Hayley Elderberry

Strikers

PG-13

Chapter 1: Aren't You Some Kind of Flower?

Disclaimers:

1. Though not the first fan fic I've ever wrote, this is the first

that I'll ever be posting for public display.

2. I do not own Sailor Moon, or the characters of Travis Watson,

Darien Jacobson, or Apollo. Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko

Takeuchi, as well as other companies and such, and the other three

characters are owned by Jendra and appear in the fan fiction story

Universal and Universal B. Her stories are very good and you can

find them on ASMR and Crescent Moon Archives.

3. Why it's not necessary to this story to have read Universal/B,

it would be helpful to at least have a working knowledge of it.

Mainly, know the characters from it and they're relationships with

the other Sailor Moon characters.

4. The rating on this story will fluctuate from PG-13 to R. There

will be some violence and romance along the way, hence the

fluctationgness.

5. As long as I don't make too many mistakes and you can take the

time to, enjoy. I really hope you do.

6. The Strikers, as well as Hunter, are characters I created.

HayleyElderberry@netscape.net

Part 1: A Time to Sit, Relax, and is that the Sun?!? Yay!

The Tokyo streets were busy. After all, it was Saturday

afternoon. The sun was shining brightly and it was only forty

degrees Fahrenheit. After the colder spell just a couple of weeks

ago today felt absolutely delicious to the citizens and many had

come outside for brief sprints in the nicer than lately weather.

In particular a small group of people were wandering around,

window shopping, and generally enjoying each other's company. Two

of them were obviously very much in love, their arms wrapped

around each other. The woman's hair was a shining gold, done up in

two buns on top of her head with ponytails streaming from them,

the man a dark haired complement to her lightness. The last that

made up their party was a man almost as tall as the other, but

light like the woman. They all seemed very close and many

passersby would reflect, for just a moment, about what a loving

trio they made, before hurrying home to their own families.

"Ohh, how cute!" said Serena as she stared in a shop's

window, mesmerized by the glittering things inside.

Darien and Travis smiled at each other, enjoying the company

of the young woman with them.

*It's about time we've had some time together, just to relax

with each other,* thought Travis. *With Darien working hard on his

master's degree and Serena and me studying hard, plus with my job,

and then the Scouts, we've barely managed any time together in the

past couple of weeks. I can't believe how much I needed this.*

Serena, Darien, and Travis traveled down the street happily.

Every once in a while words would be spoken, but more than often

it was just silence, just enjoyment between family. All in all, it

was a nice afternoon. But in the world of Sailor Moon, enjoyment

of life, and time to reflect on it, is very rare. And usually

signals a time when things are about to get a little more hectic.

Part 2: Touch my Chocolate and I kill

On their way to Serena's home they passed by their local

park. About three blocks from it they came across a house that had

been up for sale for awhile, but was now hopping with people

moving in possessions.

"Bout time someone bought that place," said Travis.

"I know. It's been so lonely and sad there for so long. I

hope it's someone nice and around our age," joined Serena.



Later that day a small car pulled up to the home. Out

stepped a very tall woman with thick black hair. Her eyes were

shielded behind sunglasses, but she had the presence that she had

already taken in everything around her and no matter what

happened, it wouldn't surprise her. From the passenger side of the

car another woman stepped out. She was dressed in a nice business

suit in a bright blue color, which set off her deep blue eyes and

black hair wildly. She was tall, but not as tall as the first and

her face was very open and friendly.

"Nice place," said the second.

"That's right, this is the first you've seen of it, isn't it

Corinne?" asked the first of her friend Corinne Samuels.

"Yup," answered Corinne.

"Well, when the others get here, we'll go take a tour

together, alright?"

"Alright, Lily," said Corinne looking at her friend for a

second. Lily Bates had aged since Corinne had first met her. Of

course, it had been almost nine years ago, when the girls were ten

years old. Even then, Corinne could tell that Lily was a leader.

*She's such a take charge person. There's no way she

couldn't have been leader. She's good at it, though. I just wonder

how she's going to handle being in Tokyo, next to him again.*

Corinne thought to herself.

"I wonder if we'll be able to get some of our groove on in

Tokyo?" asked a deep male voice with a hint of fire riding the

waves of it. The voice belonged to Damon Struthers, a strikingly

tall man with deep black hair and stormy chocolate eyes that

smoked when he was angry or trying very hard for a girl to notice

him.

"Are you really thinking of starting something with someone

else, when we're going to be so close so soon?" asked another male

voice, this belonging to a man of about six feet five inches with

brown wavy hair and light brown eyes.

"Why not Jeffrey?" asked Damon of one of his best friends,

Jeffrey Dannon.

"Well," started a third voice, answering for Jeffrey. "It'd

be wrong."

"Ugh," said Damon. He sighed heavily, and then smiled

lightly at the two. "I know, I just, you know…we really don't know

how long this could take. It's going to be torture to sit there,

to know what we know, and to not… you know… do anything about it."

"I know," said Gabriel Humphrey who was head butting six

feet, had straw colored hair, and bright forest green eyes.

The men sat together, looking forlorn for awhile. Any of

them could have had their choice of girls; unfortunately, their

hearts had all belonged to others, for longer than they cared to

think about.

The car that Jeffrey was driving finally stopped behind

another and the three got out.

"Well, Corinne wants the tour. How about you guys?" asked

Lily as she saw the guys saunter up to her and her friend.

"Sounds good," said Damon.

"Yeah, let's make it a bit long though. I need the chance to

stretch my legs from driving," said Jeffrey.

"Oh, by the way," began Damon innocently as the group made

their way upstairs, "I call a big room."

"Well, there are five rooms. And luckily three of them are

on one side of the house, two are on the other. So, you guys get

to fight over the three together," answered Lily.

"You can have the biggest one of the two on are side, Lily,"

volunteered Corinne. "You're going to need the space for your

morning meetings with Hunter."

"Thanks, Corinne. I really appreciate that."

"No problem, Lil."

"Now that we've spent the first night here, there's some

little rules we need to talk about," began Lily in the morning

after the group officially settled in their new home. "If you eat

my Snickers bar, I will kill you. Now, does anyone else have any

other business?" she ended sweetly after her face had darkened to

a menacing color for a moment.



Part 3: You Call this Random?

Walking down the street Travis smiled up at the sun. It was

Monday, the sun was shining again, and even though it was cold, it

felt good today.

*I wonder what's going on with me today,* Travis thought to

himself. *I just feel really good, really… alive. Mmm, I like it.*

Travis was still thinking to himself while he was standing

waiting for a crosswalk signal to change when someone bumped into

him from behind.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," said a soft feminine voice. "You will

excuse me, won't you?"

Travis smiled sweetly at her, "Not a problem, here let me

pick that up for you," he offered as he bent over, picking up the

suitcase the woman had been carrying when she bumped into him.

*She's kinda cute.* Travis thought to himself. *Hmm...*

"My name is Travis. Travis Watson. What's yours?"

"Travis? Travis Watson?! Oh my God! I haven't seen you in

almost nine years!!" gushed the woman as her eyes had gone big

after he introduced himself.

Suddenly she hugged him hugely then backed away blushing.

"I'm sorry. You probably don't remember me. You used to date

my cousin, Jessica. My name is Lily Bates."