Chapter 7: The curse
'O'my god. Ashleigh...why are coughing up blood? More specifically, black blood.' Yu-Gi thought to himself.
"Yu-Gi? You awake man?" Joey asked waving his hand in front of Yu-Gi's face.
"Huh? Oh...um...fine just thinking." He answered as straightforward as he could.
The Scouts had walked over into their own group and started talking among themselves after Ashleigh had passed out.(AN: I'm not going to tell you what they're talking about cause it would take a whole chapter and i've been lazy lately so I don't want to type it. You can make up what they say if you want.)
"They sure have been over there for a while. What are they talking about?" Tristen asked as he sat down next to Yu-Gi and brushed away a piece of hair away from my face.
"Who knows? It must be a 'Scout only' talk or 'Girls only' talk." Joey said sarcastically.
"Joey shut-up for a while or you'll regret it." Tea yelled over at him with her back at him "I'm The Guardian of Time so therefore I can see a short way into the future if I want and if you keep on yappin you're going to get smacked by Mercury. If you don't believe me keep talkin."
"You mean 'Brains Mercury'? Sorry but that is a laugh." Joey joked.
*SMACK*
Mercury stomped away from Joey a little satisfied by hitting Joey and had her transformation stick in her hand saying, "These sure are good for more than transforming."
"Well you can't say I didn't warn ya." Pluto shrugged while everyone giggled even Mercury.
Joey glared at her while rubbing the lump on his head. Mercury looked at him sweetly and blew a kiss towards him then burst out laughing along with everyone else except Yu-Gi.
"Yuge? Ok Tristen I think that we need to get some help for him. He's been staring into space ever since Ashleigh went out."
"I know, but we should just let him be. Yu-Gi has been through a lot this past 24hrs. I think the hardest part is when Ashleigh died. The look in his face was like he lost everything that he held dearly. As far as he's concerned Ashleigh is his family, his world, and life. Ever since Yu-Gi's grandpa died a few years ago, lost his mom when he was 6, and being abused by his asshole father all those years, Ashleigh is all that he has left. I could tell that a new part was added into his world when she ran into him the first day we met her." Tristen told Joey with sincerity.
"Uh...uh. Ok is that you Tristen? Since when have you been so sincere?" Joey looked at him like 'who are you and what have you done with Tristen'.
"Tristen's right Joey. Ashleigh is all I have left. I know that I have my friends too, but..." Yu-Gi trailed of as Ashleigh began to cough again.
He turned her head sideways just in case she would start to cough up blood again. She coughed for a good five minutes, but didn't wake up. When she stopped Yu-Gi waited a minute before putting her face up again.
"Guys i'm worried." Yu-Gi told them while he was string into Ashleigh's face.
"Why Yuge?" Joey looked puzzled.
"I'm worried about Ashleigh. Before she passed out, when she was coughing I felt a wet substance on my shirt. She was coughing up blood, but usual red blood either." Yu-Gi told them.
"What do you mean? What color was it green? So you're suggesting she's a Clingon?" Tristen said with a little humor.
"Tristen you're an idiot. Don't bring 'Star Trek' into this. Of course she doesn't have green blood. She's human!!" Joey scolded while Tristen scratched the back of his head smiling and telling Joey to back off.
"Her blood was black." Yu-Gi told them in a whisper.
"Black?" They looked at him puzzled.
"Don't ask me how, but all I know is that it was black. I'm really worried about her. She's the only family that I have left. I'm grateful that her family took me in, but Ashleigh is my world and I can't lose her, not to a jerk like Sidius. I want to get her to a doctor now." Yu-Gi said then started to cry.
"Ya know what Yuge. You could never lose Ashleigh. She's a strong girl. You're very lucky to have her. Honestly I was even considering asking her out today. I've admired her because she has a strong will, soul, and heart. The fact that she's the most beautiful thing around here just makes me honored to be her friend, none the less anywhere near her." Tristen confided in him.
"Yu.... Gi.... don't go. I thought you loved me...*cough*its not my fault.... you're leaving me because of some stupid curse!?" Ashleigh cried out in horror still asleep.
She was tossing and turning so violently in her sleep that it took all three guys to hold her down. Joey took her legs, Tristen her arms, and Yu- Gi her head.
"Ashleigh wake-up! Wake-up. Stop this wake-up. Dammit." Yu-Gi told her.
The Scouts heard Ashleigh's yelling and came over to see what was wrong. When they saw that Ashleigh was shaking violently. She was shaking even more violently that the three of them couldn't hold her down. Her eyes were open and pupil less.
"Shit she's doing it again. Mercury help Joey with the legs and Jupiter take an arm. Yu-Gi you might want to learn to control her when she does this." Venus commanded everyone to do what she said.
"What's wrong with her?" Yu-Gi asked franticly.
"Every year on her birthday since her 14th birthday she has a dream that causes her body to become violent, her to cough hysterically and cough up black blood. She has a curse in her and it eats her up from the inside. I think it's was finally over because she isn't coughing up the blood. As each year goes by it becomes even worse. By the time she turns 19 a black cloud will engulf the entire inside of her body. This ring on her left hand helps control it. It will keep her alive for 2 months after today then she will totally disappear forever no sign that she was even where she stood, just vanish. Does anyone have her purse or stuff?"
"I do." Tristen pulled Ashleigh's purse out from his bag and gave it to Venus.
She rummaged through it for a moment till she came across an orange case and pulled it out. She opened it and took out a needle and bottle of medicine.
"Jupiter hold her arm tight and Mars hold her shoulder. Uranus and Neptune hold her body down. Boy am I lucky that her mom taught me to do this." Venus commanded as she prepped the medicine.
Venus gave her the shot and Ashleigh's body began to react to it immediately. Her body calmed down and she returned to sleeping peacefully. Donna put the needle and medicine back in the case then calmed down.
"It isn't over. She did cough up the blood." Yu-Gi showed her the blood on his shirt.
"Girls lets take a break, k?" Venus told them as she powered down.
Everyone powered down and sat down around Yu-Gi and Ashleigh.
"Yu-Gi I suggest that when Ashleigh wakes up that you all go home. It's not safe here for any of you." Donna advised
"The medicine causes Ashleigh to lose all memory of being a Sailor Scout. Actually she loses her memory for 2 days. She thinks that her broach is just a trinket that she likes to wear. She can't transform or anything." Amy explained.
"Not that she can now anyways since Sidius broke it into pieces. Now that her transformation broach is destroyed Sailor Moon is no more." Allison spoke up.
"So Sailor Moon is gone forever." Tea asked with sadness.
"I'm afraid so Tea." Ashleigh told her.
Everyone was surprised to hear her speak.
"Ashleigh.... do you know who Sailor Moon is really?" Donna asked.
"No I know she's gone because I saw her die."
Everyone gasped at her response. They all looked at her in shock. How could Sailor Moon die when she's sitting right here a living breathing human being?
"How did she die Ashleigh?" Ashley looked at her very seriously.
"Some guy hit her right in the chest and destroyed her broach and then as she was becoming her normal-self the guy attacked her again and her body disappeared. The strange thing is everyone was there except for Tea, Ashley, Donna, Amy, Allison, and myself. All of the scouts shared the same fate as Sailor Moon including 4 other scouts. I don't know who they were, but when she disappeared Yu-Gi was kneeling where she stood crying. Joey and Casey stood in the spot where Pluto was and Tristen did the same, but was in the spot where he stood through the whole thing. It was like ya'll knew them and loved them. " Ashleigh laid there in Yu-Gi's lap staring at the sky and talking. "But it was only a dream."
While Ashleigh was speaking Joey put his arms around Tea and held her tight. Yu-Gi stared at Ashleigh as she spoke in shock.
"Ashleigh the dreams you have always come true. It is like they are preminissions." Donna explained to her staring at the ground.
Yu-Gi threw his head up and looked at Donna.
"You mean all of this is going to happen? Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts are going to vanish off the face of the earth?!" He asked hysterically.
"I'm afraid so." Donna told him her voice shaky.
"Don't you think Ashleigh should be told who she really is even if this is temporary?! She should know the reason why you and the others weren't there when Sailor Moon was destroyed! I think that her best friend should be the one to tell her this!" Yu-Gi yelled.
"Yu-Gi calm down! She will figure...."
"I won't calm down Tristen! The woman I love is going to be destroyed right in front of me in the future and I want Ashleigh to know why we were there and everyone else wasn't."
Ashleigh sat up when Yu-Gi started yelling at Tristen and was staring at him with a scared face.
"What are you talking about? What do you mean 'who I really am'? I do want to know why only you 4 are there. I want to know why all of you were crying. I want to know why you acted that you know them." Ashleigh said before Tristen could yell back at Yu-Gi.
"Yu-Gi you're right Ashleigh should know who she really is since she only has 2 more months. She should be told the truth for once." Donna looked up and was crying very hard.
"Donna why are you crying?" Ashleigh asked as she put an arm around her.
Ashleigh looked around and saw that everyone was crying.
"Why is everyone crying?" She was puzzled.
"We are crying because we're going to lose our best friend very soon along with our lives. Ashleigh when you turned 14 you had a curse placed upon you by a man named Sidius. For the past 5 yrs this curse slowly kills you. 2 months from now you were supposed to die because of it, but it will happen a lot sooner then we expected. If you remember that you were the all time fan of Sailor V and were surprised when a talking cat named Luna approached you. She gave you a locked like the one you're supposed to be wearing and told you to yell Moon Crystal power. You did and you became Sailor Moon the champion of love and justice. Ashleigh you are Sailor Moon and I am Sailor Venus. Ashley is Sailor Jupiter, Amy, Sailor Mercury, and Allison, Sailor Mars. Tea is Sailor Pluto. The other 4 that you saw we only know 2 of them and that is Amara and Michelle here. Amara is Sailor Uranus and Michelle Sailor Neptune." Donna told her.
"I'm Sailor Moon?" She asked faintly.
"Yes. Every year on your birthday because of your curse when you fall asleep you start to have a nightmare, but before you do you have a coughing attack and you cough up black blood. Your body starts become hysteric and you start trashing violently. To keep you from doing this all year long a medicine was discovered by your mother from your former life. In this life you were Princess Serenity Princess of the Moon and daughter of Queen Selen. A medicine from the Imperium Silver Crystal has helped you for a year to keep you from becoming crazy and violent. It lasts for a year and only occurs on your birthday. After your body starts to react to the medicine you lose your memory for 2 days and don't remember anything from the past 24 hrs. The only way to get rid of the curse is to destroy Sidius. We had destroyed him once, but only his body. His spirit survived and found a body to posses." Amy added.
"Ashleigh some how Sidius knew you were Sailor Moon before even Luna did and thought that he could use this curse to control you and make you evil. Yesterday you went to go visit Adrian and while you were Sidius discovered that you had returned to Colorado and transported You, Adrian, Yu-Gi, Casey, Tea, Joey, Tristen, Amy, Donna, Allison, and I to a different dimension. There Sidius tried to destroy you with a bolt that slowly kills you, but Adrian took it for you. Before he left he told us that we would all die if we didn't bring both of you to this cemetery by dawn. While he was still around he called you Serenity and everyone was curious about that so we told them our secret, but instead of you becoming Sailor moon you went to Serenity with her memory. Soon after you did you passed out. Yu- Gi was the first one to you and he took you in his arms, it was actually really sweet and cute." Ashley explained to her.
"Yu-Gi you did that? I thank you for caring for me." Ashleigh smiled at him and he blushed.
"Sure anytime. I don't think anyone knows what happened after you passed out and they fell asleep. So i'll explain the net part." Yu-Gi said flustered.
"I do know one part you two woke me up." Joey put in his two sense.
"Anyways you told me that when you woke up that everyone was asleep and you began to think of our first meeting. After you were done you said you loved me for the first time and my Millennium Puzzle appeared." He held up the object, " The spirit that lives in this puzzle, Yami me from my former life, spoke to you. He told you of their first meeting and their deaths. He also told you of what happened to me before we meet. I woke up and I guess you can say we started going out. Soon after Sidius appeared and did the most horrible thing. He said he wanted to see you suffer with death of love ones. He actually did kill one of them, Luna. Then he made Casey, Tea, Donna, Amy, and myself disappear to the other side of town. I'm not sure what happened with you and the rest, but when we appeared where we were we started heading back to where we were separated. Along the way I spotted you talking with someone and I went to go see if it was really you. It was, but a guy tricked you, I think his name was Derek Ford, into thinking that he was me. You had revealed to him that you were Sailor Moon and told him that if he told anyone that you would come up here and rip his heart out. Then after we started walking away you stopped and started having a pity party. I got you out of it and you took Adrian and flew off with him in your Sailor uniform."
"Soon after you showed up over here and we found where Sidius wanted you and Adrian. Joey laid Adrian down and you lay opposite of him. You took his hand then you life energy began to drain and Adrian began to recover. When the process was over Yu-Gi and the others showed up, but you were only hanging on by a tread of life. You spent your last few moments of life in Yu-Gi's arms. It is a picture we will never forget. You were lying there pale and life less. Where you laid it wrote your name and your life span. Afterwards Donna, Amy, Ashley, and I began to think of our most memorable moments of you and we received the Crystal of our guardian planet. With them and the help of Neptune and Uranus we were able to bring you back. You were with out your voice for a while until Sidius attacked you. Yu-Gi tried to go get you away from him, but was knocked into Tristen and thrown to the side. He made you levitate in the air and took your broach then destroyed it." Allison held in her hands what remained of Ashleigh's locket.
"Donna saved you, but it only pissed of Sidius more and said he was going to take us to the shadow world. Yu-Gi can explain what it is since he has experienced first hand."
"Thanks Tea." He said sarcastically, "The Shadow realm is the place in ancient times where they played Duel Monsters. It causes any human today to become very weak and possibly die in it. We were trying to figure out how he planned to do this then he revealed whose body he possessing, Maxamillion Pegasus."
"Everyone attacked except for me. I couldn't attack him even if it wasn't him controlling his body. Sidius totally disappeared after that then you began your phase of the year." Tea finished for everyone.
"All of this happened in 24hrs?" Ashleigh had begun to cry about half way in to the story, well when she found out that she had died. Everyone nodded their heads. "And I thought I was just a normal teenager this whole time. This is too gloomy and sad. I mean why should I be like this on my 19th birthday? I should be having fun, not sitting in an cemetery learning about a life I never knew I had. My life is exciting isn't it? Me dieing coming back to life, and sitting in a graveyard, that is ridicules."
"She doesn't believe us does she?" Ashley leaned over to Donna and asked.
"Apparently not. We spent the last fifteen minutes explaining something to her and she doesn't even believe us. What are we going to do with her?" Donna said amusingly.
"You don't believe us do you Ashleigh?" Yu-Gi asked.
" Nope not one bit." She folded her arms across her chest..
Everyone just toppled over at her answered and sweat dropped. 'How long did that take them to make that up? This is ridicules, but my broach did get broken and my body does hurt. Does Yu-Gi really care about me? I do love him and all, but can I really date my best guy friend? I know i've only been here for a day, but I want to go home for some reason.'
"Ashleigh I know that you don't believe us and all, but we are telling the truth. We would never make up something like that." Yu-Gi looked at her like he was hurt.
"I know that all of you are telling the truth Yu-Gi, but it is hard to believe that all of this could have happened to me. I just want to be an average teenager." Ashleigh answered sadly looking at her feet fiddling with her hands.
"Ya know you never could hold still could you? Always got to be moving some part of your body. Honestly i'd hate to see you sit still for once." Yu-Gi sort of laughed changing the subject.
"Well i'm used to moving a lot, so it would be kind of hard for me to sit still. Even when i'm asleep I move around a lot huh Donna."
"You've go that right. Did you know that once Ashleigh had a sleep over and we had 5 girls sleeping on it?" Donna laughed.
"Yea I remember that Donna as in the middle and Ashleigh and I were on both sides of her. Amy and one of Ashleigh's friends Alexandria sleep at the end of the bed. Donna was the one who kept moving around a lot, she practically pushed both of us of onto cement." Ashley added.
"That's right because my basement wasn't finished and I slept downstairs. That was a great party. I miss being with you guys, but it has been good in Texas too. Can we go somewhere else to get dried off and someplace less gloomy?" Ashleigh said with a smile.
"Lets go." Donna laughed standing up and reached for Ashleigh's hand.
Ashleigh grabbed Donna's hand and she pulled her up. Everyone else got up and started walking towards the exit of the cemetery. As they did Ashleigh stepped in a really muddy place and slipped. Ashleigh waited to fall to the ground and get mud all over herself, but it never came. She felt someone holding on to her and she looked up and blushed.
"Careful." Yu-Gi smiled at her.
"Thanks." She told him as she stood up and smoothed out her skirt.
Yu-Gi began to walk by, but stopped when a hand grabbed his wrist. He turned around and saw Ashleigh had a grip on it. He looked at her puzzled. She smiled shyly and moved her hand down to his and laced her fingers with his.
"We are going out aren't we?" She asked quiet voice.
"Yea just don't tell your parents right away or else they'll put locks on the outside of my door." He joked and she giggled as he put his arm around her shoulder and they started walking.
"They would wouldn't they? Might want to put some on the inside too unless you want Serena going in your room again while you're sleeping." She added.
"She's been going in my room? When did this happen? How many times has she done this? Why didn't anyone tell me? Wait, duh I was the one who caught her. That's crazy and she's only what? 12? And i'm 19, not a good thing if you ask me. And what is he going to do when she finds out that her older sister is going out with me." Yu-Gi joked a little.
"Yea that would be a sight. 'Wrestling match Sunday at 6pm Ashleigh Berry vs. Serena Berry Prize: Yu-Gi Motto.' Think of all the money you'll make." Joey told them sarcastically as he came up in front of them.
"Yea yea Joey keep dreamin. Where are we going to get cleaned up at?" Tea asked pushing Joey forward away from Ashleigh and Yu-Gi.
"My house isn't too far from here we can go there." Ashley offered.
"Thanks Ash." Amy piped up.
"Michelle and I don't live very far from here so we'll be going there." Amara told them as her and Michelle turned to go an opposite direction.
"Wait." Ashleigh told them as she ran up. "Thank you for helping me even if I find it hard to believe that all this has happened."
"We do what we can to help people." Amara told her.
"We're glad to help. If you have anymore confrontations with Sidius give us a call. I always have my cell with me and I can page Amara." Michelle said politely as she wrote down her cell number on a piece of paper for Ashleigh.
"Thank you Michelle, Amara."
"We'd better get going." Ashley commented.
"Bye everyone!" Michelle waved them off.
******
"Enjoy your 'break' scouts for you waste your time before you are going to be gone forever."
'O'my god. Ashleigh...why are coughing up blood? More specifically, black blood.' Yu-Gi thought to himself.
"Yu-Gi? You awake man?" Joey asked waving his hand in front of Yu-Gi's face.
"Huh? Oh...um...fine just thinking." He answered as straightforward as he could.
The Scouts had walked over into their own group and started talking among themselves after Ashleigh had passed out.(AN: I'm not going to tell you what they're talking about cause it would take a whole chapter and i've been lazy lately so I don't want to type it. You can make up what they say if you want.)
"They sure have been over there for a while. What are they talking about?" Tristen asked as he sat down next to Yu-Gi and brushed away a piece of hair away from my face.
"Who knows? It must be a 'Scout only' talk or 'Girls only' talk." Joey said sarcastically.
"Joey shut-up for a while or you'll regret it." Tea yelled over at him with her back at him "I'm The Guardian of Time so therefore I can see a short way into the future if I want and if you keep on yappin you're going to get smacked by Mercury. If you don't believe me keep talkin."
"You mean 'Brains Mercury'? Sorry but that is a laugh." Joey joked.
*SMACK*
Mercury stomped away from Joey a little satisfied by hitting Joey and had her transformation stick in her hand saying, "These sure are good for more than transforming."
"Well you can't say I didn't warn ya." Pluto shrugged while everyone giggled even Mercury.
Joey glared at her while rubbing the lump on his head. Mercury looked at him sweetly and blew a kiss towards him then burst out laughing along with everyone else except Yu-Gi.
"Yuge? Ok Tristen I think that we need to get some help for him. He's been staring into space ever since Ashleigh went out."
"I know, but we should just let him be. Yu-Gi has been through a lot this past 24hrs. I think the hardest part is when Ashleigh died. The look in his face was like he lost everything that he held dearly. As far as he's concerned Ashleigh is his family, his world, and life. Ever since Yu-Gi's grandpa died a few years ago, lost his mom when he was 6, and being abused by his asshole father all those years, Ashleigh is all that he has left. I could tell that a new part was added into his world when she ran into him the first day we met her." Tristen told Joey with sincerity.
"Uh...uh. Ok is that you Tristen? Since when have you been so sincere?" Joey looked at him like 'who are you and what have you done with Tristen'.
"Tristen's right Joey. Ashleigh is all I have left. I know that I have my friends too, but..." Yu-Gi trailed of as Ashleigh began to cough again.
He turned her head sideways just in case she would start to cough up blood again. She coughed for a good five minutes, but didn't wake up. When she stopped Yu-Gi waited a minute before putting her face up again.
"Guys i'm worried." Yu-Gi told them while he was string into Ashleigh's face.
"Why Yuge?" Joey looked puzzled.
"I'm worried about Ashleigh. Before she passed out, when she was coughing I felt a wet substance on my shirt. She was coughing up blood, but usual red blood either." Yu-Gi told them.
"What do you mean? What color was it green? So you're suggesting she's a Clingon?" Tristen said with a little humor.
"Tristen you're an idiot. Don't bring 'Star Trek' into this. Of course she doesn't have green blood. She's human!!" Joey scolded while Tristen scratched the back of his head smiling and telling Joey to back off.
"Her blood was black." Yu-Gi told them in a whisper.
"Black?" They looked at him puzzled.
"Don't ask me how, but all I know is that it was black. I'm really worried about her. She's the only family that I have left. I'm grateful that her family took me in, but Ashleigh is my world and I can't lose her, not to a jerk like Sidius. I want to get her to a doctor now." Yu-Gi said then started to cry.
"Ya know what Yuge. You could never lose Ashleigh. She's a strong girl. You're very lucky to have her. Honestly I was even considering asking her out today. I've admired her because she has a strong will, soul, and heart. The fact that she's the most beautiful thing around here just makes me honored to be her friend, none the less anywhere near her." Tristen confided in him.
"Yu.... Gi.... don't go. I thought you loved me...*cough*its not my fault.... you're leaving me because of some stupid curse!?" Ashleigh cried out in horror still asleep.
She was tossing and turning so violently in her sleep that it took all three guys to hold her down. Joey took her legs, Tristen her arms, and Yu- Gi her head.
"Ashleigh wake-up! Wake-up. Stop this wake-up. Dammit." Yu-Gi told her.
The Scouts heard Ashleigh's yelling and came over to see what was wrong. When they saw that Ashleigh was shaking violently. She was shaking even more violently that the three of them couldn't hold her down. Her eyes were open and pupil less.
"Shit she's doing it again. Mercury help Joey with the legs and Jupiter take an arm. Yu-Gi you might want to learn to control her when she does this." Venus commanded everyone to do what she said.
"What's wrong with her?" Yu-Gi asked franticly.
"Every year on her birthday since her 14th birthday she has a dream that causes her body to become violent, her to cough hysterically and cough up black blood. She has a curse in her and it eats her up from the inside. I think it's was finally over because she isn't coughing up the blood. As each year goes by it becomes even worse. By the time she turns 19 a black cloud will engulf the entire inside of her body. This ring on her left hand helps control it. It will keep her alive for 2 months after today then she will totally disappear forever no sign that she was even where she stood, just vanish. Does anyone have her purse or stuff?"
"I do." Tristen pulled Ashleigh's purse out from his bag and gave it to Venus.
She rummaged through it for a moment till she came across an orange case and pulled it out. She opened it and took out a needle and bottle of medicine.
"Jupiter hold her arm tight and Mars hold her shoulder. Uranus and Neptune hold her body down. Boy am I lucky that her mom taught me to do this." Venus commanded as she prepped the medicine.
Venus gave her the shot and Ashleigh's body began to react to it immediately. Her body calmed down and she returned to sleeping peacefully. Donna put the needle and medicine back in the case then calmed down.
"It isn't over. She did cough up the blood." Yu-Gi showed her the blood on his shirt.
"Girls lets take a break, k?" Venus told them as she powered down.
Everyone powered down and sat down around Yu-Gi and Ashleigh.
"Yu-Gi I suggest that when Ashleigh wakes up that you all go home. It's not safe here for any of you." Donna advised
"The medicine causes Ashleigh to lose all memory of being a Sailor Scout. Actually she loses her memory for 2 days. She thinks that her broach is just a trinket that she likes to wear. She can't transform or anything." Amy explained.
"Not that she can now anyways since Sidius broke it into pieces. Now that her transformation broach is destroyed Sailor Moon is no more." Allison spoke up.
"So Sailor Moon is gone forever." Tea asked with sadness.
"I'm afraid so Tea." Ashleigh told her.
Everyone was surprised to hear her speak.
"Ashleigh.... do you know who Sailor Moon is really?" Donna asked.
"No I know she's gone because I saw her die."
Everyone gasped at her response. They all looked at her in shock. How could Sailor Moon die when she's sitting right here a living breathing human being?
"How did she die Ashleigh?" Ashley looked at her very seriously.
"Some guy hit her right in the chest and destroyed her broach and then as she was becoming her normal-self the guy attacked her again and her body disappeared. The strange thing is everyone was there except for Tea, Ashley, Donna, Amy, Allison, and myself. All of the scouts shared the same fate as Sailor Moon including 4 other scouts. I don't know who they were, but when she disappeared Yu-Gi was kneeling where she stood crying. Joey and Casey stood in the spot where Pluto was and Tristen did the same, but was in the spot where he stood through the whole thing. It was like ya'll knew them and loved them. " Ashleigh laid there in Yu-Gi's lap staring at the sky and talking. "But it was only a dream."
While Ashleigh was speaking Joey put his arms around Tea and held her tight. Yu-Gi stared at Ashleigh as she spoke in shock.
"Ashleigh the dreams you have always come true. It is like they are preminissions." Donna explained to her staring at the ground.
Yu-Gi threw his head up and looked at Donna.
"You mean all of this is going to happen? Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts are going to vanish off the face of the earth?!" He asked hysterically.
"I'm afraid so." Donna told him her voice shaky.
"Don't you think Ashleigh should be told who she really is even if this is temporary?! She should know the reason why you and the others weren't there when Sailor Moon was destroyed! I think that her best friend should be the one to tell her this!" Yu-Gi yelled.
"Yu-Gi calm down! She will figure...."
"I won't calm down Tristen! The woman I love is going to be destroyed right in front of me in the future and I want Ashleigh to know why we were there and everyone else wasn't."
Ashleigh sat up when Yu-Gi started yelling at Tristen and was staring at him with a scared face.
"What are you talking about? What do you mean 'who I really am'? I do want to know why only you 4 are there. I want to know why all of you were crying. I want to know why you acted that you know them." Ashleigh said before Tristen could yell back at Yu-Gi.
"Yu-Gi you're right Ashleigh should know who she really is since she only has 2 more months. She should be told the truth for once." Donna looked up and was crying very hard.
"Donna why are you crying?" Ashleigh asked as she put an arm around her.
Ashleigh looked around and saw that everyone was crying.
"Why is everyone crying?" She was puzzled.
"We are crying because we're going to lose our best friend very soon along with our lives. Ashleigh when you turned 14 you had a curse placed upon you by a man named Sidius. For the past 5 yrs this curse slowly kills you. 2 months from now you were supposed to die because of it, but it will happen a lot sooner then we expected. If you remember that you were the all time fan of Sailor V and were surprised when a talking cat named Luna approached you. She gave you a locked like the one you're supposed to be wearing and told you to yell Moon Crystal power. You did and you became Sailor Moon the champion of love and justice. Ashleigh you are Sailor Moon and I am Sailor Venus. Ashley is Sailor Jupiter, Amy, Sailor Mercury, and Allison, Sailor Mars. Tea is Sailor Pluto. The other 4 that you saw we only know 2 of them and that is Amara and Michelle here. Amara is Sailor Uranus and Michelle Sailor Neptune." Donna told her.
"I'm Sailor Moon?" She asked faintly.
"Yes. Every year on your birthday because of your curse when you fall asleep you start to have a nightmare, but before you do you have a coughing attack and you cough up black blood. Your body starts become hysteric and you start trashing violently. To keep you from doing this all year long a medicine was discovered by your mother from your former life. In this life you were Princess Serenity Princess of the Moon and daughter of Queen Selen. A medicine from the Imperium Silver Crystal has helped you for a year to keep you from becoming crazy and violent. It lasts for a year and only occurs on your birthday. After your body starts to react to the medicine you lose your memory for 2 days and don't remember anything from the past 24 hrs. The only way to get rid of the curse is to destroy Sidius. We had destroyed him once, but only his body. His spirit survived and found a body to posses." Amy added.
"Ashleigh some how Sidius knew you were Sailor Moon before even Luna did and thought that he could use this curse to control you and make you evil. Yesterday you went to go visit Adrian and while you were Sidius discovered that you had returned to Colorado and transported You, Adrian, Yu-Gi, Casey, Tea, Joey, Tristen, Amy, Donna, Allison, and I to a different dimension. There Sidius tried to destroy you with a bolt that slowly kills you, but Adrian took it for you. Before he left he told us that we would all die if we didn't bring both of you to this cemetery by dawn. While he was still around he called you Serenity and everyone was curious about that so we told them our secret, but instead of you becoming Sailor moon you went to Serenity with her memory. Soon after you did you passed out. Yu- Gi was the first one to you and he took you in his arms, it was actually really sweet and cute." Ashley explained to her.
"Yu-Gi you did that? I thank you for caring for me." Ashleigh smiled at him and he blushed.
"Sure anytime. I don't think anyone knows what happened after you passed out and they fell asleep. So i'll explain the net part." Yu-Gi said flustered.
"I do know one part you two woke me up." Joey put in his two sense.
"Anyways you told me that when you woke up that everyone was asleep and you began to think of our first meeting. After you were done you said you loved me for the first time and my Millennium Puzzle appeared." He held up the object, " The spirit that lives in this puzzle, Yami me from my former life, spoke to you. He told you of their first meeting and their deaths. He also told you of what happened to me before we meet. I woke up and I guess you can say we started going out. Soon after Sidius appeared and did the most horrible thing. He said he wanted to see you suffer with death of love ones. He actually did kill one of them, Luna. Then he made Casey, Tea, Donna, Amy, and myself disappear to the other side of town. I'm not sure what happened with you and the rest, but when we appeared where we were we started heading back to where we were separated. Along the way I spotted you talking with someone and I went to go see if it was really you. It was, but a guy tricked you, I think his name was Derek Ford, into thinking that he was me. You had revealed to him that you were Sailor Moon and told him that if he told anyone that you would come up here and rip his heart out. Then after we started walking away you stopped and started having a pity party. I got you out of it and you took Adrian and flew off with him in your Sailor uniform."
"Soon after you showed up over here and we found where Sidius wanted you and Adrian. Joey laid Adrian down and you lay opposite of him. You took his hand then you life energy began to drain and Adrian began to recover. When the process was over Yu-Gi and the others showed up, but you were only hanging on by a tread of life. You spent your last few moments of life in Yu-Gi's arms. It is a picture we will never forget. You were lying there pale and life less. Where you laid it wrote your name and your life span. Afterwards Donna, Amy, Ashley, and I began to think of our most memorable moments of you and we received the Crystal of our guardian planet. With them and the help of Neptune and Uranus we were able to bring you back. You were with out your voice for a while until Sidius attacked you. Yu-Gi tried to go get you away from him, but was knocked into Tristen and thrown to the side. He made you levitate in the air and took your broach then destroyed it." Allison held in her hands what remained of Ashleigh's locket.
"Donna saved you, but it only pissed of Sidius more and said he was going to take us to the shadow world. Yu-Gi can explain what it is since he has experienced first hand."
"Thanks Tea." He said sarcastically, "The Shadow realm is the place in ancient times where they played Duel Monsters. It causes any human today to become very weak and possibly die in it. We were trying to figure out how he planned to do this then he revealed whose body he possessing, Maxamillion Pegasus."
"Everyone attacked except for me. I couldn't attack him even if it wasn't him controlling his body. Sidius totally disappeared after that then you began your phase of the year." Tea finished for everyone.
"All of this happened in 24hrs?" Ashleigh had begun to cry about half way in to the story, well when she found out that she had died. Everyone nodded their heads. "And I thought I was just a normal teenager this whole time. This is too gloomy and sad. I mean why should I be like this on my 19th birthday? I should be having fun, not sitting in an cemetery learning about a life I never knew I had. My life is exciting isn't it? Me dieing coming back to life, and sitting in a graveyard, that is ridicules."
"She doesn't believe us does she?" Ashley leaned over to Donna and asked.
"Apparently not. We spent the last fifteen minutes explaining something to her and she doesn't even believe us. What are we going to do with her?" Donna said amusingly.
"You don't believe us do you Ashleigh?" Yu-Gi asked.
" Nope not one bit." She folded her arms across her chest..
Everyone just toppled over at her answered and sweat dropped. 'How long did that take them to make that up? This is ridicules, but my broach did get broken and my body does hurt. Does Yu-Gi really care about me? I do love him and all, but can I really date my best guy friend? I know i've only been here for a day, but I want to go home for some reason.'
"Ashleigh I know that you don't believe us and all, but we are telling the truth. We would never make up something like that." Yu-Gi looked at her like he was hurt.
"I know that all of you are telling the truth Yu-Gi, but it is hard to believe that all of this could have happened to me. I just want to be an average teenager." Ashleigh answered sadly looking at her feet fiddling with her hands.
"Ya know you never could hold still could you? Always got to be moving some part of your body. Honestly i'd hate to see you sit still for once." Yu-Gi sort of laughed changing the subject.
"Well i'm used to moving a lot, so it would be kind of hard for me to sit still. Even when i'm asleep I move around a lot huh Donna."
"You've go that right. Did you know that once Ashleigh had a sleep over and we had 5 girls sleeping on it?" Donna laughed.
"Yea I remember that Donna as in the middle and Ashleigh and I were on both sides of her. Amy and one of Ashleigh's friends Alexandria sleep at the end of the bed. Donna was the one who kept moving around a lot, she practically pushed both of us of onto cement." Ashley added.
"That's right because my basement wasn't finished and I slept downstairs. That was a great party. I miss being with you guys, but it has been good in Texas too. Can we go somewhere else to get dried off and someplace less gloomy?" Ashleigh said with a smile.
"Lets go." Donna laughed standing up and reached for Ashleigh's hand.
Ashleigh grabbed Donna's hand and she pulled her up. Everyone else got up and started walking towards the exit of the cemetery. As they did Ashleigh stepped in a really muddy place and slipped. Ashleigh waited to fall to the ground and get mud all over herself, but it never came. She felt someone holding on to her and she looked up and blushed.
"Careful." Yu-Gi smiled at her.
"Thanks." She told him as she stood up and smoothed out her skirt.
Yu-Gi began to walk by, but stopped when a hand grabbed his wrist. He turned around and saw Ashleigh had a grip on it. He looked at her puzzled. She smiled shyly and moved her hand down to his and laced her fingers with his.
"We are going out aren't we?" She asked quiet voice.
"Yea just don't tell your parents right away or else they'll put locks on the outside of my door." He joked and she giggled as he put his arm around her shoulder and they started walking.
"They would wouldn't they? Might want to put some on the inside too unless you want Serena going in your room again while you're sleeping." She added.
"She's been going in my room? When did this happen? How many times has she done this? Why didn't anyone tell me? Wait, duh I was the one who caught her. That's crazy and she's only what? 12? And i'm 19, not a good thing if you ask me. And what is he going to do when she finds out that her older sister is going out with me." Yu-Gi joked a little.
"Yea that would be a sight. 'Wrestling match Sunday at 6pm Ashleigh Berry vs. Serena Berry Prize: Yu-Gi Motto.' Think of all the money you'll make." Joey told them sarcastically as he came up in front of them.
"Yea yea Joey keep dreamin. Where are we going to get cleaned up at?" Tea asked pushing Joey forward away from Ashleigh and Yu-Gi.
"My house isn't too far from here we can go there." Ashley offered.
"Thanks Ash." Amy piped up.
"Michelle and I don't live very far from here so we'll be going there." Amara told them as her and Michelle turned to go an opposite direction.
"Wait." Ashleigh told them as she ran up. "Thank you for helping me even if I find it hard to believe that all this has happened."
"We do what we can to help people." Amara told her.
"We're glad to help. If you have anymore confrontations with Sidius give us a call. I always have my cell with me and I can page Amara." Michelle said politely as she wrote down her cell number on a piece of paper for Ashleigh.
"Thank you Michelle, Amara."
"We'd better get going." Ashley commented.
"Bye everyone!" Michelle waved them off.
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"Enjoy your 'break' scouts for you waste your time before you are going to be gone forever."