All right, here's episode 16! I used my imagination quite a lot in this episode, and
I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. Enjoy!
And I do believe that reviews help make chapters come out faster. ^^
Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 2, Beyond the Horizon of Time
Episode 16 'Everything Starts Somewhere'
The day was at its peak when Luna made it back to the Moon Palace. The sun
was directly over the palace. Luna had changed into her human form so not to
attract attention. She collapsed at the gates. "I must . . see the queen,"
she managed before she fell unconscious from loss of blood. You see, when
she transformed into a human her wounds increased in size. The guard was
about to just call on a healer when Luna rolled over, and he saw the
crescent moon on her forehead because her tiara had fallen off. He told a
younger soldier to watch the gates while he picked her up and carried her
into the palace. He took her to the sick area and let the healers take care
of her. He then went off to find the queen.
Queen Serenity was in a council with the princess senshi when the guard came
running into the room. He bowed, stopping to catch his breath and everyone
looked at him. "Sorry to interrupt your majesty, but a young woman collapsed
in front of the gates who said she had to see you. Right now she's with the
healers."
"And if every woman who wanted to see me, did so, what to you think would
happen?" She replied as the guard got closer.
"But she's different," he said as he leaned into whisper. "She has the
sign," he said for her ears only and touched his forehead. "She's hurt
pretty bad."
Queen Serenity looked across the table at the princesses. "Very well, we
will all come." They got up from the table and followed the guard to the
sick bay. When they entered Queen Serenity walked up to Luna and
recognized her instantly. "How is she?"
One of the healers came up and changed some bandages. "She's lucky that she
got here when she did because we were just able to fix the immediate damage
before it got too serious. She lost quite a lot of blood. Her dress was
soaked in it. She's coming to but will need quite a few day's rest.
Luna slowly came aware of her surroundings. She was in a bed, and there was
cloth wrapped around various parts of her body. Everything was blurry and
she was scared, but as her vision returned she found herself looking into
the eyes of Queen Serenity. She was completely naked except for a blanket
over her and she hurt all over. "Nice to see you're alright. What happened?"
"They took her," Luna said as tears came into her eyes because of the way
they had treated her.
"Who? Who did who take?"
"The youma, they ambushed and took Sailor Earth. Tuxedo Kamen went after her
but he won't be able to save her by himself." The princesses, who were
gathered around the bed gasped as they found that the one who always came to
their aid so that they could defeat the youma had been captured.
"Where, where did they take her?"
"To the east of somewhere in the forest."
"It's likely that their base is on the edge of the Moon Kingdom because all
that is to the east is forest and then a mountain ridge at the end. That's
where they will have taken her."
Suddenly the young soldier who had been assigned to watch the gate came
running into the room. He knelt down. "Your majesty, there is a group of
twenty or so youma flying towards the palace. They will be here in a matter
of minutes."
"Oh no, what are we going to do?" cried one of the princesses. "Without the
help of Sailor Earth or that mysterious man, how will we win?"
Luna looked at her and the Queen Serenity. "Give them the star power."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Use the ginzuishou to increase their power. Don't worry, it will work. Even
if it is a little too much power, it will annihilate the youma. They think
they have the upper hand. If you defeat them now, they will stop attacking
for the time being."
Queen Serenity nodded. "It is the only way. The four of you, please hold out
your transformation wands." They did so. Queen Serenity held out her hand,
palm up and the ginzuishou appeared in it. Four beams of white light
traveled from the crystal to the wands. The ends of the wands glowed and
stars formed around the symbols of their planets. The princesses stared at
their new wands. "Now go, you don't have much time."
"Mercury Star Power, make up!"
"Mars Star Power, make up!"
"Jupiter Star Power, make up!"
"Venus Star Power, make up!"
In a flash of light and colours the sailor senshi now stood there. They ran
through the halls of the palace and people moved out of the way for them.
They ran out of the front of the palace and Sailor Mars stopped. Sailor
Venus kept on going. "Come on. We have to get away from the palace. Mercury,
where are the youma?"
As the senshi ran down the middle of the main street Sailor Mercury touched
her earring and her visor appeared across the eyes. "They're just
approaching the edge of the forest. We have to get out of the city before
they get here." All of the senshi started to run at inhuman speeds through
the city.
**********
"I just wish the young senshi had someone to guide them. Elder Mars has
caught a pretty severe illness and has been bedridden for the time being.
And the other Elder senshi are still a day away at the least." Luna just
listened to Queen Serenity worry like a mother about her children. Well,
they kind of were her children. Queen Serenity held the ginzuishou up in
front of her in two hands and closed her eyes. "Please let the senshi not
come to misfortune with their new powers and be able to right the wrongs
that have been done."
The ginzuishou rose from Queen Serenity's hand and moved so that it was
above Luna. It flashed. A locket appeared on Luna's chest. She was wearing a
sailor fuku. The skirt was so dark that it looked like black when it was
actually a dark shade of blue. Her bow was the same, and her collar. She
stepped out of the bed and on to the floor. She still had bare feet. She
turned, then looked back across the bed at the window. She screamed, and
fell on to the bed in pain. She was screaming very loudly. One of the
healers moved to help her but stopped. The back of her fuku was rising. Two
wings broke out of the back of it and grew to an enormous size. All was
silent. Luna stood back up and nearly tipped over from the extra weight.
Queen Serenity and Luna's eyes met. Not a word was spoken. Luna ran across
the room and jumped out the window. She fell a little bit and then figured
out how to use her wings. She swiftly flew across the city.
"Fire Soul!" Sailor Mars shot a stream of fire up at the flying youma. They
were almost out of the borders of the city. It got the youmas' attention and
all of them flew down after the senshi.
"Supreme Thunder!" The youma were briefly stunned. They had not expected the
senshi to even try to fight because of their lost comrade. The group reached
the clearing in between the city and the forest. Sailor Mercury turned
around to face the approaching youma. The youma stopped a short way away
from them. What could the senshi, and the weakest one of all possibly do?"
Sailor Mercury held her arms in front of her against her body. She closed
her eyes and recalled, the knowledge she had already gained from when she
transformed. The air seemed to grow colder. "Shining Aqua Illusion!" The
youma who had landed experienced a feeling of the ultimate freezing
sensation, and then nothing. They were frozen. Their frozen bodies
shattered. The other half of the youma landed to take their place. They were
puzzled. They had been told that they would have no trouble.
Sailor Mercury's hands were completely frozen. She had not had complete
control over the storm of ice. She was flooded with dizziness and fell back
into Sailor Venus' arms. Sailor Jupiter took her place. The air around her
buzzed with electricity. "Sparkling Wide," she could feel herself loosing
control of the power, "Pressure!" She was struck by lightning, gathered it,
and flung it at the youma. It fried which ever of them it even tapped, which
was all of them. It also gave Sailor Jupiter some serious electrical burns
on her arms. She lost all feeling in her arms. She started to go into shock.
She was laid down on the ground. Sailor Mercury tried to give instructions
on first aid but her mind was on spin dry. Sailor Mars called out for help
towards the city. From the other direction Luna dropped out of the sky.
"It's you!" Sailor Venus said. But you were,-who are you?"
"A friend," Luna replied as she stood next to Sailor Jupiter. Her hands
glowed and glittering dust fell from her fingers. A wave of white light and
light tints of colours fell down from her hands and the burn marks on
Jupiter's arms healed up. She did the same to Sailor Mercury and the ice on
her arms melted away. "Come on," she said as she helped Mercury up. "Sailor
Earth needs our help."
********
Sailor Earth was in a net that was flying just above the trees. Tuxedo Kamen
wasn't too far behind but he was becoming fatigued. They were all
approaching a cliff. When they got close to it a whole bunch of other flying
youma flew down from a fortress embedded in the cliff. Tuxedo Kamen had to
stop and fight while Sailor Earth was carried through the front door of the
fortress. They went through a maze of hallways. Sailor Earth was only
partially conscious to her surroundings. When eventually they came to a stop
she was just dropped onto the floor. A woman stepped out of the dark. She
lifted her hand and Sailor Earth floated up into the air, out of the net.
Then she pointed to a board in the middle of the room and Sailor Earth went
flying against it. Steel clamps closed themselves all around her body. "It's
so nice to see you could make it."
Sailor Earth looked meekly up at the woman. Her vision blurred in and out.
There was blood dripping down her back. "The sailor senshi will come for
me."
"I very much doubt that. Because in the very near future I'll be releasing
my Titan on the Moon Palace and with you here the senshi won't stand a
chance Sailor Earth. I never knew there was a senshi of the Earth but there
won't be one much longer."
"No! I won't... I won't let you hurt the senshi..." she tried to break from
her bonds but was unsuccessful.
"Ha ha ha. I will do whatever I wish Sailor Earth."
"Since you're going to kill me anyway stop calling be Sailor Earth. I'm not
Sailor Earth!"
The woman sneered. "Sure you aren't; you're not going to be getting away
from here anyway. I'm not scared of you Sailor Earth."
Usagi looked up at the woman and smiled. Maybe she wasn't as powerful as she
thought she was. After all, she had to put Sailor Earth in chains. Time to
find out. "Sailor Earth isn't the one you should be afraid of. It's me."
Usagi changed back from Sailor Earth into Sailor Moon. She closed her eyes.
"Moon Eternal, make up!"
The bonds holding her shattered as Sailor Moon went into her eternal
transformation. "I'm not going to let you hurt anyone! I'm pretty soldier
Sailor Moon and in the name of the moon, I'm going to punish you!"
The women was taken back. "What! Where's Sailor Earth? Who are you?"
"There never was any Sailor Earth. Just me. I'm the one who you followed
through the portal. And because of harming this peaceful world, I will
banish you."
The woman had a scared look on her face. Then she smiled, and looked
incredibly evil. She held her arms out at Sailor Moon and launched a flood
of dark energy at her.
**********
Tuxedo Kamen saw a whole army of youma coming towards him from the fortress
Sailor Earth was taken to so he dived down into the forest. Well, actually
it wasn't an army, only about three. He jumped into the branches of a tree
and watched as they landed onto the ground and split off to look for him in
three different directions. He picked a direction they didn't take and made
his way towards the cliff from a different angle. The cliff went straight up
so Tuxedo Kamen had to climb up the side of it slowly and carefully. He
jumped the last few feet up to the door which led into the interior of the
cliff.. He ran through and found himself with multiple choices of which way
to go. He heard Usagi scream and just picked one direction. He ran back and
forth through the maze of passages but he just came to a dead end. He smiled
and threw blue roses against the walls around him. The walls crumbled. He
just pointed himself in the direction that the screams were coming from and
went as fast as he could.
*********
Sailor Moon was shocked over and over again by the woman's dark energy. She
wasn't letting up. Suddenly, she stopped. "My dark Titan arises! Ha ha ha!"
**********
"Come on," Sailor Mars called, "We're almost there." We could see the cliff
clearly now. Suddenly the ground started to shake. Sailor Venus and I jumped
up into trees to get a better look around.
"W-what's happening?"
Luna spun around, looking for the source. She flew high up into the air but
couldn't see anything happening at the cliff. She called down to say so.
Then she looked over in the direction we had come and her mouth dropped
open. "Oh my, LOOK!"
I could just see something rising from the ground to way above the trees.
Just in front of the city a giant had arisen from the ground. Now that it
was reaching its full height even the other senshi on the ground caught
glimpses of it. "Oh no! It's going to attack the city. We're never going to
get back in time," I cried.
Luna floated down from her position in the sky. "You must use the sailor
teleport."
"The sailor whos-it whats-it?" Sailor Venus said. I gave her a dirty look
and the two of us jumped down from the trees.
Luna took our hands -she was now on the ground- and I took Mars' and Venus
to Jupiter's. "Now concentrate on what the front of the city looks like.
Focus yourself on that place. Image yourself there. Then let yourself go."
It sounded pretty silly when she said it, but it worked almost like she
described it. The wind around us began to pick up. Since we all had our eyes
closed, we couldn't see the wild energy bouncing back and forth between us
but we could feel it, and sense it. Then I felt nothing. A wave of nausea
washed over me but I didn't waver. I opened my eyes to find myself staring
at the giant's feet. We had appeared right in between it and the city.
*******
The woman turned away from Sailor Moon to look at a viewscreen that was
pointed in the direction of the Moon Palace from the cliff. The giant was
towering over everything. Sailor Moon got to her feet, despite how weak she
was and pointed her sceptre at the woman. But the woman spun around in a
flash and held her hand up. Sailor Moon began to choke. She put her hands up
around her neck and fell to her knees. "I . . can't, . breathe . . ." Time
seemed to slow down.
A rose.
A rose was flying through the air.
The woman brought her hand back and cried out in pain.
Sailor Moon was released.
There was a rose going completely through the woman's hand.
But there were also two more in her back.
Tuxedo Kamen landed between Sailor Moon and his opponent. He helped Sailor
Moon to her feet. The woman reached back and wrenched one of the roses out
of her back.
Tuxedo Kamen held his cape up in front of Sailor Moon and himself. The woman
pulled the other rose out of her back. She turned on Tuxedo Kamen. She held
her hands up in the air.
Tuxedo Kamen brought his cape down and ten bright red roses flew from him.
They embedded themselves in the woman's chest and abdomen. She yelled out
from the stinging pain but stayed standing up. She would not show weakness.
Maybe she should have.
Tuxedo Kamen held a crystal rose up to Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon took it in her wobbly hands and brought it up to her lips. She
handed it back to Tuxedo Kamen. The two of them turned around and started to
walk towards the way Tuxedo Kamen had come. The hole in the wall.
"Stop!" the woman screamed at them. "You can't escape."
Tuxedo Kamen spun around and backhanded the crystal rose. It landed right in
the middle of the woman's chest. Beginning from the rose her flesh began to
turn into stone. A couple of blue roses thrown and the screen she had been
looking at was disabled. Tuxedo Kamen helped Sailor Moon limp out of the
fortress.
When they got outside the youma below that were looking for Tuxedo Kamen saw
him and flew up to engage in battle. Suddenly they fell back. Back to the
ground. Their energy was gone. Their creator had died. The wind blew them
away, -as dust. "We have to go help the senshi," Sailor Moon said faintly.
Tuxedo Kamen looked out across the many miles to where the titan stood. After
all, all journeys begin with a single step. Tuxedo Kamen jumped down to the
ground and began to run as Eternal Sailor Moon took to the skies.
********
This was the last line of defense. If it got any farther, the Moon Kingdom
would be finished. After all, I had the ginzuishou with me so the queen
wouldn't be able to use it if needed. I just hoped that the senshi would be
able to control their powers this time. Maybe if I helped this time. Sailor
Mars and Jupiter stepped forward in determination. They had all recovered
from the sailor teleport-or at least I hoped that they had.
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
"Burning Malanda!"
I held my hands up and cast magical energy on the two attacking senshi. They
were able to continue their attack. It looked like they had control. After
Sailor Jupiter threw her ball of lightning her tiara became a constant
conduct antenna and she just continued to flow electricity into the enemy.
Sailor Mars released a tube of continuous fire. There was no way the senshi
would be able to do this alone. The attacks didn't really do a whole lot of
good. They had stopped its forward motion but they weren't doing any damage.
The senshi started to strain from using the vast amounts of energy necessary
to continue this assault. The titan got tired of it too. It brought its fist
down right in front of all of us and we all fell. It stepped over us in one
swift motion and entered the boundaries of the city. "Nooooooo," Sailor Mars
cried and climbed back to her feet. The other senshi were quick to follow.
"Venus Love-me chain!" The chain of hearts wrapped itself around the titan,
delaying its forward motion.
"Burning Malanda!"
"Shining Aqua Illusion!"
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
All of the senshi attacked at once. For us, it was as if time had lost its
meaning. We had no recollection of how long that attack was made. The next
clear memory I had is when the titan decided to fight back. We had done
quite a bit of damage. It was starting to come apart in various places. It
broke Venus' chain and turned around. Now, being activated for so long, it
had gained conscious thought. It brought its hands up and then down to its
waist. When it stopped we all experienced extreme pain. The ground broke
apart in some places. Gravity was being increased. We all fell to the
ground, unable to get back up.
********
"This is it. Are you sure you're going to be all right?" asked Tuxedo Kamen
as they neared the edge of the forest.
"I have to be. I may be the only one who can stop it now." When they broke
through the edge of the forest they saw the fall of the senshi. Sailor Moon
flew down to the ground, and a little unsteady on her feet, ran forwards
towards them. She stopped in front of them, in the plain sight of the titan.
Tuxedo Kamen came up behind her. He took out his sword, (remember he has one
now), and held it up into the air in two hands. Then he brought it down and
stabbed it into the ground. The ground was shocked with energy. The ground
surrounding the two of them began to shake, and then rose up about thirty
feet in the air. They had the creature's attention now. "How dare you attack
this peaceful kingdom. I'm pretty soldier Sailor Moon! On behalf of the
moon, I will punish you!" The senshi on the ground, and any people who had
fled from the city and then doubled back to get in on the action, heard her
words clearly. Sailor Moon held her sceptre up into the air, and then began
her attack.
"Moonlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" Ribbons of hearts swirled all around the
titan. A dizzy spell washed over Sailor Moon and she almost lost the attack.
Tuxedo Kamen put his hands on her shoulders. "Soul to soul, my energy to you,
your power, ours." His hands glowed and Sailor Moon's attack power
increased. The titan began to change from its brownish-red colour towards a
gray. It's glowing red eyes, went black. It stopped moving. Now, very dead,
it began to tilt backwards, to fall onto the city.
"Noooooooo," Sailor Moon cried. Tuxedo Kamen removed his hands from her
shoulders. He threw a crystal rose right into the main stream of her attack.
It hit its mark right in the titan's chest. Just as it fell onto the city,
the titan turned into dust and blew away. Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon looked out
across where a great evil had just stood, and then collapsed into each
other's arms.
********
Luna climbed out of the ruble of the ground of where the titan had left it
in bits and pieces when it had attacked the senshi. She flew up to where
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen were. Luna was alright, the ginzuishou having
protected her, but she still had had the wind knocked out of her.
"Congratulations, I'm proud of you two." Sailor Moon looked up from Tuxedo
Mask's shoulder.
"But what are we going to do, to explain without giving away the future?"
Luna paused. She turned around and looked out across the land.
"I, . . . I think it would be best if Princess Gaia and Sailor Earth, and
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen, just disappeared. There's no knowing what
happened to Sailor Pluto. You two may as well enjoy the Silver Millennium;
see all there is to see."
"But wouldn't you come with us Luna?"
"Well, to Earth, but not any farther. I still remember space travel and I
didn't find it very pleasant. And anyway, I can stay and have Queen Serenity
contact me if Sailor Pluto shows up."
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen slowly got to their feet. "You two go on. I'll
catch up later. I'll stay and make sure that the senshi will be all right."
"Thanks Luna," tears were filling Usagi's eyes. She and Luna hugged. "Maybe
now , I'll have a chance to be a normal girl." In an irregular
universe.
Sailor Moon returned to Tuxedo Kamen and on their way down to the ground Luna
called after them, "You'll never be a normal girl, but will always be
special Usagi." Luna turned back, from the sound of a groan from one of the
senshi and the palace guards who were coming towards them."
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen flew off together, just enjoying each other's
presence. Well, actually they weren't flying, but since the moon had such a
low gravity and they could already jump high and Usagi could slow their
descent even more with her wings it seemed like they were flying. They
landed to a stop beside the palace gate, in a place where no one could see
them. Tuxedo Kamen jumped up, feet first over the gate. On his way up he
caught Sailor Moon's arms; at that instant she jumped, and the two of them
arched over the wall and through a hole in the grid-like shield which
covered the palace grounds. They jumped from windowsill to balcony to the
windows of their rooms and slipped in. They gathered what few belongings
they had gathered in their short stay, stuffed them into sub-space pockets
and left the rooms. They traveled down the hallways of the palace; being
transformed allowed them to move extremely quiet. They ran into who they
were looking for. "Hello, your majesty."
Queen Serenity, stopped, startled. She hadn't seen anyone in the hallway
when she entered. She turned to find a changed Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen
beside her in the hallway. "What do you think you're doing in here like
that?! What am I supposed to say if someone saw you?"
"Don't worry, we won't be staying long. I came to say goodbye, and thanks."
"You're leaving? Did Sailor Pluto arrive?"
"No. We're leaving the palace. We want to see the beauty and wonders of this
time. But Luna will stay within contact. Right now she's with the senshi.
They'll fill you in later. Thanks for everything." Sailor Moon and Tuxedo
Mask curtsied and Queen Serenity looked back and forth down the hall for
people. When she returned her eyes to them, they were gone. Little did she
know that later she would be the one to be thankful.
********
"So where would you like to go first?"
"How about you show me where you grew up on Earth?"
"Why not? Everything starts somewhere."
********
Next up, the story of Sailor Pluto, which brings the entire situation into perspective!
I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. Enjoy!
And I do believe that reviews help make chapters come out faster. ^^
Sailor Moon: World Rebirth -Part 2, Beyond the Horizon of Time
Episode 16 'Everything Starts Somewhere'
The day was at its peak when Luna made it back to the Moon Palace. The sun
was directly over the palace. Luna had changed into her human form so not to
attract attention. She collapsed at the gates. "I must . . see the queen,"
she managed before she fell unconscious from loss of blood. You see, when
she transformed into a human her wounds increased in size. The guard was
about to just call on a healer when Luna rolled over, and he saw the
crescent moon on her forehead because her tiara had fallen off. He told a
younger soldier to watch the gates while he picked her up and carried her
into the palace. He took her to the sick area and let the healers take care
of her. He then went off to find the queen.
Queen Serenity was in a council with the princess senshi when the guard came
running into the room. He bowed, stopping to catch his breath and everyone
looked at him. "Sorry to interrupt your majesty, but a young woman collapsed
in front of the gates who said she had to see you. Right now she's with the
healers."
"And if every woman who wanted to see me, did so, what to you think would
happen?" She replied as the guard got closer.
"But she's different," he said as he leaned into whisper. "She has the
sign," he said for her ears only and touched his forehead. "She's hurt
pretty bad."
Queen Serenity looked across the table at the princesses. "Very well, we
will all come." They got up from the table and followed the guard to the
sick bay. When they entered Queen Serenity walked up to Luna and
recognized her instantly. "How is she?"
One of the healers came up and changed some bandages. "She's lucky that she
got here when she did because we were just able to fix the immediate damage
before it got too serious. She lost quite a lot of blood. Her dress was
soaked in it. She's coming to but will need quite a few day's rest.
Luna slowly came aware of her surroundings. She was in a bed, and there was
cloth wrapped around various parts of her body. Everything was blurry and
she was scared, but as her vision returned she found herself looking into
the eyes of Queen Serenity. She was completely naked except for a blanket
over her and she hurt all over. "Nice to see you're alright. What happened?"
"They took her," Luna said as tears came into her eyes because of the way
they had treated her.
"Who? Who did who take?"
"The youma, they ambushed and took Sailor Earth. Tuxedo Kamen went after her
but he won't be able to save her by himself." The princesses, who were
gathered around the bed gasped as they found that the one who always came to
their aid so that they could defeat the youma had been captured.
"Where, where did they take her?"
"To the east of somewhere in the forest."
"It's likely that their base is on the edge of the Moon Kingdom because all
that is to the east is forest and then a mountain ridge at the end. That's
where they will have taken her."
Suddenly the young soldier who had been assigned to watch the gate came
running into the room. He knelt down. "Your majesty, there is a group of
twenty or so youma flying towards the palace. They will be here in a matter
of minutes."
"Oh no, what are we going to do?" cried one of the princesses. "Without the
help of Sailor Earth or that mysterious man, how will we win?"
Luna looked at her and the Queen Serenity. "Give them the star power."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Use the ginzuishou to increase their power. Don't worry, it will work. Even
if it is a little too much power, it will annihilate the youma. They think
they have the upper hand. If you defeat them now, they will stop attacking
for the time being."
Queen Serenity nodded. "It is the only way. The four of you, please hold out
your transformation wands." They did so. Queen Serenity held out her hand,
palm up and the ginzuishou appeared in it. Four beams of white light
traveled from the crystal to the wands. The ends of the wands glowed and
stars formed around the symbols of their planets. The princesses stared at
their new wands. "Now go, you don't have much time."
"Mercury Star Power, make up!"
"Mars Star Power, make up!"
"Jupiter Star Power, make up!"
"Venus Star Power, make up!"
In a flash of light and colours the sailor senshi now stood there. They ran
through the halls of the palace and people moved out of the way for them.
They ran out of the front of the palace and Sailor Mars stopped. Sailor
Venus kept on going. "Come on. We have to get away from the palace. Mercury,
where are the youma?"
As the senshi ran down the middle of the main street Sailor Mercury touched
her earring and her visor appeared across the eyes. "They're just
approaching the edge of the forest. We have to get out of the city before
they get here." All of the senshi started to run at inhuman speeds through
the city.
**********
"I just wish the young senshi had someone to guide them. Elder Mars has
caught a pretty severe illness and has been bedridden for the time being.
And the other Elder senshi are still a day away at the least." Luna just
listened to Queen Serenity worry like a mother about her children. Well,
they kind of were her children. Queen Serenity held the ginzuishou up in
front of her in two hands and closed her eyes. "Please let the senshi not
come to misfortune with their new powers and be able to right the wrongs
that have been done."
The ginzuishou rose from Queen Serenity's hand and moved so that it was
above Luna. It flashed. A locket appeared on Luna's chest. She was wearing a
sailor fuku. The skirt was so dark that it looked like black when it was
actually a dark shade of blue. Her bow was the same, and her collar. She
stepped out of the bed and on to the floor. She still had bare feet. She
turned, then looked back across the bed at the window. She screamed, and
fell on to the bed in pain. She was screaming very loudly. One of the
healers moved to help her but stopped. The back of her fuku was rising. Two
wings broke out of the back of it and grew to an enormous size. All was
silent. Luna stood back up and nearly tipped over from the extra weight.
Queen Serenity and Luna's eyes met. Not a word was spoken. Luna ran across
the room and jumped out the window. She fell a little bit and then figured
out how to use her wings. She swiftly flew across the city.
"Fire Soul!" Sailor Mars shot a stream of fire up at the flying youma. They
were almost out of the borders of the city. It got the youmas' attention and
all of them flew down after the senshi.
"Supreme Thunder!" The youma were briefly stunned. They had not expected the
senshi to even try to fight because of their lost comrade. The group reached
the clearing in between the city and the forest. Sailor Mercury turned
around to face the approaching youma. The youma stopped a short way away
from them. What could the senshi, and the weakest one of all possibly do?"
Sailor Mercury held her arms in front of her against her body. She closed
her eyes and recalled, the knowledge she had already gained from when she
transformed. The air seemed to grow colder. "Shining Aqua Illusion!" The
youma who had landed experienced a feeling of the ultimate freezing
sensation, and then nothing. They were frozen. Their frozen bodies
shattered. The other half of the youma landed to take their place. They were
puzzled. They had been told that they would have no trouble.
Sailor Mercury's hands were completely frozen. She had not had complete
control over the storm of ice. She was flooded with dizziness and fell back
into Sailor Venus' arms. Sailor Jupiter took her place. The air around her
buzzed with electricity. "Sparkling Wide," she could feel herself loosing
control of the power, "Pressure!" She was struck by lightning, gathered it,
and flung it at the youma. It fried which ever of them it even tapped, which
was all of them. It also gave Sailor Jupiter some serious electrical burns
on her arms. She lost all feeling in her arms. She started to go into shock.
She was laid down on the ground. Sailor Mercury tried to give instructions
on first aid but her mind was on spin dry. Sailor Mars called out for help
towards the city. From the other direction Luna dropped out of the sky.
"It's you!" Sailor Venus said. But you were,-who are you?"
"A friend," Luna replied as she stood next to Sailor Jupiter. Her hands
glowed and glittering dust fell from her fingers. A wave of white light and
light tints of colours fell down from her hands and the burn marks on
Jupiter's arms healed up. She did the same to Sailor Mercury and the ice on
her arms melted away. "Come on," she said as she helped Mercury up. "Sailor
Earth needs our help."
********
Sailor Earth was in a net that was flying just above the trees. Tuxedo Kamen
wasn't too far behind but he was becoming fatigued. They were all
approaching a cliff. When they got close to it a whole bunch of other flying
youma flew down from a fortress embedded in the cliff. Tuxedo Kamen had to
stop and fight while Sailor Earth was carried through the front door of the
fortress. They went through a maze of hallways. Sailor Earth was only
partially conscious to her surroundings. When eventually they came to a stop
she was just dropped onto the floor. A woman stepped out of the dark. She
lifted her hand and Sailor Earth floated up into the air, out of the net.
Then she pointed to a board in the middle of the room and Sailor Earth went
flying against it. Steel clamps closed themselves all around her body. "It's
so nice to see you could make it."
Sailor Earth looked meekly up at the woman. Her vision blurred in and out.
There was blood dripping down her back. "The sailor senshi will come for
me."
"I very much doubt that. Because in the very near future I'll be releasing
my Titan on the Moon Palace and with you here the senshi won't stand a
chance Sailor Earth. I never knew there was a senshi of the Earth but there
won't be one much longer."
"No! I won't... I won't let you hurt the senshi..." she tried to break from
her bonds but was unsuccessful.
"Ha ha ha. I will do whatever I wish Sailor Earth."
"Since you're going to kill me anyway stop calling be Sailor Earth. I'm not
Sailor Earth!"
The woman sneered. "Sure you aren't; you're not going to be getting away
from here anyway. I'm not scared of you Sailor Earth."
Usagi looked up at the woman and smiled. Maybe she wasn't as powerful as she
thought she was. After all, she had to put Sailor Earth in chains. Time to
find out. "Sailor Earth isn't the one you should be afraid of. It's me."
Usagi changed back from Sailor Earth into Sailor Moon. She closed her eyes.
"Moon Eternal, make up!"
The bonds holding her shattered as Sailor Moon went into her eternal
transformation. "I'm not going to let you hurt anyone! I'm pretty soldier
Sailor Moon and in the name of the moon, I'm going to punish you!"
The women was taken back. "What! Where's Sailor Earth? Who are you?"
"There never was any Sailor Earth. Just me. I'm the one who you followed
through the portal. And because of harming this peaceful world, I will
banish you."
The woman had a scared look on her face. Then she smiled, and looked
incredibly evil. She held her arms out at Sailor Moon and launched a flood
of dark energy at her.
**********
Tuxedo Kamen saw a whole army of youma coming towards him from the fortress
Sailor Earth was taken to so he dived down into the forest. Well, actually
it wasn't an army, only about three. He jumped into the branches of a tree
and watched as they landed onto the ground and split off to look for him in
three different directions. He picked a direction they didn't take and made
his way towards the cliff from a different angle. The cliff went straight up
so Tuxedo Kamen had to climb up the side of it slowly and carefully. He
jumped the last few feet up to the door which led into the interior of the
cliff.. He ran through and found himself with multiple choices of which way
to go. He heard Usagi scream and just picked one direction. He ran back and
forth through the maze of passages but he just came to a dead end. He smiled
and threw blue roses against the walls around him. The walls crumbled. He
just pointed himself in the direction that the screams were coming from and
went as fast as he could.
*********
Sailor Moon was shocked over and over again by the woman's dark energy. She
wasn't letting up. Suddenly, she stopped. "My dark Titan arises! Ha ha ha!"
**********
"Come on," Sailor Mars called, "We're almost there." We could see the cliff
clearly now. Suddenly the ground started to shake. Sailor Venus and I jumped
up into trees to get a better look around.
"W-what's happening?"
Luna spun around, looking for the source. She flew high up into the air but
couldn't see anything happening at the cliff. She called down to say so.
Then she looked over in the direction we had come and her mouth dropped
open. "Oh my, LOOK!"
I could just see something rising from the ground to way above the trees.
Just in front of the city a giant had arisen from the ground. Now that it
was reaching its full height even the other senshi on the ground caught
glimpses of it. "Oh no! It's going to attack the city. We're never going to
get back in time," I cried.
Luna floated down from her position in the sky. "You must use the sailor
teleport."
"The sailor whos-it whats-it?" Sailor Venus said. I gave her a dirty look
and the two of us jumped down from the trees.
Luna took our hands -she was now on the ground- and I took Mars' and Venus
to Jupiter's. "Now concentrate on what the front of the city looks like.
Focus yourself on that place. Image yourself there. Then let yourself go."
It sounded pretty silly when she said it, but it worked almost like she
described it. The wind around us began to pick up. Since we all had our eyes
closed, we couldn't see the wild energy bouncing back and forth between us
but we could feel it, and sense it. Then I felt nothing. A wave of nausea
washed over me but I didn't waver. I opened my eyes to find myself staring
at the giant's feet. We had appeared right in between it and the city.
*******
The woman turned away from Sailor Moon to look at a viewscreen that was
pointed in the direction of the Moon Palace from the cliff. The giant was
towering over everything. Sailor Moon got to her feet, despite how weak she
was and pointed her sceptre at the woman. But the woman spun around in a
flash and held her hand up. Sailor Moon began to choke. She put her hands up
around her neck and fell to her knees. "I . . can't, . breathe . . ." Time
seemed to slow down.
A rose.
A rose was flying through the air.
The woman brought her hand back and cried out in pain.
Sailor Moon was released.
There was a rose going completely through the woman's hand.
But there were also two more in her back.
Tuxedo Kamen landed between Sailor Moon and his opponent. He helped Sailor
Moon to her feet. The woman reached back and wrenched one of the roses out
of her back.
Tuxedo Kamen held his cape up in front of Sailor Moon and himself. The woman
pulled the other rose out of her back. She turned on Tuxedo Kamen. She held
her hands up in the air.
Tuxedo Kamen brought his cape down and ten bright red roses flew from him.
They embedded themselves in the woman's chest and abdomen. She yelled out
from the stinging pain but stayed standing up. She would not show weakness.
Maybe she should have.
Tuxedo Kamen held a crystal rose up to Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon took it in her wobbly hands and brought it up to her lips. She
handed it back to Tuxedo Kamen. The two of them turned around and started to
walk towards the way Tuxedo Kamen had come. The hole in the wall.
"Stop!" the woman screamed at them. "You can't escape."
Tuxedo Kamen spun around and backhanded the crystal rose. It landed right in
the middle of the woman's chest. Beginning from the rose her flesh began to
turn into stone. A couple of blue roses thrown and the screen she had been
looking at was disabled. Tuxedo Kamen helped Sailor Moon limp out of the
fortress.
When they got outside the youma below that were looking for Tuxedo Kamen saw
him and flew up to engage in battle. Suddenly they fell back. Back to the
ground. Their energy was gone. Their creator had died. The wind blew them
away, -as dust. "We have to go help the senshi," Sailor Moon said faintly.
Tuxedo Kamen looked out across the many miles to where the titan stood. After
all, all journeys begin with a single step. Tuxedo Kamen jumped down to the
ground and began to run as Eternal Sailor Moon took to the skies.
********
This was the last line of defense. If it got any farther, the Moon Kingdom
would be finished. After all, I had the ginzuishou with me so the queen
wouldn't be able to use it if needed. I just hoped that the senshi would be
able to control their powers this time. Maybe if I helped this time. Sailor
Mars and Jupiter stepped forward in determination. They had all recovered
from the sailor teleport-or at least I hoped that they had.
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
"Burning Malanda!"
I held my hands up and cast magical energy on the two attacking senshi. They
were able to continue their attack. It looked like they had control. After
Sailor Jupiter threw her ball of lightning her tiara became a constant
conduct antenna and she just continued to flow electricity into the enemy.
Sailor Mars released a tube of continuous fire. There was no way the senshi
would be able to do this alone. The attacks didn't really do a whole lot of
good. They had stopped its forward motion but they weren't doing any damage.
The senshi started to strain from using the vast amounts of energy necessary
to continue this assault. The titan got tired of it too. It brought its fist
down right in front of all of us and we all fell. It stepped over us in one
swift motion and entered the boundaries of the city. "Nooooooo," Sailor Mars
cried and climbed back to her feet. The other senshi were quick to follow.
"Venus Love-me chain!" The chain of hearts wrapped itself around the titan,
delaying its forward motion.
"Burning Malanda!"
"Shining Aqua Illusion!"
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
All of the senshi attacked at once. For us, it was as if time had lost its
meaning. We had no recollection of how long that attack was made. The next
clear memory I had is when the titan decided to fight back. We had done
quite a bit of damage. It was starting to come apart in various places. It
broke Venus' chain and turned around. Now, being activated for so long, it
had gained conscious thought. It brought its hands up and then down to its
waist. When it stopped we all experienced extreme pain. The ground broke
apart in some places. Gravity was being increased. We all fell to the
ground, unable to get back up.
********
"This is it. Are you sure you're going to be all right?" asked Tuxedo Kamen
as they neared the edge of the forest.
"I have to be. I may be the only one who can stop it now." When they broke
through the edge of the forest they saw the fall of the senshi. Sailor Moon
flew down to the ground, and a little unsteady on her feet, ran forwards
towards them. She stopped in front of them, in the plain sight of the titan.
Tuxedo Kamen came up behind her. He took out his sword, (remember he has one
now), and held it up into the air in two hands. Then he brought it down and
stabbed it into the ground. The ground was shocked with energy. The ground
surrounding the two of them began to shake, and then rose up about thirty
feet in the air. They had the creature's attention now. "How dare you attack
this peaceful kingdom. I'm pretty soldier Sailor Moon! On behalf of the
moon, I will punish you!" The senshi on the ground, and any people who had
fled from the city and then doubled back to get in on the action, heard her
words clearly. Sailor Moon held her sceptre up into the air, and then began
her attack.
"Moonlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" Ribbons of hearts swirled all around the
titan. A dizzy spell washed over Sailor Moon and she almost lost the attack.
Tuxedo Kamen put his hands on her shoulders. "Soul to soul, my energy to you,
your power, ours." His hands glowed and Sailor Moon's attack power
increased. The titan began to change from its brownish-red colour towards a
gray. It's glowing red eyes, went black. It stopped moving. Now, very dead,
it began to tilt backwards, to fall onto the city.
"Noooooooo," Sailor Moon cried. Tuxedo Kamen removed his hands from her
shoulders. He threw a crystal rose right into the main stream of her attack.
It hit its mark right in the titan's chest. Just as it fell onto the city,
the titan turned into dust and blew away. Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon looked out
across where a great evil had just stood, and then collapsed into each
other's arms.
********
Luna climbed out of the ruble of the ground of where the titan had left it
in bits and pieces when it had attacked the senshi. She flew up to where
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen were. Luna was alright, the ginzuishou having
protected her, but she still had had the wind knocked out of her.
"Congratulations, I'm proud of you two." Sailor Moon looked up from Tuxedo
Mask's shoulder.
"But what are we going to do, to explain without giving away the future?"
Luna paused. She turned around and looked out across the land.
"I, . . . I think it would be best if Princess Gaia and Sailor Earth, and
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen, just disappeared. There's no knowing what
happened to Sailor Pluto. You two may as well enjoy the Silver Millennium;
see all there is to see."
"But wouldn't you come with us Luna?"
"Well, to Earth, but not any farther. I still remember space travel and I
didn't find it very pleasant. And anyway, I can stay and have Queen Serenity
contact me if Sailor Pluto shows up."
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen slowly got to their feet. "You two go on. I'll
catch up later. I'll stay and make sure that the senshi will be all right."
"Thanks Luna," tears were filling Usagi's eyes. She and Luna hugged. "Maybe
now , I'll have a chance to be a normal girl." In an irregular
universe.
Sailor Moon returned to Tuxedo Kamen and on their way down to the ground Luna
called after them, "You'll never be a normal girl, but will always be
special Usagi." Luna turned back, from the sound of a groan from one of the
senshi and the palace guards who were coming towards them."
Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen flew off together, just enjoying each other's
presence. Well, actually they weren't flying, but since the moon had such a
low gravity and they could already jump high and Usagi could slow their
descent even more with her wings it seemed like they were flying. They
landed to a stop beside the palace gate, in a place where no one could see
them. Tuxedo Kamen jumped up, feet first over the gate. On his way up he
caught Sailor Moon's arms; at that instant she jumped, and the two of them
arched over the wall and through a hole in the grid-like shield which
covered the palace grounds. They jumped from windowsill to balcony to the
windows of their rooms and slipped in. They gathered what few belongings
they had gathered in their short stay, stuffed them into sub-space pockets
and left the rooms. They traveled down the hallways of the palace; being
transformed allowed them to move extremely quiet. They ran into who they
were looking for. "Hello, your majesty."
Queen Serenity, stopped, startled. She hadn't seen anyone in the hallway
when she entered. She turned to find a changed Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen
beside her in the hallway. "What do you think you're doing in here like
that?! What am I supposed to say if someone saw you?"
"Don't worry, we won't be staying long. I came to say goodbye, and thanks."
"You're leaving? Did Sailor Pluto arrive?"
"No. We're leaving the palace. We want to see the beauty and wonders of this
time. But Luna will stay within contact. Right now she's with the senshi.
They'll fill you in later. Thanks for everything." Sailor Moon and Tuxedo
Mask curtsied and Queen Serenity looked back and forth down the hall for
people. When she returned her eyes to them, they were gone. Little did she
know that later she would be the one to be thankful.
********
"So where would you like to go first?"
"How about you show me where you grew up on Earth?"
"Why not? Everything starts somewhere."
********
Next up, the story of Sailor Pluto, which brings the entire situation into perspective!