revenge?" Usagi was flabbergasted, " Luna, what are you talking about? I was an only child, I had no brothers or sisters, so how could one come back from the dead?"
" You do not know, because I did not tell you," Luna hung her head, " I feared it would bring you more pain. You had already had so much and this was in the past and we had thought her dead."
" You thought wrong, Luna-sensei."
The two turned at the voice and beheld a tall blue haired girl in a tight- fitting black body suit and glittering silver cape. Her silver eyes glared coldly into the surprised blue ones. Usagi was astonished, the face she was looking at was her own, but different. Twisted somehow, it was the face of a survivor of terror. The face of someone who had dealt badly with life's curveballs.
" Princess Gwenhwyfar-sama!" Luna gasped.
" In the flesh you worthless fur-ball. Who else did you expect anyway," the tall girl sneered, resting her hand lightly on something concealed at her hip.
The black cat sucked in her breath, " The Sword of the Savior! Usagi, quick teleport out of here, you cannot fight her in such close quarters!"
" But Luna, I'm not transformed and I can't teleport without the others!"
" Just do it!" Luna screeched.
All the while, the stranger was advancing on the pair, sword unsheathed, " Stay for just a little while longer dear sister, I only want to have a little fun with you. Come now, it won't hurt, much."
With a terrified scream, the girl grabbed the cat and the pair vanished from the room.
Enraged, the black sword stabbed down into the floor, cleaving the downstairs ceiling in two, " You cannot hide forever! I will find you!"
" Where are we Luna?" Usagi breathed.
" Don't you recognize it? We're on the Moon!"
Usagi stared in wonder at the marble pillars and tinkling silver fountains. The air smelled of flowers and a fresh breeze blew from the nearby sea. Lush green grass grew along path and stately trees made their harmonious soughing sounds.
" But this can't be the Moon! Where are the ruins, where is all the dust?"
Luna's blue eyes twinkled, " Don't you remember all those years ago when you fought Metallia? You resurrected the Silver Millennium, soon to become the Crystal Millennium when you ascend the throne."
" Yes, I remember, but this is no longer a dead kingdom, this is a living, thriving globe! Is this what our world looked like before?"
The cat nodded, " The Moon was a beautiful and happy place then, and you recreated another piece of that when you used the power of the cauldron to defeat Chaos. when the new Millennium begins, this Moon, this whole System will be ready to be repopulated!"
" Repopulated? You mean all the planets? Even Jupiter and the other gas planets?"
" I'm surprised you know that much about astronomy, Usagi-chan. But what the scientists do not know, is that a protective shell of gas only shields those planets. Most of what our civilization built still remains, there may even be some survivors waiting for the glorious return of peace!"
Usagi looked around gleefully, " Let's explore!"
" Damn this useless machine!" Tentei threw the delicate computer into the street where it broke with a crash into a thousand pieces.
She looked around menacingly at the few nearby people who quickly hurried on. With a smirk at the ground she turned on her heel and headed back towards Usagi's house.
" No matter, I should have known tracing her the old-fashioned way would be more effective."
" They aren't here," Hotaru said with despair.
" Thank you Captain Obvious! We can see that; what we don't know is where she went."
Hotaru's nerves were shot and she was just about to reply in a very uncharacteristic manner when the air above Usagi's bed twisted and rippled. In the blink of an eye, their leader and Luna were standing on the bed.
" To the Moon of course!" she replied gleefully, " It was great! You guys should see it! It's just as it was a thousand years ago, only better!"
" How'd you get there by yourself, and untransformed?" Ami asked bewildered.
The blonde shrugged her shoulders and looked at Luna.
" That is small compared to everything else she has done. You all should know by now that the power of the ginzuishou is unmatched. When you use the Sailor Teleport, it is Usagi-chan's power that transports you all."
Meanwhile, the said champion of justice was mimicking Luna behind her back impatiently, " Come on you guys, detransform so I can tell you all about it!"
Coming through the gate into the grounds of the Tsukino residence, Tentei suddenly went into convulsions. Falling heavily to the ground, her hands scrabbled vainly at the paving and grass. She ceased to breath until a loud crack sounded and she lay still.
" What was that?!" Makoto jumped in the middle of Usagi's story.
The girls looked out the window and saw a figure slumped in the front yard.
Hotaru and Usagi gasped in unison, " That's Tentei-san!"
As they watched the figure shakily pushed itself up and rose to a standing position. The girl looked wearily up and spotted them at the window, waving cheerfully at them. They all looked at each other, incredibly confused, when, suddenly, the girl collapsed again.
" We can't just sit here, we have to do something!" Minako wailed, " She is your sister after all Usagi-chan!"
Usagi hesitated for a second, but then nodded and led the way down the stairs.
" Be careful girls, it may be a trick of some kind," Luna cautioned.
Ami checked her vital signs, " Her heart rate is quick but steadily returning to normal. She is out cold but otherwise unhurt."
" Right, let's get her inside."
Tentei woke suddenly clutching at her chest, the pain that always underlay everything suddenly stimulated to fever pitch. She looked around confusedly and spotted a familiar figure asleep on a nearby chair.
" Princess Maia!"
Ami, a book open in her lap started awake as Usagi entered the room. Seeing the alien girl had awakened, the odangoed girl slowed her approach.
" Princess Serenity? What are you doing here? Where am I and what are you wearing?"
Usagi looked down at her bunny slippers and turned pink, " Um...er, they're my slippers, we don't wear shoes in the house.
Ami scrutinized the girl, " You don't know where you are? What's the last thing you remember?"
" Going into hyper sleep when my ship went out of control while leaving the Moon Kingdom. Why do you look at me as if I am a stranger?"
" Because you are, this is Earth in the 21st century, the Moon Kingdom was destroyed a Millennia ago."
Tentei looked distraught at this, " Then why are you all here? Are the others here as well? Aveta and Immana?"
" Who are you talking about, and why did you call me Maia?"
" Why, cause that's your name silly, and what do you mean you don't know. Why they are the crown princess' of Saturn and Uranus!"
Hotaru had been listening in the next room and she now came in, " When you landed here in your ship you asked all the same questions and I gave you the same answers. Then you went off threatening to kill Usagi."
" Aveta! You're here!" the girl ran to Hotaru and hugged her warmly.
Surprised, Hotaru pulled away, " You called me that earlier, but seemed to hate me. What are you playing at?"
" Playing at? What do you mean, this is the first I have seen you in, so Maia says, a thousand years! And who is Usagi?"
" I am," the said person stepped forward, a look of confusion on her face.
" Sister? Are you in another lifetime? Did mother send you all here?"
" Yes, when we were all killed, she destroyed herself to give us a new future on Earth."
" Earth! We're on Earth! No wonder I am not feeling well. I have always hated this planet."
A look of hardness came into her face as she said this and her voice turned sharp and cold. Usagi drew back in alarm, but a second later, the look was replaced by one of confusion.
" Why do you pull away from me sister?"
" I don't believe she realizes what is happening to her," Usagi mused later when Tentei had fallen asleep.
" Me neither," Hotaru agreed, " Earlier she gave me the name Hoshino Tentei, but now she seems to have no remembrance of that and insists that her name is Gwenhwyfar."
Ami looked up from her computer, which she and Luna had been intently studying, " She could have a split personality."
The girls turned in her direction, " A split personality?"
" Yes, she could have, in essence two personalities living inside of her, neither aware of the other, or, if they are aware, repressing the knowledge. This usually happens as a phenomena to block out certain terrible incidents such as rape or a terrible accident where a loved one is killed."
" Or she could be possessed by something evil."
Usagi looked reproachfully at the younger girl, " You don't always have to be so suspicious Hotaru. It's been two years since the battle with Chaos and nothing has happened!"
" I know, but you thought I was good and it turned out I was possessed."
" That was different, Hotaru-chan."
She didn't look convinced.
" I think she is evil and needs to be destroyed, sister or no."
" Rei! How can you say that? She is obviously under the influence of something she can't control."
" I don't believe that Usagi-chan and I will not have you be put in jeopardy for someone we have no connection to."
" If she is my sister, then she is of royal blood and your princess, that sure seems like a connection to me!"
" Stop being so hard headed, Usagi-chan. The girl is obviously dangerous!"
" Mako-chan, you too? You sound like Haruka-san!"
Makoto just "hrumphed" and looked away, " I have to agree with them Usagi, as leader of the inner senshi, I order you to stay away from the girl and let us deal with her."
Usagi's eyes burned with fury. She rose to her feet and started yelling at full force. In a split second, where once Usagi stood, there was now an enraged Princess Serenity.
" I am the one whose life is being threatened and I alone stand between her and your unjust death sentence! Good or bad she's still a person and my sister! I will not let you sacrifice her for my sake you will do as I command!"
The three were adamant. " I'm sorry Usagi, we will not obey you."