Sup' Peoples?? Summer
here..as If It would be anyone else.. Anyway.. I:34am and I am on a major
sugar high. I guess I should really cut down on the tea, but then, you
couldn't really call it tea either..It's kinda of like sugar, with tea
flavoring. Yummies!! Any way, on with the next Chapter Of Dark moon's Eclipse...*
Disclaimer: I don't
own any of the DBZ or Sailor Moon Characters, neither do I own their story
lines, but if you wish to sue me...Shadow coughed up a hairball not 3 minutes
ago..Your welcome to it. It's kind of gray and reddish..I think she was
licking my sweater... I do however own Toren, Karlie, Mom, Mika,and Kuma.
Not to mention the idea of Sailor Starlight, The Black Imperium Crystal/Balance
Crystal, and this whole plot.
Chapter Two: Visions;
Windows; and Babies Oh My!!
Mikara opened her silver eyes to darkness, not that it mattered. She could
see just fine, and the dark was her element. She was the Messiah
of Darkness, The Bringer of Destruction, and Sailor Starlight, the Senshi
of night. She sat up slowly on the soft bed she was on, and checked her
surroundings. She was in a large bedroom, with her cuts and bruises from
the being bandaged. She was suddenly aware of something in her hand, and
looked down to see the broach her mother had given her. She sighed, yes,
she had kept her promise to Toren. But the price was never truly seeing
him again, instead seeing her best friend and former twin only in dreams.
An incomprehensible sadness drifted in her silver eyes. She lived, while
he died, Why?
" WHY?" she screamed aloud, she slammed her fist into the nearby wall,
putting a hole in it, and drawing blood. Not that it mattered, all physical
wounds heal eventually. The pain of her losses would probably never die.
Two men and a woman burst open the door to Mikara's room, shattering the
darkness with the light from the hallway.
"What's wrong?" The woman cried walking over to Mikara. Mikara just stared
at her blankly. The woman looked at the girl's hand, still imbedded in
the wall. She saw the flecks of blood seeping from the hole and gasped.
"Goku, Gohan, some help please?" she called.
Mikara watched silently as the one the woman had called Gohan, gently eased
her hand from the wall. He smiled at her, and set her hand down on her
lap, sitting beside her.
"Are you all right?" he asked quietly.
Mikara smiled. He reminded her of Toren, Caring and wise, and always polite.
"You remind me of Toren." she said quietly. "He would be here right now
if I had been stronger. If I had moved he would be here right now!" She
became angry at her own words and moved to slam her fist into the wall
again, only to find Gohan grasp it tightly in the blink of an eye.
"You shouldn't do that!" he reasoned "You could hurt yourself!"
Mikara looked at him blankly and made up her mind, clearly stating what
she had thought before. "No matter" she said, carelessly waving her free
hand. "Physical pain dies eventually. It's the pain inside that never leaves."
She felt her eyes water, and turned away quickly.
The woman sighed, and made Gohan drop Mikara's fist, putting her hand on
the girl's shoulder.
"My name is Bulma." she stated "This is Goku," she pointed to the
one who had found her earlier, "and this is Gohan. Would you mind telling
us your name?"
Mikara looked at the woman Bulma with a spark in her eye, but it soon faded,
when she realized she didn't know who she was anymore. Was she Mikara Tanori,
or Kuma Aurora Cosmos? It was confusing and frustrating to not know what
to call herself. Her solution came, when she realized that the Mikara she
had once known, was dead. She was the Darkness now, and without Toren,
Mikara had no reason to exist. "My name is Kuma" she confirmed, that small
spark lighting once again. She lifted the locket back into her gaze and
sighed audibly, opening it to see the Black Imperium Crystal. She was Kuma
now, and Mikara, only existed where the sun rose, Kuma, was darkness itself.
"How old might you be Kuma?" Goku asked sitting down.
"I'm Thirteen" Kuma answered swiftly, not looking up.
"I am too" Gohan said quietly "Kuma, why were you in such bad shape? We
found you with a broken leg, and large cuts and burns on your back and
legs, but there was nothing there to harm you."
Kuma laughed, harshly, almost madly. "Yeah," she said "That's what he wants
you to think. There's no one there..so there is no danger. Wrong, so, so
wrong!" She closed her eyes in silent pain as she screamed the last word,
startling the girl with her sudden outburst.
"He's a lizard/scorpion thingy, with a strong sense of ki and a good power
level. We couldn't help the town, he got them one by one. Did you happen
to notice how empty the streets were? Toren died trying to save me! Because
I was too stupid to move. All our lives we trained and I just couldn't
move. We were supposed to be shadows together forever..."
Bulma clicked her tongue at the young girl and soothed, her, while Gohan
and Goku looked dangerously back and forth. Their thoughts were on the
androids at first, but then the mysterious time capsule, and the shell
Trunks had found. Could this be the thing they were searching for?
"Are you hungry?" Bulma asked Kuma. Kuma merely shook her head.
"No." She stated "If you don't mind, I'd like to be left alone for a while."
She looked at the worried face the trio gave her and smiled reassuringly.
"I promise not to put my hands through any more walls okay?"
The trio nodded and left the room, Goku being last.
"Goku?" Kuma called quietly. He turned and looked at the girl, worry creasing
his face. "Thank you," she said, "For helping me keep a promise." Goku
looked puzzled for a moment, but shrugged it off and left the room, quietly
closing the door.
After they had all left, Kuma got up carefully, and explored her room.
She had a bathroom, and a closet, full of nice clothes and such. Being
as she was in tattered clothing, she slipped a tight black T-shirt on,
with the word angel embroidered in silver, and some black, loose fit pants,
topping them off with a silver belt. She left her long hair down, to it's
normal point, where it reached her knees. She walked over to a window,
and careful of her leg, which still slightly stung, and climbed upon it,
listening to the rain that was slowly falling. A calendar on the wall told
her she had been unconscious for two days, and she sighed loudly. She had
thought to give Toren a decent burial, but it would be of no use at this
time. He was probably already part of the Earth he loved so much.
Suddenly a heavy feeling came to her chest, and her facial expression turned
from neutral to shocked. Something was wrong. Something was really wrong.
She reached deep inside herself and grasped at Toren's spirit, in a panic.
Toren What's Wrong?> She asked urgently.
I don't know Mikara> he answered I can't grasp what it's trying
to tell us>
Toren we gotta go, I don't know why but..> she trailed off as she jumped
through the glass of her window and into the pouring rain.
You could have opened it Mika..> Toren stated bluntly. She ignored
him, set on running, even as her leg stung and her lungs burned. She was
getting the signal clearer now.. but she still couldn't find.. Wait! She
saw it, a little boy, caught in the storm, in the middle of the road. She
saw the truck coming, and ran as fast as she could, diving in time to catch
the small boy and roll out of the way. Her leg stung from the effort, and
she gasped, as the boy cried in her arms.
She stood up shakily and rocked the baby quietly, consulting Toren as she
did so.
What just happened there?> She asked the spirit.
She could feel Toren's confusion as well, till he came up with a logical
answer. He was important to the world Mikara.> He said You are
the protector of it, are you not? It was your duty to save him, so you
were told where and when.> Kuma nodded, though some what robotically, and
looked down at the child in her arms. He was no older than three, with
platinum blonde hair and dazzling blue-green eyes. A beautiful child all
in all. He had an aura of peace around him, but a core of pure steel, innocence
and bite wrapped into one. (S.N.* Can you even begin to guess who?
Please tell me you can!!)A woman came out of nowhere suddenly, and grabbed
the young child from Kuma's arms, crying hysterically.
"Thank you Thank you! Oh my baby, Thank you!!" she hugged Kuma awkwardly
and was on her way, crying constantly.
Job well done little sis> Toren congratulated Kuma, pulling back. Kuma
only nodded in recognition and slumped to the cold, wet ground, tired and
hurt. She barely noticed when the figure with lavender hair picked her
up in his arms, and took her back to where she had been, Capsule Corp.
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P.S. :: Sorry to be confusing
u like this, but I realize now that Karlie was not included in chapter
one. I don't know if this matters but to kind of clear things up, I just
wanted to state this.