Author's Note: Holy! This got up fast! Oh well, thank you SO much to the reviewers, I've never gotten so many reviews before. And yeah…who do YOU think is going to take Usagi?!?!?!?
KATANA~ sword
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Ch. 4: "Research and the first Battle in the Future."
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The first day of school flew by in confusion, since the girls were wondering what happened to Rei when Relena walked into the classroom.
"What happened this morning?" Usagi asked.
"I had a vision. This world was taken over by the darkness, and we couldn't stop it."
"What?" Minako asked. "We can't let that happen."
"Maybe if you tell us what you saw then we could try to help." Makoto said encouragingly.
"Yeah Rei." Usagi agreed.
"Well, it was like I fell into this black hole and saw the future of this future pass by me. Images flew everywhere. It was like we failed the Sailor Moon, outers included, and she was left alone to fight the deadly silence, without Sailor Saturn revived to help. The darkness managed to take the Chalice, I don't know how, and the next and last image was the Silver crystal shattered, darkness everywhere." Rei said in a deadly whisper. "Then I came back to reality and saw your worried faces, wondering what the hell happened."
"Outers and us, failed?" Minako asked.
"Chalice, they had the Chalice?" Makoto questioned.
And Usagi finished the '20' questions. "The Crystal was shattered?"
"Yeah to all your questions. I don't know…I need the sacred fire."
"There's no scared fire here."
"Well, even though there isn't one here there should at least be a temple somewhere here." Ami said as she took out a handy map and overlooked it.
"I know, we can go ask Relena. She isn't the princess of this kingdom for nothing." Makoto suggested.
"No, we can't." Rei said quickly.
"Why can't we?" Usagi asked.
"There's something about her…something very different about her. A different side we haven't seen. I couldn't sense that side when we first met her that day when we came here."
"Do you think that she's…?" Minako asked.
"I don't know Minako, but were going to find out."
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"Did you see what happened to Rei this morning?" Duo asked his friends.
"Yeah, it happened right when Relena walked into the classroom." Quatre said with concern.
"Oh man, finally Relena's going to kill someone with just the look of her face!"
"Duo, that's not funny."
"Oh…Q-man likes Relena." Duo teased.
"That's not true Duo!" Quatre said in an angry tone.
"Well, you're denying it right now!"
"I don't like her, she's just a friend. I think I'm attracted to Am—oops, said to much." Quatre said as he looked to the floor, crimson with blush.
"You only missed a letter buddy! I wonder I wonder, who does Quatre like? Could it be…Ami?" Duo said teasingly.
Quatre still looked to the ground, but Duo knew that was expected so he stuck his head under Quatre's head. "What is that I see of you face dude, I think it's blush!"
"DUO!"
"Sorry dude…"
"Wufei." Quatre asked as he turned to him.
"What Winner?" Wufei said in an amused tone as he watched the scene displayed in front of him.
"Would you mind if I borrowed your katana?"
Wufei couldn't help but crack a smile at what Quatre just asked him. "Always with me. Never know when Maxwell will decide to die." Wufei pulled out his handy katana and gave it to Quatre. "Use it well Winner."
"Oh I will." Quatre said sarcastically.
"NO WAY! Quatre and Wu-man BOTH double-teaming on me? RUN FOR IT!!!" Duo screeched as he ran down the hall with Quatre and Wufei madly chasing after him, Wufei's katana in Quatre's hand and Wufei pointing his gun at Duo's back.
Trowa just stood there with Heero and asked him quietly. "THAT was unusual."
"You could say that again." Heero replied, then they began walking back to their dorms. Who would of thought kind, gentle Quatre would attempt to kill his friends when he barely wanted to kill an OZ soldier, an enemy. Now one of his friends?
[Yeah, yeah, OOC of Quatre totally.]
"Is it just me or are those girls hiding something?" Trowa asked the other silent one.
"Good, it isn't just me. I wasn't going to tell until I found out for sure. I'm going to look up some research on Usagi." Heero said and Trowa followed into his dorm, taking out his handy laptop and Heero did the same.
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After hours of searching, Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei came up with nothing. Heero and Trowa told the other three after they stopped their mad chase for Duo, and the other three decided to search information about these girls.
"Impossible!" Wufei shouted. "There has to at least be something on these girls, but none. Impossible!"
"There's even information on us, and we're the…we're the Gundam pilots. Yeah, Wu-man's right." Duo nodded his head as he was reading his profile, but couldn't find anything on Minako Aino.
"There's got to be a way." Trowa said quietly. "Maybe we should contact the doctors, they may know."
"Oh no…I'm not goin' back to them!" Duo said since he hated the doctors for sending him to school.
"Trowa's right, we may have to ask the doctors about this one." Quatre said.
"No!" Duo wailed, but was stopped by a gun that had its safety clicked off.
"We may call the doctors for this Duo. Agree or no?" Heero asked.
"What if I said no?"
Heero growled. "Then I will kill you." [What's that in Japanese?]
Duo instantly agreed. "Ok, I agree, I agree. I want to live till I'm at least 80!"
"Good that you agreed Duo." Heero said as he placed his gun back into its position.
"Well, that won't be possible Maxwell if you keep up your usually routines of bugging people like me.
We've got to find something on these weak onnas." Wufei said as he typed in 'Rei Hino' for the hundredth time that night. [He calls' them that…BEHIND their backs. Shame shame.]
"You guys…look." Quatre said as he pointed to his screen, and the guys gathered around him. It was an article preserved on Neo-Queen Serenity and her court, or protectors from at least a thousand years ago.
"Whoa…this Neo-Queen Serenity looks familiar… And that Venus chick does to." Duo said as he studied the other blonde haired girl named Venus..
"I don't know." Quatre said as he stared at the blue-haired sailor scout, Mercury. She looked familiar…
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"You feel that? Someone's here." Rei said as her head shot up.
"This is a job for the sailor scouts!" Ami said as she took out her transforming pen.
"Yeah. Glad I can kick some snatcher ass!" Makoto said excitedly.
"Moon Cosmic Power!"
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
There in a split second later, stood five warriors of justice in the places of Usagi, Ami, Rei, Makoto and Venus.
"C'mon, let's go!" Venus said as she prepared to jump down from the balcony, checking to see if no one was looking. "Coast is clear!" She then jumped from the balcony, the others following her.
"Maybe we can even locate the Purity Chalice!" Mercury said as she ran after the others.
"Hope so, then I can go back home." Sailor Moon shouted back. "There they are! Let's see who the ancestors are now…Kaori Night?!?!" Sailor Moon asked in shock.
"Glad you still know who I am Sailor Moon. I know you have the Purity Chalice." She said as she flew straight towards Sailor Moon, ready to attack.
"Ah, get out of the way Sailor Moon!" Jupiter yelled. "Jupiter thunder crash!" [I can't remember it that's the attack. I know, bad memory.] Instead of Jupiter's attack hitting Kaori, it went right through her. "What? How can that be?!?"
Kaori smirked. "You'll find out…I'm just a spirit, I don't get attacked, but I can attack. You can never hurt me." With that, Kaori threw a dark energy wave at Jupiter, which hit her and she fell to the ground. "Don't worry…find the Chalice."
"Jupiter!" The other scouts cried.
"Uh…you'll pay for that!" Mars shouted in anger. "Mars Celestial Fire Surround!"
"Pity…your not listening to what I say." Kaori said as she threw another energy of darkness to Mars, and she fell back down also.
"Mars!" Sailor Moon cried then gritted her teeth in anger. "She'll pay for this."
"Sailor Moon, I've found out a way that you can beat her. When she attacks, she loses the protective shield surrounding her."
"That's great Mercury."
"I'll attack, and when she attacks back, you attack her and she should be gone." Mercury said.
"What? You're just going to get hurt to!"
"I'll be careful."
"Mercury!"
"I'll attack at the same time as Mercury, then she should lose more of the protective shield for a longer time."
"Good thinking Venus. Mercury Shine Aqua…"
"Venus Love Chain…"
"Illusion/Encircle!" Mercury and Venus both attacked, and then Kaori Knight started to gather an even larger amount of dark energy.
"Now Sailor Moon!"
"Moon Spiral Heart…"
"AHH!" the last two scouts screamed in pain.
"ATTACK!" And that hit Kaori Knight, and then that was the end of her. "You shouldn't have attacked my friends Kaori Knight, cause all of their attacks were in my Spiral Heart attack. You should of known that. You let your weakness show and we've figured you all out." Then a glimmering cup floating in the air caught her attention. 'The Chalice.' Sailor Moon was the only one that saw it, since it was behind Kaori. Slowly, she walked toward it and almost had it, but then it disappeared.
Kaori was devastated. These Sailor scouts were smarted from the last time she had seen them, and then she grinned. "Even though you have hit me and even killed my beyond my spirit…you should know…your missing…two of your friends…"
"Luna and Artemis! What have you done to them?" Sailor Moon shouted.
"Nothing…we've just kidnapped them…and once we find out you're real identity…the stakes of getting your friends back will be much higher." With that said, Kaori Night vanished for good.
Sailor Moon ran to her fallen scouts, glad that they were all fine. "What did she mean?"
"She means that when they find out who we are, they'll kidnap the ones that we care about the most. We mustn't let anything slip." Mercury warned them, and then de-transformed back into Ami and the others did as well.
"We've got to be careful. Extra careful." Rei said and they all headed back to their dorms,
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"Naw…they can't possibly be them, they must of all died of old age my now." Duo said as he read the date on the article. 'June 20, 2025'.
"Yes, the braided baka is right for once." Wufei said.
"I know it would make sense for them to be dead, but…but…it looks like I've seen them before." Quatre said as he studied them all one by one.
"Yes, Quatre's right, they do look familiar." Trowa said.
"Hn. When Usagi comes back, you all stay silent. I will ask her if she has heard of, known, or seen this Neo-Queen Serenity." Heero said, and everyone agreed.
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"I'm tired. Not fighting for at least a couple of days makes you weak." Usagi said as she yawned for the tenth time.
"I know…I'm heading right to the bed. Night gals!" Minako said as she and Makoto went inside their dorm.
"Night Usa…don't worry, Luna and Artemis will be fine. They've survived this long with us, they will be fine." Rei said as she attempted to cheer Usagi up.
"I hope so, Rei. Night. See you tomorrow." Usagi said as she opened the door to her dorm. "Hey you guys…mind telling me what time it is?"
"8:30." Trowa said as he glanced at the clock.
"Ok, thanks. *Yawn* I'm going to sleep. Homework makes me sleepy." Usagi said as she slowly walked back to her room, but felt as if five pairs of eyes were following her. "What?"
"Do you know anything about Neo-Queen Serenity?" Heero asked bluntly.
Usagi stopped right in her tracks and was wide-awake now. "Wha--? Who?"
"Neo-Queen Serenity."
"I…um…" 'How do they know? Shoot, I blew my cover.' "Why do you ask?"
"Because while surfing the net, we found an article on Neo-Queen Serenity and her court from over a thousand years ago." Duo said as he pointed to Quatre's laptop.
"Let me see." She said as she went to Quatre and read the article. It even had a picture of the Queen and her court.
"Nope, nothing. I know nothing. Who is she anyway?" Usagi asked innocently, and it worked.
"We don't know, but we think she looks sort of like you Usagi." Quatre said.
"Maybe she's one of your ancestors." Duo said.
'I wish. That's me right there on the screen! I look good when I'm the Queen…where's my king?' "No, I'm not a princess. Maybe it's Relena, not me. I don't fit the part of a princess. Now I'm really tired, so can you guys just quiet down a little? Thanks. Night!" She said and walked back to her room.
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Author's Note: I have a headache now, and it's killing my brain. I've worked WAY to hard…doing nothing!
Honestly, do you think that this was a good chapter? I don't really like this, every time I write about the sailor scouts and when they're fighting, it sounds so cheesy! Well, maybe not in this chapter, the next of the next of the next…where am I going here? Can you guys review and tell me about this chapter? I want to try and break 45 for this…I doubt it, but yeah! Feedback is always good! Don't be scared to criticize me, I won't bite! LMAO.
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