AN: This originally started as an entry in a fanfiction contest online at "Katagillian's Scattered Thoughts" where random pictures are given and you have to make a fanfic using those pictures in the story. Mine won Second Place and I was inspired by the potential of my entry to expand on it. I did. In fact, in February I wrote a lot - but lost it. Now, it's been dug out of my "pile o' unfinished fics" and with my excellent memory, is currently being worked on from the ground up. Please enjoy and remember this:
I don't own Sailor Moon. Don't sue, I'm broke. ^_^
And here's Kata's site address:
http://www.katakirei.com/st/main.html
Duchess ^_~
The Creating of Crystal Tokyo/ Rebirth
We didn't mean for any this to happen. It was a normal scouting expedition like we always used to have. Luna had found an entry to the Negaverse, and we were checking it out.We all knew in the back of our minds there was a chance something would go wrong but we're superhumans and we got careless. We were lead deep into trouble.
Zoicite and Malachite and their goons surrounded us. For months they'd been studying our attacks and were able to fight back with more power and consistency. We began to grow tired - Sailor Moon more than any of us since it seemed her attacks required more energy. But fate came into play and Jupiter got a lucky shot at Zoicite, mortally wounding her. For some reason, none of us could take our eyes off her. We were paralyzed. We watched in slow motion as Zoicite hurled dark power at Jupiter and struck her before she fell. Silence filled the empty caverns and they collapsed. Malachite ran to Zoicite and we ran to Jupiter, the bloody battle paused as we tended to the ones we loved. We fled the scene - something we'd never done - and tried to save Jupiter. Lita died minutes after leaving the caverns. We did not wait to see if Zoicite lived.
We were all so shocked - except Serena. She was the only one of us who openly cried. For some reason, I suppose, we'd all known that there'd be a day something like this would happen, one of us would be lost, and it had to be accepted.
I went back home to the temple, after having spent hours consoling Serena. Unable to sleep that night, I felt dirty - physically and spiritually - and gave myself a spiritual cleansing. I was in deep meditation for hours. I don't remember much about it, but Grandpa told me Chad became worried when he realized I'd been there for hours. He checked up on me often, never coming into the fire room but only pausing at the door as he went about his chores.
The next meeting with Malachite we had was surreal. He need not say a thing, his appearance alone told us everything. Zoicite was dead, probably having died in the caverns where we last saw her. We didn't fight, didn't have the energy to as we all openly mourned our losses, and instead just stood on the docks, the cold wind blowing around us, and watched.
Out of nowhere he screamed a heartwrenching scream that echoed throughout Tokyo and in our hearts. "You have taken everything that ever meant anything to me! Beryl has banished me from her court for Zoicite's death! You have destroyed my life! And now, on this night, I swear to you that just as my life has been destroyed, so shall yours. You will become outlaws of society, hunted by those you once considered friends!"
He left that night and his promise came true. Somehow he managed to turn the people of Tokyo against us. Soon the whole world joined in. People turned first against the Sailor Senshi and then, once our identities were revealed, against us ourselves. There was no safe place around. In the end we fled Toyko to a nearby city and rented a three bedroom apartment. We disguised ourselves but everyday it was becoming more and more difficult. At every hour people called us and it got to the point where we got rid of the phone. We had a break in, the one time we all left and Mina was alone. It shook Mina up pretty badly so we started keeping watch.
We tried getting in touch with our families but it was a futile attempt of keeping some normalcy in our lives. Serena's family disappeared, though they told her that whatever she had done they had forgiven her and kept in touch with her, Ami's mother quit her job and became a hermit in her own home and sent her letters back unopened, and my father, well, my father publicly denounced me, telling the world that as a child I had been a freak and unmanagable, had caused my mother's death, and that he left me at my grandfather's temple as a last resort. After all that Mina, well, Mina just didn't try. Malachite's promise, the promise that we lightly took as meerely a threat, was coming true.
As for Beryl, we didn't hear anything from her once Zoicite died. We speculated that in Zoicite's death she saw her eminent failure. But deep down we knew that she was meerly biding her time.
One night, Serena called us together. Outside on the balcony, she stood with her back to us and her head down.
"You're going to turn ourselves in. You can't keep running, there's no where in the world you won't get recognized. You have to face the truth, all of it. We have to face the fact that Lita's gone. Without one the rest falls apart. Well, I won't let that happen, not this time. Mina, Sailor Venus is dead." Mina's eyes grew big and she began to speak when Serena continued. " From now on, you will be Sailor Moon. "
I questioned that action. "Serena, if we're going to turn ourselves in what good will that do?"
"A lot of good. I'm going to disappear for a while to make sure it all falls into place. After you turn yourselves in and they release you, you are going to split up. New lives, new looks, new people. When the rest of the world has forgotten that the Sailor Senshi ever exsisted, we will unite once more and Crystal Tokyo will be born."
I don't own Sailor Moon. Don't sue, I'm broke. ^_^
And here's Kata's site address:
http://www.katakirei.com/st/main.html
Duchess ^_~
The Creating of Crystal Tokyo/ Rebirth
We didn't mean for any this to happen. It was a normal scouting expedition like we always used to have. Luna had found an entry to the Negaverse, and we were checking it out.We all knew in the back of our minds there was a chance something would go wrong but we're superhumans and we got careless. We were lead deep into trouble.
Zoicite and Malachite and their goons surrounded us. For months they'd been studying our attacks and were able to fight back with more power and consistency. We began to grow tired - Sailor Moon more than any of us since it seemed her attacks required more energy. But fate came into play and Jupiter got a lucky shot at Zoicite, mortally wounding her. For some reason, none of us could take our eyes off her. We were paralyzed. We watched in slow motion as Zoicite hurled dark power at Jupiter and struck her before she fell. Silence filled the empty caverns and they collapsed. Malachite ran to Zoicite and we ran to Jupiter, the bloody battle paused as we tended to the ones we loved. We fled the scene - something we'd never done - and tried to save Jupiter. Lita died minutes after leaving the caverns. We did not wait to see if Zoicite lived.
We were all so shocked - except Serena. She was the only one of us who openly cried. For some reason, I suppose, we'd all known that there'd be a day something like this would happen, one of us would be lost, and it had to be accepted.
I went back home to the temple, after having spent hours consoling Serena. Unable to sleep that night, I felt dirty - physically and spiritually - and gave myself a spiritual cleansing. I was in deep meditation for hours. I don't remember much about it, but Grandpa told me Chad became worried when he realized I'd been there for hours. He checked up on me often, never coming into the fire room but only pausing at the door as he went about his chores.
The next meeting with Malachite we had was surreal. He need not say a thing, his appearance alone told us everything. Zoicite was dead, probably having died in the caverns where we last saw her. We didn't fight, didn't have the energy to as we all openly mourned our losses, and instead just stood on the docks, the cold wind blowing around us, and watched.
Out of nowhere he screamed a heartwrenching scream that echoed throughout Tokyo and in our hearts. "You have taken everything that ever meant anything to me! Beryl has banished me from her court for Zoicite's death! You have destroyed my life! And now, on this night, I swear to you that just as my life has been destroyed, so shall yours. You will become outlaws of society, hunted by those you once considered friends!"
He left that night and his promise came true. Somehow he managed to turn the people of Tokyo against us. Soon the whole world joined in. People turned first against the Sailor Senshi and then, once our identities were revealed, against us ourselves. There was no safe place around. In the end we fled Toyko to a nearby city and rented a three bedroom apartment. We disguised ourselves but everyday it was becoming more and more difficult. At every hour people called us and it got to the point where we got rid of the phone. We had a break in, the one time we all left and Mina was alone. It shook Mina up pretty badly so we started keeping watch.
We tried getting in touch with our families but it was a futile attempt of keeping some normalcy in our lives. Serena's family disappeared, though they told her that whatever she had done they had forgiven her and kept in touch with her, Ami's mother quit her job and became a hermit in her own home and sent her letters back unopened, and my father, well, my father publicly denounced me, telling the world that as a child I had been a freak and unmanagable, had caused my mother's death, and that he left me at my grandfather's temple as a last resort. After all that Mina, well, Mina just didn't try. Malachite's promise, the promise that we lightly took as meerely a threat, was coming true.
As for Beryl, we didn't hear anything from her once Zoicite died. We speculated that in Zoicite's death she saw her eminent failure. But deep down we knew that she was meerly biding her time.
One night, Serena called us together. Outside on the balcony, she stood with her back to us and her head down.
"You're going to turn ourselves in. You can't keep running, there's no where in the world you won't get recognized. You have to face the truth, all of it. We have to face the fact that Lita's gone. Without one the rest falls apart. Well, I won't let that happen, not this time. Mina, Sailor Venus is dead." Mina's eyes grew big and she began to speak when Serena continued. " From now on, you will be Sailor Moon. "
I questioned that action. "Serena, if we're going to turn ourselves in what good will that do?"
"A lot of good. I'm going to disappear for a while to make sure it all falls into place. After you turn yourselves in and they release you, you are going to split up. New lives, new looks, new people. When the rest of the world has forgotten that the Sailor Senshi ever exsisted, we will unite once more and Crystal Tokyo will be born."