The Promise of the Sun
by Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2002/2004

Copyrights: Sailor Moon™ and all original characters are copyright © 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation, English Language Adaptation © 1995 DiC Entertainment.

Author's note: Since English isn't my native language; please don't flame me for grammar errors. Spelling errors… guess I'll just have to kill off my computer ^_^;;

Thanks for all the lovely reviews you guys. I have just discovered something really weird. I have forgotten the CATS!!! UACK!!!

Chapter 10

Sammy looked at the 3 girls in front of him. Ami, Mina and Michiru looked liked they had won in a free make-up contest, not that they didn't look good like that. But I was a tad too much, in his taste at least.

"What are you three dressed like that for? A make-up contest?" Samme asked.

"Grrrr." Venus said. "We are the three most beautiful ladies on the Dark Moon and we will not accept that you are making fun of us!"

"Huh?" Sammy asked. "What are you talking about? You are Serena's guardians."

"Yes, we are." Lady Neptune said.

"Not looking like sluts you're not." Sammy said dryly.

"HOW DARE YOU!!!" They yelled in unison.

"Neptune Dark Waters!" Lady Neptune yelled, attacking Sammy. But as she did so a brief image went over her mind. She looked confused at Sammy who was lying on the ground in front of her. She wanted to go and see if he was ok, but not when she was with Mina and Ami. But much to their surprise, Sammy slowly got up and looked at them.

"Thanks for the shower." He said.

"We are here to take you with us back to the Dark Moon." Lady Venus said.

"Well I am not going on a field trip. Not with you guys at least." Sammy retorted.

"Oh, yes you are. And there is nothing you can do to stop us." Lady Mercury said.

"Please Sammy. Come with us." Lady Neptune said. Taking the other girls greatly by surprised of her kindness towards him.

"I am sorry, but I am not going. And you can try to convince me the hard way Lady Mercury, but it won't help. Starlight knight power!" Sammy was instantly covered in a blue and silver light. When the light faded a knight stood in front of them, holding a huge sword. The three girls gasped.

"YOUR ARE A KNIGHT!!" They exclaimed in shock.

"Yes, I am the Knight of Neptune, Princess Neptune's Guardian." Sammy said, giving a small courtesy.

"Princess Neptune?" Lady Neptune asked, feeling a little hurt bye his words. "Who IS she, your lover?"

"And what if she is?" the knight replied, questioningly.

"We will use her to make you join us." Lady Mercury said evilly.

"My princess doesn't know that she is the princess. So she is safe from your kind. So no, I will not join you. I would rather die then betray my King and Queen of Crystal Tokyo."

"That can easily be arranged." Lady Venus said, smirking.

"I am waiting, pretty lady." Sammy said. But something made Venus stop. That did not go for Mercury, though.

"Dark Ice Attack!" She yelled, but Sammy's sword just absorbed the attack.

"Venus Dark and Evil chain!" Lady Venus yelled.

"Uranus Sword attack!" Uranus knight yelled as he and the other knights arrived.

"Neptune Tidal Wave!" Sammy yelled. The two attacks hit Mercury and Venus hard, causing them to fly backwards. "Whose next?" Neptune Knight asked.

"I never thought that you scouts could fall any lower then you had done." Saturn knight said. "Guess I was wrong."

Neptune looked at Neptune, as she and the other two ladies disappeared. Sammy let out a sigh. Things weren't going according to his plan and now he was facing an evil form of the girl he was to protect.

~

It was evening and Trista was making dinner, when Amara popped her head in the kitchen.

"Trista, have you seen Michelle?"

"No, I haven't seen her since lunch. Why?"

"I can't find her any were and she isn't answering her communicator either." Amara said worriedly.

"Oh, have you checked your room to see if she left it there?"

"No... I haven't." Amara replied. "You are not hiding something are you, Setsuna?"

Trista turned to look at Amara. "No Haruka, I am not hiding anything at all."

"OK." Amara replied. She left the kitchen and walked up the stairs to her and Michelle's room. She found the window standing open and the light off. She switched the light on and went to close the window. A few leafs had manages to find their way into the room. She opened the draw in Michelle's night table to look for the communicator. She came up empty handed, and now began to wonder even more about why Michelle didn't answer it. She let out a sigh, and left the bedroom.

~

When the 3 ladies returned to the Dark Moon castle, none of them were happy and they were arguing with each other, blaming each other for the mission failure. Mercury and Venus was the once arguing the most. But Neptune didn't want to listen to their bickering so she left, returning to her quarters. She plopped down on the bed and closed her eyes, thinking about the Neptune Knight and why he looked so familiar to her. She pulled the bed comforter over her and soon fell asleep, dreaming forbidden dreams about the past.

Venus and Mercury was still arguing about whose fault is was that they had lost. None of them had noticed that Neptune had left them standing there all by themselves.

"This is your fault, Venus." Mercury spat.

"Look whose talking, miss ice Queen." Venus yelled back

"Why you little..." Mercury sneered.

"Little what? I don't know who you think you are but I will not work with you that's for sure."

"Are you two finished yelled now?" came a deep voice.

"Sapphire!" both girls squealed. Sapphire raised and eyebrow suspiciously. Venus walked close up to him and a leg in between him. Mercury glared hatefully and jealously at Venus, who was now kissing Sapphire.

"Bi*ch!!" Mercury coursed under her breath and stomped off. Venus smiled widely in satisfaction.

~

Serena, Chris, Rini and the rest of the Tsukino family was enjoying their dinner, while talking about the topic of the day. Serena and Sammy's past life. Mr and Misses Tsukino were still having a hard time imagine that there had ever existed life back in the Moon and the other planets for that matter.

"So how does Rini fit into all this?" Ikuko, Miss Tsukino, asked.

Rini started to giggle and Serena blushed furiously. "I guess that leaves me to answer the question." Chris said. "Rini is the daughter of Serena and me." Chris said.

Kenji almost chocked on a potato, "She's what!?!" He asked. Shock and confusion was evident on his face.

"When did that happen?" Ikuko asked, equally shocked. Sammy just broke in laughter.

Luna and Artemis, who had been eating under the table, also came out and looked shocked as well.

"I am from the future Crystal Tokyo, Grandma." Rini said. Kenji and Ikuko blinked a few times.

"What's Crystal Tokyo?" Kenji asked.

"Most likely the re-created Moon Kingdom, if I know Serena right." Artemis said.

"Talking cats as well? I need a long vacation." Kenji said.

"Rini, if you are from the future then how old are you?" Ikuko asked.

"In Moon or Earth years?"

"Emmm... what do you mean moon years?" Kenji asked.

"Well, In Earth years I am 6 years old. But in Moon years I am 900 years old. Here mommy is 1400 years old in moon years, but in the future she is more then 4000 years old." Rini explained.

Serena smiled at her daughter. Everything had just changed so much over the last 7 months. When they had finished dinner, Serena and her mom went to take care of the kitchen while the others went to the living room to talk some more about the past, when someone rang the door bell. Serena went to see who it was.

"You!?!" She exclaimed.

~

Minutes earlier, in the outer scouts house...
It had been three hours since Amara, Trista and Hotaru had eat dinner and Michelle still hadn't come home, so they had decided to call the other scouts. The only once who had been answering their communicators had bee Raye and Lita. They had also been looking for Ami and Mina most of the evening and were starting to get really worried since they hadn't been able to find them.

"This is really weird." Lita said.

"I agree. This is not like Shelly-mamma at all." Hotaru said.

"You don't suppose that they could have been attacked by the enemy, do you?" Raye asked none in particular, just letting the question hover in the air.

"God, I hope not." Amara said. "If that Dark Moon did anything to harm her, I'll..." she trilled of as Trista put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I got it! Hotaru exclaimed. "They are at Serena's because she has forgiven them."

The other looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Wishful thinking, Firefly." Amara said.

"A noble wish, none the less." Rayw said sadly. "I hate what is happening right now. It seems that everything we are fighting for is falling apart. Why didn't we just listen to Serena!!" She cried out.

"I have been asking myself the question a dozen times." Trista asked. "To tell you the truth, I couldn't even see this happening at the Time Gates, as if some one was blocking me from seeing the future."

"Huh?" Raye asked. "You mean like a being manipulated?"

"Yes, that is exactly what I mean, Raye." There was a moment of silence, until Trista finally said. "I think we should go talking to Serena. She might have seen them."

"Yeah, hopefully." Amara said. The other nodded in agreement.

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