Awakening
Chapter 2
Genre: "S" season and alternate
Rating: PG
Author: Moonchild DJ
E-Mail: moonchilddj@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and X-Men = not mine. Simple as that. Don't
own the characters, just this ficcie and its plotline. Got it? ^_^
Good!
Author's Notes: Hey, minna-chan! Moonchild DJ back again with
Chapter 2 of this complicated lil' ficcie. I'm sorry that I haven't
updated it recently, I've just had the worst case of writer's block
with it! But I think it's safe to say that the story's back from its
long hiatus..even if inspiration struck at 1 in the morning..^_~ I'm
glad you've all liked the first chapter, it should be an interesting
ride..Enjoy, and don't forget to review! Oh, and to those who asked
where was Hotaru..she'll be introduced soon. On with the story!
********
"What's the deal? Why are you all staring at him for?" Jubilee
cried, blue eyes narrowing suspiciously at the Senshi and Tuxedo
Kamen.
Tuxedo Kamen shook his head. "You said you had visions of this man's
life? And you could sense this guy was in trouble?"
"Hai. I could feel it in my head. Like..I don't know..a huge
migraine, then I was here."
"Did you know the guy's name?" Sailor Moon asked faintly, clutching
Tuxedo Kamen's arm.
"I could only get one name--Darien."
Sailor Moon gasped, teetering against Tuxedo Kamen, who stumbled a
bit himself. Sailor Chibi Moon gasped, red eyes widening as the
other Senshi glanced worriedly at each other.
Not realizing the danger was over and the one she sought was
standing before her, Jubilee gasped as she felt the strange pull
again, sending her back to where she came. "Oh! Guess..I-I'm going..
home!"
"WAIT!" Tuxedo Kamen cried, leaping forward to reach for the girl.
"Where are you going? What's your real name?!"
Jubilee smiled as she glowed, then started to fade away into
sparkles. "Back to the US, where I'm..needed...name's...
Jubilation!"
Tuxedo Kamen cursed under his breath as his fingers slipped through
the girl's, clasping only empty air and fading sparkles.
"....Muffin?" Sailor Moon squeaked, watching in worry as he clenched
his teeth, taking off the mask with shaking fingers. "Who do you
think that girl was? And how did she know about your past?"
"I don't know, Serena. But there was..something about her that
was..familiar, somehow. Maybe she's a key to my past, the time
before I lost my parents!"
"Or maybe she's an Enemy. I've never seen powers like hers before."
Sailor Mars muttered softly.
"Aw, you heard her, Raye. She's a mutant--they come by their powers
naturally." Jupiter grinned. "Stop being so paranoid!"
"I am NOT being paranoid, merely cautious!" Mars snarled. "You can
never be too careful of our Enemy's tricks."
Venus laughed. "Yeah, a girl like her, our Enemy? She's OUR age,
Raye--get serious!"
Mercury frowned, still typing furiously. "Mina's right. Besides,
she helped us with our enemy. She seemed to know much about you,
Darien, and you've never even met before!"
"I know. I wonder who she is..." Darien mused as he powered down,
the tuxedo fading into a normal t-shirt, slacks and sneakers.
Serena sighed, detransforming into her school uniform, the other
girls following suit. "Too much mystery for one day. Suppose we
should go home. Darien, walk me home?"
Darien smiled. "Sure, Serena. Ready to go, Rini?"
Rini frowned, glancing thoughtfully at the spot where Jubilee had
stood. "Hai. Wonder if we'll see her again?"
"Perhaps. She can't have been brought here for nothing. We'll meet
up again, I'm sure."
Rini nodded, red eyes narrowing. "I wonder who she is..is she from the
future--MY future?"
Serena shook her head as she put a gentle hand on the girl's shoulder
to lead her away. "I doubt it, or she would've known of you and of the
Senshi. Still.." She glanced at Darien in confusion. "She knew an awful
lot about your past. I think something's going to happen. We'd better
be on our guard."
Raye frowned. "You sense something, Serena?"
Serena shrugged. "I don't know. I just feel like something big is going
to happen." She then winked at Raye. "And here I thought *you* were
supposed to be the psychic!"
"Hey, there's always room for more, and you could certainly stand to
gain for the improvement!"
Serena stuck her tongue out at Raye as Darien put his arm around her.
Raye reponded in kind, then grinned. Amy shook her head, rolling her
eyes.
"Must I separate you children again? We'd best get home before another
Heart-snatcher appears or something worse."
"What could be worse than the Heart-snatchers?" Lita shivered in
revulsion, but nodded as they separated to go home. She glanced up at
the sky where that girl, Jubilation's sparkles had faded. Who was she
really, and why did she seem to have a connection to Darien? As if
their lives weren't complicated enough..! But this may be the chance he
was looking for, to finally remember his past! She just hoped Raye was
wrong about Jubilation being an enemy...
******
A blinding light and a whirling sensation nearly overwhelmed Jubilee as
she travelled...well, however she travelled. She had no clue what was
happening, only that she was going home. The light turned into a
supernova, and she had to shield her eyes from the intense light,
totally unprepared when her knees found ground and she rolled head over
heels before a solid pair of hands halted her tumble and held her close.
"Sonuva...where did ya go, Jubes?! You flamin' scared me half to death!"
That beloved low gravelly voice rumbled against her ear, and she raised
shaking hands to twine around Logan's neck tightly.
"Scared the shinola outta me, too, Logan.." she whispered before
burying her face into the curve of his neck. If that was how
teleporters like Nightcrawler travelled, she had to make a note to
herself to never become a teleporter!
"Are ya all right, sweetie?" a soft feminine voice with a honeyed
Southern drawl murmured, and she glanced back briefly behind her at the
brown-haired woman with the curious white stripe in her hair and green
eyes before curling back into Logan's soothing embrace.
"I..I think so, Rogue. Just a little shaken up is all. Don't quite know
what happened or HOW it happened, but I went from here to clear across
Japan!" She shvered, and she felt Logan's arms tighten around her.
"We know, darlin'. Chuck pinpointed you to be there, though he's still
trying t' figure out how you GOT there! You just..disappeared, like one
of Kurt's travels, but waaaaaay longer."
Jubilee nodded in understanding. Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, could
teleport himself and other people short distances, but nothing like
clear across the ocean and in a different country entirely! "Do you
think it'll happen again?" she asked. "I couldn't find the one I was
having dreams about, and I'm sure he was the one who...called me.." She
made a face and chuckled, shaking her head. "Does anyone else realize
how out there this sounds? An unknown guy from my dreams is somehow
calling me to where he is..and I get called into some kind of battle
instead.."
Logan pushed her back at her words, staring at her. "Battle?"
"This is a new one.." Jean replied, crossing her arms. "You didn't
mention that."
"Oops.." Jubilee sighed and told them what happened and of the warriors
she had met. "..And to top it all off, I couldn't even find the one who
had brought me there in the first place!" She gave a low, disgusted
growl and leaned against Logan tiredly. He noticed the motion and
gently led her to her bedroom.
"An' you're also wiped out, darlin'. Why didn't you say something?"
Jubilee protested weakly. "But..I have t' talk to the Professor.."
Jean smiled. "That can keep until later. Right now, you need to rest.
You've had a long night."
"An' why do I feel like it's not over..?" Jubilee mumbled as she
staggered along. She also had a feeling that her dreams weren't over,
either. She sighed and prepared herself for a sleepless couple of hours.
******
Darien growled and punched at his pillow in frustration. It was several
hours since he had taken Serena and Rini home and crashed tiredly into
bed, but he couldn't sleep. Strange, disjointed dreams haunted him, and
he sat up and tried to piece them together.
His last thoughts before Beryl and the evil ball of Nega-darkness were
of his princess and of another who loved and depended on him. 'I'm
sorry, little one. I pray we meet again someday..please, don't let her
face this world alone..she needs me..' he had thought desperately in
his mind before the cloud of black and green struck and he was ripped
from his love, screaming her name into the darkness of oblivion...
A flash of insight, and he could suddenly remember waving 'bye-bye' to
a laughing little black-haired girl with the same color of eyes as his
as she was held in a family friend's arms. He knew what came next..the
crash. Pain. Death. Sorrow. The loss of memory, but his mind strayed
back to that little girl. He was six or so when that horrible incident
that changed his life happened, and the little girl barely more than a
toddler, four at the very least..
My God! Did that mean he had a sister out there somewhere? If that was
the case, she'd be around the same age as Serena and the girls..
He could barely wrap his mind around this realization, but it spoke to
him of truth. He had family out there, and he hadn't even known it..but
then another flash of insight told him that the girl's story didn't end
there.
She'd been so young, she'd forgotten that part of her life as well and
moved on to live and love another family. His heart ached at the
knowledge that she'd forgotten so easily, but at least she'd been happy..
no. He shook his head. She didn't have that, either. She'd been a part
of that family, but felt as if she wasn't truly loved or needed, more
like a responsibility than a loved member of the family. But she'd loved
them in her own way, they theirs, until..no, not again, not to her..
Death. Loss. Grief. Alone. So alone..
Foster homes, juvie, orphanages, having to fend for herself. But
something..something turned around for her.
A new hope. A new family, more than she could ever ask for. Danger, yes,
but she'd risk it to protect her family.
The strange memory-images..sharing, he surmised..faded, and without a
clear image of her face. But at least that 'little one' from both his
pasts was safe. He knew he would feel it if she wasn't--this bond that
somehow linked their memories would've told him differently if not. But
how to find her? Obviously she would be going by a different name now,
and he didn't know where she lived...
Darien paled and scrambled out of bed, racing to his laptop and turning
it on. It could NOT be just coincidence that that mysterious girl
appeared at the battle tonight and knew about his past, which he'd told
nearly no one about, and knew about him, even if she did not know it
was him. Could it be that the girl who'd helped them in battle wasn't
just a mutant? Could he have, in fact, been talking to his little sister
without even knowing it? Only one way to find out.
Flexing his fingers, he connected the laptop to the Internet and started
digging for clues, using the two keywords he knew would point him in the
right direction--Jubilation and United States. She just might be the key
to unlock his past--she might BE part of his past! Uncaring of the
lateness of the hour, he dug around various links to the keywords until
he found the most promising--a roster of one Jubilation Lee to two
academies for the gifted--Profess Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters
out of Snow Valley, Massachusetts and The Xavier Institute For Higher
Learning out of Westchester, New York.
Darien leaned back in his chair and smiled. Looked like he would be
doing some travelling. Serena and the others should know about this.
It's not every day you find your reincarnated little sister from a
thousand years ago again! Perhaps he should make this a Sailor Senshi
trip, as well, Serena and the others would freak to meet his sister..
hell, *he* was freaking! He hyperventilated anxiously before logging
off the computer and calling the airport to make arrangements, then
waited impatiently for the right time..it WAS only 4 am, after all..to
call Serena and tell her the news.
******
~End Chapter 2~
Chapter 2
Genre: "S" season and alternate
Rating: PG
Author: Moonchild DJ
E-Mail: moonchilddj@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and X-Men = not mine. Simple as that. Don't
own the characters, just this ficcie and its plotline. Got it? ^_^
Good!
Author's Notes: Hey, minna-chan! Moonchild DJ back again with
Chapter 2 of this complicated lil' ficcie. I'm sorry that I haven't
updated it recently, I've just had the worst case of writer's block
with it! But I think it's safe to say that the story's back from its
long hiatus..even if inspiration struck at 1 in the morning..^_~ I'm
glad you've all liked the first chapter, it should be an interesting
ride..Enjoy, and don't forget to review! Oh, and to those who asked
where was Hotaru..she'll be introduced soon. On with the story!
********
"What's the deal? Why are you all staring at him for?" Jubilee
cried, blue eyes narrowing suspiciously at the Senshi and Tuxedo
Kamen.
Tuxedo Kamen shook his head. "You said you had visions of this man's
life? And you could sense this guy was in trouble?"
"Hai. I could feel it in my head. Like..I don't know..a huge
migraine, then I was here."
"Did you know the guy's name?" Sailor Moon asked faintly, clutching
Tuxedo Kamen's arm.
"I could only get one name--Darien."
Sailor Moon gasped, teetering against Tuxedo Kamen, who stumbled a
bit himself. Sailor Chibi Moon gasped, red eyes widening as the
other Senshi glanced worriedly at each other.
Not realizing the danger was over and the one she sought was
standing before her, Jubilee gasped as she felt the strange pull
again, sending her back to where she came. "Oh! Guess..I-I'm going..
home!"
"WAIT!" Tuxedo Kamen cried, leaping forward to reach for the girl.
"Where are you going? What's your real name?!"
Jubilee smiled as she glowed, then started to fade away into
sparkles. "Back to the US, where I'm..needed...name's...
Jubilation!"
Tuxedo Kamen cursed under his breath as his fingers slipped through
the girl's, clasping only empty air and fading sparkles.
"....Muffin?" Sailor Moon squeaked, watching in worry as he clenched
his teeth, taking off the mask with shaking fingers. "Who do you
think that girl was? And how did she know about your past?"
"I don't know, Serena. But there was..something about her that
was..familiar, somehow. Maybe she's a key to my past, the time
before I lost my parents!"
"Or maybe she's an Enemy. I've never seen powers like hers before."
Sailor Mars muttered softly.
"Aw, you heard her, Raye. She's a mutant--they come by their powers
naturally." Jupiter grinned. "Stop being so paranoid!"
"I am NOT being paranoid, merely cautious!" Mars snarled. "You can
never be too careful of our Enemy's tricks."
Venus laughed. "Yeah, a girl like her, our Enemy? She's OUR age,
Raye--get serious!"
Mercury frowned, still typing furiously. "Mina's right. Besides,
she helped us with our enemy. She seemed to know much about you,
Darien, and you've never even met before!"
"I know. I wonder who she is..." Darien mused as he powered down,
the tuxedo fading into a normal t-shirt, slacks and sneakers.
Serena sighed, detransforming into her school uniform, the other
girls following suit. "Too much mystery for one day. Suppose we
should go home. Darien, walk me home?"
Darien smiled. "Sure, Serena. Ready to go, Rini?"
Rini frowned, glancing thoughtfully at the spot where Jubilee had
stood. "Hai. Wonder if we'll see her again?"
"Perhaps. She can't have been brought here for nothing. We'll meet
up again, I'm sure."
Rini nodded, red eyes narrowing. "I wonder who she is..is she from the
future--MY future?"
Serena shook her head as she put a gentle hand on the girl's shoulder
to lead her away. "I doubt it, or she would've known of you and of the
Senshi. Still.." She glanced at Darien in confusion. "She knew an awful
lot about your past. I think something's going to happen. We'd better
be on our guard."
Raye frowned. "You sense something, Serena?"
Serena shrugged. "I don't know. I just feel like something big is going
to happen." She then winked at Raye. "And here I thought *you* were
supposed to be the psychic!"
"Hey, there's always room for more, and you could certainly stand to
gain for the improvement!"
Serena stuck her tongue out at Raye as Darien put his arm around her.
Raye reponded in kind, then grinned. Amy shook her head, rolling her
eyes.
"Must I separate you children again? We'd best get home before another
Heart-snatcher appears or something worse."
"What could be worse than the Heart-snatchers?" Lita shivered in
revulsion, but nodded as they separated to go home. She glanced up at
the sky where that girl, Jubilation's sparkles had faded. Who was she
really, and why did she seem to have a connection to Darien? As if
their lives weren't complicated enough..! But this may be the chance he
was looking for, to finally remember his past! She just hoped Raye was
wrong about Jubilation being an enemy...
******
A blinding light and a whirling sensation nearly overwhelmed Jubilee as
she travelled...well, however she travelled. She had no clue what was
happening, only that she was going home. The light turned into a
supernova, and she had to shield her eyes from the intense light,
totally unprepared when her knees found ground and she rolled head over
heels before a solid pair of hands halted her tumble and held her close.
"Sonuva...where did ya go, Jubes?! You flamin' scared me half to death!"
That beloved low gravelly voice rumbled against her ear, and she raised
shaking hands to twine around Logan's neck tightly.
"Scared the shinola outta me, too, Logan.." she whispered before
burying her face into the curve of his neck. If that was how
teleporters like Nightcrawler travelled, she had to make a note to
herself to never become a teleporter!
"Are ya all right, sweetie?" a soft feminine voice with a honeyed
Southern drawl murmured, and she glanced back briefly behind her at the
brown-haired woman with the curious white stripe in her hair and green
eyes before curling back into Logan's soothing embrace.
"I..I think so, Rogue. Just a little shaken up is all. Don't quite know
what happened or HOW it happened, but I went from here to clear across
Japan!" She shvered, and she felt Logan's arms tighten around her.
"We know, darlin'. Chuck pinpointed you to be there, though he's still
trying t' figure out how you GOT there! You just..disappeared, like one
of Kurt's travels, but waaaaaay longer."
Jubilee nodded in understanding. Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, could
teleport himself and other people short distances, but nothing like
clear across the ocean and in a different country entirely! "Do you
think it'll happen again?" she asked. "I couldn't find the one I was
having dreams about, and I'm sure he was the one who...called me.." She
made a face and chuckled, shaking her head. "Does anyone else realize
how out there this sounds? An unknown guy from my dreams is somehow
calling me to where he is..and I get called into some kind of battle
instead.."
Logan pushed her back at her words, staring at her. "Battle?"
"This is a new one.." Jean replied, crossing her arms. "You didn't
mention that."
"Oops.." Jubilee sighed and told them what happened and of the warriors
she had met. "..And to top it all off, I couldn't even find the one who
had brought me there in the first place!" She gave a low, disgusted
growl and leaned against Logan tiredly. He noticed the motion and
gently led her to her bedroom.
"An' you're also wiped out, darlin'. Why didn't you say something?"
Jubilee protested weakly. "But..I have t' talk to the Professor.."
Jean smiled. "That can keep until later. Right now, you need to rest.
You've had a long night."
"An' why do I feel like it's not over..?" Jubilee mumbled as she
staggered along. She also had a feeling that her dreams weren't over,
either. She sighed and prepared herself for a sleepless couple of hours.
******
Darien growled and punched at his pillow in frustration. It was several
hours since he had taken Serena and Rini home and crashed tiredly into
bed, but he couldn't sleep. Strange, disjointed dreams haunted him, and
he sat up and tried to piece them together.
His last thoughts before Beryl and the evil ball of Nega-darkness were
of his princess and of another who loved and depended on him. 'I'm
sorry, little one. I pray we meet again someday..please, don't let her
face this world alone..she needs me..' he had thought desperately in
his mind before the cloud of black and green struck and he was ripped
from his love, screaming her name into the darkness of oblivion...
A flash of insight, and he could suddenly remember waving 'bye-bye' to
a laughing little black-haired girl with the same color of eyes as his
as she was held in a family friend's arms. He knew what came next..the
crash. Pain. Death. Sorrow. The loss of memory, but his mind strayed
back to that little girl. He was six or so when that horrible incident
that changed his life happened, and the little girl barely more than a
toddler, four at the very least..
My God! Did that mean he had a sister out there somewhere? If that was
the case, she'd be around the same age as Serena and the girls..
He could barely wrap his mind around this realization, but it spoke to
him of truth. He had family out there, and he hadn't even known it..but
then another flash of insight told him that the girl's story didn't end
there.
She'd been so young, she'd forgotten that part of her life as well and
moved on to live and love another family. His heart ached at the
knowledge that she'd forgotten so easily, but at least she'd been happy..
no. He shook his head. She didn't have that, either. She'd been a part
of that family, but felt as if she wasn't truly loved or needed, more
like a responsibility than a loved member of the family. But she'd loved
them in her own way, they theirs, until..no, not again, not to her..
Death. Loss. Grief. Alone. So alone..
Foster homes, juvie, orphanages, having to fend for herself. But
something..something turned around for her.
A new hope. A new family, more than she could ever ask for. Danger, yes,
but she'd risk it to protect her family.
The strange memory-images..sharing, he surmised..faded, and without a
clear image of her face. But at least that 'little one' from both his
pasts was safe. He knew he would feel it if she wasn't--this bond that
somehow linked their memories would've told him differently if not. But
how to find her? Obviously she would be going by a different name now,
and he didn't know where she lived...
Darien paled and scrambled out of bed, racing to his laptop and turning
it on. It could NOT be just coincidence that that mysterious girl
appeared at the battle tonight and knew about his past, which he'd told
nearly no one about, and knew about him, even if she did not know it
was him. Could it be that the girl who'd helped them in battle wasn't
just a mutant? Could he have, in fact, been talking to his little sister
without even knowing it? Only one way to find out.
Flexing his fingers, he connected the laptop to the Internet and started
digging for clues, using the two keywords he knew would point him in the
right direction--Jubilation and United States. She just might be the key
to unlock his past--she might BE part of his past! Uncaring of the
lateness of the hour, he dug around various links to the keywords until
he found the most promising--a roster of one Jubilation Lee to two
academies for the gifted--Profess Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters
out of Snow Valley, Massachusetts and The Xavier Institute For Higher
Learning out of Westchester, New York.
Darien leaned back in his chair and smiled. Looked like he would be
doing some travelling. Serena and the others should know about this.
It's not every day you find your reincarnated little sister from a
thousand years ago again! Perhaps he should make this a Sailor Senshi
trip, as well, Serena and the others would freak to meet his sister..
hell, *he* was freaking! He hyperventilated anxiously before logging
off the computer and calling the airport to make arrangements, then
waited impatiently for the right time..it WAS only 4 am, after all..to
call Serena and tell her the news.
******
~End Chapter 2~